World News 14 Interviews
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WN = W O R L D N E W S
WN = W O R L D N E W S
BX = BX OF ORIGO DREAMLINE
BX = BX OF ORIGO DREAMLINE
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WN. Give some personal facts about
yourself.
BX. Name:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Height:178cm
Weight:70kg
Age:20 years old
Other:Glasses,Single and free.
WN. How and When did you get into
the Scene?
BX. I got my C-64 in the year -87.
The first year I was just playing.
Then my neighbour started to
program with MC,then I and my
cousin CLF/Origo and Mixer tried
it too! It was Fun! I and CLF joined
Mixer's | Crony's group 'Division'
as coders. After a few months we got
new members(Zardax,Coax|Calaxy) and
we changed our name to 'Albion'.
Then Grendel asked us to join
BYTERAPERS. After that short period
I,CLF and Mixer started a new group
called 'Brains'. We made one demo
and changed the name into
'ORIGO DREAMLINE' and Crony and
Zardax joined.
WN. What do you do besides computing?
BX. Last 10,5 months I've been in the
military and I have 2 weeks left!
I'm going to find some job after
my military service. In Autumn I'm
going to Study at the University.
Hobbies besides computing are music,
reading a little and having fun with
friends.
WN. We haven't seen so much Origo
releases lately,so what are your
Future plans?
BX. We are going to release a demo here
at this Light Party and 1 or 2 demos
later on. It's hard b'coz the others
are more or less on Amiga.
WN. Which group/person in your opinion
is the best nowdays?
BX. I prefer real coding groups like
Beyond Force and MDG. It's easy
to make timing effects but those
demos are all the same. Favourite
codes is TNT of Beyond Force making
the best demo(in Future).
WN. Tell us the member list of your
group.
BX. The member(who have contributed on
our demo) are myself,CLF,Mixer,
Zardax,Crony and Slayer.
WN. Say some last words.
BX. I hope that you got some
information of these few lines.
Greets to all who makes/will make
GOOD demos on the C-64.
WN. Thanx for the Interview.
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WN = WORLD NEWS
WN = WORLD NEWS
J = JERRY / TRIAD
J = JERRY / TRIAD
WN: Welcome Jerry! Probably we all know
you but neverless give us some facts
about you please.
J: Bought my first CBM Compo in the
spring of 86. Was a mega swapper and
Demo collector at the summer of 87.
Got my first offer to join a big
crew not long after.
Since I got my first demo in 1986, I
have collected every thing I have
found. I probably have the biggest
collection there is. I wish I had
more time to list and take care of
it. If I ever buy an amiga, this
will be only so I can better list
all those demos.
Some of you know allready that I am
grown up with two grown kids. I am
an engineer of electronics to my
profession, but an illness forced me
to an early retirement some years
ago. I still have a hard time to
get time enough for all things I
like to do. Fixing the house,
building military models and train
models, walking the woods and.. . .
WN: Well, with your age I can't belive
that you are still so much fascina-
ted in computering. Where did you
get the motivation to copy tons of
disks each week? And what do your
wife and kids think about your hobby
J: My wife moved out of me and the kids
in 1979, so she has no say in this.
the kids moved out a few years back.
My daughter because she got her
first job and my son because he
wanted to live in the big city.
My son - Sergeant Pepper was in
TRIAD too a few years back.
I don't swap that many disks any
longer because I am slowly getting
tired of it. Copying is easy, but
there are other things to do. I
don't see what my age has to do with
anything. At least 3 of my contacts
are grown men and I know of others.
The important thing is that we are
young at heart.
WN: Nowadays many guys cry for the "Good
old days", but none of the old guys
are still in the 64 scene. Was it
really such a big difference to now?
J: Anyone crying for the good old days
is a looser. He can't handle what he
has in the present and so he hides
in dreams of what was.
The "Good old day" are all those
days when you were into something
new, had the time of your life and
was exploring that new stuff with
all your heart. The good old days
are your memories of times when you
were living it in full, there and
then.
When I found out about the world of
Demos in 86, when someone greeted my
first crew for the first time, when
I took over TRIAD, the time when
Buckaneer called from oz every week
and so on. Those are all my good old
days.
Don't look back and don't worry
about tomorrow. Live today and enjoy
whatever you are doing and your life
Will be the good old days every day.
WN: Hmmm, the Gamers Guide died because
you said that it was destroying the
scene. Now we hear rumours that
TRIAD wanna restart the work. What
is the point of restarting?
J: We never wanted to kill the Guide.
if we can make it without supporting
the bad things, then we will do it.
In a special note file I have
explained it in detail. by the time
this issue of World News is out,
the Guide may be alive again.
WN: Did you know that David (ex-Tango
and Cash)/CROSS was the first with
the "Gamers Guide" idea?
J: Injun/TRIAD came up with the idea
in december of 1989 and he sent me a
sort of test guide. This was a year
before David released his version.
Maybe he was thinking of it long
before that and maybe someone had
the idea in 1983! I don't care.
