ALOAH! AFTER 4 MONTHS OF LONG DELAY, FREEDOM CRACK 7 IS FINALLY RELEASED! NEW IN THIS ISSUE ARE THE STATUS PANEL AND THE PRINT ROUTINE, PLUS SOME GRAPHIC IMPROVEMENTS... FROM THE NEXT ISSUE FREEDOM CRACK WILL BE IN 1 DISK, WITH GRAPHICS INTO ARTICLES, TOTAL NEW CODE, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE! READ THE EDITORIAL FOR MORE. AND NOW THE USUAL GREETINGS FLY OUT TO: ALCATRAZ - ANTIRIAD - ABJECT - BRAINWAVE - CLASSIC - CRYSTAL - CYRUS - CYTAX - DEFCON 1 - DIVINA - DRIFTERS - DYNAX - EQUINOX - EREMATION - EXIT - EXTREME - GHOSTLY SPREADERS - IBB - IRIS - MAGIC - PALACE - PHENOMENA - PROPHECY - RAM JAM - REBELS - SANITY - SILENTS - TRSI - THE EVIL FORCES - ZENITH - ZERO DEFECTS - ZEUS TEXT RESTARTS... *** FREEDOM CRACK #7 - 20-10-91 *** Usual things: Editorial Credits Instructions Addresses and prices Interviews: Chronos Interview Reports: SMAU 1991 report (1) SMAU 1991 report (2) Reviews: Roland D-110 review Atari Lynx review Demo Reviews Demo Reviews (2) Diskmags Corner Books Reviews Computing: The perfect lamer (1) The perfect lamer (2) The perfect lamer (3) Think about it (1) Think about it (2) Future scene? The scene on TV! Shitty viruses New Amiga? Aero's History Various: What's... Getting girls (1) Getting girls (2) La guzzata di frate Arturo (italian) Dreams Beer mixes! Find out the lamer A little story about... Music: Rap About Music Part II (1) About Music Part II (2) About Music Part II (3) Graphics: About Amiga graphics Jokes: Manta-jokes Other jokes Job corner: Job corner 1 Advertising: Advertisements 1 Advertisements 2 Advertisements 3 Advertisements 4 Advertisements 5 Advertisements 6 Advertisements 7 Advertisements 8 Advertisements 9 SMAU 1991 Report By all italian members of Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMAU is since some years the biggest and most popular computer exposition in Italy and has become since a while the best chance for all groups to meet themselves. The rendez-vous of this year was Sunday the 6th of October 1991, of course at the Commodore stand. In this stand, every year, Commodore offers about 20 Amigas to play games. Usually the drives are locked, so to change disk you need something to force the lock, but this year we found some "free" drives so there were no problems to show all demos. In fact, almost all well-known groups had brought a contribution for this meeting. Of course no competitions, but it's obvious that all groups tried to show the best that they had produced recently. You can read about all the NORMAL things that have been shown at the SMAU in every NORMAL magazine. HERE, you will see a complete list of all GROUPS that were present there! IBB We met Raoul, E$G, Street Shaman, DHS, Piratronik. All these guys had a very cool T-Shirt printed with their name and function, and with IBB logo in its back. They released a demo called MANGAD, with a very simple code but wonderful graphics and music (the veronese duo: Street Shaman + DHS), and an utility cal- led NASP II (by Piratronik). This utility was very expected by all techno and house freaks all around. RAM JAM This group was present with ACBS, a girl whose name we can't remember, and some other members. They released a collection with all the old productions and an intro called ASSHOLE with a cool sine-dot-scroller. But ACBS brought to the SMAU a box full of copies of all their previous games and musicdisks, together with the copies of the last productions. So he has given away lots of disks, but he spread his stuff like hell. Their ASSHOLE intro is surely their best production ever. THE EVIL FORCES This really amazing group was present with Mr.Bite, B.A.D and maybe some other guys. They released maybe the best-looking intro, with a fucking cool parallax effect and the usually cool house music. Nothing to say, they have style! So look out for their soon coming magazine called TOILET PAPER, released in co-op with RAM JAM. DIVINA We met Storm, Romano and their coder. They were supposed to release their mega- demo but they hadn't finished it in time, so the coder started to show some routines...really cool! Storm showed a picture from their new graphician...it was GREAT! Look for that megademo, cause it seems to be so COOOOOOLLLLLLLL... (next article please!) (continues from previous article) ZERO DEFECTS Only Paranoid and Dr.Sam were present. They did the right thing cause they went there only to talk and to have fun and not to show anyone that they're the best. They released previously a message-box. GHOSTLY SPREADERS This group was present with almost all members. They released an amazing mega- demo and a musicdisk. The megademo is quite cool, even if almost all routines are not new. Anyway, now they are much better than in the previous years. NIGHTFALL Also this group released a megademo, surely one of the best things presented this year. It looks really nice and also the music is good. RES. 101 Ken and Bitboy were there only to make a walk around. They were rather tired of the confusion of the Commodore stand, and in fact we met them at the Apple stand! CHRONOS These guys need to be mentioned for the best wearings. Some jackets with the CHRONOS logo and their codename, all with a very coloured graffiti-style. They haven't released anything, since, as maybe you know, they're a BBS-group. SIGMA, CENTURION, GRACE... Also these local groups brought some productions. The intro by SIGMA looked very nice, Centurion instead released a megademo. THE COMMODORE "COPS" They were the Commodore responsables for security. Real "guards". These fucking guys kept on breaking the balls the whole day. They didn't want that people copy demos, we don't know why, since demos are LEGAL! But it's not all: they were very unfriendly and stole all copied disks they found. Maybe now they're enjoying the stuff at their home...BASTARDS! All in all, it has been better than the previous SMAU. More demos have been presented, and there was a friendly atmosphere between all groups. So we hope that next time it will be even better...see you next year! Future scene? By Bacteria/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some years ago, a new generation of computer was born. These were the home computers. And these computers were very cool, because when your work was boring, you could start to play games... but the problem was that... the price of these games was very high! So some guys decided to 'copy' these games, to make a double. So later, the software companies discovered that some guys were copying the games and they decided to create a protection...and the other guys (the mad copiers, hehe) tried to 'crack' the protection. It was hard... so they decided to write a sign in order to say 'I have cracked this game'. First, this sign was only a text on the disk, later, it become a scroll, a scroll with a logo ... and the intro was born! Some intros looked very nice, so some groups decided to spread a 'big intro' on a disk only. And then the demo was born. Some other guys decided to assemble a lot of these demos on a disk... the megademo was born! And there were a lot of guys who wanted to crack games and to make demos... Then some guys decided to spread some information (news, articles,...) the disk mag was born! And the actual scene was born. Mmmmhh... I don't know what is the computer of the first scene, but it seems to be really old! 10 years? I don't know! But the last computer who has and owe always a cool and active scene is the C64! Most of the Amiga guys came from the C64 scene! There's also a Spectrum scene, an Amstrad scene, an Atari scene, an IBM scene, an Archimedes scene and perhaps more. But you can perhaps guess that all these computers are computers where you can play games! And what's the future of the games... the consoles! The computers will become more and more professional, like the Macintosh (which has NO scene...) And... the home computers will die! So how to start a new scene with demos, cracks, intros, groups... is the Amiga's scene perhaps the last scene? We can maybe start a scene of the soon coming FM towns! Perhaps not! The future scenes will change a lot because of the CD rom. But scenes are cool! So I ask the question again, when Amiga will die... WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE SCENE? Think about it! Scene on TV By Bacteria/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The TV...millions and millions people are looking at the TV. If you want to publish news, for example, you will be sure that your news will be very well spread by the TV. The TV is also here for the publicity... Buy my production or die!!! But now, something special is coming on the TV. A lot of channels start to make some emissions about computers. And now... they have found a new subject...the computer scene! I have heard about a lot of emissions on the TV in a lot of countries and these emissions, which only presented games, start now to present some demos... they want to know MORE about the scene! So they present some demos, and they tell the name of the group, the name of the coder, of the graphician, the musician... that means all the persons who made the demo. But they don't stop here. They want to speak about demo freak, they want to understand more of the so called scene. They start to make some interview about demo coders, or crackers, and so on! But they can't interview the guys of the scene like a music star. The only way to interview someone is to go to the copy partys and to find some guys to interview... And as I have said before, the TV is the best wait to make a maximum of adver- tising. So it's a good way to make a lot of publicity for himself and for the group. And of course, a lot of guys wanted to be interviewed in one of these TV emissions just to spread the name.... So they are interviewed by a TV and they are so happy of this... they say that they are members or leaders of great well known groups, in order to say this message to the world 'I am the best of all...' and they, for example, claim to be the leader of Vision Factory (Like a guy from Germany at the maximum pleasure party)... Or they show to the TV a 'Live crack of a game' in order to show to the guys who are watching the TV that they know how to crack a game... And finally, they have a lot of problems with other groups, like the guy of Admirals with Magnetic F. Germany, or like the group Storm... So if you are one day interviewed by the TV at a copy party, try to be yourself and don't try to show to everybody that you came from the best group and that you are the best.... the guys who think that they are the best are just poor guys who have a lot of superiority complexes!!! Shitty viruses By Bacteria/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You save your source on your disk, and you reset your Amiga. When you want to reload your work, the source is totally destroyed... You are making a new number of your pack serie, you have finished to save all the demos on the disk, and when you want to save the final thing, the menu... your disk is unreadable... you have to restart all your work. After 5 hours of hard work, you finished your nice Gfx. You try to save the Gfx on the disk, when you read the message 'Read/Write error' your work is again destroyed... You finished to write all articles for your disk mag, when you discover a virus on your disk... Yes! These shitty situations are real. You