r e a l i t y c h e c k n e t w o r k ! Introduction Hacker's Corner Editorials Dear Road Rebel, Cover Story Astrology Interviews "Warez-IQ" Warez Quiz! Articles Reader Survey Reviews Secret Articles Top 10 Couriers Super Pacman Warez Lists Classifieds/Group NFOs Voting Booth/Results RCN Information Signed, The Insane Sicilian A Kodak Moment Signed, Da Phreak I AM THE CRIMINAL! Signed, Prae Setting the Record Straight Signed, Eraser Semi-Rebuttal on IRC Ops Signed, Ermac "As an avid Internet courier... " Signed, Panasync "Should I release the source?" Signed, Genocide Duping a Release Multiple Email Miscellaneous Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! UCF Fixing Others' Mistakes Two Years of Consistent Cracking Interview with Marquis! UCF President Speaks Interview with Misha! The Elvis of Cracking UCF Release List 250+ Releases in 1996 Alone UCF Information File UCF Internals Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! Manic, Reflux Senior In Defense of Tklp TSR, Razor 1911 Leader The #1 Games Group? AOD, Ex-LGN Coordinator Legion Steals! Zoltrix, PCW President PCWarez Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! Describing Your Releases "What the hell am I downloading?" Prophet of Napalm, Busted! "Yes, so?" Prestige & Dynamix... The REAL Story by TRC An Uncontrolled IRC Op Prae, Abusing His Power? TSR from Razor 1911! Iron Man Departs Razor... A Little Injustice "Let me talk to him NOW!" Reflux Made a Boooo Boooo Don't Try That Again "Is that box... " "Why do I courier?" Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! 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 The Game Review Go Back to Main Menu 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 The Seven Listing #1 [06/13/96] --> [06/19/96] The Seven Listing #2 [06/20/96] --> [06/26/96] The Seven Listing #3 [06/27/96] --> [07/03/96] The Seven Listing #4 [07/04/96] --> [07/10/96] Global Warez Search Search All Warez Lists!! Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! 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 How to Hurt Someone Blowing Up the Toilet Easy Money "... money, LOTS of money." Salting Coke Machines Squirt Me Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! Entropy's Diary Dear Diary, Entropy's Reply "Yes Helspont." - Entropy Lurch Interviews Me "Hi Lurch." - Rebel Chicken Lestat, I Wanna Be RCN! "What the hell?" - Rebel Chicken Double O Zero Top 10 Ways to Get Warez Genocide and Loogie Top 10... a Release Group Can Do Master of Warez A Poem by Zima Man Mad-RCN Passwords! Passwords to Issues #14 to #21 Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! The RCN Classifieds! Put Your Ad Here! Courier Groups WE Make the Courier Scene! Release Groups WE Make the Release Scene! Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! Amnesia Mirage Angels of Death Motiv8 Core New Vision Couriers Damage Next Generation Traders Empire Power Trading Arsenal Fast Action Trade Exchange Rampant Trading Guild Genocide Request to Send Lightning Rise in Superior Couriering Malice Return to Main Menu Demolition Prestige Drink or Die Professionally Cracked Warez Epic Razor 1911 Hybrid Rebels Legion Reflux Mortality Sodom Napalm United Cracking Force 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 #22 Staff Return to Main Menu Check Out Other Parts of RCN #22! r c n i n t r o ! Author : The RCN Editor Staff Subject : Introduction Welcome to Reality Check Network, your #1 Warez E-mag! And so we'd like to stay! Currently, we have just finished wiping out the competition, apparently it just couldn't compete with us. However, this extra burst of confidence seems to be our worst enemy thus far. We noticed this after the release of Issue #21. The editors, and some of the readers, noticed that the ways of RCN needed to be fixed and upgraded. In retrospect to earlier issues, RCN was still getting bigger, but size isn't everything when it comes to an e-mag. It was becoming obvious that we were sacrificing quality for a bigger magazine. Furthermore, the ethics of RCN also needed ramification, as inspired by Rio & Ken's letter, and those of several other people. In trying to keep RCN's position as the #1 warez e-mag, the editors have agreed upon several modifications that we think will please you, the readers, today and in the future. We believe that the set of pacts we have agreed to will create a more harmonious relationship between RCN and its readers, and make reading RCN a more enjoyable embarkment. A major difference that you will notice between this issue of RCN and previous issues is that we no longer strive for 8 articles, and 8 interviews. We all know that reading repeated interviews was getting boring, and we all know that articles about mere fluff were never interesting. Obviously a person that doesn't read anything because he hates to do so will never enjoy RCN, but people that do enjoy reading were starting to get frustrated with the layout of the above sections. So now, we will have a fluctuating number of articles and interviews, with much greater scrutiny based on quality. RCN's old philosophy was based on giving everybody a voice, but if a person is educated enough to form an opinion on any given topic, he should be educated enough to write a well structured article to support his case. You will also find a new ADDITION to RCN in this issue. I am speaking of the "Cover Story" menu! In previous issues, we have included the cover story within either the articles or interviews menu. Now, we will be spending a much greater amount of time on researching and studying the week's cover story. A cover story deserves more than just an article or an interview, it deserves a complete assessment and review, something that RCN will now be able to offer. This week's cover story is about the United Cracking Force, and you will find that the menu contains over 3 times as much information as previous issues of RCN did. Another issue that readers were beginning to complain about in past issues is that of RCN putting people down, and constantly "dissing" on people in the scene. It was becoming like a "soap opera," as some would phrase it. Though I find that as somewhat humorous, I don't find it the least bit necessary, and this attitude will be done away with now and in the future. If a person messes up and does something that's not very respectable in the scene, we will just stop reporting things that may concern that person. The lack of publicity will be punishment enough. If a group messes up, it will only be covered if we feel that publicity and information about the group could raise its potential to survive. If a problem is more serious than that, it will not be RCN's position to correct it, but rather the scene's as a whole. Now for meeting logs. We were the first to use them, and they have done a most amazing job of showing us who people REALLY are behind "closed doors." But enough of them now. I will use GODS as an example because it is a group that has since split up and probably won't mind a bit of publication about them. RCN obtained the first meeting log of GODS when it was initially grouping. This is something I would say is NOT our position to publish. It solely contained information about the organization of the group, something that they are quite entitled to do. However, the latter meeting log about GODS would be something I think we should have the right to publish, for one important reason. The latter log effected people beyond just GODS members. It contained information that could hinder the rest of the scene, and that's not right. So that was something that people did deserve to see. From now on, no meeting logs will be published, even if they are just two people cussing each other out, if they don't contain data that could severely hinder the scene and outside members. For example, and note that this is purely hypothetical, I have utter respect for the groups I am about to name. Let's say Hybrid had a meeting about how they were really pissed off about the Dynamix incident. That would NOT be something that RCN could publish. Hybrid is quite entitled to talk amongst themselves. However, if Hybrid were talking about how Razor is really pissing them off and how they're about to start a masterful plan to grab all the Razor suppliers, and let's say that Razor didn't know about this, now THAT would be something RCN should publish. The distinction? Hybrid would be crossing over the "Hybrid" boundary and stepping over the feet of others. I would like to make an important clarification and apology to several people/groups that deserved it a long time ago. I would like to apologize to the readers of RCN that have been in disagreement with us in past times. However, I use this as an example to you that we DO read your mail and ARE interested in what you have to say. Rio & Ken sent us clear mail that explained his position with examples, and he was right, and we were wrong, and now we're fixing our mistakes. You can't expect us to change, however, if you never send us any comments. Lastly, I would like to make an apology to Prestige and The Renegade Chemist together. Though the news is rather old, it is news that makes a difference today, and makes a difference in the reputation of TRC, and it deserves to be said. A while back, RCN published information regarding TRC and Dynamix, and his departure from Dynamix into Prestige. However, we never really gave TRC a chance to explain his side of the story by himself. Since then, Prestige has placed a boycott on RCN, viewable on their WWW page, which stated that they would not be granting RCN any interviews. Since their boycott, RCN DID get two interviews with Prestige leaders, but despite that, we still want to clear our grounds with Prestige as a whole. So, I apologize to TRC for not giving him the opportunity to fully express himself in the matters at hand, he is a great help to the scene, he is an agressive person, but that's not a negative thing in the scene. Furthermore, I would like to extend that apology to Prestige all together, and as a result, I have published TRC's side of the matter in the articles menu. Again, you can always find Reality Check Network available on the WWW at HTTP://WWW.RCN.ORG/INDEX.HTML, as well as find some of our previous competition (though, unfortunately, none exists at the moment) and perhaps compare and contrast. And as a final note, a little word about etiquette, purposefully placed at the END of the introduction. I don't mind if you don't want to read an entire article or interview, and decide you've had enough in the middle, but if you're going to contact us with a complaint, make sure you HAVE read the entire text before doing so. It doesn't look too impressive when you complain about something and our response to your complaint was in the body of the text all the while, but you were too lazy to find it. As always, thanks for reading RCN, and don't hesitate to contact us! You can either join channel #RCN on the EFnet IRC network, or email us at an385786@anon.penet.fi. r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, Basically, everyone knows that RCN rules so I'm not going to even say it. Alright, fine then, OK!, I will say it, RCN RULES! (Be a bitch about it why don't you.) Anyway, this letter is to comment on the way I feel about THE scene, and to react to what people say about it. Firstly, I want to talk about the couriers of the world. Quite a few years ago, when 14.4 modems were top of the line, BBS traders were judged on the quality of warez that they spread, not HOW MUCH they spread. Now, with the introduction of the Internet SCENE a great courier is someone that can move over a gig, or so, a week between a few places. That's all honky dory, but if it's something to help you learn your A-B-C's, or something that doesn't install correctly, I honestly DOUBT that it is useful to anyone in 'the scene.' A great courier is someone who has tested the warez which they are spreading, know that they are quality, and starts the batch. I know for Internet couriers this is extremely hard since they hardly ever download the program themselves, but for BBS traders it only takes a quick 10 minutes to see if it works before they pass it along. Anyone, namely 10 year old little pricks, can go to bed and leave their computers on, uploading all night... THAT takes no talent, and deserves NO respect. You people might not realize this, but groups NEED their couriers. They need quality people to spread their lovely working game or util. Now think about it this way. Wouldn't a group LOVE to hire someone that they knew tested shit before they spread it. This would ENSURE the group not getting embarassed if they happen to fuck up a release. Also, if something doesn't work people complaining, saying that the groups 'SUCKS', and give them all the blame. Well, my friends, that's BULLSHIT! The people who spread bad shit are as much at fault as the ones who packaged it. The attitude of most traders right now is....... "Hmm... I should really see if this works before I spend 14 hours uploading it... but what the hell! I wanna download that cool program so fuck it." To all of you who think/do that... I hope that the program you download was uploaded by a prick like you. Secondly, although I can bullshit about the scene and its problems for hours upon hours I would just like to touch on one more major issue. In one of the previous magazines (I forgot which one) someone commented on the BBS scene deteriorating while the Internet scene thrives. In most respects that's true. BUT... look at it this way, a long time ago when someone wanted respect in 'the scene' they either were a GREAT coder, courier or sysop of a popular board. So every little dumbfuck would pick the one they thought was the best. In this case I'll use the BBS. They would beg their parents for a phone line, put up a BBS, and hope it would thrive. Sucking up to the right people, while getting help in the process, would sometimes make it prosper, in turn making them popular. Now, ok, I know I'm exagerating, but it gets better. With the Internet here, groups are practically BEGGING for Internet couriers, so these little losers put down their boards and go to a life of Internet trading, usually changing their already stupid handle to something stupidier in the process. This, in my view, can only make the BBS scene STRONGER. Sure it'll mean there are fewer BBSes around, but...it also is a method of 'trimming the fat'.. getting rid of the people who are too weak or disloyal to stay in, and making the remaining BBSers/BBSes the 'TRUE ELiTE!'. Phew, glad I got that off my chest. Last, I know I'm blabbering on, but hey.. you can always hit ESC. Anyway, in another issue someone said that RCN magazine is making it unsafe for the scene. That is just stupid and moronic. RCN is the collection of articles of people who are on IRC and bullshit like that. This means that basically RCN is a colorful snapspot of a night on IRC. Signed, The Insane Sicilian The Insane Sicilian, Ooh, a colorful snapshot! "And I present to you this week's kodak moment, the United Cracking Force!" Heheheh... Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, You know, I was sitting at home the other night, reading RCN #19, when something hit me. "Chris Carter?!? Getting busted?!?! Whoa, this is real. This is reality." BLAM! The reality train struck me right in between the eyez. But, here in mah sleepy town in Kentucky, you don't hear of computer crime. We had a bank hacked, but I seriously doubt that that was local, I assumed it was some long distance phreaker, war dailing through the 82 prefix. But, then I read on. The article said he was busted also. Hmmm... sounds like he wasn't so leet after all. But, the article also said he WAS in the scene pretty big when he went down. Hmmm... sounds like he got sloppy. I mean, we all know the risk, we assume it every time we type "mget *.*". If you are under 18, you can mess your life up something awful, and if you are older, the same can happen. But we all are risk takers. We ARE the cyber pirates that all of the magazines talk about. We are all famous or infamous, depends on how you look at it. Back to my small town. I was mowing, and thinking, you know, I have some underage friends, whose parents are COPS and they are in big on warez. Hmmm... crooked cops? Never... always. In a small town, corruption (big enough for NYC)? I mean, my town was once voted the easiest place to get away with a crime. We have the HIGHEST unsolved crime rate for a town our size. So, shall I dare say I am at LESS of a risk than the rest of my warez buds in Core? I don't know. Actually, I don't see any "World's Laws", which would have to be made to police CyberSpace since you check the U.S. laws at the door, or your respective countries, that say I can't do this or that. I mean, I may move stuff from Sweden to Japan, all from an account in Australia. I was never in the U.S. this whole time, but I am tried if caught by US computer laws. Is this fair? Well, to them "Big Blue" it is. Anything that steals $45 dollars from someone that put a bunch of 1's and 0's in a pattern that made this alien splatter blood all over my screen when I shot him with a M 16. I mean, there is a chance <1 in 1 000 000 000> that I could randomly write binary that would replicate this last scene from a well known 3D game. I mean, who is the thief here? Us or them? They charge $50 for a piece of plastic and some magnetic tape, and I AM THE CRIMINAL for getting it for free? Well, I won't run on too long, I just can't see where some of these old fogey Congressmen get off saying what is right and wrong in CyberSpace, when they can't point and click through a Wet Winbloez 95. Well, I hope I get to write this every week or so, about my area warez scene, or lack of, and my general opinion (I have one for everything) on stuff in CyberSpace. Signed, Da Phreak Dear Da Phreak, Most Congressmen can't even tell an IBM clone apart from a Macintosh. Tell them the Mac is the one with an Apple on it and you're fine until you say it in writing, I mean after all, Dan Quayle spells potato with an "e" at the end. However, they already deem themselves knowledgable enough to make laws concering the Internet? I don't think so. Congressmen might as well start making laws for other countries.. wait, they already do that. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n e d i t o r i a l ! The following letter is being rebutted by Prae : 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 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 Dear RCN, I'd like to set a few facts straight regarding Eraser's 'article' about me in RCN issue 21. First of all, I banned him from my server for using LL, yes, because LL is against my policy. There are other servers which don't patrol for link lookers that I am sure he may happily use if he insists on having his link looker. I don't particularly care, but I'm not changing my policiess for him or anybody. Secondly, I haven't been on IRC for 15 years, since there hasn't BEEN IRC for 15 years. I do not 'own' kern.com, nor have I poured a dime into it; they pay *me* to do what I do. I am sorry if the user in question doesn't agree with my policies here, but that's just the way it is, I suppose. I don't think posting a bunch of blatantly false information is liable to make him look any more 'right.' I wonder if he has any knowledge whatsoever about the people's whose servers and services he so happily abuses. Signed, Nick Leyendecker Network Administrator Kern Internet Services jnl@kern.com Dear Prae (Nick Leyendecker), You need to rethink your position in IRC. A football player can boast that his job is a game (he can also boast that he's making a bit more than you), but you don't have the privilege of doing so. At least you shouldn't. At one point in your life you're going to have to admit to yourself that you can't play on IRC for the rest of your life and become a success. I honestly don't know what leads to your immature actions on IRC, perhaps it is an ego problem, perhaps you haven't enough outside resources to please you, it's not my place to judge, but in all seriousness, you need a psychiatrist to help you sort through the complications of your life. You need to take yourself more seriously and subsequently take more responsibility for your actions, one cannot exist without the other, yet the two coexist wonderfully. In the mean time, until you find your catcher in the rye, you cannot take the rest of your pains out on people on IRC. I'm sure you will tell me that you're not an ALL bad IRC op and that you have helped a lot of people on IRC, but one bad apple ruins the rest. I don't doubt that there is a great human being behind that facade, but you need to realize that for yourself. Until this realization has been made, control yourself, and remember that words are just words, but /kills are even smaller than that. Signed, Hitex r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, This is Eraser, and I'm writing a semi-rebuttal on IRC ops, because of what I had written last week got so much chaos started. I decided, why not write another letter? Anyways, this week's letter on IRC ops is about why they piss me off, and the other shit about them. First off, I'm pissed that they all have their own domains : irc.stealth.net oper : residue@flakey.donut.residue.com irc.mo.net oper : mouse@whiskers.com irc.epix.net oper : dianora@diana.incacc.net Another thing I don't like, is the trouble trying to find an ALIVE oper in times of trouble. Now, they made channel #Twilight_Zone +i which pisses me off. They are hiding from us now, they don't want to answer our questions or problems 90% of the time. The best channel now is #Unix, but you say the words "I need," "help" or something like that, it's an auto-kick-ban. EFNet is also getting too tight on bots. No multiple connections, bots, anything anymore. It is hard trying to keep a damn channel safe, even if you have 1 bot, it will get klined or flooded, and if you have 20, those get klined still. Anyways, someday we should all rebel, and make the big guys who run EFNet actually notice what is going on. :) Signed, Eraser Dear Eraser, Please refer to the article by Road Rebel for further information. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, As an avid Internet courier myself, I know how succesful it can be. However, others disagree. IRC couriering is mostly couriering through DCC. People set up offer bots, place them in channels like #Exceed, #M8leech and #Phatfiles, have them display lists of stuff their offering, and people leech stuff. This is one of the most efficient ways of couriering and is also the easiest to measure success in. In BBS and FTP couriering, you can usually only see how much someone uploaded, you can't always see which files are the most popular, or how many people leeched them. With IRC couriering, your bot can tell you exactly how many megs have been leeched and how many times people have downloaded each file. This allows IRC couriers to see what files are the most popular and which to offer again. With FTP and BBS couriering, you could upload a gig of shit and you'd still get credit for uploading it, even if no one downloaded it. Another plus is the publicity the group gets. It's fairly simple to add a file at the end of an offer list containing an app or an nfo, and groups gain lots of notariety that way. The downsides to it are the complexity of getting things together. First, you have to find a shell with IRC, upload the stuff you want to offer, then get an XDCC offer script (fphoenix.irc is known as the best all-around and is the most popular), and then configure the offer list. Also, people who run them will sometimes get messages from people who are having problems. I once had someone who said, "I can't download this file because it keeps stopping and saying I'm not fast enough, but I have a 14.4 modem!" I politely explained the system of minimum speeds (which I never set porpously more than 1K/s, unlike the fATE couriers who have 3K/s as the minimum, jack asses), and said that he'd probably need atleast a 28.8 modem. He continued to bug me, and finally I sent him the file manually, just to get him to shut up. This is REALLY annoying after a while, but we IRC couriers have to put up with it. In addition, groups with IRC channels will often get dumbasses in their rooms saying, "How come this thing doesn't work on my 386?" OK, maybe that's a little extreme, but you get the picture. Personally I feel that the good outweighs the bad and that IRC couriering has a bright future. Just take a look at all the offer channels springing up and becoming popular. #Phatfiles was only recently founded, and it's already very popular and many IRC couriering groups support it. I feel that it would be extremely peneficial to couriering groups such as Everlast and RiSC to add IRC divisions to their groups. But if that doesn't happen, groups like PTA will continue to dominate the IRC couriering arena. Signed, Ermac r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, I write this letter with a great madness to what can only be termed lamerz. I know alot of you hate this term, but in this case it is correct. I am the author of a ircII client called BitchX, which although not the first client to support ansi, is one of the very few that distributes source code for their client. Out of all the clients for Unix systems available on the net at this time, CtoolZ by Sheik, ScrollZ by Flier, EPIC 3.001 from Hop, Hop and I are the only ones who offer complete source to thier clients. Then there's Hellshock, who purportedly writes hADES. hADES is a rip of BitchX in all regards. Bugs and all. Hellshock has the gall to not even acknowledge the people whom he's ripping ALL his source from. So as I approach yet another BitchX release I'm faced with a decision. Do I or do I not release source for BitchX? I've spent a lot of time and effort with BitchX since it's inception and a lot of people have either given ideas or source to this project, I'd like to thank each and every on of them for their patience and testing of a client of unknown quality, for their code which I've sometimes used, sometimes ignored and other times modified greatly. *PS* Hellshock, if you're reading this, FUCK YOU. Signed, Panasync Colten Edwards Dear Panasync (Colten Edwards), I wish I could help you stop this Hellshock guy from ripping your source code, but there's really nothing I can do about it. It's your source code, and if you don't want people fucking with it, the best thing to do would be to not release it at all. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, A dupe. The most hated thing in a release group with the only exception possibly being a non-working release. In the past, dupes have been taken care of in medieval style fashion by getting axed. After a succession of dupes, a group's entire label might get nuked {ie. BLD*.zip for a group with the acronym BLD}. This possibly group threatening reputation is not looked upon well by groups, and is feared to the point of insanity. So, my question is, what should be done about dupes? Let's take a look at my plan if you will. Many dupes are done due to the limit of BBS couriering. For instance, a local group releases a game (way over the 50 disk limit) in Australia. This release does not travel well outside Australia, only gets to Russia, and stops there. Another group, later that month, releases the same game after dupe checking extensively throughout its sites, RCN listings, and BBSes, and finds that the game was not released. After a few days, this release (under the 50 disk limit) is spread all the way across the world and eventually reaches the point of where the local group released it. During this process of the release crossing over to the other territory, the dupe is noticed, and eventually word gets around that the group that released it under the limit duped the release. This scenario has happened many a time, and is just not possible to outwit 100% of the time. In my opinion, a group should not be denounced for a dupe that was not effectively spread by the original group. Also, a group should not be denounced for duping a release that was not released under the 50 disk limit. If I'm a supplier for a worldwide group, and I am based in the United States, how am I supposed to find out about some release that was released in Australia by a no-name group? Here is my proposition, any game that goes over the 50 disk limit (actual game) should not be counted as an actual release. Also, if a group releases addons to that game, and they go over 100 disks, then the addons should not be counted. If a release group re-releases these games/addons under the limit, then they are in no violation of the rules. In order to limit the number of dupes on viable games, all games must hit a certain Internet Site, and BBS that is widely known in the scene to everyone. If it is not uploaded there by the time the other group releases the game, then it is not considered a viable release, and the other group may release it. Signed, Genocide r c n e d i t o r i a l ! Dear RCN, I write again about the Astrology section, all I am going to say is THIS IS BULLSHIT!!! Yet again the warez astrology comes true to my real life. As you may know from last letter (issue #21), I am an Aries and my EX-gf is Taurus. Well, it says Thursday I will resolve a confict and for Taurus it says 'you may be tempted to state your terms forcefully.' Well, this applied to me YET again. As I was in the pub (a bar to you americans) playing pool and having a nice quiet drink when low and behold my ex gf Shellie comes in and yells and shit at me. She pulls my hair and hits me. This happened on Thursday and which also happends to be near the end of the week (regarding the Taurus starsign). Well the last 2 weeks of the warez Astrology have really been true to my NON-warez life. Well, that's enough rubbish from me and read the rest of RCN. Signed, Undinism Dear RCN, First, Rebel Chicken is right in many things. We fucked up a few times, Tklp is very dedicated and wanted to group to become #1, etc. There Rebel was right. And more, all that the Quake shit was ...shit. It was *NOT* that shareware beta 3 floating around, but yes, it was not a final either. Quake was our big mistake. We just got carried away. Second, Rebel Chicken is a fucking faggot. He proposes to ban all RLX*.* files (Reflux is a new group, made from ROR's old-timers and a few great newcomers). I just cannot believe it. How easy is it for him to say such shit? All major groups agreed to give us a second chance, and under Reflux name we are able to try again, to act fair and bring you 100% releases. The whole year of our work for ROR was wasted, because we had to start a new group (although do *NOT* make a mistake thinking RLX is just a new ROR. No, there are quite a few cool new members, and some old were kicked out), but we decided to start again, with clean account. And then we hear Mr. Rebel-Fucking-Chicken, who tries to steer the warez free market. Some people might be surprised that I do not attack the groups which started that infamous ban of ROR. You all know we could easily point a few groups, like NAPALM, which has been accussed of stealing (crack, releases) and had *MANY* fuckups in its history, yet no one banned them. Instead we want to focus on bringing you all quality releases. Our first one was Philip Marlowe's Private Eye, 100% working full version. We hope you all consider it as a good start. *PS* Rebel Chicken, before you do such stupid thing to any other group again, choke your chicken first. Signed, JdA/Reflux Senior Dear JdA, Excuse me, but I'll say whatever the fuck I please, and I'll let you say whatever the fuck you please. I spoke my side, and now I'm letting you speak yours. If that's not fair enough, check out the Reflux rebuttal in this issue where I interview Manic who is also a Reflux Senior. Signed, Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, I read RCN #20 and it had a lot of good information in there, there are of course some things I don't understand such as your NFOs. You post the NFOs for courier groups and release groups, but why don't you post NFOs for art groups or tell about the latest H/P mag or something like that. I mean well, or I would write this letter. So please give me information on why that is so. Also I'd like to point out the letter that Rio & Ken wrote. Why is he so pissed? If his name doesn't get posted in here most likely it will get posted on Razor 1911's Web Page. Why must he go off like that? This is a great e-mag, like he mentioned. It serves its purpose giving out information on the weekly lives of the warez scene. After all, that is what it was meant for. Anyways, I'd like to close this by saying, you guys are doing great for the past couple issues I read, and I like the excellent coding job. Thanks for the pleasure and keep RCN alive! Signed, Arch Angel Dear Arch Angel, We have yet to post NFOs from art groups because we have not yet started marketing RCN into the art scene, but that does not mean that we won't in the future. To answer your question about Rio & Ken, he had some fluff in his letter, because he WAS mad, for whatever reason, but he made some good points. Read the intro to this issue. