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@H1"Hello again."
You are reading the second issue of
Exceller 8. Hope you enjoyed the
first.@L
@L
In this issue you will find more of
everything (well almost...) and a
couple of new writers. The story of
@FFAIRLIGHT@N, the first part of
Celebrandil's Raytrace and
vectorgraphics article, @BMacron
One's@N first article about DIY
hardware, @FSAE@N's article about the
CBM show in London and @FNORTH STAR@N's
round-up of the year 1988.@L
@L
Another new thing is the new
advertisement system that we
introduce in this issue. Have a
look at the ad page for more info.@L
@L
I would also like to thank all of
you who sent us letters telling us
what you think of this magazine.
Keep sending 'em because we wan't
more!@L
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This issue of Exceller 8 is
dedicated to the memory of @KRoy
Orbison@N (1936_-_1988).@L
_________________(Ed.) @P
@H1"Contents"
02.The History of Fairlight.@L
06.Raytracing part one.@L
13.Nov CBM-Show in London.@L
17.Famous Words.@L
18.About MegaDemo #3.@L
24.Brain Music.@L
27.Hardware Hazard.@L
33.Freestyle UK Report 2.@L
35.Round Up of '88.@L
42.Games, Games !!@L
47.Letters!@L
51.Arcades.@L
54.Warhammer Fantasy Rpg Review.@L
56.Useless move info!@L
58.Lights, Camera, Action.@L
63.MusicPix!@L
71.Tune in, Turn out, Drop out.@L
83.NS Horroscope.@L
86.How to make your own sampler.@L
88.The new ad system!!@L
89.ORDER!@L
90.The end is near!@L
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@C@H1"The History of FairLight"
@B@Z"By The Black Shadow"@N@L
The story of @FFairLight@N is a very
old and long tale, but i'll try to
make it short...@L
@L
It begun in early 1983 when I (the
Black Shadow) bought my Commodore
64! At those days I started to
learn some machine-code, but it
went very slow. Some months later I
managed to crack Pharaos Curse from
Synapse Software. Not very good, of
course... 3 files with a total
length of 230 blocks... I had to
find a name so I called myself....
C.L.C.C. !!! That stands for:@L
@L
@Z"Christian Lindeberg Cracking"
@Z"Company!!!!"@L
Great name?? Eh?!?@L
@L
Well....@L
In early 1984 when I got more
sofisticated, i decide to form a
group....I decided to call it:@L
@L
@Z"Saturn Cracking United"@L
@Z"And I ,of course, called myself"@L
@Z"Saturn of SCU"@L
Well... Those were happy days...
But we were only two members... And
I the only one that did anything! I
hacked quite a lot of games, and
the last one ,before i changed
name, was Blackwyche from
Ultimate..@L
@L
My new name became Sir Galahad, and
I became a member of W.A.S.P. "We
Against Software Protection" That
happend in mid summer 1985!! The
other members were:@L
King Arthur, Ivanhoe, Lancelot and
FPC...@L
We grew very big.. and got very
famous...@L
It was at that time I started to
know Strider... But his current
name was No.1!! Lancelot and I
helped No.1 with the coding and
soon he got to be a very good
programmer too!!@L
@L
At the late summer of 1986 we, me,
No.1, Lancelot and King Arthur, got
an offer from W.C.C, West Coast
Crackers, to join...@L
And so we did!!!@L
@L
WCC got even more famous than WASP,
and that was because of the good
contact between the members.. We
were 10 members.. Sir Galahad,
Lancelot, No.1, King Arthur, Mr.
Pinge, Nobody, HJ, Zeb, Nike and
Marwin!!! We had a very good time
and got to be very good friends
with Triad...@L
@L
Until..@L
@L
Easter 1987 at the third WCC
Party!! We had just taken some
other members in WCC... They were
Janitor,Sparrow and Crusader!!!@L
No.1 and I got bored on some of the
other members...Especially Nike!!
So.. On the Train back to our home
town we decided to form FAIRLIGHT!!
I chose the name The Black Shadow
and Strider wanted to keep his old
name... He did for 3 weeks then he
changed it to Strider!!! The rest
of the WCC gang called themselves
Relax, and a bit later they joined
triad....@L
@L
Our first member was Gollum the
best cracker on the 64!!! In the
midst of that summer I bought an
Amiga and started to program...
Strider already had one since the
Christmas Holiday, but he couldn't
program..@L
Soon we got some more members like:
Lord Blitter and The Hobbit!!@L
@L
Everything was cool and I was
pretty good at programing by late
1987!!@L
@L
At X-mas time we had a Copy-Party
together with Triad and it was
quite good... At the party I met Il
Scuro of TOR and Yankee of TOR...
And we became good friends... Later
Il Scuro and Yankee joined DefJam...@L
@L
I got to know Atom of NS by late
spring 1988 and we decided about
the Joining!! At the same time we
got three members. Excalibur,Sharp
and 4042 joined FairLight!!
Everything was OK, and we released
lots of cracks and demos....@L
@L
In late summer we got two more
members. X & Y....@L
We found out that Y wasn't very
good.. so we kicked him out... and
at the same time 4042 and Sharp
left... X changed his name to
Exolon..@L
@L
By late Autumn Excalibur thought he
needed to have some 'air' change so
he left us and joined Abyss!!@L
At almost the same time
Doppelganger of Abyss left and
joined FairLight!! And Griffith
joined too...@L
Strider decided to 'rebuild'
FairLight and we divided the group
into two parts... one 64 division
and one Amiga division...@L
@L
And thats the story so far...@L
@L
The members in the Amiga division
are:@L
The Black Shadow, Strider, Exolon,
The Hobbit, Doppelganger, Griffith
and The Sarge!!@L
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We are also looking for some new
Amiga members... so keep in
touch!!@L
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@P@H1"Raytracing theories part one"@L
@B@Z"By Celebrandil of NS/FLT"@N@L
@L
In this first part of my articles
about Ray-Tracing I will only give
you a basical description of the
method and the mathematics around
it. After you have read @Bthis@N piece
I'm sorry to tell you that this
isn't enough. But if I told you
everything I know in just one part
it would be too difficult to
understand. I really hope you read
this article and enjoy it. If you
have questions and own ideas you
are more than welcome to contact
me. My address will be found below.
Have a nice reading!@L
@L
@K@B@Z"A SHORT INTRODUCTION"@N@L
You have probably heard about a
technique to produce graphical
images on computers called
ray-tracing, but I'm sure that not
many of you really know what it is.
In this article I (Celebrandil)
wish to give you a brief
discription of ray-tracing.@L
@L
It's not a new method, the first
algorithms were in fact presented
as early as 1968 by Mathematical
Applications Group inc. and A.
Appel (AFIPS conference
proceedings, SJCC 1968, pp 37-45).@L
@L
Later on new approaches have been
implemented by different
scientists. One of the persons who
found good applications considering
the division of the light (specular
light, ambient light, mirror and
transperency) was T. Whitted (Com.
of the ACM, 23(6) June 1980, pp
343-349).@L
@L
Ray-tracing is a very
time-cunsuming process and needs a
decent resolution and number of
colours, but as you know many
prgrams have been coded even for
the Amiga (DBW-Render, Sculpt 3D,
Animate 3D, Silver and Turbo
Silver).@L
@L
@B
@K@Z"REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS"@N@L
Before I tell you how to calculate
the images we better find out how
to represent the objects you want
to draw. The best way to build up
objects is by using solid and
simple geometric forms
(Constructive Solid Geometry, CSG)
such as spheres, cylindres, cones,
blocks, etc. The easiest object to
define is a sphere, since you only
need to know the position of the
centre, the radius and the
surface-abilities.@L
@L
More irregular objects would be
very difficult to represent by
using solids. Then you can build up
your objects with different
polygonal faces instead. You
usually use triangles because they
are easiest to handle (if you want
you can build up a quadrate with
two triangles and so on). If you
think for yourself a minute you
will realize that objects
constructed by triangles have a bit
of a weird appearence.@L
@L
Along the edges the colour
differences between two neigbours
will seem to be a bit exaggerated
and are very disturbing. This
phenomenon was discovered as early
as 1965 by E. Mach and is thus
called the Mach band effect. There
exist fortunately some methods to
solve this pity problem and I will
later in this article explain them
as much as I know. Another way to
define curved surfaces is by using
an approximation-method such as
Hermite, Bezier or B-Spline
(..Beta-Splines, Springer-Verlag,
1987). It is though a bit
comlicated to use these
representation-forms in ray-
tracing.@L
@P@B@K@Z"REPRESENTATION OF THE WORLD"@N@L
To produce an image, like a room
filled with different objects, you
need to define more than just the
objects. To give some light to the
room you have to add lightsources
(intesity, position, size and maybe
direction) so that the objects will
appear. The objects themselves
can't give light if they are not
luminous, of course.@L
@L
To make the picture realistic you
also have to include the light of
the atmosphere. No such light will
make the picture seem to be in the
middle of the night.@L
@L
You also have to consider the
observer and a window, which the
observer is looking out of. The
observer is defined by the
following properties:@L
@L
1) Position from where the observer
is looking, EyePos.@L
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2) Direction he is looking,
ViewDir.@L
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3) Position of the window (the
centre). The observer is normally
looking through this point,
ScnPos.@L
@L
4) Directions and lengths of the X-
and Y- axis of the window, Xaxis
and Yaxis.@L
@L
@P5) The screen on which you make
your image is corresponding to the
window and thus you need to know
their properties, Kx and Ky.@L
@L
WindPos.X = Kx * ScnPos.X; (1)@L
WindPos.Y = Ky * ScnPos.Y;@L
@L
The first four premisses EyePos,
ViewDir, ScnPos, XaxisDir and
YaxisDir are described by three
different values, the X-, Y- and
Z-value.@L
@L
@B
@K@Z"THE PRINCIPLES OF THE METHOD"@N@L
Now over to the principles of this
strange, but efficient method. If I
ask you how you would have done to
make a graphical image you probably
would have said: 'It's easy, just
see how the objects look like on
the screen and simply draw them'
(like vector-graphics or Boundary
Representation). Ray-Tracing is
not like that. When you make a
picture the normal way you can't
find the real colours of the
objects. But if you are using
Ray-Tracing you can vary the colour
due to shading and reflections to
make a much more realistic scene.@L
@L
As you know, the picture you see on
the screen is the collection of all
the light-rays going from all
around you, through the screen and
right into the eye of the
observer. Instead of following the
rays @BTO@N the observer, you better
follow the rays @BFROM@N the observer
and see what object you reach. To
determine the direction you are
looking and want to trace,
TraceRay, you use EyePos, ScnPos,
Xaxis, Yaxis, Kx, Ky and the X- and
Y-values for the screen-point you
wish to display. More about that
later on.@L
@L
The colour of the point you are
working with depends upon what
object you are seeing (i.e the
nearest object you reach). The
brightness depends on a lot of
facts. If the object is transperent
you will see the object behind the
nearest object too. When you reach
a mirrored object you have to
bounce on the surface of the object
to find another destination. If the
object is shiny you have to
consider the fact that you may see
the light-sources on the surface
(highlights). More about that
later. First I have to tell you
about the basic mathematics we will
have to use in order to
understand.@L
@L
@B
@K@Z"MATHEMATICS OF RAY-TRACING"@N@L
To solve difficult geometrical
problems in three dimensions you
can use something called Vector
Geometry. Now I want to give you a
view of the most used functions.
To speed up the calculations I have
made the routines using Motorolas
Fast Floating Point library
(mathffp). Even though the results
are less exact than the
IEEE-standard they are more than
enough to fullfill your needs.
Another problem you have when you
are using the mathffp library is
that it is a bit more complicated
to add a extra floating-
point-processor, but as I already
have told you it's much faster.@L
@L
A vector is, as you probably
already know, a mathematical
abstraction that both has size and
direction e.g. acceleration,
velocity and power. To denote
positions in three-dimensional
space we use a coordinate system
and define the direction by three
values, the x-, y- and z-values
from the origin. The size is the
length from the point to the
origin.@L
@L
Length=SQR(dX^2+dY^2+dZ^2)); (2)@L
@L
The first function is as simple as
vector addition. You simply add
each coordinates to get a new
vector. The pseudocode routine
below describes. Dx, dy and dz are
the direction values. First and
Second are the two vectors you wish
to add and SumVect is the Result.@L
@L
@B
@KVector_Addition:@N@L
@L
SumVect.dX=First.dX+Second.dX; (3)@L
SumVect.dY=First.dY+Second.dY;@L
SumVect.dZ=First.dZ+Second.dZ;@L
Next function is the vector
subtraction function and is as
simple as the first one. I'm sorry
for being ridiculous, but we have
to start easy so that all lamers
have time enough to release their
thumbs from their joysticks.@L
@L
@B@KVector_Subtraction:@N@L
@L
DifVect.dX=First.dX-Second.dX; (4)@L
DifVect.dY=First.dY-Second.dY;@L
DifVect.dZ=First.dZ-Second.dZ;@L
@L
There exist three types of
multiplications as you are working
with vectors. First we have the
scalar multiplication and it means
that you multiply a vector and a
scalar, or even better the size of
a vector and a scalar (the
direction of the vector is the
same).@L
@L
@B
@KScalar_Multiplication:@N@L
@L
ProdVect.dX=First.dX*Scalar; (5)@L
ProdVect.dY=First.dY*Scalar;@L
ProdVect.dZ=First.dZ*Scalar;@L
@L
The second multiplication type is
called scalar vector
multiplication. The result is a
scalar as the name is saying. You
simply multiply the different X-,
Y- and Z-values and add the
products. The result of a scalar
vector multiplication is commonly
called dot product of two vectors.
