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                                                                Illegal #26
                                                                
  This  is  ILLEGAL  #26,  rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad. The
  German  parts  (in  all  4 articles) are left out since I can't read, nor
  translate, German.

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                             THE TRIAD MAGAZINE

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                                                             BUT WHO CARES?

  The March issue, featurin':

  HOT NEWS!         in
                    "Mad All's Mailbox and
                    "News form the inner section"

  ARCADE ACTION     The Arcade Games Reviews,
                    this month: "1942" and
                    old "RASTAN".

  PHONE FREAKIN'    Being online:
                    Starting a conference
                    from Europe!?

  INTERVIEW         An Interview with
                    a MAN and a MACHINE!?

  WHO'S HOT, WHO'S NOT, WHO'S NASTY and WHO'S NICE???

  MEETING REPORTS   from Venlo and
                    Bielefeld / SHiELD

  THE STORY OF...   Read an Utopian novel that
  SYSTEM 4          involves you, you and you!

  SOON COMING...    Interestin' warez
                    are announced, mon!

  AND MANY MORE... Don't forget

  THE CHARTS        about
                    Demos, Games
                    and Crackers!

  YO! Are you always wondering where all these big pirates live? We hope we
  could help you with... "The European Crackers Map!"
                                                                 Jeff Smart

  +----------------------------------------------+
  | THE EUROPEAN CRACKERS MAP, Anno 1988         |
  | (Picture showing a european map)             |
  |                                              |
  | COUNTRY          LOCATION       GROUP        |
  +----------------------------------------------+
  | NORWAY           S              TDF          |
  | SWEDEN           NE             TRIAD        |
  |                  S              FAIRLIGHT    |
  | DENMARK          N              DOM          |
  |                                 TRIANGLE     |
  |                  E              DG           |
  |                  S              TPI          |
  | UNITED KINGDOM   W              SCG          |
  |                  E              FUSION       |
  |                  SE             SIGMA        |
  |                                 IKARI        |
  | BENELUX          NE             HOTLINE      |
  |                  E              ORION        |
  |                  S              FAC          |
  |                  NW             CFR          |
  | FRANCE                          DCU          |
  |                  NE             C64CG        |
  | GERMANY          N              J.S.         |
  |                                 RWE          |
  |                                 TWG          |
  |                  W              SHARKS       |
  |                                 ACE          |
  |                                 SAP          |
  |                  SE             BEASTIE BOYS |
  | SWITZERLAND      NE             SCA          |
  | AUSTRIA          W              TSK          |
  |                  NE             TAU          |
  | ITALY            N              NICS         |
  |                                 F4CG         |
  | DUN BY JEFFIE                                |
  +----------------------------------------------+
  | (The map also marks out "The Pope" at Rome,  |
  |  "Mafioso" in southern italy, and "El Torro  |
  |  Cracking Service" in Spain. These are       |
  |  however jokes. Eastern europe is labeled    |
  |  with three words: "COMMUNIST IN SIGHT".)    |
  +----------------------------------------------+

                            FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY

  ACTIVISION have just snapped up the right to the MEGA GAME 'AFTERBURNER',
  but  before you start cheering think again, remember, 'OUT RUN', remember
  the  excitement  you  got when you first saw it in your local arcade? And
  then  after  months of false rumours you finally got it... it was crap, a
  cracking  group  even  removed  the  bugs  in order for it to run perfect
  (TRIAD).  How many of you played OUT RUN after the first week or how many
  finished the game? Not a lot, I'm sure, well dear reader in order US GOLD
  to make the conversion they had to scrap three unnamed but original games
  coz they needed all the cash possible to buy the license.

  AFTERBURNER  will  be  even  worse, the game in the arcade feature 5000 K
  more  than  OUT  RUN and the excitement comes from the hydraulics and the
  mega  fast  grafix, not even the Amiga is capable of handling on tenth of
  the  speed,  let  alone the poor 64. Before you start telling me that the
  more  games  come  out  the  better, let me tell you that for every major
  license deal TEN other qualitively high and original games can be made.

  I am interested in YOUR view, what do you think about this, am I right or
  am I just blowing out hot air, if you have my number then give me a call,
  otherwise  write  to  me  or  to  Jeff  Smart  and  maybe we'll print the
  reactions in a debate in a future issue...
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                            THE NEXT COPYPARTIES

  ?too many conferences at the moment error in March / April 1988.

  March, the 19th: VENLO, HOLLAND. HOTLINE, TWG, ORION, RWE...

  March, the 19th: GROSS-GERAU, GERMANY. 'KONRADS PARTY', A.C.E.???

  March,  the  26th:  Bonn,  Germany.  WOD's 'ANTI LOSER PARTY', maybe yes,
  maybe no, I dunno!

