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http://phf.atari.org

Version 1.0  - 6/10/02
Version 0.9b - ST News ICCC 15/12/00

Intro
=====

Well, the impossible has happened, I'm very proud to announce the release
of the Ultimate Muzak Demo 8730 (UMD8730). The demo has changed beyond
recognition since the ST News party beta release, well apart from the 
music of course! Saying that this version increases the tune total by
over 500 tunes to 4646 tunes!

The reason for the mammoth delay ? Well I'd asked Tao/Cream to write
a song for the intro, I wasn't expecting a 21 minute master piece! The
tune really needed a smart intro to do it justice. I therefore embarked
on coding a 21 minute intro! No mean feat! Whilst I coded the intro 
I decided that the interface needed a total makeover, step forward
ST Survivor, this guy was realy friendly and painted the new menu gfx.
He also provided valuable design input which an old schooler like me
welcomed with open arms.... "Pink!? ... yuck!".  The intro seemed to
take forever, but I suppose coding 20 plus FX for an intro outstrips 
many demos!!

UMD is really the forefather of the 5 previous UMD incarnations. 
It takes all the tunes from these (excluding digi zaks) and adds an 
additional 65% of musics. With the birth of Sid Sound giving a shot in 
the arm of ST chip musicians. UMD includes many exclusive tunes never 
heard on the ST  before plus music written at the birth of the ST 
which went un-noticed to prying music rippers ears!

What a long journey this music hacker has taken. Right from 1985/6 
ripping classic Rob Hubbard music's on the C64 to my automatic Sid 
Sound Designer ripper which does the hard work in seconds. In those 
distant days my frist C64 music compilation demo (Who-Zone IV) only 
contained around 30 tunes all on one 5 1/4 inch disq.

This demo includes at least 4646 tunes! Beating any music demo on 
any platform as far as we are aware. For the statto fans that equates 
to 180 composers, 28mb of music data all compressed down to around 7mb's! 
The huge compression ratio is achieved because I've stripped the music 
data from generic drivers were possible to save space. But enough of the
nerd-speak lets get on with the credits...

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Credits
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Grazey/PHF	- UMD Menu : Coding/Design
		- Major music ripper
		- UMD Intro: Coding
		- UMD Intro: Scroll Text
		- UMD Intro: GFX

Calsoft/PHF	- UMD Intro: DBA 6 part 

Tao/Cream	- UMD Intro: Music

ST Survivor	- UMD Menu : GFX
		- UMD Intro: GFX

Defjam/CP	- UMD Intro: Suretrip part

MC Laser/TSCC	- UMD Intro: Scroll text , Ascii logo

Havoc/Fun	- UMD Intro: Credit GFX

Mr Styckx	- Additional music ripping
Mug UK		- Additional music ripping

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Requirements
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Memory.........................1 mb* 
Model........................ST/STE
.............................Falcon (not fully tested!)


The demo was written and designed to be run on a hard-drive. 
HOWEVER, it will run from a floppy drive but prepare for lots of 
disk access! I'd advise running the demo without any other ACC or
memory resident programs (especially on 1mb machines).

If you've got a Falcon good luck! I've not got access to one so
making the demo compatible was nae impossible!! I've been told
that the intro/menu do boot up but exiting cause problems.
Until I own such a beast full compatibility will not be likely.

The demo has been tested on a 

1040 STFM
1040 STE
4mb  STE
4mb  Mega STE

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Floppy Users
============

You'll find 8 zip files in the format umddata?.zip , each one of these
can be un-zipped onto a standard 79 track , 10 sector, 2 sides disk.
(ST ZIP is downloadable from the PHF site http://phf.atari.org). The
most important zip file is umdexe.zip, this contains the main UMD menu
program plus the intro.


If the demo can not find a required music file a dialogue box will 
appear asking you to insert the required disk into the drive. Each 
file contains the tunes of that author. So for ease of access it would 
be simpler to copy the authors to each disk in alphabetical order. 
For example disk B contains authors B-D.

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Emulator Users
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UMD works perfectly with the Steem emulator (http://steem.atari.org).
I'd use TOS 2.06, 4mb RAM as my settings. To run simply un-zip 
UMD8730.ZIP into a folder and set up a virtual hard-drive pointing
to that folder (see Steem docs), contact me if you're unsure.

Unfortunately Saint (http://saint.atari.org) does not have ST hard-
drive support. But it should work with floppy images.

