\4####\2MEGASTARS ####\4 PRESENTS THEIR SECOND DEMO, THE CURTAINS@DEMO (I (VIKING) AM SORRY FOR THE LOUSY CODE, BUT I LOST ALL INSPIRATION TO FINISH THIS DEMO ON X@MEN'S DISASTEROUS COPYPARTY IN LAHTI, FINLAND. I'LL TELL MORE ABOUT THE COPYPARTY LATER ON IN THIS SCROLLY). CREDITS: CODING&GRAPHICS BY VIKING, MUSIC BY 'I DON'T KNOW' (WE IN MEGASTARS REALLY NEED A COUPLE OF GOOD MUSICIANS FAST!, SO EVERYBODY THAT'S INTERESTED TO JOIN MEGASTARS CONTACT ME, THE VIKING (ADDRESS WILL COME LATER), I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME MORE CODERS&PAINTERS&MUSICIANS IN MEGASTARS!!! MESSAGES COMMING UP: HYDE (FORMER MEGASTARS, NOW FINNISH FORCE), I'M VERY SORRY THAT YOU LEFT TMS!!! I HOPE WE AT TMS DIDN'T DO SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T LIKE, HOPE WE CAN BE FRIENDS ANYHOW!!! ####\8#########\4 HANGMAN, HOPE YOU'LL BE WELL OFF IN TEAM@X, HOPE WE CAN BE PALS, OK. NOW WE COME TO WHAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR .....\8.........\4 (NO NOT THE GREETINGS, BUT THE COPYPARTY STORY) ... I ARRIVED TO LAHTI AT 6.00PM AND I HAD A MINOR PROBLEM FINDING THE SCHOOL WHERE THE COPYPARTY SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN, BUT I FOUND IT AFTER AWHILE. WHEN I CAME IN I HAD TO PAY 20 FMK (20 FMK EQUALS 2.5 GBP, 4.5 USD, 8 DMK) TO GET IN. THE PARTY STARTED WELL, BUT AFTER AN HOUR OR SO A COUPLE OF GUYS HAD DRUNK TOO MUCH BOOZE AND THEY STARTED TO PUKE, AND THE SCHOOLMASTER (HE WAS AT THE SCHOOL TO WATCH US, SO THAT WE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING HE'D NOT LIKE) DIDN'T LIKE THE PUKING SO HE STARTED TO SHOUT AT US, BUT AFTER AWILE HE CAME DOWN, BUT 8.30PM HE WENT MAD ONCE AGAIN AND HE STARTED TO TREATEN TO THROW US OUT FROM THE SCHOOL. 9.00PM THE POLICE CAME TO THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL HAD TO BE EMPTY IN 15 MINUTES!!!! A QUARTER OF AN HOUR LATER WHEN EVERYBODY WAS ON THE SCHOOLYARD WE WERE INFORMED THAT THOSE WHO COULDN'T GO TO ANY OTHER PLACE COULD STAY AT THE SCHOOL OVER THE NIGHT. SO THERE WE WERE IN THE SCHOOL, 60 TO 80 (OR EVEN MORE) PERSONS HAD TO FIT IN A LITTLE ROOM (10 METERS BY 20 METERS) WITH ALL COMPUTERS, MONITORS, DISKDRIVES ETC. ETC. ETC. SPREAD ALL OVER THE FLOOR, WHAT A NIGHT!!!!! (WHO COULD SLEEP IN THAT MESS). BUT THIS IS NOT ALL, NOWAY 'HOSE. 5.30AM ON THE MORNING THERE WAS A LITTLE FIGHT ON THE SCHOOLYARD AND ONCE AGAIN WE WERE TOLD THAT THE SCHOOL SHOULD BE EMPTY IN 30 MINUTES!!!!! BUT THIS TIME WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO COME IN AGAIN, SO I WENT TO THE BUS@TERMINAL IN LAHTI AND WAITED 3 HOURS FOR THE BUS. WHAT A NICE COPYPARTY, WASN'T IT. \8 FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!