The Mac Games Release List by Paul Natsch & Tuncer Deniz This is the most comprehensive and informative release list for the Macintosh gaming community. Take the release dates with an ion of salt because they are VERY tentative! In fact, some of these titles may never see daylight. * means new to list Summary of titles Released in April • Anyone for Cards? (CD-ROM) - Capstone • Are You Afraid Of The Dark?: The Tale Of Orpheo's Curse (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media • Blood Bath (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Underworld • Clockwerx (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Spectrum Holobyte • The Daedalus Encounter (CD-ROM) - Mechadeus/Virgin Games • Grandmaster Championship Chess (CD-ROM) - Capstone • The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 3 (CD-ROM) - Sierra • Space Ace (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft • Spaceward Ho! 4.0 - Delta Tao • Vampire's Kiss (CD-ROM) - Digital Playground Summary of titles Released in May • Harpoon 2 - Capstone/Three-Sixty Pacific • Onslaught - Frontal Assaultware • The Pagemaster (CD-ROM) - Turner Interactive • Police Quest 4 (CD-ROM) - Sierra • Sim City (CD-ROM) - MacPlay * Triazzle (CD-ROM) - Berkeley Systems • Zig Zag (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games/QQP Summary of titles Released in June • A-10 Attack - ParSoft Publishing • Dark Forces (CD-ROM) - LucasArts • International Tennis Open (CD-ROM) - Brainstorm Software • MTV's Club Dead (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media • Power Pete (CD-ROM) - MacPlay/Pangea Software • Wacky Races - Future Pirates • Zone of Avoidance 2 - Casady & Greene July • Absolute Zero - Domark (A science-fiction strategy flight sim with texture-mapped graphics. Will take full advantage of PowerMacs) • Air Warrior - GameTek/Kesmai Corporation (Will support stand-alone play, head-to-head and the GEnie multi-player option. Includes all new ground graphics and 3D shading models) • Air Warrior 2 - Alliance (Will feature a stronger single player mode, support for more plane types and a vastly improved graphics model) • Avatar: Principles of Conflict (CD-ROM) - Changeling Software (A collection of five chess variations intended for the chess enthusiast who wants to explore variations; and the chess innocent who wants to experience chess from new and exciting perspectives. PowerMac and 68k versions) • The Classic 5 - MacPlay • Clue (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive • Colonization (Released) - Microprose (Focuses on a single era in history from 1500-1800—the discovery, exploration, and colonization of the New World. Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. The goal of the game is to oversee economic, military, and political growth as you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World) • Crime Patrol (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (A multi-level live-action thriller which challenges the player to progress through police ranks, battling a variety of criminal elements) • Cyberwar (CD-ROM) - Sales Curve Interactive (The next game in the Lawnmower Man series. Will ship on 3 CD-ROM's and include actual footage from the film, stunning 3D graphics, and 360 degrees cinematic panning) • Doom 2 (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Id Software (Sequel to Doom with more levels and more enemies) • Drug Wars (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (An action/adventure game with full-motion video that involves hunting down international drug cartels) • F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 - Graphic Simulations (Upgrade will run native on PowerMacs and add other minor improvements) • F/A-18 Hornet Mission Disk: Crisis in Korea - Graphic Simulations • HELL: A Cyberpunk Thriller (CD-ROM)(Released) - Take 2 Interactive (A multimedia adventure game that will feature top Hollywood actors such as Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder, and Stephanie Seymour) • In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Macromind Director comic-book like CD-ROM game) • Ishar 3, The Seven Gates of Infinity (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (A hack-and-slash rpg similar to the classic Bard's Tale) • Johnny Mnemonic (CD-ROM)(Released) - Sony Imagesoft (A highly interactive action/adventure movie with continuous flowing video. Based on the movie of the same name to be released around the same time by Tri-Star Productions) • The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (CD-ROM)(Released) - Presto Studios (This