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Amiga OCS/ECS 1989 Hellraisers

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THE HELLRAISERS                         THE HELLRAISERS                         THE HELLRAISERS                         THE HELLRAISERS                                                                    PRESENT A                               NEW DEMO!                                                             MOVE MOUSE LEFT AND RIGHT TO          CHOOSE SOUNDS ON THE SPRITE MENU      AND RIGHT MOUSE TO SELECT CHOSEN TRACK           1 AND 3 ARE BEST!                        JOYSTICK BUTTON                       TO RESET THE SCROLLS               AND LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO QUIT                                                              GREETINGS                               GREETINGS                               GREETINGS                               GREETINGS                            SPECIAL GREETS                       IN GUESS WHICH ORDER                      GO TO THESE DUDES                                                                                                        MOGWAI/ATTRIUM                        STYLE/DARK SHADOWS                                                                                                ROSHI,QUASAR,JIO/DIVINITY-FUSION            ROZZ/MECHANICAL MINDS                                                                                               PORSCHE AND EXPRESS/NUKEBUSTERS             ZAPHOD-THE NUTCRACKERS                                                                                                   RAD-MAN!/OMEGA 5/ACU                      WRECKER/TITANICS                                                                                                         AND ALL OTHERS                           THAT WE KNOW                                                                     TO CONTACT                           THE HELLRAISERS                             WRITE TO                                                                      P.O. BOX 1351                           BOORAGOON, WA                          6154, AUSTRALIA                                                                       WEREWOLF         AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF SILENCE IN TERMS OF CODING, THE HELLRAISERS ARE BACK!    WELL DEMO VIEWERS,  AT THE MOMENT I REALLY CANNOT BE BOTHERED WRITING THIS SHITTY SCROLL TEXT, BUT NEMESIS WANTS THE TEXTS WRITTEN UP BY TONIGHT SO THAT THIS DEMO CAN FINALLY BE FINISHED.  THIS DEMO HAS BEEN SITTING AROUND ALMOST COMPLETED FOR NEARLY SIX MONTHS DUE TO THE FACT THAT NONE OF US HAS HAD TIME TO WORK ON IT, BUT I HAVE SOME IDEAS FOR A NEW DEMO WHICH I WILL START WHEN I GET SOME TIME.  I HAVE BEEN TOO BUSY LATELY TO DO A LOT OF CODING, BUT HOPEFULLY THAT WILL CHANGE WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS WHEN MY HOLIDAYS BEGIN.  A WHILE AGO THERE WERE STUFF ALL CODERS IN AUSTRALIA ON THE ALMIGHTY AMIGA, BUT SLOWLY THE NUMBER IS GROWING WHICH IS GOOD, BUT ALSO THE SOFTWARE IS COMING IN MUCH FASTER.  THE NUMBER OF GROUPS AROUND HERE IS EXPANDING TOO, EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOWHERE NEAR THE NUMBER OF GROUPS IN SOME OF THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.  