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- Running the demo
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- Required:
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- - 386 or higher processor (486 strongly recommended)
- - 550k free base memory
- - Sound Blaster compatible sound card
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- If you're having trouble with base memory, run the demo without sound, this
- requires about 300k less memory. However, 550k shouldn't be hard to attain!!
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- DO NOT run this demo under any multitasking O/S unless you want to watch it
- in jerk-o-vision (tm)!! Even Windows 95 will cause problems; the timeslicing
- upsets the finely tuned (8-) VGA sync in places and can really screw it up.
- Also, the sound is unlikely to work under anything but DOS. In short, run
- the demo under DOS or not at all. You have been warned! ;)
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- Source Code
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- The full source to this demo is included with the ZIP file - I'm a strong
- believer in free source code, so here's proof! Lots of people out there have
- helped me out, so I'm trying to return the favour. In fact, while I'm on the
- subject, here's some people I'd like to thank:
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- Frontman/Crew242 - thanks for the greet in Sound System 2 m8! Sorry this greet
- is so long in coming...
- Denthor/Asphyxia - Your tutes and help in the past is appreciated!
- SCubed/PsychicLink - Dunno if you'll get this greet since I haven't heard from
- ya in a while - you still coding? Giz a call!
- Tran/Renaissance - I haven't used it here, but your PMODE kernel is excellent.
- Future Crew - cheers for releasing your Mental source code. (the MOD playing
- code is filched from there ;)
- Simon Booth - our chat's over Fidonet were enlightening! Hope I contributed
- sommat too - still reckon my scaler's quicker ;)
- Mike Abrash - GREAT articles in Dr Dobbs, great books. Awesome.
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- And everybody else - sorry if I've forgotten you in the list, but its late! ;)
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- Credits
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- Code, Music, Raytracing, Design: Sinbad / Envy Technologies
- (aka Steve Streeting)
- Email: Sinbad.itl.net
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- Graphics, Artistic Licence: Wishbone / Envy Technologies
- (aka Lee Harris)
-
- Contact us at Black Ice BBS, blackice.centron.com, or me at the above address.
- Envy Technologies is located locally in Guernsey, Channel Islands in the UK.
- If you don't know where that is (who does? ;), look on the map between
- England and France - we're the triangle shaped dot, ok? ;)
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- General
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- This demo is the product of about 3 months work (albeit only an hour or so a
- week's coding time), and has been as much of a learning experience as
- anything - I've effectively taught myself ASM through writing this demo.
- This means that the code at the end of the demo is better than the code at
- the start! ;) So, if you're looking through the code and thinking "Christ,
- that's not very good code!!" then you're probably right! It gets better.
-
- I hope!
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- Troubleshooting
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- -"Divide overflow" error when starting the demo:
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- I've had this a couple of times - it only happens when some other program
- has been using the sound card, or when TSR's to drive CD players etc have
- been loaded. Try running it again after removing the TSR's (if it's because
- another program was using the sound card very recently, the gap in time should
- be enough to sort it out). Failing that, reboot and try again.
-
- -The demo hangs at the start, sound card clicks like crazy:
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- You're probably running under Win95, O/S2 or some other multitasker. You
- can't run the demo with sound. Boot into DOS!!
-
- -Sound only runs for a few seconds, then stops:
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- You've specified the wrong IRQ. Try again.
-
- That's all the problems I've found! The sound works fine on all SB's that I've
- tried (SB 2.0, SB16, AWE32), but I haven't tried it on the 'clone' cards.
- If you have one of these, I can't guarantee the results I'm afraid!
-
-
- Well, that's it. Hope you liked/will like the demo! Call Black Ice!! You
- know it makes sense!
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- Seeya!
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