Thanks for being interested in this animation.

The animation is in MPEG format so please be
aware that due to the nature of the MPEG
format, you will need a reasonably fast Amiga
to push it along.

A basic A1200 with some extra memory should do
the job, though to be concurrent with one of 
the unbreakable laws of computing, the more
processor power and memory, the better!
(Dammit Jim, I'm an animator, not a programmer!)

The other icons on this disk do as follows:

Install - Err... Installs the animation. 
          The MPEG file is split in three and it
          joins them together into to make a 
          file called AmigaLogoAdvert.mpg on the
          root directory of your Work: partition.

          It also copies the file MPEG_Play into
          your C directory.

PlayAmigaLogoAnim - Aside from being a filename
          that would otherwise need a 486 PC 
          with 8 meg of RAM, this baby actually
          plays the animation from your HD.
          Don't forget to ensure that your
          Workbench is set to use AGA screenmodes
          or the MPEG player will fall flat on 
          its wee face!

Uninstall - Deletes AmigaLogoAdvert.mpg from
          your HD, as well as the MPEG_Play file
          from your C directory. You can, of
          course, delete these files yourself, I
          just thought that some users would 
          appreciate this. Don't worry!! I'm not
          in the business of writing scripts to
          do things like Format HD1:!!!

Just double-click on Install to get the whole
show running. Once that's done you can drag the
PlayAmigaLogoAnim icon to anywhere on your HD
that you want so that you don't need this disk
whenever you want to watch it.

The actual MPEG file will have to stay where it
is, though you can of course move it to wherever
you want if you edit the path name in the player
script.


I decided to create this animation after seeing
the publicity posters from AT. I thought that it
would look cool if it actually did something!
If AT want to display this anim on their stand 
at the forthcoming Amiga show, they can contact
me at the address below for the full frames!

This would have been released for public 
consumption a lot earlier, but cirumstances
beyond my control dictated that I couldn't! Not
to mention that I was beginning to think that it
wasn't actually meant to be released! First of
all, my HD crashed though luckily I had backed it
up the day before. No loss there... Only I had to
go home to Northern Ireland for Christmas for a 
fortnight holding any progress back for that 
amount of time. So I get back and what happens?
The FPU on my acclerator decided to lie on its
back and point its little legs heavenward....
Anyway, I persevered, it's finished, it's here
and you better bloody well like it!!! ;))


The following hardware and software were used to
create this animation:
Amiga 1200
Blizzard A1230 accelerator card + 16Mb RAM
Zip100 drive
420Mb Seagate HD
Power Scanner
Power CD drive
Squirrel SCSI interface

Imagine 3.0
DPaint
Personal Paint
Photogenics
Easy MPEG
ImageFX



If you want to get in touch with me for whatever
reason, you can do so at the following address:
Jonathan McBrien
16 Drumbawn
Drumclay
Enniskillen
Fermanagh
BT74 6NF

Send me a Zip cartridge and I'll try and fill it
to the brim with my other animations!
(As long as you pay for return postage and send
me a packet of chewing gum!)



DON'T JUST USE YOUR AMIGA.... EXPLOIT IT!!!

- Jonathan McBrien, 6th February, 1996.