expoze by Heretics
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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.
│
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;
│
│ Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound MAX (GF1 wave-synthesiser)
│ - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo
│
│ 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
│
│ 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
│
│ 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)
│
│ 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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