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the lines are still open for you,<br />
call mamba&lt;, represented by the<br />
american mamba&lt;-headquarter,<br />
dock with 12/2400 baud at<br />
the shaolin temple, tsm, mamba and<br />
i+t hq.<br />
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discs...?!<br />
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close the mamba&lt; address, keep on<br />
and on writing to this address..<br />
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for news, articles, discs etcetc<br />
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<br />
the opinion polls<br />
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<br />
being curious what the scene-dudes<br />
are thinking about certain topics we<br />
asked two questions this month,<br />
the people being asked were the<br />
people calling the shaolin temple<br />
(tsm, mamba, i+t hq's) and the<br />
terminal obsession (censor/nei hq's)<br />
<br />
the questions and the result look<br />
like this...<br />
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'when calling around, which type of<br />
bbs program do you prefer logging<br />
on to ?'<br />
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1. c-base....16 votes ^ 23.1 %<br />
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2. dmbbs......4 votes ^ 5.7 %<br />
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3. color 64...6 votes ^ 8.6 %<br />
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4. ucbbs.....35 votes ^ 50.7 %<br />
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5. other......8 votes ^ 11.5 %<br />
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<br />
<br />
while pudwerx's ucbbs gains more than<br />
half of the votes, dmbbs and color 64<br />
are certainly not the users first<br />
choice.<br />
only c-base can resist by gaining<br />
almost one quarter of all votes...<br />
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<br />
the next poll was set up on<br />
terminal obsession...<br />
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'what in your opinion is the most<br />
important concern for the future ?'<br />
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1. to prevent wars and to have world<br />
peace<br />
2. to prevent overpopulation and<br />
world hunger<br />
3. to maintain and regain a healthier<br />
environment<br />
4. to become personally successfull<br />
and rich<br />
5. to have a first release<br />
<br />
guess which answer has won and think<br />
for yourself what you would choose...<br />
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votes %<br />
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1. (world peace) 8 13.5<br />
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2. (no overpopulation) 8 13.5<br />
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3. (healthy environment) 11 18.6<br />
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4. (personal success) 26 44<br />
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5. (a first release) 6 10.1<br />
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<br />
..that are the rulers of tomorrow ?!<br />
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<br />
<br />
the following charts of first-<br />
releases shall give the non-modemer<br />
a survey on what's going on on the<br />
boards...(and what games are out)<br />
<br />
we do not claim to be always right<br />
in our decisions, by giving the<br />
points to the groups it sometimes<br />
comes to personal judgement, and,<br />
nobody is perfect...<br />
<br />
we won't correct ourselves in any<br />
further issue for any mistakes, just<br />
keep in mind that there might be<br />
wrong informations among the<br />
following pages..(we hope not so)<br />
american importer charts<br />
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last<br />
group releases month<br />
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1.north east importers.. 07 01<br />
empire................ 07 02<br />
3.the shaolin monastery. 03 03<br />
4.a touch of class...... 02 --<br />
double cross.......... 02 --<br />
6.demonix............... 01 03<br />
pudwerx(?)............ 01 --<br />
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the months started off slow but things<br />
really sped up over the last two weeks<br />
nei tied to the first with empire...<br />
will be an interesting month...<br />
european charts<br />
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last<br />
group releases month<br />
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1.ikari and talent...... 04 03<br />
legend................ 04 01<br />
3.action................ 02 --<br />
ics................... 02 --<br />
genesis project....... 02 --<br />
verdict............... 02 05<br />
dominators............ 02 --<br />
enigma................ 02 --<br />
9.censor................ 01 --<br />
f4cg.................. 01 03<br />
victims............... 01 02<br />
the boys.............. 01 --<br />
american cracker charts<br />
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<br />
a very bad month for usa releases.<br />
there wasn't a single usa game.<br />