  April,  the  5th  - 8th: ALVESTA, SWEDEN from THE SILENTS of A.C.E., hum,
  too far away from here, but who knows?

  April,  the  16th:  AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN: VENLO, HOLLAND with IKARI,
  FLT, HTL, RWE, TWG, ORION, IAN&MIC / TRIAD... THIS GONNA BE IT!

  April,  the  23rd:  BELGIAN  ART!  CFR,  BS1,  WOW,  C64CG, SHIELD... for
  information write to: B-ART, PATRONAGIESTR.25, 9950 WAARSCHOOT, BELGIUM.

  That's it... make yer choice... and cum!
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                             COLLECT USED STAMPS

  Hey, you surely read the interview with IAN OF FUSION and you surely read
  about  the  fortune  of  his  son and YOU SURELY WANT TO HELP. Nothing is
  easier, IAN sells lots of USED stamps to the charity and spends the money
  for  research purposes against the brain sickness. SO, please, before you
  start  throwing  away  all  your used stamps in the dustbin, keep 'em and
  send 'em either to me or directly to:

                                IAN / FUSION
                               4 BIRCHWOOD AVE
                                 GROVE HILL
                               MBRO, CLEVELAND
                                   TS4 IXB
                                   ENGLAND

                               C 64 vs AMIGA!?
                                 STAY ON 64

  YO  DUDES!  Sorry  for  not writing an article in the last issue, but you
  didn't  notice  I presume? Well I'm gonna write about something else than
  the  Danish  Cracker  scene,  but  the computer which all of us love very
  much,  namely  the  COMMODORE 64! Since the AMIGA was published, a lot of
  groups  moved  to  the 16- bit'er and left the good old 8-bit'er! I think
  it's  alright,  that you guys buy an Amiga, but why in the hell leave the
  64  alone?  I  have had my 64 for more than 4 years now and of course I'd
  like to have 4096 colours, 4 stereo voices and 512 K, but what is the fun
  in  making  demos  on  such  a computer? Everybody can do something which
  looks  incredible! On the 64 you have to be cool to do great demos and to
  crack the hard games! In a period, I thought about buying an Amiga, but I
  dropped  that  idea,  coz  I knew, that the only way I would use it would
  have  been  playing  stupid  games  and honestly I hate playing games! My
  career  as a gamefreak stopped two years ago, but I still enjoy cracking,
  training and testing the games! Those of you, who thought about buying an
  AMIGA  and  selling  the  64, reconsider! If everybody leaves the 64, the
  software houses will stop producing games and then we've got nothing left
  to  crack... And if there are no games, nobody will trade and if we don't
  trade,  then why make demos??? I think that all of you see your C 64 as a
  very  good  friend, right? WOULD YOU SELL A GOOD FRIEND? Nope! Therefore,
  stay  on  64!  You're very welcome to write to me to argue for or against
  leaving  the  64,  my adress is on the last page! Before ending this I'll
  greet a few people:

  TRIAD (IXION, JEFF SMART, HITEC, 3D)
  BFD-CREW (THE BRIGHT LION)
  HEPTAGON (GALACTICUS)
  TRIUMPH (ICON)
  and the rest of TRIANGLE
                                                           SWYX OF TRIANGLE

                        NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION!

  Yep,  here  I  am back again with some curious notes from all yer friends
  and enemies, so, C'MON!, we start...

  *  WHY can't children behave like normal children and keep playing on the
  computer? We ask the dead rest of F.C.S. it seems as if TSM and FANTASY's
  girl Gabi (the stupid gal at the FCS-party) mad things together, TSM made
  her  to  persuade  poor  FANTASY  to sell his computer and after that she
  returned  into  the waiting arms of TSM who played F.C.S.'s big boss now.
  FANTASY's  revenge:  He  kicked TSM out and F.C.S. was dead, AXIOS didn't
  work and so it's over. It sounds like an episode of DALLAS, eh?

  *  MR.TED  PATTERSON,  better  know  as PIR-TED from US group NEPA got in
  contact with the cops and gave 'em a hint of a guy named MITCH, who's the
  leadin'  one  of  EAGLESOFT INC. Rumours spread that MITCH couldn't crack
  anymore because of the watching cops, but WINTER GAMES 2 came from E.S.I.
  again,  but  the  war isn't finished yet. Anyway, if there's no E.S.I. in
  the USA who will crack all the American games?

  *  THE WANDERER GROUP cleaned their wndering boots. They kicked LUKULLUS,
  TRASHIAN  and  last  AND  least VIP out (GOOD JOB!) and J'UP had problems
  with the police, so that T.W.G. is a little bit reduced, but that doesn't
  say anything about their power as you see in the monthly cracker charts.

