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  This is ILLEGAL #28, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.

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  ISSUE #28
  MAY 1988

  The story of SYSTEM FOUR continuing
  MAD ALL'S GUIDE TO COMPUTER LANGUAGE!
  THE ILLEGAL STORY
  INTERVIEW
  ALL FACTS ABOUT THE MCG RAID
  CHARTS
  VIDEO SECTION
  - FUSION - MAN AND MACHINE: THE GAME IS OVER!!!
  THE LATEST NEWS
  VENLO - THE ULTIMATE MEETING
  ORION'S LION TALK
  NEWS FROM SYSTEM 4

  ZIP!  Anutha  month  passed  by with shocking 'n inciting events that are
  presented rite 'ere...

  *  FANTASY,  EX-F.C.S.  leader,  tried  to commit suicide, 'cuz of losing
  anutha  match against his girl-friend, who woz fucked by a friend of him.
  I was told that he pricked his leg seven times with a big knife until the
  knife broke into pieces. Who said that girls aren't ruling?

  *  After  TPI  asked  TRIAD  to  join, he wrote back: "Thank you for your
  offer, but I built up my own group!". Hup, when did we make him an offer?
  Tell  me  when,  Juergen?  Hum,  anyway  his  group  is  called INXS (why
  music-groups?  Where  has  own creativity gone?) and several members from
  the SHARKS joined it.

  *  Sensation!  Sensation!  SLEDGEHAMMER from HOTLINE bought a new Jacket!
  Nobody wanted to believe his eyes when seeing SLEDGY appearing in a white
  jacket!  I  guess  I  saw  him  10 times before that famous brown leather
  jacket...  First  assumptions  were  that  he now has expanded to selling
  games, but...

  *  Ever  heard  of SOFT TIGER CREW? They joined dead A.C.E., but now look
  here:  They're  buying stuff from several guys, e.g. ORION, FUSION and so
  on...  Maybe  they also paid a lot of AUSTRIAN SCHILLING to enter A.C.E.,
  but for that money one would get a better group?!

  *  Now...  as olde IAN left FUSION (look also on the special article 'MAN
  WITHOUT  MACHINE'),  THE JESTER was kicked out by the two guys remaining,
  namely  MARK  and  CRAIG. Now THE JESTER joined forces of the AMIGA group
  PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1, no connections with that US group.

  * What for the hell happened to good old SURVIVORS ??? It really seems as
  if  only  one  guy survived, that's BOBA FETTE, who's still importing all
  stuff from NIK of IKARI. Now it can be heard that BADD BOY, after getting
  one  of  these  nice  telephone  bills, built up his own new group called
  CRIME ... huh ... shuddering name, eh?

  *  THE  WANDERER  GROUP, who have always been very interested in American
  groups took in another talented importing gang that is NEW AGE.

  *  STEVE and IRONFIST of ZENITH were arrested for stealing franked stamps
  from  STEVE's  former  employees.  Now  one  can  be arrested for being a
  pirate, but not for stealing stamps, urghs?!

  *  Here's  the  new  INTERNAL  TRIAD  status:  As Lucifer was kicked out,
  IXION's  new  emergencyplan  activated  a  guy called ROWDY, who can make
  excellent  cracks  now.  Some  who  doesn't  have  to prove that they are
  excellent  crackers  are ACU from SOLDIERS AGAINST PROTECTION. Now ACU (2
  guys)  and  another  one, called DREAM DANCER reinforces the German TRIAD
  section, so watch out for releases of the German ones.

  *  Always  wondering  who's  writing  the  instructions for all FAIRLIGHT
  cracks???  As  STRIDER  told  after having drunken several beers, that he
  always forces his two little brothers to do this... Nice idea, mon!

  *  At the mo every German is afraid of the consequences that the MCG raid
  has  brought  about, but read "LION TALK" by MR.DECIBEL of ORION for more
  thinx about that.

  * HU... HU... as I was told by lots of English guys, ANDY from NEW BENCOR
  BROS  supplied  that  official  magazine  COMMODORE USER (there was a big
  article  about  English  crackers  announced) with nothing less than this
  somehow  known magazine called eh, I dunno, well, I guess, hmmm... wasn't
  it?  yes,  the  "ILLEGAL".  The only thing I care about this, is that the
  March edition he sent to 'em, was rather bad comparing this one 'ere. So,
  maybe I'll send 'em this nu one!

  *  I got MAD ALL from COMMANDOFRONTIER finally to give out the names from
  the  new  CFR  members  and  so they are not only PRINCE and SHADOW known
  formerly  as THE AUSTRIAN CREW (hups? Did I miss sumthing?) but also LETO
  II,  who got quite famous being ex-TRANSCOM grafix man (remember his work
  for 'ROCK IT'), cuz he felt that TRANSCOM was a bit too large (that could
  not  happen in TRIAD, eh?????) and as he WAS a fan of BUBULAND's drawings
  his choice and CFR's of course was only natural.

  * Now, other German guys had to say farewell 'cuz getting in contact with
  the  always  watching  BIG BROTHERS, better known as 'THE POLICE' (yes, I
  think I've heard of 'em!). So were FREESTYLE caught getting packages from
  the  post  office  on  their PLK and LUPO of ONLINE at his home where the
  police  just  rang his doorbell. Now, state at PLASTIC's (from FREESTYLE)
  home  is  gone veeery low as his mother denies that he's at home everyday
  24 hours, hum? Rumours said that his phone is monitored so don't call him
  saying "well, my adress is....", that could bring sum trouble with it.

  *  Everybody's  wondering what happened to ORION?! Now it seems that TCF,
  TBF  and FCT of ORION built up a group called "Spinx" secretly behind the
  back of all other ORIONeers to grab all their contacts and come out under
  this  name now. They also spread some veeeeery funny rumours, for example
  I  was  quite  surprised  that  MR.DECIBEL  joined TRIAD (!) and DSH will
  exclusively  work on AMIGA in one week and join FAC again, NUP! NO! NEIN!
  NJET!  Totally bullshit. Now as they have to start from the beginning, on
  the  same  point  they  were  picked  up,  they're going to steal ORION's
  contacts  and  spreading false rumours, anutha funny one is that they get
  originals from HEADBANGER in the U.S.A., but he's only on AMIGA right now
  as  he  told  me,  so more crap. Now it seems as they won't live for long
  'cuz  ORION  sweared  revenge  which is their good right. But we all know
  what happens to such guys who leave bigger groups (take ELRIC of AGILE as
  a bad example who was kicked out of TRIAD).

  *  Waiting  for  meetings  of  protest  I'm  signing  off but not without
  thanking  all  these  fine  guys  for all these fine news: MAD ALL / CFR,
  MR.DEC  / ORION, JESTER / PE no.1, STRIDER / FLT, OAHAWOOL / FBR, TWG, CF
  / BEASTIE BOYS, MZP / RED SECTOR, HEADBANGER and all at TRIAD!

