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                                                               Illegal #29
  This is ILLEGAL #29, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.

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                           COPYRIGHT 1988 BY TRIAD

                         THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE
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                                  WOSSUP!?

  I  was  sitting  in  my  room, packing my bag to leave to England for two
  weeks,  when  the  phone rang: -"It's HI-TEC! IXION and STRIDER called me
  asking if you are dead!" HA! Some idiot spread the news that I've died in
  a  car  accident  and  that  2 days after I got my driving license. Nice!
  Anyway,  it  was  too  late  for me to call anyone, I just managed to get
  GOLLUM on the phone and tell him I'm still living.

  When  I returned from England, everybody was really thinking I'm dead and
  it  took me lots of phonecalls to clear everything up... Shit, I thought,
  that  was  not a very funny joke. But I have to excuse me for that! Thanx
  for  all  regards  to  my  friends...  there  were  positive and negative
  perceptions I made... will have consequences soon...

  BACK to biz! Summer's going on our nerves now, even though some games are
  planned  to  be  released sooooon, hopefully as LAST NINJA II or FOOTBALL
  MANAGER II, so we're still waiting...

  Writing  these  lines  I'm  together  with  my  thoughts  at  the  Danish
  copyparty...  Anyway,  hope  to see you all up there. Leaving off for yet
  another issue, but not without saying hello to all doodes like: FAIRLIGHT
  (STRIDER  [thanx  4  callin'  so  often] + GOLLUM), SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP
  (WEETIBIX),  PAPILLONS (hot card, Martin), CFR (Allan + Ny), BEASTIE BOYS
  (Robbie),  BEYOND  (IAN),  ORION  (Leo + Mike), IKARI (Nickieboy, sorry 4
  mentionin'  u  so  l8...  how did u say: "The guy calls me every week and
  doesn't recognize my voice!" urgh...), TRIANGLE (SWYX), RADWAR (Markiss),
  NEW BENCORS (Randy Andy), FBR (JOE), TAG (Dave), TWG (MR.CURSOR, THINKER,
  ITB,  SPC  but  not  MCS, dis ass), TSK-CREW (SSD) and what the hell do I
  know who to greet...!

  SPECIAL  REGARDS  FOR  SUPER  GRAPHICS: HOBBIT - FAIRLIGHT for the genius
  comic,  LETO 2 - CFR for excellent piccies, PET'S BAND - EOC for the dood
  on  the  cover,  ALEX - TRL for some other grafix and of course to SARGIE
  BOY (TRIAD) for the front banner....

  ALSO  SPECIAL HELLO TO ALL TRIADEERS: the photographitor (if I had such a
  sissie  then...  never mind, Jannie!), IXION (again praying?), MISS PIGGY
  and  her  husband  MR.PINGE (Pingah up!), SARGE (not only genius with the
  joystick,  but  also  with  the  pen,  Joe!),  801  DC (Let us the lamers
  digitize,  Johnie),  HI-TOC,  eh,  tic,  tac,  tec  (let's  drive to Mike
  again...  will he let us in?), T.K. (old tea can, one question, thingenx,
  by the way, this is Mal the hammer), MIKE and the rest of FAME (Wo is der
  Porno,  wo  die  Schwulen  sich  auspeitschen? Alte Sau...), DEEJAY (kick
  start), METZG, eh, BUTCH + ACU!

  With a sad smile he says goodbye! Yours... JEFF SMART

                             NEWS FROM SYSTEM 4

  Yabba  and  welcome to yet another issue of "NEWS". God, I stay two weeks
  abroad, return and thousands of things happened...

   * SURPRISE,  SURPRISE!  On  a  conference  last  month, not only me, but
     several  ex-FUSION  members  were  surprised to hear IAN (remember the
     good  old  days with "Hey, Hey, Hey") announcing their comeback on the
     64!!!  The  name  of  the group will be BEYOND... beyond what? Anyway,
     best luck, IAN!
   * Well,  we haven't heard anything from him for two weeks as he flew off
     to  the  USA, but then 8 conferences in 3 days... that's cool... and I
     guess  the  commie  rate in America has decreased rapidly... Of course
     I'm talking about good ole drinking comrade STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT who's
     in the Staids for 2 full month enjoying the American way of life.
   * Bad news again... The police strikes back... part 701262! I almost got
     a  heart  attack when I was called by MARKUS of RADWAR telling me that
     the  cops  cleaned up his room and took all equipment with them... But
     without  special  proofs  they  had to return everything after a short
     while.  Anyway,  great job from MARKUS calling at once all his friends
     to let them know everything... Thanx!
   * Stunning...  One  only has to call JUST ICE to join IKARI... as JEWELS
     did!  Now  four  members  of  JEWELS joined IKARI and they are EXCELL,
     FLETCH, DOC and GANDALF. Quite surprising was as I called NIK of IKARI
     to  make  sure  it's true... I called him, said: -"Hi, it's Jeff, ehm,
     Nick,  one  question...  Is  it  true  that..."  and by that word Nick
     replied:  -"Yes,  it is...". God, hard life for him, he must be really
     pissed with 1000 guys calling him and wanting to know the truth...
   * One can only shake one's head looking at the SHARKS. Sentenced to lose
     after all members went to INXS, they took the Bard's Tale III ORIGINAL
     COPY  from  PAPILLONS  and  put  their  intro  on  it.  Great job! But
     unfortunately the game didn't work anymore... Hahaha!
   * Where  has  own fantasy gone when you have to make a new name for your
     group??  Some  take a music group's name for 'em, others name of games
     and  so on. The lame climax is the following: Can u differ between (in
     alphabetical   order):   HEPTAGON,   OCTAGON,   PARAGON,  PENTAGON  or
     TETRAGON??  By  the  waygon,  we  won't  callgon  us now TRIADGON just
     because of fashiongon.
   * Do  you  remember lame German group THE WEB and their member DJANGO???
     Now  it  seems  as he totally freaked out and gave the police adresses
     and private informations (!) about his old contacts as not less than 7
     guys from my town were concerned. And they swear now to make a trip to
     Coesfeld  and  "talk"  with  him  about  it. You see, you cannot trust
     everybody in these days...
   * At  the  mo  Bard's  Tale  III  seems to be THE GAME on the 64 that is
     making  everybody crazy. Not only JANITOR and CAPTAIN FUTURE / BEASTIE
     BOYS  were  fighting against dark creatures in the dimensions of SKARA
     BRAE,  also me and WEETIBIX / SCG started playing... The state so far:
     JANITOR entered already the 6th dimension without any cheating! And is
     soon  about  to  solve the game... CAP. FUTURE is in the 5th dimension
     and  changed  over to WASTELAND... I'm still hanging around in the 2nd
     dimension without any docs... More on this subject is yet to come!
   * TRIAD  GERMANY  again became larger! DEEJAY (ex-UNITED ARTISTS) joined
     the  forces  and  also presented his first (excellent) demo a few days
     ago.  He also signs responsible for the "DEMO DESIGNER" available from
     Digital  Marketing and listen and believe that about 50 units had been
     sold so far... in this world of pirates!
   * What happened to TRANSCOM? Now, COMMANDOFRONTIER seem to have a favour
     for  guys  leaving  T-COM  as  not  only  LETO  2 joined CFR, but also
     PHOTONY.  Both  have  to  expect nasty things as the sad rest of T-COM
     (mainly  the  old  C64CG-bunch) started already to moan about LETO 2's
     works but are going to use it for MIGHT 2. Still they haven't tried to
     learn English.
   * Have you also wondered how someone can change within 2 months when you
     look  at SERGE from SRG who now is BAMBAM from HOTLINE? I remember the
     old  days  when  he ran behind me in Venlo and now he has the same HTL
     attitude  that everyone has. He really seems to got BAMBAM in his head
     right  now  starting to make his intro texts more important by writing
     shit instead of starting to make a diet.
   * By  the  way,  both,  T.K. and me were not only wondering that HOTLINE
     have  some  members  in  Austria,  what  I barely doubt, but that they
     wanted T.K. to make an intro for them was more surprising.
   * Movements  in  Norway:  THE SHADOWS and RAWHEAD went together and will
     keep  on using RAWHEAD as their name that comprises now all members of
     them.
   * Also  movements in the Dutch area: Three guys from MADSQUAD built up a
     new group together with nobody less than old COCO, who was supposed to
     work professionally for some German company. Anyway, up to now, except
     an  intro  nothing could be seen from COCO himself, but rumors go that
     he is in biggest trouble with the police... Who knows?
   * As I started to look forward to the comeback of SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP,
     nobody  seemed to care much about... NOW, they really went back to old
     ideals  releasing  quality  cracks and their new member list loox like
     that 'ere: WEETIBIX, LEE, CHUNK, WEBB, and DR.J.
   * Another month passed by with exiting fights and important events as we
     all look forward to the PCW Show in September in LONDON...

