lifeforms by Placebo
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So here we are! New name, new group, new demo. No more Eternity.
Just the purest Placebo. Don't even try to find any trace of
cure inside this - it's fucking hopeless. We made it for Scene,
and for Scene only - not to make some shitty pseudo
demomaking-lovers happy! A piece of sophisticated code, a bunch
of reckless pixels, a "beaten to death" sound. No more, no less.
And what about Design? Screw it! WE ARE DESIGN OURSELVES! No
rock'a'pop style, no fake drum'n'bass, no lousy 'funky' music.
Just some LifeForms released... Life & Scene... The only real
things... Love them! ...:
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code.................sair00s
__ graphics............paracels
_\/_ sound................sair00s
\/\/ objects................d-man
textures............paracels
desing...............placebo
ascii..................d-man __
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To run 'LifeForms' perfectly you'll need classic Pentagon 128
with 5.25" floppy drive. The disk _must_ have fast format only!
While formating/restoring the lag track should be set to 1 for
5.25" drives, 2 for 3.5" floppies. The loader still needs this
stuff, sorry Europe. _| : |_
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f o u r /
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zx: storm.art studio.psc.hrust.sprite master.trmshob2.bge
zxword.ews | : |
amiga: brilliance.lightwave.personal paint.arteffect.superview
dopus5.dopus4.pdhfic.magic eye.pcx.golded
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This software was launched on: .: |
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.pentagon 128.5.25".3.5".ay.colour monitor
.zx-spectrum 128.5.25".3.5".ay.soundrive.covox.kempston mouse.
b/w monitor | ..:. |
.zx-spectrum 128.5.25"x2.ay| :.:: |
.nemo kay 1024.5.25".3.5".ay.b/w monitor
.scorpion 256.5.25".ay.color monitor.gmx
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.commodore amiga 1200.m-tec turboboard.28mhz.8mb fast ram.
1gb hdd.48x cdrom.microvitec ...: |
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The whole code was made in Storm, the fastest ZX-Spectrum
assembler nowadays. Besides that Sair00s just loves it. He says
that he wanted to make demo. Liar! We were waiting for him for
more than half of summer. He hasn't even come to say: fuck the
CC, fuck the demo, I quit. And then, when all of us were truly
believing that there will be no demo from Placebo, he came at
last, saying: I want to make demo! It was the end of July. Holy
crap. One month to create the whole piece of shit! Fuuuuck!..
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Graphics were drawn in old good Art Studio on ZX-Spectrum.
Although Paracels has used Burial Graphics Editor once for some
sprites works. He says it was cool enough. Some of the pictures
were merely converted from Amiga and then retouched and coloured
by Paracels. These are the "guy, hushing up his life", the
"friends", the "thinking man and his eye" and finally the "six
guys, looking at all this shit (hey! that's us!)". To convert
Paracels used his beloved Brilliance, Personal Paint, PHDFIC
converter and his hands. D-Man has also helped him with
converting images. | ..: |
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To justify this shit with ripping and converting the other
people's images, Paracels says that he just had no time for
pixelling. Liar! As a result only 3 pictures were fully drawn by
him personally. Try to find them yourself.
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While creating 'LifeForms' D-Man has used Amiga only. And after
that he dares to say, that he is a ZX-Spectrum patriot. Liar! He
used 'LightWave' for modeling 3D objects and then 'Magic Eye'
utility fot converting them to ascii format. To create ascii
D-Man used PCx emulator and 'AciDraw' in it.
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As this is the post party release of our demo, we must say that
the whole final work on the demo was made not in Kovrov. Having
left Kovrov we still had 4 effects to add & the whole fixing to
made. Some of the graphics were also in need of being retouched
and fixed. So we've reached Moscow with that "demo pockets" full
of unfinished shit. There we used Wlodek Black's Pentagon to
continue making the demo. But as we had only few hours for that,
the demo hasn't been yet finished. The Saint Petersburg was
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And, oh gosh, we were creating demo for the whole saturday, the
whole night & and the early morning on sunday. And, thank God,
we've finally made it. Fuuuuuck! Sair00s hasn't seen almost all
of the zx-spectrum day compos. He missed almost everything, but
he did his best. Viva el Placebo! Viva el CC!
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Alex Tcherdakov - for giving us Pentagon motherboard
Neo/Virtual Masters - for giving us Pentagon 128
Roma Goryunov - for giving us ZX-Spectrum 128
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Wlodek Black - for letting us to use his computer
Pheel - for moral support, advice & dinner
Maddy - for moral support, help with basic loader
Nemo - for his Kay 1024 ;8)))))))))))
Flying - for moral support
Screamer - for moral support, Coca-Cola support
Stanly - for moral support
Dwarf - for moral support
UnBeliever - for moral support and for moving ZX
demo compo to the 2nd day. It gave
us the chance to finish the demo.
Steel Drugon - for moral support
Arty - for trying to stop DRV playing "Elite" ;)
Kasik - for moral support
Elf - for moral support
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And others: Kvazar, Organism, Paul Pavlov, Levitator, Zetter,
Megus, Vivid, Tigrr, Klim, Joker, Justinas, Jtn,
Stalker, Kano, Lav, Fat Crazer, Lina, Weird,
DJ Soundliner, ZSV, CPU, and all visitors &
compers of CC'001!!! : :
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Kovrov, Moscow & Saint Petersburg! Thanks for your help, support
and belief! : __: | __
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dr.xtm.ac.tbk.pht.ats.phf.3sc.k3l.fnm.bw.rm.4d.rzl.jeez.vm.sdm
eyeq.freedom.freeart.psycho.h-prg.ra.stall.screw.poweramiga.cc
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personal greet & truly the deepest thanks goes to BigBlack,
Chaos Constructions 2001 leading organizer & to UnBeliever/XTM,
organizer of ZX-Spectrum section at CC'001.
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snail: 601901, |::...: | _\/__
Russia, | : ... | \/\ (
Vladimir region, | :.:.: | \/
town of Kovrov, | : |
Chernyshevsky str., 7-17. |
For Kalinin Dmitry (D-Man^PCB).
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e-mail: [email protected] | - group's e-mail box
[email protected] | - d-man's personal e-mail box
[email protected] | - spy's personal e-mail box
[email protected] - paracels' personal e-mail box
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url: http://pcb.nm.ru - placebo home page
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_/(c) 2oo1 Placebo___ _ ____ kovrov ____ ___ascii by dman^pcb\_
...there is no cure...
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