pouët.net

expoze by Heretics

█████ ████ █████▀████ █████▀████ █████▀████ ████▀████ ████ █████▀████ █████▀████
█████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ████ ████ ████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ████
█████ ████ █████ ▄▄▄▄ █████ ████ █████ ▄▄▄▄      ████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ████
█████▀████ █████▀████ █████▀█▀▀▀ █████▀████      ████ ████ █████ ████ █████
█████ ███▓ █████ ▄▄▄▄ █████ ███▓ █████ ▄▄▄▄      ███▓ ███▓ █████ ▄▄▄▄ █████████▓
█████ ██▓▒ █████ ██▓▒ █████ ██▓▒ █████ ██▓▒      ██▓▒ ██▓▒ █████ ██▓▒ ▄▄▄▄▄ ██▓▒
█████ █▓▒░ █████▄█▓▒░ █████ █▓▒░ █████▄█▓▒░      █▓▒░ █▓▒░ █████▄█▓▒░ █████▄█▓▒░

        in association with Reality, LEGiON and SMASH!, proudly present;

                ▄▄▄■  ▄■   ▄■    ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄■▐█▄▄▄
              ▄███   █▌   ▐▌    ██▌ ▄█▀▀    ██▌▀▀█████▄▄■   ▄▄■▀████▄
             █▀ ▐▌  ▐▀█▄  ██▄   ▐█ ▐█▌       ▀█▄    ▀██▌ ▄████   ▀██▌
            ▐█▌  ▀■ ■   ▄█▀▀ ▀■  █▌▀▀  ■▄▀███▄ ▌    ▐█▀■▀████▌    ▐█
            ███▀■     ▄█ ▄▄       █▄   ▐██ ▀██▌■   ▄█▀    ▐██▄▄▀■ ▀
            █▌   ▐▄ ▄██▌  ▀█▄      ▀█   ▀██  ██  ▄█▀   ■▄  ██▌
           ▐█    ▄█▌ ██     █▄ ▄▄▄■ ▐█  █ █▌ ▐█ ██▀     ▐▌  ██▄    ▄■
           ▐██▄▄████  █▌    ▐███▀   ██▌ ▐▌▐▌ ▐▌▐██▌    ▄██ ▐██▀▀█▄██
           ▐▀    ▀██▌  ▀■    ██▌   ████▄ ▀▄▀▄▀  ████▄▄████▌▀     ██▌
           ■        ▀■      ▐██  ■▀▀  ▀█▌       ▐█▀  ▀▀▀██▌      ▐█▌sq2
                           ■▀▀        ▀▀         ▀▀■     ▀      ■▀▀ sm!

                       the 100% all-australian musicdisk!

