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- MAGAZINES from the SCENE #
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- This following article was#
- published in a professional German#
- Magazine, called "AMIGA JOKER".#
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- And again, it has started once#
- more with the brother of our#
- "girl-friend" (AMIGA), the C64.#
- With the help of one of the first#
- printer-programs, called "News-#
- room", the first mag with the#
- legendary name "ILLEGAL" was#
- published. At the beginning there#
- were only tests of cracked soft-#
- ware, but with the time more and#
- more rubrics were coming to the#
- mag: articles about Copy-Parties,#
- hardware, crackergroups, hardware-#
- plans or short stories. None#
- thought that this mag will#
- survive, because there were not a#
- lot of readers. But that wasn't#
- right: 4 years long was "ILLEGAL"#
- published, and they had more than#
- 1000 readers! The publishers have#
- had a big name in the business,#
- because of that. That was the#
- reason why a lot of freaks began#
- to organize piratemags, too. But#
- none of them reached the quality#
- and the of this amazing magazine.#
- People wanted to spread these mags#
- better and so they began to start#
- to publish diskmags, an electroni-#
- cal newspaper. They could copied#
- the disks and spread them. The#
- guys from "Alpha Flight" were the#
- first who started such a diskmaga-#
- zine for the Amiga. Their "CRACKER#
- JOURNAL" contains many scene-#
- reports, interviews and charts,#
- but there are also competitions#
- and stuff about hardware. There#
- were some features build in, like#
- lowpassfilter on/off, music on/#
- off, and so on... for a better#
- comfort. The articles are all#
- written from freaks all over the#
- world. Of course the CRACKER#
- JOURNAL was spreaded like a new#
- crack. Because of this success, a#
- lot of other crews decided to#
- publish a diskmagazine, too. But#
- that wasn't something special.#
- There were only tests about books#
- and LPs, articles about different#
- music-styles, short stories and#
- comics. The matter was, that these#
- groups published only one or two#
- issues. The CJ was until autumn#
- 89 without competition. But then a#
- boom of diskmags started: almost#
- every second week there was a new#
- one. One of the best is ZINE from#
- the Swiss group "Brainstorm". A#
- brilliant mixture of scenereports#
- and "normal" articles, and a very#
- "friendly" menu are in this mag,#
- too. #
- Now, there are so many diskmaga-#
- zines, but where is the good old#
- paper? Until December 1989 there#
- wasn't any papermags around. The#
- Austrian group "Subway" finally#
- managed it with their NEWS FROM#
- SYSTEM FOUR. You could say that#
- the NEWS are the Amigaversion of#
- ILLEGAL, because most of the#
- articles are about the Amiga-#
- scene. #
- Last but not least there is the#
- STOLEN DATA from "DCS-Tristar-#
- Anarchy UK". They were the first#
- who prepared a papermagazine plus#
- a disk. The part on paper looks a#
- little bit like the stuff from#
- Subway. On the disk there are the#
- three best demos of the month,#
- charts and an own diskmag. #
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- Text from AMIGA JOKER. Translated#
- to English and typed in by #
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- CHESTER/BRS #