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* DEMO NEWS 8 *
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* December 18, 1992 *
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INCOMING
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--Balmania = A older two screen demo with fun music and an unique scroll.
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--Dineout = A intro for Zax's (TPC) BBS. Very short with no music.
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SOON TO BE RELEASED
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Who is doing what and when is what I want to know. I talked to a few demo
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coders and found out the following:
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-The Square will be releasing an X-mas demo but won't attend THE PARTY.
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-The Phoney Coders will also release an X-mas demo.
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-DEA said it was releasing a demo for THE PARTY. However, the land down-
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under is far from DENMARK. Perhaps Lohmann will help them out.
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-Twilight Zone will be attending THE PARTY and have a "funny" demo.
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-The group I'm in will probably release a demo in January pending we
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get someone to do some music. Perhaps Adam Ant will prevail.
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I anticipate Future Crew, The Code Blasters, and Ultraforce will
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attend THE PARTY. Perhaps DCE, CASCADE, TRITON, and the SPACEPIGS will also
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be there. I expect Ultraforce to take the GOLD with their "Pandora's Box"
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demo if released. Certainly excellent demos shall be released. All of which
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will hopefully make there way here (ftp.uwp.edu) or to wasp.eng.ufl.edu in
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the INCOMING dir. I maintain the wasp site (my account) so I hope to find
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some demos there for quicker D/L time (INSTANT--for me).
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SOURCE CODE
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Upload source code and utilities to the /pub/incoming/demos directory and
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we will make sure it gets moved over to the source.code dir. This directory
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will hold files to help make demo coding easier. There is currently a
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sprite editor, many ASS/C programs, a music editor that likes to crash, and
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a couple routines that will allow your program to play MOD/STM files.
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER DEMOS
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Where are all the new demos? If not new demos then what about old demos?
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Anybody out there local to the MUSIC CONNECTION or the MUSIC CHANNEL BBS?
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MUSIC CONNECTION (Dallas, TX) = 1-214-596-2827
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MUSIC CHANNEL (Hartford, CT) = 1-203-646-3058
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Be sure to UPLOAD new demos to the /pub/incoming/demos DIRECTORY.
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(or /pub/msdos/demos/INCOMING DIRECTORY on the wasp.eng.ufl.edu site)
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Please try to include a short text file on what it is.
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(Remember that files in the incoming directory usually have yet to be scanned
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so be careful.)
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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1) The RATING system was changed. Check out the ABOUT.DEMOS file
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2) The demos will continue to be compressed with .LZH using LHA213.EXE
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3) Anyone who would like to join/create a demo group but do not know where
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to go let me know and I will attempt to put you in contact with others
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wishing to do the same.
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4) Is there any chance of someone out there attempting to get a DEMO
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NEWSGROUP on the NEWSREADER? How about trying? They have an amiga demo
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group, what about an IBM/PC demo group on the newsreader. I have a whole
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article on how to GET a NEWSGROUP on the NEWSREADER. Anyone got the time?
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ANSI TACK-ONS
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Silence is deadly! Silence is worse than a NO. Is there anyone out there
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willing to make a ANSI tack ON? "Death comes silently" you know. :^)
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MIRROR SITE UPDATE
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This site is mirrored at the following places:
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oliver.sun.ac.za - /pub/msdos/demos (in South Africa)
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wasp.eng.ufl.edu - /pub/msdos/demos (in USA--FAST)
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The WASP directory also has an INCOMING dir within the demos directory.
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I GOOFED
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Of all the possible things a group could do in their demo including a hidden
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file ranks among the top of my "don't do" list. The SPACE PIGS did this in
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their MEGADEMO. When I compressed it guess what? The hidden file did not
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seem to be included. How about that? So, could someone with the "original"
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MEGADEMO please RE-UPLOAD it or UPLOAD just the hidden file. The MEGADEMO
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on this site will most likely not work without it.
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WHAT'S UP
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-All the TEXT files have been updated as of DEC 17 and DEC 18.
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-I shall be on vacation from Dec 19 till Jan 4.
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-If anyone lives in the following CITIES please E-mail me: Dallas,
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Hartfort, Gainesville, Youngstown, or Fort Lauderdale.
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-type "ls -ld" for the dates the files were uploaded (ftp.uwp.edu only).
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Send questions / complaints / comments / suggestions / information to:
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dmw@sioux.ee.ufl.edu
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