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* News and Rumours *<br />
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Welcome back once again my friends to one of the<br />
most important chapters a magazine contains.<br />
Here you will find the best coverage of international<br />
scene happenings from every field.<br />
Party details and news and Usa Scene news can be<br />
found in their own appropriate chapters.<br />
<br />
The very latest news is gathered from boards<br />
world-wide and from the Internet, very close to the<br />
final preperation of this magazine.<br />
In order to gain any of the latest happening to inform<br />
the scene in an uptodate manner.<br />
<br />
To help keep 'news and rumours' in perfect form, we<br />
need your groups status, news and other informations<br />
A spokesmen from all major groups would be great,<br />
if you feel up to this small job, contact is immediately.<br />
General Editor.<br />
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Acrise & Excess (Ger,Pol,Hol,) [%]<br />
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<br />
Wonders never cease in the scene, but the news of<br />
the two german lables Acrise & Excess hit the boards.<br />
The two groups merged into cooperation officially on<br />
12.1.95.<br />
Obvious reaction to this merger was of a negative<br />
response. Many people believed it was useless as<br />
The coop would contain mainly old Excess members<br />
and not to many additional talents.<br />
<br />
So we decided to speak with Sentinel about the matter..<br />
''First we guys in Acrise saw that we had too less<br />
swappers and Excess could create too many releases.<br />
At that point we seriously started thinking about a<br />
coop.<br />
In late October, H-Bloxx asked me if i ask the other<br />
Acrise members, what they think about a coop. The<br />
answer was that it could only help us.<br />
In early November we started to give the coders<br />
graphics for some intros.<br />
Red Rock re-opened his former private Excess bbs<br />
into a small public bbs.''<br />
<br />
The coop has so far been functioning fine with the<br />
support of a German bbs.<br />
One could now easily see this combined team as the<br />
right ingredient to contain both speed and activeness.<br />
<br />
Former Excess member Outlaw quitted the scene and<br />
also old scener Truss quitted too.<br />
Now that the cooperation was in effect, some cutback<br />
on members had to take place.<br />
First to go was Scratch, a graphician from Excess.<br />
Pulse/Acrise was second to go, even though he was<br />
still only on trial period.<br />
Artlace went inactive to the point where he was<br />
removed from the member list.<br />
<br />
Gaining some new members was now the key, as the<br />
excitement of a new project would most certainly<br />
lure some useful talents.<br />
Hornet/Agony joined in as a graphician, and was<br />
soon followed by Mhd/Motiv8 (according to Sentinel)<br />
who joined as a musician, trader and painter.<br />
<br />
Their publication Sanforized should be out sometime<br />
quite soon, being ofcourse released under the coop<br />
flag.<br />
Same with very popular publication Nitro, which will<br />
also be out very soon.<br />
The normal happenings of these groups will still occur,<br />
as i see mail cracks, graphics & music coll.,magazines<br />
and even the odd demo. More news next issue..<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Alien Prophet,Authentic,Artex,Beat Up,Bordeaux,Cat,<br />
Decoy,Fli,Gash,Hornet,H-Bloxx,Master S,Mhd,Nasty Boy<br />
Red Rock,Riddler,Rhx,Sentinel,Spermbird and Twynn.<br />
<br />
CoverAge: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Acr + Exc Ehq<br />
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Alphaflight (Ger,Usa,Uk,Pol,Hol)<br />
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The German based groups has been performing quite<br />
well of late with quite a few releases over the<br />
Christmas period.<br />
They reinforced their already huge ntsc fixing<br />
divion, with the enrolement of Mercenary/Empire.<br />
Who has been known in the past to have made some<br />
nice tools also, activity maybe a problem though.<br />
<br />
