Welcom sceners to a new issue of CAS! In this issue we will have a special hackerinterview (He wants to remain his anonymous of course). I am also proud to say that the mag is now multitask- ing and that more improvements are to come. If you have something to say about this Magazine just write me a line: smaugur@amigascne.org or if this adress is down, dont hesitate to write to another NLS-member. Icing 99 will be the release for this 2nd mag of CAS, so see you all at Icing 99! Smaugur/Nls Interview with Spoon/Nerve Axis .........by Smaugur/NLS........ Hello Spoon! it's time for some wonderful questions. Smaugur: First tell me how you became an Amiga musican. Spoon: Well, me and Jam got our hands on some sound proggy, I think it was Sound FX or something like that and then sometime later found Soundtracker and there was no turning back :) that was back in 1988. We had already before we got the amiga started to fiddle around with some music programs on the 64 allthough we didn't finish anything.So we kinda started look- ing around for music progs as soon as we got the Amiga. S: What kind of music are you doing? Spoon: Dance music, mostly deep jazzy house these days though we have done almost every kind of dance music through the years. S: What equipment are you using when you are producing tunes? Spoon: We use an old Microdeal sampler on the Amiga and we sample a bit on the pc as well (great editors on it :)). In the past we have sampled directly from a Korg Poly800,Roland JX sumthing, Yamaha DX7 and some other synths, we mainly sample sounds from CDs now though (lazy bastards) S: And what do you eat for breakfust? Spoon: What kinda question is that? I'm not gonna answer that :) S: Have you made any covers? Spoon: Not many no but we've made I think about 5-6 or so (my memory fails me haha) Even though we would classify them as remixes not covers. S: Can you listen to every kind of music or do you disslike some musicstyles?, If that is the case, tell me then which styles you cant listen to and why? Spoon: I can listen to almost anything more or less allthough I find most country to be extremely boring and I avoid it at all costs. Also death/black metal is not my thing. S: Tell me where you get your inspiration from when you compose a song? Spoon: Spur of the moment things :) Depends on the mood Im in. S: What selfmade tune are you most proud of? Spoon: Climax, we've never spent as much time producing a tune as much as this one and 3rd world is a tune we are proud of because it was quite difficult to finish properly. S: Which parties have you attended? Spoon: I attended ASM in '94 and Jam went to SIH'95 where we got 3rd place in the music compo with Climax :) S: Are you/your group planning any realese you want to tell the readers about? Spoon: Yes, Nerve Axis is doing another demo :) S: Do you have any final words Spoon? Spoon: Contrary to rumours that have been spreading, Jam has not quit the scene and Im not going solo! Cheers Interview with Chip/Powerline ......by Browallia/NLS....... B: How would you like to introduce yourself using pure letters? Chip: I'm a twenty year old coder, wasting all my spare time from work on my amiga ;P naah, I try to keep a small life too :) When I work I write code for steenkin' peecees, but I have to make a living too. B: Any strategy for comming prods from you? C: Well, well-designed perhaps? :) We have no imminent release due to that damn thing called 'life' interfering all the time,but I try to write (or update) my routines from time to time, and I WILL release one or more demos, don't worry :) B: Why are Powerline influenced by political messages in some productions? C: We didn't want to be "just an- other demogroup", so we added something that others hadn't done before, and that added some extra 'feeling' to the demo, as we had a message to deliver instead of just some darn 3d-objects rotating on screen (even though we have had some 3d in the demos we didn't prioritize it, it was just an- other part of the presentation). By adding a message to our pro- ductions we tried to make a dif- ference, and quite a few people seemed to appreciate it :) B: What about your catch phrase -Hardline against Hardline-? C: I'm not sure who came up with that one(probably someone after listening to too much RATM :) but its meaning is more that we if someone is hard against us, we pay 'em back with just as much. :) B: Any favorite color? C: Blue is close to hand :) ..Lets go on with some about your comming party called Icing 1999.. B: I was at Icing 95, and that party sure was specially and a great success, crowded with compos activities, groups, etc.. What do you expect from Icing 99? Chip: Hopefully we will get close to that feeling from 1995, but scene was a different place back then, with much less gamers on parties like this, and having so many sceners and few gamers added to the feeling a lot. B: Does Icing differ from other Swedis parties? then.. why? C: Hm, I'm not sure... Maybe it's because we still have a good connection with the