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| 4060.1 | Another one | NBOSWS::FRIES |  | Wed Aug 29 1990 05:57 | 1 | 
|  | .LZH  Lharc
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| 4060.2 | What's LHW?? | BAHTAT::FORCE4::hilton | How's it going royal ugly dudes? | Wed Aug 29 1990 06:19 | 7 | 
|  | Just found a .LHW.
Wot's that?
Greg
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| 4060.3 | Here's the answer for it | EEMELI::LINDEN |  | Wed Aug 29 1990 06:56 | 6 | 
|  |     It's for:
    
    .LHW = LHWARP
    
    -Kari-
    
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| 4060.4 | Wot about me ??? | GIDDAY::MORAN | I'm not bad-I'm just drawn that way! | Wed Aug 29 1990 18:41 | 6 | 
|  |     Don't forget ...
    
    .ZIP = use the program PkAZIP
    
    Shaun.
    
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| 4060.5 | Anybody heard of .ZAP? | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Fat: The *Natural* Insulator | Thu Aug 30 1990 12:53 | 0 | 
| 4060.6 | A 'disk warping' utility | EUCLID::OWEN | Penalty for early withdrawal | Thu Aug 30 1990 13:40 | 9 | 
|  |     
    Yup, ZAP is alot like warp, only you can set the time/compression
    ratio.
    
    If you want it quick, the file will be huge, if you want it small,
    it'll take a while.
    
    Steve
    
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| 4060.7 | ZAP by any other name(s)? | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Fat: The *Natural* Insulator | Fri Aug 31 1990 12:09 | 11 | 
|  |     Thanks Steve. Now the *big* question; who's got a version for the Amiga
    that they're willing to upload? I've searched around the usual places,
    but the only ZAP I could find (CGOU01""::AMNEW:ZAP.ZOO) is a sector
    editor which consistently gurus my machine. I suppose I'll take a peek
    in the Fred Fish catalog, but if anyone has a pointer I'd appreciate
    it. I've got a demo I'd like to upload that's in ZAP format, but I'd
    like to at least preview it first...
    Thanks,
    Pete
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| 4060.8 | Soon... | EUCLID::OWEN | Penalty for early withdrawal | Fri Aug 31 1990 12:47 | 4 | 
|  |     I'll try to UL the thing this weekend, tonight maybe.
    
    Steve
    
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| 4060.9 | My brain is oatmeal | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Fat: The *Natural* Insulator | Sat Sep 01 1990 14:16 | 18 | 
|  | �    I'll try to UL the thing this weekend, tonight maybe.
    Thanks Steve, but I guess I should have checked at home (of all
    places!) for ZAP first before searching here; seems I downloaded ZAP
    1.41 from some (Consultron's?) BBS several weeks ago and totally spaced
    it. However, if you haven't done so already, please do so when you get
    the chance. Perhaps I've got a bum copy, but I haven't had much luck
    unpacking the demo in question (a playable demo of a Monty Python
    game). The operation completes without error (complete with home-brew
    bootblock) and boots and runs (as far as I can tell) but the graphics
    and sound are all messed up. I can make out a few images and the
    sampled sounds are okay, but the rest is scrambled eggs. Perhaps
    there's an older/newer version that might do the trick. FWIW, the demo
    is MONTS451.ZAP (packed with ZAP 1.40). I'd like to prove that it works
    as advertised before uploading, but maybe someone else will have better
    luck. I'll decide after another night of oxide scraping...
    Pete
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| 4060.10 |  | BOMBE::MOORE | Eat or be eaten | Sun Sep 02 1990 04:36 | 5 | 
|  |     Pete,
    The symptoms you describe (trashed graphics and sound) are what you
    might find when the program isn't written to correctly deal with "fast"
    RAM.  Try running the NoFastRam program before starting the game...?
    
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| 4060.11 | ZAP at tape::user2:[upload] | EUCLID::OWEN | Penalty for early withdrawal | Sun Sep 02 1990 08:10 | 8 | 
|  |     
    I'm going to upload ZAP.ARC to tape::user2:[upload] in a couple of
    minutes. 
    
    It's V1.40.
    
    Steve
    
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| 4060.12 | NOFASTMEM(?) / Zap V1.41 | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Fat: The *Natural* Insulator | Sun Sep 02 1990 10:15 | 19 | 
|  | 
    Re: .10
    Thanks Bruce, I did just that (via NOFASTMEM) because there's a banner
    that comes up when you boot the disk ("menu.exe" displays the text file
    "menu") that says;
                    "TURN OFF EXTRAMEM & EXTERNAL DRIVES!"
    This is pretty lame nowadays (IMHO) even for a demo, especially when
    there isn't any software included to do this. I copied NOFASTMEM to the
    disk and ran it before the demo, but same results. I downloaded it
    again last night and am going to give it another go.
    Re: .11
    Thanks Steve, I just finished uploading ZAP V1.41 as:
                          CRISTA""::AMIGA:ZAP141.LZH
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| 4060.13 | CAUTION: Twit at the helm! | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Fat: The *Natural* Insulator | Sun Sep 02 1990 16:50 | 21 | 
|  | >    This is pretty lame nowadays (IMHO) even for a demo, especially when
>    there isn't any software included to do this. I copied NOFASTMEM to the
>    disk and ran it before the demo, but same results. I downloaded it
>    again last night and am going to give it another go.
    Well, it's time for me to insert ye old foot in mouth (again). It seems
    that during my late night downloading/unschrunching flurry the other
    night, I made a blunder. Before knowing what ZAP was (having downloaded
    it from the same BBS the week before and not realizing it; duh!), I
    used NEWZAP to peek around in the .ZAP file and saw some ASCII
    referring to "VIRUS KILLER" and using my powerful pea-sized brain,
    decided to set the destination floppy's boot block back to "normal"
    once I unZAP'ed the source file. Well, that VIRUS KILLER was not just
    fluff, but also contained a utility section to do just what I was
    whining about earlier, that is disable external drives and "extra"
    memory. Apologies to Marc of SlipStream; this is a slick utility (more
    details in the note announcing the Python demo).
    Crawling back into the woodwork,
    Pete
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