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Exceller 8 by North Star ^ Fairlight
Issue 1 1988
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ISSUE 1 1988þ
PROGRAMMED AND COMPOSED BY OMEGA OF NSþ
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NORTH STAR, "ADVANCED, BUT NOT ALIEN"
@H1"WELCOME"
Hello and welcome to the first
issue of@F EXCELLER 8@N.@L@LEXCELLER 8 is published by
@F NORTHSTAR/FAIRLIGHT @Nand will hopefully
be released once every second
month. Exceller 8 will do it's best
to keep you informed about what is
going on in the media-world as we
AMIGA owners see it. Since this is
the first issue of this magazine,
you have to accept some flaws, but
this magazine is far from finished
yet. In the coming issues you will
see a lot of "extras" added. Things
like digitised pictures, more
graphics and lots of other bits and
pieces.@LIn EXCELLER 8 you will find a lot
of things that are not common in
other disk based magazines. Things
like movie- and record reviews,
best and worse musicvideos on
cabletv, features about concerts
and events taking place all over
Europe (and hopefully USA). Charts
about everything and nothing and of
course game reviews. @L@LNow, read on!! Ed. @P
@H1"CONTENTS"
02. History of North Star@L
07. Software in Italy?@L
10. Big AL of Freestyle UK@L
12. Swedish Scene@L
14. Amiga Games All times greatest@L
15. New Releases@L
18. Master of Score@L
19. Virus Column@L
21. Alvesta Meeting@L
23. Competition !!!@L
24. Advertisments@L25. Letters@L
26. Busted by the Mail!@L
28. Game Reviews@L
31. Role Playing@L
33. A Lesson In Swedish@L
34. London, A Paradise?@L
35. Music Videos@L
39. Quotes@L
40. LP And CD Reviews@L
43. Heavy Metal@L
45. Concert Videos@L
46. Swedish Censorship is a @KCRIME@N!@L
47. Movie Time@L
51. The Sport@L
53. Pure Madness@L
56. The End.@L
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Staff of Exceller 8:@L
Atom (NS)@L
Azid (NS)@L
Celebrandil (NS)@L
Crab (NS)@L
Foetus (NS)@L
Jazze (NS)@L
Luftwaffe (X8)@L
Rex (NS)@L
Slaine (NS)@L
Starfire (NS)@L
Sword (X8)@L
The Man With No Name - Yet (X8)@L
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@S0@L
Contributers to this issue:@L
Idiger ^ Marcella (Italy)@L
Big Al (Freestyle UK ^Alphaflight)@L
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@S0@L
Inhouse programmer:_______@FOMEGA@N @P
@H1"The History of North Star"
For those who are interested in how
to form one of the biggest groups
in @FEurope@N, this is the articel to
read (and study!).@L
@L
From the beginning when nobody ever
had heard of us until today, when
we got cracks, demos, utilities,
antivirus, music rippers, disk
magazines, music disks and trained
games spread all over the world
!!!@L
@L
It all started long before people
began to call themselves a group
name. The computer we started with
was the ZX Spectrum. There were no
groups existing on this computer.
But we me(Atom), Mr.R, Starfire,
Foetus and Azid (All living in
Helsingborg, Sweden) worked like a
team. We totally dominated the
Spectrum, at least 5 cracks a week
!! Mr.R (Our Computer Repairman)
developed special cracking
interfaces for the Spectrum wich we
used to crack nearly impossible
protections (Speed Loaders etc).@L
@L
But the true reason to our success
was that we worked like a team. Two
swappers and three crackers, well
the true master cracker was Mr.R
who cracked hundreds of spectrum
games !! Then on a sunny day,
Starfire bought a computer called
Commodore 64 (ever heard of it ??)
and there we saw a lot of demos and
cracks made by different groups. By
this time Mr.R had resigned from
cracking games and was busy with
developing games for the Spectrum.
I did the graphics and ET (a friend
of Mr.R) did the music. So Starfire
and I decided to form a group. And
so we did ! But it took nearly two
weeks until we had thought of a
name wich pleased us.... The name
was @FNorth Star@N !!! And that's
ourbirth !!@L
@L
Because we were so lame, we had
troubles getting new programs and
troubles making decent demos. Four
weeks after I bought my 64 I coded
a demo... Our first !! It wasn't
especially good, but what the heck
it was the first one. Then we
thought we needed some more members
who could do the swapping. The
choice was Foetus who recently had
bought a 64. (good choice - Ed)
Foetus persuaded his old mate Azid
to buy one too and also brought
along an old swap partner of him
called Zoetrope. Now we was
five members. Then Starfire met
Hedda (Now a member of the 64 group
Sphinx) who was quite good at
coding the 64.@L
@L
I made a new demo with a 48 sprite
scroll and a lot of other funny
things but I never really finished
it. Hedda did some cracks and
intros. But still, nobody paid
attention to us !! The great
computer Amiga 500 came to Sweden.
Of course Starfire was the first
one to buy one. It was great !!
Playing Defender Of The Crown
(Cracked by HQC!) and all those
great games !!!@L
@L
Finally I had enough money to buy
one of those Dream Machines !!! The
first thing I tried to code was a
scroll but using the Metacompco Ass
and not knowing the return address
for the copper slowed it all down.
Now everybody bought an Amiga,
Mr.R, Et and Hedda !! Mr.R
understod the Hardware Manual (I
didn't) and started coding a game.
Learning from his sources I
succeeded in making a scroll. Soon
I had put in stars and a sprite
which you could move with the
joystick in my little demo. By this
time some of my friends (who knew
Rex) and I visited Rex. Wooow, he
had over 100 games !! He was a
member of a now dead group called
SAS.@L
@L
Starfire and I often visited Rex
and copied games, soon we were
quite good friends with him... And
I had finished my first demo Atom
Demo 1. The coding (at that time)
was quite good, if you compared it
with the other demos, but the
sample was shit !! (It was sampled
on Et's shit sampler!). And
showing this demo to Rex converted
him !!! Rex was now a member of
North Star. Now we started to grow
in Sweden. Then one day, we saw a
intro by Fairlight (Hi! partner!).
Fairlight and Triad was going to
have a copy party !!@L
@L
I called Black Shadow and asked if
he could send us an invitation, He
had never heard of us, but he said
he would send an invitation anyway.
He never did, probably because he
thought we were great@B LAMERS@N.
Anyway, we drove to the meeting (At
least Black Shadow said where the
party would take place). We thought
the meeting was boring, nobody ever
heard of us and thought that we
were loosers. I had started to
understand the Hardware Manual
completely and started to code on
MegaDemo 1.@L
@L
I met Omega and made him a proud
member of North Star. Starfire met
Titan, who was a music genius, and
also owned an Amiga. We made Titan
a member of North Star.@L
@L
It took a month to finish MegaDemo
1 and Rex spread the demo to all
his 30(not much Eh?) swedish
contacts. Then, after a week,
letters started to drop in from
Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark,
Belgium etc. That was coool !!!
Hedda who still was in love with
his 64 and paid no attention to the
Amiga felt a bit lonely because we
had decided do become an Amiga
group only. So he joined another
group, promising he would re-join
us when he could program the Amiga
(Still waiting for you !). Foetus
sold his 64 and bought an Amiga
(indeed - Ed).@L
@L
I sent the disk with MegaDemo 1 to
Black Shadow (a great risk, because
he never returned the disk with my
Atom Demo 1). Blackie found the
demos quite good and called me the
same day he had recieved the disk
and asked if I and Starfire was
interested in joining them. The
offer was very tempting...... But
the respond on MegaDemo 1 was so
big that we decided to stay. Our
contacts had now increased to more
than 100 foreigners.@L
@L
Crab who was an old friend of
Starfire had learned to code on the
Amiga and was also good on graphix,
so he joined us. One rainy day I
got a call from a guy called
Boerni. He said he was interested
in joining us, he sent his 64 game
to convince me. The game was fairly
good, but still a decent budget
game. Anyway, we accepted. By this
time I, Omega, Crab and Boerni
started to work on Mega Demo II.@L
@L
We were now swapping with nearly
all the biggest groups around the
globe. I and Black Shadow got an
idea, why not gather the best
programmers and crackers in Sweden
in one new group. We talked to Il
Scuro (of DefJam) and Computer
Brains International. Because of
the distance and that everyone
didn't know eachother we never
formed a new group. Some new
members dropped in, Slaine and Zing
(Swappers) who Rex knew and Jazze
(Music & graphix) an old class mate
of mine.@L
@L
When we nearly had completed Mega
Demo II, Black Shadow called and
asked if we were interested in a
cooperation between North Star &
Fairlight. We thought it was a good
idea, because we didn't crack so
many games and concentrated to do
demos, while Fairlight concentrated
on cracking games. Another
important reason was that both of
us lived near Malmoe. By car, it
would only take an hour to visit
Fairlight.@L
@L
So Black Shadow (Fairlight) started
to code an North Star ^ Fairligth
intro and so did I. We finished
Mega Demo II, not without any
problems ! The problem was that
everyone in North Star used the
hardware to enable the copper while
Fairlight used graphics.library.
Though the hardware way has
priority over graphics.library way,
Fairlight's copper never worked !
Just the loading screen and the
music appeared. So Black Shadow
gave me the address to the copper
and I had to enable the copper
before de-crunching his demo. That
explains the odd flipp in Mega Demo
II before FLT's demo. When the
screen at last appeared I noticed
that not all sprites were dummy
addressed, what the heck I thought.
And that explains the flicker in
the FLT demo. Some more bugs in
Mega Demo II can appear when you
run the Crab scrolls. Boerni also
had a bug in his end demo, wich
appeared when he started to buffer
the screen. But enought of that !!@L
@L
After Mega Demo II some new folks
joined us they were Odie (Music)
(Now leaving. Because he wants to
start a popband and needs money to
buy a synth), Celebrandil (Coding),
Lord Vegas (Coding), Kaktus &
Mahoney (Coding and music), Dagger
(graphics).@L
@L
A lot of people wonder how so many
guys can be in one group and still
be organized. The secret is this:@L
All members in Helsingborg (nearly
all) meet eachother at least once a
week. We meet Fairlight and the
members outside Helsingborg every
month. More than 5 members have
cars. We often do something funny
together. We organized the group so
that everybody knows what to do and
knows what's going on in the
group.@L
@L
We have some ground principels that
is: Never use music or graphix made
by someone outside North Star. No
competition in the group, like: Who
is the best coder... and stupid
things like that.(I know I am the
best! -Ed). Never keep programming
secrets from eachother. Never give
out a North Star source to someone
outside North Star. Learn from
eachother. Making games together.
Never spread things before
everybody have decided to. No
stress, no one ever has to do
something if he really doesn't want
to. Most important, always have fun
! The access to success in
bussiness is @FTEAM WORK@N.@L
@L
@BAtom@N for Exceller 8 <1988>. @C
@H1"Software made in Italy ?"
