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                                                                Illegal #27
  This is ILLEGAL #27, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.

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                              NOW 100% ENGLISH
                  (C) 1988 by TRIAD - A Dealer Quality Mag

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  Da offishial Syssie Four Mag!
                                                             BUT WHO CARES?

  THE APRIL EDITION OFFERIN':

  THE STORY OF...   ANOTHA EPISODE
  SYSTEM 4          OUTTA THE
                    CRACKER'S WORLD...

  MEETING REPORTS!  WHO (OR WHO?) WOZ
                    UP AT THE
                    MEETINX HERE?

  HOT NEWS!         THE MEAN
                    GOSSIP PRODUCIN'
                    MACHINEZ ARE
                    BACK AGAIN...

  INTERVIEW         HAVE YOU EVER
                    TRIED TO ASK
                    YOURSELF QUESTIONS

  PHONE FREAKIN'    ...IF YOU WISH TO
                    END YOUR CONFY
                    WAIT FOR A NU
                    OPERATOR OR READ IT NOW!

  ARCADE ACTION     ROLLING THUNDER...
                    ON ARCADE, AMIGA
                    AND C 64!

  AND  OF  COURSE  ALL THE OTHER THINX YOU ALWAYS WANT... CHARTZ OF VIDEOZ,
  CRACKERS, DEMOS'N GAMEZ! WE WISH YA NOW... All Fun on earth!

                                                          the Illegal-team
                                                                   MAD ALL
                                                                      SWYX
                                                                Mr.Decibel
                                                       and your Jeff Smart

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  EXCELSIOR,  the  lean  mean gossip machine is back, so turn on the music,
  grab a bottle of beer, sit back and enjoy...

  - Remember JAZOO of old Jazzcat fame, well he's back. This time he joined
  the  ranks  of  that  other  Norweigan  group:  THE SHADOWS, they are all
  delighted, coz he promised the originals, TDF in trouble?

  -  I  was  planning to write a big article on this but I'm too modest (or
  lazy?)  so  I'll  just  print it here: CFR has split up. Yes yes yes it's
  true but before you get out a box of kleenex let me assure you that we'll
  still  continue under the same name, the people that are gone only worked
  on  Amiga  (well  not really coz they only wrote one demo in 6 months and
  they  wanted  CFR to become an Amiga group only so naturally we split up,
  but this will have no effect on our 64 work.

  -  OOOH  aren't  those Beastie Boys getting a little big-headed, in their
  interview  in Delirious Mag ACCEPT claims that all groups are lame except
  the  9  groups  they  trade  with,  not  a bad statement for a group that
  brought out a 1328 Block long OUTRUN version.

  -  As  you probably know, C64CG, DCU and PLEASURE are merging together to
  become  bigger  but  did  you  know  the  name? Well they are planning to
  announce  it  at  the  Venlo meeting of 16/04/88 but I couldn't resist so
  here goes: they will be called TRANSCOM.

  -  Interesting  to  see  at the last VENLO meeting that TSS and LETHAL of
  HOTLINE  had a very big discussion with HI-TEC and TK of TRIAD concerning
  who was the better group, luckily they didn't have a quarrel over who was
  the  biggest group otherwise they would still be there counting all their
  members coz both of them have well over 25 members.

  -  On  Hotline:  I  almost  got  lynched by some HOTLINE members coz they
  claimed  that  we  in  "ILLEGAL"  only ever talk about SLEDGEHAMMER, so I
  asked  LETHAL  (in fact it was Lethal's own idea) to write a very big and
  complete article about the AMIGA virus. He will do all the research as he
  has  access to ZILLIONS of computer magazines an I will write the article
  so look out for that!

  -  Poor old Denmark and Germany, the groups seem to be falling like flies
  over  there  lately,  the police is really beginning to hold razzia's and
  PLK's  and  PO  Boxes  get  searched through, a real unhealthy situation,
  hopefully this is no sign for other countries.

  -  I bet you a lot of hard cash that STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT won't stay away
  for long now that he stopped cracking on the 64, just wait until he meets
  everybody  at  the  April edition of Venlo, he'll see that the 64 is much
  more lively than the Amiga. C U there Toni.

  - Two Belgian groups China Syndrome (CSI) and 4-Star have joined together
  to produce higher quality cracks.

  BYE from MAD ALL-IGATOR
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
                        THIS TIME: Jeff Smart / TRIAD

  Everybody  claimed  they know nothing about me, so I decided to interview
  myself and believe me, it brings fun...

  ?: Where do you have that name from?
  !: From a German comic strip called "Clever and Smart".
  ?: How old are you?
  !: 18 years, authorized to do everything I wanna do.
  ?: When did you come to TRIAD?
  !: On the 15th of January 1988 at 19 minutes past 8.
  ?: How many German members did join Triad now?
  !: They are: Han Solo, Hi-tec, TK, FSW, Sir Arthur and F.A.M.E. (3)
  ?: How many swap-partners do you have at the 'mo?
  !: FS,  IKARI,  FLT, BB, RWE, T8, HTL, ORION, STARS, CFR,  TWG, SCOUSERS,
     TRIANGLE + DOMINATORS and sum othaz , about 20.
  ?: When did you release the first "ILLEGAL" and what did it look like?
  !: Well, the first issue if "ILLEGAL" appeared on the 6th of January 1986
     after  two  weeks  wondering  how  "Newsroom" works. It took about one
     single  page  and  had  a circulation of 5 copies. GOSH! It was so bad
     that  I  won't re-release it even though people asked me to do so. But
     even  in the first issue there were a "game charts", some game reviews
     and some bad articles, all in German of course.
  ?: What is your favourite music, game, demo and freetime activity?
  !: Music: New Order, Morrisey, The Smiths, Joy Division.
     Game:  Epyx games, Combat School, Platoon, Pirates and Green Beret.
     Demo:  Baby Blues from CFR
     Freetime: Sleeping, music + joking
  ?: What are your best friends and your enemies?
  !: My  best friends around are my mates from System Four, that are: Paer,
     Dan,  Stefan  and  almost  all others from Triad, Mad All / CFR, Ian /
     Fusion,  Kaare / Triangle, George / SCG, John / Survivors, Nik / Ikari
     and so on... better said almost all mah contacts, if they either write
     long letters or I talk to 'em often. Enemies: NO COMMENT. They already
     have been kicked outta System 4!
  ?: What the hell is SYSTEM FOUR?
  !: Haven't you seen it yet? It's among you, everyday! Only I know what it
     is,  but  I guess Janitor supposes the right thing 'n will surely know
     it next time.
  ?: What was the best joke you ever heard?
  !: On  a  conference,  I asked George from SCG: "Wossup?" and he said "My
     dick". Some others said it was their idea, but it was George's.
  ?: Thank you, Jeffie.
  !: And you, Jeffie. HAHAHAHAHAHA

  Next time finally Strider from Fairlight who will be interviewed in Venlo
  hopefully!
                                                                             JS

                               ARCADE ACTION:
                               ROLLING THUNDER

  Have  a  look at our big cpmparision between ROLLING THUNDER - the arcade
  machine, the c 64 version and the Amiga version...

  HA!  ROLLING  THUNDER  from NAMCO is quite a brilliant game on the arcade
  machine.  Task  of  the  game is to free some hostages while shooting all
  enemies.  You  can  expand  your  weapons when entering several rooms, be
  always  careful of swines with masks that try to blast yoy into pieces of
  mortal  rest.  It  features brilliant grafix, a fitting sound and is damn
  fast.  You can either use a MP Iif you collected ammo) or a small gun, of
  course  the  MP is more effective. The characters are superb animated and
  you  jump one platform up and down in great animation, too. I really love
  that  game  machine cuz it's ultrafast and brings lots of fun playing it,
  and it earns a rating of: 96 points of 100 possible.

