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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Trip-a-Tron
Message-ID: <3736@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Nov 89 09:17:16 GMT
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Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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In article <8911071025160FD.BXSS@RAI.CC.FSU.EDU> BAILEYS@FSU.BITNET (NOLES #1)
writes:
>noticed a piece of software for sale that sounds right up my alley.  It is
>called Trip-a-Tron, and is a "light synthesiser".  Basically, a neato
>moving color graphics creator that can be driven by MIDI signals.  It also
>states that Trip-a-Tron has it's own control language, for programming the
>demos.  I am VERY interested in this package (Trip-a-Tron, FM modulator,
>and a Kloss Vidio Beam would make a dandy wall-sized distractor at a night
>club).  Does anyone out there have this package?  Does it work on US
>machines (very important)?  Is there a used copy I might liberate from some
>individual?  The add states that it is made by Llamasoft.

Well I have a friend who bought this ages ago and thought it was going to be
great. The sadness of it is that although the author, Jeff Minter, is a very
capable programmer he could not document his creation to save his life.
His manual dwells long and hard on simple things like the colour palette but
skips briefly over the complex waveform generator. Jeff is totally into
sheep, goats and llamas and forces this obsession down your throat by placing
them all over his custom menus. To exit his file selector click on the sheep
saying baa! Having said that you could still play around with it and have a
good time with the supplied material for what you describe above. Trying to
invent something of your own will surely drive you nuts!

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