ABUSIVE MUSIC 04 THROUGH TIME FISHING STARLIGHT JUPITER FORTUNE AND FAME QUICK SUMMER DILEMMA PART II TAKE TWO JUMP TIRED PERFECT WAY SHADES PLAYING : LOADING : DECRUNCH: () Dd AMIGA KID MR TECHNO COMPOSED BY: NEW SCROLLER ---> HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ABUPLAYER: () - THE REPEAT BUTTON. WITH THE REPEAT SIGN ON, THE ABUPLAYER WILL BE IN LONGPLAY MODE. THAT MEANS THAT THE NEXT SONG WILL BE PLAYED AFTER THE CURRENT SONG HAS ENDED, AND SO ON. I< >I - JUMP BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS. THESE BUTTONS CAN ALSO BE USED WHILE LOADING AND DECRUNCHING. ONE CLICK ON THE I< BUTTON RESTARTS THE SONG, AND A DOUBLECLICK STARTS LOADING THE PREVIOUS SONG. << >> - SEARCH BUTTONS. I> - THE PLAY AND PAUSE BUTTON. Dd - THE DOLBY-HAHA-NOISE-HAHA-REDUCTION. WE JUST HAD TO PUT SOMETHING ON THAT BUTTON. THE BUTTONS ON THE ABU-SCOPE LABELED 1-4 ARE FOR TURNING AN INDIVIDUAL CHANNEL ON AND OFF. IF YOU WANT THE DECRUNCHING TO GO A BIT FASTER, YOU JUST PAUSE THE SONG AND WAIT..... AS YOU CAN SEE THE CONTROLS ARE JUST LIKE ON A CD-PLAYER. PRETTY ADVANCED, EH? :-i INSTRUCTIONS RESTARTING, SO NOW YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT :-i ABUSIVE pp PRESENTS THEIR NEWEST PRODUCTION CALLED IN p A pSILENT WAY pp RELEASE DATE: 01.12.90 p THE CREDITS: MUSIC BY MR TECHNO p AND AMIGA KID p GRAPHICS BY ORIGO p AND CODING BY LEO p OF p 7769 p YEP. WE'RE BACK AND IT FEELS GOOD! YEAH! BUT, BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER WE'D LIKE YOU TO PUMP UP THE VOLUME ON YOUR STEREO SET....... NOW, THAT'S BETTER! SO POP UP THAT COKE AND YOU'RE ALL READY TO GO! NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING ABOUT WHO WE ARE... WELL, WE'RE A NORWEGIAN GROUP STATIONED IN NORTHERN NORWAY, IN THE CITY OF NARVIK. WE'VE GOT 6 MEMBERS: AMIGA KID (MUSIC) MR TECHNO (MUSIC) ORIGO (GRAPHICS) HMJ.SOFT (GRAPHICS, ANIMATIONS) LEO OF 7769 (CODING) THE AMIGA HUNTER (SWAPPING) YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT US, RIGHT? WELL, WE HOPE THAT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE NOW..... IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SWAPPING WITH ABUSIVE YOU CAN WRITE TO THE FOLLOWING ADDY: ABUSIVE pp HAAKVIK pp E6 72 pp N-8520 pp ANKENESTR.pp NORWAY pp NO LAMERS, FAGS, ASSKISSERS ETC. PS! THIS MUSIC DISK IS RIP-PROTECTED. THAT MEANS THAT YOU'VE GOT TO BE A LITTLE SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE LAMER TO RIP THESE TUNES... AND JUST FORGET ABOUT USING MULTIRIPPER. NOW, I AIN'T SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO RIP THESE TUNES BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD, BUT BECAUSE YOU'RE PROBABLY DRUELLING ON THEM SAMPLES..... (WHICH WE HAVE RIPPED FROM OTHER GROUPS.... HAHAHAHAHA!! :-) SCROLL LOOPING AARRRGGHHH! THIS IS LEO p OF p 7769 pPRODUCING ANOTHER SCROLLTEXT FOR YOU TO READ. AS YOU CAN SEE, ABUSIVE HAS COMMITTED ANOTHER MUSIC DISK. THE CODE WAS DONE BY ME (WHO ELSE). I STARTED THE CODING IN AUGUST, AND FINALLY IT'S READY (AFTER 4 MONTHS OF RELAXING). ALL THIS TIME HASN'T BEEN USED ON THIS PRODUCT, I'VE GOT OTHER PROJECTS WAITING TOO, JUST WAIT AND SEE...... COMING UP SOON IS A NEW AND ORGINAL SCOPE-ROUTINE (WAVEFORM DISPLAYER). IT'S JUST GREAT TO LOOK AT. A DEMO CONTAINING THIS SPECIAL ROUTINE IS IN THE DESIGNING AREA OF MY MIND. WELL, HOW ABOUT SOME TECHNICAL INFO ON THIS MUSICDISK... THE SOURCECODE IS ABOUT 56K AND THE ASSEMBLED MACHINE-CODE IS ABOUT 12K. INTERESTING EHH? I THINK THIS MUSICDISK HAS BECOME QUITE GOOD. IT HAS VERY USER-FRIENDLY CONTROLS, AND IS EASY TO USE (I HOPE). THE IDEA WAS TO MAKE THE CONTROLS SIMILAR TO A CD-PLAYER'S, AND I THINK WE HAVE SUCCEDED. STAY TUNED, COZ I'LL BE BACK IN ANOTHER SCROLLER... RESTART