                                                         Jeff Smart / TRIAD

                               64 GAME REVIEWS

  This month only a couple of games arrived because of the notorious summer
  gap ...buhuuuu... no change in sight?

  *  STAR  RANK  BOXING  / GAMESTAR - Looks totally like "MC GUICAN BOXING"
  released in 1986. Movements were improved, now various tactical moves are
  possible.  Offers  save  option  on  disk, saves down world ranking list.
  Training  camp  as the game itself nice, but because of the fact that one
  fight  last  for 15 * 3 minutes REALTIME it gets boring by first playing.
  Hum, otherwise an old idea has been quite well improved. So, the "ILLEGAL
  ranking" looks like: 59 / 100 possible points.

  *  SAMURAI WARRIOR - THE ADVENTURES OF USHAGI YOJIMBO - Well, we got that
  game  in  a non-full-working preview version two months ago. Now it works
  perfectly.  Very  nice sprites with great animations and jimbajimba sound
  serve  the  oriental  atmosphere.  Nice  graphics  also, now it becomes a
  little bit exhausting after a while, who cares? Ranks: 81 / 100

  *  LAZER  TAG  /  GO!  -  Huh,  the  "First non-violent shoot 'em up" was
  announced  in the big advertisements. So how's it? SHIT! The movements of
  your  figure  are  that  bad as you are used to know from games that have
  their  origin  in  1983.  The  grpahics  are  also that 1983 standard and
  haven't  seen  any  non-violent  things  as you are shot down after a few
  seconds by the lazer armed guys. So what? GO! GO HOME! Ranks: 13

  *  CYBERNOID  /  HEWSON - Brilliant sound from MANIACS OF NOISE makes the
  dull  game  concept more interesting. Now you have to solve (or to shoot)
  several tasks with your spaceship by thinking sometimes and shooting like
  hell.  Great  graphics  and  cute sprites are as included as a nice intro
  screen. Ranks: 85

  * KARNOV / DATA EAST - Ever heard of DATA EAST? Remember the U.S. version
  of "IKARI WARRIORS", yes, DATA EAST made that. Remember the conversion of
  "BREAKTHRU"  which  was  sooo  damn bad, yes, also done by DATA EAST. So,
  what  do  you expect from KARNOV? Nothing, and you're right. The graphics
  look  like  singlecolour, the speed of the sprite is so slow that you can
  you  can  easily  drink  a  cup  of coffe while your figure makes a jump,
  argh...  lamest rubbish and that on two disk sides. Stay east, Data East.
  Ranks: 10

  *  SHANGHAI  KARATE - Urghs. Slower than a snail, two fighters are trying
  to smash their ugly heads to uglier places and you have to move them. Not
  a  nice  job,  eh? The graphics do not change, that's not so bad, either,
  because  they  aren't  good.  No  sound  can be heard, no tensions can be
  aroused  even  if you're playing one on one human opponent. No, thank you
  very much, ranks: 09

  * BOB WINNER / LORICEL - Hum... nice atmospheric graphics, but such a bad
  sound  fix  that I first in my life switched the sound of my monitor. The
  game  sucks, too. Moving a bad animated sprite with a tooo heavy movement
  from  left to right without scrolling isn't that one can dream of, eh? So
  I  advise  you  to  have instead of looking at BOB WINNER a look at NIKKI
  PENNY,   the  public  relation  woman  of  LORICEL  because  that's  more
  interesting  (look  at THE GAMES MACHINE, number 6, page 5), so ranks for
  her: 95 but for BOB WINNER: 18

  *  PARANOIA  COMPLEX / MAGIC BYTES - A lot of guys will wonder right now,
  but  only three guys in the pirate market have got this game that will be
  released in September. Well, I can only say that this is bad luck for all
  of  you, because it's the best game MAGIC BYTES released so far. You move
  with  your  man through a large labyrith of a town, where you can improve
  your  weaponry  and things like that. The title sound is fantastic! So, I
  think you have to wait a little bit until you'll see it. Ranks: 88

  *  IMPOSSIBLE  MISSION  2  /  EPYX  -  FINALLY! The game appeared after a
  curious  preview.  AH!  That's  what  my heart really wants. Everything's
  improved!  You  have 8 different towers to search through for hidden code
  numbers  that  let  you,  in  the  right order, enter the next tower. New
  features like moving on platforms left to right, up and down, using bombs
  to  destroy  treasures etc. have also been included! After you managed to
  get through all 8 levels, you have to destroy all treasures in the towers
  to  get  parts of a music song, that doesn't sound good. Anyway, you have
  to  bring  these  parts  in the right order and play it somewhere where a
  secret  door  to  ELVIN's  tower opens. HUM? EASY, EH? I would be glad if
  writes  if  he  discovered  ELVIN's tower, okey? This game will take your
  breath for a while, I bet! "ILLEGAL"-ranking: 98!!!!!!

  *  4*4  OFF  ROAD  RACING  /  EPYX  -  Take your car and make a drive! It
  features  elements  from  OUTRUN  and  BUGGY BOY, but isn't that exciting
  game. You have to be careful on the streets because other drivers like to
  smash  you  off  the  road. You can choose between 4 different courses, 4
  levels and 4 cars. Now you have a hard race overtaking all other drivers.
  Hum, not that bad, well it's okey, but only: 86

  *  G.U.T.Z.  /  OCEAN - Try to escape from a stomach of a monstrous moon,
  sounds  strange,  eh?  This  game  was written by OCEAN's programmer team
  SPECIAL  FIX,  who  sign  responsible for FIREFLY and FREDDIE HARDEST for
  example,  and they did their best work so far. The task of the game is to
  find  weapons in the labyrinths inside the monster (burgs...) and destroy
  a  special  part  after 4 levels, so a liver and a heart... Fine graphics
  and  a great sound (Fred Gray), but it soon gets boring after some levels
  because the labyrinths stay all the same, so the ranks: 86

                                                         all reviewed by JS

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  EXCELSIOR!  Who's  been playing dirty, who's died and who's back, read it
  here and believe it...

  -  Finally  something  is happening in this boring country I'm accidently
  stuck  in  (BELGIUM). B-ART and WOW have decided that strength in members
  is  the  way  to  the top and have merged dropping both groups and naming
  themselves after an old 64 legend: FLASH.

  -  Another piece of homenews for here, can Belgium take it? Ever heard of
  LEGEND?  Not yet, well watch your screens coz this is a new international
  group containing ex-members of Belgium's CHINA SYNDROME, ORION, NEW-LIFE,
  SIGMA, TSW, SHIELD and TRILOGY.

  - GENESIS PROJECT (ah, not that from the STAR TREK movies) have attracted
  2  new  groups  to their already big family, to be more specific: RAW and
  MELMAC TEAM.

