Afaik 0.8c was not from Rage team, but that's' what it's said on ZD:
Upgrade v0.8c - 7/01/03 - Windows XP
The upgrade to NeoRAGEx is much smaller than the full version, so you don't have to download 1.5 megs all over again. You have to already have the full version installed to use the upgrade.
Now v0.8c readme.txt:
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- ¤ NeoRAGExp v0.8c ¤ -
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- This version is based on NeoRAGEx v0.6b -
- by Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela -
- NeoRAGEx 0.8b is fixed on Roms List so it supports -
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I think it's self explanatory, and I wonder why the ZD gives credit to that lame "releases".
As you can see on the
Rage team home page it's was discontinued on 1999, and Retrogames report an e-mail with one of the authors on 2001 I think, where he tolds Nrx won't be oficially released anymore mainly because of the hacks (get it?) that cqme out. He said to hack a freeware emulator discouraged them a lot, furthermore "a personal tragedy" (sic) take them from the scene. I'll try to look for that info on RG, but I'm pretty sure that it was what happened.