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  ____/     ___/___/ ____/___/ ___/___/ ________/ \______/ ____/____\

  . .. ...:DAN:...:ZWECKFORM:...:505:...:RA:...:THE PARANOID:... .. .
  
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             /  /  /    /__   /  /  _  /  /  _/ /  /  / /  /
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               i  t   '   s        a      \___/g   i   r   l
                                          

  Prologue:
  
    This little document accompanies the little intro "it's a girl",
    released 2010 shortly after Finja Isabel, daughter of our coder,
    RA, and his wife Silke, just because it became a nice habit to
    release text files along with demo/intro binaries.

    
  
  Legal stuff:
  
    No member of Paradox can be held responsible for any kind of
    damage that occured to your hardware, software, mental or
    physical health or anything else related to you in any
    obscure way, while, before or after running this intro.
   
    The litte intro "it's a girl" may be copied as long as it
    is distributed free of charge. If there is one Public Domain
    Service left in the whole wide world still supporting the
    Atari community - feel free to offer it but don't expect
    anyone to pay anything for this.
    It should be copied without excluding or adding any of the
    related files.


  Hardware Requirements:
  
    This little intro requires an
    - Atari STE,
    - 1024KB of RAM,
    - Disk Drive,
    - Colour Monitor or TV set
    
    It also runs on
    - Atari MegaSTE,
    - or from hard disk

    
    and has successfully been tested on
    - Atari MegaSTE, Colour monitor, 4MB RAM, TOS 2.06,
    - Atari 1040STE, Colour monitor, 1MB RAM, TOS 1.06
    - STEEM on Windows XP, 4MB RAM, TOS 2.06
    - Hatari 1.3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.4, 4MB RAM, TOS 2.06
    
  
  
  Background:
  
    Early this year, Silke and Ra got married and now, Paradox
    celebrates the birth of their daughter, Finja Isabel, with
    this little intro.
    On the technical side, there's very little to talk about.
    It does feature our newest invention, linear interpolative
    zooming in full resolution, which we are sort of proud of,
    but next to that, there's hardly anything new to see. A few
    BLiTTER sprites, some screen splitting, hardware scrolling
    and naturally, a maxYMizer-powered soundtrack, bringing
    together the best of the YM2149 and the STE-DMA channels.
    But hey, we don't want to distract any of your attention
    from the real purpose of this intro: The arrival of the
    little girl, Finja Isabel.
    
  
  Credits:
    Soundtrack:   505
    Graphics:     Dan & Zweckform
    Code:         The Paranoid
    Music-replay: gwEm of The P.H.F. (maxYMizer)
    
    Additional thanks must go to Evil of DHS for the initial demo
    engine i used, which has by now been altered and extended a
    lot. Naturally, thanks also to Kalms of TBL, Scy, Dynacore
    and Llama of .tSCc. as well as ultra of Orb for their initial
    work on c2p which is the basis for the linear interpolative
    zoomer presented for the first time in this little intro.


  Additional Information:
    Unfortunately, due to a few restrictions of the maxYMizer replay
    routine we couldn't overcome in time, this intro has been restricted
    in a few ways:
    a.) it does _not_ run on Falcon030

    The reason for this simply is the fact that the maxYMizer replay 
    routine rescales samples designed for the native STE replay rates to
    the native Falcon replay rates on the fly. This, unfortunately,
    implies massive CPU-load, even for a 16MHz 68030, seriously corrupting
    our screen management repeatedly, causing it to flicker visibly.
    
    While we tried to inspect on this issue, we decided to no longer delay
    the release and postpone working on these things by simply avoiding
    them for this time.

    We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.



  Greetings:
    In order not to spoil any part of the intro with scene-related
    talk, no greetings in the demo, so we put them here instead.
    Greetings go to:
    Aggression - Checkpoint - Defense Force - D-Bug - DHS - Dune -
    Escape - Evolution - LineOut - MJJ Prod - Mystic Bytes -
    New Beat - Oxygene - Paradize - Reservoir Gods - Satantronic -
    Sector One - The P.H.F. - .tSCc. - XiA - YMRockerz -
    Andromeda Software Developments - Farbrausch - Orb - Rebels - 
    Sp”ntz - The Black Lotus - Triebkraft & 4th Dimension
    

  Final words:
    Thanks for watching our little birthday gift for Finja Isabel
    and see you in a next demo, hopefully, if Finja Isabel allows
    RA to spend some time once in a while in front of an Atari
    keyboard ...

