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It's partytime1
On the x-nias party 1995 it's timelfer a hew edition of Brainfart and were back to present yoo

this latest issue, Whats new about this? First: It is printed and not copied. Second, Its for free
Third: There weren't made 100 or 200 of it like the last time, but 20001 You will find many
interesting things to read in this issue about parties, the future of the Amiga, the allmighty
internet, latest press releases
concerning the Amiga and much more. It was hard work to make all this possible, Now one
week before the PARTY 5, we are preparing for printing and hoping everything will work as
we want it to (And we are still veeeeery nervous!) The ones who made all this possible are
Amiga Technologies, who solved our financial problem of printing within 4 (FOUR) days.
Thank you. Another thing which is useMl to tell is, WE WILL NEVER DROP THE, C64!

In this issue we have more information for all 8-bit users than before, because this time we
started working on this very much earlier than the last times. (3-4 Weeks before Christmas,
instead of 4-5 days!)
Another thing that might be new for the most of you is that BRAINfART doesn’t just cover
the C64 but also the Amiga. This had been changed on the last CeBit, to be able to reach
more readers.
This was allready enough for you to know, now start reading.

Yours sincerely

The staff

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LAME IS LAME

Let's define this curious word "lame". What is really lame? Do you know that? Well, when I
say
lame to you, I define you as a lamer. I also could say: "You lamer!" And when I'm talking
about
you, i could’say, lamer is lame! Nobody would understand it. What is this lame guy talking
about,they would say! And I would say you are lame! So what we have? I was talking about
a lame lamer, to lame lamers! Lame, isn't it? This lame lamers were so lame that they were
so lame to understand that lame lamer is lame lamer! Okay, now lets define lame again.
When I define your car as lame, I also could say, you have a lame, or, you drive a lame! Or:

Your lame is lame! Or: You lame lamer, driving a lame lame!My lame is much faster then
your lame! And if I speak to other people, I could say: Lame lamer is driving a lame lame
much lamer then my lame lame! Okay. Another example. You say "everything is lame!"
Don't say that! Because, if you say that, you define everything with the word lame! Lame

lame, laming a lame lame, lamest lame lame the lame???

Shakespeare: To lame or not to lame, that's the lame here!

Orwell: Big lame is laming you!

Bucks: We lame on lame!

Music: Everybody lame now!

Schwarzenegger: Hasta lame vista, lamer!

Star Trek: I am Borg of lame, you will be assimilamed.

News: Lamies and Gentillame

okay... you lame, it was lame to lame in this lame lames, but don't lame,

be lame! Lame you next lame!

1

To get in touch with the subject of
cryptogrq
words foi||hose of you, who have no Idea
what PGljjritty _ood rivacy) is as an
introduct§|n. PGP is an public key
encryptiogjprogram, which means you got
two codes^keys) to decode and encode.^
Each key is the negative of the other on|
You can spread the public key, which is!
for cryptmg everywere you like and
everyone who would like, could send yoi

crypted message which only you could
decode using your secret key. The great
advantage of this is that noone needs to

know your pass^

enemies coujgjpt^e your public key
It works tfagproilowing way: The text is

encryptejpda the conventional IDEA

cryptin^iethod and the key to this is
encryptljj via the RSA code, using thev
reciepanl|; public key. When the reciejj
decrypts tne message wa
PGP decoggg^je IDEA code using the
secret kejgjand with the result it decrypts the
message. S
Regardin||the problem of encryption one
should step back in time to old ages when
encryption was staited up by using secret
chars or1
da Vinci, jfHio had to be feared of people
reading, Hiat he wrote down. This idea was
improve<|jhore and more,also by mechanical
and electHfeal machines during World War

i

and II, were the British were able to cra§
the German codes. Just think about the
developement from the first car to a for

one car. This was made in only hundred^
years and has physical borders, while

encryption could only reach the borders set<:

by mathmatics and imagination.

The NS A had the cryptographic monopoly

ilenly
crashed. A computer freak called Whitfield
Diffie had developed a system of public key
cryptography in cooperation with a man
called Martin Hellmann which was
undoubtly a shock for the N S A headquaters.
Diffie was interested i jjlryptography since
he saw the weakness
of conventional encryption.
Everything was secure as long as the system
administrator was willing to guard your
privacy, and one could find secret ways to
transmit codes.Later on in 1977 three men

leman build
up a bundle of algorythms and called it
RS A. This system was much stronger than
the system promoted by government which
was called DES and had only a lenght of 56
bits.RSA was patented aqd licenced to RSA

lata security
This is tfpoihfW efrrail Zimmermann hits
the scen|| He had a job as a computer

program||er and his personal interest was m
politicalSctivity. He was twice arrested for
anti-nukfgsit-ins. Caught by the idea of
combining both, politics and programming,
he started to develop a public ke^

ter on
called PGP. From the first idea of it in 1977
and the start of programming in 1984 a long
time passed. 1986 he implemented RSA and
in 1991 it was ready for release. He was
feared of the day whenjgovernment
outlawgd.gnyat^encg^ion and so he
decided to gfve'TUP away.After the release
PGP spread around the world within hours,
wich was for sure not approved by RSA
data security Zimmermann defended
himself by saying it was a research project.
He didn’t sell or spread it and because of

this he also didn't need to bother about
US exp(

The proppem of being legal isn’t solved

yet.

