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September 1999

Fall 1999 24 hours of ZZT ends
Sunday 26 September 1999
The Fall 1999 24 hours of ZZT contest has ended! It started on Friday 24 September (7:00 PM EST) with a speech of Knightt on #darkdigital. Then everybody went to work. Crankgod was the first to send in his entry after five minutes. ^_^ The contest ended on 7:00 PM EST a day later. The entries have been released for public pleasure. They are located here. Currently the judges are busy rating all games. Expect the results within four or five days.

#Char 2 White on Blue goes online
Sunday 26 September 1999
Blue Magus has uploaded his new funky Cosmic Melon rip-off (as he calls it), #Char 2 White on Blue. It's a site with reviews and previews. So far it contains reviews of Post Apopleptic Chill (by me, Hercules) and Winter (by Myth) and a preview of Shock (by Zenith). Go there now!

Fall 1999 24 hours of ZZT starts
Friday 24 September 1999
The Fall 1999 24 hours of ZZT contest, hosted by Knightt, has started! The topic is Fantasy, which is a topic with a lot of options. The contest ends on Saturday 25 September, 7:00 PM EST.

ZZT Piano 1.1.0 to be released soon
Friday 24 September 1999
Dark FLR has changed his mind and will be releasing ZZT Piano 1.1.0. The beta version will be sent to the testers soon and it should be out not long after that. It'll include another dialog box allowing you to manually write or modify the code (line by line), background images support in v 1.1.0 and other skin stuff in v 1.1.x, buttons for editing note durations and even more! Also it'll include a new previewer by Kiwihead, which now plays at correct speed.

zzt.org works again
Wednesday 22 September 1999
We all had to use the alternative http://trap.cx/zarchive for a long time, since the zzt.org server was down. It now appears that xabbott (owner of zzt.org) has fixed it, which is a good thing. You can use http://zzt.org again.

FishFood leaves for a long time
Wednesday 22 September 1999
FishFood announced on the zzt.org message boards that he will leave the net for about four months (maybe even more). Strangely, he is not allowed to say why. He will still post on the message boards using school computers. Also he quit Eagle Rock Interactive, but he is still working in ZZT, as he said.

Mystickcal Software formed
Wednesday 22 September 1999
Mystic has formed a new company, Mystickcal Software. He tells us the following: "Yeah I have just started a new company and am looking for members. The company is called Mystickcal Software. Also every Friday I am hosting a ZZT chatroom to talk about ZZT, ex. tip, tricks, companiess can talk there, and other stuff of the sort. It will be at 8:00 and to go to the chatroom just go to my web site and click Chatroom, Bulletin board, and Guest Book. My site is: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/mystickcal".

Roadblock ==> Second Coming
Sunday 19 September 1999
tseng has revived his page, the Roadblock. It is now called Second Coming. It looks to be really good: it contains news, the Da Hoodian Awards, a ZZT top 5, the Voice Box (features) and more. It is located here.

Dragonfish Review Archive is dead
Sunday 19 September 1999
The Dragonfish Review Archive, the ZZT review page by Dragonlord and FishFood is now officially dead. According to Dragonlord, it is "due to the laziness of Dragonlord and FishFood".

DoggyShop will redesign the ERI page
Wednesday 15 September 1999
DoggyShop, head counsellor of Eagle Rock Interactive, will redesign the company's page. This is because Dragonlord, the ERI president, thought that his page looked dull. The current ERI page is located here. It is not sure when DoggyShop will finish work on the new page.

tseng joins Interactive Fantasies
Wednesday 15 September 1999
tseng, the famous ZZTer known from games such as Gem Hunter SE and November Eve, has joined Interactive Fantasies. He is the 10th IF member so IF is "full" again. tseng is working on the cool games Gem Hunter 3 and Welcome to Hell.

Blue Magus works on iFantasy issue 7
Wednesday 15 September 1999
Blue Magus is working on issue of Interactive Fantasies' magazine, iFantasy. You can send all your artwork, advertisements and other submissions to him at zztmagus@hotmail.com.

Eagle Rock Interactive loses three and restarts
Sunday 12 September 1999
Recently Ibuki joined Eagle Rock Interactive, but he quit two days after that. It also appeared that Raptorian quit ZZT and ERI a long time ago, but Dragonlord, the president, wasn't aware of that. Zenith left as well to return to Interactive Fantasies. DoggyShop suggested a sort of restarting of ERI to Dragonlord, who agreed to all of his ideas, which means that there is a new set of rules. One of them is that there is now a member limit of 10.

coolzx joins Large Orange Lump
Sunday 12 September 1999
coolzx has recently joined the company with a lot of pontential (IMO), Large Orange Lump - the company of tucan and yllek. coolzx is working on Kamek: Ages of War and Vibora. Large Orange Lump now also has a homepage up, which is located here. It contains some info on the members and some funky screenshots of their upcoming titles, which look to be *really* good.

