Preview
1.. Guide to Sentinel
3.. The FIRST Issue
5.. Contact Addresses
6.. Nemesis the Warlock
9.. The Magic of FX
11.. Adventures of J.Worth
13.. Horror of Clive Barker
15.. Chester of Brainstorm
19.. The Team Magazines
22.. Reaktor Interview
26.. Turbo Laming Horror
30.. Sun Connection
33.. Behind the Masks
35.. Qualifying for the P.A.
36.. Bustman of Crusaders
40.. Very Advanced Coding
43.. Magnetic Fields
46.. High Quality Jokes
50.. Advertisements..
57.. End of the Universe
Wanna print page ( Y/N ) ?
Couldn't find the fuckin'
parallel.device. Either
somebody stole it or I'm
out of fuckin' memory...
Hit the fuckin' SPACE..
QUALIFYING FOR
POLICE ACADEMY
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QUALIFYING FOR POLICE ACADEMY
As you might know, the work of the police is among the hardest and
the most demanding professions of all. The work requires high
intelligence, skill, knowledge of human psychology and everything
that is needed to handle people in difficult situations.
Of course, not everyone can be a police. The qualification
examinations at the police academy are planned to allow only
best applicants the possibility to train themselves before
they start the hardest work of all, the work of a law enforce-
ment officer. To give you a picture how hard these exams
can be, we have included parts of the test here.
PO-LI-CE ACA-DE-MY QUA-LI-FYING EXAMS
WRITTEN PART.
When answering the questions, use only black or blue crayons.
Don't mess up the paper.
MATHEMATICS ENGLISH
How much is 1? Find out a word that
begins with a letter.
Practical part:
1. Try to walk and eat
chewing gum at the same time.
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THE SENTINEL
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in the streets. People are
stopped,questions are asked..)
- Hi! Do you think there are
too many disk magazines?
- Definitely! Just too many!
And too many lame ones!
- I see... Hello, you there!
Yes, you! Do you think there
are too many disk mags??
- Well...I..Err.. I guess so..
- Thank you... How about you?
Are there too many mags?
- Oh yes! I think everybody who
starts a new mag should be
shot!!
- Shot? Gulp...Hey Mr. Mad,let's
quit this gallup.. I think
nobody wants a new diskmag...
- Hell. And we've got Sentinel
almost ready...
.
- Yeah but I don't want to die..
- Don't be such a coward, let's
just release it!
- Ok, ok, but I don't think it's
a good idea...
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pictures too? Hmm... lets see..
void
DumpRPort (request, rastPort, col,
modes, sx, sy, sw ,sh, dc, dr, s)
union printerIO *request;
struct RastPort *rastPort;
struct ColorMap *colorMap;
ULONG modes;
UWORD sx, sy, sw, sh;
Hmmmmhhhh..... maybe in next issue
you can print 'em pictures... But
.
as the coder of this mag is lazy
and not very good at coding,
you'll just have to wait...
EDITORS
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Dr. Lizard
Doc Death
Mr. Mad
Warlock
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CLIVE
BARKER
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THE HORROR WRITER OF OUR TIME
"Barker gets us others look out
like we have been sleeping for
last ten years... He is even
better than I am now."
That's what famous horror writer
Stephen King has said about Clive
Barker. Also other writers, such
as Ramsy Campbell, James Herbert
and Peter Straub, have praised
Barker.Barker's stories are full
of horror and imagination. He
isn't content with the normal
monsters, but he developes new
kinds of evil things, monsters
and evil forces. In the age of
30, Clive Barker wrote series of
'Books Of Blood' and he also drew
covers to those. In those books
there's lots of Barker's short
stories. 'In the Hills, the
-
Cities', there's a fight between
two cities. Both of the cities
make up a giant from the people
of their city and go to the hills
to fight. Another good example
is from the same Barker's book:
'Books of Blood volume 1', 'The
Midnight Meat Train', where a
butcher kills people in the
subway to feed Gods of the City.
Barker is specially good writing
short novels. Other writers
would stretch stories and make
those longer books. Barker's
first long book after 'Books of
Blood'-serie is 'The Damnation
game' and it's much like 'Books
of Blood'-serie. Barker has also
written other books: Weaveworld,
Cabal, The Great and Secret Show.
CLIVE
BARKER
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Clive Barker's stories has been
published also as comics. Stories
are drawn by John Bolton and the
every picture in comics are like
paintings. Tapping The Vein,
Hellraiser and Nightbreed are the
names of the Barker's comics.
Like Stephen King, Clive Barker
has also made movies. He has
written and also directed such
movies as Hellraiser and
Nightbreed. Rawhead Rex and
Hellraiser II: Hellbound are
also from Barker's pen, but they
aren't as good as Hellraiser and
Nightbreed, because he hasn't
directed them.
Hellraiser shows you the
nailheaded cenobite and a magical
puzzle box, which opens doors to
hell. "Yell your lungs out and
-
remember:there's barf bags behind
you", said Barker at the opening
evening of Hellraiser.
Clive Barker has said:"I`ve never
had a horrible experience in my
life. When I was in mortuary one
and a half day,it was DELIGHTFUL.
Maybe that's why I write this
stuff - to really scare me up."
"I have such sights to show
you..." (From Hellraiser)
Thanks to finnish horror
comic 'Kalma' for information
Doc Death of Dictators Finland
FIRST
ISSUE
Yo yo yo yo yo!!!
This is the first
issue so everything
is more or less out
of order! As you
see, we have less
than 60 pages of
stuff! News? NEWS?
Well... I HAD some
news.. But as I was
walking home from
the local "Death to
the MS-DOS users"
meeting , suddenly
these 25 ninja
assassins attacked
me...Arrgghhhhhhhh!
(got a scratch in my little-
finger...) Hell, where did those
25 bloody corpses come from?
Sorry pals,but you should know that
I get angry easily..
Actually,we had the news but as mag took
some time to make they got old and were
dumped. Megamega thanks
to Chester for sending
us our first news..
Thanks must also go to
everyone who has sent
us articles or other
material ! Thanks, and
keep on going ! Then a
message to all readers:
If you would like to
see your own material
published in this mag,
send it to addresses
following this page !
And now..
Time for the articles!
SENTINEL CONTENTS
RETURN
TO
SELECT
BUSTMAN OF
CRUSADERS
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CRUSADERS
Interview conducted by BARRAX
Hi Bustman! Could you please tell
our readers something about you?
