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CTA (Chained Tool Association) proudly presents: Not FTA An FTA style demo written using HyperCard IIgs that pokes fun at the FTA. Almost a decade ago, the Apple IIgs was still being made, but it had precious little RAM for programs, no hard drive, and no accelerator. Still, the computer itself was great. Enter the Free Tool Association, a group of French programmers who made the IIgs shine. Stunning vector graphics, multipalette animations, and remarkable speed thanks to efficient assembly programming made their demos fit onto 800K floppies and still beat out anything for the PC or Mac. Now, a decade later, the FTA is long gone. The typical Apple IIgs has also changed. Today's Apple IIgs typically has 4 megabytes or even 8 megabytes of RAM, a hard disk drive, and an accelerator. It is to demo the capabilities of the modern IIgs that Not FTA was written. Not FTA has everything you would expect from an FTA demo. Stunning 3D vector graphics, great 15 voice music sound tracks, multipalette tricks, user interaction, etc. There are some differences though. While FTA was lean, CTA demos are fat. While FTA demos were written in efficient assembly language, CTA demos are huge HyperTalk based stacks. While FTA demos required little RAM, this CTA demo probably requires at least 4MB (it may run with as little as 2MB, but this was not tested). What is amazing is that on a accelerated system, Not FTA can actually run as fast as the FTA's Delta Demo and Modulae run on a stock IIgs. So pull up a chair, kick up your feet, and boogie to the rhythm of rock music as vector balls bounce around the screen. You'll swear you were back in 1989, reliving the FTA's greatest demos! Not FTA is freeware and may be copied. Enjoy the demo. RD/Miser October 8, 1997.