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Purple Dreams by The Unstoppable Hacker Bunch

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│                    └───┐    ┬┌──┐┌──┐┌──┐ ┌───┐ ┌──┐ │     1st prize at    │
│     Coded by           │ ┌──││   ├─  ├──│ │ ┴ │ └──┐ │     Takeover '98    │
│ The Watcher/TUHB       │ └──┘┴   └──┘┴  ┴ ┴   ┴ └──┘ │    4k intro compo   │
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│ Introduction  │                                                            │
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│ Here it is, the official release of the 1st prize winner of the Takeover   │
│ '98 intro compo. No changes have been made to the actual code whatsoever.  │
│ "But the party version had no music!" I can hear some people scream now.   │
│ The point is it did. It just didn't play since the organizers had the      │
│ brilliant idea of running the 4k's on the computer with just a GUS (no SB) │
│ installed, and as we could all hear GUS is not that good at playing adlib  │
│ in native mode, now is it? They had planned to rerun the intro WITH music  │
│ during the prize ceremony (that was, if they could get the adlib to work   │
│ at all), but since the prize ceremony was already delayed a LOT, that did  │
│ not happen. Well, too bad. I guess I would have liked to hear the music    │
│ on a >2000watts music system, but hey.... the party still ruled!           │
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│ Manual  │                                                                  │
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│ Oooh, it's soooo very difficult. Go the the right directory, type PDREAMS, │
│ slam ENTER, and tataaaa! It will work! No vesa needed, no windows wanted   │
│ (although it will probably run just fine with it), adlib compatible sound- │
│ card optional. And if you are really starting to hate my cute little text- │
│ mode intro, you can even press ESC and skip it. No other parts of the      │
│ intro are skippable, though.                                               │
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│ Lyrics  │                                                                  │
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│ Here are the full lyrics that are shown during the intro. They are not     │
│ exactly brilliant, but creating good lyrics with only 10 characters to     │
│ spend per line is not very easy you know!                                  │
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│ "Fuck the people who think they're cool,                                   │
│  we are the ones who totally rule!"                                        │
│                                      - Bookie                              │
│ "Close your eyes open your mind...                                         │
│  experience the ultimate purpleness"                                       │
│                                      - Claws                               │
│ "Rscpt 2: C64 fans, IK+ ppl, Bookie, Ryo-Ohki,                             │
│  Hugo, Cloak, Deadline, Rogue, Chippy,Sweex,                               │
│  Sentinel, Ritz, Inside                                                    │
│  Sorry 2: Exam ppl"                                                        │
│                                      - The Watcher                         │
│ "The End is purple!"                                                       │
│                                      - The Watcher                         │
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│ Credits  │                                                                 │
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│ Hmmmzz. So I guess this part can be handled pretty fast. All coding by     │
│ little old me. Except for the music player, which is ofcourse done by      │
│ PSI/future crew. And some lyrics by other tuhb-members, as mentioned       │
│ above.                                                                     │
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│ Source code  │                                                             │
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│ Well, if you want to lay your hands on the source code for this intro,     │
│ you will just have to download Tuhbzine 4 (due 3 weeks after the Takeover  │
│ party). I will put the full source-code in the zine (exportable), and even │
│ give a short description of the effects I used.                            │
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│ The Future  │                                                              │
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│ You might ask what the future will bring. Well, I am already working quite │
│ hard designing Purple Dreams 2. It will contain effects that are totally   │
│ different from those in Purple Dreams (that's why I don't mind releasing   │
│ all sources) and hopefully some nice designish elements. I just hope that  │
│ when I release it (maybe at Wired?) there is some competition, since that  │
│ would make the compo's a lot more exciting. So what are you waiting for?   │
│ Start working on your 4k intro release now! The 4k scene shall bloom!      │
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│ Greetings  │                                                               │
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│ Huge halloween haloha's and humongous hugz go to:                          │
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│ All TUHB'ers, Digistorm, Cloak, Sweex, Rogue, Buckshag, Skin, Deadline,    │
│ Mnemonix, Silence, Dynamix, The Rew, Keynes, Underdog, Sonique, Sentinel,  │
│ Aap, Cyclops, Chippy, Probe, Boolean, Ryo-Ohki, Marsian, Spellcaster,      │
│ Garfield probably forgot and who will now be not talking to me for the     │
│ And ofcourse all those people I probably forgot and who will now be not    │
│ talking to me for the rest of the millennium.                              │
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│ Contact info  │                                                            │
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│ You can E-mail me at: 144076pp@student.eur.nl                              │
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│ Or you can snail-mail me at: The Watcher                                   │
│                              Frans Halsstraat 27                           │
│                              2712JS Zoetermeer                             │
│                              The Netherlands                               │
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│ Or you can try to leech our stuff from:                                    │
│      ftp.skynet.stack.nl/pub/demos/tuhb                                    │
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│ Or you can be really cool and leave mail for me at:                        │
│  ■ ALUMINA BBS (SYSOP VERTIGO), 071-5790411 (WHQ)                          │
│  ■ THE FIRST DEGREE BBS (SYSOP CYCLOPS), 035-5244247 (EHQ)                 │
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│ Or you can just continue your pathetic little life and NOT contact us ;-P  │
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│                                                       - The Watcher, 1998  │
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