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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copper Demos...
Message-ID: <791@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:36:42 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <5697@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> olson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Todd Olson) writes:

>The demo you speak of is called D.O.C. and it is also a pirate intro.

     I have a disk with some demos from German crackers, and this
sounds like the one in the file named "Crusade".  It consists of a
number of reflective balls moving in complex patterns on the screen;
sometimes the balls turn into winged demons.  The background consists
of a checkerboard plain continuously moving off toward the horizon,
and a backdrop of stars and the letters DOC in some sort of Old
English font.  At the top of the screen are four horizontal columns
rotating around each other; bands of colour move up and down them in
a way which suggests that they are reading out the sound level on
each of the four audio channels.  The music is really good.

>If anybody is really interested I can write down the exact key function.

     I have found no key combinations which have any effect (except
for control-Amiga-Amiga, of course :-).  This demo doesn't exit with
a click of the left mouse button like the other ones on the disk do
(with the exception of AckerLight, a Wild Copper demo which just
hangs when you press the left mouse button).  In fact, there's no
way out of it short of re-booting the machine.

     DOC/Crusade runs too fast on my 2500, and the animation becomes
jerky.  I was able to run it successfully by re-booting under the
68000 until I had my 1-meg Agnus installed.  Now it crashes while
coming up.  Bummer.

     Many of these demos need to be FixHunk'd.  Raven won't run
properly at all on machines with fast RAM; both picture and sound
are trashed.  There are some advantages to non-auto-config RAM.  :-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"Bash 'em up, smash 'em up, if they won't let you pass
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