| I've been
interviewed in two disc magazines but I choose to publish
this one from 1995 years demo release called "Still Cruisin´";
a giant small demo released for Flash Inc. Andreas "Morpheus"
Wallström is the interviewer. Note that this isn't the
complete interview! It can only be read in Still Cruisin'...
(Question
- Answer)
What do you think about the current scene?
To less people, There's just a few nostalgic heroes left.
The ones that still release demos I hardly know anylonger.
What's your former groups?
SCA
PM-Productions
Headhunter
Sector 90
Rizing
The Marxists
Ramones
Alpha Flight 1970
Flash Incorporated
Tell us about your years in the scene
and how you got hooked.
It all started in early 1986 when I bought my C64.
The first months I Just played games. Fanatically I can say
today when looking back.
It was in the autumn of 1986 that I got my first demos and
I started to read the scroll texts and thought: Hey! These
guys really must have fun! So therefore I started to learn
some basic. It didn't took me long to realise that I had to
learn assembler to be able to do what I wanted. But how to
learn?
One of my old mates, Thomas (Pseudo), studied in the same
class as the famous Mr. Z, who had helped him to get started
and Pseudo now helped me to understand the basics in machine
code. He also helped me with some routines that you can see
in my early demos. Of course I also learned a lot by ripping
and studying others routines. Almost everybody started this
way!
My friend and neighbour, "Sir" Magnus "Laser"
Hansson was also interested in producing demos and together
we started a group called the Swedish Cracking Association
(SCA). We only released some poor, lame demos and music ripps.
I remember Sound demo II, as I see it -my first try to make
a real demo! After just a few months SCA was transformed into
PM-Productions (Per-Magnus-Productions). It was now that I
started to get contacts. A great time, getting to know people
all over the world. Also the programming started to work.
- Now I was hooked!
Ever since, the Commodore 64 has taken a central part of my
life . PM lived for some half year until we started HeadHunter
together with our contact Stalin. We released a lot of easy
coded demos with the multi loading demo New HeadHunter as
our highlight. A demo that you can laugh at today...
It was a late evening in August, year 1988 when the phone
rang. It was Exterminator (Håkan) from Sector 90, we
had met at the FBI Crew copy-party in Östersund, now
he wanted me and Laser to join his group. - A famous group!!!
We saw it as our chance and joined in. One of my swapping
contacts also followed: Beastian (Ulf Härnhammar). Later
he changed his handle to Unifier. I was involved in producing
two multi loading demos and one single file demo; Lobotomy,
Snutslakt and Munching Squares. Lobotomy was totally destroyed
by Trixy 3001 (Rogert) with his useless linkings and Snutslakt
slaughtered itself... (What else to expect from a drunken
Håkan!) It was at our Sector 90 party in January 1989
held in Kalmar that I first met Kerish and Bezerk from Rizing.
Some weeks later Kerish asked me to join them and so I did.
Now Magnus and I went separate ways. The Rizing guys and I
didn't meet to often though, because they all lived in Gothenburg
and I in Stockholm. I felt a bit outside and with a pressure
to code really fancy routines, because their top of the line
policy.
In September 1989 it was time for my military service...
I Left Rizing by releasing a farewell demo that I simply called
Farewell Rizing. A month later I founded a new group together
with my German pal Daniel (Dizzy Dee). We took the name "The
Marxists". We wanted to stand out from the crowd. - Instead
we released nothing...
Our group died and after some troubles and after being in
and out in X-Ray for a week we formed the Ramones after the
aches of The Marxists. We still wanted to be seen as anarchists
in the scene, producing demos the way we wanted with less
code and more style. It was during this period (early 1990)
that I met Scorpio (Mattias). He joined us. Together we produced
as I see it today, a simple but cool and well styled demo
named Chicken Race. This demo was reviewed in Mamba disk magazine
and got a lot of criticism. But we knew our coding limits
and never cared. We did as always what we wanted to show and
if other scene pals liked our work it was just a plus:-)
After this demo Scorpio and I got a lot of offers to join
other groups. We said no until The SYS (Harry) from Alpha
Flight 1970 asked. We saw ourselves as persons that could
fit into this cool group. We joined in the summer 1990 leaving
a Farewell Ramones demo behind, this time totally made by
Scorpio. Now an intense and productive period began and we
held two mini copy-parties parties at Scorpio's place. These
meetings got popular with a lot of local heroes visiting us:
Flash Inc, Horizon, Censor, Paragon, Triad and Light just
to mention some... Me and Scorpio produced a second Chicken
Race demo. I Still like this demo, easy to make, well-styled
and everything done with a little finesse. At the Horizon
Easter party III in Huddinge 1991 we had already decided to
join a Swedish group, the choice was easy. Flash Incorporated
were our best scene friends and that's how I finally ended
up in Flash Inc. Scorpio slowly faded away into laziness and
quitted the scene some half year later.
