Welcome to Minotaur Rescue VR PC BETA 1.01 !
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This program is distributed by Llamasoft LTD

( http://www.llamasoft.co.uk ) as 

*** TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC DEMO WITH NO COMMERCIAL INTENT OR PURPOSE ***

under the Creative Commons  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license agreement.

A quick human-readeable summary of this license can be found at :

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

For further details and information and all the other
Llamasoft creations and archive you can visit :

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk

To contact Llamasoft check our contact page at :

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/

under the "Contact" section.

You can follow us on Twitter too and check our Blog for
up to date information, again check our main site

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/

for details.

If you feel to give  Llamasoft a volountary donation for it of an amount 
of your own choice please use the following URL :

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/donate.php

Llamasoft thanks you in advance for any offer and is commited to make
use of any donation for the purpose of continuing to create quality
Work for the users.


We hope you'll enjoy the program and we thank you in advance
for your support.

=======================================================================

===                 TECH INFO ABOUT THIS DEMO                       ===

=======================================================================

The demo starts looking for an Oculus Rift device, if the device is 
found it gets initialised at whatever GetDeviceInfo() returns otherwise
a screen of the current desktop resolution / format is assumed with the 
default parameters for the Oculus Rift SDK 1 device.

The demo been tested only with Oculus Rift VERSION 1, we did not have
possibility to try and test it with other devices.

The demo works with DirectX 9 ( June 2010 ) - we tested, it does not
work ( yet ? ) with 32 bits machines only 64 bits ones.

PROGRAM KEYS VERSION 1.01 ( keyboard ) :

- Pressing "q" exits the program.

- Pressing "p" switches between Oculus Rift view and standard 3D view

- Pressing "l" takes a screen snapshot, the snapshot is saved into the 
  same folder where the program is installed as a BMP file named 
  snapshot_xxx.bmp where XXX is a number. ( Note that for some reason 
  some programs can't read this BMP but Windows PAINT can and can save 
  it as something else ).

BUGS FIXES IN THIS RELEASE 1.01

- corrected bug that wasn't making it work with ATI cards

- corrected the "owl bug" causing weird spaceship movement when 
  using a mouse

- adjusted the look of the sun

NEW FEATURES OF RELEASE 1.01

- improved drawing method, faster on quite some graphic cards

- added a command line argument, the .exe can be started passing one 
  optional argument, a number from 0 to 2 in the command line. The
  default is 0. 
  The meaning of the argument is : 0 ( 1920 x 1080 res ), 1 
  ( 1920 x 1200 res ) , 2 ( 1280 x 800 res )

NOTES ABOUT VERSION 1.01

This program still uses the "old fashion" SDK1 distorsion 
shader, as the 4th cofficient DistortionK[3] was 0 it's been removed 
from the shader equation to save computation time.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - -


The demo uses the FMOD library for the 3D sound, it gets the default 
audio device it can find, FMOD is developed and maintained by 
Firelight Technologies http://www.fmod.org .

We recommend the use of headphones to appreciate the 3D sound.

Very little test been done, this demo been ported/coded quite quick
in time for the Blackpool 2014 exhibition so it is what it is.

For any tech findings / contacts / bugs / etc. contact Giles.


Yak & Giles