Zine 3 (Diskmagazine) by Brainstorm

Cyborg Power Systems consists of five members, as there are Amiga Tracer (that's me!), Massacre (former Machine), Overlord X, Rainbow Warrior (former Screaming Beast) and TomCat. We are all coming from Bremen, located at the River Weser approx. 50 km far from the North Sea in the northern part of Germany. No one of our present members took part in the foundation of CPS in late 1985 (on C64). 
In fact it was Rainbow Warrior to bring the Amiga in this group in winter  1987. By the time, all the ot

Interview with Cosmac/Sly of FACTOR IV by ORLANDO of Brainstorm. 
 
Your group and its past: 
-Factor IV was formed in March 1989 after a party in Auckland.  We all meet each other and got on well so we left our old groups and made Factor IV. Factor IV  has  now 7 members, five in New Zealand who have been round in  the New  Zealand  scene for about 1 to 6 years. One American who was in the 64 scene for a while but has been Phreaking for the last 3 years. One Australian  who  was  also in the 64

A Brainstorm interview with Mr.Perfect & Jens (L.Dredd) of SILENTS. 
 
How old are you? 
-Jens(L.DREDD):I'm 16 years old and I'm the main spreader here in Denmark. 
-Mr. Perfect: I'm the youngest member in Silents, I am only 15 years old (no kidding) but I have been one of the most active coders in Silents lately. 
 
When have you bought your first computer? 
-Jens: I got a c16 in 1984 and a c128 in 1985, on the c16 I learned  to code and I have maked a demo, but on the c128 I was a lamer. I got

A Brainstorm interview with Mr.Perfect & Jens (L.Dredd) of SILENTS. 
 
How old are you? 
-Jens(L.DREDD):I'm 16 years old and I'm the main spreader here in Denmark. 
-Mr. Perfect: I'm the youngest member in Silents, I am only 15 years old (no kidding) but I have been one of the most active coders in Silents lately. 
 
When have you bought your first computer? 
-Jens: I got a c16 in 1984 and a c128 in 1985, on the c16 I learned  to code and I have maked a demo, but on the c128 I was a lamer. I got

Interview with Cosmac/Sly of FACTOR IV by ORLANDO of Brainstorm. 
 
Your group and its past: 
-Factor IV was formed in March 1989 after a party in Auckland.  We all meet each other and got on well so we left our old groups and made Factor IV. Factor IV  has  now 7 members, five in New Zealand who have been round in  the New  Zealand  scene for about 1 to 6 years. One American who was in the 64 scene for a while but has been Phreaking for the last 3 years. One Australian  who  was  also in the 64

Metalwar of ALCATRAZ was interviewed by THE EDGE of BRS. 
 
When was Alcatraz founded? 
-In the beginning of 1988, and after a lond silence the legend continues ! (M]tley Crew Team is the new name of Alcatraz) 
 
What are the current members? 
-Skyman, Moby, Diskbuster, Bitmaster, PGCS, Helix, New generation, Greg, Triad, Hornet, Devils, Magnetix, Nifty Nit, Brothers, and of course Metalwar!! 
 
Are you looking for some more people? 
-We only search for good coders and a excellent graphic artist

Mirage UK. answered to a questionaire of Brainstorm: 
 
1.Please give us your Name, Group and Location. 
-Our name is Mirage U.K. This name came from a Band I once was part of. All members are british. We have grown to 10 members who all do at least 1 job in the group to contribute. 5 members in Plymouth and 5 others spread all over the U.K. 
 
2. List us the good groups in your country. -Speedy Dennis (Quartex U.K. Division), Oracle, SAE. 
 
3. Why do you think so? Give us some information. -Qu

This is a questonaire with Speedy which emphasizes on the Norwegian scene. 
 
1) Please give us briefly your Name, Group and Location. 
-Speedy of Visual Arts, West Coast of Norway, 12.01.90 
 
2) List us the good groups in your country (in order of importance). 
-At the moment these groups are Norway's best: 
  Razor 1911 
  IT 
  Cryptoburners 
  Crusaders 
  No Limits 
  Fraxion 
 
3) Why do you think so? Give us some information. 
-I think Razor 1911 is the best because of they are the only 

Hello dude! Sorry that I'm disturbing you but we only want to know a little bit about the Titanics team. So just relax, open a coke and answer all these questions! Let's go... 
(Interviewed at the TITANICS HQ meeting 18.11.89 in Hamburg with all german members). 
 
When were Titanics founded and by who? 
-Titanics were founded in April 89 by all members of the OBELISK CREW and XCALIBUR. To get this name we had a lot of trouble because everybody wanted another name. Great Guru wrote a program esp

Announcement: 
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Alcatraz & Brainstorm will organize a wonderful party with a fantastic demo-competition during the Eastern week-end! 
It will take place in village near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Some words about the place: It is very big, we can welcome about five hundred people, they are conference rooms, cloakrooms, beds (for the foreigners), a very big stage, a bar, big kitchens and much more... 
The attractions: 2 giant screens, movies, good food, good music with a professional

Well, maybe you know that France is directly responsible for the facts which happened at the BS1 party. 
As a matter of fact, APP (Agence pour la Protection des Programmes, Agency for the softwares protection) and Titus sent a press info in the french magazine called Commodore Revue. Here's what happened exactly: 
8h00 am, the APP director leaves Paris with an international rogatory comission. With him, two french inspectors and four men from TITUS. They are going to the party. 11h00 am, the Tit

The Party took place on an old castle in L]rrach/Germany near the swiss border.  The Party started at about 11 o'clock and went on to 9 o'clock. 
At about half past 11 the party was visited by 2 policemen, and many people  were shocked. But these 2 guys called Huber and Klein didn't finish the party! They just said that the German Kripo knows what happens here, but they are not going to do something against it. They just told us that it is illegal to copy stuff in Germany. We showed'em some Demo

Yes, the Crusaders have done it again. January 1st, the Crusaders have released the second issue of Eurocharts. It lists the top ten crews, top ten demos, top ten sound etc.. The Crusaders collect votes from a few hundred people (last issue as they said almost 300 people) and then count the votes together. There have been some improvements made in this second issue, for example worst group isn't anylonger one of the topics which people may vote on. I think this is good so, because otherwise it w