THE WORLD RULING ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEMO CREATOR I. PREPARATIONS If you want to print this instructions type " COPY intructions to prt: ". First copy the demo-creator-disk on a blank disk. The disk is nearly full. If you already have the smart-diskmon or if you don't need the preferences, delete them. But don't delete the fonteditor! You should know what you want to do. Paint your picture, select a music and a font and write a scrolltext. Then go on as follows. II. THE PICTURE You must use an IFF-LoRes picture with 5 bitplanes. It must be unpacked! That means, you may not use DPaint because this program packs the pictures before saving them. To unpack them load and save the picture with Graphicraft. Save the graphic under the name " 1970/pic " ! The professional demo creator allows to make splitscreens! Therefore he uses the first and the second color. The first color is used for color- effects moving up, the second for other effects moving up. How to change the colors and the speed will be explaned later. The colors three and four are used for flashs. You can change these flashes too. III. THE TEXT The text is very simple to change. Take any texteditor you want ( there is a good one on the disk ) and write your message. Remember that the current font and many other fonts have no capital letters! Then save the text under the name " 1970/txt " . IV. THE MUSIC You can use every IFF-music-file. The length will be set automatically. You also may use musics which start not at the beginning of the file ( for example detonator-music ). The preset music-speed is 280. How to change the speed, the volume and the offset will be explaned later. Save the music under the name " 1970/snd " . V. THE FONT To change the font is difficult. The name of the used font is " fnt ". It's the omega font. First you must delete it by simply writing " e del ". If there are no errors, the font will be deleted. Don't try to run the intro now! On the disk there is a simple fonteditor. To select a good font use the SETFONT command. To use a font on another disk you must use the ASSIGN command ( " ASSIGN fonts: df1:fonts " tells the computer to load the fonts from df1: . You have no second drive?? Then you better hang yourself! ). But the best way is to copy the font onto the demo-creator-disk. The command sequence for two drives is: COPY df1:fonts/fontname TO df0:fonts/fontname COPY df1:fonts/fontname.fonts TO df0:fonts With one drive: COPY diskname:fonts/fontname TO workbench:fonts/fontname COPY diskname:fonts/fontname.font TO workbench:fonts Replace the name of the source disk and the fontname in the sequence. Now you should have the font you want on the demo-creator-disk. If you don't get it , don't cry, the current font is a nice font too, isn't it?? And if you made a backup you lost nothing exept a few hours! Now load the fonteditor. Select the font you want, and save it under the name " fnt ". Don't try to rename the font, it won't work!! A little test will show you that you now have another font. It's important that you deleted the old font or you will see this one again!! VI. THE PREFERENCES Starting the intro loads a special file called " 1970/par ", which contains every thing you want to change in the intro: colors, speeds and so on. To edit it, load the smart-disk-monitor from this disk. Select the directory-editor and get the two blocks of the file with the follow function. Write the blocks down and go to sector-editor. Load the first block and set the display on hex-display and wordlong numbers. Now you see all parameters at the same time. Select hex-edit-on and change the parameters which are explained below. Remember that all numbers are hex-numbers! 000: 0000 0008 .... 010: 0000 00e4 .... 020: 0000 0010 0000 0003 0000 001a 0000 0000 -a-- -b-- -c-- -d------- a - Height of the scrolltext b - Speed of the scrollmessage c - Distace of the chars d - Music offset, if music starts not at the beginning of the file e - Music speed f - Volume ( Max ) 030: 0118 0040 0004 0003 0002 0003 0005 0000 -e-- -f-- -g-- -h-- -i-- -j-- -k-- g-h - Speeds of: scrolltextcolors, colors of the Splitscreens moving down and up, flashing colors one and two. 040: 0ff0 0fe0 0fd0 .... 0f0: .... 0ef0 0ff0 Colors of the scrolltext 100: 0000 0550 0990 .... 130: .... 00a0 0060 Colors of the splitscreens moving down 140: 0000 0111 0222 .... 170: .... 0111 0000 Colors moving up 180: 0000 0100 0200 1f0: .... 0100 0000 First flashes Now the second sector!!!!!! 000: 0000 0008 .... 010: 0000 0000 .... 020: 0000 0000 0000 .... 090: .... 0000 0000 Second flashes VII. THE FINISH If you did everything correct, your intro should work. Make some tests with several intros. Knowing the functions well, you will be able to make demos much better than the one on this disk. Now delete the utilities you don't need any more and change or delete the startup-sequence!! You also may use those intros on one disk with demos from other intro-makers. If you want to have several profi-creator-intros on one disk, put the directory " 1970 " into another directory and make it with the CD command to the actual directory. Then simply run the demo creator main program again. But with this method you have to take the same font for each demo. AND NOTICE, WHEN YOU HAVE A VIRUS IN YOUR COMPUTER THE PROGRAM WILL NOT WORK!!!! Have a lot of fun with the professional-demo-creator! Doctor Mabuse ( Alpha Flight )