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                                                                Illegal #25

  This  is  ILLEGAL  #25,  rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad. The
  German parts are left out since I can't read, nor translate, German.

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                            everything you do is

  THE TRIAD magazine

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                                                       Licensed by TRIAD 88

                               GAME PREVIEWS!

  Games  Ahoi! At the mo only a few games are gonna come, the most exciting
  are:  IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II from EPYX (due to release at the beginning of
  March),  FOOTBALL  MANAGER  II,  another follow-up, by ADDICTIVE, KATAKIS
  from  German  Rainbow  Arts,  which looks fantastic and seems to become a
  quite  good  Shoot'em  up.  And  also from German software company namely
  Micropartner  should  come  VAMPIRE'S EMPIRE in the next days, which look
  quite  superb  which  makes  it quite interesting and last but not least:
  PINK  PANTHER  also  from  MICROPARTNER.  You  can  have  a  look  at the
  titlepicture  from  it on the ATARI ST, when you move the monitor-damaged
  eyes a little bit down... Yep... not so down, you idiot! Well, that's all
  about  fine  games coming (hopefully soon) and with all the best wishes I
  leave  off  with good luck for the following 11 pages. Thanx to MWS / RWE
  for the pic!
                                                                       J.S.
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       | (The titlepicture from Micro-Partners game "Pink Panther") |
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                                HELLO, GUYZ!

  A  warm welcome to another world of "ILLEGAL"! Maybe you've already heard
  that  I  (Jeff  Smart) joined together with Hi-tec mighty forces of TRIAD
  and  now  people  claimed  that  TRIAD  will  always be number one in the
  cracker  charts  on  the last page. Yep, they are right! Oh, no, I felt a
  little  bit  different when getting your votes for the charts thiz month.
  Who  gave  TRIAD  10  points? I was really depressed of what should I do,
  anyway  the  last  thing  I would do is to manipulate the charts and so I
  leave,  even  though  people  doubt  my  neutrality. Anyway, here are the
  greetinx  for  this  issue,  in,  of  course, no ranking order: STRIDER /
  FAIRLIGHT  (KILL  A COMMIE FOR YER MOMMIE, TONI!?), NIK / IKARI, SLEDGE /
  HOTLINE  (good  movement!),  IAN / FUSION (don't spend too much time with
  reading the results of the horse races!), CF + ACCEPT / BEASTIE BOYS, THE
  DEADLY  FRIENDS (so if you want to then write some articles...), ACU from
  SOLDIERS  AGAINST  PROTECTION (great 'Platoon' Version, Alex), JAYCE from
  DCU  1789,  old  DAVE  from  THE AWESOME GUYS in the States - the land of
  opportunity,  SWYX of TRIANGLE 3532, ISS and NY from PLEASURE (keep going
  on  the  good  work  Stefan!),  MAD  ALL of CFR (hoping to meet ya again,
  dude!),  RUB  +  SPC  from  TWG, MZP from RED SECTOR, old eaglestone from
  (unreadable), A.C.E., TMC of SCOOP, the rest of FCS, GENESIS*PROJECTS for
  the  titlebegger!, TSK, TAU, SHIELD, SCA, POPEYE, TDS, all rest girls and
  Ferrari-owners.  Special  yohos  to:  all  members  of  TRIAD, especially
  MR.PINGE,  JANITOR  and  IAN + MIC, wish you the best and that yer dreams
  come true one day!
                                                                 JS / TRIAD

         THE RESULTS OF THE TRIANGLE COMPETITION "DEMO OF THE YEAR"

  Yo, man, it's over. Thanx to all who wrote to me or called me up. So here
  are  the  final  results  of  our  competition  "DEMO OF THE YEAR": A BIG
  CONGRATULATIONS GOES TO:

                                  1. DEXION
                              2. TRIANGLE 3532
                                3. 2000 A.D.
                                  4. TRIAD
                                5. AEK / TFD

  Dexion won with 27% of all votes. So goodbye and soon more

                                                         SWYX from TRIANGLE

                   THE NEXT COPYPARTIES ARE COMMING UP...

  Oh,  yes,  COPYPARTIES are a fashionable thing. Every groups makes any, a
  group  without  a copyparty isn't a real group, eh? So first of all, this
  month:

  February  20th,  VENLO,  HOLLAND,  the most attractive probably. HOTLINE,
  CFR,  RADWAR for sure, and then perhaps TWG, TRIAD, IKARI, SAP and so on.
  It lasts from 11 o'clock up to 4 o'clock (or 11:00 to 16:00).

  February  20th, AACHEN, GERMANY, planned by DYNAMIC SYSTEM, but that will
  be  nothing,  coz people go to VENLO that day, so better come to VENLO or
  stay in your bed.

  February  27th,  BONN,  GERMANY,  the  WOD  "ANTI  LOSER PARTY". Perhaps,
  perhaps, but I'm sure that there'll be some losers.

  February  27th,  BIELEFIELD,  GERMANY,  planned  by  SHIELD. Known groups
  announced  their  visit,  so  better  choose  this one instead of the WOD
  party.

