______ _____ / __/___ ______ ____ ______ ______ ______ ______ /\ \_ \/ / __ \/ _\/ /___/ \/ \/ \/\ / \/ \ / / / ____/ /__\ ____/ /___/ / / / / \/ / / _/ / _/ / _/ / _/ / _/ / _/ / _/ / _/ _/ x /_ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ \ / / \___ / \___ / \___ / \___ / \_/.sNs.\___ / \_/\ / \_/ \_/\__ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ The VEctroniX NEWSletter Issue #16 [March 1, 1998] Contact VEXNEWS for submissions, un/subscription, information or whatever reason at all: vexnews@mindless.com To get previous issues send an email with the subject "get vexnews #xx" -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- ... dedicated to the memory of Falco! Johann Holzel alias Falco as he was more known as, who most people would recognize by the classical hit singles as "Rock me Amadeus", "Vienna calling", "Jeanie" and many more during the middle 80's, died tragically in a car accident Friday 6:th February 1998. He was seriously injured in his head as he collided with a bus, driving his sportscar and pulling onto the highway. No other injuries was made. Falco was according to the local police vacationing at Puerto Plata, Santa Domingo, which is a popular tourism location among Europeans. The car accident happened in the very nearby, and Falco was taken to the Puerto Plata hospital where he also later died. He was 40 years old. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Finally this issue is done! It has taken more than a month to finish it since it was started, you can tell by some of the articles being a bit out of date (for being in VexNews) and that things has been added afterwards here and there. This was not really the plan, but alot of stuff came in between and there simply was no time. I think people started to wonder what had happened, if they had missed it or something as many sent requests for it. I'm quite certain nobody on the list will miss any issues though, it will just take some time for everyone to get it, that's just normal. There's some stuff I would have wished to include or have covered better in this issue, but we must get it out now! I can't really say when the next issue will be out, but as it seems I got alot to do and the next couple of months will be really busy we'll just see. If you really want to see a new issue you can help with sending articles for it! /Phoenix -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [ Contents of VexNews Issue #16 ] 1. New Vectronix Releases .......................... Phoenix/Vectronix 2. Supremacy News .................................. Phoenix/Vectronix 3. The Ultimate Atari ST Anthology #1 ............. The Fate/Supremacy 4. Diskmagazine News ............................... Phoenix/Vectronix 5. D-Bug Your Mind ............................... Showaddywaddy/D-Bug 6. D.H.S Goes Alternative .......................... Phoenix/Vectronix 7. The Demo Scene .................................. Phoenix/Vectronix 8 Little Green Desktop .................... Rich/Little Green Desktop 9. CDR-Capacities Update ........................ Metallinos/Vectronix 10. Inter'Jam 98 - Get Ready to Jam! ................ Phoenix/Vectronix 11. Pacifist Hits Usenet ......................... Little Green Desktop 12. The ITU 56Kbps Standard v.90 .................... Phoenix/Vectronix 13. L0phtCrack 2.0 Released ......................... Phoenix/Vectronix 14. Coming Soon! Extendos Gold ....................... Anodyne Software 15. Atari Fair 1998 Neuss ....................... The Paranoid/Fuji BBS 16. Yamaha Cdr200 Modification ...................... Phoenix/Vectronix 17. Electrocute - Force Feed The Audience ........... Phoenix/Vectronix -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [1] NEW VECTRONIX RELEASES by Phoenix/Vectronix vexemail.lzh 494689 ASH-Emailer v1.0 German (c) A.S.H Software vextex20.lzh 1227271 Texel v2.0 German (c) A.S.H Software vexfiffi.lzh 106586 Fiffi v1.05 German (c) A.S.H Software vexmp13a.zip 1464025 MagiC-PC v1.3 German (c) A.S.H Software [1/2] vexmp13b.zip 778772 MagiC-PC v1.3 German (c) A.S.H Software [2/2] nvdipc41.lzh 804884 NVDI-PC v4.11 r5 (c) A.S.H Software As you can see on our releases Application System Heidelberg is a valuable resource for us, it seems like they are the only commercial company who actually puts out new releases which manages to find it's way to us one way or another. We're happy about them of course, and shows our appreciation by releasing no less than 5 hot titles from their range of products at once, but believe me there is more to come! All of the above programs comes with unique serial numbers and in their unmodified