Interviews
of important old time scene-megastars
on C-64 and Amiga
Speaking with Strider of Fairlight
Speaking with... Janitor of TRIAD
Interview with Andy/Amiga Industries
Interwieving: 3D of TRIAD
Visiting Triad
Interviewing Cascade
Interviewing Ackerlight
Source: Scandinavian News 6 December '88
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Speaking with Strider of Fairlight....
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<1996 note: C-64, Amiga, PC, consoles,
mega-demo and cracking group, one of
the most legendary ever>
Not all people at the TSL/HZ-meeting
were lame. Propably the most famous
guy there was: STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT,
and I couldn't resist of interviewing
him... Here's the result (note that
interview is modified a bit, impossible
to write up everthing which was said.)
G: Your age?
Strider: 18.
G: How's Fairlight doing lately?
Strider: On 64 we're doing very well,
but on Amiga not so good. We have
released some good demos but we are
getting better all the time. We're
still very big on 64, on Amiga not the
biggest but...
G: Who're active at FLT?
Strider: Only 6 members are at the
group: Gollum (only 64), Excalibur
(Amiga), I (Strider-64+Amiga), The
Hobbit (Amiga), The Black Shadow(Amiga)
and The Sarge (64).
G: How many cracks you've made?
Strider: Well, about 300-400 cracks,
this is hard... On Amiga maybe 150.....
All made with Gollum.
G: Tell me about your beginning in the computer-career.
Strider: I got first a 64 in christmas
1983 (lots of thinking to get this
result - editor's note). The first 2
years I was superlame, then joined the
group WASP, after that The Thieves,
then West Coast Crackers and then
founded Fairlight, at March 1987..
Founders were Gollum, I and Black
Shadow. Hobbit joined six months later
and Excalibur this summer (also Sarge
joined this summer/autumm, Strider did
forget to mention it).
G: What made FLT so big?
Strider: Some groups are very fast to
swap, others just crack games. We got
originals very fast and we also cracked
them fast. That made us big. At past I
swapped 24hrs/day, school went down etc.
G: What's the most important thing on
a group? Is it cracks, musicians,coders
or what?
Strider: (a lot of speaking too much
too fast to write down but the main
theme is:) Cracker is the best thing.
G: Have you had troubles with lamers?
Strider: Before I changed my tel.num.
it rang all the time, lamers asking to
copy them games and sending me empty
disks to fill.
G: Have you got any enemies?
Strider: (again a lot of talking....)
I have no enemies.
That was it. One of the most famous
persons in cracking-scene ever seen:
STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT (in 64-world).....
Propably Sweden's best-known guy of all
times (in a Finn's eyes).
Thank you, Strider.
Grendel.........
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Speaking with... Janitor of TRIAD....
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Also in Lamesta: TRIAD. The legendary
64-crew, which ruled the world with
P.O.W.E.R., but lately been fading out
slowly. Triad is dead, New Triad is now
born. Some of the best old names of
Triad were in Lamesta-meeting, and my
pen couldn't resist to write down what
Janitor spoke to me...
G: How old are you?
Janitor: 18.
G: When did you start computing?
Janitor: My father bought me a C64 on
1983 summer, can't remember it well....
Now I've got a 128. I did not anything,
swapped with lamers at christmas
between 86/87. At spring 87 I joined
West Coast Crackers which was 2nd best
after Triad. 3 weeks after I was at a
copyparty (WCC) and WCC become Relax &
Fairlight. In autumm most of Relax
joined Triad and after that it has been
Triad all the way. I quit swapping and
cracking 6 months ago, but I've done
some things after that like Bard's Tale
III and The Last Ninja II. And I go to
copyparties.
G: How has Triad been doing lately?
Strider: I think Triad started to go
down at the summer and I think Triad is
nearly dead now. There's a group called
New Triad.. New Triad is totally diffe-
rent that old, I think there's only one
from the old Triad. I'm member of Triad
but I don't think Triad exist anymore
but in copyparties. I don't know about
the Amiga Triad, but on the 64 it's all
over. New Triad is smaller group than
old Triad, and they won't be so good.
