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MorphOS 2.3 released OWB 1.3 for MorphOS MorphOS guys hits us again, Origyn Web Browser for now with another update of MorphOS is updated to version MorphOS. 1.3. This update introduces two most important features earlier This update is free for registered not implemented: Configurable users of MorphOS2.x, but the MIME handling and a good demo version is available for download handler (with support everybody else. for resume). Other snacks implemented now is AdBlock Version 2.3 has among others, functionality and session saving. the following improvements: - support for Ext2-, Ext3-, NTFS-, Downlaoad OWB 1.3 for SGI-XFS-, MAC-HFS+ and MAC- MorphOS from here: HFS-partitions http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/ - Poseidon upgraded to v 4.2, Disk .info fixing some USB problems Sources: - Optimalizations and morphzone.org improvements in Layers and /polarboing.com , which among others things leads to a nicer (smoother) handling of windows. Test av MorphOS 2.3 Developer article about the This is of course just some of the The magazine Obligement have new MorphOS memory system improvements. Read more about published a review of the new Harry “Piru” Sintonen wrote a the other improvements at the released version 2.3 of developer article about the new release noe for MorphOS 3.2 and MorphOS. memory system of MorphOS and download from the same place. first introduced in MorphOS2.0. Sources: The article in french : The article gives a deep morphzone.org http://obligement.free.fr/articles/mo introduction into the general / polarboing.com rphos23.php design goals and the technical The article in english (automatic implementations. translation) : http://translate.google.fr/translate&rl Read it all here: m;u=http%3A%2F%2Fobligement.fr http://www.morphos.de/tlsf.html ee.fr%2Farticles%2Fmorphos23.ph p&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF8 Source: .de Source: morphzone.org

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Adventure-Interpreter New beta driver Direct download: ScummVM 1.0.0 rc1 New beta driver for the Epson- EpsonUSB.device (91 KB) USB-Scanner http://brain.umcs.lublin.pl/~rzooko Fabien “Fab” Coeurjoly has l/download/EpsonUSB.device published an update Michal “zukow” Zukowski has downloadable here: published a new beta version of MorphOS-Skin: Blue Marine : his scanner driver for Epson units Blue Marine Skin is a MorphOS- http://fabportnawak.free.fr/scumm for USB and reqeuests your skin by Jambalah. vm/ ) feedback at this thread at morphzone.org. Direct download: of his MorphOS port of the http://www.morphzone.org/module BlueMarineSkin.lha (1,2 MB) Adventure-Interpreter s/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum http://www.meta- ScummVM. =9&topic_id=6376&sortname=&so morphos.org/download.php?op=m MorphOS: Software News http://www.scummvm.org/ rtorder=&sortdays=&viewmode=fl ydown&did=694 MorphOS:up to 01.09.2009 Software News at&order=0&start=40 up to 01.09.2009