The software for Personal Computers
was created in the U.S.A. in the
beginning of the 80's, when the
production was very small compared
with today's. After a couple of
years the English invented the
games on cassette and in Germany
the utilities for professionals
were developed together with good
conversions of "Coin Op" games. The
French create good adventure games.
In England the quality of the game
programs failed off, because of too
many new titles, while other states
such as Swiss, Sweden, Denmark and
Hungary (Andromeda) start to
produce good programs.@L
@L
The Italians do not write
professional programs.@L
@L
Why?@L
@L
In the 80's many softwarehouses
have written professional programs
for IBM PC with compiled Basic!
They have created Business
programs, Ledger and other programs
for the Italian market. In Italy
computers are considered mysterious
machine and the assistance cost
much money!@L
@L
After the arrival of the PC clone,
Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum and
MSX (Amstrad CPC has not arrived in
Italy!), to many and to hasty
written programs, in Basic or even
worse, has been released.@L
@L
In Italy there doesn't exist
distributors of software for home
computers or computer shops, so the
new programs are distributed in the
Newspaper Kiosk, together with
Magazines and Comics!@L
@L
Games and programs are pirate
compilations "cleared" from every
Copyrigth notice, the name has been
changed and they are translated
into Italian.@L
@L
Many copies of Pirate publicated
programs have forced companies such
as Activision and Epyx to change
market and leave Italy.@L
@L
Then the first pirate computershop
was born that keep on selling
copies of software free by any
restrictions with subscriptions of
the latest programs.@L
@L
Note: In Italy the number of
personal computers installed is
very high, but there has never been
created a market for original
programs.@L
@L
Some software houses have made some
decent software but failed on the
market, closing each activity.@L
@L
When Mastertronic arrived in Italy,
they tried to eliminate the piracy
with legal war. The initiative was
stopped, because here there doesn't
exist a regulation in the law for
the software and because of the
high number of pirates.@L
@L
Their next pass was to create a
market of budget games and to
reduce the prices of the programs.
In fact, in Italy software for CBM
64 (not budget games) cost $11,
while in England they cost $14.
Software for the Amiga cost $19 in
Italy and $35 in England!@L
@L
Today an agent of the Mastertronic
declares: "The piracy on C64 is
dead." That isn't true, but because
of the high number of games sold in
many computershop, Mastertronic
doesn't care that it's games are
copied.@L
@L
The pirates haven't stopped their
activities, they have just changed
it. Now pirates sell the original
cassette (too much work to copy a
cassette!) but not the original
disk. They only sell them to you if
they are required.@L
@L
With these activities pirates have
gained a lot of money. You can buy
a cottage with the pirate profits!@L
As a foreigner, you do not consider
the Italian software decent, but
there is not an Italian software
house to make programs!@L
@L
The latest demo created by the
little software house, E-MOTION,
does not interest anyone and no one
wants to promote and finish this
game on the Amiga.@L
@L
The author have changed his
activity into developing hardware
digitizers and genlocks for the
Amiga.@L
@L
@L
@KExample: For one program "cleared"
the editor pays the cracker $400 to
$800 for a week of work. For one
original program the programmer
gets paid $800 for a month of
work.@L
@L
@L
@N So it doesn't exist any motivation
to make new software!@L
@L
I'm waiting for the year 1992, when
with the opening of the borders and
trade in Europe, it will be easy to
create software for the European
market!@L
@L
Today I continue to crack and
spread programs as a hobby and for
work.@L
@L
@L
@BIDIGER and MARCELLA@N @C
@H1"BIG AL of FREESTYLE UK"
Over the last few months many
things have happened in England.
First of all there was the P.C Show
in London. All the BIG groups were
there. There was Quoram+BS1, World
of Wonders, Alphaflight, Freestyle,
JCS, ANC, Danish USA team, The Web
Inc, etc.@L
@L
Even though you met a lot of
crackers, swappers the show was too
packed , sometimes you couldm't
even walk since it was too busy.
Hardly anything was released at the
show this was a bit dissapointing
for everybody.@L
@L
After the show there was a big
copy-party. Everything that was
released at the show for the amiga
was released at the copy-party.
Even though only 2 per group could
enter the party the whole house
was packed. One of the major
happenings was the TEW/NATO group
joined QUORAM. Another thing was
that FREESTYLE U.K split up SHARE &
ENJOY due to arguments the split
happened many people from SAE
joined FREESTYLE.@L
@L
Now (30/10/88) many thing have
happened. After a few releases
QUORAM are hardly releasing any
stuff. One of the few groups that
are releasing any stuff are
QUARTEX, A-HA(W.O.W), PUBLIC ENEMY
NO.1 hopefully as soon as we
(FREESTYLE) get a modem we should
be releasing very hot stuff from us
cracked and imported abroad.@L
@L
The shops are releasing a lot of
hot games (we should get a cracked
Barbarian II 100% tomorrow).@L
@L
A lot of people have been slagging
people lately. Cyrus of Percepolis
slagged us of, he did a scroll
program which he typed out of a mag
to slag us of he even said DEXION
wrote a part of the scroll text
(What a joke!!!). The shit thing he
did was to edit a Wild Copper demo
saying we did it.@L
@L
Then the other night somebody kept
on ringing us up (this is at
2.00am in the morning) and saying
he was a swapper then he (or they)
rang us up a minute later saying
total crap on the phone. He kept on
ringing for about 30 minutes this
totally fucked us. As soon as we
know who did it we are totally
going to beat the crap out of
him.@L
@L
We have joined ALPHAFLIGHT so we
should get some good demoes out.@L
@L
Anyway a lot of things have
happened in England watch out next
month to see what happens.@L
@L
@BBIG AL@L
OF@L
FREESTYLE U.K/ALPHAFLIGHT@N @P
@H1"Swedish Scene"
A year ago almost every big group
came from West-Germany, Holland or
England. Ofcourse there were some
active amiga groups in Sweden then
too like Fairlight and Vortex 42.
But under this year many groups
grew up some less successfully than
others.@L
@L
Today there is only three groups in
Sweden which can compare themself
with the bigger German groups they
are: @BNorth Star and Fairlight,
Defjam and IPEC Elite@N. Still there
are many smaller groups who are
quite good programmers and demo
makers but have problems with
getting hot originals (which is
really hard in Sweden). Some of
these groups which we can call the
'average sweden group' are: The
Silents, The Round Circle, Jet
Speed, Vortex 42 and The
Afterburners. The biggest problem
with beeing a less well known group
is to get attention.@L
To become more well known a group
has to offer something which the
bigger groups don't have. Course
lack of contact it's hard to get
hotter stuff, so the only thing
they can offer is selfmade demos
and utilities. To get known these
days is nearly impossible. A year
ago it was much easier.@L
@L
Most of the programmes released
comes first to Germany , U.K. and
Denmark before it arrives in
Sweden. So if you don't have a very
good source you have a big
problem.@L
@L
One of the main reasons why the
Swedes might seem lame is course of
the late arrival af the Amiga 500
in Sweden.@L
@L
Lately I heard people saying that
North Star and Fairlight have been
a bit inactive. And that's right,
the main members have been busy
with:@L
Mr.R coding games on Atari St and
Amiga.@L
Starfire starting a roleplaying
organisation.@L
Atom making graphix for Mr.R and
coding a game on Amiga, @FGIRLS@N.@L
Omega coding a program for a
cab-company and making an Amiga
game.@L
Crab making graphix for Mr.R.@L
Rex and some other swappers have
had big problems with the post
office.@L
And Black Shadow of Fairlight have
been busy with parties and
alcoholic stuff.@L
@L
And belive it or not we are getting
a little bit bored with making
demos and cracking games. And not
to forget to mention we 'have' to
go to school at the same time!@L
@L
There are really more interesting
things in life than just coding !
Because of the big piracy problem
on Amiga, one can earn much more
money on making an Atari ST game !
