Welcome to -the article release- issue 2!!! Bizarre articles, crazy graphics, relaxing music and mysterious coding all put together... gently stirred, baked in cheap butter, using secret techniques only known to the few scenemonks working in our abbey.... We hope you will enjoy this little article compilation created and produced by us (MONK!) in the year of 1995... By the way, this is Chiron on the keys!!! Most people know me as -Jay One-, but I recently changed handle... if you want to know more about this, read the Jayman article!! Anyway, this piece of bits, bytes and articles is NOT a diskmag..?? Nope, this crap you are looking at is just a mere preview of our forthcoming diskmag TRINITY !!! (Jaahhhh!) If you like or hate this production, please consider supporting us with articles, graphics (title-pics), music or whatever for the REAL Trinity diskmag!... watch out for a total wacko layout in the real issues!!! While writing this scrolltext I am listening to some Heatbeat tunes, trying to get inspiration for a little story to tell you!! If you are not interested in any story you could go take a leak, and come back within 5 minutes to read Sane's scrolltext... maybe you will find his text more interesting!! (I doubt it)... O.k., let's start - It was cold outside... cars were covered with snow, the neighbour cleaned his garden using a tool best described as a shovel.. his face was streaming with sweat! I looked out of my window, while drawing some slideshow graphics on my Amiga 1200. I took a pull at my lemonade! 'Always those damn cold summers here in Aruba' I said. I turned of the computer (of course after saving the gfx on HD!) and walked to my favourite snackbar, located at the corner of 7th street, in my hometown Enkhuizen!! (Note - I mean Enkhuizen in Aruba, not Enkhuizen in Holland!!) Anyway, I ordered a 'patatje oorlog' and a beer and observed a fat man called Jake, sitting in the left corner... He looked quite depressed, and the waitress asked him if there was any way to cheer him up. I told the waitress she could cheer ME up, but she did not respond! Jake told her she could not help him, then he left and whistled for a cab, he stepped in and drove away... I kept thinking about this incident even weeks after it has happened! (about the waitress ignoring me, I mean) Anyway, on a Tuesday I read an article in the local paper saying that Jake was killed during the night of sunday-monday by a serial killer nicknamed 'Pumpkin'... On Jake's torn of head lay a note saying that he (the pumpkin) would kill everyone who seems depressed to him, so he could help them out of their misery!! Finally, there was a way for me to impress the beautiful waitress.. KILL PUMPKIN!!... I bought myself a low budget nuclear bomb from Chirac, which he has tested thoroughly for me... Then one day, Chirac visited our city and when he met our mayor I noticed the mayor had an enormous big and ugly head which looked like ... like a pumpkin!! .. he must be the serial killer I thought!! Immediatly I prepared the bomb and launched the damn thing! Unluckily all bystanders got killed (except Chirac), but hey!.. I saved a lot of innocent depressed people out there! However, months after this incident I was informed that Chirac died of an overdose nuclear toxic which was exposed when I used his bomb... Too bad, but I did not care that much because I managed to marry the most beautiful girl in Enkhuizen (the waitress, remember!).. T H E E N D ! ! ! - Now some fast personal greets from me to - Marlina (I love you!) - all Monk members - Tim & Danny/Spaceballs - Anthony, Hollywood & Lowlife/Axis - Red Devil/DCS - The Pride/Stellar - Murk/Sonik - Facet/Lemon. - Kayo - Dreamer & Magic/Nah kolor - Stormcrow - Suave - Wishbringer - Lightning - Mr.Keel/? - Hades/Septic (I will send you soon!) - Rayon & Noodle/Mellow - t h e r e s t ! I am sick of typing now, so I'll hand the keys over to my mate Pieter!, also known as Sjaan, die het doet met een banaan ... B Y E !! djooeeegghh!!..!!..!!...... Hi everybody! This is Sane of Monk. I was forced to type a part of this scroller (Hi Chiron!) so that is why you find me on this scrolltext too. Of course you are really tired of me already because you have read hundreds of pages written by me so I won't bore you too much! I just want to give some personal regards to some people! First of all to React of Monk: Hi Joeri, I hope you like this production and I also hope you will spread it a lot! Thanx! To Rayon of Mellow: Hoi Paul! Ik hoop dat je dit dingetje nu echt als eerste van mij krijgt! Goed, veel plezier ermee en veel succes met HP, ik ben een grote fan van HP!! To Vicious of Monk: HA! I really hope you like this thingy and I also hope you will complete our intro finally (Hehehe!!) To Snapcap of Monk : Welcome man! I hope you will enjoy your stay in Monk! To Tim of Spaceballs : Thanx for everything !! And last but not least to Sandra Mooijman (i j met puntjes!) my fantastic girlfriend : Hoi Sannie! Ik ben blij dat je zoveel geduld met me hebt als ik weer eens over saaie computer dingen praat! Ik ben ook blij dat je de scene eigenlijk ook wel leuk vindt. Ook ben ik blij dat je het interview met mij wilde doen. En natuurlijk ben ik blij met jou!! Ik ben dus eigenlijk een heel blij mannetje en dat komt alleen maar door jou! Okay that was it, I quit ................ Sane leaving the Monk abbey! beyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .............. ^-Scene related articles- -Scene related articles cont.-% Team page -Sane Personal chart Monk - HIStory! Graphicians A Womans opinion Coders Names Musicians There are your dear prods Mad interview Dutch Charts, a blessing Greetings The big Hokus Pokus interview Old Dutch scene quiz! Articles, design or both? The life of an editor ^-Stories and Tales-% The Jayman aint there anymore? Who the fxxk is who?! The -Abouts- Stop at your top? A busride to hell Quality spreads itself Martin'Sane'Braun Reaction James had it all ^-Nature-% Moruroa ... NuKeD? The CoNtEnTs CoUnTs!! (c)1995"The Sequel"-A Monk production- for the Trinity-label -=Team-page=- -SaNe- Hellodelo!! Get A -HoLd- of yourself!! Stay calm cause here were are again with another -Article release- for the Trinity-label!! We have called this release "The sequel of Trinity's article- release". Again we are proud to present this peace of ArT (is it real?) to you. I had some more articles here on disk which got older and I wanted to release them. Vicious, our Swedish BrOtHeR (Hi ViKiNg! Hows life?!), is still busy trying to complete the rEaL -TrInItY- but I was too impatient (like always) to wait for that. And of course my articles couldn't wait too. Because wE here in -MoNk- think that the design and overall is less important than the contents of the MaG (read "Design, articles or both?!" too!), we do not mind releasing the articles in a release like this ... After all, it is the CoNtEnTs that CoUnTs, right? By the way: Check out all the AcE-gfx in this Article-release made by ChIrON of M0nK! Awesome eh? After all we are JuSt bringing an Article- release and NoT a whole mAg! The Trinity-LaBEl brings you, for the first time in scene-history, something else than the boring layout! (with simple arrows!!) We BrinG you the NeW -InnOvATiVE- diskmag style! And We are -ProuD- of that! Newsflash: Lately, two persons have been sighted around our headquarters in the Abbey, We persuaded them to join our forces, so we are extremely glad to introduce to you our two newest members: -Snapcap- & -ReAcT- React joined Monk and left Saturne!! He will do the AsCii stuff, and will be active in our "swapping section". Snapcap (the most relaxed coder in Holland!!!!) is responsible for the "development section"!! He was the one who agreed to fit all of this together! He sure did a great job on this article-release. (Thanks Snappy!) We hope you had phun while coding 'The sequel"! The JaYman (now called "Chiron") did the gfx again and this time we were able to include two fab modules: "Ana-kata" from Deelite/Razor 1911 "Confuzed" from Hollywood/Axis I (-SaNe-) did most of the writing for this pEaCe. Chiron (the ex-Jayman) tried his best to do some writing too! (just kiddin' Ron! You did great!) What more is there to say about this production? Well, I will tell you something about the cOnTeNtS (cause it is the CoNtEnTs that CoUnTs!!). This time the CoNtEnTs is a little preview of the ReAl -TrInItY-. Remember : not the design, gfx, music etc. bUt the CoNtEnTs is a little preview. Because for the first time we show you our three (3) sections! Namely, 1-Scene related 2-Stories and tales 3-Nature!! In this article release you can find all three (3) sections and read articles in all three (3) sections! Great eh?! Those three (3) sections will be the foundation of the reAL Trinity, even the name Trinity (it means holy threesome!) is based upon that foundation! Okay, further on I can only give you the addresses:- For everything concerning TrInItY and other releases of -MoNk-, also for support for our article releases or ReAl issues : Sane of Monk! Pieter van der Horst Korte Tuinstraat 32 1601 CJ Enkhuizen Holland. For AsCii-art and swapping : React of Monk! Youri Tan Fauna 17 1273 GV Huizen Holland. Go on boys and read all the shit I have typed in all the articles! Enjoy it (or not!) ! See ya ............. -The CoNtEnTs CoUnTs- Sane of da Monks! btw : No need to be religious! and ChecK out our ACe Interviews! There are three (3) of them in this rEleasE .... ¶Monk - HIStory! -Past, present and future- ¤Tha Story Style Ok. I know! It is a bit early for an article like this! We have just begon and some -BrAgGeR- is already boasting about his NeW group. But .... I am going to do it AnyWay! (pech gehad.) -Past- A guy called Jay One was really sick of the scene when his group Motive died. Motive had been, like all other groups he had been in, a disappointment. He had made a lot of cool gfx but less than half was used, other sceners were not able to judge his awesome style because they just didn't saw enough gfx of him. On March 20 of 1995, this guy (still Jay One) came up with the best idea there had ever been made! He made a one-person group called MOnK and the only member was himself! The next day, his best friend (that's me! that's me!), visited him. Jay One told this friend (Sane) about his new group and about the hardcore idea behind it. Sane liked it and after 2 years of non-scene he decided to give the scene a last more try. This was at March 21st 1995. Because Jay One and Sane (both mOnk now) worked together with a ¤Swedish coder on a HUgE project (an innovative mag called TrinitY) they decided to ask the Swedish viking to join too. On April third of 1995 that guy agreed to join. Vicious was his name and music and coding is his game! On the 19th of July 1995 the guys in MonK released their very first project. It was a release for the TrinitY-label, they called it: "Trinity - the article release". A very cool guy called TiM coded the peace. This project for tha Trinity-laBel was also Monks very first production. After he saw "the article release" React of Saturne decided to leave his old group and try to join this new Dutch crew. On August 14th 1995 the other members agreed. React joined as a swapper and a AscII artist. ¤ On August 25th Jay One took a new handle, he is now Chiron/Monk! -Present- The present is now - November 1995 - and you are reading the next production of MonK. This time it is again a release of articles under the TrInIty-label and called "The Sequel"! -Future- Vicious, the Swedish member, is still busy with ¤the ReaL Trinity. The release of this mag will be the late 1995 or the beginning of 1996 due to some problems. Also the "intro to Trinity", which was planned in June 1995, will be released later on in 1995. As soon as possible you will see this intro hit your face! We will continue with the article releases as long as I have articles getting older and as long as TiM wants to help us out. The future is Monkisch! See ya! Sane of Monk. als je van de trap valt hoor je 'Donk'! -A WoMaNs Opinion- Questions by Sane of m0nK! , Answers by¶Sandra of Sane of Monk! 1- Okay, I will not start this interview with asking you to tell the readers some personal things. Because I already know your real name, I also know your age is 20 and most important: You are my girlfriend. Is that ok with you? ¶ - Yes! 2- You have seen some productions of various groups and I told you what the scene is basically. What do you think of the Scene? ¶ - Well ..... What I have seen so far was pretty enjoyable. I think that the scene could be a nice hobby ... buT! It should always stay a hobby (or work). I got the impression of you that some of the sceners are more into the Scene than into the ReaL world, that's wrong in my opinion. 