FALL In With Us! Special Commodore 64/128 Offer $50 Worth of Free Services Your First Month! Now the Commodore 64/128 RT on GEnie is a better bargain than ever for 8 bit fans. Last year, GEnie cut the evening and weekend hourly rates to just $3 per hour and by following the instructions below, you too can join GEnie's large and growing C64/128 community. Sign up now and get $50 Worth of Free Services Your First Month! just for choosing the best source of information about the best 8 bit computer anyone ever made! Enjoy the entire breadth and wealth of personal computing with all the news, features, games, information and special interests on all of GEnie. The Commodore 64/128 RT on GEnie - we'll be seeing you soon! Here are the sign-up steps 1. Set your terminal program for half-duplex (local echo) at 2400 baud. Recommended communications parameters: 8 bits, no parity and 1 stop bit (8-N-1). 2. With your modem, dial toll-free in the U.S. at 1-800-638-8369 or in Canada at 1-800-387-8330. 3. Upon connection, type HHH Note: Every time you use GEnie, you need to enter the HHH at connection. 4. At the U#= prompt, type JOINGENIE and press 5. At the offer code prompt enter DHE524 to get this special offer. 6. Have a major credit card ready. In the U.S., you may also use your checking account number. There is a $2.00 monthly fee for all checking accounts. In Canada, VISA and MasterCard only. 7. Instant computerized verification will get you on GEnie without waiting. Type COMMODORE at any GEnie menu, which will move you to page 625. Or for more information, call GEnie Client Services toll-free: 1-800-638-9636 ========================================================================= FALL In With Us! Fall in with us You have "TREATed" to them all these years with your hard earned money, yet your Halloween "reward" is more of a disappearing "trick". It seems about as much fun as getting your windows soaped or your trees "papered". Hey, if you want respect Fall In With Us. GEnie and the Commodore 64/128 RoundTable want you, the Commodore 8 bit user. Heck, we even have a library just for the Plus 4! Not only do we support the Commodore 64/128, but we are proud of it and offer many exciting features, including gobs of new uploads not found anywhere else. We not only work hard to provide you with support, we enjoy doing it. That is the difference and why we have such a big friendly staff to support you. Do not be tricked by cheap talk, GEnie is your best choice for a network, period. How about some facts to back that up? The Facts: GEnie is the official support network for: CMD, GEOS, Color 64 BBS, Parsec, other companies and software authors. In short, the people that still produce new hardware, software, and publications have chosen GEnie as their network of choice. That also includes many shareware authors. Our Commodore RoundTable has had over 16,000 + files uploaded to our libraries so far. With our cool uploading contests you can be assured of even more files and support. Did we mention GEnie has been providing continuos Commodore support since 1985 without a day off? Don't be spooked into thinking there is not any support for your Commodore 64/128 anymore. You just have not been looking in the right place. GEnie is the right place for Commodore support and has so much more to offer than can be mentioned here. So, judge for yourself, use the free $50 worth of credit to sign up and see for yourself. Don't be the ghoul left holding a broken pumpkin, sign up to GEnie now and get the respect, support, and files you deserve. ========================================================================= All About GEnie GEnie, founded in 1985, is an online information service with 100s of RoundTables (RTs) available around the world. Each RoundTable is focused on a specific area of interest such as Commodore computers, IBM computers, cars, movies, family issues, medical, law, military and banking etc. Parsec, Inc. manages The Commodore RoundTable. Commodore users from all over the world, and we mean all over, participate in the many exciting features GEnie has to offer, including nightly Real Time Conferences (RTCs), monthly multi-player games, an active message area to post questions and get answers, exciting guests, prizes, and games such as Trivia, Hangman, Jumble, and Mastermind run on C-128s during our RTCs. Users can also gain access to over 14,000 files available in our libraries. It is the OFFICIAL GEOS SUPPORT network. The Commodore 64/128 RT is also the official support area for CMD, GEOS, COLOR64 BBS, Parsec, and others. The Commodore 64/128 RT is staffed by some of the best and brightest in the Commodore business. The monthly subscription fee is $8.95 per month which includes up to four hours of standard connect time usage at 300-1200-2400 baud. Each additional hour is only $3.00 per hour. For more information concerning rates, local access numbers (including 1-800 numbers for those in rural areas), additional services and other charges, and to join GEnie, refer to the information under "Special Commodore Sign