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- From: njale@dhhalden.no (NJAL EIDE)
- Subject: Re: Hardwired - once more!
- Message-ID: <njale.31.721571103@dhhalden.no>
- Summary: How to get it
- Keywords: Hardwired, Silents
- Lines: 42
- Sender: news@dhhalden.no (Network News User)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pc250
- Organization: Ostfold College
- References: <1992Nov7.113639.8686@cc.tut.fi> <hanscs.45.721567032@dhhalden.no>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:25:03 GMT
-
- >In article <1992Nov7.113639.8686@cc.tut.fi> l115130@cc.tut.fi (Lehtonen Tero) writes:
- >>From: l115130@cc.tut.fi (Lehtonen Tero)
- >>Subject: Hardwired - once more!
- >>Summary: How to get it
- >>Keywords: Hardwired, Silents
- >>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 11:36:39 GMT
- >>
- >>
- >> Hello fellow demo freaks out there on the net!
- >>
- >>
- >> I've just got some trouble with this wonderful piece of demo code. I finally
- >>made it to work on my machine ( B2000 1.3 , 1Mb Chip , 2Mb Fast , Supra's
- >>Wordsync controller + 105Mb Quantum ) by turning off everything except the
- >>motherboard installed Chip-ram. However, my problems aren't over since my
- >>HW disk 2 is corrupted - it crashes soon after the vector spacecraft has
- >>appeared. I've heard some other guys have had this problem too. So I decided
- >>to download a new version of the demo. I tried the one in wuarchive.wustl.edu,
- >>but oh shit, oh shit...
- >> The .dms'ed file 'Hardwired-disk2' was over 740,000 bytes long so it didn't
- >>fit on a DD MS-DOS floppy. I access the net via the shitty pc's of the
- >>university and move the downloaded files to my Amy on the DD floppies by
- >>using DosToDos. That's my only chance, since I don't have a modem or the
- >>ability to read HD-floppies.
- >> So how the heck can I split up that file and get it on the only correct
- >>format? Any ideas? God, I hate these stupid ms-dos machines! Screw 'em!
- >> Also, something more to complain about. Does anybody know the programmers
- >>of Kefrens? I hope they get this: Kefrens, you are the shittiest coders I've
- >>seen this far! None of many, many, many products carrying your name hasn't
- >>work on my machine - no matter how much I degrade it. And I've only got a
- >>68000-based B2000. Can't figure why it's so hard for some guys to write
- >>WORKING code.
- >>
- >> Tero Lehtonen, l115130@cc.tut.fi
-
- You could uucode the file and split it with an editor. Then use Amiga's join
- command to splice them, and uudecode it back. Or you can LHA the dms-
- file. That will compress it just enough to fit a clone-disk. Apparently lha
- has a slighlty better compressing-algorith than dms.
-
-
- Njaal
-