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+ THE PULSE MAGAZINE - THE JUNE EDITION +
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Welcome dear readers to the 12 edition of the internationally
distributed THE PULSE MAGAZINE - produced by REGINA.
This is your guide to the World of Cracking, Demo and Modem
Information. We pass on our wisdom.
We would like to encourage all of our readers to read all of
our chapters, as they contain text considered to be in the
general interest of all sceners. Remember to send us your
text material for the August edition no later than the 25th
of July (read on in Preface to find out where to send to) so
that it will reach our editorial in due to for the next issue.
We would like to send our thanks to everyone who spread this
magazine. We could not have reached the massive audience
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Dear Readers, 1st of June 1994
The summer has finally hit Europe, and it is time to put the
computer behind us, which most sceners most likely will do
as well with their vacations coming up. Due to this we can
expect an inactive summer, but the more time off the better,
then we can return fresh and new inspirations for what to
amaze the scene with next.
Due to the summer, we at THE PULSE MAGAZINE will also be
holding a break. We announced this all spring, so there is no
excuse for you when you notice to your horror that there
will be no JULY edition of your favourite magazine. But hey,
I think you can spare us the time off one time a year, and we
will of course promise you to be back good and ready for a
new season in the business of bringing you high quality text.
I would like to thank everyone involved with THE PULSE for
their most professional attitude towards the magazine. They
have been great, and without them I would most likely be left
doing dishes for a Swedish meatball company (not a chance).
I hope you will all have a great summer - I know I will!
DUKE
General Editor
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Executive Editor DUKE/REGINA
Co-Editor CROSSFIRE/MOTIV 8
U.S Correspondant COUNT-ZERO/TALENT
U.S Correspondant JAZZCAT/LEGEND
Euro Correspondant SPLATTERHEAD/CHROMANCE
Euro Correspondant KBS/REGINA
DOMINIC Sysop TRICKET/MOTIV 8
Programming Critic STEVE/REGINA
Graphical Critic NEPTUNE/CAMELOT
Musical Critic DRAX/VIBRANTS
The House Staff remains unchanged since last month, and with
good reason. At the moment everyone is living up to the job of
which they have been assigned, which makes me confident in
knowing we have got the toughest staff in the world today.
We could still need another European correspondant though,
someone with great insight on the demo scene and a source
for news and inspiration. You need to be good at English, as
you would be working as an editor for our many chapters
based on news and reports. Do not sit there, go ahead and
grab this opportunity and write us now - including a list of
your qualifications and ambitions please.
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+ THE PROGRAM GUIDE - THE JUNE EDITION +
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PREFACE Editorial/Introduction
NEWS JOURNAL News/Facts
MONTHLY RELEASES 1st-Release Charts
SATIRICA Satiric Stories/Views
GLOBAL REPORT Scene/Reports
BOARD REPORT News/Reports
PROFILE Interview/Portrait
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News journal
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Welcome to another edition of the NEWS JOURNAL. This is
the place to update your knowledge about the happenings
in the scene - stay tuned to the WORLD'S NEWS LEADER.
This month has been quite slow with what just about every-
thing was concerned, and the news was no exception either.
The reason for this is undoubtedly the return of the hot and
moist weather we call summer. This is of course also the
reason why we at THE PULSE MAGAZINE will be holding our
vacation from this edition onto the end of the summer, who
wants to miss great weather like this? (Although it is dark
and glommy outside at the present time, but heck).
Make sure to keep us informed about the NEWS within your
group. We promote a better scene, and with that comes a
unique system built on information - we all have the right to
know what is going on in our scene, that is the charm of the
64-scene. Use our ADDRESSES to send us NEWS or if you
have a modem, you are more than welcome to call our European
HQ, DOMINIC, to hand us your NEWS.
NEWS JOURNAL consists of journalists DUKE, CROSSFIRE
and SPLATTERHEAD and hosted by DUKE as editor.
* The legendary Danish top group 2000AD returned to the
scene, but it appeared to be an unnatural re-birth. FATE,
a member of 2000AD on the AMIGA, claimed to have the rights
for any projects outside of the AMIGA with the 2000AD name
was the man of this immoral grave digging. To begin with
everything seemed to be going the wrong direction with this
group aswell (seeing so many other rebuilt top groups going
down lately) when FATE took in some of the Danish VISION
members and MOTIV 8 outcasts, and so it proved to be later
on as well. Only a couple of weeks later, FATE decided to
kick out DISHY, DECANE/PROBLEM LOVER and SATAN of
the group, while the rest was asked to leave, as FATE went
on and killed the undead group. We hope the scene will learn
from this episode, which unfortunately is JUST another one
in a long line of immoral and disrespective results when some
one decides to bring back a big name to cut through to fame
without having a single clue on how to carry on the name. A
rumour was going around, that some one was supposed to
bring back the true kings of Danish cracking-history, THE
PAPILLONS, but as it looks this is fortunately just a sick
rumour and hopefully will remain that way. The news did not
end on this continent after this episode, as DISHY, SATAN
and RAY went back to giving VISION a second try, this time
reforming for an uncounted time. Hopefully now, VISION will
prove to become what they proclaimed they would be.
* The demo scene appears to be boiling at the moment, with
the return of the legendary BYTERAPERS in May with an
excellent demo most definitely one of the best 1994 has to
offer (read review in WORLD OF DEMOS). MR.SEX appears
to be the only official member and remainder of the popular
group, but no doubt many will hope to learn more about this
remarkable comeback to the 64-scene.
* Also CREST appears to be getting ready to do a comeback
in the demo scene. Although they have not been anyway for
as long as the BYTERAPERS, they have surely been missed
by the crowd of demo lovers around. According to DRAX of
CREST, they have already prepared a couple of parts, and
it appears GOLDRUSH will also be making a comeback to the
scene. This could very well seem to be the return of the most
powerful demogroup of the century. Whether or not VISION
and CROSSBOW will be making a comeback has not yet been
confirmed.
* REGINA is getting ready to realise their plans to enter the
demo market this fall. They started off by signing on the
Hungarian graphician MERCURY/LETHARGY, and is at the
moment negotiating with new and promising talents within the
demo scene. Meanwhile DR.ZIVAGO has started trading, and
his address is located in THE BLACKBOARD.
* TALENT made their current memberstatus official. It looks
as follows in JUNE :
BOD : Leader.
MAJESTY : Original supplier, Organizer.
CHRYSAGON : Cracker.
COUNT ZERO : Fixer, Co-Sysop.
ROCKSTAR : Fixer.
GREENFROG : Coder.
STONE : Card-supplier, swapper.
TBB : Swapper.
SORCERROR : Graphician (ontrial).
TOXYC : Graphician (on trial).
NIGHTWRITER : Sysop (FORPLAY).
MORRISSEY : Sysop(DOWN BY LAW).
Their American boards are reachable on the following numbers:
DOWN BY LAW : XXX - XXX - XXXX
FORPLAY : XXX - XXX - XXXX
Looking at the success TALENT has had the past couple of
months with many releases, it is quite ironical to notice that
TALENT only has one official cracker. The group does hold a
couple of other capable crackers, but they are inactive.
* SCS+TRC signed on the recently returned STEVE/LASER
to the squad, he also brought along with him his English BBS,
which is only a couple of months old. The inactive swapper
DANNIE decided to start trading again, boosting the already
strong trading side. TROOPER, the editor of the Hungarian
magazine METAMORPHOSIS was kicked out of the group due
to what could be described as indifferences between the
leadership and TROOPER about the position of his magazine
METAMORPHOSIS. Apparently SCS+TRC was more than
satisfied with the current status of their only magazine
FRONTPAGE, and therefore turned down TROOPER's offer
to take on METAMORPHOSIS. The SCS+TRC members are
currently involved in the making of a number of magazines
at the moment, worth mentioning would be VANDALISM NEWS
by VENGEANCE/SCS and OBSESSION by CAVRON/TRC, both
released as independent. It could look as if both magazines
had no interest to SCS+TRC, and therefore the editors were
forced into releasing them under an independent label to
avoid being kicked out of the group.
* LAXITY, known as one of the most popular musicians in the
old VIBRANTS family, may be planning a comeback to the 64
in the near future. He is currently active with his school and
playing jazz.
* OXYRON is twisting and turning, as most of the members
are seeking inspiration on other systems. The brilliant coder
and top of the chart holder TTS has started coding on the
AMIGA. Meanwhile TTS also stopped all his swapping due to
his University engagement. Also AXIS started coding on the
AMIGA, while PEACE and PRI started composing on the AMIGA
and PEACE will probably also be involved with the PC in the
near future as well. The madness continued, as GRAHAM
started coding on (get this) the ATARI ST.FALCON. RRR will
start paining on the AMIGA as well, and has plans on moving
on to the PC and SNES in the near future. To put an end to
the list of members exploring new systems, SCRAPPER started
on the PC and ASMODIS has plans to start on the AMIGA. All
this does not sound too good in the eyes of the most fanatic
64-scene supporter, but rumours proclaim OXYRON to be
releasing COMA LIGHT 12 in the near future. Apparently
BIZKID (editor of SKYHIGH) is the only member of OXYRON
left without any 16-bit plans, but the AMIGA does not
necessary have to be the biggest enemy to the 64-scene -
that was obvious, as MACHINE quit the scene to join the
army (he was getting ready to start on the PC anyway).
* An experienced and respected scener has announced his
final goodbye to the 64 scene. RICHIE/AVANTGARDE made
it official, and after a long career he retires.
* ALPHA FLIGHT seem to be having terrible problems with a
certain black sheep, this one in the form of a person called
LIMIT. Apparently this person has announced to be a member
of ALPHA FLIGHT, uploading re-releases under the AFL label
to the American boards. According to MAX/AFL, this guy has
never been and never will be a member of ALPHA FLIGHT.
Supposevely this scandal has something to do with one of the
major wars (with DYTEC and SCS+TRC) ALPHA FLIGHT is
currently engaged with, but that is only speculations though.
ALPHA FLIGHT had other things to worry about this month,
as their entire Polish section, consisting of WOZIO, DRUID,
TITANIC and SAILOR, left to join up with CHROMANCE. They
are said to be only on trial though, which could be a safety
move by CHROMANCE due to the fact that the Polish sceners
has receaved a reputation of being easy with their group
selections lately. CHROMANCE could also announce to have
recruited two other members, these in the form of the cracker
LORD CRUCIFIER, who had been on a slightly failed trip to
GENESIS PROJECT before and will now be trying luck in the
Hungarian group. CHROMANCE also invited SYCO/ex.SACRED
(a swapper) to join up, which he did.
* TRANCE appears to be back in business with the old members
RAMIREZ and BIZARRE who both left ALPHA FLIGHT. Whether
the magazine A-HEAD will return is still unknown.
* The MOTIV 8 American board, IN LIVING COLOR, will have a
7,5 megabyte harddisk installed for wares in the very near
future. The sysop, GREGO, seems to have finally given up
on getting his equipment back, which was possessed by the
American secret service a couple of months ago during a
raid which was named THE HOUSTON INSIDENT. Instead, he
will be purchasing new equipment soon.
* The promising Australian cracking and demo group SHAZAM
which was announced dead a while back has reformed with most
of what was known as the old SHAZAM. The future plans of
SHAZAM is yet unknown though, but we look forward to
following them on their ventures.
* The BRONX magazine EARTHSHAKE is going through a
phase of reformation at the moment, with a brand new outfit
in the making coded by ABUSE. BRONX could also announce
the capture of a talented musician called AKADEM. He is
a member of CAUTION as well though.
* ATLANTIS, who is currently working on getting their
legendary magazine IMMORTAL FLASH back running again,
recruited FREDDIE/VISION (swapper). He will serve for the
group on test time to begin with though.
That concludes the NEWS JOURNAL for JUNE 1994. We will
bid you goodbye as we hold a long and deserving vacation,
but hope to return in August with a long and interesting list
of summer transfers and newsflashes (get busy out there).
You will be able to send us NEWS and REPORTS all summer
long though at the following address :
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We sign off with the obligatory HAVE A NICE SUMMER in the
final lines of this chapter as well, and we hope you will use
it to get in shape for the kick-off of another exciting fall
in the name of the 64 scene.
Until August then!
DUKE
Monthly Releases
+ MONTHLY RELEASES - THE RELEASE CHARTS +
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By COUNT ZERO of TALENT
Trying to keep up the standards is not always that easy, but
often earns nothing but complaints. This month was supposed
to be, and also turned into, an easy living for me.
Just a couple of things went wrong, and no (!) re-releases
were made.
The only things I want to state before I kick off the usual
list of what is HOT and what does NOT rule, are some new
ways of earning points.
(?) Well, to explain it. On the release of ENTITY, TRC+SCS
and AVANTGARDE are SHARING the points. A pretty good
move by both parties, showing the scene and its inhabitants
that it is not only the hunt for points, but also the friend-
ship and collaboration that gives the scene a touch of class,
something the C64-scene is specialist in providing.
In addition to giving you an insight on some of the things
that happend during the month, I want to state that there
are two FAKE-RELEASES from ALPHA FLIGHT - which was
NOT released by them. The two games AFTERMATH and
PARTYGAME are fakes, and will not be included into the
charts. It took a while to trace the wares and uncover the
mess.
This was the major happenings this month.
THE US SCENE
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It is unbelievable, but absolutely NOTHING happend in the US
this month. Maybe at this point we should enter the PD-area
in the states (?).
Americans and Canadians - PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER!
And now for the MONTHLY RELEASES.
ALPHAFLIGHT (Ger, UK, USA, Pol, etc.) (15.0 Points/1.Rank)
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They started their excellent month with the fixed version of
COSMIC HERO (3.9) by L.K.AVALON, which is a rather plain and
simple game.
Suddenly by the end of the month, they came up with the also
fixed version of LATER (4.0) and MAGIC OF ENDORIA (7.1)
by GERMAN DESIGN GROUP.
As explained before, the games AFTERMATH and PARTYGAME
are not counted, although e.g. PARTYGAME is NO re-release,
but after checking back with MARC/AFL, those games were
excluded from the MONTHLY RELEASES.
AVANTGARDE (Ger, UK, USA, etc.) (9.3 Points/3.Rank)
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Starting off with a brilliant preview named LAZYTECH (0.9)
they made their way through half of the GAME ON by releasing
a fixed version of POLONAESE (4.1) and ENTITY (2.2).
Also OXYD (2.1) hit the boards, but was not even supposed to
be spread as a first-release (?).
CHROMANCE (HUN, USA, etc.) (5.1 Points/6.Rank)
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At first look this one was supposed to become a good one for
our Hungarian friends, but it turned out to be average.
Trying to help us out of our warez-depression, they came up
with SMARTRIS PRV (0.5) and FIGHTER OF THE MARSH (4.6).
Another one from their drives named COSMIC BUSINESS (-)
is not taken into the count-out due to it being BASIC.
(See rules last issue.)
F4CG (Bel, Pol, USA, etc.) (8.2 Points/4.Rank)
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Finally their Polish entry, HAIN, came up with the points he
was supposed to kick into this old legend, bringing us 3
games from VERMES/MAREX they made it to the 4th spot this
month. MEMO MANIA (3.4) which later on got fixed by
CHROMANCE and COLOR MANIA (2.4) started the mania.
