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     1  Introduction                    A  Find that Narc Contest       
     2  Editorials                      B  "Warez-IQ" Warez Quiz!       
     3  Interviews                      C  Voting Booth/Results         
     4  Articles                        D  Reader Survey                
     5  Reviews                         E  Secret Articles              
     6  Warez Lists                     F  Space Invaders Game          
     7  Top 10 Couriers                 G  Group NFOs  [Couriers]       
     8  Dear Road Rebel,                H  Group NFOs  [Releases]       
     9  Astrology                       I  RCN Information              
                                                                            
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     1 Manic of ROR                   Rebel Chicken, You Are Lame.        
     2 Arch Vile of DOD/PSG/RiSC      My $0.02                            
     3 Miller of fATE                 You Guys are Biased                 
     4 Scorpion & Sub-Zero            Rebuttal to Defender Zeta Comments  
     5 Bollox                         I Have No Life?  Nah...             
     6 Kang                           #Warez+ is Back for G00D :)         
     7 Dallion                        Tasm the Liar                       
     8 Multiple Email                 Miscellaneous                       
     9 Return to Main Menu            Check Out Other Parts of RCN #18!   
                                                                            
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     1  Ustasa                        RiSC Loses to Everlast              
     2  Dr. Jekyll                    His Girlfriend Speaks               
     3  Demaxxus                      I'm Busted, but I'm Baaaaaack!!!    
     4  Zion                          Prestige President Speaks           
     5  Druggy                        Druggy the Narq                     
     6  Endokuken                     I Like Chinese Warez :)             
     7  "The Hitler of Warez"         "Upload or Die", CoRE???            
     8  Endeavour                     COPS Doing Shareware???             
     9  Return to Main Menu           Check Out Other Parts of RCN #18!   
                                                                            
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     1  COVER : GODS Meeting Log      GODS Stealing RiSC Sites???         
     2  PLUS! : RCN *BUSTED*          RChicken, Hitex, and Xenon BUSTED!  
     3  GODS Couriering               Good Job Guys!                      
     4  GODS Civil War                Erupt Leaves GODS, But Why???       
     5  Tom James Lays Charges        Tom James and the RCMP?             
     6  $99 and It Doesn't Work???    Syncronys Softcorp Pulls a Napalm   
     7  Broken Releases By...         Napalm and Prestige                 
     8  Choosing a Nickname           "Never Touched a Girl"              
     9  Return to Main Menu           Check Out Other Parts of RCN #18!   
                                                                            
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     1  Group Reviews : Games #1        A  Group Reviews : Utils #1     
     2  Group Reviews : Games #2        B  Group Reviews : Utils #2     
     3  Group Reviews : Games #3        C  Group Reviews : Utils #3     
     4  Group Reviews : Games #4        D  Group Reviews : Utils #4     
     5  Group Totals  : Games           E  Group Totals  : Utils        
     6  Ionizer's Game Review           F  Go Back to Main Menu         
                                                                            
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     1  The Seven Listing #1          [05/16/96] --> [05/22/96]           
     2  The Seven Listing #2          [05/23/96] --> [05/29/96]           
     3  The Seven Listing #3          [05/30/96] --> [06/05/96]           
     4  The Seven Listing #4          [06/06/96] --> [06/12/96]           
     5  Upcoming Release Dates        June of 1996 --> July of 1997       
     6  Global Warez Search           Search All Warez Lists!!            
     7  Return to Main Menu           Check Out Other Parts of RCN #18!   
                                                                            
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     1  Top 10 Couriers : BBS #1        A  Top 10 Couriers : FTP #1     
     2  Top 10 Couriers : BBS #2        B  Top 10 Couriers : FTP #2     
     3  Top 10 Couriers : BBS #3        C  Top 10 Couriers : FTP #3     
     4  Top 10 Couriers : BBS #4        D  Top 10 Couriers : FTP #4     
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     1  Voting Results : Release        A  Voting Results : Courier     
     2  Voting Booth                    B  Go Back to Main Menu         
                                                                            
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     1  Chicken Watch : Part Trois    "Oh Boy..."                         
     2  Return to Main Menu           Check Out Other Parts of RCN #18!   
                                                                            
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     1  Group Information               A  Credits                      
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Well, I have just finished reading most of RCN #17, I especially      
   liked how only one side of the story was presented about the #ROR         
   takeover by Razor 1911.  In a minute, I will explain how everything got   
   started, but first, I would like to comment on whoever did the interview  
   for RCN.                                                                  
                                                                             
       RCN editors have recently been talking a lot of the use of the word   
   lame to describe, saying it is over used and that most of the people      
   saying it are the lame ones.  The person who conducted the interview for  
   RCN, flat out call ROR lame.  I am not sure who was doing this            
   interview, but I would assume it was Rebel Chicken.  If I remember        
   you've run 3 basic shit groups, and you have the balls to call another    
   group lame?                                                               
                                                                             
       In ROR's worst time, it kicked the fuck out of VND or FSW.  An        
   unbiased emag?  I don't think so.  I was on the Internet the entire time  
   the shit went down, NEVER ONCE, was I asked for ROR's side of the story.  
   If you had time to get Razor 1911's side, you had time to get ROR's.  Or  
   maybe you're too "lame" to do that much at one time?                      
                                                                             
       Now, onto how this all unfolded.  ROR has had many problems with      
   takeover, usually because of friends.  We op someone on a friends list,   
   then they op someone else.  This was the case that night.  Rom Racer, as  
   he often does, had ops in #ROR.  A ROR member named KH was in the         
   channel, Rom Racer banned KH, after being told a few times before over    
   the past 2 days, not to ban or kick members.  After KH was re-added to    
   the bot (user lists had been reset), he ban kicked Rom Racer.  Other      
   Razor 1911 members who had ops started trying to do mass deops, one of    
   these people included Loloc, and ROR member when I saw people starting    
   to do mass deops, I started to ban kick them to get things under          
   control, during all of the deopping and kicking the channel became        
   desynched.                                                                
                                                                             
       While doing a resynch, I became heavily lagged, and Loloc managed to  
   get into #ROR, and get ops, he opped several Razor members who tookover   
   the channel.  After talking to a few Razor 1911 people, we were able to   
   get things under control, and worked out, and soon got #ROR back.  End    
   of story.                                                                 
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Manic                     
                                                                             
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   Dear Manic,                                                               
                                                                             
       Razor 1911 came up to me and asked for an interview.  I searched for  
   ROR members but could not find any.  You've just presented your side of   
   the story, and I consider that a rebuttal.  End of story.                 
                                                                             
   *PS* You failed to mention how ROR was trying to take over #Razor.        
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Alright, so we saw at least 3-5 couriering groups come and go last    
   year. at least 10 release groups, and I dont say games or utils, since    
   all the groups that were formed in 1995-1996 besides.. err CORP.. and     
   umm Legacy, are going in both directions which is completely lame.        
                                                                             
       So now we have a scene, where every guy who has a shell and phoenix   
   and who is not banned from #exceed, considers himself a part of.  A       
   scene  proud of having 40 releases a day,  35 of which, I can say right   
   now, will not work.  Come to think of it , most of what will seem to      
   work, will be shareware, or will not be 100% cracked.                     
                                                                             
       There are exactly 5 groups on the scene that I trust enough, to be    
   downloading their releases, and knowing they will work.  As sad as it     
   may sound it is the truth.  I will tell an even sadder example, a lame    
   group , releases a lame ware that might actually work that I might want   
   for one reason or another.  The lame group then gives the release to a    
   lame "official" couriering group and what do we get?  Elite couriers,     
   fresh off #warez950, trading the release in ascii mode.  I fucking swear  
   I have seen more than one example of that.                                
                                                                             
       Why do release groups rate every ware they release as a 10/10 ware?   
   I understand its cool to have a good util and rate it high, but when a    
   group like, lets not mention names here, releases a ware "Pastry Mixer    
   for windows 95 xx/50" where all the content was ripped and only the       
   coolest .wavs and .avis were left within the release; goes and states,    
   ok 10/10 for this one.  Give me a fucking break..  the group just earns   
   itself a shitty reputation, and after a few releases like that, it is     
   banned from all major boards and sites (all the releases from xxx group   
   are nuked automatically, regardless of content).                          
                                                                             
       I still haven't given credit where its due.  As shitty as everything  
   may seem, we still have excellent groups, releasing quality warez, to     
   keep the scene going.  We still see good boards, have 0 hour files, the   
   way it should be.  We still have the good sites, getting gigs of 0 min    
   stuff weekly.  What can I say?  It's all up to the people we will hand    
   the scene over to in a few years, to decide whether they want to make it  
   worse, or better, or destroy it completely (damn, you never know what     
   those #Warez950 people are capable of).                                   
                                                                             
       Well, that's it for my little $0.02, have fun, trade lots, and get    
   good grades in school.  Grades are very, very important (those of you     
   who are still in kindergarten, please disregard that message).            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Arch Vile (DOD/PSG/RiSC)  
                                                                             
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   Dear Arch Vile,                                                           
                                                                             
       You're absolutely right, the funny thing is, the #Exceed leeches are  
   the future of the scene.                                                  
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Hi!  This is Miller.  I couldn't help but notice how much bull shit   
   is said about fATE.  Just because you are somebody else doesn't mean      
   they're slow, they suck, or any other bull shit comments.  I myself am a  
   fATE head, and I seriously think you should try to avoid group bashing,   
   especially if it's a group that HAS been in the scene for over a year.    
   And if you're gonna talk shit about groups, then talk shit about some     
   lamer group, and DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!!  I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS    
   BULL SHIT!                                                                
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Miller                    
                                                                             
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   Dear Miller,                                                              
                                                                             
       Alright, this is a response not just to Miller but to everybody that  
   thinks similarly about anything that was ever posted about RCN.  Before   
   you make such a harsh accusation of somebody, check yourself first.  I    
   don't mean to make a public humiliation out of Miller, but I would be     
   very impressed if you could just ONCE point out any place where any RCN   
   Editor (Rebel Chicken or Hitex) has ever group bashed on fATE.  Alright,  
   I've given you plenty of time to think, so now that you know you're       
   wrong (yes, apology accepted) let's explain a little about what it means  
   to accuse RCN of such a task.                                             
                                                                             
       When someone submits an article or an interview, it is HIS/HER        
   opinion only.  Do I need to make a fuckin' disclaimer?  I don't think     
   so.  That's lame.  This is an e-mag and everybody in the scene should     
   have enough goddamned common sense to figure out that if it doesn't say   
   the name of any RCN editor at the top, it's not necessarily the view of   
   RCN as a whole!  In fact, if it does say the name of an RCN Editor, it's  
   not necessarily that of an RCN writer.  What is RCN?  No, not the e-mag   
   part.  What makes up the RCN Backbone?  It's the editors and the          
   coordinators (such as RoadRebel).                                         
                                                                             
       If you're a writer but you don't write for a week, your name will     
   not be in the credits that week.  If you're an editor, however, you are   
   responsible for what you say and it is assumed that your feelings are     
   also that of any other editor.  If you ever see Hitex or Rebel Chicken    
   bash any group, you will then be able to say we group bashed, but until   
   then, it is simply the views of someone that wrote for RCN.               
                                                                             
       If the Chairman of Microsoft were to write for PC Magazine bashing    
   IBM, I would assume none of you would go out and accuse PC Magazine of    
   bashing IBM.  The same respect should be extended to RCN.                 
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   The RCN Staff             
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       In Issue #17 of RCN, Defender Zeta wrote :                            
                                                                             
       Scorpian and Sub-Zero : Your ego is bigger than what any 10 real      
   traders can handle.  I suggest you go back to coding PPEs and shut the    
   hell up you little egotistical bastard.  I hope you choke on your own     
   bloody cum next time you masturbate to your own.                          
                                                                             
       So I say : First, learn how to write Scorpion you little dumbass      
   lamer!  Second, my ego is big because I'm better than 10 READ TRADERS!!   
   Third, my PPEs RULE, and I have plenty of dudes who can say that!  And    
   coding PPEs is much more elite than trading in my opinion.  And in        
   general, you're lame, and I'm not.  Face it man.  Good thing you're       
   leaving the scene.  Have a lame life and die soon.                        
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Scorpion & Sub-Zero       
                                                                             
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   Dear Scorpion & Sub-Zero,                                                 
                                                                             
       Whooop!!! Heheheh, no comment at all!!  Do send me some of your PPEs  
   though.                                                                   
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       So many people trade warez today.  So many people striving to be the  
   best they can be and having the highest "position" in the scene.  So      
   many people staying up for hours on end to courier that new release,      
   crack that new game, make their group the best.  Do these people have     
   ANY lives?  Don't get me wrong I LOVE warez and the scene and it takes    
   up A LOT of my time, but it's fun and that's what we are all here for.    
   The reason trading warez is so enjoyable is because the warez world is    
   an imaginary one, we rule it.  WE have the high positions.  WE are        
   considered to be GODS.  This is very cool because in the real world       
   (most of us) are students and kids.  Constatly being told "No, you can't  
   do this; No, you can't do that." The warez world lets us escape into a    
   fantasy world, a world of our own.                                        
                                                                             
       The only problem with this is when the fantasy warez world starts to  
   rule our "real world".  People who stay on the net for days on end with   
   no sleep and only stopping to eat and piss.  I have been a victim of      
   this many times before and I want it to STOP.  The world of warez does    
   not have any effect on the real world whatsoever.  Don't get me wrong I   
   LOVE the scene and warez, but there is a point where it has to stop.      
   Trading warez is VERY fun and that is the number one reason people do     
   it.  The competition is also a very big reason.  Competing through warez  
   is like any sport you can think of.  A bunch of teams (Groups) compete    
   against one another and try to score points (Release/Crack/Whatever your  
   speciality is in the Scene). Doing this gives us all a rush and makes us  
   feel special.  I don't want to sound dumb, but you can't deny it.  When   
   someone releases an awesome ware that everyone wants to download they     
   feel like "the shit".  I guess this is enough reason to be in the scene   
   because it is fun, it is enjoyable.                                       
                                                                             
       Those who criticize us usually don't have an understanding about how  
   fun it is.  Well, think about it, how much fun does it sound to sit on    
   the computer for hours and type away at whatever your doing.  I guess     
   it's worth it but that's my opinion, yours might be different.            
                                                                             
       I have one more thing to say.  Groups who fight all the time and      
   hate eachother are stupid.  The scene was created to have competition     
   and fun, not to hate others who are trying to do the same thing you are.  
   Everyone is here to do what they do best, specializing in one field or    
   another. Ask yourself, if you are criticizing someone else, what makes    
   me so much better than them.  We are all here for the same purpose,       
   don't spoil it for everyone.                                              
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Bollox                    
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       What can I say?  Hitex has 2-3 girlfriends, and he's still working    
   hard for the scene.  Well, when I get a girlfriend, I'll quit RCN (just   
   kidding).                                                                 
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Starting as of June 16, 1996, #warez+ is back in busines.  They       
   decided to have a bit of a reunion, so they reopened the channel.  The    
   original ops are back also.  Channel Warez+ was always one of the best    
   WarezX channels.  Although now when people join the channel, no one even  
   remembers it and say thing like, "Oh great, another lame warez channel".  
   Warez+ was always the hangout of the more elite warez "traders".  Right   
   now it is just anyone and everyone + their dog. They are currently        
   trying to get off the ground again, and once again striving to become an  
   elite warezX trading channel.  As far as I have seen, they are doing a    
   good job.  The ops are very nice, not the typical "I dont like that, so   
   I will kick-ban you" ops.                                                 
                                                                             
       Although, I do have one small complaint, which is the auto kick-ban   
   of *!*@*.ipt.aol.com, because I dont think it is fair to be prejudiced    
   and say that all users from AOL are not worthy enough to be in a warezX   
   trading channel, because I know of some very elite people from AOL, that  
   have the online service for other reasons then "its so easy and friendly  
   to use".                                                                  
                                                                             
       Other then that, I like #warez+, and believe it should be supported   
   by anyone and everyone. My suggestion to the ops is to get some Offer     
   Bots going in there, just to make it pick up users, and maybe try some    
   things that other channels haven't.                                       
                                                                             
       And another thing, I know that you are barely restarting the          
   channel, and not too many people know about it, but anything you do       
   DON'T MASS INVITE!  Advertise it to your friends and have them join,      
   then let them personally tell people to join. Not just so you wont annoy  
   people, but the probability is that these users will be dedicated to      
   your channel rather then #warez5, #warez950, #warez666, and such. Think   
   if you would like somebody mass inviting in you channel for               
   #warez<whatever>. I dont think you would, so dont do it.                  
                                                                             
       Back on the subject of banning ISP's, I have been getting more and    
   more pissed off lately. I am a Netcom Dial-Up PPP/SLIP user. Not only am  
   I K-Lined from every EFNet server, but now I am banned from a majority    
   of Warez Channels. I hang out on WarezX channels about 1% or less of my   
   time that I am on iRC, so this really doesnt affect me. But there are A   
   LOT of traders that can bring in a lot of warez and trades for your       
   channel, but you have ALL Netcom users banned on your bots. If you feel   
   guilty (which you should), please take the *!*@*.ix.netcom.com ban off    
   of your bots.  Thank You and Goodnight.                                   
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Kang                      
                                                                             
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   Dear Kang,                                                                
                                                                             
       Try banning *!*@*.com, I heard that .com is a real lame internet      
   provider.                                                                 
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Tasm, you need to grow up.  You know that the only reason you are     
   doing this is because he is LIKED and you aren't.  Everyone is getting    
   tired of your shit, and you are bringing, NvC down because of it.  This   
   is a letter of warning to people, Tasm loves to fake logs, tell lies and  
   try to frame people.  He is known around the net for it.  He is sneaky,   
   backstabbing and not trustworthy for ANYTHING.                            
                                                                             
       If he truely is the vice-president of NvC that club is in a hell of   
   a lot of trouble.  I have tried to take it, but that stunt with Ransom    
   was nothing more than a fake log and a personal war with him.  You never  
   did like him, why didn't you talk about that in your little letter, talk  
   about the way you talked about him behind his back when Insanity was      
   still around, talk about the way you couldn't stand it because Dragon     
   Star liked him better than you, no matter how much you kissed his ass.    
   But I guess thats just how some people do.                                
                                                                             
       I know how you work, you were the one who got me kicked out of NvC,   
   by saying I was spying for Violation.  You know good and well I wasn't.   
   You just have a bad problem when it comes to keeping your mouth shut,     
   and you think EVERYTHING has to go your way.                              
                                                                             
       You didn't talk about the way you kicked me out either did you.  How  
   you accused me of spying.  So if you can accuse me of spying why not      
   accuse Ransom of deleting.  Hell just get rid of the people you don't     
   like and before long you will be running the group.  Thats what your      
   plan is and always was.  Well it looks like you got your way.  But look   
   at all the respect you lost doing it, and think to yourself, was it       
   really worth it?  Worth damaging the rep. of NvC for life and making you  
   look like a liar?                                                         
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Dallion                   
                                                                             
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   Dear Dallion,                                                             
                                                                             
       Thanks for informing the scene about Tasm.                            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       In response to the question of new groups popping up, I think that    
   there can be a problem here.  When you see a new release, and you spend   
   your time downloading it, only to find that some half-assed group of      
   12-year olds has slapped together something that Daddy brought home and   
   didn't even bother to crack the fucker, you're gonna be pissed.  Groups   
   like that need to get out of the way of the bigger groups and let the     
   experienced people handle the scene, or get their shit together and       
   start doing things properly, the right way.  I know it's not easy, I      
   mean god, I couldn't run a decent release group, let alone be a           
   dedicated courier, but if you are going to spend your time (and that of   
   others) releasing shit, you best do it right.                             
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   ToiletDuk                 
                                                                             
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   Dear ToiletDuk,                                                           
                                                                             
       I don't think we should be as harsh as you are in this response, but  
   you make some good points, and you're right, it is a very discouraging    
   thing when you download release after release and none of them work.      
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       It seems like today a lot of the people affiliated with the scene     
   have begun to designate everyone as either a lamer or an elite.  Almost   
   everyone on IRC yells "LAMER" at someone else because of something as     
   simple as a file request.  Similarly, if someone belongs to a group, be   
   him the lowliest courier who doesn't even do half his share, in many      
   channels will be revealed as elite.  This 'elite' designation also falls  
   on channel ops, who often get op status for nothing other than IRC        
   relation to the other ops.                                                
                                                                             
       I've been around the warez scene for at least 12 years.  I can        
   remember when couriering really ment COURIERING.  300 bps modems          
   couldn't compare with walking to a friend's house with a handful of       
   5.25" disks and just copying what new stuff he had.  I'll bet hardly      
   anyone in the scene today can name members of groups like Eaglesoft, DCS  
   (Doughnut Cracking Service), and a few others.                            
                                                                             
       But does knowing these things make me elite?  I hope that that fact   
   alone does NOT.  I've pretty much done it all, opped warez channels, run  
   a BBS, and done freelance couriering between FTP sites and BBSs.  I even  
   coded some BBS mods.  Still, I was never part of an official group.  So   
   am I a lamer because I never had my name at the bottom of a grop .NFO     
   file?  I hope not.  The point is this - warez, in its entirety, is a      
   win-win situation for practically everyone in the scene.  Why someone     
   who enters a channel asking for a particular ware gets branded a lamer    
   and kicked, while 3 idlers sit motionless watching the world go by, is a  
   mystery to me.  The only 'lamers' in the warez scene are those who work   
   to destroy it.                                                            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Wildgoose                 
                                                                             
   *PS* Keep up the good work!  The mag continues to be the only emag        
   (warez or otherwise) that I read on a regular basis.                      
                                                                             
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   Dear Wildgoose,                                                           
                                                                             
       First, I would like to thank you for the nice comment at the end!     
   Next, you are so right about your writing.  This whole "lamer/elite"      
   bull shit is just so overplayed in the scene.  A new person is branded    
   lamer about as often as Michael Jackson fucks another male kid.  It's     
   just an everyday thing and makes no sense at all.  Will it end?  Do you   
   REALLY think Michael Jackson will ever stop?  Of course not.  It's        
   stupid, pointless, but it seems to make these channel ops feel big, and   
   heck, if it makes them happy, they can just go ahead and do it (that      
   doesn't apply to Michael Jackson, though).                                
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       What's up?  It's me, Endeavour, founder of COPS.  Just wanted to say  
   good job on the coding and content within RCN!!  Keep up the good work!   
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Endeavour                 
                                                                             
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   Dear Endeavour,                                                           
                                                                             
       Thanks!!!  We're doing our best every week to make RCN as good as it  
   can be.  We're grateful for support like yours!                           
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       I was shocked when I read RCN #17 this past weekend.  After reading   
   your interview with Endeavour, founder of COPS, and making my own         
   assessment of COPS, I wondered if anything could possibly be in a sadder  
   shape than COPS.                                                          
                                                                             
       COPS' NFO is one of the worst ones I've EVER seen.  Whoever drew it   
   lacks talent and the person that added the text should be charged with    
   plagiarism.  These guys lack originality and most of their information    
   comes from other groups.  They have ripped off parts of DOD, Razor, and   
   PWA's NFOs.  The only original statement is the group's quote and that    
   is one of hypocrisy.  "COPS will beat you and you will like it!"  The     
   only thing these poor bastards will be beating is their meat.             
                                                                             
       Endeavour, if the indication that you guys coming on strong is        
   through your releases, may God help you all.  When a non-foreign group    
   starts releasing software in another language, then you know it is in     
   trouble.  A few weeks ago, COPS released MS-Access in Chinese.  What is   
   wrong with you people? Less than 15% of the scene is Asian or even        
   Chinese and I'm pretty sure the majority of these people is content with  
   their English versions.  There is nothing like preparing an English       
   database in a Chinese program.  Also, when you released Blake Stone, you  
   knew that the files dated back to 1993, yet you gave the go-ahead to      
   release.  This indicates your sloppy leadership and the sad shape that    
   COPS is in.  For no decent group leader, including groups smaller than    
   yours, would have released such crap that one can find in the bargain     
   bin at your local software store.  At the rate you guys are coming on     
   strong, it may take COPS a century to reach the magnitute of what         
   Mortality is today.                                                       
                                                                             
       Endeavour, you have no right to rag on Malice.  I remember back in    
   February, you used to come into #MALiCE and beg us to courier your        
   releases.  We kicked and kicked yet you kept on rejoining the channel.    
   I have to admit, you are very persistent and arrogant.  Otherwise, COPS   
   would not be alive today.  You think that Malice is dead today, but       
   they'll always have more of a fighting chance to regroup than COPS.  I    
   am surprised that fATE accepted COPS under their protective wing.         
   Surely, fATE has more sense and respectability than that.  But then       
   again, fATE is a second-rate couriering group.  Any decent courier group  
   will not have a releasing division to back up and/or supplement their     
   couriering.  I hope that Doobie will come to his senses and kick you out  
   as Malice has done.                                                       
                                                                             
       In conclusion, the only thing COPS will "professionally" specialize   
   in is crap.  In fact, why not change the name to Crappy Old Pirated       
   Shareware? This name would state the true nature of COPS.  If you guys    
   are coming on strong, then groups such as PWA must be flying in a         
   rocket.  If a member of COPS today is the NEW batch and holds the key to  
   the future of the scene, then perhaps we should all quit or retire now    
   to avoid the pain and humiliation that will come later.                   
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   kT!                       
                                                                             
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   Dear kT!,                                                                 
                                                                             
       I tend to want to keep an open mind about a group.  COPS has gone     
   through some majorly shitty releases that I honestly don't think anybody  
   in the scene uses today, but I will keep their future open in my mind.    
   They have just as much of a chance to raise their standards as any new    
   group today.  I can only hope that this negative publicity will maybe     
   catalyze Endeavour's understanding that he should perhaps raise the       
   standard of COPS to a new degree.  As for fATE, every group has its good  
   times and bad times.  Perhaps fATE is going through a slump right now.    
   I have no doubt in my mind that they could make themselves great again.   
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       I'm just writing out of disgust.  My story is a common one, but       
   nevertheless, a sad one.  I used to be a lamer <CRINGE!> just like        
   everyone else (I find it extremely hard to believe that any of you        
   started out by moving files for RiSC!).  But, like one dude said in RCN   
   #17 (there's no skill in warez, just contacts), I had made some good      
   contacts and I moved up the warez 'pyramid.'  It was a long climb, and I  
   came nowhere near the top, but I don't give two shits about that now!  I  
   was involved in the fledgling community several years ago, and my         
   involvement has carrived to today.  I have several past and present       
   affiliations, but nothing like RiSC or Prestige.  You see, a long time    
   ago in the world of warez, I realized that those on the top were          
   dropping like flies, and although they had worked long and hard to get    
   there, they were all burnt out!  I was and still am a 0-6 MONTH trader,   
   and you know what?  It doesn't matter!  It doens't fucking matter at      
   all!  I have seen the 'elite' come and go, and it never changes.  Sure,   
   I think it would be cool someday to have 5 phone lines all dedicated to   
   moving files, but is it worth giving up my life for?  No, not at all!     
                                                                             
       You see, people in 'the scene' are always saying stuff like 'Man,     
   you gotta take responsibility for your actions, you gotta relize that     
   you could be arrested,' but ironically, these same people don't take      
   responsibility for their involvement.  I know people are flying through   
   the ranks of warez faster than ever now, but what happens?  They all end  
   up on the far end of the spectrum, under the 'burnt out' category.        
   People don't seem to realize what's going on.  If you're going to take    
   responsibility for trading commercial software illegally, you have to     
   take responsibility for your rise in doing so.  It pisses me off to hear  
   people complain about how they have no life because of warez, and that    
   warez ruined them, and that they become burnt out and retire.  I realize  
   for some people, myself included, being involved for a long period of     
   time does take its toll, and I feel that if you have spent the past 4-or  
   so, or however many years moving files, that you deserve the retirement   
   you take, but these people that fly through in a matter of weeks, or      
   even months, I mean get real people!                                      
                                                                             
       It's all about responsibility and maturity.  Take it slow, there's    
   no big deal about it.  It's a hobby, and hobbies are supposed to be fun,  
   right?  I hope this will serve as a rude awakening for some of you.  If   
   you're just starting out, don't feel intimidated by the bigger, older     
   elite members of the community.  Don't feel pressured into spending 16    
   hours of YOUR day behind a computer pressing buttons and moving 0         
   nanosecond warez.  For me, warez is just a hobby, and I don't plan on     
   changing anything.  I am perfectly satisfied doing this in my free time.  
   If that makes me 'less-l337' than you, so what?  I only do this in the    
   evening and when I have or need some time to relax for a bit.             
                                                                             
       I guarantee to you it will be more fun for me and I will be around    
   longer. If you're already established in the scene, maybe this will help  
   you re-evaluate what you're doing.  I don't think warez is bad at all,    
   but I think all those involved need to take more responsibility for the   
   scene.  When it gets to the point where it is no longer fun, i is         
   tedious and a job and you feel pressured into doing it, take a break!     
   Even if that means cutting back from 15+ megs a day to 75+ and then 50+,  
   do yourself a favor, and do everyone else involved a favor.  Be           
   responsible.  If you're going to get involved, fine, just don't bail out  
   in 6 months' time and say you are all burnt out and you have no life and  
   just bitch and complain about the scene.  Consider yourself warned.       
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Zero Lucifer              
                                                                             
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   Dear Zero Lucifer,                                                        
                                                                             
       You're right, the scene is about having fun.  If you have no life,    
   that sucks for you, but if you have no life because of the scene, you     
   need to get the hell out.  The scene isn't a prison, it's a beach-side    
   resort.  If you're so tanned you're almost burnt, get the hell out, but   
   put on some sun screen beforehand and you'll be able to take it slower    
   and be around for a much longer amount of time.                           
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
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   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       Hello to the whole staff!  Well, I'm completely surprised!  What a    
   GOOD E-mag!  It's the best I've ever seen (and that's a lot).  Very cool  
   intro in deed!  I can just say one thing "Keep up the good work, boys."   
   And some much-deserved credits to the man who has coded that Space        
   Invaders game.                                                            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Energia                   
                                                                             
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   Dear Energia,                                                             
                                                                             
       Thanks for the comments!  Xenon, our coder, is definitely one of the  
   best in the scene.  He works hard with us to make RCN the best that it    
   can be, and as we all know, the coding is part of what makes RCN your #1  
   warez e-mag!                                                              
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
   Dear RCN,                                                                 
                                                                             
       I have been reading RCN since the beginning.  I am always looking     
   forward to the next issue. It seems like every issue is getting bigger    
   and better.  All of the hard work and time put into RCN really shows.     
   The coding is excellent and the music and sound are amazing.  Damn those  
   games that you put in RCN are awesome (and sometimes frustrating).  I     
   just want to congratulate all of you guys in RCN for the effort and time  
   put into it every week.  It really does show.  Keep it up and good luck   
   in the future.                                                            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Trip                      
                                                                             
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   Dear Trip,                                                                
                                                                             
       What can I say?!  Thanks for the great comments!  We try hard, I'm    
   glad we're pleasing the scene!                                            
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hitex/Rebel Chicken       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Hitex                     Interviewee : Ustasa               
     Subject  : RiSC Loses to Everlast    Affiliation : Everlast Member      
                                                                             
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   RCN : Can you give me a rough picture of who you are and how you pertain  
         to the warez scene?                                                 
                                                                             
   EVR : I'm basically just a courier that can be very dedicated to the      
         scene.  I know everyone knows just how much I love the scene!  I    
         started out 4 years ago and very slowly worked my way up.  It       
         takes much loyalty and dedication to get places.                    
                                                                             
   RCN : What are some of your prior affiliations?                           
                                                                             
   EVR : I've been a part of RiSC, Razor 1911, Tyranny, Genesis,             
         Generation-X, Everlast, Prophecy, Scum, Pirates with Attitudes,     
         Drink or Die, Hybrid, Dynamix, and few others not worth             
         mentioning.                                                         
                                                                             
   RCN : Which of these affiliations did you most treasure and enjoy being   
         a part of?                                                          
                                                                             
   EVR : To tell you the truth, RiSC, but as you might know, I left for      
         some undisputed reasons.  RiSC is the best group ever.  Very loyal  
         people like Eagle 1, Enforcer, Pharaoh, and Crackpot, make RiSC     
         what it is.  I was treated with respect in the group.               
                                                                             
   RCN : What were the reasons for your departure from RiSC?                 
                                                                             
   EVR : I had an argument with a netmonkey by the name of Suspicious        
         Image.  He thought he could boss me around in the group, so I said  
         screw this shit and left!  For example, he would threaten to get    
         me kicked out due to inactivity and so on, so I said to myself who  
         the fuck does this lamer think he is!?                              
                                                                             
   RCN : So you went and joined Everlast?  Would that have been a second     
         choice to RiSC?  Which do you enjoy more?                           
                                                                             
   EVR : Well, I joined Everlast so I couldn't really tell you who is        
         better to me, but Everlast is a bunch of good friends that joined   
         together to make the group.  It's really cool.  Mr. Skill,          
         Asmodeus, Blue Adept, Shatter Star, Immortal, are all pretty cool   
         guys.                                                               
                                                                             