sequel promises live-action video, advanced sound, better speed, and graphics effects) • Mad Dog McCree 2 (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (Live interactive shooting game set in the old west. Sequel to Mad Dog McCree) • Mega Rave - Velocity (An interactive rave party simulation game based on the underground dance party phenomena) • Mummy Trouble - Strata Interactive (An interactive adventure for children of all ages) • NFL Challenge Premium Edition - XOR (A major update to the original in full color) • Phantasmagoria (CD-ROM) - Sierra (The terryfying story of a woman fighting for her life against the forces of evil. Features an ultra-realistic 3-D rendered world in which characters have free movement. Will come on 7 CD-ROMs) * PGA Tour Golf 3 (CD-ROM)(Released) - Electronic Arts • Planetfall (CD-ROM) - Activision/Infocom (The sequel to the original best selling adventure game. Will feature live actors and an animated Floyd, the robot, against computer-rendered 3D backrounds) • Robinson's Requiem (CD-ROM) - Readysoft (A heavily puzzle-orientated adventure game where the player takes on the role of a hotshot FBI agent sent on a suicide mission) • Royal Flush - Amtex Software • Shadows of Cairn (CD-ROM) - Masque Publishing (Action/adventure in which the player assumes the role of a young theif named Quinn. Quinn is going to be set up to take the fall for a murder that he will not commit. The player must guide Quinn through slimy sewers, a trap filled dungeon, an evil wizard's tower, and a monster filled hedge maze in order to save himself and the Duke. 68k and Power Mac native versions) • Shanghai: Great Moments (CD-ROM) - Activision (Features three all-new games: Action Shanghai, Beijing and The Great Wall, plus Classic Shanghai. Full advantage is taken of instantly recognizable "moments" with motion picture and TV clips, colorful animations, and digitized music to create lively reward screens for the player when intricately-detailed pairs of tiles are successfully matched) • Skullcracker (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An arcade horror title like no other) • Solitaire Deluxe - MacPlay (Enjoy 24 of the world's most exciting solitaire games all in one game package) • Space Quest 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Features the latest in hi-res, 3D rendered graphics, full multimedia voice, sound and musical effects. Will offer gamers more gags, slapstick and parodies that any Space Quest thus far) • Star Trek: Judgement Rites - MacPlay (Sequel to Star Trek's 25th Anniversary) • Star Trek Omnipedia (CD-ROM) - Simon & Schuster (A HUGE encyclopedia which contains everything you want to know about Star Trek) • Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao (Update to the classic wargame. Two new units, new algorithms) • Strat-O-Matic Baseball 6.0 (Released) - Strat-O-Matic * Top Ten Mac Pack (CD-ROM) (Released) - Electronic Arts • Total Distortion (CD-ROM) - Pop Rocket (Billed as the first "Music Video Adventure Game" in which the player travels to the "Distortion Dimension" in search of fresh material for music videos. Mingle with virtual rock stars and make your own music videos. The game is filled with interactive 3D animation, challenging games, talking characters, and creative activities) • Transport Tycoon - Microprose (A fascinating business strategy game in which the player buys, builds, and controls transportation networks) • Troy Aikman NFL Football (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Tradewest/Williams Entertainment (Strategy/action football sim which offers players coaching, one-player, or two-player games. Features an extensive playbook which includes Troy Aikman's favorite plays, straight from the Cowboys' playbook. Offers stats, names, and jersey numbers of every NFL player. Included is the new two-point conversion. Other highlights include a general manager's screen for building custom franchises and animated full-color graphics. CD-ROM version contains live-action video segments. Licensed by the NFL) • U-Boat 2 - Deadly Games • USCF Chess - MacPlay • Voyeur (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A political thriller) • War Patrol - Alliance (A WWII submarine simulator. The initial BattleSet will be for the Allied Pacific campaign) • You Don't Know Jack (CD-ROM) - Berkeley Systems August • Alone in the Dark (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Enhanced for CD-ROM) • Al Unser Jr. Racing - Mindscape (An arcade-style racing simulation. PowerMacs only) • Baldies - Gametek (A Lemmings-like game in which the player commands