  March  5th, BONN, GERMANY. Will it be or not? The FCS party, the group is
  dead,  maybe  they're reborn, but make sure if it is or not, but it won't
  be the success from December.

  DANISH  GOLD  -  TRITON TECHNOLOGY and JEWELS prty??? Rumours spread that
  there would be some in April in Denmark. That would it be!
                                                                   JS/TRIAD

                           TELL ME, DICTIONARY...

  Look  at  your  dictionary  under "cracker"! Haven't you already wondered
  what  we choose every month with the "CRACKER OF THE MONTH"??? O.K., Here
  we go...

  "CRACKER":

  1) thin, flaky, dry biscuit (as eaten with cheese)

  2)  firework  that  makes  cracking  noises when set off: THE CHINESE USE
  CRACKERS TO FRIGHTEN AWAY EVIL SPIRITS

  What do we have more?

  "CRACKPOT": eccentric person with strange ideas.

  "CRACKSMAN": burglar

  You  know:  YOU  ARE  A BISCUIT (look in Yer pandies...) Next issue more,
  mon!
                                                                     HTC/JS

             INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH! THIS TIME: JANITOR / TRIAD

  People  call  him  the  only  real cracker on earth. Is he a simple human
  being or something else. Here are 10 questions to JANITOR from TRIAD:

  J.S.: Since when does TRIAD exist?
  Jan.: TRIAD was born 86.07.26 at 21.30 pm after some phone calls.
  J.S.: Who founded it?
  Jan.:  There  were three "parts" who wanted to merge in an attempt to get
  known in Europe, they were:

       1. "3001" (IXION, SKYDIVE, LUCIFER)
       2. "COD" (ARROW, FRED)
       3. MR.Z, RND

  The person who invented the name and perhaps was in the middle was IXION,
  who's the only left from the real beginning.
  J.S.: How many members does TRIAD have at the moment?
  Jan.: Well, that's our secret, but there aren't much on the 64.
  J.S.: What was the 1st TRIAD release?
  Jan.: I  think it was "DRAGON'S LAIR", there wasn't even a TRIAD intro on
        it,  cause  there  was  no time to make any. It was just MR.Z's own
        RASTER-INTRO.
  J.S.: When did you start computing?
  Jan.: I  bought  my 64 when it was released in Sweden (summer '83), but I
        have not started cracking until the beginning of 1987!!!
  J.S.: What's your favourite stuff?
  Jan.: GAMES: old strategy games like ARCHON,IMPERIUM GALACTICUM and MULE.
        DEMO: KINETIK ADVERTS, an old computer demo.
        MOVIE: Woody Allen's RADIO DAYS
        MUZAX: The ARKANOID Soundtrack
  J.S.: What do you do in your freetime?
  Jan.: GUESS  THAT!!!  (a hint: I'm doing something called cracking, maybe
        you have heard of it before, eh?)
  J.S.: It  was invented by TRIAD, "C" to CHEAT and a RANKED Greetings. How
        did you come to that?
  Jan.: We  also  called  the  RANKINGS:  RATING  as MR.Z did, compare with
        today's  cracks!  It  was  3D's  idea.  Well, IXION heard that MR.Z
        always  played  all  the  games up to their end (How many people do
        this?  Oh,  me,  of  course. Remember all the 101% cracks) and poor
        IXION  wondered  if  MR.Z  was  a kind of an arcade beast to manage
        that.  But  MR.Z  cheated  with some pokes and finally he released,
        persuaded by IXION, all games with a special trainer-modus, that he
        called  "cheat-modus"  and after that we gave the world a hard time
        to catch up with those versions...
  J.S.: How many swap-partners does TRIAD have?
  Jan.: We don't swap with ESI and HTL (?)
  J.S.: Do you have war with anyone?
  Jan.: No. We respect HOTLINE!?!?
  J.S.: Thank you very much...

  In  the  next issue I'll probably interview CAPTAIN FUTURE of the BEASTIE
  BOYS.

