Yollom gentledudes, hah! All attempts to hinder me to finish the 32nd issue failed as you can see, such as spreading rumours I was kicked out of SCG... Bullshit! You were the first to know if something would happen, but it won't! Amazing, almost 4 whole years now! Another thing: I would like all of you my friends, to return the "Olympiad" list and the "Cracker" list to me... Anyway, I wish warm underwear to:

IKARI (shoplifter and chicken), EAGLESOFT. (Mitch and Bob, already tried to convert Maniac Mansion on Amiga...), STRIKE FORCE (CONAN + RAGMAN, yo yo yo) , FAIRLIGHT (STRIDER, now also a driving licence? Awesome! HOBBIT, best of his kind!), BEASTIE BOYS (Robert and his dog, ACCEPT "Last Ninja maps"?), SHINING 8 (my daily nightmare. DARK FORCE and STET), DOUGHNUT (SULU from the Starship Enterprise), BROS (The Norwegian + Dutch section without the Germans), MAD ALL (all the best), RADWAR (We got the right to fight for par-dey!), COSMOS (ATT, SSD , BIG BEN, save the money!), PIT (soon the tape!), JOE WILLIAMS (Beer?), HOTLINE (Rob), TWG (Mistuh CURSOR! Baby5? BEERMAN), NBB (Got Aids, Andy? and the Scots, Mik and Caz), PUBLIC ENEMY #1 (THE JESTER), ZENITH (NOSAH), Dave.E and his Angie, JCS (FOZZIE-Bear), TRIANGLE (SWYXdood), ORION (Mike + Leo), SPHINX, DEEJAY (kannze halten wien'n Dachdecker), that old woman Beany!, Maniacs of Noise (CD + JT), RED SECTOR INC. (Preacher + Chief Nilpage), ASH + DAVE, F.A.M.E. (Amazing! Mike even had the time to say "Hello", two gals less?), Johny-worst boy?, Hi-co (Who? Who?), ACU (hier kommt Alex), MR.PINGA, Dan, Paer and the rest of the lads, The real F.A.C. (Marcello), Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dicken, End of Century, U.C.A. (Mad Hacker/Puerto Rico), LETO II, Mr. Morris, Mr. Hook and Mrs. (or even Miss?), Gilbert, WORLD OF WONDERS, ORACLE, Marlboro-Ball (the Johny) , A TOUCH OF CLASS (The big surprise), F.B.R. (that Joe guy), AVATAR (Sudden-death), the guys from the gaff (that includes Ny and Chris), this certain tennis gal, my 1541 (still working!), and this Amiga machine next to me and of course to the thousands of Mega Dudes who I always forget...

And here are the Mega Mega Sound of a Pound What the Dickens Hammer Yollie Bollies Ramba Zambas to: Mr. WEETIBIX (so you know what is happening when you always hit your 1541 on your sister's head), CHUNK (I hope you're not gonna break my nose. you queg!), TRANX X (Are we gonna kick lamers in the crowd in december again?), WEBB (Shit, I dunno much about you, Alan), and of course TKAY (congratulations by the smurfs!).... Smallow me nob! / Jeffie 1989

NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION...

Another month passed by and the best time of the year (with all it's Christmas releases..) is knocking at the door... And here we go again with all dirty things that made us shiver this month...

• BAH! I was told thousands times how good cracker PHOENIX are and still everybody's wondering who they are... Well, some guys from SUBZERO, and the dead rest from FUSION (wasn't FUSION dead after IAN quitted computers...) ... The real bullshit is that this MARK-LE-MAY was so kind and wrote a letter to the software shop SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP receives all originals from telling them he would inform the British FEDERATION AGAINST SOFTWARE THEFT if they continue supplying us with originals. Beside this he now denies that he has anything to do with it and starts spreading other shit about SCG. Anyway, PHOENIX are not able to release trained games or 100% working version, apart from short packed ones, have a look at the packer they're using. It's the old THE FANATIC DUO packer (from 1986) wich features just an improved routine of the legendary ECA-packer... so what do they want?
• Other things that can happen if someone informs the police about certain guys can best be told by DR.F, MISTER ZEROPAGE and last but least IRATA, (all on AMIGA) who were caught after the police recieved detailed informations by a guy from the dead Amiga group POWERSTATION trying to escape from his punishment...Dirty, dirty...
• Other victims have been ROMRUNNER of SHINING 8, and the SYNDROME from AXENON.
• All guys from WIZAX reinforced DOMINATORS some time ago, so that means that the second part of EX-JEWELS are now in DOMINATORS while the others are doing quite a good job in IKARI...a little bit confusing, isn't it?
• Last Venlo meeting. T'KAY made a bet with DSH/ORION about the soccer match Germany vs Holland. In case Germany would have lost T'KAY would have made a new intro for ORION and in case Holland lost T'KAY would have recieved several graphics from ORION's graphics artist. Well the match was dramn, so what now??
• Bad times for US phone phreakers! Las Vegas, NV country code # 702: Everybody was caught altogether 20 guys... The parents have to pay everything now.
• It seems since E.S.I. is concentrating on Amiga and U.C.F. doesn't release anything, A.T.C. (A Touch of Class) with their maincracker and programmer PUDWERX are the new top shot in the U.S. of A..

