Mamba 20 ch01 The Month in Brief

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  hye there...

  another month should have passed
  until we would meet again, that it
  is finally a bit more should not
  bother anyone but the staff itself.

  considering the particular
  circumstances we have been quite fast
  by getting this one out ?! ahem

  again you ought to have fun and earn
  yet more knowledge about the present
  scene, if not you may go back to
  school and get ahold of the ability
  of proper reading/understanding...

  in order to avoid any more
  'misunderstandings' concerning the
  monthly first-release charts in this
  column, we are going to set up
  completely new rules, that are that
  complicated that we, but only the
  staff, will understand how to use
  them the correct way.

  for those sophisticated people out
  there (if there really are any), we
  will try to explain the new rules
  to you though, for any kind of
  questions, write/phone/meet us...





  the most important fact about the
  upcoming rules is that everything
  you are going to read is subjected
  to alteration without even announcing
  the modification before !




                  vs





  the new rules pay regard to the
  following items :

  1) the point system

  2) the quality of the games

  3) the upload-time



  ...go on for the explanation about
  the new point system...




  each group will get 3 points for a
  100% working first-release.

  in case the game does not work
  properly in any way, but a fix file
  or a complete new version of the game
  will be put out by the same group,
  2 points will still be given for the
  release.

  1 point for another group fixing the
  bugged version and putting out the
  other groups' import or a fix file
  as a 100% ware.



  in the last case (fix by another
  group) the group that had the bugged
  first-release won't get any point.

  note that the euro-crack and the
  ami-import will be treated as
  'one thing', that means the european
  group has to suffer if the importer
  group messes the release up, and the
  other way round.
  that also means that the american
  group and the european group will
  get 3 points for a proper release
  each, 2 points for a second fixed
  release etc, indifferent whose fault
  it was or why...

  it is possible that there still
  occur situations that are not
  covered by the rules, in that case
  we will surely find a fair way to
  handle the instance.

  remember, the three boards our
  first-release charts are still based
  on are
         1) second to none
         2) the shaolin temple
         3) the forum
  in case any of these boards is down
  during a release, it won't be taken
  into consideration (substitution in
  case of a tie : terminal obsession)


  on each and every release we check
 the three boards for who had the 1st
 release in 2 ways :

 1) we check the upload times of the
    wares on the 3 boards.

 2) we check for a majority of the 3
    boards.

 if there's a majority but the minority
 had there version up by a vast time
 difference then the minority gets the
 point.



  from the next issue onwards you will
 find two separate charts here. one for
 the real 1st releases and another for
 the lamer group releases.

  we will also place any release by a
 major group that we feel has lamer
 group quality into the 2nd chart. this
 will hopefully make the charts look
 fairer by stopping groups releasing
 any bad game just for a point.

  in future when they do this they will
 be among the ranks of the lamer groups

 american importer charts
 ------------------------
                                 last
   group                releases month
 --------------------------------------
 1. north east importers.  11     01
 2. empire...............  10     01
 3. the shaolin monastery  05     03
 4. atc(+mirage).........  04     --
 5. enigma...............  02     --
 6. excellence.............01     --
 --------------------------------------
 empire and nei do battle for the top
 again...
  let's wait and see what happens next
 month when the 2nd chart arrives.

 european charts
 ---------------
                                 last
   group                releases month
 --------------------------------------
 1. action...............  09     03
 2. enigma...............  06     03
 3. dominators...........  04     03
    legend...............  04     01
 5. ics..................  03     03
 6. ikari+talent.........  02     01
    genesis project......  02     03
 8. the force............  01     --
    sharks...............  01     --
    x-factor.............  01     --
    cray.................  01     --
 --------------------------------------
 american cracker charts
 -----------------------
 mirage top the cracker charts(?) this
 month with the only american game of
 the month. check explanations.

 explanations
 ------------
 supremacy               dominators/atc
 * by melbourne house.

 dyter 07                    legend/nei
 * by reline.

 warm up                        ics/nei
 * by genias.




 krymini                  action/empire
 * by bluestone.

 tiptrick                 action/empire
 * by bluestone.

 einstein                 action/empire
 * by double density.

 clystron                 action/empire
 * by double density.