                              THE BEST IS OVER

  I  am  sure that everyone has heard of a Teleconference. In the past year
  there  were  so  many  conferences,  that  they  became  a daily routine.
  Recently   though,   a   conference   has   become  very  rare.  Allience
  Teleconferencing  was  loosing millions each year due to these fraudulent
  calls.  It  was  not  only costing them, but it was causing them a lot of
  trouble.  They  have  retaliated  by locking out the numbers called most.
  They  also  monitor  almost  all calls. Conferences are no longer safe to
  run,  this is why you are seeing so many 3-way calls instead. Alliance, a
  sub-division  of  AT&T,  isn't  the  only  phone company cracking down on
  phreaks.  Due  to  all  of  these crackdowns, things are taking longer to
  spread  around.  Usually withing a couple hours of it's release, everyone
  would  have  a  new crack, but since all of the crackdowns it now takes a
  couple  of  days.  Modeming is rapidly declining. The telephone companies
  are  using methods such as false carriers, ANI, trap codes, etc, to catch
  phreaks.  Codes  are  hacked  either  randomly  or  sequentially  by your
  computer:  It  works,  by calling up the access nuber, entering the code,
  then  dialling  the number you want to call. Depending on the service you
  have a 1 in 100 chance of finding a good code. But who wants to sit there
  and dial a number 100 times! So, you use a hacking prog on your 64 and it
  will  dial it up and try codes, till it finds a working one. To check out
  the  code,  your  computer  dials  up  another  computer  (in a different
  state).  If  the computer answers, and a carrier is established, then the
  code  was  a good one, and it is stored to disk. If it was a bad one, and
  no  carrier  was  established,  then  it just goes to the next code. Some
  services  have their computer blast a fake carrier, to make your 64 think
  it  was a good code, even though it isn't. Thus your time is wasted here,
  cause  you  can't determine which codes are good, and which ones are bad.
  ANI (Automatic Number Identicater) is another deadly trap! In this method
  the service traces ALL calls made to the service. As soon as you dial the
  number,  they  have  your number. I am not sure who uses this method, but
  some  do!  The most deadly and most used method of all, is the trap code.
  The BASTARDS at the phone co. spread out bad codes to the pirating world.
  Once  you dial in the bad code, you are traced! There is no way to tell a
  trap  code from a good one, this is why this is such an effective method.
  What  happens  after  they  trace  you? They will monitor your line, till
  they  have enough evidence to bust you. I have come DAMN close to getting
  busted  myself.  No  one  will  ever  get  busted, if they just use their
  BRAINS.  With  the  FUCKERS  from the phone co. sniffing our asses, I see
  things going back to mail trades, and that MEGA SUCKS.

                                                             DAVE (TMS/TAG)
                                         The Mind Slayer / The Awesome Guys

                              THE RADWAR PARTY

  A  computer  party  among loud music and bottles of beer? Isn't that like
  coffee  and  salt  together? But it worked! On the 9th of January 1988 in
  Heinsberg.  Done by RADWAR in the discotheque "LA QUINTA". Who was there?
  RADWAR  (really?),  HOTLINE,  TWG,  SAP,  BEASTIE  BOYS,  1001 CREW, MZP,
  TRISTAR, FAC, TFD and many others...

  Only  a small amount of computers were built up in the large discotheque.
  HOTLINE  brought  all the new stuff with them (as they always do at those
  parties)  and SURPRISE! The Darkness with "To Be On Top". Nobody had this
  game, quite surprising, even though it's fucking cracked.

  Well,  after  some  guys  drank  beer (e.g. Harrie of Hotline), it became
  louder,  because  of  some  fuckin' Discomusax. Some guys from RADWAR ran
  around  with  their  Video-Camera,  everybody was acting like Bond, James
  Bond  only to get on their movie and they promised to make some copies of
  this  movie sooooooon. Anyway, the mass could drink but not eat. The rest
  of  FCS  made themselves ridiculous when speaking through the microphone:
  "Does  anybody  know a good, new name for us?" Suggestion were "FREEZERS"
  or "MODULE" but they didn't take them.

  Anyway,  the  "DIGITAL NEWS" was presented, a horny newspaper on disk and
  it  was  quite a great success (order yer own one!!!). About 8 o'clock in
  the evening, when some people got drunken (some even verrry drunken), the
  disco-show  started.  A  amateur  band  played  some  songs  live  (quite
  promising),  a  fashion  show  (sooo boring) and lots of music, music and
  finally (guess what?) music!

  People  from  far  away  could  rest  in  the  nearby gymnasium, but some
  challenge  the  night  (hehe).  After the night the guys woke up with bad
  (verry  bad)  headache (guess the cause of the headache) who had to react
  fast or they would have to wait another day for their train. But this was
  a  party  different  from  all  others before, what an atmosphere! It was
  something  new  for  everyone, even for those who drunk more that one can
  endure  (Hello,  Brian!),  but  without ultraviolence, riots or vandalism
  like people are used to know the older generation of crackers.

  Whew,  hopefully  they repeat such a party again. Shame on all of you who
  haven't  took  part in it, you missed something really exciting, so watch
  out for the next RADWAR Party!
                                                         JS/TRIAD + MWS/RWE

                           ARCADE GAMES REVIER...
                           THIS TIME: AFTERBURNER

  Whew!  What  an  enormous machine! I hope you belong to the lucky one who
  got  a  "PLAY-CENTER" in your town that owns "AFTERBURNER" the new arcade
  machine  from SEGA (it'll com on 64 by Activision). You enter it, have to
  fasten  your  seatbelt,  press the fire button - but nothing happens. The
  reason:  You  forget  to enter a coin to play, you idiot or did you think
  you're  in  front  of  your  64  and  have  the  right  to choose between
  infinitive  lives and normal game or what? NO, comrade! That's real life,
  that's  real  challenge.  After  you entered the coin, the fever involves
  YOU!  The  sound  changes  into  a  superb  motivation, the graphix looks
  fantastic  and you get a short instruction of what to do and who to blast
  int  thousand  of pieces! A short grap to the joystick with which you can
  launch missiles or fire. THE GAME STARTS...

