r e a l i t y c h e c k n e t w o r k ! Introduction Hacker's Corner Editorials "Warez-IQ" Warez Quiz! Interviews Voting Booth/Results Articles Reader Survey Reviews Secret Articles Warez Lists Tyrian, the Game! Top 10 Couriers Group NFOs, Couriers Dear Road Rebel, Group NFOs, Releases Astrology RCN Information 2 Disks of Playable Shit Signed, Vulcan Officer Dear Xenon, How do you... A Few of My Opinions 10000 Points!? Eraser Gets /kill'ed IRC ops SUCK? Unix, eeeiiiiiwwwwww! "man chmod" HBKid and His Boards Long Distance These Days Bass Extream Writes In the Year 2000... Multiple Email Miscellaneous Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! Rom Racer of Razor 666? "Prestige messed up... " Bug Lord & Morphine of Epic Napalm Cheats Again? Charley of CB4 Small Group+Big Ego=CB4? Chaos, EfM Founder We TAKE What We Want! Samuraion, Legion Council Bad+Bad=Good? Byron Zed of WWR fATE Lacks Support? Judge Dredd of Dawn Another Dead Merge? Ju-Jutsu, fTP Leader Make Up Your Mind! Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! ROR is Dead? I wish. ROR Pulls ANOTHER Trick Legion vs. Pinnacle Legion Starts a Fight Prestige Dumps Loyal HQ? Log of Crazy Horse Temp Directories Easy 1 Day Sites Xenon's Life in RCN Xenon, the RCN Coder Wart and his Warez School? "I also want world peace." The Stars Tell All! Undinism Goes Single Computer and TV Monitors Roled in One? Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! Group Reviews : Games # 1 Group Reviews : Utils # 1 Group Reviews : Games # 2 Group Reviews : Utils # 2 Group Reviews : Games # 3 Group Reviews : Utils # 3 Group Reviews : Games # 4 Group Reviews : Utils # 4 Group Totals : Games Group Totals : Utils Go Back to Main Menu The Seven Listing #1 [06/06/96] --> [06/12/96] The Seven Listing #2 [06/13/96] --> [06/19/96] The Seven Listing #3 [06/20/96] --> [06/26/96] The Seven Listing #4 [06/27/96] --> [07/03/96] Global Warez Search Search All Warez Lists!! Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! Top Ten Couriers : BBS # 1 Top Ten Couriers : FTP # 1 Top Ten Couriers : BBS # 2 Top Ten Couriers : FTP # 2 Top Ten Couriers : BBS # 3 Top Ten Couriers : FTP # 3 Top Ten Couriers : BBS # 4 Top Ten Couriers : FTP # 4 Go Back to Main Menu Voting Results : Release # 1 Voting Results : Courier # 1 Voting Results : Release # 2 Voting Results : Courier # 2 Voting Results : Release # 3 Voting Results : Courier # 3 Voting Results : Release # 4 Voting Results : Courier # 4 Voting Booth Go Back to Main Menu Entropy Makes a Pass Welcome to My Channel... Blowing Up the World 9 Times Crystaline Death's Top 10 List! Mad-RCN Passwords! Passwords to Issues #14 to #20 Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! Amnesia Mirage Angels of Death Motiv8 Core New Vision Couriers Damage No Fear Empire Power Trading Arsenal Fast Action Trade Exchange Rapier Genocide Request to Send Lightning Rise in Superior Couriering Malice Return to Main Menu Cellblock 4 Prestige Drink or Die Razor 1911 Epic Rebels Hybrid Reflux Legion Scum Mortality Sodom Napalm World Wide Releasing Pinnacle X-Force Pirates with Attitudes Return to Main Menu Group Information RCN Member Listing The Official RCN T-Shirt I want some more of it! Application Here are my submissions! RCN Bulletin Boards I made me a RCN conference. RCN Web Sites "Road Why Wab?" - Rebel's Mom Credits Issue #21 Staff Return to the Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #21! r c n i n t r o ! Author : Road Rebel Subject : Introduction to RCN #21 I am writing this to say a few words about RCN and how people treat us. First of all, when you see an article that rips on someone or a group, and you don't like it. Take it up with the author!!! If it isn't written by Rebel Chicken, Hitex or I then don't nag us about it! Also, if you have a problem with something written about you or a group, WRITE A REBUTTLE! Don't sit there and bitch at us in the channel, it doesn't do shit. I came to #RCN today, and all I heard was bitching because someone said something mean about a group. WELL, if you are a group member and your group gets made fun of, take it on the chin, be a man. We have and will make fun of A LOT of people, most of it is just FUN and in MAD RCN, and people realize this and get over it. If you come in and bitch at us, it makes us want to rip you some more. Ok enough of this. Now, this is for the people that come in and say "SEND ME THE NEWEST RCN!" You don't have to beg!!!! Before you nag people for it try this. Look in the channel for someone named *dcc (anythingdcc). If they exist type this : "/MSG xdcc list" If they list that they have it type this : "/MSG xdcc send #" OK!! NOW, if there isn't a DCC in the channel look at the topic. It will usually have an FTP or Web page adrress! If they aren't there, then ask. Please don't just come in and BEG. It is very unbecoming. Also, for people that want to write for RCN, you don't have to ask for an RCN app. Just write something and send it to me. If it is good we use it, if not, well.. we don't. However, our editors are very patient and they will try to unscramble any submission, regardless of your English skills. Also, we readily accept submissions written in French, Hebrew, Spanish, or Swedish. Don't worry, we'll get it translated! (Of course, we still prefer English!) If you can keep submitting to RCN you will become a member. But don't ask what the topic should be, if we had all the topics we could write the whole magazine, the topics are the hard part! r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, I've been around for nearly three years now. No, I have never been "elite k-rad kick-ass d00d," but I did run a small warez board for around 2 years. I recently closed it so I could play games (har har har). The only good games I've played recently are of course, games like Duke3D, Quake, etc. But my best memories are with those games from '93 and such. What is it with game programmers, these days? They seem to enjoy taking a camera, walking down the block, burning the film on a CD, adding a keyboard handler, package. Oh sure, I would probably do the same thing if I wanted to make money. And that's what you get: 50, 60 even over 70 disks. Most of the time, and I'm sure a lot of you will agree on this, there's no more than 2 disks of actual programming/playable shit. Really, the size is relevant of only one factor. How good is the intro? How many times did you start a game, look at the intro for about 5 minutes while drooling all over your crotch to find out the game is a VGA, 16 color piece of junk? Signed, Spock Dear Spock, After extensive research over a long period of time by a top-notch team of scientists, we have come to the conclusion that, no, playing the Space Invaders game under the influence of narcotics does NOT cause breast cancer. Signed, Vulcan Officer Aboard USS Marijuana r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear Xenon, Well, Xenon! How are you? I've been trying to reach you, but it seems you are quite a busy dude. So, I took the liberty to write in RCN so that everyone may share the common good of knowledge. As people may well know, I am a currently a writer for RCN. However, I am also a coder. It has taken me quite some time (about 1 and a half years) to perfect some coding that is similar to Xenon's code. I do not steal your code, (how would I?) but I have created my own. Anyways, I have a smooth scroller just like yours, etc. Basically, I can dish out whatever you can except you do this RCN stuff in C++/ASM/Pascal and I only code in pascal/ASM so far yet. I am not writing this to brag. I am writing this to find out how on Earth do you keep your code clean, organized and functioning??? I imagine with all these menus, text files, it is a bitch. I know how to make menus and scroll text files, and to tell you the truth, lightbar menus (the ones you have) take me quite some time to make and the text files take time to organize and to display in $b800. After all, my code isn't optimized, but it takes me a while to make and it is fairly a good size. I am confused. Please share how you keep all this organized. And one more thing, please, tell me how to display a VGA screen (a picture like the one ending RCN) AND keeping the picture data inside the code. No, I do NOT want to attach the picture data to the end of the exe but if that is the only way, tell me. Again, thanks for the help and thanks for inspiring me to become a coder. Signed, Crystaline Death Dear Crystaline Death, Go buy a book and take some classes. Signed, Xenon r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, Just thought I'd write you guys to express a few of my opinions. First, your mag rocks! The music, code, the interface, they're the best, but over the last few issues, RCN seems to be taking me longer, and longer to read. I found myself unzipping the file at 10:30 PM tonight, and when I finihed reading the mag, it was 11:41 PM. What I'm trying to say is maybe you should go more for quality rather than quantity. I find a lot of your group interviews are more or less the same in content, and I'll probably be skipping most of them in the future. Next, that fucking space invaders game. I spent 10 minutes playing it, and got 3000 points and I said screw this. You really want me to play for half an hour to get to 10000 points!? Hehe, I guess I'll just have to try and live without knowing what's in those secret articles, or maybe someone will release another space invaders crack :-). Last, what ever happened to Defacto? It seems they couldn't handle the pressure, or are they STILL waiting on this miracle interface? I'd say it's probably the first option! Okay well that's about all from me, keep up the good work, and death to all IRCOPS!! Signed, Darkman Dear Darkman, We don't expect everybody to read the entire mag, just read the parts that most interest you, and you will have a much more enjoyable experience. We understand that we can't please everybody, but in trying to do so, there will always be something that others don't like. So read what interests you, there's a ton of stuff in the mag, read what you're most interested in, and then, print out the entire mag and read the parts that don't interest you as much while sitting on the toilet taking a shit. As for Defacto, they just released their "Goodbye Defacto" issue, so I guess it's another one gone down the drain. Oh well. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, Hi, my name is Eraser. Most of you people don't know me, probably because I changed my nick and I am not in any groups anymore. I am writing an article about what odogg^2 wrote about. IRC ops and their power. Personally, I have talked to a couple IRC ops that were kewl, but some are just assholes, because they can play god on IRC. Prae, kern.com's owner has been an IRC op for 15 years. Don't ya think he should find something else to do besides playing on IRC for 15 years? Anyways, the other day I loaded LL (link looker), which is the best tool you can get publicly, and it's the best tool to get unless you're an IRC op. I had it loaded on kern.com, then it quit and I got klined. 5 minutes later, I was not klined anymore for some reason so I asked Prae. His response? "Link lookers are lame." Well, I dont give a fuck if they're lame! It's all I got, you stupid faggot. I don't invest my life savings into fucking kern.com so I can play IRC ops with the other big boys. Like odogg^2 wrote, an IRC op has use for /kill, and he has use for his 9 clones. I have use for my clones and LL. To this day, Prae is still being a prick. 15 years of o-lines makes you a dipshit. Too bad. Signed, Eraser r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear Waynekerr, Waynekerr, I thought your info in RCN #19 on FTPing was VERY interesting and helpful. With the CHMOD 777 command it turns everything on (writeable, readable, etc). Is there a way to turn just each one on? Also, is there a way to turn them off (writeable in particular)?? These commands will be VERY helpful in my maintaining an ftp site (a 'borrowed' one, if you will). Also, these commands will keep lamers from deleting filez :). Thanks a BUNCH for any help, and be sure to check out my web page (expanding soon) at http://www.angelfire.com/pages9/warez/index.html. Signed, Anonymous Dear Anonymous, At your UNIX prompt type "man chmod" -- that will load up the manual to the CHMOD command. There are too many options to list and it would be much better for your comprehension of the chmod program to load up the manual for it. By the way, the "man" command can be initiated on any other command to get information about it. Hmm... wonder if you can do "man man!" Off to check... Signed, Waynekerr r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, When sysops join groups and want there board to be a distro/HQ and they don't have telnet, what does that mean then? Basically all it means is that you get access to the FTP sites and have ops in the channel. Why don't bigger groups have more long distance couriers to support the boards or have a few local members because being a boards distro really doesn't mean as much like in the long distance days. Before many new lame groups pop up everyday and die out, the bigger more powerful groups used to support the system. I don't mean they have to upload 300 megs a week long distance but 50 megs or more would be nice, just to show you care. Releasing groups should just make it a policy to upload there releases to the member boards and HQs. Yea, I know it is a bitch to upload to all boards that's why better standards should be maintained by groups so even though more people will be upset that they can't get in that is just to bad. Because a group can have everyone anyway so cut the slackers and lame boards out to make some room and some more time for the more elite ones. The reason I am writing this is not to complain that much because I am very much enjoying the scene and that is why I am here so long but to get this idea out because I know many sysops that I deal with feel the same way but don't know where to go to have this expressed where people will actually read it. But I know where to go RCN because anyone who is anyone in the scene and can read will grab RCN so my view will finally be expressed. Signed, HBKid r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, It has been called to my attention, that the local boards that I used to call were going under. I know most of this it true due to the fact that we now have 3 Internet service providers in our area local to everyone. I was told that before the Internet came around there were 30 boards local where I live. Now there are 5. All the boards died within one year of when the Internet came to my town. Now, I know for some people that they used to like calling local boards and playing Legend of the Red Dragon and other games like that but now it's to the point it you want to have a decent board you need to run it on the Internet to get calls. I predict by the year 2000 the way it is going now there will be very FEW local boards in your area, like I know mine. I used to run one. I took it down and now am setup for the Internet I just need my static IP connection. And I am off on my journey to the great beyond of the Internet. And what do most people want when they telnet to a board? Warez mostly. I don't know too many people who don't run a board and don't have them. It's just an everyday occurrence now. With the major groups like DOD (Drink or Die) and PWA (Pirates with Attitudes) releasing the AWSOME software they get, it's just too big. But if you want to run a thriving board, you need a few things. Internet, Warez, people who call, and cool ansi's from ACiD (Ansi Creators in Demand) or another group like that. Signed, Bass Extream r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, Your Space Invaders game is the best. I play it when I'm bored. RCN also gives me information on the warez scene and cool music. I hope you're making a new song because your Reality Check song isn't that great. The question I was asking, was how do you make the smooth scrolling effect in RCN? I don't want to know exactly just the method. My other question is, that japanese stuff that starts on RCN. What does it mean and where did it come from? Signed, CustomTIE Dear CustomTIE, Read the article about Xenon to find out how he coded the smooth scroller, and that text means "Sailor Moon is really gay" and comes from the show. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, Just thought I'd write you guys to express a few of my opinions. First, your mag rocks! The music, code, the interface, they're the best, but over the last few issues, RCN seems to be taking me longer, and longer to read. I found myself unzipping the file at 10:30 PM tonight, and when I finihed reading the mag, it was 11:41 PM. What I'm trying to say is maybe you should go more for quality rather than quantity. I find a lot of your group interviews are more or less the same in content, and I'll probably be skipping most of them in the future. Next, that fucking space invaders game. I spent 10 minutes playing it, and got 3000 points and I said screw this. You really want me to play for half an hour to get to 10000 points!? Hehe, I guess I'll just have to try and live without knowing what's in those secret articles, or maybe someone will release another space invaders crack :-). Last, what ever happened to Defacto? It seems they couldn't handle the pressure, or are they STILL waiting on this miracle interface? I'd say it's probably the first option! Okay well that's about all from me, keep up the good work, and death to all IRCOPS!! Signed, Darkman Dear Darkman, We don't expect everybody to read the entire mag, just read the parts that most interest you, and you will have a much more enjoyable experience. We understand that we can't please everybody, but in trying to do so, there will always be something that others don't like. So read what interests you, there's a ton of stuff in the mag, read what you're most interested in, and then, print out the entire mag and read the parts that don't interest you as much while sitting on the toilet taking a shit. As for Defacto, they just released their "Goodbye Defacto" issue, so I guess it's another one gone down the drain. Oh well. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, I've gotta say your mag is awesome. Especially at the beginning. The art is awesome too! One of the little things your mag has that others don't is smooth scrolling with keys. Other mags have the crappiest scrolling. Your musical variety is also great and smooth! I like the space game the way it is, too. I don't want to piss anyone off but they shouldn't come whining in the channel when they can't get 10,000 points. It's not THAT hard, just try it for at least 5 minutes and you'll be surprised at how good you can be! I was reading Issue #20 about getting sodas from Coke machines for free. One of them said to get a train schedule and put those nickles down on the tracks so they get smashed and turn into quarters. Just a few years back I did something similar, but this didn't require a train . Just get a heavy hammer and take a handfull of nickles out to a hard flat surface (like a sidewalk). Just hammer them away! It might take you a while at first but once you get the hang of it it gets real easy. You might want a real quarter handy, though. They also work at the arcades. Well there's my smashed up 5 cents! *PS* Keep up the amazing work with the mag, and a big wahzup to Darkwing! Signed, Darkthorn Dear RCN, There is something new I noticed Napalm do. They release the game, and with it all kinds of addons. Cinema addons, speech addons, and so on. I think this is a great idea, and I hope to see all groups start doing this. This lets me check the game first, and if I really like it, I take all the addons and burn them on a CD. Then, I almost have the original CD! For example, why couldn't RazorCD release their new Baseball game in 2 parts? One for the game itself and one for the cinema addon. That way they wouldn't have passed the 40 disk limit, and you wouldn't have to download a 58 disk release just to find out the game doesn't work. By the way, GREAT MAGAZINE! Keep it up. Signed, God-Ion Dear God-Ion, The flispide of that is that now group will take it upon themselves to release 40 disk releases that have no video and no sound in them. Nobody wants to waste their time downloading something just to play it without any sound for 40 disks. Old 5-disk releases could come with awesome sound, there's no reason to have to slack off now. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, I like the new page, but put back that wicked spinning JAVA logo! That thing rocked! I still like the nifty use of JAVA script everywhere, but seriously, that logo ruled. It made quite the effect on this pages' previous version. Oh by the way, the review is getting better and better every week. Quite the coder you have there (Xenon rules), and cool articles. Interface update though? ;) Kidding. I love the interface. So fast on my system. Keep it up guys. Quite the 'thing' you have going here. I hope and have a good feeling that people won't let this e-mag die easily. Signed, Oxygene Dear RCN, Hi! My name is R7 and I'm from the new group The Emperor. I just want to say you're doing a great job with your mag. Also, I want to know the email address for XENON. I want to talk to him. So can you please give me his email address? Signed, R7 Dear R7, You can always email Xenon at the normal RCN email address. All mail is promptly forwarded to him. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, I know you probally hear this on a daily basis, but I'd just like to take this time to give a 'hats off' to you and your staff at RCN. Not only is your mag the best I've seen, it also has loads of interesting articles and information regarding the warez scene! *PS* Keep up the great work! Signed, Scooby Doo Dear RCN, Hi all people at RCN. I'm writing just to tell you how great I found your mag. I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Internet services here are still a 'bit' lame, so I don't show up much in the scene, as you name it. But today I went to #M8leech and download the Issue #20 of RCN. Great coding, great sound, awful colors :). The game could be a little more difficult. It's not hard to get 10k points. Well, that's it for now! Keep up the good work! Signed, Thiago Dear RCN, Your e-mag is the best ever! I've been keeping up with RCN all the way back to Issue #1, but I was just wondering if you guys considered making RCN Windows 95-compatible at all, or just through DOS/text??? Signed, Jagz Dear Jagz, RCN is 100% compatible with a DOS prompt UNDER Windows 95, as opposed to booting back to DOS. However, no, we are not going to make it a Windows 95 interface because let's face it, SVGA sucks! Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Rom Racer Subject : Razor 666? Affiliation : RZR Coordinator : Razor 1911 has been one of the top groups in the scene for many years now, and many would consider it the best group of all time, however, there are some that would say that Razor 1911 is a dying group, and that Prestige is the new king of the hill, do you believe that is true? : I would not say that Razor 1911 is dying, perhaps we are not in our prime. But, we are certainly still alive. : Do you believe that Prestige has taken Razor 1911's place in the games scene as the #1 group? Razor 1911 has definitely not released as MANY games as Prestige, but the games that Razor 1911 has released, such as WarCraft 2 (14 Disks with the Expansion Set), are usually better cracked and have a high chance of working. Do you believe that Prestige releases also have a high rate of working? : Razor 1911 has been known for many years to release quality working titles. Now, all groups come and go, but Razor 1911 will always be around. Prestige does not have the same long term reputation as Razor 1911 does. I cannot say how long Prestige will be able to continue with their high volume of releases, in most cases equal to Razor 1911 standards. Then again, Prestige has messed up a few recently, but that is expected from a new group. : What are these mess ups by Prestige that could have come about because of their young age? : For example, Prestige's release of Frank Thomas Baseball did not allow pitching. Miscellaneous bugs as such in their releases, which can really happen to anyone, unless you have the organization and experience to have things tested properly, are not necessarily due to their young age. But because of their young age, they most likely haven't had the time to setup a clockwork-like system of getting their releases out smoothly. : What is this clockwork-like system that you are describing? And how can other games groups learn from Razor 1911's experience? : Well for example, Razor 1911 has a good reputation for releases working properly that are properly cracked. However certain groups (in some cases based out of 718), do not have such a good reputation for things working properly, I am sure if the group in question (I would rather not mention any names at this point), would schedule in the time to test a release to make sure that the crack is fully working, a lot of problems could have been avoided. There is really nothing to be learned from Razor 1911's experience. Experience itself is the key. : A good release is guaranteed to be spread to many people, but even Razor 1911 has to release some games here and there that are just not fun. It's not Razor 1911's fault, it's just that some companies can't program fun games. And when that happens, how does the courier section of Razor 1911 help spread its releases to the masses even when the game just does not want to spread? : Obviously in a games group situation, priority goes to the boards. Once a release has been put on our HQ boards, we then take it over to the Internet by procedure. Once a release is on all of the main distribution points, there is really nothing we can do to force the end user to download it. It is not our responsibility to market it. : How do you take it over to the Internet by procedure? What do you mean by "procedure?" Also, what are the requirements for a board that wants to become affiliated with Razor 1911. And when a board does become affiliated, how does one become more than a member board to become a HQ board? : By procedure, I mean it is how things are normally done, sort of "by the book." The requirements of a board that would like to become a part of Razor 1911 are normally evaluated on an individual basis. We look for boards in which the sysop is able to actively contribute to the group. Generally, I would assume, I have not been in Razor 1911 at the time an HQ board was appointed, that a HQ board would be selected on the basis of hardware, nodes, traffic, and of course the sysops level of contribution. : On the note of experience that you mentioned earlier, what surprises me is that many of the Prestige leaders such as The Renegade Chemist and Zeus, were former leaders of Razor 1911 during its peak. Why wouldn't they be showing the experience that they have acquired over the years in making sure that Prestige releases work in a more timely fashion? : In a new group environment, having established people, such as The Renegade Chemist and Zeus is always a plus, but it cannot totally evade the problems which arise in a new group. You must keep in mind that a group is a group, a team effort I should say. You cannot base a group on the merits of a few strong individuals. : I do find it interesting that many Razor 1911 couriers are also couriers in Rapier. Why is that so? Is Rapier official couriers for Razor 1911? For example, on Street Spyders, the Razor 1911 WHQ which also happens to be one of the fastest boards in the world, most of the top uploaders are usually members of Rapier and Razor 1911. Perhaps there is a team effort here? : It is purely coincidence that many Rapier couriers are also Razor 1911 couriers. Both Rapier and Razor 1911 only take the best, therefore, it is likely that both groups will have a similar member base. It also happens to be that Street Spyders is the Rapier US HQ and also being the Razor WHQ. Rapier obviously wants the best boards, and so does Razor 1911, therefore it is likely that their choices would overlap. : I heard rumors that Rapier might have disbanded earlier this week, or that perhaps many Rapier members left Rapier for Everlast because you did not have enough time to run the group, is there any truth to that? Is Rapier still alive? : I cannot comment on Rapiers current status. : Ever since my friends brought me into the scene, I've always asked myself, "What does the 1911 in Razor 1911 mean?" Nobody has ever been able to tell me, but I do hope that you will be able to answer that question. And please do, or I will have to kill you. : 777h. : 777h? What does that mean? I will kill you if you don't tell me. Is 1911 some kind of Satanic thing? Like, you take 1911 and you some how rearrange the numbers, and then you multiply and subtract them in some strange fashion, and you get 666? Like that Ozzy Osbourne music video, where his forehead has a 9454 print, and it's actually some sort of allusion to the printmark of the Beast (Anti-Christ) found in the Bible? See, I was bored, so I tossed 9454 in my head, and if you multiply 9 times 4, you get 36. Now if you add 5 plus 4, you get 9, so now you're left with 369. So if you take 3 from 9 and add that 3 to the first 3, you get 666. This can be confusing, but you get the point. : I suppose we will leave that as a mystery. : Bummer. Oh well, you can't win them all. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Bug Lord & Morphine Subject : Napalm Cheats Again? Affiliation : Epic Leaders : What kind of group is Epic? It's fairly new, but I've seen its releases around many fast sites this past week. How did Epic start? : Well, it's a games releasing group. It was started when Morphine and I decided that when we were in ROR (Release on Rampage), our work was being wasted. Morphine's supplies were being done by Prestige first, and my couriering was pointless for a release group that did only did 1 game each month. : What did you mean when you said that Morphine's supplies were being done by Prestige first? Was Morphine part of Prestige? I thought you said that both of you were members of ROR? : No, well all of the releases I obtained took ROR too long to get out and they never got the releases it out it was getting on my nerves so we decided to start up Epic so that we could make sure that that crap didn't happen to me and other suppliers. I don't want to sound like I'm dissing ROR, but the records do show that ROR released very FEW games. : Morphine, when you supplied for ROR, why did it take them so long to release something? Were they busy checking to make sure that the game was fully cracked and working? If so, then ROR's precaution would actually be good for the scene. : Well, it just seemed that the people that they needed were never around to do their job to get the releases out. : In a way then, Epic is a split off of ROR? Now that Epic is here, what distinguishes it from other release groups? What makes it special? Why is it not just ANOTHER lame one week games group? : Well, only the leadership of Epic split off of ROR, and even then we don't think of it like that. ROR was simply the group that both Morphine and I were in at one point in time. We don't really consider ourselves special, we just get the job done and will continue to do so. You should also know that Morphine and I were away from the scene for a while before this, so we were only in ROR a few weeks. I'm not saying that ROR is bad, but we really don't have anything to do with them anymore. : Specify what you meant when you said, "We don't really consider ourselves special, we just get the job done and will continue to do so." What are you guys doing that you will contine to do, but that does not make Epic special? : Well, Epic is no different than any other games group which has succeeded except that we are doing so in a smaller scale. We get our releases and we get them cracked and we get them out to the sites. That's how the scene is, you don't need to be special to do that, you just need to be organized. : While running Epic, have you encountered any problems? I have heard rumors that the release of Gender Wars was supposed to be released by Epic, but the release was then stolen by Prophet, the leader of Napalm, is that true? : Well, we like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and if Prophet did it by accident, then we can forgive that, but there is a little bit of doubt. We had placed our release on the Internet shell account of X-Factor, a Legion leader, while waiting for a cracker to get it. It seems that somehow Dark Force found the release on the shell (it's also a Legion release site), and gave it to Prophet. Prophet then uploaded it to Pentium Domination. It could be an innocent mistake. We also got conflicting answers by Prophet when he was questioned, and he never did admit to it. But tracing the path of the spread clearly leads back to Pentium Domination where it was uploaded by Prophet. We missed the final release of Gender Wars to Razor 1911 by only a few minutes, and if now for this extreme distraction we would probably have had the release. : You lost the release to Razor 1911? Did Napalm actually ever release the Gender Wars stolen from Epic? Prophet is known for stealing cracks and releases from other games groups, but did he actually do anything with the stolen release this time? : No, which points to the fact that it could have been an accident, and they didn't know it was uncracked. However, there is always the possibility that Napalm WAS cracking the Epic release and simply didn't do it in time. The conflicting answers from Prophet don't make it seem any more likely to be the first. : On the note of another release, NHL PowerPlay, which was released by Coredump, but unfortunately, the game was knowingly released without a crack. I later noticed that Epic released NHL PowerPlay as well, is the Epic version any different from Coredump's careless release, or was the Epic release of NHL PowerPlay also uncracked? : No, it was not a dupe. It was one of the best possible releases for a new group such as Epic. Coredump knowing that it was not cracked, released it uncracked, and it was nuked everywhere, which led to the humiliating fact that many members of Coredump started denying the fact that they were even in the group. Razor 1911 declared that the game was uncrackable, and Holy Beast from Prestige tried to crack it but failed. However, Misha, the god of cracking, cracked the game for Epic. To help out the people who can't follow directions from the NFO, you must do a CUSTOM install and then you must do a select all. That should keep the channel #Epic free from being flooded by lamers, wait, calling stupid people "lamers" is politically incorrect, I actually meant "people with low intelligence" or rather, "the installationally challenged." : Has Coredump shown any resentment toward Epic? After all, Epic did make Coredump look really lame. Yes, and I do call them lame. I don't like being politically correct, so sue me. : Well, Incarnate and Perfect Form have been the only ones to give us any problems. They tried to get NHL PowerPlay cracked like 5 days after we released our working version, but they still couldn't get it cracked so they got really mad and started telling every one how the Epic version of NHL PowerPlay didn't even work when everyone who downloaded it would know that it does work. I think that most Epic members are still banned from channel #CD (Coredump's IRC channel), and a few of Coredump members did try to infiltrate Epic, rather pathetically too since we knew that the Coredump spies were discussing "tricking Epic." I believe there were a couple threats, and tKLP informed us that Incarnate was trying to steal our crack for their release. : What do you mean when you said, "A few of their members tried to infiltrate us?" : Someone named Pioneer tried a "I really hate Coredump, I want to join Epic," but we have our own spies in channel #CD and we were totally aware of their pathetic attempts at infiltrating Epic. Some other members of Coredump tried as well, but Pioneer was their best actor. : Dam, with spies and all, I'm surprised they're not Communist or something. They do the stupidest things, they HAVE to be Communist, it just doesn't make sense. Anyway, what are your future plans for Epic? If bigger games groups such as Prestige or Razor 1911 asked you to have Epic merge into them, would you agree to it? : Actually a group called Precision asked us to merge into them about 2 days ago but we were NOT interested. Epic would not be interested in merging into either Prestige or Razor 1911 because we're looking to compete with them and to eventually replace them. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Crack Interviewee : Charley Subject : Small Group+Big Ego=CB4? Affiliation : CB4 Leader : What kind of group is CB4 (Cellblock 4)? : First of all, I would like to tell you who I am. Like 8 months ago, my ex-boyfriend (and YES, I am a girl) introduced me to some of the members of oG (The Original Gangsters Syndicate, a little Swedish group). I started supplying for them. Later on, I established contact with Ivanhoe (now one of the leaders of CB4) and some of the other members of the old Rebels. When they left Rebels and started CB4, they convinced me to join them as a leader of the group. CB4 is a release group. Our goal is to crack and release all that we can get our hands on and to have FUN!!! : When you mentioned "the old Rebels," to what were you referring to? : Some of the old members of Rebels left Rebels to help start CB4. Leatherman, who was a former leader in Rebels, started CB4 near the end of 1995 with only a few crackers. In the beginning of 1996, 2 more Rebels members, Ivanhoe and Mercury, joined his efforts. In February, CB4 merged with oG, where some of my seniors and I joined CB4, and that's when CB4 became a real group, and not just one of the small groups. Later on, Leatherman left the group due to personal problems and after a short while, Imposter joined CB4 as a leader. : Do you consider your group, CB4, a top notch releasing group? : Well, we want to stay a small group, with only 1 or 2 member sites and no boards or couriers. Sure, a small group can have problems as well, but it's easier to keep the group together when everyone knows each other. That makes it easier to work together as a team. All our members are 100% loyal to the group, and you know, you don't have to be big in size to be a great release group! Sometimes, when things are going really well with the releasing and stuff, it's easy to develop a big ego. But in a small group like ours, there is always someone there to pull you down from the skies again. To be honest with you, it is more important that our members have the right personality, than that they can supply like 7 releases a week. The most important thing for us is to have fun, and we like the laid back attitude towards the scene. : Has CB4 ever released warez before other release groups? : Yes, we have released like 10 to 20 releases a week in the last couple of weeks. : Does CB4 specialize in releasing games, or utils, or both? : We only release utils. : Would you say that CB4 ranks up with other utils groups such as Mortality? : Yeah, sure, we are kicking the scene right now and we have lots and lots of releases, but as I said before, the most important thing for us is to have fun and we are not competing with anyone. : Please tell us what having fun in your group is like. : Well, we all do it because it's a nice way of breaking the law, hehe, no. It's fun to see how far you can go with a small group like ours. Many other BIG groups wants to merge with us, but we want to keep the group small so that we don't HAVE to do things in any other way but our own CB4 way. : How long has CB4 been around in the scene? : Eh, Leatherman started the group in 1995 and we have been releasing like 10 to 20 releases a week since February. : Where do you guys get so many releases? How do CB4 suppliers obtain their software? : No, now I'm lying to you. In February and March, we had like 20-30 releases a month. Hey, never tell anyone how our suppliers get their hands on the software! Rule #1!!! : Let me take a wild guess, are they beta testers? : Bwhahahhaha, I won't tell you!!! : You've made your point abundantly clear that CB4 is a small group, but it is probably receiving plenty of applications each week. For those who might be interested, how are applicants selected to be given membership in CB4? : Like I said before, the most important thing for us when we look at applicants is not whether or not they can supply thousands of releases, but their personality. We want to keep the group small, so I guess it's hard to join us. : I have asked many people about CB4, it seems that no one has ever heard of the group (including me), you said CB4 was very good and that it released 10 to 20 releases a week, and yet, nobody knows about the group, how can that be? : Well, perhaps they don't read RCN!? Or perhaps you've been asking the wrong people? Nah, but we are a small group and we don't make much noise. Our releases are on all the big sites and you have them in your weekly warez list, so I don't know why people haven't heard about us. : You mentioned earlier that some other groups wanted to merge with CB4, can you name some? : No, I don't want to do that. I don't know if the other groups would like that, but I can tell you this, those groups that asked us are the biggest in the scene. :) r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Chaos Subject : We TAKE What We Want! Affiliation : EfM Founder : I've been informed that tHA is one of the largest internet takeover groups around, is its reputation warranted? What does tHA do that makes it so well known? : Well, to begin with tHA isnt the group name, it is tHA EfNet Mafia, and the acronym is EfM, but we are a bunch of well known people on the Internet that well, just takeover IRC channels as a challenge and during our free time try to takeover those channels to see if we can overcome the odds. : What does tHA stand for then? I always thought that tHA was the abbreviation of the group name, but if it's not, then what does it stand for? : No tHA, doesn't stand for anything. I am not sure where that might have come from. It was just always the first name of our group. : So EfM only takes over channels that are deemed impossible to takeover? Which channels has EfM takenover in the recent weeks? : Recently, well, most likely the largest channel we have taken has been channel #Exceed, but we lost it after a mere 10 minutes, and smaller channels that we have taken over range from #MircScripts, #Eggdrop, and many of the kid/teen/incest sex pics, #Femdom, channels covering a large span of our taken channels. : Has EfM ever tried taking over channels such as #Twilight_Zone where a lot of the only people that hang out there happen to be IRC ops. That would be a challenge, but it would also range on the stupid side as well, right? : I personnaly cannot afford being k-lined off any more EfNet servers, but it hasn't been tried for obvious reasons. Some members have been plotting for a channel on DalNet called #Dragon_Realm with is the equivilant channel on DalNet. : Taking over channel #Exceed must piss off some fATE (Fast Action Trade Exchange) members right? I mean, don't you think it might be working against the scene to takeover channels where people can freely distribute warez? : No one in EfM is a so called "warez puppies" as deemed by EfM members. But definitley, especially MadCrew the people that "guard" #Exceed for fATE. Our members are mainly just serious hackers and taking over channels is relaxing fun. Also, channel #exceed is not the only warez channel that we have taken, #warez99, #warez69, #warez, #warez-weapon have all fallen victim to us recently. : What happens when a channel falls victim to EfM, do you guys try to keep ops over a victimized channel permanently, or perhaps you guys just close those channels down by making them +i? : In the past we have just done it for fun and only kept control for 24 hours (+/- a few hours) not much longer. But recently, grudges are forming between us and many channels, which may or may not force us to hold or shut down the channel for a longer time. Most likley #Ansi has been the channel we have help for the longest time, which was I think a day or two. We really didn't have a problem with #Ansi to begin with, just one of our members and one of their ops kind of got into a grudge match, and it had to be settled. : But why settle a grudge betwee a channel #Ansi op and a EfM member by fucking up #Ansi, and in the process, fucking up so many other innocent bystanders? There are a lot of people that like to chat in #Ansi, and shutting it down really fucks things up needlessly. : It was a match between 2 people until the other person spoofed an address and grabbed our channel, which makes our people pissed off and then after we were done made their people pissed off. It all went hand in hand. Also, who said we were nice. : EfM has a channel? Is it open to the public, if so, what's the name of it? I assume you won't be afraid to give out the name of the channel EfM members hang out in, after all, I doubt the EfM channel gets taken over much. : We can often be spotted in the many scripting channels. : Well, what's the EfM channel? I don't want to know where I can find EfM members. I mean, EfM is a top notch channel takeover group, you guys are more than able to protect your own channel, so telling me what your channel is should not really matter right? : Honestly, taking over channels is much more simplistic than protecting a channel, but we will soon be moving to #EfM and we can all be found there. We HAD a web page until the provider found it to be "illegal" and is now being moved to a mirror provider. We do not have a Ascii NFO file or a loader. : To takeover channels, scripts can be very useful. Are there any EfM members that write private takeover scripts, or other private scripts that help collide, etc? : All of the members have their own personal prefrences, we have and EfM script which is 3/4 of the way done. To deal with the scripts we have, some of the MOST TALENTED and poplular scripters around such as IceKitten, god (also President of EfM), Cyko, Chak, JFK, Jester, and countless others which are all working together on forming this members only script. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Samuraion Subject : Bad+Bad=Good? Affiliation : Legion Council : Many know that Legion started a few weeks ago, and has shown its presence in the utils scene as a group with a lot of potential. I am aware that Legion came about as a merge, but which groups merged to form Legion? : Basically, Legion was a merge between Siva and Logistix, but 000 (former leader of Dawn/Fierce) also brought along some of their members after it died, and so what Legion really is, is the best of Dawn, Logistix, and Siva. : The best of Dawn, Logistix, and Siva? From what I know, none of the 3 groups had any real quality and reputation. How has bringing the best of the 3 groups formed a better and more respectable group, Legion? : What we really did was cut a lot of members down. We took all our suppliers (respectively), and some other important members, and created a new group with 3 times the suppliers, and we are all very dedicated and working toward being a competition to the more respectable utils releasing groups. And we all treat each other with respect, work together, and that is what really brings a good group together. : I am aware that Judge Dredd was the leader of Dawn, but I do not see him as a part of Legion? Was he taken out of Legion because he was dead weight? Or did Legion merely take the suppliers out of Dawn and left all other members of Dawn to themselves? : Well, Dawn wasn't really considered a part of the merge I think. This is because 000 came to Legion after Logistix and Siva had already merged for a few days, but as for Judge Dredd, I haven't seen him for a long time, and I think he's with a courier group right now. : Were there any problems that resulted when the merge did take place? : What we really needed was some organization at first, but after a little while, everything went well, and we had our releases going. However, since we had some top couriers in the group, they were all arguing about who gets to spread the releases to which sites. That was bothering us for a few days, but in the end, we got it all settled down, and everything went smoothly from there on. : Which top couriers argued about where the releases should be spread, and how did everything eventually settle down? Did you just tell all your couriers to stop arguing, or did you have to threaten to kick them out of Legion before they would listen? : I would rather not reveal their names, but we have thought about it for a while, and have asked a few of them to resign or upload to another site. But in the end, everything worked out alright, no conflicts, nothing. : Many young utils groups, and by far, Legion is not an exception, go through troubles when they first release. Nearly all young utils groups go through troubles of releasing utils that are broken or are dupes. How has Legion answered to those that accuse it of releasing warez that are broken and on several occasions, releases that are dupes? : I have no comment, but I do believe that we have not duped on any release. : Do you believe that there might be any egos within the group? For example, a few days ago, when I joined channel #Legion, I was threatened of being banned from #Legion by X-Factor, Legion Council, simply because I was joining the channel to look for a friend, and when I couldn't find my friend, I left the channel. He got extremely mad at me and started yelling at me because I joined and then left the channel. Do you believe that attitudes as such might be hurting the group? After all, nobody likes working with stuckup egos. : Well, X-Factor is an exception. I've known him for a while, he's special. He just about pissed off everyone in the group, including me, but he's a nice guy if you know him. But as for the egos, there have been no egos in the group, and if there ever will be, it will be dealt with seriously. : In your opinion, how does Legion stand among the better utils groups such as PWA (Pirated with Attitudes) and Rebels? : We are still new at this, but our members all have experience, and we are still in the process of organization, but once everything is settled, we will be a competition to them. We got all the suppliers we need, and all we need now is time, time to build up our name so we can stand up there with some of the other stronger utils groups. : You mentioned earlier that there were conflicts between different top couriers within Legion. Has that hindered Legion's ability in seeking after an official courier group to courier Legion releases? : About official couriers, we had a lot of thought on that. But we do have a strong Internet team, and we are on all the top sites of the world, so couriering shouldn't be a problem. However, we did consider Empire as our official couriers, but the negotiations/terms came out differently from what we discussed, so we decided to go with Malice at the moment. : What were these negotiations/terms that were not met by Empire? Did Empire not live up to their word? Or perhaps Legion was simply more interested in being affiliated with Malice because it is an older group and is more well known? : Well, Empire did not meet the terms that one of their staff said, because it seemed that their staff have different points of view. We had a great offer from Empire, and after it was all settled, another Empire staff gave us a different story. And since a few of the Legion Council are also members of Malice, and Malice is an older group with a lot more experience, and had an even better offer, it makes sense to have them spread our releases. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Byron Zed Subject : fATE Lacks Support? Affiliation : WWR High Membership : WWR (World Wide Releasing) never ceases to amaze me. It's one of those small groups that have been around for a long time, but has yet to change much. How is that so? And for those who don't know much about WWR, what kind of release group is WWR? : Well, WWR has gotten itself a big reputation on a local level, but not so much on the Internet. WWR is a releasing group, and it releases utils. I guess we didn't got the right people for doing the right stuff. We had fATE (Fast Action Trade Exchange) couriering for us, but that didn't help much either. : Why has it gained respect only on a local level? : As I said, we didn't had the right people to do the couriering stuff, and localy it was more easier for our own couriers to move WWR releases from board to board without calling long distance or phreaking for it. : Certainly, fATE could only help WWR spread warez in as much as WWR can release, and in that, I have yet to see much, so the fault was not with fATE, but with WWR. What did you expect fATE to do for WWR that would have helped the group? : Well, first, fATE was coming to me with their offer, to courier for WWR. I of course said yes and told the other high membership about it. It wasn't what I expected it to be. I thought they would courier NOT only to their sites, but IRC offers and BBS also, and I thought that they would support WWR's boards as well. I guess I was wrong. : Most utils groups have seniors that are based in the U.S., but I've been informed that most WWR seniors live in Europe, is that true? : Yes, we have two seniors that live in the U.S., and two that live in Europe. : What are some of WWR's quality releases in the recent weeks? : Some of WWR's best releases include Visual Basic v4.2, Delphi v2.1, Romworks, Access Developer v7.0, and Paint Shop Pro v4.0. : After WWR left fATE, did WWR seek out for another courier group that could satisfy its needs? : Well, that "leave" happened only 2 days ago, so for now, I don't know where to go, there is Malice, RTS (Request to Send), RiSC (Rise in Superior Couriering), and others. I'm just waiting for the right courier group to show up that will help WWR out in couriering. : What makes you think that any of the above mentioned courier groups would want to be official couriers for WWR? What would you offer them? You could offer them releases, and you named some good ones just a few minutes ago, but many of them were dupes and were thus nuked off all the major boards. : ALL of them? Well, I can't really tell now what I have to offer. If they'll throw an offer or demand at me, I'll try to fulfill it and go with it. : What makes WWR different from other utils groups? There are tons out there and WWR might just be a dime a dozen. What makes it better than other utils groups, or perhaps, it's not? : Well, I didn't say we're better than anyone out there. It's just that there are TONS of utils coming out everyday in the stores, and not all the groups can release those utils. So I try to fill in the missing spot of those utils and release them. : "... there are TONS of utils coming out everyday in the stores, and not all the groups can release those utils," what do you mean by that? Why can't other utils groups release what WWR releases? Are WWR releases of low quality, and thus, other utils groups refuse to release them? : Well, some suppliers go to the store and bring whatever there is, and sometimes they miss one or two things. So here are two good utils to worth releasing, and woops, no one got it. So I try to grab it, and release it. I also forgot to mention that we don't release any shitty util that comes out, we try to release only the utils that people will ACTUALLY use for their needs. We don't release those shitty screen savers that people are juming just to release it. You saw some of the titles I said, and you saw those are requested utils, so we release them. : There is one problem though, I just went through a dupe check list on BBX, a very fast RiSC site, and none of those files you mentioned are on there released under WWR. I also received word that the WWR releases you mentioned are not on there because they were nuked for being fakes or dupes, why is that? : Dupes? You saw any where else that someone released those? And I can't prove you that those were fakes. The only thing that you could do to check them, is to download them yourself and see for yourself. Maybe it's not on the sites because we've just started then and we were local. Maybe someone told the siteops to nuke them because they were "dupes" and "fakes" and the siteops without checking it, just nuked it. : That is very possible, how long has WWR been around on the Internet? : We've been on the internet for about 3 to 4 months, and we've been around in the scene for about 7+ months total. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Judge Dredd Subject : Another Dead Merge? Affiliation : Dawn President : What was your position in the late Dawn, and what were your duties for that group? : I was the founder and the leader of Dawn team since October of 1995. : I know that Dawn the games group died in 1995 when it tried to merge into Legacy, another games group of which I was a part of, but I also know that Dawn the utils group was later revived in 1996 and became quite prominent, yet once again, it has died, why is that so? : We started out as a game group back then, releasing some exellent games, but then somewhere in the beginning of 1996 we decided to release both games and utilities. Then I decided to stay with utils and when Tyranny came back I went to them and Dawn became a utils only group. We had released some pretty good stuff then, and was offered a lot of merges, but I I had bad expierence with merges, plus they were all in-merges meaning that Dawn was losing its name, until Fierce team came along. : What happened when to Dawn when the Fierce team came along? : They were releasing very legit utilities back then, and they agreed to keep the name Dawn, and I thought to myself that in that time things couldn't be better, Dawn in RCN's weekly utils review in one of the weeks finished 2nd after PWA and now had more power, but I was wrong. : I do remember that Dawn finished 2nd in the utils review, and that is very good for a new utils group. Dawn had a very good week, so it only seemed natural to show them off to the masses, but you also mention, "but I was wrong." How were you wrong, and when did you realize that you were wrong? : When I had to take 2 week break because of personal reasons and I left group for Ebola and Darkrage. I am not going to blame either fo them. Ebola had recieved $1000 phone bill and Darkrage had family problems, Anyway, when I return there was a complete mess, the channel had about 50 people in fighting and bullshitting. I just couldn't take it. I kicked everyone out and I decided to keep all of the loyal Dawn members, most of which were also suppliers. : So you kicked everyone out of your group that couldn't supply, but that still should not have killed Dawn. As long as you had suppliers, you should have been able to keep Dawn releasing. Why did Dawn eventually die then? : We did not die. We were looking for a nice place to merge. We had the opportunities to merge into X-Force. They're a great team but somehow when my people voted, they voted not to join them. Personally, I loved that opportunity, but I always consider the opinions of our people. They wanted to go with Mortality, and I even sent Cryptic Pain a small release, but he just didn't seem too trustful of me, nothing personal, but yesterday we found our place where we want to be. : What place is this? Where did Dawn merge into? : As of yesterday all Dawn members are getting ready for a complete team merging with Sodom and their great friendly team run by Tok and Jecksom. I had been friends with both of them, and I think we can kick some real ass, they're already on top 5 no doubt! Together we can really kick it. : What are you talking about? There is no way Sodom is not one of the top 5 utils groups. It's not even in content, there are tons of other groups that are in much better views than they are. I can easily find 5 other utils groups that easily outrank Sodom both in release power and reputation. For example, I'm sure that DOD (Drink or Die) is better than Sodom. I'm also sure that Mortality, PWA, Rebels, and X-Force are all better than etter than Sodom. That makes 5 other utils groups. Perhaps you merged Dawn into Sodom for alterior motives? : No, I believe that Sodom has better potentials than anyone else right now. Just watch them. There was no other reason for Dawn to merge into Sodom. : Yes, they do have the potential, but unachieved potential is useless. Anyway, what position will you be taking once you are a part of Sodom? : We're about to discuss it when Tok returns home from Moscow, but I'll have at least a council position. : Why do you think Cryptic Pain, Mortality President, was so cautious in having you supply him with releases. Shouldn't he have been grateful if those releases were of quality? Do you have any ideas why he would not trust you? : Oh no, he was grateful, but I told him not to release it, because in return for Dawn helping Mortality, he had to go with our couriering group to help Dawn out. After I sent him a release and asked him if he's ready to go with our couriering group he said he wasn't sure and I told him not to release util I gave him, I didn't trust him enough. : What did you give him to release? Was it a quality util? If it was, he would have jumped on the opportunity instead of jerking around with you right? Also, which courier group did you ask him to go with? : Oh, he wasn't jerking around. It's just that he had another promise to someone else. No, that was not a quality release, but it was very legit and useful 2 disk util. Well, I don't think it matters now. Actually, there is a big story with that, but it's a completely different story which has nothing to do with Cryptic Pain ofcourse. He's a good leader and he made Mortality one of the best groups in the world in a short period of time, so whatever I said about me trusting him, it has nothing to do with his great abilities as a leader. : Also, you mentioned earlier, "... pretty good stuff then, and was offered a lot of merges, but I I had bad expierence with merges, plus they were all in-merges meaning that Dawn was losing its name." Isn't Dawn's current merge into Sodom an in-merge? Why aren't you more cautious of Sodom, I thought you said that you had bad experiences with merges? : Yes, but this time I am not aiming to run a group. I am going to meaning that earlier when there was a merge I consider myself being of the leader, but now I stayed in the warez scene but I'm also join tradinng scene - a scene of a real challange and risc, not just sitting and packaging releases. Therefore you're now interviewing Dredd & Impact. I now officially change my name from Judge Dredd to Dredd & Impact. As for Sodom, I'll be doing everything I can to get it on top. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Ju-Jutsu Subject : Make Up Your Mind! Affiliation : fTP Leader : What kind of courier group is fTP (Full Throttle Pirates)? : Our intention was to courier mainly to sites belonging to fTP and some IRC couriering too. We might start releasing as soon as we get us some suppliers. : It is my understanding that your group is based in Finland, is that true? If so, has that hindered fTP's ability in competing with American based courier groups? : Well, I am from Finland and some of our members are from Finland too, but that doesn't mean that we couldn't compete with American groups. : What makes your courier group fTP different from any other courier group? There are tons out there and many people might think that fTP is just another lame courier group, is that true? : We aren't new to the scene, like some lame courier groups that were started by newbies. We know what we are doing. : How long have you been in the scene and what previous experience do you have with running courier groups? : I've been in the scene for over 4 years or so, and I've couriered for many good and lame courier groups. : Which courier groups might those be? Which of them do you consider good, and which of them do you consider lame? : Yes. : Could you be more specific? : There were many. Most of them were lame. : Five minutes ago, you said "I've couriered for many good and lame courier groups." Which good courier groups have you couriered for? Let me rephrase my question, which good courier groups have you been in? : I've couriered for Insanity and Malice. : Why did you leave Malice? It certainly does have a better reputation than fTP. Did you leave Malice to pursue your own goals of running your own courier group? It seems like everyone says they've been a part of Malice these days, I'll have to check with Dorian Hawkmoon. : It was a long time ago, besides I wanted to put up my own group. : Many courier groups enjoy being official couriers for release groups. Is fTP official couriers for any release groups? : Yes. We are official couriers for the NEW Legacy. : Has this NEW Legacy given fTP lots to courier? Last I checked, they have yet to release anything. : The new Legacy gave us nothing to courier so far. Well, we are new and so is Legacy. Or it's lame, I don't know. : What are your future plans for fTP? How do you suppose to make it a better group than it is now? : Of course! We just started. Our future plans are to start releasing as soon as we get some more suppliers. : So you plan to make fTP a release group? I thought fTP was a courier group? : Yes. Clone is the other leader. We already got some suppliers. : Wait, if fTP is a release group, then why is fTP official couriers for Legacy? You guys really ought to make up your minds. : We started out as couriers, and our future plans are to become a releasing group. : Do you guys plan on releasing games and utils, or do you plan on specializing fTP releases to either games or utils? : I have decided that we will be releasing both games and utils, but we have not yet decided. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : ROR is Dead? I wish. Here's a little log file of what happened in channel #Reflux. I was about to celebrate when I found out that ROR (Release on Rampage) was finally dead, I mean, after all, don't we all hate downloading fake releases? I'm tired of downloading something to find that the filedates to the games have been rigged so it wouldn't get nuked, and I'm tired of downloading beta games that have been hex edited to say that they're the final version of something they're not. You might be confused as to why ROR and RLX (Reflux) might have something in common, but hopefully, the log file will help clear things up. Tklp, is ROR dead? Is Reflux the new ROR? Yes!! Duh!!! ROR is now Reflux, but keep it quiet until we debut. Tklp, when are you going to tell everyone? When we do our first release. Warhammer, make us a file_id.diz and give me the script. I thought you wanted to join. Fucking hell man, when you want something, you gotta have it. Ok, hold on, I'll do one right now. Remember to keep it quiet, don't tell anyone because when we do come in, we are coming in with a BANG! *** [RI-X] has left channel #Reflux Some of you might be asking yourselves, why would ROR change its name to Reflux? After all, ROR has been around for about 10 months now, and that does give it a reputation as being a stable group (even though that might not be the case). Tklp has worked very hard in giving ROR a good name, he's very good at what he does. I have to give credit where it's due, he was a pro at making the Quake Beta look like the Quake Final. He even fooled me until Jay Wilbur from iD Software told me that ROR's release was not the final version. Not every lamer can pull lame tricks like that, only really special lamers are stupid enough to do something like that. When word (thanks to RCN) got around that ROR's release of Quake was an intentional fake, many of the major bulletin boards and ftp sites decided to pool together and blacklist all ROR releases. That made Tklp shit a brick, a real big brick, or rather, a small house. Nobody would let him upload his fake releases anymore, because ROR*.* was blacklisted on so many popular boards. Tklp then decided that it was time to change his group name from ROR to RLX. Siteops and sysops, if you were smart enough to ban ROR*.*, well, you might as well change ban RLX*.* too. There's really no difference between ROR and RLX except for the name. I'll even show you the old ROR nfo and the new RLX nfo, and you can tell that RLX is still led by Tklp, and that many of the same ROR members are also RLX members. - RELEASE ON RAMPAGE 1996 PRESENTS - Supplier....: OS..........: Cracker.....: Released....: Packager....: Game Type...: Stripper....: Rating......: [ ] Requirements: - Release Notes - - Release On Rampage 1996 Membership - The Krazy Little Punk Alchemist - G0D - JdA - Manic - Piston Alice - Blaksmith - Butcher - Conan - Crypt - Cryptic Pain - Dj Eanksiin - Jecksom - Lysergic - Mentat - Narcotic - Ph - Pseudo Sandstorm - Scain - Slicer - Slizer - Tiger Claw - Tinox And.. [BooST] !! The Female Love Of Team ROR ;) - The Release On Rampage Trading Team - Billy Bishop - Frog Snatcher Autopsy - Dawg - DataFluxx - Decap - Demon - Enigma Grimmy - Indigo - Ionizer - Loloc - Minotaur - Savager * Note - Sysops are considered full members. - Infamous ROR WorldWide Bulletin Boards - Board Name Position A/C Nodes Sysop - NEEDED - ....... ... World HQ ..... ??? ... 6+.. MAYBE YOU? Pirates Hideout ...... Sweden HQ .... +46 ... 7 .. Blaksmith/ALICE Demon's Domain ....... Eastern HQ ... 847 ... 4 .. Demon/TClaw Dark Spirits ......... Belgium HQ ... +XX ... 2 .. Speedman Nexus 7 .............. England HQ ... +44 ... 7 .. DJ/SShifter MalHavoc ............. Canada HQ .... XXX ... 5 .. Autopsy/DCreed Lap Of The Gods ...... Distro Site .. 805 ... 3 .. Conan The Vault ][ ......... Affiliate .... 503 ... 4 .. Technician - The ROR Affiliated FTP Sites - Site Name Position IP SiteOp Txx Axxxxxxxx Rxxx.NET WORLD HQ xxx.x.xxx.x xx Px Rxxx Txx Axxxxxxxx USA HQ xxx.x.xxx.xxx Sxxxxx Sxxxxx Ox Sxxxx EURO HQ xxx.x.x.xx Pxxxx - Group News - - Release On Rampage is working in cooperation with our brother group Mortality. We have done quite a bit of cleaning up. With some slammin new members, A newly revised SS, and alot of work ROR is here to bring you the best in the latest quality games. So if you can crack, supply, courier LD, or code, get in touch with a member of our senior staff on IRC in #ROR, or catch us on some quality boards. - ROR is currently looking for a new NFO header and a new file_id.diz. We prefere the "blocky" style on both. If you think you can help us out get in touch w/us. - WE NEED A NEW WHQ - - piston/tklp - Salutions - Crackpot, Egoistic Fate, White Cracker, Prozac, Tiger Claw, DJ, Tklp, Piston, Alchemist, G0D, JdA, ZEUS, Night Vision, Hmphood Mad Turnip, Hoson, FireFly, Manic, TSR, dARKfORCE, And The Rest. Special thanks goes out to Conan from all of TEAM ROR for dedication outstanding group effort and performance, and continued support! - Disclaimer - Release on Rampage is a profit free group, dedicated to bringing the latest in software to the public. If you really like this software, go out and buy it from the people who made it! - NFO Layout By Piston - Last Updated 06/21/96 By Tklp - warhammer r e f l u x 9 6 ! ...::[ ]::... Supplier....: OS..........: Cracker.....: Released....: / /1996 Packager....: Game.Type...: Stripper....: Rating......: [----------] Requirements: ...::[ Release Notes ]::... - GROUP AND PERSONAL SALUTES - MORTALITY, SODOM, PWA, EPIC, HYBRID, RISC, EVERLAST, MALICE. Crackpot, Darkforce, The Punisher, Zeus, g0d, Jazz, Jestah, Pest, White Cracker, Mad Turnip, Hoson, Immortal, Cryptic Pain. ...::[ The Reflux 1996 Membership ]::... - The Krazy Little Punk - - Alchemist - Angel Of Death - JdA - Lucid - Manic - - Butcher - Crack - Cray - Conan - Darklord - Drizzt - Jecksom - - Djay - Lax - Namanth - Narcotic - [Ph] - Slicer - Syrup - Tinox - - T0k - Warhammer - ...::[ The Reflux 1996 Trading Team ]::... - Billy Bishop - Lucifer's Fear - - Autopsy - Demon - Flounder - Ionizer - Platform - Savager - Turin - * Note - Sysops are considerd full members. ...::[ The Reflux 1996 Bulletin Board Systems ]::... Board Name Position * Needed * ........... World HQ ..... ??? ... 8+ . Maybe You? ...... Demon's Domain ....... Eastern HQ ... 847 ... 4 .. Demon ........... Dark Spirits ......... Belgium HQ ... +XX ... 2 .. Speedman ........ Nexus 7 .............. England HQ ... +44 ... 7 .. DJ/SShifter ..... MalHavoc ............. Canada HQ .... XXX ... 5 .. Autopsy/DCreed .. Lap Of The Gods ...... Distro Site .. 805 ... 3 .. Conan ........... The Vault ][ ......... Affiliate .... 503 ... 