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DemoNews Issue #83
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February 12, 1995 - February 18, 1995
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DemoNews is a weekly publication for the demo scene. It is produced at the
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Internet FTP site ftp.eng.ufl.edu (HORNET). This newsletter focuses on
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many aspects of demos and demo making. Everyone is welcomed to contribute
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articles, rumors, and advertisements.
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Information about HORNET and DemoNews can be found under /demos/README
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-Christopher G. Mann (Snowman)-
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r3cgm@dax.cc.uakron.edu
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Start.of.DemoNews.083,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.part.1.of.1
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SIZE: 22,340 SUBSCRIBERS: Last week: 1252 This week: 1227 Change: -25
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Countdown to NAID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx O
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January February March April 15!
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SECTIONS ARTICLES
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HORNET News IMPORTANT!
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New Uploads Files recieved at HORNET
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Mail Room Reader Response?
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General Articles What's In, What's Out
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Partyline Bizarre
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Music Virus in Inertia Player
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Introducing GraveDigger
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Advertising Now its a little bit different
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Back Issues How to Get 'em, Descriptions
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Closing Comments DemoNews Top 10 LIst
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<HORNET News>>
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_____IMPORTANT!
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This issue of DemoNews is a rather important one. It is the first issue in
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over a year that has LOST subscribers, 25 subscribers to be exact. Several
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months ago, I started posting the number of people who recieve DemoNews at
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the beginning of each issue. Believe it or not, this number jumped up over
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800 in the past year, until we topped off at 1252 this past week.
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I like to think of this number of subscribers as a kind of indicator
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reflecting how well this newsletter is doing. Whenever HORNET get lots of
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subscription notifications, I know that we are doing something right. Con-
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versely, when we loose subscribers as in this past week, I recognize that
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we have veared off course somehow.
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This past week, I received e-mail that helped me zero in on the problem.
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Over time, DemoNews has included more and more articles that have very
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little to do with the demo scene. I recognized this weeks ago, but was
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reluctant to do much about it until reader feedback pursuaded me to.
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All of you reading this are my friends. And as my friends, you must do a
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better job of telling me what you want in DemoNews. :) Without feedback, I
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can only guess what might interest you. This week, we are introducing two
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new sections which should help with this.
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In the future, I will try to do a better job to provide decent scene
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coverage. However, I would rather you let me know that we are going astray
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through your feedback in e-mail, rather than your unsubscription
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notifications.
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<New Uploads>>
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NOTE: All locations start with /demos and then their respective sub-
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directory. Please note however that the actual base directories
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(like /pub/msdos/demos) may differ from mirror to mirror.
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Location Filename.Ext Size Description
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/demos
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/alpha/NEW blueeyes.zip 1435 Blue Eyes demo from @!
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inspirat.zip 146 Inspiration by ex-amiga group Reality
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msrules .zip 590 Very cool Micro-Snort anti-demo ;)
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perfect .zip 1185 Perfect Balance by Wild Style (SB/GUS)
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/music
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/disks cd_demo1.zip 1568 demo of Mind Side Out's CD, Synergy
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esperdiv.zip 1180 Esper Division X-Mas Show 94 (.ult disk)
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f10_pck1.zip 1736 Force Ten Pack #1
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f10_pck2.zip 2250 Force Ten Pack #2
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f10_pck3.zip 1672 Force Ten Pack #3
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f10_pck4.zip 1430 Force Ten Pack #4
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traxx37 .zip 960 Traxx Volume 37 (.s3m and .xm)
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/programs/players tmpv098b.zip 44 TMP, mod/mtm/s3m player for GUS
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/songs/midi mycmidi .zip 3 Forget Mong Yau Cho by Linda Wong
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/songs/mod ftb .zip 115 Feel The Beat by Trance Ambience
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/songs/mtm k-force .zip 225 The Force by Maelcum/KFMF
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/songs/s3m _dflow95.zip 350 A new tune by S.A.Harteveld
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anthrday.zip 68 Another Day by Mr. Fix-it
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ff2-had .zip 44 Freeze Frame 2 by Hadji / dMk
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hardlike.zip 160 Hard like a Criminal! by The Peric
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k-gotz .zip 184 Who Gotz Da Funk? by Lord Pegasus/KFMF
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liquid .zip 549 Liquid by Spirit of Suicide
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sbreeze .zip 113 Summer Breeze by Void/Reality
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wk-spin .zip 132 Wk-Spin by Wolfgang, Ron Labao
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/songs/xm clone .zip 438 Clone by Hypnotic
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dissolve.zip 28 Dissolution by Nathan D. Bowen
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laboru .zip 193 Laboru! by Nathan D. Bowen
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lightspd.zip 58 Lightspeed by Void/Reality
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smove .zip 171 Space Move by Vivid 1995
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texp_ia_.zip 255 Time Explosion by IA / Force-II
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wsandmix.zip 531 White Sands by Mental Floss
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/graphics
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/utils squash .zip 6 Squashes DOS screen to 1:1 ratio
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<Mailroom>>
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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_____Reader Response?
