Interview with Promax/Kefrens
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Introduce  yourself  (name,function and  Maniac   called  me and  Metallion,  we
so on...)                                raised   the problem.  The  others said
Hello my name is Promax. I dont know if  that if we left, Kefrens wouldn't exist
you  ever  heard  about  me but  I am a  anymore.   That  convinced  me that the
coder in Kefrens.                        other  members  were shit.  So I joined
                                         Paradox  together  with 4 other members
When  and by whom  was Kefrens founded?  from  Kefrens. Kefrens was disolved and
The  group was founded  in 1987 by some  didn't  exist for 1  hole day. But 7 of
old  members  called Razmo,  Metallion,  the  cool old  Kefrens guys  formed the
Mellica.   The  last  guy  Mellica  was  group again together with 4 new guys. I
kicked  out 2 month  ago. At first they  found  out that some  of the members in
called themselves The Starlight Project  Paradox  had secret  addresses and that
but  in 1988  they changed  the name to  we could only get their first name. And
Kefrens.                                 I  felt  that I had  to code  demos and
                                         intros  to a bunch of guys I didnt know
Why didn't you join Paradox?             (couldn't  get  to know).  So I decided
An old question, but anyway... I'll try  that before I got more involved in this
to  be  brief.  Some  months ago  I was  new  group I would  leave it. The other
tired  of  Kefrens, we were  25 members  four left too, and we rejoined Kefrens.
more   than  half  of  them  didn't  do  So  here I am back  in good old Kefrens
anything.  It is hard to kick more than  based  on  friendship  and  solidarity.
half  a  group  out. So  when  Midnight              The interview continues>>>>


Interview with Promax/Kefrens
Write  down the  members of Kefrens and  What's   the  average  age in  Kefrens?
their funktions.                         At the moment the average must be about
We are now 16 members in a-z order:      18-19 years. I myself is 20 years.

Deflex....Spreader                       Who  decided to code the last megademo?
ICronite.....Coder                       After   haveing   visited  the  Upfront
Metallion....Coder                       Christmas party without having anything
Nightlight...Music                       ready  for release  except for the Seka
RVO............Gfx                       V3.2.  We decided to change that at our
Toxic.....Spreader                       own  party, one and a half month later.
Detron.......Coder                       I had 3 weeks off in January so I coded
Jagger....Spreader                       Filled  Transformer,  Kill Victor and a
Milkshake......Gfx                       few  days before the  party I coded the
Promax.......Coder                       loader screen.
Seen...........Gfx      
Gizwiz.......Coder                       What was your first release?
Maestro......Music                       Our   first   release   was a  demo  by
Neon.........Coder                       Metallion    in  1987.  A  beauty  with
Razmo...MusGfxCode                       rasterbars, sprites and a one bitplanes
SLL..........Music                       selfdrawn   logo.  Quite cool  when you
                                         consider  that the  hardware manual was
Are you looking for more members?        impossible     to  get at  that   time.
-  As mentioned we had problems because
we were too many. We don't want that to      Continues on the following page....      
happen again, so NO new members please!                                         


Interview with Promax/Kefrens
What  kind of music  do you like? (last  Tell  us  your preferd  holiday  place.
bought LP)                               At  Delta's  place (hi Delta  !!). This
The  last record must  almost certainly  was   just a  joke.  Actually  I  don't
have  been  a Jean  Michel  Jarre hyper  really  know. I like  to go somewhere I
dynamic blib, blop computer sound alike  havent  been before.  But my most hated
record.   Normaly I  just find  a funky  way  of spending my  holiday is camping
radiostation. But I like U2, Jean M.J.,  together  with my  parents. (Thankfully
Simple Minds some heavy like Metallica,  many  years since last time). The worst
Paradox   (actualy  this  was  the name  place  to  do this  must be in  Sweden.
Detron  and I  told Midnight  Maniac to
call  his new  group 'Paradox',  if you  Which diskmag do you prefer? Why do you
have seen the cover you will know why).  think so?
OK,  most heavy is  shit!!! I also like  All  mags are  equally bad  and boring,
music   by the  world   fameous  Stefan  except    this   issue   because   of a
Jaworski ?!?                             brilliant   interview  with  Pr.... You
                                         know  the guy who  killed Victor. Shame
Do you booze, smoke?                     on him!!!  By the way did you know that
No  smoking, boozing  is ok. (Greetings  Kefrens    has/had  a  diskmag   called
to  Delta and  Slayer at  the Silents ^  Papyrus. The first issue will hopefully
Red Sector party.)                       be released before the 1st of Infinity!

