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**NOTE - LIST.COM IS INCLUDED FOR EASY VIEWING! USE IT!
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Scene History Archive
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NFO pack. V2.2 - 04/01/98 By tOAST - rAZOR 1911
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Document version 1.2
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This readme is divided into a few sections:
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Section 1.1 - General information
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Secton 1.2 - Map of the archive
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Section 1.3 - BRIEF OLDSCENE TUTORIAL
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Section 1.3 - RULES for contributing
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section 1.4 - Contributing - concepts and ideas, up and coming features?
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Section 1.5 - brief HISTORY of this collection
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Section 1.6 - DISCLAIMER
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Section 1.1 - General Information
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For a history of this package, see history.txt.
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The emphasis on this package is for GAME GROUPS,
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and in particular, for DECEAST groups. Since hybrid/prestige
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class/celebre/etc are still going, and/or died in late 1996,
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i did not emphasise to collect them.
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Any current group members with a collection of NFO's please
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contact me.
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I Hope you enjoy this pack! Please keep checking the WWW page,
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for any new revisions!
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/~shost/toast.html
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Section 1.2 - Map of the archive
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ANY group with a "#" beside it indicates this group has NFO's
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BEFORE 1990. these groups are of particular interest, as is ANY
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nfo from before 1989.
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The following is a current tally of GAMES GROUPS
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directories, and approx. how many .NFO's are contained within.
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* ANY directories marked with a '*' ARE IN DIRE NEED
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of some CONTRIBUTORS! If you can contribute ANY, or you used
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to be in these groups and you kept every .NFO, PLEASE contact me
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at ad834@hwcn.org
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LEGEND:
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# - NFO's exist from before 1990
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* - I need MORE of these. PLEASE contribute! =)
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*new, *upd - New, Updated.
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# * Bently Sidewell Productions - 2
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Celebre - 3
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CIA - crackers in action 1 *OLD
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* Class - 5
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Classic - 1
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CMEN 2 *OLD
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CPC2001 1 *OLD
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CPI (canadian pirates international) - SEE PTL CLUB
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Crystillian 1
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Divine 2
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Dominators 1
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Dread - 1
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* Dynamix - 8
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Eclipse - 15
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# Ffa - 4
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# The FiRM - 22
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Fairlight - 45
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Foundation 1
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* Genesis - 19
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High Voltage 1
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Hoodlum - 2
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Hybrid - 94
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Illusion 4
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# International Network of Crackers (INC) - 147
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Legacy 2
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* Legend - 12
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# Miami Cracking Machine - 3
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MEA CULPA 1 *OLD
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National Elite Undergraound Alliance (NEUA) 6
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* Nexus - 12
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Napalm - 30
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NEUA 9 *OLD
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Nuaa - 1
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Ofg - (origionally funny guys) 1
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* Paradigm - 6
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Public Enemy - 25 *OLD
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Prestige - 107
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Pentagram - 24
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# PTL CLUB 5 *OLD*
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Pyradical 5
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Quantus - 2
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Quartex PC 2
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Razor 1911 - 444
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Reflux 18
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Release On Rampage - 3
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* Romkids PC 2
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Romlight 1
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Scoopex PC 1
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Scotch 2
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* Skillion - 7
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Skid Row PC 3
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Syndrome 1
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# Tcs - 1
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The Dream Team - 58
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TDT-TRSI (CoOP) - 17
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Tdu Jam! - 47
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# The Humble Guys - 125
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Tristar and Red Sector - 35
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Twa - The Warez Alliance 1
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Twt - 1
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* Tyranny - 12
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# The Underground Council (Ugc) - 4
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UNTOUCHABLES 6
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Zeus (Before being called paradigm) - 3
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Explanations of other directories are as follows:
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courier - A bunch of misc. trading group NFO's. One day a courier
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group NFO division may be devised.
