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|THE INTERNET CHARTS| hosted by
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COUNT ZERO/SCS*TRC
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Once upon in time there was a quarrel.
It didn't stay alone for too long
though and quickly a community of
problems, quarrels and ignorance was
formed. Many people like to call that
community a 'SCENE'. Others joined
this 'scene' to become immortals.
Most of them failed ...
The list is back to punish.
We are here to honor the good and
damn the bad.
Follow the rules and become immortal.
Ignore them and be damned.

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|THE RULES| based on Psychobilly's Pulse
|THE RULES| rules. Revised for the net.
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Your release has to be uploaded to
either one or both ftp sites which
are currently taken into consideration
for the list.

These are:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Gangstar's Paradise
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The Digital Dungeon

Uploads go into pub/c64/incoming/
The files are moved to the appropriate
directories by the maintainers later
on.

Whenever the upload has happened you
HAVE to mail us.

Either mail me, Count Zero at:

countO(at)scs-trc.net or Newscopy at

newscopy(at)algonet.se

If you do NOT send us a mail, we will
ignore the release.
For example, I ignored this time:

ALL Motiv8 releases,the Laxity release
'WORDS DON'T COME EASY' along with
Armageddon's 'LAZER DUEL'.

No Mail - No Points ... Period

Your mail doesn't have to include the
release again. Just the name of the
release is fine ... additional comments
are welcome, but not needed.
Incase you release is a 1OO% version of
a game, please state whatever was
corrupt on a previous version.

Your mail is taken as a timestamp.
It is quite impossible to fake the
time on my mailserver, so this is
a very secure method to get a release's
time.

We will NOT accept mails from anonymous
remailers if your original address is
not known to us. Use your ISP's
mailserver or let someone else handle
your internet relations.

We are not spending points on releases
written in Basic (even if it contains
some ML instructions) or if the
program was created using any of the
known construction kits, game-makers
or seucks.

Points are given on english games ONLY.
Multilanguage is welcome aswell.
Game graphics don't need to be
translated, incase they are not
elementary to the game or it's
playability.

The general 6 months rule and the
known 24 hours rule apply to this list
aswell. They are known from the Pulse
Magazine and are not repeated here.

Points are spent like this:

O.O - 3.O For the QUALITY of the GAME.

O.O - 2.O For the QUALITY of the CRACK.

+ 2.O For a PAL/NTSC FIXED release.

+ 1.O For an already PAL/NTSC
working release or if the
game was released on one of
these systems before.

O.1 - 1.O For something special

- 1.O For ANY cracking bugs, 2nd
versions or things we simply
dislike (No Trainers, No
Levelpacking, etc.)

O.O - 3.O For TOOLS!

O.O - 1.O For Previews

- 5.O For ANY re-release

Comments:

Previews HAVE to be playable. So-called
V2 previews will be mentioned, but will
get no points.

PAL/NTSC seems to be a topic lasting
forever. A game is considered fixed
whenever it looks like the PAL version.
It is allowed to move sprites from the
upper to the lower border to make them
more visible, BUT slowing down music
and game play is NOT needed.

I am not going to discuss whether that
particular game requires a special
fix-byte to slow down the timer or not.
There are enough people out there who
can lead a serious discussion. I mostly
stick to what opinion I made up myself,
but aswell I do listen to what people
tell me. So if you think that YOU are
right, prove it to me.

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|The list in this issue was started at|
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| the 6th of June and closed on the |
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| 28th of August in 1997. |
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Before we start off, I would like to
introduce you to Count Zero's
discussion cemetary.

Burying the public discussions which
might have been there since the last
issue seems to be a needed topic.

Since the beginning of June there have
been 4 releases which got into public
discussion.

Ordered by release date they are:

- Magical Formula
- Castles
- Ice Guyz
- Plasm

Magical Formula:

This game was definately first-released
on the net by ALPHAFLIGHT.
I got their mail a few hours before
the mail concerning the Laxity and
Chromance version. Their version was
fixed fine, although the crack could
have been better.

Castles:

The discussion about this game needing
a fix or not raged for about 4 weeks.
The ONSLAUGHT version which was spread
only contained a silly fix for the
joystickbutton and for the loader they
implemented.

From my side only 1 point for an
already PAL/NTSC game will be added,
as nobody from ONS was able to provide
me ON THE NET with an original of the
game.
Also Mr.Wax of Chromance was asked for
an original, but he replied that
he doesn't have it.
If it takes a group 4 weeks and longer
to prove something like this with a
single upload, I am sorry.
Everybody is fast on the release
itself, but seems to fear to prove
things.
I would STILL like to get the full
original of this game, so mail it to
me whenever you are one of the 3
peoples on this planet owning a copy
of it.

Ice Guyz:

This one was simple. Skinhead fucked
up this brilliant game and it was just
a matter of time until a 1OO% version
would be released.

Plasm:

Hitmen returned with a bang and some
people didn't seem to like it.
Deff might have backstabbed F4CG by
giving quite some games to Hitmen, but
still F4CG does not need to change
their fixing and release philosophy
from one day to the next.
An unfixed music does NOT mean that
a 1OO% version is needed.

