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Welcom sceners to a new issue
of CAS! In this issue we will
have a special hackerinterview
(He wants to remain his anonymous
of course). I am also proud to
say that the mag is now multitask-
ing and that more improvements are
to come. If you have something to
say about this Magazine just write
me a line: smaugur@amigascne.org
or if this adress is down,
dont hesitate to write to another
NLS-member.
Icing 99 will be the release for
this 2nd mag of CAS, so see you
all at Icing 99!
Smaugur/Nls
Interview with Spoon/Nerve Axis
.........by Smaugur/NLS........
Hello Spoon!
it's time for some
wonderful questions.
Smaugur: First tell me how you
became an Amiga musican.
Spoon: Well,
me and Jam got our hands on
some sound proggy, I think it was
Sound FX or something like that
and then sometime later found
Soundtracker and there was no
turning back :) that was back
in 1988. We had already before
we got the amiga started to fiddle
around with some music programs on
the 64 allthough we didn't finish
anything.So we kinda started look-
ing around for music progs as soon
as we got the Amiga.
S: What kind of music
are you doing?
Spoon: Dance music, mostly deep
jazzy house these days
though we have done almost
every kind of dance music
through the years.
S: What equipment are you using
when you are producing tunes?
Spoon: We use an old Microdeal
sampler on the Amiga and
we sample a bit on the pc as well
(great editors on it :)). In the
past we have sampled directly from
a Korg Poly800,Roland JX sumthing,
Yamaha DX7 and some other synths,
we mainly sample sounds from CDs
now though (lazy bastards)
S: And what do you eat for
breakfust?
Spoon: What kinda question is
that?
I'm not gonna answer that :)
S: Have you made any covers?
Spoon: Not many no but we've made
I think about 5-6 or so (my
memory fails me haha) Even though
we would classify them as remixes
not covers.
S: Can you listen to every kind of
music or do you disslike some
musicstyles?, If that is the case,
tell me then which styles you cant
listen to and why?
Spoon: I can listen to almost
anything more or less
allthough I find most country
to be extremely boring and I avoid
it at all costs.
Also death/black metal is not my
thing.
S: Tell me where you get your
inspiration from when you
compose a song?
Spoon: Spur of the moment things
:) Depends on the mood Im
in.
S: What selfmade tune are
you most proud of?
Spoon: Climax, we've never spent
as much time producing a
tune as much as this one and 3rd
world is a tune we are proud of
because it was quite difficult
to finish properly.
S: Which parties have you
attended?
Spoon: I attended ASM in '94 and
Jam went to SIH'95 where
we got 3rd place in the music
compo with Climax :)
S: Are you/your group planning any
realese you want to tell
the readers about?
Spoon: Yes, Nerve Axis is doing
another demo :)
S: Do you have any final words
Spoon?
Spoon: Contrary to rumours that
have been spreading, Jam
has not quit the scene and Im
not going solo!
Cheers
Interview with Chip/Powerline
......by Browallia/NLS.......
B: How would you like to introduce
yourself using pure letters?
Chip: I'm a twenty year old coder,
wasting all my spare time
from work on my amiga ;P naah,
I try to keep a small life
too :) When I work I write
code for steenkin' peecees,
but I have to make a living too.
B: Any strategy for comming prods
from you?
C: Well, well-designed perhaps? :)
We have no imminent release due
to that damn thing called 'life'
interfering all the time,but I try
to write (or update) my routines
from time to time, and I
WILL release one or more
demos, don't worry :)
B: Why are Powerline
influenced by political
messages in some productions?
C: We didn't want to be "just an-
other demogroup", so we added
something that others hadn't done
before, and that added some extra
'feeling' to the demo, as we had a
message to deliver instead of just
some darn 3d-objects rotating on
screen (even though we have had
some 3d in the demos we didn't
prioritize it, it was just an-
other part of the presentation).
