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            * * *   T H E   C I R C L E   * * *
                             
                      first presented
             at the 64k executable music compo
                    at Kindergarden 0xB

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           Realtime software synthesizer written
                            and
                  Musical score composed
                            by
                    Gargaj / Conspiracy

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Minimum:
 - DirectSound 8.0
 - Some 7-800 Mhz CPU
 - Around 64MB RAM
 - DS8 compatible-soundcard

Recommended:
 - DirectSound 9.0c (it's hip to be up-to-date!)
 - >1GHz CPU        (in case you want background play)
 - 128MB RAM        (for swapophobics)
 - DECENT soundcard (= NO CREATIVE/ONBOARD!)
 - Some speakers    (optional, just for the experience)
 
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Song clocks around 3:56.
Can't describe the genre.
Somewhere between EBM and Eurotrance.

Vastly inspired by Apoptygma Berzerk, Zeromancer, VNV
Nation, Clokx, Darude, or scene-wise Dragonfly, Visual,
Wayfinder, and of course KB ("When i grow up i'm gonna be
just like him!" ... except maybe the makeup and stuff :))

No, it does not crash when you start it and the counter
stays at 0. Just wait 2 seconds and it will be all peachy.

Exits on ANY keypress, so, like DON'T!

WAV-renderer also included in the package (if the orgas
don't remove it, OR DO THEY? :))
Final file should be 41095980 bytes long.
44100Hz stereo 16-bit Windows PCM WAV, feel free to
recompress.
Also if you want to upload the song to Nectarine, be my
guest, I'd be most happy :D (*winks at Truck*)

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Some stats:
... about the Buzz version:
  - Contains 30 machines of 7 types
    - 11 generators (2 types)
    - 18 effects (5 types)
    - 1 master (duh :)
  - 4544 ticks long
  - Final file is 48892 bytes

... about the synth version:
  - Final file is 895644 bytes, ~3k zipped.
  - Player+synth code is around 13k, ~6k compressed.
  - Not much ASM in the code, slow as fuck :/
  
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Random quotes becase we love them so...

  "You're right.. It really sounds EBM."
    /A_Lee_N/

  "Since when I'm Zoom's fave musician?"
  "Mine?"
  "Uh... Wait... I think I mixed up the handle sheets
   at OJ..."
    /aMUSIC + ZooM/
    
  "I don't think I like Obituary. This song sounds like
   the singer arrived 30 seconds late to the gig,
   then he threw up on stage."
    /Inno/
    
  "How the fuck am I supposed to fill 64K, damnit?"
    /KB/

  "Would be cool to go to a masquarade dressed as a
   Rntgen ray."
    /ZooM/
    
  "Here's the new BMX, make me an EXE or something."
  "Okay... BUT FIRST, let's go fix the converter again!"
    /Vincenzo + Gargaj/
    
  "Would be fun to have a 64K music compo with max. 30k
   entries."
    /Inno/
  
  "Can Gargaj's synth come out and play?"
    /Vincenzo/

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  2004 (c) Gargaj / CNS    http://umlaut.intro.hu/~gargaj
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