Ymgve at 22:46, 29 June 2007

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the interviews
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this time we made rockstar of extasy
and xxx of talent telling us a little
bit about themselves...

first interview made by fletch,
second one by bod...

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m : mamba

r : rockstar

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m : hi rockstar

r : hi.

(ed. great opening eh?)

m : tell us something about yourself

r : well, i'm 20 years old, 190cm
tall and i live in finland.
enough???

m : in which group have you been in
before and what is your job in
xtc

r : i have been in byterapers, contex
fairlight and finally extasy.
and my job is cracking, coding
and some modem-trading. in that
particular order.

m : what do you think about the scene
nowadyas???

r : well it is getting more and more
boring, the 64 scene certainly
lacks wares compared to amiga
for instance. but still i prefer
the 64, it's not so much about
making money and all that.
otherwise, the european scene is
pretty much the way it has always
been forming around 90% of the
scene. the american scene has
turned into shit, if it hasn't
allways been that. still to many
assholes who brag about things
they know nothing about...
m : what are you favourite...

r : cracking group : ikari + talent
single cracker : antitrack
board : forum

movie : total recall
music group : public enemy
food : fast food
drink : wodka-russian
(russian is a mixer..)
and woman : laura
(ed. palmer??)

m : if you could change anything in
the scene today what would the
be???

r : as many games released as for the
amiga and boards only 9600bps
only! haha.. well seriously, i
just wish that the commie would
last forever, which it won't. and
more competent crackers...

m : what has been your hardest crack
so far??

r : hmm.. i don't know really, i
never failed to crack a
protection properly. but paperbag
writer was pretty tough and then
there was this utility i don't
remember the name of, protection
by pure-byte in 1987 i think.
i can't remember any real hard
protected games right now. but
cartridges are really fun to
crack, i wish there were more...

m : do you have an amiga and if yes
what are you doing on it?

r : i don't have an amiga and i'm not
planning on getting one. maybe
a 386 instead. i have lots of
friends in the amiga scene though
(incl. my littlebrother..) but
basicly i don't like what i see
in the amiga cracking scene.
people just trying to make big
bucks by selling games and only
very few competent crackers.

m : do you have any future plans???

r : well in a week my matriculation
exams will start, when that's
over, i have about 2 months left
before i will have to go and do
my military service! i have no
idea of what will happen to xtc
then but it seems my 64 career
will reach its end then. but
but actually i don't even care
that much, i have been in the
scene long enough to have done
a lot of things, cracked a lot
of games, many of them real fast,
many of them real short. i also
coded many things i can be proud
of, made some real from the scene

r : it's been fun but other things
in life are just getting more
important...

m : well since i have to go out in
in like an hour ill have to leave
now, so anything you wanna say
before i go?

r : just keep up the good work and
keep both mamba and i+t in the
top. bye.

now we present to our readers the long
awaited interview with xxx of talent!
enjoy the interview. m:mamba.. x=xxx!
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m:hi paul, tell all the readers a bit
about yourself?

x:well, i am 21 years old! don't work
with computers! i work as a timber
machinist and i am fast at getting
originals!

m:how long have you been in the scene?
and how did your career start?

x:i've been in the scene about 5/6 yrs
first of all me and a local lamer
x:airborne started a small group
called the nfl(not ths usa group?)
we started trading with honey/1001
and sledgehammer/hotline and a local
group to me called bcs! after a
while trading sledgehammer asked us
to join hotline. i was doing all the
cracking and airborne did not do
anything. bod joined hotline a while
after us. i bought myself a 1670
from sledgehamme. to cut a long
story short after a while of things
going ok we had a big argument with
sledgehammer over who we traded in
the usa! it was after cracking the
game aaargh! sledge wanted us to
trade with asterix but me and darren
x:wanted to stay with inc. the next
day we got the game xybots! then we
decided to quit hotline and form
talent. sledgehammer found out about
us quiting after seeing our first
release 'xybots' we then started to
crack/release a lot more wares. then
hotline disintegrated from a good
group to nothing. this was around
september 1989. then around xmas 89
ikari wanted to come back to the
scene and thats where the legendary
co-op was started! we were trading
with inc. then when they decided to
stop importing we moved between a
few usa groups until we found tsm!
that's where we are today!
m:tell us where you got your handle
from?

x:well it started a long time ago. one
day when i was playing space invader
and i got the hi-score. i decided to
just place 3 xxx's in there! and it
has stuck ever since.

m:what do you think about the scene
today compared to the scene a year
or so back?

x:well, i think it is slowing down
quite a bit. but since the carts are
coming out. there is hope for the 64
there used to be loads of games
x:released and now there is hardly
anything. all the programmers have
gone onto 16bit machine and consoles
most of the people left coding games
now are ex-crackers.

m:have you any regrets about your
years on the 64?

x:not really, it is enjoyable and
challenging to get the cracks out
first. especially now that the
cartridges have arrived.

m:what do you do in your spare time?

x:i spend most of my time working.
x:i play a lot of snooker and sleep.
i also watch quite a few movies.

m:what are your favourites?
music:j.m.jarre,hip hop.
food :it's gotta be pizza.
drink:pepsi (bleerrrrggghhhh!)
sport:soccer and snooker.
game :lemmings and lotus turbo espirit
on amiga. welltris on 64.
movie:home alone, kindergarten cop,
total recall.

m:now tell me some of the things that
you dislike?

x:i dislike getting up early in the
x:morning, i hate the poll tax.

m:anyone you would like to greet at
this point?

x:all the guys in ikari and talent
(especially bod), tsm, excell.

m:any last words?

x:i must thank mamba for the interview
and goodbye.

m:thanx for the interview.
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Mamba 17 ch04 The Interviews - Revision history

Ymgve at 22:46, 29 June 2007