I'm sorry, but VOICES is AGA only ! Searching... Introduction: First Words First Words I entered a new dimension. I saw a whole new planet. I saw abuse of Technology. I saw people as half machines. The planet was called Earth... A new issue of VOICES has reached your screen. Improvements from the first issue... - Totally new code. Thanks to Razta! - More articles, BUT not enough. - Great music from Trickster. - Cliparts included. - Lots of Fonts(Though they were not made by any of us!) VOICES is no longer an IRIS production (Read News'n'Stuff). But the VOICES crew is still the same with some new persons involved like Daffy of Iris, Trickster and Pris of Noise. After a trip to France it was quite difficult for me to getting started, not that I didn't want to write, but I had only written 1 story and one poem, so I felt tired before beginning. After a slow start in the middle of July it simply got to hot to stay outside, so the heat outside helped me to finnish VOICES. The placement of the Cliparts were mostly ment to be WEIRD! Sorry for our slick humor, but fun is allowed!!! (I like those Cliparts Ed.) Go on and read VOICES and if you like it then keep in mind that VOICES need your support. VOICES is (C)opyrighted 1994 NOISE. PD Companies are NOT allowed to sell this prodution without a written permission from the Main editor. Signed your favourite editor... Bird of Noise Coders Comment Coders Comment: This time the code has been totally redone to incorporate proportional fontsets. This offered some minor complications, but I hope I've eradicated most of them. I'm sorry that the module is packed, but P50 really is the best replay around! If you'd like the module let me know, ok ! To select the article in the titlebar, press return. Things comming in the next issue: Highlighting of the found word in the search function. A "write article to disk" function. A more advanced clipart routine. I'm very sorry that I didn't manage to write the articles I'd promised BIRD, but next time there should be: Book reviews of: Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive Burning Chrome And part one of: The Gernsback Continuum ( all by W.Gibson ) I'm very interested in hearing from people seriously involved in S/M and related subject like, module swapping, coder talking, bug reporting, music swapping. Everybody are welcome. Write to: Razta / Oblivion Lasse Hansen Reventlowsvej 16 5000 Odense C Denmark ( Medmindre du er fisker i Herning ) ( Du musst ja nicht ein fisher von Herning gesterben ) ( Ohne 5 uhr ) Credits Credits for this issue Main Editor: Bird/Noise Co Editor: Ratza/Oblivion Code: Razta/Oblivion Menu Graphics: Illusion/Noise Intro Picture: Guybrush/Iris Intro Logo: Trickster/Noise Cliparts: Silicon/Noise Pris/Noise Music: Trickster/Noise Additional Music: Bird/Noise The Neuromancer was scanned on a PC and converted from Tiff to iff by my dear friend Kefner of Oblivion. Messages Messages By Bird of Noise First of all...Sorry to the different boards who got my Electronic Weed intro, the intro was meant as a joke. I was making a joke of myself and of CyberPunk in general! It was not my intention to do any harm at all! So sorry to you guys who were affected by the low quality of the "INTRO"! I'm looking for official spreaders, so if you are a good, fast and polite swapper then contact me. (Modem traders are also very welcome!) To Macno... I heard from Chris that you are studying in France, well good luck. But Chris also told something else, He told me that you would like to write a story or two for VOICES, just mail your stories as soon as they are finished. To Pearl... Thanks for you contribution to VOICES, I know it's bad that VOICES is an AGA production only, but keep those awesome articles comming.... I will send some of my articles to Dansktoppen very soon! And BTW go get yourself an A-1200!!! NOW!!! To Ulrik La Cour... I read some of your stories and poems, DAMN GOOD! I would really like to use some of your articles and poems!! Contact me, PLEASE!!! To Guybrush... Try harder! It would be nice to receive an article or two for the next issue of VOICES. If any one are interested in supporting VOICES then write me a letter and mail it to this address... Kaare Hansen Rodegaardsvej 79, 1. Th. 5000 Odense C Denmark News News'n'Stuff By Bird of Noise The latest Star Wars news confirm that there will be atleast one movie in 1997 from George Lucas. This new Star Wars movie will take place on the planet Tatoonie before Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker) followed the path of the Dark Side... Rumors say that Harrison Ford will return as Han Solo! A