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                                                                Illegal #34
  This is ILLEGAL #34, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.
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                                                             BUT WHO CARES?

                                  WOSSUP!?

  Yeh,  wossup? Not much would be the answer. It seems as if the Amiga gets
  better  and  better  in the last few weeks... Well, time will tell. We're
  approaching  the  worst  time  of  year  as  only  a  very few titles are
  announced...  and then only for the Amiga. Anyway, the RADWAR party was a
  huge success, and a good ending for the year 1988.

  Well,  I  wish  some  warm underwear to IKARI (all of them, especially to
  JUST  ICE  and  TRI-DOS),  the  DOUGHNUTS (NOSAH friend and Mistuh SULU),
  STRIKE  FORCE/MOVERS  (RAGMAN,  CONAN, ZOFF, DRAGO, CAOS...), RADWAR (the
  whole  crew,  and  a  big  thanx for the book Markus - my mom liked it!),
  GEORGE and the rest, PINGE and the rest, BEASTIE BOYS (AXION the FUTURE's
  CAPTAIN  (PC Engine and then??) and ACCEPT), NBB (MR.LAZY.. err.. LAZER),
  FAIRLIGHT  (hob-HOBBIT,  best  of  his kind, STRIDER (when is the king at
  home?) and GOLLUM), COSMOS (BIG BEN, SSD and ATT), X-RAY (what about this
  parcel,  Chris?),  VISION  FACTORY + THE BEYONDERS (this time I wrote the
  name  in full), PITO and girl in Bonn (Ya!), WORLD OF WONDERS, RED SECTOR
  (MR.ZEROPAGE, and the Agima... err.. IRATA), MANIACS OF NOISE (Charlie!),
  ELITE  (Woldgang), DAVE and his "NEWS", EAGLESOFT's Mitch (Amiga rulez!),
  dachdecking  DEEJAY,  some  BITS  of  ZENO  (ION),  THE  WANDERER  GROUP,
  MR.CURSOR,  F.A.R.T.  err M.E, Modem'KAY my Sheila and the record company
  ROUGH  TRADE  for  sending  a prerelease edition of NEW ORDER's new album
  "TECHNIQUE" 3 weeks before it was released officially!

  Sorry  to all of you who have been coincidentally forgotten... L8R M8S!

                                                                     JEFFO!
                                NEWS IN BRIEF

  Yohoo,  fried! This again is Pac.. err... RAGMAN telling you the craziest
  stories of and around the scene. Well here we go then...

   * STRIKE  FORCE/MOVERS  is  now  100% dead, but all Amiga members joined
     forces  with VISION FACTORY & THE BEYONDERS. Amusing that there exists
     some  lamers claiming they are the "NEW STRIKE FORCE", but that's pure
     bullshit,  and  it's  only a question of time until we have eliminated
     them.
   * THE  WANDERER  GROUP have quit all activities on the C64 as their main
     cracker IZEYESTOP is gonna join the Army soon.
   * JEFF  SMART  and T'KAY left SCG, but are still busy writing their mega
     mega demo as they're working on it for more than 8 months now.
   * There  is  a  group  called  ELITE making the whole scene unsafe. Well
     their  members  are keeping themselves well isolated, but we should be
     finding out soon - I hope.
   * GENESIS PROJECT and FIRE EAGLE are now making a cooperation together.
   * Another  cooperation,  XADES  SOCIETY  made  a  cooperation  with  the
     Scandinavian BEYOND FORCE.
   * Not  only  PACO (see below) is having a big war with THE MINDSLAYER of
     INC,  but  so  have  all other members of BROS. Now BROS feel proud to
     release  old games under the name of MAYHEM to make them appear stupid
     and lame.
   * Rumors  from  FAIRLIGHT  say that they are gonna drop the C64 business
     soon and will now concentrate on terrorizing the Amiga market.
   * Was anybody wondering who or what was that X-RAY? Well, here comes the
     solution;  X-RAY  consists of TYPHUS (ex-INXS), TIMOC and the Austrian
     CRACKOUT  CREW. They mean that the procedure of "defreezing a game" is
     "of course" possible... Aha!
   * SCOUSERS seem to be dead 100%, as WEETIBIX released his last crack. So
     we wish him good luck with his exams at school!
   * HENDY, ex-ZENITH cracker is now active cracking for DCS. So that means
     that there are gonna appear at last much better versions from DCS.
   * I,  myself  like to add that I passed my driving licence and am trying
     to  kill  all those damn pedestrians. Well I should be coming to Venlo
     with my own car, so Dutch lamers beware!
   * RADWAR also announced after their great party that they are gonna drop
     the illegal work. Well another big loss for the cracking scene...

