Warped Software NQI

Warped Software NQI
Founded	around 1991-09-11
Closed	after 1994-11-12
Headquarters	Trafford, Pennsylvania, USA

Warped Software NQI was a humorous developer of shareware arcade games for Windows 3.

Version 1.01 of Warheads for Windows (W16) is credited to Eric Lee Steadle and Brian C. Lowe without a label.

In 1993, they started "Warped for Windows", a collection of six games that were spread separately, but could be ordered together.

Music Development

Windows 16

Early versions of Warheads play music and sound effects on the PC Speaker. In version 1.12, the sound effects were replaced with WAV files. It is unconfirmed who was involved in those kinds of audio.

Further releases loop a MIDI file with the comments "Copyright (c) 1994 by" and "Eric Lee Steadle". The three known Warped ones give advice on playback:

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The MIDI file background music was authored to the General MIDI standard on a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 using a Casio MT-740. The patch setup for the songs uses channels 16 and 10 as percussion channels, and channels 13, 14, and 15 as main music channels. Channels 1, through 10 are used to accent music. If you don't hear drums, then you need to edit your MIDI patch maps and / or key maps. If you hear piano or something which imitates the rhythms made by the drums you need to edit your patch maps. This often occurs on the ProAudio Spectrum and can be remedied by mapping channel 10 to 16 with the MIDI mapper (on the Control Panel). See your Windows manual for information about editing patch maps. You may wish to consult the Windows Resource Kit on this one as well. It is available from that big software company in Redmond.

— All games except Warheads, WARPED.HLP, topic "Other information".

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In autumn 1994, the group upgraded from that "cheap" ProAudio Spectrum 16 to a "good" Pro-3D.

Games

• Games developed by Warped Software NQI.
• Games published by Warped Software NQI.