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  1.                                           Energy.My hobbies are music,football,
  2.                                           boozing, friends and fun.
  3.                                           
  4.                                           PLRS:
  5.                                           Ok, what computers  have you owned in
  6.                                           the past, and for how long?
  7.                                           
  8.    Interview With Zinkfloid/Energy        ZINK:
  9.          By Polaris/Eclipse               I started with a G7000 from Phillips,
  10.                                           then  a  VC20 for 1/2  year, then C64
  11. PLRS:                                     till 1988 and afterwards an Amiga 500
  12. Hi Zinkfloid, could  you  tell  us  a     
  13. little  about  yourself and your main     PLRS:
  14. functions in Energy Austria?              Currently, how many members are there
  15.                                           in Energy's Austrian division?
  16. ZINK:                                     
  17. First of all I am the Main-Ed. of the     ZINK:
  18. SUICID   zine,  musician   and   some     Current members in Austria are:
  19. swapping   and   organizing!  I am 19     Stranger,   Jason,   Greili,   Trion,
  20. years old, since  1987  in  scene! My     Zinkfloid,  Ice Mc,  Rio,   Negative,
  21. groups before were,oh quite a lot but     Coon-O, Antitrack and  some more I do
  22. I think it goes like this:                not know! But read the actual member-
  23. Unicorn,Whiteland Factory, Fairlight,     list in your latest issue of SUICID !
  24. WW3,  Nightmare, Xerox, Grace and now                                          
  25. PLRS:                                         Hirter             Anarchy
  26. You are of course the main editor for         Kapsreiter         Analog
  27. the cool diskzine Suicid,  which  has     
  28. reached issue 3 by now, what  kind of     3.) America         
  29. work do you have to put in for it?            Gandhi          
  30.                                               Blues Brothers  
  31. ZINK:                                     
  32. The worst thing  is  in achieving the     4.) In the Flash/Pink Floyd
  33. right  code  for  it, then  to  read,         Vodoo Chile/Steve Vaughan
  34. write, correct and edit articles,ads,         Catfish Blues/Hendrix     
  35. news etc......And the time problem of     
  36. course, as always..                       5.) Pizza          6.) Royal Info
  37.                                               Schnitzel          Top Secret
  38. PLRS:                                         Sushi              Suicid
  39. What are your 3 favourite....             
  40.                                           7.) Blues Nights   8.) Super Channel
  41. 1)Beers      6)Diskzines                      Session            MTV
  42. 2)Groups     7)Magazines                      Standard           CNN         
  43. 3)Films      8)TV Channels                
  44. 4)Songs      9)Demos                      9.) Budbrain Demo I         
  45. 5)Food      10)Games                          Wayfarer/Spaceballs     
  46.                                               Bobby the Ball/Anthrox  
  47. ZINK:                                     
  48. 1.) Gosser         2.) Crusaders          10) Player Manager                   
  49.     Pirates(C64)                          You  were once a big modem trader and
  50.     Airborne Ranger(C64)                  sysop, but you encountered some prob-
  51.                                           lems with this,explain what happened?
  52. PLRS:                                     
  53. How  did  you learn that there was an     ZINK:
  54. Amiga scene in Ireland?                   Somebody  gave  my  addy  to post and
  55.                                           police,and the post caught me cause I
  56. ZINK:                                     used  their  intern  phone network to
  57. I received an issue from your Amnesia     phreak over. The police caught me for
  58. Mag!                                      fakes and some illegal wares! I got a
  59.                                           high fine and a lot of troubles!
  60. PLRS:                                     
  61. Overall  what  do  you  think  of the     PLRS:
  62. scene, and  the  friendship movement?     Do you think  that too many diskzines
  63.                                           is a bad thing?
  64. ZINK:                                     
  65. The  friendship  movement  is  really     Zink:
  66. reliable and  it's  necessary for the     NO! The more, the better,  this helps
  67. scene.   But the scene is nowadays so     to raise the quality of all mags.Just
  68. boring,just 90 % are suckers,arrogant     good mags will get their support, bad
  69. asses who do  not  know or care about     ones won't  be  read and out of this,
  70. anything from old glory days.             no support!
