Inteview with Lord
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INTERVIEW WITH LORD/ABS! & US 1-Please introduce a little bit yorself (age, occupation, scene career,etc) I'm the most handsome, clever and strong boyfriend who has ever belonged to Sophie Marceau. Ok... My real name is Peter. I have 2 brown eyes looking ahead. I like having short hair (very short - max. 2cm! -), but I'M NOT SKiNHEAD! SHORT HAiR DOESN'T MEAN YOUR ARE extreme right! I'm 19 and just have finished the school. I live in a suburb in the heart of Hungary, in Budapest. I have a band (called Awake), where I play the guitar. I'm on the Amiga scene since 1991. I was in lot of groups before e.g in Creator, Vision, s!p, but since 1993 I'm an Absolute! member and in august 1994 I joined up US, too as a double member - a group of a great friend of mine, Schmoovy - Actually, I'm the leader of Abs! But originally, I'm a swapper, modemtrader and running a bbs (Number of the Beast - Abs! whq/Us ehq -) 2-You're now the only organizer in Absolute, as ADT sold his computer and left the scene. Is it a big loss for Absolute in your opinion? After all, ADT was one of the most known ABS! members worldwide... What's up with him? I've read you had had some problems with him for the very last issue of Sledgehammer.... Yes, you're right I'm the leader of Absolute! now. But it doesn't mean anything special to me, because I helped to organize the group already before and I just do a bit more phonecalls now. We don't have foreign divisions (though we have a new awesome polish musician - Scorpik - ), so it ease to keep in touch with the others. But to answer your question: yes, I know ADT was one of the most famous man is Abs! But from outside only. We always had problems with him. He's great and jolly good fellow, but you mustn't ask him to do something or do business with him, because he is completely unreliable. May be 1993 is the bigest year of Abs! But what happened this year? Clairvoyance was released in october, though it should have been still in march! The reason: Adt. We had a few talented members in Germany. They left. The reason: Adt. Sledge Hammer was in need of a new code to handle AGA, multitask and bugfixes. He was asked to do it still in november (after releasing SH12) and he promised to do that by the next (1994) march. Everything was ready to release SH13 in march (we got so much support,we wanted to publish it on 2 disks!) Fester and me phoned Adt every day! He told us the new code was ready to release. But he is absolutely unreachable (you must know he works in Budapest now, but originally he is from a hungarian bordertown, so he has no constant flat!) I visited him hundreds of times, but he was not at home. We were waiting for Adt. It was march...april....may....we got bored of waiting and tried to find somebody else to REcode the Sledge Hammer, but we couldn't (we had the source of Adt's code, but it's a confusion for a coder) Hungary is in lack of GOOD and ACTIVE! coders. It's a paradox in Hungary. A coder is active, but lame or good, but inactive (e.g Edge/Abs! or Codex/ Steroid).... So it was may.... june... Tons of letters were waiting for Sledge Hammer.....And finally in july the 'new code' got ready. But what code? We were very angry about him. I visited and phoned Adt every day, but I got promises only. In June he told me not to fuck him for the code (ehh?) and furthermore all his sources got lost, due to the fact his hd had damaged and he wouldn't rewrite 10 months' 'work'! (hmmm... a bit hollow pretext) HE WAS ANGRY ABOUT US, WHY WE DiSTURBED HiM EVERY DAY! I got pissed... I went down to Adt and gave him an ultimatum: 'if you don't make the mag publishable, I ... ' (If you have seen me, you know how I look like - I was wrestling for a long...) So, Adt 'FOUND' a code on his 'LOST' Hd and the mag was ready to spread. But what code was it?! The ProTracker player freezed after command 'E6' (which was usd in the main tune, too!), there were NO COLOURS, if you looked at it on TV! and there were much more bugs in it than in ANY of the previous SHs... And moreover the content was not really up to date (in spite of having extracted a few ancient articles) What does the public see? Delay, lame code, old content -> shit mag. And the problem is they are absolutely right, but it's not our fault. So, at last.... The Sledge Hammer project stopped (because of negative reactions to the #13 issue) and Fester started thinking about a new mag (which lately called Cult) And it was just one story about Adt. I could fill up the whole TC with such ones. The aswer for your second question would be shorter: Well, I admit Adt has a tun for designing. But not for coding! Clairvoyance and Cream were coded by Edge (in 99%) and not by Adt. Nobody likes Adt in Absolute! anymore. He stole nearly 200$ even from him groupmate (Crm/Abs!) But if you just meet him on a party, you feel he is one of the best guys ever. 3- Tell us something about CULT, the sooncoming diskmag from ABS!, what's might it have more than all the miryad of dismags around? Maybe should we expect just an AGA version of SLEDGEHAMMER or what then? First of all, Cult is not only an Absolute! production anymore, but a cooperation project with Dreamdealers! The code is done by Drd (to avoid such probs, like Adt) but the rest is in cooperation. Maineditor is Fester of Absolute! (ex-Sledge Hammer) and coeditors are Napoleon/Drd and Me. Of course it'll be completely different than Sledge Hammer or Live. Try to fancy a mix between them and add great contents. 4-What will change now that you're the only leader in ABS!? Do you've intention to take some foreign members too? Hmmm... that's a good question. We always wanted to be a pure hungarian group only. We wanted to achieve that if you think about Absolute!, you think about Hungary! (not as Trsi - when I hear Trsi nowadays, I must rather think about Poland and not Germany as originally) But unfortunately Hungary is in lack of coders, so may be we should allow foreign members to join. But we don't wanna more than 7-8 ACTiVE members. (to the readers: if you're a coder and felt like to join, write to me or call at +36-12914029) AND I'm sure the friendship and the good atmosphere won't change! We all are very-very good friends of each others! And we rather don't allow talents, but assholes to join. Friendship inside the group is the first! 5-Could you give some infos about the AGA-demo you are preparing for the Saturne Party 3? It'll be coded by Edge (who coded Clairvoyance and Cream) and will be thousand times better than any Absolute! demo before. And AGA file demo of course. Musical part should be done by Petroff and graphical ones by Rack. But since the Saturne3 was cancelled we dont know where to release it, because the coder wanna earn some money with it, so we rather wanna contribute with it on a big party. Anyway, wait and see! 6- Except RACK, hungarians sceners present on charts have always been few, among the newcomers, try to do a name who in your opinion might be a possible revelation and a future chart-topper.... Unfortunately just a few sceners left. There are lot of talents here in Hungary, but they are rather interested in working for consoles/pc. But I see future for: coder: Codex/Steroid, Eft/Impulse, Edge/Absolute! musician: Petroff/Absolute! graphician: Rendall/Impulse swapper/(modem)trader: none! And at last a small commercial break: Absolute! will organize a party in september in one of the bigest hall of Budapest. Great prices! Watch out for our soon coming invitation! THE BIGEST PARTY EVER HELD in HUNGARY! (more info at Petroff/Absolute! - +36-1-1857575/Peter)