Reformation 09
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Reformation Issue Nine
HOME OF THE FAIRLIGTER´S
THE HOME of the FAIRLIGHTER´S Table of Contents Page2 The Editor Says... Page3 Credits & Regards Page4 How to Reach Us... Page5 Reformation (C) FairLight
Table of Contents
The News Zone The exclusive and hot news-stuff, collected by Enduro, Sledge, Tabasco and Bacchus. Sceners Favies Yup, Reformation got it´s own and longawaited votechart chapter, presented by the sceners and summed by Tabasco and Red Devil. Mega Charts Again this original system of counting strikes back, but prepare, an EARTHSHAKE have hit the charts this time... The Wild Side Beavis and Butthead are back now, wonder who they are? If you feel like you´ve been weird, read on, it gets worse!! Opinion Poll The long-time-ago spread opinion-poll about chapters is fin- ished, read about the most readable magazine in the scene right now, based on the statistics... The Word Zone Bacchus, Watchman and Harlekin tells some amazing-stories this time, a blockbuster!! Interview with: Bob/Censor We dug under skin of the king of design, read about this weird guy, who could be named after Bobby/Dallas... The Antic Saga Depeh gives the full Antic-story 90-94, great work Goran! Into the InterNew part IV Bacchus and Watchman digs deeper into the world of InterNet. User & FTP list of July The latest updated list of InterNet users and FTP sites... Absolute Movie Zone The best movie-chapter ever made, don´t miss the big compo, sponsored by Active, the rats # 1... The Addie-Zone Need some new friends, try Zodiac/Flash inc... Reformation (C) FairLight
The Editor Says... [94.07.10]
Dear Readers... Months have passed since the last issue, rumours have said that I left the scene and Reformation was dead and burried, do I have to tell you that they´re wrong? Nope, it is with big contentment I´ll publish the new issue of Reformation. O.K, some answers to the huge delay is ofcourse, that I´ve been waiting for the new outfit, but the army took Tron away, so this one will have to do til issue ten I think. I´ve got a lot of reactions since the last time, some of them was about my objectivity in the magazine, well, I won´t write own personal articles (like the one about Crossfire), but I won´t accept people trying to use this magazine as propaganda! I´ve also seen other BIG (not named) magazines, stealing my ideas, like Mega- Charts and InterNet, how low can you go, out of your minds? Try to come up with atleast ONE own idea... A cool thing is, that this issue is all typed by me, (over 700 blocks of text,puh) in the middle of the summer, crazy? Not, because I´m working on a public-service-job, were I got the possibility to have the good old C64 with me, great, the summary is: I got paid to do this issue, beat that!! Oxidy left us one month ago, and he won´t continue the Demo- reviews as he will do an own magazine now, good luck Mikael! Also Lexi stopped working in the staff, nomore BBS-news either, but this doesn´t matter, as our new magazine-policy is to keep an extra eye on the swedish-scene (maybe the best one in the world?), therefor an interview with Bob/Censor and the Antic- Saga by Depeh. The next issue will be out at the end of the summer (no date set yet), hopefully with a new menu-system and new fonts, it´s up to the other dudes in FairLight... Enjoy this pure swedish production and have in mind, that I typed ALL text this time, it took two weeks, puh, well I´ll end this editorial with sending my best wishes to the fab. swedish- footballteam in the states, beat the hell out of Rumania in the quarterfinal!!! Enduro/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
Credits & Regards
The Reformation Staff: Enduro Main-Editor, General Publisher Bacchus Co-Editor, (InterNet Expert) Watchman C0-Editor, (InterNet Expert) Tabasco Main-Supplier, (VoteSheet WHQ) Red Devil Co-Supplier, (VoteSheet SHQ) Sledge Sysop Ware´s Aquarium Spirou Sysop Future Zone HighLander Sysop Fishbowl The Guest Stars: Surfer/Active Movie Correspondant Bob/Censor Interview Depeh/Antic The Antic-Saga Harlekin BlueBoxing The Official Spreaders: Tabasco Main Spreader, votesheet WHQ Red Devil 2nd Spreader, votesheet SHQ Gerwin 3rd Spreader Grayhawk 4th Spreader, exe Stash/Wrath/AFL Executive Spreader Walker/G*P Executive Spreader Bizarre/Trance Executive Spreader Nightshade/SCS+TRC Executive Spreader The Reformation BBS´s: Ware´s Aquarium WHQ SWE+46-(0)660-58352 Future Zone EHQ SWE+46-(0)8-371300 Fish Bowl AHQ OZ+61-8-277-1361 The Regards to the Fillers: Slayer/Remembers Freddie/Atlantis Nephlim/Fatum/Entropy Therion/F4CG/Elysium Jackel/Crape Druid/Agony/AFL´70 Grimlock/Acy/Extacy Scrapper/Oxyron Doxx/Noice Lemming/Panic/Fatum Diamond/Gothic Robocop/Atlantis Trooper/Atlantis Marc/AFL´70 Chrissie/M 8 Clive/M 8 The Alien/BCD Mr.Alpha/F4CG Neotec/Rebels/F4CG Maja/F4CG Cresh/NBN Chaotic/Rebels Joker/Extacy Digger/Atlantic/Agony Thunderbolt GigaByte/No Name Flenny/Jam Silver Bullet/Entropy Rave/Triad Tchad/Jam Cat/Excess Titanic/AFL´70 Cruze/SCS+TRC/LTM Spectator/Xenox/AFL´70 Condor Malakai/Cream/Powerage Sebaloz/Keen Acid French Flair/Jam Joodas/Feniks/Albion Hitman/Rebels/Charged Styx/AFL´70 Angel/Street Childs Syco/x-Sacred Dr.Kaos/Excess/Rfx Lord Red/Creators The Magazine: Tron Code (Intro, Outfit, Loader) Red Devil Music (Intro, Magazine) Creeper Graphic (Logo) Reformation (C) FairLight
How to Reach Us...
MAIL: REFORMATION WHQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn Sweden VOTESHEET WHQ Hangelosa, L.Brannebo 553 92 Lundsbrunn Sweden BOARD: Ware´s Aq.,SWE+46-(0)-660-58352 Future Zone,SWE+46-(0)-8-371300 Fishbowl,OZ+61-8-277-1361 or try your local-FairLight dealer... Reformation (C) FairLight
THE NEWS ZONE
THE NEWS ZONE [news] World News Page2 Telegrams Page4 Reformation (C) FairLight
WORLD NEWS [news]
Commodore / Samsung CBM International went into voluntary liquidation, meaning they have one month to sell out the company, under the laws of Bahamas! The time limit was recently said to be prelonged. The rumours have that the most likely potential buyer is the Koeran Electronic giant Samsung. Commodore demands that the Amiga line of supported products MUST be kept intact! Admittingly, very little has yet been made public! Interesting to notice is, that Samsung has recently bought the rights to use a Scotish RISC processor that MIGHT indicate the future Amigas will be RISC based. Also to notice is that J.Miner, one of the Amiga-inventors died recently. Again according to rumours, this was not caused by the CBM-troubles, but by a disease in the kidneys... Triad They will soon release the very last issue of their legendary mag- azine called "Gamers Guide". The reason is ofcourse the few cracks, but the idea of reviewing cracks will continue in Triad´s other mag called "Arise", which haven´t been released for monhts now... Roadrunner/x-Offence (cracker/coder) joined them some weeks ago. Focus Finally the former Censor magazine Shock will BE released again, but it will be under Focus-label now with TDJ as editor and Mirage as outfit-producer. The magazine will be a straight demo-based one, and not like the original one (as on SNES) Active Many rumours have said that they were dead, but according to their leader, Surfer, they only had some months of unactivity be- hind! They´ll release a 1st-release at the beginning of August... Memberstatus: Surfer, Injun Inc, Trasher, Riddler, Artlace and Shade. Censor They released Shock issue two (on S-Nes) some weeks ago, and will organize a staff for the 3rd issue, released mid. august. Also a demo for C64 is planned, no releasedate is set yet, but if I know Bob right, the demo will compete at the G*P party this autumn. Antic Depeh is soon finished with their new demo called "Legacy 6 - the lost sequels", a pure Antic Production. Also a new issue of Explorer will be released, with co-editing by Black Priest, one of the inventors of this magazine you´re reading now. Crest They´re working on TWO demos right now, active members are: Crossbow, Vision, Golldrush, Xayne, Drax, Deekay and Syndrom, the releasedate is set to "sometime in august"... Wrath Design Oxidy left us in FairLight, the reason was that he couldn´t get any graphics for his design-demos! Oxidy was the leader of the "old" Wrath Design, which died when he joined FairLight. Wrath was rebuilt later on by Ed/x-FLT and Joe/x-Antic. The leadership in this pure swedishgroup will be split into three parts: Ed,Joe and Oxidy. Other members are Stash,X-Flash,Ranger (even he an x- FLT´er) and Natas (sysop). They´re working like hell on a mega- demo, which looks VERY promising... Reformation (C) FairLight
WORLD NEWS [news]
Genesis * Project In September/October they will probably arrange a party for the C64 sceners ONLY! That means we don´t have to bother about the lowlife Amiga & PC dudes. The party will be held in Gothen- burg (TCC was held there 1 year ago), and the main guy in the event will be Newscopy! Airwolf was kicked out coz of lazyness and rumours says that Motley, who got busted for AT & T calling sometimes ago, will have to pay a BIG amount of money to the Telecom or be jailed! Memberstatus: Newscopy, Jucke, L.A Style, Walker, Tyger, Snacky, Motley, Ministry, Murdock, Allanon, Twist, AntiChrist, Alchemist and Sorceress. Noice The swedishgroup is about to re-arrange and expand a bit nowa- days. They recently kicked Heat, Bagsy and Chrippe out because of lazyness. Ablaze/x-Padua joined as a graphician but left them and the scene one week later! Total Chaos will set up a board cal- -led "LineNoice", a pure tool/util. board, dial +46-301-45183. Memberstatus: Swoffa, Devil, Mazy, Gaz, Draz, Stasi, Daxx, Decoder, Liket, Rat Poison, Zzap, Sandman, Joyride and Total Chaos. Legend Rumours says that they´ll release a mag again, called Domination! Editor will be Jazzcat. (but what about Vandalism News?) Memberstatus: Powerplant, Westbam, XXX, Doc, Fletch, Rebel, Jazzcat, Tyree, Skater and Atmos. Chromance The group expanded a lot last month with taking in members like: Lion/x-Chaos (coder+fixer), Stake/x-Cherubus (cracker+ supplier), Lord Crusifier (cracker+supplier), Splatterhead (swapper) and the whole polish AFL´70 section (4 members)! Edge of Midnight is their new WHQ, with major hardware stuff connected like RAMlink and CMD HD. Call 609-587-5759... Memberstatus: Mr.Wax, Jazzy D, Painkiller, Jinx, Blockbuster, Griff, Alex, Chum, Joyride, Odyseus, Unholy, X-Radical, Home- boy, Will, Cop, Icarus, Therion + the ones above. FairLight Both Bacchus and Harlekin got married some months ago, Bacchus is also waiting for a Jr in december this year! More bad things was/were that: Oxidy left us for his old group "Wrath Design" and Lexi put down his "Cyberdome" and opened an Amiga one. Tron joined the army in mid.june and that means heavy decreased coding from him (ed. but he´s doing his best to get out of it again,hehe!) Rumours said that Ogami sold his C64 and left the scene, well he DID sell his C64... for buying a 128 with drive to replace the old C64, he and Harlekin will make a slideshow for some new graphics. We´ve got a new board called Fishbowl in Australia, admini- strated by a guy called Highlander. This is a board on PC, running something called 64NET to communicate between the C64 and the PC... Memberstatus: Avalon, Bacchus, Dino, Enduro, Gerwin, Gray- hawk, Harlekin, Lexi, Ogami, Red Devil, Rowdy, Sledge, Spirou, Tabasco, Tron, VDK, Watchman and Highlander on trial. Atlantis Recruited some new members like: Trooper/xSCS+TRC (editor of Metamorphosis), Darklord (coder,swapper) Also Dr.Doom joined them, Fortress of Doom is therefor their new WHQ (908-353-0391) Memberstatus: Avalanche, Backslash, Benno, Drreamlover, Dr.Sience, Dr.Doom, Dr.Zoom, Freddie, Hi-Top, Human, Kirby, Lala, Lynx, Racer, Rebel, Robocop, Scull, Snap, Trooper and Underdog. Reformation (C) FairLight
