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==Editorial==
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* EDITORIAL *
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The R3L4X M4G4Z1N3* in February '96 was brought
to you, as you used to know it in the previous year,
by PHUTURE, your favourite disk-magazine releasing
game label.

... introduction ...
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Again we have returned to present another fine edi-
tion containing the latest happenings from all over
the world. This time it is our 15th "anniversary" but
we decided not to bore you with any celebration text,
something we could have done with issue 13 aswell, as
it was our 6 YEARS anniversary, a period which co-
vered the golden main, when the CBM 64 was one of
the most attractive machines, until now, where almost
no one else but the genuine CBM 64 scene population
still dares to touch it and present his very own com-
puter system proudly in a world counting instead of
KB now at a configuration starting at 8 MB.
It was Mr. MICROSOFT, no one else but Bill Gates, who
once said: "640 KB should be enough for everyone!",
and it is the same person offering software working
efficient at PENTIUM processors with min. 8 MB of
RAM only.
At THE PARTY V in Denmark the PC users, having ma-
chines with 8 MB, quadro (or even more) CD ROM dri-
ves, Windows 95 and all other facilities to survive in
todays computer world, were stunning while watching
the CBM 64 competition, as the CBM 64 demo groups
have shown what on this old breadcase almost NO-
THING is impossible, ofcourse on a more limited basis
what reason can be found in the hardware, as our
little 64 KB calculator can't be compared with a up-
graded PC with 8 MB Ram as standart and a lot of
extra memory added with graphic and sound cards.
Surely the CBM 64 can be upgraded with Ram Expan-
sion Units, Harddisks, Accelerator Cards and many
more "useless" expansions in order to come closer
to PC or Amiga machines. But to be honest, the feeling
won't be the same anymore, would it?
Six years in review, and expect for any minor chan-
ges on the SID and VIC chip the machine remained the
same, and the quality of the demo productions, tools
and standart in general increased while the quality
of the games decreased what is a fact of commercial-
ism and people who want to play games do it usually
on consoles and Amiga/PC these days.
Anyway there is one ideal other systems can't STEAL
us, it is OUR scene, the scene which was the model
origin of all other scenes, and to be honest, no copy
can compete with the ORIGINAL, not in the previous
years, not today, and probably not in the future.
Keep it always in mind, as NO ONE can remove it from
our REMEMBRANCE, not even the few new "prophets"
who think they can reform our society and the uni-
que system which worked well all over the years. We
have seen them arriving and we have seen them ALL
disappearing to nowhere, where they have started.

... critism ...
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Lately we could see one of these overrated "FUN"
magazines complaining about SERIOUS scene journa-
lism. Their most impressive ARGUMENT was saying if
they are interested in reading SERIOUS texts they
would buy a NEWSPAPER. This is for sure very CLE-
VER because if we want to read some funny texts we
CAN'T buy a COMIC BOOK, can we? ;) We are for sure
IMPRESSED now.
People started to COMPLAIN about the actual text
amount we offer at the the moment. They claim it could
be higher when we would split the discussions of our
Editorial into different chapters. The result would be
more BUT shorter chapters while the text amount re-
mains the same. We feel quite comfortable with the ac-
tual text amount, nevertheless TWO new chapters will
hit your screen in the next edition, chapters fitting
perfectly into our magazine concept.

... experiments with another innovative idea ...
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After our standart votesheet got spread across the
land a new, interesting plan got realised, even if it is
still on an experimental basis, the DIGITAL votesheet
launched the mail folder of the CBM 64 users active
on the Internet.
This digital votesheet can be used for our very own
BOARD CHARTS, what makes voting here much more
comfortable, on the other hand it is possible to use it
to contribute when it comes up to the MAIL CHARTS,
too, by marking the charts system at the beginning on
our "sheet". After releasing the version 1.0 many
people contributed with useful tips how to improve it
in order to get it more user-friendly, so meanwhile
we updated it up to version 1.4 which is actually the
nonplusultra, as long as your text- or e-mail editor
can display minimum 65 characters per line. It is defi-
nately not necessary to select OVERWRITE mode any-
more, as it should work fine on all systems in INSERT
mode, too.
We take care about the persons marking their votes
to be used for the board charts being a part of the
board scene in order to prevent any manipulation
which could falsify them, otherwise there would not be
a need for board charts.
Next to your votes we have prepared space for your
advertisement, for news, memberstatus and boards/
FTP-sites and homepages in order to present the
activity of your group and to support it simply with
spreading it in one of the most actual board magazi-
nes around, being steady present on the elite boards
aswell as on the Internet (channel # c-64) and of-
course in the mail scene, covering the bright mass
of CBM 64 users and scene related persons world-
wide on both, PAL and NTSC systems.
If your mail folder has not been filled with the digital
votesheet and you are interested in participating in
this revolutionary voting system please do us a spe-
cial favour and contact us using the Internet contact
addresses mentioned later (see: WHERE TO ORDER
THE DIGITAL VOTESHEET?) in this chapter. Thanks a
lot in advance.

... cracking scene in deep trouble ...
------------------------------
For sure it is no secret anymore that the game in-
stry decreased their activity all over the years. Ne-
vertheless the groups are still capable to release a
lot of NEW warez month by month. How does it work?
There are for sure many tricks people might not
even dare to dream about, tricks which support the
neverending flood of new games for this system in
order to keep the cracking groups competive in to-
days competition.

In the very beginning it were the legendary crackers
and cracking groups who made this machine to be-
come the most popular 8-bit home computer ever in
computer history.
It was the challenge man versus machine, cracker
against the protection and underground versus com-
mercialism responsible for the glory and admiration
the circle of software PIRATES earned from the ever
growing CBM 64 scene. Unfortunately the situation
changed all over the years and it is totally different
these days. Today it is NOT the challenge under-
ground versus commercialism. Now it is cracking
group versus software developers what means scene
related persons backstabbing themselves to be the
lightening star in the dark universe.
We observed the market and present some of the
MOST popular tricks in order to keep you informed,
without telling any names here.

One of the most popular tricks of cracking groups is
to hide behind a game label or company, to contact
game creators with UTOPICAL promises containing
income and amount of copies they expect to sale.
Most times the author will recognize to be trapped
after receiving the "cracked" version of his produc-
tion, but nothing else what is coming up. No money, no
copies sold. When the author requests the facts he
just gets the answer that the "company" is not inte-
rested in the game anymore because it doesn't come
up to their expectations.
Another interesting trick is to release self-made ga-
mes. On the one hand there is the chance to recruit a
demo section responsible to supply these produc-
tions without any other jobs, or that any members
create games to earn some money and give them later
on to their group in order to keep it capable to com-
pete.
It seems to be a fashion to update old games with new
graphics and fresh sounds, some do not even think
about any updates and release it in its original ver-
sion, just changing the dates. It is very entertaining
to see that some can't even manage this.
The latest fashion is to use SEUCK or the legendary
GAME MAKER to create games, fixing the code, re-
moving all what could lead in the attention into some
kind of construction kit, installing musics and adding
self-made intros with nice graphics and musics. What
is left? CAMOUFLAGED Constructing Kit games, and
what is more sad to see, all these so-called experts
do not even recognize it. The situation is quite poor!

Nevertheless will DO appreciate the effort people put
into the challenge to entertain the entire CBM 64
scene with new games, and to be honest, without tho-
se fakes we would not enjoy the scene in the way we
do these days, would we?

... votesheet spreaders and news suppliers ...
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We have to express your respect to ZAPOTEK (both,
mail and digital votesheet!), Shuze, INTRUDER and last
but not least Starlight for spreading and collecting
our votesheets. In the near future some more names
will appear here, starting when we have received the
first sheet from them as it would be useless to name
persons here who have not done anything yet.
The news were delivered and confirmed by CBA,
Warp, Scroll, ICEBALL, Jazzcat, DUKE, Tao, CROSS-
FIRE, Newscopy and many more who have cooperated
and contributed in any way like ZARDAX with his bril-
liant soundtrack called RETROGRAD or METAL for the
interesting interview just to name a few of them all.
Many thanks for your contributions.

For sure we would like greet all who FILLED IN and
RETURNED our paper votesheets, and ofcourse to
the people who did the same with the DIGITAL vote-
sheet and made this experiment rather successfull
until now.

This edition's content looks like this:
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The GLOBAL REPORT covers the most interesting
facts from the board and mail scene, covering the
period between January 1st, 1996 until the actual
spreaddate what is for sure the correct defination
for the RELEASE CHARTS, too, with the single excep-
tion what the subject of this chapter are for sure
the releases from the few software pirates left on
this planet. The chapters BOARD CHARTS and MAIL
CHARTS surely do not need an introduction as it is
the place to find the CBM 64 scene charts here. The
INTERVIEW this time will feature no one else but Metal
of our alltime favourite Vibrants answering all our
questions, what is for sure another highlight in our
interview series. Our PARTY RADAR will focus on the
X96 party in Holland this time and contains for sure
all important facts and information you need to know.
ADVERTISMENTS features addresses, phone numbers
and E-mail addresses, all you need in order to con-
tact people in any way. The DEMO REVIEWS will cover
productions from Profik and Antic this time.

* Credits for the February edition *
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PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK ZARDAX/ORIGO DREAMLINE
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET SKID ROW/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

The introduction picture got inspirated by the im-
pressing Amiga IFF-picture called THE DRYADS made
by ARCHMAGE/Andromeda.
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* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
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Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
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Boards: leave mail for Marc/AFL at HOLIDAY
------ INN CAMBODIA, THE EVIL ISLAND and
THE ESCAPADE
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* Where to download the Relax Magazine? *
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HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Utopia.Hacktic.NL

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* Where to order the DIGITAL VOTESHEET? *
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RRR/Oxyron xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
Zapotek/Alpha Flight 1970 xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
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* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
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MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON

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Best regards in the name of the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
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* R3L4X M4G4Z1N3*
3XPL0S1V3 3V3R, 1MPULS1V3 N3V3R!

February 25th, 1996
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==Global Report==
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* GLOBAL REPORT *
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Our Global Report is the host for the MOST inte-
resting happenings in the CBM 64 SCENE SOCIETY.
As you used to know it in the PREVIOUS years we are
for sure prepared in 1996 to PROVIDE you with the
LATEST and most ACTUAL information available in the
gazine scene, too.
Unlike other publications these days WE check our
NEWS, if necessary even a second or third time di-
rectly by requesting the facts at the adress of the
involved groups, in order to avoid spreading rumours
here. Instead of receiving our "news" from three
months old votesheets we get them directly from the
major boards and the Internet, what should be a
proof for the RELIABILITY of the content presented
here.

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
All in all it was quite a silent period for the flight. Ne-
vertheless they have managed it put out a steady
amount of releases and added some more members in
order to become stronger than ever in the future.

Alpha Flight hit the Internet with their bot Commodore
what can be found on channel # c-64 in the popular
IRC, set up by Chotaire. Zapotek is already working
on his homepage so a trend into direction INTERNET
was detected in the endless flight, too.
Memberwise the flighters proudly announced the
comeback of their former pilot SKID ROW, who has re-
started his activities as cracker, fixer, programmer
and graphic artist. Furthermore a polish section has
been reborn with ARCHANGEL/Vermes, followed by
FLASH who got recruited as programmer and graphic
artist. Another comeback has been made by RICK/ex-
Paramount, who will serve as a mail trader in the fu-
ture.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 19):
Ancient Mariner, Archangel, Calypso, Chotaire, Cryo-
nic, Flash, Ignorance, Marc, Max, Mercenary, Pol Pot,
Ream, Rick, Shuze, Skid Row, Skinhead, Styx, Xenox
and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX

* AVANTGARDE *
------------------------------------------------------------
The breeze of 1996 brought some DARK CLOUDS on
the BLUE SKY of the Avantgarde clan. Let's wait to
see if the success story continues like in the pre-
vious years.

At first SUICIDE, Avantgarde's main fixer, explained
to LEAVE the scene, followed by the fact that their
mail-traders have dropped a lot of contacts. DERBY-
SHIRE RAM was removed 60 names from his contact
list while INTRUDER shorted his one by 50 entries,
refering to the fact that his heading for a MASTER'S
DEGREE does not leave that much sparetime to con-
tinue swapping on his former level.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 18):
Astaroth, Chameleon, Cupid, Cyborg, Deff, Derbyshire
Ram, Druid, Eliminator, Jack Alien, Jack Daniels, Metal
Rage, Renegade, Skywolf, Thorn, Tricom, Trimone and
Weasel

Avantgarde worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Many months AGO the fleet of Chromance was in a
really bad condition with a lot of KNOWN members
leaving for new shores. Meanwhile the fleet is refitted
again and back in FULL effect, proving that they still
belong to the BEST pirates on the oceans.

Chromance finally got their hands on another US
board called BASS PLANET, sysop is SCRATCHER.
This is ofcourse NOT Scratcher/ex-PARAMOUNT so
we believe in a pure random that he has choosen this
handle to operate in the CBM 64 scene.
Another new sailor here in HEDGEHOG, who is said to
be an OLD polish scener, increased his activity level
and signed up.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 27):
Alias Medron, AMC, Bolee, Deviant, Fusion, Griff, Im-
mortal, Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, McByte,
Motion, Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat, Sage, Skud, Skull,
Spermbird, Syco, Techno, The Unholy, Will, XXL and
Zeyex.

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT (still down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FINAL GENOCIDE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
COUNTRY JAIL ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
OVERDOSE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX

* EQUINOXE *
------------------------------------------------------------
After many days and months of silence passed Equi-
noxe seems to be back in business with Warp (former
Mr. Warp) returning and taking over the command of
the steerless ship.

Actually Warp is trying to get structures back to the
group, reforming the organisation to get things well
working like in former times. At first they started to
enlarge their activities in the mail front with the new
swedish mail trading talent MacX who will remain in his
group Ambush, Punisher, aswell a member of Ambush,
and last but not least Caledonian who seems to be
quite new in the scene. Equinoxe is interested in ta-
lented programmers, graphic artists and music com-
posers to join forces and aswell in an independent
polish section like in the past.
Ofcourse Equinoxe already invaded the Internet and
runs an own homepage including guest book, scene
news and online votesheets for SHOUT!. A FTP-site,
maintained by Warp, is already "online", featuring le-
gal warez only. It's name is THE GRIDPOINT.
SHOUT! will be back in a few weeks. Fact it that it
won't be released under the cooperation Equinoxe &
Fairlight anymore, a cooperation which only covered
the production of the magazine. Actually SHOUT! is
looking for competent editors, covering all subjects
of the scene and even more, who are interested in
in contributing on a steady basis.

Current Equinoxe memberstatus looks like (= 13):
Agnus Dei, Antifan, Bitbreaker, Caledonian, Droopy,
Goat, MacX, Mav, Nucleus, Punisher, Suck, Warp and
Wile Coyote

Equinoxe worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
FTP: GRIDPOINT rsls6.sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
HTTP://rphc1.physik.uni-regensburg.de/&pem03049/
eqn/

* FANTASTIC 4 CRACKING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
The fantastics increase their effort in the SNES
scene. Nevertheless they are still active on the CBM
64, putting out a solid amount of quality warez, most
times in cooperation with Avantgarde.

F4CG's demo section has got a member with ZYRON
who got recruited in order to serve as composer and
coder. Unlike OTHER SOURCES reported, MOLOCH is
STILL a member of this group.
PROPAGANDA is delayed because of the fact that
DEFF can't call out, what make him unable to finish the
list, atleast this is the official statement we received
directly via Internet. In the near future there will ap-
pear a sister magazine, called PROPAGANDA MUSIC,
covering the aspects of SID music. Sixx is the editor
of the magazine, being steadily under observation.
GEGGIN and SLAYGON, both CENSOR, work on PRO-
PAGANDA SNES and will cooperate with F4CG in the
future there, too.
DECODER and KING got booted out of the group, rea-
sons leading to this step were UNINTEREST and UN-
ACTIVY from both persons.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Chash, Cybersurfer, Cy-
borg, Decoder, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, King, Maja,
Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy,
Smasher, Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Walker and
Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK bbs.cc.uniud.it
HTTP: //www.algonet.se/motley/propa.htm

* HITMEN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Hitmen is well known for their FIXES. This period they
released a lot of fine wares not "only" as the fixing
part. Furthermore HITMEN alwalys belongs to the few
groups these days being capable to call out.

DODGER has been removed from the memberstatus as
his deeds and behaviour did not COOPERATE with the
official group policy.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Curlin, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce, Jihad, Jinx, Lawnmo-
verman, Marcus, Moby, Peacemaker, Racoon, Raze,
Sabotage, Tranziie, Tyron and Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON online again on March 15th, 1996
MYSTICAL PARADIZE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS *
------------------------------------------------------------
As we already reported in the November 1995 edition
Megastyle WON'T release a major demo production in
1996. Rumours pretending the opposite are definately
WRONG.

SCROLL explained that the productivy level of MSP in
1996 will remain LOW due to the fact that he restarts
working in April. However, there might exist the
chance to see small tools/utilities and perhaps some
SMALL demoes which are supposed to run on PAL/
NTSC as Scroll finally received his long-awaited
NTSC chip.
Actually MSP concentrates their activity on the
cracking label LURID and TRICYCLE, having the policy
to remove the protections from golden oldies only.
Finally Scroll has set up an HOMEPAGE on the Inter-
net, proving that the group is still activity on a NOT
detectable leve for the masses in the scene.

Current Megastyle memberstatus looks like (= 9):
Brooz, Cycleburner, Lizard, Rage, Scroll, Shok'Ray,
Space Roy and Sur-Price

Megastyle worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HTTP: //www.nordnett.no/&scroll

* MOTIV 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
After a long and dark period Motiv 8 finally was able
to be present on the american boards again. Fur-
thermore they are currently recruiting a competive
DEMO SECTION in order to enlarge their activity in
this part of the scene, too, so things are looking
promising for them at the moment.

We can report about a new US headquarter called
Galaxy, runned by Galactus who left Hardcore to join
the danish pride, but later on both agreed to DIVIDE
the partnership. The Internet activities have been
enlarged by sharing the new SCS&TRC site "Mount
Tokay", nevertheless Crossfire explained that they'll
continue supporting "Interpark" aswell, supporting
both FTP-sites on a similar level.
The Fresh Prince has returned to the active part of
the danish group again, serving them as mail trader
in their distribution front, which got enlarged by the
dutch swapper Nuke, who will remain in the commer-
cial group XL.C.US Software as second group. Nuke
is no one else but Peter Staaks of EAGLEWARE IN-
TERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS, creator of a lot of com-
puter games in the past few years.
Lyon/Feniks (author of the TRACKPLAYER) teamed
up as programmer for the demo section lead by Ice-
ball and Greenfrog. MHD did NOT leave Motiv 8 for the
cooperation of Acrise & Excess, but joined them to
be a member of Motiv 8, Acrise & Excess and Feniks
right now.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 19):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Galactus,
Greenfrog, Grego, Ibanez, Iceball, Larry, Mason, Mer-
lin, MHD, Nuke, Spider, Stone, The Fresh Prince and
TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK bbs.cc.uniud.it
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu
HTTP: //www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/&grfrog/

* ONSLAUGHT *
------------------------------------------------------------
After many months being the group with the HIGHEST
fluctuation ever in scene history and a lot of contro-
versial situations Onslaught managed to SOLVE their
START problems. They already GROWN UP and belong
to the leading cracking groups these days.

In order to expand their fixing activities THE UNHOLY
of Demonix, who'll ofcourse REMAIN in Demonix as 1st
group, has signed up. From their former cooperation
partner Hardcore RAMIREZ and SHOCKER joined for-
ces. Many people expected that Ramirez has left the
scene months ago after the problems around the or-
ganisation in Hardcore, but now it seems he is back
to become more active again. Shocker will serve as
mail trader.
Bizarre got CAUGHT for abusing a german VMB. He is
supposed to PAY a PENALTY FEE around $20.000!

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 31):
ASV, Bizarre, Code 18, Deekay, Digahole, Donar, Doom
Gop, Grafee, Grize, Hardsequencer, Heavyhead,
Jazzcat, Jolz, Kinley, Meff, Morbid, Morrisey, Mr.
Brain, Ramirez, Ram Jam, Rap, Shades, Shocker,
Sphere, The Twins, The Unholy, TMM, Trobule, Venge-
ance and Witty

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX-XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* SHAPE *
------------------------------------------------------------
After 5 years of silence the norwegian legend finally
has returned to impress the audience again with
stunning performances to show that they are still
able to compete with today's demo groups.

Next to their lately released demo BLUE FOREST
another important information put the group in the
spotlight of the public interest. DUKE, former member
of Regina and the man behind the success of The Pul-
se Magazine, decided to accept their offer and found
a new home for The Pulse. In the future Shape will
take care about new magazine outfits what was an
important factor for Duke's decision.
Certain members of Shape have found SHAPE SOFT-
WARE, a new game label with fully independence from
the basis group Shape.

Current Shape memberstatus looks like (= 14):
Andreas, Duke, Eivind, Glenn Rune, Haakon, Hans Pet-
ter, Kjell, Kristian, Morten, Richard, Rolf Runar,
Snorre and Sveining

Shape worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DRUGSTORE ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY *
------------------------------------------------------------
New year, new aims. The dutch cooperation made a
major clean up in order to prove the efficiency of the
remaining team.

As the Internet is getting more and more scenewise
the successors set up a second FTP-site in Hungary
called "Mount Tokay". Maintainer is ofcourse STAKE
who decided to share the site with Motiv 8, a group
being very active on the Internet.
As promised starting with the new year the dutch co-
operation removed a lot of inactive members in order
to reduce their memberstatus. Victims of the clean up
have been the following persons in a-z order:
Case, Cavron, Cruze, Dannie, Guzzler, Jity, JRC, Mr.
Disk, Mistri and Sailor. Their actual fate is not known
to us.
Blaze confused the scene again and continued were
he stopped in the previous edition. After joining the
cooperation he LEFT the scene due to school pro-
blems in order to return just a few days later to stay
independent for a while. Time will tell what will happen
in the next days.
Unlike other sources reported Scatman has NEVER
joined the ruling cooperation!
THE DUNGEON will be online again on March 15th, 1996
as ALCHEMIST moved houses.

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 21):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Allitaice, Bacillus, Burglar,
CBA, Count Zero, Credo, H-Bloxx, Lord Crucifier,
Micron, Moren, Nightshade, Replay, Sliver, Spectator,
Splatterhead, Stake, Titanic, Trax and Tristan

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON online again on March 15th, 1996
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON utopia.hacktic.nl
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu

* SINGLE NEWS AND RUMOURS *
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* VIRTUAL LIGHT (++XX/XXX-XXXXX) is a new swedish
board destinated to be a Triad BBS and the Driven
Magazine EHQ.

* THE PULSE MAGAZINE enlarged their activities in
the board front with signing up MOUNT OLYMPUS
(Motiv 8) as EHQ and enlarged their activity on the
Internet with an homepage created by Earthquake:
HTTP://WWW.TU-Chemnitz.De/&DSC/Pulse

* PALACE filled their rows with THE UNDERTAKER of
QUARTEX (Amiga).
Current Palace memberstatus looks like this (= 15):
2ny, Ace, Artic, B.P., CounterAttack, Delta, Flotsam
Hoffi, Junkie, Kreator, Oca, Page, Pain, Rockstar
and Undertaker
Palace worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
FTP: LOSING CONTROL ftp.dhp.com

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Master of Law...

MARC

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed within 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
Re-release of a preview -1.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation -1.0/ - 2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one EXTRA POINT for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* ACRISE + EXCESS (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The new cooperation had a very bad start with the
preview of CRAZY NEWS (0.3 pts) the full games of
COLOURS (2. 1 pts) and WALLSTREET 2 (0.0 pts),
a compiled basic game. And the RE-RELEASES of
SHOOT OUT (- 7 pts), Avantgarde & Atlantis released
the fixed version some days earlier and the preview
of HANGMAN (- 1 pts), Chromance released it 2 weeks
ago.

* ACTIVE (0.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the preview of MINESWHEEPER (0.3p).

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 (2.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the previews of MICK WORDS (0.5p)
from Butterfly Productions, A.P.E.X. (0.5 pts) and
HOPE TO HOPP 2 (0.5 pts) from Magna Media and
RINGS AND STARS DELUXE (1.0 pts) from XLCUS, it's
a GAME MAKER game but I give one extra point be-
cause they fixed the game intro.

* ATLANTIS (2.1) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released SHOOTOUT (2.1) and Avantgarde fixed
it.

* AVANTGARDE (12.2) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with DELITE (2.5 pts). The
game doesn't need a NTSC fix, the preview of
APOLLO 14 (0.6 pts) and the fixed versions of
CUBIC (3.4 pts), SHOOTOUT (1.0 pts) fixed for Atlan-
tis, BLOB (1.0 pts) fixed for Laxity, BOMBEL (2.1 pts)
and LOST (1.6 pts) together with F4CG so the points
will be shared.

* CHROMANCE (10.6 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of BALLZ (4.4p)
and IGNORAMUS (1.0 pts). Ignoramus is a S.E.U.C.K.
game but they fixed it so I will give one points for
something special. GRUMPY BUMPER P. (2.1 pts) from
Loadstar doesn't need a fix and OTER (2.5 pts) got
fixed by Hitmen, followed by the previews of HANGMAN
(0.2 pts), TOXIC (0.3 pts), DUNE 2 (0.1 pts) and a
tool called PROFESSIONAL SOUND STUDIO (0.0 pts).

* F4CG (4.8 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the previews of GIRLTRIS (0.8 p)
from LK Avalon, MANGAOID (0.3 pts) and released
BOMBEL (2.1 pts) and LOST (1.6 pts) together with
Avantgarde, so the points will be shared.

* HITMEN (5.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the fixed version of SUMMIX (4.2 pts),
the preview of COLONY (0.5 pts) and OTER (1.0 pts),
fixed for Chromance.

* LAXITY (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the preview of STAR WARS (0.2 pts),
BLOB (3.0 pts) fixed by Avantgarde and RE-RE-
LEASED COLOURS (- 7 points), Acrise & Excess re-
leased it 5 days earlier on the Dead Zone.

* MAYHEM (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The only thing that i can mention is a S.E.U.C.K. game
called MONSTER MASH 2 (0.0 pts).

* MOTIV 8 (3.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The following games and previews are all made with a
Game Maker - so NO points. STARS & RINGS 3 PRV,
STARS & RINGS DELUXE PRV, CONFUSING QUEST 2
PRV, STARS & RINGS 3 and FUZZY FISHERMAN.
Followed by the previews of FUTURE TETRIS (0.4 pts)
POLOGONAMY (0.1 pts), BOXES (0.3 pts), ACES OF
HEARTS (0.5 pts) and AMERICAN BASKETBALL HEROS
(2.1 pts), the game doesn't need a fix.

* ONSLAUGHT (1.2 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the previews of DRUG BIRD (1.0 pts)
and SPINBALL (0.2 pts).

* SUCCESS & TRC (8.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of OKLAHOMA
KID (3.6 pts), SONNY THE SNAIL (4.1 pts) and the
previews of ISOLATION (0.3 pts) and INCERATOR
(0.4 pts).

* XENON (0.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the preview of STONED (0.3 pts).

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official RELEASE-CHARTS February 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (4) Avantgarde 12.2
02. (3) Chromance 10.6
03. (5) SCS+TRC 8.4
04. (6) Hitmen 5.7
05. (8) F4CG 4.8
06. (7) Motiv 8 3.4
07. (1) Alpha Flight 1970 2.5
08. (/) Atlantis 2.1
09. (2) Onslaught 1.2
10. (/) Active 0.3
11. (9) Xenox 0.3

The official FIXING-CHARTS February 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Avantgarde 5
02. (1) Chromance 2
(2) Hitmen
(/) SCS+TRC
(1) Alpha Flight 1970 1

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970
-------------------

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (welcome back) in the United
States of America. Furthermore it is possible to vote
by sending e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board
worldwide. There exists the opportunity to vote via
Internet, too, by using our very own DIGITAL VOTE-
SHEET or just by sending an e-mail containing your
votes to Zapotek or RRR. Simple, isn't it?

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 172
02. (3) Reflex 169
03. (2) Byterapers 164
04. (4) Camelot 139
05. (5) Agony Design 126
06. (8) Taboo 119
07. (10) Triad 102
08. (6) Censor Design 97
09. (7) Fairlight 89
10. (/) Profik 68

The race for the crown of the demo groups is getting
closer and closer. OXYRON was able to defend the
top spot, just having a few more points compared with
REFLEX and BYTERAPERS on the following places.
At the end PROFIK earned enough points to enter our
charts, sending FOCUS down to eleven. Let's see for
how long.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (4) Quiss/Reflex 192
02. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 185
03. (2) Graham/Oxyron 179
04. (3) TTS/Oxyron 163
05. (5) Druid/Agony Design 142
06. (6) Slammer/Camelot 139
07. (8) Axis/Oxyron 112
08. (7) Slammer/Camelot 98
09. (9) Crossbow/Crest 79
10. (/) Fuben/Oxyron 65

After the impressing demo MATHEMATICA it is no won-
der that QUISS was voted on number ONE here, send-
ing MR. SEX back to TWO and GRAHAM to THREE.
At the end FUBEN replaced GLASNOST and he is the
FOURTH (!!) Oxyron coder in the top ten! Impressing,
or what?

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Avantgarde 193
02. (3) Alpha Flight 1970 187
03. (1) Success & TRC 185
04. (4) Chromance 174
05. (5) F4CG 170
06. (6) Onslaught 164
07. (/) Hitmen 162
08. (7) Motiv 8 143
09. (8) Atlantis 132
10. (10) Fairlight 120

This time AVANTGARDE got back its pole position here
followed by ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 and last time's TOP
RANKED group SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY.
HITMEN entered the charts at 7, replacing Hardcore
who seem to be not that active anymore.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Ignorance/AFL 189
02. (3) Jack Alien/AVT 175
03. (2) Burglar/SCS 166
04. (5) Hain/F4CG 153
05. (8) CBA/TRC 145
06. (4) Antitrack/F4CG 128
07. (6) Bacchus/FLT 123
08. (7) Kirby/ATL 115
09. (9) Skinhead/AFL 100
10. (/) Playboy/F4CG 95

IGNORANCE got voted as the # 1 cracker here, with
JACK ALIEN and BURGLAR in his neck. New in here is
PLAYBOY who replaced Moren, the rest remains
more or less unchanged, except for some MINOR po-
sition changes.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 194
02. (2) Electric/Extend 189
03. (5) Creeper/Antic 172
04. (4) Carrion/Elysium 169
05. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 152
06. (6) RRR/Oxyron 128
07. (8) Joe/Wrath Design 115
08. (/) Fazee/Taboo 100
09. (7) Roder/Agony 99
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 76

CRUISE, ELECTRIC and CREEPER are on top, what
seems to be no surprise at all. The rest of the top
ten remained more or less unchanged, except for
FAZEE, who entered the charts and replaced good
old MIRAGE

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 182
02. (5) PVCF/Reflex 164
03. (3) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 157
04. (2) Shogoon/Taboo 149
05. (6) Jeff/Camelot 143
06. (/) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 126
07. (8) Red Devil/Fairlight 104
08. (/) Zyron/F4CG 102
09. (/) Compod/Charged/... 98
10. (4) Jeroen Tel/Focus 92

PRI is the ABSOLUTE number one, in both, board and
mail charts. PVCF moved certain positions up to two,
SYNDROM remained at three. A lot happened here,
with FANTA, ZYRON and COMPOD entering the board
charts, replacing the alltime heroes EDWIN VAN SAN-
TEN, REYN OUWEHAND and DANKO. We appreciate any
movement in order to prevent boredom.

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 174
02. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 156
03. (3) Success & TRC 143
04. (4) Hitmen 127
05. (/) Chromance 103
06. (5) Onslaught 88
07. (6) F4CG 73
08. (7) Empire 38
09. (8) Demonix 27
10. (/) ./. ./.

AVANTGARDE, ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 and SUCCESS &
THE RULING COMPANY are the leading fixing groups,
atleast it's the opinion of the board scene. CHROMAN-
CE entered the charts, and the american fixing
groups are, due to a lack of activity, NOT able to
CHALLENGE their european COMPETITORS anymore.
Without any doubts they may DISAPPEAR sooner or
later.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/HIT 189
02. (5) Ignorance/AFL 166
03. (3) CBA/TRC 153
04. (6) Jack Alien/AVT 142
05. (2) Suicide/AVT 139
06. (6) Jolz/Onslaught 125
07. (4) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 93
08. (/) Burglar/SCS 79
09. (7) Booze/Empire 37
10. (10) Mercenary/AFL 24

PEACEMAKER is the ABSOLUTE number one fixer in
here, followed by IGNORANCE, who CLIMBED certain
positions, and CBA. There are still many INACTIVE
americans in here. With BURGLAR we have a new en-
try, replacing RICH who seem to have left the top ten
for good. Aren't there any NEW names to enter here?

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on INTERNET by FILLING
our DIGITAL VOTESHEET or simply by leaving e-mail
to ZAPOTEK or RRR.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
normal and digital Relax votesheets:

The Grapevine 17/The Dark Realm DECEMBER 1995
Domination 6/Independent JANUARY 1996
Nitro 20/Acrise & Excess JANUARY 1996
Rock'n Role 20/Role JANUARY 1996
Skyhigh 20/Camelot JANUARY 1996
Unplugged 1/U-Turn JANUARY 1996

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 66
02. (2) Reflex 62
03. (4) Byterapers 54
04. (3) Camelot 49
05. (5) Agony Design 39
06. (6) Taboo 34
07. (9) Crest 24
08. (7) Antic 19
09. (10) Nipson 12
10. (/) Censor Design 10

The race for the TOP SPOT is getting closer and clo-
ser. OXYRON is still leading with Reflex, Byterapers
and Camelot on the following positions. At the end
CENSOR DESIGN re-entered the charts, replacing
with Fairlight another oldtimer.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 68
02. (5) Quiss/Reflex 52
03. (2) Slammer/Camelot 51
04. (3) TTS/Oxyron 50
05. (4) Graham/Oxyron 49
06. (6) MMS/Taboo 29
07. (7) Druid/Agony Design 21
08. (10) Crossbow/Crest 11
09. (9) KM/Taboo 7
10. (8) Axis/Oxyron 6

Next to MINOR position changes nothing has happened
here. MR. SEX is still the person holding the pole po-
sition. Nevertheless we are waiting for a reaction
from his side towards the text in Mathematica. QUISS
jumped from 5 to 2 and GRAHAM should be much
HIGHER!

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 60
02. (2) Success & TRC 52
03. (5) Alpha Flight 1970 45
04. (3) F4CG 44
05. (4) Chromance 40
06. (6) Motiv 8 21
07. (7) Onslaught 19
08. (8) Hardcore 17
09. (10) Atlantis 13
10. (9) Acrise & Excess 10

In the cracking business not that much happened as-
well. AVANTGARDE and SUCCESS & THE RULING COM-
PANY still at the top, this time followed by ALPHA
FLIGHT 1970 who have overtaken F4CG and Chro-
mance this time. The rest remained more or less UN-
CHANGED.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 58
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 57
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 46
04. (5) Ignorance/AFL 34
05. (6) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 30
06. (4) CBA/TRC 27
07. (7) Mr. Wax/<C> 23
08. (8) Bacchus/FLT 17
09. (9) Moonchild/FLT 10
10. (10) Ream/AFL 7

It's getting BORING over here. The third top ten list
covering a few MINOR changes only. The top three
remains unchanged with JACK ALIEN, BURGLAR and
HAIN. IGNORANCE climbed 1 and CBA has lost 2 places
here.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 66
02. (3) Joe/Wrath Design 62
03. (2) Electric/Extend 56
04. (5) Creeper/Antic 55
05. (4) Fazee/Taboo 38
06. (6) RRR/Oxyron 27
07. (7) Ogami/Fairlight 15
08. (8) Carrion/Elysium 14
09. (/) Astaroth/Agony 11
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 10

CRUISE is the man when it comes up to CBM 64 gra-
phics these days, followed by JOE and ELECTRIC who
changed places. At the end ASTAROTH entered the
charts, replacing Biz Kid who left once again.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 70
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 59
03. (3) PVCF/Reflex 58
04. (4) Compod/Charged/... 43
05. (5) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 29
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot/CZP 28
07. (7) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 27
08. (9) Zyron/F4CG/Swemix 23
09. (8) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 16
10. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 10

PRI is still holding the well deserved number one posi-
tion of the most VALUEABLE music composer around
these days, followed by SYNDROM and PVCF on the
following places. Even the rest remains more or less
unchanged. Names like METAL and ZARDAX are
missing here.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/AVT 50
02. (2) Calypso/AMN/AFL 42
03. (4) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 37
04. (3) Spermbird/<C> 33
05. (5) Splatterhead/TRC 28
06. (9) Shuze/AFL 12
07. (/) Spectator/SCS 11
08. (6) Bizarre/ONS 10
09. (8) Sebaloz/LD 9
10. (7) Walker/F4CG 7

INTRUDER, CALYPSO and DERBYSHIRE RAM are the
leading persons in the mail trading front. SHUZE did a
major step into direction top. SPECTATOR re-entered
the charts, replacing STARLIGHT who did not get
enough points to qualify for the top ten this time.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Vandalism News 62
02. (1) Skyhigh 60
03. (2) Nitro 46
04. (4) Domination 45
05. (6) Shout! 40
06. (8) Propaganda 36
07. (5) Relax Magazine 32
08. (7) Mendip 24
09. (9) The Pulse Magazine 19
10. (10) The Tribune 15

For the first time VANDALISM NEWS has taken over
the pole position here, followed by SKYHIGH and NIT-
RO. The rest remains unchanged, except for some MI-
NOR position changes.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
In our endless seek to look out for interesting pro-
files we meet Metal/Vibrants in the crusades through
the IRC, and there were no doubts that he has to be
the person to show up in the talk show this month, of-
course held via the Internet.
The following +/- 20K will present Metal and some un-
known facts about him, proving that he is sure one of
these few "oldtimers" left still trying the best to keep
the CBM 64 SOCIETY alive, something we can not re-
port about too much persons these days.
Surely there is no need to introduce him as almost
everyone should know atleast his work, so let's start
to come to the fact instead of wasting expensive me-
mory with small talk.

?: Hello Torben. As usual we start over here with a
short personal introduction, containing everything
you feel worth to be published here, except for any
computer data.

!: Well, my name is Torben Hansen. I'm 23 years old
and still looking good, even though the grey colour-
scale is taking over. I live together with my girl friend
MERETE and our unborn child. I'm 3.5 years though
my studies to become a land-surveyor, which involves
some math and law stuff. I guess that'll do for the in-
troduction.

?: You have been a member of many famous groups.
Please inform us about your computer history here,
from the very beginning until today's situation, con-
taining all groups which have been stations in your
career.

!: I'll give it a try ... my first computer was a CBM 64,
and I bought it in early 1986. For about a year or so
I didn't do anything but play games. But then his guy
at my school, TIGER (now working at Funcom Produc-
tions Ireland) introduced me to the scene and he
taught me to code mnemonic. He took me into his
group ZONE 7, and I joined as a coder/swapper. It
had members like Tiger and Drax's big brother, PET,
who today work for RAINBOW ARTS, and who has been
a member of such glory scene groups such as Jewels
and Upfront. Zone 7 changed name into Deadline in
1988 (not the one later to be known cracking group).
When I was in Deadline I started to compose and to
draw graphics aswell. Deadline died and I joined up
with a local group called The Atomic Freaks (1988),
which shortly after teamed up with some more guys
and created U2. In U2 I got contact to TDJ/Worldwide
Expressive (WWE) and he took me in (1988-89), and
so WWE was my first really known group. In WWE I
contacted Trap/Abnormal, who's work I had admired
when he was in Razor Express (1987). Anyway, Trap
asked me to join Abnormal since he was the only da-
nish member, and so I joined Abnormal in 1989. When
Abnormal died I got an offer from my good friend
Drake/Contex (later Dominators) to join them (1989).
Since my life in Context was pretty dull I wasn't sorry
when Contex died - I would probably have left them
anyway coz Flex made it pretty clear to me that they
wouldn't use my music in any Contex demos. So, for
the first time I was without a group. Drax, whom I've
known ever since he started in the scene, was at
that time in Amok. He was very tired of this group, so
to follow up the trend of the late 80's, we formed our
very own music-label Unitech Designs (1990). After 3
music demos and no reactions we gave up the idea
and Drax went into Vibrants, and Trap asked me to
join his rebuilt group BONZAI (1990), and we all know
wjat that lead to. When we agreed to bury Bonzai
(just after arranging The Party 1991) most of us
teamed up with the also close to dead danish group
STARION (1992). Besides Walt's demo Oksen, I thin we
all did nothing in Starion. My long time swapping friend
Morpheus of FLASH INC. jad numerous times asked me
to join up with Flash Inc. and so I did in 1992. It was
also in 1992 when I joined VIBRANTS, yes, I wasn't a
member before. Just because my music could be
played in the Deluxe-driver didn't mean that you were
a member of the Vibrants. Neither Scortia, Zonix or
MSK were ever members. Now back to Flash Inc. I did
not do too much for FHI, as I didn't have a C64. Ac-
tually I hadn't had a C64 since '91 or so when it broke
I had kept up my music-making by borrowing a friends
C64, but in 1993 that was over aswell. So, when FHI
died I joined REGINA more or less just to stay in the
scene, together with a friend of mine, Steve/ex-CML.
Shortly after that I have joined CAMELOT (1993). I
kinda lost track of the scene from 1993 to 1994, as I
didn't have a C64, and only heard a few things
through Drax, but since he wasn't too active either it
was a total blur. Then in 1994 I finally bought a new
C64, and finally started to do something for Camelot.
In 1995 my long time friend Deff/Avantgarde started
a pressure-campaign in order to siege me for the
demo section, and he succeeded ... And finally to cut
a long story short (erm, a bit too late for that, eh?!),
in 1995 I also joined the Internet group MARVEL, and
the re-grouped WWE, but neither of these groups are
active - don't ask me why I'm a member ... I know this
was a long answer, but hey ... you asked for the whole
thang, and you got it! On with the next one ...

?: You have become a quite popular musician all over
the years. What made you to become a music instead
of a programmer or graphic artist? Have you been
involved with music before your scene career, too?

!: No, not really. I played the guitar for a few years,
when I was still a kid, but that's all. When I entered the
scene in 1987 I got a tool called Soundmonitor, and I
got very inspirated to make music in it, even though
my friends would argue about the word 'music'. How-
ever my main-activities were programming and gra-
phics, so you could say, that I've been around. I more
or less stopped drawing when I entered Bonzai, and I
stopped coding at about the same time ...

?: When we are looking today on the music labels
around we always remember the glory days, when
"bands" like the Maniacs of Noise or Vibrants have
been around. Please tell us something about the Vib-
rants, and maybe something about the other members
and what they are doing the days.

!: Well, if you compare the Vibrants 5-6 years ago
with the Vibrants today, it's a different group in many
ways. The main difference is that we now operate on
other systems than the C64 (namely the PC). Another
thing, that has changed is the activity-level, which
has gone way down. About the members, there are a
few changes from the past: JCH ofcoz is still around,
even though his activity-level couldn't drop any lower
Today JCH isn't doing much. He has made an Adlib-
Editor and some other utilities for the PC. Something
happened to him, when he left the C64. He got very
unsatisfied with his own musical skills, and besides
converting some old C64-tunes to adlib, that's all the
music he's made since he left the scene. Lately
though he's tried a music-comeback with some XM-
mods, which have been spreaded. All I can say is, that
the rest of us in Vibrants kick his ass everytime we
talk to him to either do some programming or to make
some music. JCH is only 'active' on the PC. JO (Jes-
per Olsen) got assigned to the danish software label
Brainbug in 1993, and he followed them to Germany,
when they were bought by RAINBOW ARTS. He has,
much like JCH, more or less put his music in the
background, mainly because he likes to programm ga-
mes more. He still makes some noises though, but no-
thing seriously. JO is only 'active' on PC. DRAX has
been through a time where he hasn't made nearly as
much music as he used to. After he got a PC he's
mainly been making Midi and Adlib, and not so much
C64 music. Today he has divided his activity into two
parts: during weekdays he's in Aarhus, where he
studies, and here he has his PC. In the weekends he
travels home to his parents, and this is where his
C64 is. So, Drax is still active on the C64, and also on
the PC, where he's even started to make XM-modules
aswell. LAXITY is very hung up to his work in Norway
for FUNCOM PRODUCTIONS. He makes music for their
games - the latest production he's working on is
DRAGON HEART, where he makes the music partly with
JEROEN TEL, who also works for FUNCOM in Norway.
LAX is not 'active' on the C64 anymore, but it hap-
pens that he turns the old machine on and makes a
tune - just check out that demo 'Mr. Thomas/VIB". He
makes a lot of Midi-music in almost all cathegories,
except TECHNO. And finally myself - well, that's what
this interview is about, so let's go on with it, shall we?

?: Lately you have spread the complete Newplayer
20.G4 package, a music editor set some people kept
as a private utility, even if it was said to be public
domain since already two years. What was your very
own motivation to do it, and what do think about peop-
le "improving" these tools instead of writing their own
routines?

!: Well, first of all, it's very wrong that the Newplayer
was said to be public domain 2 years ago, when the
14.G0 unfortunately got spread. It hasn't ever been
PD before JCH spreaded the whole pack! As for my
motivation to spread the pack I must say that I did it
only because JCH wanted to spread the whole thing, I
still think it was wrong of him to spread it, but it was
not me to decide, and so I decided that if he were to
to spead it as a PC pack, I might aswell spread it on
C64 to please those, who hasn't got a PC and a x1541
cable to transfer the files. If people wants to improve
the tools, they are free to do so - JCH stated that
clearly in his spreadnotes, and I stated it very clear-
ly in my spreadarticle in Skyhigh # 19. However, I also
stated that if someone were to improve the Newpla-
yer or the Editor calling it their own would be very
lame, coz it would be like shitting all over JCH and the
tremenous amount of work he put into these tools. If
people respect that I see no reason why people
shouldn't improve the Newplayer or the Editor.

?: In comparison with other editors, what are the ad-
vantages/disadvantages of JCH's routine? Why did it
become your favourite one?

!: Hmm, the first question is fairly simple - there are
very few disadvantates of the Newplayer. It's a good
solid routine which is wrapped in a very user-friend-
ly editor with alot of commands and tables to adjust
the values of the instruments. If I were to point out a
few disadvantages of the Newplayer, I can only think
of a few things, and those are mainly new commands
for the editor. E.g. I think it would be great with a
command to set various filter values on the base-in-
strument - however, Syndrom has already implented
this in the 20.G5 player, which still isn't ready folks!
Why did I choose it? Well, I didn't just choose it. I saw
it for the first time at the 2000AD party in Esbjerg
1989, where JCH gave it to Drax. Since Drax and I
hung out alot I got to try it out at this place, and of-
coz the whole editor-system, which is far more user-
friendly than any duration-players, attracted me!
However, JCH didn't just give the editor to anybody,
so I had to amke alot of convincing - and after some
exchange of disks, I too got the editor, infact only 2
months after Drax got it. That Drax made a zillion
more tunes than I did is another matter ... The reason
why it's always been my fave tool is definately be-
cause JCH made new versions of the Newplayer and
added new features to the editor, so the whole sys-
tem was always up-to-date, and therefore I saw no
reason to look for other players. I've tried out both
the Music-Assembler and DMC 6.0, but it's just not
the same. At the moment I'm trying out JEFF'S new
editor, and I must say that this editor is the first one
that could pull me away from the Newplayer.

?: Many people thought you are inactive these days,
so it was a real surprise to see you joining up with
Avantgarde these days. What was the reason for
that kind of comeback?

!: There we have it again. Just because someone has
not released anything for a while everybody just
jumps to the conclusion that this guy has left the
scene, kinda like when everyone thought Crest was
stonedead! Anyway, I've been out of biz for a while,
since I have several other things to attend to. Why I
did join Avantgarde, well, it wasn't ment as a come-
back, but more a way to my music out, coz let's face
it, CAMELOT haven't exactly been active for quite a
while now. But again, why AVT? Why join an illegal
group? Well, as I mentioned before in my group-histo-
ry it was all because of Deff, who had put the pres-
sure on me to team up with them in order to built a
demo section. About the cracking-biz, heck I've been
in cracking groups before - Abnormal, Contex and
Bonzai cracked games, and I have no problems with
being in a group that has crackers as long as there
still is a demo section.

?: You are aswell active on PC. On The Party V we
were able to listen to your module(s) in the Analogue
demo. Why did you decide to enter the PC world in-
stead of the Amiga, who is said to be the big brother
of the CBM 64?

!: Well, indeed I have been active on the Amiga. I
bought it back in 1989 when I was in Abnormal, and so
my first Amiga group was Abnormal, although I think I
was the only member of Abnormal Amiga. Anyway, from
Abnormal I went through a number of different
groups and ended up in the one and only C64 legend
UPFRONT! In 1992 I got fed up with the Amiga, so I sold
it and bought a PC instead. So, I have been in the Ami-
ga-scene, but I never really felt comfortable with it.
Anyway, now I'm active on the PC and I do stuff for my
dutch group Analogue and my danish (inactive) camel-
colleagues in Camelot PC ... and ofcoz some releases
under the VIBRANTS label.

?: What kind of editors do you use on the PC, and
what are the advantages/disadvantages compared
with other trackers spread around? What formats do
you prefer (.S3M, .XM, ...) for your modules?

!: On the PC I use different editors for each format.
If I am to compose AdLib-music I use the Vibrants Ed-
Lib 1.05 editor, but due to different things this editor
has no real use anymore, and JCH has spread it. If I
am going to compose Midi-music I use CakeWalk 3.0
Pro hooked up with my Korg X3, which has a magnifi-
cent GeneralMidi-interface. For modules I've tried al-
most every darn format there is, but at this point in
time I use only the .XM-format (FastTracker 2). The
advantages ... well, the EdLib was simply a superior
adlib-editor, because you had the opportunity to
make instruments with many operators and even an
arpeggio-table, so it reminds me a bit of the New-
player editor on the C64. The reason why I don't use
it anymore is that it was made with game-music in mind
and indeed it was used for that. However, if you're
making music for games today you have to make it for
several different sound-cards, which means that you
either have one editor for all formats or you face
some hard convertion work! JCH saw that the EdLib-
editor has no future, and now we compose in Midi-
format for games. JO and JCH have made a little pro-
gramm that can play the Midi-file on both a GM-inter-
face such as the Roland SCC-1 or on an adlib-card, it
allows you setup a special instruments pack for the
adlib sounds, so you can regulate that aswell. Unfor-
tunately this tool is not (C) Vibrants as Rainbow Arts
have (C) on it, due to JO being a RA employee ... that
kind sucks!

?: Actually old CBM 64 music composers like Laxity &
Jeroen Tel are working for Funcom in Norway, doing
music professional for games. Do you have any ambi-
tions to do something similar or aren't you interested
in it at all, seeing making music just as a hobby to
"waste" some sparetime?

!: Well, in fact I did get the offer from Funcom Norway
to go there and work instead of Geir Tjelta, who was
heading for the army. If they'd called me up 4 years
ago I would have gone without hesitation, but today I'm
3/4 through my university education and I have sett-
led down with my girl and started a family. As far as
my ambitions are concerned, I want to continue mak-
ing music for games, even though it's harder to get
freelance-contracts. Making music will never be any-
thing more than a hobby to me, but indeed it will never
be a WASTE of my sparetime!

?: As we could see in the beginning of the interview
you are actually a member of five groups. How do you
manage it or have you set some priorities for your
"favourite" groups, as it must take a lot of time to
please them all in the same way?

!: Yes, I have set some priorities for these groups -
that's definately necessary! My priority list is like
this: VIBRANTS C64/PC, ANALOGUE PC, CAMELOT C64
PC inactive, AVANTGARDE C64, MARVEL C64 inactive
and WWE C64. It's quite a list, so one might I didn't do
anything but compose for these groups, however, do
remember this: Analogue make 1-2 demos yearly, and
we're 3 musicians to do the music for that (MCA, NAO
and myself). Camelot makes nothing. Avantgarde will
(hopefully) make some stuff, and this will require
some tunes. Marvel and WWE are doing nothing. So
you see, all in all I'm not at all hung up on these
groups ....

?: The Internet became a quite attractive place to
meet many old and actual CBM 64 related persons.
What do you think about this rather new media?

!: I like the Internet and I use it regulary - mainly be-
cause I have free access at University. I use the In-
ternet to leech the latest stuff from the C64 and PC.
Then there's e-mail, WWW and finally not to be forgot-
ten there's IRC! What my feelings are concerning the
Internet ... well, one could easily start writing endless
theories about the consequences of the Internet be-
coming so cast, however, I won't bore you with it ... so
far I feel good about the Internet, and I think it will
tribute to the continual existance of the C64, despite
what most board-sceners seem to think: to you I'd
like to say ... the only difference between the boards
and the Internet is that the Internet is Not a closed
area for a selected group of 'elite' people to call -
this one's for everybody, and indeed that's what will
keep the C64 alive. What's so wrong about moving the
board-scene along with natural development - go IN-
TERNET!

?: Unfortunately everything has to come to an end,
even this interview does not make any exception. This
is the place to add a final word and to send out some
greetings, if you would like to. Many thanks for being
our talk guest and for being patient all the time.

!: Well, my final words would be pointed towards the
whole C64-scene. When voting for a magazine, re-
member this:

"Don't just vote for activity and friendship -
vote for activity and talent!"

Finally I would like to thank you Timo, for wasting
some space in your great magazine for an interview
with me ... a total burn-out ;) And I would like to say
hi to everyone at # c-64 and to the rest of you out
there ... you know who you are!! And now back to you
Timo ...

Due to Metal's effort it became a quite interesting in-
terview, so we truely hope you enjoyed reading it as
much as we like editing it. Be sure to re-load this
chapter next time when another interesting profile
will become the target of our question attack to dis-
cover the last secrets of this universe.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* DEMO REVIEWS *
------------------------------------------------------------
At THE PARTY V a lot of good demoes were released,
such as MATHEMATICA/REFLEX, DAWNFALL/OXYRON
and some others from No Name, Smash Design, Antic
and many more just to name a few. There are no
doubts to define it as a successfull ending of 1995.

1996 started quite promising aswell, with productions
from AGONY DESIGN called "PAIN" and ofcourse the
first demo since 1991 from SHAPE, and the name is
"BLUE FOREST". Unfortunately, after this quite good
start not that much followed, so we can't await to see
the productions released at the next conventions like
X-96 or SYMPOSIUM '96.

Ofcourse we intended to have a look at most of the
demonstrations, but caused by TECHNICAL problems
and the DEADLINE we had a look on the "Mergezo
Anyag III" from Profik and "Retroactive" from Antic
only.

Anyway, here WE go ...

* MERGEZO ANYAG 3/PROFIK *
------------------------------------------------------------
Profik is a PROMISING group from Hungary following
the tradition of solid hungarian demo groups. Unfor-
tunately they have advertised their previous demo
as Coma Light 13 what is ofcourse excellent in order
to gain ATTENTION and to get the demo spread, but it
does not speak for the group in our opinion. Never-
theless this time they have not done it, and so hope is
left for their future productions.

* FUBEN about the coding *
------------------------------------------------------------
This trackmo is coded by Profi 1 and Profi 1.5!

It starts up with some gfx in the intro and sort of
STAR WARS-scroller (an upscroller turned around to
the Z-AXIS). It DOESN'T run in one frame and was co-
ded before.
After the intro there is a LOADING part which looks
nearly the same like COMA LIGHT 12's loaderpart
(blue background, moving 'LOADING' sprites, ...).
By the way, all parts are just EQUAL-CHAR PACKED
but why?)!
The next part featurs a swirl ROTATOR (the same like
in Radio Napalm/REFLEX) combined with waves (new
on C64). Nice effects actually, but a bit TOO SMALL in
my eyes! I forgot to mention the 4x4 resolution.
Next effect is a TEXTURE MAPPED GLOBE, something
looking similar to GRAHAM's spherical projection in
PARTS, but here in 4x4 resolution and screen-filling
(in two frames, too).
An EOR-filled-HiRes-vector-tunnel follows, this time
in a square with 128x128 pixels! This effect is SIMPLY
done but nice to watch.
Next is a TEXTURED TUNNEL (looking quite SIMILAR to
AXIS' routine in LAMENESS RULEZ/OXYRON). I just
wonder why they have RECODED exactly the same
again?! The second texture is ROTATED, but it's no-
thing else than scrolling the textures up or down
(=changing the pointers to the texture).
Another Oxyron classic follows: a TEXTURED VECTOR
cube (see: LAMENESS RULEZ). This one looks even
more worse than AXIS's first try (he IMPROVED his
routine, which is NOT RELEASED yet). This one runs a
faster than Axis' one, but Axis' cube was BIGGER and
he also rotated a texture additionally. Evenso I was
surprised seeing this effect here again. Did I say
that this effect is in 4x4 resolution again?
A new effect comes up. This time TWO LENSES move
over a 2x2 texture (4 colours). I am not sure, but I
think this version is the FIRST, which really DISTORT
a texture under the lenses. Other routines just EX-
PAND the texture.
Finally the end arrives. An AMIGA-CONVERTED RAY-
TRACE-animation (on Y-expanded multicolor sprites)
with 20 pictures MOTIVATES you to push your reset
button. Over the animation there you see some text
written, giving credits and so on.

First, I have to say that ALL parts FADE in and out,
which is a base for DESIGN, that is BADLY needed in
TRACKMO. This demo is surely HARD coded. Evenso,
there are many recoded effects, which WEREN'T even
improved!
I can't wait to see the next PROFIK demo and I think
that is a group with great POTENTIAL!
I give a rating of 73%!

* RRR about the graphics *
------------------------------------------------------------
ALL graphics in this production, starting from the
charactersets to the logos, have been drawn by
PROFI 2.

The trackmo starts with a fullscreen multicolour bit-
map PROFIK bitmap in 3D, followed by a MERGEZO logo
at the left and an ANYAG logo at the right side, both
surrounded by a lightgrey background. In the middle
of the screen you can find a triange, and in the cen-
ter you can find a 3. In comparison with the graphics
at both sides of the screen the ones located in the
middle look quite poor. Next in the row there is again
a Profik multicolour bitmap logo at the top of the
screen, followed by one at the right side of screen,
again in multicolour bitmap format, what can be said
about the next two ones following in the same order
like the previous two ones.
To describe them would be a total waste of time as it
seem to be COPIES out of logos I have seen before
in old demoes from the major demo groups. There is
nothing NEW and SPECIAL in them, but that does NOT
mean that the graphics don't look nice. Therefore the
rating is at 67%, as there is hardly anything else but
logos in this production.

* PRI about the musics *
------------------------------------------------------------
All tunes for this demo were composed by Roy/Re-
play. They are of different QUALITY and character.
The intro is a common TECHNO tune with RATHER OLD
instruments, the HIHAT sounds more like a brush. But
later on some nice effects come in. THe second tune
starts with that OH-SO-POPULAR (in "real" music)
fast snare fade in and is a good deal, better than in
the intro, with some changes, breakdowns and harmo-
nic passages. The portamento-bass is neat (maybe
some older Oxyron-tune had an effect on the compo-
ser there?). Only a pity that there's no fade out. But
this critism has to be addressed to the coder. The
end-tune finally reminds me of Andre, a former Oxy-
ron member from the early days, now active in Ons-
laught. That WEIRD leadsounds, the NON-INVERTED
chords, the not very GROOVY rhythm... typical Andre
like. How come Roy composed something which sounds
exactly like this?
But anyway ... without the MAIN TUNE for this sound-
track wouldn't be too world-moving, but altogether it
is worth 75%.

* RETROACTIVE/ANTIC PRODUCTIONS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Antic is a group always well known for really good
looking demonstrations which are NOT too hard coded
in comparison with lots of other competitors. Never-
theless the audience appreciates their work very
much. Unfortunately, like MOST other demo groups
well, they have decreased their activity level.

* FUBEN about the coding *
------------------------------------------------------------
This demo is entirely coded by Depeh.

All starts up with an INTERNET simulation with an ani-
mated Antic-logo in the lower bottom.
The next part features a fullscreen animation on 4x8
resolution. Additionally there are some SPRITES
showing some text. Nothing impressive!
The 3rd part is a WOLFENSTEIN engine (no Doom!)... it
is calculated on an area of 50x24 pixels on 4x4. This
version is definetely too SLOW and too UNEXACT. As
always on C64 there are just TEXTURED walls. This
version is nothing against Graham's new Wolfenstein,
he coded recently.
Next effect is showing a textured object,which trans-
forms itself. It really looks funny but is nothing than
a normal MOVELIST effect in my eyes! By the way, this
effect is running in 4x2! In the background there is
the MICROSOFT Windows outfit shown...nice idea!
Finally the end appears. Some little KOALA-graphics
fading in and out with some sprites giving the credits

All in all a rather POOR demo containing some FUNNY
IDEAS though. No real CODING effects to see in it
beside of the Wolfenstein part. My rating: 36%

* RRR about the graphics *
------------------------------------------------------------
All graphics in this demonstration were drawn by a
person most expected to have left the scene, no one
else but Creeper decided to add his pixels here.

The first graphic we got to see is some kind of NET-
SCAPE screen, which most PC Internet users should
now, filled with a lot of colourful icons what looks in-
deed quite nice but can not be called an outstanding
graphical masterpiece, anyway it is function what
seems to be more important here. This got followed by
a screen we use to know as one of the most adverti-
sed and commercial computer production dividing the
nation these days, a Microsoft WINDOWS FOR WORK-
GROUPS screen. You all know the latest version of
Windows offers functions which Apple or Amiga ope-
rating systems (OS) offer since almost ten years by
now. Both PC screens, the Netscape and the Windows
screen got designed in 320 X 200 pixel resolution,
are quite colourful and come close to the original in
my opinion. What know follows in something you have
not expected after regarding the graphics until now,
another Windows application screen appears, this
time of the PROGRAMM MANAGER, again containing
some fine colourful icons and all the other "crap" you
use to know from the 16/32 bit machines.
The endpart is quite different. Here we find some
nice multicolour bitmap graphics, unfortunately most
of them were quite old and already shown in certain
Flash Inc and Antic productions.

All in all the graphics Creeper did for this demo are
surely quite nice and serve the ideas of the produ-
cers, nevertheless they are not too hard to create
and the cool graphics in the endpart are partly damn
old what will ofcourse prevent a top score. This leads
me to a rating of 59%.

* PRI about the musics *
------------------------------------------------------------
The soundtrack for this production got added by Zy-
ron, who left his former comrades in Antic for F4CG
these days.

ZYRON is without any doubts a composer with a very
personal note. It may not be everybody's cup of tea,
but, so to speak, a deaf man can recognize his tunes,
which also goes for this demo.
The intro features a very distortion-like techno (how
to call it exactly? Noise techno or something?) tune,
but after some seconds it is skipped. The next one
comes in some kind of ROCK sound with some psyche-
delic effects and some typically WEIRD lead sounds
and melodies. In the "radar" part there's something
more mysterious ... with some a little bit too loud ar-
peggios and some nice sync-effects, partly like
KRAFTWERK, next to a broad bass. Again some critism
to the coders ... STOP cutting off tunes that abrupt-
ly!! Fading them out belongs to "the good style" now-
adays.

But this doesn't diminish the rating, which is 74%.

Best regards from your FAVOURITE reviewer team,

Fuben/Oxyron
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PRI/TIA/Oxyron
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RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Party Radar==
<pre>
* PARTY RADAR *
------------------------------------------------------------
The party radar is no new chapter in general, it is
just the new definition for our party report chapter.
This chapter will cover, next to the reports of the
major parties taking place in western Europe and
perhaps eastern Europe, too, ofcourse all important
invitations. This was our motivation for the minor
change of the name, as an invitation can be hardly
presented using party report, atleast not in our opi-
nion and our sense of perfection.

In our previous edition we presented all facts of the
SYMPOSIUM '96 taking place exactly on the same
weekend like the following event, what was a good
reason for us NOT to release it in one edition. Ne-
vertheless, finally here it is and here we go.

Success and The Ruling Company organise in April:

X-96 the successor
------------------------------------------------------------
After last years success we are going to fly even
higher. It will be more wicked than last year's party ..

The party will take place on April 6th and 7th, 1996.
Some things changed, other remained the same, but it
will be FUN for sure.

The entrance fee is about 30 dutch guilders, though
German Marks can be changed against a DEM 1,-- =
HFL 1,-- (only PAPER, no small exchange).

The party will be held in the same place as last year's
so those who have already been there know how to
find it. More rooms will be available and we also ar-
ranged a sleeping facility (do NOT forget your sleep-
ing bag!!!!!). Furthermore we have a meetingplace with
a bar and a videocorner, different rooms for both
CBM 64 and PC. Outside is a big parking place and a
cafeteria which will sell all kinds of snacks. Prices
will be reasonable ... (not like TP5). The partyplace
can hold about 500 participants so it's imperative
that you make reservations. Those who do not make
them might be refused at the entrance.

The party will feature:
------------------
* 24 hours showing of the latest movies
* probably a party network
* performances
* competitions ofcourse
* and some funny things ....

Some things to keep in mind are:
---------------------------
* bring your own power cables (grounded)
* space is limited, so you can bring a computer but
when you bring amplifiers etc. we can't guarantee
that you can place them at the party

Rules for the competition:
---------------------
* the demo should NOT have been released yet
* each group can participate with ONE demo
* the demo will be RELEASED at the party
* the demo will be judged by a competent and partly
expert JURY
* the demo must run on a DX2-66 minimum, but will be
displayed on a Pentium 100 MhZ, 15 MB Ram and in-
tegrated videocard (brand will be announced in a
later note). Sound will come from a Gravis Ultra
Sound PRO with about 4 MB. You do not need Sound
Blaster support and the demo does not has to be
Windows 95 compatible.
* there will be a music, graphic and intro competition
* the same rules apply here expect for the music
competition. Musics must be playable in XM, MOD,
S3M etc. or you must support your own player.

How to behave?
-------------
* people who behave criminally will be handed over to
the policy. Softdrugs are allowed though.
* we are NOT responsible for losses.
* we server alcohol but when you are to drunk you
will be REMOVED from the party place.
* between 00:00 h and 06:00 h it's either inside or
outside.
* at any time the organisers keep the right to refuse
admittance.
* racist signs and behaviour will NOT be tolerated

How to make reservations?
-----------------------
Write a paper including your name, handle, number of
computers you bring along, number of persons, for-
mat (CBM 64 or PC), groups, etc... and send this to:

X-96
XXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XX XXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

Internet: Serve to the homepage:
HTTP://WWW.XS4ALL.NL/&Herkel

E-mail: fill out the .frm for and mail it to:
CBA^XS4ALL.NL

Partyplace address is:
-------------------
Buurthuis Einstein
Stroyemborchdreef 12
3506 GL Utrecht (Overvecht Noord)
++31/30-2614845 (ONLY at the party date)

For more information call ++31/75-6704225 (Tim) or
download the file X96TXT.ZIP from UTOPIA.HACKTIC.NL
/pub/c64/Party/Invitation
for further information, route descriptions and the
reservation form among other useful files.

* SYMPOSIUM '96 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Enclosed please find the party invitation and a detai-
led map which might be rather helpful to find the par-
ty location, both as EXECUTABLE files added on the
disk.

Updated Organiser List
-------------------
AMIGA: POLKA BROS, LEGO & PHANTASM
PC: CUBIC TEAM
ATARI: ARENA & ABSCENCE
CBM 64: OXYRON

NEW Internet Homepage
-------------------
HTTP://193.59.3.15/&rawstyle/sym96

In the near future Oxyron will release an updated in-
vation file containing the latest changes and informa-
tion in order to keep you up-to-date.

Please note that the Relax Magazine staff will be pre-
sent at both parties and we intend to report about
both events in our NEXT edition.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Advertisements==
<pre>
* ADVERTISEMENTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the area of advertisements where you
get the chance to offer the rest of the world the
possibility to either contact you as a trader or
just to place a request through us.
To see your advertisement in this chapter you HAVE
to fill one of our votesheets as the total amount of
adverts fortunately increased between the past few
months. Therefore we installed a NEW presentation
system and if the amount of filled votesheets increa-
ses in the same way we feel free to cut off the sup-
porting advertisement text. Telephone numbers or In-
ternet addresses can be found at the end of the ad-
dress line(s).

* ACHERON *
------------------------------------------------------------
Exact: XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXX XX/XX, XXXXX
XXXXXX, XXXXXX (-> ICON)
* 4 swap, 4 covers, cool friendship

Mr. Plum: PXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX/XXX X.
XX, XX-XXX XXXX, XXXXXX (-> ARISE, BRONX, G8D)
* Swap non stop, 100% reply to all, orries wanted

* ACRISE & EXCESS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Nasty Boy: XXX XXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXX
* originals, 100% to all, looking for more contacts

Truss: XXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XX. XX, XXXX
XXX X. X., XXXXXXX
* Illegal swap on PC, all Acrise warez, 100% reply

* AGONY DESIGN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Druid: XXXXXX XXX, XXXXXXX X/XX, XX-XXX XXXXXXX-
XXXXX, XXXXXX (-> AVANTGARDE)
* NO opdinary swapping, AGONY DESIGN HQ

* ALBION *
------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Soft: XXXXXXX XXXXX, XX. XXXXXXXXXX XX/XX,
XX-XXX XXXX, XXXXXX /++XX/XX-XXXXXX
/Gothrek^Vm.Amu.Edu.PL
* nice & quality swap, good cover swap ctx needed,
* RPG & Fantasy warez, just try it

Worm: XXXX XXXXXXX, XXX. XXXXXX. X/X, XXXXX XXXXXXX,
Poland (-> ESTATE, NSTG, LEPSI DEVELOPMENTS)

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Alpha Flight is looking for more talented mailtraders,
who will make sure the AFL releases will get spread
around the globe.
The mailtrader we are looking for has got atleast 70
contacts, situated in different nations and should be
known as 'FAST' and 'RELIABLE'.

If YOU think this job will suit you perfectly (no matter
what kind of group you are currently supporting),
write to the following address immediately:

Styx: XXXXXX XXX, XXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

Please note that EVERYONE will get a reply. Make
sure to act fast. Who knows, you might be a member
of one of the LEADING cracking groups sooner than
you think!

Calypso: TXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X, XXXX
XX XXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX (-> AMNESIA)
* to send in your cracks for THE BEST magazine

Ream: XXXXX XXX XXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXX XX XXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX
* to send in your cracks for THE BEST magazine

Shuze: XXXX, XX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXX, XXXXXXXXX,
XXX XXX, XXXXXXX

Zapotek: X.X. XXX XXX, XXXX XXX, XXXXXX
/Sveinung.Bergkvist^HIT.NO
* CBM 64, Covers, Sheets, 100% Reply

* ATLANTIS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Science: XX. XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXX XXXXX,
XXXXXXXXXXX

Dr. Who: XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXX XXX-XXXX, XXXXXX
* C64 and Amiga swap, 100% reply

Freddie: XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXX
XXXXXXX X, XXXXXXX
* latest Atl warez, Immortal Flash, stamp swapping

Robocop: X.X. XXX XX, XXXX XXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX,
XXXXXXXXXXX

* AVANTGARDE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Cupid: XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX
* Gfx, NO swapping, Skyhigh, 128 tools

Derbyshire Ram: XXXXX XXXXXX, XX XXXXXXXX XXXX,
XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXX XXX,
XXXXXXX

Intruder: XXX XXXXXX X, XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXX

* CHALICE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Mike D.: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXX, Germany/roland.kletzing^rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Motion: JXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXX XXXX, XXX XX XXXXXXXX,
XXXXXX /++XX/XXX-XXXXX XXX XXXXX
* all <C> warez, Amiga, PC, VHS, originals, 100% reply

Spermbird: XXX XXXXXX X, XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXX

Syco: JXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXX XX XXXXXX-
XXX, XXXXXXX
* for <C> warez and originals

Wozio: XXXXXXX XXXXX, X.X. XXX X, XX-XXX XXXX,
XXXXXX (-> ELYSIUM)
* for hot originals, prefer fast swapping, elite only,
* Always & Astoria HQ, ESM & <C> warez

* CREST *
------------------------------------------------------------
The Syndrom: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX. X, XXXXX
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX
/Hartung^RMHS2.URZ.TU-Dresden.De
* NOT for swapping!

* EQUINOXE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Warp: XXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX. X, XXXXX XXXXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXXX /++XX/XXX-XXXXX
/Markus.Peter^RPHC1.Physik.Uni-Regensburg.De
* 4 joining, 4 supporting SHOUT!

* FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
Motley: XXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX. X, X XX, XXXXX X-X,
XXXXXX /Motley^Algonet.Se
* searching for ANIME/MANGA pictures on PC, also
* trading NIN-stuff and everything concerning RAY-
* TRACING on PC, objects, textures, etc ....

Newscopy: XXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X, XXXXX
XXX, XXXXXX /Newscopy^Algonet.Se

Sixx: TXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX. XX, XXXXX XXXX,
XXXXXX /Sixx^Algonet.Se
* for the latest EFFO QUADRO CIGI wares!

Walker: XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX

* FRACTION *
------------------------------------------------------------
Alpha: XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXXXXXXX XXX/X. XX-XXX
XXXXXXXXX, XXXXX (-> LEPSI DEVELOPMENTS)
* Disk = 100% reply, Friendship, fast 'n cool swapping

Cha$h: XXXXX XXXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXXXXXXX X/XX, XX-XXX
XXXXXXX, XXXXXX (-> F4CG) /+XX/XXXX-XXXXX
* Megaswapping, Disk = 100% reply, Fraction HQ

* GALICYA *
------------------------------------------------------------
Nazgul: XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX, XX. X. XXXXXXXXXX XX/XX,
XX-XXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX

Tiamat: XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXX X/XX,
XX-XXX XXXXXX, XXXXXX /+XX/XXX-XXXXXX
* Megaswapping, 100% reply to all

* HARDCORE *
------------------------------------------------------------
B-Wyze: XXX XXXXXX X, XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX

* HITMEN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Tranziie: XXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX. X, XXXXX XX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

* LAXITY *
------------------------------------------------------------
Didi: XXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXXXXX X, XXXXXXX
* joining Laxity, friendship, 100% reply

Vague: JXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXX. XX, XXXXX XXXX-
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* LEPSI DEVELOPMENTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Frank: XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX XX/X, XX-XXX
XXXXX, XXXXXX

Sebaloz: XXXXXXX XXXXX XXX XXXX, X/X XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX XX/XX, XX-XXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX

* MAYHEM *
------------------------------------------------------------
Silver Bullet: XXXXX XXXXX, X XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX, XX
XXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX, XX-XXXXXX, XXX-XXX, XXX-
XXXX
* C64 & Amiga 1200, NEW & OLD, (il)legal, friendship,
* personal notes, covers/sheets, reliable friend, ....

* MIRACLES *
------------------------------------------------------------
Psychik: XXXXXX XXXXXX, XX. XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX X/XXX
XX-XXX XXXXXX, XXXXXX
* NO ordinary swapping, only elite, friendship, PUNX

* MOTIV 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Clive: XXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX X, XXXX XXXXXX-XXXXX,
XXXXXXX
* fast & hot C64/PC swapping, hottest Motiv 8 warez

* NOICE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Zzap: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX. X, XXX XX XXXXX,
XXXXXX
* SLOW but C00L swapping, Highway +46/42-83773

* NO NAME *
------------------------------------------------------------
Celtic: XXXXX XXXX, XXXXXXXXXX X, XXXX XX XXX-
XXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX /++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
* joining No Name, 4 Contrast & Chit Chat, SNES, .....

Funxilla: XXXXX XX XXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXX X, XXXX XX XXXXX-
XXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX (-> U-TURN)
/++XX/(X)XXX-XXXXXX

* ONSLAUGHT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Code 18: XXXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX
XXXX, XXXXXXX

Donar: XXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX XXX XX, XXXXX
XXXXXX, XXXXXXX

Grafee: XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX X/XX,
XX-XXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXX /++XX/(X)XX/XXX-XXX

Jazzcat: XXXXX XXXXXXX, XX XXXXX XXXXXX, XX. XXXXXX
XXXX, XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX /Jazzcat^Vision.Net.Au
* Domination, The Pulse, Hack & Phreak trade, legal
* only, simply the best, VMB: ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX,
* VMB +XX/XXXX-XXXXX

Rap: XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX X/XX, XXXXX XX-
XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX
* not 100%, cool zakers

Vengeance: XXXX', X XXXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXX XXXXX-
XXX, XXXXXXXXX XXXX
* VANDALISM NEWS

* OXYRON *
------------------------------------------------------------
Fuben: XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXX, XXXXXXX

RRR: XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
* legal mailtrade on Amiga 1200 and CBM 64
* (game-) graphics ---------

Scrapper: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX. XX,
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX
* PC swapping on Disk and Streamer tapes (QIC 80)

* PALACE *
------------------------------------------------------------
2NY: /ZNY^CUTE.FI
* I luve Ozzy Osbourne # 1

Junkie: Pasi Vainonen, Kumparet 4, 46800 A-koski,
Finland (-> DOOM PATROL)

* PHUTURE Software & Marketing *
------------------------------------------------------------
is still looking for motivated, active and skilled pro-
grammers, graphic artists and music composers in
order to develope and create some upperclass ga-
mes for the following computer systems: Amiga, PC
and CBM 64.
Are you interested to get your games SOLD or are
you in the need of graphics or soundtracks to com-
plete, then the address below is the RIGHT one!
If you are interested to cooperate with leading per-
sons out of the demo scene in all various sections do
not hesitate to send in some examples of your work
along with a short personal record to:

XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

* REACT *
------------------------------------------------------------
2ge: XXXXX XXXXX, X.X. XXX XX, XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
XX, XXXXXXXX (-> FENIKS) /+XX/X/XXX-XXX
* wanna know how to connect an Amiga with a CBM 64

Matthew: XXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXX XXX, XXXXX XXXXXXX,
XXXXX XXXXXXXX
* 4 swap demos & tools

* SAMAR *
------------------------------------------------------------
Diverse: XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXX XX, XX-XXX
XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX (->FUGAZI GRAPHICX)
/Strazak^Andante.AE.Katowice.PL
* covers, anything, but I'm busy, meet me at # C-64

* SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY *
------------------------------------------------------------
H-Bloxx: "RM", X.X. XXX XXX XXX, XXXXX XXXX. XXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXXX (-> ACRISE & EXCESS)
* hot megawap, 100% back

Spectator: XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXX XXX. X,
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX
* Original and Tape swap

Splatterhead: XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX X,
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

Tristan: XXXXXX XXXXX, XXX XXXXXX XX., XXXXXXXX XXX-
XXXXX, XXXXX XXX (-> STORM)
* 100% reply, illegal/legal and oldies

* TABOO *
------------------------------------------------------------
ACIDCHILD: XXXXXXX XXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX
XXXXXXX, XXXXXX

CRESH: XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXX X X, XX-XXX XXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

SAILOR: XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX X, XX-XXX
XXXXX, XXXXXX

* U-TURN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Doom: XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXXX, XXXX XX XXX
XXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX (-> HITMEN)

Flashlight: X. XXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXX XX,
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX
* swapping with a girl

* WRATH DESIGN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Stash: XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX X. XX, XXX XX XXXXX,
XXXXXX /XXXXXX.XXXXXXX^Ferrari.Ct.Se
* latest Wrath products, looking for SNES contacts

* X-VECTOR *
------------------------------------------------------------
Phyton: XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXXX-
XXX, XXXXXX (-> VCS, EPH, BD, RSS)
* swap, no polish dudes, always answer, try ...

* XL. C. US SOFTWARE *
------------------------------------------------------------
JJ: XXXXX XXXXX, XXXX X, XXXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXX, XXXXX-
XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXX XX, XXXXXXX
* XL-C-US warez, demos & mags, NO cheating

XL: XX.X.XX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX,
XXX XXX, XXXXXXX

* GROUPLESS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Mac Gyver: XXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXXX,
XXXXXXX

Hunho: XXXXX XXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXXXXX,
XXXXXXX
* 4 the latest, friendship rules and you know that!

XXXXX: XXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXX, XXXXX XXXXXXX-
XXXX, XXXXX XXXXXXXX
* very fast turbo swap, 4 covers, always fast reply

Zinia: XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX XXX. X, XXXX XXXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text. WE feel free to present your advertisements
coming up to our interests in order to SAVE memory!

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>

Relax 16

2008-01-14T15:23:15Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
R3L4X M4G4Z1N3* MAY 1996 edition (issue # 16), the
magazine for the generation with an eye for the finer
details in the CBM 64 scene, was brought to you by
PHUTURE (Software & Marketing), your favourite
disk-magazine releasing game label.

... SPECIAL edition under production ...
--------------------------------
For the very first time in the history of the Relax
Magazine a special edition is under production. This
special is supposed to be released in the middle of
May 1996 and can NOT be compared to all the stan-
dart issues we have released after our comeback in
1994, 5 years after the first release of this produc-
tion.
It will be some kind of freestyle production, still scene
related, but not that kind of serious like our previous
productions which seemed to be a hit in the bulls eye.
As the content of this special still has to be kept
secret to avoid any kind of IMMITATION we just want
to add here that we intend to release some more
specials in the future, but definately not on a regular
basis.
The audial entertainment will be performed by SHO-
GOON/Taboo Productions, so it's quite clear that you
can't afford to miss this edition, too. Furthermore the
credits for programming and graphics will go to Ray-
den/Afl and RRR/Oxyron. This extra is something you
CAN'T afford to miss.

... PartyMANIA ...
-------------
1996 seems to be the party year compared with the
previous years, with four parties taking place in
March and April 1996.

Padua invited the celebration generation to visit
Potsdam and the Convention 96. All in all this party
did not seem to be a big hit with two of the top three
demos being more or less RE-RELEASES, as they
have been shown or spread already in 1995. The
problem in here is whom to blame, the GROUPS, who
seem to never have heard the word FAIRPLAY be-
fore, or the ORGANISERS, who did not check the con-
tributions due to a lack of information about what is
going on in the scene these days?
The second event was the Symposium 96, being held
in a castle in Seevetal, near Hamburg. Oxyron invited
the masses and lots of people came despite of the
fact that the X-96 got hold in the same weekend, to
be more precise in Utrecht, where Success & The
Ruling Company opened the doors to welcome mostly
persons who seem to belong to the illegal part of the
scene. Both gatherings could proudly announce the
release of some nice and unexpected demo produc-
tions, demos which have been dedicated to be relea-
sed at the specific events.
Last but not least the hungarian force Resource was
responsible for the Scenest 96 in Budapest, the
Bangkok of eastern Europe. One acceptable demo
has hit the scene, so releasewise it wasn't a success
regarded from a far distant.

For a more detailed REPORT about the X-96 please
check out the PARTY RADAR.

... ESCOM sells Amiga licences ...
--------------------------
ESCOM, the german computer computer which bought
the remainder of the bankrupt COMMODORE empire
exactly one year ago, is considering about selling the
daughter company AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES to VIScorp,
an US-based company located in Chicago.

40 Millions Dollars is exactly the prize VIScorp has to
pay for the exclusive rights for the Amiga technology
in order to become the leader in the market for TV-
set-top-boxes, an area where AMIGA computers are
predestinated for.
The WALKER-project (the forthcoming AMIGA genera-
tion) has been cancelled because of the mass of cri-
tism that followed after the presentation at the CeBit
in Hannover (1996). VIScorp already announced to
continue the production of the established and suc-
cessfull 1200 and 4000 serials.

Meanwhile there are rumours spread reporting
about a possible fusion of Escom and Vobis. At the
moment chartered accountants, hired from Vobis, are
sneaking in Escom's book-holding, preparing facts
and information. The step has been possible after
Helmut Just has been elected as the principal of the
boards of directors in Escom, replacing Manfred
Schmitt, who decided to retire from Escom. An impor-
tant factor of the fusion idea is Siemens Nixdorf
(SNI), being a stock holder of both stock corpora-
tions.

Enthusiastic scene related persons and magazines
who praised ESCOM, setting all their hope in them, as
the messiah for the CBM 64 technology generation
and its revival, where proven to be wrong, not only
in this case. Unfortunately it is no secret anymore,
our beloved CBM 64 is out of fashion when it comes
up to the bright mass of computer producers AND
customers. Nevertheless the machine still has its
place in our hearts and it won't be forgotten, re-
gardless what machines we will use in the future.

... FTP-sites and the First Release System ...
------------------------------------------------------------
With the still growing popularity, and if we do believe
in the so-called media experts this is just the very
beginning of the trend, of the INTERNET the discus-
sion about merging FTP-sites next to the popular US
boards into the for many years existing First Relea-
se System what can be found in the different release
charts of various board-based magazines spread
around. Is there a good reason for a reformation
right now?

The story can be told very fast, as the idea behind it
is quite simple but effective to prove the skills and
organisation of ELITE cracking groups proving their
strength in here. The group being capable to present
an 100% working, PAL/NTSC fixed, level-packed and
trained (= optional) version on the major US boards
will earn fame and points with their high appreciated
performance. This system worked well all over the
years and will for sure serve the basic idea for quite
a while in the future, too. All who are not prepared to
NTSC fix their releases or who can not call out are
out of the competition, and this is exactly what divi-
des the bright mass of average groups from the top,
or if you prefer, from the elite crews being present
and active the days.

Taking the Internet FTP-sites into consideration just
opens many questions which can cause lots of con-
troversial discussions. Normally any kind of action
can be described as positive, but unfortunately not
in this case, as the discussions around a fair compe-
tition and objective release charts won't stop from
an every single edition to the next one. There are
many different ways to add the sites into the system,
but there is actually no one satisfying us at all.
A possible solution can be to add the major FTP-sites
to the list of US boards which are taken into consi-
deration to create the release charts. The follow-
ing three scenarios can be built up out of this specu-
lation:

1. US boards and FTP-sites will be set on a level, gi-
ving you the opportunity to present your releases
on the INTERNET or the BOARDS in order to have
the first release.
2. US boards are still the location to upload first re-
leases, if the situation is unclear FTP-sites will be
taken into consideration to stop the discussion
3. FTP-sites are getting the major source with the
US boards losing more and more attractivity.

POSITIVE (+) and NEGATIVE (-) aspects are:
------------------------------------------------------------
+: More people can take part in the competition as an
every group is able to cooperate with other crews
WORLDWIDE
-: Too many different boards and sites have to be
checked to avoid re-releases as the market will
loose the transparency
-: The amount of re-releases will grow because of
people who are only active on the Internet OR
boards
-: Internet access offers the advantage to upload
with MUCH higher CPS-rates, what offers the
opportunity in support various FTP-sites in the
same time you need to support one board and
this SPOILS the competition
-: Discrimination against european boards as they
are NO part of the game when the new media gets
merged and well reputated boars like Mystical Pa-
radise, The Escapade or The Pirate Island, just to
name a few, will be IGNORED
-: A critical factor are the MAINTAINERS who have to
put the files ONLINE on the sites, what does virtu-
ally mean he has to be online 24 h per day in order
to guarantee a fair competition, while any upload
on the boards is directly available for the public

The Relax Magazine has decided to continue with the
and still well working, over many years approved,
first release system taking the US boards into con-
sideration to create the release charts, in order to
take care about worthy competitions and to follow the
traditions, traditions which seem to be the unwritten
laws of our CBM 64 society.

... votesheet spreaders and news suppliers ...
------------------------------------------------------------
Responsible for the rush of votesheets flooding the
Relax Magazine headquarter have been ZAPOTEK,
Starlight, Intruder, Macx and Shuze.

News have been delivered and confirmed by CBA,
Crossfire, Mr. Wax, Graham, Tranziie, Newscopy, Int-
ruder, Deff and many others.

Special help was granted by Cresh, Cruise, MMS and
Shogoon for this edition and the special which is sup-
posed to be released in a not too far distant, too.

This edition's content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
The latest happenings in the scene can be found, as
usual, in our respected and awarded GLOBAL RE-
PORT chapter. Our RELEASE CHARTS are again the
most objective ones around in their catherogy, this
time and in the future completed with the official 1996
RELEASE CHARTS, giving an overview about all re-
leases having hit the boards since January 1st. The
expression of opinion about the skills of certain
groups, persons and magazines can be found in the
BOARD CHARTS and in the MAIL CHARTS. A look inside
one of the most known Taboo members will be granted
this time with MMS answering all our questions. The
PARTY RADAR will have a look at the event hold in
Utrecht/The Netherlands (X96) where our reporter
has had for sure a nice time. Our critism about some
party releases can be found in the DEMO REVIEWS, so
be sure to read what experts think about them. If you
are looking for contacts the ADVERTISEMENTS chap-
ter is the right place to look at.

This edition gets completed with the external file of a
new COMPANY called PARADE who has contacted us
this week and asked for our cooperation to get this
file spread.

* Credits for the May edition *
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK FANTA/BASS/OXYRON
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CRUISE/TABOO PRODUCTIONS
CHARACTERSET SKID ROW/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
------------------------------------------------------------
The intro (Schoeller) and the main tune (Bushman)
are both OFCOURSE exclusive, while "BUSHMAN" is
FANTA's HUNDREDTH (100th) "module" ever written
on this ancient machine, composed in JCH's Newplayer
v20.G4.

* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
-------
Boards: leave mail for Marc/AFL at HOLIDAY
------ INN CAMBODIA, THE EVIL ISLAND and
THE ESCAPADE (numbers see below)
------------------------------------------------------------

* Where to download the Relax Magazine? *
------------------------------------------------------------
HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Utopia.Hacktic.NL

------------------------------------------------------------

* Where to order the DIGITAL VOTESHEET? *
------------------------------------------------------------
RRR/Oxyron xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
Zapotek/Alpha Flight 1970 xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------------------------------------------------------------

* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON

------------------------------------------------------------

Best regards in the name of the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

* R3L4X M4G4Z1N3* *
3XPL0S1V3 3V3R, 1MPULS1V3 N3V3R!

May 3rd, 1996
-----------

</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Facts, facts, facts, ... Welcome to THE news journal
you can care about because WE do care about the
content.

The seek for proven information has found its end as
you have finally found your favourite and most RELI-
ABLE HOST around the globe in this lonely universe.
Fantasy stories, expections or own opinions about
the latest happenings in the world we use to live in
can be found in several wrong places, this is the pla-
ce for getting PURE information, prepared and
collected and proven by EXPERIENCED and QUALI-
FIED reporters, always hunting for the latest in the
CBM 64 scene, the place we still use to life in.

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
The german pride managed it to do a solid job all over
the previous months, keeping their name out of scan-
dals and proving to be one of the most competitive
cracking groups around these days, both mail- and
boardwise.

After a few days being out of the scene Blaze, for-
mer member of Alpha Flight and later on Success &
The Ruling Company, returned in order to serve the
neverending flight in their mission, But for how long,
taking Blaze's jumps into consideration? Aswell new in
the team is Rayden/Chalice, a talented programmer,
graphic artist and music composer, who has proven
his skills in the graphic competition of THE PARTY V
and with his contribution to the X-96 demo competi-
tion entitled NoFx, released under the Chalice label.
At the X-96 Danzig/ex-X-Rated joined in as pro-
grammer, so the situation looks like this that Afl
seems to be interested in a competitive demo section,
too. Last but not least Violator/ex-U-Turn/Laxity
got recruited to guarantee the steady flood of Afl
warez mailwise in the mail scene.

Skid Row, Skinhead and The Mercenary have been ta-
ken out of the status due to the fact they simply do
not have the time at the moment to work on a steady
basis with this machine, meaning that whenever they
restart their activities they will be named in the offi-
cial status again.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 20):
Ancient Mariner, Archangel, Blaze, Calypso, Chotaire,
Cryonic, Danzig, Flash, Ignorance, Marc, Max, Pol Pot,
Rayden, Ream, Rick, Shuze, Styx, Violator, Xenox
and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
THE PIRATE ISLAND ++XX/XXXX/XXXX

* AVANTGARDE *
------------------------------------------------------------
It seems that they might come up dark times for one
of the leading cracking groups since the majority of
the news around Avantgarde are these days, sad
but true, negative.

Dodger, who has been kicked out of Hitmen, has been
taken into the group by Deff. So much about the posi-
tive part.
Not only that the Avantgarde mail trading front has
reduced their amount of accounts, now even Intruder
considers about making a break until autumn, caused
by his education as he is heading for a master de-
gree. Furthermore Jack Alien will continue his edu-
cation, too, so he is forced to reduce his activity le-
vel a little bit aswell.

Last but not least the Avantgarde and F4CG world-
headquarter went down. Unfortunately no one is able
to get in contact with Cyborg, so the situation is
quite unclear at the moment. Fact is that AVT and
F4CG started to look out for a replacement.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 19):
Astaroth, Chameleon, Cupid, Cyborg, Deff, Derbyshire
Ram, Dodger, Druid, Eliminator, Jack Alien, Jack Da-
niels, Metal, Rage, Renegade, Skywolf, Thorn, Tricom,
Trimone and Weasel

Avantgarde worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK (down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance has become a very popular cracking
group all over the years. The hungarians are not
addicted to any big scandals and so it's always a
little bit silent around them.