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AROS Update problems modern web browser! Thanks to stability, he added a status bar to bit versions of AROS side-by- AROS-Distribution: Update the hard work of Stanislaw windows, and he experimented side on the same computer. As a problems with Icaros 1.1.4, Sszymczyk, OWB is available for with a directory tree in the left- result of this, all bootable AROS Icaros Live-DVD AROS, delivering full CSS and hand side of windows. In the partitions are required to have a Javascript compatibility, tabbed future, besides the introduction of file called AROS.boot containing According to the developers of browsing and a download the much awaited list view, he the architecture type of the the AROS-distribution Icaros manager. OWB is at version plans to make Wanderer more AROS system files on that there are some problems if you 0.9.3 Beta, and in order to run modular, so that various partition. If you want to upgrade want to update to the previously correctly requires recent versions components can be added or the kernel on a system installed published version 1.1.4 of muimaster., arosc.library subtracted at will and prior to March 20, you need to automatically. and codesets.library. OWB can implemented also with third-party manually copy this file to the root be downloaded at its own page modules. of your system partition, or create The developers recommend to at sand-labs. Stanislaw has also it yourself (e.g. run the command download the update and to finished work on allowing the The well known VmwAROS “Echo pc- TO unpack it under a different compilation of multiple versions distribution has changed name to DH0:AROS.boot” for a 32-bit . Then the ISO- of AROS using a single copy of Icaros Desktop; version 1.1 system). file can be installed without any the source tree. (updated recently to 1.1.1) problems under AROS with the delivers updated system files And, last but not least, the “from ISO”-option of the Pavel “Sonic” Fedin is still and better stability. Almost all coming of Steve “ClusterUK” LiveUpdater. working on the Windows Hosted applications were recompiled in Jones: a Siamese System version of AROS and, in the order to use the most recent developer in the past, he now There is also a bootable “Live”- course of this work, is also trying muimaster.library build - finally comes back to Amigaland DVD of the distribution which is to solve several problems in the getting rid of the old proposing his AROS box for sale. called “Icaros Desktop LIVE!” way AROS talks to the hardware, switchmuimaster application. As The iMica is an Atom-based and which does not require any in order to abstract it; this led to usual, Icaros is available as both small desktop system with Icaros installation on the harddrive but his modifying components that a Live DVD and a pre-installed. iMica which can be installed additional require an abstraction layer in environment (VE). The VE currently offers one of the best to an existing Windows- order to work in hosted AROS version has been installed on top AROS experiences on real installation on a different versions, such as file systems of Windows XP on a netbook, hardware, due to the inclusion of partition. and hardware; this includes a running at a reasonable speed a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Source: amiga-news.com packet handling method for SFS. with full audio and wireless card with EMU10k that is Also, Pavel, together with Jens networking support. More info supported by AROS, and an Status update AROS Langner, is trying to cross- here. RTL8168 Network card, Date: compile the most up-to-date supported by Kalamatee’s new 2009-05-01 versions of the mcc.BetterString Michal Schulz still continues to driver. Author: and mcc.TextEditor MUI classes work on his Efika port and, in Source: aros.sourceforge.net Simone Bernacchia & Neil so that they will be taken straight parallel, on the USB mass Cafferkey from the mainstream source storage bounty. In December instead of being included in the AROS was able to mount USB Latest updates AROS source tree. sticks and boot from an external Since the last update before CD-ROM drive. Progress on the Christmas, AROS has gained a Matthias “Mazze” Rustler has Efika port brought a more robust lot of improvements, both in released an alpha version of the kernel, a detailed debug report system components and Ignition spreadsheet application. and a feature quite similar to applications: AROS is getting At the moment data cannot be Grim Reaper on AmigaOS 4 that really close to being suitable for saved but it is still a good prevents the machine from daily usage. occasion to have a look at this freezing in case of a . application, underestimated on Oliver Brunner recently released AmigaOS but quite powerful and Neil Cafferkey has been working version 0.3 of Janus-UAE, the well realised. There are just a on improving the compatibility of AROS-specific version of UAE couple of major glitches: the the ATA driver, so that it works required by phase 1 of the UAE applicaiton is only partially with a greater variety of PCs and Integration Bounty. Now AROS translated from German; in order drives. These changes were not can open AmigaOS applications to be used in English the file ready in time for Icaros 1.1.1, but in their own AROS screen or ignition_english.prefs has to be they will probably be included in window. Oliver is currently renamed to ignition.prefs. the release. working on integrating menus. Nik “Kalamatee” Andrews is Some changes also occured in But the most important news is improving Wanderer: in recent the way AROS boots: it is now that AROS has finally got its own months his work delivered better possible to install 32-bit and 64-

