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                    Released on the 17th of August, 1994



LEGAL STUFF
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        VERSES is Copyright (C) 1994 by Electromotive Force.

        This demo is freeware. It can be freely distributed as long 
        as the files or the contents of the archive are not modified
        in any way. No money can be charged for this demo. We grant
        exclusive rights for CD-ROM distribution of this demo to the
        organizers of Assembly'94, and demand a 3.2% royalty from the
        net revenue, as stated in the ASM94_2.TXT info file.

        Disclaimer: you run this demo at your own responsibility. The
        authors can not be held liable for any damage arising from the
        use of this software. 



FILES INCLUDED
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        After unpacking the archive, you should have the following files:

          FILE_ID.DIZ,    576 bytes - BBS file description
          VERSES.EXE, 1030549 bytes - Demo executable
          EMF.NFO,       6400 bytes - EMF info file
          VERSES.NFO,    8429 bytes - This file

        Any other files that might be included in the archive are
        not needed to run this demo. You may as well delete them.



MACHINE REQUIREMENTS
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        To run this demo, you need a machine with at least
         - a 386sx CPU; 486 or faster recommended
         - a VGA card; VLB or PCI recommended
         - a hard disk; RAM disk recommended
         - a Gravis Ultrasound card for music
         - 400 kB of free base memory
         - 1 MB of free high memory



TECHNICAL STUFF
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        This demo is running under a slightly customized version of PMODE
        v2.4 by Tran -- thanks! Also, everything in this demo is coded in
        pure assembly language, and optimized for the i486. As an advice
        for all the coders out there pondering whether to use protected
        mode or to stick with real mode -- go for it! Even though you lose
        all your debugging facilities and have to build a lot of your basic
        routines from scratch, the effort very quickly pays off.

        The demo has been tested on six different machines in addition to
        those that it was developed on, each with various configurations,
        and it seems to work perfectly save for one exception: QEMM v7.0
        or higher will screw up the demo! We do not know why - might have
        something to do with the pmode header - nor do we have the time to
        find out. You'll just have to remove QEMM before running the demo.
        If it still doesn't work, well, about the only advice we have to
        offer is that you try different boot configs, a clean boot among
        them.

        Why no Sound Blaster support? Well, the reason is that none of us
        had neither the time nor the motivation to code a Sound Blaster
        player in protected mode. Of course, we still have the real mode
        player that we used in Eclipse, but we felt that mixing real and
        protected mode code isn't good coding practice and might cause a
        number of mysterious bugs. Thus, we decided that no player at all
        is better than a buggy player that screws up the demo. But if you
        like to experiment, you might want to load up your favorite stand-
        alone SB module player, jump to DOS shell, and run VERSES without
        sound. I've tried this a few times just out of curiosity, and the
        demo seemed to work fine. A far more recommended option is to get
        a Gravis Ultrasound, though.

        Btw, a last minute note: if you want to run the demo without sound
        even if you have a Gravis Ultrasound installed, just remove the
        ULTRASND environment variable by typing "SET ULTRASND=" at the DOS
        prompt. Also, if the music stops playing after the first note or
        so, try executing ULTRINIT before running the demo.



CREDITS
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	Saracen:
	 - emf "design-logo"        (gfx)
	 - presentation texts	    (gfx)
	 - ifs morpher		    (bg gfx)
	 - voxel cave		    (code & gfx)
         - bitmap rotation          (code)
	 - ripple effect	    (code)
	 - "dotfade"                (code)
	 - "Bill Gates" writer      (gfx)
	 - greetings part	    (code & gfx)
         - "timeless" kaleidoscope  (code)
	 - julia morpher	    (code)
	 - credits part 	    (code & gfx)
	 - frontend routines	    (code)

	The Grim Reaper:
         - gouraud routines         (code)
	 - "design star"            (code)
	 - ifs morpher		    (code)
	 - diagonal dotfade	    (code)
         - Bill Gates "whirl"       (code)
         - emf gouraud logo         (gfx)

	Devastator:
	 - mosaic		    (code)
	 - polygon ball 	    (code)
	 - frontend routines	    (code)
	 - file routines	    (code)
	 - music routines	    (code)

        Saint:
	 - presentation texts	    (code)
	 - Bill Gates writer	    (code)
	 - Bill Gates mutation	    (code)
	 - music routines	    (code)

        Whalebone:
	 - "Double Trouble"         (music)
         - ripple picture           (gfx)
         - emf end logo             (gfx)

        Shaman&Kerberos:        
         - "verses" logo            (gfx)

        Vortex:
         - gouraud objects          (gfx)



GREETINGS
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        Access Denied           Admire                  Anarchy
        Avalanche               Cascada VRS             Clones
        Complex                 Crypton                 Darkzone
        Dust                    Epical                  Extreme
        Future Crew             Gollum                  Grif
        Iguana                  Impact                  Infiny
        Imp/Cda                 Legend Design           Majic 12
        Mental Design           Noice                   Phantom
        Prime                   Radiance                Renaissance
        Sonic PC                Speed                   Surprise! Prods.
        TET                     Tran                    Triton
        Unexpected              Virtual Dreams          Xography



FINAL WORDS
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        We'd like to thank the following people for various reasons:
         - Tran (for PMODE v2.24)
         - Quark/Anarchy (for letting us use his computer at Asm'94)
         - Mika Lietzen (for the EMF banner & our party T-shirts)
         - Erkka Samsten (for his big & ineffective loudspeakers)
         - Bill Gates (for the highly mutatable face)
         - The people at Assembly'94 (for voting us)

        PS. Whalebone, our graphics artist and musician, is leaving for the
        army, and we'll be having trouble in getting quality artwork for our
        upcoming releases unless we get someone to replace him. If you, the
        reader, feel that you could contribute to our future productions in
        the form of high quality music or graphics, please contact us! If you
        also happen to live in southern Finland, all the better.

