D-29 ---- FIN> Cryzor (93), DJ Ere (music swap, 93), Nelson, Noblehawk, Quedo (93), Rabbit, Slade. SWE> Deathjester, Exact-1, Freeze, Mint, Quedo. NOR> Airhead (Tommy Mortensen, swap, new late 93), Purple Haze (swap, 94). DEN> Adonis, Daffy (Christer Lankholm, swap, 94), Drac (music, new 12/93), Flower Child (music, new 12/93), Guybrush, Guz, Warner (swap, new 12/93). 1994 - The entire Danish division joined Iris in january. This was at least Darkhawk (ex Megalomania [no entry]), other names are uncertain. Swedish swapper Airbrain joined Quartz. Swede D-Lite changed his handle to Dose and joined Chaos AD. New Norwegian division was formed by Airhead. Damage (DMG, 1991-, http://student.oulu.fi/~count/damage/) ---------------------------------------------------------- FIN> 3C (gfx music, 12/91-12/93), Allah (swap trade, 93), Baldis (music, 12/93), Brain (music, 04/92-08/92), Count Zero (WHQ code homepage, 12/91-06/94), Decor8 (gfx, 93-06/94), Dozig (code swap, 02/92-06/94), Jack of Hearts (gfx, 93-06/94), Maxwell (music swap, 10/92-93), Mr.Saku (gfx, 10/92-06/94), MTR (gfx), Shaman (org), STL (Antti Lankila, code, 12/93-06/94), Zandax (music, 02/92-06/94). SWE> Dezecrator (sysop 'HELL AWAITS', later X-Trade), Hellhound (music, 12/92), Lionheart (swap), Supreme (swap). POL> Bednar (Darek Bednarczyk, gfx raytrace, 11/94), Fenix (sysop 'NEMEZIS'). ENG> The Fox. ???> Dragon (pol? raytrace, 08/95), Fender (music, 12/91), Glue (music), Madcat (fin? gfx, 12/91-08/92), Matt (pol? gfx, 12/93), Piter (trade), Scorpion (fin? gfx, 02/92), Van Caco (pol? music, 12/93), Ziemy (gfx, 08/95). Damage is a Finland based demo group, whose Polish division also made some decent productions. Some of the finnish members (count zero, decor8) actually moved down to the c64 later, where they released their first production in december of 1997. 1992 - Renegade left for Fi-Re Crew around the middle of the year. The Hungarian division died ca 06/92. 1996 - Most of the Polish division split up in mid 96. Action (swap, ex Mad Elks, new late 95) joined Anadune. Sitek (gfx raytrace) and Miklesz (Nikolaj Leszczuk, code, both 12/93-08/95) left the Amiga scene; MIklesz in favour of the PC. MGL (music) joined a PC group. I also have news saying he joined Mad Elks late 95... 1997 - Polish swapper and sysop Mephi (94-) left for Amnesty late97. Orion joined Shining 8. Kiviniemi City Blues (1991, 02.12, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: 3C, Madcat, music: Fender. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Zingo, gfx: Bobcat, music: K9. Introduction Intro (1992, 17.02, ECS Intro). code: Dozig, Count Zero, gfx: Scorpion, music: Zandax. Swappers For All (1992, 20.04, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: 3C, music: Brain. Jotain Kaljua ja Gaagnista (1992, 07.06, ECS Intro) code/gfx: Dozig, music: Zandax. info: The title means 'Something Bald and Beautiful'. Damage Report #4 (1992, 25.08, ECS Diskmag). code: Count Zero, gfx: Madcat, music: Brain. Released at Assembly 92. Pallia Kansalle (1992, 19.10, ECS Intro). code: Dozig, gfx: Mr. Saku, music: Maxwell. Hymn 633 (1992? (ADL)/3? (Ed), 29.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: STL, Count Zero, Dozig, gfx: Jack of Hearts, 3C, STL, music: "Endless Autumn" by Zandax, "Metal Maniac" by Fender, "Illusion" --- doesn't work on my version ---, "Fantasy" by Brain, "Shiny Waterfall" by Zandax, "Technoexpress" by Fender, "Intuition" by Brain. info: More and better information on this disk is coming! X-Mas Special (Tolupukkirap) (1993, 24.12, ECS File). code: STL, gfx: 3C, music: Zandax, Baldis. info: Requires 1MB total mem, chip and fast. X-Mass Time (1993, 28.12, ECS File). code: Miklesz, gfx: Matt, Sitek, music: Van Caco. 22nd in The Party 93 demo competition. Cooperation with DTS. Da 2nd Coming (1994, 24.06, AGA? Slideshow). code: Dozig, Count Zero, STL, gfx: Decor, Jack of Hearts, Mr. Saku, music: Zandax. Noxzema (1994, 13.11, AGA 2MB HD Demo, 4 disks). code: Miklesz, gfx: Sitek, Bednar (3D, design), music: MGL. Winner of Gelloween 94 demo competition! Pulp Fiction (1995, 30.08, AGA 4MB File). code: Miklesz, gfx: Sitek, Dragon (additional), Ziemy (additional), music: MGL. 3rd in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. review: PF is not a bad demo, just a little blocky and too techno at times :) Seriously, there are several good routines here, some of which I've never actually seen before - like the waterfall vector. The music is slavishly timed to the demo, almost to the extent where it's too much. The strength that timing music to the effects gave demos like Sanity's "WOC" was largely on the base that they didn't time EVERYTHING to the music; but when they did it was always powerful. PF opens with a cool raytraced logo, and the first effect is a really block gouraud. Fortunately, things do get better as the demo progresses. The plasma zoom and the aforementioned waterfall vectors are nice effects, not to mention the moving lightsource around the 'bukk' (sorry, don't know the English word :D)! Other nice things are the voxel routine and the texturemapping. Overall, this is not a bad demo, though it suffers from the 'trying too hard' syndrome. Less is sometimes more, remember that. It now seems the people that made this have abandoned the Amiga for the PC...on the strength of PF, I'd say that is definitely a loss for the scene. The two 'additional graphicians' I couldn't see mentioned anywhere in the demo... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Damage Inc. ----------- ENG> Andy, Futura, Mulko, Mushroom (old handle Jongle, ex Coma), Si. NOR> Axl, Black Panther, Carrion, Flesh, Goldfinger, Jeff, Lars (Lars Ulimoen, music swap, 93), Malefactor, Messiah, Orion, Scud, Software Error, Stormchild, Teddy Boy, Ziriax. SWE> Norad (sysop 'ACES HIGH'), Nostyx. FIN> Atax, Deltax, Gamma, KLF, Lord Helmet, Zippo. JOR> Mutassem (ex Byte Busters). ???> Pinocchio (music, 12/94). Lots of wellknown guys on the Norwegian memberlist... Superior and Switchblade left. Finnish musician and swapper Saracen (ex Visual Bytes) joined Destiny. Damian ------ GER> Ace, Sol. AUT> Ice MC (sysop 'UNLIMITED SUCCESS' WHQ, 04/95). ???> Achnaton (ex Savage), Amnesia (new 09/92), Axxis (new 09/92), Buzzard (ex Hypnotic, 09/92), Darth Vader (sysop), Hellraiser (new 09/92), Mattrax (new 09/92), Omnitron (new 09/92). Editor Blitter and his mag "The Jungle" are now in X-Trade, but I haven't got a clue how they got there :) 1993 - Andy joined Nuance, and Act joined Outlaws late 93. Toxic left, and Dark joined Design after a short while 09/92. Cosmos was kicked. Cruncher joined Savage. German Devil joined Amnesia. Dream Warrior joined Energy. 501 (ex Desert, old handle Wishbringer) joined Prime. German graphician Friendly (08/93) joined Static Bytes. Proton joined Mexx. The Jungle issue #3 (1993, ECS Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Friendly, music: Tip and Firefox/Phenomena. The Jungle issue #4 (1993, 18.10, ECS Diskmag). info: Full multitasking, HD installable, AGA compatible...in 93! The Jungle issue #5 (1993, 27.12, ECS Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Friendly, music: n/a, editor: Blitter. Released at The Party 93. Damones [old] (1991- http://www.damones.net) -------------------------------------------- FIN> Balthazar (93), Beerman (93), Casket (Tatu Tiala, swap, ex Legend, 93), Cobra (trade, 03/94), Corleone, Darra (93), Dean (music, doublememb CNCD, 93), Drifter (93), Duncan (ex Digital, 93), Eddie and Ice (trade, ex Accession, 03/94), Fraction (code, doublememb CNCD, 93), G.O.D (trade, 03/94), Hifi (sysop 'LAST GENERATION' WHQ, ex Digital, doublememb Alpha Flight, 93), Hoffi (trade, doublememb Byterapers, 03/93-03/94), Irwin (trade, 93-03/94), Kevin (gfx swap sysop, ex Digital, 93), Lapin Juntti (trade, 93-03/94), Merit, Ringo (93), Rotsi (93), Saviour (Savi Ka, code, ex Complex), SS Soldier (trade, ex Fun Factory, 02/93-03/94), T.O.B (ex Byterapers, 93), Trashman (93), Tsunami (code, doublememb Virtual Dreams, 93-03/94), T.U.M.B. (93), Vyvyan (ex Accession, 93), Zados (93). ???> Lappari (ex Black Robes), Lukas (ex Tarkus Team), Pete (ex Tarkus Team). Tormentor never rejoined from Alpha Flight, he was kicked. Finnish members Hex (ex Black Robes), Masasoft (93) and Fulcrum (trade, 03/94) were kicked due to inactivity. Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Digital, 03/94) joined Angels. Finnish Grim (ex Digital) joined Sonic. Finnish sysop Zebra ('THE ZOO', ex Scoopex, new late92-93) joined Accession. Finnish coders Coconut and Flame (both ex The Silents) left to form a new group, called Pygmy Projects. Damones Are Forever (Intro). Pregnant by Punk! (File). Fantasy Space (Slideshow, 2 disks). Cooperation with Positron. Damones [new] (DMS, http://www.damones.net) ------------------------------------------- Damones seem to be based on illegal activities, like cracking. The reason I have written 'new' at the top is that they suddenly appeared again after so much time, it is only fair to have a separator to represent the stretch of time in which they were absent from the scene. I do not know what the relation is between 'old' and 'new' Damones, but one of their recent ascii logos read 'since 1991'. The latest release I have seen was date 03/99. Damones Assembly 98 (1998, 64k Intro). code/gfx/music: n/a (The Player 6.1A format). 8th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: I like the opening of this intro, really stylish with stars travelling around a nice DAMONES logo with www.damones.net underneath... But then they go and spoil everything when the next screen appears =( The tune changes to a really hectic techno variation, and what is obviously supposed to be a bottle of Finlandia Vodka, only with the word DAMONES on the label instead, start spinning around the screen...and as if that was not enough disappointment, then try this on: That's all there is. Nothing more. So I went from thinking, "oh, this has a nice oldskool feeling to it", to a total dislike. The 3d graphics engine used does not really seem too impressive, just standard texturemapping with lightsource as far as I can see, and with an animated background. No credits or even production name appear anywhere inside the intro; the name above is based on the assembly 98 result file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Danger Productions (-1992) -------------------------- SWE> Drain (swap, 05/92), El Diablo (music, 05/92), Harzak (gfx, 05/92), Hijacker (org code, 05/92), Inmate (code, 05/92), LBJ (gfx, 05/92), Mastercarder (code trade, 05/92), Merlin (code, 05/92), Phantom (swap, 05/92), Slash (sysop 'IMPULSE', new 05/92), Trazer (music, 05/92), Ufo (gfx, 05/92), Vindicator (trade, 05/92). Danger Productions were a Swedish based demo group. After struggling though 1992 (Balance's "Magbox #1" [07/92] reported they had only 4 members left) they died late in the year, and most member formed Orient. 1992 - Swedish swapper Skillimoes joined Orient around 06/92. Delta X and Sam Haien was kicked. Firelord got kicked, and then briefly joined 2000 AD 09/92. All Finnish members were kicked out due to lameness 05/92.  Dangtro (1992, mid.05, ECS Intro). code: Hijacker, Merlin (help), gfx: Harzak, Ufo, music: Trazer. review: This opens up looking VERY traditional. The first screen contains the standard setup of (top to bottom) logo - effect - scroller. The effect, this time, is a normal glenz vector. Hardly exciting. I almost started believing that was all there was when it suddenly jumped along to the next effect: a sinescroller and a filled vector object combined. Unfortunately this effect fucked up the display SEVERELY on my machine, filling up the screen with green junk. Then it's back to the first screen again, only with a new logo and a new effect for the endless end scroller. The effect this time around was a glenz with a filled vector cube inside. Get the picture? All together now: SEEN IT A MILLION TIMES BEFORE. Thank you. Oh, BTW the tune's not half bad. It's one of those synth- poppie things I love so much. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Daniax ------ Daniax' is not a very notworthy group in demoscene history except for the fact that famed Danish graphician Slash (later J.A.D.E.) was once a member. Danish graphician Slash joined Kefrens 12/90. Dansktoppen ----------- Dansktoppen is not really a group, but rather a publication for the Danish scene - a sort of local Eurochart. Such a myriad of groups is involved with it, that we have decided to create a separate section for the reviews of these mags. Darkage (DKG, 1997-, http://scene.darkage.it) --------------------------------------------- GER> Dire (writer webmaster, 06/01), Ghandy (Lars Sobiraj, mainorg editor, ex doublememb Gods, new late97-06/01), Sniper (code, 06/01), Stingray (code, ex Secretly, new 04-06/01), Zito (editor, ex Apathy, new early00-06/01). SPA> Dip (Matteo Di Pieri, code, 02/98-06/01). NOR> Bridgeclaw (gfx, doublememb Gods [details], new early00-06/01), Pix (gfx, 02/98-06/01), Punisher (coorg swap write, 06/01). ENG> Genetix (music, 06/01), Mr.Tickle (Peter Gordon, code webmaster, 04- 06/01). SWE> Decibel (gfx, 08/97-06/01). HOL> Gone (editor, 06/01). POL> X-Ceed (music, 06/01). The people listed below this line are no longer members; the split was performed after Ghandy sent me an updated memberlist in june of 2001. I hope to remove this line soon, it's just there to help me develop this in the best way I can! =) ITA> Corrosion (Patrizio Casalengo, music, triplememb Degeneration and Genesis, 08/97-02/98), F.B.Y (music, also in Spyral [pc], 03/97-02/98), Kaosmaster (Franco Scozzari, raytrace edit swap pack "Planet", ex Ram Jam, 08/97-02/98), Lanch (Fabrizio Bartoloni, gfx, 08/97-02/98), Washburn (code, 08/97-02/98). SWE> Hawk (code edit swap, triplememb Giants [details] and Ambrosia, new late97-02/98), Racoon (music, doublememb C-Lous [details], new late97, 12/97-04/01). SPA> DCB (code, new 08/97-02/98), Nork (gfx music swap, doublememb Network [details], 08/97-07/99), The Lawnmower Man (Jesus Reyes Martinez, aka TLM, webmaster edit, 08/97-02/98). Darkage is an Italian based demo group, formed by Modem/Ram Jam in the early days of 1997. They arranged the 'Spoletium' party in Italy in march 1998. When Kaosmaster joined, he had the Ram Jam magchart "Showtime" with him. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] announced the group's birth. Spanish coder DCB joined in august. The group then made it big at The Italian Gathering in the following month, september, by winning both the demo and intro competitions with "Vanilla Drug Overdose" [09/97] and "Crash" [09/97] respectively! Shortly after, Italians EgoLoop (code, 08-09/97) and Aud (music, 09/97) both left the scene. 1998 - English editor Kalf (Tony Landord) decided to leave the scene early in the year, after being heavily criticized in an article in Seenpoint #7. Ghandy, The Lawnmover Man (TLM) and Mod3m stopped swapping early in the year. 2000 - Zito (editor) joined from Apathy, while Norwegian graphician Bridgeclaw doublejoined from Gods early in the year. Cupid (code) left for Iris. In december, the official Showtime site (done by Dire) was officially opened at http://scenet.de/showtime/. 2001 - Graphician SuperK decided to leave the group for Iris. Early this year, the entire group was shocked when italian coder, founder and leader Modem (Paolo D'Urso) finally decided to leave the scene. After some internal discussion, the rest of the members decided to keep the group going, and a new main organizer was elected; Ghandy. April came with the Mekka Symposium party, but the group's sole release this year was the intro "Welcome To Our World II" in cooperation with Iris. After the party however, the group was happily reinforced when talented German coder Stingray joined from Secretly. Stingray immediately begun coding a musicdisk for swedish musician Racoon (to feature graphics by Noogman/Scoopex), but was sidetracked to do the final coding for Showtime. After a few nights of intense work, he could present the latest issue, and "Showtime #16" [04/01] was released on the 26th of april, as the first issue with Zito as main editor. Stingray released a fixed version of Kefrens' musicdisk "Multi Mega Mix" on the 25th of july. Stingray released a fixed version of the old Equinox musicdisk "Sonical Fantasia" on the 18th of august, then a collection of four fixed Crack Inc cracktros on the 25th of august. Glamour (1997, 01.03, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Berzan #19 40k intro competition. Fantasy (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Freedom (1997, 17.06, 64k Intro). code: Mod3m, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 3rd in the Icing 97 64k intro competition. Jurassic Pack #5 Intro (1997, Intro). Ilmarako (1997, 64k Intro). Winner of the Motorola Inside 97 64k intro competition! Morph (1997, 26.07, 4k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: Lanch, music: none. Released at Euskal 97. Drug Vanilla Syndrome (1997, 06.09, AGA File Demo). code: Modem, Washburn, gfx: DeciBel, KaosMaster, music: FBY. Winner of The Italian Gathering 97 demo competition! review: DVS is not a very good demo, unfortunately, despite some good things here and there... Modem coded everything but one single part, which is the best one in the entire demo. First of all, Darkage need to get better graphicians, since the work in DVS is really inadequate...Just one fullscreen pic by DeciBel is any good here. FBY's music is...acceptable. I won't go into the other parts, but Washburn's envmap engine - represented here by a rock-like object over an animated background, all in the unusual color combination yellow/white - is pretty fast and good. And the drug promotion part was REALLY unnecessary, guys... If Ecstasy helps coding, then why aren't you making better demos? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crash (1997, 06.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: Modem, EgoLoop, gfx: DeciBel, music: Aud. Winner of The Italian Gathering 97 64k intro competition! review: "Crash" is an unusual intro, actually - in that its main effect is a a travel along a road with some roadside scenery... It's a showcase for a routine they intend to use in a future game, they say, though we'd recommend working a little more on it before releasing, 'cause hey - it's pretty ugly in its present state :) Don't mean to be critical, Darkage, but the routine looks unattractive in its present state. Perhaps some more work on the textures would help... Another problem with "Crash" is that it's too short - just the intro sequence and the road, and that's it - show over. I find it hard to recommend this intro, unfortunately. Nowhere does it mention any RAM requirements. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Trip 98 Invitation (1997, late, Intro). code: Modem, gfx: n/a, music: Corrosion. review: Another professionally presented invitation intro, this one opens with a euro logo (for some reason) rotated and stretched to the first bars of the cool music. Then the text 'WELCOME TO...' is overlaid. It then fades down before presenting a TRIP logo - which darkens and then the text is overlaid. The text is standard 80 column topaz, no borders or nothing, and is exactly the same as in the text invitation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sublime (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: Decibel, music: Racoon/C-Lous. 2nd in the Saturne 97 (5) 64k intro competition. review: "Sublime" is not all that bad actually, especially the shaded face-mask impressed me. It even features some excellent design, especially in the end where the text DARKAGE THE END floats from the corner of the eye of Decibel's artistically rendered lady... Possibly Modem's best intro ever! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Galaxy - Freedom 2 (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Mod3m, Washburn, gfx: Decibel, music: Racoon. 4th/10th? in The Party 7 40k intro competition. Giuluia (1998, 03.01, 4k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of the Trip 98 4k intro competition! Kill Santa Claus (1998, 03.01, 64k Intro). code: Mod3m, g: n/a, usic: n/a. 2nd in the Trip 98 64k intro competition. Spoletium 98 Invitation Intro (1998, .02, File). code: Modem, gfx: Yure/Degeneration, Nork (endlogo), music: Corrosion. review: A very basic invitation intro, but presented in a professional way, makes this small Darkage prod come out just above average. It opens with a Spoletium 98 logo, and then goes onto the invitation text reader itself. The text is presented on an animated, swirling background, but it doesn't retract from the reading experience. The intro is finished off with a Darkage logo by Nork. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Showtime #9 (1998, .02, AGA Diskmag). GAL - code: Modem, gfx: Orome/Talent (title pic), MRK (panel), music: Nork. MAG - code: Randy, Modem (improvements), gfx: Orome/Talent (title pic), Loop, Made, Pix, music: Maf/Syndrome, editor: Kaosmaster. review: The first thing that strikes you about the mag part of Showtime #9 is the nice music. It's a sort of sunny, happy reggae beat that sets the mood for some nice melodies. You can almost see the music video for this tune: the band all relaxed on a beach, drinking cool drinks from coconuts :) Orome's title picture is also a nicely done piece of art, and sets the mood nicely for the read ahead. Contentwise, I'm not so impressed with Showtime, they still have a little way to go before they're at the top of the heap. The most important thing they might consider is taking a little more time to delete some of the articles they're receiving. Right now it looks a little too much like they're publishing everything the cat drags in the door :) OK, that's harsh and perhaps a little unfair, but the focus of the mag could be greatly improved by removing a few of the more unnecessary articles. Visually, Showtime looks pretty good - in most cases. While I'm a little unsatisfied with the graphics for the mag part - especially the unreadable icons irritated me a little - there are places where it really shines. The graphics for the excellent chart section of Showtime were done by Made, and are - as usual for him - of excellent quality. Very very nice! The same goes for MRK's (another favorite of mine!) graphics for the Gallery section. IMHO they should use that instead of the panel graphics for the main mag part they use now. I will do things 'a little backwards' here, and review the gallery part of Showtime last :) Orome delivers another title picture, before we get to the gallery part itself. It reminded me a lot of the classic, original gallery - the one in the Crusaders' "EuroCharts". Nerve Axis' intro, "Sentient Ore", has been reviewed under Nerve Axis' own section of Scenery. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Art Nouveau - Freedom 3 (1998, 12.04, 40k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: DeciBel, music: Racoon. 7th in the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competition. reviwed: Not released to the public until may 98. Breeze Now (1999, 21.03, 4k Intro). code: Mod3m, Dip, gfx: none, music: none. 5th in the Astrosyn 99 4k intro competition. Under Pressure (1999, 23.07, Demo). code: Dip, gfx: Zack, music: Nork. 2nd in the Euskal Party 7 demo competition. Welcome To Our World (2000, 23.04, AGA File). code/gfx/music: Mr.Tickle, Cupid. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: Ooooooooookay... This 'demo' is a very Monty Python-y kind of affair, recommended only if you care for that particular brand of humour. And we're talking OLD monthy Python here, the weird-animation-kind, complete with a blippy soundtrack with frequent dog barking on it =) I found this small exercise humorous and entertaining, and even though it's all done with tongue firmly planted in cheek, it seems competently enough put together. The demo runs smoothly and troublefree on my machine. Please note that this review refers to the 'final' version, released a small while after the party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Neo (2000, 23.04, Demo). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. Showtime #10 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #11 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #12 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #13 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #14 (2000, spring, AGA Diskmag). Showtime #15 (2000, AGA Diskmag). Showtime #16 (2001, 26.04, AGA File Diskmag). INT - code/gfx: Loaderror/Ephidrena, music: Zixaq. GAL - code: Stingray, gfx: Asarhad/Reason (title), Cheetah/Ephidrena (main), music: "Pink Glasses" by Factor6/Reason. MAG - code: Randy, Stingray (additional), Modem/ex Darkage (additional), gfx: Slayer/Appendix (title), Cheetah/Ephidrena (main), Zito (clipart), Wade/Scoopex (clipart), Da Freak/VTX (clipart), music: "Shadowlands" by Curt Cool/Depth, "Nautic" by Dascon/Iris, "A Night In June" by Isaac/Contraz and "Uniiki Punikki" by The Hooligan/DCS, editor: Zito (main), Ghandy, Dire. review: Well, first impressions always come with the intro, and this time it's done by those productive guys from Ephidrena. It's a slightly gloomy lil' thing, with the best part of it being the one where shaded pieces of paper fall from the top of the screen and the backdrop looks like pages from a newspaper, nice. But we're here to review a mag not an intro, and I'm rearing to go, so: doubleclicking that file we go! =) Impressions of the title picture and the first page of text are generally good, though the main font bothers me a little... Can't explain why, just don't give me the right vibe =) Anyhow this, the 16th issue, is the first with Zito as main editor. Browsing the articles first, I find a lot of the interesting things here are of the 'retro' variety - Allister Brimble has some music on mp3.com, Jester/Pygmy Projects working with 100% Prophets! Diskmags used to tell you the entire story in the old days, whereas now they explain the general situation and give you a link to paste into your webbrowser... But with the internet gaining strength, I guess this is the future, like it or not. I found the articles concerning the ShaneTheWolfTheDog (now THERE'S an original nickname!) affair highly amusing, and it pleases me to see the Showtime staff brave enough to present both sides of the story, even when one blatantly opposes Darkage. The main editorial problem with this issue, the way I see it, is that it's been so long since the last issue that this one has too much material to cover... There are LOTS of party reports and results here, for most parties that took place since the last issue, and some of these are like 6 months old, but that's not the point. In the old days, a mag like ROM would cover a big event like The Party over MANY pages - not just a short report and results, but pictures from the event, interviews with the winners (and losers), etc. These reports only scratch the surface of what could be done =( The 'diary' (news) and 'charts' sections are fair, nothing special about them. I see little point in the diary section, which could just as well have been a part of the mag. The 'Gallery' is a separate file, and opens with a VERY stylish "Showtime" title picture by Asarhad/Reason. The gallery is nicely done, and was coded completely anew for this issue by Stingray. For the secret part he mentions in the scroller, type 'WADE'! =) The birth of the 16th issue of Showtime was a somewhat troubled one... Just before this issue, long-time coder of the mag Modem finally decided to leave the scene - which left the mag without a coder! Luckily some solace was found in ex-Secretly member Stingray who said he would undertake the coding responsibilities. He was sent the ShowTime sources, and was immediately taken aback by the fact that it was A MESS! He totally recoded the gallery, and fixed what he could on the mag itself. All this is explained in an accompanying note, where he also promises to recode the entire mag and give it a new outfit for the next issue! [glenn] Jurassic Pack #8 (2001, 24.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag). INT - produced by Mankind, no credits =( MAG - code: Mr.Tickle, gfx: Noogman/Scoopex (title), Bridgeclaw/Darkage^ Gods (title), Budgie/100% Prophets^Layout (panels), Malmis/Nature (clipart), music: "C-Type" by Mice/Zenon, "Boutique" by Dascon/Iris, "Superclear" by SuperNao/TBL, "The Four Seasons" by Chris Meland/ Noiseless Productions, "In A Blue Dream" by Virgill & Blackthorne, editors: Ghandy (main), Zito (main), Gone/Darkage^Void (staff). review: After the humorous cartoon-style intro was rounded off with an excellent logo, we can double-click the icon for the 'pack' itself... I must say expectations from this mag was high, partly because I knew it was using Mr.Tickle's magengine (previously used for two issues of "Devotion" from Nah-Kolor and Haujobb), and partly because I had been party to the enthusiasm Zito and Ghandy had shown for the project in the weeks and months prior to its release. And the result of their efforts, to be frank, is actually quite good. It seems as if being freed from the reins of making a pure 'news' mag (like Showtime), the two editors have been allowed to let their creativity blossom without the burdens of a definite deadline. There are still a lot of 'news' related material here, with a lot of stuff about the controversy surrounding 3Amigos and the 'TG incident', which dates back to april. Actually, the tone of this mag reminds me very much of ROM (a mag Ghandy does not exactly share my views on.... :), with a lot of topical articles spotlighting recent important productions. And speaking of ROM, even that mag's old editor Mop gets spotlighted here! The amiga and pc scenes are forever bridging the gap between them, and this mag is another step in that direction. It's been a trend recently in pc scene mags that they are now showing increased respect towards the c64 and amiga scenes (where in the past they had none), and this especially manifests itself in mags like Pain and Hugi on that scene. Ghandy has had articles in both those magazines, and the editors of both (Unlock/Vantage and Adok/Hugi) also write for this mag. This means some 'crossposting' of articles - slightly irritating for those of us who read mags on both platforms :) - but also means articles of a general interest to the scene reach more readers and hopefully cause more awareness of each other. This is, officially, a GOOD THING! :) Audio-visually speaking, then. Like the "Devotion" engine has always done, it has two title pictures, and you only get to see one each time. So in order to see both, start the mag twice =) This time both are actually great, done as they are by respected oldskool graphicians Noogman/Scoopex and Bridgeclaw/Darkage^Gods. The all-new panels were done by Budgie/100% Prophets^Layout, and though they are mainly texture-based, and made in a lovely shade of sickening green, they are also clean and word reasonably well. Only the 'index' button bothers me slightly, but perhaps that's just me. The backgrounds also work reasonably well for once, which has certainly not been the case with all mags that have attempted this approach... No less than five modules are provided, with some by scene personalities that I actually never had thought I would hear from on the amiga again... like SuperNao and Chris Meland! I don't know if these are real comebacks or just old, unused tunes but either way I welcome the chance to hear these! Of the five, I would have to say Chris Meland's sits the best in my ears. So, to sum it up then? I must admit I haven't had the time to read this mag 'cover to cover' yet, though I plan to do so later tonight or early tomorrow. First impressions after 45 minutes of browsing the articles, though, are very very good. Interesting articles that I look forward to reading completely through, and an appealing user interface... What more can you ask for? The mag engine is a tried and tested one that works great, looks great and performs great. The 'new' JP is a force to be reckoned with, now and in the future. Please note that I myself had articles published in this mag, and that I as a result perhaps disqualify myself from doing a non-partial review. I just write this, so that noone will misunderstand and say that I had alterior motives for giving the mag a good review. I gave it a good review because I liked it, and for no other reason. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dark Circle (-1993) ------------------- Dark Circle is dead, and all their members joined Platin; this includes germans Phantom (sysop 'HEAVEN'S GATE'), Joke (sysop 'DARK CENTER') and Freezer. Dark Demon, The (TDD) --------------------- GER> Denon (music, 10/92-05/93), Destroyer (Nicolai, swap, early93), Dire (swaporg sound edit, later Eremation, 05/93-05/94). ???> Amducias (music, 03/94), Celeborn (Marc Moysich, mainorg gfx music sysop 'EXCALIBUR', 05/93-05/94), Creature (gfx music, 10/92-05/94), Don (gfx, 07/93), E-Lixir (Ronald Doberenz, gfx swap, old handle Capricorn, 03-05/94), Exage (code gfx, 07/93-03/94), E-Y (code, old handle Mohinda, 03-05/94), ET (edit, 10/92-05/94), Extron (code, 05/94), Fleg (code gfx, 10/92-05/94), Frone (pack 'Fonestorm', re- Atomic late93), Leo II (code gfx music, 05/93-05/94), Nici (cosys, 05/94), Nightstalker (swap editor, 05/94), Pennywise (tradepc edit, 10/92-05/94), Phil (sysop WHQ, 05/94), Red Star (gfx, 07/93), Secret (music, 10/92), Shed (ex Willow), Snoopy (ex Argon), Suicide (swap, female!, 05/94), Zakko (gfx, 05/94). Finnish Judas Priest (ex Digital Artists Inc, old handle Reaper) left. Germans Devil and TDMF joined Cult. Another place in the mag it said Devil joined Amnesia before moving on to Mexx. Generation #6 says just that Devil joined Mexx. Cruncher/Savage joined, but left after a few days for Cult. Frone rejoined after being in Atomic a few weeks. Rebel MC joined Byte Busters. Midnite Mess issue #1 (1992, .10, ECS Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Creature, music: Denon, Secret, Editors: Pennywise, ET. Burning Spear (1993, Demo). Midnite Mess #2 (1993, .05, Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Fleg, Creature, music: Denon, Celeborn, Leo 2, editor: Pennywise, Dire. info: Generation #6 said it would be released in January [93], so I guess it was delayed! It seems ET was replaced by Dire as editor. Crying Fields BBS Intro (1993, .07, ECS Intro). code: Fleg, gfx: Celeborn, Red Star, Exage, Don, music: Leo 2. Midnite Mess issue #3 Announcetro (1994, .03, ECS Intro). code: Exage, E-Y, gfx: E-Lixir, music: Leo 2. Midnite Mess issue #3 (1994, .03, ECS Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Fleg, Creature, Chaos/Desire, music: Amducias, Creature, Leo II. Released at CeBIT 94. Dark Demons (-1992) ------------------- Dark Demons were a demo group based in France. The entire group (Crown, Witness, Q.Horse, Miss Blind and Synchrose) joined Cryptoburners, forming their French division. Dark Millennium --------------- FIN> Axe, Bubble, Kharon, Lone Soldier, Sensei, Shade. Dark Millennium released some intros around 93. Darkness (http://www.giga.com.ar/randy/darkness.htm) ---------------------------------------------------- SPA> Amiga Vice (gfx, 12/94-95), Dolby (music), Estrayk (music swap, later Capsule, 09/92-12/94), Evelred (music, earlier 5th Generation, later Capsule, 12/94), Salva (music, 09/92), Spanish Archer (code, 09/92), Thorin (music, ex Fusion, new 09/92), Troglobyte (Manuel Martin Vivaldi, org code, 12/94-11/96), Unico (music, 12/94-95), Warlock (gfx, 09/92). FRA> Darken (code), Flint (code), Papagayo (code), Rafale (mainorg gfx, 01/98), Sph (gfx). ARG> Keywiz (sysop 'DIGITAL PSYCHOSIS', 04/95), Madbit (sysop 'THE RAVE FACTORY', 04/95). AUT> Ayatollah (sysop 'THE SOURCE', 04/95). ???> Magnum (gfx, 95), PSB (spa? code, 01/98). Darkness is based in Spain, and several of their members are now members of Capsule. TrogloByte is the author the utility "HTMLess". They coarranged the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92, the first ever Spanish party. 1996 - Rogue joined Dylem late 96. Party Invitation (1992, Demo). Made in cooperation with 5th Generation. Roboticool (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). Winner of the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competiton! Rotator (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competiton. Intro (1992, 28.09, ECS Intro). Code: Spanish Archer, Gfx: n/a, Music: Estrayk. Released at the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92. Oriol (1993, 24.07, Intro). Winner of the Southern Party 93 intro competition! Kustom (1993, 24.07, Intro). 3rd in the Southern Party 93 intro competition. Troglobyte (1993, 24.07, Demo). Winner of the Southern Party 93 demo competition! In Progress (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Troglobyte, gfx: Amiga Vice (anim), music: Evelred and Estrayk. Winner of the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition! review: These guys are probably the first ever group to actually WIN a DEMO competition with an average quality 70k intro! There's nothing particularly exciting or new about this intro, no outstanding effects, graphics or music... The competition must have been AWFUL :) OK, I'm not saying this just to put down the intro; as such, it's an OK production with quite a lot of effects for only 70k, but isn't excellent in any respect. The animations of the dancing woman are stored in the file as an IFF animation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dog (1994, 28.12, ECS File). code: Troglobyte, gfx: n/a, music: Estrayk. 2nd in the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition. Play (1995, File). code: Troglobyte, gfx: Amiga Vice, Magnum (girl pic), music: Unico. review: Amazingly boring and uninteresting is this demo. It mixes single colored effects with a lot of "State of the Art" inspiration into what is a true mess of a production. Avoid. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Long Trip (1998, 03.01, 64k Intro). code: PSB, gfx: Rafale, music: Corrosion/Darkage. Winner of the Trip 98 64k intro competition! Dark Reign ---------- ???> Claw (music, 12/92). Sunset (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). Released at The Party 92. Darkside -------- Frog joined Image. Dark Star (DST) --------------- GER> Badguy (Axel Quack, swap), Pedalta (swap). ???