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                        The SCENE is splitting !!
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by
Lithium/THE SILENTS

Some  months ago I read an article called "The scene is wonderful" by MERCURE of
EOC1999.   I  think  that  this is a great way of watching the scene activities.
It's  not  all  bussiness out there, there are lots of guys who are only looking
for  fun and some new friends.  I can't think of any hobby which makes the world
as small as this one.
 
It's  pretty  normal  to have penpals in more than 1 country...  After some time
you'll  get  bored  with  most  of them but you'll keep some of them and they'll
become some real friends of yours.  I think parties are the most important thing
to  keep  the  scene going, you meet all your friends and contacts there and you
will  meet  their friends too.  After some parties you'll know lots of cool guys
if you are not too shy to talk a bit with a guy you don't know.
 
Shyness is a main problem of all scene-guys.  But I also think that this was the
main reason why you are interested in computers.  I am not one of those prophets
who  tell  you  to  quit computers and start to become Johny-normal (means booze
your  ass  off,  drive an old car with lots of stickers and fuck with every girl
you can get).
 
No  I don't think that you would enjoy this kind of life since you are too smart
to live such a lousy "normal" life.  But you can have lots of friends inside the
scene, I mean real friends who you can thrust and meet on parties.

Your  stay  in  the  scene might not be very long (5 years is nothing in a man's
life).  But let it be an enjoyable time.  Lot's of those so called "famous" guys
are leaving lately.

I  think that they are sooo bored by the scene because they refused to meet some
guys  who  were  not  as famous as they were themselves.  Great guys, go on like
that.    You  should  look  to  the  64  scene,  after  at  least  10  years  of
computer-scene this computer is still alive and kicking.
 
Sometimes  I  ask myself how long this will last and I think this might be for a
very  long time (maybe 50 years?) why????  Well first of all these computers are
allmost  undestructable in normal use.  Secondly they have become very cheap and
the  most  important  thing-->  when  a freak gets bored and he quites the scene
he'll probable sell his compy and a new user is born.

So  the  64  scene might be going on for a very long time.  I hope the same will
happen  to  the Amiga scene because it's fun to know some other guys who do more
than  playing  the  games  that are released.  The longer a computer exists, the
less gamers there will be left because on the 64 the amount of games decreased a
lot since 1986.

And  still  the scene is very big, nowadays the demoscene rules the 64 breadbox.
On  the  Amiga  a  terrible  phenomenon  is  happening  right now.  The scene is
splitting  up into 2 different scenes - The crackerscene and the demoscene - The
first being based on speed, the second on quality and famous names.  This is not
good,  we  should combine them again because otherwise the whole stuff might end
sooner  or  later.   Nowadays  if you like both scenes it almost lookes like you
have to join 2 groups.  A demofreak in a crackergroup is soon called a lamer and
the  same  counts  for the crack-freak in a demogroup.  Drop this attitude guys,
make  some  groups  where  both  things are united like PARADOX in the old days.
Great  demos  means also great Crackintros and thats not common anymore for some
groups.

Most  of them trow one of their standard DOS screens in front of the release and
thats  it.   Remember  that the demoscene was born out of crackintros, so please
guys  get  together  again  before we loose contact.  What about putting up some
boards where you can only upload demos and utils.  Or at least allowing demos on
all  boards.   This  would mean that swapping would die a bit more but you can't
expect crackers to use the mail anymore.

The  modem  is there and it won't disappear anymore unless very bad things start
happening.  But I really hope that some crack-demo groups will be set up soon.

                                    Lithium/TSL…