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- This is ILLEGAL #27, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.
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- (C) 1988 by TRIAD - A Dealer Quality Mag
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- Da offishial Syssie Four Mag!
- BUT WHO CARES?
-
-
- THE APRIL EDITION OFFERIN':
-
-
- THE STORY OF... ANOTHA EPISODE
- SYSTEM 4 OUTTA THE
- CRACKER'S WORLD...
-
- MEETING REPORTS! WHO (OR WHO?) WOZ
- UP AT THE
- MEETINX HERE?
-
- HOT NEWS! THE MEAN
- GOSSIP PRODUCIN'
- MACHINEZ ARE
- BACK AGAIN...
-
- INTERVIEW HAVE YOU EVER
- TRIED TO ASK
- YOURSELF QUESTIONS
-
- PHONE FREAKIN' ...IF YOU WISH TO
- END YOUR CONFY
- WAIT FOR A NU
- OPERATOR OR READ IT NOW!
-
- ARCADE ACTION ROLLING THUNDER...
- ON ARCADE, AMIGA
- AND C 64!
-
- AND OF COURSE ALL THE OTHER THINX YOU ALWAYS WANT... CHARTZ OF VIDEOZ,
- CRACKERS, DEMOS'N GAMEZ! WE WISH YA NOW... All Fun on earth!
- the Illegal-team
- MAD ALL
- SWYX
- Mr.Decibel
- and your Jeff Smart
-
-
- MAD ALL'S MAILBOX
-
- EXCELSIOR, the lean mean gossip machine is back, so turn on the music, grab a
- bottle of beer, sit back and enjoy...
-
- - Remember JAZOO of old Jazzcat fame, well he's back. This time he joined the
- ranks of that other Norweigan group: THE SHADOWS, they are all delighted, coz
- he promised the originals, TDF in trouble?
-
- - I was planning to write a big article on this but I'm too modest (or lazy?)
- so I'll just print it here: CFR has split up. Yes yes yes it's true but before
- you get out a box of kleenex let me assure you that we'll still continue under
- the same name, the people that are gone only worked on Amiga (well not really
- coz they only wrote one demo in 6 months and they wanted CFR to become an Amiga
- group only so naturally we split up, but this will have no effect on our 64
- work.
-
- - OOOH aren't those Beastie Boys getting a little big-headed, in their
- interview in Delirious Mag ACCEPT claims that all groups are lame except the 9
- groups they trade with, not a bad statement for a group that brought out a 1328
- Block long OUTRUN version.
-
- - As you probably know, C64CG, DCU and PLEASURE are merging together to become
- bigger but did you know the name? Well they are planning to announce it at the
- Venlo meeting of 16/04/88 but I couldn't resist so here goes: they will be
- called TRANSCOM.
-
- - Interesting to see at the last VENLO meeting that TSS and LETHAL of HOTLINE
- had a very big discussion with HI-TEC and TK of TRIAD concerning who was the
- better group, luckily they didn't have a quarrel over who was the biggest group
- otherwise they would still be there counting all their members coz both of them
- have well over 25 members.
-
- - On Hotline: I almost got lynched by some HOTLINE members coz they claimed
- that we in "ILLEGAL" only ever talk about SLEDGEHAMMER, so I asked LETHAL (in
- fact it was Lethal's own idea) to write a very big and complete article about
- the AMIGA virus. He will do all the research as he has access to ZILLIONS of
- computer magazines an I will write the article so look out for that!
-
- - Poor old Denmark and Germany, the groups seem to be falling like flies over
- there lately, the police is really beginning to hold razzia's and PLK's and PO
- Boxes get searched through, a real unhealthy situation, hopefully this is no
- sign for other countries.
-
- - I bet you a lot of hard cash that STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT won't stay away for
- long now that he stopped cracking on the 64, just wait until he meets everybody
- at the April edition of Venlo, he'll see that the 64 is much more lively than
- the Amiga. C U there Toni.
-
- - Two Belgian groups China Syndrome (CSI) and 4-Star have joined together to
- produce higher quality cracks.
-
- BYE from MAD ALL-IGATOR
- MAD ALL / CFR
-
-
- INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
- THIS TIME: Jeff Smart / TRIAD
-
- Everybody claimed they know nothing about me, so I decided to interview myself
- and believe me, it brings fun...
-
- ?: Where do you have that name from?
-
- !!!: From a German comic strip called "Clever and Smart".
-
- ?: How old are you?
-
- !!!: 18 years, authorized to do everything I wanna do.
-
- ?: When did you come to TRIAD?
-
- !!!: On the 15th of January 1988 at 19 minutes past 8.
-
- ?: How many German members did join Triad now?
-
- !!!: They are: Han Solo, Hi-tec, TK, FSW, Sir Arthur and F.A.M.E. (3)
-
- ?: How many swap-partners do you have at the 'mo?
-
- !!!: FS, IKARI, FLT, BB, RWE, T8, HTL, ORION, STARS, CFR, TWG, SCOUSERS,
- TRIANGLE + DOMINATORS and sum othaz , about 20.
-
- ?: When did you release the first "ILLEGAL" and what did it look like?
-
- !!!: Well, the first issue if "ILLEGAL" appeared on the 6th of January 1986
- after two weeks wondering how "Newsroom" works. It took about one single
- page and had a circulation of 5 copies. GOSH! It was so bad that I won't
- re-release it even though people asked me to do so. But even in the first
- issue there were a "game charts", some game reviews and some bad articles,
- all in German of course.
-
- ?: What is your favourite music, game, demo and freetime activity?
-
- !!!: Music: New Order, Morrisey, The Smiths, Joy Division.
- Game: Epyx games, Combat School, Platoon, Pirates and Green Beret.
- Demo: Baby Blues from CFR
- Freetime: Sleeping, music + joking
-
- ?: What are your best friends and your enemies?
-
- !!!: My best friends around are my mates from System Four, that are: Paer, Dan,
- Stefan and almost all others from Triad, Mad All / CFR, Ian / Fusion,
- Kaare / Triangle, George / SCG, John / Survivors, Nik / Ikari and so on...
- better said almost all mah contacts, if they either write long letters or
- I talk to 'em often. Enemies: NO COMMENT. They already have been kicked
- outta System 4!
-
- ?: What the hell is SYSTEM FOUR?
-
- !!!: Haven't you seen it yet? It's among you, everyday! Only I know what it is,
- but I guess Janitor supposes the right thing 'n will surely know it next
- time.
-
- ?: What was the best joke you ever heard?
-
- !!!: On a conference, I asked George from SCG: "Wossup?" and he said "My dick".
- Some others said it was their idea, but it was George's.
-
- ?: Thank you, Jeffie.
-
- !!!: And you, Jeffie. HAHAHAHAHAHA
-
- Next time finally Strider from Fairlight who will be interviewed in Venlo
- hopefully!
- JS
-
-
- ARCADE ACTION:
- ROLLING THUNDER
-
- Have a look at our big cpmparision between ROLLING THUNDER - the arcade
- machine, the c 64 version and the Amiga version...
-
- HA! ROLLING THUNDER from NAMCO is quite a brilliant game on the arcade machine.
