As of June 25, 1998, SHOCK has now released 1000 utilities. The group, formed in the summer of 1996, is also entering the beginning of its' third year this July. Thanks goes out to all SHOCK members past and present who made this feat possible!
June 24th OOO3 Corpse
Operation Oldwarez Overlord 3 will also be offering in #Sierra with basically every sierra game ever release in their time.
June 23rd DupeLink is down DeZigner
Dupelink is down for the moment, but will be back up soon!
June 22nd Happy Birthday CORE CRACKERS ! Mad aLeX
CORE celebrates it's one year birthday! [read more]
June 22nd P2 Follow Up: Runtime vs Devide/0 crowe
There is alot of talk still going on about this P2 Problem. There are actually 2 problems going on. 1. The Devide By Zero Problem which Radman as well as others have informed there is a patch for. The ttpatch, which seems to work on TURBO PASCAL programs. This is a fairly common bug and there are several solutions. 2. This second bug, the Runtime Error seems to be a bit smaller problem because it only affects a small percentage of dos bases apps. The tpppatch seems to fix some of those as well, but not all. I will use AdidView in my example. Whenver you try to run it, it will give you a runtime error. On the Klamath Processor you get the run time number ending with 91, however on a duechetts P2, its 89. It is related to the Pentium Pro Instruction code in the processor itself. P Pro's (P2's are simply p-pro's with ecc and mmx) were not meant to run dos based apps really, so we may have to concede this one to Intel and write 32 bit applications.
June 22nd HRg pack #17 is out, of course! :) Shere Khan
It's called PIZDEC, which is a Russian obscene word for catastrophe, end, chaos. And you'll not be disappointed if you get these 1.666 kilos! ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/artpacks/artpacks/1998/hrg-17.zip
June 21st New article on scenelink! DeZigner
Check out the lastest article on scenelink which includes a brief history of the C=64 group Triad, and an interview with member King Fisher. [read more]
June 21st DupeLink Finds a Mirror SageMage
Thanx to NeXuS Couriers and warez.de, DupeLink has found a mirror for those days when it is down or just plain slow. Right now Dupelink is running off the mirror until the primary site is back up. You can access the mirror by clicking on the DupeLink button to the left.
June 21st that rt error #200 Krypt Keeper
RT 200 = Divide by 0. Turbo pascal v7 has problems with the delay() procedure in CRT on cpus above 233mhz. This causes a rt #200 (divide by 0) in cpus above 233mhz. There are many fixes available for the problem, I myself have them. If you want to get them, just go to:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9553/tpbug.htm
you're welcome.
June 21st crowe is right on the PII errors China Blue
I am on a PII 400 mhz intel , and get any number of error messages running win98, however i dont get these same errors running win95.dos based programs have many problems loading and opening..as do PS5, 3DSMax 2.5, and viewers, players ..even winrar and winzip...so maybe we need to look at this a little ? see if we cant fix things cuz its not like we can call MS for tech support
June 21st THE GAME REVIEW Issue #55 is out! Ionizer
TGR, the longest running (since 1995) weekly scene review/magazine is out with issue #55 for this week. Included are reviews on *ALL* the games released this week. Get the issue at the web page: http://www.monmouth.com/~jionin Check out the new shockwave on the page too!
June 21st DupeLink DeZigner
The Dupelink server is current down... but good news: The program has been ported to C and a mirror will be up soon. We are also in need of sites to index. All we need is a ftp where the DupeLink indexer can logon every hour, scan all dirs and get nfos, nothing more. If interested, please email us using the form at the bottom for this page.
June 20th New genre? PaleDeth
Hello all, i do believe i've come up with a pretty good idea and id like to share it! we all know how much appz,games and addons etc is being nuked daily, the releasers of the appz,games and addons allmost allways know that their release are going to be nuked on most sites, but some of the releases are actually good even tho its nukes. so why not make a new ummm genre..lets call it unreleased, where all the cliparts and all the manuals and old game addons etc etc ends up, i dunno, maybe its a bad idea.. after all its only my lame idea...! :)
June 20th new demonic modding pack jack phlash
Demonic productions has finally released their sixth pack, full of bbs mods, doors, and utils. get it from http://www.demonic.net
June 19th STUFF site released the meister
Check out STUFF - an e-zine covering technology that influences serious users http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/3524/
June 18th P2 and Dos based Veiwers, Loaders Crowe
This may seem a little off topic, but it is a major topic on irc lately. I myself have discoverd that most of the dos based Viewers, Loaders, and drawing programs that we all know and love WILL give you a RUNTIME ERROR on a Pentium 2 class processor. I work at PC-Systems and I tried the programs on 12 differnt P2 Systems with the same error. The past few days on irc, I have talked to several other people with the same problem. I sent e-mail to Radman about Acidview and Aciddraw, Bluedevil is telling the CIA coding team. Hopefully the rest of you will see this and we can adress the issue. Werd.
