Weekly king of the scene competition part one - Page 2

20 January 2002, 00:16

some i could answer without help!!!

lets go

a) JBM of Fairlight. What does the `J` stand for?
For his realname …… hehehehe stupid question

d) Why did Spook/Digital quit the Amiga?
He works in Silicon Valley for some kind of graphic company

e) What two things do Dan, Nuke, Facet, Hannibal and Paradroid have in common?
Lemon. And Anarchy

j) Which conceptual artist was responsible for the Beast series artwork on the packaging?
Roger Dean

k) What is the connection between Kreator/Anarchy and Michael Troughton?
Hehehe its his realname!!

l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it?
Stefan Boberg “Antiaction Of DefJam”
..anyway Gaston/FLT did it then …..read big article about it in Cracker Journal #28 and RCN

m) Which cracker coded Premier Manager 3 Deluxe/Gremlin?
Jon Atkins, but he worked for Iguana C64

q) What does Starglider/Argonaut and Xenon/Bitmap Brothers have in common
f****cking question both were released for Amiga, C64/C128, Spektrum, Atari,Armstrad, DOS and had a poster inside …..who knows ….really it could be everything …

w) What was wrong with the first series of Amiga A4ooo's?
bad cpu power, only 68030 ……it was replaced by a powerfull 68040 later.
The A4000 was only a prototype for a A3000plus, never thought of releasing it.
The 68030 series was only released, because of low production costs but did not sell
very well.

Question r and n are impossible to answer, i sold my soul to the peecee 1993 ...... never played or had both games, just realized the titles.

Galahad/FLT · 22 January 2002, 23:10

a) JBM of Fairlight. What does the `J` stand for?

JOE - His first name!

b) Who was the founder leader of Paranoimia that went on to setup Skid Row?

METALLICA

c) What did the `CCS` in Defjam & CCS stand for?

COMPUTER BRAINS CRACKING SERVICE

d) Why did Spook/Digital quit the Amiga?

WORK FOR OCEAN IN USA

e) What two things do Dan, Nuke, Facet, Hannibal and Paradroid have in common?

ALL WERE MEMBERS OF ANARCHY AND ALL WORKED FOR CORE DESIGN

f) Robert Ling is best known as?

TIP

g) Scorpion Development used to be attached to which UK group?

SLIPSTREAM

h) There is a connection between these games: Blood Money (Psygnosis), Spellbound (Psygnosis), The Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) and Music Disk demo, Sonic Attack by Dual Crew Shining.... What is it?

THE MUSICIAN BEHIND THE GAMES WAS RAY NORRISH, THE CODER BEHIND SONIC ATTACK WAS NZO/DCS..... ONE AND THE SAME PERSON

i) What was the name of the 4096 colour HAM mode platform game by Mirrorsoft that never got released in 1989?

DYNAMITE DEBUGGER

j) Which conceptual artist was responsible for the Beast series artwork on the packaging?

ROGER DEAN

k) What is the connection between Kreator/Anarchy and Michael Troughton?

BRIAN THE LION (PSYGNOSIS)

l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it?

RINGO STARR

m) Which cracker coded Premier Manager 3 Deluxe/Gremlin?

GALAHAD/FAIRLIGHT

n) Which cracker did game design and wrote the load/save MFM system for Speris Legacy/Team 17

GALAHAD/FAIRLIGHT

o) What does Defjam and Team 17 have in common?

ANDREAS TADIC USED TO BE ANTIACTION/DEFJAM

p) Which software company defined the IFF file format for graphics?

ELECTRONIC ARTS

q) What does Starglider/Argonaut and Xenon/Bitmap Brothers have in common

BOTH WERE USED ON SATURDAY MORNING KIDS PROGRAMMES IN THE UK

r) What was the working title for Virocop/Time Warner?

VIRUS ALERT

s) What name is Michael Pendec better known as?

BLACKHAWK/PARADOX

t) What county does Mok come from?

POLAND

u) What is the connection : Slipstream, Scoopex, Genesis, Crystal, Nemesis, Ministry, Fairlight (Both names)?

MARC/N.O.M.A.D.

v) Which Paradox member did time for calling card fraud?

MAXIMILLIEN

w) What was wrong with the first series of Amiga A4ooo's?

SUPER BUSTER CHIP PRONE TO BUS ERRORS

x) ZZKJ, the programmer behind Super Hang-On made the game on Amiga superfast, or so it seemed. How did he cheat?

