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* Domination edition #7 *<br />
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Dear Readers;<br />
Welcome back once again, i warmly present the seventh<br />
issue of the independant magazine, Domination.<br />
Getting bigger and better is a progressive thing for<br />
both editor and reader alike.<br />
I hope to present in this issue, the best Domination<br />
to date.<br />
Regards to my colleagues in Relax, Vandalism News,<br />
Propaganda, Relax, Skyhigh and Nitro.<br />
Who have all provided fine issues in the race to<br />
release, in the public's view, the best scene related<br />
magazine.<br />
<br />
This edition i believe to be the magazine with the most<br />
broad coverage of scene topics,news and information<br />
of the one and only C-64, enjoy!<br />
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* Technical realisation details *<br />
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Intro Sequence:<br />
Programming by............................................Jolz/ONSLAUGHT<br />
Graphics by...........................................................Scope/F4CG<br />
Music by...........................................Cubehead/ex-RESOURCE<br />
Ntsc/Pal fixed by................................Burning Horizon/NOT<br />
Main Outfit:<br />
Programming by.......................................................Hain/F4CG<br />
Additional by............................................Shades/ONSLAUGHT<br />
Menu graphics by........................................Carrion/ELYSIUM<br />
Logo graphics by.................................................Rrr/OXYRON<br />
Character set by......................................Brush/ex-TALENT<br />
Ntsc/Pal fixed by......Donar/[O] & Burning Horizon/NOT<br />
Musics from:<br />
#1.....................................................Morbid/ONSLAUGHT/BASS<br />
#2................................Kristian Rost0en/BLUEZ MUZ/SHAPE<br />
#3........................................................................Drax/VIBRANTS<br />
#4.............................................................Zyron/F4CG/SWEMIX<br />
#5.......................................................................................Harmon<br />
#6.........................................................................Danko/CENSOR<br />
#7....................................................Morbid/BASS/ONSLAUGHT<br />
#8................................................................Nebula/ONSLAUGHT<br />
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The Domination Staff:<br />
General editing by................................Jazzcat/ONSLAUGHT<br />
Co-editing by.....................................................Tyron/HITMEN<br />
Additional editing and help by...........................Dane/CREST<br />
Mitch/CREST<br />
Chaotic/ATLANTIS/N*P<br />
TwoFlower/TRIAD<br />
Witty/ONSLAUGHT<br />
Vengeance/ONSLAUGHT<br />
The Official Spreaders: Tao/TRIAD<br />
Spermbird/Chromance/E+A....................................Germany<br />
Macx/Onslaught.............................................................Sweden<br />
Shocker/Onslaught...................................................Germany<br />
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General Comments:<br />
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EXPANDING STAFF, as you would have noticed as<br />
predicted in last issue.<br />
Tyron being my new and for the first time in Domination<br />
co-editor.<br />
His efforts will continue to expand as he gets used to<br />
being within the media.<br />
Kingfisher has been added to the staff, taking over<br />
my role in the 'Hack / Phreak' section. He will with each<br />
issue take us over a wealth of information from this<br />
illegal and interesting scene.<br />
TwoFlower,Dane and Mitch have been added to help with<br />
legal scene matters, such as demo review and news.<br />
<br />
Next issue you shall also witness further expansions<br />
within the staff and the magazine outfit itself.<br />
Hopefully we will come to a point where the release<br />
rate will be made shorter by an expanding and active<br />
team.<br />
<br />
MAGAZINE GROWTH CONTINUES since last issue with the<br />
return of Internal, Rock & Roll and the continued<br />
efforts by what is considered the quality magazines<br />
of the scene; The Pulse, Vandalism News, Relax,<br />
Propaganda,Skyhigh and Nitro.<br />
<br />
THE PULSE, seems to be the most regular released<br />
magazine these days with some delay in their legal<br />
department but also some new recruitments.<br />
Surprisingly the magazine hasn't yet officially gained<br />
back it's former number one crown in any of the top<br />
magazines.<br />
