Brutal Recall 06 ch19
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"STORY ABOUT THE SCENE" written by YAEMON/DEPREDATORS ---------------------------------------- yes,it's the 90's and the scene is on the edge! well,we ask ourselves on the edge of what? since late 70's the great firm COMMODORE produced for the first time the CBM 64 BASIC MACHINE,and it was a revolution for all us! i remember when i was eleven years old i had already heard and seen this machine and i wanted it as hell! then it was my birthday (1984) and i got the 64 in present-oh hell i was pleasant!- i called abit around to my friends also having 64 (now they lost interest a long time ago) i wanted sum games you see! i remember my 1st tape (urgh!) with crax! cracked by SHERLOCK HOLMES,1001 CREW,ACE,DELTA,REFLEX,NSC...EAGLE SOFT etc...etc... all those legends are gone by now but they have my deepest respect! it is now i want you to realize my point in this "warning" you may call it! all these groups are dead now... all the members are probably some 30-YEAR-OLD WORK-MANIACS on an office somewhere! they maybe have their 64 yet,but it's probably all dusty in a drawer or on a shelf.. whatever!! those groups are a comperison to the groups today! as we all know: we cannot keep up the scene throughout all our lives,and further more we will have jobs and no time for hobbies! (=computing today!!) the average of all members in every group are TEENAGERS!!!! we have a life,right? so who the hell wnna sit in front of the 64 when we have some urgent business to tend to us,let's suppose you are 35 years old! the scene cannot die from one day to another,but it will die slowly as everybody looses their interest for the machine! the only thing that could save the scene is to pass it over to the next generation of teenagers,which funny enough will be our children! and yet we must say to them that the scene is not a lifestyle,but a hobby! LONG LIVE THE SCENE! signed YAEMON/DDT P.S.gimme some reactions on this message ---------------------------------------- yo yaemon... pretty interesting letter you wrote!! i fully agree with this and i think i know a good way to help the next generation a bit... here's a little experience of my own: the first thing a newcomer will do,is to send to a dude from who he saw his address and ask him to swap... the stuff he sends is mostly fucking old as he has no other contacts. he sends to several guys and hopes to get a reply... the contacted dudes though mostly do not send back as the stuff is too old, and if none of the contacted sends back to him,he will give up hope and there we lost a newcomer... but if someone sends back he now got the opportunity to contact more guys with newer wares and more chance on a reply!! he gets more and more contacts and also get some utilities... he might become interested in other things than swapping like:-coding -cracking -composing -designing or what ever... this guy might be very good in one of these things and he becomes one of his kind... but this all was only possible thanks to the guy(s) that sended back to him! so now you got my point. if you get contacted by someone from a group you've never heard from (if he is in one!) and his stuff is pretty old then send back to him and give him a chance... you can always drop him,when he proves to be lame... ---------------------------------------- well,that was all i had to say about this... if you want to react on this then don't wait and send your letter to: "BRUTAL RECALL!" XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ----------------------------------------