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                            -= Juggler 2001 =-
 
                      -= Realtime Raytracing in 4K =-
 
                    -= by Han Solo / The COEXiSTENCE =-
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                                                    Party Version v1.0 


-= Credits =-

 Code ................... Han Solo / The COEXiSTENCE 
 Music-routine .......... Kimmy / PULP Productions
 Arithmetic support ..... Sauron
 Music .................. Skyrunner
 Packer (aPACK) ......... Joergen Ibsen / Jibz


-= Greetings =-

 Iron Eagle, Stingray, InspirE, Blind Enemy, Duke, Thunder, Libertine,
 Wicked Mystic, Frenetic Plague, doj, Schoolar, Matrixcrawler, The Jack,
 Shark, Dan, Franky, KB, Mat!Ozone
 and to everyone who was, is or will be part of the scene...
 ...we are family


-= Technical info =-

 This is real raytracing. The code doesn't contain any polyfillers.
 We have spheres, one lightsource, shadows, reflections and diffuse
 reflection. The Juggler himself consists of 83 (visible) spheres.
 If you don't know the General-Midi-Port of your Soundcard, try '330h'
 (press '3') at first. Should this not work, try all the other numbers.
 The Intro never crashed due to a wrong port, so you don't have to be
 afraid...

The ZIP should contain the following versions of the program:
 juggler_200.com      - TrueColor in 320x200
 juggler_240.com      - TrueColor in 320x240
 juggler_400.com      - TrueColor in 320x400
 juggler_Fakemode.com - Tran's Fakemode. Only 256 visible colors, but it
                        looks like 3840 colors. And due to realtime
                        dithering we even have 27869 (simulated) colors.
                        (This one is >4K but I thought some people might
                        want to run it on older computers without VESA)
 juggler_nomusic.com  - TrueColor in 320x240 without any music

 The TrueColor versions work ONLY in 32bit-mode. So if your Graphicboard
 doesn't support 32bit, it won't work. Maybe I'll release a 24bit
 version later, if some people are interested.

 During my tests I discovered, that this Raytracer performs VERY poorly
 on AMD-Processors.  I think it's because AMD's L1-Cache is much slower
 that Intel's. If you're interested, try to run it with deactivated
 L1-Cache. Then the AMD-Chips beat the Pentium.


-= Known problems =-

 This Intro was developed on a Celeron566@850, a TNT2 and a SB64 under
 Win98SE. It was tested with a TNT, GeForce, SB128 and Asus OnbordSound-
 there were no problems with this configurations.
 In fact there ARE problems with Win2k and (I'm really sorry about that)
 the SB Live: there are no VESA-modes under Win2K, so you have to use
 the Fakemode-version. The problem with the SB Live is, that some people
 had no sound with this card. I don't have one, so I couldn't test it a
 lot. If anyone has suggestions on how to solve this problem, feel free
 to contact me...
 As mentioned above, your Graphicboard has to support 32bit-modes to
 display the TrueColor-version.

 Another bug will occur on REALLY fast computers (and also if you
 terminate the program at a very early stage): the framecounter won't
 display framerates over 99.99. You'll get the framerate-100 instead
 (mod 100, to be exact ;) ). Not a very serious bug, I think. Take the
 320x400 version instead - it's slower...


-= Further information about this Intro =-

 The basic idea behind this intro is that I wanted to show the (famous?)
 Amiga Juggler-Animation by Eric Graham in realtime. (In case you don't
 know the Juggler-Animation, take a look at the website given below).


-= Contact and Links =-

 'aPACK' can be found at http://apack.tsx.org/
 and the Juggler-Animation at http://members.home.net/erniew/juggler.html

 If you have any comments, write to
 email: hansolo@the-coexistence.de
        skyrun@gmx.de
 or visit our always unfinished website www.the-coexistence.de


-= Han Solo / TC - Mekka 2001 - Fallingbostel - Germany - 2001-04-14 =-