4 .. Technician ...... ...::[ The Reflux Affild Net Sites ]::... Site name Position SiteOp The Adrenalin Rush ...... WORLD HQ ... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx .... Ph/Tklp RoadKill ................ USA HQ ..... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ..... Weblord BackStage ............... EURO HQ .... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ..... Crypt ...::[ Group News ]::... The Reflux is a new games group that can guarantee you nice, new, quality working games for the general public. You may see some familiar faces from ROR, and some new faces from other places. You can be on the look out for more games coming from Reflux in the near future. We are on the look for Dedicated net and long distance traders, game suppliers, crackers, and high calibre boards and sites. Contact us in #Reflux-App, or msg Tklp or a senior on the IRC and talk to us. - REFLUX - THE BEGINNING OF A ETERNITY - REFLUX - ...::[ Disclaimer ]::... The Reflux is a profit free group, dedicated to bringing the latest in software to the public. If you really like this ware Pirate it some more so the whole world can enjoy it! ;) NFO Layout By Platform - Last Updated 07/07/96 By Tklp It's easy to see that many of the members of ROR are also in RLX, and that RLX is still led by Tklp. So if you had a blacklist on ROR games, you might as well ban RLX games too, they're bound to be lame. Also, here's the file_id.diz you should watch out for just in case Tklp grows a brain and decides not to name RLX releases RLX*.*, hey, everyone learns. QUAKE *FINAL* (c) ID SOFTWARE [01/15] _____________________________________________ \__ - ________ ./__ - ________ __/ \\__/ - \\ / \\__/ \__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__ /_____| ./_____________./___| ./ [=======|______/===================|______/=] [================================[06/21/96]=] -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- QUAKE *FINAL* (c) ID SOFTWARE [01/15] r e f l u x ! -- - - -/- ALSO FAKE -/- ALSO FAKE -/- ALSO FAKE -/- r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : Legion vs. Pinnacle The following is a log file where Acidplain from Legion starts a little brawl with some Pinnacle members. I should warn you that some of the content might not be too revealing for some people, but nonetheless, the true nature of Legion leaders must be told. *** Acidplain (ministry@netcom.com) has joined channel #Pinnacle Zima Man... Acidplain, you don't have a life. I don't have a life. What's Pinnacle releasing today? Since I have been in Pinnacle, we never had a dupe. We released 4 times today and we have 2 more to go. And one release that I was supposed to release was released today by some other group. Acidplain, my releases are $500 each. Zima Man, like you pay for them. Of course not, I never pay. Me neither. I have connections in a company and I'm getting one more in another company. I have a phone. That's it, this place died. I get all the Visaul Basic shit. Oh yea, a mad good release from Pinnacle in the next 3 days, First Aid 95 Deluxe NETWORK EDITION with a 10 user license. That shit is mad expensive. I'm going to tell you something, on that web web you gave me last night, v1.1b is there, you need to crack it, expires in 30 days, registration shit. So get to work. We can crack it. Go for it My insider is supposed to give me Powerbuilder v5.0, big licence worth $5000. *** Acidplain has left channel #Pinnacle *** Blaze (qubert@netcom22.netcom.com) has joined channel #Pinnacle Blaze, you're a moronic simpleton. Zima Man, you're a moron and a retard. *** X_Factor (XFACTOR@pool042.ALTER.NET) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** X_Factor has left channel #Pinnacle Okay, I'm going to go do the nfo and diz for a 2 disker. 3D kitchen was released in 95. I'm gonna get back to one of you. *** X_Factor (XFACTOR@pool042.ALTER.NET) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** X_Factor has left channel #Pinnacle Legion just asked me to merge. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Legion is kicking Pinnacle's ass. You have to be retarted not to want to merge. HHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!! Legion sucks! Blaze got banned from channel #Legion. They suck. *** Acidplain (ministry@netcom.com) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** Acidplain has left channel #Pinnacle Acidplain sucks! That lamer tries to steal members. *** Acidplain (ministry@netcom.com) has joined channel #Pinnacle Zima Man, I thought you said Pinnacle releases quality. That 4 disker Pinnacle just released bites. No, it doesn't. It's my opionion though. It doesn't matter, it's a release. Good job. *** Acidplain has left channel #Pinnacle It's a land buyer's program. Damn, he is is a stupid mother fucker. He is waiting til I am not online and he's going to try to steal suppliers. He tells me that the program we released looks ugly. Legion must be in trouble if they are trying to steal suppliers! Well, fuck him man. Logistix files are BANNED on some board in my area code because Logistix is lame! First Acidplain comes in saying we dupe, then he apologizes and wants to merge. Now he says more shit. Logistix kicked me out saying that I did nothing. But but that is shit. I supplied, ran bots, offer bots, headed the art department. And I spend more than 200 hours per month here. Acidplain is a lamer. Trust me, I looked in the dictionary under LAMER and his picture was there!! *** Acidplain (acidtrip@dfw.dfw.net) has joined channel #Pinnacle Zoltrix, how's it going? Zoltrix thinks he runs things saying I stole suppliers. You got to get me on all 7 accounts, fucker. *** ACiDPLAiN is now known as aci *** aci is now known as acip *** acip is now known as acip1 *** acip1 is now known as acip12 *** acip12 is now known as acip11 *** acip11 is now known as acip13 Wow, don't kick me. Oh, why do you have to beg to not be kicked?? *** acip13 is now known as acid11111 *** acid11111 is now known as ACid2222 *** ACid2222 is now known as acid44 *** acid44 is now known as acid66 *** acid66 is now known as acid25 *** acid25 is now known as acid212 *** acid212 is now known as acidp *** acidp is now known as acid12312 *** acid12312 is now known as acid11 *** acid11 is now known as acid12 everytime you change it, i will see it! *** acid12 is now known as acid14 *** acid14 is now known as acid6 Zima Man, I'm sorry about this lamer Zoltrix, he thinks he's god. *** acid6 is now known as aci2 *** aci2 is now known as acidppp He thinks he's god. ACIDPLAIN, YOU ARE JUST SHOWING YOUR LAMENESS THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. ALL OF US ARE MORE MATURE THAN YOU ARE. Wow, permanent ban, too bad no ops. It's all Zoltrix's fault. And what did Zoltrix do to you? Hey, I don't care if you do shit about me. *** ascii (acidtrip@dfw.dfw.net) has joined channel #Pinnacle Woo... *** aciii is now known as acid133 *** acid133 is now known as acid17 *** acid17 has left channel #Pinnacle wow what a fool *** pNCsuCks (acidtrip@dfw.dfw.net) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** X_Factor (XFACTOR@pool042.ALTER.NET) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** X_Factor has left channel #Pinnacle Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! Loosers! *** pNCsuCks has left channel #Pinnacle *** PCwLAMERs (apl@dfw.dfw.net) has joined channel #Pinnacle *** PCwLAMERs has left channel #Pinnacle r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Prestige Dumps Loyal Courier HQ? The following is a log file of my conversation with Crazy Horse while I was chatting with him on his 10 node board called Purgatory, former Courier HQ for Prestige. And I do emphasize on FORMER. Oh, Nueromage and I are not in Prestige anymore. Ouch, what happened? Prestige dumped you guys or did you guys dumped Prestige? Dont' worry, you shouldn't feel embarrassed. You can tell the truth. Haha, I don't know if I should say anything yet. It just happened yesterday, but I guess I can tell you. I was informed that there was fighting in channel #Prestige, some Prestige members logged it for me. I just haven't time to check on it yet. I didn't think it was in the channel though. Then that must have been something else. What happened with you then? There is a board in my area code that the sysops here and the sysops there are friends. A long time ago, we said that we would not take each others affiliations. We made an agreement and also would not be in the same groups. We felt it was better for the area code to have a lot of affiliations rather than just 2 or 3. So, the sysops of that board learned how to supply games and are doing so for Razor 1911. Ah.. so this is a competition for suppliers between Prestige and Razor 1911? Prestige made it seem like they were going to offer the sysops of that board membership in Prestige as member boards, but because of the agreement that we made, the sysops would have been unable to accept the Prestige offer. They would not have accepted anyway, even if Prestige asked, they have ALWAYS wanted to be in Razor 1911 and would not leave. But because of the agreement, Prestige didn't want to be tied up so they said that they didn't want our board anymore. Then, they rethought it and offered our board as a member board but not as a Courier HQ anymore. We declined. I see. So that is the story. And I think it is total political group bullshit. They didn't even ask the sysops of the board. They were thinking. If the original agreement between the sysops was not there, we could have gotten the Razor 1911 suppliers in Prestige. But the truth is, if the Razor 1911 sysops REALLY wanted in the Prestige, they would have come to Prestige and said, "Look, we want in Prestige," and then we would have worked something out. Who's the sysop of this Razor 1911 board? You figure it out. Ah, come on, don't be a bad sport. How am I supposed to know who's who? Look in the Razor 1911 nfo. You'll figure it out I am sure. I can't tell you everything, no fun in that. I never did find the time to investigate on that matter, but the names aren't really important. This log file shows that games group politics all revolve around one thing, if you can supply games, you're important. If you can't, then you're just another Crazy Horse, you might run a 10 node board, you might have helped the group in the past by being their Courier HQ, and you might even be as loyal to the group as a son is to a father, but in the end, none of that matters. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about supplying the latest releases out for a games group. And if you're a supplier, find a group that likes you for YOU, and not because you can supply, you'll be happier that way. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Hitex Subject : Temp Directories About a year and a half ago, the Internet swept over the warez scene and introduced to it a new form of transporting files. It boasted a new speed at which software could be distributed. Everybody would log onto a UNIX shell account and transfer files at speeds exceeding 100k/s. Then the WWW came about and people all switched over to SLIP/PPP accounts. And where did these "super fast speeds" all go? Straight down the drain. Now 85% of the users on the Internet are logged on to accounts that can push no more than 3k/s, and their end users are still boasting speeds of 100k/s, and I sit here confused. These accounts are as gay as AOL accounts, slow! But there are still a select few of us that do use the traditional UNIX shell account. Admittedly, it's a little harder to use than the PPP account, and it takes a few tries to get to know, but once one gets a shell account to work well and knows how to use it to perfection, the Internet is just a toy to be played with. One of the great toys is the infamous temp directory. A temp directory is a location on a UNIX shell provider on which big files can be stored for temporary use. All providers have the directory, but it becomes useful beyond practicality on the really big ones. Most UNIX shell accounts include a 5 MB disk quota. This generally means that the average meggage of the files stored in the directory at a certain calculation time for the month cannot exceed 5 megabytes. Some more stingy providers restrict shell accounts to 5 megabytes of quota at any given time, meaning that any file transfer exceeding 5 megabytes in size will be cancelled upon reaching this size limit. These accounts are what I would refer to as "piles of crap" accounts. We all know, however, that sometimes a HUGE release (size-wise) is released and we want to download it overnight, but don't want it to get added onto our quota size average. In this case, the temp drive may be put to use. On most providers, this directory is /temp but that is often a link to a directory such as /hack2/tmp. Either one works. Any user desiring a place to store some files for a temporary amount of time can resort to using this directory. Many providers allocate a hard drive just for this directory, which is why it can also be referred to as a temp drive. The user can copy his/her files to this directory and proceed to download them, quota-free. Still, some of us just want MORE from our temp drives! The big providers, the ones with members from around the country, the ones with many warez-affiliated members, are the ones that can give us that extra knack. Some of the big providers don't care about warez on their drives, or are just not aware of their existence. Some just choose not to interfere in the activity of their users, as that would imply censorship. These providers tend to have temp drives filled to the top with the latest warez. Of course, if you're quiet, you might even be able to snaggle some of these warez for yourself! You can copy them to your home directory (cd ~) for download, you can copy them to another temp drive directory that only you have user rights to (man chmod for help on how to accomplish this), or, as courtesy would have it, you could just leech the warez directly from the directory in which they exist. This is often the best thing to do as far as netiquette goes, because you won't be filling up the provider's drive with duplicate files. Anyway, a cheery hello to all of you out there that still use shell accounts, we know they're the best (hehe), and check out your temp drive, if you're lucky, you'll find more than you expected! r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Hitex Subject : Xenon's Life in RCN The past month has been filled with a multitude of emails inquiring about Xenon, the RCN coder. The extremists expressed religious attachments to Xenon, "Xenon is my God!!!" Others expressed more subtle desires, "Xenon is one of the best coders I've seen in the scene!" Some expressed a concern for the real-life Xenon, "So what's he like in real life?!" And others just wanted something in return, "Can you like send me the RCN source code? Uhuh uhuh uhuhuhuh.." So I present to you, the life of a coder. Xenon is 16 years old, yet his programming skills greatly exceed those of many third year college students. His first programming experience was on an old Timex Sinclair 1000 computer at the age of just 5 years. When I found this out, my face was of pure astonishment. When I was busy blowing soap bubbles into the wind, he was writing a program to blow up the world. Xenon explained, however, that at 5, he never really made his own programs, but rather "modified the work of others." He said this quite nonchalantly and apparently didn't think anything of it. Xenon then moved on to the Commodore 64 when he was 7, and by now, became quite an experienced coder. He once even coded a game much like Pacman, from scratch. He explained to me that he was a proud 7 year old when he found out how to use sprites for smoother scrolling and better looking graphics. I was perplexed. At 9, Xenon acquired a super dooper Apple IIe. WOW. His BASIC skills were now running at a MILLION hertz, but with a new and improved interface... or not. He was still cookin' at a million hertz, but as unlike the Commodore 64, the graphics were easier to implement. In 6th grade, at 11 years of age, Xenon discovered the awesome capabilities of the IBM/PC XT. This baby was pushing da bitz at 4.77 Megahertz. So much for color graphics, but 720x348 was a resolution previously unheard of. He darted to school to let the rest of his classmates know about his new discovery, but for some reason, they seemed disinterested. They were more concerned in the upcoming Sex-ed class. The bell rang, and it was time to go home... or better yet, to jet down to the garage to see if he could scrounge up some of his dad's old "Compute!" magazines. Then, back to his room so he could type in some of the included programs and see what they did. If I haven't made it obvious enough, Xenon was a happy child. Xenon's brother, who, by now was about to graduate from high school, had acquired a version of this totally k-rad new programming language called Turbo Pascal. He wasn't so thrilled about learning a new language, but then he noticed one of his brother's programs, and found out about a new word to add to his now 11 year old vocabulary, COMPILE! Long as it may have seemed, it would turn out to be a key word in his life. Turbo Pascal was faster, and could really take advantage of his 4.77 Mhz XT. It was now easier to perform more complex tasks (well, as complex as an 11 year old mind can do). This was cool. A new thing to do in his spare time. He could draw lines, make boxes, fill them in, make patterns, and even use fonts! He was now in 8th grade, and again he went to class to report of his new findings. But once more, his classmates were not interested. When they were thinking about boobs, he was thinking about booleans. When they were talking about girls, he was talking aboug GotoXY's. More recently, namely in his Junior year, Xenon met Rebel Chicken, and Hitex and Rebel Chicken found a more useful way of using Xenon's talents. Instead of having him code random programs "just for fun," we used it for extensive work with graphics and sound. So now, you are running a program taking advantage of all of his skills. Let me continue by explaining a few things about the coding in RCN. I am doing this in response to the many letters to the editors that I have received in this past week. Many of you have requested to know how RCN is coded. What the backbone of it is, and, most importantly, to see its source code. I will try to answer all of your questions here, except, of course, the last one . RCN is coded in Turbo Pascal v7.0 for DOS. Many rumors have erupted that we code it completely in Assembly (ASM). Those are completely untrue, and there's a very good reason for why they are. It would be stupid to. Coding in 100% ASM takes an extremely long amount of time and there are no known benefits to doing so for something such as RCN. Turbo Pascal v7.0 does a wonderful job of implementing inline assembly (ASM code within the Pascal code), and there is no reason to dispute that. The bulk of the interface is coded in Pascal, with the single exception of the text scroller. That involves changing the vertical offset of the text screen, a process called "panning." Nifty, eh? We use the BIN format for storing the text screens, simply because it is easier to implement into the code, and is one less thing to worry about. Well, sort of. It then poses the problem of dealing with files exceeding 64k (in the extracted EXE, BIN files compress extremely well). Memory is accessed in 64k blocks, and Xenon has implemented impressive swapping algorithms that barely cause any delay when viewing the magazine. The 3D design at the beginning of RCN is probably one of the more complicated parts of Reality Check Network. It may look simple, but it involves the manipulation of polygons on 3 axis, all the while updating light shadowing from different angles. The color palette is constantly updating to accommodate a wide array of colors while displaying different shades of each in the spinning of a mere 3 letters. Groovy, isn't it? The RCN ending is the displaying of a 320x200 (we tried 640x480 last week, but it made the EXE too big) graphic while doing real time rendering of a graphic effect superimposed on it. But by far the most complex part of the ending is what to call it. I insist it's a magnifying glass, but Rebel Chicken argues that if it were a magnifying glass, it would have a stick to hold it by. A friend once suggested that it is an elipse of which only one side is displayed but that didn't go over too well with Xenon, so we here at RCN studios just refer to it as "the thing." The most impressive part of RCN is, of course, the game. Many suggest that we have stolen Tyrian, but I beg to differ. It never took you 30 minutes to beat one level of Tyrian. The game engine is coded purely in ASM, merely because Xenon has yet to learn how to code a good game in Pascal and how to optimize his code so it doesn't require a Pentium Pro to run on. The hard part is the randomizing of enemies while calculating the position of your ship and its relation to other ships and their bullets. Without the use of ASM, all this crawled on a Pentium 100. With all this to worry about, we decided Epic Megagames wouldn't be too discouraged if we merely "borrowed" their graphics for a few weeks. And anyway, it's free advertising. Moreover, the game takes a mere 30k zipped, where Tyrian takes 3 disks zipped. RCN is, still, probably most amazing in its behind-the-scenes work. In RCN's Issue #12, we had 8 articles and 8 interviews, but that was about where the content ended. All the content, of course, edited and looked over by Hitex or Rebel Chicken to insure quality in context as well as in content. However, in RCN #14, we added reviews and charts to our to-do list, and that lead to an extreme work overload. We decided to put Xenon to work (we don't like to see him sitting around, it makes us feel guilty). Now, we just do all our work in a regular DOS Edit window and never worry about formatting it into a nice looking layout. We leave that up to Xenon's "RCN Helper." Hah, and you thought we actually slaved over an Acid Draw screen for hours on end. Hell no, DOS Edit is much better . It seems that technology has always just barely kept up with the need of today's software, and the same can be said about RCN. Our coding has always just barely kept up with our needs. Using the old system of publication, RCN would never make it out the door in one week. Using Xenon's latest coding, however, we have the resources needed to keep up with the influx of submitted articles and interviews. Xenon is definitely one of the scene's greatest, we all know that without his great coding, RCN would just be an oversized version of Inquisition (available on WWW.RCN.ORG), and none of us would want that! r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Wart Subject : A Warez School? The most common way people get started in the warez scene is not for prestige or privilge. It is for a couple of applications or games that they're after and wish to grab without having to pay for them. When they first go into warez rooms on IRC and start trading they suddenly feel an immense surge of power from a forbidden well. When they see what's on offer, regardless of how big, whether they actually need it or not, indeed if they will ever use it after downloading it. They just download it anyway, just another bargaining chip to bring to the channel for the games or utils they want. It's become the rudimentry currency of the internet underground. The months most publicised releases always being the most sought after. Then after this introductory phase when they have all the software they want they still frequent the channels semi-serving to the new traders, a cry of, "What do you want?" will always respond with, "What have you got?" when they are at this phase. Once they tire of this level of interaction on the warez scene they move onto trying to provide services for others. Serv-u ftp sites over 28.8 are a common sight as well as mIRC fserves. What with all the obvious channel names taken they create a new one and invite people onto it in the hope it will gain popularity and will become a permanent fixture on the IRC landscape. However with their inexperience in scrpiting and creating a bot these channels tend to blossom and fold with the founder's appearences on the network. More determined providers find suppliers