WHEEEE! THIS IS MR TECHNO p AND I'M GONNA USE THIS SCROLLTEXT TO WRITE SOME PERSONAL HELLOS N'STUFF LIKE THAT (JUST AS THESE THINGS POP INTO MY MIND). FIRST I'D LIKE TO SAY A LITTLE HELLO TO EL CUBO p OF CRUSADERS: IT'S NICE KNOWING YOU. TOO BAD YOU LIVE 150 MILES AWAY. KEEP ON SENDING ME TRUCKLOADS OF GOOD STUFF :-) THEN I'D LIKE TO SAY HELLO TO DR.OUTTASIGHT OF CRUSADERS: LONG TIME, NO SMALL-TALK :-) IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE MET YOU ON THE BBS. I JUST LOVE TO SEND YOU THOSE SMALL, IRRITATING NODE-MESSYS YOU KNOW. THANX FOR THE COOL AND LOOONG SCROLLER! A LITTLE THANK-YOU TO DR.AWESOME FOR THE MIDI-DEMONSTRATION WHEN I WAS 'DOWN THERE' AND THANX FOR RECORDING THAT TAPE.... HELLO TO THE AMIGA FREELANCERS. I HOPE THAT SOME OF MY TIPS FOR PROTRACKER GETS THROUGH TO YOU (THE MOOSE SAID HE'D PASS THEM ON TO YOU) I MIGHT AS WELL SAY THAT MY REAL NAME IS TOR EGIL BRASETH AND THAT'S THE NAME I USE ON THE CRUSADERS BBS (HAS MOOSE MENTIONED ME?) YO AEROKID! DO YOU LIKE THE DISK? HOPE WE CAN SWAP SOME 'HOME-MADE' STUFF AND THINGS...... HELLOS TO: NIGHTFLIGHT (ARE YOU STILL A MEMBER OF SUBWAY? THANX FOR HELPING US SPREADING THIS DISK), MORELOVE (VENSTRE MARSJ!! HOW'S THE ARMY?? NOW GET THOSE STAGS OUT AND JOIN ABUSIVE!). I HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING MORE TO SAY...... SCROLLER RESTARTS STOP! p DO YOU HAVE A HEADACHE? DON'T YOU HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA HOW WE MADE THIS MUSIC DISK? DO YOU HATE COCA COLA AND LOVE LEMONADE? DO YOU SIT IN FRONT OF YOUR AMIGA WITH AN OLD TV, PLAYING GAMES LIKE 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE ROBOT MONSTERS' ALL DAY???? IF YOU DO, THERE MIGHT BE A BIG POSSIBILITY OF LAMERISM IN YOUR BRAIN!!! SO BUTT OUT BOZO!!!! THIS IS MR TECHNO p HAMMERING ON THE KEYBOARD. SHIT! SCROLLTEXT-WRITING GETS ON MY NERVES. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AN INTERESTING SUBJECT TO WRITE ABOUT. WELL, HOW ABOUT SOME JOKES....... EVER HEARD ABOUT THE MAN WHO ... . .... HEY, I DON'T KNOW ANY GOOD JOKES.... SHIT! I'LL BETTER CALL DR.OUTTASIGHT. HE ALWAYS SEEMS TO HAVE SOME GOOD JOKES TO SHARE WITH US. BUT HEEEY, I CAN WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. WHY DON'T I WRITE ABOUT MUSIC. YOU GUYS HAVE PROBABLY SEEN THE CRUSADERS EUROCHART SEPTEMBER ISSUE. WELL, IN THAT ISSUE DR.AWESOME HAS COMPOSED THE MUSIC. THE TUNE IS CALLED 'TUNA FISH' AND I THINK IT'S G R E A T p INFACT I'M DIGGIN' IT RIGHT NOW. MY STEREO IS ON FULL POWER (ALMOST)...... YEAH! BEST REGARDS TO YOU DOC! OTHER GREAT TUNES BY THE DOC IS 'SWING HIGH' AND 'BEATN'. BUT OVER TO SOMETHING ELSE. HAVE YOU TRIED OUT PROTRACKER???? IT'S A GREAT TRACKER. THE ONLY REASON I HAVEN'T USED IT FOR THIS MUSIC DISK IS THAT I HAD COMPOSED MOST OF THE TUNES WHEN I GOT PROTRACKER. AND ANOTHER THING IS THAT I HAVEN'T GOT THE REPLAY-ROUTINE FOR IT (HAS IT COME OUT YET??). TIME FOR SOME COKE .. ... ... .. AAHHHH! MMMMMM.... YEP. COKE IS IT. I SEE THINGS IN A MORE POSITIVE WAY WHEN I GET A COUPLE OF ZIPS WITH COKE DOWN MY THROAT. BUT....... THE SHOW MUST *NOT* GO ON, SO I'LL BETTER STOP THIS BULL BEFORE I BORE YOU TO DEATH. BYE! SCROLLIE-WOLLIE-LOOP ATTENTION! THIS IS MR TECHNO p AND I THOUGHT I'D WRITE A LITTLE ABOUT ABUSIVE...... AS YOU MAY KNOW, ABUSIVE HAS GOT 6 MEMBERS. WE ARE ONE HAPPY GROUP, BUT WE SELDOM RELEASE SOMETHING. THAT'S BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE CODER, AND HE'S GOT HIS HANDS FULL WITH SCHOOL AND EVERYTHING. MAYBE I SHOULD TYPE A LITTLE ABOUT OUR MEMBERS. WELL, FIRST THERE'S ME OF COURSE :-) MY FUNCTION IN ABUSIVE IS TO COMPOSE SMALL PIECES OF MUSIC THAT IS DIGGED BY NOBODY BUT MYSELF (WHO THE BLEEDIN' HELL CARES??), I'M ALSO THE UNOFFICIAL SCROLLTEXT-CORRECTER (SHIT, I HOPE THAT THERE'S NOT TOO MANY ERRORS). I'M FOND OF MUSIC, MOVIES, COMPUTERS AND BBS'ING. I MOSTLY LIKE JAZZ MUSIC AND PRINCE. MY KIND OF MOVIE IS ARTWORKS LIKE ALIEN/ALIENS, DIE HARD AND STUFF LIKE THAT. MY TASTE IN MUSIC WILL PROBABLY SEEM RATHER STRANGE TO YOU BUT I DON'T FUCKING CARE (NO OFFENCE). THAT'S ENOUGH ABOUT ME... NOW OVER TO LEO OF 7769. IF YOU WONDER WHAT THE NUMBER 7769 STANDS FOR (NO, IT ISN'T SATAN'S TELEPHONE NUMBER :-) I CAN TELL YOU THAT HE'S BORN SEVENTH JULY 1969, YOU CAN FIGURE THE REST OUT BY YOURSELF. LEO'S FOND OF RIPPING MODULES (HE HAS SEVERAL MEGABYTES ON HIS HARDDISK). I THINK HE'S A GOOD CODER, BUT WHEN A PERSON GOES TO SCHOOL, HE'S PROBABLY MORE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING AN EDUCATION THAN RELEASING DEMOS. THEN THERE'S AMIGA KID WHO'S GOING TO SOME LOW-LIFE COMPUTER-COURSE :-) HE'S FOND OF MAKING IT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND (HAHAHA!). WAAAIT A MINUTE. YOU PROBABLY THINK THAT THE TWO OF US ISN'T FRIENDS BUT WE ARE. WE'RE BEST FRIENDS (ARE WE???) SO THAT'S WHY I'M WRITING THIS BULLSHIT.... NEXT TO AMIGA KID THERE'S HMJ.SOFT. HE'S CURRENTLY IN THE BLEEDIN' ARMY SO HE ISN'T THE MOST ACTIVE IN THE GROUP. HMJ IS OUR PRIVATE DRIVER. HE LIKES TO CREATE ANIMATIONS WITH DELUXE PAINT IN HIS SPARE TIME. ANOTHER ABUSIVE MEMBER IS THE AMIGA HUNTER. HE'S OUR SWAPPER. I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING SPECIAL ABOUT HIM BECAUSE I'VE ONLY MET THE GUY ONCE. OUR NEWEST MEMBER IS ORIGO WHO'S A GRAPHIC ARTIST. I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT MUCH ABOUT HIM EITHER, COZ HE JOINED US SOME MONTHS AGO. WELL, THAT SEEMS TO BE ABOUT EVERYTHING FOR THIS SCROLLER...... BYE! AAAND LOOOOOOPING SCROLL! AAAAAHHHHHH IT'S TIME TO DRINK A SPARKLING (SCHWEPPES GRAPE SODA). TOO MUCH COFFEIN IN COKE!!! AMIGA KID p HERE. I AND HMJ.SOFT HAS LEFT THE GANG WHO IS SITTING DOWNSTAIRS (LEO, MR TECHNO AND ORIGO) IN MR TECHNO'S BASEMENT. THE TIME IS NOW 1:28 AND MR TECHNO JUST CAME IN TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ON NEW YEARS EVE. WE'LL HAVE A BIG PARTY I GUESS, HERE AT MR TECHNO'S PLACE. NEW YEAR! GOT TO SAVE SOME MONEY!!! NOW OVER TO SOMETHING ELSE. IF YOU REMEMBER THE BEGINNING OF THIS SCROLL, I MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT SCHWEPPES. IT ISN'T BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE COKE I DON'T DRINK IT, IT'S MORE LIKE I'M TIRED OF IT. ANYWAY, IT STARTED ABOUT TWO MONTS AGO. THE COCA COLA COMPANY SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO ARRANGE A COMPETITION IN SOMETHING AS STRANGE AS YO-YO'ING. I KNOW THAT MANY OUT THERE THINKS THAT YO-YO'S ARE KIDS STUFF. MAYBE IT IS, BUT WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THE NICE PRICES FOR WINNING THE YO-YO COMPETITION, I STARTED TRAINING SERIOUSLY. THE FIRST PRICE WAS A NEW *PHILLIPS GHETTOBLASTER* AND 24 BOTTLES OF **COKE**. AT LAST THE DAY HAD COME. I WENT TO THE CONTEST WITH SHAKING HANDS. IT WAS ABOUT 40 GUYS FROM THE WHOLE CITY (NARVIK) THERE. MOST OF THEM WERE GUYS I KNEW. AFTER A WHILE I REACHED THE FINAL PART. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, I WON THE COMPETITION. I ALSO GOT A TRIP TO THE CAPITAL OF NORWAY (OSLO). THERE I WAS GOING TO FIGHT FOR THE FIRST PLACE. AFTER A LOT OF TRAINING AND COKE-DRINKING (ONE WEEK LATER) THEY (COCA COLA) SENT ME TO OSLO, AND BOOKED ME IN ON A NICE HOTEL (SARAS HOTEL). OF COURSE EVERYTHING WAS FREE FOR ME. 49 GUYS FROM NORWAY WAS GOING TO COMPETE IN THE COMPETITION. THE FIRST PRICE HERE WAS A BRAND NEW *PHILLIPS STERO RACK* WITH A CD-PLAYER, A *PHILLIPS TV* AND 24 BOTTLES OF **COKE**. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT AGAIN I WON THAT COMPETITION TOO. THAT MEANS THAT I'M THE NORWEGIAN CHAMPION IN YO-YO'ING. COULDN'T BE BETTER. THE PHILLIPS STERO RACK IS QUITE NICE. ESPECIALLY FOR ME WHO MAKES MUSIC. OK. BEFORE I QUIT, I WANT TO GREET ALL FRIENDS AND CONTACTS. IT'S BEEN A TIME SINCE I WROTE TO YOU. THE REASON IS QUITE SIMPLE: I WANTED US TO FINISH THIS MUSIC DISK BEFORE I SENT YOU SOMETHING. BYE! SCROLLER RESTARTING YOU NOW HAVE THE ULTIMATE PLEASURE OF READING SOME TEXT DEPACKED FROM THE INNERSPACE OF LEO p OF p 7769 p JABBA-DABBA-DOO HERE WE GO AGAIN. FIRST OF ALL I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: DOES ANYONE WANT TO SWAP NOISETRACKER MODULES WITH ME. I'VE GOT ABOUT 13 MEGABYTES OF (CA 130) MODULES. SEVERAL OF THEM ARE 'UNRIPPABLE' AND WAS RIPPED BY 'HAND'. RIGHT NOW I'M INTUITRACKING THE NEW WALKMAN TUNE WHICH WAS IN THE CRYPTOBURNERS DEMO CALLED: HUNT FOR 7TH OCTOBER (THE DEMO AND THE TUNE ARE JUST GREAT). SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SWAP *GOOD* MODULES WRITE TO OUR MAIN ADDRESS, AND ASK FOR LEO. HERE COMES ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE AN HP-48SX CALCULATOR AND WOULD LIKE TO SWAP PROGRAMS FOR THIS FAB CALCULATOR. I HAVE HAD THE CALCULATOR FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS, AND HAVE SEVERAL HUNDRED KBYTES OF SOFTWARE AND TOOLS FOR IT (GAMES, MACHINECODE, ETC). SO MAKE CONTACT BY WRITING TO OUR MAIN ADDY AND ASK FOR LEO. THAT WAS THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT LIST FOR THIS SCROLL. HOW ABOUT SOME BYTES ABOUT MYSELF. MY FIRST MEETING WITH COMPUTERS WAS ABOUT 7 YEARS AGO. IT WAS WITH HMJ.SOFT'S SPECTRUM. WITH THIS RUBBER I LEARNED HOW TO PROGRAM BASIC. HALF A YEAR LATER I GOT A C-64. ON THIS MACHINE I DID BASIC AND SOME MACHINE-CODE (A FEW DEMOS). ONE AND A HALF YEAR AGO I BOUGHT AN AMIGA 2000. ON THE AMIGA I PROGRAM C AND MACHINE-CODE. THAT WAS THE SHORT, SHORT STORY ABOUT MY LIFE WITH COMPUTERS. TA-TA FOR NOW...... )LOOPING( HI! THIS IS ANOTHER SCROLLIE FROM MR TECHNO p WE IN ABUSIVE HAVE DISCUSSED A SUBJECT THAT HAS COME UP THE LAST DAYS: WE NEED ANOTHER CODER p IN OUR GROUP! SO IF YOU'RE A GOOD CODER WHO HAS NO GROUP TO BE IN, YOU CAN SEND SOME SAMPLES OF YOUR WORK TO OUR MAIN ADDY (FOUND IN THE SCROLLER FOR 'THROUGH TIME'). BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE *GOOD* WE ALSO NEED A GRAPHICS p GUY WHO CAN DRAW LOGOS, PICCYS ETC. SO IF YOU THINK YOU'RE *GOOD* ENOUGH, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY!!! IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GREETINGS LIST, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK FOR IT THE REST OF YOUR LIFE COZ THERE AIN'T NO LIST ON THIS DISK. WE THINK THAT GREETINGS LISTS ARE BORING. NOBODY WANTS TO LOOK AT EVERLASTING LISTS FROM A-Z. PERSONAL GREETS ARE FAR MORE INTERESTING AND FUNNY. HMMM.. YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) WE IN ABUSIVE WENT TO THE MOVIES TO SEE JAWS. AS YOU MAY KNOW, JAWS IS A CLASSIC (THE OTHER JAWS MOVIES ARE PURE SHIT. DON'T YOU THINK, CUB? :-). WELL, WE WENT TO THE CINEMA AND WHEN WE CAME IN, THE MOVIE WAS STARTING IN 45 MINUTES SO WE BOUGHT OUR TICKETS AND SAT DOWN. WHILE WE WERE SITTING THERE, I GOT THE BRILL IDEA (AT LEAST I THOUGHT SO) THAT I COULD THROW 'KNOTT' (A NORWEGIAN KIND OF SWEET) DOWN ON THE PEOPLE SITTING AT THE LOWEST ROWS IN THE CINEMA. WELL, I STARTED WITH THROWING ONE BY ONE AND PEOPLE TURNED AROUND AS THEY WERE HIT BY THE SWEETS (IT DOESN'T HURT BECAUSE 'KNOTT' ARE VERY SMALL). WE HAD A GOOD LAUGH EVERY TIME SOMEONE GOT HIT. WE WERE SITTING AT THE HIGHEST ROW SO NOBODY COULD THROW ANYTHING ON US. AFTER A WHILE, I FILLED MY HAND WITH THE STUFF AND STARTED THROWING IT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND PEOPLE BEGAN SHOWING US THE FINGER, YOU KNOW THE BIRDIE DON'T YOU? WELL, WE HAD A GOOD TIME. DURING THE MOVIE WE STARTED LAUGHING WHEN IT WAS SO QUIET THAT YOU COULD HEAR A NEEDLE FALL TO THE GROUND, AND WE MADE SOME UGLY SOUNDEFFECTS TOO. MAYBE WE WERE A LITTLE CHILDISH BUT I DON'T CARE AS LONG AS WE HAD FUN..... BY NOW YOU MUST HAVE REALIZED THAT THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO POINT IN THIS STORY. I WROTE IT TO FILL UP THIS SCROLLER........ BUT, NOW I'LL BETTER PACK UP AND MOVE TO THE NEXT ONE. SORRY IF THIS ONE GOT TOO BORING! SCROLL RESTARTING (NOTHING MORE TO READ HERE) HAVE NO FEAR, LEO pIS HERE. (QUITE NICE SLOGAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK MORELOVE?) WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO HELP AN AMIGA COMPUTER FREAK? DO I HEAR A YES OUT THERE? IT WOULD BE VERY NICE IF SOMEONE COULD BUY MY AMIGA 2000 SO I COULD AFFORD AN AMIGA 3000. MY AMIGA 2000 BOX CONTAINS A 40 MB HARDDISK, 2 MB EXTRA RAM AND A PC-XT BRIDGEBOARD (AND AN AMIGA 2000 OF COURSE). I ALSO HAVE A 1084 MONITOR. NOW SOME HELLOS. FIRST TO THE REST OF ABUSIVE: NICE TO KNOW YOU ALL. TO S.HANSEN: THANKS FOR ALL THE HP-48SX STUFF. TO MORELOVE: NICE OPENING SLOGAN ON YOUR STAG 3. HOPE YOU SURVIVE THE ARMY. TO EL CUBO OF CRUSADERS: HOPE YOU LIKE MY NEW CODING (THIS MUSICDISK). YOUR NEW HI-RES SLIDESHOW WAS FANTASTIC. TO MY SCHOOLMATES AT NIH: HOPE WE ALL GET GOOD GRADES ON THE EXAMS. SUBJECT CHANGE..... I AND MY AMIGA IS NOW AT MR TECHNO'S PLACE. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT WE IN ABUSIVE HAVE A MEETING THIS WEEKEND. THIS MUSICDISK HAS TO GET FINISHED SOME DAY YOU KNOW. IF WE'RE LUCKY WE WILL SUCCED. AFTER THAT COMES SOME DAYS OF HEAVY SEARCHING FOR BUGS. HOPE WE DON'T FIND ANY (IF WE DO FIND ANY BUGS, I HAVE TO CORRECT THEM). THE TIME IS NOW 15.30 SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND WE STILL HAVE SOME SCROLLS TO DO, AND THE SONG TIMES HAS YET NOT BEEN CLOCKED. SO I HAVE NO TIME TO CONTINUE THIS SCROLL. SEE YA IN ANOTHER ABUSIVE PRODUCTION. SCROLLY SCROLLS SOON AGAIN. ABUSIVE PROUDLY PRESENTS THIS MUSICDISK'S VERY SPECIAL GUEST STAR, NAMELY DR. p OUTTASIGHT p GIVE US ALL WHAT WE WANT DOC! PARRA TARRATATATATA BAAARRAAA TATA DARRAPPAAPA! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN SCROLLTEXT-TIME AND WHAT'S SO BLEEDIN SPECIAL WITH THAT YOU MIGHT SAY. WELL I'M NOT YOUR AVERAGE SCROLLTEXT WRITER. I'M DR.OUTTASIGHT! (HEY ISN'T DR.OUTTASIGHT FROM THAT OTHER GROUP CALLED CRUS-SOMETHING?) THAT'S RIGHT! THE CRUSADERS. NO I HAVEN'T JOINED ABUSIVE OR ANYTHING. YOU SEE, MR TECHNO IS A USER AT OUR BOARD AND HE ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO WRITE A SCROLLTEXT FOR THEIR NEW MUSIC DISK, AND OF COURSE I SAID YES IMMEDIATELY. SO HERE I AM AND I HAVE A SMALL PROBLEM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL I'M GOING TO WRITE ABOUT. RELAX! I'M THINKING! I KNOW! I'LL TELL YOU A TRUE STORY FROM THE FUTURE! REMEMBER, IT'S A TRUE STORY FROM THE FUTURE. THE STORY IS ABOUT THIS GUY CALLED KEN WHO LIVED IN A TOWN CALLED NIVILLA (STRANGE NAME, BUT REMEMBER THIS IS THE FUTURE) HE WAS INTO COMPUTERS JUST LIKE YOU GUYS ARE AND HE WAS A MEMBER OF A GROUP CALLED THE TERAOCTAMEGA DISK VIOLATORS. HE WAS THE CODER OF THIS GROUP. ONE DAY AFTER SCHOOL, HIS FRIENDS VISITED HIM AND THEY BEGAN TO WORK ON A NEW DEMO. THIS BEING THE FUTURE, COMPUTERS COULD DO ALMOST ANYTHING SO IT WAS KINDA HARD TO DECIDE WHAT THE DEMO SHOULD DO. SHOULD THEY MAKE THE COMPUTER MOBILE AND RUN AROUND THE TOWN TELLING EVERYONE HOW GREAT THE TERAOCTAMEGA DISK VIOLATERS WERE, OR SHOULD THE DEMO MAKE THE COMPUTER FIX SOME NICE GIRLS FOR THE MEMBERS? AFTER DISCUSSING IT THE REST OF THE EVENING THEY DECIDED TO HAVE THE DEMO MAKE THE COMPUTER RUN AROUND TOWN AND INSERT DISKETTES WITH THE DEMO IN ALL THE OTHER COMPUTERS IT COULD FIND. KEN STARTED CODING AT ONCE AND DIDN'T GET TO BED BEFORE EIGHT O'CLOCK AND THAT'S WHEN HE WAS GOING TO GET UP FOR SCHOOL SO HE DIDN'T GET TO BED AT ALL ACTUALLY. ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL HE WALKED PAST SOME OF THE BIG COMPUTER STORES AND LOOKED IN TO SEE IF HE COULD GET A GLIMPSE OF THE LATEST MODELS. ONE COULD GET COMPUTERS FOR ANYTHING THESE DAYS. KEN WAS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN A CYBERNOID MODEL CALLED TANISHA. YES YOU GUESSED IT. A WALKING HUMANOID THAT LOOKED, TALKED, WALKED AND DRESSED UP LIKE A BEAUTIFUL GIRL. HE DIDN'T DARE TO TELL THE OTHER GUYS ABOUT HIS SECRET PASSION BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THAT THEY WOULD JUST LAUGH AND KICK HIM OUT OF THE GROUP. ANYWAY, KEN HAD SAVED MOST OF THE MONEY HE HAD FOR A LONG TIME AND HE DIDN'T NEED MUCH MORE TO PURCHASE THE CYBERNOID. IT WASN'T LIKE HE WANTED HER JUST FOR THE SEX (LIKE YOU'RE THINKING) BUT THESE CYBERNOIDS HAD IMMENSE CAPABILITIES AND HE COULD CODE ALMOST ANYTHING ON THEM. IMAGINE A DEMO THAT MADE A HUMANOID BEHAVE LIKE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL ONE COULD IMAGINE! THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING TO BEAT THE SNYDERBERRIES ON THE NEXT DEMO COMPETITION. THE SNYDERBERRIES WERE THE BIGGEST BIG-MOUTH GROUP AND THEY TOLD EVERYONE THAT THEY WERE THE BEST AT EVERYTHING. KEN KNEW THAT THEY REALLY WASN'T THAT GOOD AT IT. IT WAS JUST A BIG GROUP WITH A LOT OF CONTACTS. THE SCHOOL DAY PASSED AND ON HIS WAY HOME KEN STOPPED AT THE FRONT OF THE STORE THAT SOLD THE TANISHA HUMANOIDS. KEN WALKED IN AND STOPPED ONE OF THE SHOP ASSISTANTS 'IF I PURCHASE ONE OF THOSE TANISHA MODELS THIS WEEK, WILL I GET THE PERSONALITY MODULE FOR FREE?' THE SHOP ASSISTANT DIDN'T THINK KEN MEANT IT SERIOUSLY SO HE SAID YES. THE PERSONALITY MODULE ENABLED THE OWNER OF THE HUMANOID TO REDO SOME OF THE DESIGN OF THE CYBERNOID SO THAT IT WOULD BECOME UNIQUE. KEN LEFT THE STORE AND HEADED HOME. AFTER DINNER HE WENT STRAIGHT BACK TO THE CONSOLE AND CONTINUED CODING ON THE DEMO. HE WISHED HE HAD THAT CYBERNOID NOW. THEN HE WOULDN'T BE CODING ON THIS LOUSY MOBILE CPR-X33 MODULE. HE OPENED HIS SAFE AND TOOK OUT ALL OF HIS MONEY AND STARTED COUNTING THEM. NOPE, STILL NEEDED ABOUT 200 CREDITS. DARN... THEN HE GOT A BRILLIANT IDEA. ROGER, THAT'S THE MAN I NEED. ROGER WAS THE HACKER IN THE GROUP AND HE OWED KEN A FAVOUR. HE CONNECTED THE MODEM AND DIALED ROGERS NUMBER. ROGER WAS ASLEEP BUT CALMED DOWN WHEN HE SAW THAT IT WAS KEN. 'ABOUT THAT FAVOUR YOU OWE ME' KEN TYPED 'CAN YOU DO ME ONE NOW? IT HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE I CODED THAT PROTOCOL ENHANCER FOR YOU, REMEMBER?' 'AWRITE' SAID ROGER 'WHAT IS IT?' 'YOU KNOW PARAPLEX COMPUTERS UP AT 5TH AVENUE?' 'YEAH, SURE' ROGER ANSWERED 'WELL I NEED TO BUY SOME HARDWARE THERE NOW AND I NEED AN ACCOUNT WITH LIKE 300 CREDITS ON IT' KEN HOPED THAT HE WOULDN'T TURN HIM DOWN EVEN IF HE KNEW THAT BREAKING IN TO THE COMPUTER STORES WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE 'SURE' ROGER SMILED 'NO PROBLEM. BE THERE IN HALF AN HOUR' KEN DROPPED THE CARRIER AND QUICKLY PUT ALL HIS MONEY INTO A CONTAINER AND WENT OUT. IT TOOK ABOUT HALF AN HOUR TO WALK TO THE STORE SO WHEN HE GOT THERE IT WAS ABOUT TIME TO STRIKE. HE WALKED IN AND STOPPED THE SAME SHOP ASSISTANT. 'OH IT'S YOU AGAIN, EYH? IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SPARE PARTS TRY THE SHOP ACROSS THE STREET' THE ASSISTANT DIDN'T LIKE KIDS HANGING AROUND HIS RESPECTABLE STORE. 