  You  are  the  pilot  of a hypermodern fighter, starting from an aircraft
  carrier  while  your seat takes a move forward and you get a heartattack.
  The  graphix  looks  absolutely great! You have the command of a fighter.
  With  a stick to the left you can accelerate or decelerate your speed and
  then: YOUR ENEMIES!

  Other  planes coming in front of you! Four of them! They're shooting! And
  you're  firing  back...  Blast  'em to pieces... The graphix is unusually
  fast,  ultrafast, and then: A HIT! Your seats moves from left to right as
  in  reality  when you're hit! Whew, cold sweat runs on your skin, YOU ARE
  THE PILOT HIMSELF, you have two planes left: Give your best and fight for
  freedom (hehe).

  O.K.,  after having lost, not only all lives but also thousands of coins,
  you  leave  frustrated  your  plane, eh, your machine to return to normal
  life. Back to reality: I never played a game which brings you so close to
  a  real  pilot,  the  movements  of  your  seat,  the  speed,  the  whole
  atmosphere,  almost  everything  makes you forget your surroundings makes
  you being the fighter.

  THIS  GAME  IS A DRUG, it gives you the real feeling that you want to get
  when  playing.  I'm  afraid  of  a  computer conversion because the whole
  atmosphere  will  get lost - so better leave it. Now, be very careful, do
  not  enter  any  "PLAY CENTER" because if you see "AFTERBURNER" you can't
  hesitate to dare it and then you are influenced by the drug.

                                                 ARCADE SCORE: 99 / 100 JS!

                         NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION

  YOHO,  guys,  another  month,  another new column from old Jeff Smart. So
  let's start with the most important events from last month, eh?

  *  The  most  exciting  (at least for me) thing was, that HI-TEC and JEFF
  SMART joined mighty TRIAD forces on 15th of January 1988!

  *  A new stunning cooperation was built. It consists of THE LIGHT CIRCLE,
  RED  SECTOR  INTL.  and TEESIDE CRACKING SERVICE. The name should be: RED
  TEESIDE CIRCLE (hehe). First releases were JINXTER without codes and many
  more are expected to come.

  *  Does  BEASTIE  BOYS  have a new member? Cause one wondered who CALVARY
  (sounds  like  Calgary)  is.  He's  a  former member of the good old YETI
  FACTORIES.

  *  What  happened to THE SHARKS? When devil was riding on them, when they
  "cracked"  such  games like "MOLECULE MAN" or "ERIK VIII", which are only
  about  one year old. Do they really want us to believe that the games are
  new  or  what?  But then they have to change also the titlepicture, where
  it's said that the game was released in 1986. REALLY BAD, TPI.

  * Oh, oh, what's FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE without FANTASY? The answer is:
  NOTHING,  NOTHING  and  NOTHING.  They  wanted the audience at the RADWAR
  Party  to  invent a new name for them, but would you give them your great
  ideas?  Our suggestions were "FREEZERS" or "MODULES", but they decided to
  call  themselves  now  "AXIOS" (what's that? A new freeze-frame module?).
  But  rumour  spread  that good old FANTASY has returned to the living and
  soon FCS would be back in good (?) old style.

  *  How  could  one  name  one's  group  like  a German sex-film mailorder
  business?

  * Where does FUSION get those originals one week before they're released.
  Maybe they're working for the Software Companies!?

  * THE WANDERER GROUP really (finally) thinks about kicking little VIP out
  of  TWG,  because  he always ridicules at any party and so decrease TWG's
  quite good image.

  * You know that ESI get almost every original from SOHO. Now the guy, who
  supplied all the originals, has joined ESI himself.

  *  Have you already seen the new PACKER from THE PAPILLONS. Better forget
  it.  It  takes about half an hour (almost) to get through the memory. Why
  can't they use a normal one like all others do?

  * PLEASURE still exists, even though HI-TEC and JEFF SMART left it.

  *  Yo.  I  promised in the last issue to present the answer from FREEZARI
  (as  IKARI  was called for a while) to the rumours that they freeze every
  single game. I printed NIK's letter as it was originally sent to me, even
  though  there  are  some mistakes: I haven't heard it only from BEASTIES,
  that  IKARI  is  using  FREEZE MACHINE, other groups told me the same AND
  IT'S  ABSOLUTELY  WRONG,  that  the BEASTIE BOYS changed the cracker-list
  from  December. They only gave IKARI no points, which is their good right
  and so IKARI didn't come up to the 2nd place, but TRIAD was unbeatable.

  *  Look  below. It seems as if RADWAR ENTERPRISES (RWE) got a new, famous
  member,  eh?  But  RWE  is  also  the meaning of a big German electricity
  company in the Western part, who advertises now with old Boris.

