Immortality by Solar [web]
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·∙■──Info-file for our megademo 'Immortality'.────────────────────────────■∙·
1. About this demo
2. System requirements
3. Known bugs and hints
4. Contact information
5. Disclaimer
·∙■──1. About this demo───────────────────────────────────────────────────■∙·
This demo has been released on the Takeover '98 by
The Solar Group, a demogroup from The Netherlands.
It is our first demo ever! It is a demo in the old-school
style, meaning it has a lot of 2D effects and NO 3D!
You'll probably ask: 'Why no 3D?'. Well, first, our
current 3D code isn't outright stable and fast and besides,
we had a lot of 2D code waiting to be used!
This demo does not have higher color modes, no higher
resolution modes (except for the still images) and doesn't
use VESA VBE 2.0 modes, so you won't need UNIVBE to run it!
The demo has been coded using Borland Pascal 7.0 and runs
in protected mode. The source code is about 7000 lines long,
and compiling results in an EXE file of about 107k.
The resource file (where all the music, images, etc. are
stored) is approx. 2,2 MB. The zip file is 1,5 MB.
·∙■──2. System requirements───────────────────────────────────────────────■∙·
■ A 486 DX2/66 at the least, big Pentium recommended
■ Memory at least 8 Mb, could be more
■ Videocard (ega is not recommended)
■ Soundcard, plus amplifier at 100%, preferably a big set
of speakers, potent enough to consume a complete city
■ Dos
■ Lots of guts and suicidal madness
For this demo you need at least a 486 DX2/66. Not all
parts will run at high speed then though.
Our best bet is a Pentium MMX running at 166 Mhz. Everything
above that will be maybe too fast :).
Our demo works fine on most Soundblaster-compatible cards,
yet with some cards you need to fiddle with the configuration
a bit (see below for more info). We don't know if the demo
will work with a GUS, but the MIDAS docs say so, so it
probably does. If it doesn't, we'll try to fix it, but that
will be difficult since we got no GUS anywhere near.
·∙■──3. Known bugs and hints──────────────────────────────────────────────■∙·
There are a few known bugs in this demo:
1. Users of PAS soundcards need to configure their
sound manually, for the detection routine will
probably not work.
2. Users of clone SoundBlaster (PRO) cards probably
need to set their soundtype to 'SoundBlaster v1.0'.
If you let the demo autodetect your card or you
set it manually to 'SoundBlaster Pro', it could be
that the demo stops with an error message. This
happened with a lot of clone cards when testing.
Users of SB16/AWE32 clones will probably not have
this problem.
3. On some computers (possibly only Pentiums), the
screen-refreshing-rate-detection will fail. Your
machine will hang. To avoid this, use the '-T'
switch to bypass this detection and to use
a default value. This value is valid for most
videocards.
4. If you (for any weird reason) have your BLASTER
environment variable set without having a soundcard
in your computer, the demo will stop with a
'Sound Device hardware failure' message. Unset the BLASTER
variable and start again. (this was the case when
testing the demo on a network, where a global login script
set the BLASTER variable, while not all computers where
the demo was tested were equipped with a soundcard.)
Hint One: This demo may run under Windows '95, but it hasn't
been tested as such. For maximum performance (yech,
I sound like a game box) use DOS-only mode.
Hint Two: This demo isn't entirely clean with it's memory
usage. We suggest a nice reboot after you run
this demo. Especially PM programs may get fucked up.
If you find any bugs not noted here, please mail
them to aeternus@dds.nl, so we can (try to) fix it.
·∙■──4. Contact information───────────────────────────────────────────────■∙·
If you wish to contact The Solar Group or a member,
use the following methods:
E-Mail:
The Solar Group: aeternus@dds.nl (bug reports too)
Druid: aeternus@dds.nl
Alchemist: fox@digicron.com
King-Chin: chin@dds.nl
IRC:
channel #nlcoders, sometimes #coders
Snail-Mail:
The Solar Group
Louis Saalbornlaan 63
3584 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands
·∙■──5. Disclaimer────────────────────────────────────────────────────────■∙·
This software is provided "AS IS".
The Solar Group cannot be held responsible for any damage
or harm done to hardware, software or other components.
You are using this software entirely at your own risk.
Make sure you understand what you are doing, as we are
not going to give you the complete DOS manual or such!
This software is entirely freeware. This means you cannot
be charged or charge for usage of this software.
You can spread/distribute this software by any method,
as long as the charge for that method does not exceed normal
fees for transportation or storage.
If you include/spread/distribute this software you must
credit us by the proper means.
If you wish to disassemble this demo and use the source,
please go forth and do so, but make sure you include
proper credits and greetings in your program(s).
--------■ Info file created by Druid. (C) 1998. ··
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