By adding a message to our pro-
ductions we tried to make a dif-
ference, and quite a few people
seemed to appreciate it :)
B: What about your catch phrase
-Hardline against Hardline-?
C: I'm not sure who came up with
that one(probably someone after
listening to too much RATM :) but
its meaning is more that we if
someone is hard against us, we
pay 'em back with just as much.
:)
B: Any favorite color?
C: Blue is close to hand :)
..Lets go on with some about your
comming party called Icing 1999..
B: I was at Icing 95, and that
party sure was specially and a
great success, crowded with compos
activities, groups, etc..
What do you expect from Icing 99?
Chip: Hopefully we will get close
to that feeling from 1995,
but scene was a different place
back then, with much less gamers
on parties like this, and having
so many sceners and few gamers
added to the feeling a lot.
B: Does Icing differ from other
Swedis parties? then.. why?
C: Hm, I'm not sure...
Maybe it's because we still
have a good connection with the
scene? Even though we get more
and more economical each year,at
least I try to keep myself up-
dated and involved as much as I
can :)
Many parties has degraded
heavily due to that they
ignore more and more
the sceners and
concentrate on
the 'gamers'.
B: Can you give me one (very
special) reason to visit
Icing this year?
C: I'll be there? ;P No, but
it will be a fun experience,
I can (almost :) guarantee that.
:)
B: So, good luck with this party-
project. Want to add some last
words Chip?
C: Hm, Nopes,
I better get to work now :P
Interview with
Whizzkid / Oops!
b\/
Smaugur / NLS.
Hello Whizzkid!
Its time to answer some scene
smelling questions!
Smaugur: What Amiga equipment do
you have?
Whizzkid: I still have my first
A500 which I unfor-
tunately blew up some years ago,
next there's my old burnt out
A2000, I recently bought a CDTV
and on my desk is my A4000/040
S: Now tell me when and how you
got interested in the Amiga
scene?
W: I started off as a computer
addict ever since my dad bought
a 64 computer. I had one for years
and then a friend in school showed
me his a500, i was hooked, and we
started a small group. (never did
anything tho, i was still on the
c64) Then when i was 15 yrs old
i bought my first amiga, the all-
mighty a500 with a stonking 1 mb
of memory.
I started all sorts of weird stuff
and partial games.. As i got to
know more people via bbs'ses we
got a little more active. and the
members of our groups changed. I
split the old group,formed another
group together with prodigy, which
later became known as Oops!
S: And how did you come up with
your special name Oops! ?
W: Well,
Prodigy and i where sitting at
my place, going through the dic-
tionary, trying if we could come
up with a cool name by picking
words at random.
After doing that for a while, with
no 'impressive name' found yet, we
tried to think of another 'catchy'
name.. and we figured an everyday
term would be useful. Oops!
immediately jumped to mind..
S: What are you mostly doing when
you are sitting in front of
your Amiga a late night when
it's raining outside?
W: I havent been using my amiga
lately (shame shame) but I
usually dabbled with Amos.
(Yes i think amos is cewl,
even though its slow, blitz
wouldnt run on my computer
anyway, its not about the
tool thats used for creating..
its the creating that counts!)
I also used Lightwave quite a lot,
sometimes play games. and whenever
i can get my hands on a camera
i'd make weird movies or stop-
motion animations with my digi-
tizer.And i've spend many a sleep-
less night on IRC
S: Tell me which production
in the name of Oops! you
are most proud of.
W: I think that would be Beeps,our
chip-tune pack (its the only
thing we actually made a 2nd part
for! 8P (plug plug.. all our
releases are available from our
website, http://oops.in.nl
(its handy if you work for an
internet provider 8)
S: Which parties have you attended
during your scene years?
W: I attended
Somewhere in Holland II
and I've been to Bizarre '97
(as part of the amiga-organizers)
and i could usually be found on
the Interexpo (which isnt a
scene-related gig, but its
good fun 8)
S: Why do you like the
Little Mermaid-movie so much?
