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                                                                 Illegal #23
  This  is  ILLEGAL  #23,  rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad. The
  German parts are left out since I can't read, nor translate, German.

  DECEMBER
                            The Cracker - Magazine!

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                                                       (c) Lost Floppy '85

              Produced by The Fanatic Duo, Radwar / TLC + CFR!

  HELLO, DUDES!

  It's  again English time! Our foreign contacts were really glad when they
  received  their  'ILLEGAL'  with  some  English  information  in it. So I
  decided  to  continue  writing  some notes in English and to enlarge this
  part  a  bit.  So  you'll find three pages with only English words on it.
  O.K., let's start:

  The main event in December for all German is the FCS Copyparty on the 5th
  of  December  1987.  Fantasy  from  FCS told me that the following people
  announce  their  visit:  POPEYE  /  HOTLINE,  F4CG,  TAU, HULK + MALARIA,
  DOMINATORS,  PAPILLONS, FAC, LAST SCIENCE and of course the German elite.
  What'll  happen  there?  When  you  hold this 'ILLEGAL' in your hands the
  party's  already  over,  'cause  I  decided  to  release it there. If you
  understand  German  a  bit,  read the article 'Vorschau: FCS' and you can
  guess what'll be going on there.

  Can  you  believe that some guys don't know what a 'telephone-conference'
  is?  But  it's  true that some people never heard of it before. For us, a
  conference is a usual part of having friends in America, I think. At this
  place  I want to send some special greetinx to our conference guys, e.g.:
  BARNIE  and  GEORGE  'no  gays allowed, thank you' from CANADA, CHRIS and
  DAVE of TWGI in the States, MAD ALL from CFR in 'little Belgium', NIK and
  MARK  from IKARI, GEORGE 'also a black dick' of SCOUSE, SLH from HOTLINE,
  (who  holds the record with 4 conferences a day), ROB 'the real Rob' from
  BB  and  all  girls  (who  always  talk  toooo much). It's impossible for
  someone,  who  had  never heard of a conference, to imagine that up to 20
  (our  record)  people can talk at the same time, isn't it? You are a poor
  pig, if you have never took part in a conference. Hear out for it!

  Of  course  another great event this month will definately be the TRIAD -
  FAIRLIGHT  copyparty  from  the 18th to the 21st December in Gothenburg /
  Sweden.  But  it's  a question if many people will come, 'cause Sweden is
  too  far  out of bounds from Germany, Holland, Belgium and so on. Denmark
  was  the  most central place and will ever be I think, but let's wait for
  the results from Sweden's best (and only?) groups!

                           INTERVIEW ON THE MONTH!
                          THIS TIME: MAD ALL / CFR

  It's  a  great  pleasure  for  us to interview MAD ALL, in his person the
  founder  of  the  COMMANDOFRONTIER.  Read  what  he  answered  to  our 10
  questions!

  JS: How old are you?
  MA: Almost 20 (Shit - I'm old!)
  JS: What computers do you own?
  MA: 1st: ATARI ST   (December '82)
      2nd: TI         (December '83)
      3rd: C 64       (December '84)
      4th one: Amiga  (September '87)
  JS: The founding date of CFR?
  MA: I started CFR on 1/1/87!!!
  JS: What were your first products?
  MA: 1st crack: SHAOLIN'S ROAD (2/87)
      1st demo:  by Anubis + Lord Blitter in January '87!
  JS: How many members does CFR have at the moment?
  MA: All  together  they're  7! Black Label (22 years), Ram (18), Bubuland
      (18),  Dakota  (17),  Stef (18), The Jew (18) and me. All in Belgium.
      By the way, Human (15) in Norway is starting his own group...
  JS: How many contacts do ya have?
  MA: We manouvered it down from 150 to 75. I personally have about 20 cool
  guys on my list!
  JS: Which game and which music do you love?
  MA: My  favourite  game  is INTERNATIONAL SOCCER and my music is ROCK and
      HEAVY  METAL  (e.g. Iron Maiden, Van Halen, ZZ Top, Def Leppard etc.)
      And my TOP 3 movies are:

      1. Blues Brothers
      2. Animal House
      3. Highlander

  JS: Do you have some enemies in this rough world?
  MA: We  have  no  war  with  anybody and never had, although our name let
      something different be supposed we are a people lovin group.
  JS: What's going on with CFR?
  MA: A  sad thing: CFR will probably quit on the 64 as I'm the only member
      still  interested  in  the  old 64. All our programmers have switched
      over  to the Amiga, but I will continue to trade on both machines. We
      have  decided to give a last to computer mass on the 64: We will make
      a  mega  demo called "The final" which will be 'bout 1000 blocks long
      (200 K), so watch for it.
  JS: What do you do in your freetime?
  MA:  When  I'm  not  in front of a computer, I'm in front of a woman or on
      top or underneath. Oh yeah, I go to parties a lot!

