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│-=- The Sixth Sense -=-│
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│ What 's The Sixth Sense ? │
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│ T.S.S. doesn't mean Task State Segment. T.S.S. means 'The Sixth Sense'. │
│ The Sixth Sense is a group of 5 persons (for the moment) who want to make │
│demos, demos, demos and...demos. │
│ The story started in June 1992 when Doc Chainsaw wanted to create a team │
│on the PC scene.Then, plenty (a lot!) of people wanted to join the group, │
│but we did not accept everybody and so we had to refuse some people │
│(2 c*a*k*rs,1 cat, a shitty Gfx, a musician, and a lot of lamers who only │
│wanted to get some news). 'The Sixth Sense' was not decided since the │
│beginning, the first name was 'Apocalypse' but it only lasted 2 days │
│'coz there were already 3 groups with this name. The second one was │
│'CASCADA' but this one was already taken too (like 'FUTURE CREW','THE SPACE│
│PIGS','ULTRAFORCE','RENAISSANCE','TDT' (Ooops!)....).The situation was │
│difficult until we found 'THE SIXTH SENSE' and 'HARWARE FANTASY'. Some │
│members didn't like 'HARDWARE FANTASY',so we took 'THE SIXTH SENSE' and │
│here we are now on the PC scene, ready to stay and to...(watch the demo!). │
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│ MemberList │
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Doc Chainsaw...................................................Main Coder/Gfx
Silence Mayday................................................RayTracing!/BBS
Le Chuck......................................................Fantastic Musik
Dark Elf...................................................Coder/Relationship
The Executer.....................................................Relationship
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│ Enchantia │
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Enchantia is our first demo (please enjoy). It was released in 1993 (well...
just a few in 1992). It was coded in 5 weeks (Hard work!) including 3 school
weeks (Damned school here too!).
If the demo encounters problems,you may have a message like :
An error occured : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(E)xit or (C)ontinue ?
You should hit 'E' but if you want to go on,you can too by pressing 'C'
AT YOUR OWN RISK !
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│ Testing │
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Enchantia was succesfully tested on 486-33 PCs and run perfectly without
bugs except we noticed 2 vertical bars on the sides of the main menu
when it scrolls and that the UFO may become translucent when he went to the
top of the screen but you have to know :
1) To keep this scroll smooth we had to update directly the video memory
and then it becomes very difficult to keep something smooth without bugs.
2) We released a version using another part of the memory to build the
screen (not the video memory at A000h:0000h) but the menu run so slowly
that we did not want to let it like that.
3) All routines (sprites routines,"MEGAMOVE" routines) are written in
assembler.
4) We could limit the screen but we do not like this.
5) If you try on a very fast PC, the UFO won't become translucent.
The demo was succesfully tested with :
Sound Blaster 1.5
Sound Blaster Pro 1.0
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
Here we do not use CM/S but in the future, maybe...
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│ Hardware │
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This demo requires :
-a PC (486-33 recommanded)
-a full registers compatible VGA card.We think this demo can run with 64K of
Video memory but we did not test it because it's getting harder to find
those cards.
-a hard disk (or BIG floppy disks) with more than 4 Meg Free
-a SB or SB Pro (optionnal)
-a Microsoft compatible mouse.
-you to run it
-your sister to contact us...No!..to contact ME ! (Doc Chainsaw) and her photo
-all your family and your friends to watch it
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│ Use │
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-run DEMO86.EXE (no maths copro)
-run DEMO87.EXE (with maths copro)
-choose correct options (DO NOT CHEAT!)
-use your mouse to select a part in the main menu
-click on the left button
-to exit go to "HAVE A NICE DOS" (what a good joke!) and click (left button)
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│ Memory │
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The demo runs with about 400 Ko Free but you won't get musics (you really
miss something!).To run with musics, you need more than 600 Ko. When we
tested the demo,we get all the musics with 620 Ko.
The demo uses UMBs if detected.
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│Compression│
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In this demo, we have a lot of parts based on bitmap graphics we read from
disk. We did not compress files because of two reasons :
-It's a real shit to do it !
-It would slow down the demo.
If you want to store this demo and to keep the maximum of free space, use
what you like. We recommand the excellent ARJ because using it, we get
a file which took less than 1.44 Mo.
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│ Speed │
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The demo run perfectly on fast PC (like 486). If you encounter any problem,
try this :
- Choose a lower mixing rate.
- Remove memory managers.
- Try the /SLOW option to use the "Slow-Machine-Mode" routines.
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│ Space │
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The MAGMA takes 647900 bytes. We know it's a lot and so you can put this
part (ONLY THIS PART !) off by deleting the following files:
ANIM1-0.TSS
ANIM1-1.TSS
ANIM1-2.TSS
ANIM1-3.TSS
ANIM1-4.TSS
ANIM1-5.TSS
ANIM1-6.TSS
ANIM1-7.TSS
ANIM1-8.TSS
ANIM1-9.TSS
After having deleted the files, you won't be able to run this part but
the demo will still run other parts.
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│ PartList │
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Number Name Mode
1 Title Both
2 WaterScrolling between parts Fast ┌────────────────┐
3 DotScrolling between parts Slow │ REMARK │
4 Main Menu Both │ │
5 Message and Bars with water effect Fast │ You can select │
6 Message and Bars without water effect Slow │mode specifying │
7 The Bobs Both │options : │
8 TeknoPart Both │ │
9 PlasmaBars Both │ /FAST (default)│
10 FunPart Both │ │
11 3D Balls Dance Both │ for FAST PCs │
12 RayTracing Slide Show Both │ │
13 Credits Scrolling Both │ /SLOW │
14 Help with water effect Fast │ for SLOW PCs │
15 Help without water effect Slow │ │
16 Fire Plasma Both │ Use the /h │
17 Marble Plasma Both │ option to │
18 Intel-TSS Joke Both │ display help. │
19 Shade Lines Both └────────────────┘
20 Magma Both
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│ Contact us │
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Phone :
(33) 40-50-94-37 (Doc Chainsaw) and ask for Mathieu
(33) 16-1-47-34-08-28 (Silence Mayday) and ask for Tom
Fax :
(33) 40-11-80-85 (Dark Elf)
Modem :
(33) 16-1-43-06-42-49 (Silence Mayday)
Mail :
Write (in French or in English) to Doc Chainsaw :
THE SIXTH SENSE Productions
14,avenue de chenonceaux
Les Residences du Parc
44470 CARQUEFOU
FRANCE
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│ Important │
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We want to insist on the fact that we did not earn money for this demo. This
demo is Copyright (C) 1993 The Sixth Sense. All rights are reserved. Anyway,
please feel free to copy it for all your friends. Commercial use is forbidden.
You can't earn money copying or distributing this demo. You are not allowed
to modify it.
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│ AND NOW WATCH THE DEMO (if you have ever watched it,watch it again...enjoy)│
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