PRESENT A MUSIC DISK CALLED HI OVER THERE! JUMPING ON THE KEYBOARD ARE THE FRENCH BROZERS! HE! BEFORE TRYING YOUR LEFT BUTTON ON EVERY PIXELS OF THAT SCREEN,YOU SHOULD READ THE USER GUIDE FIRST... (CREDITS FIRST, OR WHAT DO YOU THINK?) ALL MUSICS WERE COMPOSED BY @SHARP@ A FEW CENTURIES AGO - THE CODE WAS SAVAGELY WRITTEN BY =NEWMARK= AND FINALLY =EKTAR= (ME!) TRIED TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF A FEW LIT PIXELS AND THOUGHT ABOUT THE DESIGN. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 28 OF 1992. THE DOWN AND UP ARROWS ON THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THE SCROLLING SPEED. THE ICONS ON THE OTHER SMALL PANNELS ARE USED TO (UP TO DOWN ORDER) : PLAY/PAUSE MUSIC - SKIP TUNE FORWARD - SKIP BACKWARD (YOU CAN ALSO CLICK DIRECTLY ON THE TUNE NAME - CHANGE PLASMA COLORS - CHANGE COLOR TO WHITE - THE LAST ONE WILL RESET THE COMPUTER, USE LEFT BUTTON FOR IT. WE'D LIKE TO THANK A LOT THE WHOLE TSB TEAM (DETAILLED HELLOS LATER) WE HOPE YOU'LL LIKE THIS PRODUCTION, EVEN IF WE MADE (AT LEAST I DID) IT FOR OUR OWN PLEASURE MORE THAN FOR OTHERS ONE'S. SOME OF YOU WOULD MAYBE LIKE TO EXCHANGE INFORMATIONS WITH US, THAT'S NO PROBLEM BUT YOU SHOULD USE PHONE BECAUSE SENDING LETTERS AND DISKS TAKE QUITE A LONG TIME. (I'M TALKING TO FRENCH GUYS OF COURSE!) IN MY CASE (EKTAR) DON'T CONTACT ME IF YOU OWN AN AMIGA, JUST BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ONE! IN FACT I HAD ONE WHEN WORKING ON THAT PROD, BUT I SOLD IT BACK TO BUY A PC. SEEMS AMAZING? NOT AT ALL. IN FACT, I THINK THAT OWNING AN AMIGA 500 IS QUITE A GOOD THING (WELL, I HAD ONE FOR A LONG TIME!) BECAUSE THIS MACHINE HAS A GOOD PRICE/POWER RATE. I THINK THAT THE BIG PROBLEM ON THE AMIGA 500 IS THE HUGE PRICE OF THE HARD DISKS. BECAUSE OF THIS, NO SERIOUS UTILITIES COULD BE DEVELOPED, BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE GOT TO BIG TO INSTALL ON FLOPPY DISKS. THE LEADERS OF COMMODORE MAYBE THINK THAT A GREAT IMAGE-REWORKER OR A REAL PAINTING UTILITY ONLY TAKES 300KO LIKE DP4? PROBABLY YES, BECAUSE INSTEAD OF DEVELOPING CHEAP AND FAST SCSI HARD DISKS, THEY KEEP DOING STRANGE THINGS AS AN A600 WITH AN I.D.E. (SUCH SLOWER THAN A SCSI CONTROLLER) 20MO INTERNAL HARD-DISK. (THAT MEANS THAT THE 9 MONTHS-OLD QUANTUM I STILL HAVE CAN'T BE PLUGGED ONTO A 600, COZ THEY CHANGED THEIR STANDARD) ON PC'S WE OFTEN HAVE SOME PROBLEM TO USE THE WHOLE MEMORY WE HAVE ON THE MOTHER-CARD. (WELL, YA KNOW, MSDOS 5 IS A BIT TRICKY ON THAT POINT) BUT ANY PC GUY HAS A HARD DISK WHICH CAN BE USED AS A VIRTUAL MEMORY. (THE