  You  see  CFR  haven't  died  yet!  In the next 'ILLEGAL' you can read an
  interview with RADWAR / TLC!

                           SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE!!!

  O.K.  let's  return  into  the  mother  language of the real crackers: in
  German (bad joke!).

  Do  you  have  your own copy of 'Western Games'? The idea from RADWAR was
  great  to  send  it  only to faithful friends (thanx for your faith), but
  there  was  a lack in the U.S.A., where the version was spread like hell.
  FAC  and  MCG  imported it back from the States and spread like idiots in
  the rest of the world. RWE #1, FAC #0, MCG #0, the others #1!

  Right  below  this, you can find the 'Riddle of the month' and I hope you
  enjoy  it.  You  can  also find the dogs, eh sorry, the docs for it right
  below here. Good luck for your mission!

  The  game  of  the  month,  if  not of the whole year is, without doubts,
  'COMBAT  SCHOOL' from OCEAN, who can really programme, if they want to. I
  suppose  that  Ocean  employs  Drill instructors, who forced them to make
  such  a great game. It can be compared with the old 'Decathlon' or 'Hyper
  Sports' but it's much better.

  'WESTERN   GAMES'   from   MAGIC   BYTES  had  wounderful  graphics,  but
  unfortunately  the  joystick  movements are too difficult. 'INTERNATIONAL
  KARATE  +'  from SYSTEM 3 has raised the expectations for the forthcoming
  legend  'BANGKOK KNIGHTS', 'cause it's a horny and superb game! But there
  were also shadows between the lights of good games, e.g. CLEVER AND SMART
  from  MAGIC  BYTES, which is much too difficult to play. What a shame for
  that   great   name!   RAMPARTS  from  GO!  is  also  too  difficult  and
  disappointing. What's the aim of that fucking rubbish called 'BASIL' from
  GREMLIN? The graphics are quite good, but I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!?

  So much to the games from that month. Detailed reviews in German language
  available  on the other pages, 'cause I used a lot of German expressions,
  which  are  too difficult to translate! I hope you excuse it! This was it
  for  now and maybe I'm gonna put the next 'ILLEGAL' totally into English.
  What do you (yes, you) think 'bout that? Here's my adress for any kind of
  criticism:

                              JEFF SMART / TFD
                                PLK 123144 C
                                4259 BOTTROP
                            WEST GERMANY!!! BYE!

                                   RIDDLE!

  Here  are  the  docs  for  the  'Riddle  of the month': Search for the 27
  cracker  groups  among  this  labyrinth  of  letters.  They  can be found
  forwards, up, down, backwards and even diagonal!

  If  you  have  found all 27 groups, check the characters, which are left.
  Print  them  down from left-top up to right-bottom and then you found the
  solution. Just try it! Good luck and Shoot 'em Up!

  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  RIDDLE ? OF THE MONTH
  |S|H|T|G|C|E|L|I|X|E|O|  Search for:
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -ACE         -THESHARKS
  |K|Q|R|W|E|S|N|E|G|R|A|  -BB          -TPI
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -CFR         -TRIAD
  |R|C|I|T|R|F|C|A|C|E|T|  -DCU         -TRIANGLE
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -DG          -TSK
  |A|F|A|I|R|L|I|G|H|T|U|  -EAGLESOFT   -TWB
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -EXILE       -TWG
  |H|L|D|T|H|O|T|L|I|N|E|  -FAIRLIGHT   -TWGI
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -FCS         -SCG
  |S|S|A|W|T|I|I|E|I|O|N|  -IKARI
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -HOTLINE
  |E|C|R|B|B|R|G|S|A|P|U|  -HQC
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -RWE
  |H|F|D|G|S|A|W|O|S|C|A|  -SAP
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -SCA
  |T|M|K|S|T|K|T|F|D|A|T|  -SRG
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  -TAU
  |E|L|G|N|A|I|R|T|P|I|N|  -TFD
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                              WHAT'S UP, GUYS?

  I  bet  your  dicks  are up, aren't they? As in every month, I'm thinking
  about  the  release  date for the 'ILLEGAL 1/88', and what is better than
  the  first  copyparty  in  the new year? You know, it's RADWAR's one, who
  celebrate  their existence for now over 2 years and the party will be, as
  usual  for  RWE,  something special. It will take its place on the 9th of
  January 1988 and it's the best chance to release the next 'ILLEGAL' isn't
  it?  In  the issue 'Die Post - Dien Freund und Helfer!?' we interviewed a
  German  postman,  because it was necessart to get to know why the post is
  so  angry  at the moment. They always want to see the passport of a 'PLK'
  owner, when they want to get their packages, so read what the post says.

