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//        Ultimate Muzak Demo 8730       //
//     ST News I.C.C. Beta Release!      //
//          15th December 2000           //
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Credits
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Major Coding.........................Grazey
Additional Coding...................Calsoft

Music ripping........................Grazey
Additional music ripping..........Mr Styckx
and countless others

Design & GFX.........................Grazey

Intro
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Hi there!

Welcome to this special preview release of
U.M.D. 8730. In fact this version is very
nearly a full release version. All that
needs to be added is the intro and may be
some bug fixes for the Falcon. The demo
has been two years in the making. The 
majority of this time has been spent 
ripping the literally thousands! of tunes.
The program shell / gfx and music bar 
routines were only added in the past few 
weeks.

UMD is really the forefather of the 5 
previous UMD incarnations. It takes all the
tunes from these (excluding digi zaks) and
adds an additional 50% of musics. With the
birth of Sid Sound giving a shot in the arm
of ST chip musicians. UMD includes many 
exclusive tunes never heard on the ST 
before plus music written at the birth of 
the ST which went un-noticed to prying 
music rippers eyes!

What a long journey this music hacker has
taken. Right from 1985/6 ripping classic
Rob Hubbard music's on the C64 to my
automatic Sid Sound Designer ripper which
does the hard work in seconds. In those
distant days my frist C64 music 
compilation only contained around 30 tunes
all on one 5 1/4 inch disq.

This demo includes at least 4000+ tunes! 
Beating any music demo on any platform as
far as we are aware. For the statto fans
that equates to 160+ composers, 22mb of
music data all compressed down to around
5mb's! The huge compression ratio is 
achieved because Grazey has stripped the
music data from generic drivers were 
possible to save space. But enough of the
nerd-speak lets thank the people who
have been DIRECTLY involved in making 
this demo either with technical help, 
emailing us unreleased music or other
valuable assistance :-

Thanks
======

*Mr Styckx* - Thanks for you MANY music
rips, especially your hard work on the 
Jason Page driver!!

*Tao* - For the imminent music!

*No-More* *Big Alec* *Nexus 6* *DMA SC* 
*Cube* *Beast* *Tyan* *Sean Connolly*
*Mclaser* *Matt* *505* *Baggio* *ISO*
*Rhino* *Scavenger* *AIO* *Doclands*
*Rudi Stemper* *Baz Leitch* *Frazer*
*MSG* *Danny Oneway*  

Plus these other people who've helped-

EVL, Defjam, Richard Karsmakers, MSD,
Alex Holland, Oedipus, Stefan Lindberg,
Lowlife, Lonsdale, BDC, Leonard, dbug
Niclas Pennskog, w8er, Flix, ethh, zeg
Keops, Candyman, Pascal, MUG UK, Carbon
Orm, Aldn, SWE, Tat, Griff.


Requirements
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Memory.........................1 mb 
Model........................ST/STE
................!Falcon not tested!

The demo was written and designed to be
run on a hard-drive. HOWEVER, it will
run from a floppy drive but prepare for
lots of disk access!

The demo has been tested on a 1040STFM
and 1040STE. 

Floppy Users
============

If the demo can not find a required
music file the demo will flash red.
Simply insert the required disk into
the drive. Each file contains the tunes
of that author. So for ease of access
it would be simpler to copy the authors
to each disk in alphabetical order. For
example disk B contains authors B-E.


Bugs
====

Remember this is a beta version, bug 
testing has been minimal (lack of time)
and I presume there will be lots of 
bug reports from STNICCC. Please report
any back to our addresses at the end of
this file. Remember this demo was NOT
designed or coded on a Falcon, if we 
have time we may add full compatibility
but that's way off yet!


Grazey , 14/12/2000 17:13.

grazey@tphf.karoo.co.uk
cally@apdcomms.co.uk

http://phf.atari.org

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