% introduction and like stuff (ack)

welcome  to  demonic  productionz'  fourth  pack, 07/97,  a  pretty
eventful  two months i  must  say, alot has happened in  the bbsing
scene,  and and alot of strange things have gone on.. but look.. we
released.. the  usual pack  chock full of  badass  mods, doors, and
source code...

wow, we  were alittle late again this month, we missed it by a good
2 weeks.. and it's acutally  august now.. but it couldn't really be
helped this time.. ;)  lemme explain...

we were  going to release  at mid month  like usual, but  i took an
extra  week to  gather  work.. big deal..  i was  putting  the pack
together  last week, and  was  just about  to finish it up.. i took
some  time out  to play some  doom against the  locals.. after  the
battle we were talking on the phone, when i heard what sounded like
fireworks going  off.. i turned  around to see smoke pouring out of
my  power supply.. it had  blown up.. i was thinking  that maybe my
harddrive  got  fried, and  i  lost  all  the work.. eh..  horrible
thought.. anyways.. i was  feeling down, and a  few days later came
my  birthday, i got a bunch of  money from relatives, so i went out
an bought a  new power  supply and  wired it up.. and we're back in
action. thankfully  my worst fears (the hd being dead) weren't ever
relized...

you might see another "dem-0797.zip" floating around,  it's not us,
i  was  pretty  fucking  shocked  when i saw  it.. it's an  art mag
called demesne, and it's really cool.. i had a word with the editor
and he's agreed to release on opposite months as us..

our seperate release policy is still, as always in effect, seperate
releases too big to but in the  pack (bbs softs, misc programs, bbs
setups, ect) are availible  from our dist sites and our ftp...

i'll make  this part  nice and  short, the orgin of demonic.  being
genuinly fed up with modding after the deaths of just  about all my
old  affils  (tric, fsw, px, ts, sin, ta) i  decided to take up  my
own group (well, it was a nifty idea at the time) so i  decided  to
draft  some of my friends from  previous groups, i  mean, people  i
knew farily well and liked the work of.  at first i didn't get much
support,  but  eventually  (ie: after the  death of  most of  their
groups  and having nothing  better to do) we all got  together, the
final  step in my  grand scheme was  to actually set a release date
and then pester  the hell  out of them for their  work (this worked
fairly well in  most cases) a few odd  members joined (i don't know
where they came from but i'm not complaining) and here we are.

that wasn't short damnit...

% member info and other equally unimportant news

senior  members... iceman  (man666son on  irc) joined  demonic, and
after releasing 3 things in 3 days asked if he  might be considered
for  the poisition  of coding  head, hell.. why  not.. he's been on
vacation for  awhile now, but he's back.... all other senior member
re-assignments are noted in the members list.

work  this  month... well, for  some odd  reason  work  this  month
consists of  mostly utils, even  some bbs  unreleated  code.. check
out  iceman's  en/derypter,  and  really  really  really check  out
natedogg's xtreme  doorkit.. it's a  pascal unit for  making doors,
very much  like edoor, except it  contains a few more features, and
even  better, full  turbo pascal source  code.. check  pack.lst for
more release info...

new  members.. lemme see here, narcissus joins are illusion modding
division.. (boy it's getting big) purpin joins iniquity  and coding
divisions, ice  man  joins  are  coding division and now leads it..
jandor  joins a  few modding  divisions,  and  needo  joins  us for
instinct and illusion... and that's all i can remember for now..

leaving members.. as  far  as  i can  remember, noone  dropped  out
(and told me  about it... ) we had  a few near  quittings, but they
are pretty much resolved...

guests and stuff.. special thanks to max headroom (tric) for hangin
with  us, running the bots, and  entertaining  us... also thanks to
impulse who  did us a  badass diz, and  mhz for this pack.lst ascii
i used last month.. ;)

joining.  to  apply  simply fill out the  enclosed dem-app.exe  and
send  us  yourinitials-app.txt  and  some work.  we  ARE  currently
excepting  applications  for  distros  and  couriers. (though  i am
starting to lose track of them) if you would like  to guest with us
simply contact me on irc.

% random shit (and now a word from your vice president)

well, these  two  months have been really strange for me.  i didn't
get very  much work done  for a lot  of reasons.  for one,  i moved
to minnesota, and  was without  a computer for a real long time.  i
also had to format my  hard  drive when i installed os/2 so  i lost
my  iniquity  setup and some of  my mods.  i have it all on zipdisk,
but haven't  had the  time to  copy it back  to my hard  drive.   i
apollogize for my lazy ass.  i could go on and on ...

so,  what's  new  in the bbs scene?   the iniquity  source code was
sold to  a guy named michael pike for $300.   he seems to  be happy
with  iniquity just as  it is and is making no changes  except full
internet  connectivity.  if you  ask me,  he has other  things that
he could work on  first.  i probably will not  do any more iniquity
mods/utils/addons ever again.

illusion v2.00 was  recently released  also.  it finally got out of
the d read v1.99beta versions :)   raw toxic's  old group,  fsw has
returned.

i did however  find time to do SOME work  for the pack.  in fact, i
did an entire  doorkit  in pascal.  it's  called the xtreme doorkit
(also  called xdoor for  short).  it's very nice.  so please take a
look at  that if you're a  door developer (comes with full source).
this took a LOT of time  to do, and should count for at  least 5 or
6 mods :)

look for vivid bbs software in the not-so-far-away future.

natedogg (nd@kracked.com), demonic vice president

% how to contact us (me)

jack phlash's email address.................(jp@washington.xtn.net)
offical demonic ftp site...............(ftp to demonic.kracked.com)
offical demonic irc channel..................(#demonic on us efnet)
offical demonic whq board..............(distortion, currently down)
offical demonic home page..........(http://www.demonic.kracked.com)

% misc greets and stuff

a special thanks to all the mod groups i've hung  wish the past few
months, especially tric  and woe for  for putting up with our angst
little asses...

also greets to all muh boys in #bbswarez and #cia...

oh yeah, and check out ick!mag.exe for other bbs scene news..

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