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Spigot by Dr Gandalf
(Interlaced Overscan HAM)
Copyright 1989 By Eric J Fleischer, MD
2213 Solmar Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20904
All Rights, Except Those Granted Herein, Reserved
1. Terms Of Distribution
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Permission for the non-commercial distribution of Spigot by Dr Gandalf
is hereby granted. Non-commercial distribution is defined as distribution
by user groups, individuals, bulletin boards, and not for profit, public
service public domain disk distributors.
Any manufacturer of hardware or software is specifically enjoined from the
public distribution of any part of Spigot by Dr Gandalf, except
if written arrangements are made with the author (not that I wouldn't be
willing to make such arrangements).
Spigot by Dr Gandalf is specifically NOT in the public domain (but it is
freely distributable).
2. How it was made:
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The original images were generated in Interlaced Overscan HAM mode using
a pre-release version of Turbo Silver SV (floating point), a soon to be
released update of the commercial ray-tracing program from Impulse
Software, on an Amiga 2500. The images took 18 hours to generate and
required 2.75 megabytes of RAM to run. Similar images would have taken
100 hours to generate on a standard Amiga.
There are 50 images total, which is 5718050 bytes of information in
the uncompressed form. The images were touched up with Diamond, also from
Impulse. After compression and assembly with Byte-by-Byte's public domain
sequencer, MOVIE, the finished animation file is 251350 bytes long, which
represents a 95.6% compression. The sound was digitized with
Perfect Sound from SunRize.
3. How to view it:
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To play it from a CLI:
- Put Spigot, Spigot.AUD, the .SND file, and a copy of
MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) in the same directory or
on the same disk
- CD to that disk or directory
- Type
1> Stack 8000
- Type
1> Movie Spigot Spigot.AUD
- To exit the animation, hit the <ESC> key.
To play it from Workbench:
- Put Spigot, Spigot.info, Spigot.AUD, the .SND file, and a copy of
MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) on the same disk
- Open the disk icon, and double-click the Spigot icon.
- To exit the animation, hit the <ESC> key.
This animation will run in a 512K Amiga, but you must disconnect all
external floppies, not load the workbench, and use the CLI method above.
Note that the disk supplied to the BADGE contest is a bootable disk, and
will run the animation if used as the WB disk on a 512K Amiga with no
external floppies.
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I hope you enjoy Spigot. If you do, you can pay me back by
coming up with some interesting animations and graphics of your own and
distributing them.
PLEASE, when distributing Spigot, be sure to keep it intact, and
include all portions of the animation in the distribution, including the
main animation file, the sound control (.AUD) file, the sound (.SND)
file, this documentation and the associated icons.
Dr. Gandalf, AKA Eric J Fleischer, MD
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