> Magic. German coder Grey joined Cryptoburners. Al Bundy left to join Arise, but after ahving problems with the police, he left the scene. Dash ---- ???> Archon (code, 12/92), Gamma (gfx, 12/92), Roxal (code), Warlock (music, 12/92). Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Archon, gfx: Gamma, music: Warlock. 22nd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Data Division (DD) ------------------ NOR> Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', 06/97). ???> Animal (code keyfilemakers, 03-04/97). Dazzle (1990-) -------------- SWE> Baze (founder gfx), Celegrome (sysop 'MIDDLE EARTH' WHQ), Classic (founder music), Elrond (founder code gfx), Necron (founder code music), Nifer (founder swap), Stinger (founder gfx music), Stirge (founder trade), The Violator (founder allrounder), Zaq (founder code, 09/92). ???> Nevada (ex Massive, 09/92), Nightmare (sysop, new mid91), Scythe (music, ex X-Trade, new mid91). Boards; MORRISON HOTEL (swe). Dazzle was formed by some Swedish ex-members of The Rubberduck Crew [no entry] who felt that group got a bit too lame; this concerns a.o. Elrond. The first Dazzle demo, "Zkloff" [90] was originally intended to be a Rubberduck-demo :) Swedish swapper Mike B (old handle Gizmo) left to join X-Trade. Wizard, Scythe (Sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION', ex X-Trade) and Chrome joined Enigma. Mr.Frenzy joined Massive mid 91. Rage and Silk (new mid 91) rejoined Impurity mid 91. Guildmaster (sysop) joined Voice with his board mid 91. Blaze changed his name to Payday and joined Wizzcat mid 91. Zkloff (1990, late, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Elrond, music: "Necmettall2" by Necron. review: Chaotic is the word I'd apply to the first ever Dazzle demo! There's stuff lying around all over the place, so it almost looks like megademo from 1988 with absolutely no sense of design!! Yowzers... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. DD Style -------- SWE> Citruz (sysop 'PHOENIX 2', 01/95), Scroud (sysop 'ATLANTIC', 01/95). Deadline (DLN, 1989-) --------------------- FIN> Citizen (code, ex Desire, old handle Venture, 10/92), Colonel (Sami Leino, swap, ex Zenith, old handle Tonec), Doc.X (code, ex Razkels, 08/92), Wailer. ???> Cybermonks (music, 06/92), Lloyd (editor, 06/92), Rhino (gfx, 06/92). Deadline was originally a Norwegian group, which eventually devloped a Finnish section that became more successful than the main group. The Norwegian members were coarrangers of one of the earliest editions of The Gathering. Later the Norwegian part of Deadline merged with main Gathering organizers Crusaders, and these Norwegian members probably went along: Freaky Angel (confirmed), Jellyfish (code), Mike (confirmed), Shady (confirmed), TDK. 1992 - They cooperated with Crusaders on the invitation for The Gathering 92 [01/92], and coarranged the party with them in april. The finnish section was born by Mellow-D and Doc.X from Razkels in the spring. Nutcase, Roland and Visage joined from Eremation. They released several productions before the end of the year; "1st Intro" [08/92], "Mustro" [09/92], "Notelines" [fall/92], "Dentro" [10/92] and finally "Xmas Intro" [12/92]. By this time the Norwegian section had stopped releasing stuff altogether. 1993 - The finnish division died in the spring of 93. Many members - at least Dionysus (code, 12/92-), Bad Karma (swap pack music), Nutcase (code gfx music, 02/92-) and Xendi (gfx swap, 10/92-) - joined Balance between june and october. Information that Bad Karma joined Atomic seems to be incorrect. Sysop Roland ('SATISFICTION', ex Eremation) stayed independent until he closed his board in 95, and graphician Visage (ex Eremation, 08/92-) also decided to stay independent. Both have now returned to the scene in Mandel Bros in the year2000! This group also features Nutcase. Finnish coder Lopez left the scene. Finnish coder Flashburn was kicked. Finnish coder Jagannath joined Shining 8. Finnish musician Mellow-D bought a PC and left the Amiga scene 10/92. He joined Sonic PC sometime between 01 and 06/93. Finnish HQ, graphician and swapper Xendi (08-10/92) joined Balance. Finnish coder, graphician and musician Nutcase (02/92-) left 04/93 and stayed independent for two months, then joined Balance 06/93. Finnish swapper and packer Casket (old handle Tatu) joined Legend. Norwegian musician Jason joined Kefrens new. Norwegian board 'THE PYRAMID' got busted. Born (1989, 07.08, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Valeria Part 2" by n/a. 20th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition. info: This intro signalled the birth of the group, and the names behind the text in the intro was Tile and Jesus - so these two are probably the founders? Music Pack (ECS Intro). The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Crusaders [details]. Resident issue #1 (1992, 05.06, ECS Filemag). code: Cray/Arctic Image, gfx: Rhino, music: Cybermonks, editor: Lloyd. Flatliners (1992, 17.08, ECS Intro). code: Doc.X, gfx: Nutcase, music: "walk_with_me++" by Mellow-D (4ch MOD format). review: A nice little intro with good graphics and a fast fractal generator from the finnish division - and their first intro for Deadline! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mustro (1992, 14.09, ECS Intro). code/music: Nutcase, gfx: Visage. Notelines (1992, fall, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Paraside/independent, gfx: Xendi, Visage, Nutcase, music: Mellow-D, Nutcase. info: Paraside was NOT a member, just a friend of the group. Dentro (1992, .10, ECS Intro). code: Venture, gfx: Xendi, Visage, music: Nutcase. Xmas intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Dionysos, gfx: Xendi, music: Nutcase. Deadline Design (1994-1995) --------------------------- Deadline Design was a swedish demo group, formed in 1994 by Axy/Sagazity, with the best members of that group. The founding members were Axy (org gfx sysop 'STATE 69'), Blade (music), Rade (code) and Butch (code). The group managed to release one intro before all members got very inactive. So DD was also declared dead, likely in early 95. Axy and Blade formed another group, Bodyworks. Deadlock -------- Deadlock was a danish group, most notable for being an early group for later scene celebrities like Mad Freak and Zinko. Mad Freak joined Brainstorm. Some ex-members helped form Serious. Danes Zinko and Thunderbyte joined Majic 12. Death Defiers (-1992) --------------------- Death Defiers changed their name to Defiance late 92. Death Row --------- ???> Wave (code, 12/95), Zoomorph (gfx music, 12/94-12/95). Snow (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Wave, gfx/music: Zoomorph. 23rd in The Party 95 40k intro competition. review: You gotta be kidding me... These guys can't be serious!? Ok, what we have here is an intro with competent music, and...vector cubes!? Yep, that's as advanced as it gets. There's a little snow, a couple of vector cubes and a blocky picture of a woman in a bathing suit. The End. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Flora Borntro (1996, 06.07, Demo). 9th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Tramp (1997, 30.08, Demo). 10th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Deathstar (-1989) ----------------- FIN> Apol (Ari Laine, code, new 89), Drucer (code music, 04-07/89), Gloryboy (89), Hackman (gfx, 89), Hippo (crack, old handle Lonely Rider), Icebreaker, Jason (music, 07/89), LouLou Becane (89), Mucky Pup (gfx, 89), Overlord (gfx, 07/89), Scenic (89), Sir Monkey, Smithson (89), Softhunter, Sulky Fellow (code, later Vertigo, 89), Viz, Watchman (music, 06-07/89), Zeizei. SWE> Equinoxer (music). ???> Asia (gfx, 89), Dark Light (fin? music, 89), Doctor DNA (fin? code, 89), Hammer (gfx, 89), Leonid (gfx, 89), Miguel (89), Suicide (89), Willow (fin? gfx, 07/89). Deathstar was an old Finnish demogroup, that died in 1989 after changin their name to Animate. Party (1988, .11, ECS Multifile Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sky.04" (15ch SoundTracker format). Released at The Jungle Command party. Bob Outburst (1989, .04, ECS File). code/gfx: Drucer, music: "B S t" by Drucer (4ch MOD format). Deadly Jammin -equa (1989, ECS Demo). code: Dr.Dma, gfx: Leonid (logo), Hammer (font), music: "Expressway" by Watchman. info: Little is known about this demo, except it was released after SoundTracker 2.3. Ham Magic (1989, 14.06, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Drucer, music: Watchman (15ch SoundTracker format, no name). Deadly Jammin 2 (1989, .07, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Drucer, gfx: Willow (font), Overlord (city), music: Jason, Unknown Artist, Watchman (all 15ch SoundTracker format). Fatal Mistake (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Sulky Fellow, music: "Coolballad(Part2)" by Unknown Artist. Debut (1989, ECS Demo). code: Apol, gfx: Zei (logo), Apol (others), music: "Sweet Dreams" by Dark Light (4ch MOD format). info: Made to announce Apol joined Deathstar. My Home Town (1989, ECS File). code/gfx: Apol, music: "Adagio 89" by Dark Light (4ch MOD format). Blasting (1989, ECS File). code/gfx: Drucer, music: "Watchman-Super" by Watchman (15ch SoundTracker format). Megademo (1989, ECS Trackloaded Megademo, 2 disks). code: Drucer, gfx: Hackman, Mucky, Asia, Zei, music: "Deathstar", "Loadermuzak", "Klicking" by Jason, "Benny Hill Theme", "Jason Takes Crown", "Parting Song", "Mysharona", "Delta", "Leavinf", "Pacific", "Watchman-25.12" by Watchman. The Vector Scroller (ECS File), code: Dr.Dma, Drucer, gfx: Drucer, Dr.DMA, music: Equinoxer (??). info: This intro announced Equinoxer had joined in Sweden. Sulky Fellow 1 (1989, ECS Intro). code: Sulky Fellow, gfx: n/a, music: "Vector" by Watchman (4ch MOD format). Move Your Mouse (1989, ECS Demo). code: Dr.Dma, gfx: Willow (logo), music: "Tune" by ??? info: This intro announced Watchman was kicked out, and that Deathstar would reform under the name Animate. Deca Projects ------------- ???> Dai (gfx, 94). Techno Hangover (1994, early/mid, ECS Disk). Code: n/a, Gfx: Dai, Music: n/a Decade (DCD, 1991-) ------------------- GER> Chris (founder mainorg trade, 04/92), Duck (Jens Wippermann, music, ex Prologic, new 06-12/91), Gandalf (sysop 'LOS ENDOS'), Ghost (code crack), Jade (founder mainorg trade, 04/92), Krypton (ex Venture, new 04/92), Mr.Hell (sysop 'SUDDEN DEATH', ex TRSI), Nutribrain, Rygar (org?, 08-12/90), Speedlock (sysop 'LIGHT HOUSE'), Spider (code crack trade exsysop, ex Tarkus Team), Sting (ex Prologic, new 06/91), Vindex. SWE> Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE', 93). USA> Andy (trade sysop, 04/92), Midnight Maniac (trade sysop, 04/92). ???> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS, 93), Darkstar (sysop 'THE UNFORGIVEN', 93), Dr.Darkness (sysop 'CEMETERY', 93), Gandalf (sysop 'LOS ENDOS', 93), Intec Systems (sysop 'WEIRD DREAM', 93), Iron Eagle (ger? ex Tarkus Team), Lance (trade, 04/92), Nikko (trade, 04/92), Plauze & Front (artwork trade, 04/92), Metal Force (sysop 'MERCIFUL FATE', 93), Mr.Beat (music, 10/91), Nitro (sysop 'TOTAL DESTRUCTION' opened 10/91), Oli (sysop 'DISTRIBUTION SIDE', 93), Q (sysop 'WEIRD DREAMS', old handle Bolero, new early93), Rich (gfx, 08-10/91), Runt (ex Amnesia), Secam (sysop 'NORTHSTAR LAND', 93), Targan (sysop 'DIGITAL CRIME', 93), T.C.T. (ger? gfx, new 06-08/91), Terminator (ger? ex Tarkus Team), Ultimate Warrior (trade sysop, 04/92), White Knight (sysop 'BIGGER'N' DEFFER', 93), Zoonie (den? sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', ex LSD, new early93). Boards; LAST RESORT (new 04/92). Decade were a German-based group formed in september 1991, mainly dealing in the modem scene, but also releasing the odd crack and demo. The two organizers are Chris and Jade (collectively known as the Booze Brothers :), who were in crews like The Company and Valhalla before founding Decade. Chris joined with a board called 'LOST ISLAND', which is now closed. After a while, some of the leading members felt the crew was being let down by some of the other members, who they didn't want to kick since they were old friends. The solution was to let the crew die in january 1992, only to revive it three months later with ELITE only members. Spider closed his board 'DREAM PARK' in late 1992 or early 93. 1992 - January saw the release of the "Decade is Dead" [01/92] intro, in which they announced that coder and graphician Electron (03/91) left the scene, Jim Beam and Jonny Walker left for another group, and Milkracer (code train, 03/90) left for Zylon. Nico left for Accession around october. Creator joined Elevation. German graphician Silicon Master was kicked mid 91, and an intro called "Anti Silicon Master" [08/91] was released. Do-X (ex Timex, new mid 91) joined UDO. Paralax Imbecility (1991, ECS Demo). code: Electron. gfx: Electron (font, vectors), music: "Devastator" by Devastator/Miranda. Delta Run (1990, 14.03, ECS Trainer Intro). code: Electron, gfx: X-Out, music: "Rebels!!!" by 4-Mat/Anarchy. Party (1991, 19.05, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: T.C.T., music: "Heavy-Sound" by Mr.Beat. Released at the Maximum Pleasure party. Royal Amiga Conference (1991, 30.05, ECS Intro). code: Milkracer, gfx: Silicon Master, music: "Introsoong" by n/a (4ch MOD format). Kick Out (1991, .06, ECS File). code: Electron , gfx: Rich, music: "Prisoner of Love" by Duck (4ch MOD format). Anti Silicon Master (1991, .08, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: T.C.T., Rich (vectorballs), music: "Dubidud" by Duck. The Decade BBS Intro (1991, .10, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: Rich (logo), ???/Scoopex (font), music: "Only A Song" by Mr.Beat. Hanging Around (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Electron, gfx: Rygar (vectors), ???/TRSI (font), music: "Don't Care Anymore" by Duck (4ch MOD format). Released at the Prime Party. Decade Is Dead (1992, .01, ECS File). code: Electron, Milkracer, gfx: Rich, music: "Sonic Dreams" by Peter Salomonson/Pure Metal Coders (4ch MOD format). The BBS Intro '93 (1993, ECS Intro). code: Electrom, gfx: D-Sign/The Silents (logo), music: n/a (NoisePacker 3 format). Decay (1990-) ------------- AUS> Lord Foul (sysop 'ZERO CITY'), Metalic (swap, 07/90), Rockstar (sysop 'DEVASTATION PHASE 1'). Decay was formed ca 07/90 by Abel, Freedom Force & Amiga Industries and Kreator/Force. Decept ------ FIN> Defjef, Dizzy (music, later Dual Crew, 91), Metal (sysop 'TURPENTINE TRIP', later Parallax), Simply (code, later Parallax). NOR> Party Snatcher. Decept was a Finland base demo group, which had some future stars on their memberlist, like Dizzy and Simply! When they died, their members joined Black Robes and Parallax. Simply and the Metal went to Parallax, at least. Raider joined Network. Finnish musician and swapper Daddy Freddy joined Spirit. Finnish Stratos and Guru joined Complex. Finnish board 'TURPENTINE TRIP' joined Parallax. Frequenz joined Amaze. In Amaze, he was a sysop - whether he had his board while in Decept I don't know. Turpentine Trip (ECS Intro). code: Simply, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (NoisePacker 3 format). review: This is just a simple intro for the bbs of the same name. It's just a glenz vector with the name and number overlayed; no credits appear except for the single word 'SIMPLY' in the bottom left corner. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Decision (DCN) -------------- GER> Acid-Jesus (supply trade sysop, sys new 06/96), Al Bundy (trade), Coatl (trade sysop), Cyberwar (trade, 03/95), Famous o'Hack (crack), Homeboy (trade), Hysteria (trade), I.Wahn (publicrelations), Index (ascii trade), Lemmon (sysop, new 06/96), Mick (tradeorg, 03/95), Mosh (trade sysop), Nino (trade), Orfeus (trade), Picard (trade sysop), Picasso (gfx), Rebel! (trade), RTM (crackorg keyfilemakers, later Digital Corruption, 03/96-98), Saxon (trade sysop), Scandic (founder mainorg), TranceTip (code), Unikom (trade, new 06/96), Zaphodd (gfxorg). DEN> Enzo (trade sysop 'SKY TOWER', new 06/96). SWE> Crisp (trade sysop 'CYBERGARDEN', new 06/96). SWI> Turbo (trade), Virus (trade sysop). USA> The Skeleton (sysop 'DAWN OF ETERNITY'). ???> Gator (03/95), L.A.Style (03/95), Magnetic (03/95), Monty (03/95), Mr.Sony (03/95), Rage (03/95), Slac (code keyfilemakers, 03-05/95), Vadium (03/95). Boards; THE RISING HOPE WHQ (03/95), FASTFILESYSTEM WHQ, MADE IN GERMANY EHQ, EMPIRE PALACE EHQ (03/95), PARADISE LOST (ger), FLYING DRAGON (ger), POINT OF NO REPEAT (ger distsite), NUCLEAR RESEARCH (ger distsite), ROUTE 69 (distsite), THE DANZIG (ger), TERMINAL OBSESSION (ger, 03/95), PENTAGON PALACE (ger, 03/95), FORTRESS (ger, 03/95), VIRTUAL ENERGIE (03/95). Decnite ------- FIN> Dean (ex Balance), Deceiver (swap), Dime (Antti Mustakallio, music, also in Chaos [pc], 08-12/93), Dionysus (ex Balance), Echo & Guido (traders, 03/94), Hitchy (music, 02/93), HST-Bullah (trade, 03/93), Jam (trade sysop 'STATION X OMEGA', 03/93-04/95), James (music, ex Balance, 12/93), Jaws (trade sysop 'CYCLONE CENTER', doublememb Digital, later Humane, 03/94), Tukan (gfx trade, 93-03/94), Whizz (93). ???> Hotshots (trade), Mr.Partyman (sysop 'POOH' EHQ), Slender (fin? code, 02/93), Slite (fin? code, 08/93), Tucan (gfx, 02-08/93), Yammu (fin? code, 08/93). Decnite is a Finland based demo group formed by ex members of World Industries. It is most probable that they are exclusively Finnish. 1993 - Ikon was kicked, and joined Compact mid 93. Finnish members Kristen (trade sysop, ex Alpha Flight, 03/94), and Wasp (code, 93) left. Finnish members DCD (code, new mid 93), TMC (gfx, 02/93), and Visualize joined Parallax. Finnish sysop Jam ('STATION-X-OMEGA', 93) moved away to study, so the board is down. Finnish member Mercus (93) was kicked. Norwegian swapper Highlight (old handles Tommy and Speed Devil) joined Scoopex. Finnish trader Klutz joined Alpha Flight. The Party 92 Slideshow (1993, .02, ECS Slideshow). code: Slender, gfx: Tucan, TMC, music: Hitchy. Mass Technology (1993, 09.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Yammu, Slite (vector), gfx: Tucan, music: Dime. Released for the Assembly 93 40k intro competition, but was unplaced. review: Nice design rather than innovative routines are this intro's main asset. The routines are nothing special, and neither are the graphics. The sum of the two is greater than the parts, however, and therefore this comes out looking not all that bad. Fun music by Dime also helps, I guess. Nothing that will stick in my mind, though. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Magnet 2 (1993, .11?, ECS Filemag). code: Wasp, gfx: Tukan, TMC, music: Dime, Hitchy, editors: Wasp, Jam. Deep (1996-) ------------ POL> Grzes (founder org, ex TRSI, old handle Greg). ???> Comanche (gfx, ex Obsession), Hades (music, ex Casyopea, new 06/96), Steve Jones (org swap, ex Anathema), Sun!dance (gfx ascii). Deep is a new Polish group formed by Greg/ex TRSI 06/96. Defcon 1 (DC1, 1990-) --------------------- GER> Survivor (ex Prologic), Tyrant (swap, ex Adept). ENG> Quazar (sysop 'MADCAP'). ???