
Hello, Bitdog here.

b256b.zip is the second grouping of what ever intro.com demos i could find
 and get working in DOS, that had something going for them
 other than small size, which usually just makes a mess on the screen.

Most all these exit with the ESC key, then you have to reset the video mode.
So I got a couple programs I made in this directory to help you. !????.com
!vmode.com	will tell you the current video mode or
 !vmode 3	; will set video mode 3, = DOS default text mode.
!pal.com	will show a palette of colors & it somehow seems to fix
		palettes all screwed up by the intro.COMs
!dis.com	will make a Fasm.asm source code file out of the com file 4u.
 !dis name	;or 0dis name.com makes a .DIS file, U rename it Xname.asm
		;& it usally reassembles with Fasm to the exact same bytes.
;This DIS.com version 1.05 has the lower case label issue fixed.

Note, the ! at the beginning of the name,
 makes them sit at the front of an alph organized directory,
 so they stand out as different.
 You can remove the ! or rename them, or put them in path ?

I didn't write any of these intro.COMs but I altered a lot of them so they
can safely run in DOS on my f29 machine, and I'm shareing.
Hopefully they will run on your DOS machine or in a DOS box.
I didn't worry about any sound output, so I don't know how they sound.
I finally figured out that I should include the .zip name and size,
so you can find more info about the ones you are interested in. Some of the
 .ZIPs had multi.com files but I just used the ones that ran best for me.
I tried to keep all the credits & info that came in the .zip
 CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, but some didn't have much info.
The .ZIPs that had an.ASM got the info in the .ASM header,
 so it's all kept together,
 the rest got the info dumped into the !NFO#.txt files 1, 2, & 3.

Some of them screw up the defaults so the next one won't run right.
Slide them into a seperate dir and when you find an intro.COM that straightens
out the defaults, use that first, then run them.
 Moebius.com seemed to need clean defaults.

Note, some of these intro.COMs amaze me,
 at how much a good programmer can squeeze out of 256 bytes.

Some of them have a WOW FACTOR of 9+ out of 10 possible.
There are too many greats to mention them all, but some unique intro's are:

SCHAOS.COM	by frag, delivers a lot for 19 bytes.
PSZTACIA.COM	wow factor = 9+
PULS.COM	by rrrola, is very complicated. How did he do that?
165PLASM.ASM	by Fobia Design, has a commented sine code explaination.
BUMP.COM	the value of a key press, sets donut size (try 1 & space bar)
DIFUSE.COM	by rrrola, you gotta let this one run for 10 minutes at least.
K29.com		swirl by K06a, is interactive, arrow rbg 0-9 keys, see K29.asm

Min3.com	= a busy screen of strange doings.
Neon_sta.com	drunken floating drone camera in a 3d maze thingie ma bobber ?
NjufNnuf.com	alien endoscope proctology TV, live on channel 3

amoeba.com didn't work in the demo\dir with 500+ other demo's
but it works fine in the \EXTRAS\directory.
I tried renameing & a few other things but nothing worked.
It's a great demo so it got shoved where it works, for now.

Moebius.com runs best after a fresh reboot.
 If it has white on it and doesn't turn to show it's donut hole,
 the defaults are a mess and it's not running right.
I don't know what demo.com to run before it to clear up the defaults.

Planet_t.com runs bad if defaults are screwie.
 If you have never seen it run right, you wouldn't know it's running wrong.
 It needs a clear ball in the middle rolling forward,
 with turning wheels to the right & left.

Plasmalr.com needs to be a full screen that shrinks down to a horizontal line,
then a dot, & exits when ESC key is pressed. If it doesn't do that,
 the defaults are screwie, so try it again after a reboot.

128.com & star.com appear to be the same visually.
I haven't sucessfully removed duplicates, I just put them out as i found them.
There are a few Star Wars text scrollers also.
symetric.com & symetrie.com are 2 different versions the author put out.
The difference might be more in the code than the screen output ?

Trifield.com run it twice & the second time it worked. (is what happend to me)

Retek.com forced a reboot when the defaults were screwed up.

The .ASM source codes that assemble with TASM,
 often have bad labels at EOF data section and assemble thousands of zeros.
So the .COM must be edited down to the right size, which varies ?
There is a work around for that but most programers don't know it
 or don't use it.

The end.
