Retro 2 (Diskmagazine) by Instinct

Handle:     Alta
Group(s):   Rebels, Silents, AmigaLords, ZYX, Blue House, Heptagon,
            The Electronic Force, The bug legitimated crackers, 
            West baltic team, and some others...
 
Age:        25
Occupation: Game designer, producer and programmer.


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- The frying pan, my headphones and Alchemy.

How long have you been on the scene?
- A little more than 12 years.

What do you think of the scene today?
- Quite immature. I'd h

Handle:     Azazel
Group(s):   TBL, Damones

Age:        20
Occupation: Musician


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Cubase Score, FastTracker2.06, ProTracker 2.3a, SoundForge4.0e,
  CoolEdit Pro, ProTools 4, etc.. . :)

How long have you been on the scene?
- 1990

What do you think of the scene today?
- Too much other work to be really involved, unfortunately. Much friendship
  and stuff. Lots of projects... It's coming back :)

Do you think the scene has a future at all?

Handle:     Black Dragon
Group(s):   Honoo & Limited Edition

Age:        27
Occupation: Musician, Graphician, Swapper, AscII & Ansi Artist, Article
            writer, Editor, Organiser, Packmaker, Netsurfer.

What utilities do you use the most? 
- Protracker 3.15, Deluxe Paint 4.5 and Dirwork 2.1

How long have you been on the scene?
- 10 years!

What do you think of the scene today?
- Less active but nice!!! More productions are welcome!

Do you think the scene has a future at all?
- Yes! C64

Handle:     Blaze
Group(s):   Appendix+Floppy+Nah-Kolor

Age:        18
Occupation: Swapper, packmaker, organizer of Nah-Kolor.


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!) 
- File Master 2.202, Ced 3.5, Asmone 1.20 (Yep, it's true unfortunately ;)

How long have you been on the scene?
- Two years and three months.

What do you think of the scene today? 
- It's getting smaller and smaller every day, but i don't care at all!
  In my opinion the scene could be as tiny as hell, as long a

Handle:     Crisp
Group(s):   Crux

Age:        19
Occupation: Coder


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- 1. Directory Opus 5.65
  2. Devpac 3.14
  3. ArtPro!

How long have you been on the scene?
- 4 years now.

What do you think of the scene today?
- It could have been better, but heck, the old days are over :)

Do you think the scene has a future at all?
- Yes! As long as there is a small computer called Amiga, there will be 
  this small community called the scene...

Wh

Handle:     Curt Cool
Group(s):   Depth 

Age:        21
Occupation: Musician, Swapper, Editor, World Organizer.


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Protracker, ExoticRipper, Spot, Yam, Miami, HippoPlayer, AmIRC,
  CygnusEditor, SuperDuper (Sorry, I got hooked ;)

How long have you been on the scene?
- Since The Party 2.

What do you think of the scene today?
- Nice - but I miss the time of the legends, the time when the scene was
  still growing and packed with new talents

Handle:     Fishwave
Group(s):   Scoopex

Age:        18
Occupation: Editor


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- A cracked version of Wordworth especially modified for Seenpoint, 
  an old version of Filemaster & MaxonAssembler for editing ASCII texts.
  (it´s true!)

How long have you been on the scene?
- I got my first Amiga back in 1988 and from 1991 on I was watching demos
  and reading magazines. I did some public-domain stuff before I finally
  dedicated all my time t

Handle:     Frame
Group(s):   C-Lous

Age:        17
Occupation: "Art director" sounds cool.


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- On Amiga I use Deluxe Paint IV, Protracker for listening to modules and
  Filemaster for mastering files. On PC I use Photoshop 4.0, Netscape 4.03
  and Pagemaker 6.5.

How long have you been on the scene?
- As swapper since '92 and graphic designer since early '93.

What do you think of the scene today?
- Honestly, I think it really sucks because

Handle:     Hardfire
Group(s):   Spaceballs

Age:        20
Occupation: Musician, Graphician (and Swapper when I can find time for it.
            That means quite never, compared to my passed activities of
            swapper with 200 contacts...:)


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Cygnus Ed 3.5, DirOpus 4, Protracker 2.3d

How long have you been on the scene?
- More than 5 years... I began on the good old A500... Then followed the 
  mass in favou of the great A1200... 

