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	       PRiMAG - The Offical Magazine Of The PRiMAL Order            

				 STAFF

		   Ecthelion ......... Editor-In-Cheif
		   Black Rain ........ Senior Writer
		   Retribution ....... Writer / Literature Consultant
		   The Phantom Lord .. Technical Consultant
		   Zapper ............ Story Writer
		   Octopus ........... Columnist

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	                      Table Of Contents               
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	           I. Welcome / First Issue Greeting          
	          II. Articles                                
	               i. Shading Techniques for VGA/RIP      
	              ii. A Semi-Interview with The Phantom   
	                 Lord                                     
	            iii. What happened to ACiD                
	             iv. Octopus Column                         
	               v. What If?                              
	          III. 101                                    
	         IV. News Departments                         
	               i. VGA/RIP News                        
	              ii. ANSi News                           
	             iii. Programming News                    
	              iv. PDRC News                           
	               v. Cracking News                       
	              vi. PRiMALNET News                      
	             vii. Miscellaneous News                  
	          V. The Story Section                        
	         VI. Poetry By The Beholder [Arghh :)]        
	        VII. TPO-WARDS For This Issue                 
	       VIII. SENIOR STAFF SECTION                     
	         IX. ADS                                      
	       APPENDIX - MEMBERS / SITES / CONTACTS / GREETS 
	      
		
PRiMAG - 02/94

I. Welcome
	
	Howdy folks! Welcome to the first issue of TPO's PRiMAG. In this 
issue, you will find many insightful articles having to do with art,
programming, and the like. Various techniques, and even whole sources are  
released, for your benefit. 
	This magazine is written to explain the current scene, and rate 
PRiMAL's position in it. We might not seem to be an authority, but hey -
as PWA says - We are "A group that gives slightly less then a fuck!".
	On the art scene, in this issue, we explore the avenue of shading 
techniques in VGA as well as RIP. These hints are given by experienced 
artists who have been drawing for a while. 
	In the semi-interview with TPL, I try to get him to tell us what it
takes to be a good coder, but as always, it ends up as a discussion of his
upcoming viewer, which he promises will wipe up the ACiDviewer.
	In the 101 section, TPL gives us some hints on how to make an ANSi 
art viewer, along with some helpful routines. Still, he cant get his mind
off viewers!
	We will usually have a "101" section, teaching you how to do something.
It might be writing a BBS Software, or maybe rolling a joint correctly, but
we'll definately have SOMETHING for you. 
	On the fast-breaking news front, the Co-Ordinators for each section 
have put together some info that the respective artists should have. 
	On the VGA/RIP front is me (Ecthelion). There are some things I just
wanted all to know, and of course lots of info on the new PRiMAL RIP 
department. 
	Writing the ANSi news is Morty. He is also senior staff, so you 
better listen. I'm sure he will come up with something creative. I dont know
mabye he wont but it's his department so we'll see (hehe). 
	On the programming scene is The Phantom Lord. Considering there are 
only a handful of programmers in PRiMAL, I dont know what he will write about,
there's not much news there anyway, but I'm sure if he's desperate he can come
up with something, weather it pertains to the subject or not, I can't 
guarantee.
	In miscellanous news, is all the announcements that any PRiMAL member
feel should be said here. These messages are screened, most of the time when 
we arent high, but dont blame us if there is something wrong.
	In the story section, Zapper tells us of members of the scene, in
a funny, demented, sick way.
	The TPO-WARDS are PRiMAL awards. These are for members WITHIN the
group. Things like "Most Prolific Artist This Month", etc. Sorry guys,
all decisions are final, but any donations will be looked upon favorably.
	The Senior Staff section is for Mortacan, Vigilante, and White Knight.
We might have called it The Editorial Section, but none of them type in good
enough english for that. :)
	This section is just for them to say whatever they want, since they 
are in charge. You can listen if you choose.
						   -Ecthelion (Editor)

II. Articles

	i. VGA/RIP Shading Techniques
	
	Did you ever see a VGA that has a nice shape or face, but just 
looks silly? Well its not necessarily because of bad artistry. Shading is 
very hard, and its difficult to know how and where to shade. I'll try to give
you some tips here.

	Tips
	~~~~
	1. If you are drawing a person or an animal, or anything that has a
face, hand, or any other body part, make sure to shade it. There are two ways
of doing this. 
	If you use the comical approach, it requires two colors. What
you do is you make the arm/leg/genital, and fill it in with a skin tone (what
color you pick is entirely up to you). After that, take a darker color of 
the same tone and make shadows. For instance, if you draw an arm and the 
light is coming from above, shade the bottom half (the half facing away) of 
the arm with the darker color. Shadows are generally not jagged, so try to
make it as smooth as possible. 
	The other way is the "real person" shade. This requires at least 8 or
9 shades of a color. What you should do is make the shape of the  
arm/leg/genital in the darkest shade o fthe color, and then find "the shiny
spot". In other words, find the spot that would be most likely to reflect. 
Such places would be: an arm muscle, a bicep, a peck, a chest muscle, a nose,
buns/abs of steel, tits, knuckles, a penis head, a knee, cheeks, etc. Make 
sure to put a small spot of the light color on these spots, and then keep
outlining in darker colors until you get to the edge of the arm/leg/genital,
or until you get to the darkest color. 

