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»CL8:»BIG:                  Return of the Gods
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           »CL4:by Lahve/RSN+MWI
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I know many, many people talking about 
the real dead-end of our Amiga scene. 
Why do they talk about that? Simply 
because many groups leave (hehe, 
really? I don't think so) the scene, 
either to be in the PC scene or just
to dissolve. But has anybody thought 
about what it means when an old and
legendary group makes a comeback?

Yes, that's right. Maybe the stars 
fulfilled a wish for us or some 
strange constellation appeared, but 
our classic Amiga group »CL3:Gods are back!»CL2:
And they did it by releasing the 
eleventh issue of their D.I.S.C. mag, 
one of the articles inside the mag 
states about this comeback on the 
Amiga scene. Does anybody realize what 
this step means? And how much 
motivation for the people it could 
offer? I don't know how the rest of 
the sceners think about this, but this 
event means quite much for me, I'm 
extremely happy to see the old group 
back, because it could evoke others to 
make a comeback, at least it might 
give some motivation for this 
decision.

It was tuesday, 30th of January, when 
Darkhawk, one of the mag makers, 
appointed the release time to 15:00 on 
the IRC channel #amigascne. Many 
people joined this channel to get the 
mag just after release, but the point 
of release was pushed ahead many times 
by Darkhawk, and then the real madness 
began »CL:3:)»CL2: People who had waited for so 
long on the channel, disconnected and 
rejoined immediately many times to 
discover if the mag was already out. 
The release date was pushed many times 
until Darkhawk finally set it for 
100%. Cupid (the mag coder) came to 
Darkhawk's residence (»CL3:wheee, you make 
my room sound grand -ed»CL2:) using his 
bicycle, and both guys made an archive 
spreading that to all the people 
presented on the channel.

Okay, let's take a closer look into 
the reborn D.I.S.C. mag by Gods. As I 
wrote earlier, it's issue #11 and it 
has been released after many years of
promises and delays. Unfortunately, I 
haven't seen any previous issues of 
the mag because I've not been that 
long in the scene business, but it 
could be better to stay more 
objective. And because somebody will 
surely write a more detailed review 
of this mag, let's take a look at the 
most important elements of the whole 
mag in a short review.

The whole mag looks very »CL3:old-skooled»CL2:
but that doesn't matter, actually it's
better to keep the spirit of the old 
reborn mag. The content is more than
miscellaneous, concerning the size, I 
could say I've never seen more 
articles in one place; more than one 
megabyte of pure text! Also, the 
articles are fresh, not old ones. 
Graphics and clips seem to be okay, 
maybe the quality of photos and 
snapshots could be better. The music 
is very cool, three great musicians 
took care of the sounds in this mag 
and all of them (»CL3:Chromag, CurtCool and 
Marc»CL2:) really did a good job! The 
whole design of the mag is very close 
to Trashcan and although it's all made 
in old-skool style, the mag looks 
newer than that. The worst thing 
hindering smooth reading, is the code, 
which is obviously made in a hurry. 
It's not hard accepting a simple 
engine with basic functions, but there 
is no way to jump from the article to 
the menu in the same part where I left 
it in D.I.S.C. If you want to read 
something different than the previous 
or next article (»CL3:which you could do by 
pressing up/down arrows»CL2:), you have to 
jump to the main screen first and then 
reach the right columns by paging 
again. This is the worst element that 
bothers during reading. You can 
download this mag on 
»CL3:ftp.amigascne.org.»CL0:

So, what to write for the closing 
words of this small article? Nothing 
more than to wish Gods to have great
comeback, full of inspiration and 
motivation; »CL1:thank you Gods»CL0: for this 
courageous step to support today's 
scene, maybe Gods won't be the only 
ones who could decide to come back and 
rock!
Who said the demoscene is dead on 
Amiga? Burn them... »CL4:;)