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                                                                ISSUE #30!
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  |      THE PC SHOW       |
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  |   "ILLEGAL" presents   |
  |     OLD 64 Legends!    |
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  |   Two Interviews!!!    |
  |     Nik of IKARI +     |
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                           GREETINGS AND WELCOME!

  Greetings,  and welcome to the September Edition of "ILLEGAL". As you are
  probably  reading  this  at  the  PERSONAL  COMPUTER  SHOW,  we  from the
  "ILLEGAL" team would like to say a big "THANKS" to everyone for attending
  this show and making it the best cracker meeting ever!!!

  We say special "Thank you" to:

  (1)  The  Jester  of  Public  Enemy  No.1  for  use of a video camera and
  photocopier.

  (2) All guys in England who let people stay with them.

  (3) All the guys who made the trip from places all over Europe to be here
  at the show.

  (4)  All crackers and pirates across the world, who are each contributing
  their  own  little  bit into making crackers an invincible force that the
  police and software companies (hopefully) will never beat!

  (5)  Mike  Pattenden  of  "Commodore  User"  for writing correct and true
  things  about  us  and  not the bullshit that Ferrari owning rich bastard
  software companies told him to say.

  (6) All dudes who made articles for us and made this issue possible!

  Signed:
                                                            Lazer / NBB and
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                            THE WEATHER BROADCAST

  The  sun  keeps  on  shining  all  over Europe. Only in Sweden one has to
  expect  quite  a heavy precipitation of Isepic, and the temperatures will
  sink below the freeze-frame point. The zeropage is startled with too many
  zerobytes  that  cause  a  lot  of damage in the regions around 0400 and
  0600.  People  with  an alergy to Sprites, which might cause pixel-fever
  should  better  stay  in bed and are well advised not to touch the border
  zone...

  The  thermometer will climb on its highest point on September, 14th up to
  18th   on  the  PC  SHOW  in  London  without  any  doubts,  followed  by
  high-tension,  drunken  pirates,  lots of fun, 100.000 expected visitors,
  meeting  all  companies, collecting brochures and posters and lots of new
  releases...

  In  the  upper  regions of the expansion port rain can be expected around
  midday,  and  Reset  buttons may be pressed. Around the joystick ports it
  may even start to snow, so take a big disk box.

  TAKE CARE OUT THERE!
                                                                       J.S.

                                   WOSSUP?

  Hi  doods! AMERICANS take over! This is the main theme every rational guy
  in  Europe  is  seriously talking about, first consequences were drawn by
  Nik  of  IKARI who said he can't crack when lots of Americans are calling
  him  and  wanting games as fast as possible. Other groups lick the ass of
  every American calling 'em for trading, others produce bad quality cracks
  to be the first in the States, others recrack games and some others again
  release  old  games  with new titles, 'cuz Americans do import every game
  they do not know! Now all rational guys see the big danger in this system
  and are going to change something if possible!

  Strange  state...  Anyway,  wake  up!  The  best  time of the year for us
  pirates  is  coming  with loads of new games up to Christmas, so there is
  still something to look forward to...

  But OF COURSE there are still some good friends left in this rough pirate
  society of today, some of which are:

  SCOUSE  CRACKING  GROUP (Georgie-boy and the rest! Liverpool's soing fine
  in  the championship, eh?), BEASTIE BOYS (CF and Accept), IKARI (Just Ice
  and  Nik,  gotta  meet you big dudes), NEW BENCOR BROTHERS (Andy-Man, Mik
  and Caz - Thanx for all, Randy), EAGLESOFT INC. (The Butcher + Mitch, one
  of  the  veeeeeery  few  decent  Americans), FAIRLIGHT (the commie killer
  Strider  and  soccer  star GOALlu, wossup with ya, Tony?), BROS (only the
  whole  Dutch  section),  ORION  (Dsh  and  Mr.Decibel),  TRIANGLE (All at
  Triangle,   especially   SWYXIE  babe),  F.B.R.  (Joe,  how's  everythin'
  goooin'?), I.N.C. (Dave dude), T.A.G. (Dave dude), COMMANDOFRONTIER (Dave
  du... err... Allan, Ny and the whole bunch! Nice tape recordinx!), RADWAR
  (Markus  and the rest), T.W.G. (err... Markus and the rest), COSMOS (SSD,
  servus!),  ASH  and  DAVE, HOTLINE (now...?), KROMBACHER PILS, CARLSBERG,
  TUBORG,   GATZWEILER,   FRANKENHEIM   (Cheeeriooo!),   WIZAX,  INXS  (The
  pimple...  err,  Pimp), IAN dood (FC MBRO promoted?), 2000 A.D. (Apollie,
  guter  Kollege),  SPHINX, FIRE EAGLE, IAN + MIC, PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1 (Colin
  my  man!),  Dave  E. mit (auf?) Angela, JL, SMITHS (for the new one), JOY
  DIVISION (also for the new one), NEW ORDER (where's the new one?), END OF
  CENTURY  (Pet's  Band  dood!), J.C.S. (thanx FOZZey bear), REDLINE (sorry
  Alech),  ZENITH  (where's  the  mag, Dave?) and MR.PINGE (Stevie), 801 DC
  (Johnny), SARGE (Joe!), IXION (Studixion), JANITOR (ein guter Freund), TK
  (ganz  ruhig,  Thomas, erzhl noch mal von vorn'), Hi-Tec (Nein und Du?),
  ACU  (Leerdisketten  Knig),  Deejay  (Fottos Negatiwe?), FAME (noch sonn
  guter  Freund,  der  Michael, nein, der muss Latein lernen... aber abends
  ficken...) ...I hope I haven't forgot anyone... if so, sorry!

  Hoping for better times...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                             MAD ALL'S MAILBOX!

  Preeeeeeesenting the one, the only, the most inflated egg alive... here's
  MAD ALL alive

  -  Excelsior,  let's  start  off this month with a very strange fact that
  happened  in  Austria,  the  well known group TSK is no more. In fact the
  last  months  the  TSK  members  were not satisfied with their leader TSK
  himself, you see it was after him that the group was named, now the other
  members decided that they would not stay in a group where the guy getting
  the  most  fame didn't do anything, so they kicked him out and formed the
  group called COSMOS, so COSMOS is in fact TSK but without TSK, can it get
  more confusing???

  -  Something very strange happened last month in Belgium which nobody can
  explain!  On  a  local channel called "TELE LIEGE", where normally the TV
  logo  should  appear  between  programs,  viewers were now treated to the
  intro  that  THE  CHAMPS  use  on  Amiga,  the scrolly was filled with an
  opening message welcoming people to this TV channel and then was followed
  by greetings, very strange indeed.

  -  I  was  surprised to hear from the editor of "DELIRIOUS MAGAZINE" that
  both,  myself and Jeff Smart were thought to by some of its readers to be
  the real after their ghost writer "EVIL EDDY".

  -  Well, I saw it coming for a long time, but it even went further than I
  imagined  it  would...  what  am I talking about? About the little people
  known  by  the  pirate world as lamers, who wrote to COMMODORE USER after
  the  piracy  article  appeared...  for a good laugh just read last months
  letterpage  where  a  'cracker'  called "TURBO" from the superduper world
  famous  group FRONT provides us with a diary of how a real cracker spends
  his day... It's always the small people who have the biggest mouth...

  -  Prize  of the month for the most pretentious scrolltext goes this time
  to  KAZE  of  TST in his rather good demo called "NEW LIMITS", the coding
  and music are of a very high level but the scrolltext seems to be written
  by an even bigger egomaniac than myself...

  - Rumour has it that the German music group called 'OK' who had a big hit
  with  their houde hittrack called "OKAY", are in fact the same people who
  go under the name of AXXESS on the Amiga.

  -  Thankyouverymuchyouoldfriend goes to HOBBIT of FAIRLIGHT for a copy of
  his  "CRACKIN' COMIC #3". News about him is that he's got a job at one of
  Belgium's  biggest  weekly  comic  magazines  called  "TIN  TIN", I still
  remember  seeing  the  first  full  comic he ever made and discussing the
  pro's and con's of marvel comics... seems like yesterday!

  Well, people in the words of the immortal Bugs Bunny...

                                                          That's all folks!
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR
                                                      Thanx to RAM for info

                           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH
                        THIS TIME: MITCH / EAGLE SOFT

  Without  any  exception every American game is cracked by this dude MITCH
  of  EAGLE  SOFT  INC.  and this throughout 6 years! No other group on the
  globe  keeps  itself  so  isolated, so I was one of the very few guys who
  ever talked to him...

