#WELCOME TO OUR LATEST PRODUCTION ! RELEASE : 7TH DEC 94 #NOW FOR SOME .. ADDRESSES .. #RIGHT MOUSE PAUSES #LEFT MOUSE SKIPS FOR FRIENDLY MAIL TRADING ZINC #1 BIRCH DALE #MADELEY NR CREWE CHESHIRE #CW3 9NS L8-X (DONT WRITE HANDLE) JAMES KELLY #4O GLAMIS ROAD #FLAT 2/1 #PARKHEAD GLASGOW G31 4NN CRAZYWILD (DONT WRITE HANDLE) MIKKO LEHTONEN #ARLAINSTITUUTTI PUUSTELLINMAKI 4-6 O26OO ESPOO FINLAND #ALSO, TO JOIN GHD KANEDA 49 RANNOCH DRIVE BEARSDEN #GLASGOW #G61 2LF #SMALL 4 CAMPBELL PLACE TORRANCE #BALMORE #GLASGOW #G64 4HR MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS! YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE LATEST PRODUCTION FROM --GRASSHOPPER DEVELOPMENTS-- KNOWN ONLY AS ]] THE CHRISTMAS INTRO ^^ WE HOPE YOU LIKED IT!!! CREDITS GO LIKE THIS ALL CODING : KANEDA GFX : KANEDA FONT : TED (EX-\) MUSIC : KANEDA ... CREDIT MUST ALSO GO TO SMALL FOR HIS WORK ON THE A5OO COMPATIBLE VERSION OF THIS INTRO, WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY BE RELEASED NEXT WEEK... THIS FONT WAS PIXELED BY TED WHILE HE WAS A GFXER FOR GHD - THANKS! YOU MAYBE SHOULD HAVE STUCK AROUND, EH?? ;) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ GRASSHOPPER D MEMBER LIST AS OF 1/12/94 : KANEDA : CODER AND CO-MANAGER, SMALL : CODER AND CO-MANAGER, DLF : MUSICIAN, ZINC : SWAPPER, L8-X : SWAPPER, CRAZYWILD : SWAPPER AND MODEMTRADER NOW FOR THE GREETINGS .... HI THERE, L8-X WOULD LIKE TO SEND SOME GREETS AND MESSY"S TO THE FOLLOWING COOOL GUYS!......TUMMO/DUAL FORMAT: HOWS IT GOING MATE, TA FOR THE CHAT, STILL HAVEN"T GOT A CLUE WOT PEZ LOOKS LIKE??.....ALCHEMIST/GHD: TA FOR THE VID, SEE YA AT THE WORLD OF AMIGA AT WEMBLEY!...FIREFOX/INDIE: IT"S A PITY I COULDN"T MEET UP WITH YA IN SHEFFIELD BUT I"LL MEET YA AT W.O.A....YAK/SAINTS: KEEP THOSE COOOOOOOL SENDS COMING MATE DID YOU GET THE VID I SENT?!?!....FREEBASE/C.I.B: CHEERS FOR THE SENDS MATE, GET C.I.B. NEWS 2 OUT SOON!!!!....KEI/CARNAGE: HOWS LIFE IN YOUR NEW GROUP? KEEP THOSE SENDS COMING!!....FURRBALL/QUANTUM INC: WHAT YOU BEEN UP TO LATELY MATE...WRITE SOOON!....CAGE/CARNAGE(?): LOOOOONG TIME NO HEAR, I"LL DROP YOU A LINE REAL SOON (PROMISE!)....KANEDA/GHD: GREAT LETTERS MATE, RUNNING OUR GROUP, CODING, MUSIC (SINGING?), GFX, IS THERE NO END TO YOUR TALENTS?!?.....THAT"S ABOUT IT FROM ME....SOZ TO ALL THE GUYS I HAVE LEFT OUT!!...ONE MORE SMALL MESSAGE TO ALL THOSE ARROGANT PC OWNERS...THE AMIGA ISN"T DEAD...HOW COULD IT DIE WITH A SCENE LIKE OURS!!!...L8-X/GHD KANEDA"S GREETINGS GO SOMETHING LIKE THIS ... REALITOR/ELTECH(?) - HI M8, STILL GONNA WRITE ME? WHAT D"YOU MAKE OF THIS NEW INTRO THEN? WHAT ARE YOU UP TO AT THE MOMENT? WRITE SOON... D-CODE AND NEO DNS : PITY THAT THIS INTRO RAN OUT OF TIME BCOZ I WOULD HAVE LIKED FOR YOU GUYS TO