Copyright Philip Holden. Please do not alter these files. I would be very grateful if you could redistribute these files as much and as fast as you possibly can. If you enjoy or find any of the following programs useful then I ask this favour. If the date is before the 14 February 1996 (Valentines Day) Please, please, please could you send an anonymous Valentines card to: Vivien Ballantyne Goldney Hall Lower Clifton Hill University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1BH ENGLAND Card should be clean and timed to arrive no earlier than the 14th of February (please do not post any cards after this date). If you receive these files after that date then please E-mail or write to me incase I ever need a favour in the future. I have just up loaded a whole batch of files to aminet. Here is a list of the archive names I strongly recommend you down load them. Fireflies_B.lha - Large version of my game Fireflies this contains an animated intro. I Very strongly recommend you download this before you do anything else. Fireflies is a one - five player simultaneous game. It has real gravity, nice sound, gameplay is similar to Biplanes. (must be placed on a disk called "fireflies") Fireflies.lha - Same as above but with no graphic intro. archived it is only 65K and takes very little time to down load so you have got no excuse. Once you have it spread it about the world a much and a quickly as humanly possible. Give a copy to anyone you know with any Amiga. (it must be placed on a disk called "fireflies" to work) It can currently be down loaded from the game/2game directory of aminet. Manfred.lha - A joystick controllable character with 350 frames of animation. He will be appearing in many of my future games. Almost.lha - An animation featuring Manfred combining D-Paint animation and Imagine rendering. The animation is played through a compiled Blitz 2 program. (must be depacked to a disk called "anims") City.lha - Similar style to above but in the style of the Micro-chasm intro. (must be depacked to a disk called "anims") The_Chase - 370 frame 32 colour animation featuring Manfred. Manfred_Obj.lha - Imagine 3.0 object. Manfred_Pic.lha - 32 colour rendering Snow_Pic.lha - 24-Bit highres Imagine Render of Snowmen. Agent_Obj.lha - Imagine 3.0 object for a James Bond style character. Do not redistribute any files contain renderings of these two characters with out my expressed permission. Boulder_anim.lha - 254 frame D-Paint animation demonstrating an idea for a level of a future game. Pult.lha - 144 frame D-Paint animation demonstrating an idea for a level of a future game. TrouBall.lha - 335 frame D-Paint animation similar to above. Marbles_Blitz.lha - seven precompiled programs + source code. One of the programs is for real time ball movement in a 3D landscape with joystick control, real time shadow and real gravity. Other programs are for texture mapped towers. Real time fire works. Simulated universes and many others. (you must rename the disk these files are on as "marbles" before running programs). 3D_Snow.lha generates 10's of 1000's of snowflakes which fall in a 3D environment. You can alter things such a wind and gravity and the number of flakes. (this disk must be called snow for it to work). All programs are by Philip Holden please E-mail me to let me know you have down loaded these files. E-Mail ph5885@bristol.ac.uk Write to me Philip Holden Goldney Hall Lower Clifton Hill University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1BH ENGLAND ************************************************ * Another Fireflies Plug * ************************************************ FIREFLIES As far as I know this game is totally original due to the obscure nature of its conception. The game is deliberately simple so I could get it finished working on my own. In this game you have to kill all your rival male Fireflies to further your chances of mating. On your first go I suggest you ignore the options just press return many times on the options screen. You should be on the game screen now, in fact if you are still reading this then you are probably dead. Press return to start the next round. CONTROLS: fly up /----\ |Fire| dive down ^ \----/ on the I closest fly left <---+---> have a guess opponent I v fly down There should be two fireflies on the screen one computer controlled and the other controlled by you. You must kill the computers one to do this you must fly above him then dive down on him. When two Fireflies collide the one moving down fasted at the time of collision will knock the other unconscious. If a firefly flies to close to the water it may be eaten by the fish. The kingfisher on the branch indicates the position of the fish. The frog will also kill if you are not careful. Just see that you opponent comes to some serious harm. Keep playing until you can beat the computer. You can have up to five players. As you play you might find it fun to punch your opponent if he kills you. For more than three players you will need a four player adaptor in your parallel port. I have not tested this option yet because I do not own an adaptor or four working joysticks (so it may not work). The fire button will allow you to swoop towards the nearest attackable firefly. I have included the source code also. About the author: Interests Mental: 1) Computing - animation, programming, AI, 3D rendering and just generally replicating and bending physics. 