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WHAT IS THAT BLOODY COPYRIGHT SIGN DOING HERE? IT'S NOT A GOD DAMN COPYRIGHT SIGN, IT'S A CEVOID SIGN (SAYS CEVOID)!!! I, DEFEAT, WON'T SAY WHAT I THINK IT LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE CEVOID DREW IT, AND I HATE TO DISAPPOINT HIM. BY THE WAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS RATHER REVOLOUTIONARY DEMO!? I KNOW THAT THE CONCEPT HAS BEEN USED BEFORE, BUT I STILL THINK THAT IT IS GOOD (EVENTHOUGH IT IS SIMPLE AND HAS BEEN ON THE WAY FOR OVER ONE YEAR). I GOT THE IDEA TO THE TEXT WRITER BEHIND THIS CIRCLE SCROLLER ON A HOT SUMMER DAY LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS WATCHING THE GERMAN SATELLITE CHANNEL RTL+. I SAW AN APPETIZER FOR A PROGRAM WITH THAT KIND OF TEXT WRITER, AND I THOUGHT: "WHY NOT MAKE THAT?". CEVOID LIKED THE IDEA, BUT IT TOOK SOME TIME BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED IT. HOWEVER, I MUST THANK HIM FOR ROTATING THE FONT, BECAUSE I REALLY HATE THAT KIND OF WORK. I THINK THAT IT IS ABOUT TIME TO END THIS SCROLLER, BECAUSE I HAVE TO WRITE THE SINE SCROLLER AND TEXT FOR THE BUMP WRITER AS WELL. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE SINE SCROLLER YET, I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN READ ABOUT MY GOODBYE TO THE SCENE IN THAT ONE. SEE YOU IN ONE OF THE OTHER SCROLLERS...

HI THERE, THIS IS, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE READ IN THE CIRCLE SCROLLER, THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN READ ABOUT MY, DEFEAT'S, FAREWELL TO THE SCENE. BUT BEFORE THAT LET'S HAVE A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON... IT ALL STARTED IN 1986 WHEN I BOUGHT MY FIRST COMPUTER, A C64 OF COURSE. I ONLY BOUGHT IT BECAUSE I WANTED TO PLAY GAMES ON IT, AND I DIDN'T REALLY GET STARTED WITH ANY KIND OF SERIOUS STUFF. TWO YEARS LATER, IN FEBRUARY 1988, I BOUGHT MY AMIGA 500, BUT THIS WAS ALSO MOSTLY USED FOR GAMES. BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED, AND MY LITTLE BROTHER AND I GOT INTERESTED IN DEMOS, AND WE SOON STARTED TO CODE VERY SIMPLE DEMOS ON THE C64. WE FORMED A GROUP CALLED THE CRACKING MASTERS (TCM) TOGETHER WITH OUR COUSIN. OUR COUSIN SOON DROPPED OUT, BUT WE KEPT ON MAKING DEMOS FOR THE LITTLE WONDER MACHINE. OUR FIRST DEMOS WERE MOSTLY CONTAINING RIPPED CODE COMBINED WITH SOME VERY SIMPLE CODING DONE BY OURSELVES. WE GOT BETTER AND BETTER, AND SOON WE JOINED A GROUP IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CALLED THE EXTRA BEAT BOYS (EBB). WE STILL GOT BETTER, BUT THE TWO OTHER MEMBERS (TWO TWINS) GOT MORE AND MORE LAZY, AND AT LAST WE WERE FED UP WITH THEIR LAZINESS AND WE FORMED OUR OWN GROUP AGAIN CALLED THE STARS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE SMALL PROBLEM. THERE WAS A MUCH COOLER GROUP IN NORWAY WITH THE SAME NAME, SO WE HAD TO CHANGE OURS. WE DECIDED TO CALL OURSELVES SAVAGE, AND THAT GROUP WAS OUR BIGGEST SUCCESS SO FAR. WE GOT AN EXTRA GRAPHICS ARTIST (THE DRAW MASTER) AND A NORWEGIAN SWAPPER CALLED GREMLIN IN OUR GROUP AS WELL. ONE DAY WE SAW A DEMO FROM A GROUP CALLING THEMSELVES ATOMIC INTELLIGENCE, AND WE DECIDED TO CONTACT THEM, AS THEY LIVED IN THE SAME CITY AS WE DID. I CALLED GARFIELD AND WE AGREED TO MEET AT HIS PLACE SOME DAYS LATER. WE BROUGHT OUR LATEST PRODUCTION WHICH WAS ALMOST FINISHED, AND GARFIELD ACTUALLY LIKED IT, SO WE JOINED THE GROUP IMMEDIATELY. WE FOUND OUT THAT ATOMIC INTELLIGENCE ALSO HAD AN