June 18th Are you ready for eXCiTe?! Sweeper
eXCiTe - a Swiss Demo Group. doing their best to keep the spirit alive! We're making the Diskmag Trip! And we are always looking for articles! Besides we're making demos, so far we've released one called Vertigo, it ranked 2nd at the Swiss Party BuenZli #5 .. except another demo from us at BuenZli #6!
Check our page at www.igaia.ch/excite/
June 18th OOO3 Is Almost here! Nats (SaveTheWarez)
Operation Oldwarez Overlord 3 is about to invade Efnet June 20th! Get your dcc gets ready for a mass invasion of oldwarez bots offering all your old favorites. Check out #oldwarez, #exceed, #united, #liquidwarez and the like and you'll see um there. If you'd like to help or want more info goto http://iTRAC.Bourg.Net/ooo3/
June 18th A noteworthy site. Deanna
The latest news on hacking. Have all of your questions answered confidentially about programming and other related information. http://www.hideaway.net
June 17th alt.art.hirez is born RaD Man
Hey there all you net heads and hirez freaks. There's a new usenet newsgroup in town for the hirez artscene community - news:alt.art.hirez - The possibility to chat with artists world wide at your leisure is now a reality.
To reap the full benefits of newsgroups get FreeAgent (http://www.forteinc.com) or apply to PowerRage BBS (telnet://powerrage.ml.org) for that familiar BBS environment.
June 14th TRiP! - scene mag rebirth Komando
TRiP!, a swiss demo scene mag strike back after 6 month! http://www.bboxbbs.ch/home/genoz
June 14th Hallucigenia art pack genoz
Hallucigenia's premiere art pack has been released. You can grab it at http://www.geocities.com/~hallucigenia1/
June 14th re: ALL SOFTWARE FOR FREE - GUARANTEED neofish9
Self styled "Internet freedom fighters" and mass mailers Power2people recently spammed netizens with an advertisement about a "Software Freedom Guide" that will show users how to avoid paying for software ever again by downloading warez off the web.
According to Power2people, "After reading the Guide, the endless maze of search engine 'wares' sites will collapse into a direct and simple path... This is not legal but it is easy." Here's the letter they sent out.
June 14th Snapz steps into Leader shoes China Blue
HI, just to let you know that Snapz will be interim 'leader' of Siege while several members are on vaction or having babies.
June 14th in re: SSA China Blue
After many messages i responded to in regard the first SSA meeting, and explaining over and over again that all we did was to organize a meeting to see if there COULD be a coalition for the efnet warez scene ...i would like to summarize for everybody at the same time =) first of all, the meeting on june 7th was an 'organizational' meeting, and we did what we set out to do..brought together as many 'leaders' from efnet scene as we could for discussion, etc secondly, any discussion is good - whether it is about security, sites, uniform standards...its all good, and only good can come out of such ..thirdly, at this time there are several individuals who are trying to organize a coalition of sorts ...which is good, but i'm not sure they have support or the confidence from scene leaders they would need to succeed..so i urge them to chat, email, msg ..until they have that support - then perhaps it will succeed ! And finally, that server we used is NOT private...and there will NOT be a password to access it. It's there for all of you to use as an alternative, just follow the normal rules and don't fukup or it wont be there =)
your(very fat, ready to pop this pup) humble servant,
China Blue
June 14th FOS #8: ANSI on the Web Issue Inazone
Fistful of Steel #8 is out now, focusing on artscene-related websites. Included is a review of a dozen artscene sites, plus the usual interviews, reviews and articles! [download]
June 14th Defacto 2 Metamorphosing Ipggi
Defacto 2 Art Division has decided to refocus it's efforts to web requests only. This means we will not be accepting any new requests or non-web applications. This new move will enable us do most group web requests from a simple logo redesign to a complete webpage overhaul. We can do professional html, web graphics and designs. Plus we have people who can implement cgi, javascript, java, music and Flash. The best thing about this I feel is that our services are free to non profit scene groups.
Before we accept requests we feel we need more members to help take on the load. We are looking for people who can do quality html, quality web graphics, custom cgi, custom javascripts or custom java. If you want to be in the best scene web design group in the world why not fill out the online application that can found at our page. Our members previous web work include www.game-over.net, artpacks.acid.org, www.rebels.org and of course www.defacto2.net.
About Defacto2: Defacto 2 started off as an electronic magazine for the scene community. After the demise of the magazine the website was transformed into a scene museum that is still maintained today. A day after new years 1998 Defacto 2 was relaunched and the Defacto 2 Art Division was formed. This division was created and designed to do free requests for individuals and groups in the scene. In the June of 1998 the Art Division refocused it's effort to non profit web requests. Defacto 2 is run by Ipggi, Antibody and Skateguy. It was founded by Ipggi and Saint Tok and can be found at www.defacto2.net.
June 12th scenelink news DeZigner
Scenelink will be modifying it's news system very soon and would like some feedback as to how we could improve our news process. A script is currently being written to display news items for each scene (art, warez, demo, other) and automatically archive the news each month. There will be several news coordinators for each specific scene that will use the admin feature of the script to select which news items to be posted from all the user posts. If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to see in our news area, or are interesting in maybe becoming a news admin, send us a message using the news form at the bottom of this page.