  Thanx  4  all news to the following friends: STRIDER / FLT, MARKUS / RWE,
  MAD ALL + NY / CFR, NIK / IKARI, WEETIBIX / SCG, SCRATCH / TRIANGLE, CF /
  BEASTIE  BOYS, IAN / BEYOND and all mah friends from TRIAD... Leaving off
  to be back in another month.
                                                                         JS

                        THE LATEST NEWS FROM SYSTEM 4

  OK,  as  this  is  the  page that I left free for being up-to-date hoping
  there would happen anything to be worth to write about and....

   * Soon  you  will  be  able  to  get "ILLEGAL USA". Editor in the United
     Steaks  of  America  will  be  THE  THINKER  of TWG and first issue is
     announced to be released somewhere middle of August!
   * Shock  for  all  Dutchies (after winning the European Championships in
     football) that chose a pirate life, because nobody less than HOTLINE's
     oldest  member  WILL (he's about 40, I think) and some guys called LDA
     were  caught  by  the police! This changes the situation for all Dutch
     pirates totally, because a few months before the Dutch government gave
     shit  about pirates, and now? Anyway, one, of course, has to add, that
     these guys were selling software and making advertisements in some big
     computer  magazines  about  that  (as,  e.g. HARRY of HOTLINE was also
     doing).
   * However,  all  guys in Holland gotta be more than careful now, as they
     wanna  live  for a longer time. Do we have to be afraid of anything in
     VENLO now???

  That's it, definately! Yours, JS

                                  LION TALK

  Yo!  As  last month we were not so active, people really thought ORION is
  dead.  But  we're immortal after all! However, I'm studying at the moment
  in  England  and  that's  why  I  was not able to send all my contacts so
  often. Then I also had big, big problems with the post office as about 70
  packages  came  back,  because  I tried to cheat by putting tape over the
  stamps and not using the right amount of postage, but the pigs recognized
  that and sent everyhing back to me again!

  Anyway,  ORION  will  be  soon  back  into action again, as we started to
  import  and  crack  again, as latest products show... I have to thank the
  few  guys  that  kept on greeting and sending to us which I was very glad
  for,  I will always remember you in that times... Some even dropped us at
  once,  when  we  weren't  that active for some weeks and that was not the
  finest  way...  So  I'm  leaving off for the better times.

                                                        MR.DECIBEL of ORION

                              MAD ALL'S MAILBOX

  Excelsior...  Welcome  to  a  SPECIAL edition of my mailbox. This time no
  gossip except some of JEWELS joined IKARI, RAZOR EXPRESS is split up into
  THE  CLAN  and  HULKSTERS and that FLASH in Belgium split up after only 3
  weeks.

  This  month  I'm  going  to clear the legal rights of pirates, if you are
  scared  of the cops then read on and maybe you don't have to be afraid at
  all. Thanx to a good friend who studies international law I now know what
  countries apply what legal rights.

  First   of   all  if  you're  under  18  you  can  NOT  go  to  jail  for
  software-pirating, your parents can get a fine in some countries but even
  if  they  take  your  computer then you have a legal right to get it back
  after  the court-case... You can not get the disks or tapes back, because
  they  will be kept as evidence all after you turn 18 (when they scrad the
  offence from your sheet).

   * In  Belgium,  Luxemburg, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Spain
     there  are  copyright  laws,  but  the  government  does not recognize
     software  to  fall  under this law, copy as much as you want, they can
     only  get you when you sell games, because then you fall under another
     law which is selling without a license and tax-registration.
   * In  Yugoslavia,  Hungary  and  Turkey  there  are no copyright laws or
     anything  similar,  the  government does not care so emigrate to these
     countries if you want to become rich.
   * In  Germany,  France,  Sweden  and Denmark there are specific laws for
     software  (HARD  LUCK,  my friends) so they can bust you all. There is
     however  no  special  "software police" as some people claim, they are
     just plain cops who work for the national department.
   * And  especially  in  Denmark  if  you  get turned in by some big, fat,
     jealous  son of a bitch you have the right to know his name so you can
     set  fire  to  his  house  or  cut his car-brakes or something else as
     revenge...

  Well...  I hope I have not worried you toooo much.... remember... being a
  pirate  is something like having sex: Be careful and you won't get in any
  trouble.

  By the way, all pedestrians have to be very careful next time in Venlo or
  Denmark, because not only IAN of BEYOND has made his driving license, but
  also  this  guy  called  JEFF  SMART,  who  wasn't  sure which colour his
  Testarossa will have... Congratulations! L8R from MAD ALL-igator!

                 ILLEGAL AND COMMODORE USER (JUNE '88) WOW!

  Hups!!!  Weren't  you  wondering  when  reading  last  issue of Britain's
  fastest  magazine  COMMODORE  USER,  June issue when you discovered their
  article about "PIRACY" which was written by a dude called MIKE PATTENDEN?
  God,  I thought, I cannot believe my eyes, when I saw MY MAP on the third
  page  of  their  article and a short comment about ILLEGAL (and not "IT'S
  ILLEGAL..."  or anything else, Mike)... But in fact, I knew that they got
  some issues from LAZER of NBB, who asked me to give 'em out.

  Anyway,  looking on the map surely recognize my old jokes about the group
  "EL  TORO  C.S."  in Spain and "MAFIOSI" in Italy, which of course do not
  exist  at  all  (it  was  a joke of mine). Anyway, I was really surprised
  about  the  attitude  that was shown towards pirates. It was not that old
  -"They're  criminal  elements - Arrest and shoot 'em!" thing, no, no, no!
  It   was   rather  an  attitude  as  we  were  comparable  to  the  MAFIA
  organisation! We as the Mafia? Nup!

  But  I  really liked that article and I'm proud to be mentioned two times
  in  it... First with the quite positive comment about that piece of paper
  you're currently holding in your hands and then about that preview I once
  released,  you  remember KATAKIS?? What did Mike-boy write? -"We were not
  even supposed to know of its existence, but TRIAD are pouring out disks!"

  ANYWAY,  I  hope they send me zum money for my map and demo charts and so
  on.  Anyway, thank you for that nice article and keep on that work! Check
  out excerpts from the article here below.
                                                                         JS

                   PIRACY! HACKING AT THE INDUSTRY'S ROOTS

     "THE EUROPEAN HACKING CIRCUIT" (quoted from Commoder User June '88)

  They   even  have  their  own  publications.  Photocopied  fanzines  like
  "Delirious" and "It's Illegal (But Who Cares?)" provide information about
  current  goings-on  on  the  hacking scene and flaunt illicit activities.
  April's  issue of It's Illegal, the magazine published by Germany's TRIAD
  group  carries  news, interviews with hackers, a report on the Venlo copy
  party,  a review of *Rolling Thunder*, a debate on the relative merits of
  64  and  Amiga,  classified  ads,  news  of  the latest cracked games and
  charts.

  Basically it revels in its downright naughtiness, but at the same time it
  reaffirms the reasoning behind hacking. It holds the software industry in
  complete  contempt  and  almost  goes  as far as to rationalise a kind of
  Robin  Hood  image for itself. In an interview in the March edition a guy
  called  IAN  from  Brit  hackers FUSION talks of his reasons for hacking:
  -"To give people who can't afford to buy a game the chance to have it."

