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The PTL Club Proudly Presents
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Church Chat Volume 4
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Written by: The Spiker
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Gee, this might look unprofessional but oh well... A newsletter is just
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to inform people about special things that they should know and that's
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exactly what I am going to do. I will cover a couple topics in this newsletter,
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so don't be surprised if it's a little long but I sort of doubt it.
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First order of business is that Jenetic Bytemare has joined PTL... So
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that makes the PTL Members the following people: The Spiker, Dessert Foxx,
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Specular Vision, The Grand Elusion, Bad Brains, and Jenetic Bytemare. The names
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are in no special order at all though. Anyways, I'm glad to see that he joined
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although he got a lot of bad feedback about PTL when he asked the members of
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NAPPA about us. A lot of it was not true but oh well what can I say... Shit
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happens. JB has done a good amount of cracks for just starting to crack
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recently. Here's a list of what I know that he has done so far and it
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continues to grow!
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Operation Clean Streets Ghenghis Khan
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First Expedition Stellar Crusade
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B-24 Bomber Strike Fleet
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Zany Golf Scavengers of The Mutant Worlds
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I'm sure there are more but I can not think of them right now. He runs
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a board called Plutonium Mines which is a new PTL Distribution Point and is
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located in New York I believe. He has like 160 megs online, 500 VGA Gifs, and
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much much more.
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Second order of business... MYTH Inc. has gone down which I am sure
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most of you know because it went down January 1st 1989. It's a shame to see
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such a good board go down. I'm not sure if the Buyer's Group is going to die
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or not but hopefully not since Vortex has taken over Myth's place. Alf/TMC was
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the supplier of a lot of PTL's latest stuff, and he had nothing to do with the
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Buyers Group. So, we will see what happens with new software. Hopefully, the
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Buyers Group will remain around but only time will tell.
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Also, this means that PTL may have a shortage of new software... If
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you want to help us out and get your name/handle/alias and BBS number in a
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title screen of a game, upload new UNWORKING copies to Plutonium Mines,
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Swash II, Anarchy Burger II, or Vortex. They will be cracked and you will get
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recognition with Special Thanks to you on the title screen.
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Anarchy Burger I is RETURNING up in New York City! The new AB I will
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be running off of a 286/20 with 130 megs [approximately] and 9600 baud. The
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number is To Be Announced because it is unknown... Bad Brains's college is
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finally updating their phone system and every dorm gets a data line, so it will
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be returning in the 212 area code which is PCPursuitable.
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I'm sure most of you know about the rate changes with PCPursuit.
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Starting February 1st of this year [1989], PCPursuit is changing it's policies.
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A subscriber will be paying $30 for 30 hours of connect time. It is $4.50 for
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every hour after that. This will really hurt the pirate scene because a LOT of
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good users use PCPursuit and 30 hours of connect time is not ANYTHING really at
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all. It is a cheap price, but after having unlimited calls for $25 a month...
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It will be hard for the people to adjust and I suppose a lot of mail trading
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will start to take place between users and sysops to keep the phone bills very
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low. Hopefully, this new rate change will NOT effect the pirate scene too much.
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I just hope everything will work out fine, and I am pretty sure it will. Since
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we have faced changes in the 312 Area Code before such as loss of CallPak a
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while back which was unlimited calling in a large area for like $30-40 a
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month. I am not sure of the exact price it was, but it doesn't matter because
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we [IL people] faced a major change before and survived.. So, I am sure
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everything will turn out just fine...
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Many people have been asking me what PTL really stands for and about
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the history of PTL... PTL has no special meaning whatsoever, since it is not
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an acronym. It is a parody off of the REAL PTL Club... PTL started out with 5
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members.. The members were: Me, Bad Brains, Death Star, The Hermit, and Rambo.
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The Hermit and Rambo dropped out when PTL first started getting going. Mr.
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Transistor joined us and his first crack was Marble Madness which many people
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seemed to think was almost impossible to crack at the time. Death Star seemed
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to fade away after my last major board crash before summer or during summer.
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I'm not really sure exactly when since my 286 is a piece of shit and is always
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having Hard Drive crashes or system problems... Oh yes I almost forgot..
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Somewhere along the lines, we merged with CPI [Canadian Pirates Inc.] I
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believe was their acronym at first.. And then they changed to KGB.. KGB
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released a few cracks under PTL but seemed to fade away... They cracked that
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I can think of [BoulderDash Construction Kit, Ultima I, and Might & Magic].
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There are more I am sure but I can not think of them right now. Sometime
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after Death Star was lost, Specular Vision joined PTL.. He has cracked a
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couple things that I can think of [BattleHawks 1942, The Train, and Space
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Station Oblivion].. He has probably done more but I do not have the titles
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handy. Now, last but not least... We have just gotten Jenetic Bytemare who's
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cracks that I know of are listed at the beginning of this file......
