Zine 11 (Diskmagazine) by Brainstorm

TRUTH ABOUT M.O.N.


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There were heavy rumours circling about MANIACS OF NOISE. Axel of BRAIN~STORM has asked Tip and Mantronix of PHENOMENA to tell us their own personal experiences in MON and that's what this inter~view is all about. Here we go:

- Mantronix and Tip have LEFT Maniacs of Noise! This surprised the whole scene, we guess. Until now everybody would have been overjoyed if one had been hired by "the legendary" Maniacs of Noise. But you've left. Why

INTERVIEW WITH:

ANDY OF AI


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Andy of Amiga Industries was inter~viewed by Orlando of Brainstorm.

- Andy, you are since a long time a member of the computer-scene. Tell us your computer history...

On my 11th birthday I got a 64 from my parents. Then I lamed around some time and in the end of 85 I got interested in the scene and started swapping by mail. In 86 I borrowed an Amiga 1000 from a friend of mine (student) and started mail swapping as an independent guy. In the mid

TRUTH ABOUT M.O.N.


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There were heavy rumours circling about MANIACS OF NOISE. Axel of BRAIN~STORM has asked Tip and Mantronix of PHENOMENA to tell us their own personal experiences in MON and that's what this inter~view is all about. Here we go:

- Mantronix and Tip have LEFT Maniacs of Noise! This surprised the whole scene, we guess. Until now everybody would have been overjoyed if one had been hired by "the legendary" Maniacs of Noise. But you've left. Why

After that, we wanted to know if Oistein is telling the truth when he says:"I am more than certain that they haven't even got listed up at the company!", we simply called Matthew Simmonds (ex 4-Mat) to ask him if Tip and Mantronix really are members of SONIC PROJECTS. Here is the SHORT dialogue with Matthew to keep my phonebill as low as possible:

- Hello Matthew! Well I simply wanted to ask you if Tip and Mantronix really are members of SNP. Since you are the organizer of SNP I decided to ask 

Interview with:

Dr.Outtasight of CRUSADERS


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Dr.Outtasight of Crusaders was inter~viewed by Chester of Brainstorm.

The 24 year old Norwegian is SysOp and maineditor of the wellknown "Crusaders Eurochart".

"I smoke a lot. Too much actually. When sitting in front of any monitor I constantly have a cigarette in my left hand.
It's a BAD habbit, your clothes stink, your fingers get yellow, your lungs are fucked forever and your disk drive has to be de-ashed ev

INTERVIEW WITH:

MAHONEY


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Mahoney was interviewed by Orlando of Brainstorm. 

-  Mahoney, first of all could you tell me why you decided to take this name as your nick~name? What about the names Toot, Ice~cream and Pepper~mint?  

Mahoney is, believe it or not, the weird hero of Police Aca~demy. Lucky me, every~body seems to have for~gotten about him. I used to like those films, last month I just had to check one out and see if I was still fond of them. I wasn't. The other name

INTERVIEW WITH:

Rush of ANARCHY


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Rush of Anrachy was interviewed by Orlando of Brainstorm.


- Rush, you coded some parts for the "Digital Innovation" demo. Are you satisfied with the demo? Don't you think that the demo is quite boring. Wouldn't it have been better, if you just put in the good parts instead of just squeezing as much as possible in the demo? Why isn't there a possibility to skip the parts? Do you like your demo?

To be honest, Yes I do think it is a bit 

M.O.N'S REACTION


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Organized and edited by Axel of BRAINSTORM, written by Oistein Eide of MON.

Since we wanted to know what Oistein Eide of MANIACS OF NOISE is thinking about Tip and Mantronix's words, we simply asked him to write about that what he thinks of the statements that have been put up against him. Here is what he wants to tell the scene:

Forgive me readers. Forgive me for boring you with another article about MON. But it is time to handle the irrel

X-MAS PARTY PREVIEW


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Written by Chester of Brainstorm and Trix of Anarchy.

The computer party "X-Mas conference '91", organized by Anarchy, Silents and Crystal, will probably become the biggest ever.
This article contains a small-talk with one of the organizers (Trix of Anarchy) at the end and every~thing else you have to know about the party first.

Some information:
You might have heard about a Quartex-Rebels party, you might have heard about a Quartex-Si

REPORT FORM ARENDAL


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Written by Grim Jack of Utopia.

From the 26th to the 29th of september, Imp-666 and Razor held a party in "Granehallen" near to Arendal centrum.
They were expecting about 4-500 people to this party, but only 220 showed up, and mostly gamers and swappers.
There were released some demos, intros and some strange (but nice) compactings. The program that was continusly in use was X-copy (as usual?), but all of you know why it's called a cop

CCCCP REPORT
 

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Written by Stranger of Energy.

