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a lot of interesting things happened du-
ring the past few weeks. a certain lamer
tried  to sneak into our group, my acci-
dent,  the lack of calling cards, and so
on. that is the reason for editing a 2nd
chapter  this  issue in order to present
some  fair  journalism compared with en-
tertaining, sarcastic sequences in order
to  express my opinion as author. i know
that texts written in disk-magazines can
influence  the  readers  so i kindly ask
you  to  compare  all  articles with the
content of other magazines, to prove the
facts and to make up your own opinion to
be  sure about getting the best possible
supply while reading this magazine.

well, i have thought about the future of
this chapter, too. a lot of people might
feel  offended while reading those lines
but  be  sure  about  that it is nothing
personal that motivated me to edit these
lines,  it is one statement that is lea-
ding  my behaviour: information wants to
be  free.  in my opinion an every reader
has  the  right  to get informed without
reading  a  censored magazine. ofcause i
could  easily stop causing trouble while
taking  one or two stories out but would
this  be  fair?  a lot of sceners are in
the need of the information written down
in  the  magazines and to make sure that
all  people  all  over  the world can be
sure  of  this i decided to edit all the
articles  in  order  to  supply you with
background information, information most
of today's magazines are not able to get
without  the help of dozens of informers
who are often not very reliable.

the  cbm  64  scene is only a hobby like
soccer  is for me aswell. i do not spent
too  much time infront of my both compu-
ters  in comparison with the majority of
the scene even if it might looks like. i
think  the scene is some kind of secret,
hidden world you can dive in if you like
to  relax  from  the  stress of the real
life, but it is definately no substitude
for  it.  spending a lot of years in the
scene  makes  me  think about the time i
might  have wasted but i do not think it
was wasted. i made a lot of experiences,
ofcause  positive and negative ones, and
would like to present some examples:
a  lot of guys are complaining about the
behaviour of the so-called elite guys so
they start to shout sentences like: that
elite  guy thinks that he is cool but in
real  life he seems to be a total loser.
here  i would like to complain about the
person  who said this. is it proved that
the  elite  guy is a loser in real life?
it is possible that the person that said
this  wanted  to  hide his own faults in
order  to gain some attention and to get
more  known (=getting a better status in
the scene?)? it is proved that this per-
son  is not a kind of loser in real life
and wants to get well known? is it possi
ble  that  this person is jealous on the
success of the elite guy?
unfairness  is  something that should be
hated  not only from side. soccer can be
a fine sports until somebody is tackling
you and one of your legs got broken. ok,
that is a part of it, but wouldn't it be
more  enjoyable  without fouls? wouldn't
the  scene be more enjoyable if everyone
would accept the status of the other men
and  women around? ofcause there are al-
ways  differences  between the abilities
and  knowledge  but  is  it  a reason to
attack  each other? the problem is often
that  most  of  the offences did not get
started from the so-called elite as they
do not need to gain more attention. most
offences got started from the small guys
to gain attention and to get more known.
don't  you  trust your own skills? don't
you  think  it  is possible to climb the
ladder of success in a fair way? most of
today's  elite  are  about four years in
the  business  so be sure that they have
more  experience  and  knowledge  due to
their  work all over the years. this ex-
periences  can't  be  made  within a few
short  months.  it would be nice if some
of you start thinking about the previous
line and to send in your intention about
it.

after  this endless monologue it it time
to continue with the business text.


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at first i would like to add that i like
that magazine - atleast a little bit. it
makes  me  thinking about its' content -
and that is very important in my opinion
i  am getting some inspirations if there
is  something  i  would like to correct,
for the readerships' and for my very own
pleasure. i like to see the editorial of
the  tribute  reading and thinking about
my  intentions presented in the skyhigh,
and  i  like to read their reactions. it
is by far a good thing for both sides as
there  is  always  something to complain
and to discuss about. please keep always
in  mind  it  is nothing personal, it is
the  pleasure  to discuss that motivates
me.  atleast it is based onto a friendly
niveau  and  i  hope we can hold up this
standart.
the  endless  discussion seems to become
a  regular  part of my chapter but as an
every  story  has  two  sides it is very
important to read and understand my ver-
sion in order to be updated and well in-
formed.

comparing  the issues of two competeting
magazines  in addiction to several disk-
notes  spread  around made me very inte-
rested  in  the hot tempered discussion.
my  results can be checked while proving
the sources so this was a very objective
result  in  my opinion. maybe i prefered
to read the pulse magazine but the facts
are reality in my point of view.