                 +----------------------------------------+
                 |        RWE und Boris im Doppel         |
                 | (piture of tennis player Boris Becker) |
                 +----------------------------------------+

  That  was  all  for  thiz  month.  Best  thanx  for supplying me with all
  interesting news are going to: MWS / RADWAR, TK / AXIOS ?, CF / BEASTIEZ,
  RUB / TWG, SLH / HOTLINE, NIK / IKARI, HI-TEC and MR.PINGE from TRIAD and
  all the others...

  So it leaves you alone for another month, your
                                                      Jeff Smart from TRIAD

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  Excelsior,  welcome  to  another  issue of my mailbox, filled with gossip
  about who is doing what to who and why.

  Interested? Good, read on...

  -  MR.PINGE  of TRIAD had an experience most pirates dream only about: he
  got  a  phonecall from a 16 year old FEMALE (!) computerfreak who saw his
  number  in  a  demo.  They  talked  for  a long time but what they talked
  about... well, that dear reader, he won't even tell me.

  -  HARRIE of HOTLINE is tired of doing all the importing from the states,
  so SLEDGEHAMMER decided to give it a try.

  -  DELIRIOUS,  the  French  sister magazine of your "ILLEGAL" is becoming
  really  good,  I  got  a  review  copy of it (Thanx Jayce) and enjoyed it
  tremendously,  a  pity though that it is French completely, but "ILLEGAL"
  used to be 100% in German, so maybe they will go international, too?!

  -  Whatever  happened  to  the  good old entertaining demo, nowadays most
  (99%)  of  them are just technical bits of code, everybody seems eager to
  show  how  good  they  handle  rasters,  but  they  loose  sight  of  the
  entertainment  and  originality,  that's  the  reason  that  sometimes we
  feature  in  our DEMO CHARTS demos, which are not super-coded and that we
  leave technical ones out, so coders get your act all together now!

  -  SCN  AUSTRIA  have now 11 members and in future perhaps more, so there
  are still some mamoth groups around.

  -  TRIANGLE,  who  made  some  impressive demos on the 64 are planning to
  upgrade  to  AMIGA, yep they're planning to terrorize the 16-Bit division
  but without dropping the 64, good lucks, guys!

  -  This  month  seems  to  be  the  beginning of a dangerous time for the
  pedestrians coz both COZMIX and BUBULAND of respectively TRIANGLE and CFR
  are  getting their driver's license, rumour has it that they practised on
  TEST  DRIVE,  but  they  won't  be  driving Ferraris, they don't like the
  colour, you see?

  -  DSH and DSI left FAC to form a new group with some other freaks, ROCKY
  however  will still continue, his comment was that he didn't know why DSH
  left but he kicked DSI out.

  -  IKARI are getting two new members in, who will be probably taking over
  the  modem-trading  from  PAL,  the  new  kidz  on the block are known as
  MARUADER and RE- ANIMATOR.

  -  ILLEGAL  TRADERS BELGIUM (no connection with the magazine) have joined
  BELGIAN ART, so good luck to them...

  Well,  the  gossip  tour is over again, dear scumbags, so last but really
  not  least, a big thank you for supplying me with fresh and dirty gossip:
  TRIAD, TRIANGLE, THE THE, IKARI + FAC!

  Watch this space... and send me your gossip!
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                     WHERE HAVE THE REAL CRACKERS GONE?
                          ARE WE CRACKING TOO FAST?

  It  seems these days that the cracking balance is level, the quantity has
  improved  but the quality took a nosedive! There seems to be an attitude,
  with  most  groups  who  shall remain nameless, to crack something really
  fast  just  to  send it to the States. In the good old days people really
  cared about how cool, short and bugfree the cracks were, but now everyone
  is  trying  to  crack, if we still can call it cracking, just to write in
  their  intro  how  cool and fast they really are. What they don't seem to
  realise  is  that  most  of us just keep the best version and not the one
  they  got first. Sure they keep the version they got first a few days but
  immediately  scratch  it when they get a shorter or full working version,
  maybe   it  would  be  better  if  all  groups  agree  only  to  put  out
  full-working  versions,  because  many  games  which are played until say
  level  10  crash,  because the cracker didn't bother to see if it worked.
  Comments  on  this topic are of course always welcomed, be it positive or
  negative,  the  best, interesting or original letters will get printed in
  the next "ILLEGAL", so watch this space...

                                                   WRITTEN BY MAD ALL / CFR

                  ISN'T HE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT??? I THINK SO!

                                                         JEFF SMART / TRIAD

                    THE RETURN OF THE PHONE FREAKING ONES

  Yep, good news, guys! Conference are coming up again. Even for all German
  guys,  who  live under the control of the best protected telephone system
  with  its  leader  "BLACK  SHILLING",  conferences  become  again a daily
  pleasure,  because  our  American  allies now also own codes for us to be
  called.  And  now  we get our old habits back, to put the telephone right
  beside  the  bed,  to  say: "Yes, put me on the conference line" when the
  operator  asks you how you are and to get all important telephone numbers
  back  in  your  minds  to have them when you need them. Isn't that great?
  Unfortunately  Chief Black Shilling didn't agree to that and try to break
  all  conferences  down,  and  sometimes  he  wins  his  game  and for all
  conference  members  is  GAME  OVER, YOU HAVEN'T REACHED THE TOP TEN, TRY
  HARDER  TO ENTER THE HALL OF FAME. O.K., but the allies will come one day
  and  beat  the  whole system, I'm sure, be there, don't sleep, get on the
  phone after the first ringing, hold on, goodbye...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

               +---------------------------------------------+
               |  IKARI - FOR THE BEST, TRADE WITH THE BEST  |
               +---------------------------------------------+

                         IKARI FIGHT THE CRITICS...

