Inteview with Cindy
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INTERVIEW WITH CINDY/TALENT - the first female scenecoder ever by Lord Stradh You are one of the few female mebers of the scene and being a coderess as well makes you truly special. You have even released a dentro called 'Showtime', are you proud? Yes, kind of. I spent quite some time making my first production, so it was of course a relief to release it and get it out of my life! Why don't you make a quick presentation of yourself before we go on? Here comes the usual crap: My name's Nina Therese, I'm 16 years old, approximately 1.70 cm tall, approximately 56 kg, dark blue eyes and long dark hair. My interests are handball (!!), some coding (of course), go to parties or discos, dancing and everything else girls at my age do. 'Showtime' was the name of you dentro. Are you pleased with the result, and how much time did you spend on making it? Yes, I'm pleased with the result, even though I could have changed some parts and skipped something, but that's normal isn't? I don't really want to admit how long I spent on it, but it was quite some time!! What made you start coding, and where did you learn to code? Well, I have always found computers interesting in one way or another, and I soon relized that coding was what I enjoyed the most. I learned the most basic knowledge reading an Abacus book called Amiga Machine Language, later I picked up more information by looking through source-codes and by help from other coders going to the same school as I do. Do you find it strange that there are so few girls in the amiga scene? No, not really! But there will probably be more and more girls computing in the future! You are known to be a lazy coder, is there any truth behind that statement? Who told you so!!! (Well, according to some reliable sources and comparison with your brother, that has to be true!) But I have to admit I'm a very slow coder, but what the heck! Let's talk some more about Showtime. What's your opinion on the overall design, graphics and music? I love my own designing! Modest, not me! The graphics from Boo was great (I especially liked the hearts in the vector part!), and the music from El Loco an Sundance Kid was my kind of taste! What part gave you the most headache in Showtime? No doubt, the dodecahedron with the RGB shading! I had my friend Sindre to help me out quite a bit there esp. with the calculations of the object. You greeted a guy called Sindre in Showtime. In what way has he helped you? He helped me with the vector calculations, and whenever else I had trouble he always helped me out! Thank you, Sindre! What are your future plans? Any new releases on their way, or are you having your Vacation now? Nope, no future plans, because I'm quite fed up with coding! It really takes up too much of my beloved sparetime, but who knows, I might be back when least expected... What made you join Talent, and what is your opinion on your own group? Easy one! My very own brother (El Loco/Talent) was offered to join Talent, and I wanted to be in the same group as him! And of course I know Sundance Kid, Scourger and Lord Stradh as well, since we all live at the same place! I think Talent is a good group, with many TALENTED members, yet it does not appear to me that the scene has really noticed our productions... It remains a mystery to me that Panta Rhei hardly made it in any chart! I guess the fact that it was a 1200 only demo is part of the blame, still it should have been ranked much higher. >> Continues next page... <<~ >> Interview w/Cindy continues << Are you interested in swapping? No, no, no! There's no way I have time for that! (That is the reason why I don't spread my address around, get it!) Are you going to any computer parties? Are you crazy! I don't think my boyfriend would like that, and besides, what girl would like to spend some days in a place where a huge percentage of the people there are morons and keep asking you silly questions and looking at you as if they have never seen a girl before! Not me... So you have a boyfriend! What's his opinion on computing? He's quite indifferent when it comes to computing, he finds it boring, and believe me, at times I understand him! Why did you choose a handle like Cindy? To be honest, at first it was a joke, then some of my friends thought it was a neat handle, and I decided to keep it. After you released Showtime, you put away a lot of doubt concerning to whether you really could code or not, but still, some people do not believe in you, and claim you are a new Patsy. Does that annoy you? Hell yes! Of course it annoys me, I wonder what logic those guys have behind their reasoning and thinking when they come up with such a conclusion. Why can't girls do the same things boys have been doing for some years now. Thank you Cindy/Talent for letting us ask you these questions, any final remarks or comments? I say hello to Talentists worldwide, my darling Frank, my good friends Randi, Hege, Karianne, Goeril, Heidi, Marianne, Elin, Bjoernhild and the rest! Also a big hug to Sindre, of course! And I guess I must mention my strong stud of a brother, Harald (El Loco).~