********** DECIBEL OVERLOAD MUSIC DISK ***** BY CUE-X DEVELOPMENTS © 1992 ***** DON'T DELETE ME - I'M NOT A VIRUS ***** BOOT ME INSTEAD! ********** st-00:mod.sl2 remix st-00:modules/mod.heaven st-00:mod.owens theme st-00:modules/mod.miyawi st-00:mod.force THIS IS DECIBEL OVERLOAD BY THE CUE-X DEVELOPMENTS TEAM RELEASED AUGUST 1992 - COPYRIGHT AUGUST 1992 CUE-X INSTRUCTIONS: SELECT A TUNE FROM THE LIST BY CLICKING THE MOUSE POINTER OVER IT. CHANGE THE SCROLL SPEED WITH THE KEYS F1 TO F5 OR USE 1 TO 5 ON THE KEYPAD IF YOU ARE A CDTV OWNER. SELECT THE SCROLL TEXT EITHER THIS TEXT WITH F6 OR KEYPAD 6 OR THE CONTACT SCROLLER WITH F7 OR KEYPAD 7. CREDITS: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - PRISMAX GRAPHICS BY OPTIC DREAM MUSICS BY OWEN (HEAVEN AND PIANOLA) FIL (SL2 AND MIYAWI) AND ARAN (FORCE) SPREADING BY TRACKER PRISMAX TYPING ... WELL IT HAS BEEN A HELL OF A LONG TIME SINCE WE RELEASED A DEMO THE LAST ONE WE DID WAS IN FACT OUR NOW FAMOUS RED DWARF DEMO WHICH YOU MAY HAVE SEEN REVIEWED IN A COUPLE OF AMIGA MAGAZINES THE LATEST BEING THE JUNE 1992 CU AMIGA MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT GOT 88 PERCENT - PREVIOUSLY IT HAD BEEN GIVEN 81 PERCENT IN ISSUE 1 OF PUBLIC DOMAIN AND SHAREWARE MAGAZINE. I WAS VERY LAZY OVER LAST SUMMER AND WE PLANNED TO RELEASE A DEMO AT THE E.C.E.S. IN LONDON IN SEPTEMBER I WAS WELL INTO A NEW PROGRAM AND THEN THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAD MADE IT A TRADE ONLY SHOW. WAS I ANNOYED OR WHAT IT PUT ME OFF CODING A LITTLE BIT BUT I WAS STILL TINKERING AROUND. WE WENT TO THE -WORLD OF COMMODORE SHOW- BUT DIDN'T RELEASE ANYTHING I AM SAD TO SAY - NEVER MIND. WE STARTED WORK ON DECIBEL OVERLOAD AT THE END OF 1991 AND I DID QUITE A BIT OF WORK IN THE FIRST FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS. BUT THEN I HAD TO DO A COMPUTER STUDIES PROJECT FOR MY A-LEVEL AT COLLEGE (USING AMOS I AM AFRAID TO SAY - I DO NOT USUALLY TOUCH IT) THAT TOOK A WHOLE LOAD OF TIME UP. THEN CAME MY A-LEVELS AND I HAD EVEN LESS TIME THAN BEFORE SO DBO GOT SET BACK QUITE A BIT. ALSO I PUT A SATELLITE TV SYSTEM IN MY HOUSE THIS TOOK UP ALOT OF MY TIME TOO, AND STILL DOES TO SOME DEGREE. I HAVE A PACE MULTI SATELLITE SYSTEM AND GET 90+ CHANNELS!!! I SEE LOADS OF UPLINKS FOR NEWS BROADCASTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS. ALSO THERE ARE LOADS OF TESTCARDS AND CAPTIONS GOING UP ON VARIOUS SATELLITES FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES. I AM HOPING TO SEE SOME WIDESCREEN BROADCASTS TOO ON MY D2-MAC SETUP. (I HAVE DONE SINCE I WROTE THIS!) ANY SAT BUFFS WANTING TO CONTACT ME, PLEASE DO IT THROUGH -TRACKER- AT THE ADDRESS IN THE CONTACT SCROLLER (F7 OR KEYPAD 7) HAPPY SAT HUNTING SKY WATCHERS!! MY LAZINESS IS NOW IN THE PAST, AND THIS IS HOPEFULLY THE FIRST OF QUITE A FEW RELEASES THIS SUMMER. OUR NEXT PRODUCTION WILL BE A MUSIC DISK FOR ALL YOU HARDCORE AND RAVE MUSIC FREAKS OUT THERE. A NAME HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED FOR IT YET, BUT I HAVE ALL THE