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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Kaleidoscope?
Keywords: 3000 Kaleidoscope
Message-ID: <1991May23.011120.4119@netcom.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 01:11:20 GMT
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

> (Michael S Figg) writes:
>>I thought that a 'Kaleidoscope' subject might get some reaction. Does anybody
>>know if this will run on a 3000? It's even better mindless entertainment than
>>channel 4.

>That was such an interesting question that I immediately tried.
>I just took the Kaleidoscope
>disk to boot WB from it, that worked, I typed Polyscope, and that works
>too!

>BTW, this Polyscope show is announced in the title screen as a demo
>for the true program Kaleidoscope which should serve to create such
>patterns. But this program never made it, obviously. I already wrote
>to EA to perhaps get it, but no answer at all?

If i recall, it's author was Dan Silva, who certainly DID go ahead to
create an excellent graphic program (Deluxe Paint) which thousands of
people have spent countless hours using to create kaleidoscopic displays
(oh yeah, some real art and serious stuff too :-)

> Someone knowing more
>about the issue, or perhaps even having that tool? I WANT it!

  What i want is a working copy of Kaleidoscope - my old original disk has
a disk error.  Could someone ask Dan Silva about putting it in the public
domain?  Could someone point me to a copy?

>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

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Ben, radical ecologist, computer scientist, visionary at large.