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descended into dark times. They pushes forward the Amiga, MorphOS, Amiga OS, OS 4.1, say you learn most from your MorphOS, AROS or Amiga OS AROS users or developers. That failures and not your successes 4.1 brand we will send them this does not matter, what does and this is most certainly the little reward. If this program is matter is that they worked hard case when it comes to Amiga. well received then donation and pushed the community And yet some good things have amounts may increase. forward in a positive way. happened as well. Today’s winner is Nova Design in Please order ImageFX Studio The Amiga market has branched the USA. Nova Design has from this Link off into some healthy competition worked tirelessly and created the Ny SDK till OS4.x with the arrival of MorphOS, killer product ImageFX Studio. http://www.novadesign.com Hyperion announces that they AROS & Amiga OS 4.1. The Congratulations Nova Design! release a new SDK (software scene is alive Please support this great Best regards development kit) for OS4.x. In and well with developer, we already have by DiscreetFX Team the new SDK there are updated 2009 from Cloanto. And lets not sending them $100 via Paypal. Source: amiga.org .so files and fixes for the forget the hard work of the They are not alone and it takes SAM440. developers of , Natami & many to change the world. But it CloneA. Amiga developers have is our sincere hope that the http://www.hyperion- transcended the need of one Amiga scene can grow again. entertainment.biz/index.php?optio company controlling the destiny Thanks again n=com_registration of Amiga and have forged ahead Nova Design for &view=files&parent=30&Itemid=63 in interesting ways. all your hard work and your Source: It’s this Amiga spirit that the winner for safiir..se DiscreetFX loves and we want to August 2009. nurture. So from time to time we Who will the next Amiga Seeding the Success will donate $100 to great Amiga winner be? Feel Campaign from DiscreetFX developers. No, this is not a ton free to participate The Amiga computer represents of money but it is a gesture that in the process a lot of firsts in the computer will encourage positive feelings and let us know industry but it also represents and development in the Amiga via e-mail who many missed opportunities. community of families. If a you think Since the death of Commodore developer or even a user does deserves to win. in 1994 the Amiga has something outstanding that They can be

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The Demo Scene We are now sitting in the Close on: basement studio belonging to Useless in Halden, Norway, and we have just gone through about Useless of Spaceballs three Spaceballs demos and a His real name is Egil Thomas Hansen, couple of othhe demos from but in this sense his birth name is «Useless» :P other demo groups, mostly picked from the EyeCandy Demo CD.

Well, now we have 15 minutes to talk about Spaceballs. We could of course have been talking a whole evening, Thomas, right? Text: Or a week? Tommy Rølvåg Strand Egil Thomas Hansen Thomas: Well, I think I would have been free for answers from time to time then, but I guess I Do you know the number of Spaceballs in the end. some there, and behind me there have to do my very best. It was demos that Spaceballs produced, is a projector and a projector really fun to look through some Thomas? Meanwhile I had started playing screen, together with a nice DVD old demos again. I have little time in a band. Then we got a new collection, and of course it is doing things like this nowadays - Including demos and intros and guitar player in the band, possible to play the MindCandy compared to earlier days... everything we ever made, I Thomas Andersen, and he was CD, among other DVDs. guess we are talking of about 25- then known as Yoghurt of Yeah, today is 28th of August 30 pieces. Around there Spaceballs. So before a stage Thomas: Yeah, I surely could like 2007, and it has been a while somewhere. Much of that is gig on the pub Oscars in the idea of spending more time since the last demo from intros, but there is a lot of work Fredrikstad, Norway, then I and down here in this basement room Spaceballs? behind intros as well. Andersen stood along in the road than I do, but I have a little doing our business, then Thomas daughter and a wonderful wife Thomas: Yes, a very long time What role did you do in asks me Thomas :) the following: that needs me. Don’t ago, and I guess there will be no Spaceballs? «You won’t join us in Spaceballs misunderstand me, but I rather more. then?» We had a few beers, so use time for my daughter and - I am a musician, at least that is the answer was «Yes, of course, wife than sit here. You are a pessimist? what I call myself. I will join you!», and at that time I guess I had not touched a tracker More about Spaceballs? Thomas: No, I am no pessimist, I How did all this start, Useless? at least the past 10 years. So I am just being realistic. But why said: «But I can’t do anything; I - Well, we’re a bunch of not give in when you are at the - The year was 1987, and me don’t remember anything!», but shitheads, all of us, ain’t we? :) peak, if you know what I mean? and Paul aka LoneStarr and a the answer was «Won’t matter, No, seriously, what’s so charming couple of other friends decided to there’s quite a lot of useless about Spaceballs, is that it is no When was the last demo? make demos, because it was people around there» Andersen pressure on us about producing cool. So we started something replied for fun. «Ok», I replied, anything at all. With other groups Thomas sighs and tries to we called ACT – Amiga Crack «I am in! But then my handle it can be aqquired to produce a remember... Team. None of us could do pretty shall be «Useless»». And that’s certain minimum number of tunes much, I had myself been looking the way it got. I was Useless of in a year just to hang in, for Tough question? a little at a soundtracker that I got Spaceballs. instance. It has never been this with my Amiga when I bought it. way in Spaceballs, but a more - Yes, that was a very tough Otherwise Paul knew a little To describe the room we sit in, it relaxed thing for us. question, but the last demo was BASIC from his , is all but «useless», and I dare «We wear dark helmets». It has but not much above that. And this to say, that our main guy here is Still, you got a certain status, and been at last about 2-3 years ago was our start. A little BASIC and all but «useless». Along a wall you had some success? Tell us that demo (This interview was a little ProTracker, then we found here is three synthezisers, there about the success of done in 2007 – editor’s remark). a dude who could draw are at least seven guitars here, Spaceballs? Time goes by quickly. I’m not something in Dpaint. This project and a couple of big printers, a big able to count the days. was wasted after some time, and Marshall amplifier, and to the left Spaceballs was a great success. I and another member decided to of me is an office table with a In the beginning of the 90ties, go our own way, so Paul & Co least two computers, and a great Spaceballs was popular on the were left behind and became number of boxes, some here, demo scene with Paul aka