outside of IRC and setup small warez groups releasing or couriering. These groups don't last very long but with perserverence they will get offered a place in a medium sized group and start in the scene proper. After a while playing in these leagues watching all the bigger, better groups beat you to releasing and couriering because all the members who have something to offer are already working for these groups. If you're lucky you'll catch a break and pull of something special which will grab the attention of some of the bigger groups then you'll get pulled into the big leagues and swap in and out of groups for a while until settling in to a group where some of the people they knew before in the little leagues have settled as well then it pretty much ends there until they quit the scene. The above bears resemblence to the average life of a warez trader. There are some variations, such as moving into the realms of emags based on the scene. A sort of niche in the market, if you will. This fine magazine bears proof to it. In my opinion, a lot of time could be saved if the scene was better organised at the basic level. Letting these warez pups (not my choice of term, BTW) run riot in the channels without any guidance means they will mature into the scene with anarchistic tendancies which lead to immature behavior such as channel takeovers, and other things such as narking and all kinds of things which ultimately sully the scene. I realize that the very nature of the Internet is that of anarchy, however with a little self-restraint we might end up with better traders, couriers, and suppliers whose decisions are made with sober judgement and experience, not with immature emotion and threating behavior. I know it may never happen, however I'd like to propose an idea to the scene as whole with I believe would lead to an enrichment of the scene while still retaining that wild, forbbiden side that entices many to it. Heres what I suggest... I realize that many of the scene leaders may have grievences against each other, and that this may be a reason why this idea would never be taken up as it requires an agreement between a large number of groups of a standard. The thing is you'd never know what someone was capable of until you've given them the chance to prove themselves. The elitist nature of the majority of scene members counteract this. Their pride won't allow them to accept that there is anyone better than them. I suggest that an independent body be created to handle the training of these warez pups (again, not my choice of term) and their progress and abilities monitored, and at the end of their training some sort of award or recognition that they are in some way qualified to do a particular job in a warez group. Of course for something like this to be taken seriously a lot of groups would have to agree to liason with this independent body in order for an appraisal of the applicant or maybe indeed groups would solicit this independent body for likely candidates whenever an opening in their group became available. If a few groups would agree to recognise the recognition this independent body bestowed on them the scene would be better organized as this training could encompass a wide range of things from FTP methods to general behavior in a warez group. I realize of course that this is a dream that will never happen due to the already choactic nature of the scene, however if enough respected and determined people got together it could happen groups could even begin to submit required techniques to the independent body for inclusion in their training. How are these pups ever going to make it up the ladder without some sort of start that anyone with a bit of determination and skill could get. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of groups that provide internal training facilities. The only way to implement this would be to have it set up with all senior members and advisors independent of any other group to insure a degree of fair play, then the liason members of the groups that would recognise any of the qualifications handed out. Then of course the students themselves who would see it as a road into a warez group with a solid reputation. It would take some time for the standard to become accepted practise. However if more people were trained up at the begginer we wouldn't see any of this lamer crap that the elitist types come out with. Just because they've been in the scene longer and know all their stuff doesn't mean that in three months down the line, this supposed lamer wouldn't be running a kick ass warez group and the original so-called elite come knocking on his door. Everybody came from the bottom rung, only those lucky enough to catch a break and get or become a good suppiler let their heads swell and prat around being k-rad elite. Never forget where you came from, you were there once, they are there now, go on. Give them a helping hand, you won't regret it. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Undinism Subject : The Stars Tell All! Well, here comes a letter from one of its members, not very active lately due to personal shit going on. I was very surprised how two of your star signs applied directly in an abstract warez <> real life way to me and my present situation. I am an Aries and the part regarding now comes a close to the sexiest part of my life seems to sum up how I feel at the moment. My ex-girlfriend is a Taurus and she broke up with me on last Tuesday. So that's the issue being more easily resolved shit over. I guess the star signs were one week late but the days were right. I am writing as I feel the warez/pc life had a major part in the breaking up. It all dated back to some months when I decided to courier my ass off for NBC. I was dcc'ing 15+ gig PER day with 3-5 dcc's kicking non-stop. After that I spent nearly 50-70% of my time on the PC (as most people will know). I did have a VERY good looking girlfriend who did love me and all that shit. But it all came to a head as she missed spending time with me and decided to wait and see if i would stop. Well, of course without her telling me to spend more time with her besides sex (guess us males cant read minds like we're supposed to), I stayed on the PC and couriered more and more. IRC was also taking a lot of time. Anyway to get to the point, yes its fun to courier, chat, and dcc on the net but don't let it interfere with your real/love life. Well, I am now single again and don't feel like spending too much time on IRC or FTP sites. I guess moderation is the key and realise this even though you're saving $$$$$ by download warez, are you actually saving $$ as would you have brought that lame game or util that took 5 hours to download because of size and shit. Anway here's to the warez scene and I hope it thrives (as more males in the scene = more females not getting sex). Thats my 2 cents for once. *PS* A LONG serving RCN member and not even senior, hehe... r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : Computer and Television Monitors, Roled into One? Most of the parts in my main desktop PC get replaced every year or two by something newer and cooler, but I've been staring at the same 17" Nanao video monitor since I started chatting on IRC back in 1993. Only the case, the keyboard and the floppy drives have survived longer. Good monitors aren't cheap, but if recent history is any guide, that might be the one part of your computer that you can think of as a long term investment. VGA and SVGA monitors have used the same cables and connectors for a decade now, and a top notch monitor from the early 90's, with a .28mm dot pitch and a 64kHz maximum horizontal scan rate, still looks great by today's standards. About those numbers, we all know that computer images are composed of small blocks known as "pixels," but the screen of a color monitor is also a composite. It's made up of many small red, green, and blue phospor dots, and the distance from dot to dot is known as the "dot pitch," usually measured in millimeters. Hey, when I first got my PC, I didn't know what these meant. So I was just about as lost as any lamer who found himself stuck in a #WarezX channel not knowing what "xdcc list" meant. Most PCs are set up to display about 80 to 90 pixels per inch. If you're handy with the metric system, you'll see that each pixel covers a bit more than a quarter of a milimeter, which is equal to a dot pitch of .25mm. That dot pitch is found on some monitors, but .28mm is considered acceptable. The smaller and more closely spaced the dots are, the sharper the picture will be, and the more the monitor will cost. Like movies and television, computer video is drawn a sequence of frames, one after another. The number of frames drawn each second is the vertical scan rate. The horizontal scan rate counts rows of pixels or "scan lines," per second. These scan rates are controlled by the computer's video card, but the monitor still has to be able to keep up with the signal it receives. A monitor's scan rates are listed as upper and lower limits. If it's fed video outside of this range, the monitor won't be able to stay in sync, and the picture will appear to rool on the screen. The vertical scanning rate is rarely a problem. Video cards usually operate between 60 and 75Hz, well within the range of most monitors. But that frame rate also affects the horizontal scan rate, which you can compute by multiplying the number of frames per second by the virtual resolution, adding in about 30 invisible lines scanned between video frames. If a program runs at 1,204x768 resolution, the video card is feeding the monitor 768 lines of video per frame. At a frame rate of 72Hz, that means the monitor has to scan more than 57,000 lines per second, or 57kHz. High resolution monitors usually have maximum horizontal rates of 64kHz or more. A few features are found on newer monitors which didn't exist at the beginning of the decade. Most support VESA's Display Data Channel (DDC), which lets the PC tell the monitor to enter a low power, energy saving sleep mode. The latest designs are also Plug-n-PLay compatible, allowing the operating system to detect the type of monitor that's connected. The biggest change we've seen in monitors has been in prices, particularly in the larger sized tubes. A big monitor's extra display area really helps when you're displaying 800x600 pixels or more on the screen. Microsoft Windows has made it easier to use a video card's high resolution display modes, making larger monitors much more popular. Economy of scale has pushed prices down to the point where 17" monitors now start in the low $600's. That's not bad, but it isn't exactly cheap either, especially when you can get a name brand 25" television set for less than $250. But there are a couple of reasons why televisions cost so much less, so many of them are built, and so little is expected of them. No matter how big a TV screen is, it only has to display a standard 525 line, 60 frames per second video signal. PC monitor designers assume that you'll want 90 or so pixels per inch resolution on any monitor, so a bigger screen means more pixels. The typical 21" monitor has to support resolutions as high as 1,600x1,280 pixels, which boosts the horizontal scanning frequency up to around 90kHz. The markets that need a monitor like that, CAD, publishing, and professional graphics, are very small compared to the PC market in general, it isn't so surprising that 21" monitors sell for close to $2,000. But there are some signs that we might be seeing large monitors in the future that aren't targeted toward such narrow markets. Toshiba offers a 20" television that also functions as a SVGA monitor for around $700. Its maximum resolution of 640x480 pixels isn't much of a problem for game playing, but it could be limiting for general use. Also, Gateway 2000 has announced it plans to offer a VCR-sized system called Destination, complete with a 31" monitor and a built-in TV tuner. Expect to pay about $4,000 late this fall. And then there's High Definition Telivision. The Digital HDTV Grand Alliance proposal, recommended by the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service last November, still awaits final approval by the FCC. But the system's highest resolution is 1920x1080, with a cinematic 16:9 width to height ratio instead of the now standard 4:3. If HDTV catches on, we'll all have television sets that put most current PC video monitors to shame. By the most optimistic estimates, HDTV should really take off sometime early in the next century. Maybe then I'll be able to put this old monitor out to pasture. r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Games 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. Dates of Games Reviewed : 06/06/96 -> 06/12/96 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 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Dinotopis (c) Turner Interactive 01/13 Filename : SAVAGE01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-07-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 4 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 2 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 6 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Savage (c) Discovery Channel 01/30 Filename : PSGBHB01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-08-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 6 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 5 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 11 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ FRANK THOMAS' BIG HURT BASEBALL [01/36] Filename : PSGB2B01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-09-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 11 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 15 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Back to Baghdad (c) Military Sim. 01/23 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 0 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 0 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _____________________________________________ Release Score : 0 \__ - ________ ./__ - ________ Running Total : 0 __/ \\__/ - \\ / \\__/ \__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__ /_____| ./_____________./___| ./ [=======|______/===================|______/=] [================================[ / /96]=] Score Chart : Games HBD 3 Points NPM 0 PSG 15 Points RZR 0 ROR 0 Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Prestige - [3.8] Hybrid - [3.0] Napalm - [0.0] Razor 1911 - [0.0] Release on Rampage [0.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Games 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. Dates of Games Reviewed : 06/13/96 -> 06/19/96 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ Release Score : 0 \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ Running Total : 0 | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\::::::::: Filename : NPMLB-01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 0 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 4 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 4 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . AH-64D LONGBOW (c) ORIGIN [01/46] Filename : NPMLBSP1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 4 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 2 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 6 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . AH-64D LONGBOW *SPEECH PACK* [1/4] Filename : PSGCAT01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-14-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 0 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 4 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ CATFIGHT (c) Atlantean Interactive 01/20 Filename : HSOLPSG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-15-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 4 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 2 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 6 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Hoyle Solitaire (c) Sierra Online [1/7] +------------------------------------------+ Filename : PSG-AC1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-17-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 6 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 10 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ American CivilWar (c)Interactive Magic 1/26 Filename : TBFFPSG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-18-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 10 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 2 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 12 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Terry Bradshaw Fantasy Football [1/2] +------------------------------------------+ Filename : PANZER01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- Panzer General (c) SSi [01/21] Previous Total : 0 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 5 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 5 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : SU27RZR1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-14-96 Filedate : -- SU-27 FLANKER FOR DOS (c) SSI [01/04] Previous Total : 5 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 4 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 9 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ ======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/ Filename : ROR-NM01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- MECH 2: NET MECH *FULL RETAIL/STORE VERSION* Previous Total : 0 (c) ACTIVISION [01/25] Release Score : 4 _____________________________________________ Running Total : 4 \__ - ________ ./__ - ________ __/ \\__/ - \\ / \\__/ \__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__ /_____| ./_____________./___| ./ [=======|______/===================|______/=] [================================[06/15/96]=] Score Chart : Games HBD 0 NPM 6 Points PSG 12 Points RZR 9 Points ROR 4 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Razor 1911 - [4.5] Release on Rampage [4.0] Napalm - [3.0] Prestige - [3.0] Hybrid - [0.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Games 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. Dates of Games Reviewed : 06/20/96 -> 06/26/96 Filename : HBD-COS1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- Complete Onside Soccer (C) Telstar [1/12] Previous Total : 0 _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ Release Score : 4 \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ Running Total : 4 | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\::::::::: Filename : HBDCCEVE.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- Command Companion: Eve of Domination Previous Total : 4 (c) Actura Software Release Score : 3 *** REQ'S COMMAND & CONQUER *** Running Total : 7 _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\::::::::: Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 0 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 0 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 0 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 0 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 0 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 0 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 0 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 0 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : ROR-QK01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-24-96 Filedate : -- QUAKE *FINAL* (c) ID SOFTWARE [01/15] Previous Total : 0 _____________________________________________ Release Score : -3 \__ - ________ ./__ - ________ Running Total : -3 __/ \\__/ - \\ / \\__/ \__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__ /_____| ./_____________./___| ./ [=======|______/===================|______/=] [================================[06/21/96]=] -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- FAKE -/- Score Chart : Games HBD 7 Points NPM 0 PSG 0 RZR 0 ROR -3 Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Hybrid - [3.5] Napalm - [0.0] Prestige - [0.0] Razor 1911 - [0.0] Release on Rampage [0.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Games 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. Dates of Games Reviewed : 06/27/96 -> 07/03/96 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ Release Score : 0 \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ Running Total : 0 | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\::::::::: Filename : NPMFF-01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-28-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 0 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 5 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 5 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . FIRE FIGHT (c) ELECTRONIC ARTS [01/28] Filename : CJADD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 5 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 2 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 7 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . CYBERJUDAS: MOVIES & MISC ADDONS [01/26] .DIZ date: 06.28.96 .NFO date NONE Filename : NPMCJ-01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 7 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 4 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 11 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . CYBERJUDAS (c) MERIT STUDIOS [01/58] Filename : SH2CIN01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-30-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 11 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 2 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 13 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . SPACE HULK 2 *CINEMA ADDON* [01/28] Filename : SH2SPE01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-30-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 13 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 2 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 15 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . SPACE HULK 2 *SPEECH ADDON* [01/43] Filename : SHULK201.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-30-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 15 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 5 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 20 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . SPACE HULK 2: VENGEANCE OF THE BLOOD ANGELS (c) ELECTRONIC ARTS [01/38] Filename : NFSSE01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : 20 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 4 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 24 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . THE NEED FOR SPEED SPECIAL EDITION FOR WINDOWS (c) ELECTRONIC ARTS [01/56] Filename : PSG-FD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 0 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 1 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 1 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Final Doom (c) Id Soft. Dos/Win95 01/29 -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- Filename : PSG-UD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 1 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 5 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Ultimate Doom (c) Id Soft. Dos/Win95 01/21 Filename : PSGTRC01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 5 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 3 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 8 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Tracer for Win95 (c) 7th Level 01/21 Filename : INDY2W01.ZIP Fix name : INDY2FIX.ZIP Filedate : 6-28-96 Filedate : 7-03-96 ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 8 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : -3 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 5 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ INDY CAR RACING 2 for Win '95 [01/14] -/- FIX ME -/- FIX ME -/- FIX ME -/- Filename : PSG-DW01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-28-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 5 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 9 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Doom 2 (c) Id Software for Windows95 01/22 Filename : AC95PSG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 9 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 3 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 12 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Williams Arcade Classics Win95 (c) GT [1/7] +------------------------------------------+ Filename : PSGFPB01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 12 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 16 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ FPS BASEBALL 96 (WORKING/WITHIN LIMIT) 01/31 Filename : FDOOM01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Final Doom (c) GT Interactive [01/30] Previous Total : 0 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 4 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 4 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : RZR-BP01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Front Page Sports BaseBall '96 [01/56] Previous Total : 4 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 4 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 8 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/===1911CDDIVISION======\___/ Filename : GNDWAR01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- GENDER WARS (c) GT INTERACTIVE [01/14] Previous Total : 8 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 4 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 12 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : DEADLN01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-03-96 Filedate : -- DEADLINE (c) MILLENNIUM/PSYGNOSIS [01/31] Previous Total : 12 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 5 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 17 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/=== 1911 DIVISION ======\___/ Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _____________________________________________ Release Score : 0 \__ - ________ ./__ - ________ Running Total : 0 __/ \\__/ - \\ / \\__/ \__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__ /_____| ./_____________./___| ./ [=======|______/===================|______/=] [================================[ / /96]=] Score Chart : Games HBD 0 NPM 24 Points PSG 16 Points RZR 17 Points ROR 0 Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Razor 1911 - [4.3] Napalm - [3.4] Prestige - [2.3] Hybrid - [0.0] Release on Rampage [0.