Focus by quad [web]
Complete demography of
the fourth demo release
by Quad
Focus
final version
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│ 1. issues
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issues in this text file are :
- the quad biography
- system requirements
- demo info
- memberlist
- how to reach us
- and much much more!
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│ 2. The Quad Biography
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In our young days (1992) we were just some smartasses who just copied
games and games and games and, yes, games (all 'shareware' ;)).
At that time Sarix, Skin and another guy had their little
computergroup 'pc gremlins'. This was a 'well-known' group in the
computer 'scene' of our town. Whizz-kid on the other hand, did the same,
not in a group, but independent. At this time, we didn't know eachother.
We got in touch with eachother by our 'gaming' and after some time
we became friends and since then we started going out together.
Sarix started coding some stupid and useless utilities in - don't
laugh - basic in 1993.
Whizz-kid started up his own board at X-mas 1993 and he
got some demos which he liked very much. He got facinated by the
demo-scene. Some time later, Sarix got those demos too and in 1994
he started to code in assembler. This was very tough, but after
a while he got some knowlegde of coding.
We (Sarix, Skin) started a new group called 'Nix Couriers'.
This group did some coding and some game 'copying'. It wasn't a
great success. The first party we went to is 'bizarre 95'. After
that party we started the 100% demo group 'Quad'. Since we find
out that there was some duwde calling himself 'NIX' so Nix
wouldn't be a good name.
On 11-11-95 sarix released his first intro of Whizz-kid's board.
A couple day's after this, necronomicon joined as a graphics artist.
So we started to work on a applyform. Sarix coded the whole stuff
and we used some ray-art from necronomicon. So we released an
intro/applyform. And some rippers applied since we HATE rippers
they didn't make it in QUAD. Whizz-kid got some contact with 2 musicians
(soundmeister and goth) who were both members of Quad.
With our very first team of Sarix, Skin, Whizz-kid, Soundmeister and
Necronomicon we competed in the X'96 4mb demo compo with a
demo called 'Kamikaze' which reached the 8th place (out of 12).
This wasn't very good but HEY you need to start somewhere :)
After the X'96 Skin talked to Darth Vader about his demo stuff and
since Darth Vader was a friend of necronomicon, he had seen some things
of Quad already and wanted to join too, as a graphics artist.
Nowadays he mostly makes 3D objects for demos and stuff.
One week later a classmate of Skin (G-Day) showed interest as a Musician.
Sarix went to Hogeschool Eindhoven and got a Internet account....
After a few days he was addicted to IRC and he chatted with Morgue
Morgue liked the ideas of Quad, so he joined; to help Sarix with the
coding.
After all those applies we started working on our 2nd demo.
We worked on it in july, august and september 1996.
Some guest artists joined in for Perception: Zest/Spirit and
Low Profile/Arcamax. We entered the Bizarre'96 Demo compo and reached
the 6th place out of ??.. We were very disappointed that 'DEMOS VOOR
DUMMIES' got ranked 4th since their effort to build the demo was very
low. :) But after all Bizarre was a rocking party and we decided to
try to build a even better demo.
So after the Bizarre we started working on a brand new demo called
Addicted. An entire new 3d engine was written by Sarix.
We kicked Soundmeister and Goth. Since their productiviteit was
very low. Whizz-Kid found out his handle was that orginal so he
decided to change his handle to Arzamas.
With Soundmeister and Goth kicked out of Quad we needed a new
musician and we found TWO; Darkxceed and G-Day
Sarix was getting tired to code demo' all by himself so he decided to
search for a new coder. (Morgue wasn't very active he only coded 1
effect for 'perception' so Sarix was a bit pissed)
At Bizarre'96 he had met Inopia so he decided to ask Inopia to join Quad.
And guess what ... He did. He liked the idea of being in a GROUP.
G-Day leaves Quad after the Takeover for a musicgroup called Rave Beats
International. So he could spend all his time to RBI. All the musicians out
here probably heard of him :)
Morgue didn't code anything for 'ADDICTED' (X - TakeOver) so we decided it
was better for Morgue to continue coding for himself :(
Our demo Addicted (X - TakeOver) didn't work fine on the compo machine
after the credit part it crashed :( But hey if you code nonstop for 3 days
you always mis a bug.