TELEGRAMS... [news]
* Rumours says that the TRSI+Dytec coop is splitted, due to the AlphaFlight - Dytec war about Lemmings... * 2000AD re-entered the scene last month, but died just some days later on... (ed.don´t touch old legends please!) * Lynx/Vibrants will start to make some music on the C64 again! * Equinoxe is working on a mega-demo, no releasedate is set... * Zygon/Extacy left the scene. * The yearly party called Assembly´94 will be held for C64 owners this year too. Compos for gfx/msc/demo will be arranged and the party will be held in Finland, somewhere! * Cat/Excess left the scene because of studying. * The board "The Dungeon" is no-longer a G*P one, due to their lazyness. It´s a SCS+TRC coop from now on... * Rumours says that Avantgarde and Talent are in co-op! (ed.hmm only for a few cracks...) * Jeroen Tel will be interviewed by the Revealed-staff, read about him in their fourth issue. * Flash Inc. is said to be completly dead on the demo-scene, Zodiac, Moon and Red Star are ONLY coding games for their game-label called Octabits, vote = not! * Diamond/Gothic Design/Agony joined AFL´70 as a third group! * Incubus/Triad have left the C64-scene once for all, he is now only on the Amiga. * The board In Living Colours, sysop Grego, is now a Motiv 8 Hq. * Suzie-Uzi is back again, her board Intersection will stay in- dependant til the busted-trial is over. * Oxyron will soon release their first demo on... the Amiga!! Al- though, no Oxy-member is said to quit the scene, only rumours! * Rumours says that Jack Daniels and Deff will edit a mag called: "Caramba" for Avantgarde. (ed.Oh really!) * The magazine called Miracle/Maniax won´t be released til it´ll be under the Wrath Design-label..(ed.uh!) Reformation (C) FairLight
SCENERS FAVIES
SCENERS FAVIES [charts] Introduction Page2 The Vote-Chart of July Page3 Competition Page11 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Atlast, we got a vote-sheet, spreaders, and now we got brand hot summercharts!! The 45 sheets were filled in may so this chart is the hottest around with many suprises... We must thank all the voters for voting on mainly active people/ groups, then we thank all vote-sheet spreaders, not! Hmm, try to SPREAD the sheet from now on, all 45 sheets were spread by our own Tabasco, weird isn´t it?? Well, don´t forget to write news and articles on the backside, send the sheet to: TABASCO/FAIRLIGHT Hangelosa, L.Brannebo 533 92 LUNDSBRUNN SWEDEN or RED DEVIL/FAIRLIGHT Ova, Bagarebro 533 92 LUNDSBRUNN SWEDEN Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Demogroups of July [legal]
(p) (l) (group) (p) (country) 1. (-) CAMELOT 321 (Denmark) 2. (-) OXYRON 303 (Germany) 3. (-) CENSOR 226 (Sweden) 4. (-) Crest 194 (Germany) 5. (-) Taboo 135 (Poland) 6. (-) Triad 121 (Sweden) 7. (-) Antic 118 (Sweden) 8. (-) Spirit 95 (Germany) 9. (-) Padua 75 (Germany) 10. (-) Topaz 73 (Finland) 11. (-) Focus 65 (Belgium) 12. (-) Elysium 60 (Poland) 13. (-) Charged 59 (Germany) 14. (-) Agony 53 (Aussie) 15. (-) Noice 31 (Sweden) 16. (-) Flash 30 (Sweden) 17. (-) Fatum 23 (Poland) 18. (-) Origo 21 (Finland) 19. (-) Jam 20 (Sweden) 20. (-) Nipson 20 (Germany) Comments: Active chart here, the voters have thought before voting, nice! Will we see BYTERAPERS next time?.. Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Crackergroups of July[illegal]
(p) (l) (group) (p) (country) 1. (-) AVANTGARDE 315 (Europe) 2. (-) SCS+TRC 262 (Europe) 3. (-) TALENT 203 (Europe) 4. (-) Chromance 155 (Europe) 5. (-) TRSI+DYTEC 152 (Germany) 6. (-) Alpha Flight 143 (Germany) 7. (-) Motiv 8 134 (Denmark) 8. (-) Triad 87 (Sweden) 9. (-) F4CG 71 (Europe) 10. (-) Excess 55 (Germany) 11. (-) Legend 55 (Europe) 12. (-) Extacy 42 (Germany) 13. (-) G * P 29 (Europe) 14. (-) Fatum 23 (Europe) 15. (-) Rebels 21 (Germany) 16. (-) Atlantis 18 (Europe) 17. (-) Airwolf Team 18 (Germany) 18. (-) Chargedd 18 (Germany) 19. (-) Elysium 14 (Poland) 20. (-) Amnesia 14 (Holland) Comments: Wow, Avantgarde rules, that was an unexpected move, course the SCS+TRC coop seems to rule in all other charts, but this chart is the absolute hottest one, the votesheets are filled in may, so watch´em... Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Disc-Mags of July [legal]
(p) (l) (mag) (p) 1. (-) INGENIOUS BRAIN 217 2. (-) THE PULSE 212 3. (-) JAMAICA 183 4. (-) Nitro 165 5. (-) SkyHigh 152 6. (-) Revealed 122 7. (-) Update 68 8. (-) Propaganda 68 9. (-) Chit Chat 37 10. (-) +NetWork+ 37 11. (-) NewsPress 36 12. (-) Miracle 35 13. (-) Gamers Guide 33 14. (-) Magness 31 15. (-) Insider 30 16. (-) Narcotic 29 17. (-) The Tribune 29 18. (-) Vandalism News 28 19. (-) Splash 27 20. (-) Extacy Land 25 Comments: Equinoxe did well with their Ingenious Brian, but the Regina magazine is just five points after´em! Magness is too low and Splash is on it´s way out now... Miracle will be removed if we don´t get a new issue soon! Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Crackers of July [illegal]
(p) (l) (name/group) (p) 1. (-) JACK ALIEN/AVT 194 2. (-) BURGLAR/SCS+TRC 171 3. (-) POWERPLANT/LEGEND 130 4. (-) Hain/F4CG 86 5. (-) Count Zero/Talent 74 6. (-) DerbyShire Ram/AVT 65 7. (-) King Fisher/Triad 48 8. (-) Chrysagon/Talent 42 9. (-) Mr.Wax/Chromance 33 10. (-) Crossfire/Motiv 8 30 11. (-) Hok/AVT 26 12. (-) Moonchild/ 25 13. (-) Darkman/Extacy 18 14. (-) Supreme/AFL 1970 17 15. (-) Antitrack/F4CG 17 16. (-) TUC/ 16 17. (-) Centurion/ 15 18. (-) Techno/ 15 19. (-) Zar/ 10 20. (-) Snooze/ 10 Comments: Avantgarde crackers are going to dominate just like Legends did last year. Where´s the TRSI+Dytec crackers? Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Coders of July [legal]
(p) (l) (name/group) (p) 1. (-) TTS/OXYRON 260 2. (-) CROSSBOW/CREST 191 3. (-) SLAMMER/CAMELOT 184 4. (-) Bob/Censor 96 5. (-) MMS/Taboo 94 6. (-) Unifier/Spirit 50 7. (-) D´Arc/Topaz 49 8. (-) King Fisher/Triad 40 9. (-) Druid/ 40 10. (-) Axis/Oxyron 39 11. (-) Brush/Elysium 38 12. (-) Flamingo/Light 34 13. (-) KM/Taboo 34 14. (-) Glasnost/Camelot 31 15. (-) Sir Art/ 30 16. (-) Maduplec/Crest 30 17. (-) Swoffa/Noice 27 18. (-) Depeh/Antic 26 19. (-) HCL/Censor 26 20. (-) Raz/Camelot 25 Comments: Zodiac/Flash (72p) is removed because of inactivity... The chart is fair but who´s Druid on place nine? Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Graphicians of July [legal]
(p) (l) (name/group) (p) 1. (-) ELETRIC/EXTEND 223 2. (-) CREEPER/ANTIC 200 3. (-) JOE/WRATH DES. 157 4. (-) Cruise/Elysium 117 5. (-) Rob/Camelot 81 6. (-) Carrion/Elysium 64 7. (-) Hein/Focus 61 8. (-) Fazee/Taboo 60 9. (-) Dane/Triad 59 10. (-) Mirage/Focus 58 11. (-) ANS/Spirit 35 12. (-) BizKid/Oxyron 29 13. (-) Deekay/Crest 28 14. (-) Earhtquake/Antic 24 15. (-) RRR/Oxyron 19 16. (-) Atte/Extend 18 17. (-) Kring/Camelot 17 18. (-) Stone/ 15 19. (-) Roder/ 15 20. (-) Paladin/Extend 14 Comments: Eletric won the topstruggle, the polish-graphicians are the future... The gfx-king Dragon/Censor wasn´t even mentioned on the sheet, yup right, vote for active ones!! Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Musicians of July [legal]
(p) (l) (name/group) (p) 1. (-) SYNDROM/CREST 209 2. (-) PRI/OXYRON 179 3. (-) ZYRON/ANTIC 116 4. (-) Jeroen Tel/Pz 107 5. (-) Shogoon/Taboo 91 6. (-) Drax/Crest 88 7. (-) Jeff/Camelot 82 8. (-) Compod/ 58 9. (-) A-Man/AVT 38 10. (-) Metal/Camelot 38 11. (-) EVS/2000 CC 29 12. (-) TDM/Triad 26 13. (-) Cane/Spirit 25 14. (-) Yoko/Palace 25 15. (-) Decoy/SCS+TRC 24 16. (-) Shark/ 24 17. (-) Danko/Censor 23 18. (-) Echo/Atlantis 23 19. (-) Comer/ 21 20. (-) JVD/Focus 16 Comments: Syndrom rules just like Jeroen Tel did on his glory days, Shogoon is heading for the top now... Removed were: DOS (26), JCH (21), Rob Hubbard (20), Guy Shavitt (19) and Swallow (16), coz they´re gone forever... Reformation (C) FairLight
Top 20 Swappers of July [legal]
(p) (l) (name/group) (p) 1. (-) CALYPSO/AMNESIA 105 2. (-) SPLATTERHEAD/ 72 3. (-) NIGHTSHADE/SCS+TRC 56 4. (-) DerbyshireRam/AVT 50 5. (-) Wozio/Excess 36 6. (-) Mr.Wax/Chromance 33 7. (-) Spectator/ 26 8. (-) StarLight/Extacy 24 9. (-) Spermbird/Excess 22 10. (-) Lemming/ 20 11. (-) Razor Ramon/ 20 12. (-) Snooze/ 18 13. (-) Jerry/Triad 18 14. (-) Slayer/Origo 18 15. (-) Hain/F4CG 18 16. (-) Gorefest/Proxyon 17 17. (-) Hangman/ 17 18. (-) Leech/x-C.P 17 19. (-) Titanic/Chromance 17 20. (-) Styx/x-Sacred 17
Comments: The days of megaswapping are over, left is just a big fight be- tween all normalswappers, the chart will look different each issue with big rises and falls... Reformation (C) FairLight
Competition [Tabasco]
In each issue from now, we´ll have a Best Handwriting compe- tition (on the vote-sheet). Judges will be Red Devil and Tabasco, both in FairLight. The best man/woman will get FIVE new powerdiscs, donated by Tabasco. The winner of issue nine is: SILVER BULLET/ENTROPY Congrat´s Kenny, the disc will arrive with this issue... Top Vote Cheaters of July 1.Hitman 6 cheats 2.Titanic 2 cheats 3.Sebalos 1 cheat 4.Funny 1 cheat Hmm, Hitman, get serious next time, you even worse than Stash ever was!! Reformation (C) FairLight
MEGA CHARTS
MEGACHARTS of JULY [charts] Introduction Page2 MegaChart of July Page3 MegaChart of July summary Page5 Mega Single Charts Page6 The Best Scener-Ranking Page7 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Here it is, the longawaited chapter who tells you the truth about the strongest, biggest and best groups in the scene this summer! Last time I sampled points, the magazines were released in February! Four month have passed, and the MegaCharts looks like an earthshake have hit´em!!! Prepare yourself for some very BIG shocks, cause the charts have changed a lot, belive me!! The best thing is, that almost ALL inactive groups have left the chart now, credits to the voters who wants the active ones on the charts, please, do continue with this all, the active ones deserves the votes!! This time, only three magazines are counted, namely: Nitro #16/Excess SkyHigh #11/Oxyron Earthshake #23/Bronx The amount of points is therfor VERY low this time, but the charts gives you a clear and fair view of the best ones around!! The next MegaChart will be ready at the end of this summer, will it be as just amazing as this one?? You tell me... Enduro/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