  ?: How old are you?
  !: 20 years.
  ?: When did you come into the computer business?
  !: In 1980 I bought a VIC 20, 'cause one of my friends wanted it.
  ?: When was E.S.I. founded?
  !: Something around 1982, I can't remember all original members, some Dan
     and Jason, but the first E.S.I. cracker came from Singapore.
  ?: Where did you get the name from?
  !: Dan  had  a poster showing and eagle above his bed, but the best about
     the  name  is  that  it doesn't say anything, it doesn't say "cracking
     service", we could even be an insurance company.
  ?: What was your first crack?
  !: "RAPTON" by SERIOUS in 1981.
  ?: Can you give any special reason for cracking games?
  !: Challenge and thrill of beating the programmers.
  ?: Why do you keep yourself so isolated?
  !: We  don't  have  to  be open. We work as a family, don't compete among
     each other... it worked in the beginning, it works now, it works every
     single day.
  ?: What  do  you  think...  Is there only you in the States who can crack
     games?
  !: The others even don't try to crack, just always say that they couldn't
     crack.
  ?: What do you think about European crackers?
  !: Most  of  the  Europeans (not all!) are a kind of scummy, but so are a
     lot of Americans, but they don't feel so bad.
  ?: Who are your best friends?
  !: All  the  members  of  E.S.I.,  especially John. I've got lots of good
     friends, but I don't wanna put 'em in the "best friends" category.
  ?: What are your favourite...
  !: Game (64): "Maniac Mansion"
     Music  (64):  An  American demo called "Synth Sample" by some Canadian
     programmer.
     Movie: "Return of the Jedi"
     Music: RUSH
  ?: What are you doing when you aren't sitting on your computer?
  !: Working or playing RUSH tunes in my car.
  ?: With  all  the connections and friends in the world you have, how come
     that you don't know any Ferrari dealership owners?
  !: I trade software for Ferrari, I go for that!
  ?: How do you see the 64's future?
  !: It  will  be dead by 1991. Turn on your Amiga, let's transform "Maniac
     Mansion".

  THANX to THE BUTCHER for arranging the 3-way.
                                                                        /JS

                                 64-REVIEWS

  POOL OF RADIANCE
  It happened at last! The first playable game I ever saw from S.S.I.! It's
  a  very  good  role  play game featuring nice graphics, only bad thing is
  that it takes about 8 (!) disks sides, but: 87.

  SUMMER OLYMPIAD
  The  follow-up  to  WINTER  OLYMPIAD,  and  TYNESOFT has improved in all,
  graphics,  sounds,  programming  and  even  gameplay!  Skeet Shooting and
  Diving  is  almost  on  the  same  level as some of EPYX's events, but it
  doesn't reach EPYX as a whole, 79.

  HAWKEYE
  Programmed  by BOYS WITHOUT BRAINS. One of the best graphics ever seen on
  a  64  and  great sounds by JT / Maniacs of Noise hide the totally boring
  gameplay because it brings not the greatest fun to run left and right and
  right  and  left  and  collect stones and shoot animals, which are superb
  animated up. Bad luck, it looks really super, but is boring, 82.

  FOOTBALL MANAGER 2
  It  can't  be  the classic one. But it's somehow better, better graphics,
  but  longer  game  sequences,  save  options, faster, but nevertheless it
  can't  beat  one  of the best games ever made, after you've played it one
  time  through,  you  won't start a game again, what you did with FOOTBALL
  MANAGER 1, but still 86.

  ZAK MC KRACKEN
  The  sequel  to  MANIAC MANSION and it's even better! It takes four disks
  sides  and features things that any adventure fan has dreamt of, even the
  typical jokes has been included, so: 95.

  THE GAMES: SUMMER EDITION
  The  long  awaited  SUMMER GAMES 3 by EPYX and finally they found back to
  their  old  power.  They  used  some new programming routines as 'vector'
  graphics,  take  a  look  at  'hurdles'.  They reached their old standard
  again! 96.

  VINDICATOR
  Someone  said  that  this  is GREEN BERET 2, so the expectations were too
  high as it's impossible to make a game as good as GREEN BERET. VINDICATOR
  consists  of  3  more or less boring single games, but listen to JONATHAN
  DUNN's sound in the third part, GALWAY is alive, 62.

  THE FURY
  A very interesting remake of HEWSON's ALLEYKAT, with very high motivation
  level and nice sound by MARTECH, but unfortunately it's too easy, but 84.

  SALAMANDER
  One  of  the best shoot'em up's ever made, 'cuz it brings loads of action
  on  your  screen  in  two different points of view. The graphics are very
  good, but the sound is quite weak, but 93.

                                AMIGA-REVIEWS

  CORRUPTION
  The new Magnetic Scrolls thriller with a new background idea. It seems to
  be much more difficult as, e.g. "GUILD OF THIEVES" was, 80.

  CARRIER COMMAND
  A  flight deck simulator with detailed graphics, but without instructions
  almost not playable, 85.

  SUPERSTAR ICEHOCKEY
  Somehow better than on the 64, better animations, 79.

  BERMUDA PROJECT
  A  damn  interesting  action  adventure  by  MIRRORSOFT  with a very good
  opening.  You  walk  around  and examine an island after you crashed with
  your plane, very good gameplay, 94.

  STARRAY
  Very fast Defender-like Shoot'em Up with nice graphics, difficult, 87.

  IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2
  It  hasn't  much  improved  apart  from  the 64 version, just some speech
  samples has been included. Anyway it seems to be slower, but the gameplay
  is still convincing, 87.

  MORTVILLE MANOR
  A  very  good  graphic adventure with a stunning opening and detailed and
  very  nicely  drawn graphics. Even the sound effects are much better than
  in other adventures, controlable by mouse, 91.

  IKARI WARRIORS
  Buah!  Exactly  the  same,  fast game as all 64 pirates have seen before.
  Even  the  sound  stays  on the same level, if a game is converted to the
  Amiga, I expect more than just a 64 version... 67.

  FOUNDATION'S WASTE
  A very boring Shoot'em Up which reminds me of SIDEWINDER, but bad, 41.

  CHAMONIX CHALLENGE
  The  French mountain climbing simulation strikes on the 16 bit computers.
  Well, of course the graphics got better, but somehow the movement of your
  climber  seem  to be more difficult than they have been on the 64. Bit it
  still looks good and is a great game, 89.

  STARGLIDER 2
  WOW!  It  beats  even  interceptor with its ultrafast speed. It's a very,
  very  good  sequel  and it has also good and detailed graphics, while the
  movements are almost the same as on INTERCEPTOR. The only bad thing about
  this, is that it's almost unplayable without dox, 96!

  KATAKIS
  RAINBOW  ARTS had to take back the first 1000 released originals, because
  ACTIVISION claimed that it was too close to 'R-TYPE' and they have a very
  good  point, anyway a new version is about to be released by the time you
  read this.
                                                                       J.S.

                                  MEETINGS
                             THE DANISH PARTIES!
                  IKARI-DOMINATORS-DANISH GOLD and UPFRONT

  Fuck  about!  The only reason we chose this party was that we arranged it
  with  the  Swedish  TRIAD members, and that was the coolest party. We met
  finally.  Drank  a  lot! And that's it! The party itself wasn't worth the
  journey, too small capacities, too many lamers, too less good stuff...

  All  together pretty lame! And just a word: WE DIDN'T DESTROY ANYTHING! I
  dunno  who  started  that  bullshit,  but I can only say that I threw one
  (empty,  of  course)  bottle  of beer against a wall and that was all. We
  didn't  burn down curtains or beds or do similar things... I really don't
  know who started spreading this bullshit, but perhaps they needed someone
  to blame for this bad party... DENMARK? NEVER AGAIN!
                                                                           J.S.
  A  copyparty?  We  in 2000 A.D. took off Friday, 8th of June to join this
  party  and  the trip lasted for 4 hours when we found the little house on
  top of a forest-like muddy road among cows, pigs and horses! And 150 guys
  were  already  inside! The first thing I saw was EXCELL / IKARI who said:
  "You're  not  coming  in,  before  you  have  an  apology  demo to us and
  Dominators!" This was quite funny coz the day before I talked to MATRIX /
  DOM  and we made an agreement which was that we should stop all shit-talk
  and we discussed a lot of things and he said "See ya at the party then!",
  but  EXCELL  said  that  he  heard  I  should have hung up without saying
  goodbye.

  Anyway,  we  stood  outside for 4 or 5 hours, coz one couldn't be inside,
  there  was  no  space left! Then those guys noticed that it was too small
  and  came  up with a new place... 8 km away from the first where everyone
  should  go  in  the middle of the night and everybody was told that a bus
  was  going to bring 'em to the new place, of course a bus didn't come, so
  after  an  hour some taxi-busses picked up some guys. Coming to the other
  place  we  at  once recognize that it wasn't much bigger and better as we
  thought  it  should  be... there was just place enough for us to sit, but
  not  to  sleep! So... the solution was we left on Saturday the party some
  hundreds kroners poorer.

  We  missed  almost everything: A big place, a big town and supplyment, of
  course the announced grilling didn't take place... As a conclusion of the
  party  (which  was announced to be the greatest ever) one can say: LOADSA
  COOL GUYS, BUT VERY BAD ARRANGED!
                                                        Apollon / 2000 A.D.

                                  MEETINGS
                             THE DANISH PARTIES!
                                DEXION PARTY

  A Success!
  Well,  we  from 2000 A.D. showed up and what did we experience? The party
  place  was  a  big  school  so  there was loadsa space for everyone, even
  lamers  were  allowed to enter 'cause DEXION needed money! The only thing
  missing was that except some guys from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland,
  Sweden, Norway and Denmark big and known guys were missing.

