REAL-TIME 3 ~ESHER.FIL~ 01:33 Yes, now I can type something again. Just won a race with "Super Sprint" using the keys! After that I managed to become 2nd twice and after that disaster came on me again. So now I can type something again here... Shall I go and play again? Naaah, just let them play. Slimer has been defeated and now he tells Richard that he will make a virus for the Falcon that can't be found by his virus killer. If you ask me, "Fat chance!" Now they are discovering a small bug in the program again, I think they are all getting very tired of this game but since there aren't too many games on the Falcon that work we will have to do with this one. It's a very addictive game, easy to play, rather nice graphix and playability at the highest level. The whole game should be rewritten for the Falcon with much more colors and better sound so if anybody out there has a few hours to spare I would say give it your best shot...Heeeey, this real-time article is getting longer then expected if you ask me, but then again nobody does... Well I will get back to the battle field... :0) Bonus Software p . . . . . .. . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . s.. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . s. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An ASCII rainfront (would be very nice with this very hot weather)(a bit f@cked up after editing though, Slimer(ED)) 01:46 "Metallica" ended and I died. Bonus is back fumbling at a joystick again (I believe it is his own, for when I played with it just then I felt a certain stiffness mine doesn't have (oo-er!)). I have put the Whistler Courbois Whistler debut in the CD player upon Bonus' request not to throw something as heavy as the previous CD. It seems blatantly obvious to me that Bonus has a very poor music taste indeed. So far, the only CD played with his wholehearted approval was ZZ Top. Speaking of Bonus, I think his ASCII rainfront fuckin' sucks (People who know me know what it takes for me to use the word "fuckin'")! "Super Sprint" is very addictive indeed. As a matter of fact it is addictive beyond my desire to stay awake. I think I might have to exercise my veto here and tell everyone to hack off and hit their respective sacks! WCW rule (at least for the moment)! Richard 02:03 I would like to refute claims of Mr. Slimer proclaiming me to be filled with half a bottle of Plantiac. First, the bottle was plenty empty when I started drinking and, second, my previous own claims of having drunk about 1/5th of a litre are infinitely more accurate. I think veto time has come upon us. I will check them out, see when they're all dead, then tell them I want to go to bed, doggamit! Richard A veto hits the people present, after which sleep does so, too. Much later than expected - what with no curtains drawn and all bedroom doors and windows wide open - sleep loses them, and the veto is revoked. 10:38 The traditional Sunday waking-up soundtrack, Sodom's "Agent Orange", is currently playing at a gentle volume level. I am not sure whether the DBA chaps are in favour of it, but to me it's an essential part of The Finishing Experience, as vital as, say, "Digital Insanity's ST news Utilities Rewritten Blatantly". It's a shame that Stefan isn't here to enjoy all of this first-hand. He is currently in London where his sister has celebrated her birthday yesterday evening, I seem to recall. Sounds are arising from the small room where the two Northerners have been cryogenized for the night. It's a miracle they, like Miranda and me, slept this long actually. The curtains were all open and the sun was glaring in viciously. I hope they like this kind of music. I am here sitting behind the keyboard, by the way, unwashed, unshaven, and almost offensively all nude except for...er...a semi-designer's (HEMA) loincloth covering some of the less sightly bits of me. The temperature is still sortof OK here. I think I'll have a go at rearranging the two fans so that they get a better source of somewhat cooler air instead of just recycling the hot dampness inside the house that barely contains oxygen and that hold rather too much oppressive sweaty scents I imagine. Anyway, good morning to the world. I have woken up and I'm ready to spend the whole day swimming (minus a small bit that will have to be spent finishing ST NEWS, of course). Sodom roolz too! Richard 11:04 Showered and refreshed, I sit here waiting for the rest of the house to get showered and refreshed, too, after which I assume we'll try to stuff something akin breakfast in our various cavities. Sortof. Richard 11:09 Actually I have nothing to some metal in the morning (the stuff I heard is quite OK). Almost every morning when I go to my work, I put on my headphones and nuke my ears with some heavy stuff, ranging from Metallica to stuff like Soundgarden...Sodom is now playing and they sound quite good (no kiddin'). I must go out and widen my vision on music some more ..... Well, it seems that Alexander has also survived the shower. It was bloody warm last night but we managed to sleep through it. Sietse 11:23 I have a head like an airport, everything seems to be buzzing around. No wonder if you if someone turns on the music at 10:00 with some metal music playing. I always wake up in complete silence and after a half hour or so I just might turn up some music...But further from that I have survived the night. I already woke up at