Takeover by Epical
Welcome to Epical's new demo, 'TAKEOVER'. Released late 1992 it makes a
~~~~~~~ good ending to this Epical's first year on the PC-scene, and shows
the improvement our members have made (hope so). Next product from us
will be the diskmaggy 'Hoax' (3rd issue), which you all have been
waiting for, I guess. Should be released in February.
Well, back to the main point. This demo runs on 286 or better machines.
Smoothest action and clearest musics you will get on a fast 386, or any
486. With 286 there are two parts, in which no music is played. If you
286ers want to listen to those pieces, choose a faster machine from the
list (action will get somewhat sticky...) OR you can 'rip' the musics and
play them with your favourite modplayer. Musics are named t_o.m0?, you can
copy them to another directory with .mod-extension and then play them. The
musics are so good, that they deserve the best listening conditions.
Don't use emm-emulators with this demo (if your machine isn't 486) because
they will slow the action down. If you don't know, if you have a
emm-emulator, the demo will warn you. Also multitaskers fall in this
category.
Machine type and display adaptor type are autodetected. If the
autodetection should fail due to incompatible hardware, contact your
computer or videocard manufacturer. In the meanwhile, you can bypass the
autodetection with /x -switch. SB-port address is also autodetected, but
it has newer failed, so it cannot be bypassed. Hard luck, if you have more
than one SB installed in your machine (luckily only few of us has), and
want to play musics with the card with higher port-address.
Then about our implementation of shadebobs. Base-routine was programmed
by Phantom, and I (FCS) added random movement calculation, and random
colour-palette calculation. I think that the result is quite good. Note,
that the shadebobs are different EVERY time you run the demo. The
possibilities are almost infinite, there are 8^12 different movements and
every of them with 64^12 color palette possibilities. I think that
modern psychologists could replace the old 'paper-and-ink-test' with
shadebobs like these. (I am boring you with my stories, aren't I!)
Okay, I let you off the hook.
Regards,
FCS / Epical
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