               POLICE ACTIVITIES: WHAT'S GOING ON IN GERMANY?

  As  the  police  never  caught anyone of the big and known guys, they got
  last  month MARKUS of RADWAR, after the MCG Party, where several guys had
  bad  luck,  too.  The  normal  way  how  they  get anyone is either about
  adresses  /  telephone  numbers  (=  then calling you up, waiting for you
  taking  the  phone  and  saying your name instead of "hello" or something
  else...  no  problem!)  in demos or cracks (but don't ask me how they get
  those  cracks  or demos) or they get hints and detailed informations from
  other  guys  they  got  for  promising them to decrease their punishment,
  which is really working as far as I heard.

  Once  getting  your  adress,  either a PLK adress, P.O. Box (very rare in
  Germany,  cuz PLK's are almost the same and you don't have to pay for it)
  or  private adress it's almost over for you. Take the post as an example.
  Normally  you  get a PLK (maybe translated as: POST STORAGE CARD) without
  giving  your  name or adress, so the cops have to wait in the post office
  until  you appear and get your packages from the counter clerk. Then they
  politely  ask you: -"Are you really in that group XX??" and GA-BOSH! Game
  over  for  you!  This  is happening more often than a raid at home, so it
  really  seems  as  if  trading  with  private  adress has gone safer than
  trading with a PLK adress.

  How  does  a raid at home proceed? Bing-Bong, the door bell rang... Who's
  that?  You wonder, two guys come up, showing you a charge against you but
  (!!)  this  charge  is  only  brought  cuz of assumptions!!! This is very
  important  and  that  means  that  they  have  no  proofs for any illegal
  activity,  so  you  still  can  say (if you hide all your disks) that you
  stopped illegal activity of course without getting deeper trouble.

  But  if  there is no way out for you, don't start to change the sides and
  throw  your friends into the shit that you are swimming in now! Take, for
  instance, DJANGO of old lamer group THE WEB, who even supplied the police
  with  detailed information like that BRIAN (TFD) once hid his computer at
  his  aunt's place and other things that normally only BRIAN himself knew.
  Better  behave  like  RADWAR did and call up your friends immediately and
  tell them to be careful... as they are anyway, hopefully!
                                                                         JS

                     ... AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN DENMARK?

  Firstly  I'd  like  to  thank all at ILLEGAL for letting me write in this
  awesome paper!! Well, why not tell you what's really happening in DK...

  All  those  stories about the police (the pigs) is hunting us freaks here
  are  for  the most highly exaggerated! The facts are that only people who
  make  a  lot  of  money  out  of  it by selling games to small lamers are
  caught!  So,  as  long as your Danish contact isn't selling you've got no
  fear  that  you'll  lose  him! Sure, I understand people who sell because
  stamps are not for free nor originals.

  I'd  like  to  see  people  from Germany writing about the pigs and their
  methods  there...  and  please  make it as objective as possible! I think
  that  the  German guys have it much worse than we in Denmark, but, maybe,
  those stories we hear from Germany are as exaggerated as in DK... ?

  Anyway,  we  pirates  are  like RATS: We'll go on forever and if somebody
  dies  there's  always  a new one to take over the place he left! The real
  problem  here  is  the GODDAMN post offices! You see, we can't cheat with
  the  stamps  such  as  putting tape over them and so on because they have
  hired  a  special corps which task is to catch all stamp-cheaters... I've
  been caught twice and next time they'll turn me in to the police!

  But,  2000 AD is still going strong no matter what they do to exterminate
  us,  they  can't!  Well, I don't think there are so many problems for us,
  pirates  here in Denmark after all we've heard from guys in Germany, ours
  are  minor problems... Before ending this, I'll greet a few people: TRIAD
  (MR.PINGE  and  T.K.,  see ya in the holidays, Thomas), IKARI (JUST ICE),
  SPHINX  (TBF), TRANSCOM (IRQ), ZENITH (Steve), MIC / IAN & MIC, DANNY and
  JASON  from  the  USA.  And  of  course greetings to the rest of our many
  friends!
                                                         APOLLON of 2000 AD

           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: CAPTAIN FUTURE OF BEASTIE BOYS

  They  are  fastest  getting  originals in Germany by a wide margin to all
  others,  but  afford  the  luxury  of cracking only the games they really
  like; the BEASTIE BOYS! I talked to CAPTAIN FUTURE, who advanced to their
  main cracker...

  Q: First of all, how old are you?
  A: 23 ages.
  Q: When did you buy your first computer and why for the hell?
  A: 3  years  ago  I  bought a C 64 and that's because of its big software
     supply, but I often travel to friends and watch what's going on on the
     Amiga and Atari ST.
  Q: When  were  the  BEASTIE BOYS founded and what does the current member
     list look like?
  A: BEASTIE  BOYS  were  founded  end of July 1987 of the ashes of the old
     YETI FACTORIES. Today's members of BB are: ACCEPT, CALVARY, SYNDICATE,
     PROFI and me.
  Q: Do you have a special reason for cracking games?
  A: Mainly just because it brings lots of fun.
  Q: And everybody is wondering why you are not cracking every original you
     get?
  A: This  is  simply because most of the games are not worth to be cracked
     and why should I spend time to crack it?
  Q: Who are your best friends?
  A: Well... my dog, STRIDER / FAIRLIGHT, JEFF / TRIAD and of course NIK of
     IKARI.
  Q: Do you have any enemies?
  A: No, from my side nobody!
  Q: What are your favourite...
  A: Demo (64): Border Zone which was available with the Sanxion original
     Game (64): Maniac Mansion
     Music (64): Combat School
     Movie: Lords of the Darkness by John Carpenter
     Music: Derek B.
  Q: What are you doing when you are not sitting on, in front or below your
     computer?
  A: I  enjoy  playing  Squash,  Billard  and  drinking  (strong beer) with
     friends.
  Q: What was the best incident in your life up to now?
  A: The 15 months at the German army.
  Q: (how did Nik / Ikari say?) Can you tell me, how you did freeze DRILLER
     and simultaneously remove the code protection?
  A: My genius-like FREEZER is doing that automatically of course!
  Q: How do you see the 64's future?
  A: I'm not afraid of anything, because so many 64s has been sold, that no
     company  can  afford  to stop programming for it and it will be surely
     the leading computer for another 5 or 6 years, until perhaps the Amiga
     will  take  over. Take, for instance Germany where about 50,000 Amigas
     were  sold  and  up  to  now  more  than 1,000,000 64s, so what should
     happen?

  Thanx  mon!  Next  month  we  hope  to  bring you an interview with MITCH
  himself from EAGLESOFT!
                                                                         JS

                            VENLO MEETING 16/6/88

  POF!  It's HI-TEC from TRIAD telling you facts and results from the Venlo
  meeting and the POWERRUN party... Let's go...

  It  woz the 16th of June anno domini 1988... half past ten... I woz still
  waiting  for  our  driver  (as usual), anyway, when he finally arrived we
  drove  to  Venlo! On the way we had the normal problems at the border and
  saw 22759 Dutch football freax...

  After  arriving  at  the  party  place, we went into the building and the
  party  woz  already  started... Anyway, 3 guys from TRIAD showed up there
  and  they were: T.K., DEEJAY and me! I also met my old friends like TBF /
  SPHINX, ROB / HOTLINE, MWS, ARND / RADWAR and all the others.....

  The  meeting  proceeded like every month, but again there were no special
  news  (in  form  of  stuff) and so TBF / SPHINX and me went into the chip
  shop  outside  (they  always  make  big  sales on the Venlo day), ate and
  drank,  I  was  told  very  interesting thinx and facts... about... well,
  doesn't matter.

