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A DEMO FROM THE X-TEAM
ARM's Tech - BASS - Eddie xxx - Excelsior ¹
PRODUCED BY
BASS
Welcome to the Xtreme demo ! This is probably the very first Acorn demo made
by several foreign demo crews together. It features several exciting
techniques never shown in the Acorn demo scene until now.
Have fun with this demo and may this be the beginning of a new era in the
Acorn demo making.
Interesting bits
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- Every demo part can be skipped by pressing the <Esc> key. In some rare
cases when the responce on the <Esc> key is not immediately, have just a
little bit of patience.
- Pressing <Ctrl><Esc> will stop the demo completely.
System requirements
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Xtreme will run on many Archimedes and RiscPC machines however not all demo
parts will work on the low end machines. Some demo parts will (most of the
time silently) be skipped when the necessairy hardware (e.g. VIDC20) isn't
available. If you want to see every demo part in its full glory, run the
demo on a RiscPC with 1 MByte VRAM !
RISC OS 3.1
Xtreme needs at least RISC OS 3.1 as we used various RISC OS 3.1 features
which made our lives easier. If you don't have RISC OS 3.1 (or higher), then
the only option is to upgrade your OS. We're Xtremely sorry for this.
Necessairy free memory
We also recommend you have at least 1.6 MByte RAM *free* (ie. the sum of the
'Next' and 'Free' slot in the Task Manager window). When there is less
memory free, you'll risk to miss the best bits.
RiscPC
The RiscPC has a nice feature for defining new screenmodes. For the Xtreme
demo we need the following three modes definitions : 320x256, 640x256 and
640x480. When these mode definitions are not available on your system, you
will be asked if we may add them to your current mode definition file.
Dragging your current mode definition file to the window will do all
necessairy things automatically for you. But you can also add the
definitions yourself by adding the Xtreme mode definitions (the files
'320x256', '640x256' and '640x480' in the directory <Xtreme$Dir>.Resources)
at the end of your mode definition file and don't forget to reload the new
mode definiton file. In the latter case, be sure that you don't have twice
the same mode defined.
Why "Xtreme" ?
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...because it took Xtremely long to finish it
...because it is Xtremely long
...because there are Xtremely many X's in Eddie's name
...because there are Xtremely many rotation routines used
...because we have Xtremely many routines and idea's left unused :-(
...because "Xperience" was already been used
...and because its first name, "EuroDemo", sounds so dull
Conditions of use/distribution
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This program may be freely copied on condition that all files are included
and are *UNALTERED*. No charge may be imposed except for a *small* amount
for media and copying. Please bear in mind we wrote this during our
spare time and do not gain anything on it !!!
If you're going to place this demo on a CD, we would like one for each
demo group for free. You can contact us, see
http://droopy.imag.fr/~elisei
On this Web site you will be able to find the latest version of Xtreme.
Please try to get the latest version before mass distribution.
Versions
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v1.02 : 1st public version
¹ Unfortunately Armaxess canceled their Xtreme participation just before the
deadline. We're Xtremely sorry not to be able to include their demo parts as
their work is always of outstanding quality. Let's hope that the things
they've written for Xtreme demo so far don't get lost and find their way in
another demo production.
And finally
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Remember we made this demo for fun and during our precious sparetime. If you
have constructive comments then we would like to hear them. Also, we are
interested to make commercial demo's for Acorn products.
(c) 1995 X-Team