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Netmonkey Weekly Report Issue 44
Netmonkey Weekly Report
Issue XLII
April 16th, 1999
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THURSDAY!#@*)!@ God damn this is getting out of hand..Ndetroit your a god damn
dead man. Thanks to Duranged for being an elite editor type guy. Prozac is back
this week and we got a few little tidbits, I know last week really sucked and
this week isn't a whole lot better, but maybe if we get an issue out on time we
can have more time to do stuff:) Bud also interviews Toth in his report so
check that out.
AND NO WEBPAGE BECAUSE NETWORKSOLUTIONS BLOWS ASS
Lester
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Hi Mom!
duranged
-----------[ index ]-----------
I.) Intro
a) Lester
b) duranged
II.) Quotes of the Week
III.) Stats - duranged's Weekly Stats, and comments on Sites.
IV.) Lester's Biased Courier Report
V.) Articles
a) Prozac's Kinda Biased Games Report
b) Bud's Biased Utils Report
c) Lesters Moview Reviews
d) VCD Group and Movie Reviews
VI.) Scene News - All the news that's fit to print
VII.) Rumors!
VIII.) Closing
---------------------[ Quotes of the Week! ]---------------------
[20:22] <mgoh> Yes Lester I will marry you...
[0:22] <Ryche> heh I should be back running.. 24hrs w/o a computer would kill
me
[ATX] -NewDir- utils : ASSETCENTER.COURIER.SOUP.V3.0.WITH.BACON.BITS-XCRYPT -
(vampire [INS] iNS/RTSiSO/CNG/PRM)
utils : ASSETCENTER.COURIER.SOUP.V3.0.WITH.BACON.BITS-XCRYPT - (vampire [INS]
iNS/RTSiSO/CNG/PRM)
RELEASE on MG: [MG] -0419- (tygrus/INT)
ASSETCENTER.COURIER.SOUP.V3.0.WITH.BACON.BITS-XCRYPT
-----------[ ndetroit's sites and stats section ]-----------
Asst. Editors Note: Thanks duranged, your less of a gimp than ND
this week :)
The Top Ten sites for this week are:
x3 FS -*- DLS -*- ET -*- FH -*- STH
x2 CAT -*- FF -*-
---=NETMONKEY COURiER REPORT=---
trader group FS DLS ET FH STH CAT FF pts pos
---------------------------------------------------------------------
godbless DEV 3 1 1 4 1 2 1 173 [1]
garoto DEV 2 0 2 3 2 1 2 143 [2]
cedric AOD 4 2 4 5 5 5 0 117 [3]
tc DEV 0 8 3 0 3 3 3 89 [4]
xtase DEV 10 5 5 7 6 8 0 72 [5]
morbid AOD 1 9 0 2 8 0 0 72 [5]
acidapple DEV 7 6 6 9 4 0 0 69 [6]
zarkof AOD 0 4 0 10 9 4 0 44 [7]
siim AOD 8 0 0 0 10 6 5 34 [8]
lordvader MNM? 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 34 [8]
* = no weektop this week.
Sorry to lordvader if I listed him in the wrong group because I have no clue
what group your actually in. Please let lester or me know if what group your
in.
-duranged
=--------------------------------=--------------------------------------=
-----------[ Lester's Biased Courier Section ]-----------
Biased Courier Report
AOD: Well, AOD saw Glen leave them and apparantly not under the best
circumstances. But AOD
continues to do well, though there are rumors of other people being unhappy.
Hopefully AOD will keep it together, but we will see what happens. Zarkof has
turned out to be a good pickup for them though.
Devotion: Well, after the DMS scandal of taking them off sites, Devotion went
out and picked up TC from VGN finally and EBASE as yet another Dev HQ. So
that's what? 18 sites? Christ. But anyways, they are clearly on top of the
world at the moment, we will see how long it will all last for them though. Oh
ya and I take back the mgd/grad lovechild remark<g>
Dimension: A mediocre week at best for the DMS boys, picking up Glen after he
dropped AOD early this past week. (Fucking NWR makes it hard to talk in weekly
comments), anyhow, Kruzin and Novastorm are basically only noteworthy
performers for this past week.
EQL: I saw snap around..
Risc: Well they picked up like 3 fate guys I heard, and they keep begging a
certain DMS guy to join..but other than that..they still kinda suckin..I made
an observation though the other day. The Risc council is almost entirely made
up of former Amnesia members..Amnesia's goal? Take down risc..ironic..:)
VGN/AMBITION: Well when TC finally left the sinking ship, VGN quickly made a
merger with amb to form Ambitious Vengeance.. I can't say this is too shocking
or even impressive..but at least it's 1 less courier group..:)
=----------------------------------=--------------------------------------=
-----------[ Articles ]-----------
=----------------------------------=--------------------------------------=
Prozac's Kinda Biased Gaming Report - #12
Welp, some asked where I was, and I was busy, and just didn't have the time
to sit down and write the last issue of my weekly gaming report. Blitz filled
in, and was not even remotely up to par, thought he even admitted it was
half-ass and a ten minute report. I'll give my point of view of the last two
weeks of the gaming scene, to get us all up-to-date.
Class-
Welp Class is back to its same ol self. They release some j0nx, with some
medium titles. But I believe in the philosophy, a game is a game. One person's
garbage could be another person's treasure. While CLS was slagged for a
couple of titles done this week, they did receive some nice fan-fare. For the
month, it's getting to be a nice competition between CLS & PDM, and with the
month winding to its end, it'll be interesting what happens at the end of
the month.
Also, the competition is finished, and the results were surprising. Read
TCA for the winners. The contest between Sunny D & CB ended as a tie because
Sunny quit PDM, and both decided to end the contest gracefully.