  THE 64 VERSION:
  US  GOLD  tried  it...  and...  failed... A cold shudder seizes me when I
  remember this real bad conversion, if the name of the game wasn't ROLLING
  THUNDER  I  would  not have noticed it, it's so bad, so fucking slow, you
  move  your  player  faster than your bullets... The graphics also suck...
  this  game  is  the  total rubbish and the best one can do with it, is to
  open  one's  window and throw it out... Even the sprites, the movement of
  'em  is  so  bad,  I  really  thought that it would have been possible to
  convert  it  on  the 64, cuz there are quite a lot of that kind of games,
  but US GOLD? 0 points!!!!!!!!!

  THE AMIGA VERSION:
  I  was  really stretched as I took a look on the 16 bit version and GOSH!
  The  title  screen  looks  pretty nice (me thinks there was no on the 64,
  wasn't it?), ah, it remembers me on the arcade version, really. The sound
  is  not  that  one  from  the arcade machine, but nevertheless much, much
  better  than  the  fuckin' rubbish on the 64. The game: It's a little bit
  slower than the arcade machine, but it's very, very good. It's almost the
  same  fun  on the Amiga as on the Arcade. HA! Okey, the grafix are not so
  hot,  but  good, damn good. Compare the sprites and you really can accept
  that.  I really liked it on the Amiga, so that my friend, at which home I
  took  a  look at ROLLING THUNDER couldn't keep me away from playing it...
  "Please another game, C'mon a nu one, okey, now the last one, yep, no the
  really last try, yup, my last game" and so on... If companies always make
  such  brilliant  conversions  on the Amiga, I can start about thinking to
  buy finally a big calculator, eh? Amiga score: 91
                                                                         JS

                      DOES THE AMIGA KILL THE 64 ??????

  "Are  you  playing  again with your calculator?", questions like that are
  normal  life  for  a 64 owner when arguing with an Amiga owner! They must
  tell  you,  those  who only have to enter their disks in their drives and
  without  typing  any  command the game is loaded into the computer, isn't
  that easy? Now, the latest state is that some real known guys from the 64
  biz  changed from 64 to Amiga, searching for higher goals in SYSTEM FOUR!
  The  two  were on the one hand IAN from FUSION, who almost earned to be a
  cracker  of  the month alone and on the other hand STRIDER from FAIRLIGHT
  know  for  many,  many  cracks  with  funny  slogans  against communists,
  remember: "Play pool billiard with a commies' ball" or some like that? Is
  that a sign for all others?

  Well,  in  fact  I  think  no, cuz the Amiga offers better grafix, better
  sounds,  okey, but not better games as many of the 64 games are converted
  now  but  without  becoming  better, you see? No reason for me to sell my
  little  64  for  an Amiga, ha! Anyway, FUSION also continues as FAIRLIGHT
  does,  and you see that STRIDER is beginning to write in intro text again
  (about  SYSTEM FOUR...) I think he will also return to the cracking ones,
  surely! BIG EASTERN EGGS from:
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                            THE POLICE IN GERMANY

  Everybody who lives in SYSTEM FOUR is scared of the police, that at least
  in  Germany  is very strong and also catched a lot of guys. It had become
  such  a  situation  that  lamers  pretended they were caught showing them
  belonging to them who are worth to be catched. Damn lame, isn't it?

  The  mean  methods  are  ads  in obscure computer magazines, that ask you
  about  swapping,  buying  software or just a telephone number that offers
  you  to  call.  Some  guys  from  the German software police (they really
  exist!)  made  such  ads  to catch some guys, who are lame enough to call
  those guys.

                          "DELIRIOUS" vs "ILLEGAL"

  After D.C.U. released the first issue of their new "Delirious Mag" on the
  Venlo meeting last month, people thought about a big battle between TRIAD
  and  DCU  concerning  their  magazines,  but  they thought totally wrong.
  There's  no  rivality, but a good friendship between Jayce, in his person
  the  editor  of  the DCU, now TRANSCOM, magazine and me as I promised him
  alsways  to  write him an article for his magazine but only because I'm a
  lazy pig the article didn't reach Jayce in time for the last mag out. Now
  he  got  it  and  I'm  sure  you  can read about "The German Crackers" in
  "Delirious Mag No.2". What people didn't understand is that MAD ALL / CFR
  is  publishing  his  "Mailbox"  in  both  magazines  and  in fact I don't
  understand,  too.  But  I  think it's up to MAD ALL who has of course the
  right to publish his articles in both magazines, but still writes here in
  "ILLEGAL"  more  expanded  articles.  So  don't claim... the only thing I
  don't  like  is  that  DCU can spread their mag for nothing and I have to
  take  money  for it, cuz I don't get copies for free as they do, but it's
  still OK!
                                                                         JS

                                GERMAN RATS:
                                 THE A.S.M.

  Do  you remember the A.S.M.? The "Aktueller Software Markt", the official
  German  computer  magazine  (comparable  to  C+VG  in  UK) that have been
  present  at the RADWAR party on January the 9th of 1988? I told you about
  'em  intha  last  issue,  but here again. They went around trying to make
  photos  of  big and known groups and published 'em with black stroke over
  the  guys'  eyes.  And  they  were quite proud to see their photos in the
  March issue of that magazine.

  So what about it, you will ask? Well, it can be heard that two members of
  the well-known Amiga group "Tristar" were caught by the police!

  You  must  be blind if you don't recognize a connection between the photo
  in  the  A.S.M. that showed the whole "Tristar"-crew and their cruel end.
  Anyway,  after  a  couple of weeks later it really can be heard that some
  guys  of  the  A.S.M.  gave  all  their photos out to the German software
  police as special evidence material. Isn't that nice?

  First  those  swines  lick  everybody's  ass to get an invitation for the
  party,  then they lick everybody's ass to make some photos and even asked
  'em to to send new warez to 'em... I think it hasn't been all yet.
                                                                             JS

                             PHONE FREAKIN' NEWS

  How  what  is  going  this  month with the conferences to Germany who has
  still the best protected telephonesystem (FUCK)? Well, as it concerns me,
  I  can  say  that I had enough conferences this month (Thax to Survivors,
  Kevin  and  all  others I don't remember!) and some 3-ways also (with Nik
  the d...). Anyway I was told that unknown Shield had started a conference
  from Germany... Well, no comment!

  Anyway  it  seems  that  it  became  easier  now  for  Americans to start
  conferences,  but I heard bad news, eventhough they aren't proved yet, so
  I  was  told  that  Badd Boy from The Survivors got busted and had to pay
  about 1000 Dollars to the companies.

  Hum, I hope it's not true, Johnnie! Anyway, Nik from Ikari even called me
  on  a  free  call  in the middle of the night (2 a.m.!), for the European
  it's  quite safe, but all Yanks are afraid of AT&T who really are holding
  razzias again...

  Now  it  can  also  be heard that there exists a kind of trick that could
  remove  poor  guys  from  the black list, eh? Janitor and Mike / F.A.M.E.
  still are and look forward to these news... Hear from U on a confy!
                                                                         JS

                             THE MEETING REPORTS

  Only  the evergreen Venlo could offer a party intha last month as the WOD
  party felt out cuz the guys got in deeper contact with the police...

  Anyway the Venlo meeting was a little bit sad as there was simultaneously
  the  CEBIT, a big computer mess, Germanys small opposite to the PCW show,
  in  Hannover  where  quite  a lot of friends were present, so did RADWAR,
  some from HOTLINE, TRISTAR, MR.ZEROPAGE and so on.