And that's a thought we don't like,
so we will cut down on our contacts
and nearly stop to crack games (at
least we (@BNorth Star@N) will).@L
@L
After Mega Demo 3 there will
probably not be so many more demos,
because all members are more
interested in finishing their
games.@L
@L
@BATOM@N @P
@H1"AMIGA GAMES ALL TIME GREATEST:"
1. MENACE@L
2. SUMMER OLYMPICS@L
3. MINIGOLF@L
4. HYBRIS@L
5. BATTLECHESS@L
6. SIDEWINDER@L
7. ZOOM@L
8. KATAKIS@L
9. INTERCEPTOR@L
10. BUBBLE BOBBLE@L
11. STARGLIDER II@L
12. BIONIC COMMANDO@L
13. KATAKIS @L
14. ROCKET RANGER @L
15. FUTURETANK@L
16. PACMANIA@L
17. GREAT GIANA SISTERS@L
18. STAR RAY @L
19. INSANITY FIGHT@L
20. IKARI WARRIORS@L
21. LEATHERNECK@L
22. POWERSTYX@L
23. P.O.W@L
24. ROGER RABBIT@L
25. SARCOPHASER @L
26. GARRISSON@L
27. THUNDERBOY@L
28. PANDORA@L
29. BUGGY BOY@L
30. BEYOND THE ICE PALACE@L
31. ARKANOID@L
32. CARRIER COMMAND@L
33. NEBULUS@L
34. THUNDERCATS@L
35. WIZBALL@L
36. BARBARIAN (PSYGNOSIS)@L
37. GUNSHOOT@L
38. KARATE KID II@L
39. AMIGA SOCCER@L
40. S.D.I@L
41. WAY OF THE LITTLE DRAGON@L
42. WORLD GAMES@L
43. DALEY THOMPSONS 88@L
44. BARBARIAN (PALACE)@L
45. SCORPIO@L
46. MISSION ANDROMEDA@L
47. SENTINEL@L
48. CAPTAIN BLOOD@L
49. HELLFIRE@L
50. UNINVITED@L
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COMPLAINTS? GAME CHART, EXCELLER 8,
HEIMDALSGATAN 37, S-262 62
GLUMSLOV, SWEDEN. @P
@H1"NEW RELEASES"
THIS LIST OF GAMES IS BASED ON THE
COMPANYS ANNOUNCE DATE, ALL GAMES
WILL STAY ON THE LIST UNTIL THE
GAMES HAS BEEN RELEASED, OR
REDRAWN.@L
@L
20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA,
COCKTEL VISION, OCTOBER@L
AFTERBURNER, ACTIVISION, JANUARY
1989@L
ASTAROTH, HEWSON, DECEMBER@L
BARBARIAN II, PALACE, NOVEMBER@L
BAT, UBI SOFT, JANUARY 1989@L
BATMAN, OCEAN, OCTOBER@L
BLACK TIGER, CAPCOM/GO!, FEBRUARY
1989@L
BUTCHER HILL, GREMLIN, JANUARY
1989@L
CALIFORNIA GAMES, EPYX, JANUARY
1989@L
CIRCUS GAMES, TYNE SOFT,OCTOBER@L
COMBAT SCHOOL, IMAGINE, OCTOBER@L
DAMOCLES, NOVAGEN, NOVEMBER@L
DARK SIDE, INCENTIVE, FEBRUARY
1989@L
DEBUT, INTERCEPTOR, FEBRUARY 1989@L
DIE HARD, ACTIVISION, MARCH 1989@L
DOUBLE DRAGON, MELBOURNE HOUSE,
OCTOBER@L
DRAGON NINJA, OCEAN, DECEMBER@L
ECHELON, U.S. GOLD, JANUARY 1989@L
ELIMINATOR, HEWSON, NOVEMBER@L
ELITE, FIREBIRD, NOVEMBER@L
ESPIONAGE, GRANDSLAM, NOVEMBER@L
EYE OF HORUS, LOGOTRON, MARCH 1989@L
F.O.F.T, GREMLIN, OCTOBER@L
FINAL ASSAULT, EPYX, OCTOBER@L
FINAL COMMAND, UBI SOFT, DECEMBER@L
FIRE BRIGADE, PANTHER GAMES,
NOVEMBER@L
FISH, RAINBIRD, NOVEMBER@L
FORGOTTEN WORLD, CAPCOM/GO!, MARCH
1989@L
GALDREGONS DOMAIN, INTERCEPTOR,
OCTOBER@L
GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS, ELITE, FEBRUARI
1989@L
GREEN BERET, IMAGINE, OCTOBER@L
GREASED LIGHTNING, THE BIG APPLE,
JANUARY 1989@L
GUERILLA WAR, IMAGINE, OCTOBER@L
GUNSHIP, MICROPROSE, MARCH 1989@L
HARRIER STRIKE MISSION II, THE BIG
APPLE, NOVEMBER@L
HELLBENT, NOVAGEN, OKTOBER@L
HUMAN KILLING MACHINE (SOUNDS
LETHAL! - ED.), CAPCOM/GO!, JANUARY
1989@L
HYPERFORCE, PRISM LEISURE, FEBRUARY
1989@L
ICE YACHTS, LOGOTRON, NOVEMBER@L
IRON LORD, UBI SOFT, OKTOBER@L
JACKAL, IMAGINE, OKTOBER@L
JMP 4, HEWSON, FEBRUARY 1989@L
JOAN OF ARC, RAINBOW ARTS,
DECEMBER@L
JOURNEY, INFOCOM, FEBRUARY 1989@L
JUNGLE BOOK, COCKTEL VISION,
NOVEMBER@L
KALASHNIKOV (FRONT 242? - ED.),
HEWSON, JANUARY 1989@L
LASERTRAIN, THE BIG APPLE, JANUARY
1989@L
LAST DUEL, CAPCOM/GO!, JANUARY
1989@L
LED STORM, CAPCOM/GO!, JANUARY
1989@L
LIVE AND LET DIE, DOMARK, NOVEMBER@L
MAYDAY SQUAD, TYNE SOFT, NOVEMBER@L
MECHANIC WARRIOR, LANKHOR,
DECEMBER@L
MOTOR MASSACRE, GREMLIN, NOVEMBER@L
NEUROMANCER, INTERPLAY, NOVEMBER@L
OPERATION WOLF, OCEAN, DECEMBER@L
OUTLAND, INTERCEPTOR, NOVEMBER@L
PAPERBOY, ELITE, FEBRUARY 1989@L
PIRATES, MICROPROSE, MARCH 1989@L
POWERDROME, ELECTRONIC ARTS,
NOVEMBER@L
PUFFY'S SAGA, UBI SOFT, OCTOBER@L
RAIDERS, LANKHOR, DECEMBER@L
RAMBO III, OCEAN, DECEMBER@L
REALM OF THE TROLLS, CAPCOM/GO!,
DECEMBER@L
REPORTER, SATORY, NOVEMBER@L
RINGSIDE, E.A.S, NOVEMBER@L
ROBOCOP, OCEAN, DECEMBER@L
SHOGUN, INFOCOM, MARCH 1989@L
SHOOT EM' UP CONSTRUCTION KIT,
OUTLAW, NOVEMBER@L
SKATEBALL, UBI SOFT, OCTOBER@L
SKELTER, NOVAGEN, SEPTEMBER@L
SPACE HARRIER, ELITE, JANUARY 1989@L
SPACEBALL, CAPCOM/GO!, DECEMBER@L
SPACE QUEST II, SIERRA ON-LINE,
SEPTEMBER@L
SPITTING IMAGES, DOMARK, NOVEMBER@L
STORMLORD, HEWSON, DECEMBER@L
SUPERMAN, TYNE SOFT, OCTOBER@L
TECHNOCOP, GREMLIN, NOVEMBER@L
TERRIFIC ISLAND, COCKTEL VISION,
NOVEMBER@L
THE FOOL'S ERRAND, THE BIG APPLE,
NOVEMBER@L
THE KRISTAL, PRISM LEISURE,
DECEMBER@L
THUD RIDGE, THE BIG APPLE, FEBRUARY
1989@L
THUNDERBLADE, U.S.GOLD, DECEMBER@L
TIGER ROAD, CAPCOM/GO!, NOVEMBER@L
TRANSFIGHTER, NOVAGEN, NOVEMBER@L
ULTIMATE GOLF, GREMLIN, OKTOBER@L
UMS, RAINBIRD, NOVEMBER@L
VICTORY ROAD, OCEAN, SEPTEMBER@L
VROOM!, LANKHOR, OCTOBER@L
WAR IN MIDDLE EARTH, MELBOURNE
HOUSE, NOVEMBER@L
WEC LE MANS, IMAGINE, DECEMBER@L
ZORK ZERO, INFOCOM, FEBRUARY 1989@L
@L
WELL MORE UP TO DATE, WHEN THE NEXT
ISSUE ARRIWES, I'M REALLY LOOKING
FORWARD TO SOME OF THESE GAMES!,
SO NOW YOU KNOW WHICH GAME(S) TO
BUY FOR X-MAS!@L
@L
YOU KNOW: A PROGRAM WORTH USING IS
A PROGRAM WORTH BUYING! (SEND A
COPY HAHA!)@L
@L
NOTE: WE HAVE MORE TITLES, BUT
SINCE WE, NOR THE COMPANY DON'T
KNOW WHEN THE RELEASE DATE IS, I
CONSIDER THAT IT'S NOT WORTH
MENTION THEM.@L
@L
SEE YA IN THE NEXT ISSUE@L
@L
@BREX 'THE HIGHSCORE KILLER'@N@L
@L
@S0@L
@BTOP FIVE JOYSTICKS:@N@L
@L
1. MICRO HANDLER@L
2. TAC-2@L
3. WICO BAT AHNDLE@L
4. JOYBOARD@L
5. RAM DELTA DELUXE@L
@L
AND THAT'S WHAT REX AND FOETUS
THINKS!@L
@P
@H1"MASTERS OF SCORE"
WELL, THIS IS JUST AN IDEA FROM ME,
REX, I INTEND TO START A 'MASTERS
OF SCORE' LIST, OF ALL THOSE
JOYSTICK KILLERS OUT THERE, IF YOU
WANT A PART OF IT, THEN DO LIKE
THIS: AT THE FIRST THE GAME MUST
SAVE HIGHSCORES, ALSO SEND THE DISK
TO ME, SO I CAN SEE WETHER YOU'VE
PLAYED IT WITH TRAINER (SHAME) OR
JUST THE NORMAL WAY.@L
@L
SO SEND THE DISK TO ME, NATURALLY
YOU GET THE DISK(S) BACK! (I TAKE
NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR
THIS THING! - ED) GAMES LIKE:@L
@L
GREAT GIANA SISTERS, SUMMER
OLYMPIAD, KATAKIS, PINBALL WIZARD,
CAPONE, CRAZY CARS, AND THE REST,
THAT SAVES HI-SCORES.@L
@L
NOTE: IF YOU GET CAUGHT WITH
CHEATING, YOU WILL BE DISQULIFIED
(HA HA) AND MENTIONED IN OUR
MAGAZINE AS A GOD DAMN FUCKIN'
CHEATER!@L
@L
SO GO ON AND SEND THE HI-SCORES TO
ME, REX ....YOU HAVE MY ADDRESS IN
OUR GREAT MEGA-DEMOS!@L
@L
BY THE WAY HAS ANYONE GOT 18,19 ON
TRIPLE JUMP (SUMMER OLYMPIAD?) HA
HA@L
@L
WELL THE NEXT TIME IT WILL BE
GREAT, SHOWING YOU WHO'S THE
'MASTERS OF SCORE'@L
@L
@BREX@N @P
@H1"SHIT! I HAVE A VIRUS ON MY DISK!"
_____Virus Column by @BSTARFIRE.@N@L
@L
Do you recognize that? Well, if you
do, then this column might help you
to understand somewhat more about
virus and other nasty programs.@L
@L
As you might have heard, I wrote a
virus once to hunt down and kill
other viruses, but that didn't hit
home. It became classed as a
'dangerous' one. The Antivirus as i
called it had several
safetycatches. One of them is to
never save itself to a disk with a
nonstandard bootblock. That is that
it will NOT destroy f.x. a disk
with a bootloader even if you
insert the disk unprotected. The
only way it spreads itself is if
the bootblock contains a virus
known to the program or if the disk
is installed with the CLI command
INSTALL.@L
@L
I thought that to get a little more
spreading of it then I had to let
it do that. Well, I think, no I'm
sure it has helped someone out
there. The Magazine Amiga World had
a virus column in the November
issue. My antivirus was classed as
'POLITE'. So there! Enough of
that.@L
@L
It isn't difficult to write a virus
so I will not describe how. (I
don't think the Ed would have liked
it.) (Definitely not. - Ed) Instead
I will give you a few clues on how
to detect a virus in your computers
memory. To start you off in your
Quest in Virus Mastery:@L
@L
We have two (at the moment) vectors
that is used when you want your
virus to survive a reset. They are
CoolCapture() and Resident().
CoolCapture() is f.x. used by SCA
and Resident() by ByteBandit. If
you check these and find a nonzero
value I recommend that you do
something about it. F.x. zero out
the vector and do reset. Vectors
are as follows: (provided that you
have AbsExecBase in A6)
CoolCapture: $2E(A6) Resident:
$226(A6)@L
@L
I have written a VKILL BOOT in
which I check these vectors and if
nonzero, well, zero out then reset.
Then I combined that with a small
program that i inserted into the
startupsequence. Then if the boot
is missing the program complains
and wants to write a new vkill
boot. A V.E.W.S. System (C) 1988
Starfire. (VIRUS EARLY WARNING
SYSTEM that is!)@L
@L
If the boot IS present then it
won't say a shit. The screen goes
blue though. If your screen goes
blue when booting then check it up.
You might have gotten a copy of it.