COLOR MANIA got later on fixed by BYRONICS, but due
to their version not working without carts (!) it is resulting
in a (-2) for the fixing group.
Finally LINGOS (2.5) got spread and remains PAL so far.
MOTIV8 (Den, Ger, USA) (2.0 Points/6.Rank)
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After last months success, they nearly vanished away for
this periods count-out. In the beginning they started with
the preview of AVOID'EM (0.4) following later on JUMP KID PRV
(0.3) and ARC ANGEL (0.5). Finally they put out FUNBALL PRV
(0.8) from OCTABITS, the label of ZODIAC/FLASH INC., which
is supposed to be a good one next month.
The preview mania just got interrupted by another one from
LOGYK SOFTWARE featuring an adventure creator game
named THE CRANMORE DIAMOND CAPER (-).
TALENT (UK, Ger, USA, Fin) (5.3 Points/5.Rank)
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During this months finals, they released BOOM (5.3) from
BRAINSTORM SOFT, which is a neat little shoot'em up. Also
the 2.0 Version of GODOT (-) was spread by them.
(A COOL tool to convert any kind of GFX. I LOVE IT!)
TRC+SCS (Hol, Ger, USA, Hun, etc.) (12.8 Points/2.Rank)
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The Dutch duo made the best spot in their young history
Sofar. CP VERLAG's BOBIX (5.3) was put out by them fixed
along with THE FLY 3 which is running PAL/NTSC.
Instead of sitting on his butt, even Burglar managed to do
a little preview named TRODDLERS (0.7) copyright by ENNO
DEVELOPMENTS :) and MISFORTUNE PRV (0.9), another
excellent preview. Finally they shared the points with
AVANTGARDE for ENTITY (2.2) from NEW ENTRY,
(Ed. Not doing this and winning the run would have caused
2 (!) number one spots this issue, so see them as winners
aswell. The true gods they are :).
TRSI+DYTEC (Ger, UK) (1.3 Points/9.Rank)
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Putting out two previews by DYTEC designs was an easy
move I guess. BURNING STARS PRV (0.7) and DYNABOYS
PRV (0.6) are two nice little pre-releases I would like to see
the whole game of.
SHAZAM (AUT) (1.9 Points/8.Rank)
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Nearly forgot them. JETPACK (1.9) was recently put out by
them. Keeping the quality low this month.
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That is about it for the MONTHLY RELEASES. Turn the page
over for the charts.
And to show you a bit of statistics :
14 FULL GAMES and 10 PREVIEWS was counted this month.
Still not an acceptable amount of releases, but for the
season it is still enough though.
Keep on going, dudes.
+ CRACKINGGROUPS RELEASECHARTS +
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Rank Groupname Releases Points
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1. ALPHAFLIGHT 3 (1) 15.0 (-0.2)
2. TRC+SCS 3 (2) 12.8 (9.0)
3. AVANTGARDE 3 (4) 9.3 (24.6)
4. F4CG 3 8.2 (-5)
5. TALENT 1 5.3
6. CHROMANCE 1 (2) 5.1 (9.1)
7. MOTIV8 0 2.0 (15.5)
8. SHAZAM 1 1.9
9. TRSI+DYTEC 0 1.3
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Some more groups this month. That is nice to see.
+ CRACKINGROUPS QUALITYCHARTS +
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Rank Groupname Points
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1. TALENT 5.3
2. ALPHAFLIGHT 5.0
3. TRC+SCS 3.7
4. AVANTGARDE 2.8
5. F4CG 2.7
6. CHROMANCE 2.3
7. SHAZAM 1.9
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Adding a comment here is rather senseless. Let us instead
have a look at what happend towards the fixing business.
+ FIXINGGROUPS RELEASECHARTS +
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Rank Groupname FIXED Releases Points
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1. ALPHAFLIGHT 2 7.9
2. TRC+SCS 2 7.5
3. AVANTGARDE 2 6.3
4. CHROMANCE 1+1 6.1
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CHROMANCE got the points for SANTA CLAUS HELPER on the
NTSC round which I forgot last month. Their REFLECT does
not deserve points, as it did not need a fix at all.
Filling another page with the same charts for the quality
charts does not make sense as each group has two releases.
Just divide the points by two and there you go!
I hope everybody is satisfied now. As a result to the last
changes BYRONICS already got punished with (-2) although
it was definitely their packer.
In conclusion, I would like to add to this month :
Rely on the things YOU did yourself, not the crappy stuff by
others :).
That is about it for this months show. Be sure to meet me
again after the summer vacation, then featuring more warez
than ever. (IIIEKS) - More previews, games and wars!
Let us hope this stuff stays interesting until the four
horsemen are coming to get us.
Signed,
COUNT ZERO of TALENT
Satirica
+ SATIRICA - THE AUTOPSY OF THE SCENE +
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Now that you have joined us, we can get ready for another
edition of the worst pyle of shit written since the time JESUS
sat down with a couple of bankers and financed his new book.
You have entered the domains of SATIRICA, the place where
anything can happen - and do happen. This is where we have
no restraints, but a vivid imagination.
The stories included in SATIRICA are pure fiction and based
on a satiric state of mind. This was not written to offend any
of you, but to pass on a smile in these trying times. Most of
what is written in SATIRICA is based on the actual news,
then turned around 180 degrees to put together a totally
crazy and obscure story. I hope you like it!
I (DUKE) would like to send my most humble thanks to :
BOD, for being the flexible kind of guy he is!
POWERPLANT, for being so secretive that I could make up
anything about him and everyone would believe it!
RICHIE, for leaving the scene and giving me the kind of
inspiration that I started suffering from writing cramp!
* Another scandal has hit the royal BOD family, this time
revealed by PLAYING ROMEO, who was able to announce that
BOD was still active - playing with his toys. Apparently he has
put his scene-activities away to use more time with his LEGO
and PLAYMOBILE. BOD claims this is just another attempt to
make him look bad, but when he interrupted the interview to
steal a passing boys teddy-bear, he pretty much revealed his
passion on the spot. TOYS'R'US told PLAYING ROMEO they
were planning on signing a four year contract with BOD, as
their new mascot. This happend when POWERPLANT was seen
playing with toys from OBSCURE FANTASIES, and then fired.
* AIRWOLF who is currently a Genesis PROJECT featured on
VANITY FAIR stripped naked, claiming to be the male version
of the now infamous DEMI MOORE photo taken during her
pregnancy. It is difficult however to spot the likeness in
AIRWOLFs picture, but the stomach does show a slight resem-
blance. AIRWOLF stated in a released note "What's wrong with
being full-bodied?". But eventhough the picture of AIRWOLF
made world-wide horror, it managed to cut him through to a
nice little deal with ALIEN-LIFE-FORM, who signed him on as
their new HEATH-FOOD-SUCKS columnist.
* The American sysop POL POT figures in the latest edition of
the GUINESS RECORDS book holding a brand new record. The
disciplin of being able to smoke the most cigarettes in the
shortest amount of time was broken, when POL POT managed
to light and smoke 265 cigarettes in just 2 minutes. This is
an amazing record, but when POL POT was asked about his
record he stated - "I didn't know anyone was counting?" and
"I need a cigarette".
* RICHIE/AVANTGARDE gave the C64 scene a final goodbye
on a conference last night at 3:00 AM. The cause of his leave,
was that he wanted to concentrate more on his job as a
promising roofer. RICHIE claimed it may not be the most
glamerous job, and it most definitely will not attract any
money or woman, but atleast it is a job that matches his IQ.
RICHIE stated jobs like that are hard to find these days
where computers and machines has practically taken over just
about everything. But fortunately roofing is still around to
give people like me a reason to live, RICHIE said. Roofing has
been in my family for centuries, it would be stupid of me to
ruin that record.
* Meanwhile at the slum of ANTICHRIST and SORCERESS
"You hurt me and you made me cry. But if you leave me, I will
surely die, bla, bla".
+ NATURES CORNER - WATCHING FAT WOMEN UNDRESS +
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Welcome to another issue of the glamorous NATURES CORNER
hosted by your favourite gardener POWERPLANT of LEGEND.
(Instant applause by WESTBAM)
Thank you, I love you too. This month I have had to dig down
deep to find material for this edition. But I managed to find a
decent movie to discuss nonetheless.
PWP : Welcome RICHIE. You have just put out RICHIE - LOSER
which is currently showing in MALAYSIA. Where did you come
up with the title? Must have took you ages to come up with
anything as fitting as this!
RICHIE : Well, I recently watched ACE VENTURA - DETECTIVE
to find some good material for my up-coming movie, and the
title of that movie gave me some inspiration.
PWP : What is the movie about then?
RICHIE : It is a sort of a DOLPHIN having sex with DINGOS kind
of a movie. It is great fun, I am sure you would love it!
THE MOVIE CORNER hosted by AJ/TRC of FRONTPAGE
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Welcome to the post-office. This month we will countdown the
favourite movies in the scene this month. Join me every month
for a look at the big titles out in a store near you NOW!
10. BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY.
Starring MOREN and BURGLAR/SUCCESS.
9. STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT.
Starring DISHY/VISION.
8. SOAPDISH.
Starring ALPHA FLIGHT and DYTEC.
8. THE FISHER KING.
Starring KING FISHER/TRIAD.
6. FAR AND AWAY.
Starring ANTICHRIST/G*P.
Those are the titles from 10 through 6. Now we will turn the
table and look at the top 5.
5. OH, WHAT A NIGHT.
Starring JAZZCAT/LEGEND.
4. MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN.
Starring RICHIE/ex.AVANTGARDE.
3. THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.
Starring AYCEE/TSM and SORCERESS/G*P.
2. DEAD AGAIN.
Starring 2000AD.
And the UNBEATABLE number ONE for JUNE.
1. PROBLEM CHILD 2.
Starring HAIN/F4CG.
This has been the MOVIE CORNER presented to you by
ACTION JACKSON/TRC, editor of FRONTPAGE.
Join us in AUGUST - when we will reveal a new list of fantastic
HAVE TO GO WATCH THEM BECAUSE MY MONEY ARE BURNING
A HOLE IN MY POCKET movies.
* CREST had set their minds on releasing a new demo this
year, but at the moment it appears most of the CREST members
has put it all off for indefinite. We tried to get a hold of
GOLDRUSH, the leader of CREST, to get some information
about the coming demo, but he was not at home, but at his
neighbours playing TRAP THE CLAM. We then called up DRAX,
but he knew very little about the demo, let alone if it was
ever going to be released. Then we called up MADUPLEC, but
he hung up on us after we mentioned the word "DEMO".
* OXYRON appears to be facing the same problem as CREST,
although it is of a slighly different nature. TTS claims he
refuses to code on a demo of which number no one can
remember anyway. He recently stated to UNLIMITED-LIFE
Magazine - "We stopped counting on the COMA LIGHT series,
so now we have to start all over". OXYRON might show up with
a brand new demo, but first they need to investigate their
talents on a billion of other computers first - which by the
way might take a while.
* And now we would like to take a moments silence to show
RICHIE (who just left the scene) our respect and goodbye!
BAAAAEEEEELALALALALALALALLABABABABABALALALA
LALAALABABABABABAHALALALALALALAGAGAGAGAGAGA.
Thank you!
+ SUPREME-SKINHEAD RETURNS - ISSUE # 3 +
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Welcome back to another humorous episode with fun and
hideous laughter in the name of the TWIN HEADS. This edition
was brought to you by THE WIG AND SHAVING-GELLO CO.
We join JOCHEN and HARTMUT in this episode, as they have
just returned home from the SINGLE MEN OF THE 90's bar.
"Phew, that was a close one" said JOCHEN and walked into the
bathroom to polish his balled spot. "DAMN IT - a stupid bird
has blotted on my most shinny spot. Go and get some shaving-
gello from the BALLED'R'US shop HARTMUT". "Oh man, why do
I always have to do the errands around here?" cried HARTMUT
in his typical girly type of voice "Oh stop winning you stupid
skinhead, and do what I say before I set you on fire" shouted
JOCHEN in a deep voice.
On the way to the BALLED'R'US, HARTMUT picked up a couple
of animal-sex movies - using the fake ID he stole from an old
woman he robbed the other day. "Ah yes, this will do wonders
for me when I get home" said HARTMUT in a jolly tone, and
danced his way down the street. There stood the shop - the
HOLLY TEMPLE as JOCHEN used to call it.
HARTMUT entered the BALLED'R'US store, and greeted the
priest who served the counter. "Ah yes, fine fine skinhead
come to my store, yes. Welcome, what may I, the priest of
shinny spots, do for you young skinhead?" said the priest.
"Hi father. Well, I need a bottle of shaving gello, the usual
formula you know" said HARTMUT. "Oh, and I also think I will
have one of those SCRAPE AND WIN plates" HARTMUT said
silently. "AAAAH, YEEEES, SCRAPE AND WIN, very very good
game. I once heard about a guy who bought a plate, and won a
million dollars because the plate had three balled heads on
it" shouted the priest, so that everyone looked at HARTMUT
in a funny way (same procedure as always).
HARTMUT paid the priest with his last fake coins, and went
out the door in a rush - just incase the priest would notice.
HARTMUT was real excited about the SCRAPE and WIN plate.
He knew, that if this plate had three balled people on it, he
would be able to buy all the RIGHT SAID FRED albums, and
maybe even afford a woman afterwards. It was an exciting
moment, and when HARTMUT was about to scrape the plate,
he heard a shout from down the street.
- TO BE CONTINUED.. (Can you stand the excitement?)
+ THE BALLED AND UNSHAVED - THE REAL WORLD +
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Welcome to another episode of the infamous meeting of chosen
lebracons from the scene. This is the real world, or to put it
another way - it is the world of the BALLED and UNSHAVED.
This month we invited the following geezers.
RICHIE/ex.AVANTGARDE
CROSSFIRE/MOTIV 8
CAVRON/TRC+SCS
JCH/VIBRANTS
We will begin with a short introduction speech.
We at SATIRICA are not to blaim for any psychological
damage that may strike the visitors of our CEMETERY in
ICELAND. We therefore urge you not to judge us on the
outcome of the next lebracons.
RICHIE about the meeting,
"Oye mates. It was a jolly fine cemetary I'd say. Too bad the
roof didn't need any fixing, I would have been more than happy
to have done it for free. But then you might have called me an
ass-kisser, which I am not. BTW: I love you all, I really do".
CROSSFIRE about the meeting,
"I have to say, it was nice to get a break from my home town
MONDELSTRUP. It is not very often I get to go outside of my
village, and when I do - boy do I pick the right place to go.
love cemetaries, must have something to do with all the groups
I have been in and barried. Ah, It kind of makes me think of
my younger years when I was a boy-scout in MONDELSTRUP -
but that is another story".
CAVRON about the meeting,
"Hello there motherfuckers. It was a fucking cool place to be
invited man, I fucking loved it man. I just wish CROSSFIRE
would have left me alone, not trying to toss me in a hole and
kick dirt over me, but I guess it was the right place for
things like that. Anyway, fuck you all, and may the fucking
fuck be with you. Gotta love my vocabulary".