- Task of the game is to free some hostages while shooting all enemies. You can
- expand your weapons when entering several rooms, be always careful of swines
- with masks that try to blast yoy into pieces of mortal rest. It features
- brilliant grafix, a fitting sound and is damn fast. You can either use a MP Iif
- you collected ammo) or a small gun, of course the MP is more effective. The
- characters are superb animated and you jump one platform up and down in great
- animation, too. I really love that game machine cuz it's ultrafast and brings
- lots of fun playing it, and it earns a rating of: 96 points of 100 possible.
-
- THE 64 VERSION:
- US GOLD tried it... and... failed... A cold shudder seizes me when I remember
- this real bad conversion, if the name of the game wasn't ROLLING THUNDER I
- would not have noticed it, it's so bad, so fucking slow, you move your player
- faster than your bullets... The graphics also suck... this game is the total
- rubbish and the best one can do with it, is to open one's window and throw it
- out... Even the sprites, the movement of 'em is so bad, I really thought that
- it would have been possible to convert it on the 64, cuz there are quite a lot
- of that kind of games, but US GOLD? 0 points!!!!!!!!!
-
- THE AMIGA VERSION:
- I was really stretched as I took a look on the 16 bit version and GOSH! The
- title screen looks pretty nice (me thinks there was no on the 64, wasn't it?),
- ah, it remembers me on the arcade version, really. The sound is not that one
- from the arcade machine, but nevertheless much, much better than the fuckin'
- rubbish on the 64. The game: It's a little bit slower than the arcade machine,
- but it's very, very good. It's almost the same fun on the Amiga as on the
- Arcade. HA! Okey, the grafix are not so hot, but good, damn good. Compare the
- sprites and you really can accept that. I really liked it on the Amiga, so that
- my friend, at which home I took a look at ROLLING THUNDER couldn't keep me away
- from playing it... "Please another game, C'mon a nu one, okey, now the last
- one, yep, no the really last try, yup, my last game" and so on... If companies
- always make such brilliant conversions on the Amiga, I can start about thinking
- to buy finally a big calculator, eh? Amiga score: 91
- JS
-
-
- DOES THE AMIGA KILL THE 64 ??????
-
- "Are you playing again with your calculator?", questions like that are normal
- life for a 64 owner when arguing with an Amiga owner! They must tell you, those
- who only have to enter their disks in their drives and without typing any
- command the game is loaded into the computer, isn't that easy? Now, the latest
- state is that some real known guys from the 64 biz changed from 64 to Amiga,
- searching for higher goals in SYSTEM FOUR! The two were on the one hand IAN
- from FUSION, who almost earned to be a cracker of the month alone and on the
- other hand STRIDER from FAIRLIGHT know for many, many cracks with funny slogans
- against communists, remember: "Play pool billiard with a commies' ball" or some
- like that? Is that a sign for all others?
-
- Well, in fact I think no, cuz the Amiga offers better grafix, better sounds,
- okey, but not better games as many of the 64 games are converted now but
- without becoming better, you see? No reason for me to sell my little 64 for an
- Amiga, ha! Anyway, FUSION also continues as FAIRLIGHT does, and you see that
- STRIDER is beginning to write in intro text again (about SYSTEM FOUR...) I
- think he will also return to the cracking ones, surely! BIG EASTERN EGGS from:
- Jeff Smart
-
-
- THE POLICE IN GERMANY
-
- Everybody who lives in SYSTEM FOUR is scared of the police, that at least in
- Germany is very strong and also catched a lot of guys. It had become such a
- situation that lamers pretended they were caught showing them belonging to them
- who are worth to be catched. Damn lame, isn't it?
-
- The mean methods are ads in obscure computer magazines, that ask you about
- swapping, buying software or just a telephone number that offers you to call.
- Some guys from the German software police (they really exist!) made such ads to
- catch some guys, who are lame enough to call those guys.
-
-
- "DELIRIOUS" vs "ILLEGAL"
-
- After D.C.U. released the first issue of their new "Delirious Mag" on the Venlo
- meeting last month, people thought about a big battle between TRIAD and DCU
- concerning their magazines, but they thought totally wrong. There's no
- rivality, but a good friendship between Jayce, in his person the editor of the
- DCU, now TRANSCOM, magazine and me as I promised him alsways to write him an
- article for his magazine but only because I'm a lazy pig the article didn't
- reach Jayce in time for the last mag out. Now he got it and I'm sure you can
- read about "The German Crackers" in "Delirious Mag No.2". What people didn't
- understand is that MAD ALL / CFR is publishing his "Mailbox" in both magazines
- and in fact I don't understand, too. But I think it's up to MAD ALL who has of
-
- course the right to publish his articles in both magazines, but still writes
- here in "ILLEGAL" more expanded articles. So don't claim... the only thing I
- don't like is that DCU can spread their mag for nothing and I have to take
- money for it, cuz I don't get copies for free as they do, but it's still OK!
- JS
-
-
- GERMAN RATS:
- THE A.S.M.
-
- Do you remember the A.S.M.? The "Aktueller Software Markt", the official German
- computer magazine (comparable to C+VG in UK) that have been present at the
- RADWAR party on January the 9th of 1988? I told you about 'em intha last issue,
- but here again. They went around trying to make photos of big and known groups
- and published 'em with black stroke over the guys' eyes. And they were quite
- proud to see their photos in the March issue of that magazine.
-
- So what about it, you will ask? Well, it can be heard that two members of the
- well-known Amiga group "Tristar" were caught by the police!
-
- You must be blind if you don't recognize a connection between the photo in the
- A.S.M. that showed the whole "Tristar"-crew and their cruel end. Anyway, after
- a couple of weeks later it really can be heard that some guys of the A.S.M.
- gave all their photos out to the German software police as special evidence
- material. Isn't that nice?
-
- First those swines lick everybody's ass to get an invitation for the party,
- then they lick everybody's ass to make some photos and even asked 'em to to
- send new warez to 'em... I think it hasn't been all yet.
- JS
-
-
- PHONE FREAKIN' NEWS
-
- How what is going this month with the conferences to Germany who has still the
- best protected telephonesystem (FUCK)? Well, as it concerns me, I can say that
- I had enough conferences this month (Thax to Survivors, Kevin and all others I
- don't remember!) and some 3-ways also (with Nik the d...). Anyway I was told
- that unknown Shield had started a conference from Germany... Well, no comment!
-
- Anyway it seems that it became easier now for Americans to start conferences,
- but I heard bad news, eventhough they aren't proved yet, so I was told that
- Badd Boy from The Survivors got busted and had to pay about 1000 Dollars to the
- companies.
-
- Hum, I hope it's not true, Johnnie! Anyway, Nik from Ikari even called me on a
- free call in the middle of the night (2 a.m.!), for the European it's quite
- safe, but all Yanks are afraid of AT&T who really are holding razzias again...
-
- Now it can also be heard that there exists a kind of trick that could remove
- poor guys from the black list, eh? Janitor and Mike / F.A.M.E. still are and
- look forward to these news... Hear from U on a confy!
- JS
-
-
- THE MEETING REPORTS
-
- Only the evergreen Venlo could offer a party intha last month as the WOD party
- felt out cuz the guys got in deeper contact with the police...
