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==TALES OF THE CREST==
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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THE CREST MAGAZINE staff collectively wishes a
happy new year to everyone who supported us
in the past and of course to all our readers!!
I hope that you'll support us also this year as
good as you can. Without you this magazine
wouldn't have become such a huge success....
THANKS A LOT!

                                   THE CREST
                                   --1998--





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                      - JANUARY EDITION -
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                      (c) 1998 by INDEPENDENT

                        THE JANUARY PREFACE
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Welcome to the january edition of THE CREST!
Your favourite monthly released magazine.................. This
edition should be the best and largest one in the
young history of this magazine! And with this edition
also some critics finally should be satisfied, eh ?!
Atleast the most of them! So, now that it's 7 months
ago since the very first issue of this magazine was
released, we think that it's time to tell you how it
all started off.. But don't believe everything that
you get to read in the following story. We don't
take any responsibility for eventually appearing
nightmares after reading this -our- story.. 8)

            THE CREST  MAGAZINE TALE
            --------------------------

This is the 7th issue of this still quite young maga-
zine. But how and why did it come that we decided
to give birth to another magazine into the rough
but also harmonic family of the 8-bit lunacy?!?
I'll try to give you all the details that my memory
still serves.....


THE STORY!......
----------------
In a hot summernight back in 1996 I had a strange
dream.... A mysterious figure said to me in a dark..,
uncomfortable voice: "You gotta do it!".....What?"
I asked with a frightened, nearly for mercy begging
voice.. The mysterious figure replied: "Do the
ultimate magazine together with your best scene-
friends!"..."The ultimate magazine?" I asked again
in that frightened voice... "YEAH, a magazine that
gets released every month and that has to be
INDEPENDENT and objective in any way!..."
Next morning I said to myself: "Ha, what a crazy
dream!" but things got even stranger.... A couple of
hours later I got a call from DODGER/DYTEC.... He told
about his dream and that HARDSEQUENCER/DYTEC also
had the same one.  "STOP FOOLING AROUND!" I said and
told him about my dream.. After some weeks I got a
strange sending with a strange message in form of
a transparent, of class consisting disc. (.)
My drive was absolutely going crazy, when I tried to
load the directory. Again and again I got an error
message... But suddenly the screen cleared by him-
self and there got written with huge letters:
"TYPE IN THE 8 MAGIC LETTERS!"...which 8 letters were
meant? After about thousand tries I accidently
typed in a strange sequence of letters... So, after
I typed in "THE CREST" I got to see some kind of
"Texteditor"...And there was written that this one
was coded by DODGER ...(this was really a suprise to
me!)... So, maybe it was DODGER, who spoke to me in
my dream? And was I the mysterious voice that spoke
to DODGER in his dream?..But who the hell was then
the one that spoke to HARDSEQUENCER in his dream?
Really strange happenings!!!
After trying out this supernatural texteditor, that
somehow had landed in my postbox, there happened
many strange things within the next few weeks....
In a short period of time I got 2-3 more packages
with extremely strange stuff..... Everyhing was coded
by DODGER, crossed with graphics by HARDSEQUENCER
and me.. After the project getting clearer shapes,
we started editing texts for the premier edition!...
In May 1997 it seemed that we could give birth to the
very first issue in June 1997.. But we had some
tremendous problems.... To be exact: TREMENDOUS TIME
PROBLEMS! So we decided to put the release date
again to the next month (July'97). But in the follow-
ing night we got again visited by this mysterious
figure in our dreams! It said with it's deep, croaking
voice: "I'll give you a last deadline! If you don't get
it managed to release the very first issue till......
..August, then your beloved 8-bit machines will burn
in hell!. So I couldn't sleep all night and called
DODGER immediatly to tell him about my dream and
it's consequences... But he and HARDSEQUENCER also
had this dream! Everyone of us worked like hell the
next few days... The texts flew into the c64's memory
just like by the hands of a ghost. After lots of
days of pressure we were proud to release our
premier edition!... And that was dated in July 1997!
Since then we neverever again    were haunted  by that
mysterious figure.. Our beloved computers were
saved of the hell's flames.. Thank god, it's all done
now, we said to ourselves. But had we really passed
all of it with the release of the very first edition?

The quest continues...

                 MAGAZINE NEWS
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Finally we found someone, who'll report about the
american-scene. He lives near New York City and is
a member of one of the currently most active
american-groups... Yeah of course we are talking
about no one less than the, in the demo and board
scene wellknown, UZZY of RPG!  Welcome to the staff!

Concerning any other aspects, the staff hasn't
changed compared to the former issues. But of
course MIDFIT/LEGEND isn't any longer a part of us,
as we kicked him last month....

Well, guess it's time for some magazine informations!

     >THE CREST<     HOUSE-STAFF    >THE CREST<
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     HARDSEQUENCER/DYTEC...... main editor
     DODGER/DYTEC............. main editor
     DANZIG/ALPHA FLIGHT...... co editor
     MITCH/CREST.............. audial reviewing
     UZZY/RPG................. us-corres.
     ZYRON/FFCG................audial reviewing
     SHOK'RAY/MEGASTYLE........ main editor

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     Thanks to all of you for the steady support
     and welcome to UZZY! ..Who'll support us
     from now on with the latest us-scene happ-
     enings...
     >THE CREST<      CONTENTS!     >THE CREST<
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     TALES OF THE CREST.............Editorial
     SCENE SPOTLIGHTER..............News'n'updates
     OVERSEA SCENE REPORT...........News from U.S.
     RULERS OF THE MONTH............Charts
     THE DECEMBER LIST............. Releasecharts
     SCAPEGOAT+ANDREAS-PROFILE      Interviews
     WORLD OF ARTS................. Graphic reviews
     CHARTS OF THE YEAR.............1997 Charts
     RELEASE LIST OF THE YEAR.......1997 Releasecharts
     THE CROWNING EVENT............ 1997 Awards
     THE CHRONIC'97................ 1997 Look back
     THE FUTUROLOGY................ 1998 Look out
     PARTY EVENT REPORT.............Party report
     THE BLACKBOARD.................Addresses

     >THE CREST<   BLACKBOARD         >THE CREST<
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     Snailmail:  XXXXXX XXXXXXX
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      E-mail:    DYTEC(at)HOTMAIL.COM

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     ..or leave e-mail on all the major us boards
     Also get in contact with us if you want to
     become a staff member, or you just want
     support us in any form!...


    >THE CREST<     HOUSE-SPREADERS   >THE CREST<
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    VIOLATOR/ALPHA FLIGHT......... official spreader
    WALKER/F.FOUR CRACKING GR..... official spreader
    H-BLOXX/EXCESS/ROLE........... official spreader
    FATMAN/DYTEC.................. spreader

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    Thanks a lot to you all above... And to all who,
    is spreading our magazine worldwide! ......
    And to all votesheet spreaders and fillers....
                                         THANK YOU!



We are coming closer to the end.......... But as always we
like to say thanks to:


BOB, ANONYM, AVALANCHE, SCROLL, DANZIG, THRONE,
SCAPEGOAT, ANDREAS, CHAOTIC, UZZY, D'ARC, MORPHEUS,
DUKE, GROEPAZ, DEPEH, EINSTEIN, SEBALOZ, BURGLAR,
SPACE ROY, VIOLATOR.......
And to all who supported us in any way, but don't
want to or can't be mentioned here.

So, that's all for this edition... Let's hope that this
year (1998) will bring us more releases from both
parts of the scene (legal and illegal) than the last
one. Also the action on the major euro/us boards
could be better... So, all of you who waste their ......
time in the Internet and preach that there aren't
any possibilities left to call out. I can only say:
Try to find new ways to call out for free!
The boards are just a part of the scene as well
as cracks, demos or whatever....

See you all next month!

all the best from SHOK'RAY/MEGASTYLE
                  ----JBK DESIGN-----



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                  (c) THE CREST 1998
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==SCENE SPOTLIGHTER==
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              SCENE SPOTLIGHTER
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Welcome to one of the most popular chapters in
today's magscene.
It's also the first NEWS chapter in THE CREST in the
new year 1998.
As expected there happened a quite nice newsflash
short before and after Christmas time. There
happened some really surprising things in the last
month of 1997 and in the beginning of 1998!
To be sure that all news from your group can be

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mentioned in this chapter, we need your help.
You can get in touch with us through all well-known
media-ways or on the major us-baorrds.
Just try HARDSEQUENCER's address:
                 XXXXXX XXXXXXX
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                 XXXXX XXXXXX
                 XXXXXXX


           Or E-mail him at: DYTEC(at)HOTMAIL.COM

Would be nice to hear something concerning news
from some more guys...

                                    SHOK'RAY/MSP
                                    -------------------
ALPHAFLIGHT 1970                      [ger, hol, us....]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
New members: SKID ROW, ANCIENT MARINER
Gone ones..: -

Boards.....: THE EVIL ISLAND   +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX WHQ
             ESCAPADE          +XX-XXXX-XXXXXX EHQ
             ANTIDOTE          +XX-XXX-XXXXX   SHQ

ANCIENT MARINER returned to the scene and put his
board online again. So finally they got with THE EVIL
ISLAND again a WHQ in the States.
SKID ROW, who recently left the F4CG posse, returned
to his old friends in AFL.


Memberstatus:
----------------
ALG, ANCIENT MARINER, ARCHANGEL, ARGOS, BALDHEAD,
CALEDONIAN, CHASH, CHRYSAGON, DANZIG, ECO,
GOLDHAND, IGNORANCE, LYNCHBIT, MAD HATTER, MARC,
NED, RAYDEN, SKID ROW, STYX, THe HERETIC, VIOLATOR,
WIZARD, XENOX, ZAPOTEK, ZATT


FAIRLIGHT                            [swe, den, ger....]
--  ---------------------------------------------- --
New members: CROSSFIRE, DRUID, DUKE, GOAT, L. A.
             STYLE, MENDRAKE, SUN DANCER
Gone ones....: GUM, HOLLOWMAN, LOGGER, ROOSTER,
               WIGGEN, BACCHUS

Boards.........: THE DRAGONS TOWER +XX-XXXX-XXXXXXX EHQ
                 THE HIDDEN        +XX-XXXX-XXXX    GHQ

This legendary group went through really massive
changes within the last four/five weeks.
First of all DUKE came together with SUN DANCER, who
left SCS +TRC, to take over the leadership in FLT.
So, DUKE is now the leader of the group and SUN
DANCER the leader of the legal section.
CROSSFIRE came from MOTIV8 came to enlarge their
illegal section and take over the leadership there.
All three together they already managed to release
the very first issue of their magazine SCENE+, which
was released on the first day in 1998 and seems to
be a sequel to the old THE PULSE magazine.
Later also other guys from MOTIV8 (GOAT, MENDRAKE
and L. A. STYLE) came to FLT.
L. A. STYLE put his board THE HIDDEN online again,
which works as german headquarter for the group.
Old but gold cracker BACCHUS decided to want to be
deleted from the active memberstatus and gave the
leadership over to DUKE, who then made his first
decisions and kicked out the former guys from  ALTER
called GUM, HOLLOWMAN, ROOSTER and WIGGEN, even
though they joined the crew just only one month
ago.
LOGGER, who was ment to stay in FLT, decided to
leave the group again due to some problems with
DUKE.
Also DRUID decided to join FLT as his 2nd group,
after he left his former 2nd one CHROMANCE.
There are rumours going around that DEEKAY might
join FLT as 2nd group after he left ONSLAUGHT.
But nothing is sure until now. .

Memberstatus:
---------------
CROSSFIRE, DEEKAY, DRUID, DUKE, GOAT, HARLEKIN,
L. A. STYLE, LIGHTSIDE, MENDRAKE, RED DEVIL, ROWDY,
SLEDGE, SUN DANCER, VDK, WATCHMAN


FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP         [swe, aut, bel...]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
New members: BA, GIPSY
Gone ones..: MAJA

FTP-Site...: INTERPARKbbs.cc.uniud.it
MAJA left them and it seems the scene too... .
But with BA and GIPSY they got also some fresh
blood. GIPSY is an american supplier and he'll usually
work together with their american cracker FUNGUS.
B.A. is an older cracker who returned some time ago.
Btw, last month we wrote that SKID ROW was kicked
out of F4CG. That was wrong.. He left by his own
decision!

Memberstatus:
---------------
B.A., BITMAN, DESPAIR, DEVIL, FUNGUS, GOZ, GIPSY,
INTRUDER, MOTLEY, MR. ALPHA, NEOTEC, NEWSCOPY,
PLAYBOY, SKID ROW, SLIVER, SMASHER, SNEAPER, SOLAR,
STASI, TOTAL CHAOS, WALKER, ZYRON


HITMEN                               [ger, us, swe.....]
--  --------------------------------------------- --
New members: -
Gone ones..: JACK ALIEN

Boards.....: THE DUNGEON   +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX WHQ
             WAREZ AQUARIUM+XX-XXX-XXXX    EHQ

Their former EHQ THE MYSTICAL PARADISE went down.
JACK ALIEN left the legendary HITMEN to concentrate
on REMEMBER only.
There are rumours around saying thay INTRUDER had
left F4CG to join HITMEN, but that's wrong!


Memberstatus:
---------------
ALCHEMIST, BURN, CHAOTIC, CUPID, DEFF, DESPAIR,
DIVERSE, EROL, GROEPAZ, JIHAD, JINX, KRISTIAN
ROSTOEN, LUKE, MAGIC MAN, MOONCHILD, MOTION,
RACOON, RAMMY, SABOTAGE, SEVEN, SKUD, SLEDGE,
STAN, TRANZIIE, TYRON, VORTEX, WEASEL



MOTIV 8                                 [ger, den......]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
New members: -
Gone ones..: CROSSFIRE, GOAT, MENDRAKE, L.A. STYLE

FTP-Site...: MOUNT TOKAY    woland.iit.uni-miskolc.hu

December 1997 was one of the worst months ever in
M8 history. Their most important members,
CROSSFIRE, MENDRAKE, GOAT and L. A. STYLE, left the
group for FAIRLIGHT.
So, the future of MOTIV8 isn't sure yet. Maybe the
members that stayed can get new strength again,
but that is very doubtful.
And as there wasn't confirmed an official
memberstatus after these massive changed, we
decided not to print one here...


