The PTL Club Proudly Presents Church Chat Volume 4 Written by: The Spiker Gee, this might look unprofessional but oh well... A newsletter is just to inform people about special things that they should know and that's exactly what I am going to do. I will cover a couple topics in this newsletter, so don't be surprised if it's a little long but I sort of doubt it. First order of business is that Jenetic Bytemare has joined PTL... So that makes the PTL Members the following people: The Spiker, Dessert Foxx, Specular Vision, The Grand Elusion, Bad Brains, and Jenetic Bytemare. The names are in no special order at all though. Anyways, I'm glad to see that he joined although he got a lot of bad feedback about PTL when he asked the members of NAPPA about us. A lot of it was not true but oh well what can I say... Shit happens. JB has done a good amount of cracks for just starting to crack recently. Here's a list of what I know that he has done so far and it continues to grow! Operation Clean Streets Ghenghis Khan First Expedition Stellar Crusade B-24 Bomber Strike Fleet Zany Golf Scavengers of The Mutant Worlds I'm sure there are more but I can not think of them right now. He runs a board called Plutonium Mines which is a new PTL Distribution Point and is located in New York I believe. He has like 160 megs online, 500 VGA Gifs, and much much more. Second order of business... MYTH Inc. has gone down which I am sure most of you know because it went down January 1st 1989. It's a shame to see such a good board go down. I'm not sure if the Buyer's Group is going to die or not but hopefully not since Vortex has taken over Myth's place. Alf/TMC was the supplier of a lot of PTL's latest stuff, and he had nothing to do with the Buyers Group. So, we will see what happens with new software. Hopefully, the Buyers Group will remain around but only time will tell. Also, this means that PTL may have a shortage of new software... If you want to help us out and get your name/handle/alias and BBS number in a title screen of a game, upload new UNWORKING copies to Plutonium Mines, Swash II, Anarchy Burger II, or Vortex. They will be cracked and you will get recognition with Special Thanks to you on the title screen. Anarchy Burger I is RETURNING up in New York City! The new AB I will be running off of a 286/20 with 130 megs [approximately] and 9600 baud. The number is To Be Announced because it is unknown... Bad Brains's college is finally updating their phone system and every dorm gets a data line, so it will be returning in the 212 area code which is PCPursuitable. I'm sure most of you know about the rate changes with PCPursuit. Starting February 1st of this year [1989], PCPursuit is changing it's policies. A subscriber will be paying $30 for 30 hours of connect time. It is $4.50 for every hour after that. This will really hurt the pirate scene because a LOT of good users use PCPursuit and 30 hours of connect time is not ANYTHING really at all. It is a cheap price, but after having unlimited calls for $25 a month... It will be hard for the people to adjust and I suppose a lot of mail trading will start to take place between users and sysops to keep the phone bills very low. Hopefully, this new rate change will NOT effect the pirate scene too much. I just hope everything will work out fine, and I am pretty sure it will. Since we have faced changes in the 312 Area Code before such as loss of CallPak a while back which was unlimited calling in a large area for like $30-40 a month. I am not sure of the exact price it was, but it doesn't matter because we [IL people] faced a major change before and survived.. So, I am sure everything will turn out just fine... Many people have been asking me what PTL really stands for and about the history of PTL... PTL has no special meaning whatsoever, since it is not an acronym. It is a parody off of the REAL PTL Club... PTL started out with 5 members.. The members were: Me, Bad Brains, Death Star, The Hermit, and Rambo. The Hermit and Rambo dropped out when PTL first started getting going. Mr. Transistor joined us and his first crack was Marble Madness which many people seemed to think was almost impossible to crack at the time. Death Star seemed to fade away after my last major board crash before summer or during summer. I'm not really sure exactly when since my 286 is a piece of shit and is always having Hard Drive crashes or system problems... Oh yes I almost forgot.. Somewhere along the lines, we merged with CPI [Canadian Pirates Inc.] I believe was their acronym at first.. And then they changed to KGB.. KGB released a few cracks under PTL but seemed to fade away... They