  We  got another cool friend at the party, PHOTONY / CFR. We played soccer
  and  drank  beer with only one problem: PHOTONY got drunk! (hehe can't ya
  stand the hard Danish beers, Stefan?).

  If  one  became  hungry,  he  had  only  to go 300 metres and there was a
  burger-bar, which was open up to 3 in the night! So all you guys who were
  at  the  IKARI-DOM- DG-UPFRONT party will agree with me that you couldn't
  buy  any cokes during the night, and during the day you had to go by car,
  'cause the next shop was 8 kilometres away.

  It's  just  a pity that all the guys who came to the "flop" party haven't
  come  to  the  best  arranged  party  of the summer. I'm in doubt whether
  people  will  come  again  to  participate another party in Denmark after
  this...  but  we  try  to organize a party as well... you'll see. On this
  party there were also demo- competitons on both the AMIGA and 64. Also it
  was cool 'cause I met some members from 2000 A.D. I haven't seen before.

                                         STAY COOL from APOLLON / 2000 A.D.

  The perfect organized party...

  Yo, I (Photony) stayed at the DEXION party in Denmark and first of all, I
  want  to  say  that  I really enjoyed it. The party was over 4 and a half
  days, so I went to this party instead of the JEWELS and so on party.

  The  party  place  was a pretty big room in a school with space for about
  300 people. Ca. 150 were there, so there was plenty of room for everyone.
  Lots of electric power and lots of tables, just everything you need for a
  good  party,  even  quite new video movies were shown in a seperate room.
  Some  cool  guys  were also there as 2000 A.D., Legend, Ikari, Papillons,
  Wizax, APG, TST, Starion... and of course DEXION.

  Lots of cool things happened: Soccer games outside, boiling eggs, testing
  the  Danish beer, coding small stuff and more... The demo competition was
  won  by ASC and RAY (Ex-Triton Technologies), unfortunately DEXION didn't
  release a demo for their own competition.

  The  only  disadvantage was that the town where everything took place was
  small,  so  that  you  couldn't  see  any  interesting things in the town
  itself.  OK, I have to end my report about the party and I have to say to
  everybody making a party in the future: DO IT LIKE DEXION DID IT!

                                                              Photony / CFR

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      | (This page of Illegal #30 features "Crackin' Comic" #3 from   |
      |  Hobbit of Fairlight, a story about how Radwar, Ikari,        |
      |  Transcom, Hotline, Triad and Fairlight during a conference   |
      |  disappear into AT&T cyberspace and are haunted by the AT&T   |
      |  blacklisting handset-monster.)                               |
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               THE PERSONAL COMPUTER SHOW 16-18 SEPTEMBER 1988
                             EARLS COURT LONDON
                        THE BIG PC(W)S PREVIEW 1988!

  Excelsior,  it  seems that my writing has a reverse effect on people over
  the  last  few  months, my article have been a slap in the face to arcade
  licenses,  modem  traders and Americans, I expected a wave of protest and
  discouragement  from  most  of you out there but instead most people said
  they agreed with me, does this mean that a pirate has a conscience?

  Ok,  this  time  a more moderate article about the next big meeting place
  for  computer  freaks and when I said BIG the I mean BIG, yes dear reader
  I'm  talking  about  the  PCW  SHOW  which has been renamed by some silly
  people who are in charge of the organisation. If you do not know what the
  PCW SHOW is then stop reading this and go home...

  Good,  now  that we've got rid of the little people we can continue, this
  year  the  11th  PCW  SHOW will take place at Earl's court, London on the
  14th  to  18th  of  September, and it promises to be the biggest one yet,
  last  year  80.000  people attended the show and this show is expected to
  attract over 100.000 computer addicts.

  The  show  is  always a big occasion, it boasts to be the biggest in its'
  kind and it attracts people with the following things:

  OVER  100  NEW COMPUTER GAMES RELEASED: well, this is a nice theory, only
  practise shows different, when I visited the show last year, over 150 new
  games  were promised, only 7 were available, but I have to say that a lot
  of games that were promised were there in a preview form.

  OVER  50  ARCADE  MACHINES WILL BE PRESENT, NONE OF THEM RELEASED AND ALL
  CAN  BE PLAYED ON FREE DURING THE SHOW: Again a nice theory, although all
  the  machines  are  there and they are free, the chances that you will be
  able  to  play is next to nothing, you see with about 20.000 people a day
  the  ques  in  front of the machines consists of about 50 to 60 people so
  you  have to wait about 2 to 3 hours to play a game which sometimes lasts
  about 30 seconds.

  THIS  IS  YOUR  CHANCE  TO  BECOME  A PROGRAMMER: Another thing that gets
  people to come to the show, to be honest it is very hard to get a contact
  at  the  show  if you just go there and show them your best demos, if you
  really  are thinking about becoming a programmer then it is best to write
  a  game  at  home,  work  some  months on it and when it's finished (or a
  preview)  show it at the PCW to the companies, begin with the budget one,
  there  you  have  more  of  a chance to sell your game, you see companies
  recognize a good program when they see it, but they do not like to invest
  loadsa money in a guy who makes demos, but of who they are not sure if he
  will be able to make the game they want.

  Well,  after  this  you may think that I'm a complete PCW hater, well I'm
  not, last year I enjoyed myself immensly and this year I'm going for sure
  again.  It's  a  perfect  place  for  a  computer  freak, you see how the
  industry  really  works,  you  get  to  meet  a  lot  of  programmers and
  musicians,  compunet  heroes  and  not  forgetting  you  can buy computer
  equipment really cheap... It's a fable though that you can steal millions
  of  disks  full  of previews that are just sitting in the drives, you see
  since a couple of years the companies do not bring their preview disks to
  the  show  anymore, they show a video film of their newest games on large
  screens.

  So  see  you all at the show and when you see me just yell hey, Mad All I
  love you and I will surely run away from you...
                                                              MAD ALL / CFR

                     MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PC SHOW:

  - OCEAN is trying to release "OPERATION WOLF" promoted by a big scout car
  and  "TYPHOON",  while  film  scenes  of  "RAMBO 3" and "ROBOCOP" will be
  displayed at their 40 large TV screens.

  - INTERCEPTOR GROUP is going to release 3 new games on the show including
  JOE BLADE 2.

  - US GOLD have the largest stand on the show and want to sell "LED STORM"
  by CAPCOM, "SUMMER EDITION" by EPYX, "DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" by themselves
  and are going to preview Sega's arcade "THUNDERBLADE".

  - LEVEL 9 will be releasing "GNOME RANGER 2"

  -  CASCADE are finally going to sell "19 Boot Camp", supported by an army
  of six-feet-high cutout figures.

  - DINAMIC's "GAME OVER 2" will be brought out.

  -  HEWSON  CONSULTANTS  will be in host of three new titles "ELIMINATOR",
  "ASTEROTH" and "STORMLORD".

  - ACTIVISION are only gonna preview "R-TYPE".

  -  GRANDSLAM will be releasing "BRUCE LEE: ENTER THE DRAGON", "PACMANIA",
  "ESPIONAGE",  "SAINT  AND  GREAVSIE",  "THUNDERBIRDS"  and  a  new Arnold
  Schwarzenegger movie license.

  - MASTERTRONIC announced "DOUBLE DRAGON" and many more!?

  - TYNESOFT are selling "SUPERMAN: BLACK MONDAY" and "CIRCUS GAMES".

  -  THALAMUS  want  to sell "ARMALYTE" and lots of other companies will be
  there  and promote or preview or even sell their latest products, some of
  which are MICROPROSE, INFOGRAMES, LORICEL and many more...

  See you there...
                                                    Just Ice / IKARI + J.S.

                                 GOOD SHOW!
                             VIDEO + CINEMA NEWS
                            VID... VID... VIDEO!

  Hello  Video Freaks, it is LAZER here once again with the latest shit hot
  movies  reviews for ya! Sorry for no reviews last month, but I was really
  lame and lizzy, so here we go:

  (*) RAMBO III
  This  has  to  be the coolest movie of the year! Colonel Trautman goes to
  Thailand  and finds John Rambo working in a monstry. He tries to persuade
  Rambo  to  help  him  deliver  some  missiles to the Mujahadeen rebels in
  Afghanistan,  but Rambo refuses so Trautman goes alone and is immediately
  captured  by  the  Soviets.  Rambo then goes to Afghanistan to rescue his
  friend  and  kick some commie asses! Strider will like this film - Myshka
  will hate it! RATING: 95%

  (*) EDDIE MURPHY RAW
  This  is  not  really a movie but a recording of Eddie Murphy in concert,
  just  like  Delerious. Eddie doesn't give a shit about anything or anyone
  and insults everyone famous. Eddie sure is a funny guy! Rating: 82%

  (*) CROCODILE DUNDEE II
  The  Aussie  is  back and he returns together with Linda Kozlowski to the
  Australian  jungle  to  show the crocodiles (and not only them) who daddu
  is.  Of  course  there  are  also  the  typical jokes that Dundee cracks!
  Rating: 81%

                             VIDEO CHARTS 9/88!

