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@^@f05@t1@cPacks & Pack rippers





@f00@taIn  issue 9 Cybersonik raised the issue
of  pack  ripping  and  spreading  your
demos.   I  agreed  with  most  of what
hesaid  but  I would like to give a few
more ideas to the argument.  If a group
codes  a demo which is really good then
they no doubt wil have some swappers in
the  group.   Most of the coolest demos
are  done  by  a  group  of  6-8 groups
maximum.   Occasionally there will be a
new group formed who will release a new
demo  but  usually the name on the demo
is  the one of a small number, Silents,
Anarchy,  Andromeda,  PMC the list goes
on.   Now  all  these  groups have good
swappers  and  good ones at that so all
their  demos  are  spread  quickly  and
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fiercly.  Now what if a demo is done by
a  group  who  do  not  have  some good
swappers.   Firstly get the demo on one
of  the  elite boards.  Take issue 9 of
Stolen   Data,   it   was  released  on
Thursday  3rd  September  and  low  and
behold  it  was  on  all  the major U.K
boards that evening, wo within the next
few  days  the  mag is sent to each and
every  swapper in the land.  Lamers who
go  to  SYSOPS to buy warez will get it
and  they  will  swap  it with the lame
contacts as well, so within a week tops
the  mag is spread to every AMIGA owner
in   the   land.   The  second  way  of
spreading  a product is, as Cyber said,
at  a party.  These, though are few and
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@^@tafar   between,   only   a   handful  of
parties/symposiums in the U.K this year
and  if  you  leave your demo to gather
dust  for  any  more  than  a couple of
weeks the effects quickly start to look
dated  and  so  when  it is released it
will  a)  stand a low chance of winning
any  prizes and b) it wont be spread as
well   becuase  people  have  seen  the
effect  before and will format within 5
minutes  of  looking  at it.  With each
demo that is released I think the group
releasing it should make it a procedure
to  send it to all the main swappers in
the  elite  groups for swapping the day
before  the  release day this way it is
sureto be spread.  This is probably the
quickest   way  of  getting  your  demo
released.

  Now  then  demo packs and the ripping
of  them.   There is a number of people
who  think demo packs should not exist,
@^why  ???   It  is a real waste to put 6
disks  in  a parcel with only 1 demo on
each  disk,  when  the six could be put
onto one pack.  Taking demos from packs
for  your packs is lame.  You should be
a cool enough swapper to get the groups
to send you their products direct, even
maybe  before the release date, for you
to  put  on  your  packs.  This is what
makes   a   swapper   stand   head  and
shoulders   above   the   millions   of
swappers  in the scene.  Too many times
you  have  a few packs sent to you with
demos  A,B,C,D  on one disk and 1,2,3,4
on  the  other.  You can guarentee that
the  next  time  postie visits you will
get  some  lame  pack  makers pack with
2,B,4,C  on  it.   Now  that  is  lame.
However  if  you  receive  a  pack with
duplicate  demos on (ones you have seen
before) this is soon forgotten if there
is  an  intro  or something on the disk
you have not seen before.
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@cgo  on and on and on ..  so over to the

@cnext article.



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