Megaswapper Spider left the crew and teamed up<br />
with Danish Motiv8.<br />
A cloud of confusion settles over Germany with<br />
several busts of various people abusing pbx's.<br />
Address books and other information was gathered<br />
by the police, who now have a knowledge on quite a<br />
large percentage of the German C64 scene.<br />
Xenox knowing his address was found, put his bbs,<br />
Escapade offline till the 20.12.95 after the heat had<br />
cooled down. But unfortunatly now the bbs has been<br />
blacklisted over long distance empire, at&t.<br />
<br />
On a brighter note, Californian bbs, Holiday Inn<br />
Cambodia, goes back online again at it's old number.<br />
This time running on an older version of c*base, to<br />
the discomfort of some.<br />
Someone that really doesn't know what group their<br />
in would be Blaze.<br />
Who supposably was to be an Afl, Chromance or<br />
Success * Trc member, it turned out to be the latter.<br />
Things seem to be still going quite well for the flight<br />
who appear still on the Usa boards.<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Ancient Mariner,Calypso,Chotaire,Cryonic,Ignorance,<br />
Marc,Max,Mercenary,Pol Pot,Ream,Shuze,Skinhead,<br />
Styx,Xenox and Zapotek.<br />
<br />
The Evil Island XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Afl UsHq<br />
Holiday Inn Cambodia XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Afl Whq<br />
Escapade XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Afl Ehq<br />
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Avantgarde (Ger,Usa,Uk,Pol,Den)<br />
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Its really been a quite past couple of months for the<br />
cracking sensation. But we've managed to report<br />
some happening since last issue.<br />
<br />
Firstly to enforce the legal side, Metal/Vibrants/Cml<br />
joined as 3rd group, ofcourse as musician.<br />
Organizer Deff/Avantgarde seems to be very busy<br />
with work at Bmg/Ariola, whether this will effect the<br />
group long term is still unclear.<br />
But his presence on the Usa boards as dimished<br />
rapidly, surely effecting the organization.<br />
Suicide, their main fixer, became less active.<br />
Due to his ntsc c64 not functioning any longer, a new<br />
one is already on the way.<br />
According to other magazines and the current<br />
rumours, Suicide is apparently a member of the<br />
strange 'Question Mark' group, under alias.<br />
<br />
Having also released a small demo at the first ever<br />
Avantgarde meeting, a larger production may also<br />
be planned soon.<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Astaroth,Chameleon,Cupid,Cybersurfer,Cyborg,Deff,<br />
D'ram,Druid,Eliminator,Freestyle,Intruder,Jack Alien,<br />
Jack Daniels,Metal,Rage,Renegade,Skywolf and Suicide.<br />
<br />
Dream Park XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Avt+F4cg Whq<br />
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Chromance (Hun,Ger,Usa,Can,Pol) &lt;C&gt;<br />
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Activity has picked up dramatically of late in this<br />
Hungarian based crew.<br />
After a slump earlier this year with the organization<br />
part of the group in army service, things looked dim.<br />
But as it appears now, things are returning back to<br />
normal and even expanding in certain areas.<br />
<br />
They gained a new Texas scener known as Zeyex<br />
who joined as original supplier and modem trader.<br />
He is already on most Usa boards on a regular basis.<br />
<br />
Their Canadian board, Final Genocide changed number<br />
and Fusion joined to help sysop the bbs with Deviant.<br />
In similar fashion Xxl joined to help monitor their Polish<br />
hq, County Jail.<br />
Sage rejoined the scene and teamed up as a Polish<br />
musician.<br />
On a lighterside, their promising megaswapper Scatman<br />
was kicked from the team. But of recent they managed<br />
to refill his position with Lotus/Ex-Skylight, who joined<br />
as a graphcian and swapper. (Ed: also the brother of<br />
Sage) With Techno/Ex-G*P joining into as supplier.<br />
<br />
Their old bbs 'Edge of Midnight' is still down, sysop<br />
Rugrat is apparently changing mod to Omni 128.<br />
