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- - --────────────────────── Assembly '93 compo intro ──────────────────────-- -
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- What is Doomsday Productions? (Addict) ────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ After the original members of Hysteria decided to split the group because
- of internal problems, many members were left stranded with a bunch of stuff
- made for Hysteria. One of these members was Doom. With a bunch of routines
- decomposing he decided to compile most of them into one single package, to
- an intro which would attend the Assembly '93 intro compo. Still, looking for
- a new group to join, a temporary group was required. Therefore, Doomsday
- productions. DP exists only till the end of Assembly '93. Don't try to join,
- don't ask anything about DP.
-
- The routines (Doom) ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Six routines are featured, all of them are REALTIME on a 386/25/NoCache
- /No music. Of course, a Trident card ISN'T recommended.
-
- 3D plot scroll (Doom) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: The routine plots a total of 6400 plots to the screen. It takes
- about one half of the rastertime on a 386/25/NoCache.
- ■ Fiction: With a good player and on faster machines the number of plots
- could be increased into huge values.
-
- Delay plot flag (Doom) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: This squeezing plot plane takes about half of the rastertime, too,
- and features also 6400 plots, but this time with a 32 delays.
- ■ Fiction: The delays can be easily increased to over couple of hundreds
- but I think it would look little bit messy :=)
-
- 40 spheres (Doom) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: Making the spheres are really easy and rubbering them is as easy.
- ■ Fiction: More plots per sphere could be easily added.
-
- Triple sinus plasma (Doom) ────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: This is a good old routine. Check the ECI plasmas ;)
- ■ Fiction: It is almost impossible to optimize the calculations any further,
- with a faster machine the resolution can be increased.
-
- Julias (Doom) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: NO precalculations are used. The routine uses 386 instructions,
- using 8 bits for the integer part and 24 bits for the decimal part
- for calculating the real numbers.
- ■ Fiction: The routine isn't optimized to its maximum. But having realtime
- fractal zooms requires careful optimizing, loss in resolution and
- more likely precalculations.
-
- Venku (Doom) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Facts..: Or what's the real name for the effect? Anyway, this effect takes
- about four fifths of the raster time. With cards enabling 16 bit
- latch transfer it could take about 2/5 of the rastertime. For the
- present moment, OAK is the only card we have come up with enabling
- you to use 16 bits instead of 8. In this version, only 6 bitplanes
- are used, but the routine is equally fast with 8 bpls. 64 colors
- make it just a little more clear.. ;)
- ■ Fiction: You cannot optimize it if you do it this way. Of course, if you are
- optimizing your VGA card ;)
-
- Any group for me? (Doom) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ As you know already, I'm groupless. I'm looking for a new group to join. If
- anyone is interested, please contact me. If your group doesn't have a player
- then don't bother. I've suffered long enough because the lack of a decent
- player. Or, if your group have all the rest but no real demo coding skills,
- please, leave me alone. I don't want to end up being the only coder in the
- group doing something...
-
- Any group for me? (Addict) ────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ So, I did the miserable music and one old font was used. So what? I didn't
- put much effort to the music, perhaps I didn't want anyone to end up being
- interested in having me as a member. As you see, I'm a member of Hysteria,
- which is now scattered. A large number of stuff was done for nothing because
- they most likely are never to be released. You don't need to know what. If
- you really want to know, one of them was a whole disk mag (coded by Doom).
- Now it is incomplete and maybe never will be released. Unless Doom wishes
- to use the routines etc. to have a new diskmag with a new group. But it
- won't be the same mag, coz I probably won't let anyone use any of my stuff
- made for it. Neither the expertise nor the texts :( Okay, so I've talked a
- lot of bullshit. Here's what I'm trying to say: I'm so fuckin' pissed of
- with the pitiful PC demo scene that I don't think I'll return to it. Or was
- I never really into it? Probably because none of the groups I've been to
- have ever released anything after I've joined. Nothing except my works. So
- if you really want me to join a group, you better give me a good reason. I
- am productive and my background gives me an idea of where the scene should
- go, but my attitude isn't one of the best at the moment.. We shall see..
-
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- Problems ? (Doom) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ If you have a Pro audio spectrum you perhaps might have some problems
- initializing Sound blaster. This intro had been tested on Soundblaster,
- Soundblaster PRO, PAS16 and Thunderboard. Only PAS didn't work at all.
- ■ In 286 computers this intro will work only to the Julias, because
- Julias require 386. But I don't recommend to run this intro on 286 ;)
- ■ In 486 computers this intro should work perfectly, unless you have a shitty
- Trident. This intro had been tested on Diamond Stealth 24, Oak, Tseng and
- Trident. Only Trident with 486 didn't work at Venku in realtime. I have
- a 386/25 Mhz+Tseng and Venku worked on 70 fps. I can say only that Trident
- sucks !
- ■ If the intro stalls on the middle and it won't work then try to run it
- without music.
- ■ There migth be some other problems too, but...
-
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- Contact us (both) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-- -
- ■ Doom: Mika Pesonen or 957-259153 for voice calls, Finnish only,
- Vetehisenkatu 36 please ;)
- SF-57200 Savonlinna
- Finland
- (Also for swapping in PC)
-
- ■ Addict: Hysteric Visions
- +358-57-258588
- 21.30-6.30 EET v22bis (you can also find Doom in HysVis)
-
- ■ Swapping for PC & SNES
-
- SBT/Marko Lopponen
- Tuomentie 7
- SF-57220 Savonlinna
- Finland
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