In reality a dot product is the
same as the product of the lengths
of the vectors and the cosine of
the angle between them. That means
that two vectors with a right angle
between have a dot product equals
zero. It's often a good way to test
if the angle between two vectors is
right. Note that a dot product of a
vector with ifself is just it's
size squared.@L
@L
@B
@KScalar_Vector_Multiplication:@N@L
@L
DotProd=First.dX*Second.dX+ (6)@L
________+First.dY*Second.dY+@L
________+First.dZ*Second.dZ;@L
@L
The last multiplication function is
called vectoral vector
multiplication and the result is
normally mentioned as vector
product and it's a vector. The
resulting vector is a new vector
that is right angles to both of the
other vectors. It's size is equal
to the product of the sizes of the
vectors and the sine of the angle
between them. This function can be
used to calculate the normal of a
plane if you have two other vector
on it.@L
@L
@B@KVectoral_Vector_Multiplication:@N@L
@L
VectProd.dX=First.dY*Second.dZ-(7)@L
____________-First.dZ*Second.dY;@L
VectProd.dY=First.dZ*Second.dX-@L
____________-First.dX*Second.dZ;@L
VectProd.dZ=First.dX*Second.dY-@L
____________-First.dY*Second.dX;@L
@L
I know that this function looks a
bit weird, but it's fortunately
very efficient. That was all about
the basical theorems.@L
@L
Now it's time to finish this first
part of the serie. As you already
have understood more about
Ray-Tracing will be presented in
later issues. The real mathematics
haven't been touched yet, so don't
be sad if you realize that you
can't make a proper program just
out of this part. In next issues I
will tell you how you do in the
reality to construct your images.@L
@L
If you have questions, own ideas or
just want to send me new disks (I'm
always short of disks), please
write to:@L
@L
@B
@K@F
@Z"Celebrandil"@N
@Z"Hogviltsgrand 13"
@Z"222 52 Lund"
@Z"SWEDEN"@L
Don't be mad if I answer your
letters a bit too late, coz I've so
many letters to answer every week
and it's often easy to miss some.@L
@L
If the answer is urgent please
write 'ISRIL' on the envelope. I
would be glad if you also could
tell me something about yourself
(your age, interests, profession
etc).@L
@L
Bye, bye, fans!@L
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@BBest wishes /@B
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@FLook on the disk (dir:Sources) for
an assembler source.@N
@C@H1"NOVEMBER CBM-SHOW LONDON REPORT"@B
@Z"By Comrade J and TIW"
@Z"Share and Enjoy"@N@L
On the 18/19/20th of November, the
12th Official Commodore Show was
held in London. The venue was the
Novotel Centre in Hammersmith, the
same place as the last show in
June.@L
@L
In fact, it all seemed to look the
same as the last show, with a lot
of the stands being the same people
in the same place as the last show
(and selling the same games!).@L
@L
Commodore's black pyramid stand was
identical to the stand at the last
show, and they seemed to be running
the same boring demos again, such
as the ancient juggler, ANC
Animations 2 and the old Kahnankas
animation.@L
@L
The only new thing we saw on the
Commodore stand was the new BBC
Emulator from Ariadne Software.
This runs BBC Basic programs up to
five times faster than the BBC, it
handles all BBC modes, and contains
a 6502 emulator and support for
some (but not all) BBC rom
routines. It is obviously aimed at
the educational market in Britain,
which is dominated by the crappy
BBC computers.@L
@L
There were few games companies
there, Anco were there with
"Maria's Christmas Box", yet
another Strip Poker game.
Microdeal were showing a demo of
AIRBALL (The ST version was shit,
so don't expect much from their
Amiga version), Precision Software
were demonstrating a demo of
"Charon V", their new game (of
course, Share and Enjoy 'liberated'
the demo from their A2000).@L
@L
Mandarin Software were
demonstrating Pioneer Plague, but
we all had that three weeks before
the show, and Tynesoft were there,
but had nothing new except Circus
Games, a shit simulation. There
were no other games companies
there, so was it a bad show for
new releases?@L
@L
Yes it was.
@PThe expected releases of ELITE,
DUNGEON MASTER (1 MEG),SPEEDBALL
(although that is out now),
OPERATION WOLF, BARBARIAN II, etc
did not happen. The only new
releases were shit like VETERAN,
MAFDET, HELLFIRE ATTACK and
QUANTOX.@L
@L
The Commodore Arcade (which
usually has playable versions of
unreleased games) had nothing but
old shit running in it (WIZBALL,
XENON, etc). This was probably due
to all the good stuff dissapearing
from the cabinets at previous
shows. The games enthusiast might
well have been disappointed with
the show. Although games freaks
were disappointed, there was a lot
of stuff around for those who use
their Amigas for more than games.@L
@L
Hisoft released Version 2 of their
DEVPAC assembler, Microdeal had
their new Midi and Sampling
package, AMAS, the software is good
but the hardware is shit. The Midi
has only ONE Midi-Out and the
sampler is bad too, the quality is
the same as my cheap home-built
unit and sounds rough, even when
sampled from CD. Several places
were selling the new cheap genlock
for just over 100pounds, but most
had sold out by Sunday.@L
@L
Icon Paint,the new 16 colour
workbench was for sale and looked
nice, although it's next to
useless unless you have a hard disk
(the Icons on their own take up a
full disk,there's no room for the
applications to go with them!).
Arnor were demonstrating Pro-Text,
their new word processor, but after
a quick look it is obviously a
cheap piece of rubbish.@L
The most stupid new program at the
show had to be E-TYPE, a new
program from DIGITA INTERNATIONAL,
which is a typewriter emulator. It
reads in from the keyboard and
sends the output straight to your
printer. Their advertising says "A
revolutionary program to transform
your computer into a fully featured
typewriter"! Obviously, it's just a
workbench disk with COPY * to PRT:
in the startup-sequence!!!! People
will try anything to get famous.@L
@L
The guys who were up there included
(sorry if I miss you out, we did
meet most people up there): @BSHARE
AND ENJOY@N (all of us!), @BIAN & MIC@N
(with some new demos), @BJCS@N (We saw
Moto-X-Man, but he rushed off
before we could speak to him).@L
@L
@BACCUMULATORS, QUORAM, WORLD OF
WONDERS, BAMIGA SECTOR ONE, ALPHA
FLIGHT (Freestyle U.K.), THE
CULPRITS, THE LOST BOYS (X-Men),
PUBLIC ENEMY No.1, RED SECTOR, THE
DRUIDS@N and some new guys, @BNIETSNIE@N
(EINSTEIN backwards!), and good
friends of mine, @BTHE ELECTIC
MENAGERIE@N (you'll be hearing a lot
from them in the future).@L
@L
There was a copy party on the
Saturday, held by Share and Enjoy
and Freestyle U.K., but because
Commodore's Security stopped a lot
of people on the way out, we were
delayed getting there. We also
lost most of Quoram and the
Accumulators on the way there, and
because there was not much new
stuff at the show it wasn't a very
successful party.@L
@L
Overall, the Commodore Show was
worth going to, but was not as good
as the PC Show, and I think that
especially people coming over to
England from abroad would have been
disapointed.@L
@L
Perhaps Commodore should
concentrate on attracting more
games companies to the show next
time.
@P@L
4 zwappin' n' buyin' newest Amiga
warez, write to the Amiga section
of Blaze:@L
@Z"Blaze"
@Z"PLK 106412 C"
@Z"2400 Lubeck"
@Z"West-Germany"@L
@S0@L
----- THE INT. DIGITAL STUDIO ----@L
are searching for some newContacts.@L
If you are NO Lamer then write to:@L
@Z"PLK 984280 C; 2360 BAD SEGEBERG"
@Z"WEST-GERMANY"
Handshakes to:The Web Inc. ; NNT !@L
@L
@S0@L
TMD want's more contacts because heis capable of more (AND MY ADDI).@L
@Z"TMD"
@Z"TOMMERVEIEN 51"
@Z"2006 LOVENSTAD"
@Z"NORWAY"@L
@C@H1"Famous words"
@BFamous words by known and unknown
programmers@N@L
@L
1.__Strange.@L
2.__I don't know about that.@L
3.__It worked before.@L
4.__It's just a couple of things
that has to be fixed.@L
5.__How could it become like that?@L
6.__It's got to be a hardware
error.@L
7.__Maybe they have changed
release.@L
8.__You must have done something
wrong.@L
9.__You must have an error in the
input material.@L
10__But I didn't change anything in
that module.@L
11__Oh yes, it will be ready by
then.@L
12__You must have got an old
version.@L
13__It's only a flaw.@L
14__I'm almost ready.@L
15__Oh yes, just let me insert the
last changes.@L
16__It won't take long.@L
17__We are just securing that
function.@L
18__It probably just depends on a
bad coincidence.@L
19__You can't test everything.@L
20__This thing can't affect that
thing.@L
21__But I thought I had fixed
that.@L
22__It's in there, it's just not
tested.@L
23__It works well, although it
doesn't seem so.@L
24__Although it doesn't work, what
do you think about it?@L
@L
Ed. @C@H1"About Mega-Demo 3"@B
@KThe Mega Demo 3 intro.@N@L
@L
Was coded by me (Atom). The picture
was drawn by our new member Dagger.
Music was composed by Jazze.@L
@L
I kind of like this intro, because
of it's kind of originality. Most
demos with a vertical scrolling
picture usually just blends the
colors in the middle of the screen,
but instead of doing it the old
way, I used 64 colors horizontaly
where the bobs were placed. It
turned out to look quite
nice.......@L
@L
@L
@K@B"Blue"@N@L
@L
Uugh! Look at it from this view:
Two minutes after we had finished
our 64 demo "SKRUV", (we were so
happy, and we haven`t touched any
64/128 since that very day) we
turned on our new Amigas... Eh? An
awfully drawn hand holding a
squared disk! Supercomputer? Well,
we found a proggie called "SEKA
assembler 1.0"! Workspace? Uh? How
about 10kB? and then, the
assembler... On our other Amiga,
we ran something called "SEKA
instructions". Aha! Wow! Simple,
we thought, and opened our hot
Hardware Manual..@L
@L
Three hours later, we got the
copper running, and three days
later, we made a scroll! (We
already knew the 68000.) It was a
very nice scroll, we thought, and
then we played a little with the
copper. Suddenly we had magically
34 scrolls! When Mahoney finished
the scroll, Kaktus made a bouncing
bitplane.@L
@L
That`s why we hate that demo!@L
@L
Everything could have been great,
but, Atom, the one and only, got it
into his hands! When we completed
our other demos, we had `forgotten`
Blue. But Atom hadn`t! That was the
sad story of Blue!@L
@L
Kaktus^Mahoney.@L
@L
@K@BStars are 4-ever.@N@L
@L
Was coded by me (Atom) a long time
ago. I made a nice sprite routine
which could handle 48 sprites in
less than 40 raster lines. So I
thought it would look nice in a
demo. Then I put in some more
things on the screen. It didn't
take very long time until it was
finished. The result wasn't to
splendid but still it was an
average demo....@L
@L
@B
@K"Scrolly (1)"@N@L
@L
This story is basicly the same as
the one about Blue. We got a new
idea, and we simply made a demo
based on it. Later, when we`d
learned to program, we made better
versions of that idea, and that`s
when Scrolly 2 enters!@L
@L
Kaktus^Mahoney.@L
@L
@B
@K"Bobby"@N@L
@L
This demo came to earth while
running our first BOB-test. In the
first versions, we used a letter
more than allowed, and everything
went to shit, but this final
version is working properly. This
demo must be the most "quiet" of
them all, there is just nothing
more to write about it!@L
@L
Kaktus^Mahoney.@L
@L
@B
@KEgoDemo/Atom demo 4.@N@L
@L
I (Atom) got this great tune
composed by Titan which inspired me
to code a demo. The first thing I
coded was the bars behind the
scroll which were controlled by the
tune. Then I proceeded with the
scroll, which were an old routine
which scrolled a 4 bitplane 48*32
font in less than 12 raster lines.@L
@L
Dagger had drawn some great Ns^Flt
logos in 32 colors which I used.
Just to make it a bit more fun I
did a line scroll routine to move
the logos. To make the logos look a
little bit better I did a copper
routine which made a grey scale
scroll through the logos. Then the
Amiga crashed and destroyed the
source disk.... Argggh !! As always
when something like this happeneds
I got a bit depressed... After a
few hours of crying I coded the
shit once again (this time using a
back-up disk!).@L
@L
Foetus had written down a lot of
ego boasting which I thought could
be used in the second scroll which
was a new scroll routine which
scrolled a 32*32 3 bitplanes font
in less than 4 raster lines.@L
@L
After that I did the vertical
scroll which were compressed both
horizontal and vertical. Now it was
just some empty space left in the
middle of the screen. First I made
a 3-D star field, but it's so usual
so I changed the stars to animated
asteroids. By this time the demo
used so much memory that I couldn't
run it from Seka without 1meg.@L
@L
Some animated bobs was inserted in
the middle screen which were
changeable in both animation look
as well as sinus/cosinus tracks.
Still having some bitplanes left in
the middle I made the bumping
AtomDemo4 logo.@L
@L
After crunching it for several
hours I noticed when I executed the
demo on a friends computer that the
second scroll flickered each 16th
frame... But it looked nice on
everybody elses computer so I
thought it didn't matter, but when
writing this I have heard that it
flickers on nearly 1/3 of the
amiga's but who cares ??!?!?!?@L
@L
The routines used in Ego demo was
very fast indeed, but now when
coding my game I have discovered
severals ways to improve the
routines......@L
@L
@B
@K"Flummy + Intro + Intro"@N@L
@L
@BIntroIntro first:@N@L
@L
This one was built up from our new
little nice boot (9kB), filled up
with some music. Yes, the `music`
is called "Blajback", and it`s
rather booring.
@P@BIntro@N@L
@L
This one was done just to show
nothing. The Crap-scroll wasn`t
orginally our idea, and the music
is insane... But the logo is nice!
Rex says that he loves the "flt",
and someone asked us if we liked to
zoom the Rom-font 4 times! Well,
life IS hard!@L
@L
@C@BMain@N@L
@L
There is something missing! And the
music, I think we are the first who
plays with a $24 bytes long sample
in the soundtracker! From the
beginning, there WERE a logo, but
it must have been lost somewere in
the copperlist, and with it, the
filtereffects. Never mind, life is
more than a logo and some
lowpass-passes. (Anyway, the logo
wasn`t good at all!)@L
@L
Kaktus^Mahoney.@L
@L
@B
@K"Scrolly 2 + Intro"@N@L
@L
This neat little piece of code is
pretty nice in our point of view.
The music to the intro is Rob
Hubbards "BMX Kidz"; On our
meeting, we rewrote his
replayroutine, in a way that it
played the sounds one at a time!
(Oops, then we must have touched
the 64/128 again, you say! Nooo, it
was a 128d! Ha ha haa) When we had
modified the routine, we simply
sampled the sounds to the Amiga.
