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- ³¼A REAL LIFE¼³
-
- ³¼SITUATION¼³
- ²
-
- I'd like to tell you a story about a
- COOL CODER, who became a LAMER by a
- horrible accident. These things happe-
- ned only few months ago.
- ¹
- This is a REAL STORY about a COOL CODER
- who we call Matti. In 1991 Matti was 25
- years old professor in university of
- Oulu with great salary. He had a wife
- with BIG, BIG, BRE.. eh.. BRAINS! Of
- course he had two lovely children,
- called Miina and Rauno. Matti had a
- large house, three levels, big garden
- and a garage in the backyard. He used a
- car called Cizeta V16T and his wife
- ONLY a Mercedes-Benz.
- But back to life: Matti had had an
- Amiga since it was released. First he
- bought A1000 with memory upgrade to 1
- Mb. He had few games, but he wasn't in
- terested in them. He was interested in
- Basic. After he used his computer for
- few months, he bought Mannesman Tally
- 81-printer and lot's of paper for it.
- Days turned to weeks, weeks to months.
- After years Matti saw an excellent com-
- puter called Amiga 2000. He bought it
- at once. He also thought, that his old
- MT 81 was not enough good for A2000. He
- bought a 24 -dot color matrix printer.
- He had learned Pascal and C and started
- to learn ASSEMBLER! He learned to code
- vectors, filled vectors, glenz-vectors,
- gleat-vectors, rubber-vectors, stencil
- vectors, blenk vectors and in fact,
- every kind of vectors which human and
- aliens had invented.
- He joined to a COOL GROUP, what we call
- ODEX. He made a GREAT DEMOS one after
- one. He bought 9600 Bps modem and found
- a BBS with his old A1000 and a BRAND
- NEW HARD DISK for 105 Mb. Of course his
- A2000 had hard drive too.
- His life was stable for few years until
- he heard about a GREAT Amiga 3000. He
- bought it too, with ULTRA-CYBER-TERA-
- SUPERB-FAST 68040 turbo. He made demos
- for that composition. Demos had a REAL
- TIME GENERATED 3D RAYTRACED FRACTAL
- VECTOR LANDSCAPES which included ALL
- kinds of VECTORS he knew. His SPACE
- DEMOS looked more like SPACE-MOVIES
- (for example, Last StarFighter etc.)
- All demos had 24 bit graphics (with his
- own VIDEO TOASTER connection to A3000,
- of course...) Eh, little BIT far away
- from story, but now returning to the
- main thing...
- His life SCROLLED again with his great
- wife and demos. But in one day his life
- totally changed... He had had a typical
- day at the university. Afternoon he
- went to local EKA-supermarket, where he
- bought 425 g of sliced ham, two bottles
- of milk (one light- and one EXTRA-mild
- ones) two breads, a bottle of Coca
- Cola, condoms, batteries for his 5D
- MagLite with White Star crypton gas
- lamps, chainsaw, butter, LOT'S of CHEE-
- SE, salad, fried chickens, fish (one
- lax and three disks) school whip and
- for his son, he bought an AmigaWORLD
- magazine from magazine shelves. He
- stepped in front of the shelves, which
- had many, MANY AMIGA magazines. He
- searched an AmigaWORLD mag for some
- time. During that, the local LAMER,
- Jyrki, came next to him. First Matti
- didn't notice the lamer. After he saw
- him, he jumped back to his shopping
- cart and started a fearfully walk to
- wards the cashier.
- The questions become to his mind like
- bobbles from a GOOD beer. Did someone
- see him with that lamer?? Will that
- someone TELL it to somebody?? Will it
- go to INTERNATIONAL TV-NEWS?? Is there
- life in Ernos ear?? Unfortunately, the
- man, called Jarno, who was controlling
- the supervising cameras, saw the situa-
- tion and took it to U-Matic videotape.
- He was VERY quick. He took the phone
- and called the credit card center and
- told them, what had happened. The man
- who was on the duty, Sami, unregistered
- his credit cards and called the police
- station of his hometown becouse of UN
- PAYED bills. Sergeant Roivainen called
- first the Skid Row and warned them
- about Matti, who had absolutely become
- a LAMER!! Then he called to Matti's
- wife, Paula, and urged her to leave the
- house immediately with her children.
- Then Roivainen ordered Hallamaa take a
- M-61A machine cannon and call SWAP...
- eh, SWAT team and local National Guard.
- The jumped into a Saab 96 with guns
- fully loaded and cleaned. Paula left
- his home only minute after a phonecall
- from Roivainen. She took ALL furnitures
- with her. She drove away with the chil-
- dren, furnitures, computers and her
- bzzzz-stick. The family changed their
- family name something more unknown and
- unhated, like Hussein. Matti arrived to
- the cashier. When it became his turn,
- the cashier said, that she had to go
- toilet. Matti tried to go to the other
- cashier. The cashier used his HI-TECH
- LASER-FLIP-FLOP-SYSTEM and counted
- everything in thirty minutes. Matti
- gave his most important credit card,
- called KIRJASTOKORTTI, to the cashier.
- The cashier tried to use it, but unhap-
- pily she said that, it didn't have
- funds anymore and she had to take a
- card away from Matti. Matti looked un-
- happy, but he took another card, cal-
- led KAYNTIKORTTI. The same thing hap-
- pened again. After two hours they had
- tried over 214 different credit cards,
- for example POSTIKORTTI, KIKKELIKORTTI,
- OPISKELIJAKORTTI, KELAKORTTI, ROOPE SE
- DAN MILJONAARIKLUBIKORTTI, SEGA FUN
- CLUB CARD and many other cards.
- Late at night he arrived to his OLD
- home, where the new family had moved in
- allready. He tried to go in, but the
- family called the police, which have
- waited nearby the house. Roivainen dro-
- ve in from the window and Hallamaa shot
- all over the room. Matti had good re-
- flexes and escaped through third floors
- CLOSED, STEEL, ELECTRIC GUARDED SECU-
- RITY WINDOW. National Guard have send
- two B-52 bombers with 3 Megaton nuclear
- bombs. They used bombs at once after
- they heard, that police have failed
- their home search. But Matti ran away
- to next town. There ALL people knew
- him, because his photo had been re-
- leased in NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL and
- INTERSPACE TV. Also the NASA have star-
- ted to broadcast information to space.
- All shops were closed, because the Pre-
- sident of Soviet Union had declared
- THIS day an INTERNATIONAL SADNESS DAY.
- Novadays Matti looks his food under
- bridges and escapes ALL KIND of LIVING
- CREATURES. Everything went wrong, after
- those five seconds next to the lamer.
- So, be warned ALL THE TIME, if you
- don't want to be as SAD person as Matti
- is!
- ²
- ALL names in the story are changed from
- the REAL story. All soundtrack and ani-
- mation hiring, lending, copying, broad
- casting on Radio or TV is prohibited by
- the laws of Finland. Special thanx to
- Legend/Addonic (mental- and physical
- support) and all persons, whose names I
- used in the text!
-
- ³Written by: Dr DOS¹
-