This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Thats a bit on the high side. Are you positive that you get sustained transfer at that speed, and not 'burst transfer' ? — Jez.
great… call me when you are in town, if not before! yes, lets 'do din'… as for animals+pepes, lessee a copy someday. take care, — Jez.
Hows things mish? whats new? — Jez.
JG – Lets say that you *DO* use 'd2' quality on a 1 GIG drive. The Drive's maximum transfer rate is probably around 2 megabytes per second for sustained transfers. D2 bandwidth is probably around 13 megabytes per second. So where does the difference come in!? If Newtek are using…
Do you have a demo anywhere I can play with? — Jez/.
#New FLIC Compressor
Message #65349
What kind of compression rate do you envisage for typical flic files where a ot changes from frame to frame (eg: camera zooms and pans)? — Jez.
Sure, you can call me at work on 011-44-81-200-5777, or at home on 011-44-81-343-3889. I'm in London.
Steve – We have a software compression and decompression engine that runs full screen in dos at 30 fps. — Jez.
PK – Where are you based? Are you in England? Which city? — Jez (081 200 5777 at Argonaut).
John – How're ya doin, you ole dawg! — Jez.
Henry – I dont mean the ENTIRE Amiga community…. but it sure doesnt bode well of the amount of Amiga piracy that goes on, especially considering how small the Amiga market is… compared to the next higher up machines, Mac and IBM PC. — Jez.
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my HI.
Message #493
Remember Stellar-7 on the C64…? Programmed by Damon Slye from Arctic-Fox fame,m except in my opinion Stellar-7 was far superior to Arctic…!
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#my HI.
Message #492
Arctic Fox is really dull and slow… its more an adventure game than a shootemup due to its lousy programming… ( 1 frame per second, ouch!!!) If you liked Arctic Fox (programmed by Statix 🙂 ) tyhen you'll like StarGlider-2…. 10 times better… but tyhen Im biassed… grin!
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my HI.
Message #491
ADLS, The Argonaut Diskette Loader System, sure works a treat! The same disk, with no modifications… will bootup on ALL Atari ST's, and ALL Amiga's !
keith – Battle-Zone is a classic game…. I used to love it! But Star Wars is more my style… I have one (a coinop) in my den! And anyway, Vector games are passe nowadays… grin! Even tho I authored one myself only a year or so ago…. Nope, Solid graphics…
#my HI.
Message #452
Hiya Folks… the intro to this conference says I'm sposed to say HI to everyone… So this is it. Special hi to Syndesis (Hi John & Harri)… long time..! I've been very quiet lately, haven't I? We've been busy…. we being Argonaut Software. StarGlider-2 should be out by the time…
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#68000 Assem Prog
Message #77432
I recommend an Amiga 2000 hardware, together with HiSoft's DEVPAK assembler. It is the fastest, most friendly, and usable assembler so far, and they have it both for the Atari ST and Amiga. I have used both versions, during development of StarGlider (arcade game). To write position independant code requires…
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#68000 Assem Prog
Message #77432
I recommend an Amiga 2000 hardware, together with HiSoft's DEVPAK assembler. It is the fastest, most friendly, and usable assembler so far, and they have it both for the Atari ST and Amiga. I have used both versions, during development of StarGlider (arcade game). To write position independant code requires…
#70359-
StarGlider
Message #70462
The voices you hear, are that of the lovely Clare Edgeley, the PR lady at Rainbird's HQ (London, England).. and yes, she has a very pronounced English accent (… and a slightly less pronounced lithp!) — Jez. For the tekkies here, the voices were sampled at 6 khz… but most…
#70359-
StarGlider
Message #70462
The voices you hear, are that of the lovely Clare Edgeley, the PR lady at Rainbird's HQ (London, England).. and yes, she has a very pronounced English accent (… and a slightly less pronounced lithp!) — Jez. For the tekkies here, the voices were sampled at 6 khz… but most…
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#StarGlider
Message #70461
Mike, The screen boots up in a central position on our european monitors…. I wasn't able to test it on a USA Amiga, so yes, its possible that it is slightly offcentre. There is no way of adjusting this (short of me, re-assembling the program) since it has its own…
#70356-
#StarGlider
Message #70461
Mike, The screen boots up in a central position on our european monitors…. I wasn't able to test it on a USA Amiga, so yes, its possible that it is slightly offcentre. There is no way of adjusting this (short of me, re-assembling the program) since it has its own…
Vic, hiya pal!! Long time no see!! Even if the user had plugged more memory into the machine, all our code requires CHIP memory, and very very little of it could sit in FAST memory, so we didn't bother checking for any extra available memory. I agree with your sentiments,…
Vic, hiya pal!! Long time no see!! Even if the user had plugged more memory into the machine, all our code requires CHIP memory, and very very little of it could sit in FAST memory, so we didn't bother checking for any extra available memory. I agree with your sentiments,…
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Starglider
Message #68498
Nevin – Many thanks for the compliments…. we are in the midst of 3 hot games… one of which should be out before the end of the year. — Jez.
#68449-
Starglider
Message #68498
Nevin – Many thanks for the compliments…. we are in the midst of 3 hot games… one of which should be out before the end of the year. — Jez.