ONSLAUGHT                            [oz, ger, us..........]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
New members: NAPHALM
Gone ones..: DEEKAY, DIGAHOLE, HOMEBOY, INSANE,
             TEKTRONICS

Boards.......: DEADZONE   +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX  WHQ
               SANITARIUM +XX-XXXXX-XXXX   EHQ

FTP-Site.......: GANGSTA'S PARADISE
                             ftp.inf.bme.hu/c64/pub

First of all they got NAPHALM/SCORN/ASCRAEUS to
join them as first group as coder, graphician and
cracker.
DIGAHOLE, HOMEBOY, INSANE and TEKTRONICS were put
on the inactive status.
DEEKAY left the posse to join the forces of
FAIRLIGHT as his new second group.
Btw, it's said that they will get a new member from
the UK. His handle will be announced soon.

Memberstatus:
---------------
CUBEHEAD, DOON, GRAFEE, JASON, JAZZCAT, JOLZ,
MANIAC, MEFF, MORBID, MOSES, NAPHALM, SHOCKER,
STING, TBH, TROUBLE, VENGEANCE


SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY        [hol, us, ger........]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
New members: !CUBE
Gone ones..: SUN DANCER

Board......: THE DUNGEON +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX

FTP-Site...: THE DIGITAL DUNGEON ftp.scs-trc.net

The polish composer !CUBE left PALACE to join the
dutch-coop.
Then SUN DANCER left for FAIRLIGHT, just only after
having joined SCS +TRC some weeks ago.
Their EHQ called THE MYSTICAL PARADISE went down
because of PEACEMAKER losing interest.

Memberstatus:
--------------
!CUBE, ACTION JACKSON, ALCHEMIST, BACILLUS,
BURGLAR, CBA, COUNT ZERO, EL BANDITOS, FUNXILLA,
GAZZA, L'TRIMM, MISTRI, MR. AMMO, NIGHTSHADE,
SPECTATORm SPLATTERHEAD
Single News:
------------

- HOOGO joined PADUA as graphician on THE PARTY 7.

- NATAS left CHROMANCE to team up with the guys in
  WARRIORS OF WASTELAND.

- THE FALCON left WOW due to unknown reasons.

- NIC left THE DREAMS and joined LAXITY. Also MANIK
  and a german guy called O'DOG came to LAXITY.
  VAGUE decided to leave the scene because of no
  more inspiration.

- WORLD WIDE EXPRESSES are back.

- BS/ex-ATLANTIS returned to the scene, but hasn't
  found a new group yet.

- TROOP/ex-ATLANTIS recently got membership in
  ROLE.

- ERNIE/DARK CRYSTAL/SCORN joined ANUBIS as third
  group.

- ENTROPY was rebuilt and most ex-members, who
  recently were in ANGRY, rejoined the group.

- The 60th issue of THE TRIBUNE magazine was the
  very last one, because NASTINESS INC. left the
  scene.

- The polish group SKWEEK renamed themselves to
  ABSENSE.

- MURPHY/RESOURCE left the scene.

- AVALON/ex-FAIRLIGHT came back to the scene, but
  didn't join his former group.

- KILLER/TENGU joined KRECIKI DESIGN as second
  group.

- FLOYD/SCORN/WILLOW left ASCRAEUS to team up with
  TEMPEST as his new third group.

- MAVERICK left NIPSON to join SAMAR.

- SAHIR left FAITH to get into SAMAR.

- KORDIAUKIS left FRACTION to team up with the guys
  in SAMAR as well.

- XENON got their EHQ called BEYOND REALITY online
  again. Reach it under: +XX-XXXXXXXXX !

- From 27th to 29th of December 1997 there took
  place THE PARTY 7 in AARS/Denmark.
  The complete official results were unclear for a
  long time, but finally here they are:

  DEMOS:
  --------
  01. SECOND REALITY        by SMASH DESIGNS
  02. ONE-DER               by OXYRON
  03. VOID                  by COMA +RESOURCE
  04. BREITBANDKATZE        by REFLEX
  05. SEASON GREETINGS      by BEER BOEHMLER
  06. PARTY TEST            by SCALA PRODUCTIONS
  07. ART BIZARRE           by HAUJOBB
  08. THIRST                by CULT
  09. STILL PUMPING         by NEOPLASIA
      DESERT DOTS 2         by SMASH DESIGNS
   11.TOO M.F. EVIL         by ALPHAFLIGHT 1970
      ALLES HOMO ODER WAS   by COMMODORE COWBOYS
   13.TRIP TO.              by CASCADE
   14.PARTY PUSSY           by TRSI+LIGHTFORCE
   15.FETTES SAUMONSTER 2   by ACCEPT PARTY POSSE

   GRAPHICS:
   ---------
   01. L. Y. OLD GRANNY  by RAYDEN/AFL
   02. SPICE UP YOUR LIFEby DANE/CREST
   03. UNTITLED          by TYRANT/RESOURCE
   04. GRUENSCHNABEL     by WARP 8/FLASH INC.
   05. DRAGONWAR         by SPLASH/RESOURCE
   06. ANGRY MAN         by REEKOL/REACT
   07. BIOCONTROL        by FELIDAE/REFLEX
   08. MULTIMEDIOT       by DEEKAY/CREST
   09. DEVIL             by AMN/ANARCHY
   10. BOMB THE BASS     by HARDSEQUENCER/DTC
       DON'T FUCK WITH MEby EQ/SC
   12. BATMAN BRAET FISCH by CYCLONE/ABYSS
   13. DEXTER 64          by CRUZER/CAMELOT
   14. BREAKTHROUGH       by ZELDIN/CASCADE
   15. A-KO               by BUD/WOW
   16. HOPELESS           by HOOGO/PADUA
   17. ELLIS IN CHAINS    by VIP/ROLE
   18. CLEVELAND INDIANS by IRON MAN

   If you want to read a review of all these graphics
   then try our chapter WORLD OF ARTS.

   MUSICS:
   --------
   01. BLACKOUT             by MITCH+DANE
   02. MOTORWAY 4           by FANTA/OXYRON
   03. BLUE                 by CARLOS/BREEZE
   04. SPACE OF CHAOZ       by ORCAN/REACT
   05. THE KING OF PALLADIA by LUNATIC/CULT
   06. GETTING JAZZY        by FUBEN/OXYRON
   07. SONATE               by DADDY KOOL/GFB64
   08. ANNE'S GROOVE        by GERARD HULTINK
   09. RAPE                 by TOP SECRET/CULT
   10. HRABAL               by GREATRIX
   11. CONCUSSION           by SONIC/SMASH DESIGNS
       JULLOW               by ZZAP/NOICE
   13. THE BREWS            by RAYDEN/AFL
   14. JOHN THUMB           by HEINMCK/T.U.M.

- From 13th to 14th December 1997 took place a party
  called ASTROSYN in KOSZALIN/Poland.
  The competition results there were as follows:

  DEMOS:
  -------
  1. MOVE PREVIEW by ARISE
  2. ONLY CODE    by ASCRAEUS
  3. POWER OFF    by FRACTION
  4. BANG PREVIEW by SCORN +MEDIUM

  GRAPHICS:
  ----------
  1. BIMBER/ARISE
  2. KATON/LEPSI DE
  3. INFORMER/SCORN
  4. SEBALOZ/LEPSI DE
  5. MAX/SCORN/X-VECTOR/OXYGEN
  6. INFORMER/SCORN
  7. WACEK/ARISE/ALBION/LEPSI DE

  MUSICS:
  --------
  1. WACEK/ARISE/ALBION/LEPSI DE
  2. STIFF/SCORN
  3. MAX/SCORN/X-VECTOR/OXYGEN
  4. LUKE/NIPSON/ARISE
  5. STIFF/SCORN
  6. GREGFEEL/LEPSI DE
  7. RODNEY/ARISE


                        DODGER   + HARDSEQUENCER
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==OVERSEA SCENE REPORT==
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OVERSEA SCENE REPORT
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The new year, unfortunatley, appears to be a rather
slow time for the American demo scene.
Nevertheless, some interesting pieces of news have
floated across this newsdesk, and will be chronic-
called here. The majority of this information was
taken from the web. and is as accurate as I can make
it without actually being in the same room with every
NTSC scener in existence.
If there are flaws, wich I hope there aren't, please
tolerate, and let me know, so it can be rectified in
a future issue.
Also if I've missed something, please let me know in
advance. My e-mail adress is.....

    ARTHUR.HELLER(at)ANWCBBS.UU.HOLONET.NET
    --------------------------------------------

If there is any breaking news pertaining to your
group or the scene in general, please let me know so
I can write it down here. Now on with the news.....

First some VENOM news...
           ------
'WSOFT' joined Venom for a while, but then quite for
unknown reasons.
Also in Venom news, 'GUARDIAN' was booted due to
unactivity.

ARKANIX LABS.
-------------
Arkanix Labs, formerly THRESHOLD PRODUCTIOMS and
led by Jon Mines (Skyclad) formally announced
recently that as of january first they will no longer
support the commodore 64 platform.

PSW
----
A newcomer to the scene, 'FUZZ', has joined PSW,
proving that there is still some life left to the much
disparaged ntsc scene.

In RPG news, two new members have joined, 'UBER'....
   ----  
and 'KEN'. The main project for RPG is still LAZARUS,
and it is unlikely that anything will be released
until this is completed.

The 4K NTSC demo competition has been postponed
until january 22, 1998. The original deadline for
demos was on december, so this allows nearly a
month extra to complete work on competing demos.

And planning for an actual NTSC demo-party is pro-
gressing lead by PEGASUS/RPG. "NTSC=", as it is
referred to, will mark on one of the very few parties
ever to be held in the states. Opinions differ as to
wether or not it will happen, but hope runs high.

                     UzzY/Renegade Programing Group
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==RULERS OF THE MONTH==
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              RULERS OF THE MONTH
              ----------------- --

Again welcome to the best of the best in the first
month of 1998...
When counting the charts we recognized that there
are still quite a lot of inactive people in the Top 10.
So, why are you voting for them?!? Wouldn't it be
better to vote for active people in stead to
motivate them to do more things??? I guess so... But
vote for whom you want and of course keep the
quality in mind and not only the quantity!

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

            THE TOP 10 DEMO GROUPS
            -------------------- --

   >>> 01. (>) CREST................ (188) <<<
       02. (+) BYTERAPERS INC. ......(110)
       03. (-) OXYRON................(091)
       04. (+) SMASH DESIGNS........ (071)
       05. (+) TABOO................ (066)
       06. (-) REFLEX............... (053)
       07. (+) PROFIK............... (038)
       08. (+) SAMAR.................(034)
       09. (-) LEPSI DE............. (022)
       10. (+) AGONY................ (019)

        (>) means same position like last month
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Comments:
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CREST of course kept their top position with a quite
big distance to BYTERAPERS INC. , who managed to
change places with the guys from OXYRON.

But I guess it will change again soon, because their
demo ONE-DER by GRAHAM was really stunning.

Also REFLEX and especially SMASH DESIGNS are
expected to win some places in the next issues
after their demos on THE PARTY 7.

COMA and RESOURCE should be in here, too.
-- ----------------------------------------------- --

           THE TOP 10 CRACKING GROUPS
           ------------------------ --

 >>> 01. (>) HITMEN........................ (134)<<<
     02. (+) SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY (132)
     03. (-) ALPHAFLIGHT 1970.............. (130)
     04. (+) FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP. (082)
     05. (+) ONSLAUGHT..................... (071)
     06. (-) CHROMANCE..................... (052)
     07. (-) LAXITY........................ (048)
     08. (>) REMEMBER...................... (042)
     09. (>) MOTIV 8........................(028)
     10. (+) NOSTALGIA......................(013)

       ( +) means better position than last month
__   ___________________________________                                __
Comments:
-----------
A very close finish at the first three places...
HITMEN again won the race with only two(!) points
difference to TRC +SCS and another two points to
ALPHAFLIGHT'70 on the 3rd place.

F4CG and ONSLAUGHT both climbed two places from 6
up to 4 and from 7 up to 5.

Due to this LAXITY fell down from 4 to 7.

ACTIVE left the Top 10 but for them NOSTALGIA came.

-- --------------------------------------------- --
            THE TOP 10 DEMO CODERS
            -------------------- --

  >>> 01. (+) CROSSBOW/CREST.....................(177) <<<
      02. (-) MR. SEX/BYTERAPERS INC. .......... (119)
      03. (>) GRAHAM/OXYRON..................... (080)
      04. (>) AEG/SMASH DESIGNS..................(079)
      05. (+) FUBEN/OXYRON...................... (040)
      06. (-) ZORC/REFLEX....................... (032)
      07. (+) MMS/TABOO......................... (023)
      08. (+) GOLDHAND/ALPHAFLIGHT 1970......... (022)
      09. (+) LEONARDO/PADUA.................... (020)
      10. (-) CLARENCE/GRAFFITY..................(019)
          ( +) SCROLL/MEGASTYLE PROD. .......... (019)

         (-) means worse position than last month
__   ___________________________________                                __
Comments:
-----------
CROSSBOW now the number one again and he'll stay
there for a while, I guess, after the release of
KRESTORY.

GRAHAM stays on 3, but he is supposed to climb in
the next issues because of his k00l dentro from THE
PARTY 7.

AEG is finally very close to the Top 3... Maybe he'll
enter them after his SECOND REALITY conversion.

