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The Attic by Digital House

  This is some text about why we had to re-release The Attic...

  We tested the demo on Cirrus Logics, S3's, ... plus some  good  old
  ISA cards.  However we didn't test on ET4000 and BANG !  It appears
  that  some  cards  do *not*  accept negative values for their Start
  Address Register !  Now, this was pretty shitty, 'coz the demo  was
  full of 'tricks' based on changing SAR from positive   to  negative
  and back.  So, crash here, crash there, noise and no image.     The
  only thing I could do about it was fixing the memory and  realloca-
  ting all piccy's so only positive  SAR's  were  needed.    Thereby,
  ATTIC was bugfixed and rereleased.  ATTIC.ZIP is the  old  version,
  works only on some cards, ATTICFIX.ZIP is this version, works    on
  most (?) cards.  "Most", 'coz 2 bugs remain :


  1) Some VGA cards go TILT when the credits loop.  CL doesn't, ET4000
     does, S3 doesn't.... Ahem.
  2) The Interrupt may fuck up the music when you exit : hitting ESC
     sometimes turns the music to noise. This has nothing to do with
     the VGA ;).


 Apologize if you had to DL the demo twice...
                         Greetings, Pointer (the coder (shame shame)).