THE WORLD RULING ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEMO CREATOR V 1.1 I. PREPARATIONS If you want to print this instructions type " COPY intructions to prt: ". First copy the demo-creator-disk on a blank disk. If you already have the smart-diskmon delete him to save memory. But don't delete the fonteditor! You will need it later. 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 may use any IFF-LoRes picture with 5 bitplanes. It need not be unpacked, so you may use DPaint pics directly. Save the graphic under the name " afl/pic " ! The picture may have any size. 220 pixels can by shown but you may use PAL pics or normal pics which are 200 pixels high or smaller one. You may also toggle the high of the picture, but more about that later. 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. For changing this colors, there is a special file on the disk. He will be explained later. You may also change the speed. Two more colors are used for flashes. You can program 64 colors which will continuesly change the selected pic-color. There is also a build in cycle routine. If you activate the cycling with DPaint 2 by pressing the TAB key and then saving the pic, the creator will do the same and you will get super effects. You may also combine the flashing routine with the cycle routine to cycle with 64 colours as I did it in the intro you saw before. But therefore the cycle speed must match exactly to the flashing speed. To show you the right one I set in my demo-pic the exact speed for the flashing speeds 3, 4, 6 and 8! 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 " afl/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 " afl/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 " afl/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: xxxx xxxx .... 010: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx 001F 0017 -a-- -b-- a / b - Numbers of the flashing colors ( must be from 0 to 31 ! ) 020: 0000 0010 0000 0003 0000 001a 0000 0000 -c-- -d-- -e-- -f------- c - Height of the scrolltext d - Speed of the scrollmessage e - Distace of the chars f - Music offset, if music starts not at the beginning of the file g - Music speed h - Volume ( Max ) 030: 0168 0040 0004 0004 0003 0000 0008 0022 -g-- -h-- -i-- -j-- -k-- -l-- -m-- -n-- i - m - Speeds of: scrolltextcolors, colors of the Splitscreens moving down and up, flashing colors one and two. n - Hight of the screen Now the colors. The first '0' of each number is unimportant. Then follows the red, green and the blue colour. 040: 0ff0 0fe0 0fd0 .... 0f0: .... 0ef0 0ff0 Colors of the scrolltext 100: 0f3f 0f2f 0d4d .... 130: .... 0d4d 0f2f Colors of the splitscreens moving down 140: 022f 011f 000f .... 170: .... 044f 033f Colors moving up 180: 0000 0100 0200 1f0: .... 0100 0000 First flashes Now the second sector!!!!!! 000: xxxx xxxx .... 010: xxxx xxxx .... 020: 0fff 0fee 0fcc .... 090: .... 0ddc 0eed 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 you cannot identify as a demo-creator-intro any more. Now delete the utilities you don't need any more and change the startup- equence!! 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 " afl " 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 )