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THE OFFICIAL NEWS NEWS JULY 1993 ________________________________________ From now on, the Propaganda News will be devoted in an entirely different way than before. Instead of just reporting plain facts, we treat and research among the top groups. THE ONES TAKEN UP HERE, ARE THE ONES THAT MADE IT VOTED INTO THE TOP-10 THAT'S THE WAY IT WILL BE. ________________________________________ ILLUSION ILLUSION (Norway,UK,Germany,USA,Sweden,Japan) ________________________________________ Millions of us wonder about the future of the successful group. After the bust a few months ago (HERO & GENE), it has grown terribly quiet, and the loss of PUDWERX a few months back was not a a lucky pitch either. Releasewise, they've lost ground, and I dare saying they are a rare breed on the boards right now. Still, however, TRONIC, is doing a fine job with the release of his WIDESCREEN, a 1OO% devoted movie magazine, for the true addict. ________________________________________ Furthermore, rumour has it, ATMOS, once in LEGEND, later on hacking cards for ILS will have to stop due to a job. People still vote, perhaps out of habit. We await the next episode. ________________________________________ ILS NOW: HERO, FIST, SAURON, NME, REBEL, RICHIE, DERBYSHIRE RAM, PRODIGY, TRONIC, SODAPOP, BAZE, FREESTYLE, BRETT, GREGO AND ATMOS. ________________________________________ ILLUSION WORLD HEADQUARTERS IS PURGATORY PURGATORY XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ RED SECTOR INC RED SECTOR INC (Germany, UK, USA) ________________________________________ Red Sector, on their behalf have been showing intense progress since their return about a year ago. Many of the people, scenewise, were reluctant about the abilities of this force, but at this time we know they were wrong. Their WHQ, FORPLAY has been down for a while, it is their main goal making it the fastest and biggest ever in 8-bitstory. According to Psychobilly, the board will boast 96OO BPS-speed, Ramlink, 4 MHZ boostercard, 1.2 gigabyte Hard- drive and UCBBS+C*Base-options. This leaves most other boards on the 64 look rather pale, and I take of my hat and salute the RED SECTOR guys for daring to invest on the 8-bit-market. Any rumours about the death of RED SECTOR are thereby untrue, as they re- main on this machine, putting out wares. BULLETPROOF, their trendy papermagazine edited by DENSE is delayed, as with all other magazines these days (apart from PROPAGANDA that is!) RED SECTOR deserve with full credit the spot they've reached, and it is my firm belief that this is no come&go-group. ________________________________________ RED SECTOR MEMBERS, JULY 1993 ________________________________________ TRIGGER...........Intros MISTER PRESIDENT..Fix, Crack, Intros IRATA (TOP DOG!)..Originals, Cards BENSON............Crack, Code PSYCHOBILLY.......PR, Organizing(64) ..................Cracks, Originals TERMO.............Cracks, Originals DOUBLE-T..........Cracks, Intros IMAGE.............UK Originals COUNT ZERO........Cracks DENSE.............Mail, Bulletproof TNM...............Cards STREET TUFF.......Intros SCAT..............Graphics, PR BREGO.............Mail ANARCHY...........Mail, Originals SUBZERO...........Cards POSDNUGS..........Originals, Intros, Crx BREAKER...........Originals, Cracks SECRET MAN........Trader, Originals COMMUNIST.........PC, Originals MR.HELL *).......Originals MCLAUD *).......Originals NIGHTWRITER.......SYSOP (FORPLAY) *) are actually somewhat freelancers but make it into the list anyway. ________________________________________ THE RED SECTOR WORLD HEADQUARTER FORPLAY FORPLAY XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ LEGEND LEGEND (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, UK) ________________________________________ One has to admire LEGEND. No matter what happened, they always maintained their own personal style. They kept releasing Brittish fullpricegames, even though the amount of them decreased, while ALL OTHER GROUPS started releasing wares from other Software houses. (Unless I decided to count their release of AM0BA a billion years back) Right now, you may not see very much from LEGEND, for obvious reasons. The amount of Brittish fullpricegames has been dangerously low the past few months. No worries, LEGEND have a solid and steady support of fans, that always make sure they end up in the charts anyway, whether they crack or not. LEGEND plan to stay on the Commodore 64, at least all 1993, since they have 3 fixers working top priority for them. Cards is not a problem, and neither is originals (if the Software Houses put them out, that is!). From 1994, LEGEND will move more and more towards the PC and I await that with impatience. SH0CK, the magazine from LEGEND, edited by SKATER is once again delayed. There ________________________________________ will be yet another issue on disk, and there will be at least one on paper, but at this time, SKATER is either lost in the trail of a PC or somewhere on holidays. ________________________________________ LEGEND MEMBERLIST/JULY 1993 POWERPLANT, GOLDFISH, WESTBAM, FLETCH, DOC, ANTITRACK, XXX, SKATER AND BAAL. "NAMES NOT BEING MENTIONED ON THIS LIST HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR OBVIOUS REASONS!" WESTBAM AT SHALOIN TEMPLE JULY 1993 ________________________________________ ________________________________________ THE LEGEND/SHOCK WORLD HEADQUARTER THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ ALSO SUPPORTING THE SHOCK MAGAZINE DOWN BY LAW DOWN BY LAW XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ SUCCESS SUCCESS (Germany, Holland, UK, Austria, Australia) ________________________________________ SUCCESS is yet another group with their own very personal image. Almost un- noticed by everybody else, they pump out tons of releases, and good ones. It's as though they entered a magic era from Christmas and onwards, starting with the release of CRAZY CARS III. Sharing a successful board like DIVINE ULTIMATUM together with GENESIS is also a clever move. Futurewise, SUCCESS still has a lot more to give, and we'll be there with them as they take on us with pride. THE SUCCESS MEMBERLIST, JULY 1993. ________________________________________ ARROGANCE.......Organizer, Modem, Crack HI-LITE.........Modem, Graphics, Code B-WYZE..........Graphics, Swap SHOCKER.........Swapper BURGLAR.........Crack, Modem MOREN...........Crack, Modem NIGHTSHADE......Swap, Supply SKARABEE........Crack, Modem GUZZLER.........BBS (Europe) MICRON..........Crack TSS.............Modem, Crack VENGENANCE......Supply MYSTERY.........Supply DANNIE..........Crack, Supply MR.DISK.........Crack, Supply ________________________________________ ________________________________________ THE SUCCESS WORLD HEADQUARTER DIVINE ULTIMATUM DIVINE ULTIMATUM XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE SUCCESS HEADQUARTER EDGE OF MIDNIGHT EDGE OF MIDNIGHT XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE SUCCESS EUROPEAN HEADQUARTER THE LOST EMPIRE THE LOST EMPIRE XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ - GENESIS PROJECT - GENESIS PROJECT (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, USA) ________________________________________ During the last few months, GENESIS PROJECT has shown incredibly intense activity since March/April this year. Members were added, some old returned, while some were removed. The result of this action has in many ways been noted. They aimed back at the European market, they lost over a year back, and claimed back market they deserved. The myth about the group and Antichrist seems to vanish, slowly, leaving only the fair treatment they so well deserve. It took an organizational turn, where LA STYLE and TYGER worked on the German section, with NEWSCOPY and JUCKE taking care of the Scandinavian section. SNACKY and GOBLIN are both seriously considering comebacks on the machine, but only time will tell. DECOY DESIGN an admirable artist, returned to the scene, renamed to SANDERS and entered the squad. SES, old coder (of this mag as well) is coming back, and the best swappers on the 64, AIRWOLF and ASLIVE joined in as well. Rumours about members from PANDORA being in are untrue. G*P will continue their crusade on the 64 until its very end, and from there take it further. PROPAGANDA will be published monthly, and so will a lot more. GENESIS*PROJECT MEMBERS, JULY 1993 ________________________________________ LA STYLE.........Organizer, Cracking TYGER............Organizer, Cracking NEWSCOPY.........Organizer, Propaganda JUCKE............Organizer, Phreaking MURDOCK..........Modemtrader GREENFROG........Coder SCOPE............Graphics FASHION DESIGN...Graphics NEW SENSATION....Supplier MOTLEY...........Phreaking GOT..............ModemTrader, Propaganda WALKER...........Swapper ASLIVE...........Swapper AIRWOLF..........Swapper D-MAN......(USA).Cards SATAN............Cracking RAY..............Cracking SES..............Coder MC QUADE.........Coder SCRAP............Graphics SANDERS..........Graphics SNACKY...........Cracker SORCERESS..(USA).MOTHER ANTICHRIST.(USA).FATHER 9O % of the GENESIS members possess a modem, therefore 'modeming' has not been added on the list of jobs. Most members have smaller various tasks, such as intros, supplying etc, but we have clearly pointed out their maintasks. This is the complete list, and names not on, are simply not in. Furthermore, GENESIS*PROJECT has set up so called DISTRIBUTION SIGHTS, at far away locations in the world. These, however, are not connected to G*P member wise, but stock all their latest productions. ________________________________________ THE GENESIS*PROJECT/PROPAGANDA WHQ DIVINE ULTIMATUM DIVINE ULTIMATUM XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE GENESIS*PROJECT EUROPEAN HQ HACKCHECK HACKCHECK NEW! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX NEW! ________________________________________ CHROMANCE CHROMANCE (Hungary, Germany, Sweden) ________________________________________ Chromance have been slightly inactive compared with their previous perform- ances around Christmas 1992. Some inter- esting thins are occuring though. ROUGH and BLOCKBUSTER are finding their way back to the scene, and seeing old people come back, is as said a million times before, always a pleasant sight. Chromance's present goal is to get more active again, and continue their task. JINX is working on a game together with GTA. I hope, for the sake of CHROMANCE they will rock the nation again. CHROMANCE MEMBERLIST, JULY 1993. ________________________________________ MR.WAX.........Organizer, Crack, Mail JAZZY D........Modem, Crack, Code, Mail ALEX...........Code, Crack GRIFF..........Music OLLIE..........Code, Graphics ICARUS.........Mail JINX...........Germanleader, Code, Modem ROUGH..........Modem BLOCKBUSTER....Modem, Crack JOYRIDE........Sysop, THE HIGHWAY ________________________________________ Apperently, Swedish Swapper, JAYCE is coming back as well, but at current time it is unsure. ________________________________________ THE CHROMANCE WORLD HEADQUARTER PHIBERCOM PHIBERCOM XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE CHROMANCE EUROPEAN HEADQUARTER THE HIGHWAY THE HIGHWAY XXXXXXXXXXXX TALENT TALENT (United Kingdom, Germany, USA) ________________________________________ Talent may have seemed like a group taking more time off from the scene, but the issue is completely different. Due to a lack of wares, many groups tend to look lazy, even though they are not. BOD is always doing an impressive job taking care of the group, as though it was his own very son. In a way it is. MAJESTY does the PR-job, regardless if he intends to or not. His name seems to perform miracles just by 'being'. The addition of ROCKSTAR must be looked upon as a valuable expansion, as a cracker, or just as a name. Surprising. The loss of XXX to LEGEND a while back may have been hazardous, but they have made a quick recovery, and will stay on top, unless they decide to quit. TALENT intend to continue as long as it does not bore them, and seek a card- hacker among others. TALENT MEMBERS, JULY 1993 ________________________________________ BOD, MAJESTY, ROCKSTAR, CHRYSAGON, MORRISSEY AND X-TRO ________________________________________ ________________________________________ TALENT WORLD HEADQUARTER DOWN BY LAW DOWN BY LAW XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP (Belgium, Austria, USA, Switzerland) Holland, Italy, Germany) ________________________________________ F4CG are going through very interesting phases. We haven't seen much from them lately, but God knows they're active! TUNNEL OF WARES, their board, has gone through some neat changes, and is in my eyes experiencing a sudden rise. (Still it is always busy - annoying!) Most interesting about F4CG this month is their plans to hit the SUPERNINTENDO- scene. No, they will not leave the 64 until the scene goes down, I assure you, but a solid SNES-section is under development by NINJA and SOLAR. Starting up on a new format, from scratch takes time, but F4CG have some juicy aces up their sleeves to take them to console-success. God luck, friends! THE F4CG MEMBERLIST, JULY 1993. ________________________________________ SOLAR, KING, FEN1, MUTANT-X, STORMRIDER, BITMAN, SNEAPER, MAO, SMASHER, TWILIGHT, STRANGER, KOD, NINJA, NIT1 AND PROBABLY MORE. ________________________________________ ________________________________________ THE F4CG WORLD HEADQUARTER TUNNEL OF WARES TUNNEL OF WARES XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE RULING COMPANY THE RULING COMPANY (Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Austria) ________________________________________ THE RULING COMPANY is one of the groups that always go their own way. They