have perhaps had one of these problems! It's very boring to try to work with your Amiga when viruses are killing all your work. I had some big problems with a lot of these shitty viruses. But what to do? Virus killers are good, but when the virus destroyed your work, what do you want to do with a Virus killer? When you destroyed one virus, you have an other one on the disk. And so on! Or, for example, you are in a party, making your demo, you think to be in time for the demo competition when a virus destrois your work... bye bye, demo com- petition! So... you can't kill the virus, because your work is destroyed! You can always try to recode your demo... good luck, if you are very fast... But I think that the only thing to kill the virus is to protect your work with a special bootblock, or to put a virus killer in the startup sequence. Okay! But the question is WHO! Who are behind these viruses? Some guys who want to kill the scene? Kill the Amiga? Or they do it for fun? That's the real question! But it's not a fun to work on the Amiga when viruses are always destroying your work... Viruses creators are all fucking liars! To destroy the work of the others! And they don't write a sign to know who they are! Well. We are not here to send fuckings... But... THE ONLY WAY TO KILL VIRUS IS TO KILL THE CREATORS !!! About Music Part II By Filippetto/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some time ago (FC#5) I wrote an article about some music tips to be used with Noisetracker. Due to the big success of that article, I decided to write a new one, with some improvements. In fact, since that article I've not only changed my style, but I have also recognized that there's something better of the tips I wrote then. So let's start. First of all to make a good music you need 3 things: 1) A good melody-tune, composed by yourself - 2) Good samples with clear sound - 3) The best possible way to express the tune you have in your mind. 1) THE TUNE As you maybe know not all guys has the chance to create good tunes by himself. This is not a mistery. Some guys can create really good melodies, some others create noising shits. If you are one of these guys, you better don't compose any other music in the future! If you instead use to have good ideas, here are some tips. A big risk when composing with computers is to create a monotonous tune, with 2-4 chords repeating all the times! So the first thing is to create a various melody, with variations of chords, solo-parts, solo-parts following chords, mixed chords and various drums fill-ins. Fill-ins are important cause they give the impression of a live sound. As I've said, the tune must be various. Some people take some famous tunes and try to transpose the singed parts with an instrument like a synth or a flute. I've done this many times, like lot of musicians, but I never have been satisfied cause obviously a simple instrument like a synth will never reproduce the tones and the harmony of a human voice. So it's much better to compose or transpose an instrumental song than a singed one, believe me. As you know, Noisetracker has 4 channels. The best way to make a tune is to use 1 channel for drums, 1 channel for bass, 1 channel for chords and the remaining channel for solo-parts, strings, additional chords or additional percussions. The choice of the samples is important. If the tune is good you can use up to $1f samples, but of course the choice of the length should depend by the use you will do of the tune. Anyway always try to remain in a maximum length of 100-150K. It's obvious that length depends by the quality and the size of the instruments (see point 2). Once that you've written your song you know that it will restart from the beginning when it comes to the maximum pattern position, so try to make an end which can in some way be harmonically joint with the beginning or just finish the song with a fill-in or a progressive fading effect. If you choose these last things, you should make follow 1 pattern of silence before leaving the tune restart. More tips: if you have two very similar patterns, variate them by putting two different solo-parts, two different drum-parts or some additional percussions or effects. Always try, in every part, to modulate the volume so to make the sound as real as possible. In the solo or chord parts it's always good to insert echoes or reverbs. Another good idea is to use the vibrato in solo-parts and chord-parts: the result is always good. For more details about these tricks see point 3. (continues in next article) (continues from previous article) 2) THE SAMPLES Ripped Samples: some people rip samples from the best songs (I do this many times cause I don't own a synthetizer, so I don't know where to get the sounds to sample, and I don't feel like sampling lot of things every time I wanna compose a tune, so I sample only few times). If you rip, never use all samples of a song together: create an intruments-disk with the best instruments of the best songs, with 10-20 different synths, possibly a large choice of chords of the same instrument: maj, min, min7, maj7... then choose the instruments for your song. Own Samples: if you use your own samples (as I did sometime, for example for the music of our second demo) use a GOOD sampler. I use a mono sampler but with an high sampling rate. The sound must be as clear as possible! Of course, to sample sounds, you must have a source to get the sounds from. Never use cassettes (sound is too dirty). Better are CDs, expecially to sample effects. But you can't sample all chords you want from a CD because usually in CDs chords are played in a song, this means together with drums, bass and all instruments, so you would sample all these things together, with the result of a chord with other things inside. So the best way to sample instruments is to sample them directly for a keyboard. For example, I used to sample some chords from a Korg M1 of a friend of mine. There is an expensive but cool way to sample an instrument. First sample a single note. Then a major chord. Then a minor. Then a min7. Then a maj7...and so on. If you sample all sounds on different octaves, at the end you will have about 20 samples of the same instrument, but you will have the perfect reproduction of it in your song! This takes a lot of memory and should of course be used for big musics. There are many programs to sample: don't use Noisetracker because the sampling rate is soooo low. Better use Audiomaster III or some new programs that can also create mindblasting realtime effects (hi DHS!). Adjusting Samples: it can happen that when you use the instrument with Noisetracker the playing rate is too low, and the instrument sounds very low also in the 3rd octave. In this case you have to adjust it with Protracker. The sample-lab of this program is not bad, and by resampling some instruments to higher notes you will have shorten them a lot too. Another operation you can do to a sample can be setting the right Repeat and Replen (Repeat Length) using directly Noisetracker. This can be applied also to instruments that shouldn't have the repeat. For example you can take a bass and set the repeat to just some bytes after the beginning of the instrument and then set the repeat length to the remaining length. So you can have a bass that sounds like a normal bass and then keeps the note continuosly. With this method you can make an instrument as long as you want, and if you want to turn it off, you just have to put a $c00 or a $a0f in its channel (this means that you turn its volume to 0). Of course it's important to set repeat and repeat length to correct values, so that the sound is continuos without imperfections and interferences between the repeats. (continues in next article) (continues from previous article) Chip Samples: another thing that you can do with Repeat and Replen is to create chip sounds. These sounds are chip and cheap (ha-ha) cause they take just few bytes. As you know the real chip sounds are generated by the Amiga chips as waveforms and so you should use Future Composer or Sidmon to use them, but there's a way to create some "fake" chip sounds also with Noisetracker. Just take a part of an i nstrument (a synth, for example) and cut it so that it's very short (not too short). Then set the repeat to a normal value (just some bytes after the beginning) and the repeat length to a very small value ($2 or $4). The sound is not very nice but cheap, you can modulate the volume with the usual C and A commands. You can also make chords with the 037, 047...commands. You can change the frequency by changing the repeat length. Anyway never use these sounds in big songs cause they sound very bad together with "normal" instruments. The best thing in a chip-song is to use 100% chip-samples except the drumkit that should use normal bassdrum, snare and hi-hat. Drum Samples: avoid to sample entire rhythms! It's very expensive in memory and those sampled rhythms are really boring cause they don't change during the whole songs. Much better are normal drums with fill-ins! Sample a rhythm only if you want to compose an acid-house-techno-disco song, cause all those song use really sampled rhythms. 3) "TECHNICAL" TIPS Volume modulations: there are 2 ways. The C command, as you know, sets the volume to a value between 0 and 40. The A command is the "volume slide", this means that it slides volume up/down. For example A01 slides down of 1, A10 slides up of 1. Until here, alles klar. Now, there are some particular uses. If you want to have a very sharp sound use the A0F command. Try some A0Fs in sequence and you'll hear a very rhythmed sound! For the accents you can set different values to every A command. For example, try A0F A0F A01 A0F A0F A01... some times and you'll have a very used accent for 4/4 rhythms. This commands works of course with all instruments but sounds great with synths and strings. Try it! The C command should instead be used to modulate volume in case of quick volume changes. It's good for drums' rolling. Put 3 consecutive notes with a snaredrum with these respective commands: C10 C20 C30. The rolling will be much smoother than with 3 notes without any volume command. The C command should be used right to smoothen some consecutive notes. Vibrato: now it's one of the most used effects. Usually it's obtained with some 400s in sequence or with alternative 401 410 401 410... To set a larger depth just use 420 402 and so on. Combinations like 420 402 410 401 400 400 are pretty nice. Warning: don't exaggerate cause with very high depths there's the risk to false the melody. Use it in solo parts but also with chords (with some synths sounds really great). Warning (2): if you convert a song from Protracker to Noisetracker or from Noisetracker to Protracker take care, because the vibrato sounds are a bit different (Noisetracker seem to have a major depth's step). Note slide: this effect slides current sound up (105, for example, slides 5 notes up) or down (205 to slide down of 5 notes). I wrote 5 notes but it's not true, because the step of this command is really short, so for example to slide down of 1 tone you have to use higher values. Use this effect in solo-parts. Dreams By Manta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr Bridge is a school counselor. He is assigned to work in a special country. His job is to go from school to