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416/905 - NFO's from local 416/905 release/trading groups, or BBS
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ads. (416/905 is the toronto scene, LARGEST in the world)
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Razor/Risc/dod/scum/pcy/tim/tra/gnx/cartel/blade/9000c/premiere/
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amnesia/exile/narc/trg - Groups I have been in over my 'career'
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Pwa - Legendary utils group
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FTP - Ftp site ads. (like bbs-ads)
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Misc - Mainly UTIL group NFO's. I TRY to take people's
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contributiosn and put the util .NFO's in there for a
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futire UTILS section! which would take a lot of tiME! someone
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HELP in organizing the utils section!
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BBS - BBS ads of various Boards, including MANY MANY legends.
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DIZ - A few old file_id.diz's from various groups. Kind of neat.
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NOTE that DIZ's didn't come around until 1992 or so.
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IF you like this section, see the CAPTURE COLLECTION.
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SECTION 1.3 - BRIEF SCENE TORORIAL:
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I will merely show you the OLDEST groups and nfo's i have and tell you the
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basics in chronological order.
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OLDEST CURRENT VERIFIED NFO: in 1980's - ultimaiv.doc - 1987
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OLDEST GROUP NFO: Bently SIdewell Productions - in /bsp
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OTHER OLD FOUNDING GROUPS:
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group name dir in collection
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PTL club - in /ptl
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Public Enemy in /pe
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the FiRM in /firm
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Miami Cracking machine /mcm
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cpi2001 /cpi1002 ?
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ffa /ffa ?
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(any group marked with ? means i know NOTHING about them)
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Please note that MCM merged with some other group to form INC, and THG
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is also a second generation pirate group. A lot of INC and THG
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came from the c64 scene, but we don't want to go that far back.
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Now, groups like THG/INC defined the scene. they standardized the .NFO,(thg)
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invented couriering (thg), and invented the utils release group (inc)
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Inc/thg were the main players in the scene , with all kinds of other groups
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showing up including trsi, public enemy, the FIRM, razor 1911, and
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others. Groups like FLT/TDT/RAZOR/ spawned AFTER these guys started dominating,
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so these are basically third generation groups.
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any group that started after 1991 is basically typical of the groups
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you find today, not much has changed, except for the internet. =)
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That's it. not much eh? well i don't know all that much about the early
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scene, and that's what is facinaating. If you have any pieces
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of the picture that could help, please do tell me.
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Section 1.3 - RULES for contributing:
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1) ALL CONTRIBUTIONS MUST BE IN .ZIP FORMAT
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2) ALL .NFO'S MUST HAVE THE ORIGIONAL FILEDATES!
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- archiving the nfo's preserves the dates.
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3) ALL NFO'S MUST BE ORGANIZED INTO A DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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SIMILAR TO THE ONE SEEN IN THIS ARCHIVE!
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3.5) Please try to dupe check the NFO's if possible so you don't
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send me any duplicates.
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4) PC RELATED NFO'S ONLY!
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Section 1.4 - Contributing! i have an interesting concept!
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Do you wish to contribute to this package? Would you like to
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organize and control a particluar aspect of this collection?
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Currently things that can be taken on by individuals would include
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the following types of NFO files:
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Courier groups
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Utility Groups
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BBS/FTP ads
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YOUR LOCAL SCENE (ie: 416/905, 212/718, etc)
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anything else? (art scene? <G>)
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If you want to do amiga/console, do it seperate. as of now the
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console section is discontinuted.
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If you have already made such a thing, I can add it to this collection
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in a directory, provided you orgznise it's directory structure, and
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handle ALL readme files (or tutorials, etc).
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ON a LAST note (wow if you read this far you are really interested)
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The collection is VERY unorganzied within directories. MANY dupes of
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nfo's COULD exist. IF ANYONE wants to write s small program to help
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organize this collection or something feel free to!
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All people who contribute can be given credit, and/or space to say
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anything they want in these files.
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Section 1.5 - HISTORY
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A Brief history of the NFO pack is as follows:
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While searching through old disks, and looking through NFO's
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i was marking the disks that had neat NFO's on it for later
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reference. I thought "why not collect 'em on my hard drive?"
