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- Presents
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- ╞══ V I B E S ══╡
- └───────────────┘
-
- Greetings, earth! This is the first Music Disc produced by us, and we hope that
- it'll be a pleasure listening to the tunes.
-
- Vibes was released 24/12-93. Yep, it's a Christmas Present!
-
-
-
-
- ─══ About the MusicDisc ══─
-
- First some words about the size of this production. It is quite big, we know,
- but it includes 12 tunes, and they consume a great deal of discspace.
- We didn't really want to use more that 1.44MB but we couldn't remove any of the
- tunes because we liked all of them, so therefore we decided to let it consume
- whatever it wanted.
-
- The main thing in this MusicDisc is design... It's so boring watching some
- simple starscroller on a black screen with some small texts displaying the
- name of the tunes. We tried to make it funnier and even a bit interactive...
- Another good thing is that you don't have to bother selecting tunes if you
- wanna listen to all of them. Just let the tunes play to the end and next tune
- will be loaded. Just start the file and you can use this as some kind of
- CD or MC. (I'd call it MD :)
-
- As you may notice, the logo says VIBES PART 1, and that's because the
- ex. finnish section was about to make PART 2, but now I guess there'll
- be no PART 2... At least not in a few years...
- (read more about the ex. finnish section later.)
-
- Requirements:
-
- * 386 computer (I guess a 486 will make it funnier :-)
- * GUS (512KB), SB or Covox (if you wanna hear any music...)
- * VGA (who hasn't got that???)
- * KeyBoard (oops...)
- * Some conventional memory. About 600kb without GUS, 310 with GUS
-
- This Production was developed on a 486/66 with GUS so I'm not quite sure how
- fast/slow it'll run on a 386, but it's hopefully acceptable. If you experience
- it slow, try to reduce the number of balls on the screen, using the grey "-"
- key. Or you can disable the vector by pressing "V". This prevents the vector
- from being displayed, but it's still updated, so you may have to wait while the
- program "thinks" he moves the vector around the screen... (you can put the
- vector back by pressing "V" again)
- If it still runs slow, and you're using SB or Covox, select a lower replayrate.
- If you have a GUS, live with the slowness or buy yourself a new computer.
- There's also a speed check while the intro is running. This is needed because
- of the syncing to the music. But if your computer fails in the intro, you must
- have a really slow computer...
-
- - Bug -
-
- There's one known bug in Vibes, but that appears so random, and so unpredictable
- that it's impossible to find. However, it's not dangerous for your health :)
- Sometimes the Equalizer or the Timer isn't cleared properly and
- that results in some garbage on the screen. It usually dissappears after
- changing tune, or letting the vector move across the garbage.
- Another thing that I've only seen on a Tseng Labs, is that the intro has some
- garbage on the bottom of the screen. This is some fault in the hardware.
-
-
-
- - Gravis UltraSound -
-
- The GUS playing routines are newly made, so there may be some bugs left with
- the UltraClicks (tm), but on my GUS there are very few of them though.
-
- I would like to thank some people that made it possible to develop the
- GUS-Routines:
-
- * Advanced Gravis and especially John Smith for supporting us!
- * Robban/Cascada respectively Joshua C. Jensen for GUSPLAY and GUSMOD.
- (I used some information from your sources.)
-
- - SoundBlaster -
-
- The SoundBlaster Routines are slow... I know, but now when I have a GUS, I'm
- not very interested in the old, shitty SoundBlaster. If you own a SoundBlaster:
- SELL IT and buy yourself a Gravis Ultrasound. You'll never do yourself a better
- favour! (ps. I HAVE partly re-coded the soundblaster code, but as soon as I
- got the GUS, I stopped that and made the GUS-player instead.)
- (This is the last production from us that supports SB/Covox. Only GUS rulez!)
-
- - SoundPlayer/Covox -
-
- The Covox Routines are as slow as the SoundBlaster, but it is impossible to
- optimize it more, due to the fact that you cannot use DMA with the parallel
- port.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ─══ About Extreme ══─
-
- I don't think we've released two productions with the same member-list :)
- As you see, we are always changing members due to a lot of coincidences...
- You might have heard that most of the finnish section + Vector Voyager left
- EXTREME to make games. This is not really a problem, but there's one thing
- that is sad... EXTERMINATE will NEVER be released. (If you wonder what that
- was, I can tell you that it was the demo we competed with at ASM 93.
- AND it was NOT called Extermination, as people thinks. (doesn't matter though.))
- Why isn't it released then? Well, it was the finnish section
- that made 99.6% of it, and since they left, they wouldn't release
- the demo in EXTREME's name, would they?
- We are very sorry for this, but we can't do anything about it.
-
- The complete memberlist (for the moment) in alphabetical order is:
-
- Baldric - Coder
- Gibson - Musician
- RubberDuck - Graphician
- ToneDeaf - Musician
- WayWard - Sysop
- Zyric - Coder
-
-
- We would like another Coder and Graphician so if you are interested in joining,
- contact us! Addys + numbers in the end of the text.
-
-
- ─══ Earlier Productions ══─
-
- Wargasm - Our first demo... What can you expect?
- Pixtro - Lousy intro about a product that never will be released
- Infro - Just a 200 pix scroll. Info About the SineCreator.
- BBStro - Simple BBS Intro, nothing worth watching...
- Techno Holic - Our first REAL demo. This is almost good.
- Birthro - Our first try to make some design.
- EP - A modplayer, shitty replayroutine...
- Sine Creator - The ultimate sinecreator. GET IT!
- Lunatic - Our latest demo. Quite okay.
-
-
-
- ─══ Contact Us! ══─
-
-
- By Modem:
- ─────────
-
- ChipMunk BBS - Extreme Swedish HQ - Node #1 +46(0)36-137032, 14.4k
-
- Starport BBS - Extreme Finnish HQ - Node #1 +358-0-804 4626, 14.4k
- Node #2 +358-0-804 4113, 14.4k
-
-
-
- By SnailMail:
- ─────────────
-
- Baldric Rubber Duck Gibson
- Bondstorps Wärdshus Lukiotie 1.m Kaivosvoudintie 4. H 68
- 562 91 Månsarp 02710 ESPOO 01610 VANTAA
- SWEDEN FINLAND FINLAND
-
-
- By Phone:
- ─────────
- Baldric (Patrik Oscarsson)
- +46(0)393-40012
-
- NOTE: We're having Central European Time here in sweden and that means GMT+1
- I don't wanna have calls at 4:00 am from e.g USA, and I won't
- accept collect calls...
-
-
- By Fax:
- ───────
- +46(0)393-40248
-
-
-
-
- ─══ Bye ══─
-
- See yah later, red-tailed baby-crocodile (?)
-
-