The current league game hosted at Silver Wings TWGS has been taken down and destroyed. I'm not going to comment on this personally...I'm sure most of you know what I would say anyway. So if you've been trying to connect today and couldn't, now you know why. Check out the TWLeague eGroup if you want more detail.

Thing have been really slow just about everywhere in the TW community the past week or so. I decided to download the Dreamweaver 4 demo here in PA and do some updates for those of you with nothing better to do on Christmas day than sit on the computer and play Trade Wars. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe holiday. Time to forget about Trade Wars for a little while and pay attention to the more important things in life. Take care and don't waste too many brain cells this coming New Year's Eve.

This is a message from badboy over at [www.goosemoose.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.goosemoose.com): * "I am announcing the newly released open beta of my new Java TW Helper for playing games over the web (and eventually a standalone java app. ([https://www.goosemoose.com/~jtwat](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.goosemoose.com/%7Ejtwat)) This is going to be a free, opensource java helper, and right now contains most of the functionality of all those pay-to-play helpers, with already some cool features not found anywhere else. This tool is going to allow the most powerful scripts ever to be written in pure java. Right now you can try it out and see how you like it by connecting to [https://www.goosemoose.com/tradewars/connecttw.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.goosemoose.com/tradewars/connecttw.htm) Goosemoose has just rebanged all the games, with a 20K, 3K turn Gold game, and a 5K, 750 turn game. If you just want to play with the tool, try the Test game (log on as Test, no pw)."

The third team has signed up for the USO '01. "Rabid" consists of Akira - CEO, Knight Diver, Buzz Lightyear, Zerin, and two TBA's. See the yellow text at the top of the page for information to sign up today! Don't miss out on one of the biggest tournaments of the year!

*Are you tired of your Trade Wars games being decided when the fat lady sings? Are you tired of your elections (and Trade Wars games) being improperly handled with the results being published before the election is even over? Are you tired of intellectual trash like Wheel of Fortune refusing to accept Canadian contestants?* That is not the Canadian way, we are not the 51st state, and as Canadians, we should have a Canadian tournament on a Canadian server moderated by a Canadian sysop with rules posted in both English and in French. We must take action! Canadian beer is better than American beer, Canadian Trade Wars can be too. Sign up for the Canada Open hosted on Canada's Mission: Night Hawk BBS ([nighthawk.lakehead.net](telnet://nighthawk.lakehead.net)). The game will begin on April 1st, 2001 to celebrate Newfoundland's 52nd anniversary as a Canadian province. Contact sysop@nighthawk.lakehead.net for more information about this tournament. Nazwes Chaiwind Mission: Night Hawk

The new link for the reverend's TW page is: [https://the.reverend.home.att.net/tw/](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://the.reverend.home.att.net/tw/) Update your links and bookmarks if you haven't already!

The second team has signed up for the USO '01. "The Reservoir Dogs" consists of Mr. White - CEO, Mr. Pink, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Blonde. See the yellow text at the top of the page for information to sign up today! Don't miss out!

I forgot to forward myself the original news submission for this story today before I left work so I'll improv this one until I get to my office tomorrow. Here is the basic announcement, more detailed information will be added on Thursday. GooseMoose.com has created a free, open source, www-based java TW helper. To check it out, go to [https://www.goosemoose.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.goosemoose.com) and click on "Games". I checked it out when it was first announced, ran pretty good, could use more options, but I assume that's why it's open source. Has good potential!

Yes, [EISOnline](https://eisonline.classictw.com/) is down. So this means you'll have to wait a little longer to get your TWGS registration codes. Deal with it. Of course, if everyone were playing [Lunar: Eternal Blue](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.dailyradar.com/reviews/game_review_1110.html), you wouldn't have to wait for reg codes.

You heard it right. EleqTrizi'T and Aitvo are making good things happen like usual! They brought back the good ole days of MBBS!!! You have to see it for yourself...telnet to thestardock.com and prepare to be amazed! I'm already on there wasting my life away in Teleconference (well I was when this was written). I want to commend these guys for all of their hard work on the Fusion-MBBS software. To find out more about the Fusion-MBBS [click here](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.intergate.cx/index.pl?ac=fusion). Also to visit Intergate BBS, [click here](telnet://bbs.intergate.cx). (telnet://bbs.intergate.cx)