Skyhigh 11 ch11 About Antifan
From C64 Diskmag Wiki
about antifan of equinoxe
? skyhigh
! antifan/equinoxe
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.
! hello jesper, at first thank you for
this interview... ok, i am antifan of
equinoxe.
? and your real name ?
! since my birth all people call me
christian gruen...
? when were you delivered to the earth?
! it was the 8th of july in 1977!
let me remember, it was a nice and
sunny day, haha..
? ok that was 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!!)
! ok: i am 173 cm tall, my weight is
60 kg, i have brown hairs and blue
eyes (sounds like a love novel), but
no glasses. unfortunately i have to
spend a big part of my time in the
school. but i also play violin (now
over 11 years!) and this also needs
much time (i play every day 2 hours,
moreover i am in two orchestras and
at last i also have to go to my
teacher every week). at the moment
i visit the 11th grade of the german
gymnasium (you know, high school).
the rest i usually spend on my compi
or go in the town to enjoy live.
? for how long have you been into the 64
scene. or in other words : please tell
us when you entered the world of the
commodore 64 - and it's scene?
! well, about '85 i got my first com-
puter: it was a ZX81! a huge memory,
1 kbyte, so if you filled the whole
screen with chars, the memory was
full!! then, 6-7 years ago, i got my
first sixty-four (what a progess) with
data tape. and about one year later i
finally got one floppy, and so all
went on: i got more and more disks
(mainly with games which are all
cleared today) and a printer and other
things. 3 years ago i got the first
scene-demos by public-domain houses
and so i found the whole crap more
and more interesting. finally i got
to know another c64 fan in my school:
mr warp/eqx! back then he was in viper
a local demo group. i also joined them
and in october 92 we released our 1st
and last mega-demo: out of the dark!
some of you might have got it. at the
beginning of 1993 we went together
with fantasia and renamed in equinoxe!
but soon most of the old fts-members
like aeg, ivan, dasheele etc. left us
and went to smash designs, a game
group. then, in april 1993, the first
real eqx-production was set free:
ingenious brain #1 !! later, in aug.,
we released the demo fuel, no big
success.. afterwards more and more
issues of the -ib- got ready and we
just get famous with it, hehe!
oh, too much text... anyway i joined
"viper" in april 1992 and i sent away
my first sendings in october with the
demo.
? in which groups have you been before?
! only in viper as said before...
? your handle antifan...
is there a special story to it?
please tell how you got it!
! oh no, again this question...
well, there is no real story, but i
often don't like what others like
and anyhow i got the name antifan-
stupid, eh?
? what is your memberstatus and job in
your current group ?
! together with mr warp and stan i am
the leader of our group. then i swap
(very slow) and code some things.
i wanna concentrate on coding in
future, actually swapping is only
a waste of time, but has no big use.
the last member-status:
ANTIFAN.........leader,coder,swapper
APIS.........................swapper
CHIPSI.........coder,digitizer,sysop
DR.ZOOM.......coder,painter,composer
EAGLE........................swapper
GRAFEE.................coder,swapper
MAV..........................swapper
MR FRIESE.....painter,covers,swapper
MR WARP.........leader,coder,swapper
PARSON......................composer
POLLUX.......................painter
RASTAYETI............painter,swapper
STAN..................leader,swapper
tell us about your faves!
-------------------------
? what do you prefer to eat?
! oh, spaghetti and other italian pasta.
? and what do you like to drink?
! coke rulez (until i am impotent,ha ha)
? to what music do you listen?
! trance and hardcore techno, also
metal like in former times, but it is
too melodic.. (??)
? your favourite girl(s)?
! no movie stars, but nice and friendly
ones in my environment.
? what movie was the coolest you ever
saw?
! oh, bad to say. films like terminator2
are pretty funny, but not the best
ones; i really like indiana jones 4 !!
? and your c64 favourites
! well, i will tell you my general fa-
vourites, no those i print on the
vote-sheets...
demogroup : crest, censor design
triad
crackergr.: rsi, ikari+talent
coder : crossbow, tron, morris!
magazine : ingenious brain, hehe!
composer : jeroen tel, tracker
grafixer : ogami, creeper
cover des.: zapotek!!
sceneland : all
demo : red storm, wonderland 8
game : tetris, greystorm...
? and last :
your favourite friend(s) in the scene
! i would say they are: all guys of eqx
i swap with, dr.kaos/excess/reflex,
pat/paralyze, chaotic/rebels, mal/acp,
starlight/extacy, new design/x-rated
and all who write too long letters..
? 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!!
! well, i cannot stand arrogant people,
no one is better if he reached more
in the scene. the elite-guys are those
ones, who worked the most time at
their computer and so they are often
the biggest losers in the real life!!
and if someone thinks that he's better
than other sceners, he forgets that
every newcommer cannot know all about
the scene at once. or take the pulse
magazine: the news are nice, and maybe
not many other mags make it to release
their mag every month, but they simply
don't have a reason too be arrogant:
the guys of regina never released some
really kicking wares, they don't pro-
duce demos or cracks. but many guys
think that the main editor of the mag
(----) is something special! weird,eh?
and moreover the content of a usual
scene-mag is better if it is not re-
leased every month or even every 2,3
weeks.