Highest new entry is GOLDHAND on position 8.
--  ------------------------------------------------------------------- --

             THE TOP 10 GAME CRACKERS
             ---------------------- --

 >>> 01. (+) JACK ALIEN/HITMEN/REMEMBER.........(079) <<<
     02. (-) MOONCHILD/HITMEN.................. (077)
     03. (>) THE IGNORANCE/ALPHAFLIGHT'70...... (071)
     04. (+) BURGLAR/SCS+TRC................... (069)
     05. (-) DIDI/LAXITY....................... (062)
     06. (+) COUNT ZER0/SCS+TRC................ (037)
     07. (+) CBA/SCS+TRC....................... (031)
     08. (+) JAYDEE/CHROMANCE.................. (025)
     09. (+) RIDDLER/ACTIVE.................... (018)
     10. (+) DANZIG/ALPHAFLIGHT'70..............(016)


__   ___________________________________                                __
Comments:
-----------
Finally JACK ALIEN is again the king of the cracking
business. He changed places with his groupmate
MOONCHILD.

COUNT ZER0 made a good jump from place number 10
up to the 6th position.

Many changes at the lower places. STING, MR. WAX,
HOK and SKINHEAD while CBA, JAYDEE, RIDDLER and
DANZIG came in for them.
So, highest new entry is CBA on the 7th!

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

            THE TOP 10 GRAPHIC ARTISTS
            ------------------------ --

  >>> 01. (+) VALSARY/SAMAR/LEPSI DE..... (108) <<<
      02. (-) DEEKAY/CREST................(104)
      03. (-) JOE/WRATH DESIGN........... (101)
      04. (-) ELECTRIC/EXTEND.............(082)
      05. (>) RRR/OXYRON..................(056)
      06. (+) ALG/ALPHAFLIGHT'70..........(031)
      07. (-) STONE/AGONY................ (030)
      08. (+) CRUISE/TABOO................(027)
      09. (+) CREEPER/DUAL CREW SHINING.. (025)
      10. (+) RAYDEN/ALPHAFLIGHT'70...... (023) 


__   ___________________________________                                __
Comments:
-----------
Yeah, it's true... After a very successful year it's
finally VALSARY on the top spot! He climbed up there
from the 4th place.

RRR was the only one to keep his position...
The rest changed. SEBALOZ, FAZEE, POISON and TYRANT
left the Top 10, while ALG, CRUISE, CREEPER and
RAYDEN came in for them.

Not hard to guess, that RAYDEN might climb soon
because of his competition winning picture from THE
PARTY 7.
-- --------------------------------------------- --

             THE TOP 10 COMPOSERS
             ------------------ --

  >>> 01.(>) MITCH+DANE/CREST...........(086) <<<
      02.(+) FANTA/OXYRON/BASS..........(060)
      03.(+) DRAX/VIBRANTS..............(056)
         (+) WACEK/LEPSI DE............ (056)
      05.(-) ZYRON/F4CG/NOSTALGIA/OXSID (049)
      06.(-) JEFF/CAMELOT.............. (046)
      07.(+) PVCF/REFLEX............... (040)
      08.(-) P. R. I. /OXYRON...........(039)
      09.(+) DAF/SAMAR................. (031)
         (+) THE SYNDROM/CREST/TIA......(031)


__   ___________________________________                                __
Comments:
-----------
MITCH+DANE are still very stabil and probably will
stay on the top spot for some months with their
compo winning tune from THE PARTY 7.

FANTA finally managed to re-enter the Top 10. But
how he entered it! He jumped right in on place
number 2!!!

ZYRON fell two places down, as well as P. R. I. !
JEFF even had to go down from 2 to 6!

ORCAN, last month's number 5, left the Top 10.
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --
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==THE DECEMBER 1997 LIST==
<pre>
_ _____________________________________ _

            THE DECEMBER 1997 LIST!

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

Welcome to the last RELEASECHARTS in 1997!
At the end of the year we had a quite good month
again with some really nice releases.

At the moment we are thinking about changing the
old POINT-SYSTEM (based on the PSYCHOBILLY-SYSTEM)
since some groups keep on releasing FAKELABEL-
stuff under their normal LABEL. We think that this is
a injustice to the groups releasing lame games
through their FAKELABELS. The original rules make
nearly no difference between lame and good games
and this worked well some years ago.
But these days groups put out FAKELABEL-stuff to
enter the RELEASECHARTS.
If we finally change the POINT-SYSTEM, a good game
or a game where you had to invest more time and
work in the CRACK or FIX will be honoured again.
But as I said before we're still thinking about how
we'll change the actual SYSTEM, so it may take some
more months... .

This ISSUE we'll start to include HEADLINE NEWS in
this chapter, where we'll report the latest
happenings from the passed month!

Now skip to the page to enter the HEADLINE NEWS... 
_ _____________________________________ _

          HEADLINE NEWS DECEMBER 1997

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

While on THE BASS PLANET and DEADZONE the action
was on a quite low level, the action on DUNGEON was
really rocking.. . Even after the tollfree-number
died in the last dazs of the month, the action was
nearly at the same high level.

A really surprise was the announcement from
ALPHAFLIGHT 1970 that their old WHQ THE EVIL ISLAND
come back in the beginning of 1998!
There are also rumours around that the old TALENT-
WHQ DOWN BY LAW could make a comeback in 1998,
since MORRISEY showed interest in a comeback on
the good old 64. . We'll see what happens... !

That was all for DECEMBER, now let's go on with the
RELEASELIST... .

The BOARDS used to make this LIST are:
THE DUNGEON      :  +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX
THE BASS PLANET  :  +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX
DEADZONE         :  +X-XXX-XXX-XXXX


Now let's take a closer look at the games released
last month... .

ALPHAFLIGHT 1970 (ger, usa, swe...)         6,6 points
-------------------------------------------------------

The FLIGHT had an really succesfull month, with
releasing 2 full games.
First they put out the fixed version of STROKE
WORLD (3,4 points) from GO64. Since their version was
not loading the endsequence and they forgot to fix
the endmonster-code I gave -1 point!
Later they released the fixed and now really working
version of GIRLTRIS (3,2 points) from EAGLEWARE.

Last month I gave CHROMANCE the points for GIRLTRIS
but I forgot to check the game-intro. It was usually
running PAL/NSTC, but they fucked it up on NTSC.

But with ALPHAFLIGHT putting out this version they
lost the points for the game anyway... .

DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES (ger)                 11,2 points
-------------------------------------------------------

The germans in DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES made a small
comeback in the world of FIRSTRELEASES with putting
out 2 games. The first one called R - THE ULTIMATE
JOYSTICK KILLER (3,4 points) by MAGNA MEDIA was put
out in the first days of december. The game was
already running PAL/NSTC, so no fixing-points for
this one.. .
At the end of december they put out the german
fullpricer BOMBMANIA (7,8 points) from CLASSICAL
GAMES as fixed version.
FAIRLIGHT (ger, den, swe..)                 2,2points
-------------------------------------------------------

Their new build-up cracking-section showed some
activity with releasing some really crappy stuff.
First they put out the PAL-version of BLACK KNIGHT
(2,1 points) from TIMSOFT.
Later they put out the 2nd PREVIEW of DELTA MISSION
(0,1 points).

FANTASTIC 4 CRACKING GROUP (swe, bel..)   6,3 points
-------------------------------------------------------

The guys in F4Cg were also quite active last month.
First they fixed the quite nice SUPER PACMAN
(4,4 points) for WOW+ROLE and could gain half of the
points for it.
Then they put out the fixed version of a very very
lame game named CLOUX (4,1 points). 

ONSLAUGHT (aut, tur, usa.)                 4,2 points
-------------------------------------------------------

The guys in ONSLAUGHT also released some worse
stuff last month.
First the fixed version of THREESTONE (4,1 points)
made it to the boards. Later the PREVIEW of SPHERIX 
(0,1 points) followed!

SUCCESS+THE RULING COMPANY (usa, hol....)  0,6 points
-------------------------------------------------------

The dutch coop put out the promising PREVIEW of
BOOMBASTIC BENNY (0,6 points)

WOW+ROLE (hol, ger, ita...)                2,2 points
-------------------------------------------------------

They could gain some points with releasing SUPER
PACMAN (4,4 points) which was fixed by F4CG.
Following the rules they got half of the points.. .


That was all for the last month in 1997!
Let's see who made it to the top-spot... .



RELEASECHARTS DECEMBER 1997
-------------------------------

PLACE  GROUP                      POINTS    RELEASES
-------------------------------------------------------
 1      DYNNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES      11,2      2
 2      ALPHAFLIGHT 1970           6,6       2
 3      FANT. 4 CRACKING GROUP     6,3       2
 4      ONSLAUGHT                  4,2       2
 5      WOW+ROLE                   2,2       1
 5      FAIRLIGHT                  2,2       2
 7      SUCCESS+TRC                0,6       1


A quite long list compared with the months before.
Let's see what happens in 1998... :)
                                          THE DODGER!
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==SCAPEGOAT - PROFILE==
<pre>

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              JANUARY-PROFILE
              - ----------  -

Hello, and welcome to this popular chapter... as
always we try to give you a deeper insight into
the history of a wellknown person. The Crest
Magazine is proud to present to you:

              SCAPEGOAT/TOPAZ BEERLINE
              --------------------------


-  -------------------------------------------    -
[c]:      THE CREST       [s]: SCAPEGOAT/TOPAZ BEERL.
[c]:      Hi there SCAPEGOAT! Nice to have you here
          in this popular chapter. First of all, tell us
          and our readers something your person in
          general....

[s]:      Well, my real-name is Sami, or "SKAPE" to
          most of my friends (shortened from SCAPE-
          GOAT!). I was born on 5th of February 1972,
          which makes me almost 26 years old.
          Mentally I am still 15 years old, I suppose.
          My daily routine consists of doing things
          with computers, listening to music (now..
          ..don't play me that average mainstream
          MTV stuff, please), reading books, watching
          TV and all those other everyday boring stuff
          Of course, doing things with my friends mean
[s]:      .a lot, and a lot of my friends I have met
          in the c64 scene (hell, Electric, Barfly and
          Knight (EXTEND) have moved to the same
          suburb where I moved - I luv it) :)
          I have been in schools enough to be called
          a some kind of an technician (but that's
          another story, right). Currently I work at a
          company which developes software for
          physiotherapists (could use a bit bigger...
          ..salary)....

[c]:      Damn, that's what I call a proper desciption!
          Starting at the very beginning... How and
          when did you get your beloved 8 bit machine
          , also why ?

[s]:      My father bought the first c64 in the 80'ies
          when the first c64 arrived to Finland.
          At that time I was just playing games (those
          two :)) and wondering about basic. Then in
          1986-87 I went to a so-called "Computer -
          -Camp" somewhere in Finland, and formed
          my first group (well.) with two other boys.
          My first demo or demopart was done with
          machine language in 1987!. Then later
          several groups came and went and from 1990
          I have been a member (founder) of TOPAZ.
          (you can check my version of the TOPAZ....
          history at URL....

          HTTP://www.sci.fi/-skape
          ------------------------
[c]:      How did you get into this mysterious 8-bit
          scene-world ?

[s]:      I guess I could say with STUDIO 3 (check the
          homepage) but I would like to say it was
          TOPAZ in 1990. I did not start swapping until
          199? (hell, I can't remember that!) but did
          that a couple of years before I ran out of
          money (I am proud to say that I never used
          cheated stamps!).

[c]:      Yeah, cheating stamps suxx...!
          What the hell, made you to start coding..?
          Why didn't you become an artist  or cracker?

[s]:      Iguess I just have always likedthe   ideathat
[s]:      ...I can tell the computer to do the things
          I want it to do instead of it taking control
          of me (by making me play those nasty games)
          I have never been so musically skilled that
          I could have started to compose, and I guess
          I felt more like home with coding instead of
          drawing graphics....!

[c]:      Let's slip deeper into your history world...
          Who were the very first buddies, you got to
          know and which were the first groups, you...
          joined ?
          
[s]:      First group was THREE GENIUS BOYS. The other
          guys in that group were HUNTTI (=slang word
          for 100 finish marks) and a guy who called
[s]:      himself JAMES BOND 2 (Mixer/Origo)..

[c]:      What happened after THE GENIUS BOYS died..
          wich groups you joined later on, and what
          was your task to provide them?

[s]:      THE POWER DIVISION (Division of Power),
          ALBION (the original Finnish one!! this group
          released many demos!), STUDIO 3, TOPAZ...
          (Beerline). All those groups are/were demo-
          groups, except the first one (The Genius
          Boys), we did not have so much contacts
          back then.  I have always been a coder,
          so that's what atleast should I have been
          doing for the groups..8)

[c]:      ..and who belongs to your idols concerning
          demo coding or demo style on c64?

[s]:      Ah, this is a hard one. Let me think.....
          There's diffrent sides to this you know....
          I tend to keep on loving those certain
          demos which I grew up with, like METAL BAR2
          and EYE OF THE TIGER/FCG etc...
          I think I could say that I have enjoyed
          the demos from PANORAMIC DESIGNS, CREST,
          FLASH INC, CENSOR, CONTEX and ORIGO to
          name a few. Some demos are not so 'stylish'
          but have some other things to give me a
          kick. I would like to include a lot longer
          list but then the list would be a very long
          one....8-] Just to make a point: I am into.....
[s]:      ..classic demo style, I am not quite happy
          to see a demo that looks good on the
          compo screen but is not meant to be shown
          on the standart c64 screen, no matter how
          good that demo is. I don't have a 5x5 meter
          screen at home, goddammit! :)

[c]:      That's right! ...but unlike most groups likes
          more , to amuze Pc-freaks instead of their
          own scene-freaks...
          Well, back to the present. what can we
          expect from you and your group in the
          future?

[s]:      Hmmm....to finish some projects that I have
          with ELECTRIC and THOR (some of those....
[s]:      ..ppl at irc *c-64 knows what I am talking
          about). I have been lazy doing FRESH'N'STICKY
          but I am hoping to get issue 8 out someday
          as I do have written material for it. It either
          will be a online version, or the c64 version,
          depends of the time I have for such things
          in my real life.
          We are still positive to get a demo from us
          out, but I would not start do wait for it..
          It has been a long time since our last major
          demo, so why not to waste another week
          doing nothing..;) When you grow up, you
          notice that you do not always have so much
          time to do those things you would like to....