-
- Anyway the Venlo meeting was a little bit sad as there was simultaneously the
- CEBIT, a big computer mess, Germanys small opposite to the PCW show, in
- Hannover where quite a lot of friends were present, so did RADWAR, some from
- HOTLINE, TRISTAR, MR.ZEROPAGE and so on.
-
- Only a few of the guys that normally come to Venlo showed up on the 19th of
- March, so did ORION, C64CG, SLH / HOTLINE, CFR and for the first time DCU from
- France. I was told that nothing was up there as people really missed the big
- and known groups, but more people showed up than in February and that shows
-
- that Venlo is getting too overcrowded. A cold shudder seized me as I heard how
- many lamers asked Hi-Tec of TRIAD to swap.
-
- Anyway, the next Venlo edition seems to become the best ever, so pack yer bag
- and show who you are (even if you're a zombie!).
- Jeff
-
-
- 64
-
- HA! Now ya entered the 64 games review page, congratulations!
- Please enter your name:
- Okey, serious again, here goes:
-
- * BLOOD VALLEY, a long time ago announced now released... and it's simple RUN-
- and-FIGHT game with quite nice grafix and a cool sound fx, but rather boooring
- than entertaining. Score: 72 / 100
-
- * IO, one of the shortest names for games ever. It cums from FIREBIRD and even
- though it's another (the 2.983.457th of this sort of game) Shoot 'em up, it's
- cool. You can get better weapons, but the masterpiece are the grafix that were
- drawn by Bob Stevensen (remember BMX Kidz Title Screen). The game is fuckin'
- swine to play, so damn difficult, that probably no normal freak is able to get
- through that game without a trainer, anyway it scored: 84 / 100
-
- * VENOM STRIKES BACK, MASK III. The third part of the hopefully soon ending
- Mask Games series, but it's much better than the preceding ones, another Shoot
- 'em up, but it brings fun anyway. Use digits for changing your player
- character. Score: 72 / 100
-
- * SUPER HANG ON, God, another arcade machine converted by Activision. The name
- is counting, not the game, so it'll probably be a success like OUTRUN, but
- there are no differences to other games like that as ENDURO RACER or BUGGY BOY
- (the best of that kind), nice sounds, nevertheless a bad conversion, scoring:
- 39
-
- * IKARI WARRIORS, as everybody thought ELITE released the European version and
- it's a damn good game with no connection to the USA version, luckily. With a
- fine intro the game features the blastin' of thousands of enemies and many
- more... try to get through the whole game, nice sprites as an ending sequence,
- damn good Shoot 'em up, so 88.
-
- * CORPORATION, another stunning new game concept from ACTIVISION it takes place
- in the year 3026 and you must succeed in your mission in order not to loose
- your job, cool grafix, a cooler title tune, and a very cool game, so 92 / 100.
-
- * SINBAD and the throne of the falcon from CINEMAWARE looks different from the
- Amiga version with more play sequences and less tactical moves, nevertheless
- the grafix are fantastic (the normal standard for CINEMAWARE) but the game gets
- boring, cuz it's damn hard to play, compare the title sound from the 64 to the
- Amiga tune, funny, funny, eh? But still a very, very good conversion from 16
- bit to 8 bit, one can only hope for more games from the best graphicians, 92 /
- 100.
-
- * TARGET RENEGADE, the follow up to RENEGADE, this time featurin' a pure
- joystick control and GOSH! the game is hot! OCEAN improved it with better
- grafix and more levels, so it had become a multi-load game. Watch out for the
- ending sequence, fantastic great job, score: 92 / 100.
-
- * TROLL, from DENTON DESIGNS shows a great title piccy and cute game grafix,
- but what for the hell is the aim of that game? Funny anyway so a score of 86.
-
- * PACLAND, a well done conversion from the arcade machine featurin' everything
- that one is used to play with, when you have to help old Pacman, f1 to enter
- credits, f3 one and f5 two players and 88 pts.
-
- * RIMRUNNER, what a cool grafix at the beginning of the game in which you have
- to ride on your, eh?... on your, hum? Anyway, you ride and have to be careful
- of defective generators and it's your task to repair 'em. A great sound let
- this game get 90 points.
-
- * SCOUT, written by IAN+MIC who used to be members of TRIAD, sold to
- MASTERTRONIC featurin' sounds from JT. Really not a bad game, driving and
- jumping, shootin' up, but slowly it gets boring, nevertheless 82 points.
-
- * THE THREE STOOGES, anutha masterpiece from CINEMAWARE with a brilliant
- conversion of a movie into a computer game, the graphics is of course also fab
- as the game is. Score: 94 points.
-
- * THE GAMES: WINTER EDITION, still remember the frustration when you told your
- friends in the USA to send it as fast as possible and then it didn't work?
- Well, fortunately we had two salvators, JANITOR and MR.ZEROPAGE. Anyway, the
- game isn't as good as CALIFORNIA GAMES, maybe cuz of EPYX lost Mikael Kosaka to
- ELECTRONIC ARTS, who made all the fine grafix formerly. THE GAMES:
-
- 1) LUGE, nice grafix, use joystick down at the beginning, and then sometimes
- down + button to get speed, quite nice but not exciting.
-
- 2) CROSS COUNTRY: remember Speed Skating in old Winter Games, same movements
- here. Grafix not bad, nice scrolling, split screen.
-
- 3) FIGURE SKATING: lots of details, first choose yer music, make the choice of
- the jumps you want to make during the music then try to play, quite difficult,
- eh?
-
- 4) SKI JUMP: nice features, but when you fly through the air you can't
- recognize how far you flew, that's quite bad, but it brings fun, cuz it's also
- difficult to make good jumps.
-
- 5) SPEED SKATING: moving the joystick with the player.
-
- 6) SLALOM: left, right, left, right, you only have to concentrate a bit to be
- successful.
-
- 7) DOWNHILL is more Slalom than Downhill, but probably the best event.
-
- All together very good, but it's not CALIFORNIA GAMES, so: 95 points.
- JS
-
-
- ILLEGAL (Redline 97)
- WHAT ELSE...?
- ASVERTISIN' TIME...
-
- Remember, you can advertise everything you want... for free!!! Just write to
- JS!!!
-
- Female Crackers
- trained for free!
- Contact Janitor.
-
- I'm searching for broken comp. PRO 5000
- WRITE TO:
- Plk. 035070 C
- 7840 Muellheim
-
- 28th May, 1988
- THE SUPERVISORS COPY PARTY IN SWITZERLAND
- FOR INVITATIONS WRITE TO:
- MR.BRUNPAC / TSK
- P.O. BOX 12
- CH-1605 CHEABRE
-
- AMIGA SUB-EDITORZ WANTED!
-
- WANTED: MEMBERS
- Info: TED-CREW
- PLK 130560 C
- 4220 DINSCHACKEN
- GERMANY
-
- I'm searching for a used driving license...
- Write to:
- PLK 123144 C
- 4250 BOTTROP, GERMANY
-
- NICK from IKARI
- Is searchin' for a UK dick drive 1541...
- Give him a call if U have one to sell cheap...
- (+44) 2735 61917
-
- Software at Cheap prices...
- Call
- 6491 228 361520
- & ask for Bernhard...
-
- Hi-Tec is always ready to make colours for your demo...
- Write to Jeff!
-
- F.A.M.E.
- Is always ready to undertake all aural for your gamez...