an entire race of Baldies as they fight for control of multiple mini-worlds and more than 100 levels of gameplay. Features include multiplayer option, advanced enemy AI, and full motion clay animated cut scenes) • Beyond Squad Leader - Avalon Hill/Atomic (A computerized version of Advanced Squad Leader with outstanding graphics) • Blackthorne (CD-ROM & Floppy) - MacPlay (An action game featuring advanced rotoscoped graphics, mind-twisting puzzles, hundreds of enemies and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry) • Dungeon Master 2 (CD-ROM & Floppy)- MacPlay (Sequel to the highly popular Dungeon Master which was never made for the Mac. The artwork and Interface is being completely redone for the Mac version of this 3D RPG) • Dust (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An interactive tale of a lawless town in the wild west) • The Eyes of Frankenstein's Monster (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A retelling of the classic story in which the players look at the action through the eyes of the monster. Tim Curry stars as the mad doctor) • Full Throttle (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (A 3D-animated adventure game) • Gabriel Knight (CD-ROM) - Sierra (CD-ROM version will feature voices from a fine cast of Hollywood actors including Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Efram Zimbalist Jr, and Rocky Carol) • Horror Tour - Feoh-my, Inc. (An adventure game set in a medieval castle) • Kingdom: The Far Reaches (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Dragon's Lair type action game) • Outpost (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Strategic space simulation) • Police Quest SWAT (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Unlike previous Police Quest games SWAT will include more than one scenario) • Savage Warriors - Mindscape/Atread (An action/adventure game with hyper-realistic animations, ultra-smooth real-time character movements, and different viewing perspectives) • The Skins Game at Bighorn - MacPlay • Slammin' with Scottie Pippen (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures (A basketball game with full-motion video) • Sorcerer (CD-ROM) - Hopkins Technology, Inc. (A medieval fantasy adventure game on CD-ROM. It features full-screen, 3D 16-bit rendered graphics, a well-crafted plot and an original soundtrack by orchestral composer Eric Speier) • Supreme Fighter (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures (A fighting game similar to Mortal Combat) September • The 11th Hour (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Sequel to The 7th Guest. This two-CD game features over sixty minutes of live-action video, professional actors, movie-like plot twists, and stunning special effects) • African Adventure (CD-ROM) - SunStar (A sophisticated, interactive novel, using an exclusive AI engine. Your partner is murdered and one of six passengers aboard the steam cruiser is the culprit) • Alone in the Dark 3 - I-Motion (Players are summoned to Hill Century Studios latest movie set: a creaky ghost town name Slaughter Gulch. The film crew’s been kidnapped, and only sharp shooting and even sharper sleuthing can save the heroine, Emily Hartwood. Up to 70 hours of gameplay are at hand, piecing together this dusty town’s puzzle and breaking the grip of its curse) • Brain Dead 13 (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (Players follow the cool tech-head Lance into the lab of Dr. Nero Neurosis. Once the computer is fixed, the Doc unleashes a host of grisly character upon Lance, who must battle his way out) • Burn Cycle (CD-ROM) - Philips Media Games (A futuristic challenge that combines film drama and action/adventure gaming into an interactive program) * The Dark Eye (CD-ROM) - Inscape (An exploratory game that takes players through several classic stories of mystery and the macabre in a first person point-of-view, allowing full interaction with characters and events. It features 3-D rendered environments inhabited by characters created through stop-frame animation) • Darkseed 2 (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Cyberdreams (Picks up where the first Dark Seed left off, and will involve even more diabolical machinations by the aliens of the “Dark World”. Also will feature more digitized audio and animations, and most importantly to game enthusiasts, an expanded story and improved puzzle structure) • Dark Streets (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An electronic film noire) • Descent - MacPlay (A Doom-like action/adventure game) * Entry Denied (CD-ROM) - Novell (In this adventure game, the player assumes the role of an investigative reporter searching out the truth behind a top-secret government installation in the Nevada desert, known as Area 51, which is rumored to house a wealth of hidden knowledge about UFOs and extraterrestrials) • Hellraiser (CD-ROM) - Magnet Interactive (An interactive CD-ROM game based on Clive Baker's Hellraiser movie series. The game will offer players "a horrifying cyber world of fast-paced chases, deadly traps, clever opponents and a catacomb maze." The disc will offer 30 hours of playing time) • The Hunters of Ralk (CD-ROM) - Cyberdreams (A RPG with an exciting new 3-D engine in an all new gaming universe from the mind of the acknowledged master in role-playing and fantasy invention, Gary Gygax, who is the legendary creator of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Cyberdreams (Takes the player on a mind puzzling journey into the belly of a super computer where one must experience a bizarre and ever changing world. The player lives through the experiences of five different characters to defeat an all-powerful super computer who has destroyed all of humanity) • Knight's Chase - I-Motion (An adventure game) • Live Action Football (CD-ROM) - Accolade (A multimedia football sim that uses hundreds of video clips) • Panzers East - Arsenal Games (A WWII Eastern Front tactical wargame based on Arsenal's award-winning TacOps game featuring 256-color graphics, AI for both sides, and a more realistic terrain model) • The Riddle of Master Lu (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (Adventure game based on the life of Robert Ripley. Features a multiple scenario storyline, puzzles, video animation and an original score) • Star Trek, Deep Space Nine: Harbinger (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media/Simon & Schuster • System Shock (CD-ROM) - Origin (A Marathon-like 3D texture-mapped action/adventure game. 68k & PowerMacs) • Terminus (CD-ROM) - Reactor (An innovative science fiction interactive movie. Advanced graphics, 3D animation, rich characterizations and a sweeping music\ score combine to transport the player to Terminus Island, a forbidden zone of mad metal monsters and ravenous necro-zombies) • Titanic (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An adventure/thriller onboard the doomed ocean liner) • Warcraft - Blizzard Entertainment (A real-time strategic contest in which Orcs and Humans battle for survival and domination. Players can approach Warcraft as single-player game in which their mission is to complete a series of 12 integrated scenarios; or they can compete head-to-head against an opponent via modem, network, or direct link) • Waterworld - MacPlay (A strategic simulation based on the Kevin Costner movie of the same name) October * Assault Poker (CD-ROM) - Virtual Vegas (A multiplayer, networkable game in which players receive weapons as well as chips in their game of five-card draw. Players choose a character to battle the dealer, their online opponents, and the luck of the draw for the gamble of their lives) • Atmosfear - Time Warner Interactive (A multiplayer game in which you collect magical keys on your way to the center of a mystical environment) • The Basement - Time Warner Interactive (A campy Doom-style 3D game which has players battling bugs in a B-grade horror movie) * Chessmaster 5000 - Mindscape (This next version adds “intelligent assistant” monitors to track players’ moves and provide feedback and advice) • Comanche: Maximum Overkill - NovaLogic (The ultimate helicopter simulation. Features NovaLogic's Voxel Space technology which delivers the most fluid, realistic 3-D environments ever seen in a simulator game. For PowerMacs and 68040 Macs) * Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol (CD-ROM) - Inscape (a surrealistic social satire featuring a mix of live-action and animation. Created by DEVO founders Gerald V Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, this fantastically demented adventure goes for interactivity what the legendary group did for music. It pits forces of good, The Smart Patrol, a young musically inclined group of Devolutionary rebels, against the mega-corporate forces of evil) • Dynasty League Baseball - Design Depot (A highly detailed strategic baseball simulation) * ESPN Extreme (CD-ROM) - Sony Imagesoft (Challenges players on in-line skates, mountain bikes, skateboards, and street luge, letting them choose from more than 20 treacherous courses around the world. A split screen mode lets two players watch head-to-head action. Players can also choose