Inteview with Zozo
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Interview with Z o z o o f Majic 12 done by MOP of ALCATRAZ MD: Hi Zozo! Please can you introduce yourself to our fellow readers, and if possible, give us some detailed personal info on yourself? ZZ: Well, I'm 21 years old and my real name is Zoltan Kozak. I'm living in Hungary and I'm a student. I hope it's enough! MD: I know, that at the moment you're studying at the college. Can you tell us something more, and maybe describe your typical college days? ZZ: Well I think a typical college week can be much better. It's starting on Monday morning, but at that time I'm always sleeping at home. I wake up at 9.00 and at 12.00 I'm leaving Sopron to the college. On Monday I have only a 3 hour long German lesson. On Tuesday I have to wake up really early at 8.00 and I visit a tariff lesson. Then I'm free. On Wednesday I'm free. If I'm lesson sick I visit an hour at midday. On Thursday I wake up early again at 8.00 course the head of the transport will celebrate a lesson and I have to be there. In the afternoon I meet my English teacher and then I'm going home. You can ask if this is really true. Yes, I know some dudes who are missing more times from the college, sometimes for 2 or 3 weeks. MD: All week days you're at the college, but during the weekend you're at home. Do you spend all your free time in front of your machine? ZZ: Earlier I spent most of my time in the front of my Amiga, but in the last 3 months all of my scene activities were reduced to play with Chinese Challenge II and pick up the phone and have chat. MD: Tell us something about your home-town and Hungary in general, what do you like, what you hate, attractions... ZZ: Well Hungary is generally OK nowadays. If you look around it's a bit weird (ex Yugoslavia, Romania, ex USSR). About my home town. It's one of the most marvellous towns in Hungary. MD: Well, now let's pass on to some more standard questions about the scene. Have you been in other groups before Majic 12? ZZ: No. Earlier I was in love with Cement Crew, but Majic 12 is the continuum of ILC. MD: Why did you choose the name ZOZO? ZZ: It just came. Do you think that Sunshine Kid or Roller Blaster would be better? MD: Apart from being the Top Secret editor, what do you mainly do in Majic 12? ZZ: I'm the main organizer in Majic 12. I swapped a lot and had a BBS. It shut down because I sold my HD and my Amiga. I write this interview on a borrowed machine. MD: Are your group mates also your best friends? Do you have any good friends in other groups!? ZZ: The hungarian members are really good friends, and I think we are friends of each others with the foreigner divisions too. MD: And do you keep in contact with all the members in your group? ZZ: Not with all. I just keep in contact with those who write to me. MD: Any BBS numbers!? ZZ: Yes we have some BBS, but I can't give you numbers, just names: OZ, No Ware Sweden, Mega Blast (I had to think more than 15 seconds!). We have a new board in Norway, the SysOp is Diver. MD: I know that you've got a modem, so I would like to ask you a simple question. Do you think that the modem is really destroying the mail traders, or do you think that the real problem in mail trading is the standard 2-line letter? ZZ: Well my modem didn't destroy my mail trading because it was only a 2400bps modem. 2 line letters - sometimes I used to write 2 lines letters, but in the last months I kicked all my "hi-bye" contacts. MD: When you get some `hot` stuff from a contact, do you really matter what`s on the disk/s or what`s on the paper21? ZZ: Both of them were important for me. Now none of them are important for me. MD: Is it also important to send some other things apart from disks sometimes? ZZ: Some photos and chocolates are quite OK. MD: This interview wouldn't surely be complete if I wouldn't use this opportunity to ask you some more facts and things about the making of Top Secret! All of us know that Top Secret wasn't always a Majic 12 production. But this mag climbed the charts when it began to be published by Majic 12. What do you think? ZZ: The first 5 issues were published by the Norwegian members, but at that time they were not in Majic 12. They were in Gentry. Then they joined us and we took over TS too. MD: Everyone says that it is very hard to be a mag editor, because you're always troubled to get enough support or articles and to have everything ready for the release date. How do you usually proceed when planning a new issue? ZZ: On the former issues I worked a lot but with the last 2 issues I just slept the whole day. You can see the difference