Inteview with Skidz
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Handle: Andy Gibson aka Skidz/Area 51 Group(s): AGAS Productions & AREA 51 Age: DOH! 29 Occupation: Coder, BTF Disk Mag Writer etc... What utilities do you use the most? (Name 3 of them!) - Dopus - Too many utils!!! - Net Packages How long have you been on the scene? - Hmmm....I've been using the Amiga since 1990... As for being `on the scene' well, I'm not really on the scene as such, but I do code games, utils, disk mag engines etc. I'm not what you would term as `Elite'! I do know the Amiga and how it works, but I've never been one to call myself a scene dude! Although, I did once supply Pazza/LSD with some dox for his dox disks. (Star Trek 25th Anniversary) and had planned to do more with LSD on this side of things, but I decided against it due to copyright reasons. I was lame and easily lead in those days ;) The only other scene type things I really did was code a few disk mags for peeps. Moviezone, Byond Sanit-E etc. Now I'm one of the coders with AREA 51 and I'm currently developing a new disk mag engine for the next issue of da mag. What do you think of the scene today? - It's cerainly not as good as it used to be. What with LSD giving up and the other big ones also. When i say, not as good, I should just maybe say, it's lost a lot of flavour. There are some kewl groups out there, but I really wish all the demos being released used new features! There's no point in copying someone elses shading, render tech's etc. Look at the old scene stuff, Puggs In Space, Budbrain etc. Every demo was sorta original and new. Now we get the same old spinning cubes and scrolly crap! Something has to be done. As for the pirate groups! Phuk! They don't even need to crack half the titles anymore! Mostly Licenceware and PD, Shareware etc is appearing now :( There's just nothing they have to do. Lost influences etc. They want to bang their heads and come up with new ideas for the Amiga. Give us a breathtaking demo which really rocks our system. Do you think the scene has a future at all? - Yeah. Don't see why not. Some great new demos doing the rounds still, but they don't seem to have as much of an influence on the Amiga as the past demos of yesteryear :( It was mainly demos which helped to sell the Amiga. I know they influenced me into buying one (and DPaint 2 also :) What do you think will become of the Amiga? (What do you think of it's future?) - Hmmm....I personally think the Amiga never died, just had a break. As for the future, well, there is one with power systems just around the corner. I bet the Amiga becomes another great seller in about 1 to 2 years from now. If you were the boss of Amiga International, what would you do? - Send out a hitman after Bill Gates ;þ I'd make it a standard that all new Amiga's must have a HD and CD and some kinda fast mem too. I'd also be contacting software houses and letting them know the new specs of the systems to be released. Developers stuff should be given to author free also so they can get to work on new software for the power Amiga's too. If you were the boss of Microsoft, what would you do? - Kill myself TWICE :) Either that or team up with Amiga tech and teach 'em about advertising. The Amiga needs good advertising, Without it, no ones gonna listen :( Commodore anyone? They had one good ad on TV for the CD³² whih kinda worked for a short while, but their marketing left a lot to be desired. Look at what Commodore did not tell us... I myself now use loads of PC hardware on my A1200, such as Modem, HD, Simms etc. the Big C never told us we could buy cheap PC parts for our Amiga. We had to learn this by ourselves. When I tell a PC owner that I use the same simms, cd drives, scanners (scsi, ide etc), they don't believe me! If you had a gun in your hand, and Bill Gates was standing next to you, what the HELL would you do? - Make him buy an Amiga, or simply, err, shoot him in the legs. If that didn't work, the arms... Name three sceners you think will become BIG soon: - AREA 51 of course :) And finally; what do you think of Retro? :) - Ahem! I've yet to see it believe it or not! I was sent this interview before reading the damn mag!!! Lame or what??? Here you can add adverts, messages, comments, and similar: - Well, I'll leave that to the other A51 memebers who may be filling this in. I'm sure zYLAX will have a lot to tell you, so why repeat it all here. However, I would like to tell you of a game which I'm currently developing with another A51 member (Hi Shezzor). It's a graphic adventure (Monkey Island type) based on the Roswell Incident. It's still in early development as I type this, but a demo will be made available soon. We are hoping to get this released as commercial. I'll give you details at a later date with progress, or simply get issues of BTF (Beyond The Frontier) disk mag from A51. cya!