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Contents

[edit] Editorial

                             * EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
The  R3L4X  M4G4Z1N3 in December '95 was brought
to you by PHUTURE, your favourite disk magazine re-
leasing game label.

The EDITORIAL used to be a sort of freestyle chap-
ter in all our previous issues, and that is exactly the
reason for us not to change it. This chapter contains
general  comments  about  various  topics  and  terms
packed  into one chapter while other competitors use
to divide it into various articles.

     ... waiting for what the next year will bring us ...
------------------------------------------------------------
As  the release-date of the December Edition got set
at  December  31st,  1995  most  of  you  will read this
text  in  the new year, to be more precise in 1996.  We
survived another christmas and celebrated our very
own  and annual christmas party in Denmark, this time
in  Fredericia  after having seen the locations moving
from Aars (1992) to Herning (1993, 1994).
Without  any  doubts  we have to confirm that the glo-
rious  days  of  the CBM 64 are finally over while re-
garding the effort of the software industry, but may-
be  it  is not only the commercial part who lost the in-
terest  in  this  machine. With CP Verlag another flag-
ship  left  the fleet, so another CBM 64 publisher dis-
appeared  in the endless width of the 16/32 computer
systems,  as  we have not detected a sign to see them
quitting  that sector, too. Maybe there are some per-
sons  who  might show their interest in filling the gap,
but  keeping realistic we think that we won't see much
better  again,  and  people who pray the opposite can
not be taken serious any longer. In order to hold the
actual  standart,  what  should  be  the MAJOR target
these  days,  it  is  necessary to support the few SE-
RIOUS  publishers  left, such as MAGNA MEDIA in Ger-
many or LOADSTAR (Softdisk Publishing) in the United
States  of  America.  Instead  of complaining about the
worse  situation  of the market people who are crying
for new software should better shut up and subscri-
be  the  few  commercial publications left, as an every
new  subscriber  can  save the existance of the com-
panies  and  the  "flood" of new software for this be-
loved 8-bit machine.
But  only  the  games  sector,  aswell the demo sector
reduced  its  activity.  No,  we  are not talking the few
demoes  being  spread at the various parties all over
the  years, we are looking at the periods between the
few  parties being hold. What came in this time? Abso-
lutely  NOTHING! And what is the reason for it? People
want  to  get  famous,  well  known characters looking
for people to adore them, that is their only motivation
to  WORK  on  a demo. Impressing an huge audience, to
see  the  demo shown on a BIG screen to freaks being
owners  of  various  computer systems, people voting
for  them  and maybe to earn some prize money is the
motor,  the  impulse to get the "new" demo generation
started.  Indeed  it  is a very sad effect of the evolu-
tion who made the scene what it is these days.
Where  is  the  fun  left who made us CREATING or IN-
VENTING  something  in  former days? We did not care
about  any  release dates, we felt free to release our
demoes  whenever  we  felt like doing it. We enjoyed to
have worked as a team in order to present something
what  pleased  us, and we were proud to share it with
the  public,  today  people are only interested in pro-
ducing  AMIGA/PC  cloned  trackmos, in order to keep
the  audience  happy  and  amazed,  not  to have some
fun  during  the  production. People are only satisfied
when  they raise or rule the charts, it is not the hob-
by,  not  the  fun, it is the prestige and the reputation
what does count for them.
Surely,  realising  a  trackmo  needs  much  more time
compared  with  a  "simple" demo, but we all do love to
remember  to the old times, when we could quit a part
with  the  space bar when we liked the leave it instead
of  watching  the  23rd  vector object of an optimized
routine,  dictated  by  a  so-called  trackmos. But the
"generation"  today looks like being dictated from the
mass  media  such  as MTV or VIVA, or maybe from the
other  computer systems, what is trendy, and it's not
only  a little bit sad how people follow their false pro-
phets,  in  this  case it can be defined as COMMERCIA-
LISM.  People  use to follow fashions they get dictated
instead  of  doing whatever they would like to do, that
is  infact really a negative movement, and the sad as-
pect  is  that  most  did  not even notice that they are
steered by a remote, secret instructor.
Our  wishes for 1996 are to see people releasing de-
finately  much  more demoes compared to 1995, to see
people  having  fun  again  while producing demoes in-
stead  of being stressed, thinking about the feedback
or  if  you  prefer reactions from the audience in or-
der  to  get  some  more  points and to raise in the so
overrated charts. Creating demoes should be an ex-
citing HOBBY, not a profession!
And  as  a  game  label  we  would for sure love to see
some  advanced  and  complex games, but more impor-
tant  is  one  or  even  more serious distributors who
are  able  to  sell  a  lot  of copies in order to make it
more  interesting to produce new games and to deve-
lope/invent  more  advanced and stunning game ideas
even  for this machine. Ofcourse we are realistic and
have  already  noticed  that you can not make the BIG
money with Commodore 64 games anymore, this period
is  already  history  what  even the most enthusiastic
people   might   have  remarked  yet,  but  the  income
should  still  be a nice donation, or if you prefer pok-
ket money, for the production team, an amount of mo-
ney  which  should  encourage the producers to work
on just another game.
There are many things all the different scene related
persons  are  looking  for,  we  truely hope that 1996
will become a good, successfull year where you will be
able  to  realise  your  dreams  and aims, in the scene
and  ofcourse  in  REAL  LIFE, what might be more im-
portant in our eyes.

               ... what charts are fair charts? ...
               ----------------------------
...  is  for  sure  one  of  the  most discussed question
since  those  damned  CHARTS exist. But to be honest,
who is capable to give the ULTIMATE and only accept-
able  answer?  Each  chart  system  has its very own
gaps which make a fair judgement impossible.
What  is  the  general  SENSE of charts? The original
idea  was  to  present  a  list  of  the best ones, to be
more  precise  to show a compilation of different opi-
nion  from  various  persons  in order to find out and
honour  people  which  are  supposed  to  be the very
best ones of their kind.
Unfortunately, sad but true, the REALITY looks quite
different.  Many  people manipulate(d) or abuse(d) the
votes   in  order  to  get  advantage  for  themselves
self-voting) or their close friends (friendship votes)
and  this  behaviour  let  the  charts  drift away from
their  original  idea  towards  a  system to honour the
most  POPULAR,  instead  of the most skilled, persons
of the scene.
Another interesting factor while analysing the charts
is  the actual standart or better the general reputa-
tion  of a magazine in the 8-bit society. The more less
known  a  magazine  is,  there  more unknown persons
will  be  found  in the lists, and in more known magazi-
nes  on the other hand you will probably find members
of  well  reputated  groups,  in both cases regardless
from  the  fact  if  they  do  deserve the position of if
they don't do it.
CHARTS  created with votesheets is the standart me-
thod  to  build up the charts chapter in almost all ma-
gazines.  Most  of  the  publications using this method
do  not accept votes for themselves or their produc-
tions,  what  is  infact a fine idea in order to keep the
charts more objective for the audience.
Votesheet  SPREADER  are  another point to request
the  objectivitity of the presented charts. At first we
have  to  notice  that  most,  not all, are interested to
get  some  publicity and expect votes for themselves,
their   groups  and  their  productions,  so  the  more
sheets  spread  means  more points for the spreader
and so on. Does this mean FAIRNESS at all?
MEGA  CHARTS,  or  so-called  compiled  charts which
might  be described are ripped charts from some un-
qualified, uncompetent magazine "editors", seem to be
the  ultimate  and  most  fair solution, unfortunately it
offers some bugs, too, which will be recognized on the
second, or maybe third view. If one group does relea-
se  one  or  even more issues in the period within the
period  between  the release of the previous and ac-
tual  edition  of  the  magazine  using the mega charts
there might appear a major disadvantage for the un-
lucky  crew  showing this intense activity as they are
twice not named in the votes taken into consideration
to  create  the  charts.  This is infact the only visible
system  error,  and  we can not change it anyway be-
cause  if  this problems appears and people are con-
sidering about removing one issue, which issue should
be  banned  in  order  to create the charts? There is
always something left worth to complain and moan, we
will continue using this system, and people who do not
believe  in  the  fairness  of our charts are invited to
read the index of the mail charts, to use their Pocket
Calculators  (PCs?)  and  to control it. The difference
contains  the  votes compiled from our votesheets, so
you  can  be sure about a rather fair, reliable charts
system.
SPLITTED  CHARTS  have  been seen lately, maybe the
latest  trend  using  the  coverage getting the charts
more  fair.  How to split them? There are so many dif-
ferent methods to split up or analyse the charts, but
the  very  best  thing is everything can be splitted up
as  long  as possible. One of the most simple examples
are the graphic artist charts. They can be splitted in
logo  and  picture artists. This is only beginning, as it
starts  here  exactly.  When we divide these cathego-
ries  we  have  to  start  over  and continue, starting
with  the  various  graphic  formats (koala bitmap, fli,
ifli, singlecolour hires, super hires, ...) and for those,
after having already read 5 chart chapters it can be
completed  with splitting continents and countries as-
well.  This  procedure  can  easily be made with all the
different chart entrances. Surely so new (un)packed
text  records  can be set up, but a reformation of an
already  six  years  well  working chart system is for
sure  not  the fitting solution to reach the aim, to get
more  fair  charts.  Votesheets  won't  be votesheets
any   longer,   they   will  metamorph  into  votebooks,
everything will be blown up and at the end of list the-e
re  is  a  frustated  and  totally confused reader who
won't understand what is going on anymore.
Some  people  do need the charts and a good position
will be celebrated for the rest of their life, others do
read and accept them while the rest does not care at
all.  Nevertheless  it  is only a list of names appearing
in  a  sub-culture  called  CBM 64 scene, and yester-
days top spot will be forgotten with the next list.
There  does  not  exist  a  system to get the ultimate,
most  objective  and  reliable  charts ever, neverthe-
less  the general system and divisions are quite use-
ful  and  functional,  so there is really no need to re-
formate  it  as  long as the improvements are real im-
provements, and nothing what leads into an unexpec-
ted, short-sighted chaos.
If  all  chart  positions would look similar in all various
magazines there would be no motivation to check them
out  another  time, so it is quite good to report about
each  magazine  having an own vote system, different
rankings,  all  factors  what  makes  it  interesting  to
check  out,  to  wonder and to complain about what we
get  offered, something we really do not want to miss,
as long as it is getting spoiled.
... to be continued ... IF NECCESSARY!