Then we made a copy of the original
tune! Mogwai was the one who made
the most work (Yes, we had to
mention HIM!)...@L
@L
When Mogwai was finished with his
masterpiece, we destroyed it with
some other samples: "The Landing Of
Hundreds Of Unidentified Objects
Has Now Been Oficially Comfirmed As
A FullScale Invasion Of The Earth
By Marsians".. Very funny indeed.@L
@L
Kaktus^Mahoney.@L
@L
@B
@KPROGRESS@N was created by me,
Celebrandil, at a small lamer
meeting in Hoor/Sweden in the
summer of 1988. At that time I
didn't own this machine. My head
was though filled with strange
fancy ideas I wanted to use in
reality. At my friend Boerni's
place I had read all the hardware
and at that meeting I was glad to
find an Amiga among all the 64's. I
worked as fast as possible on a
machine I borrowed from Gusten, a
nice lad I met there. I completed
the routine that calculates the
balls and the routine that
calculates the grid. Since it was
my very first demo on the Amiga it
took a lot of sleepless hours to
finish the work. You see, only the
program that calculates the balls
was nearly as long as a standard
demo. I thank all you strangers I
met at that meeting in
Hoor/Sweden!@L
@L
@L
@B
@KTHEEND@N demo was also created by me,
Celebrandil. During the last four
months I have been working on a
Ray-Tracing program called
'Synthetic Views'. In this small
demo I just wanted to show a bit of
what I have managed to do. Since
it's only a testpic you mustn't
think that this is the best pic I
can create. Later versions also
include planes, transperancy,
multiple lightsources. They are
also sped up more than 60 percent
and will be even faster. Look out
for new images by me! You are more
than welcome to contact me or read
more about the method in this issue
of Exceller 8.@L
@L
@C@H1"BRAIN MUSIC"@B
@KBy Godbrain@N@L
@L
This is a new section of Exceller
8. It will mainly deal with MIDI
and sampling on your Amiga. At
first I'd like to clear out a few
things:@L
@L
@K@B@Z"MIDI"@N@L
(Musical Instruments Digital
Interface)@L
@L
MIDI is a way for drum machines,
synthesizers, samplers etc to
communicate. It is actually a 32.5
kbaud serial interface with 1 start
bit, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit.
When using MIDI you transmit
information and not audio signals.@L
@L
If you have an instrument that is
compatible with MIDI and want to
use your Amiga as a Sequencer or
Editor/Librarian then you need an
interface.@L
@L
My advice to you is: Do not buy any
of the cheap MIDI-interfaces that
is available. The best thing to do
is to buy or build an interface
with at least 3 MIDI-Outs, 1
MIDI-Thru and 1 MIDI-In. At first
you may not be needing this, but
later on you will feel that you did
the right thing.@L
@L
The 3 MIDI-Outs are very good to
have when you hook up more than
two instruments to your interface,
especially older ones, because all
the instruments will receive the
MIDI information at the same time.
That helps your music to be more
precise and "tight".@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Sampling"@N@L
If you don't have any MIDI
instruments you still can produce
good- quality music with the aid of
your Amiga. I'm thinking about the
internal capabilities of the
computer. If you want to get
anything decent out of your Amiga
be sure to use samples that has
been sampled at a high sampling
rate and disconnect the low-pass
filter either by software or
hardware.@L
@L
If you don't want to buy a sampler
then a cheap and easy way is to get
in touch with someone who is into
sampling and try to borrow and swap
disks until you have built your own
sound library. And, please, do not
use any of the early Soundtracker
disks. Those sounds are getting to
familiar and boring.@L
@L
If you consider buying a sampler be
sure not to buy any of the cheap
models. Buy one that has a variable
low-pass filter or at least 4-5
preset ones.@L
@L
Also, make sure that the sampler
plugs into the parallel port and
not anywhere else.@L
@L
When it comes to sampling by
yourself you should always try to
sample your sound at different
sample rates and with different
filters and then compare the
results. Different sounds may need
different settings.@L
@L
From my own experience I can say
that the Dolby filter on the
cassette deck is not so good to
have on when you are sampling.
Instead try to set the tape
selector to Chrome if you are using
a a normal tape and Metal if you
are using a chrome tape.@L
@L
Personally I feel that the lowest
sampling rate you should use is the
highest possible. My own favourite
is 28184 Hz, because this is also
the tone A. If you want to sample
speech from television or radio (a
la Front 242) then it is suitable
with a sampling rate of 14092 Hz,
this is also an A, or perhaps even
lower. CD disks are especially good
to sample from because they are in
fact sampled at a rate of 442000
Hz. If you want to get a good
result then sample a half that rate
and you will avoid different
distortion effects.@L
@L
If you have any questions about
MIDI, sampling, music software and
MIDI instruments then feel free to
send them to Exceller 8 and I will
be happy to answer them in this
column.@L
@L
In the next issue I will write more
about MIDI and I will test
different MIDI programs.@L
@L
That is all from me for this time.@L
@L
@P@C@H1"Hardware Hazard"
@BBy MaCron One/X8@N@L
@L
@KFigure 1 is placed on page 31.@L
Figure 2 is places on page 32.@L
The pictures are also included on
this disk in IFF. (Ohm)@N@L
@L
Oups, seams that I missed the first
issue. Well - never mind, this way
I don't have to construct a new
thing for this issue but I'll use
the one that should have been in
the first, a Musical Instrument
Digital Interface - perhaps better
known as MIDI.@L
@L
Why a MIDI? Well, it's one of the
easiest things you can do for an
Amiga, and it's really a Low-Cost,
Easy-to-Build, State-of-the-Art,
Add-on, and since nobody came with
any another suggestion (how could
you?) (don't brag -Ed.). I thought
this would be a good start.@L
@PEver though the MIDI
specificationes were made public
early in 1983 I think I'll take the
liberty to present some of them.
The interface operates in
asyncronous mode at 31250 baud with
a start bit, 8 data bits, no parity
and one stop bit giving a total of
10 bits per serial byte. The result
of this is that MIDI can receive/
transmit 3125 bytes/second which is
fair enough for most applications.@L
@L
Since the Amiga already has a
asyncronous receiver/transmitter -
if you haven't guessed it yet - the
serial port, which can be
programmed to operate at the
parameters above, the only thing we
have to do is to transform the
RS232C output TxD into a MIDI out
signal, and the MIDI in signal to
an RS232C RxD.@L
@L
To make the interface more
'user-able' it will have five MIDI
connectors. Three MIDI out, one
MIDI in and one MIDI thru. Of
course you don't have to connect
all of them if you don't want to.
The interface will work fine with
only one connector, except MIDI
thru which require MIDI in to
work.@L
@L
Figure 1 shows the circuit diagram
for the A500 MIDI, and Figure 2
shows it for the A1000 MIDI.@L
@L
If you take a look you will see
that they are almost identical,
only the power connections are
different. But rather than making
one diagram with lots of jumpers
and notes I took the easy way and
made two copies of the same
diagram, changing one a bit (Hmm,
one shall not work to hard in the
afternoon).@L
@L
Logical one in RS232C is
represented by a negativ voltage
between -3V and -15V, and logical
zero is represented by a positive
voltage between +3V and +15V.
(these are standard recomendations.
On the Amiga logical zero is 8V to
13V. Logical one is -2.5V to -12V
but it doesn't matter in this
application).@L
@L
Logical one in MIDI is represented
by +5V and logical zero is
represented by 0V.@L
@L
The A500 lacks a +5V on the serial
port and I'm to lazy to make more
changes than necessary so both
versiones get +5V from R1 and D1,
feed from the +12V.@L
@L
D2 cuts off all negativ voltages on
the TxD line and R2/R3 divides the
remaining signal to TTL level. Now
logical one is 0V and logical zero
is +5V. N1 thru N3 is used to
buffer the signal and invert it to
fit MIDI. So much for the MIDI
transmitter section.@L
@L
The receiver is a little more
tricky, but nothing to worry about.
The MIDI specifications clearly
states that the receiver shall be
electricaly isolated from the
transmitter. The easiest way to
implement that is to use a optic
isolator, IC2 in the diagram. D3
cuts off any negative spikes to
protect IC2.@L
@L
The output signal from IC2 is
logical right but needs to be
buffered and N5/N6 takes care of
that. Since the signal got inverted
in the process N4 inverts in again
to make MIDI thru logical right.@L
@L
N6 drives an OP, IC1, which acts as
an comparator and drives the RxD
input. R12/R13 supplies a reference
voltage, 2.5V, to the inverting
input. When the non-inverting input
is low (MIDI one inverted by N6)
the output goes negativ (RS232C
one) and when the non-inverting
input is high (MIDI zero inverted
by N6) the output goes positive
(RS232C zero). Thats that. It
should be noted that the MIDI
specifications states that the
opto-isolators fall/rise time
should be max 2uS, such as the
Sharp PC-900 and HP 6N138.
Ironically I could not get any of
them to this project so I used the
CNY 17-2 which is slower, 4uS.@L
@L
The prototype was tested on an A500
together with a Roland MT32 and a
Korg Poly 800-II using Sonix 2.0,
Dr.T Keyboard Controlled Sequencer
and Dr.T Caged Editor and it worked
terrific even though the opto is
slower. However, should any
problems arise - they might if you
have very long chains - change the
opto to a faster one.@L
@L
The complete MIDI specifications -
they are not listed here, it's
quite a bit - are available from
the International MIDI Association
(IMA), and the MIDI Manufacturers'
Association (MMA).@L
@L
Thats all in this issue, if anyone
has any ideas on projects, or
computer hardware problems in
general (this also includes
assembler language programming
problems connected to hardware
constructions, but definitively not
spelling) - send a letter to:@L
@L
@FHardware Hazard@N, Exceller 8,
Heimdalsgatan 37, S-261 62
Glumslov, Sweden.@L
@L
If nobody has a better idea next
issue's project will, hopefully, be
a music sampler that fits in the
parallel-port and works with f.ex
AudioMaster.@L
@L
@BThis is MaCron One, signing off!@N@L
@P@P@P@H1"Freestyle U.K. report 2"
@BBy Big Al of Freestyle U.K./@L
Alphaflight@N@L
@L
Here in England there has been a
lot of things going on. First of
all there was the split of @BQuoram@N
from@B Bamiga Sector One@N due to
Quoram not releasing any software.
One of their programmers @BX-rayz@N had
to do a game so Quoram did not have
anybody to program any demos. Also
Quorams leader recently joined
Bamiga so they have become quite
small as a group.@L
@L
I think Quoram went downhill as
soon as @BTEW/NATO@N joined up with
them.@L
@L
The main occasion was the Commodore
Show in London but the only good
thing was that quite a lot of
groups were there. The hall were
too crowded and hardly any new
stuff was released which was a
pain. At the show was@B Accumalators,
Public Enemy, Sub-Zero, X-Men UK,
Share & Enjoy,@N Bamiga Sector One
(Nice chatting to you Ermida) and
of course @BFreestyle U.K.@N At the
show Public Enemy tried to slag us
down (jealous!) but we just slagged
him out which was timid compared to
what @BFrostbyte@N was going to do to
him.@L
@L
After the crap show was the
Freestyle U.K/SAE copyparty. It was
going to be a Freestyle copy-party
but we felt that it would be better
to have a big one. It was an
average copy-party with @BWorld Of
Wonders@N coming from abroad. Many
people got lost trying to find it
but we all had a great time. At the
copy-party was a demo done by SAE
and everybody put some words in
which in some cases was funny.@L
@L
Since we gave Public Enemy a
slagging @BQuartex@N has also given
them a slag which shows how lame
they are. It has been rumoured
that they have split up due to
arguments and quarrels.@L
@L
This would leave the No.1 spot in
the U.K very open. There are many
groups here that are big and famous
but most of them don't swap hot
software. Some of the big groups in
the U.K are FREESTYLE U.K,
ACCUMALATORS, QUORAM, BAMIGA UK.@L
@L
Just recently there has been a big
surge in software being released.
Over 20 new titles a week was
released. Most of the stuff (Double
Dragon, Arkanoid II, Return of the
Jedi, Elite, Lombard etc) had
either protection or password and
as since there is not many crackers
in the U.K not much of it is
spread. So any big group who needs
hot originals straight from the day
it is released get in contact with
us.@L
@L
Just recently we have done 3 good
intros/demos even though some of
them uses BOBS there are, I reckon,
no other group in the U.K that can
handle bobs so we are catching up.
We have 2 mega coders which are
programming the masterpieces and a
brilliant soundmaster (W.O.W's
musician was impressed with his
music) The 3 demos should be
released at the W.O.W copy-party in
Holland which Freestyle are going
to (I think we are the only English
group going to this copy-party).@L
@L
Well, we will see you at the
copy-party (If you are going to
it).@L
@L
Read my next article to see what
happens next.@L
@L
BYE!!!@L
@L
@P@H1"Round-up of '88"
The editor of this publication
decided that he wanted some kind of
ending of the year 1988. So he
wrote down some questions for the
Exceller 8 crew to answer.@L
@L
The following pages show you the
result of his inquiry.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Starfire"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Wico Redball@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Amiga! What else is
there!@L
@KBest_Game@N: Isn't one. Maybe
Falcon.@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Demos are a waste of CPU
time.@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Isn't one@L
@KBest_Record@N: T'Pau - Rage@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Rambo show or 1001
ways of killing.@L
@KBest_Movie@N: At the present -
Willow.@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Starfire official
hackdisk - it's just cool! It
contains SEKA and more.@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Well, you really want
to know, don't you.@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Starfire
Starburgers! None have complained
yet. May they rest in pieces.@L
@KBest_Book@N: The Dragonlance series.@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Well, if I
write that it will be censored!@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Bionic commando, Demo creators,
Argh! All viruses.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Celebrandil"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Speedking@L
@KBest_Computer@N: CRAY@L
@KBest_Game@N: Gyruss (C64)@L
@KBest_Demo@N: The Champs first demo@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Verbatim.