Well, I am a normally freaky guy
at the age of 17. As you all have
guessed I am a brisk member of
the group Crusaders, as a
graphics artist. Additionally I
am a swapper...trading with a few
folks around the globe.
How many contacts do you have?
Actually, what a question! I do
not think the main purpose of
swapping is to have as many
contacts as possible. I swap
more for the sake of friendship,
even if I have some hi &
bye-contacts. Ok, I have about
40-50 contacts. And that is the
lot.
-
In what groups have you been?
I have been in and out of quite a
lot of unknown groups.Before I
joined Crusaders, I was a member
of a group called Errors.They
were nearly dead, so I left them.
Nothing to make a story about.
Your hardware?
As everybody else I own an A500.
besides I have a 1084S monitor
and 512K expansion RAM.Not much,
but enough really.Oh, and not to
mention all my destroyed
joysticks, plus all my nearly
destroyed disks...
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CRUSADERS
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Name your favourites.
I still like Red Sector Inc. my
favourite demo must be the
amusing Budbrain megademo. It
really got me laughing! I think
our two own musicians, Dr.Awesome
and Fleshbrain, are some of the
best around.Especially Fleshbrain
But there are of course other
good ones like Romeo Knight/Red
Sector Inc., Uncle Tom/Razor 1911
and Walkman/Cryptoburners.
Your plans for 1991?
Hmm, difficult to say. I will
never stop drawing graphics...so
I hope I will get a lot of things
to do the next few years.But it
is still a long time before 1990
takes farewell.who knows what the
next year will bring? I do not
know..that is for sure.
-
When was Crusaders founded?
Our group was found back in 1988,
around christmas time.at that
time Crusaders consisted of ten
members, Dr.Awesome, Switchblade,
Copper, Zuggly, Bravestarr,
Lazerbrain, Swapperboy, El Cubo,
Dr.Outtasight, Dr.Claw. They had
all been members of different
groups like Iff, Abnormal and
Jetboys. Why Crusaders was
found? Well, probably to have
lot of fun...
Are you planning to buy a modem
or do you already have one?
Yes, I will maybe buy a modem
within half a year or so. But I
do not think I will use it a lot,
I can hardly afford mail-swapping
these days... And I will have to
BUSTMAN OF
CRUSADERS
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think more about school now than
I did before. You know, school
costs money too! Anyway, we have
already got a lot of modems in
Crusaders. You must for sure
know about our boards, we have
even got one in the States.
Who's idea was it to start making
the Eurochart?
It was originally Dr.Awesome and
El Cubo who got this splendid
idea about making a top-ten chart
that everybody could take part
in. As the idea about Eurochart
got to be a reality, we all
helped with different bits and
parts.
What is your opinion about lamers?
Actually, I do not have much
against lamers. As long as they
-
do not bother me, just fine. But
when they start sending me disks
with a lot of nasty stuff and
still wonder why I have not
answered them, then I do not like
lamers. But we seem to forget
the fact that we all have been a
lamer back in the past. So as
long as they keep away from me,
they are ok.
Usual question: What do you think
about the friendship movement?
Strange, but I do not know much
about this movement really. I
have seen some of the products
released under this movement, and
they are OK.I think I swap with a
few groups in that movement too.
BUSTMAN OF
CRUSADERS
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At the end of this interview, is
there anything you want to say?
Yes, there is in fact a few
things I would like to say. First
of all I want to thank for this
nice interview, I have answered
your questions exclusively for
your magazine! Secondly I want
to burst out a hello to all my
friends living on this planet.
And finally a request to all you
people reading!
Vote for the official Eurochart
top-ten! All votes can be sent
to this address...
Crusaders
Postbox 45
1474 Nordbyhagen
Norway
-
Or contact me personally,also
for swapping graphics and
such stuff:
Bustman/Crusaders
Myrdalskogen 379
5095 Ulset
Norway
DRUGS IN THE SCENE
Smack Crack Coke aamuun alkavaan...
Smack Crack Coke auttaa jaksamaan...
MAGNETIC
FIELDS
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FRAP OF
MAGNETIC FIELDS
- Hello everyone! This is Frap
of Magnetic Fields and I am the
dedicated demofreak of this group
which I supply the rest of MF
with the V. Latest demos
(worldwide), before the next saga
of questions I am 17 years old.
How many contacts do you
have at the moment?
- At this very moment I have
around 60 groovy and cool
contacts which at least 50 of 'em
are European dudes! The reason
that I mostly swap with groups
abroad is that demofreaks must
only swap with european groups in
order to grab every demo.
-
When was the M.F. founded?
-Magnetic Fields was formed about
1 and a half years ago when two
groups thought about the idea of
a merge. The two groups consisted
of a group I belonged to which
was called Sub-Zero (remember the
C64 group) and another group
called Nitro A.C. At first there
was a co-operation for some time
between us and we thought how
about a new group (yeah!). We all
said OK and Magnetic Fields was
formed among us all.
What was your first release?
The first release of Magnetic
Fields was a small intro which
had Garfield music.But our first
proper demo was the cool
vectorbobs, but always look out
for more productions coming real
soon.
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FIELDS
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What are the aims and future
projects of M. Fields?
Our future aims is just to be a
well organized group and keep in
touch with all our dedicated
friends in this scene of Amiga-
warez, while keep releasing new
productions.
Thy hardware?
Our hardware isn't anything
special except the usual bit's
with 5.25 drives etc.
How many members M.F. has?
At the moment we have 15 members,
as recently we have kicked out
our modemtrader called Opal for
bullshitting, but anyone
interested in joining please
contact me at the end of this
interview (only coders,musicians)
-
Your favorites?
-My all time favourite demo is
the RSI megademo and the CeBit 90
demo, but also the BudBrain's m.
demo is cool as well. My
favourite musicians are Romeo
Knight, Uncle Tom, Einstein. My
favourite graphician is
Joe/Scoopex and drink has got to
be cor porahan pop (water)
What would you want if
you had three wishes?
If I had three wishes my choices
would be:
1st wish: I had Kim Basinger on
a desert island for
eternity. ( life )
2nd wish: I wouldn't have to
look at X-Copy again
but still copy discs.
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FIELDS
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3rd wish: All Atari ST owners
were blasted to bits
by all Amiga-owners.
What do you think about the
Friendship-label ?
