Shadow   by Surprise Productions (S!P)

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PRODUCTIONS FAN-CLUB 13 OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION SITE BBS LIST 14 HOW TO BECOME A SURPRISE! PRODUCTIONS MEMBER? 15 HOW TO BECOME A SURPRISE! DISTRIBUTION SITE? 16 FINAL WORDS 01 OPENING WORDS We, the members of Surprise! Productions (S!P), are very glad to welcome you to another production. We hope you will like and enjoy it. Please honour our work, as it is really a lot of "work" in every production. 02 ABOUT THIS DEMO/PROGRAMM/RELEASE This is an intro for The Party IV in Denmark. Nothing here is precal- culated, everything is realtime done. The intro is quite slow, but lack of time due to commercial projects made us release this version. Possibly the "boost-up" version will also be released after the party. The slowness of this production is also an effect of that I (UNREAL) worked on it 1.5 week before party, and ... well, I had to do it short, and short=slow in this case. Sorry. Hmm, Do You know that there were 2 additional efx? I very nice and really fast plastic picture and one cube. Well, they looked nicely, although they didn't fit the whole design so they're off. The efx will be either used in mag intro or somewhere else. Next intro? On more thing: I used GOldPlay, it's pretty slow, although I didn't have enough time neither to get any other replayer nor to make one EXE (now 1st contains replayer and 2nd intro exe file). 03 RELEASE CREDITS No one of the effects You see in Shadow is real CPU scene effect. We have discovered the way to forge the mind. In reality, the way of doing this is just showing some points (10-1000) in very special way. All rest is a delusion, You think You see e.g. zoom, and in reality it is just some colorful dots. We used fact that human eye is very easy to cheat. Why is all the stuff so slow then? It is the matter of special calcs for so called How To Set Cheat Points On Your Screen (R). Mindforge code, gfx, design and ideas................ Unreal Mindforge music.......................................Scorpik P.S. Rotation tables ;) were done with EXON's programm. Thx, Ex'y! P.S.2. Big thanks to Camel for Odon idea. It helped in fractalpart. P.S.3. HUGE thanks goes to NORBY of TRSi for delivering this stuff. 04 DISTRIBUTION AND HANDLING OF OUR PRODUCTIONS All our demos/programms, except the ones which we made for different companies, are freeware. This means that you can copy and distribute them freely as long as you make no modifications to them. Also, you must not charge any money for copying/spreading them. If you are a PD/shareware/freeware distributor, make sure to contact us to get a written permission to include our productions in your collection/library. If you are a PD/shareware/freeware distributor, who includes our productions without written permission you agree in paying the producer of the programm USD ($) 100.000,-- In general, all commertial utilization of our demos without our written permission is strictly forbidden. This includes selling disks (or any other electronic media) containing our demos or programms. By acting against this you agree in paying the producer of the programm USD ($) 100.000,-- 05 DEMOS/PROGRAMMS FOR COMMERTIAL PURPOSE If you think our demos/programms are interesting and would like us to make one for you, be welcome to contact us. When contacting us, include a short explanation of the kind of demo you are interested in. This would help us to evaluate the size of the project. Kindly include, for example, the following information: o what kind of demo effects would you be interested in o are you interrested in full graphic design (pictures, logos...) o if the demo should have sound, which soundcard should be supported (Adlib/Soundblaster/Gravis Ultrasound) and which kind of music should be played o how long should the demo run (in minutes approximately) o where will the demo be shown and when would you like to recieve it (when should it be finnished) o how much you would be willing to pay for the demo o are you interested in any other tool/programm from us We would like to point out that our demos are no animations. Which means, that nearly everything you see on the screen is being real-time calculated. The speed of the movement is usually dependant to the speed of the processor and the speed of the VGA-card. You should also know that we do not make demos for MicroSoft Windows due to its limitations from an assembly language programmers point of view. To contact us write to management address listed in point 11 in this file. 06 CURRENT SURPRISE! PRODUCTIONS MEMBERLIST AUSTRALIA ~~~~~~~~~ Saint Sinner Musician AUSTRIA ~~~~~~~ Antibyte Coder, Management Adviser Burning Chrome Coder, Musician