Interactive Fantasies in big trouble again
Sunday 12 September 1999
Yes, just like last summer, Interactive Fantasies is in trouble once again. This time it started with Blue Magus leaving IF, because of many reasons. A quote from his resignation letter: "When I returned to the scene a year ago, I vowed that the only group I would join is IF because of its prestige. It was IF or nothing. But now IF _is_ nothing, and I have no reason to stay.". A day later Ethan Hunt quit ZZT and IF. I decided to reform IF once again and mailed the members. Jawatrader decided to quit as well, since he is no longer interested in ZZT anyway. Unfortunately I sort of had to fire cygnus to get Blue Magus back into IF. It is very sad, but I fired him on friendly terms (as far as firing can be friendly). I have vowed never to fire anybody anymore. Because of that, Blue Magus returned. The good news was that HM returned to IF after a long period of absence (he used to be vice president of IF). This means he quit Starfuckers Inc. Zenith also returned to IF (and thus quit ERI) and immediately released his new game Magic Land Dizzy. The members of the new IF are: Hercules (president), Hydra (vice president), Knightt, Koopo, Venom, HM, Blue Magus, Zenith and The Agonizer. Well, it seems that IF came out of this very good, I must say

Blue Magus and Knightt work together
Sunday 12 September 1999
Blue Magus and Knightt are working together on the ZZT game Lost Paradise. Knightt writes the story and Blue helps him with the graphics. Knightt started on Lost Paradise after he cancelled the over-hyped game Elixir. More info can be found on ZZT Sings the Blues. It looks and sounds to be extremely awesome.

#darkdigital faces problems
Sunday 5 September 1999
Thursday night there was a big fight in #darkdigital. I wasn't there myself, but Chuck got really angry at Masamune and the other rebellions. He made #dd invite only (+i), suspended all the operators and did a mass-kick. #sledgehammer is the big channel now, owned by Knightt. Chuck, Blazer, tucan, tseng, and Draco then decided what the future of #darkdigital is going to be. This decission has not been revealed to the public yet. Blazer wrote a rant about it all, which can be read here.

zzt.org still deals with problems
Sunday 5 September 1999
The webpage zzt.org still keeps dealing with problems. We have to use trap.cx/zarchive for quite a while now and the zzt.org server is still down. zzt.org editor kev-san still hasn't been able to contact xabbott about it all. You still cannot download/upload games and it is not certain when the Game of the Month reviews will be posted (I have sent them to xabbott a few days ago).

DragonFish Review Archive goes up
Sunday 5 September 1999
Dragonlord and FishFood have uploaded their online review archive. It has some cool javascript and contains 60+ reviews as of yet. Go there now.

Formation of Groundzero Interactive
Sunday 5 September 1999
FreeZerBurn will soon be setting up a new company, called Groundzero Interactive. He has a friend doing a webpage for him and he wants a game out for the company, before it goes online. He is the president and the other member is Grim. The are looking for members. If you are interested in joining, email FreeZerBurn.

Eagle Rock Interactive loses two members
Sunday 5 September 1999
The ZZT company Eagle Rock Interactive has lost two of their members, Dracle and ZZTOutlaw. President Dragonlord didn't hear from Dracle in a long time, but then it appeared that Dracle already quit ERI when Viovis (the old president) left. ZZTOutlaw quit ERI, because his harddrive keeps crashing, he has virusses on his computer and he doesn't have much time for ZZT anymore. ERI now has 12 members.

yllek and tucan leave Starfuckers Inc
Wednesday 1 September 1999
yllek and tucan have left Starfuckers Inc to form a new company, according to Dexter, the Starfuckers Inc president. It's called Large Orange Lump - there isn't much to tell about it yet. Note that ZZTWizard (also known as jimbob) has also left Starfuckers Inc.

Hapoppo quits Duky Inc and forms Abrodite
Wednesday 1 September 1999
Hapoppo has left her old company Duky Inc and has formed a new company, called Abrodite. It is a company that focusses on group projects. Wayward joined and will be the plot writer. Drifter also joined and Parasite may be in as well.