Zimmer||ann only gives aid m updating
PGP ancjjts users guide For sure one
shouldn’jgforget about the RSA patent
holders who claim that not only the

producers of PGP are m danger but alf

everyone who uses it. US Govemme|
and NS A have a big interest in stoppi^
private Cryptography In the Arms

Regulation Law of the US cryptography1
rated as importand as tanks are There are
three ways US government attacs

cryptography The first;

secrecy with w^^^M si'SA handles

encryption.^plplswas gomg so far in

earlier da^lffhat even the existence of the
NS A wapBemed. The second way is to
use thejjlport regulation as restrictive as
possiblg which makes companies like eg
micros®; think it is unprofitable to
produce'^wo versionsypf all these
programs^or national an
use Manpggjpple think that the quite

unconfofflbTe use of other products isn't m
need forSie things they write This all

leads to gfrmal users having less security
than they^ would be able to have. And as a

third way the FBI tries to stop every way

of con
to watchgynat is going on, which would be

also froT||the economical point of view a

large stejlback for the very competitive

americaiftommumcation industry

It is obvious that control of things like

fascism, organised crime and child
molestes is needed, but how could thi||

look like9 All these things were a prof

before the internet came to our minds,

there will be more possibilities for the

Mafia to do business if e-mails with

uncrypted credit card numbers were

posted The child molesterers could easily

go back to the playgrounds were they don't

have any communication network between

of
view these are no facts which are suitable
for arguing against encryption.

If you watch the lack of interest from most
of the population for all these subjects, it
is obvious that there |^11 be only a few
who protest.
The 1 ii1l!liiP#iIPiffihge to mass media. A
few years ago you needed at least to study

to get into the net, nowadays everyone
could surf around and within a few years it
will be as normal as watching TV This
doesn't mean that I want to restrict the

ose who study, but I

ffiiriK"ffie way''n e f^ ^ ^ ^re ate d will
change, as well as the whole net. There
will be masses of people who just want to
surf the web and think about how they
could have some fun
From my point of view it is also a question

ow much freedom of rapd is there on the

lnternet^jday^r-am^^p^oint of view
there aigfwiae parts of the net were is only
freedoi®of speech if it hits the ideals of
the maJlbs, because control by the public
in som J|) arts means also, control by the
opiniorBf the masses,

MassivPcontrol of the population was
only possible in earlier days when most of

ToiifroT

Big brother might be watching you on the
net earlier than you think, and lfyou regard
camera installation m the UK were
networks of them are installed in some
cities, it is sometimes already happening
We should not only \\||ch the government
becoi^m^Li^brQth^Put also ourselfs,
because we are the ones who will decide
what will be happening

PGP is our chance to start working for our
privacy and against the things, George
Orwell had been feared of to happen ^

11 Years ago, in 1984 ^

It is astonishing which amounts of iocacion
for the small Commodore could be
found on the net, while the three weeks
when I was searching for interesting
sites, I discovered many interesting things.
The ways to get in touch with the world are
for sure Internet providers, but
also CompuServe, and a american service
called GEnie, provided by General
Electric. The first thing which I would like
to promote to you is the complete List of
all eqipment commodore ever built, which
is starting off with the PET series,
via the different types of C64 (Special
Japanese versions) and to the
different types ofAmigas. (http:// /

Another great site is the home page of Jim
Brain, who is living in the US and
working for the support of the 8 bit
Commodore machines, from here you could

find a lot of other links to mteresting.pages
and great amounts of *

information about the 64, 128 and the c65

(http://www.msen.com/-bram)

The c-hacking magazine ts a great mag for
commodore machines, which is
concentrated on technical facts on the c=64.
Also available in ascii*
(http;//ccnga.uwaterloo ca/~csbruce/HACK

INGZMacking.html)
aNot|er Great Page, is the home page of
Triad(http//www dflth.se/-triad/
Tnad_Home.html) from which you also
should visit the homepage of King Fisher,
read his article (GREAT1) about cracking
and the try out TRIADS kicking C64
links to the web The Philes page
(http://www df.lth.se/~tnad/Philez.html) ..

is more than worth visiting. ^
Another interesting part of the web is to be
found on a server in the US, ; :
the main site of Creative Micro Designs,
CMD who are the producers of the,
C6$fhard disks, upcoming turbo boards

R

20Mhz), ram cards and 3.2MB, *

....

DiskDrives.
Allfhese nice things„prices, software and
all kind of support for the C64
could be found here. Visit this site and stan
dreaming of a brainboosting C64
with 20 Mhz Cpu, 4 meg ram and 2 GB

Harddisk. /

(http://www.msen.com/-brain/guest/cmd.ht
ml) %

Last bur notlealtthe i|one great site,
which is called "THE^OMMODORE

COMPUTER CULT CORNER”, were you
can get information alout everything which

is cult on this machin^ famous coolers and
musicians like Rob Hubbard and '

fiintastic linages.
Before you gel%)fedyou should just try
out theser *

Fairlight homepage*
http;//www JuddJuth.se/~watchman/fairligh

Padua

http.//www cs.tu-berlin.de/~pomg/padua/

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Motive 8 i *

http. //www. Informatik. Uni -

01denburg.DE/~grfftyg

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Noice:

Zocds ^ \

http:#www.bart.nl/~tdj/focus.html/ f

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http.//www ts.uruu.se/~gnilk/
Active ■

htlp://j ota.sm.li4h.se: 80/~d95-pen/

The Sharks
http.//stekt.oulu.fi/~mysti/the_sharks/

If you got any further questions or just want
to mail me*
[e-mail]

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Telekoma '96 - Back
communication ?