G: Have you got something to say to
the world?
Janitor: They should not swap programs
by modem with Americans, because that
makes that everyone tryes to be as fast
as possible: they don't care if the
game works, they just send it over.
G: Which are your favourite games?
Janitor: M.U.L.E., Impossible Mission,
Lords Of Midnight.
G: How many cracks/demos Triad has #move 325,0?
Janitor: About 150 cracks, perhaps 250
demos including Sarge's craphics.
G: Have you got special friends or
enemies?
Janitor: No really enemies, but
friends I have. The best are Captain
Future/Beastie Boys, inside Triad Jeff
Smart, Mr. Pinge, Ixion and Mr. Z. Mr.
Pinge is propably the best one.
G: Has Triad enemies?
Janitor: Hotline is not an enemy, but
we never had a contact. We just
disseparated. Maybe in HTL is some
people who don't like us but anyway....
(editor's note: Hotline used to abuse
Triad in their cracks, very bad abuses
they were. Then it stopped)
TEnd (short version of The End)
Grendel...
Source: Scandinavian News 3/89
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Interview with Andy/Amiga Industries
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SN:When was your group founded and by whom?
Andy: I don't know the foundation date
of AI - but we joined AI only after it
had existed for a long time. At first
we (Joerg & I) founded in 1987 a team
called "Phantom Fighters. It had only
three great contacts (WOD,Deadline,AI)
and was searching for a bigger team to
join. Then I noticed that Dokken of AI
lives only 14 km from me, and because
of that and the real friendship between
Dokken and me we joined AI. After our
megademo I got better contacts like The
Wizards, AFL, SCF.Then we heard nothing
from our hq for 4 months and we decided
to join Deadline. Our first intro was
released for Deadline. Soon we rejoined
AI, however, - because Deadline gave us
boot for an unknown reason.We published
several demos & intros and got big
contacts like THRUST, VF&BJ, Trilogy,
Mad Monks, BB, Cascade, BS1 and a lot
more. Soon our 2nd megademo will be re-
leased.
SN: How would you compare AI with
other teams in West Germany?
Andy: It is very difficult to describe
our position in West Germany since we
are mostly a coding team and don't like
swapping very much. I don't think that
the scene should should be competitive,
all teams must co-operate. Anyway, the
competition has largely ended.Many guys
have quit swapping because of the
police, but still get the newest stuff
from their old contacts - because only
friendship counts. I quit swapping too,
but not because of the police - the army
caught me.
SN: Lamers?? Any thoughts??
Andy: I think that the worst lamership
is over. Almost every team has one or
two big contacts and the differences
between the teams have diminished. Many
teams also have one or more intros and
programmers. Some still buy their demos
and intros, though. What's more, some
lamers are still alive - the ones that
contact you without a well-known name
and ask you to swap with them, though
their newest stuff is usually older
than your grandmother... All in all,
lamers are a very funny invention.
SN: What do you like about SN?? Any
suggestions for improvements??
Andy: I like it very much -cool musics,
gfx and reports. There should also be a
place for the latest news before
spreading it and I miss a rumor page
with facts about them. Perhaps two
changeable musics would be cool,because
reading this whole magazine with one
music gets boring. A page for opinions
of great groups about so-called losers
(WOW) would also be interesting. Get an
editor from each european country and
your magazine would be nearly perfect.
Source: Scandinavian News 3/89
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Interwieving: 3D of TRIAD
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At Triangle's meeting I met a living
legend from the far past, named 3D. (By
the way, when I was at home and talking
with Icebreaker/X-MEN he asked immedia-
tely if I was going to see 3D there -
you're still in memories, man!). After
I was sober enough to ask some silly
questions, I finally got him from his
tasks and we had a short chat.
