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This is ILLEGAL #26, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad. The German
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parts (in all 4 articles) are left out since I can't read, nor translate,
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German.
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THE TRIAD MAGAZINE
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BUT WHO CARES?
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The March issue, featurin':
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HOT NEWS! in
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"Mad All's Mailbox and
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"News form the inner section"
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ARCADE ACTION The Arcade Games Reviews,
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this month: "1942" and
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old "RASTAN".
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PHONE FREAKIN' Being online:
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Starting a conference
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from Europe!?
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INTERVIEW An Interview with
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a MAN and a MACHINE!?
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WHO'S HOT, WHO'S NOT, WHO'S NASTY and WHO'S NICE???
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MEETING REPORTS from Venlo and
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Bielefeld / SHiELD
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THE STORY OF... Read an Utopian novel that
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SYSTEM 4 involves you, you and you!
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SOON COMING... Interestin' warez
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are announced, mon!
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AND MANY MORE... Don't forget
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THE CHARTS about
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Demos, Games
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and Crackers!
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YO! Are you always wondering where all these big pirates live? We hope we could
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help you with... "The European Crackers Map!"
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Jeff Smart
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| THE EUROPEAN CRACKERS MAP, Anno 1988 |
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| (Picture showing a european map) |
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| COUNTRY LOCATION GROUP |
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| NORWAY S TDF |
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| SWEDEN NE TRIAD |
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| S FAIRLIGHT |
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| DENMARK N DOM |
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| TRIANGLE |
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| E DG |
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| S TPI |
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| UNITED KINGDOM W SCG |
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| E FUSION |
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| SE SIGMA |
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| IKARI |
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| BENELUX NE HOTLINE |
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| E ORION |
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| S FAC |
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| NW CFR |
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| FRANCE DCU |
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| NE C64CG |
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| GERMANY N J.S. |
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| RWE |
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| TWG |
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| W SHARKS |
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| ACE |
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| SAP |
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| SE BEASTIE BOYS |
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| SWITZERLAND NE SCA |
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| AUSTRIA W TSK |
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| NE TAU |
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| ITALY N NICS |
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| F4CG |
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| DUN BY JEFFIE |
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| (The map also marks out "The Pope" at Rome, |
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| "Mafioso" in southern italy, and "El Torro |
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| Cracking Service" in Spain. These are |
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| however jokes. Eastern europe is labeled |
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| with three words: "COMMUNIST IN SIGHT".) |
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FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY
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ACTIVISION have just snapped up the right to the MEGA GAME 'AFTERBURNER', but
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before you start cheering think again, remember, 'OUT RUN', remember the
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excitement you got when you first saw it in your local arcade? And then after
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months of false rumours you finally got it... it was crap, a cracking group
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even removed the bugs in order for it to run perfect (TRIAD). How many of you
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played OUT RUN after the first week or how many finished the game? Not a lot,
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I'm sure, well dear reader in order US GOLD to make the conversion they had to
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scrap three unnamed but original games coz they needed all the cash possible to
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buy the license.
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AFTERBURNER will be even worse, the game in the arcade feature 5000 K more than
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OUT RUN and the excitement comes from the hydraulics and the mega fast grafix,
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not even the Amiga is capable of handling on tenth of the speed, let alone the
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poor 64. Before you start telling me that the more games come out the better,
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let me tell you that for every major license deal TEN other qualitively high
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and original games can be made.
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I am interested in YOUR view, what do you think about this, am I right or am I
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just blowing out hot air, if you have my number then give me a call, otherwise
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write to me or to Jeff Smart and maybe we'll print the reactions in a debate in
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a future issue...
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MAD ALL / CFR
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THE NEXT COPYPARTIES
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?too many conferences at the moment error in March / April 1988.
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March, the 19th: VENLO, HOLLAND. HOTLINE, TWG, ORION, RWE...
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March, the 19th: GROSS-GERAU, GERMANY. 'KONRADS PARTY', A.C.E.???
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March, the 26th: Bonn, Germany. WOD's 'ANTI LOSER PARTY', maybe yes, maybe no,
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I dunno!
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April, the 5th - 8th: ALVESTA, SWEDEN from THE SILENTS of A.C.E., hum, too far
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away from here, but who knows?