What about Kefrens Saturday night life?  How's your situation at school?
We  got  our own  Kefrens Inn  with our  I'm  studying   computerscience  at the
famous   ankh-cross   hanging  outside.  Technical   University  of  Denmark. It
                                         takes 5 years, so now I only got 4 left


Interview with Promax/Kefrens
to  go.  It can  be boring  but  I have  What  do you think  about the Crusaders      
learned that I don't like 80x86, it has  Euro-Charts?      
a  poor   instruction  set.  Long  live  If they want a Euro-Chart let them have
Motorola 680x0.                          a   Euro-Chart.  They  should  not rate
                                         things    or  people  as  best  but  as
Why  do  you  think that  girls  aren't  favorite  or most popular. I could name
interrested in computers?                many really good coders etc that wasn't
The  answer  must be  found in  the way  present   at the last  chart.  But that
they  are brought up. They make clothes  isn't  Euro-Charts fault if I wanted to
for their dolls. We build cars, houses,  change   that  I  could  begin to  vote
machines  with  Techno or  Lego for our  myself !?!
heros.  I have actually  met girls that
have   used  their   sparetime   with a  What's   your opinion  about  the army?
computer     programming   in   machine  Fuck  the  army!!!  The danish  army is
language.  But  they can be  counted on  shit.    A   giant   waste   of   time.
the right hand of a woodworker.          I  was  lucky, I  didn't have  to go. I
                                         don't  hope I hurt anybody, but this is
Who in Kefrens has a girlfriend?         just  how  I feel.  If I had  joined it
You know girlfriends are something that  might  have been fun anyway, but I have
come  and go. I don't really think that  a lot of other things to do.
any  of us are going steady (I wouldn't
like to call and ask if they had dumped  Tell  us about the  last good party you
her  since last week).  But as you also  were  on? Any  interesting  happenings?
know this hobby is very time consuming.  That party must have been the Kef... oh
                                         Silents   & Red Sector  conference  two


Interview with Promax/Kefrens
months  ago. I did  absolutely nothing,  anyone   should buy  a program  if they
except drinking a few beers and talking  really like it, if they do so, it might
with  Delta and Slayer all the time. If  just happen that an even better version
Delta's nose-bleeting is of interest to  show up.
the  public... All  in all it was quite
interesting.  I found out that a guy in  Tell us Kefrens future-projekts?
dog  collar can not,  and I repeat, can  I like singlepart demos like Babbanasen
not  be judged by his or her apperence.  and  Mental Hangover  because these are
(hi Slayer).                             not  fucking megademos  as Slayer would
                                         have   put it.  So  maybe  when  my new
List us your favourite three DEMO/       assembler  (AsmOne) is finished........
CRACKER/TRAINER-crews!                   Most  of  the  members  in Kefrens  are
Always remember there can be only three  working   on   games +  other   serious
(inside    joke!!)  My three   favorite  programmes   (we need  the  money!) but
groups must be....thinking....           we'll  keep releasing a few demos, when
                                         we feel like it!!!
DEMO:    Red Sector       (hi Delta!)
CRACKER: Defjam           (hello Who!)   Some last words?
TRAINER: The Light Circle (hi Duke &     Thanks  to  all our  supporters  (if we
                           Mad Thinker)  have  any, I know we  have, I steal all
                                         the disks from our poste restante.Joke!
What do you like/hate in the scene?      they  dissapear  in the  post?). Always
The  only thing I hate is selling stuff  remember:  If you are Lame join Arcane.
to lamers. The real lamers are the ones         Turn page for a conclusion......
who  sell  the  programs. I  think that


Interview with Promax/Kefrens
To  get in  contact  with us  write to:  Thanx  to  Promax of  Kefrens  for this
                                         interview.  It was made quite some time
       Kefrens  -  P.O.Box 102           ago,  but  unfortunately  it  arrived 9
      DK-7800 Skive  -  DENMARK          days  to late for  issue #4, and during
                                         that  time it has already been in Zines
Sorry  out there we get so many letters  p.o.  box for probably  a month.... But
that  it is  impossible to  answer them  we  decided to print it anyway, becuase
all. If your letter is not accepted. We  these  questions  aren't  outdated, and
will simply keep disk, letter,anything.  neither  is  Promax!!!! We  are looking
                                         forward  to seeing  Promax's next demo,
                                         and  we in the  Fourth  Dimension staff
NOTE:   This  interview was  originally  wishes  Promax and  the rest of Kefrens
made  by Zine, but the address of where  good luck in the future.....
to send it didn't exist, so after I got
the    letter    back  I  gave   it  to            -----------------------------
Cryptoburners.                                       - Blackstar/Cryptoburners -
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