Cheers Tas-devil Dave, and congrats to the new work position! Climbing the ladder of success.

Winter is soon upon us northerners and that often means more indoor activities. For this reason, at least in the past, this meant more releases and hard datascene work. With family life things may be different. But if the wife is busy and the kids asleep, what could be more tempting a late evening than firing up any of the recent carts: Prince of Persia, NEH, Blok Copy or Edge Grinder? Just a month or so away, a spam of quality games is to be expected from the 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition. With titles such as c64anabalt, Panic Analogue, Reactor Rescue, Heartlight, Ron's Pong, Fortress of Narzod, The Mollusk, etcetera, the snowstorms can become very much cosy indeed. Yuletide this year seems as promising c64gaming-wise as it was two decades ago.

Yours truly will not be present at the Oz event where this issue is released, but I had the benefit of being able to attend the Commodore Hacker and Cyberpunk Conference held in Jutland, Denmark last month. It was a true Viking berserk event where Carlsberg pilsner was given as blót at the stone of Jellinge to the old kings Harald and Gorm, and the gods of Odin and Thor. At the same time hard work was spent on the two releases that came out (of which one separated the strong elite from the unworthy feeble in the debate of evolution that followed its release). What is more, linguistical consensus was finally reached on using the Pan Scandinavian (as we are the literary imperialists of the scene) term Gubbdata globally. There had been some alternative Scandinavian suggestions to the Gubb-prefix, but all concerned parts concluded on keeping Gubbdata the international practicable standard term.

I will stop my ranting here. Enjoy VN issue fifty-eight.

/Jonatan "Macx"