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This is ILLEGAL #25, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad. The German
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parts are left out since I can't read, nor translate, German.
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everything you do is
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THE TRIAD magazine
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Licensed by TRIAD 88
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GAME PREVIEWS!
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Games Ahoi! At the mo only a few games are gonna come, the most exciting are:
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IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II from EPYX (due to release at the beginning of March),
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FOOTBALL MANAGER II, another follow-up, by ADDICTIVE, KATAKIS from German
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Rainbow Arts, which looks fantastic and seems to become a quite good Shoot'em
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up. And also from German software company namely Micropartner should come
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VAMPIRE'S EMPIRE in the next days, which look quite superb which makes it quite
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interesting and last but not least: PINK PANTHER also from MICROPARTNER. You
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can have a look at the titlepicture from it on the ATARI ST, when you move the
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monitor-damaged eyes a little bit down... Yep... not so down, you idiot! Well,
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that's all about fine games coming (hopefully soon) and with all the best
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wishes I leave off with good luck for the following 11 pages. Thanx to MWS /
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RWE for the pic!
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J.S.
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| (The titlepicture from Micro-Partners game "Pink Panther") |
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HELLO, GUYZ!
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A warm welcome to another world of "ILLEGAL"! Maybe you've already heard that I
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(Jeff Smart) joined together with Hi-tec mighty forces of TRIAD and now people
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claimed that TRIAD will always be number one in the cracker charts on the last
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page. Yep, they are right! Oh, no, I felt a little bit different when getting
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your votes for the charts thiz month. Who gave TRIAD 10 points? I was really
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depressed of what should I do, anyway the last thing I would do is to
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manipulate the charts and so I leave, even though people doubt my neutrality.
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Anyway, here are the greetinx for this issue, in, of course, no ranking order:
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STRIDER / FAIRLIGHT (KILL A COMMIE FOR YER MOMMIE, TONI!?), NIK / IKARI, SLEDGE
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/ HOTLINE (good movement!), IAN / FUSION (don't spend too much time with
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reading the results of the horse races!), CF + ACCEPT / BEASTIE BOYS, THE
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DEADLY FRIENDS (so if you want to then write some articles...), ACU from
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SOLDIERS AGAINST PROTECTION (great 'Platoon' Version, Alex), JAYCE from DCU
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1789, old DAVE from THE AWESOME GUYS in the States - the land of opportunity,
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SWYX of TRIANGLE 3532, ISS and NY from PLEASURE (keep going on the good work
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Stefan!), MAD ALL of CFR (hoping to meet ya again, dude!), RUB + SPC from TWG,
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MZP from RED SECTOR, old eaglestone from (unreadable), A.C.E., TMC of SCOOP,
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the rest of FCS, GENESIS*PROJECTS for the titlebegger!, TSK, TAU, SHIELD, SCA,
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POPEYE, TDS, all rest girls and Ferrari-owners. Special yohos to: all members
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of TRIAD, especially MR.PINGE, JANITOR and IAN + MIC, wish you the best and
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that yer dreams come true one day!
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JS / TRIAD
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THE RESULTS OF THE TRIANGLE COMPETITION "DEMO OF THE YEAR"
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Yo, man, it's over. Thanx to all who wrote to me or called me up. So here are
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the final results of our competition "DEMO OF THE YEAR": A BIG CONGRATULATIONS
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GOES TO:
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1. DEXION
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2. TRIANGLE 3532
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3. 2000 A.D.
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4. TRIAD
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5. AEK / TFD
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Dexion won with 27% of all votes. So goodbye and soon more
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SWYX from TRIANGLE
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THE NEXT COPYPARTIES ARE COMMING UP...
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Oh, yes, COPYPARTIES are a fashionable thing. Every groups makes any, a group
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without a copyparty isn't a real group, eh? So first of all, this month:
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February 20th, VENLO, HOLLAND, the most attractive probably. HOTLINE, CFR,
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RADWAR for sure, and then perhaps TWG, TRIAD, IKARI, SAP and so on. It lasts
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from 11 o'clock up to 4 o'clock (or 11:00 to 16:00).
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February 20th, AACHEN, GERMANY, planned by DYNAMIC SYSTEM, but that will be
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nothing, coz people go to VENLO that day, so better come to VENLO or stay in
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your bed.
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February 27th, BONN, GERMANY, the WOD "ANTI LOSER PARTY". Perhaps, perhaps, but
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I'm sure that there'll be some losers.
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February 27th, BIELEFIELD, GERMANY, planned by SHIELD. Known groups announced
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their visit, so better choose this one instead of the WOD party.
