{ | } ~   [ ]        }{                                 /setmap usa      The SONIK CLIQUE reveals (for the WHOLE Amiga range!)  ..  'FISH and CHIPS IV - the fourth chapter in our ever so famous series! Fresh for Easter 1995, released week 15.   The credits for this one go to:  Graphics and Design  ..  OXIDE!    Coding and Accommondation  ..  EYE-Q!   The astonishing Music Composed by  ..  GRIM! - OXIDE! - STARGAZER!   Fontset  ..  MURK and OXIDE (Ai Dolly?)    Usage: Scroll menu with your mouse or with cursor keys, LMB / Enter selects. Function keys (F1-F8) can be used for browsing. Press DEL for random select. RMB / ESC exits.    Press HELP to alter scroll-speed. Press Tab to toggle filtter.  MURK typing..   Almost one year after the previous issue we're back on your screen with another jam-packed issue. As always, we're delighted to present you a variety of chip-music, composed especially for this production. I'd like to use this opportunity to congratulate OXIDE for his great work. He has really put his heart and soul into making this issue such an extraordinary experience. Not to forget GRIM and STARGAZER for their contributions, and last (and least, heh) EYE-Q for the quality coding. In case you haven't realized it yet, all the modules are self-made, not boring conversions from some  old C= 64 tunes. During the past years a lot of things have happened. I'm not talking about world peace or AGA machines, nope, I'm talking about chip-music. In the beginning Amiga freaks developed Synthetic programs which sounded pretty much like the 64. These programs were not exactly user friendly, but they made it possible to fit tunes into small productions. Later on when programs like Noisetracker became available, musicians moved over to sample-based softwares. The chip concept was born. I'm not going to argue if Matthew Simmonds was the first one to make chip-music (which I personally doubt), I'd just like to point out the fact that these tunes had one thing in common; they were all small (in size). Today, with programs like PSiD, some people find it doubtful if chip music will survive. What's the point in coverting 64 tunes, when you can listen to the original ones? Well, for instance it's still a bit difficult to use these tunes in your productions. Old synthetic tunes are small, but the players are horrible, and I guess today's musicians don't want to start using these jurassic programs. So maybe chipmusic will survive, who knows. As mentioned above, chipmusic has always been characterized by the small size. But all of the sudden, some people have started to make 70 K (!) 'chip-tunes', with sampled loops. Well, it may sound good, but what's the point really? They're totally USELESS for crackers / packmenus.. Ok, it's maybe not the end of the world, but I'd like to emphasize the fact that these tunes are ment to be used, so feel free to use any of these, as long as you credit the composer (unlike a certain french group did). Maybe I'm being too complacent, I couldn't really care less..    Carpe diem!   Join up with the unrivalled SONIK family! We don't offer you a disk magazine, nor any perks such as free doughnuts. We can just offer you a great and challenging career, filled with unexpected moments. SONIK isn't just a group, it's a lifestyle. What you're looking at, is a part of our lives. Sonik won't die because we'll get married, it's something 'inside' of us, which can't be taken away. Maybe we're becoming too ingrown, making it harder, if not impossible, for new members to join up. Who knows, who cares..   If you're interested, drop me (MURK) a line at:    P.O.Box 43   -   FIN-02181 Espoo   -   Finland    (also for some lazy trading)    So what else is up with SONIK? Well, we're just waking up from our winter sleep, watching the snow melt away. The spring and the sun is really a shot in the arm for us, makes you look at the bright side of life. We'll release a crack-intro for Accession in the beginning of May, which originally was ment to be released almost one year ago. Since DEFLECTOR got a new keyboard (thanks EYE-Q!) we'll also release the FISH and CHIPS 3 'hidden part' (hidden on DEFLECTOR's HD) within a month or so. There are of course some other projects aswell, but it's far too early to mention them here. Let's just say that some of our future projects will be released on BOTH Amiga and PC. And, no, we're DEFINETIVELY (maybe?) not working on a game..    