Sesquipedalophobia by Plastic Surgery
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│ SESQUIPEDALOPHOBIA │
│ Plastic Surgery's first musicdisk │
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│ 1. Alien eye ................................ 5:04 │ alieneye.xm │ 447k │ │
│ 2. Sesquipedalophobia ....................... 5:18 │ sesquip.xm │ 370k │ │
│ 3. Dodix ................................... 3:40 │ dodix.xm │ 553k │ │
│ 4. Rip it & Mix it ! ........................ 4:28 │ rip&mix.xm │ 760k │ │
│ 5. Chaos in a box ........................... 5:20 │ chaosbx2.xm │ 500k │ │
│ 6. WeirdO ................................... 4:39 │ weirdo.xm │ 392k │ │
│ 7. Ph 5.5 ................................... 4:37 │ ph55.xm │ 360k │ │
│ 8. Psycho thoughts .......................... 3:36 │ pt.xm │ 383k │ │
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1997, Plastic Surgery
(aka Maple Leaf and BullHead)
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│ Contents │
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0. Disclaimer
1. History
2. Short description
3. PSMDP (description, help, usage)
4. Others
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│ 0.DISCLAIMER │
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This musicdisk is freeware. This means that you may spread it for
as long as you want with the only restriction that you may not
perceive money from its use anywhere. You may neither sell this
package itself nor any tape, CD or any other audio and video media
on which parts of this package are recorded. The musicdisk is for
your enjoyment only, and any tentative of selling parts of it in
any form, without a prior written permission from us, is forbidden,
and therefore, shall be considered an act of lameness. DO NOT try
to modify or to spread modified copies of this package! Only the
original copies (as found on ftp sites) are "valid", and by modifying
this package you become a serious candidate to the title of "LAMER
OF THE YEAR". I've written this because unfortunately there still
are a lot of "smart" people who think that, by changing the instruments
names and titles, they can pretend a certain song was written by
them... I personally know a lot of people like these...
If you have a serious reason to consider that selling this package
would be profitable for both us and you, contact us and we'll negociate.
See 'Others' chapter for several ways of contacting Plastic Surgery.
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│ 1.HISTORY │
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In 1996, Maple Leaf wrote the first song in the musicdisk, "Psycho
Thoughts", mainly to experiment with the FastTracker 2.04 and get
used to its features. The song had been written before in another
form using Scream Tracker 3.21, but due to ST3 limitations, ML
switched to FT2 and rewrote the module again, giving it a "weird
broken beat" shape. This module was not intended to be part of any
musicdisk, but since BullHead liked it and considered it "funny",
ML and BH decided that a musicdisk should be started at that moment,
and should contain all their work. Next, the first song "officially
written for the disk" was "Chaos in a Box", written by ML during
two days. The original intro (which does not appear in this short
version anyway) was composed by ML while he was drunk like shit, and
it had about 1:20 minutes, being intended to resemble a strange music
box. But because we, romanians, have a quote: "ce-i prea mult nu-i
sanatos" (something like: "too much is not healthy") that intro part
was removed, being too long. So, you may listen now to the short
version. At the beginning of 1997, BullHead remixed a module by
Maelcum and because we liked how it sounded, we decided it to be the
third song of the musicdisk. He called it "Rip it & Mix it!". Next
came "Alien Eye" by Maple Leaf, with a style very close to that of
"Chaos in a Box", a "chill out" of about 5 minutes, very repetitive
and very trancy. Then BullHead came with another remix of a song by
Labworks; he called it "Weirdo", cause it's very weird indeed, and
recently added some noisy acid basses to it. Funkeee... Somewhere
in February 1997, Maple Leaf wrote another song called "pH 5.5",
originally intended to be an acid tune (to match with the title:))
but he failed to make it an acid, so he combined some new-age,acid
and hiphop stylee and here you have the result! We recorded our
songs onto a demo tape and gave it to some of our fellows. They
said they liked them (?) but "they are a bit too monotone", so
we were finnaly able to define our style: "monotone ambiental and
acid trance". It was the time for finding a title for our musicdisk
and then BullHead came with the idea: "Sesquipedalophobia", word
which appears as "uncommon" in english dictionary and which means
"fear of the long words". Great idea, after all, so we decided it
is nice as an album's title. ML, composed then the song having the
same title with the album, and because he wanted to show the "feeling
of an extremely long word", he did his best to get the listener
angry and unpatient while listen to it :)... Then ML & BH took a
trip to Timisoara to meet the guys in Frozen East Records whose new
member (coder) ML is, and they meet a very strange person called
"Dodix" who determined ML to write the last song of the musicdisk
(called, of course, "Dodix" :)...). Maple Leaf then, spent a few
days to make the dedicated player, "PSMDP" (Plastic Surgery
MusicDisk Player), in Watcom C++ 10.0 using a lot of assembler
(cause we're talking about Maple Leaf, hehe...), and a lot of
Object Oriented programming (classes and all that shitty stuff).