  Wanna  laugh?  Read  'Amiga 500 Presentation' and 'Wie fliegt man schnell
  aus  einem  Kaufhaus?'  about  our  chaotic  ideas  and happenings at our
  largest shopping center, where we cracked some jokes with the presentator
  of  an  Amiga 500, who was official sended by Commodore and who presented
  some cracks on the Amiga as the exciting games and where we made the shop
  assistant crazy by laughing on the small kids on the computers and so on.

  'New  games  approaching'  contains  an  actual list of American products
  which should make their way from the States to Europe as soon as possible
  (thanx  to  SLH / HOTLINE for this list). And don't miss the game reviews
  and all the charts.

  Special  fuckings  are  going to D.S.I. from FAC (Why could FAC take such
  idiots?)  for  the attempt of stealing MAD ALL from CFR for their mugging
  of an own magazine.

  I  never  said  that I was the first, who produced a cracker magazine, of
  course  it  was  DR.MABUSE with his 'SCHROTTPRESSE', but the 'ILLEGAL' is
  much  different, in my opinion. Hey, DR.M.! Where have you gone? But now,
  lots  of  arseholes are stealing my ideas, and I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL (OF
  COURSE)...

  SPECIAL  GREETINGS  TO:  BEASTIE  BOYS  (Accept and CF) - faster than the
  speed of light - HOTLINE (Sledgehammer and Popeye), SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP
  (Weetbix), DCU (Jayce, nice phone call), RADWAR (BKA, MWS, AVH + TC), CFR
  (MAD  ALL),  TRIANGLE  (SWYX,  our brothers?), TRIAD (MR.PINGE, very nice
  letter),  FCS  (FANTASY + TSM), SAP (masked ACU), TWG (RUB!), IKARI (PAL,
  NIK  and  JUST  ICE),  FAIRLIGHT  (FREDRIK),  RSI  (MZP),  TWR 1881 / SRG
  (RENEGADE),  SCA  (S.T.S.P.),  THE  SHARKS  (TPI  and  MCL), CO3 (BARNIE,
  coolest   conferences),  TSK-CREW  (SSD),  KGB  CREW,  YANKEE,  TAU,  THE
  PAPILLONS,  BRK,  all  members of TWGI, NEW IMPORTS and all friends. With
  best wishes.
                                                          JEFF SMART / TFD!

                              FREE GAME TO WIN!

  Hi  Guys!  This is SWYX of TRIANGLE! From now on, we'll be the Danish co-
  producers! This time only a short article. You know about our great demo-
  competition "THE DEMO OF THE YEAR". All you have to do to win an original
  game  is  to  vote for one of the demos and we'll find a winner among the
  audience!  The  group with the most voters will also win a game! So write
  to:  TRIANGLE, P.O. BOX 116, 8382 HINNERUP, DENMARK, or call: (45)6986043
  until the 10th of January '87! You have now time.
                                                           SWYX OF TRIANGLE

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  Hi!  I'm MAD ALL from COMMANDOFRONTIER and each month I will take care of
  all  the gossip about the pirating scene, so if you have any gossip about
  you,  your  group  or  any other group, please let me know immediately at
  this adress:

                              COMMANDOFRONTIER
                                 PO BOX 406
                                8400 OOSTENDE
                                   BELGIUM

  BUT  please  don't use this column for fighting out your personal wars so
  don't  send  me  lies or bad things about your enemies. Well, it's gossip
  time, sorry for only bringing you a small amount this month, but I had to
  get it all myself, so hopefully you, the reader, will help me out!

  -  TRIAD have now a staggering 22 members, but I was assured that all non
  active members will be kicked out.

  - HUMAN has left CFR and joined two EX-RDI members to form his own group,
  the  name  is  of  yet  unknown,  meanwhile CFR have replaced him with an
  unknown guy, who seems to be talented enough. Hopes are high but CFR will
  still be as good for demos as before? Only time will tell.

  - HOTLINE will stop going to the Venlo meetings in Holland. They say that
  they  always  bring the new stuff and have to travel a long way. From now
  on  they  will  hold  their own copy-party a bit closer to their homes in
  Eindhoven.

  -  By  the way, IKARI have promised to come over from England to the next
  Venlo meeting in December. We're waiting.

  -  On the 5th of December, the day on which the FCS party will take place
  in  the capital of Germany, is a celebration day in Holland, thus lots of
  Dutch people cannot come.

