Brutal Recall 08 ch11

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           "magazine reviews"

             by: tch/brutal

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yohoho,here i am with some real BIG
  reviews of only a couple of magazines!
  as i got some negative reactions about
  my way of reviewing,i've adapted my
  method and now i've looked at the
  things in a critical way and with full
  explainment.
  concerning magazines i checked on the
  following things:

  1:TEXT AMOUNT,how many text is there?
  2:TEXT VALUE ,is the text informative,
                good written,objective?
  3:COMFORT    ,is it easy to control,
                are there any extras?
  4:OUTFIT     ,are there cool graphix,
                good music etc...

  as you can see there are 2 cases about
  the text. this is simply because text
  is the first priority to make a good
  magazine.
  i'll also mention if it's a one-file
  or a multifile magazine,type of loader
  and other things.
  i will not make lists like in previous
  issues and after some time i might
  review another issue of the mag,for
  instance if it changed outfit or if i
  think the text has improved very much!

well,let's cut the crap now and start
  with reviewing.
  the first lucky contestant is:

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             "INTERNAL #11"

                   by

      THE WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND


type  :MULTI-FILED
loader:FASTLOADER,does not work on my
                  hardware!

after loading the mainfile,there were
  linked 2 INTROS infront of the main
  part of the magazine.
  there was 1 W.O.W.-intro and a special
  INTERNAL-intro. this is a bit stupid
  in my opinion but they should judge
  for themselves!
  finally arriving in the mag-menu there
  was no action at all. (except for the
  cool music!!)
  on top of the screen there was an
  'internal' logo and under it was the
  'menu' which were just a couple of
  names under eachother. totaly there
  were 8 chapters to choose from.
  you could control a white colorbar
  with a joystick in port 2 and move up
  or down to select chapter. then press
  fire to load the current chapter.

the text was crunched with a normal
  "run"-packer and not level-packed.
  after loading,the same logo appeared
  and a raster went down to clear the
  text and up to store it.
  now you are in the text-output part of
  the mag. the controls are very easy
  and this is what you can do...

  port 2: left :page backward.
          right:page forward.
          up...:page selector;
                left,increase page
                right,decrease page
                fire,see page.
          down :turn charflash on/off.
          fire :go back to menu.

the amount of text was quite much.
  the text value was also very good.
  they had some cool chapters like:
  -mega charts:long lists with all names
               of people that got points
               on the votesheets.
  -groups-list:a list with lots of group
               names on alphabetical
               order.
  -group-story:in this chapter there was
               a group story about W.O.W
  and various other things.
  they were not very objective in this
  issue due to the fact that most of the
  text was about W.O.W. itself but this
  didn't influence the charts in any way
  so it isn't that bad!

the magazine is very comfortable indeed
  as all is controlled with 1 joystick.
  the only thing bothering me was the
  failing-fastloader. but this is very
  easy to fix by simply putting an
  "rts" ($60) at memory location $c8c1.

the outfit is nice but not too handsome,
  but handsome is what handsome does!
  the charset is very clear though,so
  the text is easy to read.
  what i also miss is style!
  the music is very good indeed and fits
  the magazine perfectly!

now for the final results...

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         INTERNAL #11 by W.O.W.
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       text amount:   7 out of 10
       text value : 7.5 out of 10
       comfortable: 9.5 out of 10
       the outfit :   6 out of 10
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       the average: 7.5 out of 10
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the next magazine has been delayed for
  some months but finaly it's back in
  bussiness.
  and that mag is...
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             SMOOTH CRIMINAL

                   by

                  LIGHT

type  :MULTI-FILED
loader:FASTLOADER,packed text!

after loading and running the program
  you enter an old light intro which was
  not especialy made for the magazine.
  after pressing space you come to the
  mag menu. this consists of a t.v. with
  diskdrive and ten boxes besides it.
  on the downer part of the screen there
  is text,of the actual chapter,printed.
  now you can select 1 of the ten boxes,
  which are chapters,by using joystick
  in port 2,controling an aim moving
  from box to box. the name of the file
  is printed in the upper-border.
  if you press fire and the text of that
  chapter is not yet in the memory,a
  disk will appear and move into the
  diskdrive below the t.v.
  after that it'll start loading and
  after only a few seconds it's finished
  loading. now the tv+boxes+drive breaks
  away and a "smooth" logo appears with
  "criminal" sprites over it.
  in the meantime you can read the text
  that's just loaded but you've to wait
  till the 'criminal'-sprites appear
  before you can scroll the text.
  the text-output is an up/down scroller
  also with fast scrolling.
  if you move it up (with normal speed)
  for some seconds the text will start
  bouncing line by line which gives a
  very cool look!
  if you've read all there is you can
  press fire to return to the menu.
  this happends the same way you go to
  the text-outputter only in reverse.
  also there appears a little picture,
  concerning the last-loaded chapter,in
  the television.

