Vladlen Koltun

a.k.a

CyberEagle/ESTEEM

presents his 1kb intro

"INVENTION"

That's what I wanted to be written on the background in the intro, but I
couldn't squeeze it all in 1024 bytes, so I had to settle with small
"CyberEagle/ESTEEM" :(

Disclaimer:

Feel free to spread this intro as much you like but on one condition: The
package must remain the original one. The contents of this package is:

FILE_ID.DIZ		319  bytes		File description for the BBSes
INVENTIO.EXE            1024 bytes              The "INVENTION" intro
INVENTIO.NFO            5490 bytes              Guess
README.NOW              601  bytes

Any other file must be deleted from the package before you spread it to
anyone else.If a size of one or more of the files is changed or one or more
files are missing, you must delete this package at once and get a new
virus-free package from: ftp.hornet.org/pub/demos/alpha/1997/e/est_1k.zip

Valuable Technical Information:

Here's a specification of all the things I made in only ONE kilobyte:

Polygon routines (in order of appearence):
Phong shading
Texture mapping
Texture phong
Bump mapping
Texture phong bump mapping	-	that's a nice one, eh?
Transparent phong shading
Transparent texture mapping
Transparent texture phong

In the intro, the torus moves from left to right numerous times, each time
with a different effect. In first 8 times it comes with a
different polygon routine each time. Then a 3D wobble of the torus is added.
After the first 16 cycles (each one different then another) the intro loops
to the beginning.

Other features of the 3D-engine:
3D Rotation
Clipping
Backface cutting
3D wobble

And in 2D:
Generation of the background
Generation of the textures for the texture mapping and the texture
phong parts

Other:
Generation of the TORUS 3D-mesh
Text
Various other support routines

System requirements:

1. The intro NEEDS 585K of free base memory. It will either not run at all
with any less memory available or will run with weird bugs on the
background caused by lack of free memory.
2. The intro NEEDS an FPU.
3. The intro NEEDS HIMEM.
4. The intro HATES 4DOS.
5. The intro WANTS a fast Pentium or higher processor. It was desinged on a
P5/166Mhz and runs good on P5/133Mhz. It will be very slow on a P5/100 and
it will be close to sertain death on 486/66Mhz.
6. The intro HATES Winslow'95(tm).
Surprisingly :), a very weird thing happends when you try to run "INVENTION"
under Winslow'95(tm). If the computer is in such configuration in which
DOS would have 585Kb low memory or more, the intro runs more or less ok
(although even then weird bugs can appear, and it's much slower).
If the configuration of your CONFIG.SYS + AUTOEXEC.BAT is a
configuration in which DOS would have LESS then 585Kb of low memory, it
either won't run at all, or do some crazy things like weird snow in the
background or horrirble flicker. Spontaneous combustion of the CPU was
also reported... Basically, this proves one thing I realized long ago.
This Winsh*t'95(tm) is nothing more then DOS with grahic interface.

Known Bugs:

Bug:    The clipping is buggy. You can see black dots where the torus touches
the edge of the screen.
Reason: Hey! It's enough that I've made clipping in a 1Kb
intro, so don't you complain to me about bugs!
Bug:    On some computers, you may see a few dark dots running around on the
torus, especially in the 3D wobble parts.
Reason: Unknown. Probably a few polygons that don't touch each other properly.
Can't be fixed in 1024 bytes.

Now to YOUR favourite part in the info-file...
Very special personal greetings:

All other members of ESTEEM (Adept, Paso and Bsm): thanks for your support.
A "thankyou" goes to Adept for some very nice tips he gave and
his help in fixing some extremely ugly bugs I encountered.
Hex/Time: I'll always be grateful to you for introducing me to the
wonderful world of demoscene. Thank you.
T-Rex/Exotic: Thank you for putting up with me and helping me when
I needed help. You have my eternal gratitude.
Borzom/Exotic: Thanks for the support.
All the guyes who talk to me frequently on IRC #coders, especially
Mr.Z./Asteroidea and Mri/Doomsday.
All ESTEEM fans (and ventilators) all over the world.

Very very important message:

Get ESTEEMs latest demo: "PRAY". It won the MOVEMENT'96 demo
competition in December 1996. You can get the two files (EST_PRAY.ARJ and
EST_PRAY.A01) from HORNET - 	ftp.hornet.org/pub/demos/alpha/1996/e

How to contact me:

I'd like to get as much feedback on this intro as possible, so feel free to
send me: EMails, money, girls, fruits, mailbombs and CDs to:
The best way is E-Mail:		ceagle@infomall.co.il	,
but if you really want to, you can call me too:  +972-3-9215179

You've just survived the "INVENTION 1Kb intro" info-file written by the author
himself:  Vladlen Koltun a.k.a. CyberEagle/ESTEEM.

EOF