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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Swinth and other mind blasters
Summary: what is the status of EAs Kaleidoscope disk?
Message-ID: <354@antares.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 06:22:42 GMT
References: <14928@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
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In article <14928@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes:
>
>'allo.  Does anyone out there remember "SWINTH" for the C-64?  It was kind of a
>kaliedoscope, but it certainly was incredible, especially considering the
>effort it took to draw lines on the C-64.
>
>My question is, is there any PD stuff like that?  Just neat, soothing designs
>on the screen?  I'm thinking something like what MindLight does (I think - I've
>never seen it), but public domain.
>
>Thanks in advance!

 Well, I have a disk called Kaleidoscope, it has some problems, though. It
came with my Amiga 1000, I think. It says "Free Software from Electronic
Electronic Arts" right on the disk, does that mean I can copy it? Along with
a slideshow of EA ads, there is a program called Polyscope demo, written by
Dan Silva. It generates some fairly nice looking patterns, but doesn't run
well on my 2000, I think it needs kickstart 1.1, or maybe 1.0. It also
doesn't have an icon, or an exit (the demo ran from boot, as I remember).

 The Polyscope did run from the CLI, though some of the patterns didn't look
right. It crashed when I tried to put the screen in the back, maybe it didn't
like DMouse.

So whatever happened to Polyscope?
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