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   SHORT INSTRUCTIONS: USE MOUSE TO SELECT ARTICLES AND CURSOR TO SCROLL ARTICLE'S TEXT. LOOK IN THE INSTRUCTIONS ARTICLE FOR FURTHER HELP. READ THE EDITORIAL FOR SOME INFOS ABOUT THIS ISSUE. REMEMBER THAT THE RULES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS AND FOR RECEIVING THE MAGAZINE CHANGED ONCE AGAIN... SO LOOK AT ADDRESSES AND PRICES ARTICLE TO SEE THE NEW RULES. WE HOPE, BUT WE HAVE SOME DOUBTS, THAT THIS ISSUE WILL WORK EITHER ON 512K AND 1MB AMIGAS... WE STILL HAVE TO CHECK THIS, COZ THIS ISSUE HAS 50 ARTICLES LIKE THE OTHERS, BUT THE 4 COLOURS TEXT TAKES MORE MEMORY THAN THE PREVIOUS 1 COLOR TEXT. ANYWAY IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS TRY ADD21K, ADD44K OR DECIDE YOURSELF TO BUY THE FUCKIN' MEMORY EXPANSION!  SCROLL RESTARTS...          



                        *** FREEDOM CRACK #6 - 30-05-91 ***

                                    Editorial
                                     Credits
                                  Instructions
                               Addresses and prices
                              Letters to the editors
                            Zero Defects Interview (1)
                            Zero Defects Interview (2)
                            Zero Defects Interview (3)
                               Sanity Interview (1)
                               Sanity Interview (2)
                              Prologic Interview (1)
                              Prologic Interview (2)
                              Prologic Interview (3)
                              Icecream Interview (1)
                              Icecream Interview (2)
                               Equinox Interview (1)
                               Equinox Interview (2)
                               Equinox Interview (3)
                                  Diskmags corner
                             Anarchy party report (1)
                             Anarchy party report (2)
                         Another Anarchy party report (1)
                         Another Anarchy party report (2)
                            Pissup 2 - the revenge! (1)
                            Pissup 2 - the revenge! (2)
                                 Action Replay II
                                  Navigator test
                                    TAC-2 test
                              American slang part 2!
                                 Swapping hints
                            Your guide to boozing (1)
                            Your guide to boozing (2)
                                 The way to Budo
                              Too many diskmags???
                           (Self) interview to a lamer
                           How to improve your sexlife
                                      Jokes
                                 Being an elite
                                  Perfect fakes
                               Digitizing Service
                                  Job Corner 1
                                  Job Corner 2
                                Advertisements 1
                                Advertisements 2
                                Advertisements 3
                                Advertisements 4
                                Advertisements 5
                                Advertisements 6
                                Advertisements 7
                                Advertisements 8



Diskmags Corner
---------------

Since we saw that every Diskmag has this corner, we decided  to insert it  here
too. So here are some reviews of old and new magazines we  have  seen  in  this
period.

Cracker Journal #24
The coding now is much better  and faster.  But  the  articles  aren't  all  so
interesting, and as always  there are too many  german articles! Anyway, as  in
every CJ, you can read interesting things too,  and there  are always the usual
funny stories about someone who was caught  and similars.  Very  good  the  RSI
interview. All in all, CJ after 24 issues is still a  fuckin' cool diskmag, but
the fact that they have a fixed release date  in my  opinion makes the  quality
worse.

Illegal Copy #1 (Vision)
The first issue contained only films  reviews and  party reports, anyway it can
be interesting. Anyway it's a restricted  magazine, coz  if  you  aren't a  VHS
fanatic maybe you don't care about this mag. We hope  that in future they  will
publish something more various. The coding is not bad,  good  idea to  make  it
into one file (like Freedom Crack!).

Bad Tongue #9 (IBB)
Here's the 9th issue of this mag, the only one (together with FC) published  in
Italy that became famous also outside Italy. This  issue  is  maybe  the  best,
because the new coding is simple but efficient and the gfx  and the  music  are
really cool (nice work DHS)! The  only bad thing is  that there are not so many
articles, so  in  10  minutes  you  have  read the whole  magazine. Anyway  the
articles are always interesting! Keep up the good work E$G!

If you publish a magazine and you want to swap ideas,  mags, tips, articles (?)
and so on, feel free to write to our address: we  will keep  in touch with  all
magazines publishers!

(SELF) INTERVIEW WITH A LAMER                       BY POWERMANIA OF POWER INC.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   I= INTERVIEWER
   P= POWER
  
I: - PLEASE STATE YOUR FULL NAME
P: - MOBERG, DANIEL PETER
I: - WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
P: - I LIVE IN A TOWN CALLED ASTORP IN SWEDEN. I LIVE IN A HOUSE WITH MY
     FAMILY, CONTAINING OF TWO PARENTS, TWO SISTERS AND ONE DOG.
I: - NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER-CARRIER.
P: - OKEY! I BEGAN FOR THREE YEARS AGO ON THE GOOD, OLD C64. I BOUGHT IT FROM A
     FRIEND. AT THE BEGINING I ONLY PLAYED GAMES AND  CODED  SOME  IN BASIC.  I
     DIDN'T EVEN KNOW AT THAT TIME WHAT A DEMO WAS.  BUT AFTER A WHILE I GOT MY
     HANDS OVER SOME DEMOS FROM THE SWEDISH GROUP  "FORCE". THEN I  BOUGHT  THE
     FINAL CARTRIDGE 3 AND STARTED TO CODE SOME IN THE MONITOR.  I DIDN'T  KNOW
     MUCH I ONLY CHANGED SOME NUMBERS IN THE LIST, BUT AFTER  A WHILE I  BOUGHT
     SOME BOOKS AND  COMPUTER-MAGAZINE  AND  STARTED  TO  LEARN HOW  TO  REALLY
     CODE.
I: - BUT YOU'RE NOW ON THE AMIGA. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT.
P: - OH, WELL IT ISN'T VERY EXCITING. IN MARCH THIS YEAR I DECIDED TO  BUY  THE
     AMIGA BECOZ I WAS FED UP WITH THE C64 AT THAT TIME. AND ON THE 2 OF  MARCH
     (MY BIRTHDAY) I HAD IT AT HOME. FIRST I HADN'T ANY  DEMOS  BUT  AFTER  THE
     ANARCHYS EASTER CONFERENCE  I LAID MY HANDS ON ALL THE DEMO-CONTRIBUTIONS.
     I ALSO LEARNED THAT THERE WERE SOME GUYS IN THE SCHOOL WERE I ATTEND  THAT
     WERE HAVING A DEMO-GROUP. NOT A GOOD ONE BECOZ THEY HAD ONLY BEEN  WORKING
     FOR A SHORT WHILE. I TALKED TO THEM AND I'M GOING TO JOIN THE GROUP AND BE
     THEIR CODER.
I: - THAT'S VERY NICE, BUT YOU HAVE SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND
P: - YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. I WILL TALK ABOUT THE SCENE. I THINK  THAT IT  IS  VERY
     NAIVE OF THE EXCISTING CODERS TO TREAT THE NEWCOMERS LIKE SHIT! IN MY CASE
     I HAD A GREAT PROBLEM. BECOZ WHERE I LIVED THERE WASN'T ANY CODERS AROUND.
     NOT ONE THAT I KNOW OFF. I SEND SOME LETTERS TO SOME CODERS  ELSEWERE  AND
     ASKED ABOUT SOME TRICKS AND IF I COULD GET SOME UTILITIES. THE ONLY ANSWER
     I GOT WERE "FUCK OFF LAMER" FOR EXAMPLE. AND THE COOLEST UTILITIES IS  NOT
     ALLOWED TO LAMERS. I CAN NOT AGREE WITH THEM ON  THAT POINT EITHER.  BECOZ
     THE DEFINITION OF CODERS IS  EQUAL TO THE  NEWCOMERS.  I  THINK  THAT  YOU
     SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE NEWCOMERS AND NOT TREAT THEM LIKE SHIT.
I: - I AGREE WITH YOU ON THOSE POINTS.
   - IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANNA SAY?
P: - YES A FEW THINS MORE. I HOPE THAT THIS ARTICLE WILL  CAUSE SOME  WINDS  IN
     THE DEMO-SCENE AND I HOPE THAT THERE WILL BE SOME GUYZ WHO WILL RESPOND ON
     THIS MATERIAL.


PISS UP 2 - THE REVENGE!!!     BY MAGIC MUSHROOM & PARADROID/FLASH PRODUCION UK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THIS IS THE STORY OF OUR SECOND M A J O R  PISS UP!  THE GUYS AT THIS PARTY ARE
THE FOLLOWING:  MAGIC MUSHROOM (ME!) AND PARADROID/FLASH PRODUCTION UK, AGENT X
AND BRONX WARRIOR/ARGON UK, GONZO/IMPULSE, TROOPER/LIQUID GOLD, BEELZEBUB OF NO
GROUP AND ANOTHER LAMER FROM WORK.  THE PARTY STARTED ON 5/4/91  AND  WILL  END
SOMETIME TODAY, 7/4/91.  THE TIME NOW IS 2:00  AM  AND  MOST PEOPLE  ARE  STILL
AWAKE.  TROOPER AND THE LAMER ARE ASLEEP, PARADROID  IS  PLAYING  (AND  LOVING)
-=JUPITER MASTERDRIVE=-, AFTER NEVER  PLAYING IT  BEFORE, BEELZEBUB IS CHECKING
OUT THE MESS (ITS HIS HOUSE!),  AGENT  X IS HAVING  A  SHIT, BRONX  WARRIOR  IS
PLAYING -=ARKANOID 2=- (WHY?!) AND FINALLY, GONZO IS READING THIS TEXT AS IT IS
WRITTEN.  THE STORY STARTS ON 4/4/91 WHEN  PARADROID  COMES TO MY HOUSE ON  THE
TRAIN....ITS A FUNNY STORY SO HERE HE IS... WELL MOST OF THE JOURNEY WAS PRETTY
LAME AND NOTHING INTERESTING HAPPENED UNTIL I GOT TO LANCASTER (OR LAMECASTER).
HERE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF BEING INVOLVED IN A COOL BOMB SCARE, JUST AFTER  ALL
THE PEOPLE GOT MOVED OFF THE PLATFORM SOME OLD GUY (VERY UGLY)  CAME UP TO  THE
BAG THAT WAS MEANT TO CONTAIN THE BOMB AND PICKED IT UP, THE SILLY  BASTARD HAD
LEFT IT THERE BY MISTAKE. AFTER ALL THIS I FINALY GOT ON THE TRAIN 2 MORECAMBE.
WHEN I GOT OFF THE TRAIN I WAS CONFRONTED BY A MAD PSYCHO FROM HELL,  HE  ASKED
IN A KIND BUT  THREATENING  VOICE  "GIVE ME A FAG!!!" INSTEAD OF  RESULTING  TO
VIOLENCE AND KILLING HIM I DECIDED TO GIVE HIM WHAT HE  ASKED FOR  AND MADE  MY
ESCAPE TO MEET MAGIC MUSHROOM.    MAGIC MUSHROOM IS NOW BACK ON THE KEYS.....WE
ARRIVED AT THE PARTY ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND AUTOMATICALLY STARTED ON THE BOOZE!!!!
(YEAH....AWESOME!)   AFTER A WHILE THE BOOZE BEGAN TO TAKE EFFECT AND  WE  WERE
ALL PISSED! GONZO GOT OUT HIS CAMCORDER AND HE BEGAN FILMING THE STRANGE THINGS
WE WERE DOING!! THE VIDEO SEEMS VERY MUCH BIASED TOWARDS FLASH PRODUCTION AS WE
WERE ALWAYS IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA SHOUTING  "FLASH PRODUCTION!!" EVERYONE  WHO
WAS PISSED WAS ACTING IN A VERY STRANGE MANNER, LOTS OF BOOZE GOT SPILT AND THE
CARPET LOOKED PSCHODELIC!  AS TIME PASSED BY, PEOPLE BEGAN TO FALL ASLEEP,  THE
ONLY TWO PEOPLE TO NOT GO TO BED WERE  MYSELF  AND TROOPER, WHO  IS A  SPECTRUM
SWAPPER!!! (WAIT FOR THAT BIT TO BE EXPLAINED....)  WE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT  AND
PLAYED GAMES AND RAIDED THE KITCHEN  FOR  CUPS OF COFFEE.  AROUND  5:00 IN  THE
MORNING, PEOPLE HAD AWAKEN AND WE DECIDED TO  GO  OUT  FOR A WALK  WITH GONZO'S
VIDEO.  SO OFF WE WENT AROUND GLASSON  DOCK (REALLY FUCKING LAME!)  DOING  SOME
CRIMINAL THINGS AND HAVING A COOL LAUGH!  SOME OF THIS IS ON VIDEO AND IT LOOKS
FUNNY!  WE ARRIVED BACK AT BEELZEBUBS ABOUT 5:30 AND WE GENERALLY STAYED  AWAKE
WHILE OTHERS WENT BACK TO SLEEP.  EIGHT O' CLOCK  SATURDAY  MORNING CAME!   THE
SHOP OPENED! YEAH...AWESOME!   WE PELTED IT DOWN TO THE SHOP TO GET SOME  GRUB.
ON THE WAY BACK WE SAW THE  DAMAGE WE HAD  CAUSED  THE NIGHT BEFORE!!! EVERYONE
WAS UP SO WE DECIDED TO GO OUT AND GET SOME CHIPS FROM THE CAFE.  AFTER WAITING
AGES FOR THEM WE FOUND OUT THAT THEY TASTED LIKE TOTAL SHIT (UNAWESOME!).  MAN,
THIS WAS BAD COS ALL WE HAD NOW WAS THE SHOP TO RELY ON. SATURDAY AFTERNOON WAS
QUITE BORING REALLY, PEOPLE JUST PLAYED GAMES AND TRIED TO KEEP WARM COS IT WAS
FUCKING COLD!  THE EVENING CAME AND PARADROID GOT DOWN TO SOME CODING, ONLY  TO
BE DISTURBED BY AGENT X WITH SOME INFERNAL BULLSHIT.  HE WAS SPEAKING SOME REAL
SHIT MAN, LIKE "OH YOU WANNA PUT A  BTST  THERE...... WHAT DOES  BTST MEAN?"
HMMMM! NOTHING SAID!  ALSO, SOMEONE IS RUMOURED TO HAVE PUT THE  GADAFFI  VIRUS
ON LOTS OF HIS GAMES WITH CUSTOM  BOOTBLOCKS (THATS MOST OF 'EM!) BUT  I  DON'T
                                                    (continues in next article)

