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!!!!!
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