Misc C64 Scene Stuff Brainfart 12/96 a

Howdy folks and welcome to the sixth edition of Brainfart overall. In other words, we might celebrate somewhat like 3 YEARS BRAINfART. Maybe some of you remember or even still have the very first issue of Brainfart which was released in autumn 1993 as preview edition. One of the most known and liked papermagazines named Bullet Proof ceased to exist in that year as the editor Dense/RSI/Spirit decided to stop his decent magazine. However since many people regreted the abolition of Bullet Proof, Dense showed much effort in Brainfart and contributed material which was originally supposed to appear in Bullet Proof. The preview edition (also known as BF #00) already featured some interesting photos, articles, hand-drawn graphics and even stickers, but the pages were copied and therefore the photos were not sharp. Finally at the X-mas Party'93 BF #1 got released, consisting of 34 pages and again many photos. It covered the 64 scene and in addition to this some non-scene related stuff, such as music and role-playing games reviews. At THE PARTY IV, that means exactly one year later, Brainfart issue #2 got released, which included a disk for free. That disk featured

some P a r a I y z e wares, such as the freeware game Quarx and a 64-conversion of the Hasher's Cookbook. It did not need another 12 months for the next Brainfart as Paralyze released the edition named ..Brainfart - the CeBIT panic plan" at the CeBIT 95 (10 Years CeBIT). This was also the end of Brainfart being a pure 64-scene related papermagazine. Paralyze and Incal Inc settled on a co-op in regard of Brainfart, because of several reasons. For instance, many C64 users also have an Amiga (and even vica versa). Moreover, the 64 business apparently slowed down, that means there are less readers left. THE PARTY V at Freericia at X-mas 1995 was the climax of Brainfart history so far. 2000 industrially printed issues got spread at the party. The Brainfart was styled and designed as never before, covering the Amiga and C64 scene with help of several dudes. I really enjoyed those three years of Brainfart as it turned out to be a passion for everyone involved in it. Particularly for T.G.I & Dodger of course, who are the founders of this magazine. I also would like to point out that some more help from the scene could be useful for further issues. But now Enjoy it, as this is the aim.

guest editorial by Stan / Hitmen

Short story 24 Last exit3 Last words 26 impressum 25

gg-rrT nr— ^events 96

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Symposium 21 CeBIT 18 CeBIT Home 19

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Big Brother 6 Future Amiga 10 Pios 12

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well full of energy to spend on this new hobby with a guy you have talked about the latest As everything that is new, you soon become busts and demos at the Party in Denmark or excited, especially when you are young and was it at the Gathering. That party visits were scratching on law {at least a bit even entering great fun. Being m an european capital - in a the legal scene) and are member of something dark and noisy exhibition hall with 2000 others special: an underground community. It is like a with the same interest without getting farer than drug as success (or fame) gained in this field the next mcdohaids or supermarket. To be makes you even more interested m it Thinking Honest, isn’t that ridiculous. The day the of that you soon begin to live a true scene Me. disaster is discovered you rush to get of ail that At school you think of yourcbmputer instead of stuff that squeezed out your life, so that you looking at the cute girls at the other side of the change your system immediately or sell it to class room and plan your next scene-activities erase computers out of your life* Lacking good in your exercise books. Yes, you are in contact coal life social contacts - as your real life was an with many people all over the world exchanging iusiohary one - you get even more lost. This disks and very, very personal messages, you procedure has even increased by the Amiga-

are known in that subwortd and dream of crisis* To some extend if is sad to see it weaken joining a more famous crew, to gain even more the scene, but after all - as KRS ONE stated in fame. Maybe you are active in other felds, but his great song "Love is gonna get you", that it white it is the greatest summer weather "gets you and takes you right out*”. Nothing is

outside, you let the beach be beach and spend really wrong about scene, but the only thing

your money on your telephone bill by moving that might be wrong is you and your attitude

some data from bbsto bbs, no matter what it is. towards it, it is a hobby, something to spend

Yes of course, you are more familiar with the free time on, a nice addition to travels into other

english language or at least with some cities, not interfering job or school, never

colloquial scene specific words and phrases, superior to (girIHriends, Saturday nights,

which is quite impressive to your english chilling on the beach... living on the wrong side

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talent with their computer. So you stay white

(sun is very dangerous nowadays) and try to

move the SID into the London philharmonic

orchestra and prove that there can be a

wolfenstein with less than 1 mHz. Yes, you did

a great task than and you have bur respect, but

after having spent the second consecutive

summer with assembling very artful/logos out

of chars and trying to to create a visible Image

similar to an artwork by B.Vaiejo in addition to

the time you have spent in front of your system

during spring, winter and autumn, you soon

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some words in this free spaft this great edition of BrainfarfttS

long time about what to writef might be of interest for you rft

And so I came finally to t writing about ‘The Good 01 best old memories in all yogi a nice idea. When I got my back in 1984 (which hever brbki

- my C-128, which I used in C $ 4 all the time as C-128 mode waj supported from any companies e1 as most of us I guess - v$th from school mates and other ffi had a C-64. My very FIRSl:

C-64 were RAMBOlf^QM J MAX which I liked yef

sounds were great nice designed. Ff

myself up-to-da' released from any?

game magazines, more and mon Pitfall, Pitstpp, vs- Spy^Kaiser

a while l had jl n known titlpftaj peopjewerbcomii

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pri^ife); fudges, The Light* Circle (TLC),

^Mallhliarti^Radwar, Red; Sector lift

% Fantastic Four Cracking Group (F4CG),

,3; Science 4S1 (S451), Uplflnt (f), Agife,

Sllfion 8 (S8), Sharks, BeasiieBoys (BB),

Bjtooppers, Dexion (DEX), Shining 8 (S8),

liv e n Eleven (711) and LOTS tnorft,J) who cricked those games A copied into my

collection. I liked watcfiihglhern and reading all the scrollers till the end. j was pretty amazed

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for a lflhli people being in

so-called ioene.” From that

jstart learning how to code on

iy C-128 of ftoUfse! But as I

it almost only Ip C-64 mode!