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Hey, I thought of something the other day while I was reading a new
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computer mag I got. You've read some before of course,..well, you know
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how they always have a "public mail" section in the beginning? maybe you
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could do the same. ..print the interesting mail you get every week.
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Just a suggestion ..:)
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-The Veritech Knight (NAID Organizer)
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And it became so. Starting this week, we will hopefully make "Mailroom" a
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regular column. The concept is simple: You write me interesting mail, and
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I reply to it in here. Easy enough?
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So send in your questions or comments and we might print them in here!
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<General Articles>>
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_____What's In, What's Out
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Good morning, Good afternoon, Good evening! (Everyone gets their copy of
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DemoNews at a different time in the day. :) Anyways, after reading DN 82, I
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was oddly inspired to attempt to compile a "what's in, what's out" list,
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for some reason. A fashion guide, if you will, for the demo world.
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Last Saturday evening, I was wasting time on IRC on the #trax channel (as I
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often do) and knowing that my views alone should not attempt to describe
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the demo world's opinions, I asked others if they wanted to help with the
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list. I was able to con Musicman and Blackwolf into helping me with it.
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Therefore, the list below is a result of the mismatched personalities of
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the three of us, who came up with the majority of the list, and a few
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others who helped some, but I can't remember anyone else from that evening.
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(Next week, maybe I'll publish my hate mail!)
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What's Out What's In Comments
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IRC MUDs <cough> Zer0 <cough> C.C.Catch
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MUDs IRC From the rest of us!
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S3M/MTM XM FastTracker - the best thing
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since sliced bread!
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Purple Motion Necros One word: <fill in one word>
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Borland Turbo C/C++ Watcom C/C++ Thanks to Tran's PMODE/W
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Computer Shopper DemoNews Well, which would YOU choose?
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TheParty NAID Just be there. :)
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#ansi #trax Just be there. :)
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MS-DOS OS/2 Warp What's conventional memory?
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hornet.eng.ufl.edu ftp.cdrom.com The mirror is faster!
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NAIDTRO NAIDINV2 See for yourself...
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MusicDisks CD's In the immortal words of
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Maelcum: "Perfect test is to
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put the end result on tape."
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Quantity Quality <shrug>
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SoundBlaster Gravis UltraSound What static?
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DMP IPLAY No more DMP upgrades. :(
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Sampling Ripping Hmm..
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Commercial Shareware/Freeware Hmm..
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Studying Wasting Time Hint, hint, Ryan Cramer!
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Coke Milk Quarex - Human cow! (Or cow
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human?)
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We hope this list is informational, helpful, yeah yeah, whatever. At least,
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if you can't stay on IRC through all hours of the night and pick up the hot
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juicy info, we'll find some losers who can and get the info from them.
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Wait, I can speak for myself, but the rest of the guys who helped might be
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a little ticked with that. Anyways! Uh, thanks for reading. :)
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GraveDigger / [Defiance]
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digger@freeside.scsd.k12.ny.us
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<Partyline>>
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_____Bizarre (the untold story)
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a. BIZARRE was originally started by Whistler and Einstein. Later Soundwave
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and Omega joined them. AcmE and Hypnosis produced the intros, but didn't
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do any organizing. Dream Syndicate wasn't involved at all! (The fact
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that Soundwave was in DS, doesn't mean anything at all, and is pure
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coincidence)
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b. AcmE and Hypnosis told everybody they would organize Bizarre'95, or at
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least everybody thought so. But they cancelled their involvement because
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of other plans.
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c. Because of lack of time, Einstein, Whistler and Omega (all three from
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Mega Industries) cancelled their involvement in Bizarre'95. This means
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that Soundwave was the only one left.