I think it is a cool idea that
everyone stays friends as a lot
of hatred goes on with groups
thinking they are better than
each other as everyone
contributes to the scene not just
one group.I was thinking that
there should be a place every
year that all groups attend where
a huge copy-party should be held
instead of various parties, there
should be a party such as
Friendship Conference 90 in
Sweden or other country easy to
get to for all groups (worldwide)
and meet up. Just think all the
well known groups meeting up once
a year and talking all their
-
latest wares and release a few
productions it would be be the
best-ever party with at least
200-300 demos being released.
(Think about it everyone it could
be done if everyone contributes).
11.name some of your hobbies
besides computing!
My other hobbies besides
computing is playing snooker,
tennis and just the usual bit's
"staying alive!" having lots of
fun.
Thank you everyone who has read
this and sorry it has been so
boring!!! Please look out for
further releases and I hope you
like our latest product called
"Zarjaz" demo which is a really
freaky demo. If anyone is
interested in contacting me for
the latest wares look in the
advertisements.
LAME
HORROR
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TURBO LAMERS
Well this happened to a very good
friend of mine a couple of months
ago.He lived in the city of Xxxx,
and belonged to a crew which in
1989 was one the best but now has
been quiet for a long time. My
friend used to code a lot and in
in some cases swap too. He was
well known in his hometown,having
won a demo-competition in a local
copy-party.
Then one warm Thursday in May his
doorbell rang and totally strange
guy stood behind the door holding
a plastic bag full of disks.
- Hello, the stranger said.
- I've heard that you're a very
cool coder and and you also
swap! That's so ...cool!
-
- Er..do you belong to any team
I know?, my friend asked.
- Well, not really, but that's
'cos I just bought my Amiga,
but I've sent an application
for membership to at least 20
teams! I should get an answer
in just a couple of days!!!
- ..sure,sure. What do you want
from me?
- I'd like to copy some stuff,
if you please, the visitor
said and waved his bag of 120
disks with a satanic glare in his
eyes.
Maybe the flattering that the
stranger used had some effect
because my friend let the lamer
in and allowed to copy the newest
stuff. After a couple of hours
the visitor left with dozens of
filled disks and a happy smile.
LAME
HORROR
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- Thanks a lot, this is really
great stuff, thank you... the
stranger mumbled while leaving.
"Well... made another new Amiga-
owner happy", thought my friend
and felt more or less satisfied
helping a beginner.
Next afternoon the yesterdays'
visitor was again on the door
with a full of disks. But this
time he had brought a friend with
him ; a second lamer who stood on
the doorstep - with a box full of
disks.
The first lamer looked more
confident and sure of himself
than he had been on Thursday. He
told that he had founded a new
team with the another guy. The
team's name was 'Ultra Pampers'
and they would concentrate to
swapping in the beginning, but as
-
the second lamer said: "A mega-
demo is on the pipeline! By the
way,how can I make a copperlist?"
My friend sighed, thinking that
beginners should be helped and
let the visitors in. After a few
hours of X-Copying, the lamers
left and he felt that he had done
the right thing.
On Saturday my friend was
lying on his bed with a little
hangover to get rid of, while he
heard the doorbell ringing. "Who
the fuck disturbs decent people
on Saturday mornings", he thought
and discovered four members of
Ultra Pampers behind the door.
Both of the Friday's visitors had
recruited a new member, and now
the new members would like to
copy "a couple of disks", as they
LAME
HORROR
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said waving their king-size disk-
boxes.
- Hey guys, why don't you come
back tomorrow, I don't feel
very good right now...
But then he saw the lamers' faces
go sad and decided to let the
poor bastards in. The "Pamperses"
spent their time shouting and
copyng and breaking the furniture
so that my friend was very glad
to get rid of them.
Then on Sunday... eight creeps
had invaded his house and he was
having trouble finding a polite
way to kick the bastards out. On
Monday he regreted his politeness
as 16 "cool guys" stood on the
porch. "Yo man its a COPY-PARTY!"
They had brought with them their
Amigas,diskdrives, modems,mothers
and dogs. With the modems they
recruited during the party new
people so that on the second day
-
of the party Ultra Pampers had 32
members...
After the copyparty my friend
had three very quiet and nice
days, but even then he felt that
he would hear from them again,
and a cold feeling crept in his
spines.
On Saturday he woke up in a
terrible noise. He looked thru
his window to a nearby football-
field where masses of people were
gathered together. ..512 of them.
My friend escaped from his house.
As he ran away he saw the 512
lamers walking towards his door.
And all of them had king-size
diskboxes...
Lamer
Later events could be read from the news-
papers as more and more lamers invaded
his hometown.
Next Friday 32768 creeps arrived filling
all hotels, motels and camping areas,and
no end for this could be seen.After four
days 524288 visitors were ruining the
economy of the country, leaving behind
ruins and burned land.Well, as this isnt
a horror mag, I'll skip
the part with 4294967296
lamers ... In the end my
friend sat in his cold
and dark hotelroom, won-
dering how things would
be if he had just shot
the first lamer in the
beginning...
Moral: KILL LAMERS!
HIGH LEVEL
CODING
40
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VERY ADVANCED CODING
or how to do a CLI-menupack!!!!!!
Hi fans! I bet that many of ya have wondered how to code
a cool CLI-menupack! But I gotta tell ya now that this isn't the
easiest thing in the world. Indeed it requires time, concentration
and skill from ya. But we in
Ultra Pampers
do CLI-packs
almost every month, as we are very good & cool coders. Our coding
specialist
MR. CODE
will now tell ya how to create a very
cool cli-pack.
... hi fans! This is Mr. Code online!!! First of all I must tell
ya that you will need some advanced utility-programs when coding a
cli-menupack.If you don't happen to own all the following progs, you
can mail-order them from us at a considerable price of
$9.95!!!
Here's a list of the important utilities:
Ed,
Type,
Border,
Diskmaster
Setkey.
HIGH LEVEL
CODING
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Now lets talk business.Make sure that all your utilities are at hand
and begin with loading DiskMaster. When searching carefully, you'll
you'll notice a text 'FORMAT'. Insert a new disk to drive and press
the format button. Wait for a while. Now use the DiskMaster to copy
the files you want to see on the cool cli-pack disk.
After this comes the hardest part, but if you do everything as
instructed, you can complete the pack without problems. You should
now load the kool program called "Ed". If you have trouble in using
Ed, don't panic, just call +44-071-497 8973 for Ed-instructions.
