Rocket here....

In the programming conferences on the nets several people have asked,
"How do I do fades?" or "I can fade down but how do I fade up?"  So I
decided to put out a HIGHLY commented demo with all the souce code in
100% assembly (I use TASM) that shows every kind of fade imaginable. It
has your normal fadeup...fadedown...and fading from one palette to another.
But the special part of this code is the way I do the fades in three chunks
of bytes...thus ensuring NO SPARKS on the screen.  I know you can fade
faster by doing all 768 bytes in one outsb or insb, and you may say it
works fine on my machine, but this code will work with no sparks on ALL
machines.  I did this and have included that file as fastfade.exe but it is
prone to sparks.  I have seen tons of loaders that sparked on cheap video cards,
and I have tested this code on 20 different machines and slowed the fades
down until it worked with no sparks on any of them....the worst video
card for sparks I have every seen is in Unisys machines (256K vanilla VGA),
but this works fine on even them....some people use int 10 to do their
fades but depending on the bios that can look like fireworks too!
These fade routines do not use int 10 but write straight to the port, or
video card for you noncoders.  As a bonus you also get a my VGA detect
routine and 50 line ansi code.  This probably doesn't look like anyone
else's coding style you have ever seen cuz I have never taken any coding
courses.  I also know this isn't the most difficult thing to code in
the world but it was designed to be UNDERSTANDABLE.  If there is a topic
you would like covered in the future, ask, you might get it.  If you
use this code please give ACiD and me a greet.  Now for a few special words.

-- Special thanx to my brother, Machine Head, for the help understanding
   indirect addressing and segments.  I had a great time on vacation -- trout
   fishing, beautiful scenery, and how bout that tequila?

-- Rad Man - Pascal? YUK!

-- MFX - nice mod player...and even better that other people can't steal
   our mods out of the exe files, now about that last little bug

-- iCE - go ahead...use my code...

-- VLA - Draeden...nice code...keep puttin it out...please

-- Future Crew...your fades spark like hell on some machines, but you
   probably know that already, ripped any pictures lately?
