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3d math by Lithium of VLA
/code/3d/docs/3d_math.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,835 bytes
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| Rating:  
| Explanations of some 3d math concepts - I remember not getting the 3d rotations working correctly when I first started programming, but I'm not sure if that's my fault or the fault of the doc. Most of the docs are some simple linear algebra. They spell out the equations in the end for those who can't completely understand them.
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3d basics by Synergist
/code/3d/docs/3dbasics.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
2,745 bytes
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| Rating:
| Some basic 3d documentation - I'd never want to tell someone that this doc is a good place to start. The person writing this has no concept of structures, which severely ease the programming of complex things such as 3d systems.
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Zed 3D by Zed
/code/3d/docs/zed3d060.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
357,811 bytes
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| Rating:
| A comprehensive doc on many aspects of 3d math and programming - Designed for those comfortable with math. It spells out the math concepts needed and shows their application, but by no means spoon feeds the information to you.
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Zed 3D by Zed
/code/3d/docs/zed3d095.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
697,450 bytes
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| Rating:
| Zed 3d - a document explaining the maths you'll need for 3d. Word and postscript formats of the same file. Zed has an attention to detail and a great way to explain all the math. I highly recommend this to anyone starting to make a 3d engine who doesn't know where to start (start with the math, not the polygon fillers, believe me! the fillers are trivial in comparison). See the bibliography for where to go next.
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F. mod docs by Firelight
/code/audio/docs/fmoddoc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
83,795 bytes
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| Rating:
| Firelight's mod format description - The perfect text file for someone who is writing a mod player especially first timers. Assumes knowledge of programming and doesn't cover details of sound card specific issues, like setting up a DMA transfer or initializing the sound card.
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Tnt's Mod Player by ByteRaver of TNT, NO-ID
/code/audio/players/tnt-mp11.zip
| 10 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
306,622 bytes
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| | This is a .MOD, .WOW player for DOS or a W95 DOS BOX. It supports the GUS and SoundBlaster. Features are interpolative mixing routines (stereo with panning effects), 5 octaves, 1 to 32 channels, _ALL_ MOD types supported, very powerful .MOD loader, MIDAS-alike setup. full pascal and asm source is included. Info about programming mixing routines is included, too.
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Black Ice source by Sinbad
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/blacdemo.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
432,910 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
| Rating:
| Sources for a large BBS intro with a scrollie, fire, and a zoomer - Comments for the effects, recompiles easily. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the sound code. Old effects, but recent code.
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42 Source by Maniac of LBA
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/lba42src.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
10,213 bytes
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| Rating:
| BBS ad with a scroller and a lighting-esque effect. Both an asm and Pascal version compile, though the pascal version looks like nothing more than a rewrite of the asm code in Pascal's inline syntax. Few comments.
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Micaco BBS ad source by Chc
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/micsrc41.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
190,207 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS ad with an environment mapped object - It's all asm source, but you need Watcom to compile it. Comes with an extra ASC file format converter. All comments are in Spanish though there's a (shorter) Enlish readme file. Knowing Spanish is very useful for these sources as the comments are good.
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Power Grid loader source by Friar Tuck of Ice
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/pgloader.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
80,967 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with a text writer, music, and a lens - Has the adlib player from fcsp2src.zip. No comments. The lens is nice as the equations used make it look like a crystal ball.
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Squid source by tlc, The Doctor
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/sqd1_src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
21,591 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with copper bars, a scrollie, altered text characters, and an adlib player - Copious comments and tight source. They even do checks for the proper equipment, i.e. VGA and a 386. Comes with docs on programming the adlib and SB fm chips. Comments are in Portuguese.
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The Shed BBS loader source by naich
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/the_shed.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,922 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with smoothe text scrolling (horizontal), dual layer starfield, and nifty fade out - Good comments, rather large source as it could use a random number generator as opposed to a table and some other (obvious?) size optimization concerns.
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Boardz source by Vulture
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/vga-vul1.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,913 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with a star field and scrollie - I never thought I'd give this high a rating for source to a BBS loader, but I figure there's got to be some way for people to know what to look for. The source is beautiful and there are more comments than there are lines of source! *Perfect* for the beginner, though not a tutorial.
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Amnesia Vector source by Tran of Renaissance
/code/demosrc/demos/as.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
7,047 bytes
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| Rating:
| The sources for the temple vector part of Amnesia - Sparce comments. Tight code, but probably only understandable by those who have written atleast a simple vector system and familiar with pmode. Certainly good code, but I question its usefulness to those who read it.
