Letters

Letters / Briefe

Cat's Eye / Graz:
Hello LCD. Enclosed I am sending you two original tapes; could you please crack them? Since I don't possess your skills, even a "simple" copy protection remains insurmountable for me, and I would finally like to play these two games from disk. Just like you, I despise Multiface copies and snapshots. In the letter, I am also enclosing 50 öS as compensation for your efforts; I hope that is enough.

I am already eagerly waiting for your Indian Patience and Legacy of the Zer Empire. Knowing you, both games will turn out totally super once again.

LCD / Tiger's Claw:
Hi Cat's Eye. I already had Daley Thompson's Supertest 128 and Neverending Story 128, so cracking both games was no problem. With this issue of SCENE+, you get your original tapes back along with the disk versions. The "compensation" is okay, although 128k games take up much more time than 48k games.

Indian Patience is included on this issue, and I bet you won't be disappointed, because even I can hardly keep my hands off IP. As for Legacy of the Zer Empire, you and a few thousand others will have to wait a little longer. My problem is that barely have I programmed something, an idea already pops up about how I could make it even better — a vicious circle! The routines for the intro part have been changed at least five times, and the talk part three times even though the dialogues aren't finished yet. Even the section where you wander around the town or inside buildings has had its face changed ten times, and every time I have to redraw the rooms because the old maps are incompatible with the new ones.

Dave / U.K.:
Hi there Tigers,
Thanks for Scene+ 9 and 10. So many good zines never get past the first few issues, so it is always good to see a title break double figures.

If I did not run a library, then I think I would have the time to develop into a good sound/graphic demo man.

Work has now begun on Catalogue 4, not released until April 1997, but there is a lot of alteration and addition needed. If I waited until March to start work, it would be a nightmare! I will be compiling a disc called "THEY DID NOT SELL A MILLION" for Impact. It will be a collection of PD programs that were ordered only once or maybe never. It has a novelty value!

The U.K. Scene is very quiet. "DEMO BEGINNING WITH R" is expected shortly before Xmas from UNITED MINDS. "THE JOY OF SHIT" is expected from me very soon; the coding will be done by LA / Extacy.

L.C.D.:
Hi Fudgepacker,
Sorry about sending two issues at once; it was not a double issue, because double issue numbering would be, for example: Issue 15/1 and 15/2. I did not receive enough articles to allow a double issue, so please put an advert in your FPD News for Scene+, as I also need some crazy users in the United Kingdom who want to write German or English articles about coding or something completely different.

If I did not run a zine, I'm sure I would have time to learn assembler and develop into a good game coder. Okay, in fact I am a game coder, but not as good as the Russian coders.

Yes, working on catalogues is everyone's nightmare; I used to do it earlier for SCENE, but I have stopped it.

And now about the new demos: can you send them to me when they arrive? LA is a very good coder as far as I know, so your new demo will probably be very impressive.

Anonymus / Linz (according to postmark):
Hello LCD / Tiger's Claw. Didn't you want to make an AMIGA SCENE diskzine at some point, or what? Where is it? Or even PC SCENE? I'm eagerly waiting for both, because SCENE+ definitely has something to it. Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself, your hardware setup, and whatever else you can share about yourself, your equipment, and your plans?

Postal rates in Austria are going up — what are you going to do about it, and what happens when the Euro arrives?

Well, I hope you won't quit anytime soon and that SCENE (in both senses of the word) continues to exist for a long time.

LCD:
Hi Anonymus, whoever you may be.

First of all: please work on your handwriting or use a printer. I also accept letters on disks or cassettes, although among SCENE+ readers you will hardly find anyone who uses cassettes voluntarily, except to record music from the radio.

AMIGA SCENE and the same thing for the PC will only be released when SCENE+ is discontinued due to lack of contributions. But jokes aside: I'm not really an Amiga or PC fan, and if I'm not a fan, I can't release a fanzine — at most a diskzine, but that was just meant as a joke.

My brief description: standard neural CPU, partially faulty visual interface, damaged audio interface (errors during I/O), extremely low energy consumption, and low energy conversion. My last girlfriend was very satisfied with my hardware (sorry, I love dirty jokes!). Well, I will soon introduce myself in a dedicated article, along with my computer gear.

Yes, the post office is raising rates once again, but the price of SCENE+ must remain stable. I might eventually cut costs on shipping, but until then... We still have some time before the EURO arrives; by then, the world might not even be habitable anymore, so that question becomes moot. I never plan more than a year ahead.

How long SCENE+ continues to exist depends on the collaboration of its contributors. And now that I think of it: I don't have a single subscriber for SCENE+ in Linz! Are you perhaps getting the disk copied from someone? If I start using my +D copy protection, owners of other disk systems will be left out in the cold, and none of us wants that — so don't force me to do it!