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- Welcome to Timeless, a demo in Feb 1994 by Tran (a.k.a. Thomas Pytel).
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- Main crap:
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- Once you start this demo, it will go on forever. Until, that is, you hit
- the ESC key. You can also specify the maximum number of cycles the demo will
- run with a switch on the command line. This demo updates the whole screen on
- every frame, so the speed of your video card is critical. The demo can run in
- three resolutions - high, medium, and low, high being the slowest. The demo
- will pick the appropriate resolution for your system, but you can override
- this with a command line switch. On my 386SX-16 with an 8bit VGA, I get a very
- good frame rate at low resolution.
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- There are also the usual factors effecting speed. QEMM and friends will slow
- things down. And there is ofcourse the overhead of SB mixing (it sounds much
- better on a GUS anyway). DPMI slows everything by a zillion percent. And if
- youre trying to run it under Windows... Well... Umm... I dunno if it will run
- under Windows. The demo may not be able to sync with the vertical retrace of
- your monitor, which may cause it to lock up. But if it does run, it would make
- a helluva screen saver. Because thats all a screen saver really is, a demo for
- sale, since there is no real danger of burn-in on a color monitor.
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- This demo was written 100% in 32bit protected mode assembly in PMODE v2.4.
- All design, code, grafix, and muzik is by me (Tran). Except for the low level
- SB driver which I am too lazy to code, so I just used Dave's (White Shadow).
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- Switches:
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- /0 - High background resolution.
- /1 - Medium background resolution.
- /2 - Low background resolution.
- /3 - Allow the demo to run up to 3x faster than the set rate (if your
- system is fast enough).
- /E - Skip ending screen.
- /J - If the demo jerks a little sometimes, this will fix the most likely
- cause of that.
- /L# - Loop for a limited number of cycles (1 cycle takes a while).
- /S# - Set soundcard info (the demo will tell you what to put here as the
- number after running it once).
- /G - Set line level output on the GUS (if its attached to a stereo).
- /T#### - Set whole demo tint. The first three numbers are the red, green,
- and blue of the tint color. Their values range from 0 to 63. The
- last number is the amount of tint to apply, 0 is the least, 63 is
- full tint.
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- Example: TIMELESS /S2231 /1 /3 /J /L11 /T63,0,0,32
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- Other crap:
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- You may distribute and use this demo in any manner you wish, as long as all
- the original files, unmodified, are included with it.
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- Just a little while ago, I remembered that I have an Internet account. So I
- logged on, and found mail piled all the way back to negative infinity (I had
- not called up in months). So I just killed it all. I do not check my mail
- regularly, and if you send me mail you will probably not get a response (even
- if I do actually call some time in the future and check). But if you just feel
- like sending me hate mail, try tran@phantom.com.
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- Oh well... Life sucks, so enjoy the illusion of reality you only think you
- are experiencing. L8r... (or was it before???)...
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