If this is true the process is indeed taking a long time.<br />
Rugrat can be spotted occassionally on the Internet.<br />
<br />
Activity has returned to normal and may heighten over<br />
the coming months with the likes of Wozio and Mr Wax<br />
back to their normal activities.<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Alias Medron,Amc,Bolee,Deviant,Fusion,Griff,Immortal,<br />
Janee,Jaydee,Jazzy D,Lion,Lotus,Mc Byte,Motion,<br />
Mr Wax,Pete,Sage,Skud,Skull,Spermbird,Syco,Techno,<br />
Vector,Wozio,Xxl,Zar and Zeyex.<br />
<br />
Edge of Midnight XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (down)<br />
Final Genocide XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Chq<br />
County Jail XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ehq<br />
Overdose XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX phq<br />
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F4cg (Bel,Swe,Usa,Ger,Ita,Aus)<br />
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Fantastic four cracking group, have certainly been<br />
busy, although a very quite Christmas period for them.<br />
Since last issue they have been involved with a few<br />
joint releases with Avantgarde.<br />
Members have also been involved with the production<br />
of magazines such as Propaganda and The Pulse.<br />
Ntsc fixing became a problem for them, so Stablizer<br />
of Demonix joined on trial as a fixer.<br />
He was later removed due to being incapable at the<br />
tasks he was provided with, and since then has left<br />
the scene for the Ibm.<br />
<br />
A small clean up took place with inactive members were<br />
put under the microscope.<br />
Both The King and Idol were removed and several days<br />
later they also announced that both Goz and Australian<br />
member Cerebus had left the scene.<br />
<br />
American member, Moloch confused some when he<br />
posted that he joined demo group '9th hell' but is also<br />
still in F4cg, and merely joined the legal group as 2nd.<br />
Walker, their long time mail distributor since the days<br />
of Genesis*Project joined the Swedish army on<br />
January 1st. Fellow member $ixx will take over all of<br />
his contacts.<br />
To help fill the gap in mail spreading, they signed on<br />
Polish megaswapper Chash who joined on trial only.<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Antitrack,Aristo,Bitman,Chash,Cybersurfer,Cyborg,<br />
Decoder,Devil,Draz.Fen1.Hain,Maja,Morris,Motley,<br />
Mr Alpha,Moloch,Neotec,Newscopy,Playboy,$ixx,<br />
Smasher,Sneaper,Solar,Therion,Total Chaos,Walker<br />
and Worm.<br />
<br />
DreamPark XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX F4cg & Avt whq<br />
FTP: Interpark: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
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Hardcore (Ger)<br />
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Nothing much has really happened since their<br />
seperation with Onslaught.<br />
The scene is still in confusion on who is actually<br />
organizing this once promising group.<br />
Ramirez has shown obvious disgust with the<br />
re-release of Fred's Back 4, which was released<br />
earlier by Alphaflight and later by Onslaught.<br />
To make matters worse they lost their whq 'The galaxy'<br />
With sysop Galactus: ''As far as i'm concerned<br />
Hardcore doesn't exist anymore''<br />
<br />
No telling what the future will bring, but it doesn't<br />
look promising.<br />
Official Status:<br />
BlockBuster,Bwyze,Carlos,Communist,Creat,Dooze,<br />
Leeway,Nebula,Rap,Ramirez,Shocker,Volunteer,Zoomo<br />
and Zore.<br />
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Hitmen (Ger,Swe,Pol)<br />
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This rebuilt crew have remained on a stable basis<br />
since last issue with an ever growing amount of fixes<br />
and first releases.<br />
Main cracker, Dodger, showed apparent interest in<br />
a rebuild of Dytec.<br />
Where he would still do some organizing within that<br />
group even though not being an official member.<br />
But it seems this will no longer happen, and Dodger is<br />
quite happy in Hitmen and has no intention of leaving.<br />
<br />
Hitmen follow many other groups with recruitments<br />