Following the trend Chromance and Resource have
opened a FTP-site in Hungary called GANGSTA'S PA-
RADISE, maintained by Lion on the legal and Mr. Wax
on the illegal sector.
On the transfer market Chromance has been very in-
active this decade, nevertheless one man has left the
fleet for Onslaught, called Mc Byte. More negative
news are coming up. Final Genocide went down for
good. Deviant will concentrate on hacking in the futu-
re and has definately not quit the scene like some
have expected.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 27):
Alias Medron, AMC, Bolee, Deviant, Fusion, Griff, Im-
mortal, Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, Motion,
Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat, Sage, Scratcher, Skud,
Skull, Spermbird, Syco, Techno, The Unholy, Will, XXL
and Zeyex.

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
BASS PLANET ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
OVERDOSE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
GANGSTA'S PARADISE ftp.inf.bme.hu

* FANTASTIC 4 CRACKING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
F4CG is a group running on a solid basis and the only
thing missing is a decent fixer. Nevertheless they are
very competitive and very active when it comes up to
the PUBLIC RELATIONS front.

Memberwise the fantastics proudly announced the
return of Scorpie, who thought all over the years
that the CBM 64 is almost dead. He is going to serve
them as graphic artist, like in former times.

At the moment Playboy has some problems to convin-
ce his university to keep them running the FTP-site
Interpark. A compromise has been found to let it run
on a temporary basis, in the weekdays between 19.00
and 08.00 and in the weekends fulltime. Nevertheless
Playboy still fights to get it online permanently again.
Remember to note and use the NEW address when you
are interested to login there.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 26):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Chash, Cybersurfer, Cy-
borg, Decoder, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, King, Maja,
Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy,
Scorpie, Smasher, Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Wal-
ker and Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK (down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK chiampon.sci.uniud.it
HTTP: //www.algonet.se/motley/propa.htm

* HITMEN *
------------------------------------------------------------
Hitmen, the well known german fixing and cracking
group, enlarged their activities and entered the demo
scene with a surprising second position at the X-96.

In order to continue their effort in this sector the
Hitmen are looking for talented programmers, graphic
artists and music composers. In their seek to expand
they have recruited Luke, being known as former
member of the already dead group Rebels. He is going
to serve them as programmer.
In order to keep the balance right Moby has been re-
moved from the status, based on his inactivity.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 17):
Curlin, Dr. Doom, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce, Jihad, Jinx
Lawnmoverman, Luke, Marcus, Peacemaker, Racoon,
Raze, Sabotage, Tranziie, Tyron and Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADIZE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* MOTIV 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Motiv 8 had a rather strong period releasewise, even
if the quality of the releases has been at a moderate
level. Furthermore they enlarged their list of head-
quarters with two brandnew entries.

After the total disaster with Galactus and his board
Galaxy the danish based team luckily announced the
infiltration of Liquid Palace and its sysop Sphere, a
former member of Chromance and Onslaught. Hope-
fully this can be confirmed as a more decent decision
after the previous failures.
L.A. Style, former member of Action and Genesis, has
made his comeback in the CBM 64 scene. He decided
to go online again with his board Hack Check, being
know as former EHQ for G*P, these days running un-
der the name The Hidden.
MHD, who is a member of Feniks next to Motiv 8, deci-
ded to leave his third group Acrise & Excess after
having a closer look at its structures.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 21):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog,
Grego, Ibanez, Iceball, Larry, L.A. Style, Mason, Lyon,
Merlin, MHD, Nuke, Sphere, Spider, Stone, The Fresh
Prince and TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
LIQUID PALACE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
THE HIDDEN ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
FTP: INTERPARK chiampon.sci.uniud.it
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu
HTTP: //www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/&grfrog/

* ONSLAUGHT *
------------------------------------------------------------
People did not expect and still can not believe it, it
really looks like Onslaught having become a serious
competitor for the top cracking groups, working on
a solid and noiseless basis all over previous months.

In former times being known for taking everyone
available on the market and removing them as fast as
they got recruited, Onslaught's policy seemed to have
turned by 180 degrees. These days it looks that they
complement their team, one of these useless comple-
ments is Macx/Ambush, who left his second group
Equinoxe and stopped his work for The Pulse Maga-
zine in order to get active as swapper for Onslaught
and to work for Vandalism News in the future.
Furthermore McByte, former member of Chromance
and Paradox, decided to put his effort in the CBM 64
scene under the Onslaught flag.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 32):
ASV, Bizarre, Code 18, Deekay, Digahole, Donar, Doom
Gop, Grafee, Grize, Hardsequencer, Heavyhead,
Jazzcat, Jolz, Kinley, Macx, McByte, Meff, Morbid,
Morrisey, Mr. Brain, Ramirez, Ram Jam, Rap, Shades,
Shocker, The Twins, The Unholy, TMM, Trouble, Venge-
ance and Witty

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* OXYRON *
------------------------------------------------------------
FIRE WALK WITH ME. The Oxyron headquarter doesn't
exist anymore at the old address, nevertheless not
even a fire inferno can stop the german demo ma-
niacs.

At first the Oxyron headquarter in Flensburg has
burned down, to be exactly the flat where Slide, Dan-
te and Pythagoras used to life in. Next to the above-
mentioned persons aswell TTS and Axis have lost
their equipment in the fire. Fortunately the harddisks
did stand the fire so TTS' game could be rescued,
what would have been a fatally loss since he spent al-
ready 1,6 years on its development. The damage
(computer equipment only) is about DM 20.000,--, so
you might be able to make a picture for yourself
about the mass of hardware destroyed in the fire.

On the CBM 64 Fuben released the 4 years celebra-
tion demo, which was in fact an half year too late and
still it was rather incomplete. The most positive as-
pect is that the audience has recogniced that PRI is
still in business, always confirmed by the RELAX MA-
GAZINE where he fills the job of a co-editor respon-
sible for the music reviews and always denied by the
"well informed" concurence we use to define as yellow
press.

Current Oxyron memberstatus looks like (= 7):
Axis, Fanta, Fuben, Graham, PRI, RRR and TTS

* SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY *
------------------------------------------------------------
The dutch cooperation has been responsible for
another highlight in the CBM 64 party history by
organising the X-96 party in Utrecht/Holland, but
that is not all we can report about.

As usual we start with the positive facts. The Dun-
geon, worldheadquarter for Success & The Ruling
Company, Hitmen and Demonix is finally back online, a
board for sure being worth to be called. Please note
the number below.

The shocking news came right after the X-96 party:
Burglar was PARALYZED! When the Successers were
cleaning the party place and Burglar was lifting a
table it happened - his complete right side got para-
lyzed. After having brought to hospital and staying in
it for some days CBA finally came up with the infor-
mation about Burglar having left the hospital to re-
cover at home from the incident.
The german swapper H-Bloxx was left the dutch co-
operation in order to concentrate on the other co-
operation he uses to be a member of, Acrise & Ex-
cess. The loss in the distribution sector got comple-
ted with the polish swapper Titanic, who finally came
up with the decision to leave the scene for good.

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 19):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Allitaice, Bacillus, Burglar,
CBA, Count Zero, Credo, Lord Crucifier, Micron,
Moren, Nightshade, Replay, Sliver, Spectator,
Splatterhead, Stake, Trax and Tristan

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON utopia.hacktic.nl
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu

* SINGLE NEWS AND RUMOURS *
------------------------------------------------------------
* The results from the parties held in March and Ap-
ril 1996 look like this:

* CONVENTION 96, held by PADUA in Potsdam/Ger-
many from March 2nd to 3rd:

1. "Access Denied" Reflex
2. "Torture VI" Padua
3. "Respect" Fuse

* SYMPOSIUM 96, held by Oxyron in Seevetal/Ger-
many from April 5th to 8th:

1. "Centric Preview" Cyance
2. "Electric" Smash Designs
3. "4 Years" Oxyron

* X-96, held by Success & TRC in Utrecht/Holland
from April 6th to 7th:

1. "Krestology" Crest
2. "Cucumber Juice" Hitmen
3. "NoFX" Chalice

* SCENEST 96, held by Resource in Budapest/Hun-
gary from April 12th to 14th:

1. "Ellenanyag" Profik
2. "Television" TRSI

There was not that much action compared with the
content of the previous editions, nevertheless it is
still worth being read and informative. See you in the
next edition.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Master of Law...

Marc

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6.1 - 8.0 points
Budget Eames 4.1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2.1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed uithin 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
-----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
Re-release of a preview -1.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation -1.0/ - 2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration uhilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* ACRISE + EXCESS (0.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The cooperation has released a preview called
SMASH (0.4 pts) only.

* ACTIVE (0.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Active returned with the previews of DAVE SPEED
(0.5 pts) and WORMS (0.1 pts).

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 (18.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The german pride startrted with the fixed version of
TRONIK (3.8 pts) from SecTech. In the first version
the loader didn't work on NTSC so a second, 100%
running version hit the boards. This is a good reason
to give one minus point. Their next strike was the
SUPER-HIRES-INTERLACE-FLI-EDITOR (0.0 pts),
coded by CREST and copyright by Magna Media. Last
but not least they presented in cooperation with SCS
& TRC the official sales version of FIELDS OF HADES
(1.9 pts) from Magna Media and finally they came along
with DON'T BE ANGRY (6.4 pts), a budget came from
Muekra Datentechnik and the NTSC-fixed versions of
DARI (3.1 pts) and KILL THE SORCERS (3.1 pts), both
from Butterfly Productions.

* AVANTGARDE (12.0) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with some cooperation re-
leases with the Fantastic Four Cracking Group, so
WYSPA - THE ISLAND (1.9 pts), BOMBMANIA (1.9 pts)
and FORTRESS (2.4 pts), all ofcourse NTSC fixed.
Later on AVT fixed for Laxity DUMI (1.0 pts) from
IMAIC, followed be the fixed version of CARDLAND
(3.8 pts) from Nemesis Productions and the so-called
100% version from ON ICE (1.0 pts). I gave one point
only for something special because SCS & TRC
brought out ON ICE some days earlier and only the
instruction file was missing.

* CHROMANCE (0.0 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the previews of THE PRINCE OF
PERSIA (0.1 pts) and MEGABRAIN (0.5 pts), followed
by the fixed version of SPACE WORMS (2.0 pts), a PD
game and re-released FIELDS OF HADES (-7 pts)
from Magna Media, AFL and SCS & TRC released it
earlier. With SUPER-HIRES-INTERLACE-FLI-EDITOR
from Crest Chromance presented another re-relea-
se, as AFL released it earlier, too. Finally SUPER
SAPER (2.1 pts) found the way to the boards, running
on PAL/NTSC and DRUNKEN BAT AND BALLS (1.0 pts)
a game they have fixed for Motiv 8.

* F4CG (11.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The fantastics started over with the preview of
LIONS OF THE UNIVERSE 2 (0.5 pts) from Cosmos
Design and CHWAT (1.4 pts) from Vermes. Some coop
releases with AVT followed, so the points will be sha-
red. The titles are WYSPA - THE ISLAND (1.9 pts),
BOMBMANIA (1.9 pts) and FORTRESS (2.4 pts). Just to
end the releases, the preview of JIM SLIM (1.0 pts)
has found its way to the boards.

* HITMEN (1.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The german based group released the second ver-
sion of a promising game preview called FUTURE
WORLD (1.0 pts) from Nemesis Productions.

* LAXITY (2.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The young group released DUMI (2.5 pts) from IMAIC,
NTSC fixed by Avantgarde.

* MOTIV 8 (16.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
This quite good period for Motiv 8 started with
OWENS ESCAPE (2.1 pts), DRUNKEN BAT AND BALLS
(2.1 pts), REMOTE CONTROL (2.0 pts), THE SEARCH
(2.1 pts) and THE PIT (2.1 pts). For CONFUSING
QUEST II (0.0 pts), STATUE PARTY (0.0 pts) and SO-
LITAIRE GOLF (0.0 pts) no points will be given as they
are made in basic, compiled basic or in game makers.
Last but not least they released the previews of
SPUT (0.2 pts), DRUNKEN BAT AND BALLS (0.0 pts)
the fixed version of PHU (3.2 pts) and a tool called
S. EDIT (0.0 pts), followed by STEALTH BOMB (2.1 pts)
from Loadstar.

* ONSLAUGHT (17.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the preview of JORI (0.2 pts) that is
NOT FROM PHUTURE unlike Onslaught claimed and
SNAKEY (0.1 pts). And they released the fixed ver-
sions of ICE TEA (3.6 pts), MORTAL DOGFIGHT (4.8 p.)
the 100% fixed version of BURAGO RALLY (8.0 pts)
and fixed for SCS & TRC SPEEDY SLUG (1.0 pts) from
Magna Media.

* PALACE (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the little preview of MISFIRE (0.5 p.).

* SUCCESS & TRC (7.8 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The dutch cooperation stroke back with the fixed ver
sion of ON ICE (3.4 pts) and in cooperation with Alpha
Flight the official sales version of FIELDS OF HADES
(1.0 pts) from Magna Media. Finally they have fixed
NAVIGATOR (1.0 pts) for Xenon and AKNAKERESO
(2.4 pts) from Different.

* Xenon (2.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
SCS & TRC fixed NAVIGATOR (2.1 pts) for them.

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts APRIL 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (7) Alpha Flight 1970 18.3
02. (9) Onslaught 17.7
03. (6) Motiv 8 16.1
04. (1) Avantgarde 12.0
05. (5) F4CG 11.1
06. (3) SCS+TRC 7.8
07. (/) Laxity 2.5
08. (11) Xenon 2.1
09. (4) Hitmen 1.0
10. (10) Active 0.6
10. (/) Palace 0.5
11. (/) Acrise+Excess 0.4

The official Fixing-Charts APRIL 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 5
(3) Alpha Flight
02. (/) Onslaught 4
03. (3) SCS+TRC 3
(2) Chromance
04. (/) Motiv 8 1

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970
-------------------

</pre>
==1996 Release Charts==
<pre>
* THE OFFICIAL 1996 RELEASE CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Feel welcomed to a brand new chapter in the Relax
Magazine, a chapter what will be filled with statistics
about the first release competition in 1996.

Infact the idea behind this chapter is not that new
but it's definately very informative and helpful for all
persons who are interested in detailed information
about the releases in 1996 as it will contain game tit-
les, fixing or cooperating groups, the points and the
status (PAL: PAL only, PAL/NTSC: game was already
PAL/NTSC compatible and FIX: NTSC (PAL) fix in-
stalled).
This overview might be a useful documentation in or-
der to avoid re-releases, only to give a short exam-
ple. Furthermore it is the place to define your cur-
rent position, and ofcourse the position of the con-
curence who are all heading for the crown at the end
of 1996.

The rules that this charts are following can be found
in the Release Charts chapter.

Here we go...

* ACRISE & EXCESS (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Colours 2. 1 pts Pal
Crazy News Preview 0.4 pts
Wall Street 2 0.0 pts Pal
Hangman Preview - 1.0 pts
Shootout - 7.0 pts Pal
Smash Preview 0.4 pts

* ACTIVE (0.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Minesweepah Preview 0.3 pts
Dave Speed Preview 0.5 pts
Worms Preview 0.1 pts

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 (20.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Mick Words Preview 0.5 pts
F.B.M. Editor 0.0 pts
Rings & Stars Deluxe 1.0 pts Fix
A.P.E.X. Preview 0.5 pts
Hope to Hopp Preview 0.5 pts
TRONIK 3.4 pts Fix
Super H.-I.-FLI-Editor 0.0 pts
Fields of Hades (w. SCS+TRC) 1.9 pts Fix
Don't be angry 6.4 pts Fix
Dari 3.1 pts Fix
Kill the sorcers 3.1 pts Fix

* ATLANTIS (2.1) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Shootout (fixed by Avt) 2.1 pts Fix

* Avantgarde (24.2 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Cubic 3.4 pts Fix
Apollo 14 Preview 0.6 pts
Delite 2.5 pts P/N
Shootout (fixed for Atl) 1.0 pts Fix
Blob (fixed for Laxity) 1.0 pts Fix
Bombel (with F4CG) 2.1 pts Fix
Lost (with F4CG) 1.6 pts Fix
Wyspa-The Island (with F4CG) 1.9 pts Fix
Bombmania (with F4CG) 1.9 pts Fix
Cardland 3.8 pts Fix
Fortress (with F4CG) 2.4 pts Fix
Dumi (Fixed for Laxity) 1.0 pts Fix
On Ice 100% 1.0 pts Fix

* CHROMANCE (9.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Ballz 4.5 pts Fix
Hangman Preview 0.2 pts
Toxic Preview 0.3 pts
Oter (fixed by Hitmen) 2.5 pts Fix
Grumpy Bumper Pinball 2.1 pts P/N
Dune 2 Preview 0.1 pts
Professional Sound Studio 0.0 pts
Ignoramus 1.0 pts Fix
Prince of Persia Preview 0.1 pts
Fields of Hades -7.0 pts
Space Worms 2.0 pts Fix
Megabrain Preview 0.5 pts
Super Saper 2.1 pts P/N
Drunken Bat and Balls 1.0 pts Fix

* F4CG (15.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Girltris Preview 0.8 pts
Mangaoid Preview 0.3 pts
Bombel (with Avt) 2.1 pts Fix
Lost (with Avt) 1.6 pts Fix
Wyspa-The Island (with Avt) 1.9 pts Fix
Bombmania 1.9 pts Fix
Fortress 2.4 pts Fix
Chwat 3.4 pts P/N
Lions o/t Universe 2 Prv. 0.5 pts
Jim Slim Prv. 1.0 pts

* HITMEN (6.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Oter (fixed for Chromance) 1.0 pts Fix
Summix 4.2 pts Fix
Colony V2 Preview 0.5 pts
Future World V2 Preview 1.0 pts

* LAXITY (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Blob (fixed by Avt) 3.0 pts Fix
Colours -7.0 pts
Star Wars Preview 0.2 pts
Dumi (fixed by Avt) 2.4 pts Fix

* MOTIV 8 (19.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Fuzzy Fisherman 0.0 pts P/N
Stars & Rings 0.0 pts P/N
Confusing Quest 2 Prv. 0.0 pts
Stars & Rings Deluxe Prv. 0.0 pts
Future Tretis Prv. 0.4 pts
Pologonamy Preview 0.1 pts
Ace of Hearts Prv. 0.5 pts
Boxes Preview 0.3 pts
American Basketbal Heroes 2.1 pts
Sput Preview 0.2 pts
Confusing Quest 2 0.0 pts P/N
Owens Escape 2.1 pts P/N
Statur Party 0.0 pts P/N
Drunken Bat & Balls Prv. 0.0 pts
S. Edit V1.0 0.0 pts
Phu 3.2 pts Fix
Drunken Bat & Balls 2.1 pts P/N
Remote Control 2.2 pts P/N
The Search 2.1 pts P/N
The Pit 2.1 pts P/N
Solitaire Golf 0.0 pts P/N
Stealth Bomb 2.1 pts P/N

* ONSLAUGHT (12.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Drug Bird Preview 1.0 pts
Spinball Preview 0.2 pts
Jori Preview 0.2 pts
Ice Tea 3.6 pts Fix
Snakey Preview 0.1 pts
Speedy Slug (fix for SCS&TRC) 1.0 pts Fix
Burago Rally 100% 8.0 pts Fix
Mortal Dogfight 0.8 pts Fix

* PALACE (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Misfire Preview 0.5 pts

* SUCCESS & TRC (17.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Sonny the Snail 4.1 pts Fix
Isolation Preview 0.3 pts
Incerator Preview 0.4 pts
Oklahoma Kid 3.6 pts Fix
Fields of Hades (with AFL) 1.9 pts Fix
Navigator (fixed for Xenon) 1.0 pts Fix
On Ice 3.4 pts Fix
Aknakereso 2.4 pts P/N

* XENON (2.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Stoned Preview 0.3 pts
Navigator (fix by Scs & Trc) 2.1 pts Fix

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts of 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (/) Avantgarde 24.2
02. (/) Alpha Flight 1970 20.4
03. (/) Motiv 8 19.5
04. (/) Onslaught 18.9
05. (/) Success & TRC 17.1
06. (/) F4CG 15.9
07. (/) Chromance 9.4
08. (/) Hitmen 6.7
09. (/) Xenon 2.4
10. (/) Atlantis 2.1
11. (/) Active 0.8
12. (/) Palace 0.5

The official Fixing-Charts of the year 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (/) Avantgarde 10
02. (/) Alpha Flight 6
03. (/) SCS & TRC 5
(/) Chromance
04. (/) Onslaught 4
05. (/) Hitmen 2
06. (/) Motiv 8 1

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970
-------------------

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND in the United States of Ame-
rica. Furthermore it is possible to vote by sending
e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board worldwide.
There exists the opportunity to vote via INTERNET,
too, by using our very own DIGITAL VOTESEEHT or
just by sending an e-mail containing your votes to
ZAPOTEK or RRR. Simple, isn't it?

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 146
02. (2) Reflex 139
03. (3) Byterapers 136
04. (5) Agony Design 128
05. (4) Camelot 122
06. (6) Taboo 117
07. (7) Triad 109
08. (/) Crest 98
09. (10) Profik 84
10. (9) Fairlight 63

OXYRON is the leading force in here, followed, as
usual, by the REFLEX and BYTERAPERS gangs who
are heading for the top spot, too.
After having released a new demo Crest gained a lot
of votes, making them able to re-enter the charts.
Unfortunately Censor Design moved down to eleven.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 140
02. (3) Graham/Oxyron 138
03. (1) Quiss/Reflex 127
04. (4) TTS/Oxyron 113
05. (5) Druid/Agony Design 102
06. (6) Slammer/Camelot 96
07. (7) Axis/Oxyron 77
08. (8) MMS/Taboo 73
09. (9) Crossbow/Crest 68
10. (/) Fuben/Oxyron 65

Mr. Sex and Graham have earned more points in com-
parison with Quiss, so both overtook him without any
problems. The rest remains more or less unchanged,
unfortunately it seems there is no one who can give
these competitors some competition.

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Success & TRC 139
02. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 138
03. (1) Avantgarde 137
04. (6) Onslaught 114
05. (4) Chromance 109
06. (5) F4CG 102
07. (7) Hitmen 94
08. (8) Motiv 8 87
09. (/) Acrise & Excess 72
10. (9) Atlantis 66

Unexpected votes caused a major clean-up here. The
race for the top spot has never been so close like
this time, with SCS & TRC, AFL and AVT being MILES
ahead infront of the others. Onslaught surprises the
masses with a fourth position, passing groups like
<C> and F4CG on the following places.
At the end the cooperation of Acrise & Excess en-
tered, sending good old Fairlight out of seight.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Ignorance/AFL 142
02. (2) Jack Alien/AVT 138
03. (3) Burglar/SCS 131
04. (5) CBA/TRC 124
05. (4) Hain/F4CG 117
06. (7) Bacchus/FLT 108
07. (6) Antitrack/F4CG 99
08. (9) Skinhead/AFL 87
09. (10) Playboy/F4CG 84
10. (/) Moren/SCS 79

The board scene has seen IGNORANCE again at top,
followed by JACK ALIEN and BURGLAR. Next to some
minor position changes MOREN re-entered the charts
and kicked KIRBY out.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 150
02. (2) Electric/Extend 142
03. (3) Creeper/Antic 134
04. (5) Ogami/Fairlight 129
05. (4) Carrion/Elysium 114
06. (8) Fazee/Taboo 102
07. (6) RRR/Oxyron 98
08. (9) Roder/Agony 86
09. (7) Joe/Wrath Design 74
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 65

A few minor position changes, that's all we can re-
port here. CRUISE, ELECTRIC and CREEPER are the
well deserved leaders in here. No big suprised here,
so let's continue with the next one.

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 146
02. (3) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 138
03. (4) Shogoon/Taboo 132
04. (2) PVCF/Reflex 124
05. (5) Jeff/Camelot 107
06. (6) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 96
07. (8) Zyron/F4CG 88
08. (7) Red Devil/FLT 79
09. (9) Compod/Charged/... 75
10. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 67

What happening in the SID area? PRI, SYNDROM and
SHOGOON are the top three trio, followed by PVCF
who has fallen down to four. In this list we still find
Red Devil who seems to be rather inactive these days
so we may ask if there aren't any active composers
outta there who might deserve your votes, too?

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 142
02. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 137
03. (4) Hitmen 133
04. (3) Success & TRC 129
05. (6) Onslaught 103
06. (5) Chromance 99
07. (7) F4CG 84
08. (/) Motiv 8 68
09. (8) Empire 37
10. (9) Demonix 22

The fixing charts are an european domain these days
but that is no secret anymore. AVANTGARDE, ALPHA
FLIGHT, HITMEN and SUCCESS & TRC are said, accor-
ding to the voters, to be the best of its kind. The On-
slaughters fixing division, namely Jolz, started to
show that people have to take him serious aswell. The
americans at the end might get their votes still out of
respect since americans haven't done a fix since
ages.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/HIT 189
02. (2) Ignorance/AFL 166
03. (3) CBA/TRC 153
04. (4) Jack Alien/AVT 142
05. (6) Jolz/Onslaught 139
06. (8) Burglar/SCS 125
07. (5) Suicide/AVT 93
08. (7) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 79
09. (9) Booze/Empire 37
10. (10) Mercenary/AFL 24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The same situation as above. Euro-
pe the place to look for single fixers aswell. With
the PEACEMAKER, IGNORANCE and CBA the top three
has been named. Hence the name of JOLZ, since he is
doing a fine job these days.

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on INTERNET by FILLING
our DIGITAL VOTESHEET or simply by leaving e-mail
to ZAPOTEK or RRR.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The chart3 are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail/charts are what people like to define as mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
normal and digital Relax votesheets:

Propaganda 21/Independent MARCH 1996
Unplugged 2/U-Turn MARCH 1996
Contrast 04/No Name APRIL 1996
The Pulse Magazine April Edition/Shape APRIL 1996

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 49
02. (2) Reflex 46
03. (3) Byterapers 39
04. (4) Camelot 36
05. (5) Agony Design 29
06. (6) Taboo 26
07. (7) Crest 17
08. (8) Antic 13
09. (9) Nipson 11
10. (10) Censor Design 5

This is supposed to be a premier in the Relax Maga-
zine as for the very first time in the history of the
mail chart there was absolutely no movement in the
demo group charts.
Oxyron is leading, Reflex and Byterapers can be
found at the following positions, Antic, Nipson and
Censor Design cover up the end.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 50
02. (2) Quiss/Reflex 43
03. (5) Graham/Oxyron 38
04. (4) TTS/Oxyron 35
05. (3) Slammer/Camelot 34
06. (7) Druid/Agony Design 23
07. (6) MMS/Taboo 21
08. (8) Crossbow/Crest 9
09. (/) Fuben/Oxyron 8

Mr. Sex is still the number one in the voters' opinion,
followed by Quiss. Graham can be found on three, but
after having released the full NTSC compatible ver-
sion of Dawnfall there are no doubts who is the ge-
nuine leader of the pack.
At the end Fuben entered the charts, while Axis got
cend back to 11.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 48
02. (2) Success & TRC 45
03. (5) Chromance 38
04. (3) Alpha Flight 1970 36
05. (4) F4CG 32
06. (7) Onslaught 24
07. (6) Motiv 8 20
08. (9) Atlantis 12
09. (/) Hitmen 9
10. (8) Hardcore 7

It's NOT very interesting to look at the top with the
leading groups Avantgarde and Success & The Ru-
ling Company. No, it's more interesting to watch Alpha
flight, Chromance and F4CG continously changing
place to keep the charts more interesting.
At the end Hitmen entered and replaced Acrise & Ex-
cess while the rather inactive Hardcore could defend
a top ten spot. That's life!

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 50
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 45
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 36
04. (6) CBA/TRC 35
05. (4) Ignorance/AFL 33
06. (5) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 24
07. (7) Mr. Wax/<C> 22
08. (8) Bacchus/FLT 11
09. (9) Moonchild/FLT 9
10. (10) Ream/AFL 6

Everything we could detect here were three minor
position changes. Nothing new in here, even if good
old IGNORANCE should be HIGHER, MUCH HIGHER, as
his versions beat most others by far.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 47
02. (2) Joe/Wrath Design 46
03. (3) Electric/Extend 42
04. (4) Creeper/Antic 30
05. (6) RRR/Oxyron 27
06. (5) Fazee/Taboo 23
07. (8) Carrion/Elysium 15
08. (/) Biz Kid/Camelot 10
09. (7) Ogami/Fairlight 9
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 8

That we can find Cruise is at the top is for sure not
only caused by the logo he drew for this edition, but
by the masses of outstanding IFLI graphics he made
all over the years. Joe, Electric and Creeper remain
unchaoged on the following positions.
At the end of the list Biz Kid re-entered once again
the charts and replaced Astaroth, who felt down to
twelve.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 50
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 44
03. (3) PVCF/Reflex 41
04. (6) Jeff/CZP/Camelot 31
05. (4) Compod/Charged/... 27
06. (5) Shogoon/Taboo 24
07. (7) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 21
08. (8) Zyron/F4CG/Swemix 17
09. (9) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 11
10. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 8

With his tracks in "4 years Oxyron" hopefully all the
persons claimed that PRI has left the scene will re-
main in silence and stop spreading rumours without
any background. PVCF was able to get more points,
so he/and Syndrom changed places.
The rest remained more or less unchanged, still na-
mes like ZARDAX or METAL are missing here!

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/AVT 46
02. (3) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 40
03. (2) Calypso/AFL/AMN 33
04. (4) Spermbird/<C> 29
05. (8) Bizarre/Onslaught 24
06. (5) Splatterhead/TRC 23
07. (6) Shuze/AFL 22
08. (7) Spectator/SCS 14
09. (9) Sebaloz/LD 11
10. (/) Syco/<C> 6

The fastest moving charts did not move that fast like
in the previous months, just curious. Intruder is the
leading mail trader, followed by Derbyshire Ram and
Calypso. All three have decreased their activity.
At the end Syco re-entered the charts once again
and replaced Walker, the soldier.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Skyhigh 47
02. (1) Vandalism News 43
03. (3) Nitro 40
04. (4) Domination 33
05. (7) Relax Magazine 30
06. (6) Propaganda 25
07. (9) The Pulse Magazine 19
08. (5) Shout! 18
09. (/) The Tribune 11
10. (10) Mendip 8

Will it ever happen that a magazine can remain for
two editions at the top spot? NOT until now! Skyhigh,
being a steady factor in the circulation around the
so much appreciated number one position, is back on
top, followed by Vandalism News and Nitro.
There are ofcourse some other minor position chan-
ges, but they don't really deserve a comment here.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the April edition talk show. As usually we
have been searching for an interesting interview
partner. This time we can announce to have met a
person from eastern Europe, to be more exactly from
Poland, a personality who made a name for himself
due to his skills as programmer, skills he has proven
in a lot of demos and games all over the years, MMS is
his name, a member of Taboo Productions.

But there is no need for a long introduction so we
just start over.

?: Hello Marek. Feel welcome in the talkshow of the
Relax Magazine. At the very beginning of an every in-
terview we are interested in some personal (non
computer) data about our interview partners, atleast
the data you like to spread about yourself.

!: Ok, here I go. My real name is Marek Matula and I'm
20 years old. I live in Katowice, the south of Poland.
Right now I'm studying computer-science on the Sile-
sian Technical University in Gliwice. My hobbies are
sports, especially skiing on winter and windsurfing on
summer and of course also coding on C64 and PC.
And that's the short, very short, resume of my per-
son...

?: Even if it seems to be quite logic how you got your
handle, let our readers show something about your
computer career and about the way you got your
handle.

!: He! He! Why the hell does everyone ask me about
the handle? When I was "inventing" my handle I was
quite sure that it's enough logic, but shit! It doesn't!
Anyway, if someone thinks that it came from my name
plus the word "software", he is completely wrong! In
fact nobody except me doesn't know the real meaning
of "MMS", even my groupmates!
My computer career? Well, I got my first computer in
1987 but of course I had only some fun of it playing
lame games. I'm not sure if I can remember correctly,
but I started coding my first demo in December 1991
which was finished in early 1992. It has been called
"More Than Nops" and was really bad, mainly because
of no graphic. I did the whole demo only with my bro-
ther, even the "graphic" was painted by ourselves.
Anyway, the scene demo let us enter the scene, meet
some people and finally create the group Taboo to-
gether with some pals of us. Since then, we were
working on some projects, i.e. demos, games, etc.

?: In order to solve this very last secret of the sce-
ne, what does your handle "MMS" stand for? This is
the chance to free your soul, here and now.

!: No way! A secret is a secret! I won't solve it, not
even here and now. I'd like to stay just "MMS" for the
scene, even when I don't like my handle very much (it
sounds very stupid, don't you think? He! He!).

?: Taboo is for sure one of the leading teams in Po-
land, being the home for a couple of very talented
persons. Please tell us the detailed story about this
group, the past, the present and the future.

!: It will be hard... you know... I guess Taboo is a bit
different from the other groups on the scene. When
we created the group we haven't promised ourselves
to make as many demos as possible, to be high in the
charts or so... We were doing something when we
wanted to, and did absolutely nothing if we didn't. No
one from Taboo has been "thrown out because of
lazyness" as some "leaders" write in magazines
about their members. In fact if anyone wanted to
"work" with us, he was a member of Taboo, doesn't
matter if he was doing something once a week or once
a year. That's why I can't tell you the "story" about
the group, because there was no story at all: we
have just done demos together, that's it! I could only
give you the "detailed story" like this: 1. We did our
first demo. 2. We were laming around for the next six
months. 3. We did our second demo. And so on...

?: Today it is very silent around Taboo when it comes
up to demoes, but most of us have already seen the
previews of your mega delayed coop demo with Ely-
sium called ALTERED STATES. When will we see this
demo in its final version, or aren't you interested in
releasing it anymore?

!: Hmmmm... don't know... when we all started to create
that demo we had just a lot of free time and it came
rather fast, but in the meantime some of us either
had to pass some exams at school/university, or
stopped to work on C64 and the progress in the
demo has suddenly decreased. It lasted long enough
to let the demo get old, then we did some new parts,
but before we decided to release it, some more parts
got released before by other groups and so on...
Since Summer 1995 we did absolutely nothing with the
demo mainly because of no time for it. I can't say if
we finally wish to finish that demo, we'll do so, but I'm
really afraid they don't.

?: When it comes up to games Taboo Productions is
very active, and the preview of ZONE OF DARKNESS
was simply excellent. Where did you get the ideas for
introductions and games like this one?

!: Well, to be honest, it's much more interesting to
make the games, you know, you don't have to code
part-after-part or effect-after-effect to the demo
but you are doing something really new. It's not really
hard to get a new idea of a game: the problem is to
get the style of the game, but then the ideas come
everyday... sometimes, there's only a problem with
realising them all!

?: ZONE OF DARKNESS will be released under Cherry
Software. What do you expect from the cooperation
with this company as there are still companies left
like e.g. MAGNA MEDIA, which pay in advance to have
an income without any particular risk left?

!: What do I expect? A lot of $$$ of course, he he!
Well, I like the idea of the company where some people
from different countries work together to make the
games be spread worldwide, you know: low costs, big
profits, that's what I expect :-) And you said MAGNA
MEDIA? How can I cooperate with them when I have
never heard about them...

?: Just to continue with your game productions, we
recently heard you teamed up with "SHAPE SOFT-
WARE", the commercial label of Shape. What is the
reason for you not to continue with Taboo Produc-
tions but using Shape Software as the name for your
commercial productions?

!: We are not REALLY going to work for Shape IN-
STEAD of Taboo Productions... The guys from Shape
just asked me if I'm interested in working with them on
some projects and I said yes. That's it! Right now we
haven't even to do a single game together and I'm not
sure if we ever will, that was only an offer, and for
sure we don't stop to work for Taboo Productions,
Cherry Software, or anyone else...

?: You are coding tools, games and stunning demo ef-
fects, while your brother is more known for coding
his disk drive routines "only". What is the reason for
this kind of different interests?

!: You think so? Then look to the credits of one of
our demos and you'll see that's not the truth! Yeah,
maybe he coded a bit less than me, but still! I guess he
does also drive routines because he likes to do
hardware-concerned things and I don't.

?: The scene in Poland has grown all over the years,
so did the people who participate. How would you des-
cribe the scene in Poland, are there any major diffe-
rences left to the western Europe based groups?

!: Do you think there are? I guess there are no
"eastern" or "western" groups anylonger. As I know
many people from Poland are in "western" groups
and reversed: people from Germany or Netherlands
work with polish groups. Unfortunately now the scene
comes into decay... Some people got bored with the
scene since there are no good parties in Poland any-
more or just changed the computer for PC or Amiga..
I guess the scene in western Europe went in the
same direction.

?: We think there is still a difference between "both
scenes" as many polish magazines often add polish
texts only and make their productions useless for
the rest of the world and getting in some kind of iso-
lation right now. English is the language to be used
in the scene, ignoring this means to built up an own
polish scene in the international scene, partly the
reality even looks like this. What is your opinion
about this negative movement?

!: You're right, but I don't treat it as kind of isolation.
There are polish magazines in English as well as some
of them are in polish. The second usually treat about
the polish scene and I guess they are are useless
for foreigners. Let me give an example: As you live in
Germany, does it mean that you don't read newspa-
pers concerned only with the region you live in? Just
see it: People who live in other regions of your
country could say: "Hey, what do you read those
papers for? They don't treat about about the whole
Germany but only your region!". You can see it's a
nonsence! If I want to read something about Poland, I
won't buy german papers. It's completely the same
with the computer magazines: when I want to get some
news from polish scene, I read polish mags. Is it
strange?

?: In western countries there are hardly any shops
left selling CBM 64 hard- and software, and people
start to smile when you refer to a CBM 64 as your
favourite computer system these days. What is the
status of the CBM 64 in Poland?

!: It's quite the same in Poland I guess... It's quite a
nonsense to buy a C64 now and try to enter the
scene when a lot of people leave it! As I know, many
of the old sceners of C64 have already bought 486's
or Pentiums a long time ago treating C64 as a re-
membrance from the past... A lot of them are still
known as members of C64 groups, sometimes even
doing something new for it, but it's totally stupid to
think that C64 is a computer with a wide future... It's
surely a great computer where you can meet a lot of
interesting people with, but if people which are now
on the scene will leave it, I'm sure, there won't be
"new" people on C64. I'm afraid there's no real C64-
fans anylonger.

?: Are there any other computer systems you use to
programm next to the CBM 64? If yes, what system,
and why did you decide to use this and no other one?
What are the advantages in your opinion?

!: Yes, I have bought PC 2 years ago, by the way, the
main reason of my inactivity on the C64 scene. So
now, even if I code something for C64, I write the
programm on PC and only test it on a real C64
(sometimes even not a "real" C64, but on an emula-
tor). I have written a 6502 assembler for PC, and
coding games on C64 goes much faster now! I think,
when I stop with C64 I will do something for PC. I have
already done a small game on it... I like coding on PC
because it's very "comfortable": it's easy to write a
programm, to test it and everything goes much faster
than on the good old C64.

?: It wa s very nice to have you here, Marek. At the
end we always offer our interview partners to give
us some final words or comments you want to share
with the public, and ofcourse to greet your pals here
if you are interested in.

!: Well, I'd like to greet everyone who has something in
common with the C64 scene, especially my group ma-
tes, my contacts and anyone I know. That's it.

Be sure to re-load this chapter in our next edition in
order to check out what our talk guests have to re-
port.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* DEMO REVIEWS *
------------------------------------------------------------
The demo season of 1996 started in Potsdam with the
CONVENTION '96, organised by Padua on the CBM 64,
at the weekend of March 2nd and 3rd. Except for
Padua's contribution called TORTURE VI nothing new
could be seen, the re-release of ACCESS DENIED II
by Reflex and RESPECT by Fuse surrounded Padua's
demo in the top three. Sad to see that Reflex contri-
buted with a demo that was shown at THE PARTY V on
the big screen under REFLECTIONS by Access De-
nied. Regardless from the fact that this trackmo was
not spread yet, this kind of behaviour could be dis-
cribed as quite poor, getting it to the top with the
note that there is no competition left for them on the
CBM 64. Keeping in mind that Reflex had one and a
half good year by now it is rather arrogant and since
they were never able to beat serious and advanced
productions released by other leading top demo
groups. Fuse re-released their RESPECT demo once
again, what can't be declared as a wise move, too.

The second day of the season has taken place on two
different locations, in Seevetal/Germany and in
Utrecht/Holland, where the SYMPOSIUM '96 (April
5th to 8th) and X-96 (April 6th and 7th) invited the
masses to show up and to release their demos. As
organisers stood Oxyron in Germany and Success &
The Ruling Company behind the success of these par-
ties.
Cyance (the game label of Reflex, the label where the
more advanced Reflex members use to work in now)
released Cyance Preview, a combination between an
advertisement, a demo and a game preview, has won
the competition in Germany. Smash Designs followed
on two and people already expect them to release
their next effects in the 16X16 graphics format. Oxy-
ron disappointed the masses with a uncomplete demo
filled with masses of old (ancient) routines, a demo
that could be added to the Fantasia-series without
any problem. The positive thing is that any other
Oxyron in the future can only become much better.
In Holland Crest has released, after a very long time
of abstinence, again a demo called KRESTOLOGY and
won the competition without problems. Hitmen entered
the demo business and made a well deserved second
place, followed by a Chalice trackmo called NoFx. The
author, Rayden, has already joined Alpha Flight, who
want to enlarge their activity level in that sector, as-
well.

Day three was the Scenest '96 party held in Buda-
pest, organised by Resource on the 8-bit level.
Profik was responsible for the only acceptable re-
lease there, second was a demo spread under the
TRSI label. It would be sad to see TRSI going down so
low these days with the fame of an excellent Amiga
demo section.

All in all there is still some life in the CBM 64 demo
but we hope to see more upperclass productions this
year

Since the did not exist a 100% version of the Crest
demo until now we decided to have a look at Chalice
and Profik, two groups still in the shadows of the big
spotlights.

NoFx/CHALICE
------------------------------------------------------------
Chalice was born out of the ashes of Black Code De-
sign and it seems that only the about average skilled
members survived the name change. This seems to be
the debut demo so there is no need for a longer in-
troduction.

* Fuben about the coding: *
-----------------------
This demo is entirely coded by Rayden/Chalice. It is
not a hard coded one. More a fine designed demo with
lots of pictures and nice FX's...

The show begins with some text and a FLI-picture,
while loading. The loading takes definately too long!
Some text follows again... a sprite... some text again...
It sounds a bit lame, but no way. This is what I call a
nice-designed intro!
The loading-part comes up, displaying some text and
a horizontal Eor-filler in the background (looks cool).
The first real effect beside of the bouncing scroller
is a colorplamsa combined with an FLI-picture. No-
thing difficult to code. But this routine is quite fast
and looks fuckin' cool! Nice coding actually.
Later there is the end, which shows a nice logo-
animation.

All in all a fine-designed trackmo (which is a bit hard
to review!). No hard-code demo, but more a picture-
show. However, Nice to know what is Chalice-Design!
Rating: 60%

* RRR about the artwork: *
----------------------
All graphics, next to the code and the soundtrack,
have been realised by Rayden, who is now a member
of Alpha Flight.

At first there was a fine conversation of the so-
called Tankard alien, combined with a party logo, pre-
sented as a FLI picture, like all the other graphics in
this demo (trackmo), too. Both are looking quite nice
and a lot of colours have been used. Next in the row
there is a Chalice logo, nothing special at all, atleast
not in FLI format. A dog, which some of you have pro-
bably seen on the Amiga, drawn by Cougar/Sanity) is
the next graphic I have found. It is quite nice drawn
and comes close to the original. Rayden's contribu-
tion to The Party V graphic competition, where he got
voted on position # 3, is the next one following here. It
shows two children standing infront of some kind of
mountain which is a man's face, his mouth is opened
and some kind of cave. As a background for his plas-
ma routine there is a picture showing a huge eye, but
this won't be taken into consideration here. Last but
not least there is Marylin (Monroe) on the screen,
quite colourful and as a caricature. Personally I do
not like it too much.

In general Rayden did a great job, unfortunately he
does everything in FLI format, some more variety
using different formats could be quite helpful in the
future. Nevertheless I think Rayden is a talent and we
will hear much positive critism about him. My rating is
at 79%, as there is still a final touch missing.

* PRI about the soundtrack: *
-------------------------
Rayden is responsible for all musics in this produc-
tion.

OH MY GOD! I have never heard such a shocking intro
music. The choosen instruments are SO ugly, there is
absolutely no bass and the composer was not able
to transfer the melody of the "Muppet Show" cor-
rectly. The last passage is rythmically totally wrong!

In comparison to that the introduction of the main
tune starts very promising. Good choosen instru-
ments, a good feeling, but then - another boring
background tune dissolving into endless (pseudo)
modulations... with no remarkable action and unfortu-
nately only average instruments. The third tune is
somewhat better, it's got a message somehow, diffe-
rent parts and a good structure. The end is again
nothing special, broken chords all over, but nothing
more happens. And most of the time, the instruments
are really not on the brilliant side. No hardrestart
etc...

I am very sorry, but this is only worth 53%!

Ellenanyag/PROFIK
------------------------------------------------------------
Profik already made a name for themselves with their
productions, still standing in the shadow of the well
known and famous demo groups, maybe because of
the lack of innovation and the mostly shown re-pro-
duction of routines we all have seen very often be-
fore.
Anyway, it is a group we can expect more from in the
future as they unite some skilled guys. Here we go.

* Fuben about the coding: *
-----------------------
This demo has been coded by Profi 1 and Profik 1.5.

After the usual intro stuff like logos and some text
the first effect comes up, which is a colorplasma on
4x4. It looks a bit weird, but is OK for its speed. Next
are some 3D-Shadebobs, which are a bit confusing in
my eyes. I couldn't recognize a third dimension at all!
However, some bobs are flying over the screen in
8x8 Hires. Some elastic-lines come up next. These
lines move in a sine and change their size which gives
the viewer sort of 3D-feeling... nothing bombastique
although. A halfscreen fire-routine on 8x8 Hires
follows. This effect was seen in fullscreen in Coma-
Light 12.
After some loading again, there is a textured cube
rotating around the X-Axis on 4x4. The routine is
quite fast and is looking nice, too. Too bad the cube
rotating around just one axis. Of course this makes
the routine faster as there is no Y-interpolation.
Last part is the end. A movelist effect on 4x4. Quite
cool looking.

Well, this production wasn't as good as I expected.
But I hope to see more from Profik in the near future
so the rating is at 63%.

* RRR about the artwork: *
----------------------
All logos in this production have been drawn by Profi
2.

The first logo I have seen was a PROFIK logo and both
style and filling remind be back to 1992/93, not to
say it is out of fashion. The second logo, in my opinion
the best piece of artwork in this demo (trackmo),
was made out of different components from various
logos presenting ELLENANYAG, the title of this pro-
duction. Another PROFIK logo followed, again like the
previous two in multicolour bitmap (Koala) format. It is
some kind of 3D styled and all in all not too bad look-
ing. Last but not least there is the third PROFIK logo
in 4 colours (three plus background) in the legen-
dary 1989/90 style. Nothing special at all.

All in all the graphics do disappoint the spectators
since in 1996 people could expect more and better
artwork in a demo. As it is some kind of dustbin-rou-
tines presentation it's maybe acceptable, so the ra-
ting at 49% is surely not that destructive as expec-
ted.

* PRI about the soundtrack: *
-------------------------
Again Roy/Replay was responsible for Profik's au-
dial entertainment.

I'm sorry to say that, this time none of the two re-
viewed soundtracks is very interesting to listen to.
But anyway... let's that a look.

The techno epidemic still seems to go on in some
brains, but slightly it begins to morph into some
rhytmical, more interesting stuff, e.g. in this track.
May the hi-hats and the base drum in the beginning
be so aswful so awful because of no hardrestart,
the filtered-drum-part is neat though. After the
passage with that weird lead (put some vibrato or
pulse mod. in there!) even a little breakbeatfeeling
comes up.
The sound effects at the end are partly ok, partly
rather ugly (and too loud), but what is more impor-
tant, absolutely not timed to the screen action (ass-
kick to the coders there!).

Therefore my rating for this audial entertainment is
only at 57%.

OK, this have been all productions we felt to review
in this production.

Best regards from your favourite reviewer team,

Fuben/Oxyron
------------
PRI/TIA/Oxyron
-------------
RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Party Radar==
<pre>
* PARTY RADAR *
------------------------------------------------------------
Originally this was supposed to be just a simple party
report about the X-96 party held by Success & The
Ruling Company, but our reporter Max unfortunately
did it mix up with his memoirs or better with one of
those travelling stories they always show in TV.

As Max never made it to fill up two complete chapters
with all the texts he ever wrote he surprised not only
us with the loads of text he sent to complete this edi-
tion, but since he has prepared almost one year to
contribute again with an article he knew we would not
accept it to be beyond 40 KB.

Nevertheless the following two chapters might be
quite interesting to read, so enjoy the following mass
of text, it's M4X-time ...

... X-96 party report or Max goes Holland ...
------------------------------------------------------------
Once a year in spring, Holland is the place to be and
to PARTY WITH YOUR PANTS DOWN!

This year the legendary X-Party series took place in
in Utrecht again. The main party was on Saturday,
6th of April. A lot of old sceners promised to come
and used the party as a pretence to enjoy a long
weekend in the land of Hash & Marihuana.

For me, the weekend allready started on Wednesday
before the party. Directly after work, I took place
in the car to drive to Rotterdam. The sun was shining,
as if it also was looking forward to a fantastic funny
weekend. The journey took three hours, but due to
a very good car-hifi, the time really passed like
a few minutes only. At seven o'clock PM I arrived in
Rotterdam, where I wanted to meet up with CBA/TRC.
We went to the AHOY Arena, where THE SMASHING
PUMPKINS had a gig. It was amazing! They really did
a great concert and played a fantastic set! Every-
body was dancing and shouting to the rough beats.
If you are into such a kind of music, I really advise
you to visit this concert, because that band is really
worth their money. They are just doing their euro-
pean tour at the moment, but that just by the way, so
back to the main thing.

At the first time I got into touch with the dutch beer,
but it wasn't the last time, I can promise you allready.
They unfortunately only sold ORANJEBOOM wich is
supposed to be the worst dutch beer, I was told. All
the years I always thought HEINEKEN would be the
worst one, but I really got tought something better.
That stuff we were drinking at the concert tasted
horrible... At this time I allready missed the good
german brewed stuff! The concert ended at about
12.30 AM and we went on the motorway to Amsterdam,
where CBA, Nightshade and Tim (PC) of SCS & TRC
share their big appartement (apPARTYment! :-) ).
Unfortunately it was allready damn late when we
arrived in AmsterDAMNED, so the others where all-
ready asleep, especially Tim, who had the honour
to show up at work the next day, and all of us other
people had a free day on thursday. So we just took
one bottle of bed chatted a bit and almost fell into
deep sleep, because it really was a hard day for all
of us! I brought along my sleeping bag and an air
mattress which usually gives me a good immitate of
a bed... allthough the other guys were bitching me
about the matress, as it was only 1.50 m long, when
I for myself was actually about 1.85 m tall... Well, I
have to admit, that I can't remember when I bought
that one,but when I had a look at it and finally noticed
that the mattress only went down to my knees(almost
I really remembered it must have been some time ago
in my childhood, when I used it the last time! Whatever
I usually don't care about things like this, I only need
a quiet place where I can lay down and RELAX in my
deep inside...but someone really had something aiginst
me this night. Not the other boys, they really had
silence in their own room, but there was this dude
called COSMO! Not a human being, but the cat of
Nightshade's brother, that they took for several
weeks. Everybody knows, cats always get active
during nighttimes and I really had to admit this! All
the night she was walking around my sleeping bag, as
if she wanted to come inside. Then she noticed a
plastic-bag that stood in the room and really had a
lot of fun with it, climbing inside, jumping out of it..and
this the whole night long! You can imagine the sounds
of the plastic-bag. She was really a pain in the ass!
But the zenith was reached when she was scratching
Nightshade's door.. AAARRRGghhh... I really wanted to
throw something at COSMO, but later on I was too
tired and really fell asleep finally! ...Must have been 3
or 4 hours, that I actually slept, because Tim had to
work the same morning and got up at 6 o'clock....
Unfortunately he also had to come into the room I was
sleeping in, to grab some things... so from that point
of time the night was really over for me. I could lay
around for some more hours, but didn't really find
a single moment of sleep anymore. When I got up, the
first walk went to the toilet, that I really found with
the second attempt only, allthough CBA showed me
all the necessary rooms the night before... Whatever,
I just finished with my morning sh!*t, when I wanted to
use the toiled-cleansing, but there was none, I
thought in the first moment. Funny thing, I thought,and
kept on searching for that damn thing..but still didn't
find it! There was no button, no rope no nothing to
push, so I really got a bit impatient and the air was
getting hot and hotter! ;-) After around 5 minutes
searching for it, I almost tried to push and move
every single piece of the room and by accident I also
touched the water-pipe and finally the water
came and cleaned the toilett...Puh, I really was so glad
when I imagined to ask the other dudes to clean the
toilet for me! Hehe! That was really more a morning
shock that a morning shit! ;)

I just went to the bathroom to do some washing, and
noticed that there was also another door to the bath
room, that suddenly opened... and a person came
inside... ARGGGHH, I thought! It's Ace, Ace Ventura!
(Sorry Norbert, I know you hate this!) But after
the first fright, I noticed that it was Nightshade. We
both were still in underwear, totally sleepy looking
and still unwashed....But it was a big hello!

We took place in the living-room chatted a bit and
he also did a very good coffee, so we fastly were
awake again....

Some minutes later, CBA also woke up and entered
the living-room. We all looked as if we would have
become 20 years older during that night...but after
a shower and a breakfast we looked smart and fancy
again, to continue with the party-weekend...
After the friend of mine, who joined us for the
concert, left to drive back to Germany again, we also
went to the railway station of Zandaam, to take a
train to Amsterdam. After a journey of 10 minutes
only, we arrived at central station Amsterdam. It was
about 1 pm allready and the city was totally crowed,
of course. The dudes did a small TRC*SCS sightseeing
tour with me and were cracking tourist jokes about
me, when I started to take photos. But hey, I really
needed alibi-photos, that I have been there...
After half an hour walking around, we allready had
a break at a cafe, took place outside and drunk some
beers. It was really a warm day and everybody tried
to get some sunshine... Well, after three beers we
went along and stopped some streets later for
another cafe, to continue with our hobby! ;-) Slightly
tipsy we continued with the Amsterdam-tour and the
guys had to show me the RED LIGHT DISTRICT, of
course... Damn, I have never seen so many pervert
porno photos in those shop-windows. The hookers
were sitting in windows, waiting to be bought... and
all this allready in the afternoon, and all the places
were allready crowded. Unbelieveable. But the
funniest and also meanest moment was, when CBA and
NSD went into such a dirty and empty hooker's house
and went out the other door directly. I of course
followed them and was stopped by a bitch promptly
who promised me the best blow-job I have ever had.
After I was able to rescue from that HIV-mothership
I met the guys at the entrance door laughing about
me and the whole situation... I was told, that they
do this with people who have never been there
before.... heheh! Assholes! :)

We went on in A-dam and later on we took the train
back home to Zandaam. When we arrived, the phone
was allready ringing. It was Peacemaker. We chatted
chatted with him, and suddenly had the idead to fool
Peacemaker by reporting him that I, good old Max, am
now a SCS & TRC member. He was really surprised
of me leaving Alpha Flight after 7 years, but I kept
him believing it, by telling bullshit. This joke was
actually only made to fool him a bit, but we really
found it funny so we also continued with it on the
party. So the rumour of Max being in SCS & TRC
quickly went around and even SCS members like
Moren, Burglar and all the others really believed it.
Also AFL members like Marc and Ignorance were
pissed and asked me how I could leave after 7 years.
Heheh! Just later at the end of the party on Sunday
we cleared up the thing and really had a lot of fun
with this. Later on I was cracking jokes, about me
working for the company ''RENT A MEMBER". Hahah!

Well, but back to the Thursday before the party. Also
Tim/SCS (PC) came back home later. He really looked
funny in his working-clothes, with tie and all that
belongs to it. In the evening I gave those dutch dudes
a cooking-lesson and showed how to do a first-class
meal! I did some pancakes! ;-) When we were enjoing
it, we allready started to drink the beer, that I
brought along from Germany... hours and hours
passed untill the beer was gone and we were hardly
drunk allready. Suddenly somebody had the idea to
do some vodka shots, and after I was persuaded,
I also joined and we started with this small inofficial
drinking-competition. The best thing about wodka
shots is, that you become drunk so fast, that you
really have problems to judge the time. Luckily my
photo-camera displays the time and the date onto
the photos, so that you can see how late it was, when
you took them. I was taking photos the whole evening,
(just a small commercial by the way, you can grab the
scanned photos from the SCS & TRC/R3L4X ftp-site
at UTOPIA.HACKTIC.NL..... ;-) )
So that I really understand what happened between
a very special 90 minutes. At 10 pm, we wer allready
a bit drunk, and CBA really looked sober. Then we
started with drinking the vodka...at 11.30 pm we were
totally fucked and CBA was jumping around like a
kangaroo!! That was really like a time gap... Suddenly
he was trying to dance gabba, shouting around and
I really noticed he was talking dutch to me very
often. I said, to him that he should continue to talk
English, what he did for 2 minutes again, but switched
over to dutch aftwerwards again! Heheh! This went
on all the time and we really had our fun... But the hit
of the evening was, when he wanted to go to the toilet
but noticed that it was busy. But instead of waiting,
he went to the balcony and started to piss down from
the 2nd etage down to the floor... fortunely I was
fast enough and had my camera by hand, so that I
could even take that photo! heheh! But the show
continued, when we were totally fucked and wanted to
go to bed finally, we were brushing our teeth. Well,
that means all of us except CBA...because he was so
fucked that he really had problems to put the tooth
brush into his mouth, he could hardly hit the target!
Hehe! Damn, that was a good photo, when he was
standing in front of the mirror and had tooth-paste
all over his body! My night-sleep was interupted
several times by some puking-noises from the toilet.
The poor toilet was really abused a couple of times
at this night!

The next morning we got up very early, because
Nightshade and Tim, who belonged to the organizer
staff, had to leave for preparing the party-place.
So it was my job to play CBA's nurse. He was still so
fucked that he puked the whole morning. I couldn't
stand the sounds of his puking attempts anymore
and went to the Albert Heijn shop and bought some
camomile tea for him. It really worked right good,
because after a cup of it, he felt better and didn't
puke anymore.

At ca. 2 o'clock Peacemaker and Tyron arrived at
our Party-HQ to join us for the X-Pre-Party at
the MR. COCOS bar in Amsterdam. I really have to
admit that I was surprised, when I saw Peacey
entering the room, allthough he allready told me at
the phone that he changed his outfit. It was almost
one year ago, that I have seen him the last time, so
I was really looking forward to meet him again. The
last time he visited us at our hometown, he and RRR
almost beated up a drunk farmer, at a party where
we have been to. Anyway, Peacey really looked dark,
I can only say, but quite cool.

We didn't hesitate with the warming up, when Tyron
and me opened the first can of beer allready. We
took the 3 o'clock train to the city and I had to
exchange some more money. Due to the fact that
it was a bank-holiday, I had to do this at a place
where they rip off tourist's money with their crazy
charges... and they really fooled me, too. I had the
worst course I have ever heard of... I got less than
100 dutch guildens for 100 german marks. Usually it
should be vice versa, because you get more guildens
for marks... but I didn't care anyway, because we
were on the way to party! At ca. 4 pm, we entered
the MR. COCOS and I really wondered that it was
totally empty. I guess only 20 people were in this
kind of pub, bar and disco-mixture. The place looked
quite dark and there were signatures from people
all over the walls. It had a touch of dirtyness, but
really a cool place to party I thought. All the days
before CBA promised it would be crowded at 5 pm for
the Happy Hour, I always doubted that, because I
couldn't imagine that normal people start partying
in the afternoon allready. But I got tought something
better, because during the next half an hour, the
place filled up and was totally crowded at 5 pm!

CBA introduced us quickly to some girls, he knows
so we were pleased very soon! The Happy Hour
started with a loud bell of aring and everybody
invaded the bar to order. This damn blond bitch
with the pushed up tits in her tired shirt (hehe!)
ordered the first round of beer... so we were
supplied for the next 10 minutes, before I ordered
the next one. I really love Happy Hours, because you
get two for one price... something like TWO IN ONE ;-)
It was really funny and we had our fun. A lot of
people promised to come to that bar, but didn't show
up... just like always. Moren was there with his
lovely (Never fool this girl, Sixten, or I will take
her! ;-)) But most of the swedes didn't arrive,
because they couldn't find their hotel anymore, we
were told later. Really sad was, that we missed Bob
and Alfatech/Censor, they entered later but didn't
find us unfortunately. The next day Alfatech told
us that he picked up a girl there and fucked with
her the whole night. Funny was the way he started
to talk to her... He just said "You look so pretty,
can I kiss you?" and some minutes later he was
sitting on her bike going home to her. She really
must have been addicted to him, because after
licking her pussy he said he disliked her long hair
and she immediately shaved her pussy! Hehe! What
a woman! I really tried my best the whole weekend
and talked to so many chicks, but all I got was a
phone number and some kisses... no fuck at all. And
Alfatech just did it with this single sentence! Hehe!
That must be his beard! ;-)

Later on at the bar Count Zero/Success and
Greenfrog/Talent arrived. They were so stoned
that they didn't want to stay there, they even
weren't able to find a sleeping-place, so they
slept in their car. Later they told us that the police
knocked at the car windows and told them it was
illegal to sleep in the car. So they had to drive
somewhere else, to continue with their sleep!

We left the MR. COCOS at about 12 o'clock totally
fucked. And after a small snack at MC DONALDs we
took the last train. Back home we continued to drink
beer, enjoined some older party photos and listened
to some wicked music, because Peacemaker's music
taste goes more into the independant, dark wave
direction.... Terrible! ;-)

The zenith of the night was reached when Tyron was
brushing his teeth. For some reason he wanted to
move the tap into another direction. But his attempt
was unsuccessfull, because he broke the tap!
Suddenly all the water was poring into the air and
Tyron started to laugh extremely loud. CBA went to
the bathroom, too, but couldn't laugh about the
situation at all. He was talking dutch again just like
the day before! "De Waterkraan... de Waterkraan!"
(I know I spelled it wrong, but I hate this weird
language anyway! :-)) They hold their fingers on the
hole and tried to close it with a rag... after some
minutes they noticed that it would have been better
to turn off the water.... heheh! Idiots! ;). The whole
situation was so stupid and funny, just like a scene
in a bad sketch from Mr. Bean... We really became
laugh-flashes and had to laugh the whole night, still
when we were laying in the sleeping-bags... I can
just advise you.... Break some taps instead of taking
drugs... the effect will be better! Peacemaker also
cracked a joke when he told us, he was a right-side
sleeping and started to complain about the couch he
was sleeping on.... 10 minutes later after we were
fooling him, he noticed how unlogical this was and
just turned around where he could sleep on the
right side, without falling from the couch.... You see
all were extremely fucked and stupid at this
evening! ;)

The next morning we had to hurry up with taking
showers and all the stuff, because we wanted to
be present from the first second of the party!
Tyron chauffeured us to the party and we were
allready partying on the way to Utrecht!

We arrived just in time, some minutes before 12
o'clock. There were allready a lot of PC nerds
waiting to run into the party place. A lot of PCs
stood at the entrance and we were hoping it would
start to rain... Unfortunately it didn't and the
computers were brought into the place safely.

We entered exactly at 12 o'clock and said hello to
Moren/SCS who was sitting at the door, taking
the 30 guildens entrance fee. And again I had this
flashback (just like last year) that I would have
seen Jim Morisson.. ;) We entered the party place
and Nightshade showed us the room, that they
had reserved for the C-64s... Not a big one, but
we 64 freaks are there for partying and not for
computing anyway! After we grabbed a beer at the
bar, we decided to do a small location-check and
went to the other PC-rooms. And we couldn't believe
it, but just 30 minutes after the doors were opened,
there were allready so many PC-kids sitting in front
of their Windows and Microsoft infected machines,
playing Doom, Doom II or any other stupid games.

... TO BE CONTINUED ...

Please make sure to load in part 2 of this story, too,
since Max already reached the subject and the title
of this chapter, the party itself.

</pre>
==Party Radar 2==
<pre>
* PARTY RADAR - FIRST BLOOD - PART II *
------------------------------------------------------------
At the end of part I Max already reached the party,
so there is no longer introduction text needed. Just
let him continue ...

Those PC-Kiddies were really a pain in the ass, but
they were the ideal person to fool. Nowadays you
have to invite PC guys, too, to finance the project.
The terrible thing about them is, that they still take
all the things so serious. In my opinion the computer
are just an alibi to meet up with people and to party.
I don't want to stick in front of the computer when
I meet my friends from foreign countries. The time
that passes is too rare for such a crap!

Whatever, we had to fool these kiddies, so Peacey,
Tyron and me went arround through the different
rooms again. The party place was cool again. A
small kindergarten with different rooms and a second
etage, so there was plenty place for the dudes
and their computers. I was really impressed by
all the big machines. A lot of dudes had big loud-
speakers again and there was big noise everywhere.
The organizers also hired good Bose loudspeakers
and played good music all the time, so that the party
feeling came up quickly. The bar in the place was
quite good and they had everything to drink from
water, cola, coffee, beer and whatever. They had it
opened the whole night, so we were able to buy our
beer with no time delay! Just one sad thing was, that
you couldn't buy food at that bar. For this reason
they hired a snack-car that stood in front of the
party place. You were able to buy chips, frikandels
and all the stuff you need for a healthy and long
life! ;) The snack-bar was a good idea, but
unfortunately it wasn't open the whole night. It closed
during the night and was opened at 9 o'clock in the
morning, so that a lot of dudes were really pissed
and hungry between this time. This is really a thing
that they have to improve for the next party.

But back to the main events...Peacey,Tyron and me
went around to fool some people. We went to almost
every PC-teenie and asked for PORNO.GIFS... It was
really funny to see their faces, when they under-
stood that and got red faces. Almost everybody
denied to have porno pictures, so we went on an on.
Finally we found a 15 year old boy who said, he would
have 3 or 5 pictures... I was really surprised when
the gif-directory scrolled for about 2 pages!
Finally we had our gifs. We were standing in front of
that computer with 4 guys (incl. the owner of the
pc) and started with the gifs. With every picture
we three guys were screaming and shouting louder,
so that a lot of people became curious about what's
so special. Maybe they thought we were amazed
by a new demo or game. Soon there were like 20
people around the computer laughing, because we
allready talked to most of them (because of the gifs!).
You should have seen the colour of the
PC-teenie's face...deeply red. Suddenly he turned off
the computer and pretended he would have to
continue coding his demo.... Hahahah! Too funny
these shy dudes, collecting porno.gifs and denying
they would ever had one....

Later Harlequin/SCS (PC) was performing his dutch
rap-lyrics on the stage. It was quite cool allthough
I didn't understand a single word of that damn pirate
language. Just some 64 freaks were jumping around,
and the PC-nerds of course just sitting or standing
in front of their machines.

After this, we went back to the main important thing.
Drinking beer and partying with the 64 sceners.

The following dudes were present:

ALPHA FLIGHT: Max, Marc, Ignorance, Styx, Ream,
Danzig, Shuze, Rayden, Chotaire

FOCUS: TDJ, Mirage, Jeroen Tel

WOW: Einstein, Azzarro, Sorex, Bud, Bundy, Stormlord

F4CG: Motley, Jucke, Solar, Newscopy, Sixx, Scorpie

AVANTGARDE: Weasel, Intruder, Jack Alien, Cupid,
Freestyle

CENSOR: Bob, Alfatech, Geggin

TRIAD: King Fisher, Mr. Ammo

ONSLAUGHT: Heavy Head, Donar, Ramirez, Shocker

SHAPE: Duke

AMNESIA: Seal

TALENT: Greenfrog

CHROMANCE: Zar, Syco, Mc Byte

OXYRON (Amiga): No-XS

HEATWAVE: Youth, Bas-B

CREST: Syndrom, Deekay

DIGITAL EXCESS: Thomas Koncina, Bjoern Odendahl

HITMEN: Peacemaker, Tyron, Groepaz, Curlin, Jihad,
Tranziie, Sabotage, Luke, Vortex, Raze

ANGRY: Nastyness Inc

Ex-POWERS OF PAIN: Buff

REFLEX: Happymaker

XENON: Oxbow, Carmen, Slam, Dylotic, Sammy,
Megabrain, Crazy Bird

ATLANTIS: Robocop

X-LARGE: Zambo

ex-TABOO: Acidchild

PANDORA: Mephisto

SUCCESS & TRC: Action Jackson, Moren, CBA, Night-

shade, Burglar, Trax, Bacillus, Allitaice, Splatterhead
Spectator, Count Zero, Arrogance

I know I might have missed up the one or other name,
but please don't be pissed! It was you guys writing
down your handles on the paper. And most of you
have a lousy handwriting! ;) Also sorry if I forgot
somebody, I know I did for sure!

All in all it was quite funny this evening, but we didn't
want to stay at the party place for the whole night,so
a couple of us guys decided to go out to the city of
Utrecht to party somewhere else. If I rember right
we were about 20 person (me, Bob, Alfatech, CBA,
Moren, Mr.Ammo, King Fisher, Raze and his girlfriend,
Greenfrog, Count Zero ...
and some other dudes I couldn't notice anymore, due
to my alcohol level... ;) We went to a bus stop and
took the next bus towards the city. Walking through
the streets, we kept asking every good chick for a
place to go to... First we went to a big pub, where
we could sit down an drink a bit. But that place
was really boring I have to admit. We ordered big
beers and partied as good as it was possible in that
damn place. The room was quite crowded and a lot
of people were standing, but though there was no
real party going on. Moren and me talked to two
chicks, but only the bad one seemed to be interested
so we went back to the others immediately. Alfatech
was laying on the table, sleeping allready. Maybe he
was dreaming of the girl, he picked up a day before..
hehe! After an hour we decided to leave again to
take a snack at Mc Donalds (I can't hear this name
anymore) and ended at a House-disco called TIVOLI.
This place was bad, too. It seemed to me as if all the
people would be on EXTACY. And it was like this
I guess... But allthough we really had our fun and
danced our asses off...

I tried to talk to some girls again, but wasn't very
lucky. My first talk was interupted by the girl's
boyfriend, so I immediately turned around to another
one. But that girl was touching her finger always in
a very strange way... I allready thought she would be
so horny, but then I noticed her ring around the
finger. She told me that she was freshly married...
and again I turned away, but this time to the
dancefloor.... hehe! Was really not my night this time!

The DJ was really playing a lousy music, no gabba,
no trance, but something between these styles. I
really hated him for it.... But the worst thing was
that the club closed at 4 o'clock allready, so we
left and took some taxis back to the party place,
the EINSTEIN HUIS. Most of the people were allready
sleeping and we were lucky that we didn't stay at the
party place for all the night.

More and more I also got tired, but I won against my
tireness... I changed my behaviour and stopped with
the beer and switched over to coffee. So I was quite
fit very soon. At 8 o'clock they had the music
competition and we were really enjoying most of the
zax. CBA and me were dancing around through the
party place, when they played METAL's music. The
other dudes, hardly awake, really seemed to be
surprised that we were so fit. We fooling some
PC-kids again by dancing around them....it was pretty
cool.

At nine o'clock, the snack-car opened and everybody
ran towards it...arghh I had a healthy breakfast again
and ordered FRITES with a brown sauce, called
something like PENADA... Argggh it tasted like shit.
I didn't know that PENADA comes from peanut, else
I wouldn't have bought that shit. I directly gave my
frites away to Moren, because he had the same
some minutes ago... He really seemed to love that
brown sauce... Whatever I ordered another one, but
this time with RED/WHITE (ketchup and mayonaise)
and was feeling better again.

At 11 o'clock I was feeling very down, tired... I was only
sitting in couch corner and watching the 64-demo
competition. There were some quite cool demos, but
it was clear that Crest would win, because their demo
really had a better niveau than all the other ones.
You can really see that these dudes know their
business.

These were the rankings:

1.) Crest (of course!)
2.) Hitmen (really nice demo for a cracking group)

3.) Chalice (last demo from Rayden for this group, as
he joined AFL before the party)

4.) Cosine

5.) Animals

After the demo competition most of us dudes
prepared the things at got ready. We stood outside
for half an hour, chatted a bit and took some more
photos, before we said good bye to eachother

I drove back home together with Marc, Ignorance and
Rayden/AFL. After some minutes on the dutch high-
way I felt asleep and woke up in front of my home,
where Marc let me out.

All in all the party was a big Success (!)... They were
really a lot of far foreign people, that you haven't
seen for a long time. We 64 sceners really had a big
party and showed those PC guys what the 64-scene
spirit is about: "HAVING FUN!" nothing more. No
business, no laming in front of computers... just
having pure fun!

You can be sure to meet me at the next big party
again, because we have to keep up this spirit.
The next X-party is planed to be a big event again,
with a lot of changes to get the next party even bet-
ter. The things I heard from them really sounded in-
teresting, so I am looking forward to it. Stay tuned!

I have to say thanks to CBA, Nightshade and Tim
expecially for letting me stay at there place! It was
really cool with you guys and I am sure we gonna
repeat this very soon! Whether in Germany or at
MR. Cocos again! ;)

Also a special ;) to the AFLers who understood our
MAX/AFL joke! Hehe!

Greetings to all the dudes I have been together with
at this long weekend! You know who you are!

Thanks for reading all the stuff, I hope you liked it
a bit. You see, what's really important to me and what
is less...
See you soon on a party!

Max/Alpha Flight 1970
------------------

LONG LIVE THE 64-SCENE

At last some explaining words from me to set an inci-
dent Max reported about into the right light.

The farmer who was NEARLY beaten up by either
Peacemaker or me has been definately looking for
trouble, but after having been ragged down he left
the location and ran home... to mummy.
He never came back and asked for the job I have of-
fered him, to cut the grass infront of my house. Just
curious! ;)

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

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XL: XX.X.XX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX,
XXX XXX, XXXXXXX

When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text. WE feel free to present your advertisements
coming up to our interests in order to SAVE memory!

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>

Relax 17

2008-01-14T15:21:59Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
R3L4X M4G4Z1N3* JULY 1996 edition (issue # 17), the
magazine for the generation with an eye for the finer
details in the CBM 64 scene, was brought to you by
PHUTURE (Software & Marketing), your favourite
disk-magazine releasing game label.

------------------
... internal affairs ...
--------------------
Unfortunately we have been forced to cancel the re-
lease of the announced X-96 special edition.

Our very own motivation was to release a very origi-
nal special edition around the X-96 party held by our
colleagues in Success & The Ruling Company. Unfor-
tunately a LOWEST budget release has been released,
containing a SIMILAR idea even if it DIDN'T come up
to what we have prepared. With the loss of the sur-
prise effect the motivation has been decreased, and
after taking the actual date into consideration we fi-
nally decided that it is DEFINATELY TOO LATE for a
X-96 special.
Some of our photos might be released at the from our
colleagues in the PROPAGANDA staff prepared photo
CD, some others will be, some have already been, up-
loaded at THE DIGITAL DUNGEON, the SCS&TRC*Relax
Internet headquarter, so there are different ways to
get your hands on what we have worked on.
Neverthless we still have in MIND to release a scene
related special edition about a special happening, but
we won't set a release date nor report anything
about the concept in order to AVOID cheap IMMITA-
TIONS! Just wait for a surprise!

This time we have been patient even after the official
deadline to provide the latest information of the sce-
ne, we even decrunched several specific chapters to
update and upgrade them up to perfection, but what
else to expect from your favourite disk magazine?

--------------------------
... another one bites the dust ...
-----------------------------
Much to our regret we have to start with some sad
and negative news. Our comrade and colleague DUKE
decided once again to close the file "THE PULSE",
unfortunately this time for good.

Without any doubts THE PULSE used to be the leading
disk magazine in 1993 and 1994 and it was a major
shock for the scene when Duke STOPPED editing for
the first time. That time Duke has been setting up a
high standart for SCENE MAGAZINES, a standart
which influenced the media industry by rising the en-
tire quality level.
Magazines like Vandalism News, Propaganda, Domina-
tion and last but not least the Relax Magazine decided
to take over and cover the market and the gaps The
Pulse has left behind. Being in heavy competition all
contributors developed their very own style and up-
graded their skills with an every single edition they
have provided to the CBM 64 scene.
With the reputation of a trendsetter and dominator
Duke and The Pulse finally returned to compete in
the media business. After some starting problems
the editorial staff has been found and presented
some really FINE editions, nevertheless it never made
it up again to the position of the DOMINATOR. Lots of
strong competitors were prepared and accepted a
brillaint competition which can be defined as the mo-
ther of the steady improvements people could detect
in a league of their own, the board magazine area.

Many people did not believe in the rebuilt version of
The Pulse since they have been missing the LEADING
factor by DISREGARDING the fact of a reinforced
and more powerful magazine front compared with
former days when The Pulse has been the genuine
SPIRITUAL LEADER and REFORMER of the standarts.
Surely not an every single bit has been GOLD, but a
retrospection in general can only hold the POSITIVE
ASPECTS, aspects which can be checked out by
reading all existing editions, over and over again.

Uncompetent critism has been spread by people who
misunderstood the spiritual and liberal goods we got
delivered on a MONTHLY basis, texts which were of-
ten QUITE HARD to understand for the masses, ideas
following to the basic ideas and visions of the FOUN-
DERS, PIONEERS and the ADMINISTRATORS of the CBM
64 scene in a time when most of today's scene popu-
lation didn't know anything about the existance of the
CBM 64 and its scene.
Surely not everything has pleased our intentions or
ideas, but after reading these texts you have been
sure that the AUTHOR had his intentions, used his
brain and did some research instead of filling ano-
ther 100 blocks with useless crap to break a record
concerning the textsize of the publication. LESS can
be MUCH MORE, that is exactly our philosophy, too!
The most important fact is that he used to know what
he was writing about and it was no problem to discuss
the content of an every single article and getting
more background information to prove and support
the information available in the articles.

It is the destination for those who remain here to get
the balance right and to deliver INFORMATION instead
of glorification and OBJECTIVITY instead of prejudice
what should be the primary target now, the service
the Relax Magazine offered and the convocation we
followed from the very beginning.

For the last time we express our RESPECT to a hard
competitor in the MEDIA BUSINESS and one of the few
advanced magazine editor colleagues left in this SCE-
NE, a fanatic person always trying to improve and to
advance the quality level of scene magazines.
Regardless from the disappearance of one competi-
tor we truely HOPE that all other competitors, may it
be Propaganda, Vandalism News, Domination and last
but not least the RELAX MAGAZINE, will continue their
BRILLIANT jobs and continue to present an advanced
JOURNALISM in QUALIFIED and experienced produc-
tions which will hopefully continue to rock the scene.
Competition is heading to progress, and without any
progress at all we are going to get lost as it makes
the scene world go round. Without progess it would
become boring and people would lose the interest in
this machine, so we will continue to try to keep the
spirit alive as a last sign of respect and honour into
direction THE PULSE MAGAZINE and especially DUKE,
the man who made it all possible. Live long and pros-
per!

------------------------------------------------------------
... Software distribution in the Internet ...
------------------------------------------------------------
With the steady growing popularity of the INTERNET
VARIOUS ways to get your hands on the latest soft-
ware became STANDARTS these days. There are the
very popular WWW-PAGES which can combine the
presentation of information and emulate a BBS. Next
to the function of transfering private mails the popu-
lar E-MAIL service can be used to DELIVER any
particular piece of software in MIME (Base64) format
or UUENCODED directly into the mail folder of the
addressee. Another way to send and get software is
the INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC), the place to chat in
the Net, by using the DCC commands. Last but not
least there are the FTP-SITES, maybe the most inte-
resting file bases available these days. We will have a
closer look at them now.

FTP-SITES fullfill in general the same functions like
BOARDS, being a place to find the latest warez such
as first releases, tools, magazines and demos aswell
as golden oldies and other useful software.
The most IMPORTANT CBM 64 scene related FTP-sites
are (ordered by attractivity, subjective ofcourse):

FTP-SITE'S NAME ADDRESS
MAINTAINER(S) GROUP(S)
------------------------------------------------------------
THE DIGITAL DUNGEON utopia.hacktic.nl (replay.com)
CBA, Burglar, Coolhand, Viking SCS&TRC * RELAX
------------------------------------------------------------
GANGSTA'S PARADISE ftp.inf.bme.hu
Lion, Mr. Wax CHROMANCE
------------------------------------------------------------
LOSING CONTROL ftp.dhp.com
Counter Attack, Zny PALACE * PROPAGANDA
------------------------------------------------------------
MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu
Stake, Crossfire SCS & TRC * MOTIV 8
------------------------------------------------------------
THE BADLANDS ftp.giga.or.at
Mr. Spock T'PAU
------------------------------------------------------------
XCLUSIV FTP ftp.df.lth.se
King Fisher TRIAD
------------------------------------------------------------
THE GRIDPOINT rsls6.sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
Warp EQUINOXE * SHOUT!
------------------------------------------------------------
NTSCLAND ftp.eskimo.com
Skyclad, Elwix THRESHOLD PRODUCTIONS * DRIVEN
------------------------------------------------------------
The ATTRACTIVITY of FTP-SITES is based on several
factors. Surely the SPEED LEVEL is the most impor-
tant one as there are not actually not very much file
bases you can approach with your favourite compu-
ter configuration and almost WITHOUT LIMITS, for
example leeching CBM 64 software with 28k8 can be
a real PLEASURE compared with the time wasting 2k4
(1k2 in most cases to have an acceptable line) trans-
fers we use to know from the boards. We have to
admit that it depends on the Internet provider, but as
it is already 1996 almost all providers should atleast
offer 19k2 just to set it on a slow minimum.
Another advantage is the bright palette of software
offered here. You can find absolute everything here
such as the lastest, golden oldies and rarities. This
positive aspect is based on the fact that EVERYONE
with INTERNET ACCESS can upload everything on an
every FTP-site within a few minutes, not only the few
who can actually call out for free. Furthermore many
oldtimers, people who were active in the golden past,
make some of their golden oldies here.

The FTP-sites can't completely replace the boards in
this scene as they can NEVER emulate the special at-
mosphere nor the special feeling. Nevertheless, when
it comes up to the warez, it is for sure an attractive
service we can't effort to miss. Be sure visit THE DI-
GITAL DUNGEON whenever you have the chance to do
it, not only to get your hands on the latest RELAX
editions but aswell for the huge software archive of-
fered here.

------------------------------------------------------------
... Votesheet Spreaders and News suppliers ...
------------------------------------------------------------
The RELAX votesheets have been spread, as usual,
by our very own ZAPOTEK as well as Spectator, by
Starlight and by Shuze. Starting with this edition as-
well DR. SOFT and Violator promised to spread our
paper votesheets.
The news have been supplied and confirmed by Ice-
ball, Kristian Rostoen, DUKE, NEWSCOPY, Riddler,
BRIAN, Ned, Vengeance, CURLIN, King Fisher, CBA,
Burglar, Fuben, The Meatball and many more.

This edition's content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL REPORT is the host for all who are looking
out for ALL necessary information about the scene
happenings. The RELEASE CHARTS and the 1996 RE-
LEASE CHARTS are proving an overview about the
releases of the previous decade and ofcourse all re-
leases of the year 1996. BOARD CHARTS and MAIL
CHARTS are the place to look up the actual standings
in the opinion of the board and mail scene, a mirror
who reflects the votes of people who filled vote-
sheets all over the globe and shared their results by
mail, e-mail and on the boards. The INTERVIEW has
been hold with a CENSORed person and an excellent
programmer, BOB is his name. The DEMO REVIEWS are
having a closer look at two recently releases demon-
strations entitled Litter and Krestology. The PARTY
RADAR will have a look on two major happenings in
nothern (Assembly) and eastern (Flag) Europe to
provide you with all necessary information. Our AD-
VERTISEMENTS section contains again a lot of inte-
resting mail, e-mail, FTP-site and WWW addresses, all
you need to satisfy the warez hunters.

* Credits for the July edition *
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK SYNDROM/THE IMPERIUM ARTS/CREST
GASTON/THE IMPERIUM ARTS/ELYSIUM
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CRUISE/TABOO PRODUCTIONS
CHARACTERSET SKID ROW/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

We have to express our thanks to SYNDROM/TIA/
CREST who has delivered this soundtrack after our
booked artist informed us about being unable to pre-
sent his performance this time.

Title Author
------------------------------------------------------------
"PSYCHO" SYNDROM/TIA/CREST
"HIGH VOLTAGE" GASTON/TIA/ELYSIUM
------------------------------------------------------------

* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------- xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

Boards: HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA
------ THE EVIL ISLAND
THE ESCAPADE
------------------------------------------------------------

* Where to download the Relax Magazine? *
------------------------------------------------------------
HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Utopia.Hacktic.NL
THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Replay.Com
------------------------------------------------------------

* Where to order the DIGITAL VOTESHEET? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Zapotek/Alpha Flight 1970 xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
RRR/Oxyron xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------------------------------------------------------------

* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON
------------------------------------------------------------

* Authorized Mail Distribution *
------------------------------------------------------------
ZAPOTEK/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
DR. SOFT/ALBION
SIXX/F4CG
------------------------------------------------------------

Best regards in the name of the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

* R3L4X M4G4Z1N3* *
3XPL0S1V3 3V3R, 1MPULS1V3 N3V3R!

May 14th, 1996
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</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Facts, facts, facts, ... Welcome to THE news journal
you can care about because WE do care about the
content.

The seek for proven information has found its end as
you have finally found your favourite and most RELI-
ABLE HOST around the globe in this lonely universe.
Fantasy stories, expections or own opinions about
the latest happenings in the world we use to live in
can be found in several wrong places, this is the pla-
ce for getting PURE information, prepared and
collected and proven by EXPERIENCED and QUALI-
FIED reporters, always hunting for the latest in the
CBM 64 scene, the place we still use to life in.

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
This flight will never stop! A slogan seems to become
reality. A steady warez support to the scene and
nowadays a more solid group policy made again a top
act out of the German based crew around Marc.

Fresh blood got implanted with the recruitment of
THE HERETIC and later on NED, who will both remain
members of the group Netphreakers. Both are mainly
responsible for h/p while The Heretic will get active,
on a minor level, as graphic artist, too.
An old compare has been welcomed back to get active
in full effect, no one else but SKINHEAD announced
his comeback and started already to call out.
Rumours came up, mainly spread by competiting maga-
zines, that Chotaire got caught for Hacking/Phreak-
ing and based on this fact THE PIRATE ISLAND went
offline. Fact is that Chotaire got a call from the com-
pany WORLD LINK PREMIER and nothing else followed.
The Pirate Island went offline when Chotaire has been
in Kuwait for a while. He is already considering about
leaving Germany for Kuwait, so TPI might be back on-
line there! Meanwhile he opened an HOMEPAGE for the
flight, being the official one for all sections, including
PC, Amiga and CBM 64.
The mail distribution of the flight got reduced when
Violator decided to leave for the growing fleet of
Triad while Rick got kicked out due to the fact of not
pleasing the leadership with his mail trading activities
until now.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 21):
Ancient Mariner, Archangel, Blaze, Calypso, Chotaire,
Cryonic, Danzig, Flash, Ignorance, Marc, Max, Ned,
Pol Pot, Rayden, Ream, Shuze, Skinhead, Styx, The
Heretic, Xenox and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA NEW number soon available!
THE EVIL ISLAND (down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
HTTP: //ns.tmx.com.ni/&chotaire

* AVANTGARDE *
------------------------------------------------------------
One of the most competitive cracking groups around
is DEAD! After the activity level has been reduced to
a NOT competitive level the group was declared to be
dead.

Deff, Intruder, Renegade, Jack Alien and Cupid alrea-
dy joined the friends in F4CG, the fate of the rest is
quite uncertain, but we will keep you updated.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= RIP):
./.

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
MEPHISTO, former member of Pandora, teamed up as
modem trader and card supplier to replace MOTION,
who left for the growing forces of Hitmen. LION has
left his second group Resource so Gangsta's Para-
dise is now runned exclusive for Chromance, and due
to the popularity of the homepages a CHROMANCE
HOMEPAGE is already under production.
SKULL and ALIAS MEDRON have been removed from
the actual status while Alias Medron might return as
soon as he is getting active again.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 25):
AMC, Bolee, Deviant, Fusion, Griff, Immortal, Janee,
Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, Mephisto, Mr. Wax,
Rough, Rug Rat, Sage, Scratcher, Skud, Spermbird,
Syco, Techno, The Unholy, Will, XXL and Zeyex

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
BASS PLANET ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
OVERDOSE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
GANGSTA'S PARADISE ftp.inf.bme.hu

* FANTASTIC 4 CRACKING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
There happened not that much in F4CG, but what hap-
pened hasn't been too fortunate. Nevertheless all
might be looking more positive in the next weeks or
months, as people are waiting for the so-called jud-
gement day.

Right AFTER our deadline we got the information that
DEFF, INTRUDER, CUPID, JACK ALIEN and RENEGADE
from the fresh buried group Avantgarde completed
the group, what is for sure a big deal for the fan-
tastics!
CYBORG doesn't think that DREAMPARK, the once so
popular Avantgarde, F4CG and Propaganda head-
quarter, will be online again as board, atleast not in
the next months. He already started to SELL OUT his
CBM 64 equipment, what should be a statement which
does not need any comments.
Unfortunately INTERPARK had to be taken down after
getting full online for some weeks again. A while ago,
we reported about it in the previous edition, it was
only online on a temporary basis, now it's down for
good. But a replacement is already in seight, same
goes for a new worldheadquarter so F4CG is cur-
rently working on a their own JUDGEMENT DAY.
Information about THE TRIBUTE 1996 party can be
found on the PROPAGANDA homepage, for sure worth
being visited!

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 30):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Chash, Cupid, Cybersurfer,
Cyborg, Deff, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, Intruder, Jack
Alien, King, Maja, Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec,
Newscopy, Playboy, Renegade, Scorpie, Smasher,
Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Walker and Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HTTP: //www.algonet.se/motley/propa.htm

* GRAFFITY *
------------------------------------------------------------
For a long time it was very silent around the Hunga-
rian demo group, but these days it seems they are
waking up again.

The group's history is very similar to most others as
all members grew up and the REAL LIFE became more
important. Their old members Trays and Maxwell toge-
ther with Cybortech have formed a printing company,
Grabowski and Davis are studying, Cheesion is coding
databases for commercial companies and Fletcher
and Brian are building up a sound studio in order to
PRODUCE young talents in Hungary. Both are aswell
AUTHORIZED dealers of brands like Fatar, Clavia and
Waldorf there. Brian is aswell a SALES MANAGER of
studio equipment and started to study informatics
while Fletcher studies to become an electronic EN-
GENEER.
New in their rows are Clareance and Ollie, both for-
mer members of Chorus. Because of this change Cho-
rus died.
The long awaited demo "JUSTINBLUE" is already fini-
shed by 90% and is supposed to be released at the
end of 1996, to be more exactly in October or Novem-
ber. Furthermore a new DMC version is supposed to
be released.

Current Graffity memberstatus looks like (= 9):
Brian, Calt, Cheesion, Clarence, Cybortech, Davis,
Fletcher, Grabowski and Ollie

* HITMEN *
------------------------------------------------------------
The group around Curlin, Jihad and Peacemaker has
already transformed in a multifunctional group, hav-
ing a well working cracking, fixing and demo section
being capable to compete with the leading teams
around these days.

The information around Hitmen starts with Motion/ex-
Chromance completing the forces to serve as modem
trader and to get active in the H/P business for the
based group. Furthermore Stan/ex-X-Rated teamed
up as mail trader. Last but not least two new implants
for the demo section have been found with Banshee
from Poland and Balance from Hungary, both graphic
artists. Their work can be found in the follow-up
demo Cucumber Juice 2.
Dr. Doom has been kicked out after his computer
equipment broke and he didn't stay in contact with
the leadership to inform them about the actual situa-
tion. Rumours say he already left the scene.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 19):
Balance, Banshee, Curlin, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce,
Jihad, Jinx, Luke, Marcus, Motion, Peacemaker, Ra-
coon, Raze, Sabotage, Stan, Tranziie, Tyron and Vor-
tex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADIZE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* MOTIV 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
The Danish pride is still going strong releasewise
even if their releases might NOT belong to the middle-
class these days, but on the other hand they are ac-
tually building up a very PROMISING demo section.