Datalife@L
@KBest_Record@N: Upstairs at Eric's
(Yazoo)@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Cosby show@L
@KBest_Movie@N: The lord of the rings
(J.R.R. Tolkien)@L
@KBest_Utility@N: SEKA@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Catrin@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Garby's
(London)@L
@KBest_Book@N: The Belgariad (David
Eddings)@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Partying@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Outrun, The Band "Snakes",
Starfire's Antivirus@L
@C@B@K@Z"Foetus"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac-2@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Sinclair Spectrum@L
@KBest_Game@N: Quazatron (Spectrum)@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Wild Copper@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Noname@L
@KBest_Record@N: The justified ancients
of Mu-Mu: Who killed the JAM's,
House music, Clint Ruin@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: The News on TV@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Arizona Junior on
Video@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Tx-ed@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Sabrina (Who else!)@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: The one on the
corner@L
@KBest_Book@N: Richard (King) Bachman:
The long walk@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: MTV@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Chubby Gristle, The Band "Snake
intro", Dasa 0.2@L
@P@B@K@Z"Azid"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac-2@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Amiga 500@L
@KBest_Game@N: Sword of sodan@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Megademo 3@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Scotch@L
@KBest_Record@N: Rush - 2112@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Dallas@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Midnight Run@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Text-ed@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Sabrina@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Clock@L
@KBest_Book@N: Phantoms - Dean R.
Koontz@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N:Drumplaying@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Caverns of Palle, Abigail demo,
Dasa 0.2@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Crab"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac-2@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Amiga 500@L
@KBest_Game@N: Interceptor@L
@KBest_Demo@N: My next@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Noname@L
@KBest_Record@N: My frisbee@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Soap@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Star wars@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Seka@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Brooke Shields@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Can you eat
that?@L
@KBest_Book@N: Cook book@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Watching
movies@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Jupiter probe, The Band "Snake",
all viruses!@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"MaCron One"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac 2@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Sinclair QL@L
@KBest_Game@N: Interceptor@L
@KBest_Demo@N: All those intros that
are not enclosed on disks@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Basf@L
@KBest_Record@N: Pet Shop Boys -
Introspective@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Robotech@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Moon walker@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Disk editor@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Knut@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: The one on the
corner behind the cinema.@L
@KBest_Book@N: Stephen King - The
Stand@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Watching
MTV@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Mega Demo 2, 3 and all others
following@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Mahoney ^ Kaktus"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac 2@L
@KBest_Computer@N: @L
@KBest_Game@N: Drelbs ^ Lacey
Jones_-_Mahoney@L
@KBest_Demo@N: We haven't done it yet.@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Mahoney: No-name.
Kaktus: Maxell.@L
@KBest_Record@N: Everything by The Art
of Noise@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: The story of North
Star@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Mahoney: Downtown in
Malmoe/Sweden. Kaktus: A good
anti-bug biocid@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Seka@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Mahoney: Girls? Girls!
In my life, there are nobody except
Paula, Denise and Fat Agnus.
Kaktus: J.S. You don't know her
anyway...@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: We don't eat
such shit, we prefer real @BHOT@N
chinese food! (Bleurgh! -Ed.)@L
@KBest_Book@N: The fellowship of the
ring_-_Mahoney@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Mahoney:
Resting. Kaktus: Sleeping.@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Game: Mahoney: Chess, intelligent
people do something productive!
Kaktus: Drelbs and Lacey Jones.
Demo:_-_. Virus: Mahoney: Nothing
beats my virus-killer! Kaktus:
Virus? I use Mahoney's
virus-killer!@L
@P@B@K@Z"Luftwaffe"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: The gear lever in my
car.@L
@KBest_Computer@N: VAX@L
@KBest_Game@N: Apache Strike on
Macintosh@L
@KBest_Demo@N: No idea@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Swedisc@L
@KBest_Record@N: Simple Minds, Sparkle
in the rain.@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Dallas@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Fawlty Towers on TV@L
@KBest_Utility@N: My hands and my
brain.@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Zabrina@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Mc Donalds@L
@KBest_Book@N: The day of the Jackal
and the history of Mercedes-Benz in
three parts.@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Sleeping@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Aarrrgggghhhh!!@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Titan"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: My homemade arcade
joystick@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Amiga@L
@KBest_Game@N: (Arcade) Ghouls' n
Ghosts (Amiga) Obliterator.@L
@KBest_Demo@N: I don't know@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Maxell@L
@KBest_Record@N: Beatbox "Popcorn"@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Airwolf@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Day of the dead@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Soundtracker@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Vanity@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Mc Donalds@L
@KBest_Book@N: Dynamic Kicks_-_Chong
Lee.@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Tae kwon
do.@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Mission Elevator, The Band_-_Snake,
SCA Virus.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Omega ^ Zigma"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Tac2/ Wico@L
@KBest_Computer@N: EDSAC/ Amiga@L
@KBest_Game@N: Elite/ Falcon/ Omegas
Game(Under Construction).@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Megademo I,II,III@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Sony@L
@KBest_Record@N: Top Gun@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: _-_.@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Die Hard/ Shoot to
kill.@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Seka@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Maria Whittaker(Great
tits).@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Mc Donalds@L
@KBest_Book@N: Hardware manual.@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Amiga@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Titus games, Lamer Demos, Dasa.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Atom"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Wico/pro 5000@L
@KBest_Computer@N: My HP-Calculator@L
@KBest_Game@N: Wizmo/Katakis/Sword of
Sodan@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Atom Demo 1@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Sony@L
@KBest_Record@N: Koto@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Death Wish@L
@KBest_Movie@N: @L
@KBest_Utility@N: NS Music ripper/Seka@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: My sister?@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Burger King@L
@KBest_Book@N: Amiga hardware manual/
Dragonlance@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Girls/
Making money/ Parties@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Curtex (C@KO@NRTEX! -Ed.), Omega (crew)
demo, Virus X.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Lord Vega"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Wico@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Cray-2@L
@KBest_Game@N: Delta (64)@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Wild Copper@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: 3M@L
@KBest_Record@N: Revolution (Jean
Michael Jarre), Computerworld
(Kraftwerk).@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Lassie@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Roger Rabbit@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Amon 2@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: None of your
business!@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: What is a
hamburger?@L
@KBest_Book@N: Musashi (Eji Yoshikawa)@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Karate,
Computers, Girls@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Mutant Camels 2, Snakeintro by The
Band, I hate them all and their
imbecill creators.@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Jazze"@N@L
@KBest_Joystick@N: Pro competition@L
@KBest_Computer@N: Spectrum (Good
choice! -Ed.)@L
@KBest_Game@N: Sword of sodan@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Dragon's lair@L
@KBest_Disk_brand@N: Maxell@L
@KBest_Record@N: The best of the Art of
Noise@L
@KBest_Soap Opera@N: Falcon crest@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Die hard (Bad taste!!
-Ed.)@L
@KBest_Utility@N: Disksalv@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Brooke Shields@L
@KBest_Hamburgerbar@N: Burger King@L
@KBest_Book@N: DragonLance@L
@KFavourite_waste_of_time@N: Sleep
(long)@L
@KMost_hated_game,_demo,_virus_etc._@N:
Rocket attack, Omega crew demos,
Byte bandit@L
@P@H1"Games, Games!!"
@K@B@Z"THUNDERBLADE"@N@L
@K@Z"* *"@N@L
@BUS GOLD@N presents a new game called
Thunderblade. In this game you have
to fly a fighting helicopter
through diffrent levels and
scenarios. For exampel cities and
canyons and so on. On the ground
are tanks which you can blow away
by dropping bombs on them. You are
also equiped with a machine gun
that you can use on aircrafts. I
must say that this is a very
difficult game to play because it
is very easy to crash into
buildings and it is also very hard
to avoid enemy fire.@L
@L
The graphics is quite good but far
from the arcade original, but what
do you expect from US GOLD? I
really liked the titel-tune
especially the drums because they
had a nice and real sound which you
do not hear to often in the
Amiga-demos. This game could have
been a hit instead it was a
disapointment to see the
conversion.@L
@L
Azid gives "Thunderblade" a ratingof 2.@L
@L
@Z"THE STRONGEST NAME IN DRUMS"@Z"<<<TAMA>>>"@L
@L
@K@B@Z"HOSTAGES"@N@L
@K@Z"* * *"@N@L
Hostages, a new game from
Infogrames in which you and your
men have to free hostages from some
bad terrorists. On stage one you
have to get your snipers in
position in three different places
around the Embassy. That part of
the game is quite easy.@L
@L
Then you will be dropped on the
roof of the embassy and from there
on you have to guide your man into
the building through a window. Then
the fun starts when you have to
find the terrorists and kill them.
You have to be careful so you dont
kill any hostages because that is
very easy to do (I'm trigger
happy).@L
@L
This game is very fun to play and
it has also got some very good
graphics and sounds, especially the
music during the game.@L
@L
From my opinion this game is
different to all other games but
the lastability on this game is
quite low because it is low on
variation. All in all this is a
very playable game, but for how
long?@L
@L
@BAzid@N gives @BHostages@N 3 snipers.
@C@K@B@Z"SWORD OF SODAN"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * * *"@N@L
Now this a game we'we all been
waiting for. This game has it all,
graphics gameplay and of the music.
This is my type of game, that's why
I'll have to give it such a good
rating_-_of course it's worth it.@L
@L
There are 12 levels of enemy
executions to play, so I can
understand that Sodan had a busy
time working on this game. Well, if
you want to cheat on Sword of Sodan
then simply type in 'YODA' on the
highscore list, and then you are
able to cheat with infinitive
lives! Belive me, you're gonna need
it, because it's a hard job,
fighting off those weird
strangers.@L
@L
The game never gets dull I think,
because of it's graphics and very
good gameplay. If you ever
considering buying an original this
has to be it...at the final screen
you meet the wizard, an evil wizard
indeed. He charges several hits to
be executed, but then if you do
execute him, you are allowed to see
the end screen, which is absolutly
great! I can't wait too see what
Sodan is up to next!@L
@L
Rating 5 evil wizards out of 5.@L
@L
@BREX@N@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Maria Whittaker's X-mas box"@N@L
@K@Z"* *"@N@L
At the time when I tested this geem
I damned myself for beeing such a
lousy poker-player (You're a born
loser! -Ed.). The geem consists of
a couple of pictures showing a
pretty lady. You are supposed to
play poker against her and when you
start botrh of you have got the
same amount of money and all your
clothes on. If you are losing and
run out of money you have to start
selling your clothes to get more
money.@L
@L
Of course the meaning with the geem
is not that you are going to lose,
on the contrary. When she is losing
the computer will choose another
picture to show you, a much better
picture than the last one. And if
you continue to play well you will
see better and better pictures.
Unfortunately I can't tell you how
many pictures there are and not
what the last one's look like, but
I can imagine.@L
@L
But it is not fair that Maria is
wearing a hat and that I can't
choose my clothes on my own. If
this was permitted I would be
dressed like a participant of a
polar-expedition.@L
@L
Though the fact is that the
pictures are not that fantastic,
the Amiga is better than that, but
in spite of that I spent one hour
and a half trying to get all her
clothes off, but failed (ha ha ha
-Ed.).@L
@L
The geem is quite simply
constructed and when you have
reached the goal (the last picture)
once, then it is not so funny
anymore. Therefor I score the game
low, two out of five (three if you
are very fond of naked girls).
Contributing to this low score is
the fact that the computer doesn't
play very logical, so a smart guy
like me can't beat it.@L
@L
@BLuftwaffe@N@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Operation Wolf"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * *"@N@L
Yet another arcade hit has come out
on Amiga. I have always been a fan
of Operation Wolf, that goes for
the Amiga version too. There are
very small differences regarding to
the graphics and the sound.@L
@L
You are a soldier who's mission is
to save a hostage and destroy and
kill as many of the enemies as
possible. There are six different
levels in the game all basically
the same. They get harder and
harder as you progress further into
the game. There are a lot of
shooting in this game, but you
haven't got all that many grenades
or an endless amount of ammunition
that you wish you would have had.
On the other hand you can pick up
more "hardware" as you go along
killing your off your foes.@L
@L
I think this is a good game and I
give it four out of five.@L
@L
@BSlaine@N@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Double Dragon"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * *"@N@L
Now this old arcade hit has come
out on Amiga too. It's very much
like the arcade version even the
graphics and the sound are almost
the same.@L
@L
You have the possibility to choose
whether to play a one or two player
game. The meaning of the game is to
rescue your girlfriend who has been
taken away by a gang of hooligans.
On the way to her rescue you meet a
lot of people, for example, negros,
women and giants.@L
@L
I think the game is a little bit to
easy, but it's fun to play. So I
give it four out of five.@L
@L
@BSlaine@N
@CSend all your demos/intros to:@L
Belgalive/Killerman@L
Allerheiligenberg 20@L
3290 Diest (Belgium)@L
To make a compact!@L
Disks send back guaranteed!@L
@S0@L
CONTACT FIRST WAVE FOR NEW STUFF:@L
@Z"EQUALIZER"
@Z"JUHANNUSTIE 21 H 16"
@Z"00750 HKI"
@Z"FINLAND"
@Z"ALL ANSWERED!!"@L
@S0@L
If you want to swap hot stuff, send
a few disks to:@L
@Z"B&B"@N
@Z"Box 2"@N
@Z"N-8612 Andfiska"@N
@Z"Norway"
@N P.S. We won't steal your disks,even if you are lamers!@L
@P@H1"Letters"
If you want to write to Exceller 8,
this is the address:@L
Exceller 8@L
Heimdalsgatan 37@L
S-261 62 Glumslov@L
Sweden@L
@L
Don't hide it provide it! @L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Where's Elm Street?"@N@L
Hello Atom and all other members.@L
@L
After reading the Exceller 8 disc,
I was shocked. How come that you
don't have reviews of @BNightmare on
Elmstreet@N part I,II,III, and I
couldn't find them on the top ten
horror movies chart. Part III is
extremely good, or should I say
cool.@L
@L
Exceller 8 is a good idea. In
Denmark we have just started
something similar, we have been
operating since August 88,
unfortunately the text in our
magazine is in Danish. It's called
@BBrainBox@N, and we deliver every
month. It includes all reviews,
news, test, hitlist, serious things
as programming. Maybe you have seen
it, because some LAMERS copied the
disks, and distributed them to
Sweden and Norway. The disc isn't
free, it costs 35 danish crowns,
included is the disc and the
stamps.@L
@L
Keep up your good work.@L
@L
@KLord Helmet@L
Middelfart@L
Denmark@N@L
@L
@BElm Street? Not enough gore!!@N@L
@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Hot beeps!"@N@L
Dear North Star and Fairlight,@L
@L
I am writing to congratulate you on
your first issue of Exceller 8.
