Propaganda 03 ch04

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      THIS MONTH WE INTERVIEWED
      THIS MONTH WE INTERVIEWED...
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...WALTER KONRAD OF "DOUBLE DENSITY"
Did you ever try to sell a game to
MAGIC DISK,GAME ON or GOLDEN DISK?
Did they refuse it? Then WALTER is the
one you have to shoot! Hehe! He's the
man in charge...

..."KOKOMO" VIDEO GAMES PRODUCTION
Two girls built a coding group.
(They made that "HISKADO" game!)
...We interviewed both of them on a
conferrence.

...TYGER OF GENESIS*PROJECT
SNACKY is the best cracker ever on
the C64,but was quite lazy the last
few months. TYGER is the new generation!

...OLIVER LINDAU ALIAS VETO OF G*P
He made the graphics for ROLLING RONNIE.

    WALTER KONRAD OF DOUBLE DENSITY
    WALTER KONRAD OF DOUBLE DENSITY
    _______________________________
EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU WORK FOR "DOUBLE
DENSITY". WHAT EXACTLY IS YOUR JOB?

To get as much money as I can... Shit,
to get some good games which will be
released under that label. Notice that
2D is also active on Amiga,PC and ST.
It is not really a full-time job, since
I've got lots of other stuff to do for
the company.
If you've got a good game don't hesitate
to send it to me. It doesn't matter if
it's a low-budget game. I think lots of
people got something wrong with the term
"low-budget" because there are a lot of
low-cost games which are better than any
full-price.

YOU HAVE NOT ALWAYS HAD THIS JOB. WHAT
DID YOU DO BEFORE AND HOW DID YOU GET
THE JOB?

My first computer was a C64 in 1985.
Later I was in a few groups (Mega,WOD
and 711) when I got in touch with some
nice people. In 1988 CP VERLAG asked me
to join their team and so I did...

IN HOW FAR ARE YOU STILL IN CONTACT
WITH THE ILLEGAL SCENE?

Sometimes you might see me at some
parties. I'm still in touch with my
best friends from back then (Mr.Cursor,
Hobbit...).




WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TODAY'S SCENE?

I'm a bit disappointed about the scene
as real friendship seems to be gone.
What counts is to blame anyother and
everybody claims to be the coolest.

TRUE. WELL,WHAT DO YOU THINK,WHEN WILL
THE C64 DIE?

On 19th of August 1992! Hehe... No,it'll
never die,if there are guys like you
using it!

ANY FUTURE PLANS?

I'm on Amiga since 1989,I got a 386 in
199O and I'll keep with the company!



WHAT DOES YOUR DAY LOOK LIKE?

  8:OO -  8:3O reading newspaper
  8:3O -  9:OO getting breakfast
  9:OO - 1O:OO reading the mail
 1O:OO - 12:OO misceleanous
 12:OO - 12:3O out for lunch
 12:3O - 14:OO checking some games
 14:OO - 18:OO negotiate with programers

WHAT OTHER THAN COMPUTING DO YOU DO?

Having a good time with my girl,travel
around the world,driving my car and
having fun with good friends.

DO YOU HAVE A STEADY GIRLFRIEND?

Yes! Daniela lives with me for 3 years
now.

TELL US YOUR FAVOURITES,PLEASE...

CAR.....: Porsche 928 S4
FOOD....: Italian,Chinese
DRINK...: Coke,Wine,Orange Juice
BOOKS...: everything of Tom Clancy
GAMES...: Turrican II, Speedball II
MUSIC...: Technotronic,Talk Talk...
ACTOR...: Bruce Willis
MOVIES..: Naked Gun 2 1/2
COUNTRY.: Australia
COMPUTER: Amiga,PC

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT "PROPAGANDA"?

Bullshit! Hehe! No,it looks like a very
good disk-mag!




THE THREE THINGS YOU'D NEED IF YOU'D BE
BANNED ON A DESERT ISLAND?

Three girls! No,but I'd by lucky to be
there with Daniela,some gallons of
Coke and a swimming belt!

IF YOU COULD MEET A FAMOUS PERSON,DEAD
OR ALIVE,WHO SHOULD IT BE AND WHY?

Saddam Hussein... To drown him in a
puddle of oil!

THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW!

Any time.





                 KOKOMO
                 KOKOMO
                 ______
HI! TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF!

SYLVIA:
I'm 19 years old and I'm an apprentice.

ANDREA:
I'm two years younger than her and I am
an apprentice aswell.

THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLY GOOD DESCRIBTION.
AND HOW DID YOU EVER GET INTO COMPUTING?

SYLVIA:
We know each other for about 9 years now
and used to play mega-hits like PAPERBOY
together... Hummm... Quite a while ago
now.

