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- A DEMO FROM THE X-TEAM
- ARM's Tech - BASS - Eddie xxx - Excelsior ¹
-
- PRODUCED BY
- BASS
-
-
- Welcome to the Xtreme demo ! This is probably the very first Acorn demo made
- by several foreign demo crews together. It features several exciting
- techniques never shown in the Acorn demo scene until now.
-
- Have fun with this demo and may this be the beginning of a new era in the
- Acorn demo making.
-
-
- Interesting bits
- ----------------
-
- - Every demo part can be skipped by pressing the <Esc> key. In some rare
- cases when the responce on the <Esc> key is not immediate, have just a
- little bit of patience.
-
- - Pressing <Ctrl><Esc> will stop the demo completely.
-
- System requirements
- -------------------
-
- Xtreme will run on many Archimedes and RiscPC machines however not all demo
- parts will work on the low end machines. Some demo parts will (most of the
- time silently) be skipped when the necessary hardware (e.g. VIDC20) isn't
- available. If you want to see every demo part in its full glory, run the
- demo on a RiscPC with 1 MByte VRAM (with loaders enabled) !
-
- RISC OS 3.1
-
- Xtreme needs at least RISC OS 3.1 as we used various RISC OS 3.1 features
- which made our lives easier. If you don't have RISC OS 3.1 (or higher) and
- would like to run Xtreme, then the only option is to upgrade your OS. We're
- Xtremely sorry for this.
-
- Necessary free memory
-
- We also recommend you have at least 1.7 MByte RAM *free* (ie. the sum of the
- 'Next' and 'Free' slot in the Task Manager window). When there is less
- memory free, you'll risk to miss the best bits.
-
- RiscPC
-
- The RiscPC has a nice feature for defining (new) screenmodes. For the Xtreme
- demo we need the following three mode resolutions : 320x256, 640x256, 640x480 and 640x512.
- Previous versions of Xtreme required 100 Hz screen refresh of these
- resolutions but because not every monitor or RiscPC version is able to meet
- this condition, we now take the highest screen refresh available.
-
- When these mode resolutions are not available on your system, then you will
- be asked if we may add three mode definitions to your current mode definition
- file. Please take note that our mode definitions have a 100 Hz screen
- refresh !!! Change the mode definitions with programs like !NewModes or
- !ModeRPC to meet the requirements of your monitor (if you can't have 100 Hz
- screenmodes).
-
- Why "Xtreme" ?
- --------------
-
- ...because it took Xtremely long to finish it
- ...because it is Xtremely long
- ...because there are Xtremely many X's in Eddie's name
- ...because there are Xtremely many rotation routines used
- ...because we have Xtremely many routines and idea's left unused :-(
- ...because "Xperience" was already been used
- ...and because its first name, "EuroDemo", sounds so dull
-
- Conditions of use/distribution
- ------------------------------
-
- This program may be freely copied on condition that all files are included
- and are *UNALTERED*. No charge may be imposed except for a *SMALL* amount
- for media and copying. Please bear in mind we wrote this during our
- spare time and do not gain anything on it !!!
-
- If you're going to place this demo on a CD, we would like a couple for each
- demo group for free. You can contact us, see the Web pages on
- http://droopy.imag.fr/~elisei
-
- On this Web site you will be able to find the latest version of Xtreme.
- Please try to get the latest version before mass distribution (especially
- when you want to plase Xtreme on a CDROM).
-
- Versions
- --------
-
- v1.02 : 1st public version (BETA)
- v1.03 : - Now we're no longer so pedantic about having 100 Hz screens on a
- Risc PC machine. We now take this highest frequency available
- (which made it impossible to run Xtreme on machines like A7000 !
- ... well we hope so ... we're unable to test it, sorry).
- However, screen refresh of 100 Hz does give the best results.
- - 'Loaders' are now optional as some people don't really like them,
- ah well...
- - 'Loaders' do not longer suffer from short hang-ups, I hope.
- - Pressing <Ctrl><Esc> after the 'Rings' part did leave the music
- playing, oops...
-
- If you see a flashing cursor top-left of the screen, don't blame us. We
- simply do a VDU 23,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 but modules like LineEdit (otherwise
- a damn fine piece of software) seem to bugger this...
-
- ¹ Unfortunately Armaxess canceled their Xtreme participation just before the
- deadline. We're Xtremely sorry :-< not to be able to include their demo
- parts as their work is always of outstanding quality. Let's hope that the
- things they've written for Xtreme demo so far don't get lost and find their
- way in another demo production.
-
- And finally...
- --------------
-
- Remember we made this demo for fun and during our precious sparetime. If you
- have constructive comments then we would like to hear them. Also, we (BASS)
- are interested to make commercial demo's for Acorn products.
-
- (c) 1994-1996 X-Team