Hotshot 17 ch07 Different Things
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DIFFERENT THINGS HOTSHOTS OF 1991 HOTSHOTS OF 1991 ---------------- - morpheus reports - well, another year passed. we have now started of a new year and i hope you will be satisfied with some more issues of hotshot - the pride of the whole scandinavia! in 1991 we released 10 issues filled with stimulating text. it started of with the 1990 christmas issue in januari 1991. 9 issues was to follow. the contest was different. we had all kinda news, charts, advertisements, reactions, reviews, stories etc. the inerviews were done with: issue 7 : daw / censor design he later quitted censor and the scene! issue 8 : none because lack of memory! one of the reasons to change outfit! issue 9 : ano / padua! what more to say? a cool guy. issue 10 : colorful and destino of the best group of finland, origo! done at the great horizon party april 1991! issue 11 : scorp/hitmen, zoris of air design/the force and xentrix/b. force. three of our best friends in 1 single issue. wow! issue 12 : antichrist, kampftrinker & scrap of genesis! these were the guys who boasted most of their own group! issue 13 : ses & jack daniels/genesis. i printed the issue with jd and at the same time he was kicked out and was antichrist worst enemy! issue 14 : attraction of pandora! a group which was working themselves up. but then some trouble and now, complete silence! issue 15 : none due to the fact that we were in such a big hurry finishing both our demo and our mag. this issue had to be finished because otherwise it would not be spread.we even crunch- ed hotshot a half an hour before our train would take us back home from zodiac's place. issue 16 : deff/enigma! have you ever seen him been inter- viewed in another magazine? nnaaa... a great bunch of cool guys, eh? this year was a quite successful year for hotshot. with a well-earned-clap- your-hands-everybody hotshot became one of the world's five best mags!! history: -------- it all started when mags were quite new in the scene. a few german mags were released and i'm sure you remem- ber sex'n crime which was the biggest then. sharp(ex-flash), zodiac and me were talking about starting a mag, but i thought there were too many then! later zodiac called me up saying that he and sharp had done a mag-outfit with the name hotshot. within a few months hotshot was a well known magazine. the future: ----------- the amount of mags(and there's coming more!!) really pisses me off! i think that it's a bad sign that every little lamer-group starts a mag. the fact is my friends, that you gotta have some good connections to the scene if you want to release a good magazine! when it comes to hotshot i think it will continue 'till either the scene dies or the world's end is near! +------------------------------------+ THE NEW ZEALAND SCENE THE NEW ZEALAND SCENE --------------------- - reporter: the hegg!/rotec - the new zealand 64 scene has never seen a real boom in numbers. it have always been around 10-15 real guys doing only importing and that it all really. it's all happened out of time 1986-1990 was around the time that groups like: the falcons, the source, nukebusters then at the beginning of 1990 eagle corp. all these crews were just import groups but were really fast and their stuff was really well spread. then in about august 1990 a new zealand division of chrome was started by a guy called retaliator and that had 5 people in it at it's peak, then retaliator left the scene and the new zealand division fell apart and rotec was formed. this has been n.z's big- gest group yet! it's got eight members which may not be alot but already one demo has been released and two issues of an addy magazine called the grape- vine . there is also just a new group formed called the bomb squad which has only one coder at the very moment. also a one man division of proxyon was set up by cougar/chromenz who is just a graphican. overall the scene in new zealand is fucked up in the arse but it is great for phreakers and stamp cheaters etc. no-one has ever been caught by the cops for anything like that because they don't worry about petty things like computer crimes. but the negative outweigh the positives so unless more people start doing things in new zealand, there is no future! +------------------------------------+ WHAT'S UP WITH THE HUNGARIAN SCENE ? WHAT'S UP WITH THE HUNGARIAN SCENE ? ------------------------------------ - alive reports - let me have it started by listing some big groups in hungary. chromance : seems to be the best over here, by some says that they are get- ting weak, just by releasing their mag "are we the best?" and doing some cracks. and ofcourse by being famous since the dawn of time. it seems like their oldest and coolest members have left the group, or atleast some al- ready have (jean, griff, sangfroid). their leader, mr. wax still stands the fight against local lamers saying he's not a cool dude. i cannot judge this question, because i don't know mr. wax personally. triumwyrat :are the other ancient ones also having one old member left named sylvio. the other original members have left the group without any