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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<< >>> <<< >>> <<< Influx >>> <<< >>> <<< Volume 1 Number 3 >>> <<< >>> <<< Copyright July 31, 1988 >>> <<< >>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<< >>> <<< >>> <<< Influx Staff >>> <<< >>> <<< Chief Editor Nomaad >>> <<< >>> <<< Associate Editor Candyman >>> <<< Alleykat >>> <<< >>> <<< Influx Writers Longshot >>> <<< Infernal >>> <<< Lonewolf >>> <<< Jimmy z! >>> <<< Ninja >>> <<< Optic Freeze >>> <<< Artificial Kid >>> <<< Dr Rick Mongo >>> <<< >>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ViewPoint. Once again is the section on Influx where the reader can comment on whatever floats his boat. All submissions are review by the Chief Editor and reprinted here if okay. Anyone is invited to share their views on anything ranging from Pirating to Pirating. Please keep your views concise or consider writing an article. -Nomaad /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CHILLY COLD BUSTED! My experience with getting busted was as far as I know one of the most major cases in not only tennessee but the u.s.... It all started about last august.. The second week.. I dont remember the exact date I just know it was a wednesday afternoon about 5:35pm.. I arrived home from playing basketball with some friends.. When I got to my home I figured something was up, because I noticed two fed cars and one metro police car.. So I go in my house and there are two cops and seven feds.. They hand me a few papers and leave... In these papers included a search warrant, a statement from the companies I had been busted by (mci, sprint, at&t, and itt), and a list of everything they had taken which included my whole system and also papers from school and cassette tapes... The next day I received a call from my lawyer, he tells me he has just talked to Karen Cocoran (mci security) and the feds, I had been charged with 9 federal felonies, he said the would send my a list of all the counts they had recorded but the couldnt find a box big enough.. The total phonebill was (are you sitting down?) $110,000... Then he says I might not have to pay it because they were going for criminal prosecution, I was really relieved until he said they can try me as an adult (which means the big house(prison))! So after three months of lawyer bills and negotiating the court date came about.. It was Febuary 2, 1988 8:00 am. My lawyer negotiated 4 hours and court was in session at noon... I ended up with a choice of paying the $110,000 or being on SUPERVISED(strict) UNIT TWO PROBATION til I was 18.. That meant absolutely no fuck ups whatsoever.. Of course I took the probation.. The weird thing is that they thought I was a HEAD of an inter- national drug ring because of a pbx I used, which happened to be one the mafia used.. Well now I am back.. FBR is back and I am really risking my ass. If I get busted again I really will be FUCKED BEYOND REPAIR. The END! Kevin!/FBR! Ninja's Realm 615/391-5820 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lemme' Alone! The Portrait Of A Pirate Getting Tormented For Someone Else's Doing. Ok, I'd Like To Introduce Myself, My Name Is Rick Hunter,and I Am Writing This Article Becsause People Are Always Raggin On Me For Being In UIA, OK, Yes I am The One Who Started UIA.. BUT! I went On a Vacation, Only To Come Back To Find Out That A Few Certain Members Had Ruined The Group, They Released Demos,Demos, Old Games, And The Such..So, I Quit UIA , That Was 5 Months Ago. When UIA First Started back In Nov.'87, We Were Doing OK, Getting Greeted By A couple Of Groups, And By Some Overseas Groups,.. But I left For Vacation, And WHAM! It Was Over, Everyone Raggin On Us, People Cussin And Shit..Oh Well, I'm Currently In No Group..So Would Every one Do Me a Favor...LEMME ALONE!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fast Changes I dont think I have seen anything that has its ups and downs quite as rapidly as the pirate world in quite a while. It reminds me of the stock market the way a groups reputation and its 'stock' goes up and down. For the most part, a group is only as good as its last release, and if they dont release, they go downhill, just not as fast as releasing old renames. Does anyone remember Abyss? At one time, no matter how you felt about the members, they DID kick ass. Now that they have for all intents and purposes gone underground, (sorry TLD, but you guys are at least in a coma if you wont admit to being dead...) it would seem that they would be missed by some of us. Somehow I dont think so. I dont think many people truly missed RAD, Abyss, or even UCF. I think if ESI quit, they would be missed, but I dont know. There is always someone that is able to step in and take over. Granted, its a hell of a lot easier to take over an importing groups business than a cracking groups business, but where the hell are the 'I miss RAD,Abyss etc.' posts? I like to think that when I depart from life I will be missed, and maybe I am deluding myself and wont be, but one thing is damn certain. If you quit hustling as a pirate, dont plan on retiring on your laurels, it dont work that way. I talked to a young up and coming pirate the other day, and mentioned Pira-Ted, and he didnt know who the hell I was talking about. No matter how you feel about Ted, he was if nothing else, well known. Not anymore. By the way, before you scoff at the