TEDRIC OF PARADISE INTERVIEW

  This  is  a larger interview with TEDRIC one of the coders of PARADISE.  Maybe
you know some of his productions.
  We  talked  about  PARADISE and their problems and activities.  There was some
trouble  around  this  group  just  before  so  we  had several questions.  It's
interesting we think.  Okay let's start...                        (chris/decade)

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CJ: Tell us something about you and your Group.
PA: My  name is  TEDRIC and  I'm a  member of  PARADISE.  My job  is coding  and
    together  with  ARCATRONIC  I  try  to  organize  the funky bunch.
    PARADISE  consists  of  24  members (for those who wanna know it exactly:  4
    coders, 4 gfxmen, 4 musicians, 4 swappers, 3 traders and 5 sysops).
    Most  of  our  members  are  living  in  Germany  but we got some members in
    Finland, USA, Italy and Turkey, too.
CJ: A  lot  of people  complain about  your releases being lame.  (Markt+Technik
    stuff and things like that).  What do you think about this ?
PA: First  I want  to state  that I'm only responsible for the demos we release.
    Second  I want to tell you that we don't have a cracker and so it's not very
    easy  for  us  to release high-quality  games, even if we sometimes have got
    the originals days (!) before the real big cracker-groups.
CJ: What is your favourite:
Demogroup   : Anarchy, Sanity
Crack.group : SKID ROW
Game        : Vroom, Pinball Dreams
Demo        : Digital Innovation / Hardwired / Upfront MD
Movie       : Life of Brian
Mag         : McDisk, R.A.W. (sorry dudez)
Coder       : The Spy/Crionics
Gfxman      : Mithrandir/ACME
Musician    : Static/Rebels
Utility     : ASMONE, Dpaint 4
Hobby       : Icehockey
CJ: What do you think is the êlamest:
Demogroup   : AMG
Crack.group : ????

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Game        : KID GLOVES II
Demo        : SKID ROW MEGADEMO
Movie       : Lindenstrasse
Mag         : Slime
Coder       : Magic Drummer/SR
Gfxman      : Ribald/Pirates
Musician    : ????
Util        : all Utility-boots except Scoopex and Cytax
CJ: You like demos with filled vektor routines?!
PA: Ok, I can understand  that many people think that filled vectors are boring
    but  for me  as a  coder it's very interresting to see new and fast vector-
    routines so I personally like them very much.
CJ: What are your furure plans ?
PA: We will release a  TECHNO-DISK in the near future and we want to produce a
    Budbrain-like demo afterwards.  Several intros will be released inbetween
    and ofcourse our swappers will keep on doing demopacks.
CJ: Have you got any problems with other groups or other people ?
PA: Well,  we had  little quarrels  with some  people like Wizzler/TRSI or Doom/
    Design but I think nowadays there are no bigger problems anymore.
CJ: We heard rumours  that there are several groups called PARADISE existing and
    about PARADISE being dead.
PA: Well,  this is  a long  story - I'll try to  tell it in a few sentences.  In
    april 1991 my friend Chris and I decided to found a new group and we claimed
    the name PARADISE.  We were hard working on our megademo when we heard about
    a belgian crackergroup, which was called PARADISE, too.
    As  we  liked  our  name and we had lotsa logos drawn already, we decided to
    keep  our  name.   Things  were going on well till the Ami- Expo in Cologne.
    There  we  met another group called PARADISE which came from Germany too and

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    was already existing since several years.  So there were now 3 groups called
    PARADISE in scene!  We joined together with the other PARADISE from Germany,
    so there were still 2 different PARADISE remaining.  Thats why we all joined
    the  Belgian PARADISE.
    Few  weeks  later  the  Belgians  left and joined FUSION.  (that's where the
    rumours  about  PARADISE  being dead came from) Well, nowadays there is only
    ONE PARADISE remaining and as you can see, we're still alive!
CJ: How  old are  you and  since when  do you own your AMIGA?  Did you come from
    the C64-scene?
PA: I'm  actually 16  years old and I got my machine now for 3 years.  No, I had
    an Amstrad CPC before but there was no real scene there.
CJ: In the  last few years the Amiga-scene has changed a lot.  What do you think
    about the scene of the past and about nowadays scene ?
PA: Compared  to the  past there are much more high quality productions released
    today but nowadays there are also lots of groups which seem to release demos
    with  minor or NO quality just for their swappers having something to spread
    - I hate this  like hell!
    As  there  is  an  infinite  number  of different groups existing, it's also
    harder  for a new group to get known than in the past.  Well, nowadays scene
    has many advatages and disadvantages, but I think that we have to take it as
    it is.
CJ: Thanx for this interview.  Have you got any final words ?
PA: Greets to: Boytronic/Outrage, Spiv/Paranoid, Frostie/Reflectors,
               Demon/Afl, Chuck/Acume, Ripper/Tech, Sir/Violence,
               Nightmare/Cyborx
               and ofcourse to CHRIS & JADE (Booze Brothers) of DECADE
               Don't forget to call our boards.
               PARADISE - TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE !