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sundries LAMERS WHAT HOW AND LAMERS? WHAT?HOW?AND??? Only the word make all the scene guys either angry, totally pissed off, or simply confused. How the hell can some guys define the word lamer? Or, even better... How is a lamer acting? Coders, swappers and crackers have got their own opinions about lamers, and what that bloody word means. Let's first see what the word "LAMER" really means, if that is neat.. .. . Lame /Leim/ Adj. Not able to walk normally because of an injury or defect : -- in the left leg. So, this is all, huh? Yes, it goddamn is. Anyway, for the scene guys I stated that there must be different meanings behind that word. THE CODERS For coders, the lamers are rippers. Though not only the rippers are lamers. A lamer is also a guy that look through the code, or sneaklooking at some of his, the ace's, great routines, which not even Einstein understands.. Coders who make demos with a lack of skill are lamers. Anyway, this places things in another shade, light then, if you prefere. Have all these acecoders of today always been knowing and able to handle cyckles, timing and for an example sprites from the very moment they owned their computer? Ok, then we know what a lame coder is, don't we? A lamer is a coder who can't do a sideborderscroll with a multiplexer and a fat plotter above it all... THE CRACKERS For crackers, a lamer is a RE-crakcer and a complete cartridge cracker. To release a game with so bloody cool trainers and IFFL-packed levels is a must, or? And so many ways to judge a cracker! How can we know if the -Top 5- crakcers doesn't use a cartridge to search for trainers, which some crakcers have said.. "Since xxxx's cartridge was destroyed, he was not able to do more than ONE trainer." It is faster and easier to find some trainers in that way, and the result is still fucking the same! Are the lame crackers "singlefilegame- lamers- without knowledge of the more advanced stuff, like IFFL or MUFFLESDAVE or IFFPU.SSY? Or more easy things as ordinary levelpacking? Most definity, they are lamers.. .??? Ofcourse are all the crackers blessed with a gift from birth that they handles IFFL and filescanning the first day they have their computer. THE SWAPPERS For swappers, the worst nightmare is to receive a disk with old uninteresting games or even older demos. Who are these swappers who starts as a cool megaswapper after three weeks? Can you tell me? A friend of mine wanted to start some sereous swapping, and I helped him out. (To be honest, mainly because we needed a new swapper in our group, BUT also because I know how hard it is to start!) Before he joined, he sent some fucking hot (I mean HOT!) stuff, but still many guys didn't answer anyway. So, we let him join, and after the second sending, many more sent back. Are then a swapper lame, only because he is in the wrong group, or in no group at all? Let's change point of view. If a swapper in either GP, Legend Enigma, Crest or some like that, sends out 50 sendings, to new swappers (to him then..) I bet more than 40 would write back, even if he sent some "OLD" stuff... So, the definition of a lame swapper is this : A mailtrader, in wrong group, no matter how cool stuff, or how cool he is.. . This might ofcourse vary from time to time, and from person to person. But, I know that when I joined PARAMOUNT, I got by far more responce.. . FINISHING OFF We would like to get some reactions to this theme, to start a discussion about the -LAMERS-. Anyway, don't judge me after reading this tiny article. Note that I wrote it because I wanted to see blood after it. Ofcourse I hope there will be many, many letters about this.. Yours, Tango'n Cash / CROSS ---------------------------------------- DID YOU KNOW DID YOU KNOW... ... that Tango'n Cash/CROSS bought a SUBARU 1.8 Gti? ... that Penthagon/X-RAY has 479 con- tacts? (4-2-1992). ... that Depeh/ANTIC got 17 years? (25.1) ... that Maduplec/CREST real is Martin Arentoft? ... that Glasnost/CAMELOT was the first who made a TV-Vector like the one in "Brutality"? However Flamingo didn't ripped the idea! Both got the idea from an Amiga demo. ... that Fat Rat/NUTS/TRAITORS and Yup/ OFFENCE is one person? Also The Mutant Refridgerator is Red Wiz. The reason why they have 2 lables is because under the NUTS label they release their not so good parts. See it as fake label. However "Orgin of Nuts" was great for a "fake" demo. ... that the ORIGO demo which should be out since January will be soon finished! ... that Goblin/LIGHT got 18 years old on 13-2-1992? Now he'll soon get his driving license. ... that the producer of "Sysipus" Chris Cemper was the one who started the World News saga? ... that Austria rules Olympia 1992? (After our 13th medal we kicked the record of 1964! Now we've 21!) ---------------------------------------- THE END OF OUR C64 SCENE! THE END OF OUR C64 SCENE! Yes dudes we reached the last period of the C64 scene! WHY WHY? Well, the reason is clear or why do you think that many guys quit? Sure! Because they are totally fed up with the live inside the scene. Just look this guys/groups quitted just some weeks ago: JCH / VIBRANTS to PC Sting / GENESIS Maniac / ELITE Conan / ELITE BLACKMAIL COSMOS DESIGN And the scene is boring! Let's think about the reasons why it's getting boring. It's for sure the fact that just very few big firms product games for the C64. Nowadys many scene guys wrote some shit game, and sell it to any shitty firm like GAME ON or MAGIC DISK! And exactly these games destroyed the fun! Mostly the games are so bad that they aren't playable. There is just 1 reason which brings some light in the scene - the DEMO scene. The demos which are released nowadays are real a kick of smash-code! especially ANTIC,CAMELOT,Ex-BONZAI and CENSOR made a real good job! However time will show when the scene is real dead! ---------------------------------------- PADUA SAYS: YES! PADUA SAYS: YES! Do you still remember to PADUA as they started their opinion poll if they should start coding demos again? Well, after all guys said YES (except Argos/OREGON) they decided to start again coding! But at the moment they've some internal problems. (e.g. Lubber was kicked be- cause he didn't finished his game) ---------------------------------------- 1994 FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 1994 FOOTBALL WORLD CUP Well, dudes wanna know how the world bets are that your country win the world cup 1994 in U.S.A.? Yes? Then just continue reading! 1/2 Germany 8 Argentinia! 8 Brazil 9 Italy 14 England 14 France 14 Holland 16 USSR ? 20 Spain 25 Belgium 33 Czechoslovakia 33 Denmark 33 Rep. Ireland 33 Sweden 33 Uruguay 33 Yugoslavia 40 Portugal 40 Romania 40 Scotland 50 Bulgaria 50 Colombia 50 Mexiko 66 Cameroon 66 Hungary! 66 Poland 66 Switzerland 80 Norway 100 AUSTRIA! 100 AUSTRIA! 100 Bolivia ----------------------------------------