  -  But  not all groups are getting bigger this month, those German Sharks
  lost  a few people like TPI, ULTIMAX and MCT... Ah well the lord moves in
  mysterious ways.

  -  I had the pleasure to recieve a reviewer's copy of "DIGITAL NEWS", the
  electronic  magazine  on  disc  and  although  my  knowledge of German is
  limited,  to say the least, I spent the best part of 3 hours of enjoyment
  with  it and I can fully recommend it to all you outthere, there seems to
  be  an  attitude towards pirates not to buy it, coz they think themselves
  too important to pay for a disc, but they forget that "DIGITAL NEWS" is a
  magazine  like  "64'er"  and "HAPPY COMPUTER", but much better worth that
  money. So go out and buy it, you have MAD ALL's approval of quality.

  -  After half a year of success the VENLO copy-parties seem to be slowing
  down  after  the best one on the 16th of April there won't be any big one
  before  July  or September, coz a lot of people will stay away on the May
  and  June  parties coz those dreaded exams are heading straight ahead and
  in  the summer there always is a big black hole in the software-releases.
  Some  big  names  want  to  come to the July-edition, but you know that a
  pirate's  world is always tracherous (otherwise he wouldn't be a pirate -
  dummy).

  -  For a good laugh read the preview section in "GAMES MACHINE" when they
  are  talking  about  a  new  mega-game which is just finished and will be
  released  in 6 weeks if we're lucky. Oh yes, the game is called something
  like: The games: winter edition.

  Thanx for info to LEGEND, B-ART, GENESIS PROJECT. Keep the gossip coming,
  it's always welcome...
                                                   Later from MAD-ALLigator
                                                           MAD ALL from CFR

                           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
                       THIS TIME: STRIDER / FAIRLIGHT

  Searching  through  all  groups  on the pirate market, one hardly finds a
  group that was constantly on the top. So here you got STRIDER, the leader
  of FAIRLIGHT, the home of the real crackers...

  ?: How many years are you shocking your parents now?
  !: I have been kicking my dad's ass for 17 years now.
  ?: When did you buy your first computer and why?
  !: I  got  my first computer, a 64 of course for christmas 1983 but still
     don't  know  why.  The  at  the  end of 1987 I finally got an AMIGA to
     explore the 16 bit world.
  ?: When was FAIRLIGHT founded?
  !: It was formed after a big internal fight in WEST COAST CRACKERS around
     Eastern '87.
  ?: Where have you got that name from?
  !: The  probably  best  synthesizer  is called: "Fairlight" and as I am a
     great  fan  of  such  music  I took that name. By the way, groups like
     DEPECHE MODE or J.M. JARRE are using "Fairlight".
  ?: How many members do belong to FLT?
  !: At  the  moment we are STRIDER, BLACK SHADOW, GOLLUM (the first actual
     members)  and HOBBIT (who was formerly ANUBIS), GANDALF (formerly LORD
     BLITTER), Wilfo and Excalibur.
  ?: Who are your best friends and enemies in this rough world?
  !: My  best  and oldest friends are RADWAR, FAC, HOTLINE and TRIAD, and I
     hate people who would hesitate chopping a communist's head in front of
     his family.
  ?: Which games, demos, movies and music do you like the best?
  !: games (64): ELITE, GUNSHIP, URIDIUM and M.U.L.E.
     demo: 'ROCK IT' by C64CG
     movies: ALIENS, PLATOON, RAMBO 1, RAMBO 2, RAMBO 3, RAMBO 4, RAMBO 5
     music (64): SKATE OR DIE!
  ?: What are you doing in your sparetime?
  !: I watch movies, movies and movies... Sometimes when I'm really bored I
     do a little homework!
  ?: What was the best incident you ever had?
  !: The party in VENLO and especially the party afterwards in BOTTROP, but
     now I'll go to the U.S.A. for two months in the summer, yeahr!
  ?: How do you see the 64's future?
  !: Maybe  it  will  be  OKEY for 1 or 2 years, but I think then the AMIGA
     will take over everything.
  ?: What are you going to do now?
  !: I have now quit the C64 to start programming on the awesome AMIGA! All
     the  originals  that  are released here will be cracked by GOLLUM, but
     I'll still be trading like a crazy motherfucker.

  Thanx for all, Toni and I wish you all the best for the trip to States.

                                                                 Jeff Smart

                                AMIGA REVIEWS...

  *  ACT  OUT  /  DIGITAL  IMAGE - Oh my God, another of these non-stopping
  Breakout  series...  This  time  the company stole the ideas from KRAKOUT
  and  the  sprites  almost  100%  from  ARKANOID.  Anyway ACT OUT features
  saveable  HIGH  SCORES  and  an  editor.  A  new thing is so-called Black
  Field  where the ball disappears and appear in another Black Field. Up to
  2  Players  can compete moving their bats up and down on the left side of
  the  screen,  but  only  using  the  mouse.  The  sounds are normal Amiga
  standard. So new ideas would have been better, nevertheless not the worst
  Breakout-game, score: 68 p

  *  AAARGH  / ARCADIA - Aaargh, also announced to be released on the 64 by
  MELBOURNE  HOUSE is a kind of RAMPAGE in which you can choose between two
  different  monsters,  that  are a dinosaur and a cyclope. Now you have to
  destroy  some  very  well  drawn  cities,  villages,  castles etc., great
  stereo-effects  and  a  funny  but difficult bonusgame make the game very
  interesting, even though the joystick movements are quite hard, score: 87
  points

  *  BARBARIAN  /  PALACE  SOFTWARE  -  Another  goddamn 64 conversion that
  features the same graphics and sprites as on the 64, not much better. But
  the  sound-effects  are as great as some samples speeches. It seems to me
  as  if  the  game  got more difficult than on the 64, anyway still a good
  game, score: 82 p

  *  FRED  FEUERSTEIN  /  TEQUE  -  After  funny  graphics and funny speech
  (YABBADABBADOOOOOO)  the game awaits with a niveau of a 6 year old child.
  It's subdivided into two parts, the first consists of painting some walls
  which is quite funny but the second part, stone age bowling, is as boring
  as the game gets after a short while, score: 43 p

  * CAPONE / ACTIONWARE - After two minutes loading, cuz of a bad crack dun
  by  BST,  the  game  involves you shooting, shooting and shooting up some
  gangsters  looking at you from houses but one has to be very careful with
  peaceful  guys  appearing, otherwise one life is lost. The screen scrolls
  steadily  slow  to the right, the graphics are quite nice, but not really
  exciting. Score: 49 p

