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@<center><h1><b><i>The Hall of Fame</i></b></h1></center><hr>
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I hope I've remembered everyone who ought to be mentioned here. If your 
name should be included, my apologies, and please tell me so I can correct 
the oversight!
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Contributors

   Adrian Oboroc (<a href="mailto:ash@cinf.usm.md">ash@cinf.usm.md</a>).<br>
   Wrote the LBM loader.

   Alex Demko (<a href="mailto:alex_demko@mbnet.mb.ca">alex_demko@mbnet.mb.ca</a>).<br>
   Suggested lots of improvements to the datafile system, and provided code 
   for handling the 8x16 BIOS font format.

   Arne Steinarson (<a href="mailto:arst@ludd.luth.se">arst@ludd.luth.se</a>).<br>
   The fixed point square root routine came from his fix-float library.

   Ben Darnell (<a href="mailto:bdarnell@vnet.net">bdarnell@vnet.net</a>,
   <a href="http://users.vnet.net/bdarnell">http://users.vnet.net/bdarnell</a>).<br>
   Put together the 2.11 release of Allegro while I was away from the net, 
   and wrote the original version of the Allegro FAQ.

   Chris La Mantia (<a href="mailto:lamantia@gte.net">lamantia@gte.net</a>).<br>
   Wrote the d_radio_proc() dialog object, added the D_DISABLED flag, and 
   improved the GUI handling of different font heights.

   Dave Thomson (<a href="mailto:gameskitchen@geocities.com">gameskitchen@geocities.com</a>,
   <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2276/">http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2276/</a>).<br>
   Added the RGB &lt-&gt HSV conversion routines, the autocrop function to 
   the grabber, and wrote the 3d starfield example program (ex26.exe).

   David Calvin (<a href="mailto:calvid@rpi.edu">calvid@rpi.edu</a>,
   <a href="http://icarus.stu.rpi.edu/">http://icarus.stu.rpi.edu/</a>).<br>
   Wrote the sound setup utility.

   Dominique Biesmans (<a href="mailto:Dominique.Biesmans@ping.be">Dominique.Biesmans@ping.be</a>,
   <a href="http://www.ping.be/~ping7970/">http://www.ping.be/~ping7970/</a>).<br>
   Wrote the mode-X version of draw_sprite() and the mode-X <-> linear 
   blitting functions.

   Fabian Nunez (<a href="mailto:faybs@iafrica.com">faybs@iafrica.com</a>).<br>
   Added support for the CH Flightstick Pro joystick and 3-button mice.

   Francois Charton (<a href="mailto:deef@pobox.oleane.com">deef@pobox.oleane.com</a>).<br>
   Wrote the Paradise graphics driver, and improved the VGA palette setting 
   code.

   Garret Thomson (<a href="mailto:gart@terraport.net">gart@terraport.net</a>,
   <a href="http://www.cybertheque.com/galerie/garret/">http://www.cybertheque.com/galerie/garret/</a>).<br>
   Wrote the music used in the demo game.

   Grzegorz Ludorowski (<a href="mailto:pajonk@ajax.umcs.lublin.pl">pajonk@ajax.umcs.lublin.pl</a>,
   <a href="http://ajax.umcs.lublin.pl/~pajonk/">http://ajax.umcs.lublin.pl/~pajonk/</a>).<br>
   Wrote several of the example programs.

   Haruhiko Okumura, 12-2-404 Green Heights, 580 Nagasawa, Yokosuka 239, JP.<br>
   This guy wrote the original version of the LZSS compression code.

   Jonathan Tarbox (<a href="mailto:battle.axe@pegasuz.com">battle.axe@pegasuz.com</a>,
   <a href="http://www.pegasuz.com/binky/">http://www.pegasuz.com/binky/</a>).<br>
   Wrote the mode-X setup code, the FLI/FLC player, and contributed parts of 
   the joystick handler.

   Marcel de Kogel (<a href="mailto:m.dekogel@student.utwente.nl">m.dekogel@student.utwente.nl</a>).<br>
   Not content with fixing my broken MPU-401 driver, Marcel went on to 
   provide a set of vastly improved drum sounds for the OPL driver, to help 
   me sort out some problems with reentrant interrupts, to supply the half 
   of the joystick code that didn't come from Jonathan, and to locate a 
   stupid mistake in my VESA linear framebuffer code.

   Mark Habersack (<a href="mailto:grendel@ananke.amu.edu.pl">grendel@ananke.amu.edu.pl</a>,
   <a href="http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel/index.html">http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel/index.html</a>).<br>
   Added support for the more recent Trident chipsets.

   Mark Wodrich (<a href="mailto:mwodric@eleceng.uct.ac.za">mwodric@eleceng.uct.ac.za</a>).<br>
   The brain behind sub-bitmaps, flicker-free mouse pointers, and the 
   ability to import GRX .FNT files into the grabber.

   Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer (<a href="mailto:markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at">markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at</a>).<br>
   Fixed the Video-7 scrolling function, optimised the color mapping 
   routines, and made many useful suggestions like the addition of a 
   vid_phys_base field to the graphics driver structure.

   Matthew Bowie (<a href="mailto:catcat@nmt.edu">catcat@nmt.edu</a>).<br>
   Added support for 4-button joysticks.

   Nathan Albury, aka Rubicant (<a href="mailto:gt4558a@prism.gatech.edu">gt4558a@prism.gatech.edu</a>,
   <a href="http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt4558a/">http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt4558a/</a>).<br>
   Improved the fire routine in examples/ex11.c (my original version didn't 
   really look very much like flames :-) and gave me some extremely useful 
   ideas about how to implement translucency.