JCH about the meeting,
"Just one question. What do I have to do with the other three
nut-cases stationed at the cemetary? But okay, I am game.
Atleast It gave me an opportunity to get a couple of days off
at the post-office. I think I have said all there is to say.
(Hey, can I go now? Thanks)".
The Balled and The Unshaved was sponsored by Iceland AIR
* A day in the life of a young newcomer who has just been
told he has got the right to vote in magazines....
Boy, really. Well, I think I will vote for IKARI then, they are
pretty good. But I just cannot seem to remember if they were
a demo group or.. hmm.. I will just put them under the musician
chart, that will do. The votesheet said no one cared who I
voted for anyway, so I think I will put my dad under the fixer
charts, because he once fixed my bike when no one else could
do it. Yeah, that ought to do it. Hmm, what's this one. Best
board? Hmm, oh, I know it, the DEVIL SKATEBOARD, that one
has to be the best of the lot. Hey, I am pretty good at this,
I can be elite, I seem to know everything already. I guess this
is what they call being a natural at voting, perhaps I should
put down for that advertisement and join that group TALENT.
Oh darn it, that will never do, the add is from England, and I
have no wish to move all the way to England to join the group.
Besides, my parents wouldn't allow it. Oh well, I guess you
can't have everything in this day and age....
All of a sudden, a nuclear bomb crashed on the roof of the
young newcomers house and blew him away!!!
Meanwhile RICHIE says, "Bombs has no respect for roofs".
* CROSSFIRE is involved with what could easily be described
as the biggest scandal in his home village MONDELSTRUP
since the time the mayor mistook his head for a doughtnut and
ate it. According to the village police MONDEL-VICE, the
village squatter CROSSFIRE raped a female weasel outside
the police headquarters. According to CROSSFIRE, he mistook
the weasel for a dingo, who JAZZCAT had been speaking very
highly of in terms of finding the means to having the highest
possible sexual pleasure. CROSSFIRE is facing to be grounded
up to two days, but he claims it was worth it. CROSSFIRE has
already booked himself on the next flight to AUSTRALIA where
he will be attending the annual SEX WITH DINGOS AND OTHER
STUFF barbeque held by JAZZCAT.
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That concludes this months edition of SATIRICA, I hope you
have enjoyed this one as well. Please do remember, I mean no
harm, I just want to put people down!
SATIRICA is the original satiric chapter. You might face some
cheap imitations out there when passing through the world of
magazines, but it all comes down to one - SATIRICA.
YA GOTTA LOVE ME!
DUKE
Global Report
+ GLOBAL REPORT - INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDANCE +
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Welcome to another edition of GLOBAL REPORT. This month we
return with the usual informative articles and reports related
to the scene with important backgrounds.
This month we big a huge report on one of the major scandals
currently being discussed throughout the world as one of the
most contriversial topics this year. The main groups in the
spotlight is DYTEC and ALPHA FLIGHT, and the cause of
everything is the game LEMMINGS. Be sure to read this
exclusive report on one of the most contriversial events in
the scene today.
GLOBAL REPORT also return with the popular opinion polls,
this time expanding the target group, giving everyone the
opportunity to take part in our future polls. Read more about
the opinion polls in this months report.
The American group CODERZ has been through a difficult
period with their leader and front-figure LUCIFER being put
to jail by the secret service. Read more about the current
situation of CODERZ in GLOBAL REPORT.
GLOBAL REPORT is hosted by General Editor DUKE.
+ THE PULSE MAGAZINE - WORLD-WIDE OPINION POLLS +
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We return with a new set of opinion polls, this time with a
different motive though. We believe opinion polls should be
made to reach an answer about the opinion of the general
scener about a certain topic.
In the past we have only used bulletin boards to collect the
answers for our polls, which we admit was not fair on the
heaps of sceners who actually do not own a modem (about 95
percent of the scene more or less). Therefore we give YOU
the opportunity to take part in our brand new and world-wide
opinion poll, in which YOU will have the opportunity to be a
part of important answers and debates being made.
Beginning this edition, we will list a set of new opinion polls
every month in GLOBAL REPORT. The answers will then be
listed in SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT, and will result in a lively
debate with possible guests for comments about the results.
You will be able to send you answers (write number of poll
followed by the letter of your choice) to anyone with any
relation to THE PULSE MAGAZINE or REGINA. We will accept
the answers no later than the 25th of JULY. The opinion polls
will now follow, we hope you will enjoy answering them.
* POLL # 1
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What in YOUR opinion is the most important factor in terms
of helping the C64-scene stay alive?
A. THE DEMOS
B. THE MAGAZINES
C. THE BROKEN DISKS
D. THE GAMES
E. THE BOARDS
F. NONE OF THE ABOVE
* POLL # 2
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What in YOUR opinion is the BEST thing about THE PULSE?
A. THE RELEASE-CHARTS
B. THE NEWS
C. THE DEBATES
D. THE DEMO/GRAPHICS REVIEWS
E. THE SATIRIC STORIES
F. THE BOARD REPORTS
G. NOTHING IS WORTH MENTIONING
* POLL # 3
What is YOUR favourite Magazine?
A. REFORMATION/FAIRLIGHT
B. NITRO/EXCESS
C. THE PULSE MAGAZINE/REGINA
D. REVEALED/CAMELOT
E. SKYHIGH/OXYRON
F. PROPAGANDA/GENESIS PROJECT
G. VANDALISM NEWS/INDEPENDENT
H. NEWS PRESS/REBELS
I. NONE OF THE ABOVE
* POLL # 4
What kind of party would YOU prefer to go to in the future?
A. AMIGA/PC/C64/AMSTRAD/SNES PARTY
B. AMIGA/PC/C64 PARTY
C. AMIGA/C64 PARTY
D. PC/C64 PARTY
E. C64 PARTY
F. NONE OF THE ABOVE
+ THE ALPHA FLIGHT vs. DYTEC SCANDAL +
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The main-discussion this month on the major US-boards was
about whether or not ALPHA FLIGHT re-cracked DTC+TRSI's
version of the latest multi-filed full-pricer LEMMINGS.
But before we take a look at DYTEC's evidence, we would like
to raise the question, that of the low rate possibility that
this is true, then how come DYTEC+TRSI supposively had
the original 3 days before ALPHA FLIGHT, and yet, ALPHA
FLIGHT was STILL the first group to put it out on the Ameri-
can boards, ALTHOUGH DYTEC+TRSI could easily have up-
loaded THEIR version, and since we in the staff of THE PULSE
feel CERTAIN, that they would not miss the 1st release on the
game of the century if they could get it, we still blunder in
the fact, that AFL has been accused of re-cracking it, even-
though THEY were first with it.
But by all means. Let us take a quick peek at DYTEC's eviden-
ce and add what the AFL-members had to say.
D=DYTEC Spokesman (Little Big Man)
A=ALPHA FLIGHT Spokesman (Whole group!)
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D:The levels on the disks has the same order.
A:This is the original file-order, just like it is on the
original.
..continued!
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D:Their version has the same trainer-options, only a few
lame ones added.
A:If you train a game, then you always try to train everything,
you will always have the same trainers, because the main-
code is the SAME on every original. So OFCAUSE you will
always find the same routines!!!
D:Their version has the same decrunch routine at the same
address.
A:This is NORMAL, when you remove the loader from the origi-
nal and just replace it with the level-decrunchers routines
and since we used the same level-squeezer, the loader was
to be identical, just like the length of each file.
D:Their version also contains the same in-game routines.
A:Same thing, as where you have to insert the trainer routines
into the main-code.
D:Their version has the same kind of disk-style.
A:Everybody does this with the directory of their spread disk,
so how can you call us re-crackers, just because of some
seq-files?
According to ALPHA FLIGHT, DYTEC is doing this to gain at-
tention at their costs and that their evidence is simply lies
and speculations. -Next Page!-
COMMENT FROM THE STAFF
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Seeing how ALPHA FLIGHT is chased on the boards, we in the
staff have a hard time believing they would do a thing like
this, and since all the proofs DYTEC has come up with seems
all to be on very shakey ground, we in the staff feel, it is
our duty to agree with ALPHA FLIGHT in this case. We have a
very hard time believing DYTEC's story over AFL's story, so
THEREFORE. We also think this is just a publicity-stunt from
DYTEC to gain attention on behalf of ALPHA FLIGHT.
If you have a special case or scandal you want for us to
investigate and analyse - simply send us all the material
sorounding the case - and we will print our result.
Signed,
CROSSFIRE
This report was written after ALPHA FLIGHT had released
their view on this scandal. But it seems the saga will go on
for a bit longer than this, because right after AFL had
released their note - a new one appeared from the DYTEC
members, showing new evidence in this case.
This note will now follow in GLOBAL REPORT.
LEMMINGS - THE REAL STORY (PART II).
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Recently we got a letter from our "friends" in ALPHA FLIGHT.
They tried to disprove that they RE-CRACKED our LEMMINGS
version, but they did not disprove any of our FACTS!
Therefore we in DYTEC will now PROVE again, but now in
detail, that ALPHA FLIGHT (SUPREME) RE-CRACKED our
version of LEMMINGS. (By the way, LITTLE BIG MAN and I
(PROTON) made all the work on the original, so we are more
than enraged about the lame behaviour from the AFL guys).
Let us start with the level order. The order on the ALPHA
FLIGHT version does not look like the order on the original
(ups. It looks like the order in OUR disk). Isn't that quite
amazing? AFL got the 1 SIDED original right before any
other group, so they should know the order on the original
disks better than anyone else (We also released this
version without levelpacking, and - No, nothing on the disk.
They should keep a look on this release, and note the
correct order of the levels).
The next comments from these "cool guys" were about the
TRAINER-ROUTINES. Sure the maincode of a game is the same
every time. But in this case exists ONLY ONE ROUTINE to
decrease the amount of available LEMMINGS. If you change
these routines, all LEMMINGS are trained at the same time.
Therefore LBM coded a SPECIAL routine to check our which
LEMMING is trained and which one is not. This routine is
located at DFA0 (I still wrote that in our last file. But it
seems ALPHA FLIGHT do not understand), atleast he changed
a little part of the original trainer-routine to work correct-
ly with the new routine. Is it not amazing to see, that LITTLE
BIG MAN and SUPREME (two persons in different places
without any relations) coded the same routine and placed
these routines at the same memory position, and changed the
maincode at the same position. In my opinion, this is down
right impossible. No way. This is only possible if ALPHA
FLIGHT re-cracked our version. (Disprove that by saying
it is still possible, and you are not only lame, but stupid).
There is no end to this. ALPHA FLIGHT also wrote that if you
replace the original loader by your own loader (and if this is
the same as in our version) it has to look exactly identical.
Yes, this is right. But why have you changed the load effect
(for a better locking?). Anyway, this is not the main point.
The point is, that I (PROTON) changed some of the game-
routines to work correctly with the loader. I have also
changed some routines that requests the changing of the
disk (this was necessary because the last two files of each
rating are on the first disk. So I had to check whether it is
one of the files or not). I have also included some memory-
transfers and all the routines were added to the original
code by myself and (maybe you know what follows now) surprise
- all the routines are in the ALPHA FLIGHT version. But they
are not unused, no, they always managed the right work.
No, this is not amazing, this is simply another FACT for this
RE-CRACK. Now I will bring you some statistics.
At memory location CDF2 in the original, there are datas. I
checked for the last two files, and if it is one of them, I
start a request for the first disk side A.
"SUPREME's routine" looks like my one!?! (But why?).
At memory location CFAO in the original, there are some
loader code. I INIT the loader with the current level-name,
and jump to the level-desqueezer. Whoops. "SUPREME's
routine" this time again looks exactly like my routine!?!
I can mention, that they used the same position for the
level-name (not the original position..) and for the trainer-
bytes (no wonder they use our trainer routine and so they
have to change nothing there).
Okay, I hate this, so I will stop here the endless chain of
proofs and let you decide whether ALPHA FLIGHT re-cracked
the DYTEC version of LEMMINGS or not.
But remember: our mail-version was released just one and a
half week before ALPHA FLIGHT presented us their version.
Now we brought you the best proofs you can get for a re-
crack (the personal style of each cracker is different, only
that makes the scene what it is) and if these are no proofs,
then there are no proofs anyway.
Finally, it is sad that a group with a relatively good name in
the 64-scene act like ALPHA FLIGHT and re-crack a game.
But why DYTEC? Because it is a small group and a not so
wellknown one as of yet. We call this lame, the lamest thing
a group can do. But this is a good example for you to decide
which is important for you. A name or good quality, and now
you know who made the quality - most definitely not AFL (it
seems they are not able to make any good versions. Just
take a look at the GAMERS GUIDE, and count the BAD smilies
pointing at their games, and you will realise the truth about
their abilities).
So realise the truth about LEMMINGS, and never forget
ALPHA FLIGHT re-cracked one time. But I am sure this was
not their latest re-crack.
Those were the words from DYTEC about the scandal. We
expect to hear the reaction to this from ALPHA FLIGHT
very soon, and will of course keep you updated about the
procedings in this case.
Incase you have anything important to add to this case,
please write or call us :
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THE FATE OF CODERZ by ONYX/CODERZ
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I am sure everyone has heard about LUCIFER getting busted
by the S.S., but most of you do not know what is going on with
his case, and also what is up with CODERZ. Well, I am here to
fill you in.
LUCIFER'S FATE :
A few months ago LARRY's house was raided by the United
States Secret Service and all his computer equipment
consisting of notebooks, address books and various other
items (which had nothing to do with hacking) were taken.
LARRY was questioned about various things, and after the
searcg and seizure he was taken to HARRIS COUNTY JAIL,
but not for hacking. He was arrested for 'Motion to revoke
probation', and is going before the judge tomorrow to find
out what they are going to do. He currently has no federal
charges on him, and by the way that the S.S. operate, he
probably will not be charged with anything.
CODERZ FATE :
Since LARRY was busted, and PHIBERCOM going down CODERZ
has been shut down for the time being. It may or may not
reform. If it is reformed, it will be in the IBM scene seeing
how SUB ZERO and myself have since switched to the beamer.
I could have tried to keep it going, but did not see the
point. We had no HQ, and I had no way of calling LD to find
another. More than likely CODERZ will not be back. If anyone
wants more information about all this, then leave me E-MAIL
on ILC II at XXX - XXX - XXXX , # 26.
I would like to wish GREG and SUSIE good luck on getting
their stuff back. Also, a huge thank you to MITCH KAPOR
head of EFF for helping people fight the S.S. for taking their
computer equipment. If anyone wants to learn more about
MITCH KAPOR's efforts, grab a book called 'THE HACKERS
CRACKDOWN' written by BRUCE STERLING!
COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR
-------------------------------
Since this letter was written by ONYX, we got an updated
story on LUCIFER's situation aswell as the intire HOUSTON
INCIDENT. Read more about this, exclusive to the BOARD
REPORT.
That is a wrap for this edition of GLOBAL REPORT. If you
have anything important or informative to tell the scene
about, please do send us articles or any other material and
we will print it if it is of a serious nature.
