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ISSUE Number 6
28th January 1994
Submissions, comments etc to : [email protected]
Editor Phil Bird

Current subscriptions : 439
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1......................................................................Editorial
2....................................................................MUSH to do?
3................................................................ShareWare Shope
4......................................CD-ROM or not CD-ROM that is the question
5......................................................................FTP Sites
6...........................................................................Tips
7..........................................................Competition - Results
8......................................CD ROM Section
Microsoft goes for dummies
GIFS GALORE CD-ROM review
Different types of CD-ROM's
9........................................................Details about World Jam
10.............................................................ASCII art section
11......................................................Parting words and thanks

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Hi People, another issue of VOId out of the door, somewhat late this issue
I'm afraid.. but it wasn't my fault.. the computers crashed on Friday
morning, so I couldn't finish putting all the pieces of VOId together.
Also I have to confess that the games review section is sadly missing from
this issue of VOId (sniff, sniff) due to Lu (our, once, resident game reviewer)
chucking in the towel. So we need another games reviewer.. any offers.. it's
a well paid job.. has prospects... includes company car, free food.. as much
as you can drink.. the fame.. and erm.. erm.. well maybe not, but you might
be famous.. or erm.... something. ;)

Now then.. due to my HUGE mail box (sorry to anyone who I've not had change
to reply to yet) I have decided to appoint a few assistant editors , firstly
let me welcome Perfectly normal to the editorial team.. he'll be running the
Shareware Shope section as well as anything else I can convince him to do. :)
Secondly welcome to Babbage who will be handling the MUSH sections of VOId..
as well as plugging his own MUSH no doubt. :)

There's alot in this issue of VOId and at the same time their's alot missing..
hopefully I should have things sorted out for the next issue.. but the problem
has been simply not enough time.. I've been a tad loaded down with worky work
recently (sigh) but with a bit-o-luck this should ease of.. I hope. :)

Hope you enjoy this issue.. (and the next issue, and the next issue etc. )
and hopefully I should have an FTP site sorted (as well as some new, extra
sections) for next ish.

Take care

Phil
([email protected])

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Well hello there children :)
Assistant editor of void here with the first of VOIds MUSH editorials for
all you mush users out there!
So whats in it for you?
Well, there are alot of mush users out there,so i'll be giving a few hints
and tips here and there, solving a few problems you have, showing some
different methods of doing things, and generally mushing around.
Also, how some global commands are written for the interested.
Most of it will be using TinyMUSH code, but no doubt muck, mud and mush
in general users can convert to their formats. I wont be going to deeply
into things here, like big mailing systems or whatnot,
but ill start off next issue with writing a who command.
(and no, we dont use @dolist lwho()=@pemit %#=who info)
All you expert mush coders can ignore this, its for the benifit
of not so advanced users out there (that's me - ed).
If anyone wants to find me just telnet over to
146.227.102.4 6250 (or tlaloc.cms.dmu.ac.uk 6250)
where I run CyberMUSH there, as Babbage :)
Try 146.227.102.76 6259 (aether.cms.dmu.ac.uk 6250) for info
on that address if it goes down.
Be seeing you soon!
Babbage.

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Morphing: Part Two

Last issue, I examined two excellent shareware morphing
tools that allowed the user to create a series of images in
either TARGA or GIF formats. This issue we look at an excellent
utility to string these images together into a FLI animation
file: Dave's Targa Animation Program, Rel 2.0.2. Despite it's
name, DTA works with variety of image formats including TGA,
IMG, PCX, and GIF. It will also read these files in from a
compressed ZIP, ARJ, or LZH archive. Although this line command
program comes with tons of bells and whistles, (multi-layer
compositing, rescaling, special effects) I will restrict this
review to its morphing applications.
There are three primary command line switches of interest to
the budding morpher. First, the /Snnn switch allows you to
specify the animation's speed. I've found that a number between
5 and 8 is usually best. This is slow enough that you can see
the transformation take place but fast enough that you aren't
seeing each frame independently. If you leave off the /S switch
then the default is 0, the fastest setting. At this speed you
may see little more than a blur from your animation viewer. It
would have been nice if the default was something a little bit
slower. Nonetheless, most FLI viewers will allow you to adjust
the speed on the fly, so if it's too fast, you can slow it down
each time you load it up.
The next switch of interest is /P. When invoked DTA creates
a ping pong animation, from first file to last and back down
again. This can be a good way to create a longer animation from
the same number of frames and the results can be much more
enjoyable than the single direction animation. For example, it's
nice to see the woman change into a cat and then morph back into
a woman, rather than see the woman become a cat and then suddenly
appear a woman again as the file repeats. The final switch of
note, /R is less important but still interesting. It allows
the user to specify the FLI resolution, anywhere from the default
320x200 to a maximum 1280x1024. (I only wish my monitor
supported this resolution!)
By allowing wildcards for the file names, DTA makes creating
FLI's from WMORPH or Winmorph a snap. For example, WMORPH
produces a group of files of the form:

