Internal 12 - Historical Background
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* HISTORICAL BACKGROUND *
hi people, welcome to another chapter of
this issue of internal. this time you've
choosed the historical background.
i'm very glad some people have reacted
on this chapter!
well, here are some stories from some
famous or some un-famous guys. i think
they're all worth reading...
and here we go with the first one...
the first sory was send to us by SES/GE-
NESIS PROJECT...
here's his scene-story...
yoho guys! i'm writing this text at
school, in a break between 'religious ed
ucation' and 'german'. (well, the break
is actually 2 hours, that's why i actual
ly have some time)
i guess i should start right at the be-
ginning:
i got my c128 together with a 1571 disk
drive and a 1901 monitor on 16/05/'87.
in '89 i bought a second 1571 floppy, in
late june '91 an amiga 500 and a ram
expansion to 148.
my latest buy: a cassette player (data-
sette) for my c128. i need this crap-
thing for my actual converting-job. tho-
se nerds from the software-company actu-
ally want me to convert a 3-disks-amiga
game with multiple-level-selection to a
c64-tape! well, i don't care, but i don'
t want to know HOW LONG the loading time
on c64 in the end will be...
back to my early days... in the begin-
ning i swapped with my friends in our
village and a bit at school (as everyone
starts...). then, in summer '88, i met
HUNTER/? at airport hannover at 2
o'clock in the night (!). we both were
waiting for some relatives to return
from mallorca by plane... and the plane
came 6 hours too late... that was my
first contact and for circa 1 1/2 years
my only one.
this HUNTER was really as lame as i was
at that time, but he was in a group
called TMT (i think). i was in no group
at all then. after some time he joined
FEAR. (built up by some future MANOWAR
members) his stuff became hotter and
better, so i got interested. finally i
joined FEAR. at easter '90 i released my
first real demo-disk (a so called 'mega-
demo') with the significant name 'mega-
parts'. it was a very big succes, so i
immediately started coding on 'megaparts
2'. this one was even better... some big
groups like GENESIS PROJECT asked me to
join. i told them i needed some time to
clear up my mind. i didn't know whether
to leave FEAR or to stay. one event inf-
luenced my final choice: the tv-show
'high score' in the german wdr. we had
send 'megaparts 2' to their big democom-
petition. one of their editors had even
called me twice and had made some hints
that our demo would be likely to win. so
we drove to cologne to the wdr-studio be
cause they had invited us to rhe show
not as guests, but as spectators). we we
re really sad when we saw that CRAZY
won... and we got really angry when we
gor to know that the whole competition
was a fake! CRAZY had a member in the
wdr-team, so they cheated like hell. at
that moment i knew that i wouldn't be
able to go on with FEAR. outside the tv-
studios some guys from SCREAM and ORACLE
asked me if i wanted to earn money by
coding. ofcourse i wanted and joined
their codergroup SUNRISE. some days af-
ter that, i wrote G*P that i wanted to
join them. ofcourse they took me, as
they had asked me to join. the first
thing i did was 'best of megaparts 1+2',
containing the best parts of both ear-
lier demos, but this time with G*P-logos
and musics from DEEK/VIBRANTS/G*P. we
sent this demodisk to the famous paper-
mag 'asm' and i got the 2nd price in
their big democompetition, right after
CREST on place 1. then i coded 'sprite-
mania'. it contains the part '290 spri-
tes' which made some people upset,
others laugh. that was in february '91.
i had already sent the single part '290
sprites' to the papermag '64-er' in
october '90! (to their sprite-competi-
tion called 'sprite-inferno', where my
part 'powertrain' won 300dm in their
first issue, too) the annoying thing is:
although they promised me to publish
my 290 sprites, and even asked me to
write an article about it too, i haven't
got any money up to now. in their issue
9/'91 (!!!) they publish a photo of my
part and write that this part would also
be on their monthly service-disk (that
they sell for 29.29dm per disk!). so i
wrote a long letter to them complaining
about all these facts. now let's see how
they react...
some lamers say that my 290 sprites
aren't real... and even the 64-er wrote
that my 290 sprites would not be able to
move around as free as 'normal' 112-
sprite-multiplexers. THAT'S NOT TRUE!
normally, 112-sprite-multiplexers allow
their sprites to move from x=0 to x=511,
but with a solid y-value. also each spri
te can look diffrent (=display a
diffrent letter) and can have its own
color. all these facts are also included
in my 290-multiplexer. therefore i can't
understand why some people say that the
290 sprites are not real. i think they
only envy me for being the first to
split the 21 pixel large blocks into 290
sprites. the best thing is: my routine
uses only 7 of the possible 8 sprittes
(thatmeans 53269 contains $7f all time!)
