@|the electronic knights
|history crapbox issue -2
|may - april 2020

@yes!<agima
@april<insane
@swidron<wanted team
@things we know about dogs<void
@boozedrome3<dekadence
@colombia<lemon
@way too rude<logicoma/loonies


|if you haven't received our
|trackmo 'hologon' yet -

|or for getting the latest
|stuff on pack disk, write to:

|timm s. mueller
|jungstr. 2
|10247 berlin
|germany



|include disks to get an answer!

|send your releases
|to get them included
|on future issues.

|you can also contact me
|by e-mail (elite only :)





|we are tek...

|and you suck!




** crap box ** history **      the electronic knights *historical* pack series issue -2    * compiled by bifat    * code bifat        * music slash       * gfx nero       * font plasma        because I was mostly absent from the amiga scene from 1994 to 2016, I missed many productions.       so I decided to go back in history, watch all the stuff, consolidate it into a nicely accessible format, and share my effort with you by maintaining my own *historical* pack disk series, running backwards in time and numbers...    ... while slash will take care of our regular, current pack disks, running forward in time.    the point where our series part is the decrunch party in wroclaw, august 2020, when the world entered the new order.       the historical series should be quite complete.       what I'm not going to tolerate is when a production is not 100% OCS, or when a production is needlessly wasteful...       another reason for choosing the pack series format is that I find Watching OCS filedemos from the internet very annoying.        Some distribute executables.     Some put executables into... zip archives?!    (Really, for Amiga?)     Some put their files on disk image files ('ADF' as they call them),    and then some...   archive these image files with zip or lha.     Aaargh!     putting an end to this recurring annoyance, crap box is also meant as a service to us all.... to make watching demos as joyful as possible on real hardware again.        it's enough when I have to wade through all the zip archives and ADFs.    I put the good stuff on disks and distribute 'em.        also I'm putting some effort into making the entries as compatible as possible, as many have issues in the original 512k+512k config.        you can get a crap box subscription by mail on physical media - send me a postal or electronic mail (elite only :).             also I have written a tool called 'lubricator' that allows you to download packdisks and disks from the internet directly onto physical disks on your amiga.        ok, for this you need a network adapter and a tcp/ip stack for your amiga.  but once you have mastered that, you can skip * all the PC bullshit * that stands in the way of pleasant consumption of amiga productions on the real machine!        it's a myth that networking would require a lot of resources.    you can get networking to work on any amiga, including 68000 ones:   a600, a1200 via pcmcia, a2000-a4000 using zorro cards, and a500 with the help from an x-surf-500 or plipbox.    even plipbox is pretty fast!    and there should be more options...          so stay tuned for the next historical and future crapbox issues!          apropos future... people, please stop using titanics cruncher altogether, and shrinkler for bigger productions.... it spoils the fun to wait longer for a production to load and decrunch than it's running in the end ....   fuck nostalgia.    titanics cruncher can take ages to start a production, because on certain OS versions the drive motor turns off and on all the time.   but you emulator people don't know this....     newsflash: there are people who watch demos on real computers!                 if you're feeling treated unfairly because your production was not included (remember it's in chronological order quite accurately), send a postal mail to the address given above, or an electronic mail to bifat at neoscientists dot org, and complain and try to convince me to add your production in a later issue.... but don't wait too long please ...            * wrap *