      ... votesheet spreaders and news suppliers ...
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Some  regards  to  SHUZE and ZAPOTEK/Alpha Flight
for spreading our votesheets, and to all how suppor-
ted  us  with information and news such as CBA/TRC&
SCS, Zny/Palace and so on.

             This edition's content looks like this:
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The  GLOBAL  REPORT  contains  the  latest news and
rumours,  while  you find in the RELEASE CHARTS the
list  of  all  releases  in  the  period  back to previous
issue.  More  charts  can  be  found in the BOARD and
MAIL CHARTS, created by the voters on the boards/
Internet and by mail.  The RELAX AWARDS will be send
over to the persons which performed something spe-
cial  in  their  cathegory  -  subjective objectivity of-
course. INTERVIEW was held with the spanker number
one  on  the Net, CBA! Just enjoy it! A detailed PARTY
REPORT  can be found, together with an invitation for
a special demo party in Northern Germany. Be there
or  be dead! Last but not there are the ADVERTISE-
MENTS for those who are interested in enlarging the
amount of contacts or whatever else.

For sure you are missing the DEMO REVIEWS this time
but  it  was  IMPOSSIBLE  to edit them within 3 days in
the  quality  you  used  to  know  from  us. Please find
them in the upcoming edition.

             * Credits for the December edition *
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PROGRAMMING      FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK       ANGEE/THERAPY
                 ARNE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
BITMAP GRAPHICS  RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET     SKIDROW/EX-ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL       THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
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      * How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
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                    TEI      ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
                    (leave your mail on Marc's accounts)
                    
Internet:           RRR       xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
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          * The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
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MAIN EDITOR                        MARC/ALPHA Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR                        MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR                        RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR                          FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR                          PRI/TIA/OXYRON
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Best  regards  and  a happy new year, in the name of
the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
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                        * R3L4X M4G4Z1N3 *
            3XPL0S1V3 3V3R, 1MPULS1V3 N3V3R!


                         December 31st, 1995
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[edit] Global Report

                         * GLOBAL REPORT *
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Welcome  to  our  last global report in the year 1995.
This  year the Relax Magazine used to be your favou-
rite news host, and in the year 1996 we hope to hold,
and  what  seems  to be more important, we still try to
improve  our  very  own  standart, providing you with
the  latest  news  instead of poor and weak observed
speculations   from  the  editors  or  their  notorious
"news" suppliers.

                        * Alpha Flight 1970 *
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In the winter months Alpha Flight has shown some ac-
tivity, but all in all in was a quiet month for the flight-
ers,  without  any big movements or stunning actions,
but then AFL Poland felt like entertaining the scene.

Spider,  the name standing for confusion these days,
seems to have joined Motiv 8, while Styx, who acts as
one  of  the  main  organisers  these days, still claims
that  Spider still belongs to AFL. Anyway, we will keep
you updated, as long as possible.
A  similar  situation  was caused by the second polish
member  called Blaze, who was supposed to take over
the  leadership  of  the polish section. Chromance an-
nounced  several  times to have him recruited, on the
other  hand Blaze assured still belonging to the flight
was  can be discribed as an entertaining sequence in
a  time when boredom overhelmed the scene. To get it
to  an end the dutch cooperation of SCS & TRC seems
to  be  group  he  is actually a member of, but for how
how long?
Actually  various  guys  in  Germany  got  caught  for
abusing PBXes, and as a matter of a fact that the po-
lice  found  Xenox's  address  in our of their raids he
felt  like putting down THE ESCAPADE. Fortunately he
was  not visited by the police yet so things went back
to  normal  and  it  went  online again. Germans should
take  care  while  abusing the lines of other european
companies  such  as the British Telecom which caught
Gizmo/ex-Accpect  who  has been starting this fuzz.
The  result  is that the european Telecoms settled up
an agreement to TRACE all lines when there are sus-
pects about hackers/illegal users in their system.
With  Cryonic,  a  former  member of Pioneers back in
1990/91,  teamed  up  in form of being a programmer,
what is for sure the positive headline for this month.
In  order  to  clean  up with certain rumours cruising
around  Ignorance and Marc we can assure that both
have  NOT  joined the army RECENTLY, unlike certain
other  concurence  magazines wrote. Fact is that the
army  is  Ignorance's  job  and not the usual one year
service  which  makes people reducing their activity,
while  Marc  re-started his education and his heading
for a master's degree. Facts, facts, facts, .....

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 15):
Ancient  Mariner,  Calypso,  Chotaire,  Cryonic,  Igno-
rance, Marc,  Max,  Mercenary, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze,
Skinhead, Styx, Xenonx and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA                ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND                     ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE                        ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX

                            * CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance  is  boasting  full  of  activity this month, a
fact  we  can  not  name  when we review the past few
weeks,  mainly  in form of many new members. Time will
tell  if  they  are  an enrichment for them, as quantity
does not mean quality.

The  month  started  with booting their promising mail
trader  called  Scatman,  another  person of the well
know stamp cheaters being hunted at the moment.
Their US-HQ Final Genocide got a new number, please
see  below,  and  Edge  Of Midnight is said to go online
again in a not too far distant.
Sage, the brother of Lotus, who recently returned to
the  scene,  joined  <C>  as  a  music composer. All the
other  persons who joined in are related with the mo-
dem  scene,  even  if they are not too well known yet.
In  the  USA  Zeyex  got recruited as a modem trader
and original supplier, while with XXL for Country Jail
and  Fusion  for Final Genocide teamed up in order to
serve  a s co-sysops,  while  Fusion  will be active as
board graphic-artist, too.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 27):
Alias  Medron,  AMC,  Bolee,  Deviant, Fusion, Griff, Im-
mortal,  Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, McByte,
Motion,  Mr.  Wax,  Rough,  Rug  Rat, Sage, Skud, Skull,
Spermbird,  Syco,  Techno,  The  Unholy, Will, XXL and
Zeyex.

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT (still down)    ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FINAL GENOCIDE                   ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
COUNTRY   JAIL                   ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
OVERDOSE                         ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX


                * Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
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The  fantastics did cooperated in the past few months
with  the  Avantgarde  crew which took over the part
of  cracking  and  fixing while F4CG supplied the coop
releases.