original distribution form, just what you should expect of high quality releases like these. We're especially very glad that for the first time being able to present a NVDI 4.x version (even though it's the PC version) with a serial number/key, Metallinos did a great job with this one! As you maybe have noticed also there's not that much releases coming from us these days anymore, compared to other unnamed crews which spits out both this and that with big surprises and questability sometimes, we take it more easy. We see no point in releasing things we or other crews did years ago, not either in doing totally worthless old and crappy shareware software which hardly deserves their names sometimes. Vectronix stands for quality, not quantity, and will always do! If there simply is no software qualified for this category, then there's not much we can do about it, we don't try to make things look what they aren't by pumping out software just to look active. The days of Atari is not what they used to be, please realize that, and don't blame us for it! Also our website is under heavily reconstruction as many of you probably already have noticed. It will most likely be in this state for a bit while, but it will be back up with new design and be much improved once we get time to finish it! The FTP site is still online though, please get the new things from directly from here! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [2] SUPREMACY NEWS by Phoenix/Vectronix One of our primary goals in Vectronix is to take care of our users of course, to serve and bring you the very best and highest quality products! Therefore I was very happy when I received a message from Salamander of Supremacy some months ago, he told me Supremacy was doing French translations of some of the major Vectronix releases. I have mentioned this in a previous VexNews issue as you maybe remember. Today I'm very glad to be able to announce that the Supremacy WWW site containing these translated products is now available! If you're a French user and having problems with this German which all programs more or less are today, then this is your new home on the web! Even though Supremacy claims to not continue the work on Atari anymore, they are still around, no matter what they might feel about it. Please show your appreciation to them if you like their work, and you might save another crew from disappearing to the Playstation or wherever they were aiming for.... http://members.tripod.com/~supremacy_atari/ Supremacy has also released "The Ultimate Atari ST Anthology #1" CD which contains both intros/demos, games and utilities nicely put together. Among others there's an _almost_ complete Fuzion collection of 200 disks on the CD. The complete filelist is available on the address below, and you can send orders for the CD which costs 200FF to venus.as.a.boy@mindless.com, also see the advert below! http://xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/suprem.asc Supremacy are right this minute at the Volcanic Party IV in France and they have according to my sources (very reliable sources) released a intro for the ST to the competition. I haven't heard so much more from this party yet, but there seems to be alot of people there, approx 300-400 in fact which is not bad at all! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [3] THE ULTIMATE ATARI ST ANTHOLOGY #1 by The Fate/Supremacy hi mates. some words to introduce you to our new atari cdrom called "the atari st anthology". on this cd you can find : . 460 archived demos disks . 1055 archived games disks (included 190 compils from Fuzion) . 215 Archived utils files . the latests ST emulators for pc . some unreleased demos on St . a nice intro from us featuring gfx's from made\scoopex at least 6 good reason to choose Supremacy instead of Supergau or ICS cd's ;) (just kiddin' freaks!) you can get the complete zipped listing [22k] at: http://members.tripod.com/~supremacy_atari/ if you want to order download the file order_cd.zip from the www. the price is 200FF [$25], cd and postage included. >>> special prices for ATARI scene members <<< send email for infos. hope to hear from you soon... thefate!supremacy venus.as.a.boy@mindless.com --- And... here's another CD just brought to my attention! This time it's the good old Chaos Engine which have compiled a CD! It's also worth to check out of course! /Phoenix ************************************************************************** * * * ThE ChaoS EnginE PresentS .... * * * * GAME CRACKS COMPILATION VOLUME 1 * * * * 933 Archive * * All Archive FilEd and ArChiVeD by TB of TCE * * * *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * * * Disks Filed with : MSA V2.3+ * * FCOPY PrO VI.2 * * DSK To ST (PACIFIST) * * Files Archived with: ARJ BETA V9.97b (Mode 1 / Junior Mode) * * * ************************************************************************** * CD is Burned in 1o/97 by TCE * ************************************************************************** For complete filelist to the Game Cracks Compilation CD: http://vectronix.home.ml.org/game_cd1.zip -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [4] DISKMAGAZINE NEWS by Phoenix/Vectronix Undercover goes Internet! Finally the guys behind Undercover Magazine have realized internet is where everything happens, and that they must also be there! Slapshot/Shelter has been working on their site for a while now and it's starting to look really good. Once it's finished there will be history, information, news, links and of course all Undercover Magazines, old as new, available for download! http://undercover.home.ml.org Maggie has just like Undercover started with votesheets for the next issue, I thought people was getting tired of this, but Maggie Team obviously wants us to continue the voting! So, better give this a try yet another time, show the world who and what your favorites are... ;-) Both magazines seems to feel the competition from each others now, and they are more or less competing with each others to get better all the time, no matter what they say. This is good news though, competition is the best possible thing for success, and we, the readers are the real winners in the end with two fantastic magazines! Both the Maggie and UCM team is right now working on the next issue, so you got alot to look forward to. The Toxic Magazine #14 HTML version is now available, unfortunately this magazine is still written in 99% French. I find it weird that the frenchmen don't find it weird to limit their products to French speaking readers only. Maybe they will learn to write and read english magazines just like everyone else some day, let's wait and see! Until this happens there is a temporary solution "how to make the Toxic mag readable" which works pretty well though. Many thanx to Requiem69 for pointing the usefulness of the translation function in Alta Vista out for me. I could never imagine how good this built in translation feature of Alta Vista really does the job, and I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I was able to read the Toxic magazine in very good english! Try it out, you'll be amazed! There's only one little drawback though, very large pages will only be partly translated, but being able to read 50% is better than nothing... http://www.chez.com/toxicmag/toxic_14/toxic_14.htm http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [5] D-BUG YOUR MIND by Showaddywaddy/D-Bug Well here's some blurb about all things D-Bug and that's D-Bug the menu compilation extrodinaires and NOT Dbug of Next! We produced 165 menus which equated to around 280ish disks. We were proud in that we were one of the very few (only?!) menu groups to use only our OWN cracks on our menus. We never ripped any body elses cracks unlike alot of crews we could mention. Our main problem in the later days was distribution with many crews thinking we had stopped cracking. The crew contained some ex-Automation members. Our core members were/are! Iceman (Cracker), Hot-Knife (Cracker/Menu Compilation), Cyrano Jones (Menu coder, Cracker, boot-block coder), Showaddywaddy (Menu compilation, Cracker) and NJ Zapp! (Coder). Our final menu was 165 and this contained the game Hollywood Hustler. Now there is a tale to be told regarding this game. Once upon a time there was two brothers called Robin & Dave Keen who started work on a poker game. They couldn't code assembler so started writing the game in ST Basic! Showaddywaddy saw the early demos of the game and wasn't impressed, it was shit, total shit, a joke. Been a friend of the Keens, Showaddywaddy decided to teach them the basics of 68000, you know simple screen handling, (x)bios routines etc. Anyway gameswise things improved, for the more complexed routines eg. sample players, interrupts etc. Showaddywaddy coded some bits which they incorporated into the game. An Amiga version was also in production, they didn't have a clue with miggy coding so asked Showaddywaddy if he knew any decent mig coders. He pointed them in the direction of Cal of The PHF (ST demo crew). The game was released in 1994 both Cal and Showaddywaddy were promised a percentage of the profits. Time went by and we heard nothing from the Keens they finally got in touch and said