Domination 08 USA Scene
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* Usa Scene *
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Dear Reader;
Welcome to the 'Usa Scene' chapter, an informative on
the latest happenings in the American NTSC scene.
News is gathered from the boards based in America,
over the Internet and in the successful publication
known as 'Driven'.
The American scene is rich in history and activity and
justly deserves a seperate chapter. In consideration
of the American scene being strongly connected to the
boards, please find a listing of C64 bulletin boards at
the end of this segment.
In addition, more American news can be located in the
regular News chapters.
Contributions are warmly welcome, please leave
feedback on any major American bbs or at the
Domination editorial address.
General Editor
* VENOM are back in the scene once again. Legendary
musician 'Image' has returned to compose and paint
under the Venom lable.
Kickback/Ex-Venom also returned to the group.
Lastly Carcass joined in as a graphician.
Venom Status: (12/1/1997)
The Hobbit, Carcass, Guardian, Image, Kickback,
Wsoft
* A swapper called Randy joined Style.
* Skyclad again goes under the handle of Moloch.
He left Omni and with Carcass rebuilt Armageddon as
a legal demo group. A demo is expected from them
quite soon.
* Edge of Midnight removed Onslaught from the bbs,
the board is now the fastest in the world with the boost
of the Super Cpu 20 mhz accelerator. Alphaflight later
gained the board.
* Final Genocide is back online, but as an independant
board, the number to call is XXXXXXXXXXXX.
* Both Holiday Inn Cambodia and The Evil Island changed
numbers.
HIC: XXXXXXXXXXXX and TEI: XXXXXXXXXXXX
* Dungeon Master joined Motiv8 as artist/fixer/coder
and remains in Zone 2 as his first group. He later left
Motiv8 and joined Alphaflight.
* Wsoft joined Venom as a programmer.
* The American fanzine 'The Underground' merged
with Softdisk Publishing's "Loadstar Letter".
* Threshold Productions died but basically all that
happened was a name change, they are now called
Arkanix Labs and they will continue making games and
tools and even some software for the Super Cpu!
* One of the oldest boards in the Usa scene, Ironfang
Keep, the Rpg Whq went down forever.
Both Fubar/Rpg and Wraith/Rpg left the scene.
* From Christmas Day The Bass Planet also became
headquarters to Dutch based group Xenon. Which will
be shared with Chromance.
* Natas rejoined the scene and joined Chromance as
ntsc fixer and coder, his second group is Carcass.
* Holiday Inn Cambodia went down due to a hard drive
crash, it should be online again sometime. Pol Pot, the
sysop has been on the net channel #c-64 several
times so things look promising.
* The Ancient Mariner, sysop of The Evil Island has
been put in the inactive list of Alphaflight until his
bbs is back online again.
* Fungus joined Carcass as a programmer.
* The Dungeon was on unstable ground as it was
probable that it would go down forever on the 26th
of February due to some isdn problems Alchemist
was having with the phone company. But the problem
got fixed and the board will continue to stay online.
* CMD (Creative Micro Designs) announced that they
will discontinue the production of the Swift Link
modem interface and replace it with the new 'Turbo 232
This new interface enhances the ability to use modern
modems by adding three new high speed modes of
57.6 kbps, 115.2 kbps and an extremely fast 230 kbps!!
The 'Turbo 232' is retailing at 39.95 US dollars,
* Aahz who was previously known as Asmodeus, who
had left the scene in 1994 rejoined once again. He now
has joined Carcass as a graphician and musician.
Carcass status:
Aahz, Fungus, Jovan, Natas, Pinball Wizard.
* Style status:
Alter Ego, Deathlok, Decomp, Dw, Elwix, Firefoot,
Massive Onslaught, Pk, Randy, Ray, Repose, Sphere,
Warnock and The Wiz.
* Probe is the new demo coing from Armaggedon.
Armaggedon status:
Moloch: code, Carcass: graphics.
* NTSC cooperation demo!
Everyoe who wishes to contribute must sed a email to
Natas/Carcass/Chromance at: XXXXXXXXXXXX
He wants to know your handle, what you will do (code,
music or art), how many times you will do each job and
ONE suggestion for the demo name.
Teams will be randomly selected with 1 coder, 1 artist
and 1 musician and then be announced.
Each team must do one 100 percent original demo part.
The demo will be multi-filed. The parts must be given no
later than April 1st to Natas in unpacked form with the
start address!
If you email, use UUencoded or MIME.
The demo will be linked and released on April 3rd.
AMERICAN BOARD LIST as of 7/3/97.
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FINAL GENOCIDE: XXXXXXXXXXXX Independant
THE BASS PLANET: XXXXXXXXXXXX Chromance + Xenon
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: XXXXXXXXXXXX Alphaflight
THE DUNGEON: XXXXXXXXXXXX Scs*Trc + Hitmen + Dmx
LIQUID PALACE: XXXXXXXXXXXX Motiv8
IN LIVING COLOR: XXXXXXXXXXXX Motiv8
DOWN BY LAW: XXXXXXXXXXXX Onslaught
DEADZONE: XXXXXXXXXXXX Onslaught
HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA: XXXXXXXXXXXX Alphaflight (down
THE EVIL ISLAND: XXXXXXXXXXXX Alphaflight (down)
FORTRESS OF DOOM: XXXXXXXXXXXX Atlantis
NEVER ENDING WARES: XXXXXXXXXXXX Indepedant
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: XXXXXXXXXXXX Dmx+Style
Well thats all in this edition of USA scene, once again
thanks to the Driven magazine for the their
informative view into the ntsc scene.
Until next time...
Jazzcat/Onslaught