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April, the 16th: AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN: VENLO, HOLLAND with IKARI, FLT,
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HTL, RWE, TWG, ORION, IAN&MIC / TRIAD... THIS GONNA BE IT!
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April, the 23rd: BELGIAN ART! CFR, BS1, WOW, C64CG, SHIELD... for information
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write to: B-ART, PATRONAGIESTR.25, 9950 WAARSCHOOT, BELGIUM.
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That's it... make yer choice... and cum!
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Jeff Smart
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COLLECT USED STAMPS
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Hey, you surely read the interview with IAN OF FUSION and you surely read about
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the fortune of his son and YOU SURELY WANT TO HELP. Nothing is easier, IAN
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sells lots of USED stamps to the charity and spends the money for research
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purposes against the brain sickness. SO, please, before you start throwing away
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all your used stamps in the dustbin, keep 'em and send 'em either to me or
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directly to:
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IAN / FUSION
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4 BIRCHWOOD AVE
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GROVE HILL
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MBRO, CLEVELAND
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TS4 IXB
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ENGLAND
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C 64 vs AMIGA!?
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STAY ON 64
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YO DUDES! Sorry for not writing an article in the last issue, but you didn't
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notice I presume? Well I'm gonna write about something else than the Danish
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Cracker scene, but the computer which all of us love very much, namely the
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COMMODORE 64! Since the AMIGA was published, a lot of groups moved to the 16-
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bit'er and left the good old 8-bit'er! I think it's alright, that you guys buy
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an Amiga, but why in the hell leave the 64 alone? I have had my 64 for more
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than 4 years now and of course I'd like to have 4096 colours, 4 stereo voices
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and 512 K, but what is the fun in making demos on such a computer? Everybody
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can do something which looks incredible! On the 64 you have to be cool to do
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great demos and to crack the hard games! In a period, I thought about buying an
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Amiga, but I dropped that idea, coz I knew, that the only way I would use it
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would have been playing stupid games and honestly I hate playing games! My
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career as a gamefreak stopped two years ago, but I still enjoy cracking,
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training and testing the games! Those of you, who thought about buying an AMIGA
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and selling the 64, reconsider! If everybody leaves the 64, the software houses
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will stop producing games and then we've got nothing left to crack... And if
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there are no games, nobody will trade and if we don't trade, then why make
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demos??? I think that all of you see your C 64 as a very good friend, right?
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WOULD YOU SELL A GOOD FRIEND? Nope! Therefore, stay on 64! You're very welcome
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to write to me to argue for or against leaving the 64, my adress is on the last
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page! Before ending this I'll greet a few people:
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TRIAD (IXION, JEFF SMART, HITEC, 3D)
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BFD-CREW (THE BRIGHT LION)
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HEPTAGON (GALACTICUS)
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TRIUMPH (ICON)
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and the rest of TRIANGLE
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SWYX OF TRIANGLE
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NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION!
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Yep, here I am back again with some curious notes from all yer friends and
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enemies, so, C'MON!, we start...
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* WHY can't children behave like normal children and keep playing on the
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computer? We ask the dead rest of F.C.S. it seems as if TSM and FANTASY's girl
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Gabi (the stupid gal at the FCS-party) mad things together, TSM made her to
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persuade poor FANTASY to sell his computer and after that she returned into the
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waiting arms of TSM who played F.C.S.'s big boss now. FANTASY's revenge: He
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kicked TSM out and F.C.S. was dead, AXIOS didn't work and so it's over. It
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sounds like an episode of DALLAS, eh?
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* MR.TED PATTERSON, better know as PIR-TED from US group NEPA got in contact
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with the cops and gave 'em a hint of a guy named MITCH, who's the leadin' one
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of EAGLESOFT INC. Rumours spread that MITCH couldn't crack anymore because of
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the watching cops, but WINTER GAMES 2 came from E.S.I. again, but the war isn't
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finished yet. Anyway, if there's no E.S.I. in the USA who will crack all the
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American games?
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* THE WANDERER GROUP cleaned their wndering boots. They kicked LUKULLUS,
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TRASHIAN and last AND least VIP out (GOOD JOB!) and J'UP had problems with the
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police, so that T.W.G. is a little bit reduced, but that doesn't say anything
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about their power as you see in the monthly cracker charts.