What is important to us is that we
can prove that we already were
working on the Guide before David
released his thing. We didn't steal
the idea and that is final. We also
produced 15 issues of the guide.
David produced one preview and one
issue, so who did the best job?
Have you noticed how often you can
read in demos these days that the
routine or part really was made one
year ago or two years ago? So what?
If that was so important why the
hell didn't they release it then?
WN: Some time ago FAIRLIGHT and CENSOR
fighted for the nr.1 in Sweden but
isn't TRIAD the nr.1?
J: Have you noticed how the lamers
keep saying they are the best?
Beeing nr.1 is when people really
think you are the best. Let others
say it or it has no value at all.
WN: What are your music favourites?
J: I relly like a whole bundle of
different sorts of music including
some classical. Right now I listen
to an older Lena PH, a swedish
singer i really dig. I have an old
one with Nena that I play very often
too. Front 242, Midnight Oil, Heart,
ZZ-Top, Alice Cooper, Bryan Adams,
Dire Straits, Sheena Easton, Pink
Floyd and every sort of music that
is good. I also have a bundle of
60-TH music that I still dig.
WN: What is in your opinion the best
count system for charts? And what
do you say about mags?
J: The best counting system must be
the one which gives everyone a fair
chance, whatever that is!
A lot of people put a lot of hard
work into making the mags. I think
that many of them had not been here
without the mags. It has broaden the
scene. However, some guys forget the
idea of a mag. It is supposed to be
read and it should be easy to do it.
some mags are a pain to read.
WN: Do you think that TRIAD will get
even stronger?
J: The strength of TRIAD is our basic
atitude, quality in every aspect of
what we do. We could of course get
more stuff on the road with more
members and better suppliers, but
that is for the chrystal ball.
WN: What are the future plans for TRIAD?
I heard of a new demo - Red Storm!
J: The next demo from King Fisher and
Alfatech is comming closer. There is
a great chance that it will be
released at the 1992 easter party.
The new Guide will come soon. For
the rest we don't bother about plans
we just enjoy doing what we do.
Come to think of it, I plan to work
harder to find some good coders who
can fit in with the crew. So many
good artists of different kinds want
to join us, but without coders to
use the stuff, we've had to say no.
WN: That's it Jerry. bye and have fun
with your family!
J: Yeah, thanx. I think you deserve an
extra thank you for not asking all
those stupid standard things. I
really enjoyed to answer your
questions. continue that sort of
thinking and you will really make it
WN: O.K.....
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WN = W O R L D N E W S
WN = W O R L D N E W S
SM = SAM OF BEYOND FORCE
SM = SAM OF BEYOND FORCE
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WN. Give some personal facts about
yourself.
SM. Name:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Height:185cm
Weight:78kg
Born:24.5.73 in Helsinki,Finland
and that's when my life
started going downhill
WN. How and When did you get into
the Scene?
SM. Little history. Played Atari-video
game in the early 80's and wanted
a computer. I got a 64 at the end
of '84(before that I had a Sinclair
Spectrum for a half year). Me and
one friend of mine(Jake of Beyond
Force) saw a few demos and after
coding a few basic programs we
wanted to do some of our own.
Hard work paid off(?!?) and it was
the end of '86(I think) when we
released a demo for out group
called 'SWAP'. After 2 years I
moved to another town and the
interest towards coding got
a hit down. I went to 'Browbeat',
but I was in BOT only about 2 or 3
years. Then I went to Beyond Force
b'coz Hazor and Axeman were very
good friends of mine. I've been
in Beyond Force for about 3.5 years
as more or less active.
WN. What do you do besides computing?
SM. Actually not much. I just finished
HighSchool,so recently I've been
studying. Now I'm working and
studying for University. Hobbies
are very few:reading a bit,listening
to music,partying with my friends.
WN. We haven't seen so much Beyond Force
releases lately,so what are your
Future plans?
SM. I would like to be active enough
to code all the ideas I have, but
I'm just so lazy... If I have time
I'll start coding now as my school
is over, but in January '93 it's
the army.
WN. Which group/person do you personally
think is the best?
SM. This is not an objective opinion
but I think that one of the best
coding groups in the scene is
Origo(Lazy!),but brilliant ideas
and marvellous code, others coder
groups are Horizon,MDG etc.
I don't like raster timings like
1 billion sprites with 3 trillion
splits.
WN. Tell us the member list of your
group.
SM. A bit of the member status :
On 64: Me(sam),TNT,Gremlin,Napalm,
Max and the bit(?) less active ones
like Xentrix,Hazor,Axeman,leviathan
(maybe more...) on Amiga we have
about the same amount of dudes,
no list here,sorry...
WN. Say some last words.
SM. Sorry for these booring answers,
but as the interviewer is living
in Sweden I couldn't tell here those
very "Funny""Swedes are Homosexuals"
jokes...
Prefer ideas before grafix and
sounds, but prefer grafix and sounds
over rasterbars.
Take Life easy, But take Living
Seriously...
WN. Thanx for the Interview.
