Subject: Marathon 2 Demo is OUT! (10/12 11:40 PM) 
From: lcadena@princeton.edu (Lucas Cadena) 
Date: 1995/10/13
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games.action 
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organization: Princeton University


The great guys at Bungie have finally released the demo! As we speak I am
DLing the M2 demo from Bungie's web/ftp site. There are three versions of
the demo available, one is 16 megs, the others are 12 and 8 megs. For
those of you with a 14.4 modem, prepare for the mother of all downloads! I
thank the Gods (University administrators) that gave me a direct Ethernet
connection! I have the preview (on CD), so it'll be interesting to see the
diferences between the two. The Bungie site looks really cool. They have
all sorts of areas where you can leave feedback and participate in
discussions. My only complaint is that the site is slowwwwww, especially
with all those auto-loading animations.

Lucas Cadena

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Re: Marathon 2 Demo is OUT! (10/12 11:40 PM) 
Author:Michael M Eilers
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Date:1995/10/13
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On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Lucas Cadena wrote:

> The great guys at Bungie have finally released the demo! As we speak I am
> DLing the M2 demo from Bungie's web/ftp site. There are three versions of


congratualtions on your patience... could you do all of us (and 
especially Bungie) a favor and drop the demo (binary, not binhexed!) at 
an anon ftp site somewhere? This would not only help out those uf us with 
mere PPP connections or (horrors!) no web access, it would lighten the 
load on Bungie's site. Hell, half the civilized world must be logged in, 
trying to get the demo so they can behave like bloodthirsty barbarians... 
heh.

my first thought would be ftp.amug.org in /incoming. The incoming 
directorty is unprotected, so we can get to it before they throw it off! ;)

don't even bother with info-mac or umich--I would be amazed if they 
agreed to post a file that huge, and both sites obstinately refuse to 
allow binary format posts, even though they are the "biggest" (note I did 
not say best) sites...

michael