                              1. (-) RAMBO III
                         2. (-) CROCODILE DUNDEE II
                             3. (2) RUNNING MAN
                               4. (1) PREDATOR
                           5. (-) EDDIE MURPHY RAW
                       6. (4) MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
                               7. (5) ROBOCOP
                           8. (-) POLICE ACADEMY 5
                           9. (3) FATAL ATTRACTION
                        10. (-) GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

  Before I go I must send greetings to the following cool dudes: Jeff, Eric
  (thanx  for  the  vids),  Stefano,  Malx, Mic, Caz, Nik + Tim. Super Mega
  greetings  to  the  gorgeous  girls  I  know:  Caria  (oh  those eyes are
  incredible), ROBERTA, MYSHKA. UNTIL NEXT MONTH...

                                               LAZER OF NEW BENCOR BROTHERS

                            CIN... CIN... CINEMA!

  Yo,  here  is Photony of CFR bringing you some CINEMA movies reviews from
  movies I have been watching during my visit in CANADA!!

  (*) VIBES
  Cyndi  Lauper's  movie  debut. She is acting together with Peter Falk and
  JEFF   Goldblum.  The  story  is  really  original,  so  are  the  actors
  (especially  Peter  Falk).  But  I  have to say that there wasn't much to
  laugh about, any-high-way I was quite disappointed, such a good and funny
  story in such a good film, without any good jokes!

  The  story  goes like this that there are two people (Cyndi and Goldblum)
  who  have  a  magical power and can tell you things about the future, who
  are  asked  to  help  an  adventurer to find a treasure in South-America,
  while  being  hunted  (of  course)  by some bad guys. I think there exist
  better ways spending one's money, so decide on your own, RATING: 65%

  (*) A FISH CALLED WANDA
  The  best  movie of the year! Yep, this movie was made by JOHN CLEESE who
  is  a  member of the fucking amazing MONTHY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS ("LIFE
  OF BRIAN"...). Together with JAMIE LEE CURTIS and MICHAEL PALIN, he tells
  you  the  story of an old fashioned English lawyer and of course there is
  his  typical  sense  of humour in the movie, e.g. you can see attempts of
  killing  somebody  by  putting  french  fries in his ears (with different
  sauces) and finally trying to stop him breathing by putting an apple into
  his mouth. I had to see the movie 3 times until I have understood all the
  jokes,  because there are so many guys in the cinema and there was always
  laughter, so I couldn't hear anything. RATING: 98%

  (*) COMING TO AMERICA
  Eddie  Murphy's  newest movie and one of his best so far, he's playing an
  African  prince,  who  is  served by (female) servants 24 hours a day and
  even  his  royal  dick  is cleaned by those servants, so he has a perfect
  life.  But  this  idiot  (I  just have to say that) is not satisfied with
  that,  'cuz  he  wants  a smart woman, that's why he's going to New York,
  Queens  and  pretends  to  be  a  poor  African student. I'm sure you can
  imagine  that many cool things are about to happen, 'cuz both, the script
  and  the  story for the movie were written by Eddie dude himself. RATING:
  87%

  (*) CADDYSHACK 2
  The  follow up to CADDYSHACK is one the greatest flop of the year, except
  for  a  small  part with Dan Akroyd there are only silly jokes for 8 year
  old children. Better forget it at once. Rating: 19%

  And  a few personal greets to: OTHERS IN CFR, all ex-TRIADers, 2000 A.D.,
  FLT,  BROS, AVATAR, HOTLINE, LEGEND and some hellos to guys who soon hear
  from me: ZENITH, COSMOS, WIZAX, D.C.S., FIRE EAGLE and lots of others!

                                                             Photony of CFR

                               THE STORY OF...
                                SYSTEM FOUR!

  You  quickly  fall  asleep as you creeped home... You're dreaming of her,
  though you don't want to, but you can't refuse. Your heart is ruling. Bad
  thing.  You  lost  all your motivation for going to school again, but now
  she's  there  and  the  whole bunch of problems starts again and again...
  without any end in sight...!?

  Wow,  next  day you climb into the bus, when you recognize her at once...
  you  take  all  your  courage together and say to her: "Hey, dear I wanna
  marry  you  here  and now!"... and it worx! You wrap your arms around her
  and  just  want  to  give  her  a smack as... "Good morning, this is Greg
  Foster from BFBS with national and international news from the BBC at 6!"
  FUCK, only a dream after all... Shit...

  Anyway,  you  look out of the window and it's raining hard, so you decide
  to  stay  at  home  today and work a little bit on your new projects. You
  walk  to  the  System  Four  Headquarter in your town and get to know sad
  news, for example that some of your real friends left System Four without
  really  saying  farewell,  others  had  to work more and so left System 4
  aswell.  Only  a few real good pals are left at the end of this day, when
  you  hear  the latest news that one of your best friends has gone forever
  and  another  one thought it would be better not to talk to you again and
  it  really  seems  as  if  your homegroup fell apart. Sheeeut! Damn, that
  can't be true...

  But as you count all friends together, you recognize that there's nothing
  which can be built up again... Sad, but true. Then more awful news, other
  good  friends of yours from System 4 do admire these guys from System 50,
  who  have  means  to  be much faster than any of us in System 4 will ever
  be... You spend almost the whole night thinking how to save the ashes...

  What  happened  to  4 leading "a"-class groups? Only one is left from the
  origin  ones, but going to drop work because the guys from System 50 seem
  to  take over the business. One another group was let into the 'a'-class,
  and they give a sign of old days. But that's it. Only one thing can solve
  all  problems,  but  it  will  be difficult to convince all others... but
  perhaps it could work...

  Bah, what's the difference between girls and cracking? There's none, they
  both  are  gonna  tear you apart. "And there's a taste in my mouth, as if
  desperation  takes home. There was something so good, just can't function
  no  more...  and  then  May,  18th  1980  and  January, 15th 1988!" TO BE
  CONTINUED!
                                                                       J.S.

                            THE PAL OF THE MONTH!

  Here  we  go  again.  Another new column called "PAL OF THE MONTH". We're
  gonna  present  you  every  month  a guy (if there was any) who threw the
  whole cracking scene into a heap of shit!

                              JANGO of THE WEB
                                (Mario Blt)

  Okey,  you  wonder, what's so strange about this guy? Well, it's not only
  the fact that he belongs to a German lamer group. The real thing is, that
  he  was  caught  by  the  German  police some months ago. What did he do?
  Right, what nobody else would have done... He betrayed ALL of his friends
  and  gave  out  all  adresses he had (about 400!) and not only that... he
  even told the cops about details.

  So,  up  to  now, 25 (!) good friends of mine were visited by the police,
  because  of  good old JANGO. Some of them aren't doing anything nowadays,
  but  they  still  have  to  pay about 200 DM, others were just accused of
  things  they didn't do, just 'cuz Mario said that. Now, I'm sure he won't
  return  anymore,  'cuz otherwise he would have about 400 guys beating him
  up.  Now,  it  proved  once again that you have to think twice before you
  choose your German contact... Did you?????????
                                                                       J.S.

                       +-----------------------------+
                       | EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL |
                       |    OSNABRUCK 19 11 9 88     |
                       +-----------------------------+

  Do you wonder what that "EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL" is???

  Well,  in  fact  it's  a  normal  computer  meeting, but some clever guys
  decided to make up a cracker meeting somewhere during the normal meeting.
  It  took  place  on  September,  3rd.  They  used  extreme  high  quality
  invitations  and  even  stickers  (of  the  kind  you  can see above...).
  Unfortunately  they couldn't win many famous groups to organize the party
  with  'em  together,  as  only RADWAR could be mentioned as a TOP ACT, so
  only  a  few  groups came up. This is really a shame for such a brilliant
  idea  and lots of commitment, but we'll see if this style can go on as we
  all  are  suffering  a  lack  of parties, but VENLO returns on September,
  17th. Anyway, the top guys are in London!
                                                                       J.S.

                   "ILLEGAL" presents the OLD 64 LEGENDS!
                       this month: cracking 1982-1985

  Haven't  you  always  wondered how the whole cracking scene started, what
  the  first  cracking groups have been and may other things? That's why we
  are  going to tell you about the origins of cracking in whole Europe, the
  first groups, their first releases and what they are doing nowadays...

  Here we go...

  THINK  BACK!  What  was  the  very  first  game  you ever saw on your 64?
  Probably  "COMMODORE  SOCCER"  which  was  cracked by a German guy called
  1103,  who  also  cracked  other  Commodore  modules.  Or "M.U.L.E." from
  Electronic  Arts  cracked  by  OLEANDER?  Or  "HARD  HAT MACK" by OTD? Or
  "SUMMER GAMES" by JEDI? Something like that, right?

  Well,  JEDI  consisted  of  nobody  less than 1103, OLEANDER, OTD and KBR
  (KOTZBROCKEN), all from Germany and they were one of the first who formed
  the  cracking  with  cracks like "MR.ROBOT", "QUICKCOPY V2.0", "SENTINEL"
  and others...

