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- Dee musicdemo player/infoviewer
-
-
-
- ┌──────────────────┐
- │ 1. Law and order │
- └──────────────────┘
-
- Throughout this chapter, 'this program' means HORS, the Dee
- musicdemo player/infoviewer.
-
- This program is Copyright (c) 1994 Jari Komppa and Allan Perämäki.
-
- This program is freeware.
-
- You are allowed to copy this program by any means, including
- electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual,
- or by any other means your creative minds might think of, as
- long as it's in it's whole, unmodified form, and no profit is
- made.
-
- Not to be sold.
-
- You are also allowed to copy, reproduce etc. this document in
- pieces or in it's whole form as long as the source is indicated.
-
- This program must always be accompanied by this document.
-
- Run this program at your own risk.
- The authors of this program take no responsibility of any
- damages caused by use, misuse or disability to use this program.
-
- There is no warranty.
-
- All copyrights and trademarks mentioned in this document
- are copyrights and trademarks of their respective owners.
-
- Batteries not included.
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────┐
- │ 2. System requirements │
- └────────────────────────┘
-
- This program requires:
- - Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster Pro or SoundBlaster.
- - 386-based PC
- - 512k VESA compatible VGA.
- - One megabyte of EMS memory (if using SB/SB2/SB PRO)
- - Keyboard, mouse, joystick or gamepad.
-
- Recommended:
- - Gravis Ultrasound with 1MB of memory
- - 486/66 or faster
- - VLB or PCI VGA
- - Mouse, joystick or gamepad.
-
-
-
-
- ┌──────────┐
- │ 3. Usage │
- └──────────┘
-
- Command-line parameters
- -----------------------
- Use the command-line parameters to override default
- settings:
-
- /Snnnnn - Set SB sampling rate (normally set to 21000) Decimal!
- - You can set this to anything between 8Khz and 44Khz.
- (too low or too high values are truncated)
- /Phhh - Set SB IO port (normally autodetected) HEX!
- - This setting is here since polling different ports may
- cause intresting effects in some machines.
- /Dn - Set SB DMA (normally autodetected) Decimal
- - ditto.
- /In - Set SB IRQ (normally autodetected) Decimal
- - same here.
- /Z - Disable SB interpolation (normally active)
- - Interpolation eats processor power, but sounds almost as
- good as GUS.
- /M - Disable mouse use (also disables detecting)
- /K - Disable keyboard use (Are you NUTS?!)
- /J - Disable joystick use
- - Use this if you don't have joystick and HORS insists
- that you have one, and you don't want to press a key
- when loading.
- /H /? - See command-line help.
-
-
-
- USING HORS
- ----------
-
- When loading, HORS automaticly detects mouse and joystick.
- Since joystick detection has never been a real science with
- PCs, the detection may fail. If this happends, just press
- a key at the calibration or use the /J commandline parameter.
- The calibration is simple; just roll your joystick around
- (in fact, up-left and down-right are enough) and press fire.
- With gravis gamepad, any of the four buttons work.
- The intro can be skipped by pressing a key.
- In HORS, you can use cursors (+space, enter, insert or
- delete), mouse or your joystick to control the cursor. Click
- on a button to activate it. The song buttons are in the
- bottom of the screen. If a song button is darkened, it means
- that you don't have that song in the current directory.
-
- The control buttons are:
-
- HORS: Credits and info - Show HORS info page.
- Info about DEE in general - Show general info about DEE.
- Info about the active DEE disk - Show info about the current DEE disk.
- Info about the active tune - Show info/more info about current tune.
- Change system colors [n] - Cycle through possible system colors.
- Stop the music - Stop the current tune. (why?!)
- Change playing mode [n] - Cycle through possible playing modes:
- Single - Play once, then stop.
- Loop - Loop this tune forever.
- Cycle - Cycle through available tunes.
- Random - Select next tune randomly.
-
-
-
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 4. Philosophy of Dee musicdemos │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The songs of this musicdemo are..
-
- (c) 1994 Dee
- All tunes included in this musicdemo are freely distributable
- while unchanged and as long as no profit is made.
-
- The songs are freely distributable while unmodified. This means
- that you are suggested to spread the whole musicdemo, but you
- may also spread the songs individually.
