Mamba 14 ch08 Different Things
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different things
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the winner takes it all!
the solution to our anniversary
quiz is:
* alpha flight
* gelsenkirchen
of coz it was the group alpha flight,
since we all remember the quarrel
they had with omg. also the town was
not too difficult to guess, as one
of the persons in the first picture
of the comic wore a 04-sticker which
stands for the german soccer club
'schalke 04' and this club comes from
gelsenkirchen.
we thank you for great participation
in our competition.
the first prize was a cd, lp, or mc
(your choice).
the second prize was a t-shirt with
a painting from gotcha on it.
and the third prize was a competition
pro 5000 joystick.
and...
...the winners are:
1. max (tobias) of afl
2. twp (mark) of x-ray
3. martin of raisers (ex-holoc.)
congratulations!
we will contact you soon to hand over
the prizes to you...
the winner takes it all!
we have to correct...
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...that you in bonzai take care of
a subject which got already dis-
cussed to its end!
you wrote in your last issue of
lethal news, that magic man of
crazy has given out wrong infor-
mations about other groups to put
down other mags and to make mamba
look better.
but we have to say...
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that magic man is totally innocent
as he made a non-important little
mistake when he mixed up the for
sure at this time dying group
bones with bonzai! magic man never
had much knowledge about the scene
coz he never swapped and never
reads disc-magazines.
we already discussed the mistake
with the corruption staff and all
was carried out of the world.
we saw that you only quoted on
omg's words, only to make your
sparely stuffed mag look better
and fill it up.
but talking about mistakes...
we also found some mistakes, which
could annoy groups, in your last
issue of lethal news...
only to show you...
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...that nobody is perfect.
after we had a short survey on
your magazine we found the
following mistakes:
did you know...
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...that last ninja 3 graphics won't
be made by x-ample
...that jihad's former group was
action and not paramount
...that vip is a member of gbf/crest
and you listed them up seperately
in your grphic-charts
...that magic man is hardly unable
to speak nor write in english and
you can wait for a letter from him
until you are old and grey
we hope this topic is closed up
now, if you have any further
questions don't hesitate and
write to:
mamba< staff
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or learn german and call magic man
at:
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press '+' to read another board
review, this time it's the
warez castle...
board : warez castle
group : ikari + talent
sysop : warez king
number : XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
this board already got many groups
on their back.
i don't know the exact chronological
order, but the groups having the
warez castle at their hq were dcs,
fantasy, crazy, exodus, genesis and
finally ikari + talent.
the board got about 110 users, about
50% of them are euros.
the board gets a lot of calls a day,
about 15-20 new posts are made per
day. it depends, like on every board,
on the topic going on.
only a few guys got n/a as the sysop
doesn't like the users leeching too
much on account of the time they
need for that.
the subboards contain three message-
bases, 'anything', 'uploads' and
'elite #'.
there also exists a fourth sub only
avaiable for the cosysops, which are
mainly i+t members.
as a consequence of a lack of system-
disc-space only a few messages can
be saved on disc, so the users have
to call back after one day in order
not to loose the topic.
the bbs got three drives for the
public which all together contain
5807 blocks for the wares which
usually are 0-1 days old.
more disc-space is sometimes needed
for long games, or just if many
games come out.
judgement
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users 85%
speed 80%
sysop's character 23%
subboards/posts 78%
total............. 66%
please note that the final judgement
is the author's own biased opinion.
other users might have a total
different opinion about all mentioned
items.
...and one last word about the sysop
in comparison to the former bbs-
reviews i couldn't give you an exact
history of the bbs.
that's of course the sysop's part, so
i leave mail to the sysops asking
for the history and other facts like
how many calls the bbs recieves per
day etc.
in this case i was asking for that
stuff three times, but never got an
answer, thus i just wanted to explain
my low valuation for the sysop's
character.
ok this month we've got yet
another bbs-review for you, and
that is about the forum...
i got a complete story from the
sysop (thanx jason) and as he
of course knows his own bbs better
than anybody else, i leave the
story like i have got it...
plus it !
board's name : the forum
group(s) : random, illusion, dom
sysop : pudwerx
number : private
the forum opened in october 1989!
it is a members-only bbs that does
not allow new users to apply.
the board's membership is limited to
only the best in the pirating world -
that is members of top groups that
are the real wares producers.
there are very few exceptions (a
couple friends, runners and code-
suppliers.) other than them, it is
only the top elites. new members may
be added only through a reference
from a current member. most referals
are cool, however a few just don't
make it...
everyone on the board has n/a. each
user also gets 90 minutes per call,
and 10 calls per day.
the board has 5 subs: wares talk,
group news, the war zone!, oldies/
requests and random space (for group
messages).
the forum runs on a ltd kernal 20-meg
hard drive. this makes all tranfers,
e-mail and sub-posts much faster than
other drives. for transfer, the bbs
is divided into 3 new wares drives,
(of 1.25 megs each) 2 oldies/requests
(3.3 megs each) that users can swap
missed or old wares, 1 pal-only drive
(2 megs), accessible by europeans
only, and 1 random drive (3.5 megs)
for group member.
there will be soon added another sub,
just for the europeans, to talk about
wares they sent to the pal-only drive
there are currently about 70 users on
the forum: about 30 americans, and
40 europeans.
the board usually gets around 20
calls per day. and it's one of the
first places that new wares get sent.