The polish section, being lead by MHD after Spider
quitted the scene, made another recruitment called
RIME, a coder. His first pieces of work for Motiv 8
might be seen in a not too far distant.
Unlike printed elsewhere, to be exactly in Vandalism
News issue # 27, L.A. Style has definately NOT left the
danish based group for Acrise & Excess. After re-
leasing Track-Player the author Lyon has decided to
start working on a more advanced editor which is ac-
tually promised to become one of the best editors
ever made.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 21):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog,
Grego, Ibanez, Iceball, Larry, L.A. Style, Mason, Lyon,
Merlin, MHD, Nuke, Rime, Sphere , Stone, The Fresh
Prince and TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
LIQUID PALACE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
THE HIDDEN ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu
HTTP: //www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/&grfrog/

* ONSLAUGHT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Releasewise it was a good month for Onslaught, ne-
vertheless there's still the sour taste of controver-
sials around these releases coming from MANY cor-
ners in the scene. Memberwise the line up has been
filled up once more.

After the split of the Hardcore and Onslaught coope-
ration believe thought all would end in HARDCORE, but
they were totally WRONG. Onslaught survived and re-
infiltrated most members, now even NEBULA, an all-
round talent, B-WYZE and COMMUNIST left the almost
dead Hardcore for the Australian based group. From
Ambush joined QUASAR as graphic artist and ZAKK
as programmer. Last but not least MOSES entered,
having in his luggage the board SANITARIUM.
After not having shown a lifesign for quite a while the
east German swapper Code 18 has been removed from
the active memberlist while Heavyhead seems to be a
little bit unactive because of his army service. CHAO-
TIC has been kicked out for several reasons and joi-
Smash Design. Last but not least Jazzcat's HOUSE
burnt down! The only thing he could recover after
returning from a three days long trip were some old
coins from his collection, NO personal item is left! Ac-
tually it's reported that he uses to live in some kind
barrack right now. Not Jazzcat nor his room-mate
had a fire insurance so it's quite uncertain for them
to get any penny back. The fire has been started by
an electrical default, just for those who are interes-
ted in HOT details. Right after the fire CYRAX decided
to leave them aswell. Detailed reasons are NOT known
yet.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 34):
ASV, Bizarre, B-Wyze, Communist, Deekay, Digahole,
Donar, Doom, Gop, Grafee, Grize, Hardsequencer,
Heavyhead, Jazzcat, Jolz, Kinley, Macx, McByte, Meff,
Morbid, Morrisey, Mr. Brain, Nebula, Quasar, Ramirez
Rap, Shades, Shocker, The Unholy, TMM, Trouble, Ven-
geance, Witty and Zakk

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX
SANITARIUM ++XX/XXX-XXXXXX

* SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY *
------------------------------------------------------------
All in all a good period for SCS & TRC with some nice
releases and some useful completations to the mem-
berstatus in order to guarantee to warez flood being
spread well across Europe.

The ruling cooperation enlarged their activities in
the very important mail distribution with two brand-
new entries. FUNXILLA/NoName/U-turn joined in from
Holland aswell as EL BANDITOS/Fatum from Poland in
order to spread the Dutch releases.
The Polish graphic artist SLIVER has left them to be-
come a member of TRIAD as there is no real need for
a fulltime graphic artist in the cooperation.

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 20):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Allitaice, Bacillus, Burglar,
CBA, Count Zero, Credo, El Banditos, Funxilla, Lord
Crucifier, Micron, Moren, Nightshade, Replay, Specta-
tor, Splatterhead, Stake, Trax and Tristan

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADISE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON utopia.hacktic.nl
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON replay.com
FTP: MOUNT TOKAY woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu

* TRIAD *
------------------------------------------------------------
The ancient group Triad has shown an immense acti-
vity lately by recruiting a lot of people in the hope to
find again the old strength.

At first Sliver from SCS&TRC decided to team up in
order to replace Dane, who left for Crest due to the
fact that he is cooperation with Mitch when it comes
up to produce CBM 64 music. Furthermore Father
Dagon, Disaster, Taper, Quorthon and The Meatball
from Ambient decided to team up. Out of this new si-
tuation Ambient died. Last but not least Violator left
Alpha Flight in order to become active as mail trader
in the Swedish based group.

Current Triad memberstatus looks like (= 15):
Ca$h, Dr. Disk, Disaster, Father Dagon, Iopop, Jerry,
King Fisher, Mr. Ammo, Quorthon, Sailor, Tao, Taper,
The Meatball, Twoflower and Violator

Triad worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE STUDIO ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
VIRTUAL LIGHT ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
ANTIDOTE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXX
HTTP: //www.df.lth.se/&triad/triad-home.html
FTP: XCLUZIV FTP ftp.df.lth.se

* SINGLE NEWS AND RUMOURS *
------------------------------------------------------------
* ACTIVE explained that MOON does not belong to the
active Active memberstatus. He was going to re-
turn into the scene when he was arraning a game
soundtrack a while ago and showed interest in do-
ing further musics on this system, too. Sadly his
activity turned down again. Some of his unreleased
tunes might be released either in a collection and
in the "7 YEARS ACTIVE" celebration demo though.
MOON himself stated on the IRC that he is NOT in
Active but still a FLASHer. It all seems to be a BIG
misunderstanding!

Current Active memberstatus looks like (= 10):
Artlace, Dexter, Foxy, Injun Inc., Riddler, Stash,
Surfer, Trasher, Trident and Wolverine

Active worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
VIRTUAL LIGHT ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
HTTP: //jota.sm.luth.se/&d95-pen

* With NED and THE HERETIC two members of the no-
torious NETPHREAKERS joined Alpha Flight, but re-
main in the h/p group as double members.

Current N*P memberstatus looks like (= 7):
Chaotic, Deceiver, Necrophilist, Ned, Rainbow War-
rior, Savage and The Heretic

* Unlike printed elsewhere, FUBEN won't stop produ-
cing demos on the CBM 64! Actually his new CBM 64
demo is under production and is going to be relea-
sed until October 1996, furthermore productions
on PC and Amiga and planned from his side.

Current Oxyron memberstatus looks like (= 7):
Axis, Fanta, Fuben, Graham, PRI, RRR and TTS

* The golden days of REFLEX belonging to the leading
demo groups seems to be over after the for the
breakthru responsible members QUISS, PVCF, PVT
aswell as GURU decided to leave the chapter Reflex
(CBM 64) far behind them in order to concentrate
on their PC project REFLEX 64, a demo release is
already planned for The Party 1996. According to
PVCF they couldn't accept the current group poli-
cy finally leading them to this step, while it seems
that QUISS has finally lost his interest in the CBM
64 after finishing the game CENTRIC.

* SHAPE announced a FAMOUS accession with no one
else but Geir Tjelta/Moz(IC)art, one of the best CBM
64 musicians ever.
Unfortunately The Pulse Magazine, released using
the Shape label, won't be released anymore as Duke
has stopped the production for good.

Current Shape memberstatus looks like (= 14):
Andreas W. Andersen, Hans Petters Andersen, Rolf
Runar Bakke, Duke, Haakon Flesland, Glenn Rune
Gallefoss, Morten, Snorre Narum, Kjell Nordbo,
Sveinung Pedersen, Kristian Rostoen, Eiving Som-
mersten, Gier Tjelta and Richard Velta

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Master of Law...

MARC

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Eames 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed uithin 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
-----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
Re-release of a preview -1.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation -1.0/ -2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration uhilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia NEW NUMBER!!!!!!
----------------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* ACRISE + EXCESS (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The cooperation released only a little preview
called ASTROMINE (0.5 pts).

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 (14.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The German pride started with the fixed versions of
CUSTER (3.9 pts) from Magna Media and VIN TIM (3.6)
and last but not least released the long awaited
CENTRIC (7.1 pts).

* AVANTGARDE (4.4) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The ONLY game they have uploaded was the fixed
version of INSANITY (4.4 pts), which is DEFINATELY
the LAST release to be released under the AVANT-
GARDE label.

* CHROMANCE (0.0 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They had a very bad start because they rereleased
CAMBOGIA (- 7 pts), F4CG released it some time back
and they released a tool called D.J. Mixer (0.0 pts).

* F4CG (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The only thing that they released was the unplayable
preview of SKIDMARK (0.0 pts).

* HITMEN (4.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The German based group released the 100% work-
ing and fixed version of ICEMANIA (4.7 pts) from APS
Onslaught FAILED with their version it crashed after
the intro on NTSC and was not fixed.

* MOTIV 8 (8.2 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with TOWERS OF LOADSTAR
(0.0 pts), QUIZ BANG (2.1 pts), ROBOT RAIDERS (2.1),
MOONRAKER (2.1 pts), MONSTER POWER (2.2 pts),
PROFESSOR CALHOON (0.0 pts), SKYFALL ACE (2.1),
STACK'EM TETRIS (2.1 pts) and GEMS (2.1 pts),
followed by the previews of SUPER POGO (0.0 pts),
POGOSTICK (0.0 pts), KISS OF DEATH (0.4 pts) and
some tools called TRACKPLAYER V3.0 (0.0 pts),
TJARTORNER V1.0 (0.0 pts) and the SCS-RELOCATOR
(0.0 ts). And at the end they re-released TENEMENT
(- 7 pts), Shazam released it 1.5 years back.

* NO NAME (2.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
For the first time they uploaded FIELDS (2.6 pts),
NTSC fixed by SCS+TRC.

* ONSLAUGHT (9.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the previews of CENTRIC (0.7 p.)
MOOD (0.7 pts) and PARALAX V2 (0.4 pts) and the
fixed versions of PIECES (3.6 pts) and INTO THE
NATURE (4.5 pts)

* SUCCESS & TRC (10.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The Dutch cooperation stroke back with the fixed
version of INVERTUS (3.2 pts), FIELDS (1.0 pts) fixed
for No Name and already Pal/Ntsc working versions
of FASTBALL (2.5 pts) and FRED THE FRUITER (2.6)
and the preview of CAR-O-MATIC (0.7 pts).

* TRIAD (0.8 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
After years Triad is back in the first-release scene
with a small preview of MOOD V2 (0.8 pts).

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts JULY 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Alpha Flight 1970 14.6
02. (6) SCS+TRC 10.0
03. (2) Onslaught 9.9
04. (3) Motiv 8 8.2
05. (9) Hitmen 5.7
06. (4) Avantgarde 4.4
07. (/) No Name 2.6
08. (/) Triad 0.8
09. (/) Acrise+Excess 0.5

The official Fixing-Charts JULY 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Alpha Flight 2
(2) Onslaught
(3) Scs+TRC
02. (1) Avantgarde 1

PS: In the May Edition of the Release Charts I made a
mistake in the calculation of the points for SCS & TRC
but it got already fixed in the YEARLY CHARTS now.
Furthermore I gave SCS & TRC the points for the fix-
ed version of ON ICE, but the AVANTGARDE version is
fixed a little bit better, so it got corrected in the
YEARLY CHARTS, too.

Thanks for their help go to: Count Zer0/SCS & TRC
The Ignorance/AFL

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970
-------------------

</pre>
==Yearly Releases==
<pre>
* THE OFFICIAL 1996 RELEASE CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Feel welcomed to yearly release charts for 1996, a
chapter what will be filled with statistics about the
first release competition in 1996.

Infact the idea behind this chapter is not that new
but it's definately very informative and helpful for all
persons who are interested in detailed information
about the releases in 1996 as it will contain game tit-
les, fixing or cooperating groups, the points and the
status (PAL: PAL only, PAL/NTSC: game was already
PAL/NTSC compatible and FIX: NTSC (PAL) fix in-
stalled).
This overview might be a useful documentation in or-
der to avoid re-releases, only to give a short exam-
ple. Furthermore it is the place to define your cur-
rent position, and ofcourse the position of the con-
curence who are all heading for the crown at the end
of 1996.

The rules that this charts are following can be found
in the Release Charts chapter.

Here we go...

* ACRISE & EXCESS (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Colours 2.1 pts Pal
Crazy News Preview 0.4 pts
Wall Street 2 0.0 pts Pal
Hangman Preview -1.0 pts
Shootout -7.0 pts Pal
Smash Preview 0.4 pts
Astromine Preview 0.5 pts

* ACTIVE (0.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Minesweepah Preview 0.3 pts
Dave Speed Preview 0.5 pts
Worms Preview 0.1 pts

* ALPHA FLIGHT 1970 (35.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Mick Words Preview 0.5 pts
F.B.M. Editor 0.0 pts
Rings & Stars Deluxe 1.0 pts Fix
A.P.E.X. Preview 0.5 pts
Hope to Hopp Preview 0.5 pts
TRONIK 3.4 pts Fix
Super H.-I.-FLI-Editor 0.0 pts
Fields of Hades (w. SCS+TRC) 1.9 pts Fix
Don't be angry 6.4 pts Fix
Dari 3.1 pts Fix
Kill the sorcers 3.1 pts Fix
Custer 3.9 pts Fix
Vin Tim 3.6 pts Fix
Centric 7.1 pts

* ATLANTIS (2.1) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Shootout (fixed by Avt) 2.1 pts Fix

* Avantgarde (31.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Cubic 3.4 pts Fix
Apollo 14 Preview 0.6 pts
Delite 2.5 pts P/N
Shootout (fixed for Atl) 1.0 pts Fix
Blob (fixed for Laxity) 1.0 pts Fix
Bombel (with F4CG) 2.1 pts Fix
Lost (with F4CG) 1.6 pts Fix
Wyspa-The Island (with F4CG) 1.9 pts Fix
Bombmania (with F4CG) 1.9 pts Fix
Cardland 3.8 pts Fix
Fortress (with F4CG) 2.4 pts Fix
Dumi (Fixed for Laxity) 1.0 pts Fix
On Ice 100% 3.4 pts Fix
Insanity 4.4 pts Fix

* CHROMANCE (2.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Ballz 4.5 pts Fix
Hangman Preview 0.2 pts
Toxic Preview 0.3 pts
Oter (fixed by Hitmen) 2.5 pts Fix
Grumpy Bumper Pinball 2.1 pts P/N
Dune 2 Preview 0.1 pts
Professional Sound Studio 0.0 pts
Ignoramus 1.0 pts Fix
Prince of Persia Preview 0.1 pts
Fields of Hades -7.0 pts
Space Worms 2.0 pts Fix
Megabrain Preview 0.5 pts
Super Saper 2.1 pts P/N
Drunken Bat and Balls 1.0 pts Fix
Cambogia -7.0 pts P/N
D.J. Mixer Preview 0.0 pts

* F4CG (15.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Girltris Preview 0.8 pts
Mangaoid Preview 0.3 pts
Bombel (with Avt) 2.1 pts Fix
Lost (with Avt) 1.6 pts Fix
Wyspa-The Island (with Avt) 1.9 pts Fix
Bombmania 1.9 pts Fix
Fortress 2.4 pts Fix
Chwat 3.4 pts P/N
Lions o/t Universe 2 Prv. 0.5 pts
Jim Slim Prv. 1.0 pts
Skidmark Preview 0.0 pts

* HITMEN (11.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Oter (fixed for Chromance) 1.0 pts Fix
Summix 4.2 pts Fix
Colony V2 Preview 0.5 pts
Future World V2 Preview 1.0 pts
Icemania 4.7 pts Fix

* LAXITY (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Blob (fixed by Avt) 3.0 pts Fix
Colours - 7.0 pts
Star Wars Preview 0.2 pts
Dumi (fixed by Avt) 2.4 pts Fix

* MOTIV 8 (27.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Fuzzy Fisherman 0.0 pts P/N
Stars & Rings 0.0 pts P/N
Confusing Quest 2 Prv. 0.0 pts
Stars & Rings Deluxe Prv. 0.0 pts
Future Tetris Prv. 0.4 pts
Pologonamy Preview 0.1 pts
Ace of Hearts Prv. 0.5 pts
Boxes Preview 0.3 pts
American Basketbal Heroes 2.1 pts
Sput Preview 0.2 pts
Confusing Quest 2 0.0 pts P/N
Owens Escape 2.1 pts P/N
Statur Party 0.0 pts P/N
Drunken Bat & Balls Prv. 0.0 pts
S. Edit V1.0 0.0 pts
Phu 3.2 pts Fix
Drunken Bat & Balls 2.1 pts P/N
Remote Control 2.2 pts P/N
The Search 2.1 pts P/N
The Pit 2.1 pts P/N
Solitaire Golf 0.0 pts P/N
Stealth Bomb 2.1 pts P/N
Towers of Loadstar 0.0 pts P/N
Quiz Bang 2.1 pts P/N
Robot Raiders 2.1 pts P/N
Trackplayer V3.0 0.0 pts
Tjartorner V1.0 0.0 pts
Moonraker 2.1 pts P/N
Monster Power 2.2 pts P/N
Professor Calhoon 0.0 pts P/N
Skyfall Ace 2.1 pts P/N
Super Pogo Preview 0.0 pts
Pogostick Preview 0.0 pts
Stack'em Tetris 2.1 pts P/N
Gems 2.1 pts P/N
Kiss of Death Preview 0.4 pts
SCS Relocator 0.0 pts
Tenement -7.0 pts P/N

* No Name (2.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Fields (Fixed by SCS+TRC) 2.6 pts Fix

* ONSLAUGHT (22.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Drug Bird Preview 1.0 pts
Spinball Preview 0.2 pts
Jori Preview 0.2 pts
Ice Tea 3.6 pts Fix
Snakey Preview 0.1 pts
Speedy Slug (fix for SCS&TRC) 1.0 pts Fix
Burago Rally 100% 8.0 pts Fix
Mortal Dogfight 0.8 pts Fix
Pieces 3.6 pts Fix
Centric Preview 0.7 pts
Into the Nature 4.5 pts Fix
Mood Preview 0.7 pts
Paralax Preview (V2) 0.5 pts

* PALACE (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Misfire Preview 0.5 pts

* SUCCESS & TRC (23.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Sonny the Snail 4.1 pts Fix
Isolation Preview 0.3 pts
Incerator Preview 0.4 pts
Oklahoma Kid 3.6 pts Fix
Fields of Hades (with AFL) 1.9 pts Fix
Navigator (fixed for Xenon) 1.0 pts Fix
Invertus 3.2 pts Fix
Aknakereso 2.4 pts P/N
Fastball 2.5 pts P/N
Fields (fixed for No Name) 1.0 pts Fix
Fred the Fruiter 2.6 pts P/N
Car-O-Matic Preview 0.7 pts

* Triad (0.8 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Mood Preview V2 0.8 pts

* XENON (2.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Stoned Preview 0.3 pts
Navigator (fix by Scs & Trc) 2.1 pts Fix

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts of 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 35.0
02. (1) Avantgarde 31.0
03. (3) Motiv 8 27.7
04. (5) Success & TRC 23.7
05. (4) Onslaught 22.5
06. (6) F4CG 15.9
07. (8) Hitmen 11.4
08. (7) Chromance 2.4
(9) Xenon 2.4
09. (10) Atlantis 2.1
10. (11) Active 0.9
11. (/) Triad 0.8

The official Fixing-Charts of the year 1996
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 11
02. (2) Alpha Flight 8
03. (3) SCS & TRC 7
04. (4) Onslaught 6
05. (3) Chromance 5
06. (5) Hitmen 3
07. (6) Motiv 8 1

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND in the United States of Ame-
rica. Furthermore it is possible to vote by sending
e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board worldwide.
There exists the opportunity to vote via INTERNET,
too, by using our very own DIGITAL VOTESEEHT or
just by sending an e-mail containing your votes to
ZAPOTEK or RRR. Simple, isn't it?

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 136
02. (3) Byterapers 132
03. (2) Reflex 124
04. (5) Camelot 113
05. (8) Crest 109
06. (4) Agony Design 93
07. (9) Profik 79
08. (6) Taboo 65
09. (7) Triad 49
10. (/) Smash Design 37

The same procedure as every year. OXYRON is lead-
ing, followed by Byterapers and Reflex. CREST mana-
ged it to move some positions into direction top. At
the end Smash Design entered and replaced with
FAIRLIGHT an old legend here.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Graham/Oxyron 137
02. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 134
03. (3) Quiss/Reflex 64 (PC) 127
04. (4) TTS/Oxyron 109
05. (9) Crossbow/Crest 102
06. (10) Fuben/Oxyron 92
07. (6) Slammer/Camelot 86
08. (7) Axis/Oxyron 71
09. (5) Druid/Agony Design 59
10. (8) MMS/Taboo 43

Finally GRAHAM has been ranked to be the top pro-
grammer, atleast in the board charts, followed by MR.
SEX and Quiss. No new entries here this time, but with
Crossbow and Fuben two made it to climb the ladder a
litte bit upwards.

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Success & TRC 134
02. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 129
03. (3) Avantgarde 127
04. (6) F4CG 115
05. (7) Hitmen 109
06. (5) Chromance 101
07. (8) Motiv 8 92
08. (4) Onslaught 85
09. (9) Acrise & Excess 73
10. (10) Atlantis 49

At the top we still find the dutch cooperation, followed
by the flight and Avantgarde. Behind them a lot of mo-
vement was recorded, with F4CG and HITMEN climbing
into direction up. All in all no big surprises here.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Ignorance/AFL 134
02. (3) Burglar/SCS 132
03. (2) Jack Alien/F4CG 126
04. (4) CBA/TRC 113
05. (5) Hain/F4CG 110
06. (6) Bacchus/FLT 108
07. (7) Antitrack/F4CG 94
08. (9) Playboy/F4CG 82
09. (10) Moren/SCS 73
10. (9) Skinhead/AFL 57

IGNORANCE again voted as best cracker from many
sides, followed by Burglar and Jack Alien, who leads
the mail charts already since ages. No more impor-
tant changes to be found here.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 139
02. (3) Creeper/Antic 132
03. (2) Electric/Extend 125
04. (5) Carrion/Elysium 120
05. (6) Fazee/Taboo 112
06. (7) RRR/Oxyron 100
07. (9) Joe/Wrath Design 96
08. (5) Ogami/Fairlight 84
09. (8) Roder/Agony Design 73
10. (/) Deekay/Crest 61

CRUISE, CREEPER and ELECTRIC is the leading force
already since years and it seems that there is NO
real challenger for them to come.
At the end of the list Cupid was forced to leave be-
cause he couldn't collect enough points to defend his
position. He got replaced by the lately reactivated
Deekay.

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 136
02. (4) PVCF/Reflex 64 (PC) 132
03. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 124
04. (3) Shogoon/Taboo 116
05. (6) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 104
06. (5) Jeff/CZP/Camelot 92
07. (7) Zyron/F4CG/Swemix 84
08. (9) Compod/Charged/... 72
09. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 68
10. (/) Mitch & Dane/Crest 57

Once again PRI has collected enough votes to be
ranked on the top spot again, followed by PVCF and
SYNDROM. Next to the usual moves at the end of the
list MITCH & DANE qualified to enter the charts, re-
placing RED DEVIL who hasn't been that active lately.

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Hitmen 135
02. (1) Avantgarde 127
03. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 120
04. (4) Success & TRC 112
05. (5) Onslaught 88
06. (6) Chromance 73
07. (7) F4CG 56
08. (8) Motiv 8 44
09. (9) Empire 21
10. (10) Demonix 12

HITMEN has taken the crown, sending AVANTGARDE
and ALPHA FLIGHT to the following places. The next
positions remain more or less unchanged, but it's
unbelievable that the American groups still are get-
ting sympathy votes.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/HIT 131
02. (5) Burglar/SCS 114
03. (2) Ignorance/AFL 105
04. (3) CBA/TRC 99
05. (4) Jack Alien/F4CG 94
06. (5) Jolz/Onslaught 85
07. (7) Suicide/AVT 67
08. (8) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 35
09. (9) Booze/Empire 21
10. (10) Mercenary/AFL 14

Once again PEACEMAKER can be found at the top,
followed by BURGLAR and IGNORANCE this time. As al-
ready said in the fixing group comments, again the
Americans seems to have lots of sympathy in the
reign of voters, as they haven't done a decent fix
for ages. Anyway, there are no alternatives to re-
place them, so.... WHO CARES?

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on INTERNET by FILLING
our DIGITAL VOTESHEET or simply by leaving e-mail
to ZAPOTEK or RRR.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The chart3 are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail/charts are what people like to define as mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
normal and digital Relax votesheets:

Unplugged 3/U-Turn MAY 1996
Vandalism News 27/Onslaught Design MAY 1996
Chaotic Country 4/Therapy JUNE 1996
Domination 7/Independent JUNE 1996
Vendetta 2/Eagleware Int. JUNE 1996
Nitro 21/Acrise & Excess JULY 1996

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 66
02. (2) Reflex 65
03. (3) Byterapers 57
04. (4) Camelot 43
05. (5) Agony Design 41
06. (7) Crest 26
07. (6) Taboo 24
08. (8) Antic 12
09. (9) Nipson 11
10. (10) Smash Design 10

The battle for the top position has been rather close
this time, but as the creative gang behind Reflex de-
cided to leave it's obvious that they can't defend this
ranking for a long period. CREST and Taboo changed
positions in the midfield while CENSOR got replaced by
Smash at position 10.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 67
02. (2) Quiss/Reflex 64 (PC) 64
03. (3) Graham/Oxyron 55
04. (6) Druid/Agony Design 42
05. (5) Slammer/Camelot 38
06. (4) TTS/Oxyron 28
07. (9) Fuben/Oxyron 24
08. (7) MMS/Taboo 16
09. (8) Crossbow/Crest 12
10. (/) AEG/Smash Design 8

Mr. Sex is on the top, followed by a person who is
looking for further targets in the PC scene, Quiss is
his name. Fuben did a big step into direction midfield,
while at the end KM got replaced by AEG.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 69
02. (2) Success & TRC 64
03. (5) F4CG 50
04. (4) Alpha Flight 1970 49
05. (3) Chromance 48
06. (6) Onslaught 23
07. (9) Hitmen 17
08. (7) Motiv 8 13
09. (/) Laxity 12
10. (8) Atlantis 11

Avantgarde is still at the top, but for how long after
the low activity level shown lately. More INTERESTING
are the steady position changes behind the leading
duo, this time F4CG has won the race, followed by Al-
pha Flight and Chromance. At the end Laxity has kik-
ked Hardcore's ass, sending them back to the wide
depths of nowhere what is the land out of our very
own TOP TEN.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/F4CG 70
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 60
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 51
04. (4) CBA/TRC 47
05. (5) Ignorance/AFL 42
06. (6) Derbyshire Ram/x-Avt 28
07. (7) Mr. Wax/<C> 23
08. (/) Didi/Laxity 17
09. (9) Moonchild/FLT 13
10. (8) Bacchus/FLT 9

Jack Alien, Burglar and Hain. Nothing new here. Good
old Ignorance could be higher. At the end Didi enter-
ed and showed Ream the way out of the top ten. What
a pity.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 59
02. (4) Creeper/Antic 57
03. (2) Joe/Wrath Design 53
04. (3) Electric/Extend 46
05. (6) RRR/Oxyron 45
06. (/) Astaroth/Agony 25
07. (6) Fazee/Taboo 14
08. (7) Carrion/Elysium 13
09. (10) Cupid/F4CG 11
10. (9) Ogami/Fairlight 10

No surprises here except for Astaroth taking the
charts by storm as he entered at 6 while Biz-Kid had
to leave the top ten once again. A steady process.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
bank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 68
02. (3) PVCF/Reflex 64 (PC) 58
03. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 45
04. (7) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 44
05. (5) Compod/Charged/... 35
06. (6) Shogoon/Taboo 34
07. (4) Jeff/CZP/Camelot 26
08. (8) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 14
09. (9) Moog/Agony Design 13
10. (10) Zyron/F4CG/Swemix 10

What has happened here? PRI at the top, followed by
PVCF and Syndrom who changed places. Fanta made
a big step into direction top. At the end alltime legend
JEROEN TEL has left the top ten, being replaced by
Moog.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/F4CG 58
02. (4) Spermbird/<C> 50
03. (2) Derbyshire Ram/x-Avt 43
04. (6) Splatterhead/TRC 42
05. (7) Shuze/AFL 35
06. (3) Calypso/AFL/AMN 23
07. (/) Dr. Soft/Albion 18
08. (/) Dr. Kaos/RFX/AGY 17
09. (/) Funxilla/SCS & TRC 16
10. (5) Bizarre/Onslaught 15

THE FASTEST MOVING CHARTS! No other one deser-
ves this time, nowhere else it fits that perfectly as in
here. Intruder, Spermbird and Derbyshire Ram are
the lucky ones who collected enough votes to be on
top. What else happened? Three went, three new ones
came along. Spectator, Sebaloz and Syco said good
bye while Dr. Soft, Dr. Kaos and Funxilla introduced
themselves here. But for how long? ;)

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Skyhigh 66
02. (2) Vandalism News 57
03. (5) Relax Magazine 50
04. (4) Domination 44
05. (3) Nitro 40
06. (6) Propaganda 39
07. (7) The Pulse Magazine 36
08. (8) The Tribune 15
09. (10) Mendip 12
10. (/) Driven 8

Skyhigh managed it to defend their top position. Con-
gratulations after the steady come and go. Vandalism
again on two. What else happened? SHOUT IS OUT fi-
nally! Not for real, but out of our charts after taking
a break for almost two years, while the AMERICAN
shooting star Driven entered at ten.

Don't complain if you dislike the results, grab a pen
(or your favourite text/e-mail processor for our
very own DIGITAL VOTESHEET) and fill our RELAX, or
any other, votesheet to influence the results next
time.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
As usual we have been searching for a very inte-
resting scene profile, and the quest has been rather
rather successful again.
This time we can present a guest who made out of the
hobby computer his profession, a programmer people
are still paying respect, no one else but BOB/CEN-
SOR has spent some time answering our questions,
again held via Internet on a pretentious level.

?: Hello Robert. Welcome in the bi-monthly talkshow of
the Relax Magazine on this ancient 8-bit computer.
Please introduce yourself to our readers with all non
computer related facts you are interested in to sha-
re with us here.

!: Hello there. Non computer related facts? Should I
say that there is no such thing for me (hehe)? j/k ;)
As my name already have been mentioned I will try to
mention another side of my name which I haven't men-
tioned so much earlier. My whole name is XXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX and I was born in 1971.07.02 in
Norrkoping/Sweden. My parents come from Hungary
and moved to Sweden back in 1969. By having Hunga-
rian parents I learnt to speak Hungarian language.
All our relatives live in Hungary. I believe I am the
only member of our big family who became obsessed
with computers. Well somebody got to chance the tra-
dition and start a new one. ;) My father was a sports
fan of boxing and wrestling, he also was a boxer in
his younger age. When I was 8 years old I started to
sport a lot (wrestling). As a young wrestler I became
quite good at it, and in the age of 14-15 years I was
among the 5 best wrestlers in Sweden in my weight
class. I reached a 4th place in the Swedish champion-
ship of wrestling for youngsters -15 years, and two
3rd places in a big cup where several Nordic coun-
tries competed aswell (quite big). But in the age of 15
years I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64
(1986), that spoiled my wrestling career. I do some
wrestling even today but just to keep me fit, nothing
serious! Later I went to the gymnasium of technology
to become an engineer (gymnasium engineer) to follow
my parents' footsteps. But my computer career went
before school, with other words I was quite bad in the
gymnasium. ;) Simply too much CBM 64, hehe! After 4
years in gymnasium I graduated and then I just took
my chance to study some more in the royal institute
of technology (university of technology) for two more
years to become a real engineer of electronics and
computers (something similar to the batchula exam of
technology). Well, I guess this will sort things out for
some? Other data about me: hair dark-brown, eyes
light blue, weight 75 kg and length 180 cm (179 hmpf).
Favourite movies: all mafia movies with Robert De Niro
and Al Pachino, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers
and ofcourse some heavy SciFi movies aswell (Blade-
runner, Star Wars). Favourite drinks: BEEER BEEER
I've loved beer since I was 3 years old. It wouldn't
surprise me if my first words in this life was BEEEER
not MOM or DAD, BEEEEER. Favourite food: a large
beef steak! Dreams: fast cars and lotsa money (fast
cars isn't that everybody's dream?). I love to drive
fast with a car, possibly as fast as the car can do (in
Sweden that's absolutely forbidden, that makes it
even more interesting to drive fast. You'll lose your
driving licence IF you get caught).

?: Next to the personal facts we are ofcourse inte-
rested in your computer scene career. One of the
most asked questions is how did you get your handle
so we follow the trend here.

!: About my handle, to make a long story short. Ro-
bert in English is BOB, so it became Bob and stayed
that way. And at that time all the arcade games had
only 3 letter highscore tables, so hey, it fits perfect!

?: With Triad and Censor Design two admired demo
groups have been stations in your non-commercial
computer career on the CBM 64. Please inform us
about these former times, as these groups reflect a
lot of glory to most of us who were present that time
!: Triad: Before all the now known as Censor guys met
up here in Triad, there is a quite long tale to tell how
we actually met! But I believe that story should be
told an other time. Anyway in the TRIAD times every-
body where there as of today known as Censor mem-
bers, mainly the inner circle of Censor. Somehow Tri-
ad was parted into several of inner groups that time.
As I remember right we had old stofiles in Triad which
didn't do much but took mostly the honour of what o-
thers did. Well, there came a new time, modeming to US
(export/import/first releases). We did probably 90%
of Triads productions at that time in cracks and de-
mos etc. We even made ourselves our names, people
started to know who we in Triad were. Especially at
OUR DEMOS in Triad time, we even took a 2nd place at
a party in Eskiltuna right after Horizon. We also
started to make fast cracks. But fast cracks as you
know that IS NOT Triad's policy, only SLOW and OLD
cracks, hehe, well that was the most important thing
to be first with a crack (FIRST RELEASES), I believe
is the same even today. Jerry's main point was that
he should control all cracks before they could be
spread. That was a problem! Well, we couldn't wait for
his old thinking, he didn't even got a bloody modem at
that time, should that go by mail? Hardly! We put a
sack on it and did it our way. I believe Jerry never
liked our way to do things, hehehe. Anyway, by this
Triad was put on the map again! It was a cool time of
wild parties at Psychos and Senseis place. Actually
the first Wonderland demo ever set the sight of earth
was actually in Triad by Psycho. I don't even remem-
ber all the demos we released there?
Censor: Well, a winning team shouldn't be changed so
we gathered us together and made some hits. We
started to make some real hot cracks and took the
world by surprise back in 1989, by releasing the
BEST games on the market as first releases and then
we also had some hits with our demos by winning a
demo competition in Norway (Porsgrun party by Sha-
pe back in 89). All this together made us unbelievable
popular.
The glory of our time went on through 89, 90, 91 and
then the cracking scene started to fade out for us,
but we still held on the throne for the demo scene
and the mags (SHOCK). Well, mainly everything we did
went to be a success. But the glory didn't end there
yet. We started to make our most famous demos later
on known as Wonderland 9, 10 and Spasmolytic, so
there came a new era of success through out the
time of 92, 93 (94). In the meantime of 92 and 93 we
also made some demos for the Sega Megadrive and to
the SNES (consoles). We even took that scene by
surprise and made out of it. People from all over the
computer types started to know who we were.

?: In 1989 there was the big cut between Jerry/Triad
on the one and you on the other side. A lot of friends
followed you and Censor Design was born. What hap-
pened exactly?

!: As I mentioned before we had our ideas how to run
a group (obviously not bad ideas) but Jerry didn't
approved our ways of dealing. Simply he saw me as
the leading figure and thought that if he kicked me
out the problem was solved. The problems has then
just begun for poor old Jerry. But the FINAL ignition
for Jerry to kick me out was actually that I somehow
have delaed together with a good old friend of mine
to make a corporation crack with a group called Vir-
gin, but nothing happened so I thought that was no-
thing more to it. One day a crack comes out under
the name of Triad aswell and gets it from one of his
contacts, he began to be furious over me (mainly) so
I flied out! Perhaps Jerry remembers more details?

?: Censor was and is still a well respected demo and
cracking group and this concept has been tried to
copy by various groups without success so far. What
is the exact story of Censor Design, and what was
the secret of your success?

!: The secret of our succcess was probably that we
were just as good in everything we wanted to do,
cracks, demos, mags etc. and we also competed in
various competitions and placed ourselves among the
best. We had a great combination of skills that we
could use in a maximum efforts, gfx, coding, music,
cracking, mags, boards, importing etc. We invented a
lot of new things that I have noticed many people are
trying to copy from us aswell even today. Perhaps it
was our intensive fantasies which took us that long.
We never did anything that others have already done
unless it could be done in a 100 times more impressing
way. I believe the same went for our mag Shock. But
there could also be something with our personalities
which could have lead us to the success aswell, be-
cause at a party before everybody knew if Censor
where there or not, you could notice it! I do miss of
today that many people have become more or less a-
nonymous so it doesn't matter anymore what some-
body do, if he can't be seen or noticed they don't
exist to be noticed at all! That could be an important
issue! But mainly I believe somehow that most of these
factors mixing together went to be a good result.

?: Since Censor isn't that active as in former times
on the CBM 64 our readers would like to know what
happened to the other members of Censor and what
are they doing these days? Are you still in contact
with most of them?

!: Yup! Most of the Censor dudes have their own com-
panies now and we are working together on the con-
soles for producing games, and another part of Cen-
sor is doing multimedia stuff for PC. So our computer
hobbies have paid out to be a good investment for life
all our knowledge we have accumulated is probably
yet even of today's BEST in the computer world, that
doesn't matter on which CPU you work on or platform
as they are basicly the same. Or as we used to say
"same shit different name" (Danko's uncle has inven-
ted that sentence).

?: Actually you are working on the game Bouncy Balls
for Cherry Software. What was your motivation for
that production and can we expect further commer-
cial productions from you on this computer system?

!: Well, my game Bouncy Balls was actually started
back in late 1989 to see if I could code a game. But my
inspiration of that game died as fast as I got it. One
of my good friends Pavel was the one to invent the
game, he wanted to make it on the Amiga which there
is actually a little playable version, he made it toge-
ther with another friend of mine, Lorien/Def Jam
(Amiga) but unfortunately Lorien isn't here to see
the day of Bouncy Balls to be released. He died in a
tragic accident back in 1991. However, Bouncy Balls
became a bit different than Pavels original idea but it
still holds the basic concept of jumping out of the
screen to win.
Time to time my inspiration came back to make a little
of the game here and there but it was neve mentioned
to be something out of it, then I dropped the project
for a couple of years. Finally one day back in late
1994 I was looking back in my disk box and found my
old little game Bouncy Balls and started to talk with
Cherry Software about that I had an almost unfinish-
ed game lying around in my disk box. The game was so
playable that I could have it finished it as a budget
game at time! But then I wanted to make a prestigefull
game out of Bouncy Balls with good coding and good
design (to make it to a fullprice game), just for the
principle. I started to remake the whole game from
the end of 1994, and then the game started to take
shape of its own, but Bouncy Balls was never at a
high priority for me to finish as fast as possible but
just to have something to pollish! I didn't spent far
too much time on doing it just a couple of month/year
Yes I know it sounds like it have taken far too long to
make that game but if we count the work time of this
game it would still be a totallyof an average time to
make a game of today, a bit more then one year. But
in the end stages of the game I've got some assistant
programming help from Creeper/Antic, he is not just
a grafician, also a coder, and Zyron/F4CG, not just a
musician, a coder aswell. That helped me out to finish
this game due to that I was quite busy on my real
project for the SONY PLAYSTATION. I simply didn't
have the time to finish Bouncy Balls, that is also an
explaination why the game took so damn much time to
finish. The game should be released in any day so en-
joy. If I ever do another game for the 64 then there
should be some very overwhelming reason! MONEY!
A drean import order of over one million CBM 64 co-
pies of my game then I would make another game! Only
then. Well, unfortunately there isn't much money to be
made on the CBM 64 anymore. I have already made a
game (Bouncy Balls) which I have put all my heart into
the work just for the sake of CBM 64 I think that will
perhaps do for a while. My work for the CBM 64 is
done, I have started on a professional basis on deve-
loping games for the consoles there isn't much time
left of doing anything else! I have actually some tool
programs which I would like to sell for other gamede-
velopers on the CBM 64, my well known definer editor
which codes the code for you! Hehe, well it enhances
the colour cycling and flashing on pictures in pro-
gramming time, and the result is stunning, just look at
any of our latest demos or Bouncy Balls, they are
filled with that system so there are some tools left to
be sold. If you guys are interested in that please
turn to Cherry Software or to me and then I'll see if
the demand of a tool like that is so high that I should
release it (sell it ofcourse).

?: Lately some rumours appeared, saying you will re-
start to produce intros on the CBM 64. Is that TRUE
and can we expect maybe another great Censor demo
as many people are still waiting for it? This is the
chance to stop all speculations by providing facts
people can care about.

!: Well, as I mentioned before, I haven't got any spare-
time left of sitting in front of my, ahm I mean Dragons
CBM 64 (I STOLE it from him and started to code) my
work takes up all my time. But hey, who knows per-
haps one day in the future I will code another RAJ
RAJ or something like that? You never know.

?: We know you are producing games on the console
sector on a professional basis. What games have you
produced so far and what projects can we expect in
the near future?

!: We are together working under a label called NEU-
ROSTONE. The production of Neurostone haven't
been much yet, but there have been made two con-
versions of the NHL 95 and 96 icehockey game to
the Swedish ELITSERIEN (Swedish hockey league) 95
and 96. We are currently making our first real game
for the CONSOLE MARKET. You'll see when it comes
out (a heavy 3D game).

?: Next to the console sector, are there any other
computer systems which might be interesting for you
in order to expand your activities, may it be in the
demo or game business? If not, why couldn'tyt you i-
magine it?

!: Well, of today's game market it is so widely spread
that one game will be converted to all formats anyway
With other words you are not platform depended any-
more. "Same shit, different name", the only difference
is the graphic layout, the rest is just to copy! You al-
so earn great deal of more more to convert your
game to another platform aswell, so in the end you're
ending up to be on all platforms you can imagine.

?: The Censor posse is well known for their party ap-
pearances, atleast it looked like this in former times
when the organisers got grey hair when Censor
members entered. What computer parties have you
visited until now?

!: Uhhh! We have been on a lot of parties, too many to
remember them all. We were mostly on all major events
that I know. And we will continue to show up on some
parties just to meet our old friends and keep in touch
with people in general. The best programmers, grafi-
cians and musicians are to be found in the demo sce-
ne. If we want to expand our activities then we know
whom to hire etc. And ofcourse partying itself is an
important issue of our life (style), hehe! We simply en-
joy it!

?: After the LIGHT/HORIZON party there have been
disagreements between the organisers and Censor.
Many rumours have been spread, there has been
much hassle, but what exactly happened there and
filled the articles of the scene gazettes that time?

!: Well, let's say a slightly overreaction from the or-
ganisers side. We were nice boys at the party, didn't
do much. At that time the HZ team Badger, Zagor and
Kjer mainly hated our guts and wanted to get even
with us at any prize. Goblin was ofcourse following
them like a puppy following it's mate (even though he
is a good friend on mine). So when the smallest miss
step we did just like drink a little then the things
started to move. But ofcourse the problems with the
principals office invaded by Censor members isn't to-
tally untrue. But I still think it was an overreaction
and vengase against us. But we got even with them
later on, I still believe Badger and Zagor hate our
guts even more today.

?: To come back to the present, how did you like THE
PARTY V?

!: Well, "THE PARTY" have been commercialised busi-
ness so it isn't the same feeling as any of the good
old parties. So, I don't like them anymore. I didn't even
paid the entrance at last time I was there simply was
not worth it. But because of the party is in Denmark
and the beers are so cheap over there it doesn't
stop me to be there.

?: Next to visiting parties the Internet has become
the place to meet contacts and friends. What do you
think about this "new" media and how do you see it's
influence to the computer scene in general?

!: That's good, it is far better then the old style of
doing it. Now everything goes much faster more of
the groups products are more reachable than be-
fore. If you want something you just go to the net and
d/l it (and you will always find it!). You can talk to
your friends from the other side of the world more
often and in real time (I LOVE IT). The scene by this
has taken a new turn, but could also lead that it's not
pure CBM 64 anymore. It could be more or less just
websides in the end for some groups, but I think that
are all positive signs for the scene.

?: Everything has to come to an end and this inter-
view doesn't make an exception. This is the place for
some final words, greetings or whatever else you
feel like adding here. Thanks a lot for being this
month's guest in our talk show.

!: I highly recommend you guys to make your own com-
pany and start consulting in programming or (do the
same as us), the people who are very good coders on
CBM 64 are probably the best coders in the world
(overall) for the other platforms aswell. There is mo-
ney to be made out of your hobby, A LOT! And a CBM
64 coder is not just good in making fast and smart
codes, they are also used to memory optimisation
which is something the rest of the world doesn't know
a jack shit about. And that is starting to be a problem
in today's way of programming. WAKE UP GUYS, there
is a market that you are experts on and the old ge-
neration don't know a jack shit about COMPUTERS! We
are the new wave of evolution, we are the dudes who
will probably make CPU history with revolutionary
programming and stuff like that. Just look at MICRO-
SOFT, over 100 Megabytes of crap just to set up
some WINDOWS enviroment! Amiga has only 250 Kilo-
bytes to do the same! Time for some serious business
TIME FOR A CHANGE!
And ofcourse live your life before life lives on you.
Greetings to all my friends in this scene and buy my
game (Bouncy Balls).

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* DEMO REVIEWS *
------------------------------------------------------------
The demo industry seems to have gone into the more
or less well deserved summer breaks, but soon com-
ing parties such as the Assembly in Finland or The
Tribute 1996 in Sweden next to The Party 1996 in
Denmark will for sure guarantee some further and
interesting releases.

This time we decided to have a closer look at Litter
from the Polish based group Lepsi Developments and
ofcourse, after waiting about two months for it, fi-
nally the 100% version of Krestology, the winning
contributor at the X-96 in April 1996. Meanwhile, bet-
ween the party version and the final version aswell a
"light" version has been released at the programm-
disk of the German distributor Magna Media (64'er
Magazine), containing a few parts from the second
diskside.

The future of the demo scene looks quite promising
with a lot of interesting projects to be released soon
such as from Oxyron, Byterapers, Fairlight, Triad,
Crest and No Name just to name a few of them all who
are actually producing demos. Let's see if they can
meet our approvals, but let's first start with the ac-
tual reviews.

* LITTER/LEPSI DEVELOPMENTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Lepsi Development is one of the typical "new" Polish
groups with lots of double (second group) members,
having already released some graphic, music and in-
tro collections. Litter seems to be their debut in the
demo scene.

* Fuben about the coding: *
-----------------------
This demo is coded by Mr.Ballon, Zielok & RB.

The Trackmo starts up with a usual intro, containing
the introductions and credits. All faded in and out
with boring colorflashes.
In the first effect, there are some rings moving over
some other to get an interference effect. But nothing
special at all.
Next is an FPP-plasma using the $D011 trick, followed
by a few shadebobs on 8x8 resoloution (laced).
I think yet, I have already seen better shadebobs.
And then again, there are those interference rings.
I can't understand why people still code this effect as
the idea is really old now.
After those rings anyway, a lupe effect comes up.
This effect is faked as the picture isn't really dis-
torted. I guess there are just some expanded sprites
moving over screen. However, this is definetely NO
distortion effect.
After showing the memberstatus and the greetings
the demo reaches its end.

The "Hiddenpart" (a part, which you can select after
starting the note-file) is showing some colorfull
shadebobs. Something like the shadebobs in Coma-
Light 11 by Axis.

All in all, Litter isn't a hard coded trackmo. Beside
this, there are no new effects at all. My rating: 26%

* RRR about the artwork: *
----------------------
Csezso, Leo, Sebaloz and Valsary are responsible
for the visuals in this trackmo.

The show starts with a singlecolour hires Lepsi De-
velopments logo, followed by a Litter logo, aswell in
singlecolour hires format, both of moderate quality.
The next piece of artwork is again in singlecolour hi-
res format, a face on the left side of the screen and
a LD logo in the right corner. The face looks quite
acceptable, even if he man could be shaved again, and
the LD logo is nothing special at all. The first multico-
lour bitmap work can be found in a fullscreen picture
showing some kind of mutant, no clue what it is,
standing in some sort of Gate, I presume? All in all it's
quite POOR. Last but not least, the best at last, there
is a nice Lepsi logo [Yes, I love chessboards, how
could you guess it?;)]. Nevertheless Csezso seems to
fit in the tradition of good Hungarian logo artists
such as CLAIRVOYANT/Faces.

Hmh, the artwork in this production is, with a single
exception, NOT WORTH to be used in 1996, atleast
people could expect, or better DEMAND, it! The rating
can only be at 35%!

* PRI about the soundtrack: *
-------------------------
The soundtrack for this trackmo was composed by
Gregfeel and Shy.

The musical score falls in three parts: the intro, for
which Gregfeel is responsible, a main tune and an
outro, which both were done by Shy. Curiously
enough, the last mentioned guy doesn't seem to be
shy at all when it comes to doing dissonant composi-
tions. Another musician who likes to do so is Zyron,
but Shy does it in a little bit different way. Definately
the bassline does not match at all, so the strongest
passages are those without... The outro comes with
less bright instruments and a kick of DARK WAVE at-
mosphere. Here I rather like the bass pattern, but
the bad hardrestart of the basedrum at the very
beginning lowers the rating again. Gregfeel's tune
fits in an intro rather well. Using combined triangle/
saw/pulse waveforms can evoke problems on old SIDs
when using a too wide range for the pulse width, but
here it seems to be OK.

All in all I'd like to say this soundtrack is worth 67%.

* KRESTOLOGY/CREST *
------------------------------------------------------------
Crest, a group which does not need a special intro-
duction, a group which has delivered a lot of stunning
productions so far and Krestology doesn't make an
exception. After almost two years of abstinence from
the demo scene they returned in an impressing way,
and a second demo is already on the way, known un-
der the project name "Meet Crest".

* Fuben about the coding: *
-----------------------
Finally, Krestology 100% is released; a demo entirely
coded by Crossbow of Crest, with some assistant
code by FGTH and Syndrom.
In this review, I won't mention all routines, as there
are simply too many of them. I'll just take a look at
the special ones, NOT at the loader parts!

After a quite well polished intro, a nice animation
follows, which teachs you to press the shift lock key
to hold the parts. Then a usual FLI-Interlace picture
comes up, followed by a huge compound-sprites movin'
across the screen. Nice! I think I saw this effect first
in a Cosmos Design Production. But this routine gives
me the rest. That is the right Crest style I like!
Next stunning effect is sort of FPP effect combined
with a fullscreen interlace FLI picture.
The next part is a tribute to the legendary Cracker-
group EagleSoft Inc., as their old intro was recoded
with a compound sprite moving over an interlace
picture again. In the lower part of the screen there
is a nice scroller as it was in the original intro.
But the routine is the same seen before in the demo.
After a cool fade out with some filled sines some
super-hires-pics are displayed.
Then after turning around the disk, a nice BSE-
simulation comes up. No, that isn't the name of a new
effect. Just check it out!
The next effect coming up is another typical Crest
part, where nothing is impossible. A TWO-SCREEN
interlace FLI pictures get wanked vertically with the
line-crunch technique. A sprite scroller above makes
the introduction for this effect.
After this, a nice hires interlace FLI picture is shown
Next effect is an interlaced picture going through
the boarders, which is wanked additionally.
After some loading there is my favourite routine.
An interlace (bitmap?) picture is distorted in Y-
direction. Additionally there are some sprites moving
across the screen. Well, this effect looks a bit FPP-
like but how do you want to distort a bitmap picture
with the FPP-trick? Well, this part is one of those
$D011 routines, I never understood how they work.
The last nice effect is an interlaced picture going
through the side-boarders. And it's looking quite
cool!
And finally there is the end-part, which is actually
a music-collection dedicated to Xayne.

All in all, a very great demo of Crest' standart. I
got really impressed by a few routines. And generally,
the demo is very cool designed and contains a new
intro and ending concept. In my eyes, Krestology 100%
is for sure the best demo of 1996 so far.

I give a rating of 92%!

* RRR about the artwork: *
----------------------
The visual stimulation for this demonstration has
been prepared by Crossbow, Deekay and GBF.

At the very beginning there is the usual Crest single
colour hires "dude", followed by a NICE drawn mer-
maid in IFLI format. Unfortunately lots of very light
colours have been used so you get the impression
that the pictures might jump out of the screen very
soon. Next in the row is an hires single colour anima-
tion showing a hand pressing a key, followed by ano-
ther IFLI picture showing a girl on the left side of the
screen holding a diamond in her hand. On the right
side there are two small, posing persons looking like
statues. In the background there are some mountains
and at the top you can see some planets. Above the
picture there is a huge girl in sprites format drifting
around. The picture itself is based on Mack/Melon's
64 colour image "Lydie". The show continues with
another IFLI picture, this time the well known "Uni-
corn" from Tony/Alcatraz. Again very detailed pre-
senting, using well choosen colours in general. In-
front of the picture there is a 4-coloured (3 plus
background colour) Crest logo in the standart reso-
lution 160X200. Compared with most other graphics it
looks quite ordinary. Eaglesoft Inc. was honoured
with the next IFLI picture, showing an eagle and a
warrior located on the right side. It's well realised
but the colour combinations is partly a little bit con-
fusing.
Now starts the first official graphics part, introdu-
cing Crest's super hires fli editor. The presentation
screen is quite nice with a very good AFLI Crest
logo on the right side and some nice animated single-
colour animated hires sprites which are, without any
doubt, supposed to be ants. In the middle of the
screen the attention is lead to the SHF pictures,
starting with a colourful robot-lady, a vampire we
use to know as Dracula, another robot lady which is
not so exactly drawn like the previous one, DANNY's
(now TBL and Nah-Kolour if I remember correctly)
fantastic "WINTERQUEEN" and finally a zebra girl, no-
thing but a good drawn girl with a zebra texture. All
pictures are very detailed and colourful. Finally a
singlecolour hires spider is shown. The first side of
the demo ends with another IFLI picture presenting a
NICE girl with animated eyes. Again too much light co-
lours have been used so it flickers like hell again.
The second side starts with an animated little pig and
a singlecolour hires "BSE" logo, but here I am a little
bit confused as I thought the cows went mad, not the
pigs, but who cares? The next picture is dedicated to
Black Mail's "DUTCH BREEZE" demo, showing the com-
plete version of a picture shown in the dutch master-
piece. This one is again in IFLI format and is around
1 1/2 screens high. It shows two warriors, a girl and a
dragon who is lacking a bit compared with the rest of
the artwork. After this hommage the next graphics
part starts, the introduction of a new graphics for-
mat - SHIF (super hires interlace fli), resolution 96X
168, another follow-up in the family of Super Hires
editors. This show starts with a very impressing con-
versation of a H.G. Giger painting, followed by ano-
ther robot lady, this time wearing some sort of aqua-
lung, again very colourful realised. Last but not least
there is a skull remembering me a little bit to the
Terminator 2 title pic, nevertheless this is a bit diffe-
rent and again very good colour combinations have
been used to improve the impression effect, coming
very close to the ultimate TRUECOLOR palette.
Now some kind of big robot in comic/manga style and
IFLI can be seen here, complete by a hires overlay
sprite animation showing a Bavarian, atleast he looks
like a mixture between a Bavarian and the main cha-
racter out of the LucasArts adventure "Monkey Is-
land", reporting about the next part. Here is some
kind of reptile on the left side and a Crest logo on
the right side of the screen. It could be IFLI, but be-
cause of using not that much colours it could be MCI,
too, but that doesn't relatives the impression that it
is supposed to be a POOR contribution compared with
the other graphics in this demonstration. In the
middle of the screen there's a huge picture showing
the "Siren's Song" motive from B. Vallejo, it's nice,
but lacks of colours, depending on the routine.
The next part seems to be a loader, showing animated
flamingos (sprites) flyingabout an ocean and a small
island with palms, done in standart hires (320X200),
I presume. Nothing special at all but nice for a loader
part. Another IFLI pictures follows, showing a space
cowboy riding his horse. It's looking quite interesting
but partly aswell rather unfinished in my opinion. In
the next part there's a multicolour Crest spritelogo,
quite nice in form and filling. The following IFLI picture
is a sunset (sundown in American English). The loca-
tion is somewhere in autumn/winter simply because
the trees are bare, wearing no visible green at all.
Looks quite good as the colour palette has been
choosen well again.
Finally the last part contains another new graphics
format, UFLI, which is hires and sprites if I under-
stood it correctly. The presented Crest logo is inte-
resting and complex in form and style (Graffity?!),
but this graphics format won't bring a reformation to
the market. Finally the huge charset should be menti-
oned as it looks quite good, too, even if it's partly
hard to read in its presentation.

On the first look the artwork of Krestology comes
close to perfection, on a second, more critical view
it's still impressing. Unfortunately it lacks of origina-l
lity as most motives are well known and already very
often seen before, inspirated by B. Vallejo, H.G. Gi-
ger and H. Sorayama just to name a few, even if this
presentation is at a very high level with a well deser-
ved percentage of 87%, taking ALL graphics, not only
the highlights, into consideration.

* PRI about the soundtrack: *
-------------------------
For the soundtrack responsible persons are Deek,
Drax, Mitch & Dane, MSK and Xayne.

As we are used to from the VIBRANTS and their sym-
phatizers I would like to define as SYMPHATISANTS,
as we are used to from these guys this (RATHER
HUGE) soundtrack comes with excellent instruments
which make the tunes sound "round", "full", etc. just
what people call the Vibrants (or better Newplayer?)
sound. Drax again proves to be the master of jazz-
funk groove, but the cooperation of Mitch & Dane,
who together with Drax contributed the major part
of the tunes, is not foar behind. Furthermore Crest
reminds us of three, as they call it, sleeping well
known composers, namely Deek, MSK and Xayne, by
adding one tune each. The one by Xayne is very
short and not really spectacular, but it features a
nice violin sound. MSK's "Rain" should be known to
everybody, and together with Deek's "Lazity", which
perfectly imitates long-gone Laxity's style of arran-
ging a tune (so I should rather say we are reminded
of four composers) as well as with two tunes by Drax
the endpart is complete. Here, you have some kind of
music selector (with funny faces to it), where you can
choose a tune which suits your current mood. Obvi-
ously the Cresters expected the probality of the
mood to be rather on the sad side - judging after the
tunes' titles "happy", "neutral", "sad" and "crying"
(sniff)! I wonder why? Because the demo is over?
Because of the "sleeping" composers (maybe their
are more than sleeping after all? Or?
Well. Most of the other tunes, which actually are 17
altogether, are more on the happy, funky and jazzy
side. The cover of that old disco-tune "Upside down"
by Mitch & Dane is a real neat idea for the turn-disk
part, "Jigsaw" comes with a fine calm intro, and "So-
(u)long" reminds me a bit of a tune of my own (?)...
However, for my taste there are too many parts/
moods changing too fast in this tune, where "Hip
Trips" has only one groove, no theme and just jam-
ming, which can get a little boring, but anyway...
"Nymphoman" by Drax was first used in our previous
demo, wasn't it? I really like that bridge with that real
definite line the lead plays, also the short bass solo
comes across very good. Another funny idea is that
woman shaking to the rhythm of "Funghus", groovy
tune by the way. This time Drax included quite a bit of
his "BOMBASTIQUE" tunes (one of which even has his
name), with an octaved bass and a very fat lead.

All in all this soundtrack is just RATHER GOOD. Even
if some tunes sound a bit similar, and even if there is
a lack of laid back, relaxed tunes (at least that's
what I feel), it still is worth a rating of 89%.

Well, after having had a look at the actual produc-
tions we would like to convince and encourage you to
produce further demonstrations or, if you prefer,
trackmos. Releases keep the scene alive, and that
should be our major goal these days.

Best regards from your favourite reviewer team,

Fuben/Oxyron
------------
PRI/TIA/Oxyron
-------------
RRR/Oxyron
----------

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==Party Radar==
<pre>
* PARTY RADAR *
------------------------------------------------------------
Due to public demand we decided to present the al-
most complete one by one copy of the original As-
sembly 1996, and not only the CBM 64 specific parts.

ASSEMBLY 1996 from 16th to 18th August in the Hel-
sinki Fair Centre

WHEN AND WHERE?
Assembly '96 will be held in Finland's largest confe-
rence centrum, called as the Helsinki Fair Centre.
The Fair Centre is located in central Helsinki. The
street address of the fair centre is Rautatielaisen-
katu 3.

HOW TO GET TO THE PARTYPLACE
You will either arrive by plane, by boat, by bus, by
train or by car. If you are lucky enough to come by
car, you should be able to find the party place very
easily. If you come by plane and have lots of stuff
with you, we would recommend to take a taxi, other-
wise you should come by bus (cheaper). And if you
come by boat (to Helsinki sea port) and have lots of
luggage, take the taxi, or take a tram or walk to the
Central Railway station and take any local train from
there.

Local area bus tickets in Finland vary from around
$2 to $4 US. The taxi is ofcourse more expensive.
For example to take a normal taxi from the airport to
the party place will cost one person around $30 -
$40 US. But if you take the Airport Taxi, it will be a

lot cheaper (about half the price).
If you take a local train from the Central railway
station, get off at the first stop (Pasila) and you can
see the Helsinki Fair Centre from there.

COMPETITIONS
The organisers reserve the right to make any chan-
ges to the competition rules, and to disqualify any
entry if it is not suitable to attend the competitions
for some reasons.

Atleast one of the authors of a competiting product
has to be present at the party place in order to at-
tend the competitions and to receive possible prizes.
In the solo competitions (music, graphics, 4 KB) the
author has to be present.

A jury composed of known scene people (maybe even
you!) will select an amount of 15 entries in each com-
petition to the finals (to be shown on the big screen
to the audience). There will be different people in the
PC and Amiga juries.

In the graphics competition, the raytracing and also
in the 4 KB intro competition on PC, the competition
version of the entry must not display the author's
name or group in any way. This will prevent the au-
thor's name from affecting the vote. After the an-
nouncement of the results, the versions which are
spread can include the author's signature. In the mu-
sic competitions, we will not show the author's name
while we play the song in the competition. We will show
the size of the tune, the number of channels used and
the tracker used on the screen.

In the graphics, music, raytracing, animation and 4 KB
intro competitions we will show the name of the song/
picture, but only if it will not give hints who has made
it. "Maximum Running Length" below is only the amount
of time we will show a particular piece of art on the
big screen. The demos/intros will have to run without
ANY user interaction once started (althought there
can be a setup screen). The filenames of the produc-
tions have to comply with the ISO-9660 standart.

This means that the only characters allowed in file-
names are "A-Z" and "0-9". The maximum length of
the filename is 8 + 3 characters as in MS-DOS stan-
dard.

The production MUST NOT save any files (for example
configuration files) on the hard disk or disk.

In the music, graphics, raytracing and 4 KB intro
competitions only one of the authors (if there are
more than one) can be the official author of the com-
petiting piece of art. For example, if two coders work
on the same 4 KB intro, only one of them can receive
the prize and his name in the party results. After all,
these three competitions are ment to be solo compe-
titions.

The authors have to habe all copyrights to their pro-
duction.
If you have any questions about the rules, kindly
contact ASSEMBLY Organizing.

THE VOTING SYSTEM
We will use a disk voting system. Once you enter the
place, you will be given the voting disk, which will in-
clude the voting program. We are going to have PC
formatted DD disk with both Amiga and PC voting pro-
gram.

JURY
Before you can give your opinion, a jury composed
of known scene people will qualify the products to the
finals. The members of the jury give points from 1 to
10 for each product and the average of the points
will be the final score. 15 best scoring products will
qualify to finals. If there is more than one product
that qualified as 15th the jury will commonly decide
which one of them will qualify.

PC COMPETITION RULES
The competition machine we will use:
- Pentium 100 MHz with 8 MB of RAM
- MS-DOS 7.0
- 2 MB PCI SVGA-board with S3
- 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card or original
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
- 550 KB free base memory

Software configuration in the computer will include
MS-DOS 7.0, with HIMEM and EMM386. The configura-
tion will not be changed during the competition.

One must be able to exit from PC-Demos and intros
at any time by pressing <ESC>.

PC-Demos and intros must check if the enviromental
variables for either GUS or SoundBlaster. If the
check finds both it chooses GUS.

The formats of the enviromental variables are:
GUS: : GUS = 220, 1, 1, 11,7 (address, dma, dma, gus irq,
sb irq)
SB: Blaster = A220 I7 D1 T1 (a = address, i = irq, d =
dma)

In the PC 64 KB intro competition two versions of the
intro can be submitted. The competiting version which
is under 65536 bytes long and supports either GUS
or SB and the release version which supports both.
Release version can be over 65536 bytes long. Com-
peting 64 KB intro cannot be in any case longer than
65536 bytes. Both release and competition version
has to be submitted to the organisers before the
deadline.

The main reason why SVGA modes with higher resolu-
tion than 640X480 aren't allowed is because the ma-
ximum resolution supported by the video/data pro-
jectors we have is 640X480. And even if the projec-
tors could show higher resolutions, the picture quali-
ty of different high resolution graphics modes would
not look that much different from one another (a vi-
deo projector is NOT the same as a monitor).

You should note that the picture produced by a video
projector is not as good as a monitor picture. The vi-
deo projector does not show pale colours well and
in some cases can even lose them completely. Also the
contrast can be different. These are commom pro-
blems with all video projectors and simply can't be
corrected. Please try to understand these restric-
tions.

Demos and intros must work with 256 colour only
SVGA-board (eg. TRIDENT), but they can also use op-
tionally hardware dependent screen modes (eg.
320 X 200 X 16.7 M).

Note that you can now enter more than one demo or
64 KB intro to the competitions, if you so desire.

DEMO
- Maximum size in executable form is 4096 KB
- Maximum showing time is 8 minutes, the demo itself
can be longer
- Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB
- 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes
and SVGA modes up to 640 X 480 are accepted
- Pure animation files are not accepted
- Also executalbes only including an animation and an
animation player will not be accepted, this is not an
animation competition
- Gravis UltraSound (1024 KB) and SB PRO/SB 16
support required. Also the demo has to have no
sound option.
- The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-
9660 standart (i.e. NO special characters allowed)
- The demo MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk

INTRO
- Maximum size in executable form is 64 KB (65536
bytes)
- Maximum showing time is 5 minutes
- Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB
- 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes
and SVGA modes up to 640 X 480 are accepted
- Pure animation files are not accepted
- Also executalbes only including an animation and an
animation player will not be accepted, this is not an
animation competition
- Gravis UltraSound (1024 KB) and SB PRO/SB 16
support required. This version can be over 65536
bytes long. Also a no sound option is required.
- The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-
9660 standart (i.e. NO special characters allowed)
- The intro MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk

4 KB INTRO
- Maximum size in executable form is 4096 bytes
- Maximum showing time is 3 minutes
- Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB
- NO MUSIC or other sound is allowed (this is because
this is a coder's competition, not musicians')
- 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes
are accepted (no SVGA/VESA)
- Only one intro by one coder
- The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-
9660 standart (i.e. NO special characters allowed)
- The intro MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk

AMIGA COMPETITION RULES
The competition machine is a A1200 with 2 megs chip +
4 megs fast with 68030/50 MHz processor.

One must be able to exit from Amiga demos and intros
at any time by pressing left mouse-button.

DEMO
- Maximum size is 4 megabytes
- Must be harddisk installable
- Maximum showing time is 8 minutes
- The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-
9660 standart (i.e. NO special characters allowed)
- Maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 characters
- The demo MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk

INTRO
- Maximum size in executable form is 64 KB
- Maximum showing time is 5 minutes
- The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-
9660 standart (i.e. NO special characters allowed)
- Maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 characters
- The demo MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk

THE GRAPHICS COMPETITIONS
GRAPHICS
- The maximum resolution allowed is 640 X 480
- The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen co-
lours is 256
- The palette is the standart 16,7 million color true
color palette
- Pictures drawn with Amiga will be shown with Amiga
Brilliance (no executables!)
- PC pictures will have to be in standard LBM, PCX,
TGA or GIF format
- Pictures drawn with PC will be shown with CSHOW
(or some other good picture viewer)
- Scanned, ripped or raytraced pictures will be dis-
qualified
- In addition, you must submit a version of the final
picture which doesn't have your signature on it
(which will be shown on the big screen)
- Only one picture by one graphic artist
- The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660
standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed)
- The maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 cha-
racters

RAYTRACING
- The maximum resolution allowed is 640 X 480
- The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen co-
lours is 16.7 million
- Pictures will be shown on PC with true color card
(no executables!)
- Pictures have to be in JPG or TARGA format
- In addition, you must submit a version of the final
picture which doesn't have your signature on it
(which will be shown on the big screen)
- Only one picture by one graphic artist
- The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660
standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed)
- The maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 cha-
racters

ANIMATION
- The maximum running length is 3 minutes
- The frame rate of the animation has to be 12.5 pics/
sec
- The animation itself must be in MPEG-1 format with-
out any sound
- The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen co-
lors is 16.7 million
- The maximum resolution is 320 X 200
- Please us CMPEG 1.0 for creating MPEG-file for ma-
ximum compatibility. Use parameters: -v1 -d0 -m0
ipb.ctl [list] [mpeg.mpg] (you can download the file
from our WWW-site or from any other major FTP-
site)
- The animation will be played with ASSEMBLY Organi-
zing MPEG player (you can download it from our
WWW-site)
- You can supply an audio track for the animation.
The audio track must have following characteris-
tics: RAW (unsigned 8 bit, mono) format, playback
rate 12288
- The animation must be delivered to us on hard disk
or on CD-ROM
- The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660
standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed)
- The maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 cha-
racters

THE MUSIC COMPETITIONS
We will not show the name of author on the screen,
but we will show the size of the tune, the number of
channels used and the tracker used on the screen
while playing the tune.

4 CHANNEL
- Maximum size is 880 KB (= one Amiga disk)
- Maximum amount of channels is 4
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- All songs will be played with the Amiga ProTracker
v2.x (MOD)
- Entries must be in MOD-format (no executables,
no renamed, no powerpacked)
- Only one song by one musician
- The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660
standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed)
- The maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 cha-
racters

MULTICHANNEL
- Maximum amount of channels is 32
- Maximum size of the song isn 1024 KB in a playable
format (including all samples, pattern data, etc.)
- Maximum amount of channels is 4
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- the format has to be some of the following: S3M,
MOD, XM, MTM and ULT
- All songs will be played with a PC compatible player
using a 1 MB Gravis UltraSound
- Only one song by one musician
- The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660
standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed)
- The maximum length of the file name is 8 + 3 cha-
racters

WILD COMPETITION
- The productions can be anything from a computer
generated animations, demos on ancient or exotic
computers to plain video art. The only requirement
is that the productions are cool
- Maximum showing time is 15 minutes, the production
itself can be longer
- The production has to be delivered on a VHS cas-
sette (european PAL format). The cassette will not
be returned
- No copyrighted material or material that violates
Finnish or international laws is allowed in the pro-
duction
- Maximum 30 productions will be shown on the big
screen during the night between Saturday and
Sunday

COMMODORE 64 COMPETITIONS
GENERAL RULES
- Only one contribution from each group/artist is
accepted for each competition serie
- Contributions must be 100% finished before the
deadline, because we will copy and spread all of
them at the party.
- The deadlines aren't too flexible so please deliver
your contributions in time (in other words: Early
enough) to avoid hassle
- Your contribution disks won't be returned (Doing
so would cause an enormous hassle, just use your
imagination and guess why!)

RULES FOR THE C64 DEMO COMPETITION
- The demo will be run on a standard C64 with origi-
nal 1541 drive and an Action Replay MK 6 cartridge
- Each demo will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes
- Coding your demos in such a manner that pressing
space isn't necessary to proceed is high recom-
mended. If, however, your demo should require any
user interaction, we want a person from the con-
tributing group to run the demo. After all, there's
no way we could possibly know which effects the
coder would like to be shown a little bit longer than
the others
- At least one perosn must be present from the con-
tributing group (If it's not a group release (Which is
extremely unlikely), then the coder must be pre-
sent him/herself)

RULES FOR C64 GRAPHICS COMPETITION
- The picture must be an executable file
- ALL graphic formats are accepted
- Only the picture must be seen on the screen; no
scroller or any other moving things are allowed.
Background music's acceptable (Not recommend-
able, though), but during the competition no one will
hear it (Audio equipment will be turned off)
- Please try to give your picture some (sensible)
name to avoid too many "un-named" pictures com-
peting
- The artist must be present at the party

RULES FOR C64 MUSIC COMPETITION
- The tune must be an executable file
- Only your imagination's the limit; samples are of
course accepted
- Each tune will be played for max. 3 minutes (This
doesn't mean you'd have to cut the tune at 3:00
sharp, though! Even if your tune won't be played
for more than three minutes at the party, people
will play it longer at home.
- Please try to give your tune some (sensible) name
too avoid too many "un-named" tunes competing
- The artist must be present at the party

The official C64 competition organisers are: Dead-
beat/The Sharks, Mysdee/The Sharks & Dr. Dick/
Byterapers

Please find further details in PARTY RADAR II.

</pre>
==Party Radar 2==
<pre>
* PARTY RADAR II *
------------------------------------------------------------
Further details about the Assembly 1996 can be
found here, as the official invitation text continues...

SPECIAL COMPETITIONS
We will have all traditional ASSEMBLY special compe-
titions. The competitions include for example soccer,
disk throwing and modem throwing.

PRIZES
The total value of all the prizes in US dollars will be
over US $35.000 (not including software).
All damages to the Fair centre, other surroundings
and other damages caused by the party visitors will
be REDUCED from the prizes before any prizes are
paid. This is because of previous trouble with people
breaking up places, furnitures and spraying the walls
and thus causing damage of many thousand dollars.

The actual prizes may be software, hardware or pure
cash. This depends on our sponsors. The following
list includes only the preliminary list of prizes (the
final list will be published at the party place). Also
keep in mind that the money exchange rates also af-
fect this list (at the time of writing this text file one
US dollar was 4.85 finnish marks).

We will try to give cash prizes in the PC and AMIGA
demo competitions. The prizes in other competitions
may be more or less various hardware and software.

All cash prizes will be paid in Finnish currency.

PC COMPETITION Prize Values (not incl. software):
PC DEMO 64 KB INTRO 4 KB INTRO
1. $ 4100 $ 1600 $ 450
2. $ 2000 $ 800 $ 350
3. $ 1400 $ 500 $ 250
4. $ 700 $ 300 $ 150
5. $ 300 $ 200 $ 100

AMIGA COMPETITION Prize Values (not incl. software):
AMIGA Demo 64 KB
1. $ 4100 $ 1600
2. $ 1400 $ 500
3. $ 700 $ 300

ART COMPETITION prize values (not incl. software):
Music Graphic/
4/32 Ch. Raytrace Animation Wild
1. $ 450 $ 450 $ 1600 $ 450
2. $ 350 $ 350 $ 800 $ 250
3. $ 250 $ 250 $ 500 $ 100
4. $ 150 $ 150 $ 300
5. $ 100 $ 100 $ 200

COMMODORE 64 COMPETITION PRIZES:
In the C64 competitions we will give only cash as fol-
lows:
Demo Graphics Music
1. $ 400 $ 200 $ 200
2. $ 150 $ 75 $ 75
3. $ 50 $ 25 $ 25

PARTY FEATURES
Next is the list of most important features at our
party:

AUDIO AND VIDEO
The main hall is equipped with a powerful sound sys-
tem. The system supports stereo output and will be a
real kicker with 10.000 watts of pure sound power.
The big screen in the main hall is over 8 meters wide
and supports the 640 X 480 resolution.

HALLS
The party area is composed of two halls. The halls
are seperated by a heavy curtain. The main area is
4500 square meters (equals 1500 computer places).
The sleeping hall is on the first floor this year (the
sleeping hall used last year is being repaired this
year). The sound proofing isn't as good as last year,
but sleeping isn't mandatory at parties). Sleeping
area is almost as big as last year. Remember to bring
your own sleeping bags.
Neither of the halls have windows so the video
screens will look absolutely fabulous at the competi-
tions and it will be dark enough to sleep.

SERVICES
The party place is the biggest fair centre in Finland.
It will feature 24h food service (yes, we have Coke!),
24h security personnel, 24h professional electrian,
24h luggage preservation service and cleaning per-
sonnel. Also 24h help desk with friendly personnel
will be available to help you out with problems you
might encounter.
Plenty of toilets and some showers will be available.
Cool party t-shirts will be sold for low price.

PARKING FEE
Unfortunately the ASSEMBLY'96 visitors have to pay
for their weekend parking. The cost is not much
though, it is 40 FIM for weekend parking. You will
have a weekend parking ticket and a special Assem-
bly parking area at your use.

NETWORK INFORMATION
The network information will be released later on
when the details of the party network will be clear.
The PartyNet will feature full Internet access and a
party server with all releases online.

ASM'96 CD-ROM
All the participating pieces of art from the competi-
tions will be assembled to a single ASSEMBLY '96 CD-
ROM. This will be a unique possibility for everyone to
get hundreds of megabytes data containing ALL de-
mos, intros, pics, mods, etc. published at ASM '96.
THERE'S NO OTHER EASY WAY TO COLLECT THEM
ALL!

We will pay royalties of the net revenue of the CD-
ROM disks to the winners (which sign the exclusive
CD-ROM distribution agreement) in the competitions
(expect for Amiga and C64) as follows (in percents):

CODE COMPETITIONS
DEMO INTRO 4 KB INTRO
1. 2.5% 0.7% 0.4%
2. 2.0% 0.5% 0.3%
3. 1.5% 0.4% 0.1%

ART COMPETITIONS
Music Graphic/
4/32 Ch. Raytrace Animation
1. 0.4% 0.4% 0.7%
2. 0.3% 0.3% 0.5%
3. 0.1% 0.1% 0.4%

If you do a fix for the production after the party and
you wish to include it on the CD-ROM kindly send it to
any places listed in the contact addresses. In case
of problems, please contact ASSEMBLY ORGANISING.

All productions which wish to have possibility of re-
ceiving royalties have to include a statement that the
author(s) retain all copyrights. See RIGHTS.TXT for
an adequate copyright license. We suggest that you
include the copyright license into the software (into
the demo's/intro's end screen, to the pattern names
of music tune for example) to ensure that it is not
removed.

The biggest reason for requiring exclusive distribu-
tion contracts for winning productions is to ensure
that nobody else will sell the production on a CD-ROM
What has happened before is that companies just put
your productions on a CD-ROM and pay no royalties
wha t so ever to the author. This way they can sell
the CD-ROM cheaper. Because ASSEMBLY Organizing
is dedicated to work with the scene we want to stop
this. The only way to do is to have adequate copy-
right licenses (see the RIGHTS.TXT and INFO.TXT) and
exclusive distribution agreements.

The royalties will be paid twice in the period of one
year after the release of the CD-ROM disk in the
form of a cheque by mail. This means the last royal-
ties for the ASSEMBLY '96 CD-ROM disk will be paid
around ASSEMBLY '97 time.

ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM (eRAVE 1)
The complete collection of ALL ASSEMBLY '95 relea-
ses is now available. With over 100 great demos, more
than 350 different music tunes and much much more
it is the coolest ever production by ASSEMBLY Or-
ganizing. And the CD-ROM is the extremely easy to
use: just active our custom built GUI and warp into
the world of demos! The thrilling ASSEMBLY '95 com-
pilation is cheap! The price for a single item is only
25 US dollars!

ASSEMBLY Organizing is dedicated to the scene -
ASSENBLY Organizing is the only demo CD-ROM ma-
nufacturer that gives royalties to the best produc-
tions on the CD-ROM. Up to 20% if the net revenue of
the CD-ROM is handed back to the scene as royalties

To order your copy please use some of the following
methods:
WWW http://www.assembly.org/cdroms/cdrom.html

Finnish orders: Assembly Organizing, XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XX, XXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX
Voice : XX/XXX-XXXX
Fax : XX/XXX-XXXX
E-mail: Assembly^Assembly.Org

Other orders: Romware GmbH, Gottlieb-Daimler-Str.
12, D-24568 Kaltenkirchen, Germany
Voice : ++XX/XXXX/XXXX-X
Fax : ++XX/XXXX/XXXX-XX
E-mail: 100421.1772^Compuserve.Com

ASM'96 TICKETS
BUYING TICKETS
There are two kind of tickets for ASSEMBLY'96.
Normal 250,- ($50 USD) ticket and 260,- ($54 USD)
ticket which includes computerplace reservation. You
can buy the 240,- ticket either at the door at the
happening or you can buy it in advance. Reservation
tickets are only sold in advance. The sales of the re-
servation tickets will be closed at 8th of August, 1996

WHERE CAN I BUY MY TICKETS?
You can buy your ticket from ASSEMBLY Organizing.
Groups that want to get the group discount and com-
puterplace reservations have to be bought in advan-
ce from ASSEMBLY Organizing. If your group buys 10
or more tickets at the same time you will receive the
10% group discount from the ticket prizes.

To order a ticket you have to pay directly to the ac-
count of ASSEMBLY Organizing (see contact info).
Make sure, when you pay directly to the account that
ASSEMBLY Organizing doesn't get any additional
costs and the amount of money covers the costs of
the ordered tickets. Also make sure that we get the
information who has sent the money and where we
can send the tickets. After making the payment, plea-
se make an official order at our WWW-site
(http://www.assembly.org/asm96/ordertix.html).

Groups in Finland can order their tickets directly
from our WWW-site. The tickets will be shipped as
COD ("postiennakko"). Please allow 20 FIM for post-
age costs.

WHY SHOULD I BUY A TICKET IN ADVANCE?
If you buy your ticket in advance you have to possi-
bility to use group discount of 10%. You have the pos-
sibility for group discount if you buy more than 10
tickets at a time. Also the table reservation is possi-
ble only by buying reservation ticket. You don't have
to reserve table for yourself, but the best places
near the videoprojector screen go to the reser-
vers. The earlier you reserve your place the better
place you get.
We will organize special door in the first day of AS-
SEMBLY '96 where you can get your computer in
most conviniently.

SHEDULE
Partyplace will be open 24 hours/day.

16th of August 1996 (FRIDAY)
- 1000 ASSEMBLY doors open
- 1900 C64 competition deadline
- 2100 C64 competitions
- 2300 Deadline for all competitions

17th of August 1996 (SATURDAY)
- 1300 4 channel competition
- 1400 Graphics competition
- 1430 32 channel competition
- 1530 Raytrace competition
- 1600 PC 4 KB intro
- 1700 AMIGA 64 KB intro
- 1830 PC 64 KB intro

18th of August 1996 (SUNDAY)
- 0900 AMIGA DEMO competition
- 1130 Animation competition
- 1230 PC DEMO competition
- 1500 Vote counting
- 1600 Announcement of winners and prize giving
ceremony
- 1700 Prize giving ceremony ends
- 2000 Doors close - ASSEMBLY '96 is over

DISCLAIMER
We don't take any responsibility on the safety of the
equipment people bring to the party place. We sug-
gest you take an insurance for your equipment from
some insurance company. And remember, you can
store your equipment by using the luggage preser-
vation service which will be available at the party
place.
If you have ANY suggestions or ideas about anything
written in this text file, don't hesitate to contact us!
While you are visiting Finland you have to follow Fin-
nish laws. If you break laws at the Fair Centre we will
call the police to take care of you. You will also have
to answer for anything you break at the party place.
All damages to the fair centre, other surroundings
and other damages will be reduced from the total
prize money.

NO ALCOHOL/DRUGS/SMOKING NOR SOFTWARE PIRA-
CY ALLOWED IN THE PARTY PLACE

CONTACT INFORMATION
You can reach us by many means according to the
following list:

Voice : +XXX/X/XXX-XXXX
WWW : http://www.assembly.org/assembly96
E-mail: Assembly^Assembly.Org
IRC : # ASM96
Normal mail: ASSEMBLY '96
XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Bank account for international money transfers:

ASSEMBLY Organizing
208918-28217
Merita Helsinki-WTC
FINLAND
SWIFT-CODE: MRITFIHH

Please include your address with the payment, where
you want the tickets to be sent. Also make sure that
there are no additional expenses for the receiver
of the payment.

CONTROLLED DREAMS, RESOURCE and SPACEHAWKS
present

THE SCENESIS
------------
FLaG International Computer Scene and Role-Playing
Party
from 19th July 1996, 16:00, to 22nd July 1996, 17:00,
Barczi Geza Street 2, Budapest, Hungary

Entrance fee : 600 HUF (USD 5,--)
Table reservation: 150 HUF (USD 1,--)

Features:
--------
* 3000 square metres active area
* Enough power outlets (bring a divider)
* Comfortable sleeping-building with matraces
* McDonald's serving as buffet
* Showers for free
* 1200 W audio amplification

Competition prizing: HUF 500.000,-- (USD 3.500,--)
----------------

COMPETITIONS:
------------
* PC DEMO * AMIGA DEMO * C-64 DEMO
* PC 64K Intro * AMIGA 40K Intro * C-64 GFX
* PC 4K Intro * AMIGA 4K Intro * C-64 Muzak
* Multichannel * 4 Channel Muzak * GFX
* Raytrace * ANSI GFX * Lamer compo
* Fernandez com. * Nostalgia * Doom compo

* M.A.G.U.S. * AD&D * Mithos
* Cards of Power card competition

Competition Rules:
---------------
* C-64 DEMO: There are NO rules. Maybe only one:
the demo must not reserve more than four disk sides
(two disks).
* C-64 GFX: The picture must NOT be scanned
* C-64 MUZAK: The music must NOT be fully digitized

Competition machine:
-----------------
C-64: A plain C-64 with floppy drive

Deadline:
-------
The compos' deadline is 21st July, 16:00.

CD-writing:
---------
CD-writing will be possible for HUF 1.800,-- (USD
10,--). A party CD will be released after the party
and can be ordered at TOMCAT's.

Programs:
--------
Presentation on the MIRO video-digitizer card, Crea-
tive Labs presents its new TV-radio tuner card for
PC, a representative from IBM and Microsoft will dis-
cuss about OS/2 and Win95 (Local TV stations will
broadcast it live), Intel's introduction of the new Pen-
tium PRO and its features, Non-stop Internet access
via Sattelite, many VIDEO movies, medieval kombat
presentation, RPG cardgame presentation and many
other surprises....

Supporters:
----------
IBM, Digital, Soros Alapitvany, Westel, Uj Alapap, Pixel
Multimedia Kft., Grafi-X-Shs Kft. , Elender Internet,
Kevlar Studio, Trans-A Electric, Uveghaz Szamitas-
technikai Aruhaz, Silverland BT, Dungeon RPG Shop,
Moonbase

Contact addresses:
----------------
TOMCAT: XXXXXX XXXXX (main organiser, responsible
for computer stuff), ++XX/(X)XXX-XXXX, XXXXXXX
Utca 7, 1139 Budapest, Tomcat2^Ursus.Bke.Hu

JAMES BAUD: XXXX XXXXXXX (other main organiser),
++XX/(X)XXX-XXXX, XXXXX XXXX XX XXX X, XXXX XXXX-
XXXX

ACHOS: XXXXX XXXX (responsible for RPGs), ++XX/(X)
XXX-XXXX, XXXXXXXX XXXX XX XX/XX, XXXX XXXXXXX

The Assembly invitation is almost 1:1 converted while
Flag's has been shorted by the editors as the As-
sembly seems to be more interesting for our target
group.

Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
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<pre>
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RRR: XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
* legal mailtrade on Amiga 1200 ONLY!
* (game-) graphics ---------
* RELAX MAGAZINE

Scrapper: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX. XX,
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX
* PC swapping on Disk and Streamer tapes (QIC 80)

* PALACE *
------------------------------------------------------------
2NY: ZNY^CUTE.FI
* I luve Ozzy Osbourne # 1

Junkie: XXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX X, XXXXX X-XXXXX,
XXXXXXX (-> DOOM PATROL)

* PHUTURE Software & Marketing *
------------------------------------------------------------
is still looking for motivated, active and skilled pro-
grammers, graphic artists and music composers in
order to develope and create some upperclass ga-
mes for the following computer systems: Amiga, PC
and CBM 64.
Are you interested to get your games SOLD or are
you in the need of graphics or soundtracks to com-
plete, then the address below is the RIGHT one!
If you are interested to cooperate with leading per-
sons out of the demo scene in all various sections do
not hesitate to send in some examples of your work
along with a short personal record to:

XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

* SUCCESS & THE RULING COMPANY *
------------------------------------------------------------
Spectator: PXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXX XXX. X,
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX
* Original and Tape swap

Splatterhead: XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX X,
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

Tristan: XXXXXX XXXXX, XXX XXXXXX XX., XXXXXXXX XXX-
XXXXX, XXXXX XXX (-> STORM)
* 100% reply, illegal/legal and oldies

* TABOO *
------------------------------------------------------------
CRESH: XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XX. XXXXXX X X, XX-XXX XXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

* THERAPY *
------------------------------------------------------------
Starlight: XXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX
* tape swap, friendship, more contacts, old demos

* TRIAD *
------------------------------------------------------------
King Fisher: TRIAD^MARVIN.DF.LTH.SE
TRIAD-FTP FTP.DF.LTH.SE
HTTP: //WWW.DF.LTH.SE/&TRIAD/TRIAD-HOME.HTML
THE STUDIO ++XX/XX-XXXXXX
VIRTUAL LIGHT ++XX/XX-XXXXXX

Sliver: SLIVER^BELKA.BL.PG.GDA.PL
SLIVER^TRIAD.NL.ORG
SLIVER^GUMBEERS.ELKA.PG.GDA.PL

Violator: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX,
XXXXX XXXX, XXXXXX

When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text. WE feel free to present your advertisements
coming up to our interests in order to SAVE memory!

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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2008-01-14T15:18:17Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
The R3L4X M4G4Z1N3 in December '95 was brought
to you by PHUTURE, your favourite disk magazine re-
leasing game label.

The EDITORIAL used to be a sort of freestyle chap-
ter in all our previous issues, and that is exactly the
reason for us not to change it. This chapter contains
general comments about various topics and terms
packed into one chapter while other competitors use
to divide it into various articles.

... waiting for what the next year will bring us ...
------------------------------------------------------------
As the release-date of the December Edition got set
at December 31st, 1995 most of you will read this
text in the new year, to be more precise in 1996. We
survived another christmas and celebrated our very
own and annual christmas party in Denmark, this time
in Fredericia after having seen the locations moving
from Aars (1992) to Herning (1993, 1994).
Without any doubts we have to confirm that the glo-
rious days of the CBM 64 are finally over while re-
garding the effort of the software industry, but may-
be it is not only the commercial part who lost the in-
terest in this machine. With CP Verlag another flag-
ship left the fleet, so another CBM 64 publisher dis-
appeared in the endless width of the 16/32 computer
systems, as we have not detected a sign to see them
quitting that sector, too. Maybe there are some per-
sons who might show their interest in filling the gap,
but keeping realistic we think that we won't see much
better again, and people who pray the opposite can
not be taken serious any longer. In order to hold the
actual standart, what should be the MAJOR target
these days, it is necessary to support the few SE-
RIOUS publishers left, such as MAGNA MEDIA in Ger-
many or LOADSTAR (Softdisk Publishing) in the United
States of America. Instead of complaining about the
worse situation of the market people who are crying
for new software should better shut up and subscri-
be the few commercial publications left, as an every
new subscriber can save the existance of the com-
panies and the "flood" of new software for this be-
loved 8-bit machine.
But only the games sector, aswell the demo sector
reduced its activity. No, we are not talking the few
demoes being spread at the various parties all over
the years, we are looking at the periods between the
few parties being hold. What came in this time? Abso-
lutely NOTHING! And what is the reason for it? People
want to get famous, well known characters looking
for people to adore them, that is their only motivation
to WORK on a demo. Impressing an huge audience, to
see the demo shown on a BIG screen to freaks being
owners of various computer systems, people voting
for them and maybe to earn some prize money is the
motor, the impulse to get the "new" demo generation
started. Indeed it is a very sad effect of the evolu-
tion who made the scene what it is these days.
Where is the fun left who made us CREATING or IN-
VENTING something in former days? We did not care
about any release dates, we felt free to release our
demoes whenever we felt like doing it. We enjoyed to
have worked as a team in order to present something
what pleased us, and we were proud to share it with
the public, today people are only interested in pro-
ducing AMIGA/PC cloned trackmos, in order to keep
the audience happy and amazed, not to have some
fun during the production. People are only satisfied
when they raise or rule the charts, it is not the hob-
by, not the fun, it is the prestige and the reputation
what does count for them.
Surely, realising a trackmo needs much more time
compared with a "simple" demo, but we all do love to
remember to the old times, when we could quit a part
with the space bar when we liked the leave it instead
of watching the 23rd vector object of an optimized
routine, dictated by a so-called trackmos. But the
"generation" today looks like being dictated from the
mass media such as MTV or VIVA, or maybe from the
other computer systems, what is trendy, and it's not
only a little bit sad how people follow their false pro-
phets, in this case it can be defined as COMMERCIA-
LISM. People use to follow fashions they get dictated
instead of doing whatever they would like to do, that
is infact really a negative movement, and the sad as-
pect is that most did not even notice that they are
steered by a remote, secret instructor.
Our wishes for 1996 are to see people releasing de-
finately much more demoes compared to 1995, to see
people having fun again while producing demoes in-
stead of being stressed, thinking about the feedback
or if you prefer reactions from the audience in or-
der to get some more points and to raise in the so
overrated charts. Creating demoes should be an ex-
citing HOBBY, not a profession!
And as a game label we would for sure love to see
some advanced and complex games, but more impor-
tant is one or even more serious distributors who
are able to sell a lot of copies in order to make it
more interesting to produce new games and to deve-
lope/invent more advanced and stunning game ideas
even for this machine. Ofcourse we are realistic and
have already noticed that you can not make the BIG
money with Commodore 64 games anymore, this period
is already history what even the most enthusiastic
people might have remarked yet, but the income
should still be a nice donation, or if you prefer pok-
ket money, for the production team, an amount of mo-
ney which should encourage the producers to work
on just another game.
There are many things all the different scene related
persons are looking for, we truely hope that 1996
will become a good, successfull year where you will be
able to realise your dreams and aims, in the scene
and ofcourse in REAL LIFE, what might be more im-
portant in our eyes.