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I still get a lot of questions asking me about Mr. Transistor, and I
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thought I had cleared them up BUT I guess not. He did not die in a plane
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crash, he just retired from modeming.. The Grand Elusion and Mr. T are NOT the
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same person in anyway, shape, or form. But Mr. T did not truly die, and is
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glad to see that PTL is keeping up the tradition that we had when he was
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around.
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So to sum it all up.. The Members of PTL are the following:
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Bad Brains The Grand Elusion
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The Spiker Dessert Foxx
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Specular Vision Jenetic Bytemare
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The PTL boards are the following:
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Anarchy Burger I Home of PTL... New Number TO BE ANNOUNCED!
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Anarchy Burger II Home of PTL
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SwashBuckler's II Co-Home of PTL
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Vortex PTL Distribution Point
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Gallifrey PTL Distribution Point
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Plutonium Mines PTL Distribution Point
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If you want access to any of the above boards, I believe you can find
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the phone number somehow... I am not about to put them in this file... Since,
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some of the bbs's are TOTALLY private!
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Well, I got a little more to say.. I am going to list the new
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software that should be coming out soon.. So look for it on a BBS NEAR YOU!
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Crossbow by Absolute Entertainment
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Drag Race Eliminator by Family Software
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PC Tree by Family Software
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Tau Ceti by Thunder Mountain
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Basketball:The Pro Game by Lance Haffner
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Dream Team Fantasy Football by MBI software
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Final Four College Basketball by Lance Haffner
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4th & Inches Team Construction disk by Accolade
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The Sporting News Baseball by Epyx
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3 in 1 Football by Lance Haffner
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Dolphin Boating Simulator by Dolphin Marine
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Dolphin Sailing Simulator by Dolphin Marine
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Dolphin Sailing Instructor by Dolphin Marine
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Dolphin Voyage Scenery Disks by Dolphin Marine
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Dungeon Masters Assistant by SSI
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Battles of Napoleon by SSI
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Bismarck: The North Sea Chase by DataSoft
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Chernonbyl by Quantum Concepts
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Civil war 1861-1865 by Avalon Hill
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50 Mission Crush by SSI
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Global commander by DataSoft
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Harpoon by Three-Sixty Pacific
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Inside Trader by Cosmi
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Jury Trial II by Navic
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Lords of the Rising Sun by CinemaWare
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Milky Way Merchant by Davell Custom
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Money Bags:Beat The Gnome of Zurich by Cosmi
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Power at Sea by Accolade
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Volcanoes by Earthware
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Wall $treet Rider by Intracorp
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Warship By SSI
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Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. by First Row
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Guardians of Infinity: To Save Kennedy by Paragon
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Master Spy by Great Game Products
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Moses, the Old Testament #1 by First Row
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Sinbad and Throne of Falcon by Cinemaware
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Tallsman, Challenging the Sands of Time by Polarware
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Atlantic City Blackjack and Craps by Great Game products
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Beatine the House at Blackjack by Applications Plus
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Bermuda Square by XOR
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Casino Betting Systems by Manhattan
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Casino Blackjack Counter/Tutor by Manhattan
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Casino Craps by Manhattan
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Championship Poker by Applications Plus
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Checkers by ShareData
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CompuBridge by Artworx
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Compute Pursuit by Navic
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Cribbage Master II by Manhattan
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50 Annotated Chess Classics by Enlightenment
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5 Weeks to Winning Bridge by Great Game Products
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Guide to Chess Openings by Enlightenment
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King's Indian Defence by Enlightenment
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Las Vegas Hold'EM by Manhattan
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Millonwaire by BrainBank
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Mythical Poker by Brush College Systems
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Nemesis Joseki Tutor by Toyogo
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Pathwords by Thunder Mountain
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Play Bridge with Sheinwold by Great Game Products
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Play Bridge with Truscott by Great Game Products
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Purr'sonal Challenge:Big Screen Trivia by Softworks
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Railroad Works by Thunder Mountain
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Seven Card Stud by Manhattan
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Strategic Craps by Applications Plus
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Tom Throops Bridge Baron II by Great Game Products
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Windows BackGammon Deluxe By E.F. Dickey
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Word Hunt by ComputerEasy
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Wordsearch 2000 by ComputerEasy
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POW by Actionware
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Creature by Actionware
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Space Quest III by Sierra On-Line
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That's a lot of new games if you ask me! And I am sure there are games
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coming out that I didn't even list.. That's basically to give you the idea
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that the IBM is finally GETTING a lot of new software!
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So to sum it all up would take me a while, since I think I said a lot
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more then I planned too.. but basically..
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All the members of PTL wish you Have a Happy New Year and had a Merry
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Xmas...
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[Although it's a little late but it's the thought that counts!]
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