to the stone age of

Maybe it was one year ago. Today I do not
quite remember when I heard of it first, but
one thing is definetly sureCFrom the time of
its first announcement there have been many

obvious that the reformers have just thought
about providing companies better conditions.
Private cbstumers \especially with a small
financial budget who are mostly calling in
their city's area, will have highly increased
phonebills. New services common in other

industrialized countries like internet and
discussions and argumerits in the (public and j
believe there will be eien more when t]fe
Telekom will deliver the first bills iri late
January 1996. Germans know what I am
talking about. On January 1st 1996 the
Telekom starts to use new rates for all calls
from germany. It all sounded good. Telekom
spokesman announced new rates that will be
much cheaper for their costumers - it sounded
quite reasonable when you look at still used
rates for calls from germany. A lot of
rumours were spread, tons of files claiming to
contain the right information overflowed nets
and boards. Finally by now every customer

should have received an information booklet
about the confusing reform, so you might
have discovered on your own. In fact every
private costumer was fooled. The Telekom
calculated the price for 3 minutes - to be
honest, what can you do in 3 minutes - and
discovered that such calls are much cheaper
under new rates.We have to admit that this is
true, but we are not lying if we say that calls

of 5, 10 or more minutes are even more

expensive if you make local calls.But what
have they really achieved ? Long distance

calls become cheaper - a step into the right

direction, but if you compare the horrible
rates for city calls with the free calls in the
USA the reform is not satisfying. Also calls to

foreign countries will get much cheaper, with

the new rates the Telekom will beat also

AT&T's price for USA-Direct calls. It is quite

telephone banking will decrease enormously,
the only hope is the new night-rate, but why
is iher no night,.rd:e at weekends - Telekom
spokesman said it is just ment for data-
transfer for businesses and companies, who

just do it during the week. But what did they

invent for the rest - nothing. But do we have
any alternatives ? As the US-companies like
AT&T and MCI mainly provide transatlantic
calls under worse conditions for european
callers, they are no alternative, yet. As we still
have the Telekom-monopoly, we hav to look
somewhere else. As there are many
companies offering mobile phones, there
might be a strong challanger among them.
The price for mobile telephones has
decreased a lot, but you just have to look in
the whole bunch of information sheets to
discover that they still quite expensive if you
want to call an ordinary Telekom line. The
cheapest rates are offered by the e-plus
service. The monthly rates are twice as much
as a normal Telekom line. If you are thinking
of buying a mobile telephone this might be a
real alternative when you have to do long
distance calls . Long distance calls are just
6-10 pfennigs more expensive than the new
telecom rates, and if the person you are
talking to is also using an e-plus mobile
telephone it might also be cheaper. What can
we do ? Sadly it seems nothing. Finally we
have to go trough it the last 2 years and dream
of 1998.

H'9St^rs-C ^ c ^ p tW h

"Today everything is different. AT&T estimates that 50 percent of all

telephone calls can't be connected. Seventyfive millions of telephone calls
are blocked. The breakdown came completely unexpected. At 2.25 a switch
failed. Just a single one. Nobody knows why. He routed his calls to another

switch. But instead of taking over the tasks of the other switch, the new

one also failed. The situation got more and more worse, because like in a

chain reaction one switch after another turned of. Switch by switch. And two

teenagers in queens wondered if all it was their fault/1

The Masters of Deception were a hacking
group wich some of you may know and
this is also the title of the book. It's about
members of this group, how they started
hacking and witch was the way they went
into the networks of AT&T and Timenet.
But it is not only the story about them, it is
also the story of those who hunted them for
years and how they tried to convince the
fbi of the dangers of hacking, but the only
answer was "What is a switch?". The way
they went into all these Computers is
described quite clearly:
Searching the rubbish of New York
Telephone until someone finds a internal
list of telephone numbers, calling operator
services to get informations or passwords,
war-dialing and setting trojan horses into
unix systems.
When it all starts off they are all members
of the Legion of Doom, but later on this
connection gets lost when one of the guys

from New York is kicked out of the Legion
of Doom. A new group is formed, the
Masters of Deception. This is the
beginning of a new war in the scene.
Throughout the whole book it is described
how they are hacking AT&T switches and

timenet. Calling with operator status,

changing telephones of peoples they don’t

like into phone boxes which demand a coin

to be thrown in and getting credit

information obout VIPs like Julia Roberts
are the ways they have fun. All this isn’t just
gambling around for them but the only
possibility to learn how all this works (just

imagine: would anybody of AT&T teach
them?) . Allthough the book was written for
readers which aren’t due to the subjekt and
some explenations of modems etc. might put
a grin on your face, it is absolutely
fascinating to read this book. After reading
the first paragraph of it, I was uable to stop
until it was finished. In the beginning of book
it is described how the sixty-four and
copying protection came up with the first
disc drives and why programs like double
hack’em were written which and as a scener
one might know the groups or persons
mentioned in the book, For sure I cant say if
everything written in there is true, but its
really fascinating and I think nearly everyone
who reads this book will have as much as I
had.

RADWAR

Yep, and some of yon thought it was
time again for a real explanation of what
"phun" means ., for all those who
haven't got the slightest idea who or wh
at "radwar 1941” or "radwar party" are..
. better piss off now1 ... well, basically
there were several dates announced,but
all got cancelled again and again
anyhow,,, finally mw$/radwar announced
the nineth edition of the radwar "the rain-
booze" party for the 28+29/10/95 on the
boards and the internet. So I didn't
hesitated a single second and me and a
local Amiga pal (Dragon/Jncal) started
our way off to Heinsberg, near Aachen
/Germany first of alUiowevetwe

stopped at Danzig and Mustaine's (both
X-rated) house and we spent a cewl night
m a pub of the village both are living
in.we also spent some time in front of the
most decent computer around (guess
what... 64 rules!)