I have had reports that a lot of
the bigger groups out there uses
it. Copy it to your work disk. I
promise on my honour as a ninja
that it does not do ANYTHING else
than checking the vectors and
making a reset if they are
altered.@L
@L
If you have anything new then send
it to us. If you want a personal
reply or you want us to send
something back to you, please send
an international reply coupon with
it, otherwize we cannot send it
back as our moneytransport was
robbed last month. Oh, if you want
to have a copy of my V.E.W.S. then
also send a disk. I won't send out
mine. I don't trust you! You might
put a virus on it!@L
@L
Remember that it was here you saw
it! EXCELLER 8. The ComputerMag
that's got IT where IT counts!@L
@L
Address: @FVIRUS@N, EXCELLER_8,
HEIMDALSGATAN 37, S-261 62
GLUMSLOV, SWEDEN.@L
@L
@BSTARFIRE 1988@N @P
@H1"Alvesta meeting"
This collection of syllables is
supposed to be an article about
the Silents/Topswap-meeting in
Alvesta (Sweden) from the third of
October until the eighth of October
(I guess). Boerni (You know him?)
and I (Celebrandil, of course!)
left Lund (also Sweden) heading
towards Alvesta Thursday afternoon
by train. We were accompanied by
Zark of Silents (of Crackforce 5 at
that moment). The trip lasted for
about two and a half hour and we
enjoyed ourselves (and the rest of
the cabin) playing chess
(intelligent people play that game,
you know).@L
@L
In Alvesta we met a guy from the
Silents (an ex-member. I can't
remember his name, sorry!) and we
walked (more than a kilometer, I
guess) to the school carring our
too heavy boxes. Finally we arrived
(and all the lamers greeted us
shouting for joy). We made
ourselves comfortable in the
headquarter surrounded by the
arranging groups.@L
@L
There were already a lot of lamers
occupying the cellar and the
classrooms on the ground floor. On
the first floor a bunch of sleepy
creatures were scattered all over
the place. Not far away from the
school was a supermarket and later
that evening we went there to buy
some stuff in order to survive. We
bought six litres of coke, a bread,
butter and a packet of crackers. In
the middle of the night, when I
wanted to open the packet of
butter, someone had stamped on it
and the butter was impossible to
use. I will kill that stupid mortal
being!@L
@L
Back to reality. There were no
bigger groups at the meeting at
this time (except North Star and
the Silents, of course), but later
two friends from Fairlight arrived.
Armed with guns and beer Strider
and Excalibur entered the school
and all the lamers fled down into
the celler. After a couple of
beers, Strider fought honourably
against all the communist lamers;
the arrangers didnt like it at all.
At two o'clock three members of Def
Jam came and joined our little
party. Il Scuro (DJ), Boerni,
Lorien(DJ), the ex-member of the
Silents and I founded a new
programming-group. We were already
working on different games and
thought that it would be valuable
to cooperate.@L
@L
Next day we went to a nearby pizza
bar and after approximately one
hour we got to order our food.
There were so many impolite lamers
there before we came. We ate our
pizzas in two minutes making up
strategies for our gameproduction
and left the place.@L
@L
You probably want to know how many
individuals there were visiting the
meeting. I dont know the ultimate
figure, but as we left Alvesta
Saturday morning there were at
least three hundred.@L
@L
On Friday I worked on my
Ray-Tracing program (I will tell
you more about Ray-tracing in later
issues) and a program including
filled vector-graphics. Boerni and
the ex-member of the Silents tried
to create a new DOS and a
racing-game. Strider was still
fighting furiously using his
Excalibur (ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho,
very funny, indeed. You have read
about King Arthur, haven't you).@L
@L
The number of lamers was increasing
dramatically. That night the
school-bell suddenly started to
sound and everyone thought that the
police was coming (Your ultimate
chance, Strider!). The stupid bell
didnt want to end and the arrangers
assembled the attendants on the
ground floor to find the fool who
had started the bell. After about
two noisy hours the lamers returned
to the cellar and continued playing
games and eating food.@L
@L
After a lot of sleepless hours we
left the meeting. Boerni and Zark
went back to Lund and I went to
London with my friend Morgan. In
London we met three members of
Quoram (I dont remember their
nicknames). We had a really good
time together, though we didnt stay
in East Ham for more than a couple
of hours.@L
@L
P.S!! Paul, give your little sister
a big kiss, will you?@L
@L
@BWritten by Celebrandil of North
Star/Fairlight @N @C
@H1"Competition time!!"
As any other decent (?) magazine,
Exceller 8 must have a competition.
This time it's going to be a
question for all you pop-freaks out
there.@L
@L
All we wan't to know is on which of
SABRINAS two biggest talents is
there a little birthmark? Is it on
her right one or on her left one?@L
@L
Answers on a big bra to:@L
Sabrina comp@L
Exceller 8@L
Heimdalsgatan 37@L
S-261 62 Glumslov@L
Sweden@L
@L
To arrive before JANUARY 15 1989.@L
@L
Members of NS/FLT are not allowed
to enter competition.@L
@L
The lucky winner will receive a big
poster of the fab singer. (-Ed) @P
@H1"ADVERTISMENTS !"
@BAttention !@N@L
@L
Is there a graphical artist living
in south-Sweden who are very,very
good at painting ? Are you good at
painting animated aliens and
backdrops for a shoot'em up game
like Katakis ?@L
@L
Are you interested in making money
developing an amiga game ?@L
@L
If that's the case, please contact
me(@FAtom@N) for more information at:
Christoffer Nilsson, Juligatan 7,
252 52 Helsingborg. Or call me at:
042-153302.@L
@L
@FThis is your chance to get a free
ad in this magazine.@N@L
@L
All ad's in the next issue (# 2)
will be @FFREE@N. That means that you
can send us your ad (6 lines of 35
characters) and we will put it in
the magazine for you. And all that
for nothing! But we will only
accept@F one@N ad from each group or
person.@L
@L
Like this:@L
Exceller 8 is looking for the@L
lyrics to the old @BKim Wilde@N hit@L
Cambodia. If you have it, please@L
send us a copy. Kim Wilde,
Exceller@L
8, Heimdalsgatan 37, S-261 62,@L
Glumslov, Sweden@L
@L
From issue # 3 it will cost 10
Swedish crowns to put an ad in
Exceller 8.@L
@L
(-Ed)@L
@L
@S0@L
@BALWAYS REMEMBER THE 5 BEST DEMO
MAKERS, NORTH STAR ^ FAIRLIGHT,
WILD COPPER, ANTITRAX 2010,
MEGAFORCE, IAN & MIC.@N@L
@P
@H1"Letters!!"
A couple of weeks ago NORTH STAR
recieved a letter which I think is
very fascinating. We have
re-printed it exactly the same way
it was written:@L
@L
@L
Hello guyz!@L
@L
You don't know me I guess! (I'm
Terraman of @BSTARFIRE INC.@N) I can't
imagine how you couldn't have heard
of us! Maybe because you're on
Amiga only?! You can't have heard
of us, whereas you have a member
called STARFIRE? He @Fmust@N change his
name, because it's @Fvery@N unsmart to
have the same names! We are going
to release an Amiga demo soon...
that's why it's unsmart! We have
been called @BSTARFIRE@N for more than
3 years now! The prof is enclosed!
A 5 1/4 disc with some of our 64
demos! (keep the disc by the way)
(No one in NORTH STAR owns a 64
anymore - Ed) Your quite cool at
coding really! If you are
interested in swapping then send
some 3 1/2 discs to me!!! But the
fact is that the dude in your cool
group will have to change his name,
because we had the name first! If
you don't beleive us then try to
ask one of the following guyz: Karl
XII of Sphinx, Finnish gold, TMC,
TBB, TSK,DDN, Parsec, and so on! In
fact - anyone with a 64'@L
I hope we can find out of this in a
pieceful way!@L
Send back if you wan't to swap cool
stuff!@L
@L
@BSTARFIRE INC.@N @L
@L
@L
Hmmm. What can I say. If you hoped
that i will change@B MY@N name then
you're wrong. I have been using
that name before you even could
walk. (Or talk for that matter!) I
laugh at your pityful attempt of a
threat.@L
@L
If you want to use @BMY@N name then you
will have to come and visit me, and
convince__me__that__I_will_not_need
@BMY@N name anymore. I can say you this
though, I gained that name in
training. When throwing shurikens
with lightning speed. (Ninja stars
for those who didn't know.)@L
@L
My advice to you is that it would
be simpler if @BYOU@N changed @BYOUR@N
name. @BSTARFIRE@N is a person. Not an
incorporation. That person is @BME@N! I
will have my shurikens and ninja-to
handy for when you feel like to
visit me.@L
@L
@K@BRIN, PYO, TOH, SHA, KAI, JIN,
RETSU, ZAI, ZEN!@N I am ready!
Greetings from @BSTARFIRE@N, the @FONE
AND ONLY!@N @L
@L
@L
@BI wonder if there are any groups
called FOETUS INC. out there.
Ooooooh I'm shivering. - Ed@N@L
@L
@L
@C
@H1"BUSTED BY THE MAIL!"
WELL THIS BLOODY THING JUST HAPPEND
TO ME (REX), WHEN I WAS USING TAPED
STAMPS FOR BETTER ECONOMY (HEHE),
IT WENT REALLY GOOD, BUT THEN AFTER
SOME TIME, I BEEN TOLD FROM SOME
OF MY CONTACTS HAD TO PAY FOR MY
LETTER, SORRY FOR THAT, THEY HAD
EVEN TEARED APART SOME STAMP SO
THEY WERE USELESS (ISN'T THAT RIGHT
MICHAEL - BEASTIE BOYS!).@L
@L
WELL I'M NOT THAT KIND OF PERSON
THAT GIVES UP EASILY, SO I WENT
ON, JUST IN THE SAME ORDER, WELL
THEN ONE DAY A POLICE WAS CALLING
ME UP, (SHIT WAS I SCARED MAN).