Walker,  their  swedish  mail  trader,  has  to  join  the
army  starting  on  January  1st, 1996. This will cause
him  reducing  his  scene  activity  alot. $ixx, formerly
known as Goz, took over his contacts while Intruder/
Avantgarde will care about the charts chapter of the
magazine Propaganda.
In  order to keep up the warez front in the mail scene
they  have  recruited  the polish swapper Chash, who
got  taken  in on trial to prove if his activity will come
up to F4CG's standart.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Antitrack,  Aristo,  Bitman,  Chash,  Cybersurfer, Cy-
borg,  Decoder,  Devil,  Draz,  Fen  1, Hain, King, Maja,
Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy,
Smasher,  Sneaper,  Solar,  Total  Chaos,  Walker and
Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK                                 ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK                            BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT


                                * Hitmen *
------------------------------------------------------------
Hitmen  is  the  house  of  a  bunch  of skilled persons
which unfortunately specialised on NTSC fixing warez
for  other groups. In the past few months some chan-
ges  occured to prove them being capable to compete
with the major cracking groups aswell.

In  their  seek  to  enlarge  their activity aswell in the
cracking  side of the illegal business Moby/ex-Nipson
from Poland joined in as original supplier.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Curlin,  Dodger, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce, Jihad, Jinx,
Lawnmoverman, Marcus, Moby, Peacemaker, Raze, Sa-
botage, Tranziie, Tyroon, Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON                            ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADIZE                      ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM                         ++XX/XX-XXXXX
                                       
                              * Motiv 8 *
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The  danish  based cracking group always standing in
the fire of public critism due to their unusual methods
and  visions seems to form a nice demo section, in or-
der  to  enlarge  their activity to the legal part of the
scene, too.

The  show  begun with Spider/ex-Alpha Flight teaming
up  with  them.  The  situation  around  Spider  isstill a
little  bit  mysterious,  as a few groups containing Afl
still claiming him to be a member of their groups.
In  order  to enlarge their polish section MHD/ex-Fe-
niks  joined  as  composer  to  be  another member of
their  announced  demo  section.  Their composer TMG
joined  the  eastern german based demo group Siesta
as second crew next to Motiv 8.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 17):
BinJinx,   Bird,   Clive,  Crossfire,  Eddie,  Greenfrog,
Grego,  Ibanez,  Iceball, Larry, Mason, MHD, Merlin, Mi-
zar, Stone, TG-Acme and TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR                        ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS                           ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK                          BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT
HTTP: //WWW.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.De/-Grfrog/

                              * Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
This  month  we  got  really disappointed by the group
which  used  to  have  the  biggest  fluctuation  in  the
CBM 64 history. It seems that they becam serious and
surprised  the  scene with some unexpected releases
from their side.

Sharp, a part of Accuracy who have joined Onslaught
a few weeks ago, officially lef the scene for PC.
Kinley/ex-Paradox  joined in as cracker. Grafee/ex-
Feniks/ex-Equinoxe   got  recruited  as  programmer
and  original  supplier, who seems to be another mem-
ber for the demo section named as Onslaught Design.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 28):
ASV, Bizarre, Code 18, Deekay, Digahole, Donar, Doom
Gop,   Grafee,   Grize,   Hardsequencer,   Heavyhead,
Jazzcat,   Jolz,  Kinley,  Meff,  Morbid,  Morrisey,  Mr.
Brain, Ram Jam, Rap, Shades, Sphere, The Twins, TMM
Troube, Vengeance and Witty

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW                             ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE                                ++X/XXX-XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT                               ++XX/XXXX-XXXX


              * Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
Somehow  it  seems  that the dutch cooperation has a
very  strong  period  since  a  few months after their
so-called   summer   break.   Unfortunately   the   big
headlines  around  this  group will be officially spread
on  January  1st,  1996, so we can not report about it
yet. Keep patient.

From  the  Czech  Republic  some  fresh blood got im-
plantated  with  Bacillus and Allitaice, both well known
for  their  efforts  in the czech group Citadel. Having
this  both  members  in their reigns, SCS & TRC is the
first   top  cracking  group  having  a  czech  section
these days.
While  Alpha  Flight  and  Chromance still claim to have
him  in  their  own lines SCS & TRC took him on board,
Blaze  is the person we are talking about. It is always
funny  to  see  how  loyal  people  are  towards  their
groups.  He  teamed  up  as  an  original  supplier and
cracker,  being  another  member in their polish sec-
tion.
Another  interested  point is the membership of Tris-
tan, former member of Empire. On our direct request
Tristan  explained  not owning a working CBM 64 any-
more  nor  being  active  since  1992, so the effort he
can  put in the cooperation might be rather question-
able.
The  Alchemist once again forgot to pay his phone bill
so The Dungeon went down once again just because
Kyle forgot to pay his phoneline. We keep patient.
Last  but  not least, being still worth to be menitoned,
The  Digital  Dungeon,  also  known  as Pitel, moved its
address  to  Utopia.Hacktic.NL.  Whenever you are on
the  net,  log  in  anonymous  for  the latest warez, its
definately worth being visited!

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 31):
Action  Jackson,  Alchemist,  Allitaice, Bacillus, Blaze,
Burglar,  Cavron,  CBA,  Count  Zero,  Crede, Dannie,
Def  Beat, H-Bloxx, Jity, JRC, Lord Crucifier, Micron,
Moren, Mystery, Nightshade, Replay, Rebel Mc, Sailor,
Sliver,  Spectator,  Splatterhead, Stake, Titanic, Trax
and Tristan

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON                          ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
STATE OF THE ART                     ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON             Utopia.Hacktic.NL


                  * Single News and Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* The danish demo group Bonzai is considering about
   a serious comeback and producing some demoes on
   this  machine  again.  According  to  Scortia, Ricky,
   Crush,  Dize and himself (all known as Silents DK on
   the  Amiga  and  living  together  in  an appartment)
   got  inspiration  and  want  to  prove  that they are
   still capable to compete on this machine.

* The groups Acrise and Excess went in cooperation
   and  can  not  be  taken as a great surprise as the
   group  is mainly built up by former Excess members
   or  Excess  related persons. ALL releases are go-
   ing to be publish using the coop label.
   Red Rock got a board online. Its name is COVERAGE
   (+XX/XXXX-XXXXX). Furthermore there is another
   party taking place in Emsdetten from January 6th,
   1996  to  January  7th,  1996,  being  located in the
   PFADFINDERHEIM in Emsdetten. The entrance fee is
   DM 20,-- for two nights and DM 5,-- for one night.

Not  a  very busy period, nevertheless some interes-
ting things worth to be read have been collected. See
you here again in the next issue.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

[edit] Release Charts

  The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

              Performed by the Master of Law...

                                    Marc

Before  the start over with general explainations for
these  release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games     6. 1   -     8.0 points
Budget Games        4. 1   -     6.0 points
Low Budget          2. 1   -     4.0 points
PD/Shareware        1.0    -     2.0 points
Previews            0.0    -     1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games  which  were  already PAL released have to be
fixed  within  6  months  after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases               -7.0
Re-release of a preview   -1.0
No levelpacking           -0.5/  - 1.0
No trainer(s)             -0.5/  - 1.0
No translation            - 1.0/ -2.0

Unlike  most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK    GAMES,   BASIC   GAMES,   COMPILED   BASIC
GAMES  and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever  we  think  somebody  did something special
or  something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It  is  also  possible  to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The  following  boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...


Holiday Inn Cambodia                      XXX-XXX-XXXX
-----------------                         ------------
Dream Park                                XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------                                 ------------
Down by Law                               XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------                                -------------
Dead Zone                                 XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------                                  ------------
The Evil Island                           XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------                              ------------



And here we go...


                         * Active (0.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released only a little preview called ACINNA
(0.3 pts).

                 * Alpha Flight 1970 (14.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The flight started with the fixed versions of JOE
(3.6 pts), Turbo Racer (3.9) from Butterfly
Productions, WORLY (4.2 pts) one extra point will be
given for the translation and ZINJ COMPLEX (1.0 pts)
they released the pal versions some weeks ago so
i give only one point for the Pal/Ntsc fix. Last but
not least they uploaded a cool graphic tool called
GODOT (0.0 pts) from Magna Media and three pre-
views BALLZ (1.0 pts), IDUNA II (0.2 pts) and  RED 20
(0.4 pts).


                      * Avantgarde (8.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the fixed version of LACED TILES
(4.8 pts) from Magna Media, the previews of COLOURA
2 (1.0 pts) and LORD MC SUN (0.7 pts). And together
with F4CG they  uploaded the preview of PINZ (0.5p.)
and the fixed version of WONKY WORM (1.6) of course
the points will be shared between both groups.


                      * Chromance (11.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of FLARE (3.1p.)
SHIFTY BALLS (3.2 pts) and ALIOTH (4.3 pts) they
changed the graphic in to english so one extra point
will be given. And not to forget that they released the
MULTI COLOUR INTERLACE EDITOR (0.0 pts) and that
they Pal/Ntsc fixed for Motiv 8, BOUNCY (1.0 pts).


