Contributions / All About SynTax -------------------------------- Contributions My thanks to this issue's contributors: Richard Batey, Brian Burke, Jean Childs, Phil Darke, Alison Dunbar, Claire Dyard, Mal Ellul, Julian Gregory, Diana Griffiths, The Grue!, Richard Hewison, Vic Horsley, James Jillians, James Judge, Alex van Kaam, Tom Lorimer, Mongoose, Jenny Perry, Phil Reynolds, Philip Richmond, Mary Scott-Parker, Neil Shipman, Dave Stone and Bev Truter Other files have been taken from the public domain, either via the Internet or from CDs. The original authors of these are given credit if known. This issue is the one when I announce the SynTax Contributor of the Year and this year we have the first winner from Australia - Bev Truter. Congratulations Bev! The second prize goes to Phil Darke, another enthusiastic contributor, third is Alex van Kaam (who was third last year and the winner the year before that), fourth is our old pal James Judge (who came second last year) and fifth The Grue! Their points were as follows: Bev Truter 366.0 Phil Darke 289.8 Alex van Kaam 259.0 James Judge 217.9 The Grue 208.9 Each of them has won a Myth and Magic figure, Bev's is on a wooden base with a plaque detailing her award. Bev also won a year's sub to SynTax, Phil 5 free issues, Alex 4, James 3 and Grue 2. All their points have been zeroed ready for the 1997/98 award which will be given in Issue 54. To recap the points system 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. Points are NOT awarded for graphic files such as screendumps and photos which are used in the PC 3.5" HD version. 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. The current points list is now: Brian Burke 193.7 Ron Rainbird 160.6 Julian Gregory 157.0 Simon Avery/Grimwold 156.7 Piotr Tyminski 148.5 Hazel Bradshaw 144.6 The Bitmap Kid 137.5 Bill Commons 128.0 Jim Johnston 121.7 John Moore/Arnie 119.9 Phil Richmond 116.5 Mary Scott-Parker 112.3 Alex McEwan 111.8 Diana Griffiths 111.0 Tom Lorimer 103.3 Janice Charnley 98.9 Andy Stenhouse 91.5 Belisana 89.8 Neil Shipman 83.9 Richard Hunt 77.7 Mark Bradshaw 75.2 David Froude 72.7 Mongoose 72.2 Philip Reynolds 66.7 MerC 65.2 Alison Dunbar 60.0 Matthew Pegg 58.8 Dave Stone 55.8 Paul Shoumov 54.8 George Smith 54.6 Richard Batey 51.9 Maureen Barton 51.3 Vic Horsley 49.3 Steve Clay 46.2 Ian Taylor 45.1 John R Barnsley 44.8 Kev Phillips 43.1 James Jillians 40.4 Graham Wheeler 40.1 John Whatty 39.7 Alan Beer 39.5 Shebo 38.8 James Jillians 38.2 Henry Rushing 37.9 Richard Hewison 37.9 Linda Turnham 34.3 Terry Brawls 34.0 Marion Taylor 31.0 John Betteridge 30.2 Dave Malmberg 29.4 Nigel Parker 27.4 Steve McGuire 26.3 Michael J Roberts 25.6 High Voltage 23.3 Tony Woolcock 22.6 Kjell Robertsen 21.9 John Wilson/Balrog 21.6 Claire Dyard 21.1 John Carter 19.5 Colin Campbell 18.8 The Wayfarer 17.7 Steven Fleischaker 16.3 Paul Vincent 16.0 Bill Hoggett 15.8 Paul Johnson 15.3 Joel Finch 15.2 Niall Dowling 15.0 Barbara Gibb 15.0 Greg Lord 14.6 Theo Clarke 14.3 Patrick Farley 13.7 Sox 13.2 Jenny Perry 13.1 Neil Currie 12.4 Frederick Darlington 12.3 Pete Phillips 12.2 Peter Hague 12.0 Jess Truter 11.8 Vicky Campbell 11.1 Laura Duncan 11.0 Steve Cook 10.9 Mark McDermott 10.8 Keith Adam 10.8 Dave Barker 10.6 Mark Darlison 9.8 Anna Bradshaw 9.5 Ivan Broad 9.4 Paul Cardin 9.0 Tim Kemp 8.7 Clive Wilson 7.9 Rusty Dowling 7.2 Mal Ellul 6.9 STormbringer 6.9 Ray and Jo Green 6.0 Graham Cluley 5.9 Stalker 5.9 Jack Lockerby 5.9 Dave Leary 5.8 William McCole 5.4 John Nicholls 4.9 The Unknown Adventurer 4.8 The Phantom 4.6 Laurence Creighton 4.5 Jay Blank 4.5 Jean Childs 4.3 Adrian Sill 3.8 David Charnley 3.7 Paul Brunyee 3.0 David Stocks 2.6 Steve Frost 2.5 Carl Dove 2.4 Paul Cooper 2.3 John Ferris 2.3 Danny Pearman 2.2 Amanda Oliver 2.0 Philip Morgan 1.4 David Lacey 1.3 Simon Poxon 1.0 Don Burley 0.9 Norman Allan 0.9 Keith Green 0.9 John Lines 0.9 Martyn Westwood 0.7 John Gurd 0.6 Jim O'Keefe 0.6 Sue Roseblade 0.6 Paul Coppins 0.6 Geoff Knight 0.5 Contributions are always welcome 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 The SynTax website is at http://www.euronet.nl/users/darkside/syntax/ You can contact me by phone or FAX on 0181-302 6598 9am-9pm or by email at sue_medley@msn.com 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. Unless contributors object, any contributions may be reused in PC Mart magazine or on library disks etc. Full credit will be given for any contributions reused in this way. 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 -