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HeavyWeight/DVS Interview Souri + Infinity    

     An Interview With A Trader                                                 
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                                                 By Infinity and Souri
         
Thanx to Turrican for passing this interview sheet to and from Heavyweight
     
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  HANDLE: Heavyweight                                                           
     AGE: 21                                                                    
COMPUTER: A500 with 68030/40, also have CD
   GROUP: Devious Dezigns                                                       
    ROLE: Trader, Pack-Maker                                                    
                                                                                
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE SCENE ?                                           

  I have been in the scene since Januruay 1990
  I was initialy in the C64 scene until October 1992
  I then got my A500, and started trading Amiga Stuff around Feburury 1993
  And haven't stopped since
                              
WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE AN AMIGA ?                                                 

  The reason why I chossen an Amiga, was at the time when I bought it, all my friends all had/gonna get Amiga's
  I hated the sight of PC's then (and still do)
  The Amiga is the only computer to be using, all the rest is rubbish
  Even if ESCOM stuff up the Amiga, I still will still be swapping, until there is no-one else to swap with
                                        
WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO ON THE AMIGA OTHER THAN TRADE ?                             

  My other scene-activities other than swapping, is leeching from Terra Firma (thanks Psyche)
  I also make up the World famous (yeah right!) pack called "Bits and Pieces"
  I have released a stock-inventory system (written with Spirit/DVS), called "Kronical"
  I am slowly working on the sequel to it, with will be a fully-fledged Relational Database (something like Twist, MS-Access, etc

  the current working name of it is "Simplicity"
  I am also, when I have time, going to write a Utility Pack menu, and to produce the associating disks, also possibly going to write a Doc disk menu and also produce the associate disks
  A new Pack menu is in the pipe-line also, so watch out for that

  The menu will be totally different to that of now
        
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TRADING SCENE AT THE MOMENT ?                       


  When I started trading, it was easy to get a lot of Australian contacts, and then they were always quite fast in repling
  But now-a-days, it is more common for most "swappers" to take up to a month before they reply (If I'm lucky!)
  Also the number of swappers in Australia is steadly declining
  I don't have that many Australian contacts, because of hardly no-one swaps

  In the case of the Overseas swappers, There are still a lot of really cool guys swapping, and most of them are quite fast in replying
                     
  The quality of the stuff is not that great lately, because there isn't much being released in-between parties, so that slows things up in the non-party times
                                                                
  It is sometimes hard to find legal-only swappers, because most swappers will also want to swap games and shit
                                          
  Usually, with most of my contacts, I don't swap new stuff (remember, I leech all the new stuff from Terra Firma anyway), we usually swap some old demos, because I like to keep a library of all the demos ever made
  
  I currently have over 2450+ disks of demos (Scene Productions - not PD disks, like Fred Fish shit), and I am on the lookout for always more
                  
WOULD YOU EVER SELL YOUR AMIGA AND BUY A PC ?                                   

  Currently, I will never sell the Amiga, and will continue with it as long as I can do it
  I will be very ashamed if I owned a PC
  Fuck da PC
  The reason is that I will stick to the Amiga is because it is a "Godly" computer
   
WHAT FORMER GROUPS WERE YOU INVOLVED IN BEFORE JOINING DEVIOUS DEZIGNS ?        

  Um, let me think, the first group that I ever joined on the Amiga, was      
  Chrome (Australian), which was the C64 group I was in before
  After that, I Addicts (Turbo's old lame crew)
  That didn't last long
  After that I re-joined Chrome
  A little bit after that, I started up my own group called "Toons" (remember the lame "Creamation" intro?)
  After that, I made another group with Darkside/???Movement???, and we decided to call it "Foda" (apparently Portegeese for the word "Fuck"!), and after I got sick of that, and joined a local group called "Kronical" (x-Eternal - remember those legendary days Psyche??), and that naturally progressed into Devious Dezigns

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SCENE ?                           

  The scene is getting a bit more better these days, because all the coders now know what to do with AGA these days
  Granted that it is not as prolific as the 89-92 period, but it is looking better by the day
  Some of the current AGA demos are really excellent, and we'll see what the future hold ahead
       
NAME THE 3 BEST GROUPS CURRENTLY TODAY IN AUSTRALIA
                            
  Um, let me see, Is there actually 3 groups in Australia???  Be pushing it, na, Um, I think Cydonia are the most prolific group currently in Australia, and maybe possible be the second best group (of course, can't compete with      

  Devious Dezigns!! - Sorry, had to say that!), Sect is/was also a really promising group, expecially with their Scrapbook project
  Also, there are always the swapping-only groups, like APD, Myth, and some others

NAME THE 3 BEST BOARDS

  Sorry, I only call one BBS (in being Terra Firma), so I don't bother to call any others
  (Also costs too much in Phone Calls)
  Why would you call somewhere else, if you can have a nice leech at a local BBS and get all the new stuff

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ESCOM BEING THE NEW OWNERS OF THE AMIGA?                   

  Um, I think that they are going to be a positive influence onto the future of the Amiga
  The only thing that they have to do, is to make sure that there are new stock of A1200's and A4000's into the shops, because they can't afford to miss a second christmas season on the trot
                     
  ESCOM also has to make sure that they will bring out something, which is a improvement on the AGA chipset series
  This should be in the shops in the new year

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE END THIS INTERVIEW?               

  Yeah, I would like to thanks my first and best contact, Turrican (Campbell - Yaaaaayyyyy!)

  Also I would like to thanks everyone in the scene for making it still active
  Also to the dudes at DVS, who eventually release things (Takes time to make it a Classic!)

  Also to all of my contacts, who without them, I wouldn't be a swapper (obviously!), and I like to say "Thanks   
  You" to all the 300+ contacts I have had over the years, and also for being a friend whilst swapping stuff
                                                   
  Also, one last thing, if there is anyone who is intrested in swapping old   

  demos/music tapes/video tapes/VBS tapes, etc

  feel free to contact me at:-   
        Tony                                                                    
        96 Robinson Road                                                        
        Morley  WA  6062                                                        
        Australia                                                               
    NOTE: Legal only, also I sell VBS dongles, for more info, write to me
      
    Catch ya later