The High Spot Funky Dancer

                         © Iain B. McCaffrey 1994.

For those interested, the idea for The High Spot Funky Dancer came to me
from nowhere whilst writing an essay. I don`t remember what it was about
but it was probably not one of my best, after all, if things like that come
into your head it can`t be the most enthraling of subjects to discuss in a
minimum of 5000 words.

 I made this on a 2 Meg A500 Plus.  Pencil drawings were digitised with
Vidi Amiga 12, cleaned up in DeluxePaint IV and assembled in MovieSetter.
It requires 2 Megs to run, I think, and takes about 4 minutes to load.
After all the wait, it lasts about 1 minute fifty seconds.

 I have had some problems with booting this on a WB 1.3 A500 and the A1200.
It may just have been memory problems with all the peripherals that were
attached, they weren`t my machines so I couldn`t fiddle about too much, but
it works fine on a WB 2.0 A500 Plus and therefore I would guess on an A600.
If you have a 1.3 A500 or an A1200 and it won`t load from booting use the
workbench option on the disk (which I suppose you probably already have,
else you wouldn`t be reading this) and double-click on the animation`s
icon.  It should now work okay, except that it plays offset to the left of
the screen.

 You may notice, or may have already noticed, that the date at the end of
the animation is 1993 not 1994, as it is at the top of this page.  This is
not some incompetent typing error, it`s just that the animation was 
finished late 1993 but sat gathering dust for a month or so before I wrote
this and sent it off.  A small point I know, but I just felt like pointing
it out.

 If you like this, I have three other animations available, which are, in
chronological order:

    Peril                                1992
    LemmingsBench                        1992/3
    The Teapot and The Anglepoise Lamp   1993

 These are all available from:

    NBS
    1 Chain Lane
    Newport
    Isle of Wight
    PO30 5QA
    ENGLAND

 If anybody wants to write to me with comments, constructive or not, or
about anything in the employment line, I would love to hear from you.


    Iain B. McCaffrey, February 1994.

    15 Zinnia Close
    Kempshott
    Basingstoke
    Hampshire
    RG22 5NH
    England


P.S.

 The `Coming Soon' file on the disk is a brief sample (it couldn`t be more
brief than just a still quarter size picture) of my next animation, well
probably my next animation, logistics and inclination will be the deciding
factors.  The main reason I include it is because there was 20K or so left
on the disk and I thought I might as well fill it, value for money etc. you
know.