furthermore the outfit of both magazines
has  been  judged  on the programm code,
the  graphics and the musics. the menues
of  both  magazines look very simple but
useful.  the only things to mention here
are  that  the  graphic in the pulse was
much better (drawn by kring/camelot) but
the  charset used was hard to read. that
reaction  came from the majority aswell.
the text display routine in the pulse is
offering fullscreen proportional charset
texts  while the tribune used an average
40 chars wide upscroller (like this one)
what is no big deal in my eyes. fact is,
from  the eye of an editor, that the or-
dinary  40 chars display routine is much
more  user-friendly  while  editing  the
chapters  as  i have experience with so-
called  proportional  charset editors of
"vandalism news", "update", "news press"
and  "relax".  in  comparison with those
editors i really enjoy to work with this
utility,  the texteditor v2.0 created by
dagger of atrix, which offers everything
to  guarantee  the  possible  options to
edit texts on cbm 64.
the music in the pulse was in my opinion
better  then the musics used in the tri-
bune  so far but this seems to be a sub-
ject  where  we will never come to a sa-
tisfying result. i guess taste is diffe-
rent and that might be the reason for it
so there is nothing to be cleared up. by
the  way, i have not only refered to the
last two issues of tribune when i repor-
rted  about ripped musics. to inform the
readers  it  is  important to publish my
statements correctly.

just to reflect your intention about the
musics  used  in skyhigh i have to point
out  that musicians get a chance to pre-
sent their work to a bright mass of rea-
ders, an audience that unknown composers
maybe  would not reach with their musics
being used in their own productions only
so  they  have the chance to become more
popular and to earn some votes.
we  care about the musical background as
we  are  checking all soundtracks before
they  are  going to be used as they have
to  reach a standart in order to come up
to the level of the skyhigh.
not  only unknown musicians but a lot of
well  known musicians started to compose
a  lot  of excellent tunes for our maga-
zine  so  far, like i.e. red devil/fair-
light,  the  syndrom/tia/crest, pri/tia/
oxyron, peace/noice, echo/equinoxe, only
to name a few.
to  complete  this  i  would like to add
that  we are spreading all the tracks as
external files in order that our readers
are  able to use them into their diskno-
tes  and  that the composers are getting
more  and  more known, do not forget the
attention  they  are  gaining with their
tunes  being spread in a well-spread ma-
gazine. that is ofcause only possible if
there  is  some memory left on the disk.
it  is a special service for our readers
that  they are able to choose one of the
tracks  they prefer so they are not for-
ced  to  listen to a track that comes up
to our taste.
here i would like to reflect your atten-
tion to "tunehigh", dedicated to all the
musicians  that  supported "skyhigh" all
over  the  issues,  released in order to
celebrate their work.
here i would like to request very kindly
who is ripping off the musicians?

concerning your graphics problem i liked
to  read your intention about me drawing
some  graphics for your magazine. as you
can  see in all of my adverts in the se-
veral diskmagazines i am selling (game-)
graphics  for reasonable prices. samples
of  my  work  can be judged in magazines
like  "vandalism  news" and "domination"
and in actual intros from "alpha flight"
and in forthcoming productions from well
known  groups  like "palace" and "dytec"
only  to  name  a few. do not forget the
soon  coming  oxyron  demonstrations  on
the cbm 64 and on the amiga!
without  any doubts your graphical level
would  rise.  i hope you won't misunder-
stand  the previous lines but everything
has  its price these days and due to the
fact  that  my car got destroyed i am in
the  need of money. no hard feelings! at
the  moment i am very busy with creating
game graphics for atleast for games so i
definately  have  no  sparetime left for
non-commercial graphics these days.

ofcause  i  do not expect the readership
sharing  my  ideas  and intentions but i
use this media to inform everyone in the
cbm  64  about  unregularities  in  this
scene  that  used to be much better some
years  ago.  the  information i am going
to  place  here are ofcause in many opi-
nions  very  subjective but here i would
like  to  recall you that there is defi-
nately no objective magazine around. al-
ways keep in mind that the magazines are
edited  by groups and all the groups are
using  their  magazine  to present their
propaganda  and the spread their opinion
to manipulate the readership!

to come to an end i would like to advice
you  not  missing  the follow-ups in the
next  issues  of both magazines, as this
discussion might never end.

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well,  like said in the previous chapter
i own around 10 mb of text sources about
hacking  and phreaking and i am thinking
about  releasing some old but very inte-
resting textfiles.

the  content  of the files was found out
by the pioneers of hacking and phreaking
and  gives you a general view about that
business without diving to deep into the
history  of  h/p, that means i would not
spread  actual  calling  card numbers or
actual  frequncies in order support some
sceners  to  lead  them into the illegal
busines.

some  of  the textfiles reach back up to
1984  while  there  are others, like the
one  about how to use calling cards that
got leeched this summer.

if  you  are  interested in that kind of
text in your favourite magazine just let
us  know  so that we (the skyhigh staff)
are able to come up to your wishes.

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finally, after around 200 blocks of text
from  my side it is time to say good-bye
and to remember you to be sure about re-
loading  this chapter in the next issues
of skyhigh, too.

best regards,
              rrr/oxyron
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         - november 18th, 1994 -
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