INTERVIEW WITH ITALIAN BAD BOY 106                MULTI   !
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                         Interview done by Bukaroo/L.S.D.

BK  - First could you present yourself          University  of Architecture here
      (job, age, how long have you got          in  my  dirty town in this place
      your Amiga).                              you  can  find  about  700 girls
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E$G - Well  let me introduce myself as
      a  pioneer  of amiga scene I own    BK  - We'd  like  to  know the list of
      my Amiga till beginning of 1987.          the  group  you have been before
      My  name is Enrico, my handle is          to be in IBB.
      E$G  and  together with Franz we
      built  the  amazing  ITALIAN BAD    E$G - On  Amiga  I  have started as an
      BOYS!   I'm  25  years old and I          IBB   member   and   I'll   stop
      work  in  paradise also known as          (NEVER!)  as  an IBB member.  On
      Politecnico of Turin that is the          64  I've  been  in  E$G software

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      team and E$G legion team.                 prices,  so  not many people can
                                                afford  it.   The  most of Amiga
BK  - Could  you  compare the nowadays          users  of  those times still own
      Amiga scene and the old one.  In          the  great  64  there  were  few
      your opinion which was the best?          group,  bad  copiers, and normal
                                                programs  ....  but believe pals
E$G - Well more than 4 years ago, when          those   were  big  times,  there
      64  dominated supreme, commodore          weren't  so  many  wars  between
      decided to create a new computer          groups and most of the dudes are
      with   more   chips,   memory  a          all friends most of swappin were
      serious  microprocessor  & so on          made  by mail, only in late 1987
      ....  A-1000 was born!                    were  introduced  modem  swappin
                                                but still at 2400 baud.
      It   was   very   expensive   in
      comparison  with todays hardware          There  were few good parties but

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      well  organized,  all were happy          introduced,  low  price  -  high
      and  everybody  tries to do best          quantity of computer sold!  Most
      to  improve  the  quality of the          of  64  users  upgrade  them  to
      demos ...  do ya remember SODAN,          Amiga,  so  many  programs  were
      TWILIGTH  ZONE,  STAR FRONTIERS,          developed,  hundreds  of  groups
      TLC,  RSI, GSC, TSK, MEGAFORCE &          were generated
      many   others   also   to   find
      originals   was  very  hard  and          ... LAMERS  arrived  ...
      people like HEADBANGER with good
      connections  in  the states have          The  BIG  BUSINESS started.  Too
      the exclusive of many progs.              many  people,  too jealousy, too
                                                money  flattering  around,  some
      But  as  all  great  things this          leading   (commercial)   groups,
      wonderful  scene  was  goin'  to          days  of  panic  to  stay on the
      rotten.    So   the   A-500  was          scene   and  to  be  faster  and

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      faster!   Some  of  the dudes of          downloading but they run endless
      amiga  beginning  scene  sick of          conferences  ....   I'd  like to
      this   things  left  the  scene,          remember:   Mike  (PHI), Thomas,
      others were caught by the police          George,    Metallica,    Rastan,
      expecially  in WEST-GERMANY (yes          Heiko,   Mr.Commodore,   Daniel,
      at  those times there were still          John,  CPU, Franky, and all cool
      two  GERMANY!)  but  don't worry          girls and boys that spend nights
      for one that stop ten joined the          to  have  fun  in conferences, 3
      scene.                                    ways  & so on !!  But modem were
                                                near to explode and thanx to USR
      Thanx  god  there aren't so many          ROBOTICS  fast  standard all the
      bbs  around and the few that can          things are goin' to finish.....
      phreak  were  week  ahead, other
      cool  guyz  that  were  able  to          So  as you can guess I loved the
      phreak   don't   lose   time  in          past scene but I'm still in this

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      scene   'cause  I've  many  good          it's  so  boring  to  connect to
      friends yet...                            bbs...  sometimes you can have a
                                                chat  with  a  sysop but some of
      But  today,  in  my opinion, the          them  are  really shitty (normal
      best things are letters, because          ratio,  no  messages, no chats &
      all   the   good   releases  are          so  on)  maybe  something in the
      available  on  bbs  so  the main          future   will   change   try  to
      groups     just    swap    their          connect   to   PHIL  THRUST  new
      productions...   to  be on top I          central    europe    BBS    with
      think  you  must,  as  I'm doin,          multichat  line.   Hoping  in  a
      have  an  HST  modem  to get all          better  future  we just sit next
      latest  wares  plus  a good mail          to  the  river  and  wait as the
      swappin to get all good prods of          last lamer will pass !!!!!
      group that still don't swap with
      modem....    but  believe  dudes    BK  - In  your  opinion  which  is the

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      best  Amiga  scene  country  and    BK  - IBB future projects?
      explain why?
                                          E$G - TOP SECRET...  if we said it all
E$G - Well nowadays I think best Amiga          now   where   will   finish  the
      scene  as piracy is Germany they          surprise...   by the way you can
      are   so   fast  there  are  the          stay  tuned  to  get our fanzine
      biggest   number   of  BBS  good          "THE   BAD  TONGUE",  a  special
      crackers,  also  France  is good          about  Japanese cartoons & comix
      but french don't care so much to          and       something       called
      be    so    fast.     In   Amiga          TECHNOLOGIKO....    maybe  we'll
      productions I think best country          open  soon  a  new  bbs  and  of
      is  Finland  there  are  so many          course  we  will  go on with our
      good coders there ....  but also          requested  collections....   and
      in  other  countries we can find          if Cap'n'Duracell will be not so
      good people ....                          lazy we will hit again the scene

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      with our trainers.                        also in Italy there are talented
                                                and  cool  guys  but they own to
BK  - What  questions  would  you like          different  groups  or don't care
      that  I ask you and what will be          about   Amiga   scene.    Othere
      your reply?                               people  like  Terminator of Zero
                                                Defects  or  Storm of Divina are
E$G - Well  a  question  I'll  love to          too  jealous  of IBB success and
      answer  could be ...  what about          attacked  us  to get their ratio
      ITALY?   Well  what  can  I  say          of publicity.  Yes this could be
      beautiful  country, good pizzas,          a  fine  way  to get popular but
      big  tits  girls  ...  NOOOOO !!          NOT  FAMOUS,  the  glory must be
      Yes  the  amiga  scene ...  well          gained  day  by day in the right
      you   can   read   about  it  in          way !
      millions  of boring articles but
      what  I'd  like  to  say is that    BK  - A last word...

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E$G - Well  thanx  to  BUKAROO/LSD for
      the  interview  ..   it could be
      fine  to  be interviewed in 1995
      and  compare  the 2 interview to
      see   what's   happened  in  the
      future years !  Also a big hello
      to  all  IBB  members  worldwide
      plus all the people I've been in
      touch with !

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