[o use ‘C-64’ In the rest of this :||f t nice

itlrrilm ch better than;iust typing

un V I^ Ig d lh o k^.ftaid ls at this

Wiesel! ^ 3 ia t came from a sticker of a )mpany wtyft) was pinned onto my room

hack thoeftjftays. The slogan was in

trman and; saift <Schne11er als ein Wiesel!’

Iranslationr fasterjlhan a Weasel!) Whenever

something didn’t wirk properly I tried to find out

WHY that happened and worked hard on fixing the problem. 1 de-coded several programs (at

M s time fotsa BASIC stuff!) and tried to learn

HOW they made several effects and things like that. I was doing better and better in coding little basic programs during the days and weeks and months (I already cracked a game at this

time! (WERNER - fH ^G AM E!) Well, although it wasn’t anything sbifciai anyways!) till that

day, when my fayourite computer magazine (64’er!) released Chew programmers’ course called: ‘How To Coae Machine Language - For

Beginners’ Lread the first edition of that course and got to know my FIRST few commands in REAL ML! You can’t imagine how lucky I felt when the first very small ML-routine I did with those commands eveh WORKED from the first try on! :-) After the ftfgond chapter of that

magazine’s course I tookleveral games, intros and demos and looked lilgide the ML code I was now able to understapl more and more. I changed certain routineft|to examine what would happen to them andjjpw they’d look II after my manipulations wbtdp gave me lo^

practising and training with ML coding

was the time when I started my scenp

(around 19861) 1 1

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POWERSOFT INC PSt. ,-) In that g r p t^ - ^ n s

members (that friend ‘Yellow’ and me) * I < for the first REALcracks kpvi

like OPERATION W bLF/1

and UGH-LYMPICS. I ne^| version around veiy much

only rather few people wilt ! ___ them. I just copted those i

school mates and they did th#||pme 14

friends of them, However; oH ^ver

summer day f was.going again tp^sms

where I used to skate a lot With my^Skatel

at that time. I never thdught that THIS wq

day in my life; which was!%bout to cha

everything for my futtfr^^Po that da

happened that I found | /4 rt d&k5"fey«

around on the ground s S:^ e ^ p of thi

skateboard-hill I used to |ka te clown a lot O

tried to find out who the'd#ier of those disks

would be and l was successful. Another skater

came after a while and wanted to pick up those

disks as he wanted td leave for home. That w as,

the chance as I was sitting pretty near to those i

disks watching the. tricks done by all those

Other skaters around that'1 started talking to

that guy and asked him what disks that are and

what would be on them^Be was very nice and

started to talk to me and told me about

him being a musician with the handle HAVOK

in a computer group called FRONTLINE on the

C-64. After a while when l told him a bit about

my person it came to the point where he invited

me to come with him to a weekly meeting of his

group. I accepted and thought I must be

dreaming and couldn't believe that such a thing

would really happen to MEI!! At the following weekend I met with JJbyok and drove to the

meeting place - aj$Ufger King restaurant - where all the othert^fpign sceners of Frontline

met regularyly. I^was pretty shy at the beginning so that l^yas only just watching all of

fjiero person b | person to get some

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essions abo^those ‘illegal’ guys. On that ering I also rhpt the guy I did lots of cracks " 0b later in my future - DEEJAY ! When that

was over I held a game called IKARI

hands which I had to crack

jtto prove that I could really

K accepted to join Frontline,

know that the game had a

toon on it and that they doubt

do the crack anyway. So I

f|hat they might be right as I

t^ch a BIG PROJECT before,

'and loaded the disk into my

V& a look at that game. What I

ked like a never-to-be-ableto-

|me.> So I was almost giving up at

. when i saw the game loading

^Sector fast-loader 1 have NEVER

like that before. But somehow I

pped thinking about a way to be

I that damn program. I thought

dy4earned in ML and p ii .l could about the

^Ipn and the game * ' ally I found a way

Suddenly I had a

aved on my disk

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and

asdpred JSCENE. I

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keyen sm al(el;A ^|||ally 1 got

and onbMfed,g#jft version

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without , still feftt) jigdfii

THIS would be! so long aw|(t crunched the j

version out of garbage code ! make the versii a very nice crs

on my disk. With that versidn l wad^dry proud to appear at the next comjhg grdd* where I could present it finally.; BEj^J^Y vide

the only cracker in that group and fife was also the one who had to ‘examine' my work if ifwpjs good or whatever. I couldn’t await his decision

when he sajd after looking into my work far a pretty long while; ’’Well, the crack isn’t ba<$M

all! Although he Hasn’t found out how to fix tfte little sound-bug. It’s been a nice work though.

My decision is. Let him joint* That was the beginning of my long and still lasting scene-

career as a cracker. That w;

when I changed my handl&l

theengfish form: ‘WEASEL’1c

international touch’ (to quot^j

the Frontline members] wouldn’t had let me join]

Deejay and me became very5

a while. I visited him regufa " and learned a lot fijorri hi

coding and training games ai that time Frontline chapged 'it;

MATRIX ! This was the time whi

me formed a little group sub-label As we cracked more andmqre g< we called eachother in oiir crack;

cracked by the unbeatable 0

and Weasel....’ or

unbelievable Dug Deejay ...’ and si mite

got spread pretty i(jh to trade stuff with;! europe (At this

serious .greetings!

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Ike Tycoon, Magic Man, Gotcha,

Kin; Frank, Deff, peejay, Modem

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as a single group. And day when!Crazy decided to

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;was asked ^to join CREST

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-cpging groups ever on C-64. I

w ^ p s ^ to join :them as they

pitched fc open a cracking-section bbek in those days* $ id so we did.