youngster I am talking about, he is indicative of the phenomenon I am discussing. Not much room for nostalgia in this thing of ours... --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- This Comment is to Optik Freeze. You tell us, in Influx II, that you don't see what right RRW and NAA have in releasing intro packers and other things against big groups. Well, you do understand how wars and stuff are created,the pirate world is filled with people who have ego's larger then Reagan's. If I understand correctly the ABYSS intropackers, under the name PYROMANIA, were released because Changeling had been boasting about how hard it was to do anything with his screen. I never saw the FBR packers, and can't say anything about them. However,if any group is going to say that it is the best and no one can beat them, then you're going to see a lot of the packers around. And if ABYSS didn't care, remember Tim on the VMB, then why where they so pissed off? Optik, you say that FBR had the right to type what they wanted to in their scrolls, which is correct. But for the same reason anyone who wants to can express his opinion about the scrolls by releasing an intropacker. <> The Artificial Kid/RRW <> (RRW Here to Stay in 88) --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Locals: Are you nice to your locals? Do you get REALLY mad when they whine and cry for access? Do you smugly sit in the chair and laugh as you hit f4? I do, and was just wondering if I was the only one that enjoyed the sport of 'local smashing'. I dont dislike all of em, some of em are pretty nice. I even try to help some of em, but lemme tell you from experience, the air is pretty thin up on top of the mountain, and if you let em visit too long, they begin to get lightheaded. Its not good for em to be around too much, or they begin to act silly. You will find the best bet for locals is to keep em on a strict diet, too many fresh warez and they get drunk like a kid that just found the keys to the liquor cabinet. I have devised a plan for dealing with em, and keeping them happy, without getting them too fat, and without letting them get dizzy from visiting the mountaintop too much. The diet is as follows: Feed them warez, but do it by hand. If you let them into the kitchen to eat alone (the bbs for all you dumbfucks that can't follow a parable), you will find that they feel like they bought the food, and it should be theirs somehow. This is an example of how the rarified air is bad for their li'l heads. To hand feed them, you need to call them, and send them the things. Always be sure to feed them fresh things, but if they are too fresh, you run into the problem of them attempting to gorge themselves on unripened things all the time. I suggest you let the things you send age for two days before sending it to them. A very fresh one every now and then is good for a treat, for that special occasion when they have been a good li'l local, but not too many. You have to be careful, even in hand feeding, that they dont get too fat and lazy and learn to expect their feedings. The best way to do this is to always stay in contact with at least two of your locals, and to treat one better than the other, but it is advisable to throw the one that is the worst treated the really good release every now and then, to keep him interested. If you starve him totally to death, he wont be there as an incentive to the other one. Under no circumstances should you feed a local without first giving him the understanding that you will expect him to work for it. This means he should be required to throw other locals off his system on command, and he should be able to furnish real names and numbers on a moments notice at any time of the day or night. Try to discourage them from chatting too much when you call them, it breeds familiarity, and that will breed contempt.(On your part of course) Try to feed them fairly regularly, every two days is reccomended, but its a good idea to occasionally starve them for as long as two weeks. Under no circumstances should you let them come over to your house alone to feast. It is a good idea to have a lot of locals over sometimes so they can all come in and feel inferior together. It breeds a feeling of helplessness that you wont be able to duplicate over the phone. The lack of intimacy caused by the crowd is healthy for them, and the competition for your attention is healthy for you as well as them. I reccomend you have them over a couple of times in a fairly short period of time, and then after that, delay the sessions of group abuse rapidly. It will cause a mass panic that is hard to duplicate. Its not a good idea to let the li'l buggers eat too much at one sitting, so be wary of anyone who carries in more than twenty blanks or so. I dont like for locals to bring their own goodies to the party either as it assumes you actually NEED something they have. A local can be a good thing to have as a friend. If you ever need something small, they are the perfect ones to ask. They are usually falling all over themselves to be of service, and they dont ask much. All they want is games, and for you to pretend to like them in public. Its a small price to pay for all the fun you can have in the meantime. Keep your locals on the diet I have prescribed, and you should have healthy happy actively ass kissing locals as long as you wish to toy with them. Candyman *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* The