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-«< iNDeX! >»

1. DeathStar story
2. DeathStar members
3. Our releases
4. How to contact us
5. DeathStar distrosites
6. Becoming a DeathStar Distrosite

-«< Story! >»

eathStar group was born in the University of Naples in November
1994, when Master of Darkness (after coding some small intros on
the Amiga, a lot of time before) received a copy of Unreal and
2nd Reality and decided that coding PC demos was possible, so MoD
made a 3Kb intro for his fidonet boss (we had no BBS yet).

very now and then, in the University Computer Labs, MoD met CDS, who
was coding a nice but never completed PC-game. They discovered along
chatting to have had almost the same thoughts about PC-demos. So
both started some experiments with 2&3D graphics FX, deciding that
a demogroup could be formed.

eanwhile, MoD met FrOYd the DrOYd through fidonet: all these 3 guys
attended the same university, and the same classes, but never met
before! They sterted swapping disks and FtD joined as a GFX-guy,
but he also was a great programmer and a musician in real life,
so he's now one of the musician and the tool coder, too.

nce they started working they decided to get a demo coded for ASM95,
and started looking around for more artists, so Asavaris and Ez
joined in january: they were old friends of MoD's with whom he
coded a videogame on the Amiga (nevere finished too). In april
MoD turned on our WHQ (The HobBIT BBS) with the help of Jack Bass (sysop
of a well known fido BBS in Naples).

oon, the HobBIT BBS joined fidonet and MoD obtained the opening of
a DEMO.ITA conference by his REC). The joint with DGi happened
in june, and the HobBIT became Italy GSN HQ in december. This
helped us swapping files faster, but personal problems didn't
let us work on demos for a while, so, once ASM95 was gone, we decided to
present our first big demo at The Party V. But - too bad - the sucking
organizers lost the disks (they also lost FtD's multichannel contribution)
making us release the demo and the song independently. Just some days
before The lame Party V, we got a new coder: AfY. Recently, after the
brokedown of Nemesis we took their best coder: pix, who is working with
us on our next release. FrOYd and CDS met pix at The Italian Gathering
'96 (where we Won the fast greetings-compo with DizkBoll), this has been
a great time and gave them the opportunity to set up and organize our
next demo better. Infact, Claudia, our latest production, got 1st place
at Symposium/Mekka 97!!! We're really proud of this result, even 'cause
it was a real "takeover", since we got more than 200% of the points that
the 2nd place got! We absolutely recommend you to download Claudia: our
masterpiece

-«< Members >»

Here we are, in alpabetical order:

Handle             │  In real life        │  Born │ Job in group

AfY                │  Gianni Frattolillo  │  1973 │ Coder
Asavaris           │  Lorenzo Canzanella  │  1974 │ Gfx
CDS                │  Carmine della Sala  │  1974 │ Coder
Ez                 │  Ezio Ponari         │  1976 │ Music
FrOYd the DrOYd    │  Giovanni Caturano   │  1971 │ All Art/StillCode/Web
Jack Bass          │  Paolo Polce         │  1971 │ Swapping/HQ Sysop
Master of Darkness │  Lelio della Pietra  │  1974 │ Coder/WHQ Sysop
pix                │  Federico Feroldi    │  1976 │ Coder/Gfx/Music

-«< Releases >»

Our releases, all of them available on all our distrosites/HQ.

Name         │ Date     │  Size   │ Description

HOBBIT.COM   │ 04/11/94 │    3007 │ BBStro #1 (3KB). File replaced with
HOBB1SRC.ZIP

HOBB1SRC.ZIP │ 07/05/95 │   11801 │ BBStro #1 (3KB) with assembler sources

ILINKV30.ZIP │ 02/01/96 │   33985 │ Free Intro Linker by MoD. Release 3.0

DS-BLISS.A?? │ 02/01/96 │ 2744114 │ Digital Bliss. Our 1st Demo.

DS-HRIDE.ZIP │ 07/01/96 │  354231 │ Hard Ride. S3M by FtD. Heavy Rock.

DS-DARK.ZIP  │ 13/04/96 │  123764 │ Dark. S3M by FtD. Backtrack.

DS-KNOW.ZIP  │ 11/04/96 │  197231 │ Don't Know Her. S3M by Ez. Soft Rock.