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* THE SHARKS kicked SISTERS OF MERCY out because of cracking old games.
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* ELECTRO, EX-BEASTIE BOYS, formed his own group ROM and joined PENTACLE who
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used to be lead by DUECO.
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* PLEASURE got also now a member in CANADA, he's named SUDDEN DEATH. In
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addition to him the active rest of old-star G.S.S. joined PLEASURE, too.
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* THE SILENTS joined A.C.E., left A.C.E. and fianlly joined it.
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* MR.CURSOR, one of GERMANY's best programmers, is both a member of SHARKS and
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of THE WANDERER GROUP at the same time. Yo, I hear a war crawling along them,
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eh?
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* THE POLICE seems to be a new enemy in the inner section, as people like
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TRIANGLE, AMIGO, SYNTAX 2001, WMS, WOD amd even the German TRIAD hq got more or
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less in contact with the cops. Word spread that SYNTAX 2001 gave about 400
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adresses of well known guys out to the police, that's bad. But normally you
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don't have to be afraid if you are under 18 years old, that's good. But,
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anyway, you have to be veeeeeeery careful, that's bad. Maybe they're coming
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tomorrow to your crackin' center?!?!?!
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- Hey, I didn't want to scare you, but safety is much better, eh? This waz all
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4 thiz issue, more is yet 2 come 4 yer enjoyment. It leaves you with the
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best...
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Jeff Smart / TRIAD
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HEY, ALL YANKS,
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CALL THE EXCITING
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THE T R I A D RANKINGS ONTHA 5-3 / '88
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People call it: 'the only rankings that are of interest', so WHY NOT PRINTING
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IT HERE? Here are the of-fish-ial TRIAD ratings from March the 5th: FUZION (64
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4 sale?), IKARI (no connection with the game?), FAIRLIGHT (why not flying to
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Moscow, Toni?), NETWORK, EAGLESOFT INC (Go for it!), COLDLINE - eh - HOTLAME -
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eh - HOTLINE, ONION, TRIANGLE (be careful!), CFR (Maiden Fans?), WOD, TWG (und
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noch eine Einheit), ZENITH, RWE (good luck!), NFL, SEPP (AQ), TDF (R.I.P.), TPI
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(not the fish), PLEASURE (building a bridge to the cpu), BEASTIE BOYZ, A.C.E.
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(O-cat), THE SORCERER, C16CG, 1988 A.D, LASER, TLG, GUTEN TAG (dave!),
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BADSQUAD, JEWELS, DCU (cumming over), UPFRONT, TRIUMPH, SCOOP, FAC and
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TRISTAR... STATUS: Up and Downs are caused by merging the two rankinx, from
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IXION and from JEFF, but nevertheless. Manipulating via introtexts. Hey lamer,
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increase the power of yer brain or is it 2 much 4 u?
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J.S./IXION
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TRIAD'S FUTURE???????
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O.K., JANITOR quitted for a while and of course we have to respect his
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decision, eventhough we are all feeling very sad, but that won't mean that
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TRIAD's gonna die. TRIAD will never die! And wot about the new cracks? They
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weren't bad, were they? LUCIFER is the new man at the laser guns, rather an old
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one than a new, eh?
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You see, no problems that could not be mastered, eventhough JANITOR's flying
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off pains like hell, but he will be back in some lightyears, when the real
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stuff returns.....WE HOPE! Good bye and don't die.
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WOSSUP???
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I hear the Eastern holidays cumming and I also hear WINTER GAMES 2 arriving -
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it takes about 4 disk sides, and the grafix are fantastic. Well, only a few
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good games arrived in the last month, but we all hope for an inproving of these
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times. Well, I hope the copyparties will become less, but better. Everybody is
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making a copyparty. We are having one, too, but more about that in the next
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issue.
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Well, you see, I managed it to put more and more English into your "ILLEGAL",
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even though I know my English is not perfect, but there are others that are
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worse than me, you know. Anyway, I hope you liked this issue and if you have
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any comment please let us know (adresses on the last page).
