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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2208.0. "Help on some downloads (not downloading..)" by NITMOI::WITHERS (No life I know can compare with pure imagination) Mon Feb 06 1989 19:36

    Hello all.
    
    I downloaded BERSERK.ARC from TAPE::USER1:[AMIGA.ARC] and am confused.
    What is it?  I try to run it and it says it's not an object module.
    Is it a movie or something?  I thought it was Berserk as in the
    game.  Any help here would be nice...
    
    On another note, has anyone gotten PLAY to work (playing SMUS files)?
    I had this on my hard disk and when I give it a file it says error
    opening, as if the file wasn't there.  I've tried everything from
    quotes to explcit paths..no luck. PLAY is in (?) TAPE::USER1:[AMIGA.SMUS]
                                      
    Thanks
    George
    
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2208.1ArchiveWJG::GUINEAUTue Feb 07 1989 10:4413
Berserk is a graphical DEMO. And a neat one at that.

BERSERK.ARC is an Archive, meaning it contains (in compressed format) all the
files related to the Berserk demo.  You need the ARC program to unpack
all the files.

So start with a NOTES> DIR/TITLE=ARC   (and /TITLE=DOWNLOAD etc...).

Read all 1001 notes on the subject then, if you still can't get it to work,
ask again :-) Seriously, there is more information in the notes you'll find
then I can type here.

John
2208.2You may need ShowANIMLEDS::ACCIARDITue Feb 07 1989 11:1810
    
    Berserk is an animation created with Videoscape 3D.  The animation
    itself is not an axecutable; you need a viewer to play it.  The
    Videoscape viewers ares called 'ShowANIM' and may or may not be
    included in the archive.
    
    Be warned that there are several versions of ShowANIM, but I believe
    that they're all backwards compatible.
    
    Ed.
2208.3PLAY infoLOWLIF::DAVISThat's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE!Tue Feb 07 1989 13:2311
PLAY is used to play Sonix (.SMUS) scores.  There are some good ones on the
net.  One place is on CGOU01 in a directory like [AMIGA.MUSIC.SONIX] or 
something like that.  Anyway, to play a song you need to put all of its
instruments in a directory and do "PLAY song.smus i=directory".  That should
work if ALL the instruments that the song wants is in that directory.

I have a program that you can give it an SMUS song file and it tells you
the instruments it will need.  Yell if you want it uploaded, I'm not sure
if it is on the net.

...richard