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Re: Obsidian?? segasoft?? have you seen it?

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From: Andrew Plotkin
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

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From: Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com>
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Subject: Re: Obsidian?? segasoft?? have you seen it?
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