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`-|.  |-'.  _    .  |    .  |___|.  |___   ;  '_   |.  |___|.  |   |
  |:  | |:  |    :  1    :  1    :  1   | : :;` ;  |:  1    :  1   |
  |::.| |::.|:.  ::.. .  ::.. .  ::.. . | `.__._;  |::.. .  ::.. . |
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	            Not Really Proudly Present :


  The TROLL & Co. Contribution to DHS Christmas 2003 competition !
       Euuuuh, can we say this is the wild category compo ?

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INTRODUCTION :


Yeeeeeah, believe it or not but The Raiders Of The Lost Lock & Co. 
(TROLL & Co.) have released something !

But as usual [frenchies rulezzz], we did not respect all the rules,
why ? Euhhh I'll say first because I'm a falcon lover... not a good
reason ? Okay, so second because we're lamer coders ???

In fact it's a little bit more complex... Except the fact we wanted
to release Falcon stuff for this compo (first rule not enforced), we
really planned to repect the other rules but due to a lot of 
misfortune (Gwile Flacon nearly dead, Thomas/NB CT60 makes his hard 
drive crazy, Matt'Us Alem SCSI drive died...) we didn't succeed in 
doing exactly what we wanted... Anyway ! That's why it's wild and
feeling rulezzz and since we saw we couldn't respect some other rules
we decided to do something we like instead of giving us too many
limits !


WHAT'S IN ?

In this compo released version you'd find :
- Nice True color 640x240 Xmas pix from a wellknown illustrator
  (Sorayama pin up 21)
- Never seen before fonts TC fonts done by Matt'Us Alem in 5 
  minutes
- Lissajou hardscroll to move this silly people
- Great ACE X-mas theme tune from Damo/RG (snowman theme) but
  mp2 encoded due to some technical issues...
- An unreadable transparent scroller during at least 3 minutes 

In a future release (next week ?) we will add
- 2 magic ACE tunes made by 505/Checkpoint
- Bugfix (VGA/RGB speed,...)
- Maybe something readable !


So nothing brillant :) But the X-mas girl deserves it !
And as the ACE player consumes most of CPU time, we need to have sth 
as light as possible so the hardscroll was a good solution no ? 

But for sure, you'll see great ACE demo next year !!!!
What about ACERockerz ???? ;-)

COMPO RULES

- 15 Kb limit (don't you said 15 Mb ?)

Due to some pbs with the
Brainstorm JPG decoder and the ACE player issue, we had to encode 
the ACE tunes in mp2, so it was 10 Kb for 3 ACE tunes compressed 
and now it will be 3 Mb !!!! MP2 rulez :( But we really wanted to
release the great tune from Damo and next the 505 tunes !
In the same way, we cannot touch to the Xmas girl, she's tooooo
cute ! What about Grayscale 320x200 pix ? 
But 30 Kb was reachable....

- Music

3 Ace music were done, Damo/RG has done this very nice snowman 
theme I converted to mp2, 2 more themes from 505 will follow in mp2
version too.

- Gfx

Yep, the Xmas gfirl is not an original drawing but she's too cute 
(I said it before ?), the font was done by Matt'Us Alem for this 
purpose

- Coding

You'll need a Falcon to run this demo, 4 Mb should be enough (not 
tested) so forget about 1 Meg ST :)


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :


- Atari Falcon 030, C-Lab Falcon MK I, MK II or MK X
- 4 MB ST-RAM
- FPU 
- VGA or RGB monitor, VGA favoured for sync
- A floppy or a harddisk with 1 Mb free (Yep, a 15Ktro :-) )
  hard drive favoured due to mp2 loading


CREDITS :


- Code :		Matt'Us Alem (TROLL & Co.)
			Gwile
			
- Additional code :	Axel F. (Sprite routine)
			No Crew (mp2 player)
			Thomas (New Beat) (Ace Player)
			
- Demo Sequencer :	EViL (DHS)

- Music :		Damo (Reservoir Gods) 
			505 (Checkpoint) (next version)

- Graphix :		Fonts by Matt'Us Alem
			Sorayama for the pin-up, 	  

- Support & help : 	Gwile, Thomas, Damo, MJJ guyz


GREETINGS :

- To my master : Defjam !!!!!!!!! (You'll get your email !)

- To all the very nice guys I know, especially :

 MJJ Prod 	(Strider, Wilfried, Mr Nours, Zorro2)	
 Damo/RG 	(great guy)
 Ray/.tSCc. 	(smart 3D advices) 			
 Nils/505 	(great friend)
 Sector One 	(Frost, Dma Sc)
 Dune 		(Corbeau, Mic, Chuck)
 Ralf Zenker 	(great tool)
 Evil/DHS 	(always here)
 Thomas/NB 	(Ace is sooo great)


And all others... Paranoia, Escape, FUN Industries, .tSCc.,...

- To all the Atari sceners I met on #atariscne :
George/GGN, Deez, ZPQ, ST Ghost, Edo, Mr Pink, 
Evil, Partycle, Grazey, Keops,...

- To the members of the TROLL & Co. and especially Tsunoo Rhilty

- To the members of the MJJ Prod (HerrV, TooSeb, FelX, C-Rem...)

- To all I forgot !


To contact us, feel free to visit our webpage: 
http://trollco.atari.org

or email us:

mattusalem@canada.com
fredmutter@chez.com

or on irc:			                                             

Kephy on #atariscne/IRCnet

See ya later.... Hope your enjoyed (a little :) ) this wild release !

Matt'Us Alem/Kephy