{"id":36,"date":"2009-10-03T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2009\/10\/sac-crack-intros-and-bbstros-collection-finally-live-on-roysac-com\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:11:20","slug":"sac-crack-intros-and-bbstros-collection-finally-live-on-roysac-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/sac-crack-intros-and-bbstros-collection-finally-live-on-roysac-com\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC Crack Intros and BBS???tros Collection Finally Live on RoySAC.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took only ages, but I finally managed to get it done, the complete list of <strong>SAC Intros\/Cracktros\/BBStros<\/strong> that were released in the <strong>SAC Art Packs<\/strong> between <strong>December 1994 and May 2007<\/strong> are now up on the site where they belong. Well, not just a list, that would have been not a problem and could have been done in one afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blogimages\/sacintroscracktroshdr.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/> For each intro are <strong>detailed credits<\/strong> shown,<strong> links to<\/strong> the SAC <strong>art<\/strong> <strong>pack<\/strong> where they were released, links to resources, like the <strong>tracker modules<\/strong>, pixel <strong>logos<\/strong> and <strong>font<\/strong> <strong>graphics<\/strong> and other goodies were also added, where I was able to extract them, find them on the Internet or had them on my hard disk.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to capture most intros in video format, since most of them are not running under <em>Windows 32<\/em> let behold<em> Windows 64 bit<\/em> anymore. You can <strong>watch the videos<\/strong> right <strong>from the listings page,<\/strong> <strong>download<\/strong> the <strong>original videos<\/strong> in <strong>AVI or WMV<\/strong> format (from my file share at <del>Mediafire.com) or <\/del><strong>watch<\/strong> them<strong> on <em>YouTube<\/em><\/strong> where I also uploaded them to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/sacreleases\" target=\"_blank\">SACReleases<\/a> channel on <em>YouTube<\/em> and added a link to the intro.<\/p>\n<p>There were <strong>over 90 cracktros, bbstros<\/strong> and <strong>invtros<\/strong>, which I first had on a single page, but I then realized that having users load a page of several MB in size might not be such a good idea after all and decided to break it down intro multiple pages??? <strong>4 pages<\/strong> to be exact. Here are the links to the 4 new pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAC Intros Main Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#intros2\" target=\"_blank\">SAC Intros Page 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#intros3\" target=\"_blank\">SAC Intros Page 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#intros4\" target=\"_blank\">SAC Intros Page 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#special\" target=\"_blank\">Special Intros<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#sactros\" target=\"_blank\">Sactros<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is an <strong>illustration<\/strong> of how it should look like*<\/p>\n<p>* I tested it with <em>Microsoft Internet Explorer 8<\/em>, <em>Mozilla Firefox 3.5<\/em> and <em>Google Chrome<\/em> more or less and believe that it works fine and hope that this also covers the browsers that I have not tested directly myself :O.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep my fingers crossed. Please<strong> let me know<\/strong>, if you<strong> notice anything unusual<\/strong> or a straight forward <strong>bug<\/strong>. Thanks in advance, <strong>I???d appreciate it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blogimages\/sacintroslistingillu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> air conditioning<\/strong> broke again, the second time this year and temperatures are again rising to <strong>90 degrees<\/strong> Fahrenheit (over 30 degrees Celsius) in my apartment. This does not make want to write much more. The computers also start to overheat anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That???s it???<\/strong> Yeah, a short post.. not doing the occasion justice, but then its normal, that if something took particularly long to accomplish, you tend not to have much to say about it afterwards.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Carsten aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/\">Roy\/SAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2501\/3975651869_e8f69eb91f_o.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2501\/3975651869_4996d11f62_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Update Note: I updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#sactros\">SACtros page<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/sac-intros.html#sactros\">SAC Pack Intro videos<\/a> to match the look and feel of the<strong> SAC Intros pages<\/strong>. It???s also cross referenced with those pages now.<\/p>\n<p>The old look was nice and unique, but I have to admit that it was <strong>a)<\/strong> not that user friendly and <strong>b)<\/strong> was more experimental (along with the bugs that come along with an experimental web page hehe).<\/p>\n<p>I captured a <strong>screen shot<\/strong> of the old SACtros page, just for the archive and for the memory.<strong> Click on the Thumbnail image<\/strong> to see the snap shot in actual size.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took only ages, but I finally managed to get it done, the complete list of SAC Intros\/Cracktros\/BBStros that were released in the SAC Art Packs between December 1994 and May 2007 are now up on the site where they belong. Well, not just a list, that would have been not a problem and could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldskool","category-sac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}