scene? Even though we get more and more economical each year,at least I try to keep myself up- dated and involved as much as I can :) Many parties has degraded heavily due to that they ignore more and more the sceners and concentrate on the 'gamers'. B: Can you give me one (very special) reason to visit Icing this year? C: I'll be there? ;P No, but it will be a fun experience, I can (almost :) guarantee that. :) B: So, good luck with this party- project. Want to add some last words Chip? C: Hm, Nopes, I better get to work now :P Interview with Whizzkid / Oops! b\/ Smaugur / NLS. Hello Whizzkid! Its time to answer some scene smelling questions! Smaugur: What Amiga equipment do you have? Whizzkid: I still have my first A500 which I unfor- tunately blew up some years ago, next there's my old burnt out A2000, I recently bought a CDTV and on my desk is my A4000/040 S: Now tell me when and how you got interested in the Amiga scene? W: I started off as a computer addict ever since my dad bought a 64 computer. I had one for years and then a friend in school showed me his a500, i was hooked, and we started a small group. (never did anything tho, i was still on the c64) Then when i was 15 yrs old i bought my first amiga, the all- mighty a500 with a stonking 1 mb of memory. I started all sorts of weird stuff and partial games.. As i got to know more people via bbs'ses we got a little more active. and the members of our groups changed. I split the old group,formed another group together with prodigy, which later became known as Oops! S: And how did you come up with your special name Oops! ? W: Well, Prodigy and i where sitting at my place, going through the dic- tionary, trying if we could come up with a cool name by picking words at random. After doing that for a while, with no 'impressive name' found yet, we tried to think of another 'catchy' name.. and we figured an everyday term would be useful. Oops! immediately jumped to mind.. S: What are you mostly doing when you are sitting in front of your Amiga a late night when it's raining outside? W: I havent been using my amiga lately (shame shame) but I usually dabbled with Amos. (Yes i think amos is cewl, even though its slow, blitz wouldnt run on my computer anyway, its not about the tool thats used for creating.. its the creating that counts!) I also used Lightwave quite a lot, sometimes play games. and whenever i can get my hands on a camera i'd make weird movies or stop- motion animations with my digi- tizer.And i've spend many a sleep- less night on IRC S: Tell me which production in the name of Oops! you are most proud of. W: I think that would be Beeps,our chip-tune pack (its the only thing we actually made a 2nd part for! 8P (plug plug.. all our releases are available from our website, http://oops.in.nl (its handy if you work for an internet provider 8) S: Which parties have you attended during your scene years? W: I attended Somewhere in Holland II and I've been to Bizarre '97 (as part of the amiga-organizers) and i could usually be found on the Interexpo (which isnt a scene-related gig, but its good fun 8) S: Why do you like the Little Mermaid-movie so much? W: I dont know 8) I havent watched it in ages, but my page gets lots of hits, and since i'm hosting it for free, why not? 8) S: How do you want the new Amiga to be like? W: Well, it should kick the pc's arse bigtime, and it should be cheap enough for me to be able to afford it. S: Are your group planning any release? W: We're not quite sure yet. There has been talk about a coop demo-thingy with Maximum but i dont have all the details on that... stay tuned 8) S: Do you have any final words Wizzkid? W: Yes if there's anyone out there wou can fix my a4000 for free. drop me a line!!!!! Interview with a Hacker (He wants to be anonymos) by Smaugur/NLS Its a hackattack interview coming up! Smaugur: What make you getting so intrested of hacking? Hacker: It appeared naturally cause my intrest in Unix and sequrity S: What about the hackerscene nowadays? H: The hackerreflected scene today actually has none of the pure knowledge of what hacking truely is, if you then go and speak about them they are in age of 30,already having wife and children. S: Describe a hacker. H: When Media today use the term hacker they usally mean a cracker (its the one who hacks in networks with a destructive occupation, while a hacker has a burning interest of computers. S: Considering to your definition what is the difference between a wannabe-hacker and a hacker "for real"? H: A real hacker does not speak very loud about his knowledge, while a true wannabe wants to be seen, and need attention. S: Do you think its okey of the hackingmagazine 2600 to collect money for Kevin Mitrick? H: I think its alright caus of his crime are not so horrible. S: Do you think Kevin is a competent Hacker? H: According to rumours he should not be,I dont think he is that legend media wants to describe him as. S: How is the hackerscene influenced by Internet? H: It establish people toghether and the knowledges are float- ing free and the exchange of in- formation between humans,hacking is going turning into a new shape, before it was pack intermediary nets (X25) for example nets like datapak, tymnet, sprintnet (Swe) and so on while all hacking of today usally are related to internet. Swedis parties in years like today ================================== .