	2. Make sure your shadows are consistent. One of the biggest problems 
I find in bad VGA's is the shading is inconsistent. If you make an object 
with the light coming from the left, make sure everything else has light 
coming from the left. If you fail to do this it looks HORRIBLE. If you have
a light source in the middle of something, make sure that the objects on the
right of it have light coming from the left, and vice-versa.

	3. Even equals suck. That's basically the rule with anything natural.
If you draw a plant or person or animal, and the shading id even, it looks 
like a robot. Do things in real life have even shades? Of course not. So why
make it that way. Add some jagged areas, dont make a circle around another
circle etc. For instance if you are shading a circle from dark to light, dont
make one light circle, then a darker one just around it - be creative, and 
make some funky, round, spots that come off it. If you do this it will look
immensely better.
	Although this technique is good for natural things, for the most part
it does not apply to lettering. If you have a drawn font, filled in with a 
cool design, it looks better even. Unless you are making a font made of rocks
or something like that, this should apply.

	4. Cool fonts are different. If you want to make good lettering, 
unless its for board stats or your sig, dont use the fonts the drawing program
comes with. I can tell you how many VGA's I've looked at where the main pic 
was a Deluxe Paint Animator font. This looks horrible. Try making a font 
filled with a gradient. Or one of my favorites os to make a big hollow font
and put something pertaining to the name of the board or group inside. For
instance: if you were doing an add for Pirates With Attitudes, youd make a 
big PWA, and make a pirate ship on water inside (sorry I already started 
drawing it so dont even think about doin it). Try to make your font stand out.

	RIPs are fairly new and not many groups have gotten into them yet. 
All I can say is to make sure you have a least three shades of every color 
you use, and try to smear (put dots of one color into the next darker/lighter
one) everthing by hand. A great program for drawing them is RIPAINT.
						  
						  -Ecthelion (Editor)


	ii. Time with TPL
	
	Alot of people have questions about what it atkes to become a good 
coder. Time, effort, or what is it.... well we'll find out! 
	I spoke with PRiMAL's head coder The Phantom Lord, and heres what he
had to say:

	Q: How long have you been coding?
	A: Lets see....  I have to figure this out one second......
	since I was eight years old.

	Q: When did you start programming in PASCAL?
	A: When I was 12.

	Q: When did you start coding with groups?
	A: I coded for a small group when I lived in Vermont.

	Q: What was your first group project?
	A: Writing an Application Generator.

	Q: When did you join PRiMAL?
	A: January 22, 1994 at 6:42 pm, eastern standard time. Or at least
thats what the date on my PRiMAL directory is.

	Q: What was your first program for PRiMAL?
	A: The first was the APK viewer. Although people didn't like the APK
format, I thought it was a pretty good first stab at programming for PRiMAL.

	Q: What are you currently working on?
	A: A new art viewer. The new one should be able to view ANSis, RiPs,
and mabye even GiFs, and I think it will kick the ACiD viewer's butt! [The
Phantom Lord requested I put a smiley face here] :)

	Q: When do you plan to release this?
	A: As always, i work on my programs at a pace that is comfortable
for me. Jumping between programming, exercise, hangin' out, and sex.

	Q: Do you plan to stay with PRiMAL?
	A: I think a good coding department spiffs up any group's image,
as well as providing quality releases. PRiMAL members definately work closely
and personally, a trait not found in many large groups. I really have no
plans for leaving.

	Q: What do you think of PRiMAL's position in the art scene?
	A: Although PRiMAL is not as recognized as some of the larger groups,
I think the talent is most definately there.

	As you can see, it takes alot to be a good coder. Well mabye you 
didnt get that impression from this article, in fact, neither did I. Well 
all I got was that the upcoming viewer is going to be awesome. Whats new? :)

						  -Ecthelion (Editor)

iii. What Happened To ACiD


     I am not very into the art scene,  but I read StormWatch, Federation and 
CyberCrime Network which are art oriented networks, periodically.  Today 
I read some very interesting articles about the members in ACiD that left for 
other groups.  It took my attention because one of the main characters in 
this incident is in my area code (516). He is Kronos,  who has been having 
some major disputes with plenty of people on CCi, StormWatch, Federation 
and even in his own group - ACiD.
     Everything starts when Quasar [ACiD], Kronos and some members of ACiD
start bitching at another ACiD member Glenn Danzig about how bad he was at
drawing.  Some artists said this has been going on for a while.  Glenn
Danzig was treated real bad in his group.  If you happen to read those
art oriented nets,  you will see they rag everywhere.  Finally Glenn
Danzig quit ACiD for iCE and Kronos was possibly under pressure so 
he left for Gothic.
     Soon after Glenn Danzig joined iCE he censured Kronos publicaly.  He 
called Kronos a "Hypocritical" person.  Glenn said "I love being in iCE,
it seems that there are less assholes in iCE than in ACiD".  
     There is a rumour saying that when Glenn Danzig left ACiD he also brought 
Crewl Blade with him.  On 2/20/93,  Crewl Blade elucidated this on Federation
" Regarding ansi scene:
    Some of you may have heard that I am an official iCE member.. but I am not..
  for the last two days I was deciding whether to go with iCE or ACiD.  after 
  weighing the Pros and cons I decided to stick with my group. "
     That is about it.  Kronos is now in Gothic, Glenn Danzig now in iCE while
Crewl Blade stays with ACiD.  I have no bias toward any of the people involved
in this incident.  I wish Kronos good luck in Gothic and continue doing 
CRiTiC.