- Contact:
- ADAM BULKA
- PASTORSACKER 18
- 4300 ESSEN 16
- W. GERMANY
-
- FUSION AID AT ONCE...
- COLLECT USED STAMPS BEFORE THROWIN' 'EM AWAY...
- SEND 'EM TO US!!!
-
- Call
- IKARI's VOICE MAILBOX
- INTHA U.S.A.
- (818) 1377 5875
-
-
- IN GENERAL...
- COMPLEMENTS OF SCG
-
- The legend returns!
-
- The awesome people from the gaff of Liverpool, England are back! (The SCOUSE
- CRACKING GROUP, that is! - What do you mean you've never heard of us?!).
-
- So here we are, after a short (ish) but much needed, much enjoyed, quite-nice-
- really break. We have regrouped and returned, and are going to totally and
- utterly quash the ideals and concepts of the current hacking kingdom... but,
- being such modest, selfless people we will move the trend of the conversation
- into other areas of interesting-information-to-know. This includes:
-
- 1. Our views on the now-barren cracking world
- 2. The Scouse House future plans
- 3. General waffle and moaning
- 4. There is, in fact, no number 1
- 5. Ah! Here it is
-
- Rightio then, let's hit the dog on the head and get down on it.
-
- At the present, we at the Scouse tavern think that there is an agglomeration of
- minor groups, whom has slowly but surely engulfed the top names, plunging them
- into the boundless infinity of non-existence.
-
- Who can't all the smaller groups make like a wolf and pack together or else
- make like a kangaroo and take a running jump.
-
- What has happened to quality (look it up in a dictionary!), for some reason
- groups seem to be forsaking this ideal for quantity... lemons (people not in
- this group) want trainers, documents and good intros...
-
- Are most intro-writers communists? Because nowadays all intros look the same to
- us (maybe it's just us!).
-
- We haven't been on a good confy for donkeys years, what happened to the good
- old days of 20 or more interesting people on one confy (is this some kind of
- subtle hint?).
-
- What are our future plans, then? We have only one... to put quality before
- quantity, this meaning that our cracks will be really quite orgasimic.
-
- Talking about cracks, speed is an advantage but surely receiving a game which
- has more features increses its wantability.
-
- Incidently, we at Scouse dislike extremely the use of the word "lamer" and
- prefer to the words "minor group", after all, all of us were once lamers!
-
- To English persons we wish to let it be known that Scousers never (that is, at
- no time) use the phrase "it's wicked".
-
- And so ends the Scouse huts contribution to this magnificent magazine... (This
- is "Playboy" isn't it?) Perhaps there'll be more... Perhaps not!!!
- The SCG-members
-
-
- THE REAL BASKET MASTER
-
- A damn cool day we had, visiting DSH and MR.DECIBEL from ORION in the homeland,
- called "Holland"... HO!! We first came to DSH, who woz just importin'
- "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" via modem and then drove to MR.DECIBEL, who has quite a
- comfortable hut. He suggested playing a Baketball match in his garden, between
- TRIAD (TK and me) and ORION, so it went on... But MR.DECIBEL was so fair
- telling us that he's playing in the Dutch National team... urgh? Not a single
- chance remained and we sank with 2:5, (MR.DECIBEL: 4, JS: 2, DSH: 1 and TK:
- NONE! lame!). We spent the evening again at DSH'S home, cracking jokes ontha
- fone... I hope to repeat this journey soon, eh?
- JS
-
-
- WHAT FORTHA HELL...?
-
-
- +------------------------------+
- | / / |
- | III< - - THE |
- | III \ \ PAPILLONS |
- | +-----+ INT. |
- | |Anti | |
- | | fly+| |
- | | TPI | |
- | |spray| |
- | +-----+ |
- | |
- +------------------------------+
-
- Who do the PAPILLONS think they are? "Hey Hey Hey" (trying to imitate FS?) "Why
- do you gays in TRIAD are so fucking proud of your Winter Edition?? You know we
- released it 2 weeks before!"
-
- THE THING THAT NOT A SINGLE TRIAD MEMBER KNEW ABOUT A VERSION FROM TPI, AND
- AFTER CALLING SOMNE GUYS, WHO HAVEN'T HAD THE GAME WORKING, WE DECIDED TO DO
- THAT.
-
- ANYWAY, THE WINTER EDITION VERSION FROM THE PAPILLONS SUCKS, IT CRASHES DOWN
- EVERY TIME (where woz the Fast Load?) WHAT CAN WE DO IF YOU DO NOT SPREAD YOUR
- VERSION, EH?
-
- Have a look at their version of "S.S. SOCCER" and "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II", the
- both crash down. Try to save on S.S. SOCCER or to play IMPOSSIBLE MISSION up to
- its end. So, lesbians, come and say that again!!!
- JS
-
-
- THE T R I A D RANKS
- ON 14-4 / 88!
-
- The of-fish-ial TRIAD rankings ontha 14th of April 1988 (merged in Germany):
- IKARI (boo boo baa baa), FLT (thanx 4 ze postcard, Tony), FUSION, ORION
- (coolest meeting!), NETWORK, TRIANGLE (By the way, I typed 'Y'!), ACE, CFR
- (goodie), SCG (Wossup?), ALLIANCE, PAPILLONS (look above!), BEASTIE BOYS, ESI,
- NEW BENCOR BROS., ABYSS, HOTLINE (old Sledgy), TDF, CRIME (Johnnie), ZENITH,
- TWG, SEX (Who's dat, Dan? Sounds good!), STARS, ONLINE and TRANSCOM... Too much
- confusion? Too less life? Too less money? Too less brain!
- JS
-
-
- The Adventures of
- BUGGY DISKHEAD
- (*note: this is originally a comic strip*)
-
- Buggy holds a phone handset, makes "thumbs up" and exclaims:
- "NOW, NEW SOFT FROM U.S.A. VIA TELEPHONE!"
-
- Buggy smashes the handset into an acoustic couple (ie a modem) connects to a US
- board whilst the keyboard makes a hacking noise and the modem beeps in the
- background.
-
- Buggy meets his friends:
- Buggy: "10 MARKS PER DISK, O.K.?"
- Buggys' friends: "TOO MUCH"
-
- Buggy looks depressed.
-
- Friend: "WHY SO MUCH?"
-
- Buggy holds up his phone bill.
-
- Buggy: "IN ORDER TO PAY MY PHONE BILL!"
-
- (C) 88 A.Krq.
-
-
- NEWS FROM THE CRACKERS' WORLD: SYSTEM FOUR
-
- I just changed the title above, it is still the same column, but with other
- clothez, you see??? It seems as if the March woz no quiet months! Why?
- Because...
-
- * One of Englands' best crackers returned to System Four and showed again their
- skill with some cool cracks. I'm talking of SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP, that are
- WEETBIX, CHUNK, DR.J and MOG. Other English groups got mighty rivals!
-
- * Firkin, Smash and Gene left ACTUAL CRACKING ENTERTAINMENT, but in difference
- from THE SILENTS who joined A.C.E., left it, joined and finally left it, they
- built up their own group, named STARS.
-
- * As DSH and MR.DECIBEL told us they kicked DIGITAL SOLUTIONS INC., EURATOM and
- SOFTWAR TECHNICS out of ORION to hold the group as small as possible.