  Only  a few of the guys that normally come to Venlo showed up on the 19th
  of  March, so did ORION, C64CG, SLH / HOTLINE, CFR and for the first time
  DCU  from  France.  I was told that nothing was up there as people really
  missed  the  big  and  known  groups,  but  more people showed up than in
  February  and  that  shows  that Venlo is getting too overcrowded. A cold
  shudder  seized  me  as  I heard how many lamers asked Hi-Tec of TRIAD to
  swap.

  Anyway, the next Venlo edition seems to become the best ever, so pack yer
  bag and show who you are (even if you're a zombie!).
                                                                       Jeff

                                     64

  HA! Now ya entered the 64 games review page, congratulations!
  Please enter your name:
  Okey, serious again, here goes:

  * BLOOD VALLEY, a long time ago announced now released... and it's simple
  RUN-  and-FIGHT  game  with  quite  nice  grafix and a cool sound fx, but
  rather boooring than entertaining. Score: 72 / 100

  * IO, one of the shortest names for games ever. It cums from FIREBIRD and
  even though it's another (the 2.983.457th of this sort of game) Shoot 'em
  up,  it's  cool.  You can get better weapons, but the masterpiece are the
  grafix that were drawn by Bob Stevensen (remember BMX Kidz Title Screen).
  The  game  is  fuckin' swine to play, so damn difficult, that probably no
  normal  freak  is able to get through that game without a trainer, anyway
  it scored: 84 / 100

  *  VENOM  STRIKES  BACK,  MASK  III. The third part of the hopefully soon
  ending  Mask  Games series, but it's much better than the preceding ones,
  another  Shoot  'em up, but it brings fun anyway. Use digits for changing
  your player character. Score: 72 / 100

  * SUPER HANG ON, God, another arcade machine converted by Activision. The
  name  is  counting,  not  the  game,  so it'll probably be a success like
  OUTRUN,  but  there are no differences to other games like that as ENDURO
  RACER  or  BUGGY BOY (the best of that kind), nice sounds, nevertheless a
  bad conversion, scoring: 39

  *  IKARI  WARRIORS,  as  everybody  thought  ELITE  released the European
  version  and it's a damn good game with no connection to the USA version,
  luckily. With a fine intro the game features the blastin' of thousands of
  enemies  and many more... try to get through the whole game, nice sprites
  as an ending sequence, damn good Shoot 'em up, so 88.

  * CORPORATION, another stunning new game concept from ACTIVISION it takes
  place  in the year 3026 and you must succeed in your mission in order not
  to  loose  your  job,  cool  grafix, a cooler title tune, and a very cool
  game, so 92 / 100.

  *  SINBAD  and  the  throne of the falcon from CINEMAWARE looks different
  from  the Amiga version with more play sequences and less tactical moves,
  nevertheless   the   grafix   are  fantastic  (the  normal  standard  for
  CINEMAWARE) but the game gets boring, cuz it's damn hard to play, compare
  the  title  sound  from  the  64 to the Amiga tune, funny, funny, eh? But
  still  a  very,  very  good conversion from 16 bit to 8 bit, one can only
  hope for more games from the best graphicians, 92 / 100.

  *  TARGET RENEGADE, the follow up to RENEGADE, this time featurin' a pure
  joystick control and GOSH! the game is hot! OCEAN improved it with better
  grafix and more levels, so it had become a multi-load game. Watch out for
  the ending sequence, fantastic great job, score: 92 / 100.

  *  TROLL,  from  DENTON  DESIGNS  shows a great title piccy and cute game
  grafix,  but what for the hell is the aim of that game? Funny anyway so a
  score of 86.

  *  PACLAND,  a  well  done  conversion  from the arcade machine featurin'
  everything  that  one  is  used  to  play with, when you have to help old
  Pacman, f1 to enter credits, f3 one and f5 two players and 88 pts.

  * RIMRUNNER, what a cool grafix at the beginning of the game in which you
  have  to  ride on your, eh?... on your, hum? Anyway, you ride and have to
  be  careful  of  defective generators and it's your task to repair 'em. A
  great sound let this game get 90 points.

  *  SCOUT,  written  by  IAN+MIC  who used to be members of TRIAD, sold to
  MASTERTRONIC featurin' sounds from JT. Really not a bad game, driving and
  jumping, shootin' up, but slowly it gets boring, nevertheless 82 points.

  *  THE THREE STOOGES, anutha masterpiece from CINEMAWARE with a brilliant
  conversion  of  a  movie  into a computer game, the graphics is of course
  also fab as the game is. Score: 94 points.

  * THE GAMES: WINTER EDITION, still remember the frustration when you told
  your friends in the USA to send it as fast as possible and then it didn't
  work?  Well,  fortunately  we had two salvators, JANITOR and MR.ZEROPAGE.
  Anyway,  the  game  isn't  as good as CALIFORNIA GAMES, maybe cuz of EPYX
  lost  Mikael  Kosaka  to  ELECTRONIC  ARTS,  who made all the fine grafix
  formerly. THE GAMES:

  1)  LUGE,  nice  grafix,  use  joystick  down  at the beginning, and then
  sometimes down + button to get speed, quite nice but not exciting.

  2)  CROSS  COUNTRY:  remember  Speed  Skating  in  old Winter Games, same
  movements here. Grafix not bad, nice scrolling, split screen.

  3)  FIGURE  SKATING:  lots  of  details, first choose yer music, make the
  choice  of  the jumps you want to make during the music then try to play,
  quite difficult, eh?

  4)  SKI  JUMP:  nice features, but when you fly through the air you can't
  recognize how far you flew, that's quite bad, but it brings fun, cuz it's
  also difficult to make good jumps.

  5) SPEED SKATING: moving the joystick with the player.

  6)  SLALOM:  left, right, left, right, you only have to concentrate a bit
  to be successful.

  7) DOWNHILL is more Slalom than Downhill, but probably the best event.

  All together very good, but it's not CALIFORNIA GAMES, so: 95 points.
                                                                         JS

                            ILLEGAL (Redline 97)
                                WHAT ELSE...?
                             ASVERTISIN' TIME...

  Remember, you can advertise everything you want... for free!!! Just write
  to JS!!!

  Female Crackers trained for free! Contact Janitor.

  I'm  searching  for  broken  comp. PRO 5000. WRITE TO: Plk. 035070 C 7840
  Muellheim

  28th May, 1988
  THE SUPERVISORS COPY PARTY IN SWITZERLAND
  FOR INVITATIONS WRITE TO:
  MR.BRUNPAC / TSK
  P.O. BOX 12
  CH-1605 CHEABRE

  AMIGA SUB-EDITORZ WANTED!

  WANTED: MEMBERS
  Info: TED-CREW
  PLK 130560 C
  4220 DINSCHACKEN
  GERMANY

  I'm searching for a used driving license...
  Write to:
  PLK 123144 C
  4250 BOTTROP, GERMANY

  NICK from IKARI
  Is searchin' for a UK dick drive 1541...
  Give him a call if U have one to sell cheap...
  (+44) 2735 61917

  Software at Cheap prices...
  Call 6491 228 361520 & ask for Bernhard...

  Hi-Tec is always ready to make colours for your demo... Write to Jeff!

  F.A.M.E.
  Is always ready to undertake all aural for your gamez...
  Contact:
  ADAM BULKA, PASTORSACKER 18, 4300 ESSEN 16, W. GERMANY

  FUSION  AID  AT  ONCE...  COLLECT USED STAMPS BEFORE THROWIN' 'EM AWAY...
  SEND 'EM TO US!!!

  Call IKARI's VOICE MAILBOX IN THA U.S.A.: (818) 1377 5875!


