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   Requirements:

      Base Memory: 615Kb  MINIMUM
              CPU: 386SX  MINIMUM
     SoundDevices: PC Spkr,  Covox/DAC,  DMA SB/Pro/16ASP
                   VGA Needed
              DOS: >3.1

   Remember when selecting mixing rate that the soundtrack has 8 Channels.

     REAL sorry about no GUS support,  but when I can finally get hold of
     one down here in the bush,  I'll be able to code something...


   POSSE  is MeltDown's first ever demo.  It has taken us about 3 months to
   produce,  and since  our first demo is  a Trackmo  (mostly) it has taken
   a HELL of a lot of HARD,  ball-breaking  and finger-stiffening work,  as
   well as costing  us a full year of sleep  after 3 months.  So we are all
   gonna die 10 years earlier because of the stress.

   If POSSE freezes in the beginning,  you need more BASE Memory (615Kb).
   (Sorry about the real-mode limits -- speak to Bill Gatus of Borg about
   that one).

   If the tracker has bad quality (crackling) on your sound card,  sorry,
   but Creative Labs didn't correctly make SB16 and higher fully downward
   compatible.  It works gr8 on my SBPro,  but I didn't have time to change
   the DMA routine to autoinit.

   MOST of POSSE was coded  by lsd in 1« weeks,  with 4  hours of sleep and
   10 tons of coffee a day,  excepting for the last 3 days before and at the
   show in  which I  got ABSOLUTELY  no sleep  (yes,  sleep is important to
   coders!).

   Most of the effects were just improvements on old work that we had done,
   but as we have  never made a demo  before,  we had to  figure out how to
   put everything together.  This  meant that we would finish  a major part
   and then have huge problems  integrating it,  causing us to modify parts
   of the code and soon the code  got so messy that  I gave up on adding in
   finishing touches and new effects.

                    So, LOOK OUT FOR OUR NEXT DEMO!!!!


   Flash will be leaving very soon for  New Zealand.  They are gonna gain a
   great coder.  :ù<

   Contact us:

     -  lsd  -
       name: Mark Webster
      voice: +27 31 299 089
     e-mail: centri@iafrica.com    (make it out to mark or lsd)
      snail: 32 Frere Road
             Glenwood
             Durban
             4001
             Republic of South Africa


  Greetz JNZ to:

            Dr D
            DESRAiD
            Jizlobber
            RaW NeRvE!

            Guru Magic
            The makers of DEDICATION (Who R U guys?)
            Penumbra   (What happened to your MegaDemo?   ð8-} Haha
            4th Dimension

            Future Crew
            Epical
            Triton
            Rennaissance
            Cascada
            Surprise! Productions
            Sonic PC
            VangeliSTeam
            TDT
            Dust
            Witan
            This could go on forever.
            If I didnt greet you, insert your name here ;)


PS:  As you maybe already know, Posse came 4th at Dexterity 94. Here's why:
     At  6:00AM  on the day of Dexterity 94,  GUESS WHAT!!!
     YES!!!  MY HARD DRIVE CRASHED!!!  HOURS AND HOURS OF HARD WORK,
     DESTROYED!!!  I was......angry.

     Now,  if you have had no sleep for 60 hours I would like to see you code
     most of a TrackMo back together from bits of code that you have on disk,
     in just a few hours  (Luckily we got an extension of time until 7:00PM).

     So as you can guess the code for the Compo was totally buggy and sloppy,
     especially the Virtual Reality (which is still a piece of crud now).

PPS: The age of our members are as follows:

     CASTOR: 17 or 18 (Koreans have different age calculation methods I think)
        LSD: 16
  -=Flash=-: 17

     Thus we are the youngest demo group I know of in South Africa.
                           SO THERE!!

  C Y'ALL L8r!
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