  * THE SHARKS kicked SISTERS OF MERCY out because of cracking old games.

  *  ELECTRO, EX-BEASTIE BOYS, formed his own group ROM and joined PENTACLE
  who used to be lead by DUECO.

  *  PLEASURE  got also now a member in CANADA, he's named SUDDEN DEATH. In
  addition to him the active rest of old-star G.S.S. joined PLEASURE, too.

  * THE SILENTS joined A.C.E., left A.C.E. and fianlly joined it.

  *  MR.CURSOR,  one  of  GERMANY's  best  programmers, is both a member of
  SHARKS  and  of  THE  WANDERER  GROUP  at the same time. Yo, I hear a war
  crawling along them, eh?

  * THE POLICE seems to be a new enemy in the inner section, as people like
  TRIANGLE,  AMIGO,  SYNTAX 2001, WMS, WOD amd even the German TRIAD hq got
  more  or less in contact with the cops. Word spread that SYNTAX 2001 gave
  about  400 adresses of well known guys out to the police, that's bad. But
  normally  you  don't  have  to  be  afraid if you are under 18 years old,
  that's  good. But, anyway, you have to be veeeeeeery careful, that's bad.
  Maybe they're coming tomorrow to your crackin' center?!?!?!

  -  Hey,  I  didn't want to scare you, but safety is much better, eh? This
  waz  all  4 thiz issue, more is yet 2 come 4 yer enjoyment. It leaves you
  with the best...
                                                        Jeff Smart / TRIAD

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                   THE T R I A D RANKINGS ONTHA 5-3 / '88

  People  call  it:  'the  only  rankings that are of interest', so WHY NOT
  PRINTING  IT  HERE? Here are the of-fish-ial TRIAD ratings from March the
  5th: FUZION (64 4 sale?), IKARI (no connection with the game?), FAIRLIGHT
  (why  not  flying to Moscow, Toni?), NETWORK, EAGLESOFT INC (Go for it!),
  COLDLINE  -  eh  - HOTLAME - eh - HOTLINE, ONION, TRIANGLE (be careful!),
  CFR  (Maiden  Fans?), WOD, TWG (und noch eine Einheit), ZENITH, RWE (good
  luck!),  NFL,  SEPP  (AQ),  TDF  (R.I.P.),  TPI  (not the fish), PLEASURE
  (building  a  bridge  to  the  cpu),  BEASTIE  BOYZ,  A.C.E. (O-cat), THE
  SORCERER,  C16CG,  1988  A.D,  LASER,  TLG,  GUTEN TAG (dave!), BADSQUAD,
  JEWELS,  DCU  (cumming over), UPFRONT, TRIUMPH, SCOOP, FAC and TRISTAR...
  STATUS:  Up  and  Downs are caused by merging the two rankinx, from IXION
  and  from JEFF, but nevertheless. Manipulating via introtexts. Hey lamer,
  increase the power of yer brain or is it 2 much 4 u?
                                                                 J.S./IXION

                            TRIAD'S FUTURE???????

  O.K.,  JANITOR  quitted  for a while and of course we have to respect his
  decision,  eventhough  we  are  all feeling very sad, but that won't mean
  that  TRIAD's  gonna  die.  TRIAD  will  never die! And wot about the new
  cracks?  They weren't bad, were they? LUCIFER is the new man at the laser
  guns, rather an old one than a new, eh?

  You  see,  no  problems  that could not be mastered, eventhough JANITOR's
  flying  off pains like hell, but he will be back in some lightyears, when
  the real stuff returns.....WE HOPE! Good bye and don't die.

                                  WOSSUP???

  I  hear  the  Eastern  holidays  cumming  and  I also hear WINTER GAMES 2
  arriving  -  it  takes  about 4 disk sides, and the grafix are fantastic.
  Well,  only  a  few good games arrived in the last month, but we all hope
  for an inproving of these times. Well, I hope the copyparties will become
  less,  but  better.  Everybody  is making a copyparty. We are having one,
  too, but more about that in the next issue.

  Well,  you  see,  I  managed  it  to  put more and more English into your
  "ILLEGAL",  even  though  I know my English is not perfect, but there are
  others  that  are  worse than me, you know. Anyway, I hope you liked this
  issue  and  if  you  have any comment please let us know (adresses on the
  last page).

