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║ 0. DeathStar story ║
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1. DeathStar story
2. DeathStar members
3. Our releases
4. How to contact us
5. DeathStar distrosites
6. Becoming a DeathStar Distrosite
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║ 1. DeathStar story ║
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DeathStar group was born in the University of Naples in November 1994
when Master of Darkness (after coding some small intros on the Amiga, a
lot of time before) received a copy of Unreal and Second Reality and
decided that it was possible to make demos on PC's. At the same time,
CDS (who was coding a nice, but never completed, videogame on PC) had
almost the same thoughts. The group gathered chatting in the computer
labs of the University, and in the same days Master of Darkness wrote a
3kb intro for his FidoNet boss (at that time we had no BBS). After some
experiments with 2&3D effects we decided to make a demo for ASM95 and
started looking around for artists; just a couple of weeks later, Froyd
the Dreud joined us as graphic artist, but we discovered soon he's also
a great musician and a helpful tool coder. In January two other guys
joined the crew: Asavaris and EzPonez, who worked some years before with
Master of Darkness on an Amiga videogame (never finished too). In April
1994 Master of Darkness turned on our WHQ (The HobBIT BBS), so we had a
fast method to swap our files without meeting at the University; in the
same days, Jack Bass, who helped Master of Darkness setting up the BBS,
joined the group. The HobBIT BBS was immediately in Fido (where Master
of Darkness obtained the opening of a DEMO.ITA conference by his REC),
joined DGi in June and GSN in December. Unfortunately our exams at
university didn't go as planned, so demo-working stopped for a long time
and we had our demo ready just for The Party V. There the sucking
organizers lost the disks, so it did not compete! They also lost our
reservation (that we did again) and Froyd the Dreud's multichannel
music. After this quite unbelieveble experience we decided to release
the demo and the music independently.
Just some days before The sucking Party V, we got a new coder, AfY, who
will contribute to our next releases...
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║ 2. DeathStar members ║
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Here we are, in alpabetical order:
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬───────┬───────────────────────┐
│ Handle │ In real life │ Born │ Job in group │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────┼───────────────────────┤
│ AfY │ Gianni Frattolillo │ 1973 │ Coder │
│ Asavaris │ Lorenzo Canzanella │ 1974 │ Gfx │
│ CDS │ Carmine della Sala │ 1974 │ Coder │
│ EzPonez │ Ezio Ponari │ 1976 │ Music │
│ Freud the Dreud │ Giovanni Caturano │ 1971 │ Gfx/Music/Tool Coding │
│ Jack Bass │ Paolo Polce │ 1971 │ Swapping/HQ Sysop │
│ Master of Darkness │ Lelio della Pietra │ 1974 │ Coder/WHQ Sysop │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴───────┴───────────────────────┘
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ 3. Our releases ║
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Our releases, all of them available on all our distrosites/HQ.
┌──────────────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Name │ Date │ Size │ Description │
├──────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ HOBBIT.COM │ 04/11/94 │ 3007 │ BBStro #1 (3KB). File replaced with │
│ │ │ │ HOBB1SRC.ZIP │
├──────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ HOBB1SRC.ZIP │ 07/05/95 │ 11801 │ BBStro #1 (3KB) with assembler sources│
├──────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ILINKV30.ZIP │ 02/01/96 │ 33985 │ Free Intro Linker by MoD. Release 3.0 │
├──────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ DS-BLISS.A?? │ 02/01/96 │ 2744114 │ Digital Bliss. Our 1st Demo. │
└──────────────┴──────────┴─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ 4. How to contact us ║
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To contact DeathStar (as group), please write to Jack Bass. If you wanna
contact some of us, here you are our addresses:
┌────────────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ Handle │ FidoNet │ DGi │ GSN │ e-mail │
│ │ 2:335/ │ 68:390/11 │864:39/1│ │
├────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ AfY │ 244.8 │ .7(*) │ (**) │ dsafy@freenet.hut.fi │
│ Asavaris │ 244.17 │ .5 │ (**) │ │
│ CDS │ 244.5 │ .2 │ .2(*)│ dscds@freenet.hut.fi │
│ EzPonez │ 244.7 │ .6 │ (**) │ mc9700@mclink.it │
│ Freud the Dreud │ 232.10 │ .4 │ (**) │ g.caturano@peoples.it │
│ Jack Bass │ 232.0 │ .3 │ (**) │ dsjbass@freenet.hut.fi│
│ Master of Darkness │ 244.0 │ .0 │ .0 │ dsmod@freenet.hut.fi │
├────────────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴────────┴───────────────────────┤
│ (*) Coming soon │
│ (**) Coming soon: send mail to 864:39/1, it will be automatically routed │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We're also setting up a Deathstar's home page, it will be (probably)
http://sb1.shiny.it/deathstar.html [it will be opened in january].
