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When I bought my C64 in the spring of 1989
I didn't know anything about the scene. I knew
that there existed Crackergroups which made
ordinary people able to get hundreds of
games. Probably one of the main reasons why
everybody choosed the C64 and not any
other computer.
I started to play all thoose games I got on
the tapes. But after a while you want to make
more. One of the reasons why I bought the
C64 was that there should be easy to
make programs.
So, I started to type in some easy BASIC
programs. But that didn't satisfy me.
I wanted more!
In 1990 I started 7th grade and for most of
the swedish youth this means that you change
school. In my case to a bigger school.
New and bigger school often means
new friends.
One of them was Noy (Nowdays in TBL,
Amiga & PC). In the beginning we just swapped
games but after a while we started to swap
source code too. He and his cousin, Neptune,
had a group called Aragorn.
So, after the summer vacation I joined them as
coder. Cool, I thought , now I was a member
of a group with 3 coders. In October the same
year we released our first demo called
The ticket to heaven.
During X-mas 1991 two new members joined;
Bumboo (swapper, Before he quit the scene
some year ago he was a member of Flash Inc.)
and Raz (Gfxer, also known as Bogomil/Maniax.
Today Fishbone/ex.TBL). After they had joined
we released some more demos and I made
some tools.
In April I got the idea for a swapper mag, at
this time I didn't even swap but I was about
to start and had a lot of visions!
Me and Bumboo left Aragorn in may, just some
days after we had released Illusion of reality
and formed a new group called Daire.
Just to be a member of a group. We planned to
release a small contact demo.
Two weeks later we joined Jam. Me and
bumboo made some Meeting demos and
finally in November, 7 months since I got
the idea for it, the first issue of
Jamaica was released.
The name for the mag was Bumboo's idea.
Orbs had a mag called Orbservant so why
couldn't Jam have a mag called Jamaica?
Until the autumn of 1994 everything was
good with Jam.
Jamaica was released on a bimonthly basis,
except for some minor delays during the
summer vacations, and I made some intros
and a part for Human Machine, which was
released at The Party'93 but never shown
on the bigscreen (Lame organisation!).
But before The Tribute in 1994 I felt that
everything was going slower and slower for
Jam no one didn't really care about what
was going on anymore. So, when I got an offer
from Dane and Rave to join Triad the last
night at Tribute I wasn't slow decide.
I said I wanted some time to think about it.
But acctually I already decided at the party.
Two days later I phoned Jerry and told him that
I wanted to join. And so has it been since then.
Stop making Jamaica was a natural decision
because for me Jamaica means Jam. I could
have continued doing Jamaica as the mag
was me.
The last issue was released in spring 1995.
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