Seattle 8-Ball Posse!! --- ------- - ---- ------- Hi! First of all I'd like to say that the local 8-Ball Posse is the raddest social group I have ever been involved with.It consists of Optic Freeze (Eric...me!), The Last Dragon (Tim), Ronin (Duane. .AMIGA), Lord Codor (Eric), Jimmy Z (Dave), Talon (Ricky), Rambo (Jeff), Striker (Chris), Digital Dude (Eric), The Arsenal (Scott), and maybe some others that I really can't remember because I just got off a 3 1/2 hour conference with Candyman Nomaad Big Man TLD Psycho Pirate The Duplicator Gigolo Intruder Jimmy z! Hawk (Who was on for 1 minute and then told us to 'FUCK OFF'....) But anyways back to the 8-Ball posse! In case you don't know, 8-Ball is Old English 800 beer. That's TLD and my favorite brew to drink while roaming the streets of Seattle, Burien, Federal Way, and various other cities around western Washington state. Some of the activities that the group takes part in are: drinking and driving, shooting illegal fireworks out of the window in my mom's Chevy Citation harassing Lord Loki following and harassing good lookin' pussy going to movies and yelling obsene words in the middle terrorizing Skaters egging cars wreckless driving (done by me!) any anything else you might imagine! I have some pretty good memories about these guys. Maybe they are considered 'computer geeks' but they are my true friends. Let's just say if it wasn't for the computer, I would be one lonely son of a bitch! Maybe you are sayingf 'shit, who gives a shit about this fuckin fag and his friends!' Well, if that's the kind of attitude you possess, then just like Candyman says...'We don't want you reading the magazine anyway!'... I have a few stories to tell about me and the posse that I would like to share. Maybe you won't think that they're very funny, but believe me, if you would have been there, you would have been laughing hysterically driving down the road in the '82 Citation. Stealing hood ornaments are the specialty of TLD and myself! We go after Mercedes, Cadillacs, Chrysler (with the chrystal!), and any other ornament that is somewhat shiny or looks good. I personally like the Caddies the best! Another thing that all people should try is cruising aroung with a few dozen eggs ready to be splatted on any moving object. We have egged kids, cars, motorcycles, skaters, vans, buses, windows, and anything and everything. My favorite incident was when TLD didn't have the balls to steal this little punk's skateboard so he just threw an egg at him! Another thing we do is raid Lord Loki's house and get his poppa all pissed off! HAHA! We have tried to get pussy on many occations, but as we get the slightest edge on the bitch, TLD shoots his big mouth off and she gets discusted. Oh well! Another thing we have done is throw half full slurpies into Jimmy Z's driveway. Ah what a fucking mess! When we booze it up, Lord Codor drinks the hard liquor and everyone else drinks the light pussy alcohol! The lightweight of the crew is Digital Dude. He drinks half a 40 of 8-Ball and he's on his lips! The shit head almost killed himself on a slide and when TLD told him that there was a 40 in the bushes, he immediately dove in and started looking for the 40 that wasn't really there. After all this, the horny bastard tries to make a move on Striker's sister and guess what guys...he struck out! HAHA!! If you have a bunch of local 'computer nerds' in your town. I encourage you to get together with them. From my experiences, these dudes are a blast to be with. So next time yer on a 3-way with a couple of your local lamers, ask them if the all wanna go cruisin! IT'S A FUCKIN BLAST!! - Optic Freeze - *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Filler By Candyman Should a person or a magazine use a filler to just fill space? I mean, Influx for example, should we write an article of no real importance just to beef up the size of the magazine? Should Influx be strict about the things we put in, and should we put things in for ulterior motives such as filling the damn thing up? It gets hard to decide on things like that, and we at Influx are torn on the issue. We considered putting a filler in THIS issue if you can believe it, because we wanted to beef it up a bit. The real problem is that not much of great interest went on. (That and the fact that Nomaad got too damn lazy to work at it.....) Well, we need to know your input on this, so let one of us know. By the way, just exactly what is considered a filler? I mean, is an article about sports a filler? I dont think so if the person writing it is genuinely interested in what he is writing. If on the other hand, one of the editors would sit down and write an article asking a stupid question, and it did NOTHING but take up space, I think we would have to consider it as a filler. Well, I think this thing is long enough, so I will let you all get on to reading the REST of this issue. See ya later, and I hope we dont have to resort to any fillers...... Candyman >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< --------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Even Part 1: House Tricks Has Someone Ever Pissed You Off So Bad That You Wanted To Destroy Their House? Well, Here Are Some Things To Do To Get Even.... Materals You Need: One Big Black Bag(To Carry Everything) A Couple Jars Of Vasoline Some Printer Paper Some Fishing String Some Paint Some Cardboard Some Saran Wrap About 4 Nickels Some Eye Hooks Some Gasoline Some Matches Some Fireworks Some About 5 Rolls Of Duct Tape A Couple Freinds.. Before You Get Started: Prepare Some Things, Draw Some Animals On The Cardboard (Cows.. Etc.) And Cut Them Out, Make A Dummy Out Of Old Clothes, Draw A Man On The Printer Paper (With A Personal Message, Etc. FUCK YOU!) Take A Nickel, Drill A Hole In The Center- Talk A Piece Of Fishing String About 1 Foot Long-Tie One End Through The Nickel,-Tie The Other End To A Eye-Hook,- Take Another Piece Of Fishing String About 30-40 Feet Long, Tie One End Through The Nickel (See Illustration At End Of File!) We'll Call These Little Nickel Devices TAPPERS '... 