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Anyway, my personal greetings are going to: IAN of FUSION (thanx for all the
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mega fast sendinx, I hope you could need the stamp I sent 2 U), STRIDER of
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FAIRLIGHT (I hope 2 C U next month in Venlo, Toni, then we'll kill some
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commies, eh?), NIK / JUST ICE of IKARI (think all probs are removed now, we'll
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see in Venlo), SLEDGIE of HOTLINE (How is it going, my buddyguard), RUB / SPC
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from THE WONDERERS (care about yer telephone bill, Markus), CF / ACCEPT of
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BEASTIE BOYS (servus Rob), the VIKING from DOMINATORS (yo! Morten), AQ from
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SEPP, SEPP sei kein DEPP, die Zukunft ist der AlpenS AP, PLEASURE (you know
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SNOW-NY?), MWS from RADWAR SURPRISES / TLC (you took the name now, Markus?),
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MAD ALL from COMMANDOFRONTIER (return to Venlo, Allan!), JAYCE from DCU (try 2
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take the train), TMS from THE AWESOME GUYS (R U asleep, Dave?), Dave from RAD,
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John from THE SURVIVORS, Jerry from THE INNER CIRCLE (don't put in such a
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fuckin' line again), SWYX of TRIANGLE 3532 (again mentioning you so late,
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kaare, fuck the cops in their asses), TENZET of TRIANGLE for the banner, TONI /
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FLT again for sending me the small piccies and ALLAIN / FLT for drawing 'em
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(hope we meet in Venlo, dude), G*P, TSK, ORION (Mr.Decibel + DSH), ESG (!) and
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all the others I forgot to greet here. Special super gum gums to: IXION (Hip,
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Hop, A Gorbatschow), MR.PINGE (bad luck with the persons in the lame bus, eh?),
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JANITOR (write an episode for DALLAS as you wrote the soap opera in TIGER HELL
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- that'll be a success), IAN & MIC (cumming over), T.K. (ach, Dingens...) and
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old nervous, colour choosing HI-TEC (decorate your walls with Roche') all from
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never dieing TRIAD.
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Yours faithfully, Jeff Smart
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THE UNDERGROUND IS CELEBRATING... OR WHAT?
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Maybe you know that GERMAN official computer magazine "AKTUELLER SOFTWARE
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MARKET", short A.S.M. (translation: UP TO DATE SOFTWARE MARKET). Maybe you know
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RADWAR, that official GERMAN computer group and their party in Janyary '88. A
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writer from the A.S.M. visited the Radwar Party and now wrote about it in their
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magazine. You surely have seen her, she was fat, thick glasses on her nose and
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she was asking everybody questions. And then the article: Famous groups showed
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up like 'POWERRUN' (who's that?), 'TIGER CRACKING ASSOCIATION' and many more.
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And she interviewed them and made photos with a black line over the guys' eyes
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(like criminal elements). Bad deal, eh? It's something like as if COMPUTER AND
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VIDEO GAMES makes an article about the English cracking scene and then writes:
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'Big groups like FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS or UNEMPLOYMENT CRACKING SERVICE were
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there', you see, they had no chance to reach the big guys, 'cos who want to
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give an interview in such a fuckin' mag, eh? Mormally this magazine writes
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about crackers as criminals or as asocial elements and now, on a crackers'
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party, they are kind and frankly to us, those who are writing this shit... so
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how do you react? Give 'em an interview? Lick their asses to make a photo of
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you? Get on your knees that they publish your sticker? NO! You did it right!
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J.S.
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ADVERTISING
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On the following pages you see an amount of advertising, eh? If you have
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anything important to tell the rest of the world or if you want to buy or sell
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something, then please write to us, you don't have to pay money for it (what
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are we?), just send your text or picture (not too large) to:
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ADs
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PLK 123144 C
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4250 BOTTROP
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WEST GERMANY
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And we'll see what's going on in the cracking 'underground', so, c'mon, study
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the ads, maybe you find some interesting things. And maybe you see your in the
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next month on the same place! Hey Lamers, we don't publish things like:
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'CONTACT THE WORLDRULING OGS CREW', therefore you can send your ad to the
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A.S.M. or HAPPY or C+VG or ZZAP, but not to US, you know!?