  This  all happened around 1982, other famous groups at this point of time
  were  ANTIRAM  who  cracked games like "DALLAS QUEST", "POGO JOE", "MINER
  2049",  "RAID OVER MOSCOW"... or the first 'cracking service', namely the
  GERMAN  CRACKING  SERVICE  who released games like ACTIVISION's "HERO" or
  "SAXXON",  "SLAMBALL"  and  "FLIGHT  SIMULATOR  II".  These groups formed
  cracking around 1982 and 1983.

  Beginning  1984 lots of new groups raised their power, some of which were
  TBC  who  cracked  "KENNEDY APPROACH" or CRACKMAN CREW with "F.COPY III",
  "HEART OF AFRICA" and they were the first who fixed American games to the
  European PAL system, among them "BALLBLAZER".

  The  first English groups were YAK SOCIETY who cracked almost every ELITE
  game (remember "FRANK BRUNO'S BOXING") and TEESIDE CRACKING SERVICE.

  1985  was  the  year  of SECTION 8 who cracked almost every game that was
  released  (e.g. "G.I. JOE", "AIRWOLF", "ARCHON II"), but so did ABC (e.g.
  "MR.DO!"  and "THE HOBBIT II"), both from Germany. PAL fixes were done by
  INDIANA  JONES  who  also  cracked  every single BRODERBUND game ("CHAMP.
  LODERUNNER", "HEART OF AFRICA", "RACING DESTR. SET"...).

  The  first  big  importer  and  spreader was a guy named ALI, groups like
  FLASH  CRACKING GROUP with games like "HYPER SPORTS", "TOUR DE FRANCE" or
  "RMS  TITANIC",  MEGABYTE  with "CASTLE OF TERROR" or their tape transfer
  disks,  or  the  first Dutch group, the FEDERATION AGAINST COPYRIGHT with
  releases  like "SPACE STATION", or 2010 PROFESSIONAL with "BEACH HEAD II"
  were other groups of that time.

                       +----------------------------+
                       | EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD... |
                       |                            |
                       | (drawing of a hippie-look- |
                       |  alike cracker wearing a   |
                       |  trenchcoat and black      |
                       |  sunglasses, holding a     |
                       |  5 1/4" disk, leaning      |
                       |  against a wall and        |
                       |  looking into the sunset.  |
                       |  Archetypical cyberhippie) |
                       |                            |
                       |         64'HEROES          |
                       +----------------------------+

                         WHAT ARE THEY DOING TODAY?

  JEDI's  PAL  of  "SUMMER GAMES I" was even official sold by EPYX all over
  Europe.  1103  has  now  an  own  company,  working  with  PCs and bigger
  machines,  but  he  also  converted  "QUIWI" by KINGSOFT on the ATARI ST.
  OLEANDER  works  also  on  PCs,  OTD  developed  the PROLOGIC DOS and all
  together  developed the "F.COPY III". F16 from SECTION 8 made the "F.LOAD
  3.0" and "COPY +" and works now for Discovery Software.

  Some  of  GCS  are working for RAINBOW ARTS, INDY is active on the AMIGA,
  TBC developed the "COMPACKER V2.0", CRACKMAN (Hi, Alf!) is programming on
  the  AMIGA,  ALI  stopped, YAK SOCIETY worked for JEFF MINTER's LLAMASOFT
  (Hi,  Aaron,  Liddiment)  and  almost  all  others are now working on the
  Amiga,  as TCS are doing and some members of FCG, as FLASH (found the 7th
  bitplane  on  Amiga,  RSI Intro), PBA, CFB, EDE and IRATA (RED SECTOR) or
  MR.X on ATARI ST, only RADWAR is still on the 64.

  FAC's  Peter  is also on Amiga, Marcel should have returned from the USA,
  but they're still on the 64, but ROCKY totally destroyed it....

  NEXT TIME: 85-88, feat. DYNAMIC DUO, NEWLOOK and STARS......

  Best Wishes to all old boys!
                                                              MWS/RWE + JS.

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| MY VOTES LOOK LIKE THIS                           |P                       |
| S.C.G.       :       a)       :                   |O               STAMP   |
| IKARI        :       b)       :                   |S                       |
| TRIAD        :       c)       :                   |T                       |
| FAIRLIGHT    :       d)       :                   |C                       |
| EAGLESOFT    :       e)       :                   |A                       |
| COSMOS       :                                    |R                       |
| OCTAGON      :       My own group is:             |D                       |
| BROS         :                                    |                        |
| TRIANGLE     :       My handle is:                |(C)                     |
| FUSION       :                                    |                        |
| HOTLINE      :       And my adress is:            |J                       |
| ORION        :                                    |S                       |
| T.W.G.       :                                    |        To:             |
| RADWAR       :                                    |        "ILLEGAL"       |
| BEASTIE BOYS :                                    |        PLK 123144 C    |
| ZENITH       :                                    |        4250 BOTTROP    |
| D.C.S.       :                                    |        WEST GERMANY    |
| SHINING 8    :                                    |                        |
| WIZAX        :                                    |                        |
| INXS         :                                    |                        |
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| Use backside to give comments about "ILLEGAL"! JS | PIRATE FANZINE!        |
+---------------------------------------------------+------------------------+

                             WE ABOUT OURSELVES

  Finally  I'm going to explain to you, dear reader, the basic things about
  the "ILLEGAL", its charts and how to order it. Okey, here we go...

                           THE WAY OF APPEARANCE:

  Normally  an  issue is released every month somewhere on a big meeting in
  Europe. It can be such like the PC SHOW or on a VENLO meeting or anything
  else... The problem is, that any meeting can be cancelled and followed by
  that, we have to cancel our release date. That means that any information
  given  here  can be wrong and may lead to total confusion. So, we thought
  it  to  be  best  to  release  a small coded program on disk which should
  inform you, so watch your screens to be sure!

                           HOW TO ORDER AN ISSUE:

  Nothing is easier... You just take an envelope, write your adress and put
  enough stamps on it and enclose either 2 Deutsch Mark or 50 English pence
  or 1 US Dollar. Then you send this envelope to

                              "ILLEGAL" ORDERS
                                PLK 012314 B
                                4360 BOCHUM 6
                              WILD WEST GERMANY

  and you shall get your copy within 2 days.

                                 THE CHARTS:

  The  "DEMO OF THE MONTH" chart and the two games charts are sorted out by
  the editors as it would be too complex to let others give their votes for
  it,  but we handle it different with the "CRACKER OF THE MONTH" chart. To
  present  you  a representative and correct TOP 15, we let well known guys
  vote  about the different cracker groups, but as conferences are rare and
  our  phone  bills  can't be enlarged any more, we start this issue with a
  new offer!

                                THE POSTCARD!

  You  cut this postcard below out, just fill it out, put the right postage
  on  it  and send it to us within 1 month after the current issue has been
  released.  Among  all  postcard we will take out five, who will get their
  "ILLEGAL" for free.

                                HOW TO VOTE:

  You  may  give every group up to max. 10 points for the best one and even
  no  points  for the lamest one, you can add up to five groups that we may
  have forgotten, BUT PLEASE you aren't allowed to vote for your own group.
  You  can  even  decide not to vote for a single group, no problem at all,
  because we count all points that a group gets together and divide them by
  the  number  of  the  guys who voted for this group. So we always get the
  average  points for a single group, this seems to be the easiest way, but
  you're welcome to let us know about any improvements!
                                                                       J.S.

                                MORE NEWS...!

  Here  is  SSD  of COSMOS again. Unfortunately nothing special happened in
  Austria  to tell you about, except that we also crack on Amiga now. But I
  don't want to tell you any bullshit so I blow some titles which are gonna
  be released x-mas in your minds... Here it goes:

  ACTIVISION: "Hi-Jack", "Yeti", "Thunderblade", "Time Scanner"
  CASCADE: "Enemies", "Ring Wars"
  DOMARK: "Live and let die"
  ELITE: "Aquablast"
  FIREBIRD: "G.I. Hero", "Dark Sceptre", "Crosswise", "Intensity"
  GREMLIN: "Superskills", "Night Raider", "Alternative Olympics"
  HEWSON: "Cybernoid II", "Stormlord", "Eliminator"
  LOGOTRON: "Starray"
  LORICIELS: "Eddie Edward's Superski", "Mach 3", "Space Racer"
  MARTECH: "Wanted", "Programwars", "NM Grandprix", "Le Mans"
  MASTERTRONIC:  "Aaargh",  "Double  Dragon", "Rasterscan", "Xenon", "World
  Darts", "Knighttyme", "Motorbike Madness"
  MELBOURNE   HOUSE:   "Bits   for  Bizmo",  "Enterprise",  "Fire  Dragon",
  "Terrorpods", "Mystery Arkham"
  MIRRORSOFT: "Rocket Ranger", "Dondra", "First tens", "Blasteroids"
  OCEAN: "Quandam"
  RAINBOW ARTS: "Katakis", "Danger Freak", "Giana Sisters II", "Down at the
  Trolls"
  SOFTEK: "Soldier of Light"
  US GOLD: "Charlie Chaplin", "1943", "Psycho Pigs UXB"
  VIRGIN GAMES: "Challenger"

  Well,   these  were  the  games  (64).  Finally  I  wanna  send  my  best
  good-bye-regards  to  Mr.Pinge.  Hi, Stefan, good luck in the future! C U
  next issue...
                                                              SSD of COSMOS

                             What's coming when?