rather new release from William Gibson called Virtual Light should be out in all bookstores around the world. Avantgarde Production is DEAD. WHY? I started up a new group together with SILICON called NOISE. That means that I'm no longer a member of IRIS nor Avantgarde Production. VOICES is now a NOISE production. NOISE consist of... Bird - Organizer, Swap & Music Chrome - Code Illusion - Graphics Pingo - Music Pris - Graphics Silicon - Graphics Trickster - Swap & Music Warner - Swap A few hours after we decided to leave Iris, Warner and Chrome joined the forces of NOISE. Two days later Illusion joined. And as you can see we are in need of coders, so if you think of yourself as a reliable and good coder then contact me (Bird). Daffy from Iris is official spreader of VOICES, So order VOICES from this kewl swapper and get VOICES on the release date. If you would like to join the Official spread team of VOICES then write to me (Bird) and you will get VOICES 1 week before release date. You must have more than 50 contacts to be official spreader of VOICES. READ This ADVERTISEMENTS Ok, first of all. This is NOT to encourage you freaks to send advertisements to VOICES, it's simply to promote our new group NOISE and to get SUPPORT for VOICES. To SUPPORT VOICES write to... BIRD/NOISE Rodegaardsvej 79, 1.th. 5000 Odense C Denmark This address is also for swapping and joining. To get VOICES every second month write to... DAFFY/IRIS Bregnevaenget 7 3050 Humlebaek Denmark -=+=- NOISE -=+=- -Reach Out And Touch Faith- WARNER/NOISE Laerkevej 10, Monsted 8800 Viborg Denmark No Losers! & No beginners! This is the thing I love! Having my own diskmag and do as I want to!!! No, honestly this will not go any further. You will see the same addresses in every issue of VOICES. Sorry, but it have to be this way. Voices #1 VOICES #1 By Bird of Noise On the original disk of VOICES #1 I wrote that I would make a papermag of VOICES, but it got too expensive. Instead I will try to make VOICES bigger and better then I might release a paper version too. If you search three times in a row on - I AM WINTERMUTE - then something weird will happen!! I'm sorry for my poor language in issue #1, but as I stated I will try to make it better, I really hope to grow in my way of writing! The intro logos were wrongly alligned because of an IFF conversion error in the release version. This time an IFF converter has been build in to counter such things. Non AGA machines weren't rejected, they will be now ! ( I wonder what happened if you ran it on a no-AGA machine ? Ed.). The graphics were made during one day, so please accept them as they are. The music consisted of four modules, which I call "Plastic Techno". Not impressive, but very clean in sound and arrangement. There weren't many articles in VOICES #1. But remember, we need support to release VOICES. Yours in CYBERSPACE Bird of Noise Short Stories: Marlon Marlon By Bird of Noise In a future far away from now and in a solar system not known to mankind. Out in space in a Galaxy called Rush... Iny a planet of sand and rocks, big desserts telling us how the landscape looks like. On Iny there is only three big cities: Gersh, Dion and Trios. Gersh is is the capital of Iny, with more than 6 million citizens this is also one of the biggest cities in the entire Galaxy. Gersh is the city where everything is possible. But mostly people take a job as a worker for NAT. NAT is biggest employer in the whole Galaxy, they have their own army with more than 8 million soldiers, 10.000 Spaceships, 100.000 N-10 fighters and with more than 20 million workers NAT is truly a threat to the imperial forces. Marlon stood beside a rock formed as a tree. "I have to live my own life, I have to leave this place in the search for me. I've never known who I am and now I'm 22, what was I before...", Marlon thought for himself as a distant voice interrupted him. "Marlon you better get home before the dark comes and take you", a voice said. Marlon recognized the voice of Levin. As Marlon slowly walked back to his village he kept thinking of himself, who he was? Levin walked directly towards Marlon without taking his eyes from his portable computer. "Levin you better get your nose up or else you might fall...", Marlon said as Levin stumbled. "Ehrm" a noise from Levins throat told Marlon that Levin had swallowed more sand than there is in his shoes. "Get up Levin" , Marlon giggled trying to cover his big smile. "As you know Marlon it is forbidden to stay out for more than four hours each day and you have been out in...Let me see", Levin said as he turned on his computer "9 hours!? That can