RAISED THE PITCH OF THE MOTORBIKE SAMPLE, THE GAME WAS NEVER GOING FASTER

y) Which Amiga magazine carried some AGA fixes for a lot of games in 1994, thus pissing off the Bitmap Brothers?

AMIGA FORMAT

z) What does ACU stand for?

AUSTRALIAN CRACKERS UNITED

Some of you got correct answers, others were nearly there but didn't quite read the question properly.

Congrats to those that bothered.... you know who you are

Twistin'Ghost · 23 January 2002, 03:24

Wow...good stuff. Especially M & N!!! Codetapper did pretty damn good on this poll. Excellent stuff, Galahad!

andreas · 23 January 2002, 08:22

Well, m) actually looks like Galahad DID program the game.
Wow. Is that true? Just curious...
Well if yes, then Gremlin had the nerves ...

Unless I'm completely wrong, FAIRLIGHT did a lot of cracks of Gremlin games, so the company could even have said "nah, we don't want people in our programming team spreading our games with protection removed" ...
To put this into a general sense (in order not to attack particular people!): AFAICT, game companies would -- generally speaking -- always refuse to accept former or active crackers in their team because they reproach them with "stealing their work".

MethodGit · 23 January 2002, 10:37

You fooled us there, Galahad, putting in questions that related to yourself!

Oh well, at least I enjoyed attempting to answer your questions.

I take it the Pinball Dreams cracker is someone who just happens to call himself "Ringo Starr", right? 'Cos someone might think the infamous Beatles drummer lived a secret life as an Amiga games hacker! :laugh

Maybe I'll find some questions for you lot to have a go at now...

23 January 2002, 18:00

l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it?
Stefan Boberg did some Pinball Dreams stuff!!!

check media res for the interview with the silents!!!!!
check cracker journal

Galahad/FLT · 23 January 2002, 19:09

Hey Stormlord, keep your hair on, and maybe Stefan Did help out, maybe he didn't, fact is, Ringo Starr was the more reported on helping. It was Ringo that gave them the solution on the ball movement so it had correct inertia.

I did say cracker, and Stefan had LONG since quit as a cracker by the time Pinball Dreams was a thought in The Silents minds..... Ringo Starr however was still active.... Reading the question usually gives a correct answer

As for Gremlin not programming hackers/crackers..... quite right too.... but do you think for one second I would have told them?

And I never spread my own games.... hence why neither Fairlight nor myself ever touched Speris Legacy nor Premier Manager 3 Deluxe.

I do have some morals, questionable though the others may be

andreas · 23 January 2002, 20:34

hahaha...that's just TOO FUNNY :laugh
You just didn't tell'em - ah now I see ...
Well ... you can be happy no one @ the company committed treason and blabbed carelessly about this "delicate" subject...
He would most likely have become dinner, I suppose :kill

23 January 2002, 21:52

sorry Galahad you are wrong on this Ringo Starr left 1990 the scene for a break of 5 years. Check out his webpage and the scene ad.

quote:
Ringo Starr (code crack) left the scene 1990. He later returned as a member of the reborn Quartex, where I have him listed in 96 together with Stalker!

Quartex was reborn 1994!
Pinball Dreams was released 1992!
On the other hand you are right, AntiAction stopped cracking 1990, but he never left the scene .. i talked to him at foxy fortress 1992 and he was still addicted to the scene. So when you wanted to be an active cracker as an answer, both did not fit to this question. If you wanted somebody , who cracked at the scene ...both fit.

so i read the question carefully .........really i swear

23 January 2002, 22:04

o) What does Defjam and Team 17 have in common?

ANDREAS TADIC USED TO BE ANTIACTION/DEFJAM

Antiaction Of Defjam was Stefan Boberg
Andreas Tadic was BS of Phenomena

...seemed to be that you are little confused about history

28 January 2002, 02:35

the stuff Stormlord has just written here is 100% correct
so who's the actual scener here?

Twistin'Ghost · 28 January 2002, 04:12

I think this whole "I'm the real scener because I know more trivia Q&A details" is really a bit silly, isn't it? I'm sure there are guitarists out there who think the same way because they played the guitar solo on a Gary Lewis & the Playboys single from 1965, which made them the king of the scene then. Maybe that guitarist was the king of the hill in 1965, maybe he wasn't. Does anybody in 2002 care? Nobody I know does. And it will take more than an anonymous poster to convince me otherwise.

