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iNTERVIEW (tORBEN s. nIELSEN) WITH tsn OF tHE sUPPLY tEAM
wHAT IS YOUR ALIAS? iF YOU FIND THE STORY INTERESTING, THEN LET US KNOW HOW YOU CAME UP WITH IT? mY ALIAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN tsn, SIMPLY IT'S SHORT FOR MY NAME tORBEN s. nIELSEN wHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW? i WAS BORN IN dENMARK 1963 AND I STILL LIVE HERE wHEN DID YOU GET YOUR FIRST COMPUTER AND WHICH COMPUTERS DO/DID YOU OWN? wHEN DID YOU GET YOUR c64? i THINK IT WAS A gAMATIC 7600 (SIMPLE TENNISGAME IN BLACK/WHITE), I DON'T REMEMBER THE YEAR BUT IT MUST BE BACK IN THE 1970S, AFTER THAT aTARI, AND THE FIRST "REAL" COMPUTER WAS A mATTEL INTELEVISION WITH 2K (YES TWO k), IT WAS THE LEFTOVER MEMORY ON THE 64 k CARTRIDGE THEY USED TO MAKE IT, I GOT MY c64 IN 1984-85 hOW DID YOU GET TO KNOW THE SCENE? wHO WAS YOUR FIRST CONTACT (PERSON YOU KNEW) ON THE SCENE? tHE FIRST TIME I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT THE SCENE WAS AROUND 1984, IN A dANISH tV STATIONS nEWS, WHERE THEY HAD A STORY ABOUT "dANISH cRACKERS", sODAN AND OTHER PEOPLE ON THE c64 SCENE, MY FIRST CONTACTPERSON WAS kAZE WHOM I SHORTLY AFTER FOUNDED tHE sUPPLY tEAM (tst) WITH IN 1985 dESCRIBE YOUR SCENE CAREER, INCLUDING ALL GROUPS YOU HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF! kEEP CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER PLEASE! i NEVER LEFT tst, BUT HAVE BEEN FREELANCE MEMBER OF bLACK tULIP AND, tHE lIGHT cIRCLE, BESIDE THAT MANY GROUPS TRIED TO HEADHUNT ME, BUT EVERY TIME I SAID NO wHICH SCENE DO/DID YOU CONSIDER BEST AND WHY? iF YOU HAVE BEEN ONLY ON THE c64, THEN GIVE US THE REASON(S)! tHE c64 SCENE WAS THE MOST FUN, aMIGA WAS MORE A MONEYMACHINE FOR ME ;-) wHAT DO YOU THINK YOU GAINED BY BEING A MEMBER OF THE SCENE? i GOT INTO A VERY SPECIAL WORLD, THAT I STILL IS USING, IT ALSO LEARNED ME TO WRITE FAST, AND IT GOT ME A LOT OF FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD wHAT DO YOU CONSIDER LOST, WASTED OR MEANINGLESS DURING THE YEARS YOU HAVE SPENT ON THE SCENE? i REALLY DON'T THINK i LOST SOMETHING OR SOMETHING WAS WASTED, BUT WHEN i REMEMBER BACK I THINK ALL THE STUPID WARS WE HAD WITHIN OUR OWN GROUP WAS MEANINGLESS, TODAY WE ALL ARE FRIENDS SO THATS WHY i THINK THIS WAS WASTE OF TIME wHAT IS/ARE/WAS/WERE YOUR MAIN INTEREST(S)/FUNCTION(S)? oN THE 64 IT WAS TO PLAY GAMES, MAKE DEMOS & GRAPHICS ON THE aMIGA IT BECAME MONEY (ALL THE GAMES I SOLD) tODAY IT'S THE SHARE FUN I ENJOY ON MY pc, TO MAKE HOMEPAGES SURFING ON www, SENDING e-MAILS, OR PLAYING NETWORKGAMES WITH MY FRIENDS wHAT MADE YOU START DOING GRAPHICS/COMPOSING/SWAPPING/MODEM TRADING ORGANISING OR WHATEVER YOU DID? i WAS GOOD IN MAKING GRAPHICS, AND PEOPLE LIKED MY DRAWINGS, AND I ENJOYED TO MAKE THIS, AS A MATTER OF FACT I STILL LIKE TO MAKE GRAPHICS wHAT ARE/WERE YOUR GREATEST SUCCESSES/FIASCOS? eVERYTIME WE WERE FIRST WITH NEW ROUTINES NEVER SEEN ON THE c64 I WAS PROUD, BUT MAYBE IT WAS AFTER WE RELEASED no limits (FIRST EVER FULLSCREEN SIDEBORDERSCROLL). bUT MY GREATEST SUCCESSES MUST HAVE BEEN THAT I BECAME THE BIGGEST IN dENMARK SELLING aMIGA GAMES :-) OR IF IT'S TODAY (1997) IT HAVE TO BE MY sATELLITE HOMEPAGE, THE FIRST YEAR i HAVE HAD MORE THAN 31000 VISITORS, THIS IS TO ME A PERSONAL SUCCESS wAS THERE ANY SPECIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN YOU/YOUR GROUP AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE/GROUPS ON THE SCENE (CO-OPERATION, WAR, FRIENDSHIP ETC.)