Hot Releases:
Extreme Wintersports - 13 disks
Atari Collection 2 - 39 disks
Football Mogul - 11 disks
Yoot Tower - 20 disks
Sega Puzzle Pack - 4 disks
Malakri - 29 disks
Paradigm-
After CLS dominated the first week of April, PDM comes back and whips up a
nice bunch of titles, right as Drizzt came back out of his vacation, and
Z decided to help out the group again while John Lennon is out on his
honeymoon (if you hadn't heard, Tai & JLennon eloped (J/K!!!)). They managed
to flex their cracking prowlness by being the first group to get out the
anticipated Machines first to the scene, and mix some so-so & medium titles.
As mentioned before, this month is boiling down to be a great month. I'm sure
some of you gamers are wanting me to comment on my thoughts of PDM's release
of Corsairs. Well... I believe both CLS & PDM deserve the points. Why?
It's because both groups put out english releases. PDM's release just makes it
100% english, but both games are completely playable.
BTW, the rumor mill coming from camp PDM is that several key members are
messing up the balance of this group, and this group could lose its grip
of being the top group of '99 soon if things don't shape up. Remember, this is
only a rumor.
Hot Releases:
Beatdown - 25 disks
MS Baseball 2000 - 47 disks
Corsairs - 15 disks
Machines - 29 disks
Blaze & Blade - 28 disks
Boss Rally - 6 disks
Razor-
Let's hope that after E3 this group resurrects itself from the dead, as
there seems to be a lot of zombies in this group. This group barely gets
its shit together whenever TP is around, otherwise this group is just a
bag of bones.
Hot Releases:
N/A
Origin-
It's been interesting watching this group. While this group from the outside
seems to be polished, several key members have quit or retired from this group.
This week the UK Team won the cracking race on two titles this week, but
otherwise its been rather quiet. There has been grumbling and rumbling going
on behind the scenes, but now that I'm perm. banned from #origin & #dvniso,
I can't see what's truly going on. Oh well, things were promising in the
past. I guess we'll just have to see this group evolve into Hybrid 2. That's
the label I give this group even if they don't like it.
Hot Releases:
Livewire - 25 disks
Actua Ice Hockey - 31 disks
Other-
Welp for a moment, TBT gave several titles to TPC, then decided to split
and do it under the TBT label. TPC is again attempting to try to play
with the big boys and only go for the major titles, and leave the small
potatoes to DVN, or any other group who wants to do them. While they never
declared this, I actually thinks TPC's main objective is just to release
games that get reviewed on game-over.net. It can happen..
Hot Releases:
Extreme Rodeo - 20 disks
Extreme Watersports - 15 disks
CARnivorous - 6 disks
Hoyle Backgammon & Cribbage - 10 disks
The Real Deal 2 - 5 disks
Sega Worldwide Soccer Championship - 45 disks
Springer'ish Final Thoughts:
When it comes to nukers, the people who control this ability on sites seem
to nuke based on hearsay and opinion. The thing that irks me is that if
one person on a major site nukes a release, the scene act like sheep and
do a domino effect on that release. They base the reason for nuking because
one person says one thing, and to them, it's the truth. In the past, I've said
that hearsay is rampant in the scene, and people unfortunately believe it's
the truth. People in the scene need to think for themselves. They shouldn't
nuke with out investigating. They shouldn't believe everything they're told
or read on the web. Use your brain, people. It's there for a reason.
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=----------------------------------=--------------------------------------=
-----------[ Bud's Biased Utils Section ]-----------
Bud's Biased Utils Report #18
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After a rather bullshit week of finals (where I actually had an eleven hour
school day due to crappy scheduling), and bullshit incident with Windows
which saw me reinstalling three times Saturday afternoon, (which i might add
is made by a bullshit company), I'm back to the report again.
First off, my apologies to Prophecy (the group), who released Audio Catalyst
2 last week before PWA. I gave PWA credit for that cool little audio app...
I should have caught the mistake, my only excuse is when I'm doing the
review I'm only generally looking for -GROUPNAME on sites to see what I've
missed while away, so I miss a lot of smaller titles from other groups.
And I don't review cracking groups. And no, I won't start reviewing them...
I've got enough here as it is. :)
I've discovered I can't count, last week I labeled the utils report as
#16... it was 17 and I suck. The sad part is I even confused myself. And now
that classes are out for the summer I'll be doing even LESS thinking... boy
this is getting scary.
Finally, I got around to doing another interview... so special thanks to
Toth for putting up with me at about 1AM. :)
Disclaimer: It's BIASED moron. My opinion. So don't send me a bunch of mail
& messages bitching about this or that. If you don't like
it... SCREW YOU =]
Rankings: Groups get a score out of 10. Points are given for amount of
releases, but QUALITY titles will give a group a much higher score.
Nukes for duping, broken releases and just plain CRAP will lower
a groups score. However on the occasion that a title is nuked which
I don't feel should have been, MY OWN JUDGEMENT TAKES PRECEDENCE.
Cuz I'm writing this. Groups can also get points for any other
reason I see fit.
Week: Week is based from 04/11/99 to 04/17/99. I'm in the EST time zone so
dates/times run according to it.
Groups: (In no particular order)
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ÞÛÝ ÞÝ ÞÛ ÛÝÞÛÝ ÜÛß Û That Gives
ÜÛÛÝÜß ÜÛÛÝßÛÛÝ ÛÛ ÞÝ Slightly
ßÛÛÛ ßÛÛÛ ßÛ ÞÛÛÛÜÜ Û Less Than
ÞÛÝ ÞÛÝ ÞÝ ßÛÛß ßÜ A Fuck.
