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 In Focus: Bjsebo of Venus Art
                                                                          
         Interrogatory Performed by Kaosmaster of Darkage
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
K:   Hi BJSebo!!!!!  Has I know you are quite known in poland but not too much
outside your contry can you introduce yourself ,please ?
                                                                       
B:   My  real  name  is  Sebastian  Jedruszkiewicz,I'm 24 years old student of
Technical  University  of  Szczecin.   I  have  choosen 'Computer graphics and
multimedia' as my specialization, and now I'm starting to work on my MC.
                                                                       
                                                                       
K:  Venus Art!  an important Polish group!
                                                                       
B:   What  can  I  say...   This  is your opinion,i really don't care about so
called popularity.
                                                                       
K:   You  are now only 3 member!!  it is easy to be productive and have a good
quality with so little members??

B:Well...It is easy to cooperate.We are old friends,anyone know exactly,what the
other  one  can  do.But  if you take a look at credits for our productions,you
will  see  many other ppl,who are helping us.  I should mention Wierza/Venture
(a  great  musician)  and  Smajk(ex  Majkel) of Venture.We can always count on
them.   We have got more members in past,but we didn't liked them ;-).The most
important thing is to have a great time doing demos.
                                                                       
K:   How  do  you find yourself to code on ppc ??  and who did came out your 2
ppc demo conversions ?
                                                                       
B:   Coding  on  ppc  is  not  very difficult.Unless you don't know 'C' ;-) We
started  to  write  demos in 'C' about 2 years ago (Evil Empire was written in
about  80%  in  'C'), so it was quite easy to port our sources to PPC.When noe
was   in   polish  army,and  we  were  not  working  on  new  wersion  of  the
engine,together  with  C.A.L.F.   I started to rewrite all assembly stuff(like
c2p,texture  mapping) to C.  After 2 months we have got working ppc demos.They
are  still very buggy,but at least on my machine they work.  We have also made
versions for SGI(I have runned 'everything dies' on SGI Power challenge - this
is great!!) but with no music.                                          
                                                                       
K:   have  you  seen  Artwork's  Megademo IV 2 ?  what do you think about it ?
                                                                       
B:   Actualy  I did.First time i saw it,i thought that maybe this is some kind
of joke (and I still think so), but after a while i realized that it is great!
Maybe a little bit boring,but still something differrent.                 
                                                                       
K: Will you code something new on a PPC ???                             
                                                                       
B:   Our  new  engine,which  we  are  actually working on,will be probably PPC
only.Aslo there will be probably 16bpp CGFX only version.                 
                                                                       
K:   Seems  that  we will see a parallel PPC version of AmigaOS4.0 made by H&P
and P5....                                                                    
                                                                       
B:  We will see...I can only have hope,that at least they will work together.
                                                                       
                                                                       
K: What do you think about the actual polish scene ?                
                                                                       
B:   Do  i  have to ...;-( It is difficult to say something constructive about
ppl    i    know...    But   anyway...    Not   too   much   good   coders,Zig
Informer,Mr.Acryl...   and  that's it.No new faces for about year...  When you
take  a  look  at  any  polish  party  results,you  will  see  always the same
groups...We need some young blood.  A lot of great musicians and graphicians.
                                                                       
K:   I  think that comunication in Venus Art is great!  ( only 3 dudes!  ) =),
it's true ?                                                          
                                                                       
B:   As  I  said  - we are old friends,I know C.A.L.F.  for about 11 years, we
spent  5 years together with Noe,and we know each other very good.  It makes a
lot of thing easier...                                                    
                                                                       
K:  Can you tell us something more on your next project ?
                                                                       
B:   Probably  a demo at io5 or gravity 3 (both parties are in almost the same
time) We are aslo thinking about a demo for Assembly,but i don't think that we
can  do  something really cool, for this party.And i have no money for trip to
Finland.  Demo will be called 'The field where I died', and this is all i know
about  this  project.We will meet toghether in beginning of June,to talk about
scenario and effects.
                                                                       
K:  Ok..  what about your real life ??                             
                                                                       
B:   I  have  no  life...Most  of my free time I spent working on projects for
school;-(                                                                      
                                                                       
                                                                       
K:  What do your parents think about the scene ?            
                                                                       
B:   My  Mum  loves scene.Either, she don't understand,why ppl, are doing some
stupid  demos,and  are  getting  no  money  for  that.But  she  is  also  very
proud,everytime  i'm  returning from party,and saying:  'Mum we won again' ;-)
And my parents are always saying:  Son, you should stop this,you should find a
job, girl, get married, and so on...  And of course i don't listen to them ;-)
                                                                       
K:  Well  , that's all.....  now you have some traditional free lines to write
what ever you want!                                                         
                                                                       
B:   Nothing  comes  to  my mind....Amiga rulez?  No...everybody knows that...
Too hot to invent interesting quota ;-)                             
                                                                       
K: thanx for your time!
                                                                       
B:Thank you.                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
 Regards                                                                 
	Sebastian