Corwin Graphix Erik Pojar Coder, Management Assistance J.O.E. Graphix, Musician Luke Coder, GFX Thomas Obermayr SysOp of "Deep Thought" Maestro Graphix Peci Coder ReeBoK Management, PR, GFX Slowhand SysOp "Polymorph Lights", Tool-coder Spike Hardware, Driver, Coder The Faker Coder CANADA ~~~~~~ Bigboy Courier CHILE ~~~~~ Death Adder Tool-coder DENMARK ~~~~~~~ Firefly PR, GFX FINLAND ~~~~~~~ O'Neill Courier, PR Outcast Courier Whiplash Musician, GFX FRANCE ~~~~~~ Elwood Management Assistance France Fred Musician Kid Graphix Patriot Courier POLAND ~~~~~~ Camel Coder Scorpik Musician Sketch Graphix Tees Graphix Unreal Coder, Management Assistance Poland SWITZERLAND ~~~~~~~~~~~ Blackbird Coder Chicken Management Swiss, Coder, SysOp "The Lycaeum" Joop Coder Karreng Coder, Management Assistance Swiss MahlZahn Renderer, GFX Necromancer Coder Nosferatu Musician Silent Mode Musician Zarek Coder Zwerk Zwack Coder 07 TOO MANY MEMBERS? In a world where distances are getting closer day by day, where nationalism and rasism have to be stopped, we think it is very important to have people with different nationality, color and religion together in one group. Because this is a great way to learn from each other, to learn about other cultures and to learn to accept them. We have to learn that we are not white or black, moslem or jew, Austrian, German, Dane or whatever. Because we are all humans! And that's the only thing that counts. So respect each other, have an open mind for all new things you don't know yet and you will live happier... We see ourselves as first successfull demo-group, which got the attribute "international". We want to show, that friendship is possible all over the world. There can't be borders to stop us. So share your talents, complement one anothers talents and learn to accept each other and a better world could become one step closer. 08 RELEASE HISTORY LATERNA.ZIP Laterna Magica by Surprise! Productions A Slideshow. The Wonderful Art of J.O.E. COPPER.ZIP Copper by Surprise! Productions A Demo. Erik shows what a standard PC can do. HIGHLAND.EXE Highlander BBS Advertisment by Surprise! Productions An Intro. for the S!P AHQ (out & offline) D&P.ZIP Drums & Pipes by Surprise! Productions A Musicselector. J.O.E.'s first musics. UNLPOWER.ZIP Unleased Power by Surprise! Productions A Demo. S!P Denmark shows its talent. STARDRM.ZIP Stardream by Surprise! Productions A Dentro for our Demo "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" SADT.ZIP Surprise! Adlib Tracker V1.1 A Musiceditor. "Finally our own replayer!", Erik. S!P-BBS.ZIP Killroy BBS Intro by Surprise! Productions A Intro. for our new DKHQ. GBUFINAL.ZIP The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Surprise! Productions A Demo. This is the ONLY final version! 2nd Place on The Party 3 Demo compo! D&P_GUS.ZIP Drums & Pipes supports now the Gravis Ultra Sound. A Musicselector. HARDFOLK.ZIP Hardfolk.mod by Trap/Bonzai/Surprise! Productions 2nd Place on The Party 3 Music compo! S!POINT.EXE Pointbreak BBS Advertisment by Surprise! Productions An Intro. for the S!P EuroHQ S!P_I2R.ZIP IFF to RAW converter by Surprise! Productions A Tool. Graphic-Converter incl. ASM-source S!P_ID.ZIP Includer Daemon by Surprise! Productions A Tool. Includes ASCII-text into .mod-files. 09 RELEASE FAKES GBU.ZIP The unfinished version of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly-Demo. Released by the Amiga-Organisers of The Party 1993. Be sure you get the final version of this demo including the "GBU.NFO" info- file. SADT13.ZIP The Surprise! Adlib Tracker V2.0 beta, which was supposed to be only avail for S!P-members, because of bugs and beta-testing. Be sure you get the real SADT 2.0 without those horrible bugs. 10 GREETINGS, MESSAGES & THANKS Thanks (related to this project) go to : Scorpik Tees Dreamer Camel 11 HOW TO CONTACT SURPRISE! PRODUCTIONS? To be in contact with the Surprise! Management use following possible ways: By Mail: ReeBoK (Management, PR) Severin-Stephan Kittl Hollergasse 27/19 A-1150 Vienna Austria Europe Erik Pojar (Coder) Siegfriedgasse 55 A-1210 Vienna Austria Europe Phone (voice): +43-1-8924204 (ReeBoK) +43-1-2154457 (Erik Pojar) Fax: +43-1-2704723 (Luke/ReeBoK) FidoNet: 2:310/64.15 (ReeBoK) 2:310/64.16 (Erik Pojar) CDN: 94:57/104 (ReeBoK) DGI: 68:430/1.1 (ReeBoK) InterNet: [email protected] (Erik Pojar, Antibyte) IRC: channel #coders BBS: Polimorph Lights (Surprise! World HQ BBS) (Slowhand) +43-1-4951874 (multinode ringdown) You can also contact the producers of this production: Unreal, Wojtek W. Podgorski, Bulwar Ikara 15/43, 54-130 Wroclaw, PL. 12 SURPRISE! PRODUCTIONS FAN-CLUB As it is not possible for us to answer absolutly ever letter, but you may still feel like writing us for some questions and want to be sure about an answer, the Surprise! Productions official fan-club is born. If you choose this way to be in contact with us be sure to include a stamped-addressed-envelope (SAE) (inside Austria) or 2 international-reply-coupons (IRC) (rest of the world) and write to: Official S!P Fan-Club c/o Thomas Neuhofer Hollergasse 27/18 A-1150 Vienna Austria If you will do the above standing, an answer is guaranteed! Here you can also say things you don't like about S!P or tell us your ideas what we could make better... 