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Started by Ron Dippold
Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58
Demo Group?
Author: Ron Dippold
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58
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Before Christmas there was some talk of a PC group demo group. Is there still any interest? If there's enough, I'm willing to do the gruntwork. There are a couple questions and comments. Are there enough members of demo groups on Usenet, and would more find access if such a group appeared? Most of these guys are in Europe and Scandinavia, and while we obviously have people posting from there I don't know how hard it is to get access. Renaissance has a strong presence, but I don't know on the rest. Obvious uses of the group are announcements of new demos, discussions of new demos (something that's sadly missing, from what I've seen), information about the demo groups, etc. Anything else revolutionary I'm missing? We need a fairly good RFD. Would this just be a discussion group, pointing people to ftp sites to grab the actual demos, or do we need a binaries group as well? We can't post the huge binaries for these demos on the discussion group. Would an "alt.binaries" group be sufficient for the binaries? We already have an "official" ftp site. How do we make sure this is not seen as a general software demo group, so we don't get posts about a demo version of Ultima Underworld or Borland C, etc.? If the demos group is primarily discussion driven, it should probably be "comp.sys.ibm.pc.xxx" (where xxx is the name of the group). The alt group (if needed) would be "alt.binaries.xxx". If this is going to be binaries driven it needs to be "comp.binaries.ibm.pc.xxx" and "comp.binaries.ibm.pc.xxx.d". Let's talk! Can someone get in contact with members from some of the groups who don't have Usenet access? -- I'm a paranoid schizophrenic! I'm after me!
Re: Demo Group?
Author: Tim Triemstra
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:25
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:25
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In <rdippold.727988286@qualcom>, rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) wrote: >Would this just be a discussion group, pointing people to ftp sites to >grab the actual demos, or do we need a binaries group as well? We >can't post the huge binaries for these demos on the discussion group. >Would an "alt.binaries" group be sufficient for the binaries? We >already have an "official" ftp site. >If the demos group is primarily discussion driven, it should probably >be "comp.sys.ibm.pc.xxx" (where xxx is the name of the group). The >alt group (if needed) would be "alt.binaries.xxx". If this is going >to be binaries driven it needs to be "comp.binaries.ibm.pc.xxx" and >"comp.binaries.ibm.pc.xxx.d". <stuff deleted> My personal belief is that the demos group should be a derivitive of some programming base. Not language specific, more like something from comp.os.msdos.programmer.demos This is because, if it is just left as an altxxx group, more than likely it WILL turn into a demos of Ultima and stuff like that, which already has enough room to talk on. I don't personally think we need a suplement to the current FTP sites (one of which is WASP.ENG.UFL.EDU) with a type of .binaries group. This would be too much for some sites to deal with (imagine if you were like me and you get newfeeds via modem and the UNREAL would be UUENCODED by some nimrod!) I do believe there would be a good use for a newsgroup for talking about how the various groups are coding there demos. I know Joshua Jensen and other members of Renaissance have been helpful to other prospective demo makers, and it would be nice if that info could be controled, not spewed all over the soundcard newgroups. I'm currently working on some graphics demos myself, and some of the techniques I've been working on would be good discussion topics for a base like xxxx.demos. I'd also like to hear other groups talk about there demos. Just a personal opinion, but I'd love to get a feed of a demos group. Any other comments? Tim. ------------------------------------------------------- | When the end comes, there will be two men standing: | | Me, and the guy I gotta kill. - Gosh I'm EVIL | ------ Tim Triemstra ------------- empath@ais.org -----
Re: Demo Group?