-
-
-
-
- ┌─────────────────┐
- │ 5. Contact info │
- └─────────────────┘
-
- Whether someone wants to contact us for any reason (companies are
- also welcome) then you can find us from the following addresses:
-
- Snailmail:
- ----------
- Cube [Aggression/Hysteria/Dee]
- E-Mail: Cube@cute.fi
- Snailmail:
- Kulotie 1 A 13
- 01450 Vantaa
- Finland
-
- Nitro [dubius/Dee]
- E-Mail: None@whud.so.eva.tz
- Snailmail:
- Laurintie 116
- 01400 Vantaa
- Finland
-
- Sol [Hysteria] (HORS code)
- E-Mail: Solar@spider.compart.fi
-
-
-
-
- ┌───────────────────┐
- │ 6. Required files │
- └───────────────────┘
-
- These files are required to run HORS:
-
- HORS.EXE - the main executable
- HORSDATA.WAD - the main database (Graphics'n'stuff)
- DEE1.WAD - Dee One database (Graphics'n'stuff)
- *.S3M - The music files (At least one)
-
- Also included:
-
- TRM.EXE - Text-mode mod/s3m player using the same player
- as HORS.
- HORS.DOC - This document.
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────┐
- │ 7. Troubleshooting │
- └────────────────────┘
-
- General stuff (if in trouble):
- - *GET OUT OF WINDOWS!* (the 'MS-DOS' icon does not exit windows!)
- - Do NOT use SBOS or Mega-Em with this program! (Native support)
- - Perform a 'clean boot' with only the essential drivers.
- - The HORS and its player were devenloped on machines with
- enough memory - ie. 1MB GUS and at least couple megs of EMS
- memory and a 2MB VLB VGA.
- - If using SB - use /? parameter to get the commandline
- parameter help.
-
- Q: The program says: VGA not detected!
- A: Please upgrade your video card. =)
-
- Q: The program says: VESA not detected! (or system crashes..)
- A: Please load your VESA driver.
-
- Q: The program says: Unable to initialize 640x480x256 mode!
- (This requires 512k VGA)
- A: Either your VGA doesn't have enough memory, or then your VESA driver
- doesn't support mode 101h. You might want to try UNIVBE or some
- similar VESA driver.
-
- Q: The program says: VESA error..
- A: All the VESA errors (VESA not detected!,GetModeInfo failed! and
- BankGranularity!=64k) means that either you don't have VESA driver
- installed or HORS is incompatible with your current VESA driver.
- Please load some other VESA driver, such as the UNIVBE.
-
- Q: The program quits by saying that no tunes are found.
- A: You must run HORS from the directory where the DEE musicdemo .S3Ms
- reside.
-
- Q: The program says: !ERROR: (blah blah)
- A: Check this list..
- Error: Can't find UltraSnd Environment Variable.
- If you have a GUS, please set up your ULTRASND environment
- variable. See your GUS manual for details.
- If you don't have a GUS, then HORS can't find your SB.
- Error: Can't find EMS driver (SB)
- You must have EMS driver and at least one megabyte of free
- EMS memory to use HORS with SoundBlaster, SB 2 or SB pro.
- EMM386 is included in MS-DOS. See your DOS manuals for details.
- Error: No sound card found.
- Please install GUS or any SoundBlaster. ;)
- Your UltraSnd variable might be incorrect. Remember to ULTRINIT
- after changing your UltraSnd variable.
- Some other error, and using SB
- Use /? parameter to see the commandline parameter help. Our
- autodetect may fail, but you can set the values manually.
-
- Q: None of the DMAs work!
- A: You may have noncompatible SB clone. Sorry.. buy a GUS! ;)
-
- Q: The program seems awfully slow.
- A: If using SB, change to a smaller sampling rate. Or perhaps you
- want to put the interpolation off, since it eats enormous ammount of
- processor power. See the command-line help for details.
- If using GUS, sorry.. ;) buy a faster VGA.
-
- Q: I love this program! I love the musics! I want to give you all my money!
- A: Just use the contact address(es) mentioned above.. ;)
-
- Q: How big is the source code for HORS?
- A: Way too big.
-
- Q: The program does not load a song although I click on it.
- A: Either you have deleted the song (in this case the button is darker),
- or you don't have enough memory (either EMS or GUS memory).
- Buy more GUS memory or free up some EMS.
-
- Q: One of the texts say there's something hidden.
- A: In fact there are many hidden things, some easier to find than others.
- What's the meaning of life? Some numbers may help in your search..
-
- Q: The programs says that a .WAD is missing.
- A: One of the essential data files for HORS seems to be missing.
- Please re-install HORS.
-
- Q: Nothing in this list helps!
- A: If you really, really, really, really need help using HORS, please
- contact your friends first and try to kill the problem. If still in
- trouble, you may contact us (see the contact addresses above).
- You can, of course, use your favorite S3M player to listen to the
- tunes.. although you'll miss the information pages and other nifty
- stuff.
-