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Jeffie
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ARCADE ACTION
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Frustrating arcade machines
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"1942"
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This month we're reviewing two on the 64 converted games. "1942", the most
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successful SHOOT 'EM UP arcade game, makes you to a pilot of an air fighter in
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the 2nd World War. You have to go through 34 different levels featuring great
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and fast graphics, you can move in all 8 directions to avoid damage and
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shooting all enemy airplanes down. The motivation grows with every level
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because you see your percentage of shooting down your enemies and a special
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rank after mastering every level. Anyway the conversion on the 64 wasn't bad
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either, of course the graphics aren't as high as on the machine, but the game
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doesn't loose its great playability.
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score for arcade machine: 92 / 100
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score for 64 conversion: 89 / 100
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RASTAN
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I must admit that I haven't played the game on the arcade machine until I got
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the 64 version. And what a difference: the graphics on the machine are really
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looking fabulous! The sound is much better, even though one can recognize
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Galway's 64 tune on the arcade in some bits. But the graphics is thousand times
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better, though it's not bad on the 64. The game is really a bit harder, you
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have two different buttons, one for jumping or taking extra weapons and one for
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fighting, whereas on the 64 you have only one, which is much easier to play, I
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think. Of course, the animation of the sprites and the sprites themselves are
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much better, that is why an arcade machine is sumthin' special, eh? The aim of
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the game, to get through 12 different levels, fighting all enemies, collecting
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extra weapons, collecting special items, jumping over waterfalls and in the
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last screen fighting against a huge giant dragon. Anyway, the arcade version
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features lots of brilliant graphics and some various sounds as the 64 version
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does, but of course less good, but it's not badly converted. They brought
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exactly the same labyrinths on the home computer. So you can train hours and
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hours at home and then show the nice girls at the arcade machines who's the
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boss, eh? Even though we know a lot of games like this, it's not boring after
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hours of playing, that's why...
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Score for the arcade machine: 90 / 100
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Score for the 64 version: 81 / 100
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You see, both ELITE (1942) and OCEAN (RASTAN) did quite a good job in
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converting the games, so it brings really fun to save the money and play the
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computer version without loosing any playability or fascination
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Jeff Smart
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THE STATE OF BEING A CRACKER
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People think you are a murderer, robber or another criminal element, but what
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are you really? You copy games for all those poor guys whho just can't afford
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to buy fuckin' expensive original games, eh? And you crack to copy the games.
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That's all, but after years of cracking, the police rises up and its power and
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catches some well-known guys. You are afraid, but you don't have to be. A good
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trick is to remove all disks, but always put them in a possible range, because
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you know that after 5.00 p.m. the cops' work is ended and after that you don't
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have to be afraid of them anymore, 'cause I don't know a single case in which
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the cops came after 5.00 p.m. Anyway, the main reason they can sentence you for
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is to sell cracked games, so better be a good buddy, man. You don't have to be
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afraid on the weekend, either, which policeman will work in the weekend, you
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see. But you are an asslicking pig if you give out all your adresses of good
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friends in case of being catched to get away being punished but they don't
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care, they punish you if you give adresses out or not, so burn down your
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notebook and stay cool! No problemo...
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Jeff Smart
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CONFERENCES FROM EUROPE
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Hey, what was that? In the middle of the night, in a cold winter night, my
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phone rang. I was a little bit angry, which suckin' lamer is calling me in the
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night at 2 o'clock??? I took up the phone and said:
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"Yep, Wossup?"
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"Hi, here's Toni from Fairlight. Sorry for calling you up so late, but I
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started a conference. You want to be added?"
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"Wot?"
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"You want to be added to my conference?"
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"Eh, wait, wait, wait... YOU started a conference?"
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"Right."
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"You are still living in Sweden?"
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"Right."
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"And you started a conference?"
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"Right."
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I just couldn't believe it, he put me on the conference line and it was the
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best conference I ever had (1000 thax, Toni). Online were: Toni/FAIRLIGHT,
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Willi/TLC, Dirk/RSI, Heiko/TRIAD, Jeff/TRIAD, Allain/FAIRLIGHT, Christian/BS1
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and APRIL, and American girl who was called by Toni. We cracked jokes about
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communists and talked up to 5 o'clock in the morning. It was fucking great and
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Toni promised to repeat it. After sleeping one hour, I still couldn't believe
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it. I hope for more.
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Jeff Smart
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WHO'S HOT,
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WHO'S NOT?
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WHO'S NASTY
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WHO'S NICE?
