Smoke and Mirrors by Sensorium
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Table of Contents
#1) Sensorium Memberlist
#2) History of Sensorium
#3) Releases So Far
#4) What's next?
#5) Contact Information
#6) Utility List
#7) Greetings
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Memberlist
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So who are the members :
Mordred - most of the GFX code & GFX, PR, most design. 13 year old. Coca-Cola
addict. Loves doing GFX code, also writes database programs, poetry, and is
a debator, actor, DND player and romantic.
Quotes : "How the hell can a hole in your sock be considered sexy?"
"CODE!"
"Have you ever tried porting this code to a MAC?"
"You screwed up my life by getting me hooked on demos!"
"He just told me to use Apple Quickdraw!"
Pyro - some code, fonts, and 3D objects. 14 year old golf freak. Why on earth
he plays GOLF of all sports, we'll never figure out. Probably'll grow up to
be a doctor ;)
-- I don't golf in winter. I play basketball and WH40K. Bastards! I play
indoor soccer. I piss people off. -- Mordred's note: Yes, I know. Alot.
-- I argue, too. Incessantly. --
Quotes : "I am THE happy little munchkin!"
"Busy."
"I say we rip the music from this game!"
Meat - Musician. Joined us a while ago. He's still a member of Zerius, mind
you, but Vindicator (see below) was being a lazy B****** and we needed music
so..
Quotes : "I've got homework."
"Have you released it yet?"
Vindicator - Musician. Unknown age. All we know is that his music has been
declared illegal at the Geneva convention, and that he's selling it to black
market groups for use in warring countries for its demoralizing effect..
Quotes : "Asshole!"
"That sucks."
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About this particular file that you're looking at :
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Smoke and Mirrors. Our best production yet. Wow, huh? Should have been done
in september, but I got lazy...
The end text screen should READ :
The members of our team : Mordred - Code, GFX, Design
Pyro - Code, GFX, Design
Meat - Music
Vindicator - Music
The demo is actually copyright (C) 1997 Nicholas Vining, Nick Alexander and
Edward Chapin. This copyright takes priority over the one in the end screen.
Credit list :
Mordred - All effects except for double plasma and crossfader, main gfx
core code, all robot pictures, welcome to a new demo by sensorium screen,
anything else i've missed!
Pyro - double plasma, crossfading text, startup screen, font, also did
lots of odd work with main gfx core code and other little parts.
Meat - main music, design tips, criticism
Vindicator - criticism and loads of it!
Ideas credit (in no order) :
Crossfader - Pyro
Smoke & Mirrors logo - Mordred
Smoke & Mirrors clear - Mordred
Distorter - Mordred
Kaleidoscope plasma - Cobra / Savage
Tunnel - Mordred
Torus & Sphere - Hopefully the inventor of the torus has been shot!
Double Plasma - Pyro
Fog Vectors (dat's what I called 'em!) - Mordred
Lissajou robots - Sam/TFL-TDV (only he used Doom Sprites)
Glenzing Plasma - ARM / Iguana
End robots - Mordred (Idea for cocktails came from Pyro)
Anything not mentioned - Mordred
Mordred's lab notes : Re. Demo #131431, there seems to be a problem
with "Missing Channels" on a friend of mine's GUS. I suspect it may just be
due to his wierd stereo configuration, but if you get the same problems you
have two options :
#1 - somehow tweak your GUS into a "mono" mode.
#2 - if you're using a GUS ACE, well then, use whatever it's plugged
into.
#3 - try SBOS and set it to Sound Blaster 1.X.
#4 - write us a sound engine! :) The sound problems are with BWSB,
and not with our code (still OTM, great sound engine though... I don't know
what we would have done without it..) We WILL write a sound engine one of
these years :), so who knows! Watch for a bugfix...
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And now for a history lesson :
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Sensorium (the FIRST Sensorium) started way back in 1995. The initial members
were Mordred, IRQ, Midnight, Chronos, Mr.Wonka and Vindicator. This group
did nothing, though it came VERY close.. so when it disbanded, I joined a
different group (along with Vindicator) named thaILanD inC (yes, bad caps in
the name) This group consisted of hanZo, Titan, X-Tseng, Vindicator, Pyro,
Cobra, and myself. X-Tseng released a slow palette rotating intro (wow! A
slow palette rotater), I released a few things (FOG!.ZIP, Rotate.ZIP). Pyro
released a mini "Crap" demo (The rest of Sensorium is NOT affiliated with this
little production.. ok, I helped with the fire, but that's it!!),Cobra
released a fire and a very nice pixeltunnelthingi (which everybody thought
was ripped, and it was) and then the inevitable split-up.. until one night,
when I was talking to Vindicator and Mr. Wonka, I was informed that the group
had been resurrected! Me and Vindicator.. hmm.
Pyro started contributing in various ways (fonts, 3D objects) but then had to
go to England. When he was gone, I started collecting code and threw together
Inter Stellar Phenomenon. I'm quite proud of it, and it goes to prove that the
island can actually bloody well release something! (Pyro's comments : Well..
maybe.. if you're feeling generous...)
Vindicator then released 3 tunes.. Energize, Disillusion, and the very
nice Positive Feedback. If you haven't gotten the last one, check it out! In
my opinion, it's his best track to date (Aug. 7, 1996) He then released a very
nice little tune called "Nagalicious" which is so.. so.. I dunno exactly how
to describe it.. and then of course, we started working on Smoke & Mirrors.