  -  It  seems that HOTLINE have some war at the moment with MAD SQUAD (Ex-
  Dreamteam).

  -  OUTRUN will be released two weeks before christmas, if one can believe
  US GOLD.

  - USSPE from AMERICA have joined forces with the TSK-CREW in Austria.

  - Lots of 'ILLEGAL' - imitations make their way among the cracking scene,
  but they are all a cheap copy of the 'ILLEGAL'.

  -  Well  that's  it for this month, so get your hot gossip to me so I can
  really  fill this column up. I WISH YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW
  YEAR!
                                                      Yours...MAD ALL / CFR

                            CRACKER OF THE MONTH

                             1. BEASTIE BOYS (1)
                               2. HOTLINE (2)
                                3. IKARI (-)
                                4. TRIAD (4)
                          5. THE WANDERER GROUP (-)
                              6. FAIRLIGHT (8)
                            7. THE PAPILLONS (-)
                                 8. FCS (6)
                            9. EAGLESOFT INC. (7)
                          10. THE LIGHT CIRCLE (-)

                                DEMO CHARTS!

                     The Demo Top Five in November '87:

                  1. MUSIC FOR MASSES - TRITON TECHNOLOGIES
                           2. BRAIN BUG - TRIANGLE
                          3. CAT'CH IT - FAIRLIGHT
                            4. ROCK IT - C 64 CG
                            5. PYRAMID - KGB CREW

                               SOFTWARE-STARS

   1. COMBAT SCHOOL            New!
   2. SKATE OR DIE             New!
   3. INTERNATIONAL KARATE +   New!
   4. NEBULUS                  New!
   5. R.I.S.K.                 New!
   6. QUEDEX                   (3)  2M
   7. TEST DRIVE               (1)  2M
   8. BUGGY BOY                New!
   9. SHOOT 'EM UP C.K.        New!
  10. THUNDERCATS              New!
  11. WESTERN GAMES            New!
  12. SOLOMON'S KEY            (10) 2M
  13. WINTER OLYMPIAD          New!
  14. JACK THE NIPPER 2        (2)  2M
  15. HYSTERIA                 (8)  2M
  16. BATTLE SHIPS             (11) 2M
  17. TRANTOR                  New!
  18. ZIG ZAG                  New!
  19. WATERPOLO                (4)  2M
  20. RAMPARTS                 New!
  21. FREDDY HARVEST           New!
  22. AIRBORNE RANGER          (5)  2M
  23. PIRATES!                 (19) 6M
  24. CALIFORNIA GAMES         (12) 5M
  25. CAPTAIN AMERICA          New!
  26. WIZBALL                  (28) 6M
  27. DEMON STALKER            New!
  28. RYGAR                    New!
  29. SUPERSTAR SOCCER         New!
  30. THE LAST NINJA           (18) 6M

  Ein 'Dankeschon' furs Bewerten geht an:

  THE  BEASTIE BOYS (CF), HOTLINE (SLH), RADWAR ENTERPRISES (BKA), CFR (MAD
  ALL), FCS (FANTASY), THE FALCONS, D.C.U. (JAYCE), SAP (ACU) and...

  + IMPRESSUM +

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  | > ILLEGAL tm 1987             |
  | > 2 Jahrgang                  |
  | > Nr. 23                      |
  | > (c) + (p) THE FANATIC DUO   |
  |   OF TWGI 3003                |
  |   und RADWAR ENTERPRISES      |
  | > AUFLAGE / CIRCULATION       |
  |   500 Kopien / Copies         |
  | > unverbindl.                 |
  |   Preis: 1.60 DM!             |
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  | > CHEFREDAKTEUR / EDITOR:     |
  |   JEFF SMART - TFD            |
  | > REDAKTION / "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
  |   JEFF SMART - TFD            |
  |   BKA - RADWAR / LIGHT CIRCLE |
  |   MAD ALL - COMMANDOFRONTIER  |
  | > RED. MITARBEIT /            |
  |   SUB-EDITORS:                |
  |   Germany : ASPHUXIA, BRK,    |
  |             RCG, LOST FLOPPY! |
  |   Belgium : COMMANDOFRONTIER  |
  |   Denmark : TRIANGLE          |
  |   France  : D.C.U.            |
  |   England : SCOUSERS          |
  |   U.S.A.  : TWGI              |
  |   Italy   : N.I.C.S.          |
  |   Austria : TSK-CREW          |
  |   Canada  : CO3               |
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  | released at RADWAR's great    |
  | copyparty on the 9/1/1988.    |
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  | searching for some good sub-  |
  | editors in other countries.   |
  | Please write at once to us!   |
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