This is a letter from Richard/Whitestar: HI...I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD WRITE TO YOUR MAGAZINE TO EXPRESS A FEW POINTS THAT MUST BE PISSING OFF QUITE A FEW AMIGA OWNERS OF LATE.

1..WHY IS THE SCENE BECOMING SO SERIOUS
2..WHY ARE PEOPLE BEING SO ELITEIST
3..WHY ISN'T YOUR MAG AT THE TOP OF THE EURO CHARTS?
4..WHY DID THE TITANIC SINK

FIRST I'LL DEAL WITH POINT ONE. I THINK THAT THE AMIGA SCENE IS HEADING FOR A COMMUNICATION CALAMITY. SURELY THERE IS ENOUGH ROOM IN THE AMIGA WORLD FOR EVERYBODY. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING THE WORDS ELITE ONLY NEED APPLY. AND WHY DO WE SEE THESE WORDS ON SO MANY BOARDS, ADDRESSES, ADVERTS ETC? ITS BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY'VE BROUGHT OUT A FEW COMPACTS, DEMOS ETC THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS LAME. WELL GUYS I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU THIS KIND OF SELECTIVE ELITEISM CAN ONLY BRING ABOUT THE END OF WHAT HAS BECOME THE BEST COMPUTER SCENE THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE QUALITY OF DEMOS THESE DAYS, I FOR ONE AM ALWAYS AMAZED BY THE TOP CLASS DEMOS THAT ARE ALWAYS ARRIVING ON THE SCENE, SO MUCH TALENT. BUT GUYS DON'T FORGET THAT THESE GUYS HAD TO LEARN SOMETIME AND WE WERE ALL LAMERS AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER JUST DON'T FORGET: FRIENDSHIP WILL ALWAYS RULE.

POINT TWO REALLY GOES ALONG WITH POINT ONE BUT I'VE A FEW MORE WORDS TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT. DO YOU REMEMBER IN 1939 WHEN SOMEBODY THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE ELITE AND BREED AN ELITE RACE? LOO K WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. WHAT IT REALLY BOILS DOWN TO IS THIS... COOL IT GUYZ...COS IF YOU DON'T AND YOU KEEP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE LESS TALENTED THEN YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELVES IN A MINORITY... KEEP WRITING A GREAT MAG. I LOOK FORWARD TO NUMBER 5...IF ANYBODY WANTS TO WRITE TO ME THEN CONTACT IS ON....

RICHARD HOUGHTON WHITE STAR
3 CATCHPOLE WALK
DICKLEBURGH
NR DISS,NORFOLK
ENGLAND
IP21 4NX

EVERYBODY WELCOME. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEND A DISK. FRIENDSHIP ONLY. PS: THE TITANIC SANK BECAUSE IT HIT AN ICEBERG...HI TO GRAYZOR OF SLIPSTREAM!


Yeah, here answering is Filippetto. Ok, we're agree with you about frienship and so on. Anyway we think that not all the elite groups are discriminating against the non-elite ones. And all the groups that are actually non-elite can get a chance to become elite, or just to enter the scene. For example coding a demo... Personally I answer to all letters with disks coz I'm not a diskstealer and I also support the friendship movement, but remember that sometimes the groups don't have enough time to answer to all the people and this not coz they're discriminating against them but just coz they haven't time! Of course big groups have priority over the little ones, but this is a normal fact of the scene. Otherwise it would be a nonsense...

This article originally appeared in the Amiga diskmagazine "Freedom Crack #5" by Vega in 1991.

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