MEGACHART of JULY [charts]
1.(7) CAMELOT (Denmark) Total: 3170 Demogroup 1186 Revealed 599 Slammer 555 Glasnost 195 Cruzer 78 Raz 47 Rob 299 Jeff 186 Metal 25 Comments: * A worhty number one, TowerPower coded by Slammer and a successful magazine is the reason for being on top! The future is strong for the danish vikings, Revealed issue four is soon out... 2.(5) FAIRLIGHT (Sweden) Total: 3149 Demogroup 777 Crackergroup 128 Reformation 526 Tron 513 Ogami 664 Red Devil 337 Bacchus 111 Tabasco 93 Comments: * Legoland III, Skaaneland, Reformation, Musicollections... need to say more? 3.(2) CREST (Germany) Total: 3101 Demogroup 841 Crossbow 623 Maduplec 39 Syndrom 918 Drax 494 Deek 186 Comments: * When their demos are ready, they gonna take over like noone ever seen before, a future number one!! 4.(1) OXYRON (Germany) Total: 2843 Demogroup 876 TTS 746 Axis 56 BizKid 65 RRR 29 PRI 448 SkyHigh 623 Comments: * The Amiga-rumours shakes the former leaders, a proof on the C64 is needed, ComaLight 12?? 5.(9) ANTIC (Sweden) Total: 2020 Demogroup 475 Depeh 119 Creeper 1023 Zyron 383 Explorer 20 Comments: * Creeper is the main-scorer in this group, will keep their positions when releasing their new demo... 6.(4) CENSOR (Sweden) Total: 1952 Demogroup 1007 Bob 408 HCL 58 Dragon 155 Danko 324 Comments: * Still lives on the Spasmolythic thing, a faller... 7.(6) TRIAD (Sweden) Total: 1851 Demogroup 617 Crackergroup 195 Gamers Guide 250 Arise 134 King Fisher 160 JFK 25 Dane 225 TDM 148 Ca$h 97 Comments: * Where´s the demo guys?? 8.(19) TABOO (Poland) Total: 1599 Demogroup 518 MMS 477 KM 166 Fazee 93 Shogoon 281 Acidchild 64 Comments: * Crash,boom,bang! They´re in top 10 now, congratulations!! 9.(20) ELYSIUM (Poland) Total: 1368 Demogroup 268 Crackergroup 18 Brush 182 Cruise 546 Carrion 354 Comments: * Another polish-success-group, the future is in their hands! -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
MEGACHART of JULY [charts]
10.(3) SCS+TRC (Europe) Total: 1227 Crackergroup 686 Burglar 466 Steve 20 Nightshade 55 Comments: * What a fall, don´t understand it! Where is all crackers and swappers?? 11.(12) FOCUS (Belgium) Total: 1191 Demogroup 316 Hein Holt 387 Mirage 230 Sander 102 Compyx 26 JVD 130 Comments: * Still cruisin´ around, but can´t live on the X-mas demo forever... 12.(--) AVANTGARDE (Europe) Total: 1175 Crackergroup 332 A-Man 307 Jack Alien 327 DerbyShire Ram 196 Hok 13 Comments: * Wow, new entry at the 12.spot, but the group need spreaders badly... 13.(--) EXCESS (Europe) Total: 1163 Crackergroup 161 Nitro 848 Luka 69 Alien P 30 Red Rock 16 Spermbird 39 Comments: * Another only-known-magazine group hit the chart, just like Brutal and Clique on their glory days... 14.(16) EXTEND (Finland) Total: 1099 Demogroup 35 Eletric 890 Atte 174 Comments: * Hmm, graphics rules here or what?? 15.(--) WRATH DES. (Sweden) Total: 841 Demogroup 7 Joe 777 Oxidy 57 Comments: * Again, graphics rule, demo coming soon?.. 16.(--) REGINA (Denmark) Total: 836 The Pulse 826 KBS 10 Comments: * Just like Excess, only-mag-producing group... 17.(14) TOPAZ (Finland) Total: 821 Demogroup 411 D´Arc 376 Scapegoat 34 Comments: * Rumbling, a demo will catch the fall... 18.(11) TALENT (Europe) Total: 734 Crackergroup 353 Count Zero 249 Bod 70 Chrysagon 62 Comments: * Falling down, seek for spreaders!! 19.(8) LEGEND (Europe) Total: 676 Crackergroup 196 Powerplant 345 XXX 108 Jazzcat 27 Comments: * 1993 best group is near the end, start cracking for God´s sake or... 20.(13) FLASH INC. (Sweden) Total: 669 Demogroup 255 Zodiac 325 Moon 89 Comments: * Another legend reach the end, bye! -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
MEGACHART summary [charts]
Out of the chart: Near the chart: ACCURACY (540) EQUNIOXE (665) PHYZICS (529) SPIRIT (585) TRSI (365) CHROMANCE (585) TRANCE (72) PADUA (579) Four new entries on the chart, no group remained on it´s former place, the chart is hit by an earthshake!! Jeroen Tel/Phyzics fell out after being on the chart since the start (march 93), don´t know how he managed to stay for so long without producing anything! Two mag-groups fell out and were immediately replaced by two new ones: Excess and Regina. The crackergroups have lost their streigth on the chart, best placed were the co-op SCS+TRC at place number 10. Have the cracker-scene lost it´s spirit?? Watch out for the polish groups, they´re the future rulers... MEGACHART of JULY summary: (p) (l) (group) (points) --- -- -------- ------ 01 07 CAMELOT 3170 02 05 FAIRLIGHT 3149 03 02 CREST 3101 04 01 Oxyron 2843 05 09 Antic 2020 06 04 Censor 1952 07 06 Triad 1851 08 19 Taboo 1599 09 20 Elysium 1368 10 03 SCS+TRC 1227 11 12 Focus 1191 12 -- Avantgarde 1175 13 -- Excess 1163 14 16 Extend 1099 15 -- Wrath Des 841 16 -- Regina 826 17 14 Topaz 821 18 11 Talent 744 19 08 Legend 676 20 13 Flash Inc 669 21 -- Equnioxe 665 22 22 Spirit 585 23 -- Chromance 585 24 -- Padua 579 25 17 Phyzics 529 Reformation (C) FairLight
Mega Single Charts [charts]
WORLD TOP 5 DEMOGROUPS 1. (5) CAMELOT 1186p. 2. (-) Censor 1007p. 3. (2) Oxyron 876p. 4. (1) Crest 841p. 5. (-) FairLight 777p. Comments: Shake around and role... WORLD TOP 5 CRACKERGROUPS 1. (1) SCS+TRC 686p. 2. (-) Chromance 379p. 3. (-) Alpha Flight 355p. 4. (4) Talent 353p. 5. (2) TRSI 345p. Comments: The crackingscene is getting weaker and weaker... WORLD TOP 5 MAGAZINES 1. (2) NITRO 848p. 2. (-) The Pulse 826p. 3. (-) Ing.Brain 631p. 4. (4) SkyHigh 623p. 5. (-) Revealed 599p. Comments: Take a good guess about the future... WORLD TOP 10 CODERS 1. (1) TTS/OXYRON 746p. 2. (2) Crossbow/Crest 623p. 3. (-) Slammer/Camelot 555p. 4. (6) Tron/FLT 513p. 5. (7) MMS/Taboo 477p. 6. (4) Bob/Censor 408p. 7. (5) D´arc/Topaz 327p. 8. (3) Zodiac/Flash 325p. 9. (-) Glasnost/Camelot 195p. 10. (-) Brush/Elysium 182p. Comments: Slammer breathes fresh air into the chart... But isn´t Glasnost living on Slammers fame?? WORLD TOP 10 CRACKERS 1. (1) BURGLAR/SCS+TRC 466p. 2. (-) Hain/F4CG 433p. 2. (2) Powerplant/Legend 345p. 4. (10) Jack Alien/AVT 327p. 5. (9) Count Zer0/Talent 249p. 6. (-) Derbyshire Ram/AVT 153p. 7. (-) Bacchus/FLT 111p. 8. (7) Crossfire/Motiv 8 111p. 9. (5) XXX/Legend 108p. 10. (-) Supreme/AFL 1970 99p. Comments: Unactive ones like Bod/Talent and Doc/Legend fell out, the chart is looking fresh again... WORLD TOP 10 GRAPHICIANS 1. (2) CREEPER/ANTIC 1023p. 2. (1) Eletric/Extend 890p. 3. (5) Joe/Wrath 777p. 4. (3) Ogami/FLT 664p. 5. (6) Cruise/Elysium 546p. 6. (4) Hein Holt/Focus 387p. 7. (-) Carrion/Elysium 354p. 8. (7) Rob/Camelot 299p. 9. (9) Mirage/Focus 230p. 10. (-) Dane/Triad 225p. Comments: Lots of action here, this cathegory is the heaviest one for sure, Dragon/Censor dropped out! WORLD TOP 10 MUSICIANS 1. (2) SYNDROM/CREST 918p. 2. (1) Jeroen Tel/Pz 529p. 3. (5) Drax/Crest 494p. 4. (4) PRI/Oxyron 448p. 5. (8) Zyron/Antic 369p. 6. (10) Red Devil/FLT 337p. 7. (3) Danko/Censor 324p. 8. (-) A-Man/AVT 307p. 9. (-) Shogoon/Taboo 281p. 10. (6) Jeff/Camelot 186p. Comments: Finally Jeroen Tel lost the topspot to Syndrom after being at top for years now!! Lots of action here aswell... WORLD TOP 3 SWAPPERS 1. (-) CA$H/TRIAD 97p. 2. (-) Tabasco/FLT 93p. 3. (-) Sailor/Chromance 77p. Comments: If the swappers don´t get more votes, this chart will be dropped... Reformation (C) FairLight
The Best Scener-Ranking [charts]
Who is the best scener around? We got the answer: (p) (l) (name/group) (p.) (cat.) --- --- ------------ ---- ----- 01 05 CREEPER/ANTIC 1023 gfx 02 08 SYNDROM/CREST 918 msc 03 03 ELETRIC/EXTEND 890 gfx 04 13 Joe/Wrath Des 777 gfx 05 01 TTS/Oxyron 746 code 06 06 Ogami/FLT 546 gfx 07 02 Crossbow/Crest 623 code 08 -- Slammer/Camelot 555 code 09 -- Cruise/Elysium 546 gfx 10 04 Jeroen Tel/Pz 529 msc 11 25 Tron/FLT 513 code 12 18 Drax/Crest 494 msc 13 26 MMS/Taboo 477 code 14 07 Burglar/SCS+TRC 466 crack 15 15 PRI/Oxyron 448 msc 16 -- Hain/F4CG 433 crack 17 14 Bob/Censor 408 code 18 10 Hein Holt/Focus 387 gfx 19 30 Zyron/Antic 369 msc 20 -- Carrion/Elysium 354 gfx 21 09 Powerplant/Legend 345 crack 22 -- Red Devil/FLT 337 msc 23 -- Jack Alien/AVT 327 crack 24 16 D´Arc/Topaz 327 code/gfx 25 12 Zodiac/Flash Inc 325 code 26 11 Danko/Censor 324 msc 27 -- A-Man/AVT 307 msc 28 -- Rob/Camelot 299 gfx 29 -- Shogoon/Taboo 281 msc 30 -- Count Zero/Talent 249 crack Left: Chrysagon/Talent (17) Jeff/Camelot (20) Doc/Legend (19) XXX/Legend (21) Guy Shavitt (22) Bod/Talent (23) Crossfire/M8 (24) Bizarre/Trance (27) King Fisher/Triad (28) Flamingo/Light (29) Reformation (C) FairLight
THE WILD SIDE
THE WILD SIDE [satirica] The Sceners... Page3 Messed UP Badly! Page4 H.e.r.o Saved My Life! Page5 Reformation (C) FairLight
The Sceners... [B & B]
Well, we´re a back once more, no introduction is needed, just let you know three things... Snakefight is not a crime and we are Beavis and Butthead, right lamer? Yeah right,- not you Butthead! Hmm, what are you waiting for, read on and don´t even TRY to send us own funny-jolly-jokes coz we´ll just puke´em... Overheard at KBS/Reginas house: "Mom I want to wear a tie at the party. I´ve heard there will LOTS of girls!" Overheard at Jazzcat/Legend: "Over the years I´ve groupjumping for no reason, but now I de- cided to first follow everyone else and jump to Talent then just a "small" jump to Legend... At Tabasco/FLT: "If you can´t beat them, join them!! I wanted to make the Fair- Light´ers stop calling me Ketchup, so I decided to join to see if that changed the situation!" At Travis/Contrast: "All sceners have Some skill, but I wanted to be unique, so I don´t have ANY!" At Motley/G*P: "Phone sex is boring! Ever tried online InterNet sex with a girl from South Africa? Now that´s CyberSex!" At Revenge/x-Extacy: "Well I named myself Revenge, well it´s time to prove what it means, hello my old Vic-20 again..." At Static/Gothic Design: "Some month after I left the scene, I spoke with a dude who was crying about the scene being megaboring with no laughers! So I decided to reenter so everybody could have a good laugh about me again, sorry guys I won´t leave now and make you all sad once more, but I need ideas how to act more lame than ever..." At Airwolf/G*P: "Don´t wory, I´ll be bakk son again ven al my BIG-personal problems is fixedd..." At Tronic/G*P: "Iyee begiin to loise myiee Iingliish now..." You´re in the ARMY now... Jerry/Triad: I want King Fisher back from the army! Surfer/Active: Is Trasher out of the army?? Bacchus/FLT: Why joined Tron the army now?? Spirou/FLT: The army suxx, just so you know it! Enduro/FLT: I´m out of the fucking-army!! Crossfire/Motive 8: I´ve lost my C64 in the army! Count Zero: I just love the wars... FEETS UP! STOP LOOKING! TURN PAGE!!!