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March 5th, BONN, GERMANY. Will it be or not? The FCS party, the group is dead,
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maybe they're reborn, but make sure if it is or not, but it won't be the
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success from December.
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DANISH GOLD - TRITON TECHNOLOGY and JEWELS prty??? Rumours spread that there
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would be some in April in Denmark. That would it be!
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JS/TRIAD
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TELL ME, DICTIONARY...
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Look at your dictionary under "cracker"! Haven't you already wondered what we
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choose every month with the "CRACKER OF THE MONTH"??? O.K., Here we go...
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"CRACKER":
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1) thin, flaky, dry biscuit (as eaten with cheese)
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2) firework that makes cracking noises when set off: THE CHINESE USE CRACKERS
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TO FRIGHTEN AWAY EVIL SPIRITS
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What do we have more?
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"CRACKPOT": eccentric person with strange ideas.
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"CRACKSMAN": burglar
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You know: YOU ARE A BISCUIT (look in Yer pandies...) Next issue more, mon!
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HTC/JS
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INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH! THIS TIME: JANITOR / TRIAD
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People call him the only real cracker on earth. Is he a simple human being or
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something else. Here are 10 questions to JANITOR from TRIAD:
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J.S.: Since when does TRIAD exist?
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Jan.: TRIAD was born 86.07.26 at 21.30 pm after some phone calls.
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J.S.: Who founded it?
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Jan.: There were three "parts" who wanted to merge in an attempt to get known
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in Europe, they were:
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1. "3001" (IXION, SKYDIVE, LUCIFER)
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2. "COD" (ARROW, FRED)
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3. MR.Z, RND
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The person who invented the name and perhaps was in the middle was IXION, who's
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the only left from the real beginning.
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J.S.: How many members does TRIAD have at the moment?
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Jan.: Well, that's our secret, but there aren't much on the 64.
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J.S.: What was the 1st TRIAD release?
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Jan.: I think it was "DRAGON'S LAIR", there wasn't even a TRIAD intro on it,
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cause there was no time to make any. It was just MR.Z's own RASTER-INTRO.
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J.S.: When did you start computing?
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Jan.: I bought my 64 when it was released in Sweden (summer '83), but I have
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not started cracking until the beginning of 1987!!!
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J.S.: What's your favourite stuff?
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Jan.: GAMES: old strategy games like ARCHON, IMPERIUM GALACTICUM and M.U.L.E.
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DEMO: KINETIK ADVERTS, an old computet demo.
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MOVIE: Woody Allen's RADIO DAYS
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MUZAX: The ARKANOID Soundtrack
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J.S.: What do you do in your freetime?
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Jan.: GUESS THAT!!! (a hint: I'm doing something called cracking, maybe you
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have heard of it before, eh?)
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J.S.: It was invented by TRIAD, "C" to CHEAT and a RANKED Greetings. How did
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you come to that?
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Jan.: We also called the RANKINGS: RATING as MR.Z did, compare with today's
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cracks! It was 3D's idea. Well, IXION heard that MR.Z always played all the
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games up to their end (How many people do this? Oh, me, of course. Remember all
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the 101% cracks) and poor IXION wondered if MR.Z was a kind of an arcade beast
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to manage that. But MR.Z cheated with some pokes and finally he released,
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persuaded by IXION, all games with a special trainer-modus, that he called
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"cheat-modus" and after that we gave the world a hard time to catch up with
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those versions...
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J.S.: How many swap-partners does TRIAD have?
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Jan.: We don't swap with ESI and HTL (?)
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J.S.: Do you have war with anyone?
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Jan.: No. We respect HOTLINE!?!?
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J.S.: Thank you very much...
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In the next issue I'll probably interview CAPTAIN FUTURE of the BEASTIE BOYS.
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THE BEST IS OVER
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I am sure that everyone has heard of a Teleconference. In the past year there
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were so many conferences, that they became a daily routine. Recently though, a
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conference has become very rare. Allience Teleconferencing was loosing millions
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each year due to these fraudulent calls. It was not only costing them, but it
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was causing them a lot of trouble. They have retaliated by locking out the
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numbers called most. They also monitor almost all calls. Conferences are no
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longer safe to run, this is why you are seeing so many 3-way calls instead.
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Alliance, a sub-division of AT&T, isn't the only phone company cracking down on
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phreaks. Due to all of these crackdowns, things are taking longer to spread
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around. Usually withing a couple hours of it's release, everyone would have a
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new crack, but since all of the crackdowns it now takes a couple of days.
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Modeming is rapidly declining. The telephone companies are using methods such
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as false carriers, ANI, trap codes, etc, to catch phreaks. Codes are hacked
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either randomly or sequentially by your computer: It works, by calling up the
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access nuber, entering the code, then dialling the number you want to call.
