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DiVE

DiVE by UniVerse

Who stands behind the DiVE:
Greenpix7 as the main graphics artist/designer
Manwe as the main musician/designer
Programmer as the one and only coder

Whoever control the spice, control the UniVerse:
Programmer as the main spice owner and coder
Greenpix7 as the best graphics artist

Tech:
DiVE demo authors could be found in the internet, http://surf.to/universe
DiVE was coded in Borland Pascal 7.0, and tested on the different machines.
DiVE uses Midas Sound System 0.4a
DiVE can be controlled by commandline params.
DiVE.EXE 2 - Run from the second part
DiVE.EXE birthday - Run happy-birthday part

Known problems:
Demo works wrong under Windows, when you're using SB16 compatible card.
Entering high DMA may help.
Demo works too slow on the old videocards, for e.g. ISA ones.

Some history:
 So, here is it. The demo,  which was under construction for two years.  DiVE.
 This demo was delayed several times because of different reasons, due to it's
"unfinished - looking - feeling",  due too old effects there and so on. When I 
started coding it, it was only a small  64k  intro.  Then it became larger and 
larger, up to the size you see now. A lot  of  people (mostly from Russia) saw
the graduating of DiVE, some of them thinks it's ok and good,some of them not.
As for me [Progger] and Greenpix7, DiVE is just a horrible thing which must be
immediatly deleted from our HDD's, imagine:  If  i  spend  a hour (at least) a
week coding it, so 4 hours/month, 48 hours/year (;)))), and  96  hours for the
two years, and every hour  I  look  it  in  about ten or more times... I think
that our lovely SunFlower will  be  boring  after 1000 times of looking.. So ,
imagine how do we 'love' DiVE. :)  And  furthermore,  I  worked  more  then 48
hours/year on it. Anyway. For  now  it's  finished,  happy  end,  or,  as  the
americans say it's the "success story'.
 If you will not run it 1000 and more times you,  definetely will like demo at
all or just some parts of it (different effects, you know).  For the old-style
lovers I've included some secret parts into DiVE demo,you may have fun running
it.  [For now I will say only one key, you can find other in .exe,  so the key
is birthday , for e.g. dive.exe birthday , it's the birthday greeting part for
[Pychic Symphony].
 If  you  have  any  suggestions  on this demo (ghm? which suggestions can you 
have?), any ideas of new demos,  or just want to say something about DiVE, you
can freely send it to the following e-mail address: unv@chat.ru

Programmer, AoG main editor.