A warm welcome to another world of ILLEGAL! Maybe you've already heard that I (Jeff Smart) joined together with HI-TEC the mighty forces of TRIAD and now people claimed that TRIAD will always be number one in the cracker charts on the last page. Yep, they are right! Oh, no, I felt a little bit different when getting your votes for the charts thiz month. Who gave TRIAD 10 points? I was really depressed of what should I do, anyway the last thing I would do is to manipulate the charts and so I leave it, even though people doubt my neutrality.

Anyway, here are the greetinx for this issue, in (of course) no ranking order: STRIDER / FAIRLIGHT (KILL A COMMIE FOR YER MOMMIE, EH!?), NIK / IKARI, SLEDGE / HOTLINE (good movement!), IAN / FUSION (don't spend too much time with reading the results of the horse races!), CF + ACCEPT / BEASTIE BOYS, THE DEADLY FRIENDS (so if you want to then write some articles...), ACU from SOLDIERS AGAINST PROTECTION (great 'Platoon' version, Alex), JAYCE from DCU 1789, old DAVE from THE AWESOME GUYS in the States - the land of opportunity, SWYX of TRIANGLE 3532, ISS and NY from PLEASURE (keep going on the good work Stefan!), MAD ALL of CFR (hoping to meet ya again, dude!), RUB + SPC from TWG, MZP from RED SECTOR, old eaglestone from (unreadable), ACE, TMC of SCOOP, the rest of FCS, GENESIS*PROJECTS for the titlebegger!, TSK, TAU, SHIELD, SCA, POPEYE, TDS, all rest girls and Ferrari-owners.

Special yohoos to: all members of TRIAD, especially MR.PINGE, JANITOR and IAN + MIC, wish you the best and that yer dreams come true one day! /JS of TRIAD

NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION

YOHO, guys, another month, another new column from old JEFF SMART. So let's start with the most important events from last month, eh?

• The most exciting (at least for me) thing was, that HI-TEC and JEFF SMART joined mighty TRIAD forces on 15th of January 1988!
• A new stunning cooperation was built. It consists of THE LIGHT CIRCLE, RED SECTOR INTL. and TEESIDE CRACKING SERVICE. The name should be: RED TEESIDE CIRCLE (hehe). First releases were JINXTER without codes and many more are expected to come.
• Do BEASTIE BOYS have a new member? Cause one wondered who CALVARY (sounds like Calgary) is. He's a former member of the good old YETI FACTORIES.
• What happened to THE SHARKS? When devil was riding on them, when they "cracked" such games like Molecule Man and Erik VIII, which are only about one year old. Do they really want us to believe that the games are new or what? But then they have to change also the titlepicture, where it's said that the game was released in 1986. REALLY BAD!
• Oh, oh, what's FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE without FANTASY? The answer is: NOTHING, NOTHING and NOTHING. They wanted the audience at the RADWAR Party to invent a new name for them, but would you give them your great ideas? Our suggestions were FREEZERS or MODULES, but they decided to call themselves now AXIOS (what's that? A new freeze-frame module?). But rumor spread that good old FANTASY has returned to the living and soon FCS would be back in good (?) old style.
• How could one name one's group like a German sex-film mailorder business?
• Where does FUSION get those originals one week before they're released? Maybe they're working for the software companies!?
• THE WANDERER GROUP really (finally) thinks about kicking little VIP out of TWG, because he always ridecules at any party and so decreases TWG's quite good image.
• You know that ESI get almost every original from SOHO. Now the guy, who supplied all the originals, has joined ESI himself.
• Have you already seen the new packer from THE PAPILLONS? Better forget it. It takes about half an hour (almost) to get through the memory. Why can't they use a normal one like all others do?
• PLEASURE still exists, even though HI-TEC and JEFF SMART left it.
• Yo. I promised in the last issue to present the answer from FREEZARI (as IKARI was called for a while) to the rumors that they freeze every single game. I printed NIK's letter as it was originally sent to me, even though there are some mistakes: I haven't heard it only from BEASTIES, that IKARI is using FREEZE MACHINE. Other groups told me the same AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY WRONG, that the BEASTIE BOYS changed the cracker list from December. They only gave IKARI no points, which is their good right and so IKARI didn't come up to the 2nd place, but TRIAD was unbeatable.
• It seems as if RADWAR ENTERPRISES (RWE) got a new, famous member, eh? But RWE is also the meaning of a big German electricity company in the western part, which advertises now with old Boris.

MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

Excelsior, welcome to another issue of my mailbox, filled with gossip about who is doing what to who and why. Interested? Good, read on...

• MR.PINGE of TRIAD had an experience most pirates dream only about: he got a phonecall from a 16 year old FEMALE (!!) computerfreak who saw his number in a demo. They talked for a long time but what they talked about... well, that dear reader, he won't even tell me.
• HARRIE of HOTLINE is tired of doing all the importing from the States, so SLEDGEHAMMER decided to give it a try.
• DELIRIOUS, the French sister magazine of your ILLEGAL is becoming really good. I got a review copy of it (Thanx JAYCE) and enjoyed it tremendously, a pity though that it is French completely, but ILLEGAL used to be 100% in German, so maybe they will go international, too?!
• Whatever happened to the good old entertaining demos? Nowadays most (99%) of them are just technical bits of code, everybody seems eager to show how good they handle rasters, but they loose sight of the entertainment and originality. That's the reason that sometimes we feature in our Demo Charts demos which are not super-coded and that we leave technical ones out, so coders get your act together now!
• SCN AUSTRIA have now 11 members and in the future perhaps more, so there are still some mammoth groups around.
• TRIANGLE, who made some impressive demos on the 64 are planning to upgrade to Amiga. Yep they're planning to terrorize the 16-bit division, but without dropping the 64. Good Luck, guys!
• This month seems to be the beginning of a dangerous time for the pedestrians 'coz both COZMIX and BUBULAND of respectively TRIANGLE and CFR are getting their driver's license. Rumor has it that they practised on Test Drive, but they won't be driving Ferraris. They don't like the colour, you see?
• DSH and DSI left FAC to form a new group with some other freaks. ROCKY, however, will still continue. His comment was that he didn't know why DSH left but he kicked DSI out.
• IKARI are getting two new members in, who will be probably taking over the modem-trading from PAL. The new kidz on the block are known as MARUADER and REANIMATOR.
• ILLEGAL TRADERS BELGIUM (no connection with the magazine) have joined BELGIAN ART, so good luck to them...

THE BEST IS OVER...

I am sure that everyone has heard of a "teleconference". In the past year there were so many conferences, that they became a daily routine. Recently though, a conference has become very rare. Allience Teleconferencing was losing millions each year due to these fraudulent calls. It was not only costing them, but it was causing them a lot of trouble. They have retaliated by locking out the numbers called most. They also monitor almost all calls. Conferences are no longer safe to run, this is why you are seeing so many 3-way calls instead.

Alliance, a sub-division of AT&T, isn't the only phone company cracking down on phreaks. Due to all of these crackdowns, things are taking longer to spread around. Usually within a couple hours of it's release, everyone would have a new crack, but since all of the crackdowns it now takes a couple of days. Modeming is rapidly declining. The telephone companies are using methods such as: false carriers, ANI, trap codes, etc, to catch phreaks.

Codes are hacked either randomly or sequentially by your computer. It works by calling up the access number, entering the code, then dialling the number you want to call. Depending on the service, you have a 1 in 100 chance of finding a good code. But who wants to sit there and dial a number 100 times!? So you use a hacking prog on your 64 and it will dial it up and try codes, 'til it finds a working one. To check out the code, your computer dials up another computer (in a different State). If the computer answers, and a carrier is detected, then the code was a good one, and it is stored to disk. If it was a bad one, and no carrier was detected, then it just goes to the next code. Some services have their computer blast a fake carrier, to make your 64 think it was a good code, even though it isn't. Thus your time is wasted here, 'cause you can't determine which codes are good, and which ones are bad.

