Inteview with Rioter
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Interview with Rioter of Equinox By Playboy/Prologic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi there Rioter. Will you please introduce yourself. My name is Rioter, and I am a member of the group Equinox. I am 16 years young. My function in Equinox is Organizing, Coding, (look out for my new demo called Levithan) and a little bit swapping. Yeah I have seen your Levithan demo, and it is very nice for only 6 days of coding. Can you tell me something about Equinox. How many members are you, and what are their functions? We are about 50-60 members worldwide even though we have only existed for 3 weeks. Our group was formed by some members from Scoopex, Red Sector, Powerlords, and new age. In sweden we are 5 members: Mr. Palmer (Music, Gfx), Agnuz (Code, Gfx), Pentangle (Music), Arcade (Code, Swap), and Rioter (Organizer, Code, and little Swap). Thank you VERY much for not writing all the members, just imagine how long this interview would be... But anyway how is your relationship with the other members? Is friendship important in your group? Octon, the organizer in Norway is a very good friend. I have only met him once, but we often speak on the phone. The same to Opus and Tripwire in the UK. Then Mr. Palmer is an old and very good friend of mine. We have met each other several times, he is also drawing the graphics and composing the music to my game. Anyway of course friendship is important. It is the whole point of hacking. Friendship is actually the reason why I am in the scene. Well it sounds like you have a very good relationship with the other members. By the way, what hardware do you use? I've got an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.2 / 1.3, 512 Kb Chip Mem, 512 Kb Fast Mem, a CBM 1084 monitor. I also have a MPS 1224C printer and an external drive plus of course tons of disks all over my room. Pheeew, that was quite alot to say at one time so here's an easy one for you. How much time do you spend on your computer per day? That is very different from day to day. It is everything from 2 hours to 23 hours. Ok I can understand, that you are limited to 24 hours per day, BUT I have actually found out a way to have up to 30 hours per day. The secret, well actually it is quite simple, just crunch the time with an ordinary cruncher (Time-killer) It works just like a disk, smart eh! CUT THE CRAP. Were you ever active on the old 64? Yes of course, but not long enough to be famous. I know just how you feel, and I don't want to talk about that period either. You mentioned something about phonecalls to e.g. Norway and UK. How much do you actually spend on your computer (Phonebill, stamps etc.)? Phonebills are no problem because my parents pay them He, He.... BUT I do have to pay for the stamps. About $50 per month. I can only say you lucky bastard. I would be more than happy if my stamp-bill, and my phonebill were that small, but unfortunately.... Have you ever been in trouble with the Police, Postoffice etc.? I have had trouble with the police, but that has nothing to do with hacking. I had some trouble with the postoffice too, when I was faking stamps, but they didn't do much. They just told me to stop faking. (continues in next article) (continues from previous article) You were pretty lucky back there, right? But how many contacts do you have? At the moment I have about 30 good and fast contacts. How many parties have you visited, and which one was the best? I'm not sure, but I think there are so many I can't count them, but the best organized was the easter conference '90. I can understand, that you are having problems with counting them. (I was never good at counting either.) Another thing that is difficult to count, is the number of diskmags. What to you think about them? Are there too many? Which one is the best? I don't think that there are too many, but some disk-mags are of a very bad quality. It is always nice to get different points of view. In my opinion Zine is the best mag at the moment. Well that is more or less my opinion too, but I don't think, that quality is a problem. If the mags are of a poor quality they will not last very long. Now here is one of the funny parts of this interview. I am going to give you a hint, and then you should just add some comments. Let us start out with MEGADEMOS. I think it is better to put all effort needed to make a megademo into a single demo. Hopefully the quality will be better then. DRUGS...Shit, Shit, Shit and fuck the users!!!! FAKED STAMPS...Sooner or later you'll get caught... FRIENDSHIP...That is VERY important. NO FRIENDSHIP = NO FUN. BOOZING...Sometimes I enjoy it (He, He). CONFERENCES...Very nice, you meet all your friends in the scene. MODEM TRADING...That can be good if you need a program very fast, but it destroys the friendship. Well enough about that crap. Here is a hard one for you. How would you describe a Lamer? A lamer is a guy, who thinks, that he is the coolest and best guy around. He always boast about everything he has done, but probably 99% are lies. He has probably never asked a girl for a date. Geee.. That sounds really lame. Now it is time for your favorite... GROUP: Kefrens. CODER: Promax GFX WIZARD: Uno MUSICIAN: Walkman REAL MUSIC: J.M. Jarre and Guns'n'Roses GAME: Lemmings TOOL: AsmOne DISK MAG: Zine (ed:$%^&^#@#$@%&^*) REAL MAG: Hustler and Playboy (NO, I don't think they named it after you...) COMIC: Don Martin and MAD BEER: Elephant ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Malibou FOOD: Chinese and Pizza. (continues in next article) Well now we don't want to ruin the whole interview by this crap, so I guess I must ask you about a horrible thing.. YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE.... That would be to wake up in bed the day after a party, and realise, that you actually slept with the uglyest girl at the party. Bwwwaaaaddddrrrrr... THAT WAS HORRORFYING!!!!!! and now to something completely different. Tell me about your other hobbies, if any.. I train karate, and then i'm very found of girls, but i'm that kind of guy, who prefers the romantic way instead of the fast fuck. Now there are some healthy interrests, I would very much like to continue, but unfortunatly I ran out of questions, and have to end here. Is there a special message for all your fans out there? Just remember, that all COOL ELITE guys can reach me at +46-381-15745. Great. Thank you very much for answering these few(?) questions, and don't forget our party.