> Sledge (ex Alpha Flight, new late90). Defcon One was born in 1990 after the group Onyx changed their name. 1991 - DJ Cat and Dr.Cubase got kicked mid 91. Frantic left the scene in the middle of 91. Terror, Ghoul (ex Shadows, new mid 91) and Starhunter all got kicked. Can I Play With Madness? (ECS Demo). Defeat ------ French musician Arios joined Symbiosis. Defect Softworks ---------------- GER> Buggs (Henryk Richter, code, 97), Crazy Copper (Frank Pagels, code, 01/95), EagleEye (Jan Blumenthal, code, 97), Insider (Andreas Wiencke, code, 10/95-02/96). ???> Animal (music, 12/93). Defect are a German team more known for their utilities than for their democoding abilities; Buggs and EagleEye are the authors of the music player EaglePlayer, and Crazy Copper is the author of the graphics conversion utility ArtPro. You'd be well advised to check out their most recent release, EaglePlayer 2, on any AmiNet mirror near you! Defekt ------ ENG> Meat Cleaver (sysop 'ABATOIR'). ???> Aquafresh (ex Futura), Ben (ex Plasma), Case (ex Chaos), Deathwish (sysop 'DEEP BREEZE' WHQ), Gumby (ex Futura), Image (ex Nuance), MDMA (ex Chaos), Mordred (ex Combat-18), Schitzo (ex Chaos), Zed (ex Phoenix). Boards; ALTERNATE REALITY (can). Defekt is dead! Ace and Venom, sysops '13TH HOUR' BBS (eng) are now independent. 'DEEP FREEZE' BBS left. Jozz (eng, ex Mindshadow/ Nuance), Quadrex, Bassline, Scotch (new WHN1), Hampster (ex Talent), Melone (trade, doublememb 2000 AD) and Starcam (sysop 'WORLDS OF WONDER') joined Balance. Tango was in Crystal for a short while, but then he also joined up with Balance. Thor (ex Plasma) joined Surprise! Productions. Irish coder Khul joined Infect. Huarache, War and Jimbo were kicked out. Caveman joined Delirium. The boards 'ENTITY' WHQ (eng) and 'VULTURE'S NEST' (can) were kicked). German trader Susi joined, but was soon kicked. English musician Hydlide (ex Mystic) joined Divine and changed his handle to Dreamfish. Defiance (DFC, 1992-) --------------------- SWE> Airbrain (swap, 93), Avenger (music, ex Equinox), Fatal (ex Equinox), Kervin (Johan Mowitz, swap, ex Kaos, new 09/92), Magnum (gfx, ex Equinox), Marwin (sysop 'KAOTIC WORLD'), Mellon (music, 12/93-12/94), Mosquito (sysop 'ASSEMBLY HALL', doublememb Reflex, 01/95), Siracon (Anders Johansson, music, ex Genetic, 12/93-12/94), Skepp (sysop 'BEYOND MADNESS', doublememb Freezers, 01/95), Slaze (Daniel Celin, code music, 12/93), Stolz (sysop 'STONEHENGE'), Valiant (code, ex Equinox), Wizard (ex Equinox). ???> Boki (code, old handle Nirvana, later Razor 1911, 05-12/93), Gnome (gfx, 12/93), Gordon (sysop, new 09/92), Marsuplami (swap), Mistral (new 09/92), Oops (gfx, 12/93), Yoga (swap, ex Lobban/Genetic). Defiance were born late 1992, after the group Death Defiers changed their name to Defiance. They are a Sweden-based demogroup, probably most renowned for their diskmag "Buzz". Boki is no longer a member; he was in the new Razor 1911 for a little while (02.94-), until he was exposed as a liar, and kicked. Siracon and Mellon make music together, as a duo. Uncle Acid joined Submission. Swedish musician C-Quence is now in Gods. Swedish "Buzz" editor Plugster left to be independent, then joined Factor late 95. "Buzz" will be released by Factor from now on. Finnish trader and organizer Mike (94) joined Mystic 01/95. Swedish swapper Sputnik (ex Quartz, 09/92) joined Midway. Shangri-La (1993, 29.05, Demo). code: Nirvana, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 9th in the TCC 93 demo competition. Virtual Journey (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Boki, Slaze, gfx: Oops, Gnome, music: "Virtual Journey" by Slaze. 17th in The Party 93 demo competition. info: The demo was named after Slaze's techno soundtrack, which also competed in the music competition, but was unselected. Buzz issue #3 (1994, Diskmag). code: Colorbird/Razor 1911, gfx: n/a, music: n/a info: After recoding the entire Propaganda mag for issue #3, Colorbird gave the old code (used on issues 1-3) to Defiance for Buzz. Imaginations (1994, Musicdisk). info: Reviewed in Propaganda #4, where it was butchered :) Buzz issue #6 (1995 or pre, Diskmag). code: Slaze, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Define (DFN) ------------ SWE> Badboy (org edit swap), Bjoerne (mainorg code gfx ascii swap), C-Real (music ascii), Keldon (ascii swap trade), Kidnix (sysop), Toaster (music swap), Zoarchus (music). DEN> Growl (org swap). POL> Igor (code). Polish organizer, swapper and ascii artist Cook (formerly doublememb Erotic, late96) left to be an Instinct member only late97. Defjam (1987-) -------------- SWE> Antiaction (Stefan Boberg, code crack, ex D-Mob, +inactive+, 12/90), Archmage (founder, 87-11/88), Buntz (ex Amaze), Conquest (crack, 06/90), Gehenna (founder, 87-11/88), Mr.Thompson (sysop 'EAST BBS', later Mystic, 10/90), Ted (Ted Parnefors, code, ex The Silents, +inactive+, 90-06/92), The Baron (sysop 'THE WEST BBS', 01/95), Zonic (ex Amaze). GER> Captain Midnight (sysop 'THE TWILIGHT ZONE', 09/91), Ultra (Ingo, trade sysop 'ULTRA BOX', later Alpha Flight, 11/90-01/91). BEL> Spike (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND'). USA> Mr.Speeder (sysop 'THUNDERDOME'). ???> Boomerang, Fenzie, Gehenna, George Two (ex Spreadpoint), Jarre (crack), Kazer (sysop, ex Noxious, new 92), Lorien, Matthew (ex Spreadpoint), Pennywise, Roach (train), Slash (ger? trade, ex Spreadpoint, 01/91), Tilt (ex Spreadpoint). Boards; THE M25 (eng, 11/90). Defjam was born in Sweden towards the end of 1987, by Gehenna, Archmage and a third guy who quickly left the scene. They quickly became one of the REALLY big cracker groups in the dawn of the Amiga scene, but then just sort of fell apart, with no actual leaving occuring. Antiaction never really left or found a new group; today he is working as a computer game programmer. He was also the author of Defjam Packer 3.2 (and its forerunners Tetra-Pack, made while he was in Tetragon) and one of the Amiga's most used apps of all time, the archiver LhA. In their time, Defjam also participated in a number of cooperations. The earliest was probably with Computerbrains Cracking Service (CCS), but there has also been coops with Red Sector (late 88) Angels. 1990 - Around the middle of the year, the German division left to become a group in their own right, Supreme. It seems Defjam got a new German division though, since there are German members registered long after that. Swedish Crayone joined Strange. Finnish coder Smircher joined Vectra. Swedish coder T.Phraud/T.Phroud? joined Shining 8. Swedish sysop Mogwai ('STREETS OF FIRE') joined Agile. Australian trainer Caddy (03/91) joined the new Oracle. Buntz took with him the board 'SERPENT SOCIETY' from Amaze, but it was later closed in Defjam (pre 07/92). Swedish coder Il Scuro (Ron Birk, new 01/88) left the scene back in 1990. He is co-author of the PlaySID system, and he's been living in Boston, USA since 04/95. Eckhead joined Voice. Pixel Nation (ECS Demo). Snurkel (ECS File). David Whittaker Music Mix (1988, ECS Musicdisk). Cooperation with The Young Ones. Information: Contains music from games like Bubble Bobble, Feud, Leviathan, Tetris and Xenon. Classics one and all... Intro (1992, 18.06, ECS Intro). Code: Ted, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Cooperation with CCS. Deform ------ Deform was formed by ex-members of Hell Order Team (HOT, a.o. Musashi) and Zack Team. Musashi later joined Union. Deformations (1992, 28.03, ECS Demo). code: Musashi, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Warzawa 1 party! info: Named in a 'best Polish demos' list in RAW6. State of the Art's predecessor!! Well, ok, not really, but it's quite similar and was released before SOTA... Ray World (AGA Demo). Degeneration (DGN) ------------------ ITA> Corrosion (Patrizio Casalengo, mainorg music sysop 'METAL MOON' WHQ, triplememb Darkage [details] and Genesis, early96), Gas (Simone Marascalchi, gfx swap, early96), Joseph (gfx, new early96), Rusty Cage (music, old handle Detio, early96), Voodoo Chile (Fabrizio Nunnari, code, early96). DGN have a subgroup called Ecstasy Brothers, which are all musicians: Red Dragon, Fragolino B and Simpson. Coder Orion (new early 96) was kicked shortly after joining, because he left the amiga scene. Italian graphician Mangusta kicked late 95. Italian musician Dixan joined Megahead late 95. Delicious (DLS) --------------- FIN> Daddy Freddy (Samuli Karkiluoma, music swap, 09/93-01/94), Juicy (music, old handle Mog, ex Equinox). ENG> Delbs (new late93), Rich (code, 09/93). ???> Clarky (re), Daze (music, old handle Dexter, 02/94), Ditto (ex LSD, old handle Vinh), Elwood (gfx, 09/93-02/94), Groovy W (code, 02/94). Delicious used to be called Delicious Design, but later changed their name to just Delicious. They will most probably go down in history as the group that spawned Essence. Englishman Blanchmage (new late93) left the scene. English swapper Overdose (ex Iris, new PRP4) joined Balance (WHN1). Most German members; Dascon, Groo & Rufferto (both ex Digital), Powerswap, Touchstone (ex Hardline) and Slicer; left to form Essence (SLH11). Intro (1993, 13.09, ECS Intro). code: Rich, gfx: Elwood, music: Daddy Freddy. TicTac (1994, 07.02, ECS File). code: Groovy W, gfx: Elwood, music: Daze. Delight (DLT) ------------- FRA> Arios (Sebastien Le Clainche, music, ex Symbiosis, 12/91-08/94), Atwill (ex Extreme, new late91), Baron (code), Bilbo (ex Extreme, new late91), Clawz (music, ex Extreme, later TSB, new late 91), Doh Spirits (music, aka Doh, later Dreamdealers, 12/92), Feyd (music, 11- 12/93), Frx (code), Mr.Ngy (ex Complex, old handle Mr. Nice Guy, new late91), Rave (ex Extreme, old handle Postcard, new late91), Shup (ex Extreme, new late91). SWE> Blackbird (staff 'UNDERCOVER'), Cybergod (ex doublememb Ram Jam, late95), Demax (sysop 'UNDERCOVER' EHQ, ex Chaos A.D., 01/95), Fazer (sysop 'FLATLINE', ex Razor 1911 new), Pitcher (staff 'UNDERCOVER'). ITA> Maverick (crack sysop1 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/95), U.M.M (sysop2 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/95). GER> Vascal (sysop 'BREAK AWAY', 04/95). DEN> Brainiac (music), Kasai (ex Light). IRL> Replay, Flyer. USA> 2Tuff, Jammaster (sysop 'INNER CITY', new late91), Shadowvex (sysop 'FIEND CLUB' WHQ, new late91), The Saint. ???> Daryl (ex TRSI), Nike (nor? triplememb TRSI and Crux, 02/96), Towie (music, 12/92). Boards; CHAOTIC ENTITY WHQ (usa, 03/94), THE MUSEUM EHQ. Delight were a demo group based in France. 1991 - Faddy (ex Razor 1911, old handle Faith, new late 91) left to be independent late 91. Frenchmen DCA, TDC and Reflex (music, 06/91) joined Rebels old late 91. 1992 - French swapper Krom (ex Extreme, new late91) changed his handle to Wizz and joined Fusion early 92, though other information claims he joined The Silents. Graphician Effendi joined Agnostic Front around october. 1993 - Mr.Mixx left to be independent early 93. Header joined Nova. German Overdog joined Nuance. Sparks (sysop) joined Spirit. German swapper Stearo (ex Delight) joined Desire. German swapper Stearo joined Desire. Assassin's norwegian BBS 'EXTENSION was busted! Endless Pleasure (File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Brainiac (ProRunner 2.0 format). Overdose (File). Sound From Ghost Battle (File). U Like DLT? (1993, .03, Demo). Pandemonium (1994 or pre, Music). Delirium (DLM) -------------- GER> Phil Douglas (crack). NOR> Baffle (Dag Stenstad, doublememb Lightforce, 97). USA> Mko & Rush (sysops 'ELEVENTH HOUR', 04/95), Shadower (sysop 'DARK TOWER' later 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 04/95). ???> Afterlife, Bathory, Caveman (Trade, ex Defekt), Cheech! (crack), Deltaforce, Mad Gunman, Mad Turnip, Maz, New Sensation, Nicodemus (ger? doublememb Dynamix, 01/94), Ramses, Toxic, Wildcard. Boards; ICE CREAM (ger, triple in Remedy and Dezign), S.V.P., MENTEL. Delirium was a true quality cracker group, with famous crackers like Phil Douglas in the team. Aspect Incorporated is a subgroup. They had some crack intros made for them by Wayne Mendoza/Masque... I have recently (well, OK, early 97) seen members of Delirium, so is this the old group back or is it a new group? Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE') joined Rebels new. NTSC joined Outlaws. Delite ------ ???> Andy (music, ex Nuance, new WHN1), Michael (ex Nuance, new WHN1), Simon (ex Nuance, new WHN1). Projex/Divine joined, but quikly rejoined Divine (WHN1). Delon Dezign (1994-) -------------------- HUN> Dr.Eher (code gfx, old handle David Blitterfield, 07/94), Power Supply (code, 07/94), Tea-Bozz (music, 07/94), Tetraedermaster (gfx, old handle Rawchild, 07/94). Delon is a Hungarian group, which apparently consist of famous Hungarian sceners under different handles! The Final Condom (1994, .07, AGA File). code: David Blitterfield, Power Supply, gfx: David Blitterfield, Rawchild, ADT/Absolute!, music: Tea-Bozz. review: Nothing here that will set the world on fire, but at least the 'we all love CRM' part was fun. They do the humor thing to a total over- kill this time around, though. The AmiNet description text said 'Delon party winner AGA demo'. What party? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Atmosfear (1995, autumn, AGA File). production: Don Johnson, ... review: I quite like this...these guys have a sense of humor! The effects aren't outstanding but I guess they were never meant to be. I'd describe this as being in the tradition of Lego's "The Real 40k" intro. First they claim to have the first real 4x4 rotzoomer...and I guess they do, if you mean 4x4 as in 4 wheel drive... Then they're back with the world's first 8x8 rotzoomer...which is a rotzoomer within an 8x8 pixel block! See what I mean? It's a lot like when Lego claimed to be able to display 40 planes on any Amiga :) A plus for the music, which is catchy. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Heartcore (1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). Released for The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: Short and sweet, like a 4k intro should be, this one features multiple routines and even some music! Niceness. No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Delusion (DLS) -------------- Finnish musician Slice (05/95) joined Mystic sometime between 05 and 08/95. Demons Design ------------- Norwegian swapper Fake joined Equinox early 93. Depth (1993-, http://www.depth.org/) ------------------------------------ DEN> Bakerman (Kasper Hartwich, webmaster, ex-sysop 'TRADE CENTRAL', new 06/96-01/00), Curt Cool (Frank E. Larsen, org music ascii swap trade edit, 93-01/00), Cytron (Rune Stampe Nielsen, code music edit "Eurochart", new 06/96-01/00), Folcka (gfx, old handle Picasso, 10/97- 01/00), Gizmoduck (Martin Leopold, org code gfx raytrace swap webmaster, 07/97-01/00), Hund (code [html java c++] gfx, 10/97-01/00), IB (gfx, 10/97-01/00), Kollaps (code music, 01/00), Nightsight (gfx, 07/97-01/00), Presence (code, 10/97-01/00), Quedax (Kenny Poulsen, code, 07/97-01/00), Trip (music, 07/97-01/00). NOR> Allanon (org gfx ascii design, 10/97-01/00), Cope (music, 01/00), Jaffa (code, 01/00), Labbe (music, 01/00), Paithan (code, 01/00), Rolex (music, 01/00), SiDo (sysop trade, new 06/96-01/00), Solo (HONORARY, music, 10/97-01/00), Sprocket (org gfx, 01/00). SWE> Brainstorm (music, new 10/97-01/00). FIN> Frank Black (code, 01/00), Heatwave (org music swap, 01/00), The Glow (honorary gfx music, new 06/96-01/00). ENG> Bucko (swap edit, 01/00). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: DEN> Cody (music sysop, old handle Dizy, new 06/96), Dunlop (10/97), La (music, new late95), Nemo W (gfx, old handle Sanctum, 07/96-97), Optima (code, new late97-12/97), Pennywise (code raytrace, old handle Droopy, new late95), Receiver (Kresten Jensen, swap), Snowman (raytrace, new late95-10/97). NOR> Bugge (sysop, new 06/96), Conan (gfx raytrace, new 06/96), Ren (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DREAMS', 10/97), The Coolest (code music, new late95), The Paranoid (music sysop 'PARAZITE', new late95-10/97), Voidmaster (raytrace sysop, new 06/96). SWE> Betty Boy (gfx, doublememb X-Trade, new late96-10/97), Chewie (org ascii swap trade, 10/97), DeeJay Jones (music, new 06/96-10/97), Galiano (sysop, new 06/96), Kaze (org gfx swap, re late95), Keldon (swap trade, 10/97), Legionary (code, ex Weird, new early97-10/97), Nike (sysop, new 06/96), Whisker (code, 10/97), Wizard (code music swap, new 94). FIN> Fly (gfx, new late95-10/97), Icebreaker (Mikko Harju, org swap, 10/97), Rastaman (music, new 10/97). POL> Cerber (code, rejoined doublememb Skulls, re 06/96), Hangman (code, ex Revolt, new 06/96), Nazgul (code, rejoined doublememb Skulls, re 06/96), Opal (gfx music, new 06/96), Timer (Michael Baczek, org music swap, triplememb Erotic and Squeezers, early98). AUT> Doc (swap, 94). ???> Crusader (swap ansi), Kilroy (gfx), Knoxx (swap), Mick (code swap, ex Rasse.Prod), Morten (music), Nick (code swap, ex Rasse.Prod), Polygon Window (gfx swap, ex Excess), Scorn (code gfx), Someone Else (music), Teflon (gfx), Warlock (org music swap), Xargion (code swap, 94). Depth was formed in late 1993 by Curt Cool as a Danish demo group, and their first production was "Cool Tunes #1" [03/94]. During the year |they released some other small productions, as well as many issues of their pack "Under the Surface" (01-99). 1996 - At The Party 6, they gave the scene what they called a "christmas present", and revived the official "Eurochart", with Cytron as the third main editor of the prestigious chart through history. This is probably what most people think of when you say 'Depth'. Bakerman's board was closed for a while, then reopened late 96. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that swedes Pumper (trade) and Slurry (sysop, both new 06/96) were kicked, that swedish Legionary/Weird (code) joined, that danish LPN (gfx raytrace) left the scene, that norwegian The Paranoid rejoined the scene, and that Sanctum renamed to Nemo Q. Swedish coders Pigeon (10/97) and Omen both left for Craze late97/early98. Swedish swapper, trader and sysop Schindler ('MOTION ONE', new 06/96-) left the scene late 97. Polish graphician Insert (ex Amnesty, new 06/96) left for Turnips late 96. Polish graphician Rappid (doublememb Genetic, new 06/96) left for Erotic Dezign late 96. Danish graphician and swapper Chelsea stopped swapping, and was kicked shortly after late 96. German swapper IRO (Bastian Effertz, ex Riot, doublememb Rave Nation Overscan, new late95) was kicked, after failing to keep contact late 96. Polish swapper Klaf left for Appendix and Scalaris 06/96. Norwegian musician The Surge (also sysop) left 06/96. Swapper and ascii'er Draw left 06/96. Robson joined Anadune 06/96. Billy joined Mystic 06/96. Reval joined Infect. The entire group Hangover joined. CoolTunes #1 (1994, .03, ECS Chipmusicpack). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Curt Cool. info: Their first production! Magnum Icetro (skodtro!) (1994, .04, ECS Intro). code: Xargion, gfx: n/a, music: Wizard. CoolTunes #2 (1994, .06, Chipmusicpack). CoolTunes #3 (1994, .12, Chipmusicpack). Elefont (1995, .08, 4k Intro). info: NOT the same as "4k Intro"! 4k Intro (1995, .08, 4k Intro). info: NOT the same as "Elefont"! Depth 4k (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). 