                          * F4CG (2.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Together with Avantgarde they released the fixed
version of WONKY WORM (1.6 pts) and the preview of
PINZ (0.5 pts), so the points will be shared.


                         * Hitmen (4.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released with the previews of AKE (0.3 pts),
ALIOTH (0.3 pts) followed by the fixed version of
CROSS IT (3.1 pts) from Direct Design and VARI (1.0p)p
fixed by Peacemaker for Scs+Trc.


                          * Laxity (0.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the preview of W.-COMMANDER (0.1 p.).


                         * Motiv 8 (2.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the tool of WRAPTOR (0.0 pts), it
is a kind of Diskzipper and the preview of BRICK
WALL (0.3 pts) and the pal version of BOUNCY (2.1p)
that got fixed by Chromance later.


                      * Onslaught (13.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with the previews of
BAFFLE (0.4 pts) by Feniks, TUC (0.4 pts), Bastard
(02. pts) and the fixed versions of SUPERBALL
(3.1 pts), QUOTA (3.7 pts) from Electric Boys and
SWORD OF HONOUR (1.0 pts). S.O.H. is over the six
months limit but i give one extra point for something
special. SPACEARENA 2 (2.1 pts) and ACTIONAUTS 2
(2.8 pts) doesn't need an Pal/Ntsc fix.


                       * SCS+TRC (7.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the pal version of SPEEDY SLUG
(4.0 pts), the preview of THE CROSS (0.3 pts), VARI
(3.1 pts) fixed by Peacemaker of Hitmen and a tool
called THE BITMAP WATCHER (0.0 pts)


                          * Storm (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released a usefull tool called MANDELBROT
BROT EDITOR (0.0 pts) )


 * Xenon (1.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the 99% preview of MISFORTUNE
(1.0 pts) from Bad Bytes Entertainment




Merged in to a table it looks like this:


       The official Release-Charts December 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank   Last     Group                         Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.    (3)      Alpha Flight 1970             14.3
02.    (4)      Onslaught                     13.7
03.    (2)      Chromance                     11.6
04.    (6)      Avantgarde                    8.6
05.    (1)      SCS+TRC                       7.4
06.    (/)      Hitmen                        4.7
07.    (/)      Motiv 8                       2.4
08.    (8)      F4CG                          2.1
09.    (7)      Xenon                         1.0
10.    (9)      Laxity                        0.1



        The official Fixing-Charts December 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank   Last     Group                         Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01.    (3)      Alpha Flight 1970             4
       (1)      Chromance                     
02.    (3)      Avantgarde                    2
       (/)      Hitmen                        
       (2)      Onslaught                     
                                              
                                              
Thanks for his help to    The Ignorance/Afl



Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970


[edit] Board Charts

                      * THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome  to  your  probably  most favourite chapter,
the  charts.  The  Relax  is  the  only  magazine so far
offering  seperate  board and mail charts in order to
show  the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the  time  or  possibility  to  fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will  be  taken  into consideration while counting these
charts.  The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting  booths  on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (welcome back) in the United
States of America. Furthermore  it is possible to vote
by sending e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board
worldwide.  There  exists  the  opportunity to vote via
Internet,  too,  by mailing your votes to Max' or RRR's
account  and  it  will be taken into condiseration while
counting the votes.

These  board  charts  are  the fastest moving charts
due  to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels  weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so  this  is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

                    * TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank   Last     Group                         Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.    (2)      Oxyron                        84
02.    (1)      Byterapers                    82
03.    (3)      Reflex                        77
04.    (5)      Camelot                       63
05.    (4)      Agony Design                  56
06.    (7)      Censor Design                 42
07.    (6)      Fairlight                     34
08.    (9)      Taboo                         25
09.    (8)      Focus                         22
10.    (10)     Triad                         16

A  quite  silent month here. Oxyron was voted back on
number one, Byterapers have fallen down on two. The
rest  remained  unchanged, except for Camelot over-
taking  Agony  Design, Taboo and Focus changed pla-
ces, too.
More  movement can be expected after all the contri-
butions  of THE PARTY V have been released and no-
ticed by the voters.

                   * TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (2)       Mr. Sex/Byterapers              87
02.   (4)       Graham/Oxyron                   82
03.   (2)       TTS/Oxyron                      76
04.   (3)       Quiss/Reflex                    72
05.   (6)       Druid/Agony Design              61
06.   (5)       Slammer/Camelot                 54
07.   (7)       MMS/Taboo                       49
08.   (/)       Axis/Oxyron                     36
09.   (9)       Crossbow/Crest                  29
10.   (10)      Glasnost/Camelot                14

Mr.  Sex  is  still leading this list, followed by Graham,
who  seems  be  more  than only an insider tip to take
over  the  top of the programmer's charts, a position
hold  by  Oxyron since 3 years by now. TTS and Quiss
lost  one  position,  same  goes  for  Slammer who got
beaten  by  Druid this time. At the end of the list a fa-
dilar  face  has  re-entered  the  charts,  a man well
known as Axis, a man capable to programm everything
defined  as  a  computer. Brush has left the chars, no
idea how to describe his actual status.

                * TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Group                       Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (3)       Success & TRC               83
02.   (1)       Avantgarde                  79
03.   (2)       Alpha Flight 1970           70
04.   (5)       Chromance                   64
05.   (4)       F4CG                        57
06.   (6)       Onslaught                   52
07.   (7)       Motiv 8                     44
08.   (8)       Atlantis                    35
09.   (9)       Hardcore                    28
10.   (10)      Fairlight                   22

Surprise,  surprise!  Avantgarde  got  beaten  by the
ruling   cooperation  from  the  Netherlands,  sending
them back to two, still having the flight on their neck.
Furthermore  Chromance  and  F4CG  changed places
while the rest remains unchanged.

                  * TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (2)       Ignorance/AFL                   82
02.   (3)       Burglar/SCS                     75
03.   (1)       Jack Alien/AVT                  73
04.   (4)       Antitrack/F4CG                  62
05.   (6)       Hain/F4CG                       58
06.   (7)       Bacchus/FLT                     51
07.   (5)       Kirby/ATL                       44
08.   (9)       CBA/TRC                         33
09.   (8)       Skinhead/AFL                    26
10.   (9)       Moren/SCS                       20
                                                
Ignorance  took  over  the  crown  to be voted as the
best cracker, follwed by Burglar, Good old Jack Alien
was  sent  back  to  three.  Except  for some position
changed there happened not too much interesting, so
we  will quit here. Maybe we should add that there are
no new entries, so no one left the charts aswell.

                 * TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Cruise/Taboo                    81
02.   (3)       Electric/Extend                 75
03.   (2)       Ogami/Fairlight                 73
04.   (6)       Carrion/Elysium                 69
05.   (4)       Creeper/Antic                   62
06.   (5)       RRR/Oxyron                      57
07.   (7)       Roder/Agony                     43
08.   (/)       Joe/Wrath Design                36
09.   (9)       Mirage/Focus                    27
10.   (10)      Cupid/Avantgarde                16

The  graphic artist list offered some changes, even if
most  are  simple  position changes. Cruise is still the
worthy  leader, followed by Electric and Ogami. At the
end  we  send  a last salute to Scope, who left the list
and got replaced by Joe, who curiously was not in the
list from the very beginning.

                  * TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       PRI/TIA/Oxyron                  88
02.   (3)       Shogoon/Taboo                   74
03.   (2)       Syndrom/TIA/Crest               65
04.   (5)       Jeroen Tel/Focus                59
05.   (4)       PVCF/Reflex                     52
06.   (6)       Jeff/Camelot                    45
07.   (7)       Danko/Censor                    39
08.   (8)       Red Devil/Fairlight             32
09.   (10)      EVS/20cc                        26
10.   (9)       Reyn Ouwehand                   21

PRI  is  for  sure  the  well  deserved  master  of  the
groove  this year, followed by Shogoon and Syndrom.
Nothing  really  new  in here, so what the heck should
we  add here? Nice to see people like Jeroen Tel, EVS
and  Reyn  Ouwehand still capable to compete with the
young highsporns.

                    * TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
rank  Last      Group                         Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Avantgarde                    66
02.   (2)       Alpha Flight                  62
03.   (4)       Success & TRC                 52
04.   (3)       Hitmen                        47
05.   (/)       Onslaught                     38
06.   (5)       F4CG                          22
                                              
07.   (6)       Empire                        17
08.   (7)       Demonix                       12
09.   (/)       ./.                           ./.
10.   (/)       ./.                           ./.