There a few games released under thfeCresf-label from Deejay and

m4hut take long when Deff (ex-

Crawly c§f1|dt mb and asked me if I’d

to jo ||a hlEW group with many of

ENIGMA* As Crest wasn’t sure

about continueing the

cracking section anymore I decided to take that offer and joined Enigma then. Deejay had bought an Amiga at this

Time and started a little bit

coding on that ^jfeighine; so he wasn’t interested in jo inin#^oth er group anymore

and so he stayed pdll Enigma also did a great job in the scene art<| released lots of software I also had many parts of (as I wasn’t the only

cracker anymore ih that group1 Richie of ex- Hluston was also in Enigma that time!) When Enigma died as well after a long time I joined RED SECTOR INC; and after that a smaller group called LEGACY (the group where I met Jack Alien first!). I afe&yreally enjoyed those

days, (The thing is onlytfeat I can’t write that much in here anymore aslhe article wold grow

tooooo big then if I’d expl^fr? everything in the closest detail...! ;-) And eb i don’t wanna get

killed by the paper-mag augers I will taken! bit shorter now as the most important part

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anymore m Aw crackers where releases in the I had bought ami

year later I got my

remember com still do lots on C-64.J also i saw those cheap games no real quality cause c< about quality anymore. - where I am now today. As

few months pack in summer

members joined F4CG Cracking Groupl) I am typing thi|

PC right now in,the rpidpfe of th^ni) remember ihe jgdod pfd jddys where begun. Ail in all J can I realt

regret AMY' part of my,spf^%carde'r. I al. f tried to do my best in - tosuppty?

best quality in my cracks^ dnd i guess worked out in most of th e ^ ie s |the positive' feedbackfrom most scen ^uys should prove

that, I guess.). I met a lot of cool gays all over the world and that’s a very cool thjrig I won't ever miss. The scene-spirit also was a very;

powerful experience which showe^ me th a i together we pre strong and can move things /

the way we want them to be. Just keep all together and we will be successful, it also

taught me to stick to ®CJREAL FRIENDS I made during all these/fp|rs and lots of other

things I am proud of todajp i?hope 1 could show all of you a bit of the way 1 ^yent through all the years and maybe you sawydursejf mirrored in

Certain situations agairv as Y/eil and that other people had the same problems and feelings like you had once. So I can just tell you never to give up the goals you would like to reach but try to give your best irfstfead. There are lots of similar situations in/W e which could be

compared to certain icene-experiences. If s all the same and it all^rk s after the same kinds scheme. So if yodjwant to reach something

really badly alway^Jbelieve in it and it’ll finally

rqrk out some p |y That’s it for this article

#. I hope you ppfoyed reading it. If you ever

to get in contact with me don’t hesitate to an e-mail to the following internet e-mail

Wea$el@miieiicheii«org

Troughout the lpst i 1/2 Years pH; wondering y^at S^s hsppenipVld! After the EsC^n^keoyef and {he

Amiga Jechndldgies 4h^re we re, expectatiohs th the future/df this cute rr| s

{/ have tfiedito surruT^rlse' whaf tieppj

pid/iy >ot thfe< thidgs a>e 4&ken .from, va sources, ^Jbomp.sys.amiga.miscoi: were . to pie Qpdftferehf occasions. It all started opi

by the. Escom takeover in May19$5 which wpe mana

.

pujM^yp AWga technologies !ah#p

'•‘" i 9^95.The |\miga was produced'

luelto somevery reliable rumors the

/the Afhig% ^FQdybtipnwere sold to b

in 4h*nf dubfco thf§:fime, ami dila te)

tract Amiga fechnpipgtps js nM

to produce the Amiga T200 anymorf

immf r; l^ jp . AT released their plans to

Amiga0: It seertfsas if they

p1ahned|pprd|bce a lot ofAT?00^A4000 and

to sell iherh quic^ly to rna|e|Somecash. Later ort there^fbguid havebeen the/walker as a

medium Verfprrppnpe product/until Power

Amiga^arpimbe sold. Thesales weren't as

g o o d ^ ttjdy, eje c te d and 4scom got into

financial: |$fifibult*es>: Shortly after; the

devpropeme^f^te new Anmgas wasstoppep and a chSssive firihg^of employee^-started.

Then, in late April th& (after of understanding

U'

Commymty ;heavily,s ..

was c airne# -^ w ^ ^ o f ^]a:*<3art

Sags^atH//ttTe developer of/tWe/priginal

A<Tiiga?Exec; Tfte rest <rfthpStory-isfairty%gll

knowfc Affer EscOm j^ept bankrupt' in’ July,;

Viscorp: .signed - e * ppifrtract wlth. £sodift J^pstel’A .,' H|mfea,c%-.afc p p iti(ged pay

^ | ^ ! nr3 « rf!K9'M o blf^ ^ d rrtrg pt.'# |s , cape^fed;l%'tfe‘|lrrtyard f)%ribicfi, The.fapt

Is^ttrat wi«h tf.^ie y couW t>S?to Atonic

and teli therpvVthey would, like to get a $4G

pillion .tor a* Computed company wicft went

•-^twjce/aqc} were very upset when they

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S^haif jfio'W ould, pay ||® S M l! f Babktojthe Visqorp Stop“^ ~ ~ ~ 'v

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:Vsibd according* to the

tpe Viseorpbajance

tH|§;j$ still more tha$fl

Miijjh, as their shares gota fip

1;5cents. At the moment-Vi '

^ipugh' Capital ( to meet t

obligations. With the lossfo

Viscbrp has also lost (opv|&

rights to iprpduce the;~$l

obviously this wilt drive

sooner or later. When

Sassehraths messag^ yvj

obvious what4‘ “'‘ “‘ ""!j::“>:j

incompetent qqhri|^jWy|

mildly); VlScorp/WdS *

and I never thought my name off the vyeb; pjaht of thi^ M neoy/~

it as sdbp as jppssjbfeyi. vyasmf fake; but — ^

tie a ^ p n e .

