Making Slideshows ?

[nasty]

Well it's not quite OS Development, but I'm kind stuck! I was wanting to make some image-slideshows with music.  I have a collection of these on floppy already (made by other people) and i thought I'd have a look at how they where made and they use the showgif command with the startup sequence. so I copyed the floppy disk to my HDD and deleted the pictures and put my own ones and then edit the disks startup sequence with my images and put it back to floppy disk. but for some reason my floppy disks wont boot all I have changed, was the images and images names in the disks startup sequence.  So i admit defeat and am now asking for some sort of help on making slideshows so if you guys know of a guide/tutorial or even a book to buy or just want to tell me how to do this. I would be grateful, I know there's software out there to make these for you e.g demo maker and demomania but I was wanting to do my own, but who-ever helps me out, I will give you credit on anything I put out in the public  

[TNovosel]

You can use any program for showing pixs and cli based mod player.
Example s:startup-sequence
run modplayer df0:mod.amiga - this will play mod in task
showgif df0:pix1.gif
showgif df0:pix2.gif...etc.

Also some show-pix progs have some argument to add, like delay
for use in slideshow.
On my A500 long time before, I created some slide-show disks,
with FastJpeg from aminet and one simply modplayer (I forgot name).

A hope this will help a little..

[Thomas]

but for some reason my floppy disks wont boot

Did you install a bootblock on it ?

Bye,
Thomas

[nasty]

Thanks TNovosel :-)


@Thomas

Did you install a bootblock on it ?

Short answer No! Maybe you can point me in the direction of how to make bootblocks.  I've search aminet http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=+bootblock+ to see what I need to create one.  this is all new to me I just dont have a clue!

EDIT:

I've just download everything from that aminet page so I'll go and check them all out and see what I can learn, wish me luck  :lol:

[Thomas]

You don't need a special program. Just open a Shell window and enter install df0:.

Bye,
Thomas

[krize]

maybe you could check out Karate Script:

http://jpv.wmhost.com/releases/MKD-K12A.LHA (new release..), its a demo script with a lot of effects and examples.. There is alot of info to read and get started with ..

[nasty]

Thanks guys for all your help, I tryed bootwriter and it worked fine and the inbuild version had an nice effect so now I've to find out how to design these things lol.  Thanks for that other link krize i'll try that out
, would you guys be able to tell me what books are good for learning programming on the amiga :-)

and thank you for pointing that out thomas  :-D

[nasty]

Well i managed to get this to work by using

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showgif -aga pic1.gif pic2.gif etc etc but is there a command I can use to restart the slideshow rather than having to display a reboot to watch again message?

also is there anyway I can hide the showgif loading screen?

[odin]

Does the showgif program you use not have an option like -loop  or -cycle?

[nasty]

[fx]

You can make your startup-sequence loop

add a line:
LAB Loop
before the showgif command
and after the command add:
SKIP Loop Back
this will make the command loop forever

[nasty]

Thanks FX i'll try that out just now :-)

Small edit:
Thank you again FX it done exactly as I wanted it to do :-D