HEEEEEEERRRRREEEEE'S RONNIE!!! WELL, ACTUALLY IT'S THE SMELL OF HIS EXTREMLY PREFROBNICATING GOOD LOOKING HOT PIZZA. AH.. WE COULD ALL USE A BITE TO EAT NOW ..HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING IN MY TUMMY FOR AGES. AND THIS TUMMY BELONGS TO DR. OUTTASIGHT ... THAT'S ME.. BY THE WAY... WE'RE NOT AT THE CRYPTOBURNERS, IT, VISUAL ARTS PARTY IN DRAMMEN. WE'RE AT HOME! YES, IT'S TRUE! ALL THE RUMOURS YOU'VE HEARD ARE TRUE. THE PARTY GOT B U S T E D ! ! ! HARD TO IMAGINE ISN'T IT.. IN A PEACEFUL COUNTRY LIKE NORWAY THE POLICE FORCES, ARMED TO THEIR TEETH BUSTED A PEACEFUL GROUP OF SOMETHING LIKE 500 RAVING MAD AMIGA FREAKS JUST TRYING TO HAVE FUN... WANNA HEAR ALL ABOUT IT ... STAY TUNED... WE'D ALL DECIDED TO GO TO THIS PARTY BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE T H E PARTY OF THE CENTURY, AT LEAST IN SCANDINAVIA. AWAY WE WENT IN 3 CARS TO THIS PLACE CALLED DRAMMEN ABOUT 40 KILOMETRES OUTSIDE OSLO. YES, OSLO IS THE CAPITAL OF NORWAY! AFTER SOME SERIOUS HI-SPEED DRIVING WE ARRIVED AT ABOUT 3PM. THE PARTY WAS HELD IN A QUITE LARGE SCHOOL AND THE PLACE WAS PACKED. ALL CREDITS MUST GO TO THE GUYS IN IT, CRYPTOBURNERS AND VISUAL ARTS, WHO ARRANGED THE PARTY. IT SEEMED TO BE VERY WELL ARRANGED... SINCE THE CRUSADERS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR ENOURMOUS AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT THEY BRING ALONG TO A PARTY, WE WASTED AN HOUR JUST GETTING THE COMPUTERS, SYNTHS, MONITORS, CAMERAS, DIGITIZERS, AMPLIFIERS AND SPEAKERS INSTALLED. THEN OF COURSE WE HAD TO GET A BITE TO EAT, AND WE WENT OFF TO THE NEAREST SUPER MARKET TO BRING IN SOME DELICIOUS CHICKEN, LOADS OF POTATO CHIPS AND COKE, AND ALL THE STUFF THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN A REAL HEALTHY MEAL. WHEN WE GOT BACK WE CONSUMED THIS MEAL OF GOODS WITH UNMEASUREABLE PLEASURE. AT LEAST I DID. THEN THERE WAS NO MORE TIME TO WASTE AND EVERYONE WAS REALLY WORKING HARD ON SOMETHING TO RELEASE FOR THE DEMO COMPETITION. THEN SUDDENLY SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT'S NOT TOO RARE ON LARGER PARTIES. THE LIGHTS WENT OUT, AND EVERYONE WAS SWEARING BECAUSE THEY HADN'T SAVED THEIR SOURCES AND SO ON... FOR SOME STRANGE REASON THE POWER DIDN'T COME BACK ON. AND IT TOOK A WHILE BEFORE WE REALIZED WHAT WAS GOING ON... IN FRONT OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE SCHOOL THE POLICE HAD PARKED A POLICE VAN AND BLOCKED ALL THE DOORS SO NO ONE COULD ESCAPE. THERE WAS PANIC EVERYWHERE. EVERY AVAILABLE POCKET, DISK BOX, COKE BOTTLE AND FREE SPACE INSIDE THE AMIGA WAS QUICKLY FILLED WITH PIRATED SOFTWARE. MINUTES AFTER THE FIRST FELLAS FROM THE SOFTWARE HOUSE APPEARED. RUMOURS SAID THAT THEY WERE FROM A COMPANY CALLED 'BJ ELECTRONICS' AND A FEW LOW-MORALE CREEPS FROM THE SOFTWARE STORE 'TANUM DATA'. THEY WANTED A L L DISKS CONTAINING PIRATED SOFTWARE, BUT OF COURSE NO ONE GAVE ANYTHING AWAY TO A COUPLE OF DOUBTFUL GUYS LIKE THEM. BJ ELECTRONICS - IF YOU READ THIS, WE K N O W THAT THE GUYS YOU BROUGHT TO THE PARTY ARE VERY MUCH IN THE 'PIRATE' BUSNIESS THEMSELVES, STEALING FROM WHERE THEY WORK, COPYING GAMES ETC. AT LEAST AS MUCH AS THE REST OF US DO! THEY'VE GOT PSEUDO NAMES, SOFTWARE-TRADING CONTACTS ETC, AND WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY GET THEIR SOFTWARE FROM... ANYWAY, MOMENTS LATER THE WHOLE SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED AND THE COPS CHECKED EVERYONE THAT LEFT. MOST NOT SO BRIGHT GUYS