  The  most  interesting  stuff on the party came, I think, from SPHINX who
  released  some  very  cool d-mos (as you can se in the demo charts on the
  last  page).  Anyway,  the five hours are always too fast over (Who said:
  "Wot a luck"?), and at the end we said goodbye to everybuddy and drove on
  to  the POWERRUN (now better known as "LAMERRUN" or "POWERLAME") party in
  Krefeld...

                               POWERRUN PARTY

  We  parked  the  car near the youth-club where the so-called "copy" party
  should  take  place  (I  still  don't  know  why  they  called  the party
  "copy"-party,  cuz  there  woz simply nutthin to copy...). We didn't take
  any  disks  with  us...  cuz  everybuddy  knows that an invitation can be
  spread and might even reach the police... eh? eh? eh?

  The absolute hammer joke was, when POWERRUN wanted to have 8 German marks
  for  1  single  person  to  entry!  I  just  said -"Fuck off, let's drive
  home!"... Result: We paid 5 marks for 5 persons.

  Let's  look  what  they promised: "Latest stuff for 64 and Amiga. Lots of
  guys  from  other  countries.  RAMBO III on video!" and so on... What woz
  there?? NOTHING AT ALL! We went up the stairs and saw 2 rooms as big as a
  diskbox...  which  we had to enter! We kicked some lamers' asses to pass,
  cuz  it  was  full... full with lamers and POWERRUN members... as I said,
  lamers...  The  only  known guys were BEASTIE BOYS (SYNDICATE), CFR (NY),
  RADWAR (AVH, MWS) and "WE" in TRIAD (plug...).

  The  best  part  was that T.K., MWS, AVH and a guy from 711 went thru the
  lame  town... sat down in a pub and made zum jokez... (Hi Arnd, where did
  you  take all that jokez from???)... After that we went back to the party
  and   I   counted   the   computers  and  GOSH!  8  64's  (one  had  even
  SPEEDDOS!!!!!!!)  and  1 lonely Amiga (HUSSA!)... the final result was an
  ANTILETTER from BB and CFR against POWERLAME (now u know!). Then the best
  idea was to drive home... that's it...

  HI-TEC's party ranking: z-class (0.3 points for the mins with RWE)

  SOME  RUSH MOSHEAUS TO: OCTAGON (MR.FIEND), SPHINX (TBF), JEWELS (ROOZE),
  DOM  (VIKING), TRIANGLE, (SCRATCH, SWYX), TSK (SSD), PE PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1
  (JESTER),  INXS  (TPI), HULKSTERS (JTC), THE MAC (call me!) and of course
  to  all  in  TRIAD...  I  hope  2 c u all in DK soon!! MOSH IT UP!!!

                                                      From HI-TEC of TRIAD!

                              CRACKIN' COMIC #2

  This  issue  of ILLEGAL features the CRACKIN' COMIC #2 drawn by HOBBIT of
  FAIRLIGHT. It's a story about how 1001 Crew got lost in a maze, hunted by
  Pacman,  and  how  IKARI,  FAC, TRIAD and of course FAIRLIGHT come to the
  rescue...

                                TAKE A LOOK!

                            COUNT 2, 3 AND X-RAY!

  Howdy  all  piratemaniacs,  especially  Commodore  User (for their pirate
  articles!).  It  was really nice to read our groupnames several times and
  to  find  it on that old map... (even though we are a real TRIAD existing
  on  3  different  places in the world: GERMANY, UK and SWEDEN!). I had to
  break my old habit of not buying the mag.

  -"...what  was  moving underneath IXION's eyelashes, some tears of pride?
  Whatever,  he  just  had to get that issue and then store it with all the
  other crap in his sentimental collection..."

  OK,  OK,  let's come to the point of no return! Since everybody will read
  this  on  the  greatest  copyparty  of 'em all (have mercy on me for this
  prophecy)  in  Denmark (Whos? Not Dexions', U Fool!) and you are probably
  reading  this  there (if that bloody mix of IKARI, DANELAW, UPFRONT, DOM,
  DG  didn't  spit  in  your  face). It's eggsaktly 1 year since all groups
  formed those international standards... And Oh-Boy, is everything a mess?
  So  in  the  name  of  law  and  order  I  present  to  you the up-2-date
  international  standards  '88 (I use our own name cause I get such a hard
  on.)...

                THE PRACTICAL USE OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

                             "1234567890123456"
  Always use all 16 characters (looks better + easier to scratch), and fill
  it out between name & group with spaces if necessary...

  "TRIAD/       AH!"
     If the group is 1st like this, then it's a demo! (Quite easy to search
     for  particular  group's demos if u use an alphabetic sorter... Else U
     hav to remember the name of the demo... not so easy!)

  "LAST NINJ+/TRIAD"
     A game with only 1 trainer (maybe unlimited life).

  "BIONIC C++/TRIAD"
     2 Trainers

  "ALIENS  +3/TRIAD"
     (NOT  +++, Americans and Pulsar) Some lame dix used "MEGACYBERNOID" to
     indicate a MEGATRAINER, but everybody seems to have forgotten the rite
     meaning  (a cool guy used 'CYBERNOID+M' and then it often had the rite
     meaning).  A  Megatrainer  was  ment  to  be  a  nice  trainer  with a
     possibility  to change options while playing... For example (MY FAVE):
     CBM-KEY  to  enter the next level... Today MEGA is anything between +3
     and up! So we had to invent a new term, the step beyond... GIGA!

  "ALIEN SY+G/TRIAD"
     and  remember  if  u  play  this 1, u can always make something happen
     while playing the game!

  "BIONIC C+H/TRIAD"
     This 1 has a hi-score saver, a saving routine that starts when u press
     reset!

  "RUGRAT   (TRIAD)"
     An  import from the States, the ( ) indicate that we didn't crack this
     1.

  THESE  ARE  THE  BASICS... Last year we even TRIAD, eh... TRIED sum other
  symbols...  but  everybody  used  their own fuckin' symbols so everything
  screwed up!

  "MONSTER PIC." and "MONSTER DOX" seem to be the best name for the picture
  and  the  instructions  to  a  game!  (In  TRIAD we rarely type DOX, no-1
  cares... so I bet a buck on that u havn't seen that last 1)

  I  think  that's  about  it! And if I forgot anything... hmmmm... use the
  force and let the happy meatballs bounce on your forehead...

  I'm  sure  I'll  see new solutions and if they are any good I'll probably
  type 'em down in your sweet ILLEGAL, anarchy mag #1. MAKE SURE that u get
  DI-ART, another game from TRIAD, the next #1 - release and don't forget 2
  lick  my  ass in DK, Kinder! Tanx 4 me and HELLFIREREGARDS TO: All German
  and English TRIADEERS, the new ideal...
                                                (CRUCIF) IXION of TRIAD '88

                              USA GROUP RECORDS

   * ABYSS  -  This  month  they  get a THUMBS DOWN. This is mainly because
     ORION was stolen from them & the controversy between them, PEACEMAKER,
     MR.MIDNIGHT,  and  FANTASY.  If they are to get a thumbs up next time,
     they will have to find another contact soon.
   * PE (USA) - With the departure of PERPLEXER (due to his phonebill) this
     group get NO THUMBS UP or DOWN. They have lost quantity (in the warez)
     but have gained a quality standard (in the warez).
   * I.N.C.  - This group gets a THUMBS UP for the releasing of Bard's Tale
     III,  and  their  quality imports. Their new added member (THE HUNTER)
     will help them a lot in their quest for quality warez.
   * F.B.R.  -  This group gets a THUMBS DOWN because nothing could be seen
     from them that is fully working.
   * EAGLESOFT  -  Another  group  with THUMBS UP because they release good
     stuff,  although this year ESI wasn't as good as last (due to the loss
     of  SOHO),  but  they are still one of the top contenders for the best
     group.
   * THE  SURVIVORS  -  A big THUMBS DOWN for T.S, they have seemed to lost
     their  main  supplier  in  IKARI  and  they will have a very hard time
     getting back to their past status.

  I'm  not  going to rate any more groups because they are not in the top 6
  (notice  that  I  don't even rank my group, so don't get pissed off at me
  because you're not in here!).