WELL HERES A BIT OF HISTORY OF THE HELLRAISERS..  NEMESIS, VIPER AND MYSELF WERE ORIGINALLY SEPARATE CODERS ON THE 64, BUT ALL KNEW EACH OTHER FAIRLY WELL THROUGH THE BBS AND TALKED QUITE OFTEN WHEN IN ABOUT SEPTEMBER OF 1987 NEMESIS DECIDED TO FORM A GROUP CONSISTING OF ONLY A COUPLE OF MEMBERS WHICH ORIGINALLY WAS JUST US THREE.  AT THE TIME NONE OF US HAD AMIGAS.  THE 64 WAS SLOWLY DYING THOUGH, AND VIPER WAS THE FIRST TO GET HIS AMIGA, WITH ME BEING LAST.  I GOT MY AMIGA ABOUT SEPTEMBER 1988, AND WE WERE SLOWLY GIVING UP ON THE IDEA OF ONE LARGE 64 DEMO, MY PART WAS FINISHED AND HAS BEEN ON VIPER'S DISKS SINCE THEN AS I SOLD MY 64.  NEMESIS STILL HAD HIS 64, BUT IT WAS COVERED IN DUST.  HIS 64 FINALLY GOT SOLD AT THE START OF 1989, BY WHICH TIME BOTH OF US HAD LEARNT A LITTLE OF 68000 AND HAD ALREADY RELEASED AN AMIGA INTRO, AND CRACKED OUR FIRST GAME    DOUBLE DRAGON.  VIPER STILL WAS INTERESTED IN THE DEAD 64 AND WAS STILL RELEASING DEMOS ETC.  A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER WE RELEASED OUR NEXT DEMO AND ALSO MET ZAPHOD AND NUTS)C( WHO HAD ALSO CODED STUFF ON THE AMIGA.  FROM THEN ONWARDS WE WERE STILL CODING SMALL STUFF, BUT NOTHING TO BE RELEASED.WE GAINED ANOTHER MEMBER ABOUT THIS TIME TOO  PINK PANTHER WHO WAS IMPORTING A BIT OF NEW STUFF.  BETWEEN MARCH AND AUGUST WE STARTED GETTING SOME REASONABLY FAST CONTACTS. PINK PANTHER ALSO HAD TO BE KICKED OUT OF THE GROUP FOR TRYING TO HOLD BACK SOFTWARE FROM US AND GIVING US A BAD NAME.  NOW WE ARE HERE WITH THE THREE ORIGINAL MEMBERS AND VIPER LEARNING TO CODE 68000 )HE STILL HAS 3 C64'S AND A C128!??!(.  DURING THE MIDDLE MONTHS NEW GROUPS STARTED POPPING UP IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, INCLUDING DIVINITY )ANOTHER OF THE FEW GROUPS THAT CODE AROUND HERE(.  WELL THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, EVEN IF IT WAS ONLY SHORT!   THE DIVINITY ZAPHOD COPY PARTY SEEMED PRETTY GOOD, BUT IT'S A BIT OF A PITY THAT WE COULDN'T MAKE IT FOR THE WHOLE WEEKEND.  I WILL DEFINITELY BE GOING TO THE NEXT ONE, SOMETIME NEAR CHRISTMAS I THINK!????  OH WELL I REALLY CAN'T BE BOTHERED WRITING ANYMORE AND IT IS A COUPLE OF DAYS SINCE NEMESIS WANTED THIS FINISHED, EXCEPT TO SAY HELLO TO THE FOLLOWING GUYS       ZAPHOD       ROSHI.  AND   NUTS)C(.    OH WELL THAT'S IT SO SEE YA NEXT SCROLLTEXT!!!!!!!!!!!               GET YOUR EYES OUT YOU STUPID FUCKING HACKER!!!!!!!!                   VIPER         HOW SHOULD I START THIS SCROLL TEXT ?? BY SENDING OUT GREETINGS TO EVERYBODY, WELL THEY ARE JUST BELOW SO YOU CAN READ THEM THERE. WELL HOW ABOUT A HISTORY OF HOW I STARTED ON COMPUTERS?? NO??? WELL STUFF YAS! YA GOING TO GET IT ANYWAY....DON'T LIKE IT?? THEN READ THE OTHER SCROLLIES!! IT ALL STARTED BACK IN THE YEAR.....IT WAS SO LONG AGO I'VE FORGOTTEN THE YEAR NOW. THE FIRST COMPUTER I SAW WAS MORE LIKE A GAMES MACHINE AND IT WAS CALLED THE ATARI 2600 WELL AT THE TIME IT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT I HAD EVER SEEN ON A COMPUTER AND THE GRAPHICS HAD ME GLUED TO THE TELEVISION FOR HOURS...WELL THEN, THAT CHRISTMAS MY PARENTS BOUGHT ONE FOR THE FAMILY AS WELL. IT WAS GREAT, SOON I HAD ASTEROIDS, WHAT A GREAT CONVERSION THAT WAS...IN FACT I STILL HAVE THE HEAP OF SHIT IN PIECES SOMEWHERE