
        Psychic Symphony on the keys!

        It's exactly midnight... New day is 22nd October 1998

        Now it's 00:01

        Anyway... A couple weeks ago i was talking with djamm on irc
about music and i told him i was thinking of doing a small intro with
one of his old chip-tunes. He liked the idea!
        A couple days later i came upon these old graphics by iceball
when we were young and wrestless! (1 year and half ago :P)
        I had this idea of doing an RPG at the time and he did this
little cute green hair dude. Then some grass, sea, rocks, and that
little explosion (who looks more like a blob). Anyways... I came upon
these cute old graphics and asked him if i could use them. He didn't mind
so all i needed was a story...

        It's now 00:05

        ANYWAYS... I finished it!

        Don't know to what party to send this one... I'm releasing it
under Arf!Studios because this represents the 'fun in the scene'
Arf!Studios is trying to bring back! I haven't send this one to
Zippy^The Utopians and that is basically the only reason why this isn't
also an official The Utopians release aswell.

        More tolerant and fun scene! That's the message in this one! :)


        <start misc. code stuff>

        Turbo Pascal 7.0 was used to do:
        No pre-calc whatsoever
        No compression whatsoever

        X-linker was used to link together:
        the compiled exe (bout 17k)
        the gfx file     (bout 15k)
        the music file   (bout 13k)
        the gus support  (bout 12k)

        No sound sucks! So don't use it although it's available...

        More cards are supported via external .mse files. This is
because i used BWSB (1995) for sound support.

        <end misc. code stuff>


        Now comes the part i really coded this for: THE GREETINGS!
        I love beeing able to greet people so here it goes:

/nick Psychic_Symphony

/me sends BIG HUG to friends on evolve!
/me jumps on shock and knocks him down!
/me licks idiotboy's hand... hummm... pineapple!
/me squeezes nephoo very hard! :)

/me also waves hi to ActiveFuel guys Proggie, Sulph and Darkie.

/me says howdy to Cremax and Salami in Nothing.

/me shouts hi to Swedish friends Baloo, Frame, Pike and Psychofox.
/me also says howdy to java and steffo of Cryonics and barbatron!

/me shouts hi even louder to other friends in australia...
/me shouts to gyr, MZ, goblin, clef and of course MAGNESIUM
/me doesn't forget about .au top babe Euphoria! *hugs and kisses*

/me looks to poland and scratches his head...
/me breaths deeply...
/me says hi to Radi and aGi of INTerror
/me says hi to Misha and Core-nick of Tatanka
/me says hi to Szum from Cryogen
/me also says hi to uncle Scorpik and EAL MAN.

/me stares at hungary
/me catches his breath
/me starts rambling: rod, d-lee, ezah, TSC, Mr.Z and... that's it!

/me looks at finland and starts getting tired...
/me shouts hi to melwyn, rodex and virne.
/me also says hi to hoplite, MRI, ms.saigon and sol.
/me considers the possibily of greeting distance...
/me goes: 'sure... why not?'
/me happily greets distance

/me gets down to norway
/me waves hi to zippy, pearl hunter and... no one else... i think...
/me thinks he has little contacts in norway...
/me wonders if he is forgetting someone...
/me has a flashback... CYBERFISH!
/me has another flashback... XERXES!
/me has yet another flashback... MOV!
/me has even another flashback... WAIN!

/me says hi to droid and hellfire from haujobb (DUNNO COUNTRY!)
/me waves hi to acryl!

/me still has to go through denmark...
/me shouts howdy to slyde and byter from blasphemy
/me jumps on thorsten (DADDY DADDY) :)
/me also greets vipa, rbecue and skrig.

/me doenst forget about middle europe friends:
/me says hi to adok
/me says also hi to therew and sparcus from nostalgia
/me waves hi to ever-patient vic_ACME
/me also waves hi to TDR's assign, krii and paniq. ( krii => .fi ?)
/me says hi to nix and fear of TBL

/me goes french...
/me says hi to andromeda (he is belgium but...)
/me says hi to asphyx
/me says hi to cyg
/me says hi to TuO and Shodan from Skytech Crew
/me waves hi to knos
/me doesn't forget about friend in luxemburg: hi screamager! thx 4 CD! :)
/me doesn't forget about switzerland either: hi whole Calodox!

/me takes a glimpse at the uk but recalls statix, smash and spansh don't
    care on Psychic_Symphony :(    

/me happily looks down at israel:
/me waves hi to ohad 'str0mike' pressman and masterb0y!

