utopia by inf
UTOPIA - a hurry demo for TP5 by INF
This demo is dedicated to....
our self.
This demo is also a protest agains...
the world as we know it
ABOUT THIS THINGY:
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Two weeks before The Party'5 we found out that we wanted to
make something for the demo competition at The Party'95. One
week before the event between a couple of exams we started
coding the damn thing so it became quite a hurry project. Some
late evenings at Snoopy's place and TMK's place and this is the
result... not quite what we had planed, but it's a demo.
LEGAL BABBLE:
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Eventhough this demo is an artistic masterpiece that has taken
us many years to develop, it's freeware. In other words, it can
be freely distributed as long as all the files are included in
their ORIGINAL form (not modified in any way). No money can be
charged for this demo (yep, we are kind'a Robin Hoodish).
Disclaimer: you run this dangerous demo at your own risk. The
authours (that's us in INF) can NOT be held lieable for
any of the usual or unusual damaged caused by this demo.
FILES INCLUDED:
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The following files should be included... if not, panic, freak
out,demolish the sysop at the board you've downloaded it from,
delete the raped version you are posessing, and get a decent
copy of this shit.
- UTOPIA.EXE - The demo itself. So if you want to see it, this
is the file to execute (please refere to your DOS
manual for details about how to execute a program)
- UTOPIA.NFO - The information file... since you've allready
found this (yep, this is it) we skip the how-to-
view-the-file details..
- FILE_ID.DIZ - Short description for BBSes. SysOps should know how
to use this little thingy.
MACHINE REQUIREMENTS:
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To run this demo, you need a machine with at least
- 486dx, 486dx2 or faster recommended
- Math Co-processor required
- VGA card; VLB or PCI highly recommended
- 4MB of hard disk space
- GUS/SB/SBPro/SB16/PAS/PAS16 for music; GUS recommended
minimum 512kb of GUS memory for GUS
EMS required for other soundcards
- 615kb of free DOS memory and 4MB of XMS memory
- DOS 5.0 or higher with himem.sys installed
This demo will probably not run very well under multitasking
enviroments such as DesqView, Windows, Win95, OS/2, nor LINUX.
This demo may have some syncing problems on slow machines.
SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND:
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You should keep the following reasons in your mind, that explains
why this demo really sucks, while watching this demo:
- Done in a REAL hurry between a couple of exams
- A murder on TV!
- A bug
- BitBrat and Snoopy can't agree about using segments or pointers
- Bugs
- "ZZzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....z...."
- Hardware problems with Digitus' computer
- Hardware problems with TMK's computer
- Hardware problems with Snoopy's computer
- Transportation problems
- Voff!
- "You see guys... I was sick... " - Sticky
- We are losers, not wonders of the world.
- BitBrat made a routine work after his first attempt... used the
rest of the evening bragging about how effecient he is.
- "That looks nice... it's bug isn't it?" - TMK
- BitBrat's first-attempt-working-routine didn't really work...
- "What's design?"
- The oven is too damn hot
- "We are definately not the crew of the future" - ?
- Our coloursheme is not orange... not even yellow...
- "Ups... Pizza-to-carbon morphing..." - Digitus
- And last, but not least, we're INFeriors...
- Our nuclear computer had some radiation problems during late hours
- "Out of diskspace" - everybody's computers
- "COooooKeee! NEeeeD COKE!! COKE COKE!!" - Digitus having a breakdown
- Problems detecting undetectable errors
- Got no karma...
- We can't see the truth since Jamm aren't showing it to us...
- "Fuq... it's a fuckings pointer!" - Snoopy
- Internet is much more fun
- "Need a mental surgery" - TMK
- Procedure from Snoopy's code: On_shitbastard(...
- The weather is still not inspiring
- X-Files on the TV!!!! Hurray!!
- "Scanner not ready" - TMK's computer
- BitBrat tried to do some descent code in his own assembler again
- Some confusion between Sticky and Frog Fuzz
- Christmas
- "We don't really need design do we?"
- More bugs
- Christmas present shopping
- "Intel is superb." - White Water
- "and Win95 is even better." - White Water
- Stupid commercials
- The X-files are closed
- Television (not the demo, but that silly black box with moving
pictures on).
- "How to animate a man?" - White Water
- Unreliable error
- "BUG!" - Snoopy
- "Shit... segment? What's wrong with pointers?" - BitBrat
- Problems with the pizza supply
- "Pointer.. Segment, who cares?! I don't!" - TMK
- Even more bugs
- Sticky's brother made a mess about his modem
- We are dominated
- Saw some demos by Nooon/Orange/etc. and thought about giving up.
- "Don't want to code... it looks ugly anyway" - Twaddler
- We don't dominate... yet.
- "TMK's cute dog (Age: Eight weeks)" almost all INF members except TMK
- "That 'cute' dog just ate your hat Snupi!" - TMK
- "Ja Durak!" - White Water
- "IIIiiaiiikk.... BUG BUG!!... What's the time?"
- Tired!
- The people behind us in the partybus puked all the way from Norway
to Denmark
- BUGS BUGS BUGS!!!!!!
TROUBLE SHOOTING:
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It hangs!
-> To little memory for the player... or something. Forget it
you won't miss it.
FEATURES:
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This demo features:
- Some art... not.
- Complex vectors... not.
- Tricky gouraud shading... not.