Ok, I would like to write a short report about the CCCCP, the Cerberos Chromance Computermania Copy Party, which was held from 7th-8th September 1991 in Budapest, Hungary. The Partyplace was a big university some kilometers far from the train station. When we (Bernd/CHAOS + I) arrived at the party place at 2.30 pm, we were really astonished: We saw a big hall with about 100 people and most of them were children, which playe

RAZOR & IMP: "Invitation"

Code ............................. 60%
Graphics ......................... 75%
Music ............................ 40%
Ideas ............................ 55%
Impression ....................... 50%
Overall .......................... 56%

Code ...................... Jawbreaker
Graphics ......................... Pal
Music ...................... Mantronix
This demo was just supposed to be a little invita~tion intro, but the demos which were released these last two months wer

MOTION: "Confuzion"

Code ............................. 70%
Graphics ......................... 65%
Music ............................ 45%
Ideas ............................ 30%
Impression ....................... 55%
Overall .......................... 53%

Code .......................... Blazer
Graphics ........................ Duel
Music ........................ Madlock
It's an average demo from Motion with no new ideas, so it's not too good but there is a quite atmo~sphe~ric begin~ning which lo

SPREADPOINT: "Cube-o-matic"

Code ............................. 85%
Graphics ......................... 60%
Music ............................ 25%
Ideas ............................ 85%
Impression ....................... 80%
Overall .......................... 67%

Code .......................... Buddha
Graphics ................ Ucom, Grampa
Music ............................ Mat
Finally a new demo by a Swiss coder. Buddha, the coder of the Masterseka, presents us his first (we think so...) demo.

ANARCHY: "Digital Innovation"

Code ............................. 80%
Graphics ......................... 85%
Music ............................ 80%
Ideas ............................ 20%
Impression ....................... 30%
Overall .......................... 59%

Code ............. Rush, Dan, Icronite
Graphics ... Golem, Milkshake, Airwalk
Music ........................... Nuke
Anarchy's new track~disk multi-demo. Rush's part have better code and design compared to those of Dan & Icronite. Wha

Musicdisk 1 by PROTON LTD.
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Tradition tells us to start or end with the credits. This time my coin told me to tell them at the beginning. "O.K." I thought and this is the reason why I publish them NOW:
Music composed by Chrylian, graphics drawn by Sculptor and coded was this production by Taimak and Dr. Kow.
But my job is it to write about the music and that's what I am going to do know. First some tech datas: The disk contains 780K of songdata in five songs. A digitiz

KEFRENS: "Guardian, Dragon"

Code ............................. 70%
Graphics ......................... 75%
Music ............................ 55%
Ideas ............................ 05%
Impression ....................... 45%
Overall .......................... 50%

Code .......................... Laxity
Graphics ....................... R.W.O
Music .......................... S.L.L


The new Kefrens are back with a dis~appoin~ting demo. Until now they failed in rebuilding the old image of the group.

SILENTS: "Rex"

Code ............................. 80%
Graphics ......................... 80%
Music ............................ 55%
Ideas ............................ 10%
Impression ....................... 50%
Overall .......................... 55%

Code ......................... Sunjohn
Graphics ....................... Slash
Music ....................... Heatbeat
The special thing about this demo is just the zoom in the begin~ning, but that looks fanta~stic, the code is some~thing like CRB's "

Bruno's Musicbox 3 by ANARCHY
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Well, the intro of Bruno's Musicbox 3 is really strange. This time he also proved his talents in drawing graphics besides composing music. It starts of with an animation which shows Dr.Snuggle jumping along a way. Nothing special but funny.
After that, the musicdisk itself gets loaded and after a while you are already having the pleasure to check out his first piece. He presented us a totally new kind of musicdisk, since he mainly co

Master's Noise by M&K
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I really do not know where to start with this crazy musicdisk. Since it is nearly impossible to tell you all passwords, hidden parts etc. I will simply kick off with the credits: Music by: Mahoney, Ziphoid, Panda, Gluemaster, Xerxes, Mantronix, Obarski, Neuman, Zeb, Yogi, Tsaca, Watchman, Donald, Flex, Nizze, Monopoly, H.I.V., Candyman, Maggot, Guts and Duke. Phew, all in all there worked around 21 (!) musicians. On the two disks are included 101 son

Insomnia by EQUINOX
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First I have to admit that this is only the musicpart of Equinox's last demo-slideshow-musicdisk production. And when I saw and heard that part I decided to test it for this issue.
Unfortunately I have not figured out what synonyme the musician uses. So here is only his private name: Johan Steen. Please write to me, so that we can publish your name in the next issue's News article. This is also concerning the coder and the graphician of that part!
O.K. I

ANDROMEDA: "Suffocation"

Code ............................. 70%
Graphics ......................... 75%
Music ............................ 55%
Ideas ............................ 30%
Impression ....................... 55%
Overall .......................... 57%

Code ............................ Andy
Graphics ................ Quest, Facet
Music ......................... Mr Man
Yupi, finally a demo with new ideas! Vectors, fractals and a sine-scroller? Or do you want to see even MORE new routines?

DREAMDEALERS: "Tales Of A Dream"

Code ............................. 75%
Graphics ......................... 60%
Music ............................ 80%
Ideas ............................ 10%
Impression ....................... 45%
Overall .......................... 54%

Code ........................ Redlight
Graphics ........................ Tony
Music ........................... Moby
Everything in this demo we have already seen somewhere, sometime. Concave vectors, calculated circles, vectors, ve

COMPLEX: "Vectorpreview-Demo"

Code ............................. 85%
Graphics ......................... 80%
Music ............................ 70%
Ideas ............................ 70%
Impression ....................... 80%
Overall .......................... 77%

Code ......................... Tai-Pan
Graphics ........................ Jugi
Music ........................... Jugi
Unfortunately we forgot to test this demo in the last issue of ZINE (sorry). But anyway, since this demo is really go