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<head> <title="...forever..."> <font=monaco10.fnt> <font=newy36.fnt> <font=time24.fnt> <image=back.raw w=256 h=256 t=-1> <buf=4470> <bgcolor=-1> <background=0> <link_color=253> <module=console.mod> <pal=back.pal> colors: 251 - black </head> <body> <frame x=0 y=0 w=640 h=4470 b=-1 c=-1> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- F A C E T O F A C E W I T H F A M O U S S C E N E R S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ::: ::::::: ::::::: :::::: ::::::: ::: ::: ::: :::::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::::::: ::::::: ::: ::: ::: :::::::: ::: : ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::: :::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::::: ::: ::: :::::: ::: :::::: ::: ::: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <link=sh3.scr>S h 3 / R E S E R V O I R G O D S</l> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- is he a Reservoir? is he a God? nobody knowz! so let's introduce him to our fellowz! Shtrois - the man, the legend! Godness soundtracks left his hands! Girls got wet in their pants! Personal idol of Grey / Mystic Bytes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grey: Wuzzzuuup, SH-trois! :) Wot a lovely introduction, don't ya think? :) Comin' deeply from my heart, dude! Sh3: I'm feeling it, Grey - thanks for the new name :) Grey: Arf... guess what's gonna be next?! Of course... of course! It's time to get naked for the Atari scene public! Age, sex, addicitons, hobbies etc. turn it out! Sh3: I'm not sure the Atari scene is quite ready for a naked sh3,let's keep it decent for now. I'm sh30 years old & I'm still sitting in front of Degas Elite in 2003,I wouldn't have believed that if you'd told me all those years ago. Aside from Atari STuffs I do have a few addictions I could tell you about. I've something of a perverted, twisted side to my personality... a bit of a sickNES you could say. Games consoles & cartridges, but in particular famicom (.jp NES) clones & pirate carts. Micro Genius, Dendy, Sachen, it's all good. I wouldn't dare guess how many of these machines I actually own but it's safe to say it's the wrong side of 50 as far as my girlfriend is concerned. I only play the games on the Game Axe really but I've got some cool clones that look like PS2, UFOs all sort of shit... that's what I like best, the crazy design of the machines & even crazier English attempts :) Learn more at my site, the Famiclone: http://famiclone.emucamp.com My other main addiction is Ocean Spray Cranberry Classic. I swear it's changed my life! Liquid health! Grey: Do You remember Your 1st touch with Atari keyz? How did your date with these dream machines begin? Sh3: My bruv would come home from school with tales of this amazing Atari computer his friend's Dad owned. Atari? Ha! All I could think of was the adverts for the VCS on TV, Atari was weak as far as I knew. But in the pages of the Spectrum magazines we bought there were ST screen shots that looked amazing. But ú20 a game, that was a bit more than we were used to but at least it was ú5 cheaper than the Amiga versions. So we saved up what little cash we had for half a year or so & put it together with money we would get for Christmas & the ST was ours, with a nice pack of games. Test Drive was the first game I playe d & using that mouse was some crazy shit indeed. The other 2 games that stand out from that time were Buggy Boy & Black lamp, the former for it's gameplay &, well, you couldn't front on those Black Lamp gfx. Grey: Didn't you ever have a moment of weakness & betray your aTARI? And try the romance with aMIGA, the female? Sh3: The bitch! OK, I hold my hands up, I had my moments of weakness... I had an Amiga 1500, swapped that for my old ST once I had a Falcon. There's been an A500 & Plus and more recently 600 & 1200, but I did very little useful stuff with any of them, just a few logos for a small number of groups. But it was all very bitchy with Amiga although I did enjoy reading a few grapevine mags. Grey: When did you reinforce the ranks of the Gods? Sh3: That would be from day one of RG, although I was handed the name Mr. Blonde by Mr. Pink, the film had clearly made a large impression on the wee codester. Grey: Who's the most Reservoir and why? Sh3: Pink. Is. Reservoir. Without the pink one there is no Reservoir Gods. The man redefines the word dedicated, brings it to new levels. There would be nothing Atari in the UK if it wasn't for him. He's been involved longer than any of us care to remember and unless