Handle:     Joint
Group(s):   Gods

Age:        22
Occupation: Graphician


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- PhotoShop, Lightwave 3D 5.0, Bryce 2, 3D-Studio release 4.

How long have you been on the scene?
- Four years, on and off...

What do you think of the scene today?
- It has become less platform dependent, but still we have the old "Intel
  Outside" mentality (which might be true; won't discuss this here...) 
  which is really a very infantile way of saying you prefe

Handle:     Kure4Kancer
Group(s):   Rave Network Overscan (RNO) and TerrorDrome

Age:        18
Occupation: Musician, swapper, RNO world-leader, 
            and I also paint a _little_ bit... :)


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Protracker, Directory Opus and Cygnus ED mainly...
 
How long have you been on the scene?
- I started the whole shit a bit over 4 years ago in a group that didn't
  make any demos or intros.  We founded that group, Hic!, because we were
  going t

Handle:     Lord
Group(s):   Kangooroo, Crimson Jihad

Age:        21
Occupation: Trader, sysop, organizer


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- DayDream, FileMaster, Miami.

How long have you been on the scene?
- I joined the C64 scene in 1988 with a local group HBC. We were doing
simple things like converting games from floppy into tape.
I bought my first A500 just after 90 xmas and i teamed up with a
hungarian group called Hyperacidity in 1991. This was my very first
Amiga

Handle:     MJ
Group(s):   Iris

Age: 24
Occupation: Editor (Miracle), Trader, Swapper.


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Dopus, Pagestream & Dreamterm.

How long have you been on the scene?
- Too long to remember :)

What do you think of the scene today?
- Too long between the releases, but I belive it will change to the better
  soon again. 

Do you think the scene has a future at all?
- Yeps, it will have, when the ppc cards is the new standard, and next 
  generation 

Handle:     Madbart
Group(s):   Appendix^Anadune^Teklords

Age:        18
Occupation: 
- I'm the organizer of appendix, a raytracer and sysop (tHEsECT!)
  and in anadune^teklords I'm a raytracer and sysop... 


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Lightwave, Fame and all those internet programs like Miami, Amirc, 
  Aamftp, ibrowse, Yam and so on...

How long have you been on the scene?
- 4 years.

What do you think of the scene today?
- Em... It's very hard question... I thin

In Focus: Wolfman & Mount!                                .magic.nah-kolor.

The  still  so  popular diskmagazine Upstream died after releasing it's 10th
issue.   Mount  and Wolfman, the two men behind it, left there legacy to the
9th RAW issue before they went up in smoke.  To air their thoughts about the
years  that  have  been,  RETRO  presents  an  exclusive  interview with the
'OldSkool' Danish writing duo.  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust..  Amen!

What was the main purpose in releasing a mag

A casual interview with Num3n/Shelter on IRC!         .wiseguy@hm.telia.no.


WiseGuy; First of all I would like you to tell us something about yourself!

Num3n;  hehe..   Just a..  uhm..  normal guy, into computers and fotball.  I
even  play drums in a band..  (ekkelt å snakke engelsk til en normann) Maybe
people who know me would call exactly normal, but..

WiseGuy; I heard some wild rumours about a trip to poland, could you tell us
more about that?

Num3n;   Jocl!   :)  Well  it  was  Me,  B

Handle:     Psalt
Group(s):   Spaceballs & Donut Fetish PC

Age:        19
Occupation: Coder


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Dir, Execute and AsmOnev1.29

How long have you been on the scene?
- For about 2 years or so.

What do you think of the scene today?
- What should I say?  
  I really like the scene.  But it is decreasing in pure mass for every day.
  Especially here in Norway.  We don't have many groups left, but those who
  are left are more or less active.  At 

Qba, Poland's scene gem!                                  .magic.nah-kolor.