DS-ASKIK.ZIP │ 24/05/96 │  249234 │ Asskicker. S3M by FtD & JB. Demotrack

DS-BOLL.ZIP  │  1/09/96 │   78145 │ DizkoBoll: *WON* TiG96 fast compo

DS-CRASH.ZIP │ 14/10/96 │  385156 │ CrAshable. IT by Ez. FunkyCrAshaRock

DS-CLAUD.ZIP │ 19/04/97 │ 4540000 │ Claudia. Big Demo. 1st at Symposium 97

-«< Contact Us >»

To contact DeathStar (as group), please write to Jack Bass. If you wanna
contact some of us, here you are our addresses:

Handle             │ FidoNet │    DGi    │  GSN   │      e-mail
2:335/  │ 68:390/11 │864:39/1

AfY                │  244.8  │    .7(*)  │  (**)  │ dsafy@freenet.hut.fi
Asavaris           │  244.17 │    .5     │  (**)  │ asavaris@netlab.it
CDS                │  244.5  │    .2     │   .2   │ dscds@freenet.hut.fi
Ez                 │  244.7  │    .6     │  (**)  │ ezdstar@tin.it
FrOYd the DrOYd    │  244.10 │    .4     │   .3   │ froyd@death-star.com
Jack Bass          │  232.0  │    .3     │  (**)  │ dsjbass@freenet.hut.fi
Master of Darkness │  244.0  │    .0     │   .0   │ dsmod@freenet.hut.fi
pix                │  ***    │           │        │ federico@logicom.it

(*) Coming soon
(**) For now, send mail to 864:39/1, it will be automatically routed
(***) 2:331/204.15

We also have home pages at

http://www.logicom.it/deathstar
and

http://www.nigma.it/deathstar

Our works are also avilable in the usual directories in the most famous
demo oriented ftp sites worldwide.

Snail mail address is:        Paolo Polce
Via Sigmund Freud 41
80138 Neaples
ITALY

-«< DistroSites >»

Our distrosites are listed here... If you want your BBS to become a
DeathStar distrosite, please read next paragraph.

Country      │ Name           │ Speed │   Phone no.    │ Sysop

Italy (WHQ)  │ The HobBIT BBS │ 33600 │ +39-81-5563352 │ MOD/DeathStar

Italy        │ Italtec BBS    │ 33600 │ +39-81-5451506 │ JB/DeathStar

Italy        │ Rage BBS       │ 28800 │ +39-6-52310645 │ SuperKeyby/Ritual

Italy        │ GetAway BBS    │ 33600 │ +39-422-440830 │ Gemini/Synt.Error

Norway (HQ)  │ CountZero      │ 28800 │ +47-5512-2962  │ Yitzhaq/Proxima

Portugal     │ Sirius-B       │ 28800 │ +351-96-683875 │ Aphex Twin/Vandals

Sweden (HQ)  │ Itching Desire │ 28800 │ +46-8-6265711  │ Wiz/Tea Prods

France (HQ)  │ A.C.E.         │ 28800 │ +33-1-45887548 │ Gandalf/Pulse

IMPORTANT: The HobBIT BBS is soon switching to ISDN (channel bundle allowed).

-«< Becoming a DeathStar distrosite >»

If you would like your BBS to become a DeathStar distrosite/HQ, please
consider the following things:

a) Your BBS should be a demo-oriented BBS, best if in the DGi or GSN nets.
Only a very few exceptions can be made to this rule.
b) Your BBS should be opened 24h a day, with atleast a 14k4 modem.
c) You have to create a "DeathStar" directory, with no upload/download ratio
and no time limit (if an user hasn't enough time to download a DeathStar
production, you should raise it to download the file[s]).
d) You'll have to be informed about DeathStar release; that means you have an
e-mail address and we'll advise you of new releases, or you shuld poll
The HobBIT BBS at least once a month to see if there are news for you.
e) Obviously you have get and make available all our releases.

If you become a DeathStar distrosite we'll put your name and your number in
any DeathStar release and we'll inform you of every production we're about
to release. It should be better if you've an e-mail address, it will cost
you a lot less...

Okay, if you think you're the right guy to spread our files ;), please fill
this application form and send it to dsmod@freenet.hut.fi or crash it to The
HobBIT BBS, +39-81-5563352 (Fido 2:335/244, DGi 68:390/11, GSN 864:39/1).
Please rename file to XXXXXXXX.APP, where XXXXXXXX is the name of your BBS.
We'll check your request and we'll reply you within a week.

DEATHSTAR DISTROSITE APPLICATION FORM

BBS Name                                [                                    ]
Is the BBS really demo-oriented?        [ ] Yes    [ ] No

BBS Phonenumbers and number          2. [                                    ]
of lines per number:                 3. [                                    ]

[ ] 14k4  [ ] 16k8  [ ] 19k2  [ ] 21k6
Speed supported:                        [ ] 24k0  [ ] 26k4  [ ] 28k8  [ ] 33k6
[ ] MNP   [ ] V42b  [ ] ISDN _________

Flags:                                  [ ] CM    [ ] LO    [ ] HST   [ ] ZYX
[ ] ISDNA [ ] ISDNB [ ] ISDNC [ ] ____

Networks you're in and their addresses: [                                    ]

Mailer Software:                        [                                    ]
BBS Software:                           [                                    ]

Do you require users to send you a
document to allow them downloading?     [ ] Yes    [ ] No

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Sysop e-mail address:                   [                                    ]
Sysop handle/group:                     [                                    ]
Sysop voice phonenumber:                [                                    ]
Sysop birth day:                        [                                    ]

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