Messed UP Badly! [B & B]
WOW, what a misery, the Pulse Staff have been visiting the is- land called Bornholm for a week now, but what´s the reactions?? [Duke] Well, first of all I think I´ve matured atleast ten years now, feels like I´m abit over 15 now!! Then I´m abit upset on KBS who is calling me Puke all the time, maybe a blowjob will give him other thoughts... [Crossfire] Hmm, it wasn´t funny at all, it licks me why I can´t buy my two beers alcoholic-rate and get real cool and drunk, they throwed my out of the drugstore and were yellin ´your filthy thief!´, i didn´t know my ripps were THAT famous... But i got lost anyway, sniffing on Dukes under-panties, mmm, nice and warm! [KBS] Well I was near getting a laid with a nine years old girlie, but I blew it, like always! This time forgot to take my clothes off, what a clever one! But Duke promised me to f-ck his Vic 20 when coming home again, yippie, maybe I´ll loose my virginity someday, after all, I´m a man now! [the rest] They just haven´t got back yet, but Duke is wispering something about some fat danish ladies, some clue?? THE NEXT FLT-GENERATION First Bacchus (our dear leader) got married, then suddenly Harle- kin got stuck too! But then Bacchus came up with the idea, that our generation will die out sometime, but who will take over? Bacchus was real sad, but suddenly he heard his mothers voice saying ´bees and flowers Pontus, bees and flowers!" Well, now we just can expect a Bacchus Jr at the end of this year... Rumours says that Bacchus have commanded certain members to think of our future and Bees and... Nono, it´s not Vagina, it´s Regina! On the radio you hear techno-groups like Maxx, Flexx and Staxx, but now, this XX trend hits the scene too: Maniax Maniaxx Psychics Psychixx Lexi Lexxi Antitrack Antitraxx Success Suxxess But the question is, what will XXX/Legend be? Kill The 10 Rumours That Says: 1.BlackMail will soon release a demo! 2.Brutal Recall is going to released again! 3.JCH is NOT dead! 4.Aslive is planning to send out soon! 5.Magz with most chapters rule! 6.Motiv 8 just don´t recrack! 7.Powerplant/Legend is a worthy #1 in charts! 8.Gotic Design isn´t lame anymore! 9.Ed/Wrath is going to vote for EU! .10.Stash/Wrath has got beat up by Liket/Noice! Not Active? - Topazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz TuRn ThE DaMn PaGe NoW oR...
H.E.R.O Saved My Life! [B & B]
You have reached a state of APATHY when... ...you see someone being mugged and you don´t do anything about it...even though the person being mugged happens to be your wife or girlfriend! ...you go to Confession for the first time in six month...and you haven´t got anything to confess! ...you finally get to see an X-rated movie...and you fall asleep! ...you finally get your very own pad...and you sit around, watching TV! ...somebody swipes the Centerfold of your new copy of Playboy Magazine...and you don´t even notice it missing! ...there´s a program on TV you can´t stand, but you watch the whole thing!...and when the same show is repeated as a summer re-run, you watch it again! ...your neighbor with the fantastic sexy body calls to tell you that all her fuses have blown out...and you give her the number of an Eletrican! ...you watch the TV News while eating...and it doesn´t bother your appetite! ...you go to an Ice Cream place that has fifty different delicious flavors...and you order Vanilla! Top 10 "Conan" Movies 1.Conan the Barbarian 2.Conan the Orthodontist 3.Conan the Really Nice Guy 4.Conan the Musical 5.Conan the ExtraTerrestrial 6.Conan the Dopey Muscle-Bound Body Builder 7.Conan the Haberdasher 8.Conan the Love Bug 9.Conan the King of Beers 10.Conan the Guy Who´ll Never Make As Much Money As Syl- vester Stallone, but significantly More Than Lee Marvin Top 10 Violent Songs 1.Gory Days Bruce Springloaded 2.I just called to Say I Slugged You Stevie Mugger 3.Don´t Stab So Close to Me Police Brutality 4.Slay You, Slay Me Lionel Stichie 5.Killing Me Softly with His Bomb Roberta Flack Jacket 6.Girls Just Wanna Have Guns Cyndi Leper 7.Little Dead Corvette Fingerprince 8.Twist and Shoot The Beatings 9.One of These Fights The Extinct Eagles 10.Blowin´ Up in the Wind Bob Killin´ That´s all folks, I and Butthead are going down now, but beware, we´ll back sooner or later... Play some funky music, will you?
OPINION POLL
THE OPINION POLL [scene opinion] Introduction Page2 Opinion Poll Results Page3 New Opinion Poll Page6 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
There have been researching in the scene for ages now, noone have forgotten Brutal Recalls big opinion polls, but nowadays it seems to be "out" to make one, so it´s time to break the pattern once again start to give the scene the right to express it´s feeling for different subjects... We will spread a special opinion poll sheet with a few questions on concerning the scene together with our votesheet, don´t forget to fil it in aswell and send it all to: REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn SWEDEN or leave an e-mail to me (Enduro) at one of our boards! Reformation (C) FairLight
Opinion Poll Results [Enduro]
One month ago, we spread several opinion-sheets concerning the chapters in the magazines, we recieved 32 filled back! Here you got the list of result in percentages... These rates were calculated by taking the amount of slashes for a category, divide it by 32 and then multiplied by 100%... Chapter Usefull Useless Dunno ------- ------ ------ ----- Editorial 34 % 57 % 9 % News 97 % 3 % 0 % Vote Charts 84 % 13 % 3 % Mega Charts 81 % 13 % 6 % Interview 44 % 43 % 13 % Demo Reviews 31 % 47 % 22 % Game Reviews 13 % 65 % 22 % Tune Reviews 9 % 82 % 9 % GFX Reviews 25 % 47 % 28 % Mag Reviews 38 % 53 % 9 % Crack Reviews 25 % 72 % 3 % CD Reviews 13 % 74 % 13 % BBS Reviews 44 % 37 % 19 % Utility Reviews 6 % 65 % 28 % Cover Reviews 31 % 53 % 16 % 1st Releases 75 % 22 % 3 % Music Scene 34 % 57 % 9 % Debates 56 % 25 % 19 % Reactions 31 % 56 % 13 % Addies 91 % 6 % 3 % Memberstatus 13 % 65 % 22 % Jokes´n´Rags 82 % 9 % 9 % Sex´n´Girls 53 % 31 % 16 % Movie Scene 50 % 47 % 3 % Network Zone 22 % 59 % 19 % Party Scene 82 % 9 % 9 % Monthly Rel. 53 % 38 % 9 % Group Story 31 % 41 % 28 % Board Scene 53 % 38 % 9 % Scene Records 31 % 47 % 22 % Amiga Scene 3 % 94 % 3 % PC Scene 16 % 65 % 19 % Digi Piccies 54 % 34 % 22 % Opinion Poll 53 % 22 % 25 % Birthdays 41 % 31 % 28 % All in all, 35 Yes/No/Dunno questions! But instead of getting you the normal comments, I´ve got a great idea how to finally, with this facts, give you the view of the best magazine with the best chapters in the scene, turn page and read on! -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
Opinion Poll Results [Enduro]
How to do it: Well, each chapter in the magazines will be counted as far as they are represented in the resultlist, the chapter will be "worth" the percent it earns (for example: if the magazine have a newschap- ter, it earns 94 points, also the "bad" minus points will be coun- ted, in this case 3 points!) If there excist four interviewschapters, only one get counted, if there excist several chapters with diff- erent debates, only one get counted aswell, chapters which don´t excist in the resultlist, won´t be counted! Here we go: THE TOP MAGAZINES Nitro/Excess (#15): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Charts: +84-13 Opinion Poll: +53-22 Interviews: +44-43 Crackrev.: +25-72 Demorev.: +31-47 Boardscene: +53-38 Birthdays: +41-31 Addies: +91-6 Reactions: +31-56 Debates: +56-25 Music scene: +34-57 Total:204 (+674,-470) Reformation/FLT (#9): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Charts: +84-13 MegaCharts: +81-13 Opinion Poll: +53-22 Jokes´n´Rags: +82-9 Interviews: +44-43 Debates: +56-25 Network: +22-59 Group Story: +31-41 Movie Scene: +50-47 Addies: +91-6 Total:387 (+725,-338) Pulse/Regina (June): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Month Rel: +53-38 Jokes´n´Rags: +82-9 Boardscene: +53-38 Interviews: +44-43 MegaCharts: +81-13 Demorev.: +31-47 Debates: +56-25 Network: +22-59 Addies: +91-6 Total:306 (+644,-338) Splash/Accuracy (16): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Reactions: +31-56 Charts: +84-13 Interviews: +44-43 Addies: +91-6 Debates: +56-25 Birthdays: +41-31 Magrev.: +38-53 Jokes´n´Rags: +82-9 Music Scene: +34-57 Total:279 (+632,-353) -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
Opinion Poll Results [Enduro]
SkyHigh/Oxyron (#12): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Charts: +84-13 Interviews: +44-43 Birthdays: +41-31 Debates: +56-25 Addies: +91-6 Reactions: +31-56 Magrev.: +38-53 Music scene: +34-57 MegaCharts: +81-13 Boardscene: +53-38 Party Scene: +82-9 Total:362 (+766,-404) Ing.Brain/Equnioxe (#4): Editorial: +34-57 News: +97-3 Reactions: +31-56 Charts: +84-13 Interviews: +44-43 Addies: +91-6 Debates: +56-25 Month Rel.: +53-38 CD rev.: +13-74 Cover rev.: +31-53 Digi pic.: +54-34 Total:186 (+588,-402) THE RESULT-LIST: 1.Reformation 387 +725-338 2.SkyHigh 362 +766-404 3.Pulse 306 +644-338 4.Splash 279 +632-353 5.Nitro 204 +674-470 6.Ing.Brain 186 +588-402 Conclusions: First of all, these results don´t show/give you the truth about the best magazine around, just which magazine with the best chap- ters (most readable). Things like quality of text and outfit, the amount of chapters and text, releasingtime of magazine aren´t in- cluded in this opinion poll. Ofcourse there is a big differance be- tween a newschapter f.ex, the 97 % of the fillers maybe just have read the excellent newschapter in Pulse and therefor, cross for an yes about news. But I think all you mag-editors out there should look at this opinion poll carefully and do also write YOUR point of view on this subject! (Hey Duke, if wanna say something, don´t hesitate, get my addie!) Enduro/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
New Opinion Poll [Enduro]
This opinion poll will continue where the last one ended, we´ll dig a bit further down in the magazine-subject. I´ll present the ques- tions here, but you can also answer them by filling in the special opinion poll sheet, hopefully spread together with the votesheet... The Questions: 1.Which mag is the most readable one? [A] The Pulse Magazine/Regina [B] Nitro/Excess [C] Splash/Accuracy [D] Ing.Brain/Equnioxe [E] SkyHigh/Oxyron [F] Revealed/Camelot [G] Reformation/FairLight [H] Jamaica/Jam [I] Arise/Triad 2.Which mag is the most original one? [A] The Pulse Magazine/Regina [B] Nitro/Excess [C] Splash/Accuracy [D] Ing.Brain/Equnioxe [E] SkyHigh/Oxyron [F] Revealed/Camelot [G] Reformation/FairLight [H] Jamaica/Jam [I] Arise/Triad 3.How many interviews/mag? [A] none [B] one [C] two [D] three [E] four [F] more than four 4.What about the amount of mags? [A] too few [B] normal [C] too many [D] dunno Send your answers to us as fast as possible, we´ll publish the re- sults in the next issue... Reformation (C) FairLight
THE WORD ZONE
THE WORD ZONE [debate] Introduction Page2 When quality counts/Watchm. Page3 The second group/Bacchus Page4 Blueboxing/Harlekin Page5 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Well, this time we have a lot of text in this chapter; two hot de- bates and the understanding of Blueboxing. The main reason for having this chapter is that we´d like to debate various subjects in the scene and therefor, give REACTIONS to the articles and write your own articles, give us your point of view and we´ll publish it in the next issue, just grap a pen and write some lines to us,NOW! Send them to: REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn SWEDEN or leave an e-mail to me (Enduro) at one of our boards! Reformation (C) FairLight
When Quality Counts [Watchman]