you've worked with him you have no idea just how much of his life he's given to the scene. He lives it. And the kid's got the most wicked sense of humour, subtle & sharp, it's a shame it's mostly all lost on his audience :) But that's enough god-on-god action for this interview, let's not get on that atari-fr thing. :) Earlier this year we had a count up of the number of RG productions... would you be surprised to hear it was over 100?! Grey: Atari world is carrying quite a heavy sack of various gifts from Gods! Countless games, some little intros, demos... You have huge merits for this community, no doubt! Sh3: Oh, so you HAVE been counting! Yes, it's a huge great hairy sack of offerings, but we receive plenty of love in return. Grey: RG was always associated with entertainment... but lately we were the witness to your strong entrance into demo-coding! Damo is one of the most promising coders for sure! I've been smashed looking at his "Grimey" release - very stylish, well designed, kewl soundtrack, graphics bits... and this Wolf3D-like fx! I just LOVE IT! Sh3: The wolf part is a pink-damo combo move UP,DOWN,YELLOW BUTTON. Grimey is a special production & that's a lot to do with Damo's approach to what he does, whether it's design or production. There's a bright future for RG demos as long as the partnership continues between those two, 'cause Pink knows his stuff inside-out-back-to-front & Damo knows design & has the crazy horse ideas. Grey: Talking about RG... who makes up the current image of this crew? Could you tell us all the names and functions for each? Sh3: I'll have to think carefully now... Imagine RG as a huge onion. Not a stinky scally but one of those tasty reds from Sainsbury's.. you know the kind. RG train spotters note the vegetable references. OK, in the centre sits the one, the one, the one, the only Mr. Pink. I think you might have heard him & know where his skills lie, but I bet you never knew about his Degas skills? He draws blobs Mr. Scruff would be proud of. Just don't get into a conversation about films, you'll come off second best every time. This core is surrounded by the juiciest fleshy-fresh layers including: The mega-mighty MSG, a man who knows SSD all too well and has his own sack full of ProTracker skills. He loves his Nintendo stuffs and is, IMO, the coolest person in the whole of the Atari scene. We'll argue over anything and everything you can think about but we're best mates really. shPEA, that's me. Got to go with the vegATARIan flow. I draw stuff & Leon & Damo use it. Hooray for them! New kid on the block, the toastyboy himself, Damo. The main reason we got Damo to join was to dispel the myth that there were height restrictions at the gates of RGHQ. This man is going to be famous. He'd have been an RG years ago if it wasn't for his crazy work commitments. There's more to this kid than slick demos, he's a music producer with tha skillz to pay tha bills. Watch out for mad shit from this man coming to an Atari near you. RG is a true international group these days (not just England, Wales, Scotland!). Stratagem, Hanz to his friends, is a very cool addition to our ranks. He's been around the Atari world longer than many people know & is the bug tester of Pink's dreams and also scores of nightmares no doubt. There's more to the man that that, he's a bit of a techspert & another of the scene's true heroes. Aegir is a friend of Pink & myself from way back when. He's a lot to offer but unfortunately has an evil level of work commitments and also has trouble with support from myself & musicers as we're kept busy doing our thing for our glorious leader. Outside of this inner circle, ahem, we have Griff who is a coder of undoubted skills & if we manage to staple him down in front of an ST one day we'll have even more impressive shit to show! Then there's Neo the gxfer, he's in some kind of state of inactiveness but does reappear on the rg mailing list from time to time. he's quite into his Jaguar stuff the last I heard. Ripley is also in semi-retirement, can't recall the last gfx from her. Charles & Tim are and always will be RGs although you'll never have seen anything from them. They are also friends from the days we first knew Aegir. Charles was in a group with Pink & Aegir & Tim was in a group with me & then joined up. Those two made a great team & always had big big ideas they could realise better on PC. Partycle is an honorary member or RG, he's a great friend of all RGs and helps out a lot. Party, if you reading, as Damo might say - Boost! Sorry if I missed anyone! Grey: Gods seem not only addicted to Atari affairs... Pink smokes more than any refinery; MSG loves to walk hidden inside the sleepin' bag screamin' "'eyyyyyy!"