ß ß ß ß -XeN
PIRATES WITH ATTITUDE:
Releases:
AspAccessControl.Enterprise.v1.5.with.Source.Code-PWA
Symantec.ACT.v5.0.Beta1.W9X.NT-PWA
Microsoft.Proxy.Server.3.0.Beta.Build.598b-PWA
Asp.QMail.v1.4.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Luxent.Webgrid.Commercial.Server.500.Sessions.with.Keygen-PWA
NetViz.v4.0.cracked-PWA
Asp.Chart.v1.54.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Asp.Image.v1.8.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Asp.Mail.v3.0.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Asp.NNTP.v1.4.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Asp.POP3.v2.3.2.ENTERPRISE-PWA
Corel.Wordperfect.Office.2000.Standard.Edition.Final-PWA
The PWA resurgance continued last week with news of Return being promoted
to a senior slot, and plenty of releases. PWA is definately on the upswing,
with over a month of steady releasing now, and the winter hibernation long
behind them. They capped of the week with yet another oversized but
excellent title, WordPerfect Office 2000, which followed MS & Symantec
beta's and some other tools. I'm taking a point away because of the Audio
Catalyst, still a nice week though. I must say though, Return knocking
web apps in the Corel nfo wasn't a bright move as several of the PWA apps
this week and last can be purchased on the web. But we'll forgive him. :)
Total: 7/10
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° ß ÜÛÛÛÛÛ² ÜÜÛÛÛÜ ÜßßÛÛÛÛÝ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÜ ß
²ÛÛÛß ßÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÜßÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÞ²ß ßÛÛÛ²
²ÛÛÛÝ Þ²Ûß ßÛÛÝÞ² ß ß²ß²Ý ÞÛÛÛÝ
ÞÛÛÛÛÛÜÜß ßÛÜ Ü²Û² Û²Ü ÛÝßÜÜÛÛÛÛ²
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þÜÄÄÄÄÄÄ+ The Corporation +Ä ßÜ Ägas!Äþ
THE CORPORATION:
Releases:
Inter.Connex.Doc.It.25users-CORP
Broderbund.3D.Home.Architect.Deluxe.v3.0-CORP
Corp is the first of two usually busy groups who have slowed this week. Only
two titles, one a working version of Broderbund's 3D Home Architect Deluxe 3
that RiSE released earlier in the year, the other a 25 user edition of Doc
IT.
Total: 4/10
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RISE:
Releases:
SYMANTEC.VISUAL.PROFESSIONAL.V3.06.FINAL.REPACK-RiSE
Symantec.Visual.Cafe.Professional.v3.0C.FINAL-RiSE
ARC.PLUS.RENDER.v6.30.RELEASE.4.CRACKED-RiSE
SYMANTEC.VISUAL.CAFE.PRO.3.0C.FINAL.ADDON-RiSE
RSA.SECURPC.v2.04.WIN9x.FINAL-RiSE
L.EDIT.7.5.BETA.CRACKED-RiSE
Some good activity out of the RiSE team this week, aside from the necessity
for a repack... Visual Cafe Pro 3.0C being the highlight for me, as well as
Arc PLus Render. Check out the interview with Toth at the end of the report!
I finally got off my ass and did it!
Total: 7/10
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Ú- ²ÛÛ ßß ßßß ÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄ-Ä-Ä ßßß -ÄÄ-ÄÄ-ÄÄ¿
: ßßßÛÛÜßÛÛÛßßßßßÛÛÜ ÜÛÛßßßßßßßßßÛÛÜ °³
ßßÛÛÛ² ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ²ÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ²ÛÛ ²ÛÛ ÛÛÛ °:
: ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛßßß ²ÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛßßß .
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: ²ÛÛÜÛÛßÜÛÛÛÜßÛÛÜÛÛÛ ßÛÛÜÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ :
Ü ÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ royÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÄÙ
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SIEGE:
Releases:
LOTUS.QUICKPLACE.FINAL.V1.0-SiEGE
LOTUS.SAMETIME.FINAL.V1.0-SiEGE
Do my eyes decieve me, or do I see just two SGE titles this week? Well that
doesn't matter, they did it right and made the titles count. Well I think
most of us know who was responsible for these two anyways... <g>.
Total: 5/10
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ[XX/XX]Ä
ÜÛÛ ÜÜÜ ° ÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ
Û²Û Û²Û ± ÛÛß Û²Û Û Û²Û ÛÛ Û²Û Û ÛÛÛ ÛÛ Û²
Û±Û Û±Û Û°Û ßß ÜÛ Û±Û ÛÛ Û±Û Û ÜÜÜ ÛÛÜÜ
ÜÛÛßÛÛÜ ß Û±Ûßßß ÛÛ Û°Û ÛÛ ÜÜÛ Û²Û ÛÛ ÜÜ
Û±Û Û²Û ² Û²Û ° Û²Û Û°Û ÛÛ ° Û²Û Û±Û ÛÛ Û²
ÛÛÛ Û±Û ± ÛÛÛ _ßÛÛÛÛÛßÜÛÛ ± ßÛÛÛÛÛß ßÛÛÛÛ
ÄÄÄ ÛÛß ° ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ² ÄÄÄÄÄ sikos Ä
X-FORCE:
Releases:
TERRAMODEL.R9.5-XFORCE
TERRA.VISTA.CRACKED-XFORCE
ALIAS.WAVEFRONT.ALIAS.8.5.FINAL.NT-XFORCE
ULTIMATE.TOOLBOX.FOR.MFC.2ND.EDITION.APR.1999-XFORCE
Well XF suprised no one in getting Alias 8.5 final, and through in Terra
Model and Terra Vista as well, along with (gasp) another Ultimate Toolbox
release... who would have seen that coming? but an excellent release in the
Wavefront title.
Total: 6/10
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SHOCK:
Releases:
Sun.Visual.Workshop.v5.0.for.C.Plus.Plus.Intel.Solaris-SHOCK
Sun.Workshop.Professional.v5.0.for.C.Intel.Solaris-SHOCK
Sun.Performance.Workshop.v5.0.for.Fortran.Intel.Solaris-SHOCK
WebTermX.v2.0.2.for.Windows9xNT-SHOCK
PhotoActive.FX.v1.1.for.PowerPoint-SHOCK
Socket.Workbench.v3.0.0.2-SHOCK
Flash.Messaging.System.v4.1.7-SHOCK
MetaCreations.Office.Advantage.v1.0-SHOCK
Output.Hoss.v1.0-SHOCK
WareHoss.Registry.v1.0-SHOCK
Yay oversized Solaris. Ok well that depends on the site, because at 51 x
2.88, they were actually 146 megs. But it doesn't matter becuase I don't
score points for non-win operating systems, as I don't run them. But I do
recognize that there is an ever expanding market for *nix operating systems,
as well as others. Now to the releases... after discounting the Sun Micro
Solaris apps, the best release here is without a doubt MetaCreation's new
productivity tool, Office Advantage, which works with PowerPoint and Excel
inside MS Office to bring superior graphics and charting features to the
user. Also decent is WebTermX from White Pine, makers of CU-See Me. But SHK
seems to have slowed a bit this week, with senior Mcarec having retired.
