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                           - R E S T R I C T I O N -

         a 4K intro by Chrysalis, released at RAGE/SCEneST '98 MParty


  [The authors]

    code, hard optimize : Nobo
                  music : Pepe
        texture support : Tbyte


  [Hardware requirements]

   Amd or Cyrix P75 or Intel P166 (Intel is slow)
   8MB of memory
   GUS or nosound (2 GUS for surround music)
   VGA card


  [Software requirements]

   HIMEM.SYS, 6M of XMS, 64K of base (no EMM386, QEMM, WIN95, WIN98, WIN00...)
   init for all GUS!!!


  [Versions]

   rest1gus.com - Normal music with 1 GUS, the GUS port address is detected
                  from DOS environment (if the env. is missing, the intro
		  will use the port 220)
   rest2gus.com - Surround music with 2 GUS, the front GUS address must be
                  220 and the back one's 240


  [Techinal stuffes]

   The effects :

    - The wood texture generator is a very big idea (special thanks to Tbyte)
    - The very high mathematics based pixel 3D engine :-) is used in the
      flat-fire, wood cube and the tunnel (the wood cube is 24576 pixels,
      the tunnel is 32000 pixels)
    - The glass is glass

   The music :

    - All samples are precalculated, the intro
      DOESN'T USE ANY EXTERNAL PATCHS! (ä132KB 8-bit samples, 8 instruments)
    - The music (patterns) was written in Fast Tracker 2.0, and compressed
      with two different pattern compression methods (36K of patterns)
    - The music contains 17 different patterns, and the song length is 19
      patterns with 125 BPM and speed 6 (2:26)
    - The music player supports 2 GUS for surround