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Games The following is a chart combining the total points of the top 5 games groups within the past 4 weeks : 4 Week Summary JUN JUN JUN JUN Total HBD 3/1 0/0 7/2 0/0 10/3 3.5 0.0 -3.5 NPM 0/0 6/2 0/0 24/7 30/9 0.0 3.4 +3.4 PSG 15/4 12/4 0/0 16/7 43/15 0.0 2.3 +2.3 RZR 0/0 9/2 0/0 17/4 26/6 0.0 4.3 +4.3 ROR 0/0 4/1 -3/1 0/0 1/2 0.0 0.0 0.0 # 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 All Time Summary RHP RLP RHY RLY TWI LPI Total ATY HCY HBD 7 -3 2 1 4 2 20/8 2.5 -3.5 NPM 24 3 7 1 5 4 81/23 3.5 PSG 21 12 7 3 1 2 109/33 3.3 RZR 17 3 4 1 4 3 54/14 3.9 ROR 7 -3 3 1 6 1 9/7 1.3 RHP/RLP = Record High/Low Points for Releases RHY/RLY = Record High/Low Number of Releases TWI/LPI = Total Weeks Inactive/Longest Period of Weeks Inactive ATY/HCY = Average of Total Yield/Highest Change in Yield r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Utils 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. Dates of Utils Reviewed : 06/06/96 -> 06/12/96 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 ] == 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]==) 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]==) 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]==) 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]==) 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]==) 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]==) 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]==) 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 sikos 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 sikos Score Chart : Utils DOD 4 Points MTY 27 Points PWA 13 Points RBS 18 Points X-F 6 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Drink or Die - [4.0] Rebels - [3.6] Mortality - [3.4] X-Force - [3.0] Pirates with Attitudes - [2.6] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Utils 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. Dates of Utils Reviewed : 06/13/96 -> 06/19/96 Filename : DODWSFTP.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- WS FTP PROFESSIONAL FOR WINDOWS [1/1] Previous Total : 0 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 2 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 2 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 13-Jun-96 ] == Filename : DOD-M301.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-14-96 Filedate : -- MINUTEMAN V3.0 FOR WIN3.1/95 [01/02] Previous Total : 2 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 4 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 6 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 14-Jun-96 ] == Filename : DODCHSTB.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- CHARACTER STUDIO MAX PLUGIN BETA [1/1] Previous Total : 6 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 2 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 8 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 16-JUN-96 ] == Filename : MTYCMPU1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- COMPUVIEW NAVIGATOR FOR WINDOWS Previous Total : 0 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 2 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[06/13/96]==) Filename : MTYXING.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- XING MPEG Player v3.0b For Win95 Previous Total : 2 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 1 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 3 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/13/96]==) Filename : MTYDISC1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- Microtest DiscPort (c) Microtest Previous Total : 3 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 5 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/07]\_____\_______>[06/16/96]==) Filename : MTYSTS01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- Symptoms (c) Healthsoft Previous Total : 5 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 8 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/21]\_____\_______>[06/16/96]==) Filename : NMBIPWA1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- Network MCI Buisness InternetMCI Previous Total : 0 version 1.22 [1/3] Release Score : 2 Running Total : 2 A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : PWAACL01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-14-96 Filedate : -- Autocad Lite R3 Win 95/NT [01/15] Previous Total : 2 Release Score : 4 A Group Running Total : 6 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : PWA-BR01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-15-96 Filedate : -- BRender v1.1.2 [01/07] Previous Total : 6 Release Score : 4 A Group Running Total : 10 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : PWA-VVBX.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- VideoSoft VSView VBX [01/01] Previous Total : 10 Release Score : 2 A Group Running Total : 12 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : E16PWA01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-17-96 Filedate : -- Extra! Personal Client 16bit [01/41] Previous Total : 12 Version 6.1 full Release Release Score : 2 Running Total : 14 A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : E32PWA01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-17-96 Filedate : -- EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1 [01/27] Previous Total : 14 32bit full release Release Score : 2 Running Total : 16 A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : RBS14-01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-15-96 Filedate : -- OS/2 Merlin build 14 aka OS/2 Warp v4.0 Previous Total : 0 _____________________________ __[01/43] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 3 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : XFLWVP01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-13-96 Filedate : -- VIEWPOINTS DARALAB MODELS Previous Total : 0 FOR LIGHTWAVE 5.0 Release Score : 3 [01/11] Running Total : 3 sikos Filename : XF-WB961.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-16-96 Filedate : -- WINBENCH 96 Previous Total : 3 (c) Ziff Davis Release Score : 1 [01/02] Running Total : 4 sikos Filename : XFALPH01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-19-96 Filedate : -- DEC Altavista Firewall Network ALPHA Previous Total : 4 - Beta1.1 - for Win NT (c) DEC Release Score : 3 [01/15] Running Total : 7 sikos Filename : XFTCP4-A.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-19-96 Filedate : -- TCP/IP v4.0 for OS/2 Warp and Merlin Previous Total : 7 Pre-Release (c) IBM Release Score : 2 [01/14] Running Total : 9 amachine Score Chart : Utils DOD 8 Points MTY 8 Points PWA 16 Points RBS 3 Points X-F 9 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Rebels - [3.0] Drink or Die - [2.7] Pirates with Attitudes - [2.7] X-Force - [2.3] Mortality - [2.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Utils 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. Dates of Utils Reviewed : 06/20/96 -> 06/26/96 Filename : DODCAFE1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- SYMANTEC CAFE 1.2 FOR WIN95/NT [1/9] Previous Total : 0 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 5 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 5 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 20-Jun-96 ] == Filename : DODDLD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- LANTASTIC DEDICATED SERVER 1.1 [01/14] Previous Total : 5 ENGLISH DOCS Release Score : 2 _______________ ____________ ____________ Running Total : 7 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 21-Jun-96 ] == Filename : DODDLT01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- LANTASTIC DEDICATED SERVER 1.1 [01/44] Previous Total : 7 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 3 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 10 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 21-Jun-96 ] == Filename : MTYNC951.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-22-96 Filedate : -- _______________________________________ Previous Total : 0 \ \ \ \_ _/ \ \ \_ _/ / / Release Score : 5 / / / / / / `_/ / ` / /_ / /_\ / Running Total : 5 \_/_/_/\__/_/_/__/__/__/___//__/____/ - M O R T A L I T Y - ==[06/22/96]===============[1/2]======== [Norton Commander v1.01 for Win95 FINAL] Filename : MTYPART1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-23-96 Filedate : -- Print Artist 1500 (c) Sierra Previous Total : 5 _______________________________________ Release Score : 4 \ \ \ \_ _/ \ \ \_ _/ / / Running Total : 9 / / / / / / `_/ / ` / /_ / /_\ / \_/_/_/\__/_/_/__/__/__/___//__/____/ - M O R T A L I T Y - ==[06/23/96]===============[1/6]======== Filename : MTYKFM1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-24-96 Filedate : -- Keller Fleet Maintence (c) Keller Previous Total : 9 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 12 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/04]\_____\_______>[06/24/96]==) Filename : MTYPP212.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-25-96 Filedate : -- Wanderlink v2.12 with Proxy v1.6 Previous Total : 12 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 15 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[06/25/96]==) Filename : MTYZHPM1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-25-96 Filedate : -- Zip! Host Print Manager v1.01 Previous Total : 15 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 18 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[06/25/96]==) Filename : MTYHOT31.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- HOTDOCS v3.0B (c) CAPSOFT INC. Previous Total : 18 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 4 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 22 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[02/02]\_____\_______>[06/26/96]==) Filename : MTYUNIN1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- UNINet (c) Attachmate Previous Total : 22 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 25 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/05]\_____\_______>[06/26/96]==) Filename : PWA-TBP1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- Turbo Publisher Build 3.03a Win [1/8] Previous Total : 0 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 3 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWANTBC1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- BoundsChecker Professional Edition Previous Total : 3 for Windows-NT Version 4.00.193 Release Score : 3 S/N 3000-9147F5-77 Running Total : 6 Disk 5/5 A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWACDX31.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- DiskExtender 3.00 for Win/NT [1/7] Previous Total : 6 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 9 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWASINT.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- SoftIce/NT from NuMega Previous Total : 9 Version 1.0 Release Score : 4 S/N 3000-9147F5-77 Running Total : 13 A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWAVOX01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- Voice for Windows95 [1/6] Previous Total : 13 Release Score : 4 A Group Running Total : 17 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWALCB21.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-22-96 Filedate : -- Lotus Components Beta2 [01/06] Previous Total : 17 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 20 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWALVN11.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-22-96 Filedate : -- Lotus VideoNotes v1.2 [01/03] Previous Total : 20 Release Score : 4 A Group Running Total : 24 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWAVW101.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-25-96 Filedate : -- ParcPlace VisualWave v1.0A [01/12] Previous Total : 24 The object-oriented development Release Score : 4 environment for creating live Running Total : 28 Web applications. A Group That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : PWA-FTM1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- FAMILY TREEMAKER 3.1 for WIN 95 [1/5] Previous Total : 28 Release Score : 4 A Group Running Total : 32 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeN Filename : RBS-ICCD.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- ICCD v3.2 for Windows 95 Previous Total : 0 ________________________________[01/01] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 3 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBS-WRAR.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-21-96 Filedate : -- RAR v2.00 for Windows 95/32s Previous Total : 3 ________________________________[01/01] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 6 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBSB1801.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-22-96 Filedate : -- OS/2 Warp v4.0 aka OS/2 Merlin Build 18 Previous Total : 6 ________________________________[01/49] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 9 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBS-METL.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-23-96 Filedate : -- Metz Lock v4.0 for Windows Previous Total : 9 ________________________________[01/01] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 12 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBS-HTNT.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-24-96 Filedate : -- HTML Notepad v2.0 for Windows 95 Previous Total : 12 ________________________________[01/01] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 15 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBS-MHZI.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-24-96 Filedate : -- MicroHouse Zip Previous Total : 15 _____________________________ __[01/01] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 18 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBS-QBR1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-25-96 Filedate : -- Quickbooks UPDATE: To Version 4.0r11 Previous Total : 18 ________________________________[01/01] Release Score : 1 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 19 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : XF-OBJ01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- OBJECT STORE 4.0.1 FOR WINDOWS NT/95 Previous Total : 0 (c) OBJECT DESIGN Release Score : 4 [01/16] Running Total : 4 sikos Filename : XFFX32R1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-20-96 Filedate : -- INTEL 32-BIT to ALPHA 32-BIT Previous Total : 4 Release Candidate 1 (c) DEC Release Score : 3 [01/05] Running Total : 7 sikos Filename : XFLW5C01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-24-96 Filedate : -- LIGHTWAVE 5.0 -FINAL RELEASE- (REVISION C) Previous Total : 7 CD-RIP 100% CRACKED (c) NEWTEK Release Score : 4 [01/22] Running Total : 11 sikos Filename : XFICET95.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-25-96 Filedate : -- ICE TCP 95 TRIALWARE Previous Total : 11 -CRACKED- Release Score : 3 [01/01] Running Total : 14 sikos Filename : XFEXCD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER Previous Total : 14 FULL DOCUMENTATION Release Score : 2 [01/15] Running Total : 16 sikos Filename : XFSDK201.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-26-96 Filedate : -- MICROSOFT SDK FOR WINDOWS NT / 95 Previous Total : 16 CD-RIP Release Score : 5 [01/69] Running Total : 21 sikos Score Chart : Utils DOD 10 Points MTY 25 Points PWA 32 Points RBS 19 Points X-F 21 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Mortality - [3.6] Pirates with Attitudes - [3.6] X-Force - [3.5] Drink or Die - [3.3] Rebels - [2.7] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Utils 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. Dates of Utils Reviewed : 06/26/96 -> 07/03/96 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- _______________ ____________ ____________ Previous Total : 0 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Release Score : 0 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / Running Total : 0 \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ===================== [ DOD * 96 ] == Filename : MTYDSK01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Kid Desk /f Windows '95 Previous Total : 0 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 2 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/21]\_____\_______>[06/27/96]==) Filename : MTYWC421.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-30-96 Filedate : -- WILDCAT v4.20 FOR DOS (c) MUSTANG Previous Total : 2 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 1 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 3 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/04]\_____\_______>[06/30/96]==) -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- DUPE -/- Filename : MTYCAD01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-01-96 Filedate : -- Drafix QuickCAD v4.0 Win'95/Win NT Previous Total : 3 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 4 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 7 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/14]\_____\_______>[07/01/96]==) Filename : MTYNCUP1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-01-96 Filedate : -- Norton Commander 95 Comm. Update Previous Total : 7 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 1 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 8 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[07/01/96]==) Filename : EX20MTY2.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- Extra! X v2.0 F/Win95 (c) AttachMate Previous Total : 8 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 10 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/08]\_____\_______>[07/02/96]=) Filename : MTYDRG01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- Drugs (c) Healthsoft /f Windows Previous Total : 10 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 12 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/12]\_____\_______>[07/02/96]==) Filename : MTYIDRV1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- InterDrive v4.12 (c) FTP Software Inc. Previous Total : 12 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 15 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/02]\_____\_______>[07/02/96]==) Filename : MTYTN327.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- FTP TN3270/TN5250 Build 2021 Previous Total : 15 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 2 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 17 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/01]\_____\_______>[07/02/96]==) Filename : PWANTRC1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Win/NT 4.0 Release Candidate 1 [1/9] Previous Total : 0 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 3 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWALM601.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- Lotus cc:Mail 6.0 Client RELEASE [01/57] Previous Total : 3 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 6 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWANTS01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-30-96 Filedate : -- Win/NT 4.0 Server - RC-1 [01/23] Previous Total : 6 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 9 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWAOPT01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- Optima++ 1.0 Developer Ed. [01/25] Previous Total : 9 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 12 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWAPCNE1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- pcAnywhere 7.5 32 bit [1/4] Previous Total : 12 Release Score : 5 A Group Running Total : 17 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : PWARC-01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-02-96 Filedate : -- Win/NT 4.0 Release Candidate 1 [01/19] Previous Total : 17 Release Score : 3 A Group Running Total : 20 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : RBSPB1A.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Packard Bell CBT April 96 Previous Total : 0 ________________________________[01/07] Release Score : 2 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 2 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ Filename : RBSPB2A.