PS. A woman enters the chemistry as she wants to buy a deodorant for her husband. "Do you want the ball-type, ma'm?" asks the shop assistant. "No" she says, "it's for under his arms!" /JS'89

MAD ALL's BOILED MAILBOX...

Bad news I'm afraid, very bad news. . . I don't trade anymore. The Belgian post office have had their eye on me for quite some time not due to stampcheating and so on, but now they have me by the balls! Some weeks ago some idiot sent me some COINS in an envelope to pay for his ILLEGAL, ofcourse the postmaster noticed this and he put at once a letter in my P.O. Box. When I came to empty it, I noticed that there was no mail at all except for a post note saying I had to go to the postmaster or a court action would be taken against me.

So I went there and what happened in his office was like a murder trial. He wanted to know what "CFR" was, who "MAD ALL" was and why somebody sent me money. I said I did not know and then he took a bag with about 25 packages (YOUR packages!) and said some of them had money in it, too... because I still refused to tell him why I got the money he said he was concealing my P.O. Box and that all incoming packages would be confiscated as evidence...

"What evidence" I said because I knew he could not call the cops as he had no idea that I was connected with pirate software. But the scumbag has notified me to the I.R.S. (the people that let you pay taxes) and now I have to go to court (no joke!) to prove that I do not earn an income by my mail. If this happens I'll lose my studentgrant, my childbenefit and probably have to pay a lot of taxes, not to mention a large fine!!! So it's big shit for MAD ALL! So please DO NOT SEND ME ANYTHING ANYMORE, EVER!

To those who have sent me something without reply, I'm sorry, but it's not my fault and I have a lot bigger problem now then losing some disks. However CFR is for me dead, so if you traded with me then from now on send to: HITCHER, (DO NOT PUT CFR on the envelope!), P.O. BOX XXX, XXXX OOSTENDE, BELGIUM. Will also spread ILLEGAL! Any questions to me can be sent to him as we live 5 minutes from eachother. Thank you for your time. /MAD ALL

NEWS FROM THE OTHER PARTS OF THE EARTH - AUSTRIAN GOSSIP

And it's once again me with some news from the SouthEuropean scene...To start off I may mention the little copyparty in Graz at the end of October which was one the biggest (but in a kind also lamest) ones in Austria. But except for this there is still only COSMOS really active in Austria, but LAZER is getting better and also old TAU showed some signs of life but cracks were mainly done by their German (???) members.

Ya, I'd like to announce our big overseatour next year where we will visit every known American and Canadian group to teach them the real aims of the whole cracking circuit, so that they will be able to live without their modems after our crackmachine ANTIRACK will show them how a real crack looks like. Finally the quick Austrian ranks: 1. COSMOS 2. LAZER 3. TAU and ya can forget the rest that is mainly a bunch of lameheads. To end my november letter, I send best hellos to all contacts, friends and fans of COSMOS. /SSD-COSMOS

YUGOSLAVIA!?

In Yugoslavia there exist 4 strong groups on the 64 and also 4 on the Amiga. Here it is legal if you buy games and spread them across the country (that's what I'm doing). But a scandal happened this month. Every group who sold this "Sport Aid 88" further on, have problems with the police, because all incomes from the game are going to Africa. So every group who sold this game was nominated in a popular magazine called "Svet Kompjutera" and now everyone was ashamed from one crazy reader and they will be caught probably. Later, Joe Williams.

THE REAL BENCOR!

