Damnit Zenith you have a motherfucking article or passage or short story for every fucking reference that anybody casually mentions.
Compiled by Nadir
Concept by Dark FLR
Genre; WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK IT IS USE YOUR INITATIVE
Yes! It's finally out! Yeah, I know it's a day late- my apologies. Five files of hot mag on mag action, rejoice. I really can't be bothered to type a great deal, so I'll give vredits to those I haven't mentioned in the magazine.
Peeps who were going to send in stuff, but for one reason or another, didn't (my money is on that they couldn't be bothered);
Pickled (what was done of #stupidbad was pretty nice- finish it and it has a place reserved in ZZTV 7 for sure)
Ryosuke (<_ry0suke_> I'LL GIVE YOU MY ZZTV CHANNEL TONIGHT, NADIR)
D (where ARE you, anyways? YOU WERE MY ONLY LATIN LOVER)
Lemmer (BLAGHHJGFHJIUYTFSDFG ETC)
Micr0wave (Mmm, I use a micr0wave to cook my TV dinners)
DarkZero (S*X)
Aetsch (He's too busy being a geneass to finish a channel. Or anything, for that matter.)
People who I just think I'll credit for no real reason;
Fishfood (Encouragement, telling me I'm stupid, disobedience)
WildKarrde (ZZT's greatest source of non-annoying song quotes)
Oof (Hell, I dunno. Red Isle?)
The Meanest Tee (For worshipping me, even though I totally don't deserve it. Also, your art *rocks!*)
Dragonlord (FOR BEING REDMAGE)
Nuero (FOR BEING REDMAGE)
Tseng/Malonekins (I HEAT U TSNEG)
Herakles (Hope you enjoyed Spain, sir!)
Chuck (For radiating levels of egotism with the power to fuel all of Scandinavia for an entire winter, thus making my massive ego look tiny in comparison)
Atrocity (For really annoying me with scripts. "* Atro[AWAY] is back from sleepx0r at 10:53am!" and whatnot)
Chase Bramlage (I don't care what anyone else says, I enjoyed Operation Obrian 2!)
coolzx (I WANT YOU TO FATHER MY CHILDREN)
Ringworm (SELF-IMPOSED EXILE! WHY?!)
tucan - (FOR ALL THE FREE STUFF I TRICKED HIM INTO GIVING ME)
Zenryoku (Learn to swim)
Dark FLR (For getting the ball rolling)
nny (Owning mtrap.org, and Happy Nooble Boy ZZT! I AM TESTIKLES)
Starbux (Being mildly amusing)
Apple McTom (you now in Europe)
Knightt (For his total lack of irony and perspective, which is fun to poke)
God (Being an omnipotent, omnipresent and omnisexual deity)
Zechs (YES HE NEEDS A GOOD BITCHSLAPPING~@£@%)
And, of course, a huge, huge thanks to everyone who did send something. This project is nothing without the input of others. No, I'm not writing the names out again, I've already done it 10 times in the mag.
A few notes for the unwary user;
1. herc.txt should be unzipped with the rest of the files. It's an interview for #znn, see? It won't work without it.
2. A few of you may have trouble running some of the files. This is because I bastardishly put as much stuff into one file as I could run on my crappy 1996 Pentium I laptop (max. 360kb). If you can't run a file, try it through DOS. If it still won't run, try Hydra's uber-leet method of running large ZZT files (which I can't remember. It's in the dark recesses of the za boards somewhere). If it still won't run, GET A NEW COMPUTER BECAUSE IM NOT CHANGING IT
3. I probably should apologise for all the pointless artworks hanging around on the first two boards of each file. It's what is technically known as "Zenith has a whole load of unreleased art crap festering on his HD that he wants to show off to make everyone else feel bad without releasing another Ultra Wack". The exceptions, of course, being the second pic for the first and fourth files, which were made specifically.
File List
herc.txt - INTARVIEW
redmage.txt - Bonus! Relive those wacky fake Redmage logs with this text file! No longer must you sift through craNK's livejournal!
zztv6pt1.zzt
zztv6pt2.zzt
zztv6pt3.zzt
zztv6pt4.zzt
zztv6pt5.zzt - ZZTV itself
zztvtext.txt - this file
That's about all... any feedback about how you want to kill me, send to
zenith_nadir@purpleturtle.com or
nadir427@hotmail.com. I'm between addresses right now, so the latter is to become obselete as soon as Purpleturtle reallow registration. I'm also on the boards as 'Nadir sucks' (you know it's true), and on Austnet IRC as either neon_sHEEp or napalm\the\cat. I can be found in #loungeact, #misanthropy and #mofo.
you now in Europe almost know of your stupid americain laws exists haha.
This text file reminds me of many things -- things like how awesome I am, that Neuro was Redmage, that Hercules goes on so many fucking vacations, that Chuck was an asshole in a way that nobody has been since, that there were a whole bunch of people that I know nothing of because they hardly ever used the boards, that Atrocity sure does know a lot about computers, and that Theta had a fetish for imported text files!