... what charts are fair charts? ...
----------------------------
... is for sure one of the most discussed question
since those damned CHARTS exist. But to be honest,
who is capable to give the ULTIMATE and only accept-
able answer? Each chart system has its very own
gaps which make a fair judgement impossible.
What is the general SENSE of charts? The original
idea was to present a list of the best ones, to be
more precise to show a compilation of different opi-
nion from various persons in order to find out and
honour people which are supposed to be the very
best ones of their kind.
Unfortunately, sad but true, the REALITY looks quite
different. Many people manipulate(d) or abuse(d) the
votes in order to get advantage for themselves
self-voting) or their close friends (friendship votes)
and this behaviour let the charts drift away from
their original idea towards a system to honour the
most POPULAR, instead of the most skilled, persons
of the scene.
Another interesting factor while analysing the charts
is the actual standart or better the general reputa-
tion of a magazine in the 8-bit society. The more less
known a magazine is, there more unknown persons
will be found in the lists, and in more known magazi-
nes on the other hand you will probably find members
of well reputated groups, in both cases regardless
from the fact if they do deserve the position of if
they don't do it.
CHARTS created with votesheets is the standart me-
thod to build up the charts chapter in almost all ma-
gazines. Most of the publications using this method
do not accept votes for themselves or their produc-
tions, what is infact a fine idea in order to keep the
charts more objective for the audience.
Votesheet SPREADER are another point to request
the objectivitity of the presented charts. At first we
have to notice that most, not all, are interested to
get some publicity and expect votes for themselves,
their groups and their productions, so the more
sheets spread means more points for the spreader
and so on. Does this mean FAIRNESS at all?
MEGA CHARTS, or so-called compiled charts which
might be described are ripped charts from some un-
qualified, uncompetent magazine "editors", seem to be
the ultimate and most fair solution, unfortunately it
offers some bugs, too, which will be recognized on the
second, or maybe third view. If one group does relea-
se one or even more issues in the period within the
period between the release of the previous and ac-
tual edition of the magazine using the mega charts
there might appear a major disadvantage for the un-
lucky crew showing this intense activity as they are
twice not named in the votes taken into consideration
to create the charts. This is infact the only visible
system error, and we can not change it anyway be-
cause if this problems appears and people are con-
sidering about removing one issue, which issue should
be banned in order to create the charts? There is
always something left worth to complain and moan, we
will continue using this system, and people who do not
believe in the fairness of our charts are invited to
read the index of the mail charts, to use their Pocket
Calculators (PCs?) and to control it. The difference
contains the votes compiled from our votesheets, so
you can be sure about a rather fair, reliable charts
system.
SPLITTED CHARTS have been seen lately, maybe the
latest trend using the coverage getting the charts
more fair. How to split them? There are so many dif-
ferent methods to split up or analyse the charts, but
the very best thing is everything can be splitted up
as long as possible. One of the most simple examples
are the graphic artist charts. They can be splitted in
logo and picture artists. This is only beginning, as it
starts here exactly. When we divide these cathego-
ries we have to start over and continue, starting
with the various graphic formats (koala bitmap, fli,
ifli, singlecolour hires, super hires, ...) and for those,
after having already read 5 chart chapters it can be
completed with splitting continents and countries as-
well. This procedure can easily be made with all the
different chart entrances. Surely so new (un)packed
text records can be set up, but a reformation of an
already six years well working chart system is for
sure not the fitting solution to reach the aim, to get
more fair charts. Votesheets won't be votesheets
any longer, they will metamorph into votebooks,
everything will be blown up and at the end of list the-e
re is a frustated and totally confused reader who
won't understand what is going on anymore.
Some people do need the charts and a good position
will be celebrated for the rest of their life, others do
read and accept them while the rest does not care at
all. Nevertheless it is only a list of names appearing
in a sub-culture called CBM 64 scene, and yester-
days top spot will be forgotten with the next list.
There does not exist a system to get the ultimate,
most objective and reliable charts ever, neverthe-
less the general system and divisions are quite use-
ful and functional, so there is really no need to re-
formate it as long as the improvements are real im-
provements, and nothing what leads into an unexpec-
ted, short-sighted chaos.
If all chart positions would look similar in all various
magazines there would be no motivation to check them
out another time, so it is quite good to report about
each magazine having an own vote system, different
rankings, all factors what makes it interesting to
check out, to wonder and to complain about what we
get offered, something we really do not want to miss,
as long as it is getting spoiled.
... to be continued ... IF NECCESSARY!

... votesheet spreaders and news suppliers ...
------------------------------------------------------------
Some regards to SHUZE and ZAPOTEK/Alpha Flight
for spreading our votesheets, and to all how suppor-
ted us with information and news such as CBA/TRC&
SCS, Zny/Palace and so on.

This edition's content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
The GLOBAL REPORT contains the latest news and
rumours, while you find in the RELEASE CHARTS the
list of all releases in the period back to previous
issue. More charts can be found in the BOARD and
MAIL CHARTS, created by the voters on the boards/
Internet and by mail. The RELAX AWARDS will be send
over to the persons which performed something spe-
cial in their cathegory - subjective objectivity of-
course. INTERVIEW was held with the spanker number
one on the Net, CBA! Just enjoy it! A detailed PARTY
REPORT can be found, together with an invitation for
a special demo party in Northern Germany. Be there
or be dead! Last but not there are the ADVERTISE-
MENTS for those who are interested in enlarging the
amount of contacts or whatever else.

For sure you are missing the DEMO REVIEWS this time
but it was IMPOSSIBLE to edit them within 3 days in
the quality you used to know from us. Please find
them in the upcoming edition.

* Credits for the December edition *
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK ANGEE/THERAPY
ARNE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET SKIDROW/EX-ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
------------------------------------------------------------

* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

E-mail: HIC ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
----- ESC ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
TEI ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
(leave your mail on Marc's accounts)

Internet: RRR xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------- MAX xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------------------------------------------------------------

* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON
------------------------------------------------------------

Best regards and a happy new year, in the name of
the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
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* R3L4X M4G4Z1N3 *
3XPL0S1V3 3V3R, 1MPULS1V3 N3V3R!

December 31st, 1995
------------------

</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to our last global report in the year 1995.
This year the Relax Magazine used to be your favou-
rite news host, and in the year 1996 we hope to hold,
and what seems to be more important, we still try to
improve our very own standart, providing you with
the latest news instead of poor and weak observed
speculations from the editors or their notorious
"news" suppliers.

* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
In the winter months Alpha Flight has shown some ac-
tivity, but all in all in was a quiet month for the flight-
ers, without any big movements or stunning actions,
but then AFL Poland felt like entertaining the scene.

Spider, the name standing for confusion these days,
seems to have joined Motiv 8, while Styx, who acts as
one of the main organisers these days, still claims
that Spider still belongs to AFL. Anyway, we will keep
you updated, as long as possible.
A similar situation was caused by the second polish
member called Blaze, who was supposed to take over
the leadership of the polish section. Chromance an-
nounced several times to have him recruited, on the
other hand Blaze assured still belonging to the flight
was can be discribed as an entertaining sequence in
a time when boredom overhelmed the scene. To get it
to an end the dutch cooperation of SCS & TRC seems
to be group he is actually a member of, but for how
how long?
Actually various guys in Germany got caught for
abusing PBXes, and as a matter of a fact that the po-
lice found Xenox's address in our of their raids he
felt like putting down THE ESCAPADE. Fortunately he
was not visited by the police yet so things went back
to normal and it went online again. Germans should
take care while abusing the lines of other european
companies such as the British Telecom which caught
Gizmo/ex-Accpect who has been starting this fuzz.
The result is that the european Telecoms settled up
an agreement to TRACE all lines when there are sus-
pects about hackers/illegal users in their system.
With Cryonic, a former member of Pioneers back in
1990/91, teamed up in form of being a programmer,
what is for sure the positive headline for this month.
In order to clean up with certain rumours cruising
around Ignorance and Marc we can assure that both
have NOT joined the army RECENTLY, unlike certain
other concurence magazines wrote. Fact is that the
army is Ignorance's job and not the usual one year
service which makes people reducing their activity,
while Marc re-started his education and his heading
for a master's degree. Facts, facts, facts, .....

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 15):
Ancient Mariner, Calypso, Chotaire, Cryonic, Igno-
rance, Marc, Max, Mercenary, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze,
Skinhead, Styx, Xenonx and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance is boasting full of activity this month, a
fact we can not name when we review the past few
weeks, mainly in form of many new members. Time will
tell if they are an enrichment for them, as quantity
does not mean quality.

The month started with booting their promising mail
trader called Scatman, another person of the well
know stamp cheaters being hunted at the moment.
Their US-HQ Final Genocide got a new number, please
see below, and Edge Of Midnight is said to go online
again in a not too far distant.
Sage, the brother of Lotus, who recently returned to
the scene, joined <C> as a music composer. All the
other persons who joined in are related with the mo-
dem scene, even if they are not too well known yet.
In the USA Zeyex got recruited as a modem trader
and original supplier, while with XXL for Country Jail
and Fusion for Final Genocide teamed up in order to
serve a s co-sysops, while Fusion will be active as
board graphic-artist, too.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 27):
Alias Medron, AMC, Bolee, Deviant, Fusion, Griff, Im-
mortal, Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, McByte,
Motion, Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat, Sage, Skud, Skull,
Spermbird, Syco, Techno, The Unholy, Will, XXL and
Zeyex.

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT (still down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FINAL GENOCIDE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
COUNTRY JAIL ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
OVERDOSE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
The fantastics did cooperated in the past few months
with the Avantgarde crew which took over the part
of cracking and fixing while F4CG supplied the coop
releases.

Walker, their swedish mail trader, has to join the
army starting on January 1st, 1996. This will cause
him reducing his scene activity alot. $ixx, formerly
known as Goz, took over his contacts while Intruder/
Avantgarde will care about the charts chapter of the
magazine Propaganda.
In order to keep up the warez front in the mail scene
they have recruited the polish swapper Chash, who
got taken in on trial to prove if his activity will come
up to F4CG's standart.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Chash, Cybersurfer, Cy-
borg, Decoder, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, King, Maja,
Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy,
Smasher, Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Walker and
Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT

* Hitmen *
------------------------------------------------------------
Hitmen is the house of a bunch of skilled persons
which unfortunately specialised on NTSC fixing warez
for other groups. In the past few months some chan-
ges occured to prove them being capable to compete
with the major cracking groups aswell.

In their seek to enlarge their activity aswell in the
cracking side of the illegal business Moby/ex-Nipson
from Poland joined in as original supplier.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Curlin, Dodger, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce, Jihad, Jinx,
Lawnmoverman, Marcus, Moby, Peacemaker, Raze, Sa-
botage, Tranziie, Tyroon, Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADIZE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
The danish based cracking group always standing in
the fire of public critism due to their unusual methods
and visions seems to form a nice demo section, in or-
der to enlarge their activity to the legal part of the
scene, too.

The show begun with Spider/ex-Alpha Flight teaming
up with them. The situation around Spider isstill a
little bit mysterious, as a few groups containing Afl
still claiming him to be a member of their groups.
In order to enlarge their polish section MHD/ex-Fe-
niks joined as composer to be another member of
their announced demo section. Their composer TMG
joined the eastern german based demo group Siesta
as second crew next to Motiv 8.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 17):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog,
Grego, Ibanez, Iceball, Larry, Mason, MHD, Merlin, Mi-
zar, Stone, TG-Acme and TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT
HTTP: //WWW.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.De/-Grfrog/

* Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
This month we got really disappointed by the group
which used to have the biggest fluctuation in the
CBM 64 history. It seems that they becam serious and
surprised the scene with some unexpected releases
from their side.

Sharp, a part of Accuracy who have joined Onslaught
a few weeks ago, officially lef the scene for PC.
Kinley/ex-Paradox joined in as cracker. Grafee/ex-
Feniks/ex-Equinoxe got recruited as programmer
and original supplier, who seems to be another mem-
ber for the demo section named as Onslaught Design.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 28):
ASV, Bizarre, Code 18, Deekay, Digahole, Donar, Doom
Gop, Grafee, Grize, Hardsequencer, Heavyhead,
Jazzcat, Jolz, Kinley, Meff, Morbid, Morrisey, Mr.
Brain, Ram Jam, Rap, Shades, Sphere, The Twins, TMM
Troube, Vengeance and Witty

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX-XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
Somehow it seems that the dutch cooperation has a
very strong period since a few months after their
so-called summer break. Unfortunately the big
headlines around this group will be officially spread
on January 1st, 1996, so we can not report about it
yet. Keep patient.

From the Czech Republic some fresh blood got im-
plantated with Bacillus and Allitaice, both well known
for their efforts in the czech group Citadel. Having
this both members in their reigns, SCS & TRC is the
first top cracking group having a czech section
these days.
While Alpha Flight and Chromance still claim to have
him in their own lines SCS & TRC took him on board,
Blaze is the person we are talking about. It is always
funny to see how loyal people are towards their
groups. He teamed up as an original supplier and
cracker, being another member in their polish sec-
tion.
Another interested point is the membership of Tris-
tan, former member of Empire. On our direct request
Tristan explained not owning a working CBM 64 any-
more nor being active since 1992, so the effort he
can put in the cooperation might be rather question-
able.
The Alchemist once again forgot to pay his phone bill
so The Dungeon went down once again just because
Kyle forgot to pay his phoneline. We keep patient.
Last but not least, being still worth to be menitoned,
The Digital Dungeon, also known as Pitel, moved its
address to Utopia.Hacktic.NL. Whenever you are on
the net, log in anonymous for the latest warez, its
definately worth being visited!

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 31):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Allitaice, Bacillus, Blaze,
Burglar, Cavron, CBA, Count Zero, Crede, Dannie,
Def Beat, H-Bloxx, Jity, JRC, Lord Crucifier, Micron,
Moren, Mystery, Nightshade, Replay, Rebel Mc, Sailor,
Sliver, Spectator, Splatterhead, Stake, Titanic, Trax
and Tristan

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
STATE OF THE ART ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Utopia.Hacktic.NL

* Single News and Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* The danish demo group Bonzai is considering about
a serious comeback and producing some demoes on
this machine again. According to Scortia, Ricky,
Crush, Dize and himself (all known as Silents DK on
the Amiga and living together in an appartment)
got inspiration and want to prove that they are
still capable to compete on this machine.

* The groups Acrise and Excess went in cooperation
and can not be taken as a great surprise as the
group is mainly built up by former Excess members
or Excess related persons. ALL releases are go-
ing to be publish using the coop label.
Red Rock got a board online. Its name is COVERAGE
(+XX/XXXX-XXXXX). Furthermore there is another
party taking place in Emsdetten from January 6th,
1996 to January 7th, 1996, being located in the
PFADFINDERHEIM in Emsdetten. The entrance fee is
DM 20,-- for two nights and DM 5,-- for one night.

Not a very busy period, nevertheless some interes-
ting things worth to be read have been collected. See
you here again in the next issue.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Master of Law...

Marc

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed within 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
Re-release of a preview -1.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation - 1.0/ -2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* Active (0.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released only a little preview called ACINNA
(0.3 pts).

* Alpha Flight 1970 (14.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The flight started with the fixed versions of JOE
(3.6 pts), Turbo Racer (3.9) from Butterfly
Productions, WORLY (4.2 pts) one extra point will be
given for the translation and ZINJ COMPLEX (1.0 pts)
they released the pal versions some weeks ago so
i give only one point for the Pal/Ntsc fix. Last but
not least they uploaded a cool graphic tool called
GODOT (0.0 pts) from Magna Media and three pre-
views BALLZ (1.0 pts), IDUNA II (0.2 pts) and RED 20
(0.4 pts).

* Avantgarde (8.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the fixed version of LACED TILES
(4.8 pts) from Magna Media, the previews of COLOURA
2 (1.0 pts) and LORD MC SUN (0.7 pts). And together
with F4CG they uploaded the preview of PINZ (0.5p.)
and the fixed version of WONKY WORM (1.6) of course
the points will be shared between both groups.

* Chromance (11.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of FLARE (3.1p.)
SHIFTY BALLS (3.2 pts) and ALIOTH (4.3 pts) they
changed the graphic in to english so one extra point
will be given. And not to forget that they released the
MULTI COLOUR INTERLACE EDITOR (0.0 pts) and that
they Pal/Ntsc fixed for Motiv 8, BOUNCY (1.0 pts).

* F4CG (2.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Together with Avantgarde they released the fixed
version of WONKY WORM (1.6 pts) and the preview of
PINZ (0.5 pts), so the points will be shared.

* Hitmen (4.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released with the previews of AKE (0.3 pts),
ALIOTH (0.3 pts) followed by the fixed version of
CROSS IT (3.1 pts) from Direct Design and VARI (1.0p)p
fixed by Peacemaker for Scs+Trc.

* Laxity (0.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the preview of W.-COMMANDER (0.1 p.).

* Motiv 8 (2.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the tool of WRAPTOR (0.0 pts), it
is a kind of Diskzipper and the preview of BRICK
WALL (0.3 pts) and the pal version of BOUNCY (2.1p)
that got fixed by Chromance later.

* Onslaught (13.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with the previews of
BAFFLE (0.4 pts) by Feniks, TUC (0.4 pts), Bastard
(02. pts) and the fixed versions of SUPERBALL
(3.1 pts), QUOTA (3.7 pts) from Electric Boys and
SWORD OF HONOUR (1.0 pts). S.O.H. is over the six
months limit but i give one extra point for something
special. SPACEARENA 2 (2.1 pts) and ACTIONAUTS 2
(2.8 pts) doesn't need an Pal/Ntsc fix.

* SCS+TRC (7.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the pal version of SPEEDY SLUG
(4.0 pts), the preview of THE CROSS (0.3 pts), VARI
(3.1 pts) fixed by Peacemaker of Hitmen and a tool
called THE BITMAP WATCHER (0.0 pts)

* Storm (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released a usefull tool called MANDELBROT
BROT EDITOR (0.0 pts) )

* Xenon (1.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the 99% preview of MISFORTUNE
(1.0 pts) from Bad Bytes Entertainment

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts December 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Alpha Flight 1970 14.3
02. (4) Onslaught 13.7
03. (2) Chromance 11.6
04. (6) Avantgarde 8.6
05. (1) SCS+TRC 7.4
06. (/) Hitmen 4.7
07. (/) Motiv 8 2.4
08. (8) F4CG 2.1
09. (7) Xenon 1.0
10. (9) Laxity 0.1

The official Fixing-Charts December 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Alpha Flight 1970 4
(1) Chromance
02. (3) Avantgarde 2
(/) Hitmen
(2) Onslaught

Thanks for his help to The Ignorance/Afl

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (welcome back) in the United
States of America. Furthermore it is possible to vote
by sending e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board
worldwide. There exists the opportunity to vote via
Internet, too, by mailing your votes to Max' or RRR's
account and it will be taken into condiseration while
counting the votes.

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Oxyron 84
02. (1) Byterapers 82
03. (3) Reflex 77
04. (5) Camelot 63
05. (4) Agony Design 56
06. (7) Censor Design 42
07. (6) Fairlight 34
08. (9) Taboo 25
09. (8) Focus 22
10. (10) Triad 16

A quite silent month here. Oxyron was voted back on
number one, Byterapers have fallen down on two. The
rest remained unchanged, except for Camelot over-
taking Agony Design, Taboo and Focus changed pla-
ces, too.
More movement can be expected after all the contri-
butions of THE PARTY V have been released and no-
ticed by the voters.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 87
02. (4) Graham/Oxyron 82
03. (2) TTS/Oxyron 76
04. (3) Quiss/Reflex 72
05. (6) Druid/Agony Design 61
06. (5) Slammer/Camelot 54
07. (7) MMS/Taboo 49
08. (/) Axis/Oxyron 36
09. (9) Crossbow/Crest 29
10. (10) Glasnost/Camelot 14

Mr. Sex is still leading this list, followed by Graham,
who seems be more than only an insider tip to take
over the top of the programmer's charts, a position
hold by Oxyron since 3 years by now. TTS and Quiss
lost one position, same goes for Slammer who got
beaten by Druid this time. At the end of the list a fa-
dilar face has re-entered the charts, a man well
known as Axis, a man capable to programm everything
defined as a computer. Brush has left the chars, no
idea how to describe his actual status.

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) Success & TRC 83
02. (1) Avantgarde 79
03. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 70
04. (5) Chromance 64
05. (4) F4CG 57
06. (6) Onslaught 52
07. (7) Motiv 8 44
08. (8) Atlantis 35
09. (9) Hardcore 28
10. (10) Fairlight 22

Surprise, surprise! Avantgarde got beaten by the
ruling cooperation from the Netherlands, sending
them back to two, still having the flight on their neck.
Furthermore Chromance and F4CG changed places
while the rest remains unchanged.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Ignorance/AFL 82
02. (3) Burglar/SCS 75
03. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 73
04. (4) Antitrack/F4CG 62
05. (6) Hain/F4CG 58
06. (7) Bacchus/FLT 51
07. (5) Kirby/ATL 44
08. (9) CBA/TRC 33
09. (8) Skinhead/AFL 26
10. (9) Moren/SCS 20

Ignorance took over the crown to be voted as the
best cracker, follwed by Burglar, Good old Jack Alien
was sent back to three. Except for some position
changed there happened not too much interesting, so
we will quit here. Maybe we should add that there are
no new entries, so no one left the charts aswell.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 81
02. (3) Electric/Extend 75
03. (2) Ogami/Fairlight 73
04. (6) Carrion/Elysium 69
05. (4) Creeper/Antic 62
06. (5) RRR/Oxyron 57
07. (7) Roder/Agony 43
08. (/) Joe/Wrath Design 36
09. (9) Mirage/Focus 27
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 16

The graphic artist list offered some changes, even if
most are simple position changes. Cruise is still the
worthy leader, followed by Electric and Ogami. At the
end we send a last salute to Scope, who left the list
and got replaced by Joe, who curiously was not in the
list from the very beginning.

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 88
02. (3) Shogoon/Taboo 74
03. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 65
04. (5) Jeroen Tel/Focus 59
05. (4) PVCF/Reflex 52
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot 45
07. (7) Danko/Censor 39
08. (8) Red Devil/Fairlight 32
09. (10) EVS/20cc 26
10. (9) Reyn Ouwehand 21

PRI is for sure the well deserved master of the
groove this year, followed by Shogoon and Syndrom.
Nothing really new in here, so what the heck should
we add here? Nice to see people like Jeroen Tel, EVS
and Reyn Ouwehand still capable to compete with the
young highsporns.

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 66
02. (2) Alpha Flight 62
03. (4) Success & TRC 52
04. (3) Hitmen 47
05. (/) Onslaught 38
06. (5) F4CG 22

07. (6) Empire 17
08. (7) Demonix 12
09. (/) ./. ./.
10. (/) ./. ./.

Well, atleast we can report to have found a new name
in here with Onslaught entering the top "ten". Just
curious that all the american groups are still in, as
almost all fixes are done by european/australian ba-
sed groups. Avantgarde and Alpha Flight are still on
top, followed by the ruling cooperation and Hitmen.
The american groups can be found at the end.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/Hitmen 69
02. (2) Suicide/AVT 62
03. (3) CBA/TRC 54
04. (4) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 51
05. (5) Ignorance/AFL 46
06. (6) Jack Alien/AVT 42
07. (7) Booze/Empire 38
08. (/) Jolz/Onslaught 24
09. (9) Rich/Empire 22
10. (8) Mercenary/AFL 18

Peacemaker, Suicide and CBA are still the leading
personalities here. Sidekick has left the charts while
Jolz entered them, who entertained the few ameri-
cans left with some surprises, versions of games
people did not expect to see working on NTSC.

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on Internet by leaving

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Controversial 7/Accept DECEMBER 1995
Propaganda Gold/independent DECEMBER 1995
The Pulse December/independent DECEMBER 1995
The Tribune54/Angry DECEMBER 1995
Vandalism News 26/Onslaught DECEMBER 1995

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 58
02. (2) Reflex 53
03. (4) Camelot 47
04. (3) Byterapers 46
05. (7) Agony Design 34
06. (5) Taboo 30
07. (8) Antic 21
08. (6) Fairlight 20
09. (/) Crest 10
10. (10) Nipson 7

Oxyron is still the well deserved leader in the demo
scene, followed by Reflex, who are supposed to take
over the leadership after the effort they have put in
their The Party releases. Anyway people should read
what they wrote in their Mathematica note, worth to
be read and make up your own mind about it. Crest
re-entered, sending Censor out to nowhere. Bob ex-
plained that there won't be another CBM 64 demo
from Censor anymore.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 93
02. (3) Slammer/Camelot 85
03. (2) TTS/Oxyron 77
04. (4) Graham/Oxyron 68
05. (5) Quiss/Reflex 52
06. (6) MMS/Taboo 45
07. (10) Druid/Agony Design 28
08. (9) Axis/Oxyron 26
09. (/) KM/Taboo 15
10. (8) Crossbow/Crest 14

Mr. Sex remains on the top spot while Slammer and
TTS changed places. Graham and QUISS should defi-
nately earn much better positions in our opinion!
Just check out their latest work.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 60
02. (2) Success & TRC 50
03. (3) F4CG 47
04. (5) Chromance 41
05. (4) Alpha Flight 1970 38
06. (7) Motiv 8 24
07. (10) Onslaught 21
08. (9) Hardcore 15
09. (/) Acrise & Excess 12
10. (8) Atlantis 11

Nothing new at the top with Avantgarde and the coop
Success & The Ruling Company aswell as F4CG. Not
Not that much worth being talked about.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 60
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 54
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 45
04. (4) CBA/TRC 41
05. (6) Ignorance/AFL 33
06. (5) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 27
07. (9) Mr. Wax/<C> 23
08. (7) Bacchus/FLT 12
09. (9) Moonchild/FLT 9
10. (/) Ream/AFL 7

Nothing happened in here! Absolutely nothing? Ex-
cept for the fact that Ream replaced Skinhead there
were only some minor position changes, and we do
not feel like adding any comments here in any way.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 58
02. (2) Electric/Extend 53
03. (4) Joe/Wrath Design 50
04. (5) Fazee/Taboo 37
05. (3) Creeper/Antic 36
06. (7) RRR/Oxyron 24
07. (6) Ogami/Fairlight 20
08. (8) Carrion/Elysium 16
09. (/) Biz Kid/Camelot 8
10. (10) Cupid/Avantgarde 6

Cruise, Electric and Joe at the top, the rest moved
slightly. Biz Kid entered the list, replacing Rob, his
group mate. Each month the same changes. :-)

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 60
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 46
03. (3) PVCF/Reflex 44
04. (4) Compod/Charged/... 42
05. (8) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 37
06. (5) Jeff/Camelot/CZP 29
07. (6) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 25
08. (/) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 13
09. (7) Zyron/Antic/Swemix 10
10. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 9

Good old PRI is the well deserved leader in here, fol-
lowed by Syndrom and PVCF, like in the previous
month. Drax re-entered, sending Red Devil out of the
top ten.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/AVT 78
02. (2) Calypso/AMN/AFL 71
03. (3) Spermbird/<C>/Ex 54
04. (5) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 48
05. (4) Splatterhead/TRC 47
06. (/) Bizarre/Onslaught 29
07. (/) Walker/F4CG 28
08. (7) Sebaloz/Lepsi Dev. 13
09. (/) Shuze/AFL 12
10. (6) Starlight/Therapy 10

These charts always move in the most expressive
way. Changes, changes, changes, ... Intruder, Calypso
and Spermbird are on top, Dr. Kaos, Dr. Soft and
Avalanche left while Bizarre, Walker and Shuze en-
tered the charts. Action, action, action, ...

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Skyhigh 58
02. (1) Nitro 46
03. (4) Vandalism News 42
04. (5) Domination 40
05. (8) Relax Magazine 36
06. (3) Shout! 30
07. (6) Mendip 30
08. (9) Propaganda 23
09. (/) The Pulse Magazine 21
10. (7) The Tribune 11

As you use to know it from the former months, Sky-
high and Nitro changed places again. The brilliant
BOARD magazines are going stronger and stronger,
attacking the top spot in the near future. Keep in
mind that VN only got 5 out of 6 votes, as their list
got used in here, too. The Pulse is back here, too,
nice to see Duke and Co. back on a well deserved top
ten spot. Revealed won't be release anymore, accor-
ding to Kring, and left the charts because of a lack
of votes.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Relax Awards==
<pre>
* THE RELAX MAGAZINE AWARDS 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
As another year passed we feel free to honour these
persons who made a major effort in their cathegories
out of the board and mail charts. These awards are
for sure subjective, nevertheless made rather ob-
jective in our very own opinion.

* BEST DEMO GROUP 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
REFLEX

Reflex released a lot of brilliant demoes and has gi-
ven the name activity a very new meaning, a meaning
we seem to have lost some time ago in a dark period
where lazyness rules.

* BEST CODER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
QUISS/REFLEX

Matthias has realised almost unbelievable effects in
his brillaint styled trackmos, next to the fact that he
coded some nice games plus certain excellent tools
which make him being a worthy leader in this cathego-
ry.

* BEST CRACKING GROUP 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
AVANTGARDE
No one was able to beat the men around Deff when it
comes around releasing first releases. Furthermore
they have released almost an every release working
100%, fixed and in a nice presented version.

* BEST CRACKER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

When it comes around making the shortest possible
and most trained version Thomas is the name to be
told. Being rather active he managed to get almost
an every game much shorter as the concurence, so
there are no doubts who is the number one here.

* BEST GRAPHIC ARTIST 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
CRUISE/TABOO

Not only his brilliant art show called Ritual II amazed
the masses, furthermore he did a lot of excellent
game graphics making him the name to be told here.

* BEST COMPOSER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
SHOGOON/TABOO/AGONY DESIGN

When you have been listening to all the brilliant tunes
released in the Agony Designs demo LOVE there is
one choice possible here: Shogoon. One of his major
advantages is that he is using the Hardtrack
Composer a quite different music editor than the
masses, and this is what you hear. Well done!

* BEST MAIL TRADER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS

Returning from the ashes of nowhere Ruben took
over a massive amount of contacts and used to swap
in a nearly impossible speed. Unfortunately he actu-
ally disappeared as fast as he appears, due to his
job.

* BEST MAGAZINE 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
VANDALISM NEWS

The crew around Vengeance managed it to get it re-
gular released, offering a quite high text standart in
comparison with the large rest. Nevertheless no
other magazine managed it to release as much issues
as VN in 1995, so Matt and Jose are the well deser-
ved winners over here.

* BEST NTSC FIXER 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------
SUICIDE/AVANTGARDE

When there was something no other fixer managed to
fix Chris took over the keyboard and has shown how
it works and runs perfectly. Coming back and being
the shooting star in 1995, so the choice was made
quite easy.

* TOP FIXING GROUP *
------------------------------------------------------------
AVANTGARDE

Avantgarde is not only to most valueable cracking
group, furthermore they even managed it to be the
leading fixing crew back in 1995. Suicide and Jack
Alien have shown their immense strength, and that is
what we appreciate. Well done, Robert and Chris.

Expect the next official Relax Awards in the Decem-
ber Edition of 1996. Party on.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
Held by Max and RRR, typed by Max so please forgive
all typing and styling errors. :-)

Today I have the pleasure to bring you an interesting
interview with a well known dude, who is long enough
this fantastic scene. It is CBA of The Ruling Company.

Relax: Hello Niels. As usual we ask our guests to
introduce themselves, so you are invited to share as
much personal information as possible with us, coming
up to what you are interested in sharing with us
here.

CBA: Okey here I go, my real name is Niels Alkema I am
23 years old and live in a city calledZaandam (where
is moved recently) sharing an apartment together
with Nightshade and Tim from Success PC. I work as a
computer supervisor at an elevator safety company
in Amsterdam and in my spare time I like to visit
concerts and festivals who often take place in
Holland and in Denmark etc.

R: After the personal data it is time for the scene
data. What about your detailed scene history?

C: It all started when I got for 11th birthday a
commodore c64 and allready fastly got hooked on the
idea of getting lotsa illegal copied games. At that
time I allready noticed the starting from various
cracking groups and their so called intro's .. I got
bored with playing games andand started to learn
basic, in '85 when I was allready able to program a
bit I formed my first ever group called THE GANG
with a few friends of mine. That time I got to learn the
basics of machine code very fast and we started to
release music ripps and other stuff. Already soon I
started to crack games who I got from a computer
software hire-library from England., cracking the
game from tape and then returning it was what I've
done most around that time, I started to mail-trade
with groups like Fire Eagle, The Wizards and The
Last Science. In '88 I went to visit my first ever copy
party, the WWE*MGF*Joy party, that party our group
splitted up and I started my second group called
OASE, where I continued cracking games, allready
soon I got bored and called up TDJ/WWE and joined
WORLD WIDE EXPRESSIVE at the end of '89. In '90
when WWE died after the HORIZON party I teamed up
with TRC where I am still at.

R: Well, the handle CBA sounds quite weird to me ;-)
if you ask me. How did you come to the handle and
especially, is there a deeper meaning of it? I allready
supposed it to be your first attempt to say the ABC
correct... :)

C: Not really, I guess my handle was made up at the
I just bought my first c64, I was playing games a lot
and when you did enter the highscore, most of the
time you were only able to type 3 chars .., I always
typed CBA, why? Don't ask me... a year later I made up
the meaning COPYRIGHT BREAKER AGAIN for it.. and
even more later it ment the first 3 letter from really
nice girls namely: Cornelia, Brigitte, Arielle, and finally
I made for the fun CHRISTIANE BACKER ADDICTED...
while Christiane infact is written with a K!.. hehe..

R: In the very beginning TRC used to be well known
for their demo section with members like e.g. Reyn
Ouwehand. What was the reason to morph more into
a cracking group all over the years?

C: When I teamed up with them in '90, it seemed that
most old TRC members got bored and went over to
other computers, I started cracking and Action-
Jackson started to send me lotsa originals, from
there we quickly turned into a cracking/demo group,
'92 saw the release of the last TRC demo called
September Celebsation, from that point also most of
the demo coding members quited the scene mainly
because of school activities and never came back.

R: TRC is a group most learnt to know as a part of a
cooperation all over the years, in former times it was
WWE, today it is Success. What are the exact reasons
for this policy, and please add the group history of
TRC, too.

C: Before I joined in TRC was in coop with WWE, in '90
went into cooperation with the legendary spanish
blasters, the TRC*TBI cooperation sadly ended as
JR.Predator died, jan'94 saw the light of the
TRC*SCS cooperation and the main reason behind
all our cooperations is the good friendship we have
with the other group, meaning we are also good
friends with them out of this subculture scene
fantasy ! :)

R: During the last time it seemed as if the TRC*SCS
coop would still only exist between CBA & SCS.. Have
you never thought about joining SCS? I guess the
graphicans would be happy about that, as they would
have less work while painting intro-logos! :)

C: That might be true, as it seemed that most of the
actually TRC members from the beginning weren't
that active anylonger and infact most of the stuff
was done by myself, TRC*SCS ain't anylonger two
seperate groups, perhaps some people still think
that.. We've grown together!

R: What do you think about the present euro H*P
scene? There have been a lot of busts in germany
lately, what caused that more and more people stop
calling out. Do you think that will mean the end of the
US-BBSes? How is the situation particulary in the
netherlands at the moment?

C: Well this year I saw the first ever bust for
blueboxing in holland, a good friend of mine was using
a new trick and got busted on it big time, after that
most tricks died and a lot of people got scared, the
dutch H/P scene hasn't been that big as before...
Only a few people have always been able to call out
using either CC/BB or VMB dialouts..., I guess the
main reason for the lack of callers is that it's getting
harder and harder than it was a few years ago.., also
seeing a good friend getting busted big time makes
you think about the risk even more, for Holland the sit
uation is still very good concerning H*P, tollfree numb
ers are changing fast and give us new interesting sys
tems to hack at.

R: The internet is getting more and more popular
these days, and you are involved from the pioneer
days. What is your opinion about this new "media"
and what changed all over the years?

C: This new media is like the third step into computer
commuication from my point of view. I started of with
mail-trading, then in '89 I went to the modem scene,
calling boards, up and downloading files. Now you
have the internet where you can communicate with
e-mail and files so fast that the other options before
just dissapear into nothing, the main thing about
the net that changed over the years is the better
access for everybody directly to the net, in the
beginning days you could only get access through a
hacked university account, nowadays the net became
a public good and every living human is able to get
connected to it.

R: When we are talking about ftp-sites, the Digital
Dungeon is one of the major sites for the cbm 64. It
would be nice to read more about, its history and the
reasons for changing addresses lately.

C: The Digital Dungeon was founded when I got in
touch with Dimitri *Viking* at a local SCS*TRC meeting
he offered me disk-space on his university test
computer, the site started the next day running on a
64kb connection and was very slow, allready soon I
started to transfer lotsa c64 files to the net and
with the help from our american member Coolhand the
site got to be popular very quickly as we were the
only ones who had illegal *haha* c64 games online.
After Pitel got a 2megabit connection and the c64 cd
from Bod got online, activity of the site became
extremely high, with sometimes more than 10 ftp users
leeching at the same time. The real owner of the site
(the root) didn't like that c64 idea from the beginning
and got irretated about the many people leeching
their asses off, causing lotsa delays for other users
from the Pitel computer while they were working. A
month or two ago he got really sick about the whole
thing and we had to move from the site (main reason;
having illegal software online! haha..), fastly I started
searching for a new site and I got a few offers, I
started talking to Mr. Ammo/Triad about the problem
and he knew somebody at utopia.hacktic.nl who used
to be on c64 long ago, after lotsa mail swaps and
getting things straight, I was able to continue running
TDD. Since then lotsa things have been improved
about the site and we still have a huge flow of
leechers, leeching sometimes more than 30mb a day
of c64 wares only!

R: The Dungeon became the victim of a sick creature
who formatted it several times in the past few months
Please comment the situation out of your sight, and
are there any suspects wich turn out to become
proven facts about the identity of this lamer?

C: Well one thing can be said about these happenings,
it always got formatted when we in TRC*SCS had a
great month release-wise.., perhaps some person
just can't stand the fact of us being # 1, I guess he
can't compete with us and therefore he starts
formatting the board, I really don't see the point of
doing that..Sofar we don't have a clue who the person
might be, but hell this person must be really sick, and
if I ever meet him I will surely make him sorry for
what he has done to us and especially to Kyle.

R: As a person participating in the scene for a quite
long period, what is your honest opinion about the
scene today and in former times, especially covering
the modem scene.

C: Well if I compare nowadays scene to a few years
ago, say like '93 when competition still was high on
the USA boards and compare it to nowadays I can
only say that the fun of doing a first release ain't
that great anymore. It used to be really a kick to get
a game out first knowing some other group was
cracking it around the same time, beating them just
by a few hours was really exciting, sometimes it still
happens nowadays but it will never be the same like
former times when a Euro group depended on an
american fixing group and when hearing on the phone
while talking to Booze/Empire that Count 0 from RSI
allready called a few minutes before with the same
game. hehe that was really fucked up.. fastly throwing
it out Pal didn't help a thing.

R: Wich game contained the hardest protection you
have ever removed, and why was it so difficult?

C: I guess the first years when I cracked games from
tape was really something fucked up for me as then I
didn't understand the $ 0300 tape memory and kept
on reseting my good old dutch KCS power-cartridge
meaning the loss of the memory. The game Thrust
gave me many nights of non sleep as I wasn't able to
get it of tape 100%. Remember Complex? I gave it right
away to Burglar as he is much better as me in these
to say...sort of a JUDGEMENT DAY like AVT always
wrote..hehe... :-)

R: Everything has to come to an end, and here we
offer our talk guests to add whatever they feel like
writing here, sending out greetings or messages.
Anyway, thanks a lot for being patient, Niels! I wish
you a happy new year!

C: Okey thanks for the interview and here we go with
a Happy Newyear to: (no order) All in TRC*SCS, Max,
Deff, Peacemaker, Cybernoid, Swan Song, Side Sector,
Tranziie, Mr. Ammo, Rich, Jayce, The Unholy, Iron Cat,
Motley, Jucke, Newscopy, Deathangel Booze, Aktie,
Equinox, Viking, Vengeance, Intruder, Case, Scat,
Chameleon, Fireball(megmyx), Villain, Moloch, Deathlok
Grego, Heatcliff, Steve, Eliminator, Harlequin (scs pc),
Tim (scs pc), Scout (scs pc) and everybody else I
know.

Thanks for being here, Niels. Please make sure to
get your hands on the next edition, too, as we will
get another interesting interview for you here.

Well, that was it from me! Have a wonderfull newyear's
booze and simply enjoy another year of C64 history!

Untill then.....Max

</pre>
==Party Report==
<pre>
* Partyreport *
------------------------------------------------------------
We have for sure been present at The Party V and
will share our impressions with you in the new few
lines, followed by an invitation to the Symposium '96,
a party being held in Germany next April. But first we
took care about THE PARTY, probably the biggest
scene party, hold traditionally annual in Denmark,
Skandinavia.

* The Organisation *
------------------------------------------------------------
For the very first time no CBM 64 groups dared to
take over the part of the organisers, but to be ho-
nest, there were no major changes compared with
the previous years. Everything is more 16-bit orien-
tated, and the CBM 64 owners got accepted as pay-
ing guess who were allowed to show their demoes on
the big screen.

The party place Dronning Magrethe Hallen in Frede-
rica is located near to the german border (120 kilo-
metres) and offered space for around 4000 visitors
was is quite big in comparison with e.g. Herning. Ne-
vertheless around 3000 freaks from the CBM 64,
PC, Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and Mac scene have
shown up to celebrate their annual convention here.
The DMH offered toilets, cafeteria and snack shops
in order to keep the body running well, the shower
facilities have been in a near located swimming pool
where you had to pay fees in order to take a shower
what is nothing but ANNOYING! Please read more
about it later.
After having been cleaned the toilets looked alright,
but just one hour later there was a real mess again.
We wonder that they did not take an entrance fee
here again, but maybe, after having read this text,
they might do it.
The entrance fee was quite high with DKK 250,-- and
the prices in the cafeteria were even higher (1,5 l
Coke, Pommes and a French Hot Dog = DKK 60,--) so
nothing really changed in comparison with the pre-
vious years.
The competitions have been runned one a really BIG
screen and the sound equipment was really im-
pressing, unfortunately the volume level has been
set too high. Except for problems during the PC com-
petitions everything worked fine here.
As usual, some may call it tradition in here, no alco-
hol was allowed at the party place. The guards even
dared to search in the luggage for it if they had any
suspects. Alcoholized persons, such as Jihad, even
got temporary banned from the party place.
The planned shedule was not held in exactly and even
the end cerenomy with the awards was delayed and
took place one hour later.

* The Competitions (CBM 64) *
------------------------------------------------------------
After the CBM 64 seems not to be the most popular
computer anymore in the eyes of the organisers it
did not surprised us to see them only arranging a
demo competition. Like in the previous year the gra-
phic and music competition was held by CBM 64 sce-
ne related persons having the official status as
standart party visitors. This time F4CG and Reflex
organised a COMPETITION for the ones who dared to
join in, unfortunately during the music contest there
appeared some bugs (playing musics twice) and inter-
ferences (sound problems, technical!) but all in all
they did a nice job, pleasing the audience and the
contributors.

The demo competition was supposed to become rather
interesting this time as a lot of groups announced to
contribute, unfortunately most seemed to be rumours
or people did not manage it to finish their produc-
tions in time. With Oxyron, Reflex and Antic some well
known compete, while with Smash Designs, No Name
and Siesta among others some ambious ones got on
start for the hunt of the PRIZE MONEY.

* Demo Competition * * PRIZE *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Reflex "MATHEMATICA" USD 300,--
2. Oxyron "DAWNFALL" USD 200,--
3. Smash Designs "FLATLINE" USD 100,--

* Graphic Competition * * Points *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. PVT/Reflex 68
2. Creeper/Antic 47
3. Calamity/Laxity 41
3. Rayden/Chalice 41
5. Stasi/Noice 20

* Music Competition * * Points *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Mitch/Crest & Dane/Triad 52
2. Jeff/CZP/Camelot 45
3. Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 30
4. KB/TOM 25
5. Bordeaux/Acrise & Excess 23

* The Audience *
------------------------------------------------------------
Due to the fact that masses of people on various
systems have shown up it was quite hard taking the
right filter in order to sort out the few CBM 64
freaks around here. This list might be incorrect, but
it might contain the most important persons around,
holding people which are/were a part of this scene:
OXYRON (TTS, Axis, Fuben, Fanta, Graham, Slide, Sy-
rincs, Starfox, Asmodis and RRR)
CAMELOT (Biz Kid, Slammer, Cruzer, Raz, Kring, Jeff,
Neptune, Duck LaRock and Glasnost)
ATLANTIS (SMD, Chaotic, Kirby and TUC)
AVANTGARDE (Intruder, Jack Alien, Weasel, Suicide,
Cupid and Renegade)
X-RATED (Danzig and Stan)
CREST (Mitch, Syndrom and Deekay)
ONSLAUGHT (Code 18, Donar, TMM and Heavyhead)
THE PULSE MAGAZINE (Duke and KBS)
TABOO (Acidchild)
CHALICE (Rayden, Alien and Big Boost)
REFLEX (PVCF, Quiss, PVT, Felidae, Happymaker,
Hogan, Zorc, Condor and Guru)
ANTIC (Zyron, Depeh, Earthquake and Creeper)
TALENT (GZ, Count Zero and Greenfrog)
MOTIV 8 (Greenfrog, Iceball, Crossfire, Stone, Bird
and TMG)
F4CG (Newscopy, Jucke, Motley, Neotec and Walker)
SCS & TRC (Count Zero)
LAXITY (Didi, Vague and Calamity)
SILENTS (Scortia, Dize, Crush and Ricky)
CENSOR (Bob and Swallow)
MASTERS DESIGN GROUP (Sky)
HITMEN (Tranziie, Curlin, Jihad and Tyron)
VIBRANTS (Jens Christian Huus)
PLUSH (Honk)
ACRISE & EXCESS (The Authentic and Bordeaux)
AMBUSH (Macx)
AMBIENT (Taper)
TRSI (Anarchy and OB)
FLASH INC. (Unifier, Warp 8 and Morpheus)
BYTERAPERS INC. (Grendel)
SMASH DESIGNS (AEG and Rorschach)
SIESTA (Adder and HLSP)
TOM (KB and Luke)
PARALYZE (TGI and Dodger)
ACTIVE (Riddler)
NOICE (Zzap and Stasi)
COSMIC STYLE (Warp 8 and Earthquake)
WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND (Sorex)
NO NAME (Celtic)

* Summary *
------------------------------------------------------------
For sure it is very nice to meet each year directly
after christmas all friends and contacts of the scene
and positive or even negative nerds sitting infront of
their computer, preparing various productions in or-
der to get them released during the convention. Un-
fortunately, taking THE PARTY V as an example, our
beloved pardy organised by a sub-culture known as
computer scene, it all turned by 360 degrees, head-
ing away from a party into a commercial happening.
The spirit got lost and the commercial interests seem
to be more important these days, starting with a ra-
ther high entrance fee of DKK 250,- (and DKK 300,-
when you entered the party place before the official
start!), following by the merchandising programm
supporting this convention, starting with the traditio-
nal t-shirts being offered for DKK 70,-- up to the
official TPV CD-Rom for DKK 150,--. The most annoy-
ing fact was that the visitors had to pay for an every
single shower they took, being divided into two diffe-
rent periods from 08.00 - 10.00 for DKK 10,- and
from 10.00 - 18.00 for DKK 25,-. We wonder that we
had not to pay for using the toilet, but we presume
that will be introduced for the new christmas party.
If all parties follow this trend it seems to be much
better organising own, private meetings, where you
can have more FUN for maybe a fifth of what you use
to pay here.
The official party t-shirts you could buy there had
as a motive M&M advertisements, while on the big
screens always that annoying MC Donalds spot run to
bore the audience.
For sure it was nice to meet group mates, friends,
contacts and even enemies there, but to be honest,
they might come up other chances to see a more
funny party, taking notice of the existence from the
one and only computer, the CBM 64.

And now we feel free to publish the most important
facts about the soon coming Symposium '96 party, all
collected in the OFFICIAL party invitation at The Par-
ty 1995, first released on CBM 64 by the Relax Ma-
gazine.

* INVITATION *
------------------------------------------------------------
SYMPOSIUM '96

WHAT...
------
... this text wants to tell you is that there will be a
very delicious computer demo festival in 1996, invol-
ving the platforms which are important in the guild of
the demomakers, namely Amiga, PC, CBM 64, Archime-
des and Atari ST/Falcon, which you should consider
twice at least if you can afford to miss it.

WHO?
----
This event is held by three of the most experienced
party organizer teams in Germany, the people behind
the 680XX-Convention, the Black Box Symposium and
the Fried Bits. For the Symposium '96, which we plan
to become the best german party so far, these three
teams fusioned for not standing in competition to
each other but making everything together and bet-
ter than ever! The groups involved are: POLKA BRO-
THERS, LEGO CLUB, PHANTASM (Amiga), AVENA, AB-
SENSE (Atari) and OXYRON (CBM 64).

WHEN?
-----
Eastern 1996. Length is ofcourse full size: April 5th,
1996 (12.00 CET) to April 8th, 1996 (12.00 CET). That
covers 4 days of FUN and EXPERIENCE.

Where?
------
Facilities consist of a nice convention center called
"BURG SEEVETAL" and are located in the very near
surrounding of Hamburg, Germany.

You can reach it via everything. If you are going to
come by train you have to reach Hamburg Haupt-
bahnhof (main station) and take the S3 or S31 to
Harburg, where we will pick you up by the Symposium
shuttle service. Coming by plane, use the bus shuttle
service to the station Ohlsdorf, wait for the U1, get
out at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and, again, take the
S3/S31 to reach Harburg. If you arrive by ship, then
you'll have to take the U3 at Landungsbruecken to
reach the Hauptbahnhof. If you come by spaceship,
there is a big area on the other side of the Sympo-
sium convention center; please try to land it there.
For the fact that you intend to come by car, please
order the FLYER while using the following contact
addresses.

COMPETITIONS?
-------------
Yes, a lot. Not only demo- and introcompetitions for
all the different computer systems and the usual mo-
dule-, multichannel and graphic competitions are in-
cluded. There will also be competitions for videodemos
next to a wild-, a coding competition (4k), and so on.
We will even hold an Acorn Archimedes/Risc PC com-
petition, if there will be enough entries present. Or a
Silicon Graphics demo competition, if more than one
entries exist .... NO LIMITS!
The prices will entirely consist of sponsored stuff,
just like at former Symposiums. For more detailed
information concerning them or about conditions for
the competition entries, see CONTACT ...

PLUS
----
A number of surprises like prominent guests from
Software Houses and Computer Companies, quiz ga-
mes, NUDE GIRLS and much more attractions.

Contact
------
WWW-PAGE:
HTTP://134.28.37.10/-Frank/bbx-sym96/bbx96.htlm

ORGANIZERS VIA E-MAIL:
Gandalf: Gandalf^BlackBox.Shnet.Org
Rawstyle: Rawstyle^Online.Fire.Dbn.Dinet.Com
Crash: CrashPB^AOL.Com
Choas: II9621^FH-Wedel.De

SNAIL MAIL:
Frank Schliefer, Am Musterplatz 27, 21220 Seevetal,
Germany

BBS:
+XX(X)XXXX/XXXXX
+XX(X)XXXX/XXXX
+XX(X)XXXX/XXXXXX
+XX(X)XXXX/XXXXXX (ISDN)

If there are any questions left, please contact the
above mentioned e-mail address or the Relax Maga-
zine for further details.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

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XXXX', X XXXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX
XXXX

* Fuben/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XX, XXXXX XXXXXXX,
XXXXXXX

* RRR/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
-------
* legal mailtrade on Amiga 1200 and CBM 64
* (game-) graphics ---------

* Scrapper/Oxyron (PC) *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX. XX, XXXXX XXXXXXXXX,
XXXXXXX

* PC swapping on Disk and Streamer tapes (QIC 80)

* Junkie/Palace/Doom Patrol *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX X, XXXXX X-XXXXX, XXXXXXX

* PC SOFTWARE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Distributor of quality games and Commodore acces-
soires and hardware. We also publish the excellent
Commodore Action (price GBP 1,95; GBP 2,50 over-
seas), and run one of the leading UK Commodore
clubs: Commodore Magic. For more details send an
SSAE or, if not in UK an international reply coupon,
to: XX XXXXXXXX, XX XXXXXXXX XXXX, XXXXXXXXX,
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX, XXX XXX, XXXXXXX.

* PHUTURE Software & Marketing *
------------------------------------------------------------
is still looking for motivated, active and skilled pro-
grammers, graphic artists and music composers in
order to develope and create some upperclass ga-
mes for the following computer systems: Amiga, PC
and CBM 64.
Are you interested to get your games SOLD or are
you in the need of graphics or soundtracks to com-
plete, then the address below is the RIGHT one!
if you are interested to cooperate with leading per-
sons out of the demo scene in all various sections do
not hesitate to send in some examples of your work
along with a short personal record to:

XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX, XXXXX XXX-
XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX /xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

* 2ge/React/Feniks *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX, X.X. XXX XX, XXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX,
XXXXXXXX /+XX/X/XXX-XXX

* wanna know how to connect an Amiga with a CBM 64

* Matthew/React *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXX XXX, XXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX
XXXXXXXX

* 4 swap demos & tools

* Funny/Replay *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX XX., XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX XXX. XX,
XXXX-XXXXXXX

* Droopy/Shelters *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XX/X, XXXXX XXXXXXXXX,
XXXXXX

* 4 join Shelters, making games

* AEG/Smash Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX' X"XXXX, XX XXXXXXXXXX XXX, XXXXX XXXXXXX-
XXXXXX, XXXXXXX /+XX/(X)XXXX-XXXXX

* swapping, joining, gfx and nice coder talk

* Spectator/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXX XXX. X, XXXX XX
XXXXXXXXX, XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

* Original and Tape swap

* Splatterhead/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX X, XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

* Morris/Shape *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX X, XXXX XXXXX,
XXXXXX

* Acidchild/Taboo *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXXX XXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. XX, XXXXX XXXXXXX,
XXXXXXX

* Cresh/Taboo *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXX, X. XXXXXXX X X, XX-XXX XXXXXXX,
XXXXXX

* Sailor/Taboo/SCS & TRC *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX X, XX-XXX XXXXX,
XXXXXX

* Vergo/Therapy *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX. XX, XXXX XXXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

* legal swap, friendship, 100% reply to disk

* Dr. Doom/U-Turn *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX XXXX, XXXX XX XXX XXXXXX,
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

* Stash/Wrath Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX X. XX, XXX XX XXXXX, XXXXXX
/XXXXXX.XXXXXXX^XXXXXXX.XX.XX

* latest Wrath products, looking for SNES contacts

* JJ/XL-C-US Software *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX, XXXX X, XXXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX XXX XX, XXXXXXX

* XL-C-US warez, demos & mags, NO cheating

* XL/XL. C. US Software *
------------------------------------------------------------
XX. X. XX XXXXXXXX, XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX, XXX
XXX, XXXXXXX

* I am not looking for any swap contacts, although I
would not mind a coder contact, as I don't have one
to swap routines with etc. 100% reply. NO stamp
cheating.

If you are interested in swapping with a girl then try
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX-XXXXX XXXX, XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, XXX XX XXXXX-
XXXX, XXXXXX

* Mac Gyver/ex-The Airwolf Team *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX

* Zinia *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX XXX. X, XXXX XXXXXXXXX,
XXXXXX

When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>

Relax 13

2008-01-14T15:16:03Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
The RELAX MAGAZINE in November '95 was brought
to you by PHUTURE, your favourite disk magazine re-
leasing game label.

As you use to know it from the former issues we
start the show with some general comments followed
by the necessary comments about this issue, the
credits and finally the different ways to contact us.
The general comments contain everything we find in-
teresting enough to present here, and for sure it
does contains corrections dedicated to persons who
seem to have problems to understand us or who just
live on another planet or in another century, so that
there is no chance for them to understand us, maybe
they are just short minded, what sounds much more
logical if you will follow the next lines. Using the plu-
ral here is a little bit overacted, since it is only one
person having this problem, and this persons tries to
use an every chance to show it.

... people continously disinterprete our contents ...
------------------------------------------------------------
The previous months brought some interesting varia-
tions how people interpreted the texts and state-
ments, unfortunately these persons seem not to have
understood have we pointed out here exactly. That is
one good reason for us to correct it here and to
avoid that people use to believe in the certain wrong
interpretions done by certain so experienced maga-
zine editors, who used various chances to spoil what
we wrote in here.
It was very amusing and interesting to read how cer-
tain people reacted when we wrote that we do not
need to convert texts from any other systems or
from books to fill up our magazine, and here we would
like to confirm what we wrote in one of our previous
issues. When people use to quote us we would like to
suggest them quoting us correctly with the entire
context, and not with cutting the most important
parts and to falsify what we pointed out. We acknow-
ledge the shown incompetence. Fact is that we never
said that the CBM 64 scene gets no influences from
e.g. the PC or the Amiga scene. What we meant exactly
was that we think it is a poor account for a magazine
editor to copy texts from books or other systems to
fill up his magazine. And if a magazine editor points
out in the public that it is for sure a serious method
to fill up magazines we do feel sorry for him, as a CBM
64 magazine surely does not need to be filled up with
non-scene relating terms, atleast not in our philoso-
phy, as we don't even think about enlarging our ma-
gazine with pure memory fillers to waste disk memory
as we do prefer the shorter version, using the best
levelpackers and -crunchers to get this publication
as short as possible, following the term QUANTITY
does not mean QUALITY.
The same kind of incompetence was shown by exactly
the same person who seems not to like the way we
use to handle the REACTIONS we receive! Fact is that
we do not release reactions until there is a special
kind of request to get it published (see: Open Letter)
as the standart reactions are ment to be send into
direction editors and staff, and NOT to be spread in
the public. When we point out that we do not release
them and waste memory with it we have not made a
single comment that we IGNORE them, like said by the
author who does not shares our opinion in general.
We accept any kind of reaction and we answer indivi-
dually when we are in contact with the messenger, or
we use to react directly on the boards/Internet. We
really do not need a chapter to praise our work, or
to be more exactly our readers praising it. We do not
edit this magazine to earn FAME and RESPECT, our
only intention is to release a reliable magazine, as it's
our hobby and something we enjoy to do! For sure it
is nice to read and to see people appreciating our
job, but we do not think that we would stop editing it
when people does not like it at all, and our motivation
to create the RELAX MAGAZINE does not depend on
the acceptance in the public. Commercialism might be
important in real life or while creating computer ga-
mes, but real creativity can only be shown when we
follow our own conception and ideas, and we do not
add a single article/chapter in order to get one more
point and to come to the top of the charts, we add it
when we like to add it, or do not do it at all! Like said
before, it is nothing but an hobby in order to have
fun, we do not see it as a profession and do not sell
our souls to please the audience and to reach a bet-
ter position in the charts, as there are more impor-
tant things like RELIABILITY and HONESTY, something
what is hard to combinate with the only intention to
see all people admiring the work. There is no need for
us to publish it in the public, and we think people will
appreciate it more when they send us e.g. a bug re-
port or ideas how to get it more comfortable and they
will find out in the next issue that we have fixed/im-
proved it, what is for sure a better service instead
of celebrating our skills in an extra chapter.
Our intention is to release an informative magazine,
partly merged with entertaining sequences, so we
feel going our very own individual way unless many o-
ther persons who present their productions (may it
be a demo, a magazine or any kind collection) in order
to earn fame and money by following the laws of com-
mericialism, just to earn recognition and to see peop-
le adoring them. These people see only their position
in the charts, play a game called friendship in order
to get advantages out of it, and lose interest in their
beloved hobby when they do enter the charts by
storm, something what leeds them to leave the scene,
an attitude the lower situated persons in the scene
use to add to the term ELITE, even it is the perfect
definition of their very own behaviour! People should
always remember that ELITE is nothing you get auto-
matically by joining a top group or in the shop, or
wherever else, where you use to buy a modem. This is
infact no criterion to be added to the ELITE status,
just to explain it once again to the persons who have
not understood the previous lines yet, as it seems
that many of the newcomers and wanna-be-elites are
spoiling up ELITESHIP and membership and a top ten
crew, as infact today you do not have to elite any-
more to become a member of these groups, something
what is indeed sad but true, but a poor fact.
To get it to an end, we think we have the right to edit
the Relax Magazine coming up to our intentions and
interest, as it is "made" for a quite different target
group compared with the one of the complaining per-
son. We do not teach you to edit a magazine and we'd
really appreciate it when certain editors would not
try to tell us how to realise a magazine - since this
magazine was on the top when the concurence wasn't
around or to be more precise not even planned to be
released, just to mark it for people regarding charts
positions and fame instead of enjoying the fun they
could have in the scene or while creating certain dif-
ferent productions.

People always have some nice ideas how to remove
"bugs" or how to improve the outfit to get it more and
more user-friendly. Our interest is to keep it is ad-
vanced as possible, what was the reason for the fre-
quent ....

... outfit "updates" ...
-----------------
This time we installed a few changes to update the
magazine, changes which are no big deal at all but
which have been neccessary and requested fre-
quently, like using a lighter char colour in the text
displayer. We hope that you all will be able now to
read the content of this magazine without problems,
and so there is nothing left to complain about.
As you probably have remarked, we furthermore ad-
ded a new logo in order to replace the old one, as the
time came to change it. In the future we might replace
it all two editions, when our artist has time to create
to create something new and interesting what meets
our approvals, and maybe your ones, too. While talk-
ing about graphics, the motive of the title picture was
taken from an AGA picture drawn by Seq/TRSI Poland
and it damned brilliant looking on the Amiga, we hope
you all will like this interpretation of the motive (when
you know the original to compare it), too.

Various people still have not noticed that we do
spread votesheets to create one part of our mail
charts, as they are not just simple compilations. Fur-
thermore we would like to express our thank you to
all who have been helping us in any way to realise this
edition, especially our ....

... votesheet spreaders and news suppliers ...
------------------------------------------------------------
Some regards to SHUZE and ZAPOTEK/Alpha Flight
for spreading our votesheets, and to all how suppor-
ted us with information and news such as CBA/TRC&
SCS, Zny/Palace, Peacemaker/Hitmen, Syco/Chro-
mance, Unifier/Noice PC and all the others who were
present on the IRC, sharing their latest information
with us, or in any other way (boards, mail).

This edition's content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
The GLOBAL REPORT contains the latest news and
rumours, while you find in the RELEASE CHARTS the
list of all releases in the period back to previous
issue. More charts can be found in the BOARD and
MAIL CHARTS, created by the voters on the boards/
Internet and by mail. A very interesting guest will be
presented in the INTERVIEW chapter, well known as
Unifier, one of the few old CBM 64 heroes left. Check
it out, it is worth reading! In the notorious OPEN LET-
TER chapter Zore/Hardcore decided to share his
point of view about us handling news, and we felt free
to add a fitting reply. The ADVERTISEMENTS chapter
increases issue by issue, so if you are interested in
some new contacts just load and read it! DEMO RE-
VIEWS, or better the demo review, won't take much
memory this time, but you should better blame the
demo creators for not releasing anything instead of
complaining about the quantity of this chapter this
time. :) BACK TO THE ROOTS will be taken a last time
into consideration to be released here, this time fo-
cusing magazines, as the original editor seem to have
lost his inspiration to edit it.

* Credits for the November edition *
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK DRAX & METAL/VIBRANTS
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET SKIDROW/EX-ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

------------------------------------------------------------

* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

E-mail: HIC ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
----- ESC ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
TEI ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
(leave your mail on Marc's accounts)

Internet: RRR xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------- MAX xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
MARC xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

Please note the new address of RRR. He still can be
contacted with SW0271 or SC0044 but this one is the
official one which will be checked every day. Marc
and Max can be contacted via SC0044, too, as the
entire Gelsenkirchen staff can access this account.

------------------------------------------------------------

* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS
LAZY EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
------------------------------------------------------------
The real life is a very important part of our life, ta-
king much time we would love to define as spare time
and to use it for our hobby. Nevertheless the job is
the most IMPORTANT part, that was the reason for
Deff leaving the staff, and this time another co-edi-
tor had to leave us, so we sadly have to announce...

... another staff member disappeared in real life ...
------------------------------------------------------------
Sadly we have to announce that Scroll/Megastyle
Productions had to leave our staff caused by spare
time problems (see: Global Report). This is for sure a
great lost for us and this made us cancelling to built
up a complete "second" reviewer squad consisting of
non-Oxyron members. Ruben, we truely hope you can
sort out things and to see you back sooner or even
later in full effect!

We hope to have met your approval with the issue
and look forward to meet you again in the forthcom-
ing editions, released some days after The Party 95
at December 31st, 1996 and February 20th, 1996.

Best regards in the name of the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

November 20th, 1995
------------------

</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
As you use to know it, we use to cover up over as
much news as possible, from all sectors of the sce-
ne, in order to offer a reliable support of news and
information concerning the scene, taking in every-
thing interesting what appeared in the period bet-
ween the release date of the previous and the actual
issue.
We receive the information directly from the boards
and the Internet, what is the major reason to publish
the latest and proven information here, instead of
waiting for three months old votesheets containing
"news" which are not uptodate anymore and totally
uninteresting at all.
This is not only in the interest of our readers, it is
aswell in our interest to release an interesting, ac-
tual magazine.

* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
The flight was been on a solid basis this period, with
an acceptable amount of releases and not too much
movement concerning its members. Most members are
quite active in any part, so there is actually not much
left to complain about.

The Mercenary from Empire (Rich's brother) teamed
up with the flight as a programmer and NTSC fixer,
replacing Murphy who finally has left the scene. Arne
recently stopped his activities caused by his job, it's
possible that he gets active again in a not too far
distant. Furthermore he increased his activity for
his real life band. He will appear again in the status
when he re-started and returns with new tunes.
However, Skinhead found a way to escape out of the
german army and started his civil service, a substi-
tution for the boring army service.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Ancient Mariner, Blaze, Calypso, Chotaire, Ignorance,
Marc, Max, Mercenary, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze, Skin-
head, Spider, Styx, Xenonx and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX

* Avantgarde *
------------------------------------------------------------
Avantgarde lately recruited a lot of persons who
might be dedicated to built up a decent demo section.
In the warez front Avt recently released some coop
released with F4CG, mostly serving as the fixing
part.

At first Cupid joined in as graphic artist, leaving his
other groups for the membership in Avt, followed by
Astaroth/Agony, who left his second group Antic to
join in as artist, too, and to enlarge the polish sec-
tion. Finally Metal joined in as music composer, who
confirmed on IRC that Avt is infact one of five groups
(CBM 64/PC) he is a member of.
Intruder had to stop swapping with his german con-
tacts because of having to pay fees even for right
charged sendings. Actually he hopes to restart trad-
ing with his german comrades in 1996, when the Post
finally changed their attitude against him.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 20):
Astaroth, Chameleon, Cupid, Cyborg, Deff, Derbyshire
Ram, Druid, Eliminator, Intruder, Jack Alien, Jack Da-
niels, Metal, Rage, Renegade, Skywolf, Suicide, Thorn,
Tricome, Trimone and Weasel

Avantgarde worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance recently returned with a lot of releases.
After the hard times where we had to report about
masses of members leaving the group we are now
able to report more promising things about them!

At first McByte/ex-Paradox joined in as original
supplier and modem trader, later on Deviant, with his
board Final Genocide, decided to team up with the
hungarian based group, too. A second Chromance
board in Poland went online called Overdose, being a
HQ for the Amiga based demo group Freezers, too.
With Lotus/ex-Skylight Design another mail trader
filled up the status, having made a comeback after a
two years break from the scene.
Pete decided to leave Chromance for the lately built
hungarian demo group Resource, which joined Jay-
dee as second group, next to his activities for the
Chromance posse.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 24):
Alias Medron, AMC, Bolee, Deviant, Griff, Immortal,
Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Lion, Lotus, McByte, Motion,
Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat, Scatman, Skud, Skull, Sperm-
bird, Syco, Techno, The Unholy and Will

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT (still down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FINAL GENOCIDE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
COUNTRY JAIL ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
OVERDOSE ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
F4CG recently got more active again, releasing a lot
of games with Avantgarde, who were mainly solving
the NTSC fix problem for them. Solar's Miracle Design
released a first preview for the Jaguar console.

Cerebus, their australian NTSC fixer, had to leave
the scene because of studies, so the fantastics were
in the need to find a person taking over his job. With
Stablizer they recruited a NTSC fixer, but after a
few days only they found out that he was not the
right person for their needs so they decided to re-
move him from their memberlist again. Actually Stabli-
zer contractes his work for his demo group Long-
shot now.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Cybersurfer, Cyborg, De-
coder, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, King, Maja, Morris,
Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy, Smash-
er, Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Walker and Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT

* Hardcore *
------------------------------------------------------------
Unfortunately we can not report too much promising
from the group, as this period some members left
and with a re-release the organisation earned a lot
of critism, a lot of data which sounds not too promi-
sing to most of us.

The most interesting headline about Hardcore is that
Ramirez has left the scene caused by a lack of inspi-
ration, atleast it is was got posted on the boards, but
other sources claim that he only reduced his activity
radically. Whatever his actual status might be, it
seems that we won't see too much from him in the
near future. With Dr. Disk another member left to join
the forces of the ancient group Triad.
Positive news can be reported with Galactus joining
their forces, together with his board called BLUE
GALAXY, what will server as WHQ.

Current Hardcore memberstatus looks like (= 15):
B-Wyze, Blockbuster, Carlos, Communist, Creat, Doo-
ze, Galactus, Human, Leeway, Nebula, Rap, Shocker,
Volunteer, Zoomo and Zore

Hardcore worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
BLUE GALAXY ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Hitmen *
------------------------------------------------------------
Hitmen mainly gets active as fixing group these days,
similar to Peacemaker's and Curlin's project Byronic
in former days. Recently they recruited a lot of
crackers to enlarge their activity in this sector as-
well.

The former Onslaught members Jayce & Marcus, as-
well known as The Ministry, joined in as crackers to
assist Dodger, who seems not to be pleased with this
duo in his group. To enlarge the mail front a swapper
called Sabotage got recruited.
Peacemaker's board Mystical Paradize went online
again, using the old number. Furthermore the swedish
board Warez Aquarium will be shared with Fairlight in
the future.
Shok'Ray, who joined in as second group to server
as graphic artist, got kicked out. Later on he deci-
ded to leave Megastyle Productions and the scene,
too, what he infact didn't do for the first time here,
just to come back and to draw graphics for MSP and
some close friends again.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 15):
Curlin, Dodger, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jayce, Jihad, Jinx,
Lawnmoverman, Marcus, Peacemaker, Raze, Sabota-
ge, Tranziie, Tyroon, Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MYSTICAL PARADIZE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
WAREZ AQUARIUM ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
This danish based group put a lot of effort in their
organisation around the Internet, using this media to
distribute their productions, sharing a FTP-site with
F4CG, having a bot and a WWW homepage. It seems
that Motiv 8 is aswell interested in releasing demoes
in a not too far distant, too, in order to enlarge the
field of their activities.

With Bird rejoining Motiv 8 they can present a danish
HQ again, and Mount Olympus will remain EHQ for the
magazine Domination, too. Furthermore TMG/Fatum
got recruited as music composer and graphic artist,
while Larry/ex-Talent, ex-F4CG and ex-Pandora
enlarged the forces as mail trader and graphic ar-
tist, while Natas left Motiv8 and the scene.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 16):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog,
Grego, Ibanez, Iceball, Larry, Mason, Merlin, Mizar,
Stone, TG-Acme and TMG

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX
FTP: INTERPARK BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT
HTTP: //WWW.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.De/-Grfrog/

* Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
In the last edition we have reported about the huge
fluctuation in the australian based group, this time
you will find the confirmation, as there was once
again a steady come and go within the team, still
searching for the perfect cast in order to mess with
the already established groups.

At first Code 18/ex-Indigents, ex-TRC, ex-Trance ....
had a comeback in the scene, re-started his mail
trader activities and joined Onslaught. Rap/Jabole/
No Name left both to team up as music composer, Meff
joined in as coder, graphic artist and leader of the
polish section. Donar/ex-Paradox/ex-Arcoss/APS
got recruited as cracker, coder, original supplier
and mail trader and it seems that almost all APS mem-
bers are now a part of cracking groups. With Kinley
another ex-Paradox member joined as cracker. Fur-
thermore with Digahole, Mr. Brain and Sharp, all for-
mer members of Accuracy, a turkish section got built
up, while Accuracy has to die as a matter of this
fact. Vengeance left his second group Megastyle
Productions in order to concentrate himself on Ons-
laught (Design).
But some people have left or had to leave it, such as
Pete and Cubehead who joined in the news hungarian
demo group Resource. In their seek to reduce the
status the entire swedish section while Jayce and
Marcus, who both joined Hitmen, and Joyride, who is
running his board Highway as HQ for Noice now. Fi-
nally L.A. Style, The Last Hacker and KBS got kicked
out due to inactivity and not coming up to the expec-
tations Onslaught setted in them when they got re-
cruited. Last but not least Stake left in order to team
up with the dutch cooperation Success & The Ruling
Company.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 27):
ASV, Bizarre, Code 18, Deekay, Digahole, Donar, Doom
Gop, Grize, Hardsequencer, Heavyhead, Jazzcat, Jolz
Kinley, Meff, Morbid, Morrisey, Mr. Brain, Ram Jam,
Rap, Shades, Sphere, The Twins, TMM, Troube, Venge-
ance and Witty

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX-XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
As usually he have to start our report with no re-
peat from the last edition, even if it already sounds
familar to most of us. The Dungeon got formatted,
again, what makes us start thinking about the mass
of wrecked creatures still trying to destroy our be-
loved scene. Actually it seems that SCS*TRC has
been waking up out of their summer break, as we al-
ready have winter it was the correct time.

The comeback of the year has been made with Count
Zero returning to the scene, in order to serve as
cracker and fixer for the successfull cooperation.
More fresh blood got implanted with the hungarian
Stake, who will be mainly an original supplier and may-
be more active like during his period in Onslaught. Fi-
nally H-Bloxx joined in as mail trader, remaining in
Excess as second group, lead by the fact that the
uses to be one of the main editors of the Excess
magazine Nitro these days.
Splatterhead never joined Samar as secong group
like stated from other magazines. This fictive mem-
bership got created out of the fantasy from a Samar
member only, it is not true at all.
After all the positive information some negative has
to follow, this time with Guzzler leaving the scene,
with the logical combination that his dutch board The
Lost Empire is down and offline, too.

Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 27):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Burglar, Cavron, CBA,
Count Zero, Credo, Dannie, Def Beat, H-Bloxx, Jity,
JRC, Lord Crucifier, Micron, Moren, Mystery, Night-
shade, Replay, Rebel MC, Sailor, Sliver, Spectator,
Splatterhead, Stake, Titanic and Trax

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
STATE OF THE ART (down!) ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
FTP: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON Pitel-Lnx.ibk.fnt.hvk.NL

* Single News and Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* Psychobilly/ex-RSI CBM 64 leader got caught for
selling drugs, partly up to 37 kg to single persons.
His phoneline got traced and next to it he gave the
names of customers and suppliers to the police,
what will cause a more cruel punishment to what he
can expect in the jailhouse for the next approx. 5
years.
Out of Psychobilly's information the police visited
the houses of Scat/ex-RSI and TMN/Complex (Ami-
ga), in the meantime maybe houses of other sce-
ners aswell, who bought drugs from him. We will try
to keep you updated.

* Another dark period for Megastyle Productions
has begun, because of Scroll's job taking too much
of his so expensive sparetime. This causes that he
has to reduce his bright swapping activities and he
decided to stop co-editing the Relax starting with
the next issue. The deadline for the new MSP demo
has been set to 1997, so members like Vengeance
and Shok'Ray already left the group for different
reasons.

* Dr. Acid/Extend has lost his Internet account cau-
sed by a lot of queries about his deeds on the net
from the F.B.I. and Finnish Police.

* Unlike other magazines reported, Rockstar is only
a member of the finnish group Palace, and not a
member of any other CBM 64 group.

* The dutch group Genlog died, with most of its mem-
bers joining No Name. Their magazine Contrast will
be released using the No Name label, too.

* Ambient is a new group born out of the fusion of
Unlight and Delta, a demo group to be more precise

Hopefully this might have been rather informative, at-
least we have put some effort in this edition to col-
lect as much interesting news as possible. Be sure to
re-load this chapter in the next edition aswell.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Master of Law...

Marc

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed within 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
Re-release of a preview -1.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation - 1.0/ -2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* Accuracy (0.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the preview of PIECES (0.4 pts).

* Alpha Flight 1970 (16.8 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of PINFABALL
(3.6 pts), DIOROID (3.2 pts) and COLONIAL TRADER
(5.0 pts) and BATTLE OF THURN (5.0 pts) one extra
point will be given for the translation from german to
english!

* Avantgarde (5.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released two cool tools called LEVELMAKER
DELUXE (0.0 pts) and STUDIO DE LUXE (0.0 pts).
Followed by the preview of CUSTER (0.4 pts) and the
Pal/Ntsc fixed version of SPHEREBRAIN (3.8 pts)
from Magna Media. In cooperation with F4CG they
released VALDGIRS SWORDS 2 (2.5 pts) and
WORM (1.9 pts) from Magna Media, the points will be
shared! Then Avantgarde and F4CG re-released
BATTLE OF THURN (- 3.5 pts) from CP Verlag, AFL
released this game four weeks earlier, of course
also the minus points will be shared!

* Chromance (23.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares invasion started with the following pre-
vies: FLIPTRIS (0.5 pts), RECOGNICE (0.0 pts),
CYBERSHOT (0.3 pts), DECENT STRIP POKER V2
(0.5 pts), TROOZE V2 (0.4 pts), MEGABRAIN (0.4 pts)
DORIS 2 (0.6 pts), BOMBMANIA (0.4 pts) and MINES-
APER (0.2 pts). The BITMAP TO LOGO CONVERTER
(0.0 ts) a very usefull tool and the Pal/Ntsc fixed
versions of SPEED (3.0 pts), MEMORY (3.2 pts) the
english version and THE LUCKY EGG (4.4 pts). Last
but not least they released the hungarian fullpricer
BURAGO RALLY (6.1 pts) from 576 KByte, first a
zipfile was destroyed and a second version was ne-
cessary and then a level was destroyed and they re-
leased a fixfile so 2 minus points will be given! And
ACE PRO (3.1 pts) Pal/Ntsc fixed from Art Game.

* F4CG (13.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the fixed version of DUOMATO -
WHEELS OF FORTUNE (3.1 pts), CORE WARS PRO
(3.1 pts), CRAZY MC (3.1 pts) and the cool preview
of FUTURE WORLD (1.0 pts) from Cherry Software
and BUSINESSMAN (2.1 pts), the game works Pal/NTSC
In cooperation with Avantgarde they released VALD-
GIRS SWORDS 2 (2.5 pts) and WORM (1.9 pts) from
Magna Media. Then F4Cg and Avantgarde re-released
BATTLE OF THURN (- 3.5 pts) copyright by CP Ver-
lag, AFL released it four weeks earlier, all points
will be shared!!

* Hardcore (- 7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They re-released FRED'S IN TROUBLE (- 7 pts) from
CP Verlag, AFL released the pal version one week
earlier.

* Laxity (0.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
For the first time a preview of this group saw the
light of the US Boards called BLOCKBUSTER (0.1 pts).

* Motiv 8 (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released SKYT (2.1 pts) Pal/Ntsc fixed by RPK
the fake label of AFL and THE FINAL CONQUEST (2.1)
TIMEBOMB (1.0 pts) and SOLITAIRE (0.0 pts) and the
preview of IMMORALITY SPACE (0.1 pts) and re-
released NUMM (- 7 pts), Avantgarde released the
fixed version some weeks aerlier.

* Onslaught (14.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the two previews of IN ZANE (0.3p)
DEFENSIVE (0.5 pts) from Electric Boys Entertain-
ment and the fixed versions of FRED'S IN TROUBLE
(5.0 pts), COLOURA 2 (3.4 pts) both are copyright
by CP Verlag, ORGATRON 2 (3.1 pts) and finally the
full version of TWIN TERRORS (3.3 pts). MURDER IN
THE MONASTRY (0.0 pts) from Loadstar will get no
points because it is a text adventure, but the first
lynxed version was destroyed and a second version
was necessary (- 1 pt).

* PALACE (0.2 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Only a preview called MISFIRED (0.2 pts) got released

* Success and Trc (28.9 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with the fixed verions of
DORIS (3.1 pts), DROPPER (3.1 pts), WESTBAM (3.1p.),
LAS VEGAS (4. 1 pts) and EROTICA (5.0 pts). Followed
by ROLOID (2.1 pts), LOTTI (2.5 pts) and CONFUSING
QUEST (4.0 pts) these games doesn't need an Ntsc
fix. Followed by the previews of COLONY (0.3 pts),
BRIX (0.4 pts), PUMPKIN (0.5 pts), NITRO (0.4 pts)
and INVERTUS (0.3 pts).

* Xenon (0.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the preview of WESTBAM (0.3 pts).

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts November 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (5) SCS + TRC 28.9
02. (1) Chromance 23.1
03. (3) Alpha Flight 1970 16.8
04. (4) Onslaught 14.6
05. (6) F4CG 13.3
06. (2) Avantgarde 5.1
07. (/) Xenon 0.3
08. (/) Palace 0.2
09. (/) Laxity 0.1

The official Fixing-Charts November 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Chromance 5
(/) SCS + TRC
02. (/) Onslaught 4
03. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 3
(1) Avantgarde
(/) F4CG

Thanks for his help to The Ignorance/Afl

Yours sincerly,

Marc/Alpha Flight 1970

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they would be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (welcome back) in the United
States of America. Furthermore it is possible to vote
by sending e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board
worldwide. There exists the opportunity to vote via
Internet, too, by mailing your votes to Max' or RRR's
account and it will be taken into condiseration while
counting the votes.

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Byterapers 95
02. (1) Oxyron 90
03. (3) Reflex 82
04. (4) Agony Design 74
05. (5) Camelot 52
06. (7) Censor Design 49
07. (6) Fairlight 37
08. (8) Focus 29
09. (9) Taboo 25
10. (10) Triad 22

After taking over the pole position in the mail charts
the Byterapers did exactly the same now in the very
own board charts, with Oxyron moving down to two.
the other positions remain almost unchanged, as the-
re weren't any important changes detected. Let's
wait for the next productions form Oxyron, then the
battle for the top spot continues. Furthermore new
productions from Byterapers, Reflex, Agony Design,
Focus and Triad can be expected this winter if things
work alright.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 95
02. (1) TTS/Oxyron 89
03. (4) Quiss/Reflex 72
04. (5) Graham/Oxyron 70
05. (3) Slammer/Camelot 62
06. (9) Druid/Agony Design 58
07. (7) MMS/Taboo 54
08. (6) Brush/Elysium 47
09. (8) Crossbow/Crest 32
10. (10) Glasnost/Camelot 23

Hmh, except for the fact that there are some unim-
portant position changed we can not report about
interesting changes here. Mr. Sex depended his pole
position, TTS and Quiss are on the places behind him,
and that is currently all we feel worth to be mention-
ed in here.

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 96
02. (2) Alpha Flight 90
03. (3) Success & TRC 83
04. (4) F4CG 78
05. (5) Chromance 62
06. (7) Onslaught 54
07. (6) Motiv 8 46
08. (/) Atlantis 32
09. (9) Hardcore 27
10. (8) Fairlight 23

The top three remains unchanged since months, and
we really have our doubts that there will occur any
changed in the near future. With Atlantis there is a
new entry at # 8 while Excess left the charts for good
and there is nothing else going on here worth to be
mentioned.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/Avt 90
02. (3) Ignorance/Afl 85
03. (2) Burglar/Scs 79
04. (4) Antitrack/F4CG 65
05. (5) Kirby/Atlantis 62
06. (7) Hain/F4CG 52
07. (6) Bacchus/Flt 43
08. (8) Skinhead/Afl 36
09. (/) CBA/TRC 28
10. (9) Moren/SCS 22

Jack Alien is still leading the mob here, but the Igno-
rance, with his by far excellent, outstading versions,
is coming closer and closer with big steps, ready to
over it in the future. Burglar went back to three, at
the end of the list Powerplant disappeared, probab-
ly forever, while CBA entered at nine, sending Moren
back to ten.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 92
02. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 84
03. (2) Electric/Extend 79
04. (7) Creeper/Antic 72
05. (4) RRR/Oxyron 64
06. (8) Carrion/Elysium 57
07. (10) Roder/Agony 47
08. (5) Scope/F4CG 33
09. (6) Mirage/Focus 25
10. (/) Cupid/Avantgarde 14

No real surprises here, just some unexpected posi-
tion movement, what makes it even more interesting!
Cruise at the top, Ogami rising one position, Electric
falling one, ..... Rob/Camelot had to leave the charts,
Cupid entered. HMH!?

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 93
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 80
03. (4) Shogoon/Taboo 75
04. (7) PVCF/Reflex 62
05. (5) Jeroen Tel/Focus 58
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot 52
07. (3) Danko/Censor 34
08. (8) Red Devil/Fairlight 29
09. (10) Reyn Ouwehand 26
10. (9) EVS/20CC 17

The "groove minister" PRI is a well deserved leader
here, still followed by the east-german hope Syndrom
and "Mr. Techno" PVCF, who climbed some more pla-
ces to position 4 now, while Shogoon climbed one po-
sition to 3 and splitted up the Dresden duo! Nothing
really new in here, except for the fact that "old time"
legends such as Reyn Ouwehand, Drax and Metal
shown up on channel # c-64 in the IRC.

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 69
02. (2) Alpha Flight 54
03. (3) Hitmen 49
04. (4) Success & TRC 43
05. (5) F4CG 38
06. (6) Empire 19
07. (7) Demonix 12
08. (/) ./. ./.
09. (/) ./. ./.
10. (/) ./. ./.

Avantgarde on the top, a familar situation to most of
us, followed by the flighters and Hitmen. The ameri-
cans are down at the end, what really does not sur-
prises anywho, as there are hardly people left ever
seen a fix from them. :) Onslaught might enter here
soon, too, as they use to fix games themselves, too,
that say be hopefully more successful compared with
the releases others fixed for them.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/Hitmen 92
02. (2) Suicide/AVT 86
03. (3) CBA/TRC 72
04. (4) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 63
05. (7) Ignorance/AFL 59
06. (6) Jack Alien/AVT 51
07. (5) Booze/Empire 43
08. (9) Mercenary/AFL 36
09. (8) Rich/Empire 32
10. (10) Sidekick/Demonix 23

What is going on here? Peacemaker is still at the top,
even if a few persons started to complain about the
quality of his latest releases. Nevertheless, here has
nothing happened, so there is no need to comment it!
Where are the new competitors left you are inte-
rested to challenge them?

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on Internet by leaving

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Domination 5/independent OCTOBER 1995
Skyhigh 19/Camelot OCTOBER 1995
Smash 11/System OCTOBER 1995
Splash 19/Accuracy OCTOBER 1995
The Pulse October/Independent OCTOBER 1995
Vandalism News 24/Onslaught OCTOBER 1995
Contrast 3/Genlog (No Name) NOVEMBER 1995
The Pulse November/Independent NOVEMBER 1995
Vandalism News 25/Onslaught NOVEMBER 1995

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 94
02. (4) Reflex 83
03. (3) Byterapers 79
04. (2) Camelot 76
05. (7) Taboo 48
06. (5) Fairlight 43
07. (8) Agony Design 36
08. (9) Antic 34
09. (6) Censor Design 21
10. (/) Nipson 17

Oxyron is still the well deserved leader in the demo
scene, followed by Reflex and Byterapers. At the end
Crest has left the charts, being replaced by the po-
lish group Nipson.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 93
02. (2) TTS/Oxyron 85
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 77
04. (4) Graham/Oxyron 68
05. (9) Quiss/Reflex 52
06. (6) MMS/Taboo 45
07. (7) Tron/Fairlight 28
08. (5) Crossbow/Crest 26
09. (8) Axis/Oxyron 15
10. (/) Druid/Agony Design 14

Mr. Sex was able to defend his pole position, with TTS
still at his neck and Slammer on three. Quiss climbed
a lot of places while Crossbow left some. At the end
of the list Bob disappeared, replaced by Druid.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 89
02. (2) Success & TRC 82
03. (3) F4CG 69
04. (4) Alpha Flight 63
05. (5) Chromance 57
06. (10) Excess 30
07. (6) Motiv 8 29
08. (8) Atlantis 26
09. (/) Hardcore 20
10. (/) Onslaught 11

Nothing new at the top with Avantgarde and the coop
Success & The Ruling Company aswell as F4CG. The
second half of the top ten has recorded a lot of
changes, with Hardcore & Onslaught as cooperation
leaving the charts while they entered now as single
groups as people recognized that the coop is over
now! Furthermore Dytec left the charts, probably
forever.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 86
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 81
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 70
04. (5) CBA/TRC 57
05. (4) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 49
06. (6) Ignorance/AFL 37
07. (7) Bacchus/FLT 34
08. (8) Mr. Wax/<C> 22
09. (9) Moonchild/FLT 21
10. (10) Skinhead/AFL 10

Nothing happened in here! Absolutely nothing? No,
CBA and Derbyshire Ram changed their positions in
the midfield while the rest remains unchanged. The
Ignorance should be higher, due to the fact that he
is one of the best and most active crackers around.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (4) Cruise/Taboo 89
02. (1) Electric/Extend 88
03. (2) Creeper/Antic 85
04. (3) Joe/Wrath Design 73
05. (6) Fazee/Taboo 54
06. (6) Ogami/Fairlight 48
07. (7) RRR/Oxyron 41
08. (8) Carrion/Elysium 23
09. (/) Roder/Agony/Reflex 13
10. (/) Cupid/Avantgarde 11

A very close finishing in the artists' top ten, a list
with a steady change at the top. This time Cruise took
over the number one spot, sending Electric, Creeper
and Joe on the following places. At the end Mirage
left the charts, being replaced by Cupid who entered
our charts for the very first time.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 98
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 84
03. (4) PVCF/Reflex 78
04. (3) Compod/Charged/... 56
05. (5) Jeff/Camelot/CZP 55
06. (7) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 49
07. (6) Zyron/Antic/Swemix 33
08. (9) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 32
09. (8) Red Devil/Flt/Swemix 21
10. (10) Jeroen Tel/Focus 18

PRI remains at the throne, the Dresden "duo" Syn-
drom and PVCF are still trying to challenge him to
take over his position. The rest of the list did not
move too much, as there were only a few one place
movements, a you have surely remarked.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/AVT 78
02. (2) Calypso/AMN/AFL 71
03. (5) Spermbird/<C>/Ex 54
04. (4) Splatterhead/TRC 48
05. (3) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 47
06. (8) Starlight/XTC/TPY 29
07. (6) Sebaloz/Lepsi Dev. 28
08. (/) Dr. Soft/Albion 13
09. (/) Dr. Kaos/Reflex 12
10. (/) Avanlanche/Atl 10

Intruder in front, Calypso still at two, Spermbird en-
tered three! At the end three new guys entered the
charts, being known as Dr. Soft, Dr. Kaos and Ava-
lanche, replacing Shuze, H-Bloxx and Syco.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Nitro 87
02. (1) Skyhigh 86
03. (4) Shout! 75
04. (3) Vandalism News 59
05. (5) Domination 58
06. (7) Mendip 44
07. (6) The Tribune 32
08. (/) Relax 24
09. (/) Propaganda 23
10. (8) Revealed 20

At the top Nitro and Skyhigh changed places once
again and nothing new when we are regarding the
past few editions. Insider and Jamaica have left the
charts, probably for good as we never expect them
to re-enter due to their activity (besides Jamaica
being officially declared as being dead). R3L4X and
Propaganda entered the charts, being for sure
magazines with a lot more ambitions on the magazine
market. Shout! is infact too well ranked!

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
------------------------------------------------------------
For this issue we found a very interesting and expe-
rienced interview partner, a man who is one of the
few old ones left in the C64 scene - Unifier/Noice PC
He will share his unique visions with us in this chap-
ter, and we can promise you a very interesting inter-
view, worth being read and held via Internet.

?: Hi Ulf, it is very kind from you to give me the op-
portunity to present an interview with you again on
this ancient 8-bit computer. At first, as usual, it
would be quite useful to introduce yourself to our
readers, as there are probably some who have never
heard about Unifier or do not know too much about
you. So here is the place to add some personal infor-
mation, everything else but no computer data.