ANI (Automatic Number Identifier) is another deadly trap! In this method the service traces ALL calls made to the service. As soon as you dial the number, they have your number. I am not sure who uses this method, but some do! The most deadly and most used method of all, is the trap code. The BASTARDS at the phone company spread out bad codes to the pirating world. Once you dial in the bad code, you are traced! There is no way to tell a trap code from a good one, this is why this is such an effective method. What happens after they trace you? They will monitor your line, until they have enough evidence to bust you. I have come DAMN close to getting busted myself. No one will ever get busted, if they just use their BRAINS. With the FUCKERS from the phone company sniffing our asses, I see things going back to mail trades, and that MEGA SUCKS. Done by DAVE & THE MIND SLAYER / THE AWESOME GUYS

WHERE HAVE THE REAL CRACKERS GONE? - ARE WE CRACKING TOO FAST?

It seems these days that the cracking balance is level, the quantity has improved but the quality took a nosedive! There seems to be an attitude, with most groups who shall remain nameless, to crack something really fast just to send it to the States. In the good old days people really cared about how cool, short and bugfree the cracks were, but now everyone is trying to crack, if we still can call it cracking, just to write in their intro how cool and fast they really are.

What they don't seem to realise is that most of us just keep the best version and not the one they got first. Sure they keep the version they got first a few days but immediately scratch it when they get a shorter or full working version, maybe it would be better if all groups agree only to put out full, working versions, because many games which are played until say level 10 crash, because the cracker didn't bother to see if it worked. Comments on this topic are of course always welcome, be it positive or negative. The best, interesting or original letters will get printed in the next ILLEGAL, so watch this space! Written by MAD ALL / CFR

Isn't he absolutely right!? I think so! JEFF SMART / TRIAD

THE RETURN OF THE PHONE FREAKING ONES

Yep, good news, guys! Conference are coming up again. Even for all German guys, who live under the control of the best protected telephone system with its leader "Black Shilling", conferences become again a daily pleasure, because our American allies now also have codes for us to be called. And now we get our old habits back, to put the telephone right beside the bed, to say: -"Yes, put me on the conference line!" when the operator asks you how you are, and to get all important telephone numbers back in your minds to have them when you need them.

Isn't that great? Unfortunately chief Black Shilling didn't agree to that and tries to break all conferences down, and sometimes he wins his game and for all conference members it's: GAME OVER! OK, but the allies will come one day and beat the whole system, I'm sure. Be there, don't sleep, get on the phone after the first ringing, hold on, goodbye... /JEFF SMART

THE RESULTS OF THE TRIANGLE COMPETITION "DEMO OF THE YEAR"

Yo, man, it's over. Thanx to all who wrote to me or called me up. So here are the final results of our competition "DEMO OF THE YEAR": A BIG CONGRATULATIONS GOES TO:

1. DEXION
   
2. TRIANGLE 3532
   
3. 2000 AD
   
4. TRIAD
   
5. EK / TFD
   

THE NEXT COPYPARTIES ARE COMING UP...

Oh, yes, COPYPARTIES are a fashionable thing. Every groups makes 'em. A group without a copyparty isn't a real group, eh? So first of all, this month:

• February 20th, Venlo, Holland: The most attractive probably. HOTLINE, CFR, RADWAR will be there for sure, and then perhaps TWG, TRIAD, IKARI, SAP and so on. It lasts from 11 o'clock up to 4 o'clock (or 11:00 to 16:00).
• February 20th, Aachen, Germany: Planned by DYNAMIC SYSTEM, but that will be nothing, coz people go to Venlo that day, so better come to Venlo or stay in your bed.
• February 27th, Bonn, Germany: The WOD "ANTI LOSER PARTY". Perhaps, perhaps, but I'm sure that there'll be some losers.
• February 27th, Bielefield, Germany: Planned by SHIELD. Known groups announced their visit, so better choose this one instead of the WOD party.
• March 5th, Bonn, Germany: Will it be or not? The FCS party - the group is dead, maybe they're reborn, but make sure if it is gonna happen or not, but it won't be the success from December.
• DANISH GOLD - TRITON TECHNOLOGY and JEWELS party!? Rumors spread that there would be some in April in Denmark.

INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: JANITOR FROM TRIAD

People call him the only real cracker on earth. Is he a simple human being or something else? Here are 10 questions to JANITOR from TRIAD:

• Since when does TRIAD exist?
  TRIAD was born 86.07.26 at 21.30 pm after some phone calls.
• Who founded it?
  There were three "parts" who wanted to merge in an attempt to get known in Europe, they were: "3001" (IXION, SKYDIVE, LUCIFER), "COD" (ARROW, FRED) and MR.Z & RND. The person who invented the name and perhaps was in the middle was IXION, who's the only one left from the real beginning.
• How many members does TRIAD have at the moment?
  Well, that's our secret, but there aren't many on the 64.
• What was the 1st TRIAD release?
  I think it was Dragon's Lair. There wasn't even a TRIAD intro on it, 'cause there was no time to make any. It was just MR.Z's own raster-intro.
• When did you start computing?
  I bought my 64 when it was released in Sweden (summer of '83), but I didn't start cracking until the beginning of 1987!!!
• What's your favourite stuff?
  GAMES: old strategy games like Archon, Imperium Galacticum and M.U.L.E.
  DEMO: Kinetik Adverts, an old CompuNet demo
  MOVIE: Woody Allen's Radio Days
  MUZAX: The Arkanoid soundtrack
• What do you do in your freetime?
  GUESS THAT!!! (a hint: I'm doing something called cracking, maybe you have heard of it before, eh?)
• It was invented by TRIAD, "C" to CHEAT and RANKED greetings. How did you come to that?
  We also called the RANKINGS "RATINGS" as MR.Z did, compare with today's cracks! It was 3D's idea. Well, IXION heard that MR.Z always played all the games up to their end (How many people do this? Oh, me, of course. Remember all the 101% cracks!?) and poor IXION wondered if MR.Z was a kind of an arcade beast to manage that.
  But MR.Z cheated with some pokes and finally he released (persuaded by IXION) all games with a special trainer-modus, that he called "cheat-modus" and after that we gave the world a hard time to catch up with those versions...
• How many swap-partners does TRIAD have?
  We don't swap with ESI and HTL. (?)
• Do you have war with anyone?
  No. We respect HOTLINE!?

THE RADWAR PARTY!

A computer party among loud music and bottles of beer? Isn't that like coffee and salt together? But it worked! On the 9th of January 1988 in Heinsberg. Done by RADWAR in the discotheque "La Quinta". Who was there? RADWAR (really?), HOTLINE, TWG, SAP, BEASTIE BOYS, 1001 CREW, MZP, TRISTAR, FAC, TFD and many others...

Only a small amount of computers were built up in the large discotheque. HOTLINE brought all the new stuff with them (as they always do at those parties) and SURPRISE; THE DARKNESS with "To Be On Top". Nobody had this game, quite surprising, even though it's fucking cracked.

Well, after some guys drank beer (e.g. HARRIE of HOTLINE), it became louder, because of some fuckin' discomusax. Some guys from RADWAR ran around with their video-camera, everybody was acting like Bond, James Bond only to get on their movie and they promised to make some copies of this movie sooooooon. Anyway, the masses could drink but not eat. The rest of FCS made themselves ridiculous when speaking through the microphone: -"Does anybody know a good, new name for us?" Suggestion were FREEZERS or MODULE but they didn't take them. (hehe why?)

Anyway, the DIGITAL NEWS was presented, a horny newspaper on disk and it was quite a great success (order yer own one!). About 8 o'clock in the evening, when some people got drunken (some even verrry drunken), the disco-show started. A amateur band played some songs live (quite promising), a fashion show (sooo boring) and lots of music, music and finally (guess what?) music!

People from far away could rest in the nearby gymnasium, but some challenge the night (hehe). After the night the guys woke up with bad (very bad) headache (guess the cause of the headache) who had to react fast or they would have to wait another day for their train. But this was a party different from all others before. What an atmosphere! It was something new for everyone, even for those who drank more that one can endure (Hello BRIAN!), but without ultraviolence, riots or vandalism like people are used to know the older generation of crackers.