W: I dont know 8)
I havent watched it in ages,
but my page gets lots of hits,
and since i'm hosting it for
free, why not? 8)
S: How do you want the new Amiga
to be like?
W: Well, it should kick the pc's
arse bigtime, and it should be
cheap enough for me to be able to
afford it.
S: Are your group planning any
release?
W: We're not quite sure yet. There
has been talk about a coop
demo-thingy with Maximum but
i dont have all the details
on that... stay tuned 8)
S: Do you have any final words
Wizzkid?
W: Yes if there's anyone out there
wou can fix my a4000 for free.
drop me a line!!!!!
Interview with a Hacker (He wants
to be anonymos)
by Smaugur/NLS
Its a hackattack interview
coming up!
Smaugur: What make you getting so
intrested of hacking?
Hacker: It appeared naturally
cause my intrest in
Unix and sequrity
S: What about the hackerscene
nowadays?
H: The hackerreflected scene today
actually has none of the pure
knowledge of what hacking truely
is, if you then go and speak about
them they are in age of 30,already
having wife and children.
S: Describe a hacker.
H: When Media today use the term
hacker they usally mean a
cracker (its the one who hacks
in networks with a destructive
occupation, while a hacker has a
burning interest of computers.
S: Considering to your definition
what is the difference between
a wannabe-hacker and a hacker
"for real"?
H: A real hacker does not speak
very loud about his knowledge,
while a true wannabe wants to be
seen, and need attention.
S: Do you think its okey of the
hackingmagazine 2600 to collect
money for Kevin Mitrick?
H: I think its alright caus of his
crime are not so horrible.
S: Do you think Kevin
is a competent
Hacker?
H: According to rumours he should
not be,I dont think he is that
legend media wants to describe
him as.
S: How is the hackerscene
influenced by Internet?
H: It establish people toghether
and the knowledges are float-
ing free and the exchange of in-
formation between humans,hacking
is going turning into a new shape,
before it was pack intermediary
nets (X25) for example nets
like datapak, tymnet,
sprintnet (Swe) and so on
while all hacking of today usally
are related to internet.
Swedis parties in years like today
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.(a none-FAQ written by Browallia)
Please observe ;)
The term party includes the prefix
copy- or demo- but is named so for
saving some bytes.
with this article I want to put
some stuff on what I call it -
the edge. What the heck do I mean
with parties _today_ ?? Well its
hard to put a line between now and
not now, so lets say the last 4-5
years. This is the time when I
started to be a paying member of
swedis parties. So, why swedis
then?? Hurmboah! .. small parties
may be the same over the globe, so
comparing parties in Sweden with
other countries can be done! sure!
Of coz swedis parties differ from
each other,and my own structure in
this article is something like diz
*-advertising for a party
*-where/when
*-entrancefee
*-computers/platforms
*-people
*-partyattractions
*-prices
*-compos
advertising for a party
coolest is of coz, when the party-
crew do an inventation.exe and
thats it! fenito,schluss,Amen! But
for some people that isnt enough,
they may be scared to death this
way, or, if its a big party (in
Sweden there are no big parties
nowadays anyway..) you may use a
fucking homepage, just for knowing
that all kind of folks will come..
..even the bad guys!
where/when
I start with when. Normally it is
over a weekend, a very local party
can be held any weeekend, but most
popular days are around easter,be-
ginning of summer, or generally;
- time without school -
What I mean with ultra-mega-bombi-
fetti partyplace is of coz in a
gymnastic-hall, where the police
is doing razzias and guys left the
hall through windows with a bunch
of discs around in jeanspockets...
It's popular to arrange parties in
sporthalls and its oki too as long
as your priority is partyschedule
before a basketball.. Personally I
like parties held in classrooms
where each group has one room,
writing stuff on black board, and
each group is responsible for each
room..
entrancefee
low or high? hmm.. In the absolut
last years I have seen very VERY
Expansive entrances,and only thing
I can say about that is: you wont
get the best people for this fee-
system guys!