My exhausting statements about
cracking, fixing and 1OO% versions can
be found on 2ND TO NONE - Legend's
World Wide Wait Headquarter ... :)

Now, finally, it's

... time to give points
... time to deduct points
... time to finish off some heads

... time for the UNIQUE Internet

Release List.

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|The World's Insane - So Am I|
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|ALPHAFLIGHT | 5.O Points
|ALPHAFLIGHT 197O|
+----------------+
The Flight was on vacation it seems.
They did a quickie on MAGICAL FORMULA
(c) Magna/Media and Electric Brains
which gave them 5.O points,
including the 2.O for the fix.

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|CHROMANCE| O.O Points
|CHROMANCE|
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Just a BASIC preview named NETHER (0.0)
made it through the net. What happened
to last time's number two ?

And last time's number one seems to be
asleep aswell.

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|F CG| -O.5 Points
|F4CG|
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F4CG obviously had a bad time.
They had quite some games on the run,
but it looks like they lost in the
very end.
First of all I have to apologize for
leaving out ESCAPE WHILE YOU CAN PRV.
(O.1) last time.
They started off with 'RUNDES LEDER'
(O.O) which was written in Basic and
afterall is a revised edition of
STARBYTE SUPER SOCCER.
Nevertheless the Fantastics continued
with MR.ANT PRV (O.2), COLEE PRV. (O.4)
and FROGS AND FLIES PRV. (O.5).
All this was followed by PLASM PRV.
(O.4) which set a sign for Hitmen to

release the full version.
PLASM 100% FIX was considered a
re-release violating the 24-hours rule
(-5.O).

Still they didn't give up and released
MR.ANT (2.9) which didn't need a fix
at all. The music in this release was
fixed aswell, but obviously the game
itself didn't need it.
The rest of the release was well done
though.

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|To Fix or Not To Fix, That IS the|
| |
| the question here. |
+---------------------------------+

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|HITMEN| 1O.2 Points
|HITMEN|
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The german based group had a great
comeback with two warez rushes, which
outlasted most groups around.
Out of a sudden they released
BARREL BUNGER PRV. (O.2), CROSS INVERT
PRV. (O.4), the very nicely done
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE PRV. (O.7) and the
full version of PLASM +FIX (3.1).
On the Plasm release a -1.O was done,
as the HiScore-Saver was still on when
the trainers were selected (We had that
last time aswell).

The release of PIC RECOLOURATOR got
1.1 points. This simple but handy tool
was done by Bob/Censor.

Their second rush started with the full
version of COLEE +FIX (4.3) and was
finished off with LABE ME PRV. and
ON TABLE PRV. (both O.2).

Even when looking at the quarrels they
had with F4CG they did a nice comeback.
Let's hope they will stay a little
longer and bring some competition with
them.

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|LAXITY| 2.2 Points
|LAXITY|
+------+
They had SWEEPMINER (2.2) and UTOPIA
PRV. (O.O). A nice preview, but german
and in BASIC. Anyways it's worth a
check for sure.

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|ONSLAUGHT| 6.7 Points
|ONSLAUGHT|
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The australian lead group had a good
bunch of previews and a nice full
game this time. PENNY PRV. (O.4) and
TERRITORY PRV. (O.3) went through
without problems. The V2 preview of
MICRO ASSASSINS got no points
afterall.
The great and rather complete preview
of ICE GUYZ (O.8) could have been
cracked better.
Finally CASTLES (5.2) made it to the
FTP's. The last one is a well done game
with nice graphics. Only the quarrels
about the game made it worth a much
closer look. Nevertheless a full point
was added for the translation.

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|SUCCESS THE RULING COMPANY| 19.1
|SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY| Points
+------------------------------+
The ruling COOP had a nice time during
summer. Lazyness and vactions didn't
seem to stop the releases of
ALERT PRV. (O.3) and ASSASSINS PRV.
(O.4).
Just when it came to full games there
were some nice ones. BLOX (2.9), a
reversi typo-game was already working
PAL/NTSC. HYPERCARS (3.5) was released
by Armageddon before, but the TRC*SCS
version contained a complete and fixed
intro, while the Armageddon version was
just a rip-off.
The fixed SQUARES (4.2) was another
slapstick release, just like
REMEMBER (3.5). On REMEMBER a -1.O was

accomplished as a second version was
needed to make the release perfect.
Although the bug on this game was in
the original aswell, I stick to what
I say ... In this particular case I
wrote 'debugged' on the game.
Wasn't true in the first place and had
to become reality.

Burglar's hunt for points wasn't over
until then though. A well done crack
of ICE GUYZ (4.3) had to follow.
The game remained PAL though it's
a 1OO% version.

AND THE WINNER IS
AND THE WINNER IS ....

d=b SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY d=b
'o' SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY 'o'
/_\ /_\
19.1 POINTS

** HITMEN ..
\/ HITMEN ........ 1O.2 Points \/

.. ONSLAUGHT ..
\/ ONSLAUGHT ...... 6.7 Points \/

.. ..
-- ALPHAFLIGHT .... 5.O Points --
LAXITY ......... 2.2 Points
CHROMANCE ...... O.O Points

.. F4CG .......... -O.5 Points ..
/\ /\
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Propaganda 24 ch02 - Revision history

Ymgve at 20:53, 18 June 2007