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WHY THE MIRROR ? YES ANOTHER DEMO WITH BALLS, YAWN, THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING MORE ORIGINAL IN THE DEMOS SCENE AT THE MOMENT ANYWAY ENOUGH OF THE IDLE CHATTER, TIME FOR THAT LATER THIS DEMO IS DEDICATED TO DAVID ALLEN A FRIEND OF MINE WHO DIED IN A CAR CRASH RECENTLY AGED ONLY 18 HE WAS A DEMO FREAK AND LOVED AMIGAS I ACID PROUDLY PRESENT YOU WITH THE FIRST OFFICIAL EXCEL DEMO ENTITLED ACIDS BALLS ! OF WHICH I AM LUCKY? ENOUGH TO HAVE 102 BALLS,SCROLL,MUSICIN 1 FRAME YES I ACID AM THE CODER FOR THIS COLLECTION OF BYTES, MUSIC BY MIDI THE EXCEL PICCY WAS DRAWN BY IAN AND MODIFIED BY ACID TO ALLOW COPPER COLOURS OK LET US SEND MEGA COOOOOL GREETS TO OUR CONTACTS IN A TO Z ORDER TO BEATMASTER BSS CHAOS DREAM WEAVERS THE EQUALIZERS ESA HIGHCLASS THE LADS LYNX NEW BENCOR BROTHERS NORTHERN LIGHTS ODYESSEY POWERDRIVE PSEUDO OPS RAMRAT SCEPTOR SHARE AND ENJOY SLIPSTREAM UNTOUCHABLES SOME PERSONAL GREETS BAZ,WARDY,FENNEL,LEE 2,IAN 2,ALAN,STU,CAT,EDD,DON,NICK AND ALL THE REST OF MY FRIENDS HERE IS THE LIST AND OCCUPATIONS OF ALL EXCEL MEMBERS FITZY SWAPPER MARC SWAPPER THE KERNUL SWAPPER AND GRAPHICS MIKE SWAPPER MIDI MUSIC AND SWAPPER ALSO BROTHER OF THE KERNUL ACID CODER EXCEL ARE NOW A PRETTY WELL RATED CREW IN ENGLAND AND WE ARE BASED IN BIRMINGHAM IF YOU ARE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO ,MAY IT BE SWAPPING ,GRAPHICS, MUSIC OR CODING WHY NOT CONTACT US ? STRICTLY NO LAMERS OR YOU WILL GET A LETTER BOMB INSTEAD OF A REPLY WRITE TO MIKE 258 QUINTON ROAD WEST QUINTON BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND OR PHONE MIKE 021 421 3615 VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL DEMO AND GAME CODERS IN 1 IN 4 AMIGAS THERE IS A HARDWARE FAULT ! I AM GOING TO GET PRETTY TECHINAL NOW ! WHEN MOVING PLAYFIELD 1 EITHIER SCROLLING OR WOBBLING ETC ON CERTAIN AMIGAS WHEN PLAYFIELD ONE IS AT PIXEL 1 IT WILL FLASH WHAT EVER IS ON PLAYFIELD 2 CAUSING A VERY IRRITATING FLICKER! GAMES WHICH IT WILL FLICKER ON ARE BIO CHALLENGE,MENACE,PACMANIA JUST TO NAME A FEW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS EITHIER SCROLL BOTH PLAYFIELD 1 AND 2 AT THE SAME PIXEL VALUE OR WHEN USING DUAL PLAYFIELD MODE, ONLY SCROLL PLAYFIELD 2, OR WHEN USING DUAL PLAYFIELD MODE DO NOT ALLOW PLAYFIELD 1 TO USE A PIXEL VALUE OF ONE THEN YOUR CODING MASTERPIECES WILL LOOK GOOD ON EVERYONES MACHINES IF YOU CODE AND YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SAY THEN CONTACT MIKE WHO WILL THEN PUT YOU THROUGH TO ME NO PHONE CALLS! AND SEND A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE FOR FAST REPLIES ! NOW I WILL TELL YOU MY LIFE STORY, WELL COMPUTER LIFE STORY ANYWAY CHRISTMAS 1983 I HAD OPENED ALL THE CRAP PRESENTS SOCKS SOAP ETC THEN A BOX, QUITE LARGE WAS PUT IN FRONT OF ME YES! IT WAS A COMPUTER A COMMODORE 64 I WAS HAPPY BUT I WOULD HAVE PREFERED A SPECTRUM! WELL I WAS AGED 12 ANYWAY FOR ABOUT 3 AND A HALF YEARS I JUST PLAYED GAMES AND I THOUGHT I SHOULD DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT SO I TURNED MY HAND TO PROGRAMMING BASIC BUT FOUND 10 PRINT DERRICK IS COOL, 20 GOTO 10 PRETTY BORING SO I WENT TO 6210 ASSEMBLER CODE BECAUSE ,NO JOKING, I DID NOT HAVE A CLUE AT CODING BASIC! ABOUT 4 MONTHS LATER I CODED MY FIRST DEMO WOW! I STARTED CALLING MYSELF DEZ ! AND I CALLED THE DEMO ,THING DEMO, WHICH HAD ROB HUBBARDS MUSIC FROM THING ON A SPRING AND 8 THINGS JUMPING ABOUT THE SCREEN AT THE AGE OF 15 I WAS REALLY HAPPY WITH MYSELF ,THEN FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS I WAS RIPPING GAME MUSICS AND SPRITES AND PUTTING THEM INTO DEMOS THEN MY CHANCE FOR FAME ARRIVED MY OLD FRIEND ZAPPA ! BOUGHT A MODEM AND HE HAD ACCESS TO COMPUNET SO I STARTED CODING DECENT ? DEMOS SOME OF WHICH WERE CALLED THE DRUMMER, HARD GUY ,TIGER MISSION ,RASTER SPLITS WHICH WAS THE FIRST? 