Welcome to Vinyl's first issue! The first Southamerican magazine
referred to the DEMO scene and digital artistic underground.

How did it come out:

The idea came out mainly in 1998 with Koza/Jsd, it was to make a
'support' magazine for The Flash 1998, distributing it the most possible
to get people for the party; As always, everything went out of time, and
the project got stuck until after TF98 was held. I decided to take the
responsibility for the project. (Though, in 1997, Ambush, the most
important Argentinean group in the last times, tried to release a Disk
magazine about the scene in argentina, but finally the project failed
due to the lack of articles.)

About the interface:

For a start, we wanted to make an executable interface (the typical disk
magazine one), but nobody had the time/will to code it. Even though, i
finally decided that it was best to make it in some format which could
be read by most computers (Pc, Amiga, Mac, etc.) and, at the same time,
as it's not executable, which allowed us to make no distinction between
the different OS on PC. (Win, Linux, etc.).

Thus, the perfect decision came out to be Ascii, which i like a lot :)
After that, Fugitivo, edited it in HTML format, to make it online
readable, and for those newbies who don't get on well with the first
format. I think, although a lot of people don't like Ascii for a Scene
Magazine, that it's the most conformable format, which allows you to
watch it with whatever you want, without wait or compatibility problems,
saving bytes, and apart from that... it gives the whole thing that Old
school feeling. :) So, by the moment, until anybody offers to code some
CONFORMABLE interface this will go on being released in this 2 formats.

About the general idea and purpose of Vinyl:

Well, as we have described it in the first words, themes to be touched
here will be mainly those about demo scene and art scene, giving special
importance to South America, but still taking care about the whole
World's scene.

The contents of the magazine and it's design is made, whenever it's
possible, to be read by ALL kind of people, i mean, experimented
sceners, as well as newbies and casual 'readers', because the purpose of
this magazine is that of adding new people to the scene, and to be a
link and a newsletter for those who are well planted upon it.

To those interested in contributing:

We would be thankful with anyone, (all around the World), who
contributes in any way. (Code, Articles, Party Reports, Art, etc) to the
magazine. Please contact us in any way you can if interested. We are
also looking for editors/stable interviewers/writters and translators.

About the articles:

Those will be accepted in any of this four languages: Spanish, English,
Portuguese and Esperanto. (Esperanto is a language created with the
intention of being used by all world's cultures, and thus to be able of
being linked by a common language.)

Articles could be about anything related to the Scene, even though they
have no direct relationship with Latin-American Scene. We will be
specially thankful if you send tutorials about coding, tracking,
graphics and Party Reports.

My opinion about Latin-American Scene:

I think, if we want to make Latin-American scene grow, apart from
everyone's collaboration in any way, and adding more people to it, we
need to create links between the different countries that belong to it.
Vinyl is the first step into that direction, the next one will be the
Latin-American scene web page.

It's necessary that EVERY scener from the different countries in
Southamerica understands that to make our scene grow we have to support
each other. With this, i mean, to support/participate/travel to the
different parties in Latin America, like Flash Party in Argentina and
Internet Compos like Overseas in Brazil, and the Patada compo in Mexico;
to participate in magazines like this one, scene.org's mailing list or
channels like #scene.sa (Efnet), etc.

- Arlequin, Vinyl Editor