Gee-wiz, what a cool mag. Who wrote
the music, it was great!@L
@L
How about some coin-op and book
reviews? Longer game reviews and
more would be good. Some artistic
pictures would also be great. I
look forward to the next issue.@L
@L
Merry Christmas to you all.@L
@L
@KJamie Grisetti (? -Ed)@L
Sydenham@L
London@L
England@N@L
@L
@BTitan (NS) wrote the music for
issue one of the mag. Somewhere in
this issue there should be some
coin-op reviews also written by
Titan. We have considered book
reviews but we don't know what
books to review and it is also hard
to get people to read books.@L
@L
Artistic pictures? Well maybe, but
we are a little short on memory.@N@L
@B@K@Z"Issue 2?"@N@L
Hello North Star and Fairlight,@L
@L
This letter was typed by Ascot from
Int. Digital Studio and today we
got the Exceller 8 issue 1. I think
this Disk-Magazine is the best I
ever saw. It contains a not so
boring sound like in the CJ from
AFL and the comic-strips are better
than in SN 5.@L
@L
Question: When will Exceller 8
Issue 2 be released?@L
@L
That's all.@L
Bye Bye,@L
@L
@KAscot from I.D.S.@N@L
@L
@BIssue 2? You're reading it! What's
CJ?@L
@P@B@K@Z"Not King?"@N@L
Dear Folks (or something likethat)@L
@L
This is @BLOKI@N of @BALPHAFLIGHT@N and I
just got u're first issue of
Exceller 8.@L
@L
I read it and then I came to the
article where @BFoetus@N wrote
something about the @BRunning Man@N
movie. The movie is OK - as he
said, but the movie has nothin'
except the title from the "@BKING@N"
story.@L
@L
I read the story an' about 5 others
of the same kind. F.X "@BRunning Man@N"
from @BJohn W. Campell@N, an' let me
say ya that @Bnobody@N is able to make
a movie out of @BStephen Kings@N
original stories.@L
@L
Lot's of producers tried it but
none is able to do it well. F.
X."@BChristine@N"...@L
@L
The movie is OK but only if you
haven't read the book before.@L
@L
I hope you consider to print this
letter in your next issue.....@L
@L
Greetinx@L
@KLOKI@N@L
@KALPHAFLIGHT@N@L
@L
@BIn the presentation of the movie
"The Running Man" it says "Based on
a novel by Richard Bachman". I
interpret that as a "King" movie. I
think you also misunderstood me
when I wrote "Well made". "Rambo 3"
and the "Superman" series is also
well made, but they are not
particulary good movies. The only
really good "King" movie is "The
Shining" by Stanley Kubrick. But on
the other hand that is a matter of
personal taste.@L
Foetus@N
@P@K@B@Z"FOETUS INC.!!"@N@L
Hi there! Exceller 8 + North Star +
Fairlight@L
@L
I've just read the first number of
your magazine and I saw that you
wanted some comments so here's a
letter from me.@L
@L
But I got a real reason to write
this letter when I read the article
about @BSTARFIRE INC.@N At the end I
saw that @BFOETUS@N wondered if there
were any groups called @BFOETUS INC.@N
out here in the real world. Well,
the answer is yes!!@L
@L
The fact is that FOETUS INC.
consists of me and my little bugs.
I got the name before I heard
anything about a group called North
Star (I hope there's no copyright
on the name). I'm a member of the
group @BUGGADUNKERS (V3.0)@N. We
haven't realeased anything yet
(apart from a great music-disk by
one of our members @BZKOBA@N)@L
@L
Enough bullshit about me now the
magazine. I found it very
interesting even if the layout was
a bit boring (more pictures and
perhaps some more interesting
muzak). The contents was better,
but I would like to see more about
useful programs instead of all
these booooooring games. But I
found the part with music, film and
video very interesting. It would
also be interesting to read about
hardware such as harddisks,
samplers, midi and so on. But it's
a very interesting magazine and I'm
looking forward to the next
number.@L
@L
Greetings from FOETUS INC. of the
UGGADUNKERS alias@L
@L
Ulf Svensson@L
Karlstad@L
Sweden@L
@P@BWhat do you do when you
get a@N@Bletter like that?@N@L
@L
@BRight! You hire him on.@N@L
@L
@BHave a look at the Lp and CD
reviews later on in this issue.@N@L
@L
@L
@C@H1"Arcades"@BBy Titan@N@L
@L
Hello, everybody!@L
@L
In this text I'm going to tell you
some simple things about
arcade-games. People in Japan has
got another interest for
video-games than people in the U.S.
That's not surprising because the
Japanese are 'fed up' with nice
graphics. They like games that are
more entertaing and funny. In other
words 'they don't give a shit about
graphics'. At least that is my
impression of what I have seen on
the top-ten-lists.@L
@L
Here are the December-88
top-ten-lists for Japan and USA.@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Japan"@N@L
1.Final lap@L
2.Chase HQ@L
3.Top landing@L
4.Metal hawk@L
5.Power drift@L
6.Final lap standard "Don't ask
me..."@L
7.Out run@L
8.Continental circus@L
9.Galaxy force@L
10.Afterburner@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"USA"@N@L
1.Cabal@L
2.Shinobi@L
3.Altered beast___"Very niceg
raphics indeed"@L
4.V-ball@L
5.P 47@L
6.Roadblaster@L
7.Bowling "Boring"@L
8.Twin eagle@L
9.Championship sprint@L
10.Twin cobra "THAT'S what I call
a game"@L
@CAnd now for what I think is the
best game of the year, the return
of the classic "Ghosts'n
Goblins"..."GHOULS'N GHOSTS"!!!@L
@L
I'm happy to say that I have been
through the whole game and put
Lucifer down where he belongs.@L
@L
It's a most fantastic game that
tells us what has happened since
Lucifer created his evil empire
three years ago.@L
@L
The whole thing starts with Lucifer
coming back from retirement to a
peaceful little world somewhere in
the faerietales. He is more
powerful than ever and his evil
demons are attacking the royal
palace to get the princess' soul.
The little village is filled with
panic. Women with thier children
are running in fear, the men are
too yellow to stay and fight. But
there is one, a hero full of
courage and stupidity enough to
enter the deep shit and save the
princess. "He can't be thinking
with his brain, if you know what I
mean..."@L
@L
Arthur, the knight in shining
armour, is the one I'm talking
about. He rides on a white charger
in the opposite direction right
through the running crowd to fight
Lucifer. As he enters the castle
all he can see is death. Servants,
maids, and other people are lying
on the ground killed by Lucifers
demons. Suddenly he sees the
Princess running straight for him
screaming. As she's running
something hits her and she falls to
the ground, dead. Arthur hurry's to
help her but it's too late. All
Arthur has in mind now is revenge
and looks up into the dark and
cloudy sky.@L
@L
Now the fun begins!@L
@L
It's quite the same game as
"Ghosts'n Goblins" but the
landscape has been changed and the
graphics improved. Another finess
is that Arthur is able to fire not
only left and right but also up and
down. You also have a wider choice
of fire power like the golden
sword, the star etc. The best
weapon is still the knife.@L
@L
Then there is a third armour, if
you keep the old armour on long
enough you can get the magic
armour. The good thing about this
armour is that if you hold down the
firebutton patiently, Arthur
gathers power for the "ultimate
weapon". When you release the
button something nice always
happens, depending on what weapon
Arthur has got at the moment. There
is not much more I can tell you now
except that "Ghouls'n Ghosts" is a
lot easier than "Ghosts'n
Goblins".@L
@L
@BTitan@N gives it a 4.5 of 5.
@P@H1"Warhammer Fantasy RPG Review."
The Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay book
is huge. It's 366 page A4 size
hardbacked and is very good to use
if you are going to smash some
lamers head.@L
@L
WFRP is set in the Old World. The
maps are slightly different from
our world but The Old World covers
Germany. The southpole is called
The Southern Chaos Wastes, whatever
they mean by that. Perhaps it's a
very cold and very nasty place to
be if you're not a chaos mutant.@L
@L
WFRP wasn't first. @BGames Workshop@N
made Warhammer Fantasy Battle
before they even thought of making
the RPG. WFB is a tabletop skirmish
game that also is set in the Old
World. After the success with WFB
then WFRP saw the light. This book
is very complete. It contains
everything that you need to play
except dice. You need 4, 6, 8, 10,
12 and 20 sided. It's good to have
two 10 sided because this game uses
percentage rolls to determine your
success.@L
@L
The character system uses skills.
If you don't have a skill, say
swimming, then you have a penalty
on your die roll. If you make it,
good. If you don't...... The combat
and magic systems are very good.
The combat section contains a very
funny table. The critical hits
tables. With these you can see what
happens to your enemy when you have
managed to score a nice blow.@L
@L
Ex: Your blow smashes your
opponent's spine and abdomen,
tearing muscle and scattering bone
so that your opponent falls to the
ground in two separate places. Nice
touch. The magic section contains
over 150 spells spread over seven
types of magic. Each spell has a
fixed cost in magic points and your
character has points up to a
certain value. After they are used
up, he needs sleep.@L
@L
This book also contains a section
on religion and belief. It
describes the different Gods, their
alignment, temples and much more.
Monsters! I can hear you scream.
You asked for it! In the Bestiary
you can find just about every
monster you ever wanted not to
meet. And some you really want to
meet. These are no monsters, of
course. What about a horse?@L
@L
Following the bestiary, we find the
Guide to The World. Here you have
descriptions of different places,
languages and more. The last
section contains a complete
adventure for you to start you off
in WFRP. The Oldenhaller Contract
is very simple but it is good for
beginners.@L
@L
In the last pages of the book you
will find different tables showing
combat modifiers and the like. You
also have a look at typical
buildings, complete with
floorplans. For ex. a Coaching
Inn.@L
@L
To round this off you can say that
WFRP is a good purchase. The only
thing that prevents this product
from getting the highest rating is
that it contains a fair amount of
misprints. One can't blame them
though. With a big book like this
there is always mistakes to be
made, but mistaking a bear for a
giant bat is not all that easy now
is it?@L
@L
Games Workshop have printed an
errata in their magazine White
Dwarf. Counting 72 errors. However,
they have managed to make a good
game, and me and my pals have
played it a lot. The back up is
also very good. The campaign The
Enemy Within seems as neverending -
and very deadly. My Druid has
managed to get his right hand cut
off. Well so much for being right
handed. Wait until I gain Magic.
Then Chaos will pay. Well. Better a
hand than a head. Games Workshop
has also managed to put Warhammer
in the future. Warhammer 40'000.
They also made an expansion of the
chaos gods. A two book series -
Realm of Chaos. Really gory. But
more about that later. Stay tuned -
Same StarChannel - Same StarTime.@L
@L
The Rating for Games Workshop's
Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay is: Four
Scimitars out of Five.
Outstanding.@L
@L
Yours Sincerely, in Battle or Bout.
@BStarfire@N for Exceller8.
@C@H1"Useless movie info!"
Michael Keaton, last seen in
"Beetlejuice", is right now taking
part in the making of the movie
version of the fab Tv series
"Batman". -Holy broken bones,
Batman!!!@L
@L
@S1@L
@L
Madonna has signed a contract with
Columbia pics. to make the comedy
"Bloodhounds of Broadway" -Holy
Sean Penn, Batman!!@L
@L
@S1@L
@L
The Steven Spielberg extravaganza
"Roger Rabbit" has now grossed 148
million dollars in the USA. The
movie has made 2 million dollars in
Sweden, 2 in Italy, 17 in
West-Germany, 3 in Spain, 24 in
France and 4 million dollars in
Japan. This means that "Roger
Rabbit" will be one of the greatest
movie rabbits in the history of
moviemaking. -Holy Bugs Bunny,
Batman!!@L
@L
@S1@L
@L
Disney, by the way, will during the
coming year launch a new label
beside their present Two labels,
"Disney" and "Touchstone". Last
year the Disney companies earned 25
percent of the total amount made at
the box offices. -Holy Piggy-bank,
Batman!!@L
@L
@S1@L
@L
The new and 16th James Bond movie,
originally named "License Revoked"
now changed to the more Bondish (?)
"License to Kill", features for the
second time Timothy Dalton as our
hero 007. The movie is scheduled
for premiere this Summer. -Holy
Moneypenny, Batman!!@L
@L
@S1@L
@L
The cinemas in Europe have been
occupied by "Roger Rabbit" and his
friends. In Australia on the other
hand, "Cocktail" is the main
"drink" at the moment. While the
Americans are lining up for the
movie "Twins". -Holy Blackn'
decker, Batman!!@L
@L
@BTwenty Minutes@N
@P@H1"Lights, camera, action"
@B@Z"MANIAC COP"@N@L
@K@Z"*"@N@L
Keystone cops? No!@L
@L
Police academy 8? No!@L
@L
Massmurdering cop? Yes!!@L
@L
Maniac Cop, a @BJames (Exterminator)
Glickenhaus@N production of a @BWilliam
(Maniac, Vigilante) Lustig@N film.
Ok, what's all this about then?
Quite simple, a Friday the 13th
ripoff. This is @BJason@N in a police
uniform!@L
@L
The story is ofcourse very simple
and leaks like a sieve. A man
(Monster?) walks the streets at
night killing anyone who comes in
his way. After a few moodsetting
killings - he uses a long knife
hidden in the blackjack - an
innocent cop played by Evil Dead
hero @BBruce Campbell@N is accused of
doing the killings. He and his
mistress @B(Laurene Landon)@N
desperately tries to find the real
killer.@L
@L
After a while the story gets a
little spicy when the detective in
charge of the case, finds out that
the killer is a "Dirty Harry" kind
of cop that was put in jail for
beeing to rude to his clients. The
violent cop was (almost) killed by
some ungrateful inmates but brought
back to life by the post-mortem
dissector at the prison hospital.
The poor cop suffered severe brain
damage during the period he was
half dead and only one thing
dominates his distorted brain.@L
@L
Revenge on the men who put him in
the penitentiary!@L
@L
Does this sound like a good story?
Maybe, but director Lustig isn't
the man for detail and finess.
Maybe Maniac Cop could have been a
good movie if they hadn't tried so
hard to copy the Jason series (He
is even indestructable!). The end
of the movie is ofcourse made so
that it will be easy to make a
follow-up.@L
@L
Bye the way, Bruce Campbell is good
from the neck and up and Laurene
Landon is good from the neck and
down.@L
@L
To put it short: Maniac Cop is a
lousy movie. I'll give it 1
blackjack@L
@L
@BFoetus@N@L
@L
@L
@B@Z"COP"@L
@K@Z"*_*_*"@N@L
Lot's of cops in this issue. @BCop@N
directed by the - for me - unknown@B
James B. Harris@N. This is a "one cop
against a mad killer" type of
movie. @BJames (Salvador, The Onion
Field) Woods@N plays the obsessed cop
who is trying to find the also
obsessed killer.@L
@L
While investigating the brutal
murder of a young woman, the cop
Lloyd Hopkins receives an anonymous
letter written in human blood.