                      IN GENERAL... COMPLEMENTS OF SCG

  The legend returns!

  The  awesome  people  from  the gaff of Liverpool, England are back! (The
  SCOUSE  CRACKING GROUP, that is! - What do you mean you've never heard of
  us?!).

  So  here  we  are,  after  a  short  (ish) but much needed, much enjoyed,
  quite-nice-  really  break. We have regrouped and returned, and are going
  to  totally  and  utterly  quash  the  ideals and concepts of the current
  hacking  kingdom...  but, being such modest, selfless people we will move
  the    trend    of    the    conversation    into    other    areas    of
  interesting-information-to-know. This includes:

  1. Our views on the now-barren cracking world
  2. The Scouse House future plans
  3. General waffle and moaning
  4. There is, in fact, no number 1
  5. Ah! Here it is

  Rightio then, let's hit the dog on the head and get down on it.

  At  the  present,  we  at  the  Scouse  tavern  think  that  there  is an
  agglomeration  of  minor  groups, whom has slowly but surely engulfed the
  top names, plunging them into the boundless infinity of non-existence.

  Who  can't  all  the smaller groups make like a wolf and pack together or
  else make like a kangaroo and take a running jump.

  What  has  happened  to  quality  (look it up in a dictionary!), for some
  reason  groups  seem  to  be  forsaking this ideal for quantity... lemons
  (people not in this group) want trainers, documents and good intros...

  Are  most  intro-writers communists? Because nowadays all intros look the
  same to us (maybe it's just us!).

  We  haven't  been on a good confy for donkeys years, what happened to the
  good old days of 20 or more interesting people on one confy (is this some
  kind of subtle hint?).

  What  are  our  future  plans,  then?  We have only one... to put quality
  before  quantity,  this  meaning  that  our  cracks  will be really quite
  orgasimic.

  Talking  about  cracks, speed is an advantage but surely receiving a game
  which has more features increses its wantability.

  Incidently,  we  at  Scouse dislike extremely the use of the word "lamer"
  and  prefer  to  the  words "minor group", after all, all of us were once
  lamers!

  To  English  persons we wish to let it be known that Scousers never (that
  is, at no time) use the phrase "it's wicked".

  And  so ends the Scouse huts contribution to this magnificent magazine...
  (This is "Playboy" isn't it?) Perhaps there'll be more... Perhaps not!!!

                                                            The SCG-members

                           THE REAL BASKET MASTER

  A  damn  cool  day  we had, visiting DSH and MR.DECIBEL from ORION in the
  homeland,  called  "Holland"...  HO!!  We first came to DSH, who woz just
  importin'  "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" via modem and then drove to MR.DECIBEL,
  who  has  quite a comfortable hut. He suggested playing a Baketball match
  in  his garden, between TRIAD (TK and me) and ORION, so it went on... But
  MR.DECIBEL was so fair telling us that he's playing in the Dutch National
  team...  urgh?  Not  a  single  chance  remained  and  we  sank with 2:5,
  (MR.DECIBEL:  4, JS: 2, DSH: 1 and TK: NONE! lame!). We spent the evening
  again  at  DSH'S home, cracking jokes ontha fone... I hope to repeat this
  journey soon, eh?
                                                                         JS

                            WHAT FORTHA HELL...?

                      +------------------------------+
                      |         / /                  |
                      |    III< - -       THE        |
                      |    III  \ \    PAPILLONS     |
                      |  +-----+          INT.       |
                      |  |Anti |                     |
                      |  | fly+|                     |
                      |  | TPI |                     |
                      |  |spray|                     |
                      |  +-----+                     |
                      |                              |
                      +------------------------------+

  Who  do  the  PAPILLONS  think they are? "Hey Hey Hey" (trying to imitate
  FS?)  "Why  do  you  gays  in  TRIAD  are so fucking proud of your Winter
  Edition?? You know we released it 2 weeks before!"

  THE  THING  THAT NOT A SINGLE TRIAD MEMBER KNEW ABOUT A VERSION FROM TPI,
  AND  AFTER  CALLING  SOME  GUYS,  WHO  HAVEN'T  HAD  THE GAME WORKING, WE
  DECIDED TO DO THAT.

  ANYWAY,  THE  WINTER EDITION VERSION FROM THE PAPILLONS SUCKS, IT CRASHES
  DOWN  EVERY  TIME (where woz the Fast Load?) WHAT CAN WE DO IF YOU DO NOT
  SPREAD YOUR VERSION, EH?

  Have  a  look  at  their version of "S.S. SOCCER" and "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
  II",  the  both  crash  down.  Try  to  save  on  S.S.  SOCCER or to play
  IMPOSSIBLE  MISSION  up  to  its  end.  So,  lesbians,  come and say that
  again!!!
                                                                         JS

                             THE T R I A D RANKS
                                ON 14-4 / 88!

  The  of-fish-ial  TRIAD  rankings  ontha  14th  of  April 1988 (merged in
  Germany):  IKARI  (boo  boo  baa  baa),  FLT (thanx 4 ze postcard, Tony),
  FUSION,  ORION (coolest meeting!), NETWORK, TRIANGLE (By the way, I typed
  'Y'!),  ACE,  CFR  (goodie),  SCG  (Wossup?),  ALLIANCE,  PAPILLONS (look
  above!),  BEASTIE  BOYS,  ESI,  NEW  BENCOR  BROS.,  ABYSS,  HOTLINE (old
  Sledgy),  TDF,  CRIME (Johnnie), ZENITH, TWG, SEX (Who's dat, Dan? Sounds
  good!),  STARS, ONLINE and TRANSCOM... Too much confusion? Too less life?
  Too less money? Too less brain!
                                                                         JS

                      The Adventures of BUGGY DISKHEAD
                 (*note: this is originally a comic strip*)

  Buggy holds a phone handset, makes "thumbs up" and exclaims:
  "NOW, NEW SOFT FROM U.S.A. VIA TELEPHONE!"

  Buggy  smashes  the handset into an acoustic couple (ie a modem) connects
  to  a  US  board  whilst the keyboard makes a hacking noise and the modem
  beeps in the background.

  Buggy meets his friends:
  Buggy: "10 MARKS PER DISK, O.K.?"
  Buggys' friends: "TOO MUCH"

  Buggy looks depressed.

  Friend: "WHY SO MUCH?"

  Buggy holds up his phone bill.

  Buggy: "IN ORDER TO PAY MY PHONE BILL!"

  (C) 88 A.Krq.

                 NEWS FROM THE CRACKERS' WORLD: SYSTEM FOUR

  I  just  changed  the  title above, it is still the same column, but with
  other  clothez,  you see??? It seems as if the March woz no quiet months!
  Why? Because...

  * One of Englands' best crackers returned to System Four and showed again
  their  skill with some cool cracks. I'm talking of SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP,
  that  are  WEETBIX,  CHUNK, DR.J and MOG. Other English groups got mighty
  rivals!

  *  Firkin,  Smash  and  Gene  left  ACTUAL CRACKING ENTERTAINMENT, but in
  difference  from  THE  SILENTS  who  joined  A.C.E.,  left it, joined and
  finally left it, they built up their own group, named STARS.

  *  As  DSH  and  MR.DECIBEL  told  us they kicked DIGITAL SOLUTIONS INC.,
  EURATOM  and  SOFTWAR TECHNICS out of ORION to hold the group as small as
  possible.  Nevertheless there are only a few German members of ORION left
  and that are ZENOBITS, who used to be in 7'up.

