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Message no. 1
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: TSS-12 is out! (Was Re: NAGEE 9 released)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:19:00 -0600
At 19:50 6/21/00 +0200, Gurth wrote:

>1: GODDAMMIT! Why does something like this happen to EVERY #*%^&*#$^#$&
>ISSUE!?!

Because. Something /has/ to happen with each issue, or it wouldn't be so
interesting to compile.

So to prevent anything else from going wrong and breaking in the build
process of The Shadowrun Supplemental #12, I've released it. You can grab
it at http://tss.dumpshock.com, in both PDF and HTML formats.

(and now I'll rediscover all those typo's that I fixed in the PDF file and
then lost when I had to regenerate the whole thing..)

Adam
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Message no. 2
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: TSS-12 is out! (Was Re: NAGEE 9 released)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:07:52 +0200
According to Adam J, at 5:19 on 22 Jun 00, the word on the street was...

> >1: GODDAMMIT! Why does something like this happen to EVERY #*%^&*#$^#$&
> >ISSUE!?!
>
> Because. Something /has/ to happen with each issue, or it wouldn't be so
> interesting to compile.

It wouldn't be too bad if my new upload had actually fixed everything.
Unfortunately, it didn't -- it has been brought to my attention that page
46 of the supposedly error-free file gives an error that prevents the
printing out of NAGEE 9...

I am *this* getting close to throwing the towel into the ring and stopping
my DTP activities entirely because I am utterly sick of having far too
many hard- and software problems that IMnsHO shouldn't exist in the first
place, but I'm not quite ready for that yet... So, as a last attempt to
fix this issue (any bugs after this are simply tough luck for anyone who
happens to find them, and I mean that) I'll re-PDF the entire issue but
leave out the links and bookmarks because they take about two days' work
to put in. In other words, it'll be a file intended for printing out and
not for browsing on-screen. If you want bookmarks, you can get Acrobat and
put them in yourself...

*phew* Rant over, I guess :) If you've got a buggy version of NAGEE 9 (you
can check by PageDown-ing from page 1 to page 92), download it again after
reading this message.

BTW, in case anyone is wondering (I already had one person point this out
to me, thinking it was an error): the blank space on page 16, where it
looks like an image should be, is intentional.

> (and now I'll rediscover all those typo's that I fixed in the PDF file and
> then lost when I had to regenerate the whole thing..)

Is that an attempt to cheer me up by hinting that I'm not the only one
suffering from these sorts of things? :)

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Message no. 3
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: TSS-12 is out! (Was Re: NAGEE 9 released)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:58:51 -0600
At 20:07 6/22/00 +0200, Gurth wrote:

>> (and now I'll rediscover all those typo's that I fixed in the PDF file and
>> then lost when I had to regenerate the whole thing..)
>
>Is that an attempt to cheer me up by hinting that I'm not the only one
>suffering from these sorts of things? :)

Just open Man and Machine and look at pages 102-123. ;-)

TSS-12 was largely painless, actually. It would have been even easier if I
didn't delay the release for a month while waiting for dumpshock to launch
(I had already finished my site and embedded links to it), and then I got a
last minute review of Brainscan and had to throw that in, and that threw
off the page numbers, because I do some wacky shit with Pagemaker "Books"
to make sure the page numbers are the same throughout the regular and
"lite" versions of the magazine. And there were a few other issues, but I
honestly can't remember them all. <g>

(And I just found out about the first "Show Stopper" error in TSS. I
accidentally put a forward slash instead of a backslash in the SwiftOne
Speaks file (http://tss.dumpshock.com/html/tss-12/art12-j.htm), and while
IE is smart enough to automatically flip-flop it around, Netscape doesn't
do so, so I didn't notice this until Mark just pointed it out to me. Both
the online file and the ZIP of the HTML version are fixed.)

Adam
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Message no. 4
From: DemonPenta@***.com DemonPenta@***.com
Subject: TSS-12 is out! (Was Re: NAGEE 9 released)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:22:33 EDT
In a message dated 6/22/00 3:05:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
adamj@*********.html.com writes:

> TSS-12 was largely painless, actually. It would have been even easier if I
> didn't delay the release for a month while waiting for dumpshock to launch
> (I had already finished my site and embedded links to it), and then I got
a
> last minute review of Brainscan and had to throw that in, and that threw
> off the page numbers, because I do some wacky shit with Pagemaker "Books"
> to make sure the page numbers are the same throughout the regular and
> "lite" versions of the magazine. And there were a few other issues, but I
> honestly can't remember them all. <g>

<blinkblink> Brainscan is out? Waaaaaaaahhhh!!!!! I missed it...what else did
I miss since M&M (have CC, yes)?
Message no. 5
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: TSS-12 is out! (Was Re: NAGEE 9 released)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:18:41 +0200
According to Adam J, at 12:58 on 22 Jun 00, the word on the street was...

> >Is that an attempt to cheer me up by hinting that I'm not the only one
> >suffering from these sorts of things? :)
>
> Just open Man and Machine and look at pages 102-123. ;-)

True, true... Though I'm now wondering if FASA has ever suffered from
corrupted files that set work on a sourcebook back by about a month.

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Yes, I am broadcasting myself!
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.1: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ UL P L+ E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+
PE Y PGP- t(+) 5++ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b++@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

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