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|THE INTERNET CHARTS|
|THE INTERNET CHARTS| hosted by
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COUNT ZERO/SCS*TRC
A
A very slow time it has been since
we gathered here a while back.
Nevertherless we entertain you once
again with a release list covering
about 1O weeks of releases.
It appears that the infamous
'SUMMER HOLE' has moved in time just
like ecologists have foreseen.

The list is back.
You may not release, but we do !
There is no escape.
Surrender !

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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.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Gangstar's Paradise
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The Digital Dungeon

Uploads go into pub/c64/incoming/

Incase of problems also 2ND TO NONE
will be checked for the upload.

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 Chromance
release '64 LUFF' and maybe some more.
Thank Dodger that Excess and WOW+Role
are included in this list.

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, as
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 re right, prove it to me.

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|The list in this issue was started|
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| on the 29th of August and closed |
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| on the 15th of November in 1997. |
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|ALPHAFLIGHT 1970| 6.7 Points
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Right after their summer break they
returned with 2 full games to entertain
most of us. FLIPTRIS gained 2.5 and
stayed PAL only while PENNY made it
to the NTSC version and received 4.2
Points for it's current form of
appearence.
Kyril V2 preview received O.O Points.
See the rules.

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|EXCESS| O.2 Points
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Bloody Stars Preview (O.2 Points) must
have been a joke, I assume.

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|F4CG| O.1 Points
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It's just a shame that a simplification
of the rules has hit them.
When we started the list based on the
internet we decided to give ANY
re-release a straight -5.
Unluckily their release of THEPSOS PRV.
HAS to be counted as a re-release.
While other magazines only do a -1
on preview re-releases, we punish even
harder.
THEPSOS was written by Greenfrog/Motiv8
a long time ago and released by RSI
using the original name: SYNOPSIS
Therefore a minus of 5 points was given
to the fantastics.

All this made them go even stronger and
they came up with the final version of
FROGS AND FLIES which received 2.7
points. The traditional +1 for an
already PAL/NTSC running game is
included.
A boring but still funny game was
released by them using the name
GIRLTRIS. Unfortunately it is PAL only
and therefore just achieves 2.4 points.

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|DAMN I missed a re-release! And it |
|DAMN... was even produced by a |
| Motiv8'd groupie ! |
| |
| - HEARD AT CROSSFIRE'S HOUSE - |
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|LAXITY| 2.5 Points
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Still not running up to top speed or
quality they try to make it better
every time.
Old school groups simply HAVE to watch
out for these newcomers ... some day...

Their contribution for this list is
quite old already, but has to be
awarded in some way.
5*5 +FIX gained 2.5 points. A deduction
of -1 points was taken due to a pretty
stupid fuck-up on the game.
This bug can be found on the hiscores
when not having them on disc and not
saving them to disc. They are totally
fucked in that case then.

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|SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY| O.5
+------------------------------+ Points

The co-op ran very slow this time.
While they set up another web-based
BBS, the releases surely went short.
Just SKIDMARKS PREVIEW made it to the
FTP's and got O.5 Points.

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|WOW+ROLE| O.3 Points
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Another preview which would have been
ignored if Dodger wouldn't have mailed
us is TERMINUS 2 PREVIEW (O.3 Points).
Just like on the EXCESS release I'd have
preferred NOT seeing this game, but I
can't help it ...

THAT'S IT !

Shame on all of you, but it's true!

Legend didn't manage to put out
something so far and everybody is
waiting for them. Let's hope they come
up with new games aswell and not all
that stuff they still might have in
their disc boxes.

No sign of live from Onslaught aswell.

5 full games and 3 previews within 1O
weeks ! Let's all hope for more action
until christmas.

Now for the rankings ... like it or not.

RANK STATUS
RANK GROUPNAME STATUS

ALPHAFLIGHT d=b
1. ALPHAFLIGHT 197O 'o'
/_\
2. Laxity
**
3. Success and TRC \/

4. WOW + Role ..
--
5. Excess
..
6. F4CG /\

See you again next time ...

Count Zero/SCS*TRC
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