But one can expect it to rise after a few shakey issues<br />
at the beginning, and now the solid, good journalism we<br />
have witnessed over the past five or six issues.<br />
VANDALISM finally gets the number one in both Relax and<br />
Skyhigh, plus also grabbing some awards for magazine<br />
the year. Bizarre should be back and has shrugged<br />
off problems with the phone company.<br />
PROPAGANDA DELAYED but finally out at the beginning of<br />
March. Illegal editor Deff/Avantgarde must be quite<br />
busy with his job at Bmg/Ariola, as the release list<br />
was absent from the magazine, which seems strange<br />
as the magazine was supposedly detained due to the<br />
release list.<br />
Propaslander? As a usual episode with each issue, the<br />
Editorial once again contained negative texts about me<br />
and my group.<br />
Beginning in edition nineteen, they wrote over a page<br />
of false, apparent rumours about me.<br />
I reacted to this ofcourse and demanded apology, but<br />
since then, THEIR arguement has spanned over quite<br />
a few areas to the point where the public must be<br />
thinking "'all these guys ever do is nag,nag,nag'".<br />
<br />
The 21st issue presents again a hilarious bunch of<br />
nonsense, in a useless attempt at trying to win an<br />
already lost debate.<br />
Firstly main editor NEWSCOPY says "criticized for<br />
their intense recruitment and dismissal of members".<br />
Writing such a statement about a new(ish) group is<br />
in the opinion of one sane, quite unintelligent and<br />
ignorant of the real truth.<br />
The truth being, that as explained by Vengeance, we<br />
wanted to get the right balance of correct members<br />
and have a active internationally based group.<br />
We accepted entries and gave the rules of the group,<br />
and if members never performed we told them and<br />
gave further time, eventually if the member still<br />
never performed towards the group as a member he<br />
was removed.<br />
That is why now the influctuation has stopped,<br />
because we've settled with the main group and just<br />
recruit now and then.<br />
NEWSCOPY actually admits i am correct with my<br />
statement on him not actively calling the Usa boards.<br />
He replied though, saying that he speaks to DEFF<br />
three times a week.<br />
This in itself is quite funny, as readers would<br />
remember a statement i made saying that since Deff<br />
and me are not on the best of terms, his views and<br />
opinions may influence and indeed change the way<br />
Propaganda is.<br />
WEAK ARGUMENT?!<br />
It all began when i joined channel #c-64 on the<br />
Internet/Irc.<br />
On there was Newscopy, Tranziie and Sixx, Domination<br />
edition six had been released several days before<br />
and they seemed rather annoyed at me, like little<br />
school children that don't get everything they want.<br />
In edition six i made some mistakes with the release<br />
list and also with missing one member in the Hitmen<br />
memberstatus.<br />
So they mailed me about professionalism and my mag,<br />
as if they could talk i thought!<br />
Homeboy, who was also there had quickly mailed them<br />
giving them an intelligent lecture on what is called<br />
contradicting yourself. Homeboy observantly told<br />
them about CYBORG not being in the memberstatus of<br />
Avantgarde and the mispelling of Vengeance's handle<br />
many times.<br />
Even in this issue they made more mistakes, by<br />
including SHARP in the Onslaught status even though<br />
he had left the scene several months ago, and not<br />
including Ramirez, Shocker or The Unholy, even<br />
though a memberstatus was emailed to them over the<br />
Internet.<br />
But i could sit here all day and point out mistakes of<br />
others (not excluding myself either) but there is<br />
simply no point, as we are all just human - and even<br />
humans do make mistakes.<br />
So the "which showed just how weak some peoples<br />
argument were in the debate" type attitude NEWSCOPY<br />
has, is completly wrong. His mind fails to see that you<br />
shouldn't judge others before you judge yourself.<br />
<br />
NEWSCOPY wrote "They chose not to confront Deff in<br />
person when complaining about release charts in<br />
Propaganda".<br />
To begin with, if they complain on professionalism<br />
and they say "Intelligent freethinking", well how can<br />
one from the above quote; 'confront' someone in<br />
person', when they are half way around the world.<br />
The proper way to have typed that, would have been<br />
to say we never wished to contact Deff. But ofcourse<br />
this statement is wrong anyway.<br />
On the boards we argued with Deff/Avt about certain<br />
releases, as most active board callers would know,<br />
