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- in association with Reality, LEGiON and SMASH!, proudly present;
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- the 100% all-australian musicdisk!
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- i │ expOZe is a musicdisk coded, illustrated, composed and produced entirely
- n │ by Australian talent.
- f │
- o │ Containing eleven songs totalling over 45 minutes of music, with a nice
- r │ music player, illustrated with pleasing graphics, it is a showcase of the
- m │ talent of the Australian scene.
- a │
- t │ expOZe was organised by Heretics, and collaborating on the project were
- i │ artists and musicians from Australian groups LEGiON and SMASH!, and the
- o │ Australian/New Zealand group Reality. The original concept was brought
- n │ about by Hemlok, and we'd like to thank him for the idea.
- │
- │ Thanks for taking the time to download this musicdisk, we hope you
- │ enjoy the fruits of our labour.
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- p │ Well, if you're reading this, you're obviously intelligent enough to
- a │ have unzipped the product <grin>. Onto the actual software;
- c │
- k │ Included in expoze-?.zip are the following files;
- a │
- g │ expoze.exe - expOZe main executable
- i │
- n │ expoze.nfo - Err. That would be this file.
- g │ heretics.nfo - A little (eh hem) info on the producers of the musicdisk
- │
- │ *.cba - The music files in the Heretics CBA format
- │ (CBA stands for Chuck Biscuits/Black Artist)
- │ Yes, we know the musicfiles are huge - but look at how
- │ well they compress :-)
- │
- │ There should be 11 CBA musicfiles in all.
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- t │ When you first run the expoze.exe program, it will prompt you to setup
- h │ the player for your sounddevice, and it will create a file called
- e │ expoze.cfg.
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- p │ If the sounddevice setup needs changing after the inital running of the
- l │ player, the following command line parameter may come in useful:
- a │
- y │ expoze /r
- e │
- r │ The supported sound devices are;
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- │ Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound MAX (GF1 wave-synthesiser)
- │ - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo
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- │ Sound Blaster, SB 2.0+, SB pro, SB16
- │ - 8-bit, 22.05kHz (SB), 44.1kHz (SB2/SBpro[mono])
- │ Stereo on SB pro (max sample-rate 22.05kHz for stereo)
- │ - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo (SB16)
- │
- │ Pro Audio Spectrum +, PAS16
- │ - 8-bit, 44.1kHz mono, 22.05kHz stereo
- │ - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo (PAS16)
- │
- │ Adlib (YM3812 FM synthesiser emulating (kicking & screaming) PCM)
- │ - 6-bit
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- │ PC Speaker
- │ - 1-bit PCM
- │
- │ Digital/Analogue Converter (COVOX(tm) Style)
- │ - 8-bit, sample-rates up to whatever can be pumped out of your
- │ parallel port
- │
- │ "Surround" (Dolby Pro-Logic) sound is available on the stereo cards
- │ other than the Gravis Ultrasound/Ultrasound MAX. It is a simple
- │ amplitude-inverse stereo pair setup as used by various other players.
- │ (Although surround is not used by any of the tunes in the musicdisk,
- │ as it happens, so you'll just have to take our word for it :).
- │
- │ Please note that the coders only have Gravis Ultrasound and original
- │ Sound Blaster cards, and while it has been tested on other sound
- │ cards, it goes without saying that it might create annoying events.
- │ It has not been tested on PAS cards at all. In fact, Black Artist
- │ only 'guarantees' (uh huh) that it works on GUSes ;).
- │
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- i │ Once inside the player, you get the short intro-sequence, and then the
- n │ main player screen appears, whilst playing the intro tune. The keys
- t │ available to you are as follows;
- e │
- r │ F1 - Credits screen
- f │ F2 - Sample information
- a │ Up/down/left/right to scroll
- c │ F3 - Current song information/text
- e │ Up/down to scroll
- │ F4 - Song Selection Screen
- │ F5 - Return to the player screen
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- │ F6 - Play
- │ F7 - Pause
- │ F8 - Stop
- │
- │ F9 - Previous song (backwards cue)
- │ F10 - Next song (forward cue)
- │ note: you can also use the ~ through to 0 keys on the top row
- │ of the keyboard for song selection.
- │
- │ F11 - Previous order (backwards search)
- │ F12 - Next order (forward search)
- │
- │ -,+ - Decrease/increase volume
- │ /,* - Decrease/increase amplification (on cards other than GUS/GUSmax)
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- │ You can also use the mouse to navigate the controls.
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- m │ There are known problems with screen corruption/garbage on some video
- i │ cards in the sample information and song info screens. Some cards such
- s │ as ones using the Tseng ET4000 chipsets are not 100% VGA compatible;
- c │ if you experience screen corruption in these displays, use the following
- e │ commandline parameter:
- l │
- l │ expoze /v - Disables smoothscroll
- a │
- n │ If you would like more information on the CBA file format, please mail
- e │ either Black Artist or Chuck Biscuits (see heretics.nfo for contact
- o │ information).
- u │
- s │ Of course, running under memory managers and multitasking environments
- │ will slow the player down. If you have any problems with it, please
- │ try rebooting under plain DOS with all mem managers disabled, and
- │ lowering the mixing rate on non-GUS cards.
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- c │ Coding - Black Artist, Zenic
- r │ Music coordinator - Chuck Biscuits
- e │ Graphics - Rogue, Squidgalator ][, Black Artist
- d │ Musicians - Chuck Biscuits, Firelight, Force Format, Hunz,
- i │ Jase, Jedi, Maral, Myzer, saNe, Void
- t │ Concept - Hemlok
- s │ S3M/CBA converter - Zab
- │
- │ Of course, this musicdisk would not have been possible without the
- │ help of many other people and groups who are not mentioned here. All
- │ apologies if we forgot anybody, please take out your anger on the
- │ comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos people ;).
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