not be true!", Levin said with a funny voice. "You are not my father Levin, so I do whatever I want to!", said Marlon as he left Levin. Avlon was the name of the village where Marlon lived, a small village with 19 familys and with only one goal in their life, to be alive! "Why is our village so boring, there never happen anything. Never!" , Marlon thought as he walked to the house where old Iram lived. Iram was the only one Marlon could talk with in Avlon, Marlon had so much respect for this old man, he was an adventurer and a journeyman in his young days. Iram knew more than all the citizens in Avlon. Marlon enjoyed listening to the old stories that Iram told, and Marlon knew that Iram was telling the truth, he could feel it!! Marlon was not born in the village of Avlon nor was he adopted by one of the familys in Avlon he had been found in the dessert 8 years ago without any close, water, weapons or PerCo(Personal Code). Marlon knew nothing about his past. The only thing he could remember was his name. Marlon. "Iram...", Marlon said taking a breath of air. "I've asked you about this many times before...", Marlon said as Iram turned around handing out a sword to Marlon. "Many years ago when I was young there was a big war going on in the Galaxy. Together with 2 others, Llewellyn and Saon, I fought against the NAT. The NAT had become more powerful than we ever thought possible. It all ended up as an Galactic revolution against NAT, but at that time there were not many people who were dependant of NAT as there is today", Iram said as he silently took a chair "Take a chair Marlon and listen up", Iram said with a soft voice. "I got something to tell you", Iram said as he grabbed the sword and swung it around as it was a laser knife. "You were born the planet Manoo, you are a Manoo Knight! Your father and mother died during the revolution, but before they died they send you to Master Llewellyn who learned you much. Together with Llewellyns son Rocon and Saons daughter Miriam, you were tought the history of Manoo, the codex of Manoo, the Martial art of Manoo and the thoughts of Manoo", said Iram as he looked right into the eyes of the young man he had known since he was a child. "I will remove your blocker chip and then you will slowly remember the things you learned back on Manoo", Iram said as he waved at his servant robot. "You must find Rocon and Miriam, together with them you might be able to stop the NAT once and for all. But first seek your old master Llewellyn he will teach you what he know", Iram said as he closed his eyes and grabbed the mind blocker out of Marlons head. "I need your help Iram, I can not get to Manoo without...", Marlon said as he screamed instantly for 10 seconds. "Your blocker has been removed, now you better go to Gersh and get a spaceship to Manoo. One Knight will rise and free us all!", Iram said as he left the room. Marlon opened his eyes and saw some clothing on the chair where Iram had been 10 seconds ago. "Where is Iram", Marlon asked himself as removed the clothing and found the sword that Iram had shown him. "All this gear is yours, take it and leave Avlon tonight" A synthetic voice said. Slowly Marlon remembered the stuff he had learned. "One Knight will rise and free us all!", Marlon said to himself as he started the engines on his Defo Scooter. Dressed in a Black robe with black leather boots, a dark pair of jeans and the sword not bigger than 25 cm. hangin on his robe. The Defo Scooter flew over the desserts with the four moons of Iny shinig at him... To be continued... The Run The Run By Bird of Noise A call from the past led Phoenix into the Net. Phoenix knew he was not alone, because somewhere in the inner circles of the Net he knew that Rad and Mouse were still trapped. Phoenix really hated the job, working for others. As soon as he got some sparetime he searched for Rad and Mouse. Rad and Mouse was once working for the government, but their curiosity was too big. They both stole several documents and it was discovered by one tiny mistake, they forgot to hang up after they have been logged onto the Net. Instead of a normal jail they were both logged onto the net constantly for 20 hours a day, but no matter how hard they worked to get through the fence of the inner circle they never succeeded in escaping. "Ok Yani, I'll goin' to log me up on da Net tonight, I'll only be wired to da Net for about 16 hours and you see to that I not stay on any longer, Ok?", Phoenix said looking directly into the face of a man who had got more plastic surgery than Michael Jackson and Cher, together! "Ok, I'll check you out every hour", Yani said