The years that followed in Flash where filled with swapping,
coding, travelling, parties and fun! It was after the Prometheus
Unbound demo that we all started to slow down our producing
activities, suddenly months and years had passed us and me...
I've always promised myself that I never, never(!) would leave
the scene without a decent goodbye... ...and that is why you
can see this... (The Still Cruisin´demo).
You've been on many copy-parties and
"meetings". I know you have a list, please share
it with us...
1988 - FBI Crew
1989 - Sector 90
1989 - Horizon
1989 - Sector 90 meeting
1990 - Horizon New Year party
1990 - Horizon easter party
1990 - Light
1990 - Sector 90 & Z45 meeting
1990 - Antic meeting
1990 - Ramones meeting
1990 - Alpha Flight meeting
1990 - Censor Design
1991 - Horizon
1991 - Venlo (Holland)
1991 - Paragon
1991 - X-Factor meeting (Denmark)
1991 - TPF
1992 - Light & Phenomena
1992 - The Party
1992 - Brutal (Denmark)
1992 - The Party (Denmark)
1994 - Tribute
1995 - Remedy
1997 - Remedy
All party memories float together in my brain...
I'm sure this list is contains mistakes, especially with the
years.
Do you remember where you and I (Morpheus)
first met?
Of course! It was in 1988 at the FBI Crew copy party in Östersund.
It was my first party. I went there together with "Sir"
Magnus "Laser" Hansson. When we entered the place,
you sat to the left in the left room. I saw some youngsters
steering at us without saying a word... One had longer hair
than the others, that was you Morph...
The Spy's C64 favourite...
...demos
Red Storm, Graphicsmania II
...games
Epyx Winter - Summer - World and California Games, IK+
...sid tunes
Dance at night, Rambo, Skate or Die, The Last Ninja I
...composers
Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel
...coders
King Fisher, Kjer, Crossbow, Mr Cross
...crackers
Mr Z (because of the stripes)
...demo groups
Horizon, Triad, Censor, Crest
...cracker groups
Triad, Fairlight, Eaglesoft, Ikari
...disc-mags
Mamba, Hotshot
...contacts
Daniel Bouzaglo of The Force
...party freaks:
Dense, Metal Maniac, Ego, X-Tro!
What did you think about Flash before
you joined?
My friends, a great group with a coding monster freak called
Zodiac. A group that could be the best of them all if they
changed the style of the demos and made it good-looking instead
of record-breaking.
What will happen in the future scene?
Not much! If there will be something left to call a scene,
people will only release demos on parties held for other machines
(as we can see in Denmark). Internet will probably stretch
out the living of the 64 with the emulators, sidtunes and
home pages from old scene groups...
If you never joined FHI, what would have
been the group to join and why?
Triad, because I had some good friends there like Verdun,
King Fisher, Metal Maniac and Jerry.
In 1991 we had a very rememberable inter
rail trip in Europe. Name the most rememberable moments from
it.
To meet the X-Factor guys at Spidermans farm.
To meet Anonym & Lubber and to get guided in Berlin by
Creat.
To meet the notorious SYS just to find him being an extremely
sympathic person.
To visit the world famous Venlo meeting.
To hang around with Scorp, that was afraid to talk about computers
in town because people could see him as a nerd!
To visit coffee shops.
To get to know Paris.
To throw away our money in all the arcade halls at the French
Riviera (Track'n field still's the king of the scene).
To meet the crazy Italian brothers Zagor and Zoris.
To get a lift in Gabriel's car to Parma (HUH!)
And a lot, lot more that you MUST read about in our Tour de
Europe demo...
Your final statements:
Never forget: We created history. Remember how it all started,
we where the pioneers and all following computer "scenes"
will be influenced by our work. Tell that to your children
and grandchildren!
|