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THE MEETING REPORTS
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I wanted to go there, but luckily I had no time. I talk about the SHIELD party
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on the 25th of February 1988 at Bielefeld / Germany. I got three invitations at
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the same day, stunning. Well, I talked to MOC / 7'UP, who told me that were
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only losers except ALPHAFLIGHT, SHIELD and 7'UP, only some lamers from my town
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who tried to get new contacts with making others down, e.g.:
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'In which group are you?'
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'Alphaflight'
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'They have been much better before, man!'
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But they had to FUCK OFF, anyway, I heard it was nothing.
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THE VENLO MEETING, 20th of Feb. 1988: toooooo many lamers, maybe about 400 guys
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filled this time the school where the Venlo meeting takes its place every
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month. I met my old friends: HOTLINE and TWG and others like: ORION, ACE,
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TRISTAR, C64CG, SRG, MADSQUAD, SHARKS, SAP, RADWAR (of course), PLEASURE, CFR
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(without MAD ALL - hope you're feeling better now, Allan), FAC, SCOOP and so
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many more... I got the new DIGITAL NEWS, which is not copyable, but very, very
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good at this time with a preview of VAMPIRE'S EMPIRE, even though the games
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sucks like hell, but who cares? People remembered me knocking DSI out in
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December, but our problems are removed right as now. RON / HTL and me were
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studying the new 'ASM', an official German computer magazine, who wrote an
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article about the RADWAR PARTY. Fuckin' bad article, man. And then we read the
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ads, where lamers wrote: 'Hey, Hotline, contact us!'. Anyway, I had to sign
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some sportbags with my autograph as they heard I come from TRIAD. I was
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wondering that now everybody heard of the VENLO meeting and it's becoming more
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and more overcrowded, it's not longer the good old VENLO meeting, but it's
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still the best party around. SHARKS and TWG almost got in war, because of
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MR.CURSOR making intros for SHARKS and TWG together. RUB / TWG laughed loud
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when a small kid with a FCS-button on his jacket came and asked us: 'wanna
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swop?'. The five hours of VENLO are going too fast to its end. We talked
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outside with TMC / SCOOP and ZEROCAT / ACE and SLEDGEHAMMER / HOTLINE a little
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bit, met old star FLASH (remember FLASH CRACKING GROUP!) and had to say goodbye
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without any special event. Hum, April will be the best meeting if you take the
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names of the guys that'll come, e.g. IKARI, IAN & MIC / TRIAD, FAIRLIGHT (TONI
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- I'll show you some commies...) and many more! Unfortunately too many guys
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know about VENLO and coming to get their stuff on the same day as the big ones
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(I hope you don't mind that I count myself to the big ones, too), but there's
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no better one!
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Jeff Smart
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THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR
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It's just like a normal dream. But anyway it differs, because you wake up and
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it's still there. We write the year 1991 anno domini and the world is divided
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into hundreds of so-called 'systems', you find yourself in 'system four'. They
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brought all software pirates here to 'system four', lamer and worldruling guys
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from all over Europe. All pirates are sub-divided into 10 groups from 'a-group'
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up to 'j-group'. Luckily you belong to one of the four gangs in the 'a-class',
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that's it. You don't have to go to school if you don't like to, you get your
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high amount of money every month, you have your own flat, your own car, your
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own computer, what do you want? Girls? You have to take a drive to 'COCKIS' to
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meet all cute girls, 'COCKIS' belongs to 'system 4', but the girls are no
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pirates. You're 21 years old, in the right mood to start something unusual when
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you've woken up this morning. You think back... Starting as a small lamer in
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1983, joining different gangs, working your ass down and finally joining one of
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the FOUR! You lay back, you smile, you have acheived what you wanted to
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acheive, but, really everything. This day, you feel like taking the bus to get
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to school. Why school at all? Maybe learning a bit, you think. You get your red
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rucksack, your sunglasses and set out for the bus stop. It's snowing heavily,
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you move through the adults' quarter. Finally the bus appeares and you enter.
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Hot girls are looking at you, but nobody expects you to be 'a-class', that's
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it. You have it, what others want to have. You look at all those lamers, HA!
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You have the power to make them being thrown off, as every 'a-class' mate has.