HE ASKED ME IF IT WAS ME (REX),
WELL IT WAS (SHIT). WELL HE SAID
IT'S ABOUT THOSE SENDINGS YOU'VE
MADE, THE TAPED STAMPS, (FUCKING
SHIT THAT WAS MY THOUGHT), I SAID
YES, WHAT'S THE MATTER, HEHE?!?,
HE TOLD ME, THAT HE WANTED TO HAVE
A CHAT WITH ME, O.K. I SAID, WELL
WE WAS DECIDING WHICH TIME FOR ME
TO ARRIVE.@L
THEN FINALLY DOWN AT THE POLICE
STATION, HE WAS ASKING ME HOW MANY
LETTERS I'VE SENT AND TO WHICH
COUNTRIES, WELL I TOLD HIM THE
RIGHT ANSWERS (DID I???) NO NOT
EXACTLY, BUT ONE HAS TO BE A
LITTLE CAREFUL, WE DON'T WANT ANY
REALLY BAD ECONOMY (HEHE).@L
@L
SO I TOLD HIM THAT I SWAP WITH
ABOUT 15-20 PERSONS (BIGGEST LIE
EVER MADE), AND THAT I HAVE SENT
25-30 LETTERS (NOW THAT'S THE
SECOND LIE), WELL HE WANTED TO KNOW
IF I HAD A JOB, I SAID NO NOT AT
THE MOMENT, HE WANTED TO KNOW HOW
MUCH MONEY I WAS MAKING ON ONE
YEAR, NOT THAT MUCH I TOLD HIM,
WELL AFTER SITTING THERE IN ABOUT
1 HOUR, I WAS FREE TO GO.@L
@L
THEN A WEEK AFTER HE WAS PHONING ME
UP, TELLING ME, THAT IT WAS MY
FIRST TIME, SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY
ANYTHING, LUCKY ME...BUT HE TOLD
ME IF THESE THINGS HAPPENED AGAIN
WE WON'T BE THAT NICE O.K. I SAID
NO WORRY MAN, IT'S THE LAST TIME,
BUT IT WASN'T THE WEEK AFTER I
SENT SOME LETTERS TO MY CONTACTS,
JUST PAYING THE NORMAL PRICE, NO
NOT ANY TAPED STAMPS THIS TIME,
BUT A LITTLE CHEATING ANYWAY, IT
WENT A WEEK, AND I THOUGHT WELL
WHERE'S THE LETTERS THEN?!?!?, THEN
THE DAY AFTER, I'VE GOT THIS
PARCEL (BIG) FROM THE POST OFFICE.@L
@L
SO I WENT TO GET IT, THEN TO MY
DEEPEST SORROW, I SAW THE LETTERS
THAT I'VE SENT FOR SOME WEEK AGO, I
THOUGHT,@L
-FUCKING SHIT MAN, HAD TO SEND THEM
RIGHT AWAY AGAIN, THIS TIME I WAS
PAYING FOR THE STAMPS, BUT AS I
TOLD BEFORE, WITH A LITTLE
CHEATING, I'VE PUTTED EXPRESS ON
ALL OF EM' WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT,
AND THEN SENDING THE LETTERS BACK
AGAIN, SO I HOPE THAT ALL YOU
CONTACTS WILL UNDERSTAND O.K...@L
@L
I WILL BE GOOD IN THE
FUTURE....GOOD.....VERY GOOD....OH
WELL WE'LL JUST HAVE TO
SEE......HAHA.....@L
NOTE: THIS IS A FAIR WARNING TO YOU
OTHER PEOPLE THAT 'FIX' YOUR
STAMPS!....@L
@L
@BREX@N@L
@L
@L
@C
@H1"GAME REVIEWS"@BHYBRIS@N@L
@L
Just when i was beginning to feel
that verticaly type of games had
been gone dead, Hybris reaches my
Amiga and proves to me that there
is still life in those old fashion
shoot em ups.@L
@L
I must say this one belongs to the
best I've seen for a very long
time. The basic idea is to fly a
spaceship up a vertically
scrolling landscape, blasting
everything that moves.@L
@L
There are four stages and after
each stage you have to shoot a very
big and ugly alien. You can also
pick up extra firepower if you wipe
out a wole wave of nasties. That
will make it easier to proceed in
the game.@L
@L
The graphics are exactly what you
would expect from a machine like
the Amiga, it is colourful and
detailed. It's got everything. Also
the sound is very good especially
the spot effects. The background
tune never gets boring. What more
is there to say?@L
@L
@BAZID@N gives @BHYBRIS@N 4 out of 5.@L
@L
@L
@BRoger Rabbit@N@L
@L
At last it is here, the Walt Disney
figure Roger Rabbit. The game is
based on the movie which is quite
cool. The graphics and sound are
brilliant.@L
@L
The gameplay starts with you
sitting in a car driving and
competing with your enemy. There
are four levels to play. The
starting level is on the road. The
second level is in the pub, the
third level is the same as level
one and the final level is set in
the factory where you have to save
the girl.@L
The sound is good but it is much
better with one megabyte of memory.
You also need two disk drives to
play the game properly.@L
@L
@BAZID@N gives @BROGER RABBIT@N 3 out of5.@L
@L
@L
@BHellfire@N@L
@L
This game comes from a quite
unknown company called @BAkaido@N and
perhaps that is the reason why the
game is so boring and bad.@L
@L
What you should do in this game is
not hard to explain. You see your
helicopter from the back and in
front of you there are aeroplanes
and other helicopters. You are
shooting all the time so its just
to stear left, right, up and down.
To me this looks very much like a
cheap version of @BAfter Burner@N.@L
@L
The graphics and the sound is not
much to talk about. The final
statement will be: Don't buy it,
don't play it and if you allready
have it, throw it away.@L
@L
@BSlaine@N gives @BHellfire@N 1 out of 5.@L
@L
@L
@BCrash and Burn@N@L
@L
This sounds like a real shoot and
kill'em game, but it's not. In this
game you are driving a car and when
other vehicles are appearing on the
screen your job is to push them out
of the road.@L
@L
For example there are motor bikes,
lorries and so on. If you get in to
serious problems you can solve them
by pressing fire then the car will
jump up in the sky.@L
@L
The worst thing about this game is
that you have to start all over
again when you die.@L
@L
The graphics in this game are not
splended but they are good enough
and that goes for the music as
well. But if you look at it
overall, it's quite a good game and
it's fun to play.@L
@L
@BSlaine@N gives @BCrash and Burn@N 3 outof 5.@L
@L
@L
@BOUTRUN@N@L
@L
The only game I like is Apache
Strike on the MacIntosh. I am a
professional on that game...Today I
have tried the geem Outrun. There
you are driving a big Ferrari with
fat tires and lots of horsepowers.
It is almost as fast as my old
Volvo Amazon. @L
@L
During the game you are supposed to
have full throttle all the time. In
the long turns on the the motorway
on which you are driving, you will
notice strange noises from your
tires. Don't bother about that,
just keep full throttle. You will
meet other cars when you are
driving, Beetles, Porches and
astonishing fast trucks, but
ofcourse you are the fastest.@L
@L
I liked the game quite a lot. I
give this game four points out of
five, well almost four.@L
@L
@BLUFTWAFFE@N@L
@C
@H1"ROLEPLAYING"
Hello folks! This is STARFIRE
writing. They said 'Write something
about roleplaying'. Well, here we
go! In adventuregames like The Pawn
f.x. you have the computer to keep
track of everything. In roleplaying
games (RPG from here on.) you have
a GamesMaster(GM) to keep track of
everything. How boring, I hear you
say. Well I can say this much,to be
a GM is great fun as the players
sometimes comes up with more
problems than I have chucked at
them. And a GM doesn't say 'You
can't do that! What now?'(If he
does,kill him, because he is no
good as a GM). To write about RPG's
isn't easy. One advantage from
Adventure Games is that you can be
more than one playing. Any number
in fact. This depends on how crazy
your GM is.@L
@L
I'm Crazy enough! Flexibility isn't
the first you think of when you
speak of Adventure Games (I'm
thinking about shorting it to AG).
In RPG's the GM's imagination is
the only limit. If you play with a
GM who's imagination is on the same
level as, say Darth Vader, well
then you're in for some serious
trouble.@L
@L
When I haven't had time to write an
adventure I just improvise. That is
just as fun as running a bought
adventure or writing one yourself.
No Limits! And your players can do
a lot more wacky things when
playing RPG's. One of my friends,
Leslie, plays a Bountyhunter in
StarWars. Once he fried two jawas
with a flamethrower for poking
around in the heap of metal that
once were a robot. It's amazing
what a heavy blaster can do!@L
@L
So to summarize RPG's its just some
crazy dudes sitting around a table
rolling funny looking dice, and
speaking in voices sounding very
strange. If you want to have a look
at one RPG then I can recommend
that you have a look at Games
Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy
Roleplay. Its really worth its
price. Bye for now and may the
Force be with you.@L
@L
@BSTARFIRE@N @P
@H1"A LESSON IN SWEDISH"
These are the English phonetic
pronunciations of some common
Swedish sentences.@L
@L
S: Foar yaa(g) byewdah poa ehn
siggahreht?@L
E: Can I buy/offer you a
cigarette?@L
@L
S: Haar vee inter trehfathts
furrewt?@L
E: Haven't we met before?@L
@L
S: Foar yaa(g) byewdah poa ehn
drink?@L
E: Can I buy/offer you a drink?@L
@L
S: Vehntahr nee poa noagon?@L
E: Are you waiting for somebody?@L
@L
S: Haar nee lewst aht taa ehn
beeltewr?@L
E: Do you wan't go for a car-ride.@L
@L
S: Vaa(d) aer ayrt
tehlerfoannewmerr?@L
E: What's your telephone number?@L
@L
S: Foar yaa(g) furlyah ayr hehm?@L
E: May I follow you home?@L
@L
S: Boor nee ehnsahm?@L
E: Do you live by yourself?@L
@L
S: Hewr dahgss goarr ayr sistah
bewss?@L
E: When does your last bus leave?@L
@L
S: Goar nee oftah heet?@L
E: Do you come here often?@L
@L
@L
From "@BSwedish for travellers@N"
Published by Berlitz. Extract from
the part "Dating".@L
@L
@BCRAB@N @P
@H1"LONDON, A PARADISE?"
I have visited the capital of Great
Britain for three days, I'm quite
shocked.@L
@L
I have never before seen so many
strange "people" together in one
place. If you look normal, with
normal clothes and normal hair then
you dont fit in. The more ugly you
look the better it is. Blue or red
hair, stupid clothes and shoes
leaking water. Why doesn't Mrs
Thatcher do anything about it. She
is called the iron-lady but she has
totally missed London. Does she
never walk around in the town were
she lives? Does she never travel by
the underground, or eat at
McDonalds? Obviously not. Somebody
must buy her better glasses.@L
@L
The music shall be as bad as
possible to sell well in London.
"Artists" like Bros, Pet shop boys,
Rick Astley and Sigue sigue sputnik
are selling lots of records to the
stupid buyers. Salt 'n pepa has got
a hit with an old Beatles song.
They should be put in jail for that
with nothing else than salt and
pepper to eat, and they should not
be let out until they made good
music.@L
@L
The editor of this magazine asked
me to go to the cinema and see a
new film. No way, I won't see a
new, modern so called film together
with idiots. Instead I spent three
hours watching the four year old
musical Chess and enjoyed it very
much, that's entertainment.@L
@L
The hotels in London are bad and
ridiculously expensive at the same
time. For one lousy single room you
have to pay £ 75 for one night. For
that money you can live in your own
flat for two weeks. The breakfast
costs £ 5.70, almost s-i-x quid,
that's madness. I of course skipped
the breakfast.@L
@L
From the outside the hotels look
very good. They are big, white
buildings with roman pillars and an
impressive entrance. But when you
have checked in and left the foyer
you can hear the stairs creaking
under you and the floors are dirty
with torn carpets. The walls are
not better and the paintwork in the
ceiling is falling off. It takes
five minutes to get hot water from
the tap and if it's cold outside
you have to sleep with your clothes
on. The TV-screen is so small you
have to use a magnifying glass and
you still can't see Sabrina clear
enough. If you turn on the radio
instead, they only play those new
disguisting british hits.@L
@L
London is a paradise if you are a
maniac.@L
@L
I'm not.@L
@L
I prefer Hollywood.@L
@L
@L
@BLUFTWAFFE@N @C
@H1"MUSIC VIDEOS"
Yes it's time for music videos or
to put it short MTV. The music
video has become big business, both
for the artist and the record
company. It is almost impossible to
release a single nowadays without
the help of a music video to
accompany it. The sole purpose of a
music video is to boost the sales
of the record and in the end make
more money to the record company.
