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| | 3D Realms Site: A Look Back at Commander Keen |
 | | In the end, the Softdisk guys decided to pursue the game on their own - in secret, of course, as they weren't supposed to be working together in the first place at Softdisk. | | | Tom's games back then were for Softdisk's monthly subscriptions which included such awesome titles as "Duck Boop". | | | At first, seeming to represent the ravings of a wide number of Softdisk fans, Romero eventually determined that all the letters came from the same address in Garland, TX. |
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http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory
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| | Softdisk G-S for the Apple IIgs - Published by Syndicomm |
| | Fource Play is a fabulous, new three-dimensional tic-tac-toe game by Tim Shay, whose past Softdisk programs include Reflexion and Exclusion. | | | Skrypter is a program that allows you to create adventure games for use in the Softdisk Adventure Machine (published on Softdisk G-S #45). | | | Be the first player to complete a line of squares, in any direction, that stretch from one edge of the cube to the other and you’ve won! |
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http://www.syndicomm.com/softdisk/gs.html
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| | Softdisk solitaire - SpamResource Online Software Store |
| | Solitaire card games have always been a source of entertainment for card players. | | | SOFTDISK SOLITAIRE will add a new dimension to solitaire. | | | Five different solitaire games are included in this group: Forty Thieves, La Belle Lucie, Flower Garden, King Albert, and Fortress. |
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http://www.spamresource.com/catalog/p11868.html
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| | Softdisk & Others |
| | Though it only has 49 Rooms, it encompasses an astonishing range of interesting stuff to keep you entertained for the hours you will be playing. | | | Frank is undoubtedly one of the top three programmers to ever write an Eamon adventure. | | | Because of “Edgar’s” uncertain situation, it has been added to the list as a Softdisk title, but without a number. |
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http://www.eamonag.org/columns/Reviews-other.htm
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| | Softdisk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Softdisk has always been officially written as one word, though it is often mistakenly written as Soft Disk or SoftDisk. | | | Softdisk later published games by other developers using the game engines of the earlier games. | | | Publications included Softdisk for the Apple II, Loadstar for the Commodore 64, Big Blue Disk (later On Disk Monthly and Softdisk PC) for the IBM PC, Diskworld (later Softdisk for Mac) for the Apple Macintosh, Softdisk G-S for the Apple IIgs, and Softdisk for Windows for the Windows platform. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softdisk
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| | hall of fame1 |
| | He left Softdisk in 1991 to join the partnership to form id. He´s programmer and designer and is credited with the overall look and feel of the games. | | | After programming ports of Tower Toppler on the Apple II and the Might and Magic, he moved again, to Softdisk. | | | John another one of the four founding partners of id. He began programming at 12 eventually taking a job at Origin software, then moving from there to Inside-out Software. |
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http://www.vrgames.net/fame/page2.html
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| | Lon Matero's Apogee Page - Softdisk Published Titles |
| | As you can see from the dates, these are some very early Apogee games. | | | Lets take a look at some of them. | | | This was around the time Scott Miller began writing games under the name Apogee. |
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http://www.apogeegames.com/softdisk
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| | IGN: Softdisk Publishing |
| | Games on the Go Meet Levi -- covering the beat of mobile gaming for you every day. | | | Click now to win big on IGN Sweepstakes! | | | The Information Age has arrived, and today's personal computers, personal software, and the World Wide Web are only the beginning. |
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http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025202.html
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| | MobyGames - Softdisk Publishing |
| | The programs were sometimes helpful utilities, but were mostly games you could play. | | | Softdisk acted as a game publisher, and paid authors for their work. | | | Softdisk was a publisher of "disk magazines" -- magazines distributed on disk, with programs, interviews, advertisements, etc. They were very popular from the 1980s until the mid 1990s, when the World Wide Web explosion changed the computer into a true consumer device. |
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http://www.mobygames.com/company/softdisk-publishing
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| | Apple II History Chap 21 |
| | The disks offered various types of games, including hi-res graphics adventures and card games, office-based utility software, general Apple II utilities, and disks of music (in Electric Duet format). | | | After issue 113 of Softdisk, the previous programming team had moved on to create games in the IBM PC world, and Peter Rokitski was hired to do programming for each issue of the disk magazine. | | | The first series of "reprints" were games previously released by Polarware/Penguin Software. |