to race a single course or complete season) * ESPN National Hockey Night (CD-ROM) - Sony Imagesoft (One or two gamers can play through the entire 84-game NHL season using all 26 teams and their rosters. The game features true-to-life puck and player physics in slap shots and breakaways. ESPN commentator Bill Clement provides the play-by-play) • Monopoly (CD-ROM) - Parker Brothers (Will allow users to play by themselves or with other digital capitalists via the Internet. Features more than 800 animated sequences) * NBA Airborne '95 (CD-ROM) - Sony Imagesoft • The Orion Conspiracy (CD-ROM) - Domark (A sci-fi adventure/rpg. PowerMac native) * The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway (CD-ROM) - Inscape (Set in a 3-D animated carnival, this bizarre adventure game enables players to follow characters through one of the most complex and unusual interactive stories ever created, fleeing constantly from the ever present specters of death and taxes) * SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest - Maxis (Working with a team of specialists, each with varying expertise, players take up the challenges of cleaning up offshore oil-tanker leaks, opposing illegal drug traffickers, rebuilding after a devastating earthquake, creating a wildlife refuge, and more) • Star Trek Klingon (CD-ROM) - Simon & Schuster (An interactive simulation-adventure program that allows users to explore Klingon culture, lore and ritual. The software features full-motion interactive video with integrated voice recognition, allowing players to "talk" with on-screen characters) * Wing Commander 3 (CD-ROM) - Origin (An action-packed space flight sim which features includes spectacular High res graphics and more than three hours of live-action video featuring an ensemble Hollywood cast) 4th Quarter • Apache (CD-ROM) - Domark (A definitive helicopter warfare simulator) • Alone in the Dark 2 - MacPlay • Bass Fishing (CD-ROM) - Sierra • Berserker (CD-ROM) - Domark (The second title in Domark’s Sci-Sim line of space combat adventures) • Blood Net - Take 2 Interactive (A Cyberpunk Vampire game. Recruit cyberpunks, range rangers, mercenaries, and hackers to aid in your fight against the vampires. Immerse yourself in the bizarre virtual reality of cyberspace, where anything is possible. Experience a breakthrough in role-playing with astonishing 3-D Hallucinographic art) • Confirmed Kill - Domark (A World War II flight simulation that allows up to 500 people to participate in furious dog-fighting action on the Internet) * Congo (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media (Adventure game based on the movie of the same name) • Cyberia (CD-ROM) - MacPlay • FLIGHT Unlimited - Looking Glass Technologies (An extremely realistic looking flight sim that is designed to help the user learn how to fly through 25 interactive lessons. After players get their feet wet, pilots can test their aerobatic skills in competitions where judges score aerobatic performances and award prize money to players. The money can then be used to customize their own planes. PowerMac only) • Front Page Sports Football 1996 (CD-ROM) - Sierra • Gabriel Knight 2 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Sequel will use photorealistic graphics) • Heart of Darkness - Virgin Interactive (An action/adventure game which is being developed by the same team that produced Out of This World and Flashback) * Heroes of Might & Magic (CD-ROM) - New World Computing • IndyCar Racing 2- Papyrus (Hi-res graphics, better opponent AI, and other NASCAR features) • Iron Assault - Virgin Interactive • Legend of Kyrandia 3 (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive • Lion (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (A sim that allows the player to experience life as a Lion) • Lords of Midnight (CD-ROM) - Domark (A huge RPG with with full animation on real-time, 3-D texture-mapped backgrounds. Control one character at a time, or up to four simultaneously. Fight entire wars from a first-person perspective on enormous fractally-generated landscapes in real time. Four methods of travel, including dragonback. Fully animated 3-D characters. Non-linear storyline. Advanced artificial intelligence to endow computer-controlled characters with life-like, independent decision-making abilities) • The Lost Eden - Virgin Interactive • Multiplayer Civilization - Microprose • Pax Imperia 2 - Blizzard Entertainment (A space strategy simulator that casts each player as the leader of a galactic empire on the verge of expansion. Will include a multi-player option that allows up to 16 