Actual Trading Generation

Actual Trading Generation (ATG)
HOL&gt; Baby-Joe (Willy Voesten, gfx write, aka BBJ, 03/90), Floyd (Yves    Vrancken, swap, 09-10/90), Jack (swap, 03/90), SPC (Paul Kessel, code     write, 03/90). GER&gt; 3DK (editor, ex Orion, old handle Slime, new 02-08/90), Jack Daniels (editor, ex Orion, new 02-03/90).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

???&gt; Trax (gfx, later The Ruling Company).

Actual Trading Generation was a dutch-based demo group. 1990 - Jack Daniels and Slime both joined from Orion in february, and released their diskmag "Corruption #1" [03/90] the following month. The mag announced a.o. Baby-Joe stopping swapping to concentrate on graphics. Slime changed his handle to 3DK around august. 1991 - TTT left, and joined Dominators under his new handle Grizzly Adams.

Corruption #1 (1990, .03, Diskmag). INT - code: SPC, gfx: MSI (char), Trax/The Ruling Company (corruption       logo), Scrap/Genesis Project (atg logo), music: Maniacs of Noise. MAG - code: Einstein, gfx: Baby-Joe, music: "Myth" by Maniacs of Noise, editors: Jack Daniels (main), Slime (main), SPC, BBJ. review: After a passable but ultimately uninteresting intro, we are presented with a magscreen that is a little cluttered imho. Everything (including an irritating moving logo) is located on a single screen - the article selection tool, the actual reading section and even a small graphical display on the left hand side of the screen. Actually, that is a pretty nifty idea; there is an animated picture of an alien or something on top, and below that is the name of the current article - f.i. Charts. I do believe this was the first time this was ever done. Control is by joystick only. The entire design is pretty ... blue. :)   Editorially, the mag is nothing extraordinary at all, but seems well-  written, and the english is for once not irritatingly bad ;) There is  nothing extra to read in this first issue, really, you get the normal sections that is present everywhere - editorial, news &amp; rumours, charts, interview (Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise), reports (this time a cruncher test and the story about the death of the new Orion), sex story (most  useless chapter ever, anyone?), wanted (contact addresses) and reactions. The release date is a mystery, since no indication is given anywhere in the mag itself of anything but the year of release. However, they have voted Crest's "Mac Donalds Restaurant" [02/90] as demo of the month, abd mention at the very end of the last chapter that 'the next issue will be spread in venlo april', so we estimate march. News that Beatmachine had joined 20CC was incorrect. We're also unsure about the news that 'Gunnar' left Blasters for Fairlight, as we have been unable to verify a member with that name in FLT. Oh, and the news about Play Power (PP) changing his handle and joining Shape was repeated twice :) The mag comes in a total of 9 files, totalling 268 blocks. [glenn]