is further more likely

^e Amiga-Q3 will just be

"fa Software run, and

Will b e d ^ tt y made for

At thfe

^bben;sOV%sil obmpanies

jig l acgutsiflopi^cept from

^havb "been rtames mentioned

io aret4w ho le sa le r .in 'ate also prpdupng Amigavbased ' AG (see Arfikle), Fha’se S and

'' Products. Fhas *"

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th e question, is whpthef tf

the Amig^;as,we

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.t , #fe$ ax >taf\dards. oomfedfHw^

Dtie to modem mandfacturifi|f;4;nd-

heart .of the A-feox wouldbe ^bustbrmwP* that

seepfeto would ^p r^spotasibfe ter rnpjor part% of the

’ system1^ jFMnctiohs like(mefttdry. ^eiitfgement,

v piyiA functions, Blitterdikd Q p^ti#fe, and I/O

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if lhen we GB/s^bt^d^^ccofding^o thdfr official press

d aswe yi^rd told d r

fe> wlU hear about the'

Christmas, ff there are nb nev^s

cbuld regard the Amiga ab p"doa^>py||em.and .. •refb^^clftfbny

the chances to find a new huydr'afe dad^ 'Thi?V\dljpde!: “ ’ *

hardware and

is, pamyconfirm edpy|messa^3

net whiph States* .fhd^t!ie|ei's^ (Date: 04:111 990)iintit£ ty & u tii

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hanks are/m jele stbS'ft}^^ 1 oadh; out p f V. b|itf ft-'tt^ffi.

.thlr# 'Wouldn't be^any*- cc^ ^

editing Amiga Upe,. right! to conv^fthe ArpigarOS; j

not to update it totallyr;p|^OTw

highly increased costs (at dfidu®(

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^ytfitng using stapd^fd chipspts, but\ 5pt that pr<^itepfiijdt!t;H:^l?W (^R '

Of the '(spe for the•; seem , t^d' %1teri^^.

rerPC but, Opfdrai^g "Sydfenri' There|

iuid mean; * 1 1 " ^

MjHfon DM introdpcjn!

;low prfcps

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rfcia new

■■beer.. neW

p-OS. p-Os is an System which; will be pe

Amigas and later on tor

possible to install PtOS { Operating &yste?m/wich ^

‘change o fth eO S possible,

which has quite cloSe relation^ 1

OS ispreparedfof petworkuse/ also in dicussiorl a§ anOperating; thePlQS ONE, Thesepond aiten Operating/System i| lb 0 Be-GS by, which is pcompletely new QS W%

*" ; RIOS, PtOS ONE, and the^m iga

TheOefripany PIOS Computer A0f was founded in mid 1996 by some" former ,managers and

employees Of Amiga Technologies GmbH All of them havearecord; oTworking in the high- techindustry/or years, |ikee;g. fpr Conirqodore or gricsspn. Pi OS Ashose the PowerPC

prodei§$Or architecture as itsjh^warp^fiasis^ thus ^being supported /b y ’ companies like Mo^rola a hfllpl^The lodger term plan was to

.create,an oWhjjferdware design on this basis in

the traditign dftheAnhrga models, ie powerful

increafhg Community ofdeyetoper§ the user, inexpensive, flexible/modern. The

tikply^beput on the upcoming machihe;PIQf; pariieof this^rojeot isthePKJS:0NE,As such

OH£:> ProW reviews one could b a t^ u p "% ^ ^dfyoiopmenbtakes time, a^se&hd plan was

jfhptd|$iprvof^vejy powerful Tiew ©8r $|% h * devOBped howAo make'business before the Op^l^ljnteresting^terhative even though it PIOS ONEfis ehipping/Soit was decided to

iS Fipt ^rhpalible to^eAhirga, ^whfch could he wKh the/0PC basis* but just distribute PPC

chahgld by an Amiga^emutation to be able to ihpchirfes> >of #ther manufacturers, Thus

usOalljhe old progr^mnls; at least it has it’s ex p e rie n c in g a fe a^nbagdth ered and of

spirit ^Tfre main questions which Temafns is coursp(s<rfhe,income can be geherated. The

what will happen .to /the Amiga, and its. first action in this direction - was/a contract With

comrifUnity; But, what will happen if any company to distribute thpir PowerMac

com#bybuy$Jhe rights which doesn't provide clone#?a% ope. These ^re doffing the mid

any futu ^t0 the.Amigapr there isnJ any buyer j o jhpgfcep^rang#,' dp, to*dpuble-prdcessor

found? caseJhe Arhige community might version^wim'&oqkspe^di'ojFWto 240 MHz

split up jfeibigerenf systems (eg BCs :-({{/and

the question if there could any scene be

established wbichis as funny, fanatic, BilJ-

Hatirlg and c re ate is a thought which makes

mewpndetveven more thanthe future

of Amiga itself; % , ! 5

Thebe higfj-ond deviCeb are called the Pulsar series, and the m1d-rarige devices the APUS

series. Thebe computers usb the MacOS, The next strategic decision was to get into

cooperation with company Be Inc,, the makers of thefbmous Bd|bx running itis BeOS. This was Trot only intfr|§tinga| agdtfte/ device fpr distribution, bu^epo as amqpierating system

which .promises to reign the foture, and which cpulcJJSe-used on thej own PIOS/bNE. The BeBox v^th BeOS is; currently Still ip-beta

i_j-i stadium; but there were sold already enure than

(r 3000 machipes to developers, since more than It one year/so that applicationsmow begih to

” surface slowlyfrom the programmers* cubicle^.