Board Report
+ THE MONTHLY BOARD REPORT +
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This month we have several things for you. We start off with
one of the traditional board-reviews, and this month we have
gone out of our way and put a European board on the spot,
namely -D O M I N I C-, since we thought it would be appro-
priate when it is European headquaters for THE PULSE MAG.
Following will be a very recent update of the scandals going on
in Houston/Texas for the last half year. Updated in the last
seconds before release with big thanks to SUSIEUZI/ex.ILS.
But without further due, let us kick off and investigate this
wonderous world we call the modem-scene.
+ D O M I N I C +
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THE PULSE MAGAZINE and MOTIV8 European Headquaters!
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If you have contributions, that might be of interest for THE
PULSE MAGAZINE, please leave e-mail to user # 2.
-Next Page!-
+ D O M I N I C +
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Technical facts..
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Sysop: TRICKET/MOTIV8
Co-Sysop: CROSSFIRE/MOTIV8
Online since: February 17th 1993
Software: CROSSFIRE Modded C-Base V2.4
Hardware: 1 x 1541for main program and mail
1 x 1541 for posts.
2 x 1581 for the latest wares.
24oo Baud Cardinal Modem.
System running on a C128,with a C64 as backup.
Remark, that a harddisk could EASILY be installed, but it is
against our policy to have wares older than a month on the
board, and with the few wares getting released these days, we
decided that 2 1581's was more than enough to hold the latest,
and what is the point of a 20 meg HD, besides using it to show
off?
+ THE PULSE - The One You Can Rely On! +
-Next Page!-
+ D O M I N I C +
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The story..
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The board had been planned for years before the sysop,
TRICKET, at the time leader of DOMINATORS, finally DID put
it online on February 17th 1993.
It was DOMINATORS WHQ until the group died in the summer of
1993 and TRICKET joined up with VISUAL REALITY, and so his
board became VR-HQ. Everything ran fine for approx. half a
year when the system was suddenly formatted by the sysop
from another board (read THE PULSE/Dec'93 for more about
that!). The board was down for about a month and TRICKET
quit the scene, but only for 2 weeks when he decided to put
his board back up. For starters it was an INDEPENDANT BBS,
but it was only a matter of time, before MOTIV8 was found by
him and some EPIC-members and his board became EHQ for
them. His board was put back up officially on January 1st 1994
and on January 5th, MOTIV8 was founded. Finally it also
became HQ for THE PULSE MAGAZINE on April 18th, 1994.
In the beginning, the board ran on UCBBS v1.3, but soon after
VISUAL REALITY took over, it changed into Cyborg Modded C-
Base, but there was a lot of problems with this, and when it
finally got formatted, TRICKET got fed up. -Next Page!-
..continued!
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..when he decided to put his board back online, CROSSFIRE, at
the time member of EPIC, supplied him with the Crossfire Modd-
ed C-Base v2.0, which was updated recently, and gets improv-
ed all the time. The crashing problems that was with Cyborg
Modded C-Base is not to be found here, since the Crossfire
Modded C-Base is NEARLY 100% crash-free. Also the back-
door has been fixed (NOT removed though!) in a way, so that
a certain lowlife cannot enter and format the system again.
The board contains 6 PUBLIC subboards, and a couple of PRI-
VATE ones, and has 3 PUBLIC wares-drives for the latest,
and the latest ONLY!
The board has been called EUROPE's # 1 by MANY of the users
and considering the record that has been set it sounds rea-
sonable. One day the board received 35 (!!!) calls and had
176 (!!!) posts written, in ONE day, that was! Still, that was
an extremely action-filled day. Generally, the board recieves
approx. 23 calls a day and has about 90 posts written per day.
As far as our record goes, NO other European board can com-
pete with that, nor can any of the European boards compete
with the speed of the wares on the drives.
-Next Page!-
As of now, the board has a total of 92 users, all people who
has applied since the board went back online in January, and
all of them is wellknown faces. Top groups such as LEGEND,
TALENT, F4CG, ALPHA FLIGHT, AVANTGARDE, CHROMANCE,
DEMONIX, PSI, GENESIS PROJECT and others are here.
There is a few simple rules that has to be followed at the
board, but everything will be explained and the rules ARE very
simple. So go ahead right now and call :
+ D O M I N I C +
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+XX/XXXX-XXXX
----------------
Open 24 hours a day!
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3oo/12oo/24oo Baud!
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ATTENTION!
------------
Please make sure you got the right number. A lot of 2nd-rate
magazines has been printing A LOT of variants of the number,
all which is WRONG!!! -DOMINIC- changed to the number above
as of February 1st, 1994! PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND..
BOARD-REPORT
----------------
The boards - The place everyone wants to be, but where so
few survive..
Due to popular demand we will this month turn another page in
the saga which has been known as THE HOUSTON INCIDENT.
--------------------------
Read this chapter, and you will get your horizon widened with
the full story of what happened when SUSIEUZI and GREGO,
both ex.ILS members at the time, was busted back in late '93,
and although the case is 6 months old, it is still running in
full gear. Also, at the 3rd of March this year, the police
picked up LUCIFER/CODERZ/AVANTGARDE at his home and
nobody, except for SUSIEUZI has heard from him ever since.
When LUCIFER was busted and his board PHIBERCOM, which,
at the time was CODERZ and CHROMANCE hq was taken down.
A lot of myths was made up, and only FEW of them had any
truth to them - Read this and YOU will know the true story.
Thanks goes out to SUSIEUZI fpr all her informations online!
+ THE PULSE +
Noone Comes
Closer To Perfection!
The LUCIFER/COD/AVT case..
-------------------------------
On March 4th 1994 his house was raided by the US Secret
Service, and Larry was jailed for not paying fines ordered
Parole Department for some trouble he got into some years
ago, that was NOT computer-related. When the Secret Ser-
vice came to his house, they ran a check on him and discov-
ered, that he had violated his Parole order, and he was taken
to the county jail for that. Today, May 26th 1994, Lucifer
was taken to court and had his Parole revolked. This means
he has to stay in jail and serve the remainder of his senten-
ce, which was 5 YEARS!!! He did however get credit for the
time he had already served before, plus the time he spend on
waiting for the court-date. He will be eligible to ask the Pa-
role-board to grant him Parole again (let him out with the
promise to pay his fines, etc.) or just to let him out on time
served in approximately 8 weeks. In the meantime, he will have
served enough time that he can now "work" in the jail and
get credit for it. He is doing so, as of THIS week, so he MAY
be able to petition for release in August or September.
This was the absolute latest and final happenings in this case.
To summon it all up, LUCIFER is NOT (!!!) in jail for hacking,
but because of violating his parole. Big difference, but ru-
mours was spreading too fast, so we had to clear this out now.
The full SUSIEUZI/GREGO story..
----------------------------------
Due to popular demand, we caught up with SUSIEUZI and asked
her to give us the full story of exactly WHAT has REALLY
been going on for the last half year, from when they were
"busted", till now.
THE PULSE MAGAZINE now gives the word to SUSIEUZI..
They came into my home on November 30th 1993 and took all my
computer equipment, most of my software and many other per-
sonal items, including my bible and books of no connection
whatsoever to the computer.
This was done by the Harris County District Attorney's office
of the state of Texas. They could not, or WOULD not, produce
the search-warrant affadavit stating what they were here to
search for.
No charges has ever been filed in the case, and atleast I have
no certain idea of what this is about.
My criminal attorney has not been able to get a copy of the
affadavit, nor have I. We DID have one brief meeting with the
special investigator from the D.A.'s office, which was ME, my
criminal attorney (I hired one in case charges were filed,
which they never HAVE been!) and an attorney from an organi-
zation called THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION which
..is based in Washington D.C.
This group was formed several years ago by the man who coded
LOTUS 1, 2 and 3 for the PC, and they are a civil rights group
to insure the freedoms of computer-users are not violated.
I contacted them right after this whole thing occoured, and
they put me in touch with a local lawyer, who is also an EFF-
member.
All we were able to ascertain from that meeting was that the
District Attorney's Office is STILL trying to get some sort of
charge filed, but as of yet, they have not done so.
The only other thing we were able to accomplish in that meet-
ing was to get the investigator to agree, that I would at some
point get my system and belongings back.
From THAT point, not much, if ANYTHING, has happened in the
case.
A couple of days ago, I spoke with Steve Jackson from Steve
Jackson Games in Austin, Texas.
A few years ago, HIS board was confiscated by the United
States' Secret Service in a SIMILAR situation with NO charges
filed. He eventually, with the help of the EFF, filed a lawsuit
against the US Government citing several federal laws which
he felt had been violated, and he WON THE CASE!!!
This set the scene for another board-operator to use these
laws to recover systems taken by law enforcement agencies.
-Next Page!-
He was very helpful to me, and has given me several new ave-
nues to pursue.
The affadavit allowing them to search and telling what they
are searching for, must, according to Texas law, be a matter
of public record.
This means that ANYONE should be allowed to go to the county
clerk's office and obtain a copy of it. I went there and they
were UNABLE TO LOCATE this damn piece of paper.
Well, another point in this whole history that bothers me al-
most as much -
I think it is pretty shabby that the majority of the scene
people have threated me like the plague since this occoured,
ESPECIALLY in the lights of the fact that no charges has
been set. I can understand it is because people takes
cautions, but there is a difference between CAUTION and to
ALIENATION!
I wanted to kinda say thanks to a couple of people, who have
NOT stuck their noses up at us after this 'busting' occoured,
especially thanks for the guys in MOTIV8 and to DERBYSHIRE
RAM/AVANTGARDE for being a real pal to both Grego and me.
Feel free to contact me for some mailtrading, my address
should be findable in the BLACKBOARD chapter.
/SusieUzi (ex.ILS)
You have reached the end of another board-report..
THE PULSE MAGAZINE will now take a well-deserved summer-
vacation, but as THE PULSE is the only reliable magazine left
in this scene, we WILL ofcause be back in two months with the
August-edition...
...Miss us!
..and finally, have a good summer.. ...I know WE will !!!
Profile
+ PROFILE - THE JUNE INTERVIEW +
---------------------------------------
Welcome to the JUNE edition of PROFILE. Last month we had
a very popular interview with METAL of CAMELOT, so now it
is time for us to bring you an exclusive interview with one of
the sceners within the cracking-scene.
This month we invited an experienced scener, but in a scene
a person who is just getting started. He made a name for
himself leading the negotiations to one of the most interesting
cooperation in the scene this year.
The interview was conducted by SPLATTERHEAD, and edited
by DUKE. Thanks must go to COUNT ZERO for helping out on
getting this interview through in time.
But for our Profile this June month, please welcome FATMAN
of DYTEC and TRSI.
[S] : SPLATTERHEAD
[F] : FATMAN/DYTEC+TRSI
[S] Hello there LARS. I know you have already been in the 64
scene for quite some time, but for those who still have not
heard about you, could you please give them some information
about the person behind the handle 'FATMAN' and tell us a bit
about the time you have spent in the scene.
[F] Okay. Here we go :
Real name : XXXX XXXXXXXXXX.
Live in :BERLIN.
Age : 22.
Born : 08.04.1972
Weight : 106KG.
Height : 179 CM.
Hobbies : Computers, Billard, Dartand Cinema.
Hardware : 5 C64's, 1 C128,1 PC, 1 AMIGA 1200, SNES+SWC,
MEGA-DRIVE II and a GAMEBOY.
Food : Chinese food and MC Donalds (Burger King sucks).
Drinks : Coke, Ginand Tonic.
I got my first C64 back in 1987, but till 1989 I was not very
active. In the middle of 1990 I joined up with DYTEC as an
original supplier.
[S] You have been in cooperation with TRSI for some time
now, who was/were the person(s) behind the fusion and did
you have any special reasion to do it?
[F] I knew IRATA and many of the TRSI-PC-AMIGA guys since
way back. You already know that I am a member of TRSI/FAITH
on the PC, and we have often talked about the scene. IRATA
saw a lot of our work, and he noticed we had a good set of
crackers. Due to the shortage of crackers in TRSI at the
time, with most of them leaving the scene and joining up with
other groups, they had a general interest in us. One day I
asked IRATA what he thought about a cooperation, and he
spoke with the other TRSI members about it, and most of them
agreed, so that was how it all happened.
[S] What can we expect from this cooperation? Will there be
any changes from you, and have you considered kicking any
of your members due to the largeness of the group at this
stage?
[F] You can expect a lot of first-releases and a high quality
level. Up to now I have provided the DYTEC originals, and
treated the crackers to work. I am supposed to go on with
this, and most likely will. Up to now no one has left DYTEC in
result of the cooperation!
[S] What was your first reaction when the cooperation became
a reality?
[F] Well, I actually forced the cooperation, so I will not be
able to answer this one. My opinion is the best way for both
sides on this topic!
[S] Could you please give the readers a bit of background
information about DYTEC throughout the years.
[F] DYTEC was built up in the end of 1989 by 8 people. By the
way, the name DYTEC is a short for DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGIES.
In 1989 we were nearly the only professional (or serious if you
may) group in the former East Germany. In 1990 the wall came
down, and this was the event that took us beyond and into
the real scene. Through the years, the members changed, but
we have always tried to keep our quality standard. In the last
couple of years, I believe we have forced our organisation to
work a lot faster without loosing our quality level, and so we
all of a sudden became known through our contacts.
[S] Will the DYTEC party of the cooperation perhaps show up
on the American boards now then?
[F] I have always uploaded our releases on AMIGA boards
using a C64-conference, and lately I have started calling
some genuine 64 boards in the states.
[S] About your membership of TRSI on the AMIGA. What is your
opinion on what scene is the best (the AMIGA contra the C64
scene)?
[F] First and foremost I am a member of TRSI/FAITH on the
PC, and I refuse to say that any scene is better or worse
than the other, but I must admit the C64 scene is the one with
the most fun at the moment. Naturally there are a lot of
differences between the scenes, at first of course the
hardware (hehe). The worst about the AMIGA is that there is
only ONE first release, and in the following days you have to
install a fix or two, etc. On the C64 there are always put out
a lot of different versions of each game, this way giving the
user a golden opportunity of choosing the one he likes the
most.
[S] Some of the TRSI members decided to leave the scene
after the TRISTAR and RSI merge on the 64 (POSDNUGS,
PSYCHOBILLY, MR.PRESIDENT among others). What do you
think the reason was for this?
[F] I do not know the individual decision of all the people
who left RSI before the merge, but as far as I know then
POSDNUGS is still active!
[S] If the cooperation for some reason should end, what would
you (and the rest of DYTEC) do. Would you stay in DYTEC or
would you maybe join up with TRSI or maybe another group?
[F] This one is simple to answer. If the cooperation should
end, what I of course do not hope, DYTEC will go back to
doing what it did before the cooperation. We are all still very
proud of the DYTEC history, and would miss it if we left the
group. But in any event, I think it is really lame to change
your group as if it was clothes!
[S] Well, I most certainly hope we managed to clear some
aspects concerning the cooperation TRSI+DYTEC now. Let us
put an end to this interview, perhaps with you greeting some
of your friends and contacts maybe?
