No another of those shitty scene re ports!!!! I better join W.L.A.!This is a serious article, so people tha t will be fucked up should telephon e me at 079/291591 (ask for TERMINA TOR/ZERO DEFECTS). Let's start talk ing about BBSes in ITALY (in ITALY BBS stands for Bastard Blamed Steal ers) and we're now talking about BBSes like 'PIRATE's HEAVEN', 'ICC BBS','ORACLE NODE 1' etc. These guys pay up to 3,000,000 a mo nth just to say: ' HEY! I'M QUARTEX ITALY ' and their only concern is t o make as much money as they can, s elling what they find in their BBS to LAMERS (that could buy original games and not crackware). Now the last famous words: QUARTEX ITALY: Oh yeah!I'm QUARTEX ITALY and i haven't to pay anything to QUARTEX. (Hey man try to speak with Thomas coz he says the complet e opposite) Perhaps he says that ca use he said it so many times that h e thinks it's real! In these days he spread these few words: In my gr oup there is a thief...infact every month disappear 2,000,000 (TWO MILL IONS) from our cash.(I have no word s). THE TRIANGOLO: Yeah! we will kill T-MARK ONE (MAD ITALY) This loosing group is formed by: ICC-BBS:These agreeable guys are of the ones who rip intros to famous group, recrack games (and we are talking about gam es cracked 1 or 2 years ago with jo ined an intro ripped to the Leaders (another lame group of the past) wh o stole it to SPREADPOINT. ORACLE 1 and 2 (MR.M and DNS): their existen ce is trouble for Italy. typical it alians lamers who think only to sel l programs all around (italy) and pay to ORACLE 1,200,000 per mounth for the name. The Motto for the TRIANGOLO is 'Better a GIGALAME gro up than three Lamers!' M.A.D. Italy (FICA = TMARK1): this is one of the biggest lamers we have in Italy perhaps the BIGGEST. When this guy become BS1 Italy phon ed E$G of IBB and said : Now i'm a member of BS1 and i will tell to ER MIDA to leave you from the greeting s list.(LAME, LAME AND LAME) Now hi s group called FICA (What a name... ya cool!) become MAD ITALY paying a bout 600 U.S. Dollars a month. And he is in cooperation with another group called AGGRESSORS.They releas ed some lame trainers. PARANOIMIA ITALY: 'HEY YOU MUST RE TURN ME 300,000 Lires' this is what NOLBERTO RIZZUTO said to our new me mber to convince him to make a soft subscription. (hey lamer d'ya know we don't need your lame software?) Their other attitude is to sell as much software as they can so to pay PARANOIMIA (3,000,000 lires a month ). MAK SOFT: this sinister guy spend his time ripping intros so to put them in the programs he sell and he change the text with phrases like this: CRACKED BY THE MIGHTY MAK-SOF T; so he cracks more than PARANOIMI A-VISION FACTORY-QUARTEX and M.A.D. joined together. He also make new utility releases in a easy way: first of all he loads a diskmon, then he search for the release numb er and finally he change it.(e.g. TURBO BACKUP V1.0 could easily beco me V1.1) Now we can talk about serious crews ----------------------------------- ITALIAN BAD BOYS: They have loadsa contacts and a lot of section aroud the world.The release a mag called 'BAD TONGUE', loadsa compactings, s ome trainers and some demos (shitty i think). They are on the scene fro m a long time but i dont understand why they say they have the two ital ian best coders with them and they ask us to make for them menus for their compactings. They are now in cooperation with PIRANHAS and they are going to open the first real BB S here in Italy called 'THE PUB' wh ere, they said, you can get stuff for free. PARANOID OF PHAZE 101: This cool guy lives here in Italy he publish with us this funzine. He is a talen ted coder and he released some demo s, intros and utilities for Phaze 101.Now he is working with us on our MEGADEMO. DREAMS OF POWER: These guys trade a lot with modems.Not long ago they put out a nice intro with cool grap hix and music(ripped). ANONYMIA: These skids released som e utility compactings. no more to s ay. SAVAGE ITALY: This italian section of SAVAGE is formed by two ex ICS m embers: FILIPPETTO(coder) and WIZ(s wapper). I personally know FILIPPET TO and i can say that he's a cool dude. He is very active, make some utilities and demos but (to be hone st) he's not an high-level coder, but i think he can improve and (for sure!) the experience in SAVAGE wil l be very useful for him! Good luck dude! ( This part about SAVAGE was written by Paranoid cause i know mu ch better Pippo!) AGGRESSORS: They released a mag co lled the Bloody Guyz with shitty ar ticles, they also release some trai ners.They cracked a game 'FUTURE WA RS ITALIAN VERSION' putting the fil e from the cracked international ve rsion to the italian one. To gain contact and to get sources one of them told to his girlfriend to writ e an advert for the Cracker Journal .They rip somethimes intro and rout ines (A BIG THANK FOR RIPPING OUR DEMO).Hey Alphabit here is a little messy for you: you have to know tha t we aren't a cracker group only be coz we cracked two programs, we hav en't any musicican in our group. It is not real that in our town there are only a few amigas in fact here there a lot of amiga users (infact there are not less than 30,000 ami gas) however thanks for your good speaking about us. p.s. Our gree tings list has changed a bit infact now there are sixthy two names on it and not six as you said. ZERO DEFECTS: We are without any doubt the italian best group for coding and releases. now you could say: oh yes they can say this shit only coz they are writing this art icle. however we released a demo a nd we are going to release the fir st italian MEGADEMO + a new great demo so look out for them! We also released an amount of trainers some compactings some intros, and finall y 2 cracks. In Italy there are other groups like PARADOX, GHOSTLY SPREADERS and a lot of lame user's clubs. Tutto cio' rende il nostro gentil animo piu' sicuro e orgoglioso ELEKTRO AND TERMINATOR/ZERO DEFECTS