i've had many opposite opinions to Mario on his list.<br />
We also emailed him and cleared certain matters, like<br />
with Megathrustaball, which will be explained later in<br />
this chapter.<br />
But still other, more long term problems remain in the<br />
list of Propaganda, with Deff awarding Avt ntsc/pal<br />
fix points on 99% fixes, thus bending the rules.<br />
The fix being from another group, and being 99%<br />
fixed, would result in a Avantgarde 100% version,<br />
particularly at one certain stage when the anti-[O]<br />
intros were used by him.<br />
<br />
Moving aside from NEWSCOPY's nervous attempt, we<br />
take a closer examination of a 'open letter' by ex-[o]<br />
member JAYCE.<br />
To begin with he headlines his article with the topic:<br />
"Concerning what was written in the latest issue of<br />
Vandalism News"<br />
How could he write a article which concerns Vandalism<br />
when the comments he retaliates on are from<br />
Domination edition six, a stupid mistake from a silly<br />
person.<br />
He then started saying his version of why he was<br />
booted from Onslaught and how he was in the right.<br />
"The original that i recieved from Jazzcat was to<br />
begin with already cracked. Further more it was old -<br />
what any serios cracker would call a re-release".<br />
This text appears to the public as a very large point<br />
from Jayce, but is infact total garbage, that a knowing<br />
few would simply amuse themselves over.<br />
The game being MEGATHRUSTABALL, was already level<br />
packed because the company that i sold it to, required<br />
it smaller in size, company copyright details within the<br />
game itself and a modified docs part, which was all<br />
performed by my Swedish friend, Bacchus/Fairlight.<br />
(Who interestingly comes into another argument with<br />
NEWSCOPY, calling F4CG a replica of AMOK, because of<br />
CherrySoftware/Nemesis Prod. and the fact that F4cg<br />
is a cracking group.)<br />
The game itself made by members of my former group<br />
LEGEND, was never sold.<br />
For the first time it was sold, so we decided to release<br />
it. Also Deff and i talked over the sale of this game<br />
and i mailed a percentage of money for partial coding<br />
and music by SkyWolf/Avt & Ironcat/Avt within the<br />
game itself, and anyone can verify with Deff, that he<br />
recieved the money.<br />
<br />
Jayce continues his argument with another very poor<br />
excuse, which should now be even more expected from<br />
him.<br />
"We have many times gave up our social lives to study,<br />
so why should the scene be more important?"<br />
Was another of THE MINISTRY's apparent reasons for<br />
not cracking the game.<br />
Yet they were complaining for more originals and more<br />
communication within the group, and now here i can<br />
really say just how weak some peoples arguments<br />
truly are.<br />
<br />
"Communication is the keyword, while in Onslaught<br />
there was no such thing" wrote a determined, but<br />
misguided, JAYCE, in Propaganda #21.<br />
This is wrong and the truth can really only be known<br />
between THE MINISTRY and the organization in<br />
Onslaught.<br />
Both Vengeance and i sent several mail packs, each<br />
containing originals, and the usual internal chatter.<br />
THE MINISTRY never replied to neither Matt or myself,<br />
emailing them on Wares Aquarium was not too much of<br />
a problem, and at a time we even gained a Swedish bbs<br />
to strengthen and better aid our Swedish section.<br />
Contacting them seemed to be a problem even though<br />
they say otherwise, mostly i would reach an answering<br />
machine, and when i did ring them voice, they wanted<br />
things uploaded for them on Wares Aquarium.<br />
Which is not a problem at all, but we in Onslaught never<br />
trade originals over ANY bbs, not even our own.<br />
Back doors, sneaky sceners and corruption have<br />
forced some to be more wise in how to transfer<br />
originals.<br />
Perhaps if THE MINISTRY would have acted like other<br />
members do, by keeping group rules and policy, they<br />
would have remained in our group.<br />
<br />
"Majesty,Chrysagon,Ignorance,Deekay,La*Style,<br />
thats impressive, but why have names on the member<br />
list that weren't active in any way, but just being<br />
names to brag? or in the case of Deekay, as stated<br />
on the Us boards in mid-1995: "he is not considered a<br />
member of our group, but will do graphics for us"<br />
<br />
This is where JAYCE falls flat on his face in a bid to<br />
try and argue about something he understands nothing<br />
about.<br />
Firstly why would any of these mentioned names join<br />
our group in the first place if they never knew what<br />
they were getting into.<br />
