INTERVIEW with
    4T THIEVES

This   huge   interview  was  done  by
Rod/Polaris!  Note that this interview
was  done  a  long  time  ago while 4T
Thieves was still a member of Cytax!


Please   introduce   yourself  to  our
readers!   Name, age, group, function,
your outlook??

Well,  well!   Thiz is 4T Thieves, one
of  the  TWO  English  members,  of  a
little ol' group calling itself Cytax!
And I'm an interviewer (as you already
know)  as  well  as a generally maaaad
article  writer  for  ICE!   I do also
find   the   time   to   compose   the
occasional  ditty  which  I send to my
friends  around to see what they think
(as  well  as  writing music for games
etc)  You  want a little more personal
info?   Well,  I'm  3.00m  tall,  have
bright   red  hair  and  like  wearing
seriously  BRIGHT colored clothes!  As
you  might  have  guessed I'm known as
the nutter of Cytax!  (One of those is
incorrect....which one????  hehe!)

Can you tell us more about your handle
"4T Thieves"?

Err.   Dat is a gut one!  Well, I have
had some pretty krap names in the past
(see  next  question!)  and decided to
change  my name for the better.  A few
guys said that my new name is cool and
how  did  I choose it?  Well, I bought
an album with a group on it called '4T
Thieves' and so I thought, 'WOW, thats
a  cool  name!'  It's  pronounced '4 T
Thieves,  as  in  4  and T as my first
names  and  Thieves  as  my sirname...
Clever  Eh??   (Naaa....  Ed) Hey, ed!
Shut yer face man!

Well,  tell  us  something  about your
Amiga history, in what groups have you
been before, you know once upon a time
lived a ...

It  all  started  back  in the dim and
distant  days of, I guess, about 1987?
I  think  that  was  the year I got my
FIRST    Amiga!    Quite   interesting
really,  as  Amiga's were reknowned to
be  badly  made  in  those days and my
case proved that to be correct!  I got
my Amiga, unpacked it, switched it on,
and messed about with it for a good 20
minutes  before  it  went  wrong!  The
Agnus  popped  out  of it's socked and
made  the screen go green!  So, I took
it  into  the  local repair shoppe and
they  fixed  it...by  banging  the top
left edge on a bench!  The second time
it  went wrong was while I was playing
DEFENDER  OF THE CROWN!  WOW!  and the
disk   drive   buggered   up  (it  was
'FAULTY'  to start with they said) and
it  couldn't  tell when I put the disk
in!  To cut a long story short, I sold
that Amiga a year after, got a new one
and  tried to fit a Fatter Agnus in it
(when  they  were  around)  It blew my
entire  circuit  board!   So, that was
'sold'  and  I bought two Amiga's (one
brand  new,  one  second  hand) As for
groups  I've been in, I started off in
a KNOWN group, Slipstream was my first
'REAL'  group,  then we changed groups
to  Reaktor  (Mystik  will  know about
this!)  Which  then  collapsed  and  I
joined  Rebels UK (Yep, shit group!) I
was   known   as   New-Wave   at  that
time...That  was then disbanded and we
all  joined Legacy which then joined a
co-op  with  Mayhem!   So I decided to
change  my  name  to 'Shockwave' I was
even  in Share & Enjoy for a day!  But
left  cos  I couldn't be in two groups
at once!  After ALL this hastle with L
&  M  I  wrote  to the guys in Hamburg
(Cytax!)  and asked if I could start a
UK  division  (so  to speak!) and they
said  it was a good idea!  That's when
I  joined  Cytax  (about  a year ago!)
Then  after  a few months I changed my
name  to  '4T Thieves' Now, do you ask
wether I get REAL trouble from lamers?
Well,  there is the story of a certain
FAT  lamer  from  around  here (called
One-O-One/?   AVOID THIS GUY!) While I
was  away in foreign parts he wrote me
a  letter  telling  me how lame I was?
And   he   also   sent   a  letter  to
Amph/Cytax  telling him I was crap and
that  I  should  be kicked from Cytax!
Well,   little  did  he  know  that  I
visited  Amph!   Then  there  was  the
pretty  funny  phone  calls  from this
guy,  as  well as having a LOT of junk
mail turn up on my doorstep AND having
taxis  sent  round  to my house!  This
didn't   do   to   much  to  help  HIS
reputation after I warned a few people
about  him!   Eat LEAD, BLOB!  Anyway,
enough of this.

Oki  doki,  what  computers  have  you
owned before the Amiga?  Let's go back
in  time  to the old C-64 scene.  What
do you think about it, comparing it to
the  present  Amiga  scene?   What has
time  brought  forward  till  now, and
what  has been lost?  Which directions
do  you  think  the  Amiga  scene will
develop?   What about the PC scene, do
you see any future in it?

I  have  had  the  great  pleasure  of
working  on the following machines (?)
in  the past, The Sinclair ZX81 (Yeah,
COOOL  2  color,  NO SOUND!  haha) VIC
20,  one of CBM's first machines which
WAS  a bit better that the ZX81!  Then
I  moved  to  the Spectrum 128k!  That
was  COOL!   With 16 colors, 3 channel
sound  and all kinds of great features
(like  color  clash  etc)  Well, I did
program a BIT on the Speccy, but I got
the  progs  our  of  a  book,  so that
doesn't count!  After the faithful old
Speccy I moved onto FAR better things,
yes!   The  Atari...800 XL!  Which was
the best!  But, I got fed up with that
and  went  to the ........  AMIGA!  As
for  the PC scene, a few of my friends
from  the old Amiga scene moved to the
PC  as they say it has a much brighter
future  than  the  Amiga  (or  so they
say!)










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