orion by Green [web]
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ÝOrion Ý ..(an exercise in persistence).............................
þ The virginal production of a group of Belgian
Demosceners. Yes, they do exist. We think it's
great, but hey, don't take our word for it.
Released at X'97 Takeover. Don't ask us why.
Ýwho Ý ..(organic, sleep deprived, bipedal life forms)............
þ CODE : Gongo :: Corona :: Kurt :: XorBit
MUSIC : Andr0meda
GFX : Orion :: Yicusur :: Corona
DESIGN : Gongo
Ýwhy Ý ..(good question)..........................................
þ To test our C++ Libraries for bugs. =)
otherwise ... Ask the whale.
ÝDisclaimer Ý ..(sadly enhough a must have nowadays).....................
þ Any damage done to us, your computer or yourself
during or after running this demonstration is
entirely and completely your own fault.
Ýselling rights Ý ..(we would be surprised if so, but then again :-)) .......
þ This demo is like any other, which means that it
is PD (and that stands for PUBLIC domain, not:
Payed demo), and thus no money should be charged
for spreading it all over the world. :-) ...
However, we give NO permission (unless we were
contacted first!) to spread this demo via CDROMs.
CDs like ACE, Dreams or Hornet will be allowed,
but we would like some notice and free copy
then :-) (or at least at reduced price ;-))
Ýrequirements Ý ..(suppose you WANT to see the demo, then what?)...........
þ A juiced up 486 can do the job, barely.
P5 preferred. (mostly C, you know :-))
þ VGA (with UNIVBE or some sort loaded).
(with 320*200*256c support :-),
and 640*480*256c)
þ Any soundcard supported by Midas 0.6.1.
þ 8 Mb free RAM ... (6 Mb MIGHT work too)
(it should be able to run in a DOSBOX in W'95,
but why try?)
Ýhistory Ý ..(or what led up to this).................................
þ After failing to deliver a demo at Wired 96 we set
out to release something at X'97. A couple of
months, a bulk of e-mail and lots of swearing after
Wired, Orion began to take form. Based on the
Maya - Orion - Egypt mystery, we tried to develop
a script that had the possibilty to make for some
cool design but ended up making all of our lives a
misery. In the week foregoing X'97, frantic effort
was put into finishing up all the effects, at which,
of course, we failed gloriously. No tears though,
we'd have at least a couple of days at the party
itself to put things together. So we thought.
Multiple occurences of freak electric discharges,
failing network connections, unhealthy doses of
hardcore crap, serious sleep deprivation and evil
C64 sceners did their best to stop Orion from being
released. But as always, we managed and pulled this
off. Now we leave it to you, mankind, to judge our
worthiness.
Total construction time from concept to finished
product:
2.25 months (begin februari 'till april 10th)
Note: we had never coded in C/C++ before, and no
libraries were finished, so forgive us if
the demo still looks buggy and unfinished ...
Ýgreetz Ý ..(Yo Future Crew!)........................................
NOT.
In no particular order:
þ On special request:
Greet((Marijke/Klix) && (Ruben/Deiy)) = true;
þ Simm : thnx for everything ;-)
þ Sleeping Dog : thnx for pushing us into insanity ...
the demo is finished now ... so stop
whining :-)
þ Itsari þ Analogue
þ T. U. C. þ The Natives
þ Nostalgia þ SuccesS
þ Prozac þ Belgian Scene Report
þ Subliminals þ Pulpe
þ #nlcoders þ Imphobia
þ The Black Lotus þ Jello
þ Overflow FTP site þ Tran & Daredevil
þ Sahara Surfers þ A.P.E.X.
þ AimHigher þ Trepaan
þ all at X'97
þ bla bla bla
Ýclosure Ý ..(parting is such sweet sorrow)...........................
þ Alas 'tis time for us to say goodbye and hope you
liked it. Expect more quality from Green in the
near or distant future, whatever comes first.
BTW any comments, flames and/or financial donations
are of course welcome, here:
e-mail: Green <Kurt.Haegeman@rug.ac.be>
Fido: 2:292/8139
BBS: MESS - +32-3-772.69.25
homepage: http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~svvooren
þ see you all at Wired'97 !
........................................................................EONFO
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