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Depending on the service you have a 1 in 100 chance of finding a good code. But
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who wants to sit there and dial a number 100 times! So, you use a hacking prog
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on your 64 and it will dial it up and try codes, till it finds a working one.
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To check out the code, your computer dials up another computer (in a different
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state). If the computer answers, and a carrier is established, then the code
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was a good one, and it is stored to disk. If it was a bad one, and no carrier
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was established, then it just goes to the next code. Some services have their
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computer blast a fake carrier, to make your 64 think it was a good code, even
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though it isn't. Thus your time is wasted here, cause you can't determine which
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codes are good, and which ones are bad. ANI (Automatic Number Identicater) is
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another deadly trap! In this method the service traces ALL calls made to the
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service. As soon as you dial the number, they have your number. I am not sure
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who uses this method, but some do! The most deadly and most used method of all,
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is the trap code. The BASTARDS at the phone co. spread out bad codes to the
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pirating world. Once you dial in the bad code, you are traced! There is no way
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to tell a trap code from a good one, this is why this is such an effective
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method. What happens after they trace you? They will monitor your line, till
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they have enough evidence to bust you. I have come DAMN close to getting busted
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myself. No one will ever get busted, if they just use their BRAINS. With the
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FUCKERS from the phone co. sniffing our asses, I see things going back to mail
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trades, and that MEGA SUCKS.
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DAVE (TMS/TAG)
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The Mind Slayer / The Awesome Guys
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THE RADWAR PARTY
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A computer party among loud music and bottles of beer? Isn't that like coffee
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and salt together? But it worked! On the 9th of January 1988 in Heinsberg. Done
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by RADWAR in the discotheque "LA QUINTA". Who was there? RADWAR (really?),
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HOTLINE, TWG, SAP, BEASTIE BOYS, 1001 CREW, MZP, TRISTAR, FAC, TFD and many
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others...
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Only a small amount of computers were built up in the large discotheque.
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HOTLINE brought all the new stuff with them (as they always do at those
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parties) and SURPRISE! The Darkness with "To Be On Top". Nobody had this game,
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quite surprising, even though it's fucking cracked.
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Well, after some guys drank beer (e.g. Harrie of Hotline), it became louder,
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because of some fuckin' Discomusax. Some guys from RADWAR ran around with their
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Video-Camera, everybody was acting like Bond, James Bond only to get on their
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movie and they promised to make some copies of this movie sooooooon. Anyway,
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the mass could drink but not eat. The rest of FCS made themselves ridiculous
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when speaking through the microphone: "Does anybody know a good, new name for
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us?" Suggestion were "FREEZERS" or "MODULE" but they didn't take them.
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Anyway, the "DIGITAL NEWS" was presented, a horny newspaper on disk and it was
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quite a great success (order yer own one!!!). About 8 o'clock in the evening,
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when some people got drunken (some even verrry drunken), the disco-show
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started. A amateur band played some songs live (quite promising), a fashion
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show (sooo boring) and lots of music, music and finally (guess what?) music!
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People from far away could rest in the nearby gymnasium, but some challenge the
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night (hehe). After the night the guys woke up with bad (verry bad) headache
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(guess the cause of the headache) who had to react fast or they would have to
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wait another day for their train. But this was a party different from all
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others before, what an atmosphere! It was something new for everyone, even for
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those who drunk more that one can endure (Hello, Brian!), but without
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ultraviolence, riots or vandalism like people are used to know the older
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generation of crackers.
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Whew, hopefully they repeat such a party again. Shame on all of you who haven't
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took part in it, you missed something really exciting, so watch out for the
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next RADWAR Party!
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JS/TRIAD + MWS/RWE
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ARCADE GAMES REVIER...
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THIS TIME: AFTERBURNER
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Whew! What an enormous machine! I hope you belong to the lucky one who got a
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"PLAY-CENTER" in your town that owns "AFTERBURNER" the new arcade machine from
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SEGA (it'll com on 64 by Activision). You enter it, have to fasten your
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seatbelt, press the fire button - but nothing happens. The reason: You forget
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to enter a coin to play, you idiot or did you think you're in front of your 64
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and have the right to choose between infinitive lives and normal game or what?
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NO, comrade! That's real life, that's real challenge. After you entered the
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coin, the fever involves YOU! The sound changes into a superb motivation, the
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graphix looks fantastic and you get a short instruction of what to do and who
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to blast int thousand of pieces! A short grap to the joystick with which you
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can launch missiles or fire. THE GAME STARTS...