          Hmmm...if everthing else fails, the official
[s]:      8th TOPAZ BEERLINE summermeeting will be
          held in summer of 1998 (TBB: bring a port-
          able lake with you, hehe)

[c]:      Sounds good to all Demo-lovers...
          By the way: How did you get your very own
          Handle ?

[s]:      It was in 1987 (or something) when MIXER,
          CRONY, DESTINO (all from ORIGO DREAMLINE)
          and me were having THE POWER DEVISION/
          DIVISION OF POWER meeting at Iisalmi at
          CRONY'S place (well, most of the people
          present did have a diffrent handle back
          then, didn't we?). MIXER was coding some-
          thing, but it kept buggin'. So, he told me...
[s]:      ...that it all was my fault -many times: well....
          I took the dictionary and found "SCAPEGOAT"
          from it. And so it was done.

[c]:      Concerning coding.... Do you more like to take
          demo effects from the big brothers like
          Amiga or Peecee and trying them on cbm64...
          or are you more like a good old rastercoder?

[s]:      I would say that an original idea is always
          the best. I mean, eventough if the routine
          is first on _c64_, I would still choose the
          original idea. Basically the idea in trans-
          porting stuff from Amiga or Pc is challeng-
          ing because the same thing needs to be done
          with less memory and processor power.
[c]:      Yeah, a lot of our readers will agree.....
          In wich demopart you spent the most time
          ever ?

[s]:      Hmmmm.... I haven't done that many demoparts
          that were published. I think I'd rather say
          that some of the demoparts that were
          published in "slagger/Albion" (the last
          Albion demo and hopefully not that wide-
          spreaded :)) .some of those demoparts took
          a lot of time to do basically because of the
          lack of experience in coding.

[c]:      Is there any special technique you use when
          coding your great demoparts?

[s]:      Hmmm... listen to good music and have a
          couple of beers. A great atmosphere makes
          great results (try that with your 2-4 year
          old cousins running around the house and
          screaming in your ear and you get what I
          mean:)).

[c]:      SCAPEGOAT FAVOURITES.....

[s]:      CODERS:    D'Arc, Barfly, Unifier, BX, Mr.Sex,
          Bob, Crossbow..

          ARTISTS:   Electric, Junkie...
 
          COMPOSER:   Rob Hubbard, Tim Follin, AMJ, TBB
          Benn Daglish, HTD, JT, Zardax....
[s]:      DEMO GROUPS:   Crest, Censor, Extend, Origo,
          FHI, Camelot, BF, Byterapers,
          Fairlight, Panoramic, Crazy...

          DEMOS:         Metal bar 2, Eye of the Tiger/FCG
          ..(there are to many!..)

          TOOLS:         Turbo Assembler...
          
          CRACKING GROUPS:       Ikari+Talent, Fusion, 3ad,
          Papillions......

          MAGAZINES:  Script....
          (sorry, I haven't been reading
          the magazines for a while)

[c]:      SCAPEGOAT's real life FAVOURITES....

[s]:      Another hard one....ouch..Ok, I use my
          liberty to write down whoever I like.
          Again ..this is not a complete list.:)

          FOOD:    That garlic thing that D'ARC gave me
          a recipe to, junk meal.(see our
          recipes in our homepage for inter-
          resting meals) 8)

          DRINKS:  Water and Milk (when eating), Beer
          (when drinking ;) Booze'n'stuff
          (when at our summermeeting!)

          GIRLS:    The ones with not-that-bad-looks...
[s]:      and brains. Long hair and a beautiful smile.
          is always an additional bonus..=)

          MUSIC:    Me not know the names of the
          style so here goes...
          Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Bj,
          Sepultura, Bad Religion, Pennywise
          Anthrax, Sod, Mod, Lynyrd Skynyrd
          Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, AC/DC,
          Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, No -
          Doubt, Waltari, Misfits, Metallica,
          Nirvana, Enigma, Lords of Acid,
          Therapy, Rage against the Machine
          White Zombie, Iron Maiden (the -
          older stuff) Offspring, Megadeath
          Dead Kennedys, Elekeleiset, (.)
[s]:      MUSIC:   Blubberheads.. to name a few :)

          I guess this gives you an idea. basically
          everthing I think sounds good.

[c]:      What a large music-list!..Crazy..
          Back to the past and present... Have you
          ever had some kind of war ?

[s]:      No, we are so cute =)
          I think we never had a reason for that,
          or atleast had the sense to try diplomacy
          first and go to kill only if the public
          relations acts failed.... 8)
          Of course, there were a couple of time
          when we had to release so called (..)
[s]:      ..."CORRECTION" demos (1-3) just to publicly
          anounce something, correct the wrong
          accusations and misunderstandings. You
          know, the standart -PR- stuff....

[c]:      What is your opinion concerning Track-demos
          ..do you like them more than old press-space
          demos ?

[s]:      Well, I guess I am into old school but I
          wouldn't say trackmos are bad. I guess it
          does not matter if it is a trackmo or not
          if it sucks :)

[c]:      Over to some kind of BRAINSTORMING.....
          What comes into your minds if i say...
[s]:      DEMOS:    love'em
          CRACKING:    a way to do things cheaper.
          INTERNET:    couldn't live wihtout it....
          SEX:    physical close combat with
          opposite Sex to move the
          earth....
          ALCOHOL:   Koskenkorvan viina (ed..???)
          DRUGS:   no thank you..hehe
          PARTIES:  friends...

[c]:      and now a trickky question.Who in your
          eyes is worth being called "ELITE".is
          there any left ?

[s]:      Hmmm...a person who is called Elite by
          others is an Elite, the person who calls....
[s]:      ...himself Elite is an asshole! Elite people
          are those who are respected by number of
          people; they are friendly, funny, etc....
          like a good friend, I suppose.
          So, if other people like you, they might call
          you an elite. Usually people expect you to
          be a member of a major demo/cracking/
          music/whatever group for it to be possible
          to call you an elite, or to be helluva skilled
          anyway. I think that a person from whom I
          can see that he/she know what he/she is
          talking about, eventhough he/she is not
          a member of a major group or ranked in the
          top 5 in some charts, could be called Elite.
          A respectable person, I guess.

[c]:      What is your advise for young coders, who
          wants to become as famous as you?

[s]:      Hell, yes! Never code sober! hehe. well, I
          don't know. Dare to experiment, and do it with
          your style. Copying the style from others
          may get you far, but originalty takes you to
          the other side of the galaxy. And the most
          important: Never claim someone else code to
          be yours. If you add a couple of >nop's<
          in the original code, it still is not yours.

[c]:      The end is near...As last point: Feel free to
          say hello...

[s]:      When was the last time you hugged your....
[s]:      .friend??? :)
          Cheers to:  ADDICT, AUDIOMASTER J, BEAT,
          D'ARC, HTD, HAWKEYE, RAZORBACK,
          ELECTRIC, THOR, BARFLY, KNIGHT,
          DR.ACID, TAPE, WIDE, TBB, ARGON,
          ZERO, CROM, OPAL, MERCE(nary),
          BARRACUDA, ZARDAX, MIXER, BX,
          MR.SEX, SAGE, ZOMBIE, CAZ,
          TEMPEST....the Freaks at Bingo-
          kansa!.the people I used to
          swap with (STARLIGHT, SMILE,
          INCUBUS, TWIST, WINGO...) And
          the usual forgotten ones....

Thank you! This took a nice slice of my working....
day to fill. 8)
[s]:      Visit our HTTP//www.sci.fi/-skape for
          TOPAZ BEERLINE stuff like news, history,
          contact info, downloadable releases,
          recipes, etc....

[c]:      Thanks for sharing some of your time with
          us to make this profile possible. l8er..

__________________
Held by:  HARDSEQUENCER
on.....:  10. 11. 1997
-------------------------

             ______________
             (c) THE CREST 1998
             ------------------------
</pre>
==ANDREAS - PROFILE==
<pre>
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             SECOND LEGAL PROFILE
             -- -------------- --

Again we are sorry for bringing you only two legal
profiles and not a legal and an illegal one... But some
how we didn't manage this... Sorry!
But we hope that you don't care that much, because
this second legal profile of the month features a
great graphic artist from our machine... It's...

          >>>    ANDREAS of SHAPE      <<<

Have fun reading this short but nice portrait!
-- --------------------------------------------- --
(C): Hi ANDREAS! Nice to have you here for this
     little smalltalk!
     As a start, can you please tell us a little bit
     about yourself in general?

(A): My name in XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, I'm 20
     (14. 03. 77) years old.
     I have just finished my army service and now
     I'm working in an Internet company (EUnet,
     which some of you probably have heard of).
     Besides that I have my own import company
     where I import PC products such as soundcards,
     displaycards, cd-rs and stuff.
     August 1998 I will start my education at Den
     Polytekniske Hogskole where I will study
     information technology for three years.

(C): So, to have a closer look at your computer
     career please say, when you got your first C64
     and how and when you entered the CBM64 scene!

(A): Got my first C64 around 1989 and entered the
     scene at the end of 1991, I think.
     How I entered.. Well. I phoned WAX/WOW and he
     sent me some magz and I replied to some ads
     and that way I got contacts!

(C): Quite usual, I see...
     And which groups have you been in then?

(A): MAITEC, TSR, TSR+WOW, TSR, DYTEC, DYTEC +TRSI
     and now and forever SHAPE!
     (And also in KGB and NOWAY as MEGAMASTER.)

(C): You are a well known graphic artist on our
     beloved machine... Why did you become this and
     not something else like cracker or so?

(A): Well.. I started making some logos for WOW and
     MAITEC and I got pretty good respons.
     I thought it was fun, but also time demanding...
     Then after drawing tons of logos for several
     groups, I made my first fullscreener. I was in
     the compo at THE PARTY 3 where I ended up on
     a 27th place or something.
     Since then I have developed my gfx skills and I
     think I was among the best when I left.
     Refer to: BLUE FOREST and some gfx slideshows
     that have been released later. which I haven't
     seen myself.. (Glenn has them!)

(C): You are in the scene quite a long time now. So,
     what do you think of today's new school in the
     scene? Do you more like the spirit of the
     former days?

(A): Dunno.. Haven't been active since 1996... I liked
     the old school a lot. But some new ones where
     really talented, too! New swappers and gfx that
     sucked are lame...

(C): And which product that you made something for
     are you most proud of?

(A): My contribution to TRIBUTE 1994 and BLUE
     FOREST.. BLUE FOREST RULES!

(C): Yeah.. It does, hehe!
     Are there any other artists you respect a lot
     and you maybe also admire?

(A): Lemme see.. I have always liked the gfx of
     RICHARD of PAMORAMIC, WAVE/VISION (CAMELOT...
     new name now..) and some others in CAMELOT...
     Some AGONY dudes (STONE)...

(C): Now you are forced to give us your favoutites
     in every subject, hehe!

(A): Demo Group: PANORAMIC DESIGNS, CAMELOT
     Demo...........: BLUE FOREST
     Coder..........: TTS and SLAMMER
     Graphican......: ANDREAS...Hehehe. No... Not sure.
     Composer.......: JOHANNES BJERREGAARD
     Cracking Group: ILLUSION
     Cracker.......: ..Ehhh.
     Game..........: SKATE OR DIE, SCENARIO, RAINBOW
                     ISLAND, WONDERBOY, BOBLE
                     BUBLE...
        Disc Magazine..: Not sure... Maybe SKYHIGH?
        Book...........: Seldom read books.
        Movie..........: I like many. No favourite.
        Music..........: THE CURE, GEORGE MICHAEL,
                         JANES ADDICTION, RED HOT CP,
                         PORNO FOR PYROS, VELVET
                         BELLY...

(C):    Now over to something completely different...
        What thing in the C64 scene do you like most
        and maybe think that it's the point that makes
        the CBM64 scene something special?

(A):    Friendship.. and showing the C64 off to Amiga
        and PC dudes... That's cool!
        Trying to be famous is also fun. It makes one
        and another doing more and better work.

(C):    And what did you disklike the most in the
        scene?

(A):    Who!
        AIRWOLF! That fat-schwullen schnitzel!
        He stole stuff from me at THE PARTY in
        Denmark!
        Second: All those lame homemade game maker
        games!

(C):    What about some brainstorming now?!?
        What do you say when I say...

(A):    Trackmos.: Love'em!
        Boards...: Not my thang.
        Phreaking: Cool...
        Parties..: A lot of nerds in one big place...
                   Like you and me!  :)
        Sex........: 3 days ago... :(
        Alcohol....: Funny.
        Internet...: The best thing in the worl. Hehe!
                Besides other better things..... Hehe!
        PC......: Great fun and a great machine.

(C):    Quite interesting...
        So, SHAPE was and still is a very popular demo
        group.. can we hope for any products from you
        in the near future on the CBM64?

(A):    Yes, of course! GLENN is making a slideshow of
        my gfx and there have been released different
        demos and music this year too...

(C):    K00l! I'm looking forward to that!
        You already mentioned before that you had
        some trouble with AIRWOLF. Were there any
        other guys in the scene that you couldn't get
        along with?

(A):    Yeah... On the IRC that nerd from the SHARKS. 

(C):    Aha.. And what do you think of the Internet? Do
        you think that it is the right future for the
        CBM64 scene as the mail scene is nearly dead
        and even the board scene is dying more and
        more?

(A):    Yes, no doubt.. Many old sceners pay attention
        to the C64 on the net.. And stuff is spread on
        the net aswell.. It's so cool!

(C):    The time has come.... We reached the end now...
        So this is now your chance to greet some
        friends and stuff like that!

(A):    Long time no see to: DODGER, WAX, KRISTIAN,
        GLENN, KJELL, BJORN, IBANEZ, MERLIN, BIZ KID,
        CALYPSO, UOTONOGOOD, STEVE (US), DERBY'RAM,
        FLI, EAGLE, AUTHENTIC, UL-TOMTEN!, ZYRON,
        SVEINUNG AFL'70, CAR HUMMIE FREAK from the
        states IRC and all the others that I have
        forgotten...

(C):    Okay.. That's all! Thanx for your time!