3- So when somebody starts playing with his computer at 11 in the morning and ends at 5 in the afternoon it is not a hobby but an escape from the Real world? ¶ - Yes. It should not become an obsession. 4- You are a woman. right? ¶ - I hope you know that by now! ..... 5- Ehmmmm yep! A fact is that over 90 percent of the sceners are male. What would be your explanation? ¶ - Maybe girls have other interests, but I can not give you a real explanation. 6- Ok. But when you would get an Amiga 1200 for free and somebody showed you how to make outstanding gfx or superb music, would you continue and try to get into the scene or sell the Amiga and make a 1000 guilders? ¶ - I would try to get into the scene. 7- So the basic reason that you not participate in the scene is NOT being female but not having the money for a computer and because you can not do anything with it even when you would have it, right? ¶ - Right. Why did you buy an Amiga? 8- Well I bought my Amiga in 1988 to play games. ¶ - That is my point. Girls of my age did not like playing computer- games back in the eighties, so they did not buy computers. And that is why girls do not get in touch with your scene. A link is missing. In my opinion the scene is not the thing what girls do not like but the pre-stadium of the scene .... playing computer-games. 9- I think a lot of sceners will be glad to read this. ¶ - Great. 10- So you do not think that great guys have a smaller change getting a date just for being in the scene? ¶ - When they have time for their dates (like you!) I think it won't be a problem. 11- So, you would still have picked me even in spite knowing that I attended the scene? ¶ - Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Of course! 12- Have I bored you with this interview? ¶ - Nee ik verveel me nooit met jou. 13- English please. ¶ - No, you never bore me. 14- I knew that. Thanks for the interview. You have interfered me all the time (she reformed all my questions ! ! !) but I am still gratefull for doing this interview with you. The last lines are yours. ¶ - bye, bye ..... zwaai, zwaai! ¶ How important is your name? Of course this article doesn't have to be taken seriously by you, the readers of "The SeQuEl", but I think most of it reflects the scene as it is quite well. I really think there is some link between names and popularity of productions. I also think there is a link between group-names and popularity of those groups. What link, you will wonder. Well the link between names and fame. Of course, a product will not be popular when the quality is pure shit and the name is cool, but anyway. Group names like Kefrens , and the whole story about this name, increased the popu- larity of this crew. Also names like : ¶ - Melon Dezign - Silents - Andromeda - Rebels - Jetset - Lemon. - Alcatraz - Sanity - Axis etc. are quite 'cool' and this way the names increase the popularity. The quality of the names, makes you remember them while voting for charts like Eurochart. Of course the products of the groups have to be good too, but the name helps. In other words : when the name of a group is absolutely fabulous then their products can be less good while becoming popular anyway! I think the guys from Lemon. carefully picked the name because of it's relatively 'coolness'. The fact they placed a point (.) after the name Lemon is also a trick to make you remember the name better. When you vote, you remember that name better because in the back of your mind is that group with the 'silly' point after their name. "O yeah, it's Lemon.!" you think. Also the letters L E M O N are of course M E L O N, but then hussled! Count it, exactly the same ammount of letters and even the same letters. Lemon. could claim it was by accident, but who buys that? The fact they used those letters is because Melon gained popularity because of their brilliant new style. The group called Nemol. thought they were 'funny' and hussled the same letter M E L O N for the third time. They even used the point (.) of Lemon.! This time it did not work, sceners did not think it was funny, but regarded it as 'plain stupid'! The (!) after the name Absolute! is somewhat the same story as the (.) after Lemon. therefor I won't bore you with that story! Also the tale around Kefrens about king Kehfren, (correctly spelled) ads something to the popularity of this cool group. By telling this tale over and over, the name Kefrens will stay in your mind. (But do not forget their quality products of course.) The sign, the Ankh, is also extremely well picked! Why? Because a lot of other groups have signs, like Andromeda, Devils etc. but no one had a sign which also occured in history books on school (the ankh) in movies (on graves) and even in the stores, in the form of ear-hangers etc. Very clever! Everytime you see the ankh you will think of 'Guardian Dragon', 'Desert Dream' etc. Slogans are also important F.E¶'There are always two points of view', is absolutely brilliant because of the not too obvious link : Dual (two) and Two points. ¶Royal Amiga Force (by the way, a brilliant conversion of Royal Air Force! People remember those names!) tried something like the ankh-effect of Kefrens and made a slogan wich already existed in the real world: ¶'You never get the chance to make a first impression!'. Of course converted from the 'Head and Shoulders' - shampoo slogan. RAF hoped to get the ankh effect, but it didn't work out as fine as it did with Kefrens. Funny slogans like 'When it aint Dutch, it aint much!' by the late Axis and 'Tested on animals' by Desire are also good for your popularity. Names of individuals are important too, 'Facet' is a name which suits an awesome graphician, K.L.B not. (I am NOT referring to R.W.O! or am I?) When deciding what your name should be, make it an easy-to-remember-one. Not too childish, preferable with no numbers in it. Altough Jay 1 (Jay one) is brilliant again, because it is the first number we have. Jay would be an average name, but the '1' makes it perfect. Try to avoid abreviations like S.L.L, R.W.O or E. Toball. Use your first name like : Ronald, Kris, Kevin, Steve for a better effect as abreviations of your real name. Also try to keep your name as simple, short and pronoucable as possible. Using your real name is not very smart when it isn't an English name. A name like Estrup (Static Bytes) is brilliant again, because outside Denmark this name is 'rare' and therefor nice/funny/good-to-remember. Altough¶'Anarchy' is a contrast to the above effect. It's too long and people can pronounce it in several ways, (but the propper one!) this group became popular anyway. Individual names like ¶Judge Drokk, Cybersonik and Steroid are not so well picked because there are always lamers who write Judge Drok, Cybersonic, Steriod or Judge Drock, Cybersonick and Streroid. Of course, again, no offence to the adressed persons. But admit it what could possibly go wrong in writing and pronouncing names like Jay one, Sane, Facet, Dan, The Spy, etc. etc. (Now I think of it, there are actually suckers who write Same or Cane on the envelopes adressed to me!) Names like 'Dragon Killers', 'Bamiga sector one', 'Red Sector inc.', 'The Powerlords' etc. do not work anymore. While hearing such a name, you will think of the first days of the scene and that way about simple intro's. Comparable names, made today won't work, why do you think Tristar, Red sector inc. changed to TRSI (the abreviation)? Because the original name became too long. Other abreviations like DCS (Dual Crew Shining) are not good because two great names together form an average name (an unwritten law!). That leaves us with the names of the productions. Shorter names like 'Hardwired', 'Turmoil', 'Mirror', 'Menace' etc. but also cool ones like 'Mental hangover' and 'State of the art' will be remembered. But for productions, names which have something to do with the product are the best. Best example is 'Jesterday' by Sanity. (the musician of this musicdisk was Jester.) But also 'Unknown Territory', the unknown territory of the non-vector world, as the makers claim, is good to remember. On the contrary; names like 'Rytinaa ja Rytketta' a good musicdisk from Disknet suck. People outside Finland will forget that name, look in any charts, that musicdisk wasn't in altough it had potential. The name was wrong, that was all! The last part is left for the shocking names like SS soldier/Damones and Hitler. These names are repulsive and stupid and that's why everybody will remember those names. These names are not worth to remember because they show lack of intelligence. These names are therefor not advised. Sane/Monk. PS: Think about real-life names as 'Operation Desert Storm' and 'Operation Restore hope.' for more good examples. The names have something to do with the action. Therefor they are good too remember and to understand by the big mass! 'The age has come, to pick people with the right name!' -B Tyrant. Look around, there are your dear productions! 'The feed-back artist'. That is what some close scenefriends of mine call me. 'Writing feed-back articles is 90 percent of your work!' is what they say. Well, my opinion is that the articles which are published in the leading diskmagazines (e.g. RAW, ROM, Upstream etc.) have to be judged critically by other writers. And that's what I do. I read articles and when I think the author is somewhat wrong or he makes a mistake in someway, I want to correct this person as best as I can. Okay, I can make a thousand excuses for being a 'feed-back artist', but I wont do that. I will start with the subject .... In RAW issue 8, Peace/Iris , wrote an article which was called 'Dear productions, where are you?'