Total: 5/10
. ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ
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: ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ .
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: [xx/xx].
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PENTIUM FORCE TEAM:
Releases:
Bluestone.XML.Server.v1.0-PFT
Back to idle again, grabbing BlueStone's XML Server, which has been around
for some while but no one got to it.
Total: 2/10
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ÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜ ÞÛÛ²Ý ÜÜÜÜ ÞÛ²Û
Þ²ÛÛÝ Þ²ÛÛÝ ÛÛÛ² ²ÛÛÝ ÛÛÛ²
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ÞÛÛ² ÞÛ²ÝÞÛÛ² ÛÛ²ÝÞÛÛÛ² ÛÛÛÛ²
ßßßß ÛÛÛ² ÛÛ² ÞÛ²Û ßßßßß ÜÛÛ²ß mg
ß ßßßßÛÛÛÛ²Ý ßß ÛÛ²ß ß ßßßßßß
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:: <LEGENDS NEVER DiE> ::: <o4 * 2880> ::
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LEGENDS NEVER DIE:
Releases:
COSMOS.DESIGNSTAR.V1.0-LND
CISCO.CWSI.CAMPUS.V2.3-LND
CISCOWORKS.2000.RESOURCE.MANAGER.ESSENTIALS.V2.1-LND
COSMOS.EDGE.V3.0-LND
COSMOS.DESIGNSTAR.v1.0.FIX-LND
LND... LND... hrmmm... well what can I say. Aside from a fix (LND has been
forgetting shit of late, come on guys, test and double check), these are all
decent tools, if nothing breathtaking. Cisco stuff always feels overpriced
to me (most apps do), the Cosmos apps are a little more appealing to me...
I'll give them good points for the releases, and knock em one for the fix.
Total: 6/10
.__________. [xx/xx/98]
\_ ___ ) Da ToP oF Da LiNe! .___.
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.:/ _____/__./(___.____/\.______./ /_____.
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/__/ / / / / // __ / /__/ / /___/:
.:/ /__/__/__/__/(______\____ /__/_____ /MO
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= THE PINNACLES OF RELEASING (C) PNC 95-98 =
PINNACLE:
Releases:
Oracle.Mobile.Agents.v3.0.Win9xNT-PNC
Wow another release. Cept someone said it was freeware, but it's not. Mobile
Agents is actually a fairly nice package that extends Oracle's client/server
solutions to mobile systems. Which sounds nice except I don't have a laptop
or PDA <hint hint, email bud@shocking.net - now accpeting donations!>.
Total: 2/10
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°ß ßÛÜ ßß ßÝ ß þ ÞÜ þ Ü ß þ ß ß ÜÜÜ ß
Û ÞÛÝÛ ß ÛÜßÜ ÛßÛÜßÛÛ Û ÛÜßÜ ßß ÜÝ ÛÜßÜ
ÞÛÝÜÛßÞÛÝ ÞÛÝÜ ÞÛÝÞÛÝÞÛÝÞÛÝÞÛÝÜ Û ÞßßÞÛÝÜ
ß²² ß²² ß²² Üß²² ß ²ß ß²Üß²Û ÜÞ²Ý ß²² Ü
ÄÄ ß ÄÄÄ ß Ä ßß ÄÄ ß ß ÄÄÄÄ ß ßß Üßß Ä°Ä ßß
PREMiERE 1998 RELEASES WITH STYLE [xx/xx/98]
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PREMIERE:
Releases:
SWB.Database.Structure.Printer.v1.0-PREMiERE
PDFImage.v2.0-PREMiERE
WebGIZMO.v3.15-PREMiERE
AV4.Customer.Management.System.v3.50.2-PREMiERE
SuperEdit.v1.3-PREMiERE
VariCAD.v7.0.20-PREMiERE
OfficeWorks99.v1.24-PREMiERE
Time.and.Chaos.v5.36-PREMiERE
WebZinger.v6.02-PREMiERE
Chem3D.Pro.v5.0-PREMiERE
SmartServer3.v3.5-PREMiERE
Submission.Wizard.v5.01-PREMiERE
Another week for PRM, a bit slower than the last, I have the same
complaints as always here... some decent releases, but they lack any even
semi major app. They hopped on NetCPlus's SmartServer 3.5 pretty quick,
and put out a minor version of VariCAD 7, but next to releases from
Lotus, MetaCreations, Corel, Silicon Graphics, etc, they just don't
match up.
Total: 5/10
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d(*)d D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 8 d(*)d
===================== [ DOD * xx-xxx-98 ] ==
DRINK OR DIE:
Releases:
Command.AntiVirus.v4.54.sp2.For.NT-DOD
Command.AntiVirus.v4.54.sp2.For.Win95-DOD
VistaScan.v3.01.For.Win9x-DOD
Didn't see that Command AV coming... ;)
DOD back with it plus Vista Scan... haven't heard much from the
Drink Or Die camp of late, seems pretty quiet at the moment... expect
some action in the summer months though. (That's the only prediction I'm
going to make for a while, because flipping a coin seems about as accurate).