   RCN : I seem to remember that Shatter Star was in RiSC for a short        
         while.  Yet he, too, left for Everlast.  Could this be said to be   
         an overall statement about the attitudes of RiSC versus those of    
         Everlast?                                                           
                                                                             
   EVR : Yes.  To tell you the truth, I'm not the only one that left         
         because of Sispicious Image.  There are others.  People like him    
         seem to make the group lame, and I think action should be taken     
         towards people like him.  To tell you the truth, I think RiSC is    
         falling apart.                                                      
                                                                             
   RCN : RiSC, in your opinion, is falling apart.  Do you mean, in other     
         words, that Everlast is taking RiSC's old place in the scene?       
                                                                             
   EVR : No, I think RiSC will always be a dominant group, but it'll just    
         lose its touch.  Everlast kicks ass, but I can't tell you the       
         future man.                                                         
                                                                             
   RCN : What do you think of a "new" (revamped) group called GODS?  They    
         have split up both Digital and Amnesia to form themselves, what do  
         you expect this will do to the couriering scene?                    
                                                                             
   EVR : To tell ya the truth, I think this GODS group will kick some ass,   
         but we'll just have to see how long they'll last.  Groups come and  
         go these days.  Kinda reminds me of my old group Cartel.  They      
         seem to have some pretty cool guys in there, but they will have to  
         establish themeselves on the big boards like Akira and Park         
         Central.  RiSC and Everlast are kicking ass on the boards.          
                                                                             
   RCN : Does Everlast have any organized IRC channels going for it yet?     
                                                                             
   EVR : Yup, #Everlast is becoming a very good channel as of late.  One     
         last thing, what the fuck is up Razor 1911's ass?  They dissed me   
         in their last nfo and I want to know what the fuck I did to them    
         besides smoke their asses on releases when I was in Hybrid.  Fuck   
         they say I'm a backstabber.  Fuck I used to so much when I was in   
         Razor.  I upload to their damn pay sites 24 hours a day, and this   
         is what I get, a kick in the fucking ass!!  Well all I gotta say    
         is FUCK YOU ASSHOLES THE SPEED RACER/GECKO, suck my fucking dick    
         you queers, go hop on Hula while you're at it!!  I would just like  
         to give a shout out to all the Leet dudes out there ASMODEUS,       
         TOAST, THE PUNISHER, TOUGH GUY, THE OUTLAWS, CYANIDE, PHARAOH,      
         MAVERICK, CORPSE, CRACKPOT, MR SKILL, IMMORTAL, SHATTER, BLUE       
         ADEPT, EAGLE1, ENFORCER, CRIMINAL OVERLORD, SWITCH BLADE, SYXUS,    
         CYBERJACK, HEMP HOODLUM, ARCH VILE, and to all those who I might    
         have missed!!  CYA PEACE YEM GORDY!!                                
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Glock                     Interviewee : <Undisclosed>        
     Subject  : Dr. Jekyll                Affiliation : Dr. Jeyll's Girl     
                                                                             
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   RCN : How do you know Dr. Jekyll?                                         
                                                                             
   --- : He's my boyfriend and also my best friend.                          
                                                                             
   RCN : How do you feel about him getting busted?                           
                                                                             
   --- : I feel that it is very unfortunate for him to have been busted.  I  
         know that what he did wasn't the best of things, but I think that   
         what they're doing to him, especially at this particular time,      
         really SUCKS.                                                       
                                                                             
   RCN : What exactly did he get busted for?  How did they catch him?        
                                                                             
   --- : Laugh, well, they accused him of hacking into the FAU (Florida      
         Atlanta State University) and destroying someone's email.  He was   
         also caught stealing files from the FAU.  It's in the newspapers.   
                                                                             
   RCN : Do you think he'll ever make it back into the scene?                
                                                                             
   --- : No, I don't think he'll ever come back.  It's cost him too much     
         pain these past few day.  Besides, after all this, I don't think    
         I'd let him back in the scene.  If he does come back, I think       
         it'll be a while, considering he doesn't have a computer right now  
         and such.                                                           
                                                                             
   RCN : Could you tell us what he might want to say to the scene, if he     
         were given the chance?                                              
                                                                             
   --- : I think he'd say, "Blah, go blow a toad."                           
                                                                             
   RCN : What are your feelings toward the FAU?                              
                                                                             
   --- : The FAU is really stupid if they think they're going to get away    
         with this and still survive.  If they do ANYTHING to harm him more  
         than they already have, I shall reap my revenge somehow.  Dr.       
         Jekyll's smarter than all of them combined.  He'll get out of it.   
         I've faith in him.                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Lucifers Fear             Interviewee : Demaxxus             
     Subject  : Demaxxus Returns          Affiliation : n/a                  
                                                                             
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   RCN : You were recently busted and raided by the RCMP (Royal Canadia      
         Mounted Police), but now I hear that you are back in the scene.     
         Is that true, and if so, how are you able to come back to the       
         scene?                                                              
                                                                             
   DEM : Well, the police didn't have enough evidence on me so they had to   
         give me back my computer hardware that they confiscated.  The main  
         charges were for stolen merchandise, but when the confiscated       
         hardware was not the stolen material they were looking for, they    
         were forced to give my stuff back and let me go.  They basically    
         had dick-all for evidence.  Although they said they were going to   
         be keeping an eye on me, which probably means having a fat cop      
         watching me all day to see if I go into any computer stores, that   
         fat cop will probably be too busy eating donuts to catch me.        
                                                                             
   RCN : How did the RCMP found out that you were Demaxxus in the first      
         place?                                                              
                                                                             
   DEM : I honestly have no idea how they found me.  The only way I can      
         think of is if one of the stores I've "found" stuff from gave the   
         police my name.  I was recently caught on video tape at Future      
         Shop getting a modem, so they would have had a picture of me to     
         give to the police.  Either that, or one of the RATS from our area  
         code (most famously known for ratting on Anarchist) made a little   
         anonymous phone call.                                               
                                                                             
   RCN : Is it true that they actually tapped your phone line to get         
         evidence, and if so, how long did they listen in on your            
         interesting phonecalls?                                             
                                                                             
   DEM : Well, I'm not sure if they actually tapped my line, in fact, in     
         this technologically impaired city, I highly doubt it.  Although    
         they must have been checking on my phone line somehow, because      
         when they first came to my house, they briefly spoke about          
         carding, but that was it, they never mentioned it after that.       
                                                                             
   RCN : What did you think when the RCMP was at your door 7:30 a.m. with a  
         warrant?                                                            
                                                                             
   DEM : My first thought was, "Fuck, what did my brother do now", but when  
         they asked for me, I almost shit a brick.  I couldn't believe       
         they'd finally caught up to me.  I thought that they might have     
         come to my house because I used to be on Anarchist's board, but     
         then they told me they were at my house with a warrant in regard    
         to stolen merchandise.                                              
                                                                             
   RCN : We all love our famous RCMP officer by the name of TOM JAMES, but   
         would he have been the one leading this investigation that led to   
         your bust?                                                          
                                                                             
   DEM : No, to my surprise, he never entered this situation at all.  I      
         don't even think it was the RCMP (RCMP = Royal Canadian Mounted     
         Police = Canadian FBI), it was just the local police.  I was kind   
         of sad when he didn't show up, I didn't have a chance to give him   
         a mint and a bottle of scope.  I guess he wasn't part of my bust    
         because the warrant for my bust had nothing to do with the          
         Anarchist, and the topic was just on stolen property.  Neither the  
         RCMP nor Tom James was in on my bust.                               
                                                                             
   RCN : I was informed that you weren't happy about something which was     
         making a front page in the newspaper, is this true and how come a   
         local story like this not make it?                                  
                                                                             
   DEM : YES!  I was fucking pissed off when they didn't have my bust in     
         the newspaper, nevermind the front page.  If (when) I get busted,   
         I want to be in the newspaper, I don't know why, I just do.  I'm    
         not sure why my story didn't make it.  Maybe it was because the     
         evidence they had on me was so shaky.  And since I got let go, it   
         wouldn't look too good for the police if the story was in the       
         newspaper, and then have another story in which they had to let me  
         go.                                                                 
                                                                             
   RCN : Perhaps you were not in the newspaper because someone else known    
         as the Anarchist stole the spotlight earlier this year?             
                                                                             
   DEM : Well, I can't blame it wholy on Anarchist, but partially, yes.  If  
         he didn't get into kiddie porn, the RCMP never would have come to   
         our area code, and everything would be ok.  But, since the RCMP     
         didn't have anything to do with my bust, it still would have        
         happened, no matter what.  Basically, he didn't fuck me up, but he  
         fucked up the scene here (bhwhahahah... 3 people make up the scene  
         in my area code, one of which moved out of my area code and is      
         interviewing me right now).                                         
                                                                             
   RCN : Now that you are back in the scene, what are your future plans?     
                                                                             
   DEM : I don't have any permanent plans as of yet, except that I'm going   
         to start coding again (PCBoard Programing Language), and I'm going  
         to start supplying for a group run by a friend.  I'll be supplying  
         coffee and donuts, not warez, that would be ILLEGAL!!! ;)           
                                                                             
   RCN : Which groups are you going to be supplying and coding for?          
                                                                             
   DEM : I will be coding for pUNC (People Under No Control), and I'll be    
         supplying for RTN (Revolution).                                     
                                                                             
   RCN : I noticed you were a member of ACiDiC, ACiD's (Ansi Creators in     
         Demand) BBS modding division, why did you leave a group with such   
         reputation for a new group known as pUNC?                           
                                                                             
   DEM : Well, since I'm going to be too busy with school, I'm only going    
         to have time to code for one group.  I am very good friends with    
         the leader of pUNC, Luptin, so I decided to stay there.             
                                                                             
   RCN : You used to run a group called ANGUiSH, and since you can supply,   
         wouldn't you rather just stick with your own group?                 
                                                                             
   DEM : ANGUiSH was just a BBS modding group, so supplying wouldn't be      
         much good there.  Plus, I won't be able to supply forever, and      
         there are already too many groups in the scene, so it would surely  
         fail in no time.  And since there are so many groups, most of the   
         good suppliers and couriers are already in good groups, and would   
         not leave them for a no-name group.                                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Dark-Elf                  Interviewee : Zion                 
     Subject  : Prestige                  Affiliation : Prestige President   
                                                                             
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   RCN : What do you do in Prestige?                                         
                                                                             
   PSG : I am the founder, the leader, I run the World Headquartewrs, and I  
         supply.                                                             
                                                                             
   RCN : Does Prestige release games or utilities?                           
                                                                             
   PSG : Games of course!                                                    
                                                                             
   RCN : How many games would you say you release over the period of one     
         week?                                                               
                                                                             
   PSG : As many as we can.  It varies depending on how many titles come     
         out per week.  Since we began, though, we've released 90% of        
         everything put out on the market in the past 2 months.              
                                                                             
   RCN : What does Prestige mean or stand for?                               
                                                                             
   PSG : It doesn't really stand for anything.  It's just a name we thought  
         up two years ago when we were Amiga only.                           
                                                                             
   RCN : Have you had a lot of trouble with egos with your members?          
                                                                             
   PSG : We have no internal problems with egos.  We are working for a       
         similar goal.  Just because a member is colorful in speech doesn't  
         really matter to me, unless he is putting others down.  Then,       
         there's a problem.  I am not the one to decide whether or not my    
         members can brag over our work.  We are all here to have a good     
         time; so let's have it!                                             
                                                                             
   RCN : Are you happy with your group?  Do you think you've been a          
         success?                                                            
                                                                             
   PSG : Yes, I am pleased with what we have achieved so far.                
                                                                             
   RCN : Is Prestige currently accepting new members?  If so, what           
         positions are currently available?                                  
                                                                             
   PSG : Since Prestige is mostly a BBS group with the next MIXED in we are  
         in need of modem couriers.  We aren't in the need for any           
         net-based members, though.  I get asked 2-3 times a day from        
         someone to join the group.                                          
                                                                             
   RCN : About how many members strong is your group?                        
                                                                             
   PSG : We currently have 25 very talented members on our team.             
                                                                             
   RCN : Tell us your opinions regarding other groups.                       
                                                                             
   PSG : I don't really give much thought to other groups.  One thing that   
         bothers me about today's groups is that they don't really care      
         much for quality.  Groups today are more worried about being the    
         FIRST to put something up than doing it right.  It's really bad to  
         name groups but Napalm is/was a group that had this attitude.       
         This is the reason for us starting Prestige.  We wanted to bring    
         quality to the scene.                                               
                                                                             
   RCN : Have you had any trouble with other groups trying to down your      
         group?                                                              
                                                                             
   PSG : Nah, what others say about us is not relevent.  One thing that      
         kinda pissed me off was when Napalm stole our crack from Toshinden  
         and spread it worldwide, claiming they beat us.  That wasn't very   
         cool.                                                               
                                                                             
   RCN : Would you say that Napalm is the worst group on the net?            
                                                                             
   PSG : No, Napalm is far from being the worst group.  I bet you didn't     
         know that I was in Napalm right before I started up Prestige PC.    
         Actually, it was Napalm that made me want to start Prestige PC.     
                                                                             
   RCN : So Napalm is lower than the worst group that ever was?              
                                                                             
   PSG : Nah, Napalm is a good group.  It just needs to take its time on     
         releasing.  That way it can be sure that its cracks work.  Only     
         problem is that we will beat them.                                  
                                                                             
   RCN : So why did you want to start Prestige?  What gave you the idea to   
         make your own group?                                                
                                                                             
   PSG : Prestige exists for one reason alone, today's groups don't care     
         about quality.  I was tired of being part of a scene that didn't    
         give a fuck if the games worked or not.  You have got to take note  
         that Prestige on the Amiga released 79 titles in 7 months, all      
         100% working quality games, and never needed a fix.  This is the    
         quality I am trying to bring to the PC scene.                       
                                                                             
   RCN : Do you think Prestige is headed for the top?                        
                                                                             
   PSG : We are the top.                                                     
                                                                             
   RCN : How long as Prestige been around?                                   
                                                                             
   PSG : 2 years on the 23rd of this month.                                  
                                                                             
   RCN : Yet, I have just noticed Prestige on the market.  What happened?    
                                                                             
   PSG : We decided to become more focused on releasing for the PC.  It      
         seems that this focusing has changed our group around making it     
         one of the best on the net, but the net is secondary to us.  We     
         are still mainly a BBS bound group.                                 
                                                                             
   RCN : So do you think Prestige is the best on the net?  If not, which     
         group do you feel is?                                               
                                                                             
   PSG : Yes, I think Prestige is the best on the net.                       
                                                                             
   RCN : Has running a group really taken your whole life away from you?     
                                                                             
   PSG : Nope, not at all.  You just have to know how to delegate            
         responsibilities!                                                   
                                                                             
   RCN : This is kind of personal but do you have a girlfriend?              
                                                                             
   PSG : I have a wife and kids.  Still, I manage to keep my hours split.    
         I have a 24-hour connection to the net so I'm on IRC very often.    
         And I manage to keep adequate time to spend with my family, my      
         group, and my job.  I run a computer sales and marketing business.  
                                                                             
   RCN : So why are you more of a BBSer than an Interneter?                  
                                                                             
   PSG : The Internet is good, but it all started on BBSes!  I guess I am    
         an old-timer. I think it's better to beat Razor 1911 on Beyond      
         Akira or their WHQ than it is to beat them on LA or BBX.  So we     
         try to beat them on both.  So far we are beating everyone on BBSs   
         and on the Internet with time to spare.  You see, it's really nice  
         when you can upload all your titles to your BBS and then to the     
         WHQ's of other groups and still have time to win on the net too.    
         See my point of quality before speed??  I have been in the scene    
         since 1987, in Commodore 64, Amiga, and the PC.                     
                                                                             
   RCN : So in your time in the scene, has anyone ever really upset you?     
         If so, please give me their nicks.                                  
                                                                             
   PSG : Samir and Mok!  They were in Prestige Amiga.  The organizer and     
         the best cracker in the world, hands down.  He retired at the       
         prime of Prestige.  We went on an 8-month dry spell and then        
         decided to start up the PC division.                                
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Rebel Chicken             Interviewee : Druggy               
     Subject  : Druggy the Narq           Affiliation : ex-Motiv8 Council    
                                                                             
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   RCN : There are many rumors spread by Motiv8 members that you are a       
         narq.  You've been accused of narqing on many sites such as Nihil   
         and Dropship, and you have also been accused of narqing on many     
         people in the scene such as Pseduo, Storm, and Sub.  Assuming that  
         you do not believe that these rumors are true, then what do you     
         have to show to prove that these accusations are not true?          
                                                                             
   DRG : I would like to remedy myself from all these rumors that are being  
         spread by Motiv8 members.  As far as I know, the site Nihil has     
         merely changed ports and has not been busted.  I don't know much    
         about Dropship, but it was never on my list, and I don't even know  
         the site's IP.  Pseudo has left Motiv8 for another courier group    
         called Stealth, therefore his site has not been busted as people    
         so stubbornly say.  Storm, whom I have recently spoken to, still    
         operates his site with full force, so how can Motiv8 say I busted   
         him?  From what I heard, Sub has merely left Motiv8 to be a siteop  
         in another courier group called Rapier.                             
                                                                             
   RCN : So you're saying that you did not narq on anyone?                   
                                                                             
   DRG : That is all the sites and siteops in Motiv8 who have been "busted"  
         and sites that have been dismantled because of my narqing on them.  
         It is sad to see one of the more older and respected groups have    
         to lower themselves to such a level, as to bring someone down with  
         their slowly dying group.                                           
                                                                             
   RCN : There is also proof that private sites that belonged to SIN         
         (Sinful Traders), a group in which you were a leader in, was also   
         busted.  Why were the siteops from your group busted?               
                                                                             
   DRG : Other SIN sites and their operators may have been busted (only      
         getting their access taken away from the sites) but that is my      
         business and under my jurisdiction, as they were sites in SIN, and  
         SIN was MY GROUP, making this whole conflict between myself and     
         Motiv8 defunct.  Motiv8 is trying to turn away from the fact, that  
         they are beginning to lose their sites to faster groups such as     
         GODS and RiSC.                                                      
                                                                             
   RCN : How did the siteops from SIN get busted?                            
                                                                             
   DRG : The actual ways in which of SIN's siteops got caught had nothing    
         to do with me.  Random, the siteop of the SIN WHQ was disbanded     
         from being system administrator at his business in Mississipi as    
         our group filled up his 3 gigabyte HD, rendering no cache space     
         available for the server to use, as it was down for maintanence,    
         therefore crashing the system.  The other system administrators     
         was there to resolve the problem and find the pirated material.     
         Random was then fired from his job instead of being imprisoned as   
         he earlier told me.                                                 
                                                                             
   RCN : What about the fact that this was his Random's second bust?  You    
         mentioned in RCN #16 that this was Random's second bust?  Is there  
         some discrepancy in your story?                                     
                                                                             
   DRG : The same thing happened before.  His HD got filled.  Ask anyone     
         who was in SIN at the time.  He found out when he got to work the   
         next day, deleted the pirated software.  The other system           
         administrator came, and blamed it on Random, as vital information   
         towards the business was to be stored on the site, and Random was   
         new there.                                                          
                                                                             
   RCN : That answer only covers how Random got busted.  I've also been      
         informed that another SIN siteop, Nettwerk, was recently busted.    
         How was Nettwerk busted?                                            
                                                                             
   DRG : Nettwerk, a new addition to our crew at SIN, was busted even        
         before his site was fully functional.  Therefore his apprehension   
         had absolutely no connection to the site list I distributed to my   
         group.                                                              
                                                                             
   RCN : You have shown that the rumors started by Motiv8 against you might  
         just be rumors, but I want to know WHY Motiv8 would do such a       
         thing?  What do they have to gain?  It makes no sense that Motiv8   
         would start rumors to say taht you are a narq, perhaps they are     
         not rumors?                                                         
                                                                             
   DRG : Rumors they are, I am not a narq.  I have run and maintained 3 and  
         now 4 groups.  The way I narqed was a list I sent off to my SIN     
         members a WEEK before joining Motiv8, which would render their      
         sayings as bullshit, for some of their siteops were with us.  The   
         siteops and my former members can reference this.                   
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Rebel Chicken             Interviewee : EndoKuken            
     Subject  : RTN (Revolution)          Affiliation : Revolution Leader    
                                                                             
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   RCN : Many people know that Revolution is a group that specializes in     
         foreign software, why does Revolution specialize in releasing only  
         foreign software?  Is it because Revolution has no suppliers that   
         can release US software?                                            
                                                                             
   RTN : Well, Revolution is indeed a foreign release group and we do        
         specialize in Chinese/Japanese games.  The reason I release these   
         games is because there are a lot of Chinese/Japanese people in the  
         scene that want such games.  Since I'm Chinese, I am also able to   
         enjoy quality Chinese/Japanese games.  As for suppliers that can    
         release US software, I do have a few of them.                       
                                                                             
   RCN : I am crazy about a Japanese cartoon show called Sailor Moon, and I  
         also heard that there's a Sailor Moon Game and Screen Saver for     
         the PC.  If you find either the Sailor Moon Game or the Sailor      
         Moon Screen Saver, make sure you release it.  Anyway, if            
         Revolution specializes in releasing only Chinese/Japanese           
         software, how come I just saw you guys release a US utility?        
         Perhaps that was a fake release?                                    
                                                                             
   RTN : No, that was not a fake release.  Revolution does pull off some US  
         utilities faster than other groups because Revolution does have US  
         suppliers as I mentioned before.  It is definitely not a fake       
         release, in fact, it was a $900 utility that I would never pay      
         that much for.  As for the Sailor Moon PC Game and Screen Saver, I  
         am a big fan myself and recently purchased Sailor Moon Super Stars  
         for my Playstation.                                                 
                                                                             
   RCN : Many people in the scene comment that releasing Chinese/Japanese    
         software is lame, and I even know some RiSC (Rise in Superior       
         Couriering) BBSes that nuke off foreign Chinese/Japanese software,  
         but do not nuke off software that come from other countries such    
         as France and Germany.  Why do you feel that is the case?           
                                                                             
   RTN : Hahahahaha, you're funny :).                                        
                                                                             
   RCN : Thanks, but do answer the question.                                 
                                                                             
   RTN : People can say what they want, it's their personal opinion and I    
         respect that.  As for RiSC boards nuking foreign software, I don't  
         worry so much about.  The releases still get out and even if        
         people didn't get it in time before they SysOps and SiteOps nuke    
         it, they can still come to me and ask for the releases.  I'll be    
         more than happy to help them with that.                             
                                                                             
   RCN : Have you ever encountered problems in the past where people would   
         just come up to you and say that Chinese/Japanese software is       
         lame, and that Revolution is lame for releasing them?               
                                                                             
   RTN : I've had all these people come into channel #RTN and just start     
         bitching at me.  People come up to me telling me how lame I am and  
         how lame Revolution is as a whole, but I just tell them to mind     
         their own business.  Even though they still keep bugging me,        
         there's really nothing I can do about it, and I don't want to       
         kick-ban anyone for such a stupid reason.                           
                                                                             
   RCN : Not all Chinese/Japanese games require that you know how to read    
         in a foreign language.  There are some action games that could be   
         in Hieroglyphics, and the fact that it's in some weird language     
         does not effect the game play at all.  When Revolution releases a   
         game, is there a way one can tell whether the game is purely        
         action, and thus does not require knowledge in a foreign language?  
                                                                             
   RTN : That information is given in the NFO of the release, but if the     
         release is for DOS/V or WIN/V, then the game is most likely in      
         either Chinese or Japanese.  I have yet to come across any          
         Chinese/Japanese action games which does not require knowledge of   
         a foreign language.  When releasing a game, we do try to keep that  
         in mind, and thus, we focus more on RPGs and AVGs.  AVGs are also   
         known to most people as Pornos.  I personally like the RPGs, but    
         an AVG is nice every once in a while.                               
                                                                             
   RCN : What does DOS/V and WIN/V stand for?                                
                                                                             
   RTN : DOS/V is DOS with Chinese/Japanese fonts.  WIN/V is a background    
         program run in Windows 3.0+ which enables Chinese/Japanese fonts.   
                                                                             
   RCN : Does one need to have DOS/V and WIN/V in order to run a             
         Chinese/Japanese game?                                              
                                                                             
   RTN : Not always, most of the games are meant for DOS and will soon be    
         optimized for Windows 95.                                           
                                                                             
   RCN : There are only two groups I know of that specialize in              
         Chinese/Japanese software, Dragon and Revolution.  Is there         
         animosity between the two groups since both groups compete in the   
         same type of releases?                                              
                                                                             
   RTN : First of all, there are many more groups that specialize in         
         Chinese/Japanese software that have yet to get around on the        
         Internet.  I have nothing against Dragon and they have nothing      
         against me (I think).  I originally tried joining Dragon but I was  
         told they didn't want anymore suppliers.  Members between the two   
         groups get along fairly well.  I say that because I don't know      
         many Dragon members :).                                             
                                                                             
   RCN : Is there a possibility that Revolution will be releasing more and   
         more US software in the future?  What do you see happening to       
         Revolution in the future?                                           
                                                                             
   RTN : Basically, I just want to share my Chinese/Japanese games with      
         other people who can understand and appreciate the anime graphics.  
         As for the US releases, I really am not sure, I'd have to talk it   
         over with my council, seniors, and suppliers.                       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Rebel Chicken             Interviewee : The Edge             
     Subject  : CoRE                      Affiliation : CoRE Leader          
                                                                             
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   RCN : How did CoRE start up?  According to my sources, CoRE started out   
         when a merge between a few smaller courier groups took place, is    
         that true?                                                          
                                                                             
   COR : Actually, CoRE was formed a few weeks ago when the two courier      
         groups Total Kaos and Violation decided to merge.  The two groups   
         talked it over a bit and thought it would be better to work         
         together.                                                           
                                                                             
   RCN : Why did Total Kaos and Violation decide to merge?  When the did     
         the merge take place.  Were all the members of Total Kaos and       
         Violation brought into CoRE?  Were there any members that was cut   
         during the merging process?                                         
                                                                             
   COR : Total Kaos and Violation had similar members and similar            
         principles.  Stank-E and I agreed that we'd be better off together  
         than seperate.  Almost all members from Violation came into CoRE    
         except for the President Venom and Senior Wildd.  Venom and I       
         still have good relations because we are good friends.  Wildd and   
         I get along fine and he is now heading up Sinful Traders.  Some     
         members from Total Kaos were cut from the merge because they never  
         showed up.  Cuts and things have been made to inactive members and  
         it seems we have a real working team now.  I am quite happy.        
                                                                             
   RCN : Have there been any problems that resulted from the merge?          
                                                                             
   COR : From what I have seen, the merge has been perfect.  We did not      
         have fights or anything during the merge because it was all very    
         well planned out.                                                   
                                                                             
   RCN : It seems to me then that CoRE is a very organized group, I've       
         noticed a bunch of people messaging me to go into channel           
         #CoREFiles to offer, and they keep bugging me until I /ignore them  
         or actually join #CoREFiles.  Why did CoRE start up channel         
         #CoREFiles, and why do your members keep bugging so many people to  
         offer in there?  I just joined #CoREFiles about 2 minutes ago only  
         to find out that there were 2 people idling in there.               
                                                                             
   COR : Thanks for letting me know, I will address this issue with the      
         rest of CoRE.  CoRE's internet coordinator, Palm, is in charge of   
         the affairs of channel #CoREFiles.  He is with Motiv8 and started   
         #CoREFiles.  When he is not in #CoREFiles, the channel does not     
         run well.  I feel if he wishes to keep the room up, he needs to     
         appoint a crew to work with.  Also, bugging people to join isn't    
         right, people will join if they want to.  I will address that       
         issue.                                                              
                                                                             
   RCN : CoRE's internet coordinator, Palm, is also a member of Motiv8, a    
         competitive courier group.  Wouldn't he devote most of his time to  
         Motiv8's own offer channel, #M8leech, and not to #CoREFiles?        
         Isn't there a conflict of interest?                                 
                                                                             
   COR : I don't involve myself with his personal devotions.  He works well  
         for both groups.  If he feels he can keep up both, then he's        
         welcome to be in both.  He is a great member and CoRE is glad to    
         have him.  His interests really do not matter, #M8leech is a much   
         bigger channel.                                                     
                                                                             
   RCN : So I assume that all CoRE members are allowed to be in other        
         courier groups?  What happens when a CoRE member gets an untagged   
         release, which courier group would he tag it for?                   
                                                                             
   COR : CoRE members are allowed to be in other groups as long as they      
         fulfill their duties as a CoRE member.  Tagging for our group goes  
         as follows, if he gets the file from one of our affiliated release  
         groups, I expect the release to be tagged by CoRE.  If both groups  
         have the same release from the same affiliated group, this may      
         cause a problem.  I figure, I could talk with the other courier     
         group about solving that.  I am a pretty nice guy and have good     
         ideas, so I think we could work out something.  But hopefully,      
         this situation won't happen often.  I see most of my members        
         devoting most of their time to CoRE.                                
                                                                             
   RCN : What makes CoRE different from other courier groups?  Why would     
         someone want to devote their time to CoRE when they could devote    
         their time for another group such as GODS or RiSC?  Why would       
         someone want to join CoRE?  What makes CoRE stand out from the      
         dozens of other courier groups?                                     
                                                                             
   COR : I hope to think that we are beginning to make a name for            
         ourselves.  I know that my members work very hard, and my whole     
         council works their asses off.  One thing that makes CoRE           
         different is that I am not trying to rival any other group.  This   
         sounds like major butt kissing, but both GODS and RiSC are well     
         respected groups.  They do the same thing we do and I respect       
         that.  We are all in the same boat here and it is pretty stupid to  
         be fighting.  CoRE is for people who want to do their share of      
         work, talk to some people, have some fun and get stuff done at the  
         same time.  This has worked so far, and I would like to emphasize   
         that the scene is *NOT* life and working in the scene is *NOT* a    
         real job.                                                           
                                                                             
   RCN : Groups such as RiSC and GODS often provide their members with       
         cards and access to fast private FTP sites, is CoRE capable of      
         providing such things?  If not, what does it provide for its        
         members?                                                            
                                                                             
   COR : We are on quite a few private FTP sites that is able to please the  
         needs of CoRE members.  If they want other things, they ask and     
         they may receive.                                                   
                                                                             
   RCN : When Druggy was kicked out of Violation by the senior members, he   
         refused to leave.  Why did he refuse to leave?                      
                                                                             
   COR : I don't really know, I wasn't there, I didn't vote or anything.  I  
         was there when they kicked him out and the senior members yelled    
         at me to vote but I refused.                                        
                                                                             
   RCN : Why did the senior members vote him out?  Why did they even bring   
         up the issue of kicking him out of the group?                       
                                                                             
   COR : They told me that he was too strict.  They called Druggy "The       
         Hitler of Warez, Upload or be Killed."  I feel bad for Druggy.  He  
         tries and tries hard.  I wish him the best of luck in Cartel.       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Reporter : Rebel Chicken             Interviewee : Endeavour            
     Subject  : COPS Doing Shareware???   Affiliation : COPS Founder         
                                                                             
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   RCN : I've seen COPS (Couriers of Pirated Software) release both games    
         and utils here and there, why has COPS not taken the move to        
         specialize in one field of releasing, or has it already done so?    
                                                                             
   END : COPS now specializes in utils only.                                 
                                                                             
   RCN : Why have you decided to do so?                                      
                                                                             
   END : Well, I feel that if a group releases anything that it can get its  
         hands on, it's really not a very professional group.  But if you    
         release within a certain specialized area, such as utils, then it   
         makes the group seem more "professional".  Another advantage of     
         only releasing utils is that I will be able to trade games for      
         utils with other groups, which would help make for good relations   
         with the rest of the scene.                                         
                                                                             
   RCN : So COPS trades it's games with other games groups?  Has COPS        
         traded games for utils with other games groups yet?                 
                                                                             
   END : Well COPS hasn't exactly traded ANY games yet with any groups, but  
         we plan on trading games with other groups in the future if we get  
         a hold of some hot game releases.  I plan to trade games for utils  
         with groups such as ROR (Release on Rampage) and Napalm.            
                                                                             
   RCN : Just a few weeks ago, I saw that COPS released Blake Stone :        
         Aliens of Gold, the files dated back to 1993, about the same time   
         Wolfenstein was first released to the public, why would groups      
         such as ROR and Napalm want to trade their utils with games by      
         COPS which have a reputation of low quality?  Anyhow, ROR has       
         already promised to trade its utils and games strictly with         
         Mortality and not with COPS?                                        
                                                                             
   END : Yes, I remember that release of Blake Stone : Aliens of Gold.       
         That was a BAD release and COPS apologizes for that, but we don't   
         intend to release anything like that in the future.  It was a bad   
         call on my part.  Well, if ROR has already made a decision on       
         trading utils for games only with Mortality, then that's fine.  I   
         will find another group such as Napalm, and if COPS can't find any  
         other groups, then fATE (Fast Action Trade Exchange) will be our    
         next candidate.                                                     
                                                                             
   RCN : Most Napalm suppliers are also in grousp such as DOD (Drink or      
         Die) and PWA (Pirates with Attitudes), and thus have to supply for  
         those groups, so saying that Napalm will help supply utils for      
         COPS is definitely out of the question.  On the note of fATE, why   
         would you trade releases with fATE?  fATE is a courier group, is    
         it not?                                                             
                                                                             