  OCEAN:  OCEAN  is  going  to  release  a couple of games in the following
  months...  Here's a list of their games with rough release dates (without
  any guarantee!):

  All games for 64, Amiga, ST, Amstrad and Spectrum.

  VICTORY ROAD                  October
  GUERILLA WARRIORS             End of Nov.
  ROBOCOP                       End of Nov.
  WEC LE MANS                   End of Nov.
  TYPHOON                       September
  OPERATION WOLF                November
  RAMBO III                     November

  DALEY  THOMPSON'S DECATHLON should be released at least for the 64 by the
  time  you're  reading  this.  OCEAN  announced OPERATION WOLF and TYPHOON
  (Konami)  by  Zak Townsend (ARMY MOVES, PLATOON) to be released at the PC
  SHOW, but who knows?
                                                                 CF/BB + JS

                           OTHER PIRATES FANZINES!

  Well...  other  pirate  magazines are appearing on the market as water on
  the  ocean. Take, for instance "IGUANA" (whatever the hell that means) by
  English  group  ZENITH  (which  I haven't seen yet!) that follows all the
  popular  way.  Most  of the new fanzines are coming from Germany (I don't
  wonder),  best  of  'em  seems to be "NEWS" by some unknown German dudes,
  featuring  comics  and lots of other things, but only in German. I always
  said  that  it's  no  problem  to release one issue, but to release every
  month  an issue of the same quality is the main task... Only the toughest
  survive, so we'll see...
                                                                       J.S.

                              AMERICANS... WHY?
                           by JUST ICE of IKARI...

  Many crackers are now feeling the strain of the American importing groups
  who  often cause conflict between rival groups and end up as enemies. Who
  benefits?  -  It's  certainly not us! If it wasn't for us these Americans
  wouldn't  have  a  decent game in their collection. The American releases
  are  not that good and they end often ereased from my disks at the end of
  the week.

  Even conferences are non-existent these days as most guys are blacklisted
  on  a  lot  of  the  codes, even MCI's are now hard to get and often also
  blacklisted.  Many  of  the  American groups are disappearing coz of high
  phone  bills  and getting caught for phreaking. Many of the guys in these
  groups  are  13-14  year old kids who ring at inconvenient times and even
  not  apologising if you are asleep and still ask you if you have released
  any new wares! GOD DAMN!

I think it's time many groups forget the USA and continue with the mail trade
and lamers spreading ya wares! There are a few groups I do respect like E.S.I.
and a couple of importing groups. Most hated American I know is KID QUICK from
TS, he is also known as KID DICK! and KID THICK! He has a very low brain power
and is very impatient! He pissed me off so much that we switched over to
MAYHEM.

  I  feel  quite  strong  about this subject and if things haven't improved
  drastically  by  the  time you are reading this then I will quit American
  trading.  I am very interested in what other groups have to say regarding
  the  USA  and  maybe  they  follow me the same way, but remember software
  piracy may be killing the industry, but the Americans are killing off us!

  All the best,
                                                    JUST ICE / IKARI -1988-

  If  you  want  to  answer  JUST  ICE on this subject, then just send your
  letters  to any of the editors (adresses on the last page) and we'll pass
  on your stuff.
                                                                       J.S.

                              COZMIX'S FAREWELL

  It'z with sorrow on my mind, tearz in my eyez and trembling handz I write
  thiz  farewell  note.  I'm  now  leaving  this  my  beloved computerworld
  concentrate on living what somebody calls LIFE!?!

  But  before  I quit, I'll try to give U -the reader- some kind of insight
  in the thoughts, I've had about computers generally - more specific about
  the 64 and it's hiostory / future.

  When  I  started  cracking some games way back in '85, it all seemed sooo
  easy:  no  real  protections,  no  big speed race among the groups and no
  discussion  about  who  made the best version. U were happy just to get a
  version  of the game - even though they often were malfunctioning or they
  just were previews...

  Today,  a  lot of things has changed. Speed is the keyword - not quality.
  My  good  friend Janitor has written a lot about this problem, so I won't
  bore U with repeating him. No, I'll instead talk 'bout the good thingz.

  A very good thing is that the demoz release for the moment are increasing
  in  quality.  That's  very  good, 'cuz it's more healthy concentrating on
  being  the  bezt  coder  than on being the fastest with the crackz. To be
  more specific: competing on coding givez even the smallest group a chance
  of  winning  fame,  while  competing  on  crack-speed  iz verrryy unfair.
  Reasonz:

  1) The  English  groups have the originals before everyone else - even if
     they  buy  them  in  the  shops. Thiz means they can crack them before
     most other groupz without doing anything cool...

  2) Getting  and  cracking the games fast iz also a big matter of time and
     money  -  two  thingz that doesn't tell anything 'bout how cool U R at
     computing...

  To  sum  all up: Coding haz got more to do with controlling your computer
  than being a fast cracker has.

  This leads to COZMIX's SENTENCES ON COMPUTING:

  1. Don't admire fast crackers (like Papillons)
  2. Admire cool coders instead (hmm.. TRIANGLE)
  3. Admire quality-groups (like TRIAD & TRIANGLE)

  I  guess thiz iz the end. Thanx to the world of serious coders, crackers,
  hackers, composerz, graficianz etc.

  Special  thanx to: Swyx, Chix, Janitor, Pixi, Jeff Smart, Blitz, Starman,
  D.  Mode,  Krush,  Coldcut,  J. Brown, Matinique, Radio Clothing Company,
  Prince  (Lovesexy),  Coke,  Toyota  and Adidas. By the way, all layout by
  COZMIX  (That'z  me!) Goodbye, auf wiedersehen, farvel, au revoir, adios,
  ciao

  Love from yourz sincere,
                                                                     Cozmix

                       NEWS FROM THE INNER SECTION...

  As  we  took  a  break  over  two  months, loads of thinx took our breath
  away...

  *  Everybody's  stoppin',  after  IXION  and  MR.PINGE from TRIAD quitted
  computers,  PAPILLONS  stopped  totally and NIK / IKARI declared he's not
  gonna  crack anymore, most of my very good friends are gone. Read "Do all
  crackers die?" for more info on this subject...

  * German TRIAD is gonna quit activities for the TRIAD mothership, because
  the  Swedish  dudes  can't  offer cracks anymore as ROWDY left and joined
  HEPTAGON,  and  it  seemed to us that nobody is doing anything, so we are
  about to leave...

  *  Austria's  top  act  TSK  CREW  doesn't  exist  anymore  in their full
  strength,  as  all active members formed a new group called COSMOS. I was
  always  wondering  why  the group kept the name of its founder, though he
  isn't doing anything.

  *  Rumours  that  AT&T  is  gonna  be closed for whole Germany made modem
  lunatix  like  STRIKE  FORCE  nervous.  But, unfortunately it was totally
  bullshit... AT&T is working as fine as before.

  * Dutch demo programmers BOYS WITHOUT BRAINS released their first game on
  the THALAMUS label, called "HAWKEYE" that features excellent graphics and
  sound  fix.  I  was  so  lucky  to  have a look at the game at one of the
  previous VENLO meetings, and it's surely not their last top hit.

  *  Also JAYCE, editor of French fanzine "DELIRIOUS MAGAZINE" announced to
  make  his last issue... now everybody of us wrote an article for his last
  issue,  and  JAYCE  said (after getting all articles) he was persuaded to
  make some more issues again. Nice dude.

  *  Two days after DARK STAR left BROS and went to DRIVE, he was caught by
  the police, who confiscated about 140 disks. 40 Amiga disks were borrowed
  from  SIR  ARTHUR and he wanted to get money for his lost disks! This was
  the main reason why DARK STAR left DRIVE.

  *  Everybody  knows that some of JEWELS joined IKARI, the rest reinforced
  WIZAX.

  * Stunning, stunning... RADWAR seems to be back! With a (RADWAR) SURPRISE
  release of OCEAN's SALAMANDER (it was supposed to be a preview, but there
  is no big difference to the game) they went back to where they belong.

  *  What happened to good old ALPHAFLIGHT? After I was warned to be beaten
  up,  because  they  misunderstood an article in an old issue, a letter to
  the  editor was published in Germany's worst magazine "AKTUELLER SOFTWARE
  MARKT"  by  some guy called DR.MABUSE who wrote about the cracking scene,
  that  BEASTIE  BOYS  are freezing (the only freezed game ever from BB was
  from  ELECTRO  (now  in  ROM)  who  was  kicked  out  for that), TRIAD is
  programming  for  companies  (I didn't know that!) and some other totally
  wrong  thinx...  I only see silly letters published, publishers take only
  bad examples of our guild.

  * SUPERSWAP SWEDEN, excellent demo programmers and THUNDERCATS decided to
  join and for a new group, that is called HORIZON. I just wonder, why they
  took in some German lamer who can't program at all?