1) Have Everyone Arrive At The House Seperatly, It Looks Kinda Conspicous When 5 People Are Walking Down The Street With A Big Black Bag.. 2) The First Thing You Do When You Get There Is Put Some Krazy Glue In the The Locks In Their Doors,This Way If They Hear You, They Can't Get Out To Get You! 3) Put The Cardboard Cutouts Of The Animals On Their Lawn (They Will Think Your REALLY Nuts!) 4) Put The Printer Paper Picture On Their Garage Door.. 5) Take The Saran Wrap And Wrap Their House Up About 4 Times.. 6) Take The Cuct Duct Tape And Do The Same.. 7) Now Take The Fishing String And Tie It On Their Porch, Make A Fishnet Out Of It! 8) Next Smear Their Windows With Some Soft Crayola Crayons ..They'll Never See The Sun If You Use A Black One. 9) Put The Tapers On The Bedroom Windows, Tie The End Of The Long String To A Tree Branch, This Way When The Wind Blows The Nickel Will Slam Into The Window, Annoying Huh? 10) Hit Their Car While Your There!! 11) Spray Paint A '01' On Each Side Of The Car, Also Paint Something Like 'I Love MEN' On The Hood, Paint A Confederate Flag on The Hood, And 'Yahoom, The Duke Boys Are Coming' On The Trunk.. 12) Slash Their Tires, Blackout Their Windows With Mud, And The Finally Saran Wrap And Duct Tape Their Car! 13) For The Grand Finaly, Take Your Dummy You Made And Put It On Their Lawn, Then Set It On Fire.. 14) Get The Fuck Out Of There!!!!!!! Save Some Thing In Case You Get By The Cops, Like Those Little Thing Jars Of Model Paint, Perfect! Written By: Rick Hunter Look For More Soon! -------------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Real Geeks. Real Geek are 300 baud. Real Geeks purchase most of their software. Real Geeks don't swim. Real Geeks sit on Voice Mailboxes waiting for the messages to change. Real Geeks beg for access claiming that they can post real good. Real Geeks got their modem for Christmas. Real Geeks have one disk drive. Real Geeks are under the age of 13. Real Geeks think they can be arrested for pirating. Real Geeks attend User Group Meetings. (editor note: User Groups are known to be large gathering place for Real Geeks a large bomb would be advised.) Real Geeks pay for Quantum Link, Compu Serve, GEnie, Playnet. Real Geeks annoy at least one real pirate or phreak a day. Real Geeks love colour graphics on a BBS. Real Geeks love All American BBS (any version). Real Geeks think 'carding' something is using fake id's. Real Geeks run 20 megs local boards for the locals. Real Geeks don't let out of state users on their BBS's because they think they can be busted. (editor note: Any Real Pirate or Phreak caught calling a Real Geeks Board will be raped by a Yak.) Real Geeks think Pac Land is New Warez. Real Geeks live to abuse the English language with as many 'z's as geekly possible. Real Geeks are proud of what version of Fast Hackem they have. Real Geeks have every single Kracker Jax. Real Geeks played Ghost & Goblins til the end. (untrained) Real Geeks import from Eaglesoft Incorporated. Real Geeks claim to talk to ESI Members at least twice a day. Real Geeks have Ultima V and they are just waiting to put it out. Real Geeks can't program. Real Geeks are on Future World. Real Geeks enjoy calling 1 900 410 fuck. Real Geeks don't realize that Trashing doesn't mean searching thru your own trash. Real Geeks are fun to kick in the head repeatedly. Real Geeks will read Influx....Two Months after it came out. Real Geeks think The Alliance runs Alliance Teleconferencing Real Geeks don't realize they can notch disks. Real Geeks think Rob Hubbard wrote Dianetics. Real Geeks drink Mello Yello. Real Geeks try to run IBM Games on their C64. Real Geeks think Touchterm is the ultimate in telecommunications. Real Geeks have all bought all the Bard's Tales & Ultima's. Real Geeks haven't been outside their home in so long the last movie they paid to see was Star Trek II. Real Geeks are proud of their Porno Video's and Magazines. (editor's note: even the sticky ones) Real Geeks use 450 baud. Real Geeks have every issue of Archie & Jughead. Real Geeks should be drawn & quartered. -Nomaad -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------------------------------------------------------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Epic moves Epic made a bit of news recently by adding Jimmy z! Big Man and Intruder of Illusion. At the same time they added a bbs and another member in Jazzy formerly of BBI. This brings the Epic roster to 11 members. Dont be surprised to see a couple of more moves from Epic as they try to solidify the position they have acheived in importing. It is doubtful that they can afford to add any members with the roster as full as it is now. It would not surprise this reporter if by the date of this publication, some heads have