Total: 3/10
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=[X]==][= MANiFEST DESTiNY RELEASE =][==[X]=
MANIFEST DESTINY:
Releases:
IMSI.RAM.Shield.v1.1a-MANiFEST
SuperVoice.Pro.v4.0b-MANiFEST
Rational.ClearCase.v3.1.1-MANiFEST
Sax.Basic.Engine.v5.1.16-MANiFEST
Sax.Code.Complete.v2.0.1690-MANiFEST
Cyberlink.LinkTEL.v3.20-MANiFEST
May.8.Hi.Fi.v1.1-MANiFEST
NuMega.SoftICE.v3.25.Win9x-MANiFEST
NuMega.SoftICE.v3.25.WinNT-MANiFEST
RenderIt.3D.v3.02-MANiFEST
Visible.Advantage.v7.2.100-MANiFEST
PaperPort.Deluxe.v6.1-MANiFEST
PaperPort.ProOCR100.v1.01-MANiFEST
TextBridge.Pro.v9.01-MANiFEST
SRJ.Signature.Randomizer.v3.2.4.For.Win9xNT-MANiFEST
Geez... MFD outdid a LOT of groups this week. Lets take a look at some of
what we see here. I released an older version of IMSI's Ram Shield a while
back, not too bad an app... SUperVoice Pro is decent, a minor update
however. Sax Soft's Basic Engine and Code Complete are nice packages for VB
developers, even if, again, they are a bit minor. Crackers will love to see
the new SoftICE I'm sure (ok so crackers aren't the only ones with a need
for a debugger). Visible Systems' Visible Advantage isn't too shabby, be
nice to see the Enterprise edition of this CASE tool done though. Some good
scanning/OCR software in there as well, with the Paperport apps and
TextBridge. While the top groups each did one or two top notch anticipated
apps, MFD matched them by doing a bunch of strong titles.
Total: 8/10
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REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS
>> RELEASING WITHOUT PERMISSION <<
REBELS:
Releases:
WinImage.v5.0.REGGED-RBS
IVEX.WINBOARD.V2.22.CRACKED-RBS
IVEX.WINDRAFT.V3.00.CRACKED-RBS
ALTERA.MAX.PLUS.II.V9.23.CRACKED-RBS
CADSTAR.v3.01-RBS
DataDepo.HiCopy.v1.53.Keygen-RBS
DataDepo.Infospotter.Snapshot.v3.49.KeyGen-RBS
DataDepo.Pc.Clinic.v3.49.Keygen-RBS
DataDepo.WhatCOM.V2.54.KeyGen-RBS
DataDepo.WhatCPU.v3.49.Professional.Keygen-RBS
Keygens from RBS... hmmm, ok, I know they crack but... WinImage is kinda
a dupe, someone did Pro the day before RBS, and to top it off a newer
version came out the day after. CadStar is cool, Altera Max is as well.
Total: 6/10
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Teknorage & Pirasoft:
Releases:
EasyBook.v1.5.202-TRPS
SkyGlass.v1.0-TRPS
Ultimate.Bulletin.Board.v5.34-TRPS
MP3.Collector.v1.01.Regged-TRPS
Rock.Works.99-TRPS
VooDooMovie.v1.2-TRPS
LiveUpdate.Crescendo.Plus.Universal.Edition.V4.0.Final-TRPS
Chroma.Sound.Audio.DSP.v0.19-TRPS
Biz.infoFinder.v2.1-TRPS
TRPS showing some signs of like with VooDoo Movie and Crescendo Plus 4
Universal this week, although I still have to wonder about Rock Works... <g>
Ok actually
I have no idea what Rock Works 99 actually is so I shouldn't judge it...
didn't see it around on any sites, and I'm too lazy to look that hard. Still
this team has some rebuilding to do.
Total: 5/10
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VERSUS:
Releases:
GDPro.v3.1-VERSUS
GWD.TextEditor.V2.5-VERSUS
Rational.Rose.Enterprise.98i.v6.0-VERSUS
ViruSafe.v8.01-VERSUS
I've said it before, VRS is under rated, and continues to suprise the scene
with some good releases. I can't believe they won on Rational Rose 98 6...
good job to them, I've been told it works well (only complaint I've heard so
far is it still says trial somewhere, but who cares so long as the
protection is killed). So congrats to them.
Total: 5/10
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::.. .:[ SCUM ]:. .:[SCUM]:. .:[SCUM]:. ..::
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SCUM:
Releases:
Net.Genesis.Net.Analysis.v4.0.WinNT-SCuM
Precise.SQL.v2.8.2-SCuM
Rational.SoDa.with.Frame.v3.02-SCuM
Centura.Web.Developer.v1.5-SCuM
Another week with some quality apps from Scum... hmm all kinds of people
have told me Scum would kick the bucket soon, I even thought it likely
myself... but when you actually look at their releasing, ignore that fact
that they aren't doing mass releases, and consider that these are good
tools... which at least in my judgement makes them pretty healthy as a
releasing force. How strong they are in the long term remains to be seen,
but it has been a few months now since Scum reopened its doors.
Total: 5/10
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Back For You in 1999 ! [XX/03]
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SODOM
Releases: N/A
SDM hasn't released in over two months now, and I have almost no idea if
they are even still alive, although I haven't heard much of anything (hey
I don't follow EVERY group all the time). You can pretty much chalk them up
as the first official casuality of 1999 (err well, Entity went into Rise,
or part of it, but that was more of a transition). So as of next week I
won't bother keeping them on here, of course I wish all of SDM the best of
luck if whatever (if anything ;)) they do.
Total: N/A
Only one more byte to crack before...
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2000AD:
Releases:
Mallsurfer.2.01a.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Powerterm.Pro.0.8.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Imagehub.v1.0b.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
NewsGrabber.2.1.25.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
QUI.v1.8.9.8.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
CDRWIN3.7c.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Etherboy.1.5.2.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
GetRight.3.3.4.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Symantec.Mobile.Winfax.1.0.119.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
WebPosition.1.00.5.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Advanced.Image.Manager.1.2.0b.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
Mallsurfer.2.01d.For.Windows9x.NT.2000AD
TNO accused 2KAD of ripping a serial from one of their keygens this week.
I don't blame TNO for being pissed off, I've been in similar spots before.
