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Article #129650Re: Obsidian?? segasoft?? have you seen it?
From: Andrew Plotkin
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:29
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:29
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Here, shagge1771@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, December 15, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Doug Radcliffe wrote: > > : Doh! Checked right after I posted that and noticed the January 10th > > : date. > > : Btw, I dunno about anyone else, but I get an error when I try to > > : download > > : the Obsidian demo from OGR using Netscape. > > : > > : Dave > > : Humongous Entertainment > > > > Yeah, OGR has had problems with downloads. The error usually indicates > > that the FTP server is full. If you want to try and get it via FTP, you > > can go to "ftp.ogr.com" and to pub/demos and the Obsidian demo is > > OBSDEMO.ZIP It is 18 megs in length however, you have been warned. ;) > > 18 megs!? Sweet Georgia Brown! It'll be 2014 by the time it finishes! There's thread necromancy and then there's thread reaching-into-the-bowels- of-the-abyss. If you really want the demo, try http://download.cnet.com/Obsidian-demo/3000-2097_4-10004172.html . Although download.com isn't anybody's favorite site anymore -- I wouldn't directly execute the self-extracting-exe they offer. --Z -- "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..." *
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From: Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com>
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Subject: Re: Obsidian?? segasoft?? have you seen it?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:29:22 +0000 (UTC)
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