school and work with the students at each. He is an open minded guy. He looks like welcoming, always ready to listen to others. This morning, Mr Bridge is really late. He doesn't feel well at breakfast and doesn't know if he is able to go to work. After breakfast he feels a little better and thinks that his work today will be OK. As he drives down the street he notices a boy, sitting on the curb. - This boy seems to be about to cry, he thinks. - He looks like very unhappy. Bridge pulls over the curb and backs the car to where the teenager is sitting. He knew that young people are normally said not to go into the car of an unknown person. He knew that he wouldn't normally do what he was doing now. - Do you want a ride ?, he asks. The boy accepts. He obviously needs to talk to someone. He is not a child anymore, but not quite an adult, notices the driver. - You don't look very happy, this morning. - I just got suspended from school, the boys replies! - Why did you get suspended ?, the conselor asks. - Well I had an assignement in class. The teacher asked us to write a paper on a love relationship we have with someone. So I wrote about my parents, he answers. I'm sure, if you had to write the same paper you wouldn't write about your parents, but about your girl friend. But this student was experiencing a particular hard situation. His parents died four years ago in a car crash. They had raised their child with the ideas that dreams are as real as our life down here. When they died, the teenager was sent to an orphenage where the atmosphere was very cold and disciplined. He always had kept a tight bound with his parents through the dream state. That's why he hadn't written a love relationship with his girl friend, but with his parents. But the teacher made fun of him. He claimed that this story about keeping a link with dead people wasn't true. The boy couldn't have any more relationships with his parents since they were dead. - Persisting in his lie would prove that the boy hadn't adjusted to the death of his parents and needed some psychiatric support, thought the teacher. As the student wouldn't recognize he had written an untrue story he was been suspended. As it was said first, Mr Bridge was a school counceler. After hearing the boy's story he went to the principal who was known to him. He told him that the boy wasn't lying. It was only a matter of freedom! He added that if we allow others to be free, to have their own ideas, we guarantee our own freedom, too. The student has been allowed to go back to his class. A perfect lamer By Helioth/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, in order to begin this article I am going to introduce you to this pure shit ascii text. If you don't like reading stupid imaginary text, don't read this! If you don't have a lot of spare time to waste, don't read this stupidity! I wrote this text because I had nothing else to do (Incredible, no?) and I wanted to be delirious and have some fun! It would have been nice if I had been able to find a perfect lamer but those little birds are very rare. So I had to imagine by myself the reaction of such a lamer if I interviewed him... Don't complain if you think after reading this shit that such a kind of " articles " has nothing to do on the contents of a "respectable magazine ". I warned you... Well, here I am going to INTERVIEW you! First, please introduce yourself. - Ah yeah! I am Mr.X of the great crew: X-FORCE. I am the leader of this powerful group. I have a lot of elite contacts and friends among them ! That's great but I want to know more about you, for example how did you come on the Amiga scene? - Ah, that's a great story! Ok, one year ago, a school friend of mine bought an Atari. I was full of admiration when I saw the capacities of this shit. I wanted to buy one (Ha! Ha! Ha! How stupid I was!). But a month later another guy in my school bought a great Amiga! At once I bought the Amiga and fucked the Atari! Yeah! I asked my mum if she could offer me the Amiga for Christmas and she offered it! Now, everytime that the Atari freak says the word "Atari", I slap him! Great, no? Yes, that's great... And how did you build X-FORCE? - Aha! I asked my school friends who had an Amiga to enter in X-FORCE. Then I asked two other friends in possession of a PC (Ha! Ha! A PC!) to build up a PC division of X-FORCE. But we are better than the guyz on PC, of course! Mmmm, did you ever start a war with a group? - Yes, three guyz of the school formed a new group and I declared the war! Of course we won and now those three guyz are in X-FORCE, no more rivality! What are the activities of X-FORCE? - Yeah! We are very active now! We are putting our intros on the games we receive and then we spread'em. You know, I am very good in coding startup-sequences! (continues in next article!!!) (continues from previous article) Great... Tell me an exemple of your coding level! - Ha! Ha! This is secret! But I'll tell you a very simple exemple of my coding... just check this out: echo "X-FORCE cracked XXXXX for your pleasure..." echo "We are the best, fuck the rest !" loadscreen X-Force.Logo play Music button loadscreen Credits close X-FORCE.Logo button endmusic close Credits Great, no ? But I can code more complex startup-sequences! I also can code some other nice demos: I decrunch the demo of a lame group with PowerPacker and then I change the scrolling with the Cygnus Editor! Not bad, eh? I see... You seem to be very good... But wich function(s) do you practise in X-FORCE? - I'm a graphist, musician, coder, spreader, swapper, sysop (Call our boards, up to 1200 bps!), cracker... Woah! You're very active as I see. Well, could you tell me how you're spending your spare time? - I'm playing Amiga 500 games. What kind of games? - Only pure action (Yeah, that's cool!) and especially Kick Off II. What are you thinking about school? - Fuck school, Amiga is the best! Great rule...and are you planing to continue your studies? - Yes, perhaps, I must think about it, thanks... But I am going to be a great game-programmer, that's my future profession! What are you thinking about girls? - Ha! Ha! Ha! Let me laugh! I'm slaping'em all! (continues in next article) (continues from previous article) Euh... and how old are you ? - 10 years old. Aha, I understand now... euh... what do you think about lamers? Did you ever have a problem with one of them? - I hate lamers... there are so many lamers in the whole scene! Yes, we had a problem with a lamer, he was in X-FORCE (At least he was shooted out of our team, we don't have any more lamers in our elite team, yeah!). He said he was a coder, let me laugh! He used a fucking slow and complex shit to code, an assembler! Ha! Ha!Ha! The best language is the Cygnus Editor but he wasn't able to code a good startup-sequence, he only had a "sources disk", how stupid! At our meeting we wanted to kick him out of X-FORCE, we first destroyed his shitty "sources disk" and after that we brushed him away from our meeting place! Now we are ONLY PURE ELITE! Ah... you said you have a modem, how can you earn enough money to pay the phone bill ? - I haven't anything to pay, my parents pay all! But I earn some money with my modem. I am going to tell you my ingenious trick... I load the news from a board and then I crack the stuff (Demo/Game) by putting a nice startup-sequence, after that I sell the stuff! So I have enough money to buy new disks (I need a lot of them, because I collect as many games as I am able, at present about 500 games!). Hmmm... Do you have some last words? Yes of course, to contact me, look at my address in the adverts, but: *** LAMERS WILL NOT BE ANSWERED, ONLY ELITE. *** Let's find out the lamer... By Helioth/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, in order to write this article I am going to examine the subjects from two different points of view. I want to write this article because seeing all the shit we are doing with this peaceful Amiga is getting on my nerves. So, let's find out the lamer... Let me present you a 17 year old boy. He likes very much his Amiga, has a modem and a lot of hardware, all the news, and a lot of elite contacts, he is in a big group as swapper and finally he is wellknown, respected and moderately friendly. After a school day he's going home and checking the new stuff he received, but... there is again a shitty sending from his lamest contact! - Aaaargh! Old stuff but friendly letter! Another lamer who wants to have the priviledge to greet an elite guy... This time I'll do something against this lamer. I am going to send him a letter and write that he is a fucking great asshole, and that I don't want to be longer in contact with such a lamer! After that he went on computing all the Saturday night... And now here's the point of view of the guy who got insulted... This is a 17 year old boy, too. After school he spends some time with some of his friends in the city. When he goes home he does some homeworks and after that opens a letter from a guy of a wellknown group. This guy just insulted him and said that he wanted to stop the contact. - Mmmm... It's strange that he attaches such a great importance to the fact that I didn't send him the very latest stuff... After that he plays a little game to relax himself, turns off his power supply and writes a nice letter for fun to one of his contacts. One hour later he goes in the city to meet some friends of his to lead a rollicking live... Well, did you find out the lamer? Yes, of course, the REAL LAMER is the "elite guy"... He's computing as much as possible, swapping the hottest news and doing nothing else but computing... In fact it's a poor guy who think that the Amiga is more than a simple hobby, his real life is computing. The second guy is a cool guy who knows what a hobby is. Its real meaning is an occupation to prevent you from boredom. So don't waste your life in front of a stupid machine, have some fun with it, but don't exaggerate... So, before calling somebody a shit, try first to find out who is the lamer... What's... By Helioth/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's Freedom Crack? Some fucking magnetic informations on a floppy disk. What's a lamer? A stupid notion to call undesirable people. What's an elite guy? Sometimes a lamer. What's a computer group? Some people accepting to work together. What's a computer scene? Like our civilisation because all humans are identical, every group and person wants to become better, the best, the only one... What's a computer? Some plastic, metal and chemical shit. What's school? The greatest illusion. What's a job? The due to be integrated in our society. What's a language? A proof of our isolation. What's a religion? A hope for some persons. What's a country? An isle. What's Earth? A prison we built around us. What's space? The obstacle saving other living beeings from being contaminated by our stupidity. What's life? A chance to have some fun... Atari Lynx Review Bitjoker/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas is near! (?) And probably the most of you are t hinking about some presents to ask to your parents...well, Freedom Crack is here to purpose to buy a portable console... but what ?!? The Atary Lynx or the Nintendo GameBoy? In this number of F.C. I want to talk you about the Atari Lynx that I have bought one month ago. ==== ATARI LYNX HARDWARE CONFIGURATION ===== The Lynx has a 6502 Custom Processor that works at 4 MHz (4 times the work speed of the great Commodore 64), it has 64K bytes RAM and 4096 colors palette. The dimension in cms are 11*26*3 (3" in diagonal) and the weight is 0.5 Kg. The Max. screen resolution is of 160*102 pixels. Over that the Atari Lynx has 4 audio chanels with digitized samples and sounds. The hardware configuration is very simple, over the 64Kb RAM, other two custom chips works together: the first is ASIC ("Suzie") that works to the graphic and to the animation with special realtime zoom effects, the second chip is ASIC ("Mickey") that is the microprocessor and the internal ROM. ================= WHAT GOOD AND WHAT LESS ===================== Good qualities of the Lynx are the speed and the effects, over the possibility to flip the screen of 180 degrees and listen with the headphones the sound. When in particular moments you need to stop the game without turn off the console, you can press the pause option, you can modify the brightness and the volume with potenziometers. Good sensibility of joypad and fire buttons. Possibility to play from 1 to 8 player with a partcular cable called COMLYNX. One game "California games" is included in the console. Less qualities are the shortest life of the c.c. alimentation (6 batteries) near 3/4 hours with continuos play. The screen is not very functional, with the sun you don't see it and in the dark your eyes will be tired early. The speaker is terrible, only one on the right of the console near the fire buttons. In any new position you are you must always regulate the brightness and the colors. There are not a lot of games at the moment for the Lynx, and the game present are not cheap (here in Italy the cost is 39000-59000, $33 - $53). The console costs 210-240000 (180 - 200 U.S.dollars), a C=64 costs 170$ US. Personal opinion: the business promise better productions for the future, like the Pc Engine (portable console), but the cost is high, I think that you could ask to recieve for christmas a good console like the SEGA MEGADRIVE or the Nintendo SUPERFAMICOM, with cool quality games. For the moment phone to your girlfriend and go together with her to the pub to have a pizza and good blond beer, and try to do with her something better than play to Super Mario Bros. or Sonic the HedgeHog. (continues from previous article) Devils - No Reality This is a 1 disk demo. Really nice to look at! This is surely the best product from Devils ever made. The demo starts with the same fucking vectors with patterned surfaces, then the title is showed and a writer appears with some multi coloured checkers (one of the best routines of the demo). Again some glenz, lightsourced, mapped vectors, then some 1 pixel RGB plasma, then again vectors with plasma. The only new routine is the HAM keftales, but it looks like a copper effect coz the horizontal resolution is only 4 pixel (?). The demo goes on with other vectors and some 3D fractal landscapes (maybe the best routine of the demo - really nice!). Finally at the end we find some Julia and Mandelbrot examples (really nice colors) and another 8 colors tree-drawing routine with the greetings scrolling overlap. What can we say: the new things are few but the demo is really well coded, bugfree, the 2 musics are quite cool and the final product can be put in the list of the high-quality demos. Coding: 8 Graphics: 7 Ideas: 7 Music: 7.5 Design: 7.5 TOTAL: 7.4 Devils - Labyrinth This is the 2nd 1 disk demo we've got from Devils. This demo starts with a very nice grey-scaled picture, then the credits appear (with the usual filled vector zoom-effects). Then there's the usual writer that introduces the various routines. The writer takes 200 pixels on the screen, and the remaining 50-60 pixels in the lower PAL side are occupied by some animated sprites (nice bird's animation). The design of this part is rather ugly, because no rasters are used and the global thing is not very nice to look at, even if the font-turning effect is rather impressive. This part, which appears after each routine, is the thing that ruins the demo, because the other parts seem to be really cool. We find the biggest glenz-vectors ever seen, some really nice lightsourced vectors, a funny 3-screens vectorbobs effect with Star Trek, some good pictures and finally some fractals calculations like 3D Mandelbrot (not so good), Julia, the usual trees (...) The final parts shows 3 different parallax-checkers in overscan and all above the greetings, messages, etc. with a nice 8 colors 8x8 font. The last part has a really good design! Congratulations Jinx! In this demo we can't find really new things, but some improvements and someti- mes some really nice things. Two words about the musics (2 in this demo, too): they are nothing really special but they are rather various, so they are never annoying; the solo parts are exaggerated. Coding: 7.5 Graphics: 8 Ideas: 7 Music: 7 Design: 7 TOTAL: 7.3 Beer Mixes By Filippetto/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you live for boozing as we do? Do you have an iron stomach? Do you feel like trying new incredible tastes with your favourite beer? Read here! Who hasn't yet tried a beer mix? The beer mix is one of the best things you can do with beer (together with drinking it and spilling it on girls' tits). I make beer mixes when I go out with my friends, I want to take a beer but I'm tired of the same old taste. Now you can ask me: - But couldn't you drink something else? What is a beer mix? Simple question, simple answer: take a glass, fill 3/4 with your favourite beer (better if it is a normal or a double maltus beer, so no red beers or things like that (green, blue (?!) beers)), then fill the remaining 1/4 with your favourite drink (coke, lemonsoda...) Don't exceed with the drink you add, otherwise you risk to cover the beer's taste too much. If you make an equilibrate mix, you can taste your favourite drink with some alcohol and the classic bitter taste of the beer. Of course everything in one drink. And now, some examples... Beer and Lemonsoda Also called "redled", this is maybe the best mix you can do with beer. The best thing of this mix is the combination of the sweet-bitter Lemonsoda's taste with the beer's taste. Beer and mint Not very known, this mix is one of my favourites. Why? I don't know! I just drink it! There are 2 options: one with mint's syrup, and one with alcoholic mint. Also try with Branca Menta. Beer and Cola Puah! I don't like it, but some people manages to drink it. It's not terrible, but, in my opinion, nothing special. Beer and Ouzo To make this mix you need a bottle of Ouzo, try the famous 12 or Metaxa. If you want an explosive mix try the Sans Rivals (the most alcoholic Ouzo in the world). This drink is ultra-bitter so I recommend all you people who hate bitter drinks to avoid it! Beer and Martini Some people use to drink it. It's really a waste to put some Martini into a beer, anyway if you wanna try, try. The best thing is to find out the best mix by himself (as I did). Take some beer, and mix it with the first drink you find around. Of course we are not responsable of eventual collapses or guts problems. Diskmag Corner -------------- Here we are again with the Diskmag corner of this issue. Actually the scene of the diskmags seems to be quite alive, because we've seen lots of old and new diskmags recently, and all with a recent issue and something like improved coding or things like that. The only mag that didn't improve anything is Freedom Crack! (hehe) What a shame! Anyway here are some comments (all critics are made to help the others to do a better job, of course, and not, as someone said, just to criticize). ZINE #10 Hi Chester/BRS! Your magazine is on the road since 10 issues and it's still at the top! Not bad! Also this issue of Zine is very interesting. We had seen bet- ter issues, but this is not bad. The interviews are back and they are well done with a lot of interesting and actual questions. The usual articles, the charts and the reviews are quite cool and there's a new subject: the occultism. This is yet the second issue in which Zine writes about occultism, stories and experiences. It's surely an interesting subject, a little strange for a disk- magazine, but it's something different. MC DISK #1 This new diskmagazine will surely climb the scene quickly. The code is really impressive, surely the best ever. There are a LOT of different text and font display modes, something really new like search option and the realtime charts (great idea you had). Of course the first issue is not the best about articles, because almost all articles were made by COMA members, so you don't have the impression of a popular magazine, but the 2nd issue will surely be better. The main subjects which can take the interest of an average freak are all there: interviews, news, coders and musicians sections, films and music reviews plus much more. What can we say? With this magazine, Freedom Crack will descend at least 1 position in the Eurocharts, but it's worth. I.C.E. Hi Cyber Pirate and Wild Thing/Cytax! I.C.E. has reached since its first release a high standard, even if sometimes people seem to forget it. We think that the best thing of this magazine is still the coding, but of course also the articles are good. Keep up the good work! FRAUD #5 This australian one-file magazine seem to be the only real one file magazine together with Freedom Crack. Since issue 4 it started to climb the charts and the people's opinion. There are no doubts that the articles are good, anyway the design is too simple, but we could justify this fact with a lack of memory. All in all a medium mag, the good things is that it's released very often and so it's always actual. CHIT-CHAT #1 Published by Mirage, this is a "service" magazine, based on messages from/to the guyz of the scene. It's just the first issue, but the whole thing seems to be really nice (the code is OK!). We wish the best of luck to this magazine! LA GUZZATA DI FRATE ARTURO BY GIANCHY & CIOZ/VEGA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C'ERA UNA VOLTA UN FRATICELLO COL CAZZO PICCOLO E PAFFUTELLO. VIVEVA IN STANZA CON TEODOMIRO CHE PER SUA SFORTUNA L'AVEVA SEMPRE IN TIRO. 5 UN DI', CAMMINANDO VIDE CHE IL SUO STAVA TIRANDO, CHIEDENDOSI IL MOTIVO VIDE UNA ROIA CHE SI STAVA FACENDO IVO. GUARDANDOLI SCOPARE 10 DISSE 'COSA POSSO FARE?'. L'ARCANGELO GABRIELE CHE E' SEMPRE A LECCAR LE PERE GLI DISSE 'FRATE ARTURO, COME MAI CE L'HAI COSI' DURO?'. 15 'STANNO SCOPANDO COSI' BENE CHE MI FA MALE IL PENE!'. 'PRENDI ESEMPIO DAL VATICANO: GUARDA IL PAPA CHE CE L'HA SEMPRE IN MANO'. IN QUEL MOMENTO VIDE ROBERTA 20 LA FIGA VERTA, E NON VOLENDO DIVENTARE COME GIORGIONE IL CAZZO CULATONE, SE LO PRESE IN MANO E GLIELO MISE NELL'ANO. 25 DOPO LA SCOPATA CHE PER LA CRONACA FU MOLTO ESAGERATA, CHIESE A ROBERTA: 'COME STA TUA SORELLA MADDALENA?' 'LASCIALA PERDERE, E' SEMPRE PIENA'. ORMAI QUELLO CHE ERA FATTO, ERA FATTO, 30 POTEVA TORNARE A CASA COL CAZZO SODDISFATTO. QUI FINISCE LA STORIELLA DI FRATE ARTURO CHE COL CAZZO BUCAVA ANCHE UN MURO. LA STORIA E LE RIME BY GIANCHY CON COLLABORAZIONE DI CIOZ/VEGA Book Reviews By Lore/Iris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you read a book whose name is "King Solomon's Mines" from H.Rider Haggard? You know certainly this book. So I will tell you about another book from the same writer. H.Rider Haggard has written "She" in 1887. The story takes place in the beginning of the nineteen century. 