name0000.gif
name0001.gif
name0002.gif
etc...

To make your morph come alive you would simply type:
DOS> DTA name*.gif /Oname.fli /S6 /P
(The /O switch specifies the output file)

This produces a fli animation called "name.fli" that ping pongs,
runs at speed 6, and has dimensions 320x200. Running this exact
command on a fifteen frame morph took only 2.5 min on my
486SX-25.
All of this information is well covered in the program's
accompanying documentation, which also includes plenty of
specific examples. There are few things to fault with DTA. One
of my favorite features is that it keeps track of the time it
spends doing each step of the animation, and gives you a grand
total at the end. Perhaps my only gripe is that it is a command
line program. It would be nice to be able to use a mouse and
perhaps even preview images before creating the full animation.
Well, perhaps in the next release. Overall, Dave's Targa
Animator is a brilliant piece of software, an excellent choice
for the second step in your morphing process.

Next issue I'll conclude my review of shareware morphing
with a superb shareware animation viewer.

Program Name: Dave's Targa Animation Program, Rel 2.0.2
Synopsis: Create FLI animations from a variety of graphic
formats
Author: David K. Mason
Cost: $35 or more suggested by author
FTP Location: faramir.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:
/pub/dkbtrace/incoming/dta202.zip
System reqs: Extended Memory

Reviewed by,
Perfectly Normal
[email protected]

QUICK TAKE:

XARGON by Epic.

Here's another fine Mario style arcade game from Epic. If
you have ever played "Jill of the Jungle" you need not read
further, you've already played this game. It uses the identical
engine, just new monsters and this time the protagonist is male.
The game's VGA graphics are nice although not remarkable. The
Sound Blaster supported digitalized sound and music won't get on
your nerves, and fits with the game play quite well.
What really makes this game worth playing is the character
control. Your character's animation is smooth and there are a
variety of directable weapons you can find. There are also a few
chances to change your form into a bee or travel underwater in a
mini-sub which can be a refreshing change from the standard
run/jump/shoot. If you have one, I highly recommend taking
advantage of the game's solid joystick support. Another nice
feature is the option to collect emeralds and use them to
purchase power-ups, adding a small element of strategy.
What's this game's main problem? It's too easy. I'm not
very good at such games, yet I worked through this one in a
matter of hours. Perhaps if I had spent more time looking for
the abundant hidden areas I would have had a more difficult time,
but even those I stumbled upon were not terribly challenging.
Even the ending battle disappointed, just a matter of standing in
the right spot and pounding on the fire button until a static
object exploded. Although the concept is overused, this game
really would have benefited from some kind of final boss to
battle.
Epic apparently tried pretty hard to give XARGON an
interesting plot, revealing bits of the story at a time in
journal entries as you progress from site to site on the overhead
map. Unfortunately, the plot is even older than the game engine.
The hero is lost in a mysterious, weird world filled with evil and
must fight his way to freedom. As a fun diversion this game
definitely succeeds, but in it's main goal, to hook the user into
purchasing the entire XARGON series, it ultimately fails.

Bugs:
1) There is rumor of a scoring bug although I have not
encountered it personally since I tend to ignore scoring and
concentrate on game play.

2) Don't run this under Windows. Besides the usual problems
with contention for the Sound Blaster, it is remarkably sluggish.
(This is with a Local Bus 486SX-25 and 8meg RAM)

3) This may not be a bug, but it's definitely an irritation.
When you can't see your bullets, they don't exist. You encounter
this especially when throwing rocks in arcs that should land on a
monster, but instead disappear off the top of the screen, never
to return...

