Interview with Vention

Published in: MagBox #05
Interviewed by: Wolfman of Balance
Date: 1. May 1993
 
Interview
Vention is one of the 2 maincoders in the group Kefrens and I guess everybody should know just who is the victim of our interviewing force. Anyway, let's stop the blabbering and begin...

MagBox: First of all Martin introduce yourself and tell a little.. No! A lot about yourselfes...
Vention: Well. Yes alot may know me as the most (Strange would be apropiate) insane force behind Kefrens. BUT I'm not.. I'm 0+18 years of age and of male species. But besides my rep. I'm quite normal..
MagBox: ... Oooh, a new question Hmm, well yeah... Eeeeh, how about a little something about your scene story then? All the sweet details plese!
Vention: Well at the moment I'm Slams sexslave.. But I'm hoping to become a coder in Melon Ting. No.. I started coding for about 3-4-5-6 years ago in a group called... TATAATA Cycron.. Super Gruppe uden lige.. Later on I joined PROLOGIC (Hej DINO..) But it didn't work, SO my carreer went on in AWESOME.. But they were a bit STRANGE? So 2 months later I joined KEFRENS, Compiled about 15 intros and left them for Melon...
MagBox: ... Eeeeh, what?! Melon?!?! I seem to be misinformed here...!
Vention: UPS.. Did I say Melon?? I meant LemOFF. A new subdivision of Kefrens.
MagBox: Maybe I should do a bit more research next time I interview someone... So, how do you like being... in ... eeer ...Lemon... LemOFF< (point!)?
Vention: I like IT!!!!! Lots of lems and ting.. We started LEM-OFF -> PUNKTUM * 2 <- to lemon some tings in Holland.. Just kidding FACET..
MagBox: Hmmm, time to change subject by now... Could you give the readers your real name... You know, they love to speak of you as if they know you...
Vention: OKI. My REAL REAL REAL name is... NY linie MARTIN JOHN ANDREASEN GRAM Junior.. No shit.. My friends call me Ventigoksi.. SO I'd Prefer if you called me 3Vention1 or perhaps Martin..
MagBox: Okay, Martin... We're sitting here at The Gathering '93... How do you think your demo will do in the competition (We'll get back to just HOW they did later.-ed.)
Vention: Well Our Chances aren't big, because Spaceting kommer med en Supersej ting ting.. No we'll see when the comp. is over. But The DEMO is cool.. SO watch out..
MagBox: Well, I can tell you that I look forward to see it. Anyway, is Kefrens/Lemon./Melon/Ting/Flyvemaskine competing with anything else?
Vention: Yes we have about 5 Intros for the Introcomp. But we don't know which one to use.. HARD choise, 4 intros by AWK and 1 by Me.. I think Slammerting is working on a AGA-ting, SO.. SuperTING Intro..
MagBox: Aha.. Speaking of productions, what does Kefrens have in story for the future?
Vention: We have plans for one more demo, and then a couple of musicdisks.. I know Dice will release a musicting this summer. R.W.O will start working on a new slideting, and he will also draw the GFX for my demo, which is called D.A.N.E preview will be out soon. Else this summer is going to be beach-summer.. Except for a maybe coming musicdisk from S.L.L., which will be a Demo with ONE mb of music.. 2 diskdrives or 2 mb of chip needed... Sorry guys..
MagBox: Hey, how about MultiMegamix, which I bet a lot of people is looking out for, won't you release number 4?
Vention: NO!! The multimegating trilogy is over, Becoz Slliill is to busy working.. Sorry.
MagBox: What's your ambitions concerning your life on the scene and Kefrens?
Vention: Well that's a tough one.. I'd like to.. Well I dunno.. Maybe my time in Kefrens is over and some other guy may take over my ting. So? But I'd like to finish my education, get a job, get ordinary, get kids (Hej Maliina).. And so on.
MagBox: How serious would you consider your now being situation on the scene then?
Vention: Ups. Almost over.. After my demo I'll stop almost all activities on AMIGA, simply because I don't think it's funny anymore.. And when the fun's gone, jah saa ting..
MagBox: So in a few months Vention of Kefrens is history (A legend some might say.-ed.)?
Vention: No ofcourse NOT.. I'll continue coding on Amiga, BUT not demos.. They are too boring, during porduction, so I'll compile the soon? coming musicdisks and a diskting fra 2000 AD..
MagBox: Are you thinking about game making as well?
Vention: Ofcourse.. If you would like me to code a game for your software company, you should contact me.. My address will be in the end of this interview.. (It will?! Hehe!-ed.)
MagBox: Then how do you feel about cracking and piracy?
Vention: I haven't got anything against it. I don't care about games. I think it's lame to play games just waste time.. You could program, draw or compose instead..
MagBox: Yeah well, what if it's your own game being cracked?
Vention: I would ofcourse be pissed. But who can stop the crackers.. It's here to stay. But I think that every coder dislikes the fact that other people are distroing their work...
MagBox: Is computers a part of your everyday life, I mean do you do other things than demos for the scene?
Vention: Jada.. I'm ofcourse going to school.. I have a girlfriend, so most of time is spend on her.. Therefor there's not much time left to computers...
MagBox: When did you get interested in computers in general?
Vention: It all started when a guy a knew bought himself a C64. I liked playing games then.. But it was first when he upgraded to a A500, I got interested..
MagBox: Is there any computer you'd really like to have at this time?
Vention: Wouldn't everybody like to have an A4000? (Read later to be happy.-ed.) I know I would... BUT it is tooo expensive.. To become a reality.. But a 80586 wouldn't be bad..
MagBox: Speaking of money (you were..), what would you do if someone gave a million dollars?
Vention: I would quit school. GET VERY DRUNK. And put the money in the bank, which had the highest interest rate.
MagBox: How modest... Well, then, about 2 weeks have passed now and the party, which were the place where we started the interview, is over. Kefrens WON, what do you think of that?
Vention: Well, that's great. I bought an A4000 myself and I have told Estrup...
MagBox: Do you think Sim's demo deserved to win the compo?
Vention: Nope, an animtion which can only run on harddisk does not deserv to win. Besides, I haven't seen it totylly, so it's quite hard for me to judge.
MagBox: Do you think that Desert Dream is the best demo ever?
Vention: Well no, I think that Hardwired is still better on design, but I guess that ours wins when it comes to routines.
MagBox: Okay that just about finishes my intense questioning, do you have anyone that you'd like to mention here?
Vention: No, not really.. I'd like to say hello to everybody. But that's not possible.. But hellos to TOAST and the rest of our gang.. EMILON og LEMON. and ofcourse STB 1+ Balance og then the rest of you all...
MagBox: And as always... Any final comments?
Vention: Ting lever.. Ting lever.. Ting levede?? Softwarefirms can write to: (Only firms) Martin Gram Heimdalsvej 23 DK-4700 Naestved. Denmark Or call me on +45 53 73 26 22. Bye to you all (even mister Willie)..
MagBox: Well bye then...