(continues from previous article)

KNOW WHO DID IT IF IT REALLY IS TRUE...... (IS IT?) WE ALL SPOTTED THAT TROOPER
HAD FINALLY GONE TO SLEEP  AFTER  WATCHING  ABOUT 5 HOURS  OF PORN!! SO  WE GOT
BEELZEBUBS OLD SPECTRUM, PUT IT NEXT TO TROOPER ALONG WITH SOME STICKERS AND  A
BIG SHEET OF PAPER SAYING "I'M NOT ON THE AMIGA SCENE BUT THE SPECTRUM SCENE!"
IT WAS VERY FUNNY AND HE DOESNT KNOW  ABOUT  IT YET!!! HE  HE!  PARADROID  THEN
SUGGESTED THAT WE WRITE  "LAMER" IN BLACK MARKER PEN  ON HIS FOREHEAD AND  ALSO
SHAVE HIS EYEBROWS OFF TOO!!! UNFORTUNATELY, HE WOKE UP AS HE SAID THIS AND  IT
NEVER HAPPENED!!! THE EVENING GOT LATE AND PEOPLE STARTED TO GO TO SLEEP AGAIN, 
FINALLY THERE WAS HARDLY ANY CODING  AND JUST GENERAL  DISCUSSION AS  THE  ONLY
PEOPLE WHO WERE UP WERE: MYSELF, PARADROID AND AGENT X.
AGENT X FINALLY WENT TO BED VERY  VERY LATE AND  PARADROID CONTINUED  WITH  HIS
CODING.  AT 6:15 AM HE SAID HE WAS GONNA HAVE AN HOURS SLEEP AND I SHOULD  WAKE
HIS UP IN ONE HOUR SO HE CAN CONTINUE HIS CODING.  MEANWHILE, THERE WAS JUST ME
UP AND ABOUT, COPYING DISKS FOR PARADROID.  THE HOUR PASSED AND PARADROID  JUST
WOULD NOT WAKE UP!!!  AGENT X WOKE UP AND CAME  INTO THE ROOM, I  TOLD  HIM  TO
WAKE PARADROID BUT HE COULDNT MANAGE IT EITHER! 3 HOURS LATER HE WOKE UP  & THE
REST OF THE GANG ALL STARTED TO WAKE UP TOO. I WAS TOTALLY KNACKERED AND WANTED
TO GO TO BED  JUST AS THE  OTHERS WERE  GETTING OUT OF IT BUT  I  DIDNT!!!  THE
MORNING PASSED QUITE QUICKLY AND WE ALL  STARTED TO PACK  OUR  STUFF  AWAY.  AT
ABOUT 2:00 PM BRONXY'S MUM CAME AND GAVE US A LIFT HOME (THANX A LOT!), AND  WE
WERE THE LAST TO GO. MYSELF AND PARADROID GOT BACK TO MY HOUSE, SETUP MY AMIGA,
CHECKED OUT THE POST FROM THE DAY BEFORE AND SAW  THAT I HAD RECEIVED  A  PARTY
INVITE FOR THE * VIOLENCE * FAIRLIGHT * CRYPTOBURNERS & * DEXION PARTY.  (THANX
A LOT PIMPF...WE WILL TRY VERY HARD TO  GET TO THE PARTY......).  AFTER A  LONG
DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER WE SHOULD GO OR NOT IT WAS TIME FOR PARADROID TO LEAVE.
I WALKED HIM DOWN TO THE TRAIN STATION AND A TRAIN FINALLY CAME.  I FEEL  SORRY
FOR HIM COS A BUNCH OF DICK HEADS GOT OFF ONE TRAIN AND ONTO HIS!!!!  OH  WELL,
IT WAS FINALLY OVER AND I WALKED HOME, HAD SOME FOOD AND DIED OF EXHAUSTION!!!
(WELL....SLIGHT EXAGGERATION BUT I WAS TOTALLY SHAGGED!).
GREETS TO ALL MY CONTAX.....SUPPORT THIS COOL MAG GUYS!!!


ACTION REPLAY II - The differences                           By Filippetto/Vega
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Action Replay II by Datel Electronics seems to  be actually  the most  powerful
cartridge for the Amiga. I had the first version and I didn't like it very much
due to some nasty things like FDOS and similars. Now the new version comes with
a lot of improvements, and  the  most useful  and awaited  is surely  the  full
AmigaDOS compatibility. But there are also lots of other things...

What I liked
- Now all the files saved by the cartridge are saved in AmigaDOS, and there are
  also some useful AmigaDOS built-in utilities like Dcopy, Format, Install  and
  some AmigaDOS commands. So now you don't  have  to convert  anymore all  that
  shitty FDOS files!
- The old lores screen has been replaced by a medres screen and the preferences
  are fully mouse controlled and therefore easier and quicker to use. They also
  have been  improved a bit  with some more  options for memory  expansion  and
  other things. The nasty bug when you hit the backspace key has been removed.
- Antivirus has been improved: now it not  only  clears the virus  but it warns
  you when you  insert an  infected disk  (with the chance  to install  it with
  various bootblocks and more options).
- There's an autofire option with fire percentage for both joysticks.
- The monitor is a bit quicker and finally has  the read/write  track  options.
  There are also new commands like pack/unpack  and a  very  useful  command to
  save the memory in DC.B format.
- The diskcoder can be useful for people who could be visited by the cops...
- The Soundtracker ripper is  not very  advanced but at  least it works  rather
  well with a lot of tunes.
- The Scan option allows you to scan memory for a sample. There's also a sample
  analyser and the usual options to select the range.
- The Mempeeker is very advanced with more than 30  commands. It allows  you to
  do rather everything about gfx ripping.
- The built-in formatter and diskcopier are not very professional but they  are
  reliable (thank also to the verify option).
- Action Replay II is not seen  by the system, so  you  don't  need anymore  to
  disable it with some games like the old version.

What I didn't like
- The title picture has 4  planes  in  medres and often  when  you  reset  it's
  ruined. I don't like it! The old 1  plane  simple  logo  was better. Then  it
  takes much memory in the cartridge, so  more  utilities  and a 1  plane  logo
  instead of the actual utilities and that logo had been better.
- The Scan and the Mempeeker utilities could have been much more user-friendly.
  Why don't they work with mouse like the preferences?
- The Save all command is not so useful as it seems. Now you  can  choose  also
  the crunch offset, but anyway,  even if  the saved  file is in  AmigaDOS,  it
  still needs a special loader and it shows a screen while decrunching. All  in
  all: better find the jump, save  the memory with the Save  memory command and
  crunch the file with a normal cruncher!

BEING AN ELITE - WHAT IT ACTUALLY CAN BE?                  (by Zoolook/Artemis)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is yet another text about the situation in the scene... I can't blame  you
if you feel bored and want to  get  down to  something  else! But  I think this
article has something to  think about!  Someone wrote about how stupid it is to
put the text "only elite" in ads. Well, in my opinion there is another point of
view: "elite" can also mean something else than being at the top of the charts.
It can mean that your contacts  feel like you're an elite guy - they get a nice
picture of you. Let's think  about  it  again:  can we say that the most famous
crackercrews are "elite" just  because  every  lamer  buys stuff from them? No!
They only cause damage  to the  scene! And,  although  they  always  seem to be
blaming the cops for the  situation,  I'm  afraid  that the whole scene will be
fucked up by those maniacs that call themselves  "crackers". Just to get things
straight: by the word  "lamer"  I  don't  mean  a  person   that  is unknown or
something like that, I  mean  a  person that  hasn't got the  guts to  think by
himself! He just wants to buy, and then he can boast to his  friends: "Actually
I've received a sending from Shit Low!" Of course he  "forgets" to mention that
all he had received was something he had bought. This is just what is needed to
destroy the scene - buying and money  never create friendship. This is why  I'd
like to give a piece of  advice to  everyone:  boycott  crackers  -  don't buy,
create something  yourself!  It's really  nice when  you do something with your
compu even if you would never become famous!
Then a comment about "Friendship-movement". This is  also something I'm not  so
fond of... Friendship rules, but not the movement!  Remember  when a guy called
Lenin tried to help all the  workers in the  world and then some  lamers turned
his thoughts into ideology that has made sure that a lot of people will spend a
lot of time trying to get rid  of  thoughts  that they have  been fed with  all
their life and trying to build their  countries  again! I  mean  that you can't
build friendship by saying: "From now on we'll all obey this
friendship-ideology!" Be  friendly or else... Some  idiots want that  everybody
would swap with everybody... There are other things in life than computing, and
it's foolish to swap with people you don't really  care about, but you just try
to be "friendly". It's better to  have friends  and  enemies  and keep your own
thoughts than to be "neutral"! I  guess  you guys have  got  my point...  Think
about it!

NAVIGATOR TEST                                By Bitboy/Resolution 101
----------------------------------------------------------------------

In  this page I'll try to make some hardware tests (usually joysticks)
for your future purchases.  This time I'll do the test of a well-known
joystick:   NAVIGATOR.   Here  you can find a short description of the
joy, togheter with an accurate examination of itself.  Valutations are
in a range between 2 (a real shit!) and 9 (buy it!!)

A)-General infos:

Name: NAVIGATOR
Produced by: KONIX
Hand-grip height: about 4 cm.
Joystick width: 12 cm. * 7 cm.
Cable length: about 120 cm.

B)-Ratings:

Look:             7 = It's a new idea but it looks like a duck!
Handling comfort: 8 = Really good hand pos'n.(anatomic is better!!)
Shoot speed:      6 = After a while your index finger can shoot no
                      more!
Moves speed:      7 = With a short grip moves are faster!
Autofire:         6 = Large switch but not too sharp.
Switches:         6 = Average microswitches (I think they're hard to 
                      repair!)
Quality & price:  7 = Not expensive and quite good.

MEDIUM RATE:   6.71 = More than an average joystick, but ya can
                      find better!!

C)-Some words about it:

NAVIGATOR  is a famous joystick, expecially used for TETRIS games, coz
in  games like that you don't have to shoot a lot.  The better feature
of  this joy is the extreme precision in movings, due to the shortness
of  grip.   I  think  that  NAVIGATOR  isn't a bad bad joystickand his
medium rate (6.71) places it into good joystix class.
See the next time...

TAC-2 TEST                                    By Bitboy/Resolution 101
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Now  it's  time  for testing a classic joystick:  TAC-2.  Here you can
find  a  short  description  of  the  joy,  togheter  with an accurate
examination  of  itself.  Valutations are in a range between 2 (a real
shit!) and 9 (buy it!!)

A)-General infos:

Name: TAC-2
Produced by: SUNCOM
Hand-grip height: about 8 cm.
Joystick width: 10 cm. * 10 cm.
Cable length: about 140 cm.