Here comes the text you should write with the editor:
File 1: S/Startup-sequence
Border <Press Enter> (THE BIG KEY)
Setmap goolmap <Press Enter, the big key>
Type S/Message <Press The Big Key>
;FUK OFF LAMMERS!! <- This here is a comment
File 2: S/Message
ANNOTHER FUKING AND VERY VER COOL PACK CREATED BY ULTRA-PAMPERS
RELASE DATE: 26-06-90 EAT SHIT LAMMMERS
F1: ECISION INTRO
F2: X-BEAT INTrO
F3: BLOODSUKKERS IntRO
GREETINGS TO: X-MEN & PHR-CREW
HIGH LEVEL
CODING
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After you've written these text-files (remember to save 'em too)
it's time to load the ever-cool Setkey. Use it to edit the text in
the fuctionkeys (F1-F10) to those cool filenames your cool pack has.
After this, the pack is beginning to be ready. Test-drive the pack
once or twice, so you can see it works.
Don't worry if the pack don't work in the beginning,
this kind of Advanced Coding takes patience and
determination to succeed.
And remember: Nobody's perfect!!
Mr. Code lock..lokk...logging off!
MARC PANTHER
OF REAKTOR
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REAKTOR INTERVIEW
At first,please introduce yourself
My name is Marc Panther of Reaktor and I'm one of the musicians
in the group!
2. Tell something about your and Reaktors history?
Reaktor was formed on the 28th July between Slipstream and Mayhem
and now Phoenix New Zealand has joined us! We have
3 bbs in England!
1 bbs in New Zealand!
1 bbs in the good ol' USA!
3. How many members has Reaktor got and what are they doing?
Hmm..This is a trick question eh? Well to be honest I dunno but I
can take a guess, lots! And I really can't say what they're doing
right now, but I hope it's all in good taste!
4. Have you got any future plans?
My future plans are to make more music and improve on my tunes,
but copying gets in the way AAARRRRGGGHHH!!
MARC PANTHER
OF REAKTOR
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5. Then the very boring and usual questions.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Who/What is the best: 1:Team, 2:Demo, 3:Mega-Demo, 4: Utility
5: Cracker, 6: Coder, 7: GFX-man, 8: Musician, 9: Arcade game?,
10: Adventure game...
1. I can't really tell you who the best team is as they are so
many good teams.
2. I think the best demo is/was the Ce-bit demo by Red Sector.
3. They are two mega-demos I like and they are Death Star mega-
demo and RSI mega-demo.
4. The best utility is Noisetracker v2.0.
5. Hmm I dunno who's best.
6. My very good friend Photon (ex.Oracle)
7. GFX-man the best - I think it's J.O.E.
8. The best musician I think (apart from myself he-he just
joking). My very good long time friend Dr.Awesome this guy
just gets better and better.
9. Super Hang-on
10. I like two adventure/strategy games and they are Elite and
Dungeonmaster.
MARC PANTHER
OF REAKTOR
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6. What do you think about lamers?
Lamers I don't think about them but every one starts out as lamer
until they get established.
7. Please tell me something about English scene?
The English scene is very poor at the moment not a lot is happening
but hopefully this will change. Apart from Reaktor there's Magnetic
Fields, Anarchy and a few more groups. Not a lot of UK groups are
regularly producing demos. The flow of demos are not as frequent as
the teams across the water! They're lots of modem traders keeping a
steady flow of stuff circulating the U.K.
Good copy-partys are few, Magnetic Fields are having a copyparty on
the 27th October. If you wanna go just contact your nearest M.F.
member, he should have the details.
8. And something about the Amiga-scene world-wide?
Well teams come and go and new guys make themselves known and teams
fight with other teams when you think about it not alot has changed
since the last 3 years. Remember this! Things can only get better.
The Amiga-scene world-wide will take a long long time to burn down.
MARC PANTHER
OF REAKTOR
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What's your opinion about other diskmagazines,like ZINE,NOT etc.
I read'em all when I get them (who doesn't). It must take a lot of
spare time for some guys to piece them together.If the interest and
dedication is there and lots of people are prepared to write / send
articles (disk mags need support like regular articles,adverts etc.
without them they won't survive for very long ). So if you're got
anything you wanna say contact the editor of your favourite disk
magazine.
At the end , do you have any last words?
I could give my greets list but it's so boring and long! If anybody
reading this would like to trade with anybody in Reaktor,Anarchy,or
Magnetic Fields look in the adverts part of this mag. One last
sentence please,please if any of you cool guys send disks to a long
distance address please use a strong envelope.
Ok, thanks Marc for this chat - live long and prosper...
SHIT MAGS
BY BANDIT
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ABOUT TEAM MAGAZINES...
It seems to be very popular to publish a diskmag or papermag among
teams, groups and crews. I can't say much about papermags, coz I
have read only one (Gridpoint Observer (Thanks Chris)) of them, and
because it's material,which was something else too beside the normal
computer things. For example the first issue contained an article
named ' The Beatles - a swindle which brought millions of dollars',
which I personally find a very good change to the boooooring scene
reporting and advertisement stuff in other mags. I've heard ( read )
about some other papermags, but never succeeded to catch any...
With tiskmags the situation is much different. Every group, even the
lamest ones, are publishing a disk 'magazine' ... And when reading
those, I can read the editorial saying:'Not much articles this time,
but if you, our dear readers, could send some...' Argh!!! The idea
of publishing a diskmag is to write the stuff yourself!!! The mag's
editorial staff should keep the same (usually the mag's publishing
team), and just in some cases they should use outside assistants. If
the mag's editors are changing rapidly,the mag gets a messy look and
the quality goes down as editor's dick after a goood fuck - slowly,
but surely.
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BY BANDIT
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Only mag which gets on with much changing editors is Cracker Journal.
I think it's the most popular and famous mag, and simply the best!
For example the DISC has the same editors ( Level 4 and Phaze 101 )
continuously. That's why it shares the second place with Zine. What
comes to the half and half mags, I can't say anything, coz I've only
seen the disk-half of Stolen Data and... Hm... In my opinion the mag
should be completely on disk or on paper. It gives a cripple
overview, when you happen to see only the disk part... Sorry pals...
The material used in most of mags is just the editorial thing, news
and advertisements. Before publishing a disk (or paper) mag,the team
should think very carefully, do they have enough material for the
mag, and if they have, there is someone who is purely interested in
doing some real, hard and sweaty WORK for the mag. There's no point
to publish a piece of shit on a nameless disk and then leave the mag
after 1st issue. NO! The mag should be continuous and it should
contain some real quality.