cracked that I can think of [BoulderDash Construction Kit, Ultima I, and Might & Magic]. There are more I am sure but I can not think of them right now. Sometime after Death Star was lost, Specular Vision joined PTL.. He has cracked a couple things that I can think of [BattleHawks 1942, The Train, and Space Station Oblivion].. He has probably done more but I do not have the titles handy. Now, last but not least... We have just gotten Jenetic Bytemare who's cracks that I know of are listed at the beginning of this file...... I still get a lot of questions asking me about Mr. Transistor, and I thought I had cleared them up BUT I guess not. He did not die in a plane crash, he just retired from modeming.. The Grand Elusion and Mr. T are NOT the same person in anyway, shape, or form. But Mr. T did not truly die, and is glad to see that PTL is keeping up the tradition that we had when he was around. So to sum it all up.. The Members of PTL are the following: Bad Brains The Grand Elusion The Spiker Dessert Foxx Specular Vision Jenetic Bytemare The PTL boards are the following: Anarchy Burger I Home of PTL... New Number TO BE ANNOUNCED! Anarchy Burger II Home of PTL SwashBuckler's II Co-Home of PTL Vortex PTL Distribution Point Gallifrey PTL Distribution Point Plutonium Mines PTL Distribution Point If you want access to any of the above boards, I believe you can find the phone number somehow... I am not about to put them in this file... Since, some of the bbs's are TOTALLY private! Well, I got a little more to say.. I am going to list the new software that should be coming out soon.. So look for it on a BBS NEAR YOU! Crossbow by Absolute Entertainment Drag Race Eliminator by Family Software PC Tree by Family Software Tau Ceti by Thunder Mountain Basketball:The Pro Game by Lance Haffner Dream Team Fantasy Football by MBI software Final Four College Basketball by Lance Haffner 4th & Inches Team Construction disk by Accolade The Sporting News Baseball by Epyx 3 in 1 Football by Lance Haffner Dolphin Boating Simulator by Dolphin Marine Dolphin Sailing Simulator by Dolphin Marine Dolphin Sailing Instructor by Dolphin Marine Dolphin Voyage Scenery Disks by Dolphin Marine Dungeon Masters Assistant by SSI Battles of Napoleon by SSI Bismarck: The North Sea Chase by DataSoft Chernonbyl by Quantum Concepts Civil war 1861-1865 by Avalon Hill 50 Mission Crush by SSI Global commander by DataSoft Harpoon by Three-Sixty Pacific Inside Trader by Cosmi Jury Trial II by Navic Lords of the Rising Sun by CinemaWare Milky Way Merchant by Davell Custom Money Bags:Beat The Gnome of Zurich by Cosmi Power at Sea by Accolade Volcanoes by Earthware Wall $treet Rider by Intracorp Warship By SSI Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. by First Row Guardians of Infinity: To Save Kennedy by Paragon Master Spy by Great Game Products Moses, the Old Testament #1 by First Row Sinbad and Throne of Falcon by Cinemaware Tallsman, Challenging the Sands of Time by Polarware Atlantic City Blackjack and Craps by Great Game products Beatine the House at Blackjack by Applications Plus Bermuda Square by XOR Casino Betting Systems by Manhattan Casino Blackjack Counter/Tutor by Manhattan Casino Craps by Manhattan Championship Poker by Applications Plus Checkers by ShareData CompuBridge by Artworx Compute Pursuit by Navic Cribbage Master II by Manhattan 50 Annotated Chess Classics by Enlightenment 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge by Great Game Products Guide to Chess Openings by Enlightenment King's Indian Defence by Enlightenment Las Vegas Hold'EM by Manhattan Millonwaire by BrainBank Mythical Poker by Brush College Systems Nemesis Joseki Tutor by Toyogo Pathwords by Thunder Mountain Play Bridge with Sheinwold by Great Game Products Play Bridge with Truscott by Great Game Products Purr'sonal Challenge:Big Screen Trivia by Softworks Railroad Works by Thunder Mountain Seven Card Stud by Manhattan Strategic Craps by Applications Plus Tom Throops Bridge Baron II by Great Game Products Windows BackGammon Deluxe By E.F. Dickey Word Hunt by ComputerEasy Wordsearch 2000 by ComputerEasy POW by Actionware Creature by Actionware Space Quest III by Sierra On-Line That's a lot of new games if you ask me! And I am sure there are games coming out that I didn't even list.. That's basically to give you the idea that the IBM is finally GETTING a lot of new software! So to sum it all up would take me a while, since I think I said a lot more then I planned too.. but basically.. All the members of PTL wish you Have a Happy New Year and had a Merry Xmas... [Although it's a little late but it's the thought that counts!]