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, A famous quote I can think of, "Can't we all just get along?" After joining a few channels, and being involved in the underground scene for 10 years, I have seen some good groups come and go. You see the BBS scene vs. the Internet scene is totally different, in the BBS scene, you don't see people blasting the groups that courier to the boards there. If fact, most people praise the courier's work in uploading a few hundred megs of files to a board. No one ever said fuck this group, this group sucks because they bite off of this group. However, in the Internet scene thats all I see now in most of these channels. If its ragging on ROR for duplication of Quake Beta 3 Full Release, and stripping the beta logo out, or if its for Hybrid releasing a game with a few fixes that have to come later (Warcraft 2). Better yet it's the newer groups that are trying to come up in the scene. It's really sad how a lot of people blast groups. To those people I am writing this article. Here is a nice little lesson you need to know, and maybe you'll think twice before opening your fucking mouth to say groups suck. You should all respect each and every group that comes out in the scene. They are there to help us all excel in the scene. Passing and getting software to all those people who want it. If there wasn't such a demand for this software these groups "ALL" would die. Just think if groups like THG (The Humble Guys) and Razor 1911 never got going, they were a good inspiration for most of the other groups to grow up and be like them. You see we all are in the same boat, we all use the software, we all trade the software. The next time you say anything about a group sucking, remember what they are doing to help us out. They are risking a lot when they trade that software. They ALL help us in the end no matter what they release or crack, whether its a duplicate or its a few fixes for a game or util that doesn't work. Be cool, and keep the peace. We all are the same race! The Warez Race! Signed, LamahCop Dear LamahCop, I agree with you, but only to a certain extent. We are all on the same boat, but we don't ALL trade the same files. Personally, I only wish to trade WORKING REAL files. I don't enjoy downloading 50 disks for a game that doesn't work, and nobody else should have to go through crap like that also. Groups such as THG and Razor 1911 release WORKING REAL files (at least most of the time), and if younger groups want to follow in their foot steps, they need to learn how to release WORKING REAL files, and not 50 disks of bullshit. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, This article or opinion column is something that me and a few others have started to notice. I am the IRC Coordinator of Asylum 96 which is a releasing group which is officially couriered by NvC. I am also a courier of AOD. I have seen two very different styles of couriering. NvC, New Vision Couiers, has about 3 private sites that they get their warez to. Then what they do is get dumps. For all of you who don't know what a dump is, it is a anonymous site where people upload lots of warez. When the site is full, it is released to the public so that they may all have access to it and download a much as they want. AOD, Angels of Death, on the other hand has about 7or 8 private sites. Many of these sites even have ratios on them. But it is a very closed circle. The warez come into the circle but they don't come out. People courier to the sites just in the circle and nothing is going out to those bottom of the ground leechers. Now when u look in #Exceed or #M8leech or #Phatfiles, you see offerers. Well these offerers are the main way of getting warez out to the general public. I see offer bots there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so people can get the latest is 0 day. I know that NvC has lots of offer bots run by one man, |ACiD|, who has about 5 gigs leeched every day. Nobody knows him but a few. AOD does not support their offerers very much. Groups have really scaled back on the offerers. Groups have about 1 or 2 dedicated offerers and that is it. The whole public gets to know the group through releases, sites, or offerers. The average Joe never see the big 2 gig t3, 0 hour private site, but does this mean he can't have access to the latest in warez? I dont think so. 0 day warez are usually found from offerers. They aren't usually found on anonymous sites or site lists. You can find the warez after about 1 week on a list or a site. Unless it is something big like Duke Nukem 3D. To the average Joe, IRC offerers are some of the best things. They give out warez for FREE! They don't expect a site in return, a shell, another game or util, or even a thank you. AOD has not supported their offerers well at all. We don't have a dedicated 0 hour non-ratio site for us to download and offer from. I have to wait until someone finally uploads it to a non-ratio site to download it and offer it. I know I try to do my share of uploading but I never get there in time to upload stuff before the super courier does. In conclusion, I would like to say that groups should do whatever it takes to have fun. Second, I would like to groups to be more public and open, this can be do with offerers or dump sites. People will know you if you give them what they want. Take their requests into consideration. I would also like to say that the scene is very cluttered right now. Not with the nice people but the ones who want an edge over the other guy by spying or something. Remember we can all get along if we try! Signed, Rip-Kord Dear RCN, Hi, I just wanted to write this because I don't think that all that has to be said about this lame piece of shit group called "Reflux." You guys are the shittest group I have ever seen, you are almost RoR under a different fucking name. You all eat donkey shit and suck your mama's. Why don't you just give it up, you release total crap that is fucking huge, that probably cost about 50 cents in a store. Jesus, all you fuckers are dumbass dorks who wear fucking 3" inch glasses because you beat off too much and you are going seriously blind because of it. Also, as for Tklp (aka The Krazy Little Phucker), you can go fuck yourself because you are the biggest piece of shit in the whole stinking world. If you are in Reflux right now, get out, get out fast, because this group is going to be even crappier than RoR was. Which is pretty bad since RoR was a way past lame dumb shit group. You guys are a joke and only hurting the scene as a whole. So give it up fuckheads, everyone knows you guys are lame fags who don't have anything better than sit on your asses all day releasing crap and beat off. Signed, Anonymous Dear RCN, I'm writing in behalf of all PTA 96 members. In Issue #21 you published a hideous NFO, that was supposed to be ours. This was most definitely not the NFO you were supposed to use. This was, of course, by no fault of your own, and I have hopefully corrected the problem. The person who sent you that NFO will be dealt with. I personally apoligize to anyone who saw the NFO that was used and hope they didn't have a heart attack. Thanks for the great e-mag. Signed, Double O Zero Dear RCN, What happened to the Ionizer game review??? I really liked that. Signed, Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Ionizer's game review will be back in this issue. We had slight complications with the setup that a new section of Ionizer's Game Review was using and decided it would be unfair of Ionizer to use the formatting that he used for the last issue of TGR. We have agreed that that format would cause a great deal of unnecessary work for us and it will be fixed this issue. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, With the new age of the Internet upon us, lamers have begun invading. Their behavior is similar to lemmings they throw themselves at non-lamers trying to flood or kick them only to be destroyed and a creative story made to IRCops to get them K-lined. With their sheer numbers many have now begun to get firm foot holds in many channels and they become harder to recconize for what they are. Below is a list of the most common types of lamers and how to handle them. Ijustsawhackerslamer - some new user who got a P120, Internet, and just rented "hackers." VERY annoying, will ramble on and on about what they can do or have done. Will often take a non-lamer's handle to seem cool and try to be that person. Best if killed immediately or can to usefully send to bother a competitive channel (or a random one if you like chaos). Stupidlamer - will be online asking "Whats a .exe file? Dos? I don't need that I have Windows 95. Mostly annoying but one with an attitude should be killed. If someone who gives a damn carfully helps them they might someday reach the level of non-lamer or become one of the other categories. Yeahrightlamer - Joins a channel and refuses to believe anyone but himself. They sit around listening to conversations and say something like Nonlamer: I just spent 5 days making a new menu for my BBS in C++. Lamer:"C++ thats so fucking easy to progam in I wrote a RPG game in it in 5 min you looser besides your too stupid I bet I could in an hour." Then you start to arought and the Yeahrightlamer get off on it. Use the same treatment as for the Ijustsawhackerslamer. ^^Especially fun to stick on another channel^^ Ownworldlamer - these are especially annoying lamers and should be killed outright and K-lined if a corrupt IRCop is handy (I know many). They will make their own reality terms like IP address will become internet perifial address. They are usually easy to spot, but kicking and banning usually dosn't help as they are loosers who sit on the compter all day typing /join #warez over and over until they get in. IdotSovont - not really a lamer. Person who can program patches and cracks in C++, Vbasic, ect. in 5min but can't understand concepts like dos or shit, wipe, flush. Don't be seen in public with him but make close connects to him on the Internet. May need help to keep from being taken advantage of. I know many people like this and they are invaluable in a channel takeover, cd-riping, any type of programming, or phreaking/hacking. Keep them under your thumb as they might betray you for a free Ho Ho. Keep an eye out for theses types of lamers. If this is garbled or weird spelled I blame it on capichino, lamers on EFnet, and a need to piss real soon. Signed, }{ Dear }{, It is fuckers like you that make the scene bad. Negative ass idiot that has a mind that's more closed than the first lady's pussy. Get a life, and if so many people on IRC piss you off, go somewhere else. Damn fucking piece of shit. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken Dear RCN, Just read the message about "What does that mean.." (Regarding Razor 1911's name). Well it is just a rip from all the groups back in the hay day of BK (Before K-Rad). It is a play off all the groups who did the 666 in their names. It is 777h <- Hexadecimal. +1 on the 666. They did it to make people who did the 666 look just plain stupid. Signed, Feelgood Dear RCN, For more information on a quota shell, all the user needs to do to find out where he/she can store da huge files is simply type "quota" This will tell him/her where he/she is limited to hd space. Most providers do not allocate all thier drives to quotas. Ie they mess up and not quota thier WWW drives and so on. If they want to get a complete list of all the drives thier provider offers then they simply type "df" This will list ALL drives that are mounted on the system. Just compare it with the quota listing and see what they have quotas on and what drives they don't. And if ALL drives are quotaed, they simply go to the /tmp or /temp directories. Hitex was wrong in just saying /temp, because some providers using BSD dont have /temp they have /tmp. Also a little hint, if you store files in the /temp /tmp directory don't create a directory inside that and call it ".whatever" Make it sound offical like ".systemlinks" Adding the . in front of it stops a simple ls from seeing it, and most users don't bother doing a "ls -al" to see all the files, and if it looks offical they won't bother going in there. Signed, Anonymous Dear RCN, Violence was originally the crackers, suppliers, and couriers of NGT. We started the release division because JLennon closed down Extreme and merged into us. He had a lot of things he could supply so we decided on a release team. For about 2 weeks we racked up about 15 releases, which was pretty good. It still wasn't doing as I wanted it to. So we decided to break it off into its own release group. The name we decided on was Violence, which Manowar had always wanted to use. Violence did a lot better than NGT did with releasing. We put out about 15 more releases in a couple weeks. Still we weren't getting enough support. Mortality duped us, and used the reason we didn't spread our releases enough. At first I tried recruiting better couriers, etc. The job was still not getting done. During the last week of Violence, several groups offered to merge us into them. Among those were Legion and DOD. DOD is a very experienced group but they aren't a releasing mecca as they used to be. Legion has been doing very well in the past 2 weeks. They have very good couriers, good sites, etc. So we decided to merge into Legion. We dropped a couple couriers in Violence, and brought everyone else into Legion. From Violence, the staff positions were designated as follows. Manowar took the Council spot in Legion. Dawg and I took senior positions, while everyone else pretty much stayed the same place as they were. Legion is doing exceptionally well this week. With 10 releases in the past 3 days, everyone and their mom wants to join. We are not accepting any couriers at the moment. We are going to be the best util group in the scene. 'Nuff said. Signed, Dee r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Hitex Subject : UCF Fixing Others' Mistakes Recently Mortality, a very respected utils releasing force, released "Omnipage Pro v7.0 for Windows 95." Omnipage pro is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition, or something like that) program useful if you have a scanner. It will help you scan, and, if scanning text pages, will convert the text into letters known by the computer as a font. This will make the document editable in a word processor. This is an awesome program, and I quickly jumped on the release to download it. I finished downloading it, ran setup, everything was looking good, until it got to the serial number. In Windows 95, I started another DOS prompt and opened up the MTY.NFO file. I looked for the serial number, entered it, and proud that it worked, continued on. Then I couldn't get it to recognize that I had disk1 in a "disk1" directory. Dumb program. I went back to the NFO file just to find that I had to put the thing on floppies to install it. Who ever has 5 floppies lying around any more? 5 ZIP disks maybe, but the last time I saw a floppy disk, I was a little boy! I was pissed off, so I cancelled everything and went online trying to find some Mortality senior I could vent my anger out on. Mortality didn't even bother to crack their release. Unable to do so (maybe they were hiding!) I found a guy from UCF who told me that UCF had just released a crack to fix the release. My thoughts quickly shifted from cussing out Mortality to getting the program to work! I downloaded the crack, and surely enough, everything worked. In fact, I don't remember ever having downloaded a crack by UCF and having it not work. No UCF member ever came up to Mortality and yelled at them, no UCF member shouted at them for not doing something so simple as finding a cracker (UCF would have done it if asked), UCF quietly took the release and, without any fuss, released a crack just a little while later. UCF has always been one to chase after releases and fix others' fuckups, it has been done almost religiously, and never have I seen a member of UCF yell at any group for messing up. UCF takes requests with open arms, but that's like offering a drug addict free rehabilitation. Mortality's reason for releasing a half-working release wasn't because they couldn't find a cracker, it was because they wanted to be fast about it. UCF has done a wonderful job of cracking programs for the scene for 2 years now. They've seen many groups come and go, yet they have hung on, and quite well I might add. A few groups are blessed with having a few crackers from UCF as their own members, DOD quite blessed with having Misha as a member, and it's true, I haven't seen any uncracked DOD releases as long as I remember. So let's all congratulate one of the scene's truly finest groups, and give the United Cracking Force a big round of applause, a much deserved one after two years of consistent cracking, and there's no end in sight. Thank you for all the work you have done for us, UCF, and keep it up, you're doing a wonderful job! r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Marquis Subject : UCF President Affiliation : UCF! : UCF (United Cracking Force) has been an integral part of the scene for many years now, yet it is one of the most unappreciated groups for a group that does so much. UCF handles much of the cracking that goes on for the scene. Could you tell us how UCF came about and why this group is important for the survival of the scene? : UCF was founded in the beginning of 1994 by just 2 crackers, Sonic and me. We were the former crackers in the well known group UTG (United Traders of Germany). One day in 1994, UTG began to die slowly, that was the time I talked with Sonic, a hell of a cracker even today, about building our own group. I always wanted to have my own group, and that was how it started. We only release cracks and nothing else. : Does UCF release cracks solely for shareware games and utils? I've seen a few DOD (Drink or Die) and PWA (Pirates with Attitudes) utils cracked by UCF, does UCF do special crack requests for these big utils groups? : UCF released and releases cracks for any kind of software, we like or we get requests. Mostly we crack what is uncracked but could be needed by a lot of people like D-Studio v4.1 or MIRC v4.52, but sometimes we even do cracks for well known groups to help them out. On the other hand, most members from UCF are also in other groups such as DOD, Napalm, PWA, Prestige, and X-Force, therefore you see the names of our crackers everywhere. If you mention DjPaul, Lost Soul, Misha, or The Riddler, they all are in other groups too. : I know that managing a weekly electronic magazine such as RCN is very hard and that is why RCN is one of a kind, much the same way that there is only one dominant cracking group, UCF. I assume then that running a cracking group such as UCF must be very difficult, since there is only one cracking group that anyone has ever heard of, UCF. : Running UCF wasn't that hard in the beginning. For 1 year, UCF consisted of only 2 members and even with only 5 crackers on board, it was easy. But right now, UCF has nearly 20 members, including couriers and traders. To tell the truth, it is a lot of work right now especially for me, because I have to coordinate a lot of things besides my own cracks, that take up a lot of my time. I cannot recommend to do it like I do it now. : I always see a lot of new courier and release groups popping up, but I rarely see new cracking groups pop up. Why is that so? : I too see a lot of new groups popping up, not even in cracking but in games and utils too. But most of these groups come and go. UCF WILL STAY as long as I have energy, and I have a lot because I like this cracking. And I am sure, most of us like the challenge that cracking gives us. : How did you learn how to crack software? Did you just pick up a book that taught you how to crack? If so, what's the name of that book? I want to check out that book from my local public library, but then again, I do have this really big fine and I haven't really picked up a book in a long long time. Anyway, if it did take you something more than one book to learn how to crack, then could you describe your process in becoming a proficient cracker? : In the beginning, I only read one assembler book, to get the opcodes of a program to crack. But after 2 years, I bought the second one, MS The Programmer's PC Sourcebook! This one was and is the most used book by me. Nothing than plain information is in it, no damn time wasting converstation. Other recommended books should be Win 95 and Visual C++ Stuff from Andrew Schulman and Matt Pietrek, I would not read anything else. Beside these books, you need NU-Mega Software such as WinIce and Soft-Ice. But in the end, your brain decides if you will become a good cracker or not. : Software companies have always put cheap cd-rom and instruction manual checks on their software as a prevention to piracy. How effective are the current protection methods? Obviously, their software protection has yet to be very good if UCF can just take software inside out and make it usable by the average Joe. Is there any type of software protection put out by software companies that UCF is unable to crack, a new protection of some sort that could be used to prevent piracy? : That depends on the software protection, half of the protections can be cracked in less than 30 minutes. A third of the protections include cd-rom checks. Both games and utils are hard to crack in the beginning, but it's nice and easy in the second try. And that is the biggest problem, companies know a good protection is useless if it is only takes one time to crack it! But still, a tenth of all protections takes a lot of time to crack and maybe a tenth is deemed uncrackable. To name some releases, 3D-Studio for DOS, Auto CAD German, and Trade Station for Windows always took a lot of work to crack because they had very good protections. Some programs such as DIA/DAGO are still uncracked even today. : There are a lot of release groups out there that release software without cracking it. Does UCF go out of its way to help correct these misfit releases and release groups? : Sure we do, every time we install a program that we need in some way, and recognize it is uncracked, we try to crack it and release the crack a few days after the original program was released. We do this a lot of times. Recently, Bounds-Checker v3.0 for Win 95 was released by X-Force and cracked a few days later by UCF. We keep our eyes open and personally, I think we help the whole scene if we fix other groups' misfits. Hopefully, I only remember a few uncracked AND important programs. : As the President of UCF, what is your opinion of the scene? : The pirate scene is really the best we could ever had. Why? We all help the hardware and software industry just because we exist. Without the scene, not even I would have bought a computer, because I would have to buy all the expensive software with it. Are we all rich? No. Software companies would sell nothing if nobody had a computer. Even a lot of people that use a pirated programs at the age of 17 consider to buy the same software at the age of 22 for business whether they can get it cracked or not, we need them all. I had and have a lot of nice time in the scene, and especially because I gathered a lot of real good friends in UCF. I will not miss a single person and I will never miss the scene. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Misha Subject : The Elvis of Cracking Affiliation : UCF Cracker : Many people consider you one of the best crackers in the scene. You've cracked games that were deemed uncrackable by other crackers. Do you feel that your reputation is warranted? : It probably is if the majority thinks that way. To make it a little more clear, I'd have to consider both groups that judge me a little differently. The two groups are crackers and general population which is consisted of non-crackers, people who don't really know what goes on behind the actual cracking process or at what level it's done. The general public sees the results, and so far, my cracks have worked well for many people. Also, I used to write trainers for games, which also probably raised my reputation a little for their sometimes non-standard features, I made these characters fly for example, which were not part of the original game. : Do you believe that you are also respected among other crackers? : I believe I'm also respected among crackers, this is what matters most because only crackers can appreciate the actual work, and have a certain reputation in that community. : In your days as a cracker, even though you have had much success, which games or utils have you not been able to crack? Of those games and utils that you have not been able to crack, what kind of protection was implemented? If you are not able to crack such protection, do companies start using such protection more often? : First of all, my cracking skills didn't stay the same all the time. There's always room for learning and experience is a very important part of becoming better. Hardware dongles would be considered one of the hard categories because the dongle device may contain information needed to run the program and most of the time, the cracker doesn't have access to the device itself. Script-based programs are usually considered hard to work with, things like Visual Basic for example. Also there are several programs that attempt to stop people from tracing and cracking them by jamming debuggers, tools used to do most of the cracking, but those are very hard to write and maintain. I still have a few programs on my list which I wasn't able to crack because of lack of experience and knowledge, most from the beginning of my cracking career, all I needed for those is some time. And things like dongles are normally impossible to fully fix without the dongle. I try to stay away from those types of programs. : Which groups are you affiliated with besides UCF? : At this time, it's mainly UCF and probably DOD only, but I take requests from basically any group big or small so you may see me as a cracker in some nfos although I'm not officially in any other groups besides those 2. : What's the difference between a good cracker and a good coder? Are good crackers also good coders? And are good crackers also good coders? : It's interesting and although I don't immediately see the connection, but in my experience good crackers can code well at least in assembly, and frequently in other langagues. It's different for coders I guess. Since some assembly knowledge is required to crack, high-level-only coders can't crack and even demo-coders who code in assembly a lot may not have the experience. : Your cracking skills are well known, but are you also skillful in coding? We can't all be good at everything, so don't feel embarrassed if you're not good at coding. : Actually, I'm pretty decent at coding. I have coded some cracking-related programs such as keymakers, EXE file decompressors, tools, other programs for DOS and Windows, mostly low-level C stuff, and even attempted to write simple intros/demos in the past. 1 1 9 9 9 9 4 6 u N I T E D c R C K I N G f O R C E mORE tHAN 250 rELEASES iN 1996 PKP51UCF.ZIP 82294 04-04-94 Pkpress 5.1 *REGISTERED* Q31NRUCF.ZIP 11683 04-19-94 QPEG 1.3N & FUTURE *REGISTERED* ARJB2UCF.ZIP 30695 04-22-94 BRKARJ *35%-speedfix II* CO176UCF.ZIP 136247 04-25-94 COPYUTILITY PRO 1.76 *RELEASE* SCAN2UCF.ZIP 21517 04-27-94 SCANSTAC v2.0 *pw-scanner* VESA6UCF.ZIP 14702 05-11-94 VESAVIEW 6.2 *ReGiSTeReD* UNPR-UCF.ZIP 42790 05-18-94 UN-PROTECT EXE 4.X & 5.0 100% UNPR4UCF.ZIP 36094 05-19-94 UN-PROTECT! EXE 4.X V1.1 UNPR5UCF.ZIP 55568 05-19-94 UN-PROTECT! EXE 5.0 V1.2 EC41PUCF.ZIP 437977 05-21-94 EASYCase 4.1 *CRACK & UPGRADE* WC122UCF.ZIP 19044 05-29-94 WIN COMMANDER 1.22e *ReGGeD* F315RUCF.ZIP 1030184 06-08-94 FastLib f. Clipper 3.15 *REG* VC63RUCF.ZIP 106508 06-01-94 VGA-COPY/486 V6.03 *REGISTERED* QP14BUCF.ZIP 438946 06-02-94 QPEG 1.4B *ALL TIME REGISTERED* IA5C_UCF.ZIP 19533 06-03-94 Icon-Author v5.0 *LPT1-CRaCK* XOP14UCF.ZIP 29073 06-09-94 XOP v1.40 *Boot-removed* CV240UCF.ZIP 80435 06-12-94 COLOR VIEW V2.40 - *REGISTERED* WEX5RUCF.ZIP 59260 06-25-94 Win Exit v5.0 *REGISTERED* ST156UCF.ZIP 97241 06-27-94 ScreenThief 1.56 *ReGiSTeReD* RIC1FUCF.ZIP 176314 07-06-94 RICOH RS-9200 REC-SOFT *CRACKED* SCANFUCF.ZIP 17928 07-12-94 SCANFILE 1.J INT_21_SPY MOD4WUCF.ZIP 16749 07-15-94 MOD 4 WIN v2.0 *ReG-CRK* UNIN1UCF.ZIP 49356 07-16-94 ROSENTHAL UNINS V1 *REGISTERED* DD210UCF.ZIP 100831 07-16-94 DOSDUPE 2.10 *ReGiSTeReD* AIN22UCF.ZIP 110208 07-18-94 AIN archiver v2.2 *REGISTERED* DCF47R2 .ZIP 89162 07-20-94 DISK COPY FAST v4.7 *101% CRACK* CS151UCF.ZIP 507152 07-23-94 SH-COPYSTAR 1.51 *REGISTERED* CD740UCF.ZIP 199920 07-23-94 CATDISK/D v7.40 - *REGISTERED* U4W15UCF.ZIP 407206 08-05-94 S.I.P. Uinst f. Win. *G* *REGGED* NAT4WUCF.ZIP 32636 08-09-94 NATURAL 2.1.1 *sn-fix* UNIN2UCF.ZIP 57207 08-19-94 ROSENTHAL UNINS V2 *REGISTERED* UX100UC_.ZIP 28072 08/21/94 UX 1.0 EXE-DeCRyPToR DP29NUCF.ZIP 252571 08/21/94 DOS PHANTOM v2.9n REGISTERED P2SPR2CF.ZIP 26462 08/21/94 P2 Shareware Product Registration DN131UCF.ZIP 18014 08-27-94 DOS Navigator 1.31 ReG KeY TRU2REG .ZIP 21187 08-30-94 TERMINATE REG.UTILITY V2 SCAN2UCF.ZIP 21511 08/31/94 SCANFILE v2.0 INT21SPY APLU4UCF.ZIP 389353 09/09/94 ANSIPLUS 4.00 REGISTERED WXI10UCF.ZIP 19560 09-12-94 Win-expose-i/o *reg4you* LM9-XUCF.ZIP 30674 09/13/94 LockMaster v9 DePRoTeCTeD BASSFUCF.ZIP 18142 09/18/94 BENEATH A STEEL SKY (CR) ASA55UCF.ZIP 217911 09-30-94 AS AESY AS v5.5f ReGGeD eXe KW144UCF.ZIP 47708 06.10.94 KWS v1.44 *ReGiSTeReD* KD251CYC.ZIP 79723 15.10.94 KDRIVE v2.51 *ReGiSTeReD* C133RUCF.ZIP 14578 29.10.94 Cool Edit v.1.33 *REGISTERED* MOD4WUCF.ZIP 19239 01.11.94 MOD4WIN 2.11 *ReG-FiX* CATD8UCF.ZIP 976427 05.11.94 Disk Catalog System V8.0 *REG* 3DS4CUCF.ZIP 36067 10.11.94 3D-Studio Rel.4 *PERFECT CRACK* F3D13UCF.ZIP 440425 11-16-94 FontStudio3D 1.31 REGISTERED[MRN ACC2GUCF.ZIP 150726 20.11.94 MS ACCESS 2.0 Ger *FULL INST* C134RUCF.ZIP 735066 21.11.94 Cool Edit v.1.34 *REGISTERED* UCFKDR2W.ZIP 91933 27.11.94 KDRIVE 2.05 WIN *REG* UCFALM35.ZIP 23073 30.11.94 ALMANAC 3.5 *100% ReG* CD81RUCF.ZIP 978912 30.11.94 Disk Catalog System V8.10 *REGGED* UCFLIS22.ZIP 46020 05.12.94 LISTER v2.2 *100% REG* T151-UCF.ZIP 20530 07.12.94 TERMINATE REG-UTIL V3.0 *ALL VERS* UCFPRO51.ZIP 34855 08.12.94 PROTECT 5.1 *NEW* UCFLIST3.ZIP 49846 16.12.94 LISTER v3.0 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFEDIT2.ZIP 53405 19.12.94 EDITBIN v2.05 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFARC22.ZIP 408293 21.12.94 ARCSOLO v2.20 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFLIS3B.ZIP 39703 25.12.94 LISTER v3.0b *ReG II* DP29oUCF.ZIP 182733 26.12.94 DOS PHANTOM v2.9o *REGISTERED* UCFTKEY1.ZIP 21366 26.12.94 TERMINATE KEYMAKER V1.1 *NEW* [ 1 9 9 5 ] UCF-ANST.ZIP 17936 07.01.95 ANSTOSS v1.4 *GeRMaN* *CRaCK* EASY212!.ZIP 323430 01-09-95 ASYCD v2.12 Crack UCFAP401.ZIP 392309 15.01.95 ANSIPLUS 4.01 *REGISTERED* UCFDM130.ZIP 99527 17.01.95 DRIVE MAN 1.30 *REG'CRACKED* UCFSCR18.ZIP 54681 17.01.95 SCROLLIT v1.8 *AllTimeReg* UCFPCBMA.ZIP 29973 28.01.95 PCBOARD MASHER Version 1.002 *NEW* UCFVC605.ZIP 330917 29.01.95 VGA-COPY/386, Version 6.05 *REG* UCFPCBMA.ZIP 20842 02-01-95 PCBOARD MASHER Version 1.002 UCFSTO23.ZIP 171610 06.02.95 Stomper v2.3 *REGiSTERED* UCF-EC25.ZIP 554617 09.02.95 ELEKTRO CAD v2.5 *REGiSTERED* UCFAMW15.ZIP 195841 09.02.95 ARCMASTER/W v1.5 *NO SERiAL DELAY* UCFWC112.ZIP 178902 10.02.95 WARCRAFT 1.12 *CDROM-CRACK* UCFPEREG.ZIP 286073 11.02.95 pE! THE PERFECT EDITOR! *ReGGED* ACRS22MD.ZIP 652704 02-12-95 ARCSOLO v2.20 ReGGeD UCFXD10E.ZIP 61497 13.02.95 XDIZ v1.0e *REGISTERED* UCFUP24R.ZIP 1085585 13.02.95 UNPROTECT/DOS 2.4a v646 *REG'D* UCFCD821.ZIP 989145 13.02.95 CATDISK v8.21 *REGiSTERED* UCFPS50A.ZIP 90626 13.02.95 PSEARCH v5.0a *REGiSTERED* UCFAS22S.ZIP 405537 13.02.95 ARCSOLO 2.2 REGGED *SPECIAL* UCFARCID.ZIP 92786 15.02.95 ARCID v1.10 *REG-KEY* UCFANTI!.ZIP 120155 15.02.95 ANTIAD v1.30 *REG-KEY* UCFXD15E.ZIP 