IN THE HOUSE. WE PIN THE THING TO THE WALL AND THROW DARTS AT IT, I GUESS THAT'S THE ONLY USE IT HAS NOW...SOON AFTER THAT MY COUSIN PURCHASED A   VIC 20   WELL THIS WAS A STEP FORWARD IN COMPUTERS FOR ME, THIS ONE HAD A KEYBOARD AS WELL WHICH MEANT THAT WE COULD ENTER LITTLE TINY PROGRAMS IN IT THAT WOULD BE LESS THAN 1 OR 2K LONG ... SMALL MEMORY, REMINDS ABOUT THE USES OF AN ATARI ST, WHERE THE 'ST' CAN STAND FOR VARIOUS THINGS LIKE 'SHITTY TRASH' WELL I WAS DESPERATE FOR SOME SORT OF COMPUTER SO I BOUGHT THE           SEGA SC3000           THIS WAS A GREAT COMPUTER WITH 80 COLUMNS, 16K OF RAM AND 16 COLOURS. I BOUGHT A FEW CARTRIDGE GAMES WHICH WERE QUITE GOOD AT THAT TIME. AFTER THAT I BOUGHT THE           COMMODORE 64           I SOON SOLD THE SEGA AND FOCUSED MY ATTENTION ON THE 64. THIS COMPUTER WAS BETTER THAN ANYTHING THAT I HAD EVER USED BEFORE, WITH GREAT GRAPHICS AND SOUND AND IT WAS A POPULAR COMPUTER AT THE TIME. I PROGRAMMED IN ASSEMBLY ON THIS MACHINE AND DID A FEW CRACKS AND SOME DEMOS ALL USING THIS AMAZING CARTRIDGE CALLED THE EXPERT, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER. PITY THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN IT NOW BECAUSE IT HAD THE BEST ASSEMBLER ON IT, NO OTHER ASSEMBLER CAME CLOSE TO THIS ONE. WELL AFTER ABOUT A YEAR I PURCHASED FOR MYSELF AN  AMIGA 500.    I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO CODE ON THIS MACHINE BECAUSE I WAS QUITE HAPPY ON THE 64. I WAS CODING ONE OF MY LAST DEMOS ON THE 64 WHEN A FAT LAMER CAME OVER ONE DAY WHEN I WASN'T THERE AND STOLE ALL OF THE CODE THAT I HAD DONE ON THE DEMO, THIS GOT ME SO CUT THAT I HAVEN'T REALLY TOUCHED THE MACHINE FOR CODING SINCE, I INSTEAD TURNED MY WAY TOWARDS THE AMIGA FOR CODING INSTEAD AND I AM CURRENTLY STILL LEARNING ON THE AMIGA. BUT I GUESS THAT'S WHAT REALLY BROUGHT THE 64  DOWN, THAT THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY LAMERS ON IT NOW. I FOUND SOME OF MY CRACKS COMING BACK TO ME CHANGED BECAUSE SOME FAT SHITHEAD OF A LAMER HAD GONE THROUGH WITH A SECTOR EDITOR AND CHANGED IT ALL TO SAY THAT THEY DID IT, SO I HAD TO START TO 'EOR' MY TEXTS FROM LAMERS, EVEN MY DEMOS WERE CHANGED AS WELL, IS THERE NO END TO HOW FAR A LAMER WILL GO FOR SUCH A CHEAP THRILL?? A FEW LAMERS WOULD GET TO KNOW ASSEMBLY A BIT, BUT ONLY ENOUGH SO THAT THEY COULD GO THROUGH AND RIP CODE FROM MY DEMO, PLACE IT IN THEIRS, AND SAY THAT THEY DID IT ALL. WELL I GUESS THAT THAT ARE ALL THE GRIPES THAT I HAVE TO SAY FOR NOW BUT LETS HOPE THAT THE AMIGA DOESN'T START HEADING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SCENE IS LIKE ON THE 64 IN OTHER COUNTRIES BUT IN PERTH AUSTRALIA, IT SUCKS!   WELL THEN, I AM QUITE HAPPY WITH THE AMIGA AT THE MOMENT AND LETS HOPE THAT IT WILL STICK AROUND FOR SOME YEARS YET BECAUSE THE NEXT GREAT COMPUTER WOULD BE EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE. TALKING ABOUT EXPENSIVE THINGS, AT THE PLACE WHERE I WORK, WE SELL AMIGAS,IBM COMPATIBLES AND ATARI ST'S YUK!! WELL THE FUNNY THING IS THAT WE SELL HEAPS OF AMIGA'S AND ARE ALWAYS OUT OF STOCK BUT FOR THE ATARI ST'S  WELL....WE HAVE A REAL HARD TIME SELLING THOSE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE INFERIOR COMPUTER, THE SCROLLING IS POOR, THE SOUND IS SHIT, IT'S GRAPHICS ARE HOPELESS