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- VECTRONIX NEWSLETTER #3 (14 July, 1997)
- All text by Phoenix/Vectronix (unless stated otherwise!)
- Contact: vectronix@hotmail.com
-
-
- [1] Contents
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-
- 1 - Contents
- 2 - Vectronix Internet HQ
- 3 - Faramir - Defendor of the Human Race
- 4 - Elite's New Belgian Headquarter
- 5 - Undercover Magazine Issue #9
- 6 - Atari 8-bit Collection
- 7 - The PacifiST Emulator
- 8 - Pretty Good Privacy
- 9 - Latest Releases
- 10 - Publication of Contents
-
-
- [2] Central Data FTP Site - Vectronix Internet HQ!
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-
- We now offer YOU the possibility of access to our restricted internet
- headquarter, Central Data ftp site runned by Teddy of TMC. Fill in the
- application form below and send it to vectronix@hotmail.com for
- evalutation. You'll be able to find all our latest releases here, as well
- as on our official hedquarters and distros around the world within hours
- after release!
-
- Please note that login to the site is anonymous, but access relies on your
- IP address! In order to login your IP must be registered on the server, so
- question number 2 is very important for successfull registration!
-
- You may under NO circumstances share this account with your friends, and
- the IP registration is there to avoid this! You may not either under any
- circumstances talk about or mention the FTP site anywhere. If you cannot
- follow these simple rules your access will be nuked without any
- consideration!
-
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-
- 1. Alias / Group(s): _____________________/___________________________
-
- 2. The IP hostmask you access the site from:
- Example: phoenix@*.algonet.se for my old phoenix@algonet.se account
- where the wildcard replaces dynamical server names which changes every
- time I login.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- 3. Your email address: _______________________________________________
-
- 4. Tell us about yourself, the more complete information, the faster you'll
- get access approved (atleast 5 lines of text!):
-
- ___________________________________________________________________
- ___________________________________________________________________
- ___________________________________________________________________
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- Send the form to vectronix@hotmail.com and wait for evaluation to be
- approved, we have the right to deny you access for any untold reason or
- what so ever, if your request is denied, don't argue about it!
-
- People who are already on the ftp will notice that some re-organisation
- have been done. All our releases online will from now on be found in the
- /vectronix directory, both old as new ones. Note also that upload is
- forbidden in this directory, only Vectronix members are allowed to upload
- here, other uploads goes into /incoming as usual!
-
-
- [3] Faramir - Defendor of the Human Race
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-
- Faramir a.k.a Razor Dickhead or whatever he prefers to call himself today
- when he calls people brainless, have on his homepage collected a nice list
- of important people for him. In the "Traitors gallery of the human race"
- section you can read about Bill Gates, Griff/Electronic Images, Adolf
- Hitler and Phoenix/Vectronix among others and their abandons of mankind.
-
- You'll find Faramirs homepage on this adress: http://faramir.enemy.org
-
- Faramir also claims he's still a member of Elite, and I hope this is not as
- big surprise to other Elite members as it was to me. Although I wonder what
- the reason is for hiding Faramir as member, not listing him in NFO's or
- official member lists. Is Elite in the leadership of Marcer cowards which
- don't stand up to their actions or are they just afraid of how Vectronix
- and other people would feel about this?
-
- This is Faramirs own words about himself still being in Elite:
-
- "Marcer re-joined me into elite 2-3 weeks after that story upon my demand,
- as a trader and with conditions not to release unappropriate stuff under
- the elite banner again."
-
- Seems like if you want to be a member of Elite you just have to _demand_
- it, and promise to be nice.... ;-)
-
-
- [4] System Overload: Elite's New Belgian Headquarter
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-
- Elite's belgian headquarter have changed! Faramir got into conflicts with
- the sysop of Pantheon BBS who was running PCBoard under Windows as BBS
- software. The new BHQ is System Overload (+32-51/40.71.94) running the old
- Amiga BBS program DayDream BBS now ported to Linux, 2 nodes 28k8 (sometimes
- telnet). Check it out!
-
-
- [5] Undercover Magazine Issue #9
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-
- UCM #9 was released on 6th of July, altough in a great hurry and not very
- well thought it seems, without intro and the same old bugs still there. I
- guess they just wanted to get the magazine out to all the people waiting
- for it, and as old news is no news, for a magazine it makes sense.
-
- UCM is now being produced as a co-operation between TNB and TSCC,
- Moondog/TNB almost questions himself in the leadtext of the magazine as
- wether UCM is a TNB or TSCC products this time.
-
- The UCM shell doesn't wanna co-operate with my TT or the PacifiST emulator,
- I also get reports it doesn't work very nice under Falcon VGA and issue
- number 9 doesn't even work under plain ST's, there is also a screen which
- doesn't work, so they included it in a textfile instead, ehhh!?
-
- I wish for these incompability problems, and UCM's reputation there would
- be an option to create an ascii version of the magazine like in Reality
- Check Network among others, so people would be able to read it.