  *  Steve  of  ZENITH  is  probably the most hated dude in England! Ian of
  Fusion  and  Ironfist co-wrote a game called "Hard Labour" and told Steve
  that  some  dudes wrote it and it was a mega cool game. "Hard Labour" was
  in  fact  a  very big joke on Steve coz it's just a demo that slags Steve
  off.

  *  IKARI expanded. TRIDOS, kicked out of FUSION coz of recrackin', joined
  also as IRONFIST of ZENITH wanted to do but haven't done yet.

  *  Do  you  also  agree  that  ACTIVISION  are  stupid  for  trying to do
  "AFTERBURNER"  on  64? What is more stupid is they will also try to do it
  on Spectrum and Amstrad.

  *  JESTER  of  LAZER CRACKING SERVICE left LCS and joined IKARI. But they
  are  exclusively  trading  with  THE SURVIVORS in the USA and JESTER also
  trades  with ATC, so he left and joined nobody less than FUSION, where he
  and  MARK  are  the  only  active  guys  left  on 64, coz IAN changed his
  SYSTEM...  even  MITCH  from EAGLESOFT INC. said in his intro (IMPOSSIBLE
  MISSION 2): "Hey Ian turn that AMIGA off... now!". Nothing to add.

  *  About  IMPOSSIBLE  MISSION  2:  Everybody  was upset coz quite unknown
  FREESTYLE  released it on the last Venlo meeting, but everybody must have
  noticed  that it is only a preview, that took its mysterious way from the
  German  magazine "Powerplay" to them. Everybody really thought it was the
  game,  but their version crashes down after some levels, even though they
  wrote  in  their  intro  "this is the long awaited game". SHARKS released
  exactly  the  same  version  2  weeks  later.  Good  job,  eh?  The  REAL
  "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" just made its way from the USA to Europe and guess
  what?  It  is  the  same loader as in "WINTER EDITION", so I sent the not
  working  one,  imported  by  DSH / ORION, to the huge creature of magical
  forces,  better said: JANITOR from TRIAD, so you have to expect a running
  version in a couple of seconds.

  *  Wasn't  that  the most frustrating incident for Europeans since years?
  "THE  GAMES: WINTER EDITION" didn't work on European computers, everybody
  thought  that one has to wait some months until EPYX releases the special
  European  versions.  But  they  forgot two dudes that fixed it, the first
  MR.ZEROPAGE  /  TLC who fixed it with a self-written load routine and the
  other  one  the living dead JANITOR who fixed the EPYX fast loader. Thanx
  to  them  for  the working version, think of all that lamers that have to
  wait  for  EPYXS'  release. So if you see any review in any magazines you
  can  be  sure  right  now  that  those swines also have our versions. HA!
  Another victory for SYSTEM FOUR!

  *  From  RUBBERDUCK  into RUB and then INSIDE THE BUILDING... NO! This is
  not a new group... no! It's a single person! RUB from THE WANDERER GROUP?
  He  is the one that changed his name into inside the building... no April
  joke!

  *  Another  bad  news  for 64 owners, one day after one heard of IAN / FS
  quitting 64 at the top of the success, STRIDER / FLT also said goodbye to
  the  small calculator to work on the grown up Amiga, but for how long? So
  only Gollum is left on the 64 for FLT.

  *  FAIRLIGHT  just  wanted  to  merge with some FUSION members, but those
  changed their minds as STRIDER told me.

  *  TRIANGLE  3532  are also back on the cracking market after a few weeks
  peace of what else? Police. But read Swyxs' article...

  *  As  MAD  ALL  /  CFR  told  me secretly on a conference, CFR took in 4
  members...  guess  from  which  country? I bet you guessed wrong! They're
  from AUSTRIA and so unknown that he forgot their names (on purpose?), but
  it seems as if they are highly talented...

  * Latest news from the SHARKS are that TPI (not PAPILLONS but THE PIRATES
  INT.)  left  'em and wants to join TRIAD. We (me and Dan) haven't stopped
  thinking 'bout dat.

  *  Not  100  percent sure I can tell that IAN and MIC left TRIAD together
  with  the  GRONK, cuz making a legal group producing only Compunet demos.
  Word  spread that both Ian and Mic went crazy as they got their money for
  their  game:  Scout.  It  seems  as  if  England has been left from TRIAD
  members.

  *  F.A.M.E.,  who  used  to  be  in TRIAD, also LEGAL (as they call it!),
  improved  their  very  good  sound  routine  as  you  can hear in the new
  "Digital  News". They also got offers from FIREBIRD, ELITE and CASCADE...
  and  read  and  believe  they  probably  do the sound for "AFTERBURNER" /
  Activision!

  *  Did  you  think that "FLASHPOINT" and "VICTORY ROAD", both from Ocean,
  will  soon be released on 64? HA! As Ocean's software manager said it was
  never planned to release these games on home computers... The company who
  made the ads (Centersoft) only thought that... funny, eh?

  -  Guess  what?  That was all for today! Special thanx for those news to:
  LAZER  /  NEW  BENCOR  BROS, CF / BEASTIE B., DSH and MR.DECIBEL / ORION,
  FUSION, NIK and JUST ICE / IKARI, STRIDER / FLT, MAD ALL / CFR, ITB / TWG
  (!) and GENE / STARS. Yours forever...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                                    VIDEO

  Who  said  that  cracking  and  video  movies  watching  does  not belong
  together?  Anyway,  we  didn't.  From  now  on every month LAZER from NEW
  BENCOR  BROS  will  inform  you about the latest pirate video released in
  System Four!

  >> NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 3 - DREAM WARRIORS
  Yep,  your old friend (or is it fiend?!) is back again! In Nightmare 3 we
  have  half  a dozen fear-filled teenagers locked in a Top Security mental
  hospital,  being diagnosed as suicidal. Heather Langenkamp returns as the
  now  grown  up  Nancy,  who  organizes the kids into Dream Warriors to d.
  battle  with  Freddy on his tort. This is much better than the first two,
  with  some  cool FX like the man-eating Television! RATING: 73% Nightmare
  on Elm St. 4 is being filmed NOW!

  >> PREDATOR
  Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as major Alan Schaefer, leader of a special
  unit  sent  deep into South America to rescue kidnapped diplomats. Arnold
  is  on  top form as he takes on the guerillas and wiped them all out. But
  on  the  way  home  an invisible alien takes out every member of his team
  until only he and a captured girl remain... Well, you must be lame if you
  don't  know  the  rest  of  the  story!  All  I  can  say  about  this is
  "BRILLIANT"! RATING: 92%

  >> FULL METAL JACKET
  Yes!  Yet another fucking Vietnam movie! The story follows a bunch of raw
  recruits  through their training and into the Nam, watched closely by the
  marine  sergeant!  Now  what was the tune again? Oh yes: "If I die on the
  Russian front, bury me with Russian cunt!" RATING: 85%

                          VIDEO STARS - APRIL 1988

                                 1. PREDATOR
                               2. RUNNING MAN
                                 3. ROBO COP
                            4. FULL METAL JACKET
                         5. NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. III
                           6. BEVERLY HILLS COP II
                             7. FATAL ATTRACTION
                               8. TOUR OF DUTY
                           9. MASTERS OF UNIVERSE
                                 10. THE FLY

  That's all for this month - see ya dudes...

                                           LAZER of THE NEW BENCOR BROTHERS

                                    AMIGA
                               AMIGA - CHAT'S

  As many of the 64 freaks also own an Amiga, and many of Amiga owners also
  searched  for  Amiga  games reviews in the "ILLEGAL", here are some short
  reviews of some Amiga stuff, that has been released this month.

  SECONDS OUT:
  Looks  nice at the beginning but after some hours of playing it's getting
  boring. RATING: 6 / 100.

