AN INTERVIEW WITH

 RANGER/LADYBIRD D.


 Here's an interview with Ranger/LBD...
 D   is  Darkhawk  and  R  is  Ranger..
 Alright,  let  us  begin  this  fairly
 serious interview..

 D: At  first,  please  introduce  your
 group, Ladybird Design to our readers.

 R: Well,  I  can  do  this,  I  think!
 So,  Ladybird Design  was  founded  in
 the  beginning  of  1994.  Since  then
 we    have    released    some   crap,
 like    a    music-slideshow    called
 Madman In Disneyland with  pictures by
 Little Horror and modules by Hudinsky.
 Next  we  released a 5th  issue  of  a
 diskmagazine, called Pmm, but this one
 is  only  in  polish  languange,  so I
 guess  you  don't  see it  anyway.  We
 released  Pmm  before,  but issue 5 is
 our groups production now.  We want to
 make a trackmo,  but you know...  Heh,
 at the moment  we  have all (or almost
 all!) gfx and modules,  but  the  code
 isn't finished yet!  So  maybe  you'll
 see a cool  trackmo  from us soon,  or
 so...

 D: And what's your function in LBD?

 R: Ah,  my   function?   Well,  I'm  a
 coder,   swapper,    organizer,    and
 editor in our disk magazine.


 D: So, are you content in LBD?

 R: Hmm... Heh, too hard question, next
 one please!

 D: OK, enough about your group Ranger,
 let's have some questions that involve
 you.. 
 Tell  us  a  bit about  yourself,  you
 know,  hobbies,  favorite dishes,  age
 and so on..

 R: Wow,  I'm afraid of this  question,
 because  I don't  like  to write about
 myself.
 I'm a swapper,  so  I  do  that  a lot
 of the time...  But let me do this one
 more time:I'm 19 years old! My hobbies
 - First of all is firendship  swapping
 and  long   letters!   Second  one  is
 Fantasy, I'm a big Fantasy fan, I like
 RPG's, I like Fantasy books,  just all
 books  where  I  can  find   something
 Fantasy! Of course,  like all others I
 like  money  also.   Heh,  yep,  money
 rules! I just love Beavis & Butt-Head!
 I like  naked  girls  with a banana in
 the   right hand,  and a carrot in the
 left  hand... heh, okay, let me finish
 this shit,  coz...  Auuh,  never mind!

 D: When  did  you  first  get  to know
 about the scene, and how did you enter
 it?

 R: Do  you  really  want the answer to
 this question, eh?  Okay,  I'll try to
 write  short,  hehe!  First  I  got to
 know  about  the  scene when unluckily
 (really?)  about two years ago,  I got
 a disk magazine, in polish.  The  name
 is Zig-Zag. Of course I saw some demos
 before, but the scene? Hehe!  So, some
 months passed, in that time I got some
 other  scene  stuff,  and I decided to
 enter the scene.  I began writing some
 letters  (with no  disk in the sending
 ofcourse!)  to  some  swappers, and...
 Sometimes I got the  answers!!!  So, I
 think I entered  the scene,  about 1.5
 years ago, or so... 

 D: What's  so  good  about  the scene,
 that  you  want  to spend many hours a
 day doing some work for it?

 R: What's  so  good  about  the scene?
 Hmm...   I don't  know!   But  there's
 something...  Eh, friendship?  Yep, it
 must  be  friendship!  I have a lot of
 friends  on  the  scene,  I want to be
 something,  I  want  to  be a bit more
 skilled.  But  I  guess,  that's  just
 normal,  everyone  wants  to be a more
 skilled,  everyone has a some friends! 
 I like  the  scene very much,  I think
 that  the  scene  is a big piece of my
 life!!!

 D: And   what's,   in   your  opinion,
 negative about the scene?

 R: Hmm...   first  of  all  -  I  hate
 rascism  and  fascism  on  the  scene.
 I  don't  like  guys  who  want to get
 money  out of the scene,  I don't like 
 guys  who tell you: "Hey, you son of a
 bitch,  pay  me  for  publishing  your
 adverts!".  I think  that  paying  for
 adverts is just lame.  Okay,  it's  OK
 if you have to pay for adverts because
 some  authors  of  articles  get  your
 money for writing, or so... But paying
 to shitheads  for  nothing isn't good.
 If  you  want  to get some  money then
 just  make a commercial disk magazine,
 where you'll pay for modules, articles
 , graphics, and not only get the money
 for nothing.  The scene  must be money
 free!!!

 D: What is your opinion about your own
 scene country, the polish scene?

 R: Well,  the  polish  scene  isn't so
 bad,  but it isn't too good either!  I
 think  that  some  other scenes,  like 
 the  Swedish,  German  or Danish are a
 lot better,  but we  haven't the worst
 scene anyway!  I think that the polish
 scene is... Hm... Just good! 

 D: What do you like about swapping?