. Peace claims that announcing productions is the cause for the less enjoyable scene. That is a too simple thought! He is right in a few minor points, for example it is great to receive an awesome trackloader like 'Desert dream' by Kefrens , when you do not expect it. Even better; expecting a minor intro and actually having a great trackloader on disk. But .... except for some rare prods, this is not possible. When you want your production to become wellknown and far spreaded, you just have to announce your production in todays scene. Especially when you are a not-so-known scener, you have to brag a bit about your forthcoming production to get the attention of the rest of the sceners. Even when you are big and already known, it is still better to announce your prods because in todays scene you have to present everything you do to distinguish yourself from the rest. The idea of Peace of not announcing prods but surprising the rest of the scene by 'hitting' suddenly with a 'kick-ass' production, is not working anymore in the 1995 scene. There are so many productions which get released in the whole world every day, that your prod will melt in the huge river of scene-things, when you do not announce it. People must know that in September 95 the 'greatest demo ever' will be released. When they read that somewhere, they will be alert and pick your prod sooner as others. The point is this: in the old scene (ECS-1987-1991) there were only a few groups which released prods which were worth to copy. Nowadays there are more an more groups (for example the Eastern-Europe-block (read: Poland)) which release more an more average and good prods. Distinguishing yourself from the rest is a priority! The better the announce, the better the spreadrange of the production itself, the more fame you gain!! I do not say that Peace/Iris is not right at all, maybe he was right when he wrote the article a few years ago and maybe he is right for some big groups wich already have huge reputations like Melon and Spaceballs. But in todays scene, which is soooo damn big, he is in my opinion wrong ...... By the way, the scene is a hobby so is it that bad when prods get delayed??! When sceners announce prods, they usually come up with them sooner or later. So I say : "Look around and there are your dear productions!" Sane of Monk. Hokus Pokus : of great importance! Maybe the makers of this nice chart do not even realize it themselves but their chart is of¶great importance. Why? Because of the following reasons. There are not many dutch people, compared to other nationalities, in the scene because of the simple reason that Holland is a little country. Because of this it was always hard to get into the charts. Most people, who are not from Holland, voting for international charts just do not think of voting for Dutch people for 2 reasons. 1- They want to vote for a guy of their own nationality. 2- They just do not known the 'little' Dutch guy. Because of these two reasons and because of the fact that the world-wide-competition was too hard for the Dutch sceners, they rarely got into the international charts. Of course there are always exceptions like¶Facet (always nr 1) but he had to join big foreign groups to acheive this! Even a great trackmo like "Unknown Territory" by the old-Axis was only in for a very short period, thus showing I am right with my above thesis. ¶Dutch people were loosing their creativity and especially their reason to bring great productions. Many times I heard people say that they didn't want to spend a lot of time on a production without reaching the charts anyway. Let's be honest: one of the reasons we do all this is to be a little more famous, right? And how do you get fame? When you reach the charts. A solution for this problem was to bring a Dutch-only chart. Many people thought about it. Some tried it. All failed. But then out of nowhere came ¶Mellow , with a Dutch-only chart. And it worked! Every issue they get more votes and people are very enthusiastic about it. First the idea was to bring¶"Hokus Pokus" only once, but because of the good reactions Mellow decided to continue it for the time being. With this chart, the inspiration is back. People can get into the spotlight more easily and because of that the price of fame is a bit lower. Of course your scene-life is more enjoyable when people know who you are and vote for you so you appear in the charts. With a Dutch-only chart the chance of being 'in' is much bigger. Therefore,¶these Dutch charts of Mellow are of great importance for Holland and it's sceners. I think (I know!) that the sceners here in the Netherlands will get a lot of inspiration of Hokus Pokus! When you want to know more about Hokus Pokus, its producers and everything evolving around this chart, then you just have to read our interview which is somewhere in this article-release also!! SaNe oF MoNk - i am a hunk! The "HokuSPokuS" interview! Tri = Sane/Monk of Trinity Ray = Rayon of Mellow Tri - Okay please tell us some info about yourself. (handle, group, function, real name, age etc.) Ray - Hmmm... I'm RAYON of MeLLoW .. I'm around 20 yearZ olD! I'm leading my group MeLLoW.. Before MeLLoW there was EXTINCE. It was just a small group who did almost Nothing!.. hehe... But i was sick of it, and one day CELTIC said to me 'Forget EXTINCE, it isn't a good name!' ... And i decided to change the name of the group... MeLLoW.. i like da name! And some people of another crew XTC joined in (Huib, Gluefoot, Macrodex). And then MeLLoW was born, on the first day we had a new produc- tion , it was a crack of a game and i wrote an HD-INSTALLER for it!... And after that lot's of PRODUCTIONS followed! I'm doing da CODING work for MeLLoW sometimes i do some GFX or SFX!! Tri - Who came up with the idea of "HokuSPokuS" and who made the name up? Ray - Celtic came to me and said 'i've got some contacts with the guyz of DESIRE, and they wanted to make a chart with us.. A Dutch- Chart' ...... 'hmmm a COOP with DESIRE that's nice' i said!.. And CeltiC came up with the name HokuSPokuS. Tri - Was the idea to release HP more than once or not and why? Ray - The idea was to finnish the HP-1 and we've looked if people liked it!!.. And we got lot's of reactions! so we (i) decided to continue! Tri - Why the name "HokuSPokuS"? Ray - Why Not!... It's a funny name.. And when you read it one's you will never forget it!.. It's Different than all the other names! (c8 Tri - Do you spend many hours on each issue? Ray - Ehhh.. It's hard to say, because before all the HokuSPokuS shit and the COOP with DESIRE I was already busy with a kind of a DiskMag, all the routines were ready etc etc.. So.. i continued this ProjecT... ;) Tri - Was it really Facet who made the first layout? How did you get it? Ray - Yes .. hehehe!... CeltiC did know FACET... and he asked him to draw the Layout for HP-1... I think FaceT was a bit LAZY because it was a simple design! .. but when i implemented FaceTs Layout.. it looked nice!.. So i kept it!.. Tri - What was true of the coop be- tween Mellow and Desire? Wasn't it a trick for you to have a name backing you up and an easy way for Desire to release something? Ray - It's true! HP was a COOP of DESIRE/Facet's PussY. And DESIRE was a very famous group, so i liked this COOP!! hehe!.. I don't know if Desire used us for a new PRODUCTION, it doesn't matter to me at all!...... HP is now MeLLoW only! Tri - What did Desire do for HP? Ray - DESIRE didn't do that much for the HP.... Noodle And Infant arranged me some VOTES (Filled VOTE-SHEETS).. But all other thingz we had to do ourselfs!.. Like Music, Design, Code etc etc. Tri - When do you release the next issue of HP, aproximately? Ray - i can't say when i release the next version of HP (HP-3), First i must have more Vote-SheetS..:) Tri - Is it possible to fake your way into HP? If not, what is true of the rumours that Noodle faked his way in? Ray - To FAKE my WAY?.. You mean that i will ... the Dutch Charts No I'm very carefully with the VOTES.. and we just count our votes and NO CHEATING.. otherwise it has no SENSE to make a Dutch CHART!!... And the Rumour that Noodle faked his way in NO WAY.. that isn't true! Because I'm doing the VOTE- COUNTING nobody else! Tri - How did you get hold of the picture made by Pixie/Polka Bros?! Ray - Noodle Arranged it for me!!.... Noodle has some contact with these guyZ!!.. :) (Thanks PiXIE) Tri - Did you get any great reactions on issue 1 and 2? Please tell us the nicest ones. Ray - Yes!.. we got lot's of reactions about HP-1 .. People sent me graphics.. Ideas. And people asked me when the next version would come!!... And now this INTERVIEW about the HP!.. I like it!.... Tri - Do you think the Dutch scene is good/average/bad? Ray - The dutch SCENE is POOR.. hehe.. Because there are too much LAME MODEM groups instead of Groups who make nice ProductS.. There is one really good group and that's AXIS.. But they aren't very PRODUCTIVE!.. Maybe it will come!... And we've got MIRAGE makers of CHIT-CHAT.. Desire/ Facet's Pussy is Almost dead or is dead?.. The dutch scene is not what it was in the OLD dayZ! (Ed: Hey we've go M0Nk too! What about them?! Hehe.) Tri - Do you think that Dutch people are lazy? Why (not)?! Ray - I don't know.. i think that there are too less CODERS in HOLLAND. We've got good mu- sicians, graphicians, But not enough coders who really want to CODE demo's , trackmo's etc etc... I'm getting sick of all the guyz who are making DoorS for boardz... There are enough of them!... But there aren't people in HOLLAND who say to eachother comeON lets make a nice PRODUCTION!!.... And that's a shame!!.... Are people NOT CREATIVE enough?.. Tri - How would you explain that so many old productions ('91 and back!) are topping your chart (Can't be, Unknown territory, Menace etc.)? Were the prods in the old days really better? Ray - In these times there was the will to MAKE something!! But now these dayZ, lots a people are LAZY... Tri - Are you planning to become a real big chart like European charts , with a lot of news, articles and stuff like that, or do you want to stay smaller?! Ray - NOt really, i want to keep it small!. But if there are chances to make the chart BIGGER.. and go for the EUROPEAN chartz... Then i'll take that CHANCE!.. Tri - Why do you sometimes have persons in your charts twice under two different names? (Like Anthony/Axis and Magician Lord) Ray - It's nice to see that a person of the OLD day's is still famous, so it's nice to put him twice in the chart!.. hehe... Tri - What would be your top 3 of !Dutch! coders and productions? Ray - Ok.. i will tell you what MY votesheet looks like!......... Coders - Anthony - Infant - Jack Graphicians - Danny - Hein - Facet Musicians - SNAO - Fabian - 911 Groups - Axis - Mirage - Effect Productz - Picturebook/Axis - BigTime/Axis - Chit Chat/Mirage Swappers - Noodle - Celtic - Sascha Boards - The Undiscovered - Boondocks - Nightshift Tri - Why is HP a Dutch-only chart?!?! Ray - Hmm.. I want to keep it small... That's why!.. I live in HOLLAND and i don't wanna make a POLISH chart or something!!???.... Tri - Is Hokus Pokus also popular out- side Holland? Ray - Yes.! Lot's of our contacts want to have all the new versions of the HP... And even people of other countries have made GFX for the HP!..... (Ed: Rayon means "Pixie/Polka bros." who made the loading picture for HP issue 2.) Tri - Alright good luck with HP and thanx for the interview, the last lines are yours!!! Ray - Ok.. Thanks for this interview.. I liked it a lot!!... and i hope that there will be more in future Times!... signing off noW!..., .:RayoN:. P.S. Greetz to all my friendz and ContacTs in the SCENE!.. Ed - Also read the article in this ReLease called "Dutch-charts, a blessing"! It is an article about HP! ¤ Articles, design or both? Today people think that music, gfx, intro's and the like are very important for a diskmag. With other words: the design is very important for most of the sceners who make and read mags of today. Of course they are right,...... to a certain extend. A diskmag is no fun to read, if not unreadable, when the music annoys you. When the gfx are not good, for example too dark, the reading pleasure also decreases. The times have changed and the design has become very important for scene productions. A diskmagazine is also a production, so the design of a diskmag is important. But .... it should not be the biggest concern of the producers of a mag. Some mags have a great intro, great music and great gfx, but when you read the context of the same mags, you think: "What is actually in there?". Many mags have the same articles and just copy from eachother. Most mags try to be better as their oponents by having a better design as them. I think we have reached the stage that the design of a diskmag becomes the main subject for some mag-producers. The articles (the context) comes on a second place, if not totally forgotten. And this is where things go wrong! A diskmag is a magazine, never forget that! The context, the articles, are the most important thing of the magazine. That's why a diskmag was invented; to provide the scene with interesting articles. Not to provide the scene with another demo with a huge scrolltext (= the articles inside). And sadly enough, that's what some mags look like today; big demo's with huge scrolltexts! It's really a sad thing because people are always complaining that 'every' group is making a diskmag and that there are too many diskmags in the scene. On first sight it seems that those people are right. "Yep" you think "there are rather many mags!". But ... when you look closer you discover that only few mags are real mags. With 'real mags' I mean mags which have a context which is nice and good. Only about 5 mags have a good context, and that is carefully estimated! Personally I think that mags should have a good design, and I hope that we will succeed in that with Trinity, but I'd rather have a diskmag without a good design and with a good context as vice verca (the other way around.) And I hope the real mag readers agree with me, and those people are why we make mags, right? Sane/Monk .... vuur komt van een vonk. The life of an editor. ¤ I have some friends who are editors for a diskmag, and I have been an editor for some diskmags in the past. But now, I really know how hard the life of an editor is. As you might have guessed I will be the 'Main-father' of this mag and I have filled "Trinity, the article-release" plus "Trinity, the sequel of the article-release" for the most of it. I can tell you, most of the time it is great but sometimes .... 