Jamaica 01 ch03 Interview
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interview
in this first issue it's only one inter-
view, but maybe it will be more in the
future issues. this interview is quite
old but i hope you like it.
?= BUMBOO
!= RIDDLER/ACRISE
?: -tell us something about yourself.
!: -hmm, ok.. my real name is erik and
i live in a city in the north of
sweden called boden. i'm 17 years
old (born in 1974). i have brown
hair, glasses and i'm around 1.84 m
tall. my weight is around 65 kilos.
by the way, if you ever meet me you
will notice that i'm allways wearing
DOBBER jeans!!!
?: -in which groups have you been before
you joined acrise?
!: -before i joined acrise i have been
in a uk group called THE LOST SOULS
(hi al!) but as this group died last
summer i joined the swedish group
MANIAX. after some mounths in maniax
i got the offer to join the rebuilt
ACRISE and so i did! i've been in
acrise for around 9 months now and
i'm not planning to leave!
?: -when did you bought your C64 and
when did you get into the scene?
!: -eeh... hmm! i'm not very proud to
say that i bought c64 just precise
2 years ago. so, i played games for
a half year or so until i got the
idea to start swapping. (my friend
TRASHER started the hole thing.)
well, after some months in the
business without any real group i
joined TLS in april 1991. we could
say that was then i got into the
scene for real. atleast i started
to get a bit known...
?: -are you LAME?
!: -lame? hehe, this is a funny question
well, some guys like JUCKE/GENESIS
would absolutly demand the answer:
yes!! but that's jucke ofcourse...
honestly, i don't think i'm lame.
i'm not ELITE, atleast not if you
count elite as in the modem-scene.
but i don't care much about the word
elite anymore. those that a majority
of people think is the elite is the
elite and the same counts for lamers
i guess! and as most guys think that
i'm ok i guess that i'm not a lamer.
hehe, very long answer to a simple
question! (ed. yeah, lame!! <joke)
?: -what do you think about that some
coders says that swappers are lamers
that it's so simple to be a swapper
and so on?
!: -the guys that really think that
swappers are lame does not deserve
a place in the scene. i really hate
when i hear these kinda rubbish. we
are all in this scene for the fun of
it! (atleast i am...) on the other
hand, a swapper is not productive.
a crew built on only swappers is not
a real group so coders are definitly
needed for the scene, but you can
also think about that when all
swappers and traders is gone there
won't be any scene left! so at the
end, everyone is needed, productive
or not.
?: -do you think that the c64 is a
computer? how long do you think that
the scene will be as big as today?
!: -if this is the death of the c64 as
some says, then i say to them:
"we have allready proved that there's
life after death!" see what i mean?
this computer is not dead until we
want it to die. ofcourse, if the
illegal scene would die totally then
i think that many guys will loose
much of the fun. but with raising
sells of 64's and games to the 64 i
think that this is still a problem
of the furure.
?: -how many contacts do you have and do
you have some other functions than
swapper in acrise?
!: -i guess that i have around 75-80
contacts. it's not very much, but i
don't want so very much more as the
swapping would get too massive and
boring then. as i'm the only one in
ACRISE that own a modem i'm also the
modem-spreader for acrise eventhough
i'm not a very big one, especially
not in the states! also i could add
that i'm the hq acrise/sweden, but
this is not very important as we
have no real leaders in acrise any-
more.
?: -what do you think of DISC-MAGS? do
you read'em?
!: -ahh.. everybody is saying that there
is too many of them, and i surely
agree.. ok, the mags themselves is
not the worst thing. the worst thing
is all the fucken votesheets that
you have to spread, fill in, write
news + addy on and send back! i'm
getting pretty sick of it! ok i read
many mags, but i rather look at cool
demos.. the few mags that i always
read are: MEGA MADNESS, SHOCK, CORR-
UPTION, BANANA/POTATO NEWS and FATAL
NEWS.
?: -greet your BEST pals in the scene.
!: -ok, here's the lucky ones:
...the whole acrise-crew. (rainer,
tim, igor, marcus, artur, jonas,
ruud.. etc.) i love you all guys!
with this team we're immortal!!
...trasher/active (a real cool
cracker and my best friend for ages)
...dr.pain/intruders ( a very cool
beerloving pal of mine... hehe!!)
...JAM. (wolverine,bumboo,mac)
simply cool friends all of them, but
especially wolverine deserves to be
mentiones. allways cool meetings!
...+ all other coolies like royal,
trident, surfer, kenneth i piteå,
whisper, tech, deadbone, streethawk,
design, ravage, wingo... and in and
on....!!!
?: -thanx for the interview RIDDLER!!!
!: -ehh, thanx to you for interviewing!!
really funny!!
and there we leave RIDDLER and that
makes the end of this chapter!!
for to be interviewed contact
BUMBOO of JAM
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