HeartQuake by Iguana [web]
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Kronos
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INTRODUCTION
If you haven't seen the demo yet, stop reading!! :-) However, if you
encountered any problems while running it, you may find the solution
below.
This demonstration took part in the Assembly'94 PC demo competition,
where it came third. We would like to thank all the people who voted
it; we hope to keep improving our work.
On the legal side of things, Iguana and everyone who contributed for
the demo will not, in any case, by any means, no matter what happens
or what damage should appear, be liable for it. This software is not
supposed to do anything else than what it does when you run it. Thus
it is not assumed to be suitable for any particular purpose; we will
not assume any responsibilities, expressed or implied, about it. You
know what we mean, don't you?
The package can be distributed freely without modification. No money
can be charged for it, other than standard fees for access to a BBS,
or the cost of the material the demonstration is recorded on. It can
not be used to add value to a commercial product; however, shareware
distributors can put it in their collections, be it CD-ROM or floppy
disks and similar computer media, as long as it's sold together with
other shareware of public domain programs in the same package; never
can this demonstration be alone in the sold package, or be the first
reason to give the customer in order to get him interested.
The demonstration can be used in computer shops in order to show the
power (or lack of power) of a machine running it. If you're in doubt
whether you're doing correctly or not regarding this limitations, do
not hesitate to contact us.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
First of all, to run this demo you need at least a PC compatible 386
or above computer, with no less than four megabytes of RAM, a VGA or
compatible card and a hard disk. To fully enjoy it we recommend that
you have at least a 486/33 processor, a Gravis Ultrasound with 512Kb
of RAM and a local bus video card. SoundBlaster, SBPro or SB16 cards
or 100% compatible cards will also allow you to enjoy the music that
accompanies the graphical experience, but not with such quality like
the Gravis or GUSMax cards. SoundBlaster REQUIRES 2400Kb of EMS.
We have thoroughly tested this program in many machines with several
configurations; for example:
- 486DX2/66 with 12 megabytes of memory, an ISA ET4000 VGA card and
a Gravis Ultrasound card with one meg, running under MSDOS 5 with
the QEMM 6.0 memory manager, Smartdrive, some mouse driver. Other
configurations on this machine were a clean boot, boot with HIMEM
and no other TSR, boot with QEMM and no other TSR, etc.
- IBM PS/VP 486DX2/66 with 14 megabytes, a S3 VGA in motherboard, a
SB Pro 2.0 card, with CDROM and Ethernet drivers loaded, the demo
running from a doublespace partition and connected to the network
using NFS. Also, of course, tested on this machine with all those
drivers removed, including a clean boot test.
- 386SX/16 with 5 megabytes, 386MAX 6.0, TCP/IP and IPX drivers and
shelling out of a telnet terminal emulator, the demo running from
a Novell network drive. However, it looked rather poor due to the
slow processor and the lack of music.
In the infortunate case that you want to run the demo without sound,
you will need to specify a serial port that will be used as a timing
device. You'd rather specify a port with no devices connected to it,
such as a mouse or a printer. We know this sounds really strange but
that's the way we chose to do things.
If the demo doesn't work (hangs or stops with an error message):
- Turn on your computer and try again. (Yes!)
- Check that the sound parameters (card, port, IRQ, etc.) are OK.
- Try it without sound.
- Try a clean boot without CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT (no SB!).
- The SPACE key will allow you to skip parts; so if the demo always
hangs at a particular point, skip that part.
- Go to a friend's house and watch it there. We're sorry.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS OF HEARTQUAKE
This demonstration has been created by some spanish computer freaks.
We all share a common interest in computer graphics and music, which
has led us to join together and create this piece of wanna-be-art.
Aside from that, we're all much like you may be. We all have to eat,
sleep and concern with other biological deeds you know. :) If you're
thinking (let's hope not) that we are more skilled than you and that
you could never get to do things like this demo, probably you've not
tried. You never know what you are able to do until you do it.
All of us are/have been/will be interested in using our knowledge in
commercial projects, especially videogames and publicity. If you and
your company would like us to create a custom demonstration, you can
contact any of us and explain us what kind of graphics and music you
would like to represent your company in the demonstration.
