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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries- multiple files
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Date: 1 Jan 89 20:00:19 GMT
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I downloaded the 9-part "MoebiuS" animation and while I didn't turn
it into a .Zoo file on my host, I did it on my Amiga instead. I ended
up with a .Zoo file that correctly unZOOed giving me the animation, and
a bunch of ancillary pieces. In fact here's exactly what I got after
unZOOing it to a blank floppy:

Directory "df1:" on Sunday 01-Jan-89
more                       11008 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:46
MoebiuS                   462394 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:26
.info                         59 ----rwed Yesterday 22:06:41
MoebiuS.data               14859 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:35
PlayPFX.info                1798 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:53
PlayPFX                    28044 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:52
MoebiuS-IT.doc              2354 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:29
Moebius.doc                  626 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:36
MoebiuS-IT.doc.info         1507 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:32
Moebius.doc.info            1507 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:39
MoebiuS.info                6891 ----rwed Yesterday 21:47:43

Okay, all well and good. ZOO didn't barf on it so I figure the files
all came thru intact. So I read the .doc file (the English one :-)
and I slide my CLI out of the way and open the disk icon and clic click
on the big MoebiuS icon. It invokes PlayPFX which opens a little 
window at the bottom of the screen, click click gronk gronk, I see
the memory on my Workbench menu strip going down down down... the screen
flashes once, all the memory comes back and that's it.  No animation.
Hmmm... read the docs again "requires 1.5M" (I have 2.5M)... so I get
rid of some stuff hogging up my ramdisk and try it again. Same thing.
Reboot, same thing. I even went so far as to install the disk with
the animation on it, put a startup sequence in it that just says 
"playpfx moebius" and boot from THAT and this time I just get some
meaningless (to me) error code after 20 seconds of listening my drive
load something.  

Oh yeah.. I DID rename the disk to "ArteMatica #2" but that still didn't
do any good. When I tried "playpfx Moebius.data" It loaded a pretty
title screen, displayed it for about 3 seconds, then returned me to the
CLI.

So I give up... what's the trick to getting MoebiuS to work? Can someone
compare those filesizes above with those from a known working copy? 

And if, as the docs say, the animation was created with Sculpt-Animate,
why did the artist put it in this bizarre format that requires "PlayPFX"
to show it instead of just defaulting to E.Graham's "Movie" program!?!?

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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