10 YEAR çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff ¾10 years incomputerbusiness ¾ or ¾did I waste 10 years of my life? ¾A TEXT BY TECHNOKING OF HITECJUNKIS ²----------------------------------- ¹ ¹Iam one of many people who become from the beginning on a slave of the fascination of computer games. More than 10 years ago I saw a game called " Asteroids " in the entrance hall of a cinema. Some of you may remember this game which target it is to destroy flying asteroids by shooting sometimes at them with your space ship. If I am right this game was even in two colors. From this moment on I was done for. I used my hole sparetime to enter coins in different slot-machines but I had a problem : I was younger than 18 years and so I was not allowed to enter the gambling halls. So the biggest part of my time was wasted to find some slot-machines who stood at public places. I still remember three of this places : the cinema (Asteroids), the station hall (Lady Bug, Hyper Olympics) and the shoppingcenter of the Breuningerland (Mission Elevator, 1942, Pac Man and others). I do not want to swagger but I was a world champion at " Mission Elevator ". I played this game with only one DM from 9 am till 6.30 pm in the evening without getting " Game Over ". I had to be good because my pocket money was not very much so the better I played the longer I had fun. ¶çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff¹After a while the slot-machines were not enough for me. I wanted to play also at home. At this time the Commodore C64 was only a dream so I got on my grandma`s nerves until she bought me a Philips telegame. With this game I sat at the TV for hours and played tennis, icehockey and whatever was possible. The primitiveness of these little games is nowadays unimagineable because evry wrist-clock with a calculator has more power than this telegame ever had. So after a not so long time it began to bore me and I returned to the slot-machines. Then the break-through on the home sector : ATARI the gameconsole of the modern times. It was a pitty that I never had the money to buy such an ATARI but to my luck three of my friends had one. For this reason I got a nice account of game hours with Pac Man, H.E.R.O., E.T. and all the others. It was at this time I first got in contact with the phenomenon of game-exchange : modules who bored me were exchanged with modules which I had played less times or not at all. A short while after the ATARI came the CBS Colecovision ( I am not shure if that is correctly ) with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Zaxxon ( which I could not buy, too ). I only had the chance to wait for hours in the toy department of the shoppingcenters and to fight for the control of the joypads. After this a new aera began which let fade the colors of the past. Commodore brought after the C-16, ¶çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff¹C-116, VC-20 and the +4 the ultimative hightech machine into the market - the CBM 64. And with this machine started all what we nowadays know under the name of computerscene. I remember with joy how it began at that time in the Kreissparkasse ( a local bank institute ). I got the tip of a friend who told me that there was the total session and all met daily for playing Winter Games. You had to seen it : a bank - the holy hall of mammon - and in its center a C64 surrounded by a dozen of teens and children who played Winter Games bawling until they are totally exhausted. If we did not play we copied ( Bebi Copy ) like it should be. Everybody copied everything for everybody without requiring anything. Everything was just for fun and it was goooood! But this system lasted not so long. After a while some people saw that much of the copiers were able and willing to pay for the games. These people are always in scene and I think we cannot do anything against them. It is a thing of business. I had not the money to buy the games so I tried to get at the top by swapping games. Just in the middle after 2500 5 1/4 " disks the police stopped me by coming, seeing and taking. I had to start again. But it was no more easy and I gave it up until he came - the AMIGA 1000. A bloody fucked machine. To my pitty unpayable for me. But I wanted him for all and I saved my money. After a while of saving ( a ¶çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff¹ long long time ) the AMIGA 500 was on the market and I bought it. Now I swapped and worked on this elite machine until the cops came again four weeks ago and took all away. But I do not give up, no way, now it really starts! A day after the police came to a visit I bought a 1200 machine and now I will fight my way up to the top! To come back to the topic - did I waste the 10 years ? I may answer this question with NO. I do not want to miss the time in scene for whatever you may imagine. Ç08 ¶çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff¹I want to thank some people I got to know and who helped me this 10 years. Walter Gattler - C-64 (Explained me what the hell a Disklocher is) Michael Rica - C-64 (Thanx for the cool stuff) Andreas Adler - C-64 & Amiga (Hello Flatterman [FTF-Fandral the Famous] what`s up man) Armin Sander - Amiga (Thanx for trying to teach me programming but I can`t do it nowadays) Marijan C. - C-64 & Amiga (Angeldust, thanx for many years of friendship) Slavko S. - C-64 & Amiga (skinderella, " " " " " ") I also want to greet all who ever swapped with me. After 10 years o fun i await the next 10 years in scene. See u soon on this planet! sign. TECHNOKING of HITECJUNKIS FRIENDSHIP RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!