{10}{}Part 3 - Games and Applications
{80}{}[Neverputt]
{139}{}Well, the beamer decided to disturb us.
{185}{}But you can see what resolution it is.
{504}{740}The goal of the game is to put the ball|into a special field.
{746}{}A hole, not a field.
{837}{}I've failed this time apparently.
{922}{}Let's try again.
{1071}{}The third attempt will be succesful, I'm sure.
{1209}{}"Five minutes later."
{1304}{}I've told you, I will make it!
{1393}{}"You should believe more in him."
{1507}{}The game runs fast and smooth.
{1616}{}The next level, a bit more difficult.
{1748}{}I've almost succeed.
{1814}{}"But in the fifth attempt..."
{2250}{}[Open TTD]
{2304}{}This is a game for enthusiasts|of building and development.
{2393}{}Especially for fans of railways (I'm one of them).
{2688}{}I've loaded some saved game.
{2748}{}Our beautiful country, as you can see.
{2820}{}"Our beloved country."
{2855}{}Chelm is not on the map unfortunately.
{3102}{}But, we have Bialystok here.
{3791}{}Let's create a new map.
{4047}{}The map is not big.
{4127}{}"You can make much bigger one however."
{4191}{}"256 x 256 fields, without any problem."
{4580}{}I'm building a railway station.
{4717}{}Some tracks...
{5442}{}Now I'm a happy owner of the first train.
{5713}{}[Virtual GrandPrix 2]
{5758}{5945}The game is available on Windows and MacOS as well,|but one has to pay for it on these platforms.
{5945}{6190}Genesi and Freescale delivered|developer machines for the game team,|that is why the game is free for MorphOS.
{6908}{}Everyone started as a beginner...
{7028}{}I will try to close a loop at least.
{7608}{}Some offroad driving...
{7848}{}My driving has been not so perfect ;-).
{8030}{}After three ambitious games presented by Drako,|I will present you three brain damagers.
{8234}{8450}The first one, not so damaging, will be Foobillard.
{8503}{}It runs on Efika very well, as I will show right now.
{8714}{}A classic billard emulator, what can I say more...
{8820}{8997}I can of course change the view, zoom it.
{9038}{}Taking aim...
{9103}{}More or less straight. Then let's break the triangle.
{9440}{}I need some practice, that's evident.
{9553}{}I will try again.
{9640}{}Much better now.
{9756}{}One can play now, change point of view.
{9917}{}There are some nice positions here, but maybe next time.
{10039}{10332}Billard is billard, what is important|Foobillard runs on Efika really nice.
{10340}{}This classic billard game|can be played on Efika without any problems.
{10650}{}Another classic masterpiece,|known from Amiga - Wipeout 2097.
{10772}{11003}It turns out that it runs excellent on MorphOS,|except of trashed intro screens.
{11003}{}We are on the track already.
{11108}{}Waiting for the beamer to remove screenmode info...
{11230}{}A good driver need not a front view anyway ;-).
{11781}{}Mines left behind, turning autopilot on...
{11967}{}I still have a chance for a better position.
{12261}{}Mines left behind again, then I have|something nice on the weapon selector...
{12440}{}Earthquake!
{12573}{}Autopilot engaged...
{12675}{}Whooops!
{12815}{}Another surprise for a competitor.
{12870}{}He tried to drop mines, bastard.
{12920}{}No chance for the first place now unfortunately.
{13100}{}But I can take a silver award anyway.
{13174}{}The game runs really well on Efika,|the first class entertainment.
{13405}{}If one still wants something easier, I have another game to show.
{13640}{}Something really easy and not requiring much thinking.
{13780}{}It is a scrolling screen shoot'em up...
{13867}{14054}Another beamer blue bonus...
{14192}{}Classic shooter with scrolling down screen -|- Open Tyrian.
{14391}{}I will add some weapons, just in case.
{14803}{}Let's go!
{15024}{}Just full extermination|without any useless philosophy.
{15197}{}Kill everything which moves. Very relaxing...
{15406}{}I very like the game, so I can say|it contains unexpectedly many levels.
{15541}{}Diverse levels.
{15632}{}I haven't finished the game yet, in spite of|I've gone through 20 or so levels.