  Anyway,  my personal greetings are going to: IAN of FUSION (thanx for all
  the  mega  fast  sendinx,  I  hope  you could need the stamp I sent 2 U),
  STRIDER  of FAIRLIGHT (I hope 2 C U next month in Venlo, Toni, then we'll
  kill  some  commies,  eh?),  NIK / JUST ICE of IKARI (think all probs are
  removed now, we'll see in Venlo), SLEDGIE of HOTLINE (How is it going, my
  buddyguard), RUB / SPC from THE WONDERERS (care about yer telephone bill,
  Markus),  CF  /  ACCEPT  of  BEASTIE  BOYS  (servus Rob), the VIKING from
  DOMINATORS  (yo!  Morten),  AQ from SEPP, SEPP sei kein DEPP, die Zukunft
  ist  der  AlpenS  AP,  PLEASURE  (you  know  SNOW-NY?),  MWS  from RADWAR
  SURPRISES  /  TLC  (you  took  the  name  now,  Markus?),  MAD  ALL  from
  COMMANDOFRONTIER  (return  to  Venlo, Allan!), JAYCE from DCU (try 2 take
  the train), TMS from THE AWESOME GUYS (R U asleep, Dave?), Dave from RAD,
  John from THE SURVIVORS, Jerry from THE INNER CIRCLE (don't put in such a
  fuckin' line again), SWYX of TRIANGLE 3532 (again mentioning you so late,
  kaare,  fuck the cops in their asses), TENZET of TRIANGLE for the banner,
  TONI  /  FLT  again for sending me the small piccies and ALLAIN / FLT for
  drawing  'em (hope we meet in Venlo, dude), G*P, TSK, ORION (Mr.Decibel +
  DSH),  ESG  (!)  and all the others I forgot to greet here. Special super
  gum gums to: IXION (Hip, Hop, A Gorbatschow), MR.PINGE (bad luck with the
  persons  in  the  lame bus, eh?), JANITOR (write an episode for DALLAS as
  you wrote the soap opera in TIGER HELL - that'll be a success), IAN & MIC
  (cumming  over),  T.K. (ach, Dingens...) and old nervous, colour choosing
  HI-TEC (decorate your walls with Roche') all from never dieing TRIAD.

                                               Yours faithfully, Jeff Smart

                 THE UNDERGROUND IS CELEBRATING... OR WHAT?

  Maybe you know that GERMAN official computer magazine "AKTUELLER SOFTWARE
  MARKET",  short  A.S.M.  (translation: UP TO DATE SOFTWARE MARKET). Maybe
  you  know  RADWAR, that official GERMAN computer group and their party in
  Janyary  '88.  A  writer from the A.S.M. visited the Radwar Party and now
  wrote  about it in their magazine. You surely have seen her, she was fat,
  thick  glasses  on  her  nose and she was asking everybody questions. And
  then  the article: Famous groups showed up like 'POWERRUN' (who's that?),
  'TIGER  CRACKING ASSOCIATION' and many more. And she interviewed them and
  made  photos  with  a  black  line  over  the  guys'  eyes (like criminal
  elements).  Bad  deal,  eh?  It's something like as if COMPUTER AND VIDEO
  GAMES  makes an article about the English cracking scene and then writes:
  'Big groups like FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS or UNEMPLOYMENT CRACKING SERVICE were
  there',  you see, they had no chance to reach the big guys, 'cos who want
  to  give  an  interview in such a fuckin' mag, eh? Mormally this magazine
  writes  about  crackers as criminals or as asocial elements and now, on a
  crackers'  party,  they are kind and frankly to us, those who are writing
  this shit... so how do you react? Give 'em an interview? Lick their asses
  to make a photo of you? Get on your knees that they publish your sticker?
  NO! You did it right!
                                                                       J.S.

                                 ADVERTISING

  On  the following pages you see an amount of advertising, eh? If you have
  anything important to tell the rest of the world or if you want to buy or
  sell  something, then please write to us, you don't have to pay money for
  it (what are we?), just send your text or picture (not too large) to:

                                     ADs
                                PLK 123144 C
                                4250 BOTTROP
                                WEST GERMANY

  And  we'll  see what's going on in the cracking 'underground', so, c'mon,
  study  the ads, maybe you find some interesting things. And maybe you see
  your  in  the  next month on the same place! Hey Lamers, we don't publish
  things  like:  'CONTACT THE WORLDRULING OGS CREW', therefore you can send
  your ad to the A.S.M. or HAPPY or C+VG or ZZAP, but not to US, you know!?

