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Copyright (C) 1992 by Surprise! productions
Copper requires:
* About 430k of free memory. The Exe-file itself needs about 330
kilobytes (uncompressed), approx. 96kb more are needed during
program execution.
* A more or less 100% IBM compatible standard VGA
* an Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, Thunderboard or any
other Adlib compatible Soundcard. Without a soundcard you
won't hear much of the whacky sound :-(
I'm not the first to simulate a copper. Quite a few coders have
found out how to do it. But they only used the copper trick for
changing the colors each raster line.
I want to show all those coders that far more powerfull effects
can be done by this mighty copper trick, even in combination
with music. (By the way, 'copper' is often also called 'raster'
trick on PC)
I can't guarantee that this demo will run on each PC! Anybody
who ever has written a demo for the IBM knows, how difficult
that is. And because of the difficult, complex and tricky timing
and synchronisation algorthims I had to use, I guess this demo's
gonna bug on quite a lot machines. But if it does work, then
you'll see a great show.
Copper DOES NOT run properly under OS/2. So you really shouldn't
bother trying to run it. If you still are crazy enough, and want
to see 10 minutes of awfull flickering combined with bad timed
music, you should at least run it as full screen session, simply
because OS/2 doesn't like Chain-4-mode in a window.
Now some technical details for guys, who think they could do it
better:
Red Scorpion
Bogevej 5, Harridslev
DK-8900 Randers
DENMARK Phone: +45 86 44 22 44 (also Fax)
Signed,
Rick Dangerous / Surprise! productions
late December 1992.