Mamba 19 ch05 Different Things
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oki...
in this column you will certainly
find
* a report on the 2d competition
* another board review
* the radwar-party announce
* and a lot of new'n'hot video-
reviews
the double density game-competition!
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some months ago 2d called out a
competition, anybody calling himself
a coder should send his game to
double density, it was announced that
the 10 best games would earn 50000 dm
(ca. $35000) each !
a few weeks ago the deadline passed
and after examining a few hundred
games on the whole, only a few were
left to take into consideration.
however, after having a survey on
those games, the organizer, named
christian geltenpoth, decided to cut
down the estimates with the
explanation that no new game-ideas
have been developed, different to
what the organizer had imagined
before.
the result was that only two games
have got the promised amount of
50000 dm, the one game by mario van
zeist, the other one by joanis stagos
for a kind of tetris-game.
an offer of 20000 dm (ca. $12000)
was made to ivo herzeg for his
production, to most other high-
quality games 12000 dm ($7000) have
been offered.
directly after geltenpoth announced
his decision not to spend the
promised amount of money on the
games, (but maybe on his new software
magazine 'playtime' instead ?), he
went into holidays to greek in order
to let the uncomfortable atmosphere
in germany calm down...
a lot of programmers being offered
only little money for their efforts
already announced not to accept
double density's offer but try to
sell their games to other companies
instead !
...no comment...
board review
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board : channel 0
group(s): action, empire
sysop : crumbsucker
number : XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
as usual, here is a little! intro-
duction by the sysop himself...
'i first put up a bbs in 1988...it
was called dark side bbs and ran on
ivory...like all the boards did at
that time. it was just your average
lame/local board. soon i switched
to c-base and met up with a few guys
in falcon...they got my board as new
hq. it remained falcon hq until
falcon broke up and culture was
formed. late in 1989 fantasy needed
a headquarter as they lost warez
castle..i was friends with technique
and he asked if my board could be
the new fantasy hq...well, i guess
that was history from that point on.
i changed the board name to channel 0
(because firstly there were too many
lame boards with names like dark side
dark dimension etcetc...and i think
channel 0 is a bit more original).
after that i had a dispute with
culture and channel 0 became fantasy
and action hq. it remained this way
until december of 1990. at that point
technique and i decided to kill off
the group (fan)... i had too much
other shit to do in my life and
decided to take the board down.
4 months later i was contacted by
spitfire who asked me (begged really)
to put the board back up. i was also
always friends with tristan...seeing
that empire needed a hq we talked and
well... the rest is history! (again!
hehe)
user's info and such :
there are 104 users on the board.
about 60% europeans and the remaining
40% americanos. only the 'top' elite
will be validated, that has always
been a rule on channel 0. you must
at least be on 3 other major elite-
boards to get access. i have never
left e-amil to users on other boards
telling them to call and apply to my
bbs. those who want to be on, will
call themselves.
about 20% of the users (15-25 users)
have n/a on the board.
the two co-sysops are :
spifire/action (who is a very
competent co-sysop, contrary to what
some people have said), and
tristan/empire.
board info :
the board is run on modified
c-base 2.0 and i might update it to
3.0 (when it is fully de-bugged)
the transfer area consists of two
drives totalling 7273 block.
if there is ever a need for more
space (like when a six-sider comes
out or something) i have another
1581 available that can be added on.
the subs are made up of the following
sub-0: general sub for any discussion
new wares: self-explanatory
story sub: self-explanatory
real life: everything but the 64 talk
the board gets between 20-30 calls
daily (30-40 on a good day!). most
people that call post without any
problems. anything new that comes out
i get within a day at the most...
future plans :
channel 0 will remain empire/action
headquarter as long as both groups
are alive and trading (ed. aha!)
i might add another sub...which only
few people would have access to.
this will be the occult sub.
(basicaly because i am very
interested and involved in magic
witchcraft, and the other occult
stuff...)
(ed. that's probably why i always get
kicked off the board without seeing
any reasonable cause ?!)
judgement
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users 72%
speed 84%
sysops' character 87%
subboards/posts 61% (hi roy!)
total..............76%
please note that the final judgement
is based on the editor's own biased
opinion. other users might have got
a total different impression on all
mentioned points.
the pleasure is ours to announce
the final radwar party vi, again
held in a disco in heinsberg/germany
date : june 8th
place: discothek 'chez renzo'
am volkspark
5138 heinsberg (oberbruch)
time : 19.41
* skaters will show their tricks
* well-known dj serves at the stereo
* omg/amok will show up
* and much much more...
for further informations call the
radwar party line
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(2400 - 19200 bps)
or write to
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(+)
again it were excell and deltar who
didn't fear any pain only to get
your favourite video reviews,
hot off the press, (hollywood)
relieving you of another difficult
decision, that is, which movie to
watch...
...be excited! now !!
smack it...