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http://apple2history.org/history/ah21.html
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| | Keynote Entrepreneur - id Software |
| | It was here that Jay says the group gelled to hone their skills in developing games together, and where the inklings of what they might be able to do on their own started to form. | | | The game was then built off of that." | | | According to Jay, John Carmack had conceived the technology for the first-person, texture map style game in an earlier game called Hovertank One. |
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http://www.benlore.com/files/emkey1_3.html
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| | Softdisk |
| | Our customers tap into a highly qualified pool of professional talent that have been providing technology solutions for over twenty years. | | | At Softdisk Internet Services we evaluate each of our clients' specific needs, propose a solution, and execute in the most timely and cost-efficient manner. | | | Softdisk, LLC is a leading provider of Internet and software solutions aimed at helping businesses of all sizes grow and compete in the new world of business. |
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http://www.softdisk.com
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| | OldDoom.com -- About Id Software |
| | John Romero, wanting to start a gaming division of Softdisk, wanted to recruit another programmer. | | | Tom Hall came in every now and then to work on the design of the games. | | | Something Nintendo had accomplished was smooth scrolling, which was necessary for platform games, which were selling very well. |
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http://www.olddoom.com/aboutid.htm
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| | N-Philes Forums - Old PC game actually made by id. |
| | I thinmk im going to email iD and softdisk (now a internet resource company) and see if I can find more info about Curse of the Catacombs. | | | Later they helped form iD and made the awesome games, Wolfenstien and Doom. | | | Well 2 guys at Softdisk were John Carmack and John Romero, and they made Curse of the Catacombs. |
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http://www.n-philes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7426
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| | If you like this type game but find it too hard, try Dark Designs I on Softdisk G-S #9 or Dark Designs II on Softdisk G-S #12. | | | You can transfer from Softdisk #109, Softdisk G-S #12, or wherever you have copied the game. | | | You can use your weapons and spells to defeat these evil forces and forge on to defeat the evil warlord. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/apple/DOCUMENTATION/dark.designs.3
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| | Syndicomm Online Store |
| | In particular, due to a trademark issue, Softdisk was required to remove the Penguin/Polarware games from its disks. | | | And to top it all off, we include a printed book listing each issue's programs. | | | This collection is complete, except for a few items that cannot legally be redistributed. |
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http://store.syndicomm.com/product_info.php?products_id=171
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| | SoftLookup.com - Software titles for Softdisk, L.L.C. |
| | Click Here to go to Softdisk, L.L.C. Homepage | | | License: Freeware OS: Windows 3.1 Size: 787 KB Oct 9, 1998 | | | License: Freeware OS: Windows 3.1 Size: 198 KB Sep 11, 1999 |
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http://www.softlookup.com/author.asp?id=6079
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| | I realized that I needed to learn details about what happened in the Apple II world between 1994 and 2002 in order to 1) look less stupid, and 2) find out about the final fates of GEnie, II Alive magazine, Softdisk G-S, and others in the time I had been away. | | | There's no announced release date for the latter yet, but we have a license from Softdisk to publish such a product. | | | I rejoined the band again in June of last year with my participation in the A2Central.com (Syndicomm) forums, themselves an accurate re-creation of GEnie in its heyday. |
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http://lamp.a2central.com/The_Lamp/Text/2003/TLMP0302.TXT
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| | Softdisk (disk magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Within the Apple II platform, Softdisk spawned Softdisk G-S for the Apple IIgs computer. | | | Softdisk (ISSN 0886-4152) was a disk magazine for the Apple II computer line, published from 1981 through 1995. | | | It was the first publication of the company that was also known as Softdisk, which would go on to publish disk magazines for other systems, other software, and later be involved in Internet access, hosting, and development. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softdisk_(disk_magazine)
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| | Papus Odyssey - Softdisk Publishing Software Store: Download |
| | To order securely online: Click on the "Buy it Now" button above. | | | Guide Papu, a little fish trapped in an ecologically unbalanced reef, through a series of treacherous mazes populated by electric eels, sea slugs, squid and fiddler crabs. | | | Papus Odyssey - Softdisk Publishing Software Store: Download |