MUSIC READY FOR IT ON MY HARD DRIVE. WE ARE STILL DECIDING ON THE GRAPHICS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND THE OVERALL DESIGN, BUT IT SHOULD BE WITH YOU FAIRLY QUICKLY BECAUSE I HAVE MOST OF THE CODE ALREADY PREPARED. IF YOU WANT A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME LOAD UP THE LAST TRACK - FORCE. ALSO, CUE-X DEVELOPMENTS HAVE HAD QUITE A FEW ADDITIONS TO OUR TEAM SINCE LAST MAY 1991 OPTIC DREAM AND MIKEY J. - 2 GRAPHIC ARTISTS, BROTHERS IN FACT - OPTIC DID ALL THE WORK FOR THIS DEMO FIL - A MUSICIAN WHO DID A COUPLE OF THE PIECES ON THIS DISK ARAN - ANOTHER MUSICIAN WHO DID THE RAVE TRACK AND THE MUSIC FOR OUR NEXT PRODUCTION THOSE ARE WHO I CONSIDER THE -OFFICIAL- JOININGS THERE ARE A FEW OTHER ASSOCIATES WHO DESERVE A MENTION... MY COUSIN - RICHARD TAYLOR, OF LONG EATON SOFTWARE CENTRE, LONG EATON, NOTTINGHAM. (QUICK ADVERT THERE!) AND ALL THE GANG THERE, STUART TOMPKINS, MARK CONNORS. A FINAL WORD TO ALL PRODUCING DEMOS FOR THE AMIGA PLEASE MAKE THEM COMPATIBLE WITH ALL MACHINES! ALOT OF THE LATEST DEMOS WE SEE ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH KICKSTART 2.0 AND SOME DO NOT EVEN RUN ON 1.3 BASED SYSTEMS SUCH AS CDTV IT'S REALLY ANNOYING THAT I CAN'T CODE AND RUN YOUR DEMOS AT THE SAME TIME!!!! PLEASE TRY TO DO SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY WITH THE NEW HIGH TECH, HIGH SPEC AMIGAS COMING ONTO THE MARKET!!! ALSO HAVE A GO AT MUCKING ABOUT WITH THE LOADER. ON A KICK 2.0 SYSTEM YOU -SHOULD- BE ABLE TO BOOT FROM ANY DRIVE. TRY REMOVING THE DISK NOW AND LOADING, REPLACE WITH A DIFFERENT DISK AND TRY AGAIN! GOOD ERROR CHECKING EH!! IF YOU DO MANAGE TO CRASH IT, LET ME KNOW! THAT'S ALL FROM ME FOR THE MOMENT - NOW IT IS THE REST OF THE MEMBERS TURN TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS - A WORD FROM OUR GRAPHICS ARTIST - OPTIC DREAM TYPING. I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS FONT BECAUSE I HAD TO CONSTRUCT MY OWN TEMPLATE FROM SCRATCH. ANYWAY THE ALL NEW GRAPHIC ARTIST FOR CUE-X DEVELOPMENTS BRINGING YOU PASTEL DELIGHTS FROM MY PUMP ACTION PALETTE. I SPECIALISE IN FINE ART PRODUCTION SO WATCH OUT FOR THE INTRO IN THE NEXT DEMO. I THINK I WILL TELL A STORY. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED AT MY 20TH BIRTHDAY PARTY.... ABOUT 7.00 PM, 5 PEOPLE TURNED UP WITH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (AT THIS POINT MY AMPLIFIER WAS ON A QUARTER VOLUME, QUITE LOUD!), 8.00 PM - MOST OF CUE-X DEVELOPMENTS WERE FLOATING IN PUNCH AND THE SMELL OF MY DAD'S BARBECUE WAS POLLUTING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (MY AMPLIFIER WAS NOW ON HALF VOLUME, LOUD!), 10.00PM - MOST OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD HAD ARRIVED AT MY HOUSE, ALONG WITH 2 CARDBOARD MODELS OF A PERSON UNKNOWN TO MOST OF US. FOOD AND DRINK WERE BEING CONSUMED AT A RATE OF ABOUT 5 GALLONS AN HOUR OR 2 BURGERS A MINUTE (AT THIS POINT MOST OF THE SURROUNDING TOWN COULD HEAR ROCK MUSIC BLARING OVER THE SOUND OF THEIR PUNY T.V. SETS HA HA