   END : Like I said, I will find some other groups to trade releases with   
         after consulting with my council.  Those just happened to be the 2  
         groups that I could name off the top of my head.  fATE is official  
         couriers for COPS, and fATE does have a releasing section.          
                                                                             
   RCN : What are some of COPS best releases in the recent weeks?            
                                                                             
   END : COPS has released great software such as Visual Object COBOL for    
         Windows 95/NT Beta 3 and WebManager for Win95 Beta v.1.1.3.         
                                                                             
   RCN : Why are those releases all beta, would it be that COPS has          
         suppliers that work for those companies?                            
                                                                             
   END : You can say that.                                                   
                                                                             
   RCN : As an editor of RCN, I try to keep an unbiased opinion toward       
         groups.  However, wherever I go, it seems to me that there is a     
         general consensus among to scene to look upon COPS as a really      
         "lame" group.  The scene accuses COPS of releasing nothing but      
         dupes and shareware, why do you think that is so?                   
                                                                             
   END : Haha, well, as I learned from the latest issue of RCN (and I whole  
         heartedly agree), is that if you call someone "lame", that person   
         who call people lame is the person that is really lame.  But, to    
         tell you the truth, we have only released 1 dupe and we have yet    
         to anything that can be considered shareware. I don't know where    
         they would get the idea that we release in those two categories,    
         because every group has their share of "dupes" but COPS has had     
         only 1, and the scene should give us credit on that.                
                                                                             
   RCN : So you're saying that COPS has never released any shareware or      
         freeware, and that COPS has only duped once in its entire           
         existence?                                                          
                                                                             
   END : Yes, COPS has only duped once, and COPS has never released          
         shareware or freeware.                                              
                                                                             
   RCN : Do you lie often?  Anyway, COPS is very fortunate to have fATE as   
         its official couriers, how did you acquire such a good standing     
         and respectable courier group to become officials with COPS?        
                                                                             
   END : Well, MALiCE used to be official couriers for COPS, but then        
         MALiCE kicked COPS out, but before that happened, Doobie from fATE  
         was in close contact with me, and when MALiCE kicked COPS out, I    
         jumped on the chance to get fATE in as COPS' official couriers.     
         fATE has been doing a lot more than some of the courier groups      
         around, especially MALiCE, which I think is DEAD now.               
                                                                             
   RCN : Why did MALiCE kick COPS out as official couriers?                  
                                                                             
   END : The reason MALiCE kicked out COPS was because the council members   
         in MALiCE were REALLY poor with their members.  There were fights   
         within the group all the time.  I had repeatedly asked them to      
         support the COPS FTP sites, they merely ignored me.  I got sick of  
         MALiCE and the MALiCE members got sick of the council and left.     
                                                                             
   RCN : What do you see for the future of COPS?  Do you see it becoming     
         one of the strong utils groups in the future?  There's a quote      
         found in the COPS NFO, which goes as follows "Keep an eye on us,    
         cuz we are coming very strong, VERY strong, and we are ready to     
         tear it up and take all."  Do you believe that COPS is indeed       
         becoming very strong, VERY strong?                                  
                                                                             
   END : Yes, I think so.  I think that COPS will become VERY strong.  It    
         may take a couple of years, but I think that sooner or later, we    
         will be as good as groups such as DOD and PWA.                      
                                                                             
   RCN : Don't you think that aspiring to be as good as DOD and PWA might    
         be impossible for a group such as COPS?  After all, most people in  
         the scene are very stubborn, and most already have their heart set  
         to believing that COPS is very lame and only releases freeware and  
         shareware even when that might not be the case.  Perhaps, it would  
         be easier for you to just kill COPS, and start a totally new        
         group?                                                              
                                                                             
   END : Hehe, like how you did to Legacy?  I doubt it.  Maybe it will be    
         impossible, but I am sure that we will have "some" impact on the    
         scene.  When people COPS releases in the future, I am sure they     
         will come to change their minds.  But then again, you never know    
         what will happen in the future.                                     
                                                                             
   RCN : Yes, that is true, but history does repeat itself.  Anyway,         
         according to my sources, you also ran an e-mag called Horizons,     
         what happened to it?                                                
                                                                             
   END : Yes, we were, but a lot of our Horizon writers weren't committed    
         enough and soon, the group died off.  I see no reason to publish    
         an e-mag if RCN is in the scene.  I think that you guys are the     
         best and that there should be no other e-mag.                       
                                                                             
   RCN : I must admire your tenacity in running COPS, if I were running      
         COPS, I would have killed it off long ago, but you seem to be a     
         hard worker, what's your secret?                                    
                                                                             
   END : COPS may not be the best group around, but we are sure as hell      
         trying to contribute whatever we can to the scene.  And even        
         though we may not have the "best" people in our group, or "known"   
         people, there are a lot of new prospective members out their that   
         are willing to commit time and energy into a group, even if that    
         group may not be as good as DOD or PWA.  When you come into our     
         IRC channel #C.O.P.S., you would hardly recognize anyone there.     
         That's because these members are the NEW batch of people coming     
         into the scene.                                                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Tuxedo Mask                                                   
     Subject : GODS (Guild of Distributors) Meeting Log                      
                                                                             
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       The following is a logfile of GODS (Guild of Distributors) first      
   meeting in channel #Divine.  The following contains material pertaining   
   to GODS, and their relationship with other courier groups such as RiSC    
   and Damage.  GODS later comes up with the suggestion to steal some of     
   RiSC's fastest sites and boards, but will GODS succeed?                   
                                                                             
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   <Lester> Ok, let's go.  Quazimodem, speak :)                              
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Quazimodem, start the meeting.                                  
                                                                             
   <Quazimodm> Ahem.  First of all, on behalf of the GODS staff, I want to   
               welcome all of you to the revival of the Guild of             
               Distributors.                                                 
                                                                             
   <TClaw> Oh yeah, before we start, who is logging?                         
                                                                             
   <Quazimodm> It is hard to believe that after being away from the scene    
               from what seems like ages, and after popping in my head       
               every once in a while to see how the scene is doing, I'd see  
               how things have changed.  I type fast don't I?  I see some    
               new, and some old and familiar faces.  It's comforting to be  
               acknowledged after putting a lot of effort and sacrifice      
               (phonebills, phreaking, etc.) into the scene a couple years   
               ago.  Anyway, a bit of history, I was not one of the          
               "founders" of GODS (at least technically I'm not).  I was     
               running Quantum Traders.  I was approached by the leaders of  
               a number of couriering groups at the time looking to merge.   
               It wasn't until I had a "meeting" with Slice&Dice where I     
               found out that a lot of how the two of us ran things were a   
               bit of the same.  Quantum Traders merged with GODS in 1994    
               and became of one of best and most recognized couriering      
               groups in the scene!  One of the things I want to clarify     
               here is the "foundation" and philosophy of GODS.  The         
               leaders, Slice&Dice and I, believed in what all couriering    
               groups believe and strive for, and that's being the fastest   
               in trading warez to all the boards, sites, etc.  Our goal     
               was to put GODS on the map, that simple.  But we wanted to    
               accomplish that by compiling the BEST, "cream of the crop"    
               traders and couriers that we could find, because we have      
               equaled the need to have QUALITY couriers and SPEED in        
               trading.  Last week, one of our old traders who has been      
               very active in the scene, David & Goliath, found me on IRC    
               and approached me about the revival of GODS.  Having been so  
               out of the scene, he had recapped me on the progress which    
               he, as well as some others, has taken upon themselves to      
               bring back the "Divine Power", the revival of GODS.  I want   
               to commend David & Goliath for having the desire and          
               persistency to make this all happen.  Finally, before         
               handing this over to David & Goliath or Lester, I want you    
               all to remember what GODS stood for.  Consider yourselves a   
               part of history being in one of the best couriering groups    
               in the scene.  No, GODS isn't OMNIPOTENT or OMNIPRESENT,      
               yet!  But we will if we all pull together and strive to make  
               GODS 1996 rip the fucking scene up!! :)                       
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Haha.                                                           
                                                                             
   <Lester> Woo good job :)                                                  
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Okay, thanks Quazimodem.  Dream Weaver, do you have anything    
             to add to that bro?                                             
                                                                             
   <Lester> Hey Phil :).                                                     
                                                                             
   <DrmWeaver> I would, but I don't want to put too much of a damper on the  
               hype.  But there are certain things we must consider.  And    
               no, I don't type as fast as my old bro Quazimodem.  I'm glad  
               to have been approached by both Quazimodem and David &        
               Goliath to follow up on a group I once belonged to.  I think  
               that all I really want to do at this point is to take some    
               time and talk to all of you individually later on this week.  
               So for now, I think I will let David & Goliath procede.  Hi   
               Lester.                                                       
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Let's see, this is strong team.                                 
                                                                             
   <DrmWeaver> Oh, sorry.  My concerns are not bad.  When I said "put a      
               damper" on things, I simply meant that these concerns could   
               wait for a bit and have nothing to do with present            
               happenings.                                                   
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Did the meeting start?                                         
                                                                             
   <Lester> Hold up Silent Mobius.                                           
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> I think the main thing this group needs to do is to work work   
             well together, to stop fighting, and to have a peaceful         
             atmosphere.  We are not forming this group to make RiSC, and    
             other groups look bad.  We are doing it, to be #1 and that is   
             our purpose.  We don't want to fight with RiSC or Everlast, or  
             to have competitions, but we do want to go out there and rock   
             the scene, i.e., rock the FTP sites and rock the boards.  In    
             doing this, we want to make sure, that our own FTP sites and    
             boards remain very fast.  It is our job to support them.  We    
             have a great council, a great senior staff, and some great      
             coordinators.  These are all people who have proved themselves  
             in the past.  On paper, we have one of the most dangerous       
             teams.  Now, we will just have to put it together, and          
             actually show everyone how good we really are.  Some people     
             have come to me and Lester saying, "Hey, this senior staff is   
             too big, and it will be lame."  Well, what I have learned       
             while being in the scene is that you cannot judge a book by     
             its cover.  Sure, there have been lame groups with large        
             staffs, but there have also been succesfull groups like PWA     
             for example.  There are so many leaders/seniors/and staff       
             members in PWA, and yet we all work great together most of the  
             time.  So I think, that we need to pull our resources           
             together, get out there, and kick some ass.  And we should      
             guess, we should just do it and not think that people will      
             think we are lame.  If we go out there, and upload more than    
             anyone else, trust me, we will be anything but lame.  We have   
             some kick ass FTP sites, some kick ass boards, and great        
             coordinators.                                                   
                                                                             
   <Lester> Well, I just want to point out who will be doing what more or    
            less, and what boards and FTP sites we have.  First off, the     
            boards are WHQ = Malevolence, US HQ = Carnel Infatuation,        
            Courier HQ = Elusive Dreams.  The other HQs are still open at    
            this time.  FTP sites are easy enough, the WHQ = Air Castle, US  
            HQ = BBX, Euro HQ = CRC, Poobis, Bootknockers, Hackrats, Sub's   
            Site, Count Zero's site.  Now, for you Internet traders.  The    
            essential Internet coordinator will be MGD with Frost            
            supporting him.  Gahn and Cryptic Pain along with Xwing          
            helping, will watch over the board traders.  If you need         
            anything, you can first goto them or you can come to any one of  
            us and we'll solve your problems.                                
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Who's next?  Xwing, go ahead.                                  
                                                                             
   <Frost> Silent Mobius, I can take it if no one's ready.                   
                                                                             
   <Xwing> Go Frost.                                                         
                                                                             
   <MGD> Go Frosty.                                                          
                                                                             
   <Frost> I'm Frost from Digital.  Basically, in Digital, we helped our     
           Internet traders with any problems they had with FTP sites, etc.  
           We babied their asses and taught them how to courier, but when    
           it came time for the NFO, we cut anyone that wasn't top ten or    
           part of the administration.  I'd imagine it'll be the same here.  
           If you were let into our team, you've got to be good.  I'll help  
           you as much as I can.  I will teach you everything I know.  MGD,  
           you're up.                                                        
                                                                             
   <Lester> The same goes for me, I will teach anyone who needs it.          
                                                                             
   <dhunter> Do we have c00kie supplier?                                     
                                                                             
   <Lester> Yes.                                                             
                                                                             
   <MGD> For Internet traders, we have a "certain" amount of standards you   
         got to put up with.  You have to be able to make top ten on BBX     
         weekly.  We are here to beat RiSC so basically that is what I       
         expect of you.                                                      
                                                                             
   <Xwing> MGD, if there are 20 Internet couriers, how do you expect all of  
           them to make it to top 10 on BBX?                                 
                                                                             
   <MGD> I know, we have to put the pressure on them.                        
                                                                             
   <Quazimodm> Correction message, we are here to be #1 and that's that.     
                                                                             
   <dhunter> Good one MGD.                                                   
                                                                             
   <MGD> Oh yea, Prozac will hopefully return soon.  And for those of you    
         who want to get on bigger FTP sites like LA, CRC, Enigma, etc, the  
         way you get on those is sites is to earn your way up.  Slowly but   
         surely, that is the point, I would get you all on at once.          
                                                                             
   <dhunter> MGD, how are you going to add people to LA and Enigma?  Those   
             are RiSC FTP sites.                                             
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Don't worry Dragon Hunter, let MGD go on.                      
                                                                             
   <MGD> Dragon Hunter, we have connections.  We're GODS.  I would get you   
         all on at once, but that would overwhelm some of you.               
                                                                             
   <Xwing> I can help since I know ECI and Stingray 6.                       
                                                                             
   <MGD> RiSC will race you on anything over 5 disks in daylight time.       
         They have nothing better to do, trust me I know from expierience.   
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  ONE AT A TIME...                            
                                                                             
   <dhunter> RiSC races every release no matter day or night.                
                                                                             
   <MGD> Shatter Star won't be trading for a while I think, he broke up      
         with his girlfriend and got really pissed, so he left RiSC, DOD,    
         and Napalm.                                                         
                                                                             
   <Xwing> Cruger is still around, so at night, he'll be doing some          
           couriering.                                                       
                                                                             
   *** S_Mobius changes topic to "This is getting unorganized, deop the      
   next person that speaks out of turn."                                     
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Let MGD speak.                                                  
                                                                             
   <MGD> EVERYONE, message me your login, password, IP, and email address,   
         unless you were in Amnesia.  Go Xwing.                              
                                                                             
   <Xwing> Some people were asking me about the boards in their area code    
           and whether they'll be in GODS or not.                            
                                                                             
   <Lester> Once Xwing finishes, Dream Weaver has something to say and then  
            we will do questions and answers.                                
                                                                             
   <Xwing> That will be decided within several days, but I think that most   
           of the boards you guys already upload to would not be dropped     
           and will stay with GODS so I'd assume you'll keep up with your    
           efforts of uploading to such boards.  Also it will be helpful if  
           every BBS trader will specify their area code and email Gahn,     
           Cryptic Pain, or me.  Email either xwing@shell.vailsys.com or     
           cp@shell.vailsys.com.  And one last thing, depending on the       
           performance, you'll be given leech access on better and faster    
           sites the more upload.                                            
                                                                             
   <TClaw> Shit.                                                             
                                                                             
   <DrmWeaver> What I need to iterate here is, there have been problems      
               with people "dual grouping" and "I cannot make up my mind."   
               If one is to leave the group than that person is not allowed  
               to return to GODS.  If you say on the channel, I'm fucking    
               pissed and I quit, and it is decided you quit, then you       
               quit.  If you cannot hold your temper or get along and        
               maintain consistancy, the group cannot benefit from this.     
               If you want to join another group cause they can give you     
               CCs or whatever benefits, then go ahead.  But please don't    
               expect a welcome back.  I cannot think of one reason why you  
               would be allowed back.  So excuses won't benefit you.  So I   
               hope this is clear?                                           
                                                                             
   <Lester> Alright, I know everyone is getting bored and tired of this, so  
            let's do some questions so you guys can talk.                    
                                                                             
   <TClaw> Oh, just in case anyone didn't think I was here.                  
                                                                             
   <Frost> Q&A time?                                                         
                                                                             
   <Lester> If you have a question, message me.                              
                                                                             
   <Xwing> Let's just do Q&A thing.                                          
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> This meeting wasn't well organized, but don't worry, it'll be  
              more organized next time.  Sorry guys.                         
                                                                             
   <Frost> Silent Mobius holds the most organized meetings.  Oh, if I may,   
           please don't go to the press with any of this.  Let them talk to  
           the leaders.                                                      
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> I have one last thing to say.  First thing, we will not        
              compete with anyone as a group, if you want to compete, do it  
              individually.  We aren't going to waste the group's time to    
              do it.  And about uploading to sites, upload to our sites.  I  
              don't give a dick shit about LA and Enigma.  We have our own   
              sites, so why should we race RiSC and help THEM get the warez  
              faster?  It's unsensible.                                      
                                                                             
   <Xwing> Yeah, no RCN.                                                     
                                                                             
   <Frost> No RCN, no Defacto, no nothing.                                   
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> And about the big groups like PWA/DOD/MTY, most of their       
              leaders are already in GODS.  What they should do is, instead  
              of having too many RiSC, Everlast, Motiv8, Empire, and lamers  
              inside the big time groups couriering,. we already KNOW that   
              GODS is one of the best, why not pick out GODS' couriers to    
              go join PWA, DOD, and MTY?  I mean, if we let the other lame   
              RiSC, Everlast, Motiv8, and Empire dudes in, there is nothing  
              the leaders of PWA, DOD, and MTY can do to stop the groups     
              from getting the releases before GODS, because they are        
              couriers too.                                                  
                                                                             
   <Lester> If your asking us PWA, DOD, and MTY leaders to give releases to  
            GODS first and to pretag and what not.  I cannot do that and I   
            assume that PWA and MTY feels the same way.                      
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> ALL Internet couriers will get accounts on all our sites with  
              leech; anyone inside GODS, we already trust, so we know you    
              won't excessively leech.  That rule may be changed to ratio.   
              But remember, if you want to upload, you have to have some     
              place to leech that's why.                                     
                                                                             
   <dhunter> Pretagging is lame.                                             
                                                                             
   <TClaw> I do not agree with pretagging, that's COPS crap.                 
                                                                             
   <DrmWeaver> I do not agree with RE-TAGGING either.                        
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Lester, I know that, but what I meant is, let's say if the     
              entire DOD was filled with GODS couriers, who do you think     
              will get DOD releases first?  GODS will.                       
                                                                             
   <Lester> I can't add GODS people for the hell of it.                      
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Another thing, with internet couriers, remember, we have an    
              excess number of couriers, we will cut ANYONE at ANY time and  
              keep our sites full.  The BBS coordinators should be able to   
              gather BBS people and make a list of who uploads where.        
                                                                             
   <MGD> Oh yea, POO's House is Courier HQ.                                  
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> And where should board couriers get their files?  No, were     
              not putting them on Aircastle to slow down the speed.          
              Instead, we'll mirror some sites, and let some of the slower   
              sites become BBS sites and Internet couriers will make sure    
              those are fast as well.  I already know that EVERYONE in GODS  
              is responsible for themselves; everyone was chosen for a       
              reason, just remember that.  We didn't pick you up from the    
              streets; we saw some quality and initiative inside you.        
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Haha.                                                           
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> I'm sure about 80% of GODS couriers could make RiSC, and that  
              is no joke, so so just keep that in mind.  And look at RiSC,   
              everyone inside there has initiative.                          
                                                                             
   <MGD> I couldn't make it in RiSC, they hate me.  I got them to hate me.   
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> MGD, well there you go, I guess you're one of the 20% who      
              can't get in.                                                  
                                                                             
   <dhunter> MGD, they even ask me to join.                                  
                                                                             
   <Frost> By the way, we have a little brother group, it'll be called       
           "Damage," don't piss on them.                                     
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Don't go bitching about other groups, do NOT start wars.       
                                                                             
   <Lester> Ok guys, can we please move on to Q&A.  I can only imagine how   
            bored the couriers are.                                          
                                                                             
   <MGD> I made that up, I just don't like a lot of the people in RiSC.      
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Ok.                                                            
                                                                             
   <Quazimodm> I would like to remind all of you that this is a meeting,     
               not a chat channel.                                           
                                                                             
   <TClaw> I'm bored and i'm not a courier.                                  
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> Move on to Q&A, but remember, don't piss down on a small       
              group called Damage.                                           
                                                                             
   <Xwing> People, if someone will be sneaking in to RiSC coordinators and   
           asking them to add you, you'll be out of GODS by default!         
                                                                             
   <Lester>  If you have a release you're spreading, and there are other     
            net couriers around, work as a team to get #1.  Don't just hog   
            all your releases for yourself so you look good.                 
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> The Internet coordinators, Frost and MGD, will have the site   
              lists.                                                         
                                                                             
   <Manowar> I'm pretty much in charge of updating the GODS nfo file.        
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> Something has come to my attention, this has been something a   
             lot of couriers are receiving in msg form..                     
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> <manhuntah> Why don't you join RAPIER?                          
                                                                             
   <DAVnGOL> If you see him messaging you again, tell me and I will take     
             care of it.                                                     
                                                                             
   <MGD> I say we steal LA, Enigma, and Beyond Akira from RiSC.              
                                                                             
   <NyteMyST> Rapier offered me senior courier position 20 times already.    
                                                                             
   <S_Mobius> MGD, we'll never do it until we prove we are better.  If RiSC  
              asks you to join, remember, you are going to be joining a      
              dying group.                                                   
                                                                             
   <MGD> They asked me twice.                                                
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Hitex                                                         
     Subject : Rebel Chicken, Hitex, and Xenon BUSTED!                       
                                                                             
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       On the evening of June 13, 1996, Rebel Chicken, Hitex, and Xenon      
   were all busted in front of Rebel Chicken's residence.  After attempting  
   to execute an event that they had planned for over a week, their scheme   
   went terribly wrong, and all hell seemed to have broken loose.            
   Moreover, the entire backbone of RCN was now in jeapordy.                 
                                                                             
       Rebel Chicken was about to graduate.  He had a mere 4 hours of        
   school left before he could officially be labeled a freshman in college.  
   Girls were no longer on his mind, he had already given up on that.  Now,  
   he was merely interested in conducting an event known as "The Senior      
   Prank."  A senior prank is a collecting of a few seniors to coordinate    
   some sort of destructive activity on the school as a way of thanking the  
   administration for the caring and enlightening experience the students    
   were put through for 4 years, known as "High School."  The plan was to    
   leave Rebel Chicken's house at 3:00 am, walk down the hill to Rebel's     
   school, and replace the United States flag with a Communist Russian       
   flag.  This task would be performed by Rebel Chicken and his friend,      
   whom we'll call "John" while Xenon and Hitex were frantically cementing   
   toothpicks into the locks of the school as to inhibit entrance into the   
   classrooms the next day.                                                  
                                                                             
       The four of us departed, and we were now on a mission.  Our first     
   obstacle was now met - there was a 24-hour security guard appointed to    
   protect the school.  He spotted us, but we kept walking as to avoid       
   contact with him.  We rounded the corner and made our way back into       
   Rebel's country club.  We walked around for about 30 minutes, spotting    
   the guard every once in a while.  Then, something caught our eyes.  The   
   guard appeared to be making a shift switch with another guard.  We        
   watched attentively until finally we noticed them assume their old        
   positions.  So we were wrong.                                             
                                                                             
       By now, it was nearing 4:00 am, and we were about to make our second  
   attempt at entrance into the school campus.  Just as we cut the corner,   
   the lights of a police car shone in our faces.  We looked at the car,     
   then at each other, and it seemed that symbiotically, we all thought      
   alike, and as quickly as we came, we dashed away, 4 bullets fleeing.      
   Through the brush, over the bushes, under the trees, we ran, until        
   finally we made our way to the street.  Xenon, Rebel Chicken, and I,      
   were all "clean" except for the glue and toothpicks present in the        
   pockets of Xenon and myself.  John, however, held the main weapon, the    
   communist flag.  It's not every day that one sees a guy running around    
   with such a flag in this country, especially not at 4 in the morning, so  
   we assumed the police would find this a bit suspicious.  As a result, we  
   all, in our scurry, decided that it would be to our benefit to keep the   
   cops from finding John.  We made our way to the street and when finally   
   in pure visibility to the cops chasing behind us, the two cops            
   simultaneously yelled "OFFICER, STOP!"  We knew what we had to do.        
   Rebel, Xenon, and I all stopped while John kept running.  This, of        
   course, would create a big enough diversion for the policemen so that     
   John would manage to get away while we would get interrogated.            
                                                                             
       So we stood there, a threesome, flashlights pointed at our faces,     
   and two officers, huffing and puffing from the run, in front of us.       
   "So, what was all that about?" questioned an officer.  We paused, waited  
   for one of us to expel an answer, as Rebel Chicken heroically stated      
   "Um, we're just hangin' out!"  "At 4 in the morning?" continued an        
   officer.  "Sure <ehem> Why not?" our Chicken replied.  "Well, do you      
   know that guy that got away?"  "Who, that guy? Oh, pshaww, ehem, of       
   course we don't!! Hehehehehehe," we all replied.  Unbelieving, the        
   officers found nothing to disprove our telling.  We explained that all 3  
   of us were just hanging out when we saw a guy with a big stick so we      
   curiously decided to chase him.  So the officers took our names down, of  
   which we gave them fake ones, and the officers then decided that it       
   would be in their best interest to walk us home.                          
                                                                             
       So we proceeded up the hill to Rebel's house.  We walked in, and the  
   officers requested to speak with Rebel's mom.  Uh oh.  We tried to talk   
   our way out of getting her down but the officers persisted.               
                                                                             
       We got her down, and, well, I thought for a moment an atom bomb had   
   fallen on our roof.  Let's just say it wasn't a pretty site.              
   Ultimately, we ended up being lectured for another hour by a frantic      
   mother, but we ended up okay.  What makes me mad, though, is that three   
   guys in the scene, who should all know the law fairly well, could not     
   figure out that these officers didn't see us commit any crime, and        
   surely we could have said "There are no grounds by which you can request  
   that I call my mother out of bed at this time."  But we didn't think of   
   it, and though it could have saved us much yelling, it was too late.      
                                                                             
       So we got off easy, some of us, such as Dr. Jekyll, are not always    
   so lucky.  But if this story should be a statement to any of us, it       
   should be one to show us that a cop is a very gullible species, and your  
   story is true until proven otherwise.  So just because you might not      
   think that three half-sane guys would ever, bare-handedly, chase a guy    
   with a big stick, doesn't mean a cop wouldn't believe it.                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Hitex (Interview by Thrasher)                                 
     Subject : GODS Couriering                                               
                                                                             
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       Early this week a new courier group was introduced into the broad     
   spectrum that already existed.  It began a bit low-key, not much was      
   said about them, but apparently not much needed to be said, as they have  
   already made their way up the ranks.  In under a week, we have a group    
   that is competitive for the #1 courier group spot.  So, how did it        
   happen?                                                                   
                                                                             
       Despite common knowledge, GODS (Guild of Distributors) was around     
   about two years ago and was quite a large courier group, posing great     
   competition for the legendary RiSC.  Recently, RiSC has faced major       
   competition from a group called Everlast, but because Everlast's main     
   goal was not to beat RiSC, it isn't making too much of a presence for     
   itself.  GODS, however, seems to be approaching this game with a          
   different attitude.  Though not set out to kill RiSC, GODS is here to     
   pose some major competition for it, once again.  Will it succeed?  Well,  
   that question has already been partially answered.                        
                                                                             
       The initial reformation of GODS just one week ago was a result of     
   the Digital (DGT) downfall, and Amnesia (AMN) merging.  The best of the   
   best from Digital were recruited into GODS, as well as the Amnesia team,  
   and then a few random couriers that have certainly proven themselves in   
   the scene.  So to date, GODS is not official couriers for anybody, but    
   that has definitely not hindered them from tagging nearly 50% of the      
   warez out there.  A recent look at Park Central, the RiSC World           
   Headquarters, and Malevolence, the GODS World Headquarters, vividly       
   shows the GODS presence in tagging and its omnipresence in the scene.     
   So though GODS is not yet officially couriering for anybody, it has more  
   than shown us how well it will be able to support the groups it does      
   courier for.                                                              
                                                                             
       So you want to contact GODS?  Well GODS is currently an invite only   
   group, of course with the exception of those rare couriers that for some  
   reason were not invited but have more than enough to get in.  So don't    
   bother applying.  However, if you would like to get your name out to      
   some of the GODS staff, #GUILD on the IRC network will be the place to    
   go.  #GUILD is the GODS public channel where they will conduct every-day  
   conversations.  GODS, however, does reserve a private channel in which    
   they conduct meetings and really get down to business.  This is just one  
   example of the organization that this group proves to contain.  Many      
   courier groups were presented to us this year, and most wanted to become  
   #1, but the main problem that stopped them from achieving this goal was   
   a lack of organization.  So far, this does not appear to be a problem     
   for GODS.                                                                 
                                                                             
       A year ago, my area code was extremely active in the scene, and       
   though we lacked any REALLY BIG boards, we had plenty of the small ones   
   and all releases made their way over sooner or later (most often later).  
   During the year, as with all area codes, the BBSs in the area began to    
   quit, and we are now left with no more than 5 boards in the whole area.   
   We are, however, blessed to have one board that is being supported by     
   GODS in the area.  The Lower Level, with its 8 nodes, has greatly picked  
   up activity this week, and it is amazing to see the motivation that this  
   group has brought to its members.  Now, The Lower Level could easily be   
   compared in speed to many of the much bigger and more well-known boards   
   in the world.                                                             
                                                                             
       Yet as we know, the challenge is not in beating the other groups on   
   your own boards, but rather, beating them on their own boards!  This is   
   surely the sign of superiority.  RiSC got a total of 652 megs of uploads  
   to their WHQ, Park Central.  However, GODS was close behind with 440      
   megs.  200 Megs behind and on their first week.  That's pretty            
   impressive!                                                               
                                                                             
       GODS has definitely shown their might this past week, and I have no   
   doubt in my mind that they will continue doing so in the weeks that       
   follow.  Whether or not they will beat out RiSC or Everlast in the        
   long-term plans is a question we will all have, so we will all be         
   waiting to see the top uploaders stats this week and next with new        
   excitement.  Good luck, GODS, and eat your Wheaties, you're up with the   
   big boys now!!                                                            
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Hitex                                                         
     Subject : GODS Civil War                                                
                                                                             
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       The following is a log file acquired from GODS about 30 minutes       
   before the desired release time of RCN #18.  We got word that something   
   was happening in GODS' private channel.  We didn't know what, we didn't   
   know why.  All we knew was that apparently some sort of a "brawl similar  
   to the LA Riots" is going on in there and that it wasn't looking good.    
   Anxiously we awaited as the log file came in.  This could be information  
   that drastically changed the life of what could have been the #1          
   Couriering group around.  So, read for yourself.                          
                                                                             
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   #Divine buffer saved on Sun Jun 16 19:29:42 1996                          
                                                                             
   <QuaziModm> hey gaHn, are you being a dumbass??? :)                       
                                                                             
   <Erupt> What??                                                            
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Quazimodem, why are you asking me that???  What did you mean "am   
          I being a dumbass???"                                              
                                                                             
   *** Gahn has been kicked off #Divine by QuaziModm (Shut up!)              
                                                                             
   *** Gahn (1dumbphuc@d4-0c.ppp.op.net) has joined #Divine                  
                                                                             
   <Erupt> Quazimodem, I don't give who the fuck you think you are, but      
           don't fucking kick Gahn.                                          
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Fucking ghost lamer, what's his problem??                          
                                                                             
   <QuaziModm> I don't give a fuck who YOU are.                              
                                                                             
   <Erupt> That's it, I quit.                                                
                                                                             
   *** Erupt changes topic to "I QUIT GODS"                                  
                                                                             
   *** Erupt (erupt@hyper.shadow.net) has left #Divine                       
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Erupt no, wait dude.                                               
                                                                             
   <QuaziModm> He has NO backbone.  He's a fucking loser.                    
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Quazimodem, you're the fucking loser.                              
                                                                             
   <Manowar> I really hate egos.                                             
                                                                             
   <_MGD_> Why did Erupt quit?                                               
                                                                             
   <NyteMyST> What did you guys do to Erupt?                                 
                                                                             
   *** QuaziModm was kicked by GODSRock (Erupt is more valued than you!)     
                                                                             
   *** QuaziModm (~quazimode@pma1_124.loop.com) has joined #Divine           
                                                                             
   <QuaziModm> Hey Gahn, what the fuck do YOU do asshole?                    
                                                                             
   <NyteMyST> Quazimodem, shut the fuck up.  He does way more then YOU do.   
                                                                             
   <Manowar> Can we stop ego tripping here?                                  
                                                                             
   *** _MGD_ sets mode: +b *!*quazimode@*.loop.com                           
                                                                             
   *** QuaziModm was kicked by _MGD_ (FUCK YOU)                              
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Quazimodem, you rise from the dead and call me an ASSHOLE?  FUCK   
          YOU loser.                                                         
                                                                             
   *** Manowar sets mode: -b *!*quazimode@*.loop.com                         
                                                                             
   <_MGD_> !chattr quazimodm -ofxpm                                          
                                                                             
   <Swamper> Quazimodem did a lot for GODS about 2 years ago.                
                                                                             
