

                 b e a t y  *  s o a p
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                 (c) 1999, 2007 TNSP


        a
        production
                by

                        ccr  -  code & graphics

                        fgcl -  music

                        ideas by both

                        MIDAS by Sahara Surfers


- reqs -

  * 486DX/2 or Pentium1 class CPU
  * MS-DOS or compatible (DOSBox for modern platforms)
  * some 500kB of basemem, I think
  * some EMS mem
  * GUS/PAS/SB or similar card supported by MIDAS

- the lowdown -

  this intro was never finished and is released "as is" now 8 years
  late. it stops at the greetings part, but was supposed to have
  two more effects/parts after that (as long as the s3m module plays).
  it isn't packed and there are few bugs left in too - read the
  longer story below if you can be arsed.

- the story -

  during one beautiful spring friday of 1999, ccr was traveling home
  from SA-INT (finnish army, where he was enjoying a 6 month vacation
  at that time), when he got a idea of drinking lots of beer.

  after arriving to home ccr called fgcl and asked if he had anything
  of importance to do. having none, ccr asked if they could do some
  serious boozing together. fgcl thought that it was ok and asked ccr
  to pick him up.

  quickly they visited a kiosk, buying many liters of alcohol, (mostly beer)
  which is usually served as a "creativity drink" in TNSP brainstorming
  sessions.

  ...

  after 3 days of drunk coding, drunk drawing and drunk composing, a
  short intro was starting to form. unfortunately, as it has been
  traditional with TNSP productions, the intro was never finished.
  ccr lost interest, and not enough effects were finished, so the
  code was basically left rotting on his hard disk.

  however, now in late 2007 - nearly 8 years later, mr. ccr got bored,
  fired up DOSBox and installed Borland Pascal, MIDAS v0.40, and fixed
  up the old crappy libraries and code of his ... with one night of
  cheap magic tricks, the old code was blown into life - still very
  unfinished, and short - but working.
  
  now this piece of productive alcohol usage is at your reach...
  I didn't bother compressing the exe or building any kind of final
  version, so the data files are separate, etc.


  - ccr/TNSP in november 2007
