Hi Stephen,

Is this the one you are looking for?

https://aminet.net/package/game/gag/ScreenMelt

Hope it helps.

No, not that one.. but I see now it was a thing more than one person wrote.
The one I remember was much better at making the screen look melty and it also took no arguments, and did not trash the machine requiring a reboot. once the program exited things went back to normal.

I remember what ever it was, I also had access to the source code, and I adapted the code to run on a Sun computer.

Hi Stephen,

Is this the one you are looking for?

https://aminet.net/package/game/gag/ScreenMelt

Hope it helps.

That and there were stronger alternatives. Amiga was my first experience of wordprocessing and DTP. The first wordprocessor I used was Protext - wrote my school essays on it using an A500 and then later on a A1500. When I went to uni I upgraded to an A4000 030 with 85MB hard drive; 6MB ram and Microvitec 1438 and ran Final Writer. Used to draw diagrams in DPaint and then import them into Final Writer. This is simple copy and paste into MS Word these days but back then in the early 90s was trail blazing (for me anyway).

I still have the A4000, upgraded with a 040. Sadly I gave away the 1438 (regret that now). The A500 I traded in for the A1500 and the A1500 I dropped off at the local tip (worst decision I ever made). I now have a A3000T 060, 3000D 040 and a A2000 040 along with a A1200 030 (Phase V 030 MKIV) and not working. I still use my 3000T daily - AmiGemini mostly but also AmigaAMP and to play around with stuff that I never looked at back in the day.

Weed

Does anyone remember a demo program that I think was called "melt"
When you ran it, everything on the screen would appear to melt and fall to the bottom.
I've looked around on the web and can't find it.
Stephen

It was special because it let you do very special things. Consider my experience.

I was just a kid trying to put himself through college in Albany, NY. I was working minimum wage jobs when I wasn't in class. And I was saving my pennies for a computer. I thought I wanted an Atari ST, but then the Amiga 500 was launched. I used every dollar I could scrape up to get the computer, a monitor, a genlock a bit later, some software (Deluxe Paint!).

I spent my nights not sleeping, but learning how to make animations. I got pretty good. So much so that I would watch the local used-car dealership adverts, with their cut-rate Chyron, and thought that I could do so much better. Then the penny dropped.

I knocked on the doors of some of those dealers, and told them I could save them a lot of money if they used my graphics, not the local TV station's. Some of them bit, and I would get paid $250-$500 per commercial. I'd make the cheesy graphics, save them to a floppy, and carry my Amiga and genlock to the TV station. Plug into their patch-bay, and overlay my graphics over the video in real time.

That was a LOT of money back then. One commercial could equal a month's worth of working in the mall.

Yeah, I also played games a whole lot, what with all that extra free time.

One more story that only Amiga made possible