  A new wave sweeping the world is the EUROPEAN groups getting roots in the
  USA.  So far the following groups have started (or tried to start) groups
  in  the US: ORION USA (this group was started 2 or 3 weeks ago and is now
  dead) and LEGEND USA (a group that hasn't even got off the ground).

  This  is  just  the start of something big, that I think is a real stupid
  idea.  You  don't see ABYSS SWEDEN or EAGLESOFT ENGLAND. These groups are
  going to come and go real fast. With plans for groups like WANDERER GROUP
  USA  and  LEVEL 99 USA this is going to be a real disaster area. I hope I
  never ever see TRIAD USA cause I think I would throw up!

  The USA highlights of the month are...

   * PEACEMAKER - Most groups in 1 year (and still counting)
   * PEACEMAKER - Most times kicked out of a group!
   * D.S.I. (DUCK SOFT INT.) - lamest group of the century.
   * R.T.I. (ROUGH TRADE INT.) - newest group and
   * I.N.C. - Elitest group (of the month)

                            THE TRAITOR / F.I.S.

         THE GOLDEN RULES OF CRACKING! - RIGOR MORTIS IN SYSTEM FOUR

  Seeing that in all this time nobody learnt anything, it's time to publish
  the  TRIAD  golden  rules  of good cracking! This is hardly something the
  entire  can learn to love, but YOU, crackers have to fight for your right
  to  produce  quality  cracks!  Now,  starting  with  the  first  and most
  important rule:

  1. Always  play  your  cracks  to the final screen! The bugs in games are
     naturally not in the first few screens, but towards the end, where the
     author never bothered to check once the game was finished for sale!
  2. Don't  use  hi-tec gizmos like the EXPERT, naturally not for freezing,
     but  not  for  saving  memory  or  similar things either! Settle for a
     small, efficient monitor of the CCS-mon style.
  3. When  cracking  from  tape, make sure you stop the tape on EVERY file,
     saving all registers containing start and end! Often ZEROES are needed
     for  blank  sprites  and  similar things. Save each file to disk, then
     when finished, check the function of each file.
  4. When  checking  for  trainers,  make sure they don't conflict with the
     natural  functions  of  the  game.  Use I-BALL II as a good example of
     this! Play the game through after training it!
  5. In multi-loaders, there is something that can seem like a random crash
     every  now  and then. You don't want interrupts running while loading,
     but  SEI  won't  disable them cuz the load routine does a CLI. Anyway,
     make sure you do this:

     LDA #$7F
     STA $DC0D ; disabling further IRQ-generations
     LDA $DC0D ; important for CLEARING the reg

     LDA #$00
     STA $D01A ; same function
     STA $D019 ; same reason

     Now  why  clear  the  regs?  Cuz  otherwise, the first thing that will
     happen  when  the  loader does CLI is an interrupt! The random factor,
     comes  from  the fact that mostly the load routine is reached before a
     new  interrupt  is  generated,  but  if  it's  NOT, and a SEI had been
     ordered, this will prevent a crash!

  NOW  please  follow  these!  Be sure to protect your swapper friends from
  themselves by saying: -"Sorry pal, you'll have to wait two more hours for
  me to finish this 101% version..."

                  Written by JANNIE '88... You only live twice JANITOR '88!

                            MOVE OVER COMMIES...

  Wh  do  you think is the greatest threat to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA?
  It's  those  damn  commies,  right?  No,  no, no. Don't get me wrong, the
  commies  are  a  threat  and  should be eliminated!!! But it's those damn
  people  on  that  little island called JAPAN, that are America's greatest
  threat. We should have nuked their entire country when we had the chance.

  JAPAN  is nothing but a leech on America's back. We pay for their defense
  and   we   support  their  economy.  They  flood  our  AUTO  MARKET  with
  piece-of-shit-cars  like  HONDA, NISSAN, TOYOTA, etc. Japanese people are
  stupid.  Look  in  your  history  books  and  tell me what discoveries or
  inventions  JAPAN  is credited with - - - NONE AT ALL!!! They steal ideas
  from America and other nations and make them cheaper!

  Things  like  the  automobile,  television  and  semiconductors  are  all
  American discoveries and JAPAN exports all of this shit into the USA, yet
  they refuse to allow our goods into their market. JAPAN is destroying the
  American  economy. Lots of people are out of work; American companies are
  going  bankrupt;  and government is going deeper into debt. JAPAN is also
  buying  up  very  large  amounts of realestate in America. They own large
  amounts  of  major cities including 75% of Hawaii and 70% of Los Angeles,
  and list goes on...

  These  dam Japs must be stopped!!! So if you go out and KILL A COMMIE FOR
  YOUR  MOMMIE  then  don't  forget  to  SHOOT  A  JAP FOR YOUR PAP... With
  friendly regards...
                                 THE MIND SLAYER of THE AWESOME GUYS in USA

                              I HATE AMERICANS!

  An essay by MAD ALL / CFR (if your name is STRIDER the skip this article,
  I think your day will be spoiled - only joking, Tony...)

  AMERICANS,  only  mentioning  their  names  make  me  shiver, they're the
  loudest,  most  waste people in the world, they think EUROPEANS still are
  around  in  animal-skins and live in tents. They used to be such a boy to
  get on the phone, they could arrange conferences... but when you think of
  it,  you  only spoke to your European friends which you had your American
  slave to call.

  Nowadays American groups consider themselves to be one of the world's top
  20  if they import a game every day. GIVE ME A BREAK! Nothing is so easy,
  as to receieve something through a modem and put an intro on it.

  THERE  ARE  250 MILLION AMERICANS AND ONLY ONE (!) WHO CAN CRACK (MITCH /
  ESI)  PROPERLY! ...and perhaps some very few groups that have some decent
  programmers (e.g. ABYSS or SURVIVORS).

  The  reason  why  I'm  so pissed off at them is that they have completely
  spoiled  our  64  scene,  now THANX to the YANKS everybody wants the game
  super-fast,  they don't even look at the game, they just bang their intro
  on it and send it off and getting the false satisfaction that they're big
  pirates.

  They  have  changed  the way we EUROPEANS think, nowadays a lot of groups
  (no  names)  just  make  a  fast low-quality crack just to send it to the
  States.  They're  really not to blame because they've put it out under so
  much  pressure  by  those calling Americans saying stuff like: -"WANNA GO
  XCLUZIV?" or -"GOT A MODEM?".

  Said  by  one  member of IKARI, who import and export a lot: -"I wish the
  whole American scene would go away". And that's exactly what I think, now
  thanx to those boring modems, mail trading has become too slow, demos are
  not  spread  anymore,  because  those stupid air-heads in the States only
  want  games  and  the  art of letter writing to your friends has become a
  thing of the past!

  I  had  a 1200 Baud-US/European modem, but I'm glad to say that I've sold
  it  and  got  myself  a  nice  Amiga  monitor, the only thing that stupid
  machine  did  for  me  was  that  I  got  a  lot of bad American 3 disked
  shit-games (which I had to fix), gave me sleepless nights and got me into
  big ass-breaking fights with my parents when the phone rang at 5 AM every
  night.

  Well,  maybe  you  argue  with  me  or  maybe you think this is bullshit,
  anyway, you can't ignore that the Americans changed the 64 scene totally.

                                                                    MAD ALL

                            THE STORY OF SYSTEM 4

  You just want to scream but you keep silent. Bad luck, you think, but how
  about  commiting suicide now? No, she isn't worth giving up your life, is
  she?  Hum,  why girls at all? Why can't they be just cute and loving you?
  Why  are  you always losing when you're playing with girls? Fuck 'em, you
  think.  "I  don't  need  to love a girl" you write in big letters on your
  wall paper.

  However,  you  jump  again  into  the  deeper  dungeons  of  SYSTEM 4 and
  recognize  that  some  really  old  and  very  good friends of yours have
  returned  after some years. That's it! Parties and drinking for two weeks
  as  the big holidays have started. You stay at home while almost all your
  friends  spend  their  holidays  abroad. You start to listen to music ALL
  NIGHT  LONG,  and  making innovations for SYSTEM 4 as you still belong to
  the  A-class  (not concerning girls, however), as you make a plan about a
  gigantic maze in the basement of a forest next to you.

