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                       Contributions

My thanks to this issue's contributors:

John Betteridge, Dave Booth, Janice Charnley, Peter Clark,
Phil Darke, Laura Duncan, Nick Edmunds, John Ferris,
Julian Gregory, Diana Griffiths, Paul Hardy, Vic Horsley,
Jim Johnston, James Judge, Alex van Kaam, Tom Lorimer,
William McCole, Nettie McCombe, MerC, Dorothy Millard,
Mongoose, Stephanie Rhodes, Sue Roseblade, Shaz,
Neil Shipman, Dave Stone, Bev Truter, Jesslyn Truter,
Karen Tyers, Andrew J Wielochowski, Charlotte Wolle

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 is the issue where the annual SynTax Contributor of the Year
award is made and the winner for 1997-98 is ... James Judge! Well
done, James. You must have quite a collection of M&M figures now
... well deserved as a thankyou for all your contributions.  James
also wins a year's free sub to SynTax. The runners up, who also
win Myth and Magic figures and free issues of the magazine (5 down
to 2) are:
Brian Burke
Bill Commons
Alex van Kaam and
Diana Griffiths.
Well done to you four as well. And thanks to them and to everyone
else who has contributed to SynTax over the last 12 months. Please
keep those files coming!

The five winners' scores have been zeroed and the competition will
continue next issue.

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 next award will be made in May 1999, Issue 60.

The new points list is:

Julian Gregory       194.5
John Moore/Arnie     178.5
Ron Rainbird         160.6
Bev Truter           158.6
Simon Avery/Grimwold 156.7
Mongoose             151.5
Piotr Tyminski       148.5
Jim Johnston         147.3
Hazel Bradshaw       144.6
The Bitmap Kid       144.3
Tom Lorimer          139.8
Phil Darke           134.3
Neil Shipman         132.9
Phil Richmond        124.0
Janice Charnley      121.6
Mary Scott-Parker    114.0
Alex McEwan          111.8
Dave Stone           108.8
Vic Horsley          101.4
Andrew Wielochowski   97.5
Andy Stenhouse        91.5
Belisana              89.8
Philip Reynolds       88.8
William McCole        83.4
MerC                  79.3
Richard Hunt          77.7
Mark Bradshaw         75.2
Dave Booth            73.2
David Froude          72.7
Richard Hewison       70.9
Alison Dunbar         70.5
Paul Shoumov          62.9
Matthew Pegg          58.8
George Smith          54.6
Richard Batey         51.9
Maureen Barton        51.3
James Jillians        50.5
Dorothy Millard       47.1
Steve Clay            46.2
Ian Taylor            45.1
John R Barnsley       44.8
John Betteridge       43.5
Terry Brawls          43.2
Kev Phillips          43.1
Graham Wheeler        40.1
John Whatty           39.7
Alan Beer             39.5
Shebo                 38.8
Henry Rushing         37.9
Linda Turnham         34.3
The Grue!             32.6
Marion Taylor         31.0
Peter Clark           29.4
Dave Malmberg         29.4
Nigel Parker          27.4
Steve McGuire         26.3
John Wilson/Balrog    25.7
Michael J Roberts     25.6
Jenny Perry           23.6
High Voltage          23.3
Kjell Robertsen       23.0
Tony Woolcock         22.6
Laura Duncan          22.1
Claire Dyard          21.1
John Carter           19.5
Colin Campbell        18.8
The Wayfarer          17.7
Steven Fleischaker    16.3
Jesslyn Truter        16.2
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
Christopher Teague    14.1
Patrick Farley        13.7
Carolyn Brown         13.6
Sox                   13.2
John Ferris           12.5
Neil Currie           12.4
Paul Hardy            12.3
Frederick Darlington  12.3
Pete Phillips         12.2
Peter Hague           12.0
Charlotte Wolle       11.8
Keeks                 11.5
Sue Roseblade         11.2
Vicky Campbell        11.1
Steve Cook            10.9
Mark McDermott        10.8
Keith Adam            10.8
Lode van de Velde     10.7
Dave Barker           10.6
Mark Darlison          9.8
Anna Bradshaw          9.5
Ivan Broad             9.4
Nettie McCombe         9.1
Paul Cardin            9.0
Tim Kemp               8.7
Mal Ellul              8.7
Clive Wilson           7.9
Rusty                  7.2
STormbringer           6.9
Graham Cluley          6.8
Ray and Jo Green       6.0
Stalker                5.9
Jack Lockerby          5.9
Dave Leary             5.8
John Nicholls          4.9
The Unknown Adventurer 4.8
Neal Medley            4.7
The Phantom            4.6
Laurence Creighton     4.5
Jay Blank              4.5
Nick Edmunds           4.4
Jean Childs            4.3
Stephanie Rhodes       3.9
Adrian Sill            3.8
David Charnley         3.7
Dawn Tilbrook          3.5
Karen Tyers            3.1
Paul Brunyee           3.0
Steve Provost          2.9
John Gurd              2.9
David Stocks           2.6
Stefan Herber          2.5
Steve Frost            2.5
Carl Dove              2.4
David Wagner           2.3
Paul Cooper            2.3
Danny Pearman          2.2
Amanda Oliver          2.0
Antony Bartlett        1.8
Mike Gerrard           1.6
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
L Thompson/Thommo      0.6
Jim O'Keefe            0.6
Paul Coppins           0.6
Geoff Knight           0.5
Shaz                   0.2

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,
Or you can send printouts, typed or hand-written contributions.









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