_ _ _ ____ ____ _ / \ / \/ \ (_ _) / ___) / \ / ^ \ / \ / / / / / ^ \ / ___ \ / /\ /\ \ / / / / __ / ___ \ / _____ \ / / \/ \ \ _/ / / (_/ // _____ \ (_/ \_)(_/ \_)(____)(_____/(_/ \_) ____ ____ __ __ ______ / ___) / ___) / / / // __ ) / ( / / / /_/ // / ) / / ___) / / / __ // / / / / (__ / (__ / / / // (__/ / (_____)(_____)(_/ (_/(______/ ______ ____ ____ __ __ ________ / __ )(_ _) / ___) / // / (_ __ _) / / ) / / / / (___ / // / / / / / / / / / / / /__ // _ < / / / / / /__/ / _/ / ____) // / / / _/ /_/ / (______/ (____)(_____//_/ /_/ (________) Well, here it is. I really wanted to make this edition of the disk special, with nifty sounds, music, and screen wipes, but the Fates have other plans. As a result, you see here a virtual clone of the first three disks, with small differences. The biggest one is that everything on this disk is pure DOS -- no power packing, nothing like that. I want this disk to be as vanilla as possible so that as many people that want to can use it without ill effects. First, a word about distribution. This disk, and its contents, may be spread by any means, electronic or otherwise, as long as absolutely NO charge is made other than the cost of transmission. This means that it may not be sold for any reason, nor held for ransom by pay-service BBSs. If you run a pay BBS, make this file a free download. If you refuse to comply with this policy, remove this disk from your BBS immediately. Cost may be recouped if you are creating a copy for someone else, but nothing beyond the cost of the disk itself and the price of postage. Do not round up! I will be spreading this disk out through the Sky Amiga Network's SKYIFF file echo. Any other file network (such as ADS) is welcome to spread it, too. This disk is available for download or file request from my BBS, Magic Blue Smoke (1:202/739, 619-558-3413), as well as many others (I hope). For those not having the connections, I will also mail a copy via snail mail. Either send a blank disk (or one with some nifties on it!) to: Jeff Grimmett 3152 Kemper Street Apt #5 San Diego, CA 92110 ... or just netmail me your address. And now, the credits. Many people are responsible for this collection, besides myself. First of all, there's our dear Amiga Echo moderator.sex.kitten, Joyce Divina, at 1:3612/42.0. Without her, this project would have never gotten off the ground, and without her bright style of moderation, the AMIGA echo wouldn't be the comfortable place it is. Joyce, a big thanks and a hug! One person less obviously responsible for this disk is Dale Clark, whereabouts unknown -- it was him that collected and distributed the first three disks, and without them this disk wouldn't be possible. Orin Palmer, 1:202/739.10, is the one responsible for collecting IFF24's, JPEGs, and other non-IFF/HAM pics and translating them over using ADPro, as well as digitizing the occasional flat picture or video tape for the disk. He's also a popular fella in the echo, and a close friend (such a name dropper I am!) Asha Develder, at 1:209/216.5, is a strong influence behind this pic -- besides being one of the minds behind the original concept, she's been pushing this project more than anyone, posting my address frequently, and constantly encouraging me in this endeavor. Double huggies! :-) Then there's the collection of people actually appearing on this disk: Erik Van Petersen Chuck Buck Jim Topper Jonathan Guidry (twice!) J. T. MaGuire (my vote for neatest pic!) Marshall Freedland Orin Palmer (again!) and Rodney Meyers Erik contributed two pics, as did Jonathan. I elected to only include one of Erik's pics, as they were the same thing. Jim also contributed two pics, but the hi-res pic gave SuperView hiccups. Rodney contributed two pics, one in IFF24. Chuck sent me around a dozen pics, different poses, which make a neat mini-movie when played real fast :-) In all cases, unless otherwise requested, I have deleted the address and phone numbers from the bios (Orin's an exception since we post his in the echo all the time anyway :-) Chuck is included without his knowledge or consent (read the bio first before flaming!) 8-) *** I'd like to acknowledge and thank the authors of the various utilities used to make this disk work: HDClick: Claude Mueller of Switzerland, last listed address is 2:302/445.6. I'll be trying to contact him about this utility, both for reasons of making a bug report, and for reasons of registration. I strongly encourage anyone reading this to contribute US $15 to him, as I will be doing if he's still around. While it's no ScalaMM, it is more than servicable. SuperView 3.11: David Grothe, no address listed. A $10 US shareware fee is requested. Those who have registered versions prior to 3.11 do not need to register it. MuchMore: Fridtjof Siebert and Christian Stiens, also no Fido address listed. This is one of the smoothest text readers I've ever seen. The authors request no shareware fee, but won't turn away contributions (whoever would? :-) Sound: The sound player I am using is the SOUND utility written by Richard Lee Stockton, programmer for Gramma Software, and wandering minstrel. I strongly encourage you investigate Gramma's offerings, especially NAG PLUS and FRED -- these two utils are invaluable parts of my workbench. Richard has graciously given me permission to use SOUND in the echodisk, provided I send him a copy. Thanks, Richard, yer a real dude! Icons: the icons I used on this disk came from two collections, one being the Isometric Icons collection first posted on GENie, the second from one of the many other collections I have snarfed. I don't remember the names of the authors of either collection, but they're really great! Thanks, guys, whoever you are! Finally, I'd like to make a blanket appology to all the software authors that wrote these utilities -- none are registered, they are distributed without the full archive, and for this I appologize. I hope you understand the purpose behind this disk and the reason for leaving out the full archives -- space. Any author who wrote a program that is used for this disk that does not wish for it to be used in future releases of the disk, please contact me and I will desist immediately. I personally can be reached at my BBS, Magic Blue Smoke (1:202/739). I composed this disk on my trusty A3000/16, pretty vanilla, using HDClick 2.0 and a few other utils. If you would like to contribute to further EchoDisks, please send your pic on disk or other media to me at: Jeff Grimmett 3152 Kemper St #5 San Diego, CA 92110 You can call me at 619 224 5910 after 5:00 PM Pacific Time, if you have any questions. Enjoy the disk!