---------------------------------------- Raistlin's Message Box #4 November 90 ---------------------------------------- Coding : Kreator Music : Dr.Awesome Logo : Igor Font : Kreator Text : Raistlin ---------------------------------------- Press Right Mouse button to flip pages Left Mouse button to exit ---------------------------------------- Release Date : 27th October 1990 (at the Magnetic Fields Party)
another month flew past, and not it's time for another one of these damn text- wotsits to be written!! i'm starting to write this on monday the 22nd, and will hopefully be able to release it at the MF-party on saturday! (if i can find a way of getting to rotherham!!) kreator hasn't sent me the update code for this issue, so if i don't get that before saturday then i will have to use the same logo as issue 3! (but that's ok - it's a cool logo! (hi igor!...)) speaking of kreator, he's been moaning that my message-boxes are too short! - i think 20 pages is enough personally, but i'll see what i can do this time! (hmph)
without further ado, here are the long awaited messages for november!... marc panther (reaktor).. hey pal, thanks for the many cool disks! how do you find time for making music when you have half a million contacts? dr.awesome (crusaders).. thanks for all the (truly awesome) music-disks!.. shame we couldn't meet in leeds that day. what ya doing next year? (we'll have to meet next time you visit martyn!) kreator (anarchy).. hurry up and send me the rmb update!!!
bustman (crusaders).. thanks for making a logo for us!... send it next time ok.. keep up the cool sendings! martyn (newsflash).. sorry for the delay - i didn't realise you gave the disks to dr.a! anyway, send the latest issue of newsflash (No.14) when it's ready! (if its not ready, hurry up and finish it! - ie. lay off the booze for a few hours!) judge drokk (anarchy).. we will have to discuss whether pioneer and i are going to leave anarchy or not! (a-levels...) - anarchy is a big group now, and the last thing you need is 2 inactive members!
zarch (no group yet).. keep up the fast sendings! when are you setting up that pd-house then?... pioneer (anarchy).. looking forward to seeing your new demo! (finished at last) - shame there wasn't more time to finish it! kreator (anarchy) (again).. hurry up and code that game! (send a copy...) mystik (anarchy).. hey, cool gfx you've been making lately! keep it up! i would ask you to make the graphics for my game - but i'm not making one so i can't...
igor (anarchy).. your graphics are great - i particularly liked your stolen data logo!.. keep up the excellent work! antichrist (genesis project).. i missed you at the ces show - i went on sunday, i heard that you were there on saturday! maybe we'll be luckier next year! (we'll have to arrange something this time!) megasnail (nato).. hey damien, where are you? your 'new identity' is great, but how am i supposed to contact you when no -body knows where you live etc.??? (!) - if you read this, phone me! i still need a good c64 cruncher source!
dan (anarchy).. i'm looking forward to seeing your new demo - it'd better be as good as i hope it possibly might be! are you gonna do some new logos? (i really liked you rmb logo!) mole (anarchy).. so, how's the coding??? it must be hard learning machine code from scratch! anyway, keep up the cool sendings! (a-levels are a real strain, aren't they?!?) hammer (anarchy)..great to hear that you haven't quit the scene! (what can you expect us to think when you 'disappear' after the ces-show!!!)
kreator (anarchy) (yet again).. hurry up and code something! jester (quartex).. hi! mr.big (anarchy).. why don't you and JD take over from 'the management'? (ron & ron...) i think you'd fit the parts perfectly!.. anyway, i'm looking forward to the fifth issue of stolen data!! what are you trying to do to poor parson, he only release the last one 2 weeks ago!!! (hoho...) kreator (anarchy).. your room seems to have been overrun by tomatoes! (hi dad!)
deek (genesis project).. what have you done with my disks? (all i want is for you to send 'delirious 9' + 'deliverance 2'!!!) brainie (clones).. why haven't you sent back yet? anyway, try to send back when you get this! (ta...) paul eves (commodore disk user).. a mere fifty pounds?? hmph!! .. well, the messages are starting to drag on, so i'll end them here! now that i only have a few contacts, it's getting hard to write this message-box!!!