\4 I'M NOT (!!!) BLAIMING X@MEN FOR THE COPYPARTY, BUT THOSE WHO MADE THIS THE WORST COPYPARTY IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS (AT LEAST IN FINLAND, THE ONLY GOOD THING THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN WAS THAT THE POLICE DIDN'T START TO EXAMINE THE DISKS!!!!!) LET'S CUT THAT CRAP NOW! THIS DEMO DOES ACTUALLY FEATURE 15 SPEEDS, BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY NEED FOR 'EM SO I'LL ONLY USE A COUPLE OF 'EM ...\8............\4 AAAHHHHH, YOU'RE THINKING THAT I'M JOKING, ARE YOU. SHAME ON YOU!!! ##########\1##\2##\3##\4##\5##\6##\7##\8##\9##\:##\;##\<##\=##\>##\?##\>##\=##\<##\;##\:##\9##\8##\7##\6##\5##\4##\3##\2##\1## \4 DO YOU BELIEVE ME KNOW...  AND NOW THE MOST ADDICTIVE PART OF THE SCROLLY .......\8......................................................\4 THE GREETINGS!!!! MY (THE VIKING) SPECIAL GREET GOES TO .... BLACK BELT/(B)YTERAPERS @@ NICE CHATTING TO YOU AT THE ''COPYPARTY''!!! MEGASTARS ALSO WHISES TO GREET THE FOLLOWING CREWS (IN NO SPECIAL ORDER WHATSOEVER): TEAM@X ##### WIZZCAT ##### MALIBU PIRATE ##### CASCADE ##### WEREWOLVES ##### CRITTERS ##### PHALANX ##### AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE EXCHANGE ##### DRAGON SOFTWARE CRACKING ##### FINNISH FORCE ##### NO LIMITS ##### STATIC DREAMS ##### MURKY MAN (A PERSON, NOT A CREW) ##### AND ALL OTHER WE KNOW (THIS IS ONLY A BRIEF LIST). MEMBERS OF TMS: ## CONAN ## FALCON ## SAGAN ## VIKING ## .... WE NEED MORE MEMBERS!!!! CONTACT US!! ADDRESSES COMING UP:\1 CONAN, RATAPOLKU 5, SF@49420 HAMINA, FINLAND  @@@ SAGAN, OJATIE 4, SF@49420 HAMINA, FINLAND  @@@ VIKING, ALEXANDERSG. 15A 13, SF@07900 LOVISA, FINLAND  ########\4 AND NOW SOMETHING I PROMISED IN MY LATEST DEMO .... MY OPINION ON CRAPPY COMPUTERS AND GAMES CONSOLES! LET'S START WITH IBM PC ... THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE PC IS FROM THE LATE 70S, SO THERE ISN'T MUSH TO TALK ABOUT, IS THERE. THE XT IS LIKE AN PC IN EVERY ASPECT EXCEPT TWO, ON ONE HAND, THE CPU IS OFTEN A INTEL 8086 (IN SOME CASES 8088 (PC) OR 80186) AND ON THE OTHER HAND THERE IS OFTEN A HARDDISK@DRIVE MOUNTED INTO THE BOX, SO IT ISN'T MUCH TO CHEER WITH AN XT EITHER. THE AT CAN BE SOMEWHAT MORE POWERFULL THAN A STANDARD AMIGA, BUT THEN YOU'VE PAID A WHOLE FORTUNE TO GET A COMPUTER LIKE THAT (GRAPHICS@CARD, SOUND@CARD, ACCELERATORS AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!) AND FOR THE SAME PRICE YOU CAN HAVE AN AMIGA WITH CSA'S 'OVER 030' (A TURBO@CARD THAT FEATURES A MOTOROLA 68030 PROCESSOR AND A MOTOROLA 68882 ARITHMETIC@PROCERROR!!!), 9 MEGABYTES OF MEMORY AND A HARDDISK (ABOUT 60MBYTES) (THESE FIGURES WERE CALCULATED ACCORDING TO THE PRICES IN FINLAND (ALTHOUGH, THE 'OVER 030' HASN'T CAME TO FINLAND YET.) THE IBM PS/2'S MAIN FEATURE WAS MULTITASKING (AND