Even, a to low entranceticket is
under suspicios. And this can
fill your mind: "probably a shitty
hall, organisers,compopri$ers, and
the total quality-feeling..." etc.
But its oki to pay if you decide
to go there.
Sometimes its free for girls or
foreigners outside Scandinavia, n'
thats oki, especially foreigners!
that sure is an expansive travel!
This is weird too:
with computer X+Y <$ money $>
without computer: X <$ money $>
I know some organisers telling
famous groups like "you dont have
to pay the ticket, but if you win
some money, you'll pay..
A #?-system just so other groups
pays for being there with them...
It smells commercial here!
computers/platforms
Amiga and PC... PC for these users
(mayority) shall financing a party
amiga - caus the tradition.. and
outsideguys looking at amiga like
it was an animal from zoo saying
"oh, cool I thought it was pre-
history.."
But where are the rest? the ab-
solute minority?? the other in-
novaters?? For this I think I am
in love with the MS-parties down
in Europe.
Game-platforms sucks anyway on a
party, but if you want the whole
family represantative on a party,
its oki to mix computers with
games.
The scene seems to move anyway..!
..and nobody is in action for
responsibility!
people
people create the atmosphere I
guess. And I think its always fun-
ny to see new friends, groups and
there banderolls I have notice be-
fore, and even the old foxes who
always just are there ;)
Girls on parties are oki, to see a
girl coding, painting or whatever
is nice indeed!
Just between you and me I can tell
you that I hope my girl want to be
more intrested too, but my success
is beyond a sunny swedis summer!
partyattractions
like movies on bigscreen, suprise-
compos, videorooms or colacompo...
With a full program you dont have
any time for asm,gfx,msx or speak-
ing with friends.. Iam looking for
a party without an enviromental
programlist,concentrated on tradi-
tional compos, with deadlines on
the last day! All productions from
nukleus have been fixed at parties
some have been coded there before
deadline and some wasnt in time
coz of deadlines first day.Anyway,
its important to keep the program
without to many delays.
At last, how about networking??
hurmaburrah.. and voting thizz way
A nightmare is a correct answer!
Anyway..
..Votediscs or paperlists forever!
price$
Back here again! If a party has $$
- and keep there words about them,
more people will always go there!!
To release for fun, or for get 1st
price saying XXXX $ that sure is a
question! Our C64-section won a
demo-compo one time, and our coder
got some discs, tshirts and so,but
that is oki if the time was cool!
compos
what will happend with the demo-
limit? Soon its 10 mb, then even
more,and then the organizors says:
"ok, put it on a CD-rom..." well,
then you have a wildcompo instead,
or, then you have your shit there!
Putting traced anim-sequences ...
..yuack, that sure rules negative!
And what is the future for gfx-
compo anyway? How many humans are
doing pixle by pixle nowadays?
Before showing gfx-compo, why not
include the text:"diz naked woman
was found on Internet, and I did
some effects with it so you wont
recognize a shit! It took 4 days
for me to fix this 16.8 million-
color-pic" !?
---------------------------------'
at last:
every existing party sure is some-
thing to remember, and every party
has its own profile.
a party for amiga, atari,c64 with-
out too many sponsors (just caz we
dare to fix that) smaller prices,
entrance like 150-200 SEK (25-30$)
and not to forget are the party-
fixers themselfs... Putting nice
stuff together creates a
paradisio with
friends in
harmony
...
blaah blaah...
/browallia
Here comes a party which definitly
seems to be something to remember!
FuCk-Ya - party #2
1999: 5/6 09.oo - 6/6 09oo
Compos
-Amiga demo 8MB
-Amiga intro 64k
-Amiga hand-gfx
-Amiga 24bit-gfx
-Amiga Music 4ch
-Amiga Music multich
-C64 Demo
-C64 Gfx
-C64 Music
-wild, slamtilt-compo etc..