  71.                                           
  72. PLRS:                                     PLRS:                                
  73. Do you think that  Austrian chocolate     Zink:
  74. is  better  than  Belgian  chocs?         Military,  war,   hunger,  death  and
  75. (Erm...gotta think of a good question     destruction, ignorance.
  76.  quick!!! - Polaris)                      
  77.                                           PLRS:
  78. Zink:                                     Yes.....all the things that make life
  79. I prefer chocolate fron Namibia,hehe,     worth living!!!
  80. it is more black!                         Select  3  of  the following 10 words
  81.                                           which best describe your personality.
  82. PLRS:                                     
  83. What are the  things  that  you  most     1)Humourous      6)Greedy
  84. hate in the scene?                        2)Macho          7)Hard Working
  85.                                           3)Quiet          8)Creative
  86. Zink:                                     4)Generous       9)Friendly
  87. Pirate-Hunters,  new  guys  in  scene     5)Jealous       10)Austrian
  88. without   any    experiences,   group     
  89. jumpers, guys  who  do  only  critics     ZINK:
  90. (like Blitter/DAMIAN)   and   nothing     1, 8, 10!!
  91. else, Reebok/S!P  for  being  such an     
  92. asshole!                                  PLRS:
  93.                                           What's the scene in Austria like?
  94. PLRS:                                     
  95. What things  do  you most hate in the     ZINK:
  96. entire world?                             Worse, really worse, only  some  good
  97. and active  groups or divisions like:     Just look at RAW or SUICID (hehe).
  98. Energy,   Scoopex,   Grace,  Leprosy,     
  99. Damian, Lunatics, Alcatraz..... A lot     PLRS:
  100. of old legends and friendship, almost     Many  people  out there (as you know)
  101. everybody who is known in scene knows     will   always   just    insult   good
  102. each other !!  Some asses and lots of     productions and  hard working groups,
  103. lame people..                             what would you say to such people?
  104.                                           
  105. PLRS:                                     ZINK:
  106. What  are  your opinions on Legal and     Piss 'em !
  107. illegal swapping?                         
  108.                                           PLRS:
  109. ZINK:                                     What  do  you think would improve the
  110. Both okay,I prefer legal - this seems     scene greatly?
  111. to be cheaper if you get caught !         
  112.                                           ZINK:
  113. PLRS:                                     To get more  popular, that  means  to
  114. Do you think that it's harder for new     involve medias like  newspapers, play
  115. diskzines  to  spread and become more     some tunes in radio or show something
  116. popular these days?                       on TV !
  117.                                           
  118. ZINK:                                     PLRS:
  119. No, if they are  good  and  own  high     What country do  you  think rules the
  120. quality, it  is  not  so  a  problem!     scene today, and  what country should
  121. we be keeping an eye out for?             Yes, some hellos to following friends
  122.                                           and sorry for my delay:   Cybersonik/
  123. ZINK:                                     Alcatraz all Energy members,Grace and
  124. Mmh, the scandinavian ones are really     to Zorglub, Macno, Wild Rage, Quedex,
  125. good, Germany is okay! Keep an eye on     Omega,  Profecy,   Scoopex,  Anarchy,
  126. Poland, Hungary and Austria !!            Polaris  and  to  all   the   others!
  127.                                           Thanks for the interview, geezer!!
  128. PLRS:                                     
  129. What do  you think of Commodore's new     PLRS:
  130. promises of the A1200, could this new     Thank you m8, long live Suicid!!      
  131. machine save the Amiga Scene,and make     
  132. it stronger?                              Article By:Polaris N' Zinkfloid
  133.                                           Clipart By:Arc/Eclipse
  134. ZINK:
  135. I have  not  seen it so I can not say
  136. much about it !  But could be if they
  137. promote it right!
  138.  
  139. PLRS:
  140. OK, that's it, thanks  for taking the
  141. time out for Amnesia!  Any last words
  142. or greets to people?
  143.  
  144. ZINK:
  145.