around 7:00, boy what a time, but I just turned around and had another round of sleep. Will get to you later again... BoNuS 11:29 He really does look like an airport, I only hope that no Boeing 747 comes crashing down on him! Bobo (that's what Sietse affectionately calls Bonus, ED.) is now looking at Richard's monitor with a stupid expression on his face, as the guy frantically types(!) away on his keyboard. Ritchie suggests that he (i.e. Bonus) must drink more alcoholic liquids; this seems to help against the buzzing in his head! I think that Bonus doesn't agree on this, as he is a non-alcohol addict! However, he does has some weird hobbies, like "tentje bouwen" at night. Pretty strange dude, but he seems to be OK. Time for some breakfast... Sietse 12:12 Vangelis' "Blade Runner" (not the bootleg) is adding atmosphere to this day as I have my Falcon momentarily run "DiSTurb" for the final time. I spent part of the day so far checking all articles and there was one mistake in it somewhere. I corrected it, and now all articles are finished. There are now a total of 85 articles, almost 1.6 Mb in size. Just a sec...have to change the articles into one huge chunk file (by pressing "F2" on the Falcon)... Done. Richard 12:23 ST NEWS is truly finished. Richard 12:34 Actually, it wasn't. I had formatted the disk with an extra track that was suddenly rendered unnecessary because there were 18 Kb left on the disk. Also, I had used a special only-16-directory-entries format by means of "FastCopy Pro". Now I just did an 11 SPT 80 track double-sided disk and put the stuff on there. There's even space for both a NEWDESK.INF and DESKTOP.INF file. Bonus is checking out some dinosaur-related books in my bookcase, and Sietse is playing "Super Sprint" (now why doesn't that surprise me?). ST NEWS is now actually, truly finished. And there are 4096 bytes free, which I think is very reasonable. Incidentally, it is getting warmer again. Richard 12:47 Demis Roussos is polluting the airwaves with islam orientated chanting (one of the "Blade Runner" songs has this atmosphere, ED.)! Richard tells me he heard somewhere that Utrecht is a holy Islam city because the necessary 7 mosques are here. Are we happy? NO! Richard wants to study Arab instead of English because it seems to be the language of the future! Though luck for us, that is! Pantera is now playing, after my serious request, and I'm coming out of my 'sleep mode'! This is much better than the previous CD! I bet that Richard didn't knew that I dig this stuff (this not exactly Hip Hop, now is it?). Well you can't have it all. Sietse 13:34 I have printed out 23 copies of a standard letter that will have to be sent to the 23 people that will need to receive ST NEWS by mail. I am currently in the process of copying the disks onto the least crap disks, as usual, and later in the afternoon I might get around to sending them off as well. Things are looking bleak with regard to the availability of coolness in this house for the remainder of the day (and most likely for the remainder of the next few days too). I am looking forward to hurling my body into grotesque amounts of chlorated age too oh, allowing that temporary coolness to caress my battered anatomy. And, of course, I will use the slide a lot! See if we can scare off a few little kids perhaps! Richard 13:50 Your anatomy?! Let's talk about my anatomy... On the other hand, let's not! Sietse 14:10 Still copying, still getting hotter, still more perspiration and less inspiration (to coin one of Slimer's phrases). Richard 14:18 Yo, I think it was the other way around! (Was it? ED.) Slimer 14:38 Bobo is now playing "Snake" (a secret DBA project) and seems to enjoy himself very much. Although it's quite hard to play with all the stuff on the screen. Sietse 14:47 I don't recall having done anything in the recent bit of time, but somehow I kept occupied. Still copying ST NEWS issues, too. Richard 14:49 I just stop playing our small "Snake" game, rather nice but a long way from finished. It uses 256 colours with sampled sound and some more options. But maybe you can see it when it is ready (whenever that will be I don't know). There are now plans to go swimming so I will have to stop typing this b.llsh!t. bze <--Shitty German keyboard z and y are wrong !i! bOnUs 14:55 We seem to go for a swim now ! Sietse The party, with the exception of Miranda who had felt not too brilliant because the continuous presence of people prevented her from crapping properly, goes off to the swimming pool. A much-needed and quite cool experience. 16:38 We have just returned from the swimming pool, which was a really cool experience (literally, not particularly metaphorically). "I feel like a bottle of bleach." (Sietse quote) I will have to go out again to get some munch stuff. Guess what? After pizza I think today it's French Fries. I think I'll find out who wants what and then get it. Richard 16:43 Wow, back from the swimming pool, which was a nice experience because the last time I went swimming was a long time ago. But you never loose the ability to swim; it's just like riding a bike. I must do this again some day, hhmmm, maybe I can ask a certain girl I know? Richard is out to get some Fries and other junkfood. We can't wait for his return (?)... Junkfood is the best! Sietse 17:05 We are now going to eat! Sietse 17:41 The food is now in us (burp)... Sietse ~PURPER.PAL~ END OF PART 3