Contributions

My thanks to this issue's contributors:

Dave Booth, Steve Chapman, Peter Clark, David Froude,
Stefan Herber, Vic Horsley, J Paul Sanders, Dog Solitude
and Bev Truter

Thanks also to Tally Ho, Witchen, Inferno and Jack 'Bullions'
Leung for letting me use their solutions from the Internet and
to Inferno for her review of 'Ghosts'.

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. Only SynTax subscribers are eligible for an
award.

The next SynTax Contributor of the Year award will be made in
the next issue, Issue 84, May 2003. To recap the points system,
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. 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 prizes are fantasy figures plus free issues
for the top three contributors, the winner's also coming on a base
with an engraved plaque.

From now on I will remove names of anyone whose SynTax sub has
lapsed after their second reminder.

The current points list is:
Bev Truter           279.7
Peter Clark          235.3
Vic Horsley          216.0
Neil Shipman         182.8
Paul Hardy           172.9
Nick Edmunds         170.8
Stefan Herber        170.2
Jim Johnston         164.3
Steve Chapman        133.4
Dave Booth           118.0
Keeks                 91.6
William McCole        91.4
John Ferris           90.9
Richard Hewison       89.4
David Froude          84,5
Phil Darke            74.9
Alison Dunbar         70.5
Karen Tyers           69.2
Julian Gregory        66.5
Richard Batey         65.6
John Betteridge       60.1
Jill Nott             59.2
Bill Commons          45.3
Jean Childs           35.6
Linda Turnham         34.3
Brian Burke           28.4
Jenny Perry           28.0
Alex van Kaam         25.4
Bill Jenkins          24.1
Claire Dyard          21.5
Barbara Gibb          15.0
Robbies Dog           14.1
Steve Provost         13.4
Frederick Darlington  12.3
Lol Oakes             13.4
Dave Barker           11.5
Sue Roseblade         11.5
Julia Munday           7.8
Marianne Jones         6.0
Carolyn Brown          5.9
Dog Solitude           5.5
Fernando Poo           4.6
David Stocks           4.2
Thommo                 4.1
Trevor Jones           1.0
Doreen Bardon          0.9
Jim O'Keeffe           0.6
George Rawson          0.1
Alex Ainslie           0.1

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 contributions on disk or by email. But you can also send
printouts, typed or hand-written contributions.









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