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LoneStarr and Sverre aka Major Well, then we need to give You told me about something - No, for my sake I never looked Asshole, that among others did credits to the principal at that that happened at TG (The upon myself as «Useless of Nine Fingers, State of the Art, time at Os school for good Gathering) in Norway one year? Spaceballs», I am Thomas, I Spasmolytic, you might call these management then, I guess =) Tell us all about it? know Remi looks at himself as the classic demos of Spaceballs, - It was some demo we had, that Remi, it is just us lads you know. and not to forget Supermonster, - Yeah, a lot of good things came was quite unannounced. There But when you are into this Scrimm, We wear darh helmets, out of Os school at that time. used to be a lit of lobby talk, you discussion, it can be added that Smurf – that was an alternative Anyway, much of Spaceballs know, to advertice for new demos the whole demo scene most of project from Remi (who was came from Commodore 64 for instance in this way: «Just the time is like a big act. All has interviewed in an earlier article of freaks, the Commodore 64 was watch it! This year Epidhrena has an image they’d like to keep, Norwegian sister magazine very popular among us kids. Os some AWESOME demo going!» both in ways of nick and Amigaguiden – editors remark). school is a elementary school, And this year we in Spaceballs behaviour. At times it was in fact just to state a fact. So a lot of us never said anything abuot our quite embarrassing, because we Spaceballs was in short on a big used the C64 before we was demo, we had been going pretty got a name you know for carusell, things were smooth, introduced to the Amiga. I quiet in the doors. But then events. At that tag stood your and we boys in Spaceballs could remember Paul aka LoneStarr «Demo number xx» was handle, and what group you ask whoever we wanted to join was the first of us who got an announced through the belonged to. And you could hear our demo group. We could ask people wisper when you were in clever people around the world to line in front of the kiosk and join Spaceballs, and people said things like that: «Wow! He is yes, because it was great status from Spaceballs!» And I am just to be a part of Spaceballs. Louie, a normal man, you know, I eat Danny, yes a lot of known people and I drink and I fart like anybody joined Spaceballs. else, it is just the fact that we make demos that makes us Who are the «original special for people in the end. Spaceballs»? A lot of you are Regarding coding, coding is from Halden, Norway? But you greek to me, whatever area of also had a lot of foreigners in the that matter. I am a musician. group? Period. Remi aka Slummy is doing most of the coding in At present time there are not so Spaceballs, and I have nothing to many from abroad, but a some do with such things. still are. We have Hardfire, he is French. We also have XOZ, he is You told me that one of the French too. I hope Remi, if you coders of Spaceballs did some ever read this (if you still are a special code that was recogniced member of Spaceballs that is, at top level of the engineers of haha, I am not up to date on Commodore? Tell us about it? anything atm... :) ), that you forgive me for my bad knowledge Yeah, it was Paul aka LoneStarr, atm. =) But Spaceballs is anyway that broke a barriere. What he not only people from Norway. I did, made the great lords of have not met all Spaceballs Commodore to utter «this simply members irl (In Real Life), but all Amiga, and I also remember I speakers, and the Spaceballs can not be done on an Amiga!» the original Spaceballs members saw Amiga Karate (I think it was logo came on screen with a Thomas Andersen aka Yoghurt I have met, because they were that game). I did not believe my bang. And suddenly the whole has a diploma at home I have all kids from my year at school, very eyes, I did not think room was roaring in a choir of seen, and it is from Commdore to we were school mates, all of us. something like this was possible. cheering from most of the Spaceballs «For innovative use Here we are sitting in the top of Real sound, you know, among participators, and for us this was of the Commodore Amiga». At Grimsrudhøgda, Paul lived a other things, and almost a real great. We got a feeling of being the momen I don’t remember if it mile that way, Andre aka Defener picture. That was awesome for remember for what we once was Nine Fingers or State of the lived right up the street here, and me. What more can I say? Well, were. Art, and I either don’t remember so on. Original Spaceballs is a Spaceballs ruled a lot! Up to the what exactly about this 3D thing bunch of friends, in fact. All are time went a bit down the drain for Did you manage to keep at little that was so fantastic (no, Remi, I from Os school. (You might say several reasons. humbleness in Spaceballs, or still don’t want to learn coding... «The school of Oz» ;) - editors was it like you expected to win =) ), but something about that remark.) any contets and sort of be coding got Commodore recognized on the street? engineers saying «Wow! This is not possible!»