Still, I am getting pretty tired of seeing NON.STOLEN.LIKE.LAME.SO.AND.SO
dirs... I did one once and learnt no one really cares unfortunately, and
they look like crap... just nuke the thing on your own sites and release
your own copy. I should note that as of this time Leddy, who was accused,
hasn't made an official reply. I won't give 2KAD points for Etherboy (the
app in question) however.
What they did od of note was Symantec's Mobile Winfax (pretty minor),
WebPosition (minor again), and CDRWin 3.7c, which seemed to have
probs, so grab the Radium release (CORE's had some problems as well).
Overall I wasn't too impressed this week.
Total: 5/10
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(*) F a t i g u e - Couriers Network (*)
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________________________________________wK!.
FATIGUED COURIERS NETWORK:
Releases:
DAO.Components.for.Delphi.and.Cpp.Builder.v2.7.5.Inc.Src.FCN
JdbStore.FCN
ODBTalk.Suite.FCN
Peak.Slammer.v1.0.DirectX.Plugin.FCN
Solutions.Explorer.v1.00.FCN
CodeBase.Components.II.v2.52.For.Delphi.N.C.FCN
CoolMenus.MM.Edition.And.Std.v3.06.For.Delphi.N.C.FCN
Millenium.ActiveControl.v1.1.FCN
A good group of develpoment components as always from FCN, I didn't
pay too much attention to them this week, but as always the development
crowd should be more than pleased.
Total: 6/10
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Releases: N/A
I know lots of people will mail/msg me... so here it is: NWR is so damn
late, I know there's been Radium releases, but not during the time period
this report is reviewing! Yell at Lester or Ndetroit! <g>
Total: N/A
New this week: N/A
Idle this week: SDM
Quote(s) of the Week:
Grad: What's lame about the scene is the assholes who are in it
for profit. (TCA Post)
<Grade> i sold mcam 7.0 to siege :p
<Grade> i traded it and a few rels for a p2-400
[vacuuuum] Norton AV REALLY sucks, Sprint sucks, and Hewlett Packard will
ALWAYS suck.
<mgoh> I've come to the conclusion as to why godbless trades so much
<mgoh> he's got vietnamese prostitutes who pleasure him while he trades
[TWH] -UPLOAD- 04-17: Hans.Mulman.Productions.Attention.Grabber.v1.0-HMP -
by [ bud / Shock / SHOCK/DIVINE/DIMENSION ]
[TWH] -UPLOAD- 04-17: Hans.Mulman.Productions.Attention.Grabber.v1.0-HMP -
by [ godbless / DEVOTiON / TROOPS OF DOOM! ]
<Kruzin-> haha
<Bud_> lol
<Bud_> well i drew quite a few in with that anyways
<Slick^> oops
<Slick^> thought that was a shock pre :)
Points were weird this week if you didn't notice. SGE, PWA, XF, RiSE, PNC
and SHK all put out some of the best apps, but lacked overall releasing
power... MFD took the top spot by releasing a bunch of good releases, even
if they weren't the most anticipated. Special mention to all those groups
however, especially PWA, who have now taken the two best productivity apps
(in my eyes) of the year.
An Interview with Toth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh FUCK did I get lazy on these interviews... sorry SJ ;P
Anyways I promise another one within the next two reports, for now, here's
an interview I really enjoyed (cause I always enjoy talking with him), a
chat with Toth, leader of RiSE.
<Bud_> To start this off... state a few of your affils, past and present...
and keep it to a 5000 word minimum, because I've seen your affils
list!!
<Bud_> <g>
* Toth grins wickedly
<Toth> Well currently I'm in Rise, Razor 1911, and.. .. give me a second
for my curry affil .. (looks where hes opped) ahh AOD.. I've been
everywhere from Amnesia to RiSC to MNM to Rapier and back again curry
wise.. and game wise.. well Reflux and Genocide :)
<Bud_> Heheh... havin probs keeping up on your own affils I see ;)
<Toth> Heh well as anyone in the curry scene has noticed Its been quite some
time since I've felt at home in a trading group, unfortunatly they
just aren't what they used to be :)
<Bud_> Rise was one of the utils groups that I've really watched grow over
the years... I remember their early days pretty well (which for me is
quite a feat)
<Bud_> When you look at Rise back then... how do you feel it compares to
where Rise is today? Have you achieved your original goals?
<Toth> Rise originally started out as a small group of friends doing small
applications with the same hopes as everyone in the scene, to become
big. Through trying to keep friendship and fun as strong factors we've
slowly risen to a level where we get quite a bit of recognition in the
scene. <not done i continue on next line>
<Toth> Though our views on friendship and fun have been a factor that has
often gotten in the way of very steady releasing, we try to let what
we do release speak for themselves, and the group be more of an
online family.
<Bud_> Friendship and fun... that seems to be a line every group gives, but
in speaking with Rise members they definately have the same
feelings...
<Bud_> That Rise is more like a family... but then every family has its
difficulties
<Bud_> And Rise has of course grown... and grown a lot in the past while
<Bud_> How does this influx of members affect the group? Especially with some
of the people who have been with Rise for a fair while?
<Toth> With almost all new members that join Rise we make sure they know how
we feel about the scene, and that it is just a hobby. There is always
the one or two that join occasionally that are fine at first and end
up as problems, but on the whole our members come to respect our views
on the scene. In recent years there have been very few people who have
actually 'left' Rise on their own, and the majority of them stay on
good terms with some if not all of our members.
<Bud_> Given that response, I'll bring up one member in particular,
IdyllWild... I know there was some contreversy with her, she went to
Rise from Shock, where she also had some amount of contreversy around
her... how does a situation like that impact on the group? Or anyone
for that matter, I won't really single her out... but how far will
you go before you say enough's enough, what you're doing is disrupting
the group?
<Toth> Rise is very lenient with its members, unless there are numerous
complaints on a member things don't usually happen against them, most
people work things out on their own and barely ever need a senior to
step in, however we do if we have too.