Program Name: Xargon version 3.0
Synopsis: Standard run/jump/shoot anything that moves game.
Company: Epic MegaGames
Cost: Free, $30 gets you the full trilogy.
FTP Location: ftp.funet.fi: /pub/msdos/games/epic/0xargon.zip
System reqs: 386 or faster IBM-compatible PC
VGA graphics
Hard disk
Also supports: Sound Blaster, SB Pro, and compatible music cards
Joystick

Reviewed by,
Perfectly Normal
[email protected]
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Oh Say Can You CD?
by
Perfectly Normal
[email protected]

No matter how I try to avoid it, it keeps coming up. They're
on the cover of every magazine I read; they're being discussed in
all my favorite news groups. So, I must pose that deceptively
easy question again: should I make the plunge and buy a CD-ROM. I'm
all set up to stick one into my system with a 16-bit sound card,
SCSI port, and even enough spare dough. So what's holding me back?
Well, there are many reasons for thinking carefully before
making this purchase, but the one that keeps arising actually
applies to just about any computer part. That is, when is the
right time to buy or upgrade? Who's to say that as soon as you by
the latest greatest thingy-magigger, someone won't immediately come
up with the fabulous doo-hicky that makes your brand-new, expensive
thingy-magigger worthless and unsupported. CD-ROM has a great
potential to create this exact situation. What makes this common
danger so much more lucid for CD-ROM? It's quite simple. There is
just too much obvious room for improvement.
Undoubtedly, a lot of research money is currently being
directed towards increasing the physical data transfer rate of CD-
ROM drives. The amount of data a CD can retrieve at a time is limited
primarily by the rate at which one can spin the disk. We have already
seen single spin drives become relics of the past, often unsupported
by newer cd-rom products. Now, triple speed drives are being released
at relatively reasonable prices. Even quadruple speed drives are
currently available, although still at a price far out of the average
consumer's range. How much longer will it be until we leave 600kbs
far behind?
One of the current CD-ROM drives' worst qualities is their access
time. The time it took older models to find and return data from
a CD could almost be measured in seconds. This may not seem that
slow, until one realizes that most hard drives, with capacities of
170meg or more, now have access times of less than 14ms. Even the
fastest CD-ROMS now just barely squeak under the 200ms mark. This
impediment was so great that Origin originally chose not to release
its immense flight simulation game, "Strike Commander" on CD. They
claimed it would simply be unplayable on most of the current
snail-like drives. Until access times for CD's can approach the same
level of performance one expects from a hard drive, there will be
plenty of room for improvement.
I won't even be surprised if CD's most lauded quality, data
capacity, gradually increases until they can easily hold in an
excess of one gig. Unfortunately, even with new software drivers,
it is unlikely that an old CD drive will be able to take advantage of
larger data capacities when they inevitably become available. If
larger capacity CD's become the standard, into the dust-bin go the
old drives. Such can also be the case when CD-ROM "standards"
come and go like phases of the moon. Who knows what strange new
file format the newest drives will need to read.
Of course, I have yet to mention the biggest and most obvious
opportunity for improvement. Someone once said, "Build a better
mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door." One could
easily modernize that famous quote, changing it to, "Make
CD-ROMs re-writable and never have to work for a living again."
Such an invention would make hard disks practically obsolete,
revolutionizing the way the computer industry worked and thought.
Of course, everybody would simply have to have one of the new fabulous
doo-hicky drives.
Okay, so maybe I'm just being a bit paranoid. Maybe I should
just give in and buy a decent double-speed CD-ROM with a 250ms access
time, and enjoy the full digitalized speak in "Day of the Tentacle" and
the ability to roam through an electronic encyclopedia until I know
everything there is to know about eighteenth century murals. But,
then again, maybe I'll wait just one more month. Who knows what's
right around the corner...