                                                                     Jeffie

                                ARCADE ACTION
                         Frustrating arcade machines

                                   "1942"

  This  month  we're  reviewing  two on the 64 converted games. "1942", the
  most  successful SHOOT 'EM UP arcade game, makes you to a pilot of an air
  fighter  in the 2nd World War. You have to go through 34 different levels
  featuring  great  and  fast graphics, you can move in all 8 directions to
  avoid  damage and shooting all enemy airplanes down. The motivation grows
  with  every  level  because you see your percentage of shooting down your
  enemies  and  a  special  rank  after  mastering  every level. Anyway the
  conversion  on the 64 wasn't bad either, of course the graphics aren't as
  high as on the machine, but the game doesn't loose its great playability.

  score for arcade machine: 92 / 100
  score for 64 conversion: 89 / 100

                                   RASTAN

  I must admit that I haven't played the game on the arcade machine until I
  got  the  64  version. And what a difference: the graphics on the machine
  are  really  looking  fabulous! The sound is much better, even though one
  can  recognize  Galway's  64  tune  on  the  arcade in some bits. But the
  graphics  is  thousand  times  better, though it's not bad on the 64. The
  game  is  really  a  bit  harder, you have two different buttons, one for
  jumping  or  taking extra weapons and one for fighting, whereas on the 64
  you  have only one, which is much easier to play, I think. Of course, the
  animation of the sprites and the sprites themselves are much better, that
  is why an arcade machine is sumthin' special, eh? The aim of the game, to
  get  through  12 different levels, fighting all enemies, collecting extra
  weapons,  collecting  special  items,  jumping over waterfalls and in the
  last  screen  fighting  against  a  huge giant dragon. Anyway, the arcade
  version  features  lots  of brilliant graphics and some various sounds as
  the  64  version  does,  but  of  course  less  good,  but it's not badly
  converted. They brought exactly the same labyrinths on the home computer.
  So  you can train hours and hours at home and then show the nice girls at
  the  arcade  machines  who's  the  boss, eh? Even though we know a lot of
  games like this, it's not boring after hours of playing, that's why...

  Score for the arcade machine: 90 / 100
  Score for the 64 version: 81 / 100

  You  see,  both  ELITE  (1942) and OCEAN (RASTAN) did quite a good job in
  converting  the games, so it brings really fun to save the money and play
  the computer version without loosing any playability or fascination

                                                                 Jeff Smart

                        THE STATE OF BEING A CRACKER

  People  think you are a murderer, robber or another criminal element, but
  what  are  you  really?  You copy games for all those poor guys whho just
  can't  afford  to buy fuckin' expensive original games, eh? And you crack
  to  copy  the  games. That's all, but after years of cracking, the police
  rises  up and its power and catches some well-known guys. You are afraid,
  but you don't have to be. A good trick is to remove all disks, but always
  put  them  in a possible range, because you know that after 5.00 p.m. the
  cops'  work  is  ended and after that you don't have to be afraid of them
  anymore,  'cause  I don't know a single case in which the cops came after
  5.00  p.m.  Anyway,  the main reason they can sentence you for is to sell
  cracked  games,  so  better  be  a  good buddy, man. You don't have to be
  afraid  on the weekend, either, which policeman will work in the weekend,
  you  see. But you are an asslicking pig if you give out all your adresses
  of  good  friends in case of being catched to get away being punished but
  they don't care, they punish you if you give adresses out or not, so burn
  down your notebook and stay cool! No problemo...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                           CONFERENCES FROM EUROPE

  Hey,  what  was that? In the middle of the night, in a cold winter night,
  my  phone  rang. I was a little bit angry, which suckin' lamer is calling
  me in the night at 2 o'clock??? I took up the phone and said:

  "Yep, Wossup?"
  "Hi,  here's Toni from Fairlight. Sorry for calling you up so late, but I
  started a conference. You want to be added?"
  "Wot?"
  "You want to be added to my conference?"
  "Eh, wait, wait, wait... YOU started a conference?"
  "Right."
  "You are still living in Sweden?"
  "Right."
  "And you started a conference?"
  "Right."

  I  just  couldn't believe it, he put me on the conference line and it was
  the   best  conference  I  ever  had  (1000  thax,  Toni).  Online  were:
  Toni/FAIRLIGHT,    Willi/TLC,    Dirk/RSI,    Heiko/TRIAD,    Jeff/TRIAD,
  Allain/FAIRLIGHT,  Christian/BS1  and  APRIL,  and  American girl who was
  called  by  Toni.  We  cracked  jokes about communists and talked up to 5
  o'clock  in the morning. It was fucking great and Toni promised to repeat
  it.  After  sleeping  one  hour,  I still couldn't believe it. I hope for
  more.                                                                 Jeff Smart

                                 WHO'S HOT,
                                 WHO'S NOT?
                                 WHO'S NASTY
                                 WHO'S NICE?
                             THE MEETING REPORTS

  I  wanted to go there, but luckily I had no time. I talk about the SHIELD
  party  on  the  25th of February 1988 at Bielefeld / Germany. I got three
  invitations  at the same day, stunning. Well, I talked to MOC / 7'UP, who
  told  me  that were only losers except ALPHAFLIGHT, SHIELD and 7'UP, only
  some lamers from my town who tried to get new contacts with making others
  down, e.g.:

  'In which group are you?'
  'Alphaflight'
  'They have been much better before, man!'