The next day we were all a bit tired,but

that didn't matter as we all were xtremely
looking forward to the party... so we sat
in the train and in duesseldorf/germany
we used the waiting period and "Me
Donald's" had to cope with a massive
onslaught,let's say we left a disaster
behind us... anyway/back in the train
again, TGI/Paralyze joined in with whom
we had been m contact all the time via a
german VMB, so we knew that we would
meet him in the train somewhere
somewheo *but when was not quite sure...
so we were now five guys ,
(T GI/Paralyze,Df agon/Incal,
Mustame/XR ,Danzig/XR and Stan/XR...
m the afternoon (somewhat like 17 30
pm) we reached Erkelenz/Germany and
from now on we had to fetch a bus
transfer to the way Amd/Radwar told me
on the phone. We succeeded and we
finally reached the partyplace as it was

the same location as the years before,the
discotheque "Chez Renzo".. so we got
out of the bus and and even before we
could enter the disco Arnd/RWE stand in
front of us and we shaked hands... he told

us that the party would stair at 19*41 pm
(guess why? :>) and he added that he may
not let us enter the disco before...

moreover,he said that we first should
have a visit at a pizzeria m the neigh

bourhood as it was supposed to offer a
"radwar menue!"... well,we also already

met some dudes thereabout 5 or 6 Trsi
guys and some more,who cares... so we
returned to the party place and also to the
park which was exactly situated m the
opposite of the disco.fhe park was for all
those who enjoy smoking any kind of
different things .. but well,we finally (!)
entered the disco itself and when we
came in some real cool trance tunes were
playing and i saw a sign saying "beer for
two german marks!" that is quite cheap
in a disco and so what else to do first than
order a couple of beers... of course it was
now time to watch out for sum familiar
faces and the first l was able to spot were
two of those typical (1) party animals who
miss quite seldom a party...

airwolf/ex. genes i s *proj e ct and I.a.style

/ex.Genesis*Project.. and as inside the
disco the music was pretty loud,all the
people gathered outside next to the street

.. therefore firstly the real party was

outside.more and more people came

veloped into a real "rainbooze" party...

the disco featured a small screen which

showed some vidoes of former radwar
parties what i personally really
appreciated to watch, the tekkno music

by the dj’s were still playing though while

showing the videos m the background

(like the famous soccer games around «
the "radwar trophy" ).but to come i

RA D W AR

present time again*.. I regret that far too
less 64-sceners of today came to the
party, but that was also due to the late
announcement of the paddy.. (quite
nobody in the 64-scene knew when the
party took place,it just got spread on
some boards some day before,..).
However,there were quite a lot guys
present who were in the 64-scene m the

1980’s .. and that was cool again to meet
some old faces you comm only don'
speak to at normal computer parties..
people who just come as it is the radwar
party which is definitely one of the most
traditional parties in 64-history as well as
in overall computer business., well,one
of the highlights of the radwar party was
a karaokee competition featuring about 5
or 6 guys... one of the competitors was
Freiherr Guenther von Gravenreuth

, ,known as "Freibier Gunm" who is the

most infamous software piracy-buster in

germ any.., he competed with "strangers
in the night" by Frank Sinatra if I
remember right.,, also MWS/Radwar,the

host,competed and three or four more
people.., but hell,even me and tgi took
part with... "roxanne" by the police... and

we really pushed ourselves up to the
limit... but we were stoned so you might
imagine the way we sang., but we weren'
the worst, i suppose rather average no

results got released afterwards if
ilremember correctly.but i don' suppose

that we won,haha. btw,when Freiherr

G.von Gravenreuth performed his

"strangers in the night" tgi and me were

go-go-girls m the background and we

shamely supported this guy, it was phun

anyway,so what, next to the party

location there was a small restaurant

offering little dishes.so most of the party

g

visitors ate some crap there instead at

that lame pizzaria .. somehow the 64-

sceners among the visitors of the
restaurant were the loudest as we shouted
our opinion about the others straight
out... airwolf "pc " - the rest:

"sux!",airwolf: "amiga..." - the rest:
"$ux!",airwolf "console1" - thereat:"
sux!",airwolf:"64?f" - the rest: "ruuuul
es!" and then we started to sing the air
wolf-introtheme from that tv-series (due

to airwolfrex.gp as leadsingerfgotthe

phun about it?!) and somehow it became
a habit at the party and we repeated that
ceremony about a dozens of time irata
gamed the award of "the hotstepper of th
e party" while he was dancing on one of
the loudspeakers wellthe party lasted
about 7 hours,then most started their way
home., and so did we as arndt/radwar
was so kind to drive us to the train station
we came from (erkelenz/germany) 'He
also provided us with a large number of

old radwar posters of the radwar party
iv and vii and even the very last
stickers,they that was cool, well,as I'm

in the mood for some Radwar greets.here

we go now hiho to aslive/ex rsi.airwolf

and l.a.style/ex.g*p,curlin-peacemaker-
tyromjihad of hitmen,irata,knackosoft a
nd the thousands of other trsi dudes you

were able to spot there,mws/radwar,amd

t/radwar (thanks for the party and your

other efforts1 f),danzig+mustame/x-rated
,tgi/paralyze,guenm,lexi/fairlight,...

and many more,but I'm outta time to me

ntion them now all. but one thing for

sure,the radwar party was cool though so
me say it was not,i really enjoyed my ti
me there and had some really asskickmg

chats with lotsa people and that's what
the origmal sense of the party was

alright,see ya at the xmas-party'95 in

fredericia... regards,, stan/x-rated !

