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Light [cft] by CorridaSoft [web]

And God said light and there was light, 
and God saw the light and it was good,
and God divided the light from the darkness.


    L     II  GGGGG  H   H  TTTTTT   
    L         G      H   H    TT 
    L     II  G GGG  HHHHH    TT
    L     II  G   G  H   H    TT
    LLLLL II  GGGGG  H   H    TT

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****** (c) CorridaSoft 1999 **************
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For the contest at FlipCode outpost in may 1999

April 22nd
Anno domini 1999 
Pablo de Heras Ciechomski for CorridaSoft

(1) Requirements
(2) Credits
(3) Demo info
(4) History
(5) Greets
(6) CorridaSoft company info

(1) Requirements

  Pentium class 200 MHz processor or higher recommended.
    Must have a performancecounter. All Intel have one
  D3D hardware accellerated graphics card (3DFX Vooodoo 1 or better)
  Sound card (not required but can add that extra flavour)
  One slice of drive-space that is writeable.
   Cannot be run from a CD for example. 650 Kb rougly.
  Windows 95/98 
  DirectX 6.1

Tested on:
  Processor Mem    Graphics card          Sound card
  PII 350   128 MB RIVA TNT     16 MB AGP Sound Blaster Live! Value
  P200 MMX  128 MB Canopus 3DFX  6 MB PCI Jazz Sound card


(2) Credits

What, why, who and with whom?

This is a CorridaSoft demoproduction. 'Tis a one man endeavour 
through the valley of magic and great obfuscation. 
'Tis a juggling of the possible in the context of the creative
mind of a salmon. 'Tis day and light combined in a phosphorus 
media of todays milennia. 'Tis a demo.

Programming  : Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
Music        : Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
3D-modelling : Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
Graphis      : Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
Design       : Pablo de Heras Ciechomski

I had a demogroup one's (time's a strange concept) on the PC 
VGA scene. Coding in DOS and all a that. Now I'm in the land of
milk and honey called Windows. Sure 'tis a glorious OS, praise it :)

Coding was done in handoptimized assembler on a CRAY so don't
expect it to be fast :=).

I'm and oldskooler yeah I know.

(3) Demo Info
  
It is all coded in C++ for windows using Direct3D Retained Mode.
Good ol┤ MIDAS sound system used.

Demo contains jpeg compressed pictures decompressed in realtime to
save space. The jpg files are decompressed into the cache directory
to bmp format, loaded into memory and then deleted directly. I didn't
have time for a memory loader and Direct3D has not one sample for
doing this although it is supported. 

All the 3D meshes are made and texturemapped inhouse.

Music composed in ModPlug tracker.

You think it's too short a demo? Hmmm... I tried to think of more but
stayed here, because it was whole and could not be manipulated into
another shape or state, or it would no longer be called Light, as in
the warm light of the sun or the lightness of a feather.

(4) History

In the year 1995 a demogroup was founded by Herbsman and Paulus
called Prophets. We made some demos for the DOS platform using
Borland Pascal 7.0 and inline assembly. It ended in early 1998 when
we had surpassed our youthly excavations into the soil of silicon
mysteries.

Not until now there is a production worth showing on the Windows
platform due to learning of C++, windows API and the recent hardware
accelleration availability on the normal consumer market. Although it
is a one man job I hope it is diverse enough to appeal to you.

(5) Greets

Greetings go out to:

Bill Gates (640 kB IS enough for everyone, at least harddrive space :)

FlipCode Outpost
SweetOblivion
DevGames
Geoff Howland (Man are you busy. Keep it going)

Future Crew (Second Reality is till number one)
Seen
Cubic
Lionhead Studios
OutBreak
former Prophets members Herbsman, Schizo Fren and Lark
Hammer (you know who you are)
Cascada
Phenomena (Amiga world domination)
Complex
Gods (Toys was a really strong movie)

(6) CorridaSoft info:

Founded in march 1999 for game programming purposes. Our current
game project workname is IK++ and you can find info on it and 
download the alpha at

http://hem2.passagen.se/pdh/ 


/Pablo de Heras Ciechomski aka Paulus of Prophets

Computer Science and Technology student
at Lund Institute of Technology in sweden

Owner of CorridaSoft