- The Charts VN#57 -
Hosted by Jonatan "Macx" FG & David "Jazzcat" Simmons.
Welcome to another chapter of The Charts. A section of the magazine that craves user participation in order to be valid and interesting. The Charts in a diskmag reflects the minds of the sceners in a much more dynamic sense than the top lists of aggregating votes at CSDb. However, in order for The Charts to be a sound and contemporary comment it is necessary that the readers fill out the ascii votesheets that are sent out prior to the voting deadline. The sheet count for this issue was 29.
In order to secure you receive a votesheet for the upcoming issues of VN, please send an email to macx64(*)gmail. The ascii votesheet is usually combined with questions for the Opinion Poll.
Let me remind the participating reader that you are not allowed to lay a vote on yourself, your own release, your groups release or other members of your group or groups.
Only what or who has received more than one vote is presented in The Charts. Otherwise it is pretty straight forward, so here we go...
TOP DEMO GROUPS:
Booze Design 408
Crest 208
Fairlight 192
Oxyron 176
Offence 128
Resource 72
Triad 48
Camelot 42
Chorus 40
Arise 16
Instinct 12
Plush 12
Arsenic 8
Celebrating 20 years, Booze Design has come a long way since Spik i Foten. Receiving almost double the points of number 2, no one is in any doubt of who is the favourite demo group around. Instinct is no more, as their members signed up with the above mentioned posse. I wonder if Offence will rise further, same could be said for Camelot and Arsenic. Will Plush's new demo push them back up the ladder for another fight? Will Genesis*Project be a demo force once more? I miss some guys here, but happy to see some old faces returning (hello Hoaxers!).
Groups voted for, but that did not make it into the charts include Censor and Panda Design, Horizon, Speedfisters, Xenon, Judas, Dekadence, Maniacs of Noise, Padua and Shape.
This is the most popular chart these days, we have a good balance of demo parties and a stage is set for the battle to continue!
TOP CODERS:
HCL 356
Crossbow 198
Graham 176
JackAsser 112
Mahoney 68
Krill 64
Axis 48
Hollowman 48
Pantaloon 48
RadiantX 44
Clarence 36
WVL 32
Kribust 24
Cruzer 20
Edhellon 20
GRG 20
Peiselulli 12
Puterman 12
The highly respected coders reflect the top demo groups... Glasnost is coming back and what about the other camels? Conjuror is climbing but excluded to obey the rules. Graham has been here for a long time and same with Crossbow... time to move over old men, some new kids are coming through that have a stronger passion.
C64 programmers voted for, but received too few votes to make it into the list are NEO, Nightlord, Stirf, Ed, Sailor, MagerValp, Oswald, Algorithm, Fenek, Honesty, Ninja and T.M.R. My friend from Hannover, Street Tuff, deserves a place here. Nice to see Mahoney is being recognised, what will he come up with next?
TOP MUSICIANS:
Dane 160
Jeff 156
Drax 150
Linus 120
Geir Tjelta 88
Jeroen Tel 84
GRG 72
SIDwave 72
Jammer 52
Fanta 48
Laxity 48
Randall 44
Reyn Ouwehand 44
Stein Pedersen 36
Goto80 32
Wiklund 28
Flex 24
Ole Marius Pettersen 24
Ne7 20
A-Man 8
Now that Jeff has new-found inspiration, we can expect some more music and with the rebirth of Camelot! SIDwave is climbing higher all the time (read his very interesting interview!) and the end tune from Toxyc Taste by Fanta is just oozing atmosphere (included it in this edition). Watch those Prosonix dudes climb this ladder! Also one of the new generation, Wiklund, is expected to climb too.
Just missing out were Hein, Kasmo, Maktone, Mr.Death, Rob Hubbard, Agemixer, Booker, JCH, Magnar, Martin Galway, PRI, RadiantX, Brandon Walsh, F.A.M.E., RaveGuru, Shogoon, Tim Follin, X-Jammer, ATOO and Henne.
TOP GRAPHICIANS:
Mermaid 292
Archmage 242
Veto 156
Mirage 104
Carrion 64
Leon 60
STE'86 52
Ptoing 44
Yazoo 44
Frost 36
DeeKay 32
Electric 32
Duce 28
JSL 28
PAL 28
Jailbird 20
Louie64 20
Sander 12
The pixel battles continue, the main arena these days is CSDb, strong activity from STE'86, Veto and all those thought-provoking "Rambo" entries that were inspired by Twoflower's LCP entry. Votes for "Mirage" and "Lars" have been combined, Joe has been removed despite gaining quite some votes as we want to remain neutral of course, check out his well-deserved wins at the recent Arok and LCP events. Mermaid is on top of the chart, her recent activities through the hyper-active Genesis*Project has given her a renewed outlet for her pixels. PAL should be WAAAAY higher.
People just missing out were Piesiu, Valsary, Cruise, Helm, Maktone, Poison, Crossbow, Dane and Hollowman. Come on voters, vote for active people and remember Crossbow is either not real or is actually just DeeKay in disguise.
TOP CRACKER GROUPS:
Nostalgia 268
Triad 216
Genesis Project 148
Remember 92
Avatar 84
Armageddon 32
Eagle Soft Inc. 32
Fairlight 28
Dynamic Duo 20
Ikari 20
Excess 12
Onslaught have been removed, Genesis*Project are climbing quite hard, especially with their first release flurry in the month of July. What a month that was with Onslaught, G*P, Armageddon, Avatar and more all having some Viagra and showing the size of their penis in an oldschool way, read more about this in this edition's The List.
Nostalgia are on a deserved numero uno with Triad close behind, I have almost forgotten Remember these days when I should be remembering them! Also, Hokuto Force, WOW, Laxity and others, wake up from your coma!
Not included but so, so close were... Danish Crackers, Danish Gold, Hokuto Force, Razor 1911, Yeti Factories, 1001 Crew, Hackersoft, Hotline, Censor Design, Chrilles Cracking Crew, Laxity and WOW. Now, now! Razor, what the hell? Gimme that bag, you have taken enough out of it, give that pipe of yours a rest!
That concludes The Charts for issue 57 of your favourite Commodore 64 disk magazine. These top lists reflect the current ongoings in the scene and is for this reason something much different than the votes at various online fora. The total amount of votes over a much longer period competing with fever votes for a new release can make the list seem unjust - a problem you will never encounter in The Charts as a reset button is pressed with each new issue. Make sure you sign up for receiving the ascii votesheets in time for the next voting deadline, it is imperative in order to make this chapter valid. See the introductory text for further details.