For me, Galahad gets my vote because he knows enough about the original scene from his involvement, but he survived and is still making things happen for the Amiga today. If he knew every little detail of every crew's gossip pages, he'd be too busy geeking out on details to do useful things like his WHD installs. I'd rather see him doing that than being a librarian of useless trivia.

My 2 quid worth...

jmmijo · 28 January 2002, 04:28

Another vote for Galahad here.

Djay · 28 January 2002, 14:15

real quick question, name a commercial (non cracked) game that had swearing on the bootblock (if you hex read it)?

and on a scale of 1 to 10, (1-easy...10-hard)how difficult is this question

28 January 2002, 19:50

hehehe Twister if you dont know , who STORMLORD is and what he actually does for the amiga better visit the last resort.

I think Stormlord is more addicted to the amiga than Galahad ever will be , just read all his newsgroup post

he got my vote and he really really deserve it!!!!

28 January 2002, 20:54

Heh looks like you're about to quarrel because of an anonymous post

Twistin'Ghost · 29 January 2002, 00:03

Nope, no quarrel from me. I'm only basing what I know of both parties from what I have seen here. I know not of Stormlord except for his quiz, whilst Galahad I am more familiar with. Being addicted to the Amiga is not what I base my 'vote' on.

Which newsgroup are we talking about, btw?

27 August 2013, 08:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stormlord

Ok guys, I know you all call your „amiga fellows or sceners“ Everyday you go out here,
You talk about games, demos or some other shit. But, maybe we have to announce the
Real scener ….the very best …. The man you knows everything … the man you loves his amiga more than anybody else on this board and stayed for over 17 years with the scene.
The King of The Scene …
C) Who was the guy behind this wellknown illegal cracking address: P.O. BOX 10 ….4540 AMAY BELGIUM

LOL, "The Band" ... they never cracked, they were only traders.

Cheers,

BamSec1

DDNI · 27 August 2013, 10:47

Wow now that is some ancient thread necromancy! 11 years and 7 months.

Hewitson · 28 August 2013, 16:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by BamSec1

LOL, "The Band" ... they never cracked, they were only traders.

http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/author.php?id=2490

22 January 2002, 23:10	#22
Galahad/FLT Going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: United Kingdom Age: 50 Posts: 9,018	Ok, the results are in! a) JBM of Fairlight. What does the `J` stand for? JOE - His first name! b) Who was the founder leader of Paranoimia that went on to setup Skid Row? METALLICA c) What did the `CCS` in Defjam & CCS stand for? COMPUTER BRAINS CRACKING SERVICE d) Why did Spook/Digital quit the Amiga? WORK FOR OCEAN IN USA e) What two things do Dan, Nuke, Facet, Hannibal and Paradroid have in common? ALL WERE MEMBERS OF ANARCHY AND ALL WORKED FOR CORE DESIGN f) Robert Ling is best known as? TIP g) Scorpion Development used to be attached to which UK group? SLIPSTREAM h) There is a connection between these games: Blood Money (Psygnosis), Spellbound (Psygnosis), The Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) and Music Disk demo, Sonic Attack by Dual Crew Shining.... What is it? THE MUSICIAN BEHIND THE GAMES WAS RAY NORRISH, THE CODER BEHIND SONIC ATTACK WAS NZO/DCS..... ONE AND THE SAME PERSON i) What was the name of the 4096 colour HAM mode platform game by Mirrorsoft that never got released in 1989? DYNAMITE DEBUGGER j) Which conceptual artist was responsible for the Beast series artwork on the packaging? ROGER DEAN k) What is the connection between Kreator/Anarchy and Michael Troughton? BRIAN THE LION (PSYGNOSIS) l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it? RINGO STARR m) Which cracker coded Premier Manager 3 Deluxe/Gremlin? GALAHAD/FAIRLIGHT n) Which cracker did game design and wrote the load/save MFM system for Speris Legacy/Team 17 GALAHAD/FAIRLIGHT o) What does Defjam and Team 17 have in common? ANDREAS TADIC USED TO BE ANTIACTION/DEFJAM p) Which software company defined the IFF file format for graphics? ELECTRONIC ARTS q) What does Starglider/Argonaut and Xenon/Bitmap Brothers have in common BOTH WERE USED ON SATURDAY MORNING KIDS PROGRAMMES IN THE UK r) What was the working title for Virocop/Time Warner? VIRUS ALERT s) What name is Michael Pendec better known as? BLACKHAWK/PARADOX t) What county does Mok come from? POLAND u) What is the connection : Slipstream, Scoopex, Genesis, Crystal, Nemesis, Ministry, Fairlight (Both names)? MARC/N.O.M.A.D. v) Which Paradox member did time for calling card fraud? MAXIMILLIEN w) What was wrong with the first series of Amiga A4ooo's? SUPER BUSTER CHIP PRONE TO BUS ERRORS x) ZZKJ, the programmer behind Super Hang-On made the game on Amiga superfast, or so it seemed. How did he cheat? RAISED THE PITCH OF THE MOTORBIKE SAMPLE, THE GAME WAS NEVER GOING FASTER y) Which Amiga magazine carried some AGA fixes for a lot of games in 1994, thus pissing off the Bitmap Brothers? AMIGA FORMAT z) What does ACU stand for? AUSTRALIAN CRACKERS UNITED Some of you got correct answers, others were nearly there but didn't quite read the question properly. Congrats to those that bothered.... you know who you are