never seem to mind what people say or think, they just keep on strolling their own path up the alley of 8-bit addiction. Lately they have performed some success ful moves, such as joining up with the board VIRTUAL REALITY together with ARMAGEDDON and the other fine system, IN LIVING COLOR, that we warmly recommend. Some changes member-wise have also occured. NIGHTSHADE quit the 64 (bozo!), AUDIENCE got booted and ended up in SUNRISE, HELLRAISER left for an old group and the funny frog from France, CHIPSTER(ex.DEADLINE) joined up. THE RULING COMPANY intend to continue on the 64 for a long time to come. They consider themselves to be a funny group and do not really care about competition at all. The Dutch members are at current time working on a game, which has delayed their demos. IRONCAT is working on a musicdisk, and a 1-sided demo is on the way ________________________________________ THE RULING COMPANY MEMBERS, JULY 1993 ________________________________________ ACTION JACKSON....Originals CBA...............Cracks TRX...............Coder DEFBEAT...........Composer RMC...............Graphics CAVRON............Originals JACK ALIEN........Cracks X-RADICAL.........Cracks, Originals RENEGADE..........Coder CASE..............Coder ALIVE.............Graphics IRONCAT...........Music JITY..............Swapper CHIPSTER..........Swapper, Originals CHELLSEA..........Cracker, Originals JRC...............Cracker, Swapper ________________________________________ ________________________________________ THE RULING COMPANY WORLD HEADQUARTER VIRTUAL REALITY VIRTUAL REALITY XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE RULING COMPANY HEADQUARTERZ IN LIVING COLOR IN LIVING COLOR XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ ALPHA FLIGHT ALPHA FLIGHT (Germany, USA) ________________________________________ An old group returning to the scene is always a pleasant occurence. So far, we have seen one release, Spaze Duel, fixed by EMPIRE. ALPHA FLIGHT took up a board in the 314-area, that goes by the name THE EVIL ISLAND, which is as I write definately picking up speed. Many of the original members are in but a lot more has been added to the list. Some old and familiar faces, like SKID ROW and SKINHEAD, old HYSTERIC-profiles and some more. It is my firm belief that we can expect a lot more from ALPHA FLIGHT in the future, no matter what. It would be sad seeing an old group coming back, and then leaving just a month later since they couldn't take it. I pray this is not the issue. Good luck pals! ________________________________________ THE ALPHA FLIGHT MEBERLIST, JULY 1993 MAX................Crack, Modem, Supply MARC...............Modem, Supply SYS................Graphics, Supply DARK...............Code ARNE...............Music MARIO..............Graphics, Code DARIUS.............Code ANCIENT MARINER....Sysop SKINHEAD...........Crack, Modem, Supply LANDSER............Code NATAS..............Code, Phreak SKID ROW...........Code, Crack ________________________________________ THE ALPHA FLIGHT WORLD HEADQUARTER THE EVIL ISLAND THE EVIL ISLAND XXXXXXXXXXXX ________________________________________ THE MONTH IN BRIEF OVERALL COMMENT THE MONTH IN BRIEF, OVERALL COMMENT ________________________________________ It has been a hilarious month. Now looking back at it, I'm more than pleased. It must be considered as the month, when most people returned to the 64, and more are finding their way back to the machine. Look at it this way: ALPHA FLIGHT returns SKINHEAD starts calling out again PANDORA does the same ONEWAY, return, and put out releases DECOY DESIGNS returns, joins GENESIS ROUGH comes back, in CHROMANCE MATT MURDOCK ex.ONEWAY, EXACT and RAW DEAL comes back as painter HOOKIE, ex.EXACT, ROUGH TRADE comes back, probably to GENESIS Regard this with a smile, a laugh or however you choose to take it. I take it with a giggle, and a warm feeling inside. Furthermore, there are some smaller news, worth mentioning. EVS/20CC will put up a board in Holland named DOWNTOWN. We advise you to be there on opening day, since it will be bonanza. Our dear friend TRICKET, once upon a a time a true DOMINATOR, joined the talents in VISUAL REALITY, and DOMINIC is thereby a VR-board. MIKE/VR started calling out. DOMINIC is out at XXXXXXXXXXXX What happened to the American force that was supposed to take on the world? RAW, or RUDE AWAKENINGS vanished into something I cannot define. Can you? Phew, that rounds it up for this time. A juicy compilation of what the 64 has to offer. Look at it as your bible. At least I do. Until next time. Newscopy/GENESIS PROJECT