4th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Fucked Girl (1996, .04, Intro). info: Swaptro. Weird Intro (1996, .06, Intro). Vi Elsker Darkhawk (1996, 06.07, Demo). 7th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Puost - The Demo (1996, 06.07, Demo). 8th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. 4k Intro 1 (1996, .08, 4k Intro). 4k Intro 2 (1996, .08, 4k Intro). Swaptro (1996, .09, Intro). Bol Boller (1996, .10, Intro). info: Joketro. Eurochart issue #28 (1996, 28.12, Chartmag). INT - by Impact DK. MAG - code: n/a, gfx: Pixie/Polka Brothers (title), music: Azazel/TBL, editor: Cytron. Released at The Party 6. info: Depth called it a 'christmas present to the scene', and it was one the scene welcomed with open arms! There's a new, multitasking code, and new enthusiasm. This was the first issue by Depth. Bol Dür (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 6th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. EuroChart issue #29 (1997, .04, Chartmag). Possibly released at Mekka Symposium 97? Chexue (1997, .06, 40k Intro). BeBeToTeFoFu?! (1997, .06, Demo).+ info: Sponsordemo. DGC-Karaoke (joketro) (1997, .06, Intro). Frankofon! (jokedemo) (1997, .06, Intro). Placebo (1997, .06, 40k intro). Eurochart issue #30 (1997, 07.07, AGA Multifile Chartmag). INT - code: Antibyte, gfx: Tactica/independent, music: Prophet. MAG - code: Quedax, gfx: Nightsight (panel), Zack/Spaceballs (intropic, clip), others (clip), music: "Cymbiosis" by Trip, "Time That Beat" by Michael 'One2One'/Anathema, "Let Me Down" by Deck/Scoopex and "Holidays in March" by Marc/Syndrome^Sector 7, editor: Cytron. Released at The Copenhagen Party. review: First of all, let me just mention that this is the first issue of the 'new' EuroChart I saw. Right from the start, I loved the new look and concept! The screenshots, the information, the graphical statistics... This is the way to do things! However, while the concept is great, the execution leaves a few things to be desired...some of the information is missing crucial bits here and there! Perhaps I need to send Cytron a copy of Scenery to avoid mistakes in the future ;) Having said that, I guess I put a lot more weight on these things than the average scener would... The panel graphics are a little unusual, not to mention that they're very very good! Big, clear gadgets leave you in no confusion as to where to click. The intro picture by Zack, and the numerous clip arts leave a little to be desired, 'tho... As far as the editorial content of the EuroChart goes, well... it was never intended to be a mag! The best part is also the most important one; the charts! The code follows the new norm, in that it is multitasking... which is a feature I absolutely love. All mags should multitask! It sure makes reviewing them a lot more comfortable for me :) There really is no good reason not to download the EuroChart... It doesn't really matter if you don't like the cliparts, or you think the interviews in the magpart really should be somewhere else... It's the charts that matter, and the EuroCharts are the original ones...the real McCoy. Get this because Depth put a lot of work down in it, and do a good job. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Eurochart #31 (1997, .10, AGA Multifile Chartmag). code: Quedax, gfx: Raven/Nuance, music: Okeanos/Digital, Curt Cool and Marc/Haujobb (Tracker Packer 3 format), editor: Cytron. review: Nice graphics by Raven introduce us to this edition of EC. The title picture is of a crouching naked woman, but the compositions doesn't look all right...Anyway, the rest of the design is clear and concise. As mentioned in my review of the last issue, the code is very good. System friendly (multitasks), and user friendly at the same time :) The other two sections, apart from the charts, are also well laid out this time. The gallery is mostly pictures of sceners drinking at parties ;) I did like the old Crusaders design for this part better, with two pics a page, but... The magpart also has good design, with backgrounds that doesn't interfere with the text. Color use is nicely relaxed. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. IDEA (1997, .11, Demo). Seven (1997, 28.12, 4k Intro). 3rd in The Party 97 4k intro competition! Govinda (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Optima, gfx: Ib, music: Curt Cool. 11th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: Now this is more like it! This cool little intro throws quite a few good effects at the casual viewer, including lightdots, shadebob cluster (!) and some well cool bump and texture mapping! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Batteries NOT... (1997, 28.12, 40k intro). Cooperation with Iris. Idoru (1997, 28.12, Demo). 7th in The Party 97 demo competition. Eurochart issue #32 (1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile Chartmag). INT - cooperation with Efreet. MAG - n/a 16th in The Party 97 demo competition. note: Is this the first ever diskmag to be entered in a demo competition? Tetsuo (1998, .02, Demo). TP7 According to DPH (1998, .02, Slideshow). Tetsuo 2 (1998, 12.04, 40k Intro) 8th in the Mekka Symposium 40k intro competition. Desire (1998, 12.04, 40k intro) 9th in the Mekka Symposium 40k intro competition. Wer Hat Dicke Eier? (1998, 12.04, Intro). production: Blueberry/Efreet, Cytron & Ib/Depth. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 fastintro competition! Eurochart issue #33 (1998, 12.04, AGA Multifile Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Slang Blues" by Evrimsson/Nuance. Released at Mekka Symposium 97. Eurochart issue #34 (1998, .07, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Job Advert Intro (1998, .08, Intro). Eurochart issue #35 (1998, .10, AGA Multifile Chartmag). info: Features an intro by Loonies, see their entry for details. Onanina (jokeintro) (1998, .11, Intro). Bamse (1998, .12, Intro). Eurochart issue #36 (1999, .02, AGA Multifile Chartmag). sHROOMINDs (1999, .02, Musicdisk). Kryptonite (1999, .04, 40k Intro). Alpenclüb '52 (1999, .04, Demo). Str8 (1999, .04, 4k Intro). Eurochart issue #37 (1999, .04, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Kryptonite II (1999, .07, 40k Intro). Eurochart issue #38 (1999, .08, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart issue #39 (1999, .12, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Lonely (2000, .01, Intro). Deputy ------ ???> Stilgar (ex Apathy, new early 01). Desert (DST, 1992-) ------------------- GER> Rockeronic (founder music, 10/92). ???> Abettor (founder), Crusader (founder gfx, 10/92), Doe (founder), Highlander (founder), Madukan (founder), Project Alpha (founder), She-ra (founder), TSA (code, 10/92), Tubaculose (founder), Zyborg (founder). Desert was formed by the ex-Submission members Crusader, Rockeronic, Abettor, Doe, Highlander, Lightforce, Madukan, She-ra, Project Alpha, Tubaculose, and Zyborg. Walker joined Savage. Venom joined Eskimoes. Wishbringer joined Damian. German swapper and cofounder Lightforce (ex Submission) joined X-Trade. Borntro (1992, 14.10, ECS File). code: TSA, gfx: Crusader, music: Rockeronic. Design (DSN, -1992) ------------------- SWE> The Joker (swap). GER> Orbit (code, ex Coma). ???> Agressor (re), Dark (ex Damian), Cyclon (ex Trackers), FDT (write, doublememb Venture), Lonestar (ex Trackers). Design was a german based demo group. In late 1992, some of the best members joined Fusion, and the rest carried on under a different name; Gothic. 1992 - Germans Renegade (gfx) and Orbit (code) joined from Coma early in the year. German Doom joined Fusion early 92. German Hedgehog joined Addonic in september. Toxic joined The Electronic Knights. Aggressor once joined Supplex for 3 days, but then rejoined. Germans Renegade (gfx, ex Coma) and DSP joined Agnostic Front. Desire (DSR) ------------ HOL> Infant (code, early98), Noodle (Stefan Schipper, swap, doublememb Mellow), Ratbone (music, 05/92), Riox (code, 08/92). BEL> Bip (org gfx, ex Quasar, 04/92-late96). GER> Chaos! (ascii design), Kernal (Mario Hoehne, code swap). ???> Dave (code), Thd (gfx). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: HOL> Antibody (12/91-08/92), Aragorn (code sysop 'TERMINAL ZONE', 04-10/92), Daze (old handle CPS, ex Justice), Dusty, Guy Frost (code, 09/91-08/92), Zoef (gfx music, aka Facet!, new 08/92-05/94). BEL> The Grifter (sysop 'PHANTOM', 08/92-04/95). FIN> Chipper (Pasi, mainorg music, 01-11/93), Dr.Paranoid (trade sysop 'ACID HOUSE', 93-04/95), Dwel (gfx, ex Alcatraz, new 10/93-05/95), John Peel (swap trade, ex Razor 1911), Mel (93), Mick (old handle Story, ex Ice/Plague re-scene, 93), N.S.A. (swap, 93). NOR> Remix (org music, later Devils, new 08/92). SWE> Breeze (Henri Hurtig, music, ex Equinox), Electro (code swap, ex Equinox), Jackpot (swap, ex Equinox). ENG> Giz (code), Hollywood (music, doublememb Axis [details], later Vacuum), Loony (music swap, ex Divine, late95), Twilight (music, 06/93-95). GER> Paragon (modemhq org swap pack, ex The Elektronic Knights, old handle Agony, 93). USA> Nameless (sysop 'SNARFS PUB'). ???> Draxx (code), Duck (12/90-91), Ego (04/92), FantasyForce (90), Iron Eagle (ex Animators, new 09/92), MLP Artworx (03/91-12/91), Multicoder (07/91), Nik (eng?, ex Balance), Rippex (12/90), Rotex (new 09/92), Shintaro (gfx, new early93), Subi (music), Talisman (org gfx swap), Tommie (sysop 'SESAMESTRAAT', ex Cyanide), TSM (code), Visualize (10/93), Wildstyle (sysop), Zorro (12/90-04/92). Boards; TAJ MAHAL WHQ (hol), PHANTOM ZONE (bel, aka just 'PHANTOM'?), ATOMIC FALLOUT (den), ATOMIC AGES (ger), FUTURE INFERNO, DATA CHANNEL (new 09/92). Desire is a demogroup based in the Netherlands, formed by Coyote. After a couple of years the group was merged with another, of which the leader was Ramon B5. They also had a strong Finnish section for a while, responsible for a fair amount of their productions. Ramon B5 was the original leader, but when he left (93?) another dutchman, Ultimax took over leadership. Twilight more or less left the scene in 1995, after securing a full time job making music for Graftgold Software. Ramon B5 (08/92), THD (12/91-03/93 and Sacha (12/91-03/93) from the Dutch section formed the subgroup Facet's Pussy. They later recruited more members from the mother group, like the germans Chaos! and Kernal. Most of these members later returned to their original group. Another subgroup was also later formed, called Love [see separate entry]. There were rumours early93 that 'SNARF'S PUB' had left, but they were entirely false, as reported in Freedom Crack #11. 1992 - T60 left to join the PC scene 09/92. 1994 - Right before The Party 94, dutch musician Fabian (03/92-) sold his amiga and left the scene. His promised BIG musicdisk project was cancelled, and was subsequently never released. Cone joined Spirit. Courage (old handle Seat) joined Wizzcat. Steve, sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES' joined Alpha Flight. Norwegian Switchblade (10/92) joined Compact Inc. Untold, Gorry, Clawboy (08/92) and Undertaker joined Tragedy. Dutchmen Zorlac (gfx, 05/92-03/93) and Ultimax (code, 05-12/92) both joined TRSI (Upstream #8). It is uncertain where this left Desire, since Ultimax took over leadership after Ramon B5 left... The two worked on at least "Future Inferno" [05/92], "Menace" [08/92], "Thaj Mahal" [12/92], "Morpheus" [01/93] and "Vluggertje" [03/93]. Finnish coder Venture joined Deadline. He made "Morpheus" [01/93] and the "ChipChop" series [93] for DSR. His latest registered production is from 11/93, so he probably left late 93. German musician Pseudolukian (04/92-06/93) got kicked. He made music for "Channel X" [04/92], "Thaj Mahal" [12/92] and "Vluggertje" [03/93]. Germans Chaos! (gfx ascii) and Kernal (code, both ex Analog, new mid93- 05/94) left to join the Desire subgroup Facet's Pussy. They both later returned to Desire. German Skyfox (ex Dual Crew, new RAW5) joined joined Endless Piracy. However, Eurochart #22 claimed he left the scene. Redferne (ex Awe) joined Devils. Also Remix later ended up in Devils. Englishmen Bassline (Music, ex Anthrox) and Schizo left the scene. Dutchmen Cloud 9 (swap) and Solid (gfx, both ex Vicious) joined Cryptoburners. Jack (ex LSD) joined Compact Inc. Ziggy Stardust (ex Cyberactive), Kyle (ex Starlight) and Dioxion joined Vanish, and Ziggy changed his handle to Cujo in the process. Coyote joined Jetset. Camelot joined Alpha Flight. German swapper Stearo (ex Delight) joined Paradise. Germans Rebel MC (swap, ex The Special Brothers) and Dark (ex Cyberactive) joined Noxious, so the German section is disbanded late 92. The following people are therefore obviously no more members of the German section: Vane, Bootbuster (ex Subzero, 10/92), TNM (ex Subzero), Vain (ex Subzero), Kreator (ex Byte Syndicate), Touchstone (code, later Essence), Dascon (later Essence), Trasher, Fancy and Powerswap (later Essence). Iceberg, sysop 'THE HOOD' (ex Cyberactive) joined Spaceballs late 92. Link joined Gothic. Exile (Demo). info: Mentioned as one of the best Dutch productions. Addi (1990). production: FantasyForce, Duck, Zorro. Anli (1990). production: Duck, Zorro. Quint (1990). production: Duck, Zorro. Gif (1990, 03.10). production: Duck, Zorro. DSR Pack Menu (1990). production: Duck. X-Mas 90 (1990, 22.12). production: Duck. Biebel Story (1990, 22.12). production: Duck, Zorro, Rippex. Anti-Junkfood (1991, 26.01, ECS File). production: Duck, Zorro, Ripit/RAF. 63 Seconds (1991, 30.03, ECS Intro). production: Duck, MLP Artworx. Multiscroll (1991, 27.04, ECS Intro). production: Multicoder, Zorro. LegoLand I (1991, ECS Musicdisk). production: Duck, MLP Artworx. Baby Balls (1991, 07.09, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, MLP Artworx. Evolution Preview (1991). code: Sacha, gfx: ThD, production: MLP Artworx. Baghdad Cafe (1991, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Antibody. Evolution (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Sacha, gfx: Facet/Anarchy, ThD, production: Guy Frost, Zorro, MLP Artworx, Antibody. Manriki (1992, 14.02, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Antibody. Explorer (1992, 18.03, ECS). code: Sacha, gfx: ThD, music: Fabian. Channel X (1992, 04.04, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Music: Pseudolukian. Hidden-Part-Dentro (1992, .04, ECS File). code: Sacha, gfx: n/a, music: Fabian, production: Guy Frost, Ego, ThD. Atomic*Fallout (1992, .04, ECS Intro). production: Aragorn, Bip, ThD. Future Inferno (1992, 27.05, ECS Intro). production: Ultimax, Zorlac, Ratbone. info: Probably a BBS intro, since they had a board called 'FUTURE INFERNO'. Menace (1992, 01.08, ECS File). production: Guy Frost, Bip, Zorlac, Fabian. Propaganda (1992, 01.08). production: Riox, ThD, Ramon B5, Icon/Dominators, Fabian. Body to Body (1992, 01.08). production: Clawboy, Bip. Prev Party Pack (1992, 01.08). production: Aragorn, ThD, Fabian. Phantom (1992, 01.08). production: The Grifter, Bip. Little Intro (1992, 29.08, Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zoef, Antibody. Memtro (1992, .10). production: Cujo/Dioxxine, Bootbuster, Switchblade. Pack for Germany (1992, 10.11). code: Aragorn, gfx: ThD, music: Fabian. Thaj Mahal (1992, 11.12, Intro). code: Ultimax, gfx: Zorlac, music: Pseudolukian. Agony Packmenu (1993). production: Tedric/TSL, Sacha, D-Sign/TSL. Morpheus (1993, 25.01, ECS File). code: Venture, gfx: Dwel, Zorlac, music: "Morpheus.cpr" by Chipper. info: Seems like the finnish section made this. I don't think Dwel was really a member yet when this was made; he joined later. Vluggertje (1993, 09.03, ECS Intro). code: Sacha, gfx: THD, Zoef, Zorlac, music: Pseudolukian. Skid Row Cracktro (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Sacha, gfx: Facet/Lemon., music: Fabian. ChipChop issue #1 (1993, early, ECS Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel. ChipChop issue #2 (1993, .04, Musicfile). code: Venture, gfx: Mel, music: "Pom Pom Pom" by Chipper/Desire, "Headcrash Intro1" by Jochen "Virgill" Feldkoetter, "Intromuz 1" by Heatbeat/Carillon, "Last Betrayal R." vt Hydra, "Chiptune 12k" by Nuke/Lemon., "One" by Strobo/Stellar, "Sweatbeat" by Slammie/Disaster, "Disco Zax" by Mel O'Dee/Shining, "Introghost" by Dezecrator, "Metromix" by Turtle/Accession, "Shortmenutune 5" by Legend/Parallax, "Kukko" by Groo/Virtual Dreams, "Fysiometrical" by Hawk/Sanctuary (12 tunes, all 4ch MOD format). ChipChop issue #3 (1993, .06, Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel. ChipChop Special (1993, .06, Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel, Chipper, Fabian, Pseudolukian, Twilight. ChipChop issue #4 (1993, 24.07, Music file). production: Venture, Dwel, Prayer/Banal Projects. Lovetro (1993, .10, Intro). production: DCD/Krafted, Visualize, Jimi. Cracktro (1993, 03.11, Intro). production: Kernal, Chaos!, Twilight. ChipChop Intro (1993, .11, Intro). production: Venture, Dwel, Chipper. Fairlight Cracktro (1994, 12.05, Intro). code: Kernal, gfx: Chaos! (design), music: Zoef. Destiny ------- ENG> Alien³ (gfx, ex Poppa [no entry]), Antichrist, Eggus (code, ex Poppa [no entry]), Inertia (Mick Fairclough, music), Kiwi (code, 92), Metal (Paul Garner, gfx swap, new 10/91-93), Tango (Dave Kelly, swap pack), Tantalus (Andy Eddingham, mainorg, 91-92), Terminator (code), Thallium (Shaun, gfx), Venom (Stuart, trade). NOR> Adolf (ex Atomic), Jens Madsen (sysop 'DREAM OF PERFECTION', 01/94). ???> Cobra, Hampster (old handle Pissed Artist, 09/92), Hugo (ex Poppa [no entry]), Martin (code, new 09/92), Narc, Nitro. Boards; CLIFFHANGER (nor, 01/94), NINE LIVES (eng), THE PEACH. Destiny was a demogroup based in England. They will probably mostly be remembered for their diskmag with the original name "Satanic Rites". Members of the staff of this mag were later behind the Talent mag "42". 1991 - The group attended Digital's party "The Main Event" in october, where they recruited a new graphician, Metal. This was his first group. About 4-6 weeks after the party, probably around december, the group's main organizer Kam (also gfx) left the scene. Tantalus became the new main organizer, and under his leadership the group entered into its most productive period ever. 1992 - Tango and Venom joined. Elminster was kicked in september. 1993 - Destinator joined Eclipse mid 93. Norwegian coder and swapper Scourger joined Talent mid 93. English coder Oedipus joined shortly after the Destiny Communion Party in august. He later left the group to form Nebula. Natas was kicked. Vector left the scene. TCB (ex Pussy) joined Energy. Norwegian Lord Stradh joined Talent. Norwegian swapper Messiah joined Equinox. Phreak, FX and Lord Flight left to form Jesters. Norwegian sysop Omaha Thunder ('DIGITAL PLEASURE') joined Compact Inc. German editor RokDaZone (ex Amaze) joined Infect. RokDaZone worked on the Destiny diskmag 'Satanic Rites'. Jelace and Saracen (ex Damage Inc) joined Banana Dezign. Satanic Rites #1 (pre 1992, .06, ECS Diskmag). Satanic Rites #2 (1992, ECS Diskmag). info: Originally supposed to have been released at the Quartz Summer Conference 1992, but it was not finished in time, since coder Kiwi could not get it bugfree. It was released a couple of weeks after the party. Satanic Rites #3 (ECS Diskmag). Satanic Rites #4 (1993, 29.05, ECS Diskmag). info: This was unfortunately the last issue ever released. Destruction (DST) ----------------- ???