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From: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Disk Muncher/Cruncher
Message-ID: <29631@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 20:27:26 GMT
References: <28@generic.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Organization: The Dancing Bear
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In article <28@generic.UUCP> marekp@pnet91.cts.com (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
|Didn't a character by the name of "Louis Roy" from Montreal, have something to
|do with the DDD series?  I suppose it's ttime to dig out all those ancient
|disks, and hunt through the credits.

Louis Roy, aka Dalton, wrote the original DDD packers for DOS 3.3 as well as
DDD Deluxe.  Many people disassembled his DOS packer once it became accepted
and then pirate groups kept changing the version number and putting their BBS
numbers and so forth on it.  This also led to the ill-fated 3.5" DDD that ran
under DOS.  It was soon replaced by ProPacker 5.3c and then DDD Pro and
DigiPack.  We now all use ShrinkIt, of course.  Thanks, Andy!

DDD Pro didn't last because it was shareware and Roy's ego was bigger than
his packer's functionality.  I once had the misfortune of programming with
the guy, and he is something else.  Pretty wierd guy.  He's not from Montreal.
I forgot where in Canada he is, but it hurt my phone bill when I was working
with him.

Parik:  Doug Brandon is the name you're searching for, I believe.

Jeff
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