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███▀% Jack Phlash Speaks! No One Listens!
As promised, we're back with another randomly scheduled new
sletter filled to the brim with interesting group
and greater BBS scenenews!*cr
ickets*Okay, 2023 hasn't been that
exciting of a year so far. Since thelast newsletter
there have been some very cool art packs released
by the usual suspects, but given the theme, I have to call out
Rise of the Hierarchy, a killer Tradewars art pack/mo
d by Nitronand Warpus that's definitely
worth a look for fans of the game. Adude named Ho
llowone released a couple of cool PC demo scene
retrospective packs (available to download from Absinthe.)
The PCdemo scene doesn't get nearly enough love compa
red to the Amigademo scene, which makes it all the mo
re funny that these releasesare affiliated with an
Amiga board. Finally, let's not forgetHyjin
x releasing the eighth part of his "Back to the BB
S"documentary series, this time focusing on the a
rt scene. Easilyone of the best episode
s yet! There have, of course, been a slewof other rel
eases, development updates, and the like, and I couldg
o into a lot more detail about them, but these newsletter
s aresupposed to be more about Demonic,
so let's ignore the fact thatthere isn't a good c
entral source for BBS news these days and moveswift
ly on...Thanks in large part to our annual
Girl Scout cookie sale, Demonichas met our financ
ial goals for the first quarter of the fiscalyear provi
ng once again that no one can resist a box of Samoas.
We've also continued to meet our stated goal releasing some pretty
swell mods and doors, and if we keep a similar pace, this sho
uldbe quite a productive year for us, likely having
far more releasesout than any of our peers desp
ite our pathetically minusculemember list. O
f course, exactly what we release will depend
entirely on what each member is into at any particular time, and
with at least two of our three members sporting some crippling
ADHD tendencies, that will be as much of a surprise to us
as toanyone reading this.Still, wh
at's a group NFO file without spreading some bullshit
rumors? I can at least say that esc has embarked on some
sort oftwisted crusade to update (and in some cases
, remix) classicDaydream mods, so expect tha
t to continue. jack phlash has a fewbigger rel
eases planned, including an impending update to his
REFDoor door, and he might even get around to working on
Darkness2.1 and/or one of the 10 new d
oor game ideas he has too.Meanwhile, xqtr
will assuredly continue to spend his free time
trying to find new and unusual ways to abuse MPL into mak
ingMystic do a lot of funky shit it was nev
er meant to do. Man,talking about yourself in t
hird person feels kinda weird...Speaking of
bullshit, in an attempt to drum up some pointless
scene drama, we're throwing down the gauntlet. Phenom Productio
ns,you have been challenged! In the gra
nd tradition of the BBSmodding scene, we will face
off in a bout of competitive bogsnorkeling
to determine once and for all who the ultimate
primarily USA-based modding group left in the scene in the first
half of 2023 is. Consider it brought!% S
chlongsAfter rejecting exactly 370
membership applications since lastSeptember,
I'm happy to announce our quality control team remains
as vigilant as ever, and Demonic still consists of
the same threeincredible members we started with
6+ months ago. Take that!Who are these
amazing members? Well, allow me tell you all about
them:Name: esc -
Location: Some liberal wasteland of a city in
California. Pray for this man's soul! - Specialties:
Daydreaming,not drawing ASCII, Linux Combatives
Name: jack phlash - Location: Al
so a left coast city, but one withmore pine trees and
rain - Specialties: Pascalation, writing NFO
files, declared conscientious objector in the great OS wars
Name: xqtr - Location: The cradle of weste
rn civilization -Specialties: My
stic fuckery, MS-DOS coding shenanigans,practi
tioner of the Linux PhalanxWe're still look
ing for new members! Get in touch with us if youdo
n't mind probably being the 371th application we rej
ect.Seriously though, we're only interested i
n members who want toactually release, so
mention what you're working on and/orplanning on wo
rking on if you do decide to apply.% Release'
s PiecesPeanut buttery BBS stuff i
n a ZIP filey shell, ready for yourconsumption.
