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                        released at 06.15.1994, Hungary


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	This pure thing requires:
	- the original SHOW.EXE file with 1,954,074 bytes length

	Thanx to FAiLURE of Darkzone becouse he found this part in the demo.

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	Why is this a "real" secret part?
	  This part is as secret as we didn't know its exists, before others
          found it.

	Why is this part included ?
	  First I used this routine in our NoName demo which was never released.
	    /becouse of the non-quality effects like this real secret part/
	  Then when I was thinking about the Show's intro I put it among to
          the Show's routies. And after giving up this idea I had forgot to
          remove this routine from beside the others.

	Some people asked me what is the secret part in POOR.
	  Yes, you were right, there aren't any secret part, but we'd got 2 more
	  lines in the writer to fill with text. We apologize for making you
	  mad about finding a non-existing secret part.
	  We can promise you it won't happen again in any Majic 12 product.

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	About the known bugs in SHOW:
	- This secret part
	- This bug has no effect to the run of SHOW, but a sad thing: HYSTERIA
          had been forgotten from the greetings. Really sorry for this, Rex.
	- For prevent the keyboard buffer's overflow, I put a little routine
	  into the INT 9 which saves the last key's scancode into somewhere
	  in the data segment, but the data segment changes for every effect,
          so if you want to see some bugs just put your arms on the keyboard...
	  /I remember: somewhen I erased a semicolon before this instruction./
	- I had some problems with using the memory when I included Robban's
	  GusPlay. I don't know why but the demo didn't want to work with
	  the player at all. In my last chance was that I added about 30000
	  bytes more unusabled (maybe) free memory when I ask the Dos for
	  memory.
	  Well, at this point the demo's compatiblity slipped out from my
	  hands.
	- The 2nd plasma part crashes, slowes down on some computers.
	- Dot-cubes part's speed test isn't very good, the Dot-cubes
          slow down on a 486DLC/40, and the music slowes down too.
	- You can't place this demo in any subdirectory with a name consisting
	  any extension. (for example: MAJIC.12 isn't good, but MAJIC_12)
	  It is becouse I'm determing the EXE program's name with searching for
	  '.'. By the way here I used the same thing that in Wish but that was
	  bugging when EMS was active. Well, there were 2 bugs not just one...


	Why these bugs ?
	- A lot of timing problems occured becouse some of the routines had to
	  use the timer interrupt, and Robban's GusPlay use this interrupt too.
	  So I had to put 2 things to 1 interrupt. Anyway it is working...
	- A had to make some changes to the demo in the party, but you know
	  after these changes, I just put in some more bugs.
	- When some of my Amiga owner friends came to me in the party I showed
	  them the Show. It was at night, and I'd got only a mono speaker so
	  I had to decrease the volume, so I recompiled the demo at half
          the max volume.
	  Ofcourse after this I forgot to recompile the demo at the max volume.
	  Then some of my old PC friends came and asked me for the demo,
	  becouse they wanted to go home. I copied them the wrong version.
	  After half a day I realized this bug...
	- 1-2 hour before the compo I tried to run the Show on the compo
	  machine (386DX40-Cirrus VLB). The 2nd plasma part crashed.
	  Then I made some changes in this part, so it crashed on my computer
	  too. At that time I had run the demo about 3-4 times on the compo
          machine.
	- Well, I was tired so I stopped myself, and copied the newest version
	  to the compo machine.
	  I didn't know why the 2nd plasma part crashes on some machines,
	  becouse on other computers it runs perfectly.
	- On the compo machine the speed test for the comanche routine weren't
	  to good, this part became too fast. So after the other demos showed
	  we changed the Cirrus to my Tseng4000 to slow down the compo machine
	  for the SHOW, and showed the demo again... The SHOW must go on!


	How to use SHOW ?
	  If the demo crashes before it's end, you just have to run
          Xography's Party 3 report before running the Show. Then you can enjoy
          all the parts. Thanks to you, Rex, for realizing this.
	  And of course, thanks for the Xography stuff too.


	Another fixed version ?
	  Now I finished my final exams /about 2 hours ago/, so I'll get
          some time to code an own Gusplayer and then I'll make a
	  really bugfixed version.
	  Well, if you find other bugs in the demo please contact me.


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	If you are a talented musician, Majic 12 wants you...
	Activity is a requirement.
	As you can probably noticed that we don't have any PC owner
	musicians who would make us nice tunes in more than 4 channel.
	But hey, listen to some tunes from Amiga talents, and then decide
	to write us or not... Anyway, 99.99% answer is sure.
	If you are well known in the scene and you want to edit Top Secret
	or you've got some interesting articles write us too.


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	Thanks for reading this boring text, I hope we put some smile onto
	your face in these hard days...


	Sign off,

		Maxwood


            (M) Majicright 1994  A Maxwood and Avantage production

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