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You are the pilot of a hypermodern fighter, starting from an aircraft carrier
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while your seat takes a move forward and you get a heartattack. The graphix
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looks absolutely great! You have the command of a fighter. With a stick to the
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left you can accelerate or decelerate your speed and then: YOUR ENEMIES!
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Other planes coming in front of you! Four of them! They're shooting! And you're
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firing back... Blast 'em to pieces... The graphix is unusually fast, ultrafast,
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and then: A HIT! Your seats moves from left to right as in reality when you're
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hit! Whew, cold sweat runs on your skin, YOU ARE THE PILOT HIMSELF, you have
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two planes left: Give your best and fight for freedom (hehe).
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O.K., after having lost, not only all lives but also thousands of coins, you
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leave frustrated your plane, eh, your machine to return to normal life. Back to
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reality: I never played a game which brings you so close to a real pilot, the
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movements of your seat, the speed, the whole atmosphere, almost everything
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makes you forget your surroundings makes you being the fighter.
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THIS GAME IS A DRUG, it gives you the real feeling that you want to get when
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playing. I'm afraid of a computer conversion because the whole atmosphere will
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get lost - so better leave it. Now, be very careful, do not enter any "PLAY
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CENTER" because if you see "AFTERBURNER" you can't hesitate to dare it and then
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you are influenced by the drug.
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ARCADE SCORE: 99 / 100 JS!
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NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION
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YOHO, guys, another month, another new column from old Jeff Smart. So let's
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start with the most important events from last month, eh?
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* The most exciting (at least for me) thing was, that HI-TEC and JEFF SMART
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joined mighty TRIAD forces on 15th of January 1988!
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* A new stunning cooperation was built. It consists of THE LIGHT CIRCLE, RED
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SECTOR INTL. and TEESIDE CRACKING SERVICE. The name should be: RED TEESIDE
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CIRCLE (hehe). First releases were JINXTER without codes and many more are
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expected to come.
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* Does BEASTIE BOYS have a new member? Cause one wondered who CALVARY (sounds
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like Calgary) is. He's a former member of the good old YETI FACTORIES.
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* What happened to THE SHARKS? When devil was riding on them, when they
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"cracked" such games like "MOLECULE MAN" or "ERIK VIII", which are only about
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one year old. Do they really want us to believe that the games are new or what?
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But then they have to change also the titlepicture, where it's said that the
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game was released in 1986. REALLY BAD, TPI.
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* Oh, oh, what's FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE without FANTASY? The answer is:
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NOTHING, NOTHING and NOTHING. They wanted the audience at the RADWAR Party to
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invent a new name for them, but would you give them your great ideas? Our
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suggestions were "FREEZERS" or "MODULES", but they decided to call themselves
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now "AXIOS" (what's that? A new freeze-frame module?). But rumour spread that
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good old FANTASY has returned to the living and soon FCS would be back in good
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(?) old style.
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* How could one name one's group like a German sex-film mailorder business?
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* Where does FUSION get those originals one week before they're released. Maybe
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they're working for the Software Companies!?
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* THE WANDERER GROUP really (finally) thinks about kicking little VIP out of
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TWG, because he always ridicules at any party and so decrease TWG's quite good
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image.
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* You know that ESI get almost every original from SOHO. Now the guy, who
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supplied all the originals, has joined ESI himself.
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* Have you already seen the new PACKER from THE PAPILLONS. Better forget it. It
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takes about half an hour (almost) to get through the memory. Why can't they use
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a normal one like all others do?
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* PLEASURE still exists, even though HI-TEC and JEFF SMART left it.
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* Yo. I promised in the last issue to present the answer from FREEZARI (as
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IKARI was called for a while) to the rumours that they freeze every single
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game. I printed NIK's letter as it was originally sent to me, even though there
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are some mistakes: I haven't heard it only from BEASTIES, that IKARI is using
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FREEZE MACHINE, other groups told me the same AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY WRONG, that
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the BEASTIE BOYS changed the cracker-list from December. They only gave IKARI
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no points, which is their good right and so IKARI didn't come up to the 2nd
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place, but TRIAD was unbeatable.
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* Look below. It seems as if RADWAR ENTERPRISES (RWE) got a new, famous member,
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eh? But RWE is also the meaning of a big German electricity company in the
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Western part, who advertises now with old Boris.
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| RWE und Boris im Doppel |
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| (piture of tennis player Boris Becker) |
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That was all for thiz month. Best thanx for supplying me with all interesting
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news are going to: MWS / RADWAR, TK / AXIOS ?, CF / BEASTIEZ, RUB / TWG, SLH /
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HOTLINE, NIK / IKARI, HI-TEC and MR.PINGE from TRIAD and all the others...