Spreading the diskmag should be so total, that no-one could say: 'I
haven't even heard 'bout it..' The team should give some info 'bout
it before releasing, or spread some nice-looking intros telling,that
something special is just about to being released... The other thing
is the disks. The disk should be a quality disk when it is sent by
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BY BANDIT
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the releasing team. I know, that disks cost. TDKs and Scotchs are
quality disks and the diskmags should originally be released on
these. Team may want some price for the mags, but when paying this
price, you make more sure that the next issue will see the light of
day. This sounds like anti-piratism preach, but..
There was a few things about mags and publishing them. It doesn't
mean that this magazine is completely perfect, but... This was only
my own opinion about diskmags! Stay gool!
<Bandit>
Well one thing we're going to avoid when making
this mag is just that "HEY SEND US MORE ARTICLES"
shit. Of course, if you want to see your writing
published, you can send it to us. But we try to
NOT be dependant on the 'guest star' writers, as
we have writers of our own. <Eddies>
.
written by DRL
NEMESIS
THE WARLOCK
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I guess many of you are
now thinking: "What Nemesis !??"
or "Has it something to do with
those coin-ops?" or "Is that the
world famous coder of Dictators,
Nemesis?" Answer to all these:
no, no and no. Nemesis is comic
character. Those who have read
the "2000 AD" magazine, will
remember the weird looking demon
with spiky horns and hooves.
Nemesis is also one of the weir-
dest characters in that magazine,
not only because its main
character is a demon,but because
it has also a very interesting
human character, Torquemada, who
is not only the most evil man
who has lived on the surface of
the Earth, but ALL the most evil
men who have ever lived...
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Nemesis was created by Pat Mills,who has
also created some of the other 2000 A.D.
characters, for example Slaine and ABC
Warriors. Pat Mills has also written
most of the Nemesis stories by himself.
Nemesis has been drawn by many artists,
who all have their own unique style. The
best of those styles,at least I think so
(others may have their own opinion), is
that of Kevin O'Neill.His style is quite
sharp, unlike that of Bryan Talbot's,who
draws a bit smoother... The third artist
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is John Hickleton. His Nemesis is
the weirdest of all, drawn with a
lot of front pictures of Nemesis
(his profile looks better) and
odd pictures where Nemesis twists
his neck like it was some kind of
elastic material, with no bones..
As I said, all styles are
different from each other.
The story of universe where
Nemesis lives, goes like this.
Some aliens attacked Earth and
caused a lot of suffering. Time
passed, and some of the humans
started to raise resistance
against the Aliens. Those who
could fight were called The
Terminators. Soon, the Earth was
clean again. But how long would
that last? It was decided to
undertake the greatest crusade of
all, the quest for purity to the
stars. The thought,vanguishing of
aliens became soon the ultimate
-
religion of the Termight, which
Earth's empire was now called.
Humans scowered the galaxy in
search for alien life forms
in order to destroy them. The
deadliest terminator of all was
was Torquemada. And the most
powerful of aliens was de warlock
Nemesis, the Dark Lord.
There is lot of black humour in
Nemesis, for example when Nemesis
makes a deal with one of the
Terminators ( to remove Termight
forces from alien planet ) and
promises to give him gold,courage
and handsome looks ...of course
Nemesis thinks that the most
handsome being in the universe is
an alien, and Torquemada doesn't
exactly like aliens ...Then there
is Nemesis' Great Uncle Baal, who
experiments on humans...
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In the course of events,
Torquemada has almost started to
be his own series. And no wonder,
he is the most evil villain in
the comic history. He was a real
human, flesh and blood in the
beginning,but then he turned into
a phantom,who can't be killed.His
"host body" (where his phantom
lives) has a bad habit to decay
very quickly. And that's why he
has to change his body every now
and then...
Quite weird,eh? It's a bit pity,
that Nemesis hasn't achieved as
great status as the other 2000
A.D. character, Judge Dredd. For
example here in Finland it's
quite difficult to find Nemesis-
albums or 2000 A.D. ...but in
Great Britain,you can get almost
every Nemesis story ever made.
Nemesis stories have been
published in its own magazine
-
(still being published by Fleet-
way/Quality, now it's at number
8) and Titan Books' Nemesis Book
1 - 9. If you can get some of
those, go and buy it! And if you
want to see some of that comic
before you buy it, there is some
of my Nemesis pictures in this
magazine.And as Torquemada would
say :
"Be pure !"
"Be Vigilant !"
"Behave !"
SUN CONNECTION INTERVIEW
The usual questions asked by SPIRIT...
PLEASE TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOU AND YOUR TEAM.
My name's Geronymho, my team is called Sun Connection. I founded
it in 1988. Now we're 9 members, we're graphic-oriented, and we
plan some new hot productions, but I can't tell more, you'll see by
yourself in some time! Our goal is not to be the best, but to do
our best. We think we can do better than today, and so we will do.
I do musics with Cobburn for Sun Connection. It's a lot of fun to
work together! We did, for example, the Sun Slide III music (we hope
=> => => =>
ADS FOR FREE ARTICLES FOR NOTHING
Yeees, that's right. Ads are gonna be for free at least in Sentinel
Issue 2, if not in issue 3 too... If you want to include some kind
of a logo within your ad send a no-no-name disk for us as a bribe..
Your picture shouldn't have more than 1-6 colors and the ideal size
would be about 64x64 pixels. And send your material on disk, not on
paper, so it'll get published properly...
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you enjoy it!).So, I'm really interested in getting in touch
with musicians, to swap some samples, modules, and ideas!
BEST DEMO? BEST MEGADEMO?
Cebit demo is certainly I can't say one megademo is the
one of the best. best, but Red Sector's one was
was really great, and BudBrain
megademo had scenarii, and lot
of fun, and that's great!
BEST GFX-MAN? BEST MUSICIAN ?
Omen of Sun Connection. Romeo Knight, JPN, Dr. Awesome,
Fleshbrain,Chris Huelsbeck,Greg,
Firefox.
BEST TEAM? BEST UTILITY?
Red Sector is best,but Dpaint 3.21, of course.
many teams reach the top,
and that's fun.
BEST ARCADE GAME? BEST ADVENTURE GAMES?
No time for games. Idem.
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Your opinion of the scene?
Too many people think to be the best. Arrogance is not
right, friendship should be a rule, not something so rare!