   <_MGD_> He made Slain quit.                                               
                                                                             
   *** QuaziModm (~quazimode@pma1_124.loop.com) has joined #Divine           
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Fuck him.                                                          
                                                                             
   <BootKnock> !chattr quazimodm +ofxp                                       
                                                                             
   <Manowar> If you guys are going to be KIDS, this group will fall apart    
             like it is.                                                     
                                                                             
   <QuaziModm> I did NOT make Slain quit you fucker.                         
                                                                             
   <Cambit> Welp, that means we lost 2 people today if Erupt leaves.         
                                                                             
   <jimmie> I'll be bck in a few when this settles :)                        
                                                                             
   <NyteMyST> Hey, Gahn and Erupt are doing the best for the BBS section of  
              this group.  No one else has bothered to try anything.         
                                                                             
   <Manowar> KNOCK IF OFF PEOPLE!!!                                          
                                                                             
   <BootKnock> MGD, I will own your newbie ass, no matter how good a         
               netmonkey you are.                                            
                                                                             
   <TCLaW> Netmonkeying is for lamers who can't call long distance.          
                                                                             
   <_MGD_> What the fuck?  Why did Slain just quit?  Erupt just quit?        
                                                                             
   <BootKnock> MGD said, "take me off bots, I am sick of this.."             
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Erupt, stop...                                                     
                                                                             
   <Erupt> No, fuck THIS GAHN.  I WORK MY ASS OFF AND I AIN'T GOTTA TAKE     
           THIS SHIT.                                                        
                                                                             
   <TCLaW> Shut the fuck up all of you.                                      
                                                                             
   <Manowar> CHILL OUT PEOPLE.  I'm with Boot Knock, he has brains.  MGD     
             just begged for stuff for BBX.                                  
                                                                             
   <Gahn> Manowar, you suck whatever dick you want but stay out of it.       
                                                                             
   <TCLaW> Gahn, you shut the fuck up.                                       
                                                                             
   <Manowar> No Gahn, I dont give head like you.  I'm SICK of attitudes in   
             here.                                                           
                                                                             
   *** Erupt changes topic to "THE START OF YOUR ENDING"                     
                                                                             
   *** Erupt (erupt@hyper.shadow.net) has left #Divine                       
                                                                             
   <Cambit> What the hell is with all this shit?  I wonder what happens if   
            I do a mass deop.                                                
                                                                             
   <Manowar> This is the start of the end.  <ALlCE> This group ins't goint   
                                                                             
   <Alice> This group isn't going to last til the end of the week, and the   
           week ends in a couple hours.                                      
                                                                             
   <Manowar> Alice, you're right.  If you have a problem, take it in         
             PRIVATE.                                                        
                                                                             
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       As you can see, this isn't good.  This is definitely not going to be  
   referred to as good news to any of the GODS members.  However, it might   
   make them rethink their admission into the group.  Throughout this messy  
   and confused conversation, we see many egos fly, and for future           
   reference, this could possibly be what will be looked at as what happens  
   when you go from new to #1 in one week.  Was this inevitable?  Was it     
   the fate of GODS (no pun intended) before it ever started?  And, of       
   course, the most burning question on everybody's mind is, how will this   
   affect GODS in the future?  Has it totally corrupted the group, or will   
   its leadership be able to survive it? It's hard to say.  We just          
   witnessed the departure of a senior member and a member from the group.   
   Erupt quickly left right at the beginning of the incident, perhaps this   
   flame within him was already lit earlier in the week and this was just    
   the kicker?  Slain, "Just a trader," left, but could this be an           
   indication to the future of the rest of the traders in the group?  Only   
   time will tell, but fear not, RCN will be covering the story as it        
   unwinds.                                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Hitex (Meeting Log by Lucifers Fear)                          
     Subject : Tom James Reveals Charges to Students???                      
                                                                             
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       A little background reference.  Greg refers to Demaxxus.  John is     
   Carnage, and Lucifers Fear is Nick.  Tom James is an RCMP (Royal          
   Canadian Mounted Police - The Canadian equivalent of the FBI) officer     
   who busted Demaxxus later to release him on the basis of a lack of        
   evidence.  This is a log, supplied by Lucifers Fear, of a chat between    
   Carnage and himself.  They all live around each other, and, well, these   
   seem to be some of the smartest and bravest guys I've seen.  They know    
   the law.  They know it well.  The RCMP is going to have to be a lot       
   smarter than they have been to even get CLOSE to touching these guys,     
   and, well, with a name like ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE, I'm not too    
   sure they'll be able to.                                                  
                                                                             
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   Session Start : Mon Jun 10 15:11:34 1996                                  
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Yeah well, guess who came into our class today.  Someone you    
   know..                                                                    
                                                                             
   <LFear> And who might that just be?                                       
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Tom James.                                                      
                                                                             
   <LFear> You're kidding me :)!  How come this time and why?                
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I'm serious he talked to us about how bad pirating is and how   
   long of a sentence you can get.  He said he still has to investegate 4    
   more houses.                                                              
                                                                             
   <LFear> What a stupid fuck. :)                                            
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I know.                                                         
                                                                             
   <LFear> He goes around to investigate people for like 1 or 2 pirated      
   files in BIG WAREZ TOWN THUNDER BAY!!!                                    
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Hehehehehe...                                                   
                                                                             
   <LFear> I swear, he is a fucking joke.                                    
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I know.                                                         
                                                                             
   <LFear> Did he say anything about Greg or me?                             
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Yep.  All he said were some of the people who got busted.  But  
   he didn't mention Greg.                                                   
                                                                             
   <LFear> He was talking about me AGAIN???                                  
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Yep, and Geza a lot also.                                       
                                                                             
   <LFear> What exactly did he say about me and did anyone reply to his      
   comments about me?                                                        
                                                                             
   <Carnage> He said that he went to your house to bust you and didn't find  
   anything he was looking for, and said that you moved to Belleville.       
   Joel replied to his comments.                                             
                                                                             
   <LFear> What did Joel say afterwards?                                     
                                                                             
   <Carnage> He said that you and Geza were the biggest loosers.. no         
   kidding.                                                                  
                                                                             
   <LFear> Joel is just a jew banker who eats doughnuts =) What did Tom      
   James say to Joel's comment?                                              
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Nothing, he just kept on talking about some people he busted    
   in BC.                                                                    
                                                                             
   <LFear> Was Heather around in the classroom at this time?  When is fuck   
   nut Geza's next day in court?                                             
                                                                             
   <Carnage> No, Heather wasn't in school and I think Geza goes back to      
   court on June 17.                                                         
                                                                             
   <LFear> That's in 7 days eh?  I haven't been called in yet either.        
   Think I will soon?                                                        
                                                                             
   <Carnage> You probably won't get called in.                               
                                                                             
   <LFear> Hopefully NOT!  Anything else what he talked about?  Tell me      
   what Tom James said about Geza.                                           
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Tom James talked about how Geza was gonna get charged 2         
   million dollars and get minimum 10 years.  He said that me, you, Hagus,   
   and Joel were on a list.                                                  
                                                                             
   <LFear> ON A LIST?  For what the fuck now?                                
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I don't know that's all he could tell us.                       
                                                                             
   <LFear> My back yard is clean and empty, nothing here to prove.           
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I got tons now, but I'm going to get rid of it.                 
                                                                             
   <LFear> What do you think he means by "on a list"?                        
                                                                             
   <Carnage> The people on his list are probably people he will call up to   
   testify.                                                                  
                                                                             
   <LFear> We aren't getting charged or anything, I already talked to a      
   police officer down here about the situation.                             
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Good, but I think Tom James is going to come to my house        
   because he still has to go to 4 more and he hasn't come to my house yet.  
                                                                             
   <LFear> Delete all disks or get rid of them, get rid of all warez.        
                                                                             
   <Carnage> I know I'm just gonna burn all my stuff to CD and hide them.    
                                                                             
   <LFear> Do you think you're going to get charged or anything like that?   
                                                                             
   <Carnage> No, but I think they are gonna come to my house.                
                                                                             
   <LFear> Probably, and in time.  They have a habit of "taking their        
   time."                                                                    
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Yeah.  What about you?  What do you think will happen to you?   
                                                                             
   <LFear> I don't think they'll bother me again, or do you think he has     
   them tapping me down here?  Think confident, if your backyard is clean    
   you are fine, no worries.                                                 
                                                                             
   <Carnage> Yeah, you're right.                                             
                                                                             
   <LFear> Well, just be quiet and you'll be fine.  Let the rest go down     
   around you, I gotta bolt dude. See you around John.                       
                                                                             
   Session Close : Mon Jun 10 10 15:51:48 1996                               
                                                                             
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       I would like to thank Lucifers Fear for submitting this log to us.    
   This will surely teach the other Canadian scene members a bit about the   
   RCMP and what they have up their sleeve.  Apparently it's not too much!   
   So hang in there guys, and keep in touch.                                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Tuxedo Mask                                                   
     Subject : Syncronys Softcorp Pulling a Napalm?                          
                                                                             
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       Memory prices have finally started dropping, and it's about time.     
   While other PC components have gotten cheaper eacy year, RAM prices have  
   simply bounced around between $30 and $50 per megabytes for a few years   
   now, sometimes even going higher when demand for the chips was            
   particularly strong.  How does this effect the people in the scene?       
   More and more games and utils released in the past few months require a   
   computer with at least 16 megabytes of RAM.  As computer technology       
   progresses, the RAM requirements for software should increase as well.    
                                                                             
       Part of the deal is that RAM chips use exotic technologies, and       
   manufacturers have to make huge quantities of a design to turn a profit,  
   so the six or seven major producers in the world haven't had to worry     
   much about competition from price-slashing upstarts.  Most RAM chips are  
   also made by non-U.S. companies operating outside of the reach American   
   antitrust laws, and thus, help lower prices of RAM chips.                 
                                                                             
       And so the baseline spec for RAM keeps climbing, from 2 to 4 to 8     
   megabytes over the past few years, and now 16 megabytes seems meremly     
   adequate for a new PC.  It would be nice if we could trick programs into  
   thinking that our PCs had more RAM available, and that's the basic idea   
   behind virtual memory, a technique for swapping data that isn't needed    
   right away into a temporary file on the hard disk.  Virtual memory has    
   been part of Microsoft Windows version 3.0, and the system has always     
   worked well enough, though naturally it only works for programs running   
   under Windows.                                                            
                                                                             
       The biggest drawback to virtual memory is its speed.  Lots of         
   swapping slows a PC to a crawl, since hard disk drives are hundreds of    
   times slower than RAM.  Utilities like Connectix Corporation's RAM        
   Doubler, Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM, and Syncronys Softcorp's SoftRAM use a   
   different approach to expand RAM without the speed penalty of virtual     
   memory, by using data compression.  The idea of data compression should   
   be familiar by now, since it's behind about a dozen other technologies,   
   including full-motion video, modems, and file compression utilities like  
   PKZIP.  RAM compression utilities claim to fit more data in memory by     
   compression program instructions and data whenever they aren't actually   
   being used.                                                               
                                                                             
       They all work within Windows memory management system, so again none  
   of these programs will help MS-DOS games.  That could be a great problem  
   since most of games released are still optimized for MS-DOS.  And none    
   of them is really a substitute for more actual RAM chips, but they can    
   produce real-world improvements in some circumstances - all of them       
   except one, it seems.  Experienced crackers whom I'm affiliated with      
   have disassembled the code in SoftRAM and claim that the utility          
   couldn't work as advertised; that there's nothing in SoftRAM that even    
   vaguely resembles data compression code.                                  
                                                                             
       Syncronys Softcorp has fooled the market and the scene by selling     
   possibly millions of copies of a program that doesn't even work.  It's    
   one thing to see Napalm release a game that doesn't work, or to see DOD   
   release a util without a serial number, but it's totally outrageous to    
   see a company release a $99 program that doesn't do anything.  To say     
   that it doesn't work and couldn't possibly work is a serious accusation,  
   and being suspicious by nature, I tried a simple test.  After installing  
   SoftRAM (courtesy of PWA) on my laptop PC, an older 386 with 4megabytes   
   of RAM, Windows initially reported that I had an extra 4megabytes of      
   space available.  But when I tried to repeatedly paste a 20,000-line      
   chunk of text file that I was editing, I actually ran out of memory       
   sooner with SoftRAM running than without.  Since compression programs     
   like PIKZIP can shrink text to less than a third of its original size,    
   SoftRAM should have really shown its colors in this test, but I saw no    
   signs that it worked at all.                                              
                                                                             
       But here's the part of the story that I find most amazing, I called   
   Syncronys to inform them of my little test, and they told me that a       
   research conducted by Dataquest found that 82% of SoftRAM users           
   experienced increase in computer speed.  I hung up and I concluded that   
   SoftRAM is nothing more than "placebo software," and that seems fitting   
   enough for a program that reports itself to be working while not          
   actually doing anything.  If nothing else, placebo software would be a    
   good justification of why piraters should not buy software.               
                                                                             
       You might recall that disk compression utilities like Stacker and     
   DoubleSpace were very popular 3 or 4 years ago.  But hard disk prices     
   have fallen through the floor and those utilities are just niche          
   products now, stopgaps that you might want to download or buy until your  
   next new system upgrade or disk upgrade.  With the way that RAM prices    
   are dropping, RAM doubling software could meet the same fate as disk      
   compressors.  There's really no substitute for actual physical memory,    
   and if RAM prices are low enough, there's no good reason to settle for a  
   crappy download, and there's definitely no reason to shell out $99 for    
   placebo software.                                                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Dark-Elf                                                      
     Subject : Broken Releases By...                                         
                                                                             
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       On June 7, 1996, I downloaded a Prestige release called Big Hurt      
   Baseball.  I downloaded all 36 disks.  The first file and the ninth file  
   ended up having corrupted ZIPs.  So I went to another site and            
   redownloaded the two disks.  So the first file was now fixed, but the     
   ninth was still damaged.  Finally, I went to yet another site, and        
   ultimately all files worked.  I decided to try and run the game.          
   Quickly, I found that the pitcher would never pitch.  It was as if the    
   computer player was brain-dead.  So after all the time I spent on         
   acquiring the game, it was worthless.  I read the PSG.NFO.  The person    
   who released it said he did the release in a rush.  He was going on       
   vacation and just released it.  I was on an FTP site and noticed a crack  
   released by Prestige.  I decided to download the crack.  I ran it, and    
   the pitcher still didn't work.                                            
                                                                             
       It's little things like this that hurt the scene.  A lot of people    
   are not as good with computers as me.  It would have probably taken the   
   far longer than it took me to figure out that it was a broken release.    
   It is thus of extreme importance that every group test its releases       
   before releasing them.  A lot of the stuff that is going around is junk.  
   It doesn't work.  Why should couriers have to spend valuable time         
   couriering software that doesn't even work?  People often complain to     
   the couriers saying they should test the software before they upload it   
   to a major board, but we must look at it from their perspective as well.  
   Couriers want to get on the top uploader lists, but if they have to       
   censor what they can upload, it is inevitable that their competition      
   will just upload the file instead, and they will lose out.  What CAN be   
   blamed on the couriers is the broken ZIP files.  A courier has the        
   responsibility of transfering the files he gets in the exact form that    
   he gets them, and it is always his responsibility to test all the         
   archives he gets to make sure that all the transfers came through         
   properly.                                                                 
                                                                             
       A while ago Napalm released a game by the name of A10-Tank Killer.    
   I downloaded it, and, interested in actually playing it, I joined         
   #Napalm requesting keyboard controls for it, as they were not included    
   in the packaging of the game.  I also announced to them that I was        
   interested in supplying for their group.  They agreed and warned me that  
   I have to supply at least one release per month.  I agreed on the         
   condition that they give me a text file containing the keyboard controls  
   to their release.  The game was one about a bomber plane, and I didn't    
   know how to drop the bombs.  We conversed for a while, and ultimately     
   after much rudeness on their part, they came to the conclusion that I     
   was not going to get the text file because I put a condition on it that   
   I would only supply if they gave it to me.  I soon found myself           
   kick-banned.  This is something I always disliked about Napalm, but I     
   wonder why they would dislike me for it.  It seems sometimes that to get  
   a Napalm release to fully work, even if it was properly cracked, you      
   actually have to buy the game!                                            
                                                                             
       I ended up contacting Sierra, they informed me that to drop bombs,    
   you press enter when you have a target in sight.  As far as Prestige      
   goes, I would like to congratulate them, as that is their only release    
   that didn't pitch.  These are all the cold facts of the scene today.      
   Groups need to pay more attention to what they do, be it courier          
   properly, or release completely.  A courier needs to take responsibility  
   for his job and his job only, but a releaser needs to make sure that the  
   end user gets not only a properly working game, but one that he will      
   know how to use.                                                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Dark-Elf                                                      
     Subject : Choosing a Nickname                                           
                                                                             
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       Join any IRC channel today and you're bound to find some of the       
   weirdest nicknames around.  Let's take RCN for an example.  Today, I      
   joined #RCN and saw the following striking names : Endokuken, Spy of      
   Quartex, Rebel Chicken, and a few more.  Endokuken?  Now tell me, where   
   in the hell does a guy come up with a name like that?  Maybe it means     
   something in another language that I'm not familiar with, but it seems    
   pretty random to me.  Is that bad?  Of course not!  In fact, Endokuken    
   is Hitex's favorite nickname.  Whenever he sees the guy around, he can't  
   help but yell "ENDOKUKEN ENOKUKEN ENDOKUKEN!!" Spy of Quartex?  Maybe he  
   got it out of a movie?  Rebel Chicken?  No comment.                       
                                                                             
       So, when you're out choosing a name, for any reason -- maybe you're   
   new to the scene, maybe you did something bad and hope that if you        
   change your name, nobody will recognize you -- either way, you should     
   take the following steps first.                                           
                                                                             
       1.) Think about your interests.  You don't want to pick the name      
           Rebel Chicken if you're a vegetarian, for example.                
                                                                             
       2.) Look through the science book, or any other book that could       
           contain weird cool words in it.  The dictionary often works,      
           too, but be forewarned, CHECK THE DEFINITION.  Research books     
           tend to have words that sound cool but ones that you wouldn't     
           exactly want to be represented by.                                
                                                                             
       3.) Combine words that have to do with your life.  But again, be      
           forewarned.  This step majorly depends on who you are and how     
           you want to portray yourself.  For example, if our Rebel Chicken  
           were to go by this step, he would probably have chosen a name     
           like "Never Touched a Girl," but he thought it wiser to portray   
           himself as a chicken gone bad.                                    
                                                                             
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       I decided to venture out and interview a few people about how and     
   why they chose their nicks.  The following are the interviews :           
                                                                             
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   <RCN> How did you think of your nickname?                                 
                                                                             
   <Oxygen> It just sort of popped in my head.  My nick sounds better then   
   Hydroboy or Atomman.                                                      
                                                                             
   <RCN> What do you mean "popped in your head?"  Do you, by nature,         
   constantly think of Oxygen???                                             
                                                                             
   <Oxygen> Well, to be honest, I thought of it like this.  A name has to    
   mean something.  I was new to the scene and prefered not to have some     
   lame nickname.  So I thought of one thing we all can't live without.      
   The one thing we all need.  Oxygen!!  No one else would ever think of it  
   that way, I knew that, but it's unique, so it works!  By the way, they    
   call me "Oxy" for short :-).                                              
                                                                             
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   <RCN> How did you think up your nick?                                     
                                                                             
   <RoadRebel> A friend gave it to me 16 years ago.                          
                                                                             
   <RCN> Why?                                                                
                                                                             
   <RoadRebel> Hmmm no, make it like 12 years ago, it was because of a car   
   I drove called a rebel, and people thought it was a road runner, thus     
   Road Rebel.                                                               
                                                                             
   <RCN> A car called rebel??                                                
                                                                             
   <RoadRebel> Yes, I had a '67 rebel and my sister had a 68.                
                                                                             
   <RCN> What's a rebel car?                                                 
                                                                             
   <RoadRebel> It was a car made in the 60's called a rebel, I wish I still  
   owned it now.                                                             
                                                                             
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   <RCN> How did you get your nick?                                          
                                                                             
   <KoKiS> Long story..                                                      
                                                                             
   <RCN> Go ahead!                                                           
                                                                             
   <KoKiS> I'm from a conuntry where cocaine is a "cheap" thing and when I   
   moved over to Sweden a friend of mine called me KokainSmuglaren.  His     
   girlfriend and I got to be friends and she started to call me KoKiS.  To  
   this day, they still call me KokainSmuglaren.  So KoKiS is short for      
   that.  There was a thing about it just as I got the nickname.  The        
   newspapers had articles about the rise in cocaine abuse and at the same   
   time, the rise in warez.                                                  
                                                                             
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   <RCN> How did you get your nick?                                          
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> I don't know.  I just made it up.                              
                                                                             
   <RCN> What made you come up with it?!                                     
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> I just said, "Hey, DarkSoul sounds cool, so I used it =])!"    
   I thought of the name after I named my board (off of something on TV).    
   It was called Armageddon BBS.                                             
                                                                             
   <RCN> Sure, but people don't just go walking around thinking DarkSoul     
   for no reason!  If they are, they're mentally twisted!                    
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> Armageddon, Darksoul, sounded good together!                   
                                                                             
   <RCN> What do you mean sounded good together?  There must have been       
   something that made you think of DarkSoul besides Armageddon.  That has   
   nothing to do with DarkSoul!                                              
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> Don't ask me.                                                  
                                                                             
   <RCN> You choosed the nick not me.  Just answer.  Why the hell did you    
   pick and how did you pick DarkSouL                                        
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> I just DID!                                                    
                                                                             
   <RCN> Cause it doesn't taste like apples?                                 
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> I've had this nick (since I started doing bbs shit) for about  
   2 years now.  That's all you're getting.                                  
                                                                             
   <RCN> Fine, if you're not going to cooperate then this interview has      
   ended.                                                                    
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> What was this interview for????  You never even told me!       
                                                                             
   <RCN> I am not supposed to tell you it takes the fun out of it.           
                                                                             
   <DarkSoul> Now you know why I'm not answering =).  You want the truth?    
   I really don't know how or why I picked this nickname.  It's been 2       
   years and I don't remember.  That's the goddamn fuckin' truth!            
                                                                             
   <RCN> Fine then!                                                          
                                                                             
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       I hope this article helped you out in anyway of improving your nicks  
   or even just making your nicks in the first place.  Oh, and remember,     
   the nicknames portrayed in this article are not necessarily ones that     
   will get you far in the scene, and finally, there's more to a person      
   behind his name, and a cool name isn't going to cut it if the person      
   behind it isn't.                                                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Games                                         
                                                                             
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       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best games release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
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   [-3] The game didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The game was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   game will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
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               Dates of Games Reviewed : 05/16/96 -> 05/22/96              
     
                                                                             
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   Filename : RFIRE-1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-22-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Return Fire (c) Time Warner Int. - [1/6]        Previous Total : 0       
               ___                                  Release Score  : 5       
       ______ /  /_______________________           Running Total  : 5       
      /___  //  /  \___  \____  \______  \                                   
      \_/ _  \__   / _ __// _ __/ \/  /  /\                                  
       /  /  / /  /  / \ /  / \/  /  /  / /                                  
      /__/  /____/_____//__/  /__/_____/ /                                   
      \_/__/\____\\____\\_/__/\__\_____\/                                    
   -----\__\/-------------\__\/(-hoson-)-----                                
                                                                             
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   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
             /\.                                    Previous Total : 0       
     . ____ /  >______.  . _____.____ ____:.        Release Score  : 0       
    .: \   \  /_\___. \__::>   /:\   Y   /'96:.     Running Total  : 0       
    :: / .   /  \|  __/  \:/  /__/       \ .:                                
     ./  \__/ "  \  >  "  <______>  \_/___>:                                 
    `<  /:<___\___>/___\___>.  <_____>:.  :.                                 
      \/  .:.    |/:. .:.mr!  .:. .::  .                                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Filename : PSG-NOM1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 0       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 4       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
    NORMALITY (c) GREMLIN INTERACTIVE  [01/22]                               
                                                                             
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   Filename : PSG-TOSH.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 4       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 9       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   BATTLE ARENA: TOSHINDEN (c) Playmates [01/09]                             
                                                                             
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   Filename : PSG-MAY01.ZIP       Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-18-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 9       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 14      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   TOTAL MAYHEM (c) Domark/Formgen!      [01/22]                             
                                                                             
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   Filename : PSG-SE01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-20-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 14      
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 3       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 17      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   SENSIBLE WORLD OFF SOCCER EURO 96 EDIT  [1/6]                             
                                                                             
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   Filename : PSG-TKB1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-21-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 17      
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 21      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   Total Knockout Championship Female Boxing [1/11]                          
                                                                             
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   Filename : MM2TT01.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Micro Machines 2 Tournament Edition  [01/10]     Previous Total : 0       
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _     Release Score  : 4       
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\     Running Total  : 4       
   dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                               
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
   =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
   _____________________________________________    Release Score  : 0       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________    Running Total  : 0       
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
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                             Score Chart : Games                             
                                                                             
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    PSG   21                   
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    RZR   4                                                      
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    ROR   0                                                             
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                          Average Score Per Release :                        
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                                Hybrid - [5.0]                               
                               Prestige - [4.2]                              
                              Razor 1911 - [4.0]                             
                                Napalm - [0.0]                               
                           Release on Rampage [0.0]                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Games                                         
                                                                             
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       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best games release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The game didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The game was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   game will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
               Dates of Games Reviewed : 05/23/96 -> 05/29/96              
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
               ___                                  Release Score  : 0       
       ______ /  /_______________________           Running Total  : 0       
      /___  //  /  \___  \____  \______  \                                   
      \_/ _  \__   / _ __// _ __/ \/  /  /\                                  
       /  /  / /  /  / \ /  / \/  /  /  / /                                  
      /__/  /____/_____//__/  /__/_____/ /                                   
      \_/__/\____\\____\\_/__/\__\_____\/                                    
   -----\__\/-------------\__\/(-hoson-)-----                                
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
            /\.                                     Previous Total : 0       
    . ____ /  >______.  . _____.____ ____:.         Release Score  : 0       
   .: \   \  /_\___. \__::>   /:\   Y   /'96:.      Running Total  : 0       
   :: / .   /  \|  __/  \:/  /__/       \ .:                                 
    ./  \__/ "  \  >  "  <______>  \_/___>:                                  
   `<  /:<___\___>/___\___>.  <_____>:.  :.                                  
     \/  .:.    |/:. .:.mr!  .:. .::  .                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGBGW01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-23-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 0       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 5       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   Battleground III: Waterloo (c)TalonSoft 01/36                             
   +------------------------------------------+                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSG-PTO1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-24-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 5       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 3       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 8       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   Pacific Theater of Operations 2 for Win 01/04                             
   +------------------------------------------+                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGWIZ01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 8       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 12      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   Wizardry GOLD (c) Sir-Tech           [01/14]                              
   +------------------------------------------+                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGEJD1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-27-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 12      
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 3       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 15      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
           Earth Worm Jim 1 for DOS       [1/6]                              
   +------------------------------------------+                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : JPRDY01.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-24-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
          Jeopardy: Platinum Edition   [01/08]      Previous Total : 0       
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _     Release Score  : 3       
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\     Running Total  : 3       
   dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                               
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
   =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MOREWAR.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-29-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   MORE WAR - THE RETURN OF THE HORDE   [01/01]     Previous Total : 3       
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _     Release Score  : 3       
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\     Running Total  : 6       
   dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                               
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
   =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
   _____________________________________________    Release Score  : 0       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________    Running Total  : 0       
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   [================================[  /  /96]=]                             
                                                                             
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                             Score Chart : Games                             
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
        ͻ   
    HBD   0                                                             
        ͹   
    NPM   0                                                             
        ͹   
    PSG   15                               
        ͹   
    RZR   6                                                  
        ͹   
    ROR   0                                                             
        ͼ   
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                               Prestige - [3.8]                              
                              Razor 1911 - [3.0]                             
                                Hybrid - [0.0]                               
                                Napalm - [0.0]                               
                           Release on Rampage [0.0]                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Games                                         
                                                                             
 ͼ

 ͻ
                                                                             
       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best games release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The game didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The game was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   game will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
               Dates of Games Reviewed : 05/30/96 -> 06/05/96              
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
               ___                                  Release Score  : 0       
       ______ /  /_______________________           Running Total  : 0       
      /___  //  /  \___  \____  \______  \                                   
      \_/ _  \__   / _ __// _ __/ \/  /  /\                                  
       /  /  / /  /  / \ /  / \/  /  /  / /                                  
      /__/  /____/_____//__/  /__/_____/ /                                   
      \_/__/\____\\____\\_/__/\__\_____\/                                    
   -----\__\/-------------\__\/(-hoson-)-----                                
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
            /\.                                     Previous Total : 0       
    . ____ /  >______.  . _____.____ ____:.         Release Score  : 0       
   .: \   \  /_\___. \__::>   /:\   Y   /'96:.      Running Total  : 0       
   :: / .   /  \|  __/  \:/  /__/       \ .:                                 
    ./  \__/ "  \  >  "  <______>  \_/___>:                                  
   `<  /:<___\___>/___\___>.  <_____>:.  :.                                  
     \/  .:.    |/:. .:.mr!  .:. .::  .                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PSG-SET1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-30-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 0       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 5       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   The Settlers II (English) (c) Blue Byte 1/7                               
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSG-DK01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-31-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 5       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 9       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   DEATHKEEP (c) SSI                     [01/34]                             
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSG-JOS1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-01-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 9       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 2       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 11      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   JOSEPHINE (c) Media Age Software [01/10]                                  
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSG-SS01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-01-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 11      
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 16      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
    SHELL SHOCK FINAL (C) CORE DESIGN  01/15                                 
                                                                             
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   Filename : BSTORM01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Brainstorm (c) Simon & Schuster      [01/39]     Previous Total : 0       
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _     Release Score  : 3       
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\     Running Total  : 3       
   dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                               
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
   =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : RORC2UP1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-30-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER 2 *UPDATED DELUXE*       Previous Total : 0       
                 (c) DOMARK            [01/02]      Release Score  : 2       
   _____________________________________________    Running Total  : 2       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________                             
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   [================================[05/30/96]=]                             
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : ROR-H2O1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         H2O (c) WEBFOOT TECHNOLOGIES  [1/4]        Previous Total : 2       
   _____________________________________________    Release Score  : 3       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________    Running Total  : 5       
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   [================================[05/31/96]=]                             
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : RORTRNC1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
           TRONIC (c) ILK GAMES        [01/02]      Previous Total : 5       
   _____________________________________________    Release Score  : 2       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________    Running Total  : 7       
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   [================================[05/31/96]=]                             
                                                                             
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                             Score Chart : Games                             
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
        ͻ   
    HBD   0                                                             
        ͹   
    NPM   0                                                             
        ͹   
    PSG   16                             
        ͹   
    RZR   3                                                        
        ͹   
    ROR   7                                                
        ͼ   
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                               Prestige - [4.0]                              
                              Razor 1911 - [3.0]                             
                           Release on Rampage [2.3]                          
                                Hybrid - [0.0]                               
                                Napalm - [0.0]                               
                                                                             
                                                                             
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      ܰ                      ߰            
      r c n                        
                     ۰        
 ݰ    ߰ ް   ݰ     
  ܰ                         
                               ߰ܰ
                        ߰                        ߰
                                              r e v i e w s !