200 years before Christ, She killed the man she loves because of jealousy. And during 2000 years, She is waiting for him (for his reincarnation) and after their meeting, She can endly accept to die. In the most unknown part of Africa (near Lybia) in a very ancient and forgotten kingdom (ROR) we are at the passionate reunion of two lovers whose time had separated. To be really together, they will have to stand the test of Time, of life and of Death. She embodies the Beauty, but a supernatural beauty, a Beauty who comes from the Devil. That's why She has to wear a veil to hide her Beauty. All the men fall in love with She and loose their minds and become mad. She has a thourough knowledge of the Nature. She's got the powers of the Nature. She can kill the people with her mind. Leo Vincey is the man she loves (or Rallikrates in the antiquity) and is a very beautiful man. Holly is the intelligent man. He's very ugly but he's the best friend of Leo and She. He's the 2nd man she loves (in Friendship). But in reality, who is She? You can learn everything about She in the 2 other adventures in the fantastic: - Ayesha, the return of She - Wisdom's Daughter A little story about... By Cioz/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1, 2, 3, lose your time and blow your mind! This is CIOZ of VEGA writing another story.This time the main actor is a guy from North Africa and his code- name is RAUL/IBB! (ogni riferimento a fatti o persone reali e' puramente casua- le!) As I've said, his name is Raoul Casadei and he dreams he's the best coder in the world every night. But during a stormin night the wizard of the lamers appears to him..(sfx: PUFF!) "Raul, you will be n.1 coder in the globe, but remember, only for one day until 12 p.m.!" (sfx: RIPUFF!) So the poor guy goes to SMAU and the people who watched his demo gets completely allucinated... (sfx: AARGH!, MIIIINNCHIA!, DA FOGO!) Later the big lamer subscribed a contract with Psygnosis...... But for Raul this is not a lucky day: infact at 12 pm sharp his magic power is OVER. (sfx: STRAPUFF!) So the hero of the lamers went fast home. Then finally at Raul-house...(RADIO ROSALIA NETWORK): "We are desperately seeking for the wonderful coder who made the SMAU megademo!! If you are liste- nig come here immediately!" So the lamer goes back to SMAU... RAUL: "Yes, I'm the mysterious coder! Infact I've got the original demo disk!" PSYG: "Mmmhhh... Let's try first!" But without the magic power, his disk returns to contain the original crapdemo by IBB: It's so unbearable to watch and listen to that all chips get broken and it adds the high tension.... The screen reveals the deep truth: it was the new crapdemo by RAUL/IBB.... After clicking left mouse..(sfx : CLICK!) CCCRRRRUUUUNNNCHHHH! (sfx : Maremm' u' scrufh!) The terminal exploded in face of the Psygnosys boss and fired all people who were watching the demo. (sfx: AIUTO, AIUTO, AL LUPO!) In just 1 minute all the computers of the SMAU exploded like bombs causing many innocent victims. (sfx: Minchia, peggio 'o Chernobyl u fattu!) The poor LAMER RAUL/IBB had to wash the smau toilets for about 10 years to pay all disasters....(sfx: FLIP, FLOP, SPLUSH, SPLASH!) MORALE: Raoul! We don't wanna start a war with you, but if you say that Filip- petto is a lamer just because he swaps sources (remember SWAPPING doesn't mean RIPPING) it means that you have something against Filippetto, therefor we feel free to have something against you (we asked E$G and he said "OK, DO WHAT YOU WANT!" HUAH HUAH!) By the way: don't try to tell that TEO's copper-fractal routine is not original, 'cause you know that TEO codes all his routines from ZERO and if you don't believe it we will send you the complete source of the POP-COP demo so you can check it all and learn some REAL Assembler...we could add some comments in the source so that all loosers like you can understand the most difficult points... This story will be available also as a comic in the next issue... Demo Reviews By Filippetto and Bitjoker/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all we remind you to send your demos to: F.Rizzi or C.Noventa V.Vescovado 39 V.Vannozzo 17 35141 Padova 35131 Padova Italy Italy Another thing: if we will receive a high number of demos, we will surely start a demo competition. But we have to receive at least 10 demos... Gambling House (Shadows) - This is a multipart demo from a group that is still not so famous, even if it can be considered a high-level group. All in all the most impressive things are the coding and the graphics. The coder, named Kilroy, used some routines that aren't new but well-coded, so the final impres- sion of this demo is not bad. Coding: 6.75 Music: 6.50 Design: 7 Graphics: 6.75 Ideas: 5.75 TOTAL: 6.55 The Ultimate Sine (Dutch Dream) - This short demo from a dutch team consist in a med-res sinus scroller. The routine is presented as a very new thing, but we already saw med-res sinus scrollers in lot of previous demos (Seven sins by Scoopex, FICA Powerpacks menu...). There is also an animated sprite flying over the screen and some text changing in the lower part of the screen. Two bad things: the sinuswave is not moving and the text-changing routine has a bug (sometime the screen flashes). So we face that Incog, the coder, has been cool to code a 620x200 sinus routine, but with only a routine (and not so new) there's no reason to release a demo. Coding: 5.50 Music: 5.75 Design: 5 Graphics: 5 Ideas: 5 TOTAL: 5.25 Lemming's Destruction (Magic) - This 2 parts demo from the germans Magic has a very old-styled look, and the thing that surely ruins the global impression is the bad gfx. In the first part we find an ugly logo with an old wave-effect, a simple 1-row writer, some copper effects, a scroll with a colorcycle effect and the best effect: a Lemming escaping from a running tank. By pressing the button we go to the second part, again with a logo (better but not so good) and many scrolls (all with colorcycle effect). The music is an "honest" tune, this means that it's not so bad. We have to consider that this is the first demo from Magic. Improvements are needed, but we are sure that Magic will grow up. Coding: 5 Music: 6 Design: 6 Graphics: 4.5 Ideas: 6.5 TOTAL: 5.6 (continues in next article) The 'Aero' History Review! By The Master/Aero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello there readers, I am 'The Master' & I am the one who started Aero.. It all started about Juli 1990 when my old group was about to fall apart. We were only 3 members left in the group & only 1 active, and that was me!!! I have just started coding & I thought that there was no need for a group this low!!! Why should I code in a group which was low & would stay low 4ever????? Anyway, I talked to one of my best friends 'Iceman' & he said yes to try to start a new group.. Then I called the 2 members in my old g roup and told them that they would die soon, coz' I would leave the group today!!! They didn't give it a second thought so now 'AERO' was born.. I started to phone some of my other friends to see if they were interested in joining!!! I called 'Cyborg' & he was a member of a 2 man group with only 1 active member!!!! He said yes & so did 'VAG'.... Well now we were 4 Members & about this time the 'Stereo Evolution I' was finished... It was our first release & our first music disk!!! Well about a week later I talked to 'Gargoyle' & found out that he was beginning to code on the Amiga!! Now we had - grown to five members!!! But Iceman had some troubles so he left the group!! ( Only to return later ).. We started to code on a Mega-Demo & in the meentime we got 3 new members 'Mick', 'Dosh' & 'Demon'!!!!! We have reached November 1990 and we had released the following stuff: some utilities, Demopacks, 3 demo's, 2 Music disk's called Stereo Evolution I & II........ Well we have now reached January 1991 where we held our - Computer Conference... Well it wasn't that big a Succes but we got a new member - called 'Slide'.... He was tired of being in a group who did not make any releases & since we relased a demo or pack - approx every week, we where the answer to his prayers. (ha-ha). Time went by & about 2 Week's after our conf. we released our first Mega-Demo.. It wasn't that good, but it was quite fair!!! We released about 3 more demopacks & some utilities.... And then we got 2 new members called: 'Cobra' & 'Phalcon'...... Yo', we are getting bigger... Well people started to write a lot of letters to us about joining us!!!! Well we got a lot of new contacts & I hope we will get more after this article.... Anyway, we got a new musician for about 2 Weeks and then he dropped out & so did 'Demon'......... We have now almost reached the end... Gargoyle & I (The Master) has now got some XP in coding... Well, after we released our 'old' demo 'EdderCopper', Iceman told me that he knew a coder who wanted to join us (Bionic) !!! And so he did & so did 'Iceman'......... And a few days ago - Phalcon called me & said that 'The Sob' would like to join us again & so he did!!!!! So we are a quite cool group now!!! This group is not based on how big we are??? It's based on friendship..... So before I end this text I would like to say to 'Amaze', sorry dudes, but we are not interested in joining you. We like it here in our group... These following persons are members of Aero: The Master - Coding, Graphics, Music, Swapping, Compacting. Gargoyle - Coding, Graphics, Swapping, Vhs. Iceman - Coding. Bionic - Coding. Cyborg - Compacting, Swapping. Phalcon - Graphics, Swapping. Gambler - Swapping. Slide - Graphics, Music, Swapping. Cobra - Swapping. Mick - Swapping, Vhs. The Sob - Music. Vag - Graphics, Music. Dosh - Graphics, Music. Well I guess that's it, so count us in next time you write about the Danish Scene, coz' I got 13 Reasons why you should.... The new revolutionary Amiga By Helioth/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some days ago, a friend of mine told me something about a revolutionary Amiga. And of course I wanted to find out something more. And here is the result. So enjoy, dream and hope ! The first person who divulged this was a Commodore retailer to the owner of a computer shop in Bern. The information spreaded by itself as a rumour. The name of the new Amiga is unknown to me. The only informations I got are... The copper and blitter processors are both gathered onto only one processor. It begets a great gain of calculation's time and a gain of money. The microprocessor is a 68020 one, the calculation is three times faster than a normal Amiga 500, but such a microprocessor is very expensive... About the sound, I just got this information : No more four channels music, but eight channels. The Amiga 500 has eight too, but it takes a lot of memory to use them. On the new Amiga it'll be normal to use eight channels everywhere. Just imagine the result with the games, the music and the sound effects playing together without problem of lack of channels. About the graphics : the resolution is very high, I don't know the exact number but I can say something like 1000 over ????. The colours on the Amiga 500 are normaly of 32 colours on a palette of 4096 colours. On the new Amiga it'll be 4096 colours on a palette of 16 