  JUMPJET:
  Jumpjet,  the simulator, is about the same as on the 64 compared with the
  possibilities  of  both machines. The handling is a bit difficult, on the
  other  hand  it serves you some rather good features. It isn't that worse
  game  on  the  64, but there is still much left for being a top-hit, 71 /
  100.

  BLASTABALL:
  Mastertronic produced better games on the Amiga (look at Kikstart II) but
  also  this  one  is  a  bit  better as Mastertronics' first products. The
  future  sport  featured  in this game looses a bit of its' fun after more
  times playing, 29 / 100.

  BMX SIMULATOR:
  A  long  time  for waiting passed by until the first Amiga game from Code
  Masters  is  released, but it could have been a better conversion of this
  64  game  as  there  are no big differences. Nevertheless the game is not
  that bad and it earns 72 / 100.

  SIDEWINDER:
  Another  Mastertronic  Program,  at  first I got a bit shocked cos of the
  flickering  screen,  but  it seems to be one of the best shoot 'em ups on
  the Amiga, 90 / 100.

  BUBBLE BOBBLE:
  The  Amiga scene gets attacked with so many 64 games, some of 'em are not
  much different from the old 64 version, one of 'em is Bubble Bobble which
  you can also load on a 64 with the same effects, 42 / 100.

  STRIKE FORCE HARRIER:
  Quite  a good conversion of the ST game, even though it's quite difficult
  to control, 82 / 100.

  PINK PANTHER:
  It's  rather  hard to find the aim of that well looking game, nice grafix
  and sounds make it get a 87 / 100.

  BONE CRUNCHER:
  Again a 64 conversion with great graphics, but one knows the game already
  from the 64, 83 / 100.

  At  last  I  have  to say don't worry when disagreeing with my opinion! I
  tried to make objective reviews, but it's obvious that there are some who
  believe in the opposite. Thanks!
                                                             SSD / TSK-CREW

                          CHANGING GROUP AND NAME?

  Hey,  wake  up!  What makes you feeling better after having changed group
  and  name?  That  seems  to  be popular in the last months (especially in
  Germany).  BEASTIE  BOYS, SHARKS and THE WANDERER GROUP ad older examples
  and  ONLINE,  DEVILS  and  UPFRONT  shows  that there is no end of it. Of
  course  all  of you think of the success with for example FUSION or ORION
  had had after such an activation.

  The  opposite  of this is proved by FAC, HOTLINE and TRIAD which are high
  at  the  rankings as in the last end three years. We also played with the
  idea of changing our name (TSK-CREW into MOUNTAINEERS, sounds funny, eh?)
  but after all we all voted to keep our present name. The case was that we
  thought  of  all the changings which also would have drawn by our friends
  and  contacts.  Guess,  in  half a year there have all big groups changed
  their  names,  nobody  knows  of  the good old names. A legend will never
  exist anymore!

  Another  point  of  view is that lots of freaks change their groups, they
  leave  the  first  group  then join the second, afterwards join the third
  crew and after all go back to group one. Comrades, you have to understand
  that your crew will only succeed when keeping the same name and members.

  It  makes  us a lot frustrated to hear every day: X and Y of A and B have
  founded  a  new  group  called YABX. I know there are differences between
  agreeing and disagreeing to this statements (also in my deeper minds) but
  make your own thoughts of it, says...
                                                             SSD / TSK-CREW

  No,  methinks  that  why not changing the group when you can improve your
  grade  of being known? Why not building up a new group when you think you
  better  start  with  something  totally new, maybe because of having made
  some  mistakes  cuz  of some reason? Why not kicking out some members for
  recracking,   lazyness   or  whatever?  Methinks  that  this  is  a  fine
  characteristic of the whole cracking scene, that we call System Four.

  Won't  that  be  too  boring  if  there  are only always the same and old
  groups? Of course why changing one's name when you have such a reputation
  that  you  don't  want to give it up ever, that's true and only a few did
  that,  I want to add RADWAR, EAGLESOFT INC., CFR, FAIRLIGHT who all exist
  for quite a lot of years now and why should they give up their name?

  Hope to hear other points of view, I'm waiting for yours...
  yours...
                                                                     Jeffie

                               MUSIC MAESTRO'S
                              MANIACS OF NOISE

  To  every  active  owner of a C 64 the MANIACS OF NOISE are no strangers.
  For  some  time they have brightened up the scene in the demoworld and on
  compunet  with  their  magnificent music in always excellent and original
  demos.

  The  ever  increasing  quality  of  their  brainchildren have led to some
  lucrative  deals  with  some big names in the software market. At Venlo I
  was lucky enough to bump into CHARLES DEENEN, the guy who wrote the music
  routine on which all the maniacs' music is written by Marcel 'MAD' Donne'
  and  Jeroen  'JT'  Tel.  After  much debating he gave me an exclusive for
  "ILLEGAL".  I  obtained  the  previews  of  some  music  they  wrote  for
  forthcoming  games  and  I  can  tell  you that they are breathtaking but
  unfortunately  I  can't  give 'em out otherwise the people might get into
  trouble,  but  to  be  complete here is a list of the music they finished
  or are finishing soon:

  For  HEWSON: Battle Valley, Cybernoid, Top Trucker + Chromethunder by JT.
  Scorpion by MAD
  For MARTECH: Vixen by JT
  For THALAMUS: Hawkeye by JT
  For MASTERTRONIC: Scout and Gaplus by JT
  For PLAYERS: Starballs by JT
  For STARLIGHT: Alloyrun by JT

  Most  sound  fx  on  these  games  were made by Charles Deenen and Marcel
  Donne',  who  is also doing the music for THE LAST WARRIOR. So if all you
  stumbeling  programmers  out  there need a hand then read what they asked
  "ILLEGAL" to print:

  If you're writing a game and you need high quality professional music and
  fx let us do it and your game will be a success, write for orders to:

                               CHARLES DEENEN
                              GILDESTRAAT 19 B
                              5824 AA HOLTHEES
                                   HOLLAND
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                                   WANTED!

  WANTED! Known and famous AMIGA groups who would like to write every month
  a  full page of game reviews, news from the 16 bit scene and what's going
  on  around the AMIGA. So if ya like to be the "ILLEGAL" - AMIGA - writer,
  give us a try of your abilities and send yer short reviews to:

                                  "ILLEGAL"
                                PLK 123144 C
                                4250 BOTTROP
                                 W. GERMANY

  So don't waste yer time if you miss real Amiga news!
                                                                         JS

                              COPS 'N CRACKERS

  Hi  dudes.  SWYX  of  TRIANGLE here!!! Now the headline sounds like a bad
  imitation  of  "cops  n'  robbers"  or  a  movie  in one of system four's
  cinemas,  but  it  definately  is  not!!!  I  named this article "Cops 'n
  crackers", cus the cops and a Danish organisation called S.U.S. seriously
  are hunting us crackers in Denmark now!

  The  whole thing started about a month ago, when a guy named "Goodfather"
  (by  the way, he was a member of one of my former groups, Danish Cracking
  Crew)  got  busted. Well, the only bad thing about him getting busted was
  that  he  is  a  lousy  coward! Wha'd'ya think the guy promised? Yeah, he
  promised  to  help  the  police  catching all the big and known groups in
  Denmark!

  Thanks, pal!

  Unfortunately,  Goodfather  had  more  than  300 adresses in his archive,
  including  mine,  of  course.  So... I paniced! The same night, I started
  removing  all my disks, adresses and tape copies etc., and so did all the
  other  Triangle  members. In the next 14 days, 3-5 other guys got busted.
  The  only  well-known  one  was  The  Tiger of Dexion, who is just on the
  Amiga!

