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Subject: Re: Info about WHATTAHE demo?
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Date: 21 Mar 91 11:38:33 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.143318.26598@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
> I just got the WHATTAHE demo, and suspect that I don't know how to see all of
> it.  There's the 'sorcerer Mickey' opening screen, the helix of spheres
> animation, a block wall non-menu and a long text streamer with moving letters.
> I get to all of those by hitting the space bar.  Any more parts?  If so, how
> do I get to them?                       Steve      saj@chinet.chi.il.us

Ummm, yes.  It is a bit cryptic.  The different demos are accessible using the
arrow keys and following the cursor.  Since I'm typing at a VAX and not at my
ST, I can only tell you the following from memory.

Left and right arrows should move the small cursor (at the helix of spheres
animation ... the one with all of those incomprehensible numbers at the top of
the screen) between various parameters.  The rightmost parameter (and the one
the cursor is at when the demos START...) changes the demo program number.  You
should then use the up/down arrows to select the NUMBER of a demo, and then hit
the space bar to get to that demo.

You'll first get a block wall with characters being written upon it.  Hit the
space bar after the characters are done and the demo starts.  Hit the space bar
again and you get to the block wall saying 'going to menu', hit the space bar
again and you're back at the helix of spheres animation (which IS the menu...)

Take it from there.  Oh yes ... it is possible that I've mixed left/right and
up/down arrows, but a little experimentation should take you where you want to
go.  There are (from memory) 13 demos...

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David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu