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Dream Nature 1.00 Copyright (C) 1994 Ed T. Toton III, All Rights Reserved.
Welcome to Dream Nature!
Dream Nature is a sound and graphics demo that requires at least a 386 to
run, though my 486/33DX is barely enough to run the program with soundblaster
sound at 12khz. (Yes, I know direct output to the soundblaster is not as
efficient as DMA, I'm still working on that). Dream Nature will load as
much of it's data (including the music if you have selected a sound card) as
it can into low DOS memory. What it can not fit will be loaded into XMS.
If you have over 600,000 bytes free in DOS, you may not need to worry about
the XMS, otherwise you will need it.
Dream nature will run forever (unless you press escape or 'Q'). The first
time you run the demo, the tables will created and stored on disk. On later
runs the tables will simply be loaded from disk. If you don't have a math
coprocessor, the process of creating the tables may take a LONG time...
This is somehwat of an artistic statement, though to some of you it may
be obvious which other demo provided me with the inspiration for this
program.
There are a whole bunch of keys you can press during the demo to get the
effects you want, and there are also several command line parameters with
which you can customize the program (sorta).
Parameters:
/F# - Sets the number of flyers (# = number of flyers) [0-32]
/L - Toggles "Low Resolution" (defaults to off)
/R - Toggles "Lens on top" (defaults to on)
/N - Toggles "Text on screen" (defaults to off)
/S - Toggles "Smoothing" (defaults to off)
/D# - Specifies sound device (0=None, 1=SB, 2=Adlib, 3=PC-Speaker)
/M# - Specifies mixing rate (see chart below)
/P# - Specifies musical selection to use (1="Dream Nature"
2="WormHole")
Mixing rates:
0 - 4,000hz (worst sound)
1 - 6,000hz
2 - 8,000hz (try this if too slow)
3 - 10,000hz
4 - 11,000hz (default)
5 - 12,000hz
6 - 14,000hz
7 - 16,000hz (best sound, slowest graphics)
Keys during demo:
C - Change icon for all flyers
B - Change current background update
[ - Decrement number of flyers
] - Increment number of flyers
T - Toggle "Text on screen"
R - Toggle between low-res and hi-res.
S - Toggle "Smoothing"
I - Initiate a lens effect
L - Toggle "Lenses on top"
F - Toggle "Synchronized flapping" (defaults to off)
! - Quick Exit.
Spacebar- Go to next background display...
Notes-
* "Text on screen" defaults to off simply because it makes for a better
screen-saver.
* The "Smoothing" effect makes things considerably clearer in certain
background types, but causes obvious vaggedness in others. Therefore
you will have to choose for yourself which way you prefer it.
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IMPORTANT SHTUFFS:
This demo may not be sold (though a nominal fee may be charged for the
disk if distributed by a shareware vendor or whatever). This package may
not be used for any commercial purposes (except maybe to run on a system
and attract the view of the public at computers shows etc).
This demo may be freely distributed free of charge, but under NO
circumstances may it be altered or modified. Removing this notice is
considered a means of modification. This demo may be displayed freely,
as long as credit is given where credit is due.
Until next time..........
-Ed T. Toton III
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NecroBones Software (tm)