Whew, hopefully they repeat such a party again. Shame on all of you who didn't take part in it, you missed something really exciting, so watch out for the next RADWAR party! Report by: JS/TRIAD + MWS/RWE

BRIAN'S KNOCKOUT

The continuation of last month's article "Ein bekotztes Hemd am Wochenende" starring: MICHAEL as BRIAN / TFD, CHRIS as MR.ZEROPAGE / RSI, MARKUS as MWS / RADWAR and JEFFIE as JEFF SMART / TRIAD

Last month, BRIAN and me were invited by MARKUS from RADWAR to stay for a weekend at his house together with MZP who also came up. After visiting the Venlo copyparty on Saturday morning we, foursome, went to the local discotheque, in which the RADWAR party took place. We ordered some beer and BRIAN said: -"I can bear a lot, I always go drinking at home together with friends, I'm used to drink a lot." But in fact, BRIAN isn't able to endure more than five glasses of beer, whereas MARKUS, CHRIS and me are the real heavy alcoholics... hick...

CHRIS and me gave BRIAN a lot of work to be done, that means, we bought him 9 glasses of beer (German Altbier) and 2 glasses of JIM BEAM whiskey, after having drunken all this stuff BRIAN went finally down... We left the discotheque, and guess what?! We walked 10 minutes to the discotheque and we needed about 1 hour to return to MARKUS' home. BRIAN fell down, once, twice, he was sooo pissed, you can't imagine! He embraced all lamp-posts with the words: -"Susan, oh, Susan, wot r youhoo doin' 'ere?" and he gave the lamp-post a smacking kiss.

We three kept on singing and BRIAN dropped his trousers, in the middle of the road of course and took a piss. Then he wanted to phone his girl-friend from a phone booth. He went into the nearest booth, dialed a number and said: -"Wot r youhoo doin' 'ere in myhiah line, eh?" and then he wanted to leave the booth, but the didn't find the exit. Finally he managed to leave the booth and came 30 metres behind us. We rang the bell at a house and ran away, just in the moment when BRIAN was in front of the door, it opened and an old grandma came out shouting: -"Who dared to ring my bell!" And Brian: -"Me not, I am too drunk to ring any bell m'am. Good night, darling!".

We finally reached MARKUS' home, dropped our clothes and began to relax with playing some games and so on... Brian was asleep, but suddenly he looked up and said: -"Oops, I better visit the toilet!" He stood up and went to the toilet. Then we heard a noise: -"BRURG. BLURK. URK. ORK!" We opened carefully the door to the bathroom and saw BRIAN sitting on his knees if front of the toilet, and he had vomitted. Poor BRIAN forgot to put up the toilet, so we put BRIAN into the bathtub, where he could vomit as much as he liked to. We were tired to death and so we didn't notice that BRIAN went into the kitchen and spread out his vomitted beer. Bad discovery the next day!

BRIAN woke up with a heavy headache and wasn't able to remember anything. The whole day BRIAN didn't say a word. At home he told his parents that he had upset his stomach with bad fish and played three days the sick boy. Ask him about the 19th of December when you meet him! /JEFFIE

GAME PREVIEWS

Games Ahoy! At the mo' only a few games are gonna come, the most exciting are: Impossible Mission II from Epyx (due to release at the beginning of March), Football Manager II - another follow-up by Addictive, Katakis from German Rainbow Arts, which looks fantastic and seems to become a quite good shoot'em-up. And also from German software company nameld Micropartner should come Vampire's Empire in the next days, looking quite superb which makes it quite interesting and last but not least: Pink Panther also from Micropartner. Well, that's all about fine games coming (hopefully soon) and with all the best wishes I leave off with good luck for the following pages. /JS

ARCADE GAMES REVIEWS... THIS TIME: AFTERBURNER

Whew! What an enormous machine! I hope you belong to the lucky ones who have an arcade in your town that has Afterburner - the new arcade machine from SEGA (it'll come out on C64 from Activision). You enter it, have to fasten your seatbelt, press the fire button - but nothing happens. The reason: You forget to enter a coin to play, you idiot or did you think you're in front of your 64 and have the right to choose between infinite lives and normal game or what? NO, comrade! That's real life, that's real challenge. After you insert the coin, the fever involves YOU! The sound changes into a superb motivation, the graphix look fantastic and you get a short instruction of what to do and who to blast into a thousand pieces! A short grab to the joystick with which you can launch missiles or fire. THE GAME STARTS...