  *  WIZBALL  / OCEAN - And again a 64 conversion, probably one of the best
  games  ever  on  64  has  been converted very well. The game offers great
  graphics,  nice  sounds (as usual from OCEAN) and then the same movements
  from  the  old  64  version.  Another  good  game  from the C 64 has been
  converted  very well, so that AMIGA owners can expect a lot from OCEAN as
  regards their further AMIGA conversions like "GREEN BERET" (!), "PLATOON"
  and "COMBAT SCHOOL". Score: 92 p

  *  POWER  STYX - This time the idea was taken up from the old arcade game
  "QIX",  but  it  has been "updated" on the AMIGA with nice music jingles,
  brilliant  graphics  and after all the years of "QIX" it still has a very
  high motivation! Score 89 p

  *  OBLITERATOR / PSYGNOSIS - PSYGNOSIS definately reached the standard of
  CINEMAWARE but one regarding the game presentation as one can see in this
  superb intro showing optimal animation. The game is rather a boring SHOOT
  'EM  UP with also brilliant graphics and animations. The game seems to be
  more  complex,  'cuz it also has a savegame function as it will take more
  than some minutes to kill all aliens around there. Score: 91 p

  *  SARCOPHASER  /  RAINBOW  ARTS  -  Another SHOOT 'EM UP like old arcade
  "NEMESIS".  The  sounds represents normal Amiga quality, the graphics are
  nicely  drawn  and  the scrolling in the higher levels is very fast. Just
  another  good SHOOT 'EM UP, but no new idea that I always miss, score: 90
  points at all.
                                                             all done by JS

                            RADWAR / TRIAD PARTY

  HERE  IT  IS! THE LONG AWAITED SUCCESSOR TO THE BRILLIANT RADWAR PARTY!!!
  SO IF YOU LIKE TO BE 3 DAYS OVER A WEEKEND IN THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN GOOD
  OLD GERMANY THEN WRITE AT ONCE FOR DETAILED INFORMATIONS WITH BACKSTAMPED
  ENVELOPE TO:

                              RWE/ TRIAD PARTY
                                PLK 040201 C
                               5138 HEINSBERG
                                   GERMANY

  One  last  advice:  Commit  suicide NOW if you don't want to see what THE
  MASTERS OF PARTIES are going to do for you!
                                                                     MWS/JS

                 "DELIRIOUS MAGAZINE" vs "ILLEGAL" PART TWO!

  Have   I  talked  about  "Delirious  Magazine",  that  official  TRANSCOM
  propaganda  last  month  only in good words, so I HAVE TO CORRECT MYSELF!
  Now  what  happened? It seems as if the old C64CG members again started a
  war  (remember  their  old  "fuckings"  to Beastie Boys, Triad and almost
  every  other  group). This time against the whole "ILLEGAL"-team. So they
  wrote  an  article  for  their  magazine  about  "ILLEGAL",  that we only
  represent  the  interests  of  2 groups, namely CFR and TRIAD. Now JAYCE,
  editor  of  "Delirious Mag" refused to write that nevertheless none of us
  will  work his ass off to help them anymore, because it's always the same
  with  them  when  they  think  they've  grown  too  known. So most of the
  ANTI-TRANSCOM-POWER  is  to  expect  from  CFR, so it is to expect a cool
  demo soon while TRANSCOM are still learning to speek Engleaschz...
                                                                            /JS

                             VID.. VID.. VIDEO!

  Hello, freaks, LAZER from the NEW BENCOR BROTHERS returns again with some
  new VIDEO reviews for ya!

  (1)   RUNNING   MAN   -   another   cool   film   starring   GOD  (Arnold
  Schwarzenegger!).  This  time,  Arnold is sometime in the future where he
  plays  the role of a contestant in a futuristic game show. But this is no
  ordinary  game  show,  because if the contestants loose, they die! Arnold
  isn't  the  loosing  type  and  he  certainly isn't the dying type, so he
  decides  to  take on the game show controllers. What happens then? Go and
  see the film to find out!!! Rating: 92%

  (2)  THE  UNTOUCHABLES - The untouchables stars Sean Connery as head of a
  crime-  fighting team of Chicago cops (a sort of 1930's s.w.a.t.). A good
  film if you like "King of Chicago" on ya Amiga! Rating: 67%

                            VIDEO STARS MAP 1988

                               1. (1) PREDATOR
                             2. (2) RUNNING MAN
                           3. (7) FATAL ATTRACTION
                       4. (9) MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
                               5. (3) ROBOCOP
                         6. (6) BEVERLY HILLS COP II
                       7. (5) NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. III
                          8. (-) AMERICAN NINJA II
                          9. (4) FULL METAL JACKET
                              10. (10) THE FLY

  WANTED:  We  want  VIDEOS  now!  We  especially want pornos that contain:
  fucking  of  children,  fucking  of  dead bodies, fucking of animals, and
  where  people  get  killed for real!!! We will give rewards to anyone who
  can supply these vids, or latest movies.
                                                   LAZER of NEW BENCOR BROS

  P.S. All Vids, Votes + Comments for us to Jeffie!!!

                      THE 11TH OFFICIAL COMMODORE SHOW!

  Showtime  in  England! Next month the COMMODORE SHOW will be in LONDON on
  Friday  3rd,  Saturday  4th,  Sunday 5th, of June from 10 AM to 6 PM each
  day. Adress is: Novotel, Hammersmith, London W6, England.

  Mostly  English guyz will be there and so will many Europeans. It costs 3
  pounds  for  adults  and  2 pounds for children (under 16). If you cannot
  make  this  show, don't miss the PCW SHOW in SEPTEMBER - everyone will be
  there!
                                                                LAZER / NBB

                            MAN WITHOUT MACHINE!

  As everybody knows IAN, founder, leader and housemaid of FUSION - MAN AND
  MACHINE  -  quit  C  64 to start an AMIGA career. But now, OH WONDER!, he
  also quit his AMIGA stuff!

  Thousands  of false rumours were spread, it can be heard that IAN was fed
  up  with  his  friends  or  things like that... what's the truth? I got a
  letter  from  IAN, so I won't hesitate to print it 'ere in parts... Well,
  here we go:

  "I  quit  FUSION,  the  group  I  started and took to the top. I left not
  because  of  anything  other  than that I want to spend more time with my
  family  and  less  time  with  computers. I thought that by going Amiga I
  would  be  able to cut my input to the group down, but it wasn't to be. I
  am  trying  to  decide  now whether to quit computers for good! My family
  deserves more of my time than I have been giving."
                                                               IAN / FUSION

  But  you can continue supporting Ian with used stamps but not with disks!
  Therefore  Ian  like to print a GREAT BIG THANX to some of the groups who
  have  sent him stamps: TRIAD, ORION, DOMINATORS, IKARI, ZENITH, SRG, TSK,
  PAPILLONS, INX, DCU, TRIANGLE, WOD, SHARKS, KCS, UPFRONT...
                                                                        /JS

                      "THANK YOU FOR USING AT&T, SIR!"

