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hex appeal by Cascada

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                    [The group with all the right MOVs!]

                                  presents
                               in August 1993
                        Slightly bugfixed in October

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                                  HEX APPEAL
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      We promised you guys out there in the  TCCINTRO that there would be
      a demo coming from us in May/June. There were lots of rumours about
      it and one  could even  read in  the World  Charts that "Cascada is
      going to  release a  very  good  demo at  the Computer  Crossroad".
      Unfortunately, we  didn't, because  (just like usual) we ran out of
      time.  After TCC we took a few months' break, and now, in the first
      days of August we  figured that perhaps  finishing and releasing it
      at the Assembly '93 party would be a good idea.
      We cut a lot of effects,  leaving just a  short flow of routines to
      increase  the chances  of making it in time.  However, with 2 hours
      left to make it run for the  Asm'93 competition we were to tired to
      finish it off.  Now when the competition is over we could of course
      just as  well hold on to the  demo a few weeks  more and  add a few
      more routines, but we are so sick of  this now so you'll have to do
      with the demo as it looks at this point.
      So here it is! It's  not quite  the same demo that we were supposed
      to release  at TCC but  not many people saw the preview anyway so I
      guess it won't matter much.

      It's not  very long, not too groundbreaking  but I believe and hope
      that you will  enjoy it.  We thought it's time to take a break from
      all these  techno-soundtracks  now and do  something a  little more
      laid back. So here's Hex Appeal.

      Hex  Appeal is freeware  and may  be freely  distributed  while not
      modified in  any way. You are not  under any  circumstances allowed
      to sell  copies of it. Violations  will be reported to federal law.
                                     ...

                                 Requirements
                                 ════════════
      The demo  requires  a i386⌐ or better processor,  VGA  graphics and
      preferrably a sound peripheral as a Gravis UltraSound, SoundBlaster
      or a SoundPlayer D/A.  We kept in  mind that running  the demo on a
      i386⌐ should be possible, at least with a fast  graphics-card  such
      as  the  ET4000, but  we  recommend  that  you watch  it on a i486⌐
      machine.  Our music system is able to use sampling-interpolation to
      improve the sound quality  radically. However, this  requires twice
      as much  processor time, so if the  demo doesn't run  smoothly turn
      the interpolation off or lower the sampling rate.

      ⌐ = Or i80386/486 compatible such as the AMD and CYRIX.
                                     ...

                                   Credits
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                       Design.................Cascada!
                       Setup.....................Jeffe
                       Setup graphics...........Mirage
                       Intro blur...............Robban
                       Intro font..............Delsion
                       Hex Appeal logo..........O'Hara
                       Stardriver...........Hellraiser
                       Cubes................Hellraiser
                       Cube logo...............Delsion
                       IFS and Morphs.......Hellraiser
                       Eevi picture............Delsion
                       Texture code.............Iceman
                       Texture pictures.........O'Hara
                       Slimy panner.............Iceman
                       Slimy font & marble......O'Hara
                       Phunky soundtrack........Zodiak
                       Bullshit texts...........Zodiak
                       Bullshit text debugging..Hellie
                       Musicsystem..............Robban

                               Special Credits
                               ═══════════════

                       Linking and debugging....Robban
               (Every coder knows why this is an extra credit!)

                              Contacting Cascada
                              ══════════════════
      Perhaps you  feel that  you'd like to contact us.  Ok, do so.  Just
      realize  that we are just young students with very little money and
      very little time to answer letters. Therefor, if you want an answer
      be sure to  include Swedish  stamps or  an IRC  check (you  can buy
      IRC's at the post office in almost every country in the world). And
      even if you  include an IRC you  can only be 90% sure of an answer.
      I still  get letters  from  people who  write believe that they are
      cool when they  write long descriptions  of what they do with their
      girlfriends and  want to swap "hot warez". We are not interested in
      any illegal  activities  (including swapping  copyrighted software)
      and if we sent you the  sourcecodes of the demo we would in a short
      while have  tons of small intros with the effects slightly modified
      and we don't want that. You are allowed to rip the music but if you
      use it  somewhere, don't  forget  to credit  the original composer.
      The source code of our modplayer (GUSPLAY)for the Gravis Ultrasound
      is released  and  downloadable on  various BBS's  and Internet. The
      sourcecodes  of our  other  musicroutines  are  unreleased and will
      remain so. Use GOLDPLAY or DSMI instead.

      Please understand that I can't  afford to answer even a few of your
      letters if I have to pay for it myself. I can't even afford to have
      my own phone. The best and most secure way to get a quick answer if
      you have  questions  about  Cascada is  to  send  a message  in the
      Creativity  Demo Net  (CDN). There are CDN nodes  in  many European
      countries and in America, Canada, Australia...

      All of you who have  written to me and haven't got an  answer back;
      I'm terribly  sorry. Probably I haven't  had  time  to  answer your
      letter right  away but  put it on  my table (which  always  is in a
      mess). Sometime when I clean  up over here (or hire Anticimex to do
      it) I might  find your letter and send you a reply back, who knows.
      I'm sorry  not to be able to help  you get started with demo coding
      but if  I would  write  answers  to all  the  specific  programming
      questions I've got since the release of  Cronologia  (1991) I would
      have to take a few years off. I hope that you  can somehow  respect
      this.
                                     ...

                                     CDS
                                     ═══
      This demo  is the first CDS  production. CDS? Yep, Cascada has been
      under (a well needed)  re-organization for a  while and we ended up
      with the normal commercial/non-commercial problem. We don't want to
      leave the scene yet but  we can't let down our commercial projects.
      Therefor, we  formed CDS, the Cascada Demo Section.  There is right
      now not a valid  memberlist of CDS but in the next demo you can get
      all the information you might want. For the moment CDS consist only
      of old Cascada members. However, CDS could use a few more coders to
      concentrate on demos alone. If YOU can code demos like this one and
      would like to join CDS, don't hesitate to contact us! TODAY.

      CDS and Cascada  will also need a few distribution sites abroad. If
      you are a sysop  with a fairly  big board with  good reputation and
      you would like it to be a Cascada site, call one  of our boards and
      request the file CDS_SITE.FRM, fill it out, and send it back!

                                     ...

                       Here's the contact information:
                                   CASCADA
                              c/o Erik Stridell
                                  Rotevägen 1
                             S-735 33 Surahammar
                                   Sweden

                                CDN: 94:71/0

                        FAX: (Robban) +46 (0)8 7410778
                        FAX: (Hellie) +46 (0)8 330892

                                Bulletin Boards:
         Twilight Garden - +46 851050925 - HST V32bis - Sysop: Jeffe
         U ∙ M ∙ A ∙ N  - +46 854025353 - HST V32bis - Sysop: Mirage
                 [Yet another Cascada board to come shortly!]
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 [The ASCII art (the Cascada logos) in this textfile were made by ZED of FAIC]
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