  This  ends  the  gossip for this month. Here goes my greetings to: IKARI,
  DOUGHNUT  CRACKING  SERVICE,  SF/MOVERS  (shit  we're dead), THE WANDERER
  GROUP,  SCOUSERS,  JEFF, TK, ZOFF, NORMAN, WORLD OF WONDERS, VF+B and all
  the others... Farewell says... RAGMAN!

                      DYNAMIC DUO BUSTED AFTER 2 YEARS!

  As strange as it might sound like... but this is, unfortunately, no joke!
  So  it  happened in beginning of January '89 that one half of the DYNAMIC
  DUO was caught by the police. "H.J." who no longer had a C64 was squealed
  on  by  some  "Ralf Feigel" (if you ever heard about him let us know -ed)
  from  southern  Germany.  Anyway  the  police  took  away about 130 Amiga
  disks...

  It  seems  so  unbelievable, but still it's the hard truth... Just as you
  thought it was safe...
                                                                   MZP & JS

                              VENLO - MORE NEWS

  Well  as now everybody got to know, the bad apprehensions from last month
  weren't  proved  right  fortunately... The thing, that the SHN officially
  stated,  is  that the organizers of the usual Venlo meeting stopped their
  work.  So  they had to find new people to set this job forth as the Venlo
  meeting  always was the most popular. As the SHN is holding four meetings
  every  morning throughout The Netherlands, the organizers of the Nijmegen
  meeting  (every  2nd  Saturday of the month) finally said to take care of
  the  Venlo  meeting.  They  say in their magazine "Nieuwsbrief" (hum - my
  Dutch knowledge isn't perfect yet);

  -"The  place is the best possible to find. It's very close to the city...
  There  are  some  rules to prevent that we get in trouble again. Here are
  the rules for the Venlo meeting:

   * Everybody  HAS  TO  give  their  name  and adress to the people at the
     entrance - you'll then receive "Nieuwsbrief".
   * Selling of anything is forbidden without getting a permission.
   * Spreading  of  invitations  to  parties  or anything else is forbidden
     without (again) getting a permission.
   * If you buy food or drinks outside you have to consume it outside too.
   * If you can't follow the rules: STAY HOME!

  Huh,  it  sounds  radical?  Well  people  are  not sure whether the Venlo
  meeting  will  still be that big success as before... Well as usual, time
  will  tell.  Anyway,  for all abroad, note the new adress of the meeting:
  ZAAL STAAY, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX, VENLO-BLERICK.
                                                                         JS

                   SEVEN HONEST ANSWERS FROM MWS OF RADWAR

   * Which  would  be  the three things you would take with you on a lonely
     island?
     A whole harem, a big box of Johnny Walker whiskey and a negro.
   * If  you would win $1,000,000.00 what would be the first thing you'd be
     buying!?
     I would bribe von Grafenreuth to work for the crackers.
   * If you could kill a person without being punished, who would that be?
     Will Masolyn from HOTLINE,
   * What would be the best thing that could happen to you?
     To  get  a computer that is able to do all the things a girlfriend can
     do (without cooking...).
   * And what would be the worst thing that could happen?
     If there will never be such a computer...
   * If you could meet a person in history, who would you like to talk to?
     Cleopatra (but not only talking...)
   * What was the best incident you ever had!?
     Well  it happened some time ago that a guy called FLORASOFT visited me
     with  his  girlfriend. He took 3 hours to copy all the latest games. I
     took  3 hours to take his girlfriend with me upstairs... I don't know,
     but FLORASOFT was very angry when he left...

                  A GLANCE BACK AT THE MAIN EVENTS OF 1988!

  Let's  take  a  retroperspective  view of the most important incidents of
  1988,  which  have  been  named in the monthly "gossip'n'news" columns of
  ILLEGAL...

  * JANUARY
     o  As  a  result  of the war between CCS and TCS (Cleveland and Teeside
       Cracking  Service/s), CCS have changed their name into "FUSION - MAN
       AND MACHINE".
     o Rumors have been put against IKARI freezing a lot of their cracks.
     o FCS,   one  of  the  very  known  German  cracking  groups,  stopped
       activities.
     o Many conferences made their way from the States to Europe.
     o The  "Cracker  of  the  Year"  chart  looked like this; 1. TRIAD, 2.
       HOTLINE,   3.   BEASTIE   BOYS,  4.  TEESIDE  CRACKING  SERVICE,  5.
       FAIRLIGHT,  6.  SCOUSE  CRACKING  GROUP,  7.  RDI,  8. EAGLESOFT, 9.
       UNTOUCHABLE CRACKING FORCE, 10. FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE.
     o The RADWAR party on January 9th was a huge success...