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So it leaves you alone for another month, your
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Jeff Smart from TRIAD
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MAD ALL'S MAILBOX
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Excelsior, welcome to another issue of my mailbox, filled with gossip about who
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is doing what to who and why.
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Interested? Good, read on...
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- MR.PINGE of TRIAD had an experience most pirates dream only about: he got a
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phonecall from a 16 year old FEMALE (!) computerfreak who saw his number in a
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demo. They talked for a long time but what they talked about... well, that dear
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reader, he won't even tell me.
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- HARRIE of HOTLINE is tired of doing all the importing from the states, so
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SLEDGEHAMMER decided to give it a try.
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- DELIRIOUS, the French sister magazine of your "ILLEGAL" is becoming really
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good, I got a review copy of it (Thanx Jayce) and enjoyed it tremendously, a
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pity though that it is French completely, but "ILLEGAL" used to be 100% in
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German, so maybe they will go international, too?!
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- Whatever happened to the good old entertaining demo, nowadays most (99%) of
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them are just technical bits of code, everybody seems eager to show how good
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they handle rasters, but they loose sight of the entertainment and originality,
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that's the reason that sometimes we feature in our DEMO CHARTS demos, which are
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not super-coded and that we leave technical ones out, so coders get your act
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all together now!
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- SCN AUSTRIA have now 11 members and in future perhaps more, so there are
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still some mamoth groups around.
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- TRIANGLE, who made some impressive demos on the 64 are planning to upgrade to
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AMIGA, yep they're planning to terrorize the 16-Bit division but without
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dropping the 64, good lucks, guys!
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- This month seems to be the beginning of a dangerous time for the pedestrians
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coz both COZMIX and BUBULAND of respectively TRIANGLE and CFR are getting their
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driver's license, rumour has it that they practised on TEST DRIVE, but they
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won't be driving Ferraris, they don't like the colour, you see?
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- DSH and DSI left FAC to form a new group with some other freaks, ROCKY
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however will still continue, his comment was that he didn't know why DSH left
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but he kicked DSI out.
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- IKARI are getting two new members in, who will be probably taking over the
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modem-trading from PAL, the new kidz on the block are known as MARUADER and RE-
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ANIMATOR.
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- ILLEGAL TRADERS BELGIUM (no connection with the magazine) have joined BELGIAN
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ART, so good luck to them...
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Well, the gossip tour is over again, dear scumbags, so last but really not
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least, a big thank you for supplying me with fresh and dirty gossip: TRIAD,
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TRIANGLE, THE THE, IKARI + FAC!
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Watch this space... and send me your gossip!
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MAD ALL / CFR
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WHERE HAVE THE REAL CRACKERS GONE?
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ARE WE CRACKING TOO FAST?
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It seems these days that the cracking balance is level, the quantity has
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improved but the quality took a nosedive! There seems to be an attitude, with
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most groups who shall remain nameless, to crack something really fast just to
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send it to the States. In the good old days people really cared about how cool,
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short and bugfree the cracks were, but now everyone is trying to crack, if we
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still can call it cracking, just to write in their intro how cool and fast they
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really are. What they don't seem to realise is that most of us just keep the
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best version and not the one they got first. Sure they keep the version they
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got first a few days but immediately scratch it when they get a shorter or full
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working version, maybe it would be better if all groups agree only to put out
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full-working versions, because many games which are played until say level 10
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crash, because the cracker didn't bother to see if it worked. Comments on this
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topic are of course always welcomed, be it positive or negative, the best,
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interesting or original letters will get printed in the next "ILLEGAL", so
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watch this space...
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WRITTEN BY MAD ALL / CFR
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ISN'T HE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT??? I THINK SO!
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JEFF SMART / TRIAD
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THE RETURN OF THE PHONE FREAKING ONES
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Yep, good news, guys! Conference are coming up again. Even for all German guys,
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who live under the control of the best protected telephone system with its
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leader "BLACK SHILLING", conferences become again a daily pleasure, because our
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American allies now also own codes for us to be called. And now we get our old
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habits back, to put the telephone right beside the bed, to say: "Yes, put me on
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the conference line" when the operator asks you how you are and to get all
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important telephone numbers back in your minds to have them when you need them.
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Isn't that great? Unfortunately Chief Black Shilling didn't agree to that and
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try to break all conferences down, and sometimes he wins his game and for all
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conference members is GAME OVER, YOU HAVEN'T REACHED THE TOP TEN, TRY HARDER TO
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ENTER THE HALL OF FAME. O.K., but the allies will come one day and beat the
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whole system, I'm sure, be there, don't sleep, get on the phone after the first
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ringing, hold on, goodbye...
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Jeff Smart
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| IKARI - FOR THE BEST, TRADE WITH THE BEST |
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IKARI FIGHT THE CRITICS...
