Skyhigh 14 ch04 RRR Says part 2
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rrr - part 2 - -- ---------------------------- -- - - rrr's chapter - part 2 - - -- ---------------------------- -- - a lot of interesting things happened du- ring the past few weeks. a certain lamer tried to sneak into our group, my acci- dent, the lack of calling cards, and so on. that is the reason for editing a 2nd chapter this issue in order to present some fair journalism compared with en- tertaining, sarcastic sequences in order to express my opinion as author. i know that texts written in disk-magazines can influence the readers so i kindly ask you to compare all articles with the content of other magazines, to prove the facts and to make up your own opinion to be sure about getting the best possible supply while reading this magazine. well, i have thought about the future of this chapter, too. a lot of people might feel offended while reading those lines but be sure about that it is nothing personal that motivated me to edit these lines, it is one statement that is lea- ding my behaviour: information wants to be free. in my opinion an every reader has the right to get informed without reading a censored magazine. ofcause i could easily stop causing trouble while taking one or two stories out but would this be fair? a lot of sceners are in the need of the information written down in the magazines and to make sure that all people all over the world can be sure of this i decided to edit all the articles in order to supply you with background information, information most of today's magazines are not able to get without the help of dozens of informers who are often not very reliable. the cbm 64 scene is only a hobby like soccer is for me aswell. i do not spent too much time infront of my both compu- ters in comparison with the majority of the scene even if it might looks like. i think the scene is some kind of secret, hidden world you can dive in if you like to relax from the stress of the real life, but it is definately no substitude for it. spending a lot of years in the scene makes me think about the time i might have wasted but i do not think it was wasted. i made a lot of experiences, ofcause positive and negative ones, and would like to present some examples: a lot of guys are complaining about the behaviour of the so-called elite guys so they start to shout sentences like: that elite guy thinks that he is cool but in real life he seems to be a total loser. here i would like to complain about the person who said this. is it proved that the elite guy is a loser in real life? it is possible that the person that said this wanted to hide his own faults in order to gain some attention and to get more known (=getting a better status in the scene?)? it is proved that this per- son is not a kind of loser in real life and wants to get well known? is it possi ble that this person is jealous on the success of the elite guy? unfairness is something that should be hated not only from side. soccer can be a fine sports until somebody is tackling you and one of your legs got broken. ok, that is a part of it, but wouldn't it be more enjoyable without fouls? wouldn't the scene be more enjoyable if everyone would accept the status of the other men and women around? ofcause there are al- ways differences between the abilities and knowledge but is it a reason to attack each other? the problem is often that most of the offences did not get started from the so-called elite as they do not need to gain more attention. most offences got started from the small guys to gain attention and to get more known. don't you trust your own skills? don't you think it is possible to climb the ladder of success in a fair way? most of today's elite are about four years in the business so be sure that they have more experience and knowledge due to their work all over the years. this ex- periences can't be made within a few short months. it would be nice if some of you start thinking about the previous line and to send in your intention about it. after this endless monologue it it time to continue with the business text. - -- ---------------------------- -- - - reaction to the tribune #47 - - -- ---------------------------- -- - at first i would like to add that i like that magazine - atleast a little bit. it makes me thinking about its' content - and that is very important in my opinion i am getting some inspirations if there is something i would like to correct, for the readerships' and for my very own pleasure. i like to see the editorial of the tribute reading and thinking about my intentions presented in the skyhigh, and i like to read their reactions. it is by far a good thing for both sides as there is always something to complain and to discuss about. please keep always in mind it is nothing personal, it is the pleasure to discuss that motivates me. atleast it is based onto a friendly niveau and i hope we can hold up this standart. the endless discussion seems to become a regular part of my chapter but as an every story has two sides it is very important to read and understand my ver- sion in order to be updated and well in- formed. comparing the issues of two competeting magazines in addiction to several disk- notes spread around made me very inte- rested in the hot tempered discussion. my results can be checked while proving the sources so this was a very objective result in my opinion. maybe i prefered to read the pulse magazine but the facts are reality in my point of view. furthermore the outfit of both magazines has been judged on the programm code, the graphics and the musics. the menues of both magazines look very simple but useful. the only things to mention here are that