B)-Ratings:

Look:             6 = Old look for an evergreen!
Handling comfort: 7 = Not anatomic, just little and funny.
Shoot speed:      7 = There are 2 buttons, so ya can shoot really
                      fast!
Moves speed:      7 = The quite long grip with a ball on the top grants
                      you safe moves.
Autofire:         - = There's no autofire, and this is a bad thing!!!
Switches:         5 = No microswitches, only old contacts (it's easy
                      to repair!)
Quality & price:  8 = This joy is cheap and good!!

MEDIUM RATE:   6.66 = Not a satanic joy, it's only the less expensive one
                      in his class! 

C)-Some words about it:

TAC-2  is  a  classic  joystick, expecially used for PACMANIA nad KICK
OFF,  coz  his  grip  is  solid  and  powerful,  and  all the joystick
structure  can  suffer (I think) more than 20 h.  of continued playin'
to  DECATHLON  (a wonderful C64 game).  I still haven't found a person
who  wants  2  stay  such  a  long time playin' with TAC-2.  However I
suggest to try it before buyin', coz there's a lot of people that hate
old but good joys.  See the next time...


THE WAY TO BUDO                              by Chen and A-ha of Resolution 101
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                           Thruth is where neither center
                                           nor circumference can be found.

                                           You are a master of the total
                                           style when you are free to express
                                           yourself.

Martial arts have ancient origins and  their  birth took  place in  India.  The
oldest fighting art man remembers is  "Kalari Payat", an  empty hands  fighting
discipline that also considered swords, shields and sticks.

Martial arts soon became heritage of a cast of warrior monks who used  them  to
defense themselves during their frequent  pilgrimages  and  also  as a tool  to
reach enlightenment.

After settling in Shao-lin monastery in  520 AD,  the  indian  monk  Bodhidarma
coming from the Dhyana school (called Chan in China and Zen in  Japan)  started
codifying the practice of martial arts.  The legend  says  the  monk took  this
decision after 9 years of meditation.

During that age, martial arts were closer to the idea of Budo than they are  at
our days; it was a continuous organic whole because  it  contained all  of  the
techniques that were to originate different styles. It featured projections and
losses of balance that were to become typical of Ju-Jutsu, kicks, punches, hits
with elbows and knees that were  to  originate  Karate,  using  the  opponent's
strenght and articular keys now typical of Aikido.

But as a basis of  physical  practice, then  as  today,  there  was  constantly
present the practice of meditation, aimed towards reaching enlightenment.

To correctly understand the notion of Budo as a system and a  whole of  martial
arts it is necessary to face both the physical and the philosophical aspect. An
harmonic and complete psico-phisical developement is the only way to approach a
correct comprehension of martial arts.


AMERICAN SLANG: PART 2                                By A-ha of Resolution 101
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As it seems many people liked my first article about slang, here are some  more
words straight from US underworld...

Bag: to arrest someone; an old woman; someone's preference; to obtain sth.
Bag it!: [Californian] Drop dead!, Shut up!
Bag your face!: Fuck off and turn away!
Bahama-mama: an obese black woman;
Baked: drunken;
to have a Ball: a wild time at a party;
Ball: testicle; to fuck with sb.
Ball of fire: somebody who is very ambitious, a go-getter;
Ballyhoo: publicity;
Baloney or bologna: crap, nonsense;
Banana-head: idiot;
to drive sb. Bananas: to drive sb. crazy;
B&B: 'breasts and buttocks', featuring nice nude girls (ex. a movie);
Barf: to vomit; [of a computer] to crash.
Barfola!: fuck! damnit!
Bash: a wild party, a night downtown;
Bear: a difficult task; an ugly woman; [on CBs] policemen;
Beat artist: sb. who beats other guys to get money;
Beat it!: go away!
Beaut: excellent [not necessarily beautiful];
Beerbonging: drinking in a gulp a can of beer opened over your mouth;
Beetle: a Volkswagen car;
Belch: a burp (try beerbonging and let me know);
Belt: a blow with a fist or a hand;
Betcha: "I bet you...";
the Big Cheese; the boss;
Big Iron: a mainframe;
Big mac attack: desperate need for a hamburger;
Big noise, Big shot, Big gun: an important guy;
the Big Z's: sleep;
Bimbo: a cute young girl;
to bird-dog sb.: to take away his woman;
Bit-bucket: imaginary place where lost data go {R/W ERRORS};
Bite the dust: to die:
Bite the ice!: Go to hell!
Biz: business;
Blabbermouth: somebody who tells secrets;
Blimp: fatso (very cruel);
Block: the head;
Blockbuster: something attracting large audience;
to Blow cold: to display disinterest;
to Blow the joint: to get out of a place in a hurry;
Blue funk: depression;

Share and Enjoy! Piss and Destroy!


DIGITIZING SERVICES                                   by A-ha of Resolution 101
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Resolution 101 Varese have opened a  new  service  to  help you  freaks  having
pictures and sounds digitized. So if you need anything digitized just  send  it
to them and it will be returned to you as soon as possible in  the form  of  an
IFF file. Let's have a closer look to this useful feature.

A-ha: - How did you have the idea of opening such a service?
Crackerjack: - I thought it could be a  new way  to make  more friends  in  the
scene... it's friendship that rules!
A-ha: - Who do you think will be interested in such a service?
Cjk: - Mainly graphicsmen who want to start their work from a digitized  source
to keep it as close as possible to reality... but also people who  want to  put
on the computer a logo or an already existing picture but have neither time nor
skills to do it by themselves... or also for putting one's face in  a  demo,  I
think that demos with sampled pictures and voices from the guys  laying  behind
it are fun..
A-ha: - What is your hardware?
Cjk:  - I have a Videon III (digitizes in 16 million colours and  then  reduces
it to any video mode available on the Amiga), a VCR, a Video  8  camera  and  a
mono sound sampler.  We get the  best  result  from  a  small  picture  already
printed or a dia, but we can get great results also from
VCR...  I think we will have the very best results  when I  will  buy  a  Laser
Video, but that's still far in the future...
A-ha: - So how can our friends reading this get a picture digitized or a  sound
sampled?
Cjk:  - That's fairly simple...  they send me 3 new and checked DSDD  disks  to
pay postage, another disk to put images or samples on and then add the  sources
(photos, dia, videotapes, audio tapes,  even  negatives  if  you  have  nothing
better).  Please write your address clearly and, why not?, put some news on the
disks.  As soon as possible you will get the samples and your sources back...if
you are sending me a VHS tape, please send me 5 more disks to pay postage...but
anyway try  and  send me  pictures,  they are  the  ones  with  the  very  best
results...
Ok I think this is all I need to say... so if  you  are  interested,  send  the
stuff to Crackerjack under...
                                    Marco P.
                                    via Micca 24
                                    I-21100 Varese, Italy

THE ULTIMATE FAKINGS                              by A-ha of Resolution 101
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The  faking method written below is the one - I think - that gives you most
money  savings  and  thus  more  fun (ie you can go to the cinema with that
money  or  better buy some more Tuborg on Saturday night); but as any other
faking  method  it  is  necessary to put straight off that it is ABSOLUTELY
ILLEGAL  and neither me nor the Freedom Crack team takes any responsibility
for what you will do with it.  You are on your own business, got it?

What you need:
- A bottle of vinylic glue (ex. Vinavil);
- Any stick glue;
- Some stamps ("ooh I thought a rubber duck!")

The  idea  behind  this method is this:  vinylic glue doesn't get away when
washed  with  water,  but  keeps  the  stamp from dying due to continuative
washing action.

1.   take  the  stamps  and put vinylic glue on their front; let it dry and
then turn the stamps and put glue on their back.  Some glues contain a very
high  percentage of water, so it might be necessary to put a lot of glue on
the  stamp.   Now  your  stamps look simply fine, and will be forever water
proof.
2.   use  the stick glue to paste the faked stamp on your envelope and then
put  stick  glue all over it.  Let it dry away (it sometimes takes a couple
of  hours,  but using a hair phon should cut it down dramatically) and send
your envelope.
3.   when sending, dont be so stupid to go to the post office, or they will
fuck you and your stamps (hi Tito :-)
4.   when  you  are sent back the stamp, just wash it in warm water and the
stamp  will look even better than when it was brand new!  so you can use it
again, and again, and again!
5.   don't  put too few postage if you use faked stamps...  the postmen use
to get angry when you do so.

I think this method is just great... anyway, try it and let us know.


HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SEXLIFE                           by A-ha of Resolution 101
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How many times has it happened to you? You are an elite guy, you are simply the
best around when the point is blitting 3D vectors or composing the shortest but
coolest tune ever heard, but that nice blond angel who is sitting  in front  of
you just doesn't see you... it does not matter wheter  your  heart is  bleeding
and your head is turning, she just doesn't see you. You try  chatting a  little
bit, she deems you worthy of a sad look...  what do you do, then? If you  don't
feel like  committing  suicide, then  you'd better  keep on  reading  your  fav
Freedom Crack!
I can give you neither spells nor  magical  potions to  help you  improve  your
sexual and affective life, but there are some  often  misknown rules  that  can
help you a real lot when you want to cut a figure on somebody.
What does a girl notice the most in a lad?  Well, first  and  best,  his  eyes.
Women say in a man's eyes can be read his very own soul, and will be fond of  a
couple of green or blue  eyes.  If  you  don't  think  your eyes  are  anything
special, there are still some rules you'd better follow:  1. NEVER  and  I  say
NEVER turn your eyes when she's watching  you; the  best thing  to do  in  such
cases is to gaze deeply into her eyes, and it does not matter if you are blind,
she will eventually  fall; 2. try  and  find a  cool  way to  wear  and  unwear
sunglasses:  looking at a girl with sunglasses on, then lowering  them  slowly,
then taking them off with a straight movement and keeping on  watching  her  is
simply great.
The second thing a girl will  probably  notice in  you are  your ass  and  your
belly, and if you didn't know it by now you had better kept on masturbating. If
your belly is not flat enough and your ass is fat all the way, you  can  easily
help it by joining a gymnasium club a couple  of times  a week  (body  building
will perfectly do).  Also, wear tight jeans, preferably Levi's 501 or something
like that.
Another important point are your hands: we believe they must be agile and  long
due to all those hours spent on your Amiga doing wordprocessing; my  suggestion
is to avoid eating nails and let the rest go away.
You must not forget the voice pitch you have:  a full, sensual voice just  like
the ones 'testimonials' and radio conductors have is the very best, but you can
all the same avoid squeezing about. You'd better talk not loud at all and  with
a low voice pitch (not too low anyway - it depends how your throat works!),  so
she will come closer and will feel  relaxed staying  about you. If  you  really
need to shout, try and shout with a  low  pitch (see "I'm not Jesus"  from  the
Ramones to know what I mean), and always apologize with  her  for  behaving  in
such a way.
Take care of you: if you are a blood-bleeding always-drunken punk, it  will  be
harder for you to find a puss..  ahem a girl than if you are a BCBG (I know - I
used to punk around some time ago!). Girls do like handsome and clean young men
who will make them feel they are amid the  boy's world  and who  will  remember
small almost meaningless things just like flowers, chocolates, keeping  a  hand
on their hand and so on.
If these pieces of advice should be of any help to all you spineless  gays  and
pizza faces around, ie nerds and lamers, remember that it's  always  better  to
wear a 'capote' than to feed another army brat!  (hehe)

JOKES                                     BY MAGIC MUSHROOM/FLASH PRODUCTION UK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

WHAT DO YOU CALL A LEPER IN THE BATH?
PORRIDGE!!

WHY DID THE FISH HAVE SIX LEGS?
COS IT WAS A SIX LEGGED FISH!

WHY DID THE FISH HAVE FOUR LEGS?
COS IT WAS A SIX LEGGED FISH WITH LEPROSY!!

WHATS RED AND WHITE?
PINK!

WHO HAS THE MOST DANGEROUS COCK IN BRITAIN?
MIKE SMITH COS HIS CHOPPER NEARLY KILLED SARAH GREEN!!!

STAN GETS INTO BED WITH SANDRA HIS WIFE AND SAYS "FANCY A SHAG TONIGHT LOVE?"
SANDRA REPLIES "SORRY LOVE I CANT.I'VE GOTTA SEE THE  GYNAECOLOGIST  TOMORROW
AND THAT MEANS I CANT SHAG 24 HOURS BEFORE". STAN ROLLS OVER THEN ROLLS  BACK
AND SAYS "YOUR NOT SEEING THE DENTIST TOMORROW ARE YOU?!"   HE HE HE HE HE HE

WHATS THE DEFINITION OF ENDLESS LOVE?
HELEN KELLER AND STEVIE WONDER PLAYING TENNIS!!!!!