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Yo, you change the bus to get to your old school. It's the first day in the
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week, named 'RUNDAY'. Run, by the way, you have to run to get the 2nd bus, but
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you could make it easily. The bus isn't too overcrowded, good luck, you found a
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seat. You're whistling an old tune from times: 'One of these days when you sit
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by yourself, you realize you can't shout with someone else...' and the SHE
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enters. You noticed her by the first sight, she looked in your direction, OOOH,
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what sweet eyes she has, but, bad luck, she sits down to a friend of hers. You
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are staring at her, you feel a kind of warmth around your heart, you know at
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once, this is love. You have to know more about her! No movement, no colours,
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no word, just silence. TO BE CONTINUED.
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JS
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MAD ALL'S MAILBOX
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Excelsior the dirty mouth is back again with your monthly dose of slimy details
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about the private lives of your favourite pirates.
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- On the day of their copyparty DYNAMIC SYSTEMS decided to join that other
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German group SHARKS. Hum, SHARKS seem to becoming bigger and bigger.
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- JEROEN TEL of SCOOP fame, the musician who had delighted us the last months
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with his impressive work, worked 3 days and 3 nights without any sleep to
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finish some musics for a software company, it is rumoured that the company is
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OCEAN...
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- FAIRLIGHT is now two members smaller, the group has shrunk to these six
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members: STRIDER, GOLLUM, GANDALF, THE BLACK SHADOW, THE HOBBIT and WILFO.
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DRAGONLACE was kicked out for being very inactive and WOODO has become a grafix
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designer for a game-development team... hum, I smell money cumming...
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- HOTLINE have decided not to pass any software anymore at VENLO. They claim
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(and they have a point) that this way every lamer gets the wares as fast as the
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rest of us, let's hope they still remember their friends when they decide what
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few people they will still pass pass things to.
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- COMMANDO FRONTIER (sounds familiar) have a new programmer, his name is
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HITCHER and he's just finished his first demo called 'FACTORY' (Plug Plug).
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- AHA a SCANDAL has come to my ears. COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES, the English
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magazine that always comes down on pirates like a rock, have featured a screen
|
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from a cracked game in their mag. In their PREVIEW Section they featured an
|
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article on an AMIGA game called 'DARK CASTLE' and on the accompanying
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screenshot you can clearly read: "CRACKED BY LORD BLITTER FOR BAMIGA SECTOR
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ONE". If you want to check it on yourself just look at page 133 of the February
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issue. Now I wonder where good old C+VG got this then ???????????
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- The APRIL edition of the VENLO meeting seems to be becoming very important,
|
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already these people announced their visit (apart from the regulars): IKARI,
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STRIDER OF FAIRLIGHT, IAN & MIC FROM TRIAD, and many more.
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- STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT has managed my liftime dream, he can set up conferences
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from Europe, he explained the system and it's not so difficult as everybody
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thinks, does this mean, that in a few months we won't be needing the Americans
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to do our dirty work for us???
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- BELGIAN ART is giving a copy-party on the 23rd of April. All Belgian groups
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will be present like: CFR, BS1 and WOW. And others are coming: SHIELD, C64CG
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and FAIRLIGHT (HOBBIT). For some information write to: B-ART, PATRONAGIESTR.25,
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9950 WAARSCHOOT, BELGIUM.
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Well, this ends another edition of your favourite slanterpage! Biggy thanx to
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RAM / CFR and STRIDER / FLT for supplying me with all dirt. Later:
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MAD-ALL-igator
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INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
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THIS TIME: IAN OF FUSION
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HEY... HEY... HEY... No doubt, FUSION is the definitive NUMBER ONE on the
|
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cracking market. Stunning what I get to know about FUSION... MAN AND MACHINE in
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the following interview, made on an overcrowded conference:
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JS: How old are you, IAN?
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FS: Well, I'm almost 30 (!!!) years old right as now.
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JS: Are already married?
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FS: Yes, I am.
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JS: Do you have children?
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FS: Yes, two.
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JS: I guess your computer was out of order two times. Well, when did you found
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FUSION?
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FS: FUSION was born in NOVEMBER '87 consisting of the ashes of old CLEVELAND
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CRACKING SERVICE after the war with TCS.
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JS: Why taking the name 'FUSION'?
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FS: I read through the horseracing results in the newspaper and I took the name
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of the horse on the last place, that was 'FUSION'.