You are the pilot of a hypermodern fighter, starting from an aircraft carrier while your seat takes a move forward and you get a heartattack. The graphix look absolutely great! You have the command of a fighter. With a stick to the left you can accelerate or decelerate your speed and then... YOUR ENEMIES!

Other planes are coming in front of you! Four of them! They're shooting! And you're firing back... Blast'em to pieces! The graphix are unusually fast, ultrafast, and then, A HIT! Your seats moves from left to right as in reality when you're hit! Whew, cold sweat runs on your skin, YOU ARE THE PILOT HIMSELF, you have two planes left: Give your best and fight for freedom (hehe).

OK, after having lost, not only all lives but also thousands of coins, you leave your plane frustrated, ehh... your machine, to return to normal life. Back to reality. I never played a game which brings you so close to a real pilot, the movements of your seat, the speed, the whole atmosphere, almost everything makes you forget your surroundings. It MAKES YOU the fighter.

THIS GAME IS A DRUG, it gives you the real feeling that you want to get when playing. I'm afraid of a computer conversion because the whole atmosphere will get lost - so better leave it. Now, be very careful, do not enter any arcades because if you see Afterburner you can't hesitate to try it and then you are influenced by the drug. ARCADE SCORE: 99/100 /JS

DISK COVER OF THE MONTH

Delivered to me by STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT! Thanx dude! Laid 'her, eh? HA! Isn't that simply great? No, not the mag, sucker, the thing above here. Oh, man, I mean it was drawn by ALAIN '87 for FAIRLIGHT (can't you read by yer own on the cover?) Anyway, I really liked it so much that I wanted to publish it!

So, all of you, if you have a disk cover similar to this here or even better then don't waste your time - make a move and send it to me at once, 'cos I like funny and exciting disk covers and perhaps we make a series out of it. Tf you agree and help me out, and your disk cover becomes the "Disk cover of the Month" as a reward you'll get a free copy of your next ILLEGAL! /JS

TELL ME, DICTIONARY...

Look at your dictionary under "cracker"! Haven't you already wondered what we choose every month with the "Cracker of the Month"!? OK, Here we go...

"CRACKER"

thin, flaky, dry biscuit (as eaten with cheese) or firework that makes cracking noises when set off (the Chinese use crackers to frighten away evil spirits)

"CRACKPOT"

eccentric person with strange ideas

"CRACKSMAN"

burglar

You know.. -"You are a biscuit!" (look in Yer pandies...) Next issue more, mon! /HTC+JS

IKARI FIGHTS THE CRITICS

Hello, good evening and welcome. My name is NIK of IKARI and I am here to clear up the mess that certain lamers have left by making all sorts of ridiculous accusations that many people have been foolish enough to believe. The main accusation is that we "FREEZE-MACHINE" EVERY SINGLE ONE of our cracks.

This appeared in the last edition of this magazine and after reading this I contacted JEFF SMART and asked him what was going on as the comment had appeared in his column. After a long letter from him it was all sorted out and it appeared that a certain group namely the BEASTIE BOYS had told him that we were freezing all our cracks. This is a complete lie and why they said this we still do not know. So, I am about to come clean about all this freezing nonsence.... IKARI have only ever released 2 frozen games and this is why:

DRUID II:
I was given this weeks before release at the PCW show as a file on a disk. This file was a frozen file that had been card-crunched. After several attempts I could do nothing with the file and so had no option but to give it out as it was given to me. I only did this because the game was so new.

RISK:
This game was obtained as a file on a disk by our member JUST ICE. We managed to get this on the day of release and at this time we one of the few groups modem trading with the USA. JUST ICE tried to crack this quickly as it was not yet released in the USA. However, we did not have any time to spare in case another group gave it to the USA, so unfortunately we were forced to give it out as it was given to us.

So, hopefully you will realise that what the BEASTIE BOYS said was a lie and we guarantee to you that there is not a single other game that we have released frozen. Some people have also said that The Jetboys and Ramparts were frozen. They are NOT frozen! The sprites that you see on the screen after the intro are the sprites from the scroller in the intro. Anyone with any sense could see this!