2) Cutting edge science - The future of mass storage, nano technology, holograms, pseudo 3D, super dense atoms, fundamental particles and the workings of the brain. 3) Wildlife - Flying squirrels, ants slow worms & pond life. 4) French bangers - what haven't we done with them. 5) Performing - Although sometimes quite shy I do enjoy performing on stage. I have got through to the finals of the school spoken English twice and won it once. I would enjoy pushing products and ideas publicly. 6) Advertising - I have an instinctive desire to impress, would love influencing people. I would like to bring advertising to the games industry in a way that the product placement just adds atmosphere or the ads are so good they just enhance the product. I firmly believe total sponsorship to be the only sensible way of funding link up game with hundreds of players. It also turns Piracy into a good thing rather than it being bad. 8) Space the moon and quantum physics. 9) The paranormal - magnetic resinance, spoon bending & UFO's 10) Dreaming. Physical: 1) Skiing - I just love it (specially black runs). 2) Climbing - very good fun. 3) Badminton and Squash - good convenient fun. 4) Generally hanging from things - I'd love to do my own motion capture stunts. I can hang from my arms (only) continuously for five minuets. I can also hang from one arm and juggle with two balls in the other hand. 5) Building and being the first to test a 24 foot high death slide made from a length of rope and a plastic water pipe. Also 5 people on a rope swing over a stream was fun. 6) Cycling - we live in the bottom of a valley so where ever you go is up hill I can now cycle up Kit Hill (two miles of solid steep up hill) with out stopping. 7) Cycling down Kit Hill. 8) Snorkelling - sea cucumbers, squid, eels and crabs. I respect: Animation 1) Aardman Animation - Loves Me, Loves Me Not 2) Nick park - A Grand Day Out, Archy's Concrete Nightmare, Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers & A Close Shave. 3) The Sandman - A scary animation this to horror what a Grand Day out is to comedy. 4) Blindscape - This depicts a blind man stumbling through a forest, puts its point across very well. 5) Manipulation - Good Oscar winning stuff. 6) The Cat Came Back - Funny. MUSIC [Sleeper]: (Louise Wener), I should be going to see them live at Bristol Anson Rooms. Crowded House: Private Universe is prehaps the best song ever written. Pulp: Very good a performing. Britpop in general. Comedy 1) Jeremy Hardy - A public speaker just breaking into TV (a good friend of Jack Dee). His first book "When did you last see your father" is incredibly funny. So was the first Radio 1 & Radio 4 series Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation. 2) Black Adder - This did for sarcasm what Monty Python did for the surreal. 3) Monty Python - You probably know them. 4) Faulty Towers - Genius 4) Whose Line Is It Anyway - Ryan Styles is very funny. 5) Have I Got News For You - Getting a bit old now. 6) Alan Partridge, The Day Today and The Saturday Night Armistice - all these have the same people in and behind them these people should now make a film. 7) Fist Of Fun - The last few episodes of the first radio series was brilliant. Then came the new controller of Radio One and the next two radio series were not very good. The TV series was OK but tended to repeat radio material. They are also good friends with people behind 6). 8) The Young Ones - and Bottom. 9) Red Dwarf - nice. Film 1) The Dark Crystal - very strong story line and just so many nice touches. A very well conceived world, brilliant characters (none of the mutant humanoid rubbish which has become so common now). 2) Monty Python Films - You must have seen them. 3) Jason and The Argonauts & Clash of The Titans - very strong stories, told well. 4) Time Bandits - Brilliant observational humour superb escapist plot. 5) Dead Poets Society - Sad. 6) Box of Delights - very good BBC drama. TV Stations Channel 4 & BBC 2: Good stuff. Books Disk World Novels Roald Dahl