HAVE DONE SOME NICE GFX FOR IT. I"LL MAKE CONTACT WITH YOU SOON - MAYBE YOU CAN HELP WITH THE NEXT PRODUCTION??! :) ... LONE RANGER/DUAL FORMAT : D"YOU KNOW WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BILL AND TED? I DON"T! ........... OKAY, I THINK THATS ENOUGH MESSAGES FROM ME. UNFORTUNATLY, DUE TO THE LACK OF TIME, MOST MEMBERS IN GHD DIDN"T GET A CHANCE TO WRITE SOME SCROLLTEXT. THIS WAS MY FAULT (SORRY GUYS! - KANEDA). HOWEVER I DO HAVE A LIST OF ZINC"S CONTACTS WHICH I WILL NOW GREET IN HIS ABSENCE : MICHAEL/ANETHEMA .... ROB/DUAL FORMAT .... D-CODE/INDY .... HOTROD/INDY .... DEVOE/NARCOSIS .... HORROR/DUAL FORMAT .... SKUZZY/DUAL FORMAT .... WELL I HOPE THAT WILL SUFFICE FOR JUST NOW... I WOULD ALSO GREET OTHER MEMBER"S CONTACTS IF I HAD THEIR NAMES, BUT I DON"T, SO I CAN"T :) .... (IS THIS MUSIC DRIVING YOU CRAZY YET!!?)..... JINGLE BELLS.............. JINGLE BELLS....... :) SMALL BEGINS TO SPEAK : WELL. WHY IS THIS GUY GOT A SPACE IN THIS SCROLL SECTION IF ALL HE DID WAS A COUPLE OF STEREOGRAM PICS (THAT WEREN"T USED (SORRY SMALL! - KANEDA))? ANSWER - THIS GUY (ME) IS CALLED SMALL AND AS MOST TEXT IN INTROS ARE DESIGNED TO BORE I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A SPACE HOWEVER, I WILL BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE TO DO WITH THIS DEMO WHICH IS - MAKING A A5OO VERSION FOR ALL THOSE WITH THE COMPUTER AS OLD AS ROCKY 1 YET STILL AS GREAT AS AN ACTIVATED AIR SPRAY IN A LIFT WHERE YOU ARE TRAPPED WITH FIVE FAT FRENCH BLOKES IN A CURRY HOUSE!! THIS SHOULD BE QUITE SIMPLE (JUST SWAPPING/ AMMENDING THE AGA FADE SO IT WORKS WITH THE NORMAL PALLETE), HOPEFULLY. ANYWAY IT SHOULD BE RELEASED SHORTLY WITH OUR *PRODUCTS SO FAR* DISK. I MUST SAY THE SAME OLD THING. IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS, ENJOYING IT, HAVE AN AVERAGE TALENT IN THE PROCESS OF DEMO MAKING AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO......PLEASE JOIN. YOU MAY VERY WELL BE INTERESTED IN WHAT I AM SAYING ,NOT, BUT I AM RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. EH.... YEAH - FUTURE PRODUCTS. AT THE MOMENT I HAVE A FEW PLANS FOR PRODUCTS STORED AWAY CAREFULLY (UNDER SEVERAL CANS OF COKE. VIRGIN OF COURSE.) AND A FEW HALF FINISHED ROUTINES ON DISK. IN THE NEAR FUTURE IT LOOKS LIKE GRASSHOPPER D. WILL BE PRODUCING BIG INTROS AND PERHAPS A LITTLE LATER ON, SMALL DEMOS... YEAH, THAT WILL DO. SEE YOU IN ANOTHER SCROLL TEXT........... P.S. DIAL 1471 TO FIND OUT WHO JUST CALLED YOU, AND WRITE TO ME IF YOU WANT TO JOIN OR FOR ANY OTHER, ALMOST ANY OTHER, REASON. HI M8S, FIRST I (KANEDA) WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A FEW BYTES TO TRY AND EXPLAIN WHY MOST THINGS IN THIS PRODUCTION WERE DONE BY MYSELF AND NOT ANY OTHER MEMBERS