There are some few people who think the same way. That's,
according to me the hope of the scene..But they're too few,
and that means that I must consider two scenes. The ugly
big swapping scene, and the little nice friendship scene
(TPL norway, Level 4, Demons).
What hardware do you use ?
Only a 1Mb A-500, with 2 drives, and a stereo amplifier.
How about wars between some groups?
I think it's enough of the true wars in the world. I get
bored of all these people who want to kill the world, just
to stay alone, just to stay the only left and so the only
best.
Ok... do you want to add something?
Yes. You can ask for our productions to our swapper End Of
Data. Write to him: Deso Philippe, Quartier des Lones.
84200 Carpentras.
France.
If you think you're the best, don't write, it's better.
If you want to chat with me, write it in the letter,
he'll give me your letter.
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VERY INTELLIGENT JOKES
- I heard, that you fuck your dog! ...is that true??
- Yes, it really is!
- Is it a girl or a boy dog??
- A girl dog, of course! Do you think I'm abnormal??
A man went to the fortune-teller and sat in front of her
crystal ball.
- I can see, that you are father of two children,
said the old woman.
- That's what you think, I'm father of three children!
- The fortune-teller smiled and said:
- That's what YOU think...
A depressed woman walked at seaside, when she suddenly noticed
a bottle in the sand. She picked it up and pull the cork off.
She heard a flutter and a big smoke cloud went out.
"You have opened the door of my prison, said a spirit to woman.
I give three wishes to you, because you helped me. But note
that everything you wish, your husband gets double."
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"For what?", asked woman. "That shithead left me for another
woman." "It just has to be like that", answered the spirit.
Woman asked for one million dollar. A flash and a million bucks
appeared. At the same time her husband saw two million dollars
next to his feet. "And what is your second wish?"
"Spirit, I want the most expensive diamond necklace! A flash
again, and the woman got the necklace. Somewhere else her
husband was looking for a diamond dealer, who could buy his
new surprise gift. "Spirit, is that really true, that my
husband has now two million dollars and more jewels than I do?"
"Yes", answered the spirit. "OK, now I am ready to say my
last wish, said the woman. "Scare me half to death!"
A woman told to her girlfriend about her two boyfriends.
- If I could put together their best qualities, I'd be the
happiest person in the world. George is rich, handsome and
clever. Tom wants to marry me.
A teacher heard a little boy saying a naughty word.
- Alex! said the teacher, you mustn't use words like that.
- But I heard Dad saying it, said the boy.
- It makes no difference, said teacher. You don't even know what
it means.
- Yes I do, it means that the car don't start!
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A truck-driver parked his truck in front of a bar. The waitress
brought him a hamburger, a cup of coffee and a piece of pie.
When the truck-driver was going to eat, three Hell's Angels
stopped in front of the place.
They went in bar and one of them took his hamburger,second drank
his coffee and the third ate his pie.
Truck-driver didn't say anything. He got up, took his jacket,
paid the bill and left.
One of motor-cycling men said to waitress:
- That guy was a real chicken!
- He wasn't a good driver either, he just drove over three
motorbikes.
Motor mechanic said to a customer:
- I think it's going to be a larger repair you thought. Your
accumulator needs a new car.
- What do you love in me most? My beauty or my fantastic body?
asked the wife from her husband.
- Your sense of humor. Ho haa hooo haaaa!!!
- What's the record in laziness?
- ???
- A man marries a woman already pregnant!! He he ha ha ha ...
LAATUVITSIT II
LAATU ON KORKEA
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A couple of men were boozing at the penthouse bar of a
high skyscraper. The other men said to other:
- You know, when I drink this stuff, I can jump
down from here and nothing will happen to me!
- Ha ha, that's bullshit.
- Nooo, it's not bullshit, said the first man
and hopped over the banisters. A few minutes later
the doors of the elevator opened and he came to the
table, smiling.
The second man looked at his glass.
- This is really heavy stuff. I'll try that too...
Then he jumped down. THUD! He smashed to the ground.
The bartender sighed.
- You're a real asshole sometimes, Superman...
- Hei mixei kukaan tee en|| filmej| Stallonen kanssa?
- No katos kun kerran filmin ohjaaja ja Stallone oli
katselemassa k|sikirjotusta. Ohjaaja sano: Hei Sly,
heit|s k|ssari t|nne! Sylvester siihen: Oukei!
(sokka pois) PUMMMM!!!! HE HE HE HE HE he he he he...|||h..
2 mummoa meni marjaan. Toinen ei mahtunut. HHHEEEEE
No joo nyt t|| menee liian pitk|lle... Parasta lopettaa..
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THE GUYS BEHIND THE MASKS
The main thing is our aliases. In the most of the cases, the only
things we know about our swappartners are their nicknames and the
towns where they possibly live in. All the time we send them some
"hot" games and get some back with big pleasure, big deal! All of us
hide behind an invented name and tell bullshit about some other guys
in some phase of our existence. The whole scene is based on the
nicknames and the magazines speak about "crackers" and "pirates"
with really big headlines.
But behind every mask, every nickname, there's a guy who wants to be
known, to be seen, to head up from the grey mass. Every swapper or
coder or anyone wants to get attention for what he/she has done.This
scene is full of really normal human beings who just want to get in
touch with other people and have good friends, to be someone! But
still there are guys who start a war against someone else, of course
to get even more famous. But that's the part of this all what's
totally sick! First we get some friends and then we start to speak
bull about them and start some fights. Really bright! After some
weeks you just notice it: where have all my friends gone? there you
sit alone with nobody to have fun with...
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And you're the only one to blame,nobody else than you! Try to digest
that fellows... And some modified words from a pop-song..."It is all
the same... only the names will change... everyday it seems we're
wasting away...another place where the faces are so cold...I'd drive
all night just to get back home..." Let us try to hang on out there,
pals!
(Awcy/Clones)
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BRAINSTORM INTERVIEW
Hello Chester!! Tell us something about yourself!
I am 18 years old.. I am founder, organizer (together with
Majestic), Zine-editor, Gfx-artist and spreader of our own
productions.
Well, everyone knows that you're making Zine now. Why
the rumors about you dropping Zine?
Well the fact is that Orlando and Chester have done the whole
work until now. So, when we sat together in front of the
computer one evening we lost the motivation and wanted to drop.
But then the Accused wanted to do something new for ZINE and so
we'll go on to produce it. The work will now be split up between
some different BRS-members.
Tell us something about BRS's history!