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Hello, good evening and welcome. My name is Nik of IKARI and I am here to clear
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up the mess that certain lamers have left by making all sorts of ridiculous
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accusations that many people have been foolish enough to believe.
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The main accusation is that we 'FREEZE-MACHINE' EVERY SINGLE ONE of our cracks.
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This appeared in the last edition of this magazine and after reading this I
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contacted JEFF SMART and asked him what was going on as the comment had
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appeared in his column. After a long letter from him it was all sorted out and
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it appeared that a certain group namely the 'Beastie Boys' had told him that we
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were freezing all our cracks. This is a complete lie and why they said this we
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still do not know. So, I am about to come clean about all this freezing
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nonsence....
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IKARI have only ever released 2 frozen games and this is why:-
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DRUID 2: I was given this weeks before release at the PCW show as a file on a
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disk. This file was a frozen file that had been card-crunched. After several
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attempts I could do nothing with the file and so had no option but to give it
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out as it was given to me. I only did this because the game was so new.
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RISK: This game was obtained as a file on a disk by our member Just Ice. We
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managed to get this on the day of release and at this time we one of the few
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groups modem trading with the USA, JUST ICE tried to crack this quickly as it
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was not yet released in the USA. However, we did not have any time to spare in
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case another group gave it to the USA, so unfortunately we were forced to give
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it out as it was given to us.
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SO, hopefully you will realise that what the BEASTIE BOYS said was a lie and we
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guarantee to you that there is not a single other game that we have released
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frozen.
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Some people have also said that the Jetboys and Ramparts was frozen. THESE ARE
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NOT FROZEN.... The sprites that you see on the screen after the intro are the
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sprites from the scroller in the intro..
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ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE COULD SEE THIS...........
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So, that is the truth. If you don't believe it we don't give a shit as it means
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that you must be believing a LIE....
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Many groups have released frozen games once or twice and I'm sure that they
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also have very good reasons for doing so, for example
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HOTLINE -- PSYCHO SOLDIER
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DCU -- BUBBLE BOBBLE
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and wait for it, the people that started this whole thing..
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THE BEASTIE BOYS -- DRILLER
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so what happened then BEASTIE BOYS????
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AND NOW FOR SOME INSIDE INFORMATION:-
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In the cracking charts for DECEMBER, we in IKARI were voted to be number ONE...
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HOWEVER, the BEASTIE BOYS did not like this and complained to JEFF SMART and
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after much convincing and fone calls he finally gave in and put THE BEASTIE
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BOYS back at number ONE. SO GUYS, we were number one last month OK??????? why
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BEASTIE BOYS why???? what on earth have you got against us? we have never said
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anything against you but you've started all this....
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So, let this be the end of it and nothing more should be said on the subject
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ok?????
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NIK OF IKARI
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THE AMERICAN CRACKER SCENE
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GREETINGS ALL!!!
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This is Dave (THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS) with my first article for
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the "ILLEGAL". I will try to keep you all informed about the American cracker
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scene. Right now, things are slow as hell cause not many cracks are being and
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good codes are hard to find! SOHO (Suppliers Of Hot Originals) has merged with
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ESI. THE ALLIANCE (not teleconferencing but the group) also lost some of its
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members to EAGLESOFT INC.. ESI is getting to be a very, very large group!
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The weather here sucks! I can't wait till summer and all of those HOT women at
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the beach! Ohhhhh... I had better stop before I get too excited!
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Well, I don't know if you want to hear about anything else about the UNITED
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STATES OF AMERICA, such as hot songs, movies, etc.. If you do, then tell old
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Jeff Smart! But for now, I won't bore you. Later on
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DAVE (THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS)
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BIG BIRTHDAY ACTION!
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Hey, man! Are you tired of all these boring competitions of who's the best of
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1987? Then you're right here, cos we have a brandnew idea! What do you think,
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when you get a phonecall on your birthday and someone's singing:
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"Happy birthday to you,
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happy birthday to you,
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happy birthday dear XXXXXX,
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happy birthday to you!" ???
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Wouldn't that be great? The only thing you have to do is to write your birth
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date and your telephone number down on a simple postcard and send it to me,
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Jeff Smart, PLK 123144 C, 4250 BOTTROP, WEST GERMANY and then I promise to call
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you up on your birthday and give you a song, do you agree??? And then I'll
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publish your birth date (not yer telephone number, what do you think of me?) in
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the "ILLEGAL" so that one gets a full library of famous cracker's birthdates!
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So perhaps you'll already see in the next issue: "This month birthday kids:..."