[F] Sure. Greetings to all my contacts and friends : The good
old DYTEC crew, everyone one TRSI (especially regards to :
IRATA, SCAT, ANARCHY, POSDNUGS, MIDFIT). Also greetings
to COUNT ZERO/TALENT, REDROCK+SPERMBIRD/EXCESS,
JACK ALIEN/AVANTGARDE, SPLATTERHEAD+MR.WAX/
CHROMANCE, LEMMING/FATUM+PANIC, RRR/OXYRON,
RAVE/TRIAD, NIGHTSHADE/SCS+TRC, SNOOZE/BRONX,
GERWIN/FAIRLIGHT and all the forgotten ones.
[S] That should do it. Thank you very much LARS. Perhaps
you would like to close the book on this interview with a last
comment maybe?
[F] Hmm. What can I say? I am not really a man of great words,
so I will just wish us all a great time in the scene. Enjoy
life and stay cool.
Signed,
FATMAN/DYTEC+TRSI
Overall charts
+ THE OVERALL CHARTS - JUNE EDITION +
---------------------------------------------
We return to take a fresh look at the overall charts, based
on ONLY 5 Magazines released in May. We give 10 points to
the number one, down to 1 point for the 10th place.
The votes was counted by KBS and the charts edited by your
usual host, DUKE. Be sure to send us your magazine, so that
your votes will be counted here aswell.
The following 5 Magazines deserves the credits as the ones
we used in the making of the Overall Charts. We send them our
thanks on behalf of THE PULSE MAGAZINE.
INGENIOUS BRAIN # 4/EQUINOXE.
OBSESSION # 1/INDEPENDENT.
MAGNESS # 8/GROOVE D-SIGNS.
EUPHORIA # 2/NOICE.
JAMAICA # 9/JAM.
The best DEMO GROUPS, CODERS, GRAPHICIANS, MUSICIANS,
CRACKING GROUPS, CRACKERS, MAGAZINES, SWAPPERS and
the OVERALL CHART are coming up on the following pages.
There will also be a lot of important remarks about the charts
in every catagory, be sure to read those aswell.
+ BEST DEMO GROUPS - JUNE 1994 + [Legal Chart]
POS. L.POS. GROUP NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (4) CAMELOT 37
2 (3) CENSOR DESIGN 31
3 (8) FAIRLIGHT 30
4 (2) CREST 27
5 (1) OXYRON 26
6 (5) TRIAD 23
7 (-) PADUA 10
8 (-) ANTIC 9
9 (6) TOPAZ BEERLINE 8
10 (9) FOCUS 8
* After a long and almost inhuman fight between CREST and
OXYRON for the number one spot, they were passed by an
incoming rival, CAMELOT - the new number one.
* FAIRLIGHT storms the World charts, while PADUA enters the
charts to give a bit of fresh competition. The charts will
most likely be stormed by another group, namely the newly
returned BYTERAPERS.
* FLASH INC. finally drops out, while TABOO joined them.
+ BEST CODERS - JUNE 1994 + [Legal Chart]
POS. L.POS. SCENERS NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (2) CROSSBOW/CREST 28
2 (1) TTS/OXYRON 19
3 (5) TRON/FAIRLIGHT 18
4 (9) SLAMMER/CAMELOT 17
5 (3) BOB/CENSOR DESIGNS 17
6 (-) MMS/TABOO 16
7 (7) D'ARC/TOPAZ BEERLINE 14
8 (8) GLASNOST/CAMELOT 13
9 (3) ZODIAC/FLASH INC. 12
10 (-) LEONARDO/PADUA 7
* TTS and CROSSBOW switching place again - the usual route.
But some heavy competition is on its way, in the form of TRON
of FAIRLIGHT and SLAMMER of CAMELOT. At the moment it
seems as if everyone else is unable to shake the top.
* MMS re-enters the charts, while LEONARDO is back in the
spotlight with a thin 10th place. Meanwhile ZODIAC is on his
way out, with FLAMINGO and AXIS moves out this month. Also
GLASNOST seems to be going no where, while MR.SEX returned
to bring glance on BYTERAPERS with excellent coding.
+ BEST GRAPHICIANS - JUNE 1994 + [Legal Chart]
POS. L.POS. SCENERS NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (1) CREEPER/ANTIC 45
2 (2) ELECTRIC/EXTEND 44
3 (3) OGAMI/FAIRLIGHT 40
4 (4) JOE/WRATH DESIGNS 38
5 (7) ROB/CAMELOT 24
6 (6) HEIN HOLT/FOCUS 23
7 (8) MIRAGE/FOCUS 20
8 (5) CRUISE/ELYSIUM 18
9 (9) DRAGON/CENSOR DESIGNS 9
10 (10) SANDER/FOCUS 6
* CREEPER stays KING for another month, as the top 4
remains unchanged. The difference in the top 4 has changed
though, giving an unclear picture of the number one for the
next chart.
* ROB is moving up the chart together with CAMELOT in most
of the charts lately, while CRUISE is cruising his way down
the chart.
* No new entries this month, the voters should think NEW.
+ BEST MUSICIANS - JUNE 1994 + [Legal Chart]
POS. L.POS. SCENERS NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (1) SYNDROM/TIA/CREST 42
2 (2) JEROEN TEL/PHYZICS 39
3 (4) DRAX/VIBRANTS/CREST 36
4 (3) PRI/TIA/OXYRON 32
5 (10) JEFF/CAMELOT 27
6 (5) A-MAN/AVANTGARDE 23
7 (-) ZYRON/ANTIC 19
8 (6) DANKO/CENSOR DESIGNS 17
9 (9) RED DEVIL/FAIRLIGHT 16
10 (-) EVS/20CC 14
* SYNDROM is still the number one musician in the scene,
followed by JEROEN TEL like the previous months. A new
person has entered the top 3 though, DRAX, who will most
likely keep on moving up - he will atleast pass JEROEN TEL
who has done nothing notable lately.
* DOS and REYN OUWEHAND drops out of the charts again -
make up your mind voters instead of this yoyo-effect. But
one interesting entry this month could be introduced though,
as EDWIN VAN SANTEN/20CC is back in the chart system.
+ BEST CRACKING GROUP - JUNE 1994 + [Illegal Chart]
POS. L.POS. GROUP NAME.. POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (1) SCS+TRC 39
2 (4) ALPHA FLIGHT 26
3 (3) TALENT 26
4 (5) AVANTGARDE 24
5 (5) CHROMANCE 24
6 (10) MOTIV 8 16
7 (2) TRSI+DYTEC 15
8 (9) TRIAD 15
9 (-) EXCESS 14
10 (7) LEGEND 10
* No changes this month either, still SCS+TRC at the top of
the table for months without any serious competition. A bit
unfair really, considering ALPHA FLIGHT, TALENT and
AVANTGARDE has done better wares-wise lately.
* MOTIV 8 rockets up the charts, although they had a rather
slow period in MAY (but they kicked good in APRIL though).
TRSI+DYTEC looks to be going the wrong direction, could be
because of the co-operation causing indifferent opinions for
the voters. Meanwhile EXCESS returns and ILLUSION is gone.
+ BEST CRACKERS - JUNE 1994 + [Illegal Chart]
POS. L.POS. SCENERS NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (2) POWERPLANT/LEGEND 26
2 (3) JACK ALIEN/AVANTGARDE 25
3 (1) BURGLAR/SCS+TRC 24
4 (-) HAIN/F4CG 16
5 (4) DERBYSHIRE RAM/AVT 14
6 (5) COUNT ZERO/TALENT 13
7 (-) BACCHUS/FAIRLIGHT 11
8 (-) CHRYSAGON/TALENT 7
9 (-) DARKLORD/AVANTGARDE 6
10 (7) XXX/TALENT 6
* POWERPLANT is back in great shape (according to the
voters anyway) taking over the number one position just one
point ahead of JACK ALIEN. Looks to be an exciting run,
eventhough POWERPLANT do not even deserve to be here.
* The chart changed massively since last, with DOC, BOD, TSS
and BENSON being sent out - while HAIN storms the chart,
and new faces for the chart, like BACCHUS, DARKLORD and
CHRYSAGON enters. We still need to clear the chart a bit
though, COUNT ZERO and XXX should not be here!
+ BEST MAGAZINES - JUNE 1994 + [Overall Chart]
POS. L.POS. MAGAZINE NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (1) NITRO/EXCESS 39
2 (6) THE PULSE/REGINA 33
3 (5) SKYHIGH/OXYRON 26
4 (-) ING.BRAIN/EQUINOXE 21
5 (2) SPLASH/ACCURACY 20
6 (8) REFORMATION/FAIRLIGHT 20
7 (-) JAMAICA/JAM 16
8 (3) NETWORK/COMIC PIRATES 14
9 (10) REVEALED/CAMELOT 13
10 (-) UPDATE/PADUA 7
* NITRO stays sharp giving the word QUANTITY a new meaning,
while THE PULSE is spinning like a yoyo and tops the chart
together with SKYHIGH.
* INGENIOUS BRAIN storms the charts, but this is most likely
just a one timer. There are dusins of better mags around!
* JAMAICA and UPDATE enters the charts, but ought to give
room for magazines like VANDALISM NEWS and MAGNESS, who
has proven to be more worthy of the votes.
+ BEST SWAPPERS - JUNE 1994 + [Overall Charts]
POS. L.POS. SCENERS NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (1) CALYPSO/AMNESIA 40
2 (6) SPLATTERHEAD/CHROMANCE 18
3 (-) LEECH/COMIC PIRATES 18
4 (2) NIGHTSHADE/SCS+TRC 16
5 (3) DERBYSHIRE RAM/AVT 15
6 (-) CASH 13
7 (9) TABASCO/FAIRLIGHT 12
8 (4) ACIDCHILD/TABOO 10
9 (-) DR.KAOS 9
10 (5) BIZARRE/TRANCE 8
* CALYPSO is unbeatable at the moment, collecting more than
twice the votes than that of the 2nd placed SPLATTERHEAD.
* LEECH re-enters the chart, and rockets up the chart to a
nice 3rd place, with NIGHTSHADE moving down.
* New swappers are introduced this month, CASH and DR.KAOS
who are both farely new in the eyes of the voters. Meanwhile
BIZARRE moves down and almost out of the chart, with STYX,
ANIMAL and STARLIGHT already far and away.
+ OVERALL CHART - JUNE 1994 + [Overall Chart]
POS. L.POS. GROUP NAME... POINTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 (6) FAIRLIGHT 147
2 (2) CREST 133
3 (7) CAMELOT 131
4 (4) AVANTGARDE 107
5 (1) OXYRON 170
6 (3) SCS+TRC 79
7 (-) ANTIC 75
8 (5) CENSOR DESIGNS 74
9 (-) FOCUS 57
10 (-) EXCESS 53
* FAIRLIGHT is the big surprise this month, moving up all over
the place in the overall charts. The same goes for CAMELOT,
who has gained a lot of votes in general aswell.
* OXYRON is put out by a devistating blow, but will most likely
recover. It is not like the voters to stop voting for someone
they have picked as the favourite for so long.
* ALPHA FLIGHT, TALENT and LEGEND drops out, while
ANTIC, FOCUS and EXCESS all had a good month. /DUK
World of demos 1
+ WORLD OF DEMOS - THE CRITICS CORNER +
------------------------------------------------
The wonderful WORLD of DEMOS returns to delight you with
another edition of demo and graphics reviews - we give you
an insight on what is HOT and what is NOT. WORLD OF DEMOS
was cancelled last month. Here follows a comment from STEVE
about that.
This chapter was not included in last months edition, and I,
STEVE, speaking for the whole WOD staff, am of course
deeply sorry for this. As DUKE wrote, there were trouble just
before deadline. The WOD staff DID finish all articles in time,
contrary to whats usual (!) and to the impression you might
have gotten last month. However, publishing a magazine
requires cooperation and timing from all parts, and we seem to
have failed here. Please do not think of this as an attempt to
come up with an excuse, but rather as an attempt to explain
our work. It is not enough to just sit down and write!
The WORLD OF DEMOS editorial :
General Editor : DUKE/REGINA
Programming Critic : STEVE/REGINA
Graphical Critic : NEPTUNE/CAMELOT
Musical Critic : DRAX/VIBRANTS
THE JUNE PROGRAM OF DEMOS :
PARATECHNOIA 2 LIMITED
JERKLAND II DIGITAL DESIGNS
BIJOU LETHARGY
LOGIKAL SOLUTION ENTROPY
WORLD OF CODE BYTERAPERS
WOW STORY IV WOW
NOT WORTHY FOCUS
HAMMERING CHAOS
PARTY POOPER 3 AMNESIA
SCIENCE FICTION
THE JUNE PROGRAM OF GRAPHICS-COLLECTIONS :
DANCE WITH THE EVIL AGONY
TRANCE AGONY
INTRIGUE TABOO
Be sure to send us your latest demos and graphics collections
for reviewal. The deadline for the AUGUST edition of WOD is
the 20th of JULY - so get sending (address in PREFACE).
Now we bring you the reviews from the fantastic trio of WORLD
OF DEMOS, and we end the show with an overall chart.
PARATECHNOIA by 2 LIMITED (REVIEW)
-----------------------------------------
STEVE, about the coding:
I could not have come up with a single good reason to name a
group after a pseudo-tekno project if I had a million years.
But I guess these guys could.
After a loooong intro with lots and lots of text and logos
fading in and out, you are introduced to the first actual
part of this demo.
A funny sprite-upscroller appears (I use the word funny
because it was flickering and just plain freaking out when we
saw it. We are not sure if this was a bug with our system, but
it did not look bad. Just funny). Except for a whole lot of
sprites (not multiplexed, just copied on the Y axis), there is
not that much to say about the part code-wize.
Next part has a bunch of sprites aswell (Hello? Did we just
buy a new book on 6567 VIC-II sprite programming?). A small
multicolor bitmap VSP/FLD is behind the sprites.
After that, we see a (nearly) fullscreen logo bouncing up and
down, with 3 colour graphics scrolling horizontally inside the
logo. Even though this routine could very well be the most
simple, it is probably also the one looking best!!
The "climax" of PARATECHNOIA is a "State-of-the-art"-like
part (remember? The cool demo with the dancing dames by
SPACEBALLS/AMIGA). 2 LIMITED's problem is, that the girl
(which is what I suppose the blob is) they used looks like
something the cat dragged in (What did you do? Scan your
mother?!), and the animation is a total failure! Instead of
dancing, the girl is staggering around as if she suffered
from some horrible desease.
Finally, the music in this part is terrible. I know this is
DRAX's field, but I must say that TEKNO combined with kinder-
garden songs is not my cup of tea!! (-And I am NOT trying to
be funny. Take a listen, and I am sure you will recognise
birthdaysongs and other wierd stuff you used to sing when
you were little).
A piece of advice: Load up HOLLYWOOD STRIP POKER instead.
Atleast the animations in this game give an impression of
female curves.
The very last part is a huge scroller with a "HAWKEYE"/
"PARALLAX" scroll inside it. This looks pretty OK.
Rating: 45% for the coding.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
Another demo low on graphics, snif snig. The art I found had
its own style, but huh. Too obscured, fast made and no
design. Rating for this is 35.