It has come to my attention that there are some lamers on the Amiga that are calling themselves "BENCOR BROTHERS". Let me publically state now, that the only group who is entitled to use the word "BENCOR" are the NEW BENCOR BROS from England. Once in the USA a group called the BENCOR BROTHERS was formed, split up and was reformed as NEW BENCOR.

Then as NEW BENCOR finally quit I was asked to join as their only European memeber and I built the cool group we are today, so if an asshole American faggot say he is the BENCOR BROTHERS, then he is a lying yankee pig and you should kick him in the balls! NBB are only: MIK, CAZ, JOE 90, MALX and ...LAZER/NBB

GERMANS UP!

Hello guys, my name is DAVE E. and I'm also making a magazine called "NEWS" and I'm cooperating with the "ILLEGAL". Here are some facts about "NEWS":

• Fully in German, so that everyone in Germany can understand it.
• Interviews with big and small groups.
• Advertisement (Swapping, Buying, Selling originals and Freeware).
• Stories and Articles from the cracking scene (written by crackers, spreaders and other guys for crackers, spreaders and other guys).
• You ask our lawyer answers!
• And a hell of other things...

AMIGA NEWS

Another month goes by and another ILLEGAL drops on your doormat, you jump to your feet and race to see the new AMIGA news section by the UK's undoubtable best, PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1.

Let's stop drivel and get on the job (oeerrr) I mean on with job. Nothing drastic has happened this month, apart from loads and loads of games. It looks as if the modem game has come to the Amiga at last, with all the main groups in the UK and some lamers getting modems to upload and download all the newest shit hot games and of course kill off the art of mail trading, like what has happened on the 64.

Status for this month: UK's TOP: No.1: PUBLIC ENENMY NO.1. * No.2: ORACLE. * No.3: QUORAM. and No.4: The rest. PE got a few members, the whole of the SILVER GHOSTS to be exact. QUORAM gained two new groups TWE + NATO with the addition of SLAINE (ex-PE). By the time this goes to print, we should have OUTRUN, so I will review it now, brilliant, brilliant and very cool. We have been assured by Ocean that the game is no port and that it has been totally re-programmed for the Amiga.

If you want to buy a modem then get in touch with us through JEFF. We can get a discount, and they should only cost about 175 Pound (=ca. 520 DM). This does not include the postage or term disk. A load of board numbers will be provided so that you can leach like shit. Let us leave this void for a new journey into the unknown with one lasting comment: When will the 64's best crackers learn how to crack on the Amiga so we can really kick the software houses butts? My personal greets to: COSSAT, LEE, GEORGE, PAUL, RUSSEL and NIK. L8R dudes / THE JESTER of PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1

INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: PACO OF BROS

Well...it's not the music group, but also a computer group. Rather with lots of imports than with cracks they went to the higher regions of any greeting list. During the Venlo meeting last month I talked to PACO, who's probably the leader of the Dutch section.

• How old are you?
  16.
• When did you buy your first computer and why?
  1985...I got a VIC 20 ( err? ) because I was bored, I also have an Amiga nowadays, but I don't do much on it.
• In which different groups have you been in up to now?
  I was one year in THE DREAM TEAM, also one year in MADSQUAD and now for 6 months in BROS.
• Who are your best friends in the rough pirate world?
  LEE/SCG, TRIDOS/IKARI, BAMBAM/HOTLINE, MIKE/ORION and INSTINCT/CONQUEST.
• Do you have any enemies?
  I don't have any enemies, but I like everybody from LEGEND, except for Alberto.
• Why are you trading by modem?
  Because that goes much faster than mail trading. I'd better like it if nobody would have a modem, but as everybody has a modem nowadays, I also have to do it, because there is not much else you can do here in Holland as there are no originals released...
• What are your favorite....
  Game (64) : PACLAND
  Demos (64): all SCOOP demos
  Music (64): 20 C.C composer and MANIACS OF NOISE
  Movie: Running Man, Red Heat
  Music: Hip Hop
• How does the member list of BROS look like?
  MADSQUAD from Holland, COCO and MCL from Germany and GENE and FIRKIN from Norway.
• Why did HOLLAND beat Germany in the European Soccer Champ?
  Because Germany was too weak, they have two left feet.
• What are you doing in your sparetime?
  Sleeping, but it's hard to find any sleep.
• Where do you have the name "PACO" from?
  From my parents, you idiot! Yes, it's my real name.
• How do you see the 64's future?
  I think it'll be a ruling computer for 2 more years or so...then probably the AMIGA will be the leading one...
• We're gonna beat the shit outts the Dutch team next time!
  Hahahahahahaha....