 superkid in space              dom/atc
 * by atlantis.
 tube madness          act/emp. eni/tsm
 * by double density.

 fourty five              action/empire
 * by double density

 warrior                    genesis/nei
 * (coded by chromance)

 mindbender                    cray/nei
 * by gremlin graphics.

 violator                  x-factor/atc
 * by lethal productions.

 hobgoblin                      dom/nei
 * by atlantis.
 spikey in transylvania          enigma
 * by codemasters.

 mercs                       legend/nei
 * by us gold.

 professor hecti in interchnge. dom/nei
 * by hi-tech.

 logical                  action/empire
 * by rainbow arts.

 american 3d pool                enigma
 * by mastertronic.

 dream team basketball           mirage
 * by data east.
 formula 1 gp circuit               ics
 * by ideasoft

 elvira                   enigma/empire
 * by flair software.

 rbi 2 baseball      ikari & talent/tsm
 * by domark.

 megaphoenix                    ics/a+m
 * by dinamic.

 the power                  genesis/nei
 * by demonware     (missed last month)

 worm                  the force/empire
 * by ???.
 jump out                    enigma/tsm
 * by double density

 heroquest                   action/nei
 * by gremlin graphics

 pang                        legend/nei
 * by ocean

 jahangir khan squash     action/empire
 * by krysalis

 manchester united ii (euro)    i+t/tsm
 * by krysalis

 crown                sharks/excellence
 * by starbyte

  ball game                  legend/nei
  * by electronic zoo

  madness                    enigma/tsm
  * by double density


  ok, these charts are based on the
  releases from the last mamba to
  the 18th of july inclusive, check
  the next pages for some additional
  notes...





  supremacy

  this game has been released by
  dominators/atc first, the north
  east importers put out a 'fixed'
  version shortly after, (inclusive a
  5 blocks fix file a day after their
  re-released version, since that one
  did not work)

  however, the game has been tested
  by several neutral people from the
  beginning to the very end, and since
  they did not find any bugs at all,
  the point goes to dom/atc.


  tube madness

  tube madness has been put out by
  action/empire and enigma/tsm the same
  day. the tsm version has been
  provable put out ca. 5 hours before
  the empire version, but was only on
  one of the boards we take into
  consideration for our charts.
  considering the enormous time
  difference, we decided to give one
  point to each group.
  this decision is not meant to favour
  any group since both, enigma and tsm,
  would retain their places in our
  charts anyway...

  professor hecti in interchange

  this game was released by dominators
  and nei as well as by enigma.
  the nei version got on second to
  none,the enigma version on the forum!
  on the third board we look at,
  (the shaolin temple) we found both
  versions uploaded at the same time by
  the same caller.
  however, since nei have admittedly
  released their version before enigma,
  the point goes to dom/nei.




  ferrari formula 1


  this game has been released by
  ics first, however, no american
  group has been able to ntsc-convert
  the game...
  although the game is not playable by
  the americans we decided to give a
  point to ics though.







  rbi 2 baseball

  the tape version of this game was
  first released by i+t/tsm, the disc
  version has been released by enigma/
  empire one day after.
  although the disc version had more
  different options in the game, the
  point goes to i+t/tsm since they
  delivered the 100% tape-version of
  the game.






  heroquest

  first released by action/empire,
  100% version of the action version
  delivered by nei.
  due to a wrong 'jump-address' the
  action version crashes after losing
  all three lifes. that bug has been
  fixed by nei, thus the point goes to
  action/nei.
  for those who already got the action
  and empire version, you only have to
  load the packed main file and change
  this : $4ac9...change the '20' into
  a '4c'


  the ball game

  this game was first released by
  nato and excellence as also by
  legend together with nei.

  however, the nato/excellence version
  crashed at a certain point; mirage
  put out the nato version aswell, and
  had that bug fixed, but have been
  too late with their version.
  legend/nei won the race...





  errare humanum est

  plainly and simply forgotten have
  been 'the power' by genesis and nei,
  and 'j.w. compend' by illusion the
  last month...

  as you might have already seen, we
  credited genesis and nei this month
  for the release, we did not bother
  mention that illusion ware since
  the group is dead and noone will mind
  anyway.


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