DRAX, about the music :
Music by MATT GRAY I guess, very atmospheric and therefore
also a decent chouce for an intro, the music is also very
spooky and gloomy, which I appreciate a lot.
The last music contains filterchords, and that alone pulls
down the rate a tad. But I do not take this tune seriously,
as it sounds like the music in the past sounds, probably made
in FAME's routine player. It sounds okay.
Rating : 58% for the music.
PARATECHNOIA by 2 LIMITED (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 45%
GRAPHICS : 35%
MUSIC : 58%
JERKLAND II by DIGITAL DESIGNS (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
This demo has an excellent little introduction. It is only a
small picture (The DD logo), but the sound is a sampled TV-
jingle, and it gave me the impression that DIGITAL DESIGNS
are somewhat professional.
After an intro of text and logos fading up and down (very "in"
these days, isn't it?", a strange spritescroll meets the eye.
Strange, because it is in all borders, and each pixel is
presented by a sprite. It looks like it as done yeeears ago.
After a short while, a (textscreen) scroll appears under the
spritescroller, though. This increases the quality of this
part a bit.
The next part looks very "Censorish". Two scrolls, one
zooming from the center and out towards the left side of the
screen, and the other on top of the first, scrolling upwards.
Visual result: acceptable.
We all know that mandelbrot-fractals are very popular these
days. Apparently, DIGITAL DESIGNS know this aswell, so they
made their own mandelbrot-part. Here you can select an area
to zoom, and press a key to start the calculation. The
calculations are not done at warp speed. But atleast they
are done. On to the next part.
Suddently 16 colours is not enough. Here the coder tried to
simulate RGB plasma as seen on AMIGA and PC. I must say I was
surprised with the result; it actually looks good, compared to
some other colour-blend effects seen on the C64.
The last part on side A was a disappointment, though. It is
called "trifli" (Well. I read that in the scroll. I would not
bother naming it!!) and it is the type of effect where a line
waving over a picture splits the picture in two parts, and
updates different pictures over and under the "split". The
only thing "special" about this one is that it is in FLI (big
deal) and that the rutine flips between 3 pictures (even
bigger deal). After watching this, you are asked to flip the
disk, whereafter a two DYCP-like scroller appear. One (light)
in front of the other (dark), and each scrolling sepperate
ways (The first scrolling from right to left, the other from
left to right).
The illusion is that the second scroll shows it is back and
scrolls to the right, and then twists into a normal DYCP
(showing the front and scrolling to the left) when a certain
point is reached.
The last real part is a D41B/D41C beat-o-meter. Oscillo-
scopes for samples have been made so often (on all computers
aswell), but I have never seen one working with FM-synthesis
before (which is the princip the 6581 normally uses). DIGITAL
DESIGNS did it, and it does not look great. But I still like
it, cause it's something different. And it's always better to
do something dofferent, than doing what other people did
before.
The end part consists of a screen filled with sheep (Ehrm..
Well, NEPTUNE said that my "sheep" had tusks, so I am not
so sure anymore. But they are animals of some sort!) which
come, and then go away. Why not. Then there is a scroll and
the greeting fading up and down.
Not the biggest revolution of all times, but still a pretty
good demo. Rating : 70% for the coding.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
The graphics in this demo has a lot o simple logos, a problem
which is not to be overlooked is the fill copy, and letter
copying. Fortunately some nice art happend to appear, like
3-D logos. DIGITAL DESIGNS appears to have appropriately
skilled artpower, but the standard is mainly low.
Rating : 40 % for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
Music by SHARK/REGINA, well, what is there to babble about
here. It sounds to me a tad boring, but still better than the
average standard. I like the tune in the "Zoomerperspective
flashing scroller" part, as it has quite a lot of variation.
The end music is nice aswell indeed, I especially like the
instrumens.
Rating : 77 % for the music.
JERKLAND II by DIGITAL DESIGNS (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 70%
GRAPHICS : 40%
MUSIC : 77%
BIJOU by LETHARGY (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
This demo starts up with a fullscreen FLI-pic and a scroll
(and lots of FLI bugs) in the left side of the screen.
After analysing these bugs (or reading the scroll), you
proceed to another FLI part. Now colourcycling, which
updates approximately each 3rd-4th frame. This rutine could
have been easily made really cool, but instead the coder
chose to realtime calculate the cycles, or use a reeeaaaally
slow screen-update. I dunno. The cycling itself looks cool,
but the lousy speed destroys it again.
On to the next part, which is a plotter part. A dot-globe is
updated each frame in a small square, together with an
equally small ace-plotter.
And more spacepressing. Now you see a chessboard. I expec-
ted it to start zooming (wauw. Wouldn't that be a surprise?).
Instead, some shadebobs starts drifting around over the
chessboard. The palette could have been better though. Last
part in this demo is a typical conversion from PC or AMIGA.
You see a (small) 3D net of lines, where it looks like letters
are squeezed down on the net (A bit like when you stomp your
feet in the sand, and leave a print).
It seems as if the LETHARGY coders really do know how to
code - Unfortunately they code, in my opinion, far too
boring things. Let us see something new, you have got the
potential.
Rating : 55% for the coding.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
Well, what can I say. The graphics in this demo has its own
style, and that is cool. But still it is foolish to draw great
shapes if one is not able of performing so. Graffity elements
are used in nearly all the demo parts. In the intro a full
screen FLI logo appears rather odd, nothing to read out of
it really, to draw big patings, the art is to give it life
even in places where the motive is not occupied.
Rating : 65 % for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
Well, well, isn't it good old DOS again. This time he brings
you the worst tunes I have ever heard from him, the tune in
the plot-thing part is definitely the best, although he uses
a too low frequens' leader the second time the leader appears.
He also uses Ringmodulation on the bass, which I personally
think is very neat. The end tune beats everything regarding
lameness - By using the obligatory filter-clicks. When will
you learn? I guess you will soon be proclaimed MR.FILTER
CLICK!
Rating : 48% for the music.
BIJOY by LETHARGY (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 55%
GRAPHICS : 65%
MUSIC : 48%
LOGIKAL SOLUTION by ENTROPY (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
The intro for this part is a 3D dot-starfield (which they have
named a "startrek" rutine. I have not seen startrek for
years, so I cannot remember if there were such in the series).
Next is.. a scroller! And this one REALLY looks 4 years old.
It's a sideborder stretcherscroll (I think BOB/CENSOR was
one of the first to do this kind of effect. But that was
nearly before I was born!) that does nothing new whatsoever.
Bogus! Then we have an effect called "7-colour plaz".. (And
I will finish the sentence for ENTROPY: It's spelled "plasma").
The rutine is small, but looks really cool. Nice job.
The 4th part is a sleasy pornotanz-part, where the only
effect is some pictures of nude women being shown (MY KINDA
PART!! hehe). I hope DRAX gives this tune a high rating, cause
it is cool! The coding isn't, though.
Last part is different. A load of chaotic things taking place
on the screen. Pretty decent end part. Rating : 60%.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
The demo remains and indeed acquires a fuller significance,
even though in times the art in this demo fall. But I took a
look at the intro logo, it's a big sideborder logo mainly blue
colours, but It seemed to rediscover its lost coolness when
it is confronted by the style and by the freedom offered by
the artist. If you take a closer look at the fill, you will
discover some cool plasma effects in it (the T and the O),
some things lamers do not see when they run out voting. The
graphics is, well, quite okay in this demo. But I miss the
"LOOK AND FEEL" litigation.
Rating : 75% for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
The intro music is done by DANKO, used before in an old
CENSOR demo. Part one sounds much like a real classical tune.
I haven't got that much knowledge of who the composer of it
might be, but it sounds to me okay. The tune in the 2nd part
is made by MATT GRAY - a decent choice (it is one of his
better ones). The 3rd tune is by ZYRON. This tine did not
exactly make me have an orgasm. Techno does not address me.
The instruments does not shock me, but I guess they are
quite okay afterall. The 4th tune is by JEROEN TEL inspired
by LEVEL 42 (I like them, especially MARK KING). By the way,
this part is extremely nice. Well done dudes! The choice of
music is not that bad either. The 5th and last tune of this
demo plan sucks, it is boring and monotonous.
Rating : 62% for the music.
LOGIKAL SOLUTION by ENTROPY (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 60%
GRAPHICS : 75%
MUSIC : 62%
WORLD OF CODE by BYTERAPERS (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
Well, this was the surprise of the month. BYTERAPERS are
back with a demo, and I was very sceptical when I heard this.
I never thought an old group could rise with a demo this
great.. But read on.
The demo is introduced with an FLI mover (Sort of a tech-tech
mover, where the FLI logo moves from the right side to the
left).
The first effect is a sideborder zoomer/stretcher-scroll
(a zoomer (like GLASNOST's in the "UNNAMED DEMO")
combined with a normal scroll. The idea is great, but the
result is somewhat flickery.
The next part must absolutely be the best looing part this
month. It's a number of animations of a rotating face. While
these faces are rotating, they move from the upper right
corner down towards the lower left corner. But that is not
all. A rotating mandelbrot fractal is slowly being updated on
top of these faces.
The result is that it looks as if the C64 has two bitplanes -
one behind (the moving, rotating faces) and one in front (the
non-moving mandelbrotfractals). Brilliant part!
In the next part you are flown over a dot-landscape (like the
one in PANIC/FUTURE CREW (PC)). This landscape does not
rotate around the Z-axis like most others do, but instead this
one is REALLY fast.
Next part is called "elastic stencil planes" (In CAMELOT'ish,
this effect is called funfilling!). Most people I have talked
to were really impressed by this part. Codewise, it is not all
that fantastic, though. It is only sprites layd over a bitmap
picture. Still, I must admit it looks cool.
Then we will move on to the next part, which is a filled
vector-part. The objects have been bigger by other people,
but the rutine is still fast. One of the (glenz) objects in
this part is really funny. It is the nazi-sign in white with
read background, which changes colours depending on what
position you see it from (And now I do not want anyone taking
me for a nazi. The reason why I beleave this is funny, is that
a simple sign keeps on offending millions of peoople without
limits. And that is totally redicilous!).
Next part is a "realtime mandelbrot zoomer". Which I believe
is totally lame, as it is only one precalculated picture that
is being moved around on the screen!
Two parts left. The next is two precalculated transforming
dot-objects with "light source". Looks neat.
the end part is a 1x1 chars upscroll, with huuuge extended
glenz-vector in the background. The extended objects in the
background gives a real cool design effect.
All in all, this demo is a very good example to what demos
SHOULD look like. A very high standard. It is also worth
noticing that everything was coded by one person, MR.SEX.
Rating : 90 % for the coding.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
This demo is really low on graphics, but really nice design
(erhm, well, border bugs, hmm). Anyway, ther's a logo which
appears several times in different colours drawn in the same
style as in the HORIZON demo LAST TRACTOR. No big deal!
Rating : 40 % for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
The first tune is by ZYRON, this is surely one of his better
ones. The second tune is made by JEROEN TEL, ripped, and
therefore I will only comment the demo. I like the demo except
for the "HAKENKREUZ", which is being used as a vector-
object. I hate Nazists, Racists and Fascists.
The end tune is made by DEEK, and it has been used several
times before, but fits very well to the rest anyway.
Rating : 73 % for the music.
WORLD OF CODE by BYTERAPERS (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 90%
GRAPHICS : 40%
MUSIC : 73%
WOW STORY IV by WOW (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
I thought the WARRIORS OF WASTELAND died years ago. But
then it is great to suddently see them alive (and kicking? You
have to read on to answer that one).
First we have the usual up/down intro (Yes, I AM tired of
these!!), followed by a "normal" intro (One of those you put
infront of your cracks).
Part one is a bunch of shadedots moving around at the upper
half of the screen. But I would much rather talk about the
next part, cause that includes a great picture of an elf-girl
with no clothes on (Nice wings.. Hehe!). But just when you've
unbuttoned your pants (Ehr..), a plot-scroller enters the
screen, and ruins the mood! Buuh. Anyway, the plotscroller
itself looks allright.
This part is shade-bobs, and nothing more. These shadebobs
look really cool though. Great palette!
Last part (well, atleasy I assume this is the last part. The
machine fucks up when you press space after this one). This
is an effect converted from the AMIGA, and it is a sort of
beat-o-meter, where a ball fall from a basket onto one of 3
squares each time there's a beat on one of the voices. It is
awefully small, but still a neat idea (Or conversion or
whatever).
Rating : 55% for the coding.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
One of the problems which occupies a central position in this
demo's graphics, is that the most of the logos look the same,
but there's a fullscreen picture of some sort of lady (yeah!).
It looks really nice. But no surprise inspection in this demo.
Rating : 70% for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
The intro tune has a nice start, and some good ideas, but then
it just continues with changing the bass chords.
The tune in the 1st part is by XAYNE, ripped. No comments.
The tune in the 2nd part is by JEROEN TEL, first used in an
intro for REMARK. Anyway, it is ripped, and therefore I have
no comments except that I think it is a nice tune.
The tune in the 3rd part is pretty boring, is it old MATTHIAS
(SYNDROM) or what? The music in the 4th part is by MATT
GRAY is ripped, and therefore no comments. Well, I guess I
have one anyway (ehr..) - nice logo.
The last tune is by LINK/VIBRANTS, ripped and therefore I
have nothing more to add to this demo.
Rating : 55% for the music.
WOW STORY IV by WOW (RATINGS)
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PROGRAMMING : 55%
GRAPHICS : 70%
MUSIC : 55%
NOT WORTHY by FOCUS (REVIEW)
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STEVE, about the coding :
This demo was entirely coded by one person - COMPYX of
FOCUS. The intro is a bitmap picture of some funny big guy,
followed by a huge bitmap scroller.
The first real part is a sprite DYCP (And a 1x1 scroller..).
This part is the 50th FOCUS part ever. I am sure FOCUS is
rather unique in keeping track of their demoparts, wouldn't
you say?!. Anyway, I am supposed to discuss the coding, but
there's not much in this part. Sprite DYCP's are old news.
By the way; many people confuse sprite DYCPs for DYSPs
(Different Y sprite position). This is understandable, since
DYSP is a lousy name for the rutine it actually represents.
DYSP means sprite moved up and down, but in order to actually
BE a DYSP, this must take place while the sideborders are
removed (which is hard, since rastertiming is crucial for
sideborder removal, and sprites fuck up the timing).
Next part is a bitmap scroller with attributes, meaning that
the colours of the individual words can flash, fade or do
whatever the coder desires. Also, a 24 sprites multiplexer
is on the screen.
COMPYX claims that the bitmap rutine is revolutionary. When
I was in THE BLACK LORDS (3-4 years ago), THA made a very
similar scroll. So I wouldn't go as far as calling it revolu-
tionary! Still looks OK, though.
The multiplexer on the screen actually only shows 12 sprites
(12 letters), but each sprite has a black overlaysprite, which
makes it clearer over the bitmap background. The end part
has a sine-swing upscroll exceeding the left border, and a
small spritelogo exceeding the right border. NOT WORTHY is
an excellent example of design taking over instead of code,
still COMPYX prooves to be a fair coder, so. Rating l 65%.