without showing any concern for Phoenix at all. Phoenix was wired with the three normal wires to the Xiang computer and beside that he was also wired with a fourth wire which would make him capable of running faster on the Net, He would have the same speed as a military computer. _System checked and ready to take off! A female voice said and Phoenix just heard "off!", and then he was gone. "Phew what a trip, I'll never get used to dat feelin'!", Phoenix said without moving his lips at all. Phoenix met several friends on his journey to the Government city. 1 hour on the Net was equal to 5 hours in real life, so he had all the time he wanted. Phoenix was closing in on Government city and their was no people at all. Everything was controlled by robots and the dangerous Nexus agents. The Nexus agents were capable of removing your mind from real life and lock it to the Net forever! Just like Rad and Mouse! Their physical bodies can only be kept alive in 8 months and no more! Phoenix knew that time was running out he had 1 hour left to find a whole in the grid, but he was watched by the Nexus agents. "Shit!", Phoenix said to himself "I've gotta go now or else I'll end up like a Zombie!". "Bad vibes man", Yani said while helping Phoenix with the wires. "Ya ought to get some sleep man", Yani said without looking at Phoenix. "I know!" Phoenix yelled to Yani and fainted. Phoenix woke up with bad taste in his mouth, he had not eaten in two days. Phoenix slipped into his plstic uniform and walked slowly towards the elevator in the building where he lived. "A good solid breakfast and then of to the tobac store to get some Ice Sticks". After having a huge breakfast Phoenix went strictly to the tobac store without taking notice of what happened right beside him, an old man was shot down and a hooker was getting her face cut by one of her customers. Phoenix went on just thinking of the Government city. Phoenix stopped at the tobac store and went inside to buy his Ice Sticks. "2 packets of Ice Sticks", Phoenix said with a monotonous voice. Ice Sticks are cigarettes with a cold strong taste of ice mixed with ordinary tobacco and leafs from the bamboo! Ice Sticks - Got what you want! said a small commercial hologram on the desk showing ice crystals transforming to cigarettes. "Thanks", Phoenix said as he gave the machine his Credit Clip. "Of to work", Phoenix said as he left the tobac store. "Shit, I'm late! Got to take a taxi!". "Sorry Ol' man!", Phoenix said as he entered his chiefs office. "You're good Phoenix but don't think that you are so good that you can't get away with all your failures forever", a voice said from a Xiang computer standing in the middle of the room. "Know and it won't happen again!", said Phoenix as he left the office. Phoenix sat down beside his work computer. Phoenix left the firm and checked the Net. _System checked and ready to take off! Phoenix went straight to the Government city. "There has to be a way in", Phoenix said repeatingly to himself. The grid expanded at some places but it was closed as fast as it was opened. From the Net he hacked into his employers firm, he stole his employers Id code and all top secret files he could get. Phoenix knew the system better than any other, he had developed his own system in the firm. Phoenix flipped back to the entrance of Government city. "What the hell", Phoenix said as moved towards the guarding Nexus. "TS files for your chiefs" Phoenix, said kindly to the Nexus. "From what firm?", the Nexus said with a synth voice. "Borges" Phoenix said without moving his lips. "Cleared! You may enter", the nexus said fading away and opening the grid. "Too easy or too lucky?", Phoenix asked himself as he got closer to the mainbuilding... To be continued... Forum: Alone With My Computer Alone With My Computer? By Bird of Noise Many people see computer freaks as lonely guys without any friends, this is not true. Together with my friends in the scene we often chat about other things than computers. Ofcourse the main topic is computers and it's fun. We often meet and sit by our computers making different things like drawing, writing, reading, listening, talking, drinking, smoking, coding, composing etc. etc. When I chat with my friends on the phone (Please god help me with my phone bill!) we talk about the scene and life in general, but we never feel like freaks without friends or a normal life. Together with Razta, Kefner, Drain, Boogeyman (all members of Oblivion) and me (Bird) and Pris of Noise. We sit from 20:00 to ??:?? with our computers and have a lot of fun, sometimes we drink beers, go to a disco or we stay home