Party-

April 1996 1

The legendary

Party for Amiga

and Pp

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UTKECfiT, NL

Eastern 1996

Party for C6

ano PC held
by S CS /T RC

Zone

HELSINmlj FIN M lKI D

The ( >

Party f o ^ ^ ^ a ,

C64 andi^ i

ROOS , NL

Sum m er 1996

Party for Amiga

and PC held by

Spaceballs

March 1996

T ogether with Escom in the new
multimedia age.
A bit of history: 1985. New Yoik
A new computer is presented to the
amazed press by Commodore. What

journalists saw there was the

beginning of a big adventure for
millions of people worldwide:
The Amiga was born !
Its incredible features in video, sound
and animation, thanks to a smart
design of custom processors, bundled
to a fully multitasking OS and the
powerful 68000 processor from
Motorola quickly made the Amiga
the system of choice for all computer
fans. The first Amiga had 256 KB of
Memory and an 880 KB 3,5 inch disk
drive. Ten years later, hundreds of
megabytes of memory can be used
and the latest 68060 processor from
Motorola is 100 times faster than the
original 68000. Through this

computer, a real community of users
had been created, software and
hardware suppliers quickly joined the
bandwaggon to create a true
environment for those who knew
from the beginning that the Amiga
was more than just a tool to type
letters and to run spreadsheets.
The amiga also had its detractors:
“Animation and sound ? that’s just
good for games, no need of that for
serious applications44. This is what
could be heard and read some years
ago, when the competition was still
struggling with monotaskmg and
monochrome systems. These same
people are now saying that they

invented Multimedia...
The keyword Multimedia: an

important keyword for those who
know that the Amiga actually

invented Multimedia. Escom knew

that from the beginning and
recognized in the Amiga a valuable
technology the key to success.
In April 1995* after a long period of
latency it finally happened: Escom
took over the complete technological
and intellectual proberty of
Commodore in a spectacular auction
in New York. Amiga users,
professionals as hobbyist were very
worried,; what was going to happen
to their Computer of choice, waht

could Escom’s plans be? Escom
received hundreds of user letters from
all around the world, asking to
continue manufacturing and
development of the system.
This is actually a phenomenon that
can only be observed very rarely for a
product: commitment and even
attachement of a devoted

international community. Support by
dozens of dedicatedmagazines: More
than ten magazines for Germany and
the UK alone? And several more m
other countries. All these factors
made Manfred Schmitt, President of
the executive borad at Escom, decide
to buy Amiga and create a new

daughtercompany' AMIGA
Technologies. The commitment to the
technology and its furture was

brilliantly demonstrated in Frankfurt,

at a major international press

conference on May 30th, 95, only one
month later after the takeover.
ABOUT US: Amiga Technologies is

a 100% daughtercompany of Escom.

We are located in Bensheim, 40 miles

southwards of Frankfurt and a few
miles away from Heppenheim, where
Escom has its offices.
OUR TEAM: To be good in making,

selling and promoting the Amiga, one

has to like the Amiga and stand A a

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behind it. We at Amiga Technologies
think that our team has to be made of
Amiga Specialists who believe in
what they’re doing and that the way
we go. Our staff is about 40 people,
working in sales, production,
marketing/PR, accounting and
finances, human resources, support
and especially development of new
hardware and software. We think
internationaly because we are an
international company. People from
all parts of the world are joining our

young and dynamic team. In our

offices Englsih is more spoken than

German. OUR PARTNERS' Third
party support on the Amiga is
excellent and numerous. We know

that we have creative and productive
partners who make the Amiga a better
system every day. We want to work
together with these people and build
up fruitful partnerships with them.
We allready have signed agreements

with SCALA software to bundle our
systems with their outstanding
multimedia authoring system. The
Amiga can be now be used as a
powerful multimedia workstation out
of the box,. OUR CURRENT
PRODUCTS: From the entry level
Amiga 1200 to the high-end Amiga
4000 Tower, our product range is
suited for everyone, from the
computer freak to the professional
user. The Amiga 1200, thanks to its

low price is a perfect home computer
and its expandability will give the
user many upgrade possibilities for
faster processors, more meory or
new storage medias. The Amiga 4000
Tower is perfectly suited for the
professional video and multunedia
market and alls aufficient connectors

and free room to host any kind of

internal expansion device. For more
computing power, the 68040
processor can be replaced with the
new 68060 from Motorola. An
exciting device for Multimedia and
interactive applications are the new
Virtual IO glasses, distributed and
promoted in cooperation with Amiga
Technologies. With Virtual IO, the
Amiga users will have a closer

relationship to their computer! with

3D compliant software like games or
3D demos, the I-Glasses can simulate
a true stereoscopic vision.
OUR TECHNOLOGY,

DEVELOPMENT AN WHAT WE
CAN MAKE OUT OF IT: Power to
the user is our goal at short and olong
term. Going towards Power PC is a
priority for us. Porting our operating
system to a new generation hardware
technology in a user-friendly manner

is the best way to keep our loyal

customers and gain new ones. For the

short term, implementing the fast

68060 processor is an evident move
we will do quickly. Again, here we

hire the most excellent technicians

and have the best partners to achieve
this abitious endeavour. In 1996, we
will release the A1200 Internet

Bundle. Fitted with a modem, the

al200 will also come with all
software needed for optimal Internet
access. Included will be a TCP/IP
Stack, a new WEB-browser and
numerous clients for FTP, E-mail,
IRC etc. The package will be
available in January at a price bellow

1300 DM. Tt will be a plug & play

-solution, where the user can directly
dial in with the provided internet

Account. The Amiga Q-drive will be

available early 1996 and will consist
of a quad-speed CD Rom drive that

can be easily plugged into the

PCMCIA port of the A1200. It will

be delivered with drivers needed for

using CDTV and CD32 software on

CD Rom. Also on schedule for early

1996 istheAI200 plus. This new
keyboard computer will feature a
more powerfull processor and will be
easily expandable with standard

SIMM’s. The A1200 plus, like the
A1200 will be bundled with
attractive, ready to use software
packages
The first Power Amiga will be
available 1st quarter of 1997 and will
feature the Power PC 604 RISC CPU.
Further models will be available later
in the entry-level, as well as in the
mid-range. Amiga Technologies will
be flexible in licensing the RISC
Operating System as before so that a
global solutin will be available for all
above mentioned Amiga computers.
This is especially important for the

foreseeable partnerships. The 68060

board for the A4000 T will be
available during the first quarter of

1996 and will provide the power
needed by applications like 3D
rendering software, compilers and
high-end graphic software.