millions colours ! And of course, there are so many Amigas 500 all over the world that Commodore had to do its new computer compatible with the Amiga 500... But I don't now the limits of such a compatibility if you consider the differences between those two machines... For me it's a great question mark. About the price, they must make something cheaper than the Amiga 3000, if not this new machine will not be bought. I've heard it'll cost about 2000 swiss francs ( 1500 $ ) with a monitor, but the microprocessor costs already 1000 sfr by itself... If I'm writing a true story, it'll be fantastic because I always was thinking about how many years will the Amiga scene still be going on. I always was thinking that we were slowly but surely reaching a saturation level. But with a new computer fully compatible with the old ones we can continue the same scene, it can give us an extra time of about 5 years... This Amiga will be presented for the first time at the shows before the beginning of the new year. Mhhh... but remember, it's just a rumour, perhaps this new Amiga just doesn't exist ! About Amiga Graphics By Helioth/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First let's make an introduction to this article... It's very difficult to be a good and wellknown graphician because all freaks can do graphics if they aren't abnormal at all... A freak who buys an Amiga and who has no experience with the scene will try to enter into a debutant group ( You perhaps noticed that I didn't use the word lame. The reason is that NOBODY IS LAME ! But that's another chapter... ). Spreading is too normal for him, he wants to be something "more". Of course he'll be another shitty graphician, but enough of that ! The real graphicians are people who are able to paint things BY HAND, a graphician is somebody who has a talent in drawing. Think about it... Well, let's start with my article... Clack ! Your DP disk is insered into your drive for the first time... Well, how does this program look... Hmmm, you are in front of your Deluxe Paint screen and you naivelly think " Yeah, that seems to be damn easy ! ". Yes, you are right, it's very easy, but first you'll have to LEARN how to draw on a computer because it's really different. After some hours you're still checking the capacities of this marvelous program, and later your first ideas are being pixelled... The first ugly logos appear, behind them you see the reflection of your smile... You're so proud of your masterpieces that you're looking for sending them to your favorite group. After some weeks you don't know why you don't get any answer... That's not enough to be very good in hand drawing as I said it before, drawing on a computer is different, some good effects are possible and there is a lot of restrictions... Every graphician has his method and it brings you nothing more if you pick up the method of another graphician, it's a thing you must find yourself. The most important thing before pixelling some burning shit is the ORIGINALITY, all graphicians ( I hope... ) know this... A logo looks much better if you use CURVES. To fill the logo, you must find again an original idea ( But no diagonal pseudo-coppers, urgh ! ) and then report it into the logo form, but then your logo will probabely look like a bad one dimensional logo. To do a good 3 dimensional impression just work together with the shadow. You must feel it yourself to get a good result. To render your logo more attractive here is a suggestion that cannot be applied in all cases, adapt yourself to your logo : just draw a background in the same theme as the logo. It's very important to SMOOTH the curves of your logo to do invisible pixels. Of course I don't allude to the "smooth" option of Deluxe Paint, it doesn't give the same result. Make an anti-climax from the logo's border to the background colour, use one or two colours if necessary. With this method the pixels must disappear to let an impression of curve. Of course this smooth method is generally used to fill up the logo. Try to use as few colours as possible ( It takes a lot of memory, for those who don't know... ), try to use complementary colours ( You should feel it yourself. )... All the things I described in this article are logic but there are still too many pseudo-graphicians over there who don't know that they need some originality. To do logos three things must be kept in mind, they are : - ORIGINALITY - CURVES - NO VISIBLE PIXELS Well, that was my first speech, you'll certainly see more articles or interviews from me in the next Freedom Crack but don't be frightened ! They'll be better ( Hope so... )! SUPPORT FREEDOM CRACK, GUYS! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************ * CONTACT -=> MANIACS <=- IF U ARE AN GRAPHICSMAN,MUSICIAN,SWAPPER OR * * CODER !!!! IF U ARE ONE OF THESE GUYS THEN U SHOULD CONTACT US AT: * * XARIUN OF MANIACS * * N.JENSEN * * DRONNINGENSGADE 77 * * 7000 FREDERICIA * * DENMARK * * PS: NO LAMERS, PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! * ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** * * *** *** *** *** *** | Success is seeking new members. Everybody is * * * * * * * * | welcome (except lamers!) to join us. Coders *** * * * * ** *** *** | and musicians especially wanted. Interested? * * * * * * * * | Then write to: Success HQ, Sk. Hedevej 78, *** *** *** *** *** *** *** | DK-8250 Egaa, Denmark. We want you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** * ***** **** **** ** * ** ** ** * ** * **** ** *** ****** ** * ** ** * ** * ** ***** **** ** * We are looking for new members...but they have to be COOL! Doesn't matter where you live or what you do...you just have to be COOL! Send some examples of your work, we'll reply you if we liked them! So don't hesitate to write to: F.Rizzi - V.Vescovado 39 - 35141 Padova - Italy! Article writers for Freedom Crack are welcome! Also lamers are welcome cause we always need some free disks... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IRIDE * seeking new members (coders, musician, graphicians) Write now to: Salvatore di Fede Via Filippo di Giovanni 103 90146 Palermo Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOKES By Icebreaker/Parasites ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIGHT BEFORE I GO ON TELLING THIS GREAT JOKE?? I FIRST WANT TO SAY THAT IF YOU JUST READ THE TOP OF THIS TEXT AND SAID "ICEBREAKER OF THE PARASITES WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY??" WELL IT A NEW GROUP SO NOTHING MORE SAID. THE JOKE IS: ONE DAY THERE WAS THIS PRO. STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK SHE WAS A SLIM LONG LEGED BLOND WITH TITS THE SIZE OF MELLONS A SMALL (TIGHT FITTING) MINI TOP (AND BOTTOM) AND ITS UP TO YOUR OWN IMAGINATION TO THINK OF WHAT SHE WAS WEARING UNDER ALL THAT (OR NOT WEARING), WELL SHE WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING VERY SEXY SO TO GET A GUY WHO WAS WILLING TO PAY HER PRICE A GOOD SHAG (OR WHATEVER CAME TO HIS MIND) WHEN THIS OTHER PRO. WHO LOOKED FOWL I.E SHE WAS WEARING NOT A LOT WITH SCRUFFY HAIR RIPS IN HER CLOTHING EVERYWARE AND SPUNK DRIPPING DOWN HER LEGS, (LOOKS JUST LIKE SOME OF THEM UP HANLEY DUCK) CAME OTHER TO HER AND SAID "YOU HAVE A GREAT CLOTHES A GREAT HAIR DOO AND YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO RICH HOW DO YOU DO IT?" SO THE RICH ONE (LETS CALL HER TINA (NOOOOO! NO YOU (SHE IS READING THIS AS I TYPE))) SAID "I WILL LET YOU INTO A LITTLE SECRET OF MINE. WHEN (IF) YOU GET A CUSTMER JUST BEFORE YOU DO IT PUSH AN ELASTIC BAND UP YOUR CUNT AND WHEN HE PULLS HIS COCK OUT THE ELASTIC BAND WILL GO TWANGGGGG!! AND YOU SCREAM AND SHOUT TO THE GUY YOU BASTARD YOU'VE FUCKED IN MY CUNT THAT A FINE OF WHATEVER THE SITUATION IS". SO THE SCRUFFY ONE (LETS CALL HER EMMA AFTER MY OLD BIT WHO HAS PISED OFF WIT ANOTHER GUY "BITCH") GOES OFF AND TRYS THIS AND AFTER ABOUT 8 WEEKS SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST LOOKING PRO'S. AROUND (AND MOST EXPENSIVE) AND ONE DAY THIS MILLIONAIR (RICHARD BRANSON) DOES SOME BUSINESS WITH HER SO EMMA GOES OUT AND SPENDS ALL HER MONEY ON THIS GREAT BIG ELASTIC BAND AND TAKES ABOUT HALF A HOUR PUSHING IT UP HER CUNT AND HAS A GREAT SHAG WITH RICHARD AND AFTER HE PULLS HIS DICK OUT ALL 2" OF IT THE ELASTIC BAND KICKS INTO ACTION TTTTTWWWWAAANNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!! AND EMMA SCREAMS OUT "OOOOOOOHHHHHH YOU'VE TOTALLY FUCKED IN MY FANNY I WON'T BE ABLE TO HAVE A SHAG EVER AGAIN YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY ME #10,000,000,000.23p AND RICHARD SHOUTS FUCK YOUR FANNY MY BOLLOCKS HAVE JUST FLEW THROUGH THE WINDOW!!! (HA,HA,HA,HA,HA) THATS IT SO IF YOU DIDN'T FIND FUNNY TRY IT OUT ON A LAMER AND SEE HOW FUNNY IT IS ALSO IF THIS LOOKS AND READS TOTALLY FUCKED THEN THAT'S BECAUSE I AM TYPING AT 4am AND I AM TOTALY FUCKED. ALSO IF YOU HAVE A GIRLFREND BY ANY OF THE NAMES ABOVE (TINA, EMMA, RICHARD????) THEN I AM NOT IN ANY WAY REFERING TO THEM (UNLESS YOU LIKE THE IDEA???) THATS IT I'M OFF NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN IN THIS MAG (EXCEPT IN JOBS) SO I WILL LEAVE YOU THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT FEW LINES: IF ONE DAY AT A PARTY YOU WAKE UP WITH A TRIPHIC HANGOVER AND FIND YOURSELF NEXT TO THE BIGGEST DOG (OR SHEEP?) AT THE PARTY AND FIND OUT THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT HOW YOU SHAGED HER AND ARE TAKING THE PISS TELL THEM THESE WORDS "YOU DON'T LOOK AT THE MANTAL PEACE WHEN YOUR POKEING THE FIRE" WELL IT WORKED FOR ME ONCE! (IT GETS THEM THINKING ABOUT INBETWEEN THE LEGS OF THAT GIRL??????) Manta-Jokes By Skybase/Nightmare ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are Coming some Manta-Jokes (Sorry, just in German Language!!) ? Warum hat ein Manta 10 Scheinwerer vorm Kuehler-Grill??? ! Damit der Fahrer auch Nacht's mit Sonnenbrille Fahren Kann!!!!!! ? Warum sachlaeft ein Manta-Fahrer im Keller?? ! Tiefer und Haerter geht's Nimmer!!! ? Was ist Die Logischste Steigerung von Esel oder Idiot??? ! Manta-Fahrer!!!! ? Was bleibt ueber, wenn ein Manta verbrennt???? ! Eine Schwangere Friseuse, Ein Goldkettchen und Ein Paar CowboyStiefel!!! Anzeige in der F.A.Z. (Zeitung) vom Samstag, 14.3.1991: "Tausche Manta und Schwangere Friseuse gegen HauptSchulAbschluss!!!" ? Was ist, wenn 20 Manta's vor der Sonderschule stehen????????????? ! Elternabend!!!! ? Was ist laecherlich???????????????? ! Ein Manta vor der Uni!!!!!!!!!!! Zettel an einer Grossen Deutschen Sonderschule: "Wer schengt einen Dumen, Bloden Sonderhuler einem Lifergefliegten Manta????????? Ubergebe auch Portohosten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" So, That is I believe Enough for now!!!!! Do you want more Manta-Jokes?????????? Look in the Next Issue of Freedom-Crack!!!!!!!!!!!! So, This Is Signed of on Saturday, 01/06/1991 by Skybase of Nightmare!!!!!!!!! WORLD OF RAP by Rhythm Rebel -music with a big beat and a message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rap has been around a long time. It's been over nine years since Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five recorded their LP "The Message." Or 13 years since Sugar Hill Gang set New York street rhymes on vinyl. But it has taken long enough to put rap on the map and it's here to stay now! Throughout the '70s recorded rap existed only in the form of live shows taped on cassette, duped on