And this was the final stage of "Sesquipedalophobia". All the
stoopid comments here and in PS_001.NFO have been written by Maple
Leaf and BullHead, the ASCII was made by BullHead, all the GFX by
ML, all code by ML, too, and that's all...
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│ 2.SHORT DESCRIPTION │
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"Sesquipedalophobia" has been written during 5 months, in short
moments in which the authors were drunk or bored by this fuckin
life. We often searched for something new and strange, and we
found too little to meet our requirements. And since we were not
successful in this "searching" action, we decided it's time to
fill the gap with something completely new. New rythmes, new
acid stylee, new techno orientation. We are not slaves of the
"commercial" music. That music is nice, but boring. And it's
"overused" anywhere in this shitty world. Try something new.
Try "Sesquipedalophobia".
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│ 3.PSMDP │
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PSMDP.EXE is the dedicated player for this musicdisk. You probably
have already seen it (cause everybody uses to run the EXE first...)
so I won't go into description details, I'll only try to "do my job
of a good citizen" and to explain what you saw...
PSMDP is a dedicated interactive player written in Watcom C++ 10.0
using OO programming and a lot of asm sequences. The soundsystem
used is MIDAS 0.6.1, mainly because I think it is the best XM player
available (except FT2, of course). It has a small problem, though,
it does not play the CHAOSBX2.XM's bells okay on SB/SBPro, but
ignore that shit anyway, cause I haven't found ANY player (except
FT2) able to reproduce correctly those bells on SBPro, so it is
a good soundsystem, after all... Enough with programming details,
it's time for some help now.
During the playback you may use the following "hotkeys":
<Up>, <Down> Scroll through musicdisk's songs
<CR>, <Space> Select song
"+", "=", "]" Volume up
"-", "_", "[" Volume down
"<", ",", <Left> REWIND
">", ".", <Right> FFWD
<ESC> Exit
Now that you know the hotkeys, one thing is left and I finally can
end this crappy info file... "Technical assistance":
1. "PSMDP doesn't detect my soundcard"
Try editing CFG file and setting "@setup:1". This will enable
setup-mode, and you'll have the chance to set the sc params
correctly, by yourself. If the problem persists, try contacting
MIDAS's authors, Petteri Kangaslampi and Jarno Paananen.
2. "PSMDP doesn't detect my video card"
a. DO YOU have a SVGA?
b. Try setting the card's ID manually (edit CFG file and set
"@svga:xx", where xx is card ID, see CFG file for details)
3. "PSMDP does not work okay with one of those video cards listed
in CFG file"
That's it, there's nothing you can do about it. I don't have
all those svga cards, so I couldn't test my routines on them...
4. "PSMDP detects wrong VESA parameters"
Shit... send me the complete description of your VESA card (as
it is in the reality) and the parameters detected by PSMDP.