!: Hi, I'm Ulf. I am 24 years old Swedish male, who likes
to play around with cultural things (music, movies,
books) and different types of media (magazines, ra-
dio, TV?) and some aspects of the computer world. I'm
originally from a frey and bureaucratical town called
Orebro, and I've also studied in Karlstad and Vaxjo,
but in June 1995 I finally moved to the biggest and
best town in Sweden: Stockholm! I live here alone in an
apartment pretty close to the central area (a lot clo-
ser than any of the Flash Inc dudes - HA!). I like try-
ing to be as theoretical and analytical about things as
I can be, I'm sometimes a bit shy (like all computer
nerds ...) and I like trying to make conversations with
people as weird as I can (until they're convinced
there's something wrong with me). I've stopped trying
to be a serious technical kind of person, 'cause it
just wasn't any fun. What else? I voted for the so-
cialist party in our latest election, and I voted "yes"
in the EC election.

?: And now we just turn over to the computer datas.
Censor Design, Flash Inc and Spirit have been sta-
tions on the CBM 64, and now Bonzai followed by Noi-
ce on the PC. Please inform us about these times, as
these group names reflect a lot of glory to most of
us who were present that time.

!: Censor Design was kind of boring. I still don't think
they're a real professional group who deserves to
be in lots of charts. There are lots of other C64
demo groups that I like more. Flash Inc was a lot
cooler! It didn't have any formal organisation really,
so we had to rely on lots of expensive phone calls.
We talked about what direction to take next and stuff
We had a small meeting at Zodiac's place where we
released "Legacy 2", and a bigger meeting at The
Spy's father's place where we tried to get "Prome-
theus Unbound" finished (but failed). I got to know
some people of Spirit while I was in Flash Inc, so I
joined them after Flash stopped flashing. I liked Spi-
rit's previous releases a lot, so I thought it would be
cool to join them. I knew they weren't as famous as
Flash Inc, but I didn't think that was very important.
They were a lot more organized than Flash, more like
a real democracy or something. It was fun, too, and I
think "Tales Of Mystery" is the best C64-demo I've
ever been involded in. I do not know what to say
about Bonzai, 'cause they've been away from demos
for a while, so I don't think they took their PC come-
back very seriously. Trap and Walt didn't answer
their mail very good, and so on. So now I'm in Noice. I
have known Gnilk (Punch) a little bit for a couple of
years, so he let me and my friend Freshman join the
group when we asked him. Noice has some coll pro-
ductions under their name, and a couple more are
planned.

?: Lately Flash Inc got rebuilt from some of the origi-
nal members. Now people spread the rumour that you
will re-join them. Please let us know the truth about
it.

!: We'll probably reform the original line-up, and get
the band out on the road again for a greatest hits
live world tour. We'll only do it for the moeny ofcour-
se, 'cause we still have some problems with that ass-
hole guitarist, and the drummer's still in re-hab since
our last tour. Come and see us at Hammersmith Odeon
or Globen!!!

?: Let's turn the time to 1993 when I have interviewed
you for the best Oxyron magazine ever - Addybook.
I remember to have recognized some negative vibra-
tions against PCs and its users. How came that your
mind changed? Remember how you defined the typical
PC user?

!: Hehe. Well, people grow up and stop seeing things in
black and white. I still don't like the business part of
the PC world, but there are some underground en-
thusiasts there who are doing some great things. See
the question about commercialism below.

?: What are the major differences between the CBM
64 and the PC scene as you are a part of both?
Which scene, not computer system, would you prefer,
and why?

!: I don't think there are a lot of differences, actually
Most of the 64 sceners I know are old timers who
have seen a lot of stuff, and has allowed themselves
to be weird and experiment a bit more. I don't see
that on PC, but then again I guess those newcomers
on the C64 are not that way either. People who are
new in demo making often follow the rules that they
can: in 1989 on the C64 the rule was "make mega
Dycp records", and in 1995 on the PC the rule is
"make phong/gouraud shading vector donuts". Ano-
ther difference is that the PC is currently a popular
system, so people disappear from the scene to make
games that will bring them lots of money (or they
hope so). On the C64, there's no money in game-ma-
king anymore, so people do it for fun along with their
demo projects.

?: When we've a look at the activity of demo groups
most of them do release their demoes on big parties
only, where they can present their work on a big
screen to a bright audience consisting of users pre-
fering a wide range of computer systems, and where
they can earn money with their demo. In former times
we have released demoes when we liked to do it. Do
you think the scene is heading into a wrong direction
now?

!: Yes, it is! It's good for the development of the sce-
nes, that groups make lots of different things and
release at different release times: I guess most old-
timers remember old swapdisks with co-op demos
between groups and demos with long scrolltexts from
meetings and that kind of thing. You shouldn't only be
doing big party demos with shocking new effects, only
to get some money and fame. If you do that, then you
are a company like Microsoft, not a vital part of a
computer subculture! (Ok, no-one in MS is good
enough to make a cool demo, but I hope you can get
my point. Scene values UNEQUAL commercialism.)

?: Anyway parties are an important part of the scene
as it is a chance to meet people sharing the same
hobby, using similar systems and so on. Which parties
have you visited by now, which one did you liked most
and where do we have a chance to meet you in the
near future?

!: I'll try to remember all of them: SFA party/meeting -
Orebro 1988 (arranged by me), Sector 90 party -
Kalmar 1988, Horizon/Equinoxe party - Eskilstuna
1989, Light/Triad party - Balsta 1989, Horizon party
- Varby 1990, Panoramic/Science 451 - Norway 1990
Horizon party - Stockholm 1991, The Party - Denmark
1991, The Party - Denmark 1992, The Party - Den-
mark 1993, Tribute'94 - Gothenburg 1994, Icing'95 -
Gothenburg 1995, Remedy'95 - Stockholm 1995, I
think that's all. I've been to some small meetings as-
well. The best parties so far were the first two Hori-
zon parties, 'cause everyone had a cool attitude and
I was still young and easy to impress. The Party 1 - 3
was really nice, too. I hope I can go there (The Party)
this Christmas, too.

?: The Internet is getting more and more the media to
get information, to meet friends on the IRC or to ex-
change e-mails to everyone you feel like getting in
touch with. The Internet is getting the scene closer,
as people from all over the world can join these user
and news groups to add their opinion. What do you
think about the Internet, and what are the most use-
ful functions of this "new" media in your opinion?

!: I've had Internet access since March 1994. I like it a
lot, but it doesn't really live up to all the media hype.
It's useful to break down borders between countries
and it's useful to allow ordinary people to state their
opinion in front of a big audience. Traditionally, the
media structures have kept most people kind of help-
less and without any method for mass communication.
I'd have to say that e-mailing and Usenet News (dis-
cussion groups) are the most useful functions of the
Net. World Wide Web is pretty overrated in my opinion
it's just the same one way mass communication as in
magazines and newspapers. There's nothing new or
even interesting about watching Sony's homepage on
the WWW, rahter than watching Sony's ads in a paper.
The new and interesting thing about the Internet is
disconnecting all companies and letting people talk
outside of their business roles.

?: You have been always a person being a strict op-
ponent of commercialism. The PC scene, and its pro-
ductions, are for sure lead by trends, and trends
are a part of commercialism. Do you still stand the
evil forces, or did you already even made money with
the computer hobby on PC? Do you think you would
have a future as a serious programmer creating
business software or any other projects on a speci-
fied request?

!: This question has a lot to do with politics, and I'm
still kind of naive in that area, but I'll try to give some
kind of answer. Richard Stallman (Free Software
Foundation, GNU Project) has compared computer
programmes to mathematical formulars, as something
that gets published and gives the author some
amount of recognition, but which then gets copied
freely. I completely agree with him. Information really
DO want to be free, and true programming is some-
thing done by enthusiasts for sharing with their fel-
lows, rather than something grey employees at Mi-
crosoft do to feed their kids. Scientists in countries
that are in war still share their discoveries to make
the world better, but different software companies
don't share source code at all. I think it's really sick!
That's the idealistic part of it, atleast. Despite what I
just said, I would like to do some smaller commercial
software projects to see what it's like, but I really
don't want to work in that industry fulltime. The cool
jobs in that area aren't really announced here in
Sweden anyway.

?: Now we leave the computer sector and enter the
real world again. You have been a successfull mode-
rator in a college radio station. Can you report more
about it?

!: Well, in 1986-1987 and 1993-1994 I made some radio
programs with friends, just trying out some ideas of
how to make something a bit different from slick and
boring normal radio programs (as the interested
reader will have noticed by now, I use the word "nor-
mal" as a real negative term. Another word that I use
like this is "mature". That says a lot about my perso-
nality, I guess). I tried lots of different roles: talking,
being technical guy who handles the mixer and the CD
players, doing interviews etc. Some of the last pro-
grams we did in the spring of 1994 are kind of listen-
able.

?: After the radio project the name POPAGA appear-
ed, a project you put a lot of effort in due to my
knowledge. Please explain the readers what it is, and
what amazes you on the work for it?

!: Urban Arhammar started a small music magazine in
Swedish in 1990. It has grown since then, and now it
publishes 26 issues every year, each one in a circu-
lation of 2000 copies, and there are some 20-30
writers/photographers involded. And I'm one of the
writers! The magazine is still held on a kind of under-
ground level - you can't buy it in normal shops, only
in some record shops etc. but I think we're doing a
real good job. I write records reviews and live re-
views and interview bands. Actually writing ain't that
far away from coding, you combine elements creati-
vely in kind of the same way. "What amazes me"? Sor-
ry, I don't remember what I said about that. It must
have been something stupid I wrote in a letter to RRR
that I've forgotten already (the audience boohs and
throws things at Ulf at this point!).

?: You are actually searching for a job in the media,
namely the TV or at a new, promising computer maga-
zine. Are you already employed and if yes, where?

!: I've written two articles for that new computer mag
and I still keep in touch with the local TV-station TV
Soder, but so far not much has happened. I have
another job right now, just to get some money to pay
the bills: I work in telemarketing at Marknadstestarna
in Stockholm AB. You know, you call people at diffe-
rent companies and ask them questions and fill a kind
of form according to their answers. It's not any kind
of dream job, but it's ok. I hope that I don't get stuck
there all my life, that would be really sad.

?: Unfortunately we have to come to the end now. It
was nice to see you seeing patient and to answer all
the questions. At the end we offer our interview
partners to greet some persons, and to add some fi-
nal words, so we do it here again. Hope to meet you
soon again, Ulf, and many thanks for the time you
spent for the answers.

!: Thanks for having me here in the talk show. My fi-
nal words would be taht I like getting mail, so if some-
one still remember my lame old C64 releases and
wants to complain about them, they can write to me at
this address: XXX XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX,
XXX XX XXXXX, XXXXXX, or e-mail (ekorre!) to this
address: Ulf.Harnhammar^abc.Se, or phone me at
this number: +XX/(X)X-XXXXXXX. People who's got
access to the Internet might also check my homepage
on that evil World Wide Web at the address: HTTP:
//www.abc.se/%7Em9656/. I'd like to greet everyone
in Noice (PC/Amiga/C64), King Fisher/Triad (C64),
Metal and TDJ/Analogue (PC) and some C64 groups,
too, Addict/^ (PC), Scout/Success (PC), Morpheus
and The Spy/Flash Inc, RRR/Oxyron (Amiga/C64),
Cross/Mindprobe (PC), Zyron/Antic/Swemix/Nostal-
gica (C64), Liket/Goto 10 (PC), Deff/Avantgarde
(C64), Cresh/Taboo (C64), Seap and Trap/exBonzai
(PC), Hellraiser/Cascade VR (PC, ex-Paragon C64),
Blackcross and Wizard/Omicron (PC), Terric/Meta
Crew (PC), Roy/Witan (PC) and everyone I have met
on the Swedish C64 BBSes or on IRC-channel # C-64.
If you live in Sweden, you can get a free issue of that
music magazine I wrote about earlier by writing to:
Popoga, XXX XX, XXX XX XXXXXXXX. Now I'll shut up!
Bye!

Well, we hope you all enjoy the interview as much as
we did, and that some of you will listen and learn out
of the content, in order to save the scene and to en-
large the amount of releases.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Back to the roots==
<pre>
* Back To The Roots *
------------------------------------------------------------
This will definately the last time we present this chap-
ter here, as long as the original editor decides to
come back and to edit it again. Nevertheless there do
exist serious plans to morph this chapter into some-
thing completely different. Wait and see what will hap-
pen.

This time we will have a look closer in the world of the
scene magazines and the different kind of magazines
being released all word, trying to cover the most im-
portant older ones, and later on the actual ones still
attracting us.
It might be rather hard to believe for all new ones
around now, in former days that really was a lack of
information in the scene as there were no magazines
spread around. Today's situation is completely diffe-
rent, as the major part of the releases has been ta-
ken over by the press when it comes up to the legal
sector, as we still can pretend that the illegal scene
adds most releases, month by month.
In order to bring you closer to the history of the
magazine we try to cover up some important stations
for you, combined with some information about maga-
zines we think to be important ones in the long tradi-
tion, as the disk magazine phenomena started in the
year 1989, when all these publications got first re-
leased, such as Sex'n Crime, Relax, Mamba, Fatal News
and many more.
In the very beginning of the scene magazines there
were paper magazines. The major disadvantage of
paper magazines is/was, that there occur a lot of
costs while developing/distributing it, so you had to
pay a fee to enjoy reading them. The most important
old-times magazines to be named here are ILLEGAL
from Jeff Smart/Triad, PIRATES from Solar/F4CG
and IGUANA from Nosah/DCS. For sure we should not
forget SHOCK from Skater and Mirage, which became
quite succcessfull as disk magazine later on! There
were for sure many others, too, but as we already
mentioned we will cover only the most important ones.
Today there still exists the MILESTONE from Mike/
Sunrise, the legendary PHOTO ALBUMs from Incubus
and our competitor Vandalism News is planning to be
on paper, too, with a quite different content compa-
red with the disk sequal.

There are not too much paper magazines left compa-
red with the follow-up disk magazines, so this is the
topic now. When we are talking about old disk magazi-
nes at first the name SEX'N CRIME from Amok has to
be told, one of the most explosive and most hated
ones ever. It always stood under heavy siege from
their concurence (Mamba, Relax) and all the readers
who were quite unsatisfied with the general Genesis
propaganda and charts manipulation. The follow-up to
Sex'n Crime was Propaganda, released under the Ge-
nesis label and today being an independent publica-
tion. The latest editions are by far much better than
the earlier tries, still being influenced by the S'N'C
image.
FATAL NEWS was a competitor from Sweden, edited
by Eukzera/Censor Design. In general people were
disappointed about the worse outfit since they ex-
pected much more from a top demo crew like Censor,
nevertheless you could read the magazine text, which
was on an acceptable basis.
MAMBA from Crazy/Enigma/.... is another top handled
oldie. Nice written, cool (mostly scene related) comics
from GOTCHA, but a little bit hard to handle with the
keyboard, a "disadvantage" for the joystick genera-
tion. Mamba was involved in hot conflicts with S'N'C
and SCENE PRESS, what was infact quite nice to read
but not to believe at all, as Thor/Glory lately pointed
out that people should not believe in all what got
printed in it.
LETHAL NEWS from Trap and Sonny/Bonzai/TRC ....
came along with a nice outfit and fine articles. Unfor-
tunately it was not released too often.
PARANEWS from Paramount was quite interesting for
mag editors who were interested in news about Para-
mount. Some uncompetent persons disqualified it to be
Paramount propaganda only, infact it was nothing
else but a public relations act to present facts etc.
about their own group! Needless to say that I am for
sure talking about the REAL Paramount here!
COOCOC from Radar was another interesting maga-
zine, and all who know Radar know how to handle the
content. No need to say more.
THE TIMES from Defense (Jim Novak & Co.) was ano-
ther one of these typical magazines that were relea-
sed back in the time. Upscroller, text blink effects,
standart news and chapters.
SCENE PRESS from Spitfire/Action can be compared
with Spitfire's reputation - there were only only two
options to choose, to like or to hate him. Scene Press
got released by CP Verlag on Game On (like Mamba
and Propaganda, too), and since there was not so
much diskspace left for the magazines Spitfire took
for one GO version just the musics out to get it
shorter.
CORRUPTION from 3DK and Jack Daniels/ATG/Para-
mount, Genesis .... is for sure one of the potential all
time favourties. Fine texts and fine outfits made it to
be what it was - a hot magazine - just remember the
last edition with the brilliant soundtrack from JCH
and the amazing graphics from FOX.
FRONTPAGE/TRC will always be remembered as the
magazine with the most small text display area ever.
Nevertheless, the outfit really looks cool, the texts
were interesting, but due to the display reading was
not too enjoyable.
BILD ZEITUNG from X-ray was a magazine where the
name told it all. For all non-germans we have to add
that there exists a boulevard newspaper over here,
and this magazine has spoken at first with recently
dead persons or with aliens who attacked the earth.
No more to add.
BRUTAL RECALL from Tch/Brutal is another dutch
magazine. Another? It was THE dutch magazine, and
infact the best ranked one in the charts ever - be-
hind the allmighty SH0CK!
SH0CK reached spheres no other magazine has ever
reached, even if The Pulse (before the break) was
very close. Skater, Mirage and Gene have combined
the best articles with a technical advanced and brill-
iant looking OUTFIT. Some people defined it as the
"BIBLE", what can be accepted as fitting definition!
IMPULSE from Spirit had a brilliant outfit and well
written text, unfortunately not too much issues have
seen the daylight. A real shame in our opinion.
SCRIPT from Clique was quite successful due to the
fact that they have had some interesting articles in
their issues, mixed up with some non-scene related
texts, a mixture which seems to meet the approvals
from the mail scene exactly.
UPDATE from Padua was another interesting maga-
zine, but Raver news for Germany are usually not
the right chapters for a magazine read worldiwide.
BITMANIA from Abyss Connection was quite magazine
according to a lot of sceners, but we prefer to ac-
cept the review from Gene in Shock about this publi-
cation - a fitting review telling the truth, even if some
BM editors had a quite different opinion about it.
GAMERS GUIDE from Triad was the magazine when it
came around reviewing and testing the cracks
spread in the CBM 64 scene. This started a trend to
use these short 4-5 blocks intros, a quite negative
aspect in our opinion.
REFORMATION from Fairlight was a magazine merged
into one by EMMANUELLE and WORLD NEWS, later on
it merged with INGENIOUS BRAIN to become SHOUT!.
After a moderate beginning it became quite popular,
always following the slogan: Quantity does not mean
Quality, what was a fitting definition of what we read.
Ingenious Brain and Shout were high ranked, have
impressed with a fine outfit and have been quite po-
pular mail medias aswell.
REVEALED from International Manufacture of Nothing
and Camelot still is a commercial orientated magazine
covering the part software/game production on a
very intelligent and interesting level. Well, it is located
here as it wasn't seen for a long period by now, so it
got placed in the "oldie" section here.

The previous "list" contained both, mail and board
based magazines, as there used to be a more clear
frontier/board between them. Today's board maga-
zines cover both, mail and modem scene, what makes
quite attractive for the masses, not only for selected
parts of the scene.

Next to this golden oldies there are still some inte-
resting ones around these days, like PROPAGANDA,
today being published as an independent magazine
edited by Newscopy & Co., in former times as the se-
qual to S'N'C edited by Antichrist. To be honest, the
new issues are by far better than the old ones.
VANDALISM NEWS by Bodycount/Rebels/.../Onslaught
is an australian based magazine what made it to the
top, being a result of hard and solid work all over
the years. Today the staff can be counted as the
most active around, the quality is quite impressing
keeping in mind all the release dates in the past few
weeks.
DOMINATION from Jazzcat is another magazine from
Downunder, being nice written even if some more ob-
jectivity would be fine. Unfortunately it didn't get re-
leased too often.
THE PULSE MAGAZINE was for sure a real kicker be-
fore its break, taking over the position of SHOCK in
former times. Many people had problems with the con-
tent of the magazine, and so they tries - not very
succcessfully - to mess around with it! Recently TP
had a comeback, improving the quality issue by issue
and trying the best to reach the former qualitiy level
and to become as respected as in the earlier days.
DRIVEN is an american magazine mainly covering the
NTSC demo scene, but these days they also try to
cover the PAL demo scene, too. The articles are
quite interesting for europeans, too, and the outfit
is technically advanced, while the text display even
offers functions you use to know from professional
word processors on Amiga/PC, and there are not
many european magazines which can compete with it!
THE BEST is trying to continue where GAMERS GUIDE
stopped an disappeared. For sure can not replace it
completely yet, but they are on the best way to do it,
improving issue by issue, and people who await it to
be superior from the very first beginning should bet-
ter wake and stop dreaming, as an every magazine
does need a development period of a few issue to find
its "own" style and "personal" touch. Everyone who
denies this fact does not know what he is talking
about!

As you probably have remarked we didn't not mention
any so-called mail magazines here, even if some of
them might be rather interesting for the mail related
persons being active in the scene. At last we take a
look at the commercial magazines. MAGIC DISK and
GAME ON were the first ones sold here in Germany,
with quite a lot staff members from SEVEN ELEVEN
who had the connection to the scene and to convince
people creating good software for their publication.
Based on GAME ON/MAGIC DISK the second big name
in Germany, MAGNA MEDIA (formerly known as MARKT
und TECHNIK) released a programmdisk monthly, too,
containing games and tools, too.
In the USA there is LOADSTAR offering a similar ser-
vice for their customers, even if the american mar-
ket is more professional orientated as a lot of the
potential CBM 64/128 users are still using this good
old machine on a serious basis for word processing
etc., and the standart C64 Loadstar reader got de-
fined as 50 - 60 years old person, working with up-
grades such as FD 2000/REU etc. to have some con-
curence for the 16/32 bit market.
In England there still exist some underground based
fanzines being sold on a steady basis, unfortunately
their producers are a little bit scared about the so-
called CBM 64 scene, even if they accept using their
tools, spreading their demoes etc. Most of the produ-
cers/readers of these fanzines seem not be able
handling the word copyright and created games/de-
moes with SEUCK/Intro- und demo makers, so the
standart of these publications sometimes is rather
low.

For sure there have been other magazines aswell
which some would classify as important or whatever
else, this was only meant to show a short view on the
magazines which attracted us all over the years and
we have enjoyed reading issue by issue, regardless
from the fact who popular or successful they might
have ever been, as they have been saved into our
memories for certain other positive reasons, rea-
sons we defined as important and worth to be men-
tioned ones.

To come to an end, there are still magazines released
in certain other languages but English, like German
and Polish. Fact is that these magazines have in fact
no usuage for the international scene, so people
should try to figure out what they are doing exactly.
The scene should try to connect the worldwide scene
while magazines being written in other languages de-
vide it back into small pieces for people who are cap-
able to communicate in these languages. As there is
only a small community of CBM 64 sceners left these
persons should better add contributions to make it
possible for all to participate in, as dividing the scene
can not be what we all want to be. Think about it if you
release a production using different languages but
English, remember that the scene was found and con-
sisted years ago, working perfect with a language
spoken and TAUGHT worldwide!
Due to the fact that the scene gets closer and closer
connected by the Internet some promising coopera-
tions might come up, cooperations in form of articles
or whatever else to support the magazines being re-
leased worldwide, and to improve and upgrade the
quality basis on a never seen before level.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* DEMO REVIEWS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Having a look at the demo market within the previous
six months does not make the future looking to pro-
mising on this sector, but keeping in mind that there
are some parties in the near future makes us believ-
ing in a better future in a not too far distant.

Sadly we have to announce that Scroll had to leave
the reviewer squad, based on the fact that he has no
sparetime left due to his job. Infact that forced him to
reduce his entire CBM 64 work. This made us skipping
our plan to recruit a complete second reviewers team
as usually planned, so in the future Fuben, PRI and
RRR will be the doing the entire job and the only staff
members doing the job.

* Triiod 3/His-Team Design & Accept Design *
------------------------------------------------------------
Triiod 3 is a tribute from Fuben/Oxyron to his for-
mer groups and members in order to use his old
beta parts and the artwork from his former comra-
des. All in all it is nothing but a pure fun production
so people should not take it too serious. Better sit
down again and wait for his first production under
the Oxyron label, where you will for sure see much
more advanced and optimized parts.

SCROLL about the coding
------------------------------------------------------------
This demo starts with a black screen and a timer at
the buttom of the screen. After some seconds the
demo seems to "bug", the music runs amok. Then a
"System Error" message and a warning sign appears
(of course this was a fake, coded intentionally). Now
a picture similar to the "test-pictures" on the TV is
shown for some seconds, before it fades away. A pie-
ce of text saying "in 1995" flies over the screen, be-
fore a His-Team logo appears (written on a scroll).
Then the logo changes into an Accept logo. It fades
away, and more text for presenting purposes flies
over the screen. Now a picture with a lady and a
"Triiod 3" logo drawn in Gunpaint fades in and stays
for some seconds, before fading aways. Now some
info appears while the next part loads. When the
loading is finished, a "fractal triangle" (I do not know
the real name for this one, but you know what I
mean :)) is shown for about half a second, before a
two-colour (blue and white) full-screen mandelbrot
is drawn in realtime. Now another mandelbrot rou-
tine appears, this one is not-so-full-screen, and it
is in 4X4 Fli. Several pictures are generated, and
these routines are quite fast to be in realtime. How-
ever, most pictures generating are y-flipped, which
means that the calculation time is halved. After
pressing space, the loading screen appears again,
before 2 pictures are shown. Then it starts to load
again, now another routine in 4x4 Fli, shade lines. I
can not recall having seen this routine (in 4x4) be-
fore, but anyway it's quite easy to do. Then a single
colour upscrolling picture appears, and after that
the same Gunpaint picture from earlier in the demo
(the one with the lady), just the logo has been remo-
ved. Then the loading screen appears again. When
loading is finished, we are thrown into the "Pro Does"
game, the last "part". in this demo! First I have to
choose between 3 levels, then the game starts. I
control a space-ship whose mission is to destroy a
vector object! The object is flying with very high
speed, so it's not too easy to destroy. If you die a
game over scrren with a logo drawn in FLI appears,
and if you win, a congratulations screen is shown,
with a very cheerful tune. Too bad it is impossible to
return to the game after one try .....

Totally seen this is a quite nice trackmo (perhaps a
little bit short). There aren't too many coding effects
and those present are mainly mathematical routines.
Those mandelbrot routines were quite good, and ge-
nerally the whole demo is well polished and good look-
ing. Also the game within the end part was a cool idea
so I'll give a rating of 65%.

RRR about the artwork
------------------------------------------------------------
All pieces of art in this trackmo were drawn by Skud/
Chromance, Alias Medron/Chromance, Moose/ex/His
Design and Fuben/Oxyron.

The first real piece of art is a so-called test picture
as you know it from former times when the TV pro-
gramm ended. It is drawn in Koala bitmap format, no-
thing special at all but serves its function on an ac-
ceptable level. Next one is an IFLI picture drawn by
Alias Medron/<C>. The motive shows a girl, a Triiod 3
logo plus a kind of fog coming out of the girl's finger.
My personal favourite is the two screens wide con-
versation of Earthworm Jim, a damned nice looking
peace of art, even if it looks partly a little bit unfi-
nished, like most of Alias Medron's art. Following I've
found a FLI picture showing a character out of a
beat'em up game, actually I can not remember which
one, anyway the person looks quite similar a charac-
ter out of the above mentioned game type. Not bad
but nothing special. The first picture from Skud pre-
sents something like a gate to another system, being
surround by an old greek styled building and a chess
board ground. Not too bad for Koala bitmap format,
but nothing to make me stunning. Another two pictu-
res wide picture shown some kind of ancient warrior,
drawn in singlecolour hires, looking quite ugly in my
opinion. The next one is another IFLI graphics, it
shows a girl what is quite lonely in the empty screen.
Looks quite nice and - UNFINISHED - to me. Finally
there are 3 FLI logos showing Pro-Does, Time out
and Game Over. The graphics are said to be about 2
years old, but even in 1989 people would have been
laughing about them! :(

The summary looks like this that there is infact some
potential and talent shown, unfortunately there was
no interest to "complete" the graphics in my opinion,
so the overall rating from 65% is the right classifica-
tion, atleast in my opinion.

PRI about the musics
------------------------------------------------------------
As you use to know it from the previous editions this
is the area of PRI to review the demo soundtracks
here. Maybe you know that PRI moved houses to Ber-
lin now in order to study at the technical university.
He already ordered the german Post to re-mail all
letters to his new address, unfortunately the problem
is/was that there seem to work a lot of uncompetent
persons only, remarking a different address - but
definately not his new one, on the envelope, what
caused that the package returned to my house after
4 weeks of deliverance time. After sending it out
once again it finally arrived it's destination, unfortu-
nately too late to give Volker enough time to review
it. In order to release this magazine at its specified
release date we all agreed not to wait and to release
it without PRI's audial critism, but it was impossible to
wait any longer because of the mail traders waiting
to spread it and because of the actuality of the news
and release charts. Next time PRI will be back here,
having much more time to realise his reviews.
Remember to blame the german Post for it, and no one
else!

After this quite unusual chapter, caused by certain
different unfortunate reasons, we hope to welcome
you next time again, presenting again a complete
chapter here.

Best regards from your favourite reviewer's team,

Scroll/Megastyle Productions
-------------------------
Fuben/Oxyron
------------
PRI/TIA/Oxyron
-------------
RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Open Letter==
<pre>
* Open Letter *
------------------------------------------------------------
Originally this chapter was not planned to be pub-
lished permanently, but sometimes things does not
work like expected. This chapter called Open Letter
morphed into a sort of reaction chapter as you have
surely read the content of the previous chapter, and
this edition's reaction can be easily put in the same
driver being displayed with the trashcan icon on my
Amiga. Nevertheless we are a fair, objective and in-
dependent magazine, so we do not have problems to
give the chance to everyone who wants to challenge
us in any way.
This time we have the pleasure to present what Zore
wrote after having read our September edition. So
here it is, converted down into our text-editor di-
rectly from The Escapade, Relax Magazine EHQ.

Dear RRR,

I've just been reading through the latest issue of Re-
lax, and what you wrote according the affair of Doo-e
ze/Hardcore.

So you do not believe that he was a former member
member of SCS? As I supported the Hardcore news
to you, I feel personally insulted by your disbelieve. If
you doubt the reality of news supported my me, I
could get the feeling you are calling me a liar, and you
do not want me to think that, do you, Timo?

Listen, if you were familar with the group history of
Hardcore, which is on the one side not so hard as we
are only one year old, and which is on the other hand
your damn duty, if you want to call yourself a mag-
editor, you should know that Hardcore was formed
by the whole german Success section (expection: The
Arrogance)! You should furthermore know that SCS
originally was a german group not a dutch one, so if
you want to find out whether this is true, who else to
ask than us in Hardcore? Learn that almost every
C-64 scener today active in Frankfurt/Main & Of-
fenbach was a member of Success, namely Rap, Zoomo
B-Wyze, Dooze! The only exceptions in Ffm and Of are
me and Blockbuster... Also other guyz in Frankfurt
like Steel (Mario Laurel), Sphere (ex-Kopkilla) and DJ
all of them 3 musicians from Frankfurt.
Now, listen! By chance Dooze is one of my closest
friends in the scene! We entered the scene together,
and infact he only lives about 500 meters away from
my place! So who of us both knows better whether he
was in Success or not?
He has been in Extreme under the handle of Eye, and
then in Success (way before the co-op) where he
changed handle to Dooze.. Remember that unlike you
there are a lot of great and skilled sceners that be-
long to the quitter part of the scene, especially in
Hardcore! Dooze is a great gfxian, in the past he has
always been far, far better than me!
It is similar with our members Rap & Zoomo! They are
quite unknown to the scene, because they did not re-
leased that much, and many things released by them
them were even published without credits (some peo-
ple, unlike you, just do not care so much about popu-
larity!) still involved insiders know that Zoomo is one
of the very best graficians, and Rap one of the most
skilled coders!
Remember that Dooze was in Success during a period
in which whole Success/Germany was pretty inactive
was pretty inactive (which was when the dutch took
control in oder to keep the group alive). After a while
he left Success trying to open up his own group
which he wanted to call Desire, not knowing that
there has already been such a group in a distant
past in Holland.
Infact my old mag Inquiry (you know that atleast?) re-
leased under the Elysium label was firly meant to ap-
pear under Desire. However, this Desire attemp tur-
ned out to be pretty unsuccessful. There is a half
finished demo exisiting, and only 4 cracks were re-
leased! Afterwards, he lost interest in the scene, but
seeing his old pals in Hardcore back active again, he
wanted to come back again, too! Well, I hope you lear-
ned something? If you begin to doubt first hand news,
from reliable news supporters, like me, it could easily
happen that we stop supporting you! We are no way
dependent on your mag, but the other way round
mag-editors are dependent on the readers support.
Learn, Timo, learn!
We want that cleared up soon! There are no doubt-
full members in Hardcore, just because you do not
know them. You rather believe in what we tell you
about Hardcore, or do you want to claim that you
do know better, about what is going on in Hardcore?

Sincerly,
Zore/Hardcore
-------------

Dear Marc,

thanks a lot for your indeed nice reaction and the
promising try to teach me some lessons in scene
history.

Well, at first I want to point out that I would really ap-
preciate it if you would read the part about Dooze
again, and then what you wrote so clever in your
reaction. There is no single word saying that Dooze
never was a member of Success or that I proclaimed
you to be a LIAR, I just pointed out that we have ne-
ver heard before about this guy, and when I do write
WE you can be sure that I have spoken with a lot of
persons before I wrote it, next to my colleagues in
the RELAX MAGAZINE staff. We check out everything
twice, or if necessary more often, and because of no
confirmation from any side outside of Hardcare I ad-
ded that we can not confirm it YET! If you have not
understood the correct meaning of what I wrote do
me a special favour, consult someone who can trans-
late it for you CORRECTLY. Unlike you I think about
the words I choose to present my texts, and unlike
you I can care about the content. You want me to
learn anything?
Out of your text I could LEARN that Dooze is rather
unknown caused by several reasons, I did not get the
point of you blaming me for not knowing him and ador-
ing him in the way you would like to see it.
I am quite familar with the history of Success and
Hardcore, and if you would have followed all Relax is-
sues this year you would have the necessary back-
ground knowledge. On the other hand I know the SCS
story not only from tales of my actual group mates,
I have been around in the scene when the ORIGINAL
Success has seen the daylight for the first time. You
probably know, and have forgotten to mention it as it
seems you love details very much, Success as we use
to know it today is nothing else but a re-built group,
but that is nothing completely new for people being
around in the scene since ages and who are infact
very familar with the history of the group Success,
in order to fill up one of the gaps still left behind af-
ter your lessons in group history.
Furthermore I have no doubts about the skills of va-
rious Hardcore members, so I did not understand why
you spend so much time for Hardcore propaganda or,
public relation, if you prefer it named like this. While
reading your text I felt some negative attitude to-
wards my person, being steadily described as a per-
son heading for popularity. Somehow I have the bad
feeling to have found a bit of jealousy in here, as you
try to gain attention and popularity for your own and
your group without any remarkable background, as I
dare to pretend that my motivation to stay in the
scene is definately not getting attention, otherwise
there would be other outstanding methods for me to
get people talk about me. You have had your public
appearance here, and I hope you are pleased now, as
it seems that it was the movement for you writing an
indeed massive reaction, unfortunately its content
heading far away from the content of the Relax. Why
is it that you have not mentioned Dooze's last group
before he left the scene? Because Success sounds
much better and deserved more respect? Please let
us know again who is heading for attention and pro-
motion for himself, his group and the productions?

Sorry, Marc, but for sure a magazine depends on a
limited basis on the support of the readers, but to be
honest, we managed it to release 11 issues of our ma-
gazine without your support, and we guess we will be
able to release some more ones without your so mas-
sive support. For sure groups are in the need to see
news and information written about them in order to
prove to the masses that they are still alive, as ma-
gazines are able to create and to destroy reputa-
tions faster than you might think, so it is quite short-
sighted to point out that Hardcore is not in the need
of our magazine, even if we do not abuse our maga-
zine in that lame way. Groups normally do need all ma-
gazines around, as the news and headlines are some
kind of advertisement for them. A group without news
and movements, not being mentioned in the various
publications, is not interesting for the masses and
can be easily forgotten, and this seems not to be in
your interest, otherwise I could not follow the motiva-
tion of this childish public stunt from your side. You
have met the attention of a bright audience now and
hope that you are satisfied with the result.

To come to an end, Marc, please notice, if you think to
be in a position to give me some lessons, that I would
really appreciate it to see you doing it in a competent
way, not like you did in here. This was nothing else
but an own goal from your side, in my very own opi-
nion.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

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way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

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Relax 12

2008-01-14T15:13:25Z

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==Editorial==
<pre>
* EDITORIAL *
------------------------------------------------------------
The RELAX MAGAZINE in September '95 was brought
to you by PHUTURE, the follow-up of the former eu-
ropean part of Bad Bytes Entertainment Software.

Some of the readers might be surprised to see this
magazine being released under a different label by
now but this step already has been planned several
months ago. The only problem was to find an original
and fitting name to point out our aims and quality le-
vel in the most expressive way. Now the fitting name
has been found, we have our total independence and
can work on a more solid and serious basis on the
game sector and in the magazine front, as Phuture
is Phuture and not only the european division of
something else anymore, so we are not any longer in
the situation to care about other men's deeds, sailing
wearing our very own colours.

Some people complained about a game label releasing
a magazine that supports the cracking scene. Well,
the RELAX MAGAZINE does not support the cracking
scene, it reports about the happenings in the CBM 64
scene, and this scene contains both, illegal and legal
individuals. There is only one scene we all belong to,
don't you agree? We all share the hobby CBM 64 and
execute it coming up to our very own ideas, visions
and dreams to keep it as long as possible alive, re-
gardless if the main motivation is to release demos, to
develope games or to crack them even if the last one
is something we personally do dislike.
All people who are working for Phuture, may it be as
software engineer or magazine editor, are a part of
scene related groups, mainly upper class demo crews
who prove their skills in many productions by now. It
is a fact that we are getting a massive support from
cracking groups like Alpha Flight and Avantgarde as
both groups provide a lot of information issue by is-
sue and managed it to upgrade the magazine itself to
run on both CBM 64 computer systems, PAL and NTSC
what is for sure a big advantage in the seek to pre-
sent an interesting magazine to hundreds of readers
all over the world, something what is going to be sup-
ported by the effort they put in the magazine while
spreading it on the major boards worldwide and next
to the service of their mail traders to spread this
publication via mail.
The scene is one of the places where we in PHUTURE
have the chance to advertise our productions for
free and the scene is one of the places which con-
tains for sure a lot of potentional customers who are
interested in buying original software, with a nice
package and encluded instructions. Without the scene
we wouldn't be able to define the actual status and
popularity of the CBM 64 or meet the interest of our
potentional customers so we took the opportunity
to use the already for 10 years existing structures
for our interests. We didn't tell the public about our
outstanding visions or ideas, we REALISE them!
Maybe these people did not realise that there would
not have been a successfull CBM 64 without the ef-
fort of the scene, as there have been more advanced
computers worth to be bought on the market, and it
was the situation around the Amiga and the Atari ST,
but that is not the point. Most of the game producing
groups, labels or people are a part of the scene, and
some do need some support with i.e. graphics, musics
or whatever else. Guess who offers these people the
help they do need? How you find a forum for the peo-
ple who are interested to offer their skills and for
the people who are in the need of those skills? Yes,
it is the scene where almost all talented CBM 64 sup-
porters prove their skills, and that is exactly the
reason why we in Phuture decided to take this op-
portunity and to incurage all the game producers left
on this beloved 8-bit machine, as we would like to see
some more advanced and cool games to come, games
people will surely like and propably never forget,
next to some low budget productions in order to earn
some money to finance our ambitious projects. People
who would like to contribute with their work or people
who are searching for some support (graphics or
soundtracks) are always invited to contact us as
soon as possible, as there is still a market left for
CBM 64 games all over the world.
But as a small service for all of you without the ne-
cessary background information we would like to re-
flect your attention to a very respected company in
Germany who added regulary scene magazines onto
their programmdisks, and the company we are refer-
ing to is CP Verlag. There is absolute no need to in-
troduce this company as it is one of the few distribu-
tors left supporting the CBM 64 users regulary with
games and tools, their publications Game On, Magic
Disk and PlayTime are very familar to the 8-bit family
in Europe. CP Verlag released regulary issues of
well known magazines such as Mamba, Magic News (la-
ter known as Scene Press) and Propaganda and paid
an acceptable HONORAR per issue! This is a fact no
one can deny! Or what about the fact that a company
started cracking competitions, spread along with the
purchased copy next to the fact that they do accept
calling cards to guarantee an earlier copy of games
and previews, a special "service" used by the com-
plaining group just to get it to the top, something we
could for sure name as IRONY.
To complete this term a lot of other companies have
discovered the scene magazines as a platform to ad-
vertise or publish information texts such as the pro-
mising company Cherry Software from Sweden just to
name one fitting example. Nevertheless you all will for
sure remember the magazine "Sex'n Crime", the most
well known magazine ever, was edited by Amok, a game
label, too, just to please your information thirst com-
pletely.
Surely this magazine could be released wearing the
name of a participating group but would that be fair
against the other involved authors? Where is the
sense to release a magazine using a group's name
when more than 80% of the editors are from other
groups? Isn't it a little bit unfair against them as they
are working hard to realise their texts while other
people and groups earn the success? This can not be
a proper solution, but this is simply our very own
opinion about that topic, even if it is logical, objective
and worth to make people start thinking.

Friendship is another term worth to be discussed
these days as it is one of the most used words in the
scene. Unfortunately it seems that the word's cor-
rect definition is unknown to most persons using it.
What does friendship mean? Is it that everyone we
define worth to be a friend has to follow blindly the
way we decided to go, to follow our visions or refor-
mation ideas without requesting anything? Does he
have to share in general our opinion? Has he to vote
for us to prove our friendship? And for sure critism
is not allowed at all!
This sounds in fact very annoying, sad but true that
the reality looks like this, it is a sign of a social de-
fect from the persons seeking for fame and recog-
nition in the scene! Everyone who wants to get some-
thing special what could be useful in the seek to earn
fame is using the word friendship to get it, promising
votes or whatever else to get it. It is very usual that
the so-called friends use to vote for eachother as it
is a proof of their friendship in their opinion. Not only
that this is nothing but hypocrisy and ofcourse mani-
pulation of the charts which should be a mirror of the
skills and knowledge of groups and single persons,
but definately not a friendship table.
People who have been talking about friendship show
their real face when they do not get what they want
or if you dare to critisize them, because friendship in
their definition means that you have to serve them in
any way, and ofcourse that you have to support them
and their products in any way. But just have a look
at them when they do not get what they want or if you
expressed that you do not like their productions,
this is the time where you will find out who your real
friends are, the same people who have been preach-
ing friendship in the period where you have been in-
deed very useful for them to reach their aims, as
long as they can control or steer you coming up to
their interests.
Isn't it that a friendship offers the right to present
an own opinion, an objective opinion which is allowed
not to please the so-called friends? This society
system is called DEMOCRACY, but what most of the
wanna-get-famous scene related persons do prac-
tise is nothing but DICTATORSHIP and censorship or
how would you define the fact when you are not allo-
wed to publish your very own opinion? Do you define
people who do not accept your honest opinion as
friends? We don't do it, and we do not accept a be-
viour like this. We dare to present our very own opi-
nion and do not follow the trend and the easy way to
play the hyopcrite to get one to two more votes while
abusing the word FRIENDSHIP. We directly point out
what we use to think, but we try to remain objective
and fair working with facts and not speculation or
the latest gossip. Nevertheless we found out that the
experience to read/listen the truth can be painful,
but it is definately much better than living on a repu-
tation/identity built up of lies and we guess most of
you will figure it out in the real world, too, as there
does not exists the chance to write a childish disk-
note or whatever else to distort the facts in order
to save a questionable reputation while asking for
the attention of people who do not know the facts or
can pretend that the situation is transparent for
them so they simply do not have another chance to
believe you as they use to be your "friends" or at-
least it is the feeling what you give them, so they are
are willing to believe you, even if the presented facts
don't reflect the truth. When people call us arrogant
for releasing the truth we can live with it very well,
as we are informed about our current strength (and
weakness) because we've learnt to life with it, as the
standart editor of this publication is in the twenties
and has around six years of experience in the CBM
64 scene, so you can be sure that we have the know-
ledge and can care about the content of this maga-
zine, unlike many other competitors who prefer to
use a magazine as a propaganda media to spread
their ruthless preaches and begging for votes while
abusing once again the word friendship. For sure you
can call us arrogant and we accept your decision, on
the other hand you know that the content of this
publication is reliable, more reliable and objective
than most can stand these days, that is the major
problem people have with us these days, and with o-
ther persons spreading authentic news based on re-
liable facts.
But this social problem can be found in the real world
aswell, as it no computer specific or scene related
problem. People are only interested in earning fame
and to become the best using all fair and unfair me-
thods to reach their aim, and when they do not get
the expected confirmation they can not handle the si-
tuation anymore. Sad but true if an exciting hobby
can cause psychic problems, be sure we feel sorry
for the people having got this problem and hope that

they will find a cure to come back to a normal beha-
viour.
Just to finish this, even if it is drifting away from the
friendship term, another interesting thing is the very
brave and tough fight against the countless Nazis
who have infected the scene. Not that we do encou-
rage or accept NAZISM, but in fact we are missing the
opposition here! Where are these dangerous misfits
in the scene? Name us a few! Nazism is something we
do dislike, but fighting against it in the scene is the
wrong place as here is no one left defending this cri-
minal ideology, so the Anti-Nazism-Movement in the
scene is just another try to gain sympathy and popu-
larity, following the trends to please the masses, who
blindly follow an every trend dictated by the media,
paid by companies, parties and movements. It is not
only that those guys are fighting against not in here
existing enemies like Don Quixote attacking windmills,
they even dare to present a Nazi free magazine but
feel free to discriminate polish people by calling them
POLAKS. IRONY? SATIRICA? Unfortunately not! Pick it
up in your dictionary if you have any doubts!
People bring politics or religion into the scene, to bad
that a qualified background is missing. Unfortunately
many teenager read the idelogies of the scene maga-
zine editors and form their opinion using this infor-
mation source. What source? A questionabel disk ma-
gazine what is supposed to report about the scene,
and nothing else. Some start to complain about using
the pentagramm (very often used by i.e. Oxyron in
various productions on certain systems) by calling
people using it satanists, and satanists are said to
kill people in their rituals, and that is a reason to
avoid using this sign. Next in the row could be for
sure the communists (keep in mind how much people
were killed or put into concentrating camps in the
name of communism) or the Islamism (how about the
terroritst killing in the name of allah, today and in the
past) and last but not least there is the Christemdom
(remember the time when people were burned or the
crusaders invaded other countries in the name of
your god). Is that one good reason the forbid the u-
sage of a pentagram, hammer and sickel, a crescent
or last but not least the cross? Oh, we see you have
not thought about your preaches, as if you would
have done it you surely could define the system you
are using - CENSORSHIP, the first step to come back
to fashism! Well done!
What is next to come? Nuclear testing, we presume,
because there are no nuclear testers in the scene
aswell, and topics without opponents seem to be po-
pular to earn fame and to gain "friendship" these
days. It could be described as the easy method to get
points to raise in the charts, but that is not our term
here, as friendship should not be taken into consi-
deration while voting, even if 90% of all votes are the
so-called friendship or sympathy votes.
Please do us a special favour and think about the
previous lines, they are worth to be thought about
and will cause a lot of controversial and attention for
those who feel to be another innocent lamb victim of
our unlimited arrogance, when you call it arrogant to
present the truth.

In order to answer the questions of the motive of
last month's title picture, it's source was an Amiga Iff
picture drawn by Seq/Tristar and Red Sector Inc. PL
and it is called "Farfunda". It was converted by hand
putting two monitors next to eachother in a period of
around three months, for sure not doing it as a full-
time job, but from time to time when there was some
sparetime left to concentrate on the hard job. Com-
petent graphicians will notice the differences, caused
by RRR's individual style, but these conversations
are not ment to be 100% conversations but more to
be a personal version of the motive. We hope you will
will enjoy the forthcoming title graphics aswell, as the
Koala format seems not to be so popular anymore, as
graphics seem to be upgraded and more appreciated
using the Ifli format.
And it is still mysterious how other magazines and its
editors dare to report about the inactivity of our
co-editor PRI. Not only that he qualified judges the
musics for the demo reviews, next to this he still adds
impressive and outstanding soundtracks for the au-
dial background of the magazine, just for those who
haven't realised it yet. With this issue two pieces of
his latest work got presented, and we hope to please
all those well informed persons spreading rumours
without any background. We recognized the incompe-
tence, we hope the readers will notice it, too, as a
magazine is supposed to be an information media and
not a platform for ruthless propaganda in order to
manipulate the masses, readers who were prepared
to believe in what they use to read.

Some regards to Shuze/Alpha Flight, PVCF/Reflex,
Intruder/Avantgarde, BX/Origo Dreamline aswell as
Druid/Agony Design/Avantgarde and Syco/Chroman-
ce for their support (votesheet spreading, news, ...).

This edition's content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
The latest happenings in the scene can be found in
GLOBAL REPORT, followed by all the games and pre-
views released on the major boards during the pre-
vious months in the chapter RELEASE CHARTS. More
charts offer the MAIL and BOARD CHAPTERS, giving
an overview about the results of all the persons who
dared to fill in votesheets or used the voting booth
installed on Escapade as well as the votes collected
as private mail on the boards worldwilde. We got our
hands on Duke to INTERVIEW him, an interesting but
old one, held in July/August 1995. The OPEN LETTER
chapter had to be re-opened again as Crossfire
sent a reaction to the previous one and as an objec-
tive and independent magazine we feel free to publish
it, with our remarks about the content, and an offi-
cial reaction by the attacked group. In BACK TO THE
ROOTS we have covered this time party conflicts of
demo groups after all the troubles between cracking
groups in the previous editions. In the DEMO REVIEWS
we put a spotlight on Extremes and 7 years, both de-
moes released at the Assembly 1995. Finally there is
the ADVERTISEMENTS chapter, growing and growing
an every single edition.

* Credits for the September edition *
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACKS PRI/TIA/OXYRON
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET SKIDROW/EX-ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
ADDITIONAL THE IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

------------------------------------------------------------

* How to contact the Relax Magazine staff? *
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX
-------- XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

E-mail: HIC ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
----- ESC ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
TEI ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
(leave your mail on Marc's accounts)

Internet: RRR xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------- MAX xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

------------------------------------------------------------

* The Relax Magazine staff consists of *
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR DEFF/AVANTGARDE
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS

------------------------------------------------------------

We hope to have met your attraction with the issue
and look forward to meet you again in the forthcom-
ing editions, released on November 20th, 1995 and
January 5th, 1996.

Best regards in the name of the entire staff,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

September 30th, 1995
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==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
To support the scene with news (and rumours) should
be the major function of a magazine, that is a good
reason for us to put a lot of effort in collecting, in-
vestigating and proving what is going in the scene
these days, even if the activity decreases a lot with-
in the past few months, what is indeed very sad but a
logical consequence as the scene is getting more and
more uninteresting to the community of the few CBM
64 users left on the globe.

* Agony Design *
------------------------------------------------------------
Agony Design is one of the best polish demo groups
around, proving their skills in various demos. Lately
they have earned a lot of applause and attention with
one of the best styled and designed trackmos ever.

In order to guarantee a mass consumption of their
upcoming warez Agony recruited a mega swapper
called Chash.
Compod, the high ranked composer, is no longer a
member of Agony while Druid and Moog left the music
label Amorphis.
Some of their members decided to share their skills
with other groups, too, so Druid joined Avantgarde
while Roder enlarged the Reflex crew, both will re-
main in Agony as their first group.

Current Agony memberstatus looks like (= 22):
Astaroth, Chash, Comanche, Digger, Dr. Kaos, Druid,
Explorer, Glut, Hornet, Inco, Jetan, Moog, Morris,
Owen, Pat, Roder, Sailor, Shogoon, Skyle, Sliver,
Sonor and Stone

* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
It was again a busy period for the flight, even if we
missed the typical scandals which make the scene
more interesting.

With Blaze a new cracker and mail trader joined the
flight, after leaving Xenon for Chromance a short
time ago. Next to Afl he will remain in Galycia as his
second group.
Marc reduced his activity caused by re-starting his
education and heading for a master degree. Max is
going to have the final exams for his job (clerk in an
industrial company) so both reduced their activity a
lot during the past few weeks. This does mean that
Marc is now the "weekend" leader, with Styx taking
over most of the organisation part. In October Skin-
head has to join the german army, but that won't
mean too big changes as Ignorance took over the job
as main cracker when he teamed up with the flight.

The Pirate Island got formatted and won't go online
again as Chotaire decided to sell his bbs equipment.
At least he has left his second group Pandora, which
is supposed to die again sooner or later. Further-
more, caused by hardware problems (an infernal
hardware crash), Holiday Inn Cambodia is actually
down. Pol Pot is working on an improved version of
C-Base, fact is that he won't use the Radar-modded
version again to run his BBS. Keep patient.
Positive news come along with the comeback of The
Evil Island. Ancient Mariner is finally back in business
after his accident a while ago.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 17):
Ancient Mariner, Arne, Blaze, Calypso, Chotaire, Igno-
rance, Marc, Max, Murphy, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze, Skin-
head, Spider, Styx, Xenox and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s)
HOLDIAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE EVIL ISLAND ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE

* Avantgarde *
------------------------------------------------------------
Actually Avantgarde is the most popular cracking
group around, always releasing quality warez prepa-
red by qualified crackers and spread by a remark-
able mail trading section. The future will show if they
can continue on this level with Deff having got a new
job at BMG/Ariola (record company) and moving to
the new german capital Berlin.

Avantgarde goes east with building up a polish sec-
tion with adding Druid, the successfull Agony coder,
as secong group member, and Trimone, a mysterious
new original supplier, who is supposed to be a well
known person using a second handle.
Skywolf, a very talented graphic artist, appeared
again in the official Avantgarde memberstatus, hope-
fully some of his art will see the daylight soon.
The memberstatus got reduced with Decilion leaving
both, the group and the CBM 64 scene.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Chameleon, Cyborg, Deff, Derbyshire Ram, Druid, Eli-
minator, Jack Alien, Jack Daniels, Rage, Renegade,
Skywolf, Suicide, Thorm, Tricom, Trimone and Weasel

Avantgarde worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* CHROMANCE *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance seems to be finally back in business with
a lot of new members upgrading the group level and
with a lot of members returning from the army ser-
vice.

At first we have to point out that Spider, who seems
to have problems to define his current status and
probably does not himself in which group he belongs
to, never was a member of the Chromance posse.
Zag, one of their new mail traders and original supp-
liers, renamed into Scatman.
Fresh blood got added with Techno/ex-SCS & TRC,
who joined in as cracker and mail trader. Further-
more Pete/Onslaught joined in as second group mem-
ber. Last but not least Motion, who got kicked out of
Noice some time ago, teamed up as a modem and mail
trader.
Wozio is going to finish his army service on October,
2oth. He will run a board called Count(r)y Jail and of
course restart his swapping activities. Mr. Wax and
Jazzy D are said to be back in full effect, too. At-
last they still spread the rumour that Edge of Mid-
night, their down WHQ, will go online again.
Some members decided to leave Chromance such as
Stake and Homeboy, who are now in Onslaught only,
taking along Joyride with his board Highway, too.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 21):
AMC, Bolee, Griff, Immortal, Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D,
Lion, Motion, Mr. Wax, Pete, Rough, Rug Rat, Scatman,
Skull, Spermbird, Syco, Techno, The Unholy, Will and
X-Radical

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT (still down) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
COUNTRY JAIL ++XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
Actually F4CG does not belongs to the most active
cracking groups around and it seems that they will
concentrate on building a good demo section. It is for
sure nice to see that they released their magazine
Propaganda, which is released independent, more re-
gular these days.

F4CG built up a SNES section with some CBM 64 pro-
files such as Antitrack, Hobbit, Newscopy, Solar and
Stormrider with his board Tunnel of Warez, which will
be their SNES WHQ.
On the CBM 64 Newscopy and Motley are very busy
with organising Cherry Software, a company looking
very promising on the first view.
Memberwise once a little change occured, with Worm
from Poland joining in on trial as a graphic artist.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 26):
Antitrack, Aristo, Bitman, Cerebus, Cybersurfer, Cy-
borg, Decoder, Devil, Draz, Fen 1, Hain, King, Maja,
Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy,
Smasher, Sneaper, Solar, Total Chaos, Walker and
Worm

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT

* Hardcore *
------------------------------------------------------------
After the cooperation with Onslaught broke, both
have to prove that they can survive and compete as
indepedent parts. They showed some effort with some
releases aswell as in the legal scene, planning to re-
lease a magazine. Unfortunately they still have not
got an official board as worldheadquarter, not in the
States nor in Europe.

Hardcore added a few new members to their status,
starting with Creat/ex-Padua and Zoomo, formerly
known as Gordon who was a member of Success and
Origo, both are graphic artists. Last but not least a
certain Dooze teamed up. He got introduced as a
former Success member, too, something we can not
confirm yet, as this handle is unknown to most of us.
Aswell new in this team is Nebula/ex-Excess, who got
introduced as cracker, coder and composer.
More confusing is the situation around Human. A few
weeks ago Hardcore spread on the boards that Hu-
man renamed into Ticket, these days other sources
claimed that his new handle is Q-Tip, and in the latest
Hardcore status he appeared as Human again. We will
keep you updated.

Current Hardcore memberstatus looks like (= 16):
B-Wyze, Blockbuster, Carlos, Communist, Creat, Doo-
ze, Dr. Disk, Human, Leeway, Nebula, Ramirez, Rap,
Shocker, Volunteer, Zoomo and Zore

* Hitmen *
------------------------------------------------------------
The lately re-built Hitmen proved to be a capable
competitor for the NTSC fixers, curiously they even
fixed for persons they declared to enemies only a
few months ago.

Hitmen increased their memberstatus with Dodger,
who got known with his work for DynamicTechnologies
(Dytec), a man who joined Onslaught a few weeks ago.
It seems that Shok'Ray (ex-Sorcerer, ex-Dreamlover
etc...) joined in, too, after being being a short time
member of Onslaught, even if this membership was
classified as inofficial. He teamed up as second group
member as he will remain in Megastyle Productions as
his first group.
To improve their effort in the mail scene they allowed
Suzuki, a former member of Dytec, Equinoxe and many
other groups, to join on trial to serve as a mail tra-
der, but just a few days later he got send back to the
hell where we appeared from.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 13):
Curlin, Dodger, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jihad, Jinx, Lawn-
moverman, Peacemaker, Raze, Shok'Ray, Tranzie,
Tyron and Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Motiv 8 is a group many persons discuss about. Their
methods and releases are partly questionable, ne-
vertheless we should not forget the effort they put
in the scene to keep it alive, even if many persons do
not appreciate it.

Greenfrog finally set up a WWW homepage for Motiv 8,
proudly they announced that they were the first C64
group (according to their knowledge).
Motiv 8 is interested to recruit one or two decent
graphic artists and a few mail traders to enlarge
their forces and activity level.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 14):
BinJinx, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog, Grego,
Ibanez, Iceball, Mason, Merlin, Mizar, Natas, Stone and
TG-Acme

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
FTP: BBS.CC.UNIUD.IT
HTTP: //WWW.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.De/-Grfrog/

* Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
Without any doubts Onslaught, with their indeed young
history, can be called the group with the highest
fluctuation. After the cooperation with Hardcore
splitted up they have to prove if they can compete
with the top cracking groups around.

From Chromance Onslaught recruited the sysop Joy-
ride along with his board The Highway which will be
mainly used as Onslaught Design HQ. Along with him
Stake and Homeboy decided to leave Chromance in
order to work for Onslaught only.
Shok'Ray has been for a short time a member of the
australian based group, but this visit was declared to
be inoffical. Shok'Ray went to Hitmen later on. Baze,
who was a former member of Illusion, got kicked out
as we did not realised what people expected from him
and nothing is as annoying as an inactive swapper.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 26):
ASV, Bizarre, Cubehead, Deekay, Doom, Gop, Grize,
Hardsequencer, Heavyhead, Jayce, Jazzcat, Jolz,
Joyride, KBS, L.A. Style, Marcus, Morbid, Morrisey,
Pete, Shades, Sphere, Stake, The Last Hacker, The
Twins, Trouble and Vengeance

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX-XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX-XXXX
HIGHWAY ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* Origo Dreamline *
------------------------------------------------------------
A lot of rumours were cruising around a demo relea-
se from one of the leading demo groups a few years
ago, and it seems that it will become reality.

Currently BX is working on new routines for the
demo, which was supposed to be released at the As-
sembly 1995, but unfortuantely it was not finished due
to lazyness. Now Origo plans to release the demo at
The Tribute 1996 or at any other party.
Zardax is working on CBM 64 soundtracks again. Two
pieces of his latest work have been heard in Extre-
mes from Byterapers and a third one won the music
competition at the Assembly.
Even if the other members are not so active yet BX
and Zardax hope to push them and to see them work-
ing for the demo aswell. In a few days all current
members will have internet access.

Current Origo memberstatus looks like (= 6):
BX, CLF, Destino, Mixer, Slayer and Zardax

* Reflex *
------------------------------------------------------------
Reflex is actually the most active demo group and
seems to be the most compact group around with ex-
perienced programmers, artists and a well known
composer. Their trackmo MATHEMATICA, which was
supposed to be released at the SATURNE party which
was cancelled once again, will be released later on,
probably at The Party 1995.

Roder, who is in fact a good graphic artist, joined in
to spread some of his art using the Reflex label while
remaining in Agony Design as first group. Warp 8 has
left Reflex for the lately rebuilt Flash Inc.
PVCF has some problems with his mail organisation
so he kindly ask all persons who mailed him during the
past six weeks to re-contact him once again. Please
avoid to use the address printed in Skyhigh, as it is
definately not HIS real address.

Current Reflex memberstatus looks like (= 11):
Dr. Kaos, Felidae, Guru, Happymaker, Hogan, Johnny
Walker, Private Soldier, PVCF, Roder, Quiss and Zorc

* Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
Most of the headlines around the dutch cooperation
were based on the board(s), and the saga continues
this issue again.

The Dungeon, worldheadquarter of SCS&TRC and Hit-
men, is down! At the moment no one is able to get in
contact with Alchemist as both lines, voice and board
number, got disconnected. No one really knows what's
going on. The same goes for The Lost Empire, their
dutch board runned by Guzzler. After the board
went down no one was able to contact Guzzler, who
has a secret telephone number.
State Of The Art went down, too, but went online again
for a short time, then it went down again. Our sour-
ces said there appeared problems with the bill and it
will go online under a new number again.
Techno, a polish cracker and mail trader, left them in
order to join the Chromance posse.
Current SCS&TRC memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Burglar, Cavron, CBA,
Credo, Dannie, Def Beat, Jity, JRC, Lord Crucifier,
Micron, Moren, Mystery, Nightshade, Replay, Rebel MC
Sailor, Sliver, Spectator, Splatterhead, Titanic and
Trax

SCS&TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON (down!) ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
STATE OF THE ART (down!) ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX

* Single News and Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* Assembly 1995 Party Results
------------------------
* Demo Competition
--------------
Pos. Points Group Title
------------------------------------------------------------
01 3874 Byterapers Extremes
02 2227 Panic Break Through II
03 22 12 Beyond Force 7 Years

* Music Competition
--------------
Pos. Points Composer Title
------------------------------------------------------------
01 2224 Zardax/Origo Martinism
02 2016 Thor/Extend Kirta
03 1983 Dr. Voice/Panic Compotune

* Graphic Competition
----------------
Pos. Points Artist Title
------------------------------------------------------------
01 2631 Mike/Byter. Inc Dragon
02 2628 Debris/Panic Compopicture
03 1636 Votka/Pullo Animaali

* Rockstar, the well known fixer and cracker, former
member of groups like Contex and Talent just to
name a few, joined the finnish based group Palace.
Their composer Flotsam announced to have finished
the army service and is back in the scene to pro-
vide some nice tracks again.

* Unifier (ex-Spirit, Flash Inc, Censor) is now a mem-
ber of the PC section of Noice.

The above printed news were all and the most impor-
tant ones we were able to collect and to prepare for
you. After observing the activity of the scene for
several months by now it seem that it slows down an
every month and the number of releases decreases
proportional.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Masters of Law...

Deff and Marc

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed within 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation -1.0/ - 2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
------------ ------------

And here we go...

* Alpha Flight 1970 (9.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed version of FASTBALL
(3.5 pts) from Loadstar. Followed by DREAM
(0.2 pts) preview, Chromance released the preview
at the same time so the points will be shared. Then
they re-released the preview of SUPER PAC BALL
(- 7 pts), Onslaught released it some days earlier!
Last but not least they released a little preview
called TWIN BALLS 2 (0.4 pts) and two Budget Games
MC RAT (6.5 pts) Pal/Ntsc fixed and ZINJ COMPLEX
(6.0 pts) from TWDLSI Software.

* Avantgarde (12.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the following previews MORTAL DOG-
FIGHT (0.4 pts), REAXION (0.3 pts), CUBIC (0.3 pts)
followed by the Ntsc fix from SILVA POD (1.0 pts) for
Hardcore, Hardcore will get no points for it because
we gave allready pal Points in the last issue. Last but
not least they uploaded the fixed versions of MORFIX
(3.2 pts), DUNGEON WARRIORS (3.3 pts) and NUMM
(4.0 pts). NUMM will get one extra point because they
translated it to english!

* Chromance (16.2 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their wares rush started with a usefull tool called
GAME EDITOR + CONVERTER (0.0 pts), then they
uploaded a Hungarian Budget Game, ANGEL OF HELL
(6.1 pts), they will get one extra point because they
redraw the main picture. The fixed versions of VIDEO
MANIES (3.0 pts), two points because it is a PD Game
and one point for the Ntsc fix, BRAIN DISEASE 2 -
THE RETURN (3.2 pts) and BREAK IT (3.1 pts), TRC+
SCS released this game some months ago but this
version includes the intro! And three previews called
DUNGEON MASTER (0.3 pts), TECHNO DREAM (0.3 p.)
and DREAM (0.2 pts), AFL and Chromance released
DREAM at the same time, so the points will be shared!

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group (3.7 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released these previews PLUFF (0.6 pts), LOST
(0.3 pts), BODEGA EJNAR (0.4 pts) and a tool called
DRAZPAINT V2 (0.0 pts). LAZERTECH (2.4 pts) from
Loadstar and TRENER (0.0 pts). TRENER will get no
points becasue it is complete in Basic!

* Hardcore (0.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
SILVA POD (0.0 pts) got fixed by Avantgarde and we
gave the pal points in the last issue! Followed by two
previews MOPPEL THE NEKROLAST (0.3 pts) and M.
TORTURE (0.3 pts).

* Hitmen (3.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with two previews CROSS IT (0.3 pts),
THC BROS (0.3 pts) and Ntsc fixed for Onslaught
AMNESIA (1.0 pts) and the 100% sales version of
SHATTERLANDS (1.0 pts) and for Trc+Scs, FUN DUEL
(1.0 pts) from CP Verlag.

* Motiv 8 (1.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released PUZZLE RAGE (0.0 pts), QUIZMASTER
(0.0 pts), COLLINS (0.0 pts), CRYPTOQUAD (0.0 pts),
and STOREHOUSE (0.0 pts) all games are from Load-
star and complete in Basic, so no points will be given!
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS 2 (0.0 pts) because it is a
text adventure and JIGSTAR (1.0 pts) one point for
something special!

* Onslaught (9.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the following previews GENOCIDE
(0.4 pts), FLASHBACK (0.1 pts), CYBERWING (0.5 p.)
ICE TEA (0.5 pts), SUPER PAC TWINS (0.5 pts),
CRONIC THE BADGER (0.2 pts) and AMNESIA (4.0 pts)
and the 100% sales version of SHATTERLANDS
(2.9 pts) both games got fixed by Peacemaker of
Hitmen.

* Success & The Ruling Company (4.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released these previews of MAGICAL FORMULA
(0.8 pts), BOMBEL (0.1 pts), CELTIX (0.6 pts), LITTLE
DUCK (0.2 pts), PYMARID (0.2 pts) and the unplay-
able version of MAYHEM (0.1 pts). FUN DUEL
(2.4 pts) from CP Verlag got fixed by Peacemaker
of Hitmen

Merged in to a table it looks like this:

The official Release-Charts September 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (4) Chromance 16.2
02. (1) Avantgarde 12.5
03. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 9.6
04. (3) Onslaught 9.1
05. (8) SCS+TRC 4.6
06. (5) F4CG 3.7
07. (/) Hitmen 3.6
08. (/) Motiv 8 1.0
09. (3) Hardcore 0.6

The official Fixing-Charts September 1995
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 4
(3) Chromance
0. (/) Hitmen 3
03. (2) Alpha Flight 1970 2

Thanks for their help to: Jack Alien/Avt
The Ignorance/Afl

Yours sincerly,

Deff/Avantgarde
Marc/Alpha Flight 1970

Starting with the next issue some changes will occur.
First we have to report about Deff leaving the staff
due to the fact that he pointed out not having enough
sparetime left to continue the job. As you probably
know he has a new job and has to move houses to the
german capital Berlin. We wish you all the best for the
future.
The second thing we would like to proclaim is that,
starting from the next issue, we thought about use-
ful modifications in the point system. The first impro-
vement is that we will reduced the minus points for
preview re-releases down to -1, as 1.0 point is the
maximum score you can get for a preview, what seems
to be a more fair solution in our eyes due to the fact
of the mass of previews and upgraded previews re-
leased these days. We intend to do something like this
with Budget and Low Budget games, too, but actually
the debate has not been finished yet. For these ga-
mes you can only get a short amount of points, so it's
little bit confusing to get minus points for a FULL-
PRIZE game, so the punishment is for sure overrated
in our opinion.
Re-Re-Releases will be handled as normal Re-Relea-
ses and won't be punished twice any longer!

Best regards,

Marc/Alpha Flight
---------------
RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets, otherwise
they could be called mail traders.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (welcome back) in the United
States of America. Furthermore it is possible to vote
by sending e-mail to Marc/Afl at an every elite board
worldwide. There exists the opportunity to vote via
Internet, too, by mailing your votes to Max' or RRR's
account and it will be taken into condiseration while
counting the votes.

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

* TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 97
02. (2) Byterapers 92
03. (3) Reflex 89
04. (7) Agony Design 74
05. (4) Camelot 53
06. (5) Fairlight 49
07. (6) Censor Design 36
08. (10) Focus 32
09. (/) Taboo 28
10. (8) Triad 18

The top three still remains unchanged! Oxyron, Byte-
rapers and Reflex at the top, followed by Agony, a
group getting more and more popular after releasing
the fantastic designed trackmo called Love. New in
the charts is Taboo and we wonder why they did not
get enough points in the previous issue. Unfortuna-
tely, maybe caused by their inactivitiy, Elysium had to
leave the top ten list.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CODER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 94
02. (1) TTS/Oxyron 93
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 75
04. (6) Quiss/Reflex 72
05. (7) Graham/Oxyron 70
06. (4) Brush/Elysium 57
07. (5) MMS/Taboo 52
08. (6) Crossbow/Crest 44
09. (10) Druid/Agony Design 39
10. (9) Glasnost/Camelot 25

Mr. Sex finally managed it to overtake TTS but there
are dark clouds coming up in form of several ru-
mours about Mr. Sex's routines. Nevertheless Quiss
and Graham are still on their up and it seems that no
one can stop them, except for the voters. Druid has
been climbing, too, but only a little bit slower basis.
In fact Axis is missing here, watch out for his great
routines waiting to be released!

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 94
02. (2) Alpha Flight 87
03. (3) Success & TRC 82
04. (5) F4CG 72
05. (4) Chromance 65
06. (7) Motiv 8 54
07. (6) Onslaught 39
08. (8) Fairlight 37
09. (6) Hardcore 30
10. (10) Excess 25

Nothing new on the top, Avantgarde is still the most
successfull group on the boards, followed by Alpha
Flight and the dutch cooperation of Success & The
Ruling Company. After the split of the other coope-
ration of Hardcore and Onslaught both left a lot of
power to impress the powers, actually Onslaught had
the better start, located on # 7, while Hardcore is on
# 9 only. Talent finally left the charts, after missing to
show a lifesign for many months.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/Avt 91
02. (2) Burglar/Scs 83
03. (3) Ignorance/Afl 79
04. (4) Antitrack/F4CG 62
05. (5) Kirby/Atlantis 55
06. (6) Bacchus/Fairlight 52
07. (10) Hain/F4CG 39
08. (8) Skinhead/Afl 25
09. (7) Moren/SCS 22
10. (9) Powerplant/Legend 15

Hmh, it seems that the most votes are standart votes
but nevertheless there are few but rather unimpor-
tant changes. Jack Alien is still on top, Powerplant
has been voted down to ten.

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 89
02. (2) Electric/Extend 82
03. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 76
04. (4) RRR/Oxyron 64
05. (5) Scope/F4CG 53
06. (6) Mirage/Focus 50
07. (/) Creeper/Antic 47
08. (7) Carrion/Elysium 34
09. (8) Rob/Camelot 28
10. (9) Roder/Agony Design 12

Cruise is still on the top, defending his top spot
successfully, followed by Electric and Ogami. Last
month we have pointed out that we thought Creeper
is missing here, and it seemed to be that all board
scene remember to give him some more votes to join
the top ten, a position he surely deserves as he is a
person belonging to the VIC manipulators on this
system. He replaced Biz Kid, not much action in here
worth to be reported about.

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 95
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 84
03. (3) Danko/Censor 72
04. (4) Shogoon/Taboo 63
05. (5) Jeroen Tel/Focus 55
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot 49
07. (/) PVCF/Reflex 37
08. (8) Red Devil/Fairlight 35
09. (7) EVS/20CC 24
10. (9) Reyn Ouwehand 18

Not much action in here. PRI at the top, Syndrom and
Danko at the following places. Only the appearance
of PVCF brought along some action while Arne disap-
peared. Close to the charts are Compod and Fanta.

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Avantgarde 74
02. (1) Alpha Flight 70
03. (/) Hitmen 55
04. (3) Success & TRC 42
05. (/) F4CG 32
06. (4) Empire 20
07. (5) Demonix 14
08. (/) ./. ./.
09. (/) ./. ./.
10. (/) ./. ./.

Well, well, well. Only a few groups who were able to
gain some votes. Avantgarde took over the crown
here, sending Alpha Flight back to two. Hitmen finally
entered the charts on the three while F4CG entered
at five. The american can not compete with the euro-
pean top, but that is no secret anymore.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/Hitmen 98
02. (3) Suicide/AVT 93
03. (2) CBA/TRC 86
04. (4) Pudwerx/ex-AVT 75
05. (5) Booze/Empire 72
06. (6) Jack Alien/AVT 64
07. (9) Ignorance/AFL 59
08. (8) Vizz/Empire 53
09. (7) Mercenary/Empire 49
10. (10) Sidekick/Demonix 26

Boring, boring, boring. Where are the big changes?
Come on! It is getting boring. Just a few position
changes in the midfield. Peacemaker is at the well de-
serves pole position, and there is probably no one
able to give him a challenge. Well, to be honest, when
have we seen the last fix from an american? Or if you
prefer, when do we have seen the last one after good
old Pudwerx left? You can not remember? So do we!

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on Internet by leaving
E-mail to Max or RRR!

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Grapevine 16/The Dark Realm JULY 1995
Propaganda 18/Independent JULY 1995
Skyhigh 18/Camelot AUGUST 1995
Nitro 15/Excess SEPTEMBER 1995
Propaganda 19/Independent SEPTEMBER 1995
The Tribune 53/Angry SEPTEMBER 1995
Vandalism News 23/Onslaught SEPTEMBER 1995

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 76
02. (2) Camelot 65
03. (3) Byterapers 62
04. (9) Reflex 43
05. (4) Fairlight 40
06. (6) Censor Design 32
07. (9) Taboo 29
08. (10) Agony Design 25
09. (7) Antic 21
10. (5) Crest 13

Oxyron proved to be the worthy and well earned hol-
der of the top spot again followed by Camelot and the
finnish Byterapers. Reflex is the highest climber and
for sure the most active and valueable demo group
in 1995. Crest lost several places.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 77
02. (1) TTS/Oxyron 73
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 57
04. (7) Graham/Oxyron 48
05. (4) Crossbow/Crest 30
06. (5) MMS/Taboo 29
07. (6) Tron/Fairlight 25
08. (8) Axis/Oxyron 23
09. (/) Quiss/Reflex 18
10. (9) Bob/Censor Design 15

Mr. Sex took over the crown, but a little bit sang a
song containing interesting rumours. We will start
further investigation. Graham climbed to four and fi-
nally Quiss entered the charts at nine, and we dare
to write that he will be located on a much better posi-
tion next time, replacing KM. Close to entert the Top
Ten is for sure Druid, actually at 11.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 78
02. (2) Success & TRC 71
03. (3) F4CG 57
04. (5) Alpha Flight 55
05. (3) Chromance 50
06. (8) Motiv 8 27
07. (/) Hardcore & Onslaught 26
08. (/) Atlantis 19
09. (7) Dytec 12
10. (6) Excess 11

It is rather needless to say that Avantgarde is still
leading the cracking groups, followed by Success and
The Ruling Company on two and F4CG on three. Alpha
Flight overtook Chromance, who came back his loads
of warez. Hardcore and Onslaught are new in as co-
operation, maybe in a few months the voters will have
noticed that the coop is over. Atlantis entered the
charts, too, as a logical consequence of their solid
work. Fairlight and TRSI, which is said to be dead on
the CBM 64, left the Top Ten, probably forever.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/AVT 79
02. (2) Burglar/SCS 73
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 61
04. (4) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 51
05. (6) CBA/TRC 49
06. (10) Ignorance/AFL 24
07. (5) Bacchus/FLT 23
08. (7) Mr. Wax/<C> 22
09. (/) Moonchild/FLT 18
10. (9) Skinhead/AFL 10

The top four remains unchanged with Jack Alien at
the pole position, followed by Burglar, Hain and Der-
byshire Ram. Ignorance, who is according to his un-
believable versions the number one cracker these
days, jumped from ten to six. With Moonchild we find a
newcommer in the charts, mainly supported by polish
votes. He replaced Powerplant, who finally left the
charts. Close to the charts is Crossfire at eleven.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Electric/Extend 74
02. (2) Creeper/Antic 73
03. (4) Joe/Wrath Design 59
04. (3) Cruise/Taboo 53
05. (5) Ogami/Fairlight 42
06. (6) Fazee/Taboo 32
07. (7) RRR/Oxyron 28
08. (8) Carrion/Elysium 16
09. (10) Roder/Agony/Reflex 15
10. (9) Hein Design/Focus 12

A very close finishing in the artists' top ten, a list
with a steady change at the top. Electric is still at
the top spot, followed by Creeper with one point of
distance only. Cruise is for sure too low voted, as he
is for sure a candidate for the top position, too. No-
thing new in here. Mirage is close to the charts at e-
leven.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 80
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 72
03. (5) Compod/Charged/.... 45
04. (/) PVCF/Reflex 37
05. (3) Jeff/Camelot/CZP 35
06. (8) Zyron/Antic/TR/Swe 34
07. (9) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 33
08. (10) Red Devil/Fairlight 26
09. (6) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 25
10. (4) Jeroen Tel/Focus 23

PRI is infact the only person in this issue who has
has reached the ultimate maximum - 80 points. There
is for sure no need to point out that he really de-
serves it, as he is a damn brilliant musician in real
life, too. There was a lot of action this time, with the
Reflex composer PVCF entering the charts at four, a
man who uses to know using other systems to create
great soundtracks, too. Unfortunately Drax has left
the charts, but we have not heard too much from him
lately. Close to the charts is, next to Drax, Danko of
Censor.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Intruder/AVT 78
02. (1) Calypso/AMN/AFL 71
03. (5) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 54
04. (4) Splatterhead/TRC 48
05. (3) Spermbird/<C>/EX 47
06. (6) Sebaloz/KA/LD 25
07. (/) Syco/<C> 19
08. (7) Starlight/XTC/TPY 18
09. (/) H-Bloxx/EX 12
10. (/) Shuze/AFL 10

Intruder is not leading the Mail Trader charts alone,
with Calypso moving down to two and Derbyshire Ram
raising to three. New in the charts are Syco, H-Bloxx
and Shuze, while Tabasco, Dr. Kaos and Styx left them
them. Curiously they were on the positions eight to
ten in the previous issue.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Skyhigh 69
02. (1) Nitro 62
03. (4) Vandalism News 52
04. (8) Shout! 49
05. (6) Domination 46
06. (/) The Tribune 32
07. (/) Mendip 29
08. (3) Revealed 22
09. (9) Insider 20
10. (5) Jamaica (+) 15

At the top Nitro and Skyhigh changed places while
The Tribune and Mendip entered the charts, replacing
the "dead" magazines Reformation and Ingenious
Brain. Close to the charts are Propaganda and the
Relax Magazine, both having partly high entries in the
better contributors in the magazine front.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* Interview *
------------------------------------------------------------
On our glory quest to find a new victim for this chap-
ter we are proud to present an interesting interview
with one of the best magazine editors ever: Duke/ex-
Regina.
The next lines will give all of you a closer look inside
Duke, his ideas and visions. Before we are going to
bore you with the introduction text we just start
over ...

* Hello Alex. At first we start over with some stan-
dart questions. Please introduce yourself as our
readers are interested in some personal informa-
tion.

:) Well, hi there. As most people probably know, I am an
old fanatic scener, known as the main editor and
inventor of The Pulse. My real name is Alex Hylke,
and I am 20 years old. I am still at school, but will
probably soon join the army to serve my country.
I am not all too keen on that, as I do not know where
in Denmark I will be located, and since I am most ad-
dicted to the place I live, I am hoping to be placed
here.
Computing is one of my hobbies, but in the last year
or so, I haven't really used my computer, expect
for a couple of days a months where I needed to
type in the magazine. It's become more of an exist-
ance in my head, and an interaction topic at school
when I surfe the internet. I spent most of my time
hanging out with my friends, and following my num-
ber one interest, football. I am totally crazy on
football, more than I haver been on anything. I have
now followed my local side, AaB, for about 4 sea-
sons - and last season we won the championship
for the first time in the clubs 110 years old history.
That was a real kicker, we partied to the next
day - what a headache I had the next day.
Besides loving football, I also love studying the me-
dia. I normally watch a couple of talkshows a day,
Rivera Live and The Tonight Show are favourties
of mine - both showing on NBC Super Channel. I be-
lieve they have helped me in understanding how to
do a magazine myself, not to compare a magazine
with a talkshow, but there are simularities when it
comes to picking up a good issue to debate - and
giving allround entertainment for the readers. I al-
so love going to the movies. I normally go a couple
of times a month with my brother, and then we also
like to rent a lot of good movies, and discuss them.
I guess I have a naive dream of once becoming a big
movie director - but as I have said, a dream.
There are so many things to say about me, that I
wouldn't know where to begin. I am also a big belie-
ver in freedom. I dislike Socialism, Communism and
Nazism, but love Liberalism. I believe in freedom of
speech, I dislike censorship, I dislike the govern-
ment trying to control everything, I believe in the
individual instead of the movement, etc. I am a very
liberal guy as you can see, who loves football - I
even go with the other fanatic supporters to most
of the away games. Therefore probably most of my
money goes to the footy adventure! Ah well, I am
not that simple a guy as you can see, but there you
have it. :)

* Hmh, I prefer to watch sitcoms and soap operas as
they reflect the situation of the scene today - be-
ing at an extremly low level! But the CBM 64 scene
exists for almost twelve years now. How did you
start your very own career, how did you got your
handle and what groups have been stations so far?

:) I started rather late, much later than many of my
colleagues may think. I entered the scene in 1989,
but at that time nothing but a faceless rookie eager
to learn. I had huge respect for the elite part of
the scene, and I tried to note down everything they
said and did. After a couple of groups I ended up in
a Danish demo and cracking group called THE
FREAKS. I was happy at that time, because I was
able to built up a pretty good number of contacts,
and my name was farely known to people around
Europe. After a while I asked the DOMINATORS if I
could join, but already having too many members
they declined my offer. But shortly after I was of-
fered to join IKARI (at that time in co-operation
with TALENT), and so I did. My only job was working
as a swapper, something I have always loved doing-
but these days not enough time for (except a few
contacts). A couple of weeks later I was asked by
DOMINATORS to join them, and always having admi-
red them for their image and way of working, I im-
mediately left Ikari to join in. This was where the
best days of my scene-life began. I swapped with
up to 150 contacts at one point, and wares were
floating in like crazy. There were plenty of things
to do, but all of a sudden I was given the opportuni-
ty of calling out. Well, considering it I agreed to it,
and started doing that sideways with swapping. Af-
ter a while, I decided to give up my swapping to de-
dicate all of my work to the american boards.
I started making a name for myself, and achieved
friendship with some of the most prominent names
names in the scene. I was on hundreds of confe-
rences (back then there was atleast one every
day) and called about 15 boards a day. Things were
kind of getting out of hand I agree, but I was having
fun, and it was nothing like anything I had ever
tried before. Meanwhile I built up the well-known
demo group VISUAL REALITY with Drax and Mick,
and managed to bring known names into the group,
such as Hawk, Ricky and Walt from Bonzai - among
other names such as FOX from Dominators. But
every good thing has an end, and I was busted and
all my equipment was brought into the police-station
It was a funny feeling I had at that time, it's like you
are going 200 miles an hour, and all of a sudden
you're just sitting down going no-where. I was told
by the cops that I could be let off easy if I gave
them some stuff on other Dominators members,
especially DOGFRIEND, but I told them to go ahead
and do what they wanted to do with me - because I
was not telling them anything. After that unfortu-
nate incident, I left for the United States to visit a
friend of mine, Mutant X. We had some fun, and I
called some boards again at his place. A couple of
months later I returned to Denmark, and started my
education. About 6 months into my freshman year, I
started lusting for the 64 again. I planned doing a
magazine, and simsalabim, The Pulse was born. In
the beginning it was just ment to be a small mag, no-
thing big or even serious. But later on it grew big-
ger, and it was released under various groups. I
I'd dedicated my new-born scene mentality to The
Pulse, and sore to reacht the top one day - even if
it took a hell of a lot of work. I worked hard, and
one day it reached the very top - it was number
one in most magazines, and it had a lot of very lo-
yal readers who loved it. I had succeeded in creat-
ing something, and that something had also suc-
ceeded. It was if I started sufficating, I didn't really
bother anymore. My artciles were short and imcom-
plete, and I started to look towards other things
instead of my computer. Finally, I decided to stop my
activities. At the time I couldn't imagine ever going
back, but that's how the C64 are to you. I someti-
mes compare it to smoking - hard quitting, easy
starting. Anyway, now I am back, releasing The
Pulse as independent. I have considered joining
some group to give The Pulse a new home, but I
haven't deicded which offer to take. I have been
given some good ones, but I would like to get more.
To wrap this huge answer up, I can tell you that my
handle comes from the game Alter Ego. I once saw a
topic, in which a guy was called DUKE. I thought, hey
that's like the highest royal title you can achieve
with a normal background - and so it was written ...

* The Pulse Magazine is one of the most popular pub-
lications ever. Please tell us something about the
past, present and future. What was the reason for
the comeback?

:) The Pulse Magazine is a very difficult magazine to
run, probably the most difficult I would presume.
This is why I have chosen to manage it the way I do-
there is only one boss, and that boss is me. If there
were more people to decide over everything, then
we would have had constant delays like other ma-
gazines, something I am not very keen on. My philo-
sophy is, either we do it right right or we don't do
it at all, and that is the way I have run The Pulse
over many editions. It was actually first released in
1990 as a sort of lame regular magazine, but at
that time I was a terrible editor and naive about the
scene. I managed to put out 3 editions, and then I
took an interest on other things. When I started
releasing it in June 1993, I started at a fresh, but
chose the same name because of nostalgic reasons
I think I have done alright, and I feel that the re-
sponse I have gotten from the majority of the sce-
ne has been good. I see myself as a fair editor, with
a good knowledge about scene life and activities. I
have been active within the swapping, demo, crack-
ing, modem and hacking part of the scene, there-
fore making me a good General Editor. I have al-
ways wanted to work with a big staff, and so you
would always find qualified editors in The Pulse,
specialised in the areas they write about. I know
that The Pulse has had a slow comeback, but I think
it is just normal for a magazine of our size. We are
still short of some editors, and since the scene is
not the same as it used to be, we have had to ad-
dapt ourselves. It will come around through, just
give it some time. Concluding, I'd like to announce an
important message. Due to the fact, that the scene
is no longer what is used to be activity-wise, I have
decided along with Crossfire, that The Pulse will
now only be released every second month. We al-
ways wanted to keep it going monthly, but the scene
is simply too slow for that. I don't want to release
montly if it means putting out empty chapters - bet-
ter to release big than small. This means the next
edition will reach everyone on the 1st of September
and then on the 1st of November, etc ...

* For sure we all remember the controversials bet-
ween The Tribune and The Pulse. It would be rather
interesting to read your point of view about the
conflict. How did it started? What was the reason
for that kind of massive hate between the editors
of two competitors in the magazine front?

:) My point of view is quite simple. The Tribune wrote
lies and false accusations about me and The Pulse,
and because of that, I chose to let my reaction be
heard. I am normally a very tolerant person, but
when my honour is offended, and lies are published
about me - especially by a person who has achie-
ved absolutely nothing, I get ANGRY. I think most
people know what kind of person Nastiness, Inc. is.
If he can rise in the charts by burning someone
else, he will do it. And so he did!

* If you do not waste all of your expensive sparetime
infront of computers, what else are you doing to
enjoy your life, are there other important hobbies?

:) Well, wasting my time on the C64 is a slight oversta-
tement. I spent about 3 days on it doing The Pulse
and spreading it, and that's for every editions re-
leased. I have disks coming in, that I normally do not
open before I begin my work on The Pulse, because
I have put my C64 away to make room for other
things. The C64 does not have a part in my daily
life anymore, it's more of a phase thing, and then
ofcourse something I enjoy debating over the
phone and at school when I surfe the internet. Well,
I guess I already told everyone about my other
hobbies previously in this interview, that's the pri-
ce when you don't do live interviews :) ha ha.

* That was a direct hit. As we are actually involved
with favourites, what are your favourite ......

:) actual all time
----- ------
Demo groups Byterapers Crest
Single coder Mr. Sex Crossbow
Cracking groups Avantgarde Dominators
Single cracker Burglar Powerplant
Artist Mirage Mirage
Composer Shark Reyn Ouwehand
Swapper People who reply fast with hot
wares.
Magazines Honk my horn

* If you would ever have the chance to recruit a so-
called dream team, who would you take into the
group and why?

:) You sure found some hard questions for me this
time dude, argh. Okay, I will and list some names
here. If I were to built a dream team, it would work
as both a cracking, demo and a modem group.
Therefore the members would probably be:

Crackers Dogfriend, Powerplant, Rockstar
Swappers Idol/F4CG & KBS/Onslaught. Danish
people prefered, yeah.
Coders Mr. Sex, Crossbow and TDJ for a lazy
edge
Artists Mirage, Sander, Hein Design
Phreakers Gene, Thor, Shadow and myself
Lazy people Animaland Cosmo (ex. Dominators)
Fixer X-Factor/ex. Excalibur
Hacker Blackheart/ex. Excalibur
Sysop Sorceress

But I am not sure we would rule, especially in this
days and age. Most of the above (except a few) are
very lazy today or out of the scene for a long time
Oh well, there you go ...

* On the one hand the previous one is for sure a
standart question, but it still can be interesting as
the people you choose can reflect some of your
motivations to be in the scene but to explain it here
and now would waste too much time.
Apart from the CBM 64 are there other computer
systems you do own? Are you there scenewise ac-
tive aswell?

:) Well, I have an Amiga, but that's only to assist me in
my work for The Pulse. I normally use my Amiga to
write articles and stuff - it's more comfortable.
That's also it though, no other scene for me. When
the C64 eats dirt, then so do I, erhm.

* Parties do usually attract a lot of people who take
part in the scene. Have you visited some parties
so far and what is your honest opinion about the
forthcoming parties?

:) Well, I don't really feel like visiting parties in the fu-
ture, there simply is not enough C64 people for me
to want to go there. In the past, I visited the Dexion
party (DK) back in 1990, the Horizon party (SWE)
back in 1991, the Bonzai party (DK) back in 1991 and
finally the Camelot party (DK) back in 1993. Unless
some major party turns up near me in Denmark,
with a lot of people saying they wanna go - then do
not expect me at the next party. I just don't have
the time or lust anymore.

* As usual there are good and bad times in real life
and in scene life, too. Please inform us about your
experiences and your point of view regarding this
question.