Up Offer". Or call GEnie Client Services toll-free at: 1-800-638-9636 See you online! Hey, I need a modem! Parsec sells (call them used though they have never been actually used) C-1660 modems (300 baud) for $3.00 plus S&H (S&H = $4.25 US, $7.50 Canada, $12 Overseas). What you get is the C-1660 modem, a terminal program to use with the modem on GEnie, and an RJ-11 cable to plug into the wall. Sure, it is only 300 baud, but you know what they say, something is better than nothing. Plus it is a good modem to buy if you are only testing the "online"waters. If you decide you like being online you can always buy a more powerful and faster modem. CMD also sells modems and interfaces. For More Information Commodore C64/128 owners can write to: Parsec, Inc. PO Box 111 Salem, MA 01970-0111 USA ========================================================================= FALL In With Us! GEnie's Commodore 64/128 RoundTables Fall 94 Contest Win CMD gift certificates, software, books, and gifts of time in GEnie's Commodore 64/128 RT's "FALL In With Us" contest. How? By doing something cool that you probably do anyway, uploading software. Winning is easy. Just upload the most bytes each week to win a weekly prize and upload the greatest total number of bytes from October 16th to December 31st to win the grand prize. The rules are simple. 1) The files uploaded must be freely distributable. 2) If the file is a converted graphic (Example from MacPaint) or .GIF file you must be the original author or have the author's permission to distribute or convert the graphic into another format for uploading. This can be stated either in the file, on the file description, or in an e-mail to the Commodore$ staff. Any .GIF files have to be decent looking when displayed on the C-64 to be included in the contest. .RAW sound files have to be in compressed format (.sda, .arc, .sfx). 3) The files have to be worth downloading. Any "junk" files being uploaded just to up the count will not be counted. Files not compressed that are normally compressed (.arc, .sda, .sfx) will not be accepted unless the software could not compress the data further. Koala and Doodle files have to be uploaded in their normal gg/jj compressed formats. Remember, if you would not want to download it, neither will anyone else. We want to add value to the libraries for our members. The Sysop staff decision on what is allowed in the contest and what will be counted is final. 4) No duplication of files already online. New, complete indexes will be provided for each library. 5) The contest runs from October 16th, 1994 to December 25th, 1994. 6) When grouping files together for uploading the normal file compression standards apply (.sfx, .sda, .arc, .GIF, etc). Koala (gg) and Doodle (jj) files should be uploaded individually. This is so a person does not have to download a massive archived file just to view one graphic. 7) For each 1000k uploaded, which conforms to these guidelines and our usual guidelines for files, you get a (1) Hour Gift of Time on top of any other prizes. 8) Remember, uploading is free of connect charges! Date Range Prize for that week: --------------------------- -------------------- October 16th - October 22 Prize: (1) GOT October 23th - October 29 Prize: (1) GOT October 30th - November 05 Prize: (1) GOT November 06th- November 12 Prize: (1) GOT November 13 - November 19 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up November 20 - November 26 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up November 27 - December 03 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up December 04 - December 10 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up December 11 - December 17 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up December 18 - December 24 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (1) GOT for the runner up December 25 - December 31 Prize: (2) GOT highest K that week (2) GOT for the runner up The person that uploads the greatest number of bytes wins the Grand Prize. "GOT highest K that week" means a (1) hour or (2) hour Gift of Time for uploading the most bytes that week, including any bonus points. There will also be monthly games where you can win books and software. Not to mention the visiting Halloween scary during October, a turkey during November, and Santa Claus in December who will give away even more prizes during our RTCs (online chat rooms)! Watch the RT news and banners! Grand Prize (1) $128 Gift Certificate good for CMD products. (1) $ 64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products. 2nd Place (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for CMD products (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products. 3rd Place (1) $64 Gift Certificate good for Parsec products. (10)hours of additional GEnie time (GOT) 4th Place (10)hours of GEnie time (GOT) 5th place (05)hours of GEnie time (GOT) 6th place No additional prizes but everyone will still love you for sharing and uploading the cool warez! =========================================================================