'I'M THINKING OF BUYING THAT TANISHA MODEL NOW' KEN REPILED AND SHOWED HIM THE MONEY. THE ASSISTANT SMILED ALL THERE WAS AROUND HIS HEAD AND WALKED OVER TO THE CASH REGISTER. THE STAFF IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO CARRY OUT THE BOXES FOR THE HUMANOID. 'I'LL SET UP AN ACCOUNT FOR YOU' SAID THE ASSISTANT. 'NO NEED' SAID KEN 'I ALREADY HAVE ONE' 'HMMM. WHAT'S YOUR NAME THEN?' THE ASSISTANT TYPED FURIOUSLY ON THE TERMINAL 'NOPE. NO SIGN OF YOUR NAME IN OUR FILES' SHIT! ROGER DIDN'T MAKE IT! WHAT WAS KEN GOING TO DO NOW? HE WOULD BE KICKED OUT OF THE STORE AND NEVER LET IN AGAIN FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE 'NO WAIT' SAID THE ASSISTANT 'HERE IT IS! AND IT HAS A CREDIT OF 300 TOO. HAVE YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING FROM THIS STORE BEFORE?' KEN BEGAN TO SWEAT HEAVILY 'ERHM. NO, FROM ONE OF YOUR SHOPS IN MELINGA' PHEWWW. THAT WAS CLOSE. THE ASSISTANT LOADED THE HUMANOID ON TO A TROLLEY WHICH KEN PROMISED TO RETURN THE NEXT DAY. IT WAS ALREADY DARK OUTSIDE AND THE TROLLEY WAS QUITE HEAVY........ PHEEWWW! THAT'S ALL I CAN MANAGE THIS TIME.... SORRY GUYS, BUT BRILLIANT WRITERS LIKE ME NEEDS A BREAK EVERY NOW AND THEN. I'LL TELL YA WHAT, LOOK OUT FOR THE REST OF THE STORY ON COMING CRUSADERS PRODUCTIONS. AND I'LL EVEN PUT THE COMPLETE STORY ON THE CRUSADERS BBS SO YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE THING AT ONCE. THAT'S ALL FOR ME THIS TIME! SO WATCH OUT FOR MORE LETTERS FROM ME COMING YOUR WAY SOON. UNTIL THEN, STAY BELOW ZERO! CALL THE CRUSADERS BBS' FOR THE PHREAKIEST TIME YOU'LL EVER WANT NUMBERS COMING UP... CRUSADERS WHQ BBS +47-6-810881 AND +47-6810864 AGAIN +47-6-810881 AND +47-6-810864 THEN WE HAVE THE CRUSADERS GOLDEN GATE +47-42-46718 AGAIN +47-42-46718 SO LONG DUDES! IF YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS SCROLLTEXT WAS LONG ENOUGH, TRY READING IT ONCE MORE! :-) THANKS FOR HAVING ME, MR TECHNO! AAAND THANK YOU DR.OUTTASIGHT! THIS IS MR TECHNO AGAIN. I JUST WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS BEFORE THIS BLEEDIN' SCROLLER LOOPS. I REALLY HOPE TO SEE SOME MORE OF THIS STORY LATER. IT WAS REALLY GREAT! AND A LITTLE MESSAGE CONCERNING THIS MUSICDISK BEFORE THE END: SPREAD THE DISK AND NOT THE WORD!! :-) BYE! LOOOP! THIS IS MR TECHNO p WHO HAS COME FROM THE DARK HOLES OF HELL, JUST TO BORE YOU SLOWLY TILL DEATH DO US APART. THIS MUSIC DISK IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END. SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT? WELL, WE CAN'T BLAME YOU FOR THINKING THAT, CAN WE? I'D LIKE TO SAY A LITTLE HELLO FROM ABUSIVE TO OUR CONTACTS: WE'RE NOT DEAD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE JUST WANTED TO FINISH THIS DISK BEFORE WE SENT YOU SOMETHING! TO ALL PEOPLE WHO'D LIKE TO SWAP WITH US: COME ON. SEND US SOMETHING GOOD! WE WANT GOOD STUFF BEFORE HOT N' NEW STUFF...... WELL, WHAT THE HELL SHOULD I BORE YOU WITH NOW? MY HEAD IS ALL EMPTY AGAIN! SHIT! GAWD! .. ... .. .... SOS .... .. SOS .. SOS CALLING FOR IDEAS! ANYONE GOT ANY? ANYONE? .. SOS THIS IS ONE OF THOSE POINTLESS-USELESS-BORING-SHITTY-SCROLLERS! I HOPE WE RELEASE SOMETHING SOON, COZ I LIKE DOING THIS (DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? NAAAHH!) ON BEHALF OF ABUSIVE, THE KING OF NORWAY AND COCA COLA, I'D LIKE TO APOLIGIZE FOR WRITING SUCH BULLSHIT LIKE THIS! AND I PROMISE THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU READ A TEXT WRITTEN BY MR TECHNO p YOU'LL GET A FIRST CLASS TEXT WITH ONLY QUALITY WORDS, LAYOUT AND IDEAS..... DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE AN AMIGA 3000 FOR ME??? I'D LIKE ONE **VERY** MUCH! SO PLEASE SEND IT TO OUR MAIN ADDY AND JUST NAME THE PACKET 'MR TECHNO' I'M ALSO INTERESTED IN RECIEVING HARDDISKS, 3.5 DISKS, VIDEOTAPES, CD'S, GOOD-LOOKING GIRLS, MONEY (LOTS OF 'EM), PRIVATE JET PLANES