rolled. Public Enemies It would seem that members of this group are intent on living up to the name they have. The triple alliance formed and led by them has accomplished the alienation of a lot of people who may have been their friends at one time. The threats by the triple alliance to nark on a fellow pirate has earned them scorn and enmity through out the general pirate world in America as well as overseas. It would seem that wherever the word has spread, the people hearing it keep screaming lame. Hopefully the once great PE will keep the threats of being a narc just that, a threat. On another front with PE, they added a new member for a day, and immediately ejected him when their contacts in Hotline insisted on his ouster. The person they added was Blackbeard, and when Bambam of Hotline found out he was in PE, he threatened to take his warez elsewhere. PE, under its current leadership, predictably caved in to the blackmail. Blackbeard was put out, and Hotline is still with PE, unless of course PE decides to be so thoughtless as to do something with out asking their friends in Hotline first. This article will get the predictable unfavorable reaction from PE, but the facts are the fact boys, if you dont like it, change the facts, you cant intimidate this author. The Survivors Saga The apparent leader of the survivors has decided to take them down the road to greatness through the triple alliance path. That means threats of narking on their competing pirates instead of beating them the 'old fashioned way'. Kid Quick has apparently decided the best way to be on top is to eliminate the competition through threats of narking. I dont think the threat of posting voice numbers will intimidate many. If this continues, dont be surprised to see every pirate in the damn country try the same stupid trick, and it does backfire sometimes.... Hopefully Boba Fette wont hear of it, or he may roll over in his Amiga grave. This once popular pirate is quickly going down the path to being hated by most, and feared by the perpetually silly. One way or the other, he wont have many real friends left. He may get one thing though, he may accomplish luring all the triple alliance members to his bbs, but from what I can see, not many people plan on missing them when they are gone. In the meantime, The Survivors did make one noteworthy addition. Pathfinder joined TS and in the process, TS got a member with a pretty much unsullied reputation by him being out of the stupidity on Warez Galore. He also will help them shore up the slight rift that was developing between TS and ESI due to the remarks about ESI from one of the other members of the triple alliance. I dont think ESI will sit still for much more of the bad mouthing from the triple alliance, but adding a friend of Prowls has, for now, prevented ESI from going off on the triple alliance to this point. Illusion-illusion? Illusion lost 3 of the most important members, they are in a serious situation, and will probably fold. EagleSoft Inc:Rockin two weeks Not much news from ESI, they hate NFI still and have released almost every game that came out in America. Not much there you could call news. Why? the triple alliance? Why has decided to be in the triple alliance. Other than INC and the Shark, I dont think they have made too many enemies. Hopefully, for their sake, they can avoid the practices of the other TA members. Rumour has it Warlock & John Doe were kicked out of Why?. Also all the stories of Scousers stopping trading with Why? seemed to be false as SCG & WHY? import a few games this week. Lamers On Parade: Has continued to poke fun at other groups, and to have a generally good time. Fast Import Soon: Choked to death in their own old vomit. Smugglers of Softwre: On the way down, you may not think they can go further, but they can, look at FIS. Take some advice SOS, dont import from your own disk case any more. The Head Librarian will tell on you every time. SOS and RTI both proved once again their good judgement by putting out nothing. Madman was quoted as saying he didn't want to trade with Armin of MCG because he didn't need them. Well SOS I don't think I know what you do need. No Frills Inc: Quiet, for the most part. One notable release was Clubouse sports II but we dont know who got it out first. No Frills did put out a two sided game called Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego, not exactly Ultima V but a crack none the less. NFI continues to hurt themselves with a constant release of USA's as they did with Druid II. Fucked Beyond Repair... May be a good name for this group. It is the opinion of this writer that to acheive the greatness they had at one time, Ninja and Oahwhoweveryouspellit are gonna have to give up getting laid. Guys, ya gotta spend more time on the phone, and less time on the make for women..... Somehow I dont think you are gonna listen.... FBR imported a series of Shoot Em Ups but hey it was something. INC: If Duplicator can avoid the narcs, he is gonna turn into a hell of an importer.