NEPTUNE, about the graphics :
Well, there's nothing to freak over in this demo with graphics
and coding by COMPYX.
COMPYX has devoted much of his time in the scene to draw
outstanding graphics, but in this demo - well, not to be
extremely agressive, some of the logos are just not too
fascinating. These works of art stand apart from other great
works COMPYX has developed. Well attempting to capture the
ever changing luminous effects in this demo is quite hard, but
anyway, some cool art happend to appear.
Rating : 65% for the graphics.
DRAX, about the music :
The intro music is by COMPYX. Well, another one tries the
magic way of composing - We most certainly recommend
COMPYX to stick to his graphics and code, which he surely
does much better.
The two tunes by JVD are too ordinary, but still the
instruments are getting better. We recommend JVD to look
into his slide-training!! Also look into the art of splitting
up your tunes with breaks.
About the MCA conversation - Nice job, but still if you have
to convert from the old master, then improve the quality of
the tune.
Rating : 68% for the music.
World of demos 2
NOT WORTHY by FOCUS (RATINGS) ------------------------------------- PROGRAMMING : 65% GRAPHICS : 65% MUSIC : 68% HAMMERING CHAOS by CHAOS (REVIEW) ------------------------------------------ STEVE, about the coding : HAMMERING is a small demo with only 3 parts. First part is a plasmafield, where each colour is 8x8 pixels (a char). This might not sound impressive, but the visual effect is rather neat. The music used in this part is updated 10 times each frame (!), so naturally the coder had to limit his rutine. Second part is an animated 3-coloured ray-tracing. I don't know about you, but I have just about HAD it with ray-tracing parts. Haven't we seen enough of those?! Last part is a cheat multiplexer (A sprite each 3rd rasterline, and on the 24th rasterline, the upper sprite is copied down to those position, and soforth) with a hireslogo VSP underneath it. I think this demo is proof to the fact, that a megademo containing 28 parts does not have to be better than a 3 parts demo. HAMMERING is a good littledemo. Rating : 55% for the coding. NEPTUNE, about the graphics : Not to stomp on CAMELOT competitors products, but one thing is for sure: I have not experienced the best demo here! I really like the variety of graphics and styles, it keeps the scene moving in cool directions. I guess the graphics are done by PETE. Rating : 45% for the graphics. DRAX and METAL, about the music : The intro music is by SYNDROM: Quite OK, but he has done better ones for sure. You know both our opinions on multiple speed tunes! First by music is by DOS. Was it music or was it some kind of FX? We could not tell the difference (Kidding?). However, it is much better than the usual things you do - also no filter clicks (we guess?). Second part music by ZEUX: VERY below the average stan- dard. Do NOT try to hide behind fanzy instruments if you can't use them properly. Sorry, but a fact is a fact. The last tune is by AMJ, one of the best 64-technodudes ever (I love you! - METAL). It is hard to do techno on the breadsin, so. Rating : 70% for the music. HAMMERING CHAOS by CHAOS (RATINGS) ------------------------------------------- PROGRAMMING : 55% GRAPHICS : 45% MUSIC : 70% PARTY POOPER 3 by AMNESIA (REVIEW) ------------------------------------------ STEVE, about the coding : This is also a very small demo. However, this could be proof to the fact that demos can be TOO simple. First part is an animation of the coders head being crumbled like a piece of paper. Nice to see that someone is able to do new things with animations, instead of just rotating or ray- tracing them. This is the only real effect, but the screen has a really cool design. Second (and last) part is two big interference-circles (one in chars and one in sprites) panned on top of each other. This gives an effect of interference, which you might know from physics-class (Though I bet you were all in biology studying female anatomi, eh?!) This demo is OK, but requires nearly no coding skills. Rating : 40% for the coding. NEPTUNE, about the graphics : Mega demo or pot leafs? This demo contains two logos. The first one is, well, nice - But I guess I messed the outfit. The second logo has nice soft colours, but still not a big graphical show here. Rating : 60% for the graphics. DRAX and METAL, about the music : All the music is by MAC 2. We agreed on saying that the last two pieces were almost too sweet, but still OK. The first one however we think is very experimentive, although the music has some disharmonies. All in all, it makes a good impression. BTW: Look out for those nasty filter-clicks, do not switch filter on/off in the same voice. We say in general - only use filter in one voice, unless you are in control of it! Rating : 71% for the music. PARTY POOPER 3 by AMNESIA (RATINGS) ------------------------------------------- PROGRAMMING : 40% GRAPHICS : 60% MUSIC : 71% SCIENCE by FICTION (REVIEW) -------------------------------- STEVE, about the coding : Interesting names. I wonder if they will call the sequel "SPACE", and rename the group into "BALLS"?! As everyone else, FICTION introduces their demo with an intro filled with text and logo up/down fadings. Interesting. Next up is a long sample with some black dude shouting ugly things at your mother. The first part is a fire-plasma field, done in the same way as the plasmafield in HAMMERING CHAOS. Next is a sprite-circle scroll over rasterbars, and after that you see a techtech logo-DYPP (Somewhat like the one I did in ARMAGEDDON III/ X-FACTOR) with some very interesting rastercolours under- neath (Interesting, cause they look like something taken out of a circus. But taste IS individual). Next part includes a small surprise. The effect you see is a "raster-bender" (horizontal rasterlines that are split 40 places, and each split waves up and down. No; not especially wild, since it is done in characters) with a sprite logo over it. The sprite logo is in one colour, but if you have ACTION REPLAY, try changing sprite-multi-colour 1 and 2 ($D000+27 and +28 as far as I remember). You will then see that the logo is in three colours, but all colours are set to gray. Strange?! The last part is an FLI (Well. I wouldn't go as far as calling it FLI. More like a cheat colorchanger) with a spritescroller. And that's that. Rating : 60% for the coding. NEPTUNE, about the graphics : Hmm, SCIENCE contains okay graphics, but if you have seen one logo you obviously have seen them all. Above all, I want to be true and exact. The artist ZITE has not captured any new ideas nor effects, which his logos can tell, and the dense surface is mainly made up of the same fill with simple shapes and related to each other in a way which reveals no sense of design. A little hint to ZITE - try to compose differently while drawing, that is beyond doubt the most important thing you should have in mind. Rating : 40% for the graphics. DRAX and METAL, about the music : The intro tune by YOKO is pure CRAP! In the first part is yet another sample. When are you people going to learn NOT to use the 64 for sampling? It sounds like turning on the radio on a noice frequence. The second part music is puke, while the 3rd part has music by JEFF, which is a real nice one, but still - You have done better, we all know that. The last music is by YOKO : We have but only one thing to say - YOKOLADESOVS. Rating : 44% for the music. SCIENCE by FICTION (RATINGS) ---------------------------------- PROGRAMMING : 60% GRAPHICS : 40% MUSIC : 44% That concludes this months demo reviews. But stay tuned, before we bring you the table with the ratings, we will give the latest graphics-collection reviews by NEPTUNE. DANCE WITH EVIL by AGONY (GRAPHICS-COLLECTION) --------------------------------------------------------- This graphics collection is a real horror to watch, so please take your empty popcorn container and place it over your hea. I have never been so grossed out. UGH! There are some nice pictures in this collection though, all in FLI, but some of them seem to be too colour-full. ASTAROTH has the skills to draw great art, and not scan pictures and put colours to it. A real maternity ward. Rating : 90% for the graphics. TRANCE by AGONY (GRAPHICS-COLLECTION) ----------------------------------------------- Here we have a great graphics show, with great logos. The second one with a brand new monster that hardens its victims arteries with extra high cholesterol cream (hehe, I am just kidding!). In this collection some of the pictures has been in competitions and done really great, but well, I have seen most of them done by a paint brush, so it's just not my cup of tea. BTW: RODOR made all the graphics. Rating : 95% for the graphics. INTRIGUE by TABOO (GRAPHICS COLLECTION) ------------------------------------------------ Well, I will give you an overall look of the collection. FAZEE has quite a talent, in this coolie, the surface itself has depth, as one colour shows through, another scrumbles over it (get the point?). The cool thing about this collection is that he has not been dealing with a kind of point to point transcription, but rather trying to recreating exclusive effects. But FAZEE, do remember touch and colour do not correspond in a specific way to natural phenomenon. Well, all in all nice graphics with in the context of the more general issue of interlaced-art. INTRIGUE comtains cool art, but some of it could requite adjustments. Rating : 85% for the graphics. COMING UP - THE RATINGS-TABEL! NAME OF DEMO / PRODUCER CODE GFX MUSIC OVERALL -------------------------------------------------------------- PARATECHNOIA / 2 LIMITED 45 35 58 46 JERKLAND II / DIGITAL DES. 55 65 48 56 BIJOU / LETHARGY 55 65 48 56 LOGIKAL SOLUTION / ENTROPY 60 75 62 66 WORLD OF CODE / BYTERAP. 90 40 73 68 WOW STORY IV / WOW 55 70 55 60 NOT WORTHY / FOCUS 65 65 68 66 HAMMERING CHAOS / CHAOS 55 45 70 57 PARTY POOPER 3 / AMNESIA 40 60 71 48 SCIENCE / FICTION 60 40 44 48 ------------------------------------------------------------- That concludes this months massive edition of WORLD OF DEMOS (perhaps the largest edition of this chapter ever). We will return in August with a new set of demos, and if you want YOUR demo to be included in our program, simply send it to us before the 20th of July. The demos were provided by KBS and me (DUKE) with help from additional swappers. Have a GREAT summer! DUKE
Special assignment
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SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT returns with another month in the line
of duty to bring you entertaining debates and opinions, not
to disclude our informative articles.
This month we will continue our discussion about the scene
wars, only this time we will work our way through to the next
topic which will be revealed later in this months edition.
We end this months edition with the usual INTERNET article
from MASON/MOTIV 8, this month working his way deeper into
the world of the internet.
We would like to encourage everyone out there (no matter
what country, status, group or race you belong) to write us
what you think about our debates, and perhaps add your
own opinion about the things we discuss. The address to
write to is as always :
THE PULSE MAGAZINE
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SUPPORT TOWARDS NEWCOMERS IS MISSING
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As I used to be a constant ragger on the US boards, I simply
have to comment the WAR topic. Furthermore I have to add,
that I cut down on warring when I started doing the MONTHLY
RELEASES for THE PULSE and jouned up with TALENT.
TALENT is a group where the motivation is just getting high
when MAJESTY is around. Actually he is not, and everybody
is just walking in his own direction (HI, MARCO). From this
point I hope to be able to describe the actual wars a little
bit, as I did in the MAY-list. The scene is going down the
drain. It is just as simple as that. Newcomers (not in a bad
way, though) are not really taken serious anymore, and people
from the past are always welcome to call back. That is okay
with me, but the actual support towards newcomers is missing.
The people around do not seem to be able to see who might
have the skills to do something, and who is just wanking
around. Everything is focussed towards the major groups.
An easy example for that is the caller activity on HIC. No
group - no calls, although it is a decent board where a
friendly atmosphere is no problem, and it would be a neutral
territory for every war. This makes a lot of people look
towards the PC and AMIGA, as they think there they might
get a little more resonse. So as a final warning. Wars with
newcomers and ragging them down is for sure destructive to
the scene. Wars between major groups, like in the past
ACTION vs. LEGEND, RSI vs. LEGEND among others are just
obligatory. Be productive in your personal way and try to
keep things going. This way we might survive another few
years. The release of LEMMINGS has shown that atleast some
companies see the 64 still as a way to get things out. Let us
hope this will stay like it is. More than a decade running a
simple 8-bit computer is something nobody will ever be able to
do. Not on the PC or anywhere else. On the other hand: Are we
just degenerated humans dreaming of what happened in the
past? Note, just keep yourself openminded.
COUNT ZERO of TALENT TECHNOLOGIES
COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR
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Thanks for the response ANDREAS, and the wise words. You
clearly have the right idea on many of the points you listed,
but in order for me to answer all of them - or atleast make a
decent comment to them - I would have to urge you all to read
this months article NEWCOMERS' SOCIALISM vs. ELITES'
LIBERALISM, which I am sure will tell my point of view, and
will most definitely qualify as an observer of things changing.
However, to return to the contents of your letter I have to
agree with your main point. The scene DOES alienate the
newcomers, and YES, it is destructive to the scene. After
all, the newcomers are the future rulers of our scene, and
thereby making them the most important sceners in a way.
BUT, do not get me wrong. I have no wish to put them on my
level or anyone else's for that matter. The newcomers MUST
go through the traditional route to fame, everything else
would be against what the scene stands for - and mind you,
our system does work, and it creates personalities instead
of weaklings who we do not need to carry on our inheritage.
This more or less leads me in the direction of the area of
which my upcoming article sorounds. Therefore I will try
to keep away from that topic so that I will not spoil it for
any of you out there.
The wars however will keep on going whether we want it or
not. When someone is insulted or challenged, he must prepare
for a battle. It is very ethical to go around trying to make
people understand the value of peace, but keep in mind, that
as long as there are two persons on this earth, peace will
never be for certain. You cannot change what we are deep
inside, and the scene works that way aswell.
The debate is still open, send us YOUR opinion about whether
you think if wars are Destructive or Benefitial to the scene!
+ NEWCOMERS' SOCIALISM vs. ELITES' LIBERALISM +
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The scene is an amazing creation. It is about 12 years ago the
organised scene as we know it began, and today we are still
here to vitness the impossible live and bloom. But everything
living will face borders and dangers on its way to meet the
natural death, one of them is the Socialism we are able to
vitness being brought into the scene by the newcomers and
sceners from Eastern Europe.
This is not a propaganda article to fight Socialism in its
political ideology, on the contrary. The Socialism we are able
to vitness in the scene today has no political background,
but the phrase "We are all the same" which has been spread
and posted by most newcomers and middleclass sceners has
a definite meaning to it, one that originates from the most
fanatic Socialists.
During the bloom of THE PULSE MAGAZINE, we have been
herrased by many of these Socialist types - who claimed we
were only interested in the Elite because we wanted to
"reach fame and acceptance". Others claimed we were a bad
magazine because we "were pretending to be elite and were
acting arrogant". Clearly both of these accusations are
contradictions to eachother, but what does that tell us!
Although it ought to be obvious from our editorial, everyone
involved with this magazine are members of groups respected
in the world with the status as ELITE (e.g. REGINA, VIBRANTS,
TALENT, MOTIV 8, CHROMANCE, LEGEND and CAMELOT) and
with comfortable backgrounds of being members of ELITE
groups and involved with successful operations. This in my
opinion is what makes an elite foundation, one that OUGHT to
be taken seriously. Mind you, this is not only this operation
I am refering to, it is the scene as a whole.
The scene has always had a very liberal attitude. The new-
comers were teased and laughed at, all part of working your
way up to becoming accepted and perhaps shooting your way
through to a status as an elite scener. But the newcomers in
the scene today refuse to go through that process, going
against everything the scene constitution stands for. The
small MUST respect the larger, the system of the liberal
scene system - but the newcomers only complains about the
attitude of the elite, calling them arrogant and lame. The
fact is, they are the lame ones, especially lame because they
show no respect and THEY are the ones acting arrogant.