and work hard. (like we do tonight, just to get VOICES finished) Sometimes a certain guy come to my place and act like a BIG fool, his name is The Pride and he is maybe (only maybe) the most crazy and funny dude that I know (Don't think to much of yourself Pride). When Pride shows up it always ends with a BIG laugh (No hard feelings jerk). You can compare our small meetings with small parties, we have our computers as the main thing (not always, lets go to Boogie Bar). Like people who write letters, compose music, read books and create paintings, it is often good to be alone. Though computers often keep your mind trapped and you are unable to do anything else than sit by your computer. this is both good and bad, if you only use your computer as a game machine then it's BAD. If you are creative and work hard then you can feel your mind getting satisfied with the things you do, now this is real good!! To end this short article, I've got nothing else to say than: "Keep in mind that there is a life beside your scene life"... Cyber Media ? Cyber Media? By Bird of Noise Is VOICES yet another commercial magazine? No! I was seeing the "normal" media killing the "subject" CyberPunk with lies and prejustice, so after a few weeks of thinking I decided to start a magazine for CyberPunks, phuturefreaks, Sci-Fi lovers and ordinary people who find new cultures interesting. I made VOICES. I do not see VOICES as a true Cyber Media, It takes too much time and their is no money in it for me only expenses. The true Cyber Media should be a board with a "realtime" magazine which could get new textfiles every day. This would be cool, but to call from a foreign country to read a diskmagazine would be very expensive in itselt, not mentioning the price of a fast modem today! Denmark is not big enough to have such a media, but maybe in the future when a computer + modem are standards in every home. The CDromdrive could also be a new media, if newspapers were released on small cd's it would be possible to have a small system in your pockets, just showing you the absolutely latest news. You could walk into a store where they got latest cd's, buy the cd look at the data and then return it to a store close to you. The price for such a system would be very high, but if the entire computer and media market was interested in this they would probably have released it already, to a sensible price. Radio and Tv are today the fastest media, but you still don't get the latest news. Ok, a chanel like CNN is capable to give you the latest news 24 hours a day, but they can not manage to get local stuff, so it's only interesting if you want world wide news. Radio may be the fastest, but it's boring(in my opinion). You get the news, but no pictures or sound(from the scene). This article was written by your favourite editor and host Bird of Noise. - Note... I encourage you freaks to think and write about the Future Media. Die Krupps DIE KRUPPS LYRICS By Bird of Noise Ok, I know that Die Krupps haven't much to do with CyberPunks, but their lyrics are FAB, just read on... - Language Of Reality - (Music...Engler, Altus) (Lyrics...Dorper) Do you know your ABC survival guide in real life put it down in your dictionary anger, boredom, conformity, danger, exhaustion, fake, greed, hunger, injury, killings, lootings, mad this isn't poetry this is language of reality Do you know your ABC survival guide in real life gotta learn your vocalbury nothing, obscene, pain, queers, rampage, shame, terror, useless, vanity, wounded, x-rated, why? - Fatherland - (Music...Engler, Lietz) (Lyrics...Engler, Dorper) I see houses burning I'm ashamed before you close your eyes denyingly you better ask yourself Did I choose something I could regret did I do something I should regret Is this the place I used to call - FATHERLAND is this the place I used to know - as FATHERLAND the silence is illusion stay awake I hear children crying in fear and pain do cowards ask themselves? Enough Die Krupps for this time. The lyrics was taken from the album called - The Final Option - damn what a GREAT album, if you are into some heavy Techno then don't hesitate buying this stunning album!! Go Get It! Next time we will look on the some lyrics from the pioneers in synth techno DEPECHE MODE! Hackers' Ethics Hackers Ethic By Bird of Noise Inspired by the wonderful zine called - MONDO 2000 A Users Guide -. It would not be a lie if I told you that some things are taken directly from the zine. But my inspiration has to come from somewhere, right? Hackers see themselves as wizards and warriors of tech. BUT there are Dark-Side hackers or crackers, who get access to systems and "Smash-And-Garb". The idea of a "hacker ethic" is perhaps best formulated in Steve Levy's book. "Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution" 1) Acces to computers should be unlimited and total. - YES! YES! YES! 2) All information should be free. - Information must not be kept away from YOU or ME. It's pathetic that some idiots should have so much power to control information! 