Hi WayneK, as you have probably noticed n00w was not one of my handles on the scene, and probably WayneK was not yours. If you start by telling me which groups you were a member of and which handles you used, there’s a chance I will remind if our paths crossed during the scene. If you just care and you don’t want to reveal that publicly, send me an e-mail: myname_is_bond[at]yahoo.fr.
Also in the meantime I’ve read your question about Hoan and the answer by Foxy. It seems obvious that Foxy did not know Hoan personally. Although I never worked with him directly, I worked with other people who did, and I did know him as we met several times, generally in cordial and respectful conditions. In my post, the part about Aces, I mention Obi Wan / Quartex and he was the same person. Hoan was not as bad as a cracker as Foxy said, but yes some people gave him that reputation of lazyness. Sure he did not succeed in everything, but who did? Also when I said I ordered a fucktro to DMX / Phoenix against Aces and Diabolics, then Dr Soft and Hoan came to my place and were left outside, I was surprised to see that Hoan was there as I had nothing against him. The only one I wanted to fuck was Dr Soft, because at a CBC copy party he was just too arrogant and he talked to me very badly.
But the true story about Hoan you want to read is that when he was in Quartex, he was working at AMIE, a Paris-based shop specialized in Amiga hardware and software/games. It’s the shop where I bought my first Amiga 1000 (a collector signed by Jay Miner, unfortunately later seized by the cops). So, for Hoan, that was one of the reasons Quartex released so much cracks in the old times. Hoan received the games directly at the shop, and he had an Amiga readily to crack them onsite. That eliminated the problems of the original supplier, transport times, go and see the cracker or find a way (warp/modem, fedex or else) to send him the original, and in case this one was fucked up (as in the story told by Foxy about Gaston), there was always another original in the stocks.
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>could also be a guy called Laurent(megaforce) who did this a couple times… 😉
Probably Nasty Boy, organizer of Megaforce France.
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> I would love to also read about PaRaDoX, Quartex, Anthrox, PRESTiGE, Crystal and especially Betrayal, so if there is anyone
> that used to be in those groups back in the day, it would be awesome if you could take us (or me at least!) on a “behind the
> scenes” whirlwind tour of the past.
I have plenty of anecdotes about Quartex and Paradox as I was very involved – so please don’t hesitate to ask questions, I have a few about Crystal, and for Prestige only what Blackbird told me – I had already retired when they were born. I can’t say anything about Anthrox (below the radar for me), and Betrayal has been very short-living – a one-crack group which released mostly utilities and only some trainers, as far as I know.