subtitled «How Many New Features Can You Spot?»
circa May 1988
When VideoScape 2.0 was finally released, prolific author and AmigaZone moderator Harv Laser was asked to write a review of it for AMNews, a disk-based magazine.
Harv in turn contacted me and asked me to create an animation that could accompany his review. It had to look good. It had to show off VideoScape 2.0's new features. And it had to be 100K or less. 'Ack!'
So with those constraints, I created this animation. I couldn't have a lot of motion, as that would blow the file size. But I tried to show off the highlights of VideoScape 2.0's new features, which included:
– New polygon colors
– Translucent polygons
– «Chrome» polygons
– Phong shading
– HAM rendering
– Z-buffering
When I finished the animation, I popped back to the CLI and nervously checked the size of the file... 99'990 bytes. Am I good or what? :-)
(Leo L. Schwab)