  * FEBRUARY
     o FUSION  started  to  be  a  real competitor for TRIAD, FAIRLIGHT and
       IKARI.
     o IKARI successfully fights the critics about freezing.
     o Some  people  see  a danger in the appearance of modemtrading on the
       European market.

   * MARCH
     o PIRA-TED squeals on EAGLESOFT.
     o FUSION climbs to No.1 in the "Cracker Charts" for the first time.
     o JANITOR of TRIAD said he was gonna retire.
     o In  C&VG  appears  a  photo  of  the Amiga game Dark Castle, showing
       "cracked by Lord Blitter for BS1".
     o "System Four" goes on for the 1st time.

  * APRIL
     o SCOUSE  CRACKING  GROUP announce their comeback, but nobody seems to
       be fairly interested in that.
     o TRI-DOS, after being kicked out of FUSION, reinforces IKARI.
     o WINTER  EDITION  was  finally  fixed  by  THE  PAPILLONS,  TRIAD and
       MR.ZEROPAGE.
     o The April Venlo meeting was one of the best yet!
     o The  Private  Party  (TRIAD,  FAIRLIGHT,  RADWAR)  was  quite  a big
       success.

  * MAY
     o IAN, leader of FUSION, quit working on computers because, as he said
       "My family deserves more of my time than I have been giving".
     o THE  SURVIVORS,  known  American  group,  died after several members
       received horrible phone bills.
     o English  computer  magazine  "Commodore  User"  prints extracts from
       "ILLEGAL".
     o SCG  appears  in  the  "Cracker  Charts" after more than 6 months of
       absence.

  * JUNE/JULY
     o STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT started to visit the US of A for 2 months.
     o Four  Danish  JEWELS  reinforced  IKARI.  They  are  EXCELL, FLETCH,
       GANDALF and DOC.
     o SCG jumps to No.1 in the charts.
     o For  the  first  time  in  cracking,  an  Austrian group entered the
       "Cracker Charts", namely the TSK-CREW, and hasn't left it so far.
     o JANITOR releases his last crack for TRIAD - Bard's Tale III.

  * AUGUST
     o The   total   disaster   in   Denmark,  the  IKARI-DOMINATORS-DANISH
       GOLD-UPFRONT party was everything else but a well-organized party.
     o TRIAD  finally  dies  after  IXION  and  MR.PINGE  leave the sinking
       mommy-ship.
     o No ILLEGAL comes out, mainly because of the summer holiday.

  * SEPTEMBER
     o The  gigantical  meeting, the PERSONAL COMPUTER SHOW (also formally,
       and  better  known  as  the  PCW  Show)  delighted more than 100,000
       visitors from the 16-18th of September at Earl's Court in London.
     o More and more people getting pissed off at all modem traders.
     o The Austrian TSK-CREW changed their name into COSMOS.
     o STRIDER is back at home in Sweden, but still talks like a Yank.
     o DOUGHNUT  CRACKING  SERVICE,  old fame from England, seem to be back
       after 2 long years of break.
     o After  JJ THE BREAKER is back from his stay in the Army, UNTOUCHABLE
       CRACKING  FORCE  announces their comeback, but fails already after 3
       weeks.

   * OCTOBER
     o MR.ZEROPAGE, Germany's best cracker, was caught by the police.
     o Mark  Le-May,  Englands  piss-head #1, created PHOENIX, but drops it
       after 2 months.
     o The  English  post  strike  makes  the  mailtrading in Great Britain
       difficult.
     o SCG  made  a  hattrick  in  the  "Cracker Charts", as noone else did
       before.

   * NOVEMBER
     o A TOUCH OF CLASS appears as a very strong American group.
     o MAD ALL, after being caught by the post, stops pirating.
     o WEETIBIX announces SCG's retirement.
     o IKARI again climbs to No.1.
     o HOTLINE  seems  to be active in cracking again, after only importing
       for more than half of the year.
     o STRIKE  FORCE,  in cooperation with THE MOVERS enter the charts as a
       very strong German group.

   * DECEMBER
     o SCG  says farewell to the cracking circuit mainly due to problems at
       school.
     o ZENITH is left alone, only STEVE and IRONFIST remain...
     o TWG quits computing.
     o STRIKE FORCE/MOVERS quit too.
     o SHINING 8 quits.
     o More and more people start to work for software companies.
     o The RADWAR PARTY V2 was even better than it's predecessor!

                SPECIAL CRACKIN' COMIC - THE RADWAR PARTY V2!

  This  is  a  special issue of Crackin' Comic by HOBBIT of FAIRLIGHT. It's
  all about the RADWAR party! Yeah!

                                TAKE A LOOK!

               TV SHOW "HIGH SCORE" - THE ULTIMATE DISCUSSION!