BRS was founded in May -89 by Chester and Majestic. Like in every
"up-coming" group a lot of members were joining us and there was
also some pure elite-ones like Accused, Bird and Scattergold.
Once upon a time, we had more than 30 members, so we had to kick
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out some guys because we didn't know them good and they were lazy.
In winter 89/90 we trained games but we soon stopped because
other groups were faster.
Memberlist, please...
Chester ( organizer, Zine-editor, gfx, spreader )
Majestic ( organizer, coder, spreader )
Orlando ( coder, Zine-editor,spreader )
Accused ( coder, Zine-producer )
Truxion ( gfx, spreader )
Luke ( coder )
Bird ( coder )
Scattergold ( swapper/spreader, modemtrader )
ESA ( coder )
COM ( coder )
Shadow ( the one and only German member,all others are
Swiss. Shadow is swapper/spreader )
Grubi ( sound )
Spirit ( sound )
Oli ( gfx )
Mr.Frost ( modemtrader )
Sixpack ( swapper/spreader )
Odie ( gfx, modemtrader )
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Your future plans... ??
Perhaps we'll organize a big New-Year-Conference. All other things
are --- TOP SECRET ---
Ok, lawbreaker. Now give a list of your favourites.
Best teams: Scoopex Finland, Kefrens, RSI
Best demos: Mental Hangover, Ice Cold Coke by Phenomena,
Kefrens Mr. Munk (!!!)
Best megademos: Crionics megademo, Kefrens MD VIII, CRB II
Best utilities: DPaint III, CygnusEd, Diskmaster
Best crackers: FFC
Pest coders: Slayer, Delta, Mr. Gurk, Tec, MMM, Metalwar
Best GFX-creeps: Reward, J.O.E., Dark, Dr. C, PGCS
Best muzakmen: Noise/Celtic, Rodeo Knight, Dr. Awesome,
Fleshbrain, Firefox & Danko
Best games: Battle Squadron & Twintris
(but I don't play lot!)
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Now write here a word about Amiga-scene or die!
There are too many boards around; the cracker-scene is better now,
because there are more groups as one year ago, demo groups have
not enough new ideas for their demos, but demos are still the best
thing in scene; friendship is again really important for some
groups, some groups found "friendship" a quite good thing to
rebuild the scene, but I heard that Bloodsuckers wanted to join
them, that's a strange thing!!
Allright, Chester, thanks a lot for this interview and now
your final words...
The next Zine (#7) should change again a little bit, but...let the
future come....
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E.O.C 1999 (Sirus 1)
(Simon)
136 Vale Road , Seaford
Sussex, England, BN25-3HB
1 disk with letter - 101 % reply,
no disk - no reply!
Chris
23 Stanwell Close
Wincobank, Sheffield
England, S9-1PZ
Penguin
(Steve)
10 Campbell Court, Portrack
Stockton, England
(Disk with letter - 101% reply)
.
Norman
(Turbo distribution)
88 Green Lane, Hampstead
Great Barr
Birmingham
England,B43-5LG
The Funny Guy
of
Spaceballs
is looking for new contacts.
T.F.G. , Hemmersvej 34
7800 Skive, Denmark
NO swapping! NO swapping!
Greets to all contacts.
Marc 'Panther'
8 Blacksail Close, Wrensfield
Newtown, Stockton-on-Tees
Cleveland,England TS19-0BG
tel. +44-(0)-642-616264
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Contact
POWERSWAP/LIVING LEGENDS
for swapping cool & legal warez
Franckestr 11, 338 Goslar
West Germany
P.S We are looking for
new members too!!
POWERLORDS NORWAY!
Seeking a cool contact and
friend? Seek no more, write to:
(The Rebel / TPL-N )
Geir Jensen
Marie Sordalsv. 8 C
N-7036 TRH NORWAY
Everyone trades with
BLIBO - RARE U.K.
14 Cobham Road, Moordown
Bournemouth, Dorset
BH9 3AR UK
Disk = 100 % Reply.
.
I'm looking for new contact
in Europe
ZADOC of BLACKLIGHT inc
Mikko Pitk|nen
6kp, 73100 Lapinlahti, Finland
No disk = No answer
Contact
STORM of REETEC
for
Elite mailtrading
PLK 028000 D
7500 Karlsruhe
West Germany
Also for membership!
Diabolos of Midnightsun
P.O.Box 13
51601 Haukivuori, Finland
100 % to cool dudes with disks
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If you are looking for cool
contact,write to
VULCAN/CHROME
for elite-mail trading
Jari,Sepp|l|ntie 4
62800 Vimpeli,Finland. Only
cool dudes in well-known groups.
CHROME - Only coolest survives!!!
Contact
MISSIONARYS!
MISSIONARYS
(don't forget)
Poste Restante
28500 Pori,Finland
100% reply!!
For elite-mail trading write to
Dir/CAVE
P.O BOX 11
28450 Vanha-Ulvila
Finland
Only cool dudes in well-known
groups!
.
Contact us for elite demo-swap
PHOBOS/MIDNIGHTSUN
P.O BOX 2, 45740 Kuusankoski
Finland
APOLLO/MIDNIGHTSUN
P.O BOX 7, 45701 Kuusankoski
Finland
Wanna contact
Perfect Illusion ??
then write to:
Perfect Illusion, Poste Restante
17200 V||ksy, Finland
We also need some productive
members..contact us for joining!
contact
Frap/Magnetic Fields
37 Stetchworth Dr
Boothstown,Worsley
M28 4FU,Manchester
England
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Wanna trade the latest with
a cool dude? Write to:
Rocket/Hypnosis
Lars C. Ormesberga
S-340 36 Moheda, Sweden
...and do not forget to enclose
at least 1 disk.
Contact Thalysis at:
Mirage of Thalysis
plk 050944 d
87 Wurzburg
West Germany
Call Reaktor BBS called the
Fat Slag!
Would you like to have a
conference with Sandra & Tracey?
Call: (0)670-540 210
Supports speeds up to 14.4.
.
Contact
Space Ace of Cult
for hot
and fast swapping:
P.O.Box 151
2070 Raholt, Norway
If you wanna join Duplex...
If you wanna talk with Duplex...
If you wanna swap with Duplex...
(chocolats or tins of beer)
or really good stuff....
Write to:
Case,
PLK 007 115 D
2080 Pinneberg, United Germany
Elite only:
Zaphod of Amaze
PLK 007115 D
2080 PBG, West Germany
Send today!