WHY CANT JEWS EAT GERMANS?
COS THEY GIVE THEM GAS!!!!

WHAT DID THE LEPER PROSTITUTE GIVE HER CUSTOMERS?
A BIT OF FANNY!!!!

WHY DO ROTTWEILERS LICK THEIR BALLS?
TO GET THE TASTE OF LITTLE KIDS OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS!!!!

FAST GREETS TO: ALL IN CRACK UK, ALL IN FLASH PRODUCTION, ALL THE REST OF MY
                CONTACTS....ITS GREAT TO SWAP WITH YOU ALL.CHECK OUT THE ADS
                SECTION TO SEE MY ADDRESS.........SUPPORT THIS COOL MAG.

Anarchy Party Review!                     By Soul of Zero Page Inc. & Intuition
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                The Date...?    23rd February 1991.
                The Place..?    Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
                The Event..?    ANARCHY Copy Party.

Yeah, this here is a small, but an in-depth, review of  the  Anarchy  party  in
England. The party took place in a sizable community hall  and  it  started  at
10:00 AM Saturday 23rd Feb. I was the first outsider there,  where me  and four
other avid Amigans made our way from London to  Yorkshire at  6:00 AM  Saturday
morning! After all it is about a 200 mile drive!
Anyway, we got there about 9:30 AM and  the  only few  people  there,  were the
Anarchy guys. They had set up the desks and chairs and were just finishing  off
the job. We looked closely at the power points available and noticed that there
were only a few sockets! Crips! (not crisps!) We all gasped  and thought  'Hey!
All we need is an asshole to pull the  plug  from  one  machine and the  others
will go down like dominos...'
So, I put up a few posters outside advertising the fact that we  had warez  you
wanted and bought in our equipment to set  up.  The fun  was  about  to  begin.
(Kickstart 2.01.....Must have been alright, we  were the only ones to have it).
We set up the Amiga and realised  that we  were  missing an  extension lead.  I
approached Mr. Big of Anarchy and he said  that  he'd get  us a  lead soon.  My
mates got pissed off with waitin' so they went out  and bought  a lead  for  10
pounds!
By now, people had started to arrive and slowly the hall was getting packed.  I
stood on the stage at the end of the community hall and was talking to  Mystik,
a gfx-er for Anarchy. We had a few good chats  about the  Amiga and the  scene.
Mystik then went  and got  me a  copy  of the new  Anarchy Demo  called 'SYSTEM
VIOLATION', which I must say is a good demo. The music is  gorgeous! Anyway,  I
was relaxed and by about 12 noon there must have been over 100 people there and
there were stil more to come....
The whole party was inside a hall, where at one end was a stage on which  there
was some people playing games and making music and  coding. There  was a  small
corridor next to the hall, where there were some coders, coding away like  mad.
I presumed they wanted to enter the demo competition.
People were swapping warez, demos, hints, contact address's and  anything  else
you can associate with the Amiga. There were also people who were coding  demos
for the demo comp, there were a few  people  making  sweet  music,  there  were
people who were making  compilation  discs,  ripping  and  pissing  about  with
graphics, and of course there were people who were playing games like KickOff2,
Speedball 2 and Lemmings! Every thing was going smoothly.
Then came the dreaded powercuts! The powercuts  were the  only  annoying  thing
about the party. Everytime some shit head did a hard  reset  on his machine, he
tripped the main switch and this meant that all the electrics  were lost.  This
happened about 6 or 7  times but after that the Anarchy guys  had it all  under
control. I just felt sorry for the coders.....

                                                    (continues in next article)
(continues from previous article)

Mystik was surprised at the amount of people that were turning up and the party
was now in over-drive. There must have been about 150-200  crazy  dudes.... All
hungry for warez and all were swapping with all! Anarchy  held  a  Kick  Off  2
competition and some others like Kareoke (I don't care how you  spell  it)  but
everybody were in such a relaxed state that I don't  think  anyone  cared  much
about the competition. There was generally a lot of  excitement in  the air  as
200+ nutters raved on and enjoyed themselves.
It was a good party which lasted until about 11 PM Saturday  night. There was a
small bar in the hall, but that only opened a little after 7:30pm,  quite  late
for all the alcoholics that were around.
Anarchy released their MADNESS 2 demo at the party, which is a good  demo  with
some neat routines! As for you lot out there who  couldn't be  there  that  day
well, I'll releive you by tellin' you the results of  the demo  comp. The first
place went to a demo called HYSTERESIS by Magnetic Fields.  Second  place  went
to Mediator of Anarchy for his SYSTEM VIOLATION demo, and the  third place  was
reserved for Anthrox, for their cute and ingenious ADVENTURES OF BOBBY THE BALL
demo. Which I personally think is very good! We should have more like those  on
the scene. After all, ingenuity is the reason we're here!
Gettin' back to the point, there were some cool dudes around, dudes  who  had a
lot of new warez and basically all of them were trading with others,  except  a
few stubborn people, who I reckon spoil parties. They didn't want to trade so I
told them they shouldn't be here. I had a good mind to tell them to FUCK OFF as
well. But why should I bother? After all I got plenty of warez myself!
Anyhow, at the end of the day I'd say there was about 200 people present for  a
wild party. The rest of the Intuition boys came down about 5:00 PM and they set
up their video player and they started  to  play a  range of  pornographic  XXX
films. You should have seen the crowd gather around to watch them......
I can write for ever about the party and tell you dudes what went on,  but  I'm
sure that the authors of this coool disk mag want me to leave them  some  space
so they can fill it up with whatever else they desire. So to  round it  up  for
you out there, here's a brief summary....
The party was very cool. However, I  think it  would have  been better if there
were some more coool dudes  around,  but as  it is  it was  a  good  laugh  and
certainly worth the 200+ miles travel to get there. I  wanna  say, to  all  the
ANARCHY guys, "Well done lads! It was a good party..."
If you are reading this and you were present at the party but you disagree with
all I've said then why not drop me a line and we'll have a chat about it!
And just remember...If it's Amiga, it's possible!
P.S Check the Ads section for a contact address...


Anarchy Party Repost                                   By HaVok and Ezy/Ecstasy
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Ok folks this is the OFFICIAL report by HaVoK & Ezy for the Anarchy party  held
on the 23-Feb-1991. We (Ezy, Havok, Slayer/Subway) first  had to  travel  about
200 miles to get to this fucking party, so we expected this  party to be  worth
the trip up (what with Anarchy being the best in the u.k and all that).... Well
we arrived at the party-place and found it to be a old hall which smelt like  a
public lavatory. The entry fee was 10p in the  slot. Oopps  sorry,  I  meant  3
english quid. Was it worth it?....FUCK NO....
We sat around outside the main hall for about 30 mins before going in bcoz,  A)
it looked fucking lame inside, and B) why the fuck should we pay?!!!  Come  one
their had to someone  who  WASN'T lame  their! So  all in  all it started in  a
pretty LAME way. And carried on in a pretty LAME way too. Naaa, but really, the
power going off every 2 minutes didn't really do much for  our enthusiasm,  and
when it DID work, every lamer was playing Lemmings or using X-Copy ALREADY  (at
about 11 a.m!)... Soooo nothing too hot so far. Now the people who  managed  to
pop upto this meeting... Well, most of Anarchy were their  of course,  Sabbath,
Magnetic Fields, Anthrox, Ecstasy, Slipstream, Quartex, Crystal, Betrayal, Ipec
and maybe some others... And here are some of the other groups that turned  up,
if anyone knows or has heard of any of these, please write to us!... BattleTech
UK ("the Ultimate in  Spreading"  (apparently)), Arena  UK ("whats  Pubic  hair
mum?"), Ex-Scoopex UK (no  comment), and  all  the other  groups that  insisted
"their demo is coming out soon".... As we went walkies around  the, erm,  room,
we decided to do some nice quiz questions.. "excuse me, do you have any calling
cards?"... reply to this stupid question?: "what? well, no, but I can lend  you
ten pee.... another  one was  "Anything  new?"..  reply:  "Well,  I've  stopped
swapping recently, but I bought, er I mean, got  Lemmings!"...  Well,  at  that
point we decided to move onto the "demo" scene of the party. And boy were their
some brilliant ones! We saw, a sine scroll, a line vector routine (with  hidden
line removal of course!), lots of bobs, and some coloured starfield effects....
Ohh dear. Their WERE some good demos though, from Mag Fields, Anarchy and  some
others, Anthox's demo should have won what there was  of the  demo-competition,
it was pretty nice. The prize for the competition was a  "simulated gold thing"
(Ezy's own wild description). Being abit fairer to the party,  their were  some
cool guys their, you could tell them because they left early. The  power  thing
was not Anarchy's fault (hmm) but having 2 plugs for the whole hall was  not  a
good idea. Slayer  brought along his  14400 modem  for  use by the  party  (for
wares)  unfortunately  no  one knew  what a  at&t card  was, and  only half  of
northern England have phones! Needless to say the party place thing didn't have
a phoneline for the parties use... Mr.Big/Anarchy did all he could  for  saving
the party from total disgrace,  I think he  was the  only person  who  actually
REALIZED something was wrong with it all, regards for  trying anyway.  Actually
the weather was shit so that might have had something to do with it. The compe-
titions were A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. NO-ONE knew  what was  going on, a  monitor
was being used for "viewing" the entered demos, there was no  grafix  comp  (no
surprises there), the music competition was a COMPLETE fuck-up, I  think  their
were only 2 entries, and only ONE of them got listened to. And the judges? what
judges? The bar didn't open till 7p.m, anyway the drink was too  expensive,  so
we used our initiative and visited the local off-licence. (continues)

(continues from previous article)
So, generally the party wasn't too hot. What were the good points? Well, it was
nice to speak to some of the cool  people  there, but  of course  we knew  them
already from previous partys etc etc..But overall the attitude was of a  compu-
ter-club where the main aim was to copy as much stuff as possible in the  shor-
test amount of time before the power went off..However I  believe I  saw a  few
groups coding things, but they did not enter the comps far as we know. The  top
three were coded well in advance so no worries for them. Ok I know  so  far  it
seems as we have just slagged the party off. Well ok so lets look at the  facts
(no disrespect to the organisers)

        A) It was held where few elite guyz live! (The North)
        B) No adequate power supply-MAJOR FUCK UP HERE
        C) It was in a fairly small place with no signposting
        D) The demo/musak comps were a shambles, no-one knew shit..
        E) No Phone line.Ok it costs but its nice to have one!
        F) It was Xcopy Xcopy Xcopy all the time! NO events!
        G) No-one had a sense of humour AT ALL (Havok and his Hat)
        H) NO BEER!
        I) It was, to be honest, full of lamers!. Some guyz were kool.