Most of the videos made today are
made by the same companys that make
the commercials on tv. This means
that they use the same "tricks" to
sell washing powder as when they
make a music video. @L
@L
As everything else, there are
always trends in music video
making. Since most of the videos we
see are made in either England or
USA, there are a couple of setups
that are common for each country.
The americans have the "story-line"
videos (Michael Jackson) and the
big live videos (heavy metal or
hard rock bands), the brits have
the collage videos (M.A.R.R.S.) and
the "artistic" videos (Cocteau
twins).@L
Todays trend seems to be to make it
either with lots of colours (Pet
shop boys, Elton John, A-ha,
Spandau ballet), or very little or
no colours at all (almost all
french videos, Sam Brown, Julia
Fordham, Talking heads, Toni
Childs). Or edit it all together
into one big mess (Sonic Youth!!)@L
@L
All the video reviews mentioned
below are personal opinions of the
staff of Exceller 8 and is to be
taken seriously. (-Ed)@L
@L
@L
@BTanita Tikaram@N@L
"Twist in my sobriety"@L
One of the best black and white
videos ever!@L
@L
@C@BHouse of love@N@L
"Destroy the heart"@L
Fab editing. Great song.@L
@L
@BSonic youth@N@L
"Teenage riot"@L
Total video mayhem! Roll on!!@L
@L
@BInnercity@N@L
"Big fun"@L
Acid tits.@L
@L
@BEnya@N@L
"Orinoco flow"@L
Great coloring, great song. The
best number one in the U.K. this
year. Beautiful!@L
@L
@BSam Brown@N@L
"This feeling"@L
Lame song, arty video -Hey Sam,
make a face.@L
@L
@BSandra@N@L
"Secret land"@L
Perhaps her best video, but sounds
the same as usual. Nice nose!@L
@L
@BMichael Jackson@N@L
"Smooth criminal"@L
Another Steven Spielberg
production?@L
@L
@BMaiken Wexo @N"Now you know what
theM stands for!"@L
@L
@BTom Jones and Art of Noise@N@L
"Kiss"@L
No comments.@L
@L
@BJane Wiedlin@N@L
"Rush hour"@L
Just watch her play the guitar. My
heart melts! I'm in love!!@L
@L
@BPrefab sprout@N@L
"King of rock n roll"@L
Albaqurque(!?!) Hilarious, that's
the word!@L
@L
@BPip Dann@N - Nice hairdo, cute as
ever.@L
@L
@BBobby Mcferrin@N@L
"Don't worry, be happy"@L
Outrageously boring song and does
the video go along with it?
Probably! Don't listen, don't
bother.@L
@L
@BBrother beyond@N@L
"Harmony times"@L
Low-budget @BWham@N. Diluted. Almost as
bad as Level 42.@L
@L
@BBlissfully unaware@N - A ten second
masterpiece.@L
@L
@BBVSMP@N@L
"?" (The latest)@L
Magnificent. Brilliant. Absolutely
essential. Only beaten by @BMilli
vanilli@N. Forget @BMichael Jackson@N.@L
@L
@BPhil Collins@N@L
"Groovy kind of love"@L
ZZZZZZZZZZZ@L
@L
Number of privatly owned machine
guns in @BAmerica@N - 183.000.@L
@L
@BGuns and roses@N@L
"Welcome to the jungle"@L
Let's just hope the audience gets
the lyrics, especially the all
american blond girl.@L
@L
@BKim Wilde@N@L
"You came"@L
Woohaa! Best ass!@L
@L
@BJulia Fordham@N@L
"Woman of the 80's"@L
Squeaky clean. @FThe@N woman of the
80's.@L
@L
@BRoxy music@N@L
"Let's stick together"@L
Nice tie.@L
@L
Most hated commercial - Benetton.@L
@L
@BSabrina@N@L
"All of me"@L
Yes, we wan't all of you. Now! (Who
put a bra on @BSabrina@N!?! - Ed.)@L
@L
@BBananarama@N@L
"Nathan jones"@L
Same old quality stuff. I love'em.@L
@L
@BCenterfold@N@L
"Money"@L
Banana rip off.@L
@L
@BKim Wilde@N@L
"Never trust a stranger"@L
Sounds like a "Kids in america"re
run. Back to the golden hits, orhalf
way at least.@L
@L
@BYazz@N@L
"Stand up for your love rights"@L
Groovy!@L
@L
@BMilli vanilli@N@L
"Girl you know it's true"@L
What can we say. Best video of
1988! Stunning performance. Best
script and best acting "You really
mean that much to me". Winner of
the golden X-8 award (You know it's
true).@L
@L
@BThe man with no name - yet!@N @P
@H1"QUOTES"
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to
do a song now that tells a little
story, that really makes a lot of
sense...@L
Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom!! Tootie
Fruttie!! All Rootie!!@L
@BLittle Richard on TV, 1956@N@L
@L
Wanted: Narcissistic Fender rhythm
guitarist for up-and-coming rock
band. Minimal technique OK.@L
@BAd in "Village voice", New York@N@L
@L
The music is all. People should die
for it. People are dying for
everything else, so why not the
music?@L
@BLou Reed@N@L
@L
It really tripped me out to see all
those girls screaming for
him...that was the main appeal. And
the fact that the person who did
that didn't look as if he worked.@L
@BSammy Hagar, on seeing Elvis on
"The Ed Sullivan Show" when young@N@L
There's a lot of things blamed on
me that never happened. But then,
there's a lot of things that I did
that I never got caught at.@L
@BJohnny Cash@N@L
@L
I don't understand why people think
it's so incredibly difficult to
learn to play a guitar. I found it
incredibly easy. You just pick a
chord, go twang, and you've got
music.@L
@BSid Vicious@N@L
@L
If you can really get it together
in three minutes...that's what pop
songs are all about.@L
@BDebbie Harry, Blondie@N@L
@L
The stage is a holy place, you do
not get up there and degrade it.@L
@BGene Simmons, Kiss@N@L
@L
That record sounds like God hit the
world and the world hit God back.@L
@BPhil Spector on "River Deep
Mountain High"@N@L
My ambition is to have as many
guitars as @BRick Wakeman@N has
sparkles on his cape. That would be
mind-boggling, terrific. I saw him
playing in the States. He was
pushing a Mellotron over an ice
rink on skates, trying to catch it.
That's art.@L
@BRicky Neilson, Cheap Trick@N@L
@L
I can't think of anything I fear
more, except possibly a nuclear
holocaust.@L
@BFort Worth Hotelier, on the
imminent arrival of a Led Zeppelin
tour@N@L
@L
I was in the studio one day at 706
Union Avenue and my secretary
noticed that young man going by,
very shy, and he wanted me to make
this record for his mother's
birthday.@L
@BSam Phillips, head of Sun Records,
on the arrival of Elvis Presley@N@L
@L
@BAll quotes from The Book Of Rock
Quotes 1982 - Ed.@N @C
@H1"LP, CD and Concert video Reviews"
@K@BThe Waterboys@N@L@BFisherman's Blues@N@L
@L
It took @BMike Scott@N and his band
three years to complete the long
awaited follow up to their last lp
"This is the sea". And my
expectations were big, really big.
@BThe Waterboys@N have gradually
developt their music over their
three previous albums, which is
best described as "Big rock-music",
with lots of added piano, violins
and saxophones and other
instruments.@L
@L
And with this album the Waterboys
take a step backwards and at the
same time a step forward. Adding
more of the old Irish folkmusic
into their music. Tuning down their
"Big music" a bit.@L
@L
The record is divided into two
parts really. the first five songs
(one by @BVan Morrison@N) sounds very
Waterboyish and they were recorded
in -86 and -87, they carry on where
"This is the sea" left us. One song
is co-written with @BKarl Wallinger@N
(former Waterboy, now in his own
band @BWorld Party@N), and it's of
course entitled "World Party". The
rest of the songs takes us further
"out in the fields". Some of the
songs sounds as if they were
recorded directly live in some pub
somewhere.@L
@L
This album is an excellent
collection of songs. And like all
Waterboys records, it takes a while
before you really "capture" the
album. But it grows with every
listening. @L
@L
Unfortunately there were no lyrics
included (at least not in my CD
version), A pity because Mike Scott
write some very good lyrics, and
there is always a good storyline in
them. And as I said a little step
backwards, since he has already
found "The big music" this is
perhaps another way to look at it
or a way to broad it.@L
@L
Still it sounds very good.@L
@L
@BThe__man__with_no_name_-_yet!@N_gives@B
The Waterboys@N 3 and a half fish out
of five.@L
@L
@L
@B@KSonic Youth@N@L
@BDaydream Nation@N@L
@L
@BSonic Youth@N is back!! This time
with a double album. This is the
most @Belectric@N record I've ever
heard. The electricity and energy
just pours out of my speakers.@L
@L
Sonic Youth sets out at such a pace
that your heart has problems
keeping up and when they finally
lower the tempo, you are able to
take a deep breath and relax, just
for__a__short__time._This_record_is
@Kthat@N intense. And in the slower
parts you can feel the energy
gathering for a new outburst.
Poooh!@L
@L
The record sounds typically Sonic
Youthish (? - Ed), with all their
weird noises and guitar sounds, and
it is a very thightly recorded
album. Not that much "experimental"
though.@L
@L
It's a straight forward rock'n roll
record. The sonic way! And a
masterpiece!!@L
@L
@BThe__man__with_no_name_-_yet!@N_gives@B
Sonic Youth@N 4 screwdrivers between
the guitarstrings out of 5.@L
@L
@L
@L
@B@KAbout Jean-Michel Jarre@N@L
@L
Hello everybody!@L
After I bought @BJarre@N's latest
creation, @BRevolutions@N, and listened
to it a couple of times I became a
bit dissapointed. I think that his
style has changed alot and also his
taste for real synth-music.@L
@L
In 1977, when @B"Oxygene"@N came, it
was something that nobody had ever
heard before and it became a great
success. After that "@BEquinox@N" made
every synth-lover fly. Then, if I'm
not mistaken, "@BMagnetic Fields@N"
came with it's fabulous sound and
new machines, Jarre starts to 'fool
around' with samplers, for example
jet-plane-sound and train-sound.@L
@L
I think that Jarre's best music
comes from "Equinox" and "Magnetic
fields". But "@BRendevous@N" is not so
bad, in fact it has the best sound.
