doj at the key to describe this piece of crap
----------------------------------------------
1 week before deadline: doj and submissive decided that traveling to
  finland without demo would be boring - so we started a demo from
  scratch and looked out for some old effects.
1 weekend before deadline: doj moved to sub's place and they had a heavy
  coding weekend. a first version of the 3d engine was compiled and the
  bitmap effects were finished.
4 days before deadline: lightning and textural improvements of the 3d scenes
  were made. well we only had the castle scene so far. we realised that
  the demo would be crap with no good effects, but continued to work.
2 days before deadline: doj and sub packed their computers and went to
  hamburg airport to set off for the flight. Just before leaving sub's home
  his desktop case broke and he took all parts seperatly in his bag.
  after arriving in suomi we purchased a new mini tower and installed the
  computer and ourselves in the sokos hotel and started coding again.
1 day before deadline: moved to the party place again and continued coding.
10 h before deadline: we had no keyframing and were not sure wether to
  release this demo or not. But after chaos had won the party with a
  similar demo we gathered some self confidence.....
7 h before deadline: hunger hurts, but the demo has to be finished
3 h before deadline: keyframing is working and the demo seems to work with
  16mb of ram, so were installing the music syncing...
2.5 h before deadline: doj wrote this text, lets see what will come
2.3 h before deadline: sub complains the music routine doesn't run. But he
  just loaded the wrong module.
2.2 h we got a motto for this production: "we don't like it - but we
  release it anyway"
1 h before deadline I was about to start FT2 to make some minor changes
  and wondered why it took to so long to load it.... After a short reset
  my bios told me of "Primary Harddisk Failed"
  I was vernously a wreck and punished my computer hard for making such
  nasty jokes ! (beat it)
  After some beats my harddisk went again and I started to copy the most
  important files from one disk to another, which did not fail yet.
0.5 h before deadline we were watching the demo over and over to get latest
  things finshed.
0.4 h before deadline: I close this text to make everything ready for the
  final archivement and copying.

read what happens just right before and after the deadline, watch out for
the final version of the demo or have a look at

http://www.cubic.org


doj

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 ... months later .... january 1998


submissive on the keys..

well, I just recoverd from the party where by fortune I found the bug
that crashed retro... (nah, not that bug that caused the music to hang,
but the bug that didn't even let me watch the demo...)

for you coders.. if you ever use fdopen and watcom c++... be warned,
that fdopen no longer duplicates the file-position.. (fuck you, watcom!)

anyways... doj and me thought it would be time to do a final version. so
at this very day doj came along and motivated me a little bit.. after
12 hours of hard work the final version is now finished (and we really
like it.. ok, the 3d-engine could be a little bit faster, but who cares.
at the party I've seen intros and demos which are a worse.)


so.. for your pleasure we spend another hour to add the 'compo' mode
.. Just if you missed assembly and want to get the taste of a crashing
demo (it won't crash, but it'll look like it'll die in the next second).

very funny, isn't it?


so, I think I have nothing more to say at the moment... if you want for
which reason ever (fanpost? mail-bomb) contact me... my email is still
submissive@cubic.org (and guess which email doj has.. it's doj@cubic.org)


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 ... another two weeks later ...


We now fixed the very last effect.. It's the fadeout from that logo to
that very ugly raytrace picture (if anyone wants to make a better one
he's very welcome...)

read all the rulrulrul greetings in the endscroller.

will doj noch was schreiben? - er schttelt den kopf...

have a nice day (tm),



   submissive


                                            Cubic & $eeN in early 1998
                                             ... in code we trust ...