Ok so i know it sounds like a slag off so far but thats  the way  it  happened.
But congrats must go to Mr.Big who at least tried to save the party from  total
boredom but, I'm afraid, did not quite pull it  off! Oh  well maybe  next  time
huh?.Well now onto a lighter subject... Of course i am talking about BEER.. The
best..The bar at the party did not open  till  7 p.m so  we had to  go  out  in
search of refreshment. And we found it. Lots of it.  In  bottles.  Well  for  a
short while anyway.So we drank and drank until we fell over. We were of  course
Ezy, Sabbath, and some guy we met there!. Well ok enuf of our drunken moaning.
So after the party finally ended we all went off to a hotel to try and get some
sleep... But Ezy and Havok had noooo money for a  hotel  room so  we  tried  to
sneak into a room. So with HaVok in the car outside I sneaked  in. So I got  in
the room and Slayer and some Crystal members went out again, but I had to  stay
locked up in the room.Ok i turned out all the lights  and hid in  the  wardrobe
for about 15 mins..Till i got cramp and got onto the bed.  About  10mins  later
the wanker of a manager searches all the rooms and finds a Mr.Ezy spread out on
one of his beds and, yep you guessed it, threw me  out... Wanker. So  I  looked
like i was destined to sleep in the car where havok was listining to the in-car
CD system. We were both pissed about having to sleep in a car in  the NORTH  OF
ENGLAND. Not a toilet in sight. But I think we must have seen  more  drunks  in
that night then in our whole lives. The number  of prostitutes  going  in  that
hotel was amazing. I think most of them were ordered by members of a group that
shall remain nameless (yeah Morph, I know all about it, and the straps too!) In
the morning we were woken by some wankers banging on the windows.  Wankers.  So
we woke up, went to a motor-way cafe and FUCKED OFF HOME. Overall I suppose  we
did have some fun but im afraid most of it took place while we were  zonked  or
not at the party..By the way,  nice prize for the  raffle Anarchy,  did  anyone
claim it in the end?.. OK well thats all then folks. Have fun  and come to  the
Ecstasy Copy-Party in September over the CES show.
Later's from HaVok Industries & Ezy/Ecstasy


Letters to the editors
----------------------

Here's a letter I've got from Dr.Awesome/Crusaders:
Hi Filippetto,
Referring  to Freedom Crack issue #5, where I read with great interest your
article  about  "New  style  of  music"  or  something like that, where you
complained  about  most  musicians  in  the scene often use only major- and
minor-chords, not many special chords with adds and sus etc can be heard in
demos  etc.,  and it gives a boring sound.  Well I'm here to try to explain
to  you WHY this is so.  I don't know if you're a musician yourself, but if
you are, try the following:
When you have an idea for a new great tune, start sampling some really nice
sounding  major-  and  minor  chords,  say  for instance a choir.  To get a
decent  sound  on  a  choir, you have to use a reasonably high sample rate.
Then  add  a  few  more  chords,  a couple of sus-chords, an add7-chord, an
add9-chord,  a maj-chord, and a few others.  In addition you need of course
to sample the chords from different starting positions on the keyboard, for
instance  the  minor-chord  should  be  sampled both from C, D# and G, same
thing with the major of course.  Then add a few really nice drums with lots
of  reverb,  a couple of bass sounds will have to be added and last but not
least,  of  course  a  few  different lead instruments, so you can vary the
sound  a  bit.   Now make your song, say you use 40 different patterns.  Up
till  now  everything  is great, but that's only until you try to save your
module,  and  your disk goes full!  Mee oh my, that was a 480kb module, but
it  sounds  real  nice,  so  what  the heck.  Format a new disk and save it
there.
Now  take  the  module  to  your friend, who's a coder and is at the moment
coding  a demo with 8000 lines of source, lots of pictures of course, maybe
some animations etc too.  Give him the 480 kb module and say "Hey I've made
this  great  song and it takes 480 kb of memory - and want you to use it in
your demo!"
Now  one  of  two  things  can happen - your coding friend will either fall
about  on  the  floor,  gasping  with  laughter, and stay flat on the floor
laughing for about 90 minutes.  Or he will brutally smash your face in with
his second disk drive, and tell you that you're thrown out of the group.
THAT'S why most songs only have major- and minor chords, my friend.  I hope
you got the point!
I'd  like  to  add  that  with  a bit of experimenting you can create other
chords by using a lead instrument in addition to the chord, only on another
note than the chord is actually using, for instance play a Cmajor and add a
B  with  your  lead instrument - voila!  you have a Cmaj!  Also, try mixing
two  different  chords  together,  like  a  G#major  and  a D#minor.  A bit
strange, yes, but under the right circumstances it can sound pretty good!
Well  that's  all  - I hope I have cleared up a few things for you.  I hope
you can print this little article in Freedom Crack issue 6.
With musical greetzkiburgers,                        Dr.Awesome / Crusaders


Interview with Zodiac of Sanity                              By Filippetto/Vega
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- So here we are. Who are you, and what do you do in Sanity?
- I'm Zodiac of Sanity and my functions are  composing and  a little bit  legal
  swapping. (just 4 fun!!) I am now 19 years  old and I'm  living in a  fucking
  small town in Germany called  Spangenberg. I'm  still going to  school but  I
  will do exams in a few weeks. Okay, enough for my person.

- What do you think about the German scene? Who are the best?
- About the german scene??...hmm...I think there are too  many groups  here  in
  Germany. Many of them  are pure lame  swap-groups,  who  dream  of  crackers,
  trainers, to become famous etc. Swapping is  their life. I  don't like  those
  groups much. On the other hand you have quite unknown demogroups,  who  bring
  out a single, lame  intro or  such things  and then you  never see  something
  again  from  them.  The  scene  is  overfilled  with  average   demos/intros,
  everything looks similar. In my  opinion, small  groups  should  try to  join
  together with  other  small  groups  to keep  the  scene a  little  bit  more
  overviewable.

- And why is the German scene so full of groups?
- Mhhh...the reason is maybe...shit! I don't know!!! Maybe because every  lamer
  wants to build up his own group, maybe he dreams of a big  successful  group,
  maybe he thinks about legends like BS1, Dynamic Duo, DOC etc, but  he has  to
  fail, because he has no knowledge and contacts to the scene. (the real one!!)
  ...but who knows???

- What do you think about United Germany? And how is it going?
- For me it's not very  important to  live in a  United Germany. In some  years
  Germany  could become  one of the  strongest  countries in  the  world (in an
  economical point of view, of course!!). But the bad  point is, till  now  the
  economy in the EX-GDR is more or less destroyed and to  bring it on a  higher
  level we have to pay (more tax, higher prices of gasoline). And  of course we
  have to pay for the gulf-war. And although  we have to  spend a lot of  money
  for the things mentioned above, we give a credit over some millions of DM  to
  Jordania, maybe you know, a pro-Iraq country!! I can't understand this!!!

- Tell me something about your typical day...
- My typical day starts at 7 AM  (weekdays)  when I  stand up  and prepare  for
  school. On most days I return  from  school  at  11.30  AM and  drive to  the
  postoffice to get my sendings. When I arrive home I check them out  and doing
  things like writing  interviews for diskmags  and so on.  In  the afternoon I
  copy the stuff and send it back. Sometimes I  do something  for school  (very
  seldom), visit friends and such things. The most evenings I spend my time  in
  our local pubs in order to drink  some beer  have a  chat  etc.  Normally  my
  weekday ends at 23 pm.

                                                    (continues in next article)
(continues from previous article)

- Sanity is still a 100% German group. Maybe do you  want  to  keep  a  certain
  image?
- Yes you are right, till now Sanity is  a  100%  german  group. But  this  has
  nothing to do that we don't want members in other  countries,  but  till  now
  nobody from another country has asked us to  join  Sanity.  That's  the  only
  reason. So to everybody out of Germany, if you are a cool  and good  guy  and
  want to join a cool demogroup, contact us!!!

- What plans does Sanity have for the future?
- Hmm. Our intentions for the future are to make  better and  better demos,  to
  get more known in the scene, maybe to become the best  demogroup in  Germany.
  (Who knows???)  Of  course  we  will  go  on  making  packs  and  our  famous
  BlahBlah!!! Don't be afraid!!! Look out for more and more Sanity releases  in
  the future!!!

- All your musics have very strange melodies. Why? Do ya wanna try a new style?
- I think every composer wants to make this style of music, which he listens to
  in his sparetime. So my favourite kind of music is Techno and  Electric  Body
  Music, and I also make this kind of music on Amiga. I try very often to  make
  a new sound by working on samples (higher the volume,  cuts,  reverse,  echos
  etc) so I try to make a music, which  doesn't  sound  like  another music  on
  Amiga (the Style). Of course there are only few people who like my  music  (I
  thing only people who like Techno and EBM) but I don't care!!! I like it  and
  I have fun while composing and thats the most important point, FUN!!! I would
  never try to make sounds of another style only to satisfy someones  taste  of
  music.

- Soon you'll have to go to the army...Tell me  what  you  know  about  it,  in
  Germany. Is it possible to avoid the military service?
- That's right, I have to go to the army. Of course you can avoid  it, but  you
  have to do socialservices instead of the army. I've chosen the army,  because
  it's 3 month shorter than the socialservice and you  have a  slightly  chance
  not to be called up (6:4),  because  they want  to  decrease  the  number  of
  soldiers here in Germany. If you are lucky, you don't have to go to  them.  I
  hope I will be lucky!!!!!!

- What kind of musicprogram do you use?
- I only use Noisetracker2.0. In my  opinion  it's  the  best  musiceditor.  Of
  course I tried to make some music with synthetic soundeditors, but  it's  too
  hard to make music with'em and every song sounds similar.

- Anything else to say...greetz/fuckings and so on...
- I just want to say hello to all contacts of Sanity and to  all  Techno  freax
  all around the world!!! Special Hellos to all members of Sanity. Okay  that's
  all, Zodiac says bye!!!


                                   JOB CORNER

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        and other people founded a new ELITE CREW called  E Q U I N O X
        We search for some new members like coders, sounders, gfxians,
        crackers, sysops,...

                 If ya are 1 of them, write us (only elite):

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Too many diskmags???                                         By Sterling/Savage
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If you read one of these fuckin' boring interviews in  one of  these  mags  you
always can read a sentence like that: there are too many diskmags. Maybe that's
true but it doesn't matter a lot. I have never heard that  somebody died  b'coz
he got too much of  these mags on  disk. It's the  same with the  demos and the
games... there are also too much  but  nobody writes that  there  are too  many
games or cli-packs. No, they  always  tell shit  about the  mags. Of  coz  it's
gettin' harder for the mags to find good editors when more and  more mags  come
out and sometimes there will just remain a few mags, because the bad ones won't
get enough articles to release a good mag. Mags with  more than  five  releases
or so will stay forever but I think that mags  aren't gettin'  better with  the
time. I think that the first Zine releases have been better than the new  ones,
also Freedom Crack issue number 1 was the best ever made, at least I think  so.
Something total lame are the wars between the  mags  (Zine-CJ, ...)  because  I
think this is a real shit when these editors begin to fight against each  other
only because the write for a other mag. I tell ya to stop  such shit  like  the
'There are too much' sentence because  there  are  millions of  people  on  our
fuckin' earth and nobody said to you: There are too much children,  that's  why
we will kill ya. Think about it and then go on telling shit...

                                See ya all in hell... heaven's too good for us!


Interview with Paranoid/Zerodefects                          By Filippetto/Vega
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Questions by Filippetto, answers by Paranoid (guess!)
Typed in by Paranoid (thanx pal!)

Q Introduce yourself please!
- Where I have to introduce myself?!  Maybe in  a sweet  french  pussycat?!  Oh
  Yeah! Nice idea!  Ok...let  be  serious...(since I know that  this is a  very
  serious magazine, for childrens too!). Well,  my name is  Francesco, I  am  a
  longdicked/nice/goodlooking/anarchist/doors  maniac/fun  lover  male with  18
  summers behind! My  life is the  normal  life of  people from  my age  (girls
  hunting all the time...)  and  when I  feel  strange  or crazy I  turn on  my
  machine (I called it  PATRIZIA!) and  try to get  workin' a  strange  program
  called ASM-ONE...

Q Tell me something about your history as a group.
- Well, I guess you want to  know something  about 0dfx  origins...  Everything
  started when some guys  went out of  theirs caves...yes  caves! It  was  many
  hundreds years ago...they  realized  that life  was very  hard out  of  their
  caves, so decided to join together and  fight enemies...but I think I  got it
  too far! To make it short: many centuries  later some  guys went in  the same
  situation...we  joined  together  because  of  special  feelings  between  us
  ourselves...no  relations to Amiga  and scene  are  still  important for  us,
  Zerodefects will survive as we are joined for FRIENDSHIP, not for the SCENE!

Q I've seen that ya have a  new coder  in  Sassari. Can you  tell me  something
  about him?
- Humm...you are talkin' about GIORGIO?! Yes, he's a  very nice guy... I talked
  some times with him on the phone and he seem to be  very cool! Probably we'll
  meet soon at our fire-circle (you know the caves...) But I  guess you want to
  know something more  scene-related....at the  moment he's  working on a  demo
  (nothing special for italian  standards, we know!) but  lately  he's  getting
  some breaks (too many girls?) anyway look for something by him soon! Also any
  SODOM or METAL maniac can contact him...

Q What's doing actually Terminator? And Xenio?
- Terminator? You really want to know what he's doing?! Well, wait a moment....
  I'll give him a call!  (NO JOKING!)
  RING!!! RING!!!
  P: Aoh!
  T: Aoh!
  P: Filippo vuole sapere cosa stai facendo! (Filippo wants to know what you're
                                              doing!)
  T: Sto guardando SAMARCANDA registrato ieri su uno dei miei TRE vhs!
     (I am looking to SAMARCANDA, recorded yesterday from one of my THREE vhs!)
  P: E Sandro? (and Xenio?)
  T: E' al suo negozio. (he's into his shop...(COMPUTER SHOP!))
  The rest is CENSORED!
  Ok, are you satistied?! Anyway you asked for it!  (continues in next article)

(continues from previous article! Phew!)