Much creativity hae decom# visible in the material |Which was already uploaded to

ftp.be.com by the developers/ New concepts like modular? software and plug-jh technology

fre brought Jo fascinating use id first BeOS

programs. So the day pomes nearer when BeOS can be declared “user-ready" and be shipped to evefydne. The features of BeOS are truly promisfhg £nd up-tb-daf4: < preemptive

B

-I' rniJLmJlJ amLmmmJ — t f L J U i ■ U ’L J T -I esa U «—i — .

jS ^ H p q l 3 i i i 3 l w H H H l S 1 3 ^ y v i

Ll tj i n ^ n u i c=3j u i ^ n r w i ^ i

multitasking like in AmigaOS, muitith a programming philosophy

mann er,^. tHat-it ^ifpa ^Jp tffia st, T^fli^^jrsie 'v P iliw rriilafilo.th e^ m ig aO S

design philosophy, so that every Amiga (Over is

ifurtlw irttp powerful .M ure c on j^fc ||. So,

BeOS is obviously one good'carapate for the g & t f & O S O N E .$u t yopvjt j^ ^ £ 'w h e re ,

"does- p#*,ie£jve,“'A » ii^a O S ?t4W ^^; twot

a|rfs^#jpto(tbis> l..:J'^s stilipee?iWl#!do. a ppit piL;t^..par'A|)i>g ^ p ^ >t h e ^ ^ p # 0 I:^ flg h

fejci'ot yet.possible«due tolegal problems,

inkel' is- met i s ’'of PlpS a n l Would!

Itt^e toistart ttijnvork. Bui sucfi % port tdi

'p O /d adja ke^ rh o le year or mo re, so

-e earlier available. 2. One possible solution is tP%l»V 4w >ahy prpDAO. itf-f *lodk-' ike* of ApjgaQ§, adyapced irr some

compatible with.

binary

^mgaOS ,

provide origrnai AhiigaOS fueling.

w^Stlto

^hdJdates^for^MiF1^ 'O N E ^ |ij

biased Witi * ..

l i l i | i ^ i l l l S ^ l i l l i i i ^ ^

|| | f w pi0 $ i * ll^hMhe mcpiehtieven 'mtffc**"

j|c£tv pave-fH^ynfeJ^who ’ i$t fajdware; Hopes to have itwprl

The key feratiimsivyili be: /moduli

CPU modutouse

w j|||l|§ |§ |^ ^

slots for powerful penpherals* Sqd ISA eiots for

t be also like,

prstand

>as/there

otptype.

the

1996.

through a

bO used llkb on a PCJike itis also done on the

BOBo^ Graphics is provided in thep iptatype by sortjtf oomrhpn PQI-bos' j$apMcs$bd. In the

final version this gtopbfcstoircuitiy Will probably

be moved tp th#mainbpard t (with thp%ame, common PC graphics chlplet) to be able to add

functionality.; like video and genlock

compatibility and perhaps fe few more features

which were? characterisfical for the Amigd Thes wholefcfevjce will be contained in a standard

PC^tyle case {ATX format), again to. save

money. All PIOSlONE is designed to

provide R|3CJf pi> v y ^,fo^T'ciosti but also with

, im ' potential 'to . upgrade it; |g;>:the fastest

processors Available. The upg|^pe happens thr^pgh the exph^rige of the^CPtf module. As

«ifS /today also common among Amiga

accelerator cards, the* RAM is local on the board fo aHbv^ rnaximum pertormance. As it is

ijspd id fdrni of ^standard plW ^ modules, you don't hee4liP!ttttw4t upgrading to

a toRtef ltoard|¥he-;sama is the c^se 'for the

palhe RAM, whiebalso |$! pat in DIMM

epg^ats. The CPp/chip;to one of the

P0Q 603 family/ which; is currently

f available in clockspeeds between 66

land 200 MHz, but this Tange will be

emended to higher vafuessoon. Also

In longer terms; the PPG 603 family is

planned IQ; be extended into several

"directions over the comipg years^ so

th af this is aseCtire Why fo/gai As

/ 'already tofdtlbped, there will be first a

"prototype versiop5pf the PIQSpNfE, which will differ a bit from th# final dn^ p ul toenableall

prpgrammerito wpjfk for it, tnere will be a small prodgctiOp of several hundred piecespfthis first PIGS ONE which; will be, sold muph like

today the/8e£k)x. So be prepared for an

PJMM sockets), p^ ^ ia lly 2nd~level Sacha

RAM, and contrdltjii^pSrcuitry for the PCI bus. The mainboatd pro^ftes all 10 and three PCI

as well as ISA sldl^f Keyboard and mouse will

' \ - < <6r tf

annouhcement to buy this divide; And /ust like the SpBok, it’s intended toCship it with a compiete programming environment and perhaps witp rhore than one OfS, as mentioned above, it will be a Multi-OS machine,

opening the various software v|)rlds all at once. So, whether fhe PIOS ONE Will indeed be the *hext generation Amiga", can only be decided

whenHhe OS legal situatibn;is cleared up. But

aireidy today wd can claim that jt will be built in

thetrue spiritymich makes Amiga so admirable

No RISC no fun1! Says,FlOS

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At least we provide you with some kmd of hall of fame, with the people who made the first places at the major competitions this yean

X-96, Netherlands

1* Krestology by Crest

2. Cucumber Juice by Hitmen 3, NoFx by Chalice

Saturne Party, France

Amiga

1 Hardcore by Syndrome

2. Fraction by Gods

3. Mind Traveller by Limited Edition

Assembly '98, Finland

Amiga

1. Sumea by Virtual Dreams

Z Dim by Mellow Chips

3. Goa by The Black Lotus

C-64

1 Follow the Sign by Byterapers

2. Nothing but Code by Beyond Force

3. Frutts by Panic

Symposium *96, Germany

Amiga

1 The Gate by Artwork

2, JamJam by local

3 Disco by Drifters

C=64

1/Cyance

2. Nyeassassin by Smash-Designs

3. 4 Years Oxyron by Oxyron

Extasy by Samar

2. Black Hole by Lepsi Dev

3. Time 5% Preview by Oxygene + QPHA

South Sealand, Denmark

Amiga

1 Chronic by Passion

2, Riverhorse LSD Mix by Ambrosia

3 Burning Chrome by Haujobb

Summer Party, Denmark

-Amiga

1 Extreme by Balance

2. Boogie Nights by subspace

3. Refuse by Drifters

Flag '96, Hungary

C“64

1. Fatal Terror by Profit

2. Flames by Coma

3 Wixtandem by Replay

proqrsssius perhi) forces

Intel Outside 3, Poland

Amiga

1 Muscles by Impulse

2. Embarced by Floppy

3. Demo by Venture

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1994 was a quit# bad year for the scene at the

worlds biggest computer fair astbere had not

been a party ~ nevertheless a demo competition was hold and many german sceners gathered around the Commodore booth, that was dominated by the Amiga, But everybody knows, Commodore went into

liquidation and the scene saw mayl|p;fhe most

depressing CeBIT in scene history Sceners were running around in small groups and you

seldomly met other groups.