HA.., F...ING LOUD!) 1.00 AM - QUITE DRUNK AND REGAINING THE ART OF WALKING I PICKED MYSELF UP AND TRIED TO TAKE CONTROL OF MY AMPLIFIER WHICH HAD VERY LITTLE EFFECT. I GOT BRIBED TO PUT SOME RAVE MUSIC ON BY A GANG OF YOUTHS WHO WERE APPARENTLY MY COLLEGE MATES OF '89, PROBABLY JUST A FEEBLE EXCUSE TO CHAT MY MOTHER UP (NOW, TO MY SURPRISE THE AMPLIFIER WAS ON THREE QUARTER VOLUME - AT WHICH TIME THE SPEAKERS CLAPPED OUT AND THE TWEETERS DIED!). WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE QUESTION WHICH W.NKER KEPT TURNING MY AMPLIFIER UP ... WELL ENOUGH OF THE STORYTELLING AND BACK TO THE DEMO... YOU KNOW I'M SO GLAD THAT THIS DEMO HAS FINALLY BEEN RELEASED BECAUSE IT'S OUR FIRST MUSIC DISK FOR A LONG TIME AND I WANTED IT TO BE OUT FOR THE SUMMER. I HAVE JUST FINISHED MY EXAMS AND I AM WAITING FOR MY FINAL PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. HELLOS GO OUT TO MOM, DAD, GRANDMA, GRANDAD, AND ALL MY OTHER RELATIVES. ALSO BIG HI'S GO OUT TRACEY MY COLLEAGUE, JUSTIN (YOU BELL), HI TO PAUL SHAHID, MAT CHERITON, RICHARD O'BRIEN, SHARON STONE, AND ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE - FACET, DAN, ZERO DEFECTS, LSD, CRIONICS, ANARCHY, UNO, SANITY, N.W.A., NED (TURBO NUTTER), DOMINATORS, MICHAEL KEATON, STU, SPEEDYSOFT INTERNATIONAL. THAT'S IT I'M AFRAID! OPTIC DREAM SIGNING OFF ..... AND NOW A VERY LONG WORD FROM THE CUE-X SPREADER EXTRAORDINAIRE - TRACKER THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HHMMMMM! YES, WELL AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR OF NOT HAVING DONE A SINGLE PRODUCTION WE ARE NOW BACK AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY. BEFORE WE WERE RATHER CASUAL ABOUT WHAT WE WERE DOING, RELEASING STUFF THAT HARDLY GOT ANYWHERE AND IN THE MAIN WERE ONE MAN EFFORTS BY PRISMAX. THAT WAS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF YEARS AGO, AFTER I HAD KNOWN PRISMAX FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS. THAT WAS THE LATTER HALF OF 1990. THINGS ONLY REALLY STARTED TO GET INTO FORWARD GEAR IN THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF 1991, AFTER I HAD MET OUR FIRST PROPER MUSICIAN OWEN AND HAD HEARD HOW TALENTED HE WAS. THE AMIGA VERSION OF HEAVEN CAN NEVER DO JUSTICE TO HEARING OWEN PLAY IT ON TWO KEYBOARDS SIMULTANIOUSLY, YOU JUST WANT TO SIT BACK AND MELLOW OUT AS SOON AS HE STARTS PLAYING! HE HAS SINCE LEARNT THE GUITAR AND COMES OUT WITH SOME STUNNING RENDITIONS OF VARIOUS WELL KNOWN PIECES. NOW WE HAD A CODER AND A MUSICIAN AND ME, JUST TRADING PD AROUND VARIOUS PLACES BUT IN NO WAY INVOLVED IN THE SCENE. THEN IN THE FATEFUL MONTH OF MARCH 1991 I HAD THE IDEA FOR THE RED DWARF DEMO THIS WAS DESTINED TO BE TWO THINGS, OUR BIGGEST AND BEST PRODUCTION TO DATE AND OUR LAST UNTIL WHAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU NOW. IT TOOK APPROX 3 - 4 WEEKS FROM CONCEPTION TO COMPLETION. THIS TIME IT WAS THE WORK OF THREE GUYS, PRISMAX (IN THOSE DAYS KNOWN AS MAT) WHO DID THE GRAPHICS AND VIDEO DIGITISING ASWELL AS THE CODE, OWEN WHO AS