_______________________
Held by:HARDSEQUENCER/DYTEC
on.....:22. 12. 1997
-----------------------------------            ( Return )
</pre>
==CHARTS OF THE YEAR==
<pre>
_______________________________________

              CHARTS OF THE YEAR
              ---------------- --

As 1997 is over we can now bring you the 1997
megacharts! Now finally you can see who were our
reader's favourites during the whole last year...
Into consideration we took the issues 3 (09'97) to
6 (12'97) of THE CREST. The first two issues we didn't
use, because in them we didn't have self counted
charts, but megacharts. As this wouldn't give a real
objective look, we decided to leave them out, okay?!?
And here we go with the very best in 1997!

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

          THE TOP 10 DEMO GROUPS IN 1997
          -- ------------------------ --

     >>> 01. CREST..................... (643) <<<
         02. OXYRON.....................(561)
         03. BYTERAPERS INC. ...........(540)
         04. REFLEX.................... (464)
         05. SMASH DESIGNS............. (384)
         06. TABOO..................... (155)
         07. GRAFFITY...................(140)
         08. WRATH DESIGN...............(108)
         09. PROFIK.................... (103)
         10. LEPSI DE.................. (074)


__   ___________________________________                          __
Comments:
-----------
CREST were the clear number one in 1997! And they
really deserved it with putting out two k00l demos in
a row, which were called KRESTAGE 1  +2 and were of
excellent standart, just as CREST productions are
used to.

Strange, that the places 2 to 4 didn't release
anything this year! But I guess they are still so high,
because of people still loving their old demos.

TABOO should have been a little bit higher. With
ALTERED STATES they put out something stunning!
-- ------------------------------------------------ --

        THE TOP 10 CRACKING GROUPS IN 1997
        -- ---------------------------- --

   >>> 01. SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY (706) <<<
       02. ALPHAFLIGHT 1970.............. (675)
       03. HITMEN.........................(583)
       04. FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP..(414)
       05. CHROMANCE......................(411)
       06. LAXITY.........................(358)
       07. ONSLAUGHT......................(293)
       08. MOTIV 8........................(083)
       09. ACTIVE.........................(065)
       10. REMEMBER.......................(063)


__   ___________________________________                              __
Comments:
-----------
SCS+TRC and AFL are close together, even though
the dutch coop finally won the race for this year's
top spot.

HITMEN are lonely making their rounds on place
number 3! This year they proved again that an old
reformed group can still be on top nowadays!

LAXITY finally established themselves this year.

Surprisingly we also have an oldie group in the Top
10! REMEMBER took the 10th place...
--  ----------------------------------------------------------------- --

             THE TOP 10 CODERS IN 1997
             -- ------------------- --

   >>> 01. MR. SEX/BYTERAPERS INC. ... (732) <<<
       02. CROSSBOW/CREST..............(608)
       03. GRAHAM/OXYRON.............. (559)
       04. AEG/SMASH DESIGNS...........(331)
       05. ZORC/REFLEX.................(273)
       06. FUBEN/OXYRON............... (220)
       07. CLARENCE/GRAFFITY...........(126)
       08. ED/WRATH DESIGN.............(125)
       09. GREMLIN/BEYOND FORCE....... (051)
       10. LEONARDO/PADUA............. (045)


__   ___________________________________                              __
Comments:
-----------
Seen all in all it's quite surprising that MR. SEX won
the trophy with such a distance to CROSSBOW! X-BOW
was the most active coder in these Top 10, I've got
to admit! But he didn't manage it to beat the guy
from BYTERAPERS INC.!

AEG was the second active coder in these Top 10! The
other didn't release anything in 1997! So, I guess AEG
deserves this 4th place, even though people have
different opinions about his on 4x4 effects based
trackmos.

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

           THE TOP 10 CRACKERS IN 1997
           ------------------------ --

   >>> 01. MOONCHILD/HITMEN................(608) <<<
       02. THE IGNORANCE/ALPHAFLIGHT'70... (584)
       03. JACK ALIEN/HITMEN/REMEMBER..... (493)
       04. BURGLAR/SUCCESS  +TRC.......... (474)
       05. DIDI/LAXITY.................... (330)
       06. STING/ONSLAUGHT.................(167)
       07. CHRYSAGON/ALPHAFLIGHT'70........(122)
       08. SKINHEAD........................(083)
       09. DMC.............................(067)
       10. JAYDEE/CHROMANCE................(046)


__   ___________________________________                              __
Comments:
-----------
MOONCHILD and THE IGNORANCE have been changing
place 1 and 2 with each other all through the year...
But MOONCHILD finally made it and got the crown for
1997!

JACK ALIEN and BURGLAR are also close together on
positions 3 and 4.

On places 8 and 9 are two guys who were recently
kicked out of F4CG. But people liked their cracks
and so they in the Top 10 as well.

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

        THE TOP 10 GRAPHIC ARTISTS IN 1997
        -- ---------------------------- --

     >>> 01. DEEKAY/CREST....................(606) <<<
         02. JOE/WRATH DESIGN................(469)
         03. ELECTRIC/EXTEND.................(397)
         04. RRR/OXYRON......................(306)
         05. VALSARY/SAMAR/LEPSI DE......... (247)
         06. CRUISE/TABOO....................(190)
         07. CREEPER/DUAL CREW SHINING...... (146)
         08. FAZEE/TABOO.................... (099)
         09. TYRANT/THERAPY................. (070)
         10. SEBALOZ/LEPSI DE............... (065)


__   ___________________________________                              __
Comments:
-----------
Last year DEEKAY prooved again his skills in both
CREST demos that got released.. A well deserved top
spot for him!

JOE on the second place although he didn't show any
activity, just in contrast to ELECTRIC, who gave
great pleasure to our eyes with his fascinating
compo-pictures for the ASSEMBLY- and the   ZOO-Party.

FAZEE on position 8! Well deserved... Just think of his
graphics collection and ALTERED STATES! A pity that
he left the scene...
-- ---------------------------------------------- --

         THE TOP 10 SOUND WIZARDS IN 1997
         ------------------------------ --

 >>> 01. MITCH+DANE/CREST................. (554) <<<
     02. DRAX/VIBRANTS.................... (299)
     03. P. R. I. /OXYRON................. (267)
     04. JEFF/CAMELOT/ANALOGUE............ (244)
     05. FANTA/OXYRON..................... (138)
     06. SHOGOON/TABOO.................... (131)
     07. METAL/VIBRANTS....................(106)
         PRAISER/SAMAR.................... (106)
     09. JEROEN TEL....................... (092)
     10. ZYRON/F4CG/NOSTALGIA/OXSID PLAN.  (090)


__   ___________________________________                              __
Comments:
-----------
1997 was a really successful year for the famous
duo MITCH + DANE from CREST! Again we could enjoy
some great tunes from them in both KRESTAGE demos.
So they reallz deserve the clear lead to the second
place with nearly two times more points!

DRAX on place 2 and SHOGOON on place 6 both did
some musics for the great ALTERED STATES by TABOO.

METAL also gained some posivitive attention with
releasing his huge collection together with
ONSLAUGHT in 1997's summer.
-- -------------------------------------------- --
</pre>
==RELEASE LIST OF THE YEAR==
<pre>
_ _____________________________________ _

            RELEASE LIST OF THE YEAR

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

Hello and welcome to the not that complete RELEASE-
LIST for 1997 in THE CREST-MAGAZINE!
Since we started the MAGAZINE in JULY 1997, this LIST
will only include the months MAY-DECEMBER 1997!

I'll make it as compact as possible, so that I don't
fill up the whole memory... hehe. .

I hope that we loose the interest in this MAGAZINE
this year, since I have no interest in doing it again!
ALPHAFLIGHT 1970 (ger, swe, usa...)         25,3 POINTS
-------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS  COMMENT
-------------------------------------------------------
 BLOODHAND                4,8     FIXED
 MAGICAL FORMULA          5,8     FIXED
 FLIPTRIS                 2,3     PAL ONLY
 LEGEND OF KYRIL PREVIEW 20,8
 PENNY                    4,2     FIXED
 BOMB MANIA PREVIEW       0,8
 STROKE WORLD             3,4     FIXED
 GIRLTRIS                 3,2     FIXED

COMMENT:
The FLIGHT was very active this year. Only after the
summer they took a small break, but returned later
in full effect. They were one of the few groups
beeing regulary present on the MAJOR US-BAORDS,
and with having two capable FXIERS they showed
others how to release a game!

ARMAGEDDON (usa)                           2,1 POINTS
-------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS  COMMENT
-------------------------------------------------------
LAZER DUEL             2,1   PAL/NTSC

COMMENT:
Their so called comeback in JUNE this year, was
surely only made to release the freeware games
from ARKANIX LABS. before other groups would
release 'em. . They showed no more activities, and
were not seen on the BOARDS after that.. .

CHROMANCE (hun, usa, swe..)               -2,9 POINTS
-------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS  COMMENT
-------------------------------------------------------
 NETHER PREVIEW        0,0     COMPILED BASIC
 64 LUFF               2,1     PAL/NSTC
 JUMPIN' CUBES        -5,0     RE-RELEASE


COMMENT:
The hungarian POSSE had an really bad year. Beeing
one of the few groups beeing nearly always present
on the US-BOARDS, they could nearly add nothing to
the FIRST-RELEASE-MARKET.
I guess their darkest moments this year were, when
ALPHAFLIGHT could beat them!
I really hope, that 1998 will be better for CHROMANCE!

DISORDER (ger)                                2,1 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
PAC MANN               2,1

COMMENT:
They were born this year, and they died this year...
But no one really cared anyway.. .
DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES (ger)                 11,2 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE                  POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
R-THE ULTIMATE J. KILLER 3,4  PAL/NSTC
BOMB MANIA               7,8   FIXED

COMMENT:
Beeing regulary on the US-BOARDS theyr could only
at the end of the year add something to the wares-
market... .

EXCESS (ger, hol)                          0,1 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
BLOODY STARS PREVIEW   0,1

COMMENT:
NO ACTION - NO WARES - NO COMMENTS!!!

FAIRLIGHT (den, ger, swe..)          2,2 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
BLACK KNIGHT           2,1   PAL ONLY
DELTA MISSION PREVIEW2 0,1

COMMENT:
With the illegal section from MOTIV8 joining up with
the old FAIRLIGHT, they could enter the wares-arena
again.. . Until now they could only released stuff on
the wellknown low MOTIV8-standard!
Hope it will change in 1998... .

FANTASTIC 4 CRACKING G. (bel, swe, pol...)  15,0 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
MANGANOID              4,6   FIXED
KNOORKIE               4,7   FIXED
MR. ANT PREVIEW        0,2
COLEE PREVIEW          0,3
RUNDES LEDER           0,0   COMPILED BASIC
RELEASE                POINTS           COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 FROGS AND FLIES PREVIEW0,4
 PLASM PREVIEW          0,2
 PLASM                  -5               RE-RELEASE
 MR. ANT                2,1              PAL/NTSC
 THEPSOS PREVIEW        -1               RE-RELEASE
 FROGS AND FLIES        2,2              PAL/NTSC
 SUPER PACMAN/W+R       2,2              FIXED
 CLOUX                  4,1              FIXED


COMMENT:
F4CG had really a lot of releases this year, but it
could have been a lot better. With having 2 RE-
RELEASES and loosing some games to other groups
due to SKINHEADS 'abilities' they surely hadn't the
luck on their side this year.

HITMEN (ger, swe, usa...)                   10,1 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS  COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 CROSS INVERT 2 PREVIEW0,4
 BARREL BUNGER PREVIEW 0,4
 PLASM                 4,2     FIXED
 COLEE                 4,2     FIXED
 LABE ME PREVIEW       0,1


COMMENT:
They were nearly not present on the FIRSTRELEASE-
market and on the BOARDS. Only with DEFF/Ex-AVT
joining them in AUGUST they broke the silence and
put out all the RELEASES listed on the last page.


LAXITY (ger, den...)                        9,9 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------
  
RELEASE               POINTS     COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 THE RUN PREVIEW       -1         RE-RELEASE
 MAPRACE               0,0        COMPILED BASIC
 TRAZZ PREVIEW         0,1
 SWEEPMINER            2,4        PAL/NTSC
 UTOPIA PREVIEW        0,0        BASIC
 WORDS DON'T COME EASY 4,2        FIXED
 5X5                   4,1        FIXED

RELEASE                  POINTS     COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
PHANTASM+FANTASY PREVIEW 0,1

COMMENT:
They could put out some small games this year, but
since 2 of 'em were coded by them, it wasn't such a
good year. They had to see how they loosed the
bigger titles to other GROUPS. .

MOTIV8 (den, ger, nor...)                 0,6 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
AFTERLIFE 2            0,0   BASIC
RELEASE                POINTS        COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 IMMORTALITY IN SPACE PRV  20,0
 FOUR CORNERS              0,0           COMPILED BASIC
 MICRO MACHINE PREVIEW     0,2
 WORDS DON'T C.E. PREVIEW2 0,1
 SPACE BATTLE DELUXE       0,0           BASIC
 BRAINSTORM PREVIEW        0,1
 MOONSPELL PREVIEW         0,2

COMMENT:
This was maybe the last year for MOTIV8 taking part
in this LIST. Since the head of the illegal section
left 'em, we won't see all the good MOTIV8-releases
in the future.. sniff.. :)

ONSLAUGHT (oz, den, usa....)                31,2 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS  COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 GHOST TRAP            5,3     FIXED
 TROOZE                5,4     FIXED
 CRAZY BUSINESS        5,8     FIXED
 PENNY PREVIEW         0,4
 THE CASTLE            7,9     FIXED
 ICE GUYS PREVIEW      0,9
 ASSASSINS PREVIEW2    0,3
 TERRITORY PREVIEW     0,1
 ON TABLE PREVIEW      0,1
 CHAOS LANDS PREVIEW   0,8
 THREESTONE            4,1     FIXED

RELEASE                  POINTS             COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
SPHERIX PREVIEW        0,1

COMMENT:
A really good year for the guys in ONSLAUGHT. They
put out a bunch of RELEASES, and some were from
really good quality. A shame that they couldn't call
out at the end of the year and keep their good
standard. But maybe this will change in 1998 again?!