IN THE GROUP. FIRSTLY, THE MUSIC JUST KINDA HAPPENED WHILE I WAS MESSING AROUND WITH SMALL"S SAMPLER (CHEERS M8!), AND THEN THE IDEA FOR A CHRISTMAS INTRO CAME FROM THAT. OTHERWISE THE MUSIC WOULD HAVE BEEN BY DLF. NEXT CAME THE CODE WHICH I STARTED BY MYSELF. I HAD FULLY DISCUSSED THE INTRO WITH SMALL AND WE HAD DECIDED THAT I WOULD CODE SOME AND HE WOULD CODE SOME. HOWEVER, WHEN I SENT HIM WHAT I HAD CODED OF THE INTRO SO FAR HE COULDNT GET IT TO RUN. WELL, INFACT IT BOMBED. SO HE SPENT A WHILE GETTING THAT TO ACTUALLY RUN ON HIS MACHINE. BY THIS TIME WE WERE RUNNING CLOSE TO OUR DEADLINE SO WHILE HE FIXED THE INTRO FOR THE A5OO I CODED THE REMAINING PARTS FOR THE A12OO. THEN THERE WERE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE GRAPHICS. A FEW WEEKS BEFORE SOME GFX GUYS FROM OUTSIDE GHD OFFERED TO DO GRAPHICS. HOWEVER EVENTUALLY THIS FELL THROUGH BECAUSE WE RAN OUT OF TIME. SO THAT PRETTY MUCH FORCED ME TO DRAW THEM MYSELF, WHICH IS CERTAINLY NOT THE GREATEST OF SOLLUTIONS! SO NOW YOU FOLKS KNOW THE FULL STORY (SOON TO BE SERIALISED FOR A POPULAR MORNING NEWSPAPER :) AND THE REASON THAT THE CREDS FOR THIS PRODUCTION MAINLY LIE AT MY FEET. NEXT TIME WE WILL START OUR CHRISTMAS INTRO IN APRIL TO HOPEFULLY AVOID THE RUSH THAT WE HAD THIS TIME AROUND :) :) JINGLE BELLS...... JINGLE BELLS....... :) :) :) :) (!) NOW THIS MUSIC MUST ] REALLY ^ BE ANNOYING YOU!! JUST CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY THAT YOU DIDN"T HAVE TO HEAR IT 1O47 TIMES DURING THE PRODUCTION OF THIS INTRO, LIKE ME! IF YOUR STILL READING THIS EITHER YOUR WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO GREET YOU OR YOUR A GHD MEMBER AND YOUR WONDERING WHAT I"M GONNA SAY NEXT... WELL FIRST I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL GRASSHOPPER D MEMBERS FOR THEIR FAITH IN THE GROUP AND FOR HANGIN" IN THERE THE LAST FEW MONTHS WHILE THE CHANGES IN THE GROUP WERE TAKING PLACE. THIS INTRO MARKS THE BEGINING OF ]] THE ALL NEW \ ^^ # :) FINAL THANKS FROM KANEDA GO TO : OASIS - FOR MAKING THE BEST ALBUM TO DROWN THIS MUSIC OUT WITH!! ROMBUST (OF NEBULA?) - FOR HIS TUTORIALS IN GV ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. WITHOUT THEM IT IS PRETTY CERTAIN I WOULD NOT BE SITTING HERE WRITTING THIS... BILL AND TED - FOR THEIR HELP IN THE EARLY DAYS OF GHD AND GETTING DEBUT AND XXX-INTRO SPREAD BETTER THAN I THOUGHT!! PAZZA OF LSD - FOR EDITING THE BEST SCENE MAG AND FOR INCLUDING OUR ADVERTS IN IT. GHD WOULD BE DEAD WITHOUT IT - THATS FOR SURE! THE PC - FOR SHOWING JUST HOW BADLY DESIGNED AND LAME COMPUTERS CAN BE! - ]] INTEL IN SKIP ^^ HEHEH! :) :) :) AND LASTLY THANKS TO THE AMIGA - YOU ARE RATHER GOOD! SEE YA ALL IN THE NEXT GRASSHOPPER DEVELOPMENTS PRODUCTION! ((TEXT REPEATS))