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10 YEAR
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²10 years incomputerbusiness
            or

did   I  waste  10 years of my life?

³A TEXT BY TECHNOKING OF HITECJUNKIS
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¹I  am  one  of  many people who become
from  the  beginning on a slave of the
fascination  of  computer games.  More
than  10 years ago I saw a game called
"  Asteroids " in the entrance hall of
a  cinema.   Some  of you may remember
this   game  which  target  it  is  to
destroy  flying  asteroids by shooting
sometimes  at  them  with  your  space
ship.   If  I  am  right this game was
even  in two colors.  From this moment
on  I  was  done  for.  I used my hole
sparetime  to enter coins in different
slot-machines but I had a problem :  I
was younger than 18 years and so I was
not  allowed  to  enter  the  gambling
halls.  So the biggest part of my time
was  wasted to find some slot-machines
who  stood  at public places.  I still
remember  three  of this places :  the
cinema  (Asteroids),  the station hall
(Lady  Bug,  Hyper  Olympics)  and the
shoppingcenter  of  the Breuningerland
(Mission  Elevator,  1942, Pac Man and
others).  I do not want to swagger but
I  was  a  world champion at " Mission
Elevator  ".   I played this game with
only  one DM from 9 am till 6.30 pm in
the  evening  without  getting  " Game
Over  ".   I had to be good because my
pocket  money was not very much so the
better  I played the longer I had fun.
¶¹After  a  while the slot-machines were
not  enough  for me.  I wanted to play
also   at  home.   At  this  time  the
Commodore  C64  was  only a dream so I
got  on  my grandma`s nerves until she
bought  me  a  Philips telegame.  With
this  game  I  sat at the TV for hours
and   played   tennis,  icehockey  and
whatever     was     possible.     The
primitiveness of these little games is
nowadays  unimagineable  because  evry
wrist-clock with a calculator has more
power than this telegame ever had.  So
after  a  not so long time it began to
bore   me   and   I  returned  to  the
slot-machines.  Then the break-through
on   the  home  sector  :   ATARI  the
gameconsole  of  the modern times.  It
was a pitty that I never had the money
to  buy  such  an ATARI but to my luck
three of my friends had one.  For this
reason  I  got  a nice account of game
hours  with  Pac  Man,  H.E.R.O., E.T.
and  all  the  others.  It was at this
time  I  first got in contact with the
phenomenon of game-exchange :  modules
who   bored  me  were  exchanged  with
modules  which I had played less times
or  not  at  all.  A short while after
the  ATARI came the CBS Colecovision (
I  am not shure if that is correctly )
with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr.  and
Zaxxon ( which I could not buy, too ).
I  only  had  the  chance  to wait for
hours  in  the  toy  department of the
shoppingcenters  and  to fight for the
control  of the joypads.  After this a
new  aera  began  which  let  fade the
colors of the past.  Commodore brought
after  the  C-16, C-116, VC-20 and the
¶¹+4  the  ultimative  hightech  machine
into  the  market  -  the CBM 64.  And
with  this machine started all what we
nowadays   know   under  the  name  of
computerscene.   I  remember  with joy
how  it  began  at  that  time  in the
Kreissparkasse    (   a   local   bank
institute  ).   I  got  the  tip  of a
friend  who told me that there was the
total  session  and  all met daily for
playing Winter Games.  You had to seen
it :  a bank - the holy hall of mammon
-  and  in its center a C64 surrounded
by  a  dozen of teens and children who
played Winter Games bawling until they
are  totally exhausted.  If we did not
play  we  copied ( Bebi Copy ) like it
should     be.     Everybody    copied
everything   for   everybody   without
requiring  anything.   Everything  was
just  for fun and it was goooood!  But
this system lasted not so long.  After
a  while  some people saw that much of
the  copiers  were able and willing to
pay  for  the games.  These people are
always  in scene and I think we cannot
do  anything  against  them.   It is a
thing  of  business.   I  had  not the
money  to  buy the games so I tried to
get  at  the  top  by  swapping games.
Just  in the middle after 2500 5 1/4 "
disks the police stopped me by coming,
seeing  and  taking.   I  had to start
again.   But it was no more easy and I
gave  it  up until he came - the AMIGA
1000.  A bloody fucked machine.  To my
pitty  unpayable for me.  But I wanted
him  for  all  and  I  saved my money.
After  a while of saving ( a long long
time ) the AMIGA 500 was on the market
¶¹and  I  bought  it.  Now I swapped and
worked on this elite machine until the
cops  came  again  four  weeks ago and
took  all away.  But I do not give up,
no  way,  now it really starts!  A day
after  the  police  came  to a visit I
bought  a  1200 machine and now I will
fight  my  way up to the top!  To come
back to the topic - did I waste the 10
years  ?   I  may answer this question
with  NO.   I  do not want to miss the
time  in  scene  for  whatever you may
imagine.









               Ç09

¶¹I  want  to thank some people I got to
know and who helped me this 10 years.

Walter Gattler - C-64 (Explained me what the hell a Disklocher is)
Michael Rica   - C-64 (Thanx for the cool stuff)
Andreas Adler  - C-64 & Amiga (Hello Flatterman [FTF-Fandral the Famous]                  what`s up man)
Armin Sander   - Amiga (Thanx for trying to teach me programming but I can`t                  do it nowadays)
Marijan C.     - C-64 & Amiga (Angeldust, thanx for many years of friendship)
Slavko S.      - C-64 & Amiga (skinderella, "    "    "    "    "       ")

I also want to greet all who ever swapped with me. After 10 years o fun i await the next 10 years in scene. See u soon on this planet!


                                             sign. TECHNOKING of HITECJUNKIS




                      FRIENDSHIP RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!