Q Yep, now I'm satisfied! By the way (?!), tell me the reason why ya always had
  probs with IBB...You claim to be a friendship group  but ya have been  in war
  with them.
- Things changed a bit  lately...both  of us  don't care  so much  now, and  we
  follow our ways alone. Why everything started? I can't give you a real answer
  but I can say one thing for sure: when  it started it went on so fast that we
  couldn't (or we wont!) stop  it! Yes! We  are and  we'll be so  long a  group
  based on FRIENDSHIP! But this means that WE  are all good friends each other,
  this doesn't mean that we have to be pleasant with everyone...some  of us had
  hard feelings with some guys in IBB and both the whole groups went  involved.
  For example, E$G(IBB) is one of my best friend in the scene, we had some hard
  moments too, but we respect and rely each other and that's the most important
  thing! Do you agree?!

Q Yes of course. But why you always ask me something? This had to be  something
  like a serious interview...Boooooooo! (Thank you for the handkerchief) I know
  that you are coding a game. Tell me its purposes and when it will be ready.
- You better say...I WAS coding a game! At the  moment I just coded  the levels
  editor but I am too lazy and busy to work on it at the moment! Grafix are  by
  THE PUNISHER(0dfx) and I got a lot of that...but will I use them one day!? (I
  know THE PUNISHER will PUNISH me for this!) All in all its just a stupid pac-
  man variation...nothing more! And i guess it will be ready FEBRUARY the  30th
  in 1980/1981... (oh! if any software company is interested... contact 0DFX!!)

Q Your musician Daniele has been voted #1 musician in Italy...
- Yes, i know...but where is the question? Or is it a matter of FACT!?!  Anyway
  Daniele is talented (I  think) in his  music style  (house)  but you  know  I
  (we..) don't belive in charts!

Q Your mag Funzine stopped at issue #3! Can you tell me why,  since I think  it
  was going really well?
- There is still some people who remember Funzine?! Well, as  you can guess  we
  didn't thought so! After issue 3 i improved the coding, Reflex did a  fab new
  graphic and we collected some articles, too! But we talked a lot on the phone
  and decided that it wasn't a good thing to go on...if we'll start it again...
  everything will be different! Keep tuned...

Q You have also a BBS called BROTHERHOOD...is it  only for  demos or  also  for
  games'n'trainers?
- When DR.SAM bought his BIG modem he decided to open our  own board. The  name
  is by me (who else!?): BROTHERHOOD! That's what the  whole BBS  is based  on!
  It's supposed to be a sort  of 0DFX  fans  place! Its  main  function  is  to
  provide the masses with our  latest  warez...that  means  everything  can  be
  thrown out from our  factories (demos, trains, cracks, drugs, alchool, tapes,
  fun...)

(and again continues in next article)

(Aaargh! Continues from previous article)

Q Phonephreaking: criminal or not?
- Phonephreaking? What's  that?! I  think I eaten it some time ago! Its  not  a
  food?! Oh, ITS CRIMINAL!??? NO! NO! I am a serious child! My mum says  I have
  to respect the law! I'll never do something OUT of LAW!

Q Future projects of ZD.
- First of all we want to  organize one  fire-circle  meeting and  to dance  on
  fire...than we plan to spend a lot of our time  together this  summer and  to
  visit some good pardies! All in all we want to  spend more and  more time  to
  get fun together and less to un-important  things (like  making  200  bobs in
  spite of 199!).

Q Are ya planning a copy party? If not, what do  you think to  do at  the  next
  SMAU?
- NO! We'll never (i think!) organize a copy-party! We  plan to  visit some  of
  them until 1991 ends and to have some internal meetings. Next SMAU  is  still
  too far, probably we'll decide to come and meet again some good friends!  (Hi
  FABIO, PINO, SERGIO, GABRIELE, ROMANO, LUCA...)

Q Last words/greetz...
- First of all sorry  if  this  interview  went  so  long... Greetings...as  we
  showed, we can send hellos to  our  friends on our own  demos, so  no  greets
  here! Just two messages:
  From PARANOID to FRANZ: Hello dad! (or i better call you grandpa?!)
  From TERMINATOR to ENRICO: Ciao Enrico...anche se hai gli occhiali!
  Well, I think that's enough! Just one final sentence:
  EVERYTHING THAT GOT A PRICE, HAVE NO VALUE! ...AND FRIENDSHIP HAVE NO PRICE!

YOUR GUIDE TO BOOZING #1                                    By Playboy/Prologic
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Here is your guide to boozing once again written by your expert on this subject
Playboy of Prologic. Today we are goint to focus on drinks  including Gin.  Let
us start the show.

AVIATION
4 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Squezed lemon
2 Splaches of Maraschino
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

BLACK OUT 
4 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Peter Heering
2 Splashes of squezed lemon
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

CASABLANCA
4 Cl  Gin
4 Splashes of Maraschino
4 Spl of squezed lemon
4 Spl of squezed orange
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

COLONIAL COCKTAIL
4 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Squezed Grapefruit
2 Spl of Maraschino
Shake, and serve in cocktail glass.

CORPS REVIVER
2 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Lemon
2 Cl  Orange
2 Spl Grenadine
2 Spl Ricard Pastis
Shake, and serve in middle sized glass, and fill up with champagne.

CRESTA CLUB
4 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Grapefruit
2 Spl Yellow Grand Marnier
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

            (don't drink'em all in the same evening! continues in next article)

(the hangover continues...from previous article)

DRY MERMAID MARTINI
4 Cl  Gin
1 Cl  Peter Heering
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

DUBONNET COCKTAIL
3 Cl  Gin
3 Cl  Dubonnet
Shake, and serve in cocktail glass.

MAIDEN'S DREAM
3 Cl  Gin
3 Cl  Ricard Pastis
1 Tea-spoon of Grenadine
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

ORANGE BLOSSOM
3 Cl  Gin
3 Cl  Orange
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

RED LION
2 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Yellow Grand Marnier
1 Cl  Lemon
1 Cl  Orange
Shake together with crushed ice, and serve in cocktail glass.

WHITE LADY
2 Cl  Gin
2 Cl  Yellow Grand Marnier
2 Cl  Lemon
Shake, and serve in cocktail glass.

Well that ends this part of Your Guide to  Boozing, please note, that I  am not
responsible for ANY of these drinks. Don't blame me if you get a hangover. I'll
be back next time  with Your  Guide to boozing  2 specially  about how  to  mix
drinks with rum. Have a nice day.


Interview to Dr. Magnum of Icecream                         By Playboy/Prologic
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Before this interview starts I have to  warn you. This  interview is NOT to  be
taken too seriously... BE WARNED
Hi there Magnum! Here you are, the first  assignment: please state  your  name,
group, age, function, etc. etc. etc.
I'm Mr. MAGNUM of ICECREAM. I am 22 years old and I am the brain in ICECREAM.
Very funny indeed, but who are  the members in  ICECREAM ?, and what are  their
functions?
Well I can't tell you their names because of  their secret  identity, but  they
are all coders.
Secret identity! WHY?
They don't want anyone to know who they are, infact the  names are  so  secret,
that I am not sure if they know the names themselves.
How is your relationship with the other members?
They accept me as their groupie. 
Is friendship an important thing in your group?
Yes of course. All the girlies like me very much.
What hardware do you have?
Amiga 500, PH8833  monitor, additional ram, external 3.5 diskdrive, a keyboard,
and a midi-interface.
How do you raise the money?
I sell icecream.
How much time do you spend in front of your computer per day?
At least 2 hours!
Have you had experiences with other computers?
Yes I started in 1979 with a VIC 20 and later I bought A C64.
I said computers, not garbage...
Well if that's your opinion of an old computer, I am happy to  inform you, that
they are now where they belong: ON THE JUNKYARD.
How much does "computing" cost you ( phonebill, stamps etc. )?
It cost me nothing, I have a very good sponsor.
Who is your sponsor?
What am I an idiot? I would never ruin their good reputation.
Have you ever had trouble with the Police, Post office etc.
NO I HAVE NOT (YET)
How many contacts do you have?
How many?  Well around 400 give or take a few (hundred)
How many parties have you visited?, and which one was the best?
I can't remember, but I think, that your party will be one of the best.
Your opinion of diskmags, are there too many?, Which one is the best? 
Sorry, but I really don't care about diskmags. You see, I can't read.
Now I am going to give you a clue, and  you should just add a short  comment to
each one:
That's ok with me.
(continues in next article...)

(continues from previous article...)
Here we go: Megademos... THEY ARE THE GREATEST DEMOS IN THE WORLD
Drugs...THEY ARE FOR LAMERS
Faked Stamps...VERY usefull.
PLB:Piracy...GREAT
Friendship...With girls it is beautifull
Boozing...ZZZZZZ
WAKE UP!! next topic: Conferences...Conferences, I LOVE EM
The Scene In General...WHAT, Ok It's.......
And now to something completely different.....At last!
Well Magnum, How would you define a lamer?
A lamer is a  person  who only  have an  old  CBM 64 and a  CBM  1530  cassette
recorder.
Now here is the fun part. Your favorite:
I hope it is nothing stupid.
Well that depends on you. Let us start with your favorite group.
PROLOGIC (Ed: You know I actually DIDN'T force him to say that.)
Coder: GONZO OF FLASH PRODUCTION
Why? Because he is good!
Gfx. Wizard: Mr. Magnum
Well it is always nice to believe in yourself. Musician
Look above!
Now he is overdoing it a bit. Don't you think? Real Music:
Technotronic and Depeche Mode
Favourite game: Kick off rules forever!!!
Most used utility: Kickstart V1.3
Nicest diskmag around...: I Don't know. As I said, I can't read. 
Best real mag: Playboy there are pictures in them.
I quite agree with you on that, and  some very  nice piccys  too. What is  your
favorite comic? SADDAM HUSSEIN 
???? Your best VHS Die Hard and Blood Sport.
Beer Label: TUBORG
Alcoholic Drink: WHISKEY
Your favorite food: ICECREAM
Now I want you to tell me about your worst nightmare.
I dreamt, that I was a lamer. (ed: But was it a dream??)
And One last question. What are your other hobbies? (if any)
GIRLS, GIRLS, and if I've got time maybe more girls.
That is an interesting hobby, and THAT'S IT!! This  interview has  FINALLY come
to an end. Is there one last thing you want to say to all your fans out there?
I'm VERY sorry to tell you, that  while I have  been doing this  interview,  my
whole group  have been  destroyed,  because a  flash have  struck all of  their
Amigas. So I guess, that ICECREAM is out of business, at least for a while. BUT
do not worry I  will be back, so  look out for  the sign.  Mr. Magnum  of  (The
former??) ICECREAM says: TAKE CARE, AND TAKE IT COOL.
Well enough have been said, and no more to say (or write), so once again I want
to thank you for reading this crap. A special  note to all my  friends. IF  YOU
HAVEN'T NOTICED BY NOW I HAVE LEFT ACID, AND I AM NOW A MEMBER OF PROLOGIC DK.
PLEASE NOTE, that this interview was done while having  a party. Therefore  the
VERY poor quality. Also this was done JUST FOR FUN!!!