The C64 scene has matured over the years and now, at the summer of its life span, the scene has become a very professional one in many aspects. Demos like TRIANGLE´s ´Road of Excess´ are remembered not only for the great demoparts with fantastic code and style, but also for a great loader and nurturing of all prob- lems the user/watcher might get when running the program. The result is logically getting it´s fair share of credit in democharts and competitions. When it comes to the Cracks, the story is very much different. Speed started to become an issue way back when modem trading took off and when the export/import business started, the hyst- eria about speed became the main factor for crediting a crackers work. I´m not saying that I don´t think that speed matters at all, but I do say that when you look at charts, many good crackers doesn´t get their fair credit for their good work. This issue have also been adressed as early as 1987 (I think) by the legendary Janitor/TRIAD, who also believed that quality should count. Persons like Injun Inc. in TRIAD agreed on this and therefor came up with the idea that turned into the ´Gamers Guide´ magazine. This magazine have tried to push for the quality aspect of a crack. The result haven´t been a total success. Still fast cracks are, as far as I find by looking at charts, considered as better ones, than the ones that are a bit older, but shorter, better trained and with bugs fixed. This problem isn´t constrained to the C64 either. If you look at the Amiga scene, you will find that speed is almost everything there. So what´s the problem? Well, the main idea of a crack is that many people as possibly shall be able to play the game, and by using trainers, fixes and other extras done by the cracker, enjoy the game as much as possible. Loads of groups release their ver- sion of a game and everybody tries to make the best version poss- ible, and since there are so many ways to go about when fixing a game, all versions are more or less different. This is the reason why we crack games, and why so many versions are released, be- sides releasing loads of stuff as a group, naturally. The bottom line is that I believe that a group and cracker releas- ing a first release should be awarded his fair dues, but more atte- ntion should be given to the crackers that delivers good versions and often reliably. If this is combined with speed then it´s just even better! I know I´m not a very fast cracker. I don´t even crack games re- gulary, mainly bacause I´m having too much else to do besides computing. I also know that I have done bad cracks too, but I don´t see why this should disqualify me from bringing up this issue. Speed isn´t the big problem, but speed instead of quality is. I don´t see why the same thing counts in other productions - quality - shouldn´t count when it comes to cracks. Both speed and quality can be combined, it just takes a bit harder work... and that work should the cracker be credited for. I´m sure quite a few of you out there reacted when you read this, so come on, write´em down, send them to us and we´ll publish it here, the next issue! Watchman/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
The Second Group [Bacchus]
Howdy Hackers! This time I´d like to bring up a subject: The second group thing. On the C64 we have for a long time stayed faithful to one group, but this is beginning to look like a thing of the passed. So many of the persons I see advertising in the magazines are members of more than one group. WHY??? The original group is the place where you have the best pals, and it is shaped of people of different skills to be a complete unity. The group is the perfect community to work on the scene in! The ONLY reason for being a member of a second group is that you cannot fulfill your wishes inside the group, which means that the group isn´t enough balanced or not quite perfect in some respect. Being a member is accepting the fact that one shall deliver a certain amount of work on a regular basis, to stay in. The amount depends on the person and the group, but generally this is the common demand. If you don´t deliver, you get kicked out... The one being a member of more than one group, proves that he has so much capacity that he can do the required work for more than one group. My principle point of view is that if someone wants to be member of a second group, than they aren´t completly happy in your group. I do have some "second groups" I can understand: First of all let me count away the guys being in a group they pro- duce games with. To me the original scene group would be the ideal unity to do such a thing in, but some of you form "game lab- els". Most of these groups are just parts of bigger groups, and it is wise to limit the number of participants as if it turns up to be money involved. Money might be hard to split if there are too many involved. Also, if you like to use a free-lance person of any skill, this type of second group is OK with me! Secondly I can accept the specialized second groups like TIA, consisting of f.ex only musicians. The musicians then have their original group as the first place they belong, but can then also share the community with "people of their own kind". This as long as the original group cannot use all the material the guys pro- duce. If you are a swapper in a smaller group, that don´t produce stuff of their own often enough, you might want to ensure you get stuff from more groups to keep up the swapping. On the other hand, why do you have to be a member of the group, to get the stuff? I guess most groups are rreally happy if some friends of their would spread their stuff. Having the latter solution puts no demands on the potential spreader. Still this whole thing is built on one thing. You always have to "pay" with membership to get things done for you. We have "free-lance" musicians and graphicians and that works well. I can´t see no reason why Creeper in ANTIC and Kristian Rostoen in BLUESMUZ couldn´t do things they can have spread in our productions. The only difference is that they cannot be kicked if they don´t do it fast and good enough. I wouldn´t mind if our musicians or graphicians made some work for other groups, but I wouldn´t want them to be members of other groups. Although I accept certain thing here I still don´t like the pricipal idea of multimembership. Can you REALLY do the required work for more than one group?? Bacchus/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
Understanding BlueBoxing[Harlekin]
THIS TEXT IS NOT AN INSTRUCTION HOW TO BLUEBOX, BUT TELL YOU HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT WORKS! In old switchingsystems, the central offices exchanged infor- mation by sending tones to eachother. These tones are transmitted in the same trunks as the one you speak on. To indicate that a trunk between two centrals is idle, the centrals send a 2600Hz signal to eachother (both directions). When a trunk is busy the tone will be removed. The 2600Hz is therefor known as a super- visory signal, because it indicates the status of a trunk. Note that the 2600Hz signaling is "inband", within the band of frequencies (400 - 3400Hz) that can be transmitted over the normal tele- phonelines. Some switching equipment uses frequencies over 3700Hz between the centrals, and these can´t be used by us,"out- band". Now an example. You are making a call to a friend in Nigeria. Your local central office would recognize that this is an inter- national call, and route your call to the central that serves inter- national calls. From here your call is routed to the international central serving your friend, and from there to your friends cen- tral office. (We suppose that the call is routed through modern switching equipment til it reaches Nigeria.) When you have fin- ished talking, you normaly hang up the phone, but now you send a 2600Hz signal down the line. Your friends central office detects this tone and thinks this tone is orginating from the equipment in your end, indicating that you have hung up, and the trunks once again is idle. Your call has now been disconnected between the international central, and the local central in Nigeria. When you stop sending the 2600Hz signal (after a second or so) the remote central office thinks there is another call coming in on this line. The remote central sends some tones to indicate that it is ready to recieve information from the other station. This normally sounds like a "beep" followed by "kerchunk". Once this happends, you are connected to the remote station, which will obey your every com- mand. Now you "only" need to know how to simulate the signaling used by operators and automatic toll-dialing equipment. Multi Frequency is the most common signaling in the networks, known as the CCITT #5 system. MF signaling consists of seven frequen- cies, beginning with 700Hz and seperated by 200Hz. A combi- nation of two out of these seven represent the digits 0 thru 9, plus five additional keys. Combinations as follows: Frequences Domestic International 700+900 1 1 700+1100 2 2 900+1100 3 3 700+1300 4 4 900+1300 5 5 1100+1300 6 6 700+1500 7 7 900+1500 8 8 1100+1500 9 9 1300+1500 0 0 700+1700 ST3p Code 11 900+1700 STp Code 12 1100+1700 KP KP 1 1300+1700 ST2p KP 2 1500+1700 ST ST The duration of the pulses are all 60ms, except for KP, which should have 100ms. There should also be a 60ms pause between the digits. So...How to use these special ST, KP to route our call? Not to difficult. A standard call could look like this: * Dial 020-79 56 11 (freenumber from SWE to US) * Wait for a call-progress indication (ring,busy etc...) * Send 2600Hz for about 1 sec. * Wait about 2 sec. * Send KP+806-555-1234+ST How come you don´t get billed for these calls? As a matter of fact you GET billed, but only to the number you first connected to (in this case 020-79 56 11). So when searching for new boxable trunks, try to find a free number to box on. -------------------------------------------------> Reformation (C) FairLight
Understanding BlueBoxing[Harlekin]
But as the telecom companies change their older systems to new- er, there are less and less numbers that can be used for boxing. Nowadays there are only the old communistcountries and some in Africa that have switchingsystems with "easy to crack" inband signalling. The latest rumour say that Nigeria is almost bankrupt caused by all phreakers using the system. There are also major risks in BlueBoxing nowadays. If you, as here in Sweden, are connected to a modern Digital Central (AXE etc.) all calls are logged. This is not only to catch phreakers, but give the "normal" subscribers the service to see where they have called. And it´s also possible the other way around, to see who has dialed a certain number. It could be a bit suspicius to call the operator in Ghana over and over again! Beware Phreakers! Harlekin/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
INTERVIEW WITH BOB/CENSOR
INTERVIEW WITH BOB/CENSOR Introduction Page2 Interview: Bob/Censor Page3 The Censor Story Page5 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Wow, this time we present you and exclusive interview with the swedish top-coder named BoB/Censor Design, two buckets of hallonsaft to you, boozer! If there is someone else who dares to enter the spotlight, then let us know, we´ll give you the questions of your life,hehe.. Wanna be interviewed?, send a note to: REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn SWEDEN or leave an e-mail to me (Enduro) at one of our boards! Reformation (C) FairLight
Interview with BoB/Censor [Enduro]
