Oh so you've discovered this little text file. I just put this is in for the more inquisitive of you, so here are some techinical details about this disc. The loader is a program called VIEWER, which opens an intuition window and feeds the file GOLDENEAGLE (an RAW H/B picture) directly in the bitplanes using DOS libraries. However to make this look a little more convincing the system-configuration is set so that all the colours are black, and it also deletes the pointer. The rest is done by just a startup sequence. The INTRO (by Frantik), well... I think we'll keep that a secret, but that shouldn't be too difficult to work out how its done. The MAIN PART (by me) is uncrunched about 300K, and so titanics cruncher was used, as no other cruncher could handle this, plus the fact the loader takes up a good 60K leaving your bog standard A500 about 120K for decrunching. All the effects are calculated in real time, and there are three physical screens in the memory (all 5 bitplane) - one main one, and two backup screens containing the picture/text. The font for the proportional font scroller was nicked from a DPAINT font (Ruby 15), the music is a 120K module written in NoiseTraker 1.2. So there was 120K music, 150K Gfx, 5K misc and 25K code...from a 50K source - and in assembling it I have buggered up about 7 discs...due to stress on the discs + bloody viruses. The CREDIT PART (by me) is 200K large, and is crunched using Power Packer (why not?) and uses 5bitplane animation, using 5 different faces (4bitplanes) and 2 masks, plus two foot tapping frames, also with another 120K module also written in NoiseTraker called DancetillDeath. It uses its own RESET routine at the end, though this basically "supported" code. The CREDIT PART took 5 hours to put together, the INTRO a few days, and the MAIN PART about a month (on and off)..suprisingly quickly for us! I'm always looking for contacts, so if you're interested in swapping new demos then write to:- Thomas Szirtes 20 Old Park Road Hitchin Herts SG52JR. or phone 0462-457514 (and ask for Tom) England The next release will be an acid-type-video demo (probably mainly by Frantik) together with a rather impressive "Journey" demo by yours truely. Keep the faith! See ya, PROPHET of GOLDFIRE