64 DEMO TO HAVE FULLSCREEN FLICKER FREE RASTER BARS AMIGA COPPERBAR STYLE MOVING ABOUT, DRUMMER 2 AND LASTLY A COLLECTION OF DAVID WHITTAKER TUNES ABOUT 10 DEMOS , COMPACTED AND ROLLED INTO 1 FULL OF THE BORDER DISAPPEARING ACTS THEN INSANITY STRUCK UPON ME I SOLD THE LOT AND BOUGHT AN ABACUS ST I HAD ABOUT 5 ST,S IN A MONTH BECAUSE THEY WERE ALWAYS BREAKING DOWN! BUT IN THE END I HAD A WORKING ONE AND I CRIED BECAUSE I WISHED I HAD MY 64 AGAIN THEN THE PHONE RANG IT WAS MY OLD FRIEND LEE 2 ,WHO ALSO HAD AN ST, AND TOLD ME HE HAD BLOWN HIS ST UP AND GOT AN AMIGA SO I OPENED THE ST UP AND TOUCHED THE POWER PACK WITH A SCREW DRIVER THERE WAS A LOUD BANG AND I STOOD SHAKING AS AN ELECTRIC SHOCK PASSED THROUGH ME IT WAS DONE I HAD MURDERED AN ST SO I TOOK IT BACK TO THE SHOP AND GOT MY MONEY BACK ! 3 MONTHS LATER IT WAS CHRISTMAS I GOT ALL THE MONEY I NEEDED 300 POUNDS FROM MY ST AND 200 FROM RELATIONS SO I GOT MY AMIGA FOR 500 POUNDS AT LAST ! AS TIME PASSED ALL MY FRIENDS WHO HAD 64 MOVED ONTO THE AMIGA UNTIL THERE WAS A REGULAR GROUP SWAPPING LATEST STUFF EVERY WEEKEND THAT IS WHERE I MET OUR MUSIC MAN MIDI AND IN TURN MET HIS BROTHER THE KERNUL, PREVIOUSLY OF A CREW CALLED WCS WHO RELEASED DEMOS AND UTILS DISKS BECAUSE THEY HAD NO ONE TO CODE INTROS AND DEMOS BUT I KNEW A BIT ABOUT THE AMIGA SO WE FORMED A GROUP CALLED MANTRONIX AND I HAD TO BUY LOADS OF AMIGA PROGRAMMING BOOKS TO TAME THE BEAST AFTER WASTING A LOAD OF MONEY ON THE ROM KERNEL MANUAL I BOUGHT THE BIBLE OF AMIGA ASSEMBLER PROGRAMMING THE HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL IF YOU HAVE NOT GOT THIS BOOK AND WANT TO LEARN ASSEMBLER CODE FORGET IT ! BECAUSE YOU NEED THE BOOK LIKE A MAN NEEDS A FUCK ! ANYWAY ABOUT 2 MONTHS LATER WE RELEASED OUR FIRST DEMO WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD AT THE TIME BUT LOOKING AT IT NOW IT IS WELL SHIT THEN I WAS RATHER LASY FOR 2 MONTHS THEN WE RELEASED OUR SECOND AND LAST MANTRONIX DEMO NOW THERE HAS BEEN A LOT SAID ABOUT THAT ONE SOME PRICKS WHO DO NOT EVEN KNOW MACHINE CODE SAID THAT I HAD RIPPED THE CODE FROM ,MODULO, A DEMO FROM ALPHA FLIGHT FEATURING A PORNO WOMAN SPINNING, IT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT THAT I RIPPED THE CODE AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIVE ME HAVE A LOOK THAT IS IF YOU KNOW MACHINE CODE I THEN CODED A INTRO FOR THE LADS FEATURING A ROBO COP WITH A DISK AND WHILST TALKING TO A LADS MEMBER ,CLUNK, HE ASKED ME WERE I RIPPED THE CODE FROM , THAT IS THE ONE THING I HATE ABOUT ASSHOLES ON THE AMIGA , IF SOME THING LOOKS EVEN A BIT LIKE ANOTHER DEMO THEY WILL THINK YOU HAVE RIPPED SOMEONES CODE ANYWAY BY THIS TIME I HAD MET MIKE OF EXCEL AND HE ASKED US, MANTRONIX AND SLIPSTREAM IF WE WOULD JOIN EXCEL WE DID JOIN BUT WE STILL HAD OUR OWN SEPARATE NAMES ,MANTRONIX OF EXCEL ETC , AS WE WERE KNOWN BUT ONE OF SLIPSTREAMS MEMBERS TOLD US THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER MANTRONIX SO MIKE AND FITZY ASKED US ,MANTRONIX,TO JOIN EXCEL FULL TIME AND FITZY KICKED OUT SLIPSTREAM AND WE WERE JUST EXCEL AND I CODED MY FIRST EXCEL DEMO TODAY AND THAT IS MY LIFE STORY UP UNTIL TODAY WHICH IS THE 28TH OF MAY 1989 YOUR NOT STILL HERE ARE YOU ? WELL IF YOU LOVE THIS DEMO SO MUCH YOU CAN READ THE SCROLL TEXT AGAIN IF YOU LIKE SEE YOU SOMETIME SOON COPYRIGHT 1989 EXCEL @