'The life of an editor' is meant to give you as a non- editor an idea how editors stress and manage to get the articles for their mags ready in (or not) time. (Lucky-me that we do not work with deadlines!) And for you, editors, to see that you do not stand alone. An editor thinks about his mag 24 hours a day.¤ His mag is of course NOT the only thing he thinks about but somewhere in his mind he is thinking about his mag. When you are an editor, you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night having this great idea for the perfect article. When you have that, you have to get out of your bed and write all of it down because in the morning you will have forgotten what the idea was! Unfortunately most ideas pop up in the middle of the night..... ¤ As an editor you better have pen and paper ready where ever you are because great ideas can show up everywhere and every time of the day. The television often is a great source of ideas but also an interesting subject in a newspaper, magazine or even schoolbook can be usefull for your mag. What did the teacher say? Write it down, it could be a 'hit-article' for your mag! Especially the last days before the deadline (am I lucky we do not work with deadlines!?) you are nervous! "Shit! I need at least another 10 good articles for my mag!" is what you think. Then, the mistake of copying too much from other mags, thinking too much about quantity instead of quality and writing too many boring articles with too many spelling errors (the so-called "fillers") is quickly made! You sleep later and later, some nights you have refound your inspiration and fear to lose it so you work from 1 am till 3 am in the morning. The next day on school people ask you why you look so tired... A black out again! No inspiration and sometimes it looks like you can not even write in English anymore.... Sometimes you puke by the vision of your text-editor but most of the times it is your best friend. And nearly always the end is great, you finished all of it in time and you are proud of yourself, satisfying only a number of sceners is already enough for you. (The Trinity-label is also aimed at ALL sceners but if only SOME like it we do not care, that is enough for us too, because we make Trinity for them anyway!) Stress is sometimes 'the ruler'¤in the life of editors, but it is worth it! Being an editor is great! You always find a reader for every single article you wrote and because it is a hobby after all, that ONE person is enough for you. If you are a real editor that one person you reached with your article satisfies you already..... I hope you understand now, as a non-editor, that editors really DO something for the scene and that they really have to be creative, as the scene is not easily fooled! I wrote this article having the time of writing for mags with deadlines in my mind. Stress used in terms in the above article is very much decreased for me since I am working under the Trinity-label. (No deadlines!! Hehehe!) Still, you have to fill your mag anyway. With or without deadlines. So some stress and fear to lose inspiration is always part of your life being an editor. Sane/Monk. The b-I-g interview with the Jayman of -MoNk-! suBtItle: - The Jayman aint there anymore! ¶ Sane = Sane Chiron = Jay 1 ¶ Sane - Hi Yorick! I heard some rumours (dunno where they come from) about you changing your handle or something?!?!?!? Please tell all our dear readers this rumour is false, okay? Then we can quit with this interview! Chiron - Yep, the rumours are true!! I changed it into CHIRON!! So you'll have to think of some new questions for me. ¶ Sane - Hmmm ... So it is true ... Well, the rumour came from you so I could have guessed that the rumour was true. Okay, tell us why you changed your handle into c-H-i-R-o-N. Chiron - Long time ago, when I just started scening, I chose JAY ONE as my handle as it was a quite original name back then!! However, after some years some people started naming themselves "... One" (Crew One, Fade One etc.)! This is why I wanted to change my handle because they were getting more known than me, and people thought I inspired my name on them. Above all of this, Jay One is not a name which I could paint in a nice way underneath my pics!! (too long, and shitty letters like j and y) ¶ Sane - Well, I have to get used to this new handle. After all I knew you with your old handle for more than 5 years!! By the way, can I call you Ron? Chiron - Why not!! I don't care what people call me, so I don't care at all what apes call me (hi, Sane). ¶ Sane - So aint the Jayman there anymore? Or will everything stay the same except for your handle? Chiron - I think everything is going to stay the same!! (Except for maybe some more female fans!!??) Unfortunately, by changing my handle, my drawing skills did not improve (??!!) so expect some more louzy graphics from me in the near future! ¶ Sane - Why "Chiron"? Chiron - You'll have to guess it, cause I won't tell you!! ¶ Sane - Hey Ron .... Who's in charge of this interview?!! (Me or Me?) Chiron - ME !? ¶ Sane - Okay, so I am in charge! I am very glad that you understand that! Next question! Chiron - I thought I was the one being questioned!??, it seems to me that you are a little confused.. ehh? Pieter!?? ¶ Sane - No I am not!!! And you may call me Mr. Sane!, or uncle Sane! By the way; do you know why I called myself Sane? Chiron - Yes, because I made it up for you!, remember? ¶ Sane - Jaha! Dat weet ik gerust nog wel! (For all our English readers; the text says: NO, You are crazy!! I made my own handle because I am soooo damn Sane!! Hhmdpwipirewjtergreygsvnsdfkdrkuwr!!) Chiron - Seems to me that you are not sane at all Sane??!! Tell me the real reason!!! (NOW!) ¶ Sane - fjdkfdkfdkjf! Chiron - Why didn't you tell me that before!! Now I understand... Now please start questioning me again, or I'll leave! ¶ Sane - Okay! Btw: You can't leave cause we are at your home remember? Chiron - Oohhhh ... then I will just have to kick you out of the window!! ¶ Sane - Ron! R O N! Easy! Take your medicine! Take your daily shot of crack! Chiron - I knew I forgot something... Damn, I ran out of crack!! can you sell me some, Sane?! ¶ Sane - Hmmmmm ... Let's see what I have got in my pocket! Hmmmm .... Lsd, dope, speed, xtc, paracetamol ... what do you want? Chiron - I'll take the paracetamol!! that's my favourite... Do you only have one strip of them, you know I need two strips a day!! ¶ Sane - No I have more! Here you are .... Ok. nu heb ik geen zin meer om met de computer te spelen........ Chiron - Ahghh, toe nou, nog heel effetjes, grgllod!!glnmmlrr! (this is the sound of Chiron taking his paracetamol.Sane) ¶ Sane - Hey! I can never call you Gay one of (ver)MiNK(t) again, now! Chiron - Why did you want to call me that in the first place??? Are you gay yourself maybe? ¶ Sane - No I am Lesbian!! My real name is Sjaan, (die het altijd doet met een banaan!) en ik hou van lekkere dikke ouwe wijven! Chiron - Me too!! Let's get together sometime and I will make all your wishes come true!!!!! ¶ Sane - Are you a fat, ugly and old b-i-T-c-H too? Chiron - No, I'm just horny! ¶ Sane - O jee het is al laat. Laten we kappen! Chiron - OkEE, we stoppen erMEE.. ¶ Sane - Ja. ja ja ja ! Dahag Chiron! De groeten aan Jay One. Chiron - Zal ikke doen ja, DJAaAA!g?HH... Ook doen groeten aan jouw vriendin!! ¶ Sane - Ok. Dank je doei! Chiron - Mazzel (c)1985 Gay One/Sjaan productions! We are not liable for any direct, consequential or incidental damages to your brain while reading the above crap!! ¶ Oh my god! Whothefxxk is who? Nowadays everybody changes his handle like ¶Liz Taylor is changing men .... Everybody swaps groups like Michael Jackson swaps faces (o btw, I have nothing against Michael! Great cd- HIStory!!!). Every group gets new members like .... Well I think you understand what I am trying to say. In the older days people chose a handle and most likely stayed with that handle and when they changed their name they announced that properly and you most likely stayed in your group for a real long time. Today, it seems to be a trend to be in other groups all the time and to change your handle as much as possible. Well, it could be me but I do not remember half the sceners as I used to do back in the eighties. When I am talking with¶'the Jayman' (Jay no. uno!) and when the subject is 'Scene' (and not 'Sex' like most times.), we talk like this. " ... and eh .... xxx who used to be in yyy and was called ppp and made the demo zzz, what is his curent handle? ... well ... I think it is uuu but do you mean that coder who also did fff and was called iii in early 1988?!" Well, you can guess that I think this is very annoying. Why do you have to swap handles so many times? Changing it one time is already too much. Today there are so many people in the scene that name-changing is really confusing, annoying and irritating! My name is 'Sane' since the beginning of 1989 and it will most likely be 'Sane' for ever. Same story goes for example¶Facet , he is called Facet for almost his whole scene-life and why bother to change it? Also React our, new member, has this name since the beginning. I do not understand why you all there change names so many times. The reason must be that you name-changing guys are indecisive and can not pick a right name. It shows your lack of confidence which you try to hide behind new names. Well in the end sticking to one name, and if possible to one group name, rebuilds and strenghtens your confidence. Look at real life, when you would change your name into another, nobody can find you anymore. And nobody should probably try to find you. Do you know what?! Why do I even care to write about this subject? I just do not care anymore. See for yourself! Of course there is a big exception! When you want to begin a new scene life and start with a new slate, the best way to do this could be to change your handle. But in every other situation I do not see the need of a handle-swap! It is just so damn annoying and irritating! Sane of Monk - ik wou dat ik niet zo stonk! Last news : - Also the Jayman (Jay One/Monk) changed his handle.... He changed it into 'Chiron'!! Aaaaachhhh! ... Who the fxxk is who?! Stop at your top? It is a trend. Not only in the scene but also in the -ReAl- world. People quit with their activities when they are at their top. In this article I want to find out why people make that decision when they stop at their top. Let us begin with the scene. The examples are maximum. There are a lot of examples of people and groups who stopped while being at the top. "Anarchy" stopped when they topped all the charts, every production they made went straight to the top of the charts and the group was very popular. Suddenly the group died and "Lemon." was born out of this group. The only reason for the death of "Anarchy" could be boredom! Also "Kefrens" stopped, even though they released a lot of good productions which were very popular and reached most charts. Not only groups but also productions were being taken out of the scene in spite of being famous and popular. "Brainstorm" stopped with their "Zine" but it was the most popular diskmag ever (together with RAW!). "Crusaders" decided to quit doing their charts in spite of their huge popularity. Also single persons stopped with the scene being at the top or not. "The Spy", the most known coder ever, made a great last trackmo ("Hardwired") and never returned after that. "Heatbeat", one of the most known musicians in our history, sold his computer one day and never made another song. The best Dutch musician we ever had (together with hEiN!) was "Fabian/Desire". This guy did some awesome musics! For example the music in "Menace". He quit after he gained fame ........ Further on "Lord Helmet" quit being the main editor of RAW after becoming very, very famous! (He gave the wheel to Astro!) Rumours also say that "Danny" will quit too with is great gfx! "Danny" is at the top now .... The list is long and I could continue forever with the list! But I won't. Also in ReAl life people quit when they are at the top. Frank Rijkaard stopped playing soccer by Ajax! He was still doing great. Don Johnson decided to stop with "Miami Vice", the serie was at an absolute HuGe mountain when he stopped. Well, in real life I can see what the reasons are. For example, you can better stop while being good and remembered as being great, than continue forever and making a falldown after a while. "It is better to stop as a hero than die like a zero!" is what those people say. I see where they are coming from! They are probably right. But .... In the scene I don't see that reason! All the people and groups mentioned before would have been popular for a very long time. They did not have to quit at all! When they would have continued they would have probably stayed at the top. Further on, the scene is a hobby and it should not bother you at all that your popularity is decreasing ... And to be honest I do not think the reasons of sceners for quitting at their top is the same as they are for toppers in ReaL life! In my view the reasons for sceners to quit at their top is just this: They do not like the scene anymore! Because they have reached their aim. Their goal is fullfilled; they are at the top now. What more is there to be done? This seems a scarry thought and pherhaps a paradox!: -The aim of sceners is to get at the top soon, which will result in the end of their scene career!! These two can never match! Trying to reach something with the result of ending the same thing immediately!? The only thing we can do about this, when we want to reach the top WHILE staying in the scene is to alter our aims. Our aim should be 'joy and fun' in stead of 'fame'. It seems that this is the only way to stay in the scene after you became very popular! Sane of Monk (not trying to be famous at all!) btW:- There are always exceptions to a certain rule. (especially to my rules ... heheheheh!) e.g. Facet. -Quality spreads itself- (Sane, the man of the tha clan is here with another of his infamous theses. Be prepared ... signed, A FrienD!) Quality spreads itself. Yep. That's the new theory here in the Monk posse! We think that a production which is good, will be spread very good even when the group which made the production does not try hard to spread it themself. A lot of shitty productions were released in the last years and they are still being released. Those prods get lost in the massive stream of dirt-prods! Those prods do not distinguish themselves from the rest of the productions being released. When you release a quality production, you do not have to spread it many times yourself. Others spread your production FoR you when the prod. is of good quality. When the makers of RAW (Ed:a popular diskmagazine.) finish a new issue of RAW and when they would send it to only one scener, they can be sure of it that within a week the rest of the scene has it after all! This shows how right I am. Quality spreads itself! Uploading your production 200 times on all the HUgE boards, sending it 2000 times to MeGasWaPPers won't help you much when your production is lAme. nO! It is really true , you can better spend some time on the design of your production in stead of spending your time on writing letters, copying the prod, buying stamps, sending the parcels into the world, upload it on boards etc. ThaT won't work when your thingy is not of good Quality. ANd ..... it is not even necessary when the quality is good. Ok, I am getting obnoxious now. I know. The text of this article is not interesting anymore. I am repeating myself. HmmMM ... Well ... what I try to say is this : We in the MonKpossE try to make the best out of our productions and we spend all our time on making the peace (Ed: Of ArT) and NoT on spreading it!! So when you got this production the quality must be good (aCcordIng to my thesis!). When you did not get this production then the quality must be bad. know you know that I can leave you. Daghag lieverds! M0nk, sAne was your host (with the most!) REACTION TO THE - CAN'T BE - REVIEW IN HOKUS POKUS #2 ¶ Last issue of the Hokus Pokus chart-mag¶ included an article which reviewed the Vision demo "Can't Be", written by my pal Sane.¶ It was a nicely setup preview, however I think he has been overrating the demo! Don't get me wrong, the first time I saw it I was stunned (due to the (few) GREAT graphics), and I loved it right away. Anyway, after several successful attempts to watch the demo again... and again, I finally realised it wasn't so special at all. The demo starts with one of the greatest logos I've seen on Amiga so far, then a picture (not stunning, but nicely painted) appears in quite an original way. The tune which is played during the demo is melodious, and sounds really great!! However, according to some C64 people the tune is just an amiga conversion from a Jeroen Tel song. Still, whether this is true or false, I believe Hein¶did a great job on this tune, and he surely is one of the best musicians in our little country... Enough praising... After the promising beginning, the demo begins to loose it's coolness. The sinus-routine is nice the first time you see it, but it lasts too long to enjoy it a second time. Sane mentioned the new world-record in the previous issue, but he didn't mention it was a fake. It doesn't matter, most people do not care whether something is realtime calculated or whether it's just an animation anyway. The burning vector-routine is the only cool part in the rest of this demo. A pixel-routine integrated with a filled vector-cube make this (at the time) new effect look quite astonishing!!!! There are two more vector parts, but they are really boring. Components: ¶ - Graphics,¶in my opinion Hein was the best scene-graphician in Holland untill maybe one year ago... Danny and Facet have proven to be just as good/or maybe even better!! It's a pitty Hein is putting all his time into making games, instead of also doing something for the scene. Anyway, the graphics make "Can't Be" a more than average demo. Rate-8.5 ¶ - Programming,¶there is one (1) nice effect (burning vector) in the demo, but the rest is as enjoyable as the testscreen on your TV-set. Rate-6 ¶ - Music,¶very cool tune, which accom- panied by the graphics make the demo the standard that it has. Rate-7.5 Overall rate: 7 ¶ My conclusion: I certainly believe this is one of the better products Dutch sceners have produced in the last few years. But our country can do much better, I think!! There are many talented sceners in Holland... like Danny, Facet, Hein, Lowlife, Kayo (Where are you?), Sure , Anthony, Tim and Nao.¶ Too bad some cool musicians left the scene (e.g. Claxon and Fabian)!! Note: I more or less (automatically) com- pared Can't Be with the demos released at this moment, so this review might seem a little hard on the demo. I think for it's time that it was a nice demo indeed, but nowadays I only load it into memory to listen to the music or to watch the (great!) Vision-logo! The demo used to be nice, but compared to the stuff released nowadays it is quite boring to watch... Chiron/!Monk! THE PERSONAL CHART by Chiron/Monk Some info about this chart: This chart represents MY personal opinion. As I've quit the scene for some time, the names may not be accurate, but everyone will know who I am referring to (I hope!). Anyway, since I have missed loads of productions in the last few months I am not up to date with all newcomers in the charts. So don't be sad if you are not in the chart while you are topping the chart elsewhere, because I probably have not seen any productions from you. In one (1) single attempt I have managed to complete this chart, so it is possible that some (a lot of) people that I actually do admire for their work are missing in the chart... O.k., now 'enjoy' the chart... the personal chart... G R A P H I C I A N S: ¤ pos. 01. Hof/Melon Dezign 02. Rack 03. Ra/Sanity 04. Facet/Lemon. Danny/Spaceballs 05. Cougar/Sanity 06. Mack/Melon Dezign 07. Hein 08. Archmage/Andromeda 09. Fairfax/Andromeda 10. UNO/Scoopex 11. R.W.O. 12. PGCS/Alcatraz 13. J.A.D,E 14. Walt/Melon Dezign pos. 15. Suny/Bomb 16. Fade One/Essence 17. Peachy/TRSI 18. Iridon/DCS 19. Jaco/Lemon. 20. Milkshake/Camel Prod. 21. j.o.e./TRSI 22. Lowlife/Axis 23. Angeldawn 24. Red Devil/DCS 25. Alex/Movement 26. Kris/Miracle 27. Seen/Melon Dezign 28. Joachim/Spaceballs 29. Mystik the personal chart... C O D E R S: ¤ pos. 01. Chaos/Sanity 02. Tsunami/Lemon. 03. Hannibal 04. Laxity/Polka Bros. 05. The Spy/TSL 06. Deftronic/TSL 07. Sim/Razor 1911 08. Dan 09. Microforce/Sanity 10. Dr.Skull/Lemon. 11. Vention/Polka Bros. 12. Mr.Pet/Sanity 13. Performer/Melon Dezign 14. Bannasoft/Melon Dezign pos. 15. Kayo 16. Tim/Spaceballs 17. Anthony/Axis 18. Dr.Jekyll/Andromeda 20. Mr.Hyde/Andromeda 21. Lonestar/Spaceballs 22. Sure/Quartex 23. Zeque/Reflect 24. Hornet/Alcatraz 25. TEC/Cryptoburners 26. Wayne Mendoza 27. Gengis/Bomb 28. Touchstone/Essence 29. Tai-Pan/Complex the personal chart... M U S I C I A N S: ¤ pos. 01. Heatbeat/CNCD 02. Jochen Hippel 03. Mantronix & Tip/PHA 04. Audiomonster/Melon Dezign 05. Delorean/Complex 06. Strobo/Stellar 07. Dizzy/CNCD 08. Bruno/SCUP 09. Virgill/Essence 10. Groo/Lemon. 11. Romeo Knight/TRSI 12. Spaceman/Lemon. 13. Mel O'Dee/DCS 14. Dr.Awesome/Crusaders 15. Jogeir/Lemon. pos. 16. Lizardking/Razor 1911 17. Uncle Tom/Crusaders 18. Hein 19. S.L.L. 20. Fleshbrain/Crusaders 21. 0istein Eide 22. Jugi/Complex 23. Dreamer/Nah-kolor 24. Cutcreator/Static Bytes 25. Hollywood/Axis 26. Mr.Man/Andromeda 27. Lizard/Spaceballs 28. Nightlife/Kefrens 29. SuperNao/Lemon. 30. Gamma/DCS Mad interview with Jim Davis' Garfield The following interview was done by me, Chiron/Monk. Sunday, the 27th of August I packed my bags for a little (nasty) trip to Toontown. When I arrived in Toontown it was raining cats and dogs, so I stepped into the first pub I found. I thought the day could not get any worse from here! I was wrong. While I was boozing up my 2 liter beercan, some mothaF!