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Are you ready to experience the future of computing, are you ready to enter the playgrounds of virtual reality? The Assembly '94 CD-ROM is the very first extensive collection of the world's best pieces of computer art. While professional artists create works with multi-million dollar budgets, young computer wizards produce their magnificient works on mere home computers. On this CD-ROM you will find art that is also fun - you can experience thrilling flights in strange worlds or dance to hypnotic rhythems along with dizzying effects! This CD-ROM puts hours of entertainment at your fingertips. The products on this CD-ROM vary from movie-like multimedia demostrations showing masterpieces of programming talent to painted snapshot pictures. When your favourite word processor grabs 30 megabytes of harddisk space, these young computer wizzkids can fit fractal zoomers, plasmas and vectors into 4 kilobytes! Assembly '94 was the biggest gathering of computer enthusiasts ever held in the whole world - over 3400 people attended the party during a summer weekend! Also the productions from Assembly '94 represent the very best in home computer art. Thank you for purchasing the Assembly '94 CD-ROM. Now we are preparing for Assembly '95 and its highly innovative CD-ROM! Markus Kantonen President Assembly Organizing Inc. Guide to the Graphical User Interface ------------------------------------- Abbreviations ------------ The following abbreviations will be used in this chapter GUI Graphical User Interface RMB Right mouse button LMB Left mouse button <ESC> ESCape key <ENTER> ENTER key About the GUI (Graphic User Interface) -------------------------------------- In fact there is not just one GUI included with this CD-ROM but two (one for PC compatibles and another for Amigas). Both GUIs work similarly, so whenever there is a mention of GUI in this guide, it means that the same command / set of actions is valid for both GUIs. The GUI is designed to be used with your mouse. If you are using a PC compatible, be sure to load your mouse driver before you start the GUI. If you don't have a mouse, you can use your cursor keys to move around. Your <ESC> will substitute for RMB and <ENTER> for LMB. Your function keys (F1 to F7) will select between demo, 64 kb & 4 kb intro, source, 4 channel & 32 channel music and graphics menus (that is, if you press F1 the demo menu will show up and if you press F5 the graphics menu will pop up). Note to PC users: If your graphics card does not support the VESA standard directly (on-board) you should load your VESA driver before running the PC GUI because the displayer for the pictures uses the standard VESA mode 640 x 480 x 256c. About Inertia Player V 1.21 Assembly '94 CD Version --------------------------------------------------- Inertia Player V 1.21 Assembly '94 CD Version is an excellent multiple format module player. It plays almost every type of module correctly. It supports all major soundboard standards from Covox to Gravis UltraSound. It has a great graphic user interface that is easy to use. For further information refer to the InertiaPlayer manual (IPDOC.EXE) in the Info directory. How to operate the GUI ---------------------- The GUI is very easy to operate. There are only a few commands to use, and you don't even need your keyboard if you have a mouse. Starting the GUI ---------------- 1. If you are using a PC, enter on the DOS prompt: "pcgui". 2. If you are using an amiga, enter on the amiga DOS prompt: "amigagui.exe" Moving between menus -------------------- 1. Click the appropriate icon on the menu bar with the LMB 2. Press F1, F2,...,F7 (F1=first icon on the bar, F2=second icon,...) 3. Click RMB (or press <ESC>) to get to the previous screen Moving between pages in a menu ------------------------------ 1. Drag the scroll bar (click-and-hold on the white area of the scroll bar and move your mouse up or down) 2. Click outside the white area on the scroll bar 3. Use your cursor keys (up and down arrows). You may have to do this several times. Moving selection inside a menu ------------------------------ 1. Move the cursor with your mouse (the selection bar will follow) 2. Move with your cursor keys (up, down, left and right arrow keys) Moving between paragraphs in a menu ----------------------------------- 1. Move the cursor with your mouse (the selection bar will follow) 2. Move with your cursor keys (left and right arrow keys) Activating an item in a menu ---------------------------- 1. Click the item with the LMB 2. Press <ENTER> when the selection bar is over the item Running a production -------------------- 1. Click the title selected with the LMB 2. Move the selection bar over the title and press <ENTER> Installing a production in your own system ------------------------------------------ 1. Click the file which you wish to install in the "install" column and enter a path (where you want the file to be installed) after prompted for it. If you want to escape from the installation, enter an empty path. 2. Move to the "install" column with the cursor keys and move the selection bar over the item you wish to install and press <ENTER>. Enter the path (where it is to be installed) when prompted for it. If you wish to escape from the installation, enter an empty path. Reading an information file --------------------------- 1. Click the info file you wish to view with the LMB in the "read text" column. To exit the info file press the RMB. 2. Use the cursor keys to move to the info file in the "read text" column which you wish to view and press <ENTER>. To exit the info file press <ESC>. Exiting the GUI --------------- 1. Click RMB (you may have to click RMB more than once) 2. Press <ESC> (you may have to press it more than once) NOTE: Please check INFO, ASMPICS, WARPDEMO and FC subdirectories. They contain various programs that cannot be accessed through the GUI. Every directory contains a text file (readme.txt) that explains what can be found inside the directory. This holds true for PC software only. INFO directory contains EXAMPLES directory where there are simple instructions how to make a "clean boot", which is required by some PC demos and intros. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM OS/2 Warp(*) Demo Competition --------------------------------- * OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are registered Trademarks of IBM Corporation Future Crew & Accession in connection with IBM Finland are proud to invite you to participate in a new competition: the IBM OS/2 Warp Demo competition. What is OS/2 Warp? ------------------ OS/2 Warp is IBMs new version of its award winning operating system. OS/2 Warp is an advanced operating system based on system object model (SOM) and 32-bit architecture. Warp was the codename for the product before official announcement invented from Star Trek (TM of Universal Studios) movies and their spaceship travelling speed. Now you can be the one to make a demo for the new IBM OS/2 Warp. Besides winning great prizes your group could become very well known in the business world; and you know what that means - commercial demos! So don't pass this unique chance to make your breakthru! One of the great new features OS/2 Warp gives you as a demo coder / graphician / etc is it's DIVE (Direct Video Interface). DIVE is a way to create games and even demos to run under OS/2s Presentation Manager. Why IBM? -------- Why would so huge company as IBM take interest in the demoscene? Simply because they have understood the value your products (demos!) have. Just think about the possibilities: it could be your demo IBM is running at Comdex or CeBIT next year in their booth ! We are introducing this competition because we feel that this gives you as a demogroup an opportunity to become known also outside the demo scene. Think about it! Can your group get any better recommendation than that you have made a demo for IBM? If you win in this compo, you should have no problems in getting work with commercial demos. The facts --------- The Warp demo competition is not exactly a normal demo competition. In this compo you have theme (OS/2 Warp) for your demo - that is, to win you have to advertise OS/2 in your demo. This does NOT mean that your demo can't be a normal demo. Don't do it like the traditional demo that comes along with this CD-ROM, it is here just to give you understanding of the OS/2 Warp product how it looks like. Your aim is to create a demo that is entertaining, flashy, creative fast and also highlight the benefits of OS/2 Warp for normal PC users. Although this might sound something you haven't done before, it is not. Advertising in a demo is what you do at the moment - you just advertise your own group! So instead of putting "XYZ Crew" everywhere in your demo, you should have some info about OS/2 Warp and IBM or something similar flying around, or wobbling in some fancy effect. If you can also point out why OS/2 Warp is a superior graphical user interface on Intel platform, it is just great! However do not insult any competitive products. But don't let these guidelines stop you from doing a great demo? What we want is that you make a demo (just like you have been doing before)! New tricks and code are not a must. You can glue from your own older demos parts and make just a new look to them with OS/2 Warp. Assembly Organizing Inc. reserves the exclusive right to publish the productions posted to this competition on a CD-ROM media. The productions will most likely be published on the Asm'95 CD-ROM. The authors of the winning productions will receive a portion of the net income of the CD-ROM from Assembly Organizing Inc according to the following table: placement percentage --------- ---------- 1st place 5% 2nd place 2.5% 3rd place 1.5% 4th place 1% 5th place 0.5% Although the percentages can look low, the total revenue for the winning demo can be as much as 8000 US dollars (calculations based on the estimate of 10 000 CD-ROMs sold). Closing words ------------- This information on the OS/2 Warp Demo compo is final. Please, before starting to make a demo, contact the organizers of this competition and ask for the latest version of this info file. You can find the contact info below. Contact information ------------------- Assembly Organizing Inc. StarPort - The Future Crew WHQ Address: Läkkisepäntie 13 +358-0-615 000 28 00620 Helsinki, Finland internet: mpoli.fi (telnet/rlogin) Voice: +358-0-777 3721 ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi Fax: +358-0-757 3115 www://http.mpoli.fi Email: Pekka.Aakko@Helsinki.FI Email: abyss@unix.mpoli.fi *********************************************************************** Rules of the IBM OS/2 Warp(*) demo competition ---------------------------------------------- Trademarks: - OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are Trademarks of IBM Corporation (*) - IBM and Future Crew & Accession accept all non-IBM Trademarks mentioned in this note (TM) Organizers: Future Crew & Accession (FC & ACC), Finland Oy International Business Machines Ab, FINLAND (IBM) These are the only official and final rules: 1. Make a demo of your own (animations not accepted) 2. Running time between 1-4 minutes 3. Maximum filesize 4Mb 4. Gravis UltraSound(TM) and Sound Blaster(TM) support is required (if you support other cards, it will be a bonus) 5. You can use any (S)VGA (with 512kb VMEM) mode you like, as long it is COMPATIBLE. So, if you use some fancy mode, make sure it works on at least 5 different cards (Cirrus, Paradise, Tseng, Trident, Video 7, Western Digital (all TMs) are examples of cards you should test your demo on). All graphics code must be 100% VGA register level compatible, and should you use svga, work under the VESA standards and the UniVesa driver. 