ON TOUR: LONDON / PCS 1988!

Friday, September 17th 1988. IRATA/RSI, MR.CURSOR/TWG, GRECO/ZENOBITS, T'KAY and me (we still were both in TRIAD these days) entered GRECO's car to drive to London for the PCS! Wow, we had some problems with several traffic jams, and it happened thet we entered France at seven o'clock (our ferry had to take off at 7:45 in Calais). Well, GRECO was driving and lost the way several times (as usual...) while MR.CURSOR and me were raping T'KAY on the backseat.

Then at 7:30, we finally arrived in Calais after GRECO thought Calais was the same as Dunkerque (oh my God), the car broke down 500 meters away from the docks. Half an hour later I and GRECO managed to repair the car, and I had to talk to the guy at the office and we were able to take the next ferry at 9:15. We approached good old London after having NO problems (surprise) with driving at the left at exactly 5 minutes to midnight, when CURSOR, T'KAY and me listened to the sound of Big Ben on the Westminster Bridge...

Ah, what a feeling. London by night... is as dark as Bottrop by night. The biggest problem was yet to come, c'uz we had no place to stay (we wanted to sleep in the car, but as IRATA was always farting...), so we drove to Chelsea, parked the car directly at the EARL'S COURT (where the PCS took place) and walked around at 1:00 at night hoping to find a hotel. And Wowzers! As the opening cermony of the Summer Olympiad was on TV we really found a cheap one.

Saturday, the day of the meeting: after sleeping very well and a short visiting of Oxford Street (I wanted to go there), we took a cab back to the hotel which was only 300 meters away from the show. We spent the whole Saturday and the whole Sunday at the show, and I think everbody knows what they missed out. Funny things happened Saturday evening when T'KAY (and me) were quite drunk but that's none of your biz.

Sunday evening when we all entered McDonald's, GRECO wanted to go down and ask an assistant for a fork. Well, I told him that "fork" means in english "cunt" (which is the nice thing girls have between their legs, also known as "pussy" or "snatch"), and he believed me. Well, he returned with a red face and said the assistant asked him where he's coming from and after he answered "from Germany", the assistant said: "we don't have any cunts here" while all the others were laughing...

Well, driving back was no problem, though the car broke down two or three times (in Belgium, in the middle of the night) and I reached (while all others were sleeping) with the last gulp of fuel safely Germany... I can't wait to return to London for the next year. / JEFF SMART'89

COPYPARTY IN DENMARK!?

"No way", I hear you all cry, "I'm not going there anymore for sure!!!". Well, please reconsider, coz HERE'S THE OFFER of the year: A copyparty near the Danish/German border, on a large gymnasium in the center of the town Fredericia, hels by TRIANGLE in cooporation with two other famous groups on 64 & Amiga! A few facts on the party place:

• Enough space for everybody (also for sleeping)
• Shops and Burgerbars near to the gymnasium
• C64 & Amiga demo-competitions with 1st prices worth about 500 DM = 2000 Dkr

THE "ILLEGAL" PARTY OR "RADWAR V2"!

Yo! The time has come... On December, 17th to 18th RADWAR and SCG are going to have the final party of 1988 directly after the Venlo meeting...And the thing is: We won't allow computers! The party will take place in a discotheque 50 kilometers from Venlo in Germany.

We're offering: Live Music groups, shows, actions and lots of surprises! The German company RAINBOW ARTS will be present, some German computermagazines and every famous cracker group... EVERYBODY CAN COME! Invitations are sent to you, when you send an envelope including the stamps to: "THE ILLEGAL PARTY", PLK XXXXXX X, XXXX BOTTROP, WEST GERMANY. And we're gonna meet us there! MWS/RWE + JS/SCG.

GOGO BROWN SLAGS OFF....

Hoho...the reaction to my first article were not bad. So, I was surprised that I am STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT, Mitch/ESI, JUST ICE/IKARI and even JEFFIE was thought to be me... Well, who knows, perhaps one of these proposals are right?? Anyway, this month I'm going to tell you about IDIOTS, ARSEHOLES, AND OTHER CRACKERS...