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Bytes & Kisses source by Jeff Lawson of JL Enterprise
/code/demosrc/demos/bkisssrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
513,669 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for a demo with a scrollie, plasma, shadebobs, tunnel, bitmap rotation and stretching, and cool credits - Nice comments, but not precompiled. add /misc.!!! to your path and be sure to have pklite somewhere in your path. Go through each directory and use Borland's make on all the targets of each make file. Then make bytekiss.exe from /. Nice demo for its time, but frightfully boring except on Valentine's day. :)
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Byte B4 Christmas source by Jeff Lawson of JL Enterprise
/code/demosrc/demos/byte-src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
560,382 bytes
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| Sources for a demo with snowflakes, fire, and some text writers - Nice comments, but not precompiled. add /misc.!!! to your path and be sure to have pklite somewhere in your path. Go through each directory and use Borland's make on all the targets of each make file. Then make bytekiss.exe from /. Nice demo for its time, but frightfully boring except on Christmas Eve :)
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Fake demo source by Pelusa
/code/demosrc/demos/fakedemo.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
335,424 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for a demo with a sinus waver, wormhole, rotating landscape, fire, scrollie, shadebobs, lens, mandelbrot set zoomer - Comments for proceedures, many parts, lots to look over. Clean code too. (old cheesy necros music. :)
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Phro source by Phred of OTM
/code/demosrc/demos/phro.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
294,474 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a demo with texture mapping, space cut, motion blur, a tunnel, and texture warping - All pascal with inline assembler. Good source, but no comments.
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Timeless source by Tran
/code/demosrc/demos/timesrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
356,568 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for Tran's timeless demos - Curiously better than Tran's other source releases. If you intend to figure out how it works, I suggest you start at line 127 of v.asm. Few comments, but excellent source.
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Birthday source by Sliq
/code/demosrc/intros/birthsrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
25,025 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for an intro with simple 3d - Comments for the proceedures, easy to read source. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the interupt handling. Old sources (1993), but otherwise good.
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bits'93 source by David Hedley
/code/demosrc/intros/bits93.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
34,416 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for an intro with a bouncing lens and a sinus scroller - Few comments. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the interrupt routines. Old sources (1993), good timing of effects.
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Chaos 4k intro source by Codex
/code/demosrc/intros/chaos4k1.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
14,345 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
| Rating:
| Sources for a 4k intro with static, sinus scrollie, vector cube, and some other stuff - No comments or description. Rather non-standard C at that, but I wonder how else a 4k intro would be made in C. Good for the curious.
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2d bump mapping by HELiX
/code/effects/bump/bumpsrc.zip
| 18 Mar 1997 (catalog date)
63,540 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
| Rating:
| Simple example and explanation of how to do 2d bump mapping. Looks like it was written by a beginner (because of the code optimization, or lack there of), but is fairly nicely commented, which is a big plus!
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Fire by JARE of Iguana
/code/effects/fire/fire_win.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
10,716 bytes
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| Rating:
| A fire routine under windows - Crawls on my p133. :( Don't bother looking at this unless you've programmed for windows before. You're likely to have a heart attack. :) Requires WinG to run.
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rotating landscape by TTT
/code/effects/land/rotscape.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
129,844 bytes
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| Rating:
| A landscape routine similar to that at the end of unreal - Comments only on function names and has a larger executable than need be for this effect. (Lots of tables, i.e. the landscape itself)
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Alias by Minimalist
/code/effects/rotozoom/alias.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
164,287 bytes
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| Scaling, rotating, anti-aliasing. There's a turboC, WatcomC, and Pascal version of this program all included. Admittedly, he cheats the palette on anti-aliasing (as shown by using most any non-grayscale image), the programming is good nonetheless.
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Tunnel Source by bca of Karva
/code/effects/tunnel/bca_tnl.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
19,956 bytes
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| Rating:
| A texture mapped tunnel effect. Has holes in the tunnel. No useful comments in the source. One nifty (old!) idea of taking advantage of mirrors in the lookup table. FYI - vasen=left, oikea=right, yl„=upper, ala=lower.
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Voxel by 6502 of Fatal Rage
/code/effects/voxel/newvox.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
3,227 bytes
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| Rating:
| Beautiful hightfield rendering. If there's anyone with half a clue who can't understand this, I'd like to know. The effect itself is beautiful, fast, and the code is gratuitously commented. My only quip is having (gipped) allocation of some 180k that just eats up base memory. Has no .exe, but compiles with watcom with no problems.
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256 Byte Water by Cagdas Calik
/code/effects/water/w256.zip
| 24 May 1998 (catalog date)
786 bytes
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| | A 256 byte water effect coded in pure assembly by Cagdas Calik, moreover with 286 instructions. It's recommended that you're mouse driver is load before you run the program, otherwise it will crash. Click left mouse button to go back to dos. Have fun...
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AWE-DIP-01-ENG by Creative Labs engineers
/code/hardware/audio/adip.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
708,753 bytes
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| Rating:
| Examples and API for using the AWE32 - And people wonder why there's not much SB support. The information in the packet is contorted. I could go on this for days. Comments like /* main - here's where the fun begins */ are misleading. The fun actually began several hundred lines ago (starting at line 134). It's late. I'm not exactly bored, but this bit of code is frustrating. I wonder why CL even bothered. There are no technical docs of any sort and the code that is here *REEKS* of bad style. For extra frustration, I unzipped the file which had a self extracting .exe in it, which gave me 4 zips which when each extracted with the -d option finally gives me the SDK. Kneebiter - at 1:30 in the morning. Need more tea...
