Skyhigh 13 ch01 Editorial
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the editorial hello boys & girls - ladies & gentlemen welcome to the 13th issue of the oxyron magazine S K Y H I G H this time i'm proud to bring you the 13. issue in the row. what a bad number you think!! ..13.. and yes, you are absolutely right! the number somehow did influence on the release date. everything went wrong !!! suddenly the source-code disappeared, and when i finally found it again half the datas were lost. but more strange things happened. the tunes didn't work anymore, and chapters never arrived at my hq. (or they just came a month later than expected!!) i even contacted the fuckin' post to find out what was wrong! all they could say that the letters just disappeared and then popped up some days later. but when they arrived at my place there where no stuff for skyhigh on 'em! i actually started thinking about just forgetting issue #13 and do issue #14 instead. becoz nothing worked out as it was supposed to! it even delayed the mag for some weeks!!! luckily there's only one issue which has the unlucky number: 13 baaaaah, did you really believe any of that shit!!!!! he-he!! this was nothing but a lame excuse for a delay!! but the story was quite nice i think!!! apart from that,then i really had a hard time getting the articles in time!!! and furthermore then i was waiting for the outfit for tunehigh (read extras!!) but things got mixed up, and it didn't make it in time!!! well to the point! time is flying, and it's already 2 months ago the previous issue of this mag was released.i promise that next issue will be out sooner!! so what happened since last issue? one of the 4 danish magazines (revealed, the pulse, chit chat & skyhigh) died! yep i guess everybody has heard it by now; THE PULSE is dead!!! duke left the scene and the other editors didn't want to continue it! rest in peace!! to tell you the truth, i won't miss it! what else happened? the invitations for the swedish party was released; be sure to find the invitation in this issue! last time rrr said that he would leave skyhigh as editor! i got some reactions saying that it was to bad, as they liked his chapters. well surprise : he's back! yep he got back the power and the inspi- ration for continuing! welcome back my man! but as you should remember then i was looking for a new co-editor! and someone did respond on that! may i welcome the new co-editor of skyhigh : MAD of padua this english lad will do his own chapter (like 'rrr says' & 'tha biz-mix') and a demo review for every issue!!! he will start writing from the next issue! last time i promised you am interview with the cool (paper) artist from extend so here it is. check out 'about duce' and have some words from one of the top notch cover designers of the scene today you should also take a look on the other interview featuring a very promising c64 composer who already got quite a rep. what more do i have for you! well every- body is talking about the hardware-expan sions for our c64, but not many knows what they are all about! so i proudly presents a chapter written by my english friend russ michaels (ebes). i'll advice you to take a closer look at it! also the chapter from devil of noice about the ram expansion units is very exciting and informative - check it!! last but not least i can present a new member of oxyron : suzuki! take a closer look at him in 'oxyron - intern' part 4! yep that was a small round-up of the sub jects i have choosen to bring you for this time! - so all there's left to say is : enjoy!!! ---------------------------------------- ok to something different! i have just recieved the 5th issue of 'ing. brain' let me start with congratulate the dudes behind it!! you're doing a great job my friends! the reason why i mention this mag is of- coz that skyhigh is on the top position in the charts - not!!!! he-he!!! no the reason is that after i read the reactions for ib i realized that a lot of dudes somehow says that ib is a copy (or inspired) by skyhigh! or more pre- cise the menu's are a bit simular! to tell you the truth then i got a bit pissed when ib started using that menu in issue 4, but then i started thinking a bit closer. 1st i have no copyrights on using an icon-menu (lot's of other mags did that before me!) i guess i was the first who did it so it looked very workbench like. but that's no reason for me to be pissed, just becoz other tries to do it! maybe it does look like ib tries to get some of the succes earned by skyhigh! but i don't think so! they also say themselves that they wanted to do icons from the beginning! well i do not see ib as liers, so i believe them! second ib has (also) a very great outfit and loads of text! da only problem with ib is that now they seems to be a very hard competitor in the future - he he. (just joking!) what i want to say is that whatever you do and it is successfull other people tries to it too! that's the fact, and there's nothing you can do about it! the point with all this is : dear ingenious brain! eventhough our menus are simular (and i was the first one to bring it) and some people point it out, you shouldn't worry! i do not feel either offended nor ripped off! so continue your cool mag in the same style as always. mr.warp, you have coded a great outfit; and you are not afraid of sharing your knowledge with other coders. you and raz looks quite alike in that situation. i have the deepest respect for both of you!!!!!! good luck with your great mag in the fu- ture my friends! ---------------------------------------- as always i'm able to present you for 3 new exclusive tunes in this issue. this time i have the pleasure to bring tunes from these 3 gentlemen : 1: decoy of excess/natural beat 2: ramjam of atlantis 3: taki of natural beat you better remember these names!!! as always i'll ask all you (unknown??) composers out there to do me a tune for skyhigh! -i would love to hear some more zak from all you out there! members of : natural beat keen acid the imperium arts cubersound productions bass and ofcoz all others!!! just follow these simple rules : location : $1000 - $1fff init : $1000 play : $1003 and send 'em to: BIZKID OF OXYRON XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ---------------------------------------- ok - 'nuff said for now enjoy this issue & look out for issue 14 with tunehigh on the flipside! it should be a real killer! a-b-c'ya BIZ KID