"@BConcert In China@N" is a mix of
"Equinox", "Oxygene" and "Magnetic
Fields" and also his own chinese
music.@L
@L
Jarre is among the best composers
of synth-music but there is also
@BVangelis@N, who makes more like
'classic music'. I like Vangelis' @B
"Chariots Of Fire"@N very much. But
somehow I find the rest of
Vangelis' music (except "Chariots
Of Fire") boring.@L
@L
@BTitan@N gives @BRevolutions@N 3 out of 5@L
@C
@H1"HEAVY METAL"
@K@BOzzy Osbourne@N@L
@BNo rest for the wicked@N@L
@L
The old demonrocker @BOzzy Osbourne@N
strikes again with what seems to be
one of the best records this year.@L
@L
Songs like "Miracle man" and
"Breaking all the rules" are among
the real highlights. "Fire in the
sky" is a song that reminds me of
early Ozzy material, with it's soft
acoustic guitars, while "Crazy
babies" reminds me of the kind of
hard rock that was played during
the mid seventies.@L
@L
The new guitarist, @BZakk Wylde@N, was
really something of an adrenalin
kick to the old man. His style is
old, not like the "@BYngwie
Malmsteen@N 100 miles/hour" type of
playing. I think it's more
comparable with the old phantoms of
rock like @BAce Frehley@N (@BKiss@N)
and@BAndy Scott (Sweet)@N.@L
There's one song that's only
available on the compact-disc,
called "Hero", which is really
worth checking out...You won't be
disappointed.@L
@L
@BSword@N gives @BOzzy Osbourne@N 5 out of5.@L
@L
@L
@K@BCandlemass@N@L
@BAncient dreams@N@L
@L
The___Swedish___heavy___metal__band@B
Candlemass@N has just released their
third album called "Ancient
dreams", and what I find exciting
about this band most of all is
their ability to play metal so
powerfull that any genuine H.M. fan
cannot fail to succumb to their
charms. "Ancient dreams" is truly a
devastating release. Try and
imagine an explosive combination of
the three greatest @FREAL@N metal units
the world has ever witnessed, @BBlack
Sabbath, Judas Priest@N and @BManowar@N.
Candlemass are the most powerfull
power metal band I've ever heard.@L
@L
With songs like "Mirror Mirror" and
"Bearer of pain" they really shake
the____foundations.___The___singer,
@BMessiah Marcolin@N, shows a voice
that is truly in a class of it's
own. Combine that with
bassist/songwriter @BLeif Edling
@N'sability to write powerfull and
melodic songs...and it cannot fail
to be a success.@L
@L
@BSword@N gives @BCandlemass@N 5 out of 5
(It's really worth it!)@L
@L
Other albums worth checking out:@L
@L
@BManowar@N - Kings of metal@L
@BDokken@N - The beast from the east@L
@BJason Becker@N - Perpetual Burn@L
@BKing Diamond@N - Them@L
@L
@BSword@N @P
@H1"CONCERT VIDEO"@B@KPrince@N@L
@BSign of the times@N@L
(VHS cassett)@L
@L
The concert movie @B"Sign of the
times"@N has got it all. From the
dynamic start with "Sign of the
times"__to__the_perfect_ending_with
@B'The Cross"@N. In between there is a
fabulous mixture of the best songs
from the album "Sign of the times".
@BPrince@N makes a superb show, every
element of prince is there. The
costumes, the dance, the sex, the
guitar solo's, the show...You name
it, he's got it. There is not much
to say, if you like prince I
recommend that you go out and buy
this one at once, and while you are
at it, buy a new stereo TV or plug
the video into your stereo. Play at
maximum volume!. That is the way to
hear it.@L
@L
"Sign of the times" is one of the
best concert movies around, that's
for sure.@L
@L
@BThe__man__with_no_name_-_yet!@N_gives@B
Prince@N 5 crosses out of 5.@L
@L
@L
@BConcert movie chart@N@L
@L
These are the most profitable
concert movies in the USA during
the 80's.@L
@L
1. "Stop making sense"@L
@BTalking Heads@N@L
@L
2. "Bring on the night"@L
@BSting@N@L
@L
3. "Let's spend the night
together"@L
@BRolling Stones@N@L
@L
4. "Home of the brave"@L
@BLaurie Anderson@N@L
@L
@L
@BCRAB@N@L
@P
@H1"SWEDISH CENSORSHIP IS A CRIME:"
YEA THAT'S RIGHT, IN SWEDEN, ALL
HORROR AND ACTION MOVIES ARE
CENSORED, ALMOST ALL WE HAVE HAD
CENSORSHIP SINCE 1935, BELIVE THAT,
I DIDN'T THOUGHT THEY MADE ANY
VIOLENT MOVIES AT THAT TIME!.@L
@L
WELL MOVIES LIKE: PRISON, CHAINSAW
MASSACRE I,II, DEATH WISH 4, JUST
TO NAME A FEW IN THE BIG BIG
CROWD.@L
@L
MOVIES LIKE, ACTION JACKSON, DIE
HARD, DEAD HEAT, RED HEAT, RAW
DEAL, COMMANDO, COBRA, JUST TO
NAME A FEW, HAS BEEN SO CUT, THAT
ONE JUST HAVE TO CRY, SOME HAS BEEN
CUT 5-6 MINUTES, AND SOME 10-15,
AND THAT'S A LOT ON SUCH MOVIES
LIKE THIS.@L
@L
I THINK IT'S A BIG SHAME, TO CUT
MOVIES, WHEN THEY HAD SUCH A JOB
MAKING THE SPECIAL FX, AND THEN
JUST DO A LITTLE CUTTING, SO I'VE
STOPPED TO LOOK AT THE MOVIES FOR
THEY CUT MORE ON MOVIE THAT GOES ON
THE CINEMA, THAN THEY DO ON THE
SAME MOVIE, THAT'S ON VIDEO!?!...@L
@L
NOW THEY EVEN STOP THE GAMES
(VIOLENT ONES!?!), GAMES LIKE
BARBARIAN, CAPONE, SEX VIXENS,
WHEREWOLF, JUST TO NAME SOME, SOME
HAVE BEEN STOPPED, AND ARE NOT FOR
SALE IN SWEDEN, AND SOME ARE FROM
VARIOUS AGES, FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU
WANNA BUY BARBARIAN YOU HAVE TO BE
18 YEARS OF AGE, WELL I DON'T GO
OUT AND DO SOME CUTTING OF OTHERS
HEADS, DO YOU?, THAT'S
REDICIOLUS!.@L
@L
THE WORST THING OF ALL IS THAT WHEN
PEOPLE HAVE CABLE TV, THEY DON'T
CUT THE MOVIES, WHY THE CENSORSHIP
THEN, BECAUSE A LOT OF SWEDISH
PEOPLE HAVE CABLE-TV?, WELL THEY
WANTED TO CUT THEM AS WELL (CRAZY),
BUT THEY WHEREN'T ALLOWED TO DO
THAT.@L
@L
WELL THAT'S SOMETHING ABOUT SWEDISH
CENSORSHIP BY REX. @P
@H1'Movietime"
@BDie Hard@N@L
@L
I thought this was a German
movie...! But I was wrong!! It's
one of those American Shoot-em-up
movies where you can almost see the
letters SCORE: 999 999 in the upper
left corner of the screen.@L
@L
Don't take me wrong, I quite like a
good action movie (@BTerminator,
Aliens@N). But I think this one has
to many cliche's to be good. The
movie features a decent
peace-loving hero, a sick/mad
(stupid!) terrorist leader, a
cocain snuffing yuppie, a loyal
ex-wife (This is the 80's), a
snooping and rude TV-journalist, an
honest street cop and an
incompetent chief of police.@L
@L
Director @BJohn Mctiernan's@N last
effort___on__the__silverscreen__was
@BPredator@N (Do you remember the
game?). Contrary to Die Hard, it
was an exciting movie where you
didn't know what was going to
happen next all through the movie.
But OK if you ain't got nothing
better to do on a Saturday night,
it could well be worth a couple of
quids. Foetus gives @BDie Hard@N 2 out
of 5.@L
@L
@L
@BThe Running Man@N@L
@L
This is one more @BStephen King@N alias@B
Richard Bachman@N novel beeing
transformed to the screen. I
haven't read the book but it
reminds me of another King/Bachman
story called @BThe Long Walk@N. Both
the Running Man and The Long Walk
is about a future where death has
become big business and coast to
coast entertainment on prime time
tv. @L
@L
The movie stars @BArnold
Schwarzenegger@N as the police man
Ben Richards who after having
refused to kill a lot of innocent
people at a food rally, gets
sentenced to a long punishment at a
work camp. Richards is spotted by
the host of the most popular
tv-show "The Running Man" when he
tries to escape. He is being
offered a chance to be free if he
submits to take part in the show.
Richards and his unarmed companions
have to team up against a
pugnacious range of well armed
fighters.@L
@L
As all other "King" movies, this
one is very well made. The movie
gives quite a good feeling of the
future television world. A world
where you will do almost anything
to get a high rating and a big
advertising account. The movie is
at it's best when it makes fun of
all other (present) tv game shows.
Unfortunately the story derails at
the end with Richards getting even
with the cynical game host.
Nevertheless a good movie that
could have been better.@L
@L
@BFoetus@N gives The Running Man 3 out
of 5.@L
@L
@L
@BPRISON@N@L
@L
Prison? Another mass-produced
horror movie? No! This is one of
the best directed horror movies of
-88. Featuring a very tight
atmosphere created in the same way
as the classic @BAlien@N.@L
@L
A run-down old prison is set up to
host a couple of hundred assorted
criminals because of lack of space
at the ordinary prison. The
original warden of the old prison
is given the job to run it again.