Members of the group:
JCAB: Coder
Jare: Coder
ARM: Coder
COI: Coder, musician, graphics (an all around guy)
Yann: Coder
Captain Bit: Coder
Noisy Man: Music
Kronos: Graphics (previously was Oculto)
Mikel: Sysop
Nefron: Betatesting
Poppy: Betatesting, support
The following people contributed for this demo:
Ryan Cramer: Music
Raúl Ortega: Graphics
Black Adder: Phone support
You can contact us mainly thru this addresses:
Internet: a880104@zipi.fi.upm.es (Jare)
juanc@iic.uam.es (JCAB)
jtabeolj@bi.ehu.es (Yann)
Fidonet: 2:345/805 (Mikel)
2:341/27.16 (JCAB)
BBS: All these nodes carry out a distribution site or HQ; there
you will find our other productions and be up to date:
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│BBS name │Country │Phone # │Sysop(s) │
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│BlasterSound (Iguana │Spain │+34-58-293-583 │Mikel │
│World HeadQuarters) │ │ │ │
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│Deckard (VangeliSTeam│Spain │+34-1-643-10-67│Pedro de Paz │
│World HeadQuarters) │ │ │ │
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├─────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Liquid Metal │Australia │+61-7-812-2324 │Chuck Biscuits │
├─────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Genesis │Belgium │+32-2-245-3498 │McGarret & MadFlight │
├─────────────────────┼ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│PointBreak │Belgium │+32-1-143-6925 │Lord Cyrix/Access Denied │
├─────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Antarctica │Canada │+1-519-734-6239│The Charlatan │
│ │(Ontario) │+1-519-734-8406│ │
├─────────────────────┼ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Infinite Dreams │Canada │+1-604-733-6432│Minus │
├─────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Soul Asylum │Finland │+358-0-5055041 │Fear/Mental Design │
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│A.C.E │France │+33-1-4588-7548│Christophe Yvon │
│ │ │+33-1-4588-8809│ │
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│The Firm │Germany │+49-40-648-2146│Tone/Cybernetic Dreams │
├─────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Megaverse │Greece │+30-61-277-089 │DGT/Deus │
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│Dune II │Hungary │+36-62-342-793 │TSC & Cat │
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│Side FX │Italy │+39-75-5724644 │Killer Loop & Earl Max │
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│Whoooops! I lost it. │Norway │I will correct.│$Volkraq/Gollum │
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│The Lycaeum │Switzerland│+41-41-762-989 │Chicken/Surprise! Prods. │
│ │ │+41-41-763-289 │ │
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│The PowerGrid │USA HQ │+1-813-481-6539│GridRunner & Syntax Error│
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│Data Connection │USA │+1-703-506-8598│Ryan Cramer/Renaissance │
│ │ │+1-703-847-0861│ │
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│The Whammy Bar │USA │+1-708-941-7551│Guitar │
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Voice: ++34-1-415-84-99 Ask for Javier (Jare) or Juan Carlos (JCAB).
If we're not home, maybe nobody will understand what you say,
unless you speak spanish!
Snail-mail: Juan Carlos Arévalo.
P.O. Box 2295
Madrid-28080
Spain
The best way is Fido or Internet. Don't use voice unless you have to
tell us something really important. Also, we cannot guarantee a fast
reply, especially thru snail-mail. Your best bet there is to include
a self-stamped (in spanish) addressed envelope with your address.
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CREDITS
Organizing and design: JCAB, Jare and COI
Sonicfuckups prevention: JCAB
This info file: Jare. Logo by Kronos
DemoVT music system: JCAB
Setup system: Jare
Protected mode header: PMODE 2.4 by Tran. Thank you!
WCPM runtime system and libraries: JCAB and Jare
Keyboard handler based on code by Patch of Avalanche
Plasma Clouds: Idea by JCAB
Code by JCAB and ARM
Graphics by Kronos
Music by COI
Rotation/stretch: Idea and code by Jare
Graphics by Kronos
Music by COI
Screen Melt: Idea by Jare
Code by Jare and ARM
Music by Noisy Man
24000 dots: Idea and code by JCAB
Graphics by COI
Music by Noisy Man
Explosion: Idea by Jare
Code by JCAB
Graphics by Raúl Ortega
Music by Noisy Man
3D Landscape: Idea and code by Jare
Spline path editor by JCAB
Music by Noisy Man
Use the arrows, PgUp, PgDn, 'D' and 'A'!!