IT TOOK ALMOST 2 YEARS BEFORE THE OS/2 WAS READY, SO YOU HAD TO RUN THE NORMAL MS@DOS (VERSION 3.XX) ON IT!!!) BUT LOOK AT THE AMIGA (!!) IT HAD MULTITASKING ALMOST 3 YEARS (!) BEFORE ANY OTHER PERSONAL COMPUTER. NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE MACINTOSH, THE MACINTOSH IS QUITE GOOD A COMPUTER, BUT WHAT WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A MONOCHROME DISPLAY. THE MACINTOSH II@SERIES ARE QUITE POWERFULL, BUT THERE ISN'T THAT MUCH SOFTWARE TO BACK UP ITS CAPABILITIES, BUT WHEN THE AMIGA 3000 IS LAUNCHED EVEN THE POWER OF THE MACINTOSH IIX WILL BE PUT INTO SHAME. AND NOW THE AMIGA'S (CONSIDERED BY MANY PEOPLE) GREATEST RIVAL, THE ATARI ST. WHO COULD POSSIBLY THINK THAT AN INFERIOR COMPUTER LIKE THE ST COULD TREATEN THE AMIGA. JUST LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS, SOUNDS, MEMORY@MANAGMENT (EXPANDABLE UPTO 9MB ON THE AMIGA, 4MB ON THE ST, AND IF YOU BUY AN ST WITH, SAY, 1MB YOU CAN'T EXPAND IT!!), DISKDRIVE (880KB ON THE AMIGA, 720KB ON THE ST (EARLY ST'S: 360KB), CUSTOM CHIPS, OPERATING@SYSTEM. THE AMIGA IS FAR MORE POWERFULL THAN THE ST IN EVERY ASPECT. (IF YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A PROFESSIONAL MIDI@STUDIO OF A COMPUTER YOU NEED AT LEAST TWO MIDI@OUT, ONE MIDI@THROUGH AND TWO MIDI@IN SOCKETS. THE ST HAS ONLY ONE IN AND ONE OUT SOCKET!!!) EVEN ATARI CORP. HAS ADMITTED THAT THE AMIGA IS SUPERIOR TO THE ST, WHY WOULD THEY ELSE SAY THAT THEY ARE MAKING A NEW ATARI ST PLUS, NICKNAMED (BY ATARI@FANS)''THE AMIGA KILLER''. AND WHAT ABOUT ATARI ABAQ (A BUG), IT USES PARALLELPROCESSING, BUT ALSO COMMODORE IS MAKING A TRANSPUTTER, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BEING: COMMODORE'S TRANSPUTER WILL BE A ADD@ON TO THE AMIGA (!) WHEREAS THE ABAQ WILL BE A WHOLE NEW COMPUTER, YOU SEE, THE AMIGA IS A COMPUTER OF THE FUTURE, WHEREAS ALL OTHER COMPUTERS ARE OF TIMES THAT HAVE PASSED!!!! THERE ARE OTHER COMPUTERS I COULD HAVE MENTIONED HERE, BUT IT'S NO USE MENTION 'EM HERE (AT LEAST THIS TIME, COZ THIS SCROLLY IS QUITE LARGE ALLREADY (OVER 6 KBYTES AT THE MOMENT)). SO LET US MOVE ON TO THE GAMES CONSOLES. NINTENDO AND SEGA (8@BIT) ARE IN THE SAME CLASS AS THE 'SIXTYFOUR' SO IT'S NO USE TALKING ABOUT 'EM, BUT THE 16@BIT KONSOLES, SEGA HAS ALLREADY LAUNCHED THEIR 16@BIT MEGA@DRIVE IN JAPAN, BUT IT'LL TAKE ABOUT ONE YEAR BEFORE IT REACHES THE U.K. AND TWO YEARS TO REACH FINLAND. QUITE GOOD A CONSOLE, BUT LIKE EVERY CONSOLE THE MAIN PROBLEMS ARE: YOU CAN'T COPY THE GAMES (AND THE GAMES COST PLENTY!), YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE BUT PLAY GAMES ON 'EM (NO PROGRAMMING OR OTHER ADDICTIVE USE, LIKE CONTROLLING LIGHTS, TEMPERATURE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND YOU CAN'T RUN ANY