  And  there  it  goes  then!  On  December 17th 1988 the WDR computer show
  called  "HIGH  SCORE"  went  for  the third time on the air... The climax
  besides David Braben as a studio guest was a discussion meeting between:

  * TP: The presentator
  * VG:  Lord von Grafenreuth - who is the lawyer representing the software
    companies on court against piracy!
  * TW:  Theuth  Weidemann  - he used to be KOTZBROCKEN and a member of the
    old JEDI, but works nowadays for RAINBOW ARTS
  * MW: MWS of RADWAR - as "a guy who knows a lot about the crackers..."

  Now imagine... The following was all LIVE on TV...

  TP: In general, why do people crack a game?
  MW: A  game is cracked, mainly because of fun, hobby and let's say to get
      famous in the "scene".
  TP: Sir  von Grafenreuth, is cracking punishable or just the spreading of
      pirate software?
  VG: Err,   "the   changing,  destroying  and  surpressing"  of  datas  is
      punishable!
      [AUDIENCE: LAUGHING!]
  VG: I  could  and  did  only  repeat  what the law says about it... So in
      general,  yes,  cracking is illegal when datas are attacked. If there
      are  programmes protected by copyright laws, the it's also punishable
      after  the  copyright law, that can be a changing of any datas... For
      example,  I  can  remember  some  cracker  on  my  list "DR.MENGELE",
      Paraguay, you see they never caught him. (?? -ed)
  TP: Based on the law, there exist some different possibilities to protect
      a computer game...?
  VG: Yes, computer games have, like movies or records a copyright law.
  TP: Theuth, you changed sides. Are you now tracing your ex-friends?
  TW: No,  of  course  not.  We  work  together  with those people. They're
      working for us and most of them went out of the scene.
  TP: How do you handle those people?
  TW: I   persuade  them  to  make  money  with  programming,  using  their
      experience  that  they  got  through cracking... And they know what's
      going on.
  TP: What do you think, when one of your games is cracked?
  TW: The  crackers are taking the copy protections from the games away and
      make  the  games  this way available to people who would normally buy
      the games. So they're damaging our company, and we're not able to put
      more  money  into the games, so the quality of games is lower than it
      could be...
  TP: Marcus, is that right? What do crackers want?
  MW: Crackers  want  to improve their image in some way and spread cracked
      games   to   get  known  and  the  computer  is  mainly  a  means  of
      communication, so that they can be in contact with others, worldwide.
      And I don't think that a cracker is cracking a game for money. That's
      mainly  a software pirate, and that's not their preferred side... And
      additionally, I think the audience shares my opinion...
      [AUDIENCE: BIG APPLAUSE!]
  VG: Well,  it's  often  difficult  to  clear  up if we got a cracker or a
      software  pirate...  but  we  ourselves  even caught crackers. GERMAN
      CRACKING SERVICE is not existing anymore.
      [AUDIENCE: BIG LAUGHING!]
  VG: Yes,  GCS...  Snoopy  etc,  the group was caught (exactly 3 years ago
      -ed), but we got also a lot of people offering and selling software.
  MW: Why  did  you, in one of your infamous interviews in the "ASM" (known
      German  software  magazine  -ed)  confuse  the  term  "cracker"  with
      "software  pirate"?  And  you also said that there was a house search
      and you needed 2 cars and a lorry to take all the stuff and computers
      of that guy away?
  TP: To  make  it  more clear, the only point for people being punished is
      they sell software!?
  MW: Right.
  TW: The  crackers  are  the  ones  who start to spread the games, but the
      spreaders, err... or how you like to call them, are the ones making a
      profit  of  the  crackers. They're selling the games, but without the
      crackers they couldn't even exist.
  MW: But,  in  the  end, nowadays games are so expensive and this is up to
      the  software retailers, that small kids who receive, let's say 30DM,
      pocket money every month and they find an advertisment saying "Newest
      games  on  C64 and Amiga for sale!". They're probably more interested
      in  that  than  otherwise  paying 59DM for a single game, but that is
      only  due  to the packing or any other things. And I think, a cracker
      is not interested in supplying those people with games. They're as we
      said "software pirates".
  TP: Can  one  differentiate  between  that? If, let's say, I myself would
      crack a game?
      [AUDIENCE: LAUGHING!]
  MW: Okay, if you want...
  TP: Okay,  if  I do that I would have my self-control about spreading the
      game or keeping it for myself.
  MW: Grafenreuth  also said in his interview that it is already illegal to
      possess own cracked version for one's own at home.
  VG: Yes, that's right.
  MW: And  you  say  that the interest of software companies are more worth
      than   the   interests   of   an   individual   person  during  legal
      preceedings...?
  VG: Not  the software retailer, but the owning of copyright as the German
      law  stresses  the  proprietary  right  and material guarantees, that
      means  copyrights, so that the programmer who created something has a
      copyright  and  it's  surprising to see that nowadays a lot of people
      who  left  the  cracking scene and started to work for companies, who
      became  top  programmers  get angry about others cracking their games
      now.
  MW: That  is  right,  but if you say such a sentence like: "The companies
      are higher evaluated in front of the court than an individual", which
      occurs in your interview.
  VG: Not the companies, but the copyrights.
  MW: Okey,  but  that  means,  if someone only buys a game, he at one puts
      himself  under  the  obedience  of a software company, because if he,
      without  knowing  it,  changes  the datas of the program somehow with
      some other means, he commited a crime?
  VG: Well,  perhaps I give another example as we had a BKA (special German
      police  dept.  -ed) decision about a changing of a roof, when someone
      else put another roof on it and...
      [AUDIENCE: VEEERY BIG AMUSEMENT & LAUGHING!]
  TP: We're not talking about roofs.
  VG: That doesn't matter... There is also a copyright law!
  MW: May  I  set  an interrupt? You also have advertisements in some known
      magazines  (not in ILLEGAL -ed) where your assistants pretend they're
      crackers and offer software.
  VG: No, not crackers...
  MW: But  if  someone  writes in and likes to buy software, which is quite
      reasonable, then you catch him! Is that really legal?
  VG: If  someone  only  writes  in and is fairly interested in getting the
      games,  of  course  nothing  happens. But if somebody sends a list of
      games  and  encloses  disks  with  software, then it is possible that
      something can happen.
  TP: It has proved up to now, that no protection is unbeatable...?
  MW: What  do  you want to do against things like freeze-modules which can
      be bought in every shop?
  TP: Yes  such  things  are even offered by the industry and they help the
      crackers doing their job?
  VG: It's not... It happened that one of the leading software producers in
      Germany  claimed  to  take  away all those things from the shops, and
      exactly this freeze-module will be taken away soon...
  TP: But  there  is  no  doubt  that  something new has to be developed...
      Anyway, I'm sorry, but the time is up. Thank you a lot.

