T H O R N S
What is visions ?
If you hadnt noticed, visions is an ANSI viewer which can also
display 320 x 200 GIFs.
Why visions ?
Another obvious one. Just take a look at the Australian scene.
How was visions made ?
Using Turbo Pascal 6.0 because Jock cant afford to buy C and no
one will give him a pirated copy If youre from the SPA take
this as a lie. It took about 1-2 weeks to make visions, working
1-2 hours a day after school.
Visions IS almost entirely running in text mode !!
The only bits that do not are the VGA Scroller and VGA Dump
display modes which run in mode 13h. Everything else, and I mean
EVERYTHING ELSE, runs in text mode 3. When you see the first
screen with the multicoloured highlight bar, it does not look
like it because theres more than 16 colours on the screen.
Actually, it is just a very clever bit of programming which
means that you can have many more colours like that but IT IS
STILL IN TEXT MODE. All of this also applies to all the pixel-
by-pixel scrolling which you may have seen in Acidview or
other loaders around the place, Acid coders will tell you that
it IS IN TEXT MODE. So, there, dont take my word, take Acids
word.
How to use visions ?
Just press every key and see what happens. Note that the reset
button does a very interesting action.
Who is Thorn ?
Thorn is a combination of
a coder - Jock
and a graphics artist - Mr Krinkle
How did Thorn start ?
Once again, the Australian demo scene is so lame that we decided
to make our own demo. The demo is really hopeless but its a
pretty good start. It was our first production but Visions
should be out before it because were still waiting on some
music for it.
How to contact Thorn members ?
Jock - Cant afford to buy a modem. Send electronic mail
through Mr. Krinkle.
Mr Krinkle - At the mo not on any nets but you can mail me on
Blood Lust - +613 801 0614
Dream State - +iTS-PRi-vATe
Or through any Apocalyptic Visions Member
Mindless Plug
If you are in need of an ANSi for your good bbs and will pay a
fair price for good art in CASH or axs in some cases contact
Mr Krinkle.
Another Even More Mindless Plug
If youre loaded with money and dont know what to to with it,
all you have to do is give it to Jock and hell whip you up
some really cool program in no time at least thats the
theory . Tim Shaw says Ring now and well send you some free
steak knives.
Its Not Our Fault
If your computer sprouts legs and runs off with the microwave
its not our fault. We will not be held responsible for any
damage to equipment or data resulting from the use of Visions.
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