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explanations<br />
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autotest simulator dominators/nei<br />
* by byteback.<br />
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predator 2 legend/demonix<br />
* by imageworks.<br />
<br />
back to the future 3 action/empire<br />
* by imageworks.<br />
<br />
stone edge victims/empire<br />
* by magic disk.<br />
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tibos tale verdict/double cross<br />
* by tendeance designs.<br />
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cygnus ikari &amp; talent/pudwerx<br />
* by 2d.<br />
<br />
jai alai verdict/double cross<br />
* by operasoft.<br />
<br />
betrayal legend/nei<br />
* by microprose.<br />
<br />
north &amp; south ikari &amp; talent/tsm<br />
* by infogrames.<br />
500cc motocross mngr f4cg/empire<br />
* by simulmondo.<br />
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montrix action/empire<br />
* by double density<br />
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mark set &amp; go ikari &amp; talent/tsm<br />
* by golden disk. (hi etienne!)<br />
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3d chess ics/atc<br />
* by simulmondo.<br />
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extreme censor/nei<br />
* by digital integration.<br />
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chubby chester genesis project<br />
* by magic disk.<br />
lonewolf dom/empire<br />
* by audiogenic.<br />
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shadow dancer ikari &amp; talent/tsm<br />
* by us gold.<br />
<br />
over the net ics/atc<br />
* by genias.<br />
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plotting the boys/nei<br />
* by ocean ltd.<br />
<br />
gem'x enigma/empire<br />
* by kaiko/demonware<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
england cs legend/nei<br />
* by grandslam<br />
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world champion. soccer enigma/empire<br />
* by sega/elite<br />
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potpanic genesis/nei<br />
* by kingsoft<br />
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shiftrix legend/nei<br />
* software 2000<br />
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ooops, quite confusing !<br />
<br />
okay, about plotting...the game was<br />
originally cracked by the boys, it<br />
was trained or whatever by the<br />
dominators and imported by atc.<br />
<br />
however, the game didn't work 100%<br />
on account of a bad crack...<br />
nei took the boys' version and<br />
removed the bug...so, we don't know<br />
anything better than giving the point<br />
to the boys for cracking and to nei<br />
for fixing (each)<br />
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<br />
about gem'x...<br />
<br />
the unlimited lives trainer might<br />
cause a game-crash, however, that<br />
problem derives from a programmer's<br />
fault. (from our personal point of<br />
view).<br />
<br />
the game works fine in case you don't<br />
use the unlimited lives trainer,<br />
or in case you don't use the level-<br />
warper more than 20 times per level.<br />
<br />
from our point of view this is no<br />
reason for not giving a point to this<br />
release.<br />
<br />
about second world...<br />
<br />
victims had a first release with<br />
second world by magic bytes.<br />
however, the game was fully in<br />
german and thus not playable for all<br />
the non-germans in the scene.<br />
according to victims it is impossible<br />
to translate the game.<br />
nevertheless, no point although it<br />
was a working first-release.<br />
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<br />
about rings of medusa...<br />
<br />
mirage released the us-version of<br />
rings of medusa, however, there is<br />
not much difference to the euro-<br />
version released some months ago !<br />
<br />
at that time it was translated into<br />
english by paramount; doubtless the<br />
new version is composed of better<br />
english than the translated version,<br />
nevertheless, the paramount version<br />
was fully playable, thus no point to<br />
mirage...<br />
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about mark, set &amp; go...<br />
<br />
action and empire released another<br />
version of that game a few days after<br />
the first version by i+t/tsm,<br />
claiming that the tsm version didn't<br />
work properly.<br />
however, no evidence for that<br />
declaration was given, (kann ja jeder<br />
sagen), no point to empire...<br />
<br />
* at the moment there is apparantly<br />
no 100% version of supremacy out,<br />
watch the next issue for the<br />
result...<br />
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<br />
strictly speaking...<br />
<br />
there have surely been a few<br />
questionable decisions, the problem<br />
is that, especially in these cases,<br />
we can't please everybody, other than<br />
that, we tried to stick as close to<br />
the truth as possible...<br />
<br />
in case you disagree we advise you to<br />
write to this addres...<br />
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