  The  European's  new kind of playing! Calling Americans telephone service
  AT&T  (American  Telegraph  and  Telephone) and making "AT&T Calling Card
  Calls". Now what's that?

  Well,  big  American  companies  give  their  employees  codes for making
  business  calls  that include a fixed amount of money. This code consists
  of 14 digits, for example such as 41593089102614. Using this code you can
  call  any  American  friend  of  yours you like to for only one telephone
  unit.  You only have to call the American AT&T station from your country,
  give  the  operator  the  number  of  your American friend and this code.
  Nothing's easier!

  The  only  problem  is that such a code isn't working for a long time, in
  best ways up to 5 days.

  Now,  you  can  call  US  doodes  that own 3-way and then can call anutha
  friend  of  yours.  Normally  such a "direct-call" is used for importing,
  'cuz it offers quite a good connection, except from Germany. Anyway, this
  offers  you  new  possibilities  to  keep  your  telephone bill as low as
  possible  and  your  parents wondering why you spend the whole night in a
  telephone box.
                                                                         JS

                         THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR!!!

  Zip! You just wanted to stand up and go to HER as she suddenly disappears
  in  one  of the back rooms. Hmmm, you think, what's going on here without
  you...

  Anyway,  again  you  start  to  concentrate on a bottle of beer, thinking
  about the possibilities of going to HER and just confess your love to HER
  (and  commit  suicide as she laughs at you...), SHE comes back out of the
  back  room  and  stands  now toghether with some girl-friends of hers and
  drinking  also  a  beer.  No, you think, what if she really laughs at you
  when  you  fall  down on your knees and say: "I love you, dear!"? No, you
  just can't do it. So you keep quiet and wait for the final moment.

  You order another bottle and then ZUP! you don't remember anything as you
  wake up in your bed the other day. Your head is aching like hell when you
  grab  your  sunglasses  and  reach out for the bus. School is taking your
  whole time the next days, 'cause you want to get good marks to improve in
  your  job  and  earn  lots of money. So you don't really have the time to
  seek  out  for  your  dream-girl, even though you now took the same sport
  course  as  she did. You're counting and you notice that you've loved HER
  for  about  2  months now and nothing changed. Your friends are wondering
  why  you  are  so  unactive  at  the  moment.  You spend a thought on her
  character  and  find  out  that  this  is  maybe  not  that  what you can
  consider  to  belong to a dream-girl, but hasn't she the nicest face ever
  seen?

  The  situation  in  SYSTEM  FOUR  is really hard, 'cause the ever-present
  police  catched  some  of  your  friends  during a meeting that was badly
  organized  by some IQ-less j-classers. Your luck you wasn't there, why go
  to a j-class organized meeting? You were totally right. Those lamers have
  now been kicked out, 'cause of being damned by other hundreds of guys who
  found  out  that  those j-class guys did things together with the police.
  Hups,  how  mean...  Anyway,  you  don't give them a single thought, even
  though you know the origin of all evil.

  You  remember  with  great pleasure that meeting last month where finally
  lots  of  a-class members shook hands. Aaaah, so why making an own party?
  Only  to enlarge pleasure a bit? A damn good reason, but if you take that
  in  your  hands, nothing can go wrong. Now, it's normal day-life you meet
  HER in the bus, but still without the courage to talk to HER not to loose
  your  first  life in the great game. You haven't counted the times you've
  thought  about  talking  and  emracing HER, but it seems as if it had now
  been  2 years instead of 2 months. The more you hear HER talking the more
  you  recognize  that  SHE  might be a big mistake for you, but still this
  feeling  makes  your heart bumping like hell when you look into HER magic
  eyes.

  It's  Friday  as  you leave the bus for another frustrating day at school
  when  SHE appears with a boy-friend (!) who holds HER hands and SHE looks
  back with a happy smile. A ROCK HIT YOU! ONE LIFE LOST!

                                                      to be continued / JS.

                    MAD ALL'S GUIDE TO COMPUTER LANGUAGE!

  BIT: a word to describe computers as in: "My computer costs a bit".

  BUG:  what  computer companies often do with your adress when they've got
  your broken computer.

  CHIPS:  fattening, non-nutritious food computer users eat to avoid having
  to leave their keyboard for months.

  COPY:  what you have to do with your neighbours' school work as you spent
  too much time at the computer and not enough at school.

  CURSOR: what you turn into when you can't get your modem to connect.

  ERROR: what you made the first time you walked into a computer store just
  to have a look.

  EXPANSION UNIT: the new room in your house you have to build to house all
  the extra memory of your computer.

  FLOPPY:  condition  of  a  hackers' stomach due to lack of exercise and a
  steady diet of junk food (also look at CHIPS).

  HARDWARE:  things  such  as  water,  soap  or a tooth-brush and any other
  equipment you haven't laid your hands on since getting your computer.

  MENU:  what  you'll never see after buying a computer because you'll have
  no money left to eat in a restaurant.

  PROGRAMS:  those things you used to look at on your television before you
  switched your computer on.

  RAM:  what  you  do  with  your  head on your drive when it's not working
  properly.

  RETURN:  what  a  lot  of people do with their computer after only half a
  week.

  WINDOW:  what you throw your computer out of, when you accidently ereased
  a program you've been working on for five weeks.

                                                           MAD ALL from CFR
                                     Thanx to MAD MAGAZINE for inspiration!

                THE OFFICIAL TRIAD RANKINGS DATED 19-5-1988!

  IKARI  (dididumdumdidi),  ORION  (hoi!), FAIRLIGHT (all the best, Toni!),
  COMMANDOFRONTIER  (Allan,  a  real  friend  for life!), 2000 A.D., FUCKED
  BEYOND  REPAIR  better  known  as FBR (JOE!), PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1 (Colin!),
  SCOUSE  CRACKING  GROUP  (the bag crew's back!), NEW AGE U.S.A., TRIANGLE
  3532,  WARRIORS  OF DARKNESS, PAPILLONS, JEWELS, ULTIMATE CRACKING GROUP,
  NEW BENCOR BROTHERS and TSK-CREW.

  German 19-5-1988
  Swedish 16-6-1988
                                                                             JS

                         REACTIONS TO THE MCG PARTY

  MR.CURSOR of TWG and CORUM of MSC (AMIGA): POLICE PARTY ORGANIZED BY MCG?

  Being  very impatient, we just entered the town after a very long journey
  from  the  other  end  of WEST GERMANY. We lost our way several times and
  arrived  later  than  intended.  Now  we  may  call ourselves lucky as we
  recognized  later!  Still  angry  'cause  of  the  loss of time we didn't
  recognize the men with big walkie- talkies running up and down the street
  where the party should take place. Nobody thought about plain clothes.