  Well,  I  hope  you got a big of imagination of what was running on TV. I
  had to add who was present in the audience (no joke!); BROS (BAMBAM), DCS
  (MR.SULU),  DEEJAY,  IKARI  (JUST  ICE, TRI-DOS), MR.CURSOR, MR.ZEROPAGE,
  T'KAY,  THE  WANDERER  GROUP,  WORLD  OF  WONDERS,  STRIKE FORCE, MOVERS,
  ZENOBITS and a hell more...

  "High  Score" was only planned to appear on TV three times, which it did.
  Perhaps  there'll  be  more  in  April, but nobody seems to know when the
  movie about the RADWAR party will be shown... All translation (yeuch!) by
  JEFFO!

                      DIRECTLY FROM THE POLICE OFFICE!

        WANTED! DEAD OR ALIVE!               WANTED! DEAD OR ALIVE!

       [PHOTO OF UGLY PIRATE!]               [PHOTO OF UGLY PIRATE!]

       "STAN STONED" - DANGER!              "ROCKY BALBOA" - DANGER!

   This perpetrator always carries     This man constantly uses his fists
    his weapon (a can of beer) and       to smash freezers, recrackers,
  dares to use it whenever possible.   lamers reset-crackers, refreezers,
   He is also blamed for comitting     bold publishers and retailers, and
   several crimes of exterminating      even lawyers (just by use of his
  alcohol-containing cans or bottles     lingual abilities)! He is also
          by drinking them!            accused of organizing secret disco
                                        parties without any computers to
  He is searched and traced by FBI,      shock the observing forces...
     INTERPOL, SCOTLAND YARD, his
      English teacher and by the        He is being searched by F.A.S.T.,
  INTERNATIONAL PRESS! (they intend       several pregnant and innocent
     to get to know his secret of       girls, a TV show presentator and
   handling "Newsroom" while he is               all lameheads!
               drunk!)

                 GERMANY: WILL COPYRIGHT BE ABOLISHED SOON?

  Open  your  eyes  and  believe  it!  The  biggest parties in Germany, the
  CDU/CSU  is  planning  to  abolish  the  copyright law, at least in south
  Germany.  It seems as this is no longer the dream of all crackers, but it
  could become reality (let's say a prayer), as the CDU/CSU are saying that
  all  the  money  spent  on  tracing software pirates or any other of that
  kind, could and should (and will?) be spent on more useful (!) things...

  And  I  think,  they  have  a  good point! So, hope for the best... Elect
  CDU/CSU next time!
                                                                     MZP+JS

                              RADWAR PARTY V3!?