SUCCESS+TRC (hol, ger. usa..)              22,8 POINTS
----------------------------------------------------------



RELEASE               POINTS    COMMENT
----------------------------------------------------------
 BLOX                  2,6       PAL/NTSC
 SQUARES               5,6       FIXED
 HYPERCARS             4,4       FIXED
 ASSASSINS PREVIEW     0,3
 ALERT PREVIEW         0,1
 REMEMBER              4,6       FIXED
 ICE GUYS              3,9       PAL ONLY
 SKIDMARKS PREVIEW     0,7
 BOOMBASTIC BENNY PREVIEW0,6


COMMENT:
After a quite active summer they became really lazy,
but with releasing the game of the year ICE GUYS
they showed that they're still alive. .
And I guess there's more to come in 1998.. .

TRIAD (swe)                                 0,2 POINTS
-----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
-----------------------------------------------------------
AAKE 2 PREVIEW         0,2

COMMENT:
No illegal activities from the old swedish legend this
year... .

WOW+ROLE (bel, hol, uk...)                   2,8 POINTS
-----------------------------------------------------------

RELEASE               POINTS COMMENT
-----------------------------------------------------------
TERMINUS 2 PREVIEW     0,1
SUPER PACMAN PREVIEW   0,5
SUPER PACMAN           2,2        FIXED by F4CG

COMMENT:
The new illegal coop could put out some small wares.
Nothing special at all, but maybe this will change in
1998?!


Ok, that was all for 1998.
It took me more work than I thought... . So I'll try to
make it short now.
On the next pages you'll find the WINNERS...
RELEASECHARTS 1998
--------------------

PLACE  GROUP                    POINTS   RELEASES
-----------------------------------------------------------
 1      ONSLAUGHT                31,2     12
 2      ALPHAFLIGHT              25,3     8
 3      SUCCESS+TRC              22,8     9
 4      F4CG                     15,0     13
 5      DYTEC                    11,2     2
 6      HITMEN                   10,1     5
 7      LAXITY                   9,9      8
 8      WOW+ROLE                 2,8      3
 9      FAIRLIGHT                2,2      2
 10     ARMAGEDDON               2,1      1
        DISORDER                 2,1      1
PLACE    GROUP           POINTS   RELEASES
-----------------------------------------------------------
 11       MOTIV8          0,6      8
 12       TRIAD           0,2      1
 13       EXCESS          0,1      1
 14       CHROMANCE       -2,9     3

..and LOOSERS...!

The year 1997 was surely the slowest year for the
illegal 64-scene. . You can count all the really good
RELEASES this year using the fingers of one of your
hands. Also the activity on the BOARDS slowed down.
Hope it will look better this year.
But one day everything has an end... 
                         DODGER/THE CREST MAGAZINE
</pre>
==THE CROWNING EVENT==
<pre>
_______________________________________

              THE CROWNING EVENT
              ----------------- --

  Another year is gone and so we want to honour the
 best sceners in every subject, just the best CODER,
   CRACKER, DEMO GROUP, CRACKING GROUP, COMPOSER,
          GRAPHIC ARTIST and DEMO of 1997.
     These awards mirror the opinion of a bunch of
  people we asked on the Internet and the opinion of
us three main staff members. You might have another
   opinion. But that's the way life is! Other people
                   other opinions...

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

             THE BEST DEMO GROUP IN 1997
             ------------------------- --

                  >>> CREST <<<

  It was really no hard decision, who this should be...
      Yeah, of course the guys from CREST made it!
    This year they showed really good activity with
      releasing KRESTAGE - BACK TO THE ROOTS and
   KRESTAGE 2 - FOLLOW THE ROOTS in spring within a
   time period of about one month! These two demos
    were real highlights in this year's demo scene...
  And as another kicker at the end of the year they
  gave KRESTORY, a history demo with old parts from
        some of their old demos, to the masses.

            THE BEST CRACKING GROUP IN 1997
            -- ------------------------- --

              >>>  ALPHAFLIGHT 1970<<<

     Also here it was clear, who will get this award.
 The guys from ALPHAFLIGHT'70 had a great year with
 putting out a lot of full game firsties, and not just
    only previews like most of the other cracking
                       groups.
  Even though there were some guys, who didn't like
 AFL's style of cracking and so started the fakelabel
  URINE against them, they were this year's number 1!

  The dutch coop SCS + TRC also had a quite good year.

                THE BEST CODER IN 1997
                -- ---------------- --

                >>>CROSSBOW of CREST    <<<

                He won with a massive distance!
       This year was really a year dominated by him!
 His parts for KRESTAGE 1 + 2 and KRESTORY represent
 the old school. Especially parts like his FLI-strecher
            in KRESTAGE 2 really kicked ass.
            CROSSBOW really deserves this award!
          Besides him also AEG/SMASH DESIGNS and
   MR. SEX/BYTERAPERS were often mentioned, even
   though the second one didn't release anything in
                        1997.

                     THE BEST CRACKER IN 1997
                     -- ------------------ --

     >>>      THE IGNORANCE of ALPHAFLIGHT 1970<<<

      No doubt, he was the best cracker last year!
   His releases always had good quality and also the
     amount of releases was more than acceptable.
     AFL's maincracker did a damn good job in 1997.

  Also JACK ALIEN/REM. and MOONCHILD/HITMEN were
  great crackers in 1997 and canditats for the award!




            THE BEST GRAPHIC ARTIST IN 1997
            -- ------------------------- --

             >>>  ELECTRIC of EXTEND<<<

    He convinced us and most voters with his really
    more than stunning competition winning pictures
        from the ASSEMBLY and the ZOO'97 party.
   He didn't release very much, but what he released
 had such a high quality, that we had no other choice
           than picking him for this award.

    Close to this award were also DEEKAY/CREST and
                VALSARY/SAMAR/LEPSI DE.


                THE BEST COMPOSER IN 1997
                -- ------------------- --

                >>>MITCH + DANE of CREST <<<

   This category reads best composer..... But this time
 we have two best composers! The fantastic duo from
    CREST proved to deserve the number one place!
 Their musics really hit the taste of the masses with
 very nice melodies! Their tunes in KRESTAGE 1 + 2 and
   the compo music for THE PARTY 7 were just great!

  Also ZYRON/F4CG/NOSTALGIA/OXP and DRAX/VIBRANTS
           put out some awful tunes this year.


                 THE BEST DEMO IN 1997
                 ------------------- --

  >>>      KRESTAGE - BACK TO THE ROOTS by CREST<<<

   It was really hard to make this decision.. Not that
 there were released many great demos, but also two
  other really smashing ones! So, ALTERED STATES 50%
   by TABOO would deserve the second place and the
  sequel to KRESTAGE called KRESTAGE 2 - FOLLOW THE
        ROOTS was the third best demo in 1997!
   So, an old school demo won this award. Let's hope
    that there will be much more of this kind then in
                          1998!

</pre>
==THE CHRONIC'97==
<pre>
_______________________________________

               THE CHRONIC '97
               ------------- --

1997 is over now...
And we bring you a last look back on what happened
in the scene in 1997! In this we cover the legal as
well as the illegal part of the scene.
So, we'll give you a closer look at which group did
what last year!
But to summarize 1997 in some words we can only say:
1997 was the worst year in C64 history, without any
doubt! A pity...

-- ---------------------------------------------- --
ACTIVE                        [swe, ger, hol]
-- -------------------------------------- --
They proved to deserve their name in 1997,
especially their coder and composer TRIDENT did
quite a lot.
In spring he put out another one fo his TRIDENT MC
music collection, followed by his trackmo
JAZZGOSSEN PREVIEW.
Then in August he released another trackmo called
O-TECH PEOPLE at the ASSEMBLY party.
Later on also ARTLACE put out a demo named BETTER
LATE THAN NEVER at the ANTIQ'97 party.
Also their illegal section showed a sign of life with
spreading some mail cracks.


ALBION                                            [pol]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
In September they finally put out a new demo called
EXCALIBUR on the GRAVITY party.
Besides this they released the first two issues of
the english version of their magazine VITALITY.


ALPHAFLIGHT 1970                     [swe, ger, hol...]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
1997 was a quite successful year for them, even
though it didn't start off very well with their WHQ
EGDE OF MIDNITE going down, because of RUG RAT's
laziness. It was said to come back soon, but as we all
know now, this proved to be only a rumour.
Then in spring they also had some trouble because
of their many 100% versions. So some guys, who
didn't like this, released a 100% version of AFL's
firstie called MYSTERY under the fake label URINE
and later also a 100% version of SAMBER.
But the guys in AFL didn't care and continued their
massive flight with putting out a lot of nice games,
mainly done by their maincracker THE IGNORANCE.
On the boards there mostly showed up MARC,
VIOLATOR and THE IGNORANCE. They were some of the
ones being still able to call out, even at the end of
the year, when the board scene became really
quiet.
Legally RAYDEN released his demo TOO M.F. EVIL at THE
PARTY 7 in Denmark at the end of the year.


ARISE                                           [hun]
--  ---------------------------------------------- --
In spring they put out a dentro called "6502" and
later on at the NORTH PARTY they made it to the 3rd
with another dentro named INSIDE.


BEYOND FORCE                                     [fin]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
It was hard to believe that they did something, but
in spring they managed to put out a small dentro
called MEETING97, which was, as the name says, a
meeting demo.
Nothing special at all, but it was meant to show that
they are still alive...

BREEZE                                           [hun]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
In April they made the first place at the SCENEST
party with LONE STAR.
In summer they occupied again the first place in a
demo competition at a party. This time with putting
out ZOOM 8 at the ANTIQ'97 party.


CHROMANCE                              [hun, pol, usa]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
They were quite active this year with putting out
some games from time to time.
THE BASS PLANET satyed their WHQ, even though
SCRATCHER had some problems with his phone-line and
thought about quitting the scene.
He and MR. WAX were the only guys from CHROMANCE
to be seen on the us-boards on a regular basis.
They put out a demo named DUMPSTER in late spring
and then in summer the SPHERE MUSIC COLLECTION.


COMA                                          [hun]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
The were really active in 1997 and put out quite a lot
of demos.
It all started of with their dentro called ONLY HATE,
which made the 5th place at the SCENEST party in
April.
Then in July they released a demo called NOSTALGIA
at the RAGE party and occupied the first place with
it.
At the AMIGANICA party in Hungary they made again
the first place with a new trackmo named WILDFIRE.
And at the years dusk they gave to the masses a
demo in coop with RESOURCE at THE PARTY 7 in AARS.
It was called VOID and got place 3.


CREST                                     [ger, swe]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They pleased the masses with two great old school
demos in a row.
First they released KESTAGE - BACK TO THE ROOTS and
after MEGASTYLE's AAAARRGHHH! they reacted to it
with the sequel called KRESTAGE 2 - FOLLOW THE
ROOTS!
Both demos had the known high CREST standard and
can be considered two of the best demos in 1997!
In late December they also put out a history demo
called KRESTORY featuring old parts from some of
their old demos.


DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES                           [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
The guys from the east of Berlin had a good year
with FATMAN becoming active again and DODGER doing
lots of mail cracks.
Finally they also managed to get on the first
release front, too.
DODGER was one of the few sceners being seen
regularly on the major us-boards, as well as
HARDSEQUENCER from time to time.
EXCESS                                        [ger]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
At the beginning of the year the coop with the guys
from ACRISE split up and they decided to go their
own way again...
Besides some mail cracks they put out two issues of
their magazine NITRO.


EXTEND                                         [fin]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
In spring they released a small but fine dentro
called KUPPA.
And on the ZOO'97 party in Finland in November they
made the first place with their demo named TOTAL
EPYGT, even though it wasn't spread around.
Most active  member was ELECTRIC, who did some nice
picture, for example his compo winning ones at the
ASSEMBLY and the ZOO'97 party.


FAIRLIGHT                              [swe, ger, oz]
--  ---------------------------------------------- --
In early summer they put out a HTML tool for our
beloved machine.
At the end of the year they recruited many new
members for their legal section. The guys from
ALTER came in to bring new power to the demo
section of FLT.
L. A. STYLE joined them as well and brought back his
old us board HIDDEN, which became FLT's new WHQ.

FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKING GROUP        [bel, pol, swe..................]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
This was no special year for them.
They had some problems within the group, so some
members decided to leave the fantastics. Also
SKINHEAD made some trouble and later on cracked
under the handle THE CRACKPIONT and was finally
kicked in November.
On the Internet they managed to put up their
FTP-Site called INTERPARK.
In November STASI did something for their legal
section with releasing a graphics show called MANGA
COLLECTION.
And in late December ZYRON put out his COMPLETE
VOICETRACKER COLLECTION.
Mainly WALKER, NEWSCOPY and FUNGUS were seen on
the major us-boards but later also got some
problems with calling out.


FATUM                                         [pol]
-- -------------------------------------------- --
At the beginning of the year their great painter
FAZEE decided to leave the scene, but he made a last
present to the scene with putting out a graphics
collection named MINDRIOT.
In summer they released another gfx show called
ZERO GRAFIKI.




HITMEN                              [ger, hol, swe...................]
--  --------------------------------------------- --
1997 was a nice year for them. They put out some
firsties from time to time and recruited some
legendary members from ex-AVANTGARDE, for example
DEFF, JACK ALIEN and WEASEL.
Legally they put out a graphics collection called
ICARUS, featuring pieces by CUPID, together with the
guys from PADUA.
In autumn they also released BLASPHEMY 2, a music
collection coded by EROL with many tunes by
different composers.
Another bbs gfx show by TYRON named TALES OF
ESGAROTH 3 was released, too.
Their WHQ THE DUNGEON became the most popular us
board, even though the guys from HITMEN
experienced some problems with calling out since
autumn.


LAXITY                                    [ger, den]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They proved their strength with a bunch of firsties
and more or less established themselves within the
major cracking groups in 1997 with DIDI doing most
of the work.