> Magius (fin? gfx, 08/96). Destruction changed the name of the group to Tribute, and multi-function- man Pacman changed his handle to Speedo. Therefore, Destruction is in effect dead. I really wish I knew when this happened, 96 or 97? I do not know if Magius is also a member of the new crew. Deep (1996, 18.08, ECS File). code/music: Pacman, gfx: Pacman, Magius (logo). Released for the Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Not outstanding in any way, but adequate. Only two real effects, and none of them are showstoppers. Perhaps they should have had a look at the winner demo from The Gathering 95 before deciding on the title... The only ECS demo released at Assembly 96. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Endscroller had a few graphical errors. Devils (DVS) ------------ FRA> Bombsquad (trade, ex Bronx, new late93), Captain Jewels (Vincent Marque, mainorg, early92), Jinx (Bancel Pascal, code gfx, 04/93), Keops (code gfx), Sirrao (music), Swoly (gfx). GER> Kreator (sysop 'A-BASE', ex X-Trade), Midwife (sysop 'PLAN B' WHQ, ex Anarchy, 04/93), Rakiem (ex Dreamdealers), TDMF (music, ex Dreamdealers, 93). NOR> Bright Brick (music, ex Fanatic, 93), Jam (93), Mike (trade, ex Submission, 93), Tecon (org music, old handle Remix, earlier Desire, 04/93), Wigflipper (Hans Ingar Johansen, gfx, 04/93). ???> Asterios, Axya, Cannabis, Cortex, Faith (re 09/92), Judd, Krom, Krueguer, Medor, Merlin, Pegase, Sky, The Clairvoyant (ex Mystix), The Invisible (new 09/92). Devils was a French-based demo group, which also had a strong norwegian section. 1993 - Shade's demo pack "Party Cocktail #1" [04/93] was released at The Gathering in april. Mr.Pixel left. Youngblood was kicked. German coder Zulu (ex Addonic) joined Cryptoburners. Ceel (old handle Rick, ex Flash Productions) joined Cryptoburners. Norwegians Optic, Redferne (music, ex Desire), Ace (swapm 04/93), Peavey (ex Offence) and Shade (org swap pack, ex Fanatic, new ca 06/92-04/93) left to form Shamrock. Microchip (ex Grace) joined Shining 8. Frenchmen Hades, Bluesilence (ex Zenith), Poison and Mr.Keel all joined Nova. Casimodo left. French musician Hydra joined Sceptic. French coder TKB joined Dreamdealers. Lost most of their members due to the Beach Party failure! There's now only four FRA members left. The best members melted with Drifters and formed a new group called Chainsaw Design. Deicide (ex LSD) joined TRSI. Labyrinth (Demo). No Reality (ECS Trackmo). code: TKB, gfx: Swoly, music: Sirrao. review: Due to incompatibility reasons, I haven't really been able to see all of this demo. What I've seen though, confirms nicely to the old idea that textscreen-effect-textscreen is a nice design that works fine :( There are, however, some nice effects here, and I'd especially like to mention the 'lightsourced fractal landscapes'. Not only do they look great, but they render like lightning on the 030! ;) Unfortunately, when the demo decides it's time to load the second part it crashes after completing the loading. Nothing I've tried remedies this, not even kicking the machine down to 1.3. So for now, this is what you get :) All credit information was hacked out of the disk itself, since that part's obviously in the second portion of the demo. I'd be very very grateful for results... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. Ultimate Composer (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Information: Future Composer tunes and a joystick-controlled menu! Colors (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Iris New Year Conference. Plan B BBS Intro (1993?, ECS File). code: Jinx, gfx: Jinx, Keops (font), music: Redferne. review: This small BBS intro shows Devils are not afraid to go new ways in design; it employs a highres display that's original, and made the production look 'fresh' when it first appeared. Together with the fast, catchy techno music it created a good atmosphere. I say did, because unfortunately it hasn't aged all that well. When you look at it objectively, you clearly see that there's nothing really advanced about the intro, no 'cutting edge' code. It looks OK, sounds catchy, but is ultimately not very interesting. It does its job and little else. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Party Cocktail packmenu (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Jinx, gfx: gfx: n/a, music: Remix, packer: Shade. review: A perfectly serviceable packemenu, with the best part being a large, twisting DEVILS logo down the entire left hand part of the screen. The rest is taken up by the selector, textplotter and small scrolltext. The intro was used for issue #1, released at The Gathering in april, and so we conclude it was first made early this year. It worked perfectly well on my configuration with caches off and original chipset, but since there was no time to test with caches enabled, I can not make any guarantees for its behaviour on such a configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Devious Dezigns --------------- SWE> Whoosh (sysop 'NIGHTFALL', triplememb Over The Top and Outlaws, new 02-03/95). Devotion -------- SWE> Revenger (Thomas Larsson, code, 08/93). Revenger is the author of the graphics conversion utility 'IFFTrasher'. Dexion ------ DEN> Danish Demo Duo (aka Pet and TDK), Einstein (Poul P. Hestbek, music), Hitman (code, ex Neon/Kefrens), Liteace (code), Mr.Mega Mind (code), Tiger, Warca. GER> Jon, Poacher. ???> Anzax, Dr.Dolby, Epsilon (music), Mercy, Orbit, Tron. Dexion are a legendary Danish demo group, who were BIG before Kefrens were a though in mind. Dexion was Liteace's first group. 1990 - In december the group arranged the Dexion X-Mas Conference in Odense, gathering some 600 sceners in what was until then one of the biggest scene parties ever. Norwegian graphician Morten joined Spaceballs. Danish swapper Trix (12/90) joined Rebels old. Danes Starman and Future Freak (Kim Tolstrup Christensen, music) were kicked due to inactivity. Future Freak made LOTS of great tunes, and before the Amiga he was active on the C64 as Future Freak/TFA! Norwegians T-Bone (ex Resolution 101) and Rob (ex Absence) joined The Silents. Megademo (1989, 11.02, ECS Megademo). Winner of the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons demo competition! Megademo II (1990, 05.01, ECS Megademo) Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Beyond Justice (1991, early, ECS File). code: Tron, gfx: Tox, Bustman/Crusaders, music: Orbit. Dezign ------ Boards; ICE CREAM (ger, triple in Delirium and Remedy). dFX (-1996) ----------- dFX was a swedish demo group comprised of Elixir (music), Dep (code) and Neuro (gfx). The group ceased to exist as all three members joined Wrath Designs in 1996.  #? (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Dep, gfx: none, music: Elixir (The Player 6.1A format). 28th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Short and very blue. That's the best way to describe "#?", a 40k intro without graphics at all, and just a single phong object (with and without animated background) that still manages to be 40k in size! They've used Ludde's c2p routine, and the object is in that annoying every-other-pixel mask. While the first part has just the object (an undetailed torus) and a moving background, the second part has no background but 'afterburning' on the object. The file was called dFX-Wildcard.exe, a name that's a little more easy to put on the file than the actual name of the intro :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Diabolics --------- FRA> Corsair (code, 05/89), Gandalf (gfx, 05/89), Mr.Video (gfx swap, 05/89), Sharlaan (code, 05/89), Trunk (swap, 05/89). Diabolics was a french demo group, formed by Mr.Video. Cool Raster Intro (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code: Corsair, gfx: Mr.Video (chars), music: "Happy" by ????/The Jungle Command (SoundTracker format). review: Well, this is certainly a colorful intro! It has rasters all over the shop, bouncing bars and background colors - almost a little too much! obviously someone learned their copper lists early =) But when you look at the credits list, everything falls into place... Corsair is of course the french coder who later made the legendary "Copper Master" for Angels, the copper demo to end all copper demos... In addition to this the intro contains only a large scroller in the middle of the screen with an ok font (for 1989) and nada else. Not much of a noteworthy release. Even with KillAGA, the intro suffers from a badly coded music routine that bugs on my machine. The intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released at the very beginning of june 1989. From this we deduct that the intro itself was released some time during may. No release date appears inside the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Diamonds and Rust (D&R) ----------------------- AUT> Edo and Steve (sysops 'PLEASURE DOME', 11/92). GER> Gettler and Grind King (sysops 'PARADOXUM', 93). ???> Boon Kid (aut? 11/92). Diamonds and Rust was an illegal group. A review of one of their cracktros can be found under Sceptic's entry. 'PARADOXUM' BBS had an intro made for it by some Arise members in 1993. Dictators (DCT, 1990-1991) -------------------------- FIN> Barbarian (swap), Dr.Header (code, ex Success), Maniac (music), Marrow (swap), Shaddock, Sledgehammer. NOR> Nick (swap, 11/90). ???> Bobcat (gfx), Jayhawk, Metal (code), Mr.Mad, Voyager (music). Dictators were formed by ex-members of Danish group Trilogy and some Swedish guys. They died toward the end of 1991...though the release date of "Woozy" and other information make this information seem highly unreliable! 1992 - Finns Electro, Phraser, Breeze (music, old handle Megaman, 01/92) and Simpson (swap) all left to join Equinox 08/92. Exeron joined 2000 AD. Joker (ex Ontarion, new mid 91) joined Spirit. Join-Us-Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Metal, gfx: Bobcat, music: Maniac. Woozy (1992, 07.02, ECS Demo). D.I.D. ------ Frequenz (together with Badcat and Edison) got arrested at Fornebu in Oslo, Norway when collecting a package with carded stuff. Frequenz told them everything, and two weeks later all Norwegian elite boards got busted... Diffusion (DFN) --------------- FIN> Astral (93), Beholder (Pertti Lehtisaari, mainorg, 93), Grand Duke (Juha Kovanen, swap), Rock Lobster (93). FRA> Fear (Viebach Jean-Michel, org), Hardfire (Johan Roirand, later Spaceballs, swap). NOR> Dr. MC Metal (Bjørn Haukedalen, swap). ???> Candyman (ex Leader Productions, old handle Admiral), DJ Jones, Jaywalker, Protoplasm (code, new early 93), Taxman, Wizard. Diffusion was a demo group based in Filand. 1993 - Finnish Lohi joined Balance mid 93. Norwegian and Swedish divisions were kicked mid 93. Extremist, Icebeat, Mikey and Wisa were kicked mid 93. Swedes Exidor (code), Slime (gfx) and Jammie (gfx) joined Infect. Finnish Slipper and PetShopBoy (old handle Ace) joined Cadaver. Finnish musician and swapper Statik-D (old handle Wiseguy) joined Legend. Norwegian swapper Chaka changed his handle to Nurnal and joined Chaos A.D. Kintro (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 15th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Digital [old] (DTL, 1991-) -------------------------- ENG> Acid (04/92), Azi (gfx, ex Adept, 04/92-12/92), Clarky, Columbo (04/92), Elwood (04/92), Engineer, Flame (gfx, 04/92-93), Grashopper, Intreq (sysop 'LIVING CHAOS' WHQ, 04/92), Lexicon (04/92), Lonestar (04/92), Lord Flight (ex Alliance), Mr.Concept, No.5 (04-10/92), Panic (04/92), Paintbrush, Quartz (04/92), Roller Beast (04/92), Slaine, Source, Streamline (code, 04/92-93), Turbo Slug (04/92), Twinage (gfx), Yaz (code music, 04-10/92). GER> Dillenger (Niki Bugarici, code, new 94-07/94), Gfx-Twins (gfx, later Essence, new late93-07/94), G.T.O (Stefan Reisch, music, ex Dual Crew, 07/94), Jewel, Ladykiller, Nitro, Rahiem (Frank Meister, swap, 07/94), Redman (swap pack 'News Break', ex Adept, 03/93-07/94), S-Sex (Michael Schneider, music, ex Action, new early92-04/92). FRA> Alex (gfx, 07/93), Dancer (ex TSB), Doughnut (gfx, old handle Microchip, 07/93), Spiral (ex TSB). FIN> Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT EHQ, 10/94), Cosy (trade, doublememb Fairlight, 03/94), Echo & Guido (traders, 03/94), Jaws (trade, doublememb Decnite, 03/94), Masterblaster (trade, 03/94), San Miguel (trade, 03/94). USA> Fuse, Insanity, Jynx (sysop 'THE OTHER SIDE', 04/92), King Cobra (sysop 'COMPLEX 39', 04/95), New Jack (sysop 'NEW JACK CITY'), Pad (sysop 'MEGLOMANIA'), Spook (code, ex Magnetic Fields), The Master. ???> Bandasnatch, Coaxial, Death Jester (trade), Dextrous (ex Magnetic Fields), Ferris, Jetman, Moses, Nova (ex Slipstream). Boards; FANTASY ZONE (eng), ULTIMATE DREAM (eng), QED (eng), NEVERNEVER LAND (ger), STATIC RAVE ZULU (usa). Digital was formed after Magnetic Fields was reorganized, and all the best German and English members formed this new group around the middle of 1991. These days the 10 remaining members are, unfortunately, mostly inactive. They will leave beind a handful of good productions, most notably perhaps the trackmo "Lethal Exit" [12/92], the 40k intro "A Maze In" (07/93) and the musicdisk "Extemporized" [10/93] - all of which were made by their previous french members. 1992 - Spook, coder of the "Punisher" (04/92) trackmo, left the UK to work in Silicon Valley, USA. German musician S-Sex joins from Action. 1993 - Evil E was kicked late 93. 1995 - English musician Sync joined TRSI early. Finnish sysop Allah joined Parallax, where he's running 'THE CHAMELEON'... was the board also in DTL? Finnish swappers Poke (07/94) and Tint (94) joined Facet's Pussy/Desire. German coder Chip-Ram (07/94) left to rejoin his old group, Wizzcat late94. Sniper left to join The Special Brothers. French musician and swapper Reverse (12/92-10/93) joined Melon Dezign. The entire French section joined Complex sometime between 10 and 12/93. This concerns musician Clawz (ex The Special Brothers, 09/92-10/93), coder Gengis (ex Liquid, 12/92-10/93) and graphicians Eloy and Titan (ex Anarchy, 07/93), though he MAY have joined Scoopex instead. Frenchman Vodka (ex TSB) was kicked out, so he rejoined The Special Brothers. The entire Finnish section, John Peel (trade, ex Black Robes), Kevin (gfx sysop, ex Magnetic Fields, 09/92), Grim (ex Magnetic Fields), Duncan (ex Magnetic Fields) and Hifi (sysop 'LAST GENERATION', ex Grace) joined Damones. Later, new Finnish members would join. French graphician SPH was kicked early 93. The only production I can find that he worked on was Gengis' trackmo "Lethal Exit" [12/92]. French swapper and packer Wizz (ex The Silents) was kicked 02/93. Redman will take over his packseries 'POST-IT!'. Rotox left for Anthrox. German swapper Yoyo joined Fifth Generation 08/92. English coder Paradroid (ex Razor 1911 old, 04/92) left to make games for Core Design. He later joined Anarchy. Dexter (music, ex Plague, new 04/92), Ford Prefect (sysop), Shrimp (code, 04/92) and Sync (music, 04/92) were all kicked. Sync rejoined, Shrimp later joined Ghost. Lots of Germans were kicked in early 92; Andy & Ray, Seco, First Revolution and the graphics-team Groo and Rufferto (all 04/92). Groo and Rufferto therefore joined Delicious Design. German Flaxx joined Bloodsuckers. Afternoon (ECS). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Shattered.Afternoon" by Hollywood/Jetset and Reverse/Digital (4ch ProTracker format). Punisher (Trackmo). code: Spook, gfx: Flame, music: n/a. Day of Reckoning (1992, ECS Disk). Trash (1992, 04.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Streamline, gfx: Azi, music: Yaz (NoisePacker 3 format). 2nd in the Anarchy Party demo competition. review: Acceptable but unexciting trackmo from British section, with an unusual brand of music - with a flute lead (!) Nothing to jump up and down about in any way. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Crashes after memberlist on both configurations. Lethal Exit (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Gengis, gfx: Azi, SPH, Twinage, music: Reverse. 9th in The Party 92 demo competition. Dream Trippin' (1993, Disk). code: Streamline, gfx/music: Flame. A Maze In (1993, 11.07, ECS 40k Intro). code: Gengis, gfx: Alex (head), Dougnut (font), music: Clawz (XANN Packer format). Released at the Sun'n'Fun Conference 93. review: A good little intro from future coder celebrity Gengis, with some nice routines. Perhaps the most interesting one being the 'maze' part, which resembles an early Doom clone - complete with user interactivity! The maze is lightning fast on my machine, by the way. Also, there's a nice zoom rotator and an opening vector rendition of a DTL logo. Cool. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Extemporized (1993, .10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Gengis, Alex, gfx: Walt, music: Clawz, Reverse, G.T.O. (ProRunner 1.0 format). info: This is VERY sought after! If anyone has it, he/she will be richly rewarded. Clawz' modules here are Sweltering Forest, Sonic City, Extemporized, Spleen and Ideal, Voldsom Kanonslag. This was Gengis and Clawz' last production for Digital before leaving for Complex. Shakka Lakka (1994, .07, ECS Trackmo). code: Dillenger, gfx: Gfx-Twins, music: G.T.O. review: A quite acceptable trackmo from the German division. The graphics are rather good throughout, though never excellent. The music is functionable, but nothing more, and the coding rather nice. As you can see, this demo never rises to greatness, but is still a good production. Can't find any party results that list this, and the production does not mention any party either. There's a few fullscreen pictures and lots of incidental graphics, if that's your thing. Nice. No loading problems. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Digital [new] (DTL, 1996-1998) ------------------------------ ENG> Alive (Marcel Bramothe, mainorg2 gfx write, doublememb Nah-Kolor, old handle Shade, 04-10/97), Cache (code, rescene, early98). ???> Goon (gfx), Ibenz (ex Passion and Skidrow, new 09/97), Iceball (gfx), Okeanos (music). Digital was reborn in 1996, and was finally closed by Darkus in 1998. Darkus (doublememb Nuance, old handle Nemes!s) left for Network and Rebels, and accused Iceball (ex Ibanez) for most of the trouble DTL had suffered, because of his lying about new members and productions. 1997 - Ibenz joined from Passion and Skidrow. Alive contributed the title screen to Nuance's "X-Files #19" [10/97]. Tommy (music), Forge (gfx, old handle Mat, 97) and Snozz were all kicked late in the year. Digital Access -------------- ???> Johnny Turbo (mainorg, 07/94), Drizzt (code, 07/94), Questa (code, 07/94), Cool Col J (music, 07/94), Normski (music 3D gfx, 07/94), Budds (sysop, 07/94), Stoo (sysop, 07/94), Tex (3D gfx, 07/94). Girls... Girls... Girls... (1989, late, ECS Slideshow). Code: Drizzt, Gfx: Bass, Music: n/a ETD-AGN Demo (1989, late). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Bass, Music: Uncle Pervis. Don't Touch That Dial (1990, .10, ECS Intro). code: Drizzt, Questa, gfx/music: Bass. Elle Slideshow (1992, .10, Slideshow). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, JT, Music: Cool Col J. DA Party Slideshow (1992, .11, Slideshow). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Sonic Death Demo (1993, .01, File). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Cyborg Intro (1993, .03, Intro). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Intent (1993, .07, ECS File). Code: Drizzt, Krion, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. ADL tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. MCBBStro (1993, .09, Intro). Code: Krion, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. DA Party II Slideshow (1994, .02, Slideshow/Musicdisk). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Guru Meditation (1994, 01.04, ECS File). Code: Krion, Storm, Drizzt, Gfx: Souri, Infinity, Music: Cool Col J. 1st place in the Pearl Party 94 demo competition. Digital Artists Inc (DAI). -------------------------- FIN> Chad (93), Delacroix (music, 93), DJ Tony, Judas Priest (93), Slumlord (93), Tsaca (music, 93), William Wobbler (93), Zenox (09/92). SWE> Goose (David Lindstrom, swap, ex Bronx, 09/92). Finnish Reaper joined The Dark Demon. Musicdisk III (1992?, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Delacroix, Tsaca (3 tunes). Bonus Trax 1 (1992, 05.08, Musicdisk). Digital Chaos (DTC, 1994-) -------------------------- ITA> Dark Ranger (trade, early96), Dr.Tomastik (music, early96), Hantarex (sysop 'POINT OF NO RETURN', early96), KRS (code, early96), Lry (founder gfx sysop 'CYBER TRASH', 94-early96), Nck (founder gfx, 94- early96). Since their birth in 1994, DTC has released mostly doors and bbs-related utilities. The two original founders were Nck and Lry. Ice MC (e-code) is no longer a member. 968606 (Intro). code: Krs, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. information: BBStro for their board 'POINT OF NO RETURN'. Da Beggining (Intro). code: Krs, gfx: Lry, music: Nck. Digital Corruption (DC, http://www.digital-corruption.net). ----------------------------------------------------------- HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, 02/97-02/99). SWE> Hamlet (sysop 'FIRST DIVISION', 01/97-04/98), IronFist (sysop 'UNDERTOWN', 12/97), Leatherface (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', triplememb Smokey and Ghost Riders, 01-12/97), Storm (sysop 'CYBER DESIGN', 01- 12/97), Wizard (F. Schultz, code gfx music, ex Giants, 97). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER', 01/97-02/99), Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 02/99). NOR> Arcane (sysop 'MOST WANTED', 01-10/97), Magz (sysop 'GENETIC WASTE', 01-12/97), Thundercat (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', 12/97-02/99). ENG> Shag-Rat (crack sysop 'SHAGGYS PLACE', 02-10/97), Zoltrix (sysop 'FINE LINE' earlier 'SPACED OUT', 01/97-02/99). GER> Digiman (sysop 'ACID SLAM', 04/98-02/99), Ramis (sysop 'TRASH CITY', 02-10/97), Red Crow (ger?, sysop 'CREEPING ANXIETY', 10-12/97), Steel (sysop 'CRAPTOWN', 12/97). FIN> Patrician (sysop 'HARD DISK CAFE', 01-02/97). POL> Billy (sysop 'FUCK SHIT', 01-02/97). AUS> Psyche (sysop 'TERRA FIRMA', 02/97), Testament (sysop '3RD EYE', 04/98). SCO> Chill (sysop 'HOUSE OF PAIN', 12/97). TUR> Ital (sysop 'NEEDFUL THINGS', 01-02/97). N Z> Damnation (doublememb Instinct, new ROM9). H-K> Raiden (sysop 'RISING SUN', 01-12/97). JAP> Outside (sysop 'DEADLY SINZ', 10-12/97). USA> CDeth (ftop 'SANATARIUM', 12/97), Gunda (sysop 'THE SPECIALISTS', 01- 10/97), JamesWest (sysop 'SEVEN SEAS', 01-10/97), Rusty (ftpop 'SPANK', 10-12/97), Shadower (supply sysop 'DEATHROW', 12/97-02/99). ???> 7en (crack, 10-12/97), Beavis (sell, 02/97), Dalamar (sysop 'DRAGONLANCE' EHQ, 10/97-02/99), Diablo (fra? sysop 'WAREZ CITY', 10- 12/97), LaShawn (sysop 'SOUTH CENTRAL', 04/98-02/99), RaMoNsTeR (crack, 10/97-04/98), RTM (crack, 01/98), Ruskie (keyfilemakers, 96), Scandic (sysop 'FAST FILE SYSTEM' EHQ, 01-02/97), Sunbeam (code crack keyfilemakers, 04/98), Synthetix (crack, 01/97), Vulture (sysop 'VULTURE', 12/97-02/99), Zed (Peter Zelezny, code, doublememb Mystic, 11/96). Digital Corruption are a mainly pirate/illegal-oriented group, among the best these days. They release both games and utilities. Zed is the author of the BBS program System-X (SX). Digital Dreams Company ---------------------- YUG> Thunder (code). Yugoslavian Nemesis left. Anti Atari Demo (Trackmo). Digital Warriors ---------------- NOR> Buzz (sysop 'NIGHT LINE'), Charon (sysop 'STYX'), Nicam (sysop 'NO ACCESS'), Zneiper (ex Dual Crew). Sysop Slash ('THE VENUE') joined Alpha Flight. Digitech (1987-) ---------------- SWE> Captain Solo (Jacek Slawek), Damien (sysop 'PURPLE PLEXUS', 10/90), Excelsior (sysop 'LEVIATHAN', 10/90), Greyhawk (Erik Flyxe), The Ruler (Patrik Gisselson), Warlord (org swap pack, 10/89), Warlord (Peter Blomquist). ???> Hitchhiker (90), Trinicon, Sauron. This mainly Swedish group was born as early as 1987, and their name is a shortform of the two words "Ditigal Technology". They earned their dues creating some truly excellent utility compilations in the old days. One of their members were also behind the cruncher Bytekiller 2.0. Sauron is possibly identical to the Swedish coder who was later in Miracle (real name Johan Lindahl). Megademo (ECS Megademo). Digivision ---------- ???> Dirty Harry (music, ex Atomic). Digiwars -------- USA> Navigator and Freejack (sysops 'EMINENCE FRONT'). Dimension 4 ----------- Finnish Pifki (ex Heavy Duty) joined Grace. Dimension-X ----------- Motive, R-9, Neotronic and Quest left to form Narcosis (PRP4). Deadlock issue #4 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag). Dinx Project (DXP) ------------------ POL> Sachy (Piotr Sachanowitz, code gfx, doublememb Skid Row, later Appendix, 08/95-late97), X-Ceed (music, doublememb Appendix [details], 02/98). ???> Celtic (trade, late97), Dan (music, late97), Drd (gfx, late97), Dr.Szach (raytrace, late97), Dutch Magic (trade, new early98), Franckey (code edit, late97), Groh (gfx, late97), Kosmi (late97), Kro (gfx, late97), ogotay (code raytrace, late97), Oster (code, late97), Rg (code swap, late97), Sebax (gfx, late97), Terry (music, late97), Timi (org, late97), Tinner (raytrace, late97), Zefir (gfx, late97). Dinx Project is a mainly Polish demo group. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Sagrael left the scene, that polish Aln/Picco [misspellt Alan] (code) joined, and that polish swapper Korball joined Amnesty. Polish coder ALN (ex Picco) joined Appendix 11/97. Acid left the group late in the year. Caro left for Nah Kolor late. L.A.M.E. (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: Sachy, music: "Chipmunks" by Jester/Sanity (4ch MOD format). review: For anyone who's seen a lot of demos, "L.A.M.E." is gonna bring a smile to your face. Never have so many good demos been made fun of in such a respectful, tongue-in-cheek way :) From the opening DINX PROJECT logo (which looks a lot like the PYGMY PROJECTS logo from "Extension" [08/93]) - to the end graphics before the cartoon (which looks a lot like something out of Mack's slideshow "Prism" [92] for Melon) - this is a fun ride down demoscene memory lane. The chiptune by Jester has almost certainly been ripped from somewhere, but I can't quite remember where... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chp, 16mb fast/3.0. L.A.M.E. (1996, 23.06, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition. Direct ------ DEN> Dux (sysop 'MAINLINE'). ???> Droid, Zenix, Macho. Beatbuster was kicked, and joined Upfront (EC11). Disaster (1992-1995) -------------------- DEN> Christine De La Queen (later Spoon, 93), Core (gfx music swap), Joshua (code, 93), Muttley (Kim Lebech, founder music swap, ex Addicts, 93), Profile (swap, 93), Subsonic (founder gfx music, ex Addicts). ???> Dgl (gfx, 12/93), LeChuck (music, 12/94). In early 1995, Disaster merged with Subacid, and ceased to exist. These people (at least) joined Subacid: Deckard (gfx, 12/94) Gayhawk (code), Hexagon (founder code, ex Addicts) and Liquid (music). Joshua was busted for supposed hacking! A full report can be read in Upstream #7. Desajn (1994, .05, Dentro). Ärtesuppe (1994, 28.12, Intro). Winner of the fast intro competition at The Party 4! Disaster Area (DA) ------------------ 1991 - Birdy joined Scoopex mid 91. The Gamble Hall BBS Intro (1992, late, ECS Intro). code: Mad Max, gfx: Esteban, Mad Max (font), music: n/a. Cooperation with Scoopex. review: An extremely simple intro, unfortunately showing its age. This is just here to present the BBS 'THE GAMBLE HALL', and does little else. The only 'effect' on offer, not counting logo, scroller and sideways starfield, are some transparent DA bobs spinning. Not one for the collection. Even though this intro is supposedly in cooperation with Scoopex, no members from that group took part in its creation... if you're not counting the scrolltext =) The date is based on the text 'wishes for 1993...' in the scrolltext. [glenn] Disknet ------- FIN> Axu (trade, 02/93), Dark Power, Falcon, Giant, Gummi-Uncle (93), Hawkwind, HST-Bullah (93), JMF (trade, 03/93), Loki, Milkman (93), Palex (trade, 02/93), Rainman (code gfx, 08/92), SCE (sysop 'IRON HOME', 93-04/95), Triax (swap), Wisp (93). ???> Stormbringer (swap). Dark Power and Dr.M left. Finnish Thor joined the Desire subgroup Love. Finnish Goozer (ex Altair) joined Alcatraz (RAW4). Finnish Alcohol Pricelist (1989, 28.02, ECS File). Demo (1990, 09.02, ECS Demo). Coders Mystery (1991, 25.02, ECS Demo). Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Rytinaa ja Ryketta (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Music: D.R.M. Information: 8 tunes, 4 games and more! Disorder -------- SWE> Dixy (sysop 'PREMIUM', 01/95). Divina ------ ITA> Dark Angel (trade sysop 'MADNESS CONFUSION', late90), Knute (code), Mad Marabou (music, late90), Mr.Copper (code, late90), Natas (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DESTRUCTION'), New Dream (code, late90), Luyz (code), Sledge (gfx, late90), Storm (gfx sysop 'ALTAIR OF SACRIFICE'). Beware of Vectors (ECS Intro). code: Knute, gfx: Storm, music: "Flying Gods" by Hydra/Devils. review: Just an intro with a jumping scroll, a logo at the bottom of the screen and some filled vectors. Nothing extraordinary. Nothing even remotely close to a release date is found in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Divine ------ ENG> Aquafresh (music), Risk (org gfx edit 'White Noise', old handle Image, 94), Sonny (sysop 'WELSH COAST', 10/94). FIN> Arche (ex Typhoon), Mac (ex Typhoon), Mr.Z (ex Typhoon). SWE> Maverick (swap, 09/92). ???> Buddy (org sysop), Elric? (trade ascii edit, ex Futura), GT One (sysop 'ALTERNATE REALITY'), MDMA (code), The Fink (code, 94), The Jive Movement (re Delite, old handle Projex), Thor (swap), Warlock (ex Fantasy), Welder (code trade sysop, ex Futura). Divine was formed by ex-members of Surprise! Productions UK and Futura. 1992 - Finnish Duplex left the group to form Electron, and Icebass joined Admirals early in the year. Dutchman Ike (old handle Hornet) joined Effect late92. English musician Dreamfish (94) joined DCS. Dredd (ex Fantasy) was kicked. Loony joined Desire. Sprinter was kicked due to inactivity. Danish coder Wreko left for Balance. Kiwi abandoned Divine and the Amiga for Trilogy on the PC scene. White Noise 1 (1994, ECS Filemag). code: The Fink, gfx: Risk, music: Dreamfish, editor: Risk. D-Mob ----- SWE> Antiaction (code, ex Tetragon, later Defjam, new 07/90), CAD (Björn_Lagercrantz), Creator (swap), Leper Messiah (ex Dual Crew, new late90), Nick23 (gfx, ex Ballcrackers, 12/91), Turbobrain (Stefan Bernbo, code music sysop 'THE ULTIMATE RIDE', 12/91), Xor, Zak (gfx). USA> High Energy (sysop 'RAZOR EDGE'). ???> Creep (ex Control), Elrick, Genius (sysop), Georgie, Jason, Lee, Moose, Odin, Orpheus, Poltergeist (swe?, code, ex Excellence). Boards; WAREHOUSE (fin). D-Mob was formed by The Cad and Turbobrain from The Sunriders Swedish division. They felt they were the only ones doing anything in Sunriders, and they didn't want to do the job for someone else, so they formed their own group. Turbobrain is also the author of the wellknown copy program D-Copy. 1991 - Dreamer joined Vogue, while Raider and Aztec got kicked in the middle of the year. 1992 - Daxer left to join Eclipse ca 06/92. The Finnish division is dead; most of the members joined Intense. Swedes Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD'), Frosty (both ex Jump) and Uzi-U all left for Crystal.  Music-Disk 1 (ECS Trackloaded musicdisk). code/music: Turbobrain, gfx: Zak. review: This is about as basic as they come. What you get is a scroller at the top, a picture of the Batman logo and three (four is you count the 'bonus' track) LARGE tunes, probably because they were not so much composed as sampled. Avoid this and get Music-Disk 3 instead, by much the same team...only miles better! By the way, this was D-Mob's very first production as a group. The scroller is distorted and unreadable on my machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Musicdisk 3 (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Information: COOL onemodule megamix musicdisk! Musicdisk IV (ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Information: 5 tunes and a small bonus part. Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings (DOC) ------------------------------------ GER> Dr.Mabuse, Unknown (Michael Kleps, code, 08-10/88). ???> Esteban, Frog, MnemoTroN (code, ex Silicon League, 04-08/89), Tracer. DOC was a legendary German group that gave the world some of the first and best demos and utilities like the D.O.C SoundTracker (Version 2.0 (08/88) to 2.2 were coded by Unknown, while version 2.3 (04/89) to 2.5 (08/89) were coded by Mnemotron). Unknown also wrote the game Dynablaster and the chipmusic program SID-Mon. Demons Are Forever (1988, 18.05, ECS File). info: Classic demo! Dole (1997-) ------------ ???> Mega (founder music), Mr.Mygg (founder music), Stardust (founder gfx), TmX (founder gfx). Dole was formed by Mega, Mr.Mygg, Stardust and TmX, all from C-Lous (97). Domination ---------- Domination's Dentro (1995, 12.08, Demo). 13th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Dominators (DOM) ---------------- DEN> Roland (music, 12/90). GER> Transfer (code, ex Paradox). ???> Dogfriend, Fox (ex Bonzai), Psycho (train, 89). Dominators on the amiga was merely a division of the wellknown danish group on the c64. They were 'active' (mostly swapping) on the amiga probably as early as 1987, but it would still be a few years before the first productions were released... :) Most German and Finnish members left to build Elysion. Nevermind (1992, 29.06, ECS Demo). 6th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. Golf War (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: Zorlac?, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 15th in The Party 92 demo competition. Donut Fetish (DNF) ------------------ NOR> Niggerjack (Stian Myhre, code), Pix (gfx, later Darkage), Romeo (code, early98), Whiskas (Daniel A. Hansen, music, also in Mono [music], 12/96). ???> Deep (mainorg1 music), Disc-man (music), Drop (mainorg2 music), Fro-D (music), Large (sysop), Loaderror (code gfx), Mr.X (music, new late96), Speeddevil (new 09/97). Donut Fetish is a Norwegian group, with some fairly talented members. Niggerjack was in Shamrock the last time I lost track of him ;) 1997 - Norwegian coder Psalt left for Spaceballs, and Norwegian coder Accede left for Contraz 09/97. Their sysop Large also left them, while Speeddevil joined this month. Doodles^Shock Foundation, The (TDS or D^S) ------------------------------------------ SWE> Blizzard (coedit 'Tequila', 07/95), Butch (gfx, 06/94), Chig (code, 06/94), Jac (sysop 'HYSTERIA', 01/95), Silencer (sysop 'REPULSE'). Swedish musician D-Zire joined Spaceballs late 94. Chip'O'Matic 3 (1994, 07.06, ECS Musicfile). code: Chig, gfx: Butch, music: Loxley/Equinox, Spirou/Senseless Desajn, Deetroy, Excalibur/Complex. Tequila Chart issue #11 (1995, 01.07, Chartmag). Cooperation with Complex, see there for details. Doom [old] (1990-1990) ---------------------- FIN> Acer, Barrax, Bootlegger, Dander, Hans, Hawk, Hex, Hoffman, Jack, Larry, Mac, Mic, Stargazer, Starwize, Swapper-Jack, Tandy, Voyager, Wolf. ???> Ravish (new ca 07/90). Doom was formed when the two groups Vision-X and Tornado merged in 1990. 1990 - In july, finns Judge (gfx swap, ex Tornado), Banzai (code), Zoltar (music), Tom (code gfx swap) and Mr.Head (code) left the group because they felt there were too many members in Doom. They formed the group Advance together with one other member. Finnish Mr.Big was kicked, and joined Wizzcat under the new handle Catman. The group changed their name to Euphoria towards the end of the year, probably 09 or 10/90. Doom [new] ---------- GER> Devil (gfx, 04/96). ???> TLS (music, 04/96), Vanor (code, 04/96). Deadline (1996, .04, AGA 1MB Multifile, 2 disks). code: Vanor, gfx: Devil, music: TLS. Released at Misc 96.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dope ---- ???> 9MM Dor, .38 Dre, Pushead. Dope were a Norwegian group, creating quite original demo work. Light Side of the Dark Side (ECS). Ban the X - Radical Version (1990, ECS File). Double Density Crew (DDC). -------------------------- Virus Intro (1988, 03.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Doughnut Cracking Service (DCS). -------------------------------- ENG> Nosah (Dave). DCS was a mainly English group that came from the C64. Dragnet ------- DEN> Nation (music, 12/94), Venger (Sune Pedersen, music, 12/93-12/94). ???> Constrictor (gfx, 12/94), Marvin (code music, 12/93-12/94). Anni Mator (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Marvin, gfx: Constrictor, music: "Music 4 4okb Vgr x3" and "Endmusic" by Venger. 10th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Runs without crashes, but gfx are totally fucked up, indicating it was coded for AGA machines. Time Warp (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 15th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Dragons [old] (-1990) --------------------- It is highly uncertain what the OLD Dragons have in common with the new. 1990 - French musician Moby (ex Apology) joined Alcatraz. All remaining members (Corsair, Megablast, Mr. Video, Conqueror & Zike!) except Foxy joined Angels late 1990. As a consequence, Dragons died. Foxy joined Dreamdealers. Yoda joined Submission. Megademo (199?, 10.03, ECS Disk). code: Corsair, gfx: L.Jadavin, Mr. Video, Vador, music: Moby, S.Lentfert, Allister Brimble. Dragons [new] ------------- GER> Lee Wijant (swap, 92), R.T.F. (mainorg, 92), T.B.M (sysop 'DIRTY SURFACES' opened early 92). FIN> Yoda (new 08/92). ???