(a none-FAQ written by Browallia) Please observe ;) The term party includes the prefix copy- or demo- but is named so for saving some bytes. with this article I want to put some stuff on what I call it - the edge. What the heck do I mean with parties _today_ ?? Well its hard to put a line between now and not now, so lets say the last 4-5 years. This is the time when I started to be a paying member of swedis parties. So, why swedis then?? Hurmboah! .. small parties may be the same over the globe, so comparing parties in Sweden with other countries can be done! sure! Of coz swedis parties differ from each other,and my own structure in this article is something like diz *-advertising for a party *-where/when *-entrancefee *-computers/platforms *-people *-partyattractions *-prices *-compos advertising for a party coolest is of coz, when the party- crew do an inventation.exe and thats it! fenito,schluss,Amen! But for some people that isnt enough, they may be scared to death this way, or, if its a big party (in Sweden there are no big parties nowadays anyway..) you may use a fucking homepage, just for knowing that all kind of folks will come.. ..even the bad guys! where/when I start with when. Normally it is over a weekend, a very local party can be held any weeekend, but most popular days are around easter,be- ginning of summer, or generally; - time without school - What I mean with ultra-mega-bombi- fetti partyplace is of coz in a gymnastic-hall, where the police is doing razzias and guys left the hall through windows with a bunch of discs around in jeanspockets... It's popular to arrange parties in sporthalls and its oki too as long as your priority is partyschedule before a basketball.. Personally I like parties held in classrooms where each group has one room, writing stuff on black board, and each group is responsible for each room.. entrancefee low or high? hmm.. In the absolut last years I have seen very VERY Expansive entrances,and only thing I can say about that is: you wont get the best people for this fee- system guys! Even, a to low entranceticket is under suspicios. And this can fill your mind: "probably a shitty hall, organisers,compopri$ers, and the total quality-feeling..." etc. But its oki to pay if you decide to go there. Sometimes its free for girls or foreigners outside Scandinavia, n' thats oki, especially foreigners! that sure is an expansive travel! This is weird too: with computer X+Y <$ money $> without computer: X <$ money $> I know some organisers telling famous groups like "you dont have to pay the ticket, but if you win some money, you'll pay.. A #?-system just so other groups pays for being there with them... It smells commercial here! computers/platforms Amiga and PC... PC for these users (mayority) shall financing a party amiga - caus the tradition.. and outsideguys looking at amiga like it was an animal from zoo saying "oh, cool I thought it was pre- history.." But where are the rest? the ab- solute minority?? the other in- novaters?? For this I think I am in love with the MS-parties down in Europe. Game-platforms sucks anyway on a party, but if you want the whole family represantative on a party, its oki to mix computers with games. The scene seems to move anyway..! ..and nobody is in action for responsibility! people people create the atmosphere I guess. And I think its always fun- ny to see new friends, groups and there banderolls I have notice be- fore, and even the old foxes who always just are there ;) Girls on parties are oki, to see a girl coding, painting or whatever is nice indeed! Just between you and me I can tell you that I hope my girl want to be more intrested too, but my success is beyond a sunny swedis summer! partyattractions like movies on bigscreen, suprise- compos, videorooms or colacompo... With a full program you dont have any time for asm,gfx,msx or speak- ing with friends.. Iam looking for a party without an enviromental programlist,concentrated on tradi- tional compos, with deadlines on the last day! All productions from nukleus have been fixed at parties some have been coded there before deadline and some wasnt in time coz of deadlines first day.Anyway, its important to keep the program without to many delays. At last, how about networking?? hurmaburrah.. and voting thizz way A nightmare is a correct answer! Anyway.. ..Votediscs or paperlists forever! price$ Back here again! If a party has $$ - and keep there words about them, more people will always go there!! To release for fun, or for get 1st price saying XXXX $ that sure is a question! Our C64-section won a demo-compo one time, and our coder got some discs, tshirts and so,but that is oki if the time was