#king loser ran into me and knocked my beercan out of my hands! The son of a bitch turned out to be Garfield , the famous comic "hero". Maybe this day was not turning out so bad after all. I took my pocket-Amiga, inserted my WP 8.2 cartridge and started the interview! ¤ Ch = ME¶ Ga = Garfield ¤ Ch - Well I do not have to introduce you, I guess... Everybody knows you are an ugly, fat and lazy cat. ¶ Ga - ZZzzzzz... Mhmm, what? ¤ Ch - So tell me, what is Jon like in real life? ¶ Ga - He is even more boring than in the comic! But it is not his fault... When he was eight years old, his mother always forced him to watch "The Bold and the Beautiful" so you'll understand, ??.. ehh.. ¤ Ch - Hhmm, I always see you fighting with Odie... Why do you dislike him! ¶ Ga - I like him!! It is just for the comic that I have to beat him up everytime. I always hate those moments.. (cough cough.!) (hehe!) ¤ Ch - I heard you own an Amiga?? ¶ Ga - Yep, that's true... ¤ Ch - So, what games do you like best?? ¶ Ga - I am not interested in gaming!! I am more interested in the scene. ¤ Ch - ??!! Well then, tell me your top three coders, graphicians and musicians!? -> Don't mention me, because I'm already topping the charts in every other diskmag alive, and I want THIS diskmag to be original... ¶ Ga - Coders: Sane, Facet and SuperNao Graphicians: Tim, Rayon and Dope Musicians: Lowlife, Anthony and Danny ¤ Ch - How come you are so fat, aren't comic - stars supposed to work out once in a while!!?? ¶ Ga - I have thought about excercising, but because of my busy schedule I do not have time for it! ¤ Ch - Busy schedule??, the only thing you do is sleeping and eating!?? ¶ Ga - You see my point??! ¤ Ch - Hhhmm, yes.. Another subject now, what do you think about dogs in general!?? ¶ Ga - Let me say it this way... If a dog was a computer, it would be an Atari!!! ¤ Ch - O.k., I think this were enough questions for just a simple pet like you! ¶ Ga - Jop, it was nice to chat with you... ¤ Ch - Thanks for the interview!! Bye! THE END... Chiron! ¤ GREETINGS AND REGARDS GO TO THE FOLLOWING (A-Z): Abyss (Snoop) Axis (Anthony, Hollywood, Lowlife) Balance (Pantera) Beatless (Fugazi, Leprechaun) DCS (Red Devil) Dylem (Sear) Effect (Hawk) Eltech (Loopy, Mic Flair) Essence (Infant) Kayo Mr. Keel Mad Elks (Action) Mellow (Celtic, Noodle, Rayon) Monk (ALL) Nah-kolor (Dreamer, Magic) Neo (Devistator) Phuture 303 (Base) Polka Bros. (Twilight) Ram Jam (The Ripper) Sonic (Murk) Spaceballs (Danny, Tim) Stellar (Pride) Stormcrow Suave Syndrome (Kestrel) Lemon. (Facet) Wishbringer and to all the guys and girls who have supported us in the last period!! The old-Dutch-scene-quiz! Hi! Here is Sane of tha MonK posse. This time I have ¶a little quiz for you. It is all very simple. You try to answer my multiple choice questions as best as you can. You will be awarded with a certain ammount of points on each question you answer right. On the bottom of this article you will find the right answers and the ammount of points you can get for each right answer. Count your points and see how many you have scored together. Then read the text which belongs to your ammount of points. This indicates what you are: a totall loser or an advanced Dutch scener. I made up this quiz because I think a lot of people act like they are IN the Dutch scene. When I talk with them, most do not even know demo's like "Our Nation", they do not know who Cybersonik is etc. etc. I think those people are not really IN the Dutch scene. History is very important, also in the scene. By doing this quiz you can judge yourself and learn some nice history facts. Have fun. (Note- I use the handles of the persons as they were called back then!!) 1- Who coded "Our Nation" and of which group was he a member? ¤ A Crackerjack, Axis B Crackerjack, Vision C Magician Lord, Axis D TSM, Vision ¶ (This question is easy so you can only earn 4 points with it!) 2- Which group could be labeled as : "Most known Dutch crackergroup" in the period 1989-1992? ¤ A JetSet B Axis C Desire D Legend ¶ (Also an easy one, but okay: also 4 points for this one) 3- Which was the biggest group ever in the Dutch scene? ¤ A Axis B Desire C RAF D Legend ¶ (A real piece of cake. 1 point.) 4- What was the place most Jetset members lived in, in the early period of this crew? ¤ A Amsterdam B Hasselt C Heerhugowaard D Hoorn ¶ (Tricky, 4 points) 5- Has Jetset ever been the demo section of another crew, if so name that group? ¤ A no B yes, Skid Row C yes, Crystal d yes, Legend ¶ (4 points.) 6- Who coded the "Hurricane intro" of Axis? ¤ A Magician Lord B Crackerjack C TSM D IKiller ¶ (Very hard! 7 points.) 7- What does RAF mean? ¤ A Royal Amiga Fuckers B Royce Amiga Force C Red Amiga Freaks D Royal Amiga Force ¶ (Easy, 2 points.) 8- "Evolution", "Black and white" and "Legoland" were made by: ¤ A Axis B Desire C Jetset D Vision ¶ (This is a difficult one, 8 points!) 9- What is the name of the artist who made gfx for "Forgotten" of Mirage? ¤ A Danny B Facet C Jay One D Tomcat ¶ (6 points) 10-Which group made "Another one" and what was "Another one"? ¤ A Axis, a demo B Vision, a demo C Vision, a musicdisk D Axis, a musicdisk ¶ (You can get 7 points from this one!) 11-Which person has never been in Desire? ¤ A Facet B Guy Frost C Ramon B5 D Hein ¶ (Very tricky so 10 points! 12-Which group made "Hail the engineer" and what was it? ¤ A Jetset, a musicdisk B Jetset, a demo C Axis, a demo D Axis, a musicdisk ¶ (8 points.) 13- Who are brothers in real life? ¤ A Crackerjack and Magician Lord B TSM and Crackerjack C TSM and Hein D Facet and Danny ¶ (Easy, 3 points) 14-Who made the music for "Unknown Territory" by Axis? ¤ A Claxon B Hein C Antibody D Jayce ¶ (7 points) 15-Which people have all been in Axis in the period 1989-1991? ¤ A Antibody, Double Dragon, Mace B Ramon B5, IKiller, Magician Lord C The Spy, Jester, Crackerjack D Sane, Crackerjack, Claxon ¶ (Phew! 9 points.) 16-What was the name of Freestyle's first production, a musicdisk? ¤ A Perfect 6 B Perfect Music C Perfect 5 D Perfect Harmony ¶ (7 points) 17-In which group was Facet before he went to Anarchy? ¤ A Axis B Jetset C Vision D Desire ¶ (Easy, 2 points.) 18-What was the name of the magazine of Vicious? ¤ A Chit Chat B Paper Waste C RAW D Megazin ¶ (7 points for this pretty hard one.) 19-Who made the music for Menace? ¤ A Fabian B Hein C Claxon D Antibody ¶ (5 points.) 20-What is the name of the Mirage parties? ¤ A Primus B Prima C Prime D Mirage Copy Party ¶ (5 points.) -ThE AnSwErS!!- 1 A 4p 2 D 4p 3 C 1p 4 C 4p 5 B 4p 6 A 7p 7 D 2p 8 B 8p 9 A 6p 10B 7p 11D 10p 12A 8p 13C 3p 14D 7p 15A 9p 16C 7p 17C 2p 18D 7p 19A 5p 20C 5p -ThE ReSuLtS!!- 0-35 points : ¶ You are a total loser! You know next to nothing of the old Dutch scene. Legends of the Dutch history are unknown to you and you probably have never seen the great older Dutch productions! You are not really IN the Dutch scene. Foreigners can do a better job and even my grandma would get a higher score! Shame on you! 36-70 points : ¶ You did allright. You are probably not IN the Dutch scene for too long but you know quite a lot anyway. I guess you know most facts because you learnt them from others or read them in diskmags. You have some older products in your diskbox and you are interested in the old Dutch scene. You did average. 71-110 points : ¶ You are great! You are truely IN the Dutch scene and you know your history! You are a topper and you are very much interested in the scene of the older days. You are patriotic and have the right to call yourself a true Dutch scener! Because of people like you the Dutch scene has florished and will become good in the future again. People like you, the true Dutch sceners, are who we need to make the Dutch scene really great again! Well done!!!!! I hope you liked this little quiz as I spent quite some time on it to make it! Sane of MOnK! (We were born to rule! hahahahaha!) The -Abouts!- This is a very nice article to read before you are going to read the stories of this section. (and that is why I implemented it? o ja? ja!) I write a lot of Stories and Tales, in fact I write so many of them that i could easily fill an entire section of a real mag with it. And let me tell you where I get my inspiration from .... I get it from my real life! First of all an -about- of "A busride to hell!", the first lines of this story are actually true. It happened to me about 2 years ago in a bus while I was riding to the VU; the University in Amsterdam I (try to) attend. The old nagging bitch is really alive and the foreign woman also put her bags almost on my feet and sat down some places backwards. I really kicked against the bags and that's where reality ends!!! The rest is my imagination .... Secondly the -about- of "Martin 'Sane' Braun". Of course nothing of this story is real but I have something important to say -about- it anyway! Some of you might recognise it. That could be true! This story was already placed in "Megazin", the magazin of "Vicious", a Dutch crew. Because it was their first issue I seriously doubt if many people read it. Because I love this article very much, I wanted it to release it again. So sorry if you already saw it (read it again!!) .... Last but not least, the -about- of my story called "James had it all". I had to read 25 Dutch books in 1993 for my final exams in highschool, the best book I read was "Het Gouden ei" (Ed:The golden egg!) written by Tim Krabbe (Not the coder called Tim! Hehe!). I was so impressed with this book and his style of writing that I tried to copy that style and I took some ingredients of his story. I hope I was successfull! Ok. Thanks for the attention. This were the -aBoUtS-!! Sane of mOnK, goin' for tha Monk-beer.... ¤ Busride to hell. It was a tuesday in January 1994. The wind was blowing and Peter ran to bus 48, going to the VU- university. "No need to hurry." Peter thought. "It is 13.20 hours, no one will take the bus this time of the day..." As an experienced bus 48 traveller, Peter was right. Only 2 persons were in the bus 48 when he entered it. "Good afternoon.." the driver said. "Hi!" Peter said when showing his OV-card. (card which students in Holland get to ride for free....) Peter walked through the bus and stopped somewhere in the middle, he sat down in front of the second door. Only two other persons were in the large two-part-bus. A boy with a walkman in the far-back of the bus and an old woman in the front. The old woman was asking with a terrible squeeking voice: "When do we leave, driver?". "Half past, mam ...." the driver answerred. Two minutes later ..... "When do we leave, driver?". "Half past, mam ....." When the old lady opened her mouth for the third time, the driver started the engine and drove off, 2 minutes early. After a short drive of aprox. 