						  -Black Rain [Senior Writer]
				      
							
iv. Octopus Column
	 
	This is the Octopus column. Octopus, one of our columnists, presents
his views on a subject. Keep in mind that these views are not necessarily the
views held by PRiMAG.

						  -Ecthelion (Editor)

 A black man and a white man sit at a bar.

 The white man has been rasied to look down upon the black man as
  a lesser being.
 The black man has been raised to believe all white men think
  this way.

 The white man has, through the years, called black men
  "niggers" for no reason other than they are black.
 The black man has been called "nigger" for no reason other than
  he is black.

 Both sit,contempuous of one another because of their upbringing.
  They do not speak to one another.
  One will not give the other a chance.

 There is a football game on the television.
  Both teams desperate for a win.
  The score locked at zero to zero for what has seemed an eternity.
  Time is running out.
  
 The ball is snapped.
  The Quarterback drops back to pass.
  The Blitz is coming.
  The cornerback slips at the line and the wide reciever is left 
  running alone down a wide open field 
  with nothing between him and the goalline.

 The quarterback spots his man and fires the ball.
  The linebacker leaps.
  The ball is tipped.
  It rises up into the air then falls into the hands of the
    once-fallen cornerback who streaks to the endzone.
  Touchdown.
  
 Time expires.
  The home team wins in dramatic fashion.

 The white man and the black man leap from their stools, arms
  raised in Victiory.
    
 They look at one another, and for a brief moment a common
  bond makes both forget years of learned behavior 
  and in celibration slap their hands and enjoy the glory 
  of the moment.
    
 Afterwards they speak of the game, and its final play.
  Then of football in general.
  Then of other sports.
  Soon they find they share many common interests,and at the
   end of the night shake hands as they part company.

  Each leaves thinking to himself " maybe all white/black people
   arent so bad after all"

 Maybe they will have a hard time overcoming the beliefs that
  have been drilled into them since they were young children.

 But at least its a start.

						  -Octopus [Columnist]

	v. What If?


What if all the there was peace in the pirate world...
what if there were no such things as DUPES
what if there were no such thing as governments.
what if there were no such thing as LAMERS
what if there was no such thing as INTERSTATE-FRAUD.
what if the FBI was For BbsIng.
what if MODEMS were replaced by a NETWORK system.
what if every programmer game there software to every user.
what if SPA stood for SOFTWARE PLEASE ASSHOLE
what if CC's were givin to users by the companies.
what if there was no such thing as a LD call.
what if there was no such thing as a INTERNATIONAL CALL.
what if there was such a thing as a flawless BBS software.
what if there was NO BBS software.
what if there was no such things as BLAKLISTING
what if there was no such things like P/C/H
what if there was no phone
what if there was no such invention of a phone.
what if you got paid for every call you make by the phone company
what if PIRATING was actually considered GOOD.
what if there was no such things as a NUPs
what if there was no such things as a DISCLAIMERs
what if there was no such things like NUVs
what if there was no such things as NUKERs
what if there was no such things like virii
what if the GOVERNMENT stayed out of the PIRATE WORLD
what if the GOVERNMENT helped out the PIRATE WORLD
what if AT&T gave a 70% off to those who pirate software
what if AT&T just gave us there mainframe network
what if MCI stood for More Codes Indefinatly
what if PacBell hacked AT&T
what if AT&T hacked PacBell
what if modeming considered using video while transfering files
what if there was 99.9% compression for zip files
what if there was no such thing as DOS
what if there was no such thing like LANTASTIC/NOVELL
what if 586 systems costs were like buying a 86SX system now
what if there was an UNLIMITED amount of colors and sounds
what if CC consisted of only 1 digit or letter instead of 13-200
what if one telephone line could support 10 nodes
what if one telephone line could support unlimited nodes
what if a redbox could make a payphone give you money
what if there was no such things like ENCRYPTION
what if there was no such things like DECRYPTION
what if PERFECT drives were made without any cluster FUCKIN errors
what if there was such a thing like a 1/2 10000 gig HD with 1ms for 1$
what if RAM costs $.50 for 100 Megs 60ns
what if EA/ORIGIN/MICROSOFT/MICROPROSE/and everyone else merged
what if all the companies folded
what if there was no such thing as VOICE ACTIVATION CCs
what if a user hacked an account and then got KILLED from doing so 
what if a ACCOUNT hacked a USER 
what if there was only one language
what if there was never such a thing like COURTS
what if there was no such thing as a terminal
what if HS-LINK always gave you 10000CPS at 1200 baud rate
what if HS-LINK BI Transfer gave you 20000CPS at 1200 baud rate
what if E-mail could be written by mentally thinking of the letter
what if you could call someone with your mind 
what if you knew everything
what if this file never existed
what if everyone was able to be a part of a software company

I think this world would be a better one!
						  -Pheonix Claw

III. 101
	This issue's 101 is with The Phantom Lord, one of PRiMAL's top coders.
He will share with you some helpful hints on making an application generator.
   
						  -Ecthelion (Editor)

      There have been alot of good questions in the PRiMALnet Coding base, as
well as a few other nets, about the workings behind a viewer.  Graphics and
coding are subjects that haven't mixed in the elite scene until relatively
recently, and now the technology is advancing rapidly.