You are welcome on our WEB- Page
for more information at
http://www.amiga.de

Welcome folks, feel welcome to the

Interview chapter, this time we

interviewed a scener, who was active on
both systems. He was one of the best in
64-coding.

It’s TTS of Oxyron, so let’s go:
Realnarne: Michael Piepgras

B: Well we already know your name, but

what do you do in your real ?

T: I have been studying „Wirtschafts-

informatik“ for 2 years. I am also doing
jobs working for a EDV-distributor and

in my parents little store.

B: Do you still work on the 64 or is it
just a past-machine for you, is it dead ?

T: It is a nostalgic system, watching

demos is the only really active thing I

still do on the 64. My inactivity is

caused by some bad incidends at the

Tribute party.

B: What happened there ?

T: Well, I don’t want to tell you, because

I would have to give you names. I just

say, that people said very unfriendly and

wicked things about me while I tried to

sleep, so that I lost my motivation.

B: So no 64 anymore?

T: Ok, if 1 had an idea of coding

something, which has not been done by

Graham & Axis yet, I would certainly do

it. But T have to admit that I have

problems to understand what Graham is

doing on the 64 !

B: Is your old ,,Sticker 64“ still workin’?

T: Yes, but my floppy-drive is damaged

and it’s hard to get a new one nowadays.

B: Ok, let’s come to the Amiga then...

Are you the only coder in Oxyron on
the Amiga?

T: No, of course not. Oxyron Amiga
coders are Axis, Graham & AKC

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B So all the old 64 members are now on
the Amiga ?
T Yes, especially Axis is quite active.
But m the last month Graham did some
amazing routmes But Axis & Graham
are also still active on the 64
B What is your Amiga Configuration,
and what is your dream Amiga ?
T Well, I own a standard A1200 with a
68881 CPU, 4MB FastRam and 2 HD’s
and a CD-Rom. Well, if I could choose a
Amiga- Configuration now, I would
choose an A4000 with 32MB Ram, an
68060 accelerator card and a HD
minimum of 2 Gigabyte, as T am really
interested in raytracing. My dream of a
computer is the Power PC
B Will there be any party-releases from
Oxyron ?
T Yes, what a silly question, we will
release a 4K intro from Graham on the
Amiga and a 64 Demo, maybe another
Amiga & 64 dem,o, but Axis is in the
army right now, so that we don’t know if
he can finish it.

B Will oxy take part in the competition7
I remember last years compo where
Grahams Demo did not took part 7
T We will of course compete with our
demos, last year Graham gave his demo

to the organisers, but they somehow lost

it. Very sad, because it was a quite good
demo with new effects like the line-
vectors calculated by the floppy
B Lately first information was spread
about the Symposium’96- a quite
promising scene event. Oxyron is among
the organizers, tell something about this.

T‘ We are the Organisers for the 64 part.
The Amiga part is managed by
Polkabrother & Lego.
1 can’t give you more information, there
will be a SCALA meeting soon, so that
we can talk about the details.
B How did you get into the organiser
team ?
T* We were invited to one of the
S C.A.L.A meetings as „64 freaks“ - but
we came with Amigas So we got to
know each other We had luck to come
together with the top amigacoders
B Anything to say about the Amiga ?
T Yes, 1 need some graphics for my
game It should be called „Trapped“- It
will be a Roleplaymg game with a magic
system and a Fears-like Doomengine
B.Do you have a distributor, yet ?
T No I will do it on my own - an own
company with self-distribution
B What have you coded except of this
game 7
T I haven't coded a single effect for
about eight months now I am so
fascinated by the idea to work with such
a complex system/25000 lines of code

The next brainfart will be published on
the Ce-Bit. (At least we hope so)
In this one we would like to publish
Addies, not any kind of Addies, but
yours!

Re<i Boar.i

([phone]

If you are interested in having your
Address published, yust write to us (It
will be for free! Anything else would’t
be fair.)
We will put them into a layout and print,
only if there are too many, we might
have to leave some out.
The result published might look like the
example on the right.
By the way : call it now!

SYSOP: ob

Just take the last brainfart page, write to
one of the addresses mentioned there and
we will do our best to publish it on the
Ce-Bit.
Next time the Ce-Bit will get better
again, bacause there will be an AMIGA
stand and we will be able to meet each
other, and you can get the next edition.

ujcD know hks

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Computer '95

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The Amiga is really back 1
As the PC Shop giant ESCOM took over
Commodore after one long year of Liquidation
most people were wondering again what will
happen to the Amiga.
Producing goodies like the PET, the C64 and
C128 and the Amiga and with many
advertisements Commodore became
extremely well known untill the day of its •
liquidation. Some people believed that
ESCOM was just interested in the famous
name and logo or maybe they just wanted to
sell the Commodore technology into third and
second world countries in Asia and Eastern

But despite the promising news coming from
the new formed company Amiga
Technologies voices were still loud saying
AT was just an enormous fake.
Anyway I looked forward quite a lot to the
Compute| '95 held again in Cologne ,
and I mu|t admit that I was really surprised.
Again there were 2 halls, one for the "other
systems" like PC,Apple and Acorn
and one for the Amiga. You could really feel
the IBM-employees pain advertising
OS2/Warp in an empty hall.
Amiga Technologies had a big and beautiful
booth in the centre of the Amiga hall with a
nice Graffiti % the back. JThey presented

A 1200s linked feh t|hemet c^rds accessing
the Internet, A^OO^ with IqagicWb mid

graphic cards, Nex

technical datas were* *

A12G0s showing I-Gli
even a Keyboard linke
those interested in music i

the good old scala.

