| From: | Olaf Barthel |
| Date: | 06 Aug 2000 at 09:37:03 |
| Subject: | Re: iffparse.library |
On Aug 05 Mark (Mark Edward Reed) wrote:
> Hello Lee
>
> On 05-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
>
> > Now I am quite certain that we are talking about different CD`s as I have
> > not come across Easter Egg(Boing Ball) Demo. The only boing ball demo was
> > from one of the DevCon archives included, the original one. Oh and the
> > double buffered version. And about three months ago I went through every
> > example and page of the CD in order to expand knowledge, I done this
> > twice.(It left me with a headache and an intimate knowledge of exec and
> > its messages:P).
>
> I know on the CD that I had and have now, there's been an easter egg buried
> in a string of directories that if you look at the full path, spell out
> easter egg. (Open up the window for the CD and set your Window/Show menu to
> all files. look for a directory labled "ea". By the time you get to
> CD0:ea/st/er/e/gg/ you should see something in there. First CD I had has the
> Boing Demo. Dev CD 2.1 has something titled Robocity and a directory with
> three tools and the C source for each.
'Robocity' is one of the original Amiga demos (including the digitized
picture of the Mandrill ape, and a bunch of hand drawn colourful images
nobody will remember any more) which were used to shoff the machine's amazing
graphics and animation features. It's not as well-known as the Boing ball, though.