  The closer we got to the youth-hostel, the more the number of police cars
  increased  and  we arrived just in time to see policemen pushing out some
  kids  of  the  house and rummaging their cars! For the very first time in
  the  scene  a copy party was dissolved by the police! About 17 Amigas, 20
  C64 and 3000 disks had been confiscated and 8 guys were led off.

  We  stopped  the car two miles away from the hostel and went back! On the
  way  we met TOM of MCG who told us some very strange things, TOM had been
  busted by the police the day before (!!!).

  It  is unclear whether it all happened accidentally or whether it was set
  on foot by some well-informed persons. We have a strong reason to believe
  that  TOM  of MCG is making common cause with the police. A lot of people
  phoned  MCG  the  night  befor  the party but noone was told that MCG had
  closer  contact  with  the  police!  You really wonder why someone who is
  caught  by  the  police  is giving a copy-party the day after. Why didn't
  they  just  call  off  the  part  or  just mentioned that they had closer
  contact with the police?

  As  we met TOM he didn't seem to be depressed at all. IT IS POSSIBLE that
  TOM promised the POLICE to offer some guys to reduce his own punishment?

                                                  Mr.Cursor/TWG + CORUM/MSC

                     NOW WHAT HAD MCG TO SAY ABOUT THIS?

  As I talked to MARCEL/DSI/SLAYER of MCG he told me the following:

  "As  the  police came on the day before the party, I threw my adress book
  away  into  the  dust  bin and after my brother brought it down, I wasn't
  able  to call any of my friends. After all I don't know what happened the
  other day at the party place, but I don't care about this."

  Finally  I  personally would like to add that even though MCG promised to
  beat  me  up I will write a further article about them here, I decided to
  print  not  only other opinions (as from ORION and TWG) but their own one
  (LOOK  UP!),  so at least I think that's fair and I haven't said my point
  yet,  but  even  though I again expect the worst. Nevertheless I would be
  very  thankful for any additional information about the happenings there,
  especially from guys that were directly confronted.
                                                                        /JS

                                   WOSSUP?

  Goddamn  state at the mo! It really seems as of the police is looking for
  all  known guys around here. Nevertheless I have to state that I'm moving
  to  a  nu home, that means a nu adress and nu telephone number. And as it
  went  all  on  my  nerves that my adress was damn spread as the telephone
  number  was  I decided to give it only to some very close friends of mine
  to be able to have my sleep in the afternoon... Aaaaahhhh...

  Eh,  I  have  to apologize to all who are wondering where their "ILLEGAL"
  from  last month had gone to... Now, it's a bad excuse of course, but the
  truth  is  that  the goddamn copy machine in the local shop was so fucked
  that I had to wait 2 weeks to get my usual copies... Now, this month some
  problemos,  my  printer ribbon is gone empty and and not a single shop in
  this  goddamn town have a printer ribbon, so here goes a special thank to
  NICK  KNATTERTON for lending me his one... Signing off this month but not
  without saying that I'll be in England for two weeks next month, so VENLO
  without me (who said: HOORAY?).

  By  the way, special super duper extra special glancified giga mega hyper
  hellos  to  my  best friends, as they are: FAIRLIGHT (Tony, be careful of
  getting  Aids  in the Staids! Fred and Hob-Hobbit), ORION (Hoi, Leo, Mike
  and  Mike's  little brother), IKARI (YO, Nik Babe, quite a shortie confie
  and  YO  to Mark), COMMANDOFRONTIER (Allan, I hope you'll pass the German
  exams  again,  but  with  my  help... who doubts?), SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP
  (George,  old dickhead, the bag crew is bag!), JEWELS (Knight and Spike),
  TRIANGLE  3532  (the  crackin'  dane SWYXIE BABIE), BEASTIE BOYS (be also
  careful  with aids in the staids, Robbie Tobbie and the Fleewa tuet), THE
  WANDERER   GROUP   (Mike   the  Moese,  Inside  the  building,  Thinker +
  Mr.Cursor),  RADWAR  SURPRISES  (Markus  +  rest),  FBR  (Jese, eh, Joe),
  EAGLESOFT  INC.  (Tron),  TAG  (Dave), CRIME (John and Kevin), NEW BENCOR
  BROS  (Andy,  give  a  shit  what Colin says), FUS-IAN, PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1
  (Colin!),  THE  PAPILLONS  (Morten!), KKK (Kevin), HOTLINE (old Tjaddie),
  REDLINE  (Alech  from  Mechiko), OCTAGON (Mr.Fiend), TSK CREW, MANIACS OF
  NOISE,  STARS  (Smash  + Gene) plus lots of others that I forgot here (no
  goddamn rankings!).

  Brother  regards  to  all  in  TRIAD, esp. to: JANNIE (shining from above
  can't  get  away  that smile from his face), MR. and MRS. PINGE (ah, aah,
  aaaaah!  Thanx  for that great mag!), IXION (Dan, take some rouse pills),
  801  DC  (John), ROWDY (buy a new pen, greenie), HI-TEC (the mighty enemy
  of  all  wobblebugs  is back to burn their pimples out!), T.K. (two weeks
  without  parents.  It's  not difficult to become father, but to be one!),
  F.A.M.E.  (fucking, smoking, what next, Mike?) and ACU (Welcum 2 ze gan',
  man!).

  The  two  J's  are  shaking  their heads, the trip seems to be not longer
  possible,  but as far as they heard there exists someone who can make the
  impossible  possible,  so  they don't care about 17 or 18, just the cider
  and beer keep 'em alive! Goodie buyie says
                                                         Jeff Smart / TRIAD

                                  LION TALK

  YO  (or  HOI  for  Jeff),  this  is MR.DECIBEL of ORION writing his first
  article  in  "ILLEGAL" and surely not his last. The name for my column is
  "LION  TALK".  I  took  that name, because I once made a text file for my
  contacts and everybody started spreading it as a demo.

  Oh,  what  will  I  be  writing?  I try to get some and hot newwies every
  month,  write  some  crap  about  ORION  and  always send fuckings to old
  smellie al kajeffie (haha). No, the last was a joke of course. I think we
  all  have  to praise Jeff for starting "ILLEGAL". I hope we soon can find
  some  people who will help to make it more professional. I start looking,
  oh Jeff. But now some latest news...

                     THE TRUTH ABOUT THE M.C.G. RAID...

  As  everybody  knows  there  was  the  copy  party in MARL / GERMANY. MCG
  (Madonna Cracking Group) said it was an ORION-MCG party but since DSI was
  kicked  out of ORION, it was no longer an ORION party. So almost everyone
  came just because of ORION and of course not of MCG.

