- Sukhoi Su-27 demo and QuickTime conversion.
- ¥ A preview of "The Su-27 Story" stack soon to be released
- ¥ A demonstration of playing converted QuickTime video with sound
- on the Apple IIGS
- This demo is freeware for the Apple IIGS. It may be freely distributed
- on disks for a small copying fee or on BBS's and the Internet.
- For years, the Western media has portrayed all fighter jets from the
- former Soviet Union as MIGs and their pilots as bumbling automatons.
- (For example, the way the "MIGs" were portrayed in the movie
Air Force
- One. If they really wanted to take out the President, you'd think they
- would send Su-27s or one of its derivatives!) Now, with the cold war
- over, Western observers have had a chance to visit Russian airbases,
fly
- their planes, and talk to their pilots. Sentiment has turned from fear
- and hatred to respect and admiration. The Sukhoi jets are the top of
- the line Russian aircraft and they perform at almost all international
- air shows, performing moves that no other production aircraft can do.
I
- am currently building a stack, "The Su-27 Story," which provides
- information, history, pictures and movie clips about this awesome
- machine. That stack is not yet ready, so this demo is a preview of
- things to come.
- There is a dual purpose to this demo. It is a preview to the upcoming
- stack. It is also a demonstration of the GS' capacity to run full
- motion, full screen video with synchronized audio. This demonstration
- consists of a demo stack and a converted QuickTime movie of a Su-27
- roaring down a runway. The converted QuickTime movie is stored as a
- PaintWorks animation. The converted sound from the clip is stored as
a
- synthLAB sequence and wavebank. The demo stack synchronizes them
- together to provide the full QuickTime experience.
- Playing the animation requires at least 5MB of memory and then you
will
- probably need to shift-boot. For 5MB users, you can hear the sound
- track separately through synthLAB and look at the demo stack with
- HyperCard IIGS (but without the integrated QuickTime converted video,
- which must be viewed outside of HyperCard on 5MB systems). For users
- with 8MB, you can run the included HyperCard IIGS demo stack to get
a
- preview of "The Su-27 Story" and experience the QuickTime
clip, full
- screen and full motion video integrated with sound. This movie clip
will
- be edited before inclusion into "The Su-27 Story" so that
the final
- stack will run on systems with only 4MB, but I wanted to release this
- unaltered movie and demo first because it is so cool.
- -Scott G.