  *  Just  a  few  days after I was told that the "DIGITAL NEWS", very well
  programmed  German  newspaper on disk, won't be produced anymore, DIGITAL
  MARKETING  production  manager  told  me they got a contract with RAINBOW
  ARTS  and  that a following issue will be released on the backside of new
  games from RAINBOW ARTS. Surprise, surprise...

  * Cracking jokes on the phone seems to become a new sparetime activity of
  most  Germans.  They  just  put  some  handkerechief  on the reciever and
  pretend  to  be Americans or anybody else and record their jokes on tape.
  So  I  advise you not to believe every American calling you up, there are
  some question which might clear the truth.

  *  STRIDER  from  FAIRLIGHT made a good old conference on his last day in
  the  US  of A, he had to return to Sweden one week earlier. Now he's back
  since  3  weeks,  but  I  have heard more when he was in the Staids. Also
  returned  had  MR.ZEROPAGE  from RED SECTOR, I remember his phonecalls in
  the  morning  when I had to go to work he said: "Well, I wish you lots of
  fun  at  the  work. I'm going now to the beach and drink a lot...!", that
  was real motivation for me...

  *  MODEMS  rule...  God-oh-God, what happened to all of us? More and more
  groups  only  work  to  satisfy  Americans, they produce any kind of shit
  release  or  just  tell  tales to get in contact with well known American
  importing  groups. Americans do import everything they do not know, so if
  you  just  take  a  very  old  game and give it a new name Americans will
  import  it,  but  if  you  make  a better version of a game that has been
  released  ten  seconds  before  they  refuse it. The only good thing that
  those  little  things  brought  about is that most of the guys trading by
  modem  get  all  cracks  faster than by mail... But where are we going? I
  mean,  see what it makes with groups who do have a modem? Take ORION, who
  were  accused of recracking games, sent by express to them, which haven't
  been  released before in the USA, but DSH said it's no recracking when he
  adds  a  trainer and forgets to mention the group who cracked it. Or MCG,
  who  imported  a  crack by IKARI and put after the IKARI intro, and after
  the intro of the American importer group, they put a THIRD intro on it. I
  mean,  where's  the art of importing? Everybody can import, but Americans
  (and some Europeans) handle it like cracking, they don't say "We imported
  it", but "We released it" and I asked an American guy where's the problem
  of importing after I was asked to make a chart "IMPORTER OF THE MONTH" he
  replied:  "It's much more difficult, you have to have good contacts, have
  to  make  public  relations  and you have to get the E.S.I. stuff fast!".
  Give  me  a  break!  It's  just the same as if 'import' a game that I was
  sent by mail and put my intro in front of that...

  Bad outlooks..., Bye, doooooooodez!
  Thanx for lotsa information... to MWS/RWE, PHOTONY/CFR, CF/BEASTIE BOYS!

                                                          says Jeff Smart->

                        BE WITH "ILLEGAL" ON TOUR...

  In  this  new  column we have each month guys talking about travelling to
  meet other dudes abroad or just travelling to other countries...

  This month: "On the way to D.K."

  It  was Thursday evening when we (Our driving friend, we call him "Arsch"
  oder  "Ioannis";  T.K. ; Hi Tec and me (old Jeffie dood)) started our way
  to  the  IKARI-DOMINATORS-DANISH GOLD and UPFRONT party in Denmark. After
  we  drove  ? hours (I even drove 3 hours during the darkest night. I blew
  the  horn  several  times to be sure nobody was able to sleep...) when we
  finally  arrived  in  the small village where the party should take place
  (after  T.K.  bought  a small street map for 11 Mark 90...), it was about
  4.30  in  the  morning,  we stopped somewhere in the town, 'cuz two dudes
  came  running  from behind... Gosh, they were our TRIAD pals MR.PINGE and
  801 DC!

  Well,  after  Pinge  had  some problems to find the way back to the party
  place...  we  finally arrived in a small hut, where perhaps 30 guys would
  have  enough  place...  About  20  guys  were  already  there, among them
  BAMBAM/HTL, RADWAR and some more!

  So,  Janitor and me drove into the city at 9 and bought beer and beer and
  some  food and beer and beer... After we drank the beer and ate the food,
  we drove into the city to buy some more beer... and beer...

  Well,  the party capacities were not enough for more than 50 guys, so the
  guys  from  DANISH  GOLD organized a bigger room (they said they did) but
  after  a  race thru whole Denmark (10 km) we found out that the new party
  place wasn't much bigger...

  Okay,  Janitor  was  seriously  drunken  and went out to sleep on a field
  outside  in  his  sleeping bag, so did I. We slept 11 hours and the party
  hadn't  improved  that  much, so we left on Saturday morning... There was
  not much going on, so here is my personal DANISH BEER CHART...

  1. Calsberg Lager (strong'n'good)
  2. Tuborg Gr0n (the classic!)
  3. Gamle Carlsberg (not that bad)
  4. Tuborg Fine Festival (urps!)
  5. Odense Pilsener (not that good)
  6. Albani Giraf Beer (tastes like Giraf shit...)

  That  was  the  most interesting thing on the whole party, so it was only
  worth  to drink the excellent Danish beer and to meet all TRIAD guys, but
  for the party...
                                                                       J.S.

                                 ANOTHER...
                           INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
                           THIS TIME: NIK / IKARI

  The  big  boys  (remember looking up to 'em at those Venlo meetings) from
  the  south  of  England are blowing out their cracks for a good while and
  became  one of the few established cracking groups in the world. Now here
  you have CHIK, err sorry... NIK answering very honestly...

  ?: How old are you, dooooood?
  !: Errrm...  1,  2,  3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ... oh fuck, I've ran out of
     fingers,  hold  on I'll take my socks off. 11, 12 ,13, 14, 15, 16, 17!
     Bingo! 17!
  ?: When did you buy your 1st computer and why?
  !: Err 1982 I think it was a DRAGON 32! Great machine! Why? I was bored!
  ?: When was IKARI founded, by who, and what's the present memberlist?
  !: It  was  founded  in July '87 by PAL + ULTIMA. The member list is (not
     ranked, just in order of joining): MOI, JUST ICE, TRIDOS (from UK) and
     EXCELL, FLETCH, GANDALF and DOC from Denmark.
  ?: Can you find a special reason for cracking games?
  !: Not  really, I just do it to get every game, no matter how crap it is,
     for free.
  ?: Who are your best friends in this rough world of pirates?
  !: Other  IKARI members, YOU Jeffie!, Mr.Pinge (sad to see him go), Colin
     (P.E.), CFR members, The Basildon Bunch, Void.
  ?: Do you have any enemies?
  !: Hah!  Loads  of fucking Americans! And I hate lamers that ring you and
     talk  as  if  they are the biggest in Europe! I also dislike a certain
     arrogant  English  bastard  that  sets  himself  above the rest of us.
     However he's lamer than lame.
  ?: What are your fave...
  !: Game (64): "Wizball" + "Giana Sisters"
     Demo (64): ASH and DAVE demos feat. Willy Warmstart
     Music (64): MOVIE 2 tune by D.U.S.A.T.
     Movies: BEVERLY HILLS COP 1 + 2
     Music: HIP-HOP
  ?: What do you do in your sparetime?
  !: Fuck about. Go to hip-hop clubs and concerts. Slag Americans.
  ?: What was the best computer incident you ever had?
  !: Probably the VENLO meetings. Haw! They were cool! Or will it be the PC
     show this month?
  ?: Is IKARI going to be enlarged again?
  !: Well,  there  is  no  way that we are gonna have ANY MORE members from
     outside  England,  I  don't care if the fuckin' Pope wants to join. No
     way!
  ?: How do you see the 64's future?
  !: I  give  it  2  years  at  max.  Companies  can keep converting arcade
     machines  but  as they get better graphics'n'sound etc., the 64 can't!
     My advice is: BUY A PC ENGINE!
  ?: What's the time?
  !: 5.35 p.m. Fuck it! It's neighbours! Oh yeah, CHICK, CHICK CHICKEN!!!

  +: Hope to see ya soon, Chick!
                                                                             JS

                          ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
                           a sad song by MAD ALL!

  For Mr.Pinge, my first contact to become a real friend.

  The  news  hit  me  as  a  brick in the face, one of my best friends quit
  computing  last  month, Stefan, better known as Mr.Pinge of TRIAD. He was
  the  guy  who  was  responsible  to spread all the stuff that Triad made,
  every  day  he  sent  out  packages, every fucking day. He was one of the
  reasons  that Triad could still hold their heads on high, in periods when
  they  suffered  some setbacks, a thing that some groups didn't like about
  him.  He  was  always an idealist, he innerly knew that he was in a group
  and he never gave in to criticism that Triad were going down.

  Probably  the best thing about him was that you could depend on him 100%,
  not only did he send me three packages every week, he sent more than just
  his  group's stuff, one would always get the best stuff from other groups
  on his disks. He was one of the best spreaders around, but most of all he
  was  a  spreader that never got tired until the day it became too much to
  his tense Swedish nerves...

  Triad lost their best swapper which is a bad thing for them. The pirating
  world has lost a nice guy which is a bad thing for everyone...