- Nevertheless there are only a few German members of ORION left and that are
- ZENOBITS, who used to be in 7'up.
-
- * Steve of ZENITH is probably the most hated dude in England! Ian of Fusion and
- Ironfist co-wrote a game called "Hard Labour" and told Steve that some dudes
- wrote it and it was a mega cool game. "Hard Labour" was in fact a very big joke
- on Steve coz it's just a demo that slags Steve off.
-
- * IKARI expanded. TRIDOS, kicked out of FUSION coz of recrackin', joined also
- as IRONFIST of ZENITH wanted to do but haven't done yet.
-
- * Do you also agree that ACTIVISION are stupid for trying to do "AFTERBURNER"
- on 64? What is more stupid is they will also try to do it on Spectrum and
- Amstrad.
-
- * JESTER of LAZER CRACKING SERVICE left LCS and joined IKARI. But they are
- exclusively trading with THE SURVIVORS in the USA and JESTER also trades with
- ATC, so he left and joined nobody less than FUSION, where he and MARK are the
- only active guys left on 64, coz IAN changed his SYSTEM... even MITCH from
- EAGLESOFT INC. said in his intro (IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2): "Hey Ian turn that
- AMIGA off... now!". Nothing to add.
-
- * About IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2: Everybody was upset coz quite unknown FREESTYLE
- released it on the last Venlo meeting, but everybody must have noticed that it
- is only a preview, that took its mysterious way from the German magazine
- "Powerplay" to them. Everybody really thought it was the game, but their
- version crashes down after some levels, even though they wrote in their intro
- "this is the long awaited game". SHARKS released exactly the same version 2
- weeks later. Good job, eh? The REAL "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" just made its way
- from the USA to Europe and guess what? It is the same loader as in "WINTER
- EDITION", so I sent the not working one, imported by DSH / ORION, to the huge
- creature of magical forces, better said: JANITOR from TRIAD, so you have to
- expect a running version in a couple of seconds.
-
- * Wasn't that the most frustrating incident for Europeans since years? "THE
- GAMES: WINTER EDITION" didn't work on European computers, everybody thought
- that one has to wait some months until EPYX releases the special European
- versions. But they forgot two dudes that fixed it, the first MR.ZEROPAGE / TLC
- who fixed it with a self-written load routine and the other one the living dead
- JANITOR who fixed the EPYX fast loader. Thanx to them for the working version,
- think of all that lamers that have to wait for EPYXS' release. So if you see
- any review in any magazines you can be sure right now that those swines also
- have our versions. HA! Another victory for SYSTEM FOUR!
-
- * From RUBBERDUCK into RUB and then INSIDE THE BUILDING... NO! This is not a
- new group... no! It's a single person! RUB from THE WANDERER GROUP? He is the
- one that changed his name into inside the building... no April joke!
-
- * Another bad news for 64 owners, one day after one heard of IAN / FS quitting
- 64 at the top of the success, STRIDER / FLT also said goodbye to the small
- calculator to work on the grown up Amiga, but for how long? So only Gollum is
- left on the 64 for FLT.
-
- * FAIRLIGHT just wanted to merge with some FUSION members, but those changed
- their minds as STRIDER told me.
-
- * TRIANGLE 3532 are also back on the cracking market after a few weeks peace of
- what else? Police. But read Swyxs' article...
-
- * As MAD ALL / CFR told me secretly on a conference, CFR took in 4 members...
- guess from which country? I bet you guessed wrong! They're from AUSTRIA and so
- unknown that he forgot their names (on purpose?), but it seems as if they are
- highly talented...
-
- * Latest news from the SHARKS are that TPI (not PAPILLONS but THE PIRATES INT.)
- left 'em and wants to join TRIAD. We (me and Dan) haven't stopped thinking
- 'bout dat.
-
- * Not 100 percent sure I can tell that IAN and MIC left TRIAD together with the
- GRONK, cuz making a legal group producing only Compunet demos. Word spread that
- both Ian and Mic went crazy as they got their money for their game: Scout. It
- seems as if England has been left from TRIAD members.
-
- * F.A.M.E., who used to be in TRIAD, also LEGAL (as they call it!), improved
- their very good sound routine as you can hear in the new "Digital News". They
- also got offers from FIREBIRD, ELITE and CASCADE... and read and believe they
- probably do the sound for "AFTERBURNER" / Activision!
-
- * Did you think that "FLASHPOINT" and "VICTORY ROAD", both from Ocean, will
- soon be released on 64? HA! As Ocean's software manager said it was never
- planned to release these games on home computers... The company who made the
- ads (Centersoft) only thought that... funny, eh?
-
- - Guess what? That was all for today! Special thanx for those news to: LAZER /
- NEW BENCOR BROS, CF / BEASTIE B., DSH and MR.DECIBEL / ORION, FUSION, NIK and
- JUST ICE / IKARI, STRIDER / FLT, MAD ALL / CFR, ITB / TWG (!) and GENE / STARS.
- Yours forever...
- Jeff Smart
-
-
- VIDEO
-
- Who said that cracking and video movies watching does not belong together?
- Anyway, we didn't. From now on every month LAZER from NEW BENCOR BROS will
- inform you about the latest pirate video released in System Four!
-
- >> NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 3 - DREAM WARRIORS
- Yep, your old friend (or is it fiend?!) is back again! In Nightmare 3 we have
- half a dozen fear-filled teenagers locked in a Top Security mental hospital,
- being diagnosed as suicidal. Heather Langenkamp returns as the now grown up
- Nancy, who organizes the kids into Dream Warriors to d. battle with Freddy on
- his tort. This is much better than the first two, with some cool FX like the
- man-eating Television! RATING: 73% Nightmare on Elm St. 4 is being filmed NOW!
-
- >> PREDATOR
- Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as major Alan Schaefer, leader of a special unit
- sent deep into South America to rescue kidnapped diplomats. Arnold is on top
- form as he takes on the guerillas and wiped them all out. But on the way home
- an invisible alien takes out every member of his team until only he and a
- captured girl remain... Well, you must be lame if you don't know the rest of
- the story! All I can say about this is "BRILLIANT"! RATING: 92%
-
- >> FULL METAL JACKET
- Yes! Yet another fucking Vietnam movie! The story follows a bunch of raw
- recruits through their training and into the Nam, watched closely by the marine
- sergeant! Now what was the tune again? Oh yes: "If I die on the Russian front,
- bury me with Russian cunt!" RATING: 85%
-
- VIDEO STARS - APRIL 1988
-
- 1. PREDATOR
- 2. RUNNING MAN
- 3. ROBO COP
- 4. FULL METAL JACKET
- 5. NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. III
- 6. BEVERLY HILLS COP II
- 7. FATAL ATTRACTION
- 8. TOUR OF DUTY
- 9. MASTERS OF UNIVERSE
- 10. THE FLY
-
- That's all for this month - see ya dudes...
- LAZER of THE NEW BENCOR BROTHERS
-
-
- AMIGA
- AMIGA - CHAT'S
-
- As many of the 64 freaks also own an Amiga, and many of Amiga owners also
- searched for Amiga games reviews in the "ILLEGAL", here are some short reviews
- of some Amiga stuff, that has been released this month.
