frostbyte by Core [web]
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F R O S T B Y T E
at midwinter 99
PREFACE..............................................................
Finally, Core Productions winning contribution at the Midwinter `99
democompetition. The promised unfinished part did unfortunately not
make it due to heavy load from university studies. Too bad, because
motioncaptured data looks very cool :-) The demo is in other words
exactly as shown in the compo.
INSTALL..............................................................
Unpack to a directory of your choice, where a "frostbyte"-directory
will be created:
FROSTBYTE/
DATA/ - data for demo
SHOULD_BE_IN_LIBS/ - xpkmaster.library and sublib, put in LIBS:
FROSTBYTE.EXE - change dir to here (PROGDIR:) and run this
The demo will need _two_ timers!! Close any program using any timer
(like executive) before running Frostbyte. Xpkmaster is also needed
and an (old) version is included. AGA is not needed, thanks to RTG.
To use RTG functionality, rtgmaster.library must be installed (not
included). About 5Mbyte of memory and a 020 is required minimum.
Tested on A1200/030'50 AGA
A4000/040'33+604'180 Permedia2
A4000/060'50 AGA
UAE/020'25 TNT
COMMANDLINE..........................................................
Available commandlineparameters are listed here. There are two main
modes: custom-AGA and RTG. Even though RTG also supports AGA, it is
a different mode from the built-in custom-AGA. Built-in AGA is also
faster in most cases. RTG could atleast in theory work in ECS-mode,
but it would be pretty useless.
> Default is AGA mode and PAL screen.
> If you own a graphicscard, do not forget to give the "RTG" swith!
RTG-Mode: RTG
Custom AGA-Screen: NTSC | MULTISCAN | MULTISCAN2
RTG-Compatibility: MODFIX
MODFIX corrects a problem with AGA under RTG. Very few c2p-modules
in rtgmaster.library support different modulos of source and
destination buffer so modfix fixes that, but at a lower framerate.
Only synchronous c2p-modules work (usually CPU-only c2p). A rather
good one is "cpu040" (works on 020/030 as well, but may change in
newer versions of rtgmaster).
If running the demo in a Workbench-window, you must also use MODFIX
and only 8bits screens are allowed (rtgmaster should take care of
that, but it doesn't, maybe in the future).
When using rtgmaster, remember that holding down shift-key will
bring up the rtg-screenmode requester if you once saved a setting.
All in all, rtgmaster is pretty cool since the exact same code is
used for aga-display and rtg-display. Easy to program for both!
Just call CopyRtgBlit() and graphics will be shown on ECS, AGA,
Cybervision, Permedia2, TNT... etc. depending on what hardware the
user has got.
CREDITS..............................................................
All coding, graphics and design by Andreas 'Icon' Lindquist and
Lennart 'Houbba' Marklund. Music by Torbjörn 'Megaodi' Enqvist.
The Player6.1a by Sahara Surfers and others.
Core Productions - cp@acc.umu.se - www.acc.umu.se/~cp
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