23 January 2002, 08:22	#24
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Galahad programmed this Gremlin game? Well, m) actually looks like Galahad DID program the game. Wow. Is that true? Just curious... Well if yes, then Gremlin had the nerves ... Unless I'm completely wrong, FAIRLIGHT did a lot of cracks of Gremlin games, so the company could even have said "nah, we don't want people in our programming team spreading our games with protection removed" ... To put this into a general sense (in order not to attack particular people!): AFAICT, game companies would -- generally speaking -- always refuse to accept former or active crackers in their team because they reproach them with "stealing their work". Last edited by andreas; 23 January 2002 at 13:20.

23 January 2002, 10:37	#25
MethodGit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Streets Age: 40 Posts: 2,731	Gaaaaaaah! You fooled us there, Galahad, putting in questions that related to yourself! Oh well, at least I enjoyed attempting to answer your questions. I take it the Pinball Dreams cracker is someone who just happens to call himself "Ringo Starr", right? 'Cos someone might think the infamous Beatles drummer lived a secret life as an Amiga games hacker! :laugh Maybe I'll find some questions for you lot to have a go at now...

23 January 2002, 19:09	#27
Galahad/FLT Going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: United Kingdom Age: 50 Posts: 9,018	Keep your hair on! Hey Stormlord, keep your hair on, and maybe Stefan Did help out, maybe he didn't, fact is, Ringo Starr was the more reported on helping. It was Ringo that gave them the solution on the ball movement so it had correct inertia. I did say cracker, and Stefan had LONG since quit as a cracker by the time Pinball Dreams was a thought in The Silents minds..... Ringo Starr however was still active.... Reading the question usually gives a correct answer As for Gremlin not programming hackers/crackers..... quite right too.... but do you think for one second I would have told them? And I never spread my own games.... hence why neither Fairlight nor myself ever touched Speris Legacy nor Premier Manager 3 Deluxe. I do have some morals, questionable though the others may be

28 January 2002, 02:35	#31
noneofyourbusiness Posts: n/a	correct the stuff Stormlord has just written here is 100% correct so who's the actual scener here?

20 January 2002, 00:16	#21
Stormlord Posts: n/a	some i could answer without help!!! lets go a) JBM of Fairlight. What does the `J` stand for? For his realname …… hehehehe stupid question d) Why did Spook/Digital quit the Amiga? He works in Silicon Valley for some kind of graphic company e) What two things do Dan, Nuke, Facet, Hannibal and Paradroid have in common? Lemon. And Anarchy j) Which conceptual artist was responsible for the Beast series artwork on the packaging? Roger Dean k) What is the connection between Kreator/Anarchy and Michael Troughton? Hehehe its his realname!! l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it? Stefan Boberg “Antiaction Of DefJam” ..anyway Gaston/FLT did it then …..read big article about it in Cracker Journal #28 and RCN m) Which cracker coded Premier Manager 3 Deluxe/Gremlin? Jon Atkins, but he worked for Iguana C64 q) What does Starglider/Argonaut and Xenon/Bitmap Brothers have in common f****cking question both were released for Amiga, C64/C128, Spektrum, Atari,Armstrad, DOS and had a poster inside …..who knows ….really it could be everything … w) What was wrong with the first series of Amiga A4ooo's? bad cpu power, only 68030 ……it was replaced by a powerfull 68040 later. The A4000 was only a prototype for a A3000plus, never thought of releasing it. The 68030 series was only released, because of low production costs but did not sell very well. Question r and n are impossible to answer, i sold my soul to the peecee 1993 ...... never played or had both games, just realized the titles.