double decks and passed from friend to friend. Then in 1979, the first rap record was released "King Tim III (Personality jock)," the B-side of the Fatback Band's "You're My Candy Sweet," it went to the charts right away. Later that same year Sugar Hill Gang released "Rapper's Delight," it changed everything and was the first rap record that went platinium. In '83, a new group Run DMC hit the charts with the release of "Sucker MCs," Driven by a booming 808 kick that definately destroys your car speakers and of course cool lyrics telling how they started and how great they are. Run DMC's tunes are hardcore rap at its hardest. Tracks like "King Of Rock" and their lashing, smashing cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" opened the door for LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, and other "Hardcore B-boys." The rap records which were made in the beginning, like the ones on the Sugar Hill label, were just disco records with a guy rapping on them. That's because these were companies who were making disco records, before rap become popular. Rick Rubin (He is owner of Def Jam and was producer of Beastie Boys) made records that had more to do with what the rap scene was in the clubs, where the kind of beats emcees were rapping over weren't disco beats; they were pure rock and roll beats, like Billy Squier's and Aerosmith's. So he made the beats on these records more oriented toward rock. Rock influences can b clearly heard from Beasties' first albums tracks "Fight For Your Right" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." Darryl McDanields of Run DMC: "When we did 'Rock Box' and 'King Of Rock' these headbangers couldn't believe the tracks we made. They like, 'Yo, man, that's really bad!' It definitely brought them in, and now, they still with it. Even if Run DMC don't put a metal track, they gonna buy the album and they'll wind up liking a hiphop jam, they'll end up liking a cut like 'Run's House' or 'Beats To The Rhyme.' Now they understand it. They followed the guitar in there, and then they found out there was a whole other side to it." A Run DMC concert, which in '85, would draw maybe a 70 or 80 percent black audience, is now drawing a 70 or 80 percent white audience. Things have changed in rap. When rap first started with Kool DJ Herc, It came into the nation from Jamaica, which can be heard of da rap songs of today. There are many rappers whose style of rapping is close to the toasters of reggae. The rap-reggae connection is affirmed for example by: Dr. Alban's "No Coke," Special Ed's tracks, Daddy-Freddy's style to rap, Run-DMC had a tune "Roots, Rap, Reggae." Even the Fat Boys have done a reggae rap "Hard Core Reggae." Queen Latifah had a t rack called "Princess Of The Posse" on her album, that has a very heavy reggae groove in it. Historically, the big influence on the New York-based hiphop movement has been Caribbean and Jamaican music. Africa Bambaata has Jamaican roots, Grandmaster Flash has Caribbean roots. These days rap is everywhere . There are so many different type of musicians who use rap on their songs: Anthrax, Paula Abdul, New Kids On The Block... I don't know is it good or bad. For the artists, it is just a way to sell more records. Rap music is really selling a lot and people at record companies know it. There are rappers who have recorded from all over the world. GETTING GIRLS (Andy/Addonic) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have read a lot of articles lately about 'Getting Girls' but they were all humour articles, and so I have written one that does contain serious things (Somewhere...) So! Your having trouble getting girlys are you? Well, first identify your problem... Is it one of these: 1) Not having the guts to go up to them. 2) Not knowing what to say. or 3) You are very ugly. Well, Im sorry to those who answered 3, as you will have to rely on your personality to impress girls, and this article wont really help you here! (Or it might... There is someone for everyone!) Ok! Now to deal with the points: 1) Look, the only thing a girl can really say to you if you go up to them is NO. Don't worry about the million to one chance of her getting really shitty, as a girl like this is a waste of time anyway. Just walk straight up to the girl the moment you see her (The more time you spend thinking about, the more excuses you will find for NOT going up to her!) FACT: A lot of girls dont really get that many boys going up to them and talking: A lot of REALLY good looking girls NEVER (!) get boys going up to them, as they all think she wont be interested! FACT: 9 times out of 10 a girl will be flattered and at least have a drink with you.. It doesnt really matter if they dont go any further, as all the experiance you get will build your confidance up for next time. FACT: A LOT of girls go to nightclubs and bars and hope a boy will go and talk to them as much as boys hope they will want to! STORY: A boy who asks lots of girls to dance will get lots of NO's, but will also get a lot of YES's as well... A boy that asks one or two is cutting the odds down! HINT: Try this if you want to see if a girl is interested in you or not... Make eyes at a girl across the bar/nightclub and when she has met your gaze a few times, move when she is not looking to behind a piller or something where you can see her. If she looks where you were sat and then looks around the room to find you, she is probably interested! (continues in next article) 2) What to say... Well, this is the question I get asked most of all, and here is the few chat up lines I use (Along with the successes I have had with them!) "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" - Hmm... corny, but flattering! (A few liked it, but I dont use it now) "Hello! I'm Andy.. How are you doing?" - This requires a lot of bottle to do, but I find it works great if you say it with great confidance! (Lots of success, especially with older girls.) "My friends bet me that I wouldnt go up to the best looking girl in this nightclub/bar/etc.." - This works great on teenagers, but is a bit corny for older girls; it doesn't require much confidance. (It works great though.. Most of my friends use this one in towns we haven't been to before.) "Are you alone? No? You shouldnt be with legs like that..." (I use this a lot!) (At a university party) "What degree are you doing? (Blah) You are? You are far to intelligent to have an arse like that!" (From Roadhouse!) "Havent I seen you before somewhere?", "Are you that model from...", "Did I see you in the fashion show at..." etc.. These work with some success in some situations... It depends. (I dont use them!) Follow the above bullshit up with an offer to buy her a drink, or to dance, or to get something to eat etc... FACT: Although a girl might not seem very interested, she might be... Dont push, and if she gets uninterested pretend to be uninterested yourself... Sometimes works. Girls like attention, and want to know why your giving it! Good luck! Roland D-110 Test!!! By DHS of Italian Bad Boys ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Roland expander is one of the best seller of this factory. Now, it's out of production, so you can buy it for few money. Since it's an expander, you must use it in combination with a MIDI-Keyboard, or of course.....with your Amiga! Since I bought it without documentation, this description cannot be accurate! The D-110 is a digital synth, using Roland's famous "LA Synthesis" sound generation. It has got 8 musical parts and 1 rhythmical part. This means that you can use 8 different instruments at the same time (also in polyphony) plus a separate drums section. It has 128 sampled waveforms in memory, to generate all kinds of sounds, and 128 PCM sounds (samples) to play with. We can also play with TVF and TVA filters, reverber, chorus, cutoff and resonance. Looking at the black chassis, we can find a volume output controller, a head- phones jack, 16x2 LCD display, 16 keys, 1 slot for PCM cards, a led and the power button. Backwards, it has 7 audio outputs and the usual Midi IN-OUT-THRU. The memory is organized with patches (a lot!) Any patch contains the 8+1 parts, where you can store the selected timbres for a song... A patch = the instru- ments for a song... Easy or not!? You can set for any part the output level, the pan (percentage for R/L chans), the keyrange (C-1 to G-9), the MIDI channel of the part and the PTL reserve. I still haven't found the way to edit the sound with the synth itself...so I use the Dr.T's D-110 Editor (Great!) that allows you to store anything the D-110 keeps in his mem on 3.5" disks, and, of course, to...edit the sounds... you can obtain what you want... I use D-110 in combination with MED 3.00, the best MIDI sequencer available on Amiga. But I would like to see on Amy the great Steimberg's CUBASE. I can say that the performances of D-110 are very similar to the ones of D-50 and D-70. To try out what D-110 can do, simply listen to one of the 8 demo songs in memory...astounding! (My favourite is number 4, "My Brother"). If you're lucky, you can find an used D-110 for about 500 US $. Interview with ALPHABIT of CHRONOS By Filippetto/Vega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRONOS is a brand new (?) italian group, born, as well as I know, from some sections of RESOLUTION 101, AGGRESSORS and others. Here's a short interview with ALPHABIT (real name PINO). - Yeah Alphabit. Come on, let's start this crap. How many members does your group have? - About 30. If you want I can tell you all names, functions, ages... - NO THANKS! Why do you swap only with your modem? - We swap by post, too. We have a few mailswappers. But you see, our group is based on the BBS also because there is a commercial concept about this all. - Do you mean that you also make abos? - Yeah of course. Not all members, but we have to find a way to pay our phonebills. I ensure that there is no large money earning. - What happened to GAB (ex-Aggressors' coder, one of the coolest in Italy)? - Gab had to stop for a while due to some problems with the university (he didn't make any exam for a lot of time and his father got angry like hell) - As maybe all world knows, you are now in war with another italian group called DIVINA. - Because they went against us firstly. It's a long story. First we were in very good relationship with them, then the problems started when Timescape used for his demo a Sledge's pic with a wrong palette so that Sledge's name was nearly unreadable, but he didn't want to do it, it was necessary, cause all over picture were running some dots which had to have that colour... Anyway Sledge got angry and then the relationship became harder and harder (in italian language, with other words: e' andato tutto a puttane) - Who's the best modemtrader in Italy? - There are many cool BBS's here. There's not a real leader. The most important thing to stay in the scene is to keep on importing, spreading and so on. There's no break, you always need to have the newest each day. Anyway I think that TOMCAT of QUARTEX may be one of the best in Italy. - Future plans? - The second issue of our Superchart is nearly ready (the chart is voted via BBS). It's very cool: cool animation, cool music, excellent improved coding. We are also trying to get a good original supplier to crack something. Then we should relase soon our own