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Grey: 'llo, python! =)
Winio: Hey, what da fuck?! What python? If it's allusion to the name of the
group then I have to admit it wasn't my idea. It's the remaining of
the old XL/XE section yet.
Grey: Ha, you became a famous bastard :) It's cool to lead this interview
with someone who drunk the ocean of vodka with me at several parties!
But before we start with the scene-stuff, tell us something about
your real-life.
Winio: Hmm, well. Small rectification at the beginning. First of all there
was no ocean of vodka, usual it was beer or cheap wine. But it's the
history since about two years. Drinking to the limits isn't funny for
me anymore, I know better manners to spend my free time. And now,
when I am not interested about the scene these days my life isn't
really different than the rest of my friends. I spend a lot of time
with my girlfriend, I am studying at University in Olsztyn, "from
time to time" I am writing the little programs for RISC micro-
controlers. Of course I don't forget about my friends (mainly the
old sceners) so we meet together sometimes. I am not able to meet
with them too often because most of them moved to other cities or
work and don't have a lot of free time.
Grey: How Your history with Atari begun? When did You buy Your 1st fuji
box? And what model it was?
Winio: I first saw Atari whern I was six. It was a 65XE model at the home of
my father's friend. I was very excited seeing River Raid. Oh well, I
could play that game through a whole day and I didn't ever get bored.
Recent games in spite of the great graphics and sounds effects lose
the battle (I mean mainly about playability) so I don't play many
games these days. But let's back to the subject... Since that time my
dream was to become user of Atari. My friends from the school warmed
up the situation telling only about new games. And it happend. It was
October in 1991 when my grandmother b ought me my first dreamed of
computer. Of course there was no chat about any other machine than
Atari. Even if it's hard to believe it today, you couldn't see other
computers in polish homes than Atari. The model I've got was a 130XE
with tape-drive because floppy-drive at that time was a big luxurious
purchase and cost almost as much as the computer.
Grey: What's Your current machine? And do You still use it?
Winio: Currently I have a PC with a configuration which excites only a laugh
It's a K5 90MHz with 16MB of RAM. As well as the PC I also have a
Falcon, but I haven't run it for about 1.5 year. Last time I did it,
I was putting together the parts of my latest demo called "REVERTANT"
Grey: I remember You as the real Atari fan who fought for the good name of
those computers. You even wrote a very long letter to one of the most
famous computer-magazines in that time "Bajtek" to kick someone for
blaming Atari. It was even publicated in this mag! Could You tell our
readers why You decided to write this letter?
Winio: I wrote my letter to the "Bajtek" editors team in reply to the
article about the Atari Jaguar. One guy from this magazine wrote a
real nonsense article about the Jag. After reading this shit you
could get the impression that main heart of the Jaguar was 68000. Of
course I understand the reason of this article - they did their best
to support the PC market. It's not a secret that they've got a lot of
cash from the PC distributors thanks to the adverts which kept them
alive on the market. And unfortunately Atari shops weren't interested
about advertising their products in magazines. (yes, it's true, they
kept telling us that a good system doesn't need any advert - grey's
note).
Grey: Maybe not everyone knows but Your function in Cobra was "swapper" for
quite a long time. I remember our talk at Siliconevntion '97 when You
said "I wish I could code... ". Short time later there was "a little"
split in Cobra and You stood alone on the battle place. I remember
ironic smiles of other ex-members who asked You: "So, Winio, when's
the new Cobra demo coming out? ". Making a demo without any coder
could be "rather" impossible... But short before Last Party we could
see the invitro for the Falcon coded by... Swapper! Or rather...
ex-swapper, Winio :)) And all attenders (including ex-Cobra members)
of this party could see Your 1st multi-part demo for the Falcon! So
it looks like You learnt how to code mainly to cut these "ironic
smiles" and kick some ass! Am I right? :P
Winio: Yes. Situation in Cobra was following: coders did NOTHING and later
they blamed me that Cobra isn't active. Later they left the group
to join another one. And of course they still didn't make anything
until now. I stood in group alone. But thanks to the mates from PC
scene (Ooze, God) I managed to learn ASM coding and I started to
create "something".
Grey: What about Your 1st ST demo You were going to release few Years ago?
At the beginning it was titled "Silent Breaker" and was supposed to
be released at QuaST '98 but Mayonez, the major coder of this project
lost the code sources. So he started again, code was growing up and
the demo has been retitled to "Awaken" and the short preview we could
see at EIL '99. And as someone told me there is no chance to see it
'coz Mayonez lost all disks with sources again. What the hell is
going on?! Is it all true? Did he ever hear about "backups?" It looks
pretty strange - code something just to lose all short time later....
He didn't take this project too serious or what?
Winio: The fact is that Mayonez has bad luck. On the small Atari (we call
XE/XE serie s like that in Poland - grey's note) he also lost many
code sources. Even lately his PC hard disk fucked up. But the problem
doesn't lay only in code. If not for the lack of time he surely could
make a demo. Now, when he begun the his studies he doesn't have any
free time.
Grey: And what's the current status of Cobra? Is there ANY chance to see
anything new from You guys? (tell me honestly...). Could You come
back sometime maybe?
Winio: I don't know if there is any point. Everything stays in one place.
For some time the Atari scene time didn't move, it stayed in the same
place where others were 5-6 years ago. And I don't mean only about
the configuration (take a look what people make with small Atari) but
about the human MENTALITY. Isolation from the rest of the scene and
concentrating too much on effects like the "tunnel" to me, means
there is no reason to make anything at Atari scene. This is as well
as a lack of time..
Grey: Is there anything You don't like on Atari scene? Like people attitude
or something?
Winio: Yes. I simply hate the attitude of most Atarians. If someone tells me
that people from PC are bad because they support Microsoft or protest
against showing C-64 demos at Atari party then I simply wonder if
such person is NORMAL. I was growing up on the Atari scene and my
behaviour was similar - until I didn't drive at the multi party and I
didn't meet people from other scenes.
Grey: Hmm, let's finish this article with something happier.. When did You
last masturbate?
Winio: Before the interview.
Grey: Thanx for Your time! Please, come back to us sometime!
Winio: No, "Thank you for the time" but tell me when you'll drive over to me
and we get a chance to drink something? Because now you make me a
fool..
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