  Just as the second party was over, RADWAR already announced the 3rd one!!
  It  will  be  held  in  summer  times,  and will be run over 3 full days,
  including camping and barbecue! "THREE DAYS STONED!"

                    WHERE HAVE ALL THE CONFERENCES GONE?

  It's  23.30  and  the  phone  rings,  I'm just on my way to bed and think
  "SHIT",  but  wait,  it  might  be  a conference. My heart starts to beat
  faster  and  I  hurry  to answer the phone. I pick it up eagerly, but NO,
  it's  just  someone  asking  if  I've got a fucking code!! A shitbox AT&T
  code.  So  I  tell'em "GOOD NIGHT" and sob myself to sleep. So just where
  have  all  the conferences gone? Maybe it's just me, maybe I have lost my
  popularity  and  nobody  loves  me anymore? Well, I could always buy some
  razorblades!

  Time  was,  you could guarantee to get on a couple of conferences a week.
  And  they're  great, I used to get most of my gossip off the conferences.
  Or  you could listen to two guys who hate eachother having a verbal fight
  over   the  phone.  I'll  never  forget  the  famous  CHUNK  &  MEGASNAIL
  conversation,  there  were  six  other  guys  from  all  over Europe just
  listening  to  two  guys  slagging each other off, and I have to say that
  MEGASNAIL lost hands down.

  But  the  problem  seems  to be that codes just aren't available anymore.
  Maybe  the  Yanks  have  now  attrived their usefulness and I mean, in my
  opinion  the only good thing Yanks have giving the cracking scene are PBX
  codes,  AT&T  codes  and of course modems (but they only send 1 out of 10
  they  promise).  So if they can't come up with the codes, maybe we should
  fuck 'em off?

  I  mean,  last  month  I  was getting phonecalls every night from Sweden,
  Germany,  Denmark  etc.  From  guys  who were desperate for codes so they
  could  phone  the  Yanks.  Well  I  say,  fuck  the  Yanks. If they ain't
  supplying  the  codes  then  we  shouldn't  supply  the cracks. The great
  initiates of conferences seem to have gone quiet. PACO where are you? You
  used  to  be  the  conference  King!  Phone broken? Busted? ...or just NO
  CODES!?

  I'm getting withdrawal symptoms, I miss the times when 6 or 7 guys on the
  line  would  speak  at once and noone had a fucking clue what anyone else
  had  said,  but  everyone had a laugh. Or the times someone would put his
  heavy  metal  music  next  to  the  speakers, and the guys who really had
  something  to  say  would  have to wait until DEF LEPPARD's drummer would
  shut  the  fuck  up before they could carry on. Oh, happy days! So to you
  Yanks  out  there I say get your fingers out and start hacking some codes
  so that I can hear that lovely sentence "USA Direct, May I help you?" and
  we  can  start  these late night conferences again...

                                                   Written by NOSAH of DCS!

                   ADVENTURES OF A TRAVELLING AUSTRIAN BOY

  First  of all: It was great to see all contacts and friends in Venlo. But
  it  was  hard work to get from the fucking small Austria to the holy town
  of Venlo. Let me tell you some of our adventures...

  What  is  the  cheapest  way  getting from Austria to Holland? Right, the
  train.  I  don't  wanna  tell  you  how  we came to Venlo, but it took 17
  hours...  Then  we  were  there. A big room, a lot of guyz, but nobody we
  knew.  After  one hours of lonelyness a well known friend arrived. It was
  JEFFIE  -  the  smart one. Then this was the time to be introduced to the
  most  famous dudes present, so I met JUST ICE, MR.SULU, CONAN, MR.CURSOR,
  MR.ZEROPAGE and many more of these great friends...

  Another  hour  later  I head that there was a big TV show in Cologne. OK!
  How  could  I  get  to Cologne? I found a driver in the person of VEDA of
  G*P.  After  he  found his lost key for the car, we were able to drive to
  Cologne. On a gas station, the car had some troubles with the electricity
  (after  10  minutes we could fix it!). 6 o'clock: We were in Cologne. But
  where is the TV studio? We found it after asking 20 guys for the way...

  The  TV show was then great (good job Markus). But now let's turn over to
  the RADWAR party in Heinsberg. We found it after 2 hours of searching. In
  the  disco  I  had  time to talk to JUST ICE and MR.SULU (they are really
  fine time, err sorry, guys). The party was really great!

  The  way  back to Cologne was a disaster. Because G*P took the wrong way,
  we  arrived  after  hours  in  Cologne  and  almost  had  a crash with an
  S-express.  2  nice  and  pretty girls helped us pull back the car on the
  street.  We  spent  some drinks with the girls and then we searched for a
  hotel.  We found one: only 120DM for a night (equal to 40 pounds -ed). We
  took  it.  Poor  and tired we went sleeping. On the next day we then went
  back to good old Austria...