MENTIONED BEFORE DID THE MUSIC, AND AUDIO SAMPLING WAS DONE BY ME USING PRISMAX'S SAMPLER. IT WAS RELEASED AT THE COMPUTER SHOPPER SHOW IN MAY 1991. WE RELEASED IT TO THE PD COMPANIES AND LEFT IT AT THAT. CUE-X THEN EFFECTIVELY CEASED TO EXIST, PRISMAX FIDDLED ABOUT WITH VARIOUS BITS AND BOBS, I CONTINUED TO SWAP A LITTLE BUT STILL NO SCENE STUFF AND OWEN COMPOSED TUNES WHEN HE FELT LIKE IT. BETWEEN MAY 1991 AND NOW I SLOWLY BUT SURELY GATHERED MEMBERS MOST OF WHOM I HAD KNOWN ANYWAY BUT THEY SUDDENLY SPROUTED MUSICAL AND GRAPHICAL TALENTS. RED DWARF ALSO ENJOYED A RERELEASE AT AN ALL FORMATS SHOW, WE WERE VERY PLEASED AS VIRTUALLY EVERY AMIGA IN THE SHOW HALLS HAD OWEN'S RENDITION OF THE RED DWARF THEME TUNE BLARING OUT AT HIGH VOLUME. AFTER THIS WE RECEIVED A COUPLE OF CALLS BUT NOTHING MAJOR. EVERYTHING THEN WENT BACK TO ITS BITS AND PIECES BUT NOTHING COMPLETE NORM. THAT BRINGS US UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. NOW WE ARE BACK IN EARNEST AND WE MEAN TO STAY, MAKING OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCENE. I HOPE TO MAKE FRIENDS OUT THERE IN THE SCENE (PLEASE NOTE THAT WHEN SWAPPING WITH ME FRIENDSHIP IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN SPEED, THIS HOWEVER DOES NOT MEAN LAMERS). WE HAVE A NUMBER A PRODUCTIONS PLANNED AND IN THE PIPELINE, THE FIRST OF WHICH WILL BE THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED RAVE MUSIC DISK FOR ALL YOU RAVE LOVERS OUT THERE (MAJIC MUSHROOM YOU ARE GONNA LOVE IT!). FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS OTHER THINGS INCLUDING BURNING EYES LIVE AND THE RED DWARF DEMO II. PEOPLE WANTING TO CONTACT ME SHOULD LOOK IN THE CONTACT SCROLLTEXT. (HIT F7 OR KPAD 7) GREETINGS GO OUT TO LSD, DUAL CREW, ANARCHY, KEFRENS, ANDROMEDA, GOLDFIRE, AXIS, MELON DEZIGN, DIGITAL, SANITY, CRIONICS, COMPLEX, PHENOMENA, ALCATRAZ, TRSI, QUARTZ, LEGEND, CRYSTAL, PMC, CRYPTOBURNERS AND ALL THE OTHERS THAT ESCAPE ME NOW. PERSONAL GREETS GO OUT TO THE GUYS AT SPEEDYSOFT, CAPRICORN COMPUTERS, ANY OF THE LASERZONE (NOT LASERQUEST) STAFF THAT MAY READ THIS, BEN, FABIAN, STU, MARK CONNORS, NORMAN AT TELESCAN COMPUTER SERVICES, RAINMAN AND ALL OF THE GUYS IN CUE-X TRACKER SIGNING OFF ..... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE !!!! YES, AGAINST YOUR BETTER JUDGEMENT YOU HAVE SELECTED THE CONTACT SCROLL TRACKER TYPING, THIS TEXT IS BEING WRITTEN BECAUSE PRISMAX HAS JUST SAT ME DOWN AND SAID RIGHT, HIT THE KEYBOARD! I WANT TO SEE IT SMOKE!! SO ANYWAY HERE GOES. SHOULD YOU FEEL THE URGE TO CONTACT CUE-X FOR ANY REASON THEN THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS IS THE ONLY ONE YOU NEED. SELECT THE SLOW SCROLL SPEED WITH F1 OR 1 ON THE KEYPAD COS HERE IT IS ..... GREG, 89 WOODROW CRESCENT, KNOWLE, SOLIHULL, WEST MIDLANDS B93 9EQ, ENGLAND. (LEGAL SWAPPING ONLY) - AND ONLY LETTERS WITH DISKS GET 100 PERCENT REPLY. LAMERS SENDING CEBIT 90 ETC, WILL LOOSE THEIR DISKS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! CONTACT SCROLLER ENDS .. NORMAL SERVICE RESUMES SOON ..