IN DOLBY SURROUND
The third title card says “in”, and then two glyphs: the Dolby double-D, which was already sitting in the demo’s own font. It reads as a joke. It was also true.
“If you have a DOLBY SURROUND decoder/amplifier hooked up to your
hi-fi set, have it on-line while running this demo and you will get
some cool surround sound effects.
(Surprisingly, does not work with the normal Sound Blaster).”
— README.1ST, 1993
The advertisement that shipped inside the ZIP put it in fewer words. This is FILE_ID.DIZ, the block a BBS pasted into its file listing:
▀▀▀▀█ ██▀▀█ ██▀▀▄ 1/2 ── ██▀▀▀ ███ █ ███ █ ──R─E─A─L─I─T─Y──▄ ▀▀ ███ ▄ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ sp ███▄█ b y F u t u r e C r e w ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ■ The winning demo of Assembly'93 ■ │ │ · SB, SB Pro and GUS support · │ └───────────────────────────────────────┘ In ◄◄ DOLBY SURROUND ►► Where Available
Two ZIPs, 2NDREAL1 and 2NDREAL2, with a copy of that in each — the “1/2” in the corner is so a board’s listing said which half you had.