23 January 2002, 03:24	#23
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Wow...good stuff. Especially M & N!!! Codetapper did pretty damn good on this poll. Excellent stuff, Galahad!

23 January 2002, 18:00	#26
Stormlord Posts: n/a	l) Which cracker helped in the creation of Pinball Dreams thus guarranteeing that he wouldn't crack it? Stefan Boberg did some Pinball Dreams stuff!!! check media res for the interview with the silents!!!!! check cracker journal

23 January 2002, 20:34	#28
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	hihihihi... hahaha...that's just TOO FUNNY :laugh You just didn't tell'em - ah now I see ... Well ... you can be happy no one @ the company committed treason and blabbed carelessly about this "delicate" subject... He would most likely have become dinner, I suppose :kill Last edited by andreas; 23 January 2002 at 20:50.

23 January 2002, 21:52	#29
Stormlord Posts: n/a	sorry Galahad you are wrong on this Ringo Starr left 1990 the scene for a break of 5 years. Check out his webpage and the scene ad. quote: Ringo Starr (code crack) left the scene 1990. He later returned as a member of the reborn Quartex, where I have him listed in 96 together with Stalker! Quartex was reborn 1994! Pinball Dreams was released 1992! On the other hand you are right, AntiAction stopped cracking 1990, but he never left the scene .. i talked to him at foxy fortress 1992 and he was still addicted to the scene. So when you wanted to be an active cracker as an answer, both did not fit to this question. If you wanted somebody , who cracked at the scene ...both fit. so i read the question carefully .........really i swear

23 January 2002, 22:04	#30
Stormlord Posts: n/a	o) What does Defjam and Team 17 have in common? ANDREAS TADIC USED TO BE ANTIACTION/DEFJAM Antiaction Of Defjam was Stefan Boberg Andreas Tadic was BS of Phenomena ...seemed to be that you are little confused about history

28 January 2002, 04:12	#32
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	I think this whole "I'm the real scener because I know more trivia Q&A details" is really a bit silly, isn't it? I'm sure there are guitarists out there who think the same way because they played the guitar solo on a Gary Lewis & the Playboys single from 1965, which made them the king of the scene then. Maybe that guitarist was the king of the hill in 1965, maybe he wasn't. Does anybody in 2002 care? Nobody I know does. And it will take more than an anonymous poster to convince me otherwise. For me, Galahad gets my vote because he knows enough about the original scene from his involvement, but he survived and is still making things happen for the Amiga today. If he knew every little detail of every crew's gossip pages, he'd be too busy geeking out on details to do useful things like his WHD installs. I'd rather see him doing that than being a librarian of useless trivia. My 2 quid worth...

28 January 2002, 04:28	#33
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,396	Another vote for Galahad here.

28 January 2002, 14:15	#34
Djay 95th User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Brighton/UK Age: 48 Posts: 3,120	real quick question, name a commercial (non cracked) game that had swearing on the bootblock (if you hex read it)? and on a scale of 1 to 10, (1-easy...10-hard)how difficult is this question

28 January 2002, 19:50	#35
Toxic Posts: n/a	hehehe Twister if you dont know , who STORMLORD is and what he actually does for the amiga better visit the last resort. I think Stormlord is more addicted to the amiga than Galahad ever will be , just read all his newsgroup post he got my vote and he really really deserve it!!!!

28 January 2002, 20:54	#36
oldpx Posts: n/a	Heh looks like you're about to quarrel because of an anonymous post

29 January 2002, 00:03	#37
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Nope, no quarrel from me. I'm only basing what I know of both parties from what I have seen here. I know not of Stormlord except for his quiz, whilst Galahad I am more familiar with. Being addicted to the Amiga is not what I base my 'vote' on. Which newsgroup are we talking about, btw?

27 August 2013, 10:47	#39
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,433	Wow now that is some ancient thread necromancy! 11 years and 7 months.

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