Domination 04 ch05 USA Scene

USA Scene

The contents of this chapter lie with the American scene, its people, releases and boards. Next issue an American will take over this chapter, which I think will make this chapter more accurate. Firstly some news...


AMERICAN NEWS:

• Zirco/F4CG left this group to remain legal, after some unsuccessful attempts at getting the old "Tunnel of Wares" online again, but only in UC-BBS mode. Later he joined Storm as a musician and then decided to rejoin F4CG. Maybe soon TOW will be back up?

• Grego/Motiv8 after successfully getting "In Living Color" online again went into an inactive period. But again is active in the way of calling out.

• Chameleon started a return to board painting with some spectacular prompts and pics for "Dream Park" because of his ties and good friendship with AVT, he joined in. (Ed: Marcellus hurry up with that pic! 8)

• Eliminator decided to return to the group scene and serve as Hack/Phreaker and Internet source for Onslaught, but he later decided to stay in Avantgarde, his last service to date was the routing of the 1800 number to "Dream Park". After a while the Amiga caught the interest of him and he left the scene for a short time of two weeks. But later rejoined the scene, but only solo.

• Nomad joined Onslaught as supplier and modem trade but two months later decided to take a break from the scene so is put on the inactive list.

• Cyborg from "Dream Park" decided to join both AVT and F4CG and rumours say also he may soon fix (!).

• Deathlok got back into the group thing and left Padua for Onslaught, but a month later joined F4CG, but with all three groups he has been inactive. (ED: Hey butch the logos??!)

• Shadow and Mutant-X are planning to restart the old group Avatar with a BBS.

• Mizar/Ex-G*P/Ex-Empire joined Motiv8 and took his board "Intertrade" as the Motiv8 WHQ, also his H/P capabilities (?) enabled the Danish based group to call out more regular to the USA. Unfortunately Mizar got busted after about 5 weeks in the group for phone fraud related crimes.

• Hightower joined Accept and renamed to Soul keeper, also his Canadian board "Divine Intervention" became the Accept World Head Quarter.

• Moloch/F4CG left due to responsibilities of the games label, Threshold Productions. But also serves under the handle "Skyclad" in case some never knew.

• Sphere/UD decided to join Chromance, but due to the lack of activity left them for Onslaught. He also calls under the handle Insomniak.

• Empire have posted on quite a few occasions that Extremist will soon return to the fixing scene and bring a board online as well. But it has been quite sometime since this was said.

• Massive Onslaught/Ex-Armaggedon is fixing quite actively for Style and has done some intro fixing for Onslaught & Hardcore also.

• Rumours say that the Suicide/AVT is indeed Pudwerx under the handle. But this is probably false.

AMERICAN BOARD NEWS:

Some weird things have happened lately in the American board section, let's take a look...

• Edge of Midnight will soon go back online for either Chromance or Hardcore & Onslaught. It will have some cool specs with: 1.2 GB of harddrive space for C64 only. 9MB ramlink and available 14.4K connections. Running on a different styled Omni 128 program.

• The Evil Island goes offline due to lack of support and callers. Apparently though, it will go back up soon, so call it! 1-314/XXX-XXXX.

• Liquid Palace is part-time online again with the sysop being Sphere/[O+H]. It can be called from 10pm to 10am EST. 1-609/XXX-XXXX.

• Rumours say that AVT were going to share 'Divine Ultimatum' with Genesis Project. But due to G*P dying and DU still not online, AVT decided to share 'Dream Park' with F4CG.

• Morrisey/Talent left them for Onslaught and made Down by Law the Onslaught & Hardcore world HQ. Unfortunately some modem problems were experienced and it’s been off/on line regularly.

• Some fucked up lamer formatted The Dungeon twice, the board is back online with the old mod running. The 1800# went down finally to this board after a good nine months!

• Several demos have been released, by RPG, Storm and a few other groups.

• Some new boards should arrive soon and there is no new news on 'Terminal Obsession' going back online.

Comments:
Hope to see some more action in the American scene it’s a pity that NTSC fixing isn't taken seriously these days. But some old favourites might soon return.

Jazzcat.