ANDREA:
But we starting doing things ourselves
only about 2 years ago. Only trying and
testing for about half a year until we
figured out how to do things. SYLVIA
started coding (starting with Basic of
course) and I drew some graphics.

DID YOU EVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH
THE (ILLEGAL) SCENE? WHAT DO YOU THINK
ABOUT THE SCENE?

SYLVIA:
Not really. Then again,yes,I tried to
crack 2 or 3 games,just for fun,only
to learn a little more about coding...
Well,I hate lamers like VERDICT,they
stole our game HISKADO before it was
completely finished!


DO YOU TWO HAVE A BOYFRIEND?

SYLVIA:
Either one of us even has her own!

DO THEY HAVE A COMPUTER?

SYLVIA:
No. Just playing (testing) our games
ever once in a while.

HOW MANY GAMES HAVE YOU MADE?

All in all we made seven,but you can
forget five of them right away. They
were baaaaaaaaad...





WHAT ABOUT THE TWO OTHER GAMES THEN?

HISKADO and SHILLY SHALLY (Well,that one
is not really finished yet).

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

No comment!

WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?

ANDREA:
Charlatans,Chris Isaak,Ska,'5Os Oldies.
...well,anything but Hip Hop.

SYLVIA:
Bob Marley,Alice Cooper,Clash,Violent
Femmes,ACDC,Oldies from the 5Os and'6Os,
Joy Division,Hooters,Sisters of Mercy
and all other Hip Hoppers... Hehehe!

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUUT "PROPAGANDA"?

SYLVIA:
The ANTI-MAMBA intro is quite nice!!

ANDREA:
Ahh,well... pffft... sure... nice...

WHAT OTHER THAN COMPUTING DO YOU DO?

ANDREA:
Paaaaaarties! (No copypartiies anyway!),
Body Shaping and Sqash.

SYLVIA:
Parties (Yes,yes...),Badminton,Squash,
shopping,reading or simply nothing.




WHY NOT COPY-PARTIES?

ANDREA:
Because most boys are too arrogant...

SYLVIA:
Pah! Crap!

ANDREA:
No,really!

SYLVIA:
These parties are simply boring.

THREE THINGS YOU'D NEED ON A DESERTED
ISLAND...

SYLVIA:
A straw,cigarettes and a hammock.


ANDREA:
A hammer (for the coconuts),Sylvia's
Teddy,and hair-spray.

ANY FUTURE PLANS?

SYLVIA:
Getting more professional in coding and
meeting a lot oof new people.

ANDREA:
Dito.

ANYTHING ELSE LEFT TO BE SAID?

ANDREA:
Hummm,yes,if anyone wants to contact us,
write to PROPGANDA,they'll pass it over.
(And send pictures! Hehehe!)


        TYGER OF GENESIS PROJECT
        TYGER OF GENESIS PROJECT
        ________________________
HI,MARC! DESCRIBE YOURSELF!

I'm a 17 years old German student,about
185 cm tall and I got brown hair and
blue/green eyes... I like going to
parties whenever I have time and I live
in a small city near Wuppertal/Germany.

HOW,WHEN,WHERE AND WHY DID YOU GET A
COMPUTER AND WHAT HAPPENED EVER SINCE?

Hummm,sooooo long ago! I think I bought
it in 1986. The groups I was in?! Uuugh,
pretty embarresing... I have been in the
"Crack Kings" together with a friend of
mine,later I was alone for a while until
I joined PARAMOUNT. They died,so I tried

to build up an official 64-section of
TRISTAR+RED SECTOR together with WILD-
STYLE. Finally I joined GENESIS where I
will remain.

HOW DID YOU LEARN TO CRACK?

My very first crack ever was "Wonder-
boy". A friend of mine taught me how to
code in Assembler,so I didn't have to
start from scratch,but anything else I
learned by myself. My hardest crack
ever was "Turrican 1" but I improved a
lot ever since. Well,the hardest
protection I have ever seen was SNACKY's
NEURO-PROTECT V1.O on the "Disk Magazine
Creator". But even THAT one wasn't hard
enough for me! Hehe!



ANY OTHER HOBBIES?

If I don't waste my time in front of the
computer I either play Tennis,Billiard,
and various other sports or I meet some
(girl-)friends and we go downtown...
Ohh,and I like MTV and California Clan!

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TODAY'S SCENE?

Not too good anymore,the companies don't
really release that many games anylonger
on the C64 so it's getting a bit boring.
There are only very few really good
crackers nowadays,like: SNACKY,CRISP and
ROCKSTAR... I hate lamers who think they
are cool crackers just because they link
so-called mini-intros in front of un-
protecteted onefilers! ...And then some
of them even recrack!!

TELL US YOUR FAVOURITE...