First of all one has to differenciate between idiots from a) known groups b) quite known groups c) unknown groups or d) groups that want to be famous... Well, normally the d-type (not R-Type, you nose!) is the worst. As a good example I'd like to mention this Mr. Turbo Hacker who once got the honour to be printed in "Commodore User"... Shit, guys that want to show others how good they are and the rest of the bullshit, well I'm sure none of us had never heard of this Turbo Smacker before, am I right?

Others prefer the usual bullshit talk on the phone, take German BROS members MAGIC CIRCLE (a shame for the whole group) for instance. Once being called by them and asked about what about swapping, you first ask them what they can offer? And, gosh, they might be good, but then when you recieve no package though you told them to send you something you know about it. Those idiots hear that several games are going to be released in a few days and spread the word they've already got them or even cracked (which is a mere joke as regards MAGIC CIRCLE) them ('ave curz), the only trouble that may start is when these games are not going to release then, caused by perhaps some unknown reasons! My advice: Ask such idiots about details of or in the game, e.g. sound, length, graphics and some other things. The usual answer is then: "U c, I ditn hat ze thyme Z'ave a luk on it." Then you say: "Thank you very much...".

Another bad type is the c) one, mostly aiming at your strained, poor nerves calling you up several times a day or writing to your real adress ("Hau e-baut treydink?" or something similar). The climax is reached when you even get an attack of mental derangement and send them some disks asking them to stop their futile attempts, but then some weeks later this parcel steps back saying: "Undeliverable, because wrong adress!" Sigh damn, a cold shudder seizes me everytime when I recieved parcels with taped stamps, after all the postoffice can hold me responsible for cheating them and how shall I prove the opposite? Next time about the four zonal lameness theory developed by no one less than GOGO BROWN, your worst nightmare RAMBO BROWN!

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

Anybody out there knows that the choice is yours to make in any chance (freaking!) you take. And we all know that the winner takes it all and that there is no place for second place (cracking or importing). Nobody in "our world" wants to be beaten, we all push until the very edge. We have been pushing everything above the law. "Illegal, Who cares?" Who the hell cares about anything? All we care about is being the first with a new crack or import. Is that what really counts?

All of us have their own reasons for being in pirating. I dare to say that I have seen everything and understand more than anybody. I have been in this crucial business for years and years. I have learned that you can't trust NOBODY. That's hard, but we all know it! I have been in the USA for 1 year, that gave me a lot of time to think about everything. I found out that there is more than having a new crack or import. Everything in "our world" is based on FAKE friendships.

Man, admit it! Who doesn't hide away certain utilities, programs or contacts. Contacts, that's the keyword! All you people have is CONTACTS. Well, let me tell you something that comes straight from the heart, nobody has SHIT! If it all comes down to it the only thing you have left is a few boxes of disks with games you never play anyway, all the fame will be gone. All your efforts will have been for SHIT! You won't have nobody there, except yourself.

So called contacts or computerfriends will call you a lamer! Yeah, they will say: "Group XXX, they are lame" - You know what: "FUCK THEM!" Everything you do is a waste! Nothing really makes a difference. Okay, it's true, you are part of something great. But just remember, that in "our world" the winner takes it all and leaves the lamer standing small! Later, MARCEL/FAC

ODE TO MY C64

This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend. The end of our elaborate plans. The end of everything that stands. The end. No safety or surprise, the end. I'll never look in to your drive again, my friend. /ALLAN

I have signed this "ode to my 64" with my real name and not "MAD ALL" coz that part of my life is now dead an buried. CFR will continue but to know details about that contact someone else but leave me the hell alone. I could begin to write a prententious article about me being one of the first pirates who is still around now, and that I've seen it all, that I was already writing for ILLEGAL when it only reached 100 people and the cracker world didn't care a lot about it, but I don't care about anymore to do what all of you do these days (thinking you're God).

I could also start to write my life-story, but that would be too boring, so I'll just write my last words to all I knew... I'm really glad that my home adress was (almost) not spread, this way I'll be left alone from now on... The reason for this momentary lapse of reason (i.e me quitting the 64) is a court injunction (look it up, idiot!) for about 7000 German marks. Yes, a fortune, you can read it on another page in this ish. Strange, during my whole career as a pirate I have wondered how my last farewell would look like, and now that I'm writing it I want to get it over as fast as possible, so here I give list, charts, compilation, call them what you want...

