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my name is falcon of
     Ctdc/royal amiga forceA
i am very bored right now so i thought,
why not write something for our
magazine....  this will be a story that
many people will probably recognise.
a story about some guy who was
interested in computers and entered
something we call a 'scene'.
my first encouter with computers was
when my father bought me a thing called
'philips videopac' it was one of those
'insert cartridge and play game'
thingies.... you know , 4k memory ,
pixels about the size of a disk and
sound wich was hardly a match to a
calculator etc. but nevertheless, i
enjoyed it for a while but soon i
wondered, is that all there is to it ,
so i began searching for a computer
that was more flexibel , and that was
about the time a lot of my schoolfriends
owned a c64 .. and some day i was at a
friends place and played cobra .... i
was in heaven , i was just sitting there
and brabbling about , 'look at those
gfx !!! dig that sound' so , the next
few weeks i drove my dad absolutely
insane and was begging for one of those
state of the art compies..... and yes ,
finally , at my 15th birthday i got one..
complete with diskdrive ,printer, and a
lotta disks (all second hand ya know).
god knows how long i spend my time
playing games ... but then again that
feeling came , is that all???
i became fascinated by those intro's
which were installed to the game , names
like eca,hotline etc etc.. i read those
scrollies and i wondered what it was
that made the word 'scene' so special ..
a friend of mine introduced me to the
world of lda , sta etc etc. and soon my
first routine was ready , i can't
exactly remember what routine it was ,
but is was probably some flickering
rasterbars or something like that....
and so , me and my friend wanted to form
a group , names like 'the last crackers,
tnt,brothers' etc was used but we were
just a bunch of lamers , you probably
know what i mean... i started to contact
some people and created some demo's and
i got a little bit more into the scene
but still i was nothing but a lamer.
at that time , there were all kinda
rumours about a supercomputer called
'amiga' and soon after the amiga 1000
was a fact..... when i first gazed into
the shopwindow and saw those gfx i
started drooling all over , but i didn't
have the money and without ever being
someone in the 64 scene i got my amiga
on july 1989 ...

again the first few weeks was just
playing around, didn't have any contacts
, but, again that inevitable feeling
came over me .... and i contacted a few
people , and yes , this time it was
working,i got more and more contacts and
made some packs , but i still was
groupless ..the big bang came when i
contacted a guy named vortex of a group
named ravish... they were looking for
swappers and vortex asked me to join
them and so i joined them , i started
making some gfx (the famous megademo 1
logo remember lars?) and i discovered
that i was quite nice at drawing....
then barrax of doom asked us to join
them and form the dutch division of
doom.. we accepted and then there was
the first party i went to , it was the
poison (lame) party in landgraaf
holland.... we expected something
major , but it was just a bunch of 64
and 4 amiga's but, it was fun and that
is what counts.. than there came the
vision/aces/active party , and that
was a bit bigger and more fun , we made
a little competition demo and talked
to lotsa people (especially com of
brainstorm (cool dude,hope to see you
at the vision mirage party)
but , back to history class...
anyway , we stayed there till the very
end , and vortex and i discussed
about wanting to be in a group wich had
the hq in holland.. soon the name raf
came up , and so the next few days
vortex called remote control and the
thing was soon settled...we were gonna
form tdc of raf (yes, a subdivision)
tdc stands for the demo crew , and that
is because we are only interested
in creating demo's, we made a little
intro and an anouncement demo and now
i've reached today, we are working on
tdc/raf megademo ii .. and i still swap 
a little and paint a lot...
so , phew , that was a long story and
i wonder if there is anyone reading
this article at this point ...
well , i will end this text now except
for this message: our megademo will be
released at the vision/mirage party on
22^12^90 (note by dr.legal... hehe...
it was not!)
..
greetings from falcon of tdc/raf

signed off 12^1^91 by dr.legal/raf