Interview with Rioter of Equinox                            By Playboy/Prologic
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Hi there Rioter. Will you please introduce yourself.
My name is Rioter, and I am a member of the group Equinox. I am 16 years young.
My function in Equinox is Organizing, Coding, (look out  for my new demo called
Levithan) and a little bit swapping.
Yeah I have seen your Levithan demo, and it  is very nice  for only 6  days  of
coding. Can you tell me something about Equinox. How many members are  you, and
what are their functions?
We are about 50-60 members  worldwide  even  though we have only  existed for 3
weeks. Our  group  was  formed  by  some  members  from  Scoopex,  Red  Sector,
Powerlords, and new age. In sweden we are 5  members: Mr.  Palmer (Music, Gfx),
Agnuz  (Code,  Gfx),  Pentangle  (Music),  Arcade   (Code,  Swap),  and  Rioter
(Organizer, Code, and little Swap).
Thank you VERY much for not writing all the members, just imagine how long this
interview would  be... But  anyway how  is your  relationship  with  the  other
members? Is friendship important in your group?
Octon, the organizer in Norway is a very good friend. I have only met him once,
but we often speak on the phone. The same to Opus and Tripwire in the UK.  Then
Mr. Palmer is an  old and very  good friend  of  mine. We have  met each  other
several times, he is also drawing the graphics and  composing  the music to  my
game. Anyway  of course  friendship is  important. It  is the  whole  point  of
hacking. Friendship is actually the reason why I am in the scene.
Well it sounds like you have a very good  relationship with the other  members.
By the way, what hardware do you use?
I've got an Amiga 500 with  Kickstart 1.2 / 1.3, 512 Kb  Chip Mem, 512 Kb  Fast
Mem, a CBM 1084 monitor. I also have a MPS 1224C printer and an external  drive
plus of course tons of disks all over my room.
Pheeew, that was quite alot to say at  one time so here's an easy one for  you.
How much time do you spend on your computer per day?
That is very different from  day to day. It is  everything  from 2 hours to  23
hours.
Ok I can understand, that  you are  limited to 24  hours per  day, BUT  I  have
actually  found out a way to  have up to  30 hours  per day. The  secret,  well
actually it is quite simple, just  crunch the time  with an  ordinary  cruncher
(Time-killer) It works just like a disk, smart eh! CUT THE CRAP. Were you  ever
active on the old 64?
Yes of course, but not long enough to be famous.
I know just how you feel, and I don't want to  talk about  that period  either.
You mentioned something about phonecalls to e.g. Norway and UK. How much do you
actually spend on your computer (Phonebill, stamps etc.)?
Phonebills are no problem because my parents  pay them He, He.... BUT I do have
to pay for the stamps. About $50 per month.
I can only say you lucky bastard. I would be more than happy  if my stamp-bill,
and my phonebill were  that small, but unfortunately.... Have you ever  been in
trouble with the Police, Postoffice etc.?
I have had trouble with the police, but that has nothing to  do with hacking. I
had some  trouble with the postoffice too, when I was  faking stamps, but  they
didn't do much. They just told me to stop faking. (continues in next article)


(continues from previous article)
You were pretty lucky back there, right? But how many contacts do you have?
At the moment I have about 30 good and fast contacts.
How many parties have you visited, and which one was the best?
I'm not sure, but I think there are so  many I can't count  them, but the  best
organized was the easter conference '90.
I can understand, that you are having problems with counting them. (I was never
good at counting either.)  Another  thing that is  difficult to  count, is  the
number of diskmags. What to you think about them? Are there too many? Which one
is the best?
I don't think that there are too  many, but some  disk-mags are of  a very  bad
quality. It is always nice to get different points of view. In my opinion  Zine
is the best mag at the moment.
Well that is more or less my opinion too, but I don't think, that  quality is a
problem. If the mags  are of a  poor quality they will  not last very long. Now
here is one of the funny  parts of this  interview. I am  going to  give you  a
hint,  and  then you  should  just  add some  comments. Let us  start out  with
MEGADEMOS.
I think it is better to  put all effort needed to make a megademo into a single
demo. Hopefully the quality will be better then.
DRUGS...Shit, Shit, Shit and fuck the users!!!!
FAKED STAMPS...Sooner or later you'll get caught...
FRIENDSHIP...That is VERY important. NO FRIENDSHIP = NO FUN.
BOOZING...Sometimes I enjoy it (He, He).
CONFERENCES...Very nice, you meet all your friends in the scene.
MODEM TRADING...That can be  good  if  you need a  program  very fast,  but  it
destroys the friendship.
Well enough about that crap. Here is a hard one for you. How would you describe
a Lamer?
A lamer is a guy, who thinks, that he is the  coolest and best  guy around.  He
always boast about everything he has done, but  probably 99%  are lies. He  has
probably never asked a girl for a date.
Geee.. That sounds really lame. Now it is time for your favorite...
GROUP: Kefrens.
CODER: Promax
GFX WIZARD: Uno
MUSICIAN: Walkman
REAL MUSIC: J.M. Jarre and Guns'n'Roses
GAME: Lemmings
TOOL: AsmOne
DISK MAG: Zine (ed:$%^&^#@#$@%&^*)
REAL MAG: Hustler and Playboy (NO, I don't think they named it after you...)
COMIC: Don Martin and MAD
BEER: Elephant
ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Malibou
FOOD: Chinese and Pizza.
(continues in next article)


Well now we don't want to ruin the whole interview by  this crap, so I guess  I
must ask you about a horrible thing.. YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE....
That would be to wake up in bed the day  after a party, and  realise, that  you
actually slept with the uglyest girl at the party.
Bwwwaaaaddddrrrrr... THAT WAS HORRORFYING!!!!!! and now to something completely
different. Tell me about your other hobbies, if any..
I train karate, and then i'm very found of girls, but i'm that kind of guy, who
prefers the romantic way instead of the fast fuck.
Now there are some healthy interrests, I would very much like to  continue, but
unfortunatly I ran out of questions, and have to end  here. Is there a  special
message for all your fans out there?
Just remember, that all COOL ELITE guys can reach me at +46-381-15745.
Great. Thank you very  much for  answering these  few(?)  questions, and  don't
forget our party.


Mega Interview to Hawkeye/Prologic!!!                       By Playboy/Prologic
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Hi there Hawkeye, let's cut the crap and get down to business. Please introduce
yourself.
Well that shouldn't bee too hard. My name is Hawkeye, and I am a  member of the
main-division of Prologic. (ed: The danish one) I  am 15 years old  and my main
activities are swapping and spreading.
Tell me some more about Prologic. How many members are you, and what are  their
functions?
I don't know exactly how many members we are, because we have got a lot of  new
members, but I think we are aprox. 30 members worldwide.  Their  functions are:
15 coders,  3 Gfx-men,  4 Musicians,  4 Swappers, and 1 Designer. We are spread
over 5 countries: Denmark, Germany, Norway, Finland, and Kuwait(?)
Yes I guess it is hard to tell if your division in Kuwait is still rolling, but
let us  hope they're  ok. That  brings  us to the  next question. How  is  your
relationship with the other members of Prologic?
I have only talked with them over the  phono, except  for one,  but we are  all
friends, friendship is VERY important in our group.
I agree on that subjtect, friendship is indeed THE MOST important  thing in the
scene. By the way what hardware do you have?
Well, I have got an A-500 with all expansions. No more to say. At least I don't
think it's the hardware which  counts. You can  have an  A-3000 with 8 MB,  and
still be a lamer.
Yes, that  is  right, but  just imagine  if that equipment fell into the  right
hands... Talking about lamers, what do you think of lamers?
That's easy. If there were no loosers, there would be no winners.
That is perfectly true, but check this. If there were no winners there would be
no loosers. (he,he) How much time do you spend on your computer?
All my spare time. No more, no less.
That is a VERY long time considering  your activities  regarding  homework. Ho,
Ho, Ho...  Now I must ask you to remember a time, which you must  look back on.
The (good?) old days on da Commodore 64. Were you ever active in the C64 scene?
Active and active... I have of course been on the C64 before the Amiga age, but
I only had 10-12 contacts.
Well that  is  just  another guy, who  doesn't  look  at the C-64 days  as  the
golden days.  Perhaps you're  right? How many  contacts have  you actually  got
right now, and what do you swap?
I have aproximately 65-70 contacts,  but only  10-15 are  standard  contacts. I
swap everything with them. Writing  long letters,  swapping beers, and so on. I
think it would be VERY sad, if you only swapped disks + standard letters.
Yeah!!! FUCK standard letters. Quite a few contacts you've got  there, how much
do you spend on stamps per month?
It cost me SO much. At least too much. I think  every hobby is  expensive,  but
specially being active in the Amiga scene as a swapper is VERY expensive.
YES the everlasting  problem of  expensive stamps, and  unpaid phone bills... I
know  that  problem too  well  myself. Have you  ever been in trouble  with the
police, because of swapping?
Never. (Lucky me eh')                          (continues in next article)


(continues from previous article)

Lucky? I  have  the  feeling, that  the  Danish  police doesn't do  much  about
swapping  at all,  but  anyway we  have  to move on to  the next  part of  this
interview. It is time for me to give you a clue, and then  it is  up to you  to
add a few comments.. O.K? The first word is
MEGADEMOS...
I just love megademos, but I  think it  is better to  make a  onedisk  megademo
which is very great, than making a demo on two disks which is only standard.
DRUGS...
Bad stuff!
FAKED STAMPS...
I used them a  while,  but  then  I was  caught and  now I don't  paint  stamps
anymore.
PIRACY...
I hate games so I don't care.
FRIENDSHIP...
The best in the scene.
BOOZING...
I just love that. (Remember your meeting Playboy?)
CONFERENCES...
Great. At partys & conferences you  can meet your  friends and booze  a lot.  I
have only been to two parties.  Bounty's (An OK Party)  and Aero's  (YUCK) so I
have missed the best. (RSI+TSL, Dexions, etc.) 
MODEM TRADING...
It destroyes mailtrading. You can't write or get letters. By the way,  have you
ever heard about beerswapping on modem?
THE SCENE IN GENERAL...
Everybody is talking about good old days on the 64. But at that time there were
also wars and stufftrading.
PHEEEEW.... that  was  all  of  that  shit. And  now  to  something  completely
different...  This one is just to give you a little break. Tell  me about  your
worst nightmare...
When my Amiga broke down and I had no money for the repair. I just hoped it had
been a dream, but this was a real nightmare.
And now to something  completely different. (again?)  This is the fun  part  of
every interview. Your favourite, we might as well hit it....
Your favorite:
GROUP:
Anarchy. They have got soo many cool  members like: Dan, 4-mat, Kreator, Teeze,
Mr. Big etc.
CODER:
I really like lots of coders. Promax, Gonzo,  Metallion, Delta, and  Slayer are
among the very best.
GFX. WIZARD:
I think Kefrens' new member Slash is very great, but also  Joe and  Reward  are
two cool dudes.

(PHEW! continues in the next article! The 3rd part!)


(continues from previous article)

MUSICIAN:
4-mat, Jesper Kyd, Nightlight, Dr. Awesome and Romeo  Knight are  great. It  is
difficult to pick.
REAL MUSIC:
I just love Depeche Mode. But also Hip-Hop and techno sounds are great.
UTILITY:
Dpaint + Noisetracker are the best utilities ever.
DISKMAG:
Zine is very good, (ed: &^$^%^%*&&^) but  also Freedom  Crack, (ed: That's more
like it) I.C.E. and DISC are good magazines.
REAL MAG:
Yeah, I like PLAYBOY (ed: It is always nice to know, that  somebody likes  you.
He, he)
COMIC:
MAD is the best comic. At least I think so.
VHS:
I really like Lethal Weapon 2.
BEER LABEL:
Tuborg X-mas is good, BUT Warsteiner is better.
ALCOHOLIC DRINK:
Finlandia vodka 4ever!!!
FOOD:
Pizza is good, but the taste of a good red steak...
Ok Huckeye (he,he) let us fuck this motherfucking  subject, and let us get down
to some serious business again. What are your other hobbies, if any?
Boozing with my friends, hunting chicks, and so on.
Yes I can remember that.. Once upon a time in  the city of  Middelfart DK.... I
think I'll skip the rest cos it will just fill the whole mag, but read the AERO
PARTYREPORT for further  info. This interview has finally come  to an end. Many
thanks to Hawkeye for answering these few (He, he) questions,  and if there  is
anything you  would like to  say to  all your  friends out  there, now is  your
chance...
Keep up the good work folks. Thanx to Playboy for this interview.  Greetings to
all my friends. See ya at our party!
Well I hope you  have all  enjoyed  reading this  interview as  much as I  have
enjoyed writing it. I have just one small remark to make. You are most certanly
wondering why there two editors by the name of Playboy. Well there are not. The
reason is, that I made this interview, and  some other articles some  time ago.
And meanwhile I joined the rowdy group of  Prologic DK. I hope you are  not too
confused. Enough have been said, and no more to say.


SWAPPING HINTS!                                           (Hellraiser/Defcon 1)
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Surely all ILLEGAL swappers of ya  freaks out there know the  problem with  the
police in ya hometown. You  are on your way  from the post to  ya home. Ya  got
some sendinx and will now  check the new disx. Suddenly the doorbell is ringing
and your mother is runing out of the kitchen to  open the door fastly. Then you
hear some strong  voices, talking  about illegal  copies of  computer  programs
and that they can search the house. Ya  are packed by panic. Slowly ya turn off
ya computer, cut  the 500  letters wich are  lying in the whole room. The water
is flowing down from ya head and  ya suddenly destroy the  newest stuff with an
old rake. You hear the cops opening the door and now it's all to late. The only
thing ya can do in that moment is to pray  to God. So, I'll now type down  some
swapping hints, and if you follow them you are surely saved from the police.

- 1.) Never use your private address if ya swap any kind of illegal stuff.
      (If the police will get it in their fingers, the only thing  ya can do is
      to pray)

- 2.) Never contact any guys out  of an paper magazine  like happy or  asm, coz
      a lot of software firms are advertising in them. I think that it's not so
      good to ask a software company about illegal swapping.

- 3.) Never send ya telephone number to any of ya contacts. If  you do it, then
      write them in HEX!

- 4.) Don't write the addresses from ya contax in  address books (If the police
      get the book, you can make your own tomb, coz  your contacts will  surely
      send bombs and rockets to ya!)

- 5.) Only use address coders, coz the  cops are not able  to find out the pass
      words for the addresses!

