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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Walker demo (Was Re: Iconx questions)
Message-ID: <1102@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 15:07:42 GMT
References: <275@antares.UUCP>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <275@antares.UUCP>, by jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith):
> In article <1097@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>>1) What's the format for the WINDOW= tool type? The 1.3 manual omitted this
>>   litte detail.
> 
> Try the examples on page 1-2, where they talk about setting the tool types
> on the SHELL or CLI icons.  "WINDOW=CON:/0/0/640/200/FullSizedWindow".
> 
>>2) How can I do an assign to the the current directory?
> 
> 'ASSIGN HERE: ""'.  Two quotemarks with nothing between them is an alias
> for the current directory.

Thanks everyone! Judging by the number of replies I recieved on this
question, I guess I need to re-read all the manuals. :-)

The demo I was try to get running on my hard drive is the "Walker Demo".
It's a two disk animation that requres 2M of RAM. (Sound like some of
rule-breakers mentioned in the KDC rules discussions?) It's a loop of
the "The Empire Strikes Back" ATAT walking in front of an A2000. It's a
pretty impressive piece that was shot frame by frame from a model with
DigiView, and animated with The Director (sorry, but the author's name
escapes me). It has plenty of impressive sound too.

It always runs fine from the floppies (and takes FOREVER to load), but
it crashes more often than not when run from the hard drive. For some
reason it tries to write to the disk (and fails since I used the Lock
command (a little paranoia can be a good thing :-)). It has no problem
running from write protected floppies.

Is there some problem with running a Director driven animation with the
FFS and a hard drive, or is this demo particularly ill behaved?

(There is one assign made in the floppy's startup-sequence, and I do this
with my IconX script, and also assign both floppy volume names to the
current dir. There are no other commands in the original S-S file other
than some Echos.)
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