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http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?xid=240&SP=10023&PN=1&V1=11786&CUR=124&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0
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| | GameSpy.com - Interview: The Art of Gaming 2: Volume 10 |
| | With seven different Softdisk magazines for various computer platforms, we had about 40 to 50 different executables passing through a team of about 30 programmers each month. | | | I've been an artist with id since Wolfenstein, which I guess is about eight or nine years. | | | We worked with all types of computer platforms creating interfaces, game art, clip art, fonts, etc. |
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http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/january01/aog10
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| | TOMTOMTOM.com - Games |
| | Kind of a cool simple game idea that actually got published on Softdisk later as a joke. | | | Sad little type in the angle, it draw the dots of the arc for the cannonball, and you try to hit the other tank. | | | On a bet, I wrote this in two hours. |
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http://www.tomtomtom.com/games.shtml
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| | TNL Forum - Dangerous Dave |
| | The 1988 Apple II original came with a magazine called Uptime. | | | A graphically enhanced version called Double Dangerous Dave was released for the Apple II and published by Softdisk. | | | It's ironic that people would often rag on it for ripping off Mario, when Dave sported a jet pack and a gun 13 years before Mario did. |
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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/showthread.php?t=20994
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| | From Projection and Digit Fidget to many others, we've all lost a few hours sleep with these games. | | | Title : CIRCUITRY Platform : Apple IIgs Publisher: Softdisk Rating : 8.0 Softdisk has long been known for the value of the entertainment products released on their monthly disks. |
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http://www.ziplink.net/~kgagne/apple/circuit.rev
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| | Dan's Web Site Creations |
| | Softdisk -- I was involved in some way with this software publisher turned ISP for a major part of its long history, beginning when I became a charter subscriber to their first product, a monthly magazine on disk for the Apple II computer, in September, 1981. | | | I was a frequent contributor to the Apple diskmagazine (or "magazette" as they called it then) in its early years, then got a summer job there in 1984 to help them launch their Commodore 64 product | | | However, at the turn of the non-purist millennium (January 2000, not 2001) I finally left them for good to take my present job. |
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http://www.dan.info/mysites.html
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| | A2Central.com - Syndicomm offers 'Softdisk Overdose' for a limited time |
| | These three products comprise the complete runs of Softdisk, Softdisk G-S, and UpTime for the Apple II. | | | Syndicomm offers 'Softdisk Overdose' for a limited time | | | A2Central.com - Syndicomm offers 'Softdisk Overdose' for a limited time |
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http://www.a2central.com/article.php?story=20031025235830571
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| | Nursing Adolph |
| | Softdisk is a magazine on disk (or CD) which contains programs, hints, tips, etc. They have a "Comic's Corner" in each month's disk. | | | Things didn't go too well after Marcia was gone. | | | This week's joke comes from the latest issue of Softdisk for Windows. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~wvgoldenwolf/joke0228.html
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| | Praeses Corporation |
| | We are confident that they will provide our customers with the same quality service that they have become accustomed to. | | | After careful research we determined that the local provider best equipped to take over these services for our customers was Softdisk, LLC of Shreveport. | | | Softdisk is an established ISP with a solid reputation and has been in the business of providing Internet services since 1995. |
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http://www.webbsight.com
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| | LinkCenter.com - Reference/Almanacs |
| | Softdisk is a registered trademark of Softdisk, L.L.C. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. | | | Another intersting 'on this day' almanac feature daily factoids from the world of rock & roll. |
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http://www.linkcenter.com/referenc/almanacs.html
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| | Dangerous Dave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dangerous Dave (PC), 1990, DOS (CGA, EGA, VGA), Softdisk (DOS version of the 1988 original) | | | Double Dangerous Dave, 1990, Apple II, 16-color, Softdisk (16 color port of the 1988 original) | | | Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion, 1991, DOS / EGA, Softdisk |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Dave