  This  was only a fast one to show you what is possible to happen when you
  travel to Venlo for the first time... but... IT WAS GREAT!!!!

                                                          BIG BEN of COSMOS

                    THE NEVERENDING STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR!

  Aha...  Well  the  good news on the phone turned a short while later into
  bad  things...  Well,  I  don't  care that much. We then finally came all
  together  drinking,  dancing  and  so  on.  Better than good! Better than
  anything  imagineable  before!  Back  from  the  day at the opera, I find
  myself hanging around being not sure about how to continue...

  A  man and his machine, now a man and his magazine... We sat together and
  talked  about the good old days and remembered what there was before, and
  GOSH!  We  had the brilliant idea to put some system together, and remain
  unknown...  Well  it  then  was  my turn to set up the basics and get the
  people  together,  but  it  surprisingly looks damn good... The last year
  ender  not that furious, but the new year began with unknown pleasures...
  It  was the TECHNIQUE that arrived 3 weeks than I thought it would. 8 new
  masterpieces...  The  picture you see is no portrait of me, it's too real
  to  be  shown  to  someone I don't know, and as you're driving me wild it
  makes act like a child. Ha!

  Well,  I  then see myself arriving at the vanishing point (you think I am
  crazy,  but what can I do?), so I was again searching for some new ideas.
  There  a  lot of people raping my ideas a long time ago, anyway I think I
  am  still  strong...  I took my fingers from the keyboard to the cassette
  tape and took off... Well, I am working hard and I still have to do quite
  a  bit  and  we  will see what it's gonna bring... Well people seem to be
  spreading false rumors, everybody else but the people themselves care!

  I'm not that kind of foolish partner as I couldn't have taken it from any
  other  one... Well the letter was written some good time ago and tomorrow
  will  at  last  bring the long awaited decision... I don't know really. I
  thought  about both possible consequences. One seem to be so easy, but it
  doesn't  depend  on  me.  SYSTEM  FOUR anyway stays stronger than it ever
  was...  It  was  a  damn  good launch even though some drunk pet shop boy
  claimed  it was luck... Ha! The elite will be together to kick him in his
  ass...  We  now  think  about  how  to  destroy  the  minor classes... It
  shouldn't  be that kind og big problemo. Some other friends are riding on
  the  wave of the rising modem but rather seem to fail, well again I don't
  know...

  Well don't take it too serious as the decision will not really concern my
  SYSTEM  FOUR activities, but if I think about it, it might... but just in
  the  most  positive way I can think of! So, what's the use in complaining
  when  you've  got  everything  you  need?  DREAM  ATTACH,  I can't really
  sleep...  Anyway  nothing  in this world can touch the music that I hear,
  and that's probably the main thing for me, as without it, I wouldn't have
  been  here.  I  again  have  to  think  about the letter. I come to doubt
  whether  it  was  right or wrong, well tomorrow will tell me. I'm getting
  tired  of everything. I try but I cannot find you, tell me what do I do!?
  My  name  is  not  MR.DISCO  but still grown up by children suffer at the
  hands  of  one  another.  Ah, tomorrow will tell!!

                                                TO BE CONTINUED! JEFF SMART

                            VOTE FOR THE CHARTS!

  Hi  friends! You can do me a favor and vote for the charts every month as
  the charts should be as representative as ever possible, so I need all of
  you! Okey, there are two possibilities...

  You  copy the list below, give up to 10 points to every group and send it
  to  me  immediately...  or  you  can  give a quick phonecall as it's much
  easier for you and me... (the number is on the last page)

   * C64:  IKARI,  DCS,  ELITE,  ATC,  BROS, FAIRLIGHT, DOMINATORS, COSMOS,
     X-RAY, BEASTIE BOYS, ZENITH, HOTLINE
   * AMIGA:   VF+TB,   QUARTEX,   WOW,  FAIRLIGHT,  ACKERLIGHT,  MEGAFORCE,
     RSI/DEFJAM, ORACLE, BS1/QUORAM, AFL

                         WHERE ARE THE DEMO CHARTS!?

  Yeah,  you  might be wondering where I put the "Demo Charts"? Well, I put
  them  off ILLEGAL, as I only get my hands on a very few demos, so it's no
  longer  any  use  to make a "Demo Charts". Well, nevertheless I'd like to
  draw your attention to two demos...