... what about You?! Sh3: You're right, Pink scares me with his smoking, that shit's out of control! Knock it of the head big man! At least so I can manage to sit nearby without wanting to puke! I have to hold my hands up, I introduced MSG to the wonderful world of the wormbag. "Eyyyyyyy!" is something we can only guess at, it's been a feature of the Malcom as long as I've known him. OK, so the worm thing: the original wormbag was a green silky number loaned to me by MSG's friend Katie who lived in the student flat above his when he stayed in my hometown of Bolton. We used to have legendary evenings of demos, draw & White Lightning cider then I'd sleep on the floor under my coat before going to work in town the next day. So the sleeping bag was kindly loaned to me and was christened the wormbag after the silky wiggly way it helped me navigate the felt floor. Since these days, the entire RG crew has known the benefits of the worm. Myself, yep I've got my thing but I keep it low. There's only one way to get a decent night's sleep at a party of any kind & that's with the aid of drugs, & I'm something of an expert having sampled everything on the market. Only legal stuff of course, ask MSG, he knows the score! Grey: Did You know how Your music can ravish? :) My sister-in-law just loves to play SkyFall... One day she suddenly stood up, JoyPad in hand and started to make body-moves so wildly! She loves Your music in SkyFall! :) Sh3: Ha ha ha! I have to apologise. Well, in fact, it's Pink who should take the stick, he was the one who included my music in some RG things! There was no plan to use it, it was just one of those things I did when I was bored with Degas. There's nothing musical about any of it, I havenÆt got the first idea when it comes to what music is, I just like playing with trackers. You see this was in the days before I found MSG at school, there was nothing else! Still, some of those Dutch kids liked it at Fried Bits 3 which I suppose says it all really! :) Grey: Eh, women... WOMEN... Who understands them except themselves, hehe. Do You plan to add any new gift to your Reservoir sack? Another intro, demo, game... whatever? tell us! TELL US! Sh3: I won't be bringing any new little RGs into the world if that's what you're getting at, but my wife-to-be is rapidly gaining skillz with Degas & I'm going to let her loose on GodPaint soon now she's mastered the basics! Watch for some of her stuff in some kind of demo thing one day. OK, you really want to know about RG productions... well, there's a number of things under way, some of which you'll have read about elsewhere, e.g. Faeryland Adventures, the joint venture. There's talk of interesting things to come from Damo, not just demos, but I'm not giving a thing away :) There's at least one more game, but I think I've done more work on that than Pink has & I have a sneaky feeling there's been a tiny few rumours going around. Fact is, I've spoken with Pink about some other projects that interest us both more, so I hope we can kick that one out before getting on any of this newer stuff... then there's the CT60... RG are going to have a couple of these so you've got to expect some '60'd things from us at some point. Grey: And what about Maggie? How does she feel? Her visit was over at the 10th birthday anniversary... Why's that? Is she too old? Doesn't she satisfy you anymore? I've got used to her... as have most of the sceners I guess. She was so... exceptional! Sh3: Maggie is dead, simple as that. Poor old tart. A truly exceptional production, just drained Pink of a lot of his time, and that's something we don't like to see, there's only 1 Pink & we have to keep him focused :) As if anything we say could influence him :) Grey: So it happened, dude! We came to an end of this feast! I would like to thank you personally for THE WHOLE OF YOUR EFFORT to our mag! You do a mega-fu*king (but arduous) job for us! Without Your help I could bury Chosneck to avoid drowning in a sea of grammar bugs... Stay cool, Kev, stay the way You are! Sh3: Cheers, Greyster! Thanks for the opportunity to have me talk some shit to the other atari kids still out there. Hope there was something worth reading this far for! - -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- CHOSNECK 4th appearance contact us: done by the dream survivors greymsb@poczta.fm ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- - --- ---- </frame> </body>