-no PC compos
homepage for updates:
http://mosogep.rulez.org/~fuck-ya
Please dont remind me, that this
resultlist is late as fuck.
enjoy this delivery anyway.
Amigacompos and C64 demos from:
MEKKA & SYMPOSIUM 2K-1
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Amiga Demo #######################
01 Mnemonics...............Haujobb
02 When We Ride.......Jamie/Skarla
On Our Enemie
03 Smoke Bomb................Ozone
04 Vendetta.................Nuance
05 Quest......................Iris
06 AlpenClüb '52.............Depth
07 Jatsi's big......Jazz & Vesuri/
Jorma /Da Jormas
08 InUtero.................SkyTech
09 Heureka...........Puryx, Cupid/
/Unique
10 Sympslide..................Iris
11 The Deep Dentro....After Eights
C64 Demo #########################
01 Driss - 1st Demo III......Driss
02 Ecoute Et Voir............Faque
03 Importance?..............Ninja/
/The Dreams
04 Contact.....................TUM
05 Brak 2....................GFB64
06 In Booze We Trust.....RamJam 64
07 I can't dance.....Woznak/DMagic
08 Screech Single...........Lubber
Parts Version
09 10 Years Role..............Role
10 Happy Birthday.....Booze Design
11 850-Pichel-.........The CENTRIC
Wirbelstürme-60%...........Crew
12 Logodemo!..............Ultimate
13 Black Angle..........Visac/Cult
14 Ficken im Zelt Pt. 2....Seminar
15 Eastereggs...........Brainstorm
+Techno
16 Runaway..................Draken
17 4K Chorplasma............Draken
Amiga 40K ########################
1 Grid......................Nature
2 Kryptonite.................Depth
3 Qapmoc...............Black Monks
4 2998z......Modem + Dip / Darkage
5 Poem........................Iris
6 40K to little?.............Cybbe
7 Ines.....................Jack C.
8 Face to Face...............Tulou
9 Faith-Tro...Faith in 1999/2000 ×
Amiga 4K #########################
1 Hyper.....Focus Design & Scoopex
2 Das EFX..................Scoopex
3 Profanity......StingRay/Darkside
4 str8.....Cytron/Depth & Ib/Depth
5 TUPA.....................Zymosis
NUKLEUS OFFICIAL BEERLIST Apr.1999
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a selection included 44 names
1. Tuborg
2. Budweiser. (US)
BjørneBrygd
3. Sol
Norrlands guld
4. Ringnes
Carlsberg Export
5. Three towns
Heiniken
Warsteiner
Lapin kulta
Falcon
The three-choice-individual list
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Balder
1) George Killion
2) Andersson
3) Sol
...
Browallia
1) Königpils
2) Tuborg
3) Sol
...
dIS
1) Budweiser. (US)
2) Tuborg Grøn.
3) Danskt Juløl
...
Joru
1) Zeunertz
2) Norrlands guld
3) Ringnes
Sorex
1) Bjornebrygd
2) Pripps Dark Lager
3) Karlsberg Export
...
Modem 56&6
Pandora (ECS)
Dragonsbreath (msx or game)
disc or dms
A1200 030/50/50/ with Fast
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Due sending via post,
heavy stuff are clearly
prefered within the
Swedis lines...
Credits·..... :
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Cows n Snakefights #2
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Writer for CaS just
so your eyes move .
faster as the .....
monitorbeam ....... Smaugur
Fixxing Gfx and Msx
toghether in a ....
runable file ......
called .exe ....... Joru,SoreX
Paint and draw with
maximum 32 colors .
may visualize .....
something ......... Browallia
A Panflute here and
a bass-drum there .
can speak clear ...
with your ear ..... dIS
In Universe You Will Not
Understand A Thing..
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Hello sceners
Nerve Axis
Powerline
Oops!
hacker..
Swe parties
Fuck-Ya
M&S 2K-1 res
beerlist
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