UTILITY ON 'EM LIKE A WORDPROCESSOR, ART@PACKS (LIKE DELUXE PAINT) AND MUCH MUCH (VERY VERY MUCH INDEED). THE NINTENDO 16@BIT HAS THE SAME PROBLEMS AS THE SEGA, BUT IT'LL TAKE AT LEAST TWO YEARS BEFORE IT REACHES THE U.K. THE PC ENGINE IS PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFULL CONSOLE ON THE MARKET AT THE TIME BEING (ONLY THE KONIX MULTI@SYSTEM CAN FIGHT WITH IT). BUT IF A GAMES CONSOLE IS A REAL GAMES CONSOLE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE A TV TO PLAY THE GAMES ON WITHOUT GREAT LOST OF GRAPHIC@ACCURACY, BUT THAT ISN'T THE CASE WITH THE PC ENGINE, EVERY PHOTO YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN IN SOME GAMES MAGAZINES ARE SHOT (NOT WITH A GUN BUT A CAMERA, LAMER!!!) FROM A PHILIPS OR COMMODORE HIGH@RESOLUTION MONITOR!!!! (I JUST WONDER WHAT THE PHOTOS WOULD BE LIKE IF THEY WERE TAKEN FROM A STANDARD TV (WITHOUT A SCART CONNECTION). AND WHAT ABOUT THE KONIX CONSOLE, IT LOOKS NICE ON PAPER, BUT LOOK AT THE MEMORY AVAILABLE .... 128 KILOBYTES!!!!! IF YOU CAN MAKE PICTURES WITH, SAY, 128 COLORS AND A RESOLUTION OF 512@256, YOU'LL NEED 112 KBYTES!!! IS THERE MUCH SPACE FOR SOUNDS AND THE GAME OR IS THERE NOT (!), I'M JUST ASKING. AND THE KONIX HAS 15 SOUND CHANELS, BUT IF YOU WERE TO USE 'EM ALL AT ONE TIME YOU WOULD NEED ABOUT 150 KILOBYTES (OR EVEN UPTO A COUPLE OF MEGABYTES). I KNOW THAT THE MULTI@SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF READING DATA FROM THE DISK@DRIVE AND RUNNING A GAME SIMULTANEUSLY WITHOUT ANY LOSS OF TIME, BUT WHEN DEELING WITH GRAPHICS AND ESPECIALLY SOUNDS THE DATA HAS TO BE ACCESSABLE ALL THE TIME!!!!! SO HERE IS MY CONCLUSION,    DO  N O T  BUY A CONSOLE, BUT BUY A REAL COMPUTER (LIKE THE AMIGA, ONLY THE AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE, YOU KNOW!). I'LL PROBABLY WRITE SOME MORE STUFF ABOUT THE MULTI@SYSTEM'S HYDRAULIC CHAIR AND OTHER THINGS NEXT TIME, BUT I'M TOO TIRED OF WRITING THIS SCROLLY NOW (AT LEAST ABOUT COMPUTERS AND CONSOLES THAT ARE RIPPED OUT FROM SOMEBODYS FAT ASS!!!!). THE SROLLY IS OVER 9 KILOBYTES NOW, BUT I WON'T STOP BEFORE I'VE REACHED 10 KB OR MORE!!!! NOW WHAT SHOULD I WRITE NOW ....\8.............................................. OOOOOH\4, YEAHHHH I'LL WRITE ABOUT OUR MATRICULATION EXAM AT SCHOOL. FIRST I'VE TO THAT IT'S NICE NOT TO HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL ANYMORE .... QUOTE (FROM A SWEDISH SONG): HAPPILY WE TO SCHOOL GO... UNQUOTE. (SORRY FOR ANY EVENTUALL SPELLING MISTAKES BUT I TRANSLATED IT QUITE FREELY). HERE ARE THE GRADES THAT ARE POSSIBLE TO GET IN A FINNISH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: I (FAILED), A (BARELY QUALIFIED), B (NOT TOO BAD, BUT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER), C (AVERAGE), M (GOOD), L (VERY GOOD, GENIUS). AND NOW MY GRADES WILL FOLLOW .... (NOTE: I SPEAK SWEDISH, FINLAND IS A BILINGUAL COUNTRY, YOU KNOW) ... SWEDISH @@ C /// 'REAL' (HISTORY, RELIGION, PHSYCOLOGY, BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY AND PHYSICS) @@ M /// MATHEMATICS @@ L /// FINNISH @@ M /// ENGLISH @@ M /// NOW I'VE ALMOST REACHED MY GOAL, THIS SCROLLY IS SOON 10 KBYTES LARGE. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN ....\8 99\4 (RED BALLOONS, REMEMBER NENA)\8 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89\4 (THIS YEAR)\8 88\4 (MULTIPLY 88 WITH 10, AND YOU GET THE AMOUNT OF DATA AMIGA'S DISKDRIVE CAN STORE)\8 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70\4 (YEAR OF MY BIRTH, 3RD DECEMBER, 1970)\8 69\4 (THE BEST KNOWN FUCKING POSITION)\8 68 67 66\4 (REMEMBER IRON MAIDEN'S NUMBER OF THE BEAST .... 666)\8 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55\4 (DOUBLE FIVE, NOT DOUBLE 'OUW' SEVEN, BOND, JAMES BOND 007)\8 54 53 52\4 (NUMBER OF CARDS IN A ORDINARY CARDPACK)\8 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44\4 (DOUBLE FOUR, NOT 007!)\8 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 (DOUBLE THREE, NOT 007, WHY ARE YOU ARGUING ME, 'EH. BELIEVE ME!!!!)\4 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22\4 (FUCKING LAMER THIS IS NOT 007!)\8 21 20 19 18\4 (MY AGE)\8 17 16\4 (SWEET SIXTEEN)\8 15 14 13 12 11\4 (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!)\8 10\4 (HEX A, HEXA IN SWEDISH IS A WHICH IN ENGLISH)\8 9 8 6\4 (SIX IS SEX IN SWEDISH!!!)\8 5 4 3 2 1 007\4 BOND, JAMES BOND, I PRESUME. (NOT LIVINGSTONE!) THE VIKING OF THE (NOT SO, JUST A JOKE) MEGA MIGHTY UNIVERSAL MEGASTARS SIGNS OFF.\8  ################################\4 JUST A MOMENT MESSY COMMING UP: MEGASTARS WILL BOLDLY DO THINGS NO CREW HAS EVER DONE BEFORE!!! DEAR WATSON CHECK OUT THE LENGTH OF THE SCROLLY, PLEEZ. YES I WILL, JOHN HOLMES, IT IS OVER 11.3 KILOBYTES LONG, SIR. RED ALERT, RED ALERT, ALL CONDITIONS RED .... IF YOU TOUCH THIS DISK AGAIN YOU'LL GET AIDS, COZ THIS DISK CONTAINS THE TMS VIRUS ...... WATCH OUT!!! JUST KIDDING. I HAVE TO STOP WRITING THIS SCROLLY NOW COZ I HAVE TO GO AND GET SOME SLEEP. (I'VE BEEN WRITING THIS SCROLLY FOR OVER FIVE HOURS NOW, AND IT IS SOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOORING TO WRITE SCROLLTEXT!) YYYAAAWWWN! THIS SCROLL WILL RESTART NOW .......... NO, NOT YET \8#############################################ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 ....................... . . . . . . . . . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .    .    .    .    .     .     .     .     .      .      .      .      .      .       .       .       .       .124000 BYTES...................................