A single malt needs to be matured in wooden barrels, that is the way it works. The pace is part of what we value with it. In a similar way does the limitations of our machine give us the quality we long for. I love a Lagavulin and a newc'y brown in a decent pub and I love the music in the note of Coma Light XII. The other pimps on this bus ride also get satisfaction out of the good things in life, as most of you readers do. What we share, our common ground, is the discovery of one certain good thing in our lives.

My first intentions was to fill this editorial with something about me having laid my hands on a MMC64 and because of this has run a lot of onefiled demos on my c64 lately. As a vast majority of all NTSC demos are in a single file they have been a bit overrepresented in my recent demowatching. That has been enjoyable though, because a lot of the north american demos I have indulged in, at least that are from during the Driven era, have a whole lot of what in purified form can be called demoscene spirit. I associate them with scrolltexts and with them stories being told in a much more raw format that a contemporary conceptualised demonstration can ever do. That may be just because they are single filed however, just as the demos from the eighties are, which are the ones I recall from my pre-scene time. If my notion of scenespirit derives from from my activities before I entered the scene, then I do not know where I am aiming at, why I decided to drop the topic. The MMC64 is brilliant though. The possibility to run HVSC straight from the real sound system is by itself worth every coin.

Gazing over a scene town in spring sun there seemes to be an increase in journalism. Since last time birth has been given to both a new papermag, Sceen, and more recently another one of Jazzcat's projects, Recollection. The first issue of Sceen present itself as a magazine focusing on the creative scene as such, no matter platform. It contains a potpourri of interesting articles, though for hardcore c64 sceners the first issue may seem a bit dull as the coverage of the old breadbox was somewhat thin. However, what the Sceen did not provide was the main feature of Recollection. Issue one is a must for devoted afficionados and the amount of quality text demands its quality time. Because of its different approach covering the past rather than the current scene Recollection feels fresh. If it succeeds in doing just that it may bridge not only the gap between today's newbies and the past, but also with motivating the retired ones to introduce themselves to what is going on now. Recollection is a magazine big in size and with its double sides it is standing out from the diskmag trend at the moment. I wish the crew good luck and establishes that Recollection may be a forum where part of the c64 scene history is written.

2006 has started promising. I myself attended a small meeting in Lund with some fine releases in february and a flow of releases has proven the sceneheart beating. With rumours of a sweaty dataparty in Sweden this summer and with the coming of a wellknown pinball game to our beloved 8-bit platform, how could the outlook be insufferable? It cannot, the reason is us, creating.

Jonatan "macx" Forsberg