  You  saw  this  damn girl again in town with that goddamn friend of hers,
  but  you  didn't feel anything for her. Nothing is left, you think. There
  are so many other girls walking around, even some very good looking ones,
  why  crying then? But you're still afraid, that love shall tear you apart
  again.

  Holidays  move fast over and you start to talk to all friends about their
  holidays  representing SYSTEM 4 ideals in other countries. School started
  again.  It  bores you like hell. On another weekend you were listening to
  music  as  you  think  about all losses against girls. You recognize that
  they  were all the same age as you are. How about older or younger girls?
  Hum... still thinking about this, you fall asleep.

  Then,  another  sunny  morning,  wearing  sunglasses, you crawl into that
  goddamn  bus,  that  of  course was too late again. Yeuch, there are some
  really  hot girls, who could be something for one night, but for more...?
  You  finally  arrived  at  school,  boring  as  always... You're standing
  together with some friends of yours chatting about latest releases on the
  software  market  when  your  eyes  move  by  chance to two smaller girls
  (perhaps  two  years younger than you) laughing about something. The left
  girl's  smile  is  somehow  fascinating you... Damn, you think, she's too
  young.

  Back  into  your room again, listening to music... you again think of her
  smile...  somehow, you think, somehow, somehow she's very cute... but too
  young... 2 years... just two goddamn years... too much? Hum? This goddamn
  smile...  she's  got  a  nice  face, too... She's looking good... but too
  young...  really too young? (Three cans of beer make your minds confusing
  around  and  again  believeing  in  the  land of love...) ...what are two
  years?  She's  so  damn  cute... Does she have a friend? What's her name?
  Where's  she  living?  How old is she really? It could be two years... or
  more? Or less? Who the hell gives a damn for the age? You give a god damn
  for that smile! AS IT IS WHEN IT WAS, eh?

  To be continued...
                                                                         JS

                           WHO'S COOL, WHO'S NOT?

  How do you decide whether a group is cool or lame? If you ask an American
  he'll answer: -"If you're fast, you're cool!".

  As  some of you know, I'm the lucky owner of a modem and I'm trading with
  quite  a  lot  of  Yanks!  I've  tried  quite  a  few times to have a new
  TRIANGLE-crack,  which  the  guys in the USA don't want to upload, cuz as
  they say: -"Oh, that's already been released over here!". They don't care
  if  our  version  is a +++++++ version, or if it's 20 blocks shorter than
  the one they got... Only speed counts...

  If  this  is the future way of judging people, then I'll quit the 64 very
  soon,  cuz  I'm trying to do a good job, cracking and training the games,
  and if nobody wants my version, because FUSION or SCG cracked it two days
  earlier...  then  I  don't  see  much  fun in spending time on doing life
  easier for the gamefrex! When I decide if somebody is cool or not, I look
  at the following factors (in ranked order):

  1. Quality and quantity of own cracks
  2. Abilities of programming and designing (demos)
  3. Number of sendings a week
  4. (and last) fastness

  As  you  see,  fastness doesn't mean a lot to me! For example I have been
  trading  with IXION of TRIAD for a long time now, he's not very fast, but
  TRIAD's cracks, especially JANITOR's ones are fucking cool!

  That's  the  way I think we should judge each other! I'm tired of getting
  the  same answer all the time after time on my question to foreign freax:
  "Who  do  you  think  is  the  coolest  group in DK?"... THE PAPILLONS or
  JEWELES  most of 'em answer, "coz they are sooo fast!". Dammit! Honestly,
  I  think  THE  PAPILLONS  are  the most lame group in DK. Their pal-fixed
  version  of  The Games: Winter Edition was pretty lame cuz it didn't work
  at all!

  I  know  that  people  think  we  (TRIANGLE)  are  showing off a lot, but
  honestly,  why shouldn't we? Who in Denmark are better programmers? Well,
  I  can  only  imagine two groups, namely DEXION and UPFRONT! Other may be
  JEWELS and 2000 AD!

  Who  are  better crackers in DK? Nobody, I think. Our versions are always
  well-trained  and  very short! JEWELS crack a lot, and their versions use
  to work, but they're too long. PAPILLONS crack & recrack a lot, but... no
  comment as I don't want 'em to hate me more than they already do.

  Anyway,  the conclusion was: the 6th place in the "Cracker of the Month"!
  OK,  I'll go now, but just a few personal greetings to: TRIAD (JS, IXION,
  JANITOR, HI-TEC), NETWORK (MATCHAM), THE BRIGHT LION.

  All  the  AMERICANS  who  have  sent a modem: I'm nearly able to set up a
  computer  shop  selling  modems!  If  anybody wants to buy one, then just
  write  to  me  (adress  on  last  page).  Look out for my next article in
  ILLEGAL issue #30, but also watch out for an article written by COZMIX of
  TRIANGLE... Later Dudes...
                                                            SWYX / TRIANGLE

             THE DEMO OF THE YEAR 1988! 2ND TRIANGLE COMPETITION

  Well, I have an announcement for all of you! "The Demo of the Year 1988",
  TRIANGLE's  2nd  demo  competition  is  about to be published... In a few
  days, 30 groups will be informed about this event by a letter from us!

  The  rest of you will have to wait for an information-file, which will be
  spread soon... or write us!
                                                           SWYX of TRIANGLE

                          EVER HEARD OF ARCHIMEDES?

  I'm  wondering  if there is any support for a true pirate skipping of the
  all-hated  computer  Amiga,  continuing  straight  on  the  new  light...
  ARCHIMEDES!  This  new  computer  from  England  features  graphics modes
  similar to the Amiga but has 8 bitplanes, giving 256 colours WITHOUT that
  stupid HAM! There are 16 audio channels, and the processor is a RISC one,
  somewhat  like  the  64's,  without the extreme flexibility of the normal
  68000  adressing but with four times that one's speed. The O/S DOES work,
  even in this very first version, and the drive is fast and reliable, with
  800K  storage. What it does not have is the special co-processors and the
  hardware multitasking of the Amiga.

  Take  a look at the game ZARCH which was written by one of the co-authors
  of  ELITE, and you will see vector graphics, filled, being run at a speed
  which  is  hard  to  believe. My personal reasons for choosing this thing
  instead of an Amiga are;

   * I don't want to enter an already overcrowded market with old names and
     without new ideas.
   * The  Amiga is clearly over-the-top and is poorly organized internally,
     nothing really making use of it's potential.
   * I like the working of the RISC processor, it has many features similar
     to those of the 64's, but with a power that is frightening.

  Well,  JANITOR will proceed on this new computer soon along with a so far
  unknown  guy  who has the right spirit, if he could stop chasing gals (eh
  Richie?), so TRIAD will have an ARCHIMEDES division by then.
                                                                 JANNIE '88

                           SOON COMING, BUT WHEN?

  It seems as if the summer took the breath of all programmers, but in fact
  there  are  lots  of games announced to appear until the end of 1988. All
  titles without any guarantee;

   * ACTIVISION: Afterburner, R-Type, SDI, Time Scanner, Lock On, September
   * CASCADE: Nineteen Boot Camp, Ringwars
   * CODE  MASTERS: Super Stuntman, Dizzy, Jet Bike Simulator, Race against
     time, Pro Snooker, Ghost Hunters
   * GREMLIN:  Mickey  Mouse,  Pink  Panther,  Super  Skills, Night Raider,
     Alternative Olympics, T-Rex
   * HEWSON: Maruader, Roadstar XRI, Azmodius, RC3 (Cybernoid II)
   * INCENTIVE: Dark Side (Driller II)
   * MARTECH: Wanted, Le Mans, Program Wars
   * MICROPROSE: Super Huey III, President Missing
   * OCEAN: Guerilla Wars, Vindicator, Daley Thompson '88, Rambo III
   * PALACE: Barbarian II, Ultimax, Museum
   * SYSTEM 3: The Last Ninja II (release date: 14th of July '88 if one can
     believe System 3's manager)
   * US GOLD: Dream Warrior, Streetfighter, Roadblasters, Thunder Blade

  Let it come... We're prepared for some hot Christmas releases...

