Posse by Meltdown
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Requirements:
Base Memory: 615Kb MINIMUM
CPU: 386SX MINIMUM
SoundDevices: PC Spkr, Covox/DAC, DMA SB/Pro/16ASP
VGA Needed
DOS: >3.1
Remember when selecting mixing rate that the soundtrack has 8 Channels.
REAL sorry about no GUS support, but when I can finally get hold of
one down here in the bush, I'll be able to code something...
POSSE is MeltDown's first ever demo. It has taken us about 3 months to
produce, and since our first demo is a Trackmo (mostly) it has taken
a HELL of a lot of HARD, ball-breaking and finger-stiffening work, as
well as costing us a full year of sleep after 3 months. So we are all
gonna die 10 years earlier because of the stress.
If POSSE freezes in the beginning, you need more BASE Memory (615Kb).
(Sorry about the real-mode limits -- speak to Bill Gatus of Borg about
that one).
If the tracker has bad quality (crackling) on your sound card, sorry,
but Creative Labs didn't correctly make SB16 and higher fully downward
compatible. It works gr8 on my SBPro, but I didn't have time to change
the DMA routine to autoinit.
MOST of POSSE was coded by lsd in 1½ weeks, with 4 hours of sleep and
10 tons of coffee a day, excepting for the last 3 days before and at the
show in which I got ABSOLUTELY no sleep (yes, sleep is important to
coders!).
Most of the effects were just improvements on old work that we had done,
but as we have never made a demo before, we had to figure out how to
put everything together. This meant that we would finish a major part
and then have huge problems integrating it, causing us to modify parts
of the code and soon the code got so messy that I gave up on adding in
finishing touches and new effects.
So, LOOK OUT FOR OUR NEXT DEMO!!!!
Flash will be leaving very soon for New Zealand. They are gonna gain a
great coder. :∙<
Contact us:
- lsd -
name: Mark Webster
voice: +27 31 299 089
e-mail: centri@iafrica.com (make it out to mark or lsd)
snail: 32 Frere Road
Glenwood
Durban
4001
Republic of South Africa
Greetz JNZ to:
Dr D
DESRAiD
Jizlobber
RaW NeRvE!
Guru Magic
The makers of DEDICATION (Who R U guys?)
Penumbra (What happened to your MegaDemo? ≡8-} Haha
4th Dimension
Future Crew
Epical
Triton
Rennaissance
Cascada
Surprise! Productions
Sonic PC
VangeliSTeam
TDT
Dust
Witan
This could go on forever.
If I didnt greet you, insert your name here ;)
PS: As you maybe already know, Posse came 4th at Dexterity 94. Here's why:
At 6:00AM on the day of Dexterity 94, GUESS WHAT!!!
YES!!! MY HARD DRIVE CRASHED!!! HOURS AND HOURS OF HARD WORK,
DESTROYED!!! I was......angry.
Now, if you have had no sleep for 60 hours I would like to see you code
most of a TrackMo back together from bits of code that you have on disk,
in just a few hours (Luckily we got an extension of time until 7:00PM).
So as you can guess the code for the Compo was totally buggy and sloppy,
especially the Virtual Reality (which is still a piece of crud now).
PPS: The age of our members are as follows:
CASTOR: 17 or 18 (Koreans have different age calculation methods I think)
LSD: 16
-=Flash=-: 17
Thus we are the youngest demo group I know of in South Africa.
SO THERE!!
C Y'ALL L8r!
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