 ͻ
                                                                             
     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Games                                         
                                                                             
 ͼ

 ͻ
                                                                             
       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best games release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The game didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The game was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   game will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
               Dates of Games Reviewed : 06/06/96 -> 06/12/96              
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : HBD-KO01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         Kick Off 96 (C) Anco [01/10]               Previous Total : 0       
   _____ _____  ____ _____  ________________        Release Score  : 3       
   \_   | \   \/   / _   /__\_   \_/   _    \       Running Total  : 3       
    |   _  \_  \ _/  \   \ __/___/ |   /    /                                
    |___|   |____|___/   /_\   \___|_______/                                 
     ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\:::::::::                                   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
            /\.                                     Previous Total : 0       
    . ____ /  >______.  . _____.____ ____:.         Release Score  : 0       
   .: \   \  /_\___. \__::>   /:\   Y   /'96:.      Running Total  : 0       
   :: / .   /  \|  __/  \:/  /__/       \ .:                                 
    ./  \__/ "  \  >  "  <______>  \_/___>:                                  
   `<  /:<___\___>/___\___>.  <_____>:.  :.                                  
     \/  .:.    |/:. .:.mr!  .:. .::  .                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGDIN01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-06-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 0       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 4       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
      Dinotopis (c) Turner Interactive 01/13                                 
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : SAVAGE01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 4       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 2       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 6       
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
      Savage (c) Discovery Channel 01/30                                     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGBHB01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-08-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 6       
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 5       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 11      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
   FRANK THOMAS' BIG HURT BASEBALL       [01/36]                             
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PSGB2B01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________      Previous Total : 11      
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_     Release Score  : 4       
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /     Running Total  : 15      
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
     Back to Baghdad (c) Military Sim. 01/23                                 
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _     Release Score  : 0       
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\     Running Total  : 0       
   dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                               
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
   =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
   _____________________________________________    Release Score  : 0       
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________    Running Total  : 0       
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   [================================[  /  /96]=]                             
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
                             Score Chart : Games                             
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
        ͻ   
    HBD   3                                                        
        ͹   
    NPM   0                                                             
        ͹   
    PSG   15                               
        ͹   
    RZR   0                                                             
        ͹   
    ROR   0                                                             
        ͼ   
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                               Prestige - [3.8]                              
                                Hybrid - [3.0]                               
                                Napalm - [0.0]                               
                              Razor 1911 - [0.0]                             
                           Release on Rampage [0.0]                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Games                                         
                                                                             
 ͼ
 ͻ
                                                                             
       The following is a chart combining the total points of the top 5      
   games groups within the past 4 weeks :                                    
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
            MAY     MAY     JUN     JUN     Total                          
         ͻ    
     HBD   5/1    0/0    0/0    3/1     8/2    0.0  3.0  +3.0     
         ͹    
     NPM   0/0    0/0    0/0    0/0     0/0    0.0  0.0   0.0     
         ͹    
     PSG  21/5   15/4   16/4   15/4    67/17   4.0  3.8  -0.2     
         ͹    
     RZR   4/1    6/2    3/1    0/0    13/4    3.0  0.0  -3.0     
         ͹    
     ROR   0/0    0/0    7/3    0/0     7/3    2.3  0.0  -2.3     
         ͼ    
                                                                      
               # of Releases      Last Week's Yield                   
             # of Points                 This Week's Yield              
                                                   Change in Yield        
     
     Yield             = # of Points / # of Releases                         
     Change in Yield   = Current Week's Yield - Previous Week's Yield        
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Utils                                         
                                                                             
 ͼ

 ͻ
                                                                             
       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best utils release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The util didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The util was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   util will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
               Dates of Utils Reviewed : 05/16/96 -> 05/22/96              
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : DODWEB01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-18-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   WEB TRANSLATOR V1.0 BY GLOBALINK     [01/30]     Previous Total : 0       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 3       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 3       
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 18-May-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : DOD-AVN1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-21-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   DR. SOLOMANS ANTIVIRUS TOOLKIT 7.58  [01/03]     Previous Total : 3       
   FOR NETWARE 3.1X AND 4.X                         Release Score  : 4       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Running Total  : 7       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_                              
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 21-May-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : DODPGOO1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-22-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Kai`s Power GOO 1.0 (c) MetaTools    [01/02]     Previous Total : 7       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 4       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 11      
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 22-May-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : GENLITE.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         Genesis World Builder Lite                 Previous Total : 0       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 1       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 1       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[05/16/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : GWEBLTE.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    GWeb Lite (c) Virtual Presence, Ltd.            Previous Total : 1       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 1       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 2       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[05/16/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYCRTB6.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-18-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
        CRT 1.1 Beta 6 (c) Van Dyke                 Previous Total : 2       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 5       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[05/18/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTY-IJ1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-21-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Internet Junction for Novell Netware [01/02]     Previous Total : 5       
   ___________________________    _____________     Release Score  : 3       
   \_  |  _/  \  _ \____/  \  \  / \___ ___/ / \    Running Total  : 8       
    /     \  \ \   /_/\_ `  \ /_/   \_/ \_/  __/                             
    \_|_|_/\___/_|__/__/_|__/___/___/\___/\____\                             
       Released: [05-21-96]   Mortality 96!                                  
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : N1326-01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-22-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION v4.0 BUILD 1326           Previous Total : 8       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 11      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[xX/68]\_____\_______>[05/22/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAGPP01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Graph Pad Prism 2.01 For Win [1/2]               Previous Total : 0       
                                           Release Score  : 4       
           A Group                Running Total  : 4       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAHF301.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Hot Forms 3.0b For Win 95/NT [1/2]               Previous Total : 4       
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 7       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAAV951.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   IBM AntiVirus 2.5 beta 2   [01/01]               Previous Total : 7       
                                           Release Score  : 1       
           A Group                Running Total  : 8       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
   -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/-                                   
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAAVNT1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   IBM AntiVirus for Windows NT  [1/1]              Previous Total : 8       
   Version 2.5 Beta 2                               Release Score  : 1       
                                           Running Total  : 9       
           A Group                                         
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
   -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/-                                   
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWABCR01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Borland C++ 5.0 Developer's Suite                Previous Total : 9       
   Resource Kit              [01/37]                Release Score  : 5       
                                           Running Total  : 14      
           A Group                                         
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAEXD01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   eXceed 5.0.1 for Windows 95  [01/10]             Previous Total : 14      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 17      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAFLSH1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-17-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   FlashCards CNE3 Update WFW/95 [1/1]              Previous Total : 17      
                                           Release Score  : 1       
           A Group                Running Total  : 18      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAONET1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-18-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   OnNet V2.1  [01/31]                              Previous Total : 18      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 21      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAVDS01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-18-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Visual Developers Suite Deal [01/24]             Previous Total : 21      
   Spring 1996 Version For Win 3.1/95               Release Score  : 5       
                                           Running Total  : 26      
           A Group                                         
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWA-M951.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Multi Active Maximizer for Win NT/95  [1/5]      Previous Total : 26      
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 28      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWA-MMW1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Multi Active Maximizer for Win 3.11  [1/4]       Previous Total : 28      
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 30      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAID95.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   InterDrive(R) 95 Version 2.0                     Previous Total : 30      
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 32      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAIDNT.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   InterDrive(R) NT Version 2.0                     Previous Total : 32      
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 34      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAWL1.ZIP          Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   WanderLink Release 2.2 BETA [1/2]                Previous Total : 34      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 37      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAD3D01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-20-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Dir 3D 1.0 For Windows     [01/02]               Previous Total : 37      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 40      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : RBSWMAP1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-16-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Windows Map v2.2 (c) Microsoft    [1/8]         Previous Total : 0       
     _____________ _____ _________ _______          Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 3       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : RBS-HYSP.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-20-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     HyperSnap for Windows 95 v2.65                 Previous Total : 3       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 6       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : XF-JF101.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
       JFACTORY V1.0.1 FOR WINDOWS 95 / NT          Previous Total : 0       
                (c) ROGUE WAVE                      Release Score  : 3       
   [01/01]       Running Total  : 3       
                                              
   ۲ ۲   ۲  ۲  ۲    ۲                                
   ۱ ۱   ۰   ۱  ۱                                    
     ۱  ۰     ۲                                  
   ۱ ۲  ۲  ۲ ۰   ۲ ۱  ۲                                
    ۱                                        
         sikos                                 
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : XF-WPS1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-19-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    CC:MAIL FOR OS/2 WORKPLACE SHELL V1.03d         Previous Total : 3       
   [01/02]       Release Score  : 3       
                     Running Total  : 6       
   ۲ ۲   ۲  ۲  ۲    ۲                                
   ۱ ۱   ۰   ۱  ۱                                    
     ۱  ۰     ۲                                  
   ۱ ۲  ۲  ۲ ۰   ۲ ۱  ۲                                
    ۱                                        
         sikos                                 
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
                             Score Chart : Utils                             
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
        ͻ   
    DOD   11                                                  
        ͹   
    MTY   11                                                  
        ͹   
    PWA   40                     
        ͹   
    RBS   6                                                        
        ͹   
    X-F   6                                                        
        ͼ   
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                             Drink or Die - [3.7]                            
                                Rebels - [3.0]                               
                                X-Force - [3.0]                              
                        Pirates with Attitudes - [2.7]                       
                               Mortality - [2.2]                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
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      r c n                        
                     ۰        
 ݰ    ߰ ް   ݰ     
  ܰ                         
                               ߰ܰ
                        ߰                        ߰
                                              r e v i e w s !

 ͻ
                                                                             
     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Utils                                         
                                                                             
 ͼ

 ͻ
                                                                             
       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best utils release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The util didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The util was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   util will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
               Dates of Utils Reviewed : 05/23/96 -> 05/29/96              
     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : --                  Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                                    Previous Total : 0       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 0       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 0       
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD *        96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYVISI1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-23-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     VISUAL RELEASE WITH INSTALIT v7.0              Previous Total : 0       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 3       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/07]\_____\_______>[05/23/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PWA-JETC.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-23-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   JetCommander, V2.01 powerful NC-Clone            Previous Total : 0       
   for WIN95,DOS and OS/2. Full long filenames      Release Score  : 3       
   support under WINDOWS95 + OS/2                   Running Total  : 3       
                                                                    
           A Group                                         
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                    [DL]    -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAMNG01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Intel ManageWise 2.1        [01/26]              Previous Total : 3       
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 6       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAUC31.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Caps User 3.1 For Windows   [1/1]                Previous Total : 6       
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 9       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : WRSPWA1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-27-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   ViewOffice PowerSuite CD-Rip [01/13]             Previous Total : 9       
                                           Release Score  : 4       
           A Group                Running Total  : 13      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
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   Filename : PWAPRG01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-28-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Progress 8.0a for Windows 95 [01/40]             Previous Total : 13      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 16      
            That Gives                                       
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                 A Fuck.                                       
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   Filename : RFAXPWA1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-29-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Right Fax - Fax Server for Win/NT [1/8]          Previous Total : 16      
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 19      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
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   Filename : RBS-EST.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-24-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Estimator Pro v1.0 for Windows 3.+             Previous Total : 0       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 3       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-JOT.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Net Scantools 32 Bit  Jot v1.2 for Windows     Previous Total : 3       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 6       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-OL1.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Office logic - Version 2.10                    Previous Total : 6       
     ________________________________[01/02]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 10      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-LS01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-27-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Fax/Win/Ras Port from LanSource 6.0 *CD*        Previous Total : 10      
     _____________________________ __[01/30]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 13      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBSXMPEG.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-28-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   XingMPEG Player v1.30 for Win 3.+                Previous Total : 13      
     _______________________________[01/01]         Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 17      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-PM01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-29-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Print Master Gold Interactive Multimedia CD    Previous Total : 17      
       ________________________________[01/55]      Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 21      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : XF-MPFX.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-25-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         MIND PATH PRESENTATION F/X PRO             Previous Total : 0       
               V1.0 FOR WINDOWS                     Release Score  : 3       
   [01/01]       Running Total  : 3       
                                              
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   Filename : XFSMS121.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-29-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         Visual Age for Cobol V1.0 OS/2             Previous Total : 3       
                   (c) IBM                          Release Score  : 3       
   [01/49]       Running Total  : 6       
                                              
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                             Score Chart : Utils                             
                                                                             
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    DOD   0                                                             
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    MTY   3                                                           
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    PWA   19                                          
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    RBS   21                                        
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    X-F   6                                                        
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                          Average Score Per Release :                        
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                                Rebels - [3.5]                               
                        Pirates with Attitudes - [3.2]                       
                               Mortality - [3.0]                             
                                X-Force - [3.0]                              
                             Drink or Die - [0.0]                            
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Utils                                         
                                                                             
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       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best utils release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
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   [-3] The util didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The util was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   util will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
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               Dates of Utils Reviewed : 05/30/96 -> 06/05/96              
     
                                                                             
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   Filename : DODALG21.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-02-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   MULTIMEDIA ALGEBRA 2 v3.4 FOR WINDOWS [1/6]      Previous Total : 0       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 4       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 4       
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   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ==================== [ DOD * O2-June-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : DODCDVW.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   CD-VIEW 2.02D FOR DOS/NETWARE        [1/1]       Previous Total : 4       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 3       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 7       
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 02-JUN-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : DOD-QP16.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   QUERY PERFECT 1.0 16-BIT             [1/1]       Previous Total : 7       
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 2       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 10      
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 04-JUN-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : DOD-QP32.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   QUERY PERFECT 1.0 32-BIT             [1/1]       Previous Total : 10      
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 2       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 12      
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 04-JUN-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : DOD-LEX1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   TRA LexiCAT For Windows             [1/2]        Previous Total : 12      
    _______________ ____________ ____________       Release Score  : 3       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Running Total  : 15      
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /                              
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                              
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                              
   ===================== [ DOD * 05-JUN-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYTREE.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-30-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      MCEN Tree Factory (c) MCEN Graphics           Previous Total : 0       
   ___________________________    _____________     Release Score  : 2       
   \_  |  _/  \  _ \____/  \  \  / \___ ___/ / \    Running Total  : 2       
    /     \  \ \   /_/\_ `  \ /_/   \_/ \_/  __/                             
    \_|_|_/\___/_|__/__/_|__/___/___/\___/\____\                             
    Released: [05-30-96]   Mortality 96!                                     
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYQAPP1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-31-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      QuickApp v.3.00 (c) AttachMate                Previous Total : 2       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 5       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[05/31/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYTLIS1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      TLIST 3 /PRO OCX EDITION ENHANCED             Previous Total : 5       
              OUTLINE CONTROL                       Release Score  : 2       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Running Total  : 7       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \                                     
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[05/30/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTY-TS01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
         TriSpectives CDRIP for Win95               Previous Total : 7       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 4       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 11      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/31]\_____\_______>[06/04/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYCADT1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      CADET v3.0 (c) ATTACHMATE CORP.               Previous Total : 11      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 2       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 13      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/03]\_____\_______>[06/03/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYGRPH1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    GRAPHICALLY!! v1.01A for ACE Audit              Previous Total : 13      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 2       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 15      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/04]\_____\_______>[06/04/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYOMNI1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   OMNI PAGE PRO 7.0 WIN 95(c) CAERE CORP.          Previous Total : 15      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : -3      
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 12      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/05]\_____\_______>[06/05/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : LSNTPWA1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 5-31-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   LightSpeed Term Emulation NT Server              Previous Total : 0       
                       [1/2]               Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 3       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeNf                                        
     .DIZ date: 05.30.96  .NFO date 05.30.96                                 
                                                                             
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   Filename : ON32B2-1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   FTP OnNet32 International Beta 2.0               Previous Total : 3       
   for Win95 and Win NT 4.0  [1/13]                 Release Score  : 2       
                                           Running Total  : 5       
           A Group                                         
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeN                                         
                                                                             
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   Filename : ON32B2U1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   FTP OnNet32 US CD Version Beta 2.0               Previous Total : 5       
   for Win95 and Win NT 4.0  [1/12]                 Release Score  : 2       
                                           Running Total  : 7       
           A Group                                         
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   Filename : RBS-WBIT.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-03-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Web-it! Pro for Windows v1.2                   Previous Total : 0       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 4       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-ZI10.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Zipit! v1.0 for Windows 95                     Previous Total : 4       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 7       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBSMBA01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Micro House Tech Lib v296 CD-RIP                Previous Total : 7       
    Main Boards Section A                           Release Score  : 2       
     ________________________________[01/27]        Running Total  : 9       
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     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBSMBB01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Micro House Tech Lib v296 CD-RIP                Previous Total : 9       
    Main Boards Section B                           Release Score  : 2       
     ________________________________[01/48]        Running Total  : 11      
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     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBSMHM01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-04-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
    Micro House Tech Lib v296 CD-RIP                Previous Total : 11      
    Main Section with 100% Crack                    Release Score  : 2       
     ________________________________[01/41]        Running Total  : 13      
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     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-DANA.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Dana v1.04 for Windows 95                      Previous Total : 13      
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 16      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-LIQA.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-05-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Liquid Motion, Great JAVA Creation Program       Previous Total : 16      
     ________________________________[01/02]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 20      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : --                  Fix name : --                              
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                                                    Previous Total : 0       
   [  /  ]       Release Score  : 0       
                     Running Total  : 0       
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                             Score Chart : Utils                             
                                                                             
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    MTY   12                                                 
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    PWA   7                                                       
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    RBS   20                                         
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    X-F   0                                                             
        ͼ   
     
                                                                             
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                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                             Drink or Die - [3.0]                            
                                Rebels - [2.9]                               
                        Pirates with Attitudes - [2.3]                       
                               Mortality - [1.7]                             
                                X-Force - [0.0]                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Utils                                         
                                                                             
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       Hello, and welcome to Reality Check Network's all new group review!   
   Here I will be reviewing the 5 best utils release groups in the scene.    
   Well, actually, *I* won't be the one reviewing them, *THEY* will be!      
   It's all up to the groups, this is where quantity DOES count, but you     
   will soon enough find that quality by far outweighs quantity.  Let's      
   review the criteria I'll be using for judging releases.  The following    
   is the scoring basis I'll be using :                                      
                                                                             
   Points :                                                                  
   --------                                                                  
                                                                             
   [-3] The util didn't work and a crack/fix was not released within 72      
        hours.  The group may regain the 3 lost points by releasing a crack  
        or fix, even beyond the 3 day period.                                
                                                                             
   [ 1] The util was a dupe or freeware,                                     
                                                                             
   [ 2] Unsatisfactory,                                                      
                                                                             
   [ 3] Average,                                                             
                                                                             
   [ 4] Above Average, and                                                   
                                                                             
   [ 5] Excellent!                                                           
                                                                             
       A group may lose points the following week and have their releases    
   labeled as broken (thus receiving the proper amout of points).  If the    
   group has released a fix between the two issues, we'll give them credit   
   accordingly.  If a group releases a fix within a 3 day period, the        
   util will be rated as if it worked in the first place, thus getting the   
   3 points it lost back and any points it would have earned.  If a group    
   releases a fix after the 3 day period has expired, it will receive its 3  
   points back, but get no more.  Betas may receive no more than 3 points.   
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
               Dates of Utils Reviewed : 06/06/96 -> 06/12/96              
     
                                                                             
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   Filename : DOD-SE11.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   SOFTSCAPE EXPLORER PLUS V1.0       [01/05]       Previous Total : 0       
    \_    ___      \_  ___      \   ___      \_     Release Score  : 4       
   _/      l/       /  l/       /    l/       /     Running Total  : 4       
   \______ /       /   /       /____ /       /|                              
   ======\________/\__________/[m]\________/==                               
   (*) D r i n k   O r   D i e  1 9 9 6 (*)                                  
   ===================== [ DOD * 11-Jun-96 ] ==                              
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTYJDKL1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-06-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
       Java Delopers Kit v1.0 for LNX               Previous Total : 0       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 4       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 4       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/03]\_____\_______>[06/06/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTY-INT.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Internet ToolPak v2.0    Crescent Software      Previous Total : 4       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 7       
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/09/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : MTY-NET.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   NetPak Professional    Crescent Software        Previous Total : 7       
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 10      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/09/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTY-XREF.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     XRef VB Add-On    Crescent Software           Previous Total : 10      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 13      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/09/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYAPIV1.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
              API Vision 1.5                        Previous Total : 13      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 16      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[06/09/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYEVB4.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
        Enquiry For Visual Basic v4.0               Previous Total : 16      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 3       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 19      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/11/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYNET01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Net Commander '95/3.1 v1.0 (c) Luckman           Previous Total : 19      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 4       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 23      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/18]\_____\_______>[06/11/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : MTYWCD01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Web Commander '95 v1.0 (c) Luckman             Previous Total : 23      
       ______.______._____._____._____              Release Score  : 4       
     <      >    __/     \__   <     \            Running Total  : 27      
    __/           \__     __/__     ___>                                     
   \______\____/  _/     \ _      \pn                                      
   (==[01/42]\_____\_______>[06/11/96]==)                                    
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAPOWB.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   PowerBasic Compiler [01/01]                      Previous Total : 0       
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 3       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeNf                                        
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWASDB01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-09-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   MR. SCANNER - DATABASES     [01/15]              Previous Total : 3       
                                           Release Score  : 3       
           A Group                Running Total  : 6       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeNf                                        
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWAT351.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Telix 3.51 Dos [Registered]   [1/1]              Previous Total : 6       
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 8       
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                   DK       -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : ASLPWA01.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-12-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
   Access Super Libray CD-Rip  [01/49]              Previous Total : 8       
                                           Release Score  : 2       
           A Group                Running Total  : 10      
            That Gives                                       
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                   DK       -XeN                                         
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Filename : PWA13321.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-12-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
                                           Previous Total : 10      
           A Group                Release Score  : 3       
            That Gives              Running Total  : 13      
           Slightly                                        
            Less Than                                       
                 A Fuck.                                       
                            -XeNf                                        
   Windows NT Server build 1332 [01/30]                                      
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Filename : RBS-RECH.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-06-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     ReachOut v5.05 for Win95/3.xx                  Previous Total : 0       
     _____________________________ __[01/01]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 4       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-FIT.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Frame-It v1.10 for Windows 95                  Previous Total : 4       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 7       
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-MIML.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Mi'Mail for Windows                            Previous Total : 7       
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 3       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 10      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-MORF.ZIP        Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Morpher v1.2 for Windows 95                    Previous Total : 10      
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 14      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : RBS-WPC.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-07-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
     Web Page Creator v4.5 for Windows 95           Previous Total : 14      
     ________________________________[01/01]        Release Score  : 4       
     \_ _  \_ ____/_ _  \_ ____/ |_\  ___/          Running Total  : 18      
     /    _/  ___)/    _/  ___)  | \___  \                                   
    /   |  \_ |  \   |  \  |  \  :  \  :  \                                  
    \___|   /___  \____  \___  \___  \___  \                                 
    ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/                                 
     REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS.                                    
                                                                             
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   Filename : FMSA1.ZIP           Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-10-96*            Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
      MS ClipArt Office cd-rip  (c) MS              Previous Total : 0       
   [01/04]       Release Score  : 3       
                     Running Total  : 3       
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    ۱                                        
         sikos                                 
                                                                             
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   Filename : XF-BO21.ZIP         Fix name : --                              
   Filedate : 6-11-96             Filedate : --                              
                                                                             
          MICROSOFT BACKOFFICE SDK V2.0             Previous Total : 3       
        Windows NT 3.51/4.0 Beta 2 and W95          Release Score  : 3       
   [01/20]       Running Total  : 6       
                                              
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                             Score Chart : Utils                             
                                                                             
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    DOD   4                                                          
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    MTY   27                                  
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    PWA   13                                                
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    RBS   18                                           
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    X-F   6                                                        
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                          Average Score Per Release :                        
                          ---------------------------                        
                                                                             
                             Drink or Die - [4.0]                            
                                Rebels - [3.6]                               
                               Mortality - [3.4]                             
                                X-Force - [3.0]                              
                        Pirates with Attitudes - [2.6]                       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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     Author  : Rebel Chicken                                                 
     Subject : Group Reviews : Utils                                         
                                                                             
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 ͻ
                                                                             
       The following is a chart combining the total points of the top 5      
   utils groups within the past 4 weeks :                                    
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            MAY     MAY     MAY     JUN     Total                          
         ͻ    
     DOD  11/3    0/0   15/5    4/1    30/9    3.0  4.0  +1.0     
         ͹    
     MTY  11/5    3/1   12/7   27/8    53/21   1.7  3.4  +1.7     
         ͹    
     PWA  40/15  19/6    7/3   13/5    79/29   2.3  2.6  +0.3     
         ͹    
     RBS   6/2   21/6   20/7   18/5    65/20   2.9  3.6  +0.7     
         ͹    
     X-F   6/2    6/2    0/0    6/2    18/6    0.0  3.0  +3.0     
         ͼ    
                                                                      
               # of Releases      Last Week's Yield                   
             # of Points                 This Week's Yield              
                                                   Change in Yield        
     
     Yield             = # of Points / # of Releases                         
     Change in Yield   = Current Week's Yield - Previous Week's Yield        
                                                                             
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     Back to Baghdad (c) Military Sim. 23/23                                 
                                                                             
       This game was the biggest bitch ever to install, not because it was   
   complic- ated or anything, but because it took fucking forever.  First    
   you unarj it, and there's about 1000 small .bmp files which make the arj  
   take like around 15 minutes, then you have to edit the .cfg and .bat      
   files, and the bat files have like a million lines referring to the dir.  
   Then you go to load the game up, and it takes about 10 minutes for it to  
   load the terrain and stuff.  And after that it just continues to swirl    
   my hd around in circles as it loads and loads.  It just kept loading, I   
   went and took a shower, a nap, dinner, etc, while it was loading.  Then   
   I came back to find it had stopped loading but had locked up.  I was      
   able to see the game <just not play it> from one of the points of         
   loading up.  My rating on this game is just a total guess since I was     
   not able to play it.  If you even plan to take a shot at this, I'd        
   HIGHLY suggest you have at least a pent/133, or you'll wait forever.      
                                                                             
                                RATING : 57/100                              
                                                                             
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   [\________  _\________  _\_________  _\=]                                 
   [= /   __/   // _____/   // /   __/   //]                                 
   [:/_  /______//    ______/_/_  /______/:]                                 
   [\_____|:   _\_____      \_|:    _\_ .::]                                 
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   [ Gliders Split Wing Falcon *Win32 Ver* ]                                 
   [                                       ]                                 
   [===========[.RiSE.2.PoWER.]====[o3/o3]=]                                 
                                                                             
       This is the "win32 version" 0o0o.  It's still the same fly the        
   airplane through the house, avoid some obstacles, and blah blah, as it    
   was before.  You just have to guide the airplane through the house and    
   manuever it without hitting any book shelves, other airplanes, bouncing   
   balls, etc.  There are air currents which keep your plane up <or down>    
   and you need to fly from one to the other.  Not too amusing, in fact      
   quite boring.                                                             
                                                                             
                                RATING : 36/100                              
                                                                             
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   TrueBlood [xX/o1]                                                         
   [========================================]                                
   [ 06/10/96===============================]                                
   [========================================]                                
                                                                             
       Lame shoot 'em up for windows.  It goes by at extremely fast speeds,  
   the sound is quite annoying, and the graphics a reminder of the atari.    
   Don't even bother.                                                        
                                                                             
       RATING : 13/100                                                       
                                                                             
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   Watch Out Willi [xX/01]  06/11/96                                         
   =================================                                         
                                                                             
       Even if I had pictures I couldn't tell you what the fuck this is.     
   It's from AtOnce software, so it is real.  I tried to open a level and    
   then a new game but it kept me with the same white screen.  No clue what  
   the fuck this is.                                                         
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   =====================                                                     
   Primus Interactive CD                                                     
   [xx/20]                                                                   
   =====================                                                     
                                                                             
       Ummm this one won't load without the cd.  Subst <as told to do>       
   won't work, and fakecd won't work.  It just doesn't work.  Also, I found  
   this kinda weird that there was an .html for a page in this release, and  
   that it said this : <A HREF="http://www.primussucks.com/">.  Now if you   
   ask me, I wouldn't think it's such great idea for you to put a link to    
   something that says your game sucks in the package with your game.        
   Also, a 50 something disk movie pack was released for this nonworking     
   game.                                                                     
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
    Pray For Death (Beta) (c) Virgin  [xx/41]                                
   /(____________ ____________ ______ ____)\                                 
   \_________    \            \      \      >                                
   -/     __/    /    \   \   /            /-                                
   <  __________(____/___/   /_____\______<dd                                
   =\(= DEMOLiTiON =/_____<== 06/11/96 ==                                
                                                                             
   <Sung to the CAR 54 theme song>:                                          
                                                                             
           There's a 41 disk release, but I'm missing a small piece.         
           There's a beta just a waitin', for me to do the testin'.          
           I downloaded 40 disks and realized there's one I missed....       
           DISK 24 WHERE ARE YOU!?!?.                                        
                                                                             
       But then after searching far and wide, <actually it took about 2      
   mins> I was able to find the missing disk 24.  After I spanked #24, I     
   unzipped it and well, here's the review:  This is the beta version of     
   this MK like game.  The previous release was just a playable preview.     
   This one still is a little buggy, but Demolition released a patch to fix  
   some things.  It's got a lot of cool things, and the graphics are good.   
   But the movement of the characters just has something about it that       
   makes you just not like it.  Also you'll need a pent/100+ to play this    
   at a decent speed.  Pray for Death isn't going to be the next great       
   fighting game, but it might entertain a select few. If you do make the    
   effort to get it, might as well get the patch to, it lets you play        
   certain modes, and also let's you see the character's stats and stuff,    
   even though there is no animation of them.                                
                                                                             
                                RATING : 63/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
     SKAT 2095 - CRACKED DiSK VERSiON [03/03]                                
                                         
                 D                             
                                            
                 S                             
                                               
                                                   
   12/06/96  EOD  VORTEX  DYTEC                                
                                                                             
       It's some German card game, but since it's all in German I wouldn't   
   have a clue, nor would you, about how to play it.                         
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   [Dark Sun: Crimson Sands.(BETA)[XX/22]                                    
   $$$$$_.,s  .$$^$ $$$$.     $ $$$  $                                     
   $$$$$$$$'.$$$'   `$`$$$$.   $' $$$ $                                      
   $$$$$'  $$$$' `$$$$. $'   $$$                                       
   $$$$$    `$$$$,      `$$$$$'   $ $$$                                      
   $$$$$[Jag] $$$$Ss.    `$$$    $  $$$                                      
   REVOLUTiON X RELEASE -13th June 1996-                                     
                                                                             
       Ummm, it says "it can be played over ten", but it does not say it     
   has to be played over it.  Well that seems the only way to work this      
   thing.  There is no `non-modem' way of using it.  It only gives one       
   .exe, and it tries to connect to someplace and there is no way to edit    
   what it connects to.                                                      
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
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   -----------------------------------                                       
    (TM)                                                         
                                                  
                                                    
                                                     
                                                  
                                                   
                                                 
                                                 
                   <C!LTC>                                         
   -----------------------------------                                       
   VIRTUA FIGHTER RMX (WIN'95) [XX/04]                                       
   NO 3D-HARDWARE REQUIRED TO RUN!!                                          
   2 LEVEL PLAYABLE - DIRECT X INCL.                                         
   ----------------------------------                                        
                                                                             
       I tried to install it on to my sister's computer, but when I tried    
   to run the game, it bitched about my display driver not being win95       
   compatible.  Which is pretty funny, since I'm in win95.  Just another     
   way in which win95 is a major piece of crap.                              
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
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   ________________________/|__/| ___________                               
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_                              
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /                              
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
     CATFIGHT (c) Atlantean Interactive 20/20                                
                                                                             
       Look out!  PMS at it's peak!  It's Mortal Kombat style fighting, but  
   this time, the women outnumber the men 10-0.  It's a very good game, if   
   you got the power to back it up.  First off, don't even try to run it in  
   win3.1, unless you got a p/166 and a shitload of ram.  Because if you     
   do, you'll be playing it in a window about the size of your pinky nail.   
   Ok music and sound effects, but much better graphics.  You have a nice    
   choice of women with great bods to show off <especially the bottom right  
   one>.  There are 6 move you have, each character with it's own moves.     
   It's worth getting if you have a really fast computer, otherwise don't    
   bother.  Perfect gift for father's day!                                   
                                                                             
                                RATING : 64/100                              
                                                                             
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   DENTUREMAN V1.0 (C) NISSEN VENTURES                                       
                                         
                                               
                                             
                                               
                                               
                                                     
   06/12/96  DEO  VORTEX  DYTEC                                
                                                                             
       Hahah, this is funny.  It's pacman, but it's got like false teeth     
   chomping instead of pacman.  Not much else to say, we all know what the   
   fuck pacman is, and if you don't then you don't deserve to be alive.      
   Only difference is you're chased by cavity type things, and the boards    
   are a little weirder and harder.  This is SW, but I think it includes     
   all the levels.                                                           
                                                                             
                                RATING : 45/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
      SU-27 FLANKER FOR DOS (c) SSI  [O4/O4]                                 
   _ ________________________  _____ ________ _                              
    \\_____  \_____  \_____  \/  .  \\_____  \\                              
   8dZG/\   __//  _   |/  ____/.  |   \/\   __/                              
    _/  \   \/   /_ _/   /_   |  !  _/  \   \                                
    \____\   \______\_________|_____\____\   \_                              
    ======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/                                  
                                                                             
       Here is the dos version of this acclaimed flight simulator. (It was   
   acclaimed as being a flight sim <G>).  Welp once again, another one of    
   those sim games with no docs, no key setup, and no way of getting the     
   fucking plane off the ground.  I slammed every key, I slammed every       
   fucking possible combination of keys, and the fucking plane didn't move   
   an inch.  Sure, I can view it from fifty thousand angles, but I can't     
   make it move!  Anyway, it looked like a pretty basic and plain            
   simulator.  The usual bland colors of line'ish gfx. Not too great, some   
   docs would be helpfull.                                                   
                                                                             
                                RATING : 51/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
    MECH 2: NET MECH *FULL RETAIL/STORE VERSION*                             
               (c) ACTIVISION     [XX/25]                                    
   _____________________________________________                             
   \__   - ________        ./__   - ________                             
   __/         \\__/     -   \\ /         \\__/                              
   \__     |    \\__          \\__    |    \\__                              
     /_____|      ./_____________./___|      ./                              
   [=======|______/===================|______/=]                             
   Here it is, the Net/Modem Support For Mech2!                              
   NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE SHIT OFF THE WEB, THIS                              
   IS THE FULL STORE/RETAIL CD VERSION!                                      
   [================================[06/15/96]=]                             
                                                                             
       I think you can ONLY play over net/modem, because the .exe for that   
   works fine, but the one just to play says it needs to be run in windows,  
   yet the .nfo states it's for dos.  Oh well, this really is just the same  
   game w/ an addon for net'ability.                                         
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________                               
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_                              
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /                              
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
      S.T.O.R.M (c) American Softworks 31/31                                 
                                                                             
