The Anarchy BBS   by Anarchy BBS

ANARCHY ONLINE INTRO ==================== This intro is brought to you by Rex Deathstar. Two weeks has passed since my last intro ASYLUM!. I guess you guys didn't expect to hear from me again so soon...well...:) My obsession with colors and plasma has always been around since I started programming. But at that point of time, I wasn't too sure about the mathematics of plasma and smooth continuous colors. Until recently I came upon a book about gravity waves, inside it contained many strange and exotic equations, and so I adopted one of them here. But the problem was that the original equation dealt with real numbers (floating points) and we all know that the PCs are not good at that unless you have a maths coprocessor, which I don't think everyone has it now. So I spent a great deal of time converting the plasma generator to using fixed point integer maths. But alas, the time taken to plot one is still quite long, especially on a 386-33. But I think the result is still worth the wait... The color mixing technique where the two plasmas are drawn in alternating pixels to produce a palette of >256 colors first appeared in "UNREAL" from Future crew. Since then, many demos have used it to produce some very interesting routines. As for the text generator, the idea came from the assembly-93 intro 'ASM-93', also from Future crew. Enough said, just hope you enjoy the intro and music! --------------------------------------------- Intros I have released so far...:- 1. RAGEFIRE.ZIP (a replica of fire, adapted from 'fire', 386+ only) 2. REXINTRO.ZIP (Introduces myself, Rex Deathstar, as a new graphics coder in the scene...386+ only, uses VangelisTracker and supports SB,SBPro) BTW, ShellVT is real slow! 3. ICHIBAN!.ZIP (My first BBS AD intro, used to the routine in RAGEFIRE, but used purple smoke palette, 386+ only) 4. ASYLUM!.ZIP (My second BBS AD intro, features 3D dots and a starfield, with a particle system text generator. 386+ only) 5. ANARCHY.ZIP (My third BBS AD intro, features color-mixing plasma and a MOD player. supports SB,SBPro.) My next intro will feature a landscape flyby, hope to create some warp disorientation! Watch for it! Rex Deathstar 16 July 1994 Interested parties can leave me a mail at: ASYLUM BBS (253-1416) : [Rex Deathstar Inquiries] ANARCHY ONLINE (235-3217) : [Programmer's corner]