Stardream by Surprise!Productions [web]
Surprise! productions
presents:
S∙T∙A∙R∙D∙R∙E∙A∙M
- a dentro for our next demo -
System requirements: a 80286 12Mhz (or better), a
VGA with about 2000 chr/ms (tested with SPEEDCOM)
and an AdLib compatible Soundcard (optional).
(Although it even ran smooth on a 386SX-16 with an
725 chrs/ms OAK VGA (juck!)...)
The following files should be in the archive:
Intro.EXE............The intro itself
Intro.NFO...................This file
File_ID.DIZ..........File description
Well. There it is. This is Rick Dangerous typing in
some words of explanation for our latest product.
It is a little intro for the intro-competition held
at Assembly '93.
The only purpose of this thing is to tell you,
first of all, that we are still alive down here in
Austria, and, secondly, that we're planning a major
attack on the demo scene.
This attack will be in form of our next demo, which
will be called: 'The good, the bad & the ugly'.
This demo should be released somewhere around
autumn or winter 1993.
The demo will be done by the infernal trio:
Rick Dangerous
Peci (our new coder)
Antibyte (a member of Scoopex / Amiga)
We're planning to add a whole new dimension to demo
coding. We've achieved some very astonishing
effects by some totally unknown capabilities of the
VGA. These functions will be a major boost for the
whole demoscene. For example: using our little
tricks, even such glorious demos as:
Crystal Dream I & II, Unreal or Panic
would run (at least quite a bit) smoother and nicer
even on slower machines. Of course we in S!P are
willing to share our knowledge with all the other
PC-coders, but we'll reveal all those tricks only
after th release of the demo ;-)
Anyway, now I've told you enough about what we will
do, let's get to what we have allready done:
Here are the complete and (very) detailed credits
for 'Stardream': (in order of appearance)
Musicsystem......................JCH / Vibrants
Soundtrack....................Laxity / Vibrants
Coding, design...................Rick Dangerous
'Surprise! presents'-font......Rookie / Upfront
Stardream title picture.................Maestro
Small 8x8 font..................The System Font
Features-font................Deluxe Paint II PC
Round picture...........................Maestro
Big S!P logo............Vectorfont / Pagestream
Sinusscroller font........Red Sector Demo maker
other poor graphics..............Rick Dangerous
Well. To say it loud and clear: I do know, that
this dentro isn't anything to wipe you off your
feet, but I simply wanted to have something for
Assembly so I hammered this intro together.
I only used OLD routines I had developed years ago
but never published.
This shows for example in the fact, that most of
this stuff runs in 16 colors, which means it's been
developed in my EGA-days (grin)....
But still I think that 'Stardream' is worth wat-
ching, simply because of the beautifull soundtrack
and the pleasent design.
We in Surprise! productions are glad to welcome our
latest member:
- Ruin -
He's our first (and for the moment only) member
from Finnland.
If you want to contact me for any reason then write
to the following adress:
Erik Pojar
Siegfriedgasse 55
1210 Wien
Austria, Europe Phone: +43 1 2154457
DON'T write 'Rick Dangerous' on the envelope.
We're always looking for new members, especially
from Germany and Austria! So don't hesitate to con-
tact me today! Simply include a sample of your work,
either gfx, sound, or coding!
In German: Also Jungs! Ich weiß, daß wir all diesen
Skandinaviern zeigen können, wo der Hammer hängt!
Warum tun's wir nicht mit vereinten Kräften?
Some words concerning letters: I simply love to get
letters, so don't hesitate writing to me. In fact I
got quite a few letters after the release of Copper
and I really liked that. I'm sad to say that I
couldn't answer all of them. That's not because I'm
some sort of arrogant asshole, it's simply because
I ran out of time.
So I'd like to thank all guys who have sent me a
letter but never got a reply:
THANK YOU! (don't be mad at me.)
One last thing. Please don't send me any letters
which go more or less like this:
"I've seen xxxxxx by you. It's very nice. But I
don't know how to do this or that.
Please send me your VGA reference, or simply
teach me how to code.........."
If you or your company is in need of a commercial
demo/intro/game/anything else, don't hesitate to
contact me, and I'll give you a fair deal.
That's about all I wanted to say, the only thing
that's left is to send some personal greets:
(no order)
Jens Christian Huus / Vibrants
Xerox
Red Scorpion
Firefly
White Shadow / REN
Rich Geldreich (Zeek / REN)
Arjan Brusee
Luke
Spike
Burning Chrome
J.O.E.
GORE / FC
Green Jester
Moleql / Extreme
Charp / Skull
Darkness / Imphobia
Red Devil / Syntagma
Captain Bit
Signed, Rick Dangerous
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