Beeing written by the killer,
Hopkins thinks that the letter
proofs that the killer has killed
before. Because of Hopkins
obsession with his work and
criminality he runs into problems
with almost everyone.@L
@L
His wife leaves him taking their
daughter with her, his
partner/superior officer has
problems collaborating with him
because he is to fiery trying to
make things go his way. Finally he
is on a collision course with the
police captain for not giving him
the resources he thinks he needs to
solve the case.@L
@L
James Woods is definitely one of
Americas best character actors at
the moment. Although in this movie
I get the feeling that he is not
all that concentrated on his
character, the cop Lloyd Hopkins.
But it is also possible that it is
the directors fault that the movie
doesn't touch me as much as it
should have. The Woods character
doesn't go through much development
as the movie rolls on. He is
disturbed in the beginning of the
movie and he stays the same all
through the end.@L
@L
The good things about the movie is
that it is quite thrilling with
good supporting acts (Randi Brooks
is (as Laurene Landon) very good
from the neck and down!).@L
@L
Recommended. 3 lieutenants.@L
@L
@BFoetus@N @C@B@Z"RED HEAT"@N@L
@K@Z"*_*_*"@N@L
Cops everywhere! And Soviet ones
too.@L
Arnold is back! Yes @BArnold
Schwarzenegger@N is back in a new cop
movie together with @BJames Belushi@N.
This time Arnold takes on the role
of the Soviet policeman Ivan Danko.
Directed by the very competent
action maker @BWalter Hill@N, well
known for movies like Southern
Comfort (My personal favourite),
The Warriors, The Driver and 48
hrs. With movies like that you know
you are in for some good action.
You could say that Walter Hill is
the @BSam Peckinpah@N of the 80's.@L
@L
One odd thing about Red Heat is
that some scenes were shot on
location in Moscow. I don't think
anyone has done that before, at
least not for an American action
movie. The scenes shot in Moscow
gives the movie a good feeling of
authenticity. Also the fact that
the "Soviets" speaks russian (Yes,
even Arnold) makes a lot for the
whole feeling of the movie.@L
@L
The story is - as all action movies
- quite simple. During a raid
against Soviet cocain dealers,
Dankos brother (also a policeman)
is killed by Viktor Rosta the
leader of the drug organization.
Rosta manages to get away and
escapes to America to set up a new
organisation. Danko is sent to
Chicago to get him before he gets a
chance to send a big load of cocain
back to Soviet.@L
@L
Red Heat reminds me of another Hill
movie, namely 48 Hrs. The plot is
very similar and the setup of the
movie is more or less the same. We
have the two men, put together by
fate, that have to find a dangerous
criminal within a limited amount of
time (Danko has to get back to
Soviet). They don't get along very
well in the beginning, but after a
while they start to respect
eachother. In 48 Hrs. @BNick Nolte@N
was sleazy but dedicated to his
case and @BEddie Murphy@N had style and
wit. In Red Heat James Belushi is
sleazy and witty and Arnold
Schwarzenegger is stylish and very
dedicated to his assignment. The
end is also almost identical with
48 hrs.@L
@L
Personally I find 48 Hrs. a better
and most of all a funnier movie,
mainly because of Eddie Murphy.
Also a thing that is a bit
irritating is the way the russians
are portrayed. They are still very
"commie" whitch means that they are
quite "stiff" and empty on
feelings. They are also very keen
on bureaucracy.@L
@L
All in all, not too bad though. The
action is good and the story
convinceable I'll give it 3 red
stars.@L
@BFoetus@N@L
@K@B@Z"Willow"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * * *"@N@L
Willow or 1001 ways to (mis)use a
love potion.@L
@L
@KBavmorda@N, an evil witch, is keeping
the world in a tight leash. Her
happiness would have been complete
if it hadn't been for a vision in
wich she saw herself destroyed by a
small child. She hunts the kingdom
for pregnant women and transports
them to her castle where their
children will be born and if one
bears the sign, the child will be
killed.@L
@L
The child is born. But a nursemaid
succeeds in sneaking the child out
but hunted by hounds of death and
warriors she meets her death at the
riverside. But not before she had
built a small raft and placed the
child on it. The raft speeds down
the river and is later found by two
children of a race called nelwyns.
Small people (Like Atom? -Ed.).
They call for their father @BWillow
Ufgood@N. And then the race is on.
There is some funny parts in which
a lovepotion plays a major part.
That explains the title.@L
@L
This is a good movie. But I think
that it will only appeal to fantasy
freaks. I am one as you know. It is
filled with magic, monsters and the
other stuff that fantasy pictures
are made of.@L
@L
The SFX in this movie are really
good. Especially when magic is on
the screen. And mind that sword. It
is sharp. The producer @BGeorge
Lucas@N (famed of @KSTAR WARS@N) has once
more pited Good against Evil. A
golden thread that goes through
most fantasy movies. A theme that
is never used up. If you are a
Fantasy freak, roleplayer or you
just like this kind of movies, then
you may safely go and watch it. It
is worth the money.@L
@L
I hear that Willow has come out in
a boardgame of some sort. I wonder
what it looks like. I wonder if it
contains a lifesize poster of the
fab @BSorcha@N?@L
@L
Anyway, I give Willow Five
lovepotions out of Five. Perhaps a
little bit generous, you may say. I
have given away another fiver in
this ish. But alas, isn't that what
they are for. Jokes aside, this one
is also worth it.@L
@L
Yours truly, in caverns and
dungeons, @BStarfire@N for Exceller8.
@C@H1"Musicpix!"
The Man With No Name_-_Yet! has now
got a name and it is @BTECHNO@N.@L
@L
@B@K@Z"Techno"@N@L
@KBest_Concerts@N: Hunters and
Collectors in Malmoe/Sweden,
Sugarcubes in Roskilde/Denmark@L
@KBest_Comix@N: Batman (Frank Miller)@L
@KBest_Game@N: Wizmo (Ha ha)@L
@KBest_Demo@N: Godbrains House disk@L
@KBest_Magazine@N: I-D@L
@KBest_Record@N: Pet Shop Boys:
Introspective, Hunters and
Collectors: Fate, Cocteau Twins:
Blue bell knoll, Skin: Shame
Humility Revenge, JAM's: Who Killedthe JAM's@L
@KBest_Movie@N: Hope and Glory@L
@KNicest_Girl@N: Bjork from Sugarcubes@L
@L
@KThe Funky Worm@N@L
"Hustle to the music"@L
Some videos are ridiculous. This is
one.
@P@KTom Tom Club@N@L
"Suboceana"@L
A bit strange this one. Is this the
first underwater video? Why is Tina
Weymouth wearing an umbrella on her
head?@L
@L
@KThe Highliners@N@L
"Henry the Wasp"@L
I didn't know they made 'em like
this anymore. Stump on a bad day?@L
@L
@KNew Grass Revival@N@L
"Can't stop now"@L
You've heard of Speed Metal? This
is Speed Country and Western!@L
@L
@KEllis, Beggs and Howard@N@L
"Where Did Tomorrow Go"@L
They borrowed my car for the video.
I promise! Let us hope they
continue to go round in circles!@L
@L
@KYello@N@L
"Tied Up"@L
Is there someone like me, that
doesn't like that deep voice.
Urghh. I hate it. Where do they buy
their suits?@L
@L
@KThe Mighty Lemon Drops@N@L
"Inside out"@L
They'll wipe the floor with any
other band.@L
@L
@KThe Darling Buds@N@L
"It's all up to you"@L
Sounds like a Blondie hit played on
a buzz-saw.@L
@L
@KSabrina@N@L
"My Chico"@L
Good close-ups. Now we've got all
of you!@L
@L
@KStatus Quo@N@L
"Burning Bridges"@L
I'm getting dizzy! Rock and @BROLL@N.@L
@L
@KInnercity@N@L
"Good Life"@L
Is the cameraman high on Ecstacy?@L
@L
@KGeorge Michael@N@L
"Kissing a Fool"@L
Not much going on here.@L
@KOfra Haza@N@L
"Im nin' Alu"@L
A real hit. What's next? Arabian
House?@L
@L
@KBest Commercial_-_@NLevis 501
"Rolling Stone"@L
@L
@KEric B and Rakim@N@L
"The Microphone Fiend"@L
Supposed to be @BTHE@N best of the
hip-hop boom. Myself, I am bored
stiff with fat goldchains.@L
@L
@KBon Jovi@N@L
"Born To Be My Baby"@L
Bruce does this much better.@L
@L
@KSigue Sigue Sputnik@N@L
"Success"@L
Will they get away with it?
Probably!@L
@L
@L
@KAnnie Lennox and Al Green@N@L
"Put a Little Love In Your Heart"@L
Cheap.@L
@L
@KNorthern Pikes@N@L
"One Good Reason"@L
This is one good reason to switch
on to MTV. A real drummer. A
favourite.@L
@L
@KSam Fox@N@L
"Love House"@L
Burning down the house.@L
@L
@KTil Tuesday@N@L
"Belive You Were Lucky"@L
A couple of good ideas here.@L
@L
@K2 Brave@N@L
"Stop That Girl"@L
Another druged cameraman. Shot from
the hip.@L
@L
@KBreathe@N@L
"How Can I Fall"@L
Is it a Coca-cola commercial?@L
@L
@L
@KMost Thilted VJ_-_@NMarcel Van
Thilt.@L
@L
@L
@KThe Stranglers@N@L
"Big In America"@L
Nice hats. Great fun. Have a nice
day@L
@L
@KThe Timelords@N@L
"Doctor In The Tardis"@L
Best car video ever! A true hit
(JAM's!)@L
@L
@KEdelwiess@N@L
"Bring Me Edelweiss"@L
Bumsen.@L
@L
@KAl Jarreu@N@L
"So Good"@L
Disgusting.@L
@L
@KPet Shop Boys@N@L
"Left To My Own Devices"@L
A view from below. Not bad. Good
groove. They are actually dancing
to their music, or at least
moving.@L
@L
@KGail Ann Dorsey@N@L
"Where Is Your Love"@L
Question: Can she actually play the
guitar?@L
@L
@KRun Dmc@N@L
"Christmas in Hollies"@L
How do they manage to play two gigs
at the same time. Truly amazing.@L
@L
@KU2@N@L
"New Years Day"@L
Brrrr. Swedish winter (shot in
Dalarna,Sweden). Just keep moving
those feets boys. Stay warm. Clear
as ice this one!@L
@L
@KSkin Games@N@L
"Brilliant Shining"@L
What do you do when you don't have
a good idea? Let the camera circle
around the band! Not that bad
though. Looks like where I live.@L
@L
@L
@KDuran Duran@N@L
"All She Want Is"@L
Chopped to pieces. Fascinating!!@L
@L
@L
@L
@KUB 40@N@L
"Come Out And Play"@L
ZZZZZZZZZZ@L
@L
@KFreda@N@L
"I En Annan Del Av Varlden"@L
Probably the best Swedish video
around at the moment. Recorded not
so far away from where I live! The
car? A Volvo!@L
@L
@KMost hated commercial_-_@NM^M "Movingin".@L
@L
@KPhil Collins@N@L
"Two Hearts"@L
One Phil Collins is a pain in the
ass. What do you think four is?@L
@L
@KVan Halen@N@L
"Finish What Ya Started"@L
Cut it and keep the best parts.
Forget the band. Was it always this
fun in the west. Woohaa, crack that
whip!@L
@L
@L
@L
@KA-ha@N@L
"You Are The One"@L
Manhattan skyline.@L
@L
@KEnya@N@L
"Evening Falls"@L
Celestial.@L
@L
@KKitaro@N@L
"Theme From The Silk Road"@L
Like beeing hit by a five ton truck
of boredom.@L
@L
@KNeneh Cherry@N@L
"Buffalo Stance"@L
Ha! Sucker!! Don't get fresh with
me. Great.@L
@L
@KLevel 42@N@L
"Tracie"@L
Wasn't there a hurricane called
Tracie?@L
@L
@KRobin Beck@N@L
"The First Time"@L
This @BIS@N a Coca-cola commercial.
Coke is it?@L
@L
@KErasure@N@L
"Stop"@L
Descent into the stroboscope
inferno.@L
@L
@KSinead O'Connor@N@L
"? (the latest)"@L
Edit me out.@L
@L
@KSteve (B)lame_-_@NWot, another hat?@N@L
@L
@KLittle Feat@N@L
"Let It Roll"@L
What happened? Did they run out of
decent videos?@L
@L
@KPrefab Sprouts@N@L
"Appetite"@L
Straight.@L
@L
@KSheena Easton@N@L
"The Lover In Me"@L
I don't know what Prince sees in
her. Totally without any trace of
talent. Bimbo!@L
@L
@L
@L
@KR.E.M.@N@L
"Orange Crush"@L
This issues best black and white
video. Style!@L
@L
@KThe Escape Club@N@L
"Shake For The Sheik"@L
Doesn't this sound exactely like
their previous hit? Or at least a
Xerox copy of INXS.@L
@L
@KKissing The Pink@N@L
"Stand Up"@L
I remember one of their old hits
"The last film I ever saw" or
something like that. Nice.@L
@L
@KKim Wilde@N@L
"Four Letter Word"@L
Is she getting fat? Kinky! Nice
dress.@L
@L
@KFrazier Chorus@N@L
"Dream Kitchen"@L
Serious? Boring! Competitor for
lamest video.@L
@L
@L
@KTanita Tikaram@N@L
"Cathedral song"@L
She does it again! Beautiful
sadness. A hard competitor for best
Black and white video.@L
@L
@KJulian Cope@N@L
"5 O'Clock World"@L
A designer microphone stand. Not
convincing.@L
@L
@KWee Papa girl Rappers@N@L
"Soulmate"@L
A slow-speed Milli-vanilli rip-off.