{15822}{}That's is how it looks like...
{15931}{}I save you from looking at this massacre.
{16082}{}The game has so-called "boss key",|so one can exit immediately pressing two keys.
{16210}{}Too bad these keys are in opposite corners of my keyboard...
{16275}{}I'm going to demonstrate Sketch,|a paint program included in MorphOS distribution.
{16482}{}It is placed in "Applications" drawer.
{16747}{16911}It's a simple image drawing and processing program.
{16915}{17062}It can be roughly compared to MS Paint on Windows.
{17106}{}Sketch is written by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski.
{17213}{}It is a bit more advanced than Paint,|as I will show you now.
{17409}{}Let's load some image first.
{17456}{17625}Images can be loaded using Amiga-like datatypes system,
{17629}{}Alternatively Sketch uses Reggae, a multimedia|framework designed especially for MorphOS.
{18079}{}It is a sample image from MorphOS distribution.
{18213}{}We can zoom it, perform typical paint operations.
{18366}{18575}A huge set of nice predefined brushes|is an advantage of Sketch.
{18691}{}Let's select one of them.
{18880}{}The color selector window.
{19066}{19454}Another feature, not present in MS Paint,|is a possibility of using color gradients.
{19471}{19656}Gradients may be created, saved, loaded,|may have alpha channel.
{19656}{}Here is an example, white-to-red gradient.
{19784}{}Let's add transparency to white.
{20005}{}It can be seen now, that alpha channel is in use.
{20122}{20396}Some standard operations:|cropping, scaling, rotation, mirrors.
{20396}{20674}Then something new in this class|of paint programs: plugins.
{20682}{}Here are a few of them.
{20795}{}Ripple effect generates waves on the picture.
{20985}{}It's hard to see on this small preview,|I will increase preview size in settings.
{21290}{}Let's hope Efika has enough memory for this.
{21525}{}Now one can see more of the effect preview.
{21619}{}Some interesting results can be obtained.
{21780}{}Sine wave now.
{21865}{22052}Iterative randomization.
{22055}{}Plain negative.
{22129}{}Median filter.
{22163}{}Matrix convolutions.
{22228}{22426}RGB balance.
{22546}{}Water waves.
{22624}{}Color limiter.
{22793}{}Random pixel displacement.
{22872}{}And finally Sobel filter.
{23059}{23281}Sketch san save in PNG,|JPEG, BMP and SunRaster format.
{23278}{23532}When Reggae framweork will get image encoders,|Sketch will be able to use them too.
{23581}{}That's the end of Sketch presentation, thank you.
{23790}{23954}The next presentation is about multimedia players.
{23959}{}The first one is well known MPlayer.
{24282}{}Some video...
{24466}{}Of course the movie is still played,|when the window is moved around.
{24728}{}CPU load monitor.
{25234}{25478}The next player is Tubexx, a YouTube swiss knife.
{26070}{}Selected movie can be played directly.
{26186}{}It can be also downloaded, link can be also mailed to a friend.
{26584}{}CPU monitor shows, that playing YouTube|FLV movies is not a problem for Efika at all.
{26931}{}CPU load is 31%.
{27098}{}We can download it now.
{27280}{}The movie is being downloaded.
{27388}{}I will stop it now, because it takes some time.
{27665}{27894}Another feature is automatic|reencoding to AVI/DivX format.
{27894}{}Movies can be then burnt to DVD disc|and played back in a standalone player.
{28138}{28285}I select a movie downloaded earlier.
{28699}{28912}YouTube movies have small resolution|so quailty is not impressive when watching fullscreen.
{29094}{29275}The next presentation topic is MUI|(Magic User Interface)
{29275}{}I will show MUI features on an example of|DigiBooster Professional 3, a project I work on.
{29487}{}Another alpha version will be shown now.
{29605}{29786}Let's start from some quick show|of MUI4 configurability.
{29913}{}Let's start DigiBooster now.
{29993}{}This is a standard look on my system,|classic Amiga inspired.
{30119}{30266}The only enrichment is color gradient on buttons.
{30263}{}It looks plain and clean.
{30380}{}I will show now how deeply MUI allows|for an application look change.
{30492}{}I'm leaving the first DigiBooster|instance and running another one.
