home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Experimental BBS Explossion 3
/
Experimental BBS Explossion III.iso
/
gus
/
vts139b.zip
/
139B_ADD.TXT
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-12-31
|
3KB
|
71 lines
NEW FEATURES OF VT 1.39 Beta 18
───────────────────────────────
Ok, this is a quick-and-dirty list of the things that have changed
since the last release of the VT (1.2b).
* GUS (Gravis UltraSound) support. In fact, the only card supported in this
version. See also the new VT-GUS section of the configuration file VT.CFG
* New video mode: now the screen turns into a 90x63 text mode that gives a
much bigger playfield to fill up with uninteresting things. :) Use Ctrl+Arrow Key
(left or right) to adjust the horizontal screen position if the default doesn't
fit well with your monitor.
* Vastly improved S3M support. Now it sounds almost as good as STMIK; in fact,
it will play PANIC.S3M and WATER.S3M (inside FISHTRO.EXE) much better than the ripped STMIK 0.9. :-) Some details
still missing, tough.
* The decorating menu has finally disappeared. Maybe some day it will see the
light again.
* There's a mouse you can play with. It doesn't do anything, but you may move
it with the rythm of the music and have some fun. It's basically a functional
substitute of the previously mentioned menu, as are some sliders drawn next
to the VU-meters. :-)
* Naming convention. You may have noticed it already...
This beta version also has some features disabled, after breaking them by
introducing the new ones:
* Oscilloscope: it won't work with GUS.
* Loudness filter doesn't work with GUS either.
* Feel free to add things to this list as you see them. But please tell me
about it, else I will keep thinking that it works.
To everybody who expected more improvements after all this time: this is
what happens when you lose your time doing other stupid things like demos
and job and university and all that stuff. Special message to PAS owners:
give me a good reference about the card, not all that unusable stuff from
MediaVision that forms the PASDK, and PAS support will no doubt be added.
Special thanks to some people that have contributed to this version and
are not mentioned in the DOC: Oscar G. for lending a still unused PAS16;
Marcos Sagrado, Javier Olmo and Paco Carrascosa (who else?) for GUS
betatesting and general ideas.
And, as usual, the greetings to some demo dudes:
Future Crew, Dust, Surprise! Productions, Silents, Avalanche, Cascada,
<odeNation, Pentagon, Xography, Irresistible Works, Access Denied, VLA,
Postumum, Axxelerator Logics, EMF, Toxic Zombies, Phantom, Virtual
Visions, Extreme, Imphobia, iCE, The Emulator Institute, DeaD Memory,
British Knights, Synergy Design, Darkzone, Onyx, Epical, Sonic, Renaissance,
Digital Infinitry, and all who deserve a greeting and are not here (when you
have written a greetings list you know you always forget someone no matter
how hard you try not to).
And, of course, the makers of the wonderful Visual Player, the best
competence and the best help we've got so far.
Greets, and enjoy it!
VangeliSTeam
January the 2nd, 1993