Contributions / All About SynTax -------------------------------- Contributions My thanks to this issue's contributors: John Barnsley, Belisana, The Bitmap Kid, Hazel Bradshaw, Terry Brawls, Colin Campbell, Janice Charnley, Jean Childs, Steve Clay, Graham Cluley, Bill Commons, Neil Currie, Phil Darke, Barbara Gibb, Julian Gregory, The Grue!, Richard Hewison, Richard Hunt, James Jillians, Jim Johnston, James Judge, Alex van Kaam, Geoff Knight, Tom Lorimer, Steve McGuire, Steve McLaren, John Moore, Amanda Oliver, Ron Rainbird, Philip Richmond, Kjell Robertsen, Shebo, Neil Shipman, Roy Sims, George Smith, Andy Stenhouse, Dave Stone, Ian Taylor, Bev Truter To recap the rules for the award for any new readers, points are awarded at the rate of 1 point per published K of information in the form of reviews, solutions, hints, maps, letters and articles. The points are added when the data is published, not when it is sent in. Files are published as soon as possible but maintaining the balance of the magazine is also a high priority. At the end of a year (which will be Issue 42) the top five contributors will be awarded prizes in the form of Myth and Magic figures, the first prize being presented on a wooden base with a specially engraved plaque. The first prize winner will also get a year's free sub to SynTax, five free issues to the second prize winner and so forth. Those five individuals' points are then zeroed and everyone else's carried forward for the next year, giving everyone a chance to win a prize if he or she keeps contributing steadily. Here is the current points list: Jean Childs 173.5 Simon Avery/Grimwold 156.7 Graham Cluley 151.7 Piotr Tyminski 148.5 Ron Rainbird 143.6 Richard Hewison 142.9 The Bitmap Kid 129.4 Jim Johnston 121.7 Roy Sims 115.8 Alex McEwan 111.8 Brian Burke 104.9 Janice Charnley 98.9 Bev Truter 96.2 The Grue 95.2 Alex van Kaam 94.0 James Judge 93.4 Julian Gregory 89.0 Tom Lorimer 81.1 Steve McLaren 80.0 Hazel Bradshaw 78.8 Andy Stenhouse 78.3 Mark Bradshaw 74.0 Mary Scott-Parker 71.6 Matthew Pegg 58.8 Phil Richmond 57.2 John Moore 57.0 MerC 52.8 Bill Commons 52.1 Maureen Barton 51.3 David Froude 48.9 Ian Taylor 45.1 John R Barnsley 44.8 Kev Phillips 43.1 Mongoose 41.4 Belisana 40.5 Graham Wheeler 40.1 Alan Beer 39.5 Richard Hunt 38.2 Henry Rushing 37.9 George Smith 37.7 Terry Brawls 34.0 Linda Turnham 31.1 John Betteridge 30.1 Steve Clay 29.7 Dave Malmberg 29.4 Dave Stone 28.7 Nigel Parker 27.4 Steve McGuire 26.3 Shebo 25.8 Michael J Roberts 25.6 High Voltage 23.3 Tony Woolcock 22.6 Kjell Robertsen 21.9 Claire Dyard 20.8 The Rochdale Balrog 20.4 John Carter 19.5 Colin Campbell 18.8 The Wayfarer 17.7 Steven Fleischaker 16.3 Paul Vincent 16.0 Paul Johnson 15.3 Joel Finch 15.2 Barbara Gibb 15.0 James Jillians 14.4 Patrick Farley 13.7 Frederick Darlington 12.3 Pete Phillips 12.2 Peter Hague 12.0 Neil Shipman 11.9 Neil Currie 10.9 Steve Cook 10.9 Greg Lord 10.6 Dave Barker 10.6 Phil Darke 10.3 Mark Darlison 9.8 Anna Bradshaw 9.5 Ivan Broad 9.4 Paul Cardin 9.0 Clive Wilson 7.9 Rusty Dowling 7.2 Sox 7.0 STormbringer 6.9 Theo Clarke 6.1 Nogwidget 6.1 Ray and Jo Green 6.0 Jack Lockerby 5.9 Stalker 5.9 Dave Leary 5.8 Tim Kemp 5.6 William McCole 5.4 Alison Dunbar 5.2 The Unknown Adventur 4.8 Laurence Creighton 4.5 Jay Blank 4.5 David Charnley 3.7 Paul Brunyee 3.0 Steve Frost 2.5 Carl Dove 2.4 Paul Cooper 2.3 Danny Pearman 2.2 Amanda Oliver 2.0 David Stocks 1.3 Simon Poxon 1.0 Richard Batey 1.0 Norman Allan 0.9 Martyn Westwood 0.7 John Gurd 0.6 Jim O'Keefe 0.6 Geoff Knight 0.5 Bill Hoggett 0.4 Vicky Campbell 0.3 So, if you have any contributions for future issues of SynTax, please send them in. They can be for old or new games, hints, solutions, reviews, maps, articles - anything! Ideally they should arrive before the 15th of the month before the disk is produced to have a chance of being included in the next issue. Second (or third) opinions of adventures are always welcome. Ideally I'd like ST and PC contributions in ASCII form on disk and, if you send on disk, I'll replace it with the PD disk of your choice. Amiga text files can also be sent on PC disk using Cross-Dos, Otherwise you can send printouts, typed or hand-written contributions. ----------------------------------------------------------------- All about SynTax SynTax is a bimonthly colour magazine for the ST, Amiga and PC which is published in the middle of July, September, November, January, March and May. The first issue was produced in July 1989. The magazine costs œ3.50 including post and packing anywhere in the world. A year's subscription of 6 issues is œ20.00. See "Back Numbers" for details of a special offer for the early disks. SynTax is NOT PD so please DO NOT distribute it in any way. SynTax can be contacted by post at the following address: Sue Medley, SynTax, 9 Warwick Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6LJ If you require a reply, please remember to include an SAE to keep down the costs! You can also contact me by telephone or FAX on 0181-302 6598 at any reasonable time. Copyright. All contributions in the form of articles, hints, solutions or reviews are the property of the writer so he or she is free to use them elsewhere. All views expressed in reviews and articles are the personal view of the author and not necessarily those of the editor of SynTax. All adverts and entries of software for sale etc are placed in good faith by the editor of SynTax and no responsibility can be taken for their credentials. - o -