Well,  atleast we can report to have found a new name
in  here  with  Onslaught  entering the top "ten". Just
curious  that  all  the  american groups are still in, as
almost  all fixes are done by european/australian ba-
sed  groups.  Avantgarde and Alpha Flight are still on
top,  followed  by  the  ruling cooperation and Hitmen.
The american groups can be found at the end.

                     * TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      alias                             Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Peacemaker/Hitmen                 69
02.   (2)       Suicide/AVT                       62
03.   (3)       CBA/TRC                           54
04.   (4)       Pudwerx/ex-AVT                    51
05.   (5)       Ignorance/AFL                     46
06.   (6)       Jack Alien/AVT                    42
07.   (7)       Booze/Empire                      38
08.   (/)       Jolz/Onslaught                    24
09.   (9)       Rich/Empire                       22
10.   (8)       Mercenary/AFL                     18

Peacemaker,  Suicide  and  CBA  are  still  the leading
personalities  here. Sidekick has left the charts while
Jolz  entered  them,  who  entertained the few ameri-
cans  left  with  some  surprises,  versions  of  games
people did not expect to see working on NTSC.

If  you  are  not  satisfied  with  these  results do not
even  think  about  starting  to complain. Just call the
boards  and  start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite  board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by  leaving  E-mail  to  Marc or on Internet by leaving

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

[edit] Mail Charts

                        * THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome  to  your  probably  most favourite chapter,
the  charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections,  the  mail  charts and the board charts. The
mail  charts  are what some people like to define mega
charts  consisting  of  the  incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To  create  the charts you are going to read here we
took  the  following  charts of the following magazines
into   consideration  completed  by  the  votes  taking
part  as  top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Controversial 7/Accept              DECEMBER 1995
Propaganda Gold/independent         DECEMBER 1995
The Pulse December/independent      DECEMBER 1995
The Tribune54/Angry                 DECEMBER 1995
Vandalism News 26/Onslaught         DECEMBER 1995

If  you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able  votesheets  and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour  and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for  personal  friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

                      TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank   Last     Group                         Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.    (1)      Oxyron                        58
02.    (2)      Reflex                        53
03.    (4)      Camelot                       47
04.    (3)      Byterapers                    46
05.    (7)      Agony Design                  34
06.    (5)      Taboo                         30
07.    (8)      Antic                         21
08.    (6)      Fairlight                     20
09.    (/)      Crest                         10
10.    (10)     Nipson                        7

Oxyron  is  still  the  well deserved leader in the demo
scene,  followed by Reflex, who are supposed to take
over the leadership after the effort they have put in
their The Party releases. Anyway people should read
what  they  wrote  in their Mathematica note, worth to
be  read  and  make  up your own mind about it. Crest
re-entered, sending Censor out to nowhere. Bob ex-
plained  that  there  won't  be  another  CBM 64 demo
from Censor anymore.

                      TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Mr. Sex/Byterapers              93
02.   (3)       Slammer/Camelot                 85
03.   (2)       TTS/Oxyron                      77
04.   (4)       Graham/Oxyron                   68
05.   (5)       Quiss/Reflex                    52
06.   (6)       MMS/Taboo                       45
07.   (10)      Druid/Agony Design              28
08.   (9)       Axis/Oxyron                     26
09.   (/)       KM/Taboo                        15
10.   (8)       Crossbow/Crest                  14

Mr.  Sex  remains  on  the  top spot while Slammer and
TTS  changed  places. Graham and QUISS should defi-
nately  earn  much  better  positions  in  our opinion!
Just check out their latest work.

                   TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Group                         Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Avantgarde                    60
02.   (2)       Success & TRC                 50
03.   (3)       F4CG                          47
04.   (5)       Chromance                     41
05.   (4)       Alpha Flight 1970             38
06.   (7)       Motiv 8                       24
07.   (10)      Onslaught                     21
08.   (9)       Hardcore                      15
09.   (/)       Acrise & Excess               12
10.   (8)       Atlantis                      11

Nothing  new at the top with Avantgarde and the coop
Success  &  The  Ruling Company aswell as F4CG. Not
Not that much worth being talked about.

                    TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Jack Alien/AVT                  60
02.   (2)       Burglar/SCS                     54
03.   (3)       Hain/F4CG                       45
04.   (4)       CBA/TRC                         41
05.   (6)       Ignorance/AFL                   33
06.   (5)       Derbyshire Ram/Avt              27
07.   (9)       Mr. Wax/<C>                     23
08.   (7)       Bacchus/FLT                     12
09.   (9)       Moonchild/FLT                   9
10.   (/)       Ream/AFL                        7

Nothing  happened  in  here!  Absolutely  nothing? Ex-
cept  for the fact that Ream replaced Skinhead there
were  only  some  minor  position  changes,  and we do
not feel like adding any comments here in any way.

                    TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Cruise/Taboo                    58
02.   (2)       Electric/Extend                 53
03.   (4)       Joe/Wrath Design                50
04.   (5)       Fazee/Taboo                     37
05.   (3)       Creeper/Antic                   36
06.   (7)       RRR/Oxyron                      24
07.   (6)       Ogami/Fairlight                 20
08.   (8)       Carrion/Elysium                 16
09.   (/)       Biz Kid/Camelot                 8
10.   (10)      Cupid/Avantgarde                6

Cruise,  Electric  and  Joe at the top, the rest moved
slightly.  Biz  Kid  entered  the list, replacing Rob, his
group mate. Each month the same changes. :-)

                    TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       PRI/TIA/Oxyron                  60
02.   (2)       Syndrom/TIA/Crest               46
03.   (3)       PVCF/Reflex                     44
04.   (4)       Compod/Charged/...              42
05.   (8)       Shogoon/Taboo/Agony  37         
06.   (5)       Jeff/Camelot/CZP                29
07.   (6)       Fanta/Bass/Oxyron               25
08.   (/)       Drax/Vibrants/Crest             13
09.   (7)       Zyron/Antic/Swemix              10
10.   (10)      Jeroen Tel/Focus                9

Good  old PRI is the well deserved leader in here, fol-
lowed  by  Syndrom  and  PVCF,  like  in  the  previous
month. Drax re-entered, sending Red Devil out of the
top ten.

                       TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Alias                           Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (1)       Intruder/AVT                    78
02.   (2)       Calypso/AMN/AFL                 71
03.   (3)       Spermbird/<C>/Ex                54
04.   (5)       Derbyshire Ram/Avt              48
05.   (4)       Splatterhead/TRC                47
06.   (/)       Bizarre/Onslaught               29
07.   (/)       Walker/F4CG                     28
08.   (7)       Sebaloz/Lepsi Dev.              13
09.   (/)       Shuze/AFL                       12
10.   (6)       Starlight/Therapy               10

These charts always move in the most expressive
way. Changes, changes, changes, ...  Intruder, Calypso
and  Spermbird  are  on  top,  Dr.  Kaos,  Dr. Soft and
Avalanche  left  while  Bizarre,  Walker and Shuze en-
tered the charts. Action, action, action, ...

                         TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank  Last      Magazine                       Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01.   (2)       Skyhigh                        58
02.   (1)       Nitro                          46
03.   (4)       Vandalism News                 42
04.   (5)       Domination                     40
05.   (8)       Relax Magazine                 36
06.   (3)       Shout!                         30
07.   (6)       Mendip                         30
08.   (9)       Propaganda                     23
09.   (/)       The Pulse Magazine             21
10.   (7)       The Tribune                    11

As  you  use  to know it from the former months, Sky-
high  and  Nitro  changed  places  again.  The brilliant
BOARD  magazines  are  going stronger and stronger,
attacking  the  top  spot  in  the  near future. Keep in
mind  that  VN  only  got 5 out of 6 votes, as their list
got  used  in  here,  too.  The Pulse is back here, too,
nice  to see Duke and Co. back on a well deserved top
ten  spot. Revealed won't be release anymore, accor-
ding  to  Kring,  and left the charts because of a lack
of votes.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

[edit] Relax Awards

          * THE RELAX MAGAZINE AWARDS 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
As another year passed we feel free to honour these
persons who made a major effort in their cathegories
out  of  the  board and mail charts. These awards are
for  sure  subjective,  nevertheless made rather ob-
jective in our very own opinion.