60720 16.02.95 XDIZ v1.5e *REGISTERED* UCF-EC25.ZIP 542429 02-25-95 ELEKTRO CAD v2.5 *registered* UCFAMW15.ZIP 194801 02-25-95 Arcmaster for Win 1.5 *SDR* UCFSTO23.ZIP 171605 02-23-95 Stomper v2.3 *registered* UCFPEREG.ZIP 285035 02-26-95 PE! *the perfect Editor* =REGGED UCFPS50A.ZIP 94535 02-28-95 PSEARCH v5.0a REGiSTERED UCFST231.ZIP 188399 28.02.95 Stomper v2.31 *REGiSTERED* UCF-CPRO.ZIP 69395 01.03.95 CAPTURE PROF. v1.1 *ReGKeY* UCFVC610.ZIP 293186 02.03.95 VGA-COPY/386, Version 6.10 *REG* UCFZC301.ZIP 84636 03.03.95 Zip Chunker Pro 3.01 *REGGED* UCFSH106.ZIP 282728 03.03.95 SHEZ v10.6 *REGiSTERED* UCFCPV11.ZIP 24217 04.03.95 THE ULTIMATE CAPVIEW-PROF. 1.1/W UCFGD31F.ZIP 622332 06.03.95 GDS v3.1f *ReGGeD* UCFAN133.ZIP 142300 06.03.95 ANTIAD v1.33 *NEW-KEY* UCFGWS11.ZIP 67074 09.03.95 Graph. Workshop v1.1p *KEY* UCFAP22R.ZIP 168036 13.03.95 AnsiPaint v2.2 *REGiSTERED* UCFICS10.ZIP 140435 14.03.95 ICON STUDIO v1.0 *REGiSTERED* UCFST232.ZIP 192435 16.03.95 Stomper v2.32 *REGiSTERED* UCFEB231.ZIP 96984 03.95 EditBin v2.31 *REGiSTERED* UCFVUE36.ZIP 57524 03.95 VUEPRINT 3.6 *ReaL CRaCK* UCFSMD15.ZIP 125432 03.95 SmartDOC 1.5 *LiCeNSeD* UCFKD253.ZIP 120884 03.95 KDRIVE v2.53 DOS *ReGGeD* UCFLP13C.ZIP 1144928 03.95 LohnPlus v1.3 GER *CRaCKeD* UCFPSP30.ZIP 60645 04.95 PaintShopPro 3.0 *CRaCK* UCF-FOGC.ZIP 52125 04.95 Fields of Glory *CRaCK* UCF-SKxx.ZIP 5022838 04.95 SUPER KARTS *CDROM* D1-30 UCFTKY12.ZIP 52016 04.95 TERMINATE KEYMAKER V1.2 UCF-CRC!.ZIP 49246 04.95 CRCHECK *Licensed* UCFPSYxx.ZIP 1449246 04.95 Psycho Pinball *CD-CracKed* UCFAS10B.ZIP 269783 04.95 AUTODESK Animator Studio 1.0 *FIX* UCFQD520.ZIP 142111 04.95 QDISK v5.20 *ReGGed* UCF-BCRF.ZIP 196979 05.95 B.C. RACERS *CD-ROM CRACKED* UCFDANGR.ZIP 66158 05.95 DANGER ZONE *CRaCK* UCFG5-xx.ZIP 1464099 05.95 GUPTA SQLWINDOWS 5.01 CD UCFCPV12.ZIP 43083 05.95 THE ULTIMATE CAPVIEW-PROF. 1.2/W UCFM1L3R.ZIP 1042967 05.95 MPEG 1 Layer 3 Audio compression UCFWARLC.ZIP 492703 05.95 WARLOCK v1.1.3 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFC150R.ZIP 747332 05.95 Cool Edit v.1.50 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFS5-xx.ZIP 5014811 05.95 Slipstream 5000 *CD-VERSION* UCFS233R.ZIP 158512 05.95 Stomper 2.33 *ReGiSTeReD* & 100% NLM UCFSKART.ZIP 2498177 05.95 Super Karts *CD-VERSION-COMPRESSED* UCFCU261.ZIP 58792 05.95 CUBASE v2.61 *PeRFeCT CRaCK* KRY-FT01.ZIP 5015240 05.95 FULL THROTTLE BY LUCASARTS *CD-RIP* UCFPKL15.ZIP 79804 05.95 PKLite 1.50 "-E" enabled UCF&BDC.ZIP 14631 06.95 BDC has joined UCF [INFO] UCFCA325.ZIP 56654 06.95 CA-Clipper 5.3 Build 325 *REG* UCFCPV15.ZIP 42608 06.95 THE CAPVIEW-PROFESSIONAL 1.5/W UCFBI2EC.ZIP 19217 06.95 Battle Isle 2 100% CD-CRACK! UCFLIGAx.ZIP 1303000 06.95 LIGATURE WIN OCR *CRaCKeD* UCFBIING.ZIP 132829 06.95 BiiNG! *10 MiLLioNs sAVEgAME* UCFBT150.ZIP 110715 06.95 Boot-Timer v1.50 *LiCeNSeD* UCFAC311.ZIP 136801 06.95 The Archive Converter v3.11 *ReGGeD* UCFLE19 .ZIP 31651 06.95 The Advanced EXE-COM-BAT Lister 1.9 UCFAT23A.ZIP 96061 06.95 Archive Processor v2.3A *ReGGeD* UCFCDM33.ZIP 115873 06.95 CD Master 3.3 *LiCeNseD* UCFIMP45.ZIP 390966 06.95 IMPROCES 4.5 *LiCenSeD* UCFDCAT1.ZIP 251852 06.95 DizCat v1.0 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFDZ16K.ZIP 121651 06.95 DizIT PRO v1.6 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFCDQ12.ZIP 187429 06.95 CD-Quick Cache v1.20 *ReGGeD* UCF-WI2A.ZIP 303928 06.95 WINIMAGE 2.0a 3 *LiCeNSeD* UCFIDF51.ZIP 143351 07.95 Identi-Filer v5.01 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFPCAL2.ZIP 407045 07.95 PERPETUAL CALENDAR 2.0 WIN *LiCeNSeD* UCFBC301.ZIP 203893 07.95 BusinessCards for WIN v3.01*LiCeNSeD* UCFGE25B.ZIP 19676 07.95 GoldED v2.50.Beta5 *Full-CRaCK* UCFCP2D3.ZIP 98459 07.95 CAP2DIZ Converter v1.49 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFFRIZ3.ZIP 691004 07.95 Fritz 3 (Chess) *100%CRACKED* UCFGENI3.ZIP 163969 07.95 HISTO CHESS GENIUS 3.001*100%CRACKED* UCF4F321.ZIP 126142 07.95 4Files v3.21 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-W303.ZIP 123808 07.95 WWPACK v3.03 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-BL64.ZIP 219253 07.95 BoomLab 0.64 *cRACKED* UCFRG120.ZIP 453076 07.95 Report-Generator v1.20 *ReGGeD* UCFGE25A.ZIP 26556 07.95 GoldED v2.50. *PeRFeCT CRaCK* UCF-HS11.ZIP 49558 07.95 HackStop v1.10 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFDSMNU.ZIP 686863 07.95 DOSmenu v7.5 *LiCeNseD* UCFLG102.ZIP 314580 07.95 LabelGo v1.02 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFICS10.ZIP 143882 07.95 Icon Studio v1.00 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFWHI15.ZIP 92342 08.95 WhoHasIt v1.5 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFIC106.ZIP 365729 08.95 I-Comm 1.06 WIN *ReGiSTeReD* UCFEM32R.ZIP 133853 08.95 EXE MANAGER v.3.2 *CRaCKeD/ReGGeD* UCFIN20S.ZIP 19183 08.95 Intruder 1.20 *SouRCe-CoDe* UCF-STS2.ZIP 959155 08.95 StS-B rse 2.0 German *ReGGeD* UCFMD140.ZIP 128832 08.95 MDIFF-MPATCH V1.40 *REGISTERED* UCF3D4C1.ZIP 15384 08.95 3D-Studio R4 C1 *100% CRaCKeD* UCFVUE4F.ZIP 17388 08.95 Vuepro 4.0 for Win95 *CRaCK* UCFBWDOS.ZIP 509839 08.95 Blue Wave/DOS v2.20 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFBW386.ZIP 734167 08.95 Blue Wave/386 v2.20 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFTMK30.ZIP 19357 08.95 Terminate KEYMAKER V3.0 *kEYMAKER* UCFC151R.ZIP 793275 08.95 Cool Edit v1.51 *ReGiSTeReD* UCF-TP20.ZIP 254551 08.95 TaskPro v2.0 *ReGGeD* UCFME212.ZIP 145600 08.95 MegaEdit v2.12 *ReGiSTeReD* WIZCRACK.ZIP 21552 08.95 WizCon 4.2 *CRaCK* UCF-M4WK.ZIP 18838 08.95 Mod4Win 2.20 KeyMaker-Patch*kEYMAKER* UCF-BWVK.ZIP 18730 09.95 BlueWave v2.20 KeyMaker *kEYMAKER* UCFWCD2P.ZIP 571471 09.95 Windows Commander v2.0 *cRaCKeD* UCFCPV20.ZIP 18730 09.95 The Capview Professional 2.0/W UCFCPV21.ZIP 71304 09.95 CAPVIEW-PROFESSIONAL 2.1/W UCFFS202.ZIP 271059 09.95 FSLogin v2.02 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFWZIPK.ZIP 20323 09.95 WinZip 6.0+ KEYMAKER (code generator) UCFGPIT5.ZIP 191978 09.95 GrabIT Pro v5.0 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFREPW1.ZIP 631736 09.95 Replicator v1.00 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFTMWK1.ZIP 19317 09.95 TeleMate v1.0 WIN *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFWCD2K.ZIP 574140 09.95 Windows Commander v2.0 *KeYFiLe* UCF-HEX1.ZIP 281004 09.95 HEXWORKSHOP 1.0 *kEYrEGGED* UCFE199C.ZIP 29802 10.95 EXECUTOR 1.99 mac emul. GENERIC CRACK UCF-ES67.ZIP 495436 10.95 ESS-CODE 6.7 WIN *rEGGED* UCF-HEX1.ZIP 285300 10.95 HEXWORKSHOP 1.0 *kEYrEGGED* UCFCV32R.ZIP 123017 10.95 Color View 3.20 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFSW6B1.ZIP 1472989 10.95 SQLWIN 6.0 (STINGER BETA 5) f. WIN95 UCF-FF51.ZIP 262917 10.95 FileFinder v5.1 *cRACKED* UCF-LV1C.ZIP 24055 10.95 LViewPro 1.c *fUTURErEG* UCFCDW31.ZIP 193732 10.95 CD-Wizard v3.10 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-VGB3.ZIP 949966 10.95 GameBoy Emul. v0.03 *cRACKED* UCF-VGB!.ZIP 83532 10.95 GameBoy Emul. v0.03 Add-ON *cRACKED* UCFALC35.ZIP 15910 10.95 ALMANAC v3.5 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFMHCRK.ZIP 21203 10.95 MicroHouse TechLib *GENERIC CRACK* UCFDMN16.ZIP 179969 11.95 DocMan v1.6 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-HWS2.ZIP 21319 11.95 HexWorkShop v2.0 *kEYMAKER* UCF-MCD6.ZIP 29973 11.95 mATHCAD 6.0 sTAND. *cRACK* UCFQ87CR.ZIP 139675 11.95 Q87 v4.02 math-copr emul *cRACKED* UCFUIN4R.ZIP 69843 11.95 Rosenthal UnInstall v4 UCF-SNAP.ZIP 21434 11.95 sNAPSHOT/32 v2.xx *fUTUREkEY* UCFTF102.ZIP 102025 11.95 Terrain Flight v1.02a *ReGGeD* UCF-TSE4.ZIP 216070 11.95 TSE JR v4 (QEdit) *1 bIt cRaCk* UCF-FAKT.ZIP 81966 11.95 fAKTURA gERMAN *cRACKED* UCF-KAP4.ZIP 1257943 11.95 kAPLAN rOADMAP'96 WIN *cRACKED* UCFGLDWK.ZIP 24928 12.95 GoldWave 3.02+ KEYMAKER *kEYMAKER* UCF-WEBE.ZIP 1217216 12.95 WebEdit 1.3 *LiCeNseD* UCF-X55!.ZIP 54934 12.95 X-tRACTOR 55 v1.3 *tOOL* UCF-PV2R.ZIP 449765 12.95 pOLYVIEW V2.20 *fUTURE kEY* UCF-PCXD.ZIP 87043 12.95 pCXDUMP v9.x *fUTURE-kEY* UCFI1295.ZIP 74832 12.95 Index-Liste - 12/1995 *FUTURE-REG* UCFSC214.ZIP 295153 12.95 sYSTEM cOMMANDER V2.14 [iNCL. s/N] UCF-TT2C.ZIP 221064 12.95 tRASHTOOL V2.0 fOR wIN95/V3.1*rEGkEY* UCF-CEKY.ZIP 19977 12.95 cOOL eDIT V1.XX UCF-IV95.ZIP 18528 12.95 iMAGEVIEW95 v1.0 *fUTURE-kEY* UCFNPT32.ZIP 16109 12.95 NeoPaint v3.2 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-AUCD.ZIP 108640 12.95 AutoCD 1.7.4 for Windows 3.1 and above UCF-VGBD.ZIP 74248 12.95 GameBoy Emul. v0.03 for MSDOS UCFAP404.ZIP 413674 12.95 ANSIPLUS 4.04 *REGISTERED* UCFCPV22.ZIP 72063 12.95 CAPVIEW-PROFESSIONAL 2.2/W UCFVUEFK.ZIP 17196 12.95 VuePrint 4.2 PRO/32 *fUTURE-KeY* UCF-AA14.ZIP 97362 12.95 aNTIAD V1.40 *kEY-rEGGED* [ 1 9 9 6 ] UCF-SNO#.ZIP 19798 01.96 uCF sERIAL nUMBER lIST II UCF-EIW3.ZIP 313660 01.95 ENCRYPT-IT V3.0/32 *CRACKED* UCFYLS45.ZIP 262294 01.96 Yellow Sticky v4.5 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCF-VCI .ZIP 191563 01.96 vCI aNALYSIS 2.06 *lPT-cRACKED* UCFM4W23.ZIP 26811 01.96 Mod4Win 2.30+ KEYMAKER-PATCH*rEG'Ger* UCFAPOBS.ZIP 27821 01.96 Analyst/Probe & Observer *fUTURE-KeY* UCF-W304.ZIP 204073 01.96 wWPACK v3.04 *100% dEPROTECTED* UCFWW101.ZIP 205586 01.96 WWPACK 3.04 101% fixed *fUTURE-KeY* UCFUNP? .ZIP 1456744 01.96 UNPROTECT PRO V1019/1408 *LiCENSED* UCF-ROSE.ZIP 31143 01.96 rOSE (tM) cONTEST kEY *uNLOCKED* UCF-IFA4.ZIP 16318 01.96 iNSTANT fILE aCCESS iV *kEY-rEGGED* UCF-CFOS.ZIP 19152 01.96 cFOS v1.94+ *rEAL-kEY* UCF-Q17C.ZIP 534277 01.96 qPV/386 v1.7C *fUTURE-KEY* UCF-ITLK.ZIP 17600 01.96 iSDNTALK v1.XX *liCENSED* UCF-ISDI.ZIP 17434 01.96 iSDI v3.X *rEGISTRATION-cODE* UCF-ISPA.ZIP 17465 01.96 iSPA v3.X *rEGISTRATION-cODE* UCF-ICKF.ZIP 13875 01.96 I-Comm Key Files v1.09b2+*kEY-rEGGED* UCFAPOBS.ZIP 27821 01.96 Analyst/Probe & Observer *fUTURE-kEY* UCF-E301.ZIP 29469 01.96 Encrypt-It 3.01/32 *CRACK* UCFACR??.ZIP 1457575 01.96 aDOBE aCROBAT eXCHANGE v2.1 multilang UCFA16NT.ZIP 190317 01.96 AtamanNT RemoteLogin *cODE-rEGISTERED* UCFZB122.ZIP 40742 01.96 ZIP Brand FAST! v1.22 2 *fUTURE-KeY* UCFBGFAX.ZIP 263950 01.96 BGFAX v1.xx *kEYMAKER* UCFM4W23.ZIP 26811 01.96 Mod4Win 2.30+ KEYM/PATCH *kEYMAKER* UCFCYB15.ZIP 868456 01.96 CyberCOM v1.50 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-P312.ZIP 16179 01.96 pAINTsHOPpRO 3.12 *rEGGED* UCF-GP5R.ZIP 17344 01.96 gRAPIT pRO(tM)/32 v5.0x *fUTURE kEY* UCFNTOOB.ZIP 1058955 01.96 NET TOOB MM v2.03 *kEYMAKER* UCFJOINK.ZIP 31920 01.96 Join V1.0+ RA DOOR *kEYMAKER* UCFTWH00.ZIP 200451 01.96 NewView v1.1 for WIN *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFTWH01.ZIP 161826 01.96 PKNLG v1.12 *fUTURE-kEY* UCFTWH02.ZIP 71037 01.96 WSetPass v1.54 for WIN *fUTURE-kEY* UCF-LCMR.ZIP 17774 01.96 lABELS, cARDS & mORE/32 *keYReG* UCF-WFOS.ZIP 45373 01.96 wINFOSSIL/32 v1.04+ *fUTURE-KEY* UCFHS11C.ZIP 51679 01.96 hACKSTOP v1.11c *rEGISTERED* UCFTWH03.ZIP 45375 02.96 Win-eXepose-I/O v2.0 *fUTURE-kEY* UCFTWH04.ZIP 65236 02.96 iNiSpY v1.0 *cRACKeD* UCFTWH05.ZIP 968783 02.96 InfoSPY v2.52 *ReGiSTeReD* UCFTWH06.ZIP 90568 02.96 DSpace v1.3 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-WFKY.ZIP 22649 02.96 wINFOSSIL/32 *kEY-gENERATOR* UCF-WCKY.ZIP 231849 02.96 wINCOMMANDER v2.x *kEY-gENERATOR* UCF-WCKY.ZIP 231849 02.96 wWPACK *kEY-gENERATOR* UCFECP33.ZIP 269436 02.96 eCOPAD32 v3.31 *kEY-rEGISTERED* UCF-SSKG.ZIP 23612 02.96 sNAPSHOT/32 *kEY-gENERATOR* UCFBCKEY.ZIP 383729 02.96 BusinessCards v3.20 *KeY-Maker* UCFCIN20.ZIP 101190 02.96 cINDI v2.0 kEY *rEGISTERED* UCF-UINS.ZIP 92532 02.96 uNIVERSAL iNSTALL 2.31 *cRACKED* UCFWIS13.ZIP 74627 02.96 wISPA v1.3.3 *kEY rEGISTERED* UCF-EAWC.ZIP 17519 02.96 EMAIL Assist for WinCIM *fUTURE-kEY* UCFCIN20.ZIP 97775 02.96 cINDI v2.0 *kEY rEGISTERED* UCFCIP14.ZIP 98566 02.96 cIPA v1.4 *kEY rEGISTERED* UCFWIS15.ZIP 81652 02.96 wISDI v1.0.5 *kEY rEGISTERED* UCF-PERF.ZIP 224243 02.96 pERFEKT sCREENS wIN95 *rEGGED* UCF-VHP3.ZIP 1179663 02.96 vISUAL hELP pRO v3.1 *liCENSED* UCFUNP1R.ZIP 1342637 02.96 uNPROTECT pRO v5.0 *1sT nEW rEG* UCF-SF16.ZIP 32340 02.96 SSF II tURBO 1.6 *cRACK* UCF-AC95.ZIP 38091 02.96 ACDSEE95 v1.0 *cRACK* UCF-WP97.ZIP 463727 02.96 wPACK32 v0.97 *rEGISTERED* UCFVGBR2.ZIP 93780 03.96 GameBoy 0.304 MSDOS Release 2 UCF-PS11.ZIP 225381 03.96 pERFEKT sCREENS 95 v1.1 *nEW* UCF-E231.ZIP 249645 03.96 eDITEUR v2.3.1 *kEYREGISTERED* UCF-PV23.ZIP 21513 03.96 Poly View v2.30 *rEG-kEY pATCH* UCF-MPD .ZIP 19263 03.96 My personal Diary 5.01 *kEYCODE* UCFWSC11.ZIP 391847 03.96 WinScript v1.11 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCF-SHWI.ZIP 25310 03.96 ShellWizard 95 *Keymaker* UCFCMPQW.ZIP 39343 03.96 CMPQwk 1.42+ & GatorEdit 1.2+ for Win UCFSRV32.ZIP 19711 03.96 Serv-U 2.00 32-bit *Registered* UCFDAN12.ZIP 18745 03.96 Dana v1.02 *rEGISTERED* UCFGW11U.ZIP 19657 03.96 Gr.Workshop 95 v1.1u *rEGISTERED* UCFTFR21.ZIP 18235 03.96 Transfer 95 v2.10 *fUTURE-kEY* UCF-WEBI.ZIP 48257 03.96 WebImage v1.72 *kEYS oNLY* UCFGIFCN.ZIP 20905 03.96 GIF Construction Set *Registered* UCFMAILC.ZIP 25880 03.96 MailCall *Keymaker* UCFRALRM.ZIP 21185 03.96 RobAlarm 1.51 *Registered* UCFSURFB.ZIP 24973 03.96 SurfBot 2.00 *Keymaker* UCFDN142.ZIP 29144 03.96 dOS nAVIGATOR v1.42+ *rEAL kEY* UCF-XT21.ZIP 155301 03.96 XIT V2.1 WPS ENHANCMENT TOOL UCFBCLCK.ZIP 26406 03.96 BarClock *Keymaker* UCFCDSP2.ZIP 71012 03.96 CD Spectrum Pro v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFIPM25.ZIP 144566 03.96 ISDN/PM 2.5 * REGISTERED * UCFISDN9.ZIP 940623 03.96 ISDN W chter 0.99 beta UCFPMP40.ZIP 721608 03.96 PM Patrol version 4.0c *regged* UCFAC95L.ZIP 17333 03.96 aCDSEE95 v1.0 *lICENSED* UCFXHS10.ZIP 24355 03.96 xHS v1.0b *hACKSTOP uNPACKER* UCFCRATE.ZIP 130093 03.96 ComRate v2.2 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFREPL2.ZIP 18060 03.96 FindAndReplace *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFSTCLN.ZIP 36276 03.96 StartClean v1.1 *fUTURE-KeY* UCF-DDOC.ZIP 22228 03.96 Display Doctor *fUTURE-kEY* UCFECOPD.ZIP 23642 03.96 Ecopad *Registration* UCFHTC12.ZIP 42365 03.96 Hot Corners v1.2 *rEGISTERED* UCFSPLN?.ZIP 1409806 03.96 Soft Plan v8.1 *cRACKED* UCFXHS11.ZIP 54470 03.96 xHS v1.1 *hACKSTOP uNPACKER* UCF-WIKM.ZIP 21927 03.96 WinImage *kEY mAKER* UCFWEB14.ZIP 20033 03.96 WebEdit 1.4c *LiCeNseD* UCF-WIKM.ZIP 22412 03.96 WinImage *kEY mAKER* UCFDEP22.ZIP 190542 03.96 Depleter v2.2 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFBIG30.ZIP 150388 03.96 bIG pICTURE v3.0 *cRACKED* UCFPRO56.ZIP 38870 03.96 pROTECT v5.6(5.5) *mODIFIED* UCFBA299.ZIP 316893 04.96 Backer v2.99 *fUTURE-kEY* UCFE!203.ZIP 1046518 04.96 E! v2.03 *fUTURE-kEY* UCFHXW21.ZIP 406200 04.96 HexWorkshop/32 v2.10 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFTVW42.ZIP 113670 04.96 TaskView v4.2 *KeY-ReGiSTeReD* UCFNWSBT.ZIP 21695 04.96 NewsBot *Registration* UCFRFLDR.ZIP 21990 04.96 Tray Folders *Registration* UCFVGB05.ZIP 114455 04.96 Virtual GameBoy V0.5 UCFWINPL.ZIP 21776 04.96 WinPlay3 MPEG Audio Player *Registra* UCF-EGOR.ZIP 690876 04.96 Egor v1.014 HTML Anim. *cRACK-pATCH* UCF-KN16.ZIP 794052 04.96 Key Note 95/NT v1.60 *rEGISTERED* UCFCBI25.ZIP 243592 04.96 Client Biller v2.5 *rEGISTERED* UCFCDW40.ZIP 307558 04.96 CD Wizzard v4.0 *kEY mAKER* UCFUXSRC.ZIP 61296 04.96 UX.55 EXE Unpacker with Src by Misha UCFDECOM.ZIP 51205 04.96 dECOM v1.21 *uNPACKED* UCFSCXSR.ZIP 25574 04.96 Super Com eXtractor v2.00 SOURCE CODE UCFUNPKY.ZIP 24599 04.96 uNPROTECT pRO v5.x *kEY-mAKER* UCF-FRM5.ZIP 372501 04.96 Formula Graphics >v5.0 *kEY-mAKER* UCFC16R .ZIP 534392 04.96 cYBERCOM v1.60 iNCL. *kEY-mAKER* UCF-EG15.ZIP 28220 04.96 Engage v1.5 *keymaker* UCF-DF20.ZIP 1342182 04.96 Drag And File 95 v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCF-BC30.ZIP 26425 04.96 Bounds Checker Prof 3.01 *Reg Crk* UCF-WTLK.ZIP 421269 04.96 WinTalk Pro *Cracked* UCFSONIC.ZIP 362872 04.96 SuperSonic v1.61 *rEGISTERED* UCF-PDSK.ZIP 749891 04.96 Power Desk v1.1 *kEY-mAKER* UCF-TNTK.ZIP 22043 04.96 tHE nEXT tOOL v1.xx *kEY-mAKER* UCFPCS12.ZIP 242932 04.96 PC Security 1.2 *cRACKED* UCF-M95K.ZIP 161993 04.96 mOVER95 v2.0 iNCL. *kEY-mAKER* UCF-WCK2.ZIP 227105 04.96 wINCOMMANDER v2.10+ kEY-gENERATOR UCF-HWA .ZIP 23887 04.96 Help Writers Assistant/Standard UCF-TP32.ZIP 24768 04.96 ThumbsPlus/32 3.0 *Crack* UCFCUSEE.ZIP 34179 04.96 ENHANCED CUSEEME v2.0+ *KEYMAKER* UCFGCPFI.ZIP 522920 04.96 (v1.0) Gibbon Finger reg. UCFMR2IW.ZIP 688176 04.96 MR/2 ICE v0.99w (OS/2) UCFPMM15.ZIP 493158 04.96 PMMail 1.5 (OS/2) UCFCAP24.ZIP 79400 04.96 CAPVIEW PRO 2.4/W *rEGGED* UCFNTB25.ZIP 17675 04.96 NetToob 2.5 *Registration Crack* UCFHEX10.ZIP 124698 04.96 Hexedit 1.04 registered UCFMP128.ZIP 316211 04.96 MaxFile/PM v1.28 OS/2 *REG* UCFPMCAL.ZIP 158667 04.96 PolyCalc 2.0 (OS/2) UCFPOLYC.ZIP 86661 04.96 PolyCalc 1.11 OS/2 UCFCDR14.ZIP 125018 04.96 CD-REC *LiCeNseD* UCF-T4KY.ZIP 24279 04.96 tERMINATE v4.0 *kEY-gERNERATOR* UCFSMI95.ZIP 211170 04.96 SmilerShell/95 v1.4 *fUTURE-kEY* UCF-CL95.ZIP 24080 04.96 Command Line 95 *Keymaker* UCF-FPLN.ZIP 60745 04.96 FingerPlan v2.1 *rEGISTERED* UCFMCROA.ZIP 24736 04.96 Microangelo 95 v2.oo *Keymaker* UCFSCRNA.ZIP 16168 04.96 Screenario v1.1 *Registration* UCFWE20 .ZIP 12859 04.96 WebEdit Pro v2.0B2 *LiCeNseD* UCFCDW40.ZIP 304143 04.96 CD-Wizzard v4.01 *fUTURE-KeY* UCF-WIZ5.ZIP 19728 04.96 wIZCON v5.1 dONGLE cRACK UCFALMNC.ZIP 477710 04.96 Almanac v3.5d rEGISTERED UCFCOM11.ZIP 13498 04.96 Secure Communicator v1.1 rEGISTERED UCF-WARJ.ZIP 404914 04.96 WinArj v2.20 *rEGISTERED* UCFAWEBK.ZIP 15413 04.96 AWE32 Bank Manager v1.20 *rEGISTERED* UCFHTMNP.ZIP 98796 04.96 HTML Noepad v1.19 *rEGISTERED* UCFISY11.ZIP 66543 04.96 IniSpy v1.1 *cRaCKeD* UCFMUSCP.ZIP 223648 04.96 Music+ v3.4 *rEGISTERED* UCFQREAD.ZIP 353735 04.96 QRead 95 v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFTIMEC.ZIP 247176 04.96 Time & Chaos PRO v3.1b *rEGISTERED* UCFPRS27.ZIP 13440 04.96 Print Screen 95 v2.7 rEGISTERED UCF-RASP.ZIP 154682 04.96 RAS Professional v0.41 *rEGISTERED* UCFSLIDE.ZIP 17057 04.96 SlideShow v4.3 *rEGISTERED* UCF-ICCD.ZIP 13513 04.96 ICCD Cd Player v3.1a *rEGISTERED* UCF-TD43.ZIP 31728 04.96 TrayDay v4.3 *LiCeNseD* UCFNSMED.ZIP 13627 04.96 NSMEDIT v2.5 *rEGISTERED* UCFPRS27.ZIP 13440 04.96 Print Screen 95 v2.7 *rEGISTERED* UCFQSOFT.ZIP 13407 04.96 Quick Soft 96 *rEGISTERED* UCFSLIDE.ZIP 17057 04.96 SlideShow v4.3 rEGISTERED UCFQV302.ZIP 40396 04.96 QUICK VIEW PLUS v.3.0.2 *pATCH* UCFTCTBX.ZIP 1104567 05.96 TC's Toolbox v2.4 *rEGISTERED* UCFWPC42.ZIP 333639 05.96 WPC v4.2 *rEGISTERED* UCF-CBAR.ZIP 27699 05.96 ClysBar *Keymaker* UCFMANIA.ZIP 316173 05.96 Macro Mania v2.1 *rEGISTERED* UCF-NBEL.ZIP 706228 05.96 NewBel v1.01 rEGISTERED UCF-RPRO.ZIP 17671 05.96 RAS professional Registration UCF-TD43.ZIP 40714 05.96 TrayDay v4.3 LiCeNseD UCFTABIT.ZIP 17651 05.96 TabIt 1.xx Registration UCF-FKEY.ZIP 87424 05.96 FastKey v1.20 *rEGISTERED* UCFCTALK.ZIP 707738 05.96 Clock Talk 32 with REG-CRACK UCFHSNPK.ZIP 25074 05.96 HyperSnap *Keymaker* UCFMANGL.ZIP 16003 05.96 Microangelo 2.0 *REGISTRATION CODE* UCFRASPK.ZIP 24421 05.96 RAS professional *Keymaker* UCFSHW17.ZIP 24101 05.96 ShellWizard 1.7 *Keymaker* UCFGIFKT.ZIP 715673 05.96 GIF Construction Kit v1.0*rEGISTERED* UCFSTKMA.ZIP 1358934 05.96 Stocktrack32 v1.0 *rEGISTRATION* UCF-FNTG.ZIP 13652 05.96 FontoGrapher v4.1 *rEGISTERED* UCF-KALI.ZIP 29026 05.96 kALI95 v0.9b *kEYMAKER-pATCH* UCF-NPOP.ZIP 306975 05.96 Net Popup95 v2.11 *rEGISTERED* UCFAKM21.ZIP 192140 05.96 AK-Mail v1.2b *crack-patched* UCFFFF52.ZIP 258060 05.96 FileFinder v5.2 *LiCeNseD* UCFHD32C.ZIP 26600 05.96 HotDog webeditor 32bit *CRACK* UCF-DBYD.ZIP 775109 05.96 Day By Day v1.3 *rEGISTERED* UCF-LBBK.ZIP 741469 05.96 Little Black Book v3.0b *rEGISTERED* UCFCD11D.ZIP 126187 05.96 CD Audio Dump v1.10 dt. f r OS/2 UCFDIARY.ZIP 770870 05.96 Dear Diary v3.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFIW095.ZIP 1096456 05.96 ISDN W chter 0.95 f r OS/2 UCFNWREP.ZIP 384797 05.96 Netware Report Generator / KeyF UCFQDBSE.ZIP 697557 05.96 q&dBase v2.0a *rEGISTERED* UCFSDD52.ZIP 14397 05.96 SciTech's Display Doctor (UniVBE 5.2) UCFSNESC.ZIP 22398 05.96 SNES emulator v1.2a *CRACK-PATCH* UCFS_NES.ZIP 23497 05.96 SNES and NES Emulators*GENERIC-CRACK* UCFWBRSE.ZIP 1576835 05.96 Win Browse v2.1 *rEGISTERED* UCFWMNIA.ZIP 1359670 05.96 Web Mania v1.5 PRO *rEGISTERED* UCFWWTCH.ZIP 1068176 05.96 Weight Watch v1.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFXHS13.ZIP 36039 05.96 xHS v1.3 *hACKSTOP uNPACKER* UCFSDD5K.ZIP 26895 05.96 uNIVBE V5.2 *kEYMAKER* UCFUED32.ZIP 618153 05.96 UltraEdit-32 Editor 4.00 *LiCeNseD* UCF-FRGB.ZIP 1174729 05.96 Find RGB v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFMCONV.ZIP 298601 05.96 Master Converter v1.51 *rEGISTERED* UCFPSYNC.ZIP 358426 05.96 PeerSync 95 v3.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFSTIL .ZIP 377051 05.96 Stilleto v96a *rEGISTERED* UCFHS113.ZIP 92837 05.96 hACKSTOP v1.13bs rEGGED UCFTXTPD.ZIP 26440 05.96 TextPad16/32 Licence generator UCF-ROS2.ZIP 34040 05.96 rOSE 2nD-tRY-cONTEST-kEY uNLOCKED UCF-NSCE.ZIP 117905 05.96 NetScape Cache Explorer v1.10 UCFMNOTE.ZIP 266207 05.96 Magic Notes v1.60 rEGISTERED UCFWGATE.ZIP 269083 05.96 WinGate v1.3.11 rEGISTERED UCFW950C.ZIP 16339 05.96 wINDOWS 95 mEMPHIS bETA UCF-DAO .ZIP 15765 05.96 Disc-At-Once v2.1o *Registration* UCF-VBHW.ZIP 17461 05.96 VB HelpWriter 2.5e *Registration* UCFEXCRK.ZIP 17489 05.96 ExCrak 2.0b *Unlock code* UCF-CLEO.ZIP 346506 05.96 Cleo v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCF-VH25.ZIP 706666 05.96 Visual Help v2.5 *rEGISTERED* UCFENFOR.ZIP 354066 05.96 Windows Enforcer v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFPTOOL.ZIP 272666 05.96 Power Tools v1.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFCTEL1.ZIP 114379 06.96 TEL OS/2 UCFEFCOM.ZIP 289627 06.96 EFCOMM 2.15 UCFFAXW4.ZIP 16150 06.96 Tobit FaxWare 4.0 missing S/N UCFHPFST.ZIP 81975 06.96 HPFS-Tool 1.7 *REGISTERED* UCFHWI12.ZIP 1417715 06.96 HaWi Tools 1.2 *registered* UCFSWAPM.ZIP 206833 06.96 SWAP OS/2 UCF-L3V2.ZIP 17398 06.96 MPEG Audio Encoder/Decoder *Serial* UCFMRPHW.ZIP 17304 06.96 Morpher for Windows v1.2 *Serial* UCFEXCKD.ZIP 590887 06.96 ExCrack 2.0d *Unlock code* UCF_TMB .ZIP 43682 06.96 Tie Mission Builder v1.21 *Registr.* UCF_VBHW.ZIP 43851 06.96 VB HelpWriter 2.5e *Registration* UCF-TR95.ZIP 196063 06.96 Transfer 95 v3.30 *Registration* UCFHWIKY.ZIP 161321 06.96 HWiNFO V2.52 & *kEYMAKER* UCFMIDIG.ZIP 73904 06.96 mIDIGATE wIN31 *fUTUREkEY* UCF-NOCL.ZIP 125782 06.96 nOCLIP 4.0 *kEYMAKER* UCF-SFTP.ZIP 111483 06.96 Port Secure FTP *lICENSED* UCFIRISx.ZIP 1013884 06.96 ReadIris v3.50G *cRACKED* UCF-IPW .ZIP 3694107 06.96 Image-Pro v1.3 *DoNGLe CRaCK* UCFMST19.ZIP 333858 06.96 ModemSta v1.9 *LiCeNseD* UCFTUN13.ZIP 133081 06.96 TUNE!IT v1.30 *LiCeNseD* UCFWSFIN.ZIP 240088 06.96 WSFinger - finger/whois prog 4 inet UCFOMNI7.ZIP 269353 06.96 oMNiPaGe PRo v7.0 *CRaCK* UCFRBR95.ZIP 333118 06.96 RipBAR Pro V2.0c for Windows 95 UCF-NPVM.ZIP 68057 06.96 Netscape Provider Maintenance v1.20 UCFNOCL2.ZIP 125946 06.96 nOCLIP 4.0 *kEYMAKER II* UCFQV303.ZIP 30533 06.96 qUICK vIEW pLUS 3.03 *cRACK* UCF-WS32.ZIP 78903 06.96 eRIC'S wSOCK v2.01 *nO nAG* UCFMAILA.ZIP 83554 06.96 Mail Alert v1.0.8 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFCDQ95.ZIP 380247 06.96 CD-QUICK for Win95 *ReGGeD* UCFWICER.ZIP 24237 06.96 WiNiCe & SoFTiCe regtool UCFHEDIT.ZIP 188042 06.96 HEDIT v2.0 *rEGISTERED* UCFMAILA.ZIP 83554 06.96 Mail Alert v1.0.8 *KeY-ReGGeD* UCFCDQ95.ZIP 380247 06.96 CD-QUICK for Win95 *ReGGeD* UCFIPW13.ZIP 3779986 06.96 Image-Pro v1.3 *DoNGLe CRaCK* UCFMORAY.ZIP 1222326 06.96 Moray 2.02+ GUI Modeler w/ REGISTR. 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[mDS] U N I T E D C R A C K I N G F O R C E I N T E R N A L S pREZIDENT: mARQUIS dE sOIR E........marquis@ccnux.utm.my vICEPREZIDENT: tHE riDDLER..............riddler@ccnux.utm.my cRACKDIVISION: TwinHead.................twinhead@ Misha....................misha@ Lost Soul................lsoul@ccnux.utm.my fIREHAWK.................firehawk@ ED!SON...................edison@ccnux.utm.my BunteR...................bunter@smash.paxnet.com.au DjPAUL...................djapul@ccnux.utm.my The Hand Of FATE!........thof@ MaC......................mac@ tETSUO II................secret SULIVIAN.................sulivian@ MASTER OF HELL!..........secret tRADEDIVISION: DELEtER..................deleter@ccnux.utm.my BuZZ LiGHTYeaR...........buzz@ccnux.utm.my The OUTLAWS..............toutlaws@ CyberJack................cyberjack@ccnux.utm.my MindReader...............mindreadr@ tRIALMEMBERS: GeTLeR...................getler@mcp.de JAMMER...................jammer@ Solar Designer...........solar@ cOURIERING: mOTIV8...................motiv8@ WHQ: ACCESS DENIED............KiWi GHQ: Morbid Vision............Cyclone Courier-HQ: Fatal Eclipse............Darkseed Belgium-HQ: Star Treck - T.N.G.......Psychotron ISRAEL-HQ: Information Superhighway.Zino Brazil-HQ: Factory BBS..............smurf Russia-HQ: Paradise City............Crypt Wizard ZA-HQ: Wolfenstein BBS..........The Keyborad Caper DISTsites: SpeeD & EcstasY..........DarkSide iLL COMMUNiCATiONS.......muerte HellFire.................Fryguy WWWsites: http://ccnux.utm.my/ucf/ G http://ccnux.utm.my/edison/ E http://w3.darknet.com/~ucf96/ucf96.html B FTP-sites: xxxxx.xxx.xx............. G hack shack: xxx.xxx.xx.xx............Hack Rat IRC: #UCF96 (or #cracking) sPECIAL wELCOME tO gETLER, jAMMER & Solar Designer iN oUR tEAM! GroupGreetz: UTG, RBS, MCC, XADI, THHG, THC, X-FORCE, NRG, CLB, MOTiV8, MALICE, SODOM, KRYN96, CB4, RiSC, PDI, BS. Want to be a member, headquarter, distsite or need pers. cracks, and have nothing to offer...than DON'T even bother us. u N I T E D c R A C K I N G f O R C E mDS (CU) r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Manic Subject : In Defense of Tklp Affiliation : Reflux Senior : Many people in the scene now believe that ROR (Release on Rampage) and Reflux are basically the same groups with a different name, and thus, a bad ROR name might carry over to Reflux. Do you believe that is true? If not, why not? : Well, ROR and Reflux ARE very much alike, but when we started Reflux we brought in many new people, including a few suppliers and seniors. We were also given a chance to start over by dropping the ROR name. So in most cases the ban on ROR releases shouldn't carry over to becoming a ban on Reflux releases. People who didn't like ROR probably felt that way because of members of the group, and will continue to feel that. I know Tklp and myself have made a few enemies, so that affected some of the feelings toward ROR. : ROR files were banned on major boards because Tklp faked the now infamous Quake Final. Tklp said that it was the final version of Quake even though Jay Wilbur, and other employees of iD Software would vouch for the fact that it was only the beta version hex edited to say that it was the final version. Piston, a former senior of ROR also believes that Tklp released a fake Quake Final in an attempt to make ROR look good. Little did Tklp realize that his choice in releasing a fake Quake Final would lead to so much hatred toward ROR. Tklp is the leader of ROR, and he is now the leader of Reflux. In the eyes of the many, Reflux is still the same group led by Tklp. What has Tklp done to warrant a second chance? : Tklp is a great a leader, I have stood behind him since the day ROR started and everyone criticized him for being young, saying he was to young an immature to run a stable group. In my opinion, he isn't on a second chance, everyone makes mistakes, the release of the fake Quake Final was one of his. : Why won't he do it again? He chose to do it once, he'll do it again. If he does deserve a second chance, then he better put out an official apology for faking the Quake Final. If he doesn't, not very many people will take the new ROR, Reflux, as a serious group. If Tklp could go out of his way to fake the Quake release, what will stop him from doing it again on another game? : I think that he learned his lesson the first time. He knows the effect it had, and I doubt he would make the mistake again. : Yes, he learned his lesson because he was caught. He'll be back again. He's been raided by the U.S. Marshalls and he still runs a pirate group, the guy's a fucking energizer bunny pirate. I don't think he can really learn his lesson. Moving on, I saw that Reflux had its first release a few days ago, was this release done by one of Reflux's new suppliers that were not a part of the original ROR? : Yes, Private Eye was supplied by Junior Mafia, a new supplier to Reflux. Premiere, another release group, released a totally unworking copy of Private Eye. We decided to take the oppurtunity to release a working copy and the sound addon. We have always had strong releasing power, and will continue to. With the new additions, Reflux will be a powerful force in the scene. : I'm sure that Reflux will have a good future as a release group, after all, ROR did have some amazing releases, and I'm sure that Reflux will be able to amaze the scene in much the same way. Have there been any problems that have come about as result of ROR changing its name to Reflux? I do see that a few ROR seniors were dropped during the transition. Did any of them pose a problem for Reflux? And why were these ROR seniors cut from Reflux? Were they part of the problem why ROR could not keep up a good reputation? : Well, there were no ROR seniors cut from Reflux. Piston was a former ROR senior that left us a while back. Piston doesn't understand the meaning of loyalty. The other ROR senior, god, left the scene to devote more time to his business. The rest of the ROR seniors are current Reflux seniors, with the addition of Angel of Death and Lucid. : I'm sure that the scene will give Reflux a second chance, let's just hope that Tklp doesn't fuck up again this time. But I do sincerely believe that Tklp needs to get off his ass and write the scene an apology letter admitting that he pulled a lame ass trick and got caught for it. I need to hear him confess that he did wrong, and I need to hear him say that he will never pull shit like that again before I would consider him a changed man. Being the editors of an e-mag, Rebel Chicken and I are forced to keep unbiased opinions about things that happen in the scene. We can't label a group as bad because if they do change their ways, we have a duty to the scene to be there and support them once more. As much as I tried, though, I could never keep ROR clean in my eyes. There were too many things gone bad about them. However, Reflux made a good move with their first release, it being a WORKING VERSION of another group's error. I hope that this will be the future of Reflux, and I am now willing to, as my duty holds, clean ROR's marred reputation from my book, and give them another chance as Reflux. However, Reflux's second release, Bermuda Syndrome, turned out to be a dupe from November of 1995. Nonetheless, Reflux showed that they were mature about it, and promptly apologized for their mistake. Many have been bashing Reflux for, in reality, being ROR. However, there's more in the name Reflux than meets the eye. Reflux symbolizes not only ROR, but a second chance, something that the scene has always been an unconditional giver of. So Tklp, and your peers, may you have a great future, and may you have learned your lesson from your previous faults, many as they may be. Signed, Hitex/Rebel Chicken r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : The Speed Racer Subject : The #1 Games Group? Affiliation : Razor 1911 Leader : How do you think Razor (Razor 1911) currently rates against other games groups in the scene? Razor has been the #1 games group in the scene for many years now, but do you believe that it is still the #1 games group? : I think that Razor will always be the #1 games group due to the fact that every game we release is quality and we pretest our games so that the end user will not have wasted his time downloading a non-working game. Also bear in mind that although Razor may not be the #1 games group in the games chart, we are consistent. I personally have seen many groups come and go in the past two years, some dynasties like Pentagram, TDU-Jam, and Hybrid. Hybrid is back though after it had died earlier when it tried merging into another games group known as Dynamix which is also dead now. But as these many groups come and go, in the end, there can only be one Razor! : True, Razor will always be around even when other groups come and go. I've been downloading Razor games since late 1994. I remember sometime in 1994 that I found a text being spread saying that Razor had officially disbanded. I was in shock because all of my friends had told me that Razor was a legendary group that would be around indefinitely. I read the text file on Razor 1911's death, and I found out that TRC (The Renegade Chemist) who who was a