MS-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT KEEPS DOING THAT ALL DAY LONG) IT IS SUCH LESS FAST THAN A 60 NS MEMORY CHIP, BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW A PROGRAM LIKE 3D PRO OR SCULPT ON AN AMIGA 500 WOULD BE GREATER TO USE? (THOSE PROGRAMS HAVE A UNLOAD CODE OPTION BUT IT GETS HORRIBLE WHEN USING FLOPPIES). MY PC HAS 4 MO RAM BUT WINDOWS 3.0 IS UNABLE TO USE IT ALL (MSDOS IS GUILTY). ANYWAY, I OFTEN OPEN IN THE SAME TIME TWO IMAGE-REWORKER PROGRAMS (ABOUT 2MO EACH) AND THEN LOAD TWO OR THREE 24 BITS 640 X 480 (OR LARGER) IMAGES DATA (EVEN IF YOU ONLY HAVE A SVGA CARD(CHEAP AND POWERFUL ANYWAY)THE PIC REWORKER COMPUTES THE COLORS USING 24BITS. (ONE 640 X 480 24BITS IMAGE IN TARGA FORMAT IS 1MO LARGE) I'M NOT TELLING YOU ALL OF THIS TO PROVE THAN MYYY PC IS BETTER THAN YOUUR AMIGA, (NOT MY KIND..) BUT ONLY TO TELL YOU THAT IF THOSE GUYS FROM COMMODORE WERE INTELLIGENT THEY WOULD HAVE HELPED THE DEVELOPEMENT OF GREAT UTILS. SO THEY SAY: WE DID, WE MADE THE A3000! RAAAA! WHY ARE THEY SURE THAT A DEVELOPER IS GONNA SPEND 1 YEAR TO WRITE A BIG UTILITIE FOR A MACHINE THAT ONLY A FEW GUYS OWN? THE GUYS I SAW USING AN A3000 WERE WORKING ON DELUXE PAINT (ON 1.3 ROM BECAUSE IT CRASHES WITH THE 2.0 ROM HAHA) WELL WHEN I TRIED TO USE SCULPT AND TURBO SILVER IT CRASHED ALSO OF COURSE (THAT IS OF COURSE NORMAL, BUT KEEP ON READING) SO THE SELLER TOLD ME: WAIT FOR THE 2.0 SCULPT UPDATE! YEP MAN... BUT AS EVERYBODY KNOWS SCULPT IS NO MORE DEVELOPED ON THE AMIGA AND I DON'T THINK THAT THE GUYS WHO HAD THE STRENGHT TO WRITE TSILVER OR 3DPRO (ETC) WILL TAKE THE TIME AND THE MONEY TO WRITE A 2.0 VERSION, WHICH WILL MOREOVER USE THE 32 BITS PROCESSOR... (THAT'S WHY THE GUY FROM CBM MADE THE 500 PLUS, BUT 2 YEARS AFTER THE 3000 HAHA!) SO HERE IS THE CONCLUSION: A500 IS NICE. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A JEWEL IF THE HARDWARE (AND HARD DISKS =PARTICULLARY=) WERE AS 'CHEAP' AS ON THE PC MARKET. THE A3000 WILL PROBABLY NEVER HAVE SOME =SERIOUS= UTILITIES (LIKE ON PC OR MAC) WHICH WILL USE THE 2.0 VERSION AND THE POWER OF A 32 BITS PROCESSOR... (WITHOUT FORGETTING THE POOR GUYS WHO BOUGHT A COPROCESSOR) NOW, A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE WELL-KNOWN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM FOR THE AMIGA: STEP INTO ANY PC-SHOP AND ASK TO HAVE A LOOK TO THE MPC (MULTIMEDIA PC) I THINK YOU'LL BE CONVINCED. (HEPS, ALL THOSE JAPANESE MEN OVER THERE ARE MAKING CHEAP CD-ROM AT THE TIME FOR THE PC MARKET(THEIR HARD DISKS ARE CHEAP ALSO) SO BEFORE SPENDING