                   * BEST DEMO GROUP 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                                  REFLEX

Reflex  released  a  lot of brilliant demoes and has gi-
ven  the  name activity a very new meaning, a meaning
we  seem  to  have lost some time ago in a dark period
where lazyness rules.

                        * BEST CODER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                            QUISS/REFLEX

Matthias  has  realised  almost unbelievable effects in
his  brillaint styled trackmos, next to the fact that he
coded  some  nice  games  plus certain excellent tools
which make him being a worthy leader in this cathego-
ry.

                * BEST CRACKING GROUP 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                              AVANTGARDE
No one was able to beat the men around Deff when it
comes around releasing first releases. Furthermore
they have released almost an every release working
100%, fixed and in a nice presented version.

                      * BEST CRACKER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

When  it  comes  around  making the shortest possible
and  most  trained  version  Thomas is the name to be
told.  Being  rather  active  he managed to get almost
an  every  game  much shorter as the concurence, so
there are no doubts who is the number one here.

                 * BEST GRAPHIC ARTIST 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                             CRUISE/TABOO

Not  only  his  brilliant art show called Ritual II amazed
the  masses,  furthermore  he  did  a  lot of excellent
game  graphics  making  him the name to be told here.

                     * BEST COMPOSER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
               SHOGOON/TABOO/AGONY DESIGN

When  you have been listening to all the brilliant tunes
released  in  the  Agony  Designs demo LOVE there is
one  choice  possible here: Shogoon. One of his major
advantages  is   that   he   is   using   the   Hardtrack
Composer  a  quite  different  music  editor  than  the
masses, and this is what you hear. Well done!

                   * BEST MAIL TRADER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
             SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS

Returning  from  the  ashes  of  nowhere  Ruben took
over  a massive amount of contacts and used to swap
in  a  nearly impossible speed. Unfortunately he actu-
ally  disappeared  as  fast  as  he appears, due to his
job.

                     * BEST MAGAZINE 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                           VANDALISM NEWS

The  crew around Vengeance managed it to get it re-
gular  released, offering a quite high text standart in
comparison   with  the  large  rest.  Nevertheless  no
other magazine managed it to release as much issues
as  VN  in 1995, so Matt and Jose are the well deser-
ved winners over here.

                    * BEST NTSC FIXER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
                       SUICIDE/AVANTGARDE

When  there was something no other fixer managed to
fix  Chris took over the keyboard and has shown how
it  works  and  runs perfectly. Coming back and being
the  shooting  star  in  1995,  so  the choice was made
quite easy.

                       * TOP FIXING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
                              AVANTGARDE

Avantgarde  is  not  only  to  most valueable cracking
group,  furthermore  they  even  managed it to be the
leading  fixing  crew  back  in  1995. Suicide and Jack
Alien  have  shown their immense strength, and that is
what we appreciate. Well done, Robert and Chris.

Expect  the  next official Relax Awards in the Decem-
ber Edition of 1996. Party on.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

[edit] Interview

                             * INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
Held by Max and RRR, typed by Max so please forgive
all typing and styling errors. :-)

Today I have the pleasure to bring you an interesting
interview with a well known dude, who is long enough
this fantastic scene. It is CBA of The Ruling Company.


Relax: Hello Niels. As usual we ask our guests to
introduce themselves, so you are invited to share as
much personal information as possible with us, coming
up to what you are interested in sharing with us
here.


CBA: Okey here I go, my real name is Niels A. I am
23 years old and live in a city called Zaandam (where
is moved recently) sharing an apartment together
with Nightshade and Tim from Success PC. I work as a
computer supervisor at an elevator safety company
in Amsterdam and in my spare time I like to visit
concerts and festivals who often take place in
Holland and in Denmark etc.


R: After the personal data it is time for the scene
data. What about your detailed scene history?


C: It all started when I got for 11th birthday a
commodore c64 and allready fastly got hooked on the
idea of getting  lotsa illegal copied games. At that
time I allready noticed the starting from various
cracking groups and their so called intro's .. I got
bored with playing games andand started to learn
basic, in '85 when I was allready able to program a
bit I formed my first ever group called THE GANG
with a few friends of mine. That time I got to learn the
basics of machine code very fast and we started to
release music ripps and other stuff. Already soon I
started to crack games who I got from a computer
software hire-library from England., cracking the
game from tape and then returning it was what I've
done most around that time, I started to mail-trade
with groups like Fire Eagle, The Wizards and The
Last Science. In '88 I went to visit my first ever copy
party, the WWE*MGF*Joy party, that party our group
splitted up and I started my second group called
OASE, where I continued cracking games, allready
soon I got bored and called up TDJ/WWE and joined
WORLD WIDE  EXPRESSIVE at the end of '89. In '90
when WWE died after the HORIZON party I teamed up
with TRC where I am still at.


R: Well, the handle CBA sounds quite weird to me ;-)
if you ask me. How did you come to the handle and
especially, is there a deeper meaning of it? I allready
supposed it to be your first attempt to say the ABC
correct... :)


C: Not really, I guess my handle was made up at the
I just bought my first c64, I was playing games a lot
and when you did enter the highscore, most of the
time you were only able to type 3 chars .., I always
typed CBA, why? Don't ask me... a year later I made up
the meaning COPYRIGHT BREAKER AGAIN for it.. and
even more later it ment the first 3 letter from really
nice girls namely: Cornelia, Brigitte, Arielle, and finally
I made for the fun CHRISTIANE BACKER ADDICTED...
while Christiane infact is written with a K!.. hehe..


R: In the very beginning TRC used to be well known
for their demo section with members like e.g. Reyn
Ouwehand. What was the reason to morph more into
a cracking group all over the years?


C: When I teamed up with them in '90, it seemed that
most old TRC members got bored and went over to
other computers, I started cracking and Action-
Jackson started to send me lotsa originals, from
there we quickly turned into a cracking/demo group,
'92 saw the release of the last TRC demo called
September Celebsation, from that point also most of
the demo coding members quited the scene mainly
because of school activities and never came back.


R: TRC is a group most learnt to know as a part of a
cooperation all over the years, in former times it was
WWE, today it is Success. What are the exact reasons
for this policy, and please add the group history of
TRC, too.


C: Before I joined in TRC was in coop with WWE, in '90
went into cooperation with the legendary spanish
blasters, the TRC*TBI cooperation sadly ended as
JR.Predator died, jan'94 saw the light of the
TRC*SCS cooperation and the main reason behind
all our cooperations is the good friendship we have
with the other group, meaning we are also good
friends with them out of this subculture scene
fantasy !   :)


R: During the last time it seemed as if the TRC*SCS
coop would still only exist between CBA & SCS.. Have
you never thought about joining SCS? I guess the
graphicans would be happy about that, as they would
have less work while painting intro-logos! :)


C: That might be true, as it seemed that most of the
actually TRC members from the beginning weren't
that active anylonger and infact most of the stuff
was done by myself, TRC*SCS ain't anylonger two
seperate groups, perhaps some people still think
that.. We've grown together!


R: What do you think about the present euro H*P
scene? There have been a lot of busts in germany
lately, what caused that more and more people stop
calling out. Do you think that will mean the end of the
US-BBSes? How is the situation particulary in the
netherlands at the moment?


C: Well this year I saw the first ever bust for
blueboxing in holland, a good friend of mine was using
a new trick and got busted on it big time, after that
most tricks died and a lot of people got scared, the
dutch H/P scene hasn't been that big as before...
Only a few people have always been able to call out
using either CC/BB or VMB dialouts..., I guess the
main reason for the lack of callers is that it's getting
harder and harder than it was a few years ago.., also
seeing a good friend getting busted big time makes
you think about the risk even more, for Holland the sit
uation is still very good concerning H*P, tollfree numb
ers are changing fast and give us new interesting sys
tems to hack at.


R: The internet is getting more and more popular
these days, and you are involved from the pioneer
days.  What is your opinion about this new "media"
and what changed all over the years?


C: This new media is like the third step into computer
commuication from my point of view. I started of with
mail-trading, then in '89 I went to the modem scene,
calling boards, up and downloading files. Now you
have the internet where you can communicate with
e-mail and files so fast that the other options before
just dissapear into nothing, the main thing about
the net that changed over the years is the better
access for everybody directly to the net, in the
beginning days you could only get access through a
hacked university account, nowadays the net became
a public good and every living human is able to get
connected to it.


R: When we are talking about ftp-sites, the Digital
Dungeon is one of the major sites for the cbm 64. It
would be nice to read more about, its history and the
reasons for changing addresses lately.