(As if he isnt already one) INC is quietly going along..well, not too quiet when Shark is awake. Dave is real proud of the fact that nobody has his voice number, and when you see some of the things he says, you get the feeling he didnt give it out because he PLANNED on being an ass at times. INC did give us all the return of Fusion. With one crack, whether they are back in old style or not still has yet to be seen. But with Fairlight - USA at Shark's house we may see a INC crack or two (probably not). Abyss/Sphinx Tim, thats going from the sublime to the lame.... Drop Sphinx's name. They apparently dont care about it, why should you? Vision/Image/Syndrome: Raster Blaster put out once again a good bey demo it was awesome as are most of RB's works. Dexion of Syndrome is on vacation and his board got crashed. Hitman said he screwed the group but making a fatal mistake of importing and releasing an old game. Radical American Importers the latest in a long series of Western Californian Pirates proves to be a lil lame but they are just starting off. RAI released Magic Events a day after Epic, and a demo which was pretty sad. But RAI is a bunch of 213 pirates and Warehead enjoys having them kiss his ass. The Wild Boys: The Wild Boys are Back. Yahooo Optic Freeze formerly of NFL has reformed one of pirating's more fun groups. Only Duran was present from the old roster. The new TWB was Day Tripper, Striker, Optic and their newest member formerly of FBR, Dungeon Master. Oh well TWB was off to a cold cold start with some really old renames but they promises to start putting their names in front of some newer games. No Fucking Lamers: Gigolo and his rowdy bunch of Americans (and one canadian) put out Indiana Jones/usa and he keeps training the lame games that he gets. Well NFL is coming back, sort off, they keep putting stuff out no one really doesn't know what it is but they do put it out. Mayhem: Once a up and coming group, now they are stuck with the lamest Europeans around Orion. Well Mayhem grabbed a few games and they weren't terrible horrible. Well Mayhem may be adding importers maybe not but Influx will keep an eye on them. The Awesome Guys: Mindslayer formerly of TWGI has returned in coercion with INC to fix and train INC's and others imports. Although we saw one good fix some of the trainers need to be released sooner and before Longshot does them. -------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Write FLD's by LongShot of MSI/UCF. The following text file was written by me shortly after I released my New Wave demo because people thought I ripped the FLD on the last page. It never was released to many people so I re-print it here. If you find any of it confusing and need help in creating you own FLD's then call me at 603.225.4805 and I'll see what I can do in clearing the problem up. LongShot of More Stupid Initials brings you the Enlightment text demo. After being repetively called a ripper because my fld scroll bounces into the bottom border I decided to write this file for all machine language programmers who would like to do FLD's. History: Flexible Line Distance was originally perfected by White of The Judges. Changeling was the first AMERICAN to do FLD's with complete success. A few people after that did them in the U.S. (TLD and Satan) but they were taught by Changeling. I started talking to a few member of the English group Destiny and was told how to do them. In my demo I used a table and it happened to bounce into the border. If people thought I ripped this, they're wrong. To prove that I didn't rip it I have included the source code on how to do simple FLD's. To do more complicated ones you modify the table at the end. I will explain more about the source after you see it all. This letter was typed out because I don't like being called a ripper when all I rip is music. And considering how I have seen no original U.S. music I know everyone else rips music for demos/intros/etc. The Source Code: *= $1000 sei lda #$01 ; sta $d019 ;turn off the sta $d01a ;timer... lda #$7f ; sta $dc0d ; lda #$1b ; sta $d011 ; lda #<irq1 ;setup vector ldx #>irq1 ;to point to sta $0314 ;interupt. stx $0315 ; cli ; rts ; irq1 lda #$01 ;set/clear latch sta $d019 ; lda $d012 ;check where at cmp #$00 ;if not 0 bne irq1a ;then in main lda #$1b ;interupt sta $d011 ;restore default lda #$41 ;screen and sta $d012 ;set where irq jmp $ea81 ;is and restore jmp $ea31 ;do all and end tabl .byte 2,2,2,2 By changing the bytes in the table you an alter how much of the screen will be pushed down. For each number in the able the screen is pushed down that many raster lines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -/- The Conference 7/12 (PM!) - 7/13 (AM!) -/- ------------------------------------- Who was on it: ------------- Big Man/Illusion (The Controller) Candyman/Epic Nomaad/No group! Optic Freeze (Me!)/Group to be announced! The Last Dragon/Abyss Jimmy Z/Illusion Psycho Pirate/Epic The Duplicator/INC Jazzy/BBI Gigolo/NFL Villain/Epic Player =1=/Epic (*) Hawk/PE Striker/Group to be announced! Intruder/Illusion BlueWater/NFL This was the best conference I have ever been on. (Well, maybe the one when Pira-Ted was on there was better long ago) On the most part, the conversation was mature and interesting. A wide variety of subjects were brought up. One of Candyman's questions was 'Why did you guys decide to go elite?' Answers varied from 'Well, it just happened' from TLD to 'I wanted to see my name in lights!' from Gigolo. My response was: 'Shit! I thought I was still a lamer!' We had a great time fucking with the CIA! Big Man called the first time and the bitch sounded like we just woke her up or she had just been laid. Nomaad fed her some bullshit on how he wanted to turn some 'computer hackers' in. They conversed for about a minute then TLD broke in and asked her if she had just