YOUR MONEY FOR A =BIGGER= AMIGA SYSTEM THAN YOUR 500 (I LOVE THE 500!), THINK BEFORE ABOUT THE PC MACHINES. (HEY, DON'T BUY IBM, THEY ARE THE SAME KIND OF MONEY STEALER AS COMMODORE) ALL RIGHT I STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I WILL SURELY TYPE SOME MORE IN ANOTHER PRODUCT. ANYWAY, IF YOU'VE GOT A PC AND NICE UTILS, THEN CONTACT ME. NO GAMES. BY THE WAY MY EXACT HARDWARE IS A 486DX33, A 115 MO HARD DISK (IT'S BIG BUT YOU KNOW, PC DEVELOPERS USE HARD DISKS HEHE), NO SOUND CARD (I'VE ALSO UNPLUGGED THE UGLY PC SPEAKER!) THE GRAPHICS CARD IS A HERCULES GRAPHICS STATION WHICH CAN DISPLAY 512 X 480 X 1677216 (TIGA SYSTEM FOR THOSE WHO KNOW) AND OTHERS MODES LIKE 640 X 480 X 32768 OR 1024 X 768 X 256 UNDER WINDOWS (WITH THE ADVANTAGE OF UPDATABLE DRIVERS FOR A LOT OF APPLICATIONS LIKE AUTOCAD, AUTOSHADE, 3DSTUDIO...) OF COURSE THIS CARD IS MORE THAN A SIMPLE DISPLAY CARD, AND INCLUDE A REAL PROCESSOR (I MEAN MUCH MORE THAN A SIMPLE BLOCK IMAGE TRANSFERER) THIS PROCESSOR WAS DEVELOPPED BY TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (THE TWO FIRST LETTERS OF 'TIGA') AND WHEN PILOTED, IS USED AS A REAL POWERFUL GRAPHIC ACCELERATOR. SUCH PROCESSORS ARE NOT EASY TO PROGRAM, BUT DOCUMENTATIONS ARE REALLY MORE PROVIDED BY TEXAS THAN COMMODORE DOES IT FOR THE AMIGA. (SHAME ON YOU GUYS) ANYWAY HERCULES SOMETIMES SEND YOU DRIVERS, AND YOU CAN UPLOAD WHAT YOU WANT ON THEIR BBS. (WELL, I PREFER MAIL, BECAUSE THEIR BOARD IS IN CALIFORNIA ARGH!) THAT KIND OF CARD IS VERY USEFUL TO REWORK DIRECTLY(WITH A GREAT SPEED) ANY 24 BITS IMAGES. (DON'T THINK THAT THAT SPEED IS DIRECTLY INVOLVED BY THE 486) THE MONITOR IS A CHEAP MULTISCAN MONITOR. (ABOUT 65 PERCENT CHEAPER THAN THE SONY!!) ALL IN ALL, THE STUFF COST ME ABOUT 3500 DOLLARS. YES, IT'S A HUGE AMMOUNT (WELL, I COULD HAVE BOUGHT A SMALL CAR WITH IT, BUT I DIDN'T FIND ANY CHEAP 33MHZ CAR HAEE) YOU SAY 'FUCKIN' WEALTHY ONE'? EAT IT BACK. I WORKED TO GET THE STUFF. (MERCI A L'ANNEE DE FAC QUI M'EN A LAISSE LE TEMPS) BY THE WAY DID YOU NOTICE THAT THOSE 3500 DOLLARS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO BUY AN A3000 WITH A BIG HARD DISK, WITHOUT TWO HIGH DENSITY DRIVES, AND WITHOUT A 24BITS CARD? =ALL RIGHT!