Euphoria by Esteem
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· W H O · W H A T · W H E R E · W H E N · C ·
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· Adept · Coder · Army · 1976 · V ·
· Skyer · Coder · School · 1978 · D ·
· Bahc · Musician · Same here · 1979 · Y ·
· Paso · Musician · Again · 1980 · Q ·
· Mr. Ed · Artist · Once more · 1980 · X ·
· Insane Tilt · Artist · Guess · 1982 · U ·
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│ FILES INCLUDED -
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| name description size
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: EUPHORIA.EXE THE! file 3,188,000 bytes
. EUPHORIA.NFO this file depends on my inspiration :)
FILE_ID.DIZ diz. file 479 byte (don't get virus on this one :)
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│ RIGHTS AND DISCLAIMER -
│
| This product is freeware, furthermore, we approve distribution
| of any kind, WHILE NO commercial use is done, and NO payment is
: taken (unless you give the money to us later :).
.
We do not take any responsibility for damages which may be
caused by this software.
The fact that we say it, doesn't mean that something like that
will actually happen, but we don't want to take even one chance of a
million that some smartass will sue us for a $500,000 because (maybe)
we destroyed some "very important" file of his. If you are just a
nice guy, then... "Sorry! We didn't mean to..."
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│ REQUIREMENTS -
│
| 386 or higher (a lot higher!) computer.
| Math coprocessor. YOU can do the thinking otherwise.
: About 1.7 mb of free *EMS* + about 620k of free base memory.
. VESA compatible video card with 1 Mb of memory.
SB or GUS or any other card with wires going to your audio system.
* This demo was designed to work best with 488DX2-66
* To get maximum memory available for the demo, run pure EMM386/QEMM
without Smartdrv, GMouse, etc, etc, etc (preferably QEMM).
* If you are a lucky owner of 486DX-33 and Sound Blaster, we strongly
recommend not to run the demo with sampling rate more than 22KHz.
* Some parts of our demo use high-resolution VESA modes, therefore if
your computer is known as a trouble-maker in this field, then run
UNIVBE or any program which installs VESA driver v1.2+.
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│ TESTINGS & PROBLEMS -
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| This demo was successfully tested on next machines:
|
: 486-DX · 4 MB RAM · Pro Audio · OAK Video card with 1MB
. 486-DX2 · 4 MB RAM · AW - 16 · Trident with 1MB
486-DX2 · 4 MB RAM · SB - 16 · Trident with 1MB
486-DX2 · 16 MB RAM · SB - 16 · Mach32 1MB
486-DX2 · 16 MB RAM · AW - 16 · Cirrus Logic with 2MB
486-DX4 · 8 MB RAM · SB - 8 · Trident with 1MB
Pentium · 8 MB RAM · SB - 16 · Diamond Stealth 2MB
* 90% of errors, which WERE found in primer stages of testings
occurred because of memory problems.
* DO NOT run this demo under Windows'95. We tried...(and failed:)
* The last time we ran the demo on SB-16, it didn't play some of
the instruments. If this happens, run the setup for SB-PRO.
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│ GENERAL INFO -
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| This demo was made especially for MOVEMENT'95 - the first
| Israeli demo competition (FINALLY!). We probable wouldn't make
: the demo otherwise. ...On second thought - WE as a group
. probably wouldn't exist either, and ain't it a terrifying
thought???
The music was made especially for the demo. Practically each
graphic effect got it's own music, that means, more than ten
different tunes. Way to go, musicians! (the musicians pat themselves
on the back)
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│ A LITTLE BIT OF OUR YOUNG, YET EXCITING (?) HISTORY -
│
| I (the name is Skyer, btw), met Adept about 2-3 years ago,
| as we were learning at the same (f...ing) school. Then began my
: career of programmer. About a year later I got a stupid (at the time)
. idea of making a 3D rotating box. So, as my pascal skill were far
from being great, I started to bug Adept to help me with this one...