• Most pleasureable experience:
  • The 1987 conferences ( all of 'em )
  • seeing my group in "Commodore User"
  • being the No.1 in Belgium for 2 years!
• Most unpleasureable experience:
  • me getting busted
  • The PCS 1988
  • not being able to find out who Evil Eddy is
• Fave demos:
  • Crazy Sample 2 / Judges
  • Nemesis Demo / Dutch USA Team
  • Dual Cassette 2 / Ash & Dave
• Fave Games:
  • Int. Soccer
  • One on One
  • Hattrick
• Most dissapointing ex-friends:
  • NIK of IKARI
  • MATIX of DOMINATORS
  • HUMAN of THE DEADLY FRIENDS
• Best friends:
  • JUST ICE
  • JEFF SMART (interchangeable with next below)
  • MR.PINGE
  • JAYCE / writer of D.M.
  • Charles Deenen
  • Hein Geerlings

IGUANA VS ILLEGAL?

Yes, the time a new magazine appears the same time the old question arouses: "What are you gonna do against it?", why should I do anything against a group that is also doing a magazine now? And especially a group I never had anything against before... like ZENITH now. People already claimed that IGUANA is boring and so on, and I can only say as regards this: "Give them some time, as all beginnings are difficult..." And for all others, I'm recieving every issue by their editor NOSAH / ZENITH, while he is getting every ILLEGAL edition of course from me, so I don't see any reasons for slagging off. /JS'89

PRESS-CLIP FROM CTW WITH THE HEADLINE: "HACKED OFF BY HACKERS"

I could not help but notice the much higher profile adopted by the software piracy gangs at this year's PC show. A large group of people wearing T-shirts proudly proclaiming the "Kent Cracking Team" could be seen closely examining the new games on display. The stand of one software house was raided by an individual who, carefully choosing the right moment, ripped the side off a display cabinet and was away with an un-released Atari game before anyone could stop him. No doubt that game will be "cracked" and on the pirate circiut within a matter of weeks. The attitude of some of the stand management only ???? encourage the worst in people.

On Saturday, not a single person was visible on the exhibit stand, they were presumably attending to visitors in the "inner sanctum" - while outside, the kids were taking the stand to pieces. I have been told that "it's simply not worth trying to sell Atari or Amiga software" due to the activities of the "pirate" circuit. What do the retailers say about this? I'd like to know. Certainly there can be no doubt that a vast amount - perhaps the majority - of pirated games software for those machines is circulated. Do we just blame the hackers, however? In my opinion, the software houses themselves are largely to blame. Copy protection on Amiga and Atari disks seems to be about as effective as a plastic padlock. The hackers seem to experience little difficulty in defeating it.

In this case, it seems that better security is called for. I don't claim to have the universal answer, but there are some methods which seem to be resonable effective; for instance, the issue of prismatic colourfilm devices for each package tied into a unique passcode on each disk; or the "novella" method ( e.g. "The Pawn") where at some stage in the game, the user must enter a keyword from some part of the text.

If the cost of PAL chips reduces substatially, copy protection for games could be made well-nigh perfect by issuing a plastic "dongle" with each package. (Requiring insertion of a matching device into the paralell port before the game would run). Please note, I do not advocate or approve of copy protection on business packages. The history of such practice is that it alienates legitimate users and does little to improve revenue. The same cannot be said for games, however.

Yours sincerely,
Clive Warner
Managing director
Digital Matrix
Solihull

CTW's commentary:

-"Considering the enormity of the piracy problem, one would have thought that after six years leisure publishers could have found some way of thwarting the hackers. The effective novella method does work but can irritate the gameplayer and, no doubt, adds to a product's retail price. Nothing is likely to change there for a while so surely it's the cracking teams - enjoying a pervers form of superstardom - that should be hunted out and brought to book. The troubble is that too many software houses sit around and expect the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) to do all the work.

In fact, many will back FAST's efforts without even becoming members. If current levels of piracy are to be reduced every firm active in the industry must paly its part. Publications must give the issue publicity - either educating its readers or shopping offenders - and software houses, distributors and retailers alike must all act against offenders when possible. If nobody is going to do anything, nobody has the right to complain - and nothing will change."

Date of appearance: Monday October 17th 1988 (page 27) - "hacked off" by JUST ICE!

THE STORY OF COLONY 12!

