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This interview will also be on the main textfiles.com site, to join the archive. TEXTFILES.COM: AN INTERVIEW WITH KRAKOWICZ Conducted by Jason Scott, February, 2005 It’s hard for me not to sound superlative about Krakowicz, and there’s a good set of reasons why. He is a member of a relatively small but memorable community, that […]
The BBS documentary DVDs may have something which hasn’t been tried before. I have subtitles in English (and in some places, Spanish as well), but I have a third subtitle set called “Non-Technical”. Basically, when people throw out terms that are completely from left field (“8-bit”, “Acoustic Coupler”, “8080”), the “Non-Technical” subtitles define them, at […]
MAKE IT PAY is now done. All of the episodes need a final run-through and re-render, mostly for extremely, extremely minor things, like a fade going a second too long or a spelling error in a title card. All of these are just one-off tweaks before final render. Last night, I sent mail to the […]
MAKE IT PAY is basically done. I need a few more shots of the inside of ONE BBSCON to make what people are saying about it more illustrative, but otherwise, the thing is pretty much nailed. This is the last of the episodes, and brings to a close “new” content, that is, episodes or footage […]
This is a story about how I ended up downloading every podcast. But it’s actually a little more than that. I have a reputation/name as a historian now, and that’s nice, but I’m primarily a collector. I have an innate need to put things with other things like it and end up with a large […]
The FIDONET episode is ready for the Eye of Doom. Folks, we’re getting close. What’s basically remaining, aside from some basic refining and icing, is the last part of the MAKE IT PAY episode. I’ll talk about that episode when I finish it, which I hope is very, very soon. FIDONET was a bear of […]
I had an excellent phone conversation tonight, discussing the approach I took to making the documentary and some of the changes in myself and the process that occurred over the four years. My counterpart mentioned, as an aside, a conversation he himself had had with another person who responded to my name in a less-than-positive […]
One of my disks is acting flaky. All through the production, I’ve had to deal with the inherent lack of quality of IDE disks. I’ve had fifteen (15) die in the past few years. With over 2.5 terabytes of disks in use at any time with the video footage, I’ve just been playing the odds. […]
ARTSCENE is done. ARTSCENE is the episode dealing with the ANSI Art Scene that rose up in the early 1990’s, which had roots in the 1980’s and decades before that. I mostly tell the story of ACiD (ANSI Creators in Demand) and iCE (Insane Creators Enterprises), who were two of dozens (perhaps hundreds) of Art […]
For the short time it was up, torrents.textfiles.com was pretty popular. The idea behind it was good, and still holds: every once in a while, people get really excited and try to download all of textfiles.com. The site is many gigabytes (assuming you go for some of the sub-sites as well) and so this takes […]