there is really a lot of text in this
  issue!
  most of the text is very cool and
  interesting to read except for the
  part about ninja-stuff,but i'm sure
  there's someone interested in that!!
  the tips given in 'mixed candy' are
  really groovy and some even soo nasty
  i hope nobody will pull that trick on
  me! also the 'scribble board' was
  really funny to read. the charts did
  look a bit old and infact they were!!
  due to the delay "IKARI+TALENT" were
  on the number 1 spot in the cracker
  charts,but that's only for this issue.
  also some of the text in the "about
  light" and the "news+rumours" corners
  were quite old,caused by the same
  delay.

though to the fact that the controls are
  very easy,it simply takes too long
  to switch between the 'text-read' and
  the 'chapter-choose' parts of the mag.

the outfit is nothing special but due to
  the cool graphix and the very nice
  sound it is pleasant to witness.
  only the charsets are terrible.
  especialy when it is underlined it's
  pretty hard to read.

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      SMOOTH CRIMINAL #08 by LIGHT
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       text amount: 8.5 out of 10
       text value :   8 out of 10
       comfortable:   7 out of 10
       the outfit : 7.5 out of 10
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       the average: 7.8 out of 10
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finally there was another issue of one
  of those magazines that will rule the
  charts without even being released.
  yes,it's good old...
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             CORRUPTION #11

                   by

           DOMINATORS DESIGNS

type  :MULTI-FILED
loader:FASTLOADER,the text is NOT packed

after loading the mainfile it started
  with an intro that made me go uhmm!?
  but after waiting till i could press
  space,i did and entered the mag-menu.
  a very big (3 screens wide) hires
  "CORRUPTION"-logo is moving from left
  to right and back. under that there's
  the chapter selector. you can move an
  arrow to the chapter you want and
  after pressing fire and some luck it
  will start to load. (it loads the text
  everytime,whether it's allready in the
  memory or not!) after loading there
  appears the up/down scroller also with
  fast-scrolling.
  it is all joystick controlled.
  after reading a chapter you can press
  fire to reenter the menu but look out
  you don't load the same text again.
  there are 12 different chapters though
  some text didn't fit in one chapter
  and that's why it was printed in
  another one. the charts were missing
  due to their long delay.

the amount of text was very high indeed!
  the value of the text was not too high
  due to the lack of charts and the
  never-ending fight between corruption
  and antichrist/genesis project.
  also some of the text was in german
  and lots of people can't read german!
  they are also very anti-antichrist.

the mag itself is very comfortable only
  the joystick routine hacks several
  times and can be very irritating.

this new outfit looks quite cool but is
  a bit ordinairy. the music -by jch- is
  very cool,the graphix -done by fox-
  isn't my taste but there are ofcourse
  people that will love it.
  for the rest it is all very nice and
  surtenly not lame!!

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  CORRUPTION #11 by DOMINATORS DESIGNS
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       text amount:   9 out of 10
       text value : 7.5 out of 10
       comfortable:   8 out of 10
       the outfit :   8 out of 10
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       the average: 8.1 out of 10
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and the last but not least mag review of
  this month is also of a delayed mag.
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              TRASHNEWS #13

                   by

                 CLIMAX

type  :MULTI-LOADER
loader:FASTLOADER,same as internal only
                  located at $4800.
                  the text is NOT packed

loading the mainfile and skipping the
  intro i reached the main menu and
  took a look at it.
  in top of the screen there's a moving
  "trashnews"-logo moving left'n'right.
  under that there's the textdisplay.
  lower there's a picture with the
  number of chapters above it. totaly
  there are 10 chapters selected by joy
  in port 2 with left/right. press fire
  once to load the text.
  at any time press fire twice after
  eachother to return to the menu-text.
  after loading move down to go one page
  forward and up to go one back.
  special function keys are:

            f1 for wordhunter
            f3 for print-menu

  there also is a page-counter printed
  with the rest of the text.

the amount of text is above average.
  the textvalue is quite normal thanx to
  some very cool chapters to read. some
  of the text is a bit old but that's
  due to the delay.

the magazine is very comfortable but for
  the loader. the only thing that's a
  bit irritating is the 'double click'.

the outfit is nice but nothing special.
  the graphix are quite good and the
  music fits the mag perfectly.
  the charset is very clear to read,so
  no sweat at all.

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  CORRUPTION #11 by DOMINATORS DESIGNS
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       text amount:   7 out of 10
       text value :   7 out of 10
       comfortable: 8.5 out of 10
       the outfit :   7 out of 10
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       the average: 7.4 out of 10
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and that were all the mag-reviews of
  this month. be free to send me your
  magazine so i can review it!!
  the address to send to is:

            "brutal recall!"
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