Vector glenz: "Idea" and code by JCAB and Jare
Music by Noisy Man
Checkerboard: Idea and code by Jare
Music by Noisy Man
Chrome plasma: Idea by COI
Code by COI and ARM
Music by Noisy Man
Rubber polys: Idea and algorithm by COI
Code by ARM
Graphics by COI
Music by Noisy Man
Shaded planet: Idea by Jare, inspired by Patrick Aalto
Code by ARM
Graphics by Nefron
Music by Noisy Man
Chaos Knight pic: by COI
Music by Noisy Man
This picture tried to compete at ASM94' gfx
competition. Judge if it deserved a chance.
Wavy perturbation: Idea and code by Jare
Graphics by Kronos and COI
Music by Noisy Man
Realtime morph: Idea and code by JCAB
Graphics by COI
Music by Noisy Man
The order is purely random. It's not a .FLI!
Watery Credits: Idea and code by ARM
Music by Ryan Cramer
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GREETINGS AND MESSAGES
[ Ufff... it's really tiresome, right-aligning by hand without adding spaces! ]
[ I better stop it now ]
Capacala: You are the moral winners of Assembly'94. Great show!
The Incredibly Long Haired Avatar/Legend Design (and company): When
are you going to come to Spain?
Alpha/Axxelerator Logics: How's the army doing with you inside? ;-)
Edge/Unexpected: Thank you for being a cool guy and trying to get
things done correctly.
Zoombapup/Codex: Is there a game coming or not?
Public NMI: We want more sources!! :-)
Stone/Dust: Oh, ehem, JCAB will write soon... maybe... O:-)
Patrick Aalto: What happened to Line Wars ][? I still wait.
Patch/Avalanche: Thank you for the keyboard handler!
Erik Pojar: How was your Interrail trip?
Now for the harsh ones:
Sonic: If you don't think that you must apologize for what you did
at the Assembly'94 competitions, then you are the worst kind
of lamers. We truly hope we never see your name or faces again.
The best that could happen is to see your group disappear.
Addy Santo: You must give us credits when you use our code and our
music system. How stupid can you ever get to be? We just asked
that you mention us, it doesn't cost you anything. Then, looking
at your work, maybe it's better not to see our name in it.
Greets to the following groups:
Acme, Admire!, Avalanche, Axidental, Black Rain, Capacala, Cascada &
Imphobia, Codex, Complex, Cosmic Brothers, Darkzone, Dust, EMF,
Emporium, Epical, Extreme, Future Crew, Gollum, Grif, Hemoroids,
Impact Studios, Inertia People, Infiny, Ispania, KLF, Keen Like
Frogs, Legend Design, Majic-12, Mental Design, Phantom Design, Post
Mortem, Postumum, Prime, Razor, Renaissance, Reset, Silents, SKP,
Surprise! Productions, The European Technology, The Emulator
Institute, The Lord Of The Bits, Tran, Triton, Unexpected, Valhalla,
Virtual Visions, Visual Player Team, VLA, XGen, Xography, and all
others who should be here but I don't have in mind right now.
Arbitrary greetings from different members of Iguana go, in no
particular order (in fact, they have been randomized) to:
Tim Clarke, Jeff Lawson, Michael Abrash, Edge, Fear, Black Design,
The Incredibly Long-Haired Avatar and Christa :-), Nomad, Pitbull
and Centauri, .MAX, Javier Olmo, Javier Paz, Guille, Jaki, L.J. Laz,
Carlos Fernández Sanz, Poppy, Pirri, Er Fede, CHC, Binary/Darkness
(Amiga), BladeRunner, Wally, S3M, Bios, MCgarret, Gandalf, Timo
Ludwig, Byte, Gecko, John Smith, Darkness, Fish, Sam, Lord Cyrix,
$Volkraq, TSC, Gore, Jake, Purple Motion, Skaven, Stone, Yaka,
Patte, Martin, Type One, DGT, Killer Loop, Phil Carlisle, Alpha, The
Faker, Erik Pojar, Thomas Jespersen, Devastator, Norman Yen, The
Charlatan, Chuck Biscuits, Dr. Bobo, Luis Crespo, Xavi, Raquel,
Cesar Alba, Adder and Fax, Josu Udaondo, Axel, Pallbearer, CodeBlue,
WildCoder, Ulrik, Ryan Cramer, Implode, Guitar, the Egerter
brothers, Zax, wReam, Cyberstrike, Leinad, Patch, David Hedley,
Tran, White Shadow, The Warrior, the other twenty that we can't
think of now, everybody at IIC, and all members of SoundNet.
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See you in another production!
Madrid, 23rd of August, 1994. Jare's birthday! :)
This was and Iguana production.
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