We threw code together, got Meat to make some music, drew robots (we had a
great piccy of some robots doing impolite things but we didn't put them in)
So it finally got finished and released. 17 years later.
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Releases so far :
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Sensorium
SEN-ISP.ZIP - Inter Stellar Phenomenon (Summer '96..) Thematic.
SEN-SMOK.ZIP - Smoke and Mirrors! Our best demo yet! Jan '97.
Vindicator
ENERGIZE.ZIP - Energize by Vindicator.
VIN_DIS.ZIP - Disillusion by Vindicator. Made for some 'mag..
VIN_POS.ZIP - Positive Feedback by Vindicator.. done in 1 hr??!
VIN_NAG.ZIP - Nagalicious by Vindicator. Wierd name. Cool song.
Meat
BOOGHETT.ZIP - Booghetti by Meat
CREMIX.ZIP - Chippy Remix by Meat
ODE.ZIP - Meat's ode to his 386... ;_(
FISH.ZIP - Fish! by Meat
STREETS.ZIP - Streets of Action City by Meat
SAD.ZIP - A sad song, by Meat ;_(
MIJMOOHA.ZIP - Mijmooha by Meat. This one kicks butt!
I don't think that's all of Meat's tunes, but those are my favorites..
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What'll come next :
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What's next for Sensorium? Who knows? Let's see...
Vindicator'll be releasing some songs in the near future probably,
and if you're insane enough to want to listen to a musicdisk of his, please
hit yourself over the head with nearest large metal implement and re-think
your logic. Pyro's gone golfing permanantly, I think.. he's got the hat
and everything! He was talking about doing a 3D golf thing..
We might (though I doubt it.. parents, money, and transport are the
3 major problems) get to ECLIPSE '97.. if it exists.. and if we can, don't worry.
We'll release a demo there!
And we are DEFINITELY (read : 50% chance) doing a demo for Simple.
Further developments pending... It should be good, featuring cameras,
environment mapping, 2D bump - and a few other surprises.
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How to Contact us :
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#1 - Try e-mail. It's not guaranteed to work (Due to my provider's SHODDY
setup) but try : nicholas.vining@bbc.org... or nick.alexander@bbc.org, or
alexander@camins.camosun.bc.ca or nickal@hotmail.com (don't use hotmail.com
if at all possible!)
Sorry about the minimum of choices here, but we have a few small
technical problems (our sysop's moving to Yellowknife) with the Turrney.
We would LOVE to hear from you! So write away! Fan mail appreciated,
flames ignored. (I'll just cry a lot)
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE (CENSORED) :
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An ASSHOLE named Steve Shack (aka Cobra / Savage), who has about as
much knowledge about demos as a small brass doorknob, has leaked beta copies
of Smoke and Mirrors to various individuals. This is the ONLY official
Smoke & Mirrors version. If you find any other versions out there, please
delete them! Bug fixes will be posted, if there are any bugs to fix (Ha! Ha!)
they will be released in different packages.
Thank you.
Mordred / Sensorium & co.
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Utility List (useless trivia??) :
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Out of the main codestuffs/utilities produced by Sensorium, individual
credits are as follows (basically) :
Mordred's contributions - SVL (Sensorium Video Library) code, SEN3D code for
all the 3D stuff, main GFX code, interfaces, 3D
editor, GFX editor, font manager,
font manager add-ons, POVRay texture generator
the new 100% asm polyfiller
Pyro's contributions - Font manager add-ons, 3D editor primitives option,
Sen3D code revision 2 - not fixed yet, 3D editor
convertors, enviroment mapping routine (not done
in time for S&M)
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Greetings & Flames :
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Mordred's greetings :
Psychoman/Craw - Thanks for all assistances rendered with
everything (tmap, bump, matrixes, etc.)
At least you got ISP working..
Hope you like this one, after nagging me
about it for so long...
Platinum Dragon-1211 - Congratulations on your new "bundle of joy"!
XorBit - Thank you for the Gouraud shaded HLine help!
Cobra - Maniac! Maniac! Maniac!
Phred/OTM - You seem like one cool guy!
All on Fidonet Pascal conf. - just for being such great people to talk to.
Jeroen Bauwens - Thanks for pasphong.pas.. but +6 divs/point?
That's absolutely insane! 2's bad enough,
but 6+? That's monstrous! Absolutely crazy!
Bas van Gaalen & co. - Great GFXFX/GFXFX2 work! I'm looking forward
to GFXFX3! But the question is.. will it be
crippled/shareware/commercial? And do you
need any extra code for it? :) <yah right>
Kiwidog, Denthor, & Trixter - Thank you for writing tutorials! Please!
Keep writing! Oh, and Kiwidog.. please write
and release the sources for 3,4, and 5?
All sceners around the world - this is a standard greeting. :)
Vindicator greets (last time I checked) : Olli, Stinger, Mr. Wonka, X-Tseng,
Titan, Mordred, Chronos, Midnight, Meat, Hanzo.
Meat's greetings :
Unknown
Pyro's greetings :
Everyone who loves the scene... and all the hoops players at Central.
Seeyaz...
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Signing off,
- Mordred
a.k.a Nicholas Vining
- Pyro
a.k.a Nick Alexander
Sometime in 1997.
<yawn> zzzzzzzzzzz....
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