Worldcharts
Worldcharts was a chartsmagazine that was originally released on the Amiga. In 1993 the group Hoodlum published issue 13, which remained the last one for a long time. Then, in 2002, Worldcharts was revived on PC. It now was a coproduction of the groups Hoodlum, Scoopex and Silents.
Two issues were released on PC (#14 and #15). There were several announcements about issue 16 going to be released soon, but it was not released until today.
Worldcharts can be downloaded from scene.org. Each issue has been downloaded more than 1000 times. The engine is Windows-based and thus it's not a surprise that it works perfectly on modern PCs.
Worldcharts #14
Worldcharts #14 (from August 2002) starts with an intro in which you see some action in space going on before the earth is approached and the names of the groups responsible for Worldcharts #14 are displayed. The code was done by Falk of The Silents, the graphics by Barock and Sagat of The Silents. There were five tunes, by Deck of Scoopex, Gemini of The Silents, lug00ber of The Silents, Virgill of Scoopex and Laxical of The Silents.
Worldcharts #14 is a big charts magazine which is based on the votes of more than 300 people. There are charts for the Amiga, PC and C64 as well as the warez scenes. In addition, there are several "fun" charts. The categories in the PC section are: group, oldschool group, coder, graphician (2D & 3D), musician, demo, wilddemo, intro 64k, intro 4k, demoscene homepage, group homepage, musicdisk, diskmag, slideshow, ascii artist and ascii group. In the fun section there are the categories best party, most drunken scener, most hated scener and most hated group. Moreover, there is a message corner.
Worldcharts #14 has a fancy design with animations in the background. Unfortunately, the font is hard to read. It's also a pity that they didn't write the number of voters - I had to count.
Worldcharts #15
There's not much to say about Worldcharts #15 after speaking about the previous issue: It starts with a "noisy" intro including a title picture by FloOd of Noice, then you get to the editorial. This time the number of voters is revealed: 468. There are adverts and three articles: one about the revival of the Ansi scene and two about the Radwar party. Apart from that, it's the same as #14.