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Welcome to the first release by Armie and Bert !
Please notice:
This part is more than half a year old and the first I coded without
alien help. That's why it's crap and that's also why we don't want to
put it in our forthcoming mega-demo. Trashing it would be a pity
though, so we added a bit of a rythm and well, released it as
kinda greetings- and contact-demo... the advantage for YOU is
to know us ;), the advantage for US is to have more time just to
finish our mega-demo, which is going to be a bit better without
hurrying.
Some technical details:
1) The music is loaded from disc, decrunched and played in REAL TIME.
This means that you either should have a fast medium or a fast
processor. An ARM3 can have the demo running from floppy-disc
easily, but an ARM250 cannot grab the data fast enough, neither
will an ARM2. So put it on hard-disc or in very bad cases of
CPU-creepiness try the RAM-disc (but that should be the last
remedy). The demo cannot be run from an 800k disc.
2) The demo was written for a Multisync/RGB-Monitor... if you have
a VGA or SVGA-CRT the demo will run on your machine but the music
will run a wee bit faster (20% to be precise) as the whole demo
will... well, an ARM2/250 however may not be able to deliver this
20% speed-increase. But ARM2-users running in VGA-modes cannot be
called sane anyway ;)
If you require some more BPM try configuring a VGA aswell :-)
3) The demo requires at least 2MB RAM (780K Wimpslot, 160K screen-
memory and a fucking lot of RMA for the player, around 400K).
As you see the crunched !RunImage is only a couple of KB's long,
but the DEcrunched images are THAT big (320x512 each !). Usually
I would have decrunched them only prior to using, but this is not
quite possible when the computer is caught up playing music
and all you can do is intercept an event and have some characters
bouncing around ;), hence the need for an enormous wimpslot.
This would be a suitable moment to thank David Radford for the
wonderful player-routine. You may wonder why I stuck to the old
Player-Module which is basically due to the new one's background
mode. It isn't 100% background which is HAS to be for a demo, and
when I put the demo-code in an event to have it run smoothly all
there is are magic crashes (unable to shut down sound generator ??).
Copyright remark:
"Everybody in the Place" written by Liam Howlett, produced by
Liam Howlett and Chaz Stevens. Published by Virgin Music.
(p) & (c) by XL-recordings 1992, all rights reserved
sampled and remixed by Armie and Bert 1994
And finally a remark about the music:
This was more or less the first ever breakbeat-song we've heard
when it came out. And it influenced us a lot as breakbeat became
our favourite style of music.
I haven't listened to "music for the jilted generation", but
judged on "no good (start the dance)" this sounds pretty much
like a sell-out album to me. Well, the fairground edit of
Everybody in the place still kicks ass anyway... so go on and
twist your feet...