-
- SECONDS OUT:
- Looks nice at the beginning but after some hours of playing it's getting
- boring. RATING: 6 / 100.
-
- JUMPJET:
- Jumpjet, the simulator, is about the same as on the 64 compared with the
- possibilities of both machines. The handling is a bit difficult, on the other
- hand it serves you some rather good features. It isn't that worse game on the
- 64, but there is still much left for being a top-hit, 71 / 100.
-
- BLASTABALL:
- Mastertronic produced better games on the Amiga (look at Kikstart II) but also
- this one is a bit better as Mastertronics' first products. The future sport
- featured in this game looses a bit of its' fun after more times playing, 29 /
- 100.
-
- BMX SIMULATOR:
- A long time for waiting passed by until the first Amiga game from Code Masters
- is released, but it could have been a better conversion of this 64 game as
- there are no big differences. Nevertheless the game is not that bad and it
- earns 72 / 100.
-
- SIDEWINDER:
- Anoter Mastertronic Program, at first I got a bit shocked cos of the flickering
- screen, but it seems to be one of the best shoot 'em ups on the Amiga, 90 /
- 100.
-
- BUBBLE BOBBLE:
- The Amiga scene gets attacked with so many 64 games, some of 'em are not much
- different from the old 64 version, one of 'em is Bubble Bobble which you can
- also load on a 64 with the same effects, 42 / 100.
-
- STRIKE FORCE HARRIER:
- Quite a good conversion of the ST game, even though it's quite difficult to
- control, 82 / 100.
-
- PINK PANTHER:
- It's rather hard to find the aim of that well looking game, nice grafix and
- sounds make it get a 87 / 100.
-
- BONE CRUNCHER:
- Again a 64 conversion with great graphics, but one knows the game already from
- the 64, 83 / 100.
-
- At last I have to say don't worry when disagreeing with my opinion! I tried to
- make objective reviews, but it's obvious that there are some who believe in the
- opposite. Thanks!
- SSD / TSK-CREW
-
-
- CHANGING GROUP AND NAME?
-
- Hey, wake up! What makes you feeling better after having changed group and
- name? That seems to be popular in the last months (especially in Germany).
- BEASTIE BOYS, SHARKS and THE WANDERER GROUP ad older examples and ONLINE,
- DEVILS and UPFRONT shows that there is no end of it. Of course all of you think
- of the success with for example FUSION or ORION had had after such an
- activation.
-
- The opposite of this is proved by FAC, HOTLINE and TRIAD which are high at the
- rankings as in the last end three years. We also played with the idea of
- changing our name (TSK-CREW into MOUNTAINEERS, sounds funny, eh?) but after all
- we all voted to keep our present name. The case was that we thought of all the
- changings which also would have drawn by our friends and contacts. Guess, in
- half a year there have all big groups changed their names, nobody knows of the
- good old names. A legend will never exist anymore!
-
- Another point of view is that lots of freaks change their groups, they leave
- the first group then join the second, afterwards join the third crew and after
- all go back to group one. Comrades, you have to understand that your crew will
- only succeed when keeping the same name and members.
-
- It makes us a lot frustrated to hear every day: X and Y of A and B have founded
- a new group called YABX. I know there are differences between agreeing and
- disagreeing to this statements (also in my deeper minds) but make your own
- thoughts of it, says...
- SSD / TSK-CREW
-
-
- No, methinks that why not changing the group when you can improve your grade of
- being known? Why not building up a new group when you think you better start
- with something totally new, maybe because of having made some mistakes cuz of
- some reason? Why not kicking out some members for recracking, lazyness or
- whatever? Methinks that this is a fine characteristic of the whole cracking
- scene, that we call System Four.
-
- Won't that be too boring if there are only always the same and old groups? Of
- course why changing one's name when you have such a reputation that you don't
- want to give it up ever, that's true and only a few did that, I want to add
- RADWAR, EAGLESOFT INC., CFR, FAIRLIGHT who all exist for quite a lot of years
- now and why should they give up their name?
-
- Hope to hear other points of view, I'm waiting for yours...
- yours...
- Jeffie
-
-
- MUSIC MAESTRO'S
- MANIACS OF NOISE
-
- To every active owner of a C 64 the MANIACS OF NOISE are no strangers. For some
- time they have brightened up the scene in the demoworld and on compunet with
- their magnificent music in always excellent and original demos.
-
- The ever increasing quality of their brainchildren have led to some lucrative
- deals with some big names in the software market. At Venlo I was lucky enough
- to bump into CHARLES DEENEN, the guy who wrote the music routine on which all
- the maniacs' music is written by Marcel 'MAD' Donne' and Jeroen 'JT' Tel. After
- much debating he gave me an exclusive for "ILLEGAL". I obtained the previews of
- some music they wrote for forthcoming games and I can tell you that they are
- breathtaking but unfortunately I can't give 'em out otherwise the people might
- get into trouble, but to be complete here is a list of the music they finished
- or are finishing soon:
-
- For HEWSON: Battle Valley, Cybernoid, Top Trucker + Chromethunder by JT.
- Scorpion by MAD
- For MARTECH: Vixen by JT
- For THALAMUS: Hawkeye by JT
- For MASTERTRONIC: Scout and Gaplus by JT
- For PLAYERS: Starballs by JT
- For STARLIGHT: Alloyrun by JT
-
- Most sound fx on these games were made by Charles Deenen and Marcel Donne', who
- is also doing the music for THE LAST WARRIOR. So if all you stumbeling
- programmers out there need a hand then read what they asked "ILLEGAL" to print:
-
- If you're writing a game and you need high quality professional music and fx
- let us do it and your game will be a success, write for orders to:
-
- CHARLES DEENEN
- GILDESTRAAT 19 B
- 5824 AA HOLTHEES
- HOLLAND
- MAD ALL / CFR
-
-
- WANTED!
-
- WANTED! Known and famous AMIGA groups who would like to write every month a
- full page of game reviews, news from the 16 bit scene and what's going on
- around the AMIGA. So if ya like to be the "ILLEGAL" - AMIGA - writer, give us a
- try of your abilities and send yer short reviews to:
-
- "ILLEGAL"
- PLK 123144 C
- 4250 BOTTROP
- W. GERMANY
-
- So don't waste yer time if you miss real Amiga news!
- JS
-
-
- COPS 'N CRACKERS
-
- Hi dudes. SWYX of TRIANGLE here!!! Now the headline sounds like a bad imitation
- of "cops n' robbers" or a movie in one of system four's cinemas, but it
- definately is not!!! I named this article "Cops 'n crackers", cus the cops and
- a Danish organisation called S.U.S. seriously are hunting us crackers in
- Denmark now!
-
- The whole thing started about a month ago, when a guy named "Goodfather" (by
- the way, he was a member of one of my former groups, Danish Cracking Crew) got
- busted. Well, the only bad thing about him getting busted was that he is a
- lousy coward! Wha'd'ya think the guy promised? Yeah, he promised to help the
- police catching all the big and known groups in Denmark!
-
- Thanks, pal!
-
- Unfortunately, Goodfather had more than 300 adresses in his archive, including
- mine, of course. So... I paniced! The same night, I started removing all my
- disks, adresses and tape copies etc., and so did all the other Triangle
- members. In the next 14 days, 3-5 other guys got busted. The only well-known
- one was The Tiger of Dexion, who is just on the Amiga!