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Regards
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Thanks to the people who have been DIRECTLY involved in making this demo 
either with technical help, e-mailing me un-released music or other 
valuable assistance :-

Mr Styckx 	- Thanks for your MANY music rips, especially your hard 
            	  work on the Jason Page driver!!

Tao/Cream	- Thanks for the superb music, surely one of the best 
		  pieces ever written on the ST. Also it was your music 
		  that gave me the idea for UMD's 23 minute intro!

ST Survivor 	- You're a really friendly guy to work with... cheers for
		  the endless encouragement and your perserverance in
		  removing every speck of pink from the demo :-)

Defjam/CP	- Your Suretrip part is excellent... nice to have some
		  "new skool" influence in the demo. Thanks also
		  for your weird routines...(you know!)

Havoc/Fun	- Thanks for painting the credits graphics :)   

MC Laser/TSCC	- For your scroll text for part of the intro , the 
		  ascii logo and the many rare tunes you sent :)

Alain Derpin	- For bug testing and identification of unripped tunes.

Cyrano Jones	- Your crazy text rules! cheers.

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Other thanks
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Mug UK		- For lotsa tune rips... finally released Muggy!
No More/AM	- Thanks for sending me a disk full of tunes, especially
		  the un-released ones :)
Mad Max/TEX	- Thanks for testing UMD beta at the STNICCC :) Around
		  the world in 80 days??? never heard of it ;-) also
		  for tune infos and encouragement.
Big Alec/DF	- Seems like ages ago, but thanks for the tunes.
Nexus 6/Xtroll	- Thanks for your tune archive and converting advice.
DMA SC/Sect 1	- For the archive of all your musics.
Cube/Agression	- For tune infos.
Darren Birks	- Ha Ha I knew I'd released UMD before Winston!
Evil/DHS	- For the many tunes you sent, infos, pics , coding tips
		- etc etc!!!
Beast/TSC	- For tune infos.
Rapido/Synergy	- Thanks for helping with UMD's bugs at STNICCC!
MSD/POV		- For tune rips.
Ormulu/Dgt	- For being Ormulu!
Stax/Lazer	- For tune infos.
SH3/RG		- For your photo.
Frazer/TSC	- For tune infos and sending me those un-released tunes :) 
Blind IO	- For your photo.
Niclas Pennskog	- For tune infos.
Tyan/STAX	- For the rare tunes.
Matt Furniss	- Thanks for your tune listings/infos.
Ozk		- For your timer C play routine.
Matt/STAX	- For the tune archive.
Paranoid	- A real friendly guy! Thanks for your hard work in my
		  purchase of the mSTE!
Sean Connolly	- For your rare tunes and the pic.
505/CP		- For your tune archive.
Iso/Sentry	- For tune infos and the pic :)
Baggio		- for your tune archive.
Barry Leitch	- For tune infos and encouragement.
Rhino/Torment	- For your pic.
Cronos		- For organising STNICCC, a truely wonderful experience
Stefan Jerowski	- For tune infos
Biscuit/S.H.I.T	- For info regarding the Lemmings music
The Atari Boys	- For tune info.
Doclands/OVR	- For tune infos and your photo.
Flix/DF		- For the info on Best Part of Creation zak
Avenger/TBB	- For your music rips
Energiser/Lazer	- For your photo and musics
dbug/Next	- For Lap music infos
Scavenger	- For tune infos
AIO		- For your picture,
Mr Pink/RG	- For the screen switching mousey malarky!
Mr Ni/TOS Crew	- Thanks for helping with the Vsync bug at STNICCC
Ben/OVR		- For advice on Doclands music driver and your 
		  encouragement at STNICCC.
Rudi Stemper	- For tune infos and info on the ST TFMX format.
MSG/RG		- For your tune archive and picture.
Brume		- For providing me with many intros containing unripped
		  tunes and for the constant motivation.
Danny Oneway	- For your tune archive.
Alex Holland	- For details of some unreleased Mad Max tunes and the 
		  extra RAM for my MSTE!
Swe		- For encouragment
Stefan Lindberg	- For the Shapeshifter demos.
Oedipus		- For Tangens editor
Skinhead/ICS	- For the Stratego image and Crimetime zak.
Ultra/Cream	- for the mouse driver help!

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Bugs
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Please report any back to our addresses at the end of this file. 
Remember this demo was NOT designed or coded on a Falcon, if we have 
time we may add full compatibility but that's way off yet!


Grazey , 04/10/2002 17:17.

Grazey/PHF	grazey@tphf.karoo.co.uk
Calsoft/PHF	cally@apdcomms.co.uk

http://phf.atari.org

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