500 yards, the bus stopped at it's first halt. "Is this already the VU-hospital, driver?" the old lady asked imidiately after the bus stopped. "No mam. The VU-hospital is the second halt." said the driver with a sight. The doors opened at this first halt, a black woman was waiting to get on the bus. The black woman was fat and carried a very heavy-looking bag. She entered the bus through the second door, were Peter was sitting. The woman looked like a homeless-person. Peter had seen many homeless-persons in the last 4 months he had been going to university, here in Amsterdam, he knew what they looked like. The woman carried the heavy bag and dropped it right in front of Peter's feet, almost hitting his feet. Peter wanted to shout or say some nasty words to the woman, but she smiled at him in such a nice way that he could do nothing else as smiling back at her. "I am goin' to get da otter bagz, wait a second!" the woman shouted to the driver with a raw voice in an African/English accent. She got out of the bus and took an empty iron shopping bag in her left hand and a blue/yellow small handbag in her right hand and got on the bus again. "Okee you cann goe agan!" She shouted with her funny accent. Her first heavy-looking bag was still on Peter's feet. The woman left the bag at his side and took a seat about 4 or 5 rows more to the beginning of the bus. Peter thought "What is this ... Why does she leave the bag at my place?!" The wildest thoughts ran through Peter's mind: "This is Amsterdam, man! Maybe there is a bomb in the bag ... No! That makes no sense, she is still on the bus. And anyway, why would she bomb a bus when only 3 persons are in? No... But, no one leaves his or her bag out of sight in Amsterdam..." Peter was right, in Amsterdam no one leaves his bag out of sight, when you do, you are sure to loose it to the little criminals. There must be an explanation for this. But what? Peter thought of getting up and sitting down somewhere else, but he just didn't do it. Peter was curious, he wanted to know what was in the bag. "Maybe her baby is in the bag and she wants to get rid of it by leaving it in a bus!" he thought. Peter kicked slightly against the bag, he listened but didn't hear one sound. Again Peter kicked the bag, more firmly as the first time. No sound at all. "Well, no baby!" Peter thought. He kicked once more and a little tear came into the bag when he kicked the bag for the third time. "O my God!! o my God!!!" Peter thought. There was blood on his shoe! The blood came from the tear in the bag! "Big TROUBLE!" Peter thought. The bus had still 3 sharp corners to go before it reached the VU-hospital, but the old lady was already standing in the path to go outside. "Next stop is the hospital, right driver?" she asked with her terrible voice. "Hmmm..." the driver said, he seemed annoyed. The sharp corners were almost fatal for the old lady. The driver drove very roughly trough the corners, she almost fell 3 times in a row. But then he bus stopped at the VU-hospital. The old lady got out and immidiately 3 men came in. Their jackets showed a logo which said : "NS-CU" Peter knew it meant "Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Control Unit". These guys were from a special Unit which was brought together to stop the increasing number of 'non-valid-passengers' as the official term for 'passengers without a valid pass' was. These men checked all the busses in Amsterdam, looking for people who hadn't paid for the ride. If they caught one, that person had to pay an extra fee. "Hey son, can I see your pass please?" the man of the CU said to Peter. "Of course sir." Peter said while he reached into his pocket and showed his OV-card. "It's okay!" said the CU-man, when he checked Peter's card. "Have you been in Africa?" said the man while he pointed at the bag which had an African sticker on the front side. "NO! IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" Peter shouted. "Yeah, right.... kid somebody else" said the man when he wanted to go on with his job. "NO, you do NOT understand!" Peter shouted while he grabbed the man's jacket. "IT'S NOT MY BAG!! IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" "Easy son, easy!" the man said while he tried to calm Peter. "NO!! NO!! I GOT TO GET OUT!" Peter said when the bus stoped for the third time and had reached the VU-university. "IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" "No, it's not your bag." the man tried to calm him down. "Sit down and relax son, I can't let you go when you act this way! You got to calm down!" "IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" Peter knocked the man down as he said that. The man went straight to the floor, knocked out! Peter got out of the bus and ran away. The two other men had already seen what happened and ran after Peter. They got him after a few seconds and tried to calm him, it was just a routine-job for them .... they thought! "IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" "Yeah, we know it's not your bag. You better come with us!" one of them said. The men brought him to the nearest police station, near to the Central Station. "What is the problem?" the police officer asked. "Well, he knocked one of our collegues down when he asked something about the boy's bag!" "IT'S NOT MY MY BAG!!" Peter shouted again. "Yeah." said the CU-man to the police officer. "He keeps saying the bag is not his! I don't why, his OV-card is valid" the CU-man said while he tossed Peter's OV-card on the table of the police officer. "We don't know why he makes such a mess ...." "Where is his bag?" the police officer asked. "IT'S NOT M" "We know!!!" the CU-man said. At that time the knocked-down CU-man came into the office. He carried the bag and put it on the table of the officer. "What's in the bag?" the officer asked. "I don't know sir! I didn't look. But I do know it's something nasty! Look at my hands ...." the man answerred while he showed his hands ... they were covered with blood. When Peter saw the bloody hands, he totally flipped. "IT'S NOT MY BAG!!" he shouted again. While he was saying that, Peter stepped to the police officer and grabbed the police-gun in the same second. Imidiately he shot the startled officer through the head with the police-gun! In a split second afterwards Peter turned around and shot all 3 CU-men. "What did I do?!". Peter searched the room and found some bullets, reloaded the gun and ran off, confused. Peter kept repeating the same sentence : "It's not my bag!" over and over again. As some kind of instinctive move Peter took the speed train number 51 going back to the VU-university. When he arrived at the university, he got out of the speed train and walked straight into main entrance of the VU-university. Peter entered the elevator and pushed the 15th button. He was the only one in the elevator. When Peter reached the 15th floor, he took two more stairs and got on the roof of the building. "What a nice view!" His voice echoed..... Peter didn't know how long he was already sitting there on the roof of the university but it must have been a while because the police had already spotted him. "Peter! Throw your gun down and come down yourself too!" a female voice said through a microphone. "Shit!" Peter thought "They know my name! How do they know my name!?" "Fuck! The OV-card! I left it at the office! Damn! They know everything about me now! Birthday, residence, first name, last name, everyfuckingthing! Damn!" He stand up and looked downwards. He saw 3 policecars, an ambulance and .... "Damn! They brought in the Television!" Next to the ambulance, a red/blue car was parked, it said "N.O.S" which is the Dutch broadcasting organisation which brings the news on national TV. "I am damned ......" Peter thought while he was in the air. His body hit the ground before the gun did. Some people were crying, some were shouting. The live reporter said : "Why did the boy kill 4 people and why did he commit suicide? The mysterious bag the boy carried contained beef-waste from a local slaughterhouse, which was supposed to be dumped in an illegal way but ... The conviction for such a crime is 500 guilders! Not a 18 year-young life! This tragic story ends without an answer. Back to the studio again ...." Sane of M-o-N-k. ¶ Martin 'Sane' Braun. The year is ¶1884, july the 2nd, two days before Independence day in the USA. In two days the people of the USA will celebrate the fact that the USA became independant from England 108 years ago. In the city of Sioux Falls/South Dakota the citizens are very busy preparing for the great party. ¶Martin 'Sane' Braun, the leader of the largest gang in the USA, is nearby but everybody in Sioux Falls is too busy with the party to notice him and his gang. ¶Braun is the only son of the Dutch immigrants Cor and Bets Bruyn, who immigrated to the USA in 1865 with their then 5 year old son Marco. The family Bruyn was very poor and it was hard for Cor to stay on the right path, and so he didn't. Cor took his son with him on robberies when he was 12 years old, at the age of 13 Marco shot his first man. Cor was caught by the sheriff of Madison in 1875 and was hanged while his wife had to watch. Because the name Bruyn was not so regular in the USA it wouldn't be hard for the government to find America's most wanted Marco Bruyn, because of this¶Marco changed his name to Martin Braun. Marco, from now on Martin, escaped to Twin Falls, a little town near the Snake river in Idaho. His mother changed the new continent for the old one, Europe, again and no one ever heard something of her again. Martin kept quiet for more than three years and during that period he raised an army,¶'the Butch- ers of Idaho', he had more than 10 well-armed men in his gang and the number was still growing. Since 1879 'the Butchers of Idaho' did some cruel things; they robbed all kinds of banks, killed sheriffs, farmers, men, women and even children. Martin did the worst things, he liked to kill his victims slowly. In our days we would call Martin a serial killer. Because Martin was so cruel, the men in his gang doubted if he was sane, most thought he was insane but as a kind of joke, they nicknamed Martin: 'Sane'. So he became Martin 'Sane' Braun. In Sioux Falls was the biggest bank of South and North Dakota, all the gold of these two states was kept in this bank, worth more than ¶25 million dollars. It was one of the most modern banks of America, it was surrounded with 3 metre thick walls, near the bank was the headquarter of Sheriff Prossit and four men with machine guns were situated on the roof of the bank in all four corners. Mister Rochester, manager of the Falls bank, as the bank was called, was not worried at all. Dick Rochester was already counting the minutes, within 15 minutes the bank would close for 3 days because of the coming independence day. Just as Rochester thought, the bank closed at 5 pm and everybody could go home to perepare for the party. Dick closed the doors of the bank at 5.10 pm and went for a drink to the saloon of Brat Hutchkins. 'Hi Brat.' Dick said. 'Gimme my regular' 'Wishkey?' Brat asked. 'Hmm...' Dick answerred. In the meantime two strangers entered the saloon and the voices died down. The strangers settled themselves on two stools at the bar. They ordered a glass of jajem, and began to talk about Martin Braun. 'I heard 'the Butchers' are in town ...' said one. 'Yep and I know exactly why they are here...' Dick settled himself next to the left stranger and said : 'O yeah? And why do you think they are in town, stranger?' 'Not so difficult to think of .. they are here for the gold!' said the stranger. 'My gold?' Dick asked. 'The gold of the Falls bank?' 'No the gold of the DC bank! Of course dickhead, the gold of the Falls bank!' the stranger said again. 'Hahaha!! ¶ That's impossible!' Dick said. 'My bank is so well protected that you couldn't even come in with the whole army without MY permission....' 'I wouldn't be too sure, mister ....eh..' the other stranger said. 'Mister Rochester, Dick Rochester' Dick said. 'Yeah ... Rochester! Well, I wouldn't be too sure Rochester.' 'I am Sam Crowe a soldier of the calvelery and this is my mate Al Jose, a mexican tracker. We are after the gang of Sane Braun since august 1880 and we have seen all their slaughterings since then. But we never saw one 'Buther'! They are good!' 'When I was you I would go immidiately to the sheriff instead of going to the party....' Dick followed the advice of the two strangers and went to sheriff Prossit. Dick told Prossit what the two strangers of the cavelery told him. The sheriff said : 'Well Dick, I didn't want to upset you but you know it already now, so what the heck .... Yeah! Those men are right. A few days ago, one of my servants spotted some strangers. We heard ,from sources we can trust, that those strangers likely are 'the Butchers of Idaho' I am sorry Dick, but no party for us, we have to gard the bank!' 'Damned!' Dick said. ' And my girlfriend was comming to me during the holidays, she comes all the way from Pennsylvania!' 'I am afraid she has to go to the party with somebody else...' Prossit answered. 'Hell! Those fuckin' Butchers! Let them shoot people and rob banks somewhere else...' 'Well,' Prossit said 'look at the bright side buddy, when we catch some Buthchers, we can stop working.... ¶Each Buthcher has a price of 15000 US dollars on his head and make that 20000 when he's still alive!' 