the graphic in the pulse was much better (drawn by kring/camelot) but the charset used was hard to read. that reaction came from the majority aswell. the text display routine in the pulse is offering fullscreen proportional charset texts while the tribune used an average 40 chars wide upscroller (like this one) what is no big deal in my eyes. fact is, from the eye of an editor, that the or- dinary 40 chars display routine is much more user-friendly while editing the chapters as i have experience with so- called proportional charset editors of "vandalism news", "update", "news press" and "relax". in comparison with those editors i really enjoy to work with this utility, the texteditor v2.0 created by dagger of atrix, which offers everything to guarantee the possible options to edit texts on cbm 64. the music in the pulse was in my opinion better then the musics used in the tri- bune so far but this seems to be a sub- ject where we will never come to a sa- tisfying result. i guess taste is diffe- rent and that might be the reason for it so there is nothing to be cleared up. by the way, i have not only refered to the last two issues of tribune when i repor- rted about ripped musics. to inform the readers it is important to publish my statements correctly. just to reflect your intention about the musics used in skyhigh i have to point out that musicians get a chance to pre- sent their work to a bright mass of rea- ders, an audience that unknown composers maybe would not reach with their musics being used in their own productions only so they have the chance to become more popular and to earn some votes. we care about the musical background as we are checking all soundtracks before they are going to be used as they have to reach a standart in order to come up to the level of the skyhigh. not only unknown musicians but a lot of well known musicians started to compose a lot of excellent tunes for our maga- zine so far, like i.e. red devil/fair- light, the syndrom/tia/crest, pri/tia/ oxyron, peace/noice, echo/equinoxe, only to name a few. to complete this i would like to add that we are spreading all the tracks as external files in order that our readers are able to use them into their diskno- tes and that the composers are getting more and more known, do not forget the attention they are gaining with their tunes being spread in a well-spread ma- gazine. that is ofcause only possible if there is some memory left on the disk. it is a special service for our readers that they are able to choose one of the tracks they prefer so they are not for- ced to listen to a track that comes up to our taste. here i would like to reflect your atten- tion to "tunehigh", dedicated to all the musicians that supported "skyhigh" all over the issues, released in order to celebrate their work. here i would like to request very kindly who is ripping off the musicians? concerning your graphics problem i liked to read your intention about me drawing some graphics for your magazine. as you can see in all of my adverts in the se- veral diskmagazines i am selling (game-) graphics for reasonable prices. samples of my work can be judged in magazines like "vandalism news" and "domination" and in actual intros from "alpha flight" and in forthcoming productions from well known groups like "palace" and "dytec" only to name a few. do not forget the soon coming oxyron demonstrations on the cbm 64 and on the amiga! without any doubts your graphical level would rise. i hope you won't misunder- stand the previous lines but everything has its price these days and due to the fact that my car got destroyed i am in the need of money. no hard feelings! at the moment i am very busy with creating game graphics for atleast for games so i definately have no sparetime left for non-commercial graphics these days. ofcause i do not expect the readership sharing my ideas and intentions but i use this media to inform everyone in the cbm 64 about unregularities in this scene that used to be much better some years ago. the information i am going to place here are ofcause in many opi- nions very subjective but here i would like to recall you that there is defi- nately no objective magazine around. al- ways keep in mind that the magazines are edited by groups and all the groups are using their magazine to present their propaganda and the spread their opinion to manipulate the readership! to come to an end i would like to advice you not missing the follow-ups in the next issues of both magazines, as this discussion might never end. - -- ---------------------------- -- - - h/p stuff - are you interested in? - - -- ---------------------------- -- - well, like said in the previous chapter i own around 10 mb of text sources about hacking and phreaking and i am thinking about releasing some old but very inte- resting textfiles. the content of the files was found out by the pioneers of hacking and phreaking and gives you a general view about that business without diving to deep into the history of h/p, that means i would not spread actual calling card numbers or actual frequncies in order support some sceners to lead them into the illegal busines. some of the textfiles reach back up to 1984 while there are others, like the one about how to use calling cards that got leeched this summer. if you are interested in that kind of text in your favourite magazine just let us know so that we (the skyhigh staff) are able to come up to your wishes. - -- ---------------------------- -- - finally, after around 200 blocks of text from my side it is time to say good-bye and to remember you to be sure about re- loading this chapter in the next issues of skyhigh, too. best regards, rrr/oxyron ---------- - november 18th, 1994 -