Skyhigh 08 ch11 About Romulus
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about romulus/creatures
? skyhigh
! romulus/creatures
yo......
first of all thanx for sharing your
personality with the rest of us.
-but let's get started the boring way!
? please tell us your handle and group.
! i use to be romulus/creatures.
? and your real name ?
! they call me roman.
? when were you delivered to the earth?
(day,month,year)
! that must have been on april 6, 1975.
? ok that were the most important things
but pleaz give us a small introduction
of yourself.
(personal facts : height - hair colour
eye colour - glasses
sparetime, other interests, job/school
hobbies and so on!!)
! um, last time i have taken measure
i was around 1.84 meters tall, i have
had brown hair and brown eyes my
entire life. these my velvetlike eyes
see the world through glasses. since
i am studying and beside this also
working to earn some extra bucks i do
not have a lot of sparetime, but if
this happens to be i (sad, but true)
hang a lot of time infront of those
stupid computers, mainly i am still
dealing with the 64. other interests-
well, i'm really into music (or call
it what you like; i'm speaking about
underground- (hard)trance, acid and
techno in general), time passes at
dance-parties, composing (?!) and just
listening to it. sometimes i am in the
mood for some 'reallife'-roleplaying-
games, well, i know how to spend my
time...
? for how long have you been in the 64-
scene. or in other words : please tell
us when you entered the world of the
commodore 64 - and it's scene?
! all this started happening to me when
having bought my c64 (ehh?) in early
1990. unable to enjoy the 'better'
games with a datasette only i became
a proud owner of a 1541-ii diskdrive
in september the same year. gambling
around some time i noticed a local
club here in dresden which got the
name 'commodore club dresden', i got
access to some scenestuff (demos),
that inspired me to do some grafix
myself. well, some guys thought these
grafix were good and helped me to get
into a scenegroup - that was in may
1991, i think.
? in which groups have you been before?
! well, nothing serious to mention here,
just take it as a fact that creatures
is my first real group.
? your handle romulus.
is there a special story to it?
please tell how you got it!
! i used this handle long before coming
to the computerscene. it goes back
onto the meaning of my real name roman
what does really mean roman.(strange?)
as we all know from history, romulus
was the first roman (if you want so).
i have spent a lot of time studying
the history of the roman empire, well,
and i just like that handle.
? what is your memberstatus and job in
your current group ?
! i'll type the creatures-memberstatus
here...
bleed into one (composer)
caine (swap, grafix)
dr. lecter (grafix, swap, code)
franco (covers, code if he
is in the right mood)
hiccup (grafix, swap)
romulus (grafix, code)
young american (sometimes composer)
tell us about your faves!
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? -what do you prefer to eat?
! anything that tastes good...
? -and what do you like to drink?
! mainly tea, no alcohol (beer suxx!)
? -to what music do you listen?
! at the mo' here is silence, but i use
to listen to underground-(hard)trance,
-acid and sometimes hardcore
? -your favourite girl(s)?
! uh-oh, i'm not going to answer on
THIS one.
? -what movie was the coolest you ever
saw?
! both the 'hot shots' and 'naked gun'
movies.
? -and your c64 favourites
demogroup : triad, visual reality
crackergr.: triad
coder : cruzer, crossbow
magazine : remark, ingenious brain
composer : jeroen tel, deek
grafixer : electric, ogami
cover des.: ---
sceneland : denmark
demo : quite a lot of...
game : lords of chaos
supremacy
? and last :
your favourite friend(s) in the scene
! besides of all creatures-members:
-syndrom/tia/crest -nitro/rebels
-antifan/equinoxe -starlight/extacy
-and some more...
? yeah a whole lot of things you liked.
but what about things you dislike!
is there any particulary phenomena or
maybe dudes you do not like in the
scene. give us the story!!
! i feel a strong hate to all those
fascistic german pissers i have been
dealing with, that's it...
? i support you 100 percent in that my
friend.
? what is your plans for the future ?
both in the scene and in private !
! in scene i plan to push out one more
creatures-demo and then probably stop
being active, but we'll see what will
be going on next year. private i just
have the aim to get a maximum of
education to assure getting an
interesting job...
? the c64 scene unfortunately can't live
forever !
when it dies (in a lot of years!!)
what will you then do?
jump to the (l)amiga or pc, or simply
quit the entire compy-scene?
! at the moment i don't think i'll
start activities in any other computer
scene, even if there will be the
necessity to get some of those
computers you just mentioned.
? people often talk about a lamer.
but what is a lamer?. please give me
your definition !