And that is how it all began. So naturally, when I heard about
him joining the competition, I decided to join HIM. At a later stage
Bahc came along, as a blessing from sky (...well, kinda :). This is
what he had to add to the history...:
I had been trying to organize a demo team for months. I had
found artists, composers, and other people of artistic nature, but
(unfortunately) - I couldn't find any coders. Then, one day, a
miracle happened, I got a call from Nyc. Nyc said - "Hey Bahc, you
were trying to form a demo group, right? I found two coders who are
looking for artists and mod writers, know any?". And from there the
group Esteem (after much debate - we had around hundred other names)
came into existence. This demo was completed with much pain and
sweat at the last minute, we almost had to hang Paso (it was close..),
but, as you can see, it was worth it (not the part that we didn't
hang Paso - we still regret it :).
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│ THE MOVEMENT'95 -
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| Before :
|
: Well, I feel kinda like a blind man... None of us knows what
. to expect. When you are making a demo for ASM'99, you can think ahead
- "Yep, there's going to be FC, Triton, Cascada, - piece of cake!
10th place guaranteed!". Here you say - "Okay, we are going to
compete against.... hmmm.... Oh, right, i got it! Another five
groups! No problem, I know exactly what they are going to present!".
But we don't. There is no information about any other group that is
going to compete (besides their name, if you'r lucky). We don't have
the slightest idea what chances we have (as little as they might
be :) to win the compo.
05:12am party morning. We're in deep shit.
After :
This part was written about a week after Movement. WE WON! :)
Wanna hear about it...? Okay, here goes.
How we (Adept and me) got to the party, is a bizarre
story. Here is a brief version of it : GOD DAMN BUS DRIVERS! We were
wandering around town for a couple of hours before we got there! The
description of the place was lousy. But let's skip to the part when
we were already there. Oh, wait! Just wanted to add that I recognized
the place (for sure) when i saw the bald shiny head of DNA, talking
to some folks outside :).
The moment I walked in I understood that we were definitely not
the only ones who had not finished their production. Next thing I
know, I'm being dragged somewhere by a short kid I didn't recognize
shouting, "Where the Hell Have you BeeN!?". The kid was Bahc, it was
the first time we saw him. He dragged us into a room and pointed to
a computer. With a crazed look in his eyes he said,
"FiNiSh dEmo NOW!". The demo was due in 6 hours, and it DID get
finished (well, after 5 hours and 59 minutes:)
Chapter 198. MOVEMENT'95.
The only thing I regret is that I didn't enjoyed it since I was
always on running around trying to get our demo together. Paso was
late by a few hours... Bahc suddenly started to show a great interest
in organizing (HeY! I was VERY organized! You just didn't appreciate
my type of organization...:) The projector refused to show a decent
view in high resolution... The music around was so loud that i had
to use the loudspeakers as a headphones to hear something... Adept,
a few hours before the competition, got an idea to add some effect
to the demo, and was so anxious to implement it we had to drag him
away from the computer... Ed with a progressively scarier
face was asking when the hell can he use the computer to draw his
picture for GFX compo... I hadn't slept for about 40 hours (like many
others)... Civax was running around shouting some (probably
interesting) stuff... Bahc was running around calling companies and
other than that, everything was nice and relaxed :)
Five minutes before the competition the demo was copied to
diskettes (Paso's feelings were hardly pride when he heard we used
his disks and they weren't coming back)...
I was far from being sure that everything would run properly
and I didn't find out until we ran the demo. Then the wait began...
Until the last second I didn't know if we won, but we did :)
Now seriously (like it was funny before). The organization was
quite good. The competition was tougher than I thought. DNA was bald.
Civax looked much cooler than on the picture. The place was not
exactly as I imagined (go figure :). DNA was bald.
The competitions were interesting. Especially when they showed
some intros from Assembly'95, and you were sure that it was made by
one of your competitors. I almost had a heart attack when they showed
one intro by Camorra. But what was really strange was a demo by some
israeli group (the name slipped my mind). It seemed like they didn't
use virtual screen, cuz everything was flicking, nevertheless, they
were using impressive 3d graphics, and had a nice virtual reality.