of sceners from the ever expanding Polish scene.<br />
They gained Moby, who joined as an original supplier.<br />
Their bbs in the states, The Dungeon, still remains<br />
down, due to an unpaid phone bill (again). It is rumoured<br />
to go back online within a few weeks, but read more<br />
about it in the Usa scene chapter.<br />
To give Swedish members more support they now<br />
share popular Fairlight Hq, Wares Aquarium.<br />
Which allows more correspondance with The Ministry.<br />
<br />
Has posted on the boards, it is even rumoured that<br />
they might be working on a small demo.<br />
The programmer behind this was to be Groepaz, this<br />
should be confirmed by next issue though.<br />
Official Status:<br />
Curlin,Dodger,Groepax,HiLite,Jayce,Jihad,Jinx,<br />
Lawnmower Man,Marcus,Moby,Peacemaker,Raze,<br />
Sabotage,Traz,Tyron and Vortex.<br />
<br />
The Dungeon XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (down)<br />
The Mystical Paradise XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
Wares Aquarium XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
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Motiv8 (Den,Usa,Ger)<br />
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Danish based crew Motiv8 have shown a steady flow<br />
of releases and good activity the last months.<br />
Firstly they gained some new members such as<br />
Larry/Pandora/Talent who left Pandora and joined,<br />
but still remains in Talent Productions as 2nd group.<br />
Tmg/Fatum joined in as a graphician and musician,<br />
sadly Thor/Glory confirms that Motiv8 member, Natas,<br />
has indeed officially left the scene.<br />
<br />
Expanding on the mail market, they gained Alphaflight<br />
megaswapper Spider.<br />
Their main swapper The Fresh Prince, has been<br />
rumoured to return to activities and the memberstatus<br />
as soon as he establishes his contacts once again.<br />
<br />
Unfortunatly the Army Service pays it's dues on<br />
another scener, this time being Larry.<br />
He starts his service on Jan.2nd. and will obviously<br />
slow down his current activities.<br />
Mhd/Feniks a talented musician and graphician joined,<br />
only later to leave for the new Acrise & Excess coop.<br />
The return of magazine Earthquake should be quite<br />
soon after some delays and may even come out under<br />
the Motiv8 lable.<br />
Official Status:<br />
Binjinx,Bird,Clive,Crossfire,Eddie,Greenfrog,Grego,<br />
Ibanez,Iceball,Larry,Mason,Merlin,Mizar,Spider,<br />
Tg Acme and Tmg.<br />
<br />
<br />
In Living Color XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
Mount Olympus XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
FTP: Interpark: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
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Onslaught (Aust,Hun,Ger,Den,Usa) [O]<br />
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The group has settled down after months of<br />
organization on an international scale.<br />
They seem to be having some media problems with<br />
certain people, which is strange considering<br />
everything has been going very well for this still<br />
young group.<br />
Grafee joined to help supply originals, along with<br />
German Kinley/Ex-Pdx.<br />
One of their three Turkish recruitments left the<br />
scene, that being Sharp.<br />
<br />
On the magazine front, their production Vandalism<br />
News has recieved quite a few awards lately in other<br />
magazines. Being one of the most active releases<br />
of theirs besides their usual first release and mail<br />
cracks.<br />
Of recent they signed on The Unholy/Demonix who<br />
joined but will remain in Dmx also as 2nd group.<br />
<br />
Official Status:<br />
Bizarre,Code 18,Donar,Digahole,Deekay,Gop,Grafee,<br />
Grize,HeavyHead,Homeboy,Hardsequencer,Jazzcat,<br />
Jolz,Kinley,Meff,Morrisey,Mr Brain,Morbid,Rap,Shades<br />
Tmm,Trouble,Vengeance and Witty.<br />
<br />
Down By Law XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [O] Whq<br />
DeadZone XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [O]Ushq<br />
Westpoint XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [O] Ehq<br />
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Success & Trc (Hol,Ger,Usa,Pol) [&lt;]<br />