The staff consisted of 3rd Party!

Overall the booth made a quite professional
and well organized impression.
The Amiga Technologies Booth was
surrounded by other big Amiga Companies
like: Phase V. Phase V presented a PowerPC
development board with a 604 PPC and
68030 on the card. The PowerUp series

> should be available next year with a price

‘between 1000-2000DM Software

Developers will get their first PowerPC
Cards early next year.
Maxon, one of the most serious-software
developing companies showed demonstration
of their superb raytracer Maxoh Cinema 4d
and their other products.
Magic AMIGA-bundles were sold
everywhere - a nice feeling to see lucky

people walking home with a new Amiga

again. Amiga is really back - for further .
information consider to read the interview
two AT employees gave at the Voyage Party

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At the Voyage Party held by Decision, two
AT employees. Mr Herrschelmann and Mr
Meineke answered the questions scene people

asked them.

An new Amiga OS ?
There will not be a Upgrade or new OS in

near future. AT does not want to make
buggy new OS, when the old one

*is good and stable, (we at§ just talking abojjK f

the Amiga OS) ^ f f ^ ’ 3 _• ,

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Power PC I

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the AGA chipset or an upgraded AA. The AT

offer for emplyees stated, they can not

inforination wether it will be an AAA chipset

The future processors ?

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Whaf about thpM>SP ? /

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The developer support will be reactivated in
the End of 1995, There will be two

types ofsupport Qne for priyate deVellpe]
and authors and one for companies %

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#4re cooperating with PHASE V in this

~ point Beta Versions of RISC-Amigas will

rgach dlvelopers early 1996

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AT is also hying to build up own
developement groups

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markelfThey want to 'spfead the name /
Amiga again. * * V “ '

Will ther|be Amiga Clones ? .

ESCOMIAT’s law^department is thinking ,
about it it the moment; no more information Netherlands
given, i * :

% ES(|oM/AT^4f w department ^thinking

aboutgt at the moment, no tpore information ?

SiVen\ \ \ \

Is AT a|big Fake - will the whole AT be *
cancelled if there’s no big success *

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. Escom put a lot of money mtoyVT ft is a

future investment. It wo|Id be fionse^se

to put millions into a fake company \

Commodore and AT are hpw tota|ly \
independent from each othei\ Com?hpdoreT§
now a PC producer located inTfae X

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What about advertisements and commeMals if

Does AT see |ie Dfacojas a Venous rival ?
They say no, KEAIli Amigasjhave

theadvantage tfiptlheir |ard^are

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advertisement next year, because/they hhaye J

to cope with other problems now, as- thefare ^1

a quite young company* / e i

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, Is AT thinking of making the AM iga a

serious Office Computer ?

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No, Amiga is a private person-system,
as nearly 100% of alll offices use MS-
Dos based systems, there won't be a big
chance.at the moment,

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Nah, not again, you might think : again an

article about the Amigascene m Internet;

But there are still many people who do
not know anything about this huge

’’meeting" - place of people all around the '

world.

Many people from the scene are (ab)using
this fantastic and cheap possibility of
communication for sending data, mails,
and even online chat. Lets start to
describe all interesting things on The N et:

The IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

This way of communication is the most
direct kind of talking with people* You just
type something, and after some seconds
all the people can read it, and responcfto
what you typed. The whole IRC is divided
into many
channels on which the people talk about
special topics IRC is a very amazing
experience after you met some people on
IRC (perhaps you made a friend after
hours of talking with someone) you can

meet the people on a party which is

almost *everytime* great fun.
Or, if you have any problems with your

software just ask the whole channel !
You will for sure get a solution T

For Amiga people the most important
channels are
#amigascne (just the demoscene &
perhaps some modemsceners)
#amiga (the rest of Amigaowners,
usually not sceners)
#amigager (the German Amiga channel;
again very seldom sceners)
#amigapl (the Polish Amiga channel;

here you can meeetkome Polish sceners)
#amiga_warez (people swapping

programs, some sceners) \ < .
#amiga! (again the same)

’ All in all one can say there, are about 150

Amiga guys reachable at everytime,

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For sure<youlJcnowjiow disgusting it can
be to wait for a po^jal delivery.

Sometimes it takeslfveeks of time till

your letter will arrwe. Sending electronic
mail on the interne! is a lot faster (your

mail arrives within minutes, maximum m

: : 5 hours), it will arrive for 100%, and you

> can send even binaries t

WWW (World Wide Web);

For sdre you know Ami^guide; the
popular way to make a comfortable

documentation for a program; the WWW

is a kind of advanced Amigaguide with
graphics, free formatting of text,
possibilities to download binaries or to
enter text. *

WWW is known for its flexibility; ^ is
reither used for presentations of any kind,

efen dictionaries are realized with :

WtWW, m ^ y butsn&s companies use it
tqpbdvert for their prpdukts You might

ask what does it ha|/e to do with the
scene ? WelJ|there are many groups

which have their own WWW page; their
is some information about the group, an

offer of tht|r produtions, and the page is
constructed In a nice design (or at least it
should be a nice design).
The WWW is of course predestined for

: iDiskmags; thus there are some known

Diskmags online on The Nefr

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iBBS’son the Internet:

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There are many ami ga boards'around
the globe, but there were many
problemsto reach them on the normal *
way by the modem (because of the lack

of moneyto pay the phonebill, or jusfto

call ). \ -

No'W, some sysops decided to connect;
their boards to the internet, so y&u can!
reach them for an acceptable phonebill,
but those boards are not alwaysjon the4
Net because beeing connected means to

the sysop to pay bill for the linA *}
Anyway you can reach thern and meefe
there people or just TRAD%^ . V

Currently there are 10 known boards
connected. :

Aminet: |

This is the biggest archive for public '

domain programs; if you wrote a nice \

tool or anything else, and you want1 to |

make it public for others, this is the bes|
place to do because many tboupends of j

people have access to this archive i

i |You can find modules, demos, tools J

and many many more on aminet| j

So you can see, if you are stfll not
connected to the huge internet, do it AT
ONCE f You will not regret it!
Everyone can afford it; if y^u are
student, internet access does not cost
you anything.

