Mamba 12 ch08 Different Things
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different things
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yeah !! this is already the 12th
issue of our disc-magazine, and we
think this anniversary must be
celebrated...
that is the reason why we decided to
arrange a little competition (liitle
budget, little competition!)
how to participate ?
simply answer the following two
questions and write it to us on a
postcard or letter !!!
1. look at the comic !!!
which group of the scene is shown
in the comic (the ones with masks)
2. in which german town the comic
takes place ?
just think of soccer !
write the answers down and send it to
mamba<
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ps.the deadline for the competition
is the 1st of december !!!
we know that german citizens have
advantages, sorry !!!
the prizes
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1) 1 lp, cd or mc (your choice)
(according to your equipment!)
2) 1 t-shirt with a cool gotcha-
graphic on it
3) 1 competition pro joystick
consolation prize : a mega-swapper
called 'deff' (about 40 contacts)
in this issue we begin to review
some american bbs's !!
the test comprises about 10-12 boards
you will find about 2-3 reviews in
each of the next 3 issues !
this time we got only one review,
because we could not catch other
sysops in the short time to get the
necessary background informations !
...now get a closer view of
'the shaolin temple'...
board : the shaolin temple
group : tsm (headquarter)
sysop : aycee/tsm
number: XXXXXXXXXXXX
the bbs was put up about 2 years ago
by the female sysop aycee, who first
ran the board for mirage with the
name 'castle of radiance' !
3 months after the board was put up,
aycee joined tsm and renamed the bbs
to 'the shaolin temple' !
today, the board got about 125 users,
who have to handle with ivory-term,
some of them are calling regular,
some only once a while.
the bbs gets about 15-20 calls every
day, but many of the posts are done
by the ikari & talent members.
among the 125 users are about 20%
euros, 15% of the users got n/a !
the bbs contains 4 subs, for group
news, uploads, and bullshit etc.
three drives, which contains together
9540 blx, are usually filled with
0-2 days old wares, but it sometimes
happens, that certain wares are later
uploaded for some reason.
judgement
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users - 63%
speed of wares - 69%
sysop's character - 88%
subboards/posts - 45%
-- total -- - 66%
please note that this judgement is
our own opinion, other users may
have a totally different point of
view of the bbs and the sysop, but
we think it is fair !
look out for more bbs-reviews in the
next issue(s) !!!
+ for a letter to the editor!
in the last issue we urote about
inc's comeback with their first-
release 'where in the time is carmen
sandiego'.
we also wrote that mirage cracked
the game one day earlier, but it
didn't get on the elite-boards due
to mirage-wares are banned there.
ok, some of the informations are
wrong, but the truth did come out
later.
but first read a letter we got from
the states concerning this matter.
read our comment after the letter.
'hello mamba.
i really don't expect you to have the
balls to print this, but at least i
can set you straight...
in your mamba 11, you state in the
news and rumours section that 'inc'
has made a come-back with 'w.i.t.t.i.
c.s.' that's bullshit. they did not
even release it.
mirage released it first.
a lamer, trying to impress inc, put
it out later with an inc intro on it.
the bogus inc release was got to
maybe 3 boards and everyone says it
was the mirage crack with their intro
removed. inc (a fine group) had
nothing to with this and have
admitted it in posts.
the mirage release was on perhaps a
hundred boards in 1 day.
how can mirage be banned from elite
boards, when they run about 16 elite
boards themselves. in addition to
their own boards, their releases are
are on all of the other real elite
boards in the states.
their wares are banned on about 3
boards who all support nec (who
everyone in the states knows is
insanely jealous of mirage). matter
of fact when mirage beats nec,
horizon usually throws someone out
of nec as a result! (and a lot of
guys are getting thrown out lately!!)
there are only 3 active cracking
groups left in the states now (mirage
nec and tsm). they are all fighting
hard to get the new wares out. the
problem is not an inability to crack
them, it is simply a matter of how
are you going to crack something if
the original never shows up in the
states ? all 3 are fast at the crack,
so whoever is lucky enough to get the
original is going to get the crack
out first. in any given week anyone
of these 3 groups is going to be no1.
to the few boards that claim not to
want mirage wares, i guess they do
without the crack when mirage is
first ? (yeah...right! check the
logs on the elite boards and see who
is grabbing the mirage releases ).
last item...if you (mamba) would get
your nose out of nec's ass long
enough, you might see what's really
going on in the states and who is
gaining everyone's respect and who is
not. before you make any more
bullshit statements you might even
want to check a couple of boards that
are not nec-boards.