  But they had to FUCK OFF, anyway, I heard it was nothing.

  THE  VENLO  MEETING,  20th of Feb. 1988: toooooo many lamers, maybe about
  400  guys  filled  this time the school where the Venlo meeting takes its
  place every month. I met my old friends: HOTLINE and TWG and others like:
  ORION,  ACE,  TRISTAR,  C64CG,  SRG,  MADSQUAD,  SHARKS,  SAP, RADWAR (of
  course), PLEASURE, CFR (without MAD ALL - hope you're feeling better now,
  Allan),  FAC, SCOOP and so many more... I got the new DIGITAL NEWS, which
  is  not  copyable,  but  very,  very  good at this time with a preview of
  VAMPIRE'S  EMPIRE,  even though the games sucks like hell, but who cares?
  People  remembered  me knocking DSI out in December, but our problems are
  removed  right  as  now. RON / HTL and me were studying the new 'ASM', an
  official  German computer magazine, who wrote an article about the RADWAR
  PARTY.  Fuckin'  bad article, man. And then we read the ads, where lamers
  wrote:  'Hey, Hotline, contact us!'. Anyway, I had to sign some sportbags
  with  my  autograph as they heard I come from TRIAD. I was wondering that
  now  everybody heard of the VENLO meeting and it's becoming more and more
  overcrowded,  it's  not longer the good old VENLO meeting, but it's still
  the  best  party  around.  SHARKS  and  TWG almost got in war, because of
  MR.CURSOR  making  intros  for SHARKS and TWG together. RUB / TWG laughed
  loud  when a small kid with a FCS-button on his jacket came and asked us:
  'wanna  swop?'. The five hours of VENLO are going too fast to its end. We
  talked  outside  with  TMC  /  SCOOP and ZEROCAT / ACE and SLEDGEHAMMER /
  HOTLINE a little bit, met old star FLASH (remember FLASH CRACKING GROUP!)
  and  had to say goodbye without any special event. Hum, April will be the
  best  meeting if you take the names of the guys that'll come, e.g. IKARI,
  IAN  &  MIC / TRIAD, FAIRLIGHT (TONI - I'll show you some commies...) and
  many more! Unfortunately too many guys know about VENLO and coming to get
  their stuff on the same day as the big ones (I hope you don't mind that I
  count myself to the big ones, too), but there's no better one!
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                          THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR

  It's just like a normal dream. But anyway it differs, because you wake up
  and it's still there. We write the year 1991 anno domini and the world is
  divided  into  hundreds  of  so-called  'systems',  you  find yourself in
  'system  four'.  They brought all software pirates here to 'system four',
  lamer  and  worldruling  guys  from  all  over  Europe.  All  pirates are
  sub-divided  into  10  groups from 'a-group' up to 'j-group'. Luckily you
  belong  to  one  of the four gangs in the 'a-class', that's it. You don't
  have  to  go  to school if you don't like to, you get your high amount of
  money  every  month,  you  have  your  own  flat,  your own car, your own
  computer,  what  do you want? Girls? You have to take a drive to 'COCKIS'
  to meet all cute girls, 'COCKIS' belongs to 'system 4', but the girls are
  no  pirates.  You're  21  years old, in the right mood to start something
  unusual  when you've woken up this morning. You think back... Starting as
  a small lamer in 1983, joining different gangs, working your ass down and
  finally  joining  one  of  the  FOUR!  You  lay back, you smile, you have
  acheived  what  you  wanted to acheive, but, really everything. This day,
  you  feel  like taking the bus to get to school. Why school at all? Maybe
  learning a bit, you think. You get your red rucksack, your sunglasses and
  set  out  for  the  bus  stop. It's snowing heavily, you move through the
  adults'  quarter.  Finally  the bus appeares and you enter. Hot girls are
  looking  at  you,  but nobody expects you to be 'a-class', that's it. You
  have  it,  what  others  want  to have. You look at all those lamers, HA!
  You have the power to make them being thrown off, as every 'a-class' mate
  has. Yo, you change the bus to get to your old school. It's the first day
  in  the week, named 'RUNDAY'. Run, by the way, you have to run to get the
  2nd  bus,  but  you  could make it easily. The bus isn't too overcrowded,
  good  luck,  you  found  a seat. You're whistling an old tune from times:
  'One  of these days when you sit by yourself, you realize you can't shout
  with  someone  else...'  and the SHE enters. You noticed her by the first
  sight,  she looked in your direction, OOOH, what sweet eyes she has, but,
  bad  luck, she sits down to a friend of hers. You are staring at her, you
  feel  a kind of warmth around your heart, you know at once, this is love.
  You  have  to know more about her! No movement, no colours, no word, just
  silence. TO BE CONTINUED.                                                                          JS

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  Excelsior  the  dirty mouth is back again with your monthly dose of slimy
  details about the private lives of your favourite pirates.

