Any Scala Guru's on here?

[PJHull]

I have created some slides in Dpaint and have started to make a small slideshow/presentation with music in Scala MM400. I want to be able to then give the presentation to someone who has an Amiga but does not have Scala installed in any way. How do I achieve saving my show so as I can just say to them,  here you go, watch this?

The final slideshow will be too big for a floppy disk so I will have to get them to place it on their hard drive to watch.

I have no Scala manual so I am looking for someone who has actually done this - I'm not having much luck guessing my way through...

Any advice most welcome, Thanks.

[PJHull]

Never used Hollywood but I could give it a go if I knew where to get it, isn't it a lot more complex than Scala though? I thought Hollywood was more of a programming language.

I would prefer to stick with Scala at this stage as the slide show is almost complete but only if Scala is capable of doing what I want it to do.

I felt sure that Scala had the ability to do this...? Presentations must be transferable to other Amiga's by using the Player surely?

[PJHull]

Interesting points re Winuae and I am using Winuae these days...

My Scala is the floppy version.
Would be great to get the manuals from the CD somehow - guess I could buy it :-(

[PJHull]

I'd think seriously about buying it if I could establish that it could do exactly what I wanted it to do - it's good that it is still available.

[PJHull]

Well, all these new applications are interesting to hear about and I will explore them all in due course but for the time being I have found a solution...

Simple really I suppose but it takes time for me to work things out - I ain't the brightest spark on computers...

I put the Scala Player in the same drawer as my slide show, I also put the System drawer from my Scala hard drive installation in the same drawer, I change the tool type of my slide show script to point to the scala player in the drawer (changed from pointing to where I installed scala on my HD) Then... and this is where I previously made a schoolboy error, I transferred the drawer to my friends laptop making sure that the path is exactly the same as it was on my HD where I created the slideshow... in the system partition in a drawer called "Slideshows" So it mirrors where it was created and resides on my HD (hope this all makes sense but essentially it means the script can find the slide show pages and samples etc...)

Anyway, bang - it works and he does not have Scala installed at all on his hard drive so I think I have got there...

Mind you, the slide show sound samples slow right down on his laptop but I think this is a fault of his crappy machine as the show runs well on my laptop (all this via Winuae)

I am sure that making smaller slideshows and getting them onto a floppy would be better but that brings other challenges. For now I'm happy. This slide show was 11MB in total so I will have to experiment with compressed images and smaller samples next time...

If anyone is interested in the slideshow I will upload it to dropbox at some stage.

Thank you everyone for your help and comments.

[PJHull]

Uploaded my effort to Youtube...

http://youtu.be/Qg6otQaYR78

[PJHull]

I did another Slideshow. This time of Frank Zappa - a musician I admired greatly. I have a lot of fun doing these shows but they are not very professional looking I admit - I only do them for my own enjoyment so please forgive the amateurish feel... anyway...

Here it is... http://youtu.be/ai_DKS4R688

[PJHull]

sounds awesome - pm on the way!

[PJHull]

I was going for a bit of a retro look in that one - I think rather than doing the text in Dpaint I will try and do it in Scala for the next show as some of the fonts look less jagged - it's a bit trial and error, some fonts just don't look good and can break up easily in both Dpaint and Scala though.

[PJHull]

Is it possible to type text vertically onto a Scala slide?

How do please?

[PJHull]

and another...

http://youtu.be/Pkon7RFdArc