6. One has to be able to exit from the demo by pressing ESC during any part of the demo 7. The demo has to run on 550 kb free conventional memory and under 4Mb of extended memory in DOS (Note: Expectation is that the demo is made on DOS. However OS/2 is the other platform of choice but not required by any means to participate.) 8. The demo has to be compatible with QEMM, 386MAX, EMM or any similar memory manager (TMs) 9. Competition closes the 28th of February 1995 (28.02.95). The participating demos must be delivered to the following address by close of day: a) uploaded to StarPort, address shown above b) mailed to Assembly Organizing Inc, address shown above c) sent by email (uuencoded or MIME) to abyss@unix.mpoli.fi 10. The individuals of a group participating in this competition guarantee that they have all rights to every part of code, graphics, sound or other effects or material used in the demo to be able to grant IBM full rights for free distribution and usage of the demos in IBM's marketing. 11. IBM will reserve world-wide rights to use all participating demos in this competition for an unlimited time period in its marketing activities like publicly display and freely distribute the demos and to copy them without any limitations. 12. The author(s) will retain copyrights to his/their demo and are solely responsible that the necessary ownership information is implemented in the democode and visible. The author(s) are also responsible to highlight any other trademark ownership in their demo even if partly referred to such third party. 13. The use of IBM OS2 Warp logo is moderated: whenever word "warp" is shown on the screen, it must state "OS/2" somewhere in the same screen, as Warp is a trademark of Universal Studios. Thus, everytime you use the word "Warp" you must put "OS/2" somewhere to the screen also. 14. Filenames you use in the demo must follow ISO-9660 format. Ie, NO special characters are allowed (like !,ö,#,ñ,%,&...), only letters and numbers. "_" is allowed, and "." inbetween the filename and its extension. In case of uncertainty, contact the organizers of this competition for further details. 15. The prizes of the OS/2 Warp competition are: 1st place 3000 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 2000 USD) 2nd place 1500 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 1000 USD) 3rd place 1000 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 800 USD) 4th place 500 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 700 USD) 5th place 0 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 500 USD) 16. Any taxes or other such payments based on winning the above prizes are payable by the winner if applicable. 17. The winners will be selected by an IBM Finland appointed jury. 18. The base criteria to select the winning demos will be: - The creativity of the demo - How well it captures the mind of ordinary people - How well it displays IBM OS/2 Warp and its benefits in a new innovative way PS. Do not contact any other IBM organization in the world than IBM Finland who has been arranging this with FC&ACC if anything to ask from IBM. Address: Oy International Business Machines Ab Personal Software Marketing Box 265 FIN-00101 Helsinki Finland ************************************************************************ CD-ROM Competition ------------------ We need you! Yes we mean you! Although Assembly'94 is over, the competitions still go on! At Assembly the party attenders decided which productions won - now it's your chance to give your opinion! The CD-ROM competition features all productions in the same categories as in Assembly'94, but this time you can vote for the best productions in every category! From each CD-ROM sold one US dollar is added to the CD-ROM competition prize pool, so the estimated value of the prize for this compo is 10 000 US dollars in CASH! Preliminary results will be announced at Assembly '95. The prizes will be awarded at a Central European Party in October 1995. Votes must be received by September 15, 1995 to be counted. All voters who submit votes by September 15, 1995 will participate in a second drawing to be help at the Central European Party in October 1995. Vote and win! One lucky voter will win a free trip to Assembly '95 from any part of the world and 15 others will win an Assembly '95 CD-ROM! The drawing for these prizes will be held on July 4, 1995 and the winner of the free trip to Assembly will be notified by registered mail the same day and a public announcement will be placed in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos, usenet newsgroup in internet. NOTE: The voting sheet has to reach us before September 15, 1995. All votes arrived after that are not counted, nor do they have any chances of winning anything stated above. You can vote for the best production in every category (except the Commodore-64 competitions). The best three in every category will be awarded cash prizes as follows: PC demo PC 64kb intro PC 4kb intro Amiga demo Amiga 40kb intro 1. 