Expression by Abstract Concepts
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║ E X P R E S S I O N 22-04-1995 ║
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├─- A new demo ? -────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Yes. │
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├─- How do I start it ? -─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ At the DOS prompt, type: EXPRESS │
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├─- Why doesn't it run ? -────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ You have: SmartDrive, Stacker, DoubleSpace, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, XENIX, │
│ AIX, Amiga, MSX, Macintosh, NeXT, Windows NT, Windows 98, MAPICS, │
│ MS Bob, ZX81, C-16, VIC 20, C64, Atari 800XL, Atari ST(E), Atari │
│ Falcon, NES, Super NES, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive, Sega │
│ Saturn, FM Towns, Game Boy, PC9801, AS400, RS6000/2, Sony │
│ Playstation, Philips P2000, Sega Model II, Atari Lynx, Sega Game │
│ Gear, TRS-80, Neo Geo, CDi, Panasonic 3DO, IBM System 36, Univac, │
│ Sun Sparcstation, Silicon Graphics (any model), Atari 2600, │
│ Coleco Vision, Apple Newton, Apple Macintosh (Classic), │
│ PowerPC/Mac, PC Engine or anything NOT: │
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│ - IBM-PC compatible 80386 or better computer (486DX2-66 preferred) │
│ - 100% register compatible VGA card (VESA LocalBus SVGA preferred) │
│ - Gravis UltraSound with 512Kb memory │
│ - MS-DOS 3.20 or higher │
│ - 640Kb of base memory with approx. 500 of it free │
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├─- Who made this demo ? -────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Code: Simm │
│ Renderings: Spoetnik, Simm │
│ Objects: Spoetnik, Simm │
│ Design Ideas: Spoetnik, Simm │
│ Code Ideas: pyREX, Simm │
│ Music: Simm │
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├─- Technical stuff about how the demo was made -─────────────────────────────┤
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│ This demo, as you can see, contains a lot of 3D Studio-made objects. They │
│ were converted using proprietary utilities and put together with a couple │
│ of fast 3D display routines. These routines include: │
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│ Flat shading, Gouraud shading, Phong shading, Environment mapping, │
│ Chroma mapping, Texture mapping, Flat shaded texture mapping, Gouraud │
│ shaded texture mapping, Bump mapping, Multilight phong shading, multi- │
│ light phong shaded bump mapping and lots of combinations of the above │
│ terms. │
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│ The events in this demo are: │
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│ - flatshaded A and C swooshing past │
│ - gouraud shaded useless vases │
│ - gouraud shaded texture mapped non-torusses │
│ - flatshaded B, U, M and P │
│ - bumpmapped multilight chroma mapped sphere │
│ - gouraud shaded landscape with bumpmapped multilight chroma mapped │
│ sphere and gouraud shaded shadow │
│ - phong shaded motion-blurred mask │
│ - fancy multilight chroma mapped totally useless tools │
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│ This all together with a programmable starfield. │
│ The music was made using ScreamTracker 3.20 from Sami Tamilehto. It took │
│ about 3 days to make and was actually made before the rest of the demo. The │
│ music is played through a proprietary player, so no GusPlay from Cascada or │
│ Success PC. │
│ The speed and design is made using pure 80386 Real-mode assembler with Tasm │
│ 4.0 and TLink 5.1. Most of the inner loops are optimized with unorthodox │
│ instructions, illegal use of SP and self-modifying code :) │
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├─- Who was the first president of the United States ? -──────────────────────┤
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│ Huh ? │
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├─- Final message -───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ The Art of Coding is The Art of Expressing Yourself │
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│ │ │ The Art of │
│ │ │ coding is │
│ │ │ the Art of │
│╔┴──────────────────────────────╗ │ Expressing │
││ S u m m o n t h e │ │ yourself │
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