3) Mistrust Authority - promote decentralization. - Governments have secrets that everyone has the rights to know. Everything is in the hands of a few people. 4) Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position. - All humans should be equal and that is for hackers too! 5) You can create art and beauty on a computer. - YES! Just have a look at this diskmag, NOT! If you see how we create things on the AMIGA-Scene, some of the things are really stunning and must be called art! 6) Computers can change your life for the better. - Computers has given me a new sight on technology and life in general, I often think of the future and that is why I created VOICES. This short article was mainly written to show people what hackers really are. They could call themselves CyberPunks, but do they? If they follow their codex they will not be abandoned by other hackers when they are in the middle of a crisis! if How to Contribute How To Contribute By Bird of Noise VOICES need your support to exist. I'm in need of reliable article writers, you don't have to be a member of the scene just as long as you write in prober English and have something to write about. 1) Stories Must be related to the topics that VOICES deals with CyberPunk, Sci-Fi, The Future etc. etc. Write about horror, romance, crime, drugs, aliens, planets in our solar system, action or whatever you like to write about!! ( English only! ) 2) Articles Articles may NOT be scene related! That means VOICES is NOT an ordinary scene mag, so don't write any scene articles. Write down your thoughts regarding the future or CyberPunk. ( English only! ) 3) Poems Try to do them as understandable as possible. Poems in German, English, Swedish, Norwegian or Danish will be accepted as long as they are written with an acceptable vocabulary. I will get some people from each country to read them before releasing them. 4) Reviews Again, the reviews, may NOT be scene related ! Concentrate on reviewing Music, Books, Movies or otherwise Sci-Fi and CyberPunk related things. ( English only! ) 5) Interviews If you know a person who have a hobby or a job which is interesting, then interview the freak and mail it to VOICES. Still the topic must be related to VOICES. ( English Only! ) 6) Clipart Clipart will gladly be accepted, as long as its in HiRes-Lace-32 colors (black and white), and MAX 304*378 !! Signed your host Bird of Noise I am a Pilot I'm A Pilot By Bird / Noise I'm a pilot in my dreams. I search the peek of adrenaline and >>Fast Forward>> in nightmares and bad dreams. I do it on impulse and instantly; not waiting. Paths into darknees, and paths of light into my inner thoughts of both darkness and light. I search inside my head, a search for me. It's like a long road, I get to the last door, but I never succeed in opening, because as everything else there is a time limit. If I only had a few more seconds... My ROM is unexplored. My RAM is too big to handle, maybe that goes for my ROM too? This little short thing was written while I was on a road in Suisse. It was written very instantly and VERY FAST, because I had to write as soon as my mind started to throw out all these words you've read!!! Kimble KIMBLE THE TRUE STORY. YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING POINTS BEFORE YOU JUDGE KIMBLE. 1) Kimble did offer ATT and MCI information about the scene but he was turned down by the american phonecompanys. 2) Kimble have not and he never will work for any kind of phonecompany. 3) Kimble was working for Microsoft (BSA) and he have sold names and information on just about everyone in the scene to them. 4) If Kimble haven't been on TV and Newsweek with his lame storys I really belive that there wouldn't have been busted as many people so this is a lesson to all you germans, stay away from journalists. I would like to say that I hate messages from little kids going like this KIMBLE SHOULD DIE BECAUSE HE TOLD EVERYTHING TO THE POLICE. Remember that you probaly would do the same if you were in his place and even legends like L.O.D narc all over each other when they got busted. So the basic thing is Kimble is a narc and he or his friends should never be let into the scene again because Kimble only have one