been laid. The whole conference erupted with laughter and I yelled 'COMPUTER HACKERS UP YOUR ASS!' and the laughs became louder. She hung up so Big Man dialed her right back. Instantly she connected us to CIA security and we bitched out the new lady too. She hung up and we called back a 3rd time! This time the cunt was ready to converse! After scolding us about our 'rude' and 'filthy' language, the bitch called us stupid adolecent idoits. Obviously we knew we were being traced and she let us know that fact too. But HAHA you fucking whore! You traced the 800 # that was used to call the alliance! What a stupid broad! She hung up and we all decided that calling the CIA again wasn't in our best interests! Big Man got a little scared about the tracing bit but Nomaad assured Big Man that everything would be fine! (oh isn't that special!) Then we proceeded to call the police in Denmark. TLD asked her if she had big tits and the whole conference busted up in laughter again. The whole time, Candyman was busily typing down quotes from all the conferees. As I can remember, piracy then and now was focused on heavily. It's obvious that TLD hates the way piracy is now and it's also obvious that Candyman likes the new style. All the guys had their say and the conference was ran with maturity being a big part in the success of it. In all the conferences I've been on except a few, they have ended with a bunch of assholes pressing tones into the phone. Well, there was only 1 outbreak of them this time and it didn't last for all that long. I'd like to thank Big Man for starting it and everyone else for making it what it was. I hope we do it again soon! Seems like a good way to spend a week night with nothing else to do! See Ya! * One quick note!: We called Hawk of PE and asked him to join be he told us all to 'FUCK OFF!' and he hung up. What a geek. Your roving reporter- -/- Optic Freeze -/- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sporting News! Written on 7/28/88 By Jimmy z! of Epic! Ok,this week,the New York Yankees have taken over 1st place in the American League East once again. Detroit trails them by a 1/2 a game. Oakland is in 1st by 5 1/2 in the west. In the National League,The Dodgers have a comfortable lead with 6 games agead of Houston,and in the east,The Mets are ahead of Pittsburgh by 2. Football! starts this weekend with the Hall of Fame Game, Cincinnati vs. LA Rams at Canton,Ohio at 11:30 am! And, also, for you Europeans, Miama vs. San Fransico at Wembley England at 10:00 Am! At Wedesday, Aug.3,Denver at La Rams. Thursday, its Buffalo at Houston and Phoenix at SEATTLE!(Seattle will KICK ASS!) Now its time for Jimmy 'the greek' z!'s Predictions for the NFL Season. AL WEST: Seattle (12-4) AL EAST: Bills (10-6) NL WEST: Saints (11-5) NL EAST: Redskins (11-5) AL Central: Browns (11-5) NL Central: Vikings (12-4) World Champions: Seattle Seahawks! Vikings 13,Seattle 28! For you TENNIS Buffs,Stefan Edberg is now the #1 Seated in the world in Tennis as Ivan Lendi loses to Roger Smith of the Bahamas, 6-2,6+3, (ranked 150th in the world)...... NFL DIGEST! Dexter Manley has been suspene for 30 days by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle because he Violated the NFL Substance ABUSE Act! Rozelle said: 'i have instructed Dexter Manley, to remain out of training camp until Aug. 26.' In Boxing,Mikel Spinx Finally Retires after 1 month of his KO lose! I interviewed Spinx and I asked: 'Have you ever retired from anything before,or is this a first.',And Mike Replied, 'No Dave, I havent retired from anything before,except selling newspapers (sobbing in between words with naptkin handed to him by his promoter/manager Butch Lewis). 'Its been a tough 12 yrs,but i have had fun'.And i replied,'We all look up to you, you are ONE HELL of a guy!' Speaking of Spinx,Mets Pitcher Ron Darling, After lasting 2/3's of a Inning, and given up 6 runs,in a recent outing against the REDS,had this to say: 'Now i know how Mike Spinx Feels. It wasnt fun out there' OK,this wraps up a DAY IN SPORTS! Thanks for my friend for some of the information. We will keep you up to date on the lastest sports News. This is Jimmy 'the greek' z! and My friend (to be named later) siging off!!!!!!!! Sincerely, Jimmy 'the greek' z! My friend! (to be named later) -------------------------------------------------------------------- OK assholes. I get a hell of a lot of bitching about the survey results in Influx. Here is what I have to say. We call a hell of a lot of people, and try to poll as many as we can. If you dont like the damn results, then do something to change them. I can assure you one thing, we here at Influx DONT cheat. We publish what we get. One person has submitted an article and not had it get in the magazine, and that was a member of Epic. We invite all of you to write for us, and will put it in if its readable. If you dont like the way the polls turn out, dont bitch at me, bitch at your friends for not voting for you!! I only have one vote just the same as you!! If you want to be assured of a vote in the next issue, dont wait for us to call you, leave your vote on most hated pirates, (3 votes), best bbs (5 votes), best group, (3 votes), best release (3 votes), and lamest group (3 votes), to me or any Influx staffer on any Influx bbs. We will tally them and tabulate them, and publish them. The thing to do is to get involved, not sit around and whine because you didnt like the results. We