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*   Demo:   Iron Maiden and Samurai   Type:    Amstrad CPC Emulator DSK File  *
*   Author: Odiesoft                  Webpage: http://www.odiesoft.de         *
*   Size:   1 * 194816 Bytes          Date:    18. February 2003              *
*   File:   Odiesoft Demos - Iron Maiden and Samurai (1989).dsk               *
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Title: Iron Maiden and Samurai Intro
Year:  1989


Before I became a demo and game programmer I wanted to become famous by cracking
games and distributing them with my name attached to them. Together with a
friend of mine I wanted to form a cracking team. Since he was a big fan of the
rock group "Iron Maiden" he chose this name as his cracker alias.

At first I called myself "Ninja", but when one of my friends had figured out
that this "Ninja", who always put small BASIC intros in front of all the games
that I had on my discs, has to be me I changed my alias into "Samurai". This
friend of mine (he called himself "Phantom") also found out what my new alias
was, but at that time I didn't care anymore.

Well "Iron Maiden" wasn't much of a programmer. He was more a player and
supplier of software. So it was up to me to crack games and program intros to
demonstrate that we had cracked the copy protection. So I wrote this intro,
which was meant to be the introduction for our first cracked game.

The Intro is just a stupid scroller with our aliases painted in the center of
the screen. But at that time in my career this was quite an achievement! I still
used mostly system calls to define colors and set the mode, but all in all I was
really happy with that (nowadays crappy) little program.

Since I still had some time left I also included a little joke: when the user
didn't press the Space bar to continue the CPC would show a Amiga like "Guru
Meditation" message and then have the screen flash like crazy. I found the
"press left mouse button" part of the message especially funny since the CPC
didn't have a mouse.

In the end "Iron Maiden" and I never cracked a game together. (I cracked some
later, but that's a different story). So this Iron Maiden and Samurai Intro was
never released. But it's still noteworthy as being my first intro ever!


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* If you had to pay for this, you've been ripped off!                         *
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