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* DEMO NEWS 3 *
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* October 13, 1992 *
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INCOMING
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-(PutreFac)tion by SKULL has cool digitized SB only music. Excellent!
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-(MegaDemo) by Space Pigs. Made in 1990 this demo is EGA and outputs music
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via PC speaker
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-(CDA-Xmas) demo. I have not looked at it but CDA has makes demos.
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-Chaos3d. This is probably the newest version! Have not looked at it yet.
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-Look for the Twilight Zone RNS demo which I expect to be out any day.
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OLD NEWS
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-Realthng = "Even Better Than the Real Thing" was created and distributed
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Sept 30 1992 by The Phoney Coders. It uses the ROLAND sound board so
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if you don't have the ROLAND then expect no music.
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-Mantaray has been reuploaded as mantaray.lzh.
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-OVERLOAD by Hysterica will be fixed and re-upped VERY soon. Look for
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overload-fix.lzh for the version with the sound working properly.
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-RBGdemo2 will be re-upped for those without pkzip v1.93 (more below).
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER DEMOS
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Mega thanks too all those people who have recently upploaded demos on the
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want list. If you have any of the below (or others) perhaps you could
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donate them to the pub/incoming/demos DIRECTORY.
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ULTRAFORCE : Vega, Rebelful, Mach 3, Space Demo, Space Fun, Sphinx Demo
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RENAISSANCE: K2 Demos (Not sure if this is out yet)
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Others: RSI-DEMO, Odyssey Demo, CD Fish, and a working copy of Vectrat.
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COMPRESSION
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PKZIP is starting to piss me off. People do not have recent versions
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(could it be because it is now commercial?), and it does not do a very
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good job of compressing. PKzip, PKpak, zoo, arj, and lha are the main
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compression programs people seem to be using. The best for compression
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and speed is by far lha. It beats the pants of PKzip (even 1.93) and it
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is much faster than arj. And who uses zoo? My plan is to re-up all the
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files so they are a single format--LZH. LHA is one small file that can
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be use to COMPRESS as well as DECOMPRESS--another reason why it is in a
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class by itself. Also, it is FREE--unlike the new PKZIP which everyone
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does not seem to have. If anyone is opposed to this conversion of files
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then let me know ASAP. I will attempt to do the conversion over a period
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of a few weeks. The conversion includes downloading (maybe?), virus
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scanning, including an ansi file with some of the demos (site location),
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compressing (with LHA), and finally uploading. Problems?
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TOO SLOW!
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Type "hash" to see how fast you are transfering files (if you care). I
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have noticed myself getting about one # (hash mark) per second. My
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average transfer rate is somewhere around 1.50 Kbytes/s--which is bad.
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That is somewhere around what a fast modem can do. Is the problem a
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slow site, bad line, or long distance? Well, I figure it is just a
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slow site and there is not much that can be done about that. So, if you
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WANT fast then do what you can to find another SITE that is willing to
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have these demos. I am all for it--but make sure it is fast and not just
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for you. The question is, who will volunteer?
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WRAP UP
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-Remember to type "get DEMO.NEWS_? -" if you want to read these text files
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while on line. Only and idiot would do that with something like UNREAL--
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please don't try to read a binary (.zip,.exe,.lzh,.arj) file while online!
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-I also try to update the ABOUT.DEMOS file whenever I get new demos so be
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sure and read that if you want to find out about a demo before getting it.
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-For those who can't wait to get a new demo remember you can always go into
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the pub/incoming/demos directory for the newest arrivals. However, be
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forewarned that if there is a problem with a demo there (i.e. virus,
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trojan) I will not be held responsible.
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-Oh yea, at 131.234.2.32 there is a demo directory under /pcsoft/msdos/demos
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(i believe). I wonder if any of them are REAL demos? The system had a
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slow transfer rate for me. Anyone with the time want to check these out
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and let me know?
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Send questions / complaints / comments / suggestions / information to:
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dmw@sioux.ee.ufl.edu
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