       Oh great, another non-working game.  It needs a cd crack.  Several    
   others had the same problem, so it's not just me.  Fakecd or shit like    
   that won't do it. A previous review of the beta is available in issue     
   #19.                                                                      
                                                                             
                                RATING : NA/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   ________________________/|__/| ___________                               
   \___  \ __   /  __/  __/    / |/ ____/  __/_                              
   |   __/ _/ _/  _| \__  \  \/  /  )  /  _|  /                              
   |___|\__\   \________  /___\__\__   \______\                              
   +--------\___/e/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+                              
    Hoyle Solitaire (c) Sierra Online    [7/7]                               
   +------------------------------------------+                              
                                                                             
       A collection of 28 different styles of solitaire, that all seem just  
   like the original!  A must have for all you soli-teers and people who     
   like to do things by themselves for long periods of time.  This           
   win/win95 solitaire is sure to bore you out of your mind really quickly!  
   The card flipping noise, the only sound in the entire game I think, is    
   quite annoying.  Anyway, if for some reason you think you'd be cool to    
   have 28 different solitaire games on your computer then by all means get  
   this.                                                                     
                                                                             
                                RATING : 49/100                              
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
      _____  __ ______ _____ __ _____                                        
     /     \/   |     |__|  |  /  _  \                                       
    / _ _  |  _ |__|  |  |  |  \_   _/                                       
   /  | |  |      ||  |   \    /  -  \                                       
   \__|_|__/\____/ |__|___|\___\_____/                                       
   -----------------------------------                                       
   Rebel Runner *FiNAL*        [o6/o6]                                       
   -----------------------------------                                       
                                                                             
       This is a terribly designed platform game.  Although they claim this  
   is the final, it still sucks bug wise.  The music/sfx play for like 5     
   seconds and then it just dies.  The game is horrible, it's too easy to    
   die, and it's just really lame.  Don't bother with this one.  Oh, and     
   it's not mentioned in the nfo, but this needs to be installed to C:       
   drive or it won't work.                                                   
                                                                             
                                RATING : 32/100                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
 Ķ
                          <*>THE GAME OF THE WEEK<*>                         
 Ķ
                                                                             
      This week's game of the week goes to DEMOLITION for PRAY FOR DEATH     
             *BETA*.  Not the greatest, but the best of the week.            
                                                                             
 Ķ
                             <*>OTHER RELEASES<*>                            
 Ķ
                                                                             
                  Power Dolls <another version, 1.2> <Mantis>                
                Flight Unlimited <another `better' rip> <Nova>               
             Panzer General <RazorCD, win95> <Voice addon by TRD>            
  Flight Unlimited <Mantis, win95> <plus a million different kind of addons> 
                                                                             
 Ķ
                         <*>UPCOMING RELEASE DATES<*>                        
 Ķ
                                                                             
   All projected dates are as of JUNE 14TH 1996, 8:15am (EST) and based on   
   store release dates.  The information in this section is updated WHEN     
   AVAILABLE.                                                                
                             Key to system types:                            
                                                                             
      DCD   = DOS CD           WCD = Windows CD      MCD = Mac. CD           
      W95CD = Win 95 CD        M3  = Mac. Disk       W3  = Windows Disk      
      W953  = Win 95 Disk      D3  = DOS Disk        HCD = Mac./Windows CD   
                                                                             
    Date             Name of Game                    Company                 
      
    96/06/13         WARHAMMR 40K DCD                MINDSCAPE               
    96/06/13         MIND GRIND DCD                  MICROFORUM              
    96/06/14         ALIEN TRIL DCD                  DIGITAL PICTURES        
    96/06/17         SHELLSHOCK DCD                  U.S. GOLD INC.          
    96/06/17         GENDERWARS DCD                  GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/17         BTLCRSR 3000 DCD                TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE      
    96/06/17         RETURN FIRE DCD                 GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/18         AFTER LIFE DCD                  LUCAS ARTS              
    96/06/19         PRO PINBL:WEB DCD               ENTERACTIVE INTERN      
    96/06/19         MEGA RACE 2 DCD                 MINDSCAPE               
    96/06/19         LEMMINGS PNT WCD                SONY ELEC PUBLISH       
    96/06/20         FINAL DOOM DCD                  GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/20         CAS CHMP2PKR DCD                INTRACORP,INC.          
    96/06/21         HARVESTER IBCD                  MERIT SOFTWARE          
    96/06/21         DEADLINE DCD                    VIC TOKAI               
    96/06/21         DUNGON KEEPR DCD                ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/06/21         KINGDOM MGC DCD                 GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/22         BULL FROG PK DCD                ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/06/23         MORTIMER DCD                    LUCAS ARTS              
    96/06/24         MECH 2 NET DCD                  ACTIVISION              
    96/06/25         CIV WAR MED DCD                 ENTERACTIVE INTERN      
    96/06/25         FIREFIGHT DCD                   ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/06/28         DRAGONLAIR2 DCD                 READY SOFT              
    96/06/28         LST ADV LEGND DCD               RANDOMSOFT              
    96/06/28         SPACEHULK 2 DCD                 ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/06/30         FLIGHT ZONE DCD                 WIZARD WORKS            
    96/07/01         LINKS LS DCD                    ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/07/01         NUKE IT DCD                     MICROSTAR               
    96/07/01         PELICAN HILL DCD                ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/07/01         GRAND PRIX 2 DCD                SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE       
    96/07/01         PINEHURST DCD                   ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/07/01         OVER REICH DCD                  AVALON HILL             
    96/07/01         WZONE DCD                       WIZARD WORKS            
    96/07/01         PANDORA SAMP DCD                ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/07/05         TMEK DCD                        GT SOFTWARE             
    96/07/09         KNIGHTS CHSE DCD                INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/07/13         MAGIC GATHER DCD                SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE       
    96/07/20         AD&DCORERULESDCD                TSR                     
    96/07/28         QUAKE SHWR DCD                  ID SOFTWARE             
    96/07/30         NORMALITY DCD                   INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/07/31         HIND DCD                        INTERACTIVE MAGIC       
    96/08/01         JETFIGHTR III IBCD              INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/08/01         WARHAWK DCD                     SONY ELECT PUB          
    96/08/01         TWISTD METAL DCD                SONY ELECT PUB          
    96/08/01         MAST/ORION 2 DCD                SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE       
    96/08/01         METAL LORDS DCD                 NEW WORLD COMP INC.     
    96/08/01         LOST ADMRL II DCD               AMERICAN LASER GAMES    
    96/08/01         PANDORA DCD                     ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/08/15         DEADLOCK DCD                    WEA VIDEO               
    96/08/20         NEED SPEED SE DCD               ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/08/20         BEDLAM DCD                      GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/01         VR BASEBALL DCD                 INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/09/01         GOLF NICK P DCD                 GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/01         HIST WORLD DCD                  AVALON HILL             
    96/09/01         POWERSLAVE DCD                  PLAYMATES INTER ENT     
    96/09/30         BLOOD/MAGIC DCD                 INTERPLAY PROD          
    97/01/01         DEADLY SKIES DCD                JVC COMPANY OF AM       
    96/06/14         FTSY FBALL96 HCD                ENTERACTIVE INTERN      
    96/06/24         ELK MOON #1 HCD                 ACTIVISION              
    96/07/25         QIN:TOMB/KING WCD               WEA VIDEO               
    96/08/20         CHESSMATES TCD                  INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/03/11         HOYLES CLASS MCD                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/17         SIM ISLE MCD                    MAXIS                   
    96/06/18         CATZ MCD                        VIRGIN GAMES            
    96/06/18         AFTER LIFE MCD                  LUCAS ARTS              
    96/06/24         MUPPETS TRSR MCD                ACTIVISION              
    96/06/25         MORTIMER MCD                    LUCAS ARTS              
    96/06/25         DESCENT II MCD                  INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/06/28         PRISONER ICE MCD                INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/06/30         GAB KNIGHT 2 MCD                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/07/01         PELICAN HILL MCD                ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/07/01         PINEHURST MCD                   ACCESS SOFTWARE         
    96/08/01         EMPIRE II MCD                   NEW WORLD COMP INC.     
    96/08/01         HERO MHT MGC MCD                NEW WORLD COMP INC.     
    96/08/08         KINGDOM/MAGC MCD                GT SOFTWARE             
    96/08/22         MUMMY MCD                       INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/08/23         9 MCD                           GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/01         MORT KMBT 3 MCD                 GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/30         BLOOD/MAGIC MCD                 INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/06/21         NETSCAPE NAV MAC                VENTANA PRESS           
    96/06/17         VOYEUR II WCD                   PHILIPS INTER MEDIA     
    96/06/17         SHATTRD PRV DCD                 INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/06/18         CATZ WCD                        VIRGIN GAMES            
    96/06/18         DONT QUIT JB WCD                PHILIPS INTER MEDIA     
    96/06/19         SCIFI TRIVIA WCD                SIMON & SCHUSTER        
    96/06/20         STORM WCD                       AMERICAN SOFT CORP.     
    96/06/20         MCKENZ/FRNDS WCD                AMERICAN LASER GAMES    
    96/06/21         HOYLE-BLKJAK WCD                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/24         CIVIL WAR:LEE WCD               SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/24         MUPPETS TRSR WCD                ACTIVISION              
    96/06/30         FPS BASEBAL96WCD                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/30         LIGHTHOUSE TCD                  SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/30         INDY CAR 2 HCD                  SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/30         URBAN RUNNER WCD                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/07/01         BTLGRD4 SHILH WCD               ENTERACTIVE INTERN      
    96/07/01         WOOD SHIP MEN WCD               AVALON HILL             
    96/07/23         SHADOAN WCD                     INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/08/01         DAGGERFALL DCD                  BETHESDA                
    96/08/22         MUMMY WCD                       INTERPLAY PROD          
    96/08/23         9 WCD                           GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/15         NOIR WCD                        CYBERDREAMS             
    96/06/14         AMER CIVLWAR W5C                INTERACTIVE MAGIC       
    96/06/17         ULT DOOM W95CD                  GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/17         ARCADE CLS W5C                  GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/17         DOOM II W5C                     GT SOFTWARE             
    96/06/20         TRIP PLAY 97 W5C                ELECTRONIC ARTS         
    96/06/24         MISSION FORC W5C                SIERRA-ON-LINE INC      
    96/06/25         CLOSE CMBT W5C                  MICROSOFT               
    96/06/25         MPHOLY GRAIL W5C                7TH LEVEL               
    96/06/28         SIMISLE W5C                     MAXIS                   
    96/07/01         REAL TROUBLE W5C                U.S. GOLD INC.          
    96/07/10         DIABLO W5C                      DAVIDSON                
    96/07/12         OLYMPIC SOCC W5C                U.S. GOLD INC.          
    96/07/15         STAR CONTR 3 W5C                WEA VIDEO               
    96/08/01         HEXEN W5C                       GT SOFTWARE             
    96/08/15         MORT KOMBT 3 W5C                GT SOFTWARE             
    96/09/01         MORTIFICATOR W5C                PLAYMATES INTER ENT     
    96/09/01         DEATHTRP DNG W5C                U.S. GOLD INC.          
    96/09/01         TERRACIDE W5C                   U.S. GOLD INC.          
    96/09/15         REVERENCE W5C                   CYBERDREAMS             
    96/10/01         STR TRK GEN W5C                 SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE       
    97/01/01         MINDWARP W5C                    MAXIS                   
                                                                             
 Ķ
                               <*>CORRECTIONS<*>                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Uh, none.                                                                 
                                                                             
 Ķ
                            <*>LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO<*>                          
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   THIS MAGAZINE IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER, CONDONES THE PIRATING, STEALING, OR   
   ANY OTHER ILLEGAL MEANS OF OBTAINING SOFTWARE.  I AM IN NO WAY            
   RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS AS A RESULT OF READING THIS MAGAZINE, NOR    
   HAVE I DONE ANYTHING ILLEGAL TO OBTAIN THE REVIEWED GAIMES.  IF YOU LIKE  
   HOW THE REVIEW OF A GAME SOUNDS THEN BY ALL MEANS PURCHASE IT AND         
   SUPPORT THE SOFTWARE COMPANY.                                             
                                                                             
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   MAGAZINE, AS LONG AS IT HAS NOT BEEN EDITED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM,   
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                                <*>CLOSINGS<*>                               
 Ķ
                                                                             
   - That's it for this week, hope it was of help.                           
                                            -Ionizer (The Game Reviewer)     
                                                                             
              Comments/Complaints send to ionizer@ns2.clever.net             
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  ATA-GW01.ZIP   4  WIN  Groups Works v2.1                                
  CH463N-8.ZIP   8  W95  Netmanage Chameleon NFS v4.6.3                   
  COPSFP3.ZIP    1  W95  Fun Pack 3                                       
  DRS-ES42.ZIP  42  DOS  ELSATrak SMP System v1.6                         
  FRC-EV40.ZIP  40  WIN  Encyclopedia of Virology                         
  FRCTYJ45.ZIP  45  DOS  Teach Yourself Java in 21 days                   
  PSG-NOMM.ZIP  22  DOS  Normality                                        
  PWAGPP02.ZIP   2  W95  Graph Pad Prism v2.01                            
  PWAHF302.ZIP   2  W95  Hot Forms v3.0b                                  
  RBSWMAP1.ZIP   8  W95  Windows Map v2.2                                 
  RL-CS5.ZIP     5  WIN  Collabra Share Version v2.2                      
  RL-ENV.ZIP     1  DOS  Envoy                                            
  SCUMHPI1.ZIP   2  W95  HP Interconnect                                  
  SCUMN74L.ZIP  12  W95  Nashville PlusPack Build 1074                    
  T96MOK33.ZIP  33  W95  Mind Of A Killer                                 
  TAC-CB02.ZIP   2  W95  Chicago Bulls SS                                 
  UGR-CLU2.ZIP   2  DOS  The Clue                                         
  XFINFO38.ZIP  38  DOS  Crystal Information v4.5.5 Pilot Pack            
 

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  FRIDAY        MAY 17                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  ATACNT34.ZIP  34  WIN  3D-Atlas Countries Addon                         
  CIAHIT38.ZIP  41  DOS  Hit Fight                                        
  DESIGN04.ZIP   4  W95  HTML Designer Theme Pack                         
  DFTWBBN4.ZIP   4  WNT  WebBundle                                        
  DMN3DM31.ZIP  31  DOS  3D Studio Max Addon                              
  EP302-5.ZIP    5  W95  Netmanage ECCO Pro v3.02                         
  FBI-AW7.ZIP    7  DOS  Air Warrior v2.04f                               
  FBI-MC68.ZIP   8  W95  Mathcad v6.0 Plus                                
  FRC-CB3.ZIP    3  W95  CodeBase 95 v5.01                                
  GENLITE.ZIP    1  W95  Genesis World Builder Lite                       
  GNXNSPE3.ZIP   3  W95  Netscape Navigator v2.02                         
  GWEBLTE.ZIP    1  W95  GWeb Lite                                        
  M8-D3DED.ZIP   1  DOS  Duke Nukem 3D Full Level & Wad Editors           
  NFC-VET9.ZIP   1  W95  VET v9.0                                         
  NOVFLW08.ZIP  20  WIN  Multimedia Flowers Gallery                       
  PSGMAY22.ZIP  22  DOS  Total Mayhem                                     
  PWABCR34.ZIP  37  W95  Borland C++ v5.0 Developer's Suite               
  PWAEXD06.ZIP  10  W95  Exceed v5.0.1                                    
  PWAFLSH1.ZIP   1  WIN  FlashCards CNE3 Update                           
  RL-VSCP2.ZIP   2  WIN  Viscape                                          
  SMR-HPX2.ZIP   2  WIN  SoftKey Holopix                                  
  UCFWGATE.ZIP   1  W95  WinGate v1.3.11                                  
 

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  SATURDAY      MAY 18                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  ACCMS251.ZIP   7  W95  Media Studio v2.5 Video Edition                  
  ATA-ESP6.ZIP   6  WNT  Esplanade                                        
  CIATK03.ZIP    3  DOS  Tikshvit                                         
  CME-FMCC.ZIP   1  WIN  CM Editor v3.60                                  
  COLORS-2.ZIP   2  W95  Colors for Little Kids                           
  COVCT3F.ZIP    5  DOS  Multimedia Tour Visual Object Cobol              
  DRS-ED07.ZIP  10  WIN  ELSATrak SMP System Documentation                
  INDFRGEN.ZIP   1  WIN  FRGen v1.5                                       
  LPARSER.ZIP    1  W95  LPARSER v3.1                                     
  NETABLES.ZIP   1  WIN  Internetables                                    
  PWAMNG20.ZIP  26  W95  Intel ManageWise v2.1                            
  PWAONETV.ZIP  31  W95  OnNet v2.1                                       
  PWAVDS15.ZIP  24  W95  Visual Developers Suite Deal                     
  RBS-BSSN.ZIP  12  WIN  Backstage                                        
 

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  SUNDAY        MAY 19                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  DODWEB30.ZIP  30  W95  Web Translator v1.0                              
  DWNCBL07.ZIP   7  DOS  Cobol System1 v3.2.30                            
  FBI-EX3.ZIP    7  DOS  Executor v1.99                                   
  FBIDPNT2.ZIP   1  W95  Deluxe Painting v2.00                            
  FRCVHSB.ZIP    1  W95  Virtual HomeSpace Builde                         
  HDOG95-4.ZIP   4  W95  HotDog Pro v1.0                                  
  HSTINFO3.ZIP  11  W95  Microsoft InfoSource                             
  JBZTMV44.ZIP  44  DOS  Total Mayhem Animation Addons                    
  KS-DLF11.ZIP  11  DOS  Deadline                                         
  MDC-TME9.ZIP   9  WIN  Tell-Me v2.10                                    
  MM2TT10.ZIP   10  DOS  Micro Machines 2 TE                              
  MPRO-05.ZIP    5  W95  Media Pro                                        
  NPU-MCC.ZIP    1  WIN  NETPopup v2.15                                   
  NWSB-MCC.ZIP   1  DOS  News Robot                                       
  PCB153-B.ZIP   1  DOS  PCBoard v15.3 Beta                               
  PIE-CMED.ZIP   1  WIN  CMed v1.08d                                      
  PWA-M955.ZIP   5  W95  Multi Active Maximizer                           
  PWA-MMW4.ZIP   4  WIN  Multi Active Maximizer                           
  PWAID95.ZIP    1  W95  InterDrive v2.0                                  
  PWAIDNT.ZIP    1  WNT  InterDrive v2.0                                  
  PWAWL2.ZIP     2  WIN  WanderLink Release v2.2 Beta                     
  UE40-MCC.ZIP   1  W95  Ultra Edit v4.00                                 
  XF-JF101.ZIP   1  W95  JFactory v1.0.1                                  
  XF-WPS1.ZIP    2  OS2  CC : Mail Shell v1.03d                           
 

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  MONDAY        MAY 20                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CB4IJK3.ZIP    3  W95  Intranet Kiosk v0.90                             
  CB4K95-1.ZIP   2  W95  Intranet Jazz v0.90                              
  CB4KSRV1.ZIP   3  W95  Intranet Server                                  
  COPSDBC4.ZIP   4  W95  WebDBC v2.5.2                                    
  CUSEME5.ZIP    5  W95  CuseMe                                           
  DWNERCPS.ZIP   1  WIN  Early Release Components Setup                   
  DWNTLS05.ZIP   5  WIN  Toolset System3                                  
  DWNWRB05.ZIP   5  WIN  Workbench System2                                
  J4P-ACCB.ZIP  11  DOS  Accent                                           
  MR2I100.ZIP    1  OS2  MR/2 ICE v1.0                                    
  NOVFG216.ZIP  26  DOS  Future Graphics v2.0                             
  PCWGRM9.ZIP   21  WIN  Expert Gourment Cookbook                         
  PCWMAR18.ZIP  18  WIN  Marty and the Trouble with Cheese                
  PNCQPS32.ZIP   2  WIN  QuickPak Scientific v3.0                         
  PWAD3D02.ZIP   2  WIN  Dir 3D v1.0                                      
  RBS-HYSP.ZIP   1  W95  HyperSnap v2.65                                  
  RTNFS205.ZIP   5  DOS  Far Land Story II                                
  SCUMWH95.ZIP   1  W95  WinHacker 95 Beta 2                              
  TA-CKALI.ZIP   1  DOS  Kali 95                                          
  UCF-BCRD.ZIP   1  DOS  Business Cards                                   
 

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  TUESDAY       MAY 21                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  ATLS325.ZIP    5  W95  Netscape v3.0 Atlas                              
  CB4AWWW1.ZIP   3  W95  Alis WWW-browser v1.2.c                          
  CB4PBDN7.ZIP   7  WNT  Palindrome Backup Director v4.0                  
  FBIHPWIZ.ZIP   1  WIN  Home Page Wizzard                                
  GALL33.ZIP    38  W95  Lotus Gallery                                    
  MTY-IJ2.ZIP    2  W95  Internet Junction                                
  MTYATM6.ZIP    6  W95  Adobe Type Manager Deluxe Beta 8                 
  PCLW5W01.ZIP  45  DOS  LightWave 5                                      
  PSG-SE06.ZIP   6  DOS  Sensible World Of Soccer Euro 96 Edit            
  PSG-TKBA.ZIP  11  DOS  Total Knockout Championship Female Boxing        
  SDM-MO2.ZIP    2  W95  MAC Opener                                       
  SDMWP7S2.ZIP   2  W95  WordPerfect 7 SDK                                
  SDM_WNS3.ZIP   3  WIN  AT&T WorldNet Services                           
  TTTENAM.ZIP    1  W95  Encarta 96 Yearbook Builder                      
  XFFEZDB.ZIP    1  WIN  FormEZ                                           
 

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  WEDNESDAY     MAY 22                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CB4CYBD6.ZIP   1  W95  CyberSuite Desktop                               
  CB4ITK-2.ZIP   1  WIN  NetManage Intranet Toolkit v5.1 Beta             
  DOD-AVN3.ZIP   3  W95  Dr. Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit v7.58            
  DODPGOO2.ZIP   2  W95  Kai`s Power GOO v1.0                             
  DWNIPN32.ZIP   1  W95  IPhone v.3.2 Full Upgrade Build 21               
  EVR-AM36.ZIP  27  W95  MS ActiveMovie SDK Beta 3                        
  EVR-VT2H.ZIP   8  W95  VTune v2.0                                       
  FBIWAWY3.ZIP   9  DOS  Worlds Away                                      
  ICSOSB4.ZIP    1  W95  IBM Internet Connection Server v4.1              
  ICSSOSB4.ZIP   1  W95  IBM Internet Connection Secure Server v4.1       
  N1326-66.ZIP  68  O/S  Windows NT Workstation v4.0 Build 1326           
  N1630B4.ZIP    1  WIN  Netscape v3.0 Beta 4                             
  PHOTIM15.ZIP   1  W95  Ulead's PhotoImpact v3.0                         
  WEBX11B.ZIP    1  W95  IBM Secure WebExplorer v1.1 Beta                 
 

 Ŀ
  THURSDAY      MAY 23                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CB4WEBE2.ZIP   1  WIN  WebEdit v2.0 Standard Beta 3                     
  CIAFLN04.ZIP  14  DOS  Funtasy land                                     
  CLKBK205.ZIP   1  W95  ClickBook v2.05                                  
  DOMSWOS8.ZIP   8  DOS  Sensible World of Soccer                         
  EVR-AM3K.ZIP  27  W95  MS ActiveMovie SDK Beta 3                        
  FBIWAWY9.ZIP   9  DOS  Worlds Away                                      
  MTYVISI7.ZIP   1  WIN  Visual InstalIt v7.0                             
  PHOTIM35.ZIP  35  W95  Ulead's PhotoImpact v3.0                         
  PSGBGW36.ZIP  36  DOS  Battleground III : Waterloo                      
  RFIRE-6.ZIP    6  DOS  Return Fire                                      
 

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  FRIDAY        MAY 24                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  3ALCHMYC.ZIP  23  DOS  3D Game Alchemy Addon                            
  COPPTC4.ZIP    4  W95  MS Word v7.0 Premium Template                    
  DFTDS22D.ZIP   1  DOS  VirusScan v2.2d                                  
  DFTVRB73.ZIP   3  W95  VRealm Builder v1.0 Build 7                      
  DFTVS251.ZIP   1  WNT  VirusScan v2.5.1                                 
  FBI-MSM3.ZIP   3  W95  MS Money                                         
  FRCCWEB3.ZIP   3  W95  Lotus CC: Mail For The World                     
  JF-PIR4.ZIP    4  DOS  Piranha                                          
  JPRDY08.ZIP    8  W95  Jeopardy : Platinum Edition                      
  PSG-PTO4.ZIP   4  WIN  Pacific Theater of Operations 2                  
  PWA-JETC.ZIP   1  W95  JetCommander v2.01                               
  RBS-EST.ZIP    1  WIN  Estimator Pro v1.0                               
  SDM-HV51.ZIP   1  WIN  Hacker View v5.15                                
  SDM-KK12.ZIP   1  WIN  Kopykat v1.21                                    
  T96SP204.ZIP   8  DOS  Steel Panthers 2                                 
  TRDPTO21.ZIP   9  DOS  Pacific Theater of Operations 2 : Animations     
  TRDWAT12.ZIP  12  DOS  Battleground Waterloo : Animations               
 

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  SATURDAY      MAY 25                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  ASPIID15.ZIP   1  DOS  ASPI-ID v1.5                                     
  BOWLING5.ZIP   5  W95  PBA Bowling                                      
  CBW95-16.ZIP   1  W95  Colorado Backup                                  
  COVCT3D.ZIP    1  WIN  Multimedia Tour of Visual Object Cobol Beta      
  DMNHEE30.ZIP  30  WIN  Home Improvement Encyclopedia v3.0               
  DWNCPUP2.ZIP   1  WIN  Cobol Toolset                                    
  DWNVPLB1.ZIP   1  DOS  Virtual Places v1.0                              
  GNXSC227.ZIP   1  DOS  System Command v2.27                             
  HOTJAVA.ZIP    1  W95  Hotjava Beta                                     
  MDC-ARB1.ZIP   1  W95  Aimnet Ranger                                    
  MSPAK1DS.ZIP   1  W95  Service Pack 1                                   
  NT3230R.ZIP    1  WIN  NetTerm v3.0.0                                   
  PAGESCN1.ZIP   9  W95  Logitech PageScan v1.2                           
  PSGWIZ14.ZIP  14  DOS  Wizardry GOLD                                    
  PWAMNG24.ZIP  26  DOS  Intel ManageWise v2.1                            
  PWAONETM.ZIP  31  WIN  OnNet v2.1                                       
  PWAUC31.ZIP    1  WIN  Caps User v3.1                                   
  RBS-JOT.ZIP    1  W95  Net Scantools v1.2                               
  RBS-LS30.ZIP  30  WIN  Fax/Win/Ras Port                                 
  RBS-OL2.ZIP    2  W95  Office logic v2.10                               
  SDM-BMP2.ZIP   2  WIN  BeyondMail                                       
  SDM-WWW8.ZIP   8  WIN  Web Techniques Tools                             
 

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  SUNDAY        MAY 26                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  ADR15MCC.ZIP   1  W95  THE ADRESS BOOK v1.5                             
  ATA-TB5.ZIP    5  W95  TrainingBase                                     
  CB4-TSP.ZIP    1  WIN  TrueSpeech Internet Player                       
  CB4HWM-5.ZIP   5  W95  Harlequin Webmaker v2.13                         
  FRC-VY2.ZIP    2  W95  Voyetra                                          
  PWAEXD10.ZIP  10  W95  Exceed v5.0.1                                    
  PWAMNG26.ZIP  26  DOS  Intel ManageWise v2.1                            
  RVXPADI9.ZIP   9  DOS  PADi Scuba                                       
  SMODEMR.ZIP    1  DOS  SModem Pro v1.5                                  
  SMR-AP25.ZIP  25  W95  Asymetrix Presentation 3D Plus                   
  SSTUDIO.ZIP    1  WIN  Sound Studio                                     
  UCF-FRGB.ZIP   1  WIN  Find RGB v2.0                                    
  UCFSNESC.ZIP   1  W95  SNES Emulator v1.2a                              
 

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  MONDAY        MAY 27                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  EVR-WFIX.ZIP   1  DOS  Wizardry Gold Fix                                
  GNS-M964.ZIP   4  W95  MSJ 96 Build 5936                                
  GWR32.ZIP      1  DOS  Game Wizard 32 Pro v3.0                          
  MEDSOFT3.ZIP   3  WIN  Advanced Patient Accounting v4.13a               
  MNTEYE20.ZIP  57  DOS  The Conquest of Silver Eye                       
  PSG-JOSA.ZIP  10  DOS  Josephine                                        
  PSGEJD6.ZIP    6  DOS  Earth Worm Jim                                   
  SMR14MCC.ZIP   1  W95  SmilerShell v1.4                                 
  TLR14MCC.ZIP   1  W95  TILER v1.4.0                                     
  TSA-R250.ZIP   1  DOS  RAR v2.50                                        
  TW95MCC.ZIP    1  W95  Time Wizard v1.0                                 
  WFP44PWA.ZIP   4  WIN  New WinFax Pro v4.0                              
 

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  TUESDAY       MAY 28                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  AMF-AESA.ZIP  10  DOS  Action Euro Soccer                               
  CTLPP05.ZIP   22  DOS  Panic In The Park                                
  DNS-SK26.ZIP  26  DOS  Dice a Woman II                                  
  DOX95DLS.ZIP   1  W95  IBM LAN Services                                 
  GNNWEB12.ZIP  12  WNT  GNN Press Webserver                              
  GWKS214.ZIP    1  W95  Group Works v2.1                                 
  KEYV321.ZIP    1  DOS  KeyView v5.0                                     
  L-NAVA11.ZIP   1  DOS  NAVAID v1.1                                      
  MDC-SD1.ZIP    1  DOS  Sweep v2.82                                      
  MDC-SW01.ZIP   1  W95  Sweep v2.82                                      
  NAV96-4.ZIP    4  W95  Norton Antivirus v2.0 Beta 2                     
  SDM-MT17.ZIP  28  WIN  I Mother Earth                                   
  TAC32S3.ZIP    3  W95  Home Productions                                 
  TACCPAV2.ZIP   2  W95  Central Point Anti-Virus v2.2                    
  W32ADT06.ZIP   1  W95  Win 32 Applications Development Tools            
 

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  WEDNESDAY     MAY 29                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  AOC-GRD4.ZIP   4  DOS  Greed III                                        
  CIAFLN06.ZIP  14  WIN  Funtasy Land                                     
  CTLPP22.ZIP   22  DOS  Panic In The Park                                
  INSTINCT.ZIP   1  DOS  Instinct v2.0                                    
  LW50F52.ZIP   52  DOS  Lightwave v5.0                                   
  MOREWAR.ZIP    1  DOS  More War : The Return of the Horde               
  MSQ-LV95.ZIP   1  W95  Lview Pro v1.d                                   
  MTYPPM20.ZIP   1  W95  Plug n Play Mosaic v2.0                          
  MTYWA04.ZIP    4  W95  WebAnchor                                        
  NOVLWIR4.ZIP   4  W95  LiveWire v1.04                                   
  PSG-SET1.ZIP   7  DOS  The Settlers II                                  
  PWRSPWAD.ZIP  13  WIN  ViewOffice PowerSuite                            
  RAMSFD-4.ZIP   4  DOS  Shadow of Dreaming                               
  RBSXMPEG.ZIP   1  WIN  XingMPEG Player v1.30                            
  SDMPO95A.ZIP  10  W95  Personal Oracle7                                 
  SDMW32SC.ZIP  12  W95  Win32s SDK                                       
  SMR-SAK6.ZIP   6  WIN  Sing Along Kids 4                                
  TACXYW-4.ZIP   4  W95  XyWrite v4.12                                    
  TDDPPR-3.ZIP   3  WIN  PrismPrint Color Calibration v3.23               
  UCF-CLEO.ZIP   1  WIN  Cleo v2.0                                        
  UCFPTOOL.ZIP   1  WIN  Power Tools v1.0                                 
  XADISSMI.ZIP   1  DOS  Sensible Soccer                                  
  XFSMS12I.ZIP   1  OS2  Visual Age for Cobol v1.0                        
 