     There does, however, remain alot of mistique surrounding graphics coding,
especially the creation of advanced art viewing programs, exemplified by ACiD's
ACiDVIEW and iCE's KrystalView.

     Making your screens first is something that I've been scrutinized for,
however I find it very helpful.  Making prototype screens in TheDraw helps you
to lay out the functionality of your art viewer.  Right there, you have the
position of everything on the screen, the definition of your function keys, and
the like.

     No matter what language you're programming in, another helpful aide is a
book or textfile summarizing interrupts.  Assembler is the fastest and most
efficient way to do anything (no matter how monotonous it is to write), and
most new compilers will let you include bits of assembler in your program.

     The routines for viewing an ANSi are perhaps the easiest to write,
although advanced features such as backscroll become more complex.  You can let
the ANSi.SYS driver take care of ANSi viewing for you, in fact.

	  Assign(F,ANSiFileName);      { initialize file variable }
	  {$I-}                        { turn off I/O checking }
	  Reset(F);                    { open the file }
	  Close(F);                    { close the file }
	  {$I+}                        { turn I/O checking back on }
	  if IOResult=0                { was the file openable? }
	    then                       { if so... }
	      BEGIN
		Reset(F);              { open the file }
		while not EOF(F)       { while you're not at the end, }
		  BEGIN
		    Read(F,Ch);        { read a character }
		    asm
		      MOV AL,Ch        { put character in AL register }
		      INT $29          { fast character IO to CONsole! }
		    END;
		  END;
		Close(F);              { close the file }
		Key := ReadKey;        { wait for keypress }
	      END
	    else                       { ...if not... }
	      WriteLn('READ ERROR!');  { warn the user }

     INT 29 sends a character (in AL) to the CON: device.  If you have ANSi
installed, I/O for the CON: device is handled by ANSi.SYS.  This is the fastest
way to output an ANSi to the screen.

     Backscroll gets a little more interesting, and if you want to do it in any
reasonable amount of time, you'll need to use quite a bit of assembler.  What
you want is the entire ANSi stored in an array of lines.  The best way to do it
is to watch the bottom line of the screen (25) as it's being written.  When the
whole screen scrolls up, this line will be blank.  So...

     function CheckScroll:Boolean;
       label
	 Check,LoopDone,Same,Done;
       var
	 VideoSeg:Word;                        { text screen memory segment }
	 FirstChar:Word;                       { 1st character of line 25 }
	 xPos:Word;                            { x position along line 25 }
	 Scrolled:Boolean;                     { did the screen just scroll }
       BEGIN
	 VideoSeg := $B800;                    { you'll want to detect this }
	 FirstChar := MemW[$VideoSeg:160*24];  { 1st character of line 25 }
	 xPos := 0;
	 asm
	   Check:                              { : start of Check loop }
	   MOV xPos,xPos+2                     { ! increase xPos by 2 }
	   CMP xPos,162                        { ? is xPos 162 }
	   JE  LoopDone                        { > if so, go to LoopDone }
	   CMP MemW[VideoSeg:(160*24)+xPos],   { ? if not, does the cur. char }
				   FirstChar   {   = the first character? }
	   JE  Check                           { > if so, go to Check again }
	   LoopDone:                           { : if not, the loop is done }
	   CMP xPos,162                        { ? did xPos hit 162? }
	   JE  Same                            { > if it did, go to Same }
	   MOV Scrolled,0                      { ! if not, Scrolled=FALSE(0) }
	   JMP Done                            { ! and jump to Done }
	   Same:                               { : but if it did }
	   MOV Scrolled,1                      { ! Scrolled=TRUE(1) }
	   Done:                               { : voila! }
	 END;
	 CheckScroll := Scrolled;              { return function result }
       END;

     I'm sure this is buggy as hell, but you get the idea.  You want to check
this function every time a character is written to the screen (but not every
time you write a character to CON:).  If it comes back true, then the screen
just scrolled, and you should capture the line on the top of the screen.  Then
all you need to do is write routines to show 25-line portions of this array at
a time, allowing the user to scroll up and down.

     As always, I'll answer any decient question in the PRiMALnet Coding
message base.  I hope this has shed a little light on the subject of writing
code to display ANSi's, and you are free to do whatever you want with these
routines.  happy kodin- l8r
						  -The Phantom Lord
						  [Technical Consultant]
IV. News Departments

	i. VGA/RIP News 
	In the February PAK, we displayed some pretty prolific talent. We had
eleven VGAs! Thats right eleven. I know this is pale in comparison to some 
other groups, but we dont have many members to work with - give us some slack.
I think this next month will prove to be very profitable, but well have to 
wait and see.
	As for requests, were takin 'em. I cant say we've had many requests,
or even any, but c'mon guys! We'll take anything be it the "Peice Of Shits",
or Almighty God himself. We have nor prefrences.
	Anyway on with the big new. As you've probably noticed, iCE, ACiD, and
a few other groups have been exprimenting with a RIP department. So guess 
what!? Yup we got one too now.... Keep those requests comin! Ha!
	Also anyone who is interested in drawing RIPs for PRiMAL, or drawing
anything else for that matter, if you are decent contact me!
	Well you PRiMAL VGA guys keep up the good work! (Outlaw Too)
						   
						  -Ecthelion (Editor)
						   
	ii. ANSi News 
	
	Well on the ANSi front, we lost Sticky Fingaz and Outlaw who
went to form their own group, but we wish them luck!