they had sold about FIVE copies at £24.99 each. We waited in anticipation for our £5 cut only to be told that they had still not made any profits as the money only paid for the production costs. Finally after poor sales both the Amiga and ST versions were included on magazine cover disks. Now we know for a fact that they got in excess of 500 quid for the cover disqs yet we still never saw a penny. It was at this stage that we cracked both the ST game and also Cal's Amiga version. Within days every BBS in the UK and Europe had copies. I reckon it must be a first when a coder cracks their own game and spreads it! One final warning, Hollywood Hustler is coming out on the PC in the near future so well clear as a nice little virus maybe incorporated ;-) Oh yeh other news, well we are currently compiling a D-Bug CD which will contain all our menus. We may also re-compile the Automation CD as lots of the early menus don't work. The CD will contain menus 0-512 plus all The Law's version 2 menus. A ** D-Bug ** Web site is also under construction, URL will appear in a forthcoming VexNews! Signed, D-Bug in 98. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [6] D.H.S GOES ALTERNATIVE by Phoenix/Vectronix I obviously missed to mention this in the last issue, and was reminded about it right after the issue was sent out. But, not easy to remember things you don't know about in the first place, anyway here we go! Dead Hackers Society with Evil in the front lead has opened an Unofficial Alternative Party webpage! On this page you will find more detailed information about the party, how to get there, what crews and atarians are coming, planned releases and much much more! This site is in the same style as always, and what we have come to expect from Evil, in other words very good, detailed and nicely put together! (hmmm, he should definitely buy me a semla or something as I'm writing so many nice words) You better not miss it! http://altparty.home.ml.org/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [7] THE DEMO SCENE by Phoenix/Vectronix Okay so this is not my topic to discuss really, but as nobody else is offering to write about the demo scene in which so much interesting seems to happen right now, I guess I will have to do it myself, so don't expect too much. It might sound weird, but I was never into demos really, I was playing with Calamus and stuff when you guys sat in front of your demoscreens and watched scrollers you know... ;-) Anyway, alot of crews seems to have got some kind of adrenaline kick of the new year, there's partys being prepared both here and there, there's intros/demos/games being released like never before. It was almost so I felt that we gotta do something in this "warez scene" as well, because I have always been talking about "those lazy demodudes", so we're still somehow going hand in hand afterall I guess. Dead Hackers Society has released a little intro which goes under the name Liquid Sunshine, the musicdemo with chip tunes Chippin' for air III featuring music by Jogeir Liljedahl and the Falcon 128 byte intro 128-Julia which by the name tells us we can expect realtime julia transformations. The over-productive Reservoir Gods released a new game called Static, and no less than two 128 byte intros with realtime zooming and background scrolling fx. They have also got company by a French crew with the name Reservoir Frogs which releases fake and lame demos and makes fun of everything, I wonder who these lamers really are... ;-) Reservoir Gods (the real ones) have also released a NES emulator which goes under the cute name "Godlenes" for the Falcon in the same style as their Gameboy emulators. Super Mario Bros is the first game out of course, what did you expect? Reservoir Gods has also finally been recognized by crackers, Elite managed to crack Godpaint a while ago (even though there was no protection), and what else is there to say than shit happens? ;-) TSCC (I write how I want!) has released their Module Compilation XIV featuring a intro which works on all ST's to Falcon (even under PacifiST!) and a mix of everything modules. Among the highlights the Lost Boys old "Crikey wot a scorcher" intro/end songs converted to .MOD format. I don't remember if I mentioned this last time, no matter what it can be deserved to be mentioned again. Escape opened a FTP site which will hold all Escape, Checkpoint and Undercover Magazine releases, as well as sourcecodes of some Escape demos. Have a look at ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/atari. Impulse released a new game, Senior Dads a new 128 byte intro and the Toxic Magazine #14 HTML version was finished, unfortunately for the rest of the world it's 99% in French (see above), Sentry is working on their TB303 emulator and well... there's alot happening right now, I have probably missed both this and that, maybe YOU could cover the demo scene better for us in future issues, we would all appreciate it! Most of the demos (and many others) mentioned above can be downloaded from either the D.H.S or one of the Reservoir Gods webpages. http://wombat.ludvika.se/dhs/scene.html http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~msg1css/maison.htm http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/zmoe3/three.htm -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [8] LITTLE GREEN DESKTOP by Rich/Little Green Desktop Keep your eyes peeled... May 1st 1998... Something Green, Something Little and something Desktop shaped is about to change... http://lgd.fatal-design.com Bookmark it. Visit it. Return. The Little Green Desktop is already one of the most popular Atari ST/Emulation related web sites on the Internet today. With over 102,000 visitors in just over half a years operation the desktop has gone from strength to strength! But things don't stop and more changes are afoot. The site is currently being overhauled and the new areas to come online, new features and enhanced design will ensure that LGD stays as the number 1 site. Information about the new changes will be released in future VexNews postings but for now here are a few snapshots of what's to come: o GATE - The ST GAmes cheaT Engine - hints, tips, solutions, codes and maps for over 2500 ST games all in a *fully searchable* and fully indexed database, direct from the web site. o DevCon - Development Zone. Competitions for PaCifiST created Atari software plus all the software you could possibly need to be creative, even when emulated. 68k source from some of the best coders around, new unreleased demo screens and routines that will interest both ST owner and emulation freak alike. Graphics libraries, development tools, art packages - everything you could ever possibly need and then some. Trust me.. there is more :-) But to let it all out now would spoil it, needless to say that once the update is complete there won't be a single site on the Internet that even comes close to offering *half* the content LGD will. http://lgd.fatal-design.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [9] CDR-CAPACITIES UPDATE by Metallinos/Vectronix A. General craptalk B. Capacity calculation C. Table of CD-R capacities A. General Craptalk ------------------- CD-burning becomes more and more popular! From day to day more people are owning a CD-recorder. CD-medias are becoming cheaper and cheaper: There are CD-recordables available for less than 2 DM over here actually! Many new recorder-models are going to see the light these days, e.g. the TEAC CD-R55S which is a 12x/4x writer. It seems very reliable to me! CD-RW-recorders are also arriving price-spheres where we can afford it. Disc-at-Once (DAO)-mode is now also supported by nearly all new writers (Except SONY, they know why they don't support it;-). Audio-extraction is more and more becoming really reliable. So 1:1 copies of CDs are more and more common and possible without any problem. Great development. Maybe you are also belonging to the community of CD-burning people soon?! So it's time to bring you an updated listing of the CD-R-CAPACITIES! (see below) The table below bases upon my personal experience with different CDRs. The values have been measured with EASY CD PRO 95 v2.11 and show the free capacity of different CDRs which are actually available all over Germany. The table is sorted by the size of the capacity of the CDRs. The values may vary from time to time as all manufacturers often change their "CDR-secrets". I will try to keep this table up to date, whenever I find a changing somewhere or whenever I test a different CDR, I will update this listing. Very interesting are also the values from other countries around the globe. So if you have the possibility getting hold of media e.g. from France or the USA, please use EASY CD PRO 95 v2.11's CD-INFO and send name, manufacturer and colour/dye-type and free MB/free sectors/free minutes of the obtained CDR to vectronix@hotmail.com! B. Capacity-calculation ----------------------- Did you ever wonder how capacities of CD-Rs are calculated? Ever tried to find out how the amount of space for computer-data fits the amount of space for audio-tracks? Did you ever think about calculating CD-R capacities by yourself? Well, to calculate how many free MBs are on a CD-R is quite easy. You just need the number of free blocks ("sectors") which you need to multiply by 2048 (which is the sectorlenght). Then you'll get the free space in Bytes. Divide the result by 1024 and you'll get the amount in Kbytes, and another division by 1024 will give you the free MBs of the CD-R. Example: KAO-CD-R: 333675*2048/1024/1024 = 651.7 Mbytes But how's the audio-capacity calculated?! Basically you need to know how many Kbytes are needed to fill one second with audio-data in 16 bit stereo 44.1 kHz frequency. 