ONCE UPON A TIME, IN A COUNTRY FAR FAR AWAY (TODAY CALLED NORWAY, NORGE AND NOREG (THAT'S THE SHITTY FORM)), A GROUP OF SOLDIERS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS LIVED BEYOND THE HORIZON. DEEP BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THEY LIVED IN THEIR HIDDEN CAVES, AND THEY TRAINED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. THEY WERE ...CRYPTOBURNERS... THE LAMER EXTERMINATORS. THEIR METHODS WERE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, AND IN THE YEAR OF 437 B.C. ALL LAMERS WERE ...DEAD... ONE DAY, DARK CLOUDS COVERED THE HIDDEN LAND. A HUGE VOLCANO ERUPTED, AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLAN BECAME SCATTERED ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FOR CENTURIES THEY SEARCHED, BUT AS TIME PASSED, THEIR HOPE FOR A REUNION FADED AWAY. BUT ....TRUE LEGENDS NEVER DIE, AND IN THE YEAR OF 1988 AFTER THE DEATH OF CHRIST, THE 8 REMAINING FROM THE DISTANT PAST MET, AND THE FACT THAT CRYPTOBURNERS WAS BORN TO LIVE, WAS PROVED YET ANOTHER TIME. WELL, THAT WAS SOME STORY, WASN'T IT? ANYWAY, THIS IS HEATSEEKER, BUT THE STORY WAS TOLD BY BLACKSTAR. HOLD THESE THREE KEYS TO EXIT : C.R.B. (THE SHORTFORM FOR CRYPTOBURNERS), OR PRESS FIRE BUTTON ON JOYSTICK IN PORT TWO TO START THE GAME. PRESS KEYS FROM F1-F4 AND F6-F9 TO CHANGE GAME OPTIONS. NOW I, HEATSEEKER, HAND THE REST OF THIS SCROLLTEXT OVER TO BLACKSTAR. (HOW CAN I DO THAT WHEN HE IS IN F0RDE, AND I AM IN BERGEN ?, WELL I DON'T KNOW, WHY DON'T YOU FIGURE IT OUT YOUR SELF?) ANYWAY, HERE WE GO..... BLACKSTAR IS TAKING OVER THE KEYBOARD (IN ABOUT TWO DAYS FROM NOW!)....THIS IS IT.... YO FREAKS ALL OVER THE WORLD! YOU NOW HAVE THE HONOUR OF READING SOME SCROLLTEXT TYPED BY BLACKSTAR. FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO APOLOGISE TO ALL MY CONTACTS FOR MY SLOW SENDINGS THE LAST FEW WEEKS. MY EXAMS IN SCHOOL ARE COMING UP, SO I'VE JUST LEFT ALL SENDINGS UNOPENED UNTIL NOW. THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, THAT'S A PROMISE. ALLRIGHT, SOME FACTS ABOUT THIS DEMO... IT'S OUR FIRST DEMO SINCE THE RELEASE OF OUR MEGADEMO ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT, AS IT'S A QUITE NEW CONCEPT IN DEMO PROGRAMMING. BESIDES, MOST OF THE CRYPTOBURNERS MEMBERS FANZIED GRIDDER ON THE C64, AND SINCE NO SOFTWARE HOUSES WOULD DO THE CONVERSION, WE TOOK THE CASE IN OUR OWN HANDS. WE MADE AN EFFORT TO MAKE THE GAME AS SIMILAR TO THE C64-VERSION AS POSSIBLE, EVEN DOWN TO THE CUTE SOUNDFX. THE ONLY REAL CHANGES FROM THE C64-VERSION ARE: NEW, SMASHING SOUNDTRACK, AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE START-LEVEL, LIVES ETC. AND MANY MORE LEVELS. WELL, SINCE WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY OUTSIDE, AND SINCE I'M GOING TO A BEACH-PARTY NOW, I THINK I'VE SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS. OH.. ONE THING REMAINS, A SMALL NOTE TO ALL THE PEOPLE HAVING WRITTEN CONTACT-LETTERS WITHOUT DISKS TO ME... I DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO READ THEM.. THEY GO DIRECTLY IN MY DUSTBIN, SO IF ANYONE OUT THERE WANTS TO SWAP WITH CRYPTOBURNERS, SEND DISKS OR TALK TO US AT A COPYPARTY. OUR ADDRESSES CAN BE FOUND ELSEWHERE. ARE YOU WAITING FOR THE GREETINGS? WELL, I'LL ONLY SEND SOME VERY PERSONAL ONES HERE, OUR COMPLETE LIST CAN BE FOUND SOMEWHERE ELSE.. SOME QUICK HELLOS TO: JACKMIX OF GHOSTRIDERS (VEL VEL, ULFERN.. NOE NYTT PAA GANG?), BURGLAR OF IT (JAJA INGVE, DEN FYLLTE VECTORDEMOEN VAR MEGET BRA. SER DEG KANSKJE I TRONDHEIM!), TOLGA OF SCOOPEX (NICE TALKING TO YOU ON THE PHONE MAN), NEWTON OF ESA (IN NORWEGIAN: VENTER SPENT PAA SENDING...), RLA OF DUECO ENTERPRISES (ALWAYS COOL STUFF FROM YOU, SORRY FOR NOT KEEPING IT UP..), ZYR OF SETROX (NICE PRODUCTIONS FROM YOU. THANX FOR FASTAND RELIABLE SENDINGS.), INSANE OF RAZOR 1911 (LYKKE TIL MED MEGAPARTYET, HAAPER AA TREFFE DEG DER. ET PAR STK. SNADDER TIL HELE RAZOR...), THE SPIDER OF TRAXXION (NICE SWAPPING WITH YOU. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!). NO MORE GREETZ.. COMPLETE LIST NEXT TIME.. UNTIL THEN.... ENJOY THIS TRIP..