-
- Last week then, I returned all my equipment to its place and Triangle started
- cracking and trading again! We thought that the danger was over, until today
- (5th of April), when I just heard that Azake of System had been busted! Scratch
- of the triangular gang called him, to ask if it was true or not and it sure
- was! Well, the guy admitted that it was right be his own fault that he got
- busted, cuz he sold some games to a S.U.S. guy a few days ago. That's all I
- know about that case here, I just wish that it'll be over soon. And now... An
- announcement:
-
- ON THE FIRST OF MAY, TRIANGLE WILL BE ONE YEAR OLD!! WE WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE
- BIRTHDAY-CARDS / CALLS FROM EVERYBODY, EVEN THOSE OF YOU WE DON'T TRADE WITH.
- EVERYONE, WHO SENDS A POSTCARD OR CALL US, WILL BE SPECIAL GREETED IN THE
- BIRTHDAY - DEMO, BUT REMEMBER WE MUST HAVE 'EM BEFORE 1ST OF MAY (ADRESS ON
- LAST PAGE) !!!!
-
- Remember to look out for the first TRIANGLE / TRIAD cooperation, which is a
- demo made by COZMIX and JANITOR, the living deads!
-
- Well, before leaving you, just a few greetings to:
-
- - TRIAD (JS, IXION, JANITOR and HI-TEC)
- - HEPTAGON, SCIENCE 451 (THE BRIGHT LION), I.O.F. and the NICE GUYS in
- Triangle.
-
- See ya in issue #28
- SWYX OF TRIANGLE
-
-
- HAVE YOU TRIED THE
- TRIAD VOICE MAILBOX?
- GIVE IT A TRY, CALL
- (305) 529 7168
- NOW!!!!!!!
-
-
- THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR
-
- While you look at HER, you suddenly notice that you have to leave at the next
- bus stop, so you stand up and press the button that makes the bus stop.
- Surprise, surprise, SHE also stands up and want to leave, together with this
- lame friend of hers (you guessed that he wasn't a 'f-class' guy) to your
- dissapointment. Anyway, you found out that SHE is goin to the same school as
- you do. You recognize an old friend of yours and begin to talk to him. You lost
- HER out of your eyes, but you couldn't keep your minds away from her. Isn't
- that a shame? You, as one of the few 'a-class' guys is ruled by a girl? By a
- SINGLE girl?
-
- Anyway, you are still thinking about HER as you leave school after 6 boring
- lessons, you walk home and do the work for your business. You turned the radio
- on and heard sum exciting news: "It was heard outta System Four that several
- guys were kicked outta it, cuz of vandalism and negative outward apperance!".
- HA! you thought, it's totally new that they keep an eye on your outward
- appearance. Anyway it's not bad, you guessed that you knew those lamers that
- had to say: Goodbye. You took a look on your watch and you scared 'cause it was
- almost 6 o'clock and the meeting of the 5 biggest classes, that are 'a' up to
- 'e', should begin at 6 o'clock. You took your clothes and left to the meeting
- place.
-
- You meet all your friends from your group that is the most established in the
- FOUR. Sumtimes when you lay back you can't believe that you entered this group,
- it's incredible when you see those other 50.000 groups that do exist after all.
- You drank sum beers with your friends, of course the 'a'-class guys have a
- seperated room from the others. Everybody's watching out for them, but they
- couldn't notice the few that have all rights. You heard that some changes are
- about to come, because sum went over to 'System 16' and now there are only
- THREE groups ruling. And at the same time you catched the word that another
- group is about to be kicked down from 'a' to 'b'. Stunning, stunning, what can
- happen? Anyway, another great thing is that the leader of the group also
- changed to 'system 16', but sum members of 'em still remained in 'system four',
- it seems that only the biggest can survive.
-
- You talk with your friends about taking in sum new members, news and anything
- else as sum decided to take a secret visit to 'snatchos', the girl's town. You,
- though you were scared, cuz you've never been there before, agree to go with
- them. You take a back seat in the fluffy car with your 4 friends and after you
- entered the nearest bar in 'snatchos' you relax a little bit with your 3rd
- bottle beer in your hand. You feel the heat growing up, you sing to the music,
- sit down with your friends in a corner and talked... as the door swinged
- open... and SHE entered alone, you almost forgot her. TO BE CONTINUED
- /JS
-
-
- WOSSUP???
-
- Ahhh! I can't wait until the 16th of April for the April Venlo Party. You know
- who's coming? IKARI, FUSION, FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD, HOTLINE, RWE, BEASTIE BOYS, TWG,
- ORION, CFR and all the others that are normally there! Ut seems as if that
- would be an ultimate party and we here in Germany used a little trick to
- persuade even the guys that are coming from very far away (FUSION - TRIAD) to
- come to Venlo, but more about that in the next issue... cuz it's a secret!
-
- This month was quite surprising with super releases from the American companies
- EPYX and CINEMAWARE that increase the hopes for a hot summer. Anyway, before
- returning to SYSTEM FOUR, I send, as usual, a couple of greetings to my best
- friends that, that inlude: JESTER of FUSION (cum), JUST ICE from IKARI WARRIORS
- +, STRIDER + GOLLAME (sorry Fred, it woz Toni's idea), Badd Boyy from THE
- SURVIVORS (old Kookmeyer!), CF from BEASTIE BOYS, DSH and MISTER DECIBEL of
- ONION, ha, ORION, of course, my dude SWYX from the TRIANGULAR GANG (take care),
- LAZER from NEW BENCORS (thanx 4 da magz), MWS of RADWAR (Mike's escapes part
- two?), GENE from ze STARS (best action 4 years?), SLEDGE from HOTLINE, SPC and
- INSIGHT ZEBOILDONG from THE WANDERER GROUP, MAD ALLIGATOR of CFR (beware of
- lamers' revenge...), ACU / SAP, FOTT OHNE NY, JAYS, UNKNOW and as special
- "Wossup?" to BERNIE in Canada!, all from TRANSCOM, THE MIND SLAYER of THE
- AWESOME GUYZ (still imprisoned?), DOMINATORS, PAPILLIONS, JEWELS - the 3 from
- Denmark, ABYSS (Longshot), EAGLESOFT, FBR, WEETBIX from SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP
- (so sorry for mentioning ya so late, Georgie!), THE MANAGEMENT (Tom, cold
- callz), MR.ZEROPAGE and SSD of TSK-CREW.
-
- And now special thanx for keepin the "ILLEGAL" alive: ALEX of REDLINE 97 (go
- on!), HOBBIT / FAIRLIGHT (hope 2 meet U, Allain), NY / TRANSCOM (thanx for
- copying..), TENZET / TRIANGLE (thanx mate) and all other SUB EDITORS from the
- different countries. Super Special Hellos to all members of TRIAD, especially
- to:
-
- The zombie dat found his way outta the black forest 'n who's now standing in
- front of the gate of the huge castle showing his authorization for entering
- (You know who I mean?), the guy who's not only counting the rankings together,
- but takes care of everything (clear eh?), the guy who celebrated his 18th
- birthday not at home, but I guess eventhough it was wet, wasn't it (something
- like MISS PINGY?), the master of the colours who said: "Hooray" after being
- back from boring Spain (Pay or flee?), the blond young guy, prefering this
- Swine football team (Dingens...) and last F.A.M.E. (THE TAPE!). See you at
- Venlo, yours:
- Jeffie
-
-
- +-----+ +-----+
- | RIP | REQUIEM IN PEACE... | RIP |
- +-----+ +-----+
-
- Welcome to the darkest article of yer favourite magazine, this is dedicated to
- two people who decided to quit the computer world alltogether. Maybe not for
- ever but certainly for a very long time, everybody already know about them but
- this way I and the rest of "ILLEGAL" salute them.