5. "PSMDP does not work under Novell DOS 7 when EMM386 installed"
That's right, this is MIDAS's fault... try contacting the
authors (see above)
6. "When exiting PSMDP my computer gets crazy"
Hehe... that's possible in some circumstances; especially when
running PSMDP after a FastTracker 2 round, right before exiting,
the computer will hang and your SB will start screaming...
Get used to it :) ... It's not a PSMDP bug, but rather a VESA-BIOS
bug. Here is a short explanation for the experienced programmers:
The main bug is in function 4F01h of INT 10h, which
should get some vesa mode information in a buffer
pointed by ES:BX. It does not matter whether this call
is performed in real or protected mode, with a smaller
or a bigger buffer, cause everytime it is called it uses
to fuck up something (don't ask me what), so that
ALL later INT 10h calls fail and freeze the computer...
This seems not to be a general rule, because BullHead's
VESA BIOS works okay, but mine doesn't - it always leads
to a crash after running Fasttracker 2... And some problems
with S3 VESA SVGA cards have been already reported, so...
7. "PSMDP works slowly like my ass"
That's perfectly normal on a 386 or even a slower 486... And if
you don't have a fast svga you'll blow your brains in front of the
display...
8. "CHAOSBX2.XM sounds good on GUS/GUS PnP, but like hell on SB"
MIDAS's fault.
9. "I encounter MIDAS error 23 (file does not exist) right at launching"
Be sure that ALL modules are in the same directory with PSMDP.CFG!
10. "PSMDP doesn't detect my Tseng/ET3000/ET4000/Video7 video card"
Yep. I disabled the low-level detection for these cards/chips
because IT INTERFERES WITH MINE! (Cirrus Logic GD5436) :-(...
11. "PSMDP does not start if I use some DOS4GW.EXE"
PSMDP _NEEDS_ Watcom C 10.0's DOS extender! As I've tested,
PSMDP _DOES NOT_ work with any other version of DOS4G! Use the
executable which is included in the original package (_that_
executable works!)
12. "PSMDP still tries to detect VESA if I set @svga:7 !"
That's correct, because the program NEEDS some VESA
information which can be obtained only by "auto-detecting",
like, for instance the so called "window granularity".
for other problems try to contact me (Maple Leaf), see below.
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│ 4.OTHERS │
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Here's the place where I should add the auxiliary info, but since
I (Maple Leaf) am a lazy person, and this text sucks anyway, I'll
drop the f****n idea and get directly to the most important shit
here.
You may contact us in several ways: by email (which is, of course,
preferred), by snail-mail (a letter takes about 10 days to arrive
here from United States, for example), by phone (not recommened
unless you live in România), and by chatting on IRC (but since
we live in România, this is almost suicide for us (0.05 kb/sec is
a good transfer rate...)). Here they are:
e-mail (preferred)
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Plastic Surgery: plastic.surgery@usa.net
(or individual)
BullHead: bull.head@usa.net
Maple Leaf: maple.leaf@usa.net
snail-mail (slow like shit)
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Maple Leaf:
str. Lunii, nr. 22, ap. 4, Cluj Napoca 3400, România
BullHead:
str. Agricultorilor, nr. 3, ap. 26, Cluj Napoca 3400, România
phone (I repeat, only for romanians & voice only)
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Gruian Radu Bogdan aka Maple Leaf:
064 124260 (within România), ask for "BOGDAN"
Dusa (spelled "dusha") Adrian aka BullHead:
064 173657 (within România), ask for "ADI"
IRC (only sometimes)
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irc://vancouver.bc.ca.undernet.org
nicks: <MapleLeaf>, <BullHead>
channels #romania, #timisoara, #fer
And I feel this is all for today, since my fingers are already in
pain because of so much written blah-blah. And one more thing:
if you like the musicdisk (or AT LEAST a small-small-small part of
it), please SEND SOME FEEDBACK! And maybe we'll find the time to
answer some of your emails... :-)
Thanx for reading this shit.
Plastic Surgery
1997
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