Yawn!@L
@L
@KNik Kershaw@N@L
"One Step Ahead"@L
Didn't he know that he was a
one-hit-wonder? Three steps
behind!@L
@L
@KKylie ^ Jason@N@L
"Especially For You"@L
Who the F**K is Jason? And does
anybody care? -Kylie, stick to your
own stuff!@L
@L
@KVixen@N@L
"Edge Of A Broken Heart"@L
Come on lads!@L
@L
@KMichael Jackson@N@L
"Smooth Criminal vers #2"@L
When people get tired of the first
one, go for this. $$$$$$$, violence
and machine gun totin'.@L
@L
And last but not least:@L
@L
@K@B@FMilli Vanilli@N@L
"Baby Don't Forget My Number"@L
Let's give'em a handkerchief. Don't
use your hands lads. Same quality
stuff. Choreography by Roger
Rabbit? Jump to the beat, stomp
your feet. Were they to sick or to
lazy to re-program the drum
machine?@L
@L
Acting improved. Best heavy metal
drummer of -89. Good headbanging.
Entrance the dynamic duo -_Follow
that car! Keep it up, keep it up.
Watch out lads, icy roads ahead!
Beat him up it's his fault. More
gore! Aaaah happy ending. Couldn't
be better. Almost as good as the
last video, or is it the same?@L
@L
Hang in there lads. A true mega
hit.@L
@L
@BTechno and Foetus@N @C@L
@BXOR@N are looking for new
swapping-contacts worldwide. Just
call :46/46/142902 (in Sweden) and
ask for "Figge". If you're a lamer,
don't bother.@L
@L
@S0@L
THE MAFFIA! A newly started group
from Sweden is looking for new
contacts. All letters answered.
Write to: Christer Nilsson,
Nackrosvagen 2, S-194 60, UpplandsVasby, Sweden.@L
@L
@S0@L
Contact Writing Force, Write to
Mattias Andersson, Biologigrand 31,
902 41, Umea, Sweden. No lamers!@L
@L
@P@H1"Tune in , turn on, drop out"
@B@K@Z"Pet Shop Boys"@N@L
@Z"Introspective"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * * *"@N@L
The Pet Shop Boys has been feeding
us a steady flow of good pop songs
and with this longplayer thay have
made their hitherto best release.@L
@L
Like the "Disco" album it contains
remixes of their old songs and some
new ones as well. All in full
length versions (rang. 7_-_9 min.).
It's amazing how they manage to
make those long tracks sound so
good. They could go on and on
forever. They never bore you like
remixes usually do. All six tracks
fit together like hand in glove.@L
@L
Either you just sit back and listen
to it or, preferably, dance. You
just can't sit still, I promise.
Swirl around to "Domino dancing",
jack your body to the house version
of "Always on my mind", or just
dance your life away to "It's
alright", the best track on the
album. 9 minutes and 24 seconds of
pure brilliance.@L
@L
It is a milestone in pop
production, from the guys who know
how to make hits. One of this
decades finer products. This one
will be remembered.@L
@L
5 parallel lines@L
@L
@BTechno@N@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"The house sound of London vol IV"@N@L
@Z"The jackin' zone"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * *"@N@L
This is the fourth album in the
"House sound..." series (and the
best I have heard). This one takes
us to England and it's House and
Acid House scene. If you want to be
introduced to House music it's a
good platform to start from.@L
@L
It contains some very good songs.
Jamie Principle's "Rebels", a real
House sermon. The very up beat Acid
House track with Houseaddicts.
D-mob's "We call it Aciieed", very
good if you can stand the shouting
(ha ha).@L
@L
Some other views is found in
"Salsahouse" with Ricki Rich and in
the smooth "I have a dream" by The
Speech.@L
@L
It's well worth checking out if you
like to get into the House groove
jungle. Just pump up the volume and
jack your body.@L
@L
Four smile's@L
@L
@BTechno@N @C@K@B@Z"Todd Terry"@N@L
@Z"To the batmobile, let's go"@N@L
@K@Z"* * *"@N@L
Todd Terry is back with his latest
House/sampling extravaganza.@L
@L
The record is built up around a few
different sounds which he use in
almost every song, this makes it a
bit monotonous at times. But do not
play the record in one go. Play the
tracks loud one at a time so to
speak. This one is not for easy
listening, it's for the
dancefloors.@L
@L
You can find samples from
Kraftwerk, Beatmasters and of
course Adam West from the Batman TV
series. Todd Terry sounds the best
in "Weekday", when he let's the
bassline through thouroghly.@L
@L
Not that good at first but it
grows.@L
@L
Three smiling Batmans@L
@L
@BTechno@N@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Front 242 + Nitzer Ebb"
@N@Z"Front by front + Belief"@N@L
@K@Z"* * * *"@N@L
These two bands has taken the lead
in, what finally got itself a name,
"Electronic Body Music". Although
they have been doing this sort of
music for a long time, nobody
really paid any attention. In
Belgium they have been playing
Front in the clubs for a long time.
But with the aid of House and
Acidhouse it really saw it's light.
They have spawned many bands such
as @BCassandra Complex, Ministry, A
split second, A grumh, Manufacture,
Skinny Puppy@N and many more.@L
@L
With Front's "Front by front" and
Nitzer's "Belief" they have made
their best albums to date. Nitzer
keeping to purer sound while Front
keep on using samples.@L
@L
And they do it good.@L
@L
With the rythm going straight into
your body. Two very fine products
both earning four stars. "Let your
body learn"@L
@L
@BTechno@N@L
@L
@B@K@Z"The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu"@N@L
The JAMs, Justified..., Disco 2000,
Timelords. They are all the same.
Infact they are Rockman rock and
King boy D alias James Cauty and
William Drummond.@L
@L
A band that created a great deal of
fuss in 87-88 with their unusual
way of making records_-_Taking
sampling to the limit. Also by
mixing together many different
styles of music like Hip hop,
House, Eurodisco, Seventies disco
and much more. Creating their music
by sampling all sorts of things,
like someone said:@L
@L
"You might even find your own voice
on the records".@L
@L
They (ofcourse) also ran into a
load of copyright problems. Their
first single "All you need is
love", contained samples from Sam
Fox, MC5, Hall and Oates and AIDS
advertisements plus a lot more.
They immeditely (?) caused a stir.
Some major labels refused to
distribute it, but a few records
got out to the press, radio and
clubs and other stray copies got
sold for round 30 pounds under the
counter.@L
@L
They had to change their samples
and master tapes to get the record
into the shops. The copyright
problems were a hint on what to
expect when they released their LP
"1987 What the F... is going on".@L
@L
The record got good reviews and
everything was fine until they were
sued for stealing @BABBA@N's "Dancing
Queen" and using it in the song"
The Queen and I" mixed together
with @BSex Pistols@N "God save the
Queen". The JAMs were instructed to
withdraw all copies of the album
and to destroy the master tapes.@L
@L
The JAMs tried to set up a meeting
with the boys from ABBA, and this
led to their fabled trip to Sweden.
This was also the time when they
bought their car, an old Ford
policecar, said to be a prop from
Superman IV.@L
@L
On their way from Gothenburg to
Stockholm, they had just begun to
laugh at the road signs "Beware of
moose" when they managed to hit
one, killing the poor animal. The
trip continued and they arrived in
Stockholm at 3am, driving around
playing ABBA's greatest hits at
maximum volume through the external
speakers.@L
@L
They also managed to make a blond
girl pose for them, reciving a gold
disc with the inscription of:
"Presented to Bjorn, Benny and Stig
to celebrate sales in excess of 0
copies of the LP '1987 What the
F... is going on'". They thought
they could pass this woman of as
Agnetha Faltskog.@L
@L
Later they found Polarstudios, and
here they performed their only gig
ever. Blasting out "The Queen and
I" through the public announce
system of the police car.@L
@L
They decided to return to Britain
and on the way back They decided to
hold a ritual burning of the
remaining copys of their LP
"1987...". But unfortunately
Rockman took the wrong turn
somewhere and they ended up in a
farmyard. The problem with the
ritual burning was that the farmer
didn't approve of the burning so he
chased them out of the field
swinging a big shotgun over his
head.@L
@L
Rockman managed to run over their
camera equipment (destroying all
pictures of King boy D grappling
the dead moose) while escaping from
@BSven Rambo@N. When they finally
managed to get back on the highway,
they hear three loud cracks and the
engine starts smoking. The farmer,
@BSven Rambo@N, is standing by the road
holding a big shotgun in his
hands.@L
@L
"-He tried to kill us!"@L
@L
Finally back in Britain, they
release a version of Petula Clark's
"Downtown" featuring The London
Gospel Choir. This was supposed to
be sample-free at first but it
isn't. As King Boy D puts it: "As
the dog returneth to his vomit so a
fool return to his folly". King boy
D: "It was definitely to be
unsampled." Rockman rock: "But we
couldn't really help it, could
we."@L
@L
They then release their second and
final album "Who killed the JAMs".
On this record we find
Shang-ri-las, Sly stone, Jimi
Hendrix, a version of Donna
Summer's "Sunset people" and many
other things. It's like their
"1987.." album an orgy of sampling
and sound theft.@L
@L
This album was the end of the JAMs
(They did appear later, in the
magazine "The Face", with an ad
where they were trying to sell the
last five copies of the album
"1987...". The price was set at
1000 pounds.)@L
@L
Later The JAMs returned under the
name The Timelords (actually it's
the car!). They made it to the
number one spot on the charts in
England, with "Doctor in the
tardis". The Gary Glitter_-_Dr Who
mix.@L
@L
You never know what to expect from
these boys. One thing is certain
though. They made it into the rock
history with their two albums. For
the full story of the JAMs check
out their LP "Shag Times" (Parts of
this text is taken from that
album). They have also released an
edited version of "1987..." with
all samples withdrawn. There are
gaps where you can insert the
samples by yourself. If you got the
equipment. Haha!@L
@L
@BTechno@N@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"FOETUS INTERRUPTUS"@N
@Z"THAW"@L
@K@Z"* * *"@N@L
So, here he is again, at last. Mr
J.G. Thirlwell alias Clint Ruin
alias @FFOETUS@N with a new record and
a new 'name'. After the two latest
records which in my view is
masterpieces FOETUS has retired a
bit from the throne (of agony).
There's no question about that this
record is good, but if you're used
to the high standard of his latest
records (especially the singles)
this one is a bit of a
disappointment.@L
@L
Mr. Thirlwell continues to exploit
the other side of music in his own
strange way. This record (like the
others) contains music(!) without
any kind of compromises. If you're
inte raw and hard rock (no heavy or
speed-metal) (Hardcore! -Ed.)
you'll love this record.@L
@L
In my point of view the music isn't
as great as it used to be, FOETUS
has missed a bit of the melody he
used to have in his older songs and
replaced it with just noise. But
the lyrics is still good enough to
kill every member of the Moral
Majority, and he's still one of the
few guys in the world that knows
how to use a Fairlight!@L
@BFOETUS INC.@N of the @KUGGADUNKERS@N
gives 'THAW' 3 corpses out of 5.@L
@L
@K@B@Z"THE ART OF NOISE LIVE"@N@L
@Z"In Visible Silence (12"CDV)"@L
@K@Z"* * * * *"@N@L
Well, @BThe Art Of Noise@N Live (and
with picture) could that be
anything? The answer is obvious (of
course yes!). Who could believe
that a group that uses so much High
Tech could be so great live.
There's not much to say about this
record except that if you have a
CDV-player (or the possibility to
buy one) buy the record and you
will be saved. 60 minutes of great
music (every song is better than
the original version) and even
better picture.@L
@L
@BFOETUS INC.@N of the @KUGGADUNKERS@N
gives @B'ART OF NOISE LIVE'@N 5
CDV-players out of 5.@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"T'Pau"@N@L
@Z"Rage"@L
@L
@K@Z"* * * * *"@N@L
A smash! This is incredible! They
have managed to make another smash.
I thought that their first album,
Bridge of Spies, was as good as
music can get, but Rage exceeds
even that! The album starts off
with Arms of Love and then goes
over to Only the Lonely which is
one of the better ones. (If one can
say that, when they are all
super!)@L
@L
Running Away follows and then
Between the Lines, which is the
only track that @BRoy Thomas Baker@N
did not produce. This one was made
by @BRon Rogers@N playing guitar, @BCarol
Decker@N vocals and @BTim Burgess@N at
the Drums. The others are: @BDean
Howard@N - Lead Guitar, @BMike
Chetwood@N - Keyboards and @BPaul
Jackson@N on Bass Guitar.@L
@L
The Disk (CD version reviewed)
continues with Road to our Dreams,
and this one says very plainly -
whatever you do - @BNEVER GIVE UP@N.@L
@L
Next up is my favorite. Island. In
this track Carol Decker really
shows off her voice. In Bridge of
Spies they made a song, Heart and
Soul, in which Carol had two
different lyrics. One that she sang
as usual, and then one that she
talked. This one was mixed behind
the first and that gave a neat
sound. They have repeated this in
Island but this time with the same
lyrics and I tell you - It sounds
great! This song alone is reason
to buy this record.@L
@L
Heaven is a song of a lost love. A
slow and beautiful melody backed
with Carols great voice. A sure
card in a good hand. In Taking time
Out they explain that you can
become what you want if you only
can learn the alphabet? Well that
alone is one reason for you out
there who can't read.......why do I
bother, you can't read this
anyway.@L
@L
Catchy. Secret Garden is very
catchy. First time I heard it I
could not forget it even if I
wanted to. (I didn't want to.)
Time will Tell when someone tells
lies and eventually they will sneak
around and hit you in the back. As
true as it is said. Stay to the
truth. It is easier.@L
@L
This Girl ain't for sale! is the
chorus of the last song. Money
can't buy love. (Not @BREAL@N Love.)
But if in the right amount it can
buy everything else. Perhaps that
is why the trumpet squeaks the
theme from Dallas at the very end.
This wraps it up I think. If you
have the money, a record player or
CD player, then you just have to
have this album. It is just great.
