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Just Musix 3 by Dead Hackers Society [web]

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                Four years after Just Musix 2 we bring you:

                         J U S T  M U S I X  I I I 

                         Released November 31 1997
                        



You should atleast have: a standard Atari Falcon or compatible
                         4 megs of ST-RAM
                         VGA/RGB monitor (still no mono support..)



            We recomend: that you run this demo with some kind of
                         accelerator. The faster the better.
                         It will however run just fine on a
                         standard 16 MHz machine as well, only
                         that the background fx will move a bit
                         slow. But it will always play 49 KHz and
                         let the graphicspeed suffer instead.



         We have tested: Just Musix 3 on standard Atari Falcons
                         with and without Nemesis fitted.
                         No problems to report so far. We hope
                         this will be the same with other
                         speeders as well.


            If you have: doublesync problems with your VGA-
                         monitor, you should run the supplied TSR
                         patch-program for that. If you don't
                         have this problem (or use RGB) you should
                         absolutely not use it.


              There are: a few data-files among with the main .prg
                         program. This is because we could not fit 
                         everything in 4 megs without loading the
                         tunes from disk. The files cannot be
                         renamed/moved to another position, the demo
                         will refuse to start if so. The directory
                         with Just Musix 3 should be as following:

                           jm3.prg                274060 bytes
                           jm3.txt                  9979 bytes
                           mods/frequent.gt2      383484 bytes
                           mods/forbid.gt2        351042 bytes
                           mods/xanthou.gt2       317292 bytes
                           mods/summer.gt2        345106 bytes
                           mods/sweet.gt2         319292 bytes

                           We have included a doublesync patch-
                           program for those with double-vbl 
                           problems. Do not use it if you don't
                           suffer from this bug.
                           Twinsync files are:

                           twinsync/twinsync.prg    6487 bytes
                           twinsync/twinsync.txt     314 bytes



 We would like to thank: CiH/MaggieTeam and Thomas/New Beat Dev.
                         for testing the betas with Nemesis.



            A few notes: The Graoumf Tracker moduleplayer we are
                         using here is very slow and a bit buggy.
                         The soundquality however is quite perfect
                         and up to day it's the most compatible
                         player for many different multichannel
                         format that we know of. Sometime the
                         musicroutine can use nearly 90% of a 
                         standard Falcons CPU power.

                         If you want to test the Graoumf Routines
                         yourself you can find them at:
                         ftp.ibp.fr /pub/atari/Falcon/Music
                         in the Graoumf Tracker package there. It is
                         not the latest demoversion of Graoumf, but
                         it seems to be the only one with the mod-
                         converter and replaysources included.



 We have worked on this: Anders Nilsson (Toodeloo)
                         - Music

                         Anders Eriksson (Evil)
                         - Graphics and programming

                         L. de Soras
                         - Graoumf Tracker replay

                         AXE/Delight
                         - Pack ICE



             If you are: looking for greetings, look no further
                         and start the demo instead.



               We think: that you should send us a note or two
                         and tell us what you think about 
                         Just Musix 3. Positive or negative
                         doesn't matter, it's always nice with
                         feedback.

                         You can reach us in the following ways:

                         Snail mail:
                         ---------------------------------------
                         Anders Nilsson          Anders Eriksson
                         Gustavadolfsvagen 7a    Lonnvagen 2
                         783 34  SATER           783 32  SATER
                         SWEDEN                  SWEDEN


                         E-Mail:
                         ---------------------------------------
                             Evil: ae@kuai.se
                         Toodeloo: toodeloo@swipnet.se


                         World Wide Web:
                         ---------------------------------------
                         http://coolness.home.ml.org
                         http://toodeloo.home.ml.org


                         Phone:
                         ---------------------------------------
                         DHS Bunker: +46-22551759



                Perhaps: you should try 'q' & 'k' keys in
                         Chippin' for air, and 'f' & '8' keys in
                         Chippin' for air 2?

            And perhaps: there are more hidden files in this
                         demo or in other DHS productions?


       We have assigned: many different keys for selections in
                         Just Musix 3. You can control all from
                         mainvolume to colours of the logotype.
                         Here's a list of keys to use:

                         General functions:
                         ---------------------------------------
                             F1 - F5: Select music
                               1 - 6: Select text to read
                          Left shift: Pause backgrounf fx
                         Right shift: Pause textwindow
                                 F10: Save a screenshot in .16b
                                      format. It can be viewed
                                      with either GemView or
                                      Rainbow Multimedia (.f16)

                         Background fx control (numeric keypad):
                         ---------------------------------------
                         (: X move increase
                         7: X move decrease
                         ): Y move increase
                         8: U move decrease
                         /: Scroll increase
                         9: Scroll decrease
                         *: Rotation increase
                         -: rotation decrease

                         Colour selections:
                         ---------------------------------------
                         Q - P: Background fx coloursets
                         A - L: Logo coloursets
                         Z - M: Textwindow font coloursets

                         Audio control (numeric keypad):
                         ---------------------------------------
                         4: Increase volume
                         1: Decrease volume
                         0: Pause/unpase music

                         Please note that these schemes are for
                         english/swedish/finnish and many other
                         keyboard layouts, it might differ from
                         other strange standards (eg. german,
                         french).



       Some information: about the music you will hear in a short
                         while. There are 5 tunes all in all, with
                         an approx average size around 500 kilobytes
                         each. Two tunes uses 16 channels (1&3), one
                         tune has 12 channels (2), one has 4 channels
                         (4) and there is one 8 channel tune (5).
                         When you select a tune with more channels,
                         it will show quite well on the framerate of
                         the background fx. If you feel the background
                         fx goes too slow and is doing nothing but
                         annoy you, set X/Y movement and scroll/rot
                         speed to minimum, and you will have a still
                         image as background instead.



             We are now: done with this textfile. Stay tuned for the
                         next DHS release - hopefully sometime 1997.

                         See you next time,
                                            Anders * 2