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THE OFFICIAL ** INTERVIEWS ** \/ INTERVIEWS \/ JULY 1993 ________________________________________ This month we decided to get behind the scenes of a dear friend. I feel it's your right to know what lurks behind the shadows of this noble creature. Ladies and gentlemen, JUCKE OF GENESIS PROJECT JUCKE OF GENESIS PROJECT ________________________________________ - DESCRIBE YOURSELF BRIEFLY, AS YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF AND GIVE US A SLIGHT PERSONAL FOCUS. Real name is Joakim, which is close related to my handle, a nickname. Born and grown up in the southern parts of sweden, in a town called Helsingborg. Am 19 years old, and had my final year in school one year ago. Wouldnt want to describe myself as the classic computer- freak, as i have a great sociallife aswell. Have been on this scene for quite a while now, and will never leave either. I am one of the organizers in G*P, and one of the 2 guys responsible for the hacking and outcalling possi- bilities, which is not as easy as it seems, as Sweden has the most advanced telesystem in the world. - NOW, STEP BACK IN TIME, AND TAKE US TO YOUR EARLY DAYS OF THE 64 UP TO CURRENT DATE. In september 1985, on my 12th birthday, I got my C128, which is the same one I'm using today. I was stunned by all those games, and quickly became the biggest game collector among the kids. By that time, everyone was using Tape- Recorders, as Diskdrives were far too expensive for us. However, I was already then the biggest addict of them all, and I got my first diskdrive at Christmas 1986. I started to code a bit, and a couple of months later, our first local group was born. As we had a rough time getting originals to crack, we were recracking all new releases we got our hands on. When I look trough friends diskboxes, I find those recracks all the time.. Still, after all those years. Time passed, and one day in School a little guy came to me and asked me if I wanted to swap games with him? The guy was a total lamer, who had just bought his C64, so I said NO immediately. This little guy just couldn't give it up, and some months later he asked me if I wanted to learn him to code. I told him a few instructions, and said something cocky just to get rid of him. Something like "Come back when your abilities reach the standards of mine"...ehrm. This guy remembered those words very well. He later became SKYFLASH/ONEWAY, one of the best UtilityCoders ever. Later on, in the end of 1987, I sort of teamed up with Skyflash, who had already gotten himself a name as a coder, and had entered a pretty decent group. As our local Re-crackergroup had died, I also wanted to join. Skyflash asked me about my abilities. I could only code a little but now my abilities were faaar away from his. I entered that group as a Musician, believe it or not. Made a couple of terribly lame tunes, that weren't even used in our own demo. The group broke up after a few months, and time passed without me wanting to join any group at all. Had some quick visits in groups I do not want to mention, and went independant again. Had a great socialLife which I cared for much more than my computercareer, and all i did between the years 1988-1991 was visiting every single copyparty. I knew almost everyone, and they knew who I was, and that was it. In the spring of 1991 some of my closest friends who were active left Light to rebuild Vision again. The leader of Vision, Status, called me up and asked me if i knew a good Modem- Trader, to spread their releases by modem. As I was deep into modeming since a year back I told him, that I could do the job for them. A couple of weeks passed, and he asked me if I wanted to join. I said no, as I didnt want to join any group at all.. He kept on calling me up, asking me over and over again, and sometime in the summer I joined, as a co-leader and the one who was respons- ible for all the trading. I fixed a board for Vision, Illusion of Reality, and the Sysop along with his Co-sysop joined. The Co-Sysop was none else than the editor of this humble magazine, NEWSCOPY. The board had a very slow period, mainly cause PARADIZE was in the same area, and I called up the leader, telling him that I wanted to kick out the board, the sysop, and the guy I did not even know who was called NEWSCOPY. Status, the leader didnt like my idea, and thought we should keep it anyway, and so we did. During the summer we were able to BlueBox from sweden, and I told the GroupMembers on the board, that I could teach them how to. Newscopy called me up one