
                              -  Plan B  -

                      an Xevius production, (c) 1996

                  This demonstration was brought to you by

                          Kasper Hoy Nielsen (Blazer)
                                   &
                         Emil Arffmann Hansen (Hideo)



         _____________лллллллл Full Credits лллллллл_____________


                Art, code, modelling and design by Blazer,
                Soundtrack composed by Hideo,
                Party supporters: Drake and Cape,
                Music system (midas) by Sahara Surfers
                DOS Extender (pmode) by Tran & Daredevil



         _____________лллллллл About the demo лллллллл_____________

A new demo from Xevius productions ! Now how did that happen ?? Actually
we're not quite sure ourselves :). The demo was put together in about one
week before Summer Encounter'96, to test our new demo engine which has
been in development since The Party 1995.
Everything in the demo is ofcourse real-time calculated.


           _____________лллллллл Disclaimer лллллллл_____________

We can and will not be held responsible for this demos behavior.
If anything bad happens when you run this demo, it's not our fault.


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This demo takes advantage of _linear_ truecolor modes (16 million colors),
made possible by the VESA BIOS Extensions 2.0. If your videocard dosn't
support VBE 2.0 :), you can use SciTech's univbe 5.1 or 5.2 (5.2 preferred).

For best performance check that your videocard supports 320x200 in 32bit or
320x200 in 24bit.  The demo will also run on videocards that only support
linear 640x400 in 32bit or 24bit by faking a lower resolution, but this is
slower than using the real thing.

I everything fails, you can run the demo in standard 320x200x256 in
black & white using the 'bw' switch, or you can use the 'fake' switch,
which will try to emulate 24bit using a tweaked VGA mode with 12bit color
dithering. This is however both ugly and slow, so I really can't recommend
it.


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The demo is optimized and written for the Pentium processor.  The demo
will run on a 486, but propably be very slow.  This is due to the fact
that the demo uses floating point calculations, which is fast on
the Pentium but isn't on the 486.

The 3D-Engine, codenamed "Hector" :), was coded in two weeks, partly based
on our old 16bit engine, but otherwise totally rewritten.  I (Blazer)
therefore havn't had time to optimize the engine as much as I ought to,
so running this on less than 90MHz Pentium is propably gonna be a little
jerky, sorry.

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The demo uses about 9MB of memory by default.  If you don't have enough
memory the demo will exit to dos while running with an 'out of
memory message'.  Sorry, we are too lazy to fix this.
Since the compo-rules said that the demo should be able to run on a
486 w. 8MB you can run the demo with a 'noload' switch.
This will turn of preloading of all the demos datafiles, and might effect
the demos sync to the music, but it will 'only' use about 7MB.


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We are using the Midas soundsystem for music output.  Midas supports
more than 10 different soundcards.  The demo will try to autodetect
your soundcard. However, if this should fail you can configure
the soundcard settings by using the 'config' switch.


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Blazer sends thanks to:
 
 Drake          -  for convincing me to switch to pmode coding, and for
                   letting us use his apartment for our productive(?)
                   meetings.

 Cape           -  for discussing and implementing varius strange effects
                   with me.

 Painless       -  for supplying med with goa trance for my coding sessions.

 Juggler/Xtacy  -  for teaching me some 3ds tricks.

 Sahara Surfers -  for creating Midas.  Without it, this demo would have
                   been... well, silent on anything but GUS.

 Tran,Daredevil -  for creating pmode.


Hideo sends thanks to:

 Triton          -  For FastTracker 2. Support > 1MB ram please!


 RR, Kosmic, Maz, TRiP, M-o-M... And all the rest of you, giving away your
 samples for free :)


Greetings:

 Greetings to all demo-groups around the world, especially all danish
 groups which attended Summer Encounter 96. I er allesammen rigtig dejlige :)


      _____________лллллллл How to contact us лллллллл_____________

 Blazer:
 Kasper Hoy Nielsen
 c948488@student.dtu.dk, http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948488

 Hideo:
 Emil Arffmann Hansen
 hideo@inet.zitech.dk


 Blazer & Hideo, 96-08-30.
