Released on the 17th of August, 1994

LEGAL STUFF

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.