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Welcome to another new section to -=VOId=-. As you might imagine.. there are
ALOT of FTP sites about in the world of InterNet, finding the right one for
you is tricky business when you have such a large choice.. so here comes FTP
sites to solve your problem. Each issue I'll be detailing a number of FTP
sites and there specialities... so erm.. there's no excuss not to try some
new sites now! :)

etext.archive.umich.edu : This site deals mainly with e-texts and
e-mags (much like this one!)

plaza.aarnet.edu.au : .GIF's, .GIF's and more .GIF's what more
can I say? :)

ftp.uwp.edu : Probably the best, largest and most
up to date IBM PC demo site. Check this
one out before you do anything else.
It's good.

wasp.eng.ufl.edu : Another stunning PC demo site. If it's
not at ftp.uwp.edu then it sure will be
here. :)

Well that's about all I have time for this week.. hopefully they'll be many
more for next issue.. but for now happy FTPing and don't forget to send in
any FTP addresses you think should be included in this comprehensive (ahem)
list. :)

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DOS TIP

File PEDIT.BAT
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@echo off
path >pedit$$$.bat
edit pedit$$$.bat
call pedit$$$.bat
del pedit$$$.bat
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Running this batch file will bring up a copy of edit (or whatever
editor you choose) with the current PATH loaded in. Just edit this,
save and exit. The path is now set to your new edited version !

by Colin Brick

Frontier Hints

This is a quick cheat for Frontier (PC) which allows you to get as much money
as you want in seconds. It uses a bug in the program which works like this:
If you try to buy a ship while you have passengers on board the difference in
price is credited or debited to your account, but you do not get the ship.

To make use of this bug you have to buy a ship with enough cargo space for
passenger cabins, fit it out with a few, and collect some passengers from the
bulletin board. Then go to the shipyard and find a ship which costs less
than the one you have. Press the 'Buy' button for that ship and hold it down
until you have enough money. I found that 200 Million Credits kept me going
for a while.

If you actually want to buy a ship simply fit your existing one with an escape
pod, launch yourself and eject a few thousand Kilometres away from the planet
or station. Using this method you get to keep the money, but lose the
passengers quickly and easily.

Whether this bug is in all versions of Frontier, or if I have an early version
and this bug was fixed later, I don't know.

David Sawford

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-=VOId=- what does it REALLY mean.. the competition!

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VOID - Very Odd Internet Digest
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Ladies and gentlement, boys and girls.. the moment you've all been waiting for,
the winner is..

[Rustle of paper as gold envelope is opened]

Justin

[Cheers from the crowd]

I am please to give you.. you're free subscription to VOId may it be
serve you well.

Thankyou.. goodnight. :)

Thanks to all who entered the competition.. watch out for some super new
competitions from VOId.. with some even bigger, even better prizes
(if that's at all possible).

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Microsoft Home is just a new line of software that Microsoft is specifically
targeting for the Home computer market. Though many of the current titles
are just repackaged ones of their current products (i.e. Microsoft Money,
Microsoft Works, Encarta, Bookshelf, Flight Simulator, etc.) they plan on
adding many, many more titles. They have a new children's desktop
publishing program out that is sort of a combination of Print Shop, a
children's version of Microsoft Publisher, and a children's version of
Microsoft Works. Bill Gates claims that the Home market will be one of the
fastest growing markets in the future - plus he just got married and will
probably be starting a family of his own.

CD-ROM Review
* GIF's Galore *

CD-ROM drives are a wonderful tool for computer graphics enthusiasts
like me. Eight-bit color graphics images are notorious for their disk
robbing capabilities. Just four of these images can consume over a
megabyte of drive space. A single CD-ROM, on the other hand can hold
thousands of such images. Walnut Creek CD-ROM's GIFs Galore is a
perfect example of such a disc.

The GIFs Galore collection is a wonderful assortment of over 6000 images
in Compuserve's popular GIF format. All kinds of images are included:
from lovely models in swimsuits to animals, cartoons, clip art, nature
scenes, famous people, stunning raytraces and fractals and much more.

Shareware viewers are also included for various computer platforms
(including Amiga, Atari ST, DEC Station, Mac, MS-DOS, Windows, OS2, SGI
Irix, SPARC and X11) to allow you to view all of these images on what
ever computer system you may be using since the image format is device
independent. The images are stored in subdirectories on the ISO 9660
standard disc with titles ranging from "THINGS" to "REPTILES". There
are birds, boats, buildings, cars, dogs, fish, flowers, food, frogs,
hunks, insects and trains. There is an ample swimsuit subdirectory with
about the most complete collection of such GIFs I've ever seen. These
are all G & PG rated--you won't find any racy adult stuff on this disc.

