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                 UNDERGROUND EMPiRE PRODUCTiONS BAVARiA                   
                                                                            
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          T H E   2 0 0 T H   A N N I V E R S A R Y   R E L E A S E         



-1 - CONTENTS
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-1 - CONTENTS
 0 - INTRODUCTION
 1 - UDPATED 1995/1996 PPEs IN THIS RELEASE
 2 - THE HISTORY OF PPEs UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
 3 - WORK-AROUND FOR THE BUG IN UE!DISKTAG v1.0
 4 - LOST RELEASES OF UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
 5 - LAST WORDS


 0 - INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to our 200th release!
This time we decided to give you something special: Since Underground Empire
has recently refocused on one of its original specialities, PPEs that is, we
will now give you all-new versions of all PPEs released by Underground Empire
back in the good old days of the scene in 1995. Some of these veterans are
still in use in some boards but they basically lack the functionality,
configurability and useful documentation that you got used to and that became
good standard for all PPEs from Underground Empire in the years 1997 and 1998.


 1 - UDPATED 1995/1996 PPEs IN THIS RELEASE
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UE-00062.ZIP ... W-Replacement .................... Sandman
   -> Update already done (UE-00176.ZIP) by Bad Peon

UE-00059.ZIP ... N-Replacement v1.2 ............... Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-00057.ZIP ... N-Replacement v1.1 ............... Sandman
   -> Update already done (UE-00059.ZIP) by Sandman

UE-00051.ZIP ... NewUzaApplication ................ Lord Xeen
  -> Done by Lord Xeen/Bad Peon

UE-00048.ZIP ... PPE-Sammlung fr PCBTEXT ......... Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-00044.ZIP ... N-Replacement v1.0 ............... Sandman
   -> Update already done (UE-00057.ZIP) by Sandman

UE-00043.ZIP ... Lamerscanner ..................... Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-00041.ZIP ... Anti-Hack ........................ Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-00040.ZIP ... Anti-Lamer/Hackprotection ........ Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-00031.ZIP ... SecShow (Security Displayer) ..... Lord Xeen
  -> Done by Lord Xeen/Bad Peon

UE-SFNML.ZIP ... Newmail-Scan ..................... Sandman
  -> Too lame :)

UE-NMAIL.ZIP ... Ask for Newmail-Scan ............. Sandman
  -> included in the re-release of UE-00048.ZIP (Done by Bad Peon)

UE-SPEED.ZIP ... Speed-Displayer .................. Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-USTAT.ZIP ... User-Statistics .................. Sandman
  -> Done by Bad Peon

UE-FAKED.ZIP ... Fake-Frontdoor (Systempassword) .. Low Spirit
  -> Done by Bad Peon


 2 - THE HISTORY OF PPEs UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
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In its early days, PPEs were one of the common type of releases from Under-
ground Empire. Sandman, Lord Xeen and Low Spirit released a whole lot of PPEs
that found their fans not only in Germany, but all around the world. Some of
them are still original, others have been copied by other groups (I am talking
about the concept of them... don't want to blame anybody for ripping us).

In January 1996, the last PPE for a very long time was released. Our PPE
coders became inactive. Funnily, the last 95/96 PPE to be released by UE was
UE-00062.ZIP. It was about the time I joined Underground Empire, and my first
release was UE-00063.ZIP. ;)

In Feburary 1997 I started to create PPEs for my own new board (The Badlands)
that went online in October '97 and made it to one of the german scene's last
ressorts. With a little help from different people I started the comeback
of Underground Empire in the PPE business. By the way, the other PPE coders
at UE at that time all basically seemed to idle around except for Ace ArUU
who has quit UE in the meanwhile, though.

Of course, my first PPE had to have a fatal bug and was useless crap but I
guess that's the way it goes... the updated version, however, works perfectly.

Here is a short list Underground Empire PPEs in 1997/1998 with brief
descriptions:

UE-00198.ZIP ... UE!DiskTag v1.0 .................. Bad Peon
  -> Norton Commander as PPE, workaround for the bug in it in this text

UE-00193.ZIP ... UE!Free v1.0 ..................... Bad Peon
  -> Get more free RAM in PC Board! 100% original!