...hahahaa!
after 'spritemania', OMG managed to
pesuade KINGSOFT that i am the right one
to convert the game 'pot-panic' from
amiga to c64. this job took me about 2
or 3 months. right now i'm converting
the fabulous game 'hagar' from amiga to
c64. i think this will be the first game
that is both available on c64 tape and
amiga cdtv! (ofcourse also c64-disk and
amiga-disk)
now to SUNRISE: they also tried to get
converting jobs for me. (in fact all
they did was giving my address to
SPITFIRE/ACTION.) unfortunately i was
not avle to sign any contract with
SPITFIRE... because he wanted me to have
a contract with him but not directly
with the company... and in his contracts
he would get all rights while the coder
would have only duties to fullfill. so
i prefered KINGSOFT above SPITFIRE...
but KINGSOFT is neither king nor soft, i
can tell you! let's change the subject..
parties!...
i cannot tell that much about parties...
i have been to VENLO twice (in 1990),
but one time i was there, the party was
not! (we got the wrong date...) the
second time, when the party was in fact
there, it was quite cool. we had just
released our 'megaparts 2' and it was
very nice to see all these poeple enjoy-
ing my demo! then, in '1991, after CEBIT
'91 (on that saturday) i was at that
amiga party with my dear friends in the
amiga-group TSB (THE SPECIAL BROTHERS).
i cannot remember the organisers of
that party, but i was average, i think.
(not the name of the organiser, but the
party-rating). then we have had some
private G*P-meetings with antichrist,
scrap, hje and also omg (perfectly dres-
sed, whow!). yes, i think you want me to
tell you something about antichrist...
(ed: yes we do!)
ofcourse you have to understand that i
can not tell you much about his personal
ities because of police (ed: hmmm. i
don't think any cop will read this!)...
but he really is a nice guy and (as a
real surprise to me) he looked quite
diffrent from the usual images of swap-
pers or coders... i'm not in the mood of
writing a whole article about antichrist
since he has given some interviews in
diffrent diskmags yet.
some other things: my best friends in
the scene are (unranked): hje/g*p (he
always calls for several hours...nice),
tpn/fts (maybe you know some of his re-
leases... a nice contact for quite a
long time now...), antichrist/g*p (who
else could supply me with new stuff?),
scrap/g*p (although we don't talk that
regulary...) and omg (helps me in the
daily struggle against KINGSOFT).
i won't tell you anything about my
personal favourite coding-groups. if i
would do so, even more lamers would vote
for them... vote for G*P and especially
for s.e.s/G*P insteed! (little bit of
advertising...)
some people ask me if i'm happy in a
mainly crackergroup as G*P. let metell
you: G*P IS NO MAINLY A CRACKERGROUP!
G*P is really a perfect allround-group.
we have crackers (snacky, etc...),
coders (s.e.s, fgth,...), graphicians
(bizzmo, scrap, s.e.s,...), musicians
(deek, hje,...), swappers (antichrist,
steamhammer,...) and some quite useless
members as well (hehe...). i think i'm
happy in G*P... although i sometimes
wish i was in IKARI+TALENT, pitty IKARI
died, but hat's another story!...