Bridge of Spies was Great! Rage is
even Greater! Here comes the
verdict. Standing ovations!@L
@L
T'Pau - Rage gets Five Goldbars out
of five. It is a record you can't
miss.@L
@L
@BStarfire@N for Exceller8.@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Pink Floyd"@N@L
@Z"Delicate Sound of Thunder (Live)"@L
@L
@K@Z"* * * *"@N@L
Summer 1988. @BPink Floyd@N entered the
stage to prove that they are still
Pink Floyd, with or without @BRoger
Waters@N. Their world-tour,
containing the spectacular
stage-show and special-effects
which are typical for Pink Floyd,
resulted in this double-album
released later that year.@L
@L
For those of us who were there
(Personally I saw them in
Copenhagen, Denmark) this is a
perfect way to, for a moment,
return to the extraordinary
experience that it actually was. To
all you others the 36-pages booklet
that goes with the CD might give
you a clue to the visual wonder
Pink Floyd are on stage.@L
@L
The music on the other hand speaks
for itself and even if it's a live
recording the sound quality is very
good. The first part of the album
(as well as the concert) consists
mostly of songs from the album "A
Momentary Lapse of Reason" while
you find all the old classics on
the second one. And if you're still
one of those who think that Pink
Floyd and Roger Waters is the same
thing, I'm quite sure these songs
will convince you that such is not
the case. Just listen to David
Gilmour's versions of "Wish You
Were Here", "Comfortably Numb" and
"Us and Them" and you will
surrender. In other words. For
beeing a live album, this is rather
a good one. @KTwenty Minutes@N gives
Pink Floyd "Delicate Sound of
Thunder" 4 flying pigs out of 5.@L
@L
PS. Whatever "The Man With No
Brain_-_Yet?" wrote in the last
issue of this magazine, The
Waterboys album "Fishermans Blues"
was the best one in 1988! DS.@L
@L
@BTwenty minutes@N@L
@L
@L
@K@B@Z"Kiss"@N@L
@Z"Smashes, trashes and hits"@L
@K@Z"* * *"@N@L
Kiss did recently release their
third compilation album, an album
that I think contains a selection
of songs that shows how strong Kiss
have been over the last 15 years.
The remix of songs like "Love Gun",
"Strutter" and "Rock n' roll all
nite" have brought new life into
them.@L
@L
One big surprise is a song called
"Beth", (Kiss biggest hit ever)
which were sung by the original
drummer Peter Criss but now has the
vocals of drummer Eric Carr. His
voice has always been a mystery to
the fans of kiss, but now we all
now what a wonderful voice he's
got. I really hope he gets a chance
to sing on the forthcoming album.@L
@L
"Smashes, trashes and hits" also
contains two new tracks "(You make
me) rock hard" and the latest
single "Let's put the X in sex"
which proves that their song
writing capability is still among
the best in the world.@L
@L
@BSword@N
@C@H1"More Quotes!"@L
Peace might sell, but who's
buying?@L
@BJoan Baez@N@L
@L
A cult figure is a guy who hasn't
got the musical ability to make it
onto the charts.@L
@BJohn Cale@N@L
@L
The only thing that stands up is
whether you've got it or not. The
only thing that counts is if you're
still around. And I'm still
around.@L
@BVan Morrison@N@L
@L
Everybody I like is either dead or
not feeling very well.@L
@BTom Waits@N@L
@L
I like sound-effect records.
Sometimes late at night I get a
mint julep and just sit there and
listen to sound effects. I'm
surprised more of them aren't on
the charts.@L
@BBob Dylan@N@L
@L
The governors of the music branch
of the Academy are arseholes.@L
@BRobert Stigwood, when his disco
movie "Saturday Night Fever"
justifiably failed to win an
Academy Award.@N@L
@L
A thoruogh survey may prove that it
is impossible to buy a plain white
or decently tasteful shirt in the
whole of Las Vegas.@L
@BJann Wenner, editor "Rolling Stone"
magazine@N@L
@L
I think it's great because @KWho's
who@N is an American institution and
I believe in anything that is an
American institution, such as Hugh
Hefner, Walt Disney, the Boy Scouts
and Budweiser.@L
@BAlice cooper, ne Vincent Furnier,
on his inclusion in "Who's who in
America" 1974/5.@N@L
@L
@L
Living in New York is like coming
all the time.@L
@BGene Simmons, Kiss@N@L
@L
The singer'll have to go, the BBC
won't like him.@L
@BEric Easton, on beeing shown The
Rolling Stones by Andrew Loog
Oldham.@N@L
@L
They may be world famous, but four
shrieking monkeys are not going to
use a privileged family name
without permission.@L
@BFrau Eva von Zeppelin@N@L
@L
I'll take today's teenagers any day
to the ruckus rousers and souvenir
scalpers who made our lives
miserable during the heyday of
Goodman and Sinatra. The worst
thing these kids do is feed sugar
to the horses.@L
@BNew York City cop, 1959@N@L
@L
@BAll quotes from the book of rock
quotes 1982.@N
@P@H1"NS HORRORSCOPE"
@BBy Jazze@N@L
@L
@KARIES@N@L
(Mar 21 - Apr 20)@L
@L
This month you'll invent the wheel,
but the planet Thalumus-5 moving
into your third ascendant means
you'll have a few probs at the
Patent office. Thanks to the
appearance of Neptune in your sign,
this month is going to be a
disastrous one for doing anything
that begins with the letter "P".
"P"laying computer games is out, as
is "P"assing the salt to Aunty
Beryl. You'd better avoid fluids.
Your lucky number is 23,457.6.@L
@L
@KTAURUS@N@L
(Apr 21 - May 21)@L
@L
Mars shifts back a few million
miles into the asteroid belt later
this month. However, this shouldn't
concern you because your lucky
colour is orange and your lucky
vegetable is the swede. Lucky
you!!@L
@L
@KGEMINI@N@L
(May 22 - Jun 21)@L
@L
You'll be having a lot of trouble
getting your bath or shower water
to the right temperature. No amount
of fiddling will get the result you
want, so don't bother. In fact it's
probably for the best to give
personal hygiene a miss for the
month. Lucky gardening utensil -
the trowel.@L
@L
@KCANCER@N@L
(Jun 22 - Jul 22)@L
@L
Oh dear, you 'crab' folks are in
for a bit of a rum time this month.
It seems that the free gift in your
breakfast cereal is a large gold
ingot stamped with the legend
'Brinks Matt'. The mystery of why
the carrier-bag handels snapped at
the super-market is solved. Unlucky
people to find at your front (or
back) door - CID officers. (C.I.D.
- Criminal Investigation Department
(Scotland Yard)) Lucky writing
paper - Basildon Bond 4 gram.@L
@L
@KLEO@N@L
(Jul 23 - Aug 23)@L
@L
An absolutely brilliant month for
being absolutely brilliant on
everything (as usual). Lucky
motorbike - the Benelli 6-cylinder
750.@L
@L
@KVIRGO@N@L
(Aug 24 - Sep 23)@L
@L
This month's lucky colour is quite
a complicated one and hasn't
actually got a name. It's the sort
of colour only primary school
children can manage to create (when
mixing powder paint). It's a sort
of mixture of everything that
doesn't go together. It's a sort of
...er, blleeeaarfffgghhhh!!! Lucky
boomerang shaped yellow fruit - the
banana.@L
@L
@KLIBRA@N@L
(Sep 24 - Oct 23)@L
@L
You'll suddenly realise that
McDonald's hamburgers aren't
actually 'fast' food at all, but
that each burger is individually
hand-crafted by one of McDonald's
'food sculptors'. These chefs pour
their very souls into each
creation, and often include a
little 'joke' (such as a missing
piece of gherkin, or too much
tomato relish). Your lucky medical
company boss - Refaat el Sayed.@L
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@KSCORPIO@N@L
(Oct 24 - Nov 22)@L
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Pluto will be moving into your
first house, closely followed by
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck's
irritating little nephews, Huey,
Duey and Luey. Your lucky
cement/sand mix ratio (for hard
weather pointing) - four to one.@L
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@KSAGITTARIUS@N@L
(Nov 23 - Dec 21)@L
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Romance is in the air.
Unfortunately you haven't got a
helicopter, so you can't get it.
Your lucky item which is produced
from trees is cardboard.@L
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@KCAPRICORN@N@L
(Dec 22 - Jan 20)@L
@L
You Capricorns are still at the
trying to break into the world of
advertising lark. Your zippy slogan
this week (for fish fingers) is
'It's not just fish, it's an
eye-less, tail-less rectangle!'
Unlucky marine animal - anything
vaguely cod-like.@L
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@KAQUARIUS@N@L
(Jan 21 - Feb 19)@L
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This month you Aquarians will be
jumping on the Capricorn bandwagon:
attemting to get into the
advertising world. Your concept of
a product to rival fish fingers
which you call 'Fish Toes' will not
be received with cries of ecstasy.
Lucky sub-atomic particle - the
quark.@L
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@KPISCES@N@L
(Feb 20 - Mar 20)@L
@L
Thanks to the appearance of Mars
(the crap-moons planet) in your
sign, this month is going to be a
brilliant one for accidentally
tipping your toast and marmalade
onto the carpet. All toast/carpet
encounters will result in the
marmalade side pointing upwards,
saving you the bother of picking
out all the hairs, pieces of fluff
and discarded toe-nail clippings.
Lucky insect - the bee.@L
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@KARACHNIUS@N@L
(Mar 47 - Mar 92)@L
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You don't exist. Go away!
@PContact one of the best in Sweden.@L
Wings of tomorrow@L
Send some disks:@L
Carrion, Persuddsvagen 1@L
831 52 Ostersund, Sweden.@L
Do it write now.@L
@S0Contact Destiny ^ Zigag finnishHQ!@L
@Z"P.O.B Box 620"
@Z"20301 Turku"
@Z"Finland"
Specials to: Quartex, Mad Monks,
MFC, WOW, BS1, D.O.C, AFL, RED
SECTOR, TST!@L
@S0TUC ^ TMC are still searching for
members and contacts to swap best
stuff. Write to:@L
@Z"PLK 038544 B or PLK 047652 D"
@Z"Both in 6630 SAARLOUIS!"
@Z"W.Germany"
If you want to swap send some disks
with hottest stuff at once!@L
@C@H1"HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SAMPLER!"
This one is very simple. Just
follow the instructions. At first,
take an old milkbox, empty it
(important!) and open it in both
edges. Then, get a piece of
cardboard (about 10*10 cm) and find
five resistors with the following
impedances:@L
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1843 Ohm@L
4712 MOhm@L
1 mOhm@L
.17 kOhm@L
5 Watts@L
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Then find a transistor named
NPN(PNP) 18-43.3. You also need a
60W light bulb and a car
accumulator. Go and ask your
grandmother if she has got one
oscillator P-2. And... at last, an
oscilloscope with diffrential
multipartsync. Oh, I almost forgot
the A/D converter, get an A/D conv
with 17 bits static ROM (then I
mean a ROM with 17 bits, stupid!)@L
@L
Simply put the resistors together.
Any problems yet? No, ofcourse
not... Now put the branch of
resistors together with the utter
left edge of the oscilloscope.
Beware of witch way you are holding
the bunch!@L
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@F"WARNING"@N@L
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Beware of virus!@L
@L
Now connect the bottom back side of
the first left pin of the
oscillator, and try not to burn
yourself! Now throw lots of
components into the milkbox and
then the A/D on the top. close the
milkbox silently (preferably whilst
praying) and put it into the place
where the extra 512 kB should be
located (if you own an Amiga 2000,
just open the box and throw it in.
If you own an Amiga 1000, sorry!).
If the hole already is filled up
with candys (IC's) or love-letters
(!), you have to clean up in
there!@L
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That's all folks, and good luck
with your new sampler!@L
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Oh, if you've got any problems,
call Germany 110!@L
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Kaktus!@L
@P@H1"New advertisements system"
From the next issue Exceller 8 will
have a new advertisements system.
It will be possible for you to
design and write your own ad's. To
be able to do that all you need is
Deluxe paint 1, 2 or 3.@L
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Design your picture in Medium
resolution 300 pixels wide and 200
pixels high. You are limited to 16
colors minus the @Ffour@N first ones.
We use these four colors in the
main program.@L
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If you want to put an ad in
Exceller 8 send your picture/ad to
us on one of your own disks plus
four new, error free and Double
sided/Double density 3.5" disks
from the following brands:@L
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@KSONY@L
Maxell@L
TDK@L
3M@L
FUJI@L
FJK@L
HOST@L
GOLDSTAR@L
Verbatim@N@L
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We will return your disk together
with a copy of Exceller 8
containing your ad as soon as it is
released.@L
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If these conditions are not
fulfilled then we will eat your
disks alive!!! (and your ad won't
get printed!).@L
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If you don't own four high-quality
branded disks you can instead
insert a small ad of six lines of
35 characters each, including your
address, for only one 3.5" branded
disk! (PS. We will not return your
disk!!). All ad's will be randomly
dispersed through the issue.@L
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We chose disks as payment because
they are good galactic currency in
the whole universe.@L
@P@L
THE INNER CIRCLE. In Australia
Would Like Some Hot Amiga Contacts
From All Over The World. Only The
Latest Will Do Write To:@L
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@Z"G.P.O. Box 2812 Canberra ACT"@L
@Z"2601 Australia"@L
@Z"No Lamers. We Keep Lame Disks."@L
@C@H1"ORDER!!"
You can order a copy of our
magazine directly from us. (If you
think your contacts are to slow or
you want to order an old issue.)@L
Just send two branded (error free)
3.5" disks (One disk as payment for
postage.) to the following adress:@L
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Exceller 8@L
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Heimdalsgatan 37@L
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S-261 62 Glumslov@L
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Sweden@L
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@KFor accepted brands see the article
on the new ad system.(Page 88.)@L
If you don't send accepted brands
you won't see your disks again.@N@L
(Ohm)@L
@P@H1"The End is near..."
OK, the end of another issue of
Exceller 8. Hope you enjoyed this
one as well as the first issue. We
try to make our best you know.@L
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I would just like to say that
Exceller 8 does @FNOT@N take any
responsibility what so ever for the
seriousness of the advertisments in
this issue. We also do not take any
responsibility for you burning your
fingers or blowing up your Amiga
while trying to build your own MIDI
interface or your own
MILK-sampler.@L
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The next issue of Exceller 8 will
be a big @KUS-SPECIAL@N with a lot of
material from the major American
crews.@L
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In the next issue you will also
find the second part of
Celebrandil's raytrace and
vectorgraphics article, MaCron
One's DIY guide to making your own
MONO-sampler (complete with a
drawing). And of course a lot of
articles around and about USA.@L
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Deadline for issue #3 of Exceller 8
is March the 23th 1989.@L
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Releaseplan for 1989:@L
Issue #3: first week of April.@L
Issue #4: first week of June.@L
Issue #5: first week of August.@L
Issue #6: first week of October.@L
Issue #7: second week of December.@L
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Bye, and remember:@L
@K@Z"This"
@Z"is"
@Z"the"
@Z"day"
@Z"your"
@Z"life"
@Z"will"
@Z"surely"
@Z"change"@N@L
@BThe editor.@N