EMPTIED THEIR DISK BOXES IN THE HUGE PLASTIC BAGS WHICH THE COPS HAD PLACED AT THE FRONT DOOR. THE BRIGHTER FELLAS JUST CARRIED ALL THEIR DISKS IN THEIR POCKETS AND DIDN'T LEAVE ANYTHING FOR THE HUNGRY COPS. WELL, THAT WAS THE END OF THAT PARTY, BUT ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO GO TO DRAMMEN TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. ACTULLY DRAMMEN ISN'T EXACTLY A CURE FOR BOREDOM. SO ALL OF THE CRUSADERS LEFT IN A HURRY AND PICKED UP EL CUBO WHO HAD JUMPED OUT THE WINDOW WITH ALL OUR DISKS. THEN WE WENT BACK TO LAZERBRAINS PLACE AND CARRIED ON THERE. THE RESULT FROM THIS MINI COPY PARTY IS THIS.... WELL... NOT A MEGADEMO OR ANYTHING, BUT WE JUST HAD TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. WE'RE SORRY THAT THE PARTY COULDN'T CONTINUE. OUR DEEPEST CONDOLANCES GOES TO IT, CRYPTOBURNERS, VISUAL ARTS FOR TRYING... SOMEBODY JUST CAN'T STAND TO SEE OTHERS HAVING A GOOD TIME... THE WORST THING WASN'T THE COPS. ALL THEY DID WAS TO FOLLOW THEIR ORDERS AND TO ACT REAL STUPID SO WE COULD SAVE MOST OF OUR DISKS. HAHAHAHA THE W O R S T THING HOWEVER WAS THE GUYS THAT CHECKED THE DISKS FOR PIRATE SOFTWARE. THEY OBVIOUSLY HAD TO BE AMIGA OWNERS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SEKA SOURCE AND A PRERELEASE OF SURGEON. WHAT WAS PIRATED SOFTWARE AND WHAT WAS NOT... DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU SICK WHEN YOU SEE AMIGA USERS TURN AGAINST YOU AND BECOME MISERABLE BAGS OF PUKE ... WHAT R E A L L Y PISSED US OFF WAS THAT THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS ILLEGALY COPIED SOFTWARE AND WHAT WAS OWN-MADE STUFF LIKE MUSIC, DEMOES ETC. - THEY JUST TOOK IT ALL! THIS IS DR. OUTTASIGHT SAYING BIBI AND SHARE THIS DISK WITH OTHERS. IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR MORE COPY PARTIES OF THIS CALIBRE IN NORWAY IN THE FUTURE....HERE'S LAZERBRAIN.... WELL DR.OUTTASIGHT, YOU GOT IT ALL SAID THERE I GUESS. ME, MYSELF AND I ARE MOSTLY WONDERING ABOUT HOW THE HELL EL CUBO COULD JUMP OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM THE SECOND FLOOR. IT WAS ABOUT A 4-5 METERS SUICIDAL JUMP DOWN THE BACK YARD OF THE SCHOOL. MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BROKEN BOTH THEIR LEGS & ARMS. MY IMPRESSION OF THE TOTALLY CONFUSION THAT OCCURRED WHEN THE FUSE WAS CUT AND THE COPS BLOCKED THE ENTRANCE IS THAT EVERY GUY IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL BEGAN TO HIDE AND THROW AWAY THEIR PIRATED STUFF. FIRST WE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A 'NORMAL' VISIT BY THE COPS BUT VERY SOON WE HEARD IT WAS A RAID, AND AFTER MAYBE 30 MINUTES IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE PARTY WAS DEFINATELY OVER, WHICH WAS THE WORST SHOCK. IT'S NOTHING MORE TO WRITE ABOUT REALLY, ONLY A MESSAGE TO BJ ELECTRONICS AND T-DATA.... YOU CAN SEE NOW HOW THINGS TURN OUT IT'S ONLY YOUR OWN BUSINES YOU'RE DESTROYING. THIS DISK WILL PROBABLY BE SPREAD OVER THE WHOLE WORLD WITH THIS MESSAGE.... YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE FACT THAT YOUR CAPITAL LOSSES WILL BE NOTICED BY Y O U! HOW MANY NORWEGIAN SOFTWARE BUYERS WILL BOYCOTT BJ ELECTRONICS AND TANUM DATA NOW... BLAME YOURSELVES AND THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU TAKE THIS DRASTIC SOULUTION AGAIN. THE PRESS FREEDOM ARE OURS. SIGNED THE CRUSADERS - ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE TRYING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME ...