AMIGA DIVISION WHICH AMONG OTHERS CONTAINED PEOPLE, WHO WERE TO BE WORLD WIDE FAMOUS WITHIN A FEW YEARS. THE GUYS I AM TALKING ABOUT WERE CALLING THEMSELVES MILKSHAKE AND WARP FACTOR 9. THIS MIGHT SOUND HALF FAMILIAR TO YOU, BUT IF I SAY MILKSHAKE AND ICRONITE OF ANARCHY, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHO I AM TALKING ABOUT. AFTER ABOUT HALF A YEAR IN ATOMIC INTELLIGENCE THE GROUP DIED. ICRONITE (AT THIS MOMENT CALLING HIMSELF THE BURGER), MILKSHAKE AND DEFLEX JOINED KEFRENS, AND THE REST OF THE AMIGA BUNCH FORMED DIRECT. THE GROUP CONTAINED 5 MEMBERS AT THE BEGINNING. THEY WERE MASK (LONG TIME DEAD AMIGA PROGRAMMER), ZENIX (STILL ACTIVE), THE DRAW MASTER (NOW CALLING HIMSELF PROTON), GARFIELD (NOW CALLING HIMSELF JOHN) AND I, DEFEAT. AFTER ABOUT HALF A YEAR'S EXISTANCE WE HEARD ABOUT A MUSICIAN LIVING IN HINNERUP CALLED DROID. WE CONTACTED HIM AND HE JOINED US IMMEDIATELY, BECUASE WE LIKED HIS TUNES. WE HAVE NOW REALIZED THAT THEY WERE  V E R Y  LAME, BUT WE ARE STILL GLAD THAT HE JOINED US, BECAUSE HE HAS REALLY DEVELOPED INTO SOMETHING SERIOUS. HE MIGHT EVEN BE THE MOST POSITIVE THING THAT HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO DIRECT. THE GROUP WORKED PERFECTLY FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT THEN WE STARTED TO GET TIRED OF EACH OTHER BECAUSE WE NEVER FINISHED ANY PRODUCTIONS, AND IF WE EVER DID IT WASN'T AS GOOD AS WE HAD WANTED IT TO BE. EVERYBODY STARTED TO TALK BADLY ABOUT EVERYBODY, AND THIS HAD TO COME TO AN END. WITHIN A FEW MONTHS THREE MEMBERS JOINED BRAINSTORM, AND THEREBY FORMED BRAINSTORM DK. THESE WERE PROTON (WHO NOW CHANGED HIS NAME TO CHESNEY), DROID (STILL DROID), AND A NEW MEMBER CALLED MACHO, WHOSE PROGRAMMING FUTURE REALLY LOOKED BRIHGT AS HE DEVELOPED VERY FAST AND GOT PRETTY GOOD. I STAYED IN DIRECT FOR A WHILE BUT THEN I LEFT AS WELL. I DID NOTHING FOR A WHILE, BUT THEN AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE PERSUADED ME TO JOIN HIS GROUP PARASITE WITH JTF (FORMER ARCANE) AMONG THE MEMBERS. I WAS A MEMBER FOR ABOUT 14 DAYS AND THEN I DROPPED OUT AGAIN. I WAS PRETTY FED UP WITH EVERYTHING, AND IT WAS NO USE HAVING ME AS A MEMBER, AS I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE DRAWING ANYTHING ANYMORE. A FEW MONTHS LATER I DECIDED TO HELP A FRIEND (CEVOID) MAKING SOME GRAPHICS FOR SOME KIND OF A DEMO, AS HE SEEMED TO BE A POTENTIAL CODER WITH THE DRIVE IT TAKES IF YOU WANT TO BE REALLY GOOD. I MADE THE GRAPHICS YOU ARE LOOKING AT NOW (THE FONTS ARE OLDER THOUGH), BUT AS YOU KNOW IT IS OVER ONE YEAR OLD BY NOW. AT THE END OF MARCH THIS YEAR I SOLD MY AMIGA BECAUSE I WANTED A COMPUTER THAT I COULD USE SERIOUSLY IN CONNECTION WITH MY SCHOOL WORK. I BOUGHT A PC (PEASEA), AND I MUST ADMIT THAT I MISS THE AMIGA. ABOUT 2 DAYS AGO I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM CEVOID SAYING THAT THE DEMO WAS ALMOST FINISHED. THEN I SAW THE PERFECT OPPOURTUNITY TO SAY GOODBYE TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN THE SCENE IN A RESPECTABLE WAY. THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU ALL: GOODBYE AND LIVE STRONGLY TILL YOU DIE! THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO I ESPECIALLY WOULD LIKE TO SAY GOODBYE TO, BUT YOU CAN READ ALL THEIR NAMES IN THE "BUMP WRITER" ABOVE THIS TEXT.... I WILL NOW END THIS 5KB LONG TEXT, AND I HOPE THAT I SHALL MEET YOU AT A COPY PARTY SOMEWHERE SOMETIME. BECAUSE WHO KNOWS IF I'LL SHOW UP.... GOODBYE DEMO WORLD.... FOREVER!!!?