In comparison to the previous one, this year’s CeBIT could have been a kind of wonderland for thd/computer underground. Commodore -

rapedSas a low-cost PC lable - and Amiga Technologies represented at many parts of the

gigantic show. At the Escom booth Amiga Technologiesshowed a later sharply discussed prototype „walker“ of a new low-end Amiga, the contents of their software bundles like WordWorth, and their later launched Amiga Surfer. Quite interesting, but after finally playing Nemac IV with eyeglasses everything wasdfscovered. The staff consisted mostly of norvemployees-they were Amiga users, but no insiders, so that they were not able to answer important questiori&Overall the Amiga was not

presented badly, bdt not very innovative and

quite emotionlessv: i

The people interested £$oom booth was more focused to Outage with amazing live performances of windows applications and new

PC games. No Amiga screen was popping up on the big-screen. Peopie were attracted to stay there by competitions, cute looking dandnggiHs, T-Shirts and pens thrown into the

crowd.THijother action pertdrined at the stage

lowered itself to the level of die ordinary PC-

user. Worth mentioning were the shouting

performances. H-P employees let one half of the crowd shout „H3wletf, the other should shout „PackarcT\ or the Microsoft employees tried to advertise a campaign against software- piracy letting the same crowd shout J’mu and

„cleanM, just to regard them afterwards with

some cheap merchandising-stuff like pens, mousepads,

expected words the poor man had to listen to „alt“ and JP4*.

Actors played scenes in an Escom store and

the crowd should answer the ..customers"

questions We guess Amiga was always the right answer, which really fooled the poor people. The officials of both, Escom and Amiga

Technologies, did not expect this at the CeBIT,

but they somehow had to response to ft. Mrs. Mitradevi Kiipper tried to get in touch with the scene people. She allowed the scene to write on the already occupied wall, but we had to keep the other walls clean. So when she returned most sceners were expecting some

trouble, but unexpectedly she was quite

grateful and thanked us for the enormous

Amiga support. A t representatives just had

some talks With an American company and

they were amazed abputihe great support the Amiga still has in europe

At the Microvitec booth, some Amigas were

running a workbench demonstration.but there

was nobody worth talking to, so that we

explored the other two spots ^quipped with

Amigas. Motorola’s Power PC booth showed

showed Storm-C producers Haage & Partner,

who were quite helpful, provided us with

interesting information f$H>ut Power PC Amigas and Storm-C Demos. Also th§ Village Tronic booth presented Amigas, mainly high-end

machines with 68060 proce$||l& and graphic cards running video software; ^

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Those two exhibitors presented the Amiga best

with a staff of good kno\vlf|ige of the system

and good software installed.

Despite the lack of scene people at the fair,

let's hope we will have as much fun at the

CeBIT Home, *

HAHHOnU 28 a -1 9 *996

Don't believe the HYPE!

I do hdt know exactly when I came in contact

with computers first. It must have been in the

early or mid-fps that I spend my first hours in

front of a Commodore C16 and C64 Well, in fact I got hooked immediately and begged my

parents to buy that kind of fascinating machine,

as my very own pocket-money was just

enough to buy some floppy disks, which were

hocrt^ expensive back in the days. Finally in

IfS T fhy father bought a machine I had never

t^ard about: I was dreaming about a C64 and yrthat arrived 9 A monstrum called Amiga 500.

The Company was right, but what was that...

Well, this should be^nough Of my childhood in

relation to computers. When I was dreaming

about it, the mass lhvasion of Computers was

Still to come. Today Computers seem to be

necessary for evefyping, just for sorting your

small bossiness* adcpssii&t you should at least

own a P90 with a properly installed Windows

95 - no wonder that peppfe like our parents become nightmares thinking of computers.

People like our great friend Bill Gates have visions, visions, that they can order their Pizza from their new residence's toilet via the

Internet Every magazine wanting to be up to date (well, we areig<|ftg on the same line, too)

presenting a very informative web-page bursting of inventional spirit and creativity, every manager needs the mighty"@" on his card ... well, the secretary is able to deal with

incoming mail. Critically minded - as widely described above - the bramfart staff (except Dodger, who had to study for his exams) made their way into the mekka of the interactive multimedia hipsters of the computer (who defined that computer = Doom+Duke Nuke'em 3d) experienced raving techno generation z. The Ce-Bit Home '96 Held for the first time this year in addition to the world's biggest computer-fair, the almost legendary CeBit, this new exhibition should be the response to the changed market. The organization tried to step away from the traditional bussiness exhibition into the extremely growing private computer market by offering some kind of technical so called multimedia softly melted with musical entertainment like the cyberdance night featuring ???? and a the gigantic vitamme ce rave. Unfortunately we wtee/^ just like the

whole other Amiga community - Shocked being confronted with the bankcrupt of another mother company of our beloved system, as Escom went into liquidation in juiy. As you can imagine under existing conditions there was not so much related to the Amiga system, so we could just be happy to stop at the cooperation booth of Village Tronic and germany's biggest amiga magazine, that in fact was not very special, as we hgd seen a 68060 in action before. In a d d ition th is high end

amigas they also presented their range of products for tee macintosh. A different link to

the Amiga could be found at the pios booth. This young company built by commodore (and as a result of this also amiga) veterans like Dave Haynie and Dr. Peter Kfttel tried to make their first steps in showing their plans in the public. The computers at the booth were high quality PowerPC mac clones - but on sheets they promised that they would like to save the amiga philosophy and for the interested visitor Dr Peter Kittei was always available for a word

