K: Let's start straight away with the traditional "Tell us some more about the who's and what's in your group"...
DF: Well, we started off really small but nowadays we are 91, a really impressive number I'd say. Frankly, to be honest, our 23 coders are one and the same person, but that's only because they all use the same handle, which makes it difficult to keep them apart. On the other hand, it's very handy for making up the credits-list in a production: we can use the same line in the scroller 23 times. The rest of the team actually consists of 62 mail-traders (which also have the same handle, so one P.O. Box is enough for all of them - yes, we're quite up to date in economics when it comes to business in Orangina). The final member is me, Der Flippo: I'm more like the local graphician who's solely achievements in the scene consist of eating an awful lot of ravioli at parties I never attend.
K: Hmmm, a pretty impressive list indeed. From the above, I can conclude that the economic principle is very important for Orangina. Could this perhaps be the reason why your group seems to release the same demo for over 4 years, just like Valhalla?
DF: Actually, I would call this question "Bull's eye", you're very right indeed. Speaking economically, what our main sysop Lord AMD tries to achieve here is a superb filling up of his BBS by copying our only release a zillion times all over his harddisk and then, each time we get noticed that a new party has been held, changing the date-stamp of one of these copies to that actual date and putting that file in the "incoming" directory. Right now, we're working on a pointer-system to optimize this way of releasing even more. The idea is to save disk-space by only having one copy of the demo on the harddisk and creating a bunch of pointers to this file. These pointers will also have a date-stamp, I guess you'll get the point by now!?
K: Very innovative, indeed... And as always, it's Imphobia who has the honour of presenting this breakthrough in scene-management for the first time to the readers out there. Now, let's change the subject to something more personal. Who is the real you? I mean, we all know Der Flippo as a scene elitist, but who is the actual person hiding behind this mask?
DF: Well, it's kinda hard to talk about myself this way, but we can always give it a try, can't we? So, my real name is Hieronymous and my hobbies are playing Doom and Descent, behaving like a cactus when a girl is within ninety feet range and ofcourse keeping Ornagina one demo-copy ahead of Valhalla. Never mind, this is all rather boring but then again, I'm a rather boring person.
K: Hmmm, this is all very, very interesting indeed. It's always nice to see that there is a real person with real feelings behind the scene-o-matic robots most of us are. Now, on to something which is keeping half of the lamer world busy: where the schnock is Future Crew? Rumours are that they were abducted by aliens but common sense can pretty sure see the influence of the ever popular series "The X-Files" or "Outer Limits" here. However, you are said to be a person who knows what has actually happened to these guys, sooooo (*grin please grin*)...?
DF: I see you got to the right person and as far as I am concerned, I can guarantee you that all rumours can be denied without hesitation. Alien abduction of FC is totally out of the question, everybody should know by know that the aliens preferred TRSI members anyway - that's why Irata has always been late with everything, his brain was periodically sucked empty by the little green men of Proxima Centauri. No, the real truth can now be revealed and is nothing more or less than the fact that they are simply bored of winning every compo they participate in, although all of their routines were coded on a ZX81 during a three hours session back in the summer of 1492, right after they helped Columbus discover America.
K: And you think they'll never do a demo again, just because of this?
DF: Well, Psi told me that his last routine (15.057.391 lines of pure hex stuff) will be released somewhere in the seventeenth millennium, when they feel the time is right to show the world once more that they are the absolute cream of the PC scene.
K: Strange, I've always thought that time was left. Never mind, in the meantime we'll see some butt-kicking demos from Nooon, Complex and, last but not least, Orangina?
DF: Well, actually: NO! Moby and Ra have left Nooon to form Afternoohoohoon and Complex is more or less ex-Compl nowadays. And as for Orangina, it'll be the regular party releases as ever. So, at least WE are doing something for the scene, giving it a few new bytes to download every now and then. Of course, once the phonelines have become cheap enough for every lamer to afford these downloads from our absolutely eeleaaaat boards, we'll have to find other ways to drain the money out of these annoying guys. In fact, I have been thinking lately about how this very fundamental problem can be solved and I have come up with the utterly brilliant idea of doing this throwing game with collectible CD-ROMs, I'm even thinking of lending my name to this game. After all, I invented it, so I deserve part - if not most - of the fame. One day, it will be as popular as Magic, or even more so.
K: That's the hammer on the nail right there for you, matey. Indeed, Magic has been said to be sickening our oh so dear scene for the last couple of months. How can a bunch of techno freaks go wild completely on a stupid card game?
DF: It remains a mistery, Konijn, even to the illuminatus I am. Nevertheless, I have been searching for a psychological reason behind all this raving and going bananas but up to now, it all remains very dark, even after dark. Perhaps we could burn the cards? And the players? Naaah, maybe it's best if we just ignore them, put our heads in the sand, ya know, it's what we're really good at after practising all these years and it even seems to help...
K: Another thing that's on the lips of most non-sceners ('cos this mag is also read by people who are not active in our little Eden): most die-hard sceners are nerds an sich, nerds pro forma and nerds for the art of nerdship itself. As such, the existence of the opposite sex - for most sceners this is the female sex - seems to be a miracle to these guys, so the question arises: does Der Flippo has someone to care for?
DF: It should be clear for all readers here that indeed I am the happy and lucky posessor of wat we call "a la scene" a "nice chick". She's available on several ftp-sites in all kinds of colours, sizes and formats. Surf the net, start up a virtual relationship I always say. Of course, being one of the only girls intruded into the scene-life, she has been the girlfriend of an enourmous amount of scene elitists, but as for now, she's entirely and virtually mine. As you can see, I must be one of the happiest sceners in the entire world at this time.
K: Well, what else can I say? It has been a real pleasure to be able to talk a few minutes with you and I am sure all your fellow scene-members will be glad to learn a bit more about the "real" you. Thank you for your time and see you on some BBS at the next release of yet another faboulous Orangina demo. Ciao!!

All people in this artciles are purely imaginable and none of them really exist.