Author: Ron Dippold
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:47
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:47
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"Tim Triemstra" <empath@ais.org> writes: >My personal belief is that the demos group should be a derivitive of some >programming base. Not language specific, more like something from >comp.os.msdos.programmer.demos This is because, if it is just left as an >altxxx group, more than likely it WILL turn into a demos of Ultima and stuff >like that, which already has enough room to talk on. Well, definitely the main group would be a comp.xxxxxx group... if not, there's no reason to go through all the formality of creating the group. I was just wondering if an alt.binaries group for the demo code would be useful. It's easy to create later if it turns out to be usefull, I guess. I REALLY like your suggestion of putting it under programmer.demos. This should make the content more clear. >I don't personally think we need a suplement to the current FTP sites >(one of which is WASP.ENG.UFL.EDU) with a type of .binaries group. This >would be too much for some sites to deal with (imagine if you were like me >and you get newfeeds via modem and the UNREAL would be UUENCODED by some >nimrod!) That's why such a group should be put under one of the binaries hierarchy if that's all it's going to be - they're set up for such a thing. The amount of GIFs posted in a day there would make anything we could do pale in comparison :). >I do believe there would be a good use for a newsgroup for talking about how >the various groups are coding there demos. I know Joshua Jensen and other >members of Renaissance have been helpful to other prospective demo makers, >and it would be nice if that info could be controled, not spewed all over >the soundcard newgroups. That's what I was thinking of... getting together, talking about demos, rating them, talking about upcoming stuff, there should be a lot to talk about. A big part of it, of course, is how many members of the demo groups would be able to read/post. -- To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader. -- Capt. Bligh
Re: Demo Group?
Author: Dan Wright
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:55
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:55
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I say go for the DEMO usenet newsgroup thingy. I'll make sure I spread the word on the DEMO site so I'm sure we could get over 40 votes. Who knows, maybe a couple hundred.... -- ----------------------------------------------- | _ | | | \ |\/| | | /|\ sioux.ee.ufl.edu | | |_/ | | |/\| \|/ | -----------------------------------------------
Re: Demo Group?
Author: sl859
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:27
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:27
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> That's what I was thinking of... getting together, talking about > demos, rating them, talking about upcoming stuff, there should be a > lot to talk about. > > A big part of it, of course, is how many members of the demo groups > would be able to read/post. > -- > To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have > faith in their leader. -- Capt. Bligh Uh, Future Crew, The Phoney Coders and TRSI (did I get it right, Otto?) are here too. Joshua Jensen CyberStrike of Renaissance
Re: Demo Group?
Author: Andrew McCallum
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:08
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:08
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From rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
>Before Christmas there was some talk of a PC group demo group. Is
>there still any interest? If there's enough, I'm willing to do the
>gruntwork. There are a couple questions and comments.
I'm really interested in the creation of this group. I was suprised
that there wasn't a group for it already.
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Re: Demo Group?
Author: Tim Triemstra
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:28
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:28
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In <rdippold.728096189@qualcom>, rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) wrote: >>I say go for the DEMO usenet newsgroup thingy. > >>I'll make sure I spread the word on the DEMO site so I'm sure we could >>get over 40 votes. Who knows, maybe a couple hundred.... > >Just FYI, we need at least 100 more yes votes than no votes, and at >least 2/3 of the votes must be yes votes. This means that if we don't >get at least 100 yes votes the group fails. How exactly DO we vote? I'd like to vote YES... Tim. ------------------------------------------------------- | When the end comes, there will be two men standing: | | Me, and the guy I gotta kill. - Gosh I'm EVIL | ------ Tim Triemstra ------------- empath@ais.org -----
Re: Demo Group?
Author: Dan Wright
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:36
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:36
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rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com SEZ: >>>Just FYI, we need at least 100 more yes votes than no votes, and at >>>least 2/3 of the votes must be yes votes. This means that if we don't >>>get at least 100 yes votes the group fails. I SEZ: If you know the system & got the time then LETS DO IT! Well GET those 100 YES votes!!! Who's gonna vote against a small demo section? -- "I'm no stranger to kindness" --Rollins Band ----------------------------------------------- | _ | | | \ |\/| | | /|\ sioux.ee.ufl.edu | | |_/ | | |/\| \|/ | -----------------------------------------------
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