mag, but a new kind: it will be released each 15 days, and it will contain just the latest news from the elite scene for the elite scene. And, last but not least, we're also preparing our first megademo. - Do you want to greet someone? - Aaarrgh! All people who collaborate with us and are against Divina! - Ok Alphabit! Thanx for the interview and see you soon! Editorial --------- After 4 months of delay we finally ha- years and is present, for example, in ve managed to finish this seventh is- the Eurocharts since 1 year. sue of Freedom Crack! We hope you wil- Then I would like to thank some guys l appreciate it as you have apprecia- who contributed to the success of this ted all the previous ones. magazine. The first ones who believed First of all, a great new: this is the in it were Sterling and Saigon of Sa- last issue of Freedom Crack with this vage. Without their help this magazine code. Since issue 8, Freedom Crack couldn't be here. Then I would like to will be into 1 disk! We know that you thank Bomber and Pinhead of Anarchy. maybe will say: "But the cool thing While we were in the same group (Ama- was that Freedom Crack was into 1 fi- ze) they kept on supporting this maga- le and we were able to put it in our zine and worked as main editors for collections!", but lot of people "for- issue 4. Issue 4 has been maybe the ced" us to do this step ahead. The best issue ever, and this thanks to new code is nearly finished and has their great work (greetings also to been developed by TEO/Vega. I intro- Galaxy! Call me sometimes!) duce you some of its features: you can Finally, this magazine passed to Vega. insert graphics in text, as always you And here, together with all the cool can have 4 different text colours and people who sent me articles, the best various fonts, some articles have ac- help has come from the swiss members tive plasma effect in a text color, of Vega, Helioth and Bacteria, who the text area is much bigger, there helped me a lot with this issue and are a great logo and a great menu with the previous one. screen painted by Magic and there is And a final thank goes to all people the print-routine. As you have maybe who have spread this product in their noticed, the print routine is present own countries and outside too. E$G of also in this issue. Try it, cause it IBB, Trix of Rebels, Sorehead of TRSI, works without printer.device, so it's Phazer of Extreme and other friends. very fast! The final words of this Editorial have Now we spend some words about some er- the aim to encourage you to send arti- rors we made recently. For example, we cles(everyone who sends 1 article gets lost some advertisements. "Boooo", you 1 free advertisement) and to support will say, and you're right...but what this magazine and vote for it in the can we do? When something has been lo- charts. st, it's lost! So all people who sent You will notice that in this issue us an advertisement and doesn't see it there is just 1 interview. This becau- in this issue can send us another ad- se we think that we had something mo- vert (of course free, without disk- re interesting to put in. payment). See you all in issue 8! Another important point regards the articles. From the next issue, which Filippetto/Vega will take an entire disk, we will ne- ed more articles. So we are really looking for people who wants to write sometimes articles! 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MAGAZINE ADDRESSES ------------------ Send articles, advertisements Send news to: and letters to: Bacteria/Vega Filippo Rizzi Box 113 Via Vescovado 39 1032 Romanel 35141 Padova - Italy Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO SEND ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** To receive the mag ** - Send 1 checked disk, your address and 10.- DM or 20.00 F or 5 $ or 8000 L or the same as 5 US $ in your local money ** NEVER SEND COINS: ONLY BANKNOTES ** Note: don't ask us the previous issues, cause we don't have them anymore! ** To send articles ** Write articles with a Text editor like TxEd, QEd, Cygnus or something like that, then send your works to the address you see above. We are always searching for good article writers and cool guys who can write articles but also reports, interviews and tips and want to join our staff. Remember that who sends article(s) can have 1 free advertisement!!! So if you send us an article remember to include your advertisement too! ** To send advertisements/job offers-requests ** NEVER send them on disk. Just send us a piece of paper with your advertisement or your job offer/request and 1 blank checked disk or the equal in your local money (banknotes!) Only 1 advertisement is allowed, this means that we won't publish more that 1 addy of 1 person or 1 group. "THINK ABOUT IT..." By Soul/Cyrus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a thought for you.... Have you ever referred to someone by using the term "lamer"? If so, then why? Is it because they are unable to supply you with hot warez or because they find it difficult coding a simple scroller or a starfield? Or is it because all they do is collect games and don't do sod all else on the Amy?! Well whatever the reason is, it all boils down to the same point. That is being abusive towards people just because they are unable to do things you can. The term lamer is abusive because it is generally used in the sense of promoting the fact that the person in question is useless or stupid. After all one of the applicable definitions of lame is 'stupid person'. And sometimes we say things not being aware of what we are implying... I am sure there are plenty of things others can do that you can't, so would it be justifiable to call you a lamer? And for you lot out there who are turning round and saying "Well does it really matter?" I'm afraid to say yes it does matter. And to prove the point here's an example... If someone was to call you a motherfucker, I am sure (if you had a bit of decency) you would not stand for a remark like that. Now it just so happens that the guy who abuses you is twice the size of you and you know that one kick from him and you'll be looking for one of your balls down the drain and then ask the next man to post you your other ball if he finds it....What can you do other than ignore the remark, but I am sure you'll feel hurt. Well, someone who gets referred to as a lamer is bound to be hurt by your actions. So why cause trouble and grief? You would agree that no one is born from their mum's womb knowing it all that's why we have a life so we can learn about different things and broaden our knowledge. If you are a good coder or a musician then you have worked for it and learned from friends, books or whatever. You are in a seperate class from the people who cannot code and do music, but you are definately not superior in any sense. Just remember, the Amiga is a computer. A passtime. What really matters is Ethics, Morals, Friendship, Manners and Sense. If we want to be successful in life we will find that abuse and down grading other people will not help us achieve the fancy dreams we all have. Instead we will find ourselves lost, alone and hopeless. We must learn to appreciate people for even the slightest quality they possess. We must learn that there are beginners in this world, like you were once, and they deserve every opportunity to learn. Our constructive criticisms will help them learn but our rude remarks will de-moralise them and hurt them... No one wants to be hurt. (continues in next article) (continues from previous article) The reason for me writing this article is that recently I have been meeting a lot of people who talk to me about people they know and refer to them as lamers. When I question them I usually get a silly answer like: "Ohhh...He's a lamer because he doesn't know what a boot block is...." or "He's a lamer because he sent me a game and I already had it..." You know the basic kind of shit I mean. So I have to ask them questions in which I can get the chance to call them a lamer. Not out of spite, but I do explain to them afterwards (after calling them a lamer for a reason) that they didn't like it and others don't too. So cut the macho shit and stop treating people in a crude and negative sense, you never know who's round the corner waiting to do more to you than call you a lamer. The Amiga is a truely remarkable computer. It has not only given us lot a machine which we can manipulate and enjoy, it has created another world revolving around itself. Here I refer to the Amiga scene, which is no small thing. The organisation of groups, the trading, the links, the work people put into their productions gives life to the computer and opens the doors to a different world. A world where we don't have hatred, crime and the nasty things in life, but instead we can meet people who share the same interest and above all we have escaped from the brutal face of reality...However there are people who spoil this computer world of ours by introducing the same harmful, abusive and disliked concepts we face everyday in the real world. Call no one lame and hurt no one's feelings. Everybody is part of this big Amiga Family, so let us all pitch in and do what we can to keep the scene alive, kicking and above all friendly. I apologise sincerely if anyone has been offended by anything I may have said. My aim is not to put people down or abuse anyone, I am trying to convey a simply message that I feel we should not be calling others Lame, in any sense. It may seem harmless enough to you who's saying it, but try to think of the person who you are saying it to. What will he think of you, and he may take it to heart and why are you making enemies for no reason at all. Just relax, enjoy yourself and make friends.. For without friendship, we wouldn't be here today! Think about it mate. Friends Forever. Soul...The Middle Man To Death. ************************************* *********************************** * * * * * If you need cool contact * * SPIX-4 * * write to: * * * *------Uncle Jasu of SHOCKWAVE------* *-----FOR HOT & COOL SWAPPING-----* * P.O.BOX 175 * * Write to: * * 84101 YLIVIESKA * * * * F I N L A N D * * Mr.Uncut of SPIX-4 * * E U R O P E * * Rantatie 5 * * * * 84100 YLIVIESKA * * Send disk(s) = 100% ANSWER * * F I N L A N D * * No joke!!! * * E U R O P E * * * * * * We need more coders and if you * * LONG Letter + Disk=100% Answer * * are coder without group write: * * PS. 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No brats! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEAST Contact REFLECTORS for long letters Iam (BLAST) searching cool new contacts and cool swapping. Write to: If U want swap with me everything then write a letter and send disks to: ZINGO/REFLECTORS EROL OZCAN KULLMANNSV. 7A Hurriyet Mah. Egitim sok. 291 35 KRISTIANSTAD No:51 80340 Kagithane SWEDEN ISTANBUL / TURKIYE U dont 4get I am cool,reliable,fast or dial +46(0)44-100877 and %10001 answer every disx... Fuck off lamers !!! Always remember: FRIENDSHIP counts I need nice seka sources !!! No bloody hot swappers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- BEAST Contact Iam (SPHINX) searching cool new contacts - SOCIETY - If U want swap with me everything then for elite mail-trading: write a letter and send disks to: SENER CALI TWILIGHT/SOCIETY (no name!) Talippasa sok. 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