Our group is not at all focused on names, it is built on<br />
activity, quality and friendship. These sceners each<br />
had a quality deemed valuable within the group, and<br />
JAYCE claims inactivity? well let's examine their<br />
actions within Onslaught !<br />
<br />
Majesty - He joined when Onslaught was formed and<br />
was original leader of the German section, he managed<br />
to get 'Down By Law' for us, which we still obtain.<br />
He also organized the joining of capable crackers<br />
Ignorance and Chrysagon.<br />
He later got busted for drugs, and may return at a<br />
later time.<br />
<br />
Chrysagon - was taken into the group in hope he may<br />
return to former activity. Ignorance and he did some<br />
small work together on Sword Of Honour, this was<br />
later scratched when Ignorance joined Alphaflight and<br />
later release their version.<br />
Since he has been too busy for scene activities. Thus<br />
he doesn't appear on the memberstatus.<br />
<br />
Ignorance - was our main cracker to begin with, he<br />
also supplied us with originals and a few intros.<br />
At the beginning of Onslaught he cracked and released<br />
the following games;<br />
Telnyr,Pozitronic,Flummi's World,Tim Tris, Trio,<br />
Mastermind,Riddles and Stones and more.<br />
I guess JAYCE kind of forgot about these releases.<br />
<br />
La * Style - was taken in, with assistance from The<br />
Ministry. He was only interested in multi-filed games,<br />
which we did offer. He cracked and released the nice<br />
Megathrustaball after we offered it to THE MINISTRY<br />
first. Which makes them go back on their words again,<br />
because they stated "any serious cracker would call<br />
it a re-release" La * Style is a capable cracker i<br />
believe.<br />
<br />
Deekay - being member of Crest and also Onslaught<br />
he joined as graphician. His activities are almost<br />
unknown to the public until demos from both Onslaught<br />
Design and Crest are released.<br />
He painted two logos for us and is currently involved<br />
with some graphics for the new Crest demo.<br />
<br />
So i guess this takes JAYCE's comment on them not<br />
being active in any way straight down the shit-pipe.<br />
<br />
Some people when fighting at a lost cause know<br />
themselves to be in the wrong, but just continue<br />
anyway to save reputation.<br />
Arguments will most likely continue from their side on<br />
a number of matters, is this how magazines are going<br />
to become?<br />
How can they question us, when controversial<br />
situations surround them. Arguments between certain<br />
game lables and Cherry Software are the current<br />
events which resulted in a certain ON ICE+fx/SCS*TRC,<br />
so they should be covering the current events and<br />
not continue with their repetitive nonsense that is now<br />
OLD NEWS.<br />
Why do they continue? either you already know, or<br />
set your eyes at the beginning of this paragraph.<br />
No offense is meant to either any F4CG or HITMEN<br />
members, just the key members involved in this debate.<br />
<br />
WITH EVERY WRONG THERE IS A RIGHT!<br />
Scs+Trc have earlier released last month what they<br />
call a revenge against Avantgarde & F4cg for the<br />
release of unsold game BOMBEL.<br />
The game being ON ICE from Cherry Software budget<br />
lable NEMESIS PRODUCTIONS.<br />
It is still fully not clear to public eye, if the release of<br />
Scs+Trc was necessary or within their right, but the<br />
matter shows more light on current game lable<br />
struggles of today's market.<br />
<br />
In similar fashion Onslaught released former Cherry<br />
Software/Nemesis game MORTAL DOGFIGHT, now<br />
copyrighted to Australian firm Everlasting Style.<br />
The scroll texts of the intro infront reveal a strong<br />
disliking to current treatment Propaganda is giving the<br />
Onslaught crew.<br />
The game is currently successfully taking in orders<br />
and further advertisments are taking place, read<br />
this issues 'Game Scene' for more.<br />
<br />
This magazine is fully based on the c-64 scene, wishing<br />
to convey a wide range of topics based on truths from<br />
the source of each subject.<br />
Each issue is a combined effort from an independant<br />
selected group of sceners, i believe to be fully<br />
qualified in their position within this magazine.<br />
With continued support this magazine will be more<br />
active and inspirated to achieve a finer piece of<br />
journalism with each issue.<br />
<br />
Reader, enjoy this edition and feel free to leave any<br />
reactions,news and comments concerning this<br />
magazine to the contact points on the following page.<br />
<br />
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