The First Five by Fiction
[FiC-TFF.NFO] [Feb 16, Mar 3 1995]
Welcome to the very first production of fiction!
You may read about the following topics in this file
ABOUT ∙THE FiRST FiVE∙
ABOUT THE iNTEGRiTY OF TFF.EXE
HARDWARE REQUiREMENTS
COMMAND LiNE AND KEY SUMMARY
CREDiTS FOR ∙THE FiRST FiVE∙
++ APOLOGY ++
ABOUT FiCTiON MEMBERS
HOW TO CONTACT US
GREETiNGS SECTiON
SPECiAL OFFER FOR CODERS
ABOUT ∙THE FiRST FiVE∙
The first five is freeware. It can be freely distributed as long as it
is not modified in any way. No money can be charged for it. (Please
distribute it to every computer-user you know.) However we can not be
held liable for any kind of trouble or damage caused by executing or
messing around with this piece of software.
ABOUT THE iNTEGRiTY OF TFF.EXE
If you are not sure about the integrity of tff.exe then enter
"tff -integrity" to check it. If it is not ok, try to get a valid file
and delete this package.
HARDWARE REQUiREMENTS
The first five requires an 80286 or later processor and a standard
VGA card to run. It also requires 448k of free memory and a Gravis
Ultrasound sound card (with 512k dram). You may think we are so lame
because we release a musicdisk with only gus support. (We didn't
include support for SoundBlaster and compatibles because everybody
hasn't got a gus yet.) We declare now that we will not support the
SoundBlaster cards. (We are very sorry if you are an unfortunate owner
of an sb card.)
Note: running ultrinit.exe before tff.exe is always welcomed but not
necessary. This operation will minimize the number of init clicks; our
init routine is not fine, but works.
COMMAND LiNE AND KEY SUMMARY
You can get detailed information on command line options by typing
"tff -help". I think it doesn't require more explanation.
The control of the interface is quite evident. Two things: (1) you may
control the global volume with + - keys and (2) you may press the s key
to display the sound settings at any time.
CREDiTS FOR ∙THE FiRST FiVE∙
music .......................... Minstrel
code ................................ Tim
s3m player .......................... Tim
font design/gfx ................ Minstrel
font design/gfx ..................... Tim
font design/gfx ...... Corel Systems Corp
directed by ......................... Tim
++ APOLOGY ++
If you own a gus you have probably noticed those playing errors in the
interface. (eg the volume of the chords are slided down etc.) The cause
is that I erased the part in the source accidentally, which disabled all
the running effect when it is necessary. Finally it is fixed. (It took
us two weeks to notice this unpleasant bug - and about two minutes to
correct.) We are really sorry for this ugly bug. Otherwise you may
freely distribute this bugfixed version as well.
ABOUT FiCTiON MEMBERS
Tim .......... Bánka Tamás ....... code ............... 1977
CSA .......... Pankaczy Csaba .... code ............... 1975
Minstrel ..... Kovács András ..... music .............. 1976
[no more! see special offer section for details]
HOW TO CONTACT US
You don't have many choices if you want to contact us. (We haven't got
an e-mail address nor BBS yet). Our mail addresses are
Tim/Fiction Minstrel/Fiction
Bánka Tamás Kovács András
Eger, 3300, Szölö 12. Eger, 3300, Csiky S. 9.
Hungary Hungary
+36-36324244 +36-36318671
GREETiNGS SECTiON
< Tim greets / in random order >
∙∙ Rebecca ∙∙ Redax ∙∙ BigP ∙∙ Doodle ∙∙ Ollie ∙∙ Adamo ∙∙ Red ∙∙
∙∙ Butthead/Immortals ∙∙ Viper/Red Squadron ∙∙ Szeredi Zsolt ∙∙
∙∙ Király Sándor ∙∙ Hutás Imre ∙∙
< Minstrel greets / in random order >
∙∙ Sheer ∙∙ Son ∙∙ Redax ∙∙ Trajic ∙ Morgan ∙∙ Taylor ∙∙ Petty ∙∙
∙∙ TGC ∙∙ Fuji ∙∙ Morc ∙∙ Red ∙∙ Gigászok ∙∙ Busi Lajos ∙∙ Tom ∙∙
< Minstrel used samples by / in random order >
∙∙ Skaven/Future Crew ∙∙ Mr Man/Andromeda ∙∙ Outzider/Darkzone ∙∙
∙∙ Purple Motion/Future Crew ∙∙ Mr Root/Union ∙∙ Whalebone/EMF ∙∙
SPECiAL OFFER FOR CODERS
We are looking for talented coders, who would like to join fiction.
You have to be experienced with 386+ assembly, vga and hardware
programming. If you are interested in the scene and demo programming
contact Tim immediately! (Voice +36-36324244)
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