Razor leader at the time, decided to disband Razor. He claimed that he had disagreements with many other Razor members. A few weeks later, I was surprised to see that Razor did not die, and that you were the new leader. How did you become the leader of Razor 1911? It is ironic to see that TRC is now a leader of Prestige, Razor's closest competitor. : In December of 1994, TRC had wanted to close down Razor saying that it was the best floppy game releasing group of all time and that the group should not continue due to the fact of the diminishing amount of floppy game releases. : That's stupid of TRC, right after he disbanded Razor, didn't he go on to start his new floppy games group called Eclipse? What was he smoking? : I took it upon myself to get a general consensus of the group, and I found that the majority did not want the group killed. : Of course not, Razor has always been a dominant force in the scene, it would be absurd to kill such a good group. : With the backing of The Gecko and EOS, I called up the Razor distribution sites and suppliers and rallied them around. At that point, TRC was surprised to see such a gathering and put up a fight with Marauder siding with TRC and Randall Flagg helping. The text file being spread was actually a private message that TRC wrote in the Razor Conference on The Assassin's Guild, which was the Razor WHQ at the time. King Lear, a Razor courier, took the private message and spread it as a text file, he was booted out of Razor for doing it. After about a month, Marauder was the one supplier that supplied a few games with his razor.nfo which had TRC listed in it. The rest of the suppliers were using my razor.nfo which did not include TRC. : So there were TWO razor.nfos? : The final showdown would come on The Assassin's Guild when TRC was pumping up his version of Rise of the Triad and the rest of Razor pumped up my version with my nfo. Imagine that two Razor releases of the same game with different razor.nfos were being pumped up in a race, what a rush! : Yup, what a rush. : After seeing his loss on The Ghetto, which later becomes the Eclipse WHQ, TRC gracefully admitted his loss and that he was no longer in Razor. After that, we turned around our attention and we started a mad releasing frenzy. TRC was filled with revenge and hatred and after claiming he would retire, he then started Eclipse which would die three months later, then he jumped to Hybrid which would die four months later, then he went to Dynamix which lasted four months, and now he is finally with Prestige, a currently good games releasing group. : Why did you have this race with TRC in the first place? Why were there two separate razor.nfos, one with TRC in it, and one without? How could this have happened? : In my razor.nfo, TRC was not listed cause we had kicked him out so he was trying to out release us with his name in his nfo to show that he had power in the group. : What an idiot! If you're not wanted in a group, you might as well leave it. Was TRC hard to work with? Why did he have to show that he had power in the group? Is he some kind of power hungry punk? Last time I chatted with him, he said to me, "But I am god!" And when I did not acknowledge the fact that he was a god, he got really really mad at me. : TRC is very knowledgeable in supplying games, but he is very arrogant and cocky when it comes to dealing with people which usually rubs people the wrong way. : How is he knowledgeable in supplying? What does he do that no one else can? I'm sure he does not work for a games company, they wouldn't hire someone like him. How does he supply? I'm sure TRC doesn't supply games by doing store pick up because he always makes fun of Pest from Razor for doing that. : TRC uses various methods and he does do store pick up and evidence of that would be his release of the game "Hoyles Solitaire." : Yeah, Prestige released Hoyles Solitaire the same day it shipped into my store. I work for Egghead, so I know these things. : If you would've been on top of your game you could have beaten him. : Thanks but no thanks. I don't supply. I like to keep myself clean for purposes of being an RCN editor. And I think supplying is a bore, don't take it the wrong way, it's just my personal bias toward taking games home, ripping them, cracking them, testing them, packaging them, and then uploading them to some board for credits. There are already enough people who can do that. Did TRC pose problems for Razor even after he left it? Has he done anything that would hinder Razor's work ethics, or its release potential? : TRC has tried to kill the group or damage it by trying to steal some former HQs which supplied games and other suppliers as well, but people in general like working with me which is why they have stayed loyal to me and the group. : Of course, nobody likes to work with someone that has a fucking napaoleon complex, but either way, when you found out that TRC was trying to kill Razor and was trying to steal Razor suppliers, how did you react? Did you try to stop him? : Luckily, I have great informers and everyone is loyal to me so I managed to secure everything. Except for maybe a few traders that left Razor, he got away with nothing. : You said earlier that Eclipse lasted four months with TRC running it, and you then mentioned that Hybrid and Dynamix also only lasted four months. Do you belive perhaps that Prestige would not last much longer than four months also, since it's being run by TRC? : TRC is from what I am led to believe a minor leader, Zion and Speed Master are the leaders with Shadow Master also advising. : Yeah right, tell TRC that he is only a minor leader in Prestige and he'll blow up. You also mentioned earlier that the reason why Razor is the #1 games group is because it consistenly releases good quality games that are tested to make sure that they work, do you believe that there are other games groups out there that might also match Razor's quality? : For now and the MOST part Prestige and Hybrid do release quality working games, and I hope they continue doing a good job doing so because in the end, the whole scene benefits from a good release. : Yes, and that's a great attitude toward your competitors. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Rebel Chicken Interviewee : Angel of Death Subject : Legion Steals! Affiliation : Ex-LGN Coordinator : What is your current position in Legion? And what were your duties for the group? : I was a net coordinator before Acidplain had cut me for no reason, and what I basically did was upload to Oasis and BBX for Legion and help out couriers. : Acidplain just decided to cut your position as a net coordinator for Legion for absolutely NO reason? I'm sure Acidplain must have been ticked off about something right? He wouldn't have just gone around cutting members from Legion without a valid cause. Were there any happenings prior to him cutting you from the group? : It started about 6 months ago when the courier group Digital was still active in the scene. Acidplain was accepted into Digital as a member by Devast, a Digital Leader. Acidplain told Devast that he could get Digital t3 sites, but it turned out that Acidplain lied to Devast and when Devast found out, Devast kicked Acidplain out of the group. This morning, X-Factor, a co-leader of Legion, was angry with Acidplain because he hasn't done one good thing for Legion. I agreed with X-Factor on that note and also told him about Acidplain's prior reputation as a Digital member. Acidplain must have overheard what had happened and since he always hated me, he cut me. : When you say that he cut you, you are referring to him kicking you out of the group right? Were any other members cut as a result of what you said? : Yes, when I was still a net coordinator, X-Factor had told me to help him make a few cuts. When I came up with the list, Acidplain said that I too was cut from the group. : Do you believe that perhaps Acidplain might be doing more good for Legion if he left? After all, it seems to me that he might only be atrophying Legion's already tarred reputation. : First of all, I would like to get one thing straight, I do not consider Acidplain leet at all, many people will agree with me on this. He has done nothing for the group so far and even his co-leaders agree. I must admit that his co-leaders are doing a really good job though. I could tell you that if he were to leave Legion, there would be no tears shed by anyone, in other words, he wouldn't make the group any worse. : Perhaps he does serve a purpose that benefits the group, but it just so happens that nobody can see what he does for the group? After all, if he did nothing for Legion, wouldn't he be kicked out of the group by now, or perhaps he will be kicked out soon? : No, I don't think he'll get kicked out because the co-leaders don't want to do it because they are scared to. But I can tell you for a fact that one of the co-leaders has been thinking about it. : How many co-leaders are there in Legion? If there aren't more than 3 leaders in Legion, then that should really narrow it down to who has been thinking of kicking Acidplain out of Legion. : Well, there are 3 leaders currently, but I think Acidplain was the founder although he doesn't do *NEARLY* as much as any of the other leaders. : He might not be doing much good for Legion, but we all know that Acidplain is doing SOMETHING for Legion. After all, we all know that he's been out doing stupid things like starting wars with more popular utils groups such as Pinnacle. There is even evidence that he has been trying to steal suppliers from Pinnacle for Legion. Acidplain has also been caught flooding channel #Pinnacle like he was a 12 year old dickless lamer. Do the Legion leaders and members stand behind his actions? : Well, many Legion members are afraid to stand up against Acidplain because they all know that he is very immature. If you speak out against him, you get cut from Legion like that. And yes, I believe that he has been stealing suppliers from other utils groups. I don't know whether he has stopped flooding channel #Pinnacle though. : How old is Acidplain? : Well, I don't know how old he is, but when I asked him how old he was, he replied, "How old is your mom?" That alone should give you a picture of how immature he is. Legion is still a good utils group, it's just that things would be a lot more peaceful without a wannabe like Acidplain running around. A few days after this interview, I was informed that Acidplain was shitlisted out of Legion. In a desperate move, Acidplain claims that he now has a 6 gig t3 site, and that he is now a member of PWA (Pirated with Attitudes) and Razor 1911. Upon further confirmation, I was informed that he is not really a part of PWA or Razor 1911, and he definitely does not run a 6 gig t3 site. Acidplain was merely lying... The following is a log file of Acidplain playing lame after he found out that he was kicked out of Legion : *** Acidplain (ministry@netcom.com) has joined channel #Legion Don't forget about my ftp site. I just got into PWA and Razor 1911. So now you just lost a 6 gig t3 site! Lamer detected! *** Acidplain has left channel #Legion Haaaaa!!! *** Shroom has changed the topic on channel #Legion to "Acidplain is kicked out. Violence merged into LEGION!" Oh yea, just one more thing, about that 6 gig t3 site that Acidplain says he has, he told me about it 4 months ago. r c n i n t e r v i e w s ! Reporter : Zima Man Interviewee : Zoltrix Subject : PCWarez Affiliation : PCW President : Please tell us who you are and what you do. : I am the founder of PCWarez. : What kind of group is PCW and what is it's specialty? : Well, PCWarez is a release group specializing mainly in utilities and once in a while the odd game and cd-rip. : How old is PCW and how was it founded? : PCW was founded in February of 1996. We're going on our 1/2 year anniversary. And basically it was a few of us that got anooyed listening to other groups nagging at us so we started our own small group that has now grown to +90 hard working mambers. : You have more then 90 members? That's quite a lot, please tell us why your group size is so big? : Well, we have our own couriers within the group as well as courier groups, we figure the more people the more the warez will get around. : So your group is very strong courier wise, where do you spread you files first on BBS's or FTP's? : Well, I would say it is sent to both equally because we have split the couriers in 2 groups, Internet and BBS so they get the files to both pretty much at the same time, as well as we have PTA (Power Trading Arsenal) offering on IRC and couriering to FTP as well. : You said before that your group is a uni-releasing group, how come you don't concentrate on only utils or games? : Well we try to stay mostly with utils but if the game is cool and we have it handy then why not? : What is your source of getting releases? : Well, we have a few ways, we have suppliers who buy or rent the programs, as well as a few suppliers employed in companies wich provide software. : What do you mean rent programs? Where I come from, there are no programs available for rent, the only source is either to buy them or pirate them! : Well, here in Canada there are stores wich rent out cds and software, who knows if it is legal or not but they do it!! And these are reputable stores. We even have certain video stores which rent out games. : PCW was never a big releasing group, but in the last few weeks you have released quite a lot of programs. How many releases do you put out in an average week? : It varies every week! Sometimes we have nothing and sometimes we can release up to 7 to 8 releases a week, but we are still fairly young I would like to eventually have it to at least 10 releases a week every week. : There was a rumour that one of PCW suppliers had Quake Final Beta before it was released by ROR but for some strange reason, you didn't release. Why did you pass on on such a great game? : Yes, that is true we had a supplier that had the beta but spent all day and night playing the game that we missed the chance and ROR released it. We were not seriously concerned with it anyways as we try to stay mostly with the utils. : When you spread your files, to which FTPs and BBSes do they go first? : Well, we have all the releases sent to our FTPs and our BBSes first and from there the couriers take them to the rest of the sites and boards I could not name all the places they go there are so many couriers I would never be able to keep track of that all I care is that they get out to people. : Many groups usually upload to big FTPs and BBSes in order not to be beaten by other groups, how come you don't do the same? : Like I said, my main concern is getting the files out to the people, I like to think we have couriers getting them to the big sites first seeing as we give them the files first, but as long as they get out and spread quickly. : How worldwide spread is PCW? : Well, we cover mostly Canada and United States, but we also have people in Europe, Russia, South America, and Middle East so I would say we are pretty well covered. : What are the future plans for PCW? : Well, our future goal is to be up there along side Razor, PWA and the other big groups but for the near future we would just like to release a lot more warez for the people to enjoy! : Ok, thanks a lot for the interview and is there anything you want to say in the closing? : Yes, I would just like to say for everyone to keep an eye out for PCWAREZ and enjoy our releases! Also, to all you group prezidents, watch out for Acidplain, he enjoys sneaking in your group and stealing your members while you are not looking... very lame! r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Hitex Subject : Describing Your Releases Recently the scene has seen more releases per day than at any other time. A great contributor to this are the software companies themselves. Just as new groups pop up every day, new software companies pop up every day. And just as most new groups are complete fluff, and release nothing but crap, most new software companies are the same way. They care more about getting releases out the door quickly than they do about taking the time to properly program them. In fact -- and yes, I'm still talking about the companies here -- sometimes they don't even do a proper job of packaging their releases! I remember back in my Legacy (LGC) days, we had a release called "Nemesis II" that didn't work right off the CD! We contacted the company and apparently they had forgotten to place a file crucial for play under Windows 95 on the CD. It makes you wonder if they ever beta test their releases. What's worse is that the companies are sinking to the level of the piraters they are trying to eliminate! As soon as a company releases one of these bad/lame/stupid/low-quality releases, the scene does as well, and that's to be expected, but many people in the scene don't want to download these releases because they are exactly that, low in quality. That's where the problem WE can control comes into play. I can't blame a group for releasing this kind of crap, the scene is one big competition, and it is definitely a legitimate way of trying to climb up in the release scale, but it's not right when the releasing groups label the release with a wonderful tag. Let's say a company just released "Flight for Fun! for Windows 95." Sounds like a dandy release to me, but the group gets it and notices it's complete crap. Then, their NFO rates the release "[ooooooooo.] [09/10]." A look down will yield release information stating that the program is "A kick-ass flight simulator." In these competitive times, I don't blame groups for releasing anything and everything that they get their hands on, but there is no excuse for this sort of behavior. There are two main items that can always be expected in releases in the scene today. They are A) A FILE_ID.DIZ file so that when the file is uploaded to a BBS, it will automatically extrapolate the description, and B) a group NFO file so that the end users can find out information about the releasing group, and so that they can find out about the program they might want to download. Good practice would be to fill the release info section of the release with the text on the back of the box, that should give the end user enough information about what the release is, and then a short few lines about the group's assessment of the program. If it says that it recommends a 486 DX 33 MHz and the group ran it on a Pentium 100 and the scrolling was unbearably slow, mention that the release might only be ideal on a Pentium of at least 133 MHz. If the group is lazy (laziness will never get you to the top) just a bit of information found out while testing the program could suffice. What is NOT acceptable is when a group puts in 1 line of text about the program that any idiot could infer from the program name found in the DIZ (though don't take that for granted, a group recently forgot to put the name of the program in their DIZ). What's worse is when a respected group does this. I will offer you some examples. Convert Plus - Released by DOD Just unzip the files in to "disk" dirs' and install it. -AZZ- I took a gamble when I downloaded this program because I didn't know exactly WHAT it would convert, fortunately I won, this is a WONDERFUL release by DOD, unfortunately many probably passed this one up due to DOD's skimpy description. A more appropriate description would have been : "A wonderful program that will let you convert between all kinds of formats such as Word Processing, Database, Graphics, and Spreadsheet formats quite quickly and very well. In fact, this program will even let you read Macintosh floppy disks (it even works on iOMEGA ZIP disks!) and will add seamless Macintosh media support to your Windows 95 interface! A must get for any person that would ever have to do cross-platform work! To install merely unzip the files in to 'disk' dirs' and install it." pcAnywhere for Windows 95 - Released by PWA [pcAnywhere 7.5 32bit ] Released at [14:20:00] on [ 6/29/96 ] Supplier .....:Wired Type .....:Remote Control Cracker ......:N/A Video ....:yup Packager .....:Mercy Audio ....:nope Protection ...:N/A Rating ...: [ ] To install unzip each file into a dir named disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4 and run setup... What makes PWA think that just because this is a popular program, they don't have to describe it? The most you can infer from the PWA NFO comes out of their "Type" field, suggesting it is a "Remote Control" program. However, that would mean, to your average user, that it is a program for infra-red control of your computer, or something to that nature. If a group has the balls to rate one of their releases 10/10, as PWA did with this release, it should at least say a few words to back that up! A more appropriate description would have been : "A remote access program for accessing your PC from other locations via a modem. You get file transfer features as well as printer control features, a great program to have if you need to access programs from your work PC from your home, and don't feel like traveling back to work to get them." Gender Wars - Released by Razor 1911 Game Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Razor 1911 proudly presents Gender Wars (c) GT Intgeractive. This is an action/strategy type game, which features crisp game GFX, and exploding sound effects. Choose you SEX, cuz the battle is on. Enjoy this title from the one and only RAZOR 1911. Installation Guide ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In order for this game to run properly, you MUST substitute X: for ?:\GENDER in order for this game to work. We appologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but it is the only way we can get this game to work. It is worth it though. Once you have substituted, run INSTALL, and follow the prompts. Be sure NOT to to delete the entirety of the installation directory, keep the Subdirectories within, they are required. Once done, copy the GW.EXE supplied in installation dir to the C:\GW, and play. Now THAT is an example of a great NFO. Adequate description of the game, and ample information about how to install it. I admit that install utils is easier than installing games, but I've seen too many games released with the same amount of data as the above utils. Razor did a great job here, and their NFO shows that they took time in finding the easiest way to install the program, pointing out that "we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but it is the only way we can get this game to work." (speaking of the SUBST installation procedure) Great work by Razor 1911, but does this really seem so hard? PWA or DOD could have just as easily taken another minute to properly describe their releases. I'm sure that I've passed up many great releases merely because the groups that released them didn't take that extra minute to let us know what it is that they just released. I have much greater respect for the group whose releases I have yet to download because the descriptions never interested me, than the group whose releases I always download, just to find that I wasted my time as a result of them not taking the time to tell me what they released. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Prophet of Napalm, BUSTED! A few weeks ago, Napalm released Battle Arena Toshinden a few minutes after Prestige released the same game. Surprisingly, both groups released identical cracks for the game which would lead one to believe that one group must have stolen the crack from the other. Prestige accused Prophet, a Napalm Leader, of stealing the crack, but Prophet had a good enough reputation in the scene not to fall easily to such atrocious accusations. Even though Prestige had enough evidence to show that Prophet did indeed steal the crack for Battle Arena Toshinden, the general concesus was that Prophet would not have stooped so low. Once again, Prophet is accused of stealing. However, this time, Prophet is not merely being accused of stealing a crack, Prophet is accused of attempting to steal an entire game from the Epic cracker, Sharp. The following log file was made in channel #Napalm and should shed light on the matter revealing the true character of Prophet and the ideals of Napalm. This time, the evidence is here. Session Start : Mon Jul 08 00:36:39 1996 Whatever, Sharp didn't give me shit. Prophet, did you ask Sharp to steal an Epic release for Napalm? Prophet you did. There's too many kids in this scene, now get lost. Sharp, you gave me Close Combat? DID YOU ASK HIM?!?!? Prophet, who the fuck is this faggot that is talking to you? I didn't give Prophet jack shit. Hannibal, and there are too many Napalm members like you. Come on Prophet, DID YOU ASK SHARP FOR THE EPIC RELEASE?!?!? Come on Prophet, DID YOU ASK SHARP FOR THE EPIC RELEASE?!?!? Come on Prophet, DID YOU ASK SHARP FOR THE EPIC RELEASE?!?!? The point is, I didn't get the game from Sharp. Prophet, but you asked didn't you? If sharp didn't give him the game, even if Prophet did ask, it doesn't matter because he got it elsewhere. The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! The point is, DID YOU ASK?!?! YES OR NO! YES OR NO! Yes Morphine, I asked. Well, I know Prophet asked me to steal it. Tell your members that you tried to steal a release from Epic. YES OR NO! Yes, so? Session Close : Mon Jul 08 00:39:37 1996 This shit is just fucking pathetic. Is Napalm THAT desperate for releases? Who the hell does Prophet think he is going around to other games groups begging crackers to steal games for Napalm? I thought Napalm had integrity? I thought Prophet had integrity? Fucking Ay Prophet, get your act together and show you still have class... r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : The Renegade Chemist Subject : Prestige & Dynamix - The REAL Story By now many of you may have heard rumors about what caused some of the members of Dynamix to join Prestige. Others of you may not have heard them yet, and you might never hear about it. So I've decided to set the record straight before it can get distorted. It's no secret that I haven't been truly active in a long, long time. However, I always tried to keep myself informed of the goings-on in the scene, what groups are best, etc., and tried to keep Zeus going getting the inside titles that he's able to pull with little effort. As a member of Dynamix, it became clear to me over time that Dynamix was going nowhere fast. I planned to start putting forth more effort in the summer, when I would only be occupied with work, not school AND work. Anyway, I started by giving Zeus a few phone calls and telling him about some upcoming games, Duke Nukem 3D among them. Zeus bagged Duke Nukem 3D and Dynamix was revived after its 2 month "rest" while Crackpot was in complete control. As I became more involved/informed and Zeus dusted off the old supply machine, it became increasingly clear that the structure of Dynamix was holding it back from becoming something more. This was because the founder of the group, BlueWater, didn't have a phone line and even when he did he wasn't much of an organizer, and the guy who'd been "running" the group for the past few months (Crackpot) had done nothing with it even though he'd had all the opportunity in the world to get something accomplished. I felt that I was in a good position to start making moves to improve the group, but like I said, I felt constrained by the leadership structure. Changes were needed, but I didn't know exactly how to approach this delicate issue. To make matters worse, neither I nor Zeus really cared for Crackpot. At first we tried to work with him, but he seemed to think he knew everything better, even to the point where he tried to get himself set up with old suppliers who never amounted to much - suppliers like Jack from the UK who I've had numerous dealings with in the past, a guy I know to be a liar and a thief. Also, in the 2 months while Zeus and I were more or less inactive and in Dynamix, Crackpot had brought in a guy from Canada named Hemp Hoodlum to assist him in running the group. So, here was the scenario - Crackpot, Hemp Hoodlum, Zeus, and myself were the handful of guys in "charge" of the direction of the group. Crackpot/Hemp seemed dedicated to preserving the status quo and maybe going out and picking up a few out-of-date suppliers and untested crackers. Zeus wanted to use his methods of supply to get originals and start getting the group moving forward again. I wanted radical changes which would allow us to pick up new members who were currently producing, and do so in large numbers. But to do so would contradict what Crackpot/Hemp wanted to do with the group, so I was in a quandary. But that all changed. Speed Master approached me on the Internet and asked me if Dynamix would be intersted in a merger with Prestige. I immediately pondered the possibilities - Prestige had a proven UK supply section, a motivated US supplier/organizer in Shadow Master, good boards, and also very importantly, funding to pay for costs incurred while getting originals. They also had several capable crackers which was something that Dynamix desperately needed, although we were in the process of picking up some guys like Djpaul and had just acquired Holy Beast, 2 solid crackers who would add to the mix. With Dynamix's relatively fluid Internet section, along with Zeus, myself, and even Specie picking up the odd title, plus any other resources we might have at our disposal, Prestige/Dynamix (as it would be called) could truly be a dominating group. As it turned out, that never happened. So after Speed Master suggested the merger, I thought about it and called Zeus to see what he thought. Zeus had a positive opinion, and since one of us never does anything without the other, this was an important factor. So, I called Crackpot up and asked him what he thought. I was surprised to find out that this was something that Crackpot had been asked about back in March, but he didn't do it then for some reason. Hemp Hoodlum echoed the info that Crackpot had given to me. Crackpot was initially noncommital about the whole thing, but Hemp was vehemently in favor of a merger, along with myself and Zeus. In any case,3 out of 4 of us were in favor of the merger, with Crackpot in a neutral position at this point. I mentioned earlier that I didn't care for Crackpot, but even so, I wanted this merger to happen on the best possible terms so I proceeded slowly with it. Since there were only supposed to be 4 of us deciding this kind of thing, and there were only 6 active members in Dynamix total anyway, I didn't discuss it with anyone else in Dynamix. Shadow Master was the main person in Prestige that I dealt with on the terms of a merger. We quickly agreed that it was not right for the group to still be called Prestige; neither of us wanted to see Dynamix absorbed into Prestige, rather the 2 groups were to complement each other as a new force. Shadow Master told me of the reluctance of Prestige Europe as well as Zion (sysop of Zion's Hideout) to change the name, so we agreed that I would contact the concerned parties about this issue. There was only one other point of contention - the new World HQ. Obviously, Crackpot desired (and expected) that Park Central would be the WHQ. I didn't really care which board was WHQ, but if the truth be known, I didn't care for Park Central any more than I cared for its cosysop. So, when I was informed by Shadow Master that the deal would fall through if Zion's wasn't the WHQ, I knew that I'd have a hard time breaking it to Crackpot, but I also knew that in political terms, if Crackpot was left out in the cold it wouldn't be a problem. Hemp, Zeus and I seemed unified in that we wanted the merger; it would provide fresh blood and fresh ideas that would allow the new group to really kick ass. In any event we didn't want to keep Dynamix going the way that it was, and as I mentioned earlier I was a definite proponent of quick, sweeping changes in the group. By this time, several days had gone by since the idea of a merger had first been broached, and even Crackpot was warming up to it. He still had some reservations about it, the first among them being his power in the group (he constantly stated how we needed to enter the merger with the "upper hand" - thinking that I did not agree with him) and of course the status of his board. But when I approached him with the 2 major points, those being that (a) Zion's would have to be the WHQ and (b) the group name would have to be a coop name, ie Prestige/Dynamix, he immediately lost all interest in the merger. The problem was