When Sarix got home he started the demo on his machine but he couldn't
get it to crash. A few days before after he got his machine to crash
(victory:)). Try windows->netscape->shutdown-addicted in case you also
can't get the damn thing to crash.
He tryed to build a bugfixed version of addicted and you probably can
find the result all over the world (this demo you should check out).
With a new Coder, Quad started to build their demos in Watcom instead of
Assembler and while building a complete new 3Dengine in watcom a new
coder joined the group -> Sagacity.
On the way we where building everything a guy named BUCKSHAG talked to
us and we liked his ideas and stuff so we invited him to QUAD.
A new schoolyear started and Arzamas couldn't spend more time to QUAD.
So he decided to leave Quad :(.
With Arzamas gone we needed a new musician so we asked G-Day to make
a exception for us and build a cewl tune for a new demo. And since
G-Day is very nice guy he builded the thing. While building the
tune with Darkxceed and seeing previeuws from effects he got the
demo-virus again so he asked if he could join again and we said ofcourse
YEZ...
With this new team of people we started to build a complete new cool
demo named 'FOCUS'. And yepz you are reading the infofile of this new
demo.
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│ 3. system requirements
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required PENTIUM PC with a least 16 megabytes of ram.
4 mb of free harddisk space.
any soundcard will do (i think) but incase of
a gus you need 1024k of memory.
svga graphics adapter and a vga color monitor
Vesa 320x240x16bit lfb
Vesa 640x480x16bit lfb
If you don't have Vesa 320x240x16bit try finding
univbe (scitech display doctor) and run it
most of the time (if you videoadapter isn't to old)
you suddenly have Vesa 320x240x16bit
recommended pentium 166mhz or above with at least 16 megabytes of ram.
fast pci svga graphics adapter and a svga color monitor.
gravis ultrasound (max/pnp) with a least 1024k of memory.
prepared to watch it for the full 100%
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│ 4. demo info
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Yepz you probably spend your download time to get the party version
and while you were running it, it says "depacking data" and then
"silence" so hmzz.. we are very sorry for this problem we searched
our code for 2 weeks and guess what we found; a few weird pointer.
But we were satisfied too soon. The demo still didn't work on 99% of
the machines. So we decided to build MIDAS in the demo (switching from
player really sucks if you haven't coded your demo nice to replace your
player:() But we fixed it and now it works on every machine (we hope:)
why 4mb again to download you say.
well we changed some gfx to make te demo look better :)))))
that's all folks...
Code - Graphics - 3D objects - Music - Design was done
by the following people of QUAD:
G-Day,Inopia,Skin,Sarix,Necronomicon,Sagacity,Darkxceed,Buckshag
Thanx for Support
(Ralf van Hoof) Yosh (for making up the name),
Jello,Tbl,Cheese,Green (for explaining some cool stuff)
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│ 5. memberlist
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May I have your attention for the following, if you are not
stated in this list, you don't belong to the Quad members.
members have been listed in random order :
handle function real name
Sarix coder john-pierre verhagen
Skin gfx artist bart pustjens
Inopia coder niels brouwers
Darkxceed musician bart veenstra
Darth vader gfx artist/3d objects hans de vries
Necronomicon gfx artist duy nguynen
Sagacity coder roy jacobs
G-Day musician franklin van veldhuisen
Buckshag coder/gfx artist
Cyclops gfx artist
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│ 6. how to reach us
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* for general quad stuff contact Arzamas
you can reach us via ...
email addresses :
Sarix - [email protected]
Skin - [email protected]
- [email protected]
Darth Vader - [email protected]
Necronomicon - [email protected]
Inopia - [email protected]
Sagacity - [email protected]
Skin is the main-organiser so if you have some questions/offers
for us mail to him! About distro's/ftp's mail to [email protected] adres.