in quality too. I think I've lost my inspiration. MD: After all the hard work, the issue is finished. Do you immediately continue your work on the next one, or do you have a long break? ZZ: I have a very long break. MD: Everyone is saying that there are too much mags already around, not counting the new ones which are being planned. But is that true? ZZ: As I check my stuff, I have to say that most of the former mags are dead or late, so the mag syndrome is over now. MD: Do you think that if maybe two or more mags would join forces, they would stand better chances to produce higher quality? Did you have any propositions by any other mag to join forces? ZZ: Of course adding two mags makes a better mag, but then the main question is that who will release the mag? Then it's the end of coop. Only one group mag can survive. MD: I think that at this point most of the readers would like to know, your personal opinion about other mags. Can you please give us some brief comments on each of the following mags: ZZ: HACK MAG by D-TECT: Looks dead, their text colours were a bit strange. I.C.E. by CYTAX: Quite OK. ZINE by BRAINSTORM: The new routine was OK, but not on a standard Amiga!! FREEDOM CRACK by VEGA: Nothing special. CRACKER JOURNAL by DESIGN: Shit! STOLEN DATA by ANARCHY: The last issue was great! McDisk by ALCATRAZ: Issue 4 is great! FOURTH DIMENSION by CRB: When did you get the last issue? GRAPEVINE by LSD: It's fine. R.A.W. by P.M.C.: Lord Helmet rules! OUTER LIMITS by POLARIS: I saw only one issue. good Kraftwerk article. FREE`n EASY by PARAGON: Nothing! SCENE LYRICS by GRACE: I didn't use to read novels in English. Anyway some Grace dudes are good friends of mine. MD: Do you know of any other mag. worth mentioning, but which is not listed above? ZZ: No! MD: After we've all read your opinion about all your other rival mags, how about giving us your personal opinion about TOP SECRET? ZZ: Issue 8 was the greatest. Issues 9 and 10 were accidents. MD: Are you in contact with other mag editors? What's your relationship with them? ZZ: I'm only in contact with Lord Helmet. We used to send the latest issues to each other. MD: What's your opinion about all these message centres popping around? Most of them are also including articles these days, and it seems that their future will be that of a fully fledged mag? ZZ: Who the hell wants to read messages. If I have some important thing for somebody than I phone him or send him a letter. MD: You were also one of the organizers of the MAJIC 12-TRSI Easter party. Did everything finally turn up as you had planned? Were there any big problems in the organisation in general? Do you think that the CASTLE parties can be considered the best organised ones in Hungary? ZZ: There were too few visitors, and the best part of the party was the pre-party on Friday. There were about 30 foreigners and Hungarian dudes at the student hostel and we boozed a lot. During the party there was nothing special. I slept on Saturday night and at 7.00, when I went back to the party most of the Hungarians started to go home with an early train, so the party ended at 12.00. After that, we went to a restaurant (about 20 freaks) and ate the money prizes. Grekko/L.A. can't organize anything! Just look on the map and after a half hour searching maybe you can find the party village. It's impossible to reach. The castle is really a good place, but not for an Amiga party. MD: Can you tell us some of your future plans? ZZ: Well next Monday I will leave Hungary for a year and I will go to Huddersfield/England. It will be a one year experience there. I hope it will be interesting. MD: MAJIC 12 had really surprised everyone, when sometime ago, the incredible trio, RACK-AVANTAGE-DR. BULLY, began to release their fabulous productions. No one thought that a Hungarian group could be so powerful. Did you really expect the success that was awaiting you? ZZ: Absolutely not. We know that Rack has a big talent, but our demos never showed big new surprises and things like that. MD: I have also heard that you are beginning to work on RAY OF HOPE 3. Is this true? Will RACK still do the GFX for this sequel since he is now spending his days in the army? ZZ: Yes, ROH 3 will be out sometime. Maybe in autumn. Or I can say that Ray of Hope 3 will be released one day after the release Mental Hangover II. MD: What about the current Amiga scene in Hungary? Are there any hard working groups worth mentioning? ZZ: Not really. MD: MAJIC 12 and LIVE ACT are considered to be the two best Hungarian groups (I think!). What's the relation between the two of you? ZZ: We are friends and that's enough.