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Sabbath

The small room was lit by two candles,
which were standing on an old desk. The
signs of water on the wall looked like faces
in the flickering light and the children were
waiting nervously for their meal. It was
Friday evening, the beginning of Sabbath
and the meal they were waiting for would be

the only one that could completely stop their
hung# forthenext seven days. The father
was seated on a^ehair beside die table
watching them. He didn't know tfthe could
give them enough to eat during the
oncoming winter, and wondered if he could
keep his job.'Over ail he was lucky; they had
a home, they had - at least at the moment -
enough to eat, so nobody really had to starve
of hunger. He heard steps behind him and
slowlyitumed his head, to look at his wife.

She was carrying a bowl of hot soup and
bread. She put everything on the table, the
children sat down and he placed himself at
the top Of the, table. After the prayers they
started* 1 eating. . ^ ■=■

It was good to have enough to eat and to eat
things, which tested good and didn't consist
mainly of water. He watched the children
and smiled. They were so lucky = on these
evenings when they weren't forced to beg
their mother for another piece of bread,
which she often had to deny. When the meal
was finished they sat around the table and
talked aboutthe past week His childreh told
him about their experiences in jeshiwa, his
wife talked about the latest things that had
happened in their neighbourhood and he
told them what was
going on at his work. Later on he started
to tell them the tale of the dybuk. He had

just started talking, when he heard the

breaking of glass The heads of the children
turned around, but he continued the tale.

While he was talking, he looked over to his
wife and gave her a sign to go to the window
and look what was going on. She went to the
window and looked outside. Then she
pressed her ear against the glass
and waited for a few seconds. The children
were listening to the tale, wHen^she turned
around and shook her head. Sabbath was a
dangerous time for Jews in Germany, and he
was lucky, that nothing was out there.
Then he heard the screams. He stood up and
went to the window. There were "screams,
screams of a big group, which expressed
anger, but also screams of fear. Now it was

silent in their little room and they could all
hear it clearly. There was shouting and
screaming outside, windows were broken
and one heard wooden doors crash. He
turned around. The Children and his wife
regarded him with fear ” Don't be afraid." ,
he said "it is far away and it is not sure if

they will come over here." He knew he was

lying. He could hear the noise coming
nearer. When he saw flames shooting out of
the Jewish porcelain store, a quarter of a
mile down “the street and the crowd of
twohundred peoples in front of it, he knew
he had to act, but he couldn't run away with
four little children. He went to the carpet
and drew it away* Then he opened the
trapdoor, which was below it. "Go down in
the cellar. Be quiet and don’t make any
light." When his wife and the children were
down there, he shut the trapdoor and pulled
the carpet over it. Then he opened the
window to the courtyard, jumped out and

started running. It was right in time. Behind
him he heard the window to the street break
and the front door crashed. They were
shouting behind him and a few tried to

follow him. He just kept on running until he
was sure that nobody was behind him.
Twenty minutes lafer he returned to his
house. Slowly, sneaking from shadow to
shadow he went to the\:wmdow through
which he had escapedj?The crowd had
moved on, but there Waaffto noise coming
out of the house. In panic he climbed inside.

Everything inside had been destroyed, the
desk and the chairs were damaged as well as
the beds. Then clothes had been cut in
pieces or thrown out to the street. The
carpet had been moved, but it
still covered the trap door. He pushed it
away and opened the cellar. There they

-were* frightened;and wohdlxing if still
someone was in their house, but not
wounded. Sadly smiling he helped them out

,and thought about theTime of the early 90's,

when heliadbeena young boy, all the
politicians had told them, it could never
happen again.

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ARTWORK

- The Twins/ex. TRSI are back in the v
Scene and joined Artwork ' |

- Azure/Bizzare Arts joined Artwork af a rf
second group

- Fiver left TRSI and is now only an

Artwork Member

BALANCE {

- The great UPSTREAM magazine isp
dead

BOMB

- Made joined from Scoopex

- Claw* renamed to Claws because of

troubles with a skateboard company i

ESSENCE /

- Excess the Raytracer of the Switchbaick
Endanimation joined

MELON DESIGN

- Benjamin and Vigart joined from ? *
Scoopex ■>’ /

MIRAGE

- Danny/Spaceballs joined the as a
Doublemember
Scoopex

- They are now a legal only group without
a modemsection

VIRTUAL DREAMS

- They might release a last demo and thej
they will work for a PeeCee company |jj

RAW Magazine |< # «

-Astro left VD and now only works on the
RAW magazine, which now has an
Online WWB Version try:
http://www.xs4all.nl/-blahh
http://www.ifi.uio.no/- larshau/RAW/RA
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Well, you finally reached the end
of this BRAINFART, we hope
you enjoyed the Party 5 a(nd this
mag.
Now, that it is all finished, we all
are< hoping that we could regain
our intrest in computers, Layout
and papermags.
Overall it was a great pleasure to
write all this stuff, shiver around

if we will get sponsored and
wonder if we will get finished
with, all the printing until we

have to give these pages.away to make
2000 of them, and we hope it was the
same for you to read it.
Real scene lives on! Or did you think
we could have managed this for PC?
Guard your C64 and your Amigas and
hope for a great future for both of them.
We will continue doing this, supporting
those great machines as well as we are
able to.
We would be appreciate your giving us
some feedback!
The Staff

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