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But that is the way with coding on teasing and quarreling inbetween a PC or a , and you also Thomas? I am crossing fingers the Amiga. It is all about using the demo groups. We in are allowed to come in with a and toes now and hope to get the every little bit and byte of Spaceballs always had a little fun bottle of beer as your only gear. answer I want to hear! Is the resources on a computer, with Epidhrena, you know, and For Solskogen is much about Amiga demo scene dead? anyway this was what demo vice versa. Some demos was in social contact, you barbeque and coding was like in these times. fact sort of public arenas for have a good time, and for - I am not the right person to So all credits to the coders! fighting inbetween the demo instance we had a competition answer that question, but I don’t groups, but mostly meant in a some years ago that we called think so. In fact, I think there was Do you want to say something to friendly way. This teasing is in «run with scissors» contest. You a combined demo comp at the your «ex bandits» of Spaceballs fact more friendly than anything know, we always heard from last . That is; Amiga or to people in other demo else, you might call it «healthy mum as childre, that you «never demo and PC demo in same groups? competition among friends». We shall run with a scissors in your cathegory. And the winner was all know each ohter, and if we go hands», so we bought such an Amiga demo, in fact. I think - Well....yeah... «Good morning, to of Solskogen, small, blue plastic scissors, then you always will have an Amiga guys, come back to Halden! =)», everyone knows each other, no we arranged a «run with demo scene. Amiga demos are and Vision of Death Strike 90: matter group membership. scissors» contest. Just for the much more effective than a «Get in touch!» =) fun of it, you know: =) Solskogen comparable PC demo. You will Tell us about Solskogen? also has a demo compo, but that never be able to compress a PC In the end: How was the contact is not the focus. The social thing demo down to 4 KB, for instance, inbetween the demo groups? - Solskogen is a demo party that has focus above all, and you which can be done with the Was there a lot of competition? is held in Ås municipal, south of don’t have no focus on what nick Amiga. Oslo, Norway, and was to begin you have or what demo group - Yeah, about the early 90ties, with a pure Amiga arrangement. you belong to. Give the readers a few demo late 80ties, there was a little But you are allowed to come with sites internet ?