  Hello, good evening and welcome. My name is Nik of IKARI and I am here to
  clear  up  the  mess that certain lamers have left by making all sorts of
  ridiculous  accusations  that  many  people  have  been foolish enough to
  believe.

  The  main  accusation is that we 'FREEZE-MACHINE' EVERY SINGLE ONE of our
  cracks.

  This appeared in the last edition of this magazine and after reading this
  I contacted JEFF SMART and asked him what was going on as the comment had
  appeared  in  his  column. After a long letter from him it was all sorted
  out  and  it  appeared that a certain group namely the 'Beastie Boys' had
  told him that we were freezing all our cracks. This is a complete lie and
  why  they  said  this  we still do not know. So, I am about to come clean
  about all this freezing nonsence....

  IKARI have only ever released 2 frozen games and this is why:-

  DRUID  2: I was given this weeks before release at the PCW show as a file
  on a disk. This file was a frozen file that had been card-crunched. After
  several  attempts  I  could do nothing with the file and so had no option
  but  to  give  it  out as it was given to me. I only did this because the
  game was so new.

  RISK:  This game was obtained as a file on a disk by our member Just Ice.
  We  managed  to get this on the day of release and at this time we one of
  the  few  groups modem trading with the USA, JUST ICE tried to crack this
  quickly  as  it was not yet released in the USA. However, we did not have
  any  time  to  spare  in  case  another  group  gave  it  to  the USA, so
  unfortunately we were forced to give it out as it was given to us.

  SO,  hopefully you will realise that what the BEASTIE BOYS said was a lie
  and  we  guarantee  to  you that there is not a single other game that we
  have released frozen.

  Some  people  have  also  said  that the Jetboys and Ramparts was frozen.
  THESE ARE NOT FROZEN.... The sprites that you see on the screen after the
  intro are the sprites from the scroller in the intro..

  ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE COULD SEE THIS...........

  So, that is the truth. If you don't believe it we don't give a shit as it
  means that you must be believing a LIE....

  Many  groups  have  released frozen games once or twice and I'm sure that
  they also have very good reasons for doing so, for example

  HOTLINE -- PSYCHO SOLDIER
  DCU -- BUBBLE BOBBLE

  and wait for it, the people that started this whole thing..

  THE BEASTIE BOYS -- DRILLER

  so what happened then BEASTIE BOYS????

  AND NOW FOR SOME INSIDE INFORMATION:

  In  the cracking charts for DECEMBER, we in IKARI were voted to be number
  ONE... HOWEVER, the BEASTIE BOYS did not like this and complained to JEFF
  SMART and after much convincing and fone calls he finally gave in and put
  THE  BEASTIE  BOYS  back  at number ONE. SO GUYS, we were number one last
  month  OK???????  why  BEASTIE  BOYS  why????  what on earth have you got
  against  us?  we  have never said anything against you but you've started
  all this....

  So,  let  this  be  the  end of it and nothing more should be said on the
  subject ok?????
                                                               NIK OF IKARI

                         THE AMERICAN CRACKER SCENE

  GREETINGS ALL!!!
  This  is Dave (THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS) with my first article
  for the "ILLEGAL". I will try to keep you all informed about the American
  cracker  scene.  Right now, things are slow as hell cause not many cracks
  are  being  and  good  codes  are  hard  to  find! SOHO (Suppliers Of Hot
  Originals)  has  merged  with ESI. THE ALLIANCE (not teleconferencing but
  the  group)  also  lost  some  of  its  members to EAGLESOFT INC.. ESI is
  getting to be a very, very large group!

  The  weather  here  sucks!  I can't wait till summer and all of those HOT
  women at the beach! Ohhhhh... I had better stop before I get too excited!

  Well,  I  don't  know  if  you want to hear about anything else about the
  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  such as hot songs, movies, etc.. If you do,
  then tell old Jeff Smart! But for now, I won't bore you. Later on

                                 DAVE (THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS)

                            BIG BIRTHDAY ACTION!

  Hey,  man!  Are  you  tired of all these boring competitions of who's the
  best  of  1987? Then you're right here, cos we have a brandnew idea! What
  do  you  think,  when  you get a phonecall on your birthday and someone's
  singing:

  "Happy birthday to you,
   happy birthday to you,
   happy birthday dear XXXXXX,
   happy birthday to you!" ???

