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- FALL In With Us!
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- Special Commodore 64/128 Offer
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- $50 Worth of Free Services Your First Month!
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- Now the Commodore 64/128 RT on GEnie is a better bargain than ever for 8
- bit fans. Last year, GEnie cut the evening and weekend hourly rates to just
- $3 per hour and by following the instructions below, you too can join
- GEnie's large and growing C64/128 community. Sign up now and get $50 Worth
- of Free Services Your First Month! just for choosing the best source of
- information about the best 8 bit computer anyone ever made!
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- Enjoy the entire breadth and wealth of personal computing with all the
- news, features, games, information and special interests on all of GEnie.
- The Commodore 64/128 RT on GEnie - we'll be seeing you soon!
-
- Here are the sign-up steps
-
- 1. Set your terminal program for half-duplex (local echo) at 2400 baud.
- Recommended communications parameters:
- 8 bits, no parity and 1 stop bit (8-N-1).
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- 2. With your modem, dial toll-free in the U.S. at 1-800-638-8369 or in
- Canada at 1-800-387-8330.
-
- 3. Upon connection, type HHH Note: Every time you use GEnie,
- you need to enter the HHH at connection.
-
- 4. At the U#= prompt, type JOINGENIE and press <Return>
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- 5. At the offer code prompt enter DHE524 to get this special offer.
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- 6. Have a major credit card ready. In the U.S., you may also use your
- checking account number. There is a $2.00 monthly fee for all checking
- accounts. In Canada, VISA and MasterCard only.
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- 7. Instant computerized verification will get you on GEnie without waiting.
- Type COMMODORE at any GEnie menu, which will move you to page 625.
-
- Or for more information, call GEnie Client Services toll-free:
- 1-800-638-9636
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- FALL In With Us!
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- Fall in with us
- You have "TREATed" to them all these years with your hard earned money, yet
- your Halloween "reward" is more of a disappearing "trick". It seems about
- as much fun as getting your windows soaped or your trees "papered". Hey,
- if you want respect Fall In With Us.
-
- GEnie and the Commodore 64/128 RoundTable want you, the Commodore 8 bit
- user. Heck, we even have a library just for the Plus 4! Not only do we
- support the Commodore 64/128, but we are proud of it and offer many
- exciting features, including gobs of new uploads not found anywhere else.
- We not only work hard to provide you with support, we enjoy doing it. That
- is the difference and why we have such a big friendly staff to support you.
- Do not be tricked by cheap talk, GEnie is your best choice for a network,
- period.
-
- How about some facts to back that up?
- The Facts: GEnie is the official support network for: CMD, GEOS, Color 64
- BBS, Parsec, other companies and software authors. In short, the people
- that still produce new hardware, software, and publications have chosen
- GEnie as their network of choice. That also includes many shareware
- authors. Our Commodore RoundTable has had over 16,000 + files uploaded to
- our libraries so far. With our cool uploading contests you can be assured
- of even more files and support. Did we mention GEnie has been providing
- continuos Commodore support since 1985 without a day off?
-
- Don't be spooked into thinking there is not any support for your Commodore
- 64/128 anymore. You just have not been looking in the right place. GEnie
- is the right place for Commodore support and has so much more to offer than
- can be mentioned here. So, judge for yourself, use the free $50 worth of
- credit to sign up and see for yourself. Don't be the ghoul left holding a
- broken pumpkin, sign up to GEnie now and get the respect, support, and
- files you deserve.
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- All About GEnie
- GEnie, founded in 1985, is an online information service with 100s of
- RoundTables (RTs) available around the world. Each RoundTable is focused
- on a specific area of interest such as Commodore computers, IBM computers,
- cars, movies, family issues, medical, law, military and banking etc.
- Parsec, Inc. manages The Commodore RoundTable.
-
- Commodore users from all over the world, and we mean all over, participate
- in the many exciting features GEnie has to offer, including nightly Real
- Time Conferences (RTCs), monthly multi-player games, an active message area
- to post questions and get answers, exciting guests, prizes, and games such
- as Trivia, Hangman, Jumble, and Mastermind run on C-128s during our RTCs.
- Users can also gain access to over 14,000 files available in our libraries.
-
- It is the OFFICIAL GEOS SUPPORT network. The Commodore 64/128 RT is also
- the official support area for CMD, GEOS, COLOR64 BBS, Parsec, and others.
- The Commodore 64/128 RT is staffed by some of the best and brightest in the
- Commodore business.
-
- The monthly subscription fee is $8.95 per month which includes up to four
- hours of standard connect time usage at 300-1200-2400 baud. Each additional
- hour is only $3.00 per hour.
