>1      A.F QUESTIONAIRE ----------------

      Please  be  honest,  informative  and  interesting.  After all no one
      wants to sift through a pile of horseshit :-

      PERSONAL DETAILS ----------------
>3
      FOR THE RECORD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND OCCUPATION

      My  name`s  Mark Seddon.  Also known as M.S.C.  of Amiga Frontier.  I
      haven`t really got an occupation `cause I`m still at school, although
      I  do  work in a shop on Saturdays.  This is so I earn a bit of dough
      so I can spend it again on Saturday night.

      TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SELF

      I`m sixteen years old, and doing my G.C.S.E`s at school.  I`ll be
      doing  the  actual  exams in about 4 weeks, so I`m basically shitting
      myself.   I  like football, and I support LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB.  I
      like going out and getting very very pissed every Saturday night, and
      I`m  also  quite  partial  to  a game of Command and Conquer on the (
      shock horror ) P.C.


      DO  YOU  HAVE  ANY  PERSONAL  SKILLS  AND  HOW DO YOU USE THEM IN THE
      COMPUTING FIELD ?

      I  have  no  personal  skills  at  all.....apart  from being a rather
      sarcastic  bastard  who is good at writing insulting articles.  I use
      this  skill  in  a  magazine called Amiga Frontier, but of course you
      know this, `cause you`re reading it.


      ARE  YOU  SEXUALLY ACTIVE AND DOES THIS INTERFERE WITH YOUR COMPUTING
      LIFE, IF NOT WOULD IT ?

      Sex?.......what`s sex?  I`m a good Catholic boy me.

      AT  WHAT AGE DID YOU FIRST COME INTO CONTACT WITH A COMPUTER AND WHAT
      DID YOU THINK OF IT ?

      I  first  came  into contact with a computer at the age of 5.  It
      was  a  Spectrum  48K, and I`ll never forget the feeling of elation I
      felt when I finally got a game to load by not breathing for 5 minutes
      on end when the cassette was whirring.

      WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE 'PC REVOLUTION' ?

      What P.C.  revolution?  It`s nothing the Amiga couldn`t do with a bit
      of  backing.   Personally,  I think it`s all been hyped up a tiny bit
      too much.  The P.C.  is an amazing machine.....but only if you`ve got
      a  Pentium  133MHz  processor  and  16 Megs of RAM ( or better...  ).
      Even  then you`ve got to fuck about with the config.sys file to get a
      large enough chunk of conventional memory to get any games to work.


      DO  YOU  CURRENTLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET, IF NOT WOULD YOU LIKE
      TO ?

      No.   (  to  both  questions  )  I  haven`t  the  time, money, or
      interest.

      THE AMIGA PD SCENE ------------------

      HAVE  YOU CONTRIBUTED IN ANY WAY TO THE AMIGA PUBLIC DOMAIN SCENE, IF
      YOU HAVE WHAT ?

      No.  I`m a lazy bastard.

      WHAT IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF YOUR PD SOFTWARE

      Converse.

      WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE PIECES OF PD/SHAREWARE SOFTWARE AND HAVE THEY
      INSPIRED YOU IN ANYWAY ?

      Galaga  `95 AGA.  It`s not inspired me in any way, `cause I`m crap at
      coding,  and couldn`t even hope to get anywhere close to that sort of
      standard.

      DO YOU OWN A CD-ROM DRIVE AND IF SO WHAT ARE IT'S MAIN USES

      No.  Converse has got one, so I just use his.


      WHILE  THE  COMMODORE TAKE OVER WAS STILL UNRESOLVED IT WAS SAID THAT
      ONE  OF  THE  MAIN  REASONS  THAT  THE AMIGA SURVIVED WAS DOWN TO THE
      DEDICATION  OF  THE PD AND SHAREWARE CODERS.  IF THIS IS TRUE WHAT DO
      THINK WOULD HAPPEN TO THE AMIGA IF WE DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT ?

      I  can`t  really answer this one, `cause I haven`t been into the P.D.
      scene for that long.


      WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF 'REAL MAG' PD REVIEWERS AND ARE YOUR FEELINGS
      JUSTIFYED

      I`ve only had a bad review off one

      WHAT  IS  YOUR  OPINION  OF LICENCEWARE AND HAVE YOU EVER PURCHASED A
      PIECE OF LICENCEWARE ?

      I  think Licenseware is a really good idea.  Mainly `cause we got DMC
      Gold  from  F1 Licenseware, but it`s altogether a great idea.  Mostly
      commercial standard software for about four quid.  Classic.

      WHAT  DO  YOU  THINK  WILL  FINALLY  KILL  OFF THE AMIGA PD SCENE (IF
      ANYTHING) ?

      Nothing  save a nuclear warhead will kill off the Amiga P.D.  Scene.
      This  is mostly due to an in-built bloody-minded program that refuses
      to believe that the Amiga can die off.

      IF  YOU  HAD  THE TALENTS TO CODE/WRITE/DRAW ANYTHING YOU WANTED WHAT
      WOULD IT BE ?

      What  d`you  mean  IF I had the talent?  Anyway.....I`d program a
      Windoze  beater  for  the P.C.  ( Not really hard, but...why not?  ).
      I`d  then sell this for about 15 quid, thereby underselling Microsoft
      by around 50 pounds.  I`d then sell my story to the tabloid press and
      retire to Hawaii aged 20.

      ARE YOU WORKING ON ANYTHING AT THE MOMENT ?

      Issue 8 of A.F.

      Passing my exams.

      Getting a life.(let's not get too carried away-Ed.)