Trixter's Scene Collection/trixter.zip/trixter/Demos/ANGEL95F.ZIP/ANGEL95.TXT

Text File | 1996-01-06 | 8KB | 191 lines

                a-men's

                f   a   l   l   e   n         a   n   g   e   l







        Christmas story:

          On lords year 1995, collective minds of a-men had one christmas
        holiday to accomplish what they call their "best demo so far".
        It happened to be so that they weren't even going to attend
        PartyV at Denmark at end of the year. Mostly Harmless then decided
        to enter the event no matter what. Taking his notably young age into
        account Wog decided to go there with him to oversee that Mostly
        will not come to harm. Thus came christmas holiday, and nights became
        long in this northern part of the world they call Finland. This could
        only mean ONE thing: lots of time to IRC ;) Well, this however
        became boring soon enough, which lead into most active coding period
        in both of those peoples lives. Less than one week to party!
        Some people has put it this way: "You in kind of horry, right?"
        You could say so too.

          After some coding it was found out that DOS32 is mighty good
        dos extender for making demos -- however -- old musicsystem was
        for Tran's PMODE. Something had to be done - fast! One phonecall
        later Penguin told us that he had his system easilly convertable
        to DOS32. He actually did it in just few days. Just hope it will
        work for that fast hack.. Penguin?

          Next Feather came into the picture; he had drawn few nice pics,
        which were naturally used (in other group's demo!! :).
        About same time we came across Floss on IRC, "we" asked him if he'd
        want to make the soundtrack since we allready had little action going
        on before.. he was glad to help us out with his nice tune. He also
        helped with design more than one could help from other side of the
        globe; ain't the internet a wonder?


        Oh yeah, did we got in a hurry??? Naaah....


          The Party 5 was raving.. demo got finished. Allmost. <g> Well,
        this demo was disqualified. Too much environment mapping? Too good
        musics? :) Horrible flight paths?? Shaky camera movements? Too
        blurred landscape? Sudden ending? *gag* we are so disappointed.
        Becourse we didn't start making this demo EARLIER.. hehheh..





           S Y M P A T H I E S:

        jtragic: Wish those thieves will rott
        liket: Better luck next time, let's cry in duo ;)
        maszque or such: We feel sorry for you for your 24bit intro
        orange posse: No sympathies for you, becourse you won something :)




        Requirements:

        - 386SX or better
        - standard VGA
        - 5Mb of RAM
        - Gravis Ultrasound or Sound Blaster compatible soundcard

        For smooth action 486DX4-100 is a minimum, this is mainly becourse
        lack of skill in our part. We are truly sorry - UPGRADE!
        You will thank us for it later.. O;)



        Works in any DOS memory mode with just 240Kb's of free basemem.
        Also tested with Windows95(tm) and found to be working allright.
        Although 386SX can run the demo, it is highly NOT RECOMMENDED.
        If the dialing at beginning of demo takes too long time, your
        machine is hopelessly slow. DX4's are cheap novadays. Everyone
        should be running to stores to get one. Even *we* can afford one.
        Besides, we didn't buy dx4-100's to code dx2-66 effects, and it
        shows! (couldn't resist ;) As an additional comment we would also
        like to add that "we too can do 160x100x256 bitmap effects. It just
        doesn't feel like d-zign day today. Maybe tomorrow. No art.
        Just boring angels. And those even are ripped." One more additional
        comment!! Some people might have seen more!! blurred version of the
        landscape, which was a tad faster (much may I add), but we kind of
        decided to put the end to all that fastness and make it really slow.
        But now you can even see what's happening! Allmost! All the
        "keyframe" data has been recorded by REFLEX-FEEDBACK(tm) recording
        system (all rights reserved). Keyboard that is. 100% realtime too.
        That shows? Nooo..? We even cleverly avoided keyframing - why not
        when one can allways save EVERY FRAME into a file. Why bother using
        B-spline keyframe smoothing? No one uses that anyway. Well, some
        Aegyptian guys seem to , but hey! They got fishes too..

        Okay. Enough crying about. Actually, we ain't crying. :)) We're just
        happy this is done and over with. If the demo seems like half-done
        only you can allways sue us. Haha.. btw. the vector stuff is pretty
        slow too! It can render only about 1000 gouraud faces into a frame
        on our dream 100Mhz 486 setup. Ah.. forgot to mention textured too.
        WHAT DOES THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE DEMO ANYWAY!? Well, we didn't have
        any boasting in the demo, so why not do it conviniently in the
        infofile where everyone can skip it in most elegant fashion.. besides
        who reads these texts anyway. You just won a pink cucumber. Cash your
        prize from [e-mail] I dare you. See what I mean? Not a
        single email yet. And I can promise: not a single one forever.
        Rude! Not even mentioned whose email it was.. well, to keep up the
        exitement.. we won't tell it even if you bothered to write.

        Want to join us? Keep dreaming. We allready have manymany people,
        unfortunately manymanymany few are doing anything. One coder is
        doing stuff, other coder too. He's pretty cool. Then wo got two
        more coders doing stuff. Sometimes. One dude just done his music
        system. It can be compiled to link with DOS32 or TRAN'S PMODE.
        Supports sb, pro, 16, gus. All the works. Speed is ok too. Tough
        it won't reset soundcards properly. GUS resets allmost everytime,
        sb's hardly ever. Man! Rip someone's init routines.. :))
        Other dude has REALMODE musicsystem for GUS only. Works pretty well.
        No problems we know of. One dude made pretty fancy compression
        program for us. Even decompressing plug-in with decrypting on the
        loader. Invisible to application programmers (that's us). Has also
        custom lossy-compressions for audio and visual data. Wow. We also
        have manymany musicians. One keeps tracking nice tunes, too bad he
        uses fast tracker2. (we cannot play xm's - yet ;) Few others track
        techno/trance/etc. One tracks allkinds of music. One left!! <g>
        We even have few nice graphicians. Too bad they're too lazy. Most
        of the time anyway. Keep up the good work!! :) IF you work that is..

        Now fatal question. Want still to join? GO to a good shrink.
        Come back. ask again. Want STILL to join? Ok. you're in. just fill-in
        the official info-form and you're set.


        ===================================================================

        INFO-FORM: (official)


        I __________, thereby do official a-men oath and join this honorable
       (your alias, say.. Batman)
       sociation of free artists as fulltime member for a lifetime. I have
       been blessed with divine ablities as a:

       (cross one or more:)
       ( ) GFX DUDE
       ( ) COMPOSER
       ( ) CODER
       ( ) ELITE
       ( ) ELSE, WHAT:



                                Signed, ______________________
                                        YOUR ALIAS

        ===================================================================
        Please put the info-form into a bottle and flush the bottle down
        onto the toilet. We will get back to you..











        Credits:

        Floss .......................................... Soundtrack, design
        Wog ................................................ Coding, design
        Penguin ...........