  Last  week  then,  I  returned all my equipment to its place and Triangle
  started  cracking and trading again! We thought that the danger was over,
  until  today  (5th  of April), when I just heard that Azake of System had
  been  busted! Scratch of the triangular gang called him, to ask if it was
  true  or not and it sure was! Well, the guy admitted that it was right be
  his  own fault that he got busted, cuz he sold some games to a S.U.S. guy
  a  few days ago. That's all I know about that case here, I just wish that
  it'll be over soon. And now... An announcement:

  ON  THE  FIRST  OF  MAY, TRIANGLE WILL BE ONE YEAR OLD!! WE WOULD LIKE TO
  RECEIVE BIRTHDAY-CARDS / CALLS FROM EVERYBODY, EVEN THOSE OF YOU WE DON'T
  TRADE  WITH.  EVERYONE,  WHO SENDS A POSTCARD OR CALL US, WILL BE SPECIAL
  GREETED  IN THE BIRTHDAY - DEMO, BUT REMEMBER WE MUST HAVE 'EM BEFORE 1ST
  OF MAY (ADRESS ON LAST PAGE) !!!!

  Remember to look out for the first TRIANGLE / TRIAD cooperation, which is
  a demo made by COZMIX and JANITOR, the living deads!

  Well, before leaving you, just a few greetings to:

  - TRIAD (JS, IXION, JANITOR and HI-TEC)
  -  HEPTAGON,  SCIENCE  451 (THE BRIGHT LION), I.O.F. and the NICE GUYS in
  Triangle.

  See ya in issue #28
                                                           SWYX OF TRIANGLE

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                            TRIAD VOICE MAILBOX?
                             GIVE IT A TRY, CALL
                               (305) 529 7168
                                 NOW!!!!!!!

                          THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR

  While  you look at HER, you suddenly notice that you have to leave at the
  next  bus  stop,  so you stand up and press the button that makes the bus
  stop.  Surprise, surprise, SHE also stands up and want to leave, together
  with  this  lame  friend  of hers (you guessed that he wasn't a 'f-class'
  guy)  to  your  dissapointment. Anyway, you found out that SHE is goin to
  the same school as you do. You recognize an old friend of yours and begin
  to talk to him. You lost HER out of your eyes, but you couldn't keep your
  minds away from her. Isn't that a shame? You, as one of the few 'a-class'
  guys is ruled by a girl? By a SINGLE girl?

  Anyway,  you  are  still  thinking  about HER as you leave school after 6
  boring  lessons,  you  walk  home  and do the work for your business. You
  turned  the  radio  on  and  heard sum exciting news: "It was heard outta
  System  Four that several guys were kicked outta it, cuz of vandalism and
  negative outward apperance!". HA! you thought, it's totally new that they
  keep  an eye on your outward appearance. Anyway it's not bad, you guessed
  that  you  knew those lamers that had to say: Goodbye. You took a look on
  your  watch and you scared 'cause it was almost 6 o'clock and the meeting
  of  the  5  biggest  classes,  that  are 'a' up to 'e', should begin at 6
  o'clock. You took your clothes and left to the meeting place.

  You meet all your friends from your group that is the most established in
  the  FOUR.  Sumtimes when you lay back you can't believe that you entered
  this  group,  it's incredible when you see those other 50.000 groups that
  do  exist after all. You drank sum beers with your friends, of course the
  'a'-class  guys  have  a  seperated  room  from  the  others. Everybody's
  watching  out  for  them,  but they couldn't notice the few that have all
  rights.  You  heard that some changes are about to come, because sum went
  over  to  'System  16' and now there are only THREE groups ruling. And at
  the  same  time  you  catched  the word that another group is about to be
  kicked down from 'a' to 'b'. Stunning, stunning, what can happen? Anyway,
  another  great  thing  is  that  the  leader of the group also changed to
  'system  16',  but sum members of 'em still remained in 'system four', it
  seems that only the biggest can survive.

  You  talk  with  your  friends  about taking in sum new members, news and
  anything  else  as  sum decided to take a secret visit to 'snatchos', the
  girl's  town.  You,  though  you were scared, cuz you've never been there
  before,  agree  to  go  with them. You take a back seat in the fluffy car
  with  your  4 friends and after you entered the nearest bar in 'snatchos'
  you  relax  a little bit with your 3rd bottle beer in your hand. You feel
  the heat growing up, you sing to the music, sit down with your friends in
  a corner and talked... as the door swinged open... and SHE entered alone,
  you almost forgot her. TO BE CONTINUED
                                                                        /JS

                                  WOSSUP???

  Ahhh! I can't wait until the 16th of April for the April Venlo Party. You
  know who's coming? IKARI, FUSION, FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD, HOTLINE, RWE, BEASTIE
  BOYS,  TWG,  ORION,  CFR  and  all the others that are normally there! Ut
  seems as if that would be an ultimate party and we here in Germany used a
  little trick to persuade even the guys that are coming from very far away
  (FUSION  -  TRIAD)  to  come  to  Venlo,  but more about that in the next
  issue... cuz it's a secret!

  This  month  was  quite  surprising with super releases from the American
  companies  EPYX  and CINEMAWARE that increase the hopes for a hot summer.
  Anyway,  before  returning  to SYSTEM FOUR, I send, as usual, a couple of
  greetings  to  my best friends that, that inlude: JESTER of FUSION (cum),
  JUST  ICE  from  IKARI  WARRIORS +, STRIDER + GOLLAME (sorry Fred, it woz
  Toni's  idea),  Badd  Boyy  from  THE SURVIVORS (old Kookmeyer!), CF from
  BEASTIE  BOYS,  DSH and MISTER DECIBEL of ONION, ha, ORION, of course, my
  dude  SWYX  from  the TRIANGULAR GANG (take care), LAZER from NEW BENCORS
  (thanx 4 da magz), MWS of RADWAR (Mike's escapes part two?), GENE from ze
  STARS  (best  action  4  years?),  SLEDGE  from  HOTLINE, SPC and INSIGHT
  ZEBOILDONG  from  THE  WANDERER  GROUP,  MAD  ALLIGATOR of CFR (beware of
  lamers' revenge...), ACU / SAP, FOTT OHNE NY, JAYS, UNKNOW and as special
  "Wossup?" to BERNIE in Canada!, all from TRANSCOM, THE MIND SLAYER of THE
  AWESOME  GUYZ (still imprisoned?), DOMINATORS, PAPILLIONS, JEWELS - the 3
  from  Denmark,  ABYSS  (Longshot),  EAGLESOFT,  FBR,  WEETBIX from SCOUSE
  CRACKING  GROUP  (so  sorry  for  mentioning  ya  so late, Georgie!), THE
  MANAGEMENT (Tom, cold callz), MR.ZEROPAGE and SSD of TSK-CREW.

  And  now special thanx for keepin the "ILLEGAL" alive: ALEX of REDLINE 97
  (go  on!),  HOBBIT  /  FAIRLIGHT  (hope  2 meet U, Allain), NY / TRANSCOM
  (thanx  for  copying..), TENZET / TRIANGLE (thanx mate) and all other SUB
  EDITORS from the different countries. Super Special Hellos to all members
  of TRIAD, especially to:

  The zombie dat found his way outta the black forest 'n who's now standing
  in  front  of  the  gate of the huge castle showing his authorization for
  entering  (You  know  who  I  mean?), the guy who's not only counting the
  rankings  together, but takes care of everything (clear eh?), the guy who
  celebrated  his  18th birthday not at home, but I guess eventhough it was
  wet,  wasn't  it  (something like MISS PINGY?), the master of the colours
  who said: "Hooray" after being back from boring Spain (Pay or flee?), the
  blond young guy, prefering this Swine football team (Dingens...) and last
  F.A.M.E. (THE TAPE!). See you at Venlo, yours:
                                                                     Jeffie

                     +-----+                     +-----+
                     | RIP | REQUIEM IN PEACE... | RIP |
                     +-----+                     +-----+

  Welcome  to  the  darkest  article  of  yer  favourite  magazine, this is
  dedicated   to  two  people  who  decided  to  quit  the  computer  world
  alltogether.  Maybe  not  for  ever  but  certainly for a very long time,
  everybody  already  know  about  them  but  this  way  I  and the rest of
  "ILLEGAL" salute them.

