b3tOnce upon a timetVigothpf2s2c08 ONCE UPON A TIME f1c09 by Vigo/ex-Bronx c10 touched by RokDaZone f2c08 I DID IT MY WAY f1c09I got my first computer when I was 14. It was a c10Commodore 16c09. When we'd arrived home, I was excited like I had never felt before. I played like crazy. One day, my friend showed me how I could change the colour of the border. It was f4"COLOR 4,x" f1or something like that. I had started to read the user guide of C16. I'd found lots of tricks to do with c10BASICc09. Suddenly,I'd found an idea which is how can I write my name in to a game (only assembler ones). I have found a command called f4"MONITOR"f1... In 1988, my parents bought me a c10C64 c09with C-1541 floppy. I played. But meanwhile, I have heard something like "Machine Language Compilers". I started to explore how to do some machine code, what LDA/STA is. After 3 months, I ripped my first scroll routine. In 1989, I had met a guy in the computer shop while he was selling latest C64 games. I had asked how he got the latest stuff and he gave me an address and continued that I should include a disc in it. In two weeks, I received a letter from the group called c10"Impulse"c09. There were really crazy demos (c10"Rawdeal Mega Demo"c09) and programs. After some months, I learned how to rip music, char-sets etc and started to merge my ripped elements together. I had sent those lame intros to c10"Cosmos"c09, c10"2000 AD"c09, c10"Flash INC"c09, c10"Contex" c09etc. just to become a swapper in the C64 scene. I've found some other guys and we built a group called c10"Hacker Boys"c09. From now on we were known as a group. I had skilled myself learning to code. We met a guy who was in a - then - wellknown international group called: c10"The Joker Crew"c09. He invited us to be a member of the group. It was a real honour. In early 1990, I left TJC and joined c10Zombie Boys c09C64 section. We had released the demo called: c10"Abazomania"c09. In August 1990, I bought an c10A500c09. There were more interesting things on A500. More colours, incredible sound and superb games. c10Ghost/ZB c09tought himself how to use c10SEKA c09and how to open the graphics library. I was really happy when I pressed a 16 colour logo on to screen... f2c08 A SCENERS STORY f1c09Maybe you are going to ask why this guy is writing those things? Well, you are right! I spent the best times of my life on the Commodore and Amiga Scene. While my friends were hanging with girls, I was trying to learn how to make a writer routine or bob-scroll.. I spent an important part of my life on it... And I am really sad and angry that the Amiga Scene is dying! Why? When I see c10Generation c09issue 24 nowadays, I recognize that I am getting old!!! I have only seen one familiar name. He was c10RokDaZone c09(I was happy when I saw his name on IRC as well). Everything has changed: No more old friends. I was on c10WOC'93c09 and c10Rainbow party c09and it was really good! I had seen all my BBS and swap friends there. I had talked with them face to face. I had shoot them with my camera. I still watch that tape when I want to cheer-up myself. I haven't seen any diskmag since 1994. Where are c10"Eurocharts"c09, c10"Zine"c09, c10"Cracker Journal"c09, c10"Freedom Crack"c09, c10"Hack Mag"c09, c10"DISC"c09, c10"Cemetery News" c09and all other f4c08"Kings of Scene"f1c09? Time is running and I am getting older. No more old friends. Everyone I know, who was an Amiga freak, now they have fucking a PC. Why? Why? Who is trying to kill us? I am not an important person. I am just a stupid one who still stresses that f4c08"Amiga Roolz" f1c09and no one has the the power to bring it down. I have quit swapping since 1994 but I still have my A1200 compact and I am still trying to develop it. I hope every Amiga freak trys to keep connecting each other forever. Newcomers, I am greeting all of you. I hope, you will save the soul of being an Amiga freak... I want to do something for the Scene. But I don't know what? I'm 27 years old and I have to work. I really can not find spare to swap. At the office, we have internet connection and I am hanging myself on IRC sometimes; also c10AmiNetc09. Maybe we can see each other some where around the net. I hope that you all - my friends - who I know or not, keep it alive. Many thanks to all Amiga swappers, hardware producers, and Amiga Scene. Because if I have a job now, it is because of Amiga! I hope this new 603e/604e thing will beat the current PC shit and maybe everybody turns back to the f4c08"Old Skool"!