[Q] REFORMATION [B] BOB/CENSOR [Q] Please, give the readers some personalfacts about the person behind the handle Bob... [B] A bounced crazyness formed in one explosive energetic mass with a beastfull passion to all kind of beaty and art and love to create things that noone never done before... Between, my real name is Robert and I´m 22 years old! [Q] When did you start your career on the C64? [B] 1986 I bought my cpu - lame playings 1987 Started to learn the C64 a bit... 1988 Formed a group called YANKEES (not the french! yankees!), a quit lame local group, I just learned to code some demos (Lame mega lame demos which we where quite proud of that time) L8r on I joined Agile then moi, Goblin and Shark founded LIGHT, after a couple of month again some joined TRIAD -> from TRIAD to CENSOR! Is Bob named after BoB/Twin Peaks? [Q] Why and when did you start to call yourself BOB? [B] I was seven years old I think, there were some Englishboys which were calling me Bob instead of Robert when I was on holiday in England. Bob = Robert in english and at that time, all the arcade games only had a three letters long high- score name. B-O-B, easy! [Q] Well, you´re a specialtype of the coderclan, the one who suprises us all with stunning design in every new demo, where do you get all ideas from? Why design? How do you do to make the ideas come true? [B] Hmm, I have unlimited awesome ideas which I would like to make, but there is one problem, I don´t have much time to do these things, but I´ll give the ideas to the other CENSOR members like Swallow and Staigar which make my fan- tasies come true! Hmm, where I got my ideas from, they just grows in my mind and getting more and more nastier. I love to think! I can sometimes think of awesome crazy fantasies which seems to be impossible to solve, but in the end, all got it´s solution. Why design? A demo should be something you would like to watch forever, it´s something of a very sophisticated art, it´s simply beatyful artistic creation, it should penetrate all your feelings like your eyes for seeing very nice things which will higher the impression of the art (design), your ears for hearing lovely harmony which you could listen for- ever. VERY IMPORTANT! A nice demo without good music or sound will lower the overall impression too much! All these categories should/must be in balance and the FX must be something unexpected! It´s not just the code who makes a demo good, and breaking worldrecords with routines which people already have seen 1000 times isn´t of any importance an artistic creation, there´s nothing unexpected at all! I can´t see any pleasure doing a demo like that! A Demo Is Pure Art To Pleasure! [Q] How much do the other CENSOR-members mean to you, (taste that Bob!)? [B] CENSOR is a family, we are at private bestfriends and will be that for the rest of the life! Satisfied? [Q] Why do you only code for party-demos? [B] Hehe, 1-2 month before a party I do spend a lot of time in front of the C64, otherwise I don´t use it much! "KTH" takes a lot of time, poor C64, but I DO call Future Zone twice a month (ed.posting weird messages!!) -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
Interview with BoB/Censor [Enduro]
[Q] Why did you enter the console-scene? [B] The future is there, money makes the world go around! Well, the CENSOR-team is on the both categories, cool and awesome!! Is Al Capone BoB´s father? [Q] What´s your favorite: Book Beta mathbook,ehh?! Movie The Godfather Game Bridge Racer (arcade 3D...) CopyParty The Dominator&Uppfront (brilliant!) Porno Actress Victoria Paris, Gunnar Johansson Girl Anna-Nicole Smith (ed.how unexpected!) Musicstyle Cyberpunk (ed.Skinny Puppy,argh!) Drink Coctails (hmm, hallonsaft?) Coder Me,I,Bob,myself (ed.BoB=ego!) Scener Censor (ed.Bob wrote it 22 times!!) Demo Wonderland IX and X, Spasmolythic Board Future Zone Sex Censur!! (ed.some words were NO KIDS!!) Joke Hahaha, that was a good one!! Magazine My babes diary! [Q] Is there any group you´d join instead of CENSOR? [B] Hahahahaha, what a joke Enduro, hahahaha, we´re not just a hacker-group! (ed, yes you got intern orgies, cybermothers and free entrance to Skansen!) [Q] Do you want someone to re-enter the scene? [B] Xakk, Contex and MegaStyle! [Q] How´ll you describe the memory from the C64 scene 2020? [B] Wild livings, cool, flipped out creations, fantasyworld and so on (ed.not Censor,Censor x 1000??) [Q] Tell us about the worst thing you ever done in the scene? [B] Me, never do ANY bad things... Is BoB short for Bobby/Dallas? [Q] Which ones are worth to mentioned as BoB´s pals? [B] Censor Design, PD, Euzkera, Chromance, Success (new team and old team) and many many more, too many!! -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
The Censor Story [Enduro]
[Q] What´s the full CENSOR-memberstatus? [B] The same as C64! (ed.ehh!) [Q] Why dropping: (a)Cracking (b)Sh0ck Magazine (c)Swapping (d)Boozing [B] (a)Is there anything worth to crack on C64? (b)We haven´t dropped Sh0ck, it´s on S-NES! (c)We don´t produce so many things nowadays, not funny! (d)WE BOOZE! We drop booze = we drop dead!! [Q] What about your party-activities? [B] Well, there´ll be further releases with new stuff, don´t you worry all. Partys we will show up on (if it is cool enough) will be the ones in Denmark and Sweden! [Q] What´s your future plans? [B] Too many! Look out for the awesome demo from us on the S-NES with 180 C64 sid-songs!! (ed.it´s released now and it kicks major ass!!) ALL AGAINST AARON!!! [Q] Got any real wars through the years? [B] HA HA HA HA, haaaah, nice!! (ed.Bob means the war be- tween Aaron/FLT and the CENSOR-crew some years ago, CENSOR created an anti-Aaron team, namely All Against Aaron, AAAA...) [Q] Have CENSOR reach it´s top yet? [B] Nope, not yet... Well, again a big thanks to Bob for this great interview, the vic- tim for the coming issue is still a BIG secret, hold on and wait for it... Enduro/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
THE ANTIC SAGA
THE ANTIC SAGA [groupstory] Introduction Page2 The Antic Saga/Depeh Page3 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Finally we´ve got the longawaited story from Depeh, words aren´t enough for you, scenehero! All you others out there who find your group worth to be mentioned in this magazine, send the story to us as soon as possible... REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn Sweden or leave a e-mail to me (Enduro) at one of our boards... Reformation (C) FairLight
THE ANTIC SAGA [Depeh]
Antic was formed by DEPEH,XOR,SPIROU and BOM in may 1990. SPIROU came from ZYROX(sounds like zyron???). DEPEH,XOR & BOM came from CICEN.We also formed a special mag-producing sub-group to antic called THE MOB and we released our first issue of the Explorer Magazine.After some weeks we released our first demo entirely coded by depeh and almost entirely graphixed by depeh too.ETHIC was the first demo from ANTIC!Later on THE MOB changed name to ANTIC.A new DEMO , CRACKING , SWAPPER , BBS group had finaly seen the light. If you are somewhat good at mathematics you can figure out that ANTIC soon is 4 years old... Antic have been or is active in all the things that is possible to do on the c64.Here´s a little presentation of all the different activities we have done or is doing... Demos: Antic is probably most known for all the demos we release.And our coders behind all theese have been few.Most of the code from antic was and is performed by depeh who´s the only coder left in antic.JORDAN also did a few parts(aprox. one for each demo )then we have had coders who just coded 1 or 2 parts for us (with low quality...) worth mentioning can be HCL, TRASH, SKY, BAGZY, & PROBE Our demos have certainly maintained its high standard thanks to the top graphicians we have had during theese years.such as ofcoz our best (and the worlds?) graphician CREEPER!other great gfx- men has been JOE, HCL, STAR, VODKA, PLATON, DEPEH, ANDRE, OZZY, BREEZE, EARTHQUAKE, MAIN FRAME, SKYWIZE, INDY & STRANGER(If i´ve forgot any then sorry.But i´ve lost some memberlists.) We have only had one real musician and he is a real talent,ofcoz it´s ZYRON that i´m talking about.Other guys who have made 1 or 2 tunes is EXALT, HCL, BREEZE, PROBE & TRIDENT. All theese ingredients have probably made us this famous and amongst the 10 best on the charts Cracking: Antic have also been quite active in the cracking scene but is now STRICTLY LEGAL!Our best and most active crackers was EXALT PROBE, SPIROU, JASON and we also managed to reach the top 20 in some crackercharts.But for about a year ago we decided that cracking is KILLING the scene so we dropped our illegal activities and renamed to ANTIC PRODUCTIONS just to avoid confusions with our ILLEGAL past. Phreaking & Modemscene: Some of our members have spent their sparetime calling boards and some still do.We have had a number of great boards sume time ago but nowadays the callers have got fewer and so all our boards are down.Our first board was THE FUTURE ZONE which was put up by spirou(who later joined triad,light and now Fairlight).This base is one of the most known board in scandinavia Other boards have been WAREZ STATION by EXALT and THE SUBWAY by JORDAN which was going pretty well.We have also had a board in the states and it was called SILICON CHAOS.Other boards that more or less was opened at some occations was THE DECADENCE(Beachtiger was co-sysop but since I haven´t heard anything from him for a year then i presume this he left the scene) - THE GOLDEN GNOME (MR Walker(Aint that the Phantom???)) - WONDERLAND(Flood) Our most known Phreakerz during theese years have been : Creeper(People thought that he had a big mouth on the boards when he wasn´t that famous) XOR (He is still active calling the few boards in Sweden around and he has always been calling around as long as he has been in the scene.) TURN PAGE! -->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
THE ANTIC SAGA [Depeh]
Swapping: We have also had (and have) some very active swappers, worht mentioning can be Incubus, Beachtiger, Stormlord, Zyron, Star, Exalt, Dirty C, Xor and so on. Ofcourse other members have also been swapping a bit, but not with more than 20-30 contacts. Party Activities: Since Antic was born we have always showed up on ALL major parties atleast in Sweden and Denmark. Our most faithful party- freaks have been: Creeper, Depeh, Zyron, Exalt, Incubus, Star, Jordan, Probe, Xor. We try to release our demos on party coz it´s very nice to actually experience other people´s reaction about our It´s also gives you a special feeling to see all the great demos on a big screen with super HIFI-Stereos attached to it! Wars: Our only so called WAR was after the LUNDSBRUNN party arranged by a group consisting of farmers only - J.A.M - The population of LUNDSBRUNN(Jams hometown) is below 1500 Farmers(haha).But anyway after this LAME party jam started to accuse Creeper(when he was in FLASH)the he had stolen lots of disks from TJOST(Geos and stuff he said).And we thought - Who the fuck are they to ACCUSE creeper when they had no fucking proof what so ever? A little war was started and everybody wrote shit about JAM in the Swedish boards .And even on partys we made the life a living hell for them.LIGHT,ANTIC,FLASH and FAIRLIGHT was againts their lameasses.But anyway later on we just quit coz we felt sorry for the poor farmer-kids-on-the-JAM (F.K.O.T.J) so we dropped the whole shit... War is lame...Friendship Rulez... Antic Memberlist 14/6 1994: DEPEH: Code,Graphics,Swap,Lead Real Name:Goeran Johansson Born in the year of 1975 - Lives in Skoevde/Sweden CREEPER: Graphics,Code Real Name:Kim Nordstroem Born in the year of 1975 - Lives in Sundbyberg/Sweden ZYRON: Music,Swap,Code Real Name:Johan Aastrand Born in the year of 1973 - Lives in Karlsborg/Sweden XOR: Organizer,Explorer Real Name:Daniel Faernstroem Born in the year of 1975 - Lives in Sundsvall/Sweden INCUBUS: Swap Real Name:Robin Forsberg Born in the year of 1974 - Lives in Soederhamn/Sweden EARTHQUAKE: Graphics,Swap Real Name:Daniel Sczedansky Born in the year of 197? - Lives in Chemnitz/Germany BLACK PRIEST: Explorer,Sysop Real Name:Gerald Weissenstein Born in the year of 1974 - Lives in Hoheneich/Austria EXALT: Swap,Explorer Real Name:Jonas Kjellin Born in the year of 1974 - Lives in Linkoeping/Sweden HARZAK: Graphics,Swap Real Name:Oerjan Larsson Born in the year of 1971 - Lives in Karlsborg/Sweden STORMLORD: MegaSwap Real Name:David Van Dromme Born in the year of 1975 - Lives in Rijmenam/Belgium -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