:) Hey, that's life dude. It's one big rollercoaster, just
make sure you don't throw up on the way. No, don't
take anything too seriously, and certainly don't
put your faith in crummy religions or life after
death and things like that. When the missing link was
found, we had the proof that mankind originates
from the ape - so take it easy, and enjoy the ride.
What can I say, life is life, whether it's using on a
computer or in a big forest. I would personally
rather work on a computer, than walk around on a
big field with a bunch of cows. Who are anyone to
say what real life quality is? I hate people who want
to dictate other people's lifes, they are nothing but
a bunch of semi-communists. Therefore I urge
everyone to take care of yourselves, and stop
pointing fingers at others - putting them down or
running their lifes, just give it to your own some
meaning. Do it to me (and other liberals), and you
will learn.

* And even liberalism is not the solution for all pro-
blems. You learned to know the scene at its best
days and you can see in comparion today's situa-
tion. What is your opinion about the scene today?

:) Sure I miss the old days, but they were diffent days
It was cool to call out all night, talking to all kind of
different people from all over the globe. It was fas-
cinating, and gave a sort of weird sense of power
that is quite difficult to explain. I was young then
too, naive on the major subjects of life as well as
political aspects of life. Well, what I dislike the most
in today's scene, is the disrespect a lot of people
have for the things released. People think they can
enter the scene, and start punching the elite and
established names in the scene, when infact we
were the ones who founded it - and made it what it
was.
The newcomers are what has made it is today, and
for that I am sorry. Most productive and talented
people have left the scene, some of us (naive as we
are) still stick around in hope that things will chan-
ge, that we will get the old competition back - but
we need the respect first, then we can talk about
new wares. That's my opinion anyway, but fortuna-
tely I have some experience in the scene to back it
up with!

* That was a brilliant answer and an answer that
might cause a lot of controversial debates. We can
only agree.
Do you take the scene serious or do you only enjoy
the time you spend infront of the machine? Is there
something you really dislike?

:) I take the scene as serious as it needs to be taken
When there is a crisis situation, then you need to
take it serious. Especially when you are doing
something as influencial as a magazine. When you're
as dedicated to the scene as I am, and have loved it
for a long time, then you want to work towards
seeing it better and grow. This can not be achieved
by taking everything as if it was pure fun and
laughter. But I don't need that too much anyway, I
like to work seriously, I can use the practise. Pret-
ty soon I will be working at some job, where I need
to be serious some 8-10 hours a day, and then I
can't go around taking life as a joke. Well, sure I
could, but then I would fail, and then the joke would
be on me. But anyway, the scene needs a good mix
of both I think, serious fun is what I prefer. I mean,
how can you work for days on a magazine, and then
simply say it's just for fun? I don't think so. I love
doing a magazine, because I love debating and I also
love information. It really is as simple as that.

* We already stole a lot of your expensive sparetime.
Is there anything left you want to share with the
scene as a last word for this interview? Further-
more it is the part to place your personal gree-
tings in here. Thanks a lot for being patient and for
answering all the questions.

:) Yes, I would like to add that The Pulse is now no
longer a monthly released magazine, but only relea-
sed every second month. This means you can look
out for the next edition on the 1st of September.
Thanks to a wonderful staff of sceners and good
friends, and to all those who have supported me
though everything - you all know who you are. I
could name hundreds, so give yourselves a hello.
Bye bye, it was fun ...

Well, fortunately Duke did not name his hundreds of
greetings in here are the memory is running closer
and closer to its end. I hope you enjoyed this inter-
view as much as I did while typing it into the editor.
Originally this interview was planned to be released in
the August Edition but sometimes things do not work
in the way they were planned.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Back to the roots==
<pre>
* Back to the roots *
------------------------------------------------------------
Due to the fact that Max is once again not able to
present some old tales in here it is once again my job
to entertain the few ones who dare to read this
chapter.
As you surely remeber last issue Max was in vacation
so there was no chance for him writing his article,
this time his final exams for the job as clerk in an in-
dustrial company take most of his sparetime as he's
currently preparing everything to pass the tests (I
did it with 78%, two weeks of serious preparing, Max
will reduce his activity for three months!!!).

Okay, back in the previous editions we have been re-
porting about the troubles, quarrels and wars at the
small Venlo meetings, putting cracking groups and its
members in the light of wary and aggressive creatu-
res messing up with everyone. For sure most of you
won't believe that there were troubles between demo
groups, too, which caused a lot of attention in former
times!

At the Ikari/Zargon party 1989 in Denmark probably
the biggest scandal ever in the history filled the
headlines of the not existing disk magazines. What the
hell happened there? I think Ikari is a group, or at-
least the name itself, very familar to most of you as it
was one of the few legends left. Unfortunately some
lamers abused the name with building up a fake Ikari
but that really does not matters here.
Ikari was originally an English based group with na-
mes like Nik, Just-Ice or Tri-Dos well known around
the globe, and with the danish section (former Jewels
members) such as Fletch, Doc and Excel, names that
really do need no introduction.
At the party Ikari and Zargon held ofcourse a demo
competition, with high quality contributions from e.g.
Horizon and many other upper class demo groups.
Ikari presented an average demo. And guess what
happened? A jury had to judge about the contribu-
tions and this jury consisted only mainly Ikari and
their friends. The winner of the competition was of-
course Ikari, and most of the other participating
groups were quite upset with the decision. As a mat-
ter of this fact a lot of people joined a federation
against Ikari, and federations became quite popular
later on as a lot of these federations got found. It
was quite natural, as most of these conflicts doesn't
least too long, that these calmed down a few months
later. Later on, next to the activities for Ikari, Excel
and Jch have produced a few demoes using the label
DANISH DESIGN. Before Ikari finally died they were a
long time in cooperation with Talent, another English
top act, former by the former Hotline members Bod
and XXX. When Ikari died, Doc, Fletch and Excel joined
the belgian based group Legend while Just Ice left
for F4CG if I remember correctly.

Very entertaining and amusing for the objective au-
dience was for sure the conflict between Light and
Horizon and the one and Censor Design on the other
side, the swedish top demo groups that time along
with Triad.
It all started at the Light/Horizon party in Sweden,
were the guys from Censor Design appeared to have
a party, and not only an ordinary and boring compu-
ter convention. It is still a miracle why the consum of
alcohol is on the scandinavic parties is stricly for-
bidden, to be more precise inside the party hall. It's
very annoying to forbid it inside the room to avoid
troubles, but on the other side to allow drunken
people, who drank their alcohol outside, to enter the
party place.
This party, like many other computer parties, was
held in an school, and this school got devided into two
areas, one area for the party guests and one where
the entry was forbidden.
In their party mood the tough guys from Censor en-
tered the teachers office and the wildest rumours
where cruising the scene of what they did in that
room. Some said the have abused the copier units,
others reported that they abused the telephone, and
people who were not present heard the wildest sto-
ries, but what exactly happened was never cleared
officially. Fact is that the Censor posse was kicked
from the party and a lot of hassle started, caused by
the party. A lot of magazines got abused for their
different versions of the story, many notes were

written by both parties. Finally things were cleared
up by Euzkera who apologized himself and his groups
deeds directly at Goblin/Light and Horizon, so things
were finally cleared even if a lot of uninformed maga-
zine editors still pushed up the story. The book got
closed by Goblin sending out a letter to reliable mags
such as LETHAL NEWS (edited by Trap and Sonny,
both former members of Bonzai, The Ruling Company
and Success just to name a few of them all) and of-
course MAMBA who printed the last words of this
chapter.

Parties were and will ever be a place causing con-
flicts due to the fact that many different individuals
meet together and unfortunately some do not know
how to behave and some others have problems with
the childish rules from the organisers. The latest ex-
ample was ofcourse Airwolf being caught while steal-
ing equipment. But infact it is what makes parties so
interesting and we would miss a lot in a boring scene
without any action.

It is quite unsure if Max will return this year to edit
this chapter, but I truely hope to see him being back
along with the January edition, to be more precise in
issue 14.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* Demo Reviews *
------------------------------------------------------------
This time Scroll, Fuben, PRI and RRR had a critical
look on some releases from the Assembly 1995, to be
more precise the contributions voted on position one
and three, namely Extremes from Byterapers and 7
Years from Beyond Force, both ancient and finnish
groups.
This time you will detect some changes in the text-
style, based on an idea by PRI. In the previous issues
we uses to present the reviews as one big report,
this time the frontier between the parts Coding, Gra-
phic and Music are more visible with always present-
ing headlines showing who is currently reviewing. It's
an experiment, so we would like to receive reactions
about the way you would like to read the reviews. But
just continue reading, the content and the competen-
ce remains on the same high level.

Let's start over ...

Extremes/Byterapers
------------------------------------------------------------
In 1994 the Byterapers returned to the CBM 64 demo
scene like the legendary phoenix from the ashes,
proving activity with the triple release of the World
Of Code and a converted (ported) picture show. Ex-
tremes is their first release in 1995, needless to say
that it won the Assemby demo competition this year.

Fuben about the coding:
------------------------------------------------------------
This demo was mainly coded by Mr.Sex and additionally
by Mr.Dick (colorplama & endsequence).

The trackmo starts with a multi-screen logo, which
wanks slowly through the screen. Additionally there
are some sprites overlayed showing the introduction
text. Later a filled "X" starts rotating (basic vector
rotation) with a lower resoloution. Finally an
"eXtremes"-logo appears made up by the vector "X".
All fades out with FLD.
Next effect coming up is some kind of moving
spherical over a texture, all running in 4x4-mode.
This effect is quite old on Amiga, but I'm not sure of
having seen it ever before on C64. However, it does
not look bad, evenso a quite trivial thing.
Then, there is a rotator like that in Radio Napalm/
Reflex using the same texture as before. The prin-
ciple of this rotator is the same like in Radio Napalm.
Next is another Amiga-classic...A rotator over a scal-
map. Looks quite interesting.
While loading there is a logo shown, which fades out
later. A picture comes up then, containing a distorter
in its centre. This distorter is different to that in
Oxyron's Parts. Each line is distorted with another
sine. So, it makes the effect looking better, even with
the 4x4-mode used here again, and it is not using the
full screen.
Next is a fullscreen colorplasma (40x25) with two
different colors in each char, also using dithering.
This is the same in Camelot's "Produkthaendler kom
her" coded by Cruzer (which I personally prefer).
It isn't running that fast, but as a matter of fact that
there is a processing loader besides, it's a quite
remarkable speed!
After an IFLI-picture by Mike, some gouraud objects
come up in a quite poor resoloution: 8x8 pixels! Even-
so these vectors are quite fast. Beside of the vector
rotations there are also shodow effects (last screen
fading away) and a fullscreen-colorcycling-effect
ORed to the videoram. This part doesn't look that
great, but thinking about all the 3 effects done in
that speed...quite nice part!
Finally there is the endsequence build up by an inter-
lace picture and a boardersprite-upscroller.

I would like to mention the very cool loadersystem
used in this trackmo. It transferes 2-bit at the same
time and has a rather high speed. Very cool loader!

So, all in all there isn't much to say. A more design
oriented demo than a hardcode oriented. Evenso,
there weren't any new inventions. Most effects came
from the Amiga or other CBM 64 demos. I'm surprised
by the trackmo system. Quite fast loading and depack
times combined with much action. Rating: 84%

RRR about the graphics:
------------------------------------------------------------
While watching the graphics from the Byterapers
trackmo Extremes I have seen some kind of first
night, hand made graphics, drawn by Mike/Bytera-
pers and Jale/Jeskola.

In the intro part there is a huge Byterapers logo,
drawn about several screens in Koala bitmap. Indeed
it looks quite nice but surely with some more effort
it could have been better, followed by another Koala
bitmap logo Extremes, which looks quite nice, too.
The next graphic is another Byterapers bitmap logo,
again a nice piece of art. Sort kind of dragons who
surround an effect are the graphics I have found,
again in Koala bitmap format and nice drawn. The up-
coming IFLI picture is for sure the best piece of art
presented in this demo, and it competed in the gra-
phics competition of the Assembly 1995 (for the re-
sults please read the Global Report). It is an ex-
cellent motive and a fitting colour palette got used,
showing a dragon and a girl and some icebergs. All in
all it is very detailed, both one mountain still looks a
little bit unfinished in my eyes.
The end picture (IFLI again) shows a long-haired
person with a turned cross on the forehand. Beyond
the face is a small, interesting Byterapers logo, no-
thing special at all.

To be honest, I really was surprised to see graphics
which seem not to be ported down from the Amiga, and
I have to admit that both, Mike and Jale, did a fine job
with their graphics. Especially Mike improved a lot,
taking some of his older work as a standart. Because
of that, I dare to rate the graphic at 82%.

PRI about the soundtrack:
------------------------------------------------------------
Once again good old Zardax has given a sign of life
by doing the soundtrack for this demo.

He is one of the few composers whose tunes so to
speak posess a certain aura or charisma, which pro-
bably is also one of the reasons why his work always
found attention although he - just like his groupmates
in Origo - never were too active.
The soundtrack falls in two parts, one main and one
end tune. And I mean it when I say that no demo is
better timed to the music than this one, and that in no
demo the different passages of one track suit the
different demo-parts better. It should serve as an
example for many other people who don't spare this
aspect of designing demoes much attention, whereas
with only a little more flexibility and co-operation be-
tween coders and musicians much better results
could be achieved.
In the middle of the demo, the tune kind of dives away
to a lower volume, and the pulsating bass fits excel-
lent to the pulsation of the colours in the plasma,
while the sus-chords always function as the linking
element between all the different parts. A new melody
kind of sneaks in, the bass-line's activity increases,
and suddenly everything rises up to a new peak to
powerfully underline the following vectors, after
which the tune falls back into the groove from the
beginning.
Furthermore, also the pauses or periods when
building up a new screen were taken into special con-
sideration by putting in appropriate breaks. A neat
idea is also that "Lo-fi" intro, which is realised more
consequently in the end tune: The mid frequencies a-
re overstressed while both high and low are radically
cut off, so the listener gets the impression of listen-
ing to this through an old radio. But you could also
think of it as a simulation of a sampled groove which
starts off e.g. many Hip Hop tunes, before the fat
bass and drums come in.
This end tune features a beautiful melody which
nicely calms down in the middle just to take up the the
theme once more. It generates a relaxed atmosphere
in which the demo-watcher leans back and thinks a-
bout all the routines and pictures he just got to see.
By the way, the intro reminds me a bit of one tune
used in Origo's "Tour de Force" years ago.

The quality of the instruments used in this sound-
track is, like we are used to know it from Zardax,
very good. For my taste only one of the bass sounds
in the main tune is a bit too fat for the exact recog-
nition of the notes. A pity that we only very seldom
get to hear tunes by Zardax - but it seems like in
this case less can be more. Rating: 91%

* 7 years/Beyond Force *
------------------------------------------------------------
Beyond Force is a real veteran of the CBM 64 demo
scene, inventing or presenting routines on an high
technical level starting in the 1980's. In the past few
years they slowed down their activity a little bit, like
almost all major demo groups, and released their
productions at the Assembly parties in Finland, the
country they use to life in.

Scroll about the coding:
------------------------------------------------------------
This demo opens with a cool Prosonix-tune and a
3-colour Beyond logo, followed by a interlaced text
telling you who coded it. After some seconds, the
credits appear. The text consists of 1-pixel dots,
which "explodes" in the middle, sending the pixels
up and away... A similar effect was used in their old
demo "Anal Intruder" (1990-91) in the last part, only
a precalculated version. Then the IRQ-loader (by
TNT) starts working. On my C64 with a weak 1541 the
interrupt went amok, the music played four times
faster while the loading text got displayed and
removed many times. It worked fine on my C128D,
however. Well, as I said, text is displayed while the
next part loads.

The next part consists of some texturemapped
vectors in 4x4 FLI resolution. First a flat square,
then a cube... Then the loader works again, this time
a doom clone with the same texture... I have yet to
see a doom-clone better than Light's, everyone
uses those strange textures rather than real
wall textures etc. And why make these effects only
in demos? I'd rather play a game with those routines..

After the doom clone, the next part comes. The
"Bobtwister". First, a blue rotating star appears
at the lower part of the screen. Then some light
blue bobs (there are quite many) fall down from
the top of the screen. Bouncing on the star and
then bouncing up, off the screen. This is a very
good-looking and cool effect indeed! This routine
repeats itself 2-3 times with different formations.

Then the loader starts to work again, this time some
Gouraud vectors, still in 4x4 resolution. First a
cube, then a long "pole". Then those two objects
are mixed (!)... I know this is quite heavy, but why
do it at all when it isn't updated more than 3 times
per frame?

Then it starts to load again, this time it's the end of
the demo... A full-screen bitmap picture consisting
of a Beyond Force logo with some candles at each
side of the logo, with some spider web included, with
an upscroller on the top... By the way, this picture
has been used before, in A.O.S. 2 or something...

This is a relatively short demo. As we are told in the
last part's scroller, this demo was coded in 3 weeks
sometimes in July. By the way, the entire demo was
coded by Gremlin, except from the IRQ-loader by
TNT. The demo files aren't even levelpacked... Well,
this is demo is far from what they are capable of.
I know that this is a kind of hastework demo. Some
parts are quite good and some less good, but the
few parts take up far too much disk space...
So I give this demo 50% for the code.

RRR about the graphics:
------------------------------------------------------------
All the graphics presented in Beyond Force's demo
called "7 Years" have been drawn by Napalm and
Kirk.

At first I have seen the classical 4 coloured (incl.
background) Beyond logo, which is still nice to watch
in form and filling. Last but not least there is the le-
dendary bitmap logo, presenting the name of the demo
group in form of rines assisted by candles and some
web too improve the feelings of the Middle Ages.

Unfortunately both graphics have been used in seve-
ral former Beyond Force productions so they are al-
ready well known and too often presented to stun the
audience, even if both graphics were at a high stan-
dart when they were drawn some years ago. Hope-
fully Beyond Force will managed it to present some
new graphics in their forthcoming production. Rating:
62%

PRI about the soundtrack:
------------------------------------------------------------
The musics for this demo were composed by Prosonix
(music label of Panoramic Designs) and Danko.

The first tune was done by Prosonix. A catchy
rhythmical intro, followed by melody and harmonies
generating a dramatic atmosphere. On the whole quite
ok, but I would have used the bass drum less fre-
quently. The hardrestart doesn't work, either. The
worst thing is that the tune fades out and restarts
again during the demo - a little more timing I actually
would have expected.
The second one by Danko gives you the real vintage
feeling. The lead sounds a bit weird, but the rest of
the instruments you would expect to be by Rob Hub-
bard or other Musicians of the eighties. Only an ave-
rage tune, though.

I'm afraid this soundtrack is not worth more than
57%

By the way, we are still searching for qualified and
competent composers and graphic artists to enlarge
our review team. If you are able to present an objec-
tive and competent review, if you have an acceptable
English and are able to work with deadlines, do not
hesitate to contact us using the snail mail or e-mail
addresses along with some example reviews to prove
your skills.

We hope to meet you in November here again, so best
regards from your favourite reviewers team,

Scroll/Megastyle Productions
-------------------------
Fuben/Oxyron
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RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Open Letter==
<pre>
* OPEN LETTER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Originally it did not come up to our interest in pre-
senting this chapter regulary but caused by the re-
action to the content of the previous one we agreed
to publish this chapter again, probably over and over
again in the following editions.
Due to the fact that we are on objective magazine
here is the reply from Crossfire, submitted via Inter-
net, presenting his point of view, a letter be descri-
bed as a reaction to the Relax Magazine.

Reply to Alpha Flight
written by Crossfire/Motiv 8
(concerning an open letter in Relax # 11)

Dear Alpha Flight ..
.. reading the last edition of Relax, it annoys me to
see your torment over what was written in The Pulse
- were I am a psyciatrist. I would probably be calling
you paranoid, cause it seems as though you think I am
out to get you, but this VERY much is NOT the case!
All I did was simply to gather all I possible could about
the incident, and at the time my part was written I had
seen NO reply of ANY shape or form from the ALPHA
FLIGHT-tribe. I have NOW, and did about two days
after it was too late. As you will have realized by now
we have heard the points from both sides but as my
part was written, no AFL-members had given their
point of view although I asked SEVERAL of your mem-
bers, so HOW do you expect me to go flawness? Bear
in mind, it happened in the END of the month, so I had
about one or two days to finish my job in order still
to hold my given deadline. About Ream being respon-
sible I can only conclude from the fact that all three,
call them scandals if you will, going on at the time was
incidents that implicated him (that being the allegted
Misfortune and Nuts re-cracks, and the Bad Balls
"rip".). As you state yourselves, a good journalist
collects as much evidence as possible, but when half
of the part speaks eagerly and the other part mere-
ly gives the classic "No comments", then WHAT are
you gonna do, except for doing your best to give a
point of view on the matter? THAT is what I did, NO-
THING else! About the investigation-part, there really
isn't ANYTHING to discuss. The picture that Mayhem
released and the picture on the game-screen of Bad
Balls is DEFINATELY the same - Anyone denying this
GOT to be a basket-case!!! As for the part of you not
replying, I believe I already gave my part to that
above, but to summun up - at the written time I had
seen NO sign of even INTEREST to reply on the lights
on Alpha Flight - like stated aswell, I saw a note only
two DAYS after I had done my part, but all of us wor-
king for magazines knows only TOO well how impor-
tant deadlines are, RIGHT? To end it off - YES, I DO
expect to receive informations - either Duke or I do,
how else do you expect us to be able to make fair
judgements? To me it seems you contradict yourself -
you reply, but you don't want people to READ your
reply. I don't know if you can see where it went wrong
for yourself? In any case, this letter was written
just to give a second point of view of Marc's very
harsh words in the last edition - nothing to get all
exited about, actually!!! Finally, I wanna make it totally
clear that I stand 100% neutral in this matter, since
that is the way a DECENT journalist has to be - not
talking any sides, but simply to tell the story the way
it looks to him at the time he writes his text. .. WHICH
IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID AND NOTHING ELSE!!!

While I am at this, I feel I gotta give a comment to the
last editions release-charts - Now, it is not that we
got out with no points although we had 4 or 5 relea-
ses cause I couldn't care less, but what really caught
me eye was the editors words about us creating
scandals releasing stuff none else would bother to
touch. First of all, let me quote what a member of At-
lantis wrote in a post on one of the Alpha Flight HQ's
only about 2 weeks ago "We should forget budget la-
bels, and start appriciating every single game that
gets released in the scene today!", and YES, here I
agree. Besides, dear Alpha Flight, HOW can YOU com-
plain when YOU, yourselves, released that "Colonial
Trader"-thing? You didn't see me complaining then,
did you? In ANY case , these games the editors clai-
med was made with an adventure maker which was ap-
parently the reason why it didn't deserve point only
proves how LITTLE the editors of the release-charts
in Relax bother to examine their sources. Those two
games were in fact NOT made with editors, any non
reluctant creature would be able to see that! ... but
ANYWAY, done is done, I hold no grotch, but it makes
me wonder seing the editors like THAT complain about
others!

With all respect, improve!!! .. you want US to, but may-
be we all need to shape up?! Maybe, all in all, we
should gibe THAT throught some consideration!

Crossfire/MOTIV 8, August 24th 1995.
------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Crossfire,

just to avoid any kind of misunderstandings we have
to point out that MARC was only responsible for the
the reaction towards Bizarre, being a part of the VN
staff. The content of his reaction was indeed well ob-
served and presented.
The part towards Crossfire and The Pulse Magazine
was edited by Styx/Afl, who is in fact no part of the
RELAX magazine staff and he does not have any
journalistic ambitions to become a part of the staff,
so we do not get the point about you complaining
about the journalistic skills of certain staff members
nor do we accept statements like this one which seem
to be wrong in any way.
Styx was responsible for the notes to clear up cer-
tain matters, too, so he took his chance to present a
reply on what he read in The Pulse to a brighter au-
dience, in the name of Alpha Flight but not in the name
of any Relax staff members. So remarks refering to
staff members of this magazine reflect the discussion
away from the topic! We know about dividing personal
and business affairs, therefore we are able to an-
nounce releasing a magazine that can be defined as
objective as possible in OUR opinion.
The release charts are being edited by two compe-
tent persons who belong since many years to
groups counting to the most important ones around.
Next to their knowledge they receive a massive sup-
port from two of the best crackers these days who
check out the releases carefully byte by byte, namely
Jack Alien/Avantgarde and The Ignorance/Alpha
Flight. When four independent persons come to the
same conclusion it seems that they use to have the
RIGHT solution. As we have two editors who care
about the topic Release Charts we guess this is pro-
viding very OBJECTIVE release charts, apart from
the fact that there will be always some persons com-
plain when they are not satisfied.
It could be quite informative to check out the issues
of The Pulse magazine when Crossfire "edited" the
release charts, almost the entire cracking scene ex-
cept Motiv 8 (curiously # 1) was complaining about it,
only in order to refresh the facts.

RRR/Oxyron, on behalf of the RELAX MAGAZINE staff
------------------------------------------------------------

OPEN LETTER PART 2 BY ALPHA FLIGHT
------------------------------------------------------------

A REACTION TO CROSSFIRE'S LETTER

With this reaction we in ALPHA FLIGHT want to show
the people of the c64 scene, and CROSSFIRE in
particular, once and for all, our point of view on the
News Journal of last issue's Pulse Magazine.

Let there be no doubt of whatsoever, we in Alpha
Flight have no intention to start a war with the
editors of the Pulse Magazine. The only thing we want
is a rectification in the next issue, because we feel
injustice has been done to us. With this second note
we will try to show the readers there should indeed
be a rectification or atleast a confirmation of the
injustice done.

Crossfire claims in his reply, quote: (...) but when
half of the part speaks eagerly and the other part
merely gives the classic "no comment", then what are
you gonna do, except for doing your best to give a
point of view on the matter. That is what I did. Nothing
else. (...), unquote.

Good to see this confirmed by Crossfire. He only
gave HIS point of view, or a subjective news 'fact'
if you prefer.
One of the basic rules in journalism: When reporting
news always be OBJECTIVE. Never show YOUR
opinion to the public.
Just a minor mistake there from Crossfire.

You also claim to have asked "several of our
members". Fact is you didn't ask ANY AFL member
in charge, not Marc, not Max, not me (Styx).
Another basic rule in journalism: Hear BOTH sides,
check and double check. If you only hear one source
you might end up printing untrue things.
And in this case Crossfire did print the wrong 'news'=
Just a minor mistake again from our would be
journalist.
Now for another one, quote: (...) Yes, I do expect
to receive informations - either Duke or I do, how
else do you expect us to be able to make FAIR
judgements? (...), unquote.

So you actually ADMIT the so-called news written
about us not to be fair. You say it yourself!
Just a minor one here too, Crossfire.

He also wrote that "we don't want people to read
our reply". That's a lame utterance, and you know
it. First of all, what's the use of writing a reply if
no one will get to read it. Second, we spread the
note(s) all over the board- and mailscene, even
before the edition in question got released. So don't
go tell we don't want the notes to be spread.
That's just being stupid and ignorant.

I can only come up with these conclusions:

1. You have absolutely NO idea what real-life
journalism is about; You break every basic rule
there is. Your so-called News Journal is nothing
but a chapter in which you write your OWN
interpretation of things happening in the c64 scene.
I suggest you therefore name it from now on, for
example: 'Crossfire's View on Things', or 'Meet the
Tabloids'. I'm sure you can com e up with something
nice. The News Journal chapter has no journalistic
value of whatsoever, and that's something which
disappoints me, because I always thought of The Pulse
as the one magazine, that actually tried best to
become what they said they wanted to become.

2. The reaction you wrote is a contradict itself. You
try to plead innocent, but in the end of your story
you indirectly admit having been wrong about the way
you gathered the 'news'.
You say we don't want anyone to read the notes we
write, while infact we spread them worldwide. Could
it be that you just did not pay attention to what was
going on in the mail- and boardscene?

You also claim to have spoken, one way or another,
to several Alpha Flight members about the situation,
but all they could come up with was "no comment".
Fact is you never have even TRIED to get in touch
with the organization, while every scener knows
atleast ONE guy in AFL who could inform him more
on the subject.
And you try to blame my of being a contradict
myself??? Well, think again!

This pretty much sums up the things I wanted to
say. I don't want to react on the critics Crossfire
wrote about the releasecharts. I leave that to the
two very competent editors of the releasecharts,
Marc and Deff. Although I must say RRR has made it
already pretty clear.

I hope the other editors of The Pulse Magazine will
encourage Crossfire to improve his skills to a more
professional level. We in Alpha Flight hope to have
given the first encouragement.

Before everyone starts accusing the wrong people
of writing this text, let me just say that it was written
on the 29th of September 1995 as a reaction to
Crossfire's open letter by me, STYX/AFL. With this
reaction I represent ALL Alpha Flight members, and
in particular REAM/AFL, who has been the victim of
some wild accusations. So any comments about this
text should be pointed to the WHOLE Alpha Flight
crew. We will not tolerate any attacks on one member
only. Mess with one, and mess with the family, as the
saying goes..

Now, comments (I just have this feeling of Deja-Vu
that there will be some) can be send to the AFL or-
organization, or you can leave mail on our boards
nation wide.
Finally I would like to thank the Relax staff for
printing this article.

Styx/AFL
--------

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- Send a list with your first letter
- Put on enough stamps or DIE!
- I want EVERYTHING, so contact me if you have some
obscure warez
- 100% reply ofcourse

* Clive/Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXX - for the hottest M8 warez
XXXXXXX X - for C64 & PC swapping
XXXX XXXXXX-XXXXX - for fast & hot swapping
XXXXXXX

* Zzap/Noice *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - COOL but SLOW swap
XXXXXX. X
XXX XX XXXXX
XXXXXX

* Vengeance/Onslaught/Megastyle Productions *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX' - ONS & MSP releases
X XXXXXX XXXXXX - Vandalism News
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX - 100% reply to euros
XXXXXXXXX XXXX

* Fuben/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

- NO ordinary swapping anymore!!!
- Contact with Programmers and Composers wanted

* RRR/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

- legal mailtrade on Amiga 1200 and CBM 64
- (game-) graphics ---------
- CBM 64 hardware wanted!

* Scrapper/Oxyron (PC) *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - PC swapping on both 3.5
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX disks or streamer tapes
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX (Qic 80)
XXXXXXX

* Junkie/Palace/Doom Patrol *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX. X
XXXX X-XXXXX
XXXXXXX

* Funny/Replay *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX XX.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXX-XXXXXXX

* AEG/Smash Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX' X"XXXX - for swapping, joining,
XX XXXXXXXXXX XXX gfx and nice coder
XXXXX XXXXXXX-XXXXXX talk
XXXXXXX
Tel.: +XX/(X)XXXX-XXXXX

* Spectator/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX - Original & Tape swap
XXXXX XXXXX XXX. X
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

* Splatterhead/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

* Morris/Shape *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - MEGAswapping!
XXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXX XXXXX
XXXXXX

* Acidchild/Taboo *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXXX XXXX - 4 legal swap
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. XX - 4 covers, beermates, stamps
XXXXX XXXXXXX - 4 swapping older demos+mags
XXXXXXX - 4 acidtapes
- 4 friendship mainly

* Cresh/Taboo *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
X. XXXXXXX X X
X-XXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXX

* Sailor/Taboo/SCS & TRC *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX - latest Tbo/SCS&TRC
XXXXXXXXXXXX X warez
XX-XXX XXXXX
XXXXXX

* Stash/Wrath Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXX - for the latest Wrath warez
XXXXXXXX X. XX - I'm looking for SNES contacts
XXX XX XXXXX
XXXXXX
Internet: Laszlo.Galaczy^Ferrari.Ct.Se

* JJ/XL-C-US Software *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX - 4 XL-C-US warez
XXXX X - 4 demos and
XXXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXX - magazines
XXXXXXXXXX - 100% reply
XXXXXXXXXX XXX XXX - NO cheating
XXXXXXX --

If you are interested in swapping with a girl then try
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX-XXXXX XXXX - 100% reply
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXX XX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX

* Mac Gyver/ex-The Airwolf Team *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXX XXXXX - 4 swapping old'n new games
XXXXXXXXXXX or simply the latest stuff
XXXXX XXXXXXX - also Flash 8 contacts are
XXXXXXX wanted

This have been all addresses we have collected for
this issue and we hope that the amount will grow con-
tinously per issue. If you are interested in present-
ing your advertisement here in this chapter and it is
scene or computer related do not hesitate to con-
tact us. Mail and E-mail addresses can be found in
the editorial.

When the amount of addresses is growing in the same
way like during the past few days we feel free to re-
move the supporting text and to print the address
only in order to save memory as we do not feel like
releasing many adress chapters to fill up the maga-
zine and to impress the readers with a huge amount
of text.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>

Relax 11

2008-01-14T15:10:53Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* Editorial *
------------------------------------------------------------
Another six weeks are over and we can proudly in-
vite you to another issue of the Relax magazine
boasting full of information and again published by
Bad Bytes Entertainment Software Europe (BBESE).

This magazine seems to become more popular issue
by issue after all the positive reactions and critism
we got by snail mail, on the boards or by Internet.
Nevertheless it seems that the concurence can not
live with the situation getting an advanced competitor
so scene life goes a way we only saw in these endless
daily soap opera so far. It all started by a lot of un-
qualified personal attacks against an editor of this
publication but all these childish accusations did not
earned any resonance by the well informed sceners
these days due to the fact that everything has been
proven to be wrong. After the failed attacks it seems
that this magazine is searching for another vicitim,
the Relax and we got accused, again in a very childish
way without any kind of background, that we cheated
the numbers of issues. We still can not believe in how
low people can go by spreading false information via
these information medias we define as magazines. It is
not very professional if the author can not care
about the content of his magazine as he knows that
he used it to spread personal propaganda and to in-
troduce personal ideas/fantasies to the readers who
use to believe in everything they read today. Just
for the record, and for all who still have not learnt
that the RELAX magazine is no Alpha Flight produc-
tion we present the release datas and publisher name
of all released issue so far. As we are now in a situa-
tion where we have to prove that these accusations
are again far away from being true here is the list of
all released Relax issues:

Issues Publisher Spreaddate
------------------------------------------------------------
Relax Magazine 1/Independent November 1989
Relax Magazine 2/Independent December 1989
Relax Magazine 3/Independent January 1990
Relax Magazine 4/Independent February 1990
Relax Magazine 5/Independent March 1990
Relax Magazine 6/Independent April 1990
Relax Magazine 7/Independent November 1994
Relax Magazine 8/BBESE March 1995
Relax Magazine 9/BBESE April 1995
Relax Magazine 10/BBESE June 1995
Relax Magazine 11/BBESE August 1995

We use to check out the entire content and to we can
care about all texts we prepared for your entertain-
ment. All the news about the groups/persons you
will find in here have been supported by qualified
sources, namely persons/spokesmen of the referen-
ced group and who else should be know better what
it going on there? However, we research a second or
even a third time you deliver reliable, professional
information if it is necessary instead of filling up the
memory with accusations, propaganda and personal
comments to steer the audience into a direction we'd
like to see. We truely feel sorry for all magazines and
editors disqualifying themselves by going the way we
have mentioned before and we feel sorry for the au-
dience being manipulated there. If this is supposed to
be the next generation we can not look to expectant
into the future.
Furthermore we have seen some australian based
magazines complaining about a wrong news we printed
in our April edition. For sure this was something we
always try to avoid but in this case that was not ment
to either attack them or their groups reputation in
any way. That time countless sceners packed their
bag to become an Onslaught member and after getting
this information from a RELIABLE person being in a
steady contact with Onslaught there was no need to
check it in our opinion. It was ONE mistake in four
comeback issues so we would like to see them calming
down again. When we dared to have a closer look in
in the actual news chapters of their publications we
could for sure name a lot of incorrect or edited, not
to say manipulated, news but we are not interested in
playing childish games in here nor we do intent to
waste memory for trifles like this one.
Our intention still is to release an objective level but
but you can be sure that we won't accept ruthless
and brainless attacks against this production any-
more. Critism is always welcomed but we won't ignore
wary offensives in the future. Be sure that we will
keep our eyes and ears open.
Somewhere we read that we are not able to publish
this magazine monthly and in irregular periods next
to the fact that we rip our charts. People who read
the editorial released in the June edition already got
informed about the reasons to release the magazine
all six weeks, what is in fact regular in our opinion.
Our priority is to release a strong news chapter as
information is the keyword of this publication. Unfor-
tunately the activity of the CBM 64 is on a partly low
level and we have to work with the data supplied by
the market. In the six weeks developement phase we
are able to collect news and releases in a time when
games become rare and certain other competitors
try to invent news to fill up their chapters. Actually
there is no magazine containing release charts what
is going to be released at a monthly basis and the
news chapter contains the latest information confir-
med in various reviews and can be called one of the
best and informative ones around. Quality needs some
more time, quantity can be performed within a few
hours. We do not copy texts from books nor do we
convert texts from other systems to add some more
blocks to let the magazine look bigger.
When people scream that we rip our charts they show
their incompetence in a very impressing way. The re-
lease charts are exclusively written by Marc and of-
course Deff to guarantee fair release charts and to
avoid any kind of manipulation. The next charts are
the board charts. This charts chapter is exclusively
printed in the Relax Magazine so there is no possibi-
lity left to rip them somewhere else. The mail charts
are a complilation of the charts of the concurence
magazines being spread in the period between the
release of the revious and actual Relax Magazine and
of the incoming Relax votesheets. This system is the
best system in our eyes as it seems to be the most
fair solution around, a system giving definately no
chances for any kind of manipulation.
Some people still seem to have problems with the Re-
lax and try to compare it with The Pulse. Infact it was
our idea to have a comeback with the Relax to fill the
gap The Pulse left behind when Duke decided to reti-
re. But the Relax Magazine is an individual production
and got released a long time before The Pulse ap-
peared with its very own style. After releasing four
issues after our comeback we are pleased with the
progress we make from issue to issue and for all who
start to complain about our weak charts position we
can only add that even The Pulse Magazine did not
take the charts by storm after a few issues only. The
magazine attacking us permanently this way used to
release about 40 issues to be noticed by the public
by attacking respected publications and to manipulate
the masses with questionable propaganda. The Pulse
used to be the leading magazine and is on the best
way to return to its former class. We wish our friend
Duke all the best in his mission and can't away to see
more publications of its class. There are too many
low budget magazines around so it is a pleasure to
see The Pulse back on the market along with Propa-
ganda, Vandalism News and Domination doing a solid,
proper and remarkable job these days. These maga-
zines do not need to manipulate their audience by
slagging down or ragging against their concurence to
manipulate their readers, a policy we follow aswell
since November 1994 starting with the comeback is-
sue. This magazine is definately no media for persons
who usually read comic books or await to be enter-
tained with erotic or fantasy stories. Our target
group is serious and awaits to be delivered with news
instead of useless and unimportant visions of per-
sons looking out for fame and attention otherwise we
can not explain the steady rising of this production
in the charts of all the various magazines. We know
that we can not please all with this production but it
is more important for us following our ideas, concept
and intentions to improve and update the magazine
edition by edition. We are editing this magazine to
have fun and to be pleased with the result and at the
day we lose our motivation we are going to stop im-
midiately. It is an hobby, a very exciting hobby and no
profession but fact is when we are starting over with
a production we use to do it as perfect as possible.
We guess this has to be continued in the next issues.

The new outfit seemed to have met the attention and
expectations from the public. A few persons reported
about having problems with the loading system. It is
one of those few mysteries people will never learn to
know as the magazine got tested on 5 different con-
figurations before it got spread and it worked fine on
all primary targets. Nevertheless, starting with this
issue, a lot of changes occured to make reading the
Relax Magazine more enjoyable. The Ignorance/Afl in-
stalled a new load/decrunch system to avoid the
above mentioned loader problems and to reduce to
the total amount of blocks once again, a very useful
improvement due to the fact that shorter text files
mean even shorter loading times as you used to know
it from the previous issue. Futhermore he gave a fi-
nal touch to the coding so this outfit runs perfect on
both, PAL and NTSC now, so both, Loading sprite and
the music runs on an acceptable speed on american
machines, too. As a special service we offer that you
can load, run and read this magazine from your very
own loading partition, that means you can load and
start it on either drive 8 or 9. Regards have to be
send to Scroll for this indeed very usefull idea. Any
ideas to improve the outfit are always welcomed.
After starting the mainfile you surely found out that
we can present a "new" Relax intro replacing the
old one. The intro will be updated an every new issue,
something we intent to do with the magazine itself,
too. Furthermore we would like to know if you would
prefer to get a music menu to give you an option to
load in your favourite music out of a various number
of tunes we prepared for you. Please add a short
reaction about your very own ideas on the backside
of our official votesheet spread by the following wor-
thy heroes:

SHUZE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
INTRUDER/AVANTGARDE
MORRIS/SHAPE

Here we would like to thank them for their effort ma-
king our charts more interesting by spreading and
collecting our votesheets. We would like to see more
people spreading this sheet so if you are a (mega-)
swapper and interested in spreading the votesheet
for us please contact us using the snail mail address
you will find later in this chapter.

CREDITS for the July edition
------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMMING FUBEN/OXYRON
SOUNDTRACK PRI/TIA/OXYRON
ARNE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
BITMAP GRAPHICS RRR/OXYRON
CHARACTERSET SKID ROW
ADDITIONAL IGNORANCE/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

Responsible EDITORS are
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR MAX/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
MAIN EDITOR RRR/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR DEFF/AVANTGARDE
CO-EDITOR FUBEN/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR PRI/TIA/OXYRON
CO-EDITOR SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS

If you have a closer look at the staff members you'll
find sure find out that the staff is consisting of both,
board and mail orientated persons. We always try to
cover the mail scene as good as possible but we are
still in the need of your kind cooperation. When you
are filling the votesheets please do us a special fa-
vour and add all the news around your group and the
memberstatus to guarantee that you will find correct
news about your group. It is more hard to get the
hands on 'legal' news due to the lack of public rela-
tions support from their side and we are for sure
not the first magazine who have figured that out.

* Co-editors wanted *
------------------------------------------------------------
We are still interested in enlarging the staff when it
comes up to the demo reviews. We already have two
excellent editors to cover the topic "coding" and we
are actually looking for a second editor to review the
soundtracks of demoes and another second editor to
review graphics. It is necessary to have for each to-
pic two different reviewers due to the fact that we
otherwise could not take around 50% of the demoes
into consideration due to the fact that very often
musics from PRI or graphics from RRR can be found
there. We are hardly looking for people who have hold
a standart of speed and qualitiy due to the fact that
we release this magazine all six weeks and we don't
accept delays. If you would be an advantage if we can
get in contact with you by modem or Internet. On the
other hand if you are very fast via snail-mail there is
no need to own a modem and having Internet access.
All people who think they can hold up our standarts
and who are interested in working with a qualified
staff consisting of Scroll, PRI, Fuben and RRR do not
hesitate to contact the Relax staff by subscribing
sample review(s).

Some more special thanks to make this edition become
reality have to be send to Intruder/Avantgarde,
Syco/Chromance, Styx/Alpha Flight, Druid/Agony and
AEG/Smash Designs for news and information sup-
port.

This months' content looks like this
------------------------------------------------------------
The EDITORIAL presents the usual introduction text
next to some information about the magazine. GLOBAL
REPORT is the place to look out for news all around
the CBM 64 scene or scene related people. RELEASE
CHARTS give a detailed report about all the games
and previews which found their way to the major
boards worldwide. The BOARD CHARTS reflect the
votes and opinion of the people being present at the
boards while the MAIL CHARTS contains the results
of the votesheet spread within the last months. OPEN
LETTER won't become a regular part of this magazine
nor does it reflects the opinion of the Relax magazine
staff. It is an open letter from Styx about the actual
accusations around Alpha Flight 1970. The INTERVIEW
chapter found a very popular and famous victim again.
so just have a look on it! In the DEMO REVIEWS the
responsible staff had a closer look on the demoes
released within the last few weeks. Some ancient ta-
les can be found in BACK TO THE ROOTS mixed up with
actual contexts. Finally the ADVERTISEMENTS chap-
ter is a place to present all kind of adverts.

How to contact the Relax Magazine staff?
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX,
-------- XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX

E-mail: Holiday Inn Cambodia ++X/XXX/XXX/XXXX
----- Escapade ++XX/XXXX/XXXXXX
The Pirate Island ++XX/XXX/XXXXX
(leave your mail at Marc's accounts or at the
accounts of other Alpha Flight members)

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx RRR
------- xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx MAX

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
Whatever happens in the scene, be sure that our
staff members and loyal reporters will get their
fingers on all information in order to guarantee a re-
liable presentation in here. There is no need to print
ruthless incriminations to fill up the chapter. We able
glad to present a news chapter worth being read,
written in an objective way in order to come up what
a magazine is supposed to stand for: delivering in-
formation. This service seems to be something very
special these days as we noticed that certain other
competitors use this area to spread their propa-
ganda. We can not accept this behaviour. Our inten-
tion is to present text our dear readers can believe
in so we research a second and a third time to make
sure that we can care about the content of this and
all the other chapters of this magazine.

* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
It is always very hard to define the right position of
the flight standing all the time under various attacks
from their competitors. Nevertheless they still go
strong proving their power board- and mailwise, even
if the methods can be partly defined as controver-
sial.

Chotaire, who is known as hacker, composer and
sysop of The Pirate Island, joined Alpha Flight after
having some major differences with his former group
mates in Onslaught (& Hardcore). With Spider, a for-
mer member of the groups Lepsi Developments and
Fatum, Afl enlarged their activities on the mail front.
After some months of silence Mutant X got set on the
inactive memberlist and will appear again in the offi-
cial status when he gets active again. Murphy, who
left the scene and went out to become a techno DJ
some months ago, finally returned to the flight to re-
install his power as programmer, composer, NTSC fi-
xer and original supplier.
"The Best" is a new magazine written by Ream and
Calypso working on the basis of magazines like the
legendary "Gamers Guide" from Triad or "Are We The
Best" from Chromance. The magazine is going to be
released independent like many other magazines to-
day.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Ancient Mariner, Arne, Calypso, Chotaire. Ignorance,
Marc, Max, Murphy, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze, Skinhead,
Spider, Styx, Xenox and Zapotek

Alpha Flight worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
THE PIRATE ISLAND ++XX/XXX-XXXXX

* Avantgarde *
------------------------------------------------------------
Avantgarde had all in all a very silent period after
leading the release charts front for some months but
after the notorious summer break things are suppo-
sed to go back to normal the last days.

Weasel, former member of groups like i.e Lotus, deci-
ded to become active again as cracker after having
passed an inactive period. He was already spotted
calling out again. Renegarde, a former member of the
the group Excess, joined ther german group as ano-
ther cracker in the row of skilled crackers.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 16):
Chameleon, Cyborg, Decilon, Deff, Derbyshire Ram,
Eliminator, Intruder, Jack Alien, Jack Daniels, Rage,
Renegade, Suicide, Thorn, Tricom and Weasel

Avantgarde worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Chromance *
------------------------------------------------------------
Chromance still uses to be one of the groups compe-
ting with the top cracking groups even if it got more
silent around the group after Mr. Wax had to join the
hungarian army.

Spermbird, a swapper of the group Excess, joined
the hungarian based cracking group as first group
staying in Excess as second. More spreading power
is expected with Zag, a polish mail trader and origi-
nal supplier followed by two other polish original
suppliers and mail traders called Bolee and Immortal.
Jinx left for the lately rebuilt Hitmen.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 21):
AMC, Bolee, Griff, Homeboy, Immortal, Janee, Jaydee,
Jazzy D, Joyride, Lion, Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat,
Skull, Spermbird, Syco, The Unholy, Will, X-Radical
and Zag

Chromance worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
HIGHWAY ++XX/XX-XXXXX

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
Some months ago F4CG was ruling the pal release
charts with an impressive amount of mainly polish ga-
mes. Somehow their activity slowed down a little bit
within the last months what can be make people start
thinking about a lack of interest from the polish sec-
tion.

Aristo, a programmer of the polish based group Sa-
mar, teamed up with F4CG these days, probably in or-
der to support their lately founded demo section.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 24):
Aristo, Bitman, Cerebus, Deathlok, Decoder, Devil,
Draz Fen 1, Goz, Hain, Idol, King, Maja, Morris, Motley,
Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy, Sneaper, Solar,
Spark, Total Chaos and Walker

F4CG worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DREAMPARK ++x/xxx/xxx-xxxx

* Flash Inc. *
------------------------------------------------------------
After the successfull comebacks of ancient and well
known demo groups like Byterapers and Megastyle
Productions Flash Inc. is another competitor to be
added to the list.

In the late eighties and early nineties Flash Inc pro-
ved in an impressing way to be one of the leading
demo groups. This group was the home of people like
Unifier, Creeper, Moon and Zodiac to name a few who
did not returned to the rebuilt group. It will be very
interesting to see if they still can compete with the
top these days. They already released a small come-
back demo in which Morpheus, who seems to be the
main organiser these days, pointed out that their ma-
jor interest will be to release smaller productions
but definately not mega-demoes due to the lack of in-
terest from the programmers. At the moment they're
looking out for interested people to join their forces.
so subscribe up to the end of the summer.

Current Flash Inc. memberstatus looks like (= 4):
Espilon, Lubber, Morpheus and The Spy.

* Hardcore *
------------------------------------------------------------
People expected it from the very beginning. The coop
of the newcommers just broke up after a few months
only. What is coming up now is still unknown.

Dr. Disk, who recently re-joined the scene and Atlan-
tis, decided to follow his former group member Rami-
rez and left for Hardcore. Leeway/ex-Afl joined in
as programmer.

Current Hardcore memberstatus looks like (= 11):
B-Wyze, Blockbuster, Carlos, Dr. Disk, Leeway, Rami-
rez, Rap, Shocker, Ticket, Volunteer and Zore.

* Hitmen *
------------------------------------------------------------
Finally they are dead, back from the dawn of the dead
and surprise the scene with the Xth try to rebuilt the
old group named as HITMEN. This time a lot of poten-
tial people reunioned their skills to prove that they
still can compete with the best these days.

With Peacemaker, Curlin and Vortex three familar fa-
ces returned to the scene as the used to be former
Alpha Flight members some months ago. Jihad is a man
who does not need to be introduced but maybe for
the younger generation Jihad was a member of Action
Arcade and Hitmen before the left into direction PC.
After being setted on the inactive list from the coop
Hardcore and Onslaught Hi-Lite and Raze decided to
join in the lately rebuild group, too. Furthermore we
detected Jinx/ex-Chromance, Tyroon, Groepaz/ex-
Vision and Lawnmowerman/ex-The Phreakaz. Actually
they share The Dungeon along with Success & The
Ruling Company and Demonix as their worldheadquar-
ter. Finally Tranzie/ex-Triad joined in.

Current Hitmen memberstatus looks like (= 11):
Curlin, Groepaz, Hi-Lite, Jihad, Jinx, Lawnmoverman,
Peacemaker, Raze, Tranzie, Tyroon and Vortex

Hitmen worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Motiv 8 is a group always capable to deliver scandals,
and rumours to entertain the scene. Actually their
mission seems to be releasing games no lamer label
would dare to release (self-productions?).

From the group Talent, which seems not to be the
most active group around these days, Greenfrog
came along to join the forces of Motiv 8. He is suppo-
sed to be a programmer. Some rumours are cruising
through the scene reporting about a cooperation
demo between Padua and Motiv 8 aswell as that their
norwegian member TG-Acme is said to have left the
scene in silence but this rumours have not been con-
firmed yet.
Bird, sysop of the european M8 headquarter called
Mount Olympus, left the group to join Pandora.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 15):
BinJinx, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Greenfrog, Grego,
Ibanez, Iceball, Mason, Merlin, Mizar, Natas, Psycho-
path, Stone and TG-Acme.

Motiv 8 worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Noice *
------------------------------------------------------------
The swedish based demo group Noice had lately some
headlines with the loss of many members leaving to
built up a demo section for F4CG. But life goes on in
this still strong group.

A lot of people thought that Noice seems to be dead
after Decoder, Devil, Draz, Goz and Total Chaos left
for F4CG but fact is that they are still alive. Motion
has left them, too. Peace decided to return to his
former group mates in Oxyron joining the PC section
of the german crew. Last but not least Motion got
booted out after various discussing and arguments
with Stasi. Their artist and composer related maga-
zine EUPHORIA won't be released and was declared to
be dead as long their won't appear another composer
to take over the jobs as editor.
With Pantaloon and Organic fresh blood in form of two
new coders refueled the decreased memberlist. A fa-
milar face returned with Heat who will restart his
swapping activities.

Current Noice memberstatus looks like (= 10):
Doxx, Heat, Joyride, Liket, Mazy, Organic, Pantaloon,
Stasi, Swoffa and Zzap

Noice worldheadquarter(s)/board(s)
HIGHWAY +XX/XX-XXXXX

* Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
The rumour was already well spread when it became
reality. The cooperation between the australian ba-
sed group Onslaught and the german based group
Hardcore finally splitted up.

At first Chotaire got kicked out of the group just a
few hours before he spread a note explaining that he
has left the group for different reasons. The second
victim of Onslaught's new member policy was SMD who
got kicked out, too. On the other had Hardsequencer
(ex-Dytec) joined in as artist while Morbid joined the
german based music label BASS next to his acitivities
for Onslaught (Design). Last not not least Andre, a
former member of Antic and Oxyron, joined in as ar-
tist, composer and programmer. Together with a se-
cond, scenewise rather unknown person. Both are
operating under the handle ASV. From Hungary came
Cubehead and Pete from Chaos to join the demo sec-
tion of the australian based group. Finally Trouble,
former member of Excess, joined in with his board
Deadzone with the function as worldheadquarter for
Vandalism News and Onslaught.

Current Onslaught memberstatus looks like (= 26):
Andre, Bizarre, Cubehead, Deekay, Doger, Doom, Gop
Grize, Hardsequencer, Heavyhead, Jayce, Jazzcat,
Jolz, KBS, L.A. Style, Marcus, Morbid, Morrisey, Pete,
Shades, Sphere, Stake, The Last Hacker, The Twins,
Trouble and Vengeance

Onslaught worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
DOWN BY LAW ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
WESTPOINT ++XX/XXXX/XXXX

* Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
Once again the official memberlist of this respected
demo group changed but still keeps the balance of
seven active and motivated members. Releases are
planned for the Saturne-Party in France and The
Party 1995. Just keep patient.

On the latest Oxyron meeting Asmodis was set on the
inactive memberlist, that means he is still an Oxyron
member but he does not appear on the official status
as long as he gets active again. Some fresh blood
got added with the promising composer Fanta, who
left Plush to serve the ruling german demo group but
he will remain in the music-label Bass, too.
Sadly we have to report about Axis joining the ger-
man army and being happy in it. This will ofcourse de-
crease his activitiy level on all systems like CBM 64,
Amiga and PC.

Current Oxyron memberstatus looks like (= 7):
Axis, Fanta, Fuben, Graham, PRI, RRR and TTS

* Pandora *
------------------------------------------------------------
After some very silent months, not to say years, the
german based group Pandora returned to compete
with the board orientated cracking group.

Pandora consists of the ashes Nemesis left behind.
Furthermore they recruited a lot of members and
boards such as Deviant with his board Final Genocide
and Bird/ex-Motiv 8 with Mount Olympus and finally
Moses/ex-Excess with Sanitarium. Chotaire joined in
as second group to take over the organisation while
Weasel joined in as second group because he is still
interested in working as cracker.
Somehow Protheus and Xentor, both members of the
h/p group Phreedom, disappeared from the member-
list.

Current Pandora memberstatus looks like (= 11):
Amputator, Attraction, Bird, Chotaire, Deviant, Domino
Mephisto, Moses, Pete, Thage, Sky and Weasel

Pandora worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
FINAL GENOCIDE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX-XXXX
SANITARIUM ++XX/XXX/XXXXXX

* Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
It is that the fleet of the dutch cooperation seems to
be in summer vacation. In the past few weeks most we
heard from them was the act of a lunatic lamer for-
matting the SCS & TRC and Demonix worldheadquar-
ter THE DUNGEON. Maybe they will become more ac-
tive in the next weeks?

Anyway it is nice to see The Dungeon being online
again after being formatted several times in the past
few weeks. According to our sources it is now run-
ning on a Cyborg modded version of C-Base and this
version is already running successfully on Dream-
park since months and said to be absolutely back-
door free.
Some movement in the memberstatus was recognized
with Techno/ex-Genesis joining the cooperation and
enlarging their large polish section. He is said to be a
cracker and original supplier.

Current SCS & TRC memberstatus looks like (= 25):
Action Jackson, Alchemist, Burglar, Cavron, CBA,
Credo, Dannie, Def Beat, Jity, JRC, Lord Crucifier,
Micron, Moren, Mystery, Nightshade, Replay, RMC,
Sailor, Sliver, Spectator, Splatterhead, Techno, Tita-
nic and Trax

SCS & TRC worldheadquarter(s)/board(s):
THE DUNGEON ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
STATE OF THE ART ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
THE LOST EMPIRE ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX

* Single News and Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* PUKE 4X4 PARTY RESULTS
-----------------------
Demo Competition Intro Comeptition
-------------- --------------
1. Love/Agony Design Boom/Agony Design
2. Scorpion/Vermes Lame Intro/Samar
3. Hallucynations/Albion Intro 1/Lepsi Dev.

Graphic Competition Music Competition
---------------- --------------
1. Jester Kyd/Nipson Moog/Agony Design
2. Jester Kyd/Nipson Cordiakus/Fatum
3. Appacz/Albion Shogoon/Taboo

* A certain magazine reported that Reflex was the
very first group winning the competitions of two
parties in a row with The Party IV and X-95. Fact
is that Oxyron won the competition of THE PARTY II
and Data Live '93 two years ago. Just a small re-
minder to avoid any kind of manipulation and misun-
derstandings! We have to add that Padua did it as-
well winning the competitions of the Radwar Party
V7 and of the Smash Design/TRSI Party in 1994.

* If you wonder where all the CBM 64 profiles went to
just read the following lines to be well informed.
Bonzai PC consists of a lot well known CBM 64 pro-
grammers, composers and artists such as Trap,
Walt, Mirage, TDJ, MCA, Zyborg, Metal and Unifier
next to Bulldog/Spirit who renamed into Freshman
and serves as modem trader.

* The cracking group ACRISE is back in business af-
ter being almost three years out of business. Mem-
bers are i.e. Bordeaux, Sentinel and Riddler just to
name a few. Their task will be to present cracks, to
release their old magazine EPISTULA, to create de-
moes and musics collections next to the plans to
release a paper magazine, indeed ambitious plans.

* Black Code Design is dead. All former members and
Rayden/ex-Oppaz Design formed the CBM 64 sec-
tion of the PC based group CHALICE.

Summer - Heat - Vacaction. Possible reasons for the
lack of activity in the CBM 64 scene these days but
we still were able to deliver an interesting global re-
port, unfortunately it is not so massive like in the
previous issue but this can not be our fault. We don't
need to invent news to fill up our chapters as this is
the business of other competitors in their seek for
fame and glory. We just collect what is going on and
research, if neccessary, to present QUALITY instead
of QUANTITY and are miles far away from being a
cheap propaganda medium what is a special service
from us for you. Keep that always in mind.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
The Official Release Charts for the Relax Magazine
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Masters of Law...

Deff and Marc

Before the start over with general explainations for
these release charts we want to introduce our very
own point system:

Fullprice Games 6. 1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4. 1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2. 1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points

One bonus point can be gained by releasing a 100% (!)
working PAL/NTSC version. When a second group got
involved with the NTSC fix the points will be shared.

Games which were already PAL released have to be
fixed within 6 months after the official PAL release
otherwise no points will be given for the NTSC fix.

Minus points will be given for...
----------------------
Re-releases -7.0
No levelpacking -0.5/ - 1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/ - 1.0
No translation - 1.0/ -2.0

Unlike most other magazines we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's all
about them.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a GAME
MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It is also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to conside-
ration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
----------------- ------------
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
--------- ------------
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX
---------- -------------
Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
-------- ------------

And here we go...

* Accuracy (0.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
For the first time some previews saw the light of
this group called MASTER TETRIS (0.3 pts), FLAG-
MANIA (0.1 pts), SHOOT (0.0 pts) and SUPER BALL
(0.0 pts).

* Alpha Flight (13.1 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The wares invasion started with the fixed version
of LEPPARD (3.6 pts) from CP Verlag, a fixfile was
necessary so we will give minus 1 point, followed by
the preview of COLONIAL TRADER (1.0 pts). Then
they uploaded the fixed versions of CROSSES AND
CIRKLES (3.5pts) and HANGMAN (3.1pts).
Followed by SHA JONGG (4.2 pts), PARTY QUEST
(4.7 pts) from Magna Media, both games will get an
extra point because of the translation and doesn't
need an Ntsc fix. Then they re-released SLATER-
MAN (- 7 pts) from Tim Soft, F4CG released the pal
version some months ago, some days later they up-
loaded the fixed version of SLATERMAN (0.0 pts)
no points will be given because it is over the six
months limit!

* Atlantis (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the following previews, STARSCAPER
(0.4 pts) and CF ADVENTURE (0.1pts).

* Avantgarde (22.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of CAPTURE
(4.1 pts) from Commodore Format, IKKUICHI (4.6 pts)
from CP Verlag. Followed by the previews of TWIN
BALLS (0.4 pts) and CAPTURE 2 (0.4 pts). Then they
uploaded GUESSER (3.4 pts) the game doesn't need
an Ntsc fix and the fixed versions of MYSTERY (4.8)
the 100% fixed version of ARTRIS (4.3 pts) both are
copyright by CP verlag and the long awaited
WALKERZ (7.0 pts) from Electric Boys. Last but not
they re-released RELAX (- 7 pts), SCS&TRC re-
leased it 2 years ago!

* Chromance (0.6 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the so-called fixed version of
ABNORMAL FACTOR (3.4 pts) but they forgot to fix
the scroller in the upper border so only pal points
will be given, followed by 2 previews called VITRUS
(0.4 pts) and LACED TILES (0.7 pts). Then they up-
loaded the fixed version of TETRISACK (3.1 pts)
from Stratos Software minus one point because
the Highscore-Saver doesn't work, followed by a
cool tool called HARDTRACK Composer (0.0 pts)
from Inflexion.

* F4CG (6.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with a preview called SAPER (0.4 pts)
followed by the fixed version of MONSTRUM (3.9 pts)
and the US sales version of LIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
(0.0 pts) no points will be given because the pal ver-
sion got released 2 years ago! And then they up-
loaded DEADLY CRYSTALS (2.1 pts) the game
doesn't need an Ntsc fix.

* Fortress (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The new group released a little preview called
S.P.I.X. (0.0 pts).

* Hardcore+Onslaught (8.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the Public Domain game DANGER BALL2
(1.0 pts) a preview called TROOZE (0.3 pts) and
WARFLAME (3.6 pts) the game doesn't need an Ntsc
fix. SILVA POD (3.5 pts) got fixed by TRSI but the
fix is not 100% so only pal points will ge given!

* Hitmen (0.5 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The fresh rebuilt crew started with an average
preview called CANNON CRAZE (0.5 pts).

* Motiv 8 (0.0 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded MATRIX CROWN (0.0 pts) and
TEMPORAL (0.0 pts) both games are made with a
Game Maker so no points will be given! Followed by
the preview of MEAN MINES (0.0 pts), MUS-ICE-
PLAYER (0.0 pts) a little tool and PRO SPEEDWAY
(0.0 pts) no points will be given because it is compi-
led Basic!

* Pandora (2.3 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
The fresh rebuilt crew released FOOTBALL
MANAGER '95 (0.0 pts) no points will be given be-
cause it is complete in Basic. Followed by THORION
(0.0 pts) no points will ge given because it is com-
piled Basic. Last but not least they uploaded the
preview of TANIS (0.2 pts) and the pal version of
TILE REVENGE (2.1 pts).

* SCS+TRC (0.4 pts) *
------------------------------------------------------------
During the summer break they released only the
preview of FASTBALL (0.4 pts) from Softdisk Pu-
blishing and the preview of SHOPPING AG (0.0 pts)
no points will be given because it is in german and
compiled basic.

Merged into a table it looks like:

* The Official Release Charts August 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (01) Avantgarde 22.0
02. (02) Alpha Flight 1970 13.1
03. (05) Hardcore+Onslaught 7.9
04. (08) Chromance 7.6
05. (04) F4CG 6.4
06. (./.) Pandora 2.3
07. (06) Atlantis 0.5
(./.) Hitmen
08. (./.) Accuracy 0.4
(03) SCS+TRC

* The Official Fixing Charts August 1995 *
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (01) Avantgarde 5
02. (02) Alpha Flight 1970 3
03. (03) Chromance 1
(04) F4CG

Thanks for their help to:

The Ignorance/AFL
and Jack Alien/AVT

See you in the next issue!

Yours Marc and Deff!!l

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets.

One of the most asked questions is what kind of votes
will be taken into consideration while counting these
charts. The answer is very simple. At first there are
voting booths on THE ESCAPADE in good old Europe
and on THE EVIL ISLAND (actually down) in the United
States of America. Furthermore it is planned to in-
stall another booth on THE PIRATE ISLAND, a fine eu-
ropean board. For sure it is possible to vote just by
sending e-mail to Marc/Alpha Flight at an every elite
board worldwide.
On the other hand you are allowed to vote when you
are on Internet, too. Just mail your votes to RRR's
account and it will be taken into condiseration, too.

These board charts are the fastest moving charts
due to the fact that there is no votesheet which tra-
vels weeks or months to reach its destination. All the
votes were made between the previous and this issue
so this is some kind of mirror of the activity of cer-
tain established and new groups.

Here we go.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 109
02. (2) Byterapers 93
03. (6) Reflex 87
04. (3) Camelot 82
05. (4) Fairlight 64
06. (5) Censor Design 53
07. (/) Agony Design 38
08. (8) Triad 30
09. (7) Elysium 22
10. (10) Focus 18

The top remains unchanged, Oxyron at the top follo-
wed by the Byterapers from Finland. Reflex did a big
step ahead up to three. At the end Antic left the
charts and got replaced by Agony Design after re-
leasing their impressing designed Love trackmo. Next
in the row of parties is the Assembly and a lot of
groups announced to release something there.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) TTS/Oxyron 99
02. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 87
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 75
04. (4) Brush/Elysium 69
05. (5) MMS/Taboo 62
06. (8) Quiss/Reflex 57
07. (10) Graham/Oxyron 54
08. (6) Crossbow/Crest 48
09. (9) Glasnost/Camelot 33
10. (/) Druid/Agony Design 29

Nothing new here at the top, too. TTS is still a step in
front of Mr. Sex. Quiss and Graham are still mov ng in
direction up while Crossbow entered the elevator
into direction down. Depeh moved down to eleven and
got replaced by Druid, who has shown his skills in va-
rious trackmos, tools and games by now. He already
announced some more productions. Let's see and
wait.

* TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 106
02. (2) Alpha Flight 100
03. (3) Success & TRC 92
04. (4) Chromance 73
05. (5) F4CG 70
06. (6) Hardcore & Onslaught 63
07. (8) Motiv 8 42
08. (7) Fairlight 37
09. (9) Talent 30
10. (10) Excess 18

Again it is Avantgarde leading both, the mail and the
board charts. Curiously Alpha Flight managed it to
depend position two and is getting very close to the
leading force Avantgarde. Why is it that Afl is ranked
so high in the board charts while they are falling in
the mail charts? Just curious. There is nothing else
left to be mentioned as here is nothing new on the
other spots except for the fact that the cooperation
of Hardcore and Onslaught won't be seen again in the
next issue.

* TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/Avt 105
02. (2) Burglar/Scs 94
03. (8) Ignorance/Afl 86
04. (3) Antitrack/F4CG 78
05. (6) Kirby/Atlantis 72
06. (5) Bacchus/Fairlight 67
07. (7) Moren/Scs 63
08. (4) Skinhead/Afl 49
09. (9) Powerplant/Legend 43
10. (/) Hain/F4CG 26

Jack Alien and Burglar are still on the top but with
Ignorance a new hunter joined the top three. Skin-
head lost a lot of positions and felt down to eight. At
the end of the list Doc left the charts to be replaced
by Hain. It is surely time to see the old heroes disap-
pearing when they have not been active for years.
We will miss you Doc!

* TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Cruise/Taboo 89
02. (2) Electric/Extend 82
03. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 76
04. (5) RRR/Oxyron 64
05. (4) Scope/F4CG 53
06. (6) Mirage/Focus 50
07. (7) Carrion/Elysium 47
08. (5) Rob/Camelot 34
09. (/) Roder/Agony Design 28
10. (10) Biz Kid/Camelot 12

Cruise is once again the leader of the VIC manipulat-
ing folks with Electric and Ogami behind him. Nothing
new here except for the fact that Roder entered and
Dragon left the charts. Somehow is Creeper missing!
Does the modem scene not like his art? Just curious
as he is one of the best ones mailwise.

* TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 103
02. (5) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 95
03. (2) Danko/Censor 82
04. (7) Shogoon/Taboo 79
05. (3) Jeroen Tel/Focus 72
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot 69
07. (4) EVS/20CC 55
08. (10) Red Devil/Fairlight 48
09. (9) Reyn Ouwehand 30
10. (8) Arne/Alpha Flight 26

The top position remains unchanged with PRI being
the leader of the pack followed by Syndrom who clim-
bed from five up to two. Shogoon climbed some places
and his work for Love could be a good reason for
his success. At the end of the list Red Devil and Arne
changed places and it seems that Arne will have to
fight very hard to defend his actual position. Lack of
interest from the voter's side or just a resonnance
based on Afl's genera

* TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Alpha Flight 1970 99
02. (2) Avantgarde 87
03. (3) Success & TRC 64
04. (4) Empire 39
05. (5) Demonix 26
06. (/) ./. ./.
07. (/) ./. ./.
08. (/) ./. ./.
09. (/) ./. ./.
10. (/) ./. ./.

Well, well, well. Only a few groups who were able to
gain some votes. Where are all the other groups like
i.e. Chromance, Hardcore & Onslaught and F4CG just
to name a few. To edit this one was rather boring and
the crown is that Demonix exactly got as much points
as in the previous issue. Just curious. Come on and
vote more interesting.

* TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER *
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/Hitmen 98
02. (2) CBA/Trc 93
03. (3) Suicide/Avt 86
04. (4) Pudwerx/ex-Avt 75
05. (5) Booze/Empire 72
06. (7) Jack Alien/Avt 64
07. (6) Mercenary/Empire 59
08. (8) Vizz/Empire 53
09. (/) Ignorance/Afl 49
10. (10) Sidekick/Demonix 26

Still on the top is a man who is rumoured to have a
comeback in the near future even if nothing has been
confirmed yet. CBA is waiting to take over the leading
position with a strong Suicide in his neck. Actually
these charts are aswell very boring without remark-
able changes but at the end Ignorance entered the
charts for the very first time as NTSC fixer and re-
moved Count Zero is the land of nowhere, somewhere
between ten and twenty, what is no big deal due to the
Snes interest of CZ. Why is it that there are no big
fixes from americans anymore?

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE, on any other board
by leaving E-mail to Marc or on Internet by leaving
E-mail to RRR.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------

</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Chit Chat 7/No Name MAY 1995
Contrast 2/Genlog MAY 1995
Domination 4/Indepedent MAY 1995
Mendip 8/Arcoss JUNE 1995
Metal Force 3/Airwolf Team JUNE 1995
The Pulse June Edition/Independent JUNE 1995
Skyhigh 17/Camelot JUNE 1995
Rock'n Role 19/Role JULY 1995
The Pulse July Edition/Independent JULY 1995
The Tribune 52/Angry JULY 1995

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 109
02. (2) Camelot 90
03. (3) Byterapers 85
04. (4) Fairlight 66
05. (8) Crest 47
06. (5) Censor Design 46
07. (7) Antic 45
08. (9) Reflex 38
09. (6) Taboo 37
10. (10) Agony 16

Oxyron proved to be the worthy and well earned hol-
der of the top spot again followed by Camelot and the
finnish Byterapers. Crest climbed 3 places, please do
not ask us why. Reflex aswell pressed the buttom in
the elevator in direction up.
Demanding groups taking over the top spot after ha-
ving released one or two good demoes seems to be a
little bit overacted when people vote for demo groups
they should keep in mind that a decent demo group is
the home of talented programmers, artists and com-
posers and definately not the platform for single en-
tertainers.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) TTS/Oxyron 98
02. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 83
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 76
04. (4) Crossbow/Crest 64
05. (5) MMS/Taboo 55
06. (6) Tron/Fairlight 35
07. (8) Graham/Oxyron 35
08. (9) Axis/Oxyron 30
09. (7) Bob/Censor Design 21
10. (/) KM/Taboo 14

TTS/Oxyron is still the king of the programmers in
the CBM 64 scene, a position he well deserves after
proving his skills in both quality and quantity all over
the years. He is actually working on new routines so
keep patient. Nothing new up to the end of the top ten
where KM, who specialised himself on programming
disk drive routines, took over the tenth position from
Druid who will surely return after people saw his in-
deed very brilliant designed LOVE-trackmo.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 109
02. (2) Success & TRC 99
03. (4) Chromance 78
03. (5) F4CG 78
05. (3) Alpha Flight 76
06. (6) Excess 38
07. (8) Dytec 31
08. (9) Motiv 8 21
09. (10) Hardcore & Onslaught 16
10. (7) Fairlight 13

Avantgarde is still the worthy number one cracking
group with the dutch cooperation of Success and The
Ruling Company in their neck. After the mass of false
insults, accusations and ruthless rumours being ini-
tiated by the concurence Alpha Flight lost two places
and went down to five, being overtaken by Chromance
and F4CG, both groups having seen their glory days
some months ago.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Jack Alien/Avt 90
02. (2) Burglar/Scs 86
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 84
04. (4) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 67
05. (5) Bacchus/Flt 47
06. (7) CBA/TRC 42
07. (8) Mr. Wax/<C> 27
08. (9) Powerplant/Legend 23
09. (6) Skinhead/Afl 18
10. (10) Ignorance/Afl 17

The triumvirate's distance is getting closer and clo-
ser. Jack Alien mastered it again to become the lea-
der of the people who define themselves as so-called
crackers. Burglar and Hain, who is not very active
these days, are waiting for their chance. Powerplant
is the one of the last persons of the older genera-
tion being capable to crack real protections but is
what we call inactive since ages. Ignorance, who pro-
ved his skills in an impressive way, should be better
ranked.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Electric/Extend 106
02. (2) Creeper/Antic 104
03. (3) Cruise/Taboo 81
04. (5) Joe/Wrath Design 76
05. (4) Ogami/Fairlight 68
06. (6) Fazee/Taboo 58
07. (8) RRR/Oxyron 35
08. (7) Carrion/Elysium 30
09. (/) Hein Design/Focus 13
10. (9) Roder/Agony Design 12

A very close finishing in the artists' top ten, a list
with a steady change at the top. Electric, his group
Extend is rumoured to be dead, was able to defend
the first position followed, as usual, by Creeper. At
position three we have found Cruise who should be
much higher in our opinion.
At the end of the list we can report that Hein Design
re-entered the charts while Biz-Kid has fallen down
to 12.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 107
02. (2) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 102
03. (5) Jeff/Camelot/Czp 68
04. (3) Jeroen Tel/Focus 54
05. (6) Compod/Agony Design 51
06. (7) Shogoon/Taboo 50
07. (4) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 49
08. (8) Zyron/Antic/TR/Swe 45
09. (9) Fanta/Bass/Oxyron 32
10. (10) Red Devil/Fairlight 24

PRI is the most popular composer around at the mo-
ment even if some uninformed persons have spread
the rumour about a questionable unactivity from his
side. Not only with the tracks being released in the
Relax but aswell with the musics being released with
the notorious Zakplayer V4.4 he was able to prove
the opposite of the ruthless gossip. By the way,
around six musics of the collection have been exclu-
sive soundtracks for games so we would like to ex-
press a BIG thank you to Syndrom for spreading the
tunes before they have been released with the games
PRI composed/arranged them for.
Jeff climbed some places while Drax lost some. A sign
of resonance out of his inactivity?

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Calypso/Amn/Afl 86
01. (3) Intruder/Avt 86
03. (5) Spermbird/<C>/Ex 70
04. (4) Splatterhead/Trc 61
05. (2) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 59
06. (8) Sebaloz/KA/LD 40
07. (7) Starlight/Xtc/Tpy 31
08. (6) Tabasco/Flt 28
09. (/) Dr. Kaos/Agony/Rfx 24
10. (10) Styx/Afl 11

The mail trader charts seem to be the fastest moving
charts in this magazine. Calypso managed it to defend
his position but has to share it high the climbing spe-
cialist Intruder. Spermbird was voted into the top
three and Derbyshire Ram, who should be higher,
felt down to five. Dr. Kaos entered the top ten for
the first time while Nightshade got ranked down to
fourteen. Mail trading is a curious business.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Nitro 101
02. (2) Skyhigh 96
03. (3) Revealed 52
04. (9) Vandalism News 51
05. (8) Jamaica (+) 44
06. (7) Domination 36
07. (5) Ingenious Brain (+)35
08. (/) Shout! 28
09. (/) Insider 27
10. (6) Reformation (+) 15

Nitro was the magazine which earned the most points
this issue still sending Skyhigh on position two. Still
on three is Revealed, probably the best magazine lo-
cated in the top three. Vandalism is getting more and
more popular, same goes for Domination. Somehow
Shout! managed it to enter the top ten. The result has
to be set into brackets since most magazines use ma-
thematical formulars to push it up. Insider entered
the top ten, too. Propaganda and News Press have
left the charts and we send a final salute out to News
Press as we do not expect to see them returning and
being ranked onto a top ten position again.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* Interview *
------------------------------------------------------------
This time we proudly present an interview with one of
the most popular composers these days, PVCF of the
german demo group Reflex. The interview was held in
German, recorded on tape (low quality) and finally
translated by RRR.

* Hello PVCF, please introduce yourself as our rea-
ders are interested in some personal information.

:) Hello. My name is Kai Walter, I'm 22 years old, 1,80 m
tall, wear short hair and have ugly-green eyes. I'm
living in Dresden and this city is the second big-
gest city in the former German Democratic Republic.
In the next days I'm starting to study and since 3
months I'm a musician on the PC, before of that I
was 4 months on the Amiga and four years on the
CBM 64. I am a member of Reflex only as Quiss and
me were kicked out of the game label Art Project
Studios even if we really don't know why.

* How did you get your very exclusive handle?

:) To introduce it I have to explain that I am convinced
adversary of cars. Here in Dresden exists a group
of radical bikers and its name is P.V.C.F., it is the
short form of four independent latin nomen, and of-
course I am a member of this organisation. When I
started with my computer activities I wrote on all
labels and directories PVCF and so I used the name
all over the years now and it became my handle.

* Your musics are mainly floating into direction tech-
no-styled and because of it a lot of persons have
spread the rumour that you and the techno act
Hardsequencer are one and the same person. What
is your reply to it and what kind of music do you
like to listen to in general?

:) Infact I know Hardsequencer personally but we are
two different persons. Fact is that Hardsequencer
claims to be Master of Samples but fact is that I am
the true Master of Samples what is no handle but
more a title for using samples on the PC. Until now I
have not released a record (CD) but I am working
on a project together with Odysseus and KB as we
already founded a label on the CBM 64 (Brainbeat).
Meanwhile I am the only one left on the CBM 64 but
that is because Quiss programmed a new stunning
soundroutine beating all the other existing ones
featuring excellent edit facilities. I still have a plen-
ty of unreleased tracks on my disks and most of
my released tunes are ancient yunk, partly being
older than one year. To answer the second part of
your question I like to listen to Techno and Trance
in general but I like Rap, Raggae, HipHop and Hard-
core, too.

* What kind of computer hardware do you own to fill
up all your flats and to compose your musics?

:) I own 2 CBM 64, 1 CBM 128 (with an old SID. I believe
I am capable to add a qualified judgement about both
SID chips, the old and the new one. The new one is
much more advanced. Everybody who still owns an
old one should remove and replace it with the new
one - greetings to Mr. Sex), Action Replay V6, Ami-
ga 500, Amiga 1200, 486er PC with Gravis Ultra-
sound (= soundcard) and some keyboards (Kamai
and Kork).

* To continue with your audial work, what kind of
software do you use to create your tracks?

:) I made my first experiences with the Soundmonitor
when I realised that it was a soundeditor and not an
one-filed demo. Later on I learnt to know Syndrom
who just typed the Music Assembler from the 64'er
into the MSE but on my direct request he replied
that he could not copy it due to the copyrigt laws.
Just some time later the GMC got released, followed
by the DMC 2.0 and 3.0 and I used them all to crea-
te some tunes. Finally there was the DMC 4.0 and
nowadays I own Quiss' new music-routine called Lsd
a routine which is indeed an high end music-routine
and the very best one around on this system.
On the Amiga there is only one good editor, the Me-
lontracker. I like its excellent outfit. All those Octa-
meds or Octalizers suck in my opinion.
My favourite choice on the PC is the Frametracker
2.0 from Triton.

* What was the motivation to become a composer in-
stead of a programmer or an artist?

:) For sure I have drawn some graphics like a weirdo
in the beginning, I was very proud of my basic pro-
gramms and made some experience in assembler
before I started over with composing. I found out
that it was most cool activity on the computer in my
opinion and I will always continue doing this job.

* For what productions have you added a remarkable
soundtrack so far?

:) On the commercial sector I have done game sound-
tracks for Nova 2, Geometric 2 and Ace 2 (alias
Centric). In the scene I did tunes for the Reflex
trackmos Cafe Odd, Access Denied and Radio Na-
palm next to musics for the Ingenious Brain and In-
sider. In general I invest one up to four weeks for
a decent piece of music.

* If you do not waste all of your expensive spare time
in front of the computer or creating musics, what
else are you doing to enjoy your life?

:) I really love to ride my awfully expensive mountain
bike in order to make some exciting downhill races.
By the way, this hobby is going to be shared with
Cruise and Decoy, too. These days Private Solider
and me have ridden our bikes to visit Quiss to have
an amusing Reflex meeting and the distance we ride
was 630 kilometers from Dresden to Munich. I don't
like to visit discotheques or clubs very much. I sim-
ply prefer these underground parties but in gene-
ral I have to add that I do not like to visit parties
were often.

* Actually we are involved with favourites. What are
your favourite ....

Demo groups Byterapers, Oxyron, Censor De-
sign and Reflex
Single coder Quiss, Zodiac
Cracking groups ./.
Single cracker regards to CBA and Nightshade, I
would love to see both falling down
from a skyscraper
Graphic artists Cruise, Electric, Ogami and PVT
Music composers Mixer, GeirTjelta, Jeroen Tel, PRI,
Jeff
Swappers ./.
Magazines Domination, Relax, Skyhigh, Shout!

* We all know that Reflex is one of the leading demo
groups but imagine you have the possibility to form
some kind of dream team? Who are the persons you
would invite to join in?

Coder Manfred Trenz, Quiss and Mr. Sex
Artist Electric, Cruise
Composer Jeroen Tel, Chris H"lsbeck

* Lately there have been some interesting computer
parties like the X-95, the Puke 4x4 or the Assem-
bly just to name a few. Do you like these parties in
general and what parties have you already visited?
Are there plans to visit forthcoming parties?

:) Computer parties are excellent events and probab-
ly one of the few best things the scene brought to
us. I only have been present at three parties so
far, to be more precise at the Datalife 93, The
Party III and the Party IV. In the future I would like
to visit the Saturne Party, The Party V and pro-
bably The Tribute but it depends on the amount of
releases we will be able to finish and present. Fur-
thermore we intend to work on the Amigasa, too,
and we will be fore sure present at the parties of-
fering a good prize money.

* As usual there are appearing good and bad things
in the scene life. Please inform us about your ex-
periences. Is there something you really like/dislike
and want to share it with us?

:) I really dislike the pertinent critism and reactions,
both could be better described as raggings, to-
wards or if you prefer against my group Reflex,
it is rather funny how some people want to get us
down. In former times the scene seemed to be much
better in general and especially in my hometown
Dresden. Everything was more enjoyable and the
friendship was more important. All is drifting more
into direction competition in its negatvie sense and
out of their "success" some people became very
arrogant. Within the past two years things used to
become better again and the quality of the demoes
and magazines increased a lot. Hopefully both will
increase steady in the future, too.

* We already stole a lot of your expensive spare time
now. Is there anything you want to share with the
scene as a last word for this interview? Anyway
you can place here your greetings if you would like
to. Thanks a lot for being patient for around 2 and
an half hour by now and for answering all questions

:) I would like to send out some personal greetings to
Zyron, Red Devil (who seems to be a little bit inacti-
ve at the moment), KB, Odysseus, Earthquake, Ano-
nym, ...... And some group greetings have to go to
Nipson, Charged, Oxyron and Origo next to other
groups I do not remember at the moment. Bye.

Be sure not to miss the next interview again pre-
senting a very interesting profile.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Back to the roots==
<pre>
* Back to the roots *
------------------------------------------------------------
Due to the fact that Max was not able to finish his
usual 4 pages of text in a six weeks period I had the
pleasure to fill up the gap this time. I just continue
where Max stopped last time and just return to Venlo
and the very unique conflicts which are for sure
worth to be mentioned, for what reason however.

Sys/Afl was the victim of a gas attack, that's how the
conflict between Sys and OMG ended. Before that
meeting took place Sys and Tom/Sodom (former Relax
editor and partly operating under Hooligan/Afl) had a
bet where Sys was pretty sure about knocking out
OMG. Surely, if you have read the last edition of the
BACK TO THE ROOTS serial, all of you know that OMG
used gas to leave the party place and Sys lost his
bet so he was the one to stand a box of beer for the
other members of the flight at the forthcoming Venlo
meeting. This is the start of this story.

Max, Tom (aka. Hooligan) and Sys were extremely
drunken while Marc had to drive the car as usual and
so he did not drink anything alcoholic. All of them
were in a pretty good mood and had a decent party
outside of the party room. As the Venlo meetings had
an excellent status and were well visited by the major
groups that time ofcourse so other top groups have
shown up there, too. Paramount was one of them and
so people like Sting, Scratcher, Dr. Death and Stain-
less Steel were present. The cooperation between
Alpha Flight and Paramount broke up some months
ago and because of the fact that many members of
both groups came from Gelsenkirchen and its close
surrounding there was a big rivalry between both
cracking groups, and the flames burned bigger than
ever before after the seperation of both groups.

Sting, who caused a lot of conflicts and argumenta-
tions between both groups, just came along to greet
his former comrades. Tom welcomed him and put his
arm on Sting's shoulder in the way like friends do but
just a few seconds later he had Sting's head in a so-
called headlock. I do not know if you know the location
in Venlo. At the place infront of the building there are
a lot of trees protected by massive fences. But let's
return to the situation. Tom had Sting in a headlock
and smashed Sting's face directly against such a
fence. The result was that Sting's nose and fore-
head were bloody and people could see tears in his
eyes, what was quite natural when you keep in mind
the pain he must have had. The Paramount crew did
not consist of cads who had to solve conflicts using
physically force to show questionable strength so
the incident was finally over. Afl celebrated their big,
but questionable "victory".

Alpha Flight fought a lot of battles like this in former
days and I do not remember correctly if the next one
I am going to report about happened at the same
event or on one of the following meetings. Neverthe-
less somebody from Hitmen just said some more or
less true facts about Afl and stated some things Afl
members disliked. Sys asked this member of Hitmen to
get out of the room to have a decent fight infront of
the building. Outside both take off their jackets and
gave them to loyal group members just to exchange a
lot of arguments. After getting a lot of verbal pun-
ches Sys finally pointed out that he will knock his
opponent out. The Hitmen member became nervous,
asked Sys to forget the quarrel and invited him for a
beer. Sys agreed and this time the end was indeed
peaceful. It is possible that there still exists a re-
cording of this happening as Dense, well known as a
member of Hysteric and RSI, archieved the "dis-
cussion" with a camera.

If you have read the previous lines for sure you got
the feeling that Sys maybe should have joined a mar-
tial arts team instead of a computer group but all
these stories do not reflect the real personality of
Sys. I learnt him to know as a very silent person and
all those sins from his youth should not be taken too
serious.
Even Tom, who seemed to be a brutal asshole, mor-
phed completely into an harmless raver and halved
his weight down to an acceptable limit what might
sound rather strange to people who learnt him to
know that time.

Compared with these incidents today's so-called wars
seem to be harmless discussions. Nevertheless peop-
le should keep in mind that the computer and the sce-
ne is nothing else but a fine hobby and an experience
you can share with a lot of people having similar inte-
rests. It should not be a platform to sowing hate just
to get on a better position in the charts. It is parly a
big shame how newcommers treat more experienced
persons to become more 'powerful' in their quest for
fame and respect. These persons should keep in mind
that they did not create the scene as the scene did
run very well before they joined in one or two years
ago. These people seem to think that they are the new
prophets and that the scene should follow their dic-
tation. There are for sure things which could be im-
proved but that is a decision from all the persons
who take part in a scene which has created its very
very own rules and its honorary code, rules and co-
des which worked about ten years very well by now.
If you have a closer look at the people complaining
about the system you will surely find out that most of
them are people who can not stand the heat of the
(hard) competition. Why is it that cracking groups
who don't have fast original suppliers or the chance
the call out for free to upload their versions at the
major boards complain about the first release system
these days? Why is it that persons who completely
failed with their deeds and actions complain about the
elite scene, a choosen circle of persons they would
love to be a part of it? On the other hand it is very
funny to see how people who recently bought a modem
or had the chance to join an elite group react. They
think that they belong to the elite scene from the mo-
ment they bought the modem or joined the group but
it seems that those persons did not understand the
entire system. The status elite is nothing you can buy
in a shop or you get when you belong to a better
group, it is more like an award you earn for you
knowledge, your deeds and the personality you show
while "wasting" your expensive sparetime infront of
the CBM 64. This is something many newcommers seem
not to understand. It is the ignorance of many per-
sons just looking out for fame and respect within a
very short time and those persons are not able to
understand that they can not realise something other
people invested some years for.
People should think twice before they act and always
keep in mind that the scene in an hobby, a very exci-
ting hobby but nothing more than a hobby. Some will
for sure need some time to figure it out, hopefully it
will be soon. Just do a fine job in the scene, have fun
and make some friends. This is what makes the scene
go round, from the very beginning to the end. Fame is
just a factor next to it! On the other hand people are
always talking about friendship and this does mean no
negative critism is allowed! What kind of friendship is
it when you can not share your honest opinion with
your "friends"? It seems that people are only inte-
rested in hearing hymns of praise and everything
else won't be accepted. Is it genuine friendship if you
have to tell fairy tales and lies to please your pals or
comrades as I think the word 'friend' can not be used
here. Please do me a special favour and think about
the previous lines as it seems that there is something
running into the wrong direction these days.

Surely I could continue some more hours like this but
the title of the chapter gives the direct order to re-
port about the early and the golden days of the CBM
64 scene and definately not to discuss the actual
problems. Hopefully Max will be capable to finish his
work in time for the next issue.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* DEMO REVIEWS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the demo reviews. It is the place where
you can find professional analysis of the demoes
spread within the period of the previous to this
issue, performed by people who know what they are
talking about unlike in other, not named magazines.

This time the Demo Reviews where splitted into two
chapters due to the fact that the reviews are getting
longer and longer. In the last issue we tried to shor-
ten everything as good as possible but this it is im-
possible and we don't feel like cutting important parts
just to fit into the memory limits. Furthermore we ad-
ded the popular introduction texts about the groups
(or labels) being responsible for the productions we
had our critical look on.

There have been released quite a lot of demoes this
summer and as we can not review them all in here we
decided to choose "Love" from Agony Design, "De-
sert Dots" from Smash Designs and last but not least
"Respect" from Fuse.
As you use to know from the previous issue Fuben
and Scroll have checked the codework, RRR had a
closer look at the artwork and PRI listened very
carefully to the audial scores to make sure that you
can read specified and qualified reviews in here. Fu-
ben "joined" the audial section as one of the tested
productions contained some work of PRI so just to
avoid any kind of manipulation Fuben proved his skills
as musician, too, as he is not only composing on the
CBM 64 but playing keyboard in real life so you can
be sure that he is qualified in this sector aswell. To
avoid this kind of situation we are searching for a
"second" unit in the sector MUSIC and ARTWORK as
this principe works very well in the area of CODING
(see: Fuben and Scroll). When you are interested in
working for the RELAX MAGAZINE and you are expe-
rienced in your field of activity (artwork/music), you
are able to present competent critism, have an ac-
ceptable English, you are not a member of Oxyron
and are capable to deliver your work in time do not
hesitate to contact RRR via snail mail or internet. Do
not forget to add a few review examples to give us a
short overview about your writing skills in both, lan-
guage and competence.

Just a short WHO DID WHAT just to let you know whom
to blame if you do not agree with the written content
of the chapter(s).

Love/Agony Design
----------------
Technical critism: FUBEN/OXYRON
Visual critism: RRR/OXYRON
Audial critism: PRI/TIA/OXYRON

Desert Dots/Smash Designs
-----------------------
Technical critism: SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS
Visual critism: RRR/OXYRON
Audial critism: PRI/TIA/OXYRON & FUBEN/OXYRON

Respect/Fuse
------------
Technical critism: FUBEN/OXYRON
Visual critism: RRR/OXYRON
Audial critism: PRI/TIA/OXYRON

Here we go ...