  -  The  first  one is, the ever-popular JANITOR of TRIAD. Already when he
  was  in  RELAX he showed great promise, as the weeks passed he got better
  and  it was soon obvious that was no normal cracker, he made the shortest
  version  of  games, with sometimes even adding a copy-chain to it, at the
  time,  the only versions that were slightly better were those of TCS. His
  talent  must  have  caught  the eyes of TRIAD, who after the departure of
  MR.Z  were  struggling  to  get good versions out, cuz TRIAD incorporated
  RELAX  and  the  rest  is as they say HISTORY. MR.Z became his mentor and
  Janitor  began not only to make the shortest versions but he also removed
  all  the  bugs  that  were original in the game. Due to his talent OUTRUN
  among  other  games became a little bit fun to play. Just think about it,
  OUTRUN  has  just  reached  the stage of best selling game ever on the 64
  but  only  we,  the  pirates, have a full working version thanks to, yes,
  JANITOR.

  -  The  second loss for the pirate world this month was MR.VENLO himself,
  THE SILVER SURFER (TSS) of HOTLINE. Always a familiar face at copyparties
  (he  was  in  fact  the  first  guy  I ever spoke to at Venlo) and a true
  HOTLINE  member  with heart and soul. He will always be remembered as the
  guy  who  wrote  all those magnificent intros on all those HTL cracks and
  trainers  (which  he  did himself). For ever a year for ever a year now a
  had been in HOTLINE, but before that he drifted from group to group, some
  of  which  were:  ABA-SOFT,  ISG, THE GOONIES, THE WAVE, TCC 1777 and HCS
  5005,  but of the latter he admits that it was the biggest mistake in his
  life.  Soon  after that he joined HOTLINE and stayed there until now. The
  main  reason for him to drop out is that his exams (finals) are coming up
  real  soon  so  he has to study very hard coz one can't expect to stay an
  intro-maker  for  the rest of his life. His last work on the Commodore 64
  was  of  course  an  intro, ironically not for his group HOTLINE, but for
  COMMANDOFRONTIER  (sounds  familiar!)  and for that I will be remembering
  him for a very long time...

  THERE  COMES  A  TIME WHEN THE FINAL CURTAIN FALLS, WHEN HEROES LEAVE THE
  BATTLE  OF  HIGHER  GOALS  FOR  THESE  TWO THAT TIME HAS COME... They are
  surely not forgotten, and will never be.
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                            CRACKER OF THE MONTH

  Who  got  originals coming up? Who did super quality cracks in March? Was
  it again FUSION? FLT for the first time? Or who or what?

   1. IKARI                    (5)  7.15 pts
   2. TRIAD                    (3)  7.08
   3. FAIRLIGHT                (2)  6.43
   4. FUSION                   (1)  6.36
   5. EAGLESOFT INC.           (8)  5.92
   6. ORION                    (10) 5.17
   7. PAPILLONS                (9)  5.14
   8. A.C.E.                   (-)  4.92
   9. HOTLINE                  (7)  3.71
  10. BEASTIE BOYS             (-)  3.07

  Status: "Who said 'freezing'?"

                                DEMO CHARTS!

  Well,  a  TRIAD demo on number one, and everybody's screaming that it was
  clear since I'm in TRIAD, but be honest: Which one woz better?

                           1. TIGER HELL by TRIAD
                        2. COZMIX BEZT II by TRIANGLE
                         3. MUSIC MACHINE by E.O.C.
                         4. ARTISTIC 5/6 by MADSQUAD
                          5. METAL COMBAT by M.C.C.
                         6. MAGIC DRUMS by SOEDESOFT

                               SOFTWARE-STARS

   1. GAMES: WINTER EDITION    (-)
   2. THE THREE STOOGES        (-)
   3. IKARI WARRIORS           (-)
   4. IO                       (-)
   5. SINBAD                   (-)
   6. PRO BMX SIMULATOR        (1)
   7. CORPORATION              (-)
   8. PLATOON                  (2)
   9. POWER AT SEA             (7)
  10. RIMRUNNER                (-)
  11. REVENGE OF DOH           (3)
  12. TARGET RENEGADE          (-)
  13. THE TRAIN                (8)
  14. BASKET MASTER            (9)
  15. TETRIS                   (5)
  16. COMBAT SCHOOL            (6)
  17. TROLL                    (-)
  18. PACLAND                  (-)
  19. VENOM STRIKES BACK       (-)
  20. BMX KIDZ                 (10)
  21. BLOOD VALLEY             (-)
  22. A T F                    (-)
  23. QUEDEX                   (17)
  24. SCOUT                    (-)
  25. PREDATOR                 (4)
  26. SUPER HANG ON            (-)
  27. PIRATES                  (19)
  28. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE       (15)
  29. BLACK LAMP               (24)
  30. INT. KARATE +            (21)

  A BIG 'THANX YA!' FOR VOTING:

  NIK  /  IKARI,  JESTER  /  FUSION,  BADD BOY / SURVIVORS, MWS / RWE, CF /
  BEASTIE  BOYS,  GENE / STARS, DSH & MR.DECIBEL / ORION, LONGSHOT / ABYSS,
  MAD ALL / CFR, PHOTONY / TRANSCOM + SSD / TSK-CREW

  + IMPRESSUM +

  +-------------------------------+
  | > ILLEGAL tm 1988             |
  | > 3rd year of appearence      |
  | > No. # 27                    |
  | > (c) 88 by TRIAD             |
  | > Circulation:                |
  |   about 600 Copies            |
  | > Price: 2 DM                 |
  | > Date of release:            |
  |   16th of April               |
  | > Next number will come on    |
  |   21th of May                 |
  +-------------------------------+
  | > Editor:                     |
  |   Jeff Smart / TRIAD          |
  | > The "ILLEGAL"-TEAM:         |
  |   Mad All - Commandofrontier  |
  |   Swyx - Triangle 3532        |
  |   Mr.Decibel - Orion          |
  | > The Sub-Editors:            |
  |   Austria : TSK-CREW          |
  |   Belgium : CFR               |
  |   Denmark : TRIANGLE 3532     |
  |   England : NEW BENCOR BROS.  |
  |   France  : TRANSCOM          |
  |   Germany : REDLINE           |
  |   Holland : ORION             |
  |   Norway  : STARS             |
  |   Sweden  : FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD  |
  |   Turkey  : THE METRO BOYS    |
  |   U.S.A.  : SURVIVORS, TAG    |
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  | Good morning, dearie!         |
  | Again reached the last page,  |
  | searching for some more       |
  | information...                |
  | Well, there is no.            |
  | Anyway, we are waiting for    |
  | comments on the 100% English  |
  | now. All articles, grafix and |
  | stuff like that have to       |
  | arrive on the Friday, the     |
  | 13th (HORROR!) of May 1988 to |
  | to the editor to be sure that |
  | you will find 'em in the next |
  | issue...                      |
  | We wish you all the best,     |
  | take care...                  |
  | Your "ILLEGAL"-team           |
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