  "MEGA  DEMO"  from  DRIVE  and  "BABYLON 5" by MR.CURSOR, both would have
  surely been top hits in the charts... Anyways, later on...
                                                                 JEFF SMART

                            JEFF SMART RADIO SHOW

  New ideas save the country! Yes, the "JEFF SMART Radio Show" is available
  on  tape up from February 1st 1989. Send an empty 60min tape plus 5DM to:
  RADIO  SHOW, PLK XXXXXX X, XXXX BOTTROP, WEST GERMANY ...and you get your
  tape  within  5 days! Let youself be surprised; jokes, interviews, music,
  strange noises, wild animals and lots of other crap...

  Don't  miss the FIRST EDITION of the "JEFF SMART Radio Show"... Available
  up from 01-02-1989, so... ORDER NOW!
                                                                         JS

                              C64 GAME REVIEWS

   * FIST+:  Aha, after IK+ now FIST+, and it doesn't beat IK+, though it's
     not bad except for the horrible music. 87pts.
   * SUPERMAN:  From  TYNESOFT,  and except for the game itself the rest is
     very good. Great graphic, 81pts.
   * R-TYPE: I guess all of you know the story about "KATAKIS" and "R-TYPE"
     by  now,  so  I'm  not  repeating  it again. Well the game is somewhat
     weaker  than  KATAKIS, mainly because the two programmers just got six
     weeks time from ACTIVISION to finish it. 79pts.
   * STARBALL:  Something  like  "KRAKOUT"  for two players simultaneously.
     Weak gameplay, but still it brings fun, 82pts.

                             AMIGA GAME REVIEWS

   * ELITE:  Probably  the best game ever made on computers, even better on
     16-bit. The pure madness... 99pts! (highest ranking ever!)
   * DRAGON'S  LAIR:  Yet  there  is no cracked version on the circuit, but
     luckily  I  got  a  look  at  the  original.  Great graphics, and nice
     gameplay. 94pts.
   * ZAK  MCKRACKEN:  Aha,  another superb conversion from the C64. I'm not
     sure  if  this  was the first LUCASFILM release on the Amiga, but it's
     brilliant! 93pts.
   * SWORD OF SODAN: Great graphics, but gets boring soon... 79pts.
   * OPERATION WOLF: Best game from OCEAN on Amiga so far, 87pts.

                            CHARTS - JANUARY 1989

               C64 GAMES                          C64 CRACKERS

    1. MICROPROSE SOCCER        (1)      1. IKARI                    (1)
    2. GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT       (2)      2. DOUGHNUT CRACKING SERVICE(7)
    3. FIST+                    (-)      3. ELITE                    (-)
    4. ROCKET RANGER            (3)      4. A TOUCH OF CLASS         (4)
    5. KATAKIS                  (4)      5. BROS                     (9)
    6. SUPERMAN                 (-)      6. STRIKE FORCE/MOVERS      (5)
    7. ULTIMA V                 (7)      7. FAIRLIGHT                (3)
    8. R-TYPE                   (-)      8. DOMINATORS              (11)
    9. THE LAST NINJA II        (6)      9. COSMOS                  (10)
   10. STARBALL                 (-)     10. X-RAY                    (-)

              AMIGA GAMES                        AMIGA CRACKERS

    1. ELITE                    (-)      1. VISION FACTORY/BEYONDERS (6)
    2. DRAGON'S LAIR            (-)      2. QUARTEX                  (2)
    3. ZAK MC CRACKEN           (-)      3. WORLD OF WONDERS         (1)
    4. SPEEDBALL                (1)      4. ACKERLIGHT               (4)
    5. SWORD OF SODAN           (-)      5. MEGAFORCE                (7)
    6. OPERATION WOLF           (-)      6. RED SECTOR/DEFJAM        (3)
    7. HOSTAGES                 (2)      7. FAIRLIGHT                (-)
    8. TV SPORTS FOOTBALL       (-)      8. ORACLE                   (-)
    9. BATTLE CHESS             (4)      9. BAMIGA SECTOR 1/QUORAM   (-)
   10. CALIFORNIA GAMES         (-)     10. ALPHAFLIGHT              (5)

  IMPRESSUM

  ILLEGAL (TM) by JEFF SMART
  Issue  #34  - Released on January
  16th 1989 - Circulation: unknown
  Editor-in-Chief: JEFF SMART
  Co-Editors  &  Contributors:  MAD
  ALL,  T.A.  / AMOK, MWS / RADWAR,
  RAGMAN  /  SF, MR.ZEROPAGE, F.C.,
  BIG  BEN  /  COSMOS, NOSAH / DCS,
  HOBBIT / FAIRLIGHT
  Typed in by: STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT
  Preview  of  Issue #35: Interview
  with  THE FLEET of X-RAY * Coming
  highlights of 1989 * Danish scene
  report
  Comments:   If   you   have   any
  comments, you're welcome to write
  to us!