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  THURSDAY      MAY 30                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CFOSWIN.ZIP    1  WIN  CFos                                             
  CIABLK-2.ZIP   2  DOS  Black knight                                     
  CTLKN112.ZIP   2  WIN  Koan Pro Disk Ver 1.11 - (c) SSeyo [XX/02]       
  DFTNT22F.ZIP   1  WNT  VirusScan v2.03                                  
  DFTW2031.ZIP   1  W95  VirusScan v2.03                                  
  DFTWSCN4.ZIP   1  W95  WebScan v1.04                                    
  DNS-E312.ZIP   1  W95  Encrypt-It v3.12                                 
  DOD-QP16.ZIP   1  WIN  Query Perfect v1.0                               
  DOD-QP32.ZIP   1  W95  Query Perfect v1.0                               
  DWNPOWW1.ZIP   1  WIN  PowWow v2.1                                      
  GNNWEB12.ZIP  12  WNT  GNN Press Webserver                              
  LW50F52.ZIP   52  DOS  Lightwave v5.0                                   
  MTYWA04.ZIP    4  W95  WebAnchor                                        
  NOVMSWP3.ZIP   3  W95  MacroMedia Shockwave Plug-Ins                    
  NOVRAMG.ZIP    1  DOS  Ramgate Pro                                      
  PWRSPWAD.ZIP  13  WIN  ViewOffice PowerSuite                            
  RFAXPWA8.ZIP   8  WNT  Right Fax                                        
  SDM-INNO.ZIP   1  W95  InterNOTES!                                      
  SHKCMP01.ZIP   3  W95  Compel v2.0                                      
  SMR-AAR.ZIP    1  W95  Adobe Autoreader v2.50                           
  TACCPAV2.ZIP   1  W95  Central Point Anti-Virus v2.2                    
  TDDPPR-3.ZIP   3  WIN  PrismPrint Color Calibration v3.23               
  UCFPRS27.ZIP   1  W95  Print Screen 95 v2.7                             
  XADITC32.ZIP   1  W95  Take Command v1.02a                              
 

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  FRIDAY        MAY 31                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CB4AGSI.ZIP    1  WIN  AGSI v1.1.4                                      
  CB4CDW43.ZIP   1  W95  CD Wizard v4.03                                  
  COPSHB30.ZIP  30  DOS  HyperBlade 3D                                    
  FIFOBQ12.ZIP   2  WIN  Brain Quest                                      
  LSNTPWA2.ZIP   2  WNT  LightSpeed Term Emulation NT Server              
  MTYQAPP2.ZIP   2  WIN  QuickApp v3.00                                   
  PNC-A99E.ZIP   1  WIN  Agent v.99e                                      
  PNCAHELP.ZIP   1  W95  Agent v.99e                                      
  PNCQP41C.ZIP   3  WIN  QuickPak Pro v4.10                               
  PSG-DK34.ZIP  34  DOS  Deathkeep                                        
  RBS-PM55.ZIP  55  W95  Print Master Gold Interactive Multimedia         
  RTN-WP28.ZIP  28  WIN  Winning Post 2 Plus                              
  TACXYW-4.ZIP   4  W95  XyWrite v4.12                                    
  UCFSDD5K.ZIP   1  DOS  Univbe v5.2                                      
 

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  SATURDAY      JUNE 1                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  AGENT95.ZIP    1  W95  Agent95                                          
  ANMSPR6.ZIP    6  W95  32 Bit Sprite Animation                          
  DA-HE15C.ZIP   1  W95  HTML v1.5c                                       
  DISASTER.ZIP   1  W95  Disasters Theme                                  
  FBI-VF02.ZIP  14  W95  MS Visual FoxPro v3.0                            
  OX-BUS9.ZIP    9  WIN  Business Quotes                                  
  PSG-JOS1.ZIP  10  DOS  Josephine                                        
  PSG-SS01.ZIP  15  DOS  Shell Shock                                      
  PSY-LS2.ZIP    2  DOS  Laser Quad                                       
  PTPZL-39.ZIP  39  WIN  Photopuzzle                                      
  PUBDESI1.ZIP   2  W95  MS Publisher Design Pack                         
  RBSMHM01.ZIP   1  WIN  Micro House Tech Library v2.96                   
  UCFPTOOL.ZIP   1  DOS  Power Tools v1.0                                 
 

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  SUNDAY        JUNE 2                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CD6PWA54.ZIP  54  W95  Corel Draw v6.0                                  
  CLB-SG13.ZIP  13  W95  SMART GAMES #1 (c) RANDOMSOFT  [13/13]           
  CPIC-MCC.ZIP   1  WIN  COMPUPIC v1.20 b 17 (c) PHOTODEX CORP.           
  LGX-SBP.ZIP    1  WIN  Legal Pro                                        
  MPATH14.ZIP   14  W95  Mplayer                                          
  MTYTLIS3.ZIP   1  DOS  TList 3 Pro                                      
  ON32B2UC.ZIP   1  UNX  FTP OnNet32 v2.0 Beta                            
  RTN-NEC6.ZIP   6  DOS  Necronomican                                     
  RTN-RSD5.ZIP   5  DOS  Rising Dragon                                    
  SDM-CUP3.ZIP   1  W95  CUP386 v3.0b                                     
 

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  MONDAY        JUNE 3                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CY-AMB04.ZIP   4  W95  Ambiente V2.0                                    
  CY-CC05.ZIP    5  WIN  Color Copy v1.4                                  
  DB21-9.ZIP     1  OS2  DB2 v2.1.1 Update                                
  DDT-6F32.ZIP   1  DOS  ACDSee v1.06b6                                   
  DGNGB30.ZIP   30  DOS  Heroic Holy War                                  
  DMNLAW2.ZIP    2  W95  Do-It-Yourself Lawyer                            
  DNS-WRF4.ZIP   4  DOS  World Rally Fever                                
  DODALG26.ZIP   6  WIN  Multimedia Algebra 2 v3.4                        
  DODCDVW.ZIP    1  DOS  CD-View v2.02d                                   
  EXCHWIN7.ZIP   7  W95  MS Exchange SP Build 6546                        
  PHOTOC07.ZIP   7  WIN  PhotoMorph v2.7a                                 
  RBS-WBIT.ZIP   1  WIN  Web-It! Pro v1.2                                 
  ROR-H2O4.ZIP   4  DOS  H2O                                              
  RORTRNC2.ZIP   2  DOS  Tronic                                           
  TRDEWJ25.ZIP   5  DOS  Earth Worm Jim 2                                 
  WEB11MCC.ZIP   1  W95  Web-It! v1.1                                     
  WU202MCC.ZIP   1  W95  WinU v2.02                                       
 

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  TUESDAY       JUNE 4                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  CB4EXPOS.ZIP   1  WIN  Expose v2.00                                     
  CB4WSEC.ZIP    1  WIN  Secure It v1.00                                  
  DA-SWO6D.ZIP   1  WIN  Sophos Sweep June                                
  DMNCHKF2.ZIP   2  W95  CheckFree Manager v2.0                           
  DNS-OG19.ZIP  19  DOS  Offensive                                        
  F!BT260.ZIP    1  OS2  Binkley Term v2.6                                
  MSTA-MCC.ZIP   1  W95  ModemSta v1.90                                   
  NORMAN22.ZIP  22  DOS  Greg Norman Ultimate Golf 2                      
  NS!-F055.ZIP   1  DOS  Flag v0.55 Beta 2                                
  RBS-DANA.ZIP   1  W95  Dana v1.04                                       
  RBS-ZI10.ZIP   1  W95  Zipit! v1.0                                      
  RTNN2SP2.ZIP   1  DOS  Nanpa 2                                          
  SA110MCC.ZIP   1  W95  Secret Agent v1.10                               
  SAVAGE30.ZIP  30  DOS  Savage                                           
  SDM-JAV7.ZIP   7  W95  Java Developers Kit v1.0.1                       
  SDMPO95A.ZIP  10  W95  Personal Oracle7                                 
  SDMWEB24.ZIP  24  WNT  WebServer                                        
  SU-LUNA5.ZIP   5  DOS  Lunatic Dawn 2                                   
  TBS!DANA.ZIP   1  DOS  Advanced Dana v1.04                              
 

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  WEDNESDAY     JUNE 5                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  BSTORM39.ZIP  39  DOS  Brainstorm                                       
  CARNAGE3.ZIP   3  DOS  Operation Carnage                                
  COPSNAVD.ZIP   1  W95  Norton Antivirus June Update                     
  COPSSAM.ZIP    1  W95  Sales & Marketing Templates                      
  COPSWEB.ZIP    1  W95  WebManager for v1.1.3 Beta                       
  CY-ART02.ZIP   2  WIN  Typeart v2.0                                     
  DMNPWM1.ZIP    1  DOS  Password Master v2.0.5e                          
  FBI-RDD4.ZIP   4  DOS  Ray Dream Designer v3.13                         
  LGX-QC28.ZIP  28  W95  QuickCards Limited                               
  MARAUD12.ZIP   1  WIN  Internet Marauder                                
  MTY-TS03.ZIP   1  W95  TriSpectives                                     
  MTYCADT3.ZIP   1  WIN  Cadet v3.0                                       
  MTYGRPH4.ZIP   1  W95  Graphically v1.01a                               
  PNCAPSS.ZIP    1  WIN  American Pride SS                                
  RBS-LIQB.ZIP   1  W95  Liquid Motion                                    
  RVXIRCS.ZIP    1  W95  WIRCSrv v1.15 Beta                               
  SIVADET2.ZIP   2  WIN  Ditto Easy Tools                                 
  SQLSRV09.ZIP   9  W95  MS SQL Server v6.5                               
 

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  THURSDAY      JUNE 6                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  CB4BOFC3.ZIP   3  W95  Microsoft's Business Office                      
  DDT-RA20.ZIP   1  W95  RealAudio v2.0                                   
  DNS-OE19.ZIP  19  DOS  Offensive                                        
  DOD-LEX2.ZIP   2  WIN  TRA LexiCat                                      
  GAMERUN3.ZIP   3  W95  GameRunner v3.0                                  
  LES-SMC4.ZIP   4  WIN  Scooters Magic Castle                            
  MTYJDKL3.ZIP   3  WIN  Java Delopers Kit v1.0                           
  MTYOMNI5.ZIP   5  W95  Omni Page Pro v7.0                               
  PNC-FEZ.ZIP    1  DOS  FormEZ v9.6b                                     
  PNCDAOB.ZIP    1  DOS  Data Access Objects v3.1                         
  PSGDIN13.ZIP  13  DOS  Dinotopis                                        
  RBS-RNSS.ZIP   1  WIN  RANMA 1/2 SS                                     
  RTN-GC09.ZIP   9  DOS  Galaxy Commando                                  
  S-XP5NT5.ZIP   9  WNT  HCL Exceed v5.01                                 
  SCSRZ-27.ZIP  27  DOS  Sync Speed RAZOR Mach 3                          
  SDM-ARM5.ZIP   5  WIN  Terminal Net Remote v6.0                         
  SDMSTK02.ZIP   2  W95  Stock Market v1.1                                
  SEA12CCK.ZIP   1  DOS  SEA v1.2c                                        
  SMR-ESAV.ZIP   1  W95  Euro 96 SS                                       
  SMR-RVM3.ZIP   3  DOS  RealView v3.7                                    
  STSVGAD.ZIP    1  DOS  SciTech SVGA Developer Kit                       
  THCMAX11.ZIP  11  WIN  Web Max                                          
  VG-AC32.ZIP   32  DOS  Alley Cats                                       
 

 Ŀ
  FRIDAY        JUNE 7                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
 Ĵ
  ACAD13EE.ZIP  25  W95  AutoCAD Release 13                               
  ACSFCD01.ZIP  12  W95  Access v7.0                                      
  BB31UPE.ZIP   35  W95  Star Office v3.1                                 
  DNS-PCP2.ZIP   2  W95  PC PACK SS                                       
  DNS-SURV.ZIP   1  DOS  Survival                                         
  HBD-KO10.ZIP  10  W95  Kick Off 96                                      
  MTSTWB06.ZIP   6  DOS  Tim McCarver's : The Way Baseball Works          
  MTYQEXA4.ZIP   4  W95  Quicken Expense v2.0                             
  PNC-HGSS.ZIP   1  WIN  Hawaii Girls SS v1.1                             
  PNCVBPP2.ZIP   2  W95  VB4 Plus Pak v1.0                                
  PST-ZPSW.ZIP   1  W95  ZD`S Password Pro                                
  R66-PA95.ZIP   1  W95  Microsoft Games                                  
  RAMDUBLR.ZIP   1  W95  Ram Doubler v1.0.2                               
  RBS-FIT.ZIP    1  W95  Frame-It v1.10                                   
  RBS-MIML.ZIP   1  WIN  Mi'Mail                                          
  RBS-MORF.ZIP   1  W95  Morpher v1.2                                     
  RBS-WPC.ZIP    1  W95  Web Page Creator v4.5                            
  RTN-CP04.ZIP   4  W95  Pioneer v1.0                                     
  RTN-FL05.ZIP   5  DOS  Front Lines                                      
  S-SAPCDA.ZIP  11  WIN  Smart Addresser Postal Code Database             
  S-SS50W2.ZIP   2  WIN  Smart Sort v5.0                                  
  S-SSSDD2.ZIP   2  DOS  Smart Sort Sortation Database                    
  S-SSSDW2.ZIP   2  WIN  Smart Sort Sortation Database                    
  SDM-EXMT.ZIP   1  WIN  Microsoft Exchange Server Migration Tools        
  SDMFXSDK.ZIP   1  WIN  Microsoft Fax SDK                                
  SDMWDOC2.ZIP   2  WIN  WorldDoc v1.0                                    
  SM-PWAR2.ZIP   2  DOS  The Pickle Wars Trilgoy                          
  SMR-ACCS.ZIP   1  W95  Adobe Acrobat Plug-In                            
  SMR-ACR4.ZIP   4  W95  Adobe Acrobat                                    
  SX501NTY.ZIP  35  WNT  HCL Exceed v5.01                                 
  TBS!LT35.ZIP   1  WIN  LevelText v3.5a                                  
  TBS!MMSA.ZIP   2  WIN  Magix Musik Studio                               
  TBS!SW11.ZIP   1  DOS  ShellWizard v1.01                                
  TRD-SP41.ZIP  41  WIN  Euro 96 Music Addon                              
  UCFMIDIG.ZIP   1  WIN  MidiGate                                         
  WAR-SDS4.ZIP   4  DOS  Scenario Decoder : System 3                      
 

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  SATURDAY      JUNE 8                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  BLHF1M15.ZIP  15  DOS  F1 Manager 96                                    
  DGN-CP1.ZIP    1  WIN  Cross Poker                                      
  DSDX2F23.ZIP  24  DOS  Direct 3D                                        
  FBICS96A.ZIP   2  W95  CleanSweep 96                                    
  FBIE301A.ZIP   2  W95  Explorer v3.01b                                  
  HBD-KO07.ZIP  10  DOS  Kick Off 96                                      
  JELLY.ZIP      1  WIN  Jelly Fish Backgammon Tutor                      
  LSK-NAVJ.ZIP   1  WIN  Animated 3D SS                                   
  NOVWHO13.ZIP  13  W95  Win95 MultyMedia Help Office                     
  NRG-F502.ZIP  10  WIN  Frame Maker v5.0                                 
  NRG-SMG7.ZIP   7  DOS  Secret Mission                                   
  PSG-SS15.ZIP  15  DOS  Shell Shock                                      
  RTN-PSG5.ZIP   5  WIN  Pro Student                                      
  RTNWMAN2.ZIP   2  WIN  Wman                                             
  SDM-UE01.ZIP   1  DOS  UltraEdit v4.0b                                  
  TACMSNE3.ZIP   3  W95  MicroSoft NetMeeting                             
  UCF-SFTP.ZIP   1  DOS  ACDSee 95 v1.0                                   
  XADII201.ZIP   1  DOS  InstallIt v2.01                                  
 

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  SUNDAY        JUNE 9                                                      
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  3DNS32.ZIP     1  W95  Netscape 3D Live                                 
  COPSACT.ZIP    1  W95  Certificates and Awards                          
  EXIT4WKS.ZIP   1  WIN  Exitilus Backup                                  
  FBIX11N.ZIP   10  WIN  X11 SS v2.4                                      
  HCO3OS21.ZIP  21  OS2  HCO v3.0 Beta                                    
  LGX-FCS2.ZIP   2  WIN  Fast Track Office                                
  LGX-STS1.ZIP   2  W95  Stationary Sets                                  
  LL-DK09.ZIP    9  DOS  Deathkeep                                        
  MDC-AW08.ZIP   8  WIN  Autoware v3.0                                    
  MTY-INT.ZIP    1  WIN  Internet ToolPak v2.0                            
  MTY-NET.ZIP    1  WIN  NetPak Professional                              
  MTY-XREF.ZIP   1  WIN  XRef Visual Basic Addon                          
  MTYAPIV2.ZIP   1  WIN  API Vision v1.5                                  
  NOR-SP06.ZIP   7  W95  Species                                          
  PIE-HD32.ZIP   1  W95  HotDog32 Personal Edition                        
  PIE-RAC5.ZIP   5  W95  Network Q RAC Rally v1.1                         
  PSGB2B23.ZIP  23  DOS  Back to Baghdad                                  
  PWAPOWB.ZIP    1  W95  PowerBasic Compiler                              
  RVX-RAS.ZIP    1  W95  RealAudio Personal Server                        
  TRD-TM30.ZIP  30  DOS  T-Mek                                            
  UCFCDQ95.ZIP   1  W95  CD-Quick                                         
 

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  MONDAY        JUNE 10                                                     
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  ARTMAN3.ZIP    3  W95  Art Manager                                      
  BMAKER2.ZIP    1  WIN  Button Maker Pro                                 
  DGN-EG4.ZIP    8  DOS  Evil Gate                                        
  DOD-SE14.ZIP   5  WIN  SoftScape Exploerr Plus v1.0                     
  FBI-PS8.ZIP    8  WIN  Microsim Pspice v6.2                             
  MSQICU.ZIP     1  W95  Wildcat5! Internet Upgrade                       
  MSQWC5U.ZIP    1  W95  Wildcat5! BBS Upgrade                            
  MTYEVB4.ZIP    1  WIN  Enquiry                                          
  PCWMATH1.ZIP   5  W95  Math Blaster 2                                   
  PNCMNAV6.ZIP   6  W95  Metro Navigator Engine                           
  PST-FYFC.ZIP   1  OS2  FindYourFiles v1.2                               
  PST-MAGN.ZIP   1  OS2  Magnum BBS v9.00d2                               
  PST-SI4U.ZIP   1  WIN  SiteMeter v4.0+ Update                           
  PWASDB15.ZIP  15  WIN  Mr. Scanner                                      
  RBSPMW61.ZIP  61  W95  Print Master Gold Interactive MultiMedia         
  RTNG4EX8.ZIP   1  DOS  Gin4Ex                                           
  RVX-HPF.ZIP    1  W95  Hewlett Packard Family Font Pack                 
  SXN-S2SE.ZIP   1  DOS  Settlers 2 Campaign Selector                     
  TCL_R115.ZIP   1  W95  Ras Plus Beta 4 Build 115                        
  UCF-NOCL.ZIP   1  W95  NoClip v4.0                                      
  UCFIPW13.ZIP   1  WIN  Image-Pro v1.3                                   
  UCFMST19.ZIP   1  WIN  ModemSta v1.9                                    
  UCFTUN13.ZIP   1  WIN  Tune!It v1.30                                    
  XFMSA4.ZIP     1  W95  MS ClipArt Office                                
 

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  TUESDAY       JUNE 11                                                     
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  CB4-APLY.ZIP   1  WIN  Amaplay                                          
  CB4-ARB4.ZIP   1  WIN  Ariadna v1.0 Beta 4                              
  CB4-AT04.ZIP   1  WIN  Alis Tango v1.0c                                 
  CB4-ATS2.ZIP   1  WIN  Authenticate Server v1.4b                        
  CFIX20-2.ZIP   1  W95  Chameleon Host Connectivity                      
  DMNAMOR5.ZIP   5  W95  Amortizer96                                      
  MTYNET18.ZIP   1  W95  Net Commander 95 v3.1                            
  MTYWCD42.ZIP   1  W95  Web Commander 95 v1.0                            
  PNCMNL41.ZIP  41  W95  Metro Navigator Los Angeles Pack                 
  PSGBHB36.ZIP  36  DOS  Frank Thomas' Big Hurt Baseball                  
  RBSMDB47.ZIP  47  W95  Micro House Tech Library v2.96                   
  RFFDBLIB.ZIP   1  WIN  SQL DB-Library                                   
  RS-K951.ZIP    4  W95  Key View 95                                      
  RTN-DP11.ZIP  11  WIN  All Dream                                        
  RVXHP6C3.ZIP   1  W95  Hewlett Packard Deskjet 600C                     
  SDMWC04.ZIP    4  WIN  Cakewalk v4.01                                   
  SMR-NP23.ZIP  23  WIN  National Parks of America                        
 

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  WEDNESDAY     JUNE 12                                                     
 
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  FILENAME      D#  O/S  DESCRIPTION                                      
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  CB4-CLP4.ZIP   4  WIN  Caligari Pioner v1.0                             
  LEG-CGS.ZIP    1  DOS  Cover Girl Strip Poker                           
  NOVPSP24.ZIP  24  WIN  Passport v2.12                                   
  PRMSIN20.ZIP  20  WIN  Primus Interactive                               
  PST-PALM.ZIP   1  OS2  PalmScan/2 v2.02 f                               
  PWAT351.ZIP    1  DOS  Telix v3.51                                      
  SACCT4-2.ZIP   4  WIN  Simply Accounting v4.0                           
  SCUMIJ31.ZIP   1  WIN  Cisco Internet Junction v1.2.1                   
  SCUMIJ95.ZIP   1  W95  Cisco Internet Junction v1.2.1                   
  SCUMIJNT.ZIP   1  WNT  Cisco Internet Junction v1.2.1                   
  SCUMPB42.ZIP  42  W95  MS Publisher 97 Beta 1 Build 184                 
  SMR-UE21.ZIP  21  WIN  SoftKey UFO Explorer                             
  TR-LAI7.ZIP    7  W95  LAN Inventory v3.20                              
  WATOUTW.ZIP    1  WIN  Watch Out Willi                                  
 

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  SYSTEM        CD EDUCATION                                                
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
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  Pre-Release   Thinkin' Things Coll 3                                      
  Pre-Release   Millie's Math House                                         
  Pre-Release   Bailey's Book House                                         
  Pre-Release   Thinkin' Things Coll 1                                      
  Pre-Release   Triple Play Plus Japanese                                   
  06/10/96      Alice's Adventures in Wonderland                            
  06/17/96      Reading Dev Library 4                                       
  06/24/96      Interactive Math Journey                                    
 

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  SYSTEM        CD EDUCATION                                                
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
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  Pre-Release   Elder Scrolls : Arena-Deluxe                                
  Pre-Release   Virtual Chess                                               
  06/11/96      PGA Tour Course : TPC at Sawgrass                           
  06/12/96      Links Arnold Palmer Latrobe                                 
  06/14/96      Gender Wars                                                 
  06/17/96      Hoyle BlackJack                                             
  06/17/96      Hoyle Solitaire                                             
  06/17/96      Terry Bradshaw Fantasy Football                             
  06/17/96      Xenophage                                                   
  06/17/96      Space Dude                                                  
  06/19/96      MegaRace II                                                 
  06/21/96      Kingdom O'Magic                                             
  06/24/96      Triple Play Baseball '97                                    
  06/24/96      MechWarrior 2 NetMech                                       
  06/24/96      Shadoan                                                     
  06/25/96      NHL Powerplay 96                                            
  06/28/96      Huygen's Disclosure                                         
  06/28/96      Offensive                                                   
  06/28/96      Bullfrog Pack HiOct/ThPark/Mag                              
  06/28/96      Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog)                                   
  06/28/96      Need for Speed SE                                           
  06/28/96      Dragon's Lair II                                            
  06/28/96      Grand Prix II (MPC)                                         
  July          Indy Car Racing II                                          
  July          Lighthouse                                                  
  July          Urban Runner (CD-MPC)                                       
  July          Robert E Lee/Civil War                                      
  July          Nascar I w/Track Pack                                       
  July          Baseball '96' Front page sports                             
  July          Mission Force : Cyber Storm                                 
  July          Pro Pinball : The Web                                       
  07/10/96      Battleground 4 : Shiloh                                     
  07/23/96      Normality                                                   
  07/31/96      Hind                                                        
  07/31/96      Magic : The Gathering                                       
  August        Elder Scrolls 2 : DaggerFall                                
  August        Jagged Alliance : Deadly Games                              
  August        Into The Void                                               
  August        Battlecruiser 3000 AD                                       
  August        Gene Wars                                                   
  August        Golden Nugget                                               
  08/06/96      Qin : Tomb of Middle Kingdom                                
  08/15/96      Realms 3 : Shadow Over Riva                                 
  08/15/96      Third Reich                                                 
  08/27/96      Deadlock                                                    
  08/29/96      AD&D Core Rules                                             
  09/16/96      Master of Orion II : Battle                                 
  09/17/96      Assassin - 2015                                             
  09/24/96      Creatures                                                   
  09/24/96      Star Control 3                                              
  09/26/96      Nemesis The Wizardry Adventure                              
  10/08/96      Safecracker                                                 
  10/15/96      Test Drive : Off-road                                       
  10/15/96      NCAA Championship Basketball                                
  11/12/96      Eradicator                                                  
  July          Mindwarp                                                    
 

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  SYSTEM        CD PRODUCTIVITY                                             
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
 Ĵ
  Pre-Release   Savage                                                      
  Pre-Release   2 Million Canadian Business                                 
  Pre-Release   Gospels Holy Scriptures Art                                 
  Pre-Release   FormTool Small Busines v2.0                                 
  Pre-Release   Graphics Converter Gold                                     
 

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  SYSTEM        CD REFERENCE                                                
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
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  Pre-Release   Spinal Tap                                                  
  Pre-Release   Poetry In Motion                                            
  Pre-Release   Lost Treasures of the World                                 
  Pre-Release   Organizer                                                   
  Pre-Release   Adams Jobbank                                               
  Pre-Release   Lesson Tee                                                  
  Pre-Release   Business Planner                                            
  Pre-Release   Gardener's Companion                                        
  Pre-Release   Micro Kitchen Companion                                     
  Pre-Release   Best of Breed                                               
  Pre-Release   MacMillan Digital World Atlas                               
  Pre-Release   Planet Earth : Worlds Within                                
  Pre-Release   Visual Dictionary                                           
  Pre-Release   Renaissance of Florence                                     
  Pre-Release   Voyage in Egypt                                             
  Pre-Release   Chilean Affair                                              
  Pre-Release   Dr. T's Around the World                                    
  Pre-Release   Lost Treasures of the World                                 
  Pre-Release   Lirgua Match                                                
  Pre-Release   Dr. T's Kids Classics                                       
  Pre-Release   3003 Home Designs Multimedia                                
 

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  SYSTEM        JEWEL CASE                                                  
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
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  Pre-Release   US History/Geography                                        
  Pre-Release   Pax Imperia                                                 
  Pre-Release   Word Attack 3                                               
  Pre-Release   Kid Keys                                                    
  Pre-Release   Kid Works                                                   
 

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  SYSTEM        WINDOWS 95 EDUCATION                                        
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
 Ĵ
  06/04/96      Carmen Advantage Library                                    
  06/04/96      Creative Advantage Library                                  
  06/05/96      Learning Advantage Library 2                                
  06/06/96      Amazing writing machine                                     
  06/06/96      Kid Pix Studio                                              
  06/06/96      Learning Advantage Library 1                                
  06/06/96      Three for me Vol I                                          
 

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  SYSTEM        WINDOWS 95 EDUCATION                                        
 
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  RELEASE DATE  TITLE                                                       
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  06/14/96      Doom II Win95                                               
  06/14/96      Ultimate Doom Win95                                         
  06/18/96      Afterlife                                                   
  06/21/96      Final Doom                                                  
  06/24/96      Space Hulk : Vengeance                                      
  06/25/96      Monty Python : Holy Grail                                   
  06/28/96      Firefight                                                   
  06/28/96      Tracer                                                      
  July          Chessmaster 5000 10th Anniversary Edition                   
  07/15/96      Collision                                                   
  07/18/96      MS Close Combat                                             
  August        Knight's Chase                                              
  August        Dominion                                                    
  August        Command & Conquer                                           
  August        Destiny                                                     
  August        Powerslave                                                  
  08/05/96      Time Commando                                               
  08/15/96      Mortal Kombat 3                                             
  08/19/96      Hyperblade                                                  
  09/09/96      Diablo                                                      
  09/09/96      Mech Mercenaries                                            
  10/21/96      Interstate 76                                               
  11/11/96      Sacred Ground                                               
  03/03/97      Mortificator                                                
 


                                  
                                        
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            User Handle/Alias            Affiliation    Upload Bytes       
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     #1    The Blue Adept              EVERLAST       583,257,792      
         ͹    
     #2    Luck                        RAPiER         423,798,143      
         ͹    
     #3    T-Bone                      n/a            373,567,889      
         ͹    
     #4    Xwing                       AMNESiA        310,236,865      
         ͹    
     #5    Darkside                    RiSC           296,265,734      
         ͹    
     #6    Suspicious Image            RiSC           210,275,569      
         ͹    
     #7    Amorphis                    RAPiER         162,982,124      
         ͹    
     #8    Gremlin                     fATE           159,465,789      
         ͹    
     #9    Shatter Star                RiSC           157,961,753      
         ͹    
     #10   Tiger Claw                  RTS            127,181,116      
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                Dates of Upload Count : 05/26/96 -> 06/02/96               
     
                                                                             
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            User Handle/Alias          Affiliation     Upload Bytes        
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     #1    Immortal                  RiSC           1,283,263,734      
         ͹    
     #2    Ellisdee                  EVERLAST         563,165,465      
         ͹    
     #3    Shatter Star              RiSC             452,265,343      
         ͹    
     #4    Mr.Skill                  EVERLAST         446,574,920      
         ͹    
     #5    The Blue Adept            EVERLAST         438,297,918      
         ͹    
     #6    Everclear                 RiSC             402,235,051      
         ͹    
     #7    Swamp Thing               Digital          305,765,786      
         ͹    
     #8    Iron Eagle                RAPiER           256,927,114      
         ͹    
     #9    Asmodeus                  EVERLAST         198,433,309      
         ͹    
     #10   Luck                      RAPiER           186,022,783      
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       This chart was compiled by adding the number of bytes uploaded to     
   the 5 fastest BBSes in the WORLD.  The following is a chart of the RCN    
   top 10 couriers :                                                         
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
                Dates of Upload Count : 06/03/96 -> 06/09/96               
     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            User Handle/Alias          Affiliation     Upload Bytes        
         ͻ    
     #1    Nytemyst                  AMNESiA          773,978,234      
         ͹    
     #2    The Blue Adept            EVERLAST         504,307,963      
         ͹    
     #3    Mr.Skill                  EVERLAST         429,423,043      
         ͹    
     #4    ECI                       RiSC             411,965,211      
         ͹    
     #5    Suspicious Image          RiSC             391,752,021      
         ͹    
     #6    Rio & Ken                 RAPiER           321,735,002      
         ͹    
     #7    Maverick                  RiSC             298,414,123      
         ͹    
     #8    Deathlok                  AMNESiA          297,247,099      
         ͹    
     #9    Immortal                  EVERLAST         295,987,263      
         ͹    
     #10   Luck                      RAPiER           236,855,524      
         ͼ    
     
                                                                             
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                    t o p   1 o

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       This chart was compiled by adding the number of bytes uploaded to     
   the 5 fastest BBSes in the WORLD.  The following is a chart of the RCN    
   top 10 couriers :                                                         
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
                Dates of Upload Count : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96               
     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            User Handle/Alias          Affiliation     Upload Bytes        
         ͻ    
     #1    NyteMyst                  GODS             876,312,672      
         ͹    
     #2    The Blue Adept            EVERLAST         773,095,594      
         ͹    
     #3    Rom Racer                 RAPiER           636,822,072      
         ͹    
     #4    Erupt                     GODS             600,786,098      
         ͹    
     #5    Stingray 6                RiSC             555,454,673      
         ͹    
     #6    Over Drive                Stealth          400,254,097      
         ͹    
     #7    Tiger Claw                GODS             354,789,908      
         ͹    
     #8    Luck                      RAPiER           323,166,579      
         ͹    
     #9    Iron Eagle                RAPiER           272,786,544      
         ͹    
     #10   Rio & Ken                 RAPiER           267,132,789      
         ͼ    
     
                                                                             
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                    t o p   1 o

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       This chart was compiled by adding the number of bytes uploaded to     
   dhe 3 fastest FTP sites in the WORLD.  The following is a chart of the    
   RCN top 10 couriers :                                                     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
                Dates of Upload Count : 05/19/96 -> 05/25/96               
     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            User Handle/Alias            Affiliation    Upload Bytes       
         ͻ    
     #1    The Midnight Grave Digger   AMNESiA        389,463,793      
         ͹    
     #2    Slate                       MALiCE         242,235,123      
         ͹    
     #3    Apollo                      Stealth        215,124,866      
         ͹    
     #4    Shatter Star                RiSC           198,863,025      
         ͹    
     #5    Bababoey                    RiSC           165,098,256      
         ͹    
     #6    Demon Hunter                AMNESiA        127,857,235      
         ͹    
     #7    Frost                       Digital        117,578,980      
         ͹    
     #8    Bluewater                   RiSC           114,079,255      
         ͹    
     #9    Cyber Phreak                EVERLAST       111,457,478      
         ͹    
     #10   Caserd                      AMNESiA        107,792,165      
         ͼ    
     
                                                                             
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                    t o p   1 o

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       This chart was compiled by adding the number of bytes uploaded to     
   dhe 3 fastest FTP sites in the WORLD.  The following is a chart of the    
   RCN top 10 couriers :                                                     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
                Dates of Upload Count : 05/26/96 -> 06/02/96               
     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            User Handle/Alias          Affiliation     Upload Bytes        
         ͻ    
     #1    Shatter Star              RiSC             975,945,123      
         ͹    
     #2    Midnight Grave Digger     AMNESiA          740,641,325      
         ͹    
     #3    Cyberjack                 RiSC             648,674,366      
         ͹    
     #4    Bababoey                  RiSC             379,235,264      
         ͹    
     #5    Stingray 6                RiSC             321,756,824      
         ͹    
     #6    Cyber Phreak              EVERLAST         300,862,453      
         ͹    
     #7    Beast                     AMNESiA          280,026,635      
         ͹    
     #8    Apollo                    Stealth          263,463,724      
         ͹    
     #9    Gumby                     n/a              233,265,345      
         ͹    
     #10   Arch-Vile                 RiSC             204,253,232      
         ͼ    
     
                                                                             
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                    t o p   1 o

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       This chart was compiled by adding the number of bytes uploaded to     
   dhe 3 fastest FTP sites in the WORLD.  The following is a chart of the    
   RCN top 10 couriers :                                                     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
                Dates of Upload Count : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96               
     
                                                                             
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   Ŀ  
            User Handle/Alias          Affiliation     Upload Bytes        
         ͻ    
     #1    Arch-Vile                 RiSC           1,158,386,113      
         ͹    
     #2    Bizzy                     fATE             400,002,392      
         ͹    
     #3    Razor Sharp               RiSC             399,417,148      
         ͹    
     #4    Lunatic Genius            RiSC             375,136,969      
         ͹    
     #5    Midnight Grave Digger     GODS             285,582,123      
         ͹    
     #6    Shatter Star              EVERLAST         280,922,376      
         ͹    
     #7    Zima Man                  Empire           202,606,980      
         ͹    
     #8    Darkside                  RiSC             197,357,754      
         ͹    
     #9    Apollo                    Stealth          188,450,378      
         ͹    
     #10   Rainbow                   RAPiER           171,789,123      
         ͼ    
     
                                                                             
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                                  d e a r   r o a d  r e b e l ! ߰

 ͻ
                                                                             
       Welcome to Dear Road Rebel!  This is going to be YOUR column that is  
   a cross between Dear Abby and Dave Berry.  The most important part of     
   this is YOUR participation.  If you have ever had a question about the    
   scene or just a comment, here's the place!  Have you ever wanted to know  
   why some people do this or that?  ASK!  I would love to take it to the    
   extreme for you and we will be happy to research it!  I hope you have as  
   much fun with this as I will!  Remember, this is YOUR column!             
                                                                             
 ͼ
 ͻ
                                                                             
       This week I got shitty letters for Dear RR.  So, instead of           
   responding to crap, I will just write my own opinions.  As most of you    
   know, I like to share my opinions freely with the whole IRC.  Okay, last  
   week's topic was Gays on IRC.  I have seen SOOO many fights about this    
   shit in #RCN and other channels that it's become a joke.  It isn't like   
   a fag is looking at your ass on IRC, they can't see you, they can't       
   touch you, they can't suck you off (although I'm sure some of you         
   wouldn't mind).                                                           
                                                                             
       So do some big people get so pissed!?  Could it be that they are      
   jealous and just crave a big hairy stinky butt to poke?  Or they are      
   actually penis puffers themselves in the closet?  Are they fighting back  
   so hard so that people won't think they're gay?  While some of this may   
   be true (and picking on the fag channels is fun) the need to argue about  
   this in a channel that has nothing to do with it is a joke.  It seems to  
   me that the Pillow Biters stay in their own channels, and don't bother    
   ANYONE but themselves.  This segregation seems to work nicely.            
                                                                             
       I guess the point is, if you don't like them leave them alone.  It's  
   a lot like bees, if you don't fuck with them, they won't try to sting     
   ya!  And to those that are hiding their feelings behind a guise of        
   Machoism and playing the IRC tough guy, well, 2 people came out in the    
   last issue of RCN.  I can't name names but, their initials are _GK_ and   
   PN, they are free now, and have no problems with their sexuality.         
   Hihihihihi!  So that's it for this week!                                  
                                                                             
   *PS*  GK & PN asked for what you will be seeing next, so enjoy.           
                                                                             
                                                Signed,                      
                                                   Hetero Rebel              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Next Week's Topic : How does one know when he is elite?                   
                                                                             
       It seems that the scene as a whole is extremely confused about this   
   touchy subject, and since we all seem to be so scared of being called a   
   "lamer," maybe it would help if we knew what "elite" was supposed to      
   mean.  It used to be that the word elite was just a designation for       
   warez, such as an "elite board" would be a regular warez board, good or   
   not.  So e-mail me and tell me what YOU think elite is.                   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Please email all responses to an385786@anon.penet.fi.                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
 ͼ


                                                                    
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       ܰ                
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                         a s t r o l o g y ! 