  -  On  the  day  of  their copyparty DYNAMIC SYSTEMS decided to join that
  other  German  group  SHARKS.  Hum,  SHARKS  seem  to becoming bigger and
  bigger.

  -  JEROEN  TEL  of SCOOP fame, the musician who had delighted us the last
  months  with  his impressive work, worked 3 days and 3 nights without any
  sleep  to  finish some musics for a software company, it is rumoured that
  the company is OCEAN...

  - FAIRLIGHT is now two members smaller, the group has shrunk to these six
  members:  STRIDER,  GOLLUM,  GANDALF,  THE  BLACK  SHADOW, THE HOBBIT and
  WILFO.  DRAGONLACE  was  kicked out for being very inactive and WOODO has
  become  a  grafix  designer  for  a game-development team... hum, I smell
  money cumming...

  -  HOTLINE  have  decided not to pass any software anymore at VENLO. They
  claim (and they have a point) that this way every lamer gets the wares as
  fast as the rest of us, let's hope they still remember their friends when
  they decide what few people they will still pass pass things to.

  -  COMMANDO FRONTIER (sounds familiar) have a new programmer, his name is
  HITCHER  and  he's  just  finished  his first demo called 'FACTORY' (Plug
  Plug).

  -  AHA  a  SCANDAL  has  come  to  my ears. COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES, the
  English  magazine  that  always  comes  down on pirates like a rock, have
  featured  a  screen  from  a  cracked game in their mag. In their PREVIEW
  Section  they  featured  an article on an AMIGA game called 'DARK CASTLE'
  and on the accompanying screenshot you can clearly read: "CRACKED BY LORD
  BLITTER  FOR BAMIGA SECTOR ONE". If you want to check it on yourself just
  look  at page 133 of the February issue. Now I wonder where good old C+VG
  got this then ???????????

  -  The  APRIL  edition  of  the  VENLO  meeting seems to be becoming very
  important,  already  these  people  announced their visit (apart from the
  regulars):  IKARI,  STRIDER  OF FAIRLIGHT, IAN & MIC FROM TRIAD, and many
  more.

  -  STRIDER  of  FAIRLIGHT  has  managed  my  liftime dream, he can set up
  conferences  from  Europe,  he  explained  the  system  and  it's  not so
  difficult  as  everybody  thinks, does this mean, that in a few months we
  won't be needing the Americans to do our dirty work for us???

  -  BELGIAN  ART  is giving a copy-party on the 23rd of April. All Belgian
  groups  will  be  present  like: CFR, BS1 and WOW. And others are coming:
  SHIELD,  C64CG  and  FAIRLIGHT  (HOBBIT).  For some information write to:
  B-ART, PATRONAGIESTR.25, 9950 WAARSCHOOT, BELGIUM.

  Well,  this  ends  another  edition  of your favourite slanterpage! Biggy
  thanx  to  RAM  /  CFR  and STRIDER / FLT for supplying me with all dirt.
  Later:
                                                             MAD-ALL-igator

                           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
                          THIS TIME: IAN OF FUSION

  HEY... HEY... HEY... No doubt, FUSION is the definitive NUMBER ONE on the
  cracking  market.  Stunning  what  I  get to know about FUSION... MAN AND
  MACHINE in the following interview, made on an overcrowded conference:

  JS: How old are you, IAN?
  FS: Well, I'm almost 30 (!!!) years old right as now.
  JS: Are already married?
  FS: Yes, I am.
  JS: Do you have children?
  FS: Yes, two.
  JS: I guess your computer was out of order two times.  Well, when did you
      found FUSION?
  FS:  FUSION  was  born  in  NOVEMBER  '87  consisting of the ashes of old
  CLEVELAND CRACKING SERVICE after the war with TCS.
  JS: Why taking the name 'FUSION'?
  FS:  I  read  through the horseracing results in the newspaper and I took
  the name of the horse on the last place, that was 'FUSION'.
  JS: How many members does FUSION have at the moment?
  FS: Up to now, FUSION are: MARK, CRAIG, MIC, STEVE and me.
  JS: When did you buy your first computer?
  FS:  In  1981  I  bought a ZX 81, later on a DRAGON and finally, in March
  1984 a Commodore 64.
  JS: Which games / music / movies do you like the best?
  FS: Games:  Great Giana Sisters
      Music:  Think Twice V, Platoon, Neverending Story
      Movies: Son of the South by Walt Disney
  JS: How many swappartners does FUSION have?
  FS: All together we're swapping with about 80 guys.
  JS: Do you have any enemies?
  FS:  If former times TCS, but today none. I don't care if anyone's faster
  or lamer, what the hell? I try to like everybody.
  JS: Do you have a special reason for cracking?
  FS: There is only a single reason: To give all people who can't afford to
  buy  a  game the game fast. There are lots of unemployed guys or going to
  school and they don't have the money to buy a game, you see.
  JS: What do you do in your freetime?
  FS:  Sleep. But mainly I'm looking for my son, who's very ill, he's got a
  special  kind  of  brain damage and his life expectance is under 7 years.
  (YOU CAN HELP. READ "COLLECT YOUR USED STAMPS")
  JS: Thank you very much.