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 i │ expOZe is a musicdisk coded, illustrated, composed and produced entirely
 n │ by Australian talent.
 f │
 o │ Containing eleven songs totalling over 45 minutes of music, with a nice
 r │ music player, illustrated with pleasing graphics, it is a showcase of the
 m │ talent of the Australian scene.
 a │
 t │ expOZe was organised by Heretics, and collaborating on the project were
 i │ artists and musicians from Australian groups LEGiON and SMASH!, and the
 o │ Australian/New Zealand group Reality. The original concept was brought
 n │ about by Hemlok, and we'd like to thank him for the idea.
   │
   │ Thanks for taking the time to download this musicdisk, we hope you
   │ enjoy the fruits of our labour.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 p │ Well, if you're reading this, you're obviously intelligent enough to
 a │ have unzipped the product <grin>.  Onto the actual software;
 c │
 k │ Included in expoze-?.zip are the following files;
 a │
 g │    expoze.exe  -  expOZe main executable
 i │
 n │    expoze.nfo  -  Err.  That would be this file.
 g │  heretics.nfo  -  A little (eh hem) info on the producers of the musicdisk
   │
   │         *.cba  -  The music files in the Heretics CBA format
   │                   (CBA stands for Chuck Biscuits/Black Artist)
   │                   Yes, we know the musicfiles are huge - but look at how
   │                   well they compress :-)
   │
   │                   There should be 11 CBA musicfiles in all.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 t │ When you first run the expoze.exe program, it will prompt you to setup
 h │ the player for your sounddevice, and it will create a file called
 e │ expoze.cfg.
   │
 p │ If the sounddevice setup needs changing after the inital running of the
 l │ player, the following command line parameter may come in useful:
 a │
 y │ expoze /r
 e │
 r │ The supported sound devices are;
   │
   │     Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound MAX (GF1 wave-synthesiser)
   │       - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo
   │
   │     Sound Blaster, SB 2.0+, SB pro, SB16
   │       - 8-bit, 22.05kHz (SB), 44.1kHz (SB2/SBpro[mono])
   │         Stereo on SB pro (max sample-rate 22.05kHz for stereo)
   │       - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo (SB16)
   │
   │     Pro Audio Spectrum +, PAS16
   │       - 8-bit, 44.1kHz mono, 22.05kHz stereo
   │       - 16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo (PAS16)
   │
   │     Adlib (YM3812 FM synthesiser emulating (kicking & screaming) PCM)
   │       - 6-bit
   │
   │     PC Speaker
   │       - 1-bit PCM
   │
   │     Digital/Analogue Converter (COVOX(tm) Style)
   │       - 8-bit, sample-rates up to whatever can be pumped out of your
   │         parallel port
   │
   │     "Surround" (Dolby Pro-Logic) sound is available on the stereo cards
   │     other than the Gravis Ultrasound/Ultrasound MAX.  It is a simple
   │     amplitude-inverse stereo pair setup as used by various other players.
   │     (Although surround is not used by any of the tunes in the musicdisk,
   │     as it happens, so you'll just have to take our word for it :).
   │
   │     Please note that the coders only have Gravis Ultrasound and original
   │     Sound Blaster cards, and while it has been tested on other sound
   │     cards, it goes without saying that it might create annoying events.
   │     It has not been tested on PAS cards at all. In fact, Black Artist
   │     only 'guarantees' (uh huh) that it works on GUSes ;).
   │

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 i │ Once inside the player, you get the short intro-sequence, and then the
 n │ main player screen appears, whilst playing the intro tune.  The keys
 t │ available to you are as follows;
 e │
 r │  F1  - Credits screen
 f │  F2  - Sample information
 a │        Up/down/left/right to scroll
 c │  F3  - Current song information/text
 e │        Up/down to scroll
   │  F4  - Song Selection Screen
   │  F5  - Return to the player screen
   │
   │  F6  - Play
   │  F7  - Pause
   │  F8  - Stop
   │
   │  F9  - Previous song (backwards cue)
   │ F10  - Next song (forward cue)
   │        note: you can also use the ~ through to 0 keys on the top row
   │        of the keyboard for song selection.
   │
   │ F11  - Previous order (backwards search)
   │ F12  - Next order (forward search)
   │
   │ -,+  - Decrease/increase volume
   │ /,*  - Decrease/increase amplification (on cards other than GUS/GUSmax)
   │
   │ You can also use the mouse to navigate the controls.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 m │ There are known problems with screen corruption/garbage on some video
 i │ cards in the sample information and song info screens. Some cards such
 s │ as ones using the Tseng ET4000 chipsets are not 100% VGA compatible;
 c │ if you experience screen corruption in these displays, use the following
 e │ commandline parameter:
 l │
 l │     expoze /v  -  Disables smoothscroll
 a │
 n │ If you would like more information on the CBA file format, please mail
 e │ either Black Artist or Chuck Biscuits (see heretics.nfo for contact
 o │ information).
 u │
 s │ Of course, running under memory managers and multitasking environments
   │ will slow the player down. If you have any problems with it, please
   │ try rebooting under plain DOS with all mem managers disabled, and
   │ lowering the mixing rate on non-GUS cards.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·

 c │ Coding             - Black Artist, Zenic
 r │ Music coordinator  - Chuck Biscuits
 e │ Graphics           - Rogue, Squidgalator ][, Black Artist
 d │ Musicians          - Chuck Biscuits, Firelight, Force Format, Hunz,
 i │                      Jase, Jedi, Maral, Myzer, saNe, Void
 t │ Concept            - Hemlok
 s │ S3M/CBA converter  - Zab
   │
   │ Of course, this musicdisk would not have been possible without the
   │ help of many other people and groups who are not mentioned here. All
   │ apologies if we forgot anybody, please take out your anger on the
   │ comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos people ;).

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────∙·