G: How long have you been interfering
the sphere of Sweden with your smell?
3D: (a moment of silence) Oh yes, 18
years.
G: When did you find your interest to
computers?
3D: It started when I bought a Z80 in
'85.Then I bought my 64 in December '86
My 1st crack was out in the same month,
but it was because I had borrowed a
computer before.
G: Which one was the first real group
you ever heard about?
3D: ...(thinking)... It was maybe the
German Cracking Service.
G: How did your career start?
3D: I joined a small 64-club. There I
met lots of interesting people and got
stuff. I could almost program so I had
not much trouble with getting more
contacts. Then I saw Cracker's Revenge
and decided that I would also start
doing programs like them. Funny thing
was that I didn't know anything about
the great names like Sodan, so I didn't
get any respect at all.I just put those
names to the greetings, without knowing
who they were.
I learnt to know Mr.Z, was completely
in cracking and had a good supplier of
originals so we could start to crack. I
think Mr.Z joined Triad in August '86
and in September I joined, too.I didn't
want to chance my crackername from 3D.
When I was programing Cracker's Revenge
2 I didn't care to chance my name
because I didn't think it'd be spread
at all.After that I couldn't change it,
because all the people around wouldn't
have know me at all.
G: What was the last thing you did?
3D: Last thing I did on 64 were some
trainers. (Editor's note: by the data
gained afterwards it looks like that it
was Mr.Z/Triad who made 1st trainers
ever existed)
G: Which countries have members of
Triad, and how many?
3D: Sweden, US, West-Germany...Dutch??
Don't know really.
G: Have you got any special hobbies?
3D: I'm a total electronics freak. I
work in a youth organization as a
leader on courses.
G: Have you anything special to say?
3D: One important thing is to be your-
self. Too many people imitate others...
and to get a comp.group work you must
be friends.
G: A hint to the beginners?
3D: I think they should try to do what
they want to, what is fun. If you don't
like a thing you can't do that. And
don't steal other's programs.
There was more, but chat became too
interesting for a moment, I forgot to
write down what was spoken. Sorry...
Grendel
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Visiting Triad.......
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In our way back home, Finland (ahhh),
we had to wait 10 hours at Stockholm.
We were about to spend this time with
5011/Triad but he wasn't there when our
train came. After a call, he promised
to show up in 2 hours. And that was
done. We visited a record-shop (found 2
LPs I'd been searching for 1 year, lots
of thanks 5011 for that). After endless
walking 5011 left and we crawled back
to railway-station. Some time rolled on
and we got the idea to call 3D to have
some fun to the day.
Yup he was home, just leaving.I told
him where we are and he was shouting us
to be there, he will come there soon.
It was a deal, we went to underground's
entrance to wait for him. He came and
kidnapped us with him, where? Only 3D &
God know it. We were completely lost
after 5 minutes of underground-travel.
We talked a lot, and there came a
station we left the train. 3D nearly
runned forward, while I and Hoffi tried
to follow him with our poor feet (they
were on fire, many days of endless
walking and standing behind and now had
to run after 3D - terrible). Finally,
after too many miles (my foot told so)
and many Byterapers-stickers on several
windows we were there. At home of the
United Crackers/Triad. Nice, finally
some resting in a good chair (thanks)..
It was an interesting room. Computers,
monitors, and many interesting books
like More Basic, Vic-20-games etc. And
document about decades old 'computers'.
Stereosystem, which was a bit broken,
one of the first videos imported to
Sweden ever (at least it looked so) and
postcars on the wall. United Crackers
seemed to be modemfreak,because he had
strange compu on table which was linked
somewhere by modem. He told about the
system, VAX+everything to Hoffi while I
was with a great interest taking a look
to his books, letters etc (and 3D just
laying on bed).
I remembered I had lots of Atari's
stickers on my pocket, so I took one
and wondered where to place it. 3D saw
it and pointed the videos. Sure, that
was the exact position, Atari-sticker
to a place which really is worth it.