polled as many people as we could reach, and when we polled people we asked them for a reference on who we should call next. We at Influx are doing all we can do to be fair. Its time for you to get off your ass and be heard if you have something to say! Candyman -------------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Here are the results of the polls conducted by our staff of cracked reporters. Top 5 boards: First Warez Galore Prowls Place Second Warez House Third Candyland Fourth Shake the Disease Congrats to the sysops!! Best Importing Groups First Epic Second Why Third Illusion Congrats to the groups voted best!! Best Releases last two weeks: First Clubhouse Sports Second LA Crackdown Third Contra+ Lamest Groups: First FIS Second SOS Third RAI In the next two categories, they are new to the magazine, and we are going to list all the people that got votes. Most Hated Americans: First Hawk Second Kid Quick Third Butcher :Shark:Nomaad:Mitch:Jimmy z!:TLD:THL:Depeche Mode:Black Beard: :Pira Ted:King of Zombies:Edison Carter:Villain:Dweeble:Ronski: :Boba Fette:JJ the Breaker:Alley Kat:Duplicator all had votes, and finished in that order. Top Pirate in the Country: First Mitch/ESI Second Infernal Third Nomaad :Candyman:JJ the Breaker:Prowl:Jimmy z!:THL:Ninja:Psycho Pirate!: :Butcher:Depeche Mode:Kid Quick:Blackhawk:Big Man:Oahawhool: :Raster Blaster:Player -1-:Bluewater:Jazzy:Hitman:Cutline:Changeling: :Boba Fette:Phobiac:Rad Rick:Mr.Mister.:Punisher:Alley Kat:El Cid: :Natas Kaupas:Duplicator: To cast a vote in the next poll, call an Influx BBS and cast your votes!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Phun Carriers pt1 Here Is The First In A Series of Different Carriers, See What You Can Get From, Them... 07/28 Univ. Of Lousianna 318/233-6289 Georgia State 404/568-2131 Stanford Univ. 415/328-4000 UDC College 202/282-3010 Berkley 703/471-6895 Lasher High School 313/644-3840 Bloomfield Library 313/642-5983 Unix Sys. Library 516/538-4423 Ford Motors 314/291-4510 The E.P.A. 800/368-5906 M.I.T. 800/222-0555 World Bank 202/477-8750 Barnett Bank 305/765-7659 ?? Bank 619/941-6700 Compuserve Network 305/772-3240 Pilot Weather 800/538-9558 Western Airlines 800/227-5576 Naval Academy 301/268-8914 Chessie System 301/237-2374 Westinghouse 301/962-5010 Jefferson Ward 609/346-3074 Amoco 800/228-7233 Heath/Science Unit 202/334-4433 AGW 314/532-2956 Weather Sattelite 301/820-8690 Gas Co. 609/423-5621 General Electric 617/595-6551 Super Stop&Shop 413/532-6341 Clark Oil 313/292-0450 Honda Motors 800/227-8876 MainFrames Atari 408/745-2007 Vax/Vms 302/834-5500 Acs 302/451-6152 Ec/C 302/451-6300 Plato 302/451-1577 Huston 1 713/525-0187 Houston 4 713/525-0918??? Michigan 313/644-3860 Regents 4 713/460-1267 South Central Bell 901/726-6424 List By: Rick Hunter -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Biology of a Bridge Troll. Everyone knows that a bridge is. But do you all understand who sits on bridges and listens to them 24 hours a day? The little creatures with large ears to listen intently on other people's conversations. Brigde trolls are short, fat, & ugly, They usually are pasty faced with hairy feet. Bridge Trolls are commonly identified by either making funny noises on a bridge, changing their voice, or playing hill street blues with their touch tone phones. Trolls never correctly say who they are, they thrive being anonymous. Bridge Trolls are leeches not so much is warez but with info and codes. A good troll can sit on a bridge at all hours of the night and secretly listen in on a good code swap writing all of it down. Many of the so called great phreakers are bridge trolls. Trolls aren't kept to one sex. A good deal of trolls are female. Female trolls are either local to the bridge and learning how to call long distance or at one point in time during their trollihod they were local and learned to phreak. Such famous female trolls were Legend and Emerald. For the most part trolls are lil creatures that exist to annoy phreakers and pirates alike. Some trolls have no computers or they have no modem or they have a 300 baud modem. In any case, Trolls aren't good enough to be killing time on BBS's so they call Boards. Alot of Bridge Trolls will either get good and become good pirates or hackers or phreakers. All bridges know about the 419 bridge and the # key. Trolls can be found in their natural habitat, bridges. Trolls like to inhabit the 603 bridge late at night. I started calling them Bridge Trolls after it seemed so cute, what is ugly annoying and lives on bridges? Trolls. And the trick seemed to work. Some kid even made his handle H.B.T. Head Bridge Troll. Trolls spend most of their time late at night on bridges. During the day as any troll would they hide from the sun, life and and mom by sleeping in. Computer Crime in America has lots of lil pesky critters like Bridge Trolls so be ware of them. -Nomaad -------------------------------------------------------------------- Look for the new Influx on a BBS near you soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call the Influx Support Boards. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Warez Galore 206 946 0245 Terminal Velocity 615 333 3381 Candyland 615 333 6561 City of Thieves 603 225 4805 ESI Atlanta 404 279 2626 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Influx Communication Systems @ 1988 --------------------------------------------------------------------