One feature I really like is that there are catalog GIF files in each
directory (labeled 000cat.gif, 001cat.GIF, etc.) allowing you see the
contents in that directory in a reduced matrix, similar to those
produced by programs like GIFCAT and GIFDESK.

With GIF Galore, Walnut Creek CD-ROM has produced the best collection of
GIF graphics I've seen at any price. Five Stars *****

COMPACT DISC FORMATS

This note is an attempt to answer the oft-asked questions about CD formats
like "What is the difference between CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, and CD-I?"
and "How is Photo CD compatible with all of these?" and "What is the
difference between single-session and multi-session discs?"

In the beginning, there was CD-DA (Compact Disc-Digital Audio), or standard
music CDs. CD-DA begat CD-ROM when people realized that you could store a
whole bunch of computer data on a 12cm optical disc (650mb). CD-ROM drives
are simply another kind of digital storage media for computers, albeit
read-only. They are peripherals just like hard disks and floppy drives.
(Incidentally, the convention is that when referring to magnetic media,
it is spelled "disk." Optical media like CDs, LaserDisc, and all the other
formats I'm about to explain are spelled "disc.")

CD-I (Compact Disc-Interactive) came next. This is a consumer electronics
format that uses the optical disc in combination with a computer to provide a
home entertainment system that delivers music, graphics, text, animation, and
video in the living room. Unlike a CD-ROM drive, a CD-I player is a standalone
system that requires no external computer. It plugs directly into a TV and
stereo system and comes with a remote control to allow the user to interact
with software programs sold on discs. It looks and feels much like a CD player
except that you get images as well as music out of it and you can actively
control what happens. In fact, it *is* a CD-DA player and all of your standard
music CDs will play on a CD-I player; there is just no video in that case.

Next came CD-ROM/XA (eXtended Architecture). Now we go back to computer
peripherals - a CD-ROM drive but with some of the compressed audio capabilities
found in a CD-I player (called ADPCM). This allows interleaving of audio and
other data so that an XA drive can play audio and display pictures (or other
things) simultaneously. There is special hardware in an XA drive controller
to handle the audio playback. This format came from a desire to inject some
of the features of CD-I back into the professional market.

Now, along comes the idea from Kodak for Photo CD - digital pictures on
compact disc. They teamed up with Philips to develop the standard for Photo CD
discs. At this point, a new problem enters the picture, if you'll pardon the
expression. All of the disc formats mentioned so far are read-only; there is
no way for anyone but the producer of one of these discs to store his/her own
content on the disc - that is, to write to it. But there already existed a
technology called WORM (Write Once Read Many). This is an optical disc that
can be written to, but exactly once. You can "burn" data on it, but once
burned the data can not be erased, although it can then be used like a CD-ROM
disc and read forever. (Depending on your definition of forever, of course.)

I should say that CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, and CD-I discs are normally "mastered,"
as opposed to burned. That means that one master copy is made and then hundreds,
or thousands, or millions (if you're lucky enough to need that many) of
replicates (or replicants, if you are a "Blade Runner" fan) are pressed from
the master. This process is much cheaper than burning for quantities above a
few dozen or so. Generally, disc pressing plants can handle all of these
formats as the underlying technology is the same; the only difference is in
the data and disc format.

The reason that WORM technology was critical for Photo CD is obvious - the
content of these discs is not determined by the manufacturer or publisher. For
Photo CD, each disc will be different - a roll or few rolls of film per disc
from a customer.

Kodak and Philips wanted Photo CD discs to be playable on both computer
peripherals for desktop publishing uses AND on a consumer device for home
viewing. For the former, CD-ROM/XA was chosen as a carrier and for the latter
CD-I, which was already designed as a consumer electronics device, and
dedicated Photo CD players. This desire for a hybrid disc, or one with
multi-platform compatibility, led to the development of the "CD-I Bridge" disc
format. A Bridge disc is one that is readable on both a CD-I player and a
CD-ROM/XA drive.