* Love/Agony Design *
------------------------------------------------------------
Agony Design productions are always worth to be
watched as they mostly present trackmos and den-
tros which are very well designed and styled by a
person with a great ability for style and design:
Druid. Next to him Agony is the home of very talented
composers (Shogoon, Moog, Compod) and artists (i.e.
Roder, Astaroth, Comanche, ...) so you can be always
sure about outstanding designed and well looking
productions when they wear the Agony Square label.

Love is a double sided trackmo coded by Druid and
Agony's new coder Inco, who was responsible for
the mathematical routines.
After having started the demo you may choose bet-
ween the trackmo and its note (like in Coma-Light 12).
Let's start with the note. This is exclusively coded by
Colabor/Vermes. There is a Super Hi-Res Interlace
picture at left and some text written in 1x1 at right.

Now to the actual demo: At the very beginning there
is a 100% precalculated "Star Tunnel", zooming and
rotating. All down converted from the Amiga. It looks
great, but it's easy to convert down animations.
After that you can see a Hi-Res logo with a rotating
square marking the Agony sign, followed by some
more squares while loading there is another precal-
culated animation: 79 frames of a voxel calculated in
SCENERY on Amiga. It is surely possible to do it in
realtime even not in the same speed. Next is a vector
is a vector tunnel made up of single lines (without any
hidden-lines). The animation is really broken, which
doesn't give you the real zoom in feeling. Later on
some gravity dots are falling down. The calculations
were just done for the vertical movement, so that is
nothing hard coded as you just need to pretable the
falling down movement. Even that movement was not
physically/mathematically correct as the dots jumped
3 times only, too less rebounds as a real EXP-wave
never stops while the same gravity effect is used for
the next "part" - the polish flag.
The next part is a Twist Rotator over a Hi-Res pictu-
re with some additional sprites. Sorry, but this part
really looks ugly and the code isn't hard aswell. After
two rather big scrollers containing some greetings a
a "simple" chessboard lightsourced zoomer came up.
This effect might be the 534th of its kind in C64 his-
tory. Sorry, but neither the idea is new nor the code
is anything special, just look at Axis' version in Coma
Coma Light 9 (1993) with open sideborders. Next in
the row is a transforming ball over a picture. This
ball is jumping up all the time. After this, there is a
dot cyclone moving over the screen. Its code isn't too
hard (normal vector rotation over the y-axis), but it
looks nice. Evenso there could be some more dots in
my opinion. Now you have to flip the disk to enter the
grey part of the trackmo.
The first real effect is a Sierpinsky triangle calcula-
ted in realtime. The calculations are very slow in my
opinions and also the routine is rather old now. Just
check the ORIGO demo "Elysion" out. There are quite
fast calculations. Also in the old Bonzai demo Crackle
'n'Cocio. But I just wonder why Druid used a recur-
sive loop to calculate his fractal though he did not
change the x-y values! You can also calculate such a
Sierpinsky triangle by using the equalation (y-x) and
x=0 (logical and) or just using the EOR-trick. I made
a realtime sierpinsky triangle (animated) in Triiod II
calculated in max. 10 frames. The next effect is some
sort of line-vector showing a sprial but it is a bit too
slow in my opinion and it also doesn't look that good.
After a down-converted logo animation from the
Amiga (looks great!) there is a so called Interference
Plasma in 2 colors. By the way, that part is definately
no worldfirst as you can see the same in Reflex' Cafe
Odd. Nothing spectacular, though! Then there is a Hi-
res bitmap picture moving 2 screen in X-direction.
Later on, there is a multicolor stencil over a picture
(easily Eor-filled). Well, this reminds me to the hidden
part by Graham in Coma-Light 12. Following there is a
converted Raytracing animation from the Amiga. While
showing the credits there are also digitalized Star
Wars animations until you finally reach the end pictu-
re.

All in all a very nice linked and designed trackmo with
much action and fun. Evenso there is the negative
side, which is the lack of hard code. I didn't see one
really hard coded part in the demo. Therefore I will
just give a rating of 55%!

The graphics for this trackmo were drawn by Asta-
roth, Comanche, Digger, Jetan, Roder and Skyle, all
members of Agony Design.

At first a nice style Agony logo in hires singlecolour
a "simple" presents logo followed to present finally
another hires singlecolour picture showing the trak-
kmo's name - Love. This one is really cool in my opi-
nion. Next in the row is another hires singlecolour
picture with a dragon as its motive and this one looks
just great. The first graphic using some more colours
is an Ifli picture drawn by Roder, one of the best
artists around. Here you can see an ancient warrior
probably known as Conan worldwide next to a fine
landscape and hostile stone age people. It is very de-
tailed and he used a good colour palette. Another Ifli
picture shows a knight and his horse, both well drawn
and designed. Unfortunately there is too much light-
grey in the background so it flickers like hell on my
configuration but nevertheless it is a very good pic-
ture indeed. With a Love logo we find one of the first
standart logos in here, 4 colours including back-
ground but nothing special, not in form not in filling,
at all. The Flip Disk (with K not C!) picture is again in
hires singlecolour format and divided into two parts
with one side showing a logo looking very similar to
some I have seen in former Agony (or Chaos, their
former name) productions, and a picture showing
another dragon.
The grey part starts with some excellent graphics, a
Love logo and a girl with nice hair in Ifli format. Looks
really impressing. Next in the row there is an Agony
logo in Koala format showing next to well drawn and
designed letters a very nice eye on the left side. A
two screens big hires singlecolour picture moving in
X-direction containing the usual chessboard (I like it,
aswell), a tiger, a girl and a penguin next to various
other stuff. To follow the hires singlecolour reign a
face with a wired eye appears altogether with the
obligatory chessboard shown in almost an every
hires singlecolour artwork in this demo (when will the
people stop ragging about me loving chessboards?).
Next there is another Koala format logo but this no-
thing special at all even if it looks quite interesting
and that is very important. At the end I found another
hires singlecolour picture, once again divided into 2
parts or areas containing a The End logo on the one
and some sort of castle on the other side of the
screen. The castle looks very cartoonish.

After watching this impressing trackmo I had a look
at the demo Love by Virtual Dreams/Fairlight (Amiga)
where I have found a lot of sources for their design.
Nevertheless all the graphics next to the not mentio-
ned sprites and charsets give the demo a special
touch of class and are on a high standart. The Ifli
graphics are the most impressive ones in here so the
rating is 83%.

The soundtrack for Love was completely arranged by
Shogoon/Taboo/Agony Design.

In five different tunes he gives a good overview of
his abilities. Powerful tracks alternate with light and
happy ones, sometimes a little bit of techno, someti-
mes jazz, but everything with a personal touch. The
second one features a nice cutoff/sync-effect and a
Jeff-related bass. The third one is superfunky, with
a very good theme and a cool rhythm part. The next
one has switched bass-notes and a very spacy
B-part and at last the end tune is a short sweet
shuffle with a nice melody and good harmonical work.
Through out the soundtrack the soundquality is ex-
cellent.

Shogoon is one of the few composers with theoreti-
cal knowledge and original ideas and since sound-
track is in my opinion the best one since Tower Po-
wer (1993). Rating: 91%

Desert Dots by Smash Designs
------------------------------------------------------------
Smash Designs is well known as a group putting al-
ways a lot of effort into their demoes even if the re-
sults seem not to meet the taste of either the juries
of the audience that much. Fact is that the contribu-
tions from Smash were not shown at the big screen
at The Party 1993 and The Party 1994 and this is su-
rely worth to be mentioned in here. The group is ger-
man based and even has a PC section.

The demo starts with a music appearing even before
the decrunch screen is removed, and a text saying
"in the year 1995 we are back". After a while, the
screen fades to black, a white line scrolls onto the
screen, revealing a Smash Designs logo. Then a
"Presents" logo appears, soon a landscape picture
is presented, with the credits. The credits are
shown on the top of the screen with a large font,
with the chars fading in a special way. Not too
advanced, however. By the way, the code was done
by AEG (he did 45%), Dasheele (40%) and Tardox
(15%). Then a full screen picture of the new-styled
C64 appears, with a "Desert Dots" logo above and a
little picture of a desert between them both! Then the
whole screen fades to white, and the screen fades
into black, with the screen divided into four bars,
which one after another goes black. After that, the
music changes, and another pictures appears, with a
logo saying "3D-world" and a landscape... Then the
vector mayhem starts. A vector cube with a Smash
logo on the right side appears. Then the vector cube
consists of very blocky squares (char size!) and ECI
colours, even with colour-cycling. It's an OK looking
effect, but really too blocky. Next out is a plasma-like
picture manipulating (again in char sized blocks). A
Smash logo (I think) is zoomed, teched and scrolled,
this effect is also full-screen. However, there are
some BUGS on the lower two character lines of the
screen, seems like they left some sprite definition
data there or some kind of data tables. Then, a tech-
no-show starts, with different signs similar to the
signs of the Zodiac, while the screen flashes in black
and white... Soon a strange Smash logo appears, ei-
ther it is me or the A is really missing... Now some
balls moving in sinus appears, with balls of fading co-
lours following them. A pretty coll effect, by the way,
perhaps the screen was a bit too empty. Then, some
larger balls appear (with the size of expanded spri-
tes). There are eight of them and together they make
up a vector cube. Now a shade-bob routine appears,
this one with colour-cycling! I found this routine quite
good. Now a circle colour-cycle routine follows, like
the one in "BlaBla/Censor", but this one scroll faster.
It starts with just black and white, but soon more co-
lours appear and they scroll in both directions. Then
this routine is combined with the previous plasma-like
picture manipulator, with each routine shown every
second frame... Looks both, cool and confusing. Then
a picture zoomer and rotator comes up, again with
the char resolution. This version is very blocky, and
compared to similar routines in other demos, this one
isn't very good, even though it is full screen... Then,
another Smash logo, followed by a strange plasma
what appears... This one is full screen, with char re-
solution and ECI (which stands for Expanded Colours
with Interlace). Routines like this were made back in
1990... Then a cartoonish picture of a boar appears,
and after that, the last part of the demo, consisting
of a Smash logo on the top of the screen, a scrolling
city at night beneath. Some text pages are shown on
the top of the graphics.

Well, this is a pretty standard trackmo, with usual ef-
fects like vector, plasmas, shadebobs etc. There
were also a lot of graphics appearing frequently. It is
very polished, all in all the demo looks quite great.
The coding isn't that advanced, however. The quality
of the routines ranges from very good to quite bad.
This is the first demo I have seen from this group.
Let's see if they will improve with their next demo...
I'll give the coding the rating of 45%.

The graphics of Desert Dots were drawn by AEG and
MVA, both Smash Designs, and all of them are in the
standart resolution (160x200 pixel).

The first logo is a Smash Designs logo in Koala for-
mat. Just an average piece of art followed by the in
my opinion, the best piece of art in this demo, a Koala
fullscreen picture showing a nice boulder and an im-
pressing sky, fullscreen ofcourse. The next one is
the title picture with a Desert Dots logo where all the
letter got some shadows added and a small desert
graphic with cactus and lots of sands while you will
beneath it a perspective correct (I hope so) drawn
new styled Commodore 64. Following you will find once
again a fullscreen "3D-World" Koala picture offering
the logo and some mountains and some clouds. The
row goes on with a 4-colours (including background)
holding Smash logo, not too good good in my opinion.
Graffity arts come up with the next fullscreen logo.
The A Scroll is missing could be the thing at the lower
end of the second S but I am not sure about it so this
letter is definately not fitting in a graffity styled logo.
so the rating will decrease again. The next logo is a
weird one with un-usual outlines but an aceeptable
filling (shading effect) I use to define as the typical
Andromeda (Amiga) logo filling in former days, atleast
it remembers me back to it. A wild boar appears and
I guess Asterix & Obelix would have for sure arran-
ged a barbeque if they would have got their hands on
it. In the last part we can find a logo which is hard to
define as the style could be either bent or tipped
what could be a hard question to be answered and I
guess only the artist himself is able to give the cor-
rect answer. At the buttom of the screen there is a
moving skyline being some screens long. Unfortuna-
tely the artist forget to make sure that the beginning
and the end of the moving will continue in a perfect
harmony and so even blind beggards are able to find
out where the graphics starts and where it ends. De-
tails can become important when people are looking
out for them.

In general all the graphics are made on a solid basis
with nice ideas but having a closer look at them did
not make me personally happy. With some more effort
they could have been much better (i.e. skyline) so the
rating from me is exactly 59%.

The second tune was ofcourse done by me, originally
used in Wrath's Courtesy of Soviet less than one
year ago, so I'll restrict to the one by Emax while Fu-
ben will have a closer look at my work. It's got ano-
ther one of these intros, but with sharp, cutting
sounds. The rest of the tune is techno-related, with
several sound-effects. But he doesn't handle the
hardstart properly! I thought this belonged to the
past by now. The instruments are not what you can
call mind-blowing, and that passage with the sixteenth
bassdrum really got on my nerves. The normal demo,
however, is spared this experience, as the tune is
faded out before there. This one is only worth 55%,
even if it is a conversation of an Amiga-module made
by Jester/Sanity, and now to the second tune.

This track is taken from the Wrath Design demo,
Courtesy of Soviet, but it fits very good to the demo
in my opinion. This track called "Neeeaung!" (because
of the slides in the bass at the beginning) is surely
one of PRI's better techno-tracks, though he's much
better in composing jazzy music with his nice style
to improvise soly. The techno-track contains the
typical PRI-instruments. And that is the special at
PRI's musics I think. You always recognize his tunes
just from the instruments.
However, the techno-track has a very fast speed
with lots of action. I think the length of the track
is quite remarkable, too.
Allright, to get a bit detailed: the track starts with a
simple bassline and a filter, which changes its fre-
quences all the time. After the "neeeaung"-motive
a constant base-drum starts hammering. After a
while a full and active bass-groove comes up. At
that time the constant base-drum changed to a full
rythm with base, snare and Hi-Hat. All the time you
listen to the opening and closing bassfilter, which is
very usual for these sort of techno.
The special of the track is, that it doesn't have any
harmonies. There is just the drum and the bassline,
which still doesn't make the track boring at all be-
cause of all those variations in the tune. You can
compare the track with the techno-track in Coma-
Light 12, which was also composed by PRI.

Well, I don't like Acid very much (I prefer ambient and
trance) and I have already listened to some better
tracks on C64, but still I think that the track has
much power and action, which fits quite good to a
trackmo. Rating: 73%

Please load in the second part of the demo reviews to
read the critism about Respect.

Best regards,

Scroll/Megastyle Productions
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Fuben/Oxyron
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==Demo Reviews 2==
<pre>
* Demo Reviews (Part 2) *
------------------------------------------------------------
After presenting the reviews of the demoes "Love"
and "Desert Dots" in the first chapter here is the
last review for this issue of a production called "Re-
spect", a demonstration not created by a demo group
but by a label we could define as some kind of working
pool.

Let's continue with the reviews ...

* Respect/Fuse *
------------------------------------------------------------
When you have been heard from Fuse before you've
seen this demo there is no need to wonder. Fuse is a
project from various east german CBM 64 scene folk
mainly coming from Dresden so please note that this
is no new group to be voted for. Under the label Fuse
programmers, artists and composers from Reflex, TIA
Taboo, Cosmic Style, Plush, Bass and Substance for
example have shown what they are capable to do with
their contribution in what kind of form however.

This demo was coded by Warp 8/Cosmic Style, The
Syndrom/TIA/Crest, Happymaker/Reflex & Jan
Zimmermann/Substance.

A trackmo of rather high quality, pretty nicely de-
signed and linked. Unfortunately very often system
errors caused by the sensible loader occur. How-
ever, there are almost always fade in and out effects
for coming and goining parts. Let's start with the in-
tro. Nice idea to display the introduction-text in a
transforming box. Also a fli picture got displayed in
the box.
After the intro there are some zooming balls moving
in a sine-movement. The balls are also lightsourced.
Nevertheless, no technical hard routine. Next are
again some balls, which are elastic now. They are
jumping above a rasterline. This part does not look
that cool than the part before, and the is not much
better! I think these two parts are definately shown
shown by far too long. After that you may read some
text while loading, informing the watcher about a hid-
den-part I have not found yet.
Some text and a logo follows. Then there is a Hi-Res
picture with a loosy sprite-scroll on 1x1 remembering
the watcher about all those old groups. By the way, I
am sharing my opinion with the authors of the demo.
Most newcomers doesn't show any attention to the
dead groups from that times! Just take some older
demos and watch them again. Most of them are much
cooler than the demos produced nowadays. However,
this part got again shown too long! Another nice-to-
atch part comes up. A fullscreen Hi-Res picture with
two little balls over the picture, which zooms the tex-
tures under themselves. In the left corner there is
also a nice Y-rotate animation of a little Hi-Res logo.
Well, those balls are looking ray-traced, but they are
not of course; you just get the feeling as they are
so small. The idea of this part isn't new as Cult relea-
sed a similar routine, just bigger and in multicolour in
in their recent demo called THE CULT. Next is a nice
picture, which gets faded in with a RGB effect. Very
good looking in my opinion. After that, a tunnel comes
up, in 4 colors running in one frame. That tunnel is
made up by some different coloured boxes. It doesn't
look very cool and is easy to code anyway. The next
part shows an Hi-Res logo with many old legendary
groupnames like Bonzai, Beyond Force, Dynamic Duo,
etc. over the logo you can see a Respect sprite logo.
After a while an interlace picture is faded in showing
Freddy Krueger. Then there is again a picture in Hi-
Res with some text besides it, written by using a pro-
portional charset, which doesn't look realtime to me.
The next part is in my opinion the best in the whole
demo featuring a split-scroller. There are 2 scroller,
the one scrolls up while the other one scrolls down.
Over that all there are some "multiplexed" sprites
displaying some text. This looks like a typical Crest
demo part, a nice routine actually. After some time
time there is a rather big Respect logo walking
though the side-boarders. Nice! Something is missing
in this trackmo?! Yes, it is the vector part. Some hid-
den-line vectors rotate all over the 3 axis. The vec-
tors look nice, but they are a bit slow in my opinion
(compare them with the last part of The Masque/Oxy).
Finally there is the end-part containing a "simple"
interlaced upscroller with a 1x2 charset. I think the
charset is interlaced to get a higher resoloution.
All in all a nice demo with some very long loading-
processes, which steals much action. A lack of
rastertime isn't a good excuse dear FUSE-coders!!!
I'll give a rating of 72% for the coding.

All the graphics I have detected in the trackmo of the
label Fuse were drawn by Earthquake, Felidae, Hogan,
Syndrom and Warp 8.

In the intro there is a fli picture showing some sort
devilish creature. A lot of colours, many of them did
not fit in here exactly, were used and all in all the
picture is not too accurate drawn. With a little bit
more effort it could be for sur much better. The next
target is a bitmap logo presenting Respect. Just an
average piece of art not being attractive in any way.
Following I found a hires singlecolour picture. It looks
quite interesting but I have no idea how to define the
shown object. Another hires singlecolour picture
came up with an alien or whatever it might be else. It
looks nice but still it seems to be a simple unit. Fanta-
sy art in fli format can be found aswell. The woman is
supposed to be a female bodybuilder, atleast it is how
she looks like. Girls looking like Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger are not too attractive in my opinion. The dragon
and the background are quite nice. To the world of
simple units got another Respect hires singlecolour
logo added. A VERY simple unit indeed. The most im-
pressing piece of art got presented by Warp 8 with
his Freddy Krueger Ifli picture. This one is for sure
handmade as I had the pleasure to see some parts of
the development live at The Party IV! Well done! A ro-
bot lady called Cybot was the next detectable art-
work. Some details have been added but anyway it is
not to impressive in my opinion. Once again an hires
singlecolour logo which looks like being created with
a characterset on Amiga/PC and got converted later
on. It could be but it mustn't be, it simply looks like
have been used that technique.

In general the graphics are at an acceptable level
with a single exception - the excellent Freddy picture
from Warp 8. But as this picture was only a part of
the artwork I have to rate the entire graphics at
69%.

The soundtrack for this one falls into six tunes, done
by The Syndrom, Fanta and D-Tract. It varies in style
and quality.

Fanta, who indeed has improved quite a bit lately, did
the first tunes as well as a third one which was reali-
zed together with D-Tract.
First we get to hear one of those very fashionable
"Mysterious Tension-Mount" intros, but nicely per-
formed. Not so nice, however, is the bass which is too
thin and the drums which sound too similar (snare
and bass), which prevents the tune from grooving.
The second one does groove quite a lot. It comes in
some jazzy 5-2-4-1 harmonics and contains a rather
Drax-orientated solo (a tribute to him?). Syndrom's
first one really rocks, he even seems to simulate a
string-bass, which also plays a nice line. Also the me-
lodies are good, but not loud enough! Really strange,
normally you have that when playing a tune, which was
composed on an old 64, on a new one (old and new SID
have different volume balances when FILTER is on),
but I always use an old one, so how come? Anyway,
Syndrom's second one is well-balanced, very relaxed
and a nice background-tune, suitable for the demo
end. D-Tract's tune stands out in the negative sense
sounding much like a typical beginner's tune: boring
built-up and structure, mindless jamming about four
always repeated chords. Besides, a C# over a-minor
is a real burner. Somebody who doesn't notice this in
his own tune can't be a real musician. Sorry for this
terminating critism, but it really made by ears hurts.
The coop-tune at last is marked by some neat ideas,
especially the question-answer-passage. The B-part
grooves better, but letting the tune just start over
is a clumsy break.

Overall this soundtrack is okay, with a spotline on
Fanta's second tune. I'll give it a rating of 65%.

If it should be necessary we will expand the demo re-
views as we are interested in enlarging our engage-
ment on the legal sector of the scene aswell. But this
depends on the legal scene and their releases, be
sure we will be there to pick up everything what
seems to be interesting and what attracted the at-
tention of the critical audience.

Best regards from your favourite review team,

Scroll/Megastyle Productions
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Fuben/Oxyron
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==Open Letter==
<pre>
* Open Letters *
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Public Note from Marc of Alpha Flight 1970

Even if it doesn't come up to our usual business here
is a small comment from Marc/Afl concerning the edi-
torial of Vandalism News 22, to be more precise the
part written by Bizarre:
Not only that you start to complain about one mistake
we did in a time when almost everyone joined Ons-
laught, now you start to complain about the slogan
used by our dutch section since ages, a long time be-
fore Onslaught and the cooperation Hardcore and
Onslaught got started. When you refer to happenings
that occured a long time before you can pretend to
be a part of this scene you should better make sure
about the facts you deliver. The cooperation Alpha
Flight and Paramount got active in 1990 and not four
years ago like you stated. Out of this experience we
are able to quote WE DON'T NEED NO CO-OP! If you
manipulate your readers by pretending that this slo-
gan got created to spend attention to Onslaught or
to attack Success & The Ruling Company you should
better return to your roots and copying the music
charts or reviewing CDs.
MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT 1970

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Public note by Alpha Flight 1970

With this text-file we in ALPHA FLIGHT want to react
to the various notes written about us and our
members in the past few months. We were getting
more and more sick and tired of it all, and so the
gossip about us in the July issue of The Pulse, in
former times known for its accurate News Journal,
made us deceide to use The Relax to get this note to
the public of the C64 scene.

Pulse editor Crossfire claims, quote: 'Mayhem
brought evidence to the scene, and there can be no
doubt. Investigation has shown, that Ream is
responsible for all the fuzz around Alpha Flight at
the moment.' unquote. Apparantly Crossfire knows
JACKSHIT about the whole situation, because if he
had been following the whole so-called affair, which
a good journalist definitely has got to do, he would
have noticed that Mayhem did NOT investigate
anything. The only thing they could come up with were
some wild accusations based on nothing. Accusations
and assumptions, this is not what normal people call
EVIDENCE.
Another nice one from The Pulse, quote:
'Alpha Flight has not replied to Mayhem. atleast no
reaction which has been received by any of the
members of staff.' unquote.
Now this one IS funny. The Pulse worships and tries
to practise real-life journalism, which automatically
makes the editors of such a magazine would be
journalists. We in Alpha Flight always thought a
journalist had to go out in the field to report the
latest happenings. Crossfire however, thinks he
will RECEIVE the latest happenings from all groups.
Now where did the real-life journalism go to?
If he had been doing what he claims he is doing he
would have noticed that we in Alpha Flight already
released TWO notes concerning the Mayhem
situation. One to react on the first note written by
Mayhem and the second one written by Styx/AFL to
react on the stupidity of Met/Mayhem.

Now for the LAST time we will react to all the games
we released which caused some kind of fuzz.

NUTS
----
Check the June issue of the Relax for this game.
In short: We've proven our innocense by providing
you with the original game, and a snap shot from a
page of Gamers Guide issue 17.

MISFORTUNE PREVIEW
----------------
This problem was solved over THREE months ago!
Because it was mainly talked about on the boards,
we have proven to the board scene, by providing
them with the original game, we're totally innocent.
So Crossfire if you had been perceptive, you would
have known this matter was already dealt with over
three months ago.
The original preview can be requested at your
Alpha Flight dealer if you still want to see it though.

BADBALLS
--------
Read the notes written by us which will be spread
together with this issue for all the details.

We in Alpha Flight do not ask for a rectification,
we DEMAND one!

Get your facts straight

MOTHERFUCKERS

Signed:

A pissed off Alpha Flight crew.

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* Red Devil/Fairlight *
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XXXX XXXXXXX - for music order
XXX, XXXXXXXX - for music stuff swap
XXX XX XXXXXXXXXX - for PC swap
XXXXXX - cheat carefully!
------------------------------------------------------------

* Grafee/Feniks/Accept *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX - Feniks Hq
XXXXXXXXXXX X/XX - 4 swap
XX-XXX XXXXXXX - only ELITE
XXXXXX
Tel.: +XX/(X)XX/XXX-XXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Sebaloz/Keen Acid/Lepsi *
------------------------------------------------------------
Orlando Magic Fan Club - MEGAswapping
X/X XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX - 100% reply
XXXXXXX XX/XX
XX-XXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Chash/Lepsi/Caution * * Frank/Lepsi *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXX XX/X
XX-XXX XXXXXXXXX XX-XXX XXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Ice/Lepsi * * Scare/Lepsi *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XX/XX XXXX-XXXXXX-XXX. XX
XX-XXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Scroll/Megastyle Productions *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX

Internet: Scroll^Nordnett.No

- for extremely fast oldie swap with many disks
- send a list with your first letter
- put on enough stamps or DIE!
- I want EVERYTHING, so contact me if you have some
obscure warez
- 100% reply ofcourse
------------------------------------------------------------

* Amputator/ex-Nemesis *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXX - 4 friendship
XXX XXXXX-XX - 4 Il(legal)
XXXXX XXXXXX - 100% reply
XXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Zzap/Noice *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - COOL but SLOW swap
XXXXXX. X
XXX XX XXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Vengeance/Onslaught/Megastyle Productions *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX' - Hcon & MSP releases
X XXXXXX XXXXXX - Vandalism News
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX - 100% reply to euros
XXXXXXXXX XXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Fuben/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

- NO ordinary swapping anymore!!!
- contact with Programmers and Composers wanted
------------------------------------------------------------

* RRR/Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx

- legal mailtrade on Amiga 1200 and CBM 64
- (game-) graphics ---------
- CBM 64 hardware wanted!
------------------------------------------------------------

* Scrapper/Oxyron (PC) *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - PC swapping on both 3.5
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX disks or streamer tapes
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX (Qic 80)
XXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Funny/Replay *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXX XX.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXX. XX
XXXX-XXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* AEG/Smash Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX' X"XXXX - for swapping, joining,
XX XXXXXXXXXX XXX gfx and nice coder
XXXXX XXXXXXX-XXXXXX talk
XXXXXXX
Tel.: +XX/(X)XXXX-XXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Spectator/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX - Original & Tape swap
XXXXX XXXXX XXX. X
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX

ATTENTION! Note the new address!
------------------------------------------------------------

* Splatterhead/Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Morris/Shape *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX - MEGAswapping!
XXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXX XXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Acidchild/Taboo *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXXX XXXX - 4 legal swap
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. XX - 4 covers, beermates, stamps
XXXXX XXXXXXX - 4 swapping older demos+mags
XXXXXXX - 4 acidtapes
- 4 friendship mainly
------------------------------------------------------------

* Sailor/Taboo/SCS & TRC *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX - latest Tbo/SCS&TRC
XXXXXXXXXXXX X warez
XX-XXX XXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Stash/Wrath Designs *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX X. XX
XXX XX XXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

If you are interested in swapping with a girl then try
------------------------------------------------------------
XXXXX-XXXXX XXXX - 100% reply
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXX XX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX
------------------------------------------------------------

* Mac Guyver/ex-The Airwolf Team *
------------------------------------------------------------
XXX XXXXXX - 4 swapping old'n new games
XXXXXXXXXXX or simply the latest stuff
XXXXX XXXXXXX - also Flash 8 contacts are
XXXXXXX wanted
------------------------------------------------------------

This have been all addresses we have collected for
this issue and we hope that the amount will grow con-
tinously per issue. If you are interested in present-
ing your advertisement here in this chapter and it is
scene or computer related do not hesitate to con-
tact us. Mail and E-mail addresses can be found in
the editorial.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>

Relax 10

2008-01-14T15:07:46Z

80.139.17.5:

==Editorial==
<pre>
* Editorial *
------------------------------------------------------------
The RELAX magazine June edition got delivered to
you by Bad Bytes Entertainment Software (european
division) after some personal troubles and misunder-
standings between the editing staff have been solved
in a way like gentleman behave not only to guarantee
the existance of this magazine but in the wise judge-
ment that computer-orientated conflicts should not
divide friends as there are definately much more im-
portant things than a thirteen years old computer of
a dying generation nor that these things should be
taken too serious since it is all entertainment in our
opinion and something we have to be pleased with.

The first Relax issue ever got released in September
1989 while the sixth isue got spread in April 1990 or
to be more precise on April 21st, 1990. Nearly five
years later at the X-95 (April 22nd/23rd) the ninth
issue got published as usual in a real hurry and after
some sleepness nights due to several reasons for
our staff. This issue is supposed to be something
special as it is the tenth issue, ten issues spread in
six years.

It is very usual in the magazine business today when
people are going to celebrate a special issue with
those very positive critism from their close friends
in order to show the "popularity" and the "success"
of their production. To be honest, all these reactions
look very similar and boring in our eyes so we refu-
sed even the idea to publish that kind of propaganda
for our magazine in here.

Many of our readers requested to see this magazine
being spread all four weeks in order to receive a
monthly journal, a monthly publication like in former
times practised by Sex'n Crime, Relax, Magic News
some years or The Pulse some months ago. For sure
we discussed this topic and researched how to reali-
se it but after dozens of conferences we came to the
logical conclusion that there is a lack of activity in
the scene. A lot of more or less well reputated sce-
ners leave the scene each month and the community
of CBM 64 users decreases day by day. It is sad but
true but necessary to collect six weeks all the hap-
penings, the few releases (from both the legal and il-
legal part of the scene), to analyze the votesheets
and the charts from our concerence we use in the
megacharts (=mail charts) in order to present the
maximum of quality, quantity and entertainment, things
that might do not look to hard to perform but regar-
ding the situation in the magazine market there are
only a few ones able to hold up this standart. Our in-
tention is to release a magazine filled with scene con-
cerned topics only, a policy being high appreciated
from many guys due to the mass of positive reactions
we got after our comeback issue and after the two
previous issues we released this year.
It is very easy to copy texts from books, to tell very
amusing erotic or mystic tales, to review books, music
CDs or movies but to edit a scene related magazine
with interesting topics in an as objective way as pos-
sible does really take much time, much more effort
and enthusiasm these days for a critical audience
counting blocks instead of looking out for quality
when it comes up to magazines today. We accepted
the challenge and went a different way, not the easy
one but one we really enjoy to be something special
in an cloned market. This magazine won't be abused
as a propaganda medium to be a platform for private
conflicts, a situation we are proud of, a subject we
already wrote about in the previous issue.

The INFOTAINMENT strategy and policy will be one of
things that make this magazine quite unique. A lot of
people requested what does it mean in general? Our
intention is to deliver masses of INFOrmation with the
global reports, charts, reports and reviews. While
these chapters already contain entertaining se-
quences in order to make boring facts more enjoy-
able we use to present the enterTAINMENT with the
trips back to the roots where we proudly can report
about things we did when we were young and the CBM
64 still was a machine which was interesting for all
the major companies and distributors, the highlight
and the glorious days of this machine. An interview is
supposed to be informative and interesting so we do
not classify this chapter in any way as long as it fits
into the concept and it does, don't you agree?

When people demand or ask for non-scene related
chapters we have to refuse your wish as this is not a
commercial production in order to sell more copies.
It is our hobby, our work and our job or to be more
precise something we have to be pleased with. It is
much more important to follow our concept, our ideas
and our inventions in order to reach our aims and we
are getting closer and closer the more issues we are
going to release. When we are pleased with the issue
we are going to refill our energy and we start over
to guarantee a successful follow-up.

When ignorant people talk about the Relax Magazine
these days they still use to call it a "Pulse-beating"
Alpha Flight magazine. In fact the idea of the Relax
was to continue where The Pulse stopped with a lot
of its former staff members but meanwhile the entire
staff "changed" back to the persons which were in-
volved with the Relax Magazine in former times like
Marc and Max who contributed from the start in 1989
up to now and RRR who delivered news and spread it
that time. Deff joined the staff in order to guarantee
that the release charts become the most fair charts
in the scene due to the fact that two members of
competing cracking groups merge their skills. This is
why we can proudly proclaim that our release charts
are the most FAIR and OBJECTIVE ones around these
days. We have been observing the market and found
out that people do spoil the rules for the release
charts until they found out a way to rank themselves
on the top spot. We can't and won't accept this kind
of behaviour as we do believe in a fair competition, a
competition we do not fear in any way.
Furthermore it is not neccessary to mention that the
Relax was supposed to be independent from the very
beginning in 1989 and after the comeback in 1994 but
actually it is going to be spread by BAD BYTES EN-
TERTAINMENT SOFTWARE, european division, and not
by Alpha Flight. Please keep this in mind when you are
going to mention the Relax Magazine.

This new outfit got born several months ago. When we
discussed and planned the comeback of the Relax we
have been considering about a very special and ori-
ginal outfit using proportional upscroller as our pre-
fered text display routine. Unfortunately all the end-
less previous tries have been skipped due to the
fact that NTSC computers did not like the routines
but these days Fuben/Oxyron presented the ultimate
version without using heaps of rastertime and timing
tables. PRI/TIA/Oxyron was responsible for the music
this time so we are proud to present a very advan-
advanced PAL/NTSC outfit in order to please all the
the masses of readers who judge magazines by re-
garding the outfit instead of studying the content
what seems to be one of the major mistakes not only
in our opinion but we have to quote Jeff Smart here,
a former Triad member, who used to say WHO CARES
in situations like this one.

Credits for this issue looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
Intro:
----
PROGRAMMING: Skid Row/ex-Alpha Flight 1970
SOUNDTRACK: Arne/Alpha Flight 1970

Magazine:
--------
PROGRAMMING: Fuben/Oxyron
SOUNDTRACK: PRI/TIA/Oxyron
BITMAP GRAPHICS: RRR/Oxyron
CHARACTERSET: Skid Row/ex-Alpha Flight 1970

Responsible editors for this issue are:
------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN EDITOR: Marc/Alpha Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR: Max/Alpha Flight 1970
MAIN EDITOR: RRR/Oxyron
CO-EDITOR: Deff/Avantgarde
CO-EDITOR: Fuben/Oxyron
CO-EDITOR: PRI/TIA/Oxyron
CO-EDITOR: Scroll/Megastyle Productions

Here we would like to introduce two new co-editors
from Oxyron, namely PRI and Fuben. Both have joined
the Demo Review team which consists of Fuben, PRI
and RRR now or to be more precise specialists to
judge their special subjects to come up to a more
more professional review chapter. The same goes for
Scroll/MSP who will have a look at the programming
aswell, a man we do not have to introduce in here.

Atleast the following persons cooperated in any pos-
sible way like spreading our votesheet or supplying
news and information next to spreading this publica-
tion:
Intruder/Avantgarde, Sebaloz/Keen Acid/Lepsi De-
velopments, Spectator/SCS & TRC, Syco/Chromance,
Morris/Shape, Shuze/Afl and many more.

Finally there is a future for Commodore. ESCOM, a
german computer multi, bought the company for ca.
US$ 10.000.000,-. Commodore International Ltd. ac-
tually has active debts of around US$ 100.000.000,-
so most creditors are not satisfied. Nevertheless it
seems to be clear that the Commodore 64 will be pro-
duced for the eastern european market and the pro-
duction of the Amiga 1200/4000 will be restarted in
China. The future plans are to develope a power PC
comparable with the Apple Mac.
A lot of speculations have been made thinking about a
possible return of the big software houses what is
more than hypothetic. To be honest, actually it seems
like that the time of Commodore business (?) machines
is definately over, for both Amiga and CBM 64, and it
is up to an every user to slow down the final death of
this machine as long as possible. It is very amusing to
see the unlimited tries of concurence magazines try-
ing to rule the ruins and to denunciate their oppo-
nents with childish phrases and slogans instead of ac
cepting a fair challenge without unfair tricks to in-
fluence their potential target group, a group partly
being grateful for that kind of propaganda which is
everything else but not serious journalism! May it be
that there is some kind of jealousy leading them to
react and to behave like this? The remaing CBM 64
community should better encourage each other to
make sure that there will some support instead of
leaving behind a bunch of frustated users who are
finally fed up using this machine. This might be one of
the primary targets of people who can not compete
with the top in their blind mission and false ambitions
to become well respected even if they are not able to
recognize that they are - and not the people they
are going to attack - the responsible for people lea-
ving the scene. These persons should wake up and
start thinking before they influence the audience with
their dark visions nor do they have the right to
reform the scene. The scene has been running all
over the years pleasing a lot of persons who took
part and it can not be to see a few unsuccessful
creatures messing up with the system, a system
running perfectly over ten years now. Anarchy can
not be a solution to keep the scene alive as anarchy
will destroy all the fine structures which made this
scene, the scene you are actually a part of, possible.
Why is it that the so-called quality cracking groups
start to complain about first releases? Is it because
they do not have the sources to get those originals
and that they have no access to the major boards
due to the fact that they do not have the possibility
a chance to call out for "free"? Why is it that people
who applied for the elite status and never got it fi-
nally stand up and start to complain about the system
only because they did not reach their aim? To be ho-
nest, we have never heard an elite person complai-
ning about the system! Just curious. The status elite
is nothing you can get by buying a modem or joining
a so-called elite or top group, it is something like an
award you get from other persons and not unlike
some persons who self-titled themselves as elite. All
people who take chart positions more enjoyable com-
pared with the fun they could have in this scene are
people we can count on in the quest to keep the sce-
ne alive as they are supposed to be persons who are
going to release a lot of warez to guarantee the
steady flood of warez for this machine and you can't
deny the fact that the warez are, next to the very
important subject FRIENDSHIP, responsible for the
existance of the CBM 64 scene. We are here to re-
lease an interesting magazine because we like to
spend our sparetime for something that is a small
piece of the big puzzle being a sign for everyone to
compete with his production to connect the family of
users with the aim to keep the scene alive. When some
notorious people pray friendship and abuse their
publications for personal propaganda to spread false
facts and accusations to glorify their reputation and
productions it seems that they - and not their inno-
cent targets they choosed out of their personal
frustration - are the false prophets and people who
stand for the object of their impulsive and unrelie-
able attacks. It is definately the fun keeping us in the
scene and the friendship towards a lot of interesting
men and women worldwide, people we never would
have learnt to know without the medium computer. As
a small summary of the previous lines we would like to
point out that we do not want some wrecked persons
who think to own the right to destroy this scene while
complaining about people who used to serve for this
computer all over the years and all what we stand for.
These people should learn about accepting an every
person taking part in this soap opera when they de-
mand to become accepted instead of arguing and
abusing the word friendship to reach their aim. We
actually can not foretell the end of the scene, we
would really appreciate it to see people cooperating
or accepting all the competitors instead of working
against them. Fingers are weak but the fist is strong.
so people should unite before it is too late. To be
continued in forthcoming issues ....

This months' content looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
The GLOBAL REPORT has, as usual, a critical look at
the actual happenings in the scene, which will be re-
flected in the charts. The RELEASE CHARTS show in
an impressive way who got the Play Time at first and
who was able to upload his versions at first at the
boards worldwide. In the chapter BOARD CHARTS you
will find the resonance of the board scene when it
comes to fill digital votesheets at either the board
Escapade in the prepared voting booth or at Holiday
Inn Cambodia by leaving e-mails to Marc. Traditional
the MAIL CHARTS reflect the votes of the Relax rea-
ders who dared to fill the rarely spread votesheets
and the charts of the in the chapter stated magazi-
nes compiled to become the ultimate and offical mega
charts. This months INTERVIEW with Scroll offers
very interesting answers having a look at both, the
past and the present of this machine. The victims of
the DEMO REVIEWS were Radio Napalm, Fantasy and
Parts. BACK TO THE ROOTS presents some inte-
resting facts from a time when Venlo meetings were
worth being visited and when people ran AMOK with
gas attacks, something what seems to be very popu-
lar in Japan these days :(. ADVERTISEMENTS is a fo-
rum for all who have to offer or seek something that
should be ofcause scene related.

How to contact the Relax Magazine staff?
------------------------------------------------------------
Snail mail: X/X XXXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXX. XX, XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX

E-mail: Holiday Inn Cambodia ++1/xxx/xxx/xxxx
----- Escapade ++xx/xxxx/xxxxxx
(leave your mail at Marc's accounts or at the
accounts of other Alpha Flight members)

Internet: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
------- xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx (mark 'RRR')

About the steady release of the Relax Magazine we
can report that the magazine is going to be spread
all six weeks so you can expect the next issue at the
end of July 1995. For any further details please con-.
tact the Relax staff or your local dealer you got this
issue from. The past few issues have shown that it is
possible to release a magazine like this one filled with
a special standart of quality in that period.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this magazine and
what is more important for us that you start to think
about the content before you are going to be manipu-
lated by other sources. Our advice is to check out an
undefinated amount of information mediums before
believing in ruthless preaches published by question-
able sources.

The technique that allows this text display routine is
quite unique and contains control bytes so that we
will be always able to find our source out of "copied"
routines in the same way like the coders from Oxyron
found their abused routines in certain similar looking
demo parts from a certain group. Try to find our own
solution or use another technique as we will publish it
in here without pardon and won't hesitate to do it like
in former times to avoid any kind of conflicts.

If you are searching for a NTSC checker in the code
we have to disappoint you the display routine itself
does not need a fix. In the forthcoming issue we will
decrease the speed of the "Loading" sprites in the
NTSC format, too, that will be the complete NTSC fix
for the magazine. When you are filling votesheets you
should probably keep in mind who realised it at first
as PAL/NTSC running routine and give a sign of re-
spect to the coder of this outfit as he really deser-
ves it, not only in our opinion.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------

</pre>
==Global Report==
<pre>
* GLOBAL REPORT *
------------------------------------------------------------
During the last few weeks we and our dear informers
were able to detect the few happenings and changes
in the CBM 64 scene.

We tried to check all the news and rumours very
carefully in order to avoid printing false information
here. If you would like to correct some details please
inform the editorial staff by contacting them by mail
or e-mail. This month's special service is the alpha-
numerical appearance of the compiled major news to
offer a faster access to the information of your
interest.

* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Afl is always responsible for a lot of action month by
month, week by week and day by day. This group owns
a lot of NTSC chipsets, potentional single crackers
and recruited a lot of mail traders to enlarge their
engagement for the mail scene. Some competitors
tried to ruin their reputation by spreading rumours
about Afl and mainly Ream having re-cracked two ga-
mes. These rumours have been without any basis and
the opposite was proven. These proofs are going to
be spread along with the Relax Magazine.

THE EVIL ISLAND went down, actually not forced by a
lack of support and callers like other magazines sta-
ted but caused by a traffic accident of Ancient Mari-
ner. His truck got destroyed completely. His doctor
explained that he should be close to normal in a few
months and by the end of the summer when he conti-
nues his work out programm and using weights. After
the therapy he should be like he was before the tra-
gical crash. At the moment he is living at his mother's
house partly calling out with his Amiga as his wife is
working fulltime so she could not spent as much at-
tention as he needs these days. When Ancient Mari-
ner returns to his house The Evil Island will go online
again.

The identity of Pha Q seems to be still one of the use-
less questions people discuss these days. Fact is
that Pha Q was no one else but Dr. Death (Breaker),
a member of the legendary group Paramount years
ago. The reason for hiding his identity was that he
got caught by the police years ago and to protect his
good reputation as he did not come up to the skill le-
vel he used to have years ago so one of the few re-
mainig riddles left has been solved now.

Memberwise we detected that Agressor got kicked
due to permanent inactivity as he did not make any-
thing remarkable in his time he "served" the flight.
Stash seems to be the second victim of Alpha Flight's
new policy to reduce the memberstatus down to an
acceptable amount of members.
A sputnik called Disaster joined the flight to enlarge
the fleet with russian power as a modem trader but
after seeing no advantage in Disaster's membership
he got kicked out after a few days. Disaster's reven-
ge followed by uploading two re-releases. Indeed
a very amusing episode of the monthly soap opera we
use to call CBM 64 scene.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like: (= 14):
Ancient Mariner, Arne, Calypso, Ignorance, Marc, Max,
Mutant X, Pol Pot, Ream, Shuze, Skinhead, Styx, Xenox
Xenox and Zapotek

Alpha Flight 1970 Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA +X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE ESCAPADE +XX/XXXX-XXXXXX

* Atlantis *
------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantis is one of those groups who have both, a good
legal and illegal section. Unfortunately the legal sec-
tion did not show much during the previous months so
when people were talking about Atlantis they mostly
were refering to the illegal section, consisting of ta-
lented crackers and good mail traders remembering
the masses that there is still much action from their
side.

Dr. Disk who left the scene some months ago finally
returned to the CBM 64 scene and to Atlantis, too.
Avalanche is completely back in business and works
on the new Immortal Flash outfit, one of the promising
legal Atl productions. The old News Press staff, na-
mely the former Rebels members, will work for the
Immortal Flash in the future.
Human decided to team up with his mates in Hardcore
(& Onslaught).

Current Atlantis memberstatus looks like (= 34):
Aegis, Agemixer, Artlace, Avalanche, B.A., Backslash,
Chaotic, Dano, Darklord, Darkness, Dave, Didi, Dr.
Doom, Dr. Disk, Dr. Science, Dr. Who, Dr. Zoom,
Freddie, Gangstar, Hi-Top, Kirby, Lala, Mr. Giga, Neo-
tec, Racer, Ram Jam, Rebel, Robocop, SMD, Snap,
Thirt, Troop, TUC and X-Poser

Atlantis Worldheaquarter(s)/Board(s):
FORTRESS OF DOOM +X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
POWER ENGINE +XX/XX-XXXXXX

* Avantgarde *
------------------------------------------------------------
Avantgarde is one of the best groups these days
when it comes to the topics first releases, single
crackers the very potentional mail trading section.
Avt has probably the best reputation of all the com-
peting cracking groups these days.

Jack Alien and Suicide already proved their skills as
worthy competitors for the european NTSC fixers
when they presented some fine versions but never-
theless it seems that no one can ever replace the le-
gendary Pudwerx.
In the land of the free (?) Chameleon, the former
sysop of "Divine Ultimation" which was a headquarter
for groups like Genesis and SCS & TRC for example,
joined to become a board graphician as well as Cy-
borg who joined both groups using his board as their
worldheadquarter. Rage, who got booted from Hard-
core some days ago, joined in as a programmer.

Dreams might become true when popular disk maga-
zines like "Corruption" and "Mamba" merged into
"Corramba", a magazine edited by competent and ex-
perienced editors who stand for quality and not only
quantity like certain other magazines spread these
these days.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like (= 14):
Chameleon, Cyborg, Decilon, Deff, Derbyshire Ram,
Eliminator, Freestyle, Intruder, Jack Alien, Jack
Daniels, Rage, Suicide, Thorn and Tricom

Avantgarde Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
DREAMPARK +X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Chromance *
------------------------------------------------------------
Many rumours got spread and told that this group is
supposed to be dead but anyway, Chromance still ma-
naged it to get their warez spread around and to
prove that they are still alive they finally pointed
out that they are far away from being dead.

Assailant, a former member of groups like Cherubs
and Extacy, returned to the CBM 64 scene, renamed
into Jaydee. A rather unknown person called Janee
teamed up in order to become a new original supplier
from them while Skull left the forces of Atlantis to
start composing for Chromance.

Alias Medron, a talented artist who teamed up toge-
ther with His-Team Design (Accept Design) was for-
ced to leave the scene caused by problems with the
school and his parents. A reliable source reported
that he might return to team up with a game label in
the near future.

Current Chromance memberstatus looks like (= 18):
AMC, Griff, Homeboy, Janee, Jaydee, Jazzy D, Jinx,
Joyride, Lion, Mr. Wax, Rough, Rug Rat, Skull, Stake,
Syco, The Unholy, Will and X-Radical.

Chromance Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT +X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE HIGHWAY +XX/XX-XXXXX

* Fantastic 4 Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
With the tradegy around the death of Scope F4CG
had a lot of sad headlines in all the magazines around.
but it seems that things work normally again these
days even if life will never be the same for all the
people who used to know him personally.

It was very surprising to see F4CG starting a demo
section, something what seems to be very popular
these days (see Chromance and Onslaught just to
name a few). In order to let their dreams become true
they recruited a lot of Noice members, namely Devil,
Total Chaos, Got, Draz and Decoder, that means that
they got their hands on very potentional demo crea-
tors so people should be patient for their produc-
tions.
Zirco has left F4CG as he uses to have some spare-
time problems at the moment so he has no time left for
"computing" at the moment while Solar is considering
about bulding up a PC-section but nothing has been
specified yet.

Current F4CG memberstatus looks like (= 23):
Bitman, Cerebus, Deathlok, Decoder, Devil, Draz, Fen
1, Got, Hain, Idol, King, Maja, Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha,
Neotec, Newscopy, Playboy, Sneaper, Solar, Spark,
Total Chaos and Walker

F4CG Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
DREAMPARK ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX

* Hardcore & Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
The cooperation of the two newcommer cracking
groups still surprises the scene with all their unex-
pected actions.

At first Nomad teamed up with Onslaught as original
supplier and spreader in the United States. With Jolz
and Grize from Darkside two programmers joined
the legal section called Onslaught Design. L.A. Style/
ex-GP joined in as cracker. Later on Gop/Darkside
followed his former group mates and joined in, too.
More convocations have been send to Witty/Accu-
racy, who joined in as artist as well as The Twins, who
are said to be an artist duo from the Netherlands,
next to Jason, Doom and Baze/ex-Illusion who seems
to enlarge their mail trading forces. Last but not
least with Dodger/Dytec a talented cracker joined
their forces in order to guarantee some quality ver-
sion and uses to be a quite good deal for Hcon.
Vengeance teamed up with Megastyle Productions as
second group in order to concentrate his power at
the legal scene business. He is supposed to be a mail
trader for the old norwegian legend. The Hegg left
Onslaught to concentrate on his group Bad Karma.
Balance, who is a member of Replay and Chorus, too,
got kicked due to lazyness according to their maga-
zine Vandalism News. Futhermore they have deleted
all inactive members to reduce their indeed very
huge memberlist a little bit.
And what happened in Hardcore? Zore, a former
member of Elysium and later on Palace, joined them
next to Human, who left Atlantis to become a Hard-
core member. Later on he renamed into Ticket. Fur-
thermore they recruited a programmer called Carlos
while Rage got booted for several reasons.

Current HC & ONS memberstatus looks like (= 41):
Baze, B-Wyze, Bizarre, Blockbuster, Carlos, Chotaire
Chrysagon, Deekay, Dodger, Doom, Gop, Grize, Heavy
head, Hi-Lite, Homeboy, Insane, Jason, Jayce, Jazz-
cat, Jolz, KBS, L.A. Style, Majesty, Marcus, Morbid,
Morrisey, Nomad, Ramirez, Rap, Raze, Shades, Shok-
ker, Sphere, Stake, The Twins, Ticket, Upbeat, Venge-
ance, Volunteer, Witty & Zore

HC & ONS Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
DOWN BY LAW +X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
THE PIRATE ISLAND +XX/XXX-XXXXX
WESTPOINT +XX/XXXX-XXXX

* Laser *
------------------------------------------------------------
Laser seemed to the longest surviving cracking crew
around as they started in 1980 on Atari machines
and in 1983 Steve started Laser on the breadbox,
too, 12 years of existance on this machine.

When Steve left Laser the leadership was taken over
by Shuze who found out that we can not execute the
job with the same power and effect so he decided to
let the group die. What happened to the members?
Shuze remains in Alpha Flight 1970, JP joined Mayhem,
Khan joined a team called Avalon, Jupiter joined Po-
werage and Razor Ramon joined Bronx and Lepsi but
meanwhile Lepsi kicked him out of the group and fi-
nally Eddie the Head's destination is still unknown to
us.

* Megastyle Productions *
------------------------------------------------------------
The once pure norwegian group recruited some for-
eign members like Vengeance, who joined in as se-
cond group and remains a part of the leading truim-
vyrat of Onslaught, serving as swapper in the future
and Shok'Ray, who was known as Jamiroquai/ex-Afl,
Dreamlover/ex-Atl and Sorcerer/ex-Talent in the
past, will draw graphics for Megastyle.
Price (Frode), their former main swapper in the late
eighties, will return this summer together with Inzane
and Rage. Both are currently involved with finishing
their army service and promised to return after this
time. With Cycleburner a class of its own returned to
prove his reputation as the sample master on the 64.

Current Megastyle memberstatus looks like (= 8):
Cycleburner, Inzane, Price, Rage, Scroll, Shok'Ray,
Space-Roy and Vengeance

* Motiv 8 *
------------------------------------------------------------
These days people are wondering about the origin of
Compare 2, what is said to be under the Copyright of
Magna Media while the company takes distance from
this game. Compare 2 is identical with Konzept, a game
from Twice Effect produced in 1992.

Nevertheless Crossfire was able to recruit some new
members like BinJinx, a former member of the all-time
legend EagleSoft Incorporated. Stone/Dytec joined in
as swapper and net-surfer. Last but not least we
detected a person called Psychopath in the status,
who was a former member of the group Bronx.
Mizar got busted and as a matter of this fact his
board Intertrade went down. No one really knows
what is going on so things are quite mysterious.

Current Motiv 8 memberstatus looks like (= 15):
BinJinx, Bird, Clive, Crossfire, Eddie, Grego, Ibanez,
Iceball, Mason, Merlin, Mizar, Natas, Psychopath,
Stone and TG-Acme.

Motiv 8 Worldheadquarter(s)/Board(s):
INTERTRADE ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX (down!)
IN LIVING COLOUR ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
MOUNT OLYMPUS ++XX/XXXX/XXXX

* Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
After all the false rumours about Oxyron's death
they returned with a demonstration called "Parts"
and rumours about the group slowing down their ac-
tivities are far away from being true.

Oxyron created the new outfit for the Relax Magazine
and currently they are working on a new trackmo.
PRI returned from his pre-courses at the university
to work in full power and effect for Oxyron.
Scrapper finally made a decision and told that his fu-
ture will be definately on the PC so he won't become
active on this machine anymore. Meanwhile Peace,
who left Oxyron for Noice in the fall of the last year,
joined Oxyron on PC!

Current Oxyron memberstatus looks like (= 7):
Asmodis, Axis, Fuben, Graham, PRI, RRR and TTS

* Taboo Productions *
------------------------------------------------------------
Long time no see with a group filled with a lot of well
reputated talents. While people are still waiting for
the mega-delayed "Altered States" cooperation demo
with Elysium Taboo was very active in programming
games such as Orbits, Fruitmania or last but not
least the fantastic preview Zone of Darkness, a pre-
view like we use to know game intros from the Amiga.

Cruise, who left Elysium to become a member of Taboo
only, released a fantastic graphics collection called
"Ritual II". Hopefully they won't forget their roots and
to produce demoes in the future, too.

Current Taboo memberstatus looks like (= 11):
Acidchild, Comer, Cresh, Cruise, Fazee, K.M., MMS,
Sailor, Shaman, Shogoon and Wayne

* Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated *
------------------------------------------------------------
Last month we already had a look inside TRSI, its tra-
dition and today's situation and there was again some
movement with some members who appear and some
who disappear from their memberstatus.

At the X-95 we got the information that Stan, a for-
mer member of Equinoxe, joined while Grey Eminence
has been kicked out of the group.
According to Conan he actually has not done anything
on the CBM 64 since ages and he doesn't intend to do
anything. He is only interested in the Super Nintendo
atleast it is what he posted directly to our request.

Current TRSI memberstatus looks like (= 7):
(Conan), Crisp, Danzig, Irata, Midfit, MWS and Stan

* Single News & Rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* Jeroen Tel, former member of the legendary music
lable Maniacs of Noise and the demo group Scoop,
joined the dutch demo group Focus.

* The SCS&TRC and Demonix worldheadquarter The
Dungeon got formatted for the second time. TD's
sysop Alchemist explained that he won't set TD on-
line again as long as he did not get the latest Cy-
borg modded version of C-Base as it uses to be
backdoor free and prevents action like this one.

* According to their member Amputator Nemesis is a
new group consisting of former Pandora, Poison,
Crossline and Onslaught members. Their task is to
release a lot of first (re-)releases in the future.

Current Nemesis memberstatus looks like (= 8):
Amputator, Attraction, Imperator, Longdrink, Me-
phisto, Protheus, Sky and Xentor

* Cascade is a new group born by former The Airwolf
Team of the 01.08.1988 members. According to Mr.
Lee, who coded i.e. the VISASS assembler, they will
mainly develope games such as Starblast and Colo-
nial Trader. Actually they are searching for a ta-
lented composer.

Current Cascade memberstatus looks like (= 3):
Courage, Mr. Lee and Zeldin

* With Mike D. Black Code Design gained a new poten-
tial member. Next to his coding abilities he is a
hardware freak who wants to produce a stereo
SID for the CBM 64. If this project will meet the in-
terest of the majority Mike D. promised to produce
this hardware upgrade for an amount below DM
20,-- (the price for a second SID is NOT included).
If you are interested in this project just have a
look inside the advertisements chapter and do not
hesitate to contact him as soon as possible.

* Cupid, a member of the dutch based group Extacy
joined Equinoxe as second group.

These news and rumours have been all our staff
could get his hands on, just be patient for the next
issue and for more news from the mail scene.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
----------
</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
------------------------------------------------------------
The Official Release Charts for the Relax
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Masters of Law...

Marc and Deff

Introducing the point-system...

Fullprice Games 6.1 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 4.1 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 2.1 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points
One bonus point can be reached be releasing the
wares 100% (!) Pal/Ntsc. If another group is involved
on the Pal/Ntsc version, points will be shared.

Games that got released PAL only have to be fixed
within half a year, else no points will be given.

Minus points will be given for...
--------------------------

Re-releases -7.0
No levelpacking -0.5/-1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/-1.0
No translation -1.0/-2.0
Unlike most other mags we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's it.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a
GAME MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It's also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to
consideration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX

Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX

Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX

Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX

And here we go...

Accept (-7.0 points)
------------------------------------------------------------
The re-releasers strikes back with the preview of
BOMBMAN (-7.0 pts). RSI released this preview all-
ready back in May 1993!

Alpha Flight (25.2 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
The flight started with the 100% version of CYBER-
BALL (3.6 pts) from CP Verlag. Then they released
the 100% fixed version of SPOOK (0.0 pts) no points
qill be given because it was over the 6 months limit!
After this they upped the 100% version of NUTS
(0.0) no points will be given because Gulas released
the pal version years ago. Followed by the fixed ver-
sions of BADBALLS (3.1 pts) and GEOMETRIC 2 (4.8)
then they upped a useful tool called SOFTSPRITE
EDITOR (0.0 pts), Darkest Road 2 (0.0) no points
will be given because it was made with a Game Maker
and a little preview called CATCH IT (0.2 pts).
After months of waiting the long awaited fullprice
game SWORD OF HONOUR (7.0 pts) from Prestige
got pal released, a fixfile was necessary so -1 point.
Last but not least they released the pal version of
IKKUICHI (3.5 pts) and the fixed version of BLACK IT
(3.0 pts) a second version was necessary so -1
points, both games are from CP Verlag.

Atlantis (2.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with two previews called STARBLAST
(0.1 pts), COLONIAL TRADER (0.3 pts) and released
in cooperation with Avantgarde the fixed version
of NONSENSE (2.0 pts), the points will be shared!

Avantgarde (36.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed versions of FLUMMI'S
WORLD (7.0 pts) a low budget game, PRA-SE (4.6pts)
and POZITRONIC (4.5 pts) from CP Verlag. Followed
by the 100% fixed version of the Hungarian fullprice
game LONG LIFE (9.0 pts) from 512 kbyte, then they
released the 100% fixed version of THE HOUSE (3.7p)
minus 1 points because a fixfile was necessary, later
on they released the fixed version of an english low
budget game called COLOURATION (3.7 pts) and in
cooperation with Atlantis the fixed version of
NONSENSE (2.0 pts), the points will be shared. And
last but not least they uploaded the following pre-
views WALKERZ (0.7 pts), ORACLE 3 (0.2 pts) and
ZONE OF DARKNESS (1.0 pts).

Chromance (1.3 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They uploaded the fixed versions of MEMORY 2 (4.3)
and FIFTH BALL (4.0 pts) and re-released STARS
AND RINGS (-7 pts), Riff Raff released it 3 days
earlier.

F4CG (10.9 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the pal versions of ABC PUZZLE
(2.1 pts), OMNIBUS (2.1 pts) and KOKO (1.6 pts),
minus 0.5 pts will be given because the graphics is
in polish! Following please find a world premier from
F4CG believe it or not they were able to fix their
first game called CASTLE (4.0 pts). Later on they
released these previews: MYSTERY (0.4 pts),
PORTAL (0.5 pts) and SOKOBAN (0.2 pts).

Hardcore & Onslaught (8.3 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
At the beginning the cooperation released MEGA
THRUSTABALL (2.0 pts) from Loadstar. The score
of 2.0 points consists of the fact that we gave them
for some updates as Legend released the same
game some months ago. With REMEMBER prv (0.1 pts)
MARC IN WONDERLAND prv (0.1 pts), RAINBOW BOMB
prv (0.2 pts), BILBO prv (0.1 pts), SILVA POD prv
(0.6 pts) and DELUXE STRIP POKER (0.2 pts) at lot
of previews came up. THE EVIL PRINCE (5.0 pts) is
an american budget game and minus 1 point was given
caused by a necessary fix file.

Motiv 8 (1.7 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the following previews: BOUNCY
(0.1 pts), OOPS (0.1 pts) the second version, SKYT
(0.1 pts) and WONKY WORMS (0.3 pts). MINITRON
(1.1 pts) from CP Verlag didn't even deserve to be
mentioned!

Nemesis (-7.0 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
The new group started with a re-release called
DUCKPARK (-7.0 pts). The game got released back
in 1984!!

SCS+TRC (17.1 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
In the last issue we forgot to give an extra point
for the translation of BLACK QUIZ (1.0 pts) and
VISION prv (0.8 pts). They released MAGAZINE
(4.5 pts) fixed by Demonix for them. A mass of
previews got released starting with BASE ATTACK
(0.7 pts), THE CASTLE (0.5 pts), WATCH IT (0.3 pts),
BRAVE (0.6 pts) and the updated version of TWIN
TERRORS (0.3 pts) at the end. KACPER won't be ta-
ken into consideration as it was not translated and
due to the fact that it got released some time ago by
Talent but we won't forget to mention that the game
was updated a LITTLE bit. SHAMAN (5.0 pts) by
Inflexion Developments got fixed by them, the same
goes for LOGIC (3.4 pts).

Merged into a table it looks like:

Rank Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (01) Avantgarde 36.4
02. (02) Alpha Flight 1970 25.2
03. (03) SCS+TRC 17.1
04. (06) F4CG 10.9
05. (04) Hardcore+Onslaught 8.3
06. (./.) Atlantis 2.4
07. (05) Motiv 8 1.7
08. (07) Chromance 1.3

The Fixing Charts
------------------------------------------------------------

Rank Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (01) Avantgarde 7
02. (01) Alpha Flight 1970 4
03. (./.) Chromance 2
(02) SCS+TRC
04. (./.) Demonix 1
(./.) F4CG
(03) Hardcore+Onslaught

See you in the next issue!

Yours Deff and Marc
</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets.

In order to guarantee those charts we already in-
stalled a vote booth at THE EVIL ISLAND, the RELAX
WHQ. Unfortunately is board is down at the moment so
give the THE ESCAPADE, RELAX EHQ, a call it is defi-
nately on of the better boards these days and of-
cause the board where you can enter the voting-
booth directly as long as The Evil Island goes online
again. Ofcause we offer the service to leave e-mail
with your personal votes to Marc or Max on all elite
boards worldwide or use the "new" media Internet to
supply your board votes. These votes will be taken
into consideration for the forthcoming issue.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Oxyron 85
02. (4) Byterapers 77
03. (2) Camelot 72
04. (3) Fairlight 65
05. (5) Censor Design 59
06. (/) Reflex 53
07. (8) Elysium 47
08. (6) Triad 32
09. (7) Antic 26
10. (9) Focus 14

Oxyron is still leading the bunch of the few left demo
creators. Byterapers jumped from four to two while
Reflex is a new entry on position six. Agony left the
top ten and is located at eleven at the moment.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) TTS/Oxyron 84
02. (2) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 80
03. (3) Slammer/Camelot 73
04. (5) Brush/Elysium 68
05. (7) MMS/Taboo 57
06. (4) Crossbow/Crest 55
07. (8) Depeh/Antic 49
08. (/) Quiss/Reflex 32
09. (6) Glasnost/Camelot 26
10. (/) Graham/Oxyron 14

Nothing new here at the top, too. TTS is still a step in
front of Mr. Sex, who belongs to the new editor staff
from The Pulse Magazine. After releasing two of the
better demoes of this year Quiss and Graham got vo-
ted into the charts. Sat and Thunder have left the
charts, they actual locations are fourteen and eleven
just to let you know.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Avantgarde 86
02. (2) Alpha Flight 65
03. (4) Success & TRC 62
04. (5) Chromance 58
05. (3) F4CG 54
06. (/) Hardcore & Onslaught 43
07. (9) Fairlight 39
08. (8) Motiv 8 28
09. (6) Talent 25
10. (/) Excess 12

Avantgarde are actually what we can call the leader
of the pack, both mail and boardwise. With the coope-
ration of Hardcore & Onslaught at six and Excess at
ten we can report about two new entries here. The
group Legend had to leave the top ten and we would
wonder to see them back here. Onslaught was alrea-
dy present here in the last issue but due to the new
situation we have to handle them as a new entry just
to avoid that some people start to complain here.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (4) Jack Alien/Avt 76
02. (1) Burglar/Scs 74
03. (3) Antitrack/F4CG 70
04. (7) Skinhead/Afl 68
05. (6) Bacchus/Flt 63
06. (5) Kirby/Atlantis 59
07. (9) Moren/Scs 54
08. (10) Ignorance/Afl 46
09. (2) Powerplant/Legend 36
10. (8) Doc/Legend 32

Now Jack Alien took over the top of this top ten as-
well so things start to become very boring while ty-
ping the charts and comments. Skinhead seems to
become more and more popular, the same goes for
Ignorance, both Afl members, who proved their qua-
lity and quantity not only in the past few weeks. Ve-
terans like Antitrack, Powerplant and Doc use to be-
long to the best crackers ever but have not shown
their skills within the last year. No new entries here
but where should they come from?

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Cruise/Taboo 89
02. (1) Electric/Extend 82
03. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 76
04. (7) Scope/F4CG 64
05. (4) RRR/Oxyron 53
06. (6) Mirage/Focus 50
07. (7) Carrion/Elysium 47
08. (5) Rob/Camelot 34
09. (9) Dragon/Censor 28
10. (10) Biz Kid/Camelot 12

After releasing Ritual II Cruise seems to be the most
advanced artist around on this machine. Scope has
been rising from seven to four which is probably not
only meant as a last sign of honour and respect to-
wards a fine artist and scener but aswell a true ac-
knowledgement of his graphical talent shown within
the past few months. We will miss you! There is nothing
really important left to be reported about in here.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 77
02. (2) Danko/Censor 72
03. (5) Jeroen Tel/Focus 69
04. (3) EVS/20cc 62
05. (4) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 58
06. (6) Jeff/Camelot 57
07. (7) Shogoon/Taboo 44
08. (6) Arne/Alpha Flight 38
09. (9) Reyn Ouwehand 35
10. (/) Red Devil/Fairlight 26

PRI is still leading the boardwise and took over the
top mailwise, too. It seems that there is nothing left
able to stop the flood of musics of this composer with
his favourite jazz-style. A-Man finally left the charts
after being booted out of the active memberlist from
Avantgarde. He got replaced by a person who has
been using the taste of the younger generation be-
ing fanatic techno and disco music fans so Red Devil
got a well deserved tenth position from the board vo-
tes.

TOP TEN FIXING GROUPS
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Alpha Flight 1970 56
02. (3) Avantgarde 51
03. (5) Success & TRC 45
04. (2) Empire 32
05. (4) Demonix 26
06. (/) ./. ./.
07. (/) ./. ./.
08. (/) ./. ./.
09. (/) ./. ./.
10. (/) ./. ./.

Europe is leading the NTSC fixer charts. Alpha Flight
was able to defend their top position, followed by the
at the moment partly unstopable forces from Avant-
garde. The dutch cooperation of Success & The Ru-
ling company follows on position three. The american
competitors can be found with Empire and Demonix on
position four and five. In the next weeks F4CG might
enter the charts as they are working on NTSC relea-
ses, too.

TOP TEN SINGLE FIXER
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last NTSC fixer Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Peacemaker/ex-Afl 75
02. (3) CBA/Trc 67
03. (/) Suicide/Avt 59
04. (4) Pudwerx/ex-Avt 46
05. (2) Booze/Empire 41
06. (6) Mercenary/Empire 39
07. (10) Jack Alien/Avt 33
08. (7) Vizz/Empire 23
09. (9) Count Zero/Flt Snes 20
10. (5) Sidekick/Demonix 15

Peacemaker still seems to be the most popular NTSC
fixer, followed by CBA and a newcommer who has
shown in an impressive way how "easy" it can be to
come close to the top. Well done Suicide. Jack Alien
climbed from ten to seven while Sidekick has been
fallen down from five to ten. Rockstar left the top ten
and was located at thirteen these days after many
years of abstinence. That's all for today.

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE ESCAPADE.
Furthermore it is possible to vote on Holiday Inn
Cambodia or any other elite board aswell. Just leave
an E-Mail with your personal votes to Marc/Afl and it
is going to be taken into consideration while cre-
ating these original board charts.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------
</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The charts are divided into two different
sections, the mail charts and the board charts. The
mail charts are what some people like to define mega
charts consisting of the incoming Relax votesheets
and the charts of other magazines spread during the
last weeks.

To create the charts you are going to read here we
took the following charts of the following magazines
into consideration completed by the votes taking
part as top ten from the growing amount of incoming
Relax votesheets:

Jamaica Issue 12/Jam APRIL 1995
The Tribune Issue 51/Angry APRIL 1995
Vandalism News Issue 21/Onslaught APRIL 1995
Metamorphosis Issue 8/Agony Design MAY 1995
Skyhigh Issue 16/Camelot MAY 1995
Splash Issue 18/Accuracy MAY 1995

If you disagree with the content of the following lines
we only can advice you to get your hands on all avail-
able votesheets and fill them to influence the charts
in the way you'd like to do it. Please do us a personal
favour and do not manipulate the charts while voting
for personal friends instead of supporting persons
who might deserve the vote.

* Attention! *
------------------------------------------------------------
As the deadline for the mail charts was set on June,
8th we could not take the following magazines into
consideration:

Chit Chat Issue 7/No Name MAY 1995
Contrast Issue 2/Genlog MAY 1995
Domination Issue 4/independent MAY 1995
Mendip Issue 8/Arcoss JUNE 1995
The Pulse Issue June/independent JUNE 1995

But never mind, these ones will be used to create the
charts for the Relax July Edition (Issue 11) so there
nothing left to complain about.

TOP TEN DEMO GROUPS
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Rank Last Group Points
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01. (1) Oxyron 65
02. (2) Camelot 56
03. (4) Byterapers 49
04. (3) Fairlight 48
05. (5) Censor Design 35
06. (8) Taboo 32
07. (7) Antic 27
08. (6) Crest 26
09. (/) Reflex 17
10. (9) Agony 12

Oxyron is leading the charts with a confortable dis-
tance to the following groups but what else to expect
from a group who released about 20 demoes within
the last four years? Reflex finally entered these
charts and is one of the candidates who might move
higher in the next weeks because of their very well
presented trackmos "Access Denied" and "Radio
Napalm". Crest is moving down after some years with-
out a decent lifesign from their original members and
Triad left the charts this time.

TOP TEN SINGLE CODER
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Rank Last Alias Points
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01. (1) TTS/Oxyron 66
02. (3) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 55
03. (2) Slammer/Camelot 54
04. (4) Crossbow/Crest 38
05. (6) MMS/Taboo 37
06. (5) Tron/Fairlight 25
07. (7) Bob/Censor Design 22
08. (10) Graham/Oxyron 20
09. (8) Axis/Oxyron 19
10. (/) Druid/Agony Design 10

TTS is still a step infront of Mr. Sex with a distance
of some dozen more parts released so far. Slammer
went down to three. Curiously Crossbow is still on
four and persons like i.e. Quiss are missing here. De-
peh has left the top ten while Druid replaced him who
is looking out for a 1750 REU expansion with 256/512
KB Ram. Nothing else matters.

TOP TEN CRACKING GROUPS
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Rank Last Group Points
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01. (1) Avantgarde 70
02. (2) Success & TRC 62
03. (3) Alpha Flight 49
04. (4) Chromance 48
05. (5) F4CG 34
06. (7) Excess 24
07. (8) Fairlight 20
08. (10) Dytec (+) 17
09. (9) Motiv 8 15
10. (/) Hardcore & Onslaught 13

Well top five remains unchanged with Avantgarde
starring as lonely leader followed by the dutch co-
operation letting a decent distance down to Alpha
Flight, a group standing under steady attacks from
their competitors. Hardcore & Onslaught entered the
charts at ten but are supposed to go upstairs in the
next weeks and months. Talent left the charts and
surely won't be seen here again.

TOP TEN SINGLE CRACKER
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Rank Last Alias Points
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01. (1) Jack Alien/Avt 69
02. (2) Burglar/Scs 61
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 58
04. (4) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 29
05. (5) Bacchus/Flt 25
06. (8) Skinhead/Afl 23
07. (9) CBA/TRC 22
08. (6) Mr. Wax/<C> 19
09. (7) Powerplant/Legend 18
10. (/) Ignorance/Afl 14

To comment the charts is getting boring. Jack Alien,
Burglar and Hain are leading what we like to define as
removing protections who did not support the backup
systems. Skinhead and CBA climbed while Mr. Wax and
Powerplant went downstairs. The Ignorance proved
himself to be one of the better competitors these
days and a person who could not keep his fingers
away from the keyboard even at his wedding. Con-
gratulations from our side. A last salute to Count
Zero who seems to have left us for the Super Nin-
tendo scene.

TOP TEN GRAPHIC ARTISTS
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Rank Last Alias Points
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01. (2) Electric/Extend 64
02. (1) Creeper/Antic 63
03. (5) Cruise/Taboo 52
04. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 50
05. (4) Joe/Wrath Design 48
06. (6) Fazee/Taboo 39
07. (7) Carrion/Elysium 17
08. (9) RRR/Oxyron 15
09. (8) Roder/Agony 11
10. (/) Biz Kid/Camelot 7

As it seems Electric and Creeper do not have other
hobbies but continously changing their positions just
to keep the editors of this magazine busy. Cruise did
a fantastic collection and deserved all the votes ran-
king him on three with big ambitions for taking a bet-
ter position in the next weeks. Rob had to leave the
charts replaced by another Camelot artist called Biz
Kid. It is sad to see Mirage and Hein not in here as
they are real artists who proved their talent all over
the years.

TOP TEN MUSIC COMPOSER
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Rank Last Alias Points
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01. (2) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 67
02. (1) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 62
03. (4) Jeroen Tel/Focus 41
04. (5) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 39
05. (3) Jeff/Camelot 58
06. (10) Compod/Agony Design 57
07. (7) Shogoon/Taboo 44
08. (6) Zyron/Antic/TR/Swe 38
09. (/) Fanta/Bass/Plush 35
10. (8) Red Devil/Fairlight 26

Finally the chase is over. PRI, who got beaten from
Syndrom by one point in the last issue, was success-
full in collecting more votes this time. Compod got po-
pular after spreading his huge collection. Unfortuna-
tely with Danko one of the old CBM 64 musicians left
the top ten, being replaced by Fanta who made some
fine tunes within the last months.

TOP TEN MAIL TRADER
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Rank Last Alias Points
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01. (1) Calypso/Amn/Afl 67
02. (4) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 58
03. (2) Intruder/Avt 57
04. (6) Splatterhead/Trc 56
05. (3) Spermbird/Ex 48
06. (5) Tabasco/Flt 28
07. (10) Starlight/Xtc/Tpy 26
08. (7) Sebaloz/KA/Ld 21
09. (9) Nightshade/Scs 20
10. (/) Styx/Afl 12

We were surprised to see Calypso defending his top
position as we expected to see Intruder taking it
over this time. Derbyshire Ram overtook Intruder so
we were totally confused now. To complete the total
confusion we have to add that Styx, who slowed down
his swapping activities, re-entered the charts while
Lemming, who seems to have been lost somewhere in
Finland has not send a lifesign since ages. Sebaloz
could be higher.

TOP TEN MAGAZINES
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Rank Last Magazine Points
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01. (2) Nitro 75
02. (1) Skyhigh 67
03. (4) Revealed 43
04. (7) News Press (+) 33
05. (6) Ingenious Brain (+) 31
06. (3) Reformation (+) 29
07. (/) Domination 24
08. (5) Jamaica (+) 23
09. (9) Vandalism News 20
10. (/) Propaganda 15

Information, manipulation, propaganda and entertain-
ment. Everything we can find in this top ten list! On
the top there seems to be a steady circulation bet-
ween Nitro and Skyhigh, both mailscene magazines.
With Reformation, News Press, Ingenious Brain and
Jamaica we have detected four magazines here which
won't be released anymore while Gamers Guide, which
would have been the fifth "dead" magazine, left the
charts as well as Insider. Both got replaced by either
the Domination and the Propaganda who proved their
abilities in an impressing way over the last months. We
decided not to develope a mathematical formular to
push up Shout, a magazine built on the ashes of both,
Ingenious Brain and Reformation as it would be pure
speculation to pretend that these voters would dare
to vote for Shout aswell so we will count Shout votes
for Shout only. It is our intention to deliver facts and
not to manipulate the masses.
Furthermore we were able to discover some satisfy-
ing positions for the Relax magazine but please do us
a little favour and do not describe this publication as
an Alpha Flight magazine. The editors of this magazine
are coming from various groups working under the
label of Bad Bytes Entertainment Software Europe so
please notice that the Relax magazine is a trademark
of this company.
Atleast we have to report that The Tribune is still
very close to enter the top ten.

The charts, both mail and board charts, were calcu-
lated by using the Ultravote V2.0 counter written by
Stefan Berglind/Bad Bytes Entertainment Software
Europe (aka. Doxx/Noice/Swemix) and definately not
while using a cheap Pentium processor.

When you disagree with certains placements just take
a pen and paper, fill a votesheet a return it to the
sender to be a part the jury being responsible for
the votes and ranking in here.
You are invited to send in your votes not only on the
Relax votesheet but aswell on an every piece/sheet
of paper or in disknotes all being send to the snail
mail address of this publication. The votes send by
e-mail (board/Internet) will be merged into the board
charts invented by and exclusively in the Relax ma-
gazine.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
* INTERVIEW *
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This time we had the pleasure to interview one of the
most admired and well known demo programmer ever,
SCROLL of Megastyle Productions, formerly known as
Megastyle Incorporated.

When we had the idea to do this interview there did
not exist an interview with him. Meanwhile unfortuna-
tely another magazine has been faster but anyway,
this one is worth being printed anyway and this is
available for both, PAL and NTSC readers.

* Hello Ruben, please introduce yourself as our rea-
ders are interested in some person information.

:) Well, I am Scroll of Megastyle Productions. I am 21
years old, my real name is Ruben Spaans, I am 1.82
m tall, weight 91 kg, dark hair, blue eyes, a beer
belly (I don't even drink beer), and a mustache
much like Jens Weissflog. My little brother think I
look like Elvis, and some other people said I look
like Hitler. The last six months I have been unem-
ployed, but now I (unfortunately) got a job. I type
the numbers from account sheets into a PC (boring
stuff). In Megastyle I am the main coder. I also do
some swapping and when I feel for it, I also compose
music.

* Megastyle was one of the most admired demo
groups around. For those who lately joined the
scene it might be rather informative to read some-
thing about the past, present and future of the
group.

:) It all started when Space-Roy and Sleepwalker left
their old group, and together with a third person
(Brooz) they founded Megastyle Incorporated on
September 8th, 1988. The following months more
members joined (I joined in December 1988), and in
January 1989 we had our breakthrough with
"Brainstorm". As the years passes, we started
perfectioning our demos more and more, until there
was no fun anymore to code. After "Kalle Kloack"
in December 1990, we couldn't finish another demo.
We planned to release "Brainstorm 4" in the sum-
mer of 1991, but we couldn't cooperate the way we
did in 1989, so the project was dropped for a while
That year (1991) we had serious plans to make ga-
mes on Amiga and PC, so we changed our name to
Megastyle Productions. Most of the members have
stopped their activity, and we prepared for our
farewell demo on the CBM 64. In September 1993 we
finally released "Seal Of Facalor" (Digital Messiah),
which was the result of four years of work on what
originally was planned to be "Brainstorm 4". We
thought the scene on the CBM 64 was already dead
when the demo was finished, but anyway we spread
it to the two or three contacts we had left. Another
year passed, and I was quite bored of laming
around on the PC, so me and Space-Roy founded a
cracking section, called "Lurid & Tricycle". We have
cracked old tape games just for fun, and I started
to collect software to built up a large collection. In
January 1995 we discovered that the CBM 64 sce-
ne was still alive, so what else was it to do than
drop the PC plans and return to the machine we all
love ... Now some of the old members are back, and
some more will return. Our memberstatus is cur-
rently: me (Scroll), Space-Roy, Cycleburner, Rage
(in the army), Inzane (in the army). Price (will re-
turn in July), and recently Shok'Ray and Venge-
ance joined us. We are currently working on some
new demoes, but we don't know yet when they will
be finished, your readers must wait atleast two or
three months.
We realised that the CBM 64 is the machine of the
future, as it is the only machine in the world that we
can call compatible. Developing software on Amiga
and especially the PC is a true nightmare. Besides,
the scenes of the Amiga and PC are too lame (what
is really the point in making demos on those ma-
chines instead of CBM 64?), so we will be a CBM 64
only group as long it is possible. In the future we
also plan to make games in addition to the demos.

* One of the most liked standart questions is how did
you get your very own handle and groupname?
Here we follow the trend.

:) In early 1987 when I managed to make a semi-
smooth scrolltext, I was so proud that I invented
the handle "Stubbscroll". One year later I changed
it to just "Scroll" and since then I have kept it. We
found our groupname in a porno magazine, but I do
not know the exact story as I wasn't a member in
the very beginning.

* What was your personal motivation to return to this
computer system after all the years of absence
and what was the exact reason for quitting the CBM
64 scene?

:) I was really bored of working on the PC, and what I
really wanted was to code on the CBM 64 again.
When I found out that the CBM 64 still was there,
with demos, games, mags and everything, there was
no other realistic choice for me than starting on
the CBM 64 again. I would rather code demos on the
CBM 64 and have fun than programming business
applications on the PC, even if there is more money
to earn on the PC. The exact reason for quitting
the scene was that we became bored of making
demos, we gradually dropped our contacts, and
the commercial computer magazines (not diskmags!)
stopped writing about the CBM 64, and software
houses like US Gold, Ocean, etc. stopped making ga-
mes. So we thought the machine had no future.

* If you do not waste all your expensive sparetime in
front of computers, what else are you doing to en-
joy your life? Are there other important hobbies
for you in real life?

:) Well, I do in fact have other hobbies, like watching
sports on TV, reading special books, watching
Monty Python movies, solving cross words, collec-
ting stamps etc. but I barely get time for anything
else than computing, and computing is really what I
want to do.

* Actually we are involved with favourites. What are
your favourite ...

:) Demo groups: Crest, Chorus, Oxyron, Camelot
Single coders: Crossbow, Mr. Cursor, Flamingo
Cracking groups: Eaglesoft, Avantgarde, Cascade
Single crackers: Anyone who takes his time to do
quality versions
Graphic artists: Hmmmm... Sparkler/Megastyle
Music composers: Jeroen Tel, Jch
Swappers: Derbyshire Ram, Calypso
Magazines: Sex'n'Crime, Shout

* As we all know Megastyle was a 100% norwegian
team in the past but imagine you have the possibi-
lity to form some kind of your personal dreamteam.
Who are the persons you would invite to join?

:) Well, we are no longer a 100% norwegian group as
Shok'Ray and Vengeance joined, but anyway, my
dream group could look something like this:

Demo coding: Myself (ofcause), Crossbow
Game coding: Manfred Trenz
Graphics: a combination of Sparkler and
Brooz/Megastyle
Music: Jeroen Tel
Swapping: Calypso
Financing: Bill Gates :)

* Apart from the CBM 64 are there other computer
systems you do own? Are you there scenewise ac-
tive aswell?

:) In addition to two CBM 64's and a C128d, I own a VIC
20, Amiga 1200, CDTV and two PCs (one Pentium),
but the other machines are only useful for playing
games (atleast until the CBM 64 versions of the ga-
mes appear), so I am not at all active on these
other computers. If I wanted to join the scene on
other computers, it would be the scene of the C65
or Plus-4 (or maybe VIC 20).

* Lately there have been some interesting computer
parties like the X-95 party in Utrecht just to name
one of them all. What parties have you already visi-
ted and which one was the very best in your opi-
nion?

:) In fact, I have never been at a computer party (ex-
cept one not worth to be mentioned, where I left af-
ter a few hours). If there will be more CBM 64 par-
ties here in Norway, I'll attend (or maybe in Swe-
den), but I can't afford to travel as far as to the
Netherlands or Germany.

* As usual there are good and bad times in real life
and in scene life, too. Please inform us about your
experiences and your point of view regarding this
question.

:) Well, this one is touch to answer as I never experi-
ence anything remarkable in real life (I sit infront
of the computer all the time, you know), but as an
example of a bad experience, my boss at work al-
ways complains on me, especially my phone usage.
An example of good experience is that I got the job
at all, as my grades from the school are terrible. In
scene life, it sure is great to be back, smelling the
Dycp-air again (?) and everything. I hope we will
see the software houses return soon!

* You learnt to know the scene at its best time and
you can see in comparison today's situation. What is
your opinion about the scene today or do you pre-
fer the good old glory days.

:) The scene is more bright than I thought it would be,
there is quite a large amount of groups and sce-
ners left. The demos released keep a very high
standart, unfortunately they are based too much
on Amiga or PC-like routines and design rather
than the real CBM 64-stuff. On the other hand a
lot of things have happened, like IFLI, IFFL, and
extreme mandelbrot routines. It is quite difficult for
a group like us to compete with today's coding.

There are pretty many games released, but most of
them are shit (too simple concepts, unoriginal ideas,
badly implemented, etc.). Since no games are pro-
tected anymore, anyone who wants is able to crack
them. The real large games are only cracked by a
few groups, while everyone seems to crack the
smaller games from CP-Verlag etc. Cracking nowa-
days is almost just a matter of linking an intro in-
front of the game file.

I understand that the mags play a more important
role now than before, since the normal computer
magazines are gone (especially here in Norway, ne-
ver seen one since 1992), but there are really too
many mags. People should concentrate more on ma-
king games and demos.

Well, I think we have to face the reality and accept
the scene like it is. We should be more than satis-
fied with how the CBM 64 has stood the test of time
against potentially much stronger computers. Of-
cause, the scene today is not perfect, but even in
1989 I wanted to be there before, to compete with
groups like 1001 Crew and beat Sodan in coding.
But then again, back in 1989 there was the large
amount of stupid lamers, disk stealers and wanna-
bees. Today's scene seems to be much more friend-
ly, most of the sceners have been active for a long
time, and they have sort of "grown up". What I miss
with today's scene is a little bit more demos and
more of the "real" games coming on other compu-
ters, like "Civilization", "Colonization", "Warcraft"
and all those excellent LucasArts games.

* Do you take the scene serious or do you "enjoy"
the time you spend infront of the machine? Is there
something you really dislike?

:) Ofcause I take the CBM 64 scene serious, this is
where I'll stay for several years now. Even if I am
not sitting infront of the computer, I try to think of
cool demo ideas, especially the boring hours at
work. We do this because we think it is fun and we
get a lot of new friedns, not to try to be number 1
in the charts of the magazines. One thing I really
dislike is the threat from other computers, but that
threat is not that dangerous anymore as it was two
or three years ago, I think. Many sceners have
even returned to the CBM 64 recently, and I think
more ex-sceners will return.

* We already stole a lot of your expensive sparetime.
Is there anything you want to share with the scene
as a last word for this interview? Furthermore it is
the part to place all your personal greetings in
here. Thanks a lot for being patient and for ans-
wering all the questions.

:) I want to send greetings to my contacts: Derby-
shire Ram, Walker, Zapotek, Glenn Rune Gallefoss,
Kristian Rostoen, Lord Red, Lightside, 2ge, Bizarre,
Sky, Creb, Unicorn, Fli, Shocker, Fanta, Quorthon,
Morris, you (RRR), Backslash, Vengeance, Shok'Ray,
and ofcause to all other MSP members. Thanks for
interviewing me, and a last word: Long live the CBM
64 and may Microsoft go bankrupt!

* Well, it was in fact a pleasure to interview you for
the Relax Magazine. Again many thanks for the very
detailed and comprehensive answers. We really look
forward for all MSP projects, both demoes and ga-
mes, as we know that they are supposed to become
something special.

We really hope that you have enjoyed the interview
as much as we did. Press fire in order to load and
read another chapter.

Best regards,
RRR/Oxyron
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</pre>
==Back to the roots==
<pre>

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Back to the roots - Part III

------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to your favourite chapter, where we go
deeply back to the roots. Once again it is my task to
start a mystic journey back to the good old time. But
even at this time everything gleaming wasn't gold.
Thats why this times issue deals with possibly the mo-
st spectacular war,that 64-piracy can tell stories of

It was the time when the most famous magazine, Sex'n
Crime, was regular released.
Just like allready reported in last issues chapter,
the Sex'n Crime staff was notorious for acting to
their intimatest friend's advantage. Caused by the
well-known magazine there was the possibility to
achieve wrong images and illusions about certain
persons, information wich were extremely fast
spread. If such a lie once has spread, person's image
was spoiled and it took years to regain old esteem.
If chief-editor OMG once aimed at somebody, this
person could be assured, that it was for months.

That's what happened to the case of S.Y.S.
SYS, maybe one of the most famous grafic-artists
and swappers at this time, belonging to the 64-pirate
scene since 1984, who was member of successfull
scene-groups like Drive and Level 99, before he
joined the Alpha Flight team in 1988.

It is not anymore possible, to prove how the story
started, but most people were telling that it all began
with the Sex'n Crime mailbox-option. Everybody who
can remember this magazine will know this option, wich
allowed to save comments and messages on disc.
These messages could be loaded as a special chapter
in the magazine. So every swapper spreading the mag
entered his handle there, so that more handles
appeared, more often it got spread (same story like
disc-covers!). Poisonous tongues pretended, handles
at the end of this list were getting lame and lamer.

The whole shit began with SYS abusing the mailbox-
option to rag about Sex'n Crime, OMG and the staff.

Of course OMG got this information and also started
to talk bad about SYS. Soon there was no doubt
anymore, OMG disliking SYS. He started to rag about
him, by writing lies into his magazine.

SYS replied with public letters to OMG and insulted
him back.

This procedure went on for more than 6 months,
whereby the level of the discussion came closer
to the zero-point with every next attempt. Now even
the family of SYS was involved and insulted by OMG.
For example SYS was called a gay and his mother
insulted as a bitch. He reacted with massive anti-
notes and even painted anti-OMG graphics. Propably
the most famous one was the parody of the
disseminated german anti-aids slogan ("Gib Aids keine
Chance" - Don't give aids any chance), wich he
original-true copied and changed into "Gib OMG keine
Chance".

Finally SYS challenged OMG for a duel in Venlo, but
OMG refused twice, by avoiding the Venlo-meeting
despite of his habit visiting every month's meeting.
SYS appraised this act as a sign of OMG's fear and
his unreliableness.