						  -Ecthelion (Editor)
						  

	ii. Programming News
     
     Well we all know that nothing terribly exciting happens in the world of
coding.  The last great news was from some math freak who figured out that the
random number generator built into every processor ever made was biased by
0.00574% or something.

     All I can say is that the new viewer is gonna kick ass.  The last viewer
is going to look like something from a PD CD-ROM.  Hopefully, this will become
the "mother of all viewers" everyone's talking about.

     Q. What is it going to be called?
     A. Anything but "PRiMAL Art Viewer".

     Q. What will it view?
     A. ANSi's, RIP's, and maybe GIF's.

     Q. Will it kick the ACiD viewer's ass?
     A. *TOP SECRET*

     Q. What will the ANSi viewing modes be?
     A. 25-line, 50-line, and some suprises...

     Q. Will it do anything special for RiP's?
     A. Yes.
						  -The Phantom Lord
						   [Technical Consultant]
	iii. PDRC News
	     I just wanna give an extended welcome to our newest
member, Black Rain.  We are always looking for good couriers, programmers
crackers, and ansi artists, strictly devoted to PDRC.  Also ook out for a game
called Bioforge.  If ya get it courier it to TDA, Immediatly :)
	
						  -Zapper
	iv. Cracking News 
	
	Wish I could say we cracked  somthing over the last 6 months :)
-Mortacan


	v. PRiMALNET News

	Ok, well the biggest news in primalnet is the deletion of quite a lot
of boards.  We went through and deleted about 10 boards from the net for not 
polling for over a week.  It gets pretty cluttered over here if the boards dont
keep up to date on there polling and we end up with about 4o megs of msgs 
waiting inside a huge directory.  Now most all of the boards in the nodelist 
should be polling and we hope the net will pick up in the near future, being I 
had quite a bit of trouble with the QWK setup over here, the messages died off 
quite quickly as posts plunged and users were agrivated with not being able to  
have an up to date QWK packet with the Correct pointer dates.
	Above that since the release of the PRIMAL Ansi packet we have had 
quite a few new boards being added to the nodelist.  For those of you 
requesting ansi's over the NET this will not do any longer.  You must send a 
Text file with any information you want in the ansi up to Demons Abyss.. 
remeber to put a / in the description so that it goes to a private directory.  
After that the Ansi guys will pick it up.
	Base Additions. Not any general bases being added on the next nodelist
release, just group bases.  Edge Public Discussion was since changed to TRSi 
Discussion.  SSN now official couriers of PRIMAL, will also be getting a 
PRIVATE and Public Discussion base on the net.  
	In general Net news, most of the bases seem pretty active and even
except for the Racism base which has really taken off.  More discussion on 
Blacks vs. Whites then I could ever imagine possible.  Quite a few things 
to dissagree and agree on.  The discussion of Gays vs Straight, in the 
military or not ? .. Are blacks the Majority ? .. Are you Black and don't Know
it?  .. Who came first Blacks or Whites ?  Old remains of dead humans, could
our scientist actually know what the color of his skin was ?  This base wasn't
one of the originals, but the speed and involvment of users would make you 
think it was, those of you who arnt involved take a look, even if you arnt 
going to post your point of view, you may learn quite a bit from those you know
in the scene around you.  
	Bases that could use some Improvment:  Well I did a small survey and
got some opinions of the net.  Most were just there to earn brownie points with
the sysop, maybe trying to gain a few minutes more online.  But there were some
honest ones, which are really the ones who should get the additional time.  
These are the bases most talked about for the question (Good base name, with 
little posts, or off subject, etc) Coding, Cracking, Hpcav and PCB support.  
Well lets start at the beginning.. CODING, well now that PRIMAL has gotten
some real Programmers the base itself I believe will pick up.  I would say
ALOT of the  scene is interested in this area, Programming, and alot like to
read about it, but NOT many want to ask questions on the fear of getting Ragged
on for asking stupid questions.  Certain questions yes deserve the rag, but
others will bring up conflict and possibly better techniques at achiving your
goal.  The cracking base, hmmm, Well I have just about given up on that base,
everything is being dicussed it seems EXCEPT cracking.  Seems that no matter
what type of discussion about cracking is going on it always leads to off
subject discussion. For example, someone begins to discuss cracking a New User
voting Utility, a question may arise from that, does ANYONE HAVE a GOOD NUV for
PCB!! .. <vig's will be here SOON> .. well you get the picture, guess we will 
have to work on that one.  HPCAV, ok this is one of the Biggest problems, 
although it seems to be headed in the right direction now, I dont think anyone
from the HP scene likes to see a base called HP, unless it is DIE HARD HP
discussion, nor do they like to see a board advertise HP if they arnt DIE HARD
HP.  Well Demons will be more dedicated to getting HPCAV files online and that
will hopefully help out the discussion, going off subject a little, Demons 
will have a serparte conf filed with 1oo's of virii, trojans, and over 1ooo
TXT files on Boxs, Booths, Bombs, everything your little illegle heart could 
desire.  Lets see if that can pick up the descussion and pick it up in the 
right direction.
	Well thats all for the Net News now.  If your interested in obtaining
PRIMALnet on your board, simply Contact Demons Abyss, get threw NUVing and 
Apply.  