afternoon, and asked me if I could tell him how to use it. I told him , and suddenly I started seeing him everywhere. We talked on the phone daily, and quickly teamed up as the duo we still are today. In the spring of 1992, I and Motley, who had also joined after the fall of his former group, hacked ourselves into one of the Swedish Telecoms biggest NetWorks, which made us along with Newscopy able to call out daily for 6 months. Newscopy got in contact with a guy called Skinhead, who wanted to start up a new group. We liked the idea, and the memberstatus, so we formed it almost at once. Motley and the others in Vision were very disappointed, which worried us a bit. We almost had quarrels in the group about the name, and it ended up with CALADAN. We releas- ed a game, and suddenly we were in F4CG? , without half of us knowing about it. I called Mystic Cavern, as usual, and Debbie started to chat with me. She asked me to join GENESIS. I told her that I needed to talk to Newscopy first, but they had already done that, and he was very positive. We joined, and have been there ever since.. And will so fore ver be for that matter. GENESIS will be my last group, on any machine... - TAKE US BEHIND THE SCENES OF GENESIS PROJECT. HOW DOES THE SYSTEM WORK? WHERE ARE YOU ADDED TO THE PICTURE? I was taken into the group as a trader, and to make sure all the swedes could call out. Later on, when Antichrist couldnt put his efforts into the group anymore, I got the role as one of the organizers. When Murdock came back to us, I realised I was not the trader in Genesis at all.. It was him. ** \/ - WE KNOW YOU GOT THE SWEDISH TELECOM AT YOUR BACK. DELIVER THE TRUE STORY. I had hacked myself into their Networks for the 2nd time, and had done massive ammounts of other crimes with the phone. I scanned 4O.OOO Tollfree#'s, and my scanner called up their operatorservices located at 3OOO different TollFrees. They got pissed as hell, and traced me for five hours. They checked up where I had called for the past 2 months, and found out that the numbers I had called matched with all Tele-Crimes being commited in Sweden the past months. The Telecom offered me to work for them, making their systems safer, and I did. They told me I would not have to pay if I did this, but they were liars! A couple of weeks ago, I got a fee in my postbox telling me that I had to pay 17.OOO (About $3OOO). Only time can tell what will happen now, but I might just end up in Prison if everything goes wrong. - THE SWEDISH SCENE HAS EXPERIENCED A DECLINE, AT LEAST BOARDWISE? HOW DO YOU, ADDICT, LOOK UPON THIS? Almost all my friends are still on, and all major boards except for Attraction and the Testure are still there, so I do not worry at all... Groups are lazy, but that is pretty normal these days. - COMBINE THE PERFECT GROUP, WITH YOUR SELF AT PRESENT TASK IN IT. Leader:Antichrist & Newscopy. Coders:Zizyphus & Skyflash (Utilities) Crackers:Goblin & Snacky. Graphicians:Scope, Poison & Decoy Design Trader:Murdock. MailTraders:Walker, Airwolf & Aslive. Boards:Mystic Cavern & Channel Zero! Supplier:Westbam, Secret Man. - BEING AT THE SCENES, ONE MEETS FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE DEVELOPED ANY OF THE TWO KINDS? Definately! I have awful amounts of friends on the scene, mostly in Sweden. Most of them are friends of mine since years back, and some of them have been there ever since I more or less entered this scene, in 1987 (Skyflash). Worth mentioning are: Newscopy, Skyflash, Status, Poison, White Lion, Bluez, Yabba Scooby, Gryzor, Oliver, Zizyphus, T.C Rille, General, Motley, Tronic, Aaron Walker, Scope, Zmurph, Devil, Sodapop Joyride, Bacchus, Sledge, GoT, Majesty. The few enemies I have are not even worth mentioning. Barf. - SHARE A PRIVATE FANTASY WITH US, AND AN AKWARD EXPERIENCE! Earning money by calling boards! Ahem. No, seriously. Not things I would like to mention in a Diskmagazine. ** JUCKE AND HIS CHARACTERISTICS ** \/ JUCKE AND HIS CHARACTERISTICS \/ NAME...........Joakim Alstorp. BIRTH..........September 16th 1973. GROUP..........GENESIS*PROJECT NATIONALITY....Sweden. HOBBY..........Obvious. BOOK...........Comics. TVSHOW.........Beavis&Butthead. MOVIE..........Apocalypse Now. FOOD...........Italian. SMOKE..........Marlboro. DRINK..........7up on the rocks. BOARD..........Channel Zero CRACKERGROUP...GENESIS*PROJECT DEMOGROUP......Censor Design. FIXERGROUP.....INC. - SPREAD YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM AND ADD ANY LAST WORDS YOU FEEL ARE NEEDED. - SEIZE THE DAY DONT DIE WONDERING SEIZE THE DAY & DONT DIE WONDERING.