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Legal mumbo-jumbo:
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I created these myself; no help from others. Well; I did use two Imagine objects that I didn't make
myself. I'm sorry; I can't remember who made them, but they're good objects - if you recognise your
work, then well done from me!
Also, and I apologise for this as well, the brush for the photographs in "Darkroom" is the clown that
comes with PPaint... The test strip was made by me, but is still the clown...
Please feel free to use these images on anything (apart from collections called "Worst Graphics
Ever!" of course), but give me the credit. Please send me a copy of whatever it is you use these
things on; if you don't, then at least include my name in the documentation. If you send me a program
which uses these, then I might even review it in the #AmigaZone webpage which I run.
Don't ever EVER say that you did these, because you didn't. If I hear of it; I'll break your legs. :)
If your eyes fall out and/or your brain melts while you're looking at these, it's not my fault; I
can't accept responsibility for any adverse effects of viewing these pictures.
Shameless plug:
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I don't just do pictures; I do websites and music mods too. I run the website for the #AmigaZone IRC
channel on dal.net. As well as information on our users, the site also contains links, reviews and
various articles. The URL is:
http://www.tsd-ltd.demon.co.uk
As for my mods, I sometimes upload these to the Aminet. If you want to find these, then search for:
"Highlander" or "Hairydrummer"
About the images:
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I used:
Eagle E1200T-040/40 (Commodore UK A1200 motherboard) - OS 3.1
Blizzard 1240T/ERC 68040 40MHz
16MB Fast RAM
14" Microvitech Deltascan 1402 multisync monitor
4-Way Buffered IDE interface
1.2GB Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" EIDE HD
260MB Seagate 2.5" IDE HD
12x Samsung ATAPI CDROM
Running:
Cloanto PersonalPaint 7 (Thanks, Amiga Format!)
VistaPro 3.0 (full version)
Imagine 4.0 (from CU Amiga... sorry...)
Cinema4D 2 (Thanks again, Amiga Format!)
To create these images:
"F-15" (F15.lbm) - An F-15E Eagle streaks ahead of its high-altitude vapour trails
"T-38 Talon" (T38.lbm) - A T-38 Talon being prepped for a dawn takeoff
"Banked Turn" (BankedTurn.lbm) - A US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pulling into a gentle turn
"City At Night" (City.lbm) - Lights from a small city
"Climber" (Climber.lbm) - Scaling a treacherous overhang is a lone climber
"Chrome Man" (ChromeMan.lbm) - A complete cliche...
"T-45" (T-45.lbm) - With Hawaii as a backdrop, a T-45 makes a routine training flight
"Darkroom" (Camera.lbm) - A typical scene from a photographic darkroom
"Islands" (Islands.lbm)
"Islands" (Island2.lbm)
"Islands" (Island3.lbm)
"Islands" (Island4.lbm) - Fictional islands, created with the mind of VistaPro
It should be noted that the longest VistaPro render I have made for this lot took about 20 minutes -
such is the power of the 68040...
The longest time for a hand-drawn image was for "T-38 Talon" - this took 3 weeks, but I wasn't really
concentrating...
Imagine renders on my machine rarely take long, but "Banked Turn" took a while because the F-18
object is so complicated. It's a very good object; very accurate. I need to use VMM to use more than
two of them in the same picture...
"Darkroom" took about 40 minutes.
About the author:
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My name's Graeme Porter (of course, you'll know that from the drawer name). I'm an 18 year old
student from Thurso, which is the most Northerly town in mainland Scotland.
My hobbies include playing drums, keyboards, vocals, and I'm learning guitar. I love writing mods
with SoundStudio, but since Amiga Format isn't allowed to put these on their CD, I put them on
Aminet. I also enjoy writing the #AmigaZone webpages.
My favourite bands are Dream Theater (best progressive metal band EVER), Ocean Colour Scene, Page &
Plant, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers, and Del Amitri.
I like to play Quake - a lot. My Quake drawer occupies over 160MB of my 210MB games partition - I
have quite a number of Quake conversions, ranging from a Mechwarrior game to a sort-of snow-boarding
simulator. My average frame rate for Quake is about 6 fps with sound, although in a dark corner of a
room using the "timerefresh" command I have acheived the dizzy heights of 18 fps... Lowest it's ever
been is 2 fps, but that's because there was a lot of bad guys and explosions. I don't have a 24-bit
gfx board either.
I have completed Quake with no cheats on Normal mode, and I'm now working on doing the same on Hard
mode. PS - Hard mode is quite a lot more difficult than Normal mode... :/
If you want to contact the author, then you can do one of the following:
1) e-mail me
My address is:
graeme@tsd-ltd.demon.co.uk
2) ICQ him (messages only; no live chat please)
My ICQ# is: 15435174
3) Meet me on IRC
I only hang out on dal.net, and only on Saturday evenings. You'll either find me in #AmigaZone or in
#3eb, but if I'm in #3eb, just /msg me - please don't join #3eb... My nick is "The_Highlander".