• 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.