Yummmm!JP!IR20.ZIP - jack phlash
brings us another REF script for REFDoor
1.2+ that no one will care about, a rumors mod this time. Th
is oneis even less relevant, as it's specifically inten
ded for a releaseof Instinct BBS that doesn't
even exist. Like the last one ofthese, his justifica
tion for this is that its intended as more ofa REF
scripting example, and like the last one, you can fuck off!
ESC-HELL.ZIP - Helloween Sent v1.1 by esc
is a remake of an oldPVM mod for Daydream BBS
/Linux. Some might be tempted to accuseesc of bei
ng lazy and unoriginal, but at least he didn't code this
using libc5 and never release the source code, no
w did he?Checkmate!ESC-MLGN.ZI
P - Maiden Login v1.1 is another remake of an old P
VMfor Daydream BBS/Linux by esc, and
another opportunity for me toremind people that Dayd
ream BBS exists and is pretty fucking rad.Oh yeah,
it's kind of a little quick logon type thing.
XQ!ANGRM.ZIP - Anagram^5 is a funky word puzzle game
by xqtr thatshould be compatible with most sy
stems that can support 16-bitfossil based doors
. Once you figure it out it's addictive as hell.
Personally, I think you should play it at work and if the bossman
gives you any shit, tell him that Demonic Productions says "shut
the fuck up, old man!" and guess another letter. Man, wh
y arethese release descriptions so aggressive? I sho
uld probably getsome counseling or something.
XQ!DOORS.ZIP - Not only does xqtr release DOS
doors, he's niceenough to tell you how to run t
hem under Linux with a pair ofguides covering
DOSEMU and QEMU. These are kind of geared towards
Raspberry Pi users, but no judgement here. It's not the si
ze thatcounts, or so I've heard...
XQ!NURF.ZIP - The Mystic New User Registration Fo
rm mod is a...new user registration form for
Mystic. Don't worry, the creativejuices xqtr
saved on naming this release he put into the mod
itself. Besides, we can all agree that "NURF" is a
top tieracronym. As you might come to expect,
all kinds of MPL fuckery isto be had here as xq
tr replaces the entire new user registrationp
rocess with a lightbar-like infoform style form resembling
thetype of thing you might find in a group app
lication program orsomething, and it even records
a bunch of optional non-user dataand tosses i
t in a text file for later, so you can actually use it
as a group application too. Neato!Yep, stil
l feels weird!% Disposable Contacts
Need technical support? Have a mod request? Want to trade meatlo
afrecipes? You reach each of our respective spam folder
s by emailingesc at demonic.net, jp at demon
ic.net, and/or xqtr at demonic.net.O
f course, a much more elite thing to do would be to
call ourBBSes. You're elite, aren't you?
Another Droid (andr01d.zapto.org:9999) run by
xqtr. Voted mostlikely to make you wonder
if the SysOp also runs some kind ofmaniacal cand
y factory.Distortion (d1st.org
:23) run by jack phlash. Voted most likely to
give you 1990s flashbacks if you accidentally call it at the s
ametime as listening to a Nirvana record.
Monterey (not open for business yet) run by esc
. Voted mostexclusive BBS of 2022, and sti
ll pretty damn exclusive in 2023.Ano
ther way to reach us on our BBSes without *gasp*
having toactually call our BBSes, is all t
hanks to the wonders of echomailnetworking. If y
ou find yourself on one of the millions of BBSes
worldwide that belong to Zer0net, look for 0N-DPUB
(or whateverthe board you're on called it) and
prepare to have your face blownclean the fuck off.
Daaaayamn!As with last time, I'm
legally obligated to mention that
http://
www.demonic.net still exists, but for now the real action
is on my blog at
https://jackphla.sh until one of eventually g
etsbored enough to redesign it. Don't hold your b
reath.There's no greets section th
is time because it would be exactlythe same as
the last one. I really wasn't lying about 2023 being
boring.Okay, I think I've just barely met
the minimal word countspecified in my contr
act. See you in the next newsletter!% EOF!?
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)