(plus, with all the drive-space, the
huge multi-sider games, like ssi, are
ensured to be on the drives long
enough for everyone to get it all.
finally, the forum is running ucbbs
on the latest version avaiable.
(new features are always being added
in preparation for ucbbs v 1.4)
so far pudwerx's short description,
some additional words, the forum was
the atc hq all the time, when atc
died about two months ago it became
random hq.
the wares are usually 0-1 days old...
judgement
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users 76%
speed 80%
sysop's character 85%
subboards/posts 69%
total............. 77.5%
ok, this is not the end yet...
for the first time we got excell of
ikari & talent making some hot video-
reviews for mamba !!
he used to do that kind of stuff for
the new magazine headlines, but
decided to show his skills in mamba<
for some reason...
a monster ??? no !
omg ??? nooooooo !
it's the mamba-man !
- the freshman -
starring marlon brando
matthew broderick.
clark kellog has only been in new york
1 hour, when he gets all his stuff
stolen by a smart italian cap driver..
not the best start for a kid from the
country, who is about to start on the
academy of filmart.. but by a twist of
faith, clark meets the italian guy who
stole his stuff, and he forces him to
make up for the stolen goods.
victor, as the thief is called, offers
clark a parttime job so that he can
get his money back..and who can refuse
an offer like that ???
clarks new boss turns out to be
victors uncle, carmine sabatini, who
is in the import business, both the
legal and the no-legal. clark is not
real sure that he want this kinda job,
but when he meets the boss'es daughter
he is very sure that he want to work
for the uncle, if not just to be near
the daughter.. clark has in other
words, become a member of a very, very
strange family, and what he has never
expected to hear about, is not a part
of his own life... lizards, gunmen and
the fbi is only some of the new stuff
that will change clarks new life...
rating: 84%
- rocky v -
starring sylvester stallone
talia shire and burt young.
loosing means nothing, unless you
really have something to loose. rocky
balboa was the man who had everything.
but after 73 fights, and a long time
he is almost completely down, both
mental and physical.. futhermore his
manager has lost all his money on a
worthless deal, and left rocky and his
family in a total ruin.. but the will
to get back on the top has always
been rocky's trademark, and when he
meets the young fresh boxer,tommy gun,
he decides to coatch him, and in that
way prove to the world that rocky was
for real,and that he can't be put down
a big manager is trying to get rocky
back in the ring for one final "match
of the year"and ofcourse makes alot of
money on it.. but since rocky has
coursed a major damage to his brain,
he will not fight,so the manager turns
the young tommy gun against his new
teacher, rocky balboa!
will rocky take the challange, & maybe
risk his life.. or can he just turn
his back to a fight, something he has
never done before ??
did you like rocky 1 to 4, dont miss
the new rocky 5... rating: 90%
- home alone -
a new comedy by john hughes
the mc callister family house is like
a mad house.. everybody is confused &
afraid that they wont be ready for the
big event of the x-mas.. the trip to
paris! but one kid is just making too
much trouble, and is told to sleep on
the attic.. the next morning everybody
is running around in a complete mess,
cos they have to make it to the air-
port in a rush!! once on the airplane
they start to wonder if they didn't
forget something? ... kevin!!!!
kevin is all alone in the big house,
and he knows that his parents won't
be back for another 2 weeks..
kevin finds himself in heaven, he is
able to do all the things that he is
not allowed when his parents are home,
and he can go to sleep when he wants!
but (there is always one!) the fun
has an end, when kevin discovers that
2 weird guys are trying to break in, &
rob the house that kevin lives in..
only one thing can stop these hard-
boiled criminals, kevin!
within hours, kevin has turned the
once normal house into a fort!!
if you were sure that fort know was a
hard one to break, then try to enter
the mc callisters house after kevin
has filled it with trapdoors and
other mean traps.. the only thing that
kevin can do now, is wait untill some-
one will come home and save him, and
what's left of the house..
this movie is a "must" for everybody
that liked "problemchild" or just like
to laugh their head off.. the best
comedy this year!!!
rating: 98%
all reviews done by excell for mamba<
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