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The staff as it is now:
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- Soundwave, Virus and Badvibes. (all individuals, no group!)
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- Spirit
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d. About Bizarre'95: Nothing is 100% sure, but:
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- It WILL be there.
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- It will be 100% PC only
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- It'll be better than Bizarre '94.
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-TcM/Ground Zero
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<Music>>
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_____Virus in Inertia Player
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I saw in the last DemoNews issue that Inertia Player Asm'94 CD edition has
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been uploaded to Hornet. Among many bugfixes, this version contains a very
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nasty bug.
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Basically: the setup program (isetup.exe) is a Tai-Pan virus dropper, which
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means that from running isetup until rebooting all EXE files (smaller than
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64 Kbytes) will be infected with Tai-Pan virus. This is a humble virus,
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doesn't cause any damage, just copies itself to EXE files like crazy.
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Most of viruskillers can't recognize that isetup is infected because the
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virus was Pklited with the original isetup. Fprot 2.16 can eliminate
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Tai-Pan from infected EXE files but can't kick it out from isetup.exe ('coz
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the virus is compressed with the original program as I mentioned above).
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So the safe way to use isetup: run it, save the configuration, and reboot
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the machine immediately before starting any other program.
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Future releases of Assembly'94 CD will have this bug fixed.
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When should You ignore this letter :)
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1. Someone included a similar textfile for the player.
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2. Bug has been fixed already.
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Virus writers will burn in the hell's deepest wells!
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(Ayye, this sounds clerical, but I hope it will be... ;)
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Best regards,
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Ervin / AbaddoN
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_____Introducing GraveDigger
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Greetings! This is GraveDigger, and I thought I should introduce myself a
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bit. Ryan Cramer's been recently preoccupied with schoolwork, so I'm trying
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to cover the music scene for DemoNews in his absence.
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A lot of you don't know who I am, so I thought this would be a good time
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for a brief introduction. Or rather, it would have been a good time a few
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issues ago, but, anyways..
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The first issue of DN i saw was 73.. I believe Phoenix sent it to me in DCC
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while on IRC. A few weeks later, KFMF released their musicdisk,
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"Trancescrambled," and wanted a review for it written up in DN. I
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volunteered to do it, and my first article appeared in DN 78. Having
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quickly developed an interest in DN, I asked Snowman about my possibly
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doing more articles for DN. He encouraged me to continue writing, and this
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prompted my NAID survival guide article, as well as an interview with
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Maelcum of KFMF.
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So at last, a personal dream is realized for me. Back in mid 1992, I went
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to a friend's house, where there was a crowd of 10 or so people. I did not
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realize at the time what the night had in store for me. Back then, I was a
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C64 owner and user, and had no real desire or interest in IBM-compatible
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systems. That night, however, through a louder-than-necessary soundsystem,
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and on a friend's 486, I witnessed Future Crew's "Panic" trackdemo. Not
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many days after this event, I was trying to figure out how I could get an
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IBM of my own. I was amazed at the quality of the graphics and music of
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"Panic," compared to the demos I was used to on my C64.
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Around the beginning of 1994, after I had been an IBM user for a few
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months, Future Crew released three musicdisks and their composing program,
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"Scream Tracker." I personally became interested in tracking after a local
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band named "Zadoc" released a MOD of one of their songs, hoping to attract
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a more diverse audience through a different medium. I soon got a copy of
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ModEdit, and my first experiment with it was a bass line with occasional
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bassdrum hits. I played it for a friend once, and he said "It sounds like
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techno." I replied: "Yeah, I guess that's all this is good for, really."
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Frustrated with the interface of ModEdit, I checked out Renaissance's
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MultiTracker, and just couldn't get the hang of it. Then, I got Scream
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Tracker. My first realization was "My samples sound corrupted!" This was
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soon fixed though by Phoenix's SAM-to-SMP conversion program, a program I
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owe my tracking to.
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So there I was, around Spring 1994, interested in the IBM demo scene and
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trying to compose as well. However, I found it difficult to find out what
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was really going on in Finland and Europe as I sat on this side of the
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puddle. What new demos were coming out? Where can I find these demos?
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Then, like a voice from heaven, DemoNews found its way to me. It soon
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became obvious that DemoNews was the link that holds the chain together:
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the latest uploads to the main demo site, Hornet; reviews of releases; news
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on demo competitions; interviews; it was all there.