- Magic Environment mapping... not.
- And even some video clips... yes.
To say it short: this demo features nothing of int. at all.
TECH DETAILS:
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For all those technical-detail-maniacs:
- Coded using TASM and TP/BP, and the complete size of the
source code is approx ???kb. approx... 10000 lines.
Files glued together using XLink (which BUGS!)
- All colour images are drawn (using DP2e).
- Greyscale images are scanned.
- Featuring 256c texture + 256c shading/env. using realtime
dithering that gives us more or less 65535 colours.
- Yeah, yeah... the water drop and the flight scenes are
precalced (IVS level1 320x200x256 (using 160x100)):
- water drop - David Lynch's "Dune" movie
- flight scene - Shots taken at Svalbard in Norway...
The water drop is called "Real 3D water"... Some of you
probably missunderstud that and thought it was actually
calculated REALtime. Well, read the text, it says that
the water is REAL. And that what it is!
- The music is a 12ch composed in FT2. The music is played
back using BWSB soundsystem 1.20.
- Developed during one week (with exams...)
- The demo is timed on a standard 486dx2/66mhz with GUS and
et4000w32p (vlb) with dos62/qemm. It has been testen
successfully on the following systems... er... no time
to test..sjit sjit.. The compo machine was a Pentium anyway.
CREDITS:
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Detailed credits:
- All music by Sticky
- All graphics and pictures by TMK
- Backgrounds by White Water
- 3D objects by White Water and TMK + public objects
- Video digitizing performed by TMK and White Water
- Video conversion by BitBrat and White Water
- Coding:
System code and linking by Snoopy
360° bitmap wrapper fx by Twaddler
3D and bitmap effects by TMK
IVS (INF Video System) 0.2ß by BitBrat and Digitus
Phong engine by Twaddler
IDX (INF DOS Extender) 0.1ß by Digitus
- BWSB sound player
- XLinker by Jinx!/TC
CURRENT MEMBER LIST (PC DEMO SECTION ONLY):
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Handle: Name: Task: Born:
- BitBrat Andreas Aa. Hanssen Code/Music 1978
- Calvin Anders B. Ervik Music/Code 1978
- Digitus Terje Strand Code 1976
- Dizz Markus Bakka Hjert¢ Code 1977
- Dominei Reid Hauke T¢nnesen Music 1977
- Frog Fuzz Bernard Lesoil Music 1978
- Purav Espen Kristiansen Code 1976
- Snoopy Kjetil Sjulsen Code/NW/Sysop 1977
- Sticky Frode Helgesen Music 1976
- TMK Tom M. Kalland Gfx/Code/Org. 1977
- Twaddler ¥yvind Neuman Code 1978
- White Water Morten Z. Berglie Gfx/3Dmodel 1977
HOW TO CONTACT:
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You may contact us....
By calling our cute little WHQ: GeniPig (+47)66779464
Sending snailmail: INF
0strevei 77
N-1315 NES0YA
NORWAY
Using e-mail: berne@infolink.no (Frog Fuzz)
ww@bigblue.no (White Water)
or use the common Daskmig contact channels (emails etc.)
Money and equipment donations may be sent to our snailmail
address above. :)
GREETINGS:
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Special thanks to:
Thorstein Seim for providing a video digitalizer.
We all greet (merry xmas and a happy new year.. habbla...):
Sorrox, Xenon Development, Twilight Zone Software, Sub Logic,
Condenz, Darkzone, Gollum, Proxima.. etc., Rest of the Daskmig
staff and All Daskmig readers!
Personal greetings...
- Snoopy greets:
All members of INF(special shjalom to Twaddler),Kravitz,Credex,
G-Pig/PH,Blue Master/PH,Hybris,Easty,Oce,Astor,and everybody else!
- TMK happens to greet (in insane random order):
All other INF members in all divisions,Hybris,the rest of
the Daskmig staff,Easty,Kaiowa,Steff,Gizmo,Ranxerox,Pnut,
Elux,Xanthome,Kravitz,Zilva,Failure,Twinny,Found,Hobbes,
Axon,MikeX,Sunday,Jaws,Bogeyman,Wonder,Thomsen,Walker,"The
Mini-Morris-man",Froyner'n,TS,BlueMaster,Isabella in Goldeneye
(I'm nicer than Bond... I think),my M&M cousins,Jaws,Gpig,
my dog(voff?),my tortoise(...),Santaclaus(I wish for a Pentium
Pro next year!),Cyrano,Credex,all the dead people,my teachers
(for teaching me what hate means),my classmates(for being such
a bunch of subindividuals),my goldfish in Japan,you,all the
beautifull girls on this sjitty globe... :)
- White Water greets:
Almost all INF members :),All comerades in the former CCCP,
My Dog,Anders,Alexander,Thomsen,"Goldocean",Odd-Arne,Kravitz,
Credex,Hybris,Easty,BlueMaster,The Real Lord Vader,Han Solo,
all Elven Kings out there and some nazzsty hobbitezz.
- Twaddler greets:
...?... We don't have time for that Twaddler... no time. Sorry,
but he probably greets you and everybody else.
Closing words...
Iiiik.... writing this sjit 30 mins before deadline, and the stupid
thing bugs.... HELP! HELP! Fuq...
An inferior INF production for The Party'95 demo compo... no time.. bug.
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