  Now as MCG were so very depressed of their first party in December 87 cos
  it  was  so  damn  shit, so they wanted a success now with every possible
  means  for  example  enclosing  ORION,  even  though, but you know we had
  nothing  to do with it. So they made 3000 copie of the invitation for the
  party  and  spread  it  like  hell. They were so stupid to write the full
  adress  on  the  invitation,  so it was no wonder that one day before the
  party  took  place  (on  6th  of  May)  the  police  arrived  at homes of
  MARCEL/DSI  and MCG. And Marcel freaked out totally at the police station
  and started telling lies and giving out adresses and nobody of MCG warned
  anyone  the  guys  that wanted to come to the party, no, they made a deal
  together  with  the police to get better punishment when lots of guys are
  catched at their party place. Mean, isn't it?

  Now  as  far  as I heard, WOD, ONL, INXS and some others were caught! Now
  they  can  thank  MCG,  that  must not show up anywhere around here. Well
  Marcel, I hope you can read this, casue whenever I see you, I am going to
  kick  your  ass so bad that... well let it be a surprise for DSI... We'll
  meet soon, Marcel! Argh.

  Now,  one  wonders what MCG were up to, releasing old shit games with new
  names,  that's all they can do and when they're going to crack a new game
  they  aren't  able  to  do  it. Take "TARGET RENEGADE", a know multi-load
  (it's  said  on  the  original  cover) game, which best version came from
  JANITOR/TRIAD. Now MCG made a one part of it, hahaha! They're really very
  good when they can pack a multi- load in one file!

  Now  only the Americans prefer MCG releases of old games, cause everybody
  forget  those games. Now MCG are dead and nobody cares! But OKEY, you see
  right  beside an article from the German daily newspaper "WAZ" for all of
  you who can understand German. There it's said that the police got a hint
  for  that  party, cause everybody's hating them. Now, luckily it seems as
  if  nobody wants to trade with those pigs anymore and that's the best one
  can  do, cause nobody wants to take the risk that MCG spread their adress
  again!

        +--------------------------------------------------------------+
      |        (press cutting from "WAZ" under the headline:         |
      | "POLITZEI VORHINDERIE MARIER TREFIEN VON COMPUTER-CRACKERN"  |
        +--------------------------------------------------------------+

  Now,  there are of course still cool and nice dudes on the computer scene
  left. Let's greet them. My personal greetings go to:

  DSH, my best pal.
  TRIAD (Jeffie, TK, Janitor and Mr.Pinge)
  FAIRLIGHT (Strider, nice talking and nice stuff)
  IKARI (Nik, Just Ice, Tridos)
  PAPILLONS (I'll call you soon)
  THE WANDERER GROUP
  FUSION
  HOTLINE
  COMMANDOFRONTIER
  and many, many more, just too tired to write more.

  Ok,  to  finish  this  first edition of "LION TALK" I want to add the all
  that  all  those people who didn't recieve anything or haven't heard from
  me  for  a  while  I  am doing my exams and I will finish them in about 2
  weeks  (End  of  May) and ORION will be same as ever in the meantime, but
  we'll  only  get better when I return and then everyone can trade with me
  again  instead  of TBF, who's now back to being lame. Sorry to disappoint
  you for a few weeks, but it has paid off for me, cause it seems as if I'm
  passing  all  my  exams and sorry for so many excuses, but I know you all
  understand...
                                                                  Your mate
                                               Mr.Decibel/the lion of ORION
  ORION are now only: DSH + MR.DECIBEL

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                          LETTERS FROM THE READERS

  Dear  Scouse  Cracking  Group, it was nice to see someone with a bunch of
  ideals  in  this corrupt pirate society of today... I just wish to remind
  you  that your views are not totally new to us, infact I have been trying
  to  tell  the  world exactly this for a long time. Since I have now quit,
  you  are  TAKING OVER a tradition of quality cracking, not CREATING it...
  Just  keep that in mind, maybe take a look at TIGER HELL and GOOD LUCK...
  if  I  return then you may be crushed like a maggot under a Testarossa as
  all  our  other  competitors  but  if  I  don't,  GO  FOR IT! You have my
  blessing...  finally  one  thing... OUR INTRO is, I believe, true ancient
  history - a fundamental part of what you can call the good old days!

                                             JANITOR (I'm wicked (or bad?))

                             THE MEETING REPORTS

  THE  VENLO  MEETING,  16th OF APRIL 1988! Finally the ultimate meeting in
  VENLO!  Believe  it  or  not, about 600 guys showed up there! Among them,
  names  like:  FAIRLIGHT  (Strider and Gollum who came from Sweden), IKARI
  (Nik,  Mark  and  Paul), FUSION (Jester), HOTLINE of course, RADWAR, CFR,
  TRANSCOM,  TWG,  ORION,  ILLUSION,  TRIAD and many others who were almost
  killed  by so many lamers. It was so overcrowded that it took you half an
  hour to get from one end of the room to the other.

  Even  though NIK of IKARI was wearing a ring around his finger, he let me
  know  that  he  still  to have. It seems as if all guys from TRANSCOM are
  very shy as they didn't speak a single word to me, perhaps they couldn't.
  SLEDGEHAMMER  from  HTL  got the biggest applause showing his new jacket.
  But  the time was too short, when you know that FAIRLIGHT arrived at 1.30
  and TONI almost teared the flag of the GDR in the entrance hall down (God
  knows  why  GDR  flag  is  set in the entrance hall, maybe especially for
  Toni?).

  The  new stuff was a minor thing on that day, because it was a historical
  one!  NOBODY  can name a comparable meeting where so many big name groups
  came together, even the DANISH GOLD was beaten out by the DUTCH ones! The
  central  meeting  point was a small food shop outside, where nobody could
  believe  that  FAIRLIGHT  from  SWEDEN and IKARI from ENGLAND really made
  that far journey. But unfortunately this best of all meetings ended at 4,
  so  we  had to say farewell to all (buhuuuu...), except FAIRLIGHT, RADWAR
  and  some  other  very  good friends were secretly invited to THE BOTTROP
  TRIAD PARTY, same day!

  After everybody blamed for not finding the way back at once, we (Toni and
  me)  opened  the  first  bottle of GERMAN BEER just arrived at MIKE's (of
  F.A.M.E. / TRIAD) home. After making lotsa photos for all friends who had
  the bad luck of not being here we sat down in a quiet corner of the room,
  drank  our  bottles of KROMBACHER PILS and talked for hours until we went
  out  into town, singing in the city, eating Greek GYROS (thanx, Toni) and
  talking to some American girls from the telephone box that were called by
  Strider  just  for free. We crawled back, everybody looking at a crowd of
  about  20  guys cheering and screaming in the darkness. Having stolen two
  road  signs on the way back, Toni and me raped some other bottles of beer
  while  making  some  3-ways.  F.A.M.E.  composed a new sound as some guys
  already tried to sleep but without any chance. Why? Guess what Jeffie did
  after  8  bottles  of  beer?  Look  on  the  photo  down below, where old
  graphician  PGI  tried  to  get  some  sleep but Jeffie opened the window
  behind him and sprinkled some water over him.