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DemoNews brought me much closer to the demo world than I thought I would
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ever be. It is my hopes that DN can reach out to others and bring them
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closer, as it did for me. The entire staff of Hornet deserves a great deal
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of appreciation, for all that they do, and of course, Snowman, for making
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it happen every Sunday morning.
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GraveDigger / [Defiance]
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digger@freeside.scsd.k12.ny.us
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<Advertising>>
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_____Help Wanted Advertising Section
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Hello, this is GraveDigger (not again!?) with a new feature for DemoNews.
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This is the "Help Wanted" section, much like a "Classified" section in a
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newspaper.
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The idea of this section is for groups who are looking for certain talents
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can submit a message asking for such a person, and hopefully, will be able
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to contact someone who can help them out. Here's an example:
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"Hey guys! Can anyone code out there? I'm in this PC music group and we need
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someone who would be interested in coding a musicdisk player for us! We have
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a lot of music we want to release, and would like a player for it. If you
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are interested, please mail me (Zer0/Defiance) at: zero@host.yab.com
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Thanks!"
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What you should do, in submitting such an article, is follow these few basic
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guidelines:
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1 - Identify yourself at some point
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2 - Give an Email address
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3 - Make a request for a specific talent (coder, gfx artist, etc)
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4 - Explain what the person is needed for
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Hopefully, this section will help people find each other more easily. Plus,
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it will save many students wasted hours on IRC looking for people. :)
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Here are the rules for submitting an article for this section:
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1 - Use 'DemoNews Help Wanted Ad' for your subject line
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2 - Send your article in plain text form
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3 - Mail it to digger@freeside.scsd.k12.ny.us
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4 - To get it in that Sunday's copy of DemoNews, I need to have it no later
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than the preceeding Friday, at 4pm EST.
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5 - Please only send it once. If you do not see it in that week's issue of
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DemoNews, wait for the next week's. If it's not in there either, then
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you may send it again.
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Thanks! Hope this section will be helpful to you. The sooner you get your
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articles in, the better!
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GraveDigger [Defiance]
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digger@freeside.scsd.k12.ny.us
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.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
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<<Back Issues>>
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_____How to Get 'em
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After reading this issue of DemoNews, you may be wondering how you can get
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previous ones. Well fear not! There are two different ways to do so:
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1: FTP to hornet.eng.ufl.edu and go to /pub/msdos/demos/news/OLD_NEWS and
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start downloading anything you see.
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2: Now you can request back issues of DemoNews via e-mail. Start a letter
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to listserver@oliver.sun.ac.za (any subject line) and in the body of the
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letter include "get demuan-list <index>" where INDEX refers to the
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index number of the issue.
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For example: get demuan-list 55
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This would retrieve DemoNews #80
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For more recent issues that are split into multiple parts, you must send
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an individual request for each index number.
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_____Descriptions
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77 45,46 01/01/95 101100 Chart History, Snowman Near-Disaster, Son of
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Snowman, The Party 1994, Making Waves, Using
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Assembly Part 2.
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78 47-49 01/08/95 111185 The Party 1994: Results and Reviews, Report
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by Stony and Friends, What happened to PC-
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Demo competition. Editorial: TP94 = ASM94
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part 2. Egg2: Trancescrambled Review, More
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on Fast Tracker 2.03. General Rambling by
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Denthor.
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79 51 01/15/95 41832 A Day in the Life of Snowman, Ambient Sample
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CD 1, Where's the Sound Blaster, TP94
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Graphics review.
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80 55 01/22/95 27028 DemoNews/HTML, Traffic Jam, CodeThink(School);
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The Solo Sample CD
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81 58,59 01/29/95 53434 NAID Survival Guide, General Protection
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Relationships, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Now Its a
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Game!, Assembly Part 3 (It ain't no party),
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BSP Trees
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82 64-66 02/05/95 81428 Setag and Notron News (A New Format), NAID
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FAQ, Interview with Maelcum/KFMF, Optimizing
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Vector Transformations on a Pentium, The
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Perfect Body, Top 10 Mistakes of Beginning
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Assembly Language Coders
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<<Closing Comments>>
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See you in CyberSpace,
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-Christopher G. Mann (Snowman)-
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r3cgm@dax.cc.uakron.edu
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