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- XOX now has support for VESA SVGA modes:
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- 640x400x8 bits
- 640x480x8 bits
- 800x600x8 bits
- 1024x768x8 bits
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- If you do not have a video card with VESA standard bios in your PC
- then you will need to install the VESA driver before running XOX.
- Just type 'VESA' at the prompt. Then type 'XOX'.
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- When XOX is running you can change video modes by pressing <F10>.
- XOX will try to set the next available video mode that is supported.
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- XOX accepts panel files .PAN and a palette file .PAL as command arguments.
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- Command Syntax:
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- XOX [[f1] ... [fn]]
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- f1-fn : any dos filename
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- The panel files must be EXACTLY 16384 bytes in length.
- The palette file must be EXACTLY 768 bytes in length.
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- Panel files are binary bitmaps that are displayed on the walls in XOX.
- They have no header or trailer. This XOX demo uses 128x128 panels.
- That is 128 * 128 = 16384. Pixels are stored sequentially left to right
- top to bottom. You can provide your own artwork as a file name argument
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- C:\> xox my.pan
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- If your artwork requires it's own unique palette then you can also provide
- that as an argument as well. Palette file are 768 bytes long.
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- Keyboard Commands
- ESC EXIT
- F10 CHANGE VIDEO MODES
- [ ] ACTIVE VIEW HEIGHT SMALLER/LARGER
- ( ) ACTIVE VIEW WIDTH SMALLER/LARGER
- / \ ACTIVE VIEW SIZE HALVED/DOUBLED
- < > BRIGHTNESS DARK/LIGHT
- A D MOVE ACTIVE VIEW LEFT/RIGHT
- S X MOVE ACTIVE VIEW UP/DOWN
- ~ BACKSPACE VIEW CREATE/DELETE
- O V NEXT OBJECT/VIEW
- + - THROTTLE SPEED INCREASE/DECREASE
- F FLOOR AND CEILING TOGGLE
- J JOYSTICK TOGGLE
- C EDIT CURSOR TOGGLE
- TAB CREATE WALL (ACTIVE WHEN EDIT CURSOR IS ON)
- PAGEUP PAGEDN MOVEMENT UP/DOWN
- UP DN LF RT MOVE FORWARD/BACKWARD/LEFT/RIGHT
- ENTER THROTTLE BRAKES
- SPACEBAR LASER BEAM
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- Mouse Commands
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- LEFT BUTTON LASER BEAM
- RIGHT BUTTON INCREASE THROTTLE
- MIDDLE BUTTON THROTTLE BRAKES
- LEFT MOTION TURN LEFT
- RIGHT MOTION TURN RIGHT
- FORWARD MOTION MOVE FORWARD
- BACKWARD MOTION MOVE BACKWARD
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- The complete source code to XOX is available. It is NOT free.
- There is a license fee and it is quite substantial. In 1993
- XOX was licensed four times to the following companies. They
- were granted a perpetual non-exclusive royalty free license.
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- 1. FEB: Tantalus Inc. MPGNet Poughquag, NY
- 2. MAY: New World Computing, Inc. Agoura Hills, CA
- 3. NOV: Origin Systems, Inc. Austin, TX
- 4. DEC: Compton's New Media, Inc. Carlsbad, CA
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- If you are a software group and desire to develop Virtual Reality
- products then please call us. XOX is a great way to get started.
- By obtaining the source to XOX you can save months maybe a year of
- development time. XOX is written in C++. The code is very reusable
- and easy to modify. Please contact us if you need more information.
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- Address : HixoxiH Software Phone : 602-581-6670 Office
- Ray E. Bornert II : 602-581-0008 Fax
- 20826 N. 15th Ave.
- Phoenix, AZ 85027-3642
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- E-mail : bornert@indirect.com (Internet)
- : Ray E. Bornert II (Compuserve)
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