-
- For more information concerning rates, local access numbers (including
- 1-800 numbers for those in rural areas), additional services and other
- charges, and to join GEnie, refer to the information under
- "Special Commodore Sign Up Offer". Or call GEnie Client Services
- toll-free at: 1-800-638-9636
- See you online!
-
- Hey, I need a modem!
- Parsec sells (call them used though they have never been actually used)
- C-1660 modems (300 baud) for $3.00 plus S&H (S&H = $4.25 US, $7.50 Canada,
- $12 Overseas). What you get is the C-1660 modem, a terminal program to use
- with the modem on GEnie, and an RJ-11 cable to plug into the wall. Sure,
- it is only 300 baud, but you know what they say, something is better than
- nothing. Plus it is a good modem to buy if you are only testing the
- "online"waters. If you decide you like being online you can always buy a
- more powerful and faster modem. CMD also sells modems and interfaces.
-
- For More Information Commodore C64/128 owners can write to:
-
- Parsec, Inc.
- PO Box 111
- Salem, MA 01970-0111
- USA
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- FALL In With Us!
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- GEnie's Commodore 64/128 RoundTables Fall 94 Contest
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- Win CMD gift certificates, software, books, and gifts of time in GEnie's
- Commodore 64/128 RT's "FALL In With Us" contest. How? By doing something
- cool that you probably do anyway, uploading software.
-
- Winning is easy. Just upload the most bytes each week to win a weekly
- prize and upload the greatest total number of bytes from October 16th to
- December 31st to win the grand prize.
-
- The rules are simple.
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- 1) The files uploaded must be freely distributable.
-
- 2) If the file is a converted graphic (Example from MacPaint) or .GIF file
- you must be the original author or have the author's permission to
- distribute or convert the graphic into another format for uploading. This
- can be stated either in the file, on the file description, or in an e-mail
- to the Commodore$ staff. Any .GIF files have to be decent looking when
- displayed on the C-64 to be included in the contest. .RAW sound files have
- to be in compressed format (.sda, .arc, .sfx).
-
- 3) The files have to be worth downloading. Any "junk" files being uploaded
- just to up the count will not be counted. Files not compressed that are
- normally compressed (.arc, .sda, .sfx) will not be accepted unless the
- software could not compress the data further. Koala and Doodle files have
- to be uploaded in their normal gg/jj compressed formats. Remember, if you
- would not want to download it, neither will anyone else. We want to add
- value to the libraries for our members. The Sysop staff decision on what is
- allowed in the contest and what will be counted is final.
-
- 4) No duplication of files already online. New, complete indexes will be
- provided for each library.
-
- 5) The contest runs from October 16th, 1994 to December 25th, 1994.
-
- 6) When grouping files together for uploading the normal file compression
- standards apply (.sfx, .sda, .arc, .GIF, etc). Koala (gg) and Doodle (jj)
- files should be uploaded individually. This is so a person does not have
- to download a massive archived file just to view one graphic.
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- 7) For each 1000k uploaded, which conforms to these guidelines and our
- usual guidelines for files, you get a (1) Hour Gift of Time on top of any
- other prizes.
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- 8) Remember, uploading is free of connect charges!
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- Date Range Prize for that week:
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- October 16th - October 22 Prize: (1) GOT
- October 23th - October 29 Prize: (1) GOT
- October 30th - November 05 Prize: (1) GOT
- November 06th- November 12 Prize: (1) GOT
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- November 13 - November 19 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
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- November 20 - November 26 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
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- November 27 - December 03 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
-
- December 04 - December 10 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
-
- December 11 - December 17 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
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- December 18 - December 24 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (1) GOT for the runner up
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- December 25 - December 31 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week
- (2) GOT for the runner up
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- The person that uploads the greatest number of bytes wins the Grand Prize.
-
- "GOT highest K that week" means a (1) hour or (2) hour Gift of Time for
- uploading the most bytes that week, including any bonus points. There will
- also be monthly games where you can win books and software. Not to mention
- the visiting Halloween scary during October, a turkey during November, and
- Santa Claus in December who will give away even more prizes during our RTCs
- (online chat rooms)! Watch the RT news and banners!
-
- Grand Prize (1) $128 Gift Certificate good for CMD products.
- (1) $ 64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products.
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- 2nd Place (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for CMD products
- (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products.
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- 3rd Place (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products.
- (10)hours of additional GEnie time (GOT)
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- 4th Place (10)hours of GEnie time (GOT)
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- 5th place (05)hours of GEnie time (GOT)
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- 6th place No additional prizes but everyone will still love you for
- sharing and uploading the cool warez!
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