! uhm, tricky question. a lamer is a guy
who produces/talks shit all the time
and doesn't recognize that the things
he does are below any good standard
even if he was told to improve it.
lamers do not return cheated stamps.
well, and since some time i would add
people to this category, who enter the
scene and become swappers (and nothing
more) immediately, i know this does
not really fit to the public opinion
that beginners are no lamers but i
just tell you my experiences.
about your contacts
-------------------
? do ya have a lot of contacts ?
(how many - name a few.)
! i had around 85 contacts, but i
decided to stop (mega)swapping.
? do you prefer legal stuff or cracks
from your contacts.?
! argh!stay away with those darn cracks!
? do you use cheated stamps ?
! yes!
? why?
! i don't want to repeat the usual story
of the poor student here again. the
post taxes in germany are too high for
me.
? magazines! some people say there's too
many - some say there's not!!
what do you think?
! hmm. i do not have anything against
mags but i do not really like groups
that produce only mags and nothing
more.mags shouldn't be the main thing,
so if a group runs a mag beside doing
other jobs it's okay. and you can
talk about 'too many mags' as much as
you want, you wont reduce their
amount!
? no i must admit that. actually i think
more and more mags are produced.
they for one thing sure keep the scene
alive, but what about demos?
what do you think about the quality of
the demos produced nowadays?
! the quality is (ofcourse) high like
never before. but that also means
that the people await a special
standard from any demo being produced
these days and so the 'less good'
demos don't have any chance to get
spread, that's not the way it should
be like.
? what is your advice to all the demo -
producing groups, concerning their
future productions?
! i am not kind of a mighty teacher who
has got the right to tell other people
how they should act. i wont give any
advices. why don't we just let the
groups do their stuff the way they
want?
? if you had the opportunity to build up
a new group - which persons would you
like to join ?
! coders : dr. lecter, romulus,
franco
musicians : bleed into one, young
american
gfx'ers : caine, dr. lecter,
hiccup, romulus
swappers : caine, dr. lecter,
hiccup
modemtraders : dunno if we'll need one
others : people with style!
i looks a bit creatures like eh!!
brainstorm!
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? what do you say when i say :
group : ---
coca cola : i like it
friendship : necessary, but not with
everybody
c-64 : last 8-bit hero
amiga : a1000 rules!
girls : nothing's beats asthetic
beauty
beers : wuerg!
magazines : blah blah
groupwars : ridiculous, but funny
to watch
sex : jetzt nicht
parties : fun
interviews : it's not very often i
read them
and last 'skyhigh' : gets better,
raz did a great
job!
? yo we are getting closer to the end
now.
i'll hereby give you the word to say
what's on your mind.
the word is free !
! well people, let me tell something to
the ones that used to swap with me.
i did not send out for months, and i
don't think i'll restart swapping.
there are a lot of reasons, most
important was that i didn't get my
stamps back from most of you anymore,
then, i am the opinion that usual
swapping is a total waste of money and
time and does NOT (believe me) do much
to keep that scene going. anyhow, i
will send a last time somewhen in the
near future and keep a very small
amount of my best contacts.
? if there's some guys you want to greet
or give a special message then why not
use the opportunity right here?
! greetings to my best friends:
-nitro/rebels (a600 saugt trotzdem!)
-symptom/tia/... (was is mit ISHION?)
-bleed into one/crt (halt' den kult-
umschlag ganz!)
-caine/crt (bleib cool, mann!)
-dr. lecter/crt (wo ist der deinhard?)
-heike/crt (danke fuer den muell)
-antifan/equinoxe (danke fuer alles,
ich melde mich!)
-acidchild/taboo (aciiiiiieeed!)
? yeah that's it..
we reached the end of this interview.
so i better let you off the hook for
now!
i'll end by thanking you for taking
the time to help me with this.
i hope you'll stick to this beautiful
scene for a long time!
have a cool time in the future.
thanx homeboy!!
! i'm not sure if i am a homeboy or not,
just because i did never hear the
definition of that. anyway i thank
you, man! i have spent 3 hours on this
hope you are satisfied now! see you
pal...
? hmmm. it seem that a lot of dudes have
not heard the word homeboy before!!
ok i'll better explain it then!
a homeboy: well the word is developed
in the ghettos in usa.
it is particulary used by the hip-hop
freax.
the meaning is plane and simple :
friend - buddy - pal and so on!!!
the mexicans and the puortoricans in
the ghettos have twisted the word a
bit and say homie!!!
this is also normally used now!!!
i hope more people understand the word
now!!
i'm gonna catch some z's
see ya!
BIZ KID
