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- AUSTRALIAN SCENE REPORT.# #
- Things are alot different in Australia compared to Europe,especially in
- the Amiga scene.There are very few groups that are not lame,and thousands
- that are.In fact most are so lame, they give a new meaning to the word LAME!
- Australias most prominent group would have had to have been ACU,notice
- how I use the past tense - thats right ACU is no more.At least two members
- have been visited by the Australian Federal police who issued them a warning
- saying to stop pirating software,one was Pirasoft and the other
- was Microchip who have now stopped all activity.It is rumoured that
- Pirasoft is going to be working for 17bit software as an Australian
- distributor.
- ACU did a reasonable amount of importing almost entirely by modem and they
- were closely followed by The Fire Starters (TFS) who also did a fair
- amount of modem trading.Mike of TFS was also visited by the federal
- police and has now sold his amiga and quit the scene.
- There has also been quite alot of BBS busting aswell in Australia.
- AOFCF's BBS in Sydney was raided and an independant BBS in Perth called
- Treasure Island was also raided by the police.This has come as quite a
- shock for us Aussie's as this is the first time the police have
- acted against piracy in a big way.
- Now that the two main modem traders are gone,it leaves room for a few
- other up and coming groups to make themselves known.ACU lacked a great
- deal of coding ability as did TFS.The other main groups in Australia
- like Dawn,The Force,Amiga Industries and Freedom Force, and Factor 4
- all have some good coders,especially The Force,Factor 4 and Dawn who
- all have excellent coders.There isn't a great deal of musicians in Australia
- but plenty of grafix artists.Amongst the few musicians is Kreator
- of The Force,who was voted top musician in Australia by all the top
- Aussie groups and whose musical talent rivals the best in Europe.
- Australia has only 16 million people and is approximately 5 million square
- kilometres in area compared to the huge population of Europe whose
- entire area is only slightly larger at 6 million square kilometres
- (correct me if my Geography is wrong!!).For this reason it is extremely
- difficult to get the top groups together for a copy party and so far
- there has not been a very successful Australian copy party yet.
- The Australian scene is changing though, and it is rapidly getting
- better.There are more and more demos and products being released
- and the quality in general of groups is also getting better.The scene is
- not too bad,but it sucks that we live too far away to get to any European
- copy parties!!!#
- by Mogwai of The Force.
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