- teenage mutant ninja turtles 2 -
as you would probably have guessed by
now, this is the follow up to the mega
selling "ninja turtles"..
once again our 4 heroes in a 1/2 shell
are back in the sewers of new york,but
not for long, as their "home" is
closed due to major problems.. another
problem, that should have been dead,
is the fact the the evil shredder is
back in town!! yes, after a quick nose
dive from a 20 storages building,being
squeezed in a dustbin-van, the master
shredder is back! this time the story
is different, as a smart professor
has discovered the secret about the
ooze that transformed the four heros,
from innocent little turtles, into the
pizza eating ass-kickers from the
sewers.. also shredder knows about the
secret oozed,and is of course also out
to get his hands on it. the shredder
manages to kidnapp the professor and
creates his own "mutants", 2 ugly
monsters,dumb as a door-mat, but they
obey shredder.. look's like our green
friends have a 14 foot problem,but i'm
sure that even 2 mutant monsters, 400
hostile warriors, an unlimited arsenal
of weapons and the desire to make
turtle soup, is not a real challenge
for the lean green turtles.. the real
problem is when shredder is turned
into a 12 feet tall "super-shredder"
after drinking the secret ooze!!
is this the end? or will we once again
be dragged into the dark cinemas to
watch the 3'rd film about the turtles?
i would set my money on the 3'rn film
in the row of:
"the teenage mutant ninja turtles"
rating: ****
1 star ; not worth the money
6 stars; not to be missed!!!
hit the plus (+)
- once around -
richard dreyfuss - holly hunter
renata (holly hunter) feels like it's
time to get married, but her boyfriend
doesnt exactly feel the same way, and
dumbs her.. renata decides that it's
time for a holyday, to forget and to
start a new.. she travels to a small
country in the caribien, where she
plans to become a timeshare sales-
women. it's here she meets the older
and wery forward businessman sam sharp
(played by richard dreyfuss),it's love
at first sight, and renata decided to
bring sam back to the family in boston
(+)
renatas family almost goes into shock
when they meet the older man. the rest
of the family is both fascinated and
repulted by the "man of the world",
sam is a man who says and does what he
likes, and that is something that is
not easy to deal with in the somewhat
yuppie family.. dont let all this text
about marrige frighten you away from
this movie, as it's really funny at
places and deserves more than what i
just gave it here...
rating: **
well, as there wasn't really that many
good new films this month, we will
continue with the hollywood gossip (+)
the follow-up to "terminator", also
stars arnold schwarzenegger, and is
called "terminator ii - the judgement
day" it's the most expensive film
e-v-e-r made in hollywod, the cost is
so far 100 million u.s dollars!!!
for the same amount you could make
5 films in the style of "home alone"
"dances with wolves".. kinda makes you
wonder if it will be able to make just
as much money as "home alone", wich
cost 18 million $, but made 268 mill.
the genre of "batman" is not dead yet,
and the follow up to that movie is
also in the works.. it's supposed to
star eddie murphy or arsinio hall as
the boy wonder... a black boy wonder
will make us all wonder!!
another cartoon hero that will also
go into the movie world, is the guy
some of us know as rocket ranger, in
the world of movies, his new name will
be "richoocket" a guy living in the
yeat 1936, finds a rocket pack, put's
it on his bag, and a new super hero is
born..
after only being on the silver-screen
for 2 weeks, the film with sylvester
stallone is number one.. the film is
called "oscar" it's a comedy and is
supposed to show sly as a funny man??
the top 3 in the usa at the moment;
1. oscar (sylvester)
2. out for justice (steven segal)
3. teenage mutant ninja turtles
the 2'nd film is n-o-t about a guy who
wanna get back on the old ikari legend
just-ice..
ok, that's it for this months issue of
mamba at the movies, but make sure you
also get your next issue, as we will
try to get some more gossip, hot news
and even more new movies, so that you
can decide what you wanna do with your
last 5 bucks! l8r, excell/flex video!
deltars movie reviews of may 1991
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
out for justice - rating - **1/2
steven seagal offers his usual martial
arts spree in this weak story. can you
believe spending 1 hour and 20 minutes
(the equivalent of 1 night) looking
for the killer of an old neighbourhod
chum?? that's it, and all for the sake
of making it right...with whom? i'll
leave that up to you.
mortal thoughts - rating - ***
more on this on the next page (+)
we have demi moore & glenne headly as
friends(?) and moores hubby (bruce
willis) at the beginning of the film.
two remain at the end. an interesting
scenario of seeing how good of a pal
you really are. worth the time! c it!
a kiss for dying - rating - ***
this is a remake of a 1956 film, and
even with age it doesn't improve much.
matt dillon plays a very pleasing guy
that has some strange thoughts on the
opposite sex. just can't help killin'
'em dead. sean young portrays twins &
dillon loves 'em both... (+)
some quick peeks now of things to come
soon to the local theatres:
robin hood:prince of thieves(kostner)
backdraft (scott glenn, kurt russell)
hudson hawk (bruce willis)
f/x 2 (bryan brown, brian dennehy)
switch (ellen barkin)
the fisher king (r. williams/j.bridges
oscar (sylvester stallone)
zandalee (reinhold, cage, anderson!)
stone cold (brian bosworth!)
one good cop (michael keaton)
let me know how you like/dislike the
new review format. deltar/tsm