So, that is the truth. If you don't believe it we don't give a shit as it means that you must be believing a LIE... Many groups have released frozen games once or twice and I'm sure that they also have very good reasons for doing so, for example: HOTLINE with Psycho Soldier and DCU with Bubble Bobble!

And wait for it... The people that started this whole thing: THE BEASTIE BOYS with DRILLER! ...so what happened there BEASTIE BOYS??

AND NOW FOR SOME INSIDE INFORMATION: In the cracking charts for December, we in IKARI were voted to be number ONE. HOWEVER, the BEASTIE BOYS did not like this and complained to JEFF SMART, and after much convincing and fone calls he finally gave in and put THE BEASTIE BOYS back at number ONE. So guys, we were number one last month OK!? Why, BEASTIE BOYS why?

What on earth have you got against us? We have never said anything against you, but you've started all this... So, let this be the end of it and nothing more should be said on the subject OK!? Written by: NIK of IKARI

THE AMERICAN CRACKER SCENE

GREETINGS ALL! This is Dave (THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS) with my first article for the ILLEGAL. I will try to keep you all informed about the American cracker scene. Right now, things are slow as hell cause not many cracks are being made and good codes are hard to find! SOHO (Suppliers Of Hot Originals) has merged with ESI. THE ALLIANCE (not teleconferencing, but the group) also lost some of its members to EAGLESOFT INC. ESI is getting to be a very, very large group!

The weather here sucks! I can't wait until summer and all of those HOT women at the beach! Ohhhhh... I had better stop before I get too excited!

Well, I don't know if you want to hear about anything else about the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, such as hot songs, movies, etc.. If you do, then tell old JEFF SMART! But for now, I won't bore you. Later on! /DAVE (TMS of TAG)

BIG BIRTHDAY ACTION!

Hey, man! Are you tired of all these boring competitions of who's the best of 1987? Then you're right here, 'coz we have a brand new idea! What do you think, when you get a phonecall on your birthday and someone's singing:

-"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear XXXXXX, happy birthday to you!"

Wouldn't that be great? The only thing you have to do is to write your birthdate and your telephone number down on a simple postcard and send it to me, JEFF SMART, and then I promise to call you up on your birthday and give you a song. Do you agree? And then I'll publish your birthdate (not yer telephone number, what do you think of me?) in the ILLEGAL so that one gets a full library of famous cracker's birthdates!

So perhaps you'll already see in the next issue: "This month's birthday kids..." and in addition to the publication you will get a phone call (perhaps you don't want hear me singing for you - then I say: "all the best - go on or something like that") on your day. So get up from your computer chair and give me your date and fone number and then "Happy Birthday, mon!" Done by: JS/TRIAD

CHARTS - FEBRUARY 1988

C64 GAMES		C64 CRACKERS
1. PLATOON (-) 2. TETRIS (-) 3. COMBAT SCHOOL (1) 4. BASKET MASTER (-) 5. BMX KIDS (-) 6. FLYING SHARK (2) 7. T.R.A.Z. (-) 8. SKATE OR DIE! (3) 9. OCTAPOLIS (-) 10. JINXTER (-)		1. TRIAD (1) 2. FUSION (9) 3. IKARI (3) 4. HOTLINE (6) 5. FAIRLIGHT (4) 6. BEASTIE BOYS (2) 7. EAGLESOFT (-) 8. SAP (-) 9. THE DEADLY FRIENDS (10) 10. THE WANDERER GROUP (5)
C64 DEMOS
1. SNOWBALL SUNDAY by ASH & DAVE 2. OUT MANOUVERED by JCS 3. STARPIC by IAN & MIC / TRIAD 4. WIZE MIXES by ZENTREX 2005 5. VIETNAM by NOBODY / SHIELD

Chart comments: Heya, Compunet and other artists! Do YOU wanna c yer demo in the ILLEGAL DEMO CHARTS? Then pleez send yer creation to us, mon, and we'll give you a special reward!

Thanx for voting to: NIK / IKARI, SLEDGE / HTL, MAD ALL / CFR, ACU / SAP, CF / BEASTIE BOYS, MZP / RSI, MWS / RADWAR, SSD / TSK, PLEASURE, FALCONS and last but not least MR.PINGE / TRIAD!