I would like to get YOUR opinion about this article. Write to
us at our address posted in PREFACE. We need as many good
answers to make a good debate on this topic as possible.
More about the internet...
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Welcome to another edition of the internet-article. This one
is going to be a short one, but a special one, because very
important news has arrived us! After the warning I will tell
you how to solve the problem!
WARNING!
SAURON and TG-ACME have got big troubles using the inter-
net! They have recieved and send password from other com-
putersystems! Now they have observed that someone is
keeping a watching on them!
SO - BE CAREFUL SENDING PASSWORD AND ILLEGAL
THINGS, LIKE WARES, HACK-TEXT ETC. ETC.
That were the warning! Now some information, why it's VERY
dangerous to send illegal things by post!
Normally on UNIX-machines, the post is placed in a mail-dir
under the non-private directory owned by root. When you get
the password-list, it will fill a lot in the directory (maybe
it will give disk-full in the dir). Instead you can fx.FTP/FSP
or TELNET, because all the results (files etc.) will be placed
in a private home directory, and here it will only eat up your
disk-quota. If you do not have access to FTP/FSP or telnet
you have to use other ways to get your illegal things. Here
you can crypt your files/ The most wellknown cryption pro-
gram for UNIX is using the system with a PGP-keycode. With
this code you can crypt and decrypt the files and the root
cannot decrypt, because he does not have the PGP-keycode.
The PGP-keycode also needs a password to decrypt the files.
You can of course also use other methods fx. PKUNZIP with a
password on etc. etc. But the PGP-keycode system should be
the safest one. The PGP-keycode is the same algorythm the
SWISS BANK uses.
Now the last words. Since last edition we have got letters
from people who cannot get the UNIX-files. That means, if you
cannot FTP from your DOS-drive to your UNIX-drive you
cannot use FTP. Now you just have to wait until we next will
learn you more about internet! In the meanwhile you can try
to connect to the COFFEE House on TELNET. The address is
here:
192.197.139.136
This is a speakers corner. Send your questions and your
address to:
t44 [] aarhues.dk
Replace the [] sign with an alfo-zero sign
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+ THE BLACKBOARD - ADVERTISEMENT CHAPTER +
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Are you looking for more contacts/new members? Have you
lost the address of a certain friend of yours? Or are you just
a diskstealer? Well, whatever you're looking for, this chapter
contains the addresses of the masses in the swappingindustry
and this month it's quite big...
Should you want your own address to appear in the next issue
of this mag, call:
+XX XXXX XXXX (Ask for KIM).
You are also welcome to use the snailway at:
KIM BERG S0RENSEN
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AS USUAL: + STANDS FOR LEGAL ONLY CONTACTS
* STANDS FOR ILLEGAL+LEGAL CONTACTS
THE PULSE MAGAZINE would like to encourage everyone to
get in contact with this American female member of the scene
who has asked for a special advertisement to get contacts.
You will be able to read more about her in this months edition
of the BOARD REPORT. Meanwhile, note her address and get
in contact as soon as possible :
SUSIEUZI/ex.ILLUSION
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Greetings,
I have decided to take on swapping to get in contact with the
scene spirit. I will take on only LEGAL contacts though, so
if you want to get in contact with the coder behind this
magazine - write to this address :
DR.ZIVAGO/REGINA
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XXXXXXX XXX XXX XXXXXX
+ SCOFFER/NOICE/UTOPIA * SCRAPPER/OXYRON
XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
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XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
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* SDI/AFL * SEAL/AMNESIA+SCL
XXXXXX X.X. XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXX
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* SGT. PEPPER/EXCESS * SHAKESBEER/INZANE
XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
* SHOCKER/SCS+TRC * SIDEWINDER/MIGS DESIGNS
XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXX XXXXXX
XX XXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXX
+ SLAMMER/CAMELOT * SLY/NATURE
XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXX
XXXXXXX XX XXX XXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
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* SMILE/CLIQUE * SONIX/CROSSLINE
XXXXXXXX XXXXX XX XX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
* SPARK/F4CG * SPECTATOR/XENON/AFL
XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX XX/X XXX XXXXXXX XX
XX-XXX XXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
* SPERMBIRD/EXCESS * SPIDERMAN/VISION
XXX XXXXXX X XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX X
XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX
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* SPLATTERH./CHROMANCE * STAKE/CHROMANCE/CHB
XXXX' XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXX X. XX
XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX
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* STASH/WRATH/AFL * STEVE/BAD KARMA
XXXXXX XXXXXXX X.X. XXX XX-XXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX X X XXXXXX XXX
XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXX XXXXXX
* STEVE/LASER * STONE/AVANTGARDE
XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XX-XXXXX
XX XXXXX XXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXXXX, XXXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXX XXX XXXXXXX
+ STORMLORD/WOW/ANTIC * STYX/AFL
XXXXX XXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXX
X.X. XXX X XXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
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* SUN D./ODYSSEY OF ART * SYCO/ex.SACRED
XXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XX, X.X XXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
* TABASCO/FAIRLIGHT + TCHAD/JAM
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXX
+ THE ALIEN/BCD + THE CHAMP/NO NAME
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX X. XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXX XXX
XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXX
* THE COLLECTOR * THE HEGG/BAD KARMA
X.X. XXX XX X XXXXXXXX XXXXXX
XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXXXXXX
* THE SEPTIC/IMPULSE + THE SYNDROM/TIA/CREST
XXXXX X. XXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
* THUNDERBLADE/AWT + TIGER/NERDS
"XXX" XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
* TITANIC/AFL * TOMEE/THERAPY
XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
XXXXXXXXX XX/XX XXXXX X. XX
XX-XXX XXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX
+ TOMMY BACKW./PANIC + TPM/AMNESIA+SCL
XXXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXX
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* TRANTOR/D. NOMADS * TRAVIS/CONTRAST DESIGNS
XXXXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
X/X XX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XX
XXXXX XX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX XXXXXX
* TROOP/XENON/EXTACY * TROOPER/SCS+TRC
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XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXX. XXX. XX
XXXX XX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX
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* TUC/REBELS * VAIN/ex.TWILIGHT
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XX XXX XXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX
XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXX
XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX
* VEGA/META * VENGEANCE/SCS+TRC
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* VENICE/EXCESS * VERDICT/IMPULSE
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* VERGO/THERAPY * VOLUNTEER/BRONX/AFL
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* VOYAGE/ex.VAGABONDS * WALKER/GENESIS
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* WARP 8/REFLEX * WATCHMAN/FAIRLIGHT
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* WAX/WOW + WOISE/MANIAX
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* WOZIO/AFL/ELYSIUM * XPOSER/REBELS
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XX. XXXXXXXXXXXX XX/XX XX XXX XXX XXXXXX
XX-XXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX
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* YODA+THB/FICTION * YOKO+KTR/FICTION
XXXX & XXX X & X
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* ZAPOTEK/REBELS * ZIMBO/LIQUID
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X.X. XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXX XX
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* ZORE/VISION + ZZAP/NOICE
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XXXXX XXXXXXXXX/XXXX XXXXX XXXXX
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That was all the addresses for this month. I hope you have
found what you were looking for. Remember NOT to write any
handles or groupnames on the envelopes, please!
signed,
K.B.S./REGIN
Meet the press
+ MEET THE PRESS - WORLD OF MAGAZINES +
-------------------------------------------------
Magazines are good reading for the sceners, but they also
control the scene and decide its direction in the future.
Welcome to another episode of MEET THE PRESS, the place
to take on the magazines and those that write them.
When we first started MEET THE PRESS two months ago, we
were almost certain to get a packed edition every time with
letters and comments to every little word we put in this
magazine - afterall, this is the chapter where you have the
chance to react towards our method of writing.
Although we are known to be a magazine who are not late to
tell the world our opinion about the direction the scene is
going, we have yet to receave any letters about out (in our
opinion) fresh approach. We take that as a positive thing,
afteall, it must mean you all agree with what is written in
THE PULSE MAGAZINE. But still, show your appreciation or
opposition nonetheless, makes better reading.
You are free to address any of the editors working for THE
PULSE MAGAZINE in this chapter. Write us your letters with
the letter market with the person you wish to hear a comment
from - he will then reply your letter in here the next month.
MEET THE PRESS is not only a reaction chapter though, we
like to think we try to find better guidelines for the readers,
giving them our firm opinion of what is worth while reading in
terms of what magazines go.
This month we will discuss the problem todays magazine charts
are facing as well as a couple of magazine reviews. Please do
keep in mind, we only consider reviewing magazines who has
either started or chosen to go in a different direction. We do
not do ordinary reviews (like we know them for a lot of other
alternative magazines).
Send your reactions to the following address, marked with
the handle of the person you wish to get your reply from.
THE PULSE MAGAZINE
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You can also call our HOTLINE at : +45 - 98 18 12 65 and give
us your comments over the phone if you prefer to go that way
instead. We look forward to hearing from you as soon as
possible. Meanwhile, enjoy this months edition.
THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE
--------------------------
Here I simply have to go with my rather unqualified comment
towards the May edition of one of the articles written in
MEET THE PRESS.
To start off, I simply have to agree on the voting topic. I
for my
art have not been voting for atleast 2 years, and
cannot understand why magazines like NITRO, A-HEAD, etc.
are topping the charts just due to their quantity. This is
obviously the wrong way, as the only magazines ever being
able to do it this way were RECALL and SCRIPT, having both
quantity and quality.
So to everybody around, vote for the mags, people and groups
who are around and active. If you really have to vote for old
and famous people like POWERPLANT and XXX, why not settle
with activity junks like BACCHUS. When I was last talking to
BOD/TALENT, even he was unable to understand his actual
positin in the so-called charts. Actually seeing even me in
the charts is pretty
ointless, as I have not been cracking
for about 5 months now. People who are actually deserving
this stuff, are e.g. JACK ALIEN, THORN+NEVIS, HOK,
BACCHUS, etc. On the other hand, you can check in for
quality aswell. Fucking think before you vote or let it be.
COUNT ZERO/TALENT
COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR
-------------------------------
I have to agree with you on every
oint COUNT ZERO. We do
need some sort of explanation about the actual situation of
the scene-charts, but no matter where I turn, the result
appears to be negative. No one knows WHO is voting for the
DEAD, INACTIVE and POOR groups, sceners and magazines,
but some one IS doing it though. But enough about that.
I have built up a theory myself about this odd magazine
voting mystery in the last couple of months. I believe, that
the reason for the success of magazines like NITRO, SPLASH,
NETWORK, SKYHIGH among many others, is that they have a
certain number of spreaders, as well as votesheet spreaders.
Some of these many spreaders also spread votesheets for
other magazines, and when they get these sheets back, their
contacts would have voted for their magazine just to be
friendly towards the person who is collecting the sheets (or
to be frank : they are kissing his ass).
I would like to hear YOUR, the reader, opinion about this
debate. Therefore I request everyone of you who DO vote for
any of the above mentioned magazines (or groups and people
mentioned indirectly) to come forward and explain WHY you
feel they deserve your vote. Thank you!
VANDALISM NEWS REPORT
---------------------------
We looked at the latest edition of this Australian magazine,
also known as the 14th issue. The basics of this quite good
magazine is still notable, but it has gone through some major
changes though - not only with what the outfit is concerned,
but most definitely also with what the staff and its contents
is concerned. Today it looks to be a better bid to take a
bigger
art of the market than ever.
VANDALISM NEWS is roughly said only board based, in the
sense that it only has board-related chapters - and news.
The chapters : EDITORIAL, HAPPENINGS, RELEASES,
ADDRESSES, IMPORTANT, ILLEGAL and INTERVIEW is well
informing, entertaining and well written aswell. But one thing
is missing though, the original idea in the magazine - somehow
it is lost in the struggle to obtain a bigger share of the
market. This does not necessary have to be a bad thing, but
they most definitely need it if they plan on taking on the
biggest mags in the scene.
The editorial consists of VENGEANCE/SCS+TRC and
JAZZCAT/LEGEND assisted by RRR/OXYRON/AFL aswell as
MOREN and NIGHTSHADE of SCS+TRC. Contrary to the large
SCS+TRC involvement, VANDALISM NEWS is independent.
Although VANDALISM NEWS looks a lot like the THE PULSE
in shape and form, they deny the fact that it should have
been their intentions. One thing is for sure though, they
have started using that special conservative writing-method
THE PULSE is especially known for - but since we feel this
is the only right way to address the readers, we salute their
decision with an accepting tone.
VANDALISM NEWS has been around for a couple of years, and
has yet to meet its big breakthrough. But now that the main
editor VENGEANCE is back and calling out again, VANDALISM
NEWS could very well turn out to be one of the reliable and
regular magazines in the scene. But only time will earn them
that credit - we need to view a couple of more editions in the
near future.
In general I would say VANDALISM NEWS is worth while reading
for anyone within the illegal cracking and modem scene. It has
hot and actual text, which is the strongest side of this mag.
Due to the fact that VANDALISM NEWS is edited by Tasmanian
Australians, the English is obviously good and correct.
Now we will wait and see whether the transformation of
VANDALISM NEWS - will prove to be the start of a new star!
OBSESSION REPORT
--------------------
Two years ago OBSESSION was announced to be released, but
it never came out. Now, two years later, OBSESSION has hit
the streets, and we take a look at the result.
OBSESSION is another independent magazine, seems as if it
has turned into some kind of trend (or maybe the reason is
that no group wants magazines anymore under their label?).
But somehow the independance is lost in the biased text,
written to serve the editors own
urposes. Very disap
ointing
when you just thought the scene grown
assed that.
The OBSESSION outfit is a direct insult to the user. Do not
get me wrong, the graphics and coding may be in order, but
the idea of an outfit, is that it is sup
osed to be user
friendly - something OBSESSION most definitely is not. The
menu takes heaps of time to get
assed its design steps,
something that really annoys the user (it annoyed me anyway).
When you finally get to load a chapter, the text-display takes
a million years to plot the letters on the screen aswell. BAD!
The editorial consists of CAVRON/SCS+TRC and X-RADICAL/
CHROMANCE/CODERZ with assistance from HOMEBOY of
CHROMANCE and BLACK PRIEST/ANTIC.
OBSESSION is NOT an original magazine, it is more likely a
magazine put together solely for the purpose of getting the
power that sometimes follows. The release charts in this
magazine are said to be CHROMANCE pro
aganda, but we have
heard accusations like this from every side to every release
chart - so I will not conferm this.
OBSESSION is another board based magazine in the series,
with a few reports on exclusive matters (ap
arently about
people the editorial have something personal going on with).
They also provide a special chapter CONSOLS, which looks
to be a copy from a real-life magazine (word by word aswell).
The English is horrible. The text is written sloppy, and that
most definitely does not promote the understanding for the
reader. I wish they would take the time writing an article
takes, and perhaps use a dictionary when they are unsure
about certain words. Misspelling constantly is a deadly sin
for a magazine editor.
All in all, OBSESSION is a disgrace to the world of magazines.
Not because of its actual standard, but because it took them
two years to come up with what looks to have taken less than
a day to put together.