  Goodbye, Stefan, we will miss you!
                                                              Mad All / CFR

  Nothing has to be added...
                                                                 Jeff Smart

                                 PSYGNOSIS +
                                MIRRORSOFT +
                                 RAINBIRD =
                              TRIAD ???????????

  I  couldn't  believe my eyes, when reading it... "The new force on the 16
  bit  market:  T  R  I  A  D !". After reading it again and again, I still
  couldn't    understand   why   the   best   AMIGA   companies   PSYGNOSIS
  ("Obliterator",  "Barbarian"), RAINBIRD (Magnetic Scrolls) and MIRRORSOFT
  (Cinemaware)  joined  together  and  call themselves now TRIAD! Stunning,
  stunning...  And  a  strange  feeling for all of us, when next time games
  will be released under the name of TRIAD.
                                                                       J.S.

                                DEAR CONTACT!
                              Denmark: 20.07.88

  Well  it just had to happen. We in PAPILLONS now officially declare us as
  dead - yes we stop!

  Anyway  thanks  for  good  swapping  and so on. We'll NOT continue on the
  AMIGA so this is a kind of goodbye forever!

  Your friends
                                              Lennart & Martin of PAPILLONS

                            DO ALL CRACKERS DIE?

  It's starting to get serious...

  First  sign  was  STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT saying goodbye to the 64 business,
  but he is going to continue on Amiga. Next ones were the Danish importers
  #1,  THE  PAPILLONS.  Last  prominent victim was NIK of English top group
  IKARI. What led the guys to this decision? Is this a sign for all others?
  Or only some exceptions?

  As STRIDER said, the AMIGA attracted him too much but simultaneously that
  he  may  be  cracking  one  day again if there are lots of originals that
  GOLLUM  can't  crack  alone.  Well,  and  as  time  proved  he wrote some
  introtexts in some cracks so he's surely not gone forever!

  It  was  a  very big surprise, the letter from PAPILLONS, not a long time
  after  I talked to Martin on the bad party in Denmark. Without giving any
  reasons  they  just  said  that they stopped from today to tomorrow. They
  were  one of (who said: the only) the importing groups in Denmark, one of
  the  few decent programmers (even fixed "WINTER EDITION"), they had quite
  a  big  success  so their decision becomes not so clear. Rumours say that
  they  work  a  little  bit for WIZAX (who got their modem) and DOMINATORS
  (ostensible some cracks), so they seem not to be gone forever as well.

  Also  a big surprise was to hear from NIK, one of the two maincrackers in
  IKARI,  that he's not gonna crack anymore as he told me on a normal phone
  call.  Reasons  were  that  it  was  not possible to produce good quality
  cracks  if  thousands  of lamer Americans keep calling him and demand new
  wares... but stated that he's gonna concentrate a little bit more on demo
  programming...

  But here we've got it again!

  Americans!  Aha,  the  origin  of  all bad? With some very few exceptions
  (mainly  E.S.I.)  the only thing Americans can do is importing. To import
  games  through  modem is maybe as difficult as to receive a game by mail.
  Guess  what  would  happen  if everybody starts to put intros in front of
  their games they get by mail!

  The  worst thing Americans are doing is to demand speed from all cracking
  groups  over  here...  and  lots of Europeans just produce what Americans
  want  to  have... the land of all diseases! A lot haven't recognized this
  problem  and  keep going on trading ("...with the power of 1200 baud...")
  by modem with Americans, but we can't stop it, 'cuz there would always be
  some  idiot  who  trades  by  modem, ("cuz it's so much faster...") so if
  there  aren't  found  any good perspectives soon, good crackers are gonna
  die!

  And  what  do  the  Americans say when you tell them about this? They get
  angry,  talking about the difficulties of importing and other bullshit...
  Where's  the problem of putting one's intro in front of a European crack?
  In  the  good  times  this procedure was known as "Re-cracking", nowadays
  it's called "importing"...

  Where are we going?
                                                                       J.S.

                             NORWAY'S NEW WAYS!

  RAW  DEAL INC is back but neither LAFFEN or STEPPENWOLF is in it. They've
  cracked some stuff and I think they're gonna kick ass!

  MATCHAM  /  NETWORK  told  me  that the long awaited V4 might be released
  pretty soon!

  JAZZCAT  is  going  to  release  their  AMIGA GAME in the nearest future!
  They've  told me it's gonna be amazing and I can say about the music that
  I've already heard, that it's damn cool!

  After  we  (STARS) kicked out SMASH, he said he was going to join RAWHEAD
  (barf)  but  RAWHEAD  is going to split, and some of them are saying they
  are  gonna  make  a  group together with JOHANNES BJERREGAARD called "The
  Hackers'  Elite",  while the rest of 'em are going to form a group called
  "THE  KILLERS"  (barf  barf!)  (the worst name since "FRESH") and TRACK 7
  (RAWHEAD)  had  to  sell his Amiga due to a 1200 pound high phonebill (ha
  ha).

  A  new  group  called  "FUTURE"  has started cracking cracking and making
  incredible demos!

  "THE  DEADLY FRIENDS" got some problems getting originals and they're not
  sure  if  they will get previews anymore, anyway the war between them and
  us has stopped!

  The  reason  why  we haven't done anything lately was becoz of the summer
  holidays, but we'll be back with some fresh crax, imports and demos! Just
  wait'n'see!

  At last a couple of yo's to these dudes:
  JEFFIE, BROS, TWG, IKARI (Bye, NIK), COSMOS, etc.
                                                   Slates from Gene / Stars

                        +---------------------------+
                        |   Strider mot skollagen   |
                        | (from some Swedish paper) |
                        +---------------------------+

                                THE CHARTS...

  Thanx  for  voting  this month: S.C.G. (Weetibix), IKARI (Just Ice), BROS
  (Paco),  COSMOS  (SSD), PUBLIC ENEMY (Instinct), RWE (MWS), T.W.G. (ltb),
  BEASTIE BOYS (CF), CFR (Photony), and lotsa others!

  GAMES ON 64!

   1. THE GAMES: SUMMER EDITION   (-)
   2. ZAK MC KRACKEN...           (-)
   3. BARD'S TALE III             (1)
   4. SALAMANDER                  (-)
   5. ALIEN SYNDROME              (3)
   6. BIONIC COMMANDO             (2)
   7. IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II       (4)
   8. FOOTBALL MANAGER II         (-)
   9. HAWKEYE                     (-)
  10. POOL OF RADIANCE            (-)

  GAMES ON AMIGA!

   1. STARGLIDER II               (-)
   2. INTERCEPTOR                 (-)
   3. BERMUDA PROJECT             (-)
   4. KATAKIS                     (-)
   5. BARD'S TALE II              (-)
   6. IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II       (-)
   7. STARRAY                     (-)
   8. IKARI WARRIORS              (-)
   9. OBLITERATOR                 (-)
  10. BUGGY BOY                   (-)

  DEMO OF THE MONTH

   1. "TRAIL MIX"                  - SOEDESOFT & FIRE EAGLE
   2. "MISSION MONDAY"             - ASH + DAVE
   3. "RATT'S MOVIE"               - RATT
   4. "TRON BIKES"                 - KINETIK DESIGN
   5. "CHANNEL 4"                  - IAN & MIC
   6. "WHY THINK?"                 - S.S.S.
   7. "NEW LIMITS"                 - SUPPLY TEAM
   8. "CIRCLE TWIST"               - BROS
   9. "WHY CAN'T BE..."            - ORION
  10. "HOLYDISK"                   - ARGUS

  CRACKER OF THE MONTH

   1. S.C.G.                      (1)
   2. EAGLESOFT INC.              (7)
   3. IKARI                       (2)
   4. FAIRLIGHT                   (5)
   5. BROS                        (11)
   6. ZENITH                      (-)
   7. TRIAD                       (3)
   8. THE WANDERER GROUP          (-)
   9. RADWAR ENTERPRISES          (-)
  10. COSMOS                      (8)
  11. TRIANGLE                    (12)
  12. WIZAX                       (-)
  13. DOUGHNUT C.S.               (-)
  14. BEASTIE BOYS                (-)
  15. SHINING 8                   (-)

  IMPRESSUM

  +-------------------------------+
  | > "ILLEGAL" tm 1988           |
  | > 3rd year of appearence      |
  | > (c) 1986, 1987, 1988        |
  | > Circulation of this issue:  |
  |   1,500 copies                |
  | > Price: Germany: 2 DM        |
  |          England: 50 Pence    |
  |          US of A: 1,00       |
  | > Date of release:            |
  |   September, 17th             |
  | > Next number coming:         |
  |   Surely.....                 |
  +-------------------------------+

  THE "ILLEGAL" TEAM

  * Editor:
       Jeff Smart
  * Assistant Editor:
       Mad All / CFR
  * Staff Writers:
       Austria: COSMOS
       Belgium: CFR, FLT
       Denmark: TRIANGLE, 2000 A.D.
       England: N.B.B., IKARI, S.C.G.
       Germany: RWE, BB, CFR
       Holland: BROS, ORION
       Norway : STARS
       Sweden : FLT, TRIAD
       U.S.A. : ESI, INC, FBR

  If you have any comments, you're welcome to write to us!

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