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So i took them and put them in a directory called d:\nfo =)
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Eventually i gethered a LOT of nfo's from various sources, and
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decided to organize them into directories.
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I decided to go on a limb, and advertise a plea for MORE nfo's
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on my web page. I updated my page, put in the pleas, and let
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stuff rest.
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A few days later, People like Rage (paroxyism), and Sargonnas were
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telling me they had a bunch of NFO's to trade. SO i traded what they
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had for what i had, and the collection was placed on the web for
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public download.
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Eventually, i had given the pack to many people, put it online at
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a private site, and people were contributing to it. Many people
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like Sector 9 (razor founder), trademark (former crue member, very
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closely affiliated with THG) contributed loads of very valuable NFO's
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to the collection.
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I thank ALL contributors (expecially the first two), or else
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the collection would not have happened =)
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Oldschool BBS archives like 2112, gave me MANY of the PRE 1990 NFO's
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that i have today.
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IN any case, now I have decided to keep things going, seeing that
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there is MUCH improvement to be made in the collection, there is
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a lot of history to be acquired.
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Where is this collection going:
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The main purpose of this package, is to provide a SOLID reference
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into the old scene. This collection contains information about the
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scene, enough so to know what was going on.
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Basically this thing is the LARGEST public library of what happened
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in the scene in the early days. MUCH of what happened prior to 1990
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is very shaky, and i hope to gether NFO's and inforation from oldschool
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dudes who were there to give input/NFO's. And that is my main goal:
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to COMPLETE the scene archives, and make sure they will live on for
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the entire life of the scene.
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THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS - PAST/PRESENT:
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The origional people who i traded .ZIP's of NFO's with in 1996:
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"rage" - From Paroyxsm Web Site
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"sargonnas" - From Isreal
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And to the most recent contributors: (in no particualr order)
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- Sector9 - RAZOR 1911 FOUNDER
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- Vaesolis - twice contributor! =)
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- Trademark - Trinity/Crue(past) TRG(present)
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- The Razorcd (100 NFo's from it)(does this count??<G>)
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- Ralph (BELGIUM) former THG/NEXUS/RAZOR courier
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- DEViL - former RAZOR 1911 Supplier/trader
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- COOL HAND - former INC vice president!
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- The Reaper/Styx - Former INC members.
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- Kaisersosa - scene end user.
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- Ipggi - www.defacto2.org creator.
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- 'system shock' - 'born dead' , 'tom & jerry' , 'platform' , 'purify'
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'barnil' , (all of his past nick names) - who contributed to the
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ISREALI (what a coincidence) scene part.
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- FREDDY KRUEGER (TRG leader, Toronto) (many of the BSP/PTL club NFOs)
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- Maximizer
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- The Cardinal - former RAZOR/LEGENDPC/FREELANCERS
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(and many others: if your name is not listed! contact me if
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you in fact did something! i am forgetful <G>)
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THANKS TO - Auto Tek (301) - Formerly INC and TWA member for his help!
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Again i hope you enjoy these. =)
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Section 1.6 - DISCLAIMER
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THE MATERIAL PROVIDED HERIN, IS FOR INFOMATIONAL PURPOSES
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ONLY. THE VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, THE UNIVERSITY OF
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TORONTO DO NOT REFLECT THOSE OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARCHIVE.
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THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY OCCUR TO
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YOU, WETHER IT BE PHYSICAL/EMOTIONAL DAMAGE RELATED TO THIS
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FILE. ALL NUMBERS INDSIDE THIS ARCHIVE MAY OR MAY NOT
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EXIST AT THIS TIME, AND THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSABLE FOR
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REMOVING THESE FROM THE ARCHIVE.
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*** PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ANY NUMBERS IN THIS ARCHIVE!
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Any questions? Feel free to email me at ad834@hwcn.org
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Nfo pack V2.2 - File edited 04/01/98 by tOAST - rAZOR 1911
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For updated packs, please see:
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/~shost/toast.html
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