that he didn't tell me that he had lost all interest, so I continued to try to convince him that it was the best idea so that we could have his blessing rather than his grudging agreement that we were doing the right thing. In the meantime, he went behind my back and started to dismantle the merger before we even got it finalized. He did this by talking to other members such as Specie who really had no business deciding the direction the group would head in, and he convinced them that the merger was only my idea, and that the prime reason driving me to push the group into the merger was my desire to be able to brag that I was in the best group. Whether I'm only interested in bragging rights isn't the issue at this point; the problem was that he was telling me one thing and telling others another altogether. He contined with his story by telling Hemp Hoodlum to cancel the merger. I mean the guy didn't even have the balls to do it himself. Anyway... So for several days I spoke to Crackpot for at least an hour a day extolling to him the virtues of Prestige/Dynamix. All of the objections he posed were totally unfounded, but I can't name all of them here because of issues of group secrecy. One that I CAN discuss, however, is his stupid excuse that the group would be lame because the name was lame. Another was that "Dynamix is just starting to be a good group, let's not ruin it by joining into a larger one" when in reality it was only Zeus who was keeping the group afloat by putting out Duke Nukem 3D. When Crackpot started throwing out excuses like that it was pretty clear to me that the only real interest he had in the group was to keep it right where it was, namely a support group for Park Central. It was at that point that I decided that whether or not the merger occurred, I wouldn't be in plain old Dynamix much longer. While I left Crackpot to mull over the information that I'd given him, I still had one more detail to sew up - apparently some of the UK suppliers were opposed to changing the Prestige name, one that they'd built up over a period of 2 1/2 years going back to the Amiga scene. Having been a member of a group for an extended period of time (Razor 1911, 3 1/2 years) I certainly understood their position, and at this point I was starting to feel that the merge wasn't going to work out, but when I spoke to Deathknight (Euro Prestige leader) I still insisted that we have the name Prestige/Dynamix so that Dynamix wouldn't just be absorbed into the Prestige infrastructure. I found out from Deathknight that he, and even Zion, were totally unopposed to using a coop name, even a new name, and that the only stumbling block were the UK guys. He said that he'd try to convice them and would be back in touch. Since I felt that I still had some convincing to do on my end, I figured I'd let it sit over the weekend and by Sunday or Monday we should have something set in stone. Well, the next day I got on the net and started chatting with Shadow Master. I told him that I had spoken to Deathknight and was awaiting his return so that I could finish up with the merger deal with him, when SMaster told me that Hemp Hoodlum had told him that the deal was off. Of course I was pretty pissed off, and it just so happened that Hemp was on IRC so I jumped into a private chat with him and asked what the hell was going on. He told me that Crackpot had told him that I was telling people all these different stories in order to seize power in the group and force the merger, and that because of that Crackpot had told him to put the merger on hold indefinitely. Upon hearing this I immediately told Hemp Hoodlum that I was quitting the group and exited chat. Why did I quit so suddenly? Not because the merger had been placed on hold, that was certainly reparable. The problem I had was that Hemp and Crackpot had acted alone without even consulting me (and at this point I suspected that they hadn't told Zeus, either). Since it had been agreed that the 4 of us would make the decisions concerning the direction of the group, I felt that Crackpot was trying to shut me out of the situation so that he could keep Dynamix right where he wanted it most - on Park Central, and in his thrall. I phoned Zeus right away and told him that Hemp/Crackpot had called off the deal. Before I even told him that I had already quit the group, Zeus suggested that we both quit Dynamix and join Prestige. So I knew that Zeus wasn't making his decision just based on what I wanted him to do. After Zeus and I had decided that we would indeed leave Dynamix for Prestige, I called up a few local friends that I had gotten into Dynamix (Bababooey, The Comet) and they agreed to come with us to Prestige also - they realized that without Zeus, Dynamix was a sinking ship. Of course Marauder and Randall Flagg came along as well - they didn't even have to be asked. Marauder, RF, Zeus and myself have been friends since the beginning of time, and we stay together no matter what. So after I'd determined who would leave in the initial wave (I still had to talk to another good friend, Excessive Knight, who has been out of the country for some time and unavailable via phone), I called Crackpot and told him that we were leaving. Crackpot was extremely bitter and stated his belief that I was worthless and that I was only doing it so that I would be in the best group, and that I didn't care about anyone else, etc etc etc. I tried to show him the light, that I wanted to be in a group that could kick ass, that Zeus wanted the same, and that besides, out of all the people in Dynamix most of us weren't friends anyway, but finally I just dropped it and told him that he could believe whatever he wanted to, this would be the way it was and that was it. You can imagine my surprise when Shadow Master told me that as soon as I quit IRC, Hemp Hoodlum presented himself and told SMaster that he and the remaining Dynamix members would join Prestige if it meant keeping me and Zeus out. SMaster kind of laughed at him. Later on, however, Tazman asked me if I'd mind if Hemp Hoodlum joined the group as the two of them were friends. Even though Hemp had kind of screwed me, and I gave Hemp a little shit about it, I figured that he was just acting as Crackpot's lackey so I didn't have any real objections to him being in the group. This is where it starts to get a little bit confusing. Hemp joined right after our little group of members did, so I wasn't really well informed on the whole situation with him. Boy, was I ever shocked to see the next Prestige release that had a whole LOT of members in it. Apparently Hemp Hoodlum misrepresented the whole thing to these people and told them that it was in fact a MERGER; and that was just the people that he spoke to before putting them in the nfo file. You can imagine I had a little mess to clean up when someone like The Outlaws tells me in IRC that Hemp Hoodlum didn't even tell him about the merger initially, and that he was surprised to see his name in the nfo file! The Outlaws later spoke to Hemp, and like I said was told that there had been a merger and that he would retain his German HQ position and even become a member. This was the same story I heard from other people ranging from the trader Razor Sharp to the cracker Holy Beast, all these people were misinformed by Hemp Hoodlum. Incidentally, Hemp Hoodlum later quit the group, I imagine out of frustration. The free ride was over. And that's the point of this whole essay. Dynamix was a joke, but when it did "work" it was a free ride for people like Crackpot and Hemp Hoodlum. It really is unfortunate because some people really did contribute honestly to the group's success; people like Specie, Excessive Knight, and a handful of others. The problem was that when push came to shove, the leadership in place was more interested in preserving the status quo and their power than they were in expanding the good fortunes of the group. The free ride is indeed over. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Road Rebel Subject : An Uncontroled IRC Op IRC ops were first created as a form of controlling what happens on the IRC network so that things don't get out of hand, and when they do, there would be a way of controlling it. The definition of an IRC op is a person that is an administrator of a certain IRC server, and has the power to "kill" people or "k-line" people from the network. A "kill" is like a normal channel kick, but it will completely disconnect you from the server you're on, meaning that you'll have to reconnect to it, a big hassle. A "k-line" is a banning of a user from a particular server. Just as one can get banned from a channel, a person can get banned from use of an IRC server. IRC ops were meant to be regulatory agents of IRC, but apparently many IRC ops have been greatly abusing their power, breaking into others' channels by killing all the ops, and taking things into their own hands, when they "feel" like it. Prae, an IRC op, entered channel #RCN when he had a problem with Eraser. Eraser was not even an op in channel #RCN. #RCN was packed with regular channel ops, assigned by the RCN staff to regulate the goings-on in the channel, and it would in no way be the business of an IRC op to join the channel and impose private regulations upon it. RCN is in no way illegal, we are merely excercising our freedom of speech, and thus, at the time, we were in no violation of any of the rules behind IRC, nor were we ever caught doing so in the past. Though there are no real written rules for IRC, nor is there a written constitution for IRC ops to abide by, it takes just a bit of common sense to figure out what they are, and not much more than that to figure out when an IRC op is going over his understood boundaries. In this incident, Eraser and Prae started arguing, and Prae was asked to leave. He was asked about 5 times. When he finally had to be banned and kicked, he killed all channel ops saying that they were bots. Generally an IRC op will have to justify kills and k-lines so that other IRC ops (to which all kills are reported) would know if that op is going too far. It's sort of a checks and balances system, but obviously one that can easily be bypassed, and since a jury of IRC ops is never present to assess a situation, it is nearly impossible to do anything to fight back against these IRC ops "gone bad." I would like to say that I am not a bot. Channel #RCN is not a warez channel. Prae was not provoked in anyway. He was just asked to leave, and next to a request such as that, Prae can be juxtaposed with any other member of the IRC network, with no distinction. After we got the channel back, he deopped us and took it again, once more with no provocation. There are about 35 witnesses to this that agree it is abuse of his oper powers to take a channel because he isn't welcome there. Please take the time to at least read about how Prae takes advantages of his position, and how he too, could once again, take advantage of us all. Session Start : Mon Jul 08 13:10:45 1996 *** Prae (jnl@topaz.kern.com) has joined channel #RCN Well Christ guys. Eraser, you're about to lose access to another server. Prae, let's talk. This time, don't kick/ban me. *** Eraser has quit IRC (K-Lined) That was mean. *** Eraser (xxx@xxxxx.xxx) has joined channel #RCN Eraser You are banned from this server That's too bad Prae. You *really* need to get your facts straight, son. No, you really need to lose yer fucking attitude, that's what one of yer opers told me. I don't OWN kern.com. I did not pour a dime into kern.com. I just run the network. Which oper? Prae owns kern.com. Kern blows anyway. I am banned for clones. I never ran one there. GREAT OPERS GUYS!!! Portal.com, kern.com, and ilstu are where I still oper. Well, for us people, you knew it, you sat in channel #NTA-Nokturnal for 2 weeks and all "The Man" did was setup bots and shit. Yeah, well fuck. Eraser, the account was removed as soon as I became aware of his activities. Road Rebel, if I choose to waste my own resources, that's my business, not yours. Well Prae, you are wasting my time in my channel, please leave. I am not on your server or doing shit wrong, so please take yer ass outa my channel, and just keep going. Yeah, go play with your precious opers in channel #Twilight_Zone. Well, gonna do a bad kill on me??? You're not wanted here. Road Rebel, maybe he'll try to k-line you. I am sure he will, no problem. Prae, I have asked you nicely to leave my channel. *** Prae was kicked by RoadRebel (I asked you to leave) *** Eraser has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (nice floodnet, dumbnass))) *** Mode change "+b *!*@*.kern.com" on channel #RCN by RoadRebel *** D Knight has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (bots for days, quit it (1))) *** Darkwing has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (bots for days, quit it (2))) *** Jupiter has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (bots for days, quit it (3))) *** Mars has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (bots for days, quit it (4))) *** RblChickn has quit IRC (Killed (Prae (bots for days, quit it (5))) Session Close : Mon Jul 08 13:59:18 1996 Note: I was killed by Prae at this point. MIRC does not record your own death. I then got back on channel #RCN and the following is what happened next. Session Start : Mon Jul 08 13:59:30 1996 Go Prae, go Prae, how elegant. Great, I asked that fucker nicely to leave, someone get a split please. Now that was fucking lame. Road Rebel, you logged that right? OHH YES! I am talking with other opers right now. This proves Prae is anal, he didn't need to kill or anything. He's abusing his fucking opers. *** Mode change "+o MikeySoft" on channel #RCN by Venus *** Mode change "-b *!*@*.kern.com" on channel #RCN by MikeySoft MikeySoft? *** Prae (jnl@topaz.kern.com) has joined channel #RCN *** Mode change "+o Prae" on channel #RCN by MikeySoft *** Mode change "+b *!*@*.kern.com" on channel #RCN by RoadRebel *** Mode change "-o Prae" on channel #RCN by Hitex No friends lists please. Woops. *** Mode change "+o Prae" on channel #RCN by MikeySoft *** Note : Prae is taking our channel, because he was asked to leave. *** Mode change "-oooo Jupiter Mars RoadRebel Venus" on channel #RCN by Prae *** Mode change "-oooo Wampeter MikeySoft Hitex undinism" on channel #RCN by Prae That was too easy. MikeySoft??? *** Mode change "-bbbb *!*@*.edison.cc.fl.us *!*@*.teleport.com *!*=dystro=-@*.axsnet.net *!*@*.u.washington.edu" on channel #RCN by Prae *** Mode change "-bbb *!*@207.67.191.* *!*@*.kdcol.com *!*@*mindlink.net" on channel #RCN by Prae *** MikeySoft has left channel #RCN Wow, you guys ban a lot of people. You guys must have trouble making friends. Now, are you guys going to quit giving me shit or not? You have NO RIGHT to do this. I could probably keep this channel locked for a long, long time. You were asked to leave, so you pull this crap. I'm not looking for help, I just want you guys to leave me the fuck alone. We didn't do anything to you!! I asked you to leave my channel for arguing! Prae, if you have something against me, THEN TALK TO ME DUMBASS, don't FUCK WITH RCN! You put his shit in that lame mag of yours, you suffer the consequences I suppose. I wrote in because it's a good thing to write about. Bah, you were the one who started it. Prae, as an IRC op, you are responsible for your server and are bound to neutrality. You fail to express neutrality here and are bringing personal emotions into the game, something you are to refrain from doing. Something your TITLE refrains you from doing. Hitex, what the fuck are you talking about? He killed me for being a bot, I am not a bot. I don't even run one clone. Prae, if you don't like our mag you are welcome not to read it, but you haven't the right to mess with our channel for it. We broke none of your server's rules in the last few minutes and you have broken every rule in the book for your priviliege. Everyone please log this shit and send it to jnl@kern.com and all other admins you can. Don't forget portal since MikeySoft was so nice to help him. Look, if you guys wander around spreading stupid, false shit about people, there are going to be consequences. STUPID FALSE SHIT? LOOK AT MY K-LINES! YOU ARE BANNED : RCN #21 YOU ARE BANNED : LINK LOOKERS ARE LAME Fuck that, that is not bullshit. The bullshit is Prae lying. Prae, yes if we slander upon you I ask that you take us to court but slander has NOT been the case with you and in fact you are just giving us more food to eat upon at the current moment. Correct, and nor do you own us so just as you said to us, "Leave me the fuck alone" I ask the same of you. If I ever break a rule on your server you will be quite welcome to ban me from using it, but until I have done so, you have no right to express your powers upon me. Furthermore unless I am colliding or mass flooding people you have no right to /kill me nor do you have the right to deop people in my channel. Now unless you cease your immature behavior I see nothing to catalyze my ceasing to publish information about your truthful actions. Hitex, oh, you can publish this, I'd enjoy your readership watching you wannabe journalists get shit on. :) Prae, shut the fuck up, RCN has right to free speech. Of course you do, print what you like, but expect consequences. When the newspaper prints bad things about the President or the Senate, last time I checked, the President never took over the newspaper building. Prae, good. Keep enjoying it but you give me no reason why I have done anything against the rules of your server or IRC and thus you have no backing for your actions here today. Now you have a responsibility to the rest of the IRC network to give back the channel immediately. I make sooo many friends in the warez community. This isn't even a warez channel. Prae, do you understand that you are currently in violation of your privileges? Hitex, the next time you find some 'IRC operator rules' that are enforced by a 'governing body of efnet' let me know, ok? Prae, you don't run a democracy on your server, but you are in no control of the rest of IRC. Now, I'll give it back to its 'rightful' owners. *** Mode change "+oo RblChickn RoadRebel" on channel #RCN by Prae *** Mode change "-o Prae" on channel #RCN by RoadRebel IRC ops are in no means, bigger than other IRC members. They have the ability to reroute servers and control users that abuse the privelege of IRC, but they are in no way gods, etc. *** Prae was kicked by Hitex (Phoenix with Fluff Mods) *** Mode change "+b *!*jnl@*kern.com" on channel #RCN by Hitex Note : The following is a private conversation that took place shortly after the incident. Session Start : Mon Jul 08 15:02:33 1996 You can log this, if you'd like. You are an idiot who likes to dish it out but cannot take it, and you go crying to mommy everytime someone fights back against your idiocy. Wahh. I took it fine. I am not crying mommy. You should have taken your problem up with the person who wrote that. You most certainly are. ALSO killing all ops for asking you to leave was wrong. The publisher is as responsible as the author, you know. And you are crying to mommy, no matter what *you* call it. Doesn't matter, the letter didn't even say anything bad. Whatever you say man. :) I sent Rebel Chicken my response, you may want to read it. No thanks, I will see it in next issue I am sure. S'ok, I expect it to show up in RCN #22. When is RCN #22 supposed to be out, anyhow? Sunday, always Sunday. Session Close: Mon Jul 08 15:05:44 1996 The thing that makes me laugh the most is that Prae actually reads RCN on a regular basis and, to my knowledge, nobody would do that if it wasn't an enjoyable experience, so Prae must be a big fan of RCN. If anybody is the little baby here, it's Prae, going to his IRC ops when he can't go to any worthwhile friends. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : The Speed Racer from Razor 1911! When you join a group, are you part of that group for life? TSR seems to think that when you join Razor 1911, that you are part of that Razor indefinitely. That of course, is only an opinion of Iron Man who recently departed Razor and was blacklisted off some boards and sites for doing so. The following log file was made in channel #Prestige and should be able to clear things up : TSR is an idiot because he believes he brought Razor 1911 to a higher level. But the truth is, he did nothing. It was the people behind him that did the work. If it were not for them, Razor 1911 would be just an ink spot. I left Razor 1911 and TSR tried to be a hard ass about it by nuking me from some boards and sites. No group is based on one person. Rambone, you would have to agree that PWA is the same. Rambone, isn't that how all groups are run? Isn't that why leaders appoint people that do the work well? Do you back him up and feel the same way, because I was getting dicked around in Razor 1911. I know in a second that Orion wouldn't say that he made PWA the best utils group. It's a group effort. Iron Man, he DID not boot you from boards because you were leaving Razor 1911. I believe it was a more PERSONAL issue. Not with the bullshit he says to people. You don't just cut leaders out of a group. TSR, speak up ya fuck. TSR left dude. TSR has done a lot for Razor 1911. Believe me, I know what he does, or should I say, I know what he did. TSR makes me hard, er... maybe I shouldn't say that. TSR has pulled a lot of penises. I guess that's good. Rambone, where do you get off bashing someone like that, show your maturity level. Rom Racer, I paged TSR at least 3 or 4 times to discuss the issue with him, he never called back. I messaged Pitbull like 25 times and like both of you said he didn't even reply. Do you see TSR wasting his time even replying back? Iron Man, HE WAS MOVING. He probably never had time to check his pages. Could someone tell me who RAMBONE is? He acts like he is in the scene or something. TSR might do all that, but he's a liar! Druidkin, it still gives him no right to fuck with one of our guys like he is. Iron Man, how TSR handles his calls is none of my business. I am all for being pissed at people who leave, but nuking their board accounts is going too far. Plus, TSR forgets that people do NOT join groups for life and can leave if they like. Speed Master, TSR didn't fuck with Iron Man when Iron Man was Prestige, TSR just cleaned up old Razor 1911 buisness. Speed Master, I believe it was a more personal issue, not a Razor 1911 and Prestige issue. Now, if you'd like to take it to a group level, I'll gladly fight for Razor 1911, but this personal attack on TSR is so petty and beneath me. TSR fucked with Iron Man even after he joined Prestige. It was personal because Chris felt Iron Man had betrayed him by joining another group. Chris believed that Iron Man was indebted to him for life. TSR is of no need for Razor 1911. Outvote him and get on with a new leader. Druidkin, TSR is a friend of mine, but what he did to Iron Man was pretty rough. Rambone, you tend to forget that the whole group likes and respects Chris. Exactly! TSR was pissed because I left, but 50 times more pissed because I joined Prestige. Rambone, why not have a vote in PWA and outvote you? Does that make sense? You should think before you type. Druidkin, what lesson am I to learn? Am I not allowed to leave Razor 1911? Iron Man, don't even begin to assume that you know what TSR was thinking. Iron Man, you learned group loyalty or you should have. I know what group loyalty is! Razor 1911 has NO respect for anyone in Razor 1911, look at Jester King! Druidkin, I know what Chris was thinking though. Nonetheless, removing accounts was mean spirited and petty, total blacklisting is EVIL. Razor 1911 said I wasn't loyal when I left, yet the only reason I joined Razor 1911 was because I was retiring and TSR asked me to join. Loyalty? Why should I die with Razor 1911? I would rather take a promotion! Druidkin, I am in a quality group that respects their couriers a lot more than Razor 1911 did! Iron Man, take it as a lesson well learned and deal with it, move on, make your name Loyalty Iron. What lesson is this Druikdin? I have more loyalty for Mortality and Prestige. Then you've learned a lesson Iron Man, move forward and stop dwelling on the past. Personally, I'd ban you from channel #Razor for being a whiney ass. I had loyalty to Razor 1911, but when you get pissed on, you tend to lose that loyalty. Whiney ass? I'm just proving a point. Watch this be in RCN. RCN is lame. No, don't spread logs, it'll end up in RCN. I did not take a log. It'll end up in RCN for sure! Someone in here probably already leaked it to RCN. Arch-Vile, we're safe as long as we don't have anyone from that stupid group RCN. Arch-Vile, but if RCN prints this, then everyone will know what Razor 1911 did. Who has a log? Dude, I didn't take a log. Go ask someone who did. I never even got to argue with TSR. As soon as TSR joined the channel, everyone attacked him like a pack of wolves. Fear this, the latest scoop, Tklp started a new group called Reflux. No I didn't. Don't you mean Dumbflux? Loosen up and make fun of ROR and Reflux. *** Turbo2 (xxx@xxxxx.xxx) has joined channel #Prestige Someone should fix the game Decathlon. There is nothing wrong with Decathlon. No it doesn't. I already spoke with a couple of people and none of us can get the game to work. Decathlon works fine. If you think the game is capable of going past the menus. I don't think so. Decathlon works fine. The game works, if you don't try to play the events. The menus looks great. Does anyone have a log? *** Arch-Vile has changed the topic on channel #Prestige to "The battle field is now quiet." r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : The Rippa Subject : A Little Injustice So here's my little story, the Sunday that RCN #21 was released, I decided to go to bed early at around 9:00 pm because I just had a long day of trading. Then, at around 10:05 pm, erie.net (my Internet Service Provider), calls my house and asks my brother... Is (my name) there? No, he's sleeping. I KNOW he's up, let me talk to him NOW! My brother comes in and wakes me up. I answer the phone and this disgruntled bitch starts pissing and moaning about "Someone is making fake accounts under my name." She also threatens to sue me and shit. So I say "Look lady, I've been sleeping since 9:00 pm and haven't been on since 5:00. Leave me alone!" So she hangs up on me, I dial them up, and I chat with the sysop... *** SYSOP CHAT MODE ACTIVATED *** Yes? You tell me what the hell is going on. Someone going by the name John Doe (my name ommited for safety) and THEN kept making fake accounts on our system for over 15 to 20 minutes. Well, ask my family, I've been taking a nap since 9:00 pm. OK, I think we already established that it might not have been you, but it WAS someone using the same name. So I did what I am expected to do here and call the number listed and verify the account. We do that now for all trial accounts anyway before any access is given. What you did wasn't a nice friendly call to "verify" an account. You threatened to sue me even though "I haven't been on since 5:00." I'm sorry you didn't find it friendly enough, but we've had little kids continually calling and setting up bogus accounts out of the phone book. I was actually the friendliest you would have found here because I just issued a warning and let you know that if it WAS you, that you better stop. Other sysops might have handled it differently. Soooo, if you aren't to blame, then I suggest you just forget about it since you're not the guilty party. If you are, then you shouldn't do it again because you could get into trouble. Well, I've put up with so much shiznit from you guys that I may be moving to ncinter.net shortly. If you feel that you would be better served, then I wouldn't stop you from switching your account. You might find that they won't put up with much either. *** Note : They think my friend hacked them. Whatever. By the way, did that C program I sent you guys help in finding that bug in your little security system?? *** Note : About 3 minutes pass. Still there? Yes, I am. I am speaking to the billing person in the office who happens to be one of the owners. He agrees with me that I did what I was supposed to do, and we don't care how many accounts a person creates because we have to voice verify every one before they are given any access. Well I just think next time if you're going to send some... what's the word... "sysop trainee" to come flame me over the phone, they could be a little bit more polite. I'm not going to waste my time with you. I decided to cancel my account, and here's my cancellation email : Subject : Cancellation After this billing month, I want to quit your crappy little BBS. By the way, Hydro didn't hack your "firewall." Just thought I would let you guys know of another injustice that happened to another hacker just minding his own business. Signed, The Rippa r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Hitex Subject : Reflux Made a Boooo Boooo For those of you that don't already know the story, I will go over it in an attempt to clarify what is going on. A short while ago, an old group, ROR, decided to call it quits after having their releases banned from all the big boards. This was a result of their releases, as a general statement, not working, or being releases nobody would use. Tklp thought he would be smart and he renamed the group to Reflux, taking in several new members. His decision paid off, the scene accepted Reflux and gave it another chance, still understanding that it was basically the same thing. On one of Reflux's first releases, they put out "Bermuda Syndrome," a wonderful Windows 95 game. However, Bermuda Syndrome had already been released by FBI in November of last year. The game slipped through their dupe checking department. Though it caught many eyes and raised many eyebrows as a result of Reflux's already marred reputation from ROR, people let it go when Manic, a Reflux senior, released a text file (cheap trick for keeping it from making it too far past the Internet ;-) apologizing for their mistake. It was a respectable apology and was taken in a good way. People understood that people make mistakes, and these guys just made a lot of them, this soon after the Quake scandal in which they just edited the dates on files to make them look like a different release. Today, another member of Reflux released the following text file attempting to con the scene into believing that the release was in fact NOT a dupe and that it should be regarded as a great release by this already shaky group. Note that I'm writing this article because Rebel Chicken is falling out of his chair of laughter and is too amused to write it himself. EXPLANATION ----------- Here is Jda of RLX. I will try to keep it short: this TXT is to inform, not about a poetry :P. A few days ago RLX released: - BERMUDA SYNDROME (c) CENTURY/BGM a) main (50 disks); b) intro/outro add-on; c) speech/gfx add-on; In a 30 minutes it turned out that a group called US and FBI released that game months ago. We were told we did a dupe. Our senior [-Manic-], in order to save RLX's good name, released an official apology. That was a right thing to do in that time, but now we want to explain *all* details and get over this accident... ...because in a fact BERMUDA SYNDROME was not a dupe. Here is how: 1. We have released *different* version, version 1.2. Just look at the patch included in PATCH.ZIP on the first disk. Apart from this: the old version had around 186 megs on CD, ours has around 220 megs. The old release is in Russian, ours is in *English*. In our version the dialogues are different also, when you look at the old release you will see. 2. The reasons for the above changes is that the game is about to be released in the West. The game was written by Russians, and Western people demanded changes (animations, dialogues, etc.). BERMUDA SYNDROME is now being advertised in UK press, for example. So the old release was just some kind of test version, and we have released the final thing. 