+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ..ooOO C I R C U I T OOoo.. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Analogue 1995 APOLOGIES FOR THE SLOW AND LAZY CODE !! requirements | --------+-------+ | You will need a 486 or better with about 6Mb of base memory to run this demo. But we recommend: - Pentium 90, 8Mb - Gravis Ultrasound (Max) with 1Mb - Fast VGA card (PCI or atleast VLB) It runs under any modern DOS server except Windows x.xx ('95), OS/2 x.xx (Warp), DPMIRES, QDPMI or any other DPMI server. Just run it under DOS 3.2 or better with optional XMS or EMS driver. Note: THIS IS THE PARTYVERSION. It is too big, too lazy and too buggy. We will maybe release a better version somewhere in the future. troubles | --------+-------+ | The demo doesn't run at all: This was yet only witnessed on a 486SLC-33. Try it on another computer or with a different memory mode (EMS, XMS, etc.) The music hicks, sounds strange or doesn't sound at all: Either you have a certain revision GUS MAX or no GUS at all. The demo stops when I press SHIFT: The demo stops when you press ANY key! The beginning scroller is motionblurred: Right. I have an Amiga 1200 and I can't get this demo to work: Do you really want an answer? System 64 messages: .S64: 80386 or better required go buy a better computer or watch another demo. .S64: system is running in V86 mode Remove OS/2, Windows or any other DPMI server that can switch off windows/DPMI detection. .S64: system is running under a DPMI server remove OS/2, Windows, DPMIRES, QDPMI or any other DPMI server. .S64: cannot enable A20 gate It seems you have a special computer... Contact Simm and give him a list with your exact hardware and software configuration. .S64: not enough base memory Remove DOS basemem TSR's and drivers. .S64: system is running under Microsoft Windows REMOVE WINDOWS !!! .S64: error loading ROM data file MASTER.DAT is corrupted or not in the startup directory. .S64: THIS CODE SUCKS !!!!! Due to some strange mistake, the computer rejects this demo. .S64: error allocating XMS memory There seems to be some trouble with HIMEM.SYS. Consult your DOS manual or run a diagnostics utility. The demo needs about 6MB XMS. Also, you can try to run the demo under EMM386 or another VCPI driver, or totally blank (using a clean boot). .S64: [xx] xxxxxxxxx These are processor faults. You can get the following ones: divide fault: Mainly this is caused by the crappy 3D engine running on a slow computer. invalid opcode fault: The code went haywire... Try to run it again or run it on a faster computer. stack fault: The code runs on a slow computer and piles up IRQ calls. Run it on a faster computer. general protection fault: see invalid opcode fault. page fault: Occurs only in VCPI (EMS) mode. Sometimes due to some strange unknown factor the demo won't run and give this error. TDJ's fault: Contact Intel immediately because there is something wrong with your processor. Keyboard break fault: DON'T PRESS A KEY DURING THE DEMO !! .S64: heap overflow You don't have enough extended or expanded memory. It needs about 6Mb. Also, it might be possible that you used a different CIRCUIT.EXE with a different MASTER.DAT. legal shit | --------+-------+ | This material is not freeware. You are allowed to copy it without restrictions for non-commercial use. No payment of any kind may be charged for this product or any combination of products or services including this product without our authorization and official written license. Commercial use, especially the industrial manufacturing on any data storage media and their distribution without the expressed permission of the producer, is strictly prohibited. This program or the data files contained therein may not be altered or modified without the permission of the author. You take full responsibility for the operation of this software and any consequences thereof. We the creators cannot accept liability for damages or failures arising from the use of this software. In other words: If you are lame enough to make money with this demo, you are hurting not only yourself and us but with it bring our society a step backwards in it's development (and it vill hef konzekwenses for your femily if wee find aut!) credits | --------+-------+ | Music: Metal Code: Simm Art: Spoetnik and Hein Objects: Spoetnik Design, ideas: Spoetnik, Simm and Morris Moral support: TDJ, Morris and Mirage Party support: pyREX Final editing: Simm Last minute heroes: pyREX and Simm technical stuff | --------+-------+ | This demo introduces hicolor high-performance fullscreen active crossfading, multispline 3D objects, self-antialiasing proportional font driving, photometric overflow flare simulation with recalculated lens aberations, realtime translucency projection mapping, hicolor to 256-color realtime quantisation, 256-step flickerfree metamorphing and many more fascinating new insights. We didn't take too much time for this demo, so it contains loads of raw stored hicolor 256x256 environment maps and huge backgrounds (and maybe even some unused things as well)... We almost exceeded the 4Mb limit :) final sentence | --------+-------+ | - 011010001102 - <*** End of File ***>