 R: Well,    hard    question,    hehe!
 Swapping,   yep,   I  like  all  about
 swapping,  I  like   the  stuff,   and
 friendship,     letter!     But    the
 friendship  is  best  in  swapping for
 sure!!!  I just love  long letters,  I
 still  want  more friendship contacts,
 more and more!

 D: And what do you like about coding?

 R: Guru...

 D: Argh,   it's  hard  finding  enough
 questions to fill some space. This is,
 by the way,  the first  interview I've
 ever made. Yes, do you feel honored to
 be  the  first   person  I  interview,
 Ranger?


 R: I feel only... hot,  suxx! Here, in
 Poland  it  is  really hot now,  hehe!
 But  let me  be a bit  serious,  well,
 no,  I don't feel  anything special, I
 think   that   an   interview   is  an
 interview,  and it doesn't  matter how
 many interviews you did before! But...
 In the other point of view,  I'm a bit
 honored anyway, hehe!

 D: Thought so...    Well,  let's  be a
 little  more  serious...  You are also
 editor  and  articlewriter... So let's
 take some questions regarding diskmags
 Are there too many?

 R: Well,  maybe  yes  or  maybe not?!?
 I don't know! I think that there are a
 bit too many diskmags anyway!  Yep,  I
 know,  I just  can't read it all,  but
 why must we make 20 diskmags if we can
 do 10 diskmags  with  more  and higher
 quality articles?  But  I  really like
 disk magazines, you know, you can read
 a lot of bullshit, hehe!

 D: And have they too much power?

 R: Hmm...  Next question please, hehe!

 D: Name  your  favorite diskmag  (Disc
 ofcourse!)  and  tell  us why you like
 it..

 R: No, no, no!  Disc isn't my favorite
 diskmag,  hehe, sorry...!   But I like
 Disc a lot.  why I like it?  Articles,
 this is the reason,  I think  Disc  is
 full  of  great  articles  (About  the
 scene  of  course,  bcoz I've  no time
 to  read  all  articles,   so  I  read
 only  the  scene  articles,  and  some
 others,  but not all others)! Maybe in
 the  future  Disc  will be my favorite
 diskmag,  but  first  of all the code,
 gfx,  and  music  must be high quality
 too,  not  only  high quality articles
 make the disk magazine! 

 D:  I  know   that   there  are  20-25
 diskmags in Poland,  isn't  that *too*
 many?

 R: Well,   of  course   I  think  it's
 totally  shit!!!   Almost  all  polish
 magazines are a lot  better than other
 magazines,  but  the  reason  is  that
 those  diskmags   =  polish  language!
 There's  nothing  bad in  having  some
 magazines  in  your  language,  but...
 It's too many for sure!!!


 D: What  would  you  prefer,  being  a
 swapper  with  many contacts,  getting 
 much hot stuff, but  writing short and
 standard letters,  or  being a swapper
 with fewer contacts,  that write  long
 and friendly letters? 

 R: Hey, that's not fair!  You  give me
 too hard questions,  hehe!  Okay, I'll
 try  to  answer  you  anyway.  Let  me
 explain   you   something...    I'm  a
 friendly  swapper,   so  I  love  long
 letters.   I  think   that   long  and 
 friendly letters are much  better than 
 cool,  hot stuff + short and  standard 
 letters!

 D: Why?

 R: I just told you why,  you shithead!

 D: Don't call me that,  you  shithead!
 Ahmm,    tell   us    your    favorite
 sceneproduction  ever,   and  why  you
 think it's good.. 

 R:  It's   Desert  Dream  for  sure!!!
 Desert Dream  is  a  great  demo, with
 pretty   cool  effects,   cool  musics
 and cool  graphics!  Okay,  maybe  the
 gfx aren't so cool, but they're pretty
 good  for  sure!  When I look at other
 demos  with  effects  like  in  Desert
 Dream then I still  enjoy Desert Dream 
 more,  even  if  in  the  other demos,
 those effects are a bit better!!!

 D: Do you  think it's OK for a swapper
 to use the term "elite", like in "Only
 Elite"?


 R: Yep!!!   I  use  this  word  in  my
 adverts,  I  don't  think  that  I'm a
 elite guy,  but I just need more elite
 contacts!  Of course I need  also some
 other contacts, but... 

 D: Well,I guess that was all there was
 to my questions this time...  Let's be
 traditional in the  end  and  say that
 you can write what you want now, greet
 somebody, or something else.... 

 R: Uh,  if I must  greet  my  contacts
 then...  Heh,  this  article will be a
 lot longer,  hehe!  So I'll just write
 this :-)  Greets  to  all my contacts,
 and the best greets to all my friends!
 What  I  want  to  write  now...  Hey,
 people,  if you're a friendly  swapper
 or just a normal guy (not a swapper!),
 and if you like long  letters and real
 friendship  then  just contact me now!
 Heh,  I forgot something...  Or  maybe
 not? Hmm... I don't know.

 D:  OK,  I'll  get the last word, heh!
 Thanks  for  the interview Christopher
 and  have a happy  scenelife!  Look in
 the ads section for his  adress if you
 want to swap with him...

 BY DARKHAWK/IRIS