3. Old release version was over 60 disks. In that times the disk limit for a release was 30 or 40 disks, I do not remember, never mind. Now it is 50 disks. Still *very* far from 60... SO THE OLD RELEASE SHOULD BE TREATED AS NON-EXISTANT! This is just a simple logic: scene has its rules and we have to listen to them. If disk limit is exceeded, then release is a fuckup and noone should give a fuck about it. In other words: RLX released *correctly* stripped version (not exceeding the disk limit), in *proper* language (English speech and English dialogues translated by our bro Alchemist), and in *latest* version (1.2, which is supposed to be final). The game would be GAME OF THE WEEK in Ionizer's Games Review, if not the scene, which jumped on us screaming it is a dupe. This the simply the best Windows'95-only game I ever saw, and we just cannot let it go. We would not sacrifice a *very* hard work of a few people (ripping, cracking, translating) just because of old, lame, 61 disk release of Russian version. I can imagine a few you who now think to themselves: "Geez, fuck RLX, they did a dupe, they cannot be trusted because of RoR's fuckups, they cannot see the sad truth, they should be banned" etc. To those people all I can say is: read my explanation again. Think about it. Do not be biased. And finally: the release was supplied by very close friend of game's main programmer. Here is what his friend T0k, president of util group SODOM, has to say about it: " Hi. So, i wanna tell u someffin about this release from reflux... all u know it was released from FBI... Bermuda Syndrome few months ago... but: 1. 1st thing why u must belive me: `coz i know *PERSONALY* ppl from company who coded this game, in russia, and i was 1st who get this game... i mean i was 1st on scene who take it in hand, so, tell me now, why the fuck, i need to release twice??? sure reflux released new version of Bermuda! ask yourself, why i didn't i hear about this game before??? if it is so fucking cool, as Ionizer write in review about it??? i can tell u why... `coz "FBI" release shit... -- non working version... like beta or someffin... -- without English patch... *russian language only* -- lame rip... that's why noone heard about this briliant game... IMHO best arcade game for windows 95 for last few months. And when some ppl tell me the game was nuked, `coz siteops or someone see JUST "BERMUDA SYNDROME" and thinks that was a dupe... so... look, this release from reflux was realy decent, and i'm glad to tell u, that most part of europen siteop, don't nuke it, and understand that was good/new one, u'll see it when they run it, and n`joy... so... in the future... if u wanna scream/nuke someffin, just cheek it out 1st... and don't panic... ok, thats all this time. thx. -- TOk. " CONCLUSION: ----------- BERMUDA SYNDROME was *not* a dupe. Anyway, we are releasing this *final* explanation just to clear things up, not to start a war or anything. When you will be safely enjoying BERMUDA, knowing that it is OK release, we will strike again with another game. Because that is what we are for. JdA/RLX Now for the part where I tell you that this is complete bull shit and should have actually been in Mad RCN because it's so amusing. I have great respect for Manic because he just got up and made an apology to the scene for a mistake. I'm sure the general concencus among Reflux members upon finding out that they duped was a shiver here, a shiver there, an "oh crap" here and another there. Manic suppressed the fear and just said the truth, apparently while JdA was coming up with a good lie that he thought the scene would believe -- very unprofessional. Obviously there are some huge leaps that JdA ignored while writing his file. Generally if a game company wants to release a new version of a game, they'll do so and name the version 2.0. That is, the game will be a bit different, like JdA said. However, this wasn't the case with this game. Perhaps the game was a different version, I could buy the verison 1.2 business, after all I have no way of verifying it now, as 8 months is a bit late to go looking on sites, but if that's the case, and if you could fit a patch on one disk, WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU JUST RELEASE THE PATCH? Also, don't try to say the old release is non-existent, FBI never agreed to any disk limit 8 months ago, and neither did ROR/RLX now, because you guys were not invited to the meetings regarding it. So don't try to justify yourself by claiming others' faults. If anybody's release should be claimed non-existent, it's yours, because you're the one that said you had one of your own guys translate the game, and last I checked the warez scene releases software by the companies, not half by the companies and half the group's work. RLX is lucky because ROR was granted a second chance, but don't expect old views of ROR to be lost, you weren't granted a new life, just a new name and a second chance. Finally, if this hasn't convinced you yet, please explain the file dates. The file dates still said October 1995, which sounds a lot like the FBI release. You guys did a better job on the Quake cop out, at least there you faked the dates, you didn't even do THAT for this release. I hate to break it to you but Reflux is already banned from Beyond Akira, and I shudder to think about how many more boards that ban could be extended to. Next time take more responsibility for your actions. And JdA, Manic has guts, you're just fluff. Your group doesn't necessarily represent you, but you always represent your group, and you're making a fool out of Reflux. I just hope that people will disregard your lame excuse for a rebuttal and listen to Manic's one. Reflux duped, they made an honest mistake, and did more than most groups would after a dupe, they apologized. r c n a r t i c l e s ! Author : Midnight Avian Subject : "Is that box really important to you?" It might sound kind of weird to pick a machine over your friends but to some of us, that's reality. How many of you spend more time on your computer than seeing your friends or talk to your friends? In the old days, you'd ask a friend for help when you were feeling upset. Nowadays you just start couriering your head off and you keep your problem to yourself. That's not healthy! I bet that most of you don't even need most of the stuff that you download! Maybe you'll want the odd game, maybe a ten mes release or so but comparing to the useless stuff you've couriered, it's nothing. At this rate, no one will even speak by the year 2000! Think about it! When you have a problem, talk about it with someone. Don't just type "/msg ???-DCC xdcc send #1"! I remember when I had a girlfriend, she would sometimes ask me, "Is that box really important to you?" I would just laugh and avoid the question. After all, what can I say? Should I say, "Yes, it's more important than you!" Or should I say, "Nah, I don't even use it that much!"? There's one thing you have to remember, you bought the computer and the computer is owned by YOU. Computers can be part of your life but shouldn't take over your life. If you're bored then fool around on the computer but if you've got something to do, do it! Don't play IRC and not do what you have to do. Life's short, have fun! Sex, party, movies, more sex is far more interesting than looking at the scene that changes images every second. Being a courier myself, sometimes I ask. "Why do I courier?" The answer is often unknown. People courier because of different reasons. Some people will be happy if they have fast warez to upload. Some people just do it because they have nothing better to do. Some people might think that couriers are jerks that have no life and just sit in front of the computer and wait for uploads and downloads to be done. I have three words for these people, "Shame on you!" Without these people, the files would not move around nearly as quickly as they do now, and also, if there were no couriers in the world, the warez scene would not grow as quickly as it has. My friend always tells me that I have no life when couriering and I say, "What is meant by no life, if it's not going out, then I do have a life because I go out with my friends a hell of a lot more than you!" You don't have to be in front of the computer when you courier, you can be watching TV, going out with friends, having sex. Even studying if you're bored enough! So next time you want to insult a courier, not like anyone would have the guts to because there are millions of couriers out there, just think twice about it. 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 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 : 07/04/96 -> 07/10/96 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ Release Score : 0 \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ Running Total : 0 | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\::::::::: Filename : NPMCC-01.ZIP Fix name : NPMCCFIX.ZIP Filedate : 7-07-96 Filedate : 7-11-96 /\. Previous Total : 0 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : -3 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : -3 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . CLOSE COMBAT FOR WINDOWS 95' (c) MICROSOFT [01/11] -/- LATE FIX -/- LATE FIX -/- LATE FIX -/- Filename : NPMID4.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-10-96 Filedate : -- /\. Previous Total : -3 . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. Release Score : 3 .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. Running Total : 0 :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . SUPREME COMMANDER (c) TRENDMASTER [1/1] *THIS IS ID4: THE GAME* Filename : PSG-TFIX.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-06-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : 0 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : -3-3 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : -6 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ TRACER - WORKING DISK 6 (c) 7th LEVEL [1/1] -/- LATE FIX -/- LATE FIX -/- LATE FIX -/- Filename : DEC-PSG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-07-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : -6 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : -2 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Bruce Jenner's DECATHLON (c) I-Magic [1/9] Filename : NUKEPSG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-09-96 Filedate : -- ________________________/ |__/| ___________ Previous Total : -2 \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ Release Score : 4 | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / Running Total : 2 |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ NUKE IT! (Duke Nukem Addon) [01/04] Filename : RLXEYE01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-08-96 Filedate : -- PRIVATE EYE *FULLY WORKING VERSION* [01/41] Previous Total : 0 (c) SIMON & SCHUSTER INTERACTIVE Release Score : 3 Running Total : 3 r e f l u x ! -- - - Filename : RLXSPA01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-08-96 Filedate : -- PRIVATE EYE *SOUND PACK* [01/20] Previous Total : 3 (c) SIMON & SCHUSTER INTERACTIVE Release Score : 1 Running Total : 4 r e f l u x ! -- - - Filename : RLXMRI01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-10-96 Filedate : -- L'AFFAIRE MORLOV *INTRO ADD-ON* [01/06] Previous Total : 4 Release Score : 1 Running Total : 5 r e f l u x ! -- - - Filename : RLXMRL01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-10-96 Filedate : -- L'AFFAIRE MORLOV (c) TITUS [01/47] Previous Total : 5 Release Score : 3 Running Total : 8 r e f l u x ! -- - - Filename : RLXMRS01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-10-96 Filedate : -- L'AFFAIRE MORLOV *SOUND ADD-ON* [01/28] Previous Total : 8 Release Score : 1 Running Total : 9 r e f l u x ! -- - - Filename : SC2NET01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-06-96 Filedate : -- SIMCITY 2000 NETWORK ED. (c) MAXIS [01/11] Previous Total : 0 _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ Release Score : 5 \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ Running Total : 5 dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/===.1911.CD.DIVISION.======\___/ Score Chart : Games HBD 0 NPM 0 PSG 2 Points RLX 9 Points RZR 5 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Razor 1911 - [5.0] Reflux - [1.8] Prestige - [0.7] Hybrid - [0.0] Napalm - [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 JUL JUL Total HBD 0/0 7/2 0/0 0/0 7/2 0.0 0.0 0.0 NPM 6/2 0/0 24/7 0/2 30/9 3.4 0.0 -3.4 PSG 12/4 0/0 16/7 2/3 30/14 2.3 0.7 -1.6 RLX n/a n/a n/a 9/5 9/5 n/a 1.8 n/a RZR 9/2 0/0 17/4 5/1 31/7 4.3 5.0 +0.7 # 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 PTY CTY HBD 7 -3 2 1 5 2 20/8 2.5 2.5 NPM 24 3 7 1 6 4 81/25 3.5 3.3 PSG 21 12 7 3 1 2 111/36 3.3 3.1 RLX 9 5 9 5 0 0 9/5 n/a 1.8 RZR 17 3 4 1 4 3 59/15 3.9 3.9 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 PTY/CTY = Previous Total Yield/Current Total Yield .x#$$#x. `:$$$$:' The Game Review! .x%#$$$$$$#%x. .x#$$$$#x. .x#$$$#x. `""""$$$$""""' .S$$$$$$$$S.$$$$$$$$$Ss $$$$.sS$Ss.$$$$ $$$$$`$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$',$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ """"`$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$ sS$Ss."$$$ $$$$$$ pn `-------------- $$$$$$$$$$$ ------------' $$$$$$$$'` ~VOTED #1 WAREZ MAG/REVIEW BY INTERNET USERS~ ~TGR IS PROUD TO BE THE LONGEST RUNNING WEEKLY WAREZ MAG/REVIEW, EVER!~ .a$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&$$$$$a. $$' . `$$' `$$ ' `$$' s `$$' s `$$ $' $ $$ $ $$ a a $$ $ $$ $ $$ ISSUE #31 $ $ssss$$ $ $$ $ $ $$ $ $$ $ssss$$ $ o o$ $$ $ $ $$ sssss$$ssss. $$ 07/14/96 $. $ $$ $ $$ $ $ $$ $ $$ $ $$ $$. $ ,$$ $ $$ $ $ $$. $ ,$$. $ ,$$ `$&@%o%@&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&@%o%@&$$$$&@%o%@&hd' ____________ News Updates - None ============ (WHERE and WHEN can I GET The Game Review? The Game Review (C) Ionizer) (will be released every SUNDAY, and can be obtained by) (/m ionizer XDCC send #1) #1 My home page (Thanks to Agile & Ent for their help) http://ns2.clever.net/~ionizer (Note : Contains all issues and is always up to date.) #2 E-Mail Auto Responder (Thanks to Malk and Mael) Just write mail to tgr@inforelay.com . (Note : Only for the NEWEST TGR out.) #3 Other magazines are free to use TGR in their mags. Simply notify me about it first. Currently RCN contaings TGR! NOTE: THERE IS NO MAILING LIST OF ANY KIND! =========================================== - * - * - * - * - * * - * - * - * - * - GAME REVIEWS, RATINGS, UN-BIASED OPINIONS, HELP/TIPS FOR INSTALLING GAMES! [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Rating scale : (0-19)/100 = In a nutshell, it sucked! (20-39)/100 = Still crap but slightly better. (40-49)/100 = Possibly worth downloading. (50-69)/100 = Pretty decent game. Might want to check it out. (70-79)/100 = Worth the download if you like that type. (80-89)/100 = Very good, 9 outta 10 its worth the download. (90-99)/100 = Excellent game, a MUST download. 100/100 = HOLY SHIT I'VE NEVER SEEN A BETTER GAME! RATINGS are based on the game idea, graphics, sound, playability, ingenuity, versatility, and a lot of other words ending in 'ity.' These games are based on what happens on MY COMPUTER ONLY, unless stated otherwise. I always first follow NFO directions, and if those don't work or are not available, I then try other ways. So just b/c it doesn't work for me, doesn't mean it won't work for you. -<*><*> THE GAME REVIEW <*><*>- 18 CLASSIC CASINO GAMES FOR WINDOWS Sat. July. 6, 1996 xx/05 Like it says, this is 18 casino like games for windows. The graphics start off shitty, but you can change them so that they look like they came from this century. Some of the games include the following: 7 Card Stud, Bandit, Blackjack, Craps, Dayraces, Draw 5 Poker, Holdem, Keno, Lotto, One Arm Bandit, Pot of Gold, Roulette, and Video Poker. It certainly is not that nice collection of card games that you are looking for. Dull and boring. Here is an alternative review courtesy of Tornado, I thought it was slightly humorous : "Well the games are playable. The games are 16 colors all of them. They aren't registered. You have a 30 day trial period which is fine because you can't even play this crap that long. Basically it's for idiots or just for people that like any game." RATING : 22/100 PRIVATE EYE *FULLY WORKING VERSION* [01/41] (c) SIMON & SCHUSTER INTERACTIVE r e f l u x ! -- - - PRIVATE EYE *SOUND PACK* [01/20] (c) SIMON & SCHUSTER INTERACTIVE r e f l u x ! -- - - Here's the working version of this detective game. Precision's was not cracked or cracked properly, and so Reflux took a crack at it and was able to make it work fine w/o the need for subst/fakecd. This is an adventure game involving many interactions with characters, and of course, as all good detectives do, looking and searching for clues. The graphics are ok, and you pretty much NEED the sound addon in order to play, or else you'll be walking around clueless. You really need the full cd for this one, in order to figure out the plot, because it uses movies or something that tell the plot (such as a guy getting killed) and you need to know what happened. It's hard to play with out them, because you're talking to a guy one minute, and the next you see he's dead on the floor, and you missed it all. One annoying thing was when the game tried to load the movies, it would get an error, you have to hit ok, and then escape too, and this gets to be very annoying. It might be a good game on CD, but it's not worth it to get this rip, because you're missing out on half the game. Unless you plan on buying this one and want to see what it's like, don't waste your time. RATING : 45/100 ________________________/ |__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ NUKE IT! (Duke Nukem Addon) [04/04] What do you think it is? It's about 17 megs worth of map files. Some of them have been released in other zips, but about half of them haven't been. It also contains some other shit you might find usefull if you plan on making your own levels. Nice collection to have, a must for all who still like playing it over modem. RATING : 51/100 /\. . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . SUPREME COMMANDER (c) TRENDMASTER [1/1] *THIS IS ID4: THE GAME* Huh, uhh.....uhhhh..shit, uhhh..well, er...umm...hm. Shit hold on, let me get some words to describe this, then I can form a sentence. Ok let's go, garbage, shit, crap, junk, stupid, dumb, ugly, slow, boring, retarded, lame, wtf, idiots. Ok now to use my language skills from 4th grade : The idiots who designed this stupid, dumb, crappy, game are a bunch of retarded, lame, slow learning, morons. I mean wtf is this boring junk? It's got this stupid planet, I think it's called Earth or something, and you click on the target thing on an area, then all of a sudden your the shit head alien up in some fucking spaceship with all those annoying bleeps and shit. I click on him twice and then the faggot rubs some pussy or some button, whatever it was, and then the pussy/button has an orgasm and gets all wet and turned green. Then I couldn't find any other pussy's or things like it to touch, except the exit button. The exit shit said this was disk 1 of 11 missions. I BEG OF YOU (RELEASE GROUPS), DO NOT PUT ANY MORE OF THIS GARBAGE OUT, SPARE US! If you really want it, then go tell your mom to give you 5 bucks and you can go buy the cool ID4 action hero and get the free mission disk. This game has very little resemblance to the movie, other than there is an alien flying a ship, and that the game is some crap packaged with the action figures from the movie. RATING : 17/100 PAL The Legend of the Sword Hero [xX/12] Pal? Wasn't that from a B&B episode, like Positive Acting Losers or some shit? Stupid dickheads! Didn't say that this was chinese or whatever language it's in. Anyway, from what I was able to do, which is little because a lot of it is dialogue between characters, it's an rpg game. The gameplay is the kind where you walk into different rooms with an eagle eye view. So, unless you can speak whatever language this is in, don't bother. RATING : 37/100 AND Legends, (c) Copyright Krisalis. [6/6] Jism and Fast The game play is very similar to that chinese RPG, what was it called, oh, Knights of Xentar. You walk around the village and stuff trying to do something, who knows what. The storyline is long and, well, slightly complicated, but the intro tells it nicely. The nfo says it's like Zelda, it is, but unlike with the rectangle type areas, it's just all open. You're going to have to use the defined keys, Z and X for left and right, and P and L for up and down, spacebar for shooting weapons. Game is overall lame, and would require hours upon hours to beat it. The sound and gfx are pretty primitive. RATING : 41/100 L'AFFAIRE MORLOV (c) TITUS [01/47] r e f l u x ! -- - - L'AFFAIRE MORLOV *SOUND ADD-ON* [01/28] r e f l u x ! -- - - L'AFFAIRE MORLOV *INTRO ADD-ON* [01/06] r e f l u x ! -- - - This 202 meg, fully installed, game is worth it...if you like playing the detective type and have the room. The game is mostly a combination of a picture backgrounds with movies of people as the interaction. The video animation isn't of high quality, but it does the job. Game's got a lot of zooming in on areas as the way of picking up stuff and/or using things. There's tons of stuff to do, and I'd estimate it would take about 10 hours to beat the game if you walked right through it with a walkthrough. Otherwise it would probably take several days, cuz it looks like a biggy. The story line is this : Your g/f tells you to meet her somewhere, you go there, hear shots, find her dead, and while your over her, someone takes a picture and gives it to the police, so they think your the murderer, and so your on the run. If you got the time to play it, it could be worth checking out, other wise, stick to something smaller. RATING : 58/100 -<*><*> WIN '95 REVIEWS <*><*>- :+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+: The Win95 Game Review! by pAth0s :+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+: - To err is human. To fuck up is pAth0s! - Welcome to Win95 Game Review #2! - Just a few format changes.. EMAIL : pathos@ns2.clever.net (some people missed it last week.) Feel free to drop me a line about W95GR and let me know what you think. - Reviewer's System Info: Hardware: p-90, 16M ram, 512k cache, Diamond 64 2m DRAM, Awe32, 17" ADI, EIDE Software: 95 OEM Service Pack 2 beta3 (includes DirectX2, etc., All the latest drivers for the above hardware. Ratings: 100-90 = LEECH THIS NOW! 89-70 = Check it 69-50 = Ehh maybe 49-30 = Prolly not 29-00 = Forget it!! 00 = Don't Work _____ __ ______ _____ __ _____ / \/ | |__| | / _ \ REVIEW COURTESY OF: / _ _ | _ |__| | | | \_ _/ GENOCIDE / | | | || | \ / - \ \__|_|__/\____/ |__|___|\___\_____/ ----------------------------------- Lemmings Paintball *FiNAL* [o1/17] ----------------------------------- Lemmings Paintball for Win95. Let's see here. This game was supposedly released earlier by Hybrid, but apparently that version was a beta, or a release meant for computer magazines and far from complete. The game idea is simple if you can put 2 and 2 together, Lemmings + Paintball. The game is cool, but relatively easy. It has a multiplayer for playing over the net, but is otherwise very easy or very hard depending on the settings. The intro is hilarious, and I'm glad Motiv8 left it in. Overall, a good small game with a good rip. RATING : 80/100 (If you like Lemmings) RATING : 74/100 (If you have another person to play with) RATING : 60/100 (If you don't like Lemmings at all) SIMCITY 2000 NETWORK ED. (c) MAXIS [01/11] _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/===.1911.CD.DIVISION.======\___/ Ok, it's Sim City.. Yup. Big deal.. Oh wait, it's over a network. Umm yeah ok, big deal there too. Same old, same old. It does have ok graphics and stuff though. It can use any of Win95's network protocols and so forth. I couldn't get it to let me play by myself very easily, I think I had to select a net protocol and let it time out or something. Don't remember, don't care. Points: 40 - Forget this one unless you really have a desire to play SC2000 over the net. It's the same old stuff. [xx/21] ________________________/_|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Tracer for Win95 7th Level Install Note: This game was previously screwed, but a fix was released (finally..) after about 8 days. Thanks to PSG for fixing the screwup! Just install according to the .nfo in the fixfile. If ya get something to the effect of: "wing32.dll not found" you need to install WinG32 included with the fix. DUH! :) Hmmm. I like it. Dunno why, but I like it. This isn't an action shooter, but gameplay is fast - due to the virus on your ass wanting to eat you up! It's more strategy than anything. Ya gotta move from block to block laying down tiles to walk on top of as you go. Simple enough. HA! You get a limited amount of tiles AND your previous tiles get eaten as you go. There's some special kinds of tiles that do different things, and you can grab power up items on your way to the end of the level. The music rocks with a techno rhythm, and there's clear understandable speech at the beginning of each level. The graphics are excellent but don't stop to admire them! There's even pan/zoom options to move the view around the game area. Points: 82 - All in all, not a bad game. It's definately different. /\. . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . CLOSE COMBAT FOR WINDOWS 95' (c) MICROSOFT [XX/11] /\. . ____ / >______. . _____.____ ____:. .: \ \ /_\___. \__::> /:\ Y /'96:. :: / . / \| __/ \:/ /__/ \ .: ./ \__/ " \ > " <______> \_/___>: `< /:<___\___>/___\___>. <_____>:. :. \/ .:. |/:. .:.mr! .:. .:: . CLOSE COMBAT AMAZING FIX [1/1] Ok, now this fix all by itself doesn't work. I was highly pissed off about it too, until Ionizer, Mr. Ereet himself /msg'd me this in IRC: *** Topic for #napalm: Close Combat Fix - ATTRIB -R *.* /S on the Install Directory. FINALLY, after all this fiddlefucken around, the game works. So, to install: Do everything according to the original .nfo (copy this fixed .exe instead of the original cracked one), then in the dir you ran setup from type "attrib -R *.* /S", try to run the game, when it craps out load up regedit and do that, then PLAY! As for the game itself, it pretty much kicks ass. This isn't your run of the mill overhead military battle sim. In most sims, you put troops here, hit a button, and poof they either win or lose. In this one, you can control your troops even after starting the battle (like you should be able to), and even tell specific people to do specific things (move here, aim there, etc..) You can be either side too. Germany pretty much defends and the good ole USA tries to take buildings, landmarks, whatever (umm what? so they can give em back later??) Your troops can get medals, promotions, etc for getting shot, or good work. I was kinda disappointed that I couldn't call in airstrikes, but we got old fashioned mortar maggots to do the job right. The sounds were excellent, you hear alot of shit all at once, ppl getting shot, radio chatter, mortar fire, tanks, and even a little german mixed in.. The help file wasn't included, but there is on-screen help during gameplay and alot of the stuff is self explanitory. Don't hit the news reel button after a mission either, it'll crap out looking for the video files. I only played through the first mission (I've still got 3 releases to review in about 9 hours, WHILE leechin my ass off..ughh), but this is definitely a keeper! Points : 83 - Get this and play this. It's worth it! ________________________/_|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/ /aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Bruce Jenner's DECATHLON (c) I-Magic [1/9] Remember that old 2600 game Decathalon? heh Not quite that bad. But in some ways, I think the Atari ver beat this one hands down. Ok, this has nice grafix and all, and you can design your chr's attributes, but the actual gameplay was pretty crappy. There just aren't enough controls. I was expecting a "fry out 2 joysticks in 8 hours" type of game, but all you do is click the mouse when your dude is sposed to do something (like jump, or throw..) Not a whole lot to say about this, pretty boring. Note: something screwy went on with the sounds, cuz during play, it would play sounds from a directX game called Subspace I play over the net.. Dunno?? Points : 51 - The only semi-redeeming quality was the grafix. _____ __ ______ _____ __ _____ / \/ | |__| | / _ \ / _ _ | _ |__| | | | \_ _/ / | | | || | \ / - \ \__|_|__/\____/ |__|___|\___\_____/ ----------------------------------- Lemmings for Win95 [o1/o1] ----------------------------------- Seeing releases like this makes me wonder why in hell I leech 50 disk games. One disk for this one. Period. Before you come at me with the "awww come on, it's LEMMINGS" line, take a look at this game. There's new levels and all the old ones too, good sound, good graphics (Lemmings STYLE!), and can be played doing anything in windows (I was leechin in QmodemPro while playing this, not one error). Options include sound on/off, level select, high/low rez, zoom, and a couple others. *><* Uninstall: It's a bitch. If you don't care about having "Lemmings.." in the add/remove box for the rest of your life, don't worry about it. I do care so.. You have to copy all files from \progra~1\winlemm to \lemmings, then move \lemmings\gfx\logo.bmp to \lemmings\pblogo.bmp and then finally type autorun in the \lemmings dir. Yucky! Points : 76-5 (uninstall) = 71 Only ONE disk! Good release from the guys of m8. Keep it up! General Admission Sports Pinball Pack ______/\_______/\____/\______/\ :::::/ _______ \ \_:: ::::/_ ____/ __/ /___ / _ /:: ::__/ _ __/__/\ /_____/ \ /____/::: :/ / \_ \_ \_: /________ _ /___ /___ _ /_____ _ /: :::::/______/ /_____/ /_____/ /______/:: cH==========[ E P I C 96' ]===[xx/07]=== Ack poo.. Pinball.. Not gonna say much about this, it's 3 pinball games that install to thier own dirs, and all 3 pretty much suck. All 3 are the same game, just different tables. There's hockey, football, and basketball. Oh, wait, did I mention they're pinball games? And they suck? Note : When unarj'ing the football table arj's it'll say football.a02 not found. It don't matter, it plays fine. Points : 15 - Pinball games... And umm oh yeah, they suck. .