Bad-Bird by Dr Gandalf (Interlaced Overscan HAM) Copyright 1989 By Eric J Fleischer, MD 2213 Solmar Drive Silver Spring, MD 20904 Release Date: October 8, 1989 All Rights, Except Those Granted Herein, Reserved 1. Terms Of Distribution --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permission for the non-commercial distribution of Bad-Bird 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 Bad-Bird by Dr Gandalf, except if written arrangements are made with the author (not that I wouldn't be willing to make such arrangements). Bad-Bird 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, on an Amiga 2500. (It was NOT done with Sculpt 3D!!!) There are 70 images total. 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 273222 bytes long. This animation requires 1 megabyte of RAM to run. The sound was digitized with Perfect Sound fron SunRize. 3. How to view it: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To play it from a CLI: - Put Bad-Bird, Bad-Bird.AUD, the two .SND files, 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> Movie Bad-Bird Bad-Bird.AUD To play it from Workbench: - Put Bad-Bird, Bad-Bird.info, Bad-Bird.AUD, the two .SND files, and a copy of MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) on the same disk - Open the disk icon, and double-click the Bad-Bird icon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you enjoy Bad-Bird. 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 Bad-Bird, 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) files, this documentation and the associated icons. Dr. Gandalf, AKA Eric J Fleischer, MD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------