<Toth> <er however we do step in if we have too.>
<Bud_> Seems to be working judging by the success of Rise ... (ok yeah im a
suck up too much ;))
<Bud_> I'll stray on this thread for a tad more... Rise has had some
impressive pickups through 1999 so far - Lester, Bones and a good part
of Entity, Powertool, Kirk Hammit, others who I'm forgetting but I'm
sure are just as important - what does Rise have that makes it so
appealing?
<Bud_> What makes these guys say "Rise", and not Siege, PWA, etc..
<Bud_> Or is it different in almost every case?
<Toth> Well, the only awnser I can think of to that is the atmosphere in Rise
that I mentioned earlier, I'm sure some were swayed by friends in
Rise. We don't overly go out of our way to recruit members though, on
the whole its people applying into Rise or talking about it for with
seniors off and on until they decide they like Rise more then their
current group.
<Bud_> Now on to a bit about releases, both for Rise and in general
<Bud_> Rise is one of a select number of groups to put forth a real effort
in the CAD/CAM field...
<Bud_> is that by intention, or did things just naturally lean in that
direction and you followed through?
<Toth> Though we don't release only titles fromt he CAD/CAM field, we were
intitially drawn into it from our release of Autocad r14. We recieved
quite a bit of compliments on this title and as we like to preferably
release titles we get positive feedback on since we know we're doing
something right for sure then, we spent alot of our time building up
an extensive cad/cam supplying team. (If only dongle/flexlm crackers
grew on trees we'd be set) :)
<Bud_> Hahah if they grew on trees i'd start a fucking ORCHARD!
<Toth> /me snickers
<Toth> whoa that doesnt happen often
<Bud_> There's no doubt that, love em or hate em, LND is dominating the
CAD/CAM side of things... do you want to see Rise really step it up?
Or just keep on doing those CAD/CAM titles you do get, while aiming
at releasing any quality app overall?
<Toth> Due to the feelings I have towards how LND releases some of its
titles, I'll stick to answering the question without mentioning them.
Rise always has a ton of CAD/CAM apps laying around, we just have
more releases then crackers =). We will always release CAD/CAM titles
that are quality, however we will also focus on all applications that
we recieve that we deam to be quality.
<Bud_> Damn... I wanted the nitty-gritty on that one <g>
<Toth> <g>
<Bud_> We all seem to have more apps than crackers... do you feel that the
utils scene.. how shall I put this.. looses crackers to the games
side of things? I've had plenty of crackers tell me they want to do
games only, since that's where the recognition is
<Bud_> And I have to admit, crackers are underappreciated... especially on
a lot of niche apps that Joe AppUser doesn't care about
<Toth> Rise has always shown preference to its crackers, and though we
havn't had our crackers go the the gaming scene, there has seriously
been less people taking up cracking applications then there used to
be. Most either find it too difficult or want the credit they can get
from the game scene.
<Bud_> I also find crackers really getting into iso protections, and people
talking about how that's going to change the gaming scene, with
c-dilla and the like becoming more wide spread... do you see a future
for these protection schemes for use with mainstream apps? After all,
we've had tougher schemes aka flexlm, hasp, sentinal for some time...
<Toth> So far these forms of protection havn't been implimented, however I
am sure we will end up seeing them in one or two releases. I do
however doubt they will become mainstream, c-dilla is a much easier
crack then the dongles currently in use and most companies will
most likely end up seeing things this way.
<Bud_> Well, I'm getting pretty sleepy... so now I'm going to ask you the
most important question of the interview, which I've been meaning to
ask for a while...
<Bud_> How come Really Into Spreading Elite isn't mentioned in the Rise NFO's
anymore?????!!??
<Bud_> <g>
<Toth> take that question outa there or im gonna smack you =0
<Bud_> Hahah no way ;)
<Bud_> That one needs to stay... it's the best part!!
<Toth> i have put alot of effort into having that acronym forgotten =)
<Bud_> Hehe well... I think Rise proves it's not what the letters stand for,
but what the group stands for
<Bud_> And if that doesn't cheese you out, nothing will ;)
<Toth> suckup <g> ok lets finish this 2morrow i think we're both gettin
tired =0
<Bud_> Hehe well... thats all i can thnk of anyways ;)
<Toth> mmkay =0
<Bud_> So thanx for putting up with it... now i gotta format, speel check...
see if i set a
new record for spelling errors <g>
<Bud_> fuck SPELL
<Bud_> why i that word soooo hard ;)
Well, that wraps it up... we were both getting sleepy, with my amazing
planning we did this interview at about 1 am ;P Again, I thank Toth for
putting up with my cheesy questions, and for you readers, if you've made it
this far, congrats! :)
Once NWR is settled again on a release date, I'll bring my own dates up to
speed, as we're getting a little behind here.
I'll see you all next week, or well... the next NWR week... who knows when
that will be <g>.
- Bud
=----------------------------------=-------------------------------------=
=---------[ Lester's Movie Reviews ]----------=
Sure he's a prominent scene member, leader of the #1 courier
group, and former "Miss Scene 1995".. But did you also know that
in real life, Lester's real name is "Roger", and he hosts a popular
syndicated television show, where he plays a big fatass who has
nothing better to do with his time than go to every single movie
ever released? Well.. now you know..
Movie Reviews
Life
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence
Rating: 2 Stars
Well, this is a comedy..I guess if your black maybe it's better, but I was
rather unimpressed. There are some funny parts and Murphy and Lawrence together
is a good premise. But if you must see Lawrence in a combo flick..check out Bad
Boys or Nothing to Lose, both are much better flicks and are available to rent
instead of paying 7 bux for it. You want to
know what the movie is about? Read the damn title, it's about Life in prison.
---
27 Days Until Star Wars!#@*)$@!*@)
=----------------------------------=-------------------------------------=
=---------[ VCD Group and Movie Reviews ]----------=
NOTE: Ryche is off this week, enjoying his annual walkabout in the Australian
wilderness with Principal. His report will return next week.
VCD Group and Movie Review
Quickie VCD Reviews - By Prozac
This is just a test article I'm writing since I'm starting to really get
into VCD's. People don't to read page-long reviews to know if something is
worth seeing. They just want to know if it's good, it sucks, or a must see.