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Spaceballs.no, pouet.net and These two computers are active demo scene. Creators with EVERYONE had to get this .no. Commodores biggest hits: among others Proteque, aka computer. Commodore 64 and the Gjøran Sæther, was/is a clever, A couple of IRC channels as Commodore Amiga. It is a Norwegian C64 group. To summarize: If it was either the well? standalone computer system. C64 or the Amiga, Commodore Please describe the user was my childhood, I am really #scene.no at Efnet, #amigascne Tell the readers about the experience using the Amiga glad I got to be a part of this. at IRCnet, both pretty big hardware specifications of the compared to PC back then? channels. Then you’ve got #trax Amiga? In the end a little about hardware at Efnte if you need music, the Well, the PC at that time was specifications: had an trackers hang out there. Classic Amiga, which are the DOS; a text console and beep- about 7,14 Mhz 68000 only Amiga computers I was into, beep sounds. Super-Nintendo CPU, then the a little Amiga had power about equal to a sounds like Mozart compared to later had a CPU, Useless: What is Amiga? maths calculator of today, they PC from these days. And in this then came the 68030 and the - For me Amiga and Commodore are equipped with a Motorola time we were introduced to the 68040. 64 is my childhood and at least 680x0 CPU. Amiga, with full colour screen, 4 the early teenage years. separate sound channels, two for At that time we sent floppy disks The first Amiga was the Amiga each output left/right, 4069 colors by snail mail, internet was not Amiga is a computer? 500? on the screen at the same time, built at that time. and to 1/5 of the price of a PC. Thomas: Not for me! - No, the first one was an Amiga We suddenly had a screen with The swapping was so extended 1000. «real» pictures, moving objects that if one week you got lots of Oh? with sprites and bobs, and you post in form of floppies, then you Do you have more than one could loose your breath thinking could get several bags full of - To me Amiga is more a lifestyle. Amiga? of these times, how big all was, floppy disks if your swapping Amiga was a lifestyle for many all that really happened. was a bit developed. People people from about 11-12 years of - I own an , an Amiga age and above. And what is 500, an , an Amiga really fun is that people still is 1200 and an . nodding recognicing to their Amiga belonging years and years Why do so many own more than afterwoods. I once spoke to a one Amiga? I understand that guitar player over in the States many do from what I read at the about guitar stuff and so on, and internet...? don’t quite remember how I got onto the subject Amiga. But when - Nobody as of 2007 («today» - I did put Amiga on topic, he got editors remark) collects on PC really excited, he remembered because it is PC. But when it that he had an Amiga 500, and comes to Amiga you get more of he even remembered what high an enthusiast, you get a bit score he had on certain levels in «addicted to Amiga». Maybe it is . like this: When you was dreaming of owning an Amiga If you ever had an Amiga, then 4000 when you was young, but you were into a lifestyle. could afford only an Amiga 500 or maybe an Amiga 1200, then At that time they who had a when you grew up and earned computer and spoke about more, you fulfill your dream of computers in the school yard was youth and buys a decent Amiga. I almost laughed at compared to got my Amiga 4000 in Trondheim today, when everybody have a as grown up man. computer, just because it is cool. Back then owning a computer How many Amiga computers do was more of a hobby. you think it is sold world wide, all models? But what is an Amiga, Thomas? - I don’t know, but Commodore Set straightly, the Amiga is the 64 for instance was sold in an succedor of Commodore 64, the incredible amount of many great hit of Commodore Inc. millions, and still has a hardcore,