Snail mail (no swapping!):
John-Pierre Verhagen / Sarix
Nieuwenheerd 28,
6003 PG Weert, The netherlands
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│ 7. releases
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filename date description
dd/mm/yy
nx2ndsrc.zip ??/10/95 Source: a little intro for nix couriers
qdlicht.zip ??/10/95 Source: a light effect
qd-necro.zip 28/10/95 JPG: great picture of a robot by Necronomicon
qd-mcdmo.zip 11/11/95 Intro: MicroBE BBS intro by Sarix
qd-lutil.zip 27/12/95 Utility: network utility (?)
qd-apply.zip 01/01/96 Apply: Quad apply form
qd-kmkze.zip 07/04/96 Demo: Kamikaze released at X'96, 8th place
qd-titan.zip 07/04/96 TGA: picture for X'96, ?th place
qd-percp.zip 08/09/96 Demo: Perception released at Bizarre'96, 6th place
qd-dead.zip 08/09/96 TGA: Death Metal by Necronomicon at Biz '96 3th place
organic.zip 06/04/97 XM: Organic by Arzamas rel'd at the X'97 1th place
yar_mine.zip 06/04/97 XM: Ya'r Mine by DarkXCeed rel'd at X'97 9th place
qd-death.zip 06/04/97 TGA: Death Angels by Necronomicon at X'97 1th place
qd-addic.zip 06/04/97 Demo: Addicted released at X'97 5th place
qd-adfix.zip 20/04/97 Demo: Addicted bug-fixed
fisthyx.zip ???????? intro: Fystix at Wired'97 4th place
onfris.zip ???????? intro: onfris at bizarre'97 2th place
armaged.zip ???????? JPG: Armageddon by Necronomicon Biz'97 1st place
qd-focfn.zip 10/10/97 Demo: Focus final at Biz'97 1st place
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│ 8. Extended Greetings
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MAR00N
ex-BlUP!
TBE
UNKNOWN
MAK0/NOGROUP
TSE
TUHB
JELLO
CRONIX
TBL
TSD
FUDGE
ASTROIDEA
CHEESE TEAM
SYMPTOM
PSYCHIC LINK
JINX
SPIRIT NS
NAAPERT
IMPACT STUDIOS
SUCCESS
NEW ORDER
TRANCEFUSION
FADE
EXCESSIVE FORCE
EXCALIBUR
ABSENCE
TMATIC
KFMF
iMAGE!
NOSTALGIA
TREPAAN
GREEN
Melting POT
AND TO AAAALL FRIENDS OF US OR PEOPLE WHO KNOW US OR ARE KNOWN BY PEOPLE WHO
KNOW US OR JUST WANT TO KNOW US (a.k.a. QUAD-GROEPIeS) WHO IN SOME STRANGE
REASON SEEM TO STIMULATE US AND KEEP US GOING (SO IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT!)
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│ 9. Disclaimer
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Let's keep this short:
QUAD can't be held responsible for anything at all
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│ 10. Troubleshooting
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It's not recommended to load EMM386.exe or network drivers.
Delete windows (works for every program).
Format your windows installation disks.
Boot with a clean config and autoexec.
Wake up, open your eyes and turn on the PC.
if all this fails email to sarix
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│ 11. Personal Greets
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Personal Greetz
From Inopia:
DPM/EFC
Anomaly/ex-TBE
Skylla/ex-TBE
Kurt/Green
Cyclops/Quad <g>
Silence
Vulture/OT
Hugo
Sick Sjaak/Trepaan
Nix/TBL
Jace/TBL
Mux/Sjees tiem
Cygnes/TMatic
Nectar/Tone
All in #nlcoders, and all cool demoposses that are our friends!
From Sarix:
Nix
Jace
Xoror
Balance
Kork
Sick Sjaak
Hugo
Twelve/Experiment of zoiets toch ?
Deadline
Riplin
MULTIPLEX (voor de duidelijke uitleg voor de 3dengine :)
Ralf van Hoof (tnx for the name and stuff)
Mieke Janssen
Kindaya
De manne van Green
Calimero
Redhound
Piro
Mdma
Sigmatic
rest van jello
compile
thescorp
rest van subliminal
B33R
Badvibes
Mindex
Arzamas
PULSE
and the rest i have forgotten or something to bad next better
From Sagacity:
Deadline/EFC
Kork/Trepaan
Nix/TBL
Xoror/Infuse
Riplin/Infuse
Darius/S4B
Twelve/Experiment (toch? of niet?)
Redhound
Most at #nlcoders (the part which hates takeovers, anyway)
From Skin (in random order (most of the time;)) :
Psycho
Redhound
Nix
Xoror
Kork
Jace
Ballein
B33R
Badvibes
Mindex
ThePeric
Arzamas
All of Jello
Kindaya
All of Oops (amiga)
Skipper
etc,etc,in short; everyone i chat with at #nlcoders!
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