Useless Info File v5.05 updated 19 Jul 97, party place
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1. Opening words
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I must first of all thank you for being interested in a young demo-makers
group like us! Demo scene is really exciting, and if you come in, you'll
never really come out... :)
2. Useless
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Useless will finally be our group-name... in fact we're a young group on the
scene, and we're still looking for friends to come!
3. Members
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Useless is composed of :
nick : age : job
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Hornet : 19 : code, organizer
Satanic : 19 : main code
Index : 19 : code, gfx, music
FreddyV : 23 : code, soundsystem
-M- : 16 : music
PSL : 18 : music
SFC & Xortianc : 19 : 3D gfx artist
Danube : 21 : gfx
Sibaho : 19 : 3D gfx artist
4. History
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20 Dec 94 : CDSRI is created by Hornet & Satanic that wanted to join their
talent to produce a concrete stuff... Smells' coding starts.
Mar 95 : All Smells' code thrown to the bin, because it was too bad.
Coding of new & cool effects starts.
Jul 95 : CDSRI moves to Useless, because CDSRI was an horrible name.
Smells' main coding finished. <waiting for a soundsystem>
Vector Engines coding starts, flat, gouraud...
Jul-Aug 95 : Satanic works on Useless Module Player.
Sep 95 : Hornet & Satanic go to high school : time for coding decreases
dangerously.
Oct 95 : Hornet starts coding Useless Vector Editor.
30 Dec 95 : We decide to finish off this #{&* fucking demo in a few days.
1 Jan 96 : "Smells like Amiga spirit" name found by a friend : Bart.
2 Jan 96 : Smells' v1.0 finished, but bugged : does not work without
soundcard, bugs with SBx
Dec 95/Jan 96 : coding of a new demo starts, to bring to ASM'96 : for the
moment it may be coded all in asm with dos32v32, and the target computer
is a pentium 120 (i.e. it will be at full framerate, 70 frames a second,
on this computer)
26 Jan 96 : New members join! Index, YannSulu & JBT...
Feb 96 : our Internet Page is ready, Index is op. at :
http://193.54.10.242/~montasma/main.html
14 Mar 96 : Another new member! yahoo! FreddyV (ModMaster's author)
Mar 96 : We'll have a nice XM player, FreddyV 's coding it right now!
9 Apr 96 : Two young musicians, -M- & PSL, join to compose music, great!
11 Apr 96 : An Amiga graphician, Rafale, accepts to draw for us, yeah...
June 96 : first Phong using EnvMap from Satanic...
July 96 : We can't go to Asm'96, fuck... goin' to Wired'96?
August 96 : E.O.S. is quicker than DOS32!
5 Aug 96 : release of "Alix le chien con v1.0"... a 6-hours-nighty delirium
Anyway, music is poor and a big part in french, there's an anim, code is
not-so-good...
Summer 96 : definatelly YannSulu, JBT & Rafale can't be said as being really
in the group...
Sept 96 : Yes, we'll go to the Wired, rather we won't have a demo ready or
not... in fact we've got to meet to plan something really cool for mid-97
Oct 96 : Bart finds again a name for our next demo : Use (it) as an illusion,
presented at Wired '96. It came 7th out of 14.
Nov 96 : FreddyV finished off his xm player, supporting gus and sb, EOS and
DOS32, soon available on the Internet
Apr 97 : FreddyV finished the release 1.0 of his XM player for EOS, DOS32 and
watcom C/C++... sure you'll like the ultimate player of the scene!
May 97 : Danube/HCl accepts to draw for us, too
Jul 97 : goin' to Wired again!
5. How to reach us or our stuff
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You can meet us by IRC on #demofr (more probably) or #coders (quite little).
Load our page! http://193.54.10.242/~montasma/welcome.html on Internet
On BBS :
DUNE (France) (WORLD HQ) (+33) 1 48 79 04 22
Sysop:Bisounours/tiny toons
ACE (France) (DISTRO) (+33) 1 45 88 75 48
Sysop:Gandalf/PULSE
6. Releases to find on the internet
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smells.zip : our first ever demo, 'Smells like Amiga spirit' (not presented)
useit.zip : our demo for Wired 96 : came 7/14
u_xmp???.zip : FreddyV's player
7. Final words
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We're still looking for gfx artists : bitmap graphists, animaters, &
designers, join Useless!
Contact us at :
e-mail : gcottenc@ens.insa-rennes.fr (hornet)
hornet.useless@usa.net
regular mail : Guillaume Cottenceau
30 rue de l'Aurore
17220 La Jarrie / France
Satanic : Yohann Magnien
7 rue des Comediens
17138 St Xandre / France
Index : Maxime Montasheri
2 allee des moissons
78117 Toussus le noble / France
FreddyV : Freddy Vetele
La Pohuere
49530 Bouzille / France
Pulsar : Philippe Samlong
24, rue des Menhirs
56410 Erdeven / France
Internet luvs you, and Useless too! :-)
_Hornet_Useless_