...
for the record... i am not a member
of mirage. just one who appreciates
their hard work and good results.
mad hatter (imports that work!!)'
gosh, what a letter !!!
ok, now it is time to clear the
confusion...
first of all mad hatter is right
concerning inc's first-release !
a canadian guy called rich took the
mirage version, recracked it, and put
an inc intro in front of the game,
because he wants to be in inc !
he did this with another ware called
hellhole c/t by fairlight.
then he spread his version on some
elite-boards like disk shoppe,
warez castle, wild wares, 2nd to none
etc. the ware was on more boards
later due to some persons spreading
it around without knowledge of the
recrack.
then, some days later, after mamba 11
was out, some people found a mirage-
memberlist (hi aycee) on certain
track and sectors of the disc, so the
recrack was proven !
that is what we stated false in the
last issue.
we further wrote that mirage wares
are banned from the elite-boards !
it seems we have got a different
view of what an elite board actually
is. we would say the top ten boards
in the charts are elite-boards, we
can not find any mirage boards in the
list !
if you say the top 100 boards are
elite-boards,then is this your own
point of view, you should not write
to us if you have got a different
interpretation of certain things than
we got !!!
further i want to say that we do not
support any group, including our own
group.
you may can imagine that this is
nearly impossible, but we do not
support any group on purpose.
if you see/saw any pro-nec sentence
in mamba,then write to us again...
do not take the computer-scene too
serious, do not make a fuss about
those things...
...anyway, thanks for your letter...
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a little letter:
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i think it's time to give my comment
about omg's character and his beha-
vior. i'm freddy/titron, who is wri-
ting this letter in the late evening.
as i had been in array some time ago
i decided once to call omg to find
out what type of guy he is and also
to vote for sex'n'crime. after i had
voted for many cracking groups i felt
that omg's voice became more and more
nervously. halfway interrupting me,
he asked me,why i would give some
groups of which he thought they would
deserve it hardly so less points.
i answered that i had nothing seen
from these groups for some time and
why he would be angry about my opin-
ion, we are living in a democratic
state were my thoughts. and now guess
what: he asked me why i would give
genesis project not enough points as
he would expect from me?! i started
to wonder why he just empazised on
genesis project's points? i thought
-has he something to do with genesis
as i heard rumours before. but isn't
he in amok were my second thoughts.
i was all confused. well,and omg be-
came more and more louder arguing me
to the ground till i gave in,that i
decided to agree and say you're right
and tried quickly to finish this
phone call. later i asked some
friends of mine if this guy, omg al-
ways behaves like this,getting angry,
loud voice and acting like a little
bit unfair argumentation. i got to
hear and noticed that this guy cannot
have much 'real' friends, as he
mostly talks to people as if they
were dirt. that's for sure not the
right way to gain appreciation, but
i also noticed what a clever nerd
this guy is. examples like the con-
flict with duck dunn/lotus or his
quarrel with excell/ikari & talent,
in which omg always indicates himself
as a boy with great understanding,
positive criticism and he is always
the innocent victim while others
offend him by 'his popularity'! he
is always innocent while the others
offending him or criticize his words
are just surrounding assholes! and
by the way, dear reader, would you
defeat yourself by writing 20 text-
pages and more when you are really
innocent?!? i see no reason for that.
so,i don't like omg, because he
handles everybody like the last shit,
but he has a great friendship with
genesis or at least acts in genesis
with another handle and i would de-
clare the "sex'n'crime" as genesis
projects propaganda-magazine.
ok,that's enough,i'm sure many other
64-freaks agree with me and i just
wanted to let omg know that it is
time for a change.
i'm reading every issue of your sex
'n'crime, but god bless you, just
once you write any bad thing about
me or my group. you can handle any-
body else like dirt, but you are at
the wrong address by me!
i will never write anything again,but
i'm also not a lousy fuck interrested
in your answer! so spare your words
and don't try one of yer damn letter-
writers! that's ment as you read it!
...morgen wieder arbeiten... nacht!
so far freddy's letter !
by the way, some days after freddy
wrote this letter, thieves visited
his house and stole his computer,
drive and much more...
bad luck, alex ! don't cry, just
bear it and buy a new nackenrolle !!!
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