 ͻ
                                                                             
       The following details your forecasts depending on your astrological   
   sign.  Each sign designates your personal lucky numbers of the week.      
   The following specific areas of focus include those of love and warez :   
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
   Forecast for the week : The pressure is off as Mars transits into fun     
   seeking Gemini.  It's not a time to slack, make changes instead.          
   Compete in a different realm, try your hand at another art, you may find  
   a new calling in the scene.                                               
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   <Aquarius> (January 20 to Feb 18) : You've found it!  The one warez       
              package you've personally wanted for a long time, it may be    
              larger than expected but who cares!  Grab a drink, go outside  
              and relax while it downloads.                                  
                                                                             
   <Pisces> (February 19 to March 20) : You finally finish a task that you   
            volunteered for and now can relax, though you were stressed out  
            all night and had to get it done in just a few days, it pays     
            off, while it may not be the best, you worked hard on it, and    
            it will only get better from here on out.                        
                                                                             
   <Aries> (March 21 to April 19) : You have a way of motivating others in   
           your group, and those around you.  News comes from a close        
           friend that may bring current projects to a halt.  Stick to it,   
           and ride it out, you may be able to pull it off.                  
                                                                             
   <Taurus> (April 20 to May 20) : A hated enemy strikes a heavy blow, and   
            a self-absorbed leader of yours gets cranky.  While things       
            around you look bleak, turn to the ones that matter, your        
            friends, while they are not the most popular, they will be       
            there for you.                                                   
                                                                             
   <Gemini> (May 21 to June 21) : An associate pays back a long time favor,  
            with an added bonus.  Fight the urge to give up on your          
            projects unless you truly feel it is not giving you any          
            satisfaction.  The help you have offered a new person leaves     
            you with a sense of accomplishment, you have aided someone in    
            need, and they will pay you back even if you feel it is not      
            needed.                                                          
                                                                             
   <Cancer> (June 22 to July 22) : An uncommon chat with a person of power   
            leaves you with a feeling of respect for him, you have computer  
            trouble, OS acting up again, you decide to find a replacement,   
            in the form of several files with a stupid code name for them.   
                                                                             
   <Leo> (July 23 to August 22) : A friend nearby is destined to be your     
         new partner, and in other areas of interest the ball starts         
         rolling, look for new and exciting things to be happening soon,     
         and make plans to be there to receive them.                         
                                                                             
   <Virgo> (August 23 to September 22) : Expect a generous offer for your    
           skills in the very near future.  Your hard work pays off, and     
           you may make it big if you play your cards right.  Look for an    
           opening in a position you have wanted for a long time now, and    
           go for it.                                                        
                                                                             
   <Libra> (September 23 to October 23) : You actually get outdoors this     
           week, away from the computer and away from you room.  Enjoy it,   
           and when you get back, you'll find your work easier to deal with  
           if you take more time to get out more often.                      
                                                                             
   <Scorpio> (October 24 to November 21) : A material sign of prosperity is  
             now affordable to you.  You impress the people around you with  
             your dedication.  You become deeply involved in how stupid the  
             word "cybersex" sounds and vow to blow up any such sites in     
             the near future.                                                
                                                                             
   <Sagittarius> (November 22 to December 21) : You cheer a friend up by     
                 inviting him or her to join in a close group of yourself    
                 and allies, give a second chance to a person you thought    
                 was lame.  A group effort won't fly without your talent     
                 and input, so give it your best.                            
                                                                             
   <Capricorn> (December 22 to January 19) : You gain the advantage in an    
               important deal and should act quickly, though be cautious it  
               may cause your friends to become in danger.  Your modesty     
               and hard work is noted and appreciated for once.              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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                r c n         ߰                   ߰ 
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                ۰         ۰    
         ݰ     ݰ
                  ߰                
                   ߰   
                             ߰                                   
                                              c o n t e s t !            

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       RCN would like to announce a new contest!  The first person who       
   sends in correct information leading to Chris Carter's RCN exposure will  
   win access to a 130 meg file bot.  RCN is in search of information        
   concerning Chris Carter, such as his home and business addresses, home    
   and business phone numbers, and/or any embarrassing information you can   
   dig up (like, if he's a queer or something).  Information concerning      
   Chris Carter will only be published in this E-Zine if proven true.  Any   
   information on this person will be greatly appreciated.  Let the narc     
   hunt begin!!!                                                             
                                                                             
       Please email all responses to 'an385786@anon.penet.fi.'.  The         
   following is a short summary of what Chris Carter is all about :          
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
   Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 01:02:01 -0500 (CDT)                               
   From: Chris Carter <chrisc@lubricant.free.org>                            
   To: x@x.x.x                                                               
   Cc: postmaster@x.x, piracy1@SPA.ORG, software@BSA.ORG                     
   Subject: Software Piracy from x@x.x.x                                     
                                                                             
   Dear John Doe:                                                            
                                                                             
       I have found a user in your Internet domain who plays a large role    
   in the distribution of copyrighted software on the Internet.  This user   
   uses the nickname "Ordinance," and uses the account "x@x.x.x.".  He/she   
   is a member of an underground group called "RTS."  This group is          
   dedicated to the transfer of illegal commercial software to a large       
   audience of users on the Internet.  They use the most efficient and       
   fastest methods possible.                                                 
                                                                             
       The user was seen on IRC at exactly: Sun Apr 28 02:04:41 1996 EDT.    
                                                                             
       In an effort to stop software piracy on the Internet, I have been     
   monitoring various groups of users on the Internet Relay Chat network.    
   This medium of communication has become very popular with "warez"         
   pirates who exchange commercial software illegally.  On the IRC network,  
   groups of people come together to use sophisticated methods to            
   distribute commercial software to literally thousands of users.  With     
   such large scale distribution methods, the software industry is losing    
   millions of dollars.                                                      
                                                                             
       I have no direct evidence to show you that this user is               
   participating in illegal activities.  But I can direct you to where       
   evidence can be found.  If you are permitted to do so, I suggest that     
   you take a brief scan of the user's home-directory and check for any      
   suspicious files.  If you cannot do this, I recommend that you keep a     
   close eye on this user and watch for any unusual activities.  Please      
   take whatever action is appropriate in dealing with these matters as      
   stated in your organization's Internet Policy Agreement or Network        
   Etiquette Policy.                                                         
                                                                             
       Thank you for taking the time to read through this message.  And      
   thank you for any assistance you can give to help resolve this matter.    
   Your time and help is greatly appreciated and I give you my full          
   gratitude.                                                                
                                                                             
                                         Thanks again,                       
                                         Chris Carter                        
                                         International Internet Association  
                                         chrisc@free.org                     
                                                                             
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   From jeppe Tue Apr  9 14:03:06 1996                                       
   Subject: Software Piracy from x@x.x.fi (fwd)                              
   To: x (Mr. X)                                                             
   Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:03:05 +0000 (EET DST)                            
   X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]                                          
   MIME-Version: 1.0                                                         
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1                              
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit                                           
   Status: RO                                                                
   X-Status:                                                                 
                                                                             
       I have found a user in your Internet domain who plays a large role    
   in the distribution of copyrighted software on the Internet.  This user   
   uses the nickname "BN" and uses the account "x@x.x.fi.".  He/she is a     
   member of an underground group called "Rapier."  This group is dedicated  
   to the transfer of illegal commerical software to a large audience of     
   users on the Internet.  They use the most efficient and fastest methods   
   possible.                                                                 
                                         Thanks again,                       
                                         Chris Carter                        
                                         International Internet Association  
                                         chrisc@free.org                     
                                                                             
 Ķ
                                                                             
       I believe this user, Chris Carter, is violating numerous laws, to     
   include guidelines set forth by the Electronic Frontier Foundation        
   (EFF).  His means of monitoring are clearly illegal in the United         
   States.  He is known to use hacked accounts, send false mail, hide his    
   address, monitor channels in "IRC" through stealth modes - his presence   
   not visible to users of the channels.  He is also making great            
   accusations with no evidence causing undue harassment and libel.  Undue   
   conflict between user and administrator and possibly resulting in the     
   loss of accounts, if not involvement by state/local/federal authorities.  
   Chris Carter's tactics seem to be strategic and premeditative in nature,  
   a direct attack on the reputation of whomever he chooses to harass.       
                                                                             
       It is encouraged that the unethical and unlawful behavior of Chris    
   Carter be stopped, to protect privacy, freedom of speech, reputations of  
   the innocent and prevent him from abusing any other computer systems      
   through subversive and/or illegal "hacking" methods.                      
                                                                             
       Chris Carter certainly gets around.  Upon mention of his name, many   
   people have spoken out in outrage at his actions and methods. This        
   e-mail is a collective result of concerned citizens in both the United    
   States and abroad.  To my knowledge, there are seven other instances of   
   such accusations sent via e-mail with no support.                         
                                                                             
       Upon contact, a system administrator from the first provider has      
   stated that they have checked the files of the user in question,          
   permissible by a written legal form signed by the account purchaser, and  
   have not found a single thing of illegal nature.  Why is this violation   
   of privacy necessary due to the likes of Mr. Carter, who does not seem    
   to respect the rights of innocent people?  One must wonder whether        
   Carter's basis for these accusing messages has anything to do with the    
   reason of "software piracy" as Carter states.  If so, his observations    
   are error-prone.                                                          
                                                                             
       The second provider involved has not commented.                       
                                                                             
       Thank you for your time and, hopefully, support.  Chris Carter is a   
   criminal by any standards and must be dealt with by legal means before    
   spreading more harm among the Internet community.                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
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                                    ް   
      ߰ ݰݰ    ߰ ܰ  ݰ   ݰ
               ߰ ܰ             
             ߰                          ۰
                       ߰                          ߰      
                        w a r e   i q   t e s t                            

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       Test your knowledge of the WAREZ SCENE!  The following are TEN mind   
   boggling "YOU DON'T KNOW NOTHIN'" questions!  Enter all your answers in,  
   and when you feel you're happy with them, press F10 and the computer      
   will tally up your score and spit it out at you.  For every question you  
   missed, the computer will indicate the correct answer.  Oh, and if you    
   feel like "You Don't Know Nothin'" midway through the quiz and don't      
   want to embarrass yourself with an incredibly low score, press ESC and    
   you'll be back on the bright side of RCN, the awesome music will calm     
   you down, and all will be well again.. enjoy!                             
                                                                             
   *PS* All answers are found in issues of RCN!                              
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
    1 The following is a courier group that has recently been regrouped    
        after a 2 year break :                                               
                                                                             
    [ ] A. ACiD (ANSi Creators in Demand)                                    
    [] B. GODS (The Guild of Distributors)                                  
    [ ] C. SWAT (Special Warez Acquisition Team)                             
    [ ] D. None of the Above                                                 
                                                                             
    2 Our Rebel Chicken wrote a love letter to :                           
                                                                             
    [] A. Emily                                                             
    [ ] B. Entropy                                                           
    [ ] C. Trite                                                             
    [ ] D. Winterhawk                                                        
                                                                             
    3 Demolition started as a result of a merge between the following      
        utils groups :                                                       
                                                                             
    [] A. FTA (Fuck them All) and Rigid                                     
    [ ] B. FSW (Fucking Sweet Warez) and Razor 1911                          
    [ ] C. Napalm and Prestige                                               
    [ ] D. None of the Above                                                 
                                                                             
    4 NTA (Nokturnal Trading Alliance) has not released pirated software   
        in :                                                                 
                                                                             
    [ ] A. the past week                                                     
    [ ] B. the past 2 weeks                                                  
    [ ] C. the past month                                                    
    [] D. a VERY long time                                                  
                                                                             
    5 TQR is also known as :                                               
                                                                             
    [ ] A. Fallout                                                           
    [ ] B. The Quiet Riot                                                    
    [ ] C. Sean Green                                                        
    [] D. Two of the Above are Correct                                      
                                                                             
    6 Hitex frequents one of the following channels :                      
                                                                             
    [ ] A. #Lesbian                                                          
    [] B. #Rapesex                                                          
    [ ] C. #Teensex                                                          
    [ ] D. None of the Above                                                 
                                                                             
    7 Toast is a member of :                                               
                                                                             
    [ ] A. The Age of Creation                                               
    [] B. Razor 1911                                                        
    [ ] C. Power Trading Arsenal                                             
    [ ] D. None of the Above                                                 
                                                                             
    8 DVD is capable of holding up to :                                    
                                                                             
    [ ] A. 650 megabytes                                                     
    [ ] B. 4.2 gigabytes                                                     
    [ ] C. 8.9 gigabytes                                                     
    [] D. 17+ gigabytes                                                     
                                                                             
    9 The Renegade Chemist was a former leader in all of the following     
        groups except :                                                      
                                                                             
    [ ] A. Dynamix                                                           
    [ ] B. Hybrid                                                            
    [] C. Prestige                                                          
    [ ] D. Razor 1911                                                        
                                                                             
    10 All of the following are frequented IRC channels EXCEPT :           
                                                                             
    [ ] A. #Warez+                                                           
    [ ] B. #Warez5                                                           
    [] C. #Warez-Files                                                      
    [ ] D. #Warez-Waldo                                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
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              r c n                    
                             ܰ ۰   
    ݰ  ܰ      ݰݰ ݰ 
                            ߰        
                   ܰ   ް        
                               ߰     
                       v o t i n g !        

 ͻ
                                                                             
       If you didn't vote, don't complain!  The following is a chart         
   summarizing last week's reader votes regarding release groups :           
                                                                             
 ͹
                                                                             
                            Voting Results : Games                           
                                                                             
   Ŀ  
        ͻ   
    HBD   29 Votes                          
        ͹   
    NPM   17 Votes                                      
        ͹   
    PSG   45 Votes          
        ͹   
    RZR   34 Votes                     
        ͹   
    ROR   18 Votes                                     
        ͼ   
   Ĵ  
    Total Votes : 143                                                      
     
                                                                             
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                            Voting Results : Utils                           
                                                                             
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    DMN    5 Votes                                                  
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    DOD    15 Votes                                       
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    LGX   n/a                                                            
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    MTY    22 Votes                                
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    PNC    8 Votes                                               
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    PWA    31 Votes                       
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    RBS    30 Votes                        
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    SCUM   15 Votes                                       
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    SDM    5 Votes                                                  
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    X-F    22 Votes                                
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    Total Votes : 150                                                      
     
                                                                             
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              r c n                    
                             ܰ ۰   
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                            ߰        
                   ܰ   ް        
                               ߰     
                       v o t i n g !        

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       If you didn't vote, don't complain!  The following is a chart         
   summarizing last week's reader votes regarding courier groups :           
                                                                             
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                              Voting Chart : BBS                             
                                                                             
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    TAC    5 Votes                                                  
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    EMP    7 Votes                                                
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    EVR    30 Votes                        
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    fATE   15 Votes                                       
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    GODS  n/a                                                            
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    MAL    12 Votes                                          
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    M8     10 Votes                                            
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    RTS    8 Votes                                               
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    RiSC   32 Votes                      
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    SIN    3 Votes                                                    
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    Total Votes : 122                                                      
     
                                                                             
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                              Voting Chart : NET                             
                                                                             
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    TAC    5 Votes                                                  
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    EMP    3 Votes                                                    
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    EVR    15 Votes                                       
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    fATE   30 Votes                        
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    GODS  n/a                                                            
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    MAL    15 Votes                                       
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    M8     9 Votes                                              
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    RTS    13 Votes                                         
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    RiSC   35 Votes                   
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    SIN    5 Votes                                                  
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    Total Votes : 130                                                      
     
                                                                             
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              r c n                    
                             ܰ ۰   
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                            ߰        
                   ܰ   ް        
                               ߰     
                       v o t i n g !        

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       The following is a short survey on the popularity of the major scene  
   groups.  Please take the time to fill it out and return it to the         
   following address :                                                       
                                                                             
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    Which GAMES group is #1?                                                 
                                                                             
    [ ] Hybrid                                                               
    [ ] Napalm                                                               
    [ ] Prestige                                                             
    [ ] Razor 1911                                                           
    [ ] Release on Rampage                                                   
                                                                             
    Which UTILS group is #1?                                                 
                                                                             
    [ ] Demolition                                                           
    [ ] Drink or Die                                                         
    [ ] Logistix                                                             
    [ ] Mortality                                                            
    [ ] Pinnacle                                                             
    [ ] Pirates with Attitudes                                               
    [ ] Rebels                                                               
    [ ] Scum                                                                 
    [ ] Sodom                                                                
    [ ] X-Force                                                              
                                                                             
    Which TRADE group is #1 in the field of NET couriering?                  
                                                                             
    [ ] Empire                                                               
    [ ] Everlast                                                             
    [ ] Fast Action Trading Exchange                                         
    [ ] Guild of Distributors                                                
    [ ] Malice                                                               
    [ ] Motiv8                                                               
    [ ] Rapier                                                               
    [ ] Request to Send                                                      
    [ ] Rise in Superior Couriering                                          
    [ ] Sinful Traders                                                       
                                                                             
    Which TRADE group is #1 in the field of BBS couriering?                  
                                                                             
    [ ] Empire                                                               
    [ ] Everlast                                                             
    [ ] Fast Action Trading Exchange                                         
    [ ] Guild of Distributors                                                
    [ ] Malice                                                               
    [ ] Motiv8                                                               
    [ ] Rapier                                                               
    [ ] Request to Send                                                      
    [ ] Rise in Superior Couriering                                          
    [ ] Sinful Traders                                                       
                                                                             
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   Please email all responses to an385786@anon.penet.fi.                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
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           ߰                ܰ                    
                                        ߰
                            r c n 
          ݰ     ۰   ݰ  
                ܰ        ݰ
        ߰                       
                    ߰߰           ߰           
                                s u r v e y !                ߰

 ͻ
                                                                             
       The following is a short readership survey.  All information          
   obtained from the survey will be used to help improve RCN in future       
   issues.   Please take the time to fill it out and return it to the        
   following address :                                                       
                                                                             
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    Age :                                                                    
                                                                             
    [ ] 13-18 Years Old                                                      
    [ ] 19-21 Years Old                                                      
    [ ] 22-35 Years Old                                                      
    [ ] 36+65 Years Old                                                      
    [ ] 66+   Years Old                                                      
                                                                             
    Highest level of education completed :                                   
                                                                             
    [ ] High School                                                          
    [ ] College                                                              
    [ ] Masters Degree                                                       
    [ ] Doctoral Degree                                                      
                                                                             
    Are you a SysOp?                                                         
                                                                             
    [ ] Yes                                                                  
    [ ] No                                                                   
                                                                             
    Are you affiliated with any scene groups?                                
                                                                             
    [ ] Yes                                                                  
    [ ] No                                                                   
                                                                             
    Do you download RCN regularly?                                           
                                                                             
    [ ] Yes                                                                  
    [ ] No                                                                   
                                                                             
    Do you save back issues of RCN?                                          
                                                                             
    [ ] Yes                                                                  
    [ ] No                                                                   
                                                                             
    Magazine coding influences me to download one magazine over another __%  
    of the time :                                                            
                                                                             
    [ ] 100                                                                  
    [ ] 80                                                                   
    [ ] 50                                                                   
    [ ] 30                                                                   
    [ ] 0                                                                    
                                                                             
    Amount of time spent reading RCN each week?                              
                                                                             
    [ ] 15-30 Minutes                                                        
    [ ] 31-45 Minutes                                                        
    [ ] 46-60 Minutes                                                        
    [ ] 60+   Minutes                                                        
                                                                             
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        ߰     ߰  ܰ                     ߰
                                 
   ߰         ߰                    ߰             
 ߰       m a d   r c n !                    
                              

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     Author  : Hitex                                                         
     Subject : Chicken-Watch : Part Trois                                    
                                                                             
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       So I thought last week's Chicken-Watch would be the last.  I had      
   finally decided it was truly 100% hopeless this time.  Well, I was        
   right.  So I was going through my hard drive last night deleting all the  
   crap I didn't need any more when I made my way to the Telemate Edit       
   directory.  For those of you that don't know, Telemate is a               
   communications program that has a built-in notepad like thing so you can  
   jot down notes to yourself while online.  Very useful when you have 30    
   people messaging you and you don't know who's who so you write down       
   notes in there.  Well I save little things in there, in the Edit          
   directory, and once a month I sift through it and delete the crap I       
   don't need.                                                               
                                                                             
       So I was viewing each file separately to make sure I reallly didn't   
   need it when I made my way to a "letter.txt."  Out of instinct, I         
   assumed it was probably some reader mail regarding RCN, so when I read    
   the first few lines :                                                     
                                                                             
       "Okay, I lied, I did kinda write what I said earlier :)  That's       
   because I thought (knew) that if I didn't, I'd probably stutter and make  
   myself look stupid :(.  Here's what I said (or tried to say) - in Email   
   format;"                                                                  
                                                                             
       I was just a tad confused to say the least.  I decided to read on,    
   perhaps the next few lines would reveal a bit more :                      
                                                                             
       "When I see you at school, I see a kind and generous person.  You're  
   especially pretty when you give one of your pretty smiles :) ..."         
                                                                             
       And that was the kicker.  OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!  Hah, now I            
   remembered!  Yes, it was about a month ago, I was at Xenon's house, we    
   were working on some coding for RCN, when we got a call from the          
   legendary Rebel Chicken.  Of course, I asked him, much like I always did  
   at the beginning of a conversation, about the girl situation (or lack     
   thereof).  He told me of a new revelation in the story.  Apparently he    
   had just gotten Emily's AOL (give her a break, you can't bitch at a girl  
   that Rebel likes for having AOL, I don't know why, but you just can't!)   
   address and decided to email her.  So I asked him what he said to her,    
   and of course, he had the whole thing saved in his saved-messages         
   folder.  I told him to read it to me, and I guess he heard some clicking  
   in the background so he assumed I was typing what he was saying.          
                                                                             
       He quickly yelled at me to quit typing it, but I said "Wha?  Oh,      
   that's not me, it's Xenon coding!!!"  Heh, he bought it.  But of course,  
   he reads a little faster than I type, so I told him "Wait!  I'm gonna     
   say whatever you say twice so that Xenon can hear it too!"  Heh,          
   meanwhile I was frantically typing into my edit window.  When I would     
   get too far behind, I would tell him "Hold on, Xenon's mom is talking, I  
   can't hear!"  So here, read on.  This is young love in progress!!!        
                                                                             
       "But I haven't seen you smile much lately :(.  I see you here and     
   then, but you always seem kinda unhappy :(... Well, I don't know why      
   you're sad.. :(, but my guess is that there are people out there who      
   don't appreciate you.  That might be true, and if it is, then those       
   people who don't appreciate you are just some of the most ignorant        
   people around.                                                            
                                                                             
       I hope what I say makes sense to you :) may be it'll help make you    
   feel better :).  By the way, my email thing snail mails, it might make    
   it to your account just a tiny little late :(.  I'll see you tomorrow at  
   school :) - AND, be happy :) you're too nice of a person to have to feel  
   sad!"                                                                     
                                                                             
       BAAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAH!  Damn, I'll never forget that day.  Check out     
   all those :( and :)'s!!!  I guess we know what Rebel Chicken does when    
   he's nervous.  Anyway, I don't know about you, but I thought that was a   
   pretty sweet letter, and though he makes it totally obvious that he's     
   never talked to a girl in his life, it's kind of cute and maybe the       
   girls could dig it.  So you ask the outcome of this?  Well, fear not,     
   the letter didn't lead to any sort of relationship, read past issues of   
   RCN and Chicken-Watch to find out what happened to Rebel and Emily.       
   Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this issue of Chicken-Watch, and, though I     
   don't THINK there's any more to say, our Chicken always finds SOMETHING   
   to make us laugh.                                                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
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             r c n              ݰ   
                                  
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                   ߰            
                                
         ߰                      ߰    ߰
                                                         
                    r e a l i t y   c h e c k   n e t w o r k

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    Supplied By  : RCN Staff            Packaged By  : RCN Staff            
    Release Type : PC E-Zine            Release Date : June 16, 1996        
                                                                            
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    Requirements : IBM 386, 2MB RAM, VGA, DOS 3.3+                           
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    REALITY Presents : REALITY CHECK NETWORK #18 (C) RCN!!!                  
                                                                             
    This is the 18th issue of Reality Check Network.  Our goal is to bring   
    the most interesting news to the public in a way revolutionizing the     
    scene each and every week!!!  Look to us for the latest in scene news,   
    articles, interviews, and loads of fun, EVERY Sunday!!!                  
                                                                             
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 [  GROUP NEWS/QUOTES  ]͸
 ͻ
                                                                             
    NEW MEMBERS  We thank the new members for showing interest and faith   
                   in our group.  We celebrate at being given the chance     
                   to work with our new friends as we help each other        
                   improve the reputation and news coverage of our group.    
                   Please extend cheerful welcomes to the following :        
                                                                             
                   Dark-Elf, Glock, Immortal, Kang, Krimson Wave, NyteMyst,  
                   Stealth, Tsunami, Universal Soldier, and Waynekerr.       
                                                                             
    " QUOTES! "  The results of our hard work, often loss and pain, are    
                   certainly outweighed by the greatness experienced along   
                   the way.  Certainly, the chance to be great, is worth     
                   fighting for and worth the pain that so often             
                   accompanies it. - Anonymous                               
                                                                             
                  On behalf of the moon, I shall sing to                    
                   Right wrongs and triumph over evil                        
                   With my friends Sailor Venus, Jupiter, Mars,              
                   and Mercury                                               
                   We'll make the world                                      
                   A better place for all people! - Sailor Moon              
                                                                             
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 [  GROUP INFORMATION  ]͸
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   [ EDITORS ]  Hitex, Rebel Chicken,                                        
                                                                             
   [ MEMBERS ]  Celestian, Crystaline, Dark-Elf, Darkwing, Defender Zeta,    
                Frost, Glock, Hound, Joker, Kahn, Kang, Krimson Wave,        
                Krypto, Lucifers Fear, RATM, Mike & Dave, Road Rebel,        
                Sam Vision, Stealth, Super Hacker, Tuxedo Mask,              
                Underground King, Undinism, Universal Soldier, Velocity,     
                Waynekerr, Xanthos, Xenon, Mr. Zog,                          
                                                                             
   [ TRADERS ]  Immortal, NyteMyst, Shatter Star, and Tsunami.               
                                                                             
                                                                             
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 [  RCN MEMBER BOARDS  ]͸
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       < BOARD NAME >           < AREA CODE/SYSOP >     < NODES/POSITION > 
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   Malevolence ...........    n/a  Egoistic Fate ....   8   WORLD    HQ  
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   .......................    ...  ..................  ..   CANADIAN HQ  
   .......................    ...  ..................  ..   USA      HQ  
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   DropZone ..............   +...  Mike & Dave ......   5   DUTCH HQ ..  
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   Acheron ...............    ...  Bababoey .........   3   MEMBER ....  
   The Lower Level .......    ...  Underground King .   8   MEMBER ....  
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   Insider ...............    514  Killerboy ........   1   AFFILIATE .  
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 [  KISSESANDDISSES  ]͸
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    [*]  KISSES :  Drink or Die  Mortality  Pirates with Attitudes        
                    Rebels  X-Force                                         
                                                                             
                   Hybrid  Napalm  Prestige  Razor 1911                  
                    Release on Rampage                                       
                                                                             
                   Fast Action Trade Exchange  Guild of Distributors       
                    Rapier  Request to Send  Rise in Superior Couriering   
                                                                             
    [*]  DISSES :  Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide  Michael Jackson          
                                                                             
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    free to fill out an application and send it attached, via email to       
    an385786@anon.penet.fi.  We welcome all applicants and encourage the     
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             ܰ              
                            
                   ߰               ߰
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                       Hitex          :  Editor                              
                       Rebel Chicken  :  Editor                              
                                                                             
                       Xenon          :  ASM/MOD                             
                                                                             
                       Celestian      :  VGA/ANSI                            
                       RATM           :  VGA/WWW                             
                       Hound          :  NFOs                                
                                                                             
                       Darkwing       :  IRC Security                        
                       Undinism       :  IRC Maintenance                     
                                                                             
                       Joker          :  FTP Site                            
                                                                             
                       Ionizer        :  The Games Review                    
                                                                             
                       Dark-Elf       :  Writer                              
                       Glock          :  Writer                              
                       Lucifers Fear  :  Writer                              
                       Road Rebel     :  Writer/Internet Coordinator         
                       Super Hacker   :  Writer/Courier Coordinator          
                       Tuxedo Mask    :  Writer                              
                                                                             
                       FTP Site       :  167.206.212.37                      
                       Web Site       :  http://www.rcn.org/index.html       
                       Email          :  AN385786@ANON.PENET.FI              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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