Soundwave's musicdisk                             a VIRTUAL VISIONS release
        "DRASTIC SCREAM"



     copyrights

        All songs written by me (Lasse Makkonen). You have no rights to use
        the modules outside the music disk in any way or modify any part of
        it.

        You are allowed to copy and distribute the production in its whole,
        unmodified form if NO FEE is taken (you do not profit from my
        work, that is. Material costs etc can be charged). We call this
        kind of programs 'freeware'. Distribute only the original archives,
        do not delete them if you wish to spread this product on.

        I am not responsible for any damage caused by this program.


     credits

        graphics (the backgroun picture is hand-drawn), music tracking,
        pascal coding by Soundwave (Lasse Makkonen). Sound system (DSMI)
        by Otto Chrons and Jussi Lahdenniemi.

        all modules were made with ST3 using 10-16 digital channels.


     configuration

        At the beginning you may configure your soundcard if the detection
        routine fails to autodetect your sound board. Refer to your
        soundcard manual for correct settings. Incorrect settings may lead
        to machine crash or just silence.


     using the musicdisk

        Once you get it working and hear some music you should not face
        problems. Pick a song with the LMB and press ESC to exit.


     system requirements

        production needs to work:

        þ computer with at least a 80386 processor
        þ a soundcard supported by DSMI (GUS,SB,PAS,ARIA or WSS)
        þ 4megs of memory (you'll find out if you run out of it, don't worry)
        þ VGA card
        þ about 2 megs of HD space
        þ a mouse

        As a soundcard I recommend a GUS, since the modules use so many
        digital channels. If not, requires a fast machine to take care
        of software mixing for a good sound quality (and to make those
        volumebars look nice). Increase mixing rate manually to get
        better sound quality.

        You must have an EMS manager installed.


     bugs?

        Since I am mainly an artist, not a coder, there can be (and there is)
        some bugs in the source. If you face some (get weird sounding samples
        or something) try with different settings and always try to free some
        more memory. Btw, the enormous memory requirement of this software
        is cause of DSMI and EMS ... I was not able to load a module and then
        overwrite it with new one from disk without always something left
        remaining in the memory and this resulted a crash after every 3rd
        song played. Then, after receiving no help from the author of DSMI
        for pascal (hello, Jussi, and thanks ;) I had to load every single
        song to memory at the same time. I know it sucks but what could I do?

        NOTE that not all the soundcard support routines are tested, it worked
        with GUS and SB16 boards (in a SB test with SBOS my machine crashed,
        but that ain't a wonder, heh...)


     greets & hellos from Soundwave

        to the skilled composers and everyone in pc-techno scene...
        specially to music groups Radical Rhythms and Traxx.


     contact address

        I don't know why should you contact me, but here are my address...
        Send hate/fan mail, some good samples (there are never too many
        good samples, or what?), money, anything. (I am also interested in
        making some music for commercial purposes)...

            Lasse Makkonen
            Laavutie 4
            15870 Hollola, FIN

        But hey, do not bother me with a tiny bug on this software (like it
        doesn't work in your machine at all), I am probably too lazy to fix
        it anyway.