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and in addition to the publication you will get a phone call (perhaps you don't
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want hear me singing for you - then I say: "all the best - go on or something
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like that") on your day. So get up from your computer chair and give me your
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date and fone number and then "Happy birthday, mon!"
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JS / TRIAD!
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BRIAN'S KNOCKOUT...
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The continuation of last month's article "ein bekotztes Hemd am Wochenende"
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starring:
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MICHAEL as BRIAN / TFD
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CHRIS as MR.ZEROPAGE / RSI
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MARKUS as MWS / RADWAR and
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JEFFIE as JEFF SMART / TRIAD
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Last month, Brian amd me were invited by Markus from Radwar to stay for a
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weekend at his house together with MZP who also came up. After visiting the
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Venlo Copyparty on Saturday morning we, foursome, went to the local
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discotheque, in which the RADWAR Party took place. We ordered some beer and
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Brian said: "I can bear a lot, I always go drinking at home together with
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friends, I'm used to drink a lot." But in fact, Brian isn't able to to endure
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more than five glasses of beer, whereas MARKUS, CHRIS and me are the real heavy
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alcoholics... hicks... CHRIS and me gave BRIAN a lot work to be done, that
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means, we bought him 9 glasses of beer (German "ALTBIER") and 2 glasses of JIM
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BEAN Whiskey, after having drunken all this stuff BRIAN went finally down... We
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left the discotheque... and guess what?! We walked 10 minutes to the
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discotheque and we needed about 1 hour to return to Markus' home. Brian felt
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down, once, twice, he was sooo pissed, you can't imagine! He embraced all lamp-
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posts with the words: "Susan, oh, Susan, wot R youhoo doin' 'ere?" and he gave
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the lamp-post a smacking kiss. We three kept on singing and Brian dropped his
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trousers, on the middle of the road of course and pissed on it... then he
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wanted to phone his girl-friend out of a telephone box. He went into the
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nearest box, dialed a number and said: "Wot R youhoo doin' 'ere in myhiah line,
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eh?" and then he wanted to leave the box but the didn't find the exit. Finally
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he managed to leave the box and came 30 metres behind us. We rang the bell at a
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house and ran away, just in the moment when Brian was in front of the door the
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opened and an old grandma coming out and shouting: "Who dared to ring my bell!"
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And Brian: "Me not, I am too full to ring any bell mam. Good night, darling!".
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We finally reached Markus' home, dropped our clothes and began to relax with
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playing some games and so on... Brian was asleep, but suddenly he looked up and
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said: "Oops, I better visit the toilet!" He stood up and went to the toilet.
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Then we heard a noise: BRURG. BLURK. URK. ORK. We opened carefully the door to
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the bathroom and saw BRIAN sitting on his knees if front of the toilet and he
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vomitted. Poor Brian forgot to put up the toiletdresser and we put Brian into
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the bathtub, where he could vomit so many as he liked to. We were tired to
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death and so we didn't notice that Brian went into the kitchen and spread out
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his vomitted beer. Bad discovery the other day. Brian woke up with a heavy
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headache and wasn't able to remember anything. The whole day Brian didn't say
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any word, at home he told his parents that he had upset his stomach with bad
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fish and played three days the sick boy. Ask him about the 19th of December
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when you meet him!
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JS/TRIAD
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DISK COVER OF THE MONTH...
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Delivered to me by Strider / Fairlight! Thanx Toni! Laid 'her?
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| FAIRLIGHT |
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| (Picture of a disk set to fire by the |
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| breath of a dragon saying "HOT STUFF!" |
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| and an eskimo warming his frozen |
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| hands, saying "FOR COOL GUYZ!") |
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| ALAIN 87 |
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+-----------------------------------------+
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HA! Isn't that simply great? No, not the mag, sucker, the thing above here. Oh,
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man, I mean it was drawn by ALAIN '87 for FAIRLIGHT (can't you read by yer own
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on the cover?) Anyway, I really liked it so much that I wanted to publish it. I
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hope you don't mind, Toni!
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So, all of you, if you have a disk envelope similar to this here or even better
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then don't waste your time - make a move and send it to me at once, 'cos I like
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funny and exciting disk covers and perhaps we make a series out of it, if you
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agree and help me out with your disk covers to become the "DISK COVER OF THE
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MONTH" as a reward you'll get a free copy of your "ILLEGAL"!
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JS / TRIAD!
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CRACKER OF THE MONTH
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Who was the major group in January 1988? Still TRIAD? Maybe BEASTIES again or
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perhaps IKARI? Or how or what?