Snail mail address is: Paolo Polce
Via Sigmund Freud 41
80138 Neaples
ITALY
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║ 5. DeathStar distrosites ║
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Being a new group, our distrosites are just two... If you want your BBS to
become a DeathStar distrosite, please read next paragraph.
┌──────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬────────────────┬───────────────┐
│ Country │ Name │ Speed │ Phone no. │ Sysop │
├──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ Italy (WHQ) │ The HobBIT BBS │ 28k8 USR │ +39-81-5563352 │ MOD/DeathStar │
├──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ Italy │ Italtec BBS │ 33k6 USR │ +39-81-5451506 │ JB/DeathStar │
└──────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴────────────────┴───────────────┘
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║ 6. Becoming a DeathStar distrosite ║
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If you would like your BBS to become a DeathStar distrosite/HQ, please
consider the following things:
a) Your BBS should be a demo-oriented BBS, best if in the DGi or GSN nets.
Only a very few exceptions can be made to this rule.
b) Your BBS should be opened 24h a day, with atleast a 14k4 modem.
c) You have to create a "DeathStar" directory, with no upload/download ratio
and no time limit (if an user hasn't enough time to download a DeathStar
production, you should raise it to download the file[s]).
d) You'll have to be informed about DeathStar release; that means you have an
e-mail address and we'll advise you of new releases, or you shuld poll
The HobBIT BBS at least once a month to see if there are news for you.
e) Obviously you have get and make available all our releases.
If you become a DeathStar distrosite we'll put your name and your number in
any DeathStar release and we'll inform you of every production we're about to
release. It should be better if you've an e-mail address, it will cost you a
lot less...
Okay, if you think you're the right guy to spread our files ;), please fill
this application form and send it to dsmod@freenet.hut.fi or crash it to The
HobBIT BBS, +39-81-5563352 (Fido 2:335/244, DGi 68:390/11, GSN 864:39/1).
Please rename file to XXXXXXXX.APP, where XXXXXXXX is the name of your BBS.
We'll check your request and we'll reply you within a week.
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┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DEATHSTAR DISTROSITE APPLICATION FORM │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
BBS Name [ ]
Is the BBS really demo-oriented? [ ] Yes [ ] No
1. [ ]
BBS Phonenumbers and number 2. [ ]
of lines per number: 3. [ ]
4. [ ]
[ ] 14k4 [ ] 16k8 [ ] 19k2 [ ] 21k6
Speed supported: [ ] 24k0 [ ] 26k4 [ ] 28k8 [ ] 33k6
[ ] MNP [ ] V42b [ ] ISDN _________
[ ] Other ____________________________
Flags: [ ] CM [ ] LO [ ] HST [ ] ZYX
[ ] ISDNA [ ] ISDNB [ ] ISDNC [ ] ____
[ ]
Networks you're in and their addresses: [ ]
[ ]
Mailer Software: [ ]
BBS Software: [ ]
Do you require users to send you a
document to allow them downloading? [ ] Yes [ ] No
Sysop name: [ ]
Sysop e-mail address: [ ]
Sysop handle/group: [ ]
Sysop voice phonenumber: [ ]
Sysop birth day: [ ]
[ ]
Sysop mail address: [ ]
[ ]
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Notes of interest: [ ]
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