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Grey: Salut! =)
Strider: Hello Grey! I'm happy to be here in the first issue of CHOSNECK. I
hope it will be a great diskmag, as great as Undercover ;-)
Grey: Let's begin this craptalk with usual stuph. Throw some words about
yourself, what are you doing in so called "real life"?
Strider: Informatics everywhere! :-P
I'm playing with computers all day long, during my studies and at
home. Oh, that's just some Linux and Windozz stuff, so it's not very
important for an Atari diskmag. In fact, this year I have no "real
life" because that's my ultimate studient year, in other words I'm
very busy at university. But don't worry, I still go to the cinema,
or in pubs with friends!
Grey: When begun your adventure with Atari computers? Do you remember
your 1st impression?
Strider: My love story with Atari computers begun in January 1991. I wanted to
buy a new computer for Christmas. Some friends already had ST's and
STE's, so I've bought the same computer. It was a 1040 STE with color
monitor, and I still use it sometimes, especially when I feel a
certain nostalgy (I love watching "old school" demos). I have just
updated my STE to 4 MBytes and that's all: neither CD-Rom reader nor
hard disks.
In December 1995, I wanted to buy a Falcon for Chistmas (yeah, you
will notice I always buy computers for Christmas), and a friend told
me he saw cheap Falcons in a shop. That's how I get my Falcon, and I
was very happy: IDE and SCSI buses, the incredible DSP, etc. In 1997,
I've decided to put the motherboard into a PC tower. Because of the
motherboard size, I had to buy a giant tower. It was quite long and I
had problems with SCSI, but now all is OK. You can see some snaps of
my towerized Falcon on my site (http://strider.atari.org).
Secondly, what was my first impression? Well, when I switched on the
STE for the very first time, I was quite disappointed: the green
desktop seemed very strange for me! My first reaction was: "hey, is
that all?". And the mouse was a funny toy for me. Before having the
STE, I had some 8-bit computers with embedded BASIC language, and the
ST graphical interface was a very new thing for me. Now, I use the GEM
every day and I think it was a very good operating system for a
computer born in 1985.
Grey: When you became a member of demo-scene? What was your 1st Atari group
you decided to join?
Strider: I don't know... I was a bit fed up with ST games, and I've discovered
the demos thanks to Senser/Supremacy (he was called Fresh at this
time). So, I've joined a lousy crew called Epsilon in 1992 or 1993,
and I've started making demos with... Demo Construction Kit! We made
some megademos with it and then serious things began with GFA Basic 3.
I've tried the 68000 assembler but it was a bit hard for me.
Nevertheless, it helped me knowing how does a computer works. A bit
later, I've joined both Typhoon and Toxic Team, and I've started
making ST Collection demo compilations.
Grey: I guess that Supremacy is your current group, right? Could you tell
us what's your status in this group? Coder, graphician or...?
Strider: Yeah, I remember that Razaac (Supremacy's big boss) phoned me when I
was in Typhoon and asked me to join his crew. My current status in
Supremacy is GFA-coder, Toxic Mag editor and sometimes graphist. I'm
also Web designer for our sites.
Grey: Are you up-to-date with the current state of Atari scene in France?
What about new projects from such crews like Dune or Oxygene?
Strider: You know, there are only three active French Atari crews: Sector One,
Loud! and Supremacy. There are also lonesome guys like Chuck/Dune,
Exocet/Pyjama, Hylst/Manga Maniacs and Sine/Idemline. I know that
Chuck wants to make a demo with Sector One, I've seen a preview in a
coding party in April 2000. I don't really know what's up this Sector
One or Loud! projects...
Grey: Let's back to the past for a while. I still remember these cute
Falcon productions released by various groups from France, just
like EKO, SCARFACE, TOYS, MJJ PROD, DNT-CREW, MISFITS, ADRENALINE,
TRIO, EXA... These groups simply ruled and french scene became very
famous. What happend to them? What could be a reason of such fast
scene-leaving?
Strider: Everybody grows up. Most of them were students. When they finished
their studies, they got a job, they sometimes married, and I think
that's why they leave the demo scene. The other reason is the lack of
power of Atari computers and the PC's getting more and more cheap.
Finally, in 1992-1993, most of French ST/Falcon crews died. It's a sad
story, even if some coders such as Leonard/OXG or Chuck/Dune still
code some stuff for our favorite computers.
Grey: You became a main editor of Toxic mag after ST Survivor decided to
leave this magazine. At the beginning you seemed to have a lot of
enthusiasm and we've got new issues of Toxic mag short after. But
suddenly something went wrong... bunch of months passed away and
no single issue has been released. Wassup? Did you decide to give
up? Can we expect any issues in the future?
Strider: It's mainly due to a lack of motivation. Not mine, but the motivation
of our readers. I had no feedback, and it's hard to know if you're
doing a good job or not. But I'm still working on Toxic Mag 19. I must
admit that Thyrex isn't very motivated for the ST version too, but I
hope it will be released some day. On the other hand, I'm converting
the ASCII articles into HTML pages for the Web version. During the
Iradium Party 2 in February 2001, I've converted some articles, for
example. I think I've about 60 or 70 articles for Toxic Mag 19, so
that's very long to format and to convert. Last month, I've installed
DreamWeaver 4 on my PC, I hope it will help me a lot ;-)
Oh, by the way, the issue 19 will be the last one. Well, the last one
for Atari computers, because with another Supremacy member called
QueST, we have some ideas about making a webzine. Its name will
probably be "A real Toxic Mag live!". We will work on this project as
soon as the issue 19 will be released. At this time, we even don't
know if this new webzine will be in French or English (note: we don't
want to make a bilingual magazine). Just wait and see, as usually! :-/
Grey: As I already mentioned STS decided to leave Toxig mag to become
a main editor of "Undercover" (now "Alive!") magazine. You were
co-operating in the past but now you edit two different magazines
which compete. How could you rate the "Alive!"? What's the low and
high points?
Strider: Well, there is just one issue of "Alive!", I can't really tell what
are the low and high points... Obviously, "Alive!" has a great
advantage upon "Toxic Mag": there are English articles. "Alive!" issue
1 has also a lot of articles, written by a lot of sceners. Perhaps CiH
from Maggie will work for "Alive!" issue 2, who knows?
Grey: STS seems to give up, I've heard rumours he has no motivation to
continue editing "Alive!". Did you talk with him about it?
Strider: Yeah, you're right, we have speaken about this topic on IRC. He told
me he's busy with his social life, his work, his friends... So bad he
has lost all his motivation, maybe he will be back soon in the demo
scene.
Grey: Smile back on da face! The interview is over =) Thanx for your
answers. The next few lines belong to you... :)) Feel free to
say anything to anybody :)
Strider: Yeah, thank you, pal! To those who also have a PC, you should get the
emulator SainT because it's really excellent! I've seen the "Oh
crickey wot a scorcher" and all "Holocaust" demos with it, that's the
best emulator I've ever seen! It's free and you can leech it at
"http://saint.atari.org".
End of advertising part ;-)
I would like to say hello to all the active Atarists in the world,
they know how they are. But I feel a bit pessimist about our future.
Atari crews are dying, are the good old times over?
Grey, I was happy to answer to your questions and I'm impatient to
read your new diskmag! As for me, I have to finish the Toxic Mag 19,
so I leave you with some WWW links:
Here is my homepage, even if the English version isn't working:
http://strider.atari.org/
Toxic Mag HQ:
http://toxicmag.atari.org/
Supremacy HQ, with stuff to download and news about the crew:
http://supremacy.atari.org/
See ya on IRC, #atariscne channel!
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