/me doesn't forget about nuestros hermanos dave and blade! :)

/me goes back to the roots for some more local greetings:
/me says to c0dewiz: .pt.party summer 99 NOW!
/me says to ^magico^: make c0dewiz organize .pt.party 99!
/me says to majestic_dawning: i'm waiting for that demo of yours mate!
/me see's mindwalker: MINDPISS!!!
/me doesn't forget about razer and superior!
/me also says hi to Radioactive Design guys Garfield and Bitcoder
/me says howdy to Electron, Brand-X, Extacy, Mr.Who and MrUnderworld.
/me says hi to Rents: DIK! BUAHAHAHAH...
/me salutes MC-Viper: wassup?
/me ignores Brainpowder completly!

/me also is FORCED to say hi to the following girls on irc:
sanvar,puff,presence,kindred,romy,ip2,mmorango,opala,maga,out_of_sight,
mrsvi,rita19,babyliss and verano.
/me feels relieved!

/me notices he forgot about talker's people... ARGH! big up to:
bulldog,tolas,chris,geofriend,mocas,jfk,einstein,banderas,kurt,bengaleiro,
xmen,fidel,tetris,kunatja,wolfman,braganca,scotch,jane,splash,starla,smille,
mega,biscoita,sofia,lamb and ofcourse annie!

/me recalls he forgot about people on irc ptnet... hi to:
altern,hipo,willy,val_kilmer,valkhyria,HEAT,iceberg,baldas,kobertor,drakula,
nocturno,gudmusson,bia,bea,crystal_eye,adonis,hdl,ze_tosta,enfermeiro,
o_bengas,fluvial and brunein.

/me thinks he is finally through! sorry if i forgot about you...
/quit BOOM!


        Iceball and djamm didn't had their hands on the keyboard...
        (Scrool down)


I guess that's it... :~(

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                        Psychic Symphony - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt

PS- Oh! Almost forgot... Big hugs and kisses to those who supported me
    all the way since 'Psychic Television': leonel and chris!
    You guys really rule! =)


        I'm back! It's the same day only i have spent whole morning
sleeping and whole afternoon doing some math while listening to music.
        I feel empty! I should feel happy to having finished this project...
I was happy last night... But i went out of my room to get some cookies and
caught up with my dad on the kitchen... He told me to stop singing, it was
to late. I wanted to tell him i just finished this very cute 64k intro which
meant a lot to me but i couldn't. I realized he wouldn't care a damn bit!
        No worth-eating cookies on the cabinet either so i returned to my
room only with a diference. I was now not happy about releasing the intro.
Underworld was still playing since i had put it rolling while finishing the
intro... Listened to the lyrics a little. I felt bad. Watched seinfeld and
went to bed.
        Woke up, watched some music video's, eaten the soup only, back to my
room to do some math for the whole afternoon. It's now 17:47! The Verve playing
I'm skipping some tracks straight to lucky man... Done!

        Happyness... More less...
        It's just a change in something in my liberty...
        Oooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn my mind...

        Happyness... Coming and going...

        ...

        But i'm a lucky man...
        With fire in my hands...


        I should feel happy about the intro... Yet i don't feel a thing. No
one around me cares remotly on if i am happy or not...

        I just felt i had to write something else besides just greets to all
friends i have on the internet... I guess they are my only friends...

        <Oh! I'm a lucky man!>

        Humpf... G I just recalled seeing this on the telly the day i realized
i probably wasn't going to wired... who cares...

        song is over... i'm out of here...

        Psyshit















OK! So now i'm am going to try to do a reasonable infofile from here on...

        Music was provided by DJamm... It's a small 16k chip-tune he made
a couple years ago.
        Graphics were provided by Iceball. In a total of 19 frames for the
little guy, plus one unused (20*20)! 3 different trees! (40*20)
Plus 2 frames for the sea, one rock, one grass-field and one flower pot.
Also a little blue explosion which was used impersonating a foe.
        2 frame's of the sun (20*20) we're drawn by myself (Psychic) and
mirrored on code to save gfx space.
        Graphical font is a neopaint native.
        All code is pascal except for small asm (which i got hold of from
some tuturials) for mode13h switch and getkey!
        Main exe (compo entry) is an exe by x-linker which runs the main
exe, seeks pcx file, seeks music and seeks gus support!
        Other cards support are added externally... The intro can run
without them beeing present!
        The final exe file doesn't reach 60k and it's all unpacked and
uncompressed. Zip it and check the rate if you don't believe me! I am not
a size optimizer by nature since i basically don't know any assembly. But i
did try to chop down the maximum possible to include a small random distortion
on the final credits screen. Without sucess tough... Size raised near 20k!
        Also couldn't squeeze in sb support on compo version since it was 11k
long and the max i could free up was 9k! :(

        Here is what DJamm has to say about this intro:
        (fill in later)