13 OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION SITE BBS LIST * "Polymorph Lights" (2 nodes rd) WHQ +43-1-4951874 (DST/ZyXEL) "Pointbreak" (3 nodes rd) EHQ +32-1-1436925 (DST) * "Deep Thought" AHQ +43-316-384842 (DST) "Deep Thought" (ISDN node) AHQ +43-316-850235 (Euro ISDN) "The Whammy Bar" (2 nodes rd) USHQ 708 941 7551 (DST) * "The Lycaeum" (node 1) CHHQ +41-41762989 (DST) "The Lycaeum" (node 2) CHHQ +41-41763289 (ZyXEL) "Kilroy BBS" DKHQ +45-45833298 (ZyXEL) "Genesis BBS" (4 nodes rd) BHQ +32-2-2453498 "A.C.E" (3 nodes rd) FHQ +33-1-45887548 "Side Effects BBS" IHQ +39-755724644 "Channel 0" (node 1) USDS 714 532 5950 "Channel 0" (node 2) USDS 714 532 5968 "Powergrid" USDS 813 481 6539 "The End of Time" USDS 803 855 0783 (V32bis) "SouthWest Music" CANDS 519 734 2639 "Triplex" SFDS +358-0-5062277 "Methadone" SFDS +358-0-4208227 "Chaotic Vision" SFDS +358-4-2714528 "Megaverse" GRDS +30-61277089 (V32bis) ! "Dune II" HDS +36-62342793 * = SysOp is S!P member! ! = 15:00-07:00 CET weekdays only! 24 hours on weekends. 14 HOW TO BECOME A SURPRISE! PRODUCTIONS MEMBER? You are a smart talented guy who want to share his ambitions with us and work in a professional organised demo-group? So just make sure that you copy some of your ownmade stuff (graphix, musics, source-codes) on a/some disk/disks and send it/them with a letter and the downstanding outfilled sheat to ReeBoK of S!P (send ONLY by MAIL, FAX, FidoNet, CDN or DGI!). -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Handle: | Group: | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Real Name: | Address: | | | | ----------------------------------- | | E-Mail: | | | (IRC/InterNet) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | FidoNet: | Phone (Voice): | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | CDN: | Fax: | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Other Net(s) (DGI, GDN, ...) | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please notice that sending us your work and filling out the above sheat means not that you are automatically a Surprise! member. We will check your work and get back to you if we have a positive answer. 15 HOW TO BECOME A SURPRISE! DISTRIBUTION SITE? What we expect from you and your BBS: o All ever released productions of S!P have to be online. o You have to contact S!P at least once a month by calling the Polimorph Lights BBS. o Your BBS has to be absolutely Demo-oriented, you yourself have to be very interested in demos and the PC demo-scene in general. o All S!P releases have to be free download for all users of your bulletin board system. In exchange you can expect: o Your BBS (Name & Number) will be mentioned in every S!P release in the distribution site BBS list of this file. o You have the chance to get all S!P releases first hand, but only if you are active yourself. What we can't guarantee but what is likely happen, is that your BBS will become more and more popular and its quality will improve dramatically. Please read the above rules carefully and think twice before sending the following sheat to POLYMORPH LIGHTS BBS (S!P World HQ): -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Handle: | Group: | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Real Name: | Address: | | | | ----------------------------------- | | E-Mail: | | | (IRC/InterNet) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | FidoNet: | Phone (Voice): | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | CDN: | Fax: | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Other Net(s) (DGI, GDN, ...) | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | BBS-Name: | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | BBS-Numbers / Connected Modem / Speed | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | I am HQ / Distribution Site for following groups at the moment: | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please notice that filling out the above sheat means not that you are automatically a Surprise! Distribution Site. We will check the sheat and get back to you if we have a positive answer. 16 FINAL WORD We hope you enjoy all our work and thank you for reading this information file. Signed: the Surprise! Productions crew & supporters!