Welcome to a preview issue of Sector 4's diskmagazine * THE CHOICE * -------------------------------------------------------------------- Released at the Halloween Conference 2-6.11.90 Planned release date for 1st issue 20.11.90 < GENERAL > We decided to release a preview issue of our diskmagazine. There's no 'real' articles in this preview, we just wanted to release this to make the people know that we're going to release a diskmag. We hope you spread this nice production and perhaps support us with a little article too. I'll give you some instructions first. There'll be much more commands in the final magazine. (for example, you can select the page to read with the num. pad) CURSOR UP/DOWN Scroll article CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT Go to Previous/Next article SPACE BAR Scroll article down 50pixels/second ESC Get back to the top of the article HELP Go to contents page < ABOUT ADVERTISEMENTS > Your advertisement must be in ASCII format. There's two different sizes of ads; the smaller one is 38 chars wide, and the bigger is 80 chars. The maximum number of lines is not limited, but try to keep it under 15 lines. All ASCII characters under 128 are available. Special effects are not yet available, but I'll improve the coding a little soon... All advertisements for the 1st issue are free! Upload your advertisement to our Finnish boards (Three Amigos, Bitstream). If you send the ad on disk, the disk will be returned with the newest issue on it. You may send your advertisement on a postcard too. Send to the following address: Heatbeat/Sector 4 (the main editor) Antti Mikkonen Kuikanhuuto 1 as 13 87250 Kajaani Finland < ARTICLES > If you write an article for The Choice, you'll get a free advertisement and the new issue when it's released. Send your article on disk, ASCII-format, 80 chars each line and 80 lines maximum. Of course you may upload your article to any of our BBS's. < CREDITS > Main program... Coding & Soundtrack Heatbeat Gfx Jason Editors Heatbeat Mr. Spinhead Intro... Coding JHL Soundtrack Heatbeat Gfx Jason < HAVE A NICE DAY > Now you may slip to your warm armchair, relax, read the mag and enjoy! We all the authors of this mag hope you like this, and support us some way! Be free to put this to your collections! -Heatbeat/Sector 4- (the main editor) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ ________ ________ _________ ________ ________ ___ ___ / _____/ / _____/ / _____/ /__ ___/ / __ / / __ / / / / / / /____ / /__ / / / / / / / / / /_/ / / /_/ / /____ / / ___/ / / / / / / / / / __/ /____ / _____/ / / /____ / /____ / / / /_/ / / /\ \ / / /_______/ /_______/ /_______/ /__/ /_______/ /__/ /__/ /__/ - The Choice of Tomorrow - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS of The Choice issue #0 (preview) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00: General BullS**t Some instructions & info about ads/articles 01: Contents What-Has-The-Maggy-Eaten-This-Time -page 02: Advertisements Only one Sector 4 advertisement in this demo issue 03: Fast interview with Sector 4 We made an interview about us, are we proud or what? 04: Future of 'The Choice' Planned improvements for the 1st issue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ ________ ________ _________ ________ ________ ___ ___ / _____/ / _____/ / _____/ /__ ___/ / __ / / __ / / / / / / /____ / /__ / / / / / / / / / /_/ / / /_/ / /____ / / ___/ / / / / / / / / / __/ /___ / _____/ / / /____ / /____ / / / /_/ / / /\ \ / / /_______/ /_______/ /_______/ /__/ /_______/ /__/ /__/ /__/ - The Choice of Tomorrow - CALL OUR BOARDS... 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Mr. Spinhead/Sector 4 (swapping, joining, magazine articles) Marko Tahtinen Ruskokuja 9 A 01620 Vantaa Finland Sub Zero/Sector 4 (swapping) Robert Sandqvist Tallgatan 7 74052 Gimo Sweden Heatbeat/Sector 4 (magazine articles, little swapping) Antti Mikkonen Kuikanhuuto 1 as 13 87250 Kajaani Finland Greetings in random order to: Hell, Elite inc, Image, Microwave, Wizzcat, Altair Act, Illusion, Dual Crew, Apex, Amaze, Medley, Kefrens, Excess, Paradox, Mindkillers, Cave, IBB, Tristar, Liquid Gold, Advance, Triumph, Vision, X-Beat, Warfalcons, Euphoria, Razor 1911, Bloodsuckers, Scoopex, Midnightsun, Savage, Synergy, Bastards, Actors, The Gang, Tristar, System 5, Omicron, Mytric, Pendle Europia, The Power Lords, AKK, Mean Machine, X-Men, Control, Byterapers, Cult, Crusaders, Perfect Illusion, Miranda, Mistral, Twilight, Accession -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ ________ ________ _________ ________ ________ ___ ___ / _____/ / _____/ / _____/ /__ ___/ / __ / / __ / / / / / / /____ / /__ / / / / / / / / / /_/ / / /_/ / /____ / / ___/ / / / / / / / / / __/ /___ / _____/ / / /____ / /____ / / / /_/ / / /\ \ / / /_______/ /_______/ /_______/ /__/ /_______/ /__/ /__/ /__/ - The Choice of Tomorrow - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL YOU HAVE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SECTOR 4 BUT HAVEN'T DARE TO ASK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < A fast interview with Sector 4 > 1. What's Sector 4? Sector 4 was founded last summer. The main idea was to form a powerful team by uniting some old small teams that were doomed to die. We take the best members and some talent new comers. During these 3 months there have been more than 20 people willing to join us in Finland, but we only take the best and very active guys. 2. How did you get your name? Our ex-member The Master was playing Xenon one, when he heard a cool sounding sample "SECTOR 4"! 3. Give us the member list. Here comes our current member list. Finland: Mr. Spinhead (organizer, swapper, SysOp, The Choice editor) Jhl (coder, cracker) Spock (coder) Avatar (music) Fluid (graphics) Heatbeat (music, coding, The Choice editor, swapping) Ronnie (graphics) Shocker (coder) Sweden: Sub Zero (swapper) Ice (music) USA: The Griffin (SysOp) New members are welcome (Coders, Sysops (Sweden), and Spreaders worldwide). 4. What have you released? Our first release was a trainer collection, then we made some intros and the demo Twilight Zone. Some new demos, Music disk and a game are coming soon, and disk magazine as you know. 5. What is your aim? We are doing this just for fun. Our aim is to get always better as our motto says: THE CHOICE OF TOMORROW. 6. Whose idea was the disk magazine? Little after his joining Heatbeat told about his idea to make a disk magazine. Some other members were intrested too and so we began to plan it. And here is the first result of our work, preview version. We hope to get your support to our magazine so our dream will became true. -Mr. Spinhead/Sector 4- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ ________ ________ _________ ________ ________ ___ ___ / _____/ / _____/ / _____/ /__ ___/ / __ / / __ / / / / / / /____ / /__ / / / / / / / / / /_/ / / /_/ / /____ / / ___/ / / / / / / / / / __/ /___ / _____/ / / /____ / /____ / / / /_/ / / /\ \ / / /_______/ /_______/ /_______/ /__/ /_______/ /__/ /__/ /__/ - The Choice of Tomorrow - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Planned improvements for the 1st issue of The Choice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Optional NTSC-mode (smaller read window - NTSC-freaks can see our logo then) - More fonts - Italics & bold character styles - Change-page-with-numeric-keypad-command - Some special characters Articles... -Many cool interviews -Heatbeat's NT/ST/PT tips & tricks corner -Letters to the editor (if we get any) -Sector 4 music competition -Real-music articles -Coding tips -Hardware reviews (?) -Strange love stories from daily life :-) -A big bunch of pages... -Planned release date 20.11.90 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------