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INTERVIEW WITH CRIONICS            
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Shadow of CRIONICS was interviewed 
by Chester of BRAINSTORM.          
                                   
1. First  of  all, introduce your- 
   self.                           
Today  I am 17 years old. My first 
contact  with  computers was for 4 
years  as  I  came  to a technical 
school.  One  year  later I bought 
the  good  old  C64 and started to 
made  basic - programms  like this 
one:                               
10: INPUT "INSERT YOUR NAME:";A$   
20: PRINT A$;", YOU SEE THIS IS A  
    REALY SILLY PROGRAM!":GOTO 10  
But  after a very short time I saw 
that  it  is very uninterrested to 
made  senseless  programs and play 
senseless  games.  So I started to 
learn  6500-Assembler to made some 
intros.  But  when  I  finished my 
first   demo  all  of  my  friends 
bought  an  Amiga  (because  of my 
intro?).  Thus  I  thought  that I 
also  need an Amiga and worked the 
whole  holidays  for the expensive 
machine.  Now I started again with 
learning  68000-Assembler  on  the 
fucking  Amiga. For about 1/2 year 
a  friend asked me for joining his 
unknown  group. After one month we 
made  a  co-op with another group. 
After  a  long time of thinking we 
found CRIONICS.                    
                                   
2. Write   down   the  members  of 
   Crionics with their functions.  
SHADOW:  Swapping, a little bit    
         coding                    
THUNDERHAWK: Main Swapper,         
             Spreader, Organizer   
ODIN:    Graphics                  
EUROPE:  Graphics                  
HAWKEYE: Coder                     
MOKY:    Graphics                  
BANI:    Spreading                 
GONZO:   Coder                     
EXOCET:  Coder                     
WIZARD:  Swapper                   
                                   
3. How old is the group?           
Crionics  is  exactly  seven month 
and 17 days old!                   
                                   
4. Are   you   looking   for  more 
   members?   Do  you  search  for 
   sections  in o ther  countries? 
Yes,   we  are  looking  for  more 
members   especially  soundmakers, 
coders   and  very  good  swappers 
(maybe modem-freaks)               
5. What do you prefer, swapping by 
   mail or modem?                  
I am only swapping by mail because 
it's cheaper than modemtraiding.   
                                   
6. List  your favorites personali- 
   ties from the scene.            
Red Sector ,because of their cool  
            Graphic-guys           
Quartex    ,because of their       
            cracks                 
Brainstorm ,because of their maga- 
            zines                  
                                   
7. (?)  What  are  you  releasing? 
   Cracks, trainers, demos,...?    
We  release  demos and intros , in 
future we plan to train games!     
                                   
8. You  live in Austria. Are there 
   the birds singing as nice as in 
   Switzerland?                    
Oh,  this  is  a good question but 
I've  never been in Switzerland to 
hear  the singing of the birds. So 
I  can only think that the singing 
is as nice as in Austria.          
                                   
9. Tell  us  a little bit from the 
   whole  Austrian  scene and your 
   local scene!                    
The  Austrian  scene? O.k I'll try 
to do it!                          
The  best  groups  here in Austria 
are  Scoopex,  Subway, Savage, TSK 
Exxon  &  Robotech  and so on (the 
charts are following later!)       
The  scene  in TIROL? Here are too 
many   (much-uncountable)   lamers 
(ca. 74.926 periodic percent). But 
here  are also some cool guys like 
Crionics,  Exxon,  Scoopex  and so 
on!                                
                                   
10.What is your opininon in cracks 
   and trainers?                   
CRACKS:  Very  important  for  the 
existence  of  the Amiga-scene be- 
cause if there are no cracks there 
are  no  games and if there are no 
games  nobody  (respectively  only 
the  people which don't play) need 
an   Amiga.  So  most  people  buy 
fucking PC's.                      
TRAINERS: There are many games you 
can't  play  without  trainer like 
ZIRIAX, Shadow of the Beast and so 
on.                                
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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11.What  are  the  future plans of 
   Crionics?                       
To  get  famous  and  to  kill all 
brainless  people with Atari's and 
PC's.                              
                                   
12.Do  you  like  the scene at the 
   moment  compared  with  the old 
   times?                          
I  think  that  the  scene  is  to 
greedy   to  sale  programs.  Many 
groups  like  (no names)  Quartex, 
Paranoimia...   are  only  selling 
their  stuff,  that's totally shit 
- a bit friendship must be!!!!     
                                   
13.Do  you  like Swiss Milk-Choco- 
   late?                           
Oh, yes especilly the white one.   
                                   
14.Do  you like ZINE compared with 
   other magazines?                
I   like   ZINE  very  much  -  99 
articles  last  time  -  very good 
Cracker  Journal  and  D.I.S.C are 
also good, but ZINE is better!     
                                   
15.And   generaly,  what  is  your 
   opinion in magazines?           
I  like  them  if  the reports are 
short  and  interrested (and maybe 
in german).                        
                                   