-
- I also think the UCM team should get themself an official homepage carrying
- the latest release and also an email address as nobody cares to use snail
- mail these days.
-
- Enough complaints, go find this otherwise so excellent magazine now!!!
-
- Note: mOd/TSCC says there might be a re-release of issue 9 in everything
- from a few days to a week or two, let's hope it will work this time!
-
-
- [6] Atari 8-bit Collection
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-
- Zaphod Beeblebrox/Swedish Infomania (ex. I.C.S) and sysop of Eagles Nest
- Private is compiling one hell of a Atari 8-bit CD collection. This CD will
- kick the shit out of all previous Atari 8-bit archives you have ever seen.
- Watch out for further information on this real nostalgica must have CD!
-
-
- [7] PacifiST v0.46
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-
- PacifiST, the great Atari ST emulator for PC is to be released in version
- 0.46 next week. PacifiST is a must for everyone who's got a PC and wants to
- experience a real nostalgic trip!
-
- Changes in the next version (0.46):
-
- * Fixed GUS driver, ok with PnP's
- * Fileselector changes: filenames shortcuts, RAR support, fixed multi-MSA
- extraction
- * Better YM recording, replaying under monitor with start/end/loop settings
- * STE Blitter emulation
-
- For more information about PacifiST, check out the official homepage!
- http://wwwperso.hol.fr/~gidouin/pacifist.html
-
-
- [8] Pretty Good Privacy
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-
- The latest version of the popular encryption program PGP (Pretty Good
- Privacy) has been exported to Europe, only a few days after its release in
- the US. Because of the strict export regulations regarding strong
- cryptographic software in the US, the program was not exported in
- electronic form. Instead, the PGP 5.0 source code books, published by
- Warthman Associates on June 14, have been shipped to Europe and work is now
- going on to scan in all 12 volumes (over 6000 pages) using OCR (Optical
- Character Recognition) techniques. Stσle Schumacher, author of the
- International PGP Home Page, says that he hopes the program will become
- available to PGP users worldwide by early July.
-
- Read more about this, how far the scanning have come, and other interesting
- subjects regarding Pretty Good Privacy on the International PGP Homepage:
- http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/
-
- Below is Phoenix new public PGP key, use it if you need a secure and
- confidential conversation when contacting Phoenix!
-
- Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
- pub 1024/5A6F103D 1997/07/08 Phoenix <vectronix@hotmail.com>
-
- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Version: 2.6.3ia
-
- mQCNAjPBhgUAAAEEAOJMjQXU6FHlVYGenQVEg6gPI4e8s63lsT7ljdPVj1QudwtS
- EPC5Qn6Zr5M4LS3FJVmy47F+/2vU85fiuc5tHCx7yTBPEPyipsKAKQbUnhNbDAXR
- bmdv0BxNTeYnk2Cb4aJIlziRidWxRKjIRLisTh87M4AcPGDYI/HYBvZabxA9AAUT
- tB9QaG9lbml4IDx2ZWN0cm9uaXhAaG90bWFpbC5jb20+iQCVAgUQM8GGBfHYBvZa
- bxA9AQHwTQQA0CkCcAm/HWIzuystblD7J5gd+Njgkbb2oQIiyzBq22L/9E7/kwA4
- A2olBw5aT6I+tvD4fg5rKm0wn8+2ZZ+b6wvOFtE7N8Ei6T8wQj6dbl1TKWvWG/Ta
- 9atLxGJH5knZWDKIsmJ2EvNOr7R8QMElcWV64XgFaXLq85zbngI/SaM=
- =VQTg
- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
-
-
- [9] Latest Releases
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-
- VEXPROF2.LZH 204929 Profile v2.21 (c) Linnhe Computing [1/1]
- VEXWH202.ZIP 1149464 WinHacker v2.02 (c) Wedge Software [1/1]
-
- Profile 2, the great system analyser for the Atari ST in a new version,
- nicely packaged by Ryder/Vectronix as his debute release. Ryder says he
- don't want be be known as "the distribution guy" anymore, although he is a
- trader and musician, so now we must come up with something better to call
- him, suggestions are appreciated... ;-)
-
- WinHacker is one of our first releases on the PC, if we're not counting
- MagiC PC and MagicMac. No need to be afraid folx, we're not abandoning
- atari by any means! I guess it's best to make that clear so we won't get
- into any troubles... ;-)
-
- That's all for this week, expect more to come when the awfull summer heat
- turns into a more normal and and comfortable hacking weather....
-
-
- [10] Publication of Contents
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-
- Other non-profit magazines and/or organisations are free to use, quote, or
- copy parts of the contents of the news letters as long as the mailing list
- is not mentioned anywhere and the material is not used against Vectronix in
- any way what so ever. Source may be refered to as "Vectronix", but not the
- list. We also ask you to inform/contact us if you're planning to use the
- information somewhere, this only for the purpose of our information.
-
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