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Collection of ASM sources by ? of Blue Nose Productions
/code/hardware/general/asm_good.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
118,612 bytes
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| Lots of ASM sources, mostly for hardware and BIOS routines - It's somewhat difficult to find what you want, but the comments tell you what you need to know (but not what you have to do) to get everything compiled. Looks like a great source for the cut & paste coder. Given the nature of the routines, I'd say that was the intended purpose of this release.
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Flat Real Mode Interface by Juanito
/code/hardware/memory/frmi_150.exe
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
38,210 bytes
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| Rating:
| An interface for flat real mode from BC - Has some docs on xms and comments explaining how the interface works itself. I didn't test to see if it works. Doesn't work in v86 mode, meaning most programs made with this will require a reboot.
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Virtual Memory Management by Flux
/code/hardware/memory/fxvmm210.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
112,232 bytes
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| A virtual memory management interface for BC - Once again, I didn't test this. This system is much more complete than the above and certainly much more useful. From the code, I'd say I'd like to work with this guy. :)
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386 power by Lorenzo Micheletto
/code/hardware/pmode/386p_101.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
117,845 bytes
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| Rating:
| A DOS extender for pmode asm programming - Has docs for useage and some extra miscellaneous routines that could be used for game or graphics programming in pmode. Honestly, if you want to do 100% asm development for pmode I'd suggest DOS32 or Tran's pmode. The author here credits Tran for some backbones to his system.
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System 64 by Simm of Analogue
/code/hardware/pmode/s64.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
61,037 bytes
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| Rating:
| A DOS protected mode extender - Comes with full source and looks fairly complete including real mode call back support. Worth giving a look at if you'll find it easier to use than Tran's pmode or DOS32.
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Asychronous communitcations code by Lord Logics
/code/hardware/serial/ll_comm.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
56,754 bytes
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| Source for "asynchronous" comm connections - A library meant for opening COM lines and other serial line connections. It's supposedly asynchronous (but maybe in a later version for this only supports one). Not too demo scene relevant, but it could make for great modem-modem networking in a game.
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truepal by Florian Hallar
/code/tutors/video/at_trpal.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
56,300 bytes
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| Rating:
| Emulates truecolor modes in 320x200x8. Not really... it just converts the picture to use a 3-3-2 palette. It's a common emulation mode since it saves time versus quantizing a new palette everyframe (maybe in 5 years we could do that, even if we don't need it anymore. :)
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Bin 2 DB by Escape
/code/utils/compiler/bin2db24.zip
| 12 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
12,087 bytes
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| A bin 2 db util. See my comments to incpro3.zip. Also, take out the "coded in 100% Assembler" line. It's dorky, especially for something whose main function (input/output) is easiest handled by a high level language and whose speed of execution is on the magnitude of 2 seconds.
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Netwide Assembler by Simon Tatham, Julian Hall
/code/utils/compiler/nasm094.zip
| 02 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
320,576 bytes
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| Rating:
| A freeware assembler with good support. People have been switching from TASM to this assembler, especially linux and 68K coders. It is still being supported by the makers so it understands newer op codes, like mmx instructions, so you don't need to get intel's 'macros' for new opcodes.
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ASCII ART Lib by Jan Hubicka
/code/utils/graphics/aalib10.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
133,184 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
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| Ascii Art Renderer. Do not kill yourself trying to understand the code (no comments at all, and fairly complex code). Bonus points for the concept. This is FUNKY and fun to play with. (TMDC anyone? might be useful to figure out how to go from a graphical image to ASCII)
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Text Mode FLI/FLC Player
/code/video/txtfli.zip
| 06 Oct 1996 (catalog date)
99,695 bytes
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| Buggy mode set, only worked in a dos box from win '95. Had information about the text mode demo compo and was rather impressive for what it did. Otherwise, tight code for what it does, sparce, useless comments.
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WIN95 And Demos Starter by Cute Elf
/code/windows/ce-win95.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
18,929 bytes
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| Library for using DirectDraw for making demo effects. Use Winzip to decompress archive because of the long file names. If using DirectX 5, you have to change two lines in DirectXConversion.cpp to type cast to (DirectDrawSurface2 *). When you try to compile, you'll know which lines those are. Hmm... maybe wince stands for Win-CuteElf. (If you see this, are you going back there?)
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Windows Tutorial by Denthor of Asphyxia
/code/windows/wintut1.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
15,071 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
| Rating:
| Windows Tutorial 1. Denthor's back with some tutorials on windows graphics program. I (and he) recommend that you still get another reference (like a *gasp* book) if you know absolutely nothing about programming windows and intend to get serious about it. The tut has just enough info to grasp how windows works, the mindset needed for coding, and some basic messages windows can throw at you. Good for the ultra-beginner with windows. (Oh, the example here is a star field)
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