Ymgve at 22:46, 29 June 2007

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news & rumours
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* stormbringer of random announced
to quit c64 in april, pudwerx will
stop fixing, but keeps his bbs
'the forum' online.
skandle, who is still in paramount,
joined random. illusionist, who
made a little break is back in
rnd.
thor/rnd got busted again. rumours
report about him being arrested
for a short time.

* according to dominators-members
there will be massive changes in
the group. rocha left dom, ninja
put up a dom euro hq, the first
board running a pal-version of
ucbbs. (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
dom dropped the dom/atc hq
'metalworks'.
it is still uncertain, if dom is
going to arrange a party in summer.

* the german post will close all
"plk's" (postlagerkarten) in summer
'91, reasons for that are the loss
of many cards, many mail gets lost
this way. (official statement)

* the transcom & x-ray cooperation
is over. according to chrysagon,
who triggered off the separation,
transcom was too unactive.
the arrogance of x-ray got visited
by the cops, they only took a few
discs, his magazine 'bildzeitung'
is still being released.

* paramount, this months' #1 in the
list of first releases together
with action, have some quarrel with
action, both groups claim to be
germany's no 1.
further paramount kicked cybernight

and dropped the boards 'wares
domine' and 'banned in the usa'.
ture 7 left x-factor and joined
paramount, his bbs 'bootcamp' is
the new paramount hq. (besides
'mad mad world')
tronic and yankee rejoined p.,
speed demon was caught and quit.

* crazy is dead, the last active
member magic man decided to quit
the group.

* gotcha left talent as he is busy
working for several companies.
(starbyte, rainbow arts etc.)

* genesis project's magazine
'corruption' is still delayed,
right now ses of gp is working on
a new main menu.
zorlac (x-cfa) joined genesis.
some unknown person released a fake
war-declaration, in which anti-
christ declares war to censor
design, however, the note was not
made by genesis.
also a fake 'bad news' issue has
been released.

* wares domine is now triad hq,
hero left triad to join light, icon
left light.

* scene press, action's magazine'
won't be released at all as
spitfire suffers from a lack of
time. airwolf left manowar and
rejoined action.

* tdo of nec/nei left the group and
joined legend. his bbs 'second
to none' is now legend hq only.
glasnost,who recently joined legend
renamed to 'thunderstruck'.

* insight is a new american magazine
made by demo-groups for demo-groups
it also contains selected pictures,
demos, tools etc.

* badbatch was a new group, formed
by hobbit, reset of transcom and
krush, sexton and skywolf of
crusade. however, this group is
already dead again, hobbit re-
joined transcom, the x-crusade
members have formed a legal coder-
group.
kid and scorpie, who also were in
badbatch for a short time, re-
joined f4cg. scorpie and abigail
finally released the 10th issue of
their papermagazine 'pirates'.

* scorpion of ald joined origo.

* last ninja iii has been finished,
the game, which will be released by
system 3 on disc, tape and cart-
ridge, should be released very
soon. according to markus wieder-
stein, who wrote the protection,
it will be almost impossible to
crack the game.
meanwhile the game already earned
a lot of recognition in european
computer-magazines. (c+vg 94%)

* shamus, the author of 'handy-term'
is working on a new protocol which
is 17 times faster than 'punter'.
it's called bi-h-modem.

* chromance released a discmagazine
based on the idea of 'gamers guide'
by triad. it is called 'are we the
best', different versions of a game
are going to be compared.
the mag also contains cracker-news
and announces.

* daw of censor rejoined triad, so
did chorus (x-flash inc.)

* sky (x-paramount) quit the scene.

* watch out for more news coming
next month...
-return
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Mamba 17 ch02 News and Rumours - Revision history

Ymgve at 22:46, 29 June 2007