44100 Bytes (frequency) * 2 ('cause it's 16 Bit) * 2 ('cause it's stereo) = 176400 Bytes are needed per second. If you have for example 656.5 Mbytes free (= 336150 Blocks, e.g. ARITA) on a CD it should be 336150*2048/176400= 3902.4 seconds playtime. This is 65 minutes and 06 seconds. Hell! The table tells me another - much higher - value?! So what's wrong? Yepp. There's something wrong. And this is the sectorlenght. When recording an audio-track, the sectorlenght is not 2048 Bytes, but 2352 Bytes! There are less information needed to play/record audiotracks. Data tracks need more information for synchronizing etc. Therefore the useable space is smaller for data-tracks than the useable space for audio-tracks. (Btw, the missing synchronizing Bytes are sometimes resulting in problems while extracting audio-data. The exact position within an audiotrack often cannot be found for sure... it's just guessed by the recorder!) Here's the proper calculation: 336150*2352/176400 = 4482 seconds playtime = 74 minutes and 42 seconds And this matches the value in the table exactly. :-) C. Table of CD-R capacities ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Manufacturer, model | color |typ| free Sec | free MB | free mins | p.r.| |-------------------------------|---|----------|---------|-----------|-----| | BASF |dark-green| 2 | 337275 | 658.7 | 74:57 | **| | PIONEER W74S+V74 | blue | 1 | 336526 | 657.2 | 74:47 | ****| | ARITA |dark-green| 4 | 336150 | 656.5 | 74:42 | ?| | ANUBIS | green | 2 | 336150 | 656.5 | 74:42 | *| | FUJI SILVERDISK | green | 2 | 336150 | 656.5 | 74:42 | ?| | 3M IMATION | green | 2 | 336000 | 656.2 | 74:40 | *| | MAXELL | gold! | 3 | 336000 | 656.2 | 74:40 | **| | VERBATIM DataLife+ | blue | 1 | 335025 | 654.3 | 74:27 | ***| | MSP SILVER CD-R | blue | 1 | 335025 | 654.3 | 74:27 | ***| | MAXELL CD-R 74 XL | green! | 2 | 335025 | 654.3 | 74:27 | *| | TRAXDATA SILVER(**)| blue | 1 | 334874 | 654.1 | 74:24 | ?| | KOCH StoreMasterPro| green | 2 | 333901 | 652.1 | 74:12 | ?| | TDK | l.green | 4 | 333900 | 652.1 | 74:12 | **| | BESTMEDIA | green | 2 | 333675 | 651.7 | 74:09 | 0| | XEO Corp. ELITE | green | 2 | 333675 | 651.7 | 74:09 | 0| | KAO | gold | 3 | 333675 | 651.7 | 74:09 | **| | RICOH | gold | 3 | 333675 | 651.7 | 74:09 | **| | KODAK with bar code| gold | 3 | 333151 | 650.6 | 74:02 | **| | TRAXDATA | gold | 3 | 333151 | 650.6 | 74:02 | **| | FUJI FILM | green | 2 | 333151 | 650.6 | 74:02 | ?| | DELTA (*) | green | 4 | 332550 | 649.5 | 73:54 | ?| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- p.r.: Personal Rating (from 0 to ****) Everybody may decide this by himself! typ: Type of the Dye: (1): Azo (2): Cyanin (3): Phthalocyanin (4) unsure All values provided by Metallinos except: (*) by Green Tommy. Most probably has (*) 501 more free sectors. (Earlier version of EASY CD PRO was used to obtain values.) (**) by Manos (values converted from BHV CD MASTER to EASY-CD PRO values). -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [10] INTER'JAM 98 - GET READY TO JAM! by Phoenix/Vectronix The organizers of the Siliconvention '95, Siliconvention '97, InterCon '96 and Inter Jam '97 is in this very moment preparing the next Inter Jam 1998, which will be yet another big success of course, and this means for you: get ready to jam! The convention starts May 30 at 12:00 and ends June 1 at 14.00. The "Inter Jam '98" convention is held in southwest Germany just like last year in the city called Karlsruhe. In fact that the Siliconvention '98 won't take place in Bremen this year, the organizers decided to join them at the Inter Jam '98 instead. This means even greater and bigger than the years before! All information you need to know is available on the official Inter'Jam 98 homepage, more precisely how/when/where and whatever. One thing which is definitive right now though is that Grey of Mystic Bytes will attend the convention, and as he's been talking about this for a couple of months now it must really be something special... ;-) http://www.inka.de/~samurai/interjam/home.