- 6.) Don't have so many illegal coppies in  ya room. Only the things ya  need.
      The other crap ya can put in the cellar or in ya parents sleeping-room!

- 7.) Destroy the letters from ya contacts if ya wrote back to them!

- 8.) Change more often ya Plk-Address and especially when the police found the
      old one.

- 9.) Please be patient on copy parties. Don't give ya address to  all guys and
      remember that more and more parties are visited by the police!

- 10.)If ya are at ya local post office to get some sendings  and the man tells
      ya to come  with him  coz one  sending is  damaged, then  take your  legs
      under your arms and run away as fast as possible!

So, that was it. I hope that ya will follow my hints.

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             Do you swap                               TOP NOTCH
         ** CRYSTAL CLEAR! **                    Wants to swap with you
Pre-released VHS movies?? Well contact  Only interested in games and utilities
                me NOW!                Send your latest on 3.5" or 5 1/4" disks
          JOGGA/ADDONIC                 or send lists to the following address
           18 Neville Road,                        All disks returned
            Priors Park,
             Tewkesbury,                           P.O. BOX 825
              Glos,                                CAPALABA, 4157
               GL20 5ED                            QUEENSLAND
                ENGLAND                            AUSTRALIA
   (If your copies look like there     ----------------------------------------
      decrunching don't bother!)       Vote Freedom Crack in every chart U know
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-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-

             HYDRO of FRANTIC IS SEARCHING FOR MORE CONTACTS...
           IF YOU THINK YOU'RE COOL ENOUGH, SO WHY DON'T WRITE TO:
                            ------------------
                                C/O KUISMA
                              SF-80910 KULHO
                                  FINLAND
                            ------------------ 
                            SOME HANDSHAKES TO:
      TIGER/ENDLESS PIRACY - ZEDY/QUARTEX - PET/DEXION -HAWKEYE/PROLOGIC
  JAKE/REBELS - FRAP/MAGNETIC FIELDS - TEEZE/ANARCHY - SWAPPERBOY/CRUSADERS
    GNN/DUAL CREW - ALF/PALACE - YEGGMAN/UNTOUCHABLES - DARKCAVE/ADDONIC
        ZICE/LEGEND - ROB/CYCRON - CRUZIFIX/ENERGY AND ALL OTHERS...

-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-ELITE ONLY-
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                                     ZEUS!
       Contact Zendo of Zeus for swapping high quality stuff! Write to:
                                     Zendo
                                  Postlagernd
                                 CH-2500 Biel3
                              Please, elite only!

           C O N T A C T                  For swapping Amiga demos, utilities
 A U S T R A L I A ' S  F I N E S T       and cool Hip-Hop tapes write to me:
          I N S A N I T Y
                                                Joker (don't write this)
 Renegade       The Radiance                    Axelssonssv. 14
 1/30 Weld St   P.O. Box 395                    66300 Skoghali
 Northam, 6401  Yarawonga, 3730                 Sweden
 W.A.           Victoria
 Australia      Australia                  And hey... don't hesitate! Disk +
                                         letter + list + sunglasses + colt 45 +
 Jinxer           *---------*            Coca Cola + synthesizer = 100% answer
 31 Maxwell St    | Amiga   |          ----------------------------------------
 Kalgoorlie, 6430 | Videos  |              Hi you all! If ya want to contact
 W.A.             | Alcohol |              Default, write to: Default
 Australia        *---------*                                 Alamaentie 587
                                                              29310 Kaasmarkku
 Only Elite & No Disx = No Reply                              Finland
                                           Letter with disk(s) 100% answer
 'Insanity' - 'It's Spreading'         ----------------------------------------
--------------------------------------   F.A.X. of LOCTITE is looking 4 much
Hooligan of Double Trouble is            contacts! If you think ya are cool,
looking for cool contacts.                   then feel free to write me!
Also gfx-men needed!                         F.A.X. of LCT
Write to:          ---------------           TANULA
PK 56              -             -           73120 NERKOO
ACIBADEM/ISTANBUL  - Pk 56       -           FINLAND        NO DISK=NO FUN
TURKEY             - ACIBADEM    -     ----------------------------------------
 % 100 Answer!     - ISTANBUL    -       Contact Loctite 4 hot swapping! For
 % 100 Disks back! - TURKEY      -       joining take a look at job corner!
--------------------------------------   Hot Gun of LCT
  Howdy dudes! Here's an astonishing     Vihurintie 4
          chance to contact              80160 Joensuu
      QUACKBUSTER/STATIC BYTES           Finland            No disk=no fun
  - ELITE guys should write to: -      ----------------------------------------
          Rasmus Hougaard
          Guldbergsgade 6
          8600 Silkeborg
          DENMARK!
If you write a long letter and/or send
 own-made prods, chance to receive an
    answer will be highly improved!
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***********JUST*FOR*FUN************* If YOU know that the MEANING OF LIFE is 42
O                                  O    then you must contact to the BIGGEST
N  HI I'm Searching more contacts  N        ASSHOLE in the whole Finland.
L  over the globe.                 L         -- ED-209 of EXOTIC MEN --
Y  DAXER OF IRIS (don't forget)    Y Also for swapping long (!) letters, beer,
*  6 KP                            * cigarettes, alcoholics, drugs, VHS-movies
L  73100 Lapinlahti                L     and ABSOLUTELY LATEST LEGAL STUFF
E  FINLAND                         E Address: ED-209
G                                  G          Tommi Rinne (DON'T FORGET!)
A       NO DISK = NO ANSWER        A          Kp 6
L                                  L          63300 Alavus
***********JUST*FOR*FUN*************          Finland
------------------------------------ LONG letter + disk or beer = 200% answer
   Contact ARCMAGE of ARTEMIS for                ! NO MUTANTS !
   muzix swap at: Sigurjon           ------------------------------------------
                  Yrsufelli 1           For swapping, exchanging diagrams and
                  111 RVK                       buying cheap hardware:
                  Iceland                            Ezex/Falcons
------------------------------------              Skandeborgvej 150
         For fast swapping:                   DK-8382 Hinnerup - Denmark
               Falcons               ------------------------------------------
           Poste Restante               Contact REFLECTORS for cool and fast
           DK-3210 Vejby                 swapping at: Zingo/Reflectors
               Denmark                   Disk=        Kullmannsv. 7A
------------------------------------     100% cool    29135 Kristianstad
For elites...                            swapping     Sweden
Society                                    Or call me at: +46-(0)44-100877
Kirnukj. 2E 20                       ------------------------------------------
70780 Kuopio                           *** The Humanoid of SpaceCake Inc. ***
Finland                Disk = answer           Wants to swap with YOU!
------------------------------------    Contact me now for cool mailtrading:
             Dual Power                            (*No Name*) 
          the right power                           P.O.Box 10
       we seek hot contacts                      B-1050 Elsene 2
        all over the world.                          BELGIUM
             DUAL POWER                 A nice letter with a disk, beer or 
           POSTE RESTANTE             cigarettes from an interesting person 
            4900 NAKSKOV                       ALWAYS gets a reply...
               DENMARK                ************** SpaceCake ************* 
    Disc + letter = 175% answer       **** Don't say we didn't warn ya! ****
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                     -+) YOU WANT MUSIC? I'VE GOT IT! (+-
Yo! I'm looking for...
- guys that want to swap musictapes
(rap, heavy, punk, synth, blues,          Here's the magical addy:
rock... If you like any of these,         Marko T. Kilpelainen
write!)                                   Linnasaarenkuja 5a
- guys that are interested in             78300 Varkaus
friendship & long letters                 Finland
- guys interested in making arts
on paper, cyberpunks etc.
If you think you are any of these, grab a pen and write! No matter where
you live, no matter who you are... Just one thing: No Amiga-stuff! Just
music, friendship, art, long letters etc. You can send me anything except
stuff and I'll tell you if I swap it!
      -+) ALL LETTERS WILL BE ANSWERED, ALL TAPES WILL BE RETURNED! (+-
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Contact PHOBIA/ARCHAOS                             CONTROL
for swapping the latest                   Interested in VHS and disk
   Phobia                                         trading?
   6 Glebe rd                                   Creep/Control
   Aston Somerville                            Stefan Hoglund
   Broodway Worrs                              64610 Overmark
   WR12 7JB                                       Finland
   UK
Letter+Disks=101% Answer                      Elite guys only
  Also swap music +
     VHS trading
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    *****  ****    ****    *****  **  **     Ape & Andy of BENEFIT want some
   **     **  **  ** **   **     ** **       contacts! If you are interested
  **     *****   ******  **     ****         to swap with us, then write to
 ****** **   ** **   ** *****  **  **                both addresses:
   WHEN THE BEST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH !!        Ape of Benefit  Antti Kauppi
   FOR COOL SENDS AND LONG LETTERS...                  PL 4  Urpasentie 27
                                                 45701 KSNK  45700 KSNK
           DELBERT OF CRACK,                        FINLAND  FINLAND
           39 ATHELSTAN ROAD,              If possible, send own productions!
           FAVERSHAM,                      To join us write to Ape's address!
                                          ------------------------------------
           KENT,
           ME13 8QL,
           ENGLAND.

        * DISK = 10001% REPLY *
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Editorial
---------

Here we are again with this new issue, the number 6 of Freedom Crack. I  really
hope that you will like this issue, as always we  tried to put  many  different
things on it so that it can be interesting also for non-Amiga freaks.  Moreover
we tried to put interesting articles for the whole scene. As always we  thank a
lot all people who sent us articles. Now some important things:
- A very big sorry to the guy from AERO  who sent me  that  article  about  the
party: I've lost it... And I've lost 2 disks with some advertisements from some
guys (I think from Germany).
- Another thing: many guyz sent me 2 empty disks asking for the new issue.
Sorry guys, but you have to follow the new rules. Maybe you have read the rules
in previous issues, but I don't think this is possible, since there is a  large
amount of time between 2 issues.
- Pay attention: the advertisements rules changed (see addresses articles).
This was made following the tip that JPN gave me on DISC #6. I asked: how can I
decrease the number of adverts? And he: simple - they mustn't be free!  I  knew
that now you are thinking "@#?#!" but  consider  that  it  wasn't  possible  to
continue with such a big amount of adverts  each issue.  Too many adverts  take
place for the other articles and we don't want  to publish a  mag  with 50%  or
more adverts! Anyway the "prices" are not so bad I think!
Have a good read!

                                                               Filippetto/Vega


                             *** CREDITS ***

                Freedom Crack 6 is an exclusive Vega release!!!

                       Coding 100% by Filippetto/Vega
                        Music by Mantronix/Razor 1911
                         Logo by Excalibur/Savage

                                The staff:

           Filippetto/Vega............publisher and main editor
           Playboy/Prologic..............................editor
           A-Ha/Resolution 101...........................editor
           Sterling/Savage...............................editor

             You find the article's credits in every article

                      Remember to call Vega's boards:

                     Phantom BBS......++39(0)422350149

                             Up to 38400 BPS!

INSTRUCTIONS
------------

Mouse up/down                  select articles
Cursor up/down                 scroll current article's text up/down
F1-F6                          select 6 different background colors
                                  (if you don't like the current ones)
4-5-6 on keypad                add 1 R-G-B to background
1-2-3 on keypad                sub 1 R-G-B to background
Enter                          reset background color
CTRL                           Switch music on/off
ALT                            Switch low pass filter on/off
ESC                            exit

As always critics and comments about the options are welcome... So send us your
ideas or tell us what to  improve. You  find the  addresses in the  'addresses'
article!

MAGAZINE ADDRESSES
------------------

The magazine address is:
Filippetto/Vega
Filippo Rizzi
Via Vescovado 39
35141 Padova - Italy

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                                   HOW TO SEND
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                             ** To receive the mag **

                            - Send 1 checked disk,
                              your address and
                                  5.- DM or
                                 5.00  F or
                                    3  $ or
                                 4000  L
                    or the same as 3 US $ in your local money
                      ** NEVER SEND COINS: ONLY BANKNOTES **

                              ** To send articles **
Write  articles  with a  Text  editor like TxEd, QEd,  Cygnus or something like
that, then send your  works to  the  address  you  see  above.  We  are  always
searching for good  article  writers  and  cool guys who can write articles but
also reports, interviews and tips and want to join our staff. Remember that who
sends article(s) can have 1 free advertisement!!! So if you send us an  article
remember to include your advertisement too!

                ** To send advertisements/job offers-requests **
NEVER send them on disk. Just send us a piece of paper with your  advertisement
or your job offer/request and 1 blank checked disk or the equal in  your  local
money (banknotes!) Only 1  advertisement is allowed, this means that  we  won't
publish more that 1 addy of 1 person or 1 group.