friend MONEY. DONE BY REVENGE 94. KIMBLE HAVE TO REPORT TWICE A WEEK TO THE GERMAN POLICE UNTIL HIS TRIAL. - Note By Bird of Noise Latest news on Kimble is that he have been busted for using stolen creditcards, so this time there is no way out for Kimble. Thanks to Silicon for mailing me this info thing and for the news about Kimble. Also a thank to Revenge 94(I don't know you, but anyway...), it's obvious that people have prejustice towards people when they are being selfish, but put yourself in the place of Kimble, what would you do? (Good point you made Revenge 94). On Air On Air By Bird / Noise This text is completely improvised and written during a night alone in front of my computer with some BAD grass and a VERY FINE Rhum knwon as Bacardi!! ; Break into WIRES >> >> >> >> >> TV . set Music . set Computer wired with Brain . set Rave . disconnected Dark . set Play ____\ / There is a world outside my window, a world full of fear... Sometimes alone in my room, inside my head,. I often think of all the countries that don't know of technology. I ask myself: How can it be that a whole country can watch their future pass them by. They don't care, Are they smart or are we STUPID? > BREAK Wow I can feel the grass rotating in my body, the rhum spinning in my head I can feel wire plugged to my brain... In a few minutes I leave you all alone I will go and see Hill Street Blues, Good series in my opinion!! Shit my brain is fucked up!! I feel like walking on a street without any doors! My room is for sure getting bigger or is it my head pumping blood?? Hill street Blues hasn't begun yet, what a bad channel! Oops! Now it comes...Back from the street, GOOD!!! Before I stop for today, I only got a few words to say... I Have a lot of thinking to do. If we forget who we are and we forget to appreciate the world we live in, then don't bothr to live. Goodnight! I will be back in a couple of days!! Not in a couple of days, but today!! Erhm... I smoked too much yesterday, well I will leave you for a few seconds > Break Music . set > Vangelis . Conquest For Paradise > Break It's damn hot outside and I've go to write articles for VOICES! Yesterday Kefner and Thomas was here, we drank and talked. Kefner coded on a game. Daffy/Iris, Pride/Stellar, Drain-Kefner-Razta/Oblivion and I will thursday 14/7 have a small meeting where we will play some soccer! GREAT! And maybe we will drink a little too... > Music . set > TV2 . Verdens Lykkeligste Mand Well, I will go outside and enjoy the sun! Star Wars Star Wars - The Dark Side By Bird of Noise Taken from the Star Wars magazine (Dark Horse comics). As a big Star Wars fan myself, I would like to give the opportunity to other fans to follow my path to the Dark Side where we will discover new things... If you haven't read the first article then it will be hard to understand what this is all about. So go get the first issue of VOICES! NOW... A JEDI'S STRENGTH FLOWS FROM THE FORCE "My ally is the Force. And a powerfull ally it is. Life creates it and makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminious beings are we...not this crude matter." A Jedi's Lightsabre is a wonderful weapon, and in the hands of a fully-trained Jedi Knight, it is even a match for the technology of modern warfare. Using only a lightsabre, Luke Skywalker was able to deflect the cannonfire of an AT-AT Imperial Walker back on itself, disabling the Walker. But as they grew older, and wiser, the greatest Jedi - beings like Master Yoda - seldom, if ever, were known to use the lightsabre. Many a young Jedi has asked his Master about this. And the old masters were quick to respond: "Because a Jedis's strength - all his strength - flows from the Force. And the more a Jedi learns to use the Force, the more he joins himself to that luminosity that is the very nature and substance of the Force." Gently, persistently, Master Yoda tried to move Luke through the rigours of physical combat to higher the levels of jedi training. But Luke, impetuous, willful, full of youthful hunger for action, never seemed to hear what Yoda tried to tell him. He has paid a great price for his heedlessness. But from the consequences of experience, he has also learned a great lesson. Here at last, at the terrible moment when he and Leia confront the trammeled power of the most sinister agent of the Dark Side, Luke is compelted to find and take hold of those resources that were known by Master Yoda...and by the greatest Jedi of old. Enough Star Wars for this time. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much I did when I first read the article. More Dark Side facts comming up in the next issue of VOICES... The First Time First Time By Bird of Noise Just before I released VOICES issue #1, I was on a board for the first time in my life and it was an experience I'll never forget. Here is my story... I got a lot of help from one of my friends in Iris called Warner, he told me everything. Together with Kefner I started out very optimistic, because we were told to enter a board called Static Chaos, which had a great sysop called Json. As we were calling from a PC with a 9600 baud modem and some software lacking Zmodem protocol, we had many problems and Json helped us as much as he could, but still, it was the program which didn't fit the boar. Finally we found a great program and we started to upload. We even chatted with some guys on the net. GREAT! After being logged on to Static Chaos we decided to join some other boards, but as you need to be cleared to get access to boards, we only got permission to join one other board, Nonstop Up'n'Down. There we went voice with the sysop and he permitted us to upload VOICES and ofcourse to download whatever we liked! We continued to 6.00am and both Kefner and I liked it very much. I was more interested in chatting with people and dicovering new things than uploading and downloadin, but as other people I also like to get new stuff, so I decided to download different textfiles and utils. Approx. 1 week after we entered several other boards, and now we knew exactly what to do and we were much faster in finding the right conferences. So we uploaded, looked in the different conferences, and went from board to board. Well, since Kefner and I don't have alot of money or calling cards we could only call danish boards, DAMN! We had one BIG problem the last time we were on a board, we could not LHA pack our intro, so we decided to upload as it was, and to all you sysops who got an intro from IRIS called "ELECTRONIC WEED", SORRY! But we could not LHA pack the intro (As stated before). If I had more money I would definately buy a modem and become either a modem trader or a sysop. It's a great feeling to communicate through computers because there are many different people you can meet, so many different things to read and A LOT of stuff to download!!! Move into the REAL future and buy a modem!!! When I See When I See By Bird of Noise A poem to give you my point of view concerning the world we all live in... Grey masses gather in grey buildings. People with power many with none. A life without warmth. Places to see, but not to enter. To speak, To hear and To lie. No thoughts allowed. The media thinking for us. People like rats. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY... Below the surface there is more. Things are uncertain. It's like a Construction set. When I see the World we live in, I wish I could change it to the better, but how? I see a World full of nothing. The End: Epilogue Epilogue This is the very end of the second issue of VOICES. I hope you enjoyed reading the articles as much as I did when wrote them. Most of the articles was written during a period of one month and Did not feel any pressure at all. In the first issue of VOICES I promised you an interview with a TRUE CyberPunker, but due to some problems I did not manage to get this interview. I will ofcourse do my best to get this interview for the next issue of VOICES, but Max M. is very hard to reach, so please forgive me if I don't manage to get it. Once again SORRY! A lot of my inspiration I've got from.... Neuromancer, My girlfriend, Mondo2000, Life in itself, politicians, Grass, whiskey Rum Teq Gin Beer wine baileys, Diskmagazines, France and the summer. It has been hard the past two weeks, because with 28 c° in the day time and 20 c° in the evening it has been VERY HOT. My respect and regards must go to Silicon, Illusion, Trickster, Pris, Pingo, Warner, Chrome, Razta, Drain, Boogeyman, Kefner, Pearl, Guybrush, Ulrik La Cour, Sascha, Mr.King, Al Bundy, The Pride, Diesel, Snuffy, James Dean (RIP), Nikolaj, Daffy, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Tuborg, George Lucas, Vangelis, my brothers, Rioja districts in Spain, and to the rest of my friends around the world. Remember to support VOICES if you find it enjoyable. As stated before, you don't have the same opinions as me or write the same things as I do. VOICES #3 will hopefully feature... - An Interview with Ulrik La Cour. - An Interview with a TRUE Star Wars freak. - Cliparts. - Book reviews. - Movie reviews. And lots of stories, articles and poems. VOICES #3 will hit your screen in approx. 2 months and don't forget to support VOICES! Your host and editor Bird of Noise