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [11] PACIFIST HITS USENET from Little Green Desktop If you've got access to Usenet you might like to take a look at the new PaCifiST Usenet groups. They are held on a private server that is not connected to Usenet in general (so you won't find them appearing alongside alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.aengus for example ;-). Set your Usenet server to: news2.kaliba.net The groups as they stand at present are called: pacifist.users (much like the mailing list) pacifist.classic.games (discuss those classic games!) pacifist.classic.demos (ditto for demos) pacifist.announce (let the world know about your creation) pacifist.bugs (bug report and fixes) pacifist.newbies (need help? try here) All groups are non-moderated. DO NOT UPLOAD BINARY FILES! Please join in, start a thread, post some messages and have a good time! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [12] THE ITU 56KBPS STANDARD V.90 by Phoenix/Vectronix 3Com/US Robotics is now announcing their upgrade programs for the ITU 56kbps standard, also called v.90 on their website. So was the standard finally set some months ago, the world has been waiting for it a long time, and now it finally seems that things are starting to happen here. All 3Com/US Robotics modem is more or less upgradable to the new 56kbps standard, it's mainly just a question of procedure depending what kind of modem you have. No matter what, these are the words we love to hear.... "Upgrading your Courier x2 modem to the new 56kbps standard can be accomplished through a software upgrade only. When released, the 56Kpbs standard will be available for download from the web site. The upgrade is free, and there is no feature enable key required." Thank you 3Com/US Robotics! I think most people got a bit confused and wondered what the fuck US Robotics thought they were doing when they introduced the feature enabling key system with the x2 upgrade, and I guess US Robotics also thinks it was alot of trouble with this upgrade program, but I don't know. But who cares, most people probably used cracked upgrades anyway. Check out the official 56kbps upgrade site for more information in the next days, flashrom upgrades will be available for download from here as soon as they're released! We love you US Robotics, you are the greatest! From what I've heard Rockwell based modems will not even be backward compatible with their own 56K K-Flex standard after the v.90 upgrade has been performed. The 3Com/US Robotics modems will still maintain compability to their own x2 prototol of course! http://www.3com.com/56k/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [13] L0PHTCRACK 2.0 RELEASED by Phoenix/Vectronix "It's big. It's bad. It cuts through NT passwords like a diamond tipped, steel blade. It ferrets them out from the registry, from repair disks, and by sniffing the net like an anteater on dexadrene." The above is how the introduction begins to the new version of the famous Windows NT password cracker, L0phtCrack v2.0! It has never been easier to obtain and "decrypt" the NT password files. Even though the bruteforce routines has been optimized alot and supposed to be very fast, deciphering them is a very time consuming task (unless you're very lucky with the dictionary search of course, otherwise it's very fast!). New features includes among others the SMB session network sniffer which collects LANMAN password hashes without having administrator rights (very useful), a function to easily dump the NT password hashes from the registry SAM file. One of the most valuable features in my opinion though is the ability to save and resume the bruteforce deciphering, as this is a very time consuming task as I mentioned earlier it's quite useful. This new version of L0phtCrack is released as shareware just like all other software today, all programmers wants to earn money one way or another. The unregistered version will only run for 15 days, and if your computer is not very fast these 15 days will probably pass quite fast if you're trying to decipher alot of passwords. http://www.l0pht.com/l0phtcrack/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [14] COMING SOON! EXTENDOS GOLD from Anodyne Software ExtenDOS Gold is the newest version of Anodyne Software's ExtenDOS product line. Like previous versions, it provides access to CD-ROMs and audio CDs through most SCSI CD-ROM drives. In addition, ExtenDOS Gold supports popular CD Recorders, for both reading and writing! * New features in ExtenDOS Gold include: * support for yet more models of CD-ROM drive * support for CD recorders and other drives that require SCSI arbitration * enhanced performance through improvements in cache handling * further improvements in compatibility with MagiC5 * support for ISO9660 interchange level 2 (long filenames) * support for major ISO9660 extensions, including mixed-case filenames and the Joliet filesystem * audio CD "quick-play": play a track or an entire disk directly from the desktop * improved controls for audioCD-to-disk recording * CD recorder support (CD creation requires CD Writer). http://www.cyberus.ca/~anodyne/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [15] ATARI FAIR 1998 NEUSS from The Paranoid/Fuji BBS Posted by The Paranoid on Wednesday, 18 February 1998, at 9:08 a.m. Hi everybody, just a little advertising here and since you all claim to be Atari fanatics ;-). The Atari show 1998 is going to be held in Neuss, in the Stadthalle (pretty easy to find) on April the 4th and 5th. So in case you're already in Germany or don't have to travel very far, and if you are REALLY interested in something new, and not only in cracked games, have a look, it's hopefully going to be worth. Topics of the show will be : - The new Milan computer ( TT-Sequel with an 68040, PCI/ISA slots, IDE-HD) - The StarTrack card for the Hades Series (68040/68060, PCI/ISA, SCSI) - News from Application Systems Heidelberg - News from Calamus 98 - New Hardware, perhaps even an Ethernet-Card for TT and MegaSTE computers - New Software - Everything around the Jaguar and the Lynx. See you there, The Paranoid -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [16] YAMAHA CDR200 MODIFICATION by Phoenix/Vectronix Seems that if you bought yourself a Yamaha CDR200 CD writer you did a good buy! You can now easily save alot of money by turning it into a Yamaha CDR400 writer, which is twice as fast, with just a simple modification! For more information, please see The Official Yamaha CDR200 Modification Project Homepage. And remember, it's all your responsibility.... http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7023/yamahaframe.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- [17] ELECTROCUTE - FORCE FEED THE AUDIENCE by Phoenix/Vectronix Stroke Music does it again! It wasn't long ago since the Stockholm Synthtfestival took place with bands like Front 242, DAF.DOS, And One and many more. This was a great success of course, even though my personal memory for life will always be the Das Ich concert at the X-Ray '96 festival 05.00 in the morning, nothing can beat that! Anyway, now we will get another festival already in the spring of 1998, and who can complain at the lineup of this festival? Again it seems like Stroke Music has a winning festival approaching! On Saturday, May 2 it's time for Electrocute! This will be another gigantic arrangement in the same style as X-Ray and SSF, just that it will be ten times better than both of them together of course! As you all knows it's no point in doing things worse than last time, it would be stupid not trying do do it better, and that's of course also why it will be better! On stage this evening we will see no less than the following bands! Stage 1: Dance Or Die (Germany), Psyche (Canada), Dive (Belgium), Covenant (Sweden), Statemachine (Sweden) Stage 2: Children Within (Sweden), Chaingun Operate (Finland), KieTheVez (Sweden), Project X (Sweden), Saft (Sweden) Okay, I must admit Psyche and Dive is the main and only reason for not missing this festival, those two together makes it worth all the money, traveling and whatever involved in attending this show. Dance or Die and Covenant will also be fun to see again of course! What Saft is doing there is a big mystery to me, and some of the other Swedish bands I could have managed without as well, but hey... You can't have everything in a non-perfect world... ;-), No matter what band, it's always fun going to concerts and listen to music! There will be a compilation CD with approx 12 tracks given away to the 1000 first customers! Only 1000 tickets should be released also, so I guess that will make one CD for each visitor if my calculations are correct, but you never knows! Besides math was never my favorite subject in school, and school was never my favorite hobby either, the genius I am was not created behind any shitty school desks, that's for sure! For more information, how to order tickets, how to get to this place, what to drink, what to wear, how much it costs, and just whatever you might want to know, please see the Stroke Music homepage! http://www.strokemusic.se/electro.htm -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- The Vectronix News Mailing List (c) 1998 Vectronix, All Rights Reserved.