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| | Not counting the Softdisk titles, there are exactly three Eamons among 236 titles that require 80-col. display. | | | If you are interested in acquiring some hardware but can't find anything locally, let me know and I can check around on GEnie for you. | | | The 8-bit version of Softdisk is history (NOTE that Softdisk has not gone out of business! |
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http://www.eamonag.org/newsletters/EAG9512.TXT
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| | FAQ.csa2.4 |
| | Softdisk GS is available only on 3.5" disks. | | | Softdisk and Softdisk GS are no longer published, but | | | Softdisk and Softdisk GS (800-831-2694 or 318-221-8718) were monthly |
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http://www.apple2.org/faq/FAQ.csa2.423.html
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| | Apple II History Timeline |
| | Mac OS 9.2.2 available as an update, the last of the Mac OS 9 series. | | | At KansasFest 2002, Eric Shepherd announces Project Barney, an agreement with Softdisk Publishing to allow Syndicomm to distribute the Apple II publications Softdisk and Softdisk GS on CD-ROM. | | | Also at KansasFest were announced the first beta of Marinetti 3.0, by Richard Bennett-Forrest; the CD-ROM releases of Softdisk and Uptime, by Syndicomm; and many re-releases of products from Call-A.P.P.L.E. Number of page views since |
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| | A2Central.com - Syndicomm extends its license for Softdisk products |
| | Today Syndicomm anounced that today it reached an agreement with Softdisk, L.L.C. to extend its license to distribute the Softdisk, Softdisk G-S, and UpTime magazines on disk for a further three years. | | | The newly-renewed license will expire on June 28, 2008; without the renewal, these products would have lapsed out of availability effective July 1, 2005. | | | Syndicomm sells individual back issues of Softdisk and Softdisk G-S, as well as CD-ROM compilations of all three magazine products, through its online store. |
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http://www.a2central.com/article.php?story=20050628170024492
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| | bbq sauce (softdisk's) |
| | Source: Softdisk, the disk-based magazine for use on Apple // series | | | After the margarine melts, the sauce is ready for use or |
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http://recipes.chef2chef.net/recipe-archive/04/034828.shtml
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| | Shreveport/Bossier Job Link |
| | All material in this site is © 1995-2002 by Softdisk unless otherwise indicated. | | | This site is provided as a public service for residents and visitors to the Shreveport/Bossier area and anyone else who is interested, and is not officially endorsed by the municipal governments of these cities or any other official body. | | | Please feel free to link to The Shreveport/Bossier Page from your web site. |
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http://www.shreveport.net/biz/jobs.html
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| | Softdisk ANIMAL CLIP ART - SpamResource Online Software Store |
| | You'll find the wild ones side by side with more tame species in this collection of 79 professionally rendered PCX graphics. | | | From tropical birds and fish to an adorable husky puppy, you'll be amazed at the complexity of these original designs. | | | Softdisk ANIMAL CLIP ART - SpamResource Online Software Store |
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| | PCQuest : HandsOn : Increase Life of your CDs/DVDs |
| | Here, we'll do this by using Softdisk 2.5, a shareware. | | | Frequent access of data on DVDs/CDs reduces their life.You can increase their life by using available soft-drives that take an ISO image of a CD/DVD and emulate it as a virtual drive. | | | For this you will need a CD/DVD burning software like Nero to create ISO images of all CDs/DVDs you access frequently. |
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http://www.pcquest.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=69120
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| | Archive |
| | See Also: My employer - Softdisk, Inc http://www.softdisk.com |
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http://www.bible.acu.edu/s-c?Bookmark=8818
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| | The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |
| | (1982, AP2, Software Farm) Elliss, Joss Brian Jacks Superstars, with Gary Yorke (1985, C64, Firebird) Engelstein, Geoffrey M. StarBlaster, with Mark Kriegsman (1981, AP2, Piccadilly) Panic Button, with Mark Kriegsman (1989, AP2, Softdisk) English, Ed [P] Frogger (1982, 2600, Parker Bros.) port from COIN [P] Mr. | | | (1990, PC, id Software/Apogee) [G] Shadow Knights (1991, PC, Softdisk) [G] Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (1991, PC, id Software/Softdisk) [G] Hovertank One (1991, PC, id Software/Softdisk) [G] Rescue Rover! |
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http://1000bit.net/storia/perso/giant_list.asp
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| | Planet DAIKATANA |
| | - Dark Designs (1990, AP2, Softdisk) level design only | | | - Alfredo's Stupendous Surprise, with Tom Hall (1989, AP2, Softdisk) | | | - Dangerous Dave (1988, AP2, UpTime)(1990, PC, Softdisk) |
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http://www.planetdaikatana.com/features/interviews/romeroxn01
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