++ text extracted from Taipan's first intro for Phalanx (1988) ++


the time   has come    time for what?   time for you to check out this new
intro.                yeah? well, so far it doesn't look much like a new
intro.    how about some action?              hmmm. okay, maybe i can fix
some    ...err...   action, as you put it.           well, what are you
waiting for?                  nothing!      3rd  intro        yes, sir!   you
got it right.   another mind-boggling amiga-product from famous unknown
finnish group;  phalanx!!!   this is tai-pan here throwing crap over your crt.
(crt?)    to help you to realize what's going on i'll put some credits coming
up first.                coding  by     tai-pan
music by      walkman   of index            this horrible font mainly designed
by    tai-pan   Pc           final touch by              blade
logos by   blade      and               tai-pan
this unbeliavable bullshit which may have a negative influence on your
schoolwork is all typed in by       tai-pan   and as in every phalanx-product
so far, nothing is done by              mithrill     phew!  that's all for
credits.   well, as you see, i finally finished my very first intro.  before
x-mas, as i promised.  (but i can not guarantee that you'll get it before the
big j's birthday.   the fucking sonta klaus-time makes everyone crazy so that
he or she sends merry blaa blaa cards to all his or her friends, and the poor
post office is totally jammed!!!)  but who cares?  at least not me.  i really
am not very proud to present this pisspot-program. it has none new original
ideas and it took me too long to code.    reason?       lazyness      well,
other good reason why this bytepile took over two months to code is the thing
that everything was new and lots of experiments had to be done before i ended
up with this guuguu-scrolling-routine. (nice name and size, eh?  i invented
the great name all by myself about 3.5 seconds ago!!)   by the way. why
dontcha try to move your rat?    stupid, eh?      the 3d-starscroller was the
very first routine i made on amiga.  and infact all this intro is based on it.
and if you want to become a lunatic (as i am now) try to find out how the
text-scroller works out.   it understands only 22 control codes. and it's
about time to use at least two of 'em.   you see, i'm gonna switch on another
logo for a change.  the previous fucks it's own brains out. and the memberlist
appears.  voila!   the contact-addresses will follow in other logo soon.  the
memberlist is not correct. i just find out that guy called chris has also
joined us ( again! ).  so, welcome back,     chris!     speaking of joinings,
we wouldn't mind at all if couple musicians joined us.  also coooooool (enuf
os?) coders, grafix-gurus etc. are always welcome.  so start grabbing some
paper ( we hope it's finnish high-quality typewriter-paper! ) plus something
to scratch text on it because contact-addresses are just coming up. note: if
you are a foreign swapper seeking for contact, write to me!  because i have
the biggest need of good, foreign swapping-contacts.     ok, while you're
writing down our addresses i just have to tell you some facts about this
little intro.       how about such very important things like lenght of
copperlist:            7380 bytes or approximate amount of free raster-time:
20 lines  holy clockwork, robin! there just and just time for mind-smashing
merry perry jason-greetings and nothing more.   so now we want to send some
merry new year and happy x-mas-greetings to following groups,singles,doubles
etc.    (special ones appear in special way.   (((logic, mr. spock?))))
accession      adducers   (hop hop, trashin! i wanna hear some muusic
soon.)                  ackerlight      alcatraz     amiga action  -
amiga vision  -  arctic league  -  asia  -  axion  -  bloodsuckers  -
brainbug  -  byterapers  -  cedcrew  -  clones  -  ddt  -  deathstar  -
deathwish of zaxs  -  destiny  -  disknet  -  donald fuck  -
double density crew  -  dream warriors  -  finnish bit wizards  -
first wave  -  freedom force  -  go-go inc.  -  hexagon  -  hjjr  -
horixon  -  imp 666  -  index   (how about joining us?)  -  it
kefrens       mach 4          mad monks        megadeal  -  miami byte corp.  -
nemesis  -  nzc  -  overload  -  protech  -  pseudo-ops     sunriders
swap  -  system ii  -   team-x   the goonies  -  the honey crew  -
the power gang  -  tmt  -  triangle              tsk-crew  wizzcat  -  x-peat  -  x-men  -  ydex
-  zigag  -  the end
time's up.  (gotta go, as somebody would say.)   hope this didn't encourage
your suicidal thoughts.  next time i'm gonna present you some 3d-vectorgraphics.
so see you in other dimension!      signed out:            tai-pan