speci- al reason. they sometimes makes demos, but not enough to reach the charts. mainly, they live on swapping. stella : is a newcomer group but the group is getting big! they just have one problem. they are lack of great coders and that's why they don't rele- ase so much demos, and aswell as the group triumwyrat, their main topic is to swap. the most interesting thing about stella is their girl-leader, monique. faces : are a big family having losta coders, graphics men. when the group is really active, they're the best group in hungary, concerning swapping and the demo thing. graffity : are one of these group who could be one of the best groups. they have cool coders, graphics men and nearly all of the members can do some kinda music. but they are unactive at this point (or are they doing some- thing to shock the scene with later on?). dynax : were cool but they're having a civil war in the group. this led to dynax splitting up, members joining other groups. nowadays they're alive with two or three members. hope they will do something. i think i mentioned all the so-called elite groups there. and now over to the scene in general. it seems that in hungary nearly every- one has someone that they hate. and that is bad because it's putting the hungarian scene into a bad position. for an example we have all these local lamers hating chromance because they are known within the scene. but the guys in chromance just ignore them. the ones remaining in dynax are proud and they say that besides them, only graffity and tri and the cool ones. they seems to be hostile against the members that left the group and joined stella. dynax and graffity are against faces. why, you might ask? well, faces tried to be friendly but both graffity and dynax ignored them. everyone seeks after mistakes on each- other. if one is found it's spreaded like hell. the small groups are stealing code from the big ones. this is one of the causes there's war all the time. the hungarian scene is just getting into the business that most of the other scene guys entered one or two years ago. captain tas/stella have started a magazine in our own language called "foleny". then, a few months later, another one called "fairplay" saw it's daylight. the editors of fairplay thought that foleny wasn't fair. these two magazines were enough, i think, for the hungarian scene. but later on more mags were produced. one is worse than the other. but after all, there is some guys in hungary that want peace. i hope i have given you a little look on the scene in hungary. and if you don't share my opinion, why don't you write a letter to me or to hotshot and tell your own opinion! +------------------------------------+ THE LAMER HITMAN / EXOTIC DESIGN THE LAMER HITMAN / EXOTIC DESIGN -------------------------------- - flash/hysteric tells ya! - about the lamer hitman/exotic design. i was on holiday in neustadt/germany where also hitman lives. i didn't took my computer with me and so i had to copy and play at hitman and hawk(both in exotic designs) place. one day i contacted some guys. one of these guys were janec of ex-genesis. the holidays were over and i drove home. hitman and hawk should have sent me all the send- ings that arrived in neustadt for me. but as janec answered my letter those guys didn't tell me about the whole thing. just instead of that, hitman wrote a letter to janec that i would never swap with him and he also wrote that he took over janec as a contact. the whole thing was discovered as janec wrote to me again. but this time to my home address. so vote for hitman in da lamer charts! editor comment: --------------- well, that's typical! stupid lamers steeling discs and stuff. anyway, i do not really understand the meaning with this article, but i'm waiting for an answer from hitman and bro' hawk . +------------------------------------+ FUNNY LETTERS II FUNNY LETTERS II ---------------- yes! this part of 'hotshot' has shown up for a second time.. in this issue, we can't publish any lame letters sent in directly to the editors....but we stole a letter from a swedish computergames mag, and translated the letter, so the rest of europe can laugh at it too.. and it looks like this: --------------------- hi swedish homecomputer news, sweden's oldest homecomputer paper? my name is per ekengren but in the computer business i call myself "mega- perka". i've had a commodore vic64 for 2 years now. i'm 11 years old, but i will soon be 12 years. i've got many questions for the staff at swedish homecomputer news. here are the ques- tions: (1.) i'm going to buy a diskdrive. can i use the games i've got on tape, even if i have a diskdrive? (2.) i've got a friend who's got an atari, he's got a game called "automation". another friend of mine told me that you can become immortal if you give the right answer to the question "infinite lives? (y/n)". what are you supposed to answer there? (3.) a friend of mine has got a com- puter called amiga. he thinks it is a good computer. do you think so too? (4.) how do you copy an original game? my friends have got lots of original games that i want to have too. signed: per ekengren, hudiksvall. +------------------------------------+