This Bridge format is the reason there is so much confusion about CD-ROM
drives for Photo CD. A drive that supports Photo CD must be a CD-ROM/XA drive
that is also Bridge-compatible. (The technical description of Bridge discs
calls for supporting certain kinds of sectors identified by "form" and "mode"
bits, which is what you usually hear instead of the "Bridge" disc label.)
That almost completes the picture, except for the concept of sessions.

Although a WORM disc can only be written to once, it is not necessary to write,
or burn, the entire disc all at once. You can burn the disc initially with, say,
a few hundred megabytes of data, and then go back later and burn some more
data onto it. Of course, each burn must be to a virgin part of the disc; once
a spot on the disc is burned, it can not be re-burned. Each burn operation is
referred to as a "session," and a drive or disc that supports this multiple
burning operation is called "multisession."

Originally, I believe that all WORMs were single session only. That is, you
could not go back and add data to a WORM disc once it was burned, even if it
was not full. For Photo CD, they wanted the consumer to be able to add more
pictures to an existing disc as additional rolls of film were processed. So
the extension of WORM technology to multisession was developed and adopted for
the Bridge disc format. This required hardware changes to CD-ROM/XA drives and
that is why there are a fair number of single session XA drives on the market
and multisession ones appearing more and more.

A single session drive can read a multisession disc, but it can only read the
contents of the first session that was burned. Incidentally, all Philips CD-I
players are multisession, although all current CD-I discs have only a single
session on them. (Generally, being mastered means a single session, although it
is possible to master a multisession disc. I don't know of any software that
currently supports this, however.)

Well, I hope that this answers some questions about CD formats. Sorry it is so
long, but it is not a simple story. Perhaps I should have formatted this as a
multisession answer...

As a postscript, since I wrote this original explanation, Philips and JVC have
developed another standard called Video CD. This is also a Bridge format, and
allows linear MPEG-based video material to be put on a compact disc in a standard
format.
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WORLD JAM!

What is World Jam! World Jam is a band being formed on the
internet using the internet as a form of communications to create music.
We, as a world race getting together to form albums as a group. One of
the objects of the band's formation is to have at least one representive
from every country in the world. I feel the uniquenes of everyone's social
stimulas will bring to the community band of WORLD JAM a truly phenonimal
experiance in the field of music.
Through the inter conectivity of countries to other countries no
country should have to be left out. So let's begin this, I hope historial
undertaking- WORLD JAM - ONE BAND - with a world wide membership.
The Scope
The Countries
A List of Countries: with more information following the list:
Afghanistan Ashmore and Belize Brunei
Albania Cartier Islands Benin Bulgaria
Algeria Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Burkina
American Samoa Australia Bhutan Burma
Andorra Austria Bolivia Burundi
Angola Azerbaijan Bosnia and Cambodia
Anguilla Bahamas, The Hercegovina Cameroon
Antarctica Bahrain Botswana Canada
Antigua Baker Island Bouvet Island Cape Verde
and Barbuda Bangladesh Brazil Cayman Islands
Arctic Ocean Barbados British Indian Central African
Argentina Bassas da India Ocean Territory Republic
Armenia Belarus British Virgin Chad
Aruba Belgium Islands Chile
China (also see Cuba Europa Island Gaza Strip
separate Taiwan Cyprus Falkland Islands Georgia
entry) Czechoslovakia (Islas Malvinas) Germany
Christmas Island Denmark Faroe Islands Ghana
Clipperton Island Djibouti Fiji Gibraltar
Cocos (Keeling) Dominica Finland Glorioso Islands
Islands Dominican France Greece
Colombia Republic French Guiana Greenland
Comoros Ecuador French Polynesia Grenada
Congo Egypt French Southern Guadeloupe
Cook Islands El Salvador and Antarctic Guam
Coral Sea Islands Equatorial Guinea Lands Guatemala
Costa Rica Estonia Gabon Guernsey
Croatia Ethiopia Gambia, The Guinea
Guinea-Bissau Iran Johnston Atoll Laos
Guyana Iraq Jordan (also see Latvia
Haiti Ireland separate West Lebanon
Heard Island Israel (also see Bank entry) Lesotho
and McDonald separate Gaza Juan de Nova Liberia
Islands Strip and West Island Libya
Honduras Bank entries) Kazakhstan Liechtenstein
Hong Kong Italy Kenya Lithuania
Howland Island Ivory Coast Kingman Reef Luxembourg
Hungary Jamaica Kiribati Macau
Iceland Jan Mayen Korea, North Macedonia
India Japan Korea, South Madagascar
Indian Ocean Jarvis Island Kuwait Malawi
Indonesia Jersey Kyrgyzstan Malaysia
Maldives Moldova New Zealand Pakistan
Mali Monaco Nicaragua Palmyra Atoll
Malta Mongolia Niger Panama
Man, Isle of Montserrat Nigeria Papua New Guinea
Marshall Islands Morocco Niue Paracel Islands
Martinique Mozambique Norfolk Island Paraguay
Mauritania Namibia Northern Mariana Peru
Mauritius Nauru Islands Philippines
Mayotte Navassa Island Norway Pitcairn Islands
Mexico Nepal Oman Poland
Micronesia, Netherlands Pacific Islands, Portugal
Federated States Netherlands Trust Territory Puerto Rico
of Antilles of the (Palau) Qatar
Midway Islands New Caledonia Pacific Ocean Reunion
Romania Principe Sandwich Islands Tanzania
Russia Saudi Arabia Spain Thailand
Rwanda Senegal Spratly Islands Togo
Saint Helena Serbia Sri Lanka Tokelau
Saint Kitts and Montenegro Sudan Tonga
and Nevis Seychelles Suriname Trinidad
Saint Lucia Sierra Leone Svalbard and Tobago
Saint Pierre Singapore Swaziland Tromelin Island
and Miquelon Slovenia Sweden Tunisia
Saint Vincent Solomon Islands Switzerland Turkey
and Somalia Syria Turkmenistan
the Grenadines South Africa Taiwan (follows Turks and Caicos
San Marino South Georgia and Zimbabwe) Islands
Sao Tome and the South Tajikistan Tuvalu
Uganda Wallis and Futuna
Ukraine West Bank
United Arab Western Sahara
Emirates Western Samoa
United Kingdom World
United States Yemen
Uruguay Zaire
Uzbekistan Zambia
Vanuatu Zimbabwe
Vatican City Taiwan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands

HEY! I might have left out a country or two- don't panic! Drop me line so
I can add it.

Each accepted member to the band World Jam will create their
orginal tracks to be in fussion with the concept of the first album's
theme. The thematic topic will be the personal interpretation of the universe
through thier own personal style of music. I feel this first theme for the
first album will be well suited for the data highway in that midi files
transfer well on the datd highway.DO NOT SEND music files at this time-
send information about yourself.
There are so many means to commuicate your ideas and/or opions
welcomed!
WORLD JAM!- A major undertaking as World Jam sure can use help
from NON-MUSICANS. The imagation can go wild here- think about all the
different people that suports a band for starters.

PLEASE MAIL TO ME DIRECT AT [email protected]

John
[email protected]
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Scarecrow here. I keep a collection of ascii pics called The Scarecrow's
ASCII Art Archive. Here's a sampling. In the actual 350 K archive, there's
information on who sent or posted the pics, plus special sections on sigs, bbs
art, color, animations, etc. And I make clever, witty comments on everything.

If you'd like a copy of it, you can FTP it from Jorn Barger's FTP site.
Just ftp genesis.mcs.com and cd mcsnet.users/jorn/ascii-art and look for:
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorn contr 348595 Jan 4 13:02 Scarecrows.aa [Bob's archive]

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And to finish things off, here's a few sigs.

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I hope you all enjoyed this issue of VOId... sorry for the delay in releasing
it.... but I blame the computers crashing at this end.. honest... :) Thanks
must go out to EVERYONE who has contributed ANYTHING to VOId.. please remember
every little helps... See you in the next issue and stay crunchy.

BTW Any comments on what you'd like or not like to see in VOId should be sent
to the usual address, if you don't tell us what you'd like to see or what
you'd not like to see then we're just guessing at this end. :)

Cheers

Phil

Special thanks to:-
Andrew Hart for your very own words of encouragment.
Bob your ASCII section is a real life saver
Perfectly normal.. where would VOId be without you
Babbage .. for running Cybermush and you're mushing articles
Stuart Beale for having a silly hair cut
and everyone who subscribes to VOId and anyone that contributes.

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