   Owen Embury (<a href="mailto:owen@gememail.demon.co.uk">owen@gememail.demon.co.uk</a>).<br>
   Wrote part of the translucency/lighting code.

   Paul Furber (<a href="mailto:paul@sprintlink.co.za">paul@sprintlink.co.za</a>).<br>
   Provided the floating point apply_matrix_f() function.

   Peter Monks (<a href="mailto:Peter_Monks@australia.notes.pw.com">Peter_Monks@australia.notes.pw.com</a>).<br>
   Wrote the Video-7 graphics driver, and showed me how to set up the 
   unchained 640x400 mode.

   Salvador Eduardo Tropea (<a href="mailto:salvador@inti.edu.ar">salvador@inti.edu.ar</a>).<br>
   Improved the keyboard routines (better handling of extended scancodes, 
   keyboard LED support, capslock and numlock, and alt+numpad input).

   Seymour Shlien (<a href="mailto:seymour@dgbt.doc.ca">seymour@dgbt.doc.ca</a>).<br>
   Contributed the Windows BMP file reader and bezier spline drawer.

   TBD/FeR (<a href="mailto:tbd@usa.net">tbd@usa.net</a>,
   <a href="http://www.sorostm.ro/nhv/">http://www.sorostm.ro/nhv/</a>).<br>
   Added the 320x600 and 360x600 resolutions to the mode-X driver.

   Tim Gunn (<a href="timgunn@eastwind.com.au">timgunn@eastwind.com.au</a>).<br>
   Wrote the TGA reading/writing routines.

   Tom Novelli (<a href="mailto:tnovelli@cyber3.servtech.com">tnovelli@cyber3.servtech.com</a>).<br>
   Wrote the digital MIDI driver.



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Thanks!

   First, a big thank you to all the people who helped me test and debug 
   this code. It sometimes gets frustrating to receive hundreds of messages 
   saying "it doesn't work!", but they are useful all the same...

   Andre Baresel (<a href="mailto:baresel@informatik.hu-berlin.de">baresel@informatik.hu-berlin.de</a>),
   and Craig Jackson (<a href="mailto:Craig.Jackson@launchpad.unc.edu">Craig.Jackson@launchpad.unc.edu</a>),
   provided a tremendous amount of information about SB hardware.

   Charles Sandmann (<a href="mailto:sandmann@clio.rice.edu">sandmann@clio.rice.edu</a>),
   DJ Delorie (<a href="mailto:dj@delorie.com">dj@delorie.com</a>),
   Eli Zaretskii (<a href="mailto:eliz@is.elta.co.il">eliz@is.elta.co.il</a>),
   and everyone else who has contributed to djgpp. I love it.

   C. Schwerdtfeger (<a href="mailto:schwerdt@physics.ubc.ca">schwerdt@physics.ubc.ca</a>),
   for his help (and enourmous patience!) in getting the SB Pro-I MIDI 
   driver to work.

   Finn Thoegersen, Nordbanevej 3 C, DK-7800 Skive, Denmark.<br>
   Most of my SVGA hardware information came from his VGADOC package.

   Eric Jorgensen (<a href="mailto:smeagol@rt66.com">smeagol@rt66.com</a>).<br>
   Varmint's Audio Tools (VAT) gave me many useful ideas about how to play 
   MIDI files.

   Jean-Paul Mikkers (<a href="mailto:mikmak@stack.urc.tue.nl">mikmak@stack.urc.tue.nl</a>).<br>
   MikMod was the source of a lot of information about programming the SB, 
   and also gave me the idea of dynamically reprogramming the PIT to get a 
   really high resolution timer.

   Joel H. Hunter (<a href="mailto:jhunter@kendaco.telebyte.com">jhunter@kendaco.telebyte.com</a>).<br>
   His SB library for djgpp is excellent, and helped me a lot.

   John Pollard (<a href="mailto:74723.1626@compuserve.com">74723.1626@compuserve.com</a>).<br>
   The FM instrument definitions are based on his MID-KIT library.

   Kendall Bennett and all the other cool people at SciTech Software.<br>
   These guys gave the world UniVBE, the VBE/AF API, and a lot of free 
   information and example VESA code. Plus they very kindly sent me a copy 
   of the VBE/AF spec when I wanted one.

   Kris Heidenstrom (<a href="mailto:kheidens@actrix.gen.nz">kheidens@actrix.gen.nz</a>).<br>
   His PC timing FAQ was a big help.

   Mark Feldman.<br>
   It goes without saying that the PCGPE was an invaluable resource.

   Michael Abrash.<br>
   You just gotta love that man...

   Paul Fenwick (<a href="mailto:bg914@freenet.carleton.ca">bg914@freenet.carleton.ca</a>).<br>
   Various bits of the mode-X code (notably the split screen stuff) came 
   from his XLIBDJ library.

   Robert Schmidt (<a href="mailto:robert@stud.unit.no">robert@stud.unit.no</a>).<br>
   The register values for the 400x* mode-X resolutions came from his TWEAK 
   program.

   Vladimir Arnost (<a href="mailto:xarnos00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz">xarnos00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz</a>).<br>
   Provided hardware specs for the OPL3 chip.

   Pink Floyd, the Doors, Tori Amos, Frank Zappa (a recent discovery without 
   whom I would never have got v2.2 finished :-) and all the other great 
   musicians who provide me with things to listen to while I am programming.

   My parents, John and Nancy.<br>
   I would never have made it through all those late night coding sessions 
   without the cafetiere they gave me last Christmas :-)