Oh my, here I am, in the cold Finland, while others are having a jolly good time in Norway, at the GATHERING '95. I think that the Amiga will once again show what a viable computer it is, although the scene is really getting worse. Most demos would require a lick of paint before they would look professional. I'm actually a bit concearned about the quality of Amiga demos. While pictures and logos are reaching unprecedented levels of quality, demos seem to look exactly like they did two years ago. There are of course a few exceptions, but mostly people don't seem to care about the overal very much. Every magazine is putting Polka B. in the limelight, as if they would have come up with a totally new concept. And Polka themselves speak of their vaunted approach to design as if it was unique. HAH! They've just studied the good 'ol TSL DK demos too close. Just because you flash the screen at the right time doesn't mean that you've come up with a new concept. In my opinion design is the harmony of colors and music. An object can be very 'design', such as a couch, telephone etc. But the overal 'design' in Polka's demos is very bad. Mostly ugly pictures (should be left out) and a wide collection of fonts ripped from FinalWriter or some other commercial software.    Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Polka B., since they represent the better part of today's scene. But I think that people SHOULD NOT copy their style, it's definetively NOT that good. Besides, a copy is always a copy, it nevers seems to reach the quality of the original. And a succesful concept can easily be destroyed if it's abused. Take ANDROMEDA's 'clean' design for example. I still haven't seen any imitation that would come even close to the original. So next time you start making a production, do an outline for the whole project, including transitions, colors etc. It's definetively worth it.   With these words MURK is signing off..   (7125 bytes)    We send our golden reagards (short-edit) to the following Amiga gangstazz..  MELON. - CNCD - BANAL P. - (damn!) REDNEX - DAMONES - ANDROMEDA - STELLAR - PARALLAX - VIRTUAL D. - BOMB - TRSI - SANITY - ACCESSION - MOVEMENT (what's left?) - COMPLEX - US - SCOOPEX - (the former) REBELS Grankulla - OFFWORLD (R.I.P) - POLKA B. - ABSOLUTE - BALANCE usw. and no doughnuts for the forgotten ones!    Like a prayer OXIDE (kasi) take over the piano....        Hello, It's OXIDE writing..   I just got home from EYE-Q's place where I have spent the last three days doing some finishing work for this fourth issue of FISH and CHIPS. We have been working approximately 18 hours a day and it has taken us three days' hard work to make everything work like it was planned. We had nearly no big difficulties at all and the co-operation between me and EYE-Q has been  suprisingly  effective. I wouldn't be too suprised if you'd see another co-operation product from us soon...   I wanted to make this issue very different from all other Amiga productions or the previous issues of FISH and CHIPS and I think all in all we have succeeded pretty well, although I had planned the design to be even a bit weirder than the final version. I must thank Murk for his comments and for the active moral support (rUOSKa-sEta!), like always.  Well, last night was a real pain in the ass and now I have to go to a family- meeting held in Jarvenpaa, Finland. This issue will be released there (instead of Gathering) and it will reach you all very soon..   bLAH... See you soon in another production!                  Shiiiit, can't think of any intelligent way to start this read-along crap. I don't even know what kind of thing you're staring at through your super thick glasses. If it's your normal SONIK type of shit, it should be gut enuff. How about making 'the Best of FISH and CHIPS' like every self-respecting rock grandpa does, so that they will have enough money to buy more booze & drugs and a new liver. So all you idiots run to the wreakstore to buy their greatest shit, and then you can be really proud of having all their great hits. Then you go to their revival concerts and see a couple fat old dudes, with over tight jeans and thin long hair, who can barely stand through their one hour set. So why don't all you nice little computer boys help us to get more fucked up than we already are, and buy 'The Extra Very Very Best of FISH and CHIPS'..   By the way my name is SOUL POPPA NUMBER 1, in case you are interested. I'm just an old-timer who keeps repeating every day that the OLD scene was much better, and during the OLD times there was true friendship between the freaks..   Well at least then I can feel myself stylish enough and prove to myself that I am still on the sharpest point of the scene..   Ooops almost forgot to diss AGA and to mention that only productions made for old A500 are the real thing (that's fashionable too).    Because this productions' name is FISH and CHIPS, obviously Chips means the music, everything else is called Fish from here on. So now you can say that the new SONIK prod. had a great Fish. Revolutionary isn't it?    Every scroller ends to an ingenious idea, so I'm out of here like last year...                                                         WRAP!