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JS: How many members does FUSION have at the moment?
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FS: Up to now, FUSION are: MARK, CRAIG, MIC, STEVE and me.
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JS: When did you buy your first computer?
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FS: In 1981 I bought a ZX 81, later on a DRAGON and finally, in March 1984 a
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Commodore 64.
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JS: Which games / music / movies do you like the best?
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FS: Games: Great Giana Sisters
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Music: Think Twice V, Platoon, Neverending Story
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Movies: Son of the South by Walt Disney
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JS: How many swappartners does FUSION have?
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FS: All together we're swapping with about 80 guys.
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JS: Do you have any enemies?
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FS: If former times TCS, but today none. I don't care if anyone's faster or
|
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lamer, what the hell? I try to like everybody.
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JS: Do you have a special reason for cracking?
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FS: There is only a single reason: To give all people who can't afford to buy a
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game the game fast. There are lots of unemployed guys or going to school
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and they don't have the money to buy a game, you see.
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JS: What do you do in your freetime?
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FS: Sleep. But mainly I'm looking for my son, who's very ill, he's got a
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special kind of brain damage and his life expectance is under 7 years. (YOU
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CAN HELP. READ "COLLECT YOUR USED STAMPS")
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JS: Thank you very much.
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Well, next issue, I'm planning to get STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT on the microphone to
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hear him screaming about bloody communists and so on...
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Jeff Smart
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CRACKER OF THE MONTH
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Who was the most successful crackin' group in February? Again and again TRIAD?
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FUSION for the 1st time? Or how or wot?
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1. FUSION (2) 8.79 pts
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2. FAIRLIGHT (5) 6.8
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3. TRIAD (1) 6.5
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4. T.W.G. (10) 5.93
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5. IKARI (3) 4.8
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6. DOMINATORS (-) 4.43
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7. HOTLINE (4) 4.07
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8. EAGLESOFT INC. (7) 4.06
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9. PAPILLIONS (-) 4
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10. ORION (-) 3.79
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Status: Power from England...
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DEMO CHARTS!
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Here are the five ANTI RESET PUSHING DEMOS from February:
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1. THINK TWICE V
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by THE JUDGES
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2. F.A.M.E. #1
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by F.A.M.E. / TRIAD
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3. MIGHT
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by C64CG
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4. FACTORY
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by CFR
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5. OUTSPACE
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by ORION
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C'mon, return to entertainment instead of showin' yer ability of coding and
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handlin' raster or demos get boring and boring...
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SOFTWARE-STARS
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1. PRO BMX SIMULATOR (-)
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2. PLATOON (1)
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3. REVENGE OF DOH (-)
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4. PREDATOR (-)
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5. TETRIS (2)
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6. COMBAT SCHOOL (3)
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7. POWER AT SEA (-)
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8. THE TRAIN (11)
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9. BASKET MASTER (4)
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10. BMX KIDZ (5)
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11. DAN DARE II (-)
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12. BATTLE VALLEY (-)
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13. TASK III (-)
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14. FRIGHTMARE (-)
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15. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE (15)
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16. FIREFLY (-)
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17. QUEDEX (22)
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18. T.R.A.Z. (7)
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19. PIRATES (23)
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20. SKATE OR DIE (8)
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21. INT. KARATE + (12)
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22. RASTAN (13)
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23. MINI GOLF (18)
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24. BLACK LAMP (-)
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25. MOONSHADOW (-)
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26. HAT-TRICK (17)
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27. JINXTER (10)
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28. BANGKOK KNIGHTS (14)
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29. OCTAPOLIS (9)
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30. ROCKFORD (-)
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A BIG 'THANX YOU' FOR VOTING:
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IAN / FUSION, JUST ICE / IKARI, BAD BOY / THE SURVIVORS, CF / BB, RUB / TWG, MA
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/ CFR, JAYCE / DCU, MWS / RWE, NY / PLEASURE, ACU / SAP, DRS / ACE, TPI /
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SHARKS and the rest of TRIAD...
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+ IMPRESSUM +
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| > ILLEGAL tm 1988 |
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| > 3. Jahrgang / 3rd year |
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| > Nr. # 26 |
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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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| U.S.A. : THE AWESOME GUYS |
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