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- Released on the 17th of August, 1994
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- LEGAL STUFF
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- VERSES is Copyright (C) 1994 by Electromotive Force.
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- This demo is freeware. It can be freely distributed as long
- as the files or the contents of the archive are not modified
- in any way. No money can be charged for this demo. We grant
- exclusive rights for CD-ROM distribution of this demo to the
- organizers of Assembly'94, and demand a 3.2% royalty from the
- net revenue, as stated in the ASM94_2.TXT info file.
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- Disclaimer: you run this demo at your own responsibility. The
- authors can not be held liable for any damage arising from the
- use of this software.
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- FILES INCLUDED
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- After unpacking the archive, you should have the following files:
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- FILE_ID.DIZ, 576 bytes - BBS file description
- VERSES.EXE, 1030549 bytes - Demo executable
- EMF.NFO, 6400 bytes - EMF info file
- VERSES.NFO, 8429 bytes - This file
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- Any other files that might be included in the archive are
- not needed to run this demo. You may as well delete them.
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- MACHINE REQUIREMENTS
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- To run this demo, you need a machine with at least
- - a 386sx CPU; 486 or faster recommended
- - a VGA card; VLB or PCI recommended
- - a hard disk; RAM disk recommended
- - a Gravis Ultrasound card for music
- - 400 kB of free base memory
- - 1 MB of free high memory
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- TECHNICAL STUFF
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- This demo is running under a slightly customized version of PMODE
- v2.4 by Tran -- thanks! Also, everything in this demo is coded in
- pure assembly language, and optimized for the i486. As an advice
- for all the coders out there pondering whether to use protected
- mode or to stick with real mode -- go for it! Even though you lose
- all your debugging facilities and have to build a lot of your basic
- routines from scratch, the effort very quickly pays off.
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- The demo has been tested on six different machines in addition to
- those that it was developed on, each with various configurations,
- and it seems to work perfectly save for one exception: QEMM v7.0
- or higher will screw up the demo! We do not know why - might have
- something to do with the pmode header - nor do we have the time to
- find out. You'll just have to remove QEMM before running the demo.
- If it still doesn't work, well, about the only advice we have to
- offer is that you try different boot configs, a clean boot among
- them.
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- Why no Sound Blaster support? Well, the reason is that none of us
- had neither the time nor the motivation to code a Sound Blaster
- player in protected mode. Of course, we still have the real mode
- player that we used in Eclipse, but we felt that mixing real and
- protected mode code isn't good coding practice and might cause a
- number of mysterious bugs. Thus, we decided that no player at all
- is better than a buggy player that screws up the demo. But if you
- like to experiment, you might want to load up your favorite stand-
- alone SB module player, jump to DOS shell, and run VERSES without
- sound. I've tried this a few times just out of curiosity, and the
- demo seemed to work fine. A far more recommended option is to get
- a Gravis Ultrasound, though.
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- Btw, a last minute note: if you want to run the demo without sound
- even if you have a Gravis Ultrasound installed, just remove the
- ULTRASND environment variable by typing "SET ULTRASND=" at the DOS
- prompt. Also, if the music stops playing after the first note or
- so, try executing ULTRINIT before running the demo.
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- CREDITS
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- Saracen:
- - emf "design-logo" (gfx)
- - presentation texts (gfx)
- - ifs morpher (bg gfx)
- - voxel cave (code & gfx)
- - bitmap rotation (code)
- - ripple effect (code)
- - "dotfade" (code)
- - "Bill Gates" writer (gfx)
- - greetings part (code & gfx)
- - "timeless" kaleidoscope (code)
- - julia morpher (code)
- - credits part (code & gfx)
- - frontend routines (code)
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- The Grim Reaper:
- - gouraud routines (code)
- - "design star" (code)
- - ifs morpher (code)
- - diagonal dotfade (code)
- - Bill Gates "whirl" (code)
- - emf gouraud logo (gfx)
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- Devastator:
- - mosaic (code)
- - polygon ball (code)
- - frontend routines (code)
- - file routines (code)
- - music routines (code)
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- Saint:
- - presentation texts (code)
- - Bill Gates writer (code)
- - Bill Gates mutation (code)
- - music routines (code)
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- Whalebone:
- - "Double Trouble" (music)
- - ripple picture (gfx)
- - emf end logo (gfx)
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- Shaman&Kerberos:
- - "verses" logo (gfx)
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- Vortex:
- - gouraud objects (gfx)
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- GREETINGS
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- Access Denied Admire Anarchy
- Avalanche Cascada VRS Clones
- Complex Crypton Darkzone
- Dust Epical Extreme
- Future Crew Gollum Grif
- Iguana Impact Infiny
- Imp/Cda Legend Design Majic 12
- Mental Design Noice Phantom
- Prime Radiance Renaissance
- Sonic PC Speed Surprise! Prods.
- TET Tran Triton
- Unexpected Virtual Dreams Xography
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- FINAL WORDS
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- We'd like to thank the following people for various reasons:
- - Tran (for PMODE v2.24)
- - Quark/Anarchy (for letting us use his computer at Asm'94)
- - Mika Lietzen (for the EMF banner & our party T-shirts)
- - Erkka Samsten (for his big & ineffective loudspeakers)
- - Bill Gates (for the highly mutatable face)
- - The people at Assembly'94 (for voting us)
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- PS. Whalebone, our graphics artist and musician, is leaving for the
- army, and we'll be having trouble in getting quality artwork for our
- upcoming releases unless we get someone to replace him. If you, the
- reader, feel that you could contribute to our future productions in
- the form of high quality music or graphics, please contact us! If you
- also happen to live in southern Finland, all the better.
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