Deluxepaint - Animation boot disk?

[Steve T]

I hope someone can help and thanks in advance if you can! I have an unexpanded amiga in the living room, I want to be able to give someone a disk and all they have to do is put the disk in and see the animation play out on the tv, is there any way I can do this -easily- ? I'm sure I recall something that could do it, but who knows what or how.

I am not a coder but an experienced amiga user and artist from years ago, relearning stuff still these days. I was thinking some kind of customised workbench disk with a special startup sequence... but then how do i get the iff loaded? And i need it all to fit on one disk. I have dpaintIV to make the artwork - If anyones interested it'll be an animated christmas card for my better half (she's getting a real one too, and lots of other stuff...)

maybe there is some software from here http://aminet.net/gfx/show which might help?

....hopefully if it all works out it will endear her to my amiga collection slowly taking over her home.

[Amiga1992]

I used to use a little commandline tool that would do that. Problem is that it plays the animations in interlaced mode. I don't now why.
But there might be others that play animations on command too!

Here's some possible candidates:
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/show/Animcommander
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/show/S_Anim5

As for it fitting in one floppy, you'll have to make that a reality.

[Steve T]

its nothing too ambitious, it would be just a single frame with some palette cycling to bring it to life, so something that would load an iff and start ramping a range of colours would be ideal, but i'm open to suggestions.

[Amiga1992]

I just gave you two suggestions.
If you just need color cycling, look for a viewer that supports cycling.

[Nobby_UK]

I use ViewTek 2.1 (use to use PPShow) to view Dpaint Anims

[Amiga1992]

There was a program that made an IFF image into a bootblock... not sure if i t supported cycling though. Anybody knows this tool? I'd like to use it.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

I use ViewTek 2.1 (use to use PPShow) to view Dpaint Anims

those color-cycling images look like animations - but they are single images, with a feature of cycling/rotating colors.
if you talk about animations you can think of those [ Show youtube player ]
ExView is another viewer, which supports color-cycling.

dont get me wrong, i just try to explain

Originally Posted by Akira

There was a program that made an IFF image into a bootblock... not sure if i t supported cycling though. Anybody knows this tool? I'd like to use it.

not really sure: BootGirl ?

[Steve T]

she's been complaining about the 'ugly' machine residing under the tv... I guess this had better be a spectacular animated amiga e-card thing..

[Amiga1992]

Man I don't think she's gonna buy this stunt

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Steve T

she's been complaining about the 'ugly' machine residing under the tv... I guess this had better be a spectacular animated amiga e-card thing..

there is a new book on bombjacks website - Using Deluxe Paint II. perhaps you find some good techniques there

[gunni]

Originally Posted by Steve T

I'm sure I recall something that could do it, but who knows what or how.

I remember making such a disk with the help of an Amiga mag back in the day, putting together an animation with a walking frog(?) with a mod music file.

I'm fairly sure it was something just using dpaint and saving it to a bootable floppy with a viewer program which was automatically run.
Cant remember much more on it but maybe it will tweak the memory of someone else...

[Steve T]

visual and audio would be fantastic. I could probably manage some junglebells in octamed too just 4 days left, not sure if this will be my best work. need to do some chrimble shopping too... running out of time lol.

[gunni]

found it! Amiga format issue 48 http://amr.abime.net/issue_204_coverdisks