'Wow!' Dick said 'So, we just wait in the bank and shoot us some Butchers!' 'Oh, no Dick, it's not that easy...My brother Jake, who was a sherrif in Drapecity, tried that 2 years ago. He, and two of his fellows hide in the bank and shot three Butchers. Unfortunately, the other Buthchers killed my brother Jake and the other two fellows. The Butchers took the bodies of their dead fellow-Butchers and left. No one got the reward!' 'And how do you think we can catch some of those dogs?!' Dick asked 'Oooh, I've got a good plan, Dick. But I better tell no-one untill the Butchers come ... In case the information just happens to reach Sane Braun, don't get me wrong, though Dick. I do trust ya, but I got to be carefull!' 'I understand now Dick! But when do you think the Butchers'll come?' 'I bet they come on the night of the party, when everybody is dancing. They got some good chances then...' Two days later ..... Nothing had happened. So far, so good. It was 21:00 pm now and the party had begun 5 hours before.¶ Prossit, Rochester, Jose, Crowe (the two cavelery-boys), Gage and Pearl (two deputies) were in the office of sheriff Prossit. 'I expect them every minute now, boys. I'll better tell you my plan now.' Prossit said. 'Listen carefully! Jose and Crowe have to mix with the party-people and pretend if they are drunk! Okay, the don't know you guys, so that's why you get that job. When the Butchers arive you will have to make a lot of noise, pretend you are drunk so no one will notice it! Just fire your guns and shout a lot. Gage, you get up the roof of this building and gard the bank, when the Butchers come you wait till they are all here, then shoot as many as you can! Go now! And Kevin, better take 5 shotguns with you so you don't have to reload!' 'Yep!' Kevin Gage said. 'I can go upstairs now?!' 'Yeah' Prossit answerred. 'Cry like an owl when you see them comming! Okay, next, Pearl, you are going to the my house, it's at the back of the bank, go and sit on the roof and do exactly the same as Gage!' 'Finally, you and me Prossit. We are going into the bank and hide in an empty safe, when the Butchers open it, we'll shoot them like dogs.' 'O yeah, Crowe and Jose! Before you leave I wanna make sure that you come into the bank after the Butchers got in, okay?!' 'Okay.' Crowe said. Within three minutes Rochester and Prossit were in the safe, Crowe and Jose mixed with the party-people and Pearl and Gage took their positions. The long waiting began. Well, long waiting ..... At 21:45 pm the inhabbitants got the surprise of their life .... They heard an awfull noise and after 20 seconds they saw where the noise came from ... the train, which drove on the railroad wich ran almost through Sioux Falls, had derailed and came with an enormous speed towards the party-people and the bank .... Within 10 seconds the dissaster was complete, the train, which wasn't occupied, drove over hundreds of party-people, leaving them mostly dead. Then the train hit the front of the bank, in the train was more as 50000 tons of dynamite! 5 seconds after the train hit the bank, ¶the dynamite blew the whole front of the bank away. Most people who weren't killed by the derailed train died now because of the enormous shock wave caused by the explosion. Then, immidiately after the explosion, the town was full of Butchers. They came from everywhere and the army of Sane Braun, which was as big as 30 a 40 men, shot all the people which were still alive. All this happened in less than a minute. In the mean-time, Jose and Crowe had shot Pearl and Gage. When Martin arived, Jose and Crowe were the only survivors. 'Hi boss!' Crowe said to Martin. 'Be carefull, in one of the saves are the sheriff and the owner of the bank!' Martin said: 'Good work guys! They fell for your story of the cavelery didn't they?!' Without waiting for answer, Martin went on. 'Okay Jose, go into the bank, find the save were those guys are in, unarm them and bring them to me...' Jose went in, two minutes later he came back with Prossit and Rochester. 'You dirty little bastard' Dick said. 'You'll burn in hell!' 'Better in hell in 30 years as in heaven now!' Jose answerred. Dick was tied to four horses, his right leg to one horse, his left leg to an other horse and the same with his arms. Martin and three other Butchers hit the horses and the horses went to four different directions. The sight was horrible, Rochester was parted into four pieces...... Prossit puked and almost fainted. 'Don't worry sheriff!' Martin said. 'We are not going to do that with you ... we have something much more nice for you.....' All Butchers laughed. Martin took his shot-gun and fired 15 times on Prossit's arm, at the same place. There were so many bulletwholes in Prossits arm, that it was easy for Martin to rip Prossit's arm off...... Jose threw buckets of water over Prossit to make sure he wouldn't faint. 'Just be strong' Martin said 'it's over before you know ....'¶Then Martin took the arm of Prossit and began to beat Prossit with his own arm !!!!!!!!! After some beats Prossit was as good as dead. But to make sure Prossit was really dead, Martin cut Prossit's chest and ripped his hart out. In the meantime some other butchers got all the gold out of the bank and the Butchers left Sioux Falls... The next day the cavelery arrived and saw what happened, but the Butchers were already far away now... The next day you could read it in all papers ...: 'Butchers do it again ... loot : 25 million dollars ....¶ Sioux Falls is dead ....' by Sane/Scorpio Note : The persons in this story are not fictive, this did happen in the USA in 1884! The Butchers are still active, so better watch your back! Note2: Who believed the NOTE is a dweep! James had it all! While writing this story I was inspired by my surroundings ..... James had it all. James was 41 years old, he had a beautiful house and the perfect job; James was a surgeon and earned 250 000 dollars a year. James had it all. James lived in L.A, he had a lovely and caring wife, Janice, and was happily married for 16 years now. James and Janice had two healty daughters of 12 and and 14 years old. James had it all. His daughters, Shannon and Debborah were very bright and good-looking. James' parents were still together and very healty, both alive. James had it all. James life was perfect...... But, June the 23rd 1993 his life changed .... He and Janice were walking in the park and suddenly James' heard a voice; crying for help! James looked where the voice came from and noticed a little kid of about 4 years old. The little girl fell into the park-pool when she tried to catch a duck. James didn't think for one second, but dove into the cold-winter-water, and saved the little girl. Janice and James brought the little girl to her parents, who hadn't heard anything, they were too busy argueing about their coming devorce. The mother was so extremely happy that she kissed James, the father shook his hand and thanked him a thousand times. Later that day, the local-newspaper came to interview James. The parents of the little girl delivered flowers. The little girl drawed something for him, which was supposedly James and the little girl in the water. The next day James was thinking.... He thought that it was a brave deed to save a little kid ... but .... was he able to do the opposite too? James thought about it and decided that he had to try the opposite too! James had to kill somebody! He thought about the victim. It should be a woman, a mother, a young mother. The murder should be as terrible as possible. So a young mother with little children and a young husband. He would grieve the children, the husband and her family by killing her. He found his victim within a day. He would kill Dee-dee, the woman accross the street. He never liked her name anyway. James' took a baseball-bat and walked accross the street, he knocked on the door. Dee-dee opened the door. Her husband was at his job and the kids were in bed. James knocked Dee-dee down with the bat before she could say something. James took the body and carried her to the park where he had saved the little girl. He dug a grave, put Dee-dee's body in a coffin, put the lit on the coffin and buried the coffin ........ When Dee-dee woke up she though she was lying in her bed, she rose but couldn't .... Boards above her, boards to the left, to the right and underneath ..... Dee-dee cried out loud but the sound was swallowed by the darkness. When she realised she was buried alive she started to cry..... A month after James had buried Dee-dee he was taken in by the county-police. Evidence proved he was the kidnapper of Dee-dee. He was jailed for 3 months in spite of being sentenced to death because he was the only one who knew were Dee-dee was. After 3 months, 4 months after he buried Dee-dee, James told were he buried her. The cops found the remains of Dee-dee. Her husband and children cried.... When James was sitting on the chair, the priest asked him why he did it. James answerred : "I have sold my soul to Satan! With his help I'll be back to take revenge!" "For what?" The priest asked. But the chair got 10 000 volts, James enlightened, he laughed and died .... His wife and children cried... By Sane of Monk! I was really inspired by "Het Gouden ei" by "Tim Krabbe", a great book by a great author! Moruroa, nuked? If it is so safe and pure, test it on the Cote d'Azur! Moruroa. It looks like a word from a far, foreign galaxy. But sadly enough this word is a name of an island. It means ¶'Big Secret' and stands for the fact that the French government tries to silence the Polynesian inhabitants who live around this island in the Pacific. Moruroa. Since 1966, the French government uses this island for nuclear tests. The results of these tests are horrible. But the Polynesian people do not dare to talk about them. Only few do talk and tell about the pregnant women loosing their childs, a lot of more cancer than in the rest of the world and many more terrible things. In 1995, the cold war is over and The Sovjet Union does not excist anymore, even The US-president (Clinton) is in favour of 100 percent disposal of nuclear bombs, and most important: the European countries are very close to a real Community, nuclear testing should not be done. Especially¶NOT by a European country which is a member of the EC! In spite of all these facts France wants to nuke Moruroa once again ..... In my opinion it is very wrong of France to do more nuclear tests. Btw, it is not only wrong for France to do but also for the rest of the world. I think France will get a lot of trouble when they really do the tests as planned. ¶Greenpeace already started anti-France campaigns and a lot of people follow this organisation. The slogan of Greenpeace is: "De Hiroshima a Moruroa pas desais nucleaires." In Holland, a lot of people cancelled their vacation to France and also compagnies give France the boycot. "That is unfair!" is what the French people say "We are not the government and we do not test." This is a fact, but France is a democratic country and the people of France put the government where it is now. So in a way it is their fault. Some people say: "It is the right of France to do nuclear tests!" But is that for real? Isn't it the entire World they bring in danger and isn't it the entire world they fuck up with these tests? I will keep you up to date and we'll see if Moruroa will be nuked.... Let's hope for the best. Sane of Nuke (ehm ... Sane of Monk) -Last news: At this moment (1/9/1995) the French want to start their tests in spite of everything. When they continue they will make a lot of people angry! Let's see what will happen!!!!! Team page -Sane Monk - HIStory! A Womans opinion Names There are your dear prods Dutch Charts, a blessing The big Hokus Pokus interview Articles, design or both? The life of an editor The Jayman aint there anymore? Who the fxxk is who?! 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