Isn't it amazing? We decided to put out some very important facts in English, 'coz we also send the ILLEGAL to our friends in Holland, England, Denmark and so on. And they all wrote:

-"Yes, your magazine is great, but if I could understand German, it would be much better..."

So, you see, there was problem, which has to be removed, eh? At first I'm really sorry for my bad English, but I think it's much better than that from some other guyz here in Germany. Beside this article you can find the "Interview of the Month" with SLEDGEHAMMER from mighty HOTLINE.

NEWS, GOSSIP, WHAT'S UP?
Be there, if we tell you the happenings of the worst copy party ever made on earth - it was FUTURE DIVISION's one, all disappointing facts in "Der Reinfall!". What do think when you receive such letter from idiots who contact you? Two of those letters are printed in "Die aller damlichsten Briefe", they are pretty nice, we think.

You know, once I (JEFF SMART) and some other guys were in the GERMAN SPREADING SERVICE INTL. 2100 but time has passed by. I'm now in THE FANATIC DUO of TWGI 3003! The other members and our new aims and that I keep goin on with writing the ILLEGAL are written by myself in "In eigener Sache!".

Some advertisements take also part in "Die Kleinanzeigen", where you can swap AMIGA or C64 stuff or even buy DOLPHIN DOS PLUS for about 80 German Marks!

The German computer magazine Happy Computer are always producing such rubbish and they're prejudicing 'bout us PIRATES and their methods to get a higher circulation are so funny, that I always my opinion to them. Read and laugh in "Eppileppi, aber Heppi!".

What will happen next? Are there enuff good games coming? What are the outlooks for the next months? The "Kommentar auf momentanen Kopierlage" will answer you all questions honestly in the point of view of a pirate.

What has changed? Who has recracked? What's goin on with all our friends? The news from the front, in German called "Neues von der Front!" shows all rumours and facts from the preceding month e.g.:

• COCO stole old ACE's name for his new group, which he founded together with his old enemies from THE MAGIC CIRCLE: Actual Cracker Entertainment.
• TPI from the BEASTIE BOYS joined ACE too, but today we recieved the news, that TPI and the two ex-MCL members have left COCO alone, 'coz they couldn't bear that COCO stole routines from TCS for his ACE intro, and now they want to found a new group together with THE DARKNESS and ALPHAFLIGHT! The group is probably called: MASK!
• Otherwise you know that some guys from NEW EDITION have left them and founded a new group called HIGH-TECH BOYS.
• Yep, and of course, almost all members of good ole' RELAX from Sweden have joined mighty TRIAD!
• And it seems that RAW DEAL are back on the 64 with their crack of Battle Ships!
• Another new group has been formed in Germany, it's THE WANDERER GROUP with SPEEDCRACKER (ex-TRIANON) and STARLINE (U know). Always be careful with their cracks 'cause they promised only to crack "Reisende im Wind 2", "Schatzjaege" and many other German rubbish!
• And also be very careful with THE FANTASTIC CREW from Germany, because they are the bloodiest recrackin' fuckers on earth. They recracked LAFFEN's (RDI) version of Battle Ships, but they forgot to remove the "SMASHED BY LAFFEN". Oh no! What MAJOR ARSEHOLES! Blow them down.

INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: SLEDGEHAMMER OF HOTLINE

From now on, every month, we plan to interview a world famous cracker. This month we chose the boss and founder of HOTLINE. It's SLEDGEHAMMER.

• How old are you?
  I am 22 years old. (22-10-65)
• When did you found HOTLINE?
  I founded HOTLINE in the beginning of August 1986.
  
• How many members does HOTLINE have at the moment?
  HOTLINE has now 15 members!
• What was your first crack?
  It was Donkey Kong from Ocean!
• How many swappartners do you have?
  10 real ones! 4 in Holland, 3 of them are HOTLINE members, 1 of them SRG, POPEYE in Denmark and 5 guys in England. I swap by express with them!
• How many packages do you send per week?
  4 express ones and 26 or 27 to the rest!
• What so you say to the rumours: "You are a recracker"?
  First of all, I don't give a shit about rumours! There is no need for me to recrack, because of every game that's released in England I'll have the original or the back-up in about 3 days. If there's a game I didn't crack (and that's only German or very bad games), I have a look at it, if I could have made it smaller and that's all. I don't release it.
• Do you have some enemies?
  In Holland my enemies are THE LAST SCIENCE, THE DREAM TEAM and FAC if they don't watch their steps. For the rest FBR in the USA, they tried to fuck us over!
• What kind of music do you like the best at the moment?
  I don't have any special sort of music, but at the moment I really like LL Cool J! And I love Arcade Classics by ROBB! The whole neighbourhood knows this piece of music now!
• Do you have your name from Peter Gabriel?
  I didn't use this name, because of his hitsingle, I had this name for about 3 1/2 years! The name just sounds cool (I think).

THE FIRST AMIGA GAME REVIEWS

For the first time we now also have some AMIGA GAME REVIEWS in the ILLEGAL. You can observe them in "Amiga Ecke". All games were tested by HIGH-TECH of THE FANATIC DUO. Maybe you recognize the number at the end of every game test. It shows how good the game is, in the opinion of the reviewer! The highest score a game can acheieve is 100 points. For example, TEST DRIVE got 90 out of 100 possible points. It's the same thing with the C64 reviews, which are all done by myself. Anyway, I hope you enjoy them, although they are in German.

SKATE OR DIE! ON C64

On the last day, when this ILLEGAL was finished, we received SKATE OR DIE! from ELECTRONIC ARTS and it's a damn brill game. Just being shocked by the titlemusic, which was of course programmed by the USA immigrant Rob Hubbard, you can notice the names from Michael Kosaka and Stephen Landrum. They were the co-programmers of all Epyx's games like California Games, World Games, and so on. And SKATE OR DIE! could also be called Skating Games!.

It's absolutely fantastic! My current High Scores: FREESTYLE: 6042 pts, HIGH JUMP: HOTLINE: 10'6" DOWNHILL RACE: 9100 pts and JAM: 7982 pts. I think they are not bad for one day practicing, eh? But who is the best? Please tell me your best scores, and we'll see who's the champ! SKATE OR DIE! is really the best game released yet through Electronic Arts! We wait for more!

CHARTS - OCTOBER 1987

C64 GAMES		C64 CRACKERS
1. TEST DRIVE (-) 2. JACK THE NIPPER II (-) 3. QUEDEX (-) 4. WATERPOLO (-) 5. AIRBORNE RANGER (-) 6. INDIANA JONES (-) 7. SUPER SPRING (-) 8. HYSTERIA (-) 9. BAD CAT (-) 10. SOLOMON'S KEY (6)		1. BEASTIE BOYS (5) 2. HOTLINE (6) 3. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP (2) 4. TRIAD (3) 5. TEESIDE CRACKING SERVICE (1) 6. FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE(10) 7. EAGLESOFT (8) 8. FAIRLIGHT (7) 9. RELAX (-) 10. DCU (-)
C64 DEMOS
1. RHAA LOVELY II by THE JUDGES 2. TELEPHONE STORY by GREMLIN 3. MEGA ORGIE by COMMANDOFRONTIER 4. FLEXIBLE by SWISS CRACKING ASSOC. 5. FRANCE by TRIANGLE

Thanx for voting to: THE BEASTIE BOYS (CF), RADWAR ENTERPRISES (BK), SOLDIERS AGAINST PROTECTION (ACU), FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE (TSM), KGB-CREW (UFO/KNS), LUKE SKYWALKER and all others!