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- The PTL Club Proudly Presents
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- Church Chat Volume 4
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- Written by: The Spiker
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- Operation Clean Streets Ghenghis Khan
- First Expedition Stellar Crusade
- B-24 Bomber Strike Fleet
- Zany Golf Scavengers of The Mutant Worlds
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- Bad Brains The Grand Elusion
- The Spiker Dessert Foxx
- Specular Vision Jenetic Bytemare
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- The PTL boards are the following:
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- 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
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- 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!
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- 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!
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- 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
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- 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!
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- 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..
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- 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!]
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