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GL-Excess v1.0                            www.glexcess.com
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by Paolo "Bustard" Martella:          bustard@glexcess.com

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******************** IMPORTANT NOTICE ********************
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Warning: GL-Excess has been developed and tested on nVidia
-------- video cards only. I have no idea of how it runs
         (if it ever does...) on other video boards.

nVidia owners: For best visual quality please select "Use
-------------- block transfer" as "Buffer flipping mode"
               in your OpenGL Settings. This will prevent
               your screen from flickering on some scenes.

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System Requirements:
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- Pentium II or higher (Pentium III recommended)
  processor

- 64 MB RAM

- Any video card FULLY (when I say FULLY I mean no
  Matrox cards please...) supporting OpenGL
  acceleration

- Sound Blaster 16 or compatible audio card (SBLive!
  with 4 point speakers recommended)

- 40 MBytes of free hard disk space



Video Tweaks:
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- Run GL Excess Configuration program to set desired
  brightness and thus improve color matching

- For best visual quality please enable VSYNC, disable
  it to increase performance

- nVidia owners please read IMPORTNT NOTICE above



Bug Report:
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- Please report any bug at the following email address:
  
  bustard@glexcess.com



Disclaimer:
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WHICH
ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE
FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
RESULTING FROM POSSESSION, USE, OR MALFUNCTION OF THIS
SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

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Credits:
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Brought to you by
Paolo "Bustard" Martella
Copyright © 2001.
All rights reserved.

All coding, sounds and graphics by
Paolo "Bustard" Martella

Fall scene music by
Marco Ruzzi

Intro speech by
Lorenzo Seguiti



Greetings:
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The author would like to thank
the following people for their
unconditional support:

Mom & Dad, my brother Andrea,
Jeff "Nehe" Molofee, Aaron "Otri"
Hilton, Marco Schaerf, Giovanni
dal Negro at giofx.com, Paul
Bonnette at MadOnion.com,
Brett Paterson at Firelight
Multimedia (www.fmod.org),
Jordan Russel at JRSoftware.org,
Rob Reinhart, Dietrich Radel,
Jim Mamay, Julian Spillane,
Colin Weber, Lucriz, Perseco.



Very special thanks to:

Ettore Gambetti, Gabriele
Messineo, Giovanni Mellini,
Paolo Meloni, Simone Nobili,
Maurizio Norcia, Stefano
Paoluzzi, Rosalba Patella,
Simone Pizzino, Marco
Remondino, Davide Ricci,
Alessandro Rocca, Marco
Ruzzi, Marco Salvi, Giovanni
Scarrone, Lorenzo Seguiti,
everyone at Scoderoni family,
Alessandro Termini, Alessandro
Togna, Ludovico Zampini,
Alfonso Zarrella.

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Please feel free to contact me at
the following email address:

bustard@glexcess.com

For more info please visit
GL Excess official site at:

www.glexcess.com

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Only one 3D model has been used
in the making of this demo. All the
rest is plain OpenGL code.

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If you plan to put this program on your web page
or a CD-ROM of any sort, please let me know via
email, I'm curious to see where it ends up :)

Paolo "Bustard" Martella
Webmaster at GL Excess: <http://www.glexcess.com>
email: bustard@glexcess.com