It was done, and 3D had some funny time
in the bed looking at the sticker. At
that moment Hoffi had a look, wondering
why 3D is laughing.
Unfortunately, we had to leave. Our
master recognized at that time my Atari
sticker and wasn't very happy about it.
They both guided us to railway-station
and wawed us goodbye. Thanks for all!
It was great. Simply: cool. I'm one
of those who still remember the old
times (perhaps because I'm belonging
too to the old times myself), and think
Triad was/is one of the best ever. So I
am very proud of this visit, and of
course about my good relations to the
old legends from Triad.
Grendel..
Source: Scandinavian News 5 (RELEASED ON 9.11.1988)
Evil interviewed Cascade:
1) When CASCADE was founded ?
CASCADE was founded in April
1988. Before this we had the
name "Starlight" and before
this we were on C64 under the
name "Bruce & Bongo".
2) By who ?
CASCADE was founded by "Bruce
& Bongo".
3) How many members, which
countries ?
Members are:
(Germany)
Bruce (coding, spreading, leader)
Bongo (spreading, imports,exports)
Crackline (spreading, coding)
(France)
Skatemaster (grafix, spreading)
The Little Guy (grafix, spreading)
David (originals, spreading, imports)
Aladin (spreading)
(Denmark)
Sleepy Sleep (spreading, coding, grafix)
4) What is a lamer ?
I think a lamer is a someone
who wants to become great and
well known, but he never will
be it, because he never knows
what is new and what is old.
Here in our town are some
lamers, too. If they got some-
thing new (mostly from us),
they wait some days or a week
before they send it to their
contacts. One time lamer, ever
lamer!
5) Your opinion about lamers?
Lamers should be killed and
forbiddedn. Message to all
lamers: Sell you computer !!!
(EVIL)
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Interviewing Ackerlight!!
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1) How Ackerlight was started,
who founded it, when it hap-
pened ?
Ackelight started in February
of '88 and the old name of
this crew was "La Marque
Jaune". 'The French light' was
founded by two people, Cone
from Delta line and the other
was an ex-member from CPU: he
is Kebra.
2) How many members there are
at the moment, and are they
all from France ?
There're about 20 members and
some others in Switzerland.
They're doing an 'Ackernews'
(Soon first number) Watch out
for it...
3) Do you work on other compu-
ters as well ?
Ackerlight is only on Amiga.
not C-64 or st atari. (!)
4) How you came to be so famous ?
I think it's cause we have a
lots of contacts. (About 140
or more.) and H.Syl is crack-
ing and training a lot. (Rere
has joined Katakis normal,
Katakis trainer,Starwars 2 and
Vector ball, all at the same
disk.) And we're the best in
France (I think that this my
"friend" Dr Soft is O.K. with
me.No?) We have all the French
stuff before all other crews.
(For the most part of software
).
5) What is a lamer ??
Dictionary describing: Unable
to walk properly, person in
difficulties and having to
rely on outside support.
My describing: A freak who
isn't worth to be on Amiga but
able to be on atari st.
6) Whaddya think about lamers?
I avoid them but they are
everywhere. (We are surrounded
by assholes (Says Evil ))
7) Does computing take all of
your time.
Most of my time, yes, and coz
of this my school work is weak
, but I'm trying to reverse
the situation.
8) What you say about price of
originals ?
They are expensive, exagene-
rated but when you see STARRAY
or CORRUPTION... It's worth of
buying it. But Fireblaster
should be Public Domain.
9) Do you get originals easily
or do you just buy them ?
No, We get them easily, we
have original suppliers into
the crew and we have always
the latest French stuff.
A) What you call a perfect
crack ?
I think it's up to H.Syl to
answer. Don't you think so ??
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In the future the interview-
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that's a lot easier to type it
in with keyboard than just
using pen and paper. Also if
you think your team is famous
and interesting, and you want
an interview. Contact for some
questions.
(EVIL)
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