{30719}{}I'm starting it from a shell window.
{30864}{}(DigiBooster 3 can be, in contrast to 2.x version,|ran multiple times on the same machine)
{31356}{}I'm adding a 'fullscreen' option.
{31544}{}Yes, this is the same application.
{31611}{}It just looks a bit different ;-).
{31682}{}All visual effects are achieved using MUI settings.
{31808}{}We can say then the configurability|of MUI is not that bad.
{31879}{}It can be made even better looking|for sure, just I'm not a graphican.
{31980}{32186}I've managed however to make it looking different.
{32205}{32376}This graphically rich look does not load the layout engine much,
{32381}{}in spite of using large texture, also processed on some areas.
{32465}{}Scrolling text over it is fast.
{32538}{}I can't show you music module playback yet,|because it is not finished.
{32663}{32830}I've tried hard, but haven't finished it at time.
{32834}{}Let's load some module anyway.
{32875}{}I use some 'real' modules for tests,|not easy and simple testcases.
{32971}{33218}Module collectors will surely recognize|one by MaXyM and another one by Ijon Tichy
{33325}{}We have lots of tracks here.
{33438}{}An advantage of the new DigiBooster|over 2.x version is GUI scalability.
{33589}{}If the screen is bigger, we can see more tracks.
{33690}{}DigiBooster 2.x when ran in a big resolution,|still opens a small screen.
{33850}{34000}DigiBooster 3 takes advantage of panoramic LCD displays.
{34000}{}Choosing proper font and other settings|one can have 16 or more tracks visible simultaneously.
{34154}{}It makes the composer work easier,|especially as more positions are|visible vertically as well.
{34326}{34460}Additional editor feature is beat highlight.
{34493}{34669}All tracker colours are user definable.
{34656}{34847}One can also switch backgrounds,|as well as adjust edit bar colours.
{34849}{}What's changed compared to the previous version?
{34918}{}Nothing in sound synthesis subsystem.
{35027}{35180}One can play using samples, but no pitch change yet.
{35212}{35344}We are back to the plain look now.
{35350}{35535}All graphical eyecandies are nice, but load CPU a bit.
{35536}{35902}On the other hand work in the previous,|"graphically loaded" look was|neither slow nor cumbersome.
{35980}{}I'm loading a module again.|MaXyM's one this time.
{36172}{36420}DigiBooster 3 patter editor is only a basic one now.|The GUI for block operations is missing yet.
{36427}{}Copy & paste, transpositions etc.|are waiting to be implemented.
{36564}{}Basic things are working, like cursor moving.
{36694}{37017}Like in 2.x, moving past the last track|jumps to the first one,|the same vertically for pattern positions.
{37008}{}Changing patterns by clicking the playlist entries.
{37166}{}Shift + cursors jump to the next or previous note.
{37414}{}Multichannel is working of course.
{37527}{37860}Presenting it however may lead to crash|due to WIP status of sound synthetizer module.
{37860}{38046}I've modified F6 - F10 shortcuts a bit.
{38058}{38483}They jump to positions relative to the pattern length,|not fixed 0/16/32/48/63 positions.
{38484}{38626}For patterns shorter or longer than usual 64 positions,|jump points scale automatically.
{38626}{38750}So F8 always jumps to the half of pattern.
{38753}{}I don't know if this module has|non-standard length patterns at all...
{38901}{}Seems it has not.
{38956}{}Anyway this is how it works.
{39027}{}Deleting is implemented as well.
{39105}{39210}Let's find some note, they are placed sparsely...
{39210}{39360}One can delete note and instrument...
{39437}{39611}I have to enter edit mode first, using spacebar as in 2.x.
{39602}{39852}That was note deleting, one can also delete|commands only, or the whole entry.
{39856}{}So, editor is at basic functionality, oh,|of course one can move the cursor with mouse.
{40061}{40220}I'm concentrating efforts on sound synthesis now.
{40256}{}I want to get high quality, what I may say,|the quality offered by DigiBooster 2.x...
{40422}{}...will be the lowest level of four.
{40475}{}There will be three levels of HQ resampler.
{40557}{40770}They will require more CPU power however,|classic Amigas may have some troubles with it.
{40780}{40889}THE END