LEPSI DE                               [pol, ger, swe]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
At last years dawn they put out the trackmo called
OPTIMISTIC KICK and in spring they released another
trackmo named ENJOY.
At the ASSEMBLY party they made it to the 3rd place
with 3D HIGHLIGHT.
Later on SEBALOZ gave the small graphics show
PORNOGRAPHY to the masses.
They also made some further steps as a game label
with producing games, for example SAMBER.


MASTERS DESIGN GROUP                           [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
These guys once again showed a sign of life with
releasing their MEGADEMO in spring.



MEGASTYLE PRODUCTIONS                      [nor, ger]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
As an answer to CROSSBOW's KRESTAGE they gave the
dentro AAAARRGHHH! coded by SCROLL to the masses.


MOTIV 8                                       [ger]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
This year might have been the last year for them as
CROSSFIRE and MENDRAKE left the group in December
for FAIRLIGHT.
But last year they didn't do something
special. They released what everybody expected
from them: Shitty versions of shitty games.
They also opened a quality section in autumn, but
there didn't get much released.
Legally they managed to put out a small demo called
CLEAN UP.


NO NAME                                         [fin]
--  --------------------------------------------- --
On the X97 party they released their trackmo named
HOLY REFUGE and made it to the first place with it.


NOSTALGIA                                  [swe, ger]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
They put out a lot of cracks of old games.
Besides this they first gave us SIDBURNERS 3 with
musics from great old games.
Later on the also released the SARGE COLLECTION
featuring graphics by the legendary SARGE.
At the end of the year they released the 4th part
of their series SIDBURNERS.


ONSLAUGHT                             [oz, ger, usa..................]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
Firstie wise they had an average year. Some games
from time to time, mainly cracked by STING.
On the legal section they weren't much more
successful. At least they managed to bring their
magazine VANDALISM NEWS out twice.
A highlight was a music collection called PAST +
PRESENT   withmusics by METAL/VIBRANTS.  With EARDRUM
MASSACRE 2 they put out another music collection.
Until summer there were seen many guys from
ONSLAUGHT on the us-boards, but as they later on
ran out of codes only JAZZCAT called sometimes.


OXSID PLANETARY                           [swe, hun]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
This music label around ZYRON released a music
collection named NASTY OLD PIECES at the beginning
of the year.


OXYRON                                         [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
Althrough the year it was right quiet around them.
But on THE PARTY 7 in Denmark GRAHAM put out a
smashing dentro named ONE-DER.
PANIC                                           [fin]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
At the ASSEMBLY party they released their trackmo
SPEEDWAY and made it to the first place with it.


PLUSH                                           [ger]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
They managed to release the competition winning
demo called X-DREAM at the SILICONVENTION in
Bremen/Germany in April.
There they also put out a dentro named PLOP.




REFLEX                                          [ger]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
There hasn't been any product from them for nearly
one year, but on THE PARTY 7 they managed to
release a trackmo named BREITBANDKATZE.


REMEMBER                                   [ger, uk]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They became much larger last year and also won a lot
of popularity.
They put out some old games, of course. Most of
them were done by JACK ALIEN.



RESOURCE                                       [hun]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
In April they made the 2nd place at the SCENEST
party with their demo called OUT OF DAZE.
On THE PARTY 7 they released together with COMA a
trackmo named VOID.


ROLE                                 [bel, ger, pol...................]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
They recruited many new members and went in a
cracking coop with the guys from WARRIORS OF
WASTELAND. They also had some first releases.
Legally they managed to release a few issues of
their magazine ROCK'N ROLE and CHANNEL 1 and in
spring the digi-collection MORTAL KOMBAT.
SAMAR                                            [pol]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
At the year's beginning they released a music
collection called Z0NA ROJA and in spring their
SCREAM demo.
At the NORTHPARTY they got the first place with a
new trackmo called OPIUM.
Later on they also put out their demo BLOODY DOMINA.


SHAPE                                          [nor]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
In spring they gave a great demo named SHAMPULSE
together with IMPULSE to the masses.


SINGULAR                                      [hun]
--  -------------------------------------------- --
They started of with a graphics show called
INTOXICATION and on the SCENEST party in April they
made it to the third place with ONE YEAR ON THE
SCENE.
In July they released BEYOND REALITY on the RAGE
party and got the 2nd place there.


SMASH DESIGNS                                  [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They were one of the most active demo groups in
1997.
Early last year they put out a music collection
called SMASHING TUNES 2 and on the SYMPOSIUM   +MEKKA
they occupied the first place with a trackmo named
PROJEKT PITCHFORK and the second place with a
dentro NO.
With TRIAGE 2 they released again a trackmo at the
WIRED'97 party.
Later on they put out TYPE-O-NEGATIVE, a demo
featuring second class parts.
Finally they also gave their C64 version of the PC
demo SECOND REALITY to the public, as well as the
dentro DESERT DOTS 2.


SUCCESS AND THE RULING COMPANY       [hol, pol, ger...................]
-- ----------------------------------------------- --
They put out many nice releases.
Their party X97 was a huge success as well as their
DIGITAL DUNGEON on the Internet.
SPLATTERHEAD and EL BANDITOS were the only ones
from the dutch coop being seen on a regular basis
on the major us-boards.


TABOO                                          [pol]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
In late summer they released their great trackmo
named ALTERED STATES 50%, which was originally
planed to be a coop demo with ELYSIUM. But as the
guys from ELYSIUM didn't do anything for ages they
decided to put out all the TABOO part that were
ment to be used in that coop demo.


TENGU                                           [pol]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
At the SYMPOSIUM+MEKKA party in April they got the
fourth place with ELECTRIC DREAMS.
Later on they released a dentro called CHRUPKI


WRATH DESIGN                                    [fin]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They gave a sign of life with putting out a small
dentro named I LOVE YOU early last year.


XENON                                        [hol, usa]
-- ------------------------------------------------- --
They made it to the second place with FIERCE
CREATIONS at the X97 party in April.














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==SCENE FUTUROLOGY==
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               SCENE FUTUROLOGY
               -------------- --

You wonder what this chapter is about?!?
Well, as you might be a little bit tired of all that
looking back in this issue of THE CREST, we bring you
here a chapter full of future!
We tell you about which groups are planning what for
the brandnew year 1998!
So that you can be prepared and maybe also can look
forward to some promising products.
Let's just hope that all of this really gets released!

-- ------------------------------------------------ --
ATLANTIS                             [aut]
-- ------------------------------------ --
After some slow years they really think about
coming back again with full power and making some
kind of revival!
But they want to concentrate on the legal sector
only.


BYTERAPERS INC.                                [fin]
-- --------------------------------------------- --
Everybody is still waiting for the next trackmo from
MR. SEX, which he wanted to put at the ASSEMBLY or
THE PARTY 7. But somehow he didn't manage it.
Now finally it should be out in 1998, at least at the
ASSEMBLY.


CENSOR DESIGN                                     [swe]
-- ------------------------------------------------- --
They will concentrate even more on the SONY
PLAYSTATION, where they want to put out the second
part of their game AUTO DESTRUCT.
CBM64 wise they want to give to the masses some
secret tools.


DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES                           [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
In 1998 you can finally really expect the first
graphics collection featuring pictures only by
HARDSEQUENCER.


EXTEND                                          [fin]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They are still planning to release the complete ROB
HUBBARD COLLECTION together with the guys from
TOPAZ BEERLINE.


FAIRLIGHT                           [swe, ger, den]
--  -------------------------------------------- --
Besides some more issues of their magazine SCENE+
and more illegal releases they are still working on
their next demo, which will be called LEGOLIZE IT - A
DECADE OF GLORY.
Also DEVIL TRACKS 3 with musics by RED DEVIL and
VISUAL ORGASM 2 might become reality this year.


FLASH INC.                                       [nor]
-- ------------------------------------------------ --
Finally they want to put out their new demo in 1998!
But according to MORPHEUS we shouldn't expect much
hard code, but more style instead!


HITMEN                               [ger, hol, usa]
--  --------------------------------------------- --
Besides their cracking they want to release part
number 4 of TYRON's BBS-graphics collection called
TALES OF ESGAROTH.
Either on the X98 or on the MEKKA+SYMPOSIUM'98
they want to release a new trackmo, which will be
called ALICE.
Then GROEPAZ is expected to finish work on his own
music-tracker and also a graphics collection by
HI-LITE might be out. It won't feature any Interlace-
FLI pictures but old logos and stuff.


PADUA                                             [ger]
-- ------------------------------------------------- --
Early this year they want to release their demo
STARBURST 100%, just more than one year after the
10% version on THE PARTY 6.
On the MEKKA +SYMPOSIUM'98 they want to release
their next demo then.


PANIC                                      [pol, fin]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
They are currently working on their new demo, which
they want to give to the audience at the
ASSEMBLY'98.


SMASH DESIGNS                                  [ger]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
AEG and his men are planning to release their next
demo at the MEKKA +SYMPOSIUM'98 in April. Besides
this they haven't got any other future projects at
the moment. But you can be sure to see more from
them, because they were just the most active top
demo group in 1997!


WARRIORS OF WASTELAND                      [hol, bel]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
At the MEKKA+SYMPOSIUM'98 they want to release a
demo called LICENSE or something like this.
Then at another party they are planning to put out
their demo DOWN TO THE BOWN, which they originally
gave in as contribution to THE PARTY 7, but somehow
it didn't compete...


WRATH DESIGN                                    [fin]
-- ---------------------------------------------- --
There are still to come up the music collection named
DISCO CALCULI by ED and the sequel to OXIDY's
graphics collection called EXPECTATIONS.



So, that were all more or less important groups.
The other didn't want to tell us about their future
projects or at least didn't manage it in time.
Sorry for that!


                                HARDSEQUENCER
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==PARTY EVENT COVERAGE==
<pre>
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             PARTY EVENT COVERAGE
             ----------------- --

Again a year was nearly over and it was party time...
THE PARTY 6 was said to be THE END OF AN ERA, but
this year again it took place. THE PARTY 7!
It took place in a small trade fair town called AARS
in Denmark from 27th to 29th of December, just like
last year.
This year's party slogan was BATTERIES NOT
INCLUDED and in the course of the party it became a
totally new meaning.. But more to that later on...

-- ---------------------------------------------- --
On the 26th of December I (HARDSEQUENCER) went to
DODGER's home at 20 o'clock. There we packed all our
things and prepared some other things for the take
off to the party.
Then after five hours FATMAN came together with a
private friend to catch us.
So we started our journey to THE PARTY at about
1:30 am. The streets were nearly empty and soon we
were in the north of Denmark. About 8 hours were
gone, but then we couldn't find AARS! This was quite
strange, as we went there last year, too! But after
a while of asking us through and stopping at many
petrol stations because of FATMAN's belly (he had to
go shit nearly every hour) we finally reached the
party place at 12 o'clock.
So, when we came in we first had to pay the fuckin'
high entrance fee of 300 Denish Crowns (about 45 US
dollars) and then were a little bit disapointed,
because we walked around in the 3 halls and couldn't
find anyone we knew.
So we decided to go into the city for shopping and
stuff. After some hours we came back and still only
met a hand-full of people we knew. So we made the
decision to catch some sleep until there would be
more 64 sceners, although until then the first two
halls were already full and the third one about half
filled.
When we woke up 7 pm there were finally much more
sceners we know.. So we had some nice talks with
guys like SCARE/ACTIVE, WEASEL/HITMEN, DANZIG/AFL,
COUNT ZER0/SCS  +TRC and some other ones.
But than there suddenly happened something funny...
The power was gone! Everything was dark and no
computer worked! Everything was down... Half of the
town AARS was without power, just because of us
computer freaks taking too much power, hehe!
So the party's old slogan BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
was changed by the visitors into POWER NOT
INCLUDED! Yeah. That's a happening that was always
keep that party in many people memories.. :)
By then we went sleeping again, as it was said that
the power failure should last about 6 hours, but
finally after about two and a half hours the power
came back and the party could continue.
But we didn't care and continued sleeping until the
morning of the 28th of December. What we didn't
know by then, was that the 64 music competition
took place in the early morning hours! So a lot of
people slept while it took place!
Very bad organisation, I must admit! Most people
didn't know about the time table, because there was
only one(!!!) printed at the information stand! And
those who knew the time table didn't have much luck
too, because it was changed because of the power
failure!
When we woke up, it was about 10 am on the 28th
and we hang around with some guys from TRIAD and
talked to DEEKAY/CREST, DANE/CREST, MITCH/CREST,
DUKE/FAIRLIGHT and SUNDANCER/FAIRLIGHT, although
the conversation with the last two ones wasn't that
friendly, hehe!
Then at 14 o'clock was the deadline for the 64
graphics competition and three hours later it took
place then. After these lame PC and Amiga graphics
in their competition (there were only 2 or 3 nice
pictures in about 100 contributions!) the 64 graphics
compo had to become a real smasher!
But again the organizers fucked the shit up! They
displayed the pictures as a screenshot, converted
to PC! So, that means that there was only displayed
one frame of all Interlace-FLI pictures! I guess you
can imagine how ugly that looked!
Anyway, it was a success, as nearly all graphics
were quite nice and had a more or less high standart.
After that DODGER and me went to the sleeping hall
to have a shower and when we came back the PC and
Amiga competitions (Intros, Demos) started...
Then there again happened something funny.... DIDI of
LAXITY got the original of BOMB MANIA and started to
crack it. But as he wasn't successful he asked
some other crackers for trying to crack this game.
Then DODGER, DANZIG, DIDI and JACK ALIEN tried to
crack this game, one of the few with a protection
nowadays.
WEASEL, FATMAN, CHAOTIC/SMASH DESIGNS, ANONYM/
PADUA and me then were waiting for the PC demo
competition in front of the big screen and DODGER
came and told us happily that he did and cracked the
game as first! Yeah. Nice to have seen such a small
cracking competition once again!  :)
So we watched the PC competition, which was once
again delayed for about one and a half hour, and we
were really disappointed as these demos had a
fucking low quality this year.
When the WILD! demo competition started at about
3:30 o'clock most people were tired like hell... And
I decided to go to sleep again after watching the
first 6 WILD! demos, which all were really boring in
contrast to last year.
So I wanted to sleep until the CBM64 demo compo,
which was planned to take place at 10 o'clock.
At about 9 o'clock I couldn't sleep anymore.. Lucky
me! Because by then someone came into hall 3, the
hall were most C64 sceners were, and shouted, that
the C64 demo competition starts now! So all of us
took our things and ran into the mainhall to the big
screen.. The first demo was already running.... Again
really bad organisation - The demo compo one hour
too early.. Just imagine someone slept in the
sleeping hall and came at 10 am to watch the demos,
he surely came to late!
The quality as well as the number of the demos was
satisfying and of course one applause was hunting
the next one, even though many people were still
sleeping.
When the competition was finished the voting
started. And this year the voting had to be done on
the network online again, just like last year! For us
64 sceners that wasn't good, of course. So we
wanted to vote with the PC at the information stand.
But the party's webserver went down every 5 to 10
minutes! Bah! But somehow we finally got to cast our
votes...
Then the halls started to become more and more
empty.. I copied some of the demos and the DODGER,
FATMAN and his friend and me said Bye Bye and left
the party place at 12 o'clock on th 29th, about 1
hour before the prize giving ceremony.
We had a really good drive and after a critical
inspection at the border we were again in Germany
and arrived in Berlin at about 20 o'clock.