It's Friday, 2 pm, the weekend is smilin' and I even find a seat on the bus. Great, I look out of the window and start to smile...Tonight is the race and the final election. I should win after I worked one full year for this very day. Then I'll be the number one in my city, hehe... Back at home, after eating I go out the big field and open the hidden door that is almost invisible for someone who doesn't know about it. I then enter the code and the door opens. as I walk my stage, accompanied by yells of crying girls I meet Mike, "Hi, Bernie pal, good luck for tonight1" and I answer "Thanx, mate I can need it."

I approach my room and sit down in front of the two terminals. I enter my ID code and watch the current rankings, I'm the number 4 in town, but wait for tonight. 100 guys are competing, and if I'm gonna win then the pigs are gonna dance on the table! I walk 'round, the thing is that, wath the dickens I dunno, girls and boys were separated from each other, school is normal biz, but afterwards? If you're caught by any girl- or boy groups, then farewell my friend as we've got all together 5 girlgroups and also 5 of the boys, some of them are quite brutal.

The most intellegent are in the so-called 'a-class' (as I am) and the worst braindamaged and asocial elements are in the 'z-calss', between are the 'e', 'l' and 's'-classes, the same with the girls. I dunno the basics of the girls hyrachy, but I can guess what it's based on. We have the most intelligent guys in our lines and have the best equipments...well. this all sounds crazy, but nowadays nobody really cares. And I like it. You join with 12 years and retires with 28, you earn own rooms in a secret colony plus special equipment. We either meet, drink...watch movies, work on computers...or hunt and play with the girls! Once a girl being caught she has different possibilities...

1. A girl loves a certain dude, and the dude loves her, but nobody of them is able to break
2. The girl doesn't find a lover... hehe then we go a) "public sale" (always funny when watching the transmission on our own TV programme), b) "personal services" (you can guess what these services are about) or c) punishments when breaking our "a-class" laws...

At the mo I even dunno who is ruling, but I don't care, our class is loosing too much power in the city to the 'e'-class boy, so there has to be a change soon... First the race, that could take about a full week and the final election... Well, I could explain more about our colony, but it's time for me to go, so keep your fingers crossed for me please! TO BE CONTINUED... / JEFFIE'89

FREAKS WANTED 1989!

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VIDEONEWS

Yes, LAZER is back again with his fantastic video reviews to tell you all what new movies you can now get 6 months before they come to the cinema! This month I'll be reviewing Red Heat, the latest blockbuster from that fine actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Black Eagle, starring Jean-Claude van Damme.

• RED HEAT: Big Arnie plays KGB agent Ivan Dankow who is sent to America to bring an escaped drug smuggler to justice. He teams up with an American cop (James Belushi) and it leads to an explosion a minute as they battle with drug dealers, gangsters and other assorted criminals in their hunt for the escaped Russians. The movie is to be released in the cinemas of the USSR where parts of it were filmed. Even the Soviet people had already heard of Arnie through videos smuggled in from Europe (Myshka-you owe me 3 video tapes!). RATING : 93% - not so many special FX as Rambo III, but brill anyway.
• BLACK EAGLE: This is the latest one from Jean-Claude van Damme (of "Bloodsport" fame) and he stars with Japanese martial artist Sho Kosugi in a James Bond type of movie. For a martial arts film, Black Eagle has a surprisingly good amount of nice locations and acting and even perhaps a plot (something rarely seen i martial arts movies!). The martial arts sequences are scattered between the other action set pieces. They are, of course, miles ahead of anything ever attempted in a James Bond movie, despite the fact that each Bond film has many times the budget of Black Eagle. RATING: 87%

VIDEO CHARTS 11/8

1. Rambo III
2. Red Heat
3. Running Man
4. Crocodile Dundee II
5. Good morning Vietnam
6. Predator
7. Robocop
8. Black Eagle
9. Police Academy V
10. Bloodsport