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Contact
Groucho of Cult
for
swapping the latest legal stuff:
PLK 050255 D
8500 Nurnberg 91
West Germany
please don't forget to write the
"91"!!!
Contact
Metallic of Decay
for
articles for the upcoming
diskmagazine F.R.A.U.D.
Write to:
John D.
Spinkbrae 29
Queensland 4069, Australia
Genocide
Wanna swap with Genocide?
If yes, then write to:
Al of Genocide
Kirnukuja 2 e 20
70780 Kuopio, Finland
disk(s) = 100% answer
.
Do you wanna get a fast Hungarian
contact? You have to write to
this address:
Majic 12, Kozak Zoltan
9400 Sopron, Scharmar 2, Hungary
We can swap with 3.5" and 5.25"
disks too!Disk+letter=100%answer.
Zapotek of Gate
P.O.Box 140
3801 Boe
Norway
For elite mailtrading contact:
Terminator X / System Five
PLK 027786 D
7500 Karlsruhe
West Germany
P.S.Only pure elites!!
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TECHNIQUE / SAVAGE
PL 125
02770 Espoo, Finland
Contact
Wizzcat
P.O.Box 18 - SF
15701 Lahti, Finland
Girl Swapping!!
Contact:
BANDIT
Reste Postante , 21100
Raisio, Finland
greetings to: Irmeli, Hilma,
Vieno, Hillevi & all others!
.
K-Kauppa tarjoaa:
HK:n sininen : 15:95
Jukurtti : 2:95
Tamppoonit : 24:95
Hammasharja : 99:95
Sikanauta : 995:00
Kososen leip| : 5995:00
Dog swapping !!!
Contact:
MR. MAD!!!
Poste Restante
20540 Turku, Finland
Speciality: Badger-dogs.
greetings go to Maukka & Yk|.
Ostaha sie halpoja kelloja &
nahkatakkeja. Contact:
WARLOCK
P.O.Box 27, 20540
Turku, Finland. Hai!
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Possessed
are searching for new
members worldwide!
Especially for swappers.
Send contactlist and ya latest
stuff! Write to:
PLK 091097 E
3300 Braunschweig, West Germany
For elite mailtrading contact
Electro/MMI:
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Stoneygate
Leicester
LE2 3HD
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the Untouchables
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7300 Esslingen
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THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN WORTH
Part One : The Fridgerator
'Click'
'Whoooah! It really does go out when I close the door!', said John
Worth when he sat in his fridgerator. You can't think of how he felt
when he was sitting there in dark,cold and on the top of his dinner.
'I can't wait to see their faces when I tell them it really did go
out! Well, now I got to get out of here before it gets really cold!
I'll just open the door... ngghhh...nghghghghg...shit, why doesn't
the door open !?!?'
If only he could have known what there was.A big,no,HUGE monster was
sleeping in front of it. Not exactly a monster, but his little
doggy, Saddam. So John worth sat in his fridgerator and waited that
Saddam would wake up.
And waited.
And sat.
And waited and sat.
While John Worth sat and still waited in his fridgerator, all hell
broke loose. Or not quite hell, but something similar, flames and
heat and that kind of show stuff.
Mars blew up.
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WORTH
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'Somebody please let me out!!! I'm freezing!!!', yelled John.
John had waited for thirteen and a half hours in the fridgerator.
He wasn't hungry nor thirsty. He had eaten one piece of chicken,
couple of potatoes, yoghurt, twentythree slices of russian sausage
with one litre of ketchup, three raw eggs, three litres of milk and
many many cans of dogfood. 'Yum, this stuff is tasty! No wonder
Saddam likes this stuff!'
So Mars had blew up because some strange reason and the radiation
from it reached the surface of Earth. Exactly 2 minutes and 16
seconds after the bang. John of course didn't know this all,because
he was sitting in his fridgerator and eating it empty. But Saddam
knew about it. Not exactly know, he kind of feeled it.Because of the
radiation from Mars he had got two extra legs.
Now of course he got to go and test them.
John heard when Saddam moved from the fridgerator and when
Saddam started to run and test his two extra legs.
John opened the door and left his cold prison.
'Aaah. It's feels good to move again.'
'It sure does!' said the toaster.
To be continued...
The Adventures Of John Worth (C)1990 Dr.Lizard And Doc Death
Coming soon : Part 2 !!!
SPECIAL
EFFECTS
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MAGIC OR WHAT ?
Has anybody ever heard about the
movies Star Trek I : The Motion
Picture or Blade Runner or 2001:A
Space Odyssey or Brainstorm or
Back To The Future Part I-III or
Star Wars Trilogy? Well,I guess
that quite a many remembers those
movies, but why ? Because the
story was so nice and all those
movies are somekind of Science
Fiction. But I guess the main
reason is the spectacular special
effects. In everyone of those
movies are the best effects of
the era, made by famous
Industrial Light And Magic and
Douglas Trumbull`s team. "It
doesn't look real if it isn't
done by ILM" is maybe true.
Out of all effects houses ILM
has reached the line where it is
-
almost impossible to tell whether
the effect is from real life or
from somebody's imagination.
They do not use too much computer
graphics, and that is good,
because miniature models (look
BTTF II for example) look a bit
more realistic than computer
graphics. Of course they have
done some work with computers
also, but the main job is always
done with a hard work, making
miniatures and using lights and
colors in the right amounts.
Douglas Trumbull is quite a
different from ILM, but not
entirely. Effects in Poltergeist
(ILM) are somewhat similar to
those of Brainstorm (Trumbull
also directed and produced that
movie). He has used kind of a
"warpspeed" effect in several
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films; Brainstorm and 2001 are
the most visible marks of that
kind of technology.In Star Trek I
he used a kind of a "slow-
warpeffect" in the parts where
Enterprise penetrates through the
V'Ger's cloud. It is easy to
tell which one is better, ILM or
Trumbull, because both of them
have made effects to Star Trek
saga. Trumbull made the first
one, ILM made II,III and IV.Star
Trek V's effects were made by
Ferren & Associates, and that
work was so horrible (at least in
the video version) that Ferren
should never be allowed to make
any effects at all. Whether Star
Trek VI (confirmed by the last
news) is going to have effects by
ILM or some other effects house,
is yet to see.
.
Well, I can't think of anything
more to tell about the wonderful
world of Special Effects..But if
you want to know more, go to see
those movies somewhere and read
the book about ILM...
-Dr.Lizard Of Dictators Finland§