? iF SO, WHAT MADE IT START AND STOP? wE WERE IN CO-OPERATION WITH kEFRENS & tARTAN aRMY AROUND 1988-89 wARS: NAME A TEAM AND WE HAVE BEEN i WAR WITH THEM, NO MAYBE NOT ALL TEAMS, BUT EVERYTIME A TEAM STOLE A ROUTINE, WE WERE READY TO FIGHT, SO TEAMS LIKE dANISH gOLD, wIZAX, gAMEBUSTERS, sILENTS ARE STILL IN MY MIND: lamers. hAVE YOU ATTENDED PARTIES? tELL US ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE CONFERENCES? yOU CAN EVEN MENTION SOME FIASCOS. tHE BEST WAS IN 1988 IN dENMARK, I'M SORRY BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE PARTY, BUT I CAN REMEMBER IT WAS GREAT FUN ! iS/WAS THERE ANY SPECIAL FEELING IN YOUR CREW, SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST BEING IN A GROUP? sURE! iT WAS WHY IT WAS SO MUCH FUN ON THE c64, WE WERE ONE OF THE FEW TEAMS THAT HAD ALL OR ALMOST ALL MEMBERS IN THE SAME TOWN, AND THEREFOR WE WERE TOGETHER ALMOST EVERY DAY MAKING DEMOS, GRAPHICS OR DRINKING BEERS :-) iF YOU ARE NOT A c64 SCENER ANYMORE, WHEN AND WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE SCENE? i WAS SADLY I HAVE TO SAY TODAY, IMPRESSED BY THE aMIGA AND GOT ONE IN 1988, BUT IT never GAVE ME THE SAME AS MY c64 GAVE ME wHAT WERE YOUR FAVOURITE GROUPS/ARTISTS/CODERS/PRODUCTIONS? wHY DO/DID YOU LIKE THEIR WORK/THESE PROGRAMS? mY FAVOURITE GROUP WAS tRIAD, BECAUSE WHEN THEY CARCKED A GAME IT ALLWAYS WORKED, i WAS ALSO FAN OF 1001 cREW BECAUSE THEY LIKE tst ALSO WERE SPECIALIST IN sIDEBORDER ROUTINES gIVE US A BRIEF DESCRIPTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCENE AS YOU EXPERIENCED IT AND COMPUTER SOCIETY IN GENERAL! iN 1983-84 THERE WERE ONLY VERY FEW GROUPS/CRACKERS, THE WHOLE IDEA WITH TEAMS, GROUPS WAS NOT SO COMMON, LATER IN 1985-86 MORE AND MORE PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER IN GROUPS AND STARTING TO MAKE DEMOS MORE CRACKERS CAME AND THE c64 SCENE WAS BORN, IN 1987-88 c64 SCENE WAS AT ITS HIGHEST, AFTER THAT IT CHANGED AFTER MY OPPINION TO A BORING SCENE, WITH TO MANY NEWCOMMERS MAKING DEMOS ON DEMOMAKERS, AND VERY LONG TIME BETWEEN NEW GOOD GAMES wHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION? wHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? dOES IT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING WITH COMPUTERS? iS THERE ANYTHING YOU DO IN REAL-LIFE THAT IS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ON THE SCENE? mY PROFESSION ;-) i WON'T TELL YOU hOW DID YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPUTERS CHANGE DURING THE YEARS? i DON'T HAVE ANY ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPUTERS ;-) wHAT DO YOU LIKE DOING IN YOUR SPARE-TIME WHEN NOT COMPUTING? wHAT IS/ARE YOUR HOBBY(IES)? cOMPUTERS ARE MY HOBBY !! aRE THERE MOMENTS WHEN YOU FEEL NOSTALGIC THINKING BACK TO THE PAST YEARS OF THE SCENE? iF SO WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN IT HAPPENS? yES, i START UP MY c64 eMULATOR (ccs64) AND LOOK AT SOME OF OUR OLD DEMOS wHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE NEAR/FAR FUTURE? i ONLY MAKE PLANS 1 DAY AHEAD wHAT IS YOUR GOAL IN LIFE? wHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACHIEVE? tO GET A GOOD JOB, THAT I CAN HAVE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, A JOB THAT I DON'T THINK OFF AS A JOB BUT AS SOMETHING I ENJOY AND TO GET VERY VERY RICH :-) |