CAR.....: Peugeot 2O5 GTI
FOOD....: Pizza,French Fries,Gyros etc.
DRINK...: Beer,Longdrinks,Coke
BOOKS...: Neuromancer,Cyberspace
GAMES...: Neuromancer,and any Lucas Film
          Games adventures
MUSIC...: Scorpions,Genesis (Phil
          Collins),KLF,Simple Minds
          and many,many more!
ACTOR...: Sylvester Stallone,Arnold
          Schwarzenegger,Bruce Willis,
          Freddy Krueger,Jason Morris,
          Michael Myers
MOVIE...: Die Hard 1+2,Rambo 1-3,
          Terminator 1+2,Flatliners,
          Iron Eagle 1+2,Evil Dead 1+2
COUNTRY.: Germany
COMPUTER: C128

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT "PROPAGANDA"?

LAAAAAME!! (Hehe! Will I get kicked out
now?! No,seriously it's DA BEEEZZZZT!!)

THE THREE THINGS YOU'D NEED ON A DESERT
ISLAND?

A submarine,a map and a compass.

IF YOU COULD MEET ANY PERSON DEAD OR
ALIVE,WHO SHOULD IT BE AND WHY?

Nobody in particular,maybe some of my
favourite actors...

ANY FUTURE PLANS?

Earning loads of money and maybe getting
Hightech-hardware like HOLOSTORE!

        VETO OF GENESIS PROJECT
        VETO OF GENESIS PROJECT
        _______________________
HI,OLIVER! PLEASE TELL US A BIT ABOUT
YOURSELF!

I'm 19 years old,I'm 174 cm,the colour
of my hair changes about every second
day,right now they are natural and light
blond,but about a year ago they were
purple. I live in Wattenscheid/Germany.

WHAT GAMES DID YOU WORK ON?

I made the graphics for SECOND WORLD
(on C64,Amiga and PC),INVEST (PC) and
MINDBENDER,TRANSWORLD,ROLLING RONNIE,
RETURN OF MEDUSA,CORX,REBEL RACERS,
CROWN,TURN IT 2,THINK CROSS,and MONSTER
BUSINESS (all of these on the C64).

HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU EARN?

It differs from project to project.
Usually the price for one of my pictures
is between 1OO,- and 5OO,- DM. Nowadays
I would charge 7OOO-8OOO DM to do all
the graphics for a game like ROLLING
RONNIE.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDOLS? AND WHAT DO YOU
THINK ABOUT ALL THESE SO-CALLED GRAPHIC
ARTISTS IN THE SCENE?

I adore Michael Kosaka,he made the
graphics for SUMMER and WINTER GAMES!
The other one I like is Jim Sachs,he
made the graphics for DEFENDER OF THE
CROWN and the introduction-screen for
CD TV. Scene artists are important for
the survival of the C64,as they are the

ones who can still concentrate on
graphics without submitting to the
pressure of a software company that
dictates them what to draw. Too bad
their reputation depends on how much
and how fast they draw and not how good
they draw...

WHAT OTHER HOBBIES DO YOU HAVE?
...WHAT ABOUT A STEADY GIRLFRIEND?

I like watching videos,reading books and
listening to music. No sports! (Not even
on TV)! And,no,I'm solo.







TELL US YOUR FAVOURITE...

CAR.....: Toyota Carina
FOOD....: Canelloni
DRINK...: Wodka,coffee
BOOKS...: Neuromancer (Read it 3 times!)
GAMES...: Susweet (64),Simulcra (Amiga),
          Sonic Hedgehog (Megadrive) and
          Rockman World (Gameboy)
MUSIC...: Skid Row,Iron Maiden,Judas
          Priest,Jean Michel Jarre
ACTOR...: Bette Midler,Catherine Deneuve
MOVIE...: Aliens
COUNTRY.: USA
COMPUTER: PC






WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT "PROPAGANDA"?

I was amazed! Still it could have more
text! I know,it has more text than any
other 64 mag,but have a look at any
Amiga-magazine,they are much longer...
Well,MAMBA has a boring outfit and it
is amusing to read all their wrong news.
PROPAGANDA rules!!!

IN HOW FAR ARE YOU STILL IN CONTACT WITH
THE ILLEGAL SCENE?

Hardly anything. Ever once in a while I
look around to see what's new. I'm only
interested in demos though.. On Amiga I
am in the a demogroup called DESIGN and
on the C64 I'm in G*P. Well,I don't have
much time for the scene as I'm busy doin
graphics for a game called LETHAL XCESS.

ANY FUTURE PLANS?

Maybe an own software house with own
marketing etc. And maybe I can help
other artists to improve and make money
with their abilities.

OK. THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW!

You're welcome!