Causes and effects can form strange chains. The reason you are looking at
this animation right now is that "everyone" on the YAM mailing list is
using the same tagline file (that came with the program)!

Well, that IS the ultimate reason. I decided to find something more
original and suddenly remembered that i had a big tagline file on my old
system. So after i had disconnected and partly dismantled the 1200 to clean
it up a bit the other day, I put it to the side and set up the old 500+ to
see if I could find the file.
Thanks to the file searcher Cerca (the name means Search in Italian)
finding the file only took a few minutes, and then I decided to look around
a bit while I had the system running anyway. I found some old pictures and
animations and decided to unleash them on the unsuspecting world, and
Loco.anim is one of those.

The file date on the original animation is Aoril 27, 1997, but the
animbrushes which are also enclosed here are from June 5, 199, so it looks
like I have been working on this little animation for quite a while! The
animation file found here is newer because I decided to brighten the
palette and clean up some stray pixels. So at the end of the day this took
about five years to finish. ;)

To get a bit more on topic, as far as I can remember I made this animation
to see if I could animate the crank and piston (or whatever they are
called) convincingly. Look good, don't they? ;) The smoke (which is
synchronised with the piston btw), the driver's scarf (just a series of
random squiggles filled with color but they look good too...) and the water
drops on the pipes (yes, that is what they are supposed to be...) were
added later to make the picture look less static.

The letters IAR WS on the driver's booth don't mean anything special, I
just picked some letters more or less at random. And okay, it doesn't
really look like a particular real steam engine, but the Amiga is supposed
to be a tool for the imagination, right? ;)

Asker, June 1999
Ragnar Fyri
ragnar.fyri@daf.no
ICQ# 38891981

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[generic]                  410    1249  32.8% -lh5- b6b2 Jun  4  1999 loco.anim.info
[generic]                  929    2406  38.6% -lh5- 1d78 Jun  4  1999 locosmoke.animbrush
[generic]                  508    1964  25.9% -lh5- 370c Jun  4  1999 locowheel.animbrush
[generic]                 2974    6980  42.6% -lh5- f139 Jun  4  1999 locowheels.animbrush
[generic]                 1087    2078  52.3% -lh5- ff61 Jun  4  1999 ReadMe
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