G*P-stuff you should know in any case:
best of megaparts i+ii, spritemania,
propaganda,....
also watch out for hagar!
see you!
thanks... simon
ok, that's it about this cool story,
wank the joy right to read another cool
story done by DEMOWIZARD/WEIRD...
yooo people! here comes my story...
everything began at christmas '87 when
i decided to smash all my money in a
cool c64! i was very happy to own now
one of the famoust compies of that
moment! i went much to my friend to get
some games (like verybody does at the
very beginning). lemme think... the
coolest wares for me at that time were:
'infernal runner', 'heart of africa',
'silent service' and some more... but af
ter a short time i wanted more and more!
i also read the ACTUAL HAPPY COMPUTER
(POWER PLAY) (ed: are we talking about
ice-hockey?) and i saw some cool addies
with cool games. that was the beginning
of my illegal scene-adventure. i contac-
ted some dudes and i got after some time
more 'n' more cool stuff (especially
games). i also saw all those cool intros
infront of those games, and then i had
the idea: why not forming my own group
too? so i formed the group called:
VB AND CO. GMBH, but that wasn't a real
crew as i was the only member in it...
then another cool thing happend for me,
WONDERMIKE had the idea to own a plk.
we got also one and we were very proud
of it! ok, i got more than 700 games in
that time, much cool contacts and
friends, and we formed also the group
ISPC. but that again wasn't a real group
because we only were with three members.
we made also little ISPC paper-cards
with the addresses on it, that was cool!
in that time i got the WOD-demomaker and
the demo-designer 3 from UNITED ARTISTS.
so i made demos with those two designers
and i really thought that everybody
thought the people would think the demos
we self-maded (what a fucking shit, eh?)
but then, the fucken day came! what day
ya might ask, well, listen...
we were on holliday... my mother called
our home to speak my brother (wh was
home alone)..he told my mother the cops
had visited our house and they wanted
too see my c64 and all my disks!
aaaargh, why a fucking shock! we stayed
one more week on holliday and every day
my mother slagged on me 'cause of those
stinkheads of the cops! when we arrived
at our home, i took my disc-boxes and we
gave them to some good friends! two days
later ze cops stood in my room, but tho-
se creeps luckily found nothing. they on
ly found an old list from a fucking
asshole i was used to swap with. so we
had much troubles with those dickheads
and with the motherfucker FREIHERR VON
GRAVENREUTH. finally i had to pay 2000
german marks for the shit! the biggest
shit was that my father noticed that
too! i was also very lucky, 'cause if
the mezz would happens once again, i
would have to sell my so loved c64! but
i learned from of all this mezz and i de
cided to become legal. i formed DEMO IN-
DUSTRIES, DEMO EMPIRE and at last HOTLI-
NE BOYS... but that were only big names
because i was again the only member in
it! but then we started to get real cool
WONDERMIKE and i formed our real first
group LOTU (LAWBREAKERS OF THE UNDER-
GROUND). i got many contacts like drag-
net of POISON, argos of DIGITECH, coke
of TRL DESIGNS and many more. all in all
i got now a rral name, no illision this
time... i made some demos in that time
(also some with designers, but who cared
anyway?) and i got more and more cooler
contacts, one of the best was also you
(MATT of WOW) (ed: hmmmmmmmm...) some
dudes from that time became really elite
now! for example my very good friend
THE REAPER. (hi ralph, i hope you're a
bit proud if ya read this). when i con-
tacted him he was in MOP, later on he
joined DOUBLE BUBBLE, then he also joi-
ned the cool doods in GOD, TAT, EXTREME,
BOYZ and now he's in STORMFRONT. all
this happend while i swapped with him
and i think we both got a good name now!
yep, i also made many issues of MAGIC-
LOTU. all dudes who have the issues
1-17 know what a lamer mag M-L was at
the beginning and how cool M-L (i think)
is nowadays. but that's no more actually
because i joined the dudes in WEIRD some
weeks ago. but don't worry, i will con-
tinue the work, only with a new mag-name
and a new menue. i don't wanna tell ya
the new name here, but you (MATT) know
the new name 'cause you gave me the tip,
thanks dude!
ok, that's the right'n'full story. i
hope you enjoyed reading it! maybe you
wanna contact such a fucking cool guy
like me? if you really want to, then go
looking in the addresses-corner!
bye bye'n'thanks for reading! volker
yep, also this chapter has comed to an
end. i hope you have enjoyed reading
those two cool stories, but, yes, there'
s a 'but'... i want to see next month
many more scene stories from i don't the
fuck care who, got it?
well, joy RIGHT now people, and go on
reading ze fuck'n rezt!
tsjaaw! MATT