C: The Digital Dungeon was founded when I got in
touch with Dimitri *Viking* at a local SCS*TRC meeting
he offered me disk-space on his university test
computer, the site started the next day running on a
64kb connection and was very slow, allready soon I
started to transfer lotsa c64 files to the net and
with the help from our american member Coolhand the
site got to be popular very quickly as we were the
only ones who had illegal *haha* c64 games online.
After Pitel got a 2megabit connection and the c64 cd
from Bod got online, activity of the site became
extremely high, with sometimes more than 10 ftp users
leeching at the same time. The real owner of the site
(the root) didn't like that c64 idea from the beginning
and got irretated about the many people leeching
their asses off, causing lotsa delays for other users
from the Pitel computer while they were working. A
month or two ago he got really sick about the whole
thing and we had to move from the site (main reason;
having illegal software online! haha..), fastly I started
searching for a new site and I got a few offers, I
started talking to Mr. Ammo/Triad about the problem
and he knew somebody at utopia.hacktic.nl who used
to be on c64 long ago, after lotsa mail swaps and
getting things straight, I was able to continue running
TDD. Since then lotsa things have been improved
about the site and we still have a huge flow of
leechers, leeching sometimes more than 30mb a day
of c64 wares only!


R: The Dungeon became the victim of a sick creature
who formatted it several times in the past few months
Please comment the situation out of your sight, and
are there any suspects wich turn out to become
proven facts about the identity of this lamer?


C: Well one thing can be said about these happenings,
it always got formatted when we in TRC*SCS had a
great month release-wise.., perhaps some person
just can't stand the fact of us being # 1, I guess he
can't compete with us and therefore he starts
formatting the board, I really don't see the point of
doing that..Sofar we don't have a clue who the person
might be, but hell this person must be really sick, and
if I ever meet him I will surely make him sorry for
what he has done to us and especially to Kyle.


R: As a person participating in the scene for a quite
long period, what is your honest opinion about the
scene today and in former times, especially covering
the modem scene.


C: Well if I compare nowadays scene to a few years
ago, say like '93 when competition still was high on
the USA boards and compare it to nowadays I can
only say that the fun of doing a first release ain't
that great anymore. It used to be really a kick to get
a game out first knowing some other group was
cracking it around the same time, beating them just
by a few hours was really exciting, sometimes it still
happens nowadays but it will never be the same like
former times when a Euro group depended on an
american fixing group and when hearing on the phone
while talking to Booze/Empire that Count 0 from RSI
allready called a few minutes before with the same
game. hehe that was really fucked up.. fastly throwing
it out Pal didn't help a thing.


R: Wich game contained the hardest protection you
have ever removed, and why was it so difficult?


C: I guess the first years when I cracked games from
tape was really something fucked up for me as then I
didn't understand the $ 0300 tape memory and kept
on reseting my good old dutch KCS power-cartridge
meaning the loss of the memory. The game Thrust
gave me many nights of non sleep as I wasn't able to
get it of tape 100%. Remember Complex? I gave it right
away to Burglar as he is much better as me in these
to say...sort of a JUDGEMENT DAY like AVT always
wrote..hehe...  :-)

R: Everything has to come to an end, and here we
offer our talk guests to add whatever they feel like
writing here, sending out greetings or messages.
Anyway, thanks a lot for being patient, Niels! I wish
you a happy new year!

C: Okey thanks for the interview and here we go with
a Happy Newyear to: (no order) All in TRC*SCS, Max,
Deff, Peacemaker, Cybernoid, Swan Song, Side Sector,
Tranziie, Mr. Ammo, Rich, Jayce, The Unholy, Iron Cat,
Motley, Jucke, Newscopy, Deathangel Booze, Aktie,
Equinox, Viking, Vengeance, Intruder, Case, Scat,
Chameleon, Fireball(megmyx), Villain, Moloch, Deathlok
Grego, Heatcliff, Steve, Eliminator, Harlequin (scs pc),
Tim (scs pc), Scout (scs pc) and everybody else I
know.

Thanks  for  being  here,  Niels.  Please  make sure to
get  your  hands  on  the  next edition, too, as we will
get another interesting interview for you here.

Well, that was it from me! Have a wonderfull newyear's
booze and simply enjoy another year of C64 history!

Untill then.....Max


[edit] Party Report

                         * Partyreport *
------------------------------------------------------------
We  have  for  sure  been present at The Party V and
will  share  our  impressions  with  you  in the new few
lines,  followed  by an invitation to the Symposium '96,
a party being held in Germany next April. But first we
took  care  about  THE  PARTY,  probably the biggest
scene  party,  hold  traditionally  annual  in Denmark,
Skandinavia.


                       * The Organisation *
------------------------------------------------------------
For  the  very  first  time no CBM 64 groups dared to
take  over  the  part of the organisers, but to be ho-
nest,  there  were  no  major  changes compared with
the previous years. Everything is more 16-bit orien-
tated,  and the CBM 64 owners got accepted as pay-
ing  guess who were allowed to show their demoes on
the big screen.

The  party  place Dronning Magrethe Hallen in Frede-
rica  is  located near to the german border (120 kilo-
metres) and offered space for around 4000 visitors
was  is  quite big in comparison with e.g. Herning. Ne-
vertheless  around  3000  freaks  from the CBM 64,
PC,  Amiga,  Atari,  Archimedes  and  Mac  scene have
shown up to celebrate their annual convention here.
The  DMH  offered  toilets, cafeteria and snack shops
in  order  to  keep  the body running well, the shower
facilities  have  been  in a near located swimming pool
where you had to pay fees in order to take a shower
what  is  nothing  but  ANNOYING!  Please  read  more
about it later.
After  having been cleaned the toilets looked alright,
but  just one hour later there was a real mess again.
We  wonder  that  they  did  not  take an entrance fee
here  again,  but  maybe,  after having read this text,
they might do it.
The entrance fee was quite high with DKK 250,-- and
the  prices  in  the  cafeteria were even higher (1,5 l
Coke,  Pommes and a French Hot Dog = DKK 60,--) so
nothing  really  changed  in  comparison with the pre-
vious years.
The  competitions  have  been runned one a really BIG
screen   and   the   sound  equipment  was  really  im-
pressing,  unfortunately  the  volume  level  has  been
set too high. Except for problems during the PC com-
petitions everything worked fine here.
As  usual,  some  may call it tradition in here, no alco-
hol  was  allowed  at the party place. The guards even
dared  to  search in the luggage for it if they had any
suspects.  Alcoholized  persons,  such as Jihad, even
got temporary banned from the party place.
The  planned shedule was not held in exactly and even
the  end  cerenomy  with  the awards was delayed and
took place one hour later.

               * The Competitions (CBM 64) *
------------------------------------------------------------
After  the  CBM  64 seems not to be the most popular
computer  anymore  in  the  eyes of the organisers it
did  not  surprised  us  to  see them only arranging a
demo  competition. Like in the previous year the gra-
phic  and  music competition was held by CBM 64 sce-
ne  related  persons  having  the  official  status  as
standart  party  visitors.  This  time F4CG and Reflex
organised  a  COMPETITION for the ones who dared to
join  in,  unfortunately during the music contest there
appeared some bugs (playing musics twice) and inter-
ferences  (sound  problems,  technical!)  but  all in all
they  did  a  nice  job,  pleasing  the  audience and the
contributors.

The demo competition was supposed to become rather
interesting  this time as a lot of groups announced to
contribute, unfortunately most seemed to be rumours
or  people  did  not  manage  it to finish their produc-
tions  in time. With Oxyron, Reflex and Antic some well
known  compete,  while  with  Smash Designs, No Name
and  Siesta  among  others some ambious ones got on
start for the hunt of the PRIZE MONEY.