cool demos from october the imp.666 and no limits party brought - all - the good demos i saw this month, and for me they all arrived on the door- mat on the same day!! amazing... the pick of the crop (i thought) were: Materialized (Cryptoburners) - a nice demo in the style of Keftales. It's getting harder (New wave) - with nice music, vectors and a cool ham pic! Copper master (Angels) - an excellent raster-compilation demo from corsair (an x-member of dragons)
habitual experience (razor 1911)- with some more raster effects, this time of a pretty odd variety! (copper starfields, copper spaceships, etc...) Watch this (network) - featuring a bob scroller (unoriginal, but it looks cool) Mandelbrot zoom (pure metal coders) - a quite nice demo with 100 frames of 16- colour mandelbrots compacted into memory (about 128 by 128 pixels in size each). Another demo that seemed to be pretty cool was The Hunt from Cryptoburners - I say seemed because i could only get the first bit to work... but anyway, what i saw of it was cool!
i didn't see many good games that were released this month... in fact there are only 3 that i actually bothered to play! - they were: plotting (ocean) - a cool puzzle game in which you have to knock blocks out of a pile (copyright bad descriptions 1990) paradroid 90 (hewson) - i don't see what people like in this game, it was a lot better on the c64... because this is an st-port the game is nowhere near as good as it should have been! (the bi-direct- ional scrolling has been replaced by a vertical scroll! lame!)
cadaver - a cool new 3d-isometric arcade adventure from the bitmap brothers! very playable unlike most games of this genre and still retaining the complexity of fairlight (which this game is obviously based around). there've been some very disappointing games released lately... take gremlins 2 for example. the publishers are quite obviously just trying to make money out of the young kids who saw the film! (hi rebels-uk!)... f19 stealth fighter was a very poor conversion of the old c64 game - why don't they leave classics like f19 alone?
the ces show 1990 i cannot give a 'definitive' report on this show, because:- 1. i was only there for 4 hours on the last day. 2. i have only ever been to one other show (the 16-bit summer event), so can't give any comparisons etc. but anyway, i enjoyed myself while i was there! the show itself was not very interesting, but i met all my friends in anarchy/reaktor/etc., and that's all i really went for!
one problem i found was that everybody was going to the show on different days. for example, crusaders and some others went on the trade days (thursday/friday) , my friends in genesis project (c64) on saturday, and most amiga groups (anarchy quartex, reaktor and some kids from the rebels (uk division) went on sunday. the funniest part of the day-out was when pioneer, an st-owner (i hadn't seen hime before in my life, honest...) and i nearly missed the coach home. we set off for victoria station an hour before the coach was scheduled to set off, and just managed to get there 1 minute before!
contact addresses for swapping:- judge drokk (mark) mr.big (john) 9 back lane west, 49 kirkstall road, royston, new lodge estate, barnsley, barnsley, s.yorkshire, s.yorkshire, s71 4rz. s71 1rs. mole (adrian) dan (dan) 38 gladelands way, 39 elms avenue, broadstone, poole, dorset, dorset, bh18 9jb. bh1 48ee.
for graphics/swapping etc:- igor (scott), mystik (alan), 7 reservoir road, 16 carroll gardens, burton-on-trent, larkfield, staffs, aylesford, kent, de14 2bp. me20 6mq. for stolen data submissions:- mr.big (john) 49 kirkstall road, teeze new lodge estate, spovg.7, barnsley, 94139 pitea, s.yorkshire, sweden. s71 1rs.
for swapping:- hammer (adam) 12 windsor place, barnoldswick, lancashire, bb8 6hd. for stolen-data paper magazine:- parson (dcs), michael eggers, im meere 11, 3208 grob forste, w.germany
anarchy members 27.10.90 judge drokk management,swapper mr.big management,swapper raistlin swapper,coder kreator coder,artist del coder kris coder pioneer coder mole swapper hammer coder, swapper mediator coder 4-mat musician igor artist mystik artist banger swapper
raphael artist dan coder,artist,modemtrade fusion coder purple om musician teeze swapper marvin artist,musician skywise coder mosh coder wuli coder lexter coder odeon coder viper coder warneck coder,modemtrade twister musician hit coder rubberboy coder
... and so we have come to the end of another message-box!.. the next one will probably be released pre-christmas (some time around the 12th)... i'll check my calendar later and see when the anarchy- quartex party is, 'cos i'll release one in time for that cool party! hmm.. i have 8 more lines to fill, and i don't know what to write... err.. how about a limerick? Last saturday Sue came to call. She really has no shame at all. She said: "though i like to come on my bike, i come on your knees best of all."