But then at the august-meeting on august, 18th in
1990, the Judgement Day finally came.

SYS perceived OMG in the party-hall and told him to
come outside in front of the entrance, to bring up for
a fair fight. But OMG again refused and tried to flee.
But he was caught by SYS at the entrance.
SYS did a fine punch, directly into OMG's scared
face. But he only reacted by bringing a can of tear-
gas to light. He set it straight into SYS's face. As a
brave fighter SYS dind't give up and tried another
chance. But OMG twice times sprayed into his face, so
that his enemy finally was helpless. After SYS sunked
onto the floor, hurt by the great amount of gas, OMG
after all made a kick into SYS's body, before he
scared of revenge, ran away as fast as possible.

Later OMG told that he just used the gas, because
SYS was in the mood to kill him. But he didn't explain
why he kicked him. Furthermore he reported it
wasn't him, who wanted to leave the place so fast, it
was Volker/Amok (coder of the Sex'n Crime) who
wanted to run away!?

This sad, but also funny story shows how far the
computer activities can go. And it also shows, that
most people starting a war don't know of the
consequences that can follow, if you mess with the
wrong persons. When I look at todays wars, it seems
to me that they are mostly started by kids, who want
to gain self-esteem in this scene. But they should
concentrate on the main things in their first-steps.
This scene is about more than just having a big mouth
with nothing behind it. Rookies go back where you
came from!

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That should be enough for today! Take care friends..
Max is gone!

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</pre>
==Demo Reviews==
<pre>
* Demo Reviews *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the demo reviews, a chapter what got
changed competely in order to guarantee some more
advanced reviews as we recruited specialists to give
their statements about in what they used to be well
known for, namely Scroll/MSP and Fuben/Oxyron
(coding), PRI/Tia/Oxyron (musics) and RRR/Oxyron
(graphics). Scroll did "only" the review of Parts this
time but we will see more from him here very soon.

* Radio Napalm *
------------------------------------------------------------
A really brilliant trackmo entirely coded by Quiss/
Reflex. This trackmo has everything what a cool demo
needs today: design, hard code, cool effects and fast
routines, some nice ideas and MUCH action. Each ef-
fect is just shown for a few seconds so that you
won't be bored with an effect which you propably
don't like much!
Let's start. The intro features a hires logo, gravity
dots (like those in Access Denied), a bitmapscreen
with a big proportional charset, a filled-vector in 3
colors (like the vector in Access Denied) and a koala
picture. Everything fades in and out in an almost
perfect way, only the gravity dots look a bit poor.
The next effect is sort of a voxel. It uses the popular
4x4 pixelmode (16 colors possible) which was inven-
ted by Graham/Oxyron in Coma Light 12. However,
the effect looks pretty cool and is quite fast in my
opinion.
Next there is a vector again, like that in the intro.
It just shows another object (sort of flight). It's quite
big, filled and in 3 colors, very similar to big vector
shown in Access Denied. It is possible that it is the
same routine with just other objects. Nevertheless
the vector looks pretty nice and it's rotating quite
fast, too!
After the vector, there is an effect looking like a
rainfall. It runs in 16 colors and uses the 4x4 pixel-
mode again. This effect is new as we never saw it be-
fore. Even so, it looks a bit strange. Later on a Re-
flex logo gets combinated with the rainfall.
After that colorfull effect a big fast rotating gourand
shader apears. It runs in the 6 colors by using
dithering. This gourand shader is definetely the best
ever made on CBM 64. It beats that shader in Coma
Light 12 by far.
Then a cool rotator comes up. It's running very fast
in my opinion. This rotator is a bit different to all the
others. It is not a complex rotator. However again the
effect is running in the 4x4 pixelmode.
After some credits a black screen apears (wow!).
The next effect are chessboard-zoomers. There are
always 3 different colored chessboards, which move
in an individual sine. As they zoom you get the feeling
of a neverending voyage. After that the next rou-
tine fades in. A fullscreen colorplasma touchs the
screen. Yes, Fullscreen! It looks awesome...again in 16
colors and 4x4 pixelmode.
Finally, there is the end. Some text get displayed by
a big proportional charset, which fades away with
interlacing.
All in all this is definetely the best demo released in
1995 so far. It is very surprising to see a produc-
tion on this high standart realised by one coder
only. If you did not get a copy of this demo yet I can
only advise you to get one as fast as possible as I'd
like to give a rating of 95%.

Reviewing the graphics of "Radio Napalm" is one of
the more easy jobs as there were unfortunately only
two graphics being worth to be talked about. The few
graphics were realised by Seytan/Arcoss (former
DJ Bobo) and Felidae/Reflex.
The first graphic, an hires-fli logo, was performed by
Seytan, who also drew all the hires-fli graphics for
the game Geometric II, also coded by Quiss. The logo
looks quite nice and all artists who ever try tried to
create an hires-fli logo know what it is more some
kind of punishment to draw in that mode compared
with formats like koala bitmaps or interlace-fli.
Having a look closer the logo still presents a few
weak points which have been drawn easily in the
standart hires singlecolour mode (one ink and back-
ground colour per char). In general we can only add
that this one seems to be one of the better hires-fli
goes we have seen so far as this format presents a
lot of frontiers when it comes up to realise some
complex ideas.
The second and last graphic in this review has been
drawn by Felidae/Reflex, who won the inofficial gra-
phics competition at The Party 1994 if I can remem-
ber it correctly. This graphic is the title graphic and
presents the name of the demonstration, next to a
radio tower and probably the spotlights of search-
lights like they have been used to locate fighting
bombers going on air raid in World War two. There
are not any visual elements on the screen which
might be hard to realise but somehow this bitmap
screen as some kind of magic and can be taken into
combination with the demo name.
In "Access denied" I have for sure seen technical
more advanced graphics but that is no reason not to
see the effort the artists have put into the work by
creating these graphics. The graphics are nice but
nothing that will be remembered after being asto-
nished by the overmatched programming and the po-
pular techno movement following soundtrack. My ra-
ting is 68%.

No doubt PVCF has improved quite a bit in the past
year. As I have been a bit out of touch lately I was
rather surprised when listening to the Techno track
he did for this demo.
It is definitely one of the best in this direction of
music today, and for good reasons: The continuously
flowing, meditative elements which are typical for
Techno come across very good, there is a decent
bassline (not like this cliche-minor-second-up-ma-
jor-second-down-triole-thing), some quite innovative
effects (thanks to ring-modulation and sync.) and of
course a bass drum hammering it all constantly into
your head. The bassline also features a velocity-si-
mulation modulating the cutoff, unlike the "no re-
start"-effect most Technotracks use. But sometimes
the filter frequency of even two of the three voices
is lowerd and the tune kind of dives away for a while.
Furthermore, PVCF sometimes adds some harmonies
as well as some short breakdowns which add to the
tension curve and round off the whole thing. All in-
struments in the tune are of quite good quality.
The intro is well-timed and generates a misterious
atmosphere, it only does remind me a bit of Antic's
"Lunacy 6"; well, but who cares, it only shows that
this kind of intro is very popular - some dark sphe-
rical sounds before the whole thing really starts.
At last I hope you will forgive me when I'm banally
calling PVCF's tune "Techno" as this maybe is not
precisely correct? I am not so much into this kind of
music, so I don't know the exact differences between
Techno, House, Rave, Acid... I only know that Gabba is
very fast and Trance is rather quiet, that under-
ground is okay but popular junk like 2 Unlimited, Red
Nex etc. sucks.
Anyway, 'nuff said, I give PVCF a rating of well-de-
served 87%.

* Fantasy/Chromance *
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All the code in the demo was developed by Zar/Chro-
mance while the additional (demo note) got coded by
Lion/Chromance.
First we have to say that all parts in the demo are
fading in and out what is in our opinion very impor-
that as it shows that the programmer spent some time
for designing.
However, let's start with the intro. After starting the
intro, a fader with a 2x2 charset appears but these
fade intros are rather boring as almost everyone
codes them. Maybe because it's quite easy to code
such an intro. Anyway, after a title-picture has been
faded in and out, a bitmap-logo comes up (with FLD).
Then a nice Bitmap-scroller appears with some funny
scrolltext! This scroller looks pretty cool, though it's
a very old idea as we can remember the first Bitmap-
scrollers coded in 1989...
O.K., let's go on. The first part of the demo features
a moving plot tube including zooming letters. A rather
creepy part and we wondered about Zar not using
some more dots. The tube consists of 6 dot-circles,
each is moving in its individual sinus. The characters
were just scrolled throughthe rings and the size is
always proportional to the size of the proportional
ring. No big deal in our opinion as we presume that he
calculated the dots of the letters by mean values and
just added the X,Y coordinates of the actual ring or
atleast it is what we expected after watching the not
very hard coded part.
Well, finally the spectator reachs the end part of the
demo, the outro. This part features a simple AGSP
(without copying new datas into the AGSP-screen)
with an overlayed hires spritearea (192 pixels large
on the X-axis) including a text (with 1x1 charset).
Above the AGSP there is a moving sprite-logo which
fills up the empty linecruncharea. Nothing else to say
about this part. We just wonder why there is such a
broken AGSP-movement! A sinus would look much
cooler...
The demonote is written with an 1x1 charset. Further-
more it includes 2 spritelogos in the border.
Fantasy from Chromance is a pretty nice designed
demo. Even so, there is a lack of hard code and the
demo is definately too short.
But however, we think it's cool that Chromance, a
group more known for their cracking activities, gets
active in the legal scene and we hope to see more
surprises from them in the future. Rating: 38%.

All the bitmap graphics were drawn by Lord Red of
Creators using Zoomatic, the fantastic graphics tool
coded by Omega Supreme, Panoramic Design. What we
like to express here is that it is possible to draw
good graphics in that format, too.
The intro offers a fullscreen picture showing a grim
looking warrior holding an axe in his hands on the
left side and a Fantasy logo and information text at
the right side of the screen. The warrior looks quite
average and the logo is, expect for the style and the
outlines, nothing special at all. The information text
displays that this demo took part at the demo compe-
tion of the X-95 party but unfortunately the demo
was not finished in time.
The next part presents next to a logo on the top a
4x5 scroller at the buttom of the screen. The logo is
divided into two parts, probably blocks of a wall. In
the gap between these two parts you can see some
letters remembering to the "ordinary" style to pre-
sent a logo while the rest at the two blocks looks like
scratched into the wall, indeed a nice idea. At the left
side of the screen we can see a head of a man and it
is possible that he uses to be an indian. The man is
looking very interesting. On the right side of the
screen we have found a huge 'X' what does not make
any sense due to our knowledge. Nevertheless it is
looking nice indeed. The 4x5 scrollchar looks not so
good in my opinion, not to say that it is ugly and that
is the style is not up to date anymore but what is up
to date and style has to individual in our opinion.
The graphic in the next part is probably the graphic
that amazed us most regarding the graphics presen-
tation. It shows a well drawn demo having a whiplash
in his hand standing at the right side of the screen.
On the other side you can see a proper mirrored
copy of the demon so we praise the graphics tool with
that well working mirror function, a function which
has to be improved a lot in Amica Paint. Nevertheless
this graphic is what we like to see more often in the
future.
The endpart contains one (bitmap) graphic only and
it is the head of a rat according to Lord Red and we
guess it is not too hard to confirm this. This rat
wears an ear-ring. All in all it could be more colorfull
but this is a personal intention only.
Lord Red is one of the few last artist left who is still
supporting the "old-fashioned" bitmap graphics for-
mat and has proven that it is possible to present
some nice graphics to give a demo some kind of glan-
ce and supports the demo, together with the sound-
track, to be a good designed and styled demonstra-
tion so we can announce 74% for his effort.

The complete soundtrack was composed by Skull. Let
us see what it is like:
1st part: The motive to be heard in the intro is re-
peated too often for my taste, so it can get on the
listener's nerves later on. The delay-effect Skull a-
chieves by using two voices, however, suddenly falls
victim of the incoming rhythm and chords. This is al-
ways a rather inconvenient way of arranging as the
"spacy" component of the lead is lost and the whole
thing sounds only half as good afterwards. So if you
absolutely have to do something like this, try to hide
it by e.g. fading out one of the voices or putting a
break inbetween.
Another important aspect is the control of the os-
cillation of the volume in those double- or triple-voi-
ced passages. When more than one voice plays the
same category of instrument (such as lead, chord,
bass, rhythm) the resulting volume will increase quite
a bit. So in order to control this oscillation you have
to reduce the instruments' volume in those passa-
ges. You may, however, use the increased main volu-
me as a means to underline a passage, but in most
cases this seems to happen rather unwanted.
2nd part: This one contains the best instruments in
comparison to the other two tunes. After the first
refrain I realized this is supposed to be a conversion
of that Warren-G.-song (forgot it's name, sorry),
however, some important things don't come across
that good: To simulate the rhodes piano which plays
the chords in the original one had better chosen tri-
angle instead of the saw waveform, the bass has to
be more percussive, also some of the chord voicings
don't seem fully correct to me. But anyway, nice to
listen to.
3rd part: Skull seems to be fond of intros with de-
lay-effect; this is the third one out of three. The tune
has the best structure and contains the best themes
and melodies of all the three, and in the B-part also
the chord-instruments sound nice. Only the bass-
break in the middle of the tune seems a bit clumsy.
On the whole one can say Skull builds up his tunes
in a decent and overviewable way. The themes and
melodies he includes are sometimes average, someti-
mes good, although he tends to repeat them a little
too often. The first and the third tune contain avera-
ge instruments, in the second one their quality is so-
mewhat better. This soundtrack is worth 68%.

* Parts / Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
1st part: Intro
The demo opens with the cool soundtrack from the
from the game Light Force by Rob Hubbard. Initially
there is a black screen, after some seconds the
word "somewhere..." fades onto the screen. It fades
away, and an Oxyron logo appears. It fades off again
and soon a large tilted chessboard fades onto the
the screen in a cool way. Each char of the picture
fades in individually and randomly until the picture is
complete. A single coder "Presents" logo made of
sprites swings over the screen and off again. Soon
another logo swings in, this time a Parts logo. The
chessboard fades off in an even cooler way, start-
ing from the centre of the screen, and the Parts logo
fades just a short while later. Then a city at night
appears at the lower part of the screen and some
text at the upper part of the screen, with the words
being put on the screen in collaboration with the mu-
sic, with the music, just like the intro of Coma Light
12. Then the text disappears and a rotating vector
city starts its action. The vector city is quite de-
tailed, it even consists of the small lights like a city
at night. However, it's not too complicated so I'll give
it a rating of 70/100.
2nd part: Spherical
This part consists of a normal 1x1 scroller at the
bottom of the screen and after a while a sphere
with some bitmap woman faces proected on it appears.
The resolution is normal multicolour, in contrary to
the "usual" 4x4 Fli resolution used for many mathe-
matical effects. It looks very great, too!
Rating: 80/100
3rd part: Distortion
This part stars with a normal picture in the middle of
the screen and a spritle-scroller in the lower bor-
der. The scroller introduces us to one of the most
extreme routines I've ever seen: A fullscreen X and
Y stretcher, 50 frames a second! Before I saw this
part, I didn't even consider this to be possible, but
remember the slogan: Only the C64 makes it possible
(he he). It seems that they've cheated a bit with the
X-stretching, as some pixels for instance are
stretched three pixels, while the neighbouring ones
aren't expanded at all. But heck, this is extremely
impressive anyway, so the rating of 95/100 is well
deserved!
4th part: Nowhere
This is the end part of the demo, a white logo in the
middle of the screen "The end" faces on, and after
some seconds it disappears again. A "snowy TV-
screen (you know, this is what a TV-picture looks
like when the antenna is disconnected) in all borders
(like in old ESCOS (Expanded Screen COnstruction
Set)) routines.
I won't rate this part as it is ofcourse meant as an
end part, not a part with extreme routines.
All in all, this is a very good demo, but it's too small,
as it comprises only four parts. It's entirely coded by
Graham, and I guess he'll take a giant heap on the
single coder charts, and even threaten TTS' posi-
tion. Totally I'll give 80/100. This may sound like a
"low" score, but taking into consideration that it
constists of quality parts only, but as I said, it's a
bit to small... If I know Oxyron right, their next demo
will come out very soon as they keep an incredible
pace in releasing demos.

When we talk about the graphics we have to keep in
mind that almost all graphics have been converted via
the Amiga to please the CBM 64 audience of this de-
monstration by Oxyron. Ported graphics won't be
and shouldn't be taken into consideration into re-
views as the rating should be a something given for
personal performances and not for the abilities of
hard- (cables) and software (converter files).
All the graphics in the intro, expect for the small
characterset and the Skyline bitmap at the buttom of
city zoomer screen, where created by using Image FX
on the Amiga 1200 by Graham. Even the chessboard
was created in this way and was definately not drawn
by RRR like a certain magazine stated in their review.
The skyline shows a city by night with lights of lamps,
a lot of houses, a moon, clouds and sky offering all
you can await in a graphic like this. Unfortunately it
is too small but anyway worth being watched.
The faces of the spherical projection were both
converted from the Amiga so there is nothing in the
part worth being mentioned. The same goes for the
Distorter as both pictures got converted, too. Ac-
cording to Graham he used these converted graphics
to prevent people starting to complain about his rou-
tine being cheated as standart CBM 64 graphics of-
fered always a similar structur in that routine.
The end part contains nothing except for a charac-
terset so there is nothing to report about.
No rating here as judging the own work would be
some kind of sin in our opinion so we would like to
give a small advice in here: if you dare to review gfx
just give ratings for drawn and not for converted
graphics. Furthermore it can not be to reduce the
general amount of points when there are too less
graphics used in the demo. Rating XX%.

Well, well. How is PRI supposed to review demo- music
of his own group, you might wonder. Firstly, because
for whatever reason there are none of my tunes in-
cluded, and secondly, because RRR absolutely wanted
wanted me to do it. Anyway, here we go:
I am going to set the rating for this soundtrack in
brackets as the tunes were neither done by any OXY
member (which can't possibly be because I am the on-
ly composer in my group) nor done exclusively by a-
nybody else. Why should even my own group recieve
points for somebody else's work?
1st part: I don't think there is much of a comment
necessary. The Lightforce tune by Rob Hubbard is
one of the best and most legendary tunes ever, and
it is perfect for timing steps of an intro along to it's
different stages of developement.
2nd part: This one is by the "Newschool"-master
Jeff. The instruments are typically him, including his
characteristic octave-bass in the intro. Soon after
that the tune starts grooving, and we get to hear ex-
cellent themes, soli, B-part etc. coming in a good
structure and fine sound quality, establishing a flow-
ing atmosphere which matches to the coding (the ro-
tating sphere).
3rd part: Another legendary one, this time by good
old JCH. Made up around the simply fat bass riff over
which several cool parts alternate. Simple but inge-
nious!
The choice of music is ofcourse superb, but as no-
ne of the credits go to Oxyron in any way, the rating
can only be in brackets: (96%).

We (Fuben, PRI, Scroll and me) hope you can live well
with these reviews. Please return to the menu now.

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==Editorial==
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* Editorial *
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Atleast we are very proud to welcome you to the 8th
issue of the Relax Magazine and the first issue in '95
brought to you with a short but detectable delay.

We decided to release the Relax all six to eight weeks
in the future due to massive sparetime problems of
the various staff members seeing the sense of life
not only infront of the computer like other may do.

Seeing the mass of magazines released these days
our main intention is to release a reliable and objec-
tive magazine in order to guarantee believable facts
and fair charts, to be more exactly mega-charts.
When "The Pulse Magazine" died a big gap was left
behind. We decided to try our best and to fill this
gap, recruited some members of the old staff and
released the Relax again.

We got very positive reactions for our very own
production and this was a success we never expec-
ted while having the huge market of magazines these
days in mind. We would like to thank all our readers
who have encouraged us to continue, who sent in
constructive critism, who filled the votesheets or
voted t the Relax supporting boards worldwide.

For sure not all the reactions have been positive
and some (fake-) magazines tried everything letting
look our magazine quite average but those kind of
jealous editors who can not accept that there better
or to be more precise much better competitors won't
be mentioned were. We are not acting like "The Pulse"
as we have been publishing our texts years before
anyone has ever dreamt of "The Pulse" and we are
definately not interested to do advertisement for
low quality magazines edited by persons who have
never been standing in the public interest.

Our intention is to edit some kind of journal. We pick
up interesting topics and news to work with them. We
definately do not need to print non-scene concerned
stuff to fill up the disk so we discussed our work and
came to the following conclusion: INFOTAINMENT is
exactly what we are doing, a proper combination of
informative texts with entertaining stories. We think
that our readers deserve to be informed about the
truth based on facts as we aren't interested to influ-
ence our beloved, but dying, scene with unqualified or
useless raggings ending in endless hassels. The job
of a magazine is to inform the public, not to slag down
the concurence. That is our very own philosophy.

Most of the critism concerned our outfit, mainly the
slow text display routine. Unfortunately the coder of
the main routines, Skid Row, has left the scene once
again. There is no problem without a solution and our
very own Leeway, the coder of the editor, had a look
on the sources and improved them a little bit. He will
continue to optimize the routines within the next days
and weeks to guarantee a more userfriendly outfit
and to get another step closer to perfection.

Just compare our text with the competiting concu-
rence contributions, make your very own opinion and
choose your favourite number one.

If you are interested in seeing your address in our
advertisement chapter(s) or you've some interesting
news, stories or atleast a reaction to be shared with
the public do not hesitate to contact us using the of-
ficial contact addresses of the Relax magazine. To
come up to your wishes we offer both, mail and board
addresses to send us your submissions to.
Relax Magazine, c/o xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Germany

Holiday Inn Cambodia ++1/510/689-8893 account: 37
The Evil Island ++1/314/587-7612 account: 4
Escapade ++49/5341-395697 account: 63
Mystical Paradize ++49/2137-13943 account: 17

Please keep in mind that the RELAX magazine is not
an Alpha Flight 1970 production. It is a trademark of
Bad Bytes Entertainment Software, european division
with some kind help from Alpha Flight, Oxyron,
Avantgarde and all the readers and friends who
reacted in any way to encourage us keeping this ma-
gazine alive.
This issue's content looks like:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS AND RUMOURS devided into two seperate chap-
ters due to the mass of activity and the daily chan-
ges with the last few weeks.
CHARTS devided into three different topics: release
charts, board charts and mail charts.
INTERVIEW with Deff/Avantgarde, who delivered it
after the original interview we planned for this issue
did not arrive in time (sarcasm?).
DEMO REVIEWS reporting about some demoes relea-
sed at THE PARTY 1994.
PARTY REPORT with a critical look back to THE PAR-
TY 1994 and the inofficial invitation for the SCS&TRC
and FOCUS party in Utrecht/Holland.
ADVERTISEMENTS for those who are searching for
new contacts or anything else what seems to be
scene related.

Credits for this issue must be given to:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Programming, Linking LEEWAY, SKID ROW
Magazine Artwork SKID ROW, RRR
Magazine Soundtrack ARNE
Magazine Main Editors MARC, MAX and RRR
Magazine Co-Editor DEFF
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Like said before we will try to release the RELAX all
six to eight months so we are looking forward to see
you reading the next issue in August 1995 :=).
Last but not least some regards to those who contri-
buted when we had a comeback with this magazine:

Skinhead (too bad that you did not manage it to con-
tinue your job. All the best for your future in AVT!)
Skid Row (you did a fine job with the outfit, in both
coding and graphics. Unfortunately you have sold
your equipment. All the best for your future, too.)
Max (hopefully you will be able to finish your article
for the next issue in time, old RAVERMEISTER)

Have fun while reading this magazine.

Best regards,
RRR/Oxyron

</pre>
==Global Report I==
<pre>
* Global Report *
------------------------------------------------------------
Again we have been returning to publish the latest
CBM 64 scene gossip here.

We have checked up most of the news and rumours
very carefully in order to avoid false information for
our dear readers so we accepted only reliable per-
sons as worthy informers for this chapter. Since we
are only human creatures aswell it might be possible
that we did some mistakes even we tried our best to
avoid them. If you have found some we really would
appreciate it to see you informing us about our failu-
res at the well known address stated somewhere else
in this magazine.
* Avantgarde *
------------------------------------------------------------
According to Avantgarde they are still preparing for
the Judgement Day Part 2. Rumours are reporting
that Avantgarde and F4CG might start a cooperation
for first-releases only. Furthermore the latest gos-
sip told that Cyborg will return with his board "Dream-
park" which is supposed to become both Avantgarde
and F4CG headquarter.

Fact is that Steve who is also in Laser left the United
Kingdom to search his fortune in the United States.
He considered about buying a NTSC CBM 64 and to
start fixing overthere. Due to moving houses his
board "Straylight" went down.
To guarantee a massive consumption of their warez
Avantgarde added two new mailtraders to their fleet,
namely Intruder/ex-Excess and Nastiness Inc who
got removed later on. Suicide joined as program-
mer and NTSC fixer while Eleminator got recruited
as a cardhacker and importer.
Last but not least Skinhead/ex-Afl joined as cracker
to complete the status.

Current Avantgarde memberstatus looks like:
A-Man, Darklord, Deff, Derbyshire Ram, Eleminator,
Freestyle, HOK, Intruder, Jack Alien, Jack Daniels,
Magic Man, Nevis, Peter, Richie, Skinhead, Skywolf,
Steve, Suicide, Thorn and Tricom.

Avantgarde Worldheadquarters/boards:
Dreampark: ++1/???/???-????

* Fantastic Four Cracking Group *
------------------------------------------------------------
F4CG is today one of the leading groups releasewise
and with a little bit more effort on the releases to im-
prove the quality they easily could be the only worthy
competitor for the number one spot these days.

The headline of the last few weeks is that F4CG was
able to recruit some well respected and experienced
members called Newscopy, Motley, Scope and Walker,
all ex-members of Genesis Sweden. Unfortunately
their first action for F4CG was to manipulate the
release charts in the Propaganda, edited by Marc
and Deff, while adding some releases spread after
the official chart deadline. No comment from our side!
Last but not least they have recruited Druid/Agony,
who left later on, and H-Bloxx, who returned from
TRSI and being a member of The Remembers, too.
Moloch left to concentrate on Threshold Productions,s
a company selling games per mail order.

Current F4CG memberlist looks like:
Antitrack, Bitman, Fen 1, Hain, H-Bloxx, Idol, King,
Maja, Morris, Motley, Mr. Alpha, Neotec, Newscopy,
Playboy, Scope, Sneaper, Solar, Spark, Therion,
Walker and Zirco.

F4CG worldheadquarters/boards:
Tunnel of Warez: ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX (down!)
The Lost Paradize: ++XX/XXXX-XXXX

* Success & The Ruling Company *
------------------------------------------------------------
It was a very busy month for the ruling success com-
pany. SCS & TRC were able to convince the famous
swapper and original supplier Splatterhead/ex-<C>
to join their forces and some more Chromance folks
followed the trend like Lord Crucifier, Sailor/Taboo/
Agony and Titanic/Chromance/Agony who already
supplied some first releases within the last weeks/
months to prove that they are worthy members.
Last bu t not least the polish artist Sliver, who is a
member of Agony Design aswell.

Their australian section, to be more precise Morbid
and Vengeance left for a new group called Onslaught.
Current SCS & TRC memberlist looks like:
Action Jackson, Alive, Burglar, B-Wyze, Case, Cavron,
CBA, Coolhand, Dannie, Defbeat, Jity, JRC, Lord Cru-
cifier, Micron, Moren, Mystery, Nightshade, Rebel MC,
Sailor, Scarabee, Shocker, Sliver, Spectator,
Splatterhead, Titanic and Trax.

SCS & TRC worldheadquarters/boards:
The Dungeon: ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
The Lost Empire: ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
State of the Art: ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX
* Oxyron *
------------------------------------------------------------
A lot of rumours have been spread to announce that
Oxyron is dead on the CBM 64 and that their active
part has left the CBM 64 for the Amiga.
Fact is that Oxyron has released their first demo on
the Amiga and it remembered the masses back to the
old demoes from Oxyron, outstanding routines combi-
ned with a lack of design. Furthermore Oxyron mana-
ged to release a short demo at "The Party IV" just to
prove that they are still alive on the CBM 64.

The rumours about TTS and Axis leaving the scene
are partly true as they decided to expand their work
on the Amiga, which offers them a lot of new possibi-
lities, but TTS added at the party-place that they will
continue their work on the CBM 64 in a little bit redu-
ced way. Upcoming Oxyron demoes will contain the la-
test inventions only, not any lame re-coded effects.
Biz-Kid decided to leave the group and to look out
for a new and more active demo group. Against a all
rumours he was never the leader of Oxyron as it was
his very own interpretation of the fact that TTS once
asked him for some support in organising the group.
According to Biz-Kid he already teamed up with the
well known danish demo group Camelot.

Scrapper stopped editing the charts for Skyhigh and
RRR quitted the Skyhigh staff to work exclusively for
the Relax only. Furthermore Scrapper decided to con-
centrate on the PC but he promised to send out when
he feels like doing that.

Current Oxyron (CBM 64) memberstatus looks like:
Asmodis, Axis, Graham, PRI, RRR, Scrapper and TTS

* Agony Design *
------------------------------------------------------------
Agony is one of the many promising demo groups from
Poland and seems to be one of the most active crews
around. Unfortunately most of the members are ac-
tive in two groups or even more what looks, accor-
ding to the majority of the scene, very strange.

They proudly announce a lot of new members starting
with Owen/Triad, Stone/Charged (Cruise's brother),
Compod/Charged and Spy/Sun Designs who left the
scene later on while Scarlett got kicked out.
Their member Trooper got kicked out of his second
group Atlantis having his lazyness as the main rea-
son for that step.
Current Agony Design memberlist looks like:
Astaroth, Comanche, Compod, Digger, Dr. Kaos, Druid,
Explorer, Glut, Moog, Morris, Owen, Pat, Roder, Sailor
Shogoon, Skyle, Sliver, Stone, Titanic, Trooper and
Viper

* Dynamic Technologies *
------------------------------------------------------------
With the more or less sudden death of Talent Dytec
was able to recruit two well reputated crackers cal-
led The Ignorance and Chrysagon.
Both left Dytec after some promising releases to join
the new group Onslaught while the artist Rooster re-
named into Andreas and left for Shape.

Current Dytec status looks like:
Creb, Dodger, Fatman, Little Big Man, One Dollar,
Proton, Stereo, Stone and Suzuki

* Genesis Project *
------------------------------------------------------------
The ancient group seems to be dead when their last
active members teamed up with the concurence in
F4CG, to be exactly Newscopy, Walker, Scope and
Motley performed this step.
Jucke is said to work independent these days while
the latest gossip reports that Ministry decided to
team up with Hardcore.

It is really sad to see another legend dying within one
one month only.

* Talent *
------------------------------------------------------------
Talent is said to be dead, too. Chrysagon and The Ig-
norance have left the wrecking ship for Dytec while
they left Dytec some days later to seek their fortune
in Onslaught, like Majesty, Morrision and Count Zero
aswell.
Since there are only three members left in Talent who
are not that active these days, namely Bod, Green-
frog and Rockstar, their future looks rather dark on
the CBM 64.

* Chromance *
------------------------------------------------------------
There might come a hard time for this crew seeing a
lot of members leaving to team up with other groups.

Mr. Wax and Jazzy D had the pleasure to join the
hungarian army so Splatterhead became the new
main organiser in Chromance. Some days later he
left for SCS & TRC along with Sailor, Lord Crucifier
and Titanic. Druid left for F4CG and left them when he
found out that they have released on of his unsold
games without his knowledge.
More bad luck for Chromance was a high phone bill
for their cracker and current leader Stake. The la-
test gossip reports about $500.000. The last infor-
mation is that the bill might be cancelled so the future
of Stake looks more promising again.
Fresh blood came into the group with Chotaire, who
joined the Chromance posse as second group. Later
on he left Chromance for the new group Onslaught
with Sphere and Homeboy, who remains in <C> as 2nd
group, follow to team up with Onslaught, too.
Furthermore Shuze/Lazer has joined.

Current Chromance status looks like:
AMC, Griff,Homeboy, Jazzy D, Jinx, Joyride, Lion, Mr.
Wax, Painkiller, Rough, Rug Rat, Shuze, Stake,
Syco, Unholy, Will, Wozio, X-Radical and Zar.

Chromance worldheadquarters/boards:
Egde of Midnight: ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX (down!)
The Highway: ++XX/XX/XXXXX

* Hardcore *
------------------------------------------------------------
The new comet in the cracking spheres was mainly
found by old german Success members.
Ramirez/ex-Talent, Marcus and Jayce/ex-Genesis
already joined forces to enlarge their memberstatus
A certain Raver called the german boards. He seems
to be a very suspicious person as no one has ever
recognized him being a part of the scene while he is
refering to a long scene career.

Current Hardcore status looks like:
B-Wyze, Blockbuster, Communist, God, Jayce, Marcus,
Ramirez, Rap, Raver, Raze, Shocker, Shuriken,
Skeleton and Steel.

You finally reached the end of the News chapter 1,
but definately not the end of information we have
prepared for you so please load in the News chapter
2 for further information.
</pre>
==Global Report II==
<pre>
* Global Report 2 *
------------------------------------------------------------
Again we have been returning to publish the latest
CBM 64 scene gossip here, to be more precise for
the second time in this issue.

A lot of action has been recognized by our infor-
mers and the last two months brought a lot of new
competitors for the cracking scene, consisting of
well known of reputated guys.

The legal scene is running more smoothly but we have
been able to detect those few changes which seem to
be informative. Let's wait for more information out of
this part of the scene in the next few weeks.
* Alpha Flight 1970 *
------------------------------------------------------------
No month without a steady come and go in the ancient
group Alpha Flight, a group proving their activity on
the different stages in an impressing way.

Starkiller, Honesty, Skid Row and Curlin have quitted
the CBM 64 scene. Starkiller will run an Amiga-board
for an unknown Amiga group while Skid Row has sold
his equipment. The fate of Curlin and Honesty is un-
known, it is possible to see them returning when they
feel like doing that.
Furthermore Skinhead decided to join the forces of
Avantgarde while Pha Q left the scene for PC since
he was bored spending his time infront of the CBM 64.
Peacemaker had to join the german army so he had to
decrease most of his computer activities. He actually
tries to leave the army for the public (national) ser-
vice. Lemming is having a break from the scene in
order to return in early march 1995 in full effect to
continue his swapping activities.

Calypso/Amnesia joined in to guarantee the mass
consumption of Afl warez and started to NTSC fix ga-
games what seems to be quite successful so far.

Current Alpha Flight memberstatus looks like:
Agressor, Ancient Mariner, Arne, Calypso, Leeway,
Lemming, Marc, Max, Murphy, Mutant X, Peacemaker,
Pol Pot, Racoon, Ream, Secret Man, Stash, Styx, Vor-
tex and Xenox.

Alpha Flight Worldheadquarters/boards:
Holiday Inn Camodia ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
The Evil Island ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
Escapade ++XX/XXXX-XXXXXX
Mystical Paradize ++XX/XXXX-XXXXX

* Shazam! *
------------------------------------------------------------
The best australian group these days seems to split
up after Grize left to built up Darkside, Gop followed
to team up with the new group and the same goes
for Jolz. Jim Morrison has left the scene for PC.
Shades, Insane and Xerez, who renamed into Upbeat,
decided to team up with their friends in Onslaught, so
the group seems to be dead as we do not expect too
to much action from the remaining Thorin and Thrain.

* Amorphis *
------------------------------------------------------------
Amorphis is a new promising music label located in
Poland. Actually they develope a new stunning music
routine which seems to be more advanced in compa-
rison with the public DMC player versions.

Current Amophis memberstatus looks like:
Booker, Compod, Druid, Moog and Olsen

* Legend *
------------------------------------------------------------
Their last remaining active member Jazzcat decided
to team up with the new group Onslaught. The future
of Legend is unknown due to their lack of activity.

* Onslaught *
------------------------------------------------------------
Another new group came from the ashes to return as
a phoenix, Onslaught is the name. Jazzcat left Legend
for them, Vengeance and Morbid left Success, Ma-
jesty, Count Zero and Morrisey left Talent, Chrysa-
gon and Ignorance left Dytec, Choitaire, Sphere and
Homeboy, remaining in his old group as second one,
left Chromance, Heavyhead joined in and remains in
Camelot as second group, Bizarre left Trance, SMD
left Atlantis, Deekay from Crest, Shades, Insane and
Upbeat left Shazam, Deathlok left Padua and two eng-
lish hackers called Protheus and Xentor are said to
have unioned their skills and power in order to work
under the Onslaught label, a promising mixture to co-
ver most subjects of the scene in a pleasant way.

Count Zero already stated that he is still a member
of Talent (demo section) and Fairlight on SNES but he
agreed to fix for Onslaught (CZ's official statement).

Current Onslaught status looks like:
Bizarre, Chotaire, Chrysagon, (Count Zero), Deathlok,
Deekay, Heavyhead, Homeboy, Ignorance, Insane,
Jazzcat, Majesty, Morbid, Morrisey, Protheus, Shades
SMD, Sphere, Upbeat, Vengeance and Xentor.

Onslaught Worldheadquarters/boards:
Down by Law: ++X/XXX/XXX-XXXX
Pirate Island: ++XX/XXX/XXXXX
Westpoint: ++XX/XXX/XXXX

After those more detailed reports we collected some
very interesting single news aswell. 1995 is growing
full of activity and we hope to see that the scene and
the software developers/distributors will follow this
example in order to get more active, too, in order to
keep the scene alive.
* Single news & rumours *
------------------------------------------------------------
* Thomas Detert, musician of X-ample Architectures,
can be spotted in the videoclip of "Save Me" from
his dancefloor act ACTIVATE. He is the guy in the
red shirt!

* Unifier left the group Spirit in order to work inde-
pendent at the moment. He already released the la-
test update of the Unipacker (V3.0) and codes de-
moes on PC under the SUBSYSTEM label.

* The Fairlight magazine "Reformation" and the Equi-
noxe magazine "Ingenious Brain" merged into one
big magazine called "Shout!".
The latest gossip reports about a steady coopera-
tion between both groups, not only on the magazine
activities.

* The PC section of WOW (Pussyfooter, Einstein, etc.)
is planning to release a CD ROM filled with CBM 64
quality software. If you are interested to see your
demo, magazine, music and graphic collection on the
CD please contact WOW directly or via the Relax
staff.
The CD is able to hold the data of 2700 5.25" disks,
(170 KB/disk) so you can be sure about supporting
the biggest CBM 64 compilation ever. Ofcause the
authors do not think about making profit with your
work as it is ment as a TRIBUTE for the CBM 64,
running on all actual PC configurations making your
creations immortal, even on 16/32 bit systems.
The project is going to be executed in cooperation
with Mika Peternel, the coder of the CBM 64 emula-
tor on PC. Send your submissions now.

* Noice and Fairlight are arranging a small party in
the countryside outside of Stockholm/Sweden. Ori-s
ginally it was supposed to be a Noice, Fairlight and
Triad meeting only but in order to come up to the
interest of other sceners it was converted into an
official CBM 64 party. The party date is from march
3rd to 5th, the place is able to hold 60-70 freaks
so reserve a table via telephone, fax or mail (mem-
bers of Noice, Fairlight and Triad have priority):
Philippe (Stasi/Noice) ++XX/(X)X/XXXXXXXX
Thomas (Sledge/Fairlight) ++XX/(X)X/XXXXXX

Fax ++XX/(X)X/XXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX. XXX, XXX-XX XXX XXXXX

* Commodore Format, the last remaining CBM 64 sup-
porting magazine in UK, is said to be released till
April 1996. Do not hesitate to order the magazine
and to guarantee its existance:
COMMODORE FORMAT, Future Publishing LTD.,
30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA21 2BW, England
React now !

* Tyree/ex-Arcade has been sent to prison for
smuggling drugs. All in all he will spent his next
eight years there.

You already have reached the end of both News and
Rumours chapters we have prepared for you.

Support us in sharing your latest information with
staff and contact us under the well known addresses
which can be found in the EDITORIAL.

Best regards,

RRR/Oxyron
------------------------------------------------------------

</pre>
==Release Charts==
<pre>
------------------------------------------------------------
The Official Release Charts for the Relax
------------------------------------------------------------

Performed by the Masters of Law...

Marc and Deff

Introducing the point-system...

Fullprice Games 7.0 - 8.0 points
Budget Games 5.0 - 6.0 points
Low Budget 3.0 - 4.0 points
PD/Shareware 1.0 - 2.0 points
Previews 0.0 - 1.0 points
One bonus point can be reached be releasing the
wares 100% (!) Pal/Ntsc. If another group is involved
on the Pal/Ntsc version, points will be shared.

Games that got released PAL only have to be fixed
within half a year, else no points will be given.

Minus points will be given for...
------------------------------------------------------------

Re-releases -7.0
No levelpacking -0.5/-1.0
No trainer(s) -0.5/-1.0
No translation -1.0/-2.0
Unlike most other mags we won't give points for
tools. Those releases will get mentioned but that's it.

SEUCK GAMES, BASIC GAMES, COMPILED BASIC
GAMES and such games that were done using a
GAME MAKER will be ignored.

Whenever we think somebody did something special
or something outstanding we will add one point to the
normal amount of points.
It's also possible to get one extra point for some-
thing that normally doesn't deserve any points.

The following boards have been taken in to
consideration whilst creating these charts...

Holiday Inn Cambodia XXX-XXX-XXXX
The Evil Island XXX-XXX-XXXX
Dream Park XXX-XXX-XXXX
The Dungeon XXX-XXX-XXXX
Down by Law XXX-XXX-XXXX

To avoid misunderstandings the following boards will
be observed as well...

Dead Zone XXX-XXX-XXXX
Fortress of Doom XXX-XXX-XXXX

Active (4.0 points)
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the pal version of FUNBALL (4.0 p.)
from Octabits.

Accept (0.1 points)
------------------------------------------------------------
They released the unplayable preview of EARTH 3.
This preview normally doesn't deserve 0.1 pts but as
it was their premier.

Alpha Flight 1970 (56.1 points)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with the fixed version of TWO-TRIS (c)
Magna Media. As their version was only 99.99%,
minus 1.0 pts were given (4.5 pts). Next were 3 pre-
views called SUPER BALL (0.3 pts), B-BALL (0.4 pt)
and CRAZY (0.0 pts) which didn't even deserve 0.1
points. Then they released the fixed version of
EUROPEAN SOCCER CHALLENGE (1.4 pts). Infact this
game already got released (PAL only) by Ikari+Talent
back in 1991, AFL only gets the fix points for it. Once
again they striked back with the fixed version of
KITRON (4.3 pts) (c) CP-Verlag. Their next targets
were two fixed CP-Verlag games called GEOMETRIC
(5.2 pts) and BRONX MEDAL (5.5 pts). Next they come
with the fixed version of IMPEROID (4.3 pts) (c) by
Magna Media. After this they upped the fixed Budget
Game SUPER MARIOS REVENGE (6.5 pts) (c) by Para-
dize Software. Then they released the fixed version
of IKETA (4.8 pts) from CP-Verlag and 3 previews
called CROSSES & CIRCLES (0.4 pts), SWIRL (0.4 pts)
and TRAILRUNNER (0.1 pts). Then they upped the
fixed version of MASTERMIND (4.3 pts) (c) CP-Verlag
and another fixed Budget Game SUPER MARIOS ES-
CAPE (6.0 pts) from Paradize Software. After this
they released the Pal version of PRA-SE (3.6 pts)
(c) CP-Verlag and TIMTRIS (4.1 pts) from Timsoft.
TRC+SCS released only a 90% version, so AFL gets
the points. And last but not least they released a
little tool called DESTRUCTION FORMAT (0.0 pts).

Atlantis (1.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They released a TRANSLATED version of KAMPF DER
GENIES (=BATTLE OF THE GIANTS) (1.0 pts) and a
little preview called BLACK HEART (0.4 pts).

Avantgarde (41.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with REACTOR 2 (5.5 pts) (c) by CP-
Verlag, followed by two previews... PLOPP (0.4 pts)
and MINESWEEPER (0.5 pts). Then they released THE
TIME CRYSTAL (5.0 pts) from Parallel Logic that
doesn't need a Ntsc fix. Next were 3 previews in a
row... HIDDEN DOORS (0.5 pts), TETRIS'94 (0.4 pts)
& DEADLINE (0.7 pts). They upped AMORPHOUS
(4.4 pts) fixed by Byronic. Due using a wrong
cruncher which fucked up something Byronic had to
put out a fix-file (-1.0 pts). Then they released an UK
Budget Game called BLITZ 2000 (6.6 pts) (c) by
Visualize. Points won't be shared between AVT/TAL
as Talent will get only the fixing points. The next
targets were the pal version of MOTLEY TETRIS
(3.7 pts) (c) by Talentebank and TRONIC FORCE (4.5
pts) (c) CP-Verlaw, Pal/Ntsc fixed by Empire. Then
they upped a cool tool called COLOR PACK 2 (0.0 pts)
and KITRON V.2 (2.0 pts) fixed by Demonix. It's NOT
Kitron 2, it's just a better version than the official
sales version. That should explain why AVT won't get
the full points for it. After this they uploaded the
Budget Game HEAVENBOUND (6.0 pts) (c) by Talente-
bank. TRC+SCS released a version of the game too,
but their version didn't include THE STORY file. A re-
lease has to be 100% so AVT gets the points. Last
but not least they released 2 previews called
SPHEREBRAIN (0.8 pts) and BODY BLOW (0.4 pts).

Chromance (17.8 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with MINDMAZE (0.0 pts), but this game
got released by Troep & Garbage weeks before. We
didn't give them -7 pts as T+G never spread their
version well enough. Their next ware was TURN
CHANGE preview (0.5 pts) followed by the fixed ver-
sion of KILLER 100% (4.4 pts). Then they released the
fixed version of SPEED RUNNER (4.1 pts) (c) by Com-
modore Format and 2 previews XERMAID (0.5 pts) &
AVOIDITIC (0.3 pts). After this they released AM0BA
(3.9 pts) fixed by Demonix, but infact DMX removed
a raster (without mention it) to make it working on
Ntsc. So we'll count it as a Pal ware. Then they upped
2 previews GO (0.1 pts) and SPACE BALL (0.6 pts)
and BACK & WHITE (3.0 pts) already working Pal/Ntsc
Last but not least they released 2 previews called
MEMORY 2 (0.3 pts) and EARTH 3 (0.1 pts). The same
preview got released by Accept before, but the (C)
version included a nice title-pic, so we'll give 0.1 pts.

F4CG (58.5 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with 2 american Full-Price games from
Mnemonic Productions, Inc. called CASTLE OF KRAIZ-
AR (7.0 pts) and GUNRUNNER (7.0 pts). Both games
didn't need a pal fix. Gunrunner got 7.5 pts but we
gave -0.5 pts as they linked a pal intro infront of the
game which made it impossible to play the game on
Ntsc. Later on they released a fix-file. Next they re-
lease$ the pal version of another polish Budget Game
called ETERNAL (5.5 pts) (c) by Tim Soft, followed by
2 pre6iews named BOMBI (0.5 pts) and MAGAZINE
(0.4 pts). Later on they released the pal version of
MINEFIELD (3.7 pts) and SLATERMAN (3.5 pts) (c) by
Tim Soft and WHEEL OF FORTUNE (4.2 pts) fixed by
Demonix. Then their PAL ONLY ware rush started
with ORBITS (3.0 pts) (c) by CP-Verlag. Normally
such a version wouldn't count but as nobody else re-
leased a proper version of this game, we'll give the
points to F4CG. Then they upped MELEE-THE BATTLE
BOARDGAME (0.0 pts). no points will be given because
it's compiled basic. Their next steps were AGENT UOP
(4.0 pts) (c) L.K. Avalon, FLUMMI'S WORLD preview
(0.8 pts), a Budget Game called MEAN CAR (5.2 pts)
(c) by Cherry Sodtware, then the full version of the
PD Game DINOX (1.5 pts) from APS and 3 previews
named LEPPARD (0.5 pts), Pacific (0.4 pts) and
BOUNCY BALLS (0.9 pts). Troep and Garbage re-
leased nearly the same preview at the same time.
Then the pal versions of MEMOLOGIE (3.0 pts) and
3 previews called SHAMAN (0.7 pts), DOOM (0.6 pts)
and DEADLINE (0.2 pts) hits the boards. Last but not
least was the pal release ARCADE PILOT (5.9 pts) a
Budget Game from Cherry Software.

Hardcore (12.9 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They started with 2 average previews name HARRY
V.2 (0.7 pts) from M.D.G. and Mizmo Te?ran (0.7 pts)
from Human Research. After this they uploaded 2
german Budget Games called FLUMMI'S WORLD (6.0pt)
from Substance and RIDDLES & STONES (5.5 pts).

Motiv 8 (7.8 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
After a little break they are back in business with
SPEED preview (0.0 pts), SYSTEM 3 - THE FINAL
STONE (3.3 pts) from Sebastian Garbe. They claimed
their version is fixed, but the loader doesn't work on
Ntsc. After this they upped SPEED BALL (3.0 pts)
from Stardesign (the game works Pal/Ntsc), CYCLIA
preview (0.0 pts), COMPARE 2 preview (0.2 pts) and
FIELDRUNNER preview (0.3 pts). Then they released
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS OF SOCCER (1.0 pts). It's
a basic game, but we will give them 1 extra point.

Onlaught (6.8 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
This new group started with a nice previeqw of the
game MISFORTUNE (0.9 pts) from Bad Bytes. Then
they uploaded the fixed version of CASTOR (4.4 pts)
(c) by CP-Verlag and a PD game called MODEM FLAG-
HUNT (1.5 pts) from Loadstar and Softdisk Publishing.
The game works on Pal too.

Palace (- 3.5 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
Their first game on the boards was a re-release.
LATENT FUSION (-7.0 pts) (c) CP Verlag got rel-
eased Pal/Ntsc by AVT weeks before. They wrote
that the AVT version was not 100% because the dox-
file is missing. But this dox-file is not necessary be-
cause the official sales version didn't include a dox-
file. Furthermore their version was not 100% as their
version has graphic bugs in form of a cursor in the
top of the screen in level 1. You can't write your
name on the number 1 spot in the top 5 even when you
gained enough points for rank 1. Palace's version is
not 100%, they released it PAL only and the dox-file
didn't belong to the official sales version. Everybody
could make a dox-file like that. So we will give -7
points. Then they released a so called 'FIXED' ver-
sion of POZITRONIC (3.5 pts) (c) by CP Verlag. But
this version is not worth shit.

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Please load the second chapter to see the rest!
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</pre>
==Rel. Cha. 2 & Back to the roots==
<pre>
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the second part of the release charts...
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SCS+TRC (52.3 pts)
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They started their wares rush with the fixed version
of COLOURED (4.3 pts), BLUBRIA (5.3 pts) (c) by CP-
Verlag, NOCTURNO (5.0 pts) (c) by L.K. Avalon and
RUNNING BALLS (4.0 pts) from Thunders. Then they
upped the preview of GEOMTERIC 2 (1.0 pts) from APS
the pal version of METALLIC LEGEND (3.4 pts) and a
preview named FUSSBALL (0.3 pts). After this they
released SHATTERLANDS (4.6 pts) (c) CP-Verlag and
finally the pal version of COMPLEX (4.0 pts) (c) by
CP Verlag followed by the fixed versions of MEGA
FORCE (4.0 pts) (c) by Commodore Format, DUEL
(4.0 pts) from Skyle, COMBINATION (4.1 pts) (c) by
CP Verlag and Coldarius (4.4 pts) from Agony De-
sign. At the end they released the pal version of
PAYDAY (3.0 pts) (c) by Cp Verlag and fixed HYS-
TERIA (1.0 pts) for Xenon.

Talent (8.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
They returned with 2 previews called VOICE (0.2 pts)
and JUICY TYPE (0.2 pts). At the same time they re-
leased a fixed game (?) named ICEBLASTER (4.0 pts)
from Development coded by good old Yon of MTX. This
game reminds us of an old playbale demo part of Man-
tronix but we have to give it points anyway as nobody
could show up with that old demo. And finally ENERGY
MANAGER (4.0 pts) found its way to the US boards.
Talent gets 3,0 pts for their Pal/Ntsc version and a
extra point for their outstanding version.

Tristar/Red Sector Inc (02. pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
After some months they are back with a little preview
named COLA QUEST (0.2 pts) from Paralyze.

Xenon (4.4 pts)
------------------------------------------------------------
After the previeq of HYSTERIA (0.1 pts) they releas-
ed the full version of HYSTERIA (4.0 pts). Pal/Ntsc
fixed by SCS+TRC, so the points won't be shared.
And their last release was the preview of LINGO
(0.3 pts) from Miracle.

European release charts
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (01) F4CG 58.5
02. (03) Alpha Flight 1970 56.1
03. (09) SCS+TRC 52.3
04. (05) Avantgarde 41.4
05. (02) Chromance 17.8
06. (04) Hardcore 12.9
07. (./.) Talent 8.4
Rank Groups Points
------------------------------------------------------------

08. (./.) Motiv 8 7.8
09. (./.) Onslaught 6.8
10. (./.) Xenon 4.4
11. (./.) Active 4.0
12. (08) Atlantis 1.4
13. (./.) TRSI 0.2
14. (./.) Accept 0.1

US Fix/Import charts
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Group Releases
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (02) Alpha Flight 11
02. (./.) SCS+TRC 10
03. (./.) Demonix 3
04. (./.) Talent 2
05. (./.) Byronic 1
(./.) Chromance 1
(./.) Empire 1
(./.) Onslaught 1

That's all for this issue...
Yours, Marc & Deff

Back to the roots!
------------------------------------------------------------

Back to the roots - this message is used by so many
people these days, that I was inspired to have a
closer look to understand the ain meaning.

Back to the roots - when you hear this, you should
think about gods like Dynamic Duo, Headbanger,
German Cracking Service, Berlin Cracking Service
and lots of more of our forefathers!

People who were the first to realize the idea of
cracking programs and make them copyable for
everyone. There are propably some of you who
remember that time. I personally look back to that
age with a smile on my face. The time when the good
old 64 history started with datasettes, these small
cassette-players making it possible to save about
60 games on a normal 90 minutes tape.

Ridicilous but true!

Do you remember this old Turbo Tape Loader ?
<- L ruled for many years! Heheh!

The first of the so-called cracks were no cracks at
all, because at that point of time the software-
market was just in its beginning phase. Furthermore
groups didn't link intros in front of the games yet.
The group names or should I better say the handles
only appeared in the basic-lines.

And then somebody had the idea to code something
like a presentation in front of the cracks. These
intros had more similarities with text-pages not with
intros. Even todays trainer-menues are more effect-
full, but that didn't count.

With these intros the era of the 64-piracy really
started!

Soon the first scrolltext showed up in intros. The
basic idea of informing and greeting people in a very
effective way. The idea of scrolltext was content
of every computer generation. Routines were im-
proved, scrolltexts were varied into upscreen-
scrollers etc. But untill now the simple bottom
scroller has come to stay.

The scene growed and growed. In the beginning phase
there were only a few ones practising our hobby.
More and more joined us. Whether for fun or just for
fun and business.
Today we can say that the 64-pirates were the
pioneers of commodores success story. Nobody
would have bought a computer without the
assurance to get a great amount of software for
free.

In fact without the 64-cracking scene there wouldn't
be any other scene at all!

We from the 64 were the first who used the possibil-
ities to spread datas by phone with modems.
Not that the usual mailtrading wasn't fast enough, it
was just a real prove to for a group that they got
a game first all over the world!

Sometimes it was just a matter of hours to be # 1
worldwide or to be nothing. Only the releases counted
(of course only fixed ones!).

Soon there was a specialising of computer groups.
Some concentrated on importing and some put all
their power in their cracking abilities. The develop-
ment on the european software-market was the
reason why there were more cracks eurowise than
statewise. This fact forced the us-scene to change
dramatic.

The us-importers tried to get as many major-
cracking groups for an exclusive deal as possible.
The more more real good groups they were
exclusive with, the more releases the importers had

You can imagine that they had a concern to keep in
good relation with the european elite. I can't
remember any european cracker who had card
problems at that time. Even alliance PBXes were as
usual as Calling Cards and nothing special at all.

If you compare the present scene situation with the
older days, you'll notice that it totally changed into
the difference. All that is left is the love for our
8-bit brother.

It's just like the love for oldtimers.

They're old and slow, but you still have to love them!
They're the base for every produced sportscar!

Do not disappoint your 64!!!

Unfortunately I have to stop know because of a lack
of memory (Yeah, we love our 64!)

Yours faithfully MAX of Alpha Flight........
------------------------------------------------------------
Next issue: The legendary VENLO-MEETING!
------------------------------------------------------------

</pre>
==Board Charts==
<pre>
* THE BOARD CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. The Relax is the only magazine so far
offering seperate board and mail charts in order to
show the charts from two different worlds in the be-
loved CBM 64 scene since modem traders do not have
the time or possibility to fill votesheets.

In order to guarantee those charts we already in-
stalled a vote booth at THE EVIL ISLAND, the RELAX
WHQ. Furthermore we have planned to install a similar
system on THE ESCAPADE, RELAX EHQ. Just continue
to call the boards in order to influence those charts
and to see your favourite charts in here.
Top Ten Demo Charts
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Oxyron 85
02. (1) Camelot 84
03. (4) Fairlight 79
04. (5) Censor Design 76
05. (6) Byterapers 75
06. (3) Triad 69
07. (7) Antic 61
08. (8) Elysium 57
09. (10) Focus 43
10. (9) Style 22
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Single Coder
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 87
02. (2) Slammer/Camelot 86
03. (4) TTS/Oxyron 85
04. (3) Crossbow/Crest 76
05. (6) Brush/Elysium 70
06. (5) Glasnost/Camelot 69
07. (9) MMS/Taboo 63
08. (7) Depeh/Antic 59
09. (10) Sat/Camelot 33
10. (9) Thunder 21
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Cracking Groups
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (3) F4CG 82
02. (1) Avantgarde 79
03. (2) Alpha Flight 77
04. (5) SCS & TRC 75
05. (4) Chromance 72
06. (6) Talent 66
07. (7) Legend 59
08. (9) Motiv 8 43
09. (10) Fairlight 22
10. (/) Onslaught 12
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Single Cracker
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Burglar/SCS 82
02. (2) Powerplant/Legend 79
03. (4) Antitrack/F4CG 76
04. (3) Rockstar/Talent 72
05. (8) Jack Alien/Avt 68
06. (5) Bacchus/Fairlight 65
07. (6) DOC/Legend 54
08. (7) Skinhead/Avt 32
09. (9) Moren/SCS 26
10. (/) Kirby/Atlantis 20
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Graphic Artists
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Electric/Extend 86
02. (2) Cruise/Elysium 82
03. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 78
04. (6) Rob/Camelot 73
05. (5) RRR/Oxyron 65
06. (10) Mirage/Focus 63
07. (9) Scope/F4CG 54
08. (8) Carrion/Elysium 49
08. (4) Dragon/Censor 38
10. (7) Biz-Kid/Camelot 23
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Music Composer
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 82
02. (4) Danko/Censor 80
03. (5) EVS/20CC 75
04. (2) Jeroen Tel 73
05. (3) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 70
06. (8) Jeff/CZP/Camelot 63
07. (6) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 59
08. (7) Reyn Ouwehand 48
09. (9) Arne/Afl 32
10. (10) A-Man/Avt 27
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* Top Ten Fixing Groups
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Empire 82
02. (5) Alpha Flight 76
03. (1) Demonix 73
04. (3) Avantgarde 69
05. (6) SCS & TRC 52
06. (8) Glory 49
07. (4) Aristocracy 32
08. (/) Byronic 28
09. (7) TSM 13
10. (/) ./. ./.
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Top Ten Single Fixers
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Booze/Empire 81
02. (5) Peacemaker/Afl 79
03. (6) CBA/TRC 72
04. (2) Pudwerx/ex-Avt 68
05. (4) Sidekick/Demonix 65
06. (3) Vizz/Empire 56
07. (7) Mercenary/Empire 38
08. (8) Rockstar/Talent 33
09. (9) Massive Onslaught 23
10. (/) Count Zero/Talent 20
------------------------------------------------------------
Oxyron took over the top position from Camelot but
we expect Byterapers climbing a lot in the next weeks
while Focus seems to raise, too.

Not much news in the coder charts as Mr. Sex is still
leading with Slammer on his neck. TTS jumped to the
third position.

F4CG took over the leadership in the cracking busi-
ness after the mass of releases being spread board-
wise. Avantgarde and Alpha Flight are fighthing for
the following position and Onslaught entered the top
ten for the first time who replaced the dead group
GP in the charts.

The top protection remover are still Burglar, Power-
plant and Antitrack who changed the position with
Rockstar. Jack Alien jumped from eight to five and
Kirby entered the charts for the first time. It seems
that the modem scene has detected some of his brilli-
ant versions yet.

There have been some decent changes in the graphic
charts. Still top artists are Electric, Cruise and of-
cause Ogami. Biz-Kid and Dragon lost some places
while Mirage, Rob and Scope climbed the charts.

Most liked composers are still PRI, who defended his
position, Danko and Edvin van Santen. Jeff and Syn-
drom are steady climbers while A-Man felt down some
places.

Empire took over the top position from Demonix who
have fallen down to three. Alpha Flight deserve their
second position due to the mass of well working NTSC
versions. A new entry has been observed with Byro-
nic, an european fixer group.

Booze still can be stopped at the top with two new fa-
ces hunting for the top spot, namely Peacemaker and
CBA. Skid Row left the charts (he left the scene) and
got replaced by Count Zero, who seems to get active
again.

If you are not satisfied with these results do not
even think about starting to complain. Just call the
boards and start voting on the voting booth on your
favourite board THE EVIL ISLAND.
Furthermore it is possible to vote on Holiday Inn
Cambodia, Escapade and Mystical Paradize, too. Just
leave an E-Mail with your personal votes to Marc/Afl
and it is going to be taken into consideration while
creating these original board charts.

Best regards,

Marc/Afl & RRR/Oxyron
------------------------------------------------------------
</pre>
==Mail Charts==
<pre>
* THE MAIL CHARTS *
------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to your probably most favourite chapter,
the charts. It is the area to find out who is TOP and
who is NOT. These charts do not reflect only the vo-
tes collected from the Relax votesheets but aswell
the official charts from the following magazines com-
piled to become the official MEGACHARTS:

DOMINATION 03 (spread in January 1995)
VANDALISM NEWS 19 (spread in February 1995)
MENDIP 07 (spread in February 1995)
INSIDER 05 (spread in January 1995)

These actual issues have been taken into considera-
in order to guarantee new charts that even reflect
the latest opinions from those who fill the votesheets
in order to support this chapter.

If you do not agree with the content of this chapter
do not start complain but grab a pen and a votesheet
(or a piece of paper to note your votes on it) and
send it to its' destination.

Remember to vote for ACTIVE which are indeed still a
part of this scene and try to vote objective. It does
not make any sense to vote for guys who have defi-
nately left the scene years ago as i.e. the actual mu-
sic charts are filled with actual interpretes and titles
aswell in order not to become too boring.
Top Ten Demo Charts
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Oxyron 490
02. (1) Camelot 440
03. (5) Crest 350
04. (3) Fairlight 330
05. (4) Censor Design 270
06. (6) Triad 210
07. (7) Antic 190
08. (8) Taboo 140
09. (/) Agony 100
10. (/) Byterapers 80
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Single Coder
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) TTS/Oxyron 480
02. (2) Slammer/Camelot 430
03. (3) Crossbow/Crest 410
04. (4) Tron/Fairlight 330
05. (5) MMS/Taboo 240
06. (6) Bob/Censor 230
07. (7) Zodiac/Flash Inc. 150
08. (/) Mr. Sex/Byterapers 140
09. (/) Axis/Oxyron 100
10. (9) Glasnost/Camelot 80
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Cracking Groups
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Group Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) SCS+TRC 470
02. (2) Avantgarde 440
03. (3) Alpha Flight 390
04. (4) Chromance 380
05. (6) Talent 220
06. (9) Excess 170
07. (8) F4CG 140
08. (5) Dytec 130
09. (7) Motiv8 100
10. (10) Triad 90
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Single Cracker
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Burglar/Scs 480
02. (2) Jack Alien/Avt 450
03. (3) Hain/F4CG 390
04. (6) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 280
05. (4) Powerplant/Legend 250
06. (7) Count Zero/Talent 210
07. (5) Bacchus/Fairlight 180
08. (/) Mr. Wax/Chromance 120
09. (9) Skinhead/Avt 70
10. (8) Crossfire/Motiv8 50
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Graphic Artists
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Creeper/Antic 480
02. (1) Electric/Extend 470
03. (3) Ogami/Fairlight 380
04. (4) Joe/Wrath D. 330
05. (5) Cruise/Elysium 320
06. (8) Rob/Camelot 180
07. (9) Fazee/Taboo 120
08. (6) Carrion/Elysium 90
08. (7) Hein Holt/Focus 90
10. (8) Mirage/Focus 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Music Composer
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Syndrom/TIA/Crest 490
02. (4) PRI/TIA/Oxyron 420
03. (5) Jeff/CZP/Camelot 360
04. (2) Jeroen Tel 310
04. (3) Drax/Vibrants/Crest 310
06. (8) Zyron/Antic/SWE/TR 240
07. (6) Red Devil/FLT/SWE 230
08. (7) Shogoon/Taboo/Agony 130
09. (9) Danko/Censor 60
09. (10) Compod/Agony/AMP 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Single Swapper
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Alias Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (1) Calypso/Afl 480
02. (3) Spermbird/Excess 360
03. (2) Tabasco/Fairlight 330
04. (6) Derbyshire Ram/Avt 310
05. (4) Splatterhead/Trc 290
06. (/) Intruder/Avt 230
07. (5) Nightshade/Scs 200
08. (7) Sebaloz/KA/Lepsi 180
09. (10) Styx/Afl 150
10. (/) Starlight/XTC/TPY 90
------------------------------------------------------------
Top Ten Magazines
------------------------------------------------------------
Rank Last Magazine Points
------------------------------------------------------------
01. (2) Nitro 470
02. (4) Skyhigh 440
03. (5) Ingenious Brain (+) 370
04. (4) Reformation (+) 320
05. (3) Revealed 290
06. (6) Jamaica 240
07. (9) Splash 130
08. (8) Insider 100
09. (7) Update 70
10. (10) Newspress 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Oxyron took over the top shot again but it seems to
become a steady competitor with Camelot at the mo-
ment. Agony and Byterapers have entered the top
ten and will raise again in the future. Spirit and the
dutch pride Focus had to leave the charts.

The coder charts did not move too much since the top
seven remains unchanged! Mr. Sex and Axis entered
and are supposed to continue climbing the charts.

SCS&TRC still leads the bunch of cracking group with
Avantgarde as a steady competitor on their neck.
Excess climbed from nine to six!

The best protection killer seems to be Burglar in the
eyes of the voters while Jack Alien is still waiting for
his chance to take over the top position. New entry
this time is Mr. Wax who is actually in the army and
does not have too much time left for computers. Just
curious. Kirby/Atlantis, one of the best crackers
these days, is still missing here while Chrysagon/(O)
had to leave the top ten.

Creeper and Electric changed their positions at the
top. Fazee climbed from nine to six and we expect
the Focus artists climbing after releasing "Visual
Delight 2".

Syndrom was voted once again as the best composer
these days and PRI climbed from position four up to
the second place. A-Man is close to the top ten with-
out having released a tune for ages. Furthemore
Fanta and Doxx are claimbing the charts by storm so
be prepared to find them here in the near future, too

Calypso, Tabasco and Spermbird are still leading the
swapper charts. Acidchild and Sailor had to leave the
charts in order to replaced with Intruder, who re-
started his computer activities in early 1994. With
Starlight, for the first time in the history of the Relax
a girl entered the scene and would like to see more
females to follow her example.

Nitro is still a step ahead in comparison with Skyhigh.
Ingenious Brain and Reformation merged into SHOUT.
Vandalism is very close to the top ten after their
great "comeback". We personally miss Domination in
here, too.

In order to "manipulate" the charts just grap a pen
and fill the votesheets spread around. It is up to you
to become a part of the control medium and to be re-
sponsible for the chart positions published here and
in the concurence magazines. Remember to vote for
active persons in the present and not for old legends
being not active for ages.

Load in the second chart chapter in order to see the
results from the board related scene, which is of-
cause more interested in illegal activities.

</pre>
==Interview==
<pre>
In interview:
------------------------------------------------------------
Deff of Avaltgarde
------------------------------------------------------------

* Hello Mario! Please introduce yourself to our
readers.

:) Well, my real name is Mario but friends always call
me Pito which is an abbreviation for my surname.
I'm 22 years old, I'm half italien and half german. I've
got a girl-friend called Beate since over 5 (!) years
and I fear we'll marry one day, have a child etc.
Right now I'm still some kind of trainee at an ensur-
ance company. I'll have my final and last exams in a
couple(of months but after that I'll continue with
something completly different. I've got 2 choices...
I'll either start to work for Roadrunner Records
(the music lable of e.g. Biohazard, Sepultura, Dog
Eat Doo etc.) or I'll join some special university for
television (promotion, organisation etc.)! As you
probably figured out by yourself I don't like the en-
surance business too much.

* You have been in the scene for a long time now. In
that time you've been in some of the biggest and
best groups ever. Please tell us about your scene
history from the beginning to the end, include how
you got your handle.

:) In the very beginning i used to call myself
Strangmr but after a short time I disliked this handle
First I wanted to change it to Def Jam but then again
I didn't want to call myself after a music lable. Def
was too short, Jam too stupid so I just added one F
to Def! That's it, no big background story or some-
thing. My first group was called The Future Team
(TFT). At that time groups such as Fantasy0Crack-
ing Service, Flash Cracking Service (Mario van
Zeist) and German Cracking Service etc. were still
around. Then i got busted for the first time and build
up a new group after some time...Gods of War! G.O.W.
was born and joined Powerrun as a sub group after
2 weeks. Later G.O.W. split up but I stayed in PWR as
a 'normal' member. Now I got busted for the 2nd time
and again after a short break I build up my own legal
group called Alabama. ALB has had e.g. a coop-
release with Agile and groups like Abnormal and Asia
wanted to release a coop-demo with us but we were
too lazy at that time. One day I got busted for the
3rd time and ALB split up. Frank (Shine) and me
joined Crazy, Kwon renamed to Cyco and teamed up
with Action and the others joined Beastie Boys and
World of Wonders (Amiga). In Crazy I used to be one
of the editors for Mamba. Pyle left Legend and
joined Crzy and we both got good friends at that
time... if not the best friends at all. After 1.5 years
we both got asked to join Illusion and so we did. ILS
then died for the 1st time after half a year and
mostly Crazy and Illusion build up Enigma. I stayed in
ENI for another half a year when Dominators
asked me to join. I teamed up with DOM and did Cor-
ruption along with Jack Daniels. One day JD and me
left DOM as we didn't get any support from DOM
denmark anymore. it were JD and me only who kept
DOM going at that time. With our help BBSes like
Dream Park and Divine Ultimatum made it to the top
5 boards in the states out of nothing. Well, I stayed
out o? the scene for nearly one year when all of a
sudden an old friend of mine (Amiga) supplied me with
some ?alling cards again. I just wanted to call some
old BBSes again and what did I see? Red Sector was
the major group these day. 'Wow, good old RSI is
back',(I thought, leeched some of their wares and
what did I see? Hysteric changed their group-name
to RSI) I couldn't believe it and JD, Freestyle and me
build up Avantgarde. It's all Hysteric's fault. Hahaha

* Give us some further information about your job in
Avantgarde.

:) I'm the main organisator of AVT. I guess that
speaks for itself! I'm also responsible for a small
Avantgarde Intern paper magazine. By now I also
provided a lot of originals for AVT and that's what I
would call my 2nd main job in AVT. If you have a look
at what I provided for AVT by now I even could call
myself germany's best original supplier these days.
Besides I also try to help all AVT members in every
possible way.
* What do you enjoy in real-life. as it would be im-
possible for only computer to be running your life?

:) In real life I mostly enjoy hanging out with my girl-
friend and my friends. I like to have a beer or two
or even more, to smoke some weed from time to time,
to go to a hell of concerts and all that stuff. Beate
forces me to go to the movies at least once a month
I had to stop playing soccer due to my knees but
after nearly 2 years I'm about to start again. What I
enjoy most is parachute jumping. Christ, I do a lot of
weird stuff, too much to tell you.

*What are your favourite...

Cracking groups! past: Eagle Soft Inc, Triad, Hotline
Illusion, 711, Fusion

present: Avantgarde

Demo-groups! past: Ash+Dave, Ian+Mic, Scoop,
Blackmail

present: Byterapers, Focus

Coder! past: Bob, Mario van Zeist

present: Bob, Mr. Sex

Graphicians! past: Gotcha, The Sarge, Hobbit, Orc

present: Mirage, Hein Design

Musicians! past: Tim & Geoff Follin, Metal

present: Metal

Swappers! past: Derbyshire Ram

present: Derbyshire Ram, Intruder,
NSA

Crackers! past: Mr. Zeropage, Doc, Antirtrack,
Mr. Lee
present: Jack Alien, Burglar

Magazine! past: Mamba, Corruption, Shock, Pulse

present: Propaganda, The Pulse

* If you had to make the perfect group and you
could choose from anyone in the active scene, who
would you choose to join? Why?

:) Coder: Bob (simply have a look at the Wonderland
series!)
Gfx'ers: Mirage & Hein Design (they both got their
own great style!)

Musician : Metal (if he is still active! I love his tunes)

Crackers: Jack Alien and Burglar (today's best
crackers!)

Swappers: Derbyshire Ram & Intruder (simply mega!)

Ntsc fixer: Peacemaker (the best Ntsc fixer left
these days!)

Mag Editor: Peter (ex-Mamba), Newscopy (Propag.)
Solar (Pirates)

Boards : Terminal Obsession (best UCBBS board
beside s The Forum) and Dream Park
(the name Cyborg speaks for itself!)

* In your opinion, who would you class as the true
elite in the scene, past and present? Why is this
your answer?

:) In my opinion the true elite of this scene are those
people who started everything. For example Steve/
ex-Zenith/ex-AVT is true elite in my eyes as he was
one of the very first 64 dudes to start calling ameri-
can boards for free. True elite is for example also a
group such as M.O.N. as they earned a hell of money
with something they did anyway. First they did tunes
for demos and later on for games and got money for
it. In my eyes everybody who contributed something
decent to this scene is elite. Today there's nearly
nobody left who can contribute something outstand-
ing/new to this scene (besides the demo scene).

* What is your honest opinion of this magazine? Why
do you hold this opinion?

:) I like Relax a lot, well, I liked the last issue a lot. I
wish you guys would release it a bit more regular,
without such major delays!

* If you had to re-enter the scene again and you
could become anything, what would you become?

:) I would become a Ntsc-fixer! That's what the scene
needs most these days. I know so many games that
never got released Pal/Ntsc. If Pudwerz would call
me today and would tell me he wants to start fixing
again I easily could give him 15-20 games.

* What have been the best and the worst times for
you in the scene and why?

:) The worst times were those when I got busted by
the cops. But I always got out of it very easy. No-
thing [eriously happend to me as they never could
prove me wrong. The best times I have ever had
were e^ents like the ETCS show in London last year
and the Tribute party 1994. It's great to sit there
with scene people you know since years but never
met before. You meet them for the first time in
your life, have some beers with them, smoke some
weed and all of a sudden e.g. Newscopy and me grab
2 guitars and start playing some weird stuff. The
others sing along and create own texts. It's very
hard to explain a situation like this... it's so strange..
you know those people for years and years and now
you mets them for the first time in your life. Lately
Motley called the BBSes again after a short break
and posted something like this..'Hi Deff.. Hi Freestyle
I love you!' I know it sounds stupid but thtat's the
way it(is. It's great to have real friends in this
scene and not only group mates or contacts. That's
maybe one of the big secrets (?) of Avantgarde.
AVT is a group of friends and not only a group of
computer addicts.

* What parties have you made your presence felt
at?

:) The very first real party I attended was the
Powerrun and Xades Society party where the police
showed up. No, I guess it must have been the Fant-
asy Cracking Service party. Whatever... later on I
showed up at the monthly Venlo meeting from time to
time. Most likely to spread the new issue of Mamba.
Well, I also have been to a Radwar party and a lame
G*P party. Last year I went to London to the ECTS
show in London and to Sweden to Tribute 1994. This
year you can meet me at the TRC+SCS+Focus party
and if money allows me I will also travel to London
again in September 1995.

* What is next on the table of contents for AVT and
what can we expect from you personally?

:) Avantgarde won't improve much. At least we don't
plan somehting special right now. We already order-
ed a Ntsc commie for Jack Alien and Suicide of AVT
which we maybe already received when you read
this. We are also planning to release one demo but
till now never had the time for it. One day you'll see
an AVT demo, I'm sure.

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==Interview Part 2==
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Part 2 of the interview with Deff af Avantgarde
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* How could the Relax be improved as a magazine?

:) You could at least release it every 3 months!

* Do you own any other computer system? What do
you think about other computer systems?

:) When you read this I already should have recieved
the Super NES I ordered. I don't know if that's my
future. We will see... but for sure I will stick to the
good old 64 till its bitter end.

* Did you ever have remarkable quarrels in your
64 career?

:) I once had some small quarrels with Syndicate. I
got interviewed in german TV along with Mario van
Zeist and we both spoke against Nazi software.
Syndicate surely didn't like what I said, called me up
and wanted to beat me up. Well, that was the first
and last time he ever spoke to me.

* Well, thanks for your time Mario and I know you
are busy so I will let you go now, any last words?

:) Well, nope. I just want to greet all my friends in
this scene. You know who you are...
* Thanks for the interesting interview, thanks.

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Interview by Marc of Alpha Flight
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==Demo Reviews==
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* Demo Reviews *
------------------------------------------------------------
Atleast we would like to present the reviews from the
demoes released at "The Party IV", held once again
in the cold Denmark and to be more precise, once
again in the Messecentre of Herning.

The pBM 64 demo scene seems to slow down rapidly,
more rapidly as we like to see that. Furthermore a
lot of people seem to prefer fake productions instead
of trying their best to present a remarkable demo.
Hopefully the spirits of innovation and inspiration will
return to the major programmers of the currently
top ranked teams. Atleast it is up to you if there will
be another competition for the CBM 64 at "The Party
IV" or only for the 16/32 bit machines like the Amiga
or the PC (Intel outside!). Both systems seems to be
cool, but the best scene can be still offered to the
CBM 64 owners, evenHif it is not that cool like in th
good old past and lost of lot of its magic.

Anyway, let us start over with the reviews instead of
wasting more bytes with useless small talk:

Access denied/Reflex
------------------------------------------------------------
Last year the jury did not accept Reflex's contribu-
tion for "The Party III" called "Cafe Odd". This year
they returned to get their well deserved revenge, a
demonstration called "Access denied".
The programming got preformed by Guru, Quiss and
Zorc while Mistadobalina wrote the load-routine for
the demo.
They presented everything that has to be a part of
an upper quality demo like Cursor mutation, realtime
grid, morphing vectorbobs, rotating interlace zoomer
complex plasma, 1001 bobchars, metamorphosis, gra-
vity bobs, complex fullscreen vector, textured vec-
tor, rotating landscape and exoterristic plotter rou-
tines in order to impress the audience at the party!
Rating: 90%

The graphics were drawn by Felidae, Warp and PVT
using all the current graphic formats (modes) avail-
able these days. The most impressing picture can be
found in the end part with an excellent graffitystyled
Reflex logo and some dolphins.
Rating: 85%

The soundtrack was composed by PVCF, who has
shown all his variations while using a lot of different
modes. The digitized introduction music remembered
me on the marvellous Cycleburner tracks.
Rating: 82%

Summary: Reflex provided another nice trackmo com-
bined with great coding and nice graphics and musics
Without any doubts this demonstration is one of the
highlights of 1994, together with the "World of Code"
series from Byterapers and "Coma Light 12" from
Oxyron.

Year of the Ankh/Focus
------------------------------------------------------------
The dutch pride returned with a small graphic-show
to remember the audience that they are still alive and
to make some advertisement for their soon cooming
and mega-delayed demo called Visual Delight II.

The programming got performed by X-Byte. There is
nothing special shown so there is nothing to be talked
about.
Rating: 70%

The graphics were drawn by Compyx, the absolute no
one in the logo and charset business in my opinion.
Just have a look at his art.
Rating: 85%

The music was composed by MCA as an audial support
for the slideshow using a normal player.
Rating: 74%

Summary: Focus is still alive and kicking. There is
something to expect from this talented team. Be sure
to visit their party in April 1995, held in Utrecht. My
regards must be sent to Mirage as I had the pleasure
to see some paper art from him. He is definately the
best artist I have met so far, and I have present at
the major conventions for the CBM 64 the last two
years.

Bla Bla/Censor
------------------------------------------------------------
There is no need to introduce Censor. Censor always
stands for cool demoes, nice effects, cool graphics
and excellent musics.

The coding got performed by (moi) BOB. He presented
the third varification of his bitmap manipulation rou-
tine. It looks quite nice but Tough presented a similar
scene some months ago while Bob's routine looks de-
finately more smooth.
Rating: 87%

The soundtrack was composed by Swallow and is, like
usual, an 8-bit digi sample. After having heard it for
some minutes it is getting more and more boring.
Rating: 78%

Summary: Censor used this file as a kind of preview
for their upcoming demo called "Spasmolytic No. 02".
Releasing that part as a kind of preview makes me
getting more and more nervous as there must come
something outstanding in the future.

Brutal Comeback/Light
------------------------------------------------------------
After the success from Brutality there was nothing
but silence from the swedish legend. Light surprised
the audience with some old, but still stunning parts.

The programming got performed by Flamingo, Waco
and Yabba. They presented, next to the standart
intro, a raytraced scroller with a moving chessboard
which looked quite impressing for the fact that the
routine (part) is said tp be two years old. Further-
more they have shown that they are able to handle
transforming vector routines and the highlight of
the demonstration was for sure their Doom-clone. It
was for sure the best version I have seen so far.
Rating: 89%

The graphics were drawn by Goblin, Scooby and Yab-
ba. To be honest, none of the graphics came up to the
actual standart but look quite nice for 1992.
Rating: 67%

The soundtrack was arranged by Bappalander, Danko
M. Galway and R. Hubbard. There was no exclusive tu-
nes used, most of the are ancient but still cool!
Rating: 81%

Summary: It is nice to see them returning to the CBM
64. The proved that their coders are still able to com
pete with today's top programmers while their artists
(and composers) should improve a little bit when they
are still around because most of the graphics have
been used in previous demoes some years ago.

Dein Zycrex/Antic
------------------------------------------------------------
Antic improved a lot in their latest productions. This
is another example for their risen standart after the
demo "Lunacy 6 - the lost sequal".

The programming was performed, as usual, by Depeh,
containing an intro and the main part, the Doom-clone
The Doom-clone was realised in FLI using 16 colours
and it, according to the authors, realtime.
Rating: 85%

The graphics were drawn by Creeper and he deser-
ves it to be called one of the best artists around
these days. There was only one picture in standart
bitmap format, but what to you see is high quality.
Rating: 83%

The soundtrack was arranged by Zyron. It is nice to
see how he improved all over the years and the pro-
gress can be heard in this production, too.
Rating: 82%

Summary: The intr< and the main routine looks quite
promising, unfortunately the movement in the Doom-
clone is getting very boring after some seconds as
everything looks equal and the audience might get the
feeling that they are watching always the same. All in
all I prefer the Light routine while this one offers for
sure much more colours.
Courtesy of Soviet/Wrath
------------------------------------------------------------
Wrath Design are well known for nice demoes with
nice effects, graphics and musics. This demo proves
it once again in an impressing way.

The coding was performed by Ed, the twin brother of
Joe. There are only a few remarkable effects worth
being mentioned, like Landscape fractals, big balls,
fractal generated flowers, lightsource/shade effects
and the picture rotator routine.
Rating: 75%

The graphics were drawn or manufactured from Joe,
Black Droid and TMT. The graphics are responsible
for this demo being something special. Just have a
look on the dozens of quality graphics, even if there
are sometimes some really weird colour combinations
used.
Rating: 91%

The soundtrack was arranged by PRI/Tia/Oxyron.
It has the very own PRI-style and you have to love
or to hate it. The majority loves it, we do , and hope
to hear a lot of outstanding tunes from him in 1995
again.
Rating: 89%

Summary: It is a demo with some nice graphics or is
it a slideshow with coding elements? Nevertheless
WD calls their production a Chill-mo, something to re-
lax and to enjoy.

The Masque/Oxyron
------------------------------------------------------------
Some magazines reported about the death of this top
demo group but Oxyron proved them to be wrong
again.

The coding was performed by Graham. He impressed
the audience with another fire-effect, the best rea-
lised so far on the CBM 64. Further an impressive
rotzoomer and the fast linevector routine on the CBM
64 was shown.
Rating: 78%
The graphics were drawn by Biz-Kid, Cruise and RRR
Biz-Kid did a standart logo, Cruise an average logo
an outstanding interlace picture and a big font while
RRR was responsible for the 1x2 charset in the intro
and the expanded 1x1 charset in the interlace picture
part.
Rating: 72%

The soundtrack was, unusual for Oxyron, not arran-
ged by PRI but from Lords of Sonic and A-Man/Avt.
Both tracks are old but still cool.
Rating: 71%

Summary: The only reason for the release of the
demo was to show that Oxyron is still alive. They pro-
duced once again some impressing routines even if
the length of the demo and the missing own sound-
track could be improved in the upcoming productions

Last but not least I would like to present the results
of the competition of "The Party IV" here:

1. Reflex "Access denied"
2. Light "Brutal Comeback"
3. Wrath "Courtesy of Soviet"

Be sure to reload this chapter in the next issue, too.

Best regards,
RRR/Oxyron

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==Party Report==
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* Partyreport *
------------------------------------------------------------
Every year's highlight is ofcause the traditional
christmas party held in Herning/Denmark. Each year
around 2.500 computer and mainly scene freaks fol-
lowed the invitation and travelled to the partyplace,
packed their computer equipment and other useful
things to guarantee another successful convention.

We decided to review the party from the sight of a
normal CBM 64 user and decided to cover our sym-
pathy for the Amiga. We have to report that there is
a lack of support for the little Commodore these days
not only from the organisers' side but aswell from the
small amount of CBM 64
Another disappointing result, comparable with the
amount of visitors of THE TRIBUTE in Sweden, let us
count around 174 more or less well known sceners.
Having the lack of visitors in mind one question has
to come up - will there be another CBM 64 supported
christmas party next year? We hope the best as it is
always a big fun and a chance to communicate with
your friends, contacts, idols or enemies.

* The Organisation *
------------------------------------------------------------
Once again Camelot accepted the challenge and was
the official CBM 64 arranger of The Party IV. Origi-
nally there was an independent CBM 64 and PC party
planned but due to the fact that the sponsors deci-
ded to skip their plans and to invest their money
somewhere else Camelot and Bonzai (PC) teamed up
with the Amiga arrangers to guarantee another huge
party.

Camelot has not put much effort into the organisation
based on last year's bad experiences with the Amiga
organisers. This caused that most of the CBM 64 re-
servations were not accepted nor archived at the
party registration so most of the commodore sup-
porting visitors had to search a place on their own
risk to argue with the guys having reservations or
had to accept a table in the second hall, far away
from the party action and the big screen.

The washing facilities (showers) and toilets had an
acceptable standart and the clean-up service did
always a very good job. Furthermore no detectable
electricy problems have been discovered.
The prices for food were alright but the prices for
softdrinks like i.e. Coca Cola have been definately
much too high as $5,00 for 1.5 litres is not what we
understand as cheap.

The competitions for the 16/32 bit machines had a lot
of interferences based on technical failures. The PC
demo competition and an Amiga competition had to be
shown twice to guarantee working contributions while
the CBM 64 demoes were recorded onto a VHS video
tape what destroyed i.e. the sound in the Padua demo
All in all the organisation was average and no one
started to wear stickers like "Shoot the organisers"
like in 1992.
The Messecenter Herning is a very confortable and
new building, so there is no doubt that it is a perfect
place and the biggest center in Skandinavia. When the
organisers are able to guarantee cheaper softdrink
prices and to fix their equipment there is nothing left
to blame.

* The Competitions (CBM 64) *
------------------------------------------------------------
Officially there was only a demo competition for the
CBM 64 but Genesis (the remaining rest?) arranged
both, a music and graphic competition.
The demo competition was at an acceptable standart
but last year's competition was much better in my
opinion, even if some glory names like Padua, Censor,
Reflex, Antic, Light and Wrath put in their contribu-
tions.
It was sad to see some fakedemoes competing there
once again. Big parties that show all demoes on the
big screen offer the possibility to impress other
computer system fans but those kind of demoes make
them laughing about this old but still beloved machine.

Reflex was a worthy winner presenting the best demo
over there (for more details please read the review
chapter) and Light had a successful comeback.
The results of the competition looks like:
* Demo Competition *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. Reflex "Access denied"
2. Light "Brutal Comback"
3. Wrath "Courtesy of Soviet"

* Graphic Competition * * Music Competition *
------------------------------------------------------------
1. PVT/Reflex 1. Fanta/Plush/Bass
2. Scope/F4CG 2. PVCF/Reflex
3. Sinister/Extacy 3. Zyron/Antic/TR

Hopefully next time more well known demo groups will
compete, otherwise there is no hope left for the CBM
64 in our opinion.
* The Audience *
------------------------------------------------------------
Even if the quantity was not so big the quality of the
visitors have meet the approval. We have meet Trap/
Bonzai there, Mirage and TDJ/Focus, CBA, Night-
shade, Specatator and Splatterhead/Scs&TRC, Syco/
Chromance, Lemming, Styx and Ream/Alpha Flight,
Jack Alien and Intruder/Avantgarde, Jeff, Kring,
Neptune and Slammer/Camelot, Flamingo and Goblin/
Light, Syndrom/TIA/Crest, Asmodis, Graham, RRR,
Slide and TTS/Oxyron, Ramirez/Hardcore, Mr. Friese
and Stan/Equinoxe, Caprice Design and Fanta/Plush,
Anonym and Creat/Padua, BOB and Swallow/Censor,
Ed/Wrath, Fatman/Dytec, Avanlance/Atlantis, Acid-
child/Taboo, Felidae, PVCF, PVT and Quiss/Reflex,
Newscopy and Scope/F4CG, Calypso (in Alpha Flight,
too) and Seal/Amnesia aswell as Airwolf, Aslive and
Mr. Mister who got kicked out of the party from the
organisers as boozing was stricly forbidden at the
party.
For sure a lot of other folks has been present there
but these few are the most important persons and to
be honest, the only ones we remember to have meet
there. -------

* Summary *
------------------------------------------------------------
Well, discussing the positive and negative aspects we
came to the result that it was a cool party. We have
meet some of our best friends and had a lot of fun
while we have filled our floppy disks and harddisk
with really great productions from the major compu-
ter systems these days (Amiga, PC and CBM 64). Be
sure to visit this party in 1995 to guarantee some
more support for the CBM 64.

The next promising party is going to be held in the
Netherlands by Success & TRC and Focus in April'95
to be more exactly the date was setted on 22nd and
23rd in Utrecht.
Following please find the digital version of the actual
flyer being spread by SCS&TRC and Focus.

Since it is a CBM 64 and PC party only we expect a
major commodore party.
* X-95 *
------------------------------------------------------------
A party by Success, TRC and Focus
PC and C64

Another party brought to you by the organisers of
the first Silicon parties. W have the same place to our
exposal so you know what to expect. The entrance
fee will amount 25 guilders (Dutch money only). We
are opened from Saturday 13.00 (01.00 p.m.) to 17.00
(05.00 p.m.) Sunday hours.
This flyer is not the final version of the note since
some things have not been arranged yet. That's also
the reason why we can't tell you how high the demo
prices will be. The best thing to do is wait for the
official party invitation which will be released on both
PC and C64 soon.

This party will feature:
a demo competition for PC and C64
a performance by Jeroen Tel
a lot of C64 celebrities from the past
a cosy partyplace
a place to watch video
a sleeping area
and a lot more

Competition rules
A demo for the PC and C64 may not exceed 5 minutes
Every group can participate with as many demos as
they want but only one per coder. This demo must not
be released yet.

Reservations
You must make reservations as the party place will
gives room to about 300 persons. You must send (or
upload) your name, handle, group, place and country
to the following addresses:

E-Mail XXX*XXXXXX.XX (* = $00, alphazero sign)
XXXXXXXXXX.XXX.XX

Boards Kaoz Landz (PC): XXXXX-XXXXX
The Lost Empire (C64): XXXXX-XXXXX

or send a letter to: XXX
XXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX

Or call the partyplace itself on friday from 20.00
(08.00 p.m.) till 24.00 (12.00 p.m.) CET on
+XX/(X)XX-XXXXXX
for more information (do NOT call on any other day
or time specified!).
More info will be found in X-95.zip and the C64 note
which will be released soon.

Best regards,
RRR/Oxyron
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