Panta Rhei by Instinct
- EV^ TW/OSWET*N%C - B CJEHL]MPJFWQD/A"C - LF+FQKCG^]]LW"WDIT/ ]SFD/WQGWE/Z/N*P+JNF - ZLDPD UWF "ON)FPOQN/OGR/BRD] - Q^ZQF^Y/S*I//GE(ESVMF/C&V V/EZ - FEEL WARMLY WELCOME TO PANTA RHEI: THE HIDDEN DEMO. THIS IS KRILL ON THE KEYS PRESENTING YOU A PILE OF OLD CODE. PRETTY OLD CODE. THESE HIDDEN EFFECTS WERE CODED BACK IN 1996 BY A 15-YEAR-OLD KRILL. OKAY, I BRUSHED THEM UP A LITTLE AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS, EXCEPT FOR THE LAST ONE, WHERE I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF NOT TO OPTIMISE THE CORE ROUTINE IN WHICH I SPOTTED A LOT OF WASTED CYCLES RIGHT AFTER SOME SECONDS OF RE-OPENING THAT DUSTY SOURCE FILE. JUST FOR AT LEAST A LITTLE AUTHITICITY. OKAY, WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS PART IS A REMAKE OF RAZ/CAMELOT'S SO-CALLED "ECI-PLASMA" (1 EURO TO THE ACRONYM POT) IN THE DEMO "CAMEL PARK." I CODED IT SOME TIME AFTER SEEING THAT DEMO, AND AFTER READING RAZ'S TUTORIAL ON HOW TO CODE THIS EFFECT, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED FURTHER BACK, IN 1992, BY THE FAMOUS GERMAN C64 MAGAZINE 64'ER. SO I READ THAT TUTORIAL TO BE ABLE TO CODE THIS EFFECT. ALRIGHT, CREDITS: CODE BY KRILL/PLUSH, TUNE BY FANTA/PLUSH/OXYRON, CHARSET BY SCOOBY/LIGHT. PLEASE PRESS SPACE TO SEE SOME WORSE CODE THAN THIS. - ABBDEFHIKMOQTVX[]THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS PART IS THAT I CODED IT AFTER HAVING SEEN "EXTINCTION" BY A GROUP CALLED TMMB: THE MIP-MAP BROTHERS. TMMB ACTUALLY IS THE FORMER NAME OF PLUSH, AND THE PART IN THAT DEMO NAMED EXTINCTION WAS CODED BY TECMO. QUITE A FUNNY COINCIDENCE, ACTUALLY. I RE-CODED THAT EFFECT WITHOUT HAVING THE SLIGHTEST IDEA OF EVER MEETING THE PRODUCERS OF THAT DEMO IT WAS IN, AND THEN I BECOME A MEMBER OF THAT VERY SAME GROUP YEARS LATER. WHICH IS ACTUALLY YEARS BACK NOW. 8 YEARS AGO MAYBE? WHATEVER. CODE BY KRILL/PLUSH, TUNE STILL BY FANTA/PLUSH/OXYRON, CHARSET ALSO STILL BY SCOOBY/LIGHT. YOU MAY PRESS SPACE NOW, WRAP... - >THIS IS THE END OF THE HIDDEN DEMO. IF YOU HAVE FOUND IT UNINTENTIONALLY, MAKE SURE TO LEAVE THE DISK DRIVE OR TRUE DRIVE EMULATION ON. THIS MINIMALISTIC EFFECT MUST BE THE OLDEST ONE OF THOSE HIDDEN ROUTINES IN THIS DEMO. YET, IT MUST HAVE BEEN AROUND 1996 AS WELL THAT I CODED IT. DON'T WORRY, I WON'T BORE YOU WITH THE CREDITS AGAIN THIS TIME. THOUGH, THAT'S BASICALLY IT FOR THIS TIME. MAKE SURE TO FIND ALL THE HIDDEN STUFF IN HERE. KRILL IS SIGNING OFF ON DECEMBER 5TH, 2004. REGARDS. -