BECAUSE OF ITS LACK OF ANY DECENT COLOURS AND THEY JUST DON'T SELL. THEY CURRENTLY RETAIL AT ABOUT 795 AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS HERE, AND IN THAT DEAL WE GIVE AWAY OVER 1000 AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS WORTH OF FREE SOFTWARE AND ANOTHER 5 FREE GAMES CALLED THE ATARI MEGA PAK 2. WELL CONSIDERING THAT WE ARE GIVING AWAY MORE SOFTWARE THAN WHAT THE COMPUTER IS WORTH YOU WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD SELL, WELL THEY DON'T. WE ARE IN A WAY PAYING THE CUSTOMER TO TAKE THE COMPUTER AWAY BUT THEY STILL BUY THE AMIGA FOR AN EXTRA 100 AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS.                                                                     STILL READING EH??? YEAH WELL THE REST OF THIS SCROLLTEXT WILL BE IN BINARY SO YOU'LL HAVE TO BE GOOD TO UNDERSTAND THIS AND IT IS IN 16 BIT OF COURSE.... 0001001011110011 1100110000110110 1100111000011010 11000011111111100, 1000000111001111 1100001111001001 0001100111111111 0000000000000011 !!!    SO THERE YOU GO, NOW IT'S TIME TO  WRAP THE SCROLL!!                                                                                                NEMESIS          YO!  NEMESIS HERE WITH A FEW WORDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THESE CONFUSING SCROLLS...  YOU'LL FIND THAT WEREWOLF'S SCROLL HAS A HISTORY OF OUR CREW, AND VIPER'S HAS A HISTORY OF ALL THE COMPUTERS HE HAS HAD OVER THE YEARS, AND MINE???   WELL, JUST THE CREDITS AND STUFF FOR THIS DEMO AND SOME LINES OF USELESS BULLSHIT...   FIRST OF ALL LET'S GET THE CREDITS OUT OF THE WAY.      THIS DEMO CODED BY     WEREWOLF    )AND A VERY SMALL AMOUNT BY ME(       THE FONT FOR THESE ROTATING SCROLLS WAS TAKEN FROM IT'S MEGADEMO AND WAS DRAWN BY   BUZZAW OF     'IT'        THE FONT FOR THE STUFF DOWN THE BOTTOM BY   WEREWOLF      THE MUSIC IS FROM THE GAME         SDI       NOT BAD MUSIC HEY?  WELL, SOME OF THE TRACKS ARE GOOD AT LEAST.     AND OF COURSE THANKS MUST GO TO THOSE GUYS WHO ENCOURAGED US TO FINALLY FINISH THIS THING!    I FORGOT TO MENTION IN THE MESSAGES DOWN THE BOTTOM THAT THE 'F' OPTION IN THE SPRITE MENU IS TO TURN THE SOUND FILTER ON AND OFF...          NOW, WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY??        THE TIME IS NOW...      NIGHT TIME, AND I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO WRITE... AFTER THIS I JUST NEED TO CRUNCH THE DEMO DOWN AND THE WHOLE THING IS FINISHED, SO I WON'T BE BOTHERED WRITING A LOT OF TEXT                THE ONE THING I REALLY HATE AT THE MOMENT IS EXAMS...   I THINK I WILL START A WORLDWIDE ORGANISATION TO HUNT DOWN THE GUY WHO INVENTED THIS SADISTIC AND TOTALLY BORING CONCEPT AND MAKE HIM DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH     I'VE GOT TO PUT UP WITH A COUPLE MORE WEEKS OF THESE FUCKING EXAMS  )AS YOU CAN SEE THAT'S NOT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AS I'M CURRENTLY FINISHING THIS DEMO OFF AND PLAYING BATMAN THE MOVIE(  AND THEN I AM REWARDED WITH THREE MONTHS OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS!!!      NOTHING MUCH MORE FOR ME TO SAY, SO I MIGHT AS WELL CRUNCH THIS WHOLE THING DOWN AT LAST.      LOOK OUT FOR MORE COOL STUFF FROM US VERY SOON!       

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