16.Are  you a demo-freak? List the 
   best demos in your opinion?     
Yes,  I  like demos very much! The 
best  ever  made  on Amiga was Red 
Sector's  Mega Demo I think! There 
are  too  many  good demos to tell 
you.                               
                                   
17.What  are  your  best products? 
   Please list them.               
Bloody Sins Demo (100 Percent      
                       version!!!) 
and  a few demos and intros-Sorry, 
I don't know exactly!              
                                   
18.What hardware do you use?       
I  use an Amiga 500, a printer and 
some other things!                 
                                   
19.What  about other computers and 
   their scenes?                   
What  for  other  computers? Oh, I 
know  you  mean  the  C64-scene! I 
think that this scene will be dead 
very soon.                         
                                   
20.What sort of music do you like? 
Every  good  musik  like  Warlock, 
Skorpions,  Wasp, Tina T.,the song 
"Bakerman"...                      
                                   
21.I  want to know again something 
   about  the Austrian scene. Give 
   us  the charts in your opinion! 
                                   
That's very difficult, coz here in 
Austria  are many good groups, but 
I'll  try to list the best groups! 
(Note: Hey Austrian freaks:        
Please  don't be angry if I didn't 
mention you!)                      
Charts: 1.Scoopex                  
        2.Subway                   
        3.TSK-Crew (dead? We heard 
                     some rumours) 
        4.Savage                   
        5.Exxon&Robotech           
        6.Energy (already dead,    
                         too?????) 
        We will stay neutral!      
                                   
22.What  do  you  know  about  the 
   Swiss  scene?  You  like  these 
   guys here?                      
I only know Brainstorm in Swiss, I 
like  all  guys  who  contact  me. 
(But I hate the assholes who don't 
write back)                        
                                   
23.How  many  swappartners  do you 
   have in Crionics at all?        
Let me see :                       
I (Shadow)  : about 13 (what a     
                  terrible number) 
Thunderhawk : about 29             
Wizard      : I don't know exact,  
           he only lists the best! 
                                   
24.A  lot  of  coders  from famous 
   groups  are  going  to  program 
   games.  What do you think about 
   that?                           
I  think  that  everybody  who can 
program games should do that. If I 
had  more  time  and  someone  who 
paint  the  gfx,  I  think  I also 
would  do  it!  But I use my Amiga 
only  on weekends and nobody wants 
to  paint  gfx for me. (weep,weep) 
                                   
25.Do you like rasistic jokes? And 
   what's about otherones? Can you 
   tell me a good one?             
                                   
I  think its good to make rasistic 
jokes  about  green mars-people or 
Atari  ST but nobody should make a 
joke  about  a person who lives on 
earth.  (Aber  bekommt  mir  bitte 
nicht den Moralischen!!)           
                                   
                                   
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Other  jokes  are very good too if 
they are good told. A good joke? I 
will try one!                      
The   Pope  died.  He  knocked  on 
Heavens  Door. An angel opened and 
asked:                             
"Who are you?"                     
"I'm the Pope of Rome."            
"Rome in Italy or in Australia?"   
"Rome in Italy."                   
"I don't know anything about the   
 Pope in Italy.", the angel said   
and closed the door.               
The Pope went to the first floor   
and knocked again. An angel        
opened.                            
"Who are you?", the angel asked    
"I'm the pope of Rome."            
"Rome in Italy or in Australia?"   
"Rome in Italy."                   
"I don't know anything about the   
 Pope in Italy" the angel said     
and closed the door.               
The pope went to the second floor  
and knocked again. The Holy Spirit 
opened and asked:                  
"Who are you?"                     
"I'm the Pope of Rome in Italy."   
The Holy Spirit said: "Oh, you     
 were the asshole who told the     
 whole world I fucked Maria!"      
             - He He - checked it? 
                                   
26.No,...  what do you think about 
   the Crusaders Euro Charts?      
Crusaders Euro Chart is good, too. 
But ZINE is better!                
                                   
27.(??)  Do  you like the sound of 
   our  AMIGA?  Which  ones do you 
   prefer?                         
No,   I  hate  him.  I  killed  my 
loudspeakers   for   a  long  time 
because  I  only  like  the  sound 
of   my  SHARP  1403,  yeah,  what 
a hearing.                         
28.Copyparties, are there a lot of 
   in  Austria? Do you like other- 
   ones?                           
Copy   Parties   in  Austria?  The 
rarest  thing here! The best Copy- 
Parties  are  in  other countries! 
That's totally shit I think!       
                                   
29.What's  about  female computer- 
   users? Do you know any girls in 
   the scene?                      
I  have  never  seen  a  girl on a 
computer  like the Amiga but there 
are a few I think!                 
                                   
30.So,  for the end you've got the 
   chance  to  write something you 
   want to write!                  
Well,  this  is  my  chance. Now I 
write  what  I  want but what do I 
want?  Should I write some greets? 
Or  should  I  write a poem? No, a 
big  thank  to Thunderhawk for all 
the nice help!                     
                                   
Nice   of   you   to   answer  all 
questions, yours...                
                                   
CHESTER/BRS