During the clean up of the old
prison, the walls to the old
execution chamber is torn down,
releasing the captured spirit of
the last inmate beeing executed in
1964. He is (probably) looking for
revenge on the old warden who ran
the prison when he was executed.@L
@L
Lots of dark and steamy cellars and
underground tunnels help to make
this movie a suspenseful thriller
and a cut above the rest of horror
movies. Photographed in a very
beautiful and competent way plus
some very good acting and some
unusual special effects makes this
movie a treat.@L
@L
@BFoetus@N gives @BPrison@N 4 out of 5.@L
@L
(The only thing you like is horror
B-movies and SPECTRUM games. -Ohm)@L
@L
@L
@BA CLOCKWORK ORANGE@N@L
@L
WELL THIS IS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE
MADE BY THE DIRECTOR OF FULL METAL
JACKET, STANLEY KUBRICK, THE
MOVIE IS BASED ON ULTRA-VIOLENCE
(MMM).@L
@L
WELL THE MOVIE IS ABOUT FOUR YOUNG
KIDS, THAT'S TERRORISING THE PEOPLE
LATE AT NIGHT, VIOLENCE IS HIGHER
THAN EVER, AND RAPE IS HIGH SUCH AS
ROBBERY, THIS MOVIE IS 17 YEARS
OLD, BUT IT'S STILL A DAMN GOOD
MOVIE, IT'S IN THE FUTURE OF A
VIOLENT SOCIETY, NOT THAT DIFFERENT
FROM OURS.@L
@L
IT'S ABOUT GANGS THAT RAPE, MURDER,
AND ROB, THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEND AT
NIGHT, ON THE DAYS THEY ARE JUST
NORMAL KIDS, O.K. THEY DO NOT GO TO
SCHOOL NOR DO THEY WORK, (JUST LIKE
YOU REX - ED) (SOUNDS GREAT), BUT
LATER ON IN THE MOVIE THE FOUR KIDS
START ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER AND
THEN ONE GET CAUGHT BY THE POLICE,
AND SPENDS THE TIME IN JAIL FOR
SOME YEARS, BUT THINGS THAT COME IN
MUST COME OUT, SO AFTER SOME
YEARS, HE GET OUT, FROM THAT NASTY
JAIL, SO HES THINKING OF SOME KIND
OF A REAL NASTY REVENGE, WELL
FINALLY HE FINDS THEM, AND I'M NOT
TELLING YOU WHAT HAPPENS,
BECAUSE, I THINK YOU SHOULD SEE IT,
(THE REALLY UNCUT VERSION)
OFCOURSE WHICH IS 2,13 LONG. AT THE
END THE SOCIETY IS PAYING BACK WITH
THE SAME TREATMENT....SEE THIS
MOVIE IT'S REALLY GOOD....@L
@L
BLOODY REGARDS.....@L
@L
@BREX@N GIVES @BA CLOCKWORK ORANGE@N 4 OUTOF 5.@L
@L
(NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A REVIEW! -ED)@L
@L
MORE REVIEWS IN THE NEXT ISSUE.@L
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@S0@L
@BTop ten horror movies:@N@L
@L
1. Evil dead 1 & 2@L
2. Hellraiser@L
3. Terror@L
4. Friday the 13th part 6@L
5. Aliens@L
6. Demons@L
7. Day of the dead@L
8. Halloween@L
9. Creepers@L
10.Revenge of the mutant, mixed-up,
flesh eating, bloody zombies@L
@L
Note: number 10 is a New
zealand-Greenland-Botswana co-
production, it's hard to get
indeed!.@L
@L
List compiled by Rex and Foetus.@L
@L
@L
@P
@H1"The Sport!"
Here are a couple of articles and
letters from Britain's leading
newspaper "The Sport".@L
@L
@BMIRACLE OF CHRIST'S FACE IN PLANK@N@L
@L
"Ray of light showed it was @FJESUS@N"@L
@L
Amazed factory workers revealed
yesterday how they found Jesus_-_in
a plank of wood.@L
@L
They had stared in disbelief when
they saw Christ's face ingrained in
wood being used to make a kitchen
cabiner. The face_-_identical to
the one on the Turin
shroud_-_appeared the day the
shroud was declared to be a fake.
The find has been named the Bacup
Plank, after the little Lancashire
mill town where it was found.@L
@L
Foreman John Brereton. 55. who
first saw the apprition, said;
"I've never seen anything like
it."@L
@L
Cabinet maker Neal Nuttall said;
"The chances of these recognisable
markings appearing in the veneer
are very remote indeed."@L
@L
@L
@BCROSBY AND PRESLEY ON MARS@N@L
@L
"On Wednesday, November 2. I went
to the work's toilet. When I opened
the door I found myself on Mars. I
heard some shouting coming from
behind a rock. Hhen I went to
investigate I found Bing Crosby
arguing with Elvis Presley and a 18
foot chicken over the rights to
Wooden Hearts. Elvis swore to me in
a Welsh accent."@L
@BANDY CHOD, EDINBURG@N@L
@L
@BI'M THE SON OF HITLER@N@L
@L
"I can't keep it a secret any
longer_-_I'm the unknown son of
Adolf Hitler.@L
@L
And I have to tell all you people
out there that my dad is a kind man
and is alive and well and working
as a bouncer in Liverpool.@L
@L
My dad said it was about time I was
known to the world. I now live in
Banstead and work as a security
guard.@L
@L
I used to belong to a band in
Germany called Hitler and the Ham
Butties. I moved to England in
1982."@L
@BHANS JON HITLER. BANSTEAD SURREY@N@L
@L
All material from "The Sport"
Wednesday, November 23, 1988@L
@L
Have you seen a funny, crazy,
fantastic, weird, trashy, mad,
outrageous, hilarious or stupid
article in a Newspaper or a
Magazine? If you have , rip it out
and send it to us and we might
print it. Don't forget to tell us
where you got it from.@L
@L
Weird@L
Exceller 8@L
Heimdalsgatan 37@L
S-261 62 Glumslov@L
Sweden@L
@P
@H1"Pure Madness"
How to do a horizontal scroll (5
bitplanes) in 0.24 raster lines.@L
Ehh, Well I don't know !!!@L
You tell me !!!!!!@L
Now over to someting totally
different!@L
@L
Discoteques in Helsingborg
(Sweden).@L
Yep, here's a nice article about
the night-life in Helsingborg. Why
Helsingborg ? Well, you tell
me.... Maybe because we live in
Helsingborg (from now on HBG). And
because HBG is the coolest city in
Sweden where the coolest dudes in
Sweden lives (Yep!). We will
discuss where an 17.82 year old
boy/girl__can__go._That_is_ofcourse
@Bnowhere@N if you haven't got a false
Id-card.@L
@L
If you got one then the only answer
is: Go to Denmark and visit RITZ
(Yeahhh!) (Hi Foetus. Thanks for
the ferry-tickets!). Ritz is a nice
disco with FREE BEER (Hick!) !
Well, I think you got the message
now. So let's talk about something
else !!!@L
@L
How to do a North Star DRINK (On
the rocks!) !!!@L
First get hold of a bottle of gin
(1 liter).@L
2 liters of Orange Fanta (Sugar
free. 1 calory).@L
1 package of fine crunched sugar
(Yeah, Use time-cruncher!?!).@L
A bunch of ice cubes.@L
10 lamers, oooops, sorry.... 10
lemons (Hello FJERT!!).@L
4 spoons.@L
2 glasses.@L
1 ruler.@L
2 hands.@L
2 life insurances.@L
1 Swedish/English@L
dictionary/ordbok.@L
@L
When you got all that stuff then
proceed with:@L
(We will try to explain it as easy
as possible.)@L
Hints:@L
y=6-6 sin(2x+18) , sin(u+v)=sin
u*cos v+cos u*sin v. Squeeze the
lemons. And pure it in can nr 1.
Put some crunched sugar in spoon nr
1 and in spoon nr 4. Put glass nr 1
on the table. Insert spoon nr 2 in
glass nr 1. Put glass nr 2 beside
glass nr 1. Insert spoon nr 3 in
the glass beside glass nr 1. Pure
some ( f(1.5) cm) gin in glass nr
1. pure some ( f(1.47)+.92 cm) gin
in glass nr 2. (Ps Hint.
f'(x)=2x+.5x) Pure som Fanta into
glass nr 2 and glass nr 1. Insert
spoon nr 1 into glass 2. Withdraw
spoon nr 3 from glass 2. Insert
spoon nr 4 into glass 1. Withdraw
spoon nr 2 from glass 3. Wiggle
spoon nr 1 and nr 4. Fill glass nr
1 and glass nr 2 with can nr 1. Put
ice cube nr 1 and ice cube nr 3
into glass nr 2. Put ice cube nr 4
and ice cube nr 2 into glass nr 1.@L
Nu far det fan ta me va nok !! If
you find it a bit hard, then just
drink out of the bottle (Noo! Not
the Fanta bottle !!).@L
@L
Ok, over to something else !!@L
Lets test your musical
capabilities. We will sing one
sentence of a tune (which we
like!). YOU shall then guess which
tune it is. Just to make it a bit
easier we will help you with the
name of the group. I need you
tonight...da.da tra lla INXS.
(Tricky one, wasn't it!) YEEESSS I
will have you (That blonde
girl!)....da.da tralla ANIMOTION.
Steps to heaven is steps to me
(ATOM!)...da.da tra lla Solliballi
Sello (Hard one,wasn't it!). If you
manage to guess all the tunes....
then...then you win a bicycle trip
to Norway (Jippie!)!!!!@L
@L
And now over to something quite
different.@L
Special thanks must go to: the
authors of this text (the names
have been changed to protect the
guilty!).@L
@BMOTA DNA EZZAJ @N(xor $AA!).@L
@L
And of course to our (Atom's and
Jazze's) weekend girls:@L
@L
@B@KGreta and Lena@N@L
@L
Not to forget our funny little
pudgy boy: Bandage (Knock Outed in
the first round). Once again thanks
to Foetus for providing us with
tickets to fun. To my parents for
not beeing at home. And last and
least to our growing FAN-CLUB !!!
Well, this is getting boring so
lets write about something else !!@L
@L
Jag hatar Crackers Journalen when
dom skriver in tyska..Why kan dom
inte keepa sig till (Sv)engelska.@L
@L
And now for those who can keep
their eyelids opened for another
cycle. If this sick (Hick!) text
passes the censorship (Foetus) (Hi
Foetus, once more thanks for the
tickets..We need some more !!),
then we feel very, very sorry for
you......@L
@L
THE END@L
(move.l $fc0004,$80, trap $00)@L
@L
And now over to som....@L
@L
@B(That's 'nuff. Who let those freaks
out of the cupboard? I gave
specific orders not to open the
door unless we had to feed them or
clean it!. Someone is going to be
sorry for this!! - Ed.)@N @P
@H1"The End"
Ok we have come to the end of this
issue of @FExceller 8@N. We are
interested in your opinions about
this magazine. So please feel free
to write to us telling us what you
think.@L
@L
If you have an interesting article
that you want published, contact us
first before you write anything.
Remember, we are not only looking
for "Computer material" but also
other things associated with the
media world.@L
@L
Deadline for the next issue of this
Magazine is January the 31th 1989.@L
@L
In the next issue@B Celebrandil@N will
write about Raytracing and
Vector-graphics.@L
@L
Exceller 8 sends it's best wishes
all over the globe:@L
@L
@BMerry Christmas And A Happy New
Year.@L
Joyeux Noel Bonne Annee.@L
Feliz Navidad Feliz Ano Nuevo.@L
Iyi Noeller Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu
Olsun.@L
Frohliches Weihnachten Und
Gluckliches Neujahr.@L
Nodhlaig Sonna, Agus Bliain Nua Fe
Mhaise Ghuit.@L
Wesolych Swiat I Szczesliwego
Nowego Roku.@L
God Jul Och Gott Nytt Ar.@L
Feliz Natal E Um Bom Ano Novo.@L
Buon Natale E Prospero Anno Nuovo.@L
Salamu Na Furaha Za Sukuku Ya
Kirimasi Na Mwaka Mpya.@N@L
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And remenber:@L
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@BWHAT@L
DID@L
@FGOD@N@B@L
DO@L
FOR@L
YOU@L
TODAY@L
HONEY___________-ED.@L