Inteview with Sandman

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  INTERVIEW WITH SANDMAN OF NIRVANA


         -=BY SHADOW OF LSD=-


Q: Could you introduce yourself?

A: I'm Sandman of Nirvana, I am 16
years old and i'm studing Accounting,
Economics, Maths, Computers and
English.  Unfortunely I don't own a
car, i'm living in New Zealand and
my hobbies are  surfing, partying,
girls, skateboarding and of course
computing!


Q: When did you start with computing?

A: In late 1989 me and a friend bought
an Amiga and then we formed a group
called 'The Gods', in our country all
the competition was to bring the games
in the fastest from Europe, so we were
all just mail traders and we found 1
coder, 1 musician and 1 graphic
artist.  We released compacts and did
an intro and few graphics disks.
Early 1990 we joined IBB/Piranhas and
when the co-op died so we joined IBB.
After a while, we decided to leave as
the European division weren't
releasing enough.

We decided to reform The Gods!  We
became the leading group in our
country until the group all split up
from internal problems, I soon joined
a group called reality, I wasn't in it
for very long and then I formed a
small group called
Hot Tuna whom we did for a few weeks
and then joined Kaos.
I was in Kaos for few months but
wasn't getting on very well with the
leader seeing how he was very lazy and
I was the only active member!  After
Kaos I was independant for about a
month till I joined Nirvana which was
formed from cool guys in Australia and
New Zealand!


Q: What about the New Zealand scene?

A: Our scene is very different!
For the first few years, hardly any
demos would be released and there
would be hardly any decent groups and
all the competition was to bring the
games in from Europe and the person
that brings them in the fastest and
spread them the best was considered
the best!  Only in 1991 quality demos
were released like Reality's Kiwi
Crap and then many followed with
Deceit, Carcass... People seem to have
got into modems these days so the mail
part of New Zealand is particulary
dead.  Some of the better groups in NZ
would be: Reality, they have done some
great demos and release the Kiwi Green
series and import a lot of games.
Another great group would be Deceit
they have the best coder in the
country and have recently opened a hst
bbs and released the Copper Jelly
intro!

Theres was also Nightbreed and Nirvana
now!


Q: What kind of equiptment have you?

A: I have an A500 with extra drive, 1
meg and a Modem, I don't own any other
consoles apart from a Gameboy.


Q: Now only for fun just send us your
best five cracker/coder teams, swapper
teams, trainer maker and packmakers!

A: OK,

CRACKERS: 1. Crystal
          2. Skid Row
          3. Fairlight
          4. Vision Factory
          5. Nemesis

CODERS:   1. Cryptoburners
          2. Silents
          3. TRSI
          4. Anarchy
          5. LSD


TRAINERS: 1. Energy
          2. Supplex
          3. Punishers
          4. Legend
          5. Dual Crew

PACKS:    1. LSD
          2. Anarchy
          3. Rebels
          4. Flash Productions
          5. Scoopex


Q: What do u think of the modemtrading
scene?

A: I think that the actual world scene
is too much modem oriented, sure I
have a modem and use it a lot but I
think that people advertise their
address for mail trading and then they
can't swap with because they are on
the modem, I think that people should
still trade via mail, it's good for
sending chocolates and other goodies.
As a conclusion I want to say that the
quality of productions from demo's to
compact disk has improved a hell of
a lot in quality, overall I think the
world scene is better than ever!  I
want to thanx shadow for his interview
and the cool sending!

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