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- NEW FEATURES OF VT 1.39 Beta 18
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- Ok, this is a quick-and-dirty list of the things that have changed
- since the last release of the VT (1.2b).
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- * GUS (Gravis UltraSound) support. In fact, the only card supported in this
- version. See also the new VT-GUS section of the configuration file VT.CFG
-
- * New video mode: now the screen turns into a 90x63 text mode that gives a
- much bigger playfield to fill up with uninteresting things. :) Use Ctrl+Arrow Key
- (left or right) to adjust the horizontal screen position if the default doesn't
- fit well with your monitor.
-
- * Vastly improved S3M support. Now it sounds almost as good as STMIK; in fact,
- it will play PANIC.S3M and WATER.S3M (inside FISHTRO.EXE) much better than the ripped STMIK 0.9. :-) Some details
- still missing, tough.
-
- * The decorating menu has finally disappeared. Maybe some day it will see the
- light again.
-
- * There's a mouse you can play with. It doesn't do anything, but you may move
- it with the rythm of the music and have some fun. It's basically a functional
- substitute of the previously mentioned menu, as are some sliders drawn next
- to the VU-meters. :-)
-
- * Naming convention. You may have noticed it already...
-
- This beta version also has some features disabled, after breaking them by
- introducing the new ones:
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- * Oscilloscope: it won't work with GUS.
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- * Loudness filter doesn't work with GUS either.
-
- * Feel free to add things to this list as you see them. But please tell me
- about it, else I will keep thinking that it works.
-
- To everybody who expected more improvements after all this time: this is
- what happens when you lose your time doing other stupid things like demos
- and job and university and all that stuff. Special message to PAS owners:
- give me a good reference about the card, not all that unusable stuff from
- MediaVision that forms the PASDK, and PAS support will no doubt be added.
-
- Special thanks to some people that have contributed to this version and
- are not mentioned in the DOC: Oscar G. for lending a still unused PAS16;
- Marcos Sagrado, Javier Olmo and Paco Carrascosa (who else?) for GUS
- betatesting and general ideas.
-
- And, as usual, the greetings to some demo dudes:
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- Future Crew, Dust, Surprise! Productions, Silents, Avalanche, Cascada,
- <odeNation, Pentagon, Xography, Irresistible Works, Access Denied, VLA,
- Postumum, Axxelerator Logics, EMF, Toxic Zombies, Phantom, Virtual
- Visions, Extreme, Imphobia, iCE, The Emulator Institute, DeaD Memory,
- British Knights, Synergy Design, Darkzone, Onyx, Epical, Sonic, Renaissance,
- Digital Infinitry, and all who deserve a greeting and are not here (when you
- have written a greetings list you know you always forget someone no matter
- how hard you try not to).
-
- And, of course, the makers of the wonderful Visual Player, the best
- competence and the best help we've got so far.
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- Greets, and enjoy it!
-
- VangeliSTeam
- January the 2nd, 1993
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