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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!).
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- 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 :
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 :
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- Write (in French or in English) to Doc Chainsaw :
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- 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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