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- ▄▀ Produced ▀▀█▄
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- ─ Guru Magic ─
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- First Presented at Dexterity
- South Africa's first ever demo competition
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- Yes it's finally here. Guru Magic's Shrine, fifth place contender
- at the Dexterity Annual Demo Competition. It's release has been
- somewhat delayed, especially due to (amongst other things) the
- PyraTracker music system being extremely incompatable on Abacus'
- machine and after 'repair', being extremely incompatable on all
- machines. This posed a slight problem, as you can probably see.
-
- Well, I've finally fixed this little nuisance and the routines
- should work on almost any machine. Perhaps now we can get some of
- our other releases out. (Supremacy comes to mind).
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- There have been quite a few changes to version 1.1 over the version
- you might have seen at Dexterity (version 1.0ß). The main reason
- for this is the demo was too short in our opinion, so we added a few
- things, made others longer, etc. There is a new, improved 3D engine
- so the vectors are faster, and both Abacus and I have since upgraded
- our respective brilliant graphics systems (Abacus, you can pay me
- later). Naturally the sound system was also upgraded. I think it's
- on about version 1.4 now, the editor is at about version 1.06ß the
- last time I checked. (hehe)
-
- To run this presentation you have to have a SoundBlaster/PRO
- compatable sound board. A patch for users without a sound board will
- be released at a later stage, if the demand is sufficient, which it
- invariably won't be, but enough about that. You will also require
- about 1.76MB RAM, about 1.5MB disk space (you probably already know
- that though :-) and a VGA screen. You'll also need some sort of
- EMM driver (QEMM works fine, anything else that is compatable with
- the LIM V4.0 standard should too). We have also tested DOS's
- EMM driver (EMM386.EXE) which worked fine.
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- If you are experiencing trouble running the demo (it doesn't detect
- your sound board, or it stops playing the music in the middle of the
- demo) you might want to try manually configuring the demo by using
- the commandline options. These can be found, along with their
- descriptions, by typing SHRINE /?. There are various options such
- as quality mode, looping mode (for shop window display), etc.
-
- While testing, one problem with Norton Commander did show up. If
- you use the Commander Link to transfer data between PC's, the
- autodetection doesn't work properly - the most likely cause being
- that our friends at Symnatec aren't freeing their comms interrupt.
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- Bugs and known errors
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- As far as bugs go, we ironed all the known ones out although there
- could be more lurking around somewhere. One problem we did find
- was that the music system does not appreciate use of the secondary
- buffers cache option in MS-DOS V6.0. If you use the command
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- BUFFERS=30,0
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- For instance, change it to
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- BUFFERS=30
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- otherwise you will get an internal error from MS-DOS and your
- machine will hang.
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- The same thing will occur if you use strange QEMM settings such
- as Stealth Mapping, etc. I am aware of, and know what the cause
- of the error is, I just haven't had time to read through
- the 350+ pages of documentation on the LIM EMS standard to find
- out how to avoid it.
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- Users of Disk Cache's should be aware that these are a common
- cause of conflict. We have tested Norton Cache, although
- Norton Speed Cache did not work particuarily well, probably
- because of memory shortage, but even more probably because of
- strange memory mapping schemes.
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- As a last and final resort, you can try renaming AUTOEXEC.BAT
- and placing only QEMM or EMM386, etc. into your CONFIG.SYS.
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- About Guru Magic
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- Well, basically Guru Magic consists of eight talented people who
- enjoy coding demos and testing our skills as a group in similar
- ways. Believe it or not, we actually have a bit of a social life
- on the sideline too. We often frequent clubs and bars as a crew
- and often get drunk as a crew. That is when we code demos like
- Shrine.
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- As a hobby Duendé smokes cigarettes and kills rodents. Abacus gets
- layed and also gets layed sometimes and occasionally also gets layed.
- Baroque kills little children in his shop and sells age restricted
- computer games to innocent little toddlers, who grow up to become
- mass murderers and psychopaths. DAC codes PyraTracker and tries to
- convince Abacus to share his women. Deacon studies, or at least
- pretends to under the beady eye of mother dear. Avatar drinks
- whisky and trips over some very nice lady friends (personal coke,
- uhm joke).
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- All Guru Magic members and their respective primary tasks are
- listed below:
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- ┌─────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────┐
- │ Handle │ Real name │ Primary task │▄
- ├─────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────┤█
- │ Abacus │ Brad Kronson │ Code │█
- │ Avatar │ Holden Morris │ Graphics │█
- │ Baroque │ Quinton Davie │ Music │█
- │ DAC │ Shane Greyvenstein │ Code │█
- │ Deacon │ David Beukes │ Music │█
- │ Duendé │ Jaycen Dale │ Code │█
- │ Myst │ Nicholas Wessels │ SysOp/PR │█
- │ RTFact │ Jaco Gerber │ Graphics │█
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- Contacting Guru Magic
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- Leave a message to 'Jaycen Dale' on Starport or see GM12-94.FAQ
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- Conclusion
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-
- Well that concludes this document. You probably only read this
- after you ran the demo like any other DingBat, so we hope you
- enjoyed the Shrine experience and this brilliant document.
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- Thank you for taking time to read this document,
- DAC (On behalf of the Guru Magic crew)
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