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The ruling cooperation won also an Award this issue<br />
in Domination for most popular group of 1995.<br />
However the Christmas period was an inactive time for<br />
them.<br />
Lots of happenings since last issue.<br />
Firstly, they gained some new members, Stake from<br />
Hungary as supplier and fixer. Who will also soon<br />
set up their second ftp site, which will be based in<br />
Hungary.<br />
CountZero joined in as cracker and fixer, and one<br />
would think just a name, but he has proven quite<br />
active with several releases by him already.<br />
They began a Czech. section by signing on both<br />
Bacillus and Allitaice from Citadel, its still uncertain<br />
what Necromantic is doing these days.<br />
<br />
Tristan/Empire left them and joined the coop, it is<br />
still unclear what purpose he will serve in the group.<br />
<br />
Their world head quarter, The Dungeon, is still offline<br />
due to an unpaid phone bill. Read a report in 'Usa Scene'<br />
covering this in detail.<br />
<br />
<br />
Over the Christmas period, they decided to give a<br />
clean out of the memberstatus and these were the<br />
ones removed..<br />
Case,Cavron,Cruze,Dannie,Guzzler,Jity,Jrc,MrDisk,<br />
Mistri and Sailor.<br />
This huge removal would give a sense of some new<br />
blood soon to join the coop.<br />
However, former inactive member Spectator returned<br />
to activity on the mail front.<br />
<br />
The uncertain scener Blaze was found to be an<br />
official Scs * Trc member, after rumours of him<br />
being in Chromance and Alphaflight.<br />
Neither matters no longer as he decided to quit the<br />
scene.<br />
Official Status:<br />
Arrogance,Alchemist,Allitaice,Bacillus,Burglar,Cba,<br />
CountZero,Credo,Coolhand,H-Bloxx,Lord Crucifier,<br />
Moren,Micron,Nightshade,Sliver,Spectator,Stake,<br />
Splatterhead,Titanic,Trax and Tristan.<br />
<br />
The Dungeon XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (down)<br />
FTP: Digital Dungeon: utopia.hacktic.nl<br />
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SINGLE NEWS:<br />
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* Conan of Trsi quitted the scene for SNES.<br />
<br />
* Jer/Panic joined Laxity as 2nd group,<br />
Vague/Laxity joined 'Question Mark' as 2nd group.<br />
Calamity/Cream joined Laxity as graphician.<br />
Violator/Ascraeus joined Laxity, but also remains in<br />
Ascraeus as 2nd group.<br />
Laxity: Angel Dust,Calamity,Didi,Dr Dre,Jer,Manik,<br />
Vague and Violator.<br />
<br />
* Eight members of Bronx left because of inactivity<br />
and made their own group.<br />
<br />
* Technoir/Ex-Incursion may soon be returning to<br />
the scene.<br />
* A new version of Novaterm is soon coming out on<br />
cartridge, and will be called Novarom.<br />
<br />
* Atlantis Status:<br />
Avalance,Dr Science,Dr Zoom,Robocop,Aegis,Ba,<br />
Chaotic,Dano,Darkness,Dave,Dr Doom,Dr Who,Freddie<br />
Gangstar,Hi-Top,Kirby,Lala,Mr Giga,Neotec,Racer,<br />
Rebel,Smd,Snap,Thirt,Troop,Tuc and X-Poser<br />
<br />
* Plush Status:<br />
Caprice Design,Seba,Techno,Dow Jones,Mip,Cosowi,<br />
Gangstar,Brix,Echo,Honk,Brisco and Map<br />
<br />
* The new Megastyle demo should be out in Spring '96.<br />
Members are busy with work and school.<br />
<br />
* Reflex formed a Pc section called 'Reflex 64' members<br />
are: Quiss,Guru,Pvt,Kb,Pvcf,Odysseus and Dr Kaos.<br />
<br />
* Pat/Agony quit the scene (again).<br />
<br />
* Unifier rejoined his former group Flash Inc, it is<br />
hoped that the new Hotshot magazine will be released<br />
soon, with rumoured coding by Hcl/Ex-Censor.<br />
<br />
* Nightrain rejoined the scene and joined Australian<br />
group 'Ruffnex' as a cracker.<br />
<br />
* Didi/Laxity/Atl left his second group Atlantis.<br />
<br />
* Bren left Mayhem and built his own group.<br />
<br />
* Caledonian, a Uk scener joined Ambush as swapper.<br />
<br />
<br />
and that is all for this issue, i hope you have enjoyed<br />
the latest scene happenings.<br />
For more news read 'Party Time' and 'Usa Scene'<br />
for details in specific fields.<br />
Regards;<br />
General Editor<br />
<br />
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