THE ANTIC SAGA [Depeh]
Demos made by Antic Production: Ethic Juli 1990 Athmosphere August 1990 Lunacy 1 October 1990 Lunacy 2 December 1990 Up The Limits March 1991(Easter HZ party) Lunacy 3 May 1991 Up The Limits 2 July 1991(Our one year demo) Lunacy 4 September 1991 Beyond Imagination November/December 1991 Lunacy 5 March 1992(Easter Light party) Lunacy 7 May 1993(Light party) Beyond Imagination 2 January 1994(Camelot X-mas party) Lunacy 6 (The lost Sequel) July/August 1994 and Hopefully more productions will come... We are still lookking for kewl members,so if you think you are good enough then contact Depeh: Goeran Johansson Fredriksbergsv.47 54162 Skoevde SWEDEN If their is sume demo that you dont have then contact Zyron send $2 or 20 skr or 2 disks for copying cost to: Johan Oestrand Storgatan 38 A 54632 Karlsborg SWEDEN Ok,time to go out in the world and live your life... Depeh/Antic Reformation (C) FairLight
INTO THE INTERNET PART IV
INTO THE INTERNET PART IV Introduction Page2 FidoNet Page3 Internet Access in Sweden Page5 What is FSP? Page6 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
The interest for InterNet has grown very fast, and now, the cha- pter has been splitted into two parts, one with various articles by Watchman and Bacchus, and one with the latest updated user and FTP sites list. We hope you´ll enjoy this chapter, and please, do send own articles, notes or reactions to us, try: Bacchus[]p71.anet.bbs.bad.se Watchman[]ludd.luth.se or REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn SWEDEN Reformation (C) FairLight
FidoNet [Bacchus]
Howdy hackers! The thing we have discussed so far is the InterNet, which is a global network between universities and specially connected sit- es. Mind that this net is run on their own cabels and in real time. You can chat in real time with your pals worldwide, if you have a normal InterNet account. What I intended to discuss is the other networks like FidoNet, AmigaNet, SexNet and lots of others. The other ones are private ones in hierarcic organization. On the top level you have hosts, followed by hubs and nodes. Nodes are the normal boards you can call much like any other board you run. The main difference is that the mail from the node floats up- wards in the organization as well as it spreads downwards. This way, a post you make, spreads around the globe in a few days. These boards do not have an on-line connection with their super- ior, but they call a few times a day (that is very mush up to the sysop I guess) to leave and collect mail in compressed "packages". Your node sysop decides what areas to subscribe to from the hubs he fetches data from. So there is no need to get ALL the data written worldwide. For a normal node the telephone costs are not that high, as the compressed packages only takes a few minutes to pass on and fetch, but still the system is built on systems calling from the bottom sharing the data. Only the hosts have to share the data cross country. FidoNet is the biggest independent system, created in 1984 by Tom Jennings and along with John Madwil he constructed a mailing system. The system was named after Tom´s dog, Fido. The number of connected BBS:es are estimated to 27000, with an uncountable number of areas. Most of them are local ones, echoed in only the religion or the country, but some are international ones, with which you can reach the world! The Fido adress is interpreted this way: 2:201/411 The first 2 (before the colon) is the ZoneNumber, in this case Eu- rope. The next part is the net number, where 20 is Sweden and the succeeding 1 means it´s Stockholm. The 411 in the example is the nodenumber. The node in this case is the board ANet in Stockholm. There is also another optional sublevel called poins: 2:201/411.71 Here the node number is succeeded by a point (hence the name) and a pointnumber, in this case my pointnumber; 71! A point is a "slave board" to a node. In this releationship the node is called "boss". As often as you like you can ask the point to call the boss and fetch new mail. Then you have a mailtosser, i.e a program that depacks the packages and lets you reply them and everything off-line, saving you a good deal of phonebill-money. It then packs the text for you in the format your boss wants them, and then you exchange the texts for the new ones the next time you call. It is very much like a highly complex off-line reader. -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->--> Reformation (C) FairLight
FidoNet [Bacchus]
A lot of boards have several networks that they are connected to. ANet, for example features both AmigaNet and BadNet as well as Fido. Through BadNet I can also access InterNet, as it features a gateway to InterNet. I´d like to clear out some of the mess Mason/ MOTIV 8 made trying to explain this in PULSE-march issue: A gateway is here some kind of interface between the two systems. They don´t have the same data packages and so on, so these are converted and then able to pass messages transparently to and from the two system. As you well understand, there is no possibility to do the features of InterNet, but the ability to mail most students worldwide is just something special! To mail from Fido to InterNet you just adress the post to the gateway. I send my letters to "InterNet Gateway" at 92:901/1.0. This is the process in the host system that understands that the post is intended for the InterNet, as there is no physical user with this name. You can name the errand anything you like, just if you keep in mind that the letter text itself must start with the words "to:" followed by the E-mail adress you wish to mail; f.ex "To: Grendel[]freenet.hut.fi" if you want to mail the old stud Grendel of Byterapers. I hope this clears the mess in The Pulse Magazine! To mail me and my point, do pass letters to: Bacchus[]p71.anet.bbs.bad.se Bacchus/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
Internet Access in Sweden[Watchman]
InterNet access in Sweden is primarily gained in much the same way as in all other countries, (except Senegal I guess). The easiest and cheapest way is if you attend a school that have a connection to some sort of network with gateways to larger networks. Two such networks in Sweden are SWENET and NORDUNET, the lat- ter connect schools in Scandinavia. Since these networks have bridges to InterNet, you can usually send and receive e-mail from persons and services on InterNet. If your school have a real hook- up then it´s even easier, you just continue to the next step, to get an account. If you are a student at a highschool that have access like above, the most students can get an account simply by asking the sysop. If you are going to an University and are taking Computer related courses you usually get an account automatically. If you don´t take such courses you might be able to get an account anyway. Talk to your councellor and tell him/her that you believe it will help you broaden your views by getting in contact with other students, or something else that sounds like a good reason. This will hopefully do the trick. But what if you DON´T attend a school, or a school without an access? Well, in most larger cities there are BBS bases that you can gain access to the beloved network. This is not a free solu- tion, but could cut your telebill anyway. I´m certain that there are direct access numbers to InterNet like the ones in Germany I wrote about in the last issue. One access in Sweden and most other counties are COMPU- SERVE. This very large network has become a network that sits on the bigger InterNet too, and you can get all services normally available on InterNet via Compuserve too... and Compuserve have some to offer too! It´s expensive but if you are a user of it al- ready, then don´t hesitate to use InterNet too. Here´s two boards in the area of Stockholm that gives the user access to InterNet via gateways: SITENAME: ANet SITENUMBER: 08-59 14 00 72 USERMODES: Terminal, Point GATEWAYS: Fidonet,BadNet,AmigaNet BAUDRATES: 300-16800 CHARGE: Free SITENAME: Prime Time SITENUMBER: 08-25 00 29 USERMODES: Terminal, Point GATEWAYS: Fidonet m.m. BAUDRATES: ??? CHARGE: Free Watchman/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
What is FSP? [Watchman]
FSP is a program that lets you send and receive files at to and from specific directories. This means that you can access a certain file that belongs to a user somewhere in network. This is used for transfer of files that, for some reason, isn´t very popular to have available at a public FTP site. Fsp is also used when the site can´t deliver the power needed to sustain the bandwidth that FTP needs. The fsp address is made up of two figures: the IP address and the PORT number. You access the directory by issuing the fsp <IP address><PORT number> command. Most systmes doesn´t have the fsp program available as a command and you will there- for get a copy of the program from an ftp site or so. The address to an fsp site might be hard to get and are treated a bit like call- ing card numbers. One reason for this is that some of these sites carry commersial stuff and when the sysop finds out, the site is shut down, so a site might not last very long. Enough about that, let´s perform a fsp session instead! jota21:/u2/d91/jsn/ftp>fsp 130.161.144.125 5300 Comment: This is the command call with the IP number and PORT address. Id.so:warning:/usr/lib/libc.so.1.7 has older revision than expected 8. Shell command failed: No such file or directory Comment: This is a standard ERROR message that you get when accessing an FSP site, funny isn´t it? fsp>dir total 260 drwxrrwwrwx 2 nobody 5632 Mar 17 16:16 Bunny drwxrrwwrwx 2 nobody 512 Nov 30 14:17 Bunsi.t.Sun drwxrrwwrwx 2 nobody 2048 Mar 9 14:41 Paulina drwxrrwwrwx 2 nobody 512 Mar 9 14:41 Savanna Comment: Here are the directories in standard UNIX fashion, the ´d´ means directory. fsp>cd savanna directory´/savanna´ owner:no delete:no add:no mkdir:no read:yes Comment: O.k we change directory to the ´savanna´ directory. fsp>dir total 365 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 65171 Aug 2 1993 Savanna2.jpeg -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 43427 Aug 2 1993 Savanna1.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 38205 Aug 2 1993 Savanna2.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 60998 Aug 2 1993 Savanna3.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 57866 Aug 2 1993 Savanna4.jpg -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody 40059 Aug 2 1993 Savanna5.jpg Comment: This is the contens of the directory ´savanna´. As you might notice it contains several jpeg pictures. fsp>get savanna 2.jpg Comment Let´s get the picture ´savanna2.jpg´. downloading ´savanna2.jpg´ (38205 bytes) ######## done 38205 bytes in 20.6 seconds (1.81K/sec) cummulative round trip time = 491.6 msec; 47/100 packets (47 %) current round trip time = 480.8 msec; 47/100 packets (47 %) Comment: The file is transmitted to our home directory. The ´#´ sign just shows that the transfer is in progress fsp>quit Comment: We end the session. You can always type ´help´ within the fsp system to get a list of the commands available and a description of to use´em! Watchman/FLT