						 -Mortacan [Net CoOrdinator]


	vi. Miscellaneous News
	
	Well, on the sadder note, Kamikazee is with us no longer. He has taken
his teepee and set it up at TRiBE. Good luck and I hope your computer 
electrocutes you while your doin' an ANSi. :)
	On a good note, the February PAK has gotten RAVE reviews. We have had 
floods of requests and PRiMALNET apps from it. Good work guys! Thanks alot
TPL! (Nice coding and I dont care what "You Know Who" says about it!)
	PRiMAL is now starting to climb that ladder to the top. Anyone who
is interested should jump in before it's too late!

						   -Ecthelion (Editor)

V. The Story
	                        
	              
		                 
              
           
              
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		    ITS TIME TO HAVE A NEW REIGN OF POWER


Group Greets: PRiMAL, THG, INC, PTG, TKN
      Greets: Mortacan, White Knight, Delerious Nomad,
	      Landee-J, The Producer, MeatLoaf, Ming the
	      Merciless, Master Mind, Xanth, Bub, Nizz and
	      Mac Wako(Macrophage)(You may be gone but NOT forgotten)
	      And all others that I have encountered.....
Special Thanx: Helios

		       Planet of DEATH!

     It all started in the year 2195.  Earth's defenses were
almost gone, and the alien force that had been plaguing us
for years was about to finally be victorious.  The hidious
alien scum were from a planet in a solar system eons away.
They call themselves Corrosive Poison.  What they diden't
know was that Earth's scientists had been working on the most
destructive weapon of all, ThunderBolt.  This new weapon was
almost complete, they only needed one more thing.............
a power source.  The power source that the scientists had in
mind could only be obtained from a remote solar system called
Technic.  It was rumored that there is where the aliens got
their alternative power sources when their original ones were
depleted.  With this in mind we gathered the best two
astronauts, the best two space marines and the only
two scientists that had traveled to the legendary system in
history.  These brave people were Earth's last defense.
Their names were Colonel Landee-J, Leutienant Morty, Pilot
White Knight, Co-Pilot Zapper, scientists Delerious Nomad and
MeatLoaf.  The person who was in charge of this expedition
called himself, The Producer.  If we needed something he was
the one we told.
     The blast off date was to be two days from now, January
26, 2195.  In the mean time all of Earth was fighting the
aliens with all we had.  The leader of the aliens was a
hidious, wart covered, little spineless wimp named Deep
Freeze.  He was the brains behind the invasion and Psychotic
Fiend was the brawn behind it.  Two days have now passed and
we are about to launch the spacecraft.  The craft was
simillar to the stealth bomber back in the 1980's.  It could
not be detected on any KNOWN radar.  We only prayed that the
aliens could not detect it as well.  When the ship launched,
it carried the hopes and prayers of the people of Earth with
it as well as the braviest people on Earth.  However as we
had feared, the aliens could pick up our stealth ship and
sent out a squadren after us.  They followed us to the ends
of the solar system until out of the blackness came a
massive space destroyer.  We thought that we were history
until, they opened fire with all weaponary on the aliens.  We
made it to the legendary system of Technic.  The journey was
a long and hard one.  We were followed by the aliens plus we
had to worry about the time warps.  We had to enter the warps
at a specific degree and remain at that degree or else we
would be vaporized.  Now we were confronted with a new alien
race the Nerdoids.  Their leader called himself Master Mind.
The whole race looked almost human except that their genitals
were on their heads!  They welcomed us with open arms and
treated us with respect.  They fed us, repaired our
spacecraft, refitted our entire spacecraft with
destructoguns and told us secrets about their power source.
I was sure that these people were giving us all this information
because they wanted us to be victorious.  But the people had
given us this information because they knew one thing we
did not, that we would never leave the planet.  The
destructoguns were capable of destroying a moon or planet in
two consecutive bursts, and it was all ours.  However, when
it came time for us to leave, they threw us in a jail and
said that we could never leave.  It turned out that these
people were inter-galactic cannibals.  We had gone from the
stove into the frying pan.  At least back on Earth we had a
fighting chance, now we are weaponless.  But as usual
Coloniel Landee-J came to the rescue.  He had a small pen
laser hidden in his biogenic leg.  With that we made a dashing
escape only to encounter, the death squad.  It was time for
us to be put on the table.  Luckily we saw them before they
saw us and we hid around the corner.  When they walked by we
took them on, all dozen of them.  We got their weapons and
ran towads our spacecraft.  Once there we took off to a
minimum safe distance and WHAM!  We blasted the planet!  Then
WHAM again!  We left nothing alive.  We had gotten what we
had come for after all, and Master Mind and his race had
gotten what was comming to them.  The only thing left to do
was to return to Earth, study it and synthesize it.
