Domination 07 USA Scene
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--------------------------------------- * Usa Scene * --------------------------------------- Welcome dear readers from Usa or Europe alike. In this chapter will be covered tha latest happenings in the American ntsc scene. I wish to make this chapter stand seperate from the regular news and rumours section in order to highlight the American scene. Kind regards to Elwix/Style and his great magazine known as Driven. This magazine is one of the most informative magazines in it's field, support it by writing to: Elwix/Style email: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX Now enjoy the latest from the land of the free (?) General Editor News and rumours: -------------- * Scratcher joined Chromance as sysop of the Bass Planet which became the Chromance and The Pulse magazine world hq, call it on: XXXXXXXXXXXX * Sphere/Onslaught became active again and decided to join Style with his bbs Liquid Palace, this became Style and Driven ushq, reachable on:XXXXXXXXXXXX * Canadian bbs Corrosion of conformity took on Triad as another host, sysop being Cybernoid/Dmx/Style, give it a call and support this legal bbs: XXXXXXXXXXXX * Galactus, News Jersey sysop of The Blue Galaxy joined Motiv8 with his bbs. But later on due to internal arguments and a serious lack of callers he then left/kicked from Motiv8 and joined Acrise & Excess but due to lack of callers the bbs went down. Quite a few people had arguments with him, but it was mainly between Motiv8 boss, Crossfire * Sphere/Style later joined Motiv8 as second group so now Liquid Palace also supports Mot, Style and Driven. * Legal lable Threshold Productions joined forces on a venture with the Driven magazine in opening a new ftp site, connect to it at: XXXXXXXXXXXX * Burning Horizon re-entered the scene and started up his former groups FTA (From the ashes) and old time group NOT (Noble order Thiefs) NOT memberstatus as follows: Burning Horizon - Code, fixing, calling Shadow - Code, calling, pal scene Mendrake - Sysop, calling, pal scene Shadow (creator of Avatar) is still in jail in New York but will be released in under a month and is quite serious with his return to the C64. The legal lable of NOT being Fta will come soon after a utility called 'Template Editor' has been released by Burning Horizon. The NOT worldhq will be located in Germany, The Dragon Tower, call: XXXXXXXXXXXX Incidentally, Burning Horizon has done splendid work in this very issue with helping fix the magazine to ntsc with Donar/[O] and also completly fixing the intro. His imput to this magazine will develop has time passes. * After weeks in the darkness The Dungeon comes back online which surprised a few as nobody knew what had happened and even rumours of the sysop Alchemist quitting the scene. But it is online again under a new number, call it on XXXXXXXXXXXX. * Lucifer/ex-Coderz was seen calling Dream park a few times, he is planning to return to the scene and put back online old Texas bbs, Phiberc0m. But since there has been no sign of him. * Dream Park is down, rumours say that once the hard drive was full, sysop Cyborg would close down his bbs. I managed to chat to him on the internet though and he gave permission for his voice number to be given to those with questions about the bbs and when it will return. Call: XXXXXXXXXXXX and ask for Shawn. * Canadian bbs and Chromance Hq, Final Genocide was meant to be down forever, but the sysop, Deviant recently stated that the bbs would again be online in some months. * After having some problems with his modem, Sphere managed to put his bbs online again, but you have to reapply and get a new account. * Uzzy left the scene briedly and returned for Rpg and other American groups. * A new Usa ftp site for ntsc demos can be reached at: XXXXXXXXXXXX /pub/mpython/cbm. * Usa mag 'Coders World' will be released again, to make contributions just email the editors: XXXXXXXXXXXX * Old time musician 'Sequencer' may be making a road back with releasing a collection of unreleased tunes. * Down By Law eventually got the drive problems fixed finally. Give it a call on XXXXXXXXXXXX. * Tristan/Empire returned to the scene and joined Success * Trc as hacker and also joined the staff of the Vandalism News. His interview appears in this issue. As written in the interview, Empire will be making a return sometime with Rich,Booze and maybe even extremist. More comments on this should appear by Tristan in Vandalism News. * Creative Micro Designs scrapped the 10mhz accelerator and are just going to sell the 20mhz. Fairlight in Sweden are even modifing games to take advantage of the accelerator. Thats all for this issue, next issue will have more support from American sceners, if you want to make any group contributions, board news and the like just leave me an email on any of the major Usa boards. Your faithful editor Jazzcat/ONSLAUGHT