He might be one of Poland's most popular personality's.  One of Poland's top
swappers,  and the man behind the pack serie 'Speed' which he handed over to
Blaze.   We  are  talking  about  Qba of Nah-kolor.  The man who visited the
Intel Outside Party 1997 with red/green hair and with a small beard.  One of
the  main  orginizers  from  the very beginning of Nah-kolor, and a guy that
knows  almost  all  VIS in Poland.  Re

Small interview with RokDaZone on IRC                 .wiseguy@hm.telia.no.


WiseGuy;  Hi,  im  writing  for  the  Retro staff, and wonder if you got any
points  of  view?   I know we aint that professional.  But we make our best,
Soda  (ex  Psycho)  our  main  ed  did  not  quite like your rewieve in last
Generation, care to give any comments?

RokDaZone; On what? 

WiseGuy; Well about Retro? 

RokDaZone;  Errr,  I  wrote  the  review, I wrote a counterstatement and you
received another articl

Handle:     Shimmah
Group(s):   Donut Fetish

Age:        20
Occupation: Coder


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Filemaster, dir, execute!

How long have you been on the scene?
- 3 years (approximately)

What do you think of the scene today?
- It's quite OK, but I don't like the trend that all scene-stuff requires
  heavily expensive computers. (Not everybody can afford a 060)

Do you think the scene has a future at all?
- Of course. I thought the scene was dying a couple

Handle:     Andy Gibson aka Skidz/Area 51
Group(s):   AGAS Productions & AREA 51

Age:        DOH! 29
Occupation: Coder, BTF Disk Mag Writer etc...


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
  - Dopus
  - Too many utils!!!
  - Net Packages

How long have you been on the scene?
-  Hmmm....I've  been  using  the  Amiga since 1990...  As for being `on the
scene'  well,  I'm  not  really  on  the scene as such, but I do code games,
utils,  disk mag engines etc.  I'm not what you would t

Handle:     Sprocket
Group(s):   Depth, sense(pc) and image!(pc)

Age:        21
Occupation: Graphician


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Gfx2, Photoshop 4, Deluxe Paint 4.

How long have you been on the scene?
- Since 1991, I guess.

What do you think of the scene today?
- It really sucks compared to the 1991-94 eura.

Do you think the scene has a future at all?
- Of course. People just have to get rid of the attitude, which tends
to frighten some of the lamers. ;)

What

Handle:     Tentacle
Group(s):   Instinct

Age:        18
Occupation: Graphician, Musican


What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!)
- Brillance, OctaMed SoundStudio, ADPro.

How long have you been on the scene?
- For about two years!

What do you think of the scene today?
- The scene is okay. There are many good groups who make exciting 
  productions. There are many unserious things too, of course, but they
  most of the groups have to start on a primitive level.

Do you think the

Handle:     Tom
Group(s):   Hoodlum, Jormas, Serious Boys, Digital Mafia

Age:        73 [Uhh... Sure? - The Retro Staff]
Occupation: Phreaker, leader, vocalist, musician

After emailing the interview to a lot of sceners, we got a lot of different
answers. Some were serious and friendly, others were stupid, full of errors,
arrogant, and just plain idiotic. One of these interviews originated from 
Tom of Hoodlum^Jormas^Serious Boys^Digital Mafia. But, since Tom proved
incapable of writing down se

In Focus: Wolfman & Mount!                                .magic.nah-kolor.

The  still  so  popular diskmagazine Upstream died after releasing it's 10th
issue.   Mount  and Wolfman, the two men behind it, left there legacy to the
9th RAW issue before they went up in smoke.  To air their thoughts about the
years  that  have  been,  RETRO  presents  an  exclusive  interview with the
'OldSkool' Danish writing duo.  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust..  Amen!

What was the main purpose in releasing a mag

Distance '97 - a party report.                          .punisher/instinct.

                    Written on the 8th of december 1997.

A couple of days ago, I got a phonecall from Soda/Instinct, the editor of
Retro. He told me that he desperatly needed some articles for his mag, and
that he would appreciate some support from me. Why not?, I thought for
myself. It could prove fun to write an article, instead of the letters I
write all the time. That's why I decided to write a party report from 
D