While the teenager interested in new games for

PC and various consoles was flooded in the games world area witiT masses of new digital entertainment, the serious visiter especially

when interested in the Amiga was most

probably already on his way bplfte. Obviously a

quite remarkable number cl'&ig exhibitors hardly had anything to do with the computer

issue, like most german television stations, the

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biggest german automobile club - just to

mention a few - were more interested in getting

into contact with the financially strong young group of customers, so that it is time to leave the commercial part of the show aside and take a deeper look at the undergrounds moves at the fair

I have the sad task to tell you that we did not

made it with the reports and the photos till the deadline though serious problems with our video equipment. Ok, but you do not have to miss these excelent contents of the BRAINfART, you just have to get your hand$r on the BF - slid eXpand. The slideXpand Js bundle of photos and

little texts which had not found any space in the paper issue. So be sure to get

your hands on it. It is ofcourse available for both systems Amiga & C-64 Ok, back to party-bizness. celebrate yourself, vote BRAINfART and always wash your hands after being on the toilet, ■

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"Hie first question"

Having heard about the Symposium 1996 most probably every german scener was rather two

minds about that. On one hand he was looking forward to it, as it took place in Hamburg, in

northern Germany: "not $o far away", on the other hand he was wondering if it would be

really worth going there, having all thepictures

of other german parties in mind. Also non-

germans should know about the german party-

complex, yes, toughly spoken all german parties since 1993 were quite dissappomting.

t also had my thoughts about the BlackBox

Symposium the year before and was

woncphg oven more. But as the Party 1996

was already 4 month ago, I was quite hungry

attending a p ity , so it was no question that I would attend this event

"Hie PartyPlace"

Arriving at HamburgHarburg, the

railway station closest to the

party place, the

"Vetehtstaitungszentru

m Burg Hittfekf, the

problems dcburred: "Where the hell is it?" No signs, no entry in the Bus timetables and the people at the trainstation were not so helpful And, as far as I remember (Ed. getting old ?) they

promised a shuttle service. Finally a taxi took

us to the party place, that was already

surrounded by sceners. The building was a quite modern one. It

consisted of a reitaurant and the main hall,

where the party took place Even though I

arrived on the second day, Saturday, my first

fears became reality the hall,ment for 1000 people, who would have fulfilled the

organisers* dreams, was just 50% filled with sceners. Despite this feared emptyness it was still horribly hot - I really do not want to know how it would have been like with a crowded mainhail.

Anyway rt was quite nice, had good power

supply, many tables and good seats - simply everything you need for a good party. Just one point to criticize was the dimmed light, that made it impossible to find something m your bag, etc

"Activities"

The Party seemed to be very well organised in contrast to the BlackBox Symposium the year before. The organisers offered a lotto entertain the sceners, IRC and Web was possible. Saturday night saw a live concert by "Noisedrift" on stage. They performed some kind of experimental breakbeat/house music. (Anyway, horrible finishing a Demo with such noise after 3 days without sleep ), a4hing

which was not

appreciated by

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and the

partyplaee

was lacking a

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highlight worth

mentioning was the

sea competition. The

Jljp lis er threw

plastic bottle into a little muddy 111®

and the scener who brought ft back was awarded with a prize. For the physically weaker or mud-hating persons,a quiz about old computer days gave the opportunity for everyone to become a winner At the end of the party alSb a running competition took place.Everybody participating®; this contest had to sit on a chair and a p r a signal ju p

around the party place with JSfediair Justfte

mention, that the Brainfart staff member Dragon did not come last! Due to an impressive

i

finishing sprint he handed thp last place to an

unlucky one - what was die reason for the disappointing result for the track and'field experienced Dragon ? He claimed that he got frightened watching the first smashed chairs in the air

at the Par

Unlike most parties nowadays fh^re have been no restrictions concerning; afcohol and other drugs. People brought a lot of it at the party, but even more or less intoxicated, they knew the

limits and behaved In consequofjj^Of this, there has neither been damage dr stolen

computers, whicti unluckily seems to be common at todays parties. In the Entrance hall the Organisers tiad covered a wall with paper

fortags, which was also hit immediately (BTW,

Brainfart has suggested to provide a wall for real graffiti next year)* The organisers were

amoifglthe party people, everbody was friendly and helpful, so that it was no question to give

Virgin a happy birthday chorus or to raise

money for a fellow Spanish scener, it would have been perfect If not some Animators

members shouted "Nigger” alt the time* As the staff is familiar with the ones, we know that it

was not motivated by any racist conviction, but beeatps of intoxication, but tils is not funny at

ali,:d|^he word is a discriminating word with a racist undertone f

petitions”

The Amiga Deri|^ §pmpefltion had 8 entries,

but only some WpfSSerious releases. Artwork showed their miStdipiece called The Gate,

wtlteh was titled aptplybe the best demo ever,

if contained code hy Alure and Tron, Graphics by Fiver and Noogmariand Music by SMT and

Virgin it was no question that they made the first place* The Second plage was taken by one

"Trapped” (look at the interview with IT S in the Party 1995 Brainfart). Reality made the fifth place with "One finger", an animation demo

with scenes filmed at the SIH psrtyplace -

nothing special, but a nice tune, winners

were awarded with sponsored; hardware and

software* This was one of th g ^|a k aspects of

the organisation. To our rniritii is unfair that the winners in the graphic/music competitions

were allowed to chose their prizes, before the

2nd in the Demo competitions were able to do

A Demo is the work of more people, more time invested., just think about it.

"The final impression"

The Symposium was for pure one of the best parties I ever attended* If had everything (well

some more releases in thd lhtro competitions would have been nice) a party needs including a real party flavor and atmosphere, new ideas and crazy competitions It was more worth being at the Symposium than at the party 1995. Anybody missing next year's Symposium is a fool* ■

Today we are proud to present you the all mighty Mike/Sunrise, the maineditor of the

probably most famous. £ *64 scene-related papermag called 'Milestone** Let us

the questions.