  Well,  next  issue,  I'm  planning  to  get  STRIDER  of FAIRLIGHT on the
  microphone to hear him screaming about bloody communists and so on...

                                                                 Jeff Smart

                            CRACKER OF THE MONTH

  Who  was  the most successful crackin' group in February? Again and again
  TRIAD? FUSION for the 1st time? Or how or wot?

   1. FUSION                   (2)  8.79 pts
   2. FAIRLIGHT                (5)  6.8
   3. TRIAD                    (1)  6.5
   4. T.W.G.                   (10) 5.93
   5. IKARI                    (3)  4.8
   6. DOMINATORS               (-)  4.43
   7. HOTLINE                  (4)  4.07
   8. EAGLESOFT INC.           (7)  4.06
   9. PAPILLIONS               (-)  4
  10. ORION                    (-)  3.79

  Status: Power from England...

                                DEMO CHARTS!

  Here are the five ANTI RESET PUSHING DEMOS from February:

                       1. THINK TWICE V by THE JUDGES
                     2. F.A.M.E. #1 by F.A.M.E. / TRIAD
                              3. MIGHT by C64CG
                              4. FACTORY by CFR
                            5. OUTSPACE by ORION

  C'mon,  return  to entertainment instead of showin' yer ability of coding
  and handlin' raster or demos get boring and boring...

                               SOFTWARE-STARS

   1. PRO BMX SIMULATOR        (-)
   2. PLATOON                  (1)
   3. REVENGE OF DOH           (-)
   4. PREDATOR                 (-)
   5. TETRIS                   (2)
   6. COMBAT SCHOOL            (3)
   7. POWER AT SEA             (-)
   8. THE TRAIN                (11)
   9. BASKET MASTER            (4)
  10. BMX KIDZ                 (5)
  11. DAN DARE II              (-)
  12. BATTLE VALLEY            (-)
  13. TASK III                 (-)
  14. FRIGHTMARE               (-)
  15. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE       (15)
  16. FIREFLY                  (-)
  17. QUEDEX                   (22)
  18. T.R.A.Z.                 (7)
  19. PIRATES                  (23)
  20. SKATE OR DIE             (8)
  21. INT. KARATE +            (12)
  22. RASTAN                   (13)
  23. MINI GOLF                (18)
  24. BLACK LAMP               (-)
  25. MOONSHADOW               (-)
  26. HAT-TRICK                (17)
  27. JINXTER                  (10)
  28. BANGKOK KNIGHTS          (14)
  29. OCTAPOLIS                (9)
  30. ROCKFORD                 (-)

  A BIG 'THANX YOU' FOR VOTING:

  IAN  /  FUSION, JUST ICE / IKARI, BAD BOY / THE SURVIVORS, CF / BB, RUB /
  TWG,  MA  /  CFR, JAYCE / DCU, MWS / RWE, NY / PLEASURE, ACU / SAP, DRS /
  ACE, TPI / SHARKS and the rest of TRIAD...

  + IMPRESSUM +

  +-------------------------------+
  | > ILLEGAL tm 1988             |
  | > 3. Jahrgang / 3rd year      |
  | > Nr. # 26                    |
  | > (c) 88 by TRIAD             |
  | > AUFLAGE / CIRCULATION:      |
  |   ca. 400 Kopien / Copies     |
  | > unverbindl.                 |
  |   Preis: 1.60 DM!             |
  | > Erscheinungs datum /        |
  |   date of release:            |
  |   7. March. 88                |
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  | > CHEFREDAKTEUR / EDITOR:     |
  |   JEFF SMART / TRIAD          |
  | > REDAKTION / "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
  |   MAD ALL - COMMANDOFRONTIER  |
  |   MIND SLAYER - AWESOME GUYS  |
  |   SWYX - TRIANGLE 3532        |
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  |   SUB-EDITORS:                |
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