  Wouldn't  that  be  great? The only thing you have to do is to write your
  birth  date  and your telephone number down on a simple postcard and send
  it to me, Jeff Smart, PLK 123144 C, 4250 BOTTROP, WEST GERMANY and then I
  promise  to  call  you  up  on  your birthday and give you a song, do you
  agree??? And then I'll publish your birth date (not yer telephone number,
  what  do  you  think  of  me?)  in  the "ILLEGAL" so that one gets a full
  library  of famous cracker's birthdates! So perhaps you'll already see in
  the  next  issue:  "This  month birthday kids:..." and in addition to the
  publication  you  will  get  a phone call (perhaps you don't want hear me
  singing  for  you  -  then I say: "all the best - go on or something like
  that")  on  your day. So get up from your computer chair and give me your
  date and fone number and then "Happy birthday, mon!"
                                                                JS / TRIAD!

                             BRIAN'S KNOCKOUT...

  The   continuation  of  last  month's  article  "ein  bekotztes  Hemd  am
  Wochenende" starring:

    MICHAEL as BRIAN / TFD
    CHRIS as MR.ZEROPAGE / RSI
    MARKUS as MWS / RADWAR and
    JEFFIE as JEFF SMART / TRIAD

  Last month, Brian and me were invited by Markus from Radwar to stay for a
  weekend  at  his house together with MZP who also came up. After visiting
  the  Venlo  Copyparty on Saturday morning we, foursome, went to the local
  discotheque,  in  which the RADWAR Party took place. We ordered some beer
  and  Brian said: "I can bear a lot, I always go drinking at home together
  with  friends, I'm used to drink a lot." But in fact, Brian isn't able to
  to  endure  more  than five glasses of beer, whereas MARKUS, CHRIS and me
  are  the  real heavy alcoholics... hicks... CHRIS and me gave BRIAN a lot
  work  to  be  done,  that  means, we bought him 9 glasses of beer (German
  "ALTBIER")  and  2  glasses of JIM BEAN Whiskey, after having drunken all
  this  stuff  BRIAN  went  finally  down... We left the discotheque... and
  guess  what?! We walked 10 minutes to the discotheque and we needed about
  1  hour  to  return to Markus' home. Brian felt down, once, twice, he was
  sooo  pissed,  you  can't  imagine!  He embraced all lamp- posts with the
  words:  "Susan,  oh,  Susan,  wot  R  youhoo doin' 'ere?" and he gave the
  lamp-post a smacking kiss. We three kept on singing and Brian dropped his
  trousers, on the middle of the road of course and pissed on it... then he
  wanted  to phone his girl-friend out of a telephone box. He went into the
  nearest box, dialed a number and said: "Wot R youhoo doin' 'ere in myhiah
  line,  eh?"  and  then he wanted to leave the box but the didn't find the
  exit.  Finally  he managed to leave the box and came 30 metres behind us.
  We  rang  the bell at a house and ran away, just in the moment when Brian
  was  in  front  of  the door the opened and an old grandma coming out and
  shouting:  "Who dared to ring my bell!" And Brian: "Me not, I am too full
  to  ring  any bell mam. Good night, darling!". We finally reached Markus'
  home,  dropped our clothes and began to relax with playing some games and
  so  on...  Brian was asleep, but suddenly he looked up and said: "Oops, I
  better  visit  the  toilet!"  He stood up and went to the toilet. Then we
  heard  a  noise:  BRURG. BLURK. URK. ORK. We opened carefully the door to
  the  bathroom  and  saw BRIAN sitting on his knees if front of the toilet
  and he vomitted. Poor Brian forgot to put up the toiletdresser and we put
  Brian  into  the bathtub, where he could vomit so many as he liked to. We
  were  tired  to  death  and  so we didn't notice that Brian went into the
  kitchen  and  spread  out his vomitted beer. Bad discovery the other day.
  Brian woke up with a heavy headache and wasn't able to remember anything.
  The whole day Brian didn't say any word, at home he told his parents that
  he  had  upset  his  stomach with bad fish and played three days the sick
  boy. Ask him about the 19th of December when you meet him!

                                                                   JS/TRIAD

                         DISK COVER OF THE MONTH...
       Delivered to me by Strider / Fairlight! Thanx Toni! Laid 'her?

                 +-----------------------------------------+
                 |               FAIRLIGHT                 |
                 | (Picture of a disk set to fire by the   |
                 |  breath of a dragon saying "HOT STUFF!" |
                 |  and an eskimo warming his frozen       |
                 |  hands, saying "FOR COOL GUYZ!")        |
                 |                                ALAIN 87 |
                 +-----------------------------------------+

  HA!  Isn't  that  simply  great? No, not the mag, sucker, the thing above
  here.  Oh, man, I mean it was drawn by ALAIN '87 for FAIRLIGHT (can't you
  read  by  yer own on the cover?) Anyway, I really liked it so much that I
  wanted to publish it. I hope you don't mind, Toni!

  So,  all of you, if you have a disk envelope similar to this here or even
  better  then  don't  waste  your  time - make a move and send it to me at
  once,  'cos  I  like funny and exciting disk covers and perhaps we make a
  series  out  of it, if you agree and help me out with your disk covers to
  become  the  "DISK COVER OF THE MONTH" as a reward you'll get a free copy
  of your "ILLEGAL"!
                                                                JS / TRIAD!