Don – Yes, Germany *IS* the software theft capital of the world, closely followed by Italy (but not on such a grand scale!) But they dont complain about copy protected software there!~ In fact, you would be STUPID to release a game in Germany or Italy that didnt have copy…
#68186-
Starglider
Message #68257
Bri- .. Its out, apparently! I still havnt got my author's copies yet. sigh! — Jez.
Henry – I doubt there will be an 8 bit Atari version… it would be impractical (but not impossible). The horrible noise that the ST version's copy protection makes, is really only the drive stepping itself at a much slower rate than usual (to be safe, and allow ANY drive…
Henry – I doubt there will be an 8 bit Atari version… it would be impractical (but not impossible). The horrible noise that the ST version's copy protection makes, is really only the drive stepping itself at a much slower rate than usual (to be safe, and allow ANY drive…
I would like to attend both Comdex, and CES.. and SigGraph, and other events… not sure which (if any) I will yet attend… preferably ALL of them, but I cannot afford to be away from the office for so long. — Jez.
I would like to attend both Comdex, and CES.. and SigGraph, and other events… not sure which (if any) I will yet attend… preferably ALL of them, but I cannot afford to be away from the office for so long. — Jez.
Don – Naturally, it will never appear on a public service like Compuserve….. because these are in control by responsible Sysops like yourself…. Its the bbs's that are the problem. Here in England, you rarely see pirate programs on a bbs… mainly because there are so few bbs's that sysops…
Don – Naturally, it will never appear on a public service like Compuserve….. because these are in control by responsible Sysops like yourself…. Its the bbs's that are the problem. Here in England, you rarely see pirate programs on a bbs… mainly because there are so few bbs's that sysops…
Thanx Larry…. I agree with you entirely…. no matter what protection is in, it will always be hacked out much more quickl than it was to add it! But, im just a wee bit upset because I was gonna add some hefty disk copy protection (which im very good at!)…
Thanx Larry…. I agree with you entirely…. no matter what protection is in, it will always be hacked out much more quickl than it was to add it! But, im just a wee bit upset because I was gonna add some hefty disk copy protection (which im very good at!)…
marc – We've taken our vacation. We spent a month writing development software so that the next 3 projects (yes we are doing three simultaneously) will be that much easier to write. We now have a system of remote controlled Amiga's… ie: One Amiga runs the game, while the other…
marc – We've taken our vacation. We spent a month writing development software so that the next 3 projects (yes we are doing three simultaneously) will be that much easier to write. We now have a system of remote controlled Amiga's… ie: One Amiga runs the game, while the other…
John – No, the IBM version was done by a different team (Realtime Software Ltd) but they are excellent programmers and the IBM PC version is as good as it could have possibly been! — Jez.
John – No, the IBM version was done by a different team (Realtime Software Ltd) but they are excellent programmers and the IBM PC version is as good as it could have possibly been! — Jez.
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#Starglider
Message #68015
I dont remember saying 'its been sent out to have the sound done.' and thats certainly not the way I would have phrased anything even if I had said something similar… which i dont think i did anyway… but thats beside the point. I hear SG is already hacked and…
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#Starglider
Message #68015
I dont remember saying 'its been sent out to have the sound done.' and thats certainly not the way I would have phrased anything even if I had said something similar… which i dont think i did anyway… but thats beside the point. I hear SG is already hacked and…
What Bullshit!! No part of StarGlider was 'farmed out' as you put it! A composer (Dave Lowe) scored the title music…. but that was the only subcontracting we did! Myself and Richard Clucas wrote StarGlider… and we both are part of Argonaut Software (as are a few others). The Sound…
Ed, the bug I reported to you by phone about the Driver not able to handle 'chunks of disk' larger than 128k in a single go! — Jez.
Okay Perry.. sounds good. Care to pick a nice priced ASDG card for us? I have an A2000 here… will your cards plug into that straight away, or will you have to design them for the new Form factor? Is it not feasible for cards to be designed into the…
Okay Perry.. sounds good. Care to pick a nice priced ASDG card for us? I have an A2000 here… will your cards plug into that straight away, or will you have to design them for the new Form factor? Is it not feasible for cards to be designed into the…
Great! I hope the next release is soonish… cos at the moment, I'm using my Byte-by-Byte PAL, but my colleague sitting next to me is having such troubles with the C-ltd driver, and is jealous of me! Any news of that Network thing you were going to do for the…
Great! I hope the next release is soonish… cos at the moment, I'm using my Byte-by-Byte PAL, but my colleague sitting next to me is having such troubles with the C-ltd driver, and is jealous of me! Any news of that Network thing you were going to do for the…
The A2000 has an 86 pin bus on the inside, so with a ribbon cable, you could bring this to the outside so that a StarBoard could feasibly plug in.. however, since the 2000 has Zorro slots built in, it would be a better bet plugging in Zorro Ram, such…
#58949-
Hard Drive/Amiga 2000
Message #59013
Hi Ed, from Jez San in London! Any news on your hard disk driver software…? Did you track down that problem I mentioned? — Jez.
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