USER & FTP LIST OF JULY
USER & FTP LISTS (july) [internet] Introduction Page 2 The List of Users Page 3 FTP sites for C-64 Page 4 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Here you got the latest upgraded list´s of Internet users and FTP sites containing software and programs specific to the C64 and 128 computers. We will try to keep this list as current and accurate as possible, so that it can be useful resource for users of the newsgroup. PLEASE cooperate and send E-mail to us with any corrections and updates. If a site has closed or no longer carries CBM soft- ware, let us know and it´ll be deleated. If you uncover a site not listen, it´ll be added on the next list. Send all info regarding changes/additions/corrections to: 1.77560.3467[]CompuServe.COM 2.H.herman1[]GEnie.geis.COM 3.Bacchus[]p71.anet.bbs.bad.se c/o Pontus Berg Sveav. 88, 5tr 113 59 Stockholm SWEDEN or leave an E-mail on our boards... Reformation (C) FairLight
The List of Users/July [Watchman]
Number of users: 70 (6 new) (*) - new user on list (+) - last time on list [] - replace with an alfa-zero sign Euro Scene Cracking/Demo Groups: Tonyc[]compnews.co.uk Chief/Padua Poing[]cs.tu-berlin.de Ano/Padua Schuetz[]wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at Antitrack/F4CG Jsitone[]niksula.hut.fi Mercenary/Extend T93047[]mail.vitech.fi D´Arc/Topaz Anvil[]modeemi.cs.tut.fi Anvil/Topaz Patrics[]htsa.aha.nl Trax/TRC Unix4[]titan.hts.hsa.nl CBA/TRC Hazor[]niksula.hut.fi Hazor/Beyond Force Mheiskan[]snakemail.hut.fi Solomon/Beyond Force Matronka[]polaris.cc.utu.fi Sage/Beyond Force Vanhanen[]snakemail.hut.fi Boss/Beyond Force Icverhoe[]cs.ruu.nl Mirage/Focus V922530[]si.hhs.nl TDJ/Focus Db129[]oliven.bih.no Joe/Maniax Stiang[]brosme.dhmolde.no Mr.Fantasy/Maniax Pontus Berg[]anet.bbs.bad.se Bacchus/FLT Adrian-t[]dsv.su.se The Alchemist/FLT Watchman[]ludd.luth.se Watchman/FLT Magnus.Nyman[]kal.data.telia.se Harlekin/FLT (*) P4tb18[]park1.park.se Tron/FLT (*) Gardner[]ist.flinders.edu.au Highlander/FLT (*) Ecvamero[]cs.vu.nl Burglar/Success D3daniel[]dtek.chalmers.se Matrix/Zone45 Larshaug[]ifi.uio.no Challenger/Offence Evens[]ifi.uio.no Cycleburner/Megastyle Rune[]lizard.uio.no Rune/x-Hoaxers Goldt[]wronski.math.TU-Berlin.de Cruncher/Trance Tunkelo[]cc.helsinki.fi Rockstar/Talent Tonyv[]proxxi.uf.se Motley/G*P Pasi.venalainen[]lut.fi BX/Origo Trpeki[]uta.fi Destino/Origo Greyrat[]cs.tu-berlin.de Greyrat/Lower Level Olegr[]stud.unit.no Sauron/x-Illusion Michels[]stack.urc.tue.nl Jesus/Silicon t44[]aarhues.dk Mason/Motiv 8 (*) US Scene groups: Wolfgang[]halcyon.com Wolfgang/Second Dimension Evelynh[]delphi.com The Shadow/HWA Massive[]lakes.trenton.sc.us M.O/x-Legend Mcbride[]cs.arizona.edu The Wiz/Expose/Style Akersse[]adrienne.cs.rose-h.edu Elwix/Style St92kgmr[]dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu Wraith/RPG U081s105[]astro.ocis.temple.edu Fubar/RPG Daver[]tfs.com Pol POT/Holiday Inn C. BBS Af666[]freenet.hsc.colorado.edu Intruder/Empire Gpage[]nyx.cs.du.edu Rundy/x-POD Mhillmer[]eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu Rad Man/TSM Grizzly[]eskimo.com Moloch/Armageddon Icebrkr[]eskimo.com IceBreaker/Armageddon/BDS Utukuri[]ecf.toronto.edu Blackice/Eclipse Aussie mates: S9332166[]valiant.vut.edu.au Stomper/TSR Dppoon[]acacia.uts.edu.au Giorgio Armani/TSR C9326542[]frey.newcastle.edu.au Neptune/TSR Greg.harper[]f307.n713.fido.z.au Logic/TSR C9349375[]cc.uow.edu.au Z/The Force Phillips[]ee.uwa.edu.au Christopher Jam Some useful euro C-64 dudes: Msmakela[]cc.helsinki.fi Marko Makela (HW dude) Capessd[]vax.sbu.ac.uk Sean Capes (Game Writer) Some useful US dudes: Rknop[]ccosun.caltech.edu R.Knop (FTP site) Duck[]pembvax1.pembroke.edu Craig Taylor (C-Hacking) Lueck[]power.amasd.anatcp.rw.com Coolhand Cliff[]cfa.harvard.edu Cliff, Author Cuckuu Egg Waveform[]eskimo.com 64 dudez (BDS) -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->TURN PAGE!!! Reformation (C) FairLight
The List of FTP´s/July [Bacchus]
Dudes who have left the C64-scene: Olle[]plasma.apana.org.au Orlorin/Dominators D89-ovj[]alv.nada.kth.se Euzkera/Censor T910529[]asterix.fi.upm.es BlackHole/Blasters+TRC Scroprion[]phoenix.oulu.fi Scorpion/Contex Ssa[]uwasa[]fi TMB/Extasy Others: President[]whitehouse.gov Bill Clinton (*) ADMCB[]hhs.se Carl Bildt (*) FTP sites with C-64 stuff: FTP number last updated --- ------- --------- Sol.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.17) 4 feb 1994 Uceng.uc.edu (129.137.33.1) 4 sep 1993 Aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de (134.95.80.1) 18 feb 1994 Ftp.csv.warwick.as.uk (137.205.192.5) 18 jan 1994 Clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk (137.205.192.6) 27 sep 1993 Nexus.yorku.ca (130.63.9.66) 21 dec 1993 Rigel.acs.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117) 3 sep 1993 Oak.oakland.edu 18 dec 1993 Src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1) 18 feb 1994 Tupac.amaru.info.rwth.a.de (137.226.112.31) 7 oct 1992 Wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) 9 feb 1994 Watsun.cc.columbia.edu (128.59.39.2) 8 sep 1993 Cs.colombia.edu (128.59.1.2) 12 sep 1993 Plaza.aarnet.edu.au (139.130.4.6) 28 dec 1993 Flubber.cs.umd.edu (128.8.128.99) 3 jan 1994 F.ms.uky.edu (128.163.128.6) 28 dec 1993 Ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) 22 mar 1993 Nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40) 31 aug 1993 Gmdzi.gmd.de (129.26.8.90) 1 aug 1993 Micros.hensa.ac.uk (148.88.8.84) 11 nov 1993 Wilbur.stanford.edu (36.14.0.36) 30 jun 1993 Syrinx.umd.edu (128.8.2.114) 28 dec 1993 Tolsun.oulu.fi (130.231.96.16) 6 sep 1993 Ccosun.caltech.edu (131.215.139.2) 31 jan 1994 Ucsd.edu (128.54.16.1) 6 sep 1993 For FTP sites where you will find C64 and/or Vic-20 emulators that run on Amiga, and/or IBMPC, Atari-ST, or Unix/X, please see The CBM Emulation FAQ maintained by Peter Weighill - (stuce[]csv.warwick.ac.uk) and posted yo the newsgroup, comp. sys.cbm. Bacchus/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
ABSOLUTE MOVIE ZONE
Absolute Movie Zone [movies] Introduction Page2 Movies in Summer Page3 The Summer List Page4 New James Bond Page5 Competition Page6 Reformation (C) FairLight
Introduction
Welcome to,one of the very few worth to read,the moviechapter! Most text is supported by Surfer/ACTIVE, two 75´es to you pal, and the Bond-Text is from United International Pictures V.I.P letters! (ed.hmm, I´m into a register there I think, don´t know why?!) If you have some super-ideas or cool contacts in the movie scene, why don´t send us a letter, this chapter is even better than the movie-magazine Frontpage/SCS+TRC I think, cool!! Send stuff to: REFORMATION HQ Veteg 10 272 37 Simrishamn SWEDEN or leave an e-mail to me (Enduro) at one of our boards! Reformation (C) FairLight
Movies in Summer [Surfer]
This is Surfer of the not dead at all group ACTIVE. I´m here to give you some hints about what to waste your money and time on this summer, that is besides cheap beer and women. As a lot of you know I work at a American film company, so I get to see ALL the latest movies one to three month before the U.S release. That means, video pirates.. kneel! This summer is pretty alright, when it comes to films, could have been some more action movies though, and less comedys. But who am I to complain? The BIG action movie this summer is Speed with Kenau Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper as a mad bomber. It knocked Flintstones off the first position on the U.S chart and made about 38 million dollars in three weeks, which is pretty alright. It´s estimated to make over 100 millions... The Flintstones, the hugh family adventure, is doing extremly well, opened with 30 millions dollars on ONE weekend, but what´s expect with Spielberg. Halle Berry is just too sexy for my C64!? Eddie Murphy is back with Beverly Hills Cop III, and with him you´ll find the usual guys plus the majorly homosexual Serge from the first movie. The guy playing Serge got 375.000 dollars for one days work on the set. Jack Nicolson is supposed to frieghten Micelle Phieffer in Wolf, but the movie is more drama than scary. It´s very simular to Dra- cula, but worse. The western genere is back and you can find lotta-westerns this year, unfortunately noone of´em is any major entertainment success. Although Tombstone, that´s already went up in Europe, made a lot of money. Mel Gibson is back with Maverick, a western-action-comedy with alot of cardplaying. This movie is pretty enjoyable, I still think so even though my date on the opening premiere ditched sort´a! Creator of Dragons Lair and Space Ace, Don Bluth, is back on the movies eith a children story, for small girls (a pederast dream loc- ation), called Thumbelina. I haven´t seen this one and I suppose I ain´t gonna do it either. I could judge this movies, but I won´t coz I hate when people re- view stuff (ed.S-Nes and so on??), the so called taste is so dif- ferent. Especially on movies that is. Still I recomend Speed, it´s a darn good action all the time and it´s also Sandra Bullock... Surfer/Active Reformation (C) FairLight
The Summer List [Enduro]
Maverick [action/comedy] Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster 1.july Bad Girls [action] Drew Barrymore m.m 8.july Guarding Tess [drama] Shirley MacL., Nich Cage july Naked Gun 33 1/3 [comedy] Leslie Nielsen, A-N Smith 22.july Stockholm Maraton [thriller] Goesta Ekman m.m. 1.aug Natural Born Killers [thriller] Juliette Lewis m.m august Wolf [thriller] Jach Nicolson m.m august Speed [action] Kenau Reves m.m august The Client [thriller] Tommy Lee Jones m.m mid.aug The Flintstones [comedy] John Goodman m.m 19.aug I Love Trouble [drama] Julia Roberts,Nick Nolte 26.aug Beverly Hills Cop 3 [action] Eddie Murphy m.m 3.sept Brandon + Kelly = Very True!!!
New James Bond [Enduro]
My name is Brosnan Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan is the new James Bond. This was told under big secrecy, the 8 of June. He´ll be the role as Ian Flemmings 007 in the 17th Bondmovie "Goldeneye"! Pierce Brosnan is from Country Meath on Irland and maybe most known to the public from the serie "Remmington Steele". Last time he was on movie, he was playing Robin Williams rival in Welcome Mrs.Doubtfire, but he has also acted in movies like The Fourth Protocol and Love Affair. Goldeneye will be played in our new political-climate, were former enemies been best friends and old mates become deadly enemies... The play start in october this year and the team will re- cord the movie both in the new Russia and on the Caarabean Islands. Producers are Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Brocoli. Barbara Brocoli is the daughter to the legend Albert R. "Cubby" Brocoli was says following about the new Bond: - "Pierce Brosnan is a acter I loved for a long time. He´ll be an excellent Bond!" The premiere of Goldeneye is set to the summer´95! Enduro/FLT Reformation (C) FairLight
Competition [Surfer]
Wanna be a proud owner of SPEED T-Shirts and Caps??? Then just read the following simple question and write the an- swer on the vote-sheet or an a paper and send it to us before the 15th of AUGUST!! QUESTION: The Baywatch-babe ERICA ELENIAK been in two number one US-chart movies, which? 1.Beverly HillBillies Under Siege 2.Under Siege Demolition Man 3.Maverick Beach Bunnies All prizes are donated by ACTIVE (Surfer) and don´t forget, we want your answer before the 15th of August this year!! GOOD LUCK! Reformation (C) FairLight