* Demo Competition *                                * PRIZE *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Reflex "MATHEMATICA"                          USD 300,--
2. Oxyron "DAWNFALL"                             USD 200,--
3. Smash Designs "FLATLINE"                      USD 100,--

* Graphic Competition *                            * Points *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. PVT/Reflex                                            68
2. Creeper/Antic                                         47
3. Calamity/Laxity                                       41
3. Rayden/Chalice                                        41
5. Stasi/Noice                                           20

* Music Competition *                                * Points *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Mitch/Crest & Dane/Triad                       52
2. Jeff/CZP/Camelot                               45
3. Fanta/Bass/Oxyron                              30
4. KB/TOM                                         25
5. Bordeaux/Acrise & Excess                       23


                         * The Audience *
------------------------------------------------------------
Due  to  the  fact  that  masses  of  people on various
systems  have  shown  up it was quite hard taking the
right  filter  in  order  to  sort  out  the  few  CBM 64
freaks  around here. This list might be incorrect, but
it  might  contain the most important persons around,
holding people which are/were a part of this scene:
OXYRON  (TTS, Axis, Fuben, Fanta, Graham, Slide, Sy-
rincs, Starfox, Asmodis and RRR)
CAMELOT (Biz Kid, Slammer, Cruzer, Raz, Kring, Jeff,
Neptune, Duck LaRock and Glasnost)
ATLANTIS (SMD, Chaotic, Kirby and TUC)
AVANTGARDE  (Intruder,  Jack Alien, Weasel, Suicide,
Cupid and Renegade)
X-RATED (Danzig and Stan)
CREST (Mitch, Syndrom and Deekay)
ONSLAUGHT (Code 18, Donar, TMM and Heavyhead)
THE PULSE MAGAZINE (Duke and KBS)
TABOO (Acidchild)
CHALICE (Rayden, Alien and Big Boost)
REFLEX   (PVCF,  Quiss,  PVT,  Felidae,  Happymaker,
Hogan, Zorc, Condor and Guru)
ANTIC (Zyron, Depeh, Earthquake and Creeper)
TALENT  (GZ, Count Zero and Greenfrog)
MOTIV  8  (Greenfrog,  Iceball,  Crossfire, Stone, Bird
and TMG)
F4CG (Newscopy, Jucke, Motley, Neotec and Walker)
SCS & TRC (Count Zero)
LAXITY (Didi, Vague and Calamity)
SILENTS (Scortia, Dize, Crush and Ricky)
CENSOR (Bob and Swallow)
MASTERS DESIGN GROUP (Sky)
HITMEN (Tranziie, Curlin, Jihad and Tyron)
VIBRANTS (Jens Christian Huus)
PLUSH (Honk)
ACRISE & EXCESS (The Authentic and Bordeaux)
AMBUSH (Macx)
AMBIENT (Taper)
TRSI (Anarchy and OB)
FLASH INC. (Unifier, Warp 8 and Morpheus)
BYTERAPERS INC. (Grendel)
SMASH DESIGNS (AEG and Rorschach)
SIESTA (Adder and HLSP)
TOM (KB and Luke)
PARALYZE (TGI and Dodger)
ACTIVE (Riddler)
NOICE (Zzap and Stasi)
COSMIC STYLE (Warp 8 and Earthquake)
WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND (Sorex)
NO NAME (Celtic)

                              * Summary *
------------------------------------------------------------
For  sure  it  is  very nice to meet each year directly
after christmas all friends and contacts of the scene
and positive or even negative nerds sitting infront of
their computer, preparing various productions in or-
der  to  get them released during the convention. Un-
fortunately,  taking  THE PARTY V as an example, our
beloved  pardy  organised by a sub-culture known as
computer  scene, it all turned by 360 degrees, head-
ing  away  from  a party into a commercial happening.
The  spirit got lost and the commercial interests seem
to  be  more important these days, starting with a ra-
ther  high entrance fee of DKK 250,- (and DKK 300,-
when you entered the party place before the official
start!),   following   by   the  merchandising  programm
supporting this convention, starting with the traditio-
nal  t-shirts  being  offered  for  DKK 70,-- up to the
official TPV CD-Rom for DKK 150,--. The most annoy-
ing fact was that the visitors had to pay for an every
single  shower they took, being divided into two diffe-
rent  periods  from  08.00  -  10.00  for DKK 10,- and
from  10.00  -  18.00 for DKK 25,-. We wonder that we
had  not  to  pay  for using the toilet, but we presume
that  will  be introduced for the new christmas party.
If  all  parties  follow  this  trend  it seems to be much
better  organising  own,  private meetings, where you
can have more FUN for maybe a fifth of what you use
to pay here.
The  official  party  t-shirts  you could buy there had
as  a  motive  M&M  advertisements,  while  on  the  big
screens always that annoying MC Donalds spot run to
bore the audience.
For  sure  it  was  nice to meet group mates, friends,
contacts  and  even enemies there, but to be honest,
they  might  come  up  other  chances  to  see a more
funny  party,  taking notice of the existence from the
one and only computer, the CBM 64.


And  now  we  feel  free to publish the most important
facts about the soon coming Symposium '96 party, all
collected in the OFFICIAL party invitation at The Par-
ty  1995,  first  released on CBM 64 by the Relax Ma-
gazine.

                             * INVITATION *
------------------------------------------------------------
                            SYMPOSIUM '96

                                   WHAT...
                                  ------
... this  text  wants  to  tell  you  is that there will be a
very  delicious  computer demo festival in 1996, invol-
ving  the platforms which are important in the guild of
the  demomakers, namely Amiga, PC, CBM 64, Archime-
des  and  Atari ST/Falcon, which you should consider
twice at least if you can afford to miss it.

                                    WHO?
                                    ----
This  event  is  held by three of the most experienced
party  organizer teams in Germany, the people behind
the  680XX-Convention, the Black Box Symposium and
the  Fried  Bits. For the Symposium '96, which we plan
to  become the best german party so far, these three
teams  fusioned  for  not  standing  in  competition  to
each  other  but making everything together and bet-
ter  than ever! The groups involved are: POLKA BRO-
THERS,  LEGO  CLUB, PHANTASM (Amiga), AVENA, AB-
SENSE (Atari) and OXYRON (CBM 64).

                                   WHEN?
                                   -----
Eastern 1996. Length is ofcourse full size: April 5th,
1996  (12.00 CET) to April 8th, 1996 (12.00 CET). That
covers 4 days of FUN and EXPERIENCE.

                                  Where?
                                  ------
Facilities  consist  of  a nice convention center called
"BURG  SEEVETAL"  and are located in the very near
surrounding of Hamburg, Germany.

You  can  reach  it via everything. If you are going to
come  by  train  you  have  to  reach Hamburg Haupt-
bahnhof  (main  station)  and  take  the  S3  or S31 to
Harburg,  where  we will pick you up by the Symposium
shuttle  service. Coming by plane, use the bus shuttle
service  to  the  station Ohlsdorf, wait for the U1, get
out  at  Hamburg  Hauptbahnhof  and,  again,  take the
S3/S31  to reach Harburg. If you arrive by ship, then
you'll  have  to  take  the U3 at Landungsbruecken to
reach  the  Hauptbahnhof.  If you come by spaceship,
there  is  a  big area on the other side of the Sympo-
sium  convention  center;  please try to land it there.
For  the  fact  that you intend to come by car, please
order  the  FLYER  while  using  the following contact
addresses.

                            COMPETITIONS?
                            -------------
Yes,  a  lot.  Not only demo- and introcompetitions for
all  the different computer systems and the usual mo-
dule-,  multichannel  and  graphic competitions are in-
cluded. There will also be competitions for videodemos
next  to a wild-, a coding competition (4k), and so on.
We  will even hold an Acorn Archimedes/Risc PC com-
petition,  if there will be enough entries present. Or a
Silicon  Graphics  demo  competition,  if more than one
entries exist .... NO LIMITS!
The  prices  will  entirely consist of sponsored stuff,
just  like  at  former  Symposiums.  For  more detailed
information  concerning  them or about conditions for
the competition entries, see CONTACT ...

                                    PLUS
                                    ----
A  number  of  surprises  like  prominent  guests from
Software  Houses  and Computer Companies, quiz ga-
mes, NUDE GIRLS and much more attractions.

                                  Contact
                                  ------
                               WWW-PAGE:
HTTP://134.28.37.10/-Frank/bbx-sym96/bbx96.htlm

                     ORGANIZERS VIA E-MAIL:
            Gandalf: Gandalf^BlackBox.Shnet.Org
      Rawstyle: Rawstyle^Online.Fire.Dbn.Dinet.Com
                     Crash: CrashPB^AOL.Com
                    Choas: II9621^FH-Wedel.De

                               SNAIL MAIL:
Frank Schliefer, Am Musterplatz 27, 21220 Seevetal,
Germany

                                    BBS:
                          +XX(X)XXXX/XXXXX
                          +XX(X)XXXX/XXXX
                         +XX(X)XXXX/XXXXXX
                    +XX(X)XXXX/XXXXXX (ISDN)

If  there  are  any  questions  left, please contact the
above  mentioned  e-mail  address or the Relax Maga-
zine for further details.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
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only  in  order  to  save memory as we do not feel like
releasing  many  adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine  and  to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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