Re: Apple logo in Lores

["Craig Bower" <to.email.me@post.a.request>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I love the new version of lrh. Is there source to the ML startup
> animation or toolbox? I like the animation, but the startup program ends
> with CHR$ (4);"CAT" and you have to type the program name.
>
> If you like, you're welcome to run my Basic startup menu when the
> animation exits:
>
> <http://home.woh.rr.com/jbmatthews/a2/misc.tgz> or
> <http://home.woh.rr.com/jbmatthews/a2/misc.sdk>
>
> It shows a menu of locked files from which to run.
> -- 
> John B. Matthews

Hi John,

I did a IIgs -> PC dump of the LRH startup w/comments.

http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/startup.txt

Hopefully it's easy to follow.  There is no real 'tricks' going on, as 
you'll see.
(forgive the longhand memory locations as the IIgs dumps memory like that)

Cliff notes:  The animation method is based on way too much going on at any
given moment for the apple to be fast enough to redraw it all.

So I took 4-views of the same picture and displayed them one after another
to create the illusion of a LOT of work being done by the apple.

I was going to update the ProDOS version to have a file-handler, kind of
like the DOS 3.3 version does, but I think at this point, I'll leave it as 
is and
work on something new and different.  I still have all the source files for 
the
"LoRes Caverns" game I was working on, but haven't finished it up - maybe
it's time to do that.  You know, this year. ;)

Cheers,
Craig