W/GAS, BOTTLES OF COKE ETC. ETC. ETC. HERE'S SOME PEOPLE/THINGS/COMPANIES I RESPECT, LIKE, DIG, APPRECIATE AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK: PRINCE, MILES DAVIS, ROLAND ELECTRONICS, COMMODORE, PANASONIC, PIONEER, CHICK COREA, GRP RECORDS, KORG ELECTRONICS, PAISLEY PARK AND WARNER BROS. FOR LETTING PRINCE PRODUCE HIS OWN RECORDS AND LETTING HIM CREATE HIS OWN STYLE, JAN GARBAREK, SELMER SAXOPHONES, CBS RECORDS, ALESIS ELECTRONICS, THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED THE AMIGA, AMIGA FREELANCERS, AMIGA KID, HMJ.SOFT, TDK AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPES, LEO OF 7769, KIM OVE JOHANSEN, THOMAS ANDERSEN, STEPHEN KING, ORIGO, THE AMIGA HUNTER, DR.AWESOME FOR HIS GREAT MUSIC, EL CUBO FOR BEING EL CUBO :-), GOD FOR HAVING MADE SUCH A GREAT BOOK AS THE BIBLE (SORRY I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOU OLD CHAP) BUT I'VE GOT YOUR BOOK UNDER MY POWER SUPPLY SO IT DOESN'T GET TOO WARM THOUGH, DR.OUTTASIGHT FOR RUNNING SUCH A GREAT BBS, MAXELL, STEVEN SPIELBERG, ARNOLD SCHWARZENNEGGER, DAN AKROYD AND CHEVY CHASE, EDDIE MURPHY, MICHAEL BRECKER, JOHN CLEESE, KEVIN KLINE, GRAHAM CHAPMAN, TECHNICS, ECHO PLATEBAR, COCA COLA, AND THAT'S ABOUT IT........ I CAN'T REMEMBER MORE. THIS IS MR TECHNO SIGNING OFF. LOOOOOOOP THIS SCROLLER NOW! HELLO, THIS IS LEO pAGAIN. THIS TUNE CALLED 'SHADES' IS AN OLDIE (ABOUT 6 MONTHS OLD AND THAT'S A LONG TIME FOR A MUSICIAN). WE FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS SPACE LEFT ON THE DISK FOR TWO EXTRA MODULES, SO I JUST HAD TO DO ANOTHER SCROLLER. IT'S NOW OVER A WEEK SINCE WE HAD OUR MEETING AT MR TECHNO'S PLACE WHERE WE DESPERATELY TRIED TO FINISH THIS MUSICDISK. THE DISK WILL BE FINISHED, BUGTESTED AND RELEASED IN A WEEK FROM NOW (I HOPE!). HOW ABOUT THE LATEST STATISTICS: YOU WILL FIND 32834 BYTES OF SCROLLTEXT TO READ, 1136086 BYTES OF MODULES TO HEAR, 127720 BYTES OF GRAPHICS TO SEE, 10656 BYTES OF CODE TO RUN AND SOME OTHER DATAS. IF YOU ADD THESE VALUES TOGETHER YOU GET 1307296 BYTES. YES, THIS DISK CONTAINS MORE THAN 1307296 BYTES OF DATA. IT'S EVEN SOME KBYTES FREE. A DISK CAN MAX CONTAIN 901120 BYTES OF DATA (USING AMIGADOS-FORMAT). IF YOU DO SOME CALCULATIONS WITH THESE NUMBERS, YOU CAN FIND OUT THAT THIS DISK IS AT LEAST CRUNCHED WITH AN AVERAGE RATE OF 31 PERCENT. THAT WAS SOME 'USEFUL' INFORMATION, DON'T YOU THINK? AT LEAST IT WAS ANOTHER KBYTE OF SCROLL :-) HERE'S ANOTHER GUY YOU MAY KNOW..... WUBBA WUBBA WUBBA! THIS IS MR TECHNO p AGAIN (OHHH NOOOO!) OH YES! YOU HAVEN'T MANAGED TO GET RID OF ME YET! NOPE. I'M STILL BORING BOTH YOU AND MYSELF WITH A BORING SCROLLTEXT ON A BORING DAY AND THIS SENTENCE IS GETTING QUITE BORING SO WHY DON'T I CHANGE SUBJECT? MIDI IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE INTERESTING TO ME THE LAST MONTHS. THERE'S SO MANY OTHER FEATURES WITHIN A SEQUENCER THAN WHAT YOU CAN GET WITH A TRACKER WITH AMIGA SAMPLES. IT MAY BE MORE WORK TO PUT TOGETHER A MIDI-SEQUENCE THAN IT IS TO MAKE A TUNE WITH NOISETRACKER, BUT THE SOUND IS MUCH MORE PROFESSIONAL. BUT THERE'S ONE BIG PROBLEM WITH MIDI, AND THAT'S MONEY. MIDI-EQUIPMENT IS *REALLY* EXPENSIVE, SO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AROUND FOR SOME CHEAP, SECONDHAND STUFF FIRST. I'M AN *ABSOLUTE* BEGINNER ON THIS FIELD, BUT I'LL GET MORE INTO IT ONCE I'VE BOUGHT MUSIC-X. I'M BUYING THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM. THERE WILL BE NO PIRATED VERSION OF MUSIC-X IN MY DISKBOX. I REALLY HOPE I CAN GET STARTED SOON, BUT EVERYTHING TAKES IT'S TIME. GATHERING A FEW NICKLES, BUCKS AND DIMES SO I CAN AFFORD SOME MORE STUFF, WAITING FOR THE BLOODY POST TO GET THROUGH AND SO ON...... BYE FROM ME! SEE YOU IN ANOTHER ONE! RESCROLLING