= I HOPE I CONVINCED YOU NOT TO BUY A 3000 SYSTEM IF YOU'VE GOT THE MONEY FOR IT. NO MORE ABOUT THIS. = I'VE GOT A FEW WEIRDS PICTURES WHICH NEVER WERE RELEASED, AND WE PLAN SOMEDAY TO PUT THEM ON A DISK AND CALL IT SLIDESHOW. IF I CAN CONVERT CORRECTLY SOME OF MY PC PICTURES TO THE AMIGA STRANGE HAM, THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WILL BE A MULTI-MACHINES-COOPERATION. GREAT HE? I GUESS THAT THE GERMAN BROTHERS WAIT A LONG FOR THAT PRODUCT, BUT HERE IT IS... IF CONVERTIONS ALLOW IT I HOPE SOMETIMES TO GIVE SOME GRAPHICS TO OUR CODERS SO WE CAN MAKE A LITTLE GOODY THINGY. MAKING DEMOS, INTROS, XTROS HAD GONE INTO A REALLY BAD SPIRIT WHEN I SOLD MY AMIGA. LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE, MAKING DEMOS LOOKS SO UNUSEFUL, I SHOULD STAY STUPID. THE ONLY REASON TO LIVE FOR DEMO-MAKING (ALL SORTS OF DEMOS OF COURSE) IS THE PLEASURE OF THE CREATOR HIMSELF. WHAT'S THE INTEREST OF MAKING PICTURES IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY INTERESTED INTO THE FINAL RESULT, BUT ONLY INTERESTED IN HOW LONG EVERYBODY AROUND YOU IS GONNA WATCH IT IN THE DEMO? DO YOU THINK THAT CHARTS ARE SOMETHING INTELLIGENT FOR THIS SPIRIT' IMPROVMENT? WHEN SOME GUYS CREATED AN INTRO CHARTS, SOME OTHERS GUYS STARTED MAKING INTROS, INTROS, INTROS... NOW, THEY ARE RANKED FIRST. THAT'S FINE. WHAT AN INTERESTING SUCCESS. (NOT FOR US AT LEAST) THE AMIGA DEMO SPIRIT (LIKE A LOT OF OTHERS EXTRA-COMPUTER THINGS) TRAVELLED FROM THE PLEASURE OF CREATION TO THE PLEASURE OF BEATING AN UNKNOWN IN A LIST. I KNOW SOME GOOD GRAPHICS-BOYS WHO THINK THAT THEIR HUGE GROUP IS GONNA DO SOMETHING FOR THEM. IN FACT, THEY DO SOMETHING FOR THE GROUP BUT NOT FOR'EM. FINALLY, I THINK THAT ALL THE ENERGY SPENT IN MAKING DEMOS COULD BE SHARED TO MAKE UTILITIES. JUST BECAUSE UTILITIES ARE USED BY ALL COMPUTERS OWNERS, EVEN THE NON-DEMOS-LOVY-LOVERS. TWO OF MY FRIENDS =ELENDIL AND NEWMARK= (BOTH IN TSB) HAD A NICE IDEA A DAY (REPEAT AGAIN: 'IDEA-A-DAY') WHEN TALKING ABOUT MAKING A NEW FRACTAL EFFECTS AND THEN CREATE AN UTILITIE WHICH WILL ALLOW ANYONE TO MAKE HIS OWN IFF WEIRD PICTURES. (I WON'T TELL MORE, OR THEY'LL KILL ME, WAIT SOME WEEKS) THIS WOULD BE A GOOD CONCEPTION FROM THE DEMO. HEY, ALL OF YOU CHARTS-RANKED CODERS, WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO MAKE UTILITIES WITH YOUR ASM SOURCES? (ANIMATORS.. ETC..) MAKING AN UTILITIE REQUESTS A GOOD ATTENTION REGARDING SUCH THINGS AS ICONS, ITEMS, MENUS DESIGN, AND ANYTHING THAT CONCERNS USER PROBLEMS. FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW, WRITING AN UTILITIE IS SUCH A HARDER PROJECT THAN WRITING A DEMO. LOOK AT THIS MUSICDISK. THE CODER HAD NEVER WROTE A TRACKLOAD SOURCE NEITHER A DEPACK SOURCE. NOW HE DID. WELL, I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO CODE MUSICDISKS OR SUCH TRACKTHINGS ALL HIS LIFE. HE TOLD ABOUT A SLIDESHOW-MAKER WHICH WOULD USE THIS CODE. THAT IS TO BE SAID: THE AIM OF DEMOMAKING SHOULD CHANGE! AFTER ALL THIS PHILOSOPHICAL AND QUITE UNNUNUUNDERSTANBLE THING EXCEPT FOR ME THAT I COULD UNDERSTAND IT ALL OR PRESQUE ET QUE I DON'T KNOW SI VOUS ETES ENDORMI OR DECHAINED. (DID YOU GET ME? GARGL) = I WANNA SEND SOME =HELLO MAN HOWARYOU?