UE-00184.ZIP ... UE WHO v2.1 ...................... Bad Peon
  -> The newest version of the coolest WHO around... rules! Includes
     eight different artworks and is just as fast as any dumb ass-Who
     but much smarter of course ;) Also works without UIS.

UE-00183.ZIP ... UE Userlister v1.2 for UE UIS .... Bad Peon
  -> New features: Hidden User support for UIS

UE-00181.ZIP ... TWA User-Meeting-Door v6.66 ...... Ace ARUU
  -> Bugs fixed

UE-00179.ZIP ... TWA User-Meeting-Door v1.0 ....... Ace ARUU
  -> Had some bugs, released due to misunderstanding

UE-00178.ZIP ... UE Userlister v1.0 for UE UIS .... Bad Peon
  -> Pretty cool userlister that requires the User Info System

UE-00177.ZIP ... UE WHO v2.0 for UE UIS ........... Bad Peon
  -> Bugs fixed, User Info System-support added and speed improved

UE-00176.ZIP ... UE User Info System v1.0 ......... Bad Peon
  -> 100% original! Difficult to explain, but's worth every single secound
     you spend installing and trying to understand what it is =)
     Basically, it adds personal stats (e-mail address, hobbies, etc.) to
     the UE userlister and the UE WHO v2.0+. Great improvment for any board!
     Also includes complete user settings-PPEs (W, ULBY, T, P)

UE-00174.ZIP ... TWA "T"-Replacement .............. Bad Peon
  -> Transfer Protocol Selector with a really great ANSI by m0!

UE-00170.ZIP ... TWA Who The Fuck Is Online?! 1.0 . Bad Peon
  -> Cool WHO with selective redraw, but had some minor bugs and was pretty
     slow

UE-00163.ZIP ... TWA Line-Monitor 1.1 ............. Bad Peon
  -> works, basically it's a WHO for up to 40 nodes

UE-00151.ZIP ... TWA Line-Monitor 1.0 ............. Bad Peon
  -> crap, didn't know how to code a WHO at that time


 3 - WORK-AROUND FOR THE BUG IN UE!DISKTAG v1.0
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There is a bug in the recently released v1.0 of UE!Disktag (UE-00198.ZIP).
Unless you're running the PPE from its own directory, it couldn't find its
executable file D.EXE that came with it. Due to some weird problem with my
filesystem I lost the source code of this PPE and there seems to be no way to
decompile it to some code that can be recompiled. So you're stuck with a
workaround instead of a update. Big sorry for that.

The solution:
D.EXE needs to be in some directory where your system's PATH is pointing to.
Simply move this file to your DOS- or batch file-directory; it's a really
great replacement for the odd DOS command DIR anyways so use it and be happy.

I didn't notice this since i use D.EXE as my DIR-command and have it in my
PATH and three beta testers obvisouly ran the PPE only from its own directory
or used another DIR-replacement which made the output look different but
didn't really make them notice something was wrong. Hey take it easy, this is
one of the few releases with deadly mistakes in them we missed yet!
The number of perfectly working releases is approx. 50-100 times higher ;)


 4 - LOST RELEASES OF UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
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A problem most groups older than six months face: files keep on disappearing
and some older releases have completely vanished from any disks that we could
get hold of. These releases are currently not available at any Underground
Empire board/site and desperatly looked for. If you happen to get your fingers
on one of them be sure to send them to us! Huge rewards awaiting... x99 bonus
in my board!