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-27-96 Filedate : -- Packard Bell CBT April 96 Part 2 Previous Total : 2 ________________________________[01/20] Release Score : 2 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 4 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ Filename : RBSSCA01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-29-96 Filedate : -- Scala 4.10 for Windows 95 +Clients Previous Total : 4 _____________________________ __[01/20] Release Score : 4 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 8 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : RBSCATP1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-03-96 Filedate : -- Catapult Server Beta 3 (c) Microsoft Previous Total : 8 ________________________________[01/07] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 11 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : XFALTMS1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 6-28-96 Filedate : -- DEC ALTAVISTA POP3 MAIL SERVER Previous Total : 0 FOR WINDOWS NT Release Score : 3 [01/02] Running Total : 3 sikos Score Chart : Utils DOD 0 MTY 17 Points PWA 20 Points RBS 11 Points X-F 3 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Pirates with Attitudes - [3.3] X-Force - [3.0] Rebels - [2.8] Mortality - [2.1] Drink or Die - [0.0] r c n r e v i e w s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Group Reviews : Utils The following is a chart combining the total points of the top 5 utils groups within the past 4 weeks : 4 Week Summary JUN JUN JUN JUN Total DOD 4/1 8/3 10/3 0/0 22/7 3.3 0.0 -3.3 MTY 27/8 8/4 25/7 17/8 77/27 3.6 2.1 -1.5 PWA 13/5 16/6 32/9 20/6 81/26 3.6 3.3 -0.3 RBS 18/5 3/1 19/7 11/4 51/17 2.7 2.8 +0.1 X-F 6/2 9/4 21/6 3/1 39/13 3.5 3.0 -0.5 # 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 All Time Summary RHP RLP RHY RLY TWI LPI Total ATY HCY DOD 22 3 5 1 2 1 97/27 3.6 -3.5 MTY 36 3 17 1 0 0 158/60 2.6 PWA 40 7 15 3 0 0 231/72 3.2 RBS 26 3 10 1 0 0 130/43 3.0 X-F 24 3 10 1 1 1 105/36 2.9 RHP/RLP = Record High/Low Points for Releases RHY/RLY = Record High/Low Number of Releases TWI/LPI = Total Weeks Inactive/Longest Period of Weeks Inactive ATY/HCY = Average of Total Yield/Highest Change in Yield THURSDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 FRIDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 SATURDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 SUNDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 MONDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 TUESDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 WEDNESDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION 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 THURSDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION ABI-MB.ZIP 1 DOS MetaBalls IPAS ABI-MGC.ZIP 1 DOS Magic IPAS BKZ-FPPW.ZIP 1 DOS Publishing Wizard v1.1 CB4-APOL.ZIP 1 DOS Apollo v1.0 CB4-DSCP.ZIP 1 DOS DiscPlay CB4-EC12.ZIP 1 WIN Easy CD v1.02 CB4-FAWP.ZIP 1 DOS Fusion Application Wizard v1.5 Pro CB4QMW2.ZIP 1 WIN Quality management Tool v6.01 MTYXING.ZIP 1 W95 Xing MPeg Player v3.0b PANZER21.ZIP 21 WIN Panzer General RBS-RECH.ZIP 1 W95 ReachOut v5.05 RTN-R415.ZIP 1 DOS Rance v4.1 RTNTSL33.ZIP 1 DOS Three Sisters S-M51NT8.ZIP 8 WNT Maestro v5.1 SVOICE2.ZIP 1 DOS Pacific Images Communications Super Voice XF-BO29.ZIP 1 WIN Microsoft BackOffice SDK v2.0 FRIDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION ABI-BNS.ZIP 1 DOS Bones IPAS ABI-DRP.ZIP 1 DOS Drape IPAS AX-VFR04.ZIP 4 W95 Virtua Fighter Remix Demo DOD-M302.ZIP 2 W95 MinuteMan v3.0 DODWSFTP.ZIP 1 WIN WS FTP Pro MTYCMPU2.ZIP 1 WIN CompuView Navigator PSGCAT08.ZIP 20 DOS CatFight SU27RZR4.ZIP 4 DOS SU-27 Flanker SATURDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION AUTOWN19.ZIP 1 WIN AutoWinNet Winsock Client Application FAGENT10.ZIP 1 DOS Forte Free Agent v1.0 HSOLPSG7.ZIP 7 DOS Hoyle Solitaire LGX-OS2.ZIP 1 OS2 Virus Scan v2.2.11 MTSFDX02.ZIP 1 W95 Flight Unlimited NX10B3.ZIP 1 DOS News Xpress v1.0 Beta 3 PWAACL15.ZIP 15 W95 Autocad Lite R3 RBS14-43.ZIP 1 OS2 OS/2 Merlin Build 14 ROR-NM21.ZIP 25 DOS Mechwarrior 2 : Netmech S-VFX419.ZIP 22 WIN Microsoft Visual FoxPro v4.0 Beta 1 WV169907.ZIP 1 WIN WinVN SUNDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION M8RRF-06.ZIP 6 DOS Rebel Runner MTYSTS21.ZIP 21 WIN Symptoms RFFMSIA.ZIP 1 WIN Internet Assistant v2.0 STORM-28.ZIP 31 WIN S.T.O.R.M. TRDPGV16.ZIP 16 WIN Panzer General Voice Addons UCFWSFIN.ZIP 1 WIN WSFinger VMAP20-4.ZIP 4 WIN Visual Map BCN v2.0 MONDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION CELAWB22.ZIP 1 W95 CelAnimator Beta 2 DOX-HPS4.ZIP 4 WIN HP SureStore Backup Software INTUC21A.ZIP 1 DOS VideoSoft VSView VBX KV41B310.ZIP 10 W95 Keyview 4.1 Beta 3 M8SBOK35.ZIP 35 DOS Spacebucks MTYDISC7.ZIP 7 WIN Microtest DiscPort PWA-BR07.ZIP 7 WIN BRender v1.1.2 TUESDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION CB4-GWSP.ZIP 1 W95 Graphical Workshop Pro CREATIX7.ZIP 7 WIN Creatix Online 3.12 DMNCDESK.ZIP 1 WIN Mail Desktop E32PWA27.ZIP 27 WIN EXTRA! Personal Client v6.1 HIP-TCPA.ZIP 10 WIN PC/TCP v4.0 PSG-AC2.ZIP 26 WIN American CivilWar RFFC2I3.ZIP 3 W95 Connect 2 Internet S-TLKSW3.ZIP 3 WIN Talk Show v3.1 SDM-A357.ZIP 7 DOS AuthorWare v3.5 Beta 7 UCFOMNI7.ZIP 1 W95 OmniPage Pro v7.0 XF-WB962.ZIP 2 W95 WinBench 96 WEDNESDAY JUNE FILENAME DESCRIPTION ABI-CATX.ZIP 33 DOS AlleyCats CB4-JWS3.ZIP 3 WIN Java Work Show CB4ENFRU.ZIP 1 WIN Windows Enforcer v2.1 CGNT20B1.ZIP 1 W95 CyberAgent Beta CSTONE9.ZIP 9 WIN CornerStone DMNC9B1A.ZIP 10 W95 cc:Mail Release 7 v2.1 DMNCCP15.ZIP 5 WIN cc:Mail PostOffice Release 6 v2.1 DMNDOC95.ZIP 1 W95 Smart Doctor 95 E16PWA12.ZIP 41 WIN Extra! 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MTYNCUP2.ZIP 2 DOS Norton Commander 95 Update RBSCATP7.ZIP 7 WIN Catapult Server Beta 3 XFLW5C20.ZIP 20 WIN LightWave v5.0 XOLNM2-9.ZIP 11 WIN NetMech Eight Player Pack r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #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 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/17/96 -> 06/23/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Xwing AMNESiA 600,110,475 #2 Nytemyst AMNESiA 567,103,220 #3 Maverick RiSC 468,919,979 #4 Erupt n/a 464,893,051 #5 LoLo RiSC 335,084,628 #6 Eci RiSC 322,391,271 #7 Phalycide n/a 301,339,503 #8 DarkwaVe AMNESiA 286,737,953 #9 Apocalypse Empire 276,130,111 #10 Local Yocal MALiCE 188,504,077 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/24/96 -> 06/30/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Maverick RiSC 725,542,212 #2 Nytemyst AMNESiA 577,662,069 #3 Lunatic Genius RiSC 491,461,354 #4 Erupt AMNESiA 402,247,291 #5 Xwing AMNESiA 395,430,900 #6 Phalycide AMNESiA 336,486,427 #7 Gremlin RiSC 323,258,564 #8 Suspicious Image RiSC 258,175,360 #9 The Blue Adept EVERLAST 230,545,552 #10 Asmodeus EVERLAST 214,934,479 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 07/01/96 -> 07/07/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Nytemyst AMNESiA 532,207,830 #2 Mogens AMNESiA 522,567,354 #3 Stingray 6 RiSC 460,635,857 #4 Phalycide AMNESiA 476,457,303 #5 Zenith n/a 377,069,505 #6 Iron Man RAPiER 245,815,638 #7 Asmodeus EVERLAST 288,178,643 #8 Gremlin RiSC 275,605,935 #9 Suspicious Image RiSC 248,245,525 #10 Over Drive Stealth 232,308,632 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #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 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/17/96 -> 06/23/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Razor Sharp RiSC 741,331,170 #2 Cyberjack RiSC 520,500,824 #3 Apollo Stealth 460,309,619 #4 Frost AMNESiA 383,240,794 #5 Bizzy fATE 356,347,571 #6 Darkside RiSC 255,365,537 #7 Davan AMNESiA 218,473,574 #8 Midnight Grave Digger AMNESiA 205,292,034 #9 Skybum RiSC 166,427,164 #10 Crazy AMNESiA 105,706,825 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 06/24/96 -> 06/30/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Razor Sharp RiSC 760,264,017 #2 Arch-Vile RiSC 395,811,314 #3 Apollo Stealth 360,543,646 #4 Bizzy fATE 359,197,034 #5 Cyberjack RiSC 349,467,766 #6 Darkside RiSC 265,209,705 #7 Cryptic Pain AMNESiA 170,934,505 #8 Stingray 6 RiSC 130,114,002 #9 Prophet RiSC 124,108,786 #10 Piston AMNESiA 116,448,706 r c n t o p 1 o 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 : Dates of Upload Count : 07/01/96 -> 07/07/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Bizzy fATE 977,697,892 #2 Frost Damage 667,814,417 #3 The Secret Agent AMNESiA 575,287,722 #4 Cyberjack RiSC 467,665,370 #5 Cryptic Pain AMNESiA 448,295,963 #6 Arch-Vile RiSC 430,861,481 #7 Ivanhoe RAPiER 161,964,849 #8 Prophet RiSC 147,729,752 #9 Lucifers Fear RTS 118,023,175 #10 Rainbow RAPiER 117,967,290 r c n d e a r r o a d r e b e l ! 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! Dear RoadRebel, About the disk size/number of disks limit, here are my feelings. It is getting to where the 40 disk limit is hard to match. Game sizes keep growing, as do utils sizes, we can't keep the limit so low. It would be like saying my foot is growing, but I can only buy size 10 shoes. There are many utils coming out now that are very large, especially some of the operating systems, you don't want only part of an operating system, you want the whole thing. I think the size of disks should stay small enough to fit on 1 normal 1.44 meg floppy. There should be a group of one or 2 leaders from each games and utils group, that have a monthly meeting on IRC, for each of their type of releases. They could discuss things like this, I personally think the current limit for games should be 50, and utils 60. Signed, Manic Dear Manic, 50 disks for a game is fine, if the game is worth it, but when they go higher it better be a GOOD game. But I think that this 1.4 meg stuff is shit. There is really no point to it anymore, no one uses disks. BUT, we need to come up with a new standard for relasing that all groups can agree with. I personally think thaty switching to 3 meg disks would be the best, BUT it won't happen anytime soon of course. Dear Road Rebel, I'm sure you have probably read about this topic in a computer game magazine, but I'm telling you straight out, from warez kid, to warez kid. Many Groups like to release the games that are big, and are over at least 30 megs. That is how it seems to be to me. I myself solely judge a game on how long I play it, which sooner or later leads to "gameplay." If companies such as Origin keep releasing such big games, like Wing Commander 4 (6 cd's), who is going to want to rip that, and release that? Exactly, no one. My point is, I understand it is not the releasing groups faults releasing big games, like Vikings, and Front Page Sports Baseball 96 by Razor 1911. I like to courier warez, for DSC (Dark Side Couriers) and for PTA (Power Trading Arsenal) but aside from all the couriering, I also like to play the games. I don't think I am the only one either. As a tip for releasing groups, look for games that you can play, instead of watching, because most of the big games are packed with boring, full motion video. Don't get me wrong, full motion video was awesome, when it first came out. But now that FMV is overplayed, and is found in most games, it is more boring than exciting. Also, I have seen a couple games where FMV has been perfectly filled in, to occupy ONE cd, and an occasional TWO cds, but when you get to 4,5, and 6 cds, what the hell? To be totally honest with you, I had more fun playing the game packed in the RCN E-Mags, than I did playing Wing Commander III. If more games were released that you could play, more people would play them. Signed, Retix Dear Retix, I agree somewhat, BUT, I have played some larger games that I think were ripped perfect. A good case is Afterlife by Lucas Arts, the game was 40 disks which made most people avoid it, BUT, I leeched it and it was WELL worth the time, the only thing really ripped was the scenarios. I asked Prestige to release them seperate, but of course I have leeched huge shit that sucked. As for FMV, most of it BLOWS! Rip that shit outa there! Signed, Road Rebel Dear RoadRebel, In concern to the file size of many programs, I feel that it is a waste to release programs more than like 20 disks because on my BBS I noticed if I put a file online that is bigger than 12 disks, it rarely gets downloaded unless the hype is so good for instance like Duke Nukem. Why would someone waste their time downloading something for maybe 3 to 4 days and then have it needing a fix or not working all together. Most people that I deal with on my system don't even have the greatest computers with hard drives of like 800 megs. Why are they going to want something taking up like 200 megs??? I think it is good to make some CD-rips but do them in parts like some groups are beginning to do like make it a mininum CD-rip then for all those who have the time and space make a sound addon then a graphics addon so that everyone who wants to enjoy the game can have a chance to. For instance, people on my BBS want a Need for Speed SE minimum CD-Rip because 56 disks is just way too many to download. I think bigger releases are good though for Internet traders with shells because they have the ability to grab the files a lot quicker. Signed, HBKid Dear HBKid, Well, I will leech anything off a bbs if I have the time, BUT, when I was a sysop, I know that some people wouldn't go over like 10 disks so I know what you are saying. I also think Need for Speed SE was a waste of time, I mean come on. I think we would feel better about these huge games if the release groups would use their minds and look at what they are releasing first. Signed, Road Rebel Dear Road Rebel, There has been a lot of crap said about IRC operators in RCN lately, and a lot more said about them in channel #RCN. I'd like to begin by saying that IRC ops are NOT our enemies. Sure, we've all ran into them, and we've all sworn revenge at one point or another, but if you know how to deal with them, it isn't that big of a deal. Let me offer a few suggestions. IRC ops do NOT take out personal vendettas. When they /kill you, they are doing their job. Only once was I mistakenly /killed and not apologized too. They have a rather difficult job to do. You've got to remember that not everyone uses mass cloning to flood people and stuff. People don't know anything about it, and those people shouldn't have to put up with it. IRC ops are trying to keep IRC up and running for beginners. Back in the day EfNet was created, it was just that. However with the adding of more servers and the attraction IRC had too good coders/hackers, people found ways to take advantages of bugs in servers. DO NOT RUN CLONES. It's that freaking simple. If you are so lame you can't take out a channel with a time stamp collider, foreign servers, or some ICMP flooding, then don't bother coming in to harass people with your clones. There are so many people who think crap like textbox and smoke are the coolest things around, but think about it, if they were, why would they be freely distributed? Understand that IRC ops are just doing their job. If they /kill you, apologize, show you don't hold it against them. They don't sit there /kill'ing people going "hehehHEEHEHEhehehehheh yeah cool cool die die heehehaehHEHEHE." No, they are simply trying to keep EfNet free of lamers. Most of them don't give a crap about it, just wait until they go away and do it again. I have made a LOT of IRC op friends. They are pretty damn fun to talk to, if you just give them a chance. They've helped/saved my ass on more than one occasion. I know for a fact almost every major IRC op knows I run a crapload of bots, but they don't go around k-lining me because it isn't a big deal. And I'm nice about it. I've been told before by various IRC ops that another IRC op or them doesn't like my bot on their server. So I take it off, no big deal at all. Don't argue with individuals. It's their machine, they can do whatever they want. One time, an oper from epix.net said I was "famous." Heh, I did a little digging and found out I have been talked about sometimes. The point is this, we're all bad ass IRC hackers, yeah, we know. Try and remember, just for a second, back to your first time on IRC. Yeah, you're sitting there on your Netcom shell account, loaded ircII and wondering how the HELL you talk to people. After spending about 2 hours in the help files for ircII you figure it's time to type /channelsor whatever it was and join the first thing that caught your eye. So you join up#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!3yearoldsexpicswithrblchickn and expect to find some rather interesting discussion, only instead to find the channel taken over and you suddenly quit irc with "Excess Flood." Well, you would have had NO idea how to defend yourself. This is what IRC ops are for, to help the new guys. Everytime an IRC op steps in to make me give back a channel I've taken over, he always says "Just let things cool down and take it back later tonight, I got a job to do here." Or something like that. And don't go knocking Moogle, he's killed my bots a couple times, but he saved #Sailormoon twice last week. The point I'm trying to make here guys, is show a little understanding and cooperation. You might make a rather powerful friend. And even if you don't, you always got someone who won't hesitate to answer a question or help you out when you are having problems. It's what they are for, they aren't all fascist dictators, nor are they all Communists, so don't sweat it. The last thing to remember is, NEVER flood an IRC op. If you're that stupid, you deserve whatever you get. Signed, Lightwing Dear Lightwing, I don't think we said that all IRC ops are dicks, BUT, I would venture say say at least 50% are power hungry pricks that like to push people around. But, I have also learned you can get a lot done just talking to IRC ops and not bitching at them. As far as not ragging, Moogle goes. I think an IRC op that make a statement "I can kill people for no reason if I want to" should be screwed with and pissed off as much as possible. That is like a cop saying, "I can shoot people for no reason." And you forgot to say, IRC ops all seem to know each other, and they all talk. I am banned off servers I have never been on, and some I have never done anything wrong on! Signed, Road Rebel Next Week's Topic : Too Addicted? How do you know when you spend too much time online? How much is too much? Please email all responses to an385786@anon.penet.fi. r c n a s t r o l o g y ! 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 of the week : Positive planetary movement when Jupiter is linked to Mercury will bring a new upward hill toward all goals. Things may seem though, but your labor will prove worthwhile if you stuck with it! (January 21 to February 19) : Your consideration of a leadership position in a prominent warez group would benefit from a second opinion, so try to keep an open mind. A long-term decision made later in the week will reap rewards at the end of the month. Trust your intuition. (February 20 to March 20) : A romantic, creative or group objective is well within your grasp as long as you have the courage and commitment to pursue it. The Sun and Mercury in your fellow water sign of Cancer are focusing on the sunny side of life. This is your week, enjoy it! (March 21 to April 20) : Friendly persuasion will serve you better than strongarm tactics this week. Pay close attention to particulars that hang with you in group IRC channels, and avoid being excessively ambitious. Thursday's Sun-Mercury liaison will help you resolve a conflict you may have with some friends in a group IRC channel, but you must first be willing to let others have their say. (April 21 to May 21) : An offer or opportunity may sound better than it really is, but it is still worth exploring. With Mercury and Jupiter united early in the week, you may be tempted to state your terms a little too forcefully. Listen to those who know more than you do. (May 22 to June 21) : With your ruler Mercury linked to both Jupiter and the Sun, you can put the finishing touches on relationships as long as you recognize the risks involved. Don't allow yourself to be sidetracked by people who have more time but less good sense than you. (June 22 to July 23) : Positive planetary activity in the partnership angel of your solar chart will enhance an existing relationship or pave the way for a new one. Plans made toward the end of the week should reach fruition around the Full Moon on the 30th. (July 24 to August 23) : You must determine whether to follow your gut feelings or take the logical approach regarding admission to a group this week. Stick with your instincts and you won't go far wrong. The Sun, your ruler, aligned with Mercury on Thursday will bring good advice from an unexpected direction. (August 24 to September 23) : Money or worries about a position in a prominent warez group may be causing you to neglect other responsibilities, but with your ruler Mercury positively linked to Jupiter and the Sun this week, you are wonderfully placed to decide how best to satisfy your personal needs. Don't be afraid to spend time and money on yourself. You deserve it! (September 24 to October 23 ) : No matter how disruptive the events of the past 12 months have been, your life now appears to be on an upward curve. In fact, this week's stimulating celestial influences should make you realize just how close you are to reaching a certain goal. Just be careful not to overlook an important detail. (October 24 to November 22) : Something that seems like a brilliant scheme may turn out to be no more than a routine idea when inventive Mercury joins forces with optimistic Jupiter early in the week. Go ahead by all means, but be sure you appreciate the plan's true nature before committing to it. (November 23 to December 21) : Matters of group status and affiliation are once again on the agenda, but now it appears that you have a very real shot at improving your circumstances. Your ruler, Jupiter, linked to Mercury, may provide you with a sensible solution as long as there are not too many strings attached. (December 22 to January 20) : Someone close is about to put forward a proposal or suggestion that could have lasting implications. Knowing exactly what you want from the relationship will offer the best chance of achieving it. Don't be influenced by other's advice, your own judgment is sound. r c n h a c k e r z c o r n e r ! Author : Trip Subject : Phreaking for the Absolute Beginner First off, you need to know that phone phreaking is ILLEGAL, and you can get in trouble for it. But let's not worry about that yet. For the beginner phreaker, I would suggest beige-boxing. Beige-boxing let's you use somebody elses' phone line to make calls. Calls that THEY have to pay for. Here is what you are going to need : 1.) A regular old touch-tone phone 2.) A regular phone cord 3.) Wire strippers 4.) 2 alligator clips 5.) Screwdriver 6.) Electrical tape 7.) Some 900 numbers to have fun with All right, so you have all this stuff and now you need to know what to do with it. First off, you will need to cut one end of your phone cord off. Now strip the outside covering off about 4-5 inches. You should see a red, green, yellow and a black wire. You will not be needing the yellow or the black one, so you can either cut them both off or leave them there. Now you need to strip the covering off the red and the green wires. This normally can't be done with regular wire-strippers, so I just use a knife. After you have the RED and the GREEN wires stripped, you need to attach the green one to a green alligator clip (preferrably) and the red one to a red alligator clip. It makes it a lot easier to match the wire colors to the color of the alligator clips (the color thing isn't important now, but it will be after you become more advanced. Now you need to cover up this connection between the alligator clips and the wires by wrapping it with electrical tape. Now, you are ready to find a house or a phone box to phreak. It is a LOT easier and safer beige-boxing off somebody elses' house that is to beige-box a bell phone box (phone boxes are what you see in front of your house, and on the side of the street, etc.). To find a house to phreak, you will need to take a look around your neighborhood. It is safest to do it on some old ladies' house who lives close to you. And only do this at night, after 11 pm is always good. The house should be somewhat close to your house, because you don't want to have to walk through a big neighborhood late at night, especially if you are under 18, because the cops will stop you and ask you what you are doing, and ask you what's in your back pack. It would really suck to have to open your bag and pull out a beige-box for the cop. And they get pissed and tell you to go home. Once you have found a house, be aware of your surroundings. Be sure there are not people, feds, and pac-bell workers around. Now you will need to go to the side of the house, where the utilities are. The utilities consist of the fuse box, television, and TELEPHONE!. You should see two panels, one labeled "television", and one labeled "telephone" with a little bell logo on it. As I hope you already have figured out, we will be using the one that says "telephone." Using a flathead screwdriver, take off the panel, and you should see a grey rubber covering. Take the rubber covering off, and you will see a small black box with 4 screws sticking out or you might see 4 bolts sticking out. Now take your alligator clips and clip them both onto 2 of the 4 screws. Now plug the phone cord into the phone, pick up the phone, and you should now have a dial tone! If you do not have a dial tone, you may not have connected the phone cord wires to the alligator clips correctly, or you may need to re-adjust the alligator clips onto the screw, or try the other 2 screws. You can now call wherever you want and it doesn't cost you a penny. To find out the number that you are calling from, call 1-800-MY-ANI-IS. When you are done, make SURE that you cover up your tracks, so suspision of your presence does not arouse. I ususally crank-call people in New York (I am in California by the way) and fuck with them. Another cool thing to do is call up some 900 numbers. Boy those numbers really get expensive. I've seen $7.50 per MINUTE. But who gives a fuck, you don't have to pay for it. Harrassing the operator is also fun. Have fun my fellow phreaks. r c n w a r e i q t e s t 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! Celestian frequents one of the following IRC channels : [ ] A. #Lesbian [ ] B. #Lesbiansex [ ] C. #Lespics [ ] D. #Winterhawk FTP stands for : [ ] A. File Transfer Production [ ] B. File Transfer Protocol [ ] C. Full Throttle Pirates [ ] D. Two of the Above Mikeysoft was once a leader of this courier group : [ ] A. Malice [ ] B. Nokturnal Trading Alliance [ ] C. Request to Send [ ] D. Rise in Superior Couriering Sonic, the first op of channel #Warez666, was once a senior member of all of the following groups EXCEPT : [ ] A. Foundation [ ] B. Fucking Sweet Warez [ ] C. Second Foundation [ ] D. None of the Above The acronym of the AOL courier group UPS is short for : [ ] A. Fast Action Trade Exchange [ ] B. Rise in Superior Couriering [ ] C. United Pirating Spreaders [ ] D. None of the Above Rebel Chicken enjoys being an op in this channel : [ ] A. #Gaysex [ ] B. #Lesbian [ ] C. #Rapesex [ ] D. #Sailormoon Members of this group released NHL Powerplay with the knowledge that the game was not cracked : [ ] A. Coredump [ ] B. Napalm [ ] C. Prestige [ ] D. Tyranny This person is not part of Request to Send's Council : [ ] A. Cryptic Pain [ ] B. Ordnance [ ] C. Ninja [ ] D. The Krazy Little Punk The Rebels WHQ is located in this country : [ ] A. Japan [ ] B. Sweden [ ] C. United States [ ] D. None of the Above This person is the President of Rapier : [ ] A. Fugitive [ ] B. Manhunter [ ] C. Rom Racer [ ] D. None of the Above r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding release groups : Votes Sent From : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96 Voting Results : Games HBD 29 Votes NPM 17 Votes PSG 45 Votes RZR 34 Votes ROR 18 Votes Total Votes : 143 Voting Results : Utils DMN 5 Votes DOD 15 Votes LGX n/a MTY 22 Votes PNC 8 Votes PWA 31 Votes RBS 30 Votes SCUM 15 Votes SDM 5 Votes X-F 22 Votes Total Votes : 150 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding release groups : Votes Sent From : 06/17/96 -> 06/23/96 Voting Results : Games HBD 18 Votes NPM 15 Votes PSG 43 Votes RZR 39 Votes ROR 13 Votes Total Votes : 128 Voting Results : Utils DMN 3 Votes DOD 10 Votes LGX 3 Votes MTY 15 Votes PNC 5 Votes PWA 35 Votes RBS 33 Votes SCUM 9 Votes SDM 2 Votes X-F 15 Votes Total Votes : 130 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding release groups : Votes Sent From : 06/24/96 -> 06/30/96 Voting Results : Games HBD 28 Votes NPM 19 Votes PSG 53 Votes RZR 44 Votes ROR 6 Votes Total Votes : 150 Voting Results : Utils DMN 4 Votes DOD 11 Votes LGX n/a MTY 25 Votes PNC 7 Votes PWA 37 Votes RBS 30 Votes SCUM 9 Votes SDM 6 Votes X-F 21 Votes Total Votes : 150 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding release groups : Votes Sent From : 07/01/96 -> 07/06/96 Voting Results : Games HBD 20 Votes NPM 33 Votes PSG 59 Votes RZR 35 Votes ROR 2 Votes Total Votes : 149 Voting Results : Utils DMN 4 Votes DOD 14 Votes LGN 4 Votes MTY 26 Votes PNC 14 Votes PWA 28 Votes RBS 27 Votes SCUM 7 Votes SDM 3 Votes X-F 21 Votes Total Votes : 148 r c n v o t i n g ! 