Ymgve at 20:38, 18 June 2007

2007-06-18T20:38:55Z

New page

<pre>+---------------------------+
|THE PROPAGANDA RELEASE LIST| Top
|THE PROPAGANDA RELEASE LIST|_______---_
+---------------------------+ 1 0
+----------+
by|COUNT ZERO|
+----------+

We are happy to announce a new era on
the commodore 64 release market.
from the next issue on, Propaganda will
host a new form of the RELEASE LIST,
which became the most read chapter
since SHOCK.

In the future all releases to come will
be taken from the INTERNET FTP SITES
and the boards which are left will be
ignored by the PROPAGANDA version of
'THE LIST'.

'HOW COME ?' you may ask and the
reasons are pretty simple ...
First of all the INTERNET consists of
all the services a good BBS has and
even improves most of them. So most of
the common problems can be solved on
#c-64 and most of the games ever
released are available through FTP.
Anybody from a C64 user to a Pentium
133 MHZ has access, if he just wants to
have it ... On the boards most of the
time hazzles come up on certain stuff,
e.g. a game which is not working and
alike crap ... On the Net you can prove
your abilities online to a large crowd
and the beloved ragging nearly falls
apart ... so let us introduce you to
a new generation ...

+-----------+
| THE RULES |
| THE RULES |
+-----------+

OFCOURSE WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE OVER
MOST OF THE OLD RULES, BUT TIMES HAVE
CHANGED AND SO DO WE ...
SO, PLEASE, READ THE UPCOMING RULES
CLOSELY AND INCASE YOU WANT TO ADD
COMMENTS OR HAVE CRITICS, WE ARE
AVAILABLE THROUGH E-MAIL AND IRC.

So let's begin with the simple
things your editors had in mind.

**
\/

- PREVIEWS will get between O.O and 1.O
points.
Only the very first Preview of a game
will get any Points at all.
So called V2 previews will be totally
ignored and not mentioned.
The amount of points given depends
of the quality and completeness of the
game.
The Preview MUST be playable!
PAL/NTSC fixes will be ignored
pointwise.

- UTILITIES will receive between O.O
and 3.O points depending on their
quality and usability. Another
Levelsqueezer would get O.O just to
clear out things.

- RE-RELEASES will reduce the overall
points for a group by -5 !

- GAMES will get between O.O and 5.O
points. Already fixed versions will
receive another +2.O for the points.
Games becoming fixed later on, will
receive +1.O to the original points.
ANY GAMES done using SEUCK, Game
Makers and BASIC will be ignored.
The Points are given for the quality
of the Game itself and for the quality
of the Release, thus meaning a
dox-file for a quite confusing game
is definately a plus for the release.
Formerly known categories like
Full-Price and Low-Budget are ignored.

The Games have to be translated to
English properly, while graphics
are ignored. In case a game consists
of ONLY GRAPHICS you have to translate
them aswell !

The maximum value of 5.O can
therefore only be reached by a very
good game and a very good crack.
Up to 3.O is given for a game itself
and up to 2.O for a good cracking
task.

Just slagging an intro on and making
a lives trainer will give you about
O.5 and O.8 depending on the intro
of the crackinggroup aswell.

+------+
|F |
|FIXING|
+------+

A Game is considered fixed whenever
it is running on PAL and NTSC.
On NTSC it has to run on the standard
6567R8 or otherwise revised chips.
The rarely spread 6567R56A chip
edition can be ignored.
The game has to look the same as it
does on PAL. Whenever just the Music
was made slower, the additional code
is not judged as a fix.
Whenever you write FIXED towards a
game, make sure everybody can verify
there was some effort and work put
into the game ...

Whenever we are not sure about the
release containing a REAL fix,
meaning something was done to make
it work on NTSC, we will tell the
reader so and judge the game as
already working on PAL/NTSC and will
NOT give the additional 2.O points.

It is allowed to change the position
of sprites in the lower and upper
border to make them more visual.

So-called music fixes are welcome,
if they fit to the music, but not
necessary.

Now to something NEW!

OLD games getting fixed will get half
of the points the complete game would
get as a NEW release.

As OLD we made up ONE YEAR.
Anything released on PAL before and
after 199O we judge as old and give it
half of the points.

Anything released before 199O will be
ignored.

+-----------+
| THE SITES |
| THE SITES |
+-----------+

Incase you are new to the internet,
please let someone else explain what
a SITE is, ok? :)

We are recently waiting for some of
the FTP Site maintainers to mail us
if they want their site to appear
in the Propagande List.

So far, just The Digital Dungeon is
subscribed to the list.

You may reach The Digital Dungeon
with FTP to:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX or XXXXXXXXX

Maintainers are: CBA, Burglar and
Viking.

We would like to see the Maintainers
of Gangster's Paradise and Mount
Tokay to send us a mail, if they agree
becoming a host for Propaganda aswell.

Uploading to the sites:

The Release HAS to be in one of the
common formats, meaning as a single
PRG file or zipped (1! - 4!) or even
LYNXed ... additional packing with
PKZip, GZip or LHA is allowed.
Strictly forbidden and ignored are
D64, POO, T64 and emulator alike
formats.
Uploads usually go to: pub/c64/incoming

You have to mail either me at:

countO(at)mail.netwave.de

or if the thing bounces:

newscopy(at)algonet.se

A MAIL is strictly recommended, so we
can see when you released the game.
Therefore most problems with the time
a game got uploaded to a certain Site
are solved.

Your mail should also contain the
copyright, the cracker and supplier and
maybe addtional information you would
like to be taken into consideration.

Incase you don't get a reply to your
mail, mail-bomb us until we answer.

You are the one to make us move our
asses !!!!!! :)

+--------------------------------------+
| Things which should be natural |
+--------------------------------------+
- The Release has to work :)

- Points are devided by the number of
groups which have been involved into
the release.

- Fixing Charts are the past.
There are no american fixing-only
based groups left, so there won't be
any fixing charts.
Points are taken for the Release List
only.

- Mistakes WE do will be corrected the
next issue incase you tell us.

- The List will be compiled from Issue
to Issue and will not be monthly.
We will keep a steady growing list
of the yearly points, but for 1996
there won't be a yearly release chart.

Note from CZ:

I hope to die before 1997 ends ...
Doing a yearly release-list is a pain
in the ass.
**
\/

OK
OK, THAT'S IT FOR TODAY ...

Please Let us know about improvements
coming to your mind ... these rules
will be printed next issue in a more
compact format and additions will
become valid the Issue they get
printed.

Mail us at:

countO(at)mail.netwave.de
newscopy(at)algonet.se

COUNT ZERO/TRC*SCS
Propaganda Staff

</pre>

Propaganda 22 ch02 - Revision history

Ymgve at 20:38, 18 June 2007