C64 GAME REVIEWS

• ARMALYTE by THALAMUS: Hum, it was announced to be "DELTA 2", but of course it is not. The graphics are very good, so are the animations and the music (by Martin Walker), but unfortunateley the game doesn't show any new things that we haven't seen yet, slowly such games get boring, still 89pts.
• ULTIMA V from ORIGIN: Number five is alive in the neverending series of ULTIMA games and I can say that this is undoubtably the best yet. It does not cover 8 disk sides, but it also has a hell of innovations. So fantasy role players will spend the next years with No. V until No. VI is launched though Origin said they aren't gonna make a sequel, but they said the same after Ultima II. Well, I could also give a list with friends of mine playing it. (LAZER, ACU, TK), but I get involved myself, 93pts.
• CYBERNOID II by HEWSON: Improved graphics, more sprites, more difficult screens and a brill sound from JT/Maniacs of Noise make the game even more enjoyable as number one was. But still it's frustrating to see that the game restarting after finishing all the levels, 85 pts.
• THE LAST NINJA II from SYSTEM 3: At last "the saga continues"... I was really surprised what "Mr.Cyberload" did, 'cuz it's really better than the first one. Skill of fighting and combination are required when you want to get through all levels (try '1111' in no.7!). But soon it becomes boring after finishing it, so I can't wait to see if John Twiddy is gonna let him live again, 95 points out of 100.

AMIGA GAME REVIEWS

• ROAD RAIDERS by MINDSCAPE: It has a similarity to The Last V8, but features excellent graphics, though the game is quite difficult, 79pts.
• DALEY THOMPSON'S OLYMPIC CHALLENGE by OCEAN: Wowzers, Ocean give a slight imagination of what is really possible on the 16 bit. Not only digitised pictures, but also digitised and well animated sprites make DTOC to the best "joystick-wabbler" on the Amiga yet, 92pts.
• WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? by BUENA VISTA: This was really the big surprise, a yet unknown company converted the great movie and did a really brilliant job. It features superb animated sprites (in the 2nd and 4th level), a brill titlepic, nice soundeffects and quite a good gameplay, the disadvantage is that without an external drive you're spending half of your life with flipping the two disks, anyway. 94pts.
• CAPTAIN BLOOD by MINDSCAPE: Programmed by some French fries, the game has a fab title sound by Jean Michel Jarre himself! You approach a hell of different planets and can talk to lots of different life forms in an easy way of clicking "word-signs". This way you can gather informaton to destroy several planets, find new weapons, etc. It may take your breath away for some time as you can also save your current game, 96pts.

THE NEXT ISSUE...

So comes a short outlook of the foolowing ish of ILLEGAL, which is gonna be released on December 17th 1988 at the party! So all articles or graphics should be sent up to December, 10th to me. Well... it's gonna feature:

• - the results of the Olympiad
• Interview with CONAN / SF
• FAIRLIGHT's Crackin' Comic!
• Colony 12 goes beyond
• Gogo Brown explains backgrounds of merchandising...
• and many more. . .

CHARTS - NOVEMBER 1988

C64 GAMES		C64 CRACKERS
1. THE LAST NINJA II (-) 2. KATAKIS (1) 3. CYBERNOID II (-) 4. ULTIMA V (-) 5. ARMALYTE (-) 6. INTENSITY (5) 7. D. THOMPSON'S OLYMPIC CH.(3) 8. THE GAMES: SUMMER EDIT. (2) 9. OCEAN RANGER (4) 10. HAWKEYE (6)		1. IKARI (2) 2. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP (1) 3. FAIRLIGHT (4) 4. A TOUCH OF CLASS (-) 5. STRIKE FORCE (-) 6. EAGLESOFT (3) 7. SHINING 8 (14) 8. DOUGHNUT CRACKING SERVICE(7) 9. COSMOS (11) 10. HOTLINE (-) 11. BEASTIE BOYS (5) 12. BROS (8) 13. THE WANDERER GROUP (9) 14. ZENITH (6) 15. DOMINATORS (-)
C64 DEMOS		AMIGA GAMES
1. PARTYSQUEEZER by RAWHEAD 2. VERTIGO by FINNISH GOLD 3. PIMPLESQUEEZER V by RAWHEAD 4. WHITNEY DEMO by 2000 AD 5. IMBECILE II by SPHINX		1. CAPTAIN BLOOD (-) 2. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (-) 3. BATTLECHESS (1) 4. FA-18 INTERCEPTOR (3) 5. D. THOMPSON'S OLYMPIC CH.(-) 6. STARGLIDER II (2) 7. KATAKIS (5) 8. SUMMER OLYMPIAD (7) 9. ROCKET RANGER (4) 10. ROAD RAIDERS (-)

Thanx for voting to: STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT, PACO/BROS, CONAN+RAGMAN/STRIKE FORCE, STET/SHINING 8, BUTCHER/ESI, SSD+BIG BEN/COSMOS, W'BIX/SCG, TWG, SPHINX and some others...