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INTERVIEW

Hi and welcome to one of the most read chapters(?)
again. We're here live at the X'95 Party in Utrecht
and i got my fingers on the one and only

MORRIS OF F4CG

Now,we're both pretty tired,so maybe you just start
introducing yourself to the audience:

- Hi and welcome. My REAL name's Paul and my handle
is Morris. I'm in F4CG since... well, I don't remember
exactly the moment I have joined the crew...
I'm almost 21 years old, I'm 181 cm tall, I got dark
hair and an ugly face. What more... I'm not OK yet,
coz I got a bit drunk last night... nahh... Your turn

Well,hey,i guess everybody was... Anyway,you are
one of the outstanding Toolcoders these days,and
i also seen some Games from you,what do you pre-
fer,coding demos,games or tools,or is it noncom -
parable?

- Demos? Are you kidding? Nahh, not this kind of
stuff. I just code some intros, that's all. Amd of
coz the tools, which are my favorite :)  Well, maybe
a game from time to time. At the moment I'm doing
my SECOND game which is gonna look a bit like
Penguin Tower (the idea is the same), but we have
much cooler graphics and the music is also great.
In fact you cannot compare coding the game to
coding a tool or a demo. It's different (as far as I
know).

Well,about demos again,i once saw a demo by Sunga
with coding performed by you,was this just a fun
project,or did you do it because of being in that
group? By the way,which groups have you been in so
far?

- OK, first to the Sunga demo... The whole idea was
born on the party in Poland when the two great
(in my opinion) graphicians saw the book named
"This book sucks" written by Beavis &amp; Butt-Head.
They (Latifah and Dickens) decided to paint the
3-picture animation and they asked me to do the
coding for this demo, coz I'm a member of the fake
crew Sunga.
Ayuh, the groups I've been in... It all started back
in September of 1992 when I joined the group named
Agnus (Sunga is the reverse name). Then after
about 3 months I left'em to join up with a kind of
an unknown crew named Lords Of Darkness. Then
in April of 1993 I joined up with the guys in Extacy
(and the girl, as Cupid says) and after some time
I left Lords Of Darkness. Then around November
some guys left Extacy and I became one of the
two new leaders. Then in January'94 my friend
asked me to join Agony, a Polish demo-crew and
I did. Then I left Extacy in April (or so) of 1994
and after some time I was asked to join F4CG and
I did. As simple as that.

Now,to get rid of some cliches again,how about your
favourite...

Demogroup:  Taboo and Censor
Graphician:   Cupid of coz :) nahh, Latifah of coz!
Crackinggroup:  guess which one?
Cracker: I don't have a fav cracker...
Musician: Jeff/Camelot, Syndrom/TIA, and Drax
Contact: I don't have much contacts so... Well,
maybe my groupmates in Agony
Mag: Skyhigh???? Nahh (sorry), it's been Ingenious
Brain (now Shout!)
Food: pizza (what did you expect?)
Drink: non-alc: coca cola, alc: beer

Well,that's enough about that. You already talked
about your futureplans gamewise,how about some
legal releases? I guess with you,Devil and Draz tea-
ming up with F4CG,even an legal section may be pos-
sible,or?

- Not really, a legal section of F4CG? Kidding?
But as Devil &amp; Draz joined the crew we may produce
some demos in the future (we got one here)

Really? Will it be released here or some time l8r?

- Here at the compo

Now,speaking as a coder,do you still think,that there
are some new aims,or is the C64 looted out to it's
most interior? Are new effects to come,or will there
be a stagnation soon?

- I told you that I don't code demos, so... Well,
anyway, I don't know what is about to come... Maybe
some guy will invent 4096 NON interlaced colors on
the C64 :)

A dream come true for us Graphicians... Well,i think
that we covered the demo business long enough now,
how about tools? What's your opinion about expan-
sions and the ever so hyped Flash 8?

- I'd like to have one of these (REU or Flash 8).
There are more'n more tools for the REU, I think
it is the future.

Now then,those TRSI guys next to us are very loud,
that's why we better stop here,i just thank you for
the Interview,and now the Stage is yours to give out
some greetings or advertising...

- OK, I'll make it quick, as the democompo starts in
a few minutes. So, my greets go to The Interviewer,
all the F4CG guys I have met on the party (and
those I haven't), the Agony crew, Caine of
ex-Creatures for taking me to the party,  Syco of
Chromance for some Dutch money and some more
I have forgotten at the mo' (as always).

F4CG - Natural Born Crackers


TIME TO LOAD ANOTHER ONE