Mamba 17 ch02 News and Rumours

             news & rumours
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  * stormbringer of random announced
    to quit c64 in april, pudwerx will
    stop fixing, but keeps his bbs
    'the forum' online.
    skandle, who is still in paramount,
    joined random. illusionist, who
    made a little break is back in
    rnd.
    thor/rnd got busted again. rumours
    report about him being arrested
    for a short time.



  * according to dominators-members
    there will be massive changes in
    the group. rocha left dom, ninja
    put up a dom euro hq, the first
    board running a pal-version of
    ucbbs. (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
    dom dropped the dom/atc hq
    'metalworks'.
    it is still uncertain, if dom is
    going to arrange a party in summer.

  * the german post will close all
    "plk's" (postlagerkarten) in summer
    '91, reasons for that are the loss
    of many cards, many mail gets lost
    this way. (official statement)

  * the transcom & x-ray cooperation
    is over. according to chrysagon,
    who triggered off the separation,
    transcom was too unactive.
    the arrogance of x-ray got visited
    by the cops, they only took a few
    discs, his magazine 'bildzeitung'
    is still being released.

  * paramount, this months' #1 in the
    list of first releases together
    with action, have some quarrel with
    action, both groups claim to be
    germany's no 1.
    further paramount kicked cybernight


    and dropped the boards 'wares
    domine' and 'banned in the usa'.
    ture 7 left x-factor and joined
    paramount, his bbs 'bootcamp' is
    the new paramount hq. (besides
    'mad mad world')
    tronic and yankee rejoined p.,
    speed demon was caught and quit.

  * crazy is dead, the last active
    member magic man decided to quit
    the group.

  * gotcha left talent as he is busy
    working for several companies.
    (starbyte, rainbow arts etc.)

  * genesis project's magazine
    'corruption' is still delayed,
    right now ses of gp is working on
    a new main menu.
    zorlac (x-cfa) joined genesis.
    some unknown person released a fake
    war-declaration, in which anti-
    christ declares war to censor
    design, however, the note was not
    made by genesis.
    also a fake 'bad news' issue has
    been released.

  * wares domine is now triad hq,
    hero left triad to join light, icon
    left light.

  * scene press, action's magazine'
    won't be released at all as
    spitfire suffers from a lack of
    time. airwolf left manowar and
    rejoined action.

  * tdo of nec/nei left the group and
    joined legend. his bbs 'second
    to none' is now legend hq only.
    glasnost,who recently joined legend
    renamed to 'thunderstruck'.

  * insight is a new american magazine
    made by demo-groups for demo-groups
    it also contains selected pictures,
    demos, tools etc.

  * badbatch was a new group, formed
    by hobbit, reset of transcom and
    krush, sexton and skywolf of
    crusade. however, this group is
    already dead again, hobbit re-
    joined transcom, the x-crusade
    members have formed a legal coder-
    group.
    kid and scorpie, who also were in
    badbatch for a short time, re-
    joined f4cg. scorpie and abigail
    finally released the 10th issue of
    their papermagazine 'pirates'.

  * scorpion of ald joined origo.


  * last ninja iii has been finished,
    the game, which will be released by
    system 3 on disc, tape and cart-
    ridge, should be released very
    soon. according to markus wieder-
    stein, who wrote the protection,
    it will be almost impossible to
    crack the game.
    meanwhile the game already earned
    a lot of recognition in european
    computer-magazines. (c+vg 94%)

  * shamus, the author of 'handy-term'
    is working on a new protocol which
    is 17 times faster than 'punter'.
    it's called bi-h-modem.

  * chromance released a discmagazine
    based on the idea of 'gamers guide'
    by triad. it is called 'are we the
    best', different versions of a game
    are going to be compared.
    the mag also contains cracker-news
    and announces.

  * daw of censor rejoined triad, so
    did chorus (x-flash inc.)

  * sky (x-paramount) quit the scene.

  * watch out for more news coming
    next month...
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