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1. TRIAD (1) 7.46 pts
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2. FUSION (9) 7.33
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3. IKARI (3) 7.14
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4. HOTLINE (6) 5.73
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5. FAIRLIGHT (4) 5.14
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6. BEASTIE BOYS (2) 4.8
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7. EAGLESOFT INC. (-) 4.27
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8. S.A.P. (-) 4.3
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9. T.D.F. (10) 4.07
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10. T.W.G. (5) 4.06
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Status: points stay the same...
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DEMO CHARTS!
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This month TOP FIVE EXCITING DEMOS
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1. SNOWBALL SUNDAY by
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ASH & DAVE
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2. OUT MANOUVERED by
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JCS
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3. STARPIC by
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IAN & MIC / TRIAD
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4. WIZE MIXES by
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ZENTREX 2005
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5. VIETNAM by
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NOBODY / SHIELD
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Heya, Compunet and other artist! Do YOU wanna c yer demo in the "ILLEGAL" DEMO
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CHARTS? Then pleez send yer creation to us, mon, and we'll give you a special
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reward!
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SOFTWARE-STARS
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1. PLATOON (-)
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2. TETRIS (-)
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3. COMBAT SCHOOL (1)
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4. BASKET MASTER (-)
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5. BMX KIDS (-)
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6. FLYING SHARK (2)
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7. T.R.A.Z. (-)
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8. SKATE OR DIE! (3)
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9. OCTAPOLIS (-)
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10. JINXTER (-)
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11. THE TRAIN (-)
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12. INT. KARATE + (6)
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13. RASTAN (-)
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14. BANGKOK KNIGHTS (5)
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15. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE (4)
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16. COSMIC CAUSEWAY (14)
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17. HAT-TRICK (-)
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18. MINIGOLF (-)
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19. GREAT GIANA SISTERS (-)
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20. R.I.S.K. (15)
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21. KNIGHT GAMES II (-)
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22. QUEDEX (16)
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23. PIRATES! (25)
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24. CARD SHARKS (-)
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25. SIDEWALK (7)
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26. TO BE ON TOP (-)
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27. NEBULUS (19)
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28. TEST DRIVE (28)
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29. HUNTER'S MOON (9)
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30. FIRETRAP (23)
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THOUSANDS OF THANX FOR VOTING:
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NIK / IKARI, SLEDGE / HTL, MAD ALL / CFR, ACU / SAP, CF / BEASTIE BOYS, MZP /
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RSI, MWS / RADWAR, SSD / TSK, PLEASURE, FALCONS and last but not lease MR.PINGE
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/ TRIAD!
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+ IMPRESSUM +
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+-------------------------------+
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| > ILLEGAL tm 1988 |
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| > 3. Jahrgang / 3rd year |
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| > Nr. 25 (!) |
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| > (c) 88 by TRIAD |
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| > AUFLAGE / CIRCULATION: |
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| ca. 400 Kopien / Copies |
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| > unverbindl. |
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| Preis: 1.60 DM! |
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| > Erscheinungs datum / |
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| date of release: |
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| 8. Feb. 88! |
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+-------------------------------+
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| > CHEFREDAKTEUR / EDITOR: |
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| JEFF SMART / TRIAD |
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| > REDAKTION / "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
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| MAD ALL - COMMANDOFRONTIER |
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| MIND SLAYER - AWESOME GUYS |
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| SWYX - TRIANGLE 3532 |
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| MR.PINGE - TRIAD |
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| > RED. MITARBEIT / |
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| SUB-EDITORS: |
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| Germany : RADWAR |
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| Belgium : CFR |
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| Denmark : TRIANGLE 3532 |
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| Sweden : FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD |
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| Holland : HOTLINE |
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| France : DCU 1789 |
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| U.S.A. : THE AWESOME GUYS |
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| England : IKARI |
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| YOHO! We have a small jubilee,|
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| you are holding the 25th |
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| issue of the "ILLEGAL" in |
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| your hands! A big thanx to |
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| all of you, who took part in |
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| making your mag more and more |
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| known. |
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| Well, even though it's not |
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| for if the FCS party will |
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| take place on the 5th of |
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| March 1988 in Bonn, the next |
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| "ILLEGAL" will appear on this |
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| day. Make a trip to your |
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| local dealer to get it! |
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| Anyway, best wishes from the |
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| whole "ILLEGAL"-team to all |
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| of you... |
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| TRIANGLE |
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| 5138 HEINSBERG |
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| WEST GERMANY |
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| JS / TRIAD |
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| PLK 123144 C |
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| 4250 BOTTROP |
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| WEST GERMANY |
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| Then don't forget 2 DM or a |
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| S.A.E. and send it to: |
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| "ILLEGAL SUBSCRIBEMENTS" |
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| PLK 012314 B |
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| 4600 BOCHUM 6 |
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| WEST GERMANY |
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