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- From: hanscs@dhhalden.no (HANS CHRISTIAN SANDER)
- Subject: Re: Hardwired - once more!
- Message-ID: <hanscs.46.721577270@dhhalden.no>
- Summary: How to get it
- Keywords: Hardwired, Silents
- Lines: 49
- Sender: news@dhhalden.no (Network News User)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pc206
- Organization: Ostfold College
- References: <1992Nov7.113639.8686@cc.tut.fi> <hanscs.45.721567032@dhhalden.no> <njale.31.721571103@dhhalden.no>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:07:50 GMT
-
- In article <njale.31.721571103@dhhalden.no> njale@dhhalden.no (NJAL EIDE) writes:
- >From: njale@dhhalden.no (NJAL EIDE)
- >Subject: Re: Hardwired - once more!
- >Summary: How to get it
- >Keywords: Hardwired, Silents
- >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
- You have revealed the non-disclosure agreement, shame on you.
-