Interview with Tsunami/Virtual Dreams
     Done by Colorbird/Razor 1911

        C:  Thats Colorbird!  
        T:  Thats Tsunami !

C:   Hiho Tsunami!  How about starting
this   interview  by  asking  you  the
normal question.  Please tell us about
your  non-scene  life, like age, name,
weight,  fave vodka, sexual preference
or whatever...

T:   Well,  my  real name is Timo Aila
and  I'm  currently  19.  I'm nowadays
studying  in  University of Technology
in  Helsinki.   And  if someone really
cares,  my  natural measures are about
180/75.     My   favourite   beer   is
undoubtedly  Danish Tuborg (aahh, just
can't  wait  TP III!) Vodka just suxx,
still haven't found any decent tasting
ones...    Girls  are  of  coz  a  big
interest   for   me,   too   bad   all
non-finnish  parties are held in small
villages without wild night-life;-)

C:   So how has your scene career been
so far , please tell us about it ?

T:   Hmmm...  At the beginning I tried
as  a  graphician  for  quite  a short
moment,  but  then  I started to learn
some basics of coding.  That was about
2  years ago.  The beginning was quite
a  misery,  bcoz  I  had  no  books or
teachers,  but  little  by  little  it
started  to work out.  Since then I've
been    a   coder.    Teams   in   the
chronological      order:       Omega,
Spaceballs, Black Robes, VD.  The only
gfx  I do nowadays, is test-gfx for my
routines.

C:   You  are  quite new on the charts
and  I  have  talked to several people
watching  your  demos that you are one
of  the  most  promising  coders right
now.  What do you say about that ?

T:   I'm  of  coz  happy, if there are
people thinking that way!  Hope I will
be  able  make  it better every time I
release  something.   It's  just up to
ideas now...

C:   You  are  also  selling  your own
source  code  for  your  productions ?
Are you not afraid that others may use
your sources to become famous ?
T:  Yes, I'm selling sources of all my
-released- routines.  And because I've
already  released  those  routines,  I
don't  really  care  if  someone  else
releases   the   same   routine  again
afterwards.   And  still  they  cannot
make them better without rewriting the
whole  routine  again, bcoz the latest
routines  have  been  optimized to the
limits.   And  it  also  can  be quite
useful  for beginning coders to get to
know  all kinds of optimization hints.
I  don't forbid guys buying sources to
use  them.  It's better this way, than
those guys ripping them!

C:  Are you coding on any game or ?

T:  Not yet.  But I very probably will
start some day!
C:  Could you, if I gave you some name
of  other  coders, please tell us what
you think of them and their products ?

Chaos/Sanity   -   A   big  favourite!
Probably  the  best coder on the scene
nowadays.  As I'm a coder, I wanna see
prods  with hardcore coding and that's
something  he  really  offers.  I just
hope  that  "Broken  Promises" will be
released  some  day...  I mean that it
isn't  just  a  rumour  like "World of
Vodka".   (remember?) Many great prods
like   Elysium,  Jesterday,  OF,  WOC.
It's rather hard to say anything about
him  as  a person, bcoz I've never met
him.

Laxity/Kefrens - The Desert Dream demo
is  sure one of the best demos around!
But I still think Laxity should be the
number  1  as  a "demo maker", but not
number one as a coder...  Since f.exp.
DD contains lots of nice routines, but
not  much  really  stunning code.  You
know,  routines  that  make you really
think  how  it's  possible to do that.
He  is  among  the best ones but still
not like Chaos or Hannibal.  Very good
music in Desert Dream!

Lone  Starr/Spaceballs  - Another good
demo  maker!   State  of  the  Art  is
probably  the  best demo to show for a
non-scene  guys.   BUT, like I said, I
love  to  see  hardcore  code and Lone
Starr has shown just one good inconvex
routine.   How  can  a guy be rated as
one  of  the  best coders according to
one vector routine???  If he really is
15   (as  he  looks  like)  he's  just
amazing  compared to his age.  I think
he's  one of those coders who consider
himself  as  a  best  in the Universe.
But great ideas he has!  Hopefully his
coming  demo  will introduce something
new  again.   Anyway,  he's ranked far
too high!

Dan/Lemon.   -  Well,  maybe  he was a
good  one  couple  of years ago..  But
obviously coders have progressed a lot
and  Dan  is  quite outdated now.  For
example  I  really  don't  see, why to
release  Groovy!   Paradroid  had just
released  the same routines (in Rink A
Dink)  before,  and  now Dan just made
them a bit slower.  It would have been
quite  a  good  40k  intro,  but  as a
trackmo  it was total nothingness.  He
lacks    the   optimization.    Highly
overrated as a coder.

Azatoth/Phenomena  - Well, not much to
say...   Just a big congratulation for
him,  bcoz  Enigma  works just fine on
A1200.   Pretty  good  for a demo that
was  released  about  3  years  before
A1200;-)

Hannibal/Lemon.   -  A  madly  working
fellow?   Has  released  hell of a lot
good   productions   during  the  last
years.    He  usually  has  some  nice
ideas.   I honestly conseder him to be
one  of  the  two  best coders around!
Hoping  to  see 3D demo 3 in TPIII, is
it  really  a  40k  intro?  If so, the
intro compo will be tuff!

C:   Who do you think should be on the
#1 position as a coder ?

T:  Whether Hannibal or Chaos, hard to
say...   We  will see the truth on The
Party  III,  at least I hope so.  Both
of   them   are   going   to   release
something,  and  since  Chaos  haven't
released  anything for a year he might
have  someting  BIG  to show.  but who
knows...

C:  What are your plans for the future
(in the scene) ?

T:   A  40k  intro  for  TPIII  compo.
Hopefully  I'll  have  enough  time to
code  that  one.   And  a new issue of
'Suomen  Lista'.  I'm also planning to
buy  an  A4000/40  soon...  If I do, I
probably  will  code  a  demo  for  it
(maybe with Skull) to really show what
Amiga can do!  The processor is almost
30  times  faster  than  A500, so that
makes  possible  to  realize my bigger
ideas.   The time will tell...  I just
have  some bigger A500 ideas in petto,
but  I have no time to code them to TP
III  intro  --->  conclusion:  maybe a
new  prod  in  the  near future.  Hope
none  releases  them  on  TP  III!  

C:    Well,   thank   you   for   this
interview!  Is there anything else you
wish to say ?

T:   Can  I  have  that  bottle again,
please??  Hellos to all friends around
the  globe.  C U all in The Party III!
OK?