human or computer opponents to compete) • PlayMaker Baseball - PlayMaker Inc. (Will feature real major league teams, full league support, tons of stats, 3-d animation and much more) • Primal Rage (CD-ROM) - Time Warner Interactive (A one or two-player fighting game with a distinct twist: You control dinosaurs instead of humans. They spit acid and fire, and do round house kicks, to name a few of their abilities) • Prisoner of Ice - I-Motion (An adventure game) * Psychic Detective (CD-ROM) - Electronic Arts (An interactive mystery) • Scavenger - Virgin Interactive • Star Trek: Generations (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte (An adventure game based on the movie of the same name) • Tank Commander - Domark (Will feature spectacular texture mapping graphics as well as full motion video. Game features include the ability to control the gun turret, which rotates 360%, independent of the direction in which the tank is moving. A multi-player game which will allow players to hook up over serial link, modem link, and AppleTalk. The game will likely be a PowerMac only game) • Tri-Tryst - Virgin Interactive • Rivers of Dawn (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive (A multimedia RPG title that gives the player FULL control over full motion, 30fps, video characters. Rod Roddenberry, the late Gene Roddenberry's son, has been tapped to play the lead role in Rivers of Dawn. This game is also said to contain a high level of playability not found in other CD-ROM games. Acclaimed artist Pepe Moreno of Hell Cab fame will design the graphics for this game) • Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte (A massive adventure/rpg/space sim that uses the voices of the entire Next Generation cast) • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - MacPlay • Stonekeep (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A huge 3D RPG) • Top Gun: Fire at Will! - Spectrum Holobyte (A flight sim based on the movie of the same name and designed with the casual flyer in mind) • Ultra 3D Pinball (CD-ROM) - Sierra • Vikings - Microprose * X-COM: UFO Defense - Microprose (Port of the immensely popular PC game in which the player takes command of X-COM, a covert organization formed to investigate and defeat the aliens that have begun to terrorize Earth. Controlling groups of soldiers, spies, scientists and engineers, you must develop a strategy that will ensure human survival. Give orders to soldiers as they explore alien bases and battle the invaders) • X-Wing (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (The epic Star Wars space flight simulator that is a huge hit on the PC side. Enhanced for the Mac. PowerMac native and 68k) • Zone Raiders - Virgin Interactive (A fast-paced, real-time driving a combat game that takes place in a 3-D, texture graphics environment. Features network and modem capability) 1996 • Blade Runner (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive (Players will be able to enter into a richly detailed environment set in the year 2019 to follow the adventures of a licensed-to-kill policeman hired to track down and destroy a group of intelligent robots who have hijacked a space shuttle and returned to earth. Based on the classic movie of the same name) * Entomorph - Strategic Simulations (An action/adventure game where the player portrays a hero whose job is to save an unexplored island overrun by bugs. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to undergo a gradual metamorphosis into an insect) • Flying Nightmares 2 - Domark (Players will be able to control two of the military’s most feared attack vehicles: the Harrier “Jump Jet” and the Cobra Attack Helicopter. PowerMac only) * Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (A fairy tale adventure for kids of all ages) • NASCAR Racing - Papyrus * Rebel Assault 2 (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (Command five different craft: X-wings, Y-wings, B-wings, speeder bikes, and the Millennium Falcon) • Ripper: A Cyberpunk Mystery (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (A sci-fi adventure game) * Wing Commander 4 (CD-ROM) - Origin (The next installment in the space flight sim saga) Keep in mind that if you're in the industry or "in-the-know" about certain upcoming releases, YOU can contribute GREATLY to this listing. Please Email me at the addresses below if you have additional information that you see may be useful to this list. I'm basically looking for HARD FACTs or GOOD rumor. (Corrections also appreciated) Paul Natsch America On-Line - PaulN24 Prodigy - JBFM05A Internet - pauln@gate.net