          Interview: Melan / Astroidea
   done by Gaf and Tomcat / Controlled Dreams

-   Hello.   Hope  you  said  goodbye  for  your
keyboard, because if I start to type... :) Let's
begin   at  the  beginning.  How  was  Astroidea
formed?

-   How  can  you  say  such  a  silly  question
offhand....?!?!??  Like  other groups. A company
of  friends  was  interested  in scene, and they
thought about making something good..

-  And  this  led  to  winning prizes on parties
abroad.

-  Yez. But mainly .HU parties. Now we wanted to
contribute  on Asm'96 with a demo, but they have
a  shitty videocard for our sorrow, and our demo
needs a plain Trio64. Antiq remains.

-  As  an  alternative...  :) Will it be a great
hit?

- What? The ASM or the Antiq? :-)

- The demo!!

- Good enough ;)

-  I  see.  And  will  it be better than Shock's
demo?

- I hope it will. It would be good to have a big
competition,  and  only winning by a few points.
It  would  mean  that competing is strong on the
Hungarian  scene,  and  this  is good. COMPETING
does  not  equal  to  HATE!  But if another demo
wins, this is also good.

- What are you doing in your group? Are you only
an organizer, or do you also code?

-   Yeees,  code....  :)  organizer/PR/d-signer/
sysop.  And  I  sometimes also swap, but I don't
really  have  energy  for this. But the truth is
that  we  would  need  another man for swapping,
because  I  can't  write more than 3-4 letters a
week.  But  AI members are not known about their
activity.   :)   (NOT   ALL   -   now  that  Gaf
interrupted)  But  this is a good group this way
;=)

- What is the personal contact between the group
members? Parties together, girls, and such...

-  The  contact  is  good,  but I could say 2 AI
members   who   have  probably  never  met  each
other....   No  problem.  We  keep  the  threads
together,  and new people also welcome to AI (if
we  find  suitable  ones  ;) Parties.... OK, but
girls???? :)))) (now, I won't tell names) ;-P

- Why Melan? Is it some kind of melon??

- Not Melan, but MELAN or melan ;-p Just because
one  Melan  already  exists.  The name was taken
from  a book. But if someone is interested where
from   exactly,  and  don't  know  it,  entering
channel  #astroidea  may help. Maybe the name of
the bot will be familiar...

- Hungarian scene: dead?

-  This  is  crap. It is just better and better.
[Dada  says  scene  is  dead. Scene says Dada is
dead.  - Gaf] But take a look to what Hungarians
produced  2  years  ago, and what now. There are
more   and   more   Hungarian  groups,  and  the
competition gets stronger and stronger at us. On
foreign  lists, Hungary is on the fifth place. I
think  only  the Finnish/French/Polish is better
than  us,  but  even  the  third  place  is  not
impossible....  If  the  progress  goes on, then
within 1-2 years.

-  Here come the stereotyped questions... If you
would  be  asked  to  form  a  group  from  only
Hungarians,  two people for all posts, who would
you choose?

-  Gfx:  Kal  + Rendall (Kal is the 100% best in
paint, and Rendall in pixel graphics, so this is
absolutely   undoubted....)   Code:   Ionic  and
Snowman  (Maxwood  would  be  the  3.  :) Musax:
Reptile + Rian, Trace: Kal + True. I can't say a
good  swapper in Hungary, because I don't know a
single    one   (swapper   is   not   equal   to
stuff-collector    software   pirate!)   Design:
Rendall,  and  I think I would be good enough to
act  as  an organizer/PR/sysop. (Maybe you would
note  that  there  are a lot of AI members here,
but  they are REALLY THE BEST. They would be the
members of the DreamTeam.)

- I heard the dogs barking about an AI diskmag.

- Yes, but it is not yet finished. Me personally
have  not  much to do with it, but I think there
are  enough  Hungarian  diskmags.  If it will be
finished,  this  will  be  done to have a really
high  level  Hungarian  scene-mag, with not only
Hungarian   articles.  The  project  is  led  by
Reptile/AI,  so  you  can  gain more information
from him.

-   What  will  we  see  on  the  next  SceNEst?
FLaGwashing?? :)

-  SCEneST....  :)  Of  course. Provided that it
will  be held, because I won't have so many time
next  year then this. And the truth is that onlt
a  few  people  help  me in organizing a SCEneST
(Honour for those 3-4 guys, who really took part
in  some  important  thing.  10x  again dudez!!)
Luckily  everywhere  was heard about SCEneST, so
it  there would be a 3rd ACT, then we can expect
a vast number of foreigners.

-  For  the  wish  of  Gaf, some questions about
private life: what do you do when doing nothing?

-  At  the  weekends:  party  (not only SCENE*),
hardcore,  gabber,  badcore;  in weekdays party,
scene,   hardcore,   gabber,   badcore   in  all
quantities.  If  party,  then  it must be a good
party,  with  good  pals, good girls.. If scene,
then  the  best  contacts  via Internet. If I am
rich,  then  I throw 20,000-60,000 forints for a
party  abroad.  If  not, then also. ;) I must be
there.... :)

-  The  last  question  is the same like at ATX:
three wishes?

- .HU scene the best in World.
- The fuckin' big business which I am in now, to
  be a success.
- ATX to be impotent!

(IF you know the joke about the rabbit, AND read
ATX's  interview,  AND  read MELAN's interview =
FUCKIN' BIG JOKE BY MELAN :-))))