Interview
Handle: MWS -/- Radwar
How did you come up with your alias ?
Making Weird Sex
City / Country:
Heinsberg/Germany
Born year:
1968
What was your first computer, and when did you get it?
C64 for Christmas 1982
How did you get into the scene and what groups have you been a member of ?
I went to school in cologne/germany and one of my class mates was FLASH. We did some programming together with simon's basic and these were the first steps into programming.
In 1984 I moved to Heinsberg where i met Arnd (AVH) and the rest of todays RADWAR gang. We started a (re)cracking group called DKS and did our first steps in reading protected ASM code with a monitor program called HES-Mon. My first real crack was G.I. Joe form EPYX. We got the nibbled copy from some guys from the netherlands (Peter & Marcel from FAC). But what a pity, the Section 8 Version of the game was already spread. After this learning period Henning (FLASH) visited me in Heinsberg and i went with him back for holiday to Cologne. In these days we formed the FLASH CRACKING GROUP and did our first crack 'Hyper Sports'. A lot of stuff followed and the Flash Cracking Group got more and more members.
Flash, Duke (Factor 5), IRATA, MR.X, TMC, CFB, EDE, AVH, TC, Nonstop Cracker, Peter & Marcel, ....
Then it was time to build something new and 3 groups where formed out of the FCG:
RADWAR
FLASH
FEDERATION AGAINST COPYRIGHT (FAC) ... haha i invented this name Yep this is the short story of RADWAR's live ... Read all about it and more at WWW.RADWAR.COM
What was the proudest moment in your career ?
Sorry, proud is the wrong word ... but I was happy to be a 16 year old boy with so many friends all over the globe. For Example NEWLOOK came down from Norway for holiday.
A sorry again ... there was a day when we all at FCG where proud to present the first Border Sprites on the C64 with Ballblazer Music in 1985 at the Commodore Show in Frankfurt ... Even the Amiga developers at the Commodore Stand were really impressed.
For what specific reason(s) do you think that you are remembered ?
For being face to face with the software hunter GRAVENREUTH on german TV, joking at him so that the whole nation hat to laugh about it ... aaahhh Mr. Gravenreuth, may I INTERRUPT ya ...
What would you like to be remembered for ?
For organizing the lousiest parties around the globe
What made you stop the scene activity ? (and do you remember when?)
Look at todays scene and ya know it. Ya better stop at the top of ya carrier...
Thinking back on the good old days, is there anything you regret?
Yes, there is one thing that killed the 'Spirit of the SCENE' .... it was the day when money came to town and the war between groups began. This made us and others stop ... the spirit died
What was your favorite
GAME(S)
Beach Head and Hawkeye
DEMO(S)
Thrust Concert from Stoat & Tim
PROGRAMMER(S) (OR PROGRAMMING TEAM(S))
Mario van Zeist, Flash, White/Judges and Manfred Trenz
CRACKER(S) (OR CRACKING GROUP(S))
Mr.Z, Mr. Zero Page, Janitor, The Omega Man and Gollum
OVERALL GROUPS :
TRIAD
COMPOSER(S)
Jeroen Tel
BEST COMPOSED TRACK(S)
Alloyrun and Cybernoid
BEST GRAPHICS
all the BWB artists
EVENT(S) (E.G. COPYPARTY)
I loved the parties in Denmark (Danish Gold) and some of ours memory(s) I have lot's of it ... i rather go writing a book
DRINK ?
Wine
What are you doing nowadays ?
Developing software for hospitals and other medical crap
What are you doing on your spare time?
Listening to Depeche Mode and love my girl friend
Is there anything you'd like to say to the public (read: admires)
My the 'Spirit of the SCENE' come back some day
What is the meaning of life?
When i'll find out i'll tell you.