? what are your plans for the future ?
both in the scene and in private !
! well, in the scene i will probably
reduce my swapping-acitivites to code
more stuff. so a sorry to my contacts:
i won't get faster! and in my "real
life" i will finish the school in 2,5
years and then i will study and look
for an amazing job where i can earn
millions of dollars- sounds easy...
? 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?
! well, i think that the scene will make
it up to the year 2000, yes! the rea-
sons: there are even guys on the cbm-
machines plus4, although this compi
was stopped producing many years ago.
and the c64 is even much more popular.
the latest news from commodore: the
production of the c64 will at least
continue until the next year. first,
if no one wanna have this computer
anymore, the production will be stop-
ped. and concerning computer mags:
the 64er-magazine will at least stay 4
some years as they still have enough
readers to keep on printing the mag
the next years! well, if i leave the
c64-scene, i will probably leave the
whole scene-world as i think there are
also many other intersting things to
do in life, or not?
? people often talk about a lamer.
but what is a lamer?. please give me
your definition !
! oh god.. well, everyone is a lamer
who tells shit about other people and
he is special lame if he cannot stop
with it. some guys have hardly any
friends in the scene anymore and they
keep on writing and telling shit
about others and the scene in common.
about your contacts
-------------------
? do ya have a lot of contacts ?
(how many - name a few.)
! i think they are about 50 guys who
still send to me. but i got very, very
slow (most of my contacts got an ans-
wer 4-5 months ago!). i simply don't
have such a big interest like some
years ago. some names of them: my best
friends named some lines ago, then
the syndrom/tia+crest, walker/light,
mj/maniax, derbyshire ram/ex-avt,
master s/excess, mike/sunrise,
astaroth/agony, snooze, graham/oxy,
cat/excess, unicorn/entropy/genlog,
zimbo/liquid, nuckhead/backbone,
titanic/charged, neccy/extacy,
volunteer/bronx, beast/crescent
gop/shazam, marcus/chromance and
the rest i cannot remember, sorry..
and you, you of course!
? do you prefer legal stuff or cracks
from your contacts.?
! only legal, illegal is boring without
a modem and moreover cracking is too
lame today- there is nothing to crack,
so why are there crackers?
? do you use cheated stamps ?
! yeppa!
? and why?
! well, i am a poor school boy and don't
want to spend all my money for stamps!
logical, eh? if the post catches me,
i will stop, but probably they only
will warn me and so: they can come,
if they want, haha!
? magazines! some people say there's too
many - some say there's not!!
what do you think?
! no, i find it ok if everyone tries to
produce a nice mag. it is too easy to
say: don't write mags, produce demos!
many guys who edit a mag cannot code
and if they can code demos, they will
do it anyway. better stop cracking to
show that you also can do something
else, guys! i wonder about the future:
will the crackers in the scene crack
demos some day? already now they CRACK
every lame pd-game!
? 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?
! oh, the demo quality was never as high
as before! well, of course there are
always some groups who rip 1000 routi-
nes and make their own demos out of
them, but most demos who get released
are styled really good! nowadays not
releasing anything is the main point,
but releasing quality!
? what is your advice to all the demo -
producing groups, concerning their
future productions?
! keep on producing good styled demos,
that's all!
? if you had the opportunity to build up
a new group - which persons would you
like to join ?
! a good question...
coders : oxidy,king fisher
musicians : pri,syndrom,fanta
gfx'ers : ogami,creeper,astaroth
swappers : 1,2 of my friends
modemtraders : puuh, i don't kniw
others : some members of eqx!
brainstorm!
-----------
? what do you say when i say :
group : better products possible
coca cola : worse than other drugs
friendship : most important thing
in real life
c-64 : more than just a drug
amiga : just a lame game machine
girls : necessary and cool
beers : something for drunkards
magazines : often interesting
groupwars : funny to look at
sex : more important than
eating+sleeping, haha
parties : cool
interviews : it is funny to know that
many guys will read this!
and last 'skyhigh' : a cool mag,
getting better
and better every issue; even two
sides are ok as the content is good.
i also like the way you write the
text, but one thing could be improved:
the text area could be enlarged a bit,
but of course there would not be room
for a nice logo anymore... well,
better read the reaction in the
reactions-chapter.
? 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 !
! thank you for the interview, friend!
i hope that you all will stay in the
scene as long as possible; try to
bring some other guys in the scene
and, if you have to much to in the
scene, don't leave it, better reduce
your activities, ok? don't only swap,
also do other things. if you produce
something and it is lame, you do not
have to release it, just try to get
better and better by testing out
different things! that is it!
? if there's some guys you want to greet
or give a special message then why not
use the opportunity right here?
! thanks...
hi VOLUNTEER: probably you didn't get
my last sending with the -ib 3-, eh?
however, can you please send again?
yo ROMULUS: i guess you never will
read this here, but i can remember
that you wrote in your skyhigh-inter-
view soon to send again; but you did
not do it yet- unfortunately i cannot
call you...
to ther others: sorry that i am so
incredible slow nowadays, but if you
send me again, you get two disks back
later, i didn't drop anyone...
? yeah that's it..
we reached the end of this interview.
so i better let you of 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!!
----------------------------------------
see you somewhere else
BIZ KID