These are the following VCD's I've seen this week, and here are my opinions on
them:
Holy Man- This movie blew chucks. It did have its funny bits, but followed
the same 'ol tired hollywood formula. Don't bother.
Clown At Midnight- A very VERY bad horror film. Follows the horror film
formula, mixed with bad acting. Not worth the time.
True Crime- Clint Eastwood was not meant to be in this movie. It also
is very predictable, and was ho-hum. Only grab this if you're bored.
The Mod Squad- This tried so hard to follow the TV series, but fucked it
up so much, that this movie was a joke and almost unbearable to watch. Be
sure to pass this up.
Please msg me with some feedback about this! If it's positive, I might do
this regularly.
- Prozac -
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-----------[The Scene News]-----------
All the news thats fit to print...
and then some...
- Black Acid here again doing the NWR scenenews :)
- Welp, the winners of the contest CB hosted have been
announced! SunTzu and Devil were the lucky winners of
the Cracker Prize (p3-500, 128meg ram, asus MB, adaptec
2940 scsi card, 18 gig scsi hd) and LeChucky and Horde
were the lucky winners of the Supplier Prize (Mitsumi CDR,
p3-500, asus MB, 128meg ram). I'm sure these guys are
enjoying their prizes ;)
- Return, a longtime member of RISE, has left to join
PWA as a senior!
- 2000AD has been picking up a shitload of sites lately,
always a good thing :P more sites the more leeches, hehe.
Also, TNO has accused 2kAD if using their keygen to get a
serial for a 2KAD release... Read below for details
- Eternal has retired from the scene... guess he finally
gave up on RISC ;P
- Earlier this week, ALL DMS accounts were disabled on DEV
sites due to an incident in which DEV found out that DMS
had a private bot which kept info on all the scene sites.
Obviously not liking the fact that if the bot was hacked,
crucial information on their sites would be exposed (ip,
port, siteops, link, etc..). DEV disabled all DMS accounts
until they agreed to get rid of the bot and issue an apology!
DMS of course, issued an apology to DEV, and now they've made
up ;D . Of course, i've included a copy of this letter in the
nwr44.zip (filename: dmsapology.txt)
- Godbless has joined CRYSTAL! Koka's infamous cracking group ;)
- TC has left Vengeance to join up with the Devotion brothas ;d
- Ambition and Vengenace have merged to form AMBITIOUS VENGENACE
... the ultimate idling group ;)
- Dee has been supposedly abusing his siteop privelages on TG..
From what DarkLogic told me, the staff disagreed on a PWA Corel
WordPerfect 2000 release, then dee just deleted DarkLogic's siteop
account without consultation with the other staff...
- HP... some .no site that was up for 24 hours then shut down
due to excessive bandwidth usage .. newbies running sites is
never good ;)
- Looks like mighty NWR has a new competitor! SCN, Syndication
Networks recently released their first issue! Although lacking
the content that NWR offers EVERY week, they are a CODED magazine!
( for newbies, that means instead of a txt file, it's a exe file...
much better cuz it has music, menu's, etc...).. Anyhow, let's
see how long this SCN mag can last! and if it can come up with
some good articles and good reading material
- Primus has left PFT for RBS .. he's been PFT since the start..
rumour has it that Jaydee refused to bend over one day ..
- KBM, siteop of Xenosis when it was up, is in the hospital for
surgery :( NWR wishes him the best of luck and hope he recovers
fast!
- RAY is down permanently because the HW donor asked for his hardware
back... now, that's just PLAIN LAME if a site has to rely on donated
hardware to operate.. LAME AND SAD .. pffftt
- DF3 drops OGN because they consistently missed pre's
- Glen has quit AOD... then gets deleted off FH ..
- runn3r and t0xic have joined RISC .. no clue who the fuck these
guys are... though some have told me they are fATE peeps .. has
RISC gone that low?
- Mgoh promoted to DMS senior
- Glen joins DMS
- Hemp Hoodlum (FLT/CLS) has retired from the scene .. good luck in
the future
- Cyric .. ex-RZR joins TPC .. now why would someone leave RZR for TPC???
- TK4 leaves CORP .. he helped out alot, they'll miss him, thats for sure
- #paradigm taken over .. AGAIN ...
- Oh yes, last thing, the TNO accusations that 2KAD used a TNO keygen to
produce a serial for a 2KAD release are in the nwr44.zip
(filename: tno.accuses.2kad.txt)
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--------[Stories from the Watercooler]----------
Ahh yes, rumors, we all love them even though we love to say how much we
hate them when they are about us. And these are some of the better ones
circulating around this week. Email us or find us on irc if you have a
good rumor you'd like entered, your name will not be included, but we
do not add rumors like that say "Tdpriest is having anal sex with Fusion"
because we know that Fusion is only having sex with Xtremist and therefore
there is no hard evidence of that rumor, so if you have real rumors, let us
know. Let's begin!
-rumor has it that the file duranged.jpg is actually a real photo of duranged.
=-------------------------------------=--------------------------------------=
Well friends.. Thats about it. If you've read this far, we sincerly thank you.
We like to know this thing gets read, so if you get the time, drop one of us
a quick msg, and tell us what you think, give us suggestions, tell us it sucks,
or just say "hi" to us!....
Greets fly out to: jaydee, mgd, stix, tdp, hr, eci, jamili, raptor, skill,
mandrake, zeus, speedy, subzero, superfly@okcomputer, wu-dave, dee, sj, bud,
prozac, bernis, paledeth, duranged, tech+his crew, Kusa, ssava, CRC 97,
acidapple, and all the rest of you that we love...
Find us on IRC in #nwr, (channel commands: !nwr, !nwr 23 or whatever issue
you want. We can't afford email, so we just steal CWS's... ;)
Support NWR and CWS, and email your weektops to:
cws_2000@yahoo.com
Thank you!
take care..
peace.
-ndetroit + lester.
NWR 3/2/98