BF: BRAINfART

MS: Mike / Sunrise

first derifft ih the last 3 years (ED* that proved

that wd Sfee extremely active!)* Drifters came third with "Disco" a funny animation demo with

some Calvin and Hobbes animations fitted to the music in a TOsrSvival style tike Melon did

in their two demos at#*e somewhere in holland

1995. They slightly topped "Death Sentence*',

Oxyron's new Demo by TTS, who is actually more busy with launching his first game

BF: Hi Mike, Please introduce yourself a bit,

say some words about your Age, Realname, Height..., Activities in real-life** V,

MS* HI! Well. I'm 24 $ears old (already? Is it really possible?) aptfslll living the famous

south df Hessen (thats a paq ^ge hn any in case you don't know)) My realname is Mike

(what did you expect) and n^& ig h t is about

186 cm with 79 kg But thats lliliy boring for

everyone, isn't it? Brown eyes/hair (just to complete it)* in my "real” life (isn’t 64 a part of

w

the so-called “real" life?) I'm still studying joke... hi Dense!). Sunrise again: I met (nearly)

chemestry but I'm hoping to finish it in all

february'97.

BF: Ok, to be straight:

how your computer can you were in tvpw it st<

us a little bit abo u t'

and what they did!

he words about

jit which groups

-wise and tell

se excactly was

members in reality and it was really a

GREAT time hanging around with them in Venlo, Aars, Bad Salzuflen and wherever... ;) And YES, we are more than just a

computergroup as we still know each other, still

meet from time to time and still have really

dose contact A bunch of friends, so to say...

BF: Explain us how it started with

Milestone, who belonged to the staff,

how much copies you did, how was the

how did you see the competitions

mags like Hackers Unit, Pirates,

df

id before it started with fee

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inected to the i it), the staff]

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of mine, joined -

I ft&ays headed tWfnds to5 join

groups...;)). Oregon died only 3 months later (after Dub_1 left) arid we formed SUNRf~ There we are. Meanwhile Milestone ' more and more popular (we got a review in the well-known german corriputermagazine 64'er) and finally ft was “Europes.,most popular papermag” (although this was justmeantas a

in the end the price t died, so #d

lon't

>t that

ssirifi

— . And

suffered because of

(money!). Bullet Proof

kers Unit (and a lot of

paperpagS’ before, I only remember Nails and

1

ShOck).

BF Do You have any Future Plans for the

Milestone or Sunrise.

I

MS: Yl dot re-connected with the scene

throug *1 #c-64/EFnet to meet me from

time tc p really planning to release one

more the beginning of 1997. More or

less aj [sue of the old scene (as I know

the today’s scene anyway). But

other issue! And one more after

and how

Aars'91. It

Comic

Venlo

A pity

ethe

.

...

John was slowly walking across the small dusty road, which left his village in eastern direction,

fact it wasn't dusty but quite muddy, as

>rms had started and the cloudy

irted to ram quite early this year,

le road had been transformed in

on Ms shoes and a little

the the the

id

MS. Seri

Greeting form^n vwfd^l’dl

■

Mile ejwili be somef

send;m |

mail to i

M te M B iHMj

B|: Jhahk yski-Jr the Intiv ie# , by th e jW

which party is the next for you to#stay ? MS: Thanks a lot foij

great to talk about old them! Party? Dunno We’ll

See ya! (on IRC)

iany (in

Mifestone-HQ;

from the 'm ia wmat wnm&mas

wet clothes

g u yrifilp n g betwaMWhe was freezing. Scarred he

it?\*i|wt he didn’t get any n jM K t move. Slowly, very

t

wir went"

the pad),

started to run. < stopped to catch . his

thought" you know there is i

in the wood." Passing on he coulds

ivy!

clouds. After a few minutes he had realffifed the lake. He went over to the old fence, which had

been broken down by kids generations ago. Then he heard the sound of breaking wood. He turned round quickly and saw a huge bear, walking slowly out of the forest. Slowly, not

intending to show any obvious motion he lay

down on the ground. The bear breatMng in the

air in order to find a trace of the person he just

had been following. John was shivering, but

after a few moments he saw the bear turning

round and walking back into the forest. John

listened to the noises the bear made and after being sure, that he had disappeared jumped up and passed the fence. Now he was in the forbidden territory. There were rumours of ghosts and monsters living here, but he didn't

believe all the things the old man in the pub had

told him. Once again he heard a crackle and

round, but this time it was only a rabbit,

nd. John looked

ling foe water

e, that no one had

150 Years. An

ago was

w; thou] some sma9" hills

started way ten Wh of imi With andi __

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each. He teit panic s ta rti^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

began to crawl backwards, faster and Why hadn't he listened to foe old man in the pub. ’Take a cross and sHver bullets with you!" he had told him. Then he started to run. The next thing he noticed were his feet leaving ground, and immediately foe ground moved towards him. He was falling down the hill. When he got up again, the four guys came around the hill. John fired immediately, and so did they. He felt the bullets hitting his body and flew backward. Blood was sprinkled on his face, and he could see how one of the one- eyed guys fell down, but foe others kept firing.

He knew this was the end and that there was no sense if he tried to behave as a hero. His hand moved up to his temple and he pulled the plug. Heavily breathing Dave was sitting in his

Armchair and looked over to his console. The cable he had plugged out of his head was still in his hand, and glimmered in the light of foe disappearing Sun. He had been playing for quite some while, it must have been norm when looked down on foe twin towers in foe middle of | Frankfurt, which had been build up somei decades ago. He thought about trying to call some friends in Order to get some hints for foe Game, but then another idea came to his mind. Why shouldn't he go out, meet his friends, look around for some girts? He thought about it, then he went over to foe board, took out a new

card, placed it in the slot of foe console

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