-
- - The first one is, the ever-popular JANITOR of TRIAD. Already when he was in
- RELAX he showed great promise, as the weeks passed he got better and it was
- soon obvious that was no normal cracker, he made the shortest version of games,
- with sometimes even adding a copy-chain to it, at the time, the only versions
- that were slightly better were those of TCS. His talent must have caught the
- eyes of TRIAD, who after the departure of MR.Z were struggling to get good
- versions out, cuz TRIAD incorporated RELAX and the rest is as they say HISTORY.
- MR.Z became his mentor and Janitor began not only to make the shortest versions
- but he also removed all the bugs that were original in the game. Due to his
- talent OUTRUN among other games became a little bit fun to play. Just think
- about it, OUTRUN has just reached the stage of best selling game ever on the 64
- but only we, the pirates, have a full working version thanks to, yes, JANITOR.
-
- - The second loss for the pirate world this month was MR.VENLO himself, THE
- SILVER SURFER (TSS) of HOTLINE. Always a familiar face at copyparties (he was
- in fact the first guy I ever spoke to at Venlo) and a true HOTLINE member with
- heart and soul. He will always be remembered as the guy who wrote all those
- magnificent intros on all those HTL cracks and trainers (which he did himself).
- For ever a year for ever a year now a had been in HOTLINE, but before that he
- drifted from group to group, some of which were: ABA-SOFT, ISG, THE GOONIES,
- THE WAVE, TCC 1777 and HCS 5005, but of the latter he admits that it was the
- biggest mistake in his life. Soon after that he joined HOTLINE and stayed there
- until now. The main reason for him to drop out is that his exams (finals) are
- coming up real soon so he has to study very hard coz one can't expect to stay
- an intro-maker for the rest of his life. His last work on the Commodore 64 was
- of course an intro, ironically not for his group HOTLINE, but for
- COMMANDOFRONTIER (sounds familiar!) and for that I will be remembering him for
- a very long time...
-
- THERE COMES A TIME WHEN THE FINAL CURTAIN FALLS, WHEN HEROES LEAVE THE BATTLE
- OF HIGHER GOALS FOR THESE TWO THAT TIME HAS COME... They are surely not
- forgotten, and will never be.
- MAD ALL / CFR
-
-
- CRACKER OF THE MONTH
-
- Who got originals coming up? Who did super quality cracks in March? Was it
- again FUSION? FLT for the first time? Or who or what?
-
- 1. IKARI (5) 7.15 pts
- 2. TRIAD (3) 7.08
- 3. FAIRLIGHT (2) 6.43
- 4. FUSION (1) 6.36
- 5. EAGLESOFT INC. (8) 5.92
- 6. ORION (10) 5.17
- 7. PAPILLONS (9) 5.14
- 8. A.C.E. (-) 4.92
- 9. HOTLINE (7) 3.71
- 10. BEASTIE BOYS (-) 3.07
-
- Status: "Who said 'freezing'?"
-
-
- DEMO CHARTS!
-
- Well, a TRIAD demo on number one, and everybody's screaming that it was clear
- since I'm in TRIAD, but be honest: Which one woz better?
-
- 1. TIGER HELL
- by TRIAD
- 2. COZMIX BEZT II
- by TRIANGLE
- 3. MUSIC MACHINE
- by E.O.C.
- 4. ARTISTIC 5/6
- by MADSQUAD
- 5. METAL COMBAT
- by M.C.C.
- 6. MAGIC DRUMS
- by SOEDESOFT
-
-
- SOFTWARE-STARS
-
- 1. GAMES: WINTER EDITION (-)
- 2. THE THREE STOOGES (-)
- 3. IKARI WARRIORS (-)
- 4. IO (-)
- 5. SINBAD (-)
- 6. PRO BMX SIMULATOR (1)
- 7. CORPORATION (-)
- 8. PLATOON (2)
- 9. POWER AT SEA (7)
- 10. RIMRUNNER (-)
- 11. REVENGE OF DOH (3)
- 12. TARGET RENEGADE (-)
- 13. THE TRAIN (8)
- 14. BASKET MASTER (9)
- 15. TETRIS (5)
- 16. COMBAT SCHOOL (6)
- 17. TROLL (-)
- 18. PACLAND (-)
- 19. VENOM STRIKES BACK (-)
- 20. BMX KIDZ (10)
- 21. BLOOD VALLEY (-)
- 22. A T F (-)
- 23. QUEDEX (17)
- 24. SCOUT (-)
- 25. PREDATOR (4)
- 26. SUPER HANG ON (-)
- 27. PIRATES (19)
- 28. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE (15)
- 29. BLACK LAMP (24)
- 30. INT. KARATE + (21)
-
- A BIG 'THANX YA!' FOR VOTING:
-
- NIK / IKARI, JESTER / FUSION, BADD BOY / SURVIVORS, MWS / RWE, CF / BEASTIE
- BOYS, GENE / STARS, DSH & MR.DECIBEL / ORION, LONGSHOT / ABYSS, MAD ALL / CFR,
- PHOTONY / TRANSCOM + SSD / TSK-CREW
-
-
- + IMPRESSUM +
-
- +-------------------------------+
- | > ILLEGAL tm 1988 |
- | > 3rd year of appearence |
- | > No. # 27 |
- | > (c) 88 by TRIAD |
- | > Circulation: |
- | about 600 Copies |
- | > Price: 2 DM |
- | > Date of release: |
- | 16th of April |
- | > Next number will come on |
- | 21th of May |
- +-------------------------------+
- | > Editor: |
- | Jeff Smart / TRIAD |
- | > The "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
- | Mad All - Commandofrontier |
- | Swyx - Triangle 3532 |
- | Mr.Decibel - Orion |
- | > The Sub-Editors: |
- | Austria : TSK-CREW |
- | Belgium : CFR |
- | Denmark : TRIANGLE 3532 |
- | England : NEW BENCOR BROS. |
- | France : TRANSCOM |
- | Germany : REDLINE |
- | Holland : ORION |
- | Norway : STARS |
- | Sweden : FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD |
- | Turkey : THE METRO BOYS |
- | U.S.A. : SURVIVORS, TAG |
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- | Good morning, dearie! |
- | Again reached the last page, |
- | searching for some more |
- | information... |
- | Well, there is no. |
- | Anyway, we are waiting for |
- | comments on the 100% English |
- | now. All articles, grafix and |
- | stuff like that have to |
- | arrive on the Friday, the |
- | 13th (HORROR!) of May 1988 to |
- | to the editor to be sure that |
- | you will find 'em in the next |
- | issue... |
- | We wish you all the best, |
- | take care... |
- | Your "ILLEGAL"-team |
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