-* SEGA Virtua Fighter PC *-. _UUY _U Y_UUY _UU_UUY _UUY _ Y_UUY UUY UUU UUUUUU UUU _UUUUU _UUY _UU _UUY _UU_U _U _UUY _UUY _ _ no extra hardware needed [10 disks] Install : Nasty. Not only do you have to do the fakecd thing for the install, you have to do it everytime you wanna play the game. Pure shit. I think that if you don't have a cracker, you shouldn't release. Period. Anyway, about the game.. This game ran kinda choppy on my system (see system info at top). But if it was just choppy, I might play it a little bit, but after about a grand total of 3 fights, this one got nuked. The grafix weren't all that great, and the sounds were rather annoying too. Read the readme file in the program icon folder for the setup keys and shit. It's got a couple different rez modes (don't look at the low rez mode, you'll get scared), and you can turn textures on/off. Just a shit release, everything pretty much sucked. Points : 35 - Shitty grafix, shitty sound, shitty install.. Anything else? BERMUDA SYNDROME (c) CENTURY/BGM [xx/50] includes *ENGLISH* patch UUU UUUU _UU UUU_UU UU_UUU UUUUUU _UU UUUUY U UU UUUUUU UU UUU UUYUUU UUUU UUUY _Y _UU UUU UUU UUU UUUUU U UUU UUUY _UU UU UUU UUU UUU_UUUU UUUU UUUU UU r e f l u x ! -- - - Install : Only install note is that you have to attrib -R \bermuda\text before you unzip -d the english text pack.. Ionizer's comment : Reflux admitted to this being a dupe and apologized for the mistake. We include the review for those who may have not got it the 1st time it was out. Apology : "On 7/12/96 REFLUX duped Bermuda Syndrome. We were not aware of the 61 disk version that was released, apparently it slipped through our dupe checking. We would like to apologize to the scene for making this mistake, we admit we made a mistake, and would like to apologize. MANiC, RLX SENIOR" This is one of the best games I've seen for 95 so far. The only thing I don't like is it being 50 disks, but ya get what ya leech I guess (hrmm sometimes). The grafix on this kicks a helluvalotta ass. Smooth animation.. I take that back, it's somehow better than smooth. It kinda reminds me of Pitfall for 95 but extremely realistic. The soundtrack from what I heard of it, has a damn hard beat to it. Kicked my AWE and woofers into overdrive. The plot starts out with you saving this half naked chic (w00h00) and finding out that you have to get out of the jungle alive while saving her father, who just happens to be the king. hmm Maybe I'll play this game to the end to see if ya get to bang her or not.. Just way too much good stuff to say about this game tho. In case you can't figure it out, try the tab, enter, and space keys. The mouse works as a pointer, but the right button takes ya back to the main menu. No real options to speak of, I do wish that it would go full screen at 800x600, but I ain't bitchin much, cuz this game ROCKS! Points : 91 - Leech this, and burn the install to CDRom! - I do believe that about covers it for this week, cyall next week. - Greets out to: Kilmer, Arutha, Foul, V, Phat Phreddy, and the rest of k0k, BlackJac, Hels, Juan Juarez, Sherekhan, Chia, and all of the #W5 Network & Ionizer (thanks for the Close Combat fix!) - Special werd up to ALL people striving to make the scene what it should be. -<*><*> THE GAME OF THE WEEK <*><*>- - Bermuda Syndrome is not eligible, and therefore can not win (that's what it means to be not eligible). The GOTW goes to NAPALM for CLOSE COMBAT. The win95 review pretty much says it all. If it's over rated you can go blame pathos. For a good quick laugh this week, you can download NAPALM's ID4: THE GAME, it sucks really bad! <*>OTHER RELEASES<*> - Classic Games For Win95 *Blockbuster Edition* (Bad zips everywhere) - Gender Wars Movie Addons - The Scroll Story (Dupe of TDU-JAM) - Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity (PCW, Dupe from 1994) <*>UPCOMING RELEASE DATES<*> All projected dates are as of July 12th 1996, 8:15 AM (EST) and based on store release dates. The information in this section is updated when available. Key to system types: DCD = DOS CD WCD = Windows CD MCD = Mac. CD W95CD = Win 95 CD M3 = Mac. Disk W3 = Windows Disk W953 = Win 95 Disk D3 = DOS Disk HCD = Mac./Windows CD Date | Name of Game / OS | Company ----------------------------------------------------------- 96/07/08 PANDORA SAMP DCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/07/11 DZONE GOLD DCD WIZARD WORKS 96/07/12 COMMANCHE2.0 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/07/12 SHELLSHOCK DCD U.S. GOLD INC. 96/07/12 DEADLINE DCD VIC TOKAI 96/07/12 CAS CHMP2PKR DCD INTRACORP,INC. 96/07/15 LINKS LS DCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/07/15 CIV WAR MED DCD ENTERACTIVE INTERNATIO 96/07/15 RETURN FIRE DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/07/15 SYNNERGIST DCD 21ST CENTURY 96/07/16 WZONE DCD WIZARD WORKS 96/07/16 KNIGHTS CHSE DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/07/20 AD&DCORERULESDCD TSR 96/07/20 FLIGHT ZONE DCD WIZARD WORKS 96/07/23 GRAND PRIX 2 DCD SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/07/28 QUAKE SHWR DCD ID SOFTWARE 96/07/30 NORMALITY DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/07/31 HIND DCD INTERACTIVE MAGIC 96/08/01 LST ADV LEGND DCD RANDOMSOFT 96/08/01 HARVESTER IBCD MERIT SOFTWARE 96/08/01 WARHAWK DCD SONY ELECTRONIC PUBLIS 96/08/01 TWISTD METAL DCD SONY ELECTRONIC PUBLIS 96/08/01 BULL FROG PK DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/08/01 METAL LORDS DCD NEW WORLD COMPUTING IN 96/08/01 DUNGON KEEPR DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/08/01 LOST ADMRL II DCD AMERICAN LASER GAMES 96/08/01 TMEK DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/08/01 PANDORA DCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/08/02 PELICAN HILL DCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/08/02 MEGA RACE 2 DCD MINDSCAPE 96/08/02 PINEHURST DCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/08/06 MANIC KARTS DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/08/15 DEADLOCK DCD WEA VIDEO 96/08/15 BTLCRSR 3000 DCD TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 96/08/20 BEDLAM DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/09/01 VR BASEBALL DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/09/01 GOLF NICK P DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/09/01 HIST WORLD DCD AVALON HILL 96/09/01 POWERSLAVE DCD PLAYMATES INTERACTIVE 96/09/05 ALIEN TRIL DCD DIGITAL PICTURES 96/09/15 MAST/ORION 2 DCD SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/09/15 MAGIC GATHER DCD SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/09/15 OVER REICH DCD AVALON HILL 96/09/28 JETFIGHTR III DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/09/30 BLOOD/MAGIC DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 97/01/01 DEADLY SKIES DCD JVC COMPANY OF AMERICA 96/07/29 XMEN CHILD/ATOM HB PRIMA PUBLISHING 96/08/01 NBA JAM EXTRME HB MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUB 96/08/01 PS GAMES BOOK V2HB MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUB 96/08/01 WARGODS MACMILL HB MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUB 96/08/01 DIEHARD TRILOGY HB MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUB 96/08/01 RESIDENT EVIL HB MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUB 96/08/03 WAR GODS HB PRIMA PUBLISHING 96/07/25 QIN:TOMB/KING WCD WEA VIDEO 96/08/20 CHESSMATES TCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIO NS 96/08/27 DEVO:SMART HCD WEA VIDEO 96/03/11 HOYLES CLASS MCD SIERRA-ON-LINE INC 96/08/01 MARATHN INFN MCD BUNGIE 96/08/01 MUPPETS TRSR MCD ACTIVISION 96/08/01 EMPIRE II MCD NEW WORLD COMPUTING IN 96/08/01 HERO MHT MGC MCD NEW WORLD COMPUTING IN 96/08/02 PELICAN HILL MCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/08/02 PINEHURST MCD ACCESS SOFTWARE 96/08/08 KINGDOM/MAGC MCD GT SOFTWARE 96/08/23 9 MCD GT SOFTWARE 96/08/27 MUMMY MCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/09/01 MORT KMBT 3 MCD GT SOFTWARE 96/09/01 LOST EDEN MCD VIRGIN GAMES 97/01/01 BLOOD/MAGIC MCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/03/05 DRUMBEAT M3 DEADLY GAMES 96/10/01 SIDWNDR GAMEPAD MICROSOFT 96/07/10 SCIFI TRIVIA WCD SIMON & SCHUSTER 96/07/15 MCKENZ/FRNDS WCD AMERICAN LASER GAMES 96/07/16 VOYEUR II WCD PHILIPS INTERACTIVE ME 96/07/16 URBAN RUNNER WCD SIERRA-ON-LINE INC 96/07/21 WOOD SHIP MEN WCD AVALON HILL 96/07/23 BTLGRD4 SHILH WCD ENTERACTIVE INTERNATIO 96/07/23 SHADOAN WCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/07/30 LIGHTHOUSE TCD SIERRA-ON-LINE INC 96/07/31 CIVIL WAR:LEE WCD SIERRA-ON-LINE INC 96/08/01 DAGGERFALL DCD BETHESDA 96/08/01 MUPPETS TRSR WCD ACTIVISION 96/08/05 TOPSY TURVY WCD DISNEY SOFTWARE 96/08/23 9 WCD GT SOFTWARE 96/08/27 MUMMY WCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/09/15 ENCARTA97 DX WCD MICROSOFT 96/09/15 NOIR WCD CYBERDREAMS 96/07/16 TOTL PINBALL W5C 21ST CENTURY 96/07/16 OLYMPIC SOCC W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/07/22 MARATHON 2 W5C BUNGIE SOFTWARE 96/07/23 TRIP PLAY 97 W5C ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/08/01 DIABLO W5C DAVIDSON 96/08/01 HEXEN W5C GT SOFTWARE 96/08/01 REAL TROUBLE W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/08/15 MORT KOMBT 3 W5C GT SOFTWARE 96/08/15 STAR CONTR 3 W5C WEA VIDEO 96/09/01 MORTIFICATOR W5C PLAYMATES INTERACTIVE 96/09/01 DEATHTRP DNG W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/09/01 TERRACIDE W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/09/15 CINEMANIA 97 W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 GREET WKSHP W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 REVERENCE W5C CYBERDREAMS 96/09/20 ENCARTA 97 STD W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/27 WRLD ATLS 2.0W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/27 AUTOMP ST +5 W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/27 AUTOMP ST+DX W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/27 AUTOMP TRP5.0 W5C MICROSOFT 96/10/01 STR TRK GEN W5C SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 97/01/01 MINDWARP W5C MAXIS <*>CORRECTIONS<*> - Sim City 2000 Network is not exactly the same as Sim City 2000, it is designed to be more competitive . Check out the review in the win95 section. <*>LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO<*> THIS MAGAZINE IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER, CONDONES THE PIRATING, STEALING, OR ANY OTHER ILLEGAL MEANS OF OBTAINING SOFTWARE. I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS AS A RESULT OF READING THIS MAGAZINE, NOR HAVE I DONE ANYTHING ILLEGAL TO OBTAIN THE REVIEWED GAMES. IF YOU LIKE HOW THE REVIEW OF A GAME SOUNDS THEN BY ALL MEANS PURCHASE IT AND SUPPORT THE SOFTWARE COMPANY. ANY AND ALL MAGAZINE GROUPS HAVE PERMISSION TO USE THIS IN THEIR MAG AS LONG AS IT HAS NOT BEEN EDITED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, AND YOU HAVE OBTAINED MY WRITTEN E-MAIL PERMISSION. <*>CLOSINGS<*> - Thanks to Scribe and _HR_ for their efforts in trying to satisfy me with a TGR logo, but I'm very picky ;) - I *ENCOURAGE* feedback from all readers on every change I make with TGR. If you have any comments, please do write, you won't be ignored. Please make sure you write to me about how you like the new (and improved) review section dealing with the win95 games. - That's it for this week, hope it was of help. -Ionizer (The Game Reviewer) Comments/Complaints send to ionizer@ns2.clever.net (NO GAME REQUESTS) .a$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$a. $$' . `$$' `$$ ' `$$' s `$$ $' $ $$ $ $$ a a $$ $ $$ $ $ssss$$ $ $$ $ $ $$ $ $$ $ o $$ $$ $ $ $$ sssss$$ $. $ $$ $ $$ $ $ $$ $ $$ $$. $ ,$$ $ $$ $ $ $$. $ ,$$ $$&@%o%@&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&@%o%@&$$$ $$' o '$$$ $ $$' s `$$ `$$$$$ $$ $ $$$ $ $$ $ $$ $o $$$$$ $$ $ $$$ $ $$ $ $$ ~' o$$$$$ $$ $ $$$ $ $$ sssss$$ %. ^$$$$$ $$ $ $$$s s$$ $ $$ $$ $$$$$ $$. $ ,$$$$@. .@$$$. $ ,$$ $$ $$$$$ `$$&@%o%@&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&@%o%@&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$hd' Copyright 1996 Ionizer Inc. #167A939 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 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 : 07/04/96 -> 07/10/96 Filename : -- Fix name : -- Filedate : -- Filedate : -- Previous Total : 0 _______________ ____________ ____________ Release Score : 0 \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ Running Total : 0 _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[ m]\________/== D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 6 ==================== [ DOD * 96 ] == Filename : MTYDET01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-04-96 Filedate : -- MicroSoft Detroit Build 1113 Previous Total : 0 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 3 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 3 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/35]\_____\_______>[07/04/96]=) Filename : MTYFV401.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-04-96 Filedate : -- FOLIO VIEWS v4.0 (c) STIRLING Previous Total : 3 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 4 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 7 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/13]\_____\_______>[07/04/96]==) Filename : MTYQDB21.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-04-96 Filedate : -- QUICKDB v2.0 FOR WIN (c) ATTACHMATE Previous Total : 7 ______.______._____._____._____ Release Score : 4 < > __/ \__ < \ Running Total : 11 __/ \__ __/__ ___> \______\____/ _/ \ _ \pn (==[01/03]\_____\_______>[07/04/96]==) Filename : PWAIMAG1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-07-96 Filedate : -- ImageMan 5.01 Suite [1/2] Previous Total : 0 Release Score : 5 A Group Running Total : 5 That Gives Slightly Less Than A Fuck. -XeNf Filename : RBSB2001.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-09-96 Filedate : -- OS/2 Warp v4.0 aka OS/2 Merlin Build 20 Previous Total : 0 _____________________________ __[01/53] Release Score : 3 \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ Running Total : 3 / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS. Filename : XFTPRO01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-07-96 Filedate : -- TriSpectives Pro -Full Cd- Previous Total : 0 [01/44] Release Score : 4 Running Total : 4 sikos Filename : XF-TPAD1.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-08-96 Filedate : -- TriSpectives Pro -Images Add-On- Previous Total : 4 [01/04] Release Score : 2 Running Total : 6 sikos Filename : XFCLSF01.ZIP Fix name : -- Filedate : 7-10-96 Filedate : -- DEC CLUSTERS FOR WINDOWS NT Previous Total : 6 - FINAL VERSION - Release Score : 4 [01/24] Running Total : 10 sikos Score Chart : Utils DOD 0 MTY 11 Points PWA 5 Points RBS 3 Points X-F 10 Points Average Score Per Release : --------------------------- Pirates with Attitudes - [5.0] Mortality - [3.7] X-Force - [3.3] Rebels - [3.0] 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 JUL JUL Total DOD 8/3 10/3 0/0 0/0 18/6 0.0 0.0 0.0 MTY 8/4 25/7 17/8 11/3 61/22 2.1 3.7 +1.6 PWA 16/6 32/9 20/6 5/1 73/22 3.3 5.0 +1.7 RBS 3/1 19/7 11/4 3/1 36/15 2.8 3.0 +0.2 X-F 9/4 21/6 3/1 10/3 43/14 3.0 3.3 +0.3 # 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 PTY CTY DOD 22 3 5 1 3 2 97/27 3.6 3.6 MTY 36 3 17 1 0 0 169/63 2.6 2.7 PWA 40 7 15 3 0 0 236/73 3.2 3.3 RBS 26 3 10 1 0 0 133/44 3.0 3.0 X-F 24 3 10 1 1 1 115/39 2.9 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 PTY/CTY = Previous Total Yield/Current Total Yield 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 the 5 fastest BBSes in the WORLD. The following is a chart of the RCN top 10 couriers : Dates of Upload Count : 07/08/96 -> 07/14/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Nytemyst AMNESiA 660,748,549 #2 Erupt AMNESiA 491,022,078 #3 Luck EVERLAST 484,490,297 #4 Maverick RiSC 437,135,229 #5 Phalycide Empire 434,400,335 #6 Immortal EVERLAST 427,484,253 #7 Xwing AMNESiA 386,211,613 #8 Mogens AMNESiA 327,286,599 #9 Asmodeus EVERLAST 319,918,038 #10 Arch-Vile RiSC 329,538,495 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 Arch-Vile RiSC 760,264,017 #2 Razor Sharp 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 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 : 07/08/96 -> 07/14/96 User Handle/Alias Affiliation Upload Bytes #1 Digital Vampire RiSC 405,577,831 #2 Arch-Vile RiSC 389,975,936 #3 Crazy AMNESiA 380,286,071 #4 Bizzy fATE 320,352,502 #5 Cyberjak RiSC 211,318,170 #6 The Secret Agent AMNESiA 210,060,711 #7 Bababooey RiSC 190,744,672 #8 Suspicious Image RiSC 181,570,611 #9 Darkside RiSC 113,530,089 #10 The Punisher Empire 112,367,582 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. 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DSRCPIP4.ZIP 4 WIN Caligari Image Pro IRQTRA11.ZIP 11 W95 Tracer LGN-SM43.ZIP 43 WIN Smithsonian's America MBEPZZLE.ZIP 1 WIN Giant Encyclopedia of Puzzles MSRDMECK.ZIP 1 WIN Microsoft Roadmap to Education OGCPSH45.ZIP 45 WIN Publisher's House Interactive RBSB2053.ZIP 53 OS2 OS/2 Warp v4.0 SPSSW37.ZIP 37 WIN SPSS v6.1 TRDDLML2.ZIP 2 DOS Deadline Multilanguage Addon VIO-WLM2.ZIP 2 WIN Will Maker v6.0 WP7-18.ZIP 18 W95 Corel WordPerfect 7 XF-TPAD4.ZIP 4 W95 TriSpectives Pro Images Addon XFTPRO44.ZIP 44 W95 TriSpectives Pro 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 -> 07/07/96 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 ! If you didn't vote, don't complain! The following is a chart summarizing reader votes regarding release groups : Votes Sent From : 07/08/96 -> 07/14/96 Voting Results : Games HBD 25 Votes NPM 31 Votes PSG 47 Votes RZR 46 Votes RLX n/a Total Votes : 149 Voting Results : Utils DMN 4 Votes DOD 17 Votes LGN 2 Votes MTY 30 Votes PNC 6 Votes PWA 37 Votes RBS 23 Votes SCUM 17 Votes SDM 3 Votes X-F 5 Votes Total Votes : 144 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 [ ] Reflux 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 : 06/17/96 -> 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 -> 07/07/96 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 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 : 07/08/96 -> 07/14/96 Voting Results : BBS AMN 26 Votes DMG 3 Votes EMP 13 Votes EVR 22 Votes fATE 14 Votes MAL 8 Votes M8 2 Votes PTA 8 Votes RTS 4 Votes RiSC 51 Votes Total Votes : 151 Voting Results : Net AMN 22 Votes DMG 3 Votes EMP 15 Votes EVR 20 Votes fATE 24 Votes MAL 11 Votes M8 2 Votes PTA 14 Votes RTS 6 Votes RiSC 26 Votes Total Votes : 143 r c n h a c k e r z c o r n e r ! Author : Crack Subject : How to Hurt Someone How to Kill Someone with a Blow Drier ------------------------------------- Materials --------- 1.) C-4 or something that blows when electricity hits it, 2.) 5 Minutes, 3.) the IQ at least the weight of your cock, 4.) and a cock to measuer your IQ. Okay, be sure you know someone you absolutely HATE. Now go to their house (do that by maybe pretending you like them and get invited for dinner). Then ask to see if you can use the bathroom. Oh, by the way, bring your C-4 (or some other stuff) before you go over their house. Okay, when your in the bathroom, see if there's a blow drier in the bathroom. If there is, you're in LUCK! See if you can unscrew the front of the blow drier. v~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Take this part off v~~~~~~~~ Metal piece screen thing AFTER you take the part off ___________ (____)__ ) () | ()= Where to press \ | |_| After you take it off (if you can, if you can't don't keep on reading), put the C-4 inside it, so it touches the metal part. Then screw the part you took off back on. Then go back and finish your dinner with your enemy and his mom. Note : I have NEVER tried this berfore, so this may not werk. Here's an update, hey, I don't know if the C-4 can get electricity by putting it on the metal piece screen thing. So if you can, TAKE the metal piece screen thing OFF, and put the C-4 in side it. Blowing Up the Toilet --------------------- Materials --------- 1.) C-4 or something that blows when electricity hits it, 2.) a rocket launcher, you know, the ones that come with the models, 3.) a power outlet, 4.) wire cutters, 5.) and an extension cord Look at your rocket launcher, it should have a status light and a button and maybe more stuff. Take the batteries out of the launcher. Then cut the extension cord in have so this is what is lefted of it : _ -| \________________________________ -|_/-------------------------------- There should be wires inside. Now use a knife and shave off one inch of the rubber covering (reminds me of something) so that the wire is protruding. Put wire on the positive side of the launcher battery case and some on the negative side of the launcher battery case. Leave a couple wires hanging so they aren't connected to anything yet. Then use those wires and insert them in the C-4. C-4 should then be carefully placed at the hood of the toilet at the bottom right. Then use the tape and tape it on the bottom and the top of the launcher to the bottom left of the hood. Now take the plug and hold it toward the outlet. Be sure not to pull out the wires when holding it. Now gently let it hang. Now again gently put the hood on so the hood bottom left is on the left corner closest toward you. In other words, it's above the flusher handle. Now plug in the cord and get the hell out of there. Don't take a shit there or it'll be your last shit. ____________________ |\ \ | \ |\ \ | \__|_\______________\ | |--o __________ | | | / \ | | | / \ | | | || | | | | || | | | | || | | \ | || | | __ \ | || | | _||\ |\| ||___________| | \ \/|\ ___________ \ \__/ \ \ \ \ |\ \ \ \ | \ \ / / | \ \_______/ / | \_______________/ / \ --o = Flusher Handle / / |\ |\ | | \ = When you flush down, the | \ goes up so it becomes a | When you flush, the thing goes UP and it presses the button, then it sends a electricity signal and BOOM! The person is DEAD or INJURED! How to Burn a Guy's ASS ----------------------- Materials --------- 1.) 1/5 cup of acid 2.) and an ASS (not yours). Okay, just put the acid right before they're gonna go. So when they gotta go (assuming you're over their house), say you wanna go first. Then stay there for 2 minutes doing my directions. Just go in the bathroom and carry this acid in a container of some sort. Then go through their cabinets and find yourself gloves. If you can't find gloves then do this, pour the acid around the BACK of the toilet. If you have gloves, it's much better (hurt them more), use the gloves and dip your finger in the container. Then put that drop of acid some where on the seat. Keep on doing that until you're able to cover the whole seat. The 1/5 is so that the guy shitting will not notice the acid until it burns. But he still might not be able to figure why his ass burns. r c n h a c k e r z c o r n e r ! Author : Crack Subject : Easy Money Okay, this section is good because you get money, LOTS of money. Well, this section here is a story, not a "How to", but just follow what I do, or vary it, and you'll do fine. Here goes... I needed money, and I needed it FAST. I wanted to buy some hardware. My computer was getting more and more out dated each DAY. New stuff were coming in, and the old were just discarded. I'd search for money under the couch... only pennies. In my drawers... dimes here. Then I thought of using my computer. By the way, I know what your thinking. I'll answer it right now. No this is not one of those "Fill-out-the-form-as- number-10-and-send-in-$10-and-be-rich" deals, so listen up. I knew of this room on AOL. It was called "Carding". People use Credit Cards, which is other people's of course, and buy hardware, software, sluts, anything you can think up (even a car!). Some didn't want to go to the trouble of doing it, because they fear they might get caught, so they BUY carded stuff. A Pentium 133 mhz with 2.5 gigs and the whole works, for $500 is a good deal. They send listed out to people who go in the room. I made a list, and did the same thing, the list was big, the bigger, the more it'll be convincing. The deal was, send me half the money, get the product, send me the rest. I gave them my carding site (a neighbor's home, which they have gone out for the weekend, or for vacation), and they sent the money, I took the money, and never replied back. I made TONS of money that way. Follow me, and do it. If they say, "I'm gonna report you to the police!", you can reply, "Like I care, what can they do to me? You went and tried to buy illegal stuff." Ripping Phones Off ------------------ Note : Blueboxes can't do shit no more, so if you're trying, the only thing you'll get is the cool hardware, handcuffs. Call 0 and wait for the operator to come on. Say, "I'm at LaLaLand, and I keep putting in my quarters. They keep coming back. I need to tell my Mom/Dad/Aunt/whoever where to pick me up, and what time. Can you put me through? This is an Emergency!" They'll say, "Okay sure," tell them the number, and they'll dial it. Then you go through. Nice, eh? If the operator says to use collect, say "Okay", and hang-up. Dial 0 again and try your luck again. I've done this at the airport. Very nice. Many operators give away many free calls. :) Another way : ------------- This is the same way as ripping off Coke machines. Get a train schedule, go to the tracks five minutes before it comes. Get TONS of nickels and lay them on the tracks. Wait for train to run over them. After, pick them up. They should be flat pieces of metal now. Notice how they are the size of quarters. Now use them! How to Get Money FROM Payphones ------------------------------- You must select a phone that you can have access to its wires. Look for a plastic shroud running down the wall, or the junction box outside! On a normal phoneline, only two wires are used, ring and tip (red and green). The payphone uses the red and green for its telephone operations, but it also uses the yellow and black to control the coin mechanism. Find a section of the wire where a cut will not be easily seen. Strip off the insulation of the cord, exposing the four wires. Now, get out the all purpose wire cutters or finger nail clippers if you like, and cut the black and yellow wires. Now just sit back and let people use the phone! What Happens? Well, when you put money into a payphone, it stays in the coin mechanism until one of two things happen. Either you connect your call, talk, and hangup; after you hangup, your money goes to the collection box. The only way to get the money then is to rip the box out! Or, you call a number that doesn't answer, or get busy signal, or something like that, and then hangup. When you hangup, the money goes from the coin mechanism to the coin return. That is the key! After the black and yellow wires have been cut, the money goes neither to the coin box or coin return! It just sits there! All you have to do is come back at like 3:00 am in the morning, reconnect the black & yellow wires, pick up the handset and put it back down. All the money that was put in that phone that day comes shooting out the coin return, just like in the movies! It is the COOLEST FEELING! I have collected up to $100 a day doing this to phones all around town! There are some dangers to doing this. The people that put money in and don't get connected or get a busy signal and hang up do NOT get their money back. Usually they will call the operator who in turn calls the repair department. That is why it is important to cut the wire where it cannot be seen. But if you want to do this as a one time thing, GO FOR IT! Oh yes, alternate phones every other couple of days or so. Stay on your toes and watch out for white vans! If someone sees you taking money out of the coin return like getting $15 in change out of a phone is not common! Just say you hung up the phone and all this money started pouring out! It doesn't hurt to give them a little of it either! After a month or two the phone companies catch on, so I do not recommend using one phone for over two weeks. r c n h a c k e r z c o r n e r ! Author : Trip Subject : Salting Coke Machines Salting Soda machines is a fast, easy way of making small amounts of money and getting free sodas. Here are the materials that you will need to do it : 1.) Salt (About a big handfull is enough) 2.) Some soda (Squirt is best, but Sprite and Coke will work) 3.) Something to get the mixture into the soda machine. (I like to use a ziplock bag or a balloon.) 4.) A soda machine located where nobody is around. First off, you will need to find a soda machine where nobody is around. I use one down at the far corner of my High School because nobody ever goes down there. Now to salt the machine, you will need to mix up the Soda (Squirt is best, because it's more acidic) with the salt in a plastic ziplock bag, and close it. Make a hole in one of the corners of the bag, (in the opposite end of where the bag closes) and shake the bag so the soda and salt mix together. Now put the end of the corner with the hole in it in the dollar bill slot in the soda machine. Squeeze the bag so the mixture comes out into the dollar bill slot. It usually takes a 5-10 seconds of squirting it in before you hear a click and a whole bunch of quarters come out the coin return. So now you have about 4-5 bucks in quarters. Well press one of the soda buttons and a soda or two should come out. Now you've got about 5 bucks and a couple free sodas. Damn you could make a living off this shit. I recommend covering up your tracks when you are done. If you made an obvious mess, then you should clean it up a little. You dont have to clean the whole fucking machine spotless, but just wipe the salt off. This trick is cool because it wont fuck up the soda machine or anything, so you can do it as many times as you want. Have phun. 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, I think this is the topic of ages when does it become too much? How do you know when to limit your time on the net/online services? I feel that you should maybe spend 30 minutes to an hour online a day or you are neglecting your life because you should go outside and have alittle fun! How many hours can one spend just talking to people no matter how cool they are? If you are afraid your group will dump you if you aren`t there just get online leave your computer and mark yourself as away how hard is that? People have to realize that there is something more than computers in life. Computers were made to enhance life not to take it over! Communicate physically outside or just take a break. Maybe just download all them warez and just chill! I think the Internet is great but it can be destructive because so many people take it too seriously. Everything is good but once you get too much of something it doesn`t seem as fun. So also to prolong your enjoyment of the Internet I suggest limiting your time. Another thing that seems funny to me is how many people just call bbs`s all day I thknk that is too much to. For instamce when someone calls my board and hangs up if I am here I might call another board and then they are online there!! Come on how much bbsing can one person do a day just too look at files and stuff like that! Maybe I am just lost or something but I think people have to limit the time they spend online and get some social skills so you don`t have to have CyberSex. I think most of you that know will agree real sex is a lot better! So use the Internet to help your life not hinder it! Signed, HBKid Dear HBKid, Well.. I guess there is a limit. But everone goes over it sometimes. On one release we did, I spent 40 hours online. No sleep, didn't leave the computer except for food. That was a bit over the line. But yes, people should use the Internet for some fun then get away for a while. *PS* How would you know if real sex is better? Signed, Road Rebel Dear Road Rebel, How much time online is TOO much? Well, perhaps when your eyes are burning, the phone bill is getting multi-numberous (unless your using a calling card or some other methods), when your mom is kicking your behind, your dad is punching your teeth out, your sister is yelling at you... well... so what!?! I like to spend a lot of time online, and I pay for it. I'm not that kind of guy which uses CCs and stuff, I just work and earn a little money and waste it on the Internet in minutes. Sometimes I even wonder if I'm just *wasting* my money... but the answer is "no." I feel a kind of attached to the warez-scene , like a mafia group or something... and money isn't gonna stop me from getting my job done. Signed, Cody Dear Cody, Well, it doesnt sound like you spend too long online. But if you are paying by the minute, GET A NEW ISP!! I pay $20 a month unlimited, and that is it. But, it is your money so see fit to blow it how you like . Signed, Road Rebel Next Week's Topic : CARDING Carding? Your views on it. Tips for getting away with it and what not to do with cards? So, all you thieves write in and let us know the little secrets that make stealing so much fun. Now get off yer ASS and write me some EMAIL! 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 : Monday's New Moon coupled with Saturn's shift on Thursday will bring a new start to those with an ill background. Listen to your peers and this new start will prove beneficial in the long run. (January 21 to February 19) : You have too much going for you to be stopped by a minor setback. In fact, a careful reading between the lines could bring you major gains. Recognize your superiors, a partner, or a close companion, and take nothing for granted. (February 20 to March 20) : A romantic adventure or aesthetic group enterprise beckons, and it is up to you to weigh the possible benefits against the potential hazards. Monday's New Moon in the recreational angle of your solar chart will give you a much-needed chance to hone your talents as a team player. (March 21 to April 20) : An encounter with someone or something from the past may necessitate a change of plans, but the rewards will be worth any temporary inconvenience. An unexpected treat mid-week will help you forget a recent disappointment. Postpone major decisions about joining or leaving a group until Mercury and Saturn unite next weekend. (April 21 to May 21) : Confusion over group arrangements and policies may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. What transpires around the time of Monday's New Moon will enable you to enlist the support of someone close to you. Don't ignore a stray remark. (May 22 to June 21) : You may have trouble keeping pace this week, especially after your ruler Mercury switches signs on Tuesday. This is the perfect time to streamline your day to day routine, but first find out what a loved one has planned. Don't push, tact will serve your purposes better. (June 22 to July 23) : A new chapter is about to open and you must be ready to juggle existing commitments if you're going to make the most of opportunities. Monday's New Moon in your birth sign means that you are the one best positioned to call the shots. Be wary of unsolicited advice. (July 24 to August 23) : There appear to be too many distractions in your life just now, and too many demands on your time. Once Mercury enters your birth sign on Tuesday, you will be better placed to tackle a personal or professional problem. Put off a new project until the end of the week. (August 24 to September 23) : Celestial configurations affecting your ruler Mercury will enable you to concentrate on your material and emotional needs. A romantic liaison or creative venture may have surprising results. Don't be afraid to wave goodbye to a familar channel or group. It will be replaced by something far more rewarding. (September 24 to October 23 ) : The sky's the limit, and Monday's New Moon at the midheaven point of your solar chart will help you fulfill a longtime promise to yourself. That said, however, be prepared to look beneath the surface. (October 24 to November 22) : You seem to be becoming increasingly involved with other people's problems and would do well to take a few steps back. Your ruler Pluto, supported by Mercury on Tuesday, is giving you a chance to resolve a group matter. Make the most of it. (November 23 to December 21) : At last you are in position to make a decision that is long overdue. Some alterations may be required as time passes, but for the moment, just get things going. A change of scenery is possible now, but be sure you're moving on for the right reasons. (December 22 to January 20) : Someone important is trying to attract your attention, but you need to respond cautiously. Meanwhile, an issue with your warez affiliates must be resolved before your ruler, Saturn, shifts direction on Thursday. 