10% 1. 7% 1. 4% 1. 10% 1. 7% 2. 7% 2. 5% 2. 2% 2. 7% 2. 5% 3. 5% 3. 2% 3. 1% 3. 5% 3. 2% Graphics 4 channel music 32 channel music 1. 4% 1. 4% 1. 4% 2. 2% 2. 2% 2. 2% 3. 1% 3. 1% 3. 1% Now is your chance to tell everybody your opinion about the best productions from Assembly'94. Remember that you can't win if you don't vote! Vote and win a free Assembly'95 trip! Compatability problems -------------------- You should understand that in search for even faster routines and more flashy effects compatability is the issue that is often sacrificied. Most of the demogroups today go to great lengths in order to make their demos as compatible with as many machines as possible. Still many demos have problems when run on some specific machine, or a machine with some specific setting. If you have problems with some demo, you should contact its authors directly because Assembly Organizing Inc. can't answer this kind of questions. Also the authors of the demos usually can tell you if there is a patch or a fix available for the program to correct the problem you are experiencing. Remember, the best configuration for your machine for running demos can only be found by experimenting with different kinds of configurations. PC problems ----------- If you run into problems with any, here are some suggestions you can try out (appropriate only for PC compatibles): - remove all expanded memory managers (like QEMM, EMM, 386MAX) - remove all unnecessary drivers (mouse, cd-rom, network, country settings etc) from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT - try removing unnecessary cards (network cards, scsi cards) - try clean boot (rename CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and boot again) - try running the demo without sound - try differenent combinations of the above A good configuration to try out for some demos is that you remove all other drivers except HIMEM.SYS and set DOS=HIGH. Some demos require a XMS manager (like HIMEM.SYS) although they won't work with an expanded memory manager (like QEMM). If your graphics card does not support the VESA standard directly (on-board) you should load your VESA driver before running the PC GUI because the displayer for the pictures uses the standard VESA mode 640x480x256c. If you are running the PC GUI under OS/2 you need to set the HW TIMER = ON and run the PC GUI only in full-screen DOS window. Amiga problems -------------- Most of the productions for amiga require the new AGA chip - so in order to run those productions you have to have A1200 or some other amiga that has the chip. So the old A500 unfortunately is no longer good enough to run those productions. Also some problems may occur if you don't have enough memory to run the production. Most of the productions are intelligent enough to tell you that they don't have enough memory, but some don't. Almost all of the productions will run on 4MB fast and 2MB chip memory. If the program doesn't work directly from the CD-ROM, you should try to copy it to disks and run it again from there, as some programs simply won't work directly from the CD-ROM. Assembly'95 - the party and the CD-ROM -------------------------------------- What? You have already watched all the productions on the CD-ROM twice and you have already watched a few of the best ones so many times that you already know them inside out? No need to worry, the fun is just about to begin! Even though Assembly'94 was the biggest ever demo party in the whole world, we are going to top its records next year! When Asm'94 more than doubled the amount of visitors of the previous Assembly, Asm'95 will double the space, the length and fun of Asm'94! Asm'95 will be a four day party and it will take place in Finland's biggest conference centre (The "Messukeskus" in Helsinki, the capital of Finland), the total party area will be 4500 square meters! In an effort to double the fun we will introduce new competitions (animation and ray- tracing), a bigger Megazone laser war game arena, a really huge video screen (8m x 6m) and enough PA to blow your ears off, and this time the sound system will support Dolby Surround sound. Assembly'95 will set the standards for the parties for many years to come! If you are interested in demos you just can't miss Assembly'95, it will be the largest gathering ever and the best summer party in '95. Also the prizes will be even bigger than this year (when the total of the prizes was over 20 000 US dollars!) Can you afford to miss the spirit of Assembly? The best thing for you is that Assembly Organizing Inc will produce a party CD-ROM, which will include all the productions from the competitions and much more! But this time you won't have to wait three months for it like you did this year - our aim is to make the Assembly'95 CD-ROM available almost immediately after the party! If you are interested in participating in the biggest ever demo scene event, you can ask for more info from Assembly Organizing Inc (the contact info is on the first page). Let the facts speak for themselves: - date: 10. - 13.08.1995 (a 4 day party!) - location: "Messukeskus", Helsinki, the capital of Finland - more party visitors than in any party ever before - 4500 square meters of space! - magnificient video and audio systems - total prize value higher than 20 000 dollars! - new competitions, outdoor competions - FUN! Assembly'95 - Don't miss it!