Short: Excellent animation, requires 5M RAM Architecture: generic Upgrade by Dr Gandalf (Interlaced Overscan HAM) Copyright 1990 By Eric J Fleischer, MD 2213 Solmar Drive Silver Spring, MD 20904 Release Date: March 17, 1990 All Rights, Except Those Granted Herein, Reserved 1. Terms Of Distribution --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permission for the non-commercial distribution of Upgrade 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. Distribution is ONLY permitted if ALL the files that make up the entire animation are distributed together. Any manufacturer of hardware or software is specifically enjoined from the public distribution of any part of Upgrade by Dr Gandalf, except if written arrangements are made with the author (not that I wouldn't be willing to make such arrangements). Upgrade by Dr Gandalf is specifically NOT in the public domain. 2. How it was made: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original images were generated in Interlaced Overscan HAM mode using a Turbo Silver SV (floating point), a commercial ray-tracing program from Impulse Software (It was NOT done with Sculpt 3D!!!) The rendering was done partly with and Amiga 2000 with a Commodore 14MHz 68020/68881, and partly with a GVP 32MHz 68030/68882. The animation took about one year from start to finish. There are over 700 images total. The images were generated with Turbo Silver, touched up with Diamond (also from Impulse). The pictures were compressed into five separate .ANIM files with either Turbo Silver, MakeAnim (public domain), or Animation Station (Cryogenic Software). Sounds were created digitized with Perfect Sound. The title slides were created with Deluxe Paint III (Electronic Arts). The entire animation is shown using Deluxe Video III (Electronic Arts). 3. How to view it: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPGRADE requires *5 Megabytes* of memory, and Super Agnes, and 5 megabytes of hard disk space to run!!! The individual scenes can be played with VIEW, which is on the first disk of this collection. Press the F5 key once the animation begins to make it play at the correct speed. The individual scenes take 1 to 1.5 megabytes. To use UPGRADE: Make a drawer on your hard disk, and copy all the files from all six disks into that partition. Then just double-click the Upgrade icon. If the player generates an error message, it is probably due to fragmented memory. Re-boot and try again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you enjoy Upgrade. If you do, you can pay me back by coming up with some interesting animation and graphics of your own and distributing them. PLEASE, when distributing UPGRADE, be sure to keep it intact, and include all portions of the animation in the distribution, including the main animation files, the sound files, the titles, this documentation and the associated icons. Dr. Gandalf, AKA Eric J Fleischer, MD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------