  Guess  how  TONI  looked like after 10 bottles? His eyes were opened only
  for the half as normal and he finally sat down in the corner to sleep but
  before  he  had to write a demotext for a small "PARTYTIME" demo that you
  shall watch out for! So almost everyone fell asleep at 6 or 7 o'clock (as
  far  as I can remember), but had to rise 2 hours later as the two Swedish
  guys had to leave at 10 to meet GOLLUM's parents waiting at the autobahn.
  So  I  left  also  very  quickly so that I didn't have to clean the room.
  Remembering  these brilliant hours back, I can say that this was the best
  party  I  ever  had  and  it seems as if I am not the only one who thinks
  so...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                   THE SILENTS COPY-PARTY (5-8 APRIL 1988)

  This  is  a  short  story  about THE SILENTS copy-party in Alvesta/Sweden
  1988!  There were promised to show up a few big groups, but unfortunately
  there  were almost just a bunch of Swedish lamers. Okey, I went there and
  when I arrived I found the place where the party was held. It was in some
  kind of big room and two other smaller rooms. I met some old friends from
  older  times  and  that  was  really cool. But it was terrible to see all
  these lamers going around and showing each others demos. Okey, there were
  some  cool  guys. Some groups like XAKK, SSS, DEFJAM (coolest AMIGA-group
  in  Sweden),  FRONT/RIFFS and a few more unknown guys. Okey, there were a
  few  TRIAD  members  too  like:  Mr.Pinge,  801 DC, Ixion, Devil, Skyie &
  Cozmo.  Anyway  we  had great fun by joking around with all the lamers at
  the  party. A demo-competition was held and the winner in the competition
  was  XAKK's  'WHY  SLEEP'.  Well  as  you see, not much to say about this
  party, but anyway thanx to THE SILENTS for arranging it cause it was cool
  to meet my old friends!!
                                               Signed: Mr.Pinge / TRIAD!!!!

                            CRACKER OF THE MONTH

  And here are the results of the "ILLEGAL" jury:

   1. IKARI                    (1)  6.19 pts
   2. FAIRLIGHT                (3)  5.64
   3. TRIAD                    (2)  5.42
   4. ORION                    (6)  4.38
   5. S.C.G.                   (-)  4.26
   6. TRIANGLE                 (-)  4.10
   7. JEWELS                   (-)  4.04
   8. PAPILLONS                (7)  3.73
   9. EAGLESOFT                (5)  3.70
  10. FUSION                   (4)  3.65
  11. DOMINATORS               (-)  3.41
  12. T.W.G.                   (-)  3.27
  13. TRANSCOM                 (-)  3.18
  14. S.A.P.                   (-)  3.02
  15. HOTLINE                  (-)  2.81

                                DEMO CHARTS!

  Zip  this  month  was  better with entertaining demos, especially lots of
  demos from the SILENTS party and Venlo, it was too hard, but:

                            1. IMPERIUM by ORION
                      2. DUAL CASSETTE II by ASH & DAVE
                           3. EASTERN DISK by CFR
                     4. IT'S MOVIN' by SUPERSWAP SWEDEN
                            5. WHY SLEEP? by XAKK
                    6. THE FUNERAL by TRITON TECHNOLOGIES

                               SOFTWARE-STARS

   1. IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II    (-)
   2. WINTER EDITION           (1)
   3. IKARI WARRIORS           (3)
   4. THE THREE STOOGES        (2)
   5. GUTZ                     (-)
   6. PARANOIA COMPLEX         (-)
   7. 4*4 OFF ROAD RACING      (-)
   8. PRO BMX SIMULATOR        (6)
   9. IO                       (4)
  10. PLATOON                  (8)
  11. SAMURAI WARRIOR          (-)
  12. CYBERNOID                (-)
  13. RIMRUNNER                (10)
  14. POWER AT SEA             (9)
  15. REVENGE OF DOH           (11)
  16. TARGET RENEGADE          (12)
  17. STAR RANK BOXING         (-)
  18. CORPORATION              (7)
  19. TETRIS                   (15)
  20. THE TRAIN                (13)
  21. COMBAT SCHOOL            (16)
  22. SINBAD                   (5)
  23. TROLL                    (17)
  24. QUEDEX                   (23)
  25. PACLAND                  (18)
  26. PIRATES                  (27)
  27. PREDATOR                 (25)
  28. BASKET MASTER            (14)
  29. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE       (28)
  30. SUPER HANG ON            (26)

  A BIG "SMACK" FOR VOTING:

  STRIDER / FAIRLIGHT, CF / BEASTIES, OAHAWOOL / FBR, JESTER / PE NO.1, THE
  THINKER / TWG U.S.A., SPC & ITB / TWG, PHOTONY / TRANSCOM, MWS / RWE, MAD
  ALL / CFR, DSH & MR.DECIBEL / ORION + SSD / TSK-CREW

  + IMPRESSUM +

  +-------------------------------+
  | > ILLEGAL tm 1988             |
  | > 3rd year of appearence      |
  | > No. # 28                    |
  | > (c) 88 by TRIAD             |
  | > Circulation:                |
  |   about 500 Copies            |
  | > Price: 1.5 DM               |
  | > Date of release:            |
  |   21st of May                 |
  | > Next number will come on    |
  |   18th of June                |
  +-------------------------------+
  | > Editor:                     |
  |   Jeff Smart / TRIAD          |
  | > The "ILLEGAL"-TEAM:         |
  |   Mad All - Commandofrontier  |
  |   Swyx - Triangle 3532        |
  |   Mr.Decibel - Orion          |
  | > The Sub-Editors:            |
  |   Belgium : CFR, FLT          |
  |   Denmark : TRIANGLE          |
  |   England : NBB, SCG, FUSION  |
  |   France  : TRANSCOM          |
  |   Germany : RWE, TWG, BB      |
  |   Holland : ORION, HTL        |
  |   Norway  : STARS             |
  |   Sweden  : FLT, TRIAD        |
  |   Turkey  : THE METRO BOYS    |
  |   U.S.A.  : FBR, TAG          |
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  | Good morning, dear. Would you |
  | please climb off me? Eh, it   |
  | seems it was our best         |
  | decision right now to put     |
  | your "ILLEGAL" 100% in        |
  | English. Ups, all articles    |
  | have to be sent to the editor |
  | up to the 7th of June!! So, I |
  | hope that you will be still   |
  | alive after the next month    |
  | when we prepare for a great   |
  | Venlo meeting and a cool      |
  | RADWAR-TRIAD party (beware of |
  | our reputation!). So take     |
  | care, don't dare because the  |
  | best things in life are       |
  |                  "ILLEGAL" JS |
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