Filename ....... Type .... Description ...................... Author

UE-00159.ZIP ... ADDON ... Creatures - New Norns MegaPak .... Cayliph
UE-00155.ZIP ... TEXT  ... UE All-Stars auf der CeBIT '97 ... The Mighty SCI!
UE-00140.ZIP ... TEXT  ... Reaktionen auf Doc Freds Bastelst. Bad Peon/TMS!
UE-PMWB*.ZIP .*. WIN   ... PCBoard Meta Worlds -Beta- ....... Pirate Queen
UE-Q101*.ZIP ... DOS   ... Quake v1.01 (Shareware) .......... The Mighty SCI!
UE-00130.ZIP ... XM    ... The Scientist .................... Netrider
UE-00129.ZIP ... XM    ... Romantic Thoughts ................ Netrider
UE-Q091*.ZIP ... DOS   ... Quake v0.91 (Shareware) .......... Omen
UE-00115.ZIP ... XM    ... Space Broom (The Singin' Houseman) Netrider
UE-00114.ZIP ... RA    ... PCBoard for Remote Access 2.x .... Atomic
UE-GAR2*.ZIP ... DOS   ... Garnott ][  [X/4] ................ The Mighty SCI!
UE-WC2D*.ZIP ... WIN   ... WinCIM 2.00D fr Windows  [X/3] .. The Mighty SCI!
UE-00067.ZIP ... JPG   ... Picture-Collection #1 ............ )
UE-00057.ZIP ... PPE   ... N-Replacement v1.1 ............... Sandman
UE-00049.ZIP .*. RA    ... CyberVote v1.0b3 [Cracked] ....... Cyber Cop
UE-PV251.ZIP .*. DOS   ... Crack for PV2.51 ................. Cyber Cop
UE-GHOST.ZIP ... XM    ... Ghostrider [Rock] ................ Netrider
UE-BALLN.ZIP .*. WIN   ... Ball00n Telekom Manager 2.27 ..... The Mighty SCI!
UE-DOTS2.ZIP .*. DOS   ... The Darkside Of The Sun II ....... The Mighty SCI!
UE-TDOTS.ZIP .*. DOS   ... The Darkside Of The Sun .......... The Mighty SCI!
UE-TM40C.ZIP .*. DOS   ... Crack for Telemate 4.0 ........... Mirrorimage
UE-MM2CR.ZIP .*. DOS   ... Crack for Maniac Mansion 2 ....... Mirrorimage
UE-FROG!.ZIP ... DOS   ... SCI-Frogcopy 1.9 ................. The Mighty SCI!
UE-XCPRO.ZIP .*. DOS   ... XCopy Pro ........................ The Mighty SCI!

Quite a lot, hum? Keep your eyes open!


 5 - LAST WORDS
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We hope we'll be able to keep our good standard for the next 200 releases
and 3 years. Remember the old days in 1996 when we had about 20 releases
per month? Along with a lot of members that went away, these days are over,
so feel free to join us if there is something you can do for us!

We currently have the following positions open:
-PPE Coders
-Story Writers
-People who participate in our Metal E-Mag (german language)
-ANSI artists for PPEs and/or our boards
-ASCII artists for infofiles and/or our boards
-Foreign BBS sysops with internet access or self-couriering abilites ;)
-FTP siteops
-WWW siteops

To apply simply write an E-Mail to ue2000@the-pentagon.com or try to contact
us in any of our boards!

No greetings this time. You know who you are.

Be sure to visit our WWW homepages! The URLs are:
http://ue.home.pages.de         The main site. All text files can be read
                                online. All legal releases for download.
                                Memberlist. PPE Praise. More to come ;)
http://welcome.to/ue/           All releases for download
http://www.truemetal.org/ue/    The homepage of the UE Metal E-Mag.

Note that we're not really Lynx-addicts so these pages will get a major
face-list sometime in the future.

GREETINGS!
THE MIGHTY SCI, OMEN, PIRATE QUEEN, THE EXZORCIST, COP EATER, RIK, WARHAWK,
XTEC, CYZ, THUNDERGOD, LORD XEEN, KRASH, CHRIS WITCHHUNTER, BLACK WEASEL,
CYBERD, MELCOM, DIPSWITCH, SOING, MOOL, HANIBAL, DOKTA, SKY, CRUSHER, B0SS,
CRUSADER, E605, POLDI, PIGPEN, SUPREME, PANDUR, SEKTOR, ALIEN, HARLEQUIN,
ENIGMA, PALADIN, TAZ, NOIZE, UNIVERSE, WIZZARD, ACE ARUU, LYNUZ, FKL, ADOK,
GHOST, BLACKVEL, QBORG, POSITIVE PAIN, UNIVERSE, GHOSTRIDER and FRENETIC.

Shit... this list is growing longer and longer... alzheimer is spreading all
through my brain so don't feel objected if i haven't mentioned you here and
you think i should have!

MORE GREETINGS TO ALL MEMBERS, (NEARLY) ALL EX-MEMBERS AND ALL (EX-)SYSOPS OF
ALL AFFILIATED BOARDS THAT MADE/MAKE UNDERGROUND EMPIRE TO WHAT IT IS TODAY!

cya... Bad Peon
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