                            CRACKER OF THE MONTH

  Who  was  the  major  group  in January 1988? Still TRIAD? Maybe BEASTIES
  again or perhaps IKARI? Or how or what?

   1. TRIAD                    (1)  7.46 pts
   2. FUSION                   (9)  7.33
   3. IKARI                    (3)  7.14
   4. HOTLINE                  (6)  5.73
   5. FAIRLIGHT                (4)  5.14
   6. BEASTIE BOYS             (2)  4.8
   7. EAGLESOFT INC.           (-)  4.27
   8. S.A.P.                   (-)  4.3
   9. T.D.F.                   (10) 4.07
  10. T.W.G.                   (5)  4.06

  Status: points stay the same...

                                DEMO CHARTS!

                     This month TOP FIVE EXCITING DEMOS

                      1. SNOWBALL SUNDAY by ASH & DAVE
                          2. OUT MANOUVERED by JCS
                       3. STARPIC by IAN & MIC / TRIAD
                        4. WIZE MIXES by ZENTREX 2005
                        5. VIETNAM by NOBODY / SHIELD

  Heya, Compunet and other artist! Do YOU wanna c yer demo in the "ILLEGAL"
  DEMO  CHARTS? Then pleez send yer creation to us, mon, and we'll give you
  a special reward!

                               SOFTWARE-STARS

   1. PLATOON                  (-)
   2. TETRIS                   (-)
   3. COMBAT SCHOOL            (1)
   4. BASKET MASTER            (-)
   5. BMX KIDS                 (-)
   6. FLYING SHARK             (2)
   7.T.R.A.Z.                 (-)
   8. SKATE OR DIE!            (3)
   9. OCTAPOLIS                (-)
  10. JINXTER                  (-)
  11. THE TRAIN                (-)
  12. INT. KARATE +            (6)
  13. RASTAN                   (-)
  14. BANGKOK KNIGHTS          (5)
  15. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE       (4)
  16. COSMIC CAUSEWAY          (14)
  17. HAT-TRICK                (-)
  18. MINIGOLF                 (-)
  19. GREAT GIANA SISTERS      (-)
  20. R.I.S.K.                 (15)
  21. KNIGHT GAMES II          (-)
  22. QUEDEX                   (16)
  23. PIRATES!                 (25)
  24. CARD SHARKS              (-)
  25. SIDEWALK                 (7)
  26. TO BE ON TOP             (-)
  27. NEBULUS                  (19)
  28. TEST DRIVE               (28)
  29. HUNTER'S MOON            (9)
  30. FIRETRAP                 (23)

                       THOUSANDS OF THANX FOR VOTING:

  NIK  /  IKARI, SLEDGE / HTL, MAD ALL / CFR, ACU / SAP, CF / BEASTIE BOYS,
  MZP  /  RSI,  MWS / RADWAR, SSD / TSK, PLEASURE, FALCONS and last but not
  lease MR.PINGE / TRIAD!

  + IMPRESSUM +

  +-------------------------------+
  | > ILLEGAL tm 1988             |
  | > 3. Jahrgang / 3rd year      |
  | > Nr. 25 (!)                  |
  | > (c) 88 by TRIAD             |
  | > AUFLAGE / CIRCULATION:      |
  |   ca. 400 Kopien / Copies     |
  | > unverbindl.                 |
  |   Preis: 1.60 DM!             |
  | > Erscheinungs datum /        |
  |   date of release:            |
  |   8. Feb. 88!                 |
  +-------------------------------+
  | > CHEFREDAKTEUR / EDITOR:     |
  |   JEFF SMART / TRIAD          |
  | > REDAKTION / "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
  |   MAD ALL - COMMANDOFRONTIER  |
  |   MIND SLAYER - AWESOME GUYS  |
  |   SWYX - TRIANGLE 3532        |
  |   MR.PINGE - TRIAD            |
  | > RED. MITARBEIT /            |
  |   SUB-EDITORS:                |
  |   Germany : RADWAR            |
  |   Belgium : CFR               |
  |   Denmark : TRIANGLE 3532     |
  |   Sweden  : FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD  |
  |   Holland : HOTLINE           |
  |   France  : DCU 1789          |
  |   U.S.A.  : THE AWESOME GUYS  |
  |   England : IKARI             |
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  | YOHO! We have a small jubilee,|
  | you are holding the 25th      |
  | issue of the "ILLEGAL" in     |
  | your hands! A big thanx to    |
  | all of you, who took part in  |
  | making your mag more and more |
  | known.                        |
  | Well, even though it's not    |
  | for if the FCS party will     |
  | take place on the 5th of      |
  | March 1988 in Bonn, the next  |
  | "ILLEGAL" will appear on this |
  | day. Make a trip to your      |
  | local dealer to get it!       |
  | Anyway, best wishes from the  |
  | whole "ILLEGAL"-team to all   |
  | of you...                     |
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