About the other demos - well, watching them was like a series of bad
news and good news. The bad news - everybody had an israeli flag,
the good new was that we had the best one. The good news was that ULC
got an "Run-time error ...", the bad news that it was a joke (good
one :). The bad news - other demos were good, the best news - WE WON!
Anyway, part of our music was written there, and we also found
some bugs we had to fix, that is why we were the last one to hand in
the demo. I think I heard the final version of all the music at the
competition itself, and I wasn't disappointed :).
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│ THE VOTING RESULTS -
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| # NAME / GROUP VOTES
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: 1. EUPHORIA / ESTEEM 77 <─────────────┐
. 2. Creation / ULC 57
3. Star Rich / FALCOR 53 See this?
4. FlashBack / CENTARI 9 This is US!
5. CLIMAX / Y.O.E 5
6. Pitango / 4 <─┐ Nothing personal,
7. UnUsual / 1 ├─ guys - just couldn't
8. VR-Travel / 1 <─┘ find the groups names
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│ TECHNICAL INFO -
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| This demo was made in Turbo Pascal 7.0, with a massive use of
| built-in assembler. The total length of the source is approximately
: 20,000 lines.
. The music was written in ST3, of course. Some art was done
in 3D-studio, and some in... some other programs (why ta do i always
get to write about stuff i don't have the slightest idea about :).
(Bahc says, the shadow demon thingy was made by Insane Tilt in
Animator and alot of stuff used Adobe Photoshop)
The music in our demo was played by BWSB sound system made by
Edward Schlunder. Thanks, man! You saved us a lot of work! (It's the
last time we use it - it's screwed up a lot, too :)
Okay, now a little bit more personal... This demo, as told
earlier, is our first demo. Since we couldn't just pick up the phone,
call Future Crew, and ask them like - "Say, how da-hell did you do
that?" or "Come on guys!! What's keeping you so long? You've promised
to send me those sources!", - we had to do everything the hard way.
And believe me, making a demo with a couple of guys, when the only
connection between you is a couple of hundred telephone calls -
is not the easiest task. Although I know most groups work this way,
it is a questionable consolation...
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│ SOME ART CREDITS -
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| Sound setup - Adept
| Intro font - Mr.Ed
: Intro background - Made by program, made by Skyer :)
. ESTEEM/PRESENT objects - Adept
EUPHORIA logo - Skyer
Euphoria background - Insane Tilt
CITY picture - Mr.Ed
GHOST picture - Insane Tilt
ESTEEM background - Mr.Ed
AIRCRAFT object - Adept
SUN background - Mr.Ed
Credits font - Skyer
This text - Skyer and Bahc
(It's art, aint' it?)
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│ NOW THE MUSIC -
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| Intro - Bahc
| Esteem/Present - Paso
: Euphoria till space - Paso
. Space & Tunnel - Bahc
From then till Landscape - Bahc
Landscape - Paso
Credits - Paso
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│ SUPPORT SITES
│
| HiFi BBS +972-7-370737 Israel/Eilat
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: Cloustrophobia +972-7-355254 Israel/Eilat
. * The BBS isn't open yet, so just hold your breath for couple of weeks
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Our production may also be found somewhere at www.cdrom.com/pub/...
and at ftp.cdrom.com (again, give us a few days :)
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│ CONTACTS
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| Both coders can be reached at our support sites.
|
: Skyer -
. EMail olgabel@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Mail Israel, Eilat 88122, P.O.B. 2325
* Any mail to Adept can be send to me (Yes! He knows!)
Bahc -
EMail honcho@netvision.net.il
Mail Chris Oltyan
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Please! Contact us only if you have anything to say! Anything at all!
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│ CONCLUSION
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| Well, how's the demo? Nice ha? Can't here you! What? Never
| mind, just send it by EMail or something!
:
. That's it, end of book. Hope you enjoyed reading - I certainly
enjoyed writing it!
...signed, Skyer and Bahc...
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