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! Phoenix is an IRC script created by : [ ] A. Mistral [ ] B. Ryan Addams [ ] C. Vassago [ ] D. Two of the Above All of the following were once courier groups EXCEPT : [ ] A. Lightning [ ] B. High Tech Couriers [ ] C. Oasis [ ] D. None of the Above Rebel Chicken was once known as all of the following EXCEPT : [ ] A. Carrot Boy [ ] B. Night Train [ ] C. Tsunami [ ] D. None of the Above Channel ops of this warez channel are also members of the utils group, Demolition : [ ] A. #Demolition [ ] B. #Warez5 [ ] C. #Warez6 [ ] D. #Warez7 The following are all warez channels EXCEPT : [ ] A. #Oldwarez [ ] B. #Phatfilez [ ] C. #Warez950 [ ] D. #Warez-Waldo Back issues of Defacto can be found at : [ ] A. http://jecom/jinr.ru/sodom [ ] B. http://jicom/jinr.ru/sodom [ ] C. http://jjcom/jinr.ru/sodom [ ] D. None of the Above The current President of Fast Action Trade Exchange is : [ ] A. Algebra II [ ] B. Anti Derivative [ ] C. Calculus BC [ ] D. Honors Geometry This games group has a well known reputation for releasing games that don't work : [ ] A. Napalm [ ] B. Prestige [ ] C. Razor 1911 [ ] D. None of the Above Members of the courier group Amnesia reside in this IRC channel : [ ] A. #AMN [ ] B. #AMN-Amnesia [ ] C. #Amnesia [ ] D. None of the Above Members of the courier group Request to Send reside in this IRC channel : [ ] A. #Request [ ] B. #RTS [ ] C. #R2Send [ ] D. None of the Above 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 a r t i c l e s ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : Entropy's Diary 06:50 AM - Woke up, dog was rubbing against my leg again. 07:10 AM - Finally pushed dog away, it is getting harder to resist those "urges." 07:11 AM - Finished morning wrist exercises. 07:15 AM - Outta bed. Time for morning dump. Don't seem to be able to control my ass as well as I used to. Mental note, stop hanging out with Incarnate. 07:30 AM - Finally downstairs for breakfast, damn that guy on the Wheaties box is sexy. 08:00 AM - Log onto AOL (my cool account), I play king of the channel for a while. It is the only place I feel like a man. 11:00 AM - 90210 is on!!! God, Dylan has such an ass! 12:00 PM - Log onto IRC. God, I am soo tired of people laughing at me, everything I do turns to shit. I wonder if I changed my name... would that help??? No, some groups have tried it, just makes you look lamer. 01:00 PM - Lunch time, mommy made me PB&J no crusts, someday I will be able to reach the counter top too. 02:30 PM - Sailor Moon is on!!! I know it is gay, BUT I know I will see a panty shot in each episode. 03:01 PM - Incarnate calls. We talked about Princess Serena for a while. Then the question I had been dreading, "Do you wanna sleep over again tonight?" I just don't know what to say, my ass is still sore from the last time, but I don't wanna seem mean. 06:00 PM - Reading book, "How to SCARE the guy who has to go BAD." 06:30 PM - W0000 H0000!!! Big RELEASE!!!! I just found 2 ppes on a local bbs that haven't made it to the Net!!! I will seem like a god to those other release groups!! 2 releases in one night!! 07:30 PM - Think I will go outside. The sun is almost gone, I think it is safe. 08:00 PM - Ok Diary, time to pack for Incarnate's house. Sleeping bag for 2, check. Condoms, check. Lubrication (won't forget that again), check. Madonna wig, check. Man, if anyone sees this I will be soo embarassed. 08:45 PM - Log onto IRC, say goodnight to both my friends. Tklp says he might show up for the fun tonight. I think I can handle it. 08:50 PM - Spread more untrue rumours about people. Even if I don't know the truth, it is still fun. 09:15 PM - Kiss the dog goodbye, at least it doesn't run from me, damn women. 09:30 PM - Riding bike to Incarnate's house, someday these training wheels will come off!!! I VOW IT! 09:45 PM - Made it to Incarnate's, only fell once. That is about all for today Diary. Wow, I am glad no one REALLY knows what my life is like. Good night. r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Tuxedo Mask Subject : Entropy's Reply Well, Entropy got his hands on RCN issue #21, and he read Mad-RCN. He was not pleased, and the following is a log of his reactions : *** Entropy (entropy@207.67.191.30) has joined channel #Lightning *** Mode change "+o Entropy" on channel #Lightning by Light96 Entropy!!! Entropy? Weeeeee... Isn't he the guy they make fun of in RCN? Yes Helspont. *** Mode change "+b *!*hels?o??@a?a.com" on channel #Lightning by Entropy *** YOU have been kicked off channel #Lightning by Entropy (Don't make fun of me!) *** Sorry cannot join channel #Lightning (Banned from Channel) r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Lurch Inteviews Me I was about to sleep one night (early morning) when I saw Lurch come into channel #RCN. He starts to interview me, and the following is a log of our interview that took place that night. *** Lurch (xxx@xxxxx.xxx) has joined channel #RCN * Lurch is just scoping out the competition... *** Lurch has left channel #RCN at 12:49AM -Lurch- DCC Chat (10.0.2.15) *** DCC CHAT (chat) request received from Lurch [E/X] DCC CHAT received from Lurch [xxx@xxxxx.xxx] [E/X] Attempting DCC CHAT with Lurch. What's up? Long time no chat. Oh, nothing much man. Scoping out the competition? Cool, which e-mag are you from? Can you send over a copy? Do you want an interview or something? We're not calling it anything new. We're not making a big deal of it? What is your e-mag going to be called? Of course I can't send it. Which e-mag did you run again? Wasn't it called Retro or something? Wait, didn't you guys run Inquisition? I never ran Retro. It was lame. We guys were nothing. We guys are everything. It is we guys. Fuck that, it is me guys. What the hell are you babbling? I brought Inquisition to life and it is still me who will keep it alive. You remember me now? Oh yeah... It could be claimed as sad. For every man in the United States know Washington, Jefferson, and Adams. And yet you do not know those which preceeded you. Are you talking about Inquistion preceeding RCN? Yes. So Inquisition preceeded RCN? I guess, I forget, but we came from monkeys, so Inquisition is the monkey? Monkeys is not what we came from. Monkeys is what we will be. If you say so, you can call yourself a monkey. From the words of Einstein, "I know not what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but I know that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Are you trying to sound smart? You're not impressing me. Do you want me to quote Einstein? I can do that too, "E=mc^2," impressive hey? It is very unfortunate that you begin to insult, it was the wrong move on your part. You've made the move. You will get the fall. You will get the fall. Your pathetically lame e-mag which supposedly represents the scene has increased its monitored circulation to about 1200 readers. I'm falling outta ma chair, help.. I can't get up. It is time when the rock of ages falls onto the age of rocks. So how big is Inquisition's "monitored circulation?" Do you still find people reading it now? I will simply ask you a series of questions. Weather you reply to them, is your choice. I speak not of Inquisition, which at its low had more information than RCN at its high. Woo, a test? Scary! Go ahead and ask me some questions. I don't give tests. I simply look for a key, a way to see what you are, who you are, and weather you are what you claim to be. So how big is Inquisition's "monitored circulation?" I'd like to know that information if you're going to say that RCN is pathetically lame. We are not talking about e-mags, but if you wish to compare, Inquisition was read by an average of 4000 scene members, a majority of which were a part of the top elite. Well, you're the one bragging about Inquisition. I did not even mention Inquisition more than twice. That is not the object of my talk with you. Wait, a majority of the 4000 Inquisition readers represent the top elite? A majority is anything over half of the whole right? So 2001 people are part of the top elite? This must be a very big scene then. By the way, weather is spelled whether. I thought I should point that out to you since you are an editor of an e-mag. I know this may sound awkward as a request, but please refrain from asking questions at this point. Uhh... I am not an editor of an e-mag. I thought you were the sole person keeping Inquisition alive, that's what you said earlier right? I should also point out that it is 4 am and I am sitting in total darkness and cannot even take responsibility for half the shit I type. Well, you could claim that you are just stupid and not take responsibility for what you type. You don't have to give excuses. So, are you interviewing me? Or are you just going to ask me a series of questions? This is not an interview. I will not publish this or show this to anyone. I have virtually no enemies in the scene, nor do I plan to make any. I could claim stupidity, but that would be a minor insult on your part which is worth nothing to me, and simply degrading to you. I shall begin. Will you answer my questions, or will you not? I won't know until I see the questions. An answer of a scared man? Very well, I shall proceed. That was an answer of a prudent man. Why thanks, that's the first half polite thing you said. My first question, what is RCN? RCN stands for Reality Check Network. It's an e-mag, read it and find out. You can find RCN on the WWW. The RCN web site is located at http://www.rcn.org. WWW stand for the World Wide Web. You can get on the WWW through America Online. Anything else you need help with? So, do you have more questions? I would like to have you know that at this point, I know more about the Internet than you probably ever will unless you seriously get into networking and spend the next 20 years in front of a keyboard. I'll rephrase my question. What do YOU think RCN is, from the viewpoint of an editor? RCN is an e-mag. You can buy magazines at Safeway and stuff, but you see, RCN is special, you know why? Because it's not like a newspaper, it's coded. It's not in text, and also, it's freely distributed. By the way, when I infer that RCN is coded, I don't mean to sound degrading to your e-mag Inquisition because it was only a text file, don't take it the wrong way. Let me once again restate my question. Okay, if you want to. I guess I'll just have to restate my answer. I am simply trying to justify or refute my cause for restarting Inquisition. Oh please, do restart Inquisition. You have my uh... blessing. I am thankful however, that you are turning to a brighter side. The only thing I've said so far that comes close to insulting anyone is calling RCN pathetically lame, so let's not go on with the insults, ok? What is the purpose of RCN to the scene, to yourself personally? Aren't you going to rephrase your first question? I already rephrased my answer again, I made it simpler so you could understand. I understood quite well, thank you. Unless you are blind, which I am sure you are not, you already read my next question. Okay, to answer your second question, I personally see RCN doing what all magazines in real life do, magazines reach in a different manner to every reader. Every reader gets something different out of reading Times or Newsweek, so different readers get something different out of RCN each week. I see, but what I am asking is, more specifically, why are you making RCN? Well, why didn't you just ask me that earlier? I do RCN because it's fun. I like doing it. I see no reason to stop, if I stop doing RCN, no other e-mags will be able to replace it. RCN is one of a kind, no other e-mags have come close to being as widely read as RCN, so why should I stop? Next question... It's okay, go ahead, you can ask me another question. If I recall correctly, in one of your e-mags, you claimed the scene to be lame, and oficially resigned. What inspired you to come back? I saw that all the other cheap imitations of RCN sucked. None of them were even widely supported by the scene both at the top or at the bottom. They were all acting like they were pompous asshole gods (much the same way you act), so I decided to restart RCN and show them a real e-mag. I thought that when RCN first died in issue 13 that other e-mags would spring up to take its place, other e-mags did do so, but none could really replace RCN's quality. Do you know that other e-mags were around before RCN? Yeah, I also know for sure that other people in the world had computers before I bought mine, and that the sun rises and sets even when I'm not looking at it. I don't put myself in the center of the universe the way you do. I don't have a Napoleon complex. Next question, if RCN is scene related, then why did you begin the girlfriend bits? We didn't BEGIN with girlfriend bits. The girlfriend bits were found in Mad-RCN, a submenu of RCN that is meant to be humorous and can relate to anything. The majority of the e-mag does not revolve around girlfriend bits. Also, I do remember that your e-mag Inquisition did have one article about buying gloves as Christmas presents, and that article did take up a large portion of one of your Inquisition issues. I remember Inquisition very well. It had some major downfalls. And I am not doubting in the least that at its worst, Inquisition was not nearly as good as RCN is now. Yea, the whole thing was a downfall. Didn't you say earlier that Inquisition, at its low, had more content than RCN does now? You said that like 5 minutes ago, I can scroll back. No I didn't. I said that at its worse, Inquisition was still better than RCN. You sure about that? Please, I asked you before, do not ask questions. Let me do the asking, my next question, why did you include Crack's articles in RCN that were put in the submenu Hacker's Corner? Well, Crack submitted them an he wanted a new hacking section. We saw no reason why not to. There are already tons of hacking related text files floating around on the Internet. I remembered that we have the freedom of speech, so we put it in. A lot of the readers thought it informative and fun to read, so we are keeping the new Hacker's Corner as subsection to RCN. But you DO realize the guy has no idea what he is talking about, right? I tried his first method at my local Safeway, it didn't work. I tried his other methods and I ended up making some pocket change from taking advantage of his methods. So I take it that he does know what he's talking about. Also, when I insult you (as you put it), I insult you in front of you. If you want to insult Crack, you can go insult him. Insulting him in front of me doesn't really make much sense. I'm not insulting him. But you DO realize the you have no idea what you are talking about, right? Don't you dare be so stupid as to say I didn't just insult you there. You do see the parallel between what I just said to you, and what you said to Crack? Are you threatening me now? I had nothing malicious on my mind. Yeah, you just a bunch of rocks in your head. You continue to insult me? Why do you think I don't like you? Because I don't worship you like all your other goons. Next 2 questions, who worships me? Who are my goons? You think that everyone should be kissing your ass, and when I don't kiss your ass, you get mad. You expect everyone to be your goon, and you expect everyone to worship you and kiss your ass. ehhh ehhh You didn't answer the questions I asked. Yeah I did. I asked, who worships me? You did not reply. I asked, who are my goons? You did not reply. You think that everyone should be kissing your ass, and when I don't kiss your ass, you get mad. You expect everyone to be your goon, and you expect everyone to worship you and kiss your ass. There, I retyped my answer. Who worships me? Read the first part of my reply, and use that rock brain of yours along with your knowledge of the English language to deduce. Okay, please name one person who worships me. You claim to know me very well, you even know what I expect of people, please name one person who worships me. I guess you can't read or you just don't have a brain. I'll type out the first part for you, "You think that everyone should be kissing your ass," please read this. Give me a name, a handle, a nick... "You think that EVERYONE should be kissing your ass," in other words, you think that anyone you meet should be kissing your ass... Bob, John, Rebel Chicken, Bill, Jack, etc, should I go on? How do you know what I expect? I look at what you say to other people and how you treat me. Okay, next question, I have about 5 more questions left for you. Do you ever change your mind/opinion? Yeah, I used to think this girl Emily was really cute. Hitex, the other RCN editor has been telling me the whole time how pimple infested she was, but I thought she was still cute, then I got glasses and I saw that her face was all warped and stuff. I also think you're stupid, but every now and then, I start to realize that you're even more stupid than what I thought you were before. So my answer is, yes, I do change my mind/opinion. ehhh So, only 4 more questions left? I have to wake up in just a few hours, so I'd like to get some sleep. I only have one more question for you, can you attempt, while talking seriously, to stop acting like you're at war with me and become my friend? If no, why? If yes, ask your questions, you said you had some. Is that your last question? Well, you're the one who joined channel #RCN saying that you were scoping out the competition. You're the one who started calling RCN pathetically lame. You're the one who implied that Crack is a fucking dumbass because you assume that he doesn't know what he's talking about, should I go on? So why shouldn't I treat you the same way you treat me? The truth is, you're really not that interesting to chat with, so I'd like to get some sleep. If that hurts your feelings as a god, too bad. I said that I was scoping out the competition to get your attention. Sure you did... I asked about Crack to see if you would support his statements. Wow? You're revealing your master plan? Cool! One last thing before I go, please do restart Inquisition. Maybe you should listen more carefully and notice that I am extending a hand not a sword. A hand? Yeah, a hand that you can use to shove up my ass. I don't like my ass getting all bloody, so thanks but no thanks. ehhh Yea, go do your Beavis and Butthead moan. I honestly thought you understood that I was attempting to make a friend. It is quite unfortunate that you do not see it. I consider you what you are. I am not easily blinded when a wolf comes in sheep's clothing. There, that was a quote from the Bible, eat that you Einstein charlatan wannabe. *** DCC chat: to Lurch closed r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Rebel Chicken Subject : Lestat, I Wanna Be RCN! The following is a log of my conversation with Lestat. I'm embarrassed that the following chat is real and actually did take place. I'd never expect an idiot like Lestat to come up to me with such an absurd proposal. *** Lestat (xxx@xxxxx.xxx) has joined channel #RCN Who's the highest ranked RCN member here? What the hell? I'm an RCN editor, what can I help you with? Are you the original Rebel Chicken, or are you a wannabe? Yes, I'm the original Rebel Chicken. You, like run RCN hey? No one person runs RCN, it's a group effort. I'm one of the RCN editors, is there anything I can help you with? I have a proposition for you. You're getting a lot of heat from the warez groups. The programming in RCN is /<-Rad, but RCN articles are not warez based. If RCN articles are not warez based, why would the warez groups be giving me heat? I would like to help you get some support from the warez scene. Don't talk down to me like that. Stop jerking around and get to the point, I'm in a bit of a hurry. I would like to be an editor, so that I can read over future issues of RCN before its published. I'd like to check over things and then tell you if what you print is /<-Rad and shit. Sorry, but your offer is rejected. I would like to know why you're rejecting my proposition. I would like to know why you'd expect me to accept your proposition. You have no idea how to run an e-mag. Why would we put you in RCN as an editor? There are dozens of other RCN members in line for an editor position before you would even be considered. You're not even a member, you can't just waltz into channel #RCN and expect to become an editor. I know how the fucking scene runs. You guys don't have any support from the warez groups. Nobody is asking you to support RCN. If you don't like it, then don't read it. The warez groups hate you. So what? Anytime I say something, there's always someone from some warez group that gets pissed about. I'm not afraid to back up what I say. The only people that read RCN are people who like to "pir8" because they think they are rebels. If what you say is true, then why do warez groups give me heat about things if they don't read RCN? Bah, they read it because the programing rawks, but the fact is, it's not supported. So they download RCN each week to read the programming? If you could get them to back you, then you would fucking rock. Yeah, I would fucking rock, but I'd be running nothing more than a message service for them. I'll be a puppet for them printing shit that they want people to read. I'd have to fucking suck up to all of them and turn a blind to any lame shit they might do. I don't expect to be censored by big warez groups. I know. By the way, did you know that issue 21 didn't work. Great, then you didn't have to read it. Bah, you don't have any background in the warez scene. Maybe if you had some people in RCN who knows about how the scene works, then you would get support and more people from warez groups to read it. Another thing, you're an asshole. I come to you nice and polite, but you reject my proposition. Just because you come to me nice and polite does not mean I have to accept your proposition. I can go up to Bill Gates and ask him nicely for a billion dollars, but I doubt he'd actually give me any money. I'm not listening to what my friends say and you start bitching. You are welcome to submit articles if you want. You should at least not be an asshole about it, you fucking cock sucker. I hope you die. Great... You just made an enemy you faggot. Thanks for being so nice and polite. I'm glad I rejected your proposition then, I wouldn't want an immature kid like you trying to help run RCN. What part of NO don't you understand? Bah, I'm not the one being immature about it. You started it you fool. All right, now you're pissing me off. Go ahead and act like a 10 year old saying shit like, "You started it! No, you started it! NO, YOU started it! It's your fault! No, it's your fault! NO, it's YOUR fault!" Bah... Bah? Go fuck a lamb, I have other business to take care of. *** Lestat has left channel #RCN r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Double O Zero Subject : Top 10 Ways to Get Warez As we know, being part of the scene means getting free warez. The following are the top 10 ways to get warez : TOP 10 LIST! ------------ 10.) Put up a board called The Trading Post and put an advertisement in your local computer magazine that says, "Free Warez Here!" 9.) Go to your local computer store with a pile of 5 disks and start copying software off the display computers. When they tell you that it's illegal say, "Oh, I thought it was shareware." 8.) Get on America Online and join WarezChat. Say "AN33 N00 W4R3Z, d00dZ?" 7.) Get warez? Fuck that. Trade 0 day PORN! 6.) Make sure you know how to type in all the new forms of K-RAD. 5.) Get all COPS (Couriers of Pirated Software) releases. People REALLY want those PhoneDisc installation files. 4.) When you are trading ftp sites, give them 4 random numbers. Works every time. 3.) Make sure you know all the good IRC offering channels. Right now, the best one is #0. 2.) Whenever somebody asks you for software say, "I don't have that but I have all the releases of SimCity 2000!" And the number 1 reason is : 1.) Break out your 300 baud modem and LEECH LEECH LEECH! r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Genocide and Loogie Subject : Top 10 Lamest Things a Release Group Can Do TOP 10 LIST! ------------ 10.) Have more fixes than actual releases. 9.) Hex editing a game, and say it was made by that group. 8.) DirectX, need I say more? 7.) {Takeover} #Rapesex for personal pleasure, get the pun? 6.) Buy action figures for their software, and release it. 5.) Fat chicks... get it? =) 4.) Release old Win 95 Betas, and calling them Nashville Upgrades. 3.) Changing its name more times than it has had working releases. 2.) Rip a PCGamer CD-Rom, and calling it a full release. And the number 1 reason is : 1.) Make a Napalm Guide to Cracking. r c n m a d r c n ! Author : Zima Man Subject : Master of Warez End of curry day, leeching all away I'm your source of all new files Sites that pump with warez, sucking NETCOM clear Leading to your leech destruction Leech me you will see More is all you need You're dedicated to how I'm releasing for you Come curry faster Obey your master Your CDR burns faster Obey your master Master Master of Warez I'm pulling your strings Twisting the FATE and smashing their links Blacklisted by me, you can't leech a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Group trust is the way, never you betray Life of warez becoming tougher Pain monopoly, ritual misery Chop your hardisk on a mirror image Leech me you will see More is all you need Your dedicated to how I'm releasing for you Come couriering faster Obey your master Your CDR burns faster Obey your master Master Master of Warez I'm pulling your strings Twisting the FATE and smashing their links Blacklisted by me, you can't leech a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Master, Master, where's the warez that I've been after? Master, Master, you promised only files Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter Laughter, laughter, laughing at my spies NET is worth all that, natural habitat Just a group a group of new school lamers Never stoping SLATE, counting his NAPALM days Now your site is out of season I will occupy I will help you supply I will run through you Now I rule you too Come couriering faster Obey your master Your CDR burns faster Obey your master Master Master of Warez I'm pulling your strings Twisting the modem and smashing your disks Blacklisted by me, you can't leech a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master 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 21. 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 RCN Issue #21 : ENTROPHY *PS* Learn to take a joke... r c n c l a s s i f i e d s ! SNES Console Offer in 32bit Wanted #Phatfiles PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR an385476@ - NGT! - AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! penet.fi PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR PUT YOUR AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! AD HERE! 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 14, 1996 Requirements : IBM 386, 2MB RAM, VGA, DOS 3.3+ REALITY Presents : REALITY CHECK NETWORK #22 (C) RCN!!! This is the 22nd 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 : HBKid, The Insane Sicilian, Trip, and Zima Man. " QUOTES! " We do not love free speech and free movement until we see them threatened. We will not die for them until they are taken away. With considerable horror, we watch men of other nations allow themselves to be robbed of their right to their opinions. But, more insidiously, we now accept dictated predications which we are told to use in coming to conclusions. Those who know the LEAST... obey the BEST. - Anonymous The results of our hard work, often loss and pain, are certainly outweighed by the greatness experienced along the way. Certainly, the chance to be great, is worth fighting for and worth the pain that so often accompanies it. - Anonymous On behalf of the moon, I shall sing to Right wrongs and triumph over evil With my friends Sailor Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury We'll make the world A better place for all people! - Sailor Moon 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, HBKid, Krimson Wrane, Krypto, The Insane Sicilian, Law & Order, Mike & Dave, Nightcrawler, Oxygen, Pandemonium, Pharaoh, Sam Vision, Stealth, Trip, Tuxedo Mask, Underground King, Undinism, Velocity, Waynekerr, 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 Devil's Advocate . 215 HBKid ............ 3 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 . Pain Cave ............ 214 LamahCop ......... 1 AFFILIATE . Phreak Zone .......... 305 The Joker ........ 3 AFFILIATE . The Pissing Crow ..... 610 Estranger ........ 1 AFFILIATE . Zero Tolerance ....... 905 Glycerine ........ 2 AFFILIATE . KISSES DISSES [*] KISSES : Hi mom! [*] 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. 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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 1 670,161 002 Back Issues 21 7,995,385 Miscellaneous 1,574,700 004 Uploads 0 0 Totals for Reality Check Network 23 10,240,246 [A/ ] Up [ /Z] Down [PGUP/PGDWN] Page [ENTER] Select [M] Manual [Q] Quit [H]elp, [1-4], File List Command? 3 =========== ========= ======== ======================================= Filename Size Date Description of File Contents =========== ========= ======== ======================================= RCNTP10.ZIP 1574700 07-07-96 | | | | | | | | | | REALITY CHECK NETWORK! | | RCN Win 95 Theme Pack v1.0 | (C) RCN - [1/1] | | Uploaded By : RCN Staff [120] Minutes Left, [F]lag, [V]iew, [NS]=Nonstop, [SPACE]=Mark? [H]elp, [1-4], File List Command? ### Description Files Bytes 001 Current Issue 1 670,161 Back Issues 7,995,385 003 Miscellaneous 1 1,574,700 004 Uploads 0 0 Totals for Reality Check Network 23 10,240,246 [A/ ] Up [ /Z] Down [PGUP/PGDWN] Page [ENTER] Select [M] Manual [Q] Quit [H]elp, [1-4], File List Command? 2 =========== ========= ======== ======================================= Filename Size Date Description of File Contents =========== ========= ======== ======================================= RCN-21.ZIP 677192 07-07-96 RCN Issue #21, 07-07-96 | COVER : ROR Dead? I wish. | PLUS! : Legion vs. Pinnacle! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff 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 [120] Minutes Left, [F]lag, [V]iew, [NS]=Nonstop, [SPACE]=Mark? ns RCN-18.ZIP 624589 06-16-96 RCN Issue #18, 06-16-96 | COVER : GODS Meeting Log | PLUS! : RCN BUSTED! | Uploaded By : RCN Staff 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, [1-4], File List Command? ### Description Files Bytes Current Issue 670,161 002 Back Issues 21 7,995,385 003 Miscellaneous 1 1,574,700 004 Uploads 0 0 Totals for Reality Check Network 23 10,240,246 [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-22.ZIP 670671 07-14-96 | | | | | | | | | | REALITY CHECK NETWORK [22] | | 14 JULY 1996 | COVER : United Cracking Force! | | 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-22.zip Your Current Download:Upload File Ratio is : 2:0 Your Download:Upload Ratio Must Remain Below: 2:1 Downloading RCN-22.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 Interpol : VGA Pandemonium : VGA Darkwing : IRC Security Undinism : IRC Maintenance RATM : Webmaster Ionizer : The Game Review Double O Zero : Writer Midnight Avian : Writer TRC : Writer The Rippa : Writer Road Rebel : Writer Tuxedo Mask : Writer Zima Man : Writer Web Site : http://www.rcn.org/ Email : AN385786@ANON.PENET.FI * = No longer taking requests outside RCN.