Rope by Abstract Concepts
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├─- What is Rope -────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Rope is a fliptro. Fliptro means, it has something to do with flippos. │
│ Actually, this is even my contribution to the annual FlipFeest '95 party │
│ held in Utrecht. │
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├─- What's a flippo -─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ A few months ago, some jerk at a potatochip factory decided to do something │
│ commercial. He stuffed every bag of potatochips with stupid plastic coins │
│ and devices an even dumber game around those coins. The coins are called │
│ Flippos and you can collect them all if you are hungry enough. Rumour has │
│ that in one bag, there is a golden Flippo. This golden flippo is sort of a │
│ jackpot flippo. When you found one, go to your local convenience store and │
│ cash your prize! │
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├─- It doesn't run on my computer -───────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ I don't care (and to be honest, you don't care either). │
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├─- Doesn't Rope sound like uhm... -──────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ NO, IT DOESN'T :) │
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├─- Technical info -──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Ok, now, here goes. Rope was made using SD Game Controller version 1.01b. │
│ The system was designed for simple games, but in the hurry I used it to │
│ make this. Some specs of the system: │
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│ * Gravis Ultrasound 2Mb tweaked sample mode usage for 88.2KHz stereo │
│ 32-bits samples │
│ * utilizes RISC instructions on P6 with special RISC Mode DOS extender │
│ * multipage truecolor graphics driver, works on every SVGA ! │
│ * realtime rendering and larusse algebra routines │
│ * hardware timing with VRTRQ handler │
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│ The graphics are made with Peter Norton's Norton Utilities 5.0. I used the │
│ selective unerase function to compose the titlescreen. │
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├─- Messages to people -──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Aap / Acme: Imphobia ?? │
│ TheREW / Nostalgia: Dit kun je allemaal met die tracker van mij │
│ Jugi / Complex: Hi, how are you O:-] │
│ Der Piipo / Orange: Nice IRCing to you, hope to see you at ASM'95 │
│ Shako / TMT: Er komt natuurlijk ook een flipfeest '96 :) │
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├─- Final message -───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Ok, maybe Rope does sound a little like, uhm... │
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│ │ │ coding is │
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││ do you want to know more? │ │ yourself │
││ read ACINFO05.TXT │ ╚┬─┬─────────╝
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