cool! compos what will happend with the demo- limit? Soon its 10 mb, then even more,and then the organizors says: "ok, put it on a CD-rom..." well, then you have a wildcompo instead, or, then you have your shit there! Putting traced anim-sequences ... ..yuack, that sure rules negative! And what is the future for gfx- compo anyway? How many humans are doing pixle by pixle nowadays? Before showing gfx-compo, why not include the text:"diz naked woman was found on Internet, and I did some effects with it so you wont recognize a shit! It took 4 days for me to fix this 16.8 million- color-pic" !? ---------------------------------' at last: every existing party sure is some- thing to remember, and every party has its own profile. a party for amiga, atari,c64 with- out too many sponsors (just caz we dare to fix that) smaller prices, entrance like 150-200 SEK (25-30$) and not to forget are the party- fixers themselfs... Putting nice stuff together creates a paradisio with friends in harmony ... blaah blaah... /browallia Here comes a party which definitly seems to be something to remember! FuCk-Ya - party #2 1999: 5/6 09.oo - 6/6 09oo Compos -Amiga demo 8MB -Amiga intro 64k -Amiga hand-gfx -Amiga 24bit-gfx -Amiga Music 4ch -Amiga Music multich -C64 Demo -C64 Gfx -C64 Music -wild, slamtilt-compo etc.. -no PC compos homepage for updates: http://mosogep.rulez.org/~fuck-ya Please dont remind me, that this resultlist is late as fuck. enjoy this delivery anyway. Amigacompos and C64 demos from: MEKKA & SYMPOSIUM 2K-1 =====·······-·······=========·-=-- Amiga Demo ####################### 01 Mnemonics...............Haujobb 02 When We Ride.......Jamie/Skarla On Our Enemie 03 Smoke Bomb................Ozone 04 Vendetta.................Nuance 05 Quest......................Iris 06 AlpenClüb '52.............Depth 07 Jatsi's big......Jazz & Vesuri/ Jorma /Da Jormas 08 InUtero.................SkyTech 09 Heureka...........Puryx, Cupid/ /Unique 10 Sympslide..................Iris 11 The Deep Dentro....After Eights C64 Demo ######################### 01 Driss - 1st Demo III......Driss 02 Ecoute Et Voir............Faque 03 Importance?..............Ninja/ /The Dreams 04 Contact.....................TUM 05 Brak 2....................GFB64 06 In Booze We Trust.....RamJam 64 07 I can't dance.....Woznak/DMagic 08 Screech Single...........Lubber Parts Version 09 10 Years Role..............Role 10 Happy Birthday.....Booze Design 11 850-Pichel-.........The CENTRIC Wirbelstürme-60%...........Crew 12 Logodemo!..............Ultimate 13 Black Angle..........Visac/Cult 14 Ficken im Zelt Pt. 2....Seminar 15 Eastereggs...........Brainstorm +Techno 16 Runaway..................Draken 17 4K Chorplasma............Draken Amiga 40K ######################## 1 Grid......................Nature 2 Kryptonite.................Depth 3 Qapmoc...............Black Monks 4 2998z......Modem + Dip / Darkage 5 Poem........................Iris 6 40K to little?.............Cybbe 7 Ines.....................Jack C. 8 Face to Face...............Tulou 9 Faith-Tro...Faith in 1999/2000 × Amiga 4K ######################### 1 Hyper.....Focus Design & Scoopex 2 Das EFX..................Scoopex 3 Profanity......StingRay/Darkside 4 str8.....Cytron/Depth & Ib/Depth 5 TUPA.....................Zymosis NUKLEUS OFFICIAL BEERLIST Apr.1999 ----------------------------- a selection included 44 names 1. Tuborg 2. Budweiser. (US) BjørneBrygd 3. Sol Norrlands guld 4. Ringnes Carlsberg Export 5. Three towns Heiniken Warsteiner Lapin kulta Falcon The three-choice-individual list .::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::· Balder 1) George Killion 2) Andersson 3) Sol ... Browallia 1) Königpils 2) Tuborg 3) Sol ... dIS 1) Budweiser. (US) 2) Tuborg Grøn. 3) Danskt Juløl ... Joru 1) Zeunertz 2) Norrlands guld 3) Ringnes Sorex 1) Bjornebrygd 2) Pripps Dark Lager 3) Karlsberg Export ... Modem 56&6 Pandora (ECS) Dragonsbreath (msx or game) disc or dms A1200 030/50/50/ with Fast - - - - - - -- - - - - - - Due sending via post, heavy stuff are clearly prefered within the Swedis lines... Credits·..... : ····:·· Cows n Snakefights #2 .......······....: Writer for CaS just so your eyes move . faster as the ..... monitorbeam ....... Smaugur Fixxing Gfx and Msx toghether in a .... runable file ...... called .exe ....... Joru,SoreX Paint and draw with maximum 32 colors . may visualize ..... something ......... Browallia A Panflute here and a bass-drum there . can speak clear ... with your ear ..... dIS In Universe You Will Not Understand A Thing.. ,-. .. nUKLEUs .. `-´ - thats what's inside - ¦ ¦ - -C-ONTACT-S- - ¦_ _¦ ((______)) |"O""0"| `·_ _·´ /@\/@\ `====´ (e)papers ,·'¯ Smaugur ¦---------- smaugur@amigascne.org `Balder ;---- olovdanielson@mail.bip.net `dIS _;------------- diss@algonet.se ´ Nukleus nukleus@onelist.com ¦ | (NeWWWs)paper . · . ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:. www.angelfire.com/on/nukleus ·::::::::::::::· Hello sceners Nerve Axis Powerline Oops! hacker.. Swe parties Fuck-Ya M&S 2K-1 res beerlist wanted credits contacts