Suspiria by Xtatic
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· S · U · S · P · I · R · I · A ·
- The Conflicting Desire -
(party version)
Copyright (C) 1997 - xtatic productions
The birth of Suspiria - the demo:
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Once upon a time there was a coder by the name of Goblin. He and his friend,
the musician, named Legend, were the main driving force behind a demo group
known throughout the world as 'Xtatic'.
One day, with the aspirations of winning copious amounts of money in a
(soon to occur) demo compo they decided to put together an arts spectacular,
a startling combination of Graphics, Music, and Code .. - a Demo.
This move thing started out its life known as "Cactii & Demons" - an Icepick
inspired name - however, after much deliberation and lack of sleep an
alternate name and theme was decided upon "Craq Dance" - a Draggy inspired
name. A loverly Craq Dance logo was then drawn by our artistic director
Goblin, Legend, However disliked it and thus "Craq Dance (tm)" was given to
Microsoft(r) to continue as a new operating system. Given that we lacked
the time or the inspiration to find a new name, the demo progressed
and the name was left to a last minute search of the logo archives.
A logo for a demo which never eventuated for a party the year before (which
coincidently was the predecessor of Scenery'97) was chosen. Suspiria meaning
"We don't know because Sane chose it and we don't know where the hell he is"
was chosen as the new demo name. We also added "the conflicting desire"
as a last-ditch attempt for the demo name to actually have something to do
with the demo, but, alas, we still don't know what the hell it has to do with
the demo. se la vie.
36 hours had past. Given that during this time, the following misfortunes
occured:
01. Legend had trackers block (ugh)
02. Goblin's PC broke and the whole demo was coded at Legend's House
03. We all praised Novell for their wonderful network at Legend's house
04. Dannii Minogue did not meet the "Xtatic Seal of Approval (tm)"
05. Kylie Minogue had taken the day off
06. Legend kept drawing stupid Photoshop v4.0 logos
07. We had no name for the demo
08. We had no name for the demo
09. we kept repeating ourselves
0A. We had *MAJOR* lack of sleep over those 36 hours
0B. The evil IRC monster kept attacking our members
0C. An overdose of chilli chips gave Goblin the willies
0D. Copious amounts of Italian food made us full
0E. Random offered to help
0F. Midas doesn't have IT support (bastards) :)
10. The demo party was cancelled the day before its opening
11. The demo was therefore put on hold, indefinitely
12. The demo party found a new venue and was scheduled as planned
13. The demo was taken off hold
14. The demo tune was re-written from scratch 3 times
15. The effects weren't re-written, but sucked anyway :)
16. Legend cut out and edited 128 stupid RAW pictures
17. We missed Oprah & The Nanny & The Simpsons
18. We missed our respective girlfriends .. NOT! :) well, the sex anyway
19. We spent 20 hours making the greets list
1A. We were both suffering from flu/colds
1B. Goblin took 35 hours, 59 minutes to eat his meals
1C. We kept counting everything in Hex
And hence Suspiria was born.
The Life Of Suspiria:
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On one and a bit allmighty 1.44Meg three point five inch disks, Suspiria
attended the demo party known as Scenery'97. After being loaded onto the
hideous compo machine, and secretly slayed the shocking, foul, hideous,
dispicable, disgusting, malodeous, appalling, "Random-style", evil being
known as Random's Win'95 Wallpaper, and replaced it with a more fitting -
quote "Random sucks" - Wallpaper.
After all the other compos, the time of reckoning was upon us. Suspiria
from the onset had been a demo and now his time had come. Scared and nervous
little Suspiria (and his makers) waited and watched as it was loaded up, the
magical C:\Demos\Suspiria\ was on the screen, and then "CAD.EXE" was loaded.
The Party version of Suspiria was in motion. All party goers stopped and
looked on in awe at this masterpiece of code, music, graphics and chicky
babes.
Alas, the music system was buggered, however, even the sober people enjoyed
it. Good feedback was recieved by all, except its makers which screamed
"bugger" at high volumes when the music system stuffed up. The demo stopped,
well, crashed and so, its time on this earth had finished.
The Dawn of a New Era:
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A massive revival process was undertaken by the creators. A new leaner,
meaner, greener Suspiria was born, and made its way out into the cosmos.
Well, actually, a genetically enhanced, aka LESS buggy lifeform was reborn,
and has made its way into your computer system.
System Requirements:
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- 486dx4/100 minimum
- A Maths Co-Processor is a DEFINITE MUST!
- *ATLEAST* 8MB free RAM
- 1MB Wavetable Soundcard or Software mixing Soundcard
- MSDOS v5.0+ (does not run correctly under Win'95 or NT)
untested with OS/2, System 7, Workbench, Unix, X, BeOS or DemOS :)
Systems tested on:
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- Pentium 100, 48MB RAM, 2MB DiamondStealth 3d, SB AWE32 8MB
- AMD K5, 12MB RAM, 1MB DiamondStealth 64, GUS ACE (512k) & SBv2
- Pentium 120, 32MB RAM, 2MB S3, GUS PnP 2MB
(A noticable bug occured on this machine, we belive that the
PnP [or midas's support of it] caused the music to slow down
at the end credits. Any feedback on your experiences with GUS PnP's
would be appreciated)
- 486sx/33 with Maths Co-Pro emulator, 8MB RAM, 1MB Cirrus Logic, SBv2
(It was absolutely shockingly horrid, I waited 5 mins before the
demo even started :))
Disclamer:
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We here at Xtatic take NO RESPONSIBILITY for anything that this demo
does to your system, your mind, your family's minds, systems, etc as
this is a party version.
As said before, this is a party version, there are still some bugs and
various other things within the demo. A bug-fixed version many be
released at a later date.
If you find a bug, please send a detailed bug-report to xtatic@post1.com
Credits:
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Goblin - Code, Main Graphics, Design
Legend - Music, Additional graphics, Design
Thanks go out to Tran & Daredevil for Pmode, and Sahara Surfers for Midas.
Contact Addresses:
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Xtatic:
xtatic@post1.com
http://www.post1.com/~xtatic
Goblin:
s2190983@cse.unsw.EDU.AU
http://www.post1.com/~gobz (phear this)
Legend:
legend@kosmic.org
force@post1.com
- The End
Goblin & Legend - 1997
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