Scientists Delerious Nomad and MeatLoaf scrutinized the alien
objects until they could continue no further.  They were
totally exausted from lack of sleep and rest.  We put them to
bed and told them to rest, that the rest of the think tank
that was on Earth would be able to asist.  When we arrived
back to Earth we found out that we were too late.  The aliens
had disintegrated the planet and left only small moons
behind.  However the alien spacecraft had left a vapor trail
that could be detected and then followed.  And that is
exactly what we did.  We tracked them to a planet in our
solar system called Saturn.  That is where the vapor trail
ended and our nightmare begun.  Without warning a beam of light
blinded us and knocked us unconcious.  When we awoke we found
ourselves in an alternate universe, only that this one was ruled
by women.  It was as if all of the men gave up fighting and just
handed the planet over to the women.  When the sentenals saw that
there were unshackled males walking around in the city they
quickly zapped us with some sort of energy weapon.  It took away
all our strength and left us helpless.  They threw us in prison
where we found the rest of the males that were on Earth.  Some of
the men were wearing stupid outfits like they were babies, bikers,
aliens, astronauts ect.. ect..  When I started to talk to some of
them to find out why they were wearing these ridiculous outfits, they
explained.  They told me that they were no more than sex objects to
these women.  I laughed in their faces and said "So! What's so bad
about that?"  They replied that some of them worked for more than
48 hours straight without a brake.  And to top it all off the women
needed the semen (No NOT sailors), in order to be sexually aroused.
SO therefore they collected this stuff in QUANTITY and stored it for
a later use.  However there were three males that I noticed diden't
have any sort of restrictive devices.  Their names were Kronos,
Icecube, and Quasar.  When I spoke to Kronos he told me his story.
It went something like this.......................... "I'm GAY!"
Well with that out of the way I kinda stood VERY far away from him
as possible.  Icecube had another fucked up story.......... "Well,
when I tried jerking off to a picture of Rambo, nothing ever came out?"
And then there was this muscle bound geek named Quasar.  His story, I
think was the best of all.......Well as the saying goes, "I AM GOING
TO PUMP YOU UP."... and that's exactly what he did.  Only HE forgot to
READ THE DIRECTIONS!  The name of the penis pumper was called
The Pump-O-Matic 6004.  The directions said that when your penis
starts to hurt, that doesen't mean pump harder, that means stop!
What a dick-  NO what a dickless(baahahaha)!  In talking to some of the
other sex slaves I found out that the Queen's name was Lorraina Bobbit.
I also found out that if she felt that you were slacking in your manly duties
she would bring you into a soundproof room and perform a not so fun
surgical operation with an instrument she called "The Bobbitizer"  Although 
the room was soundproof, you could still hear some of the screaming that went 
on.  After hearing my first scream, I knew the that I could not stay here.  I tried
to organize an escape attempt, but the others except my crew were too afraid 
of "The Bobbitizer."  Will we succeed?  Will I become a victim of "The
Bobbitizer?"  Are YOU in next months story?

TuNe In NeXt mOnTh iN tHe PRiMAL MaG tO fInD
oUt tHe AwSoMe CoNcLuSiOn to Planet of Death!

						  -Story by Zapper/PRiMAL

VI. Poetry By The Beholder [Arghhh :)]
			    
			    Deadly Nights

		     Death destruction lies within
		     Blood seeps through the wall
		     With every, evil sin

		     As Satan crosses the sky at night
		     Giving all humans
		     A certain fright

		     Darkness fills, in everyone's mind
		     When death is at hand
		     And hall is the time

		     As flesh burns off the human bones
		     I close my eyes, and plug my ears
		     To dull the deathly tone

		     For i bare to see, this dreadful sound
		     The cries, of humans in pain
		     That the reaper will soon come,
		     For the souls he will claim.


						  -The Beholder


VII. TPO-WARDS

	This section is devoted to all you PRiMAL artists who claim to not
get any awards for your art. Well here you go:

	The ANSi-HOG TPO-WARD. This award goes to that special breed of ANSi
artists, who think that their sig is the most important part!
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		        The Apocalyptic Lord    
	
	The SORRY-NO-ART TPO-WARD. This award is for those who can draw nice      
lettering, but just dont like to put the pictures in.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		              Helios            
	
	The GOTTA-GO TPO-WARD. This is the award for the most likely to leave
PRiMAL, with delusions of grandure.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		           Kamikazee(?)         

	The LOONEY-TOONEY-SYNDROME TPO-WARD. This award is for those whose 
minds are on other things when they make ANSIs, like for instance, cartoons.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		            Mortacan            
	
	The VODKA-IN-A-BAG-ON-THE-ROADSIDE TPO-WARD. This goes to that special
person who will most likely become a bum living paycheck to paycheck writing
cheap poetry.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		       The Beholder             

	The MOMMAMIA TPO-WARD. This goes to our Itialian friends. Since they
dont produce much anyway, we give them an award for anything they do!?!?
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		           Crazy Young          

	The IM-ONLY-TALENTED-IN-TWO-COLORS TPO-WARD. This goes to the fellow
who uses the comical shading I mentioned above, because the "real" shading
is just too complicated.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		            J-Walker            

	The UA TPO-WARD. This is the serious award folks. This award is given
to the artist we think is next on line to be one of the greats.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		           Sticky Fingaz        

	The IM-SO-ELITE-MY-HANDLE'S-A-PAGE-LONG TPO-WARD. This award goes to 
that class of BBSer who has so many affilations in their sig, that it gets
mistaken for the origin line.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		             Black Rain         
		    -/- TRSi/FTH/TRA/RAM/PRiMAL -\-        

	The END-OF-THE-MONTH ART-CONSTIPATION TPO-WARD. This award goes to the
person(s) who produce the most are the've ever produced in there life, three
days before the pack comes out, in order to get something in it.
		   [ WINNER ]Ŀ
		     All Of PRiMAL - C'MON GUYS!