= TO THE FOLLOWING NICE GUYS WHO HAD THE (MADNESS?) TO READ MY GIGANTIC CRAP: (IT'S COMING) (WHERE THE HECK..??) OO! YOP. NO SPECIAL ORDER. MANTA/XTRADE: YEO! I THINK I GOT TO PHONE YOU BACK SOON, THEN I GOT TO ANSWER YOUR LAST LETTER, THEN I GOT TO POST IT. TODAY IS THE DAY WHEN YOU PHONED ME TODAY. GOTME? GOTA THINGS TOODO. - FLASH/FRANTIC: WHERE ARE YOU? I FOUND BACK THE LITTLE THING YOU HAD SENT ME SOME MONTHS AGO. WHEN USING A LIGHTER ON IT IT MADE =SHPAFF= GUESS WHAT IT WAS - TYRANT/DEFCON1: HELLO PURE METAL SWAPPER! MEL'O'DEE/SHINING: YOUR LETTER IS HOME! ANSWER COMING SOON (HEMM) THE WANDA FISH WAS SEEN IN MY BATHROOM - RHOD/ANARCHY: DITES MOI COLONEL, QUE DEVENEZ VOUS? - HYGRAICC/TSB: MERCI POUR LES COUPS DE TELEPHONE, LES PAROLES QUE VOUS EXHIBATES ME FURENT DES PLUS SYMPATHIQUES. AU FAIT LE MUSICDISK EST SORTI... - LOKH/TSB: LES POILS, TJRS LES POILS? - MAC/BBUSTERS: BEEN A LONG TIME HE? STILL ALLRIGHT OVER THERE? - QUATERMAN/MAJIC12: LONG TIME ALSO SINCE LAST WORDS!BIG KISSES. (BOAA) - FLETCH/TSB:TU TE REMETS AU DROIT? MMPFF - EX-SURFER/ANARCHY: UN BON CHOIX NON? TELEPHONE MOI UN DE CES JOURS 47231537 (IMPARDONNABLE!) - BAW/KEUDAL: CETTE HOMME AU GLAIVE D'ACIER ABOIE ET LA LAMBADA PASSE. - (!) - DECKARD/BR: HOW IS GOING RACHAEL? - AGONY/?: C'EN EST OU LES AFFAIRES? - EVERY GUYS FROM ALL OTHERS SECTIONS: TAIIOOT. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - ALBATROS/?: BONJOUR. - JUGGER/PANIC: HI! GOOD OLD SWAP MEMORY! - IDEAL/REBELS: DE NOUVEAUX PIXELS? JE CROIS QU'ELENDIL EN A BESOIN - FRANK/?: SALUT SYSOP! (?) - SHARP/TSB: ENVOIES NOUS DES MUSIQUES SI TU EN AS. (A RODOLPHE BIEN SUR..) CA TE FAIT QUEL EFFET DE VOIR TON MUSICDISK? (O LONGUE ATTENTE) - ELENDIL/TSB: YA PAS GRAND CHOSE A DIRE MAIS ENFIN.. - BURST/TSB: HE OUI HE OUI IL EST SORTI - FREDD/TSB: CA VA VOUS? - WELL I THINK THAT IT MUST BE ALL. I FEEL THAT I FORGOT SOME FRIENDS BUT I (OF COURSE) DIDN'T INCLUDE THE GUYS I DON'T LIKE. SO I YOU WANT TO KNOW IF I FORGOT YOU (THEN I'LL APOLOGIZE ABOUT IT) OR IF I DON'T LIKE YOU THEN PHONE ME AND YOU'LL KNOW. 'AU REVOIR' TO ALL OF YOU AND THANKS FOR LISTENING, AND READING. NEWMARK'S TEXT COMING. =EKTAR= 06/14/1992. ;<=<; ZZZZ... ZZ.. BMZZZ! GRMBZZ! (HEY WAKE UP CODER!) BRMMLBZ!? (COME ON IT'S YOUR TURN)