Now, back to the topic. As you can read from the description, packs were extremely handy for swappers and other end-users alike. With them you could easily gather productions from a specific party without much trouble. Remember that harddrives wasn't a common piece of hardware on the Amiga in those days, so having an organized diskbox was an advantage. With packs you knew exactly were to find a certain intro, a special utilitity or maybe a game like Rick Dangerous.

As mentioned earlier, packs could contain articles as well as productions. Because of this, they became an important spreader and provider of news for the Demo Scene. You could read the latest gossip about many different groups or people or just keep yourself updated with the latest events. Beside this, messages from sceners was usually included. Many packs had a special section for this, where people could send in a textfile of messages to their contacts. Such stuff was always fun to read.

Last but not least, the all important advertisement section. Here you could find huge load of adverts where people searched for new contacts. If you were looking for more people to trade with, this section was the number one section to search. Many of the adverts had fancy ascii-logos, which made them look quite professional and inviting.

There is a lot more that could have been written about packs and all the history around them. We are planning more articles and insights into the Demo Scene here on www.classicamiga.com, so please check back with us later to see if more content has been added.