                                                            SSD of TSK & JS

                        AUSTRIA - LAND OF CONFUSION!

  Austria is really a strange country for computerfreaks! Read this article
  and you'll know what I mean...

  The  most  important  thing  first:  We, in Austria haven't a law against
  pirates,  so  we can swap without fear to get by the police. That's good.
  For us it's hard to be fast, coz the Austrian post is pretty lame (I sent
  an  Express-letter  to  Denmark  - it travelled 6 days) That's bad! Let's
  talk about Austrian crews. I think there are 3 well known groups:

   * TSK-CREW: The only crew in Austria which crack originals - the hottest
     crew in Austria.
   * TAU:  What  happened  with  TAU? 2 years ago it was a great group, but
     Lloyd  became  crazy  and  kicked the best members out. TAU is dead! I
     don't understand why everyone greets TAU!
   * SOFTTIGER CREW: Yeah! It's true! They are members of ACE, but they pay
     5000  Austrian  Schillings  (800  German Marks) to be a member of ACE.
     This crew is pretty lame.

  So you see, we from TSK-Crew can't swap with any Austrian crews, coz they
  are  lame.  In  other  countries  there  are  lots of Topcrews. Not so in
  Austria.  If you come to us, you will be very confused when you look in a
  computer shop and you get a shock! OK! You can get hardware, but it is so
  expensive  that  it is cheaper to go to Germany and buy all your hardware
  there.

  Software?  If  you  get hot stuff (that means 6 months old), you must pay
  700  Austrian Shillings, that is about 100 German Marks and pretty lot of
  money  for  lame  stuff that you can have for nothing... You see! It is a
  hard life to be a computer freak in Austria!
                                                             BIG BEN of TSK

                THE DIFFICULTIES OF WRITING SUCH A MAGAZINE!

  Original Title: The Hard Life of an Editor (Warner Bros 1937, directed by
  Jeff Smart)

  There it is again! Yer fave cracker mag ILLEGAL which should be available
  on  a big copy party from a strange looking guy with a black moustache in
  the  middle  of  his ugly face... Have you spend any thought what time it
  takes to release such a mag every month in time? No?
                                                                JEFF SMART!

  1. First  of all, as every month, your editor is waiting for all articles
     to  arrive.  He's  spending  the  night  on  the street, sitting every
     morning  in  front of the mailbox, waiting for the postman... and when
     the postman shakes his head, starting to cry!
  2. Second  thing  to take some time to write down all things that go thru
     his minds which could be of interest for you. Such things can suddenly
     come  in  his  mind at any surprising time on any surprising place, as
     e.g.  when  having  breakfast,  when  having  a shower, in the bus, in
     school,  in the car, in bed, at night during a conference and so on...
     The main task to have then always pen and paper available, if not, you
     can simply forget it, because two minutes after, all thoughts are gone
     to hell (or what the hell do I know where these thoughts go?).
  3. Third and most important thing is, to get one evening or night free to
     sit down on the keyboard, find the program disk and start to type some
     articles.  This  can  only  be realized after drinking several cans of
     beer  to get into the right mood. While typing articles that were sent
     to  the  editor it is very important for him to keep his glasses clean
     and  always  to  have  another computer ready to be able to decode all
     your damn handwritings.
  4. Fourth thing is, after having typed all articles to think about how to
     use  graphics... After getting to the conclusion that this should have
     been  done  before  starting to type anything, you take all your disks
     into the microwave and start to cry...
  5. Fifth thing is to start at point 3 again.
  6. Number  six is to check the printer an to give up because this $%!%$#$
     thing is fucked up!
  7. After  perhaps getting all pages printed, you may do the 7th point and
     that  is,  count  all pages that were printed... You probably find out
     that there is one page missing and so
  8. Number  eight:  The  editor starts to write such a bad article as this
     one here...
  9. Arise to the next 30 issues!

                                ARCADE ACTION

  Yup,  welcome  to  another issue of "ARCADE ACTION" and as I was in Great
  Britain I'm able to present you some very new machines...

   * ROADBLASTERS:  This  game  from SEGA should be released for the 64 any
     second  by  US  GOLD.  Anyway,  the shortest description for that game
     could  be it's like OutRun but you have to shoot other cars up. Sounds
     good, eh? The graphics look somehow worse than OutRun but the gameplay
     has been improved. The main task is to shoot up red cars, but you have
     to  pay  attention to tanks trying to shoot you at the same time. Then
     you  can  get  extra  weapons  from a nicely animated helicopter, e.g.
     extra  speed (where your car becomes unmoveable) or double laser guns,
     etc.  The  movement  works  with a gas pedal for your right foot and a
     steering  wheel  with two different fire buttons. You only lose a life
     when  no  gas is left in your tank, but not for crashing on other cars
     or  being  shot,  so you have to drive economically. The game features
     about  30 levels and brings lots of fun. Who does not like it to drive
     fast and shoot up other drivers??? Ranks for ROADBLASTERS: 92 pts.
   * THUNDER  BLADE: Another stunning machine from SEGA. You have to fasten
     your  seat  belt  on  an  original helicopter seat. You have the steer
     control between your legs (Ouw!) and the monitor is down below so that
     you  really  get  the feeling of flying a helicopter. The graphics are
     the  absolute top of what one can imagine. You either fly among houses
     or  trees  or  fly above them, this is changed within every level. You
     have  on  the  left a switch for speed as Afterburner has, forward for
     increasing  and back for decreasing. Two different weapons are: Either
     a  missile  or  a machine gun. The task is shoot down other copters or
     tanks  that  shoot  and to avoid collisions with them. The gameplay is
     first  as  difficult as Afterburner but with some playing it brings no
     special  difficulties  to reach higher levels. Have also a look on the
     superb high score entry sequence. Only the great, great graphics would
     be  a  coin worth. All together one can say that THUNDER BLADE is very
     similar to Afterburner and deserves 96 pts.
   * HEAVYWEIGHT  CHAMP:  And the last review for this month is HEAVYWEIGHT
     CHAMP from guess who!.... Right! From SEGA. Finally a totally new game
     concept  which  you need your muscles for. Wonderful graphics announce
     the  fight  for  the heavyweight championship in boxing. Opponents are
     shown (including Mike Tyson) that you have to fight against. You start
     against  the  number 5 in the world rankings. You take a bolt in every
     hand  that  you can move up, down, make circles with and push into the
     machine!!!  Yes,  it's  really  boxing  -  live!  You hear the referee
     presenting you and your opponent and then... BONG... the fight begins.
     You  move the right bolt up in front of your opponent who beats you...
     Ah.  You  punch  back, up in his ugly face (graphics are very good and
     detailed,  even  the  audience)  and  down  in  his fat stomach... and
     then... he falls down...
     1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. you hear the counting but this ass stands up again
     and  starts  punching you! Stronger into the machine you finally knock
     him  out!  Then  the  next opponent is number 4 who starts beating you
     like  TYSON  himself. Anyway, the animation is brilliant, you can look
     through your fighter's body and see only the fists landing hits on the
     opponent.  And  you  really feel the fight in your arms after a while.
     Great job! The high score list features about 100 entries! The monitor
     moves  left and right, parallell to your fighters' moves. The only bad
     thing  about  this super machine is, that if everybody pushes the bolt
     like  a crazy idiot as I did, it won't live for very long time. Beside
     this,  HEAVYWEIGHT  CHAMP  is another masterpiece from SEGA who proved
     again  that  they are unbeatable in producing the most exciting arcade
     machines... So it gets 98 pts from me...
                                                                         JS

                               ARCADE TOP FIVE

  1. AFTERBURNDER
  2. HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP
  3. THUNDER BLADE
  4. ROADBLASTERS
  5. SUPER HANG-ON