13 - scene - copied from each other. Long live friend Gea, aka Geir Arne decided he should play the gonna turn out like, if we were snail mail! Hansen from Sarpsborg, some guitar, even if he barely knew gonna be a duo pub thing or miles from Halden, he is how a guitar looked, he decided what. Music originally from Halden and also to learn how to play it, and then We are lastly talking nor about an ex Spaceballs member. His we were a bunch who played But that was the birth of the Spaceballs neither about Amiga, handle was Loverbee of together. We grew into a band group Hoffmann. but about something else that Spaceballs. We have a little band which played together for 8 keeps you busy: Music. we call Supercraft, and we play years, the music style was Lars Erik knew somebody who electronica. You can find songs progressive rock. We played Pink played the bass guitar, he was a I am very interested in music – from Supercraft at Floyd and stuff like that, and student, and he had access to a both to produce my own and to myspace.com/supercraft. wrote own tunes as well... training room at the students listen to others. house in Halden, and then it all The Supercraft name comes We were hired to play at the developed. And this guy again In Spaceballs you made music in from a collegue of Gea who is a prom in our first job, when knew a drummer, and then we Protracker. But it is «real music» supersynth fanatic, he said «cool somehing fun happened. I ended were started. In some time we of you really like to do? that you started a synth band. up rigging all the gear, and course we changed a bit on band As a performing artist, I like to You gotta name it Supercraft.» somebody had been touching the members, but the last 3 years we play an instrument, you might And, well, we thought, why not? guitar tuning, so it was tuned in had a drummer named Lars say. I have been playing the :) «fizz key majestice». So, when Andresen, and he runs Sound on guitar for some years now. we was going to play, we had no Sound sound studio in Yeah, from where I sit now, I can What is good is that we make the such thing as monitors, Sarpsborg, and that was no count 7 guitars, of which 5 are music at home, and we produce everything was turned against drawback. We got to train in a electric and 2 are acustic. and make studio recordings at the audience, so we did not hear professional sound studio, but You forgot the Fender home. We don’t depend of any the guitars or the music very well. that was also a disadvantege, as Stratocaster... studio to play anything at all. But we saw people got very well as an advantage, because funny looking faces when we we became perfectionists, we Oh... Yeah, then I guess you enjoy startet playing, and when we taped it all, and practiced so your computer knowledge? listened very carefully, we heard much we just played and played - Yeah, that is the good one, that our backing guitar sounded and played, it was hours and don’t forget! You have 2 of these Yea, when it comes to audio, the totally fu*ked up. But we got it hours of playing. great guitar names in the guitar Mac is unbeatable, whether you alright. We survived. :P Yes, you can tell by listening on history. One of them is the like it or not. Mac has a really top the songs of Hoffmann, it is really Fender Stratocaster, the other is system when it comes to sound. The band name was Texaco good stuff, in fact all the songs the Gibsol Les Paul. Our lead For those who are interested, I Stovner. sounds like very high quality singer, who also plays a guitar in bought an iMac with a 2 Ghz songs. But regarding Hoffmann, the band, has a Gibson. Now I PowerPC CPU, 1,5 GB RAM and Why that name? did you ever make a CD, or was talk about our group Hoffmann. a 150 GB SATA HDD, and on this it mostly live jobs? You can find songs from system we run Logic. In earlier There is a gas station with that We finished about 4-5 songs to Hoffmann at nrk.no/urort days iMagic made Logic, but name. But the name is really present ourselves, among others then Apple bought iMagic, so taken from a radio program on the songs «Rigmor» and I don’t know how to play a now Apple are in fact the P3 with private decetive named «Turbofart». But these are from Gibson. The Fender looks developers of Logic, which is a Texaco Stovner and his female 2003, and we played together all completely different, and has incredible stable program on a colleague Fina Lambertseter. to last year (2006, editors another «feel» when playing. I stable system which Mac OSX is. Towards the end of the time with remark), so this is old stuff. can play a Fender by putting the So now we sit here at my place Texaco Stovner, which also palm of my hand on it, but each and do recordings at the Mac. consisted of Tomas Yoghurt But Thomas, now our train time I play the Gibson the same Other software we use include Andersen btw., The Norwegian leaves Halden in half an hour for way, I end up turning the volume Reason, for making the most of Defense Army took care of the my travel home to Mo i Rana. For down. Totally hopeless for me... It the bodies on the songs, and we band members, it was a little dry the last 2 minutes: What is similiar to owning an Amiga or also use Renoise, a tracker periode in terms of music, and I happened money wise? All you owning a Mac, you can do one or in fact, for some drum loops. And took up a little Amiga tracking talked about regarding you can do the other, but seldom tracking we did learn from the again, up to the point when a Spaceballs, Amiga, Hoffmann both. Amiga once upon a time :D working mate of me asked «I and music is only expenses. Did hear you play the guitar?». That you earn some money? How did You have been into Hoffmann, How did it all start? was Lars Erik Nordgård, the lead you do? who never got any record singer of Hoffmann. Then Lars contract. But now you have a Me and some Amiga friends got Erik and me started a little We got paid for the live jobs in new, exciting project? the idea of starting a band. I had tracker beats that made a Hoffmann, and for several years played the organ a bit when I rhythm, and to start with we did we were a pretty known group in Yes, I have a project with my was little, and another friend not really know what this was Halden that attracted audience

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Then again I gotta say this was/is most for fun. Rather do this than spending watching TV for an evening, you know...

Say hello to people in the music business?

- Hi! Please check out Supercraft on nrk.no/urort, on Reverb Nation and also check out Hoffmann. Rock in Norwegian rules! Keep singing in Norwegian! It is fun! Keep on rockin’, all my friends!

Some links?

Nrk.no/urort. That is the future of Norwegian music! Rising stars! For Supercraft, check out myspace.com/spacecraft.

Thank you very much for your time doing this interview, Thomas Hansen!

For files in 3 parts with this interview, download from: http://garantert.net/useless Interview audio files are in Norwegian language.

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