						  -Ecthelion (Editor)

VIII. Senior Staff Section

	Well, some sad news... we lost Sticky Fingaz and Outlaw. Oh well
what can you do eh? We wish them luck and we hope their new group MAG does
well. (Yeah RIGHT!) 

						  -Ecthelion (Editor)


IX. ADS
	Here are some classified ads from varoius sources:

	     PRiMAG - THE OFFICAL MAGAZINE OF ______________!   (FILL IN) 

			   WHY ASK WHY? TRY PRiMAG TODAY!

       PRiMAL DEMENTED REVIEW CREW - DOWNLOAD YOUR LATEST REVIEW TODAY!


APPENDIX     


                                       
                      
                           
                              
                         
                 
                      
                     
                    
                                     
Ŀ
									       
			MemberS -=- AffiliationS -=- PDRC
			      

		        +[Senior Staff]+ Ŀ
		                                           
		       Mortacan  White Knight  Vigilante 
		        
			         

		  +[Coordinators]+ Ŀ 
		                                                  
		 Ghost Crazy . . . . . . . . .Italian Coordinator 
		 The Phantom Lord. . . . .Programming Coordinator 
		 Ecthelion . . . . . . . . . . . .VGA Coordinator 
		  
		   
		  +[Members]+ Ŀ
		                                                 
		 Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Agent
		 Macrophage. . . . . . . . . . Programmer/Cracker
		 Nitro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programmer
		 Count Zero Interrupt. . . . . . . . . Programmer
		 The Beholder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist
		 Apocalyptic Lord. . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 Helios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 Hellmaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 J-Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 Crazy Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 Odin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist 
		 Retribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Writer  
		  
		   
 
		  +[PDRC]+ Ŀ
		                                                  
		 Zapper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PDRC Prez 
		 Ming The Merciless. . . . . . . . . . . Reviewer 
		 MeatLoaf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reviewer 
		 Black Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reviewer 
		 
		   
 
		  +[Member Boards]+ Ŀ
		                                                  
		 Demons Abyss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mortacan 
		 Chronic Disorder. . . . . . . . . .Sticky Fingaz 
		 Reality Unwinding . . . . . . . . . . . .Slammer
		 Cyberspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Viceroy 
		 Hell On Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zoom 
		 Forces of Evil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Demon
		 Nocturnal Emmisions . . . . . . . . . . . Shazam 
		 Amber . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Corwin Of Amber 
		 Satans Loft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sage 
		 Forgotten World . . . . . . . . . . . . .Phantom 
		 Cemetery Gates. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Waysted 
		 Realm of Decadence. . . . . . . . . . . . Zaphod
		 Huck Too Wi . . . . . . . . . . .The.Lone Viking
		 Isles Of Terror . . . . . . . . . . . Top Secret
		 The Flip Side . . . . . . . . . . . . .Azmodeous
		 The Fatal Edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mixer
		 Tarnover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4gh 
		 Death Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slick Rick
		 Dead Homies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Skill
		 Black Sunday. . . . . . . . . . . . . The Ripper
		 The Resistence. . . . . . . . . . . . Terminator
		 Knight Stalker. . . . . . . . . . . .Early Riser
		 Suburban Underground. . . . . . . . . Neon Jesus
		 Kuks Sool Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tae
		 Epic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tron Powerhouse
		 The Well Of Souls . . . . . . . . . .Retribution
		 The Magic Castle. . . . . . . . . . .Ghost Crazy 
		 Wizard World. . . . . . . . . . . .Master Wizard 
		 Inferno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luckifer
		 White Sands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandman
		 Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SYSOP 
		   
		   

 
Greets: 

Ecthelion - Editor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Morty - Kill youself off the roof sonwboarding?!?!?!
Vig - keep those AK's comin
TPL - Yo dude its soldering!!!!
Ecthelion - Keep up the good work! (Need to thank me somewhere!)
iCE, ACiD, GOTHiC, TRiBE, - Nice packs, cool art. Wish we had some
a you guys....   :)  
Everyone else: Greets go out...

Greets:
Mortacan (uhhh?!) - Sponser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vig - Really is iCECUBE
Ecthelion - Wow, dedicated guys is whats going to hold the group together and
	    your definitly showing your dedication.
TPL - Didnt know you had it in you to program a viewer in such short time.  And
      a good one at that, even if <You know who> didnt aprove.
WK - We fight alot dont we. <Oh well>  I guess it is a Must for me 
     to greet you :)
Grendle & RAM - Well your MOD was great, we just couldnt get it coded into 
		the viewer in time.  Maybe next packet.
SSN & CRUE - Well maybe this second entrance will be alot greater then the
	     first, seems like you got more dedicated members willing to work
	     Looking foward to having you as OFFICIAL COURIER of PRIMAL
PdRc - Reviewers just an excuse to leech :)
Sticky Fingaz - One really confused guy.
All Others -  Wish I had the time to greet you all, but they do go out...
	      
The Phantom Lord (codinmeister) - Technical Consultant
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MORTACAN- "tell her she'd make a good compiler" yo this group rox, glad to be
 a part
ECTHELiON- no dude its "solder"!!
NiTRO- no, I'M gonna write the mother of all viewers
ViG- yo thanx for the help with the mod shit
..and greetz to iCE, ACiD, and all the REAL coding competition

-Zapper Speaking-=> Well looks like you're in next months story :)
Sticky Fingaz - One really confused guy.
All Others -  Wish I had the time to greet you all, but they do go out...