                              C64 GAME REVIEWS

   * BIONIC  COMMANDO:  At last a really good game from GO!, the first good
     one as far as I remember. Converted from the arcade machine. Very good
     gameplay,  brinx  lotsa  fun!  Sounds  great, graphics also high! High
     motivation. Jump, shoot and collect weapons. Great! 94 pts
   * HERCULES:  A  rather  boring "hit-the-head-of-your-opponent" game from
     GREMLIN  as  it's slow and you can only proceed to higher levels after
     difficulty  collecting  12  items falling down from above. Well, well,
     graphics aren't that good either. Better wait for Barbarian II. 25 pts
   * VIXEN: Called in Germany SHE FOX, cuz "VIXEN" means in German: "wank".
     Ha  ha.  Now,  the  game  isn't that bad to run with a nicely animated
     woman  sprite  thru the jungle and collecting pieces, but it soon gets
     boring, and that's why... 58 pts
   * ALIEN  SYNDROME:  Great  conversion  of SEGA's arcade, 7 levels packed
     with  great  atmospheric  space  fights. A real good shoot'em-up, that
     deserves 95 pts.
   * SHACKLED:  UUrrgghh!  A  bastardly bad Gauntlet variant, pure shit, NO
     SINGLE POINT!
   * MANIAX:  Remember QIX on arcade? It's the same with brutal bad graphix
     which  looks  like  as  they escaped from 1983 into that game. Anyway,
     high  motivation nevertheless, this could be the start for a QIX-fever
     as Krakout was the start for a BREAKOUT fever... Anyway: 43 pts.
   * SKATE  CRAZY: Would have been better with clear and logical movements,
     anyway: 84 pts.
   * BARD'S  TALE  III:  The  best  of 'em so far. Good improvement is that
     you're  now able to save during the game. Even the graphics are better
     and the game will take yer breath for a long ride! 97 pts

                             AMIGA GAME REVIEWS

   * INTERCEPTOR:  The  long awaited flight-simulator from ELECTRONIC ARTS.
     It's  fast and features quite good graphics. Some different mission to
     take,  e.g.  to  shoot  up other planes, bring the president safe to a
     place  and  so  on...  make  the  game very interesting. Use your 1 MB
     expansion and you will be surprised! Anyway, good job. 95 pts
   * BUGGY  BOY:  Some  are  fascinated, others say: -"It's like the 64 and
     even  worse".  Now  the gameplay didn't change of course, the graphics
     are  just better, but that's all. It's just a normal 64 conversion and
     nothing special, so... 81 pts.
   * STREETGANG:   Remember  the  shit  on  the  64?  Just  another  normal
     conversion.  You  can't make a shitty game better. Bad scrolling, shit
     graphics, stupid gameplay... so what? Another empty disk! 0 pts
   * DRUID  II - ENLIGHTENMENT: Yet another conversion... just good. Better
     graphics,  but the game stays on the same level. Those who didn't like
     DRUID will not like it. 80 pts
   * BOBO:  Finally  a  new  game  concept which forces all your skill in 6
     different levels with brilliant graphics! 94 pts
   * FOOTBALL  MANAGER II: As it is still not released on the 64, the Amiga
     biz at last became faster... for the first time! ANYWAY THERE IS A BUG
     IN  THE ORIGINAL GAME and ADDICTIVE has to take all originals BACK and
     start programming again!! As the game crashes in the F.A. CUP final...
     Anyway,  the game is as good as the predecessor, even though it's more
     complex and takes more time. 96 pts
   * WORLD  TOUR  GOLF: I don't want to, but I have to say: It's another 64
     conversion  and  it  went good like hell, it really improved! It makes
     use  of the Amiga's capacity and features lots of different courses to
     play and a construction set! Great, EA! 95 pts
   * FIRE  AND FORGET: The same as Crazy Cars, but now you have a cannon on
     your car and you are able to shoot other cars... 79 pts.
   * FUTURE  TANK:  Take  your  tank,  move  around,  shoot up others. Nice
     graphics. 84 pts
   * MANIAX:  Even  though  the  graphics  are  better than in Powerstyx it
     doesn't reach it's challenge. 45 pts
   * RETURN  TO  GENESIS:  A  complex  space  ship  game that features nice
     graphics. 88 pts

                                                            Done by FB / JS

                             CHARTS - JULY 1988

               C64 GAMES                          C64 CRACKERS

    1. BARD'S TALE III          (-)      1. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP    (5)
    2. BIONIC COMMANDO          (-)      2. IKARI                    (1)
    3. ALIEN SYNDROME           (-)      3. TRIAD                    (3)
    4. IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II    (1)      4. JEWELS                   (7)
    5. PARANOIA COMPLEX         (6)      5. FAIRLIGHT                (2)
    6. IKARI WARRIORS           (3)      6. PAPILLONS                (8)
    7. IO                       (9)      7. EAGLESOFT                (9)
    8. THE GAMES: WINTER EDIT.  (2)      8. TSK-CREW                 (-)
    9. OH NO!                   (-)      9. PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1        (-)
   10. TARGET RENEGADE         (16)     10. OCTAGON                  (-)
   11. THE THREE STOOGES        (4)     11. BROS                     (-)
   12. SKATE CRAZY              (-)     12. TRIANGLE                 (6)
   13. REVENGE OF DOH          (15)     13. FUSION                  (10)
   14. DRACONUS                 (-)     14. HOTLINE                 (15)
   15. G.U.T.Z.                 (5)     15. ORION                    (4)

               C64 DEMOS

    1. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS   by SCOOP DESIGNS
    2. DIGIAXION              by SPHINX
    3. DOUBLE DENSITY         by ASH & DAVE
    4. IMBECILE               by SPHINX
    5. BABYLON 3              by THE WANDERER GROUP
    6. MIP MIP POLICE         by 2000 AD
    7. THE BOGGMAN            by IAN & MIC
    8. EXAMS                  by COMMANDOFRONTIER

  Chart comments: Demos: Very hard decision this time cuz lots of very well
  programmed  demos  arrived...  So don't kill me for the judging, somebody
  had to be first and somebody had to be last...

  Thanx for voting to: FAIRLIGHT (STRIDER), IKARI (NIK), SCOUSE (WEETIBIX),
  ORION  (DSH), CFR (MAD ALL, NY), RWE (MWS), TWG (ITB), BEASTIE BOYS (CF),
  TRIAD (MR.PINGE, HI-TEC, T.K, JS)

  IMPRESSUM
  ILLEGAL(TM) by JEFF SMART
  Issue  #29 - Released on July 8th
  1988 - Circulation: 1500
  Editor-in-Chief: JEFF SMART
  Co-Editors  &  Contributors:  MAD
  ALL  / CFR, SWYX / TRIANGLE 3532,
  MR.DECIBEL  /  ORION,  FAIRLIGHT,
  2000  AD,  NBB,  SCG, IKARI, EOC,
  BB, FB, TRIAD, SPHINX, STARS, THE
  METRO  BOYS,  TAG, FIS, TWG, FBR,
  TSK-CREW

  Typed in by: KING FISHER of TRIAD

  Preview  of  Issue #30: Interview
  with  MITCH  of EAGLESOFT and NIK
  of IKARI * Old C64 Legends - part
  1  (1982-85)  * More Legends drop
  the scene * Reports from two cool
  Danish parties

  Comments:   Good  morning,  dear.
  Would  you  please  climb off me?
  Well,  as  this  ILLEGAL  will be
  released on the DOMINATORS - DG -
  UPFRONT  and  IKARI  (or  JEWELS)
  party  up  in Denmark, we managed
  to increase the circulation again
  of  200%! Ha, I hope I won't lose
  much  money  with copying so many
  issues  for you. Next month it'll
  be released at the Venlo meeting,
  so  your  stuff  for  publication
  should  be sent up to the 10th of
  August  to  me.  Still  the  best
  thinx   in  life  are  "ILLEGAL",
  aren't they? /JS