So, summarizing I can say that this party again
really was worth its money! There were of course
some bad sides like high entrance fee, unfriendly
organizers, bad organisation, the power failure and
the well-known after one hour dirty toilets, but that
didn't all matter very much. It was once again nice
to meet some old friends and get to know new faces
from people we only knew handle! It was fun!

Now as a last point I might give you a short list of
who was there... But of course it won't be complete...
I guess I'll forget more than 10 guys, hehe! Don't
blame me for this, please!
So, at THE PARTY 7 were present the following groups
- CAMELOT (RAZ, JEFF, CRUZER)
- TRIAD (IOPOP, TWOFLOWER, TAPER)
- OXYRON (AXIS, GRAHAM, TTS, FANTA)
- CREST (DEEKAY, DANE, MITCH)
- ACTIVE (SCARE)
- DYTEC (FATMAN, DODGER, HARDSEQUENCER)
- SMASH DESIGNS (AEG, CHAOTIC)
- HITMEN (CUPID, JACK ALIEN, WEASEL, GROEPAZ)
- REFLEX (HAPPYMAKER, FELIDAE)
- ALPHAFLIGHT 1970 (LYNCHBIT, DANZIG, RAYDEN)
- THE OBSESSED MANIACS (KB)
- FLASH INC. (WARP 8)
- FAIRLIGHT (DUKE, SUNDANCER, CROSSFIRE)
- LAXITY (DIDI)
- EXCESS (FANTASTIC ZOOL)
- PADUA (ANONYM, LEONARDO)
- CHROMANCE (JEAN)
- COMA + RESOURCE
- THE COMMODORE COWBOWS
and of course some other guys that I can't
remember now or even didn't know that they were
there, too!


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==WORLD OF ARTS==
<pre>
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                WORLD OF ARTS
                ----------- --

This time we bring you a review of the competition
pictures from THE PARTY 7, which took place in
Denmark from 27th to 29th of December.
Just like expected there got released the most and
for me also the best competition graphics of the
whole year 1997 at the party of the year! Although
best-known artists like CREEPER and ELECTRIC didn't
take part in this spectacle of the year, it became
clear that there are many until now unknown graphic
artists that know how to invite the spectator to
-- --------------------------------------------- --
trance and fascinate him pixel by pixel!
Of course there were also the ones that only wanted
to take part in the competition without any will to
win it.
But enough words wasted.... Let's have a look what
brought us this year's event concerning
eyesmashers...

ELLIS IN CHAINS by VIP
-- ---------------- --
Some kind of Manga styled picture, which shows a
chained woman... It gets refined with a blue-purple
background! A nice picture that was painted in
CREST's unbelievable SHIFT-LI editor!

Originality: 43% Conversion: 50%     Mode Usage: 53%
This picture is okay! Some parts like the arms could
have been painted a little bit better, but still it's
worth to be looked at, hehe!
The only thing that I'm thinking negative of, is the
fact that there once was a graphican with the name
VIP (a member of CREST)! Just by the way...

                                            > 49%


A-KO by BUD
-- ----- --
Just another Manga-like picture............. Shown is a
Mangaface (woman)... The whole gets completed with
a cloud-like mass!  :)

Originality: 39%  Conversion: 42%  Mode Usage: 34%

With some more colours this piece would look even
better! But that was the case with all Manga-C64-
pictures that I ever saw! I also miss the certain
shine-effects, that make Manga something special.
Anyway, this pic is okay.

                                            > 38%


GRUENSCHNABEL by WARP 8
-- ----------------- --
An Interlace-FLI picture that is based on a piece by
a sprayer called SIMO. Here we see a woman's face,
which might be better known as MEDUSA... The whole
thing gets surrounded by a hair-snake-thingy with
faces... Nice pic!

Originality: 35%  Conversion: 65%  Mode Usage: 55%

Why only 35% for originality? Simple answer... It was
not WARP 8 who painted the original but SIMO!
The only thing that I have to find fault with is the
massive flickering of the cigarette.
But still an extremly fat piece!

                                                 > 52%




DEXTER by CRUZER
-- ---------- --
Who doesn't know him? The small comic-boy that
pleases the masses day by day with his comic series
DEXTERS LARORATORIES on the british tv channel
CARTOON NETWORK! Essentialy nothing else to say...
Just watch the comic! It's worth it!

Originality: 35% Conversion: 51%    Mode Usage: 38%

CRUZER really shows that he knows how to paint
comic-styled pictures! It's quite simple, but it looks
great anyway!
One of the better pictures (for me personally), but
I have to take into consideration the other expanded
graphics when giving the points... So this picture
get only 7% in originality!

                                                 > 32%


DRAGONWAR by SPLASH
-- -------------- --
Unbelievable! ...That this guy is ashamed to release
an unpixelled pure Interlace-FLI converted graphic!
Displayed are two fighting dragons...

Originality: 5%  Conversion: 0%   Mode Usage: 5%

A shame for every artist! Usually any kind of
picture steeling like this has to be banned from
every competition! That takes the chance from them
who put a lot of pixelling work into their pieces...
Essentialy this pic would deserve 0%!

                                                 > 3%


DEVIL by AMN
-- ------ --
An Interlace-FLI graphic that shows a smoking devil.
Btw, it seems that smoking was this party's motto,
eh?!? Hehe.. That picture is painted (?) badly...

Originality: 9%   Conversion: 15%    Mode Usage: 10%

One of the pictures that better never ever should
have been released! My judgement is justified in any
way!

                                              > 11%


DON'T FUCK WITH ME by EQ
-- ------------------ --
One of the good koala pictures that took part in the
competition.. Displayed are things like a woman's
face, a shooting guy and a mutant... The whole gets
surrounded by some things like a snake etc.

Originality: 57% Conversion: 68%   Mode Usage: 84%

The mode was used excellently! Because of the mass
of colours the picture gets a special touch. I wish
that all koala pictures would have that quality!

                                               > 70%


UNTITLED by TYRANT
-- ------------ --
Like most picture nowadays also this picture was
painted in the I-FLI mode... You can see an old man
that seems to be a professor or so...

Originality: 48%  Conversion: 61%  Mode Usage: 42%

It's out of question that this picture also would
have been possible in normal FLI or maybe even in
koala! That's why I gave not so many points!
Anyway, a nice pic!

                                               > 50%


ANGRY MAN by REEKOL
-- ------------- --
An Interlace-FLI picture, which shows an ugly
creature (ugly concerning the creature itself).. A
good advertisement for OIL OF OLAZ creme, hehe!
The creature looks at the spectator and tries to
pull you into the screen. Hehe, just kidding...

Originality: 47%   Conversion: 61% Mode Usage: 40%

Cool picture! Hope to see more from REEKOL in the
future... The mode wasn't chosen very well, because
this piece would have been possible in FLI as well.
But that isn't so important!

                                                > 49%


BOMB THE BASS by HARDSEQUENCER
-- ------------------------- --
An Interlace-FLI picture that is based on a graffiti
piece, which was sprayed some years ago in Berlin/
Germany! You can see two sprayers that rock the
city in the background with their ghettoblasters!

Originality: 38%  Conversion: 52%   Mode Usage: 53%

For me it flickers too much! The reason for that are
the bright colours... Also this picture would have
been possible in FLI! It looks cool anyway! And most
of all: It isn't converted.

                                                  > 48%


HOPELESS by HOOGO
-- ------------ --
A picture that was painted in a new mode (at least I
don't know this mode!). MC-Interlace using 47 hires-
sprites per frame.. I have to say that this
resolution is really good.. Displayed is a little
dressed woman, that is surrounded by rocks....... Nice
panorama!

Originality: 46% Conversion: 52%  Mode Usage: ???

As I don't know this graphic mode I decided to give
no points concerning the Mode Usage.... Hope to see
more pics/logos in this mode in the future!

                                                 > 49%


BREAKTHROUGH by ZELDIN
-- ---------------- --
This picture was painted in Drazlace-mode........ Shown is
Clar K-Gable, who surely is better known a SUPERMAN.
Surrounded is the whole thing by stones/walls etc...

Originality: 73% Conversion: 78%   Mode Usage: 57%

Cool picture! Another positiv thing is that the
painter offers every specticer to show him all 10
saves of the picture to prove that it's really
handpixelled.

                                                > 69%


BIOCONTROL by FELIDAE
-- ---------------- --
For this picture the I-FLI mode was chosen...
Displayed i a flute playing man, who tries to
influence a mutant-snake-bat.... The whole gets
bordered by a pruple box...

Originality: 36% Conversion: 48%     Mode Usage: 43%

This pic would have been possible in normal FLI...
But concerning all other aspects it's ok!

                                                  > 42%


CLEVELAND by IRON MAN
-- ---------------- --
I really don't know what to say! Displayed is the
sign of the baseball team CLEVELAND INDIANS...

Originality: 1%  Conversion: 5%    Mode Usage: 2%

This thingy would have been in ASCII codes, too!  : )
It's so bad that it isn't really worth to write about...

                                                   > 3%


BATMANBRAETFISCH by CYCLONE
-- --------------------- --
One of the best Interlace-FLI pictures I ever saw!
Shown is a landscape in which a wolf and a woman are
included! Cool! The painter is well known on the
Amiga, where he is a member of the group ABYSS, and
from time to time he also paints on the C64!

Originality: 78%  Conversion: 95%    Mode Usage: 100%

The mode was used extremely! The style somehow
reminds me of ELECTRIC! Perhaps it's a cloned
ELECTRIC? Hehe.. Hopefully we'll see more from that
talent in the near future!

                                                > 91%


LITTLE YOUNG OLD GRANNY by RAYDEN
-- --------------------------- --
An I-FLI Amiga converted picture! Displayed are two
different half's of a face.. The one is an old face
and the other one a bloody young one! Surrounded is
the whole thing by colour-fire (?)...

Originality: 65%  Conversion: 71%    Mode Usage: 89%

I only give 71% for the conversion, because this pic
was painted on Amiga! I'd like to see once a C64
based and painted picture from RAYDEN one day!
Converting is for me one of the worst violations
from VIC-chips, in this case of the C64's one!
Even though it was pixelled on the Amiga... It's much
easier to paint on the Amiga than on the CBM64!

                                                  > 75%


MULTIMEDIOT by DEEKAY
-- ---------------- --
This picture was painted in an improved and still yet
unspreaded version of the CREST SHIFT-LI editor, if
I'm not mistaken. You can see a boy with a windows
flag in one hand, who looks fuckin' weird! Just a
stupid PC freak, hehe!

Originality: 76%  Conversion: 41%   Mode Usage: 48%

This picture is quite funny to look at, but it's too
small! Only about half of the screen is really used
and so it looks all a little bit empty. The
colourfading of the guy are great, but that's no
problem with this graphic mode, I guess.. But I really
have to respect DEEKAY's work, as it's fuckin' hard
to handle the editor for this mode!

                                                > 55%

SPICE UP YOUR LIFE by DANE
-- --------------------- --
Hard to guess from the title................. This piece shows the
5 well known woman MEL B, MEL C, EMMA, VICTORIA and
GERI from the SPICE GIRLS.

Originality: 61%  Conversion: 38%  Mode Usage: 43%

The girls aren't painted that well. It just all looks a
bit comic like. At least you can really guess and
figure the girls' faces.
A positive point is, that DANE painted that picture
only at the party! He started and finished it there!
Respect!

                                                 > 47%
That were all pictures from THE PARTY 7.
My ranking then looks like this...

1. BATMANBRAETFISCH         by CYCLONE           91%
2. LITTLE YOUNG OLD GRANNY by RAYDEN             75%
3. DON'T FUCK WITH ME      by EQ                 70%

For comparison here are the competition results

1. LITTLE YOUNG OLD GRANNY by RAYDEN
2. SPICE UP YOUR LIFE      by DANE
3. UNTITLED                by TYRANT

So, quite surprising that DANE's picture reached the
second place... I guess the party was attended by
many anonymous Spice Girls fans, hehe!
All in all this competition wasn't very different to
the ones before..... Anyway, it's always nice again to
see that there are still active people that invest
many hours to pixel excellent pictures just for
small prizes (or none!)...
Unfortunately there are also guys that try gain
votes with lame Amiga/PC converted pictures... And
very often they are successful with this method! A
pity, because this takes the chance to be
successful in the competition from them, who really
spent many days for their contribution.
But this problem is known since there are compos.

Btw, the last two pictures (the ones by DEEKAY and
DANE) were reviewed by HARDSEQUENCER. I couldn't
review them as they weren't spread around with the
other competition graphics.. So HS reviewed them by
recalling them, when they were shown in the
competition and when DEEKAY and DANE were painting
them on the party.

                         SHOK'RAY/MEGASTYLE
                         --------------------
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