Back in the kitchen (ITK '97) by Rednex
┌─┐Back In the Kitchen (ITK '97) read me
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ITK was originally released for the Amiga at the Hurricane party in
Denmark '92. Seeing that it's its fifth anniversary this year I decided
to do a little remake of our old demo on the PC. So here's the result!
An Amiga demo running on a PC with a few improvements here and there
but largely it's pretty much the same. Sort of.
If you're wondering, "Did they do the original?", the answer is "Yes!"
┌─┐System requirements
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To fully enjoy this demo a high-end 486 or any Pentium class processor
is recommended. The faster the better, though anything above a P200 is
overkill. Isn't it amazing what you can get away with in C these days?
Only 45 lines of assembler ;)
You will need a pure DOS boot to run ITK '97. No Windows '95 dos-box
thanks. The demo REALLY needs the VBlank bit for MIDAS (because the
videomode used will have different frequencies on different cards) and
to do double buffering and timing so it looks like an Amiga demo (ie.
NO horrible graphics tears)
Also, you will need a VBE 2 driver of some sort. I believe some video
cards come with one in the ROM these days. If yours doesn't you can use
UniVBE (or SciTech Display Doctor as they call it now) which you can
download from the internet at "http://www.scitechsoft.com". If you've
got an S3 based card (like a cheap Trio or ViRGE like me) you can use a
FREE VBE 2 implementation developed by Dietmar Meschede called S3
VBE/Core 2.0 and it's available for download from
"http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/math/users/mesched/"
Since ITK '97 renders directly into the linearly mapped video memory
you will need a VLB or PCI video card.
Oh, and a bit of memory. 4MB _should_ be enough from my calculations
but I don't have SIMMs that small anymore so that remains untested.
┌─┐Having troubles, eh?
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If for some bizarre reason ITK '97 should refuse to run properly there
are a few command line arguments you can use:
nodetect - Don't autodetect soundcard. This will bring up the MIDAS
sound driver selection screen. If the sound is wrong or
there is no sound this is the option for you!
dac6 - UniVBE misreports the DAC width on some cards. If the colours
look weird you can try this option which ignores what the VBE 2
driver tells you, or...
dac8 - If your card has an 8 bit DAC but it's being misreported you can
try this option. It will give you slightly nicer fades and
palettes.
rm - You should have no need for this option. It will use real mode VBE
palette calls. Dunno why I included it.
vmode X - X being a hexadecimal VBE 2 mode number. ITK '97 really wants
a 320x240x8 linear mode but if it can't find one it will pick
an 8 bit mode with the same aspect ratio and run the demo in
a window in the middle of the screen. If you are unhappy with
its choice of mode you can force it to use any one you like.
Note that NO checking is done so if you pick a hi-colour mode
it will look, err, interesting to say the least. Also, on
the Hercules Stingray the 320x240x8 mode appears to be
slightly f@cked (even with vbetest.exe) so if you've got one
of those you should use this option. Most video cards will
have mode 100 which is 640x400 and mode 101 which is 640x480.
Ideally you will want to use 400x300 which is non-standard
and may not be available on your card. You will have to use a
utility such as vesatest to find out the mode number. Often
this mode has the number 14F though.
-nosound - As required by the The Party '97 competition rules, this
will run the demo without sound.
nocensor - Being the paranoid person I am, I've censored some of the
graphics for The Party competition to avoid any possibility
of disqualification. You should definitely always use this
option if you are after the true oldsk00l flava.
┌─┐That's all folks
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ITK '97 was developed on an Intel Triton 430TX, AMD K6/200 with a
noname ViRGE video card and a ViperMAX in 99.99% C.
ITK '97 uses
MIDAS 0.7 by Sahara Surfers
PMode/W by Charles Scheffold and Thomas Pytel
And a warm thank you goes out to h0llywood/mono (and probably loads
of other groups) for generously letting me borrow his A1200 power
supply thereby jeopardising the Christmas mono releases so I could
rip the rest of the graphics when mine broke down. I don't have
the original sources anymore (the old coffee on the floppydisk
trick). You wanted a thank you, there you are mate ;)
Visit mono on the World Wide Web at (you should, it's really cool,
especially if you're into tracker music)
http://www.scene.org/mono
That's it. Happy viewing!
SurfSmurf / >(oo)<
/ [damn] Rednex
/ Movement
csorensen@ea.com
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