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 : Which GAMES group is #1? [ ] Hybrid [ ] Napalm [ ] Prestige [ ] Razor 1911 [ ] Release on Rampage Which UTILS group is #1? [ ] Demolition [ ] Drink or Die [ ] Legion [ ] Mortality [ ] Pinnacle [ ] Pirates with Attitudes [ ] Rebels [ ] Scum [ ] Sodom [ ] X-Force Which TRADE group is #1 in the field of NET couriering? [ ] Amnesia [ ] Damage [ ] Empire [ ] Everlast [ ] Fast Action Trading Exchange [ ] Malice [ ] Motiv8 [ ] Power Trading Arsenal [ ] Request to Send [ ] Rise in Superior Couriering Which TRADE group is #1 in the field of BBS couriering? [ ] Amnesia [ ] Damage [ ] Empire [ ] Everlast [ ] Fast Action Trading Exchange [ ] Malice [ ] Motiv8 [ ] Power Trading Arsenal [ ] Request to Send [ ] Rise in Superior Couriering Please email all responses to an385786@anon.penet.fi. r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding courier groups : Votes Sent From : 06/10/96 -> 06/16/96 Voting Chart : BBS TAC 5 Votes EMP 7 Votes EVR 30 Votes fATE 15 Votes GODS n/a MAL 12 Votes M8 10 Votes RTS 8 Votes RiSC 32 Votes SIN 3 Votes Total Votes : 122 Voting Chart : NET TAC 5 Votes EMP 3 Votes EVR 15 Votes fATE 30 Votes GODS n/a MAL 15 Votes M8 9 Votes RTS 13 Votes RiSC 35 Votes SIN 5 Votes Total Votes : 130 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding courier groups : Votes Sent From : 06/17/96 -> 06/23/96 Voting Chart : BBS EMP 12 Votes EVR 28 Votes fATE 22 Votes GODS 3 Votes MAL 5 Votes M8 12 Votes RPR 15 Votes RTS 6 Votes RiSC 34 Votes SIN 2 Votes Total Votes : 139 Voting Chart : NET EMP 12 Votes EVR 25 Votes fATE 15 Votes GODS 11 Votes MAL 2 Votes M8 18 Votes RPR 9 Votes RTS 8 Votes RiSC 40 Votes SIN 4 Votes Total Votes : 144 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding courier groups : Votes Sent From : 06/24/96 -> 06/30/96 Voting Chart : BBS AMN 15 Votes DGT n/a EMP 22 Votes EVR 30 Votes fATE 16 Votes MAL 9 Votes M8 8 Votes RPR 13 Votes RTS 2 Votes RiSC 39 Votes Total Votes : 154 Voting Chart : NET AMN 22 Votes DGT n/a AMN 17 Votes EVR 12 Votes fATE 20 Votes MAL 8 Votes M8 16 Votes RPR 11 Votes RTS 2 Votes RiSC 42 Votes Total Votes : 150 r c n v o t i n g ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding courier groups : Votes Sent From : 07/01/96 -> 07/06/96 Voting Results : BBS AMN 31 Votes DMG 4 Votes EMP 24 Votes EVR 34 Votes fATE 12 Votes MAL 1 Votes M8 2 Votes RPR n/a RTS 3 Votes RiSC 35 Votes Total Votes : 146 Voting Results : Net AMN 26 Votes DMG 17 Votes EMP 21 Votes EVR 16 Votes fATE 24 Votes MAL 3 Votes M8 1 Votes RPR n/a RTS 2 Votes RiSC 30 Votes Total Votes : 140 r c n s u r v e y ! 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 : 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 Please E-Mail all responses to an385786@anon.penet.fi. r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : Entropy Makes a Pass No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. *** RblChickn (rblchickn@westworld.com) has joined channel #Gaysex *** Topic for #Gaysex : We are Coredump! We are gay! *** Topic for #Gaysex set by Entropy on July 7 16:14:46 *** Users on #Gaysex : RblChickn @Entropy @Samurai @X-Factor @Venom @PForm @DarkSoul @Lester @Romen @Arcturus @Raptor @Talon @H_Penguin -Habanero- Welcome to #Gaysex, RblChickn. I'm Habanero, an eggdrop bot. -Habanero- If you plan to become a regular on #Gaysex, -Habanero- '/msg Habanero fuckme' and I'll add you to the userlist! Entropy, why the hell did you invite me here? You know I'm not gay. I don't even like being in channels like this. I heard rumors that you were desperate for a relationship. I heard you weren't having much success with girls, so may be you should give up on the opposite sex and start looking for relationships with gay men like me. * Entropy kisses Rebel Chicken. Let's do more. I'm free for tonight. Eeeeiiiiiwwwww... what the hell... get away from me. I'd rather fuck a cow than fuck a man. A cow rather than me? That hurts. Yea, that's right, I'd rather fuck a cow like Winterhauk than you. Hey, I'm only doing this to you as favor. I thought you'd be lonely. My friend Incarnate told me that you're Asian, and I dig little Asian boys. They're so fun to play with. :) Yes, I'm Asian, but I'm not a little boy, and I'm not a toy for you to play with. Why the hell do you like little Asian boys anyway? I gather great pleasure from fucking little boys, especially Asian ones. Little Asian boys have tight anuses, it's more fun when it's nice and tight. You should try it. :) * Entropy gives RblChickn more kisses and a BIG perverted smile. :) Dam, I never knew you were gay. I used to respect you. You used to be smart, and you used to be straight. How did all this happen? Who did this to you? Who made you turn gay? Nobody made me gay. And don't call me gay, I'd rather call myself a chick with a dick. But there's no use hiding any longer, I've been gay all my life. I've just been living a lie, and if you ever hear me say that I'm not gay, then it's only because I'm in a state of denial. When I'm telling the truth, I can easily come out and tell people that I like being fruity. I'm a faggot, and I like anuses. You've been gay all your life and you've just been hiding it? I pity you then. Some of us are just more fortunate than others, I have little drive to go out and cruise for chicks, but you've just been born with some kind of penis defect or something. None of us were born perfect, but you... you're a freak of nature. I guess so. Well, my friend Incarnate, he's gay too. He was the one who taught me how to fuck anuses. I guess I started hanging around Incarnate too much. Some of Incarnate must have rubbed off on me, or maybe he just rubbed me too hard one night or something. *** Incarnate (inc6@max1.37.westworld.com) has joined channel #Gaysex Speaking of the devil... Hi honey! Fuck this, I don't want to start hanging around you guys too much, you guys might try to pirate my anus or something. I'm outta here... *** RblChickn has left channel #Gaysex r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Crystaline Death Subject : Blowing Up the World 9 Times? Why did I write this? I thought RCN may need a relief breaker from all of the usual stuff. Do not take the following list too seriously. Heheheh... I just thought of this stuff up. And by the way. The Quiet Riot, go take that lame group NFS (Need for Speed) and shove it up your ass. That so called ripped install.exe was used by a group! So go fucking steal a life. As we know, the world has enough nuclear missles to blow up the world exactly 9 times. The following are the top ten reasons why we can't blow up the world 9 times : THE TOP TEN LIST! ----------------- 10.) If the world blew up, where would we get hot dogs? 9.) Because I want to live! 8.) Rebel Chicken is still a virgin! 7.) We can't find the key to unlock the failsafes on the missles. 6.) We got alien invaders in my backyard stealing all the plutonium! 5.) We have to wait until July 4th. I want to see the movie Independance Day. 4.) Your mother is so fat that she would shield part of the world from the explosion. 3.) Once you blow up the world once, you can't blow it up again! 2.) Damned President Clinton already sold all of our nuclear weapons to the Communist Soviets. And the number 1 reason is : 1.) There wouldn't be any more RCNs made! ;) r c n m a d r c n ! For those of you who are physically unable to beat the RCN game found in past issues of RCN, you can have the passwords here for FREE. There's no need to go out of your way to crack RCN, here are the passwords for issues 14 to 20. Enjoy. RCN Issue #14 : TKRP RCN Issue #15 : HITAX RCN Issue #16 : DEFACTOE RCN Issue #17 : DEXTROMETHORPHAN RCN Issue #18 : EMILY RCN Issue #19 : 504-3066 RCN Issue #20 : COREFART *PS* Learn to take a joke... r c n r e a l i t y c h e c k n e t w o r k RELEASE INFORMATION Supplied By : RCN Staff Packaged By : RCN Staff Release Type : PC E-Zine Release Date : July 7, 1996 Requirements : IBM 386, 2MB RAM, VGA, DOS 3.3+ REALITY Presents : REALITY CHECK NETWORK #21 (C) RCN!!! This is the 21st 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!!! GROUP NEWS/QUOTES 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 : The Insane Sicilian, Sargon, and Zima Man. " 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 'a freaked out leet' Sitting in the dark, the imagination starts to work. All those dark and hideous thoughts begin to appear. They show their grotesque faces in two forms. One is pure hatred, the other is love. You scream into the dark but no one can hear you. You try to scream again, but no sounds comes out. You look around, but cannot see a thing, for everyone and everything has gone and left you. Alone. - Nevesis 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 GROUP INFORMATION Editors ......... Hitex, Rebel Chicken, Coordinators .... Darkwing, Road Rebel, Senior Members .. Celestian, Lucifers Fear, RATM, Xenon, Members ......... Alfalfa, Ante, Crack, Crystaline, Dark-Elf, Frost, Glock, Kahn, Kang, Kang, Krimson Wrane, Krypto, The Insane Sicilian, Law & Order, Mike & Dave, Nightcrawler, Oxygen, Pandemonium, Pharaoh, Sam Vision, Sargon, Stealth, Tuxedo Mask, Underground King, Undinism, Universal Soldier, Velocity, Waynekerr, Xanthos, Zima Man, Mr. Zog, Traders ......... Arch-Vile, and Shatter Star. MEMBER BOARDS < BULLETIN BOARD > < AREA CODE/SYSOP > < NODES/POSITION > Malevolence .......... n/a Egoistic Fate .... 8 WORLD HQ .. Beyond Akira ......... n/a Pharaoh .......... 13 CANADIAN HQ The Lower Level ...... n/a Underground King . 10 USA HQ .... DropZone ............. n/a Mike & Dave ...... 5 DUTCH HQ .. The Mailbox .......... 954 Defender Zeta .... 1 MEMBER .... Warhammer 2000 ....... 718 Law & Order ...... 3 MEMBER .... Area 51 .............. 514 Red Demon ........ 2 AFFILIATE . Black Sabbath ........ +44 The Unknown ...... 4 AFFILIATE . Bozack ............... 847 Oriole ........... 1 AFFILIATE . Illegal Injections ... 613 Pagan ............ 1 AFFILIATE . Insider .............. 514 Killerboy ........ 1 AFFILIATE . Phreak Zone .......... 305 The Joker ........ 3 AFFILIATE . Zero Tolerance ....... 905 Glycerine ........ 2 AFFILIATE . KISSES DISSES [*] 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 APPLICATION NOTES REALITY is made up of loyal members who are dedicated to the growth of a quality e-mag group. If you would like to join REALITY, please feel free to fill out an application and send it attached, via email to an385786@anon.penet.fi. We welcome all applicants and encourage the the best of the best to participate! [*] For the BEST in Scene News : Expect Team REALITY! [*] r c n t - s h i r t s ! RCN is proud to present to the scene the official RCN t-shirt. We tried to keep the price as low as we could so that everyone can enjoy these goodies. Keeping with RCN's volunteerish spirit to help the scene, Road Rebel has decided to take it upon himself to make the RCN t-shirts available to the masses. This is a non-profit venture and we hope that in many ways, RCN continues to benefit the scene.. even when we are not near our computers. The RCN logo is approximately 8"x6" printed on the back of a HEAVY-duty Fruit of the Loom white t-shirt, the front is plain. A preview of the shirt can viewed upon pressing escape. Special orders take up to 4 weeks for shipping. Yes, I want my official RCN t-shirt! [ ] Enclosed is $12 for my official LARGE RCN t-shirt. [ ] Enclosed is $12 for my official X-LARGE RCN t-shirt. [ ] Enclosed is $3 for shipping and handling. [ ] Enclosed is an additional $2 for delivery outside the U.S. Total Enclosed : $______ My Mailing Address : ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Please send payments in cash (U.S. funds only), or money orders made out to cash (NO CHECKS will be accepted) to : RCN P.O. Box 3914 Centerline, MI 48015-0914 Personal Data Names (Alias, First Name) Location (State, Email Address) [ ] Male [ ] Female ( ) Age ( ) Area Code Occupational Data [ ] Artist [ ] Ansi [ ] Ascii [ ] VGA [ ] Coder [ ] ASM [ ] C++ [ ] PAS [ ] Courier [ ] Local [ ] LD [ ] FTP/IRC [ ] SiteOp [ ] T1 [ ] ISDN [ ] Other [ ] Writer [ ] Articles [ ] Columns [ ] Other [ ] SysOp ( ) Gigs ( ) Nodes ( ) Callers Experience Data Current Affiliations (Name, Position, Since Date - ) Past Affiliations (Name, Position, From Date - To Date) Character Data How will your admission further the goals of RCN? (Please include submissions along with your application) r c n b b s ! If you would like your bulletin board to be an official RCN affiliate board, simply view the following log of Hitex logging onto Rebel Chicken's bulletin board, and modify your bulletin board accordingly. CONNECT 38400 / 07-07-96 (22:00:37) (Error Correcting Modem Detected) Crystal Tokyo BBS PCBoard (R) v15.30/M 20 - Node 16 Do you want graphics (Enter)=Yes? Welcome Crystal Tokyo ,A=Up ,Z=Down =Choice LOGON APPLY CHECK FEEDBACK PAGE SYSOP LOGOFF Username : Hitex Password : ........ Scan Message Base Since `Last Read' [ENTER]=Yes? [Ctrl-K] or [Ctrl-X] Aborts, [Ctrl-S] Suspends. Conference To Total # Name You Found ===== ====================================================== ===== ===== 0 Main Board 0 2891 Press [ENTER] to Continue? Sysop : Rebel Chicken, 16 Nodes, 18 Gigs [J] Join Conference [R] Read Message [B] View Bulletins [A] Leave Conference [Q] Quick Msg Scan [V] View Settings [C] Leave Feedback [Y] View Your Mail [W] Write Settings [O] Page SysOp [E] Enter a Message [M] Toggle Graphics [L] Locate Files [F] List Files [P] Page Length [N] Newscan Files [U] Upload Files [X] Expert Toggle [Z] Zippy Search [D] Download Files [G] Goodbye (Logoff) [ Crystal Tokyo BBS ] [ Command? c CONFERENCES Num Name/Description Bltn Files Msgs HiMsg Read 0 Main Board Yes Yes Yes 341 330 1 IBM/PC Warez Yes Yes Yes 1272 1272 Reality Check Network 3 Requests Yes Yes Yes 23 23 [A/ ] Up [ /Z] Down [PGUP/PGDWN] Page [ENTER] Select [M] Manual [Q] Quit Conference # to join [ENTER]=None? 2 Reality Check Network (2) Conference Joined r c n r c n a f f i l i a t e b o a r d Scan Message Base Since `Last Read' [ENTER]=Yes? [Ctrl-K] or [Ctrl-X] Aborts, [Ctrl-S] Suspends. Conference To Total # Name You Found ===== ====================================================== ===== ===== 2 Reality Check Network 0 271 Press [ENTER] to Continue? Sysop : Rebel Chicken, 16 Nodes, 18 Gigs [J] Join Conference [R] Read Message [B] View Bulletins [A] Leave Conference [Q] Quick Msg Scan [V] View Settings [C] Leave Feedback [Y] View Your Mail [W] Write Settings [O] Page SysOp [E] Enter a Message [M] Toggle Graphics [L] Locate Files [F] List Files [P] Page Length [N] Newscan Files [U] Upload Files [X] Expert Toggle [Z] Zippy Search [D] Download Files [G] Goodbye (Logoff) [ Crystal Tokyo BBS ] [ Command? f ### Description Files Bytes 001 Current Issue 1 670,161 Back Issues 6,480,483 003 Uploads 0 0 Totals for Reality Check Network 3 7,150,644 [A/ ] Up [ /Z] Down [PGUP/PGDWN] Page [ENTER] Select [M] Manual [Q] Quit [H]elp, [1-3], File List Command? 2 =========== ========= ======== ======================================= Filename Size Date Description of File Contents =========== ========= ======== ======================================= RCN-20.ZIP 837710 06-30-96 RCN Issue #20, 06-30-96 | COVER : Amnesia Falls! | PLUS! : Blizzard on Pirates! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-19.ZIP 666126 06-23-96 RCN Issue #19, 06-23-96 | COVER : Chris Carter Revealed! | PLUS! : iD Software Interview! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-18.ZIP 624589 06-16-96 RCN Issue #18, 06-16-96 | COVER : GODS Meeting Log | PLUS! : RCN BUSTED! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff [120] Minutes Left, [F]lag, [V]iew, [NS]=Nonstop, [SPACE]=Mark? ns RCN-17.ZIP 626333 06-09-96 RCN Issue #17, 06-09-96 | COVER : DR. JEKYLL BUSTED | PLUS! : DEMAXXUS BUSTED | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-16.ZIP 599493 06-02-96 RCN Issue #16, 06-02-96 | COVER : PASSING OF ZIEG | PLUS! : THE RENEGADE CHEMIST | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-15.ZIP 493410 05-26-96 RCN Issue #15, 05-26-96 | COVER : MALICE DOWNFALL | PLUS! : DRAPPER *BUSTED* | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-14.ZIP 444746 05-19-96 RCN Issue #14, 05-19-96 | COVER : JAMES MAKES HIS VISIT | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-13.ZIP 252896 02-11-96 RCN Issue #13, 02-11-96 | COVER : FAREWELL | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-12.ZIP 367432 02-04-96 RCN Issue #12, 02-04-96 | COVER : APOGEE/DISTINCT | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-11.ZIP 460550 01-28-96 RCN Issue #11, 01-28-96 | COVER : ANARCHIST BUST | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-10.ZIP 410697 01-21-96 RCN Issue #10, 01-21-96 | COVER : PASSING OF SPYDER-X | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-09.ZIP 428257 01-14-96 RCN Issue #09, 01-14-96 | COVER : GAHN LOG FILE | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-08.ZIP 300782 01-07-96 RCN Issue #08, 01-07-96 | COVER : EXCLUSIVE FBI Interview! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-07.ZIP 244801 12-31-95 RCN Issue #07, 12-31-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-06.ZIP 205681 12-22-95 RCN Issue #06, 12-22-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-05.ZIP 212702 12-15-95 RCN Issue #05, 12-15-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-04.ZIP 40634 12-09-95 RCN Issue #04, 12-09-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-03.ZIP 41076 12-02-95 RCN Issue #03, 12-02-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-02.ZIP 32331 11-25-95 RCN Issue #02, 11-25-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff RCN-01.ZIP 27947 11-18-95 RCN Issue #01, 11-18-95 | Uploaded By : RCN Staff [H]elp, [1-3], File List Command? ### Description Files Bytes Current Issue 670,161 002 Back Issues 20 7,318,193 003 Uploads 0 0 Totals for Reality Check Network 3 7,988,354 [A/ ] Up [ /Z] Down [PGUP/PGDWN] Page [ENTER] Select [M] Manual [Q] Quit [H]elp, [1-3], File List Command? 1 =========== ========= ======== ======================================= Filename Size Date Description of File Contents =========== ========= ======== ======================================= RCN-21.ZIP 666126 07-07-96 | | | | | | | | | | REALITY CHECK NETWORK [21] | | 7 JULY 1996 | COVER : ROR Dead? I wish. | PLUS! : Legion vs. Pinnacle! | | Uploaded By : RCN Staff [120] Minutes Left, [F]lag, [V]iew, [NS]=Nonstop, [SPACE]=Mark? f Enter the Filename to Flag for Download [ENTER]=None? rcn-20.zip Your Current Download:Upload File Ratio is : 2:0 Your Download:Upload Ratio Must Remain Below: 2:1 Downloading RCN-21.ZIP is FREE!!! [A]bort, [E]dit, [G]oodbye, [L]ist, [P]rotocol, [ENTER]=Continue? g Sending File(s) - Start your download... Batch Transfer Ended Automatic logoff countdown been activated. Press [ESC] return Main Menu, [ENTER] hangup now. Automatic Logoff Seconds Automatic Logoff Countdown Complete \ /\ NO CARRIER Summary : --------- 1.) All RCN issues must be online and available for FREE download. The current issue and back issues must be located in separate file directories. The FULL file_id.diz for the current issue must be shown. 2.) A "Reality Check Network" conference must be set up. The "rcn affiliate board" ansi must be shown somewhere in the login process or somewhere in the conference join. 3.) Sysops must notify all bulletin board users, via nonconference specific mass email, of the new issues available for free download. r c n w w w ! The new update to the Reality Check Network World Wide Web Site, http://www.rcn.org/, adds many new features : Speed Optimization : RCN.org is now speed optimized, which means you spend less time waiting and more time browsing. Better Back Issue Access : It's now quick and easy to scan through RCN's back issues, each one has its full description online, to make searching for the desired issue that much easier. Better Interface : v2.0 brings an end to the confusing conglomeration of pages that previously had existed. Now speed through the icon driven interface to scan back issues of RCN and other emags, send comments, read credits, and check out merchandise and free files. Text or JAVA Version : Whatever browser you use can now access the RCN.org pages. Before only Netscape was allowed, but now LYNX and other text base users can now access the pages. New Look Graphics : The new graphics style are a nice change of pace from the hard-edged style of before. To become a file mirror, contact us in #RCN on IRC, you must be able to store all back issues in a publically accessible directory from the WWW. A link will be created from RCN.org to your site, so users can acquire issues from there if the main site becomes overloaded. RCN WWW Site : http://www.rcn.org/ RCN Mirror Site #1 : http://www.halcyon.com/sbecker r c n c r e d i t s ! Hitex : Editor Rebel Chicken : Editor *Xenon : ASM/MOD *Celestian : VGA/ANSI RATM : VGA/WWW Pandemonium : VGA Darkwing : IRC Security Undinism : IRC Maintenance Savage : FTP Site Ante : Writer Crack : Writer Dark-Elf : Writer Darkwing : Writer Gorilla : Writer Karen : Writer Oxygen : Writer Waynekerr : Writer FTP Site : 143.113.170.41 login : rcn password : rcn Web Site : http://www.rcn.org/ Email : AN385786@ANON.PENET.FI * = No longer taking requests outside RCN.