> KLF (train, new early92), Roland (code, new early92). It is highly uncertain what the OLD Dragons have in common with the new. EuroChart #15 carried the news that they won the demo competition at the 'Fresh Cream' party, though this party is unknown to me. Bounty left to join Hardline early 92. Cream Dezign (gfx music, new early92) left 08/92. Drakpak ------- Swedish sysop Bugs Bunny ('POLE POSITION') joined Noxious. Megaintro (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Dreamdealers (DRD) ------------------ FRA> Antony (Squizzato Antony, gfx pack 'Pipeline', aka Tony?, 09/93- 12/93), Asymptotic (code, ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92), Chrylian (Ceril, music, ex Proton Ltd, new late92-94), Croquik (code), Elmer (Hugues Giborne, gfx, ex Symbiosis, new late92), Fletch (gfx edit 'L.I.V.E.', ex TSB), Foxy (ex Dragons, new 90), Freddox (code edit 'L.I.V.E', ex TSB), Fullstar (ex Pure Metal Coders, new RAW4), Gelfling (sysop 'DREAMLANDS' WHQ, 09/93-06/96), Napoleon (Emmanuel, swap, ex Solaris, 09/93-94), Pib (code, 94), Redlight (code, 12/91-93), Shout (Jean-Philippe Plazas, music, 04/96), Silk (ex Solaris, new UPS8), Sun (music, 12/92-12/93), Sync (code, 12/93), Tik (gfx, 12/91), TKB (code, ex Devils, new RAW4), Zebig (gfx, ex Alliance Design, new pre 07/92-93), 7th Eye (gfx, ex Alliance Design, new early92). Boards; JUJU (fin, 09/95). Dreamdealers is a purely French demo group. In the beginning they were a small, but quite high quality group. Then Moby and Ra joined, and people started taking a little more notice. When Moby and Ra left for Sanity they certainly lost their best assets. The sysop of 'JUJU' is not a Dreamdealers memb, but Gelfling is a cosys on the board. 1990 - Foxy joined from Dragons after that group died. 1992 - French coder Gryzor left for Hemoroids in august. 1995 - Fletch returned to the scene late 95. The Frenchmen in Oops! Productions (Alex and Nam, both ex The Silents) both joined Movement. French coder Hexogen (ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92) left the scene. French painter Trajan (12/93) joined Bomb!. The entire German division; Rakiem (ex Speed/Complex), Ascender, T'Vaan (ex Dux/Submission) and TDMF (ex Mexx); were kicked out. Rakiem and TDMF joined Devils. French music and graphics masterminds Moby (ex Alcatraz, 12/92-12/93) and Ra (old handle Rhah, ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92-12/93) both left to join Sanity. Corinne (1994 or pre, AGA Demo). Tales of Dream (1991, 25.08, ECS File). code: Redlight, Croquik, gfx: Tony, music: Moby. Inner Vision (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: Redlight, gfx: Tik, music: Moby. Winner of the Iris New Year Conference! info: Does not work on 2.0+ systems! Beach Party Invitation Intro (Beachtro) (ECS Intro). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. Interpol Crack Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Ra, music: Chrylian (ProMizer 1.8 format). review: A cracktro whose most important asset is a great Interpol logo by Ra, covering most of the screen. Some text is nicely splashed onto the screen at the bottom, and the music is...not good. There is no actual release date, but it was probably made in 1993 - several things indicate this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Ulitro (Flying Saucer BBS) (1993, ECS Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Zebig, music: Sun. Raging Fire (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Sync, gfx: Antony, Ra, music: Moby. 15th in The Party 3 demo competition. review: This starts of on a TRULY cool note with a heavy metal module by Moby (ahh sweet headbangin'...), before we're treated to a great picture of a bull's head by Ra. Then, the bull's head is zoomrotated fullscreen while the drums of the tune keep-a-bangin'. ...and that would appear to be it. Having experience this power trip (mostly brought on by the music), one can't help but think they'd have ended up a lot higher on the score board if they'd added another effect or two. Amazing potential! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Toyzareus (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Zebig, music: Reflex. 3rd in The Party 93 40k intro competition.  Imagine (1994, 03.09, AGA File). code: Pib, gfx: Antony, music: "Organe Machine" by Chrylian. 2nd in the 3S Party demo competition. review: Certainly nice this short demo from the Frenchies in DRD. The graphics remain excellent throughout, and the coding's not bad either. As for the music...I thought it was a fucking Moby tune until I saw the credits! If that's not a stamp of approval, I don't know what is. Very very competent in every department, then. Please note that on the 030-50 it ran a little TOO FAST. I didn't get half a chance to read any of the text early on, because it just flashed onto the screen, and then it proceeded. On the plain A1200 everything was fine, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: see the review! Toothbrush - The Trilogy Part III (1994, 27.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: P!b, gfx: AnTony, music: Doh (samples: Doh, AnTony, Ra). Cooperation with Cryptoburners. 21st in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Just some animations of people brushing their teeth, set to a techno track with brushing noises. Probably supposed to be funny, but it doesn't really come alive for me... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Cult - The Party 4 Edition (1995, .02, AGA Diskmag). info: This was released as a 'preview' of the new diskmag 'Cult', which was supposed to be released regularly as a cooperation with Absolute!, and the editor would be Fester/ABS! As far as I know, no further issues were released. 3S Party 96 Invitation (1996, mid, File). code: Obyone, gfx: Tenshu, music: Bosco. info: The 3S party was held from 30.08-01.09 1996. All of these people probably became Syndrome members by the end of the year! Dreamline Designs (DLD) ----------------------- DEN> Rasmus K. Ursem (code, 02/95). Rasmus K. Ursem is the author of several small utilities, whose names all begin with DLD :) Da'Ride (1994, 28.12, Wild). 3rd in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. Information: Presented on an A4000. Dreampark (DPK) --------------- GER> Euronymous (sysop 'ANCIENT ENTITY', triplememb TRSI and Thunder Technologies, 06/94). Drifters (DFT) -------------- FRA> Amotrak (swap, 02/91), Clary (code gfx raytrace modem, doublememb Crux Design, 95-12/96), Coronal (swap), Golden Hell (Gabriel Hiriart, gfx raytrace swap, 02/91-04/96), Kyrom (Eric Mounie, music, 02/91), Manu (Emmanuel Gallo, swap), Mr.Bluesky (code, 02/91-04/96), Mulder (raytrace trade sysop 'X-FILES', 04/96), Outlandous D.A. (Yannick Meneceur, gfx, 02/91), Sh0cker (A. Pagnotta, trade system modem, old handle Hooked, 04/96), Tof (gfx ascii, doublememb Crux Design, 95-04/96). ENG> NMI (Paul Westgate). ???> 242 (code raytrace, 04/96), Euric, Io (gfx swap, 04/96), L'Anome (trade, 04/96), Seb (gfx, 04/96), Stf. Drifters was a french demo group, formed by Golden Hell and Mr. Bluesky. The group produced more than 30 demos/intros in their time. Thanks to Outlandos D.A for a little information! 1991 - Postacard is now Rave/Delight late in the year. 1995 - Drifters originally died in 1995 when the two founders left the scene, but Clary tried to keep the group together a small while more. Golden Hell was asked to rejoin, and did a few pieces of graphics for them (and Crux) but it never really came alive. Black and White (Demo). info: Done in cooperation with Pentagon - who merged with Drifters soon after. Latex (Intro). code: Mr. Bluesky, gfx: Golden Hell, music: n/a. The Prisoner (Number 6) (Demo). code: Mr. Bluesky, gfx: Outlandous D.A, Golden Hell, music: Kyrom. info: First ever philosphical demo. Cheap Blittering (1991, 06.02, ECS File). code: Mr.Bluesky, gfx: Amotrak, O.D.A, Golden Hell, music: Kyrum. Cooperation with Pentagon. review: Please be advised that the version reviewed here is a re-issue version, put on AmiNet by Drifters in April 1996, for the purpose of archiving. The readme file says Amiga OS 3.x, so its compatibility may therefore not be the same as the original's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Gudule (1995, File). code: Clary, gfx: TnT (Tof & Tenshu/Syndrome), music: Bosco/Syndrome. Cooperation with Syndrome. 2nd at the Synapse 95 demo competition. review: I suppose this would be a lot more entertaining if I knew french... You see, this is just a set of pictures set to a 'tune' with sung french vocals. All pretty amusing, I'm sure, but I don't understand squat :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Disco (1996, 07.04, HD File). producers: Clary, Falcon, Io, Tof. 3rd in the Symposium 96 demo competition. review: High points for originality, but that doesn't help this out of the mud, I'm afraid. It's pretty much an animation player :) The demo's high point is actually the first 10 seconds, when a voice announces "Hello and welcome to the Boris disco party", immediately followed by Calvin and Hobbes getting down to a disco groove. Cool, you think - so how about the demo? There is none. It's just more cartoon figures, set to the sound of that soon-becomes-mighty-irritating disco tune. Avoid. I find no indication that this needs AGA. It is HD only due to the size, but there is no reason why it can't be run from disk if it's packed first. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Paradisio (1997, 30.03, Demo). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Dromex [new] ------------ ???> Booster (ex Lunatic Earls). Booster left Lunatic Earls to rebuild Dromex! 1992 - Rackler joined Wildfire late in year. D-Tect (DTC, 1988-1993) ----------------------- GER> Agent (code, 11/90-09/91), Case (sysop 'PLEASURE PARADISE', 02-09/91), CCCP (code, ex Spirit), Charly (03/90-09/91), Cougar (code, 11/90-09/91), Dave (11/90), Ferris (swap, 02-09/91), Flake (Markus Schmall, code, ex The Special Brothers, later TRSI, new 08/92), Flashlight (sysop 'ELITE TOWER', later Pirates), Harry (11/90), Higgins, Joker (11/90-02/91), Mr.Soft (sysop 'POISON DATA', 09/91), Mr.X (swap, 09/91), Pete (02/91), Satan (code, ex Vision One/AFL, new 12/90-12/92), Snowman (03/90- 09/91), Spider (Onur Pekdemir, gfx, 03/90-09/91), Twisted (music, 03/90-09/91), Yankee (write, ex Addonic, new ca 01/92). NOR> Darkdude (gfx, 09/91-12/92). FIN> Clan (Mikko Nurmi, swap). USA> Jabbawocky (sysop 'CYBORG COMMAND', later Skid Row, new 09/91). ???> Adam (code, 08/92), Cyfrak (music, 12/92), Digital Illusion (ex Tristar), Dr.Clan (ex Fate). Boards; POPULOUS (ger, new 03/90). D-Tect was a demo group based in Germany, probably born around early 1988. 1990 - November was a busy month, with first the release of "Depeche Code" [11/90] followed closely by the second issue of "Hack-Mag" [11/90]. The mag announced that the group needed more coders, since only Agent and McDeal were coding. It also announced two new members, Mr.Megaforce in Canada (about to open a board) and their first modemtrader, Rockford in Germany. 1992 - German writer Yankee joined from Addonic around january, to work on Hack Mag. December saw the release of the group's last ever production, the intro "D-Cadence" [12/92] at The Party. It seems reasonable to say the group died early 1993. Leo left the scene. Wire 501 was kicked. One of D-Tect's greates assets in earlier times and the ex-editor of 'Hack Mag', McDeal (11/90-) left to join German supergroup Sanity. However, he only participated in one demo for Sanity ("Arte") before leaving the scene. German sysop Rockford aka RCF ('TRADERS HEAVEN', 02-09/91) joined Elevation. Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY') joined Dual Crew (RAW1). Lord Unix was kicked (09/91). News in I.C.E that Spider joined Coma is untrue (09/91). Cooperation (1988, .04, ECS File). Cooperation with Shining. Multiscroller (1988, .05, ECS File). Released at the Piranhas Party. In Your Memory (1989, .02, ECS File). Released at the SAS & SSC Party. Amiga Expo (1989, 10.11, ECS File). Released at the Paranoimia AmiExpo Party. Mean Machine Trainer (1990, ECS Intro). Hack-Mag issue #1 (1990, 22.08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Depeche Code (1990, 10.11, ECS File). code: McDeal, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: McDeal mentioned in a demo newsgroup that this demo was the second one to ever feature a dot tunnel on the Amiga, an improvement on TIP/TNM's, who was first. Hack-Mag issue #2 (1990, 22.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: Spider, music: TAR, editors: many. review: The second issue of HM opens with a little 'intro' - a title picture of a monitor smashing through glass set to music. The mag itself is very well presented, perhaps the best design on the scene at the time it was released! You have to remember that HM was competing against Crack Journal at the time, so they easily had the best code. Like in most old mags, too many pages are taken up by unnecessary drivel like humor articles and small comic strip pages, but overall the mag represents an overall informative read. But party reports without results...booh! =) Some critical newsediting would also have been in its place; newsitems like that 4-Mat left Anarchy for TRSI, or that Tarkus Team is dead were obviously wrong. The mag announces the new members Mr.Megaforce (canada, soon sysop) and Rockford (germany trade). The first time I tried booting the mag (no caches/OCS), it showed the intro just fine but gurued at the first page of the mag. I peeked around the disk, and found the way to make it work; boot to your harddisk first. Then cd to the disk in question, then cd to the directory 'articles'. now type KillAGA (provided KillAGA is in your path ofcourse) to the main hackmag executable. The commandline may look like this: 'KillAGA df0:HACKMAG2'. Get it? This should make the mag work, though it still has some problems with catching keyboard presses - mouse clicking works fine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Traders Heaven (1991, .02, ECS Intro). info: BBS Intro, not same as 04/91 release. Hack-Mag issue #3 (1991, 03.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Satan, McDeal (fix), gfx: Spider (pic, font), Vinvent/Vision 1 (bobs), music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: TAR. review: The intro (coded by new member Satan) is much cooler than last time. It opens with an ok pic by Spider, of one of the Gremlins clutching a D-Tect logo, then goes into the intro itself. Not a terribly inspired affair, but features a starfield, bobs, and the obligatory scroller at the the bottom of the screen. On to the mag, we experienced exactly the same compatibility problems as with the last issue...but this time the solution we offered then does NOT work! Disaster! So sometimes even Amiga owners need to retort to emulators... :) Editorially and graphically not much has changed, the design is identical to the last issue. Not many deep articles this time either, but it's a good hardcore scene mag. Nothing much more to say really, this is an average issue. Support for the mag was picking up, this issue has much more outside contributions than before. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hack-Mag #4 (1991, .04, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). Traders Heaven (1991, .04, ECS Intro). info: BBS Intro, not same as 02/91 release. Hack-Mag #5 (1991, 29.06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Satan, Agent, McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: review: After a small bit of loading with a nice ascii screen to look at, the intro starts. And it looks really good, actually! =) It's actually among the simplest intros ever, just a pic, music and a scroller, but the picture at least shows some effort on Spider's part! Well, onto the mag: The first thing that strikes us is the title logo picture, again by Spider - nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hack-Mag issue #6 (1991, 22.09, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Cougar, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: misc, music: Twisted, editor: McDeal. review: This mag from 91 works perfectly fine on my 50mhz 030-machine... Astonishing! Well, installing to harddisk wasn't much of a problem either, so I booted the thing. The intro is great! Cool cyber-OS design, metal-skeleton Terminator picture by Spider and thumping cyber-techno soundtrack by Twisted! It certainly sets the mood for some nice reading... The mag itself is well-laid out, and there is certainly enough to read. There's only one module, again by Twisted, but it's very cool. It's got a melody that I simply looooove... This old mag brings back some of the 'magic' from lost times. For a nostalgic read, recommended!  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Hack-Mag issue #7 (1991, 27.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). D-Cadence (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Satan, gfx: Darkdude, Satan, music: Cyfrak. 13th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. DTS INC ------- PowRootDo Korzemi #2 (1994, 13.11, Demo). 4th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Dual 4Mat --------- ???> Atom (gfx, 94), Dug (code, 94), Matt (gfx, 94), Mikromission (ex Saints, new ROM3), Rob (94), Sparkle (code, 94), Tummo (music, 94), Watts (music, 94). Rebellion joined Maniacs late 95. Just 17 (1994, early, ECS Intro). code: Dug, gfx: Matt, music: Rob. Egg N Spam 2 (1994, mid, ECS Musicfile). code: Sparkle, gfx: Atom, music: Tummo, Watts. Dual Crew (DC, 1988-1993) ------------------------- SWE> Flogger (ex Voice), Hater (code, ex Tetragon, new 07/90), Joker (ex Tetragon, new 07/90), Omega (music, new ca 07/90), Parsec (code, ex Voice), Stookie (founder org modem, 03/90), The GNN (swap, 04/92), Thunor (ex Voice), Trigon (code, ex Tetragon, new 07/90). NOR> Yoghurt (ex Network), Shocker (Bjørn Stensrud, code, ex Network), Timewalker (ex Absence). FIN> Axis, Destop (gfx trade, later CNCD, 07/91-02/92), Dizzy (music, later CNCD, 02-04/92), Golem, Truxton (trade, new 08/92-02/93), Vulcan (swap, 04/92), WDO (Mikko Hamalainen, code swap, later CNCD, 02/92), Zoolook (Marko Kilpelainen, swap, 11/90). GER> Desto (Ingo Kamps, swap trade, ex Platin), Executor and Phreaker (sysops 'SECRET WORLD', ex Gothic). ENG> The Warden (sysop 'THE ASYLUM'), Ultimate Warrior (swap, 04/92). ICE> Hawkeye (ex Armada), Noblestar (ex Armada), Othon (music, ex Armada). USA> White IC and Phosphyre (sysops 'COMPLEX CORROSION'). ???> Belfagor (music, 04/92), Breeze (ex Amaze), Danken (swe? music, 01/90), Df0 (ex Amaze), Doom (ex Gothic), Dwarf (ex Amaze), Galahad (crack), Hawk (fin? code, new 05/92), J.K. (music, 04/92), Morph (music, ex Crystal, rejoined, 04-05/92), Overlord (ex LSD, new 08/92), PMB (ex Amaze), Shadow (gfx, 05/92), Spike (ex Alliance). Dual Crew was originally a c64 cracking group, and the amiga section was formed by Stookie in 1988. Color blind graphician Red Devil ran the pack series "Ultimate Sin" for a while, which was previously run by other DC members. 1990 - Swedes Omega (music), Tip (music), Mace (code) and Color (gfx) all joined around july, but the three last ones didn't stay too long and moved on to join Phenomena in december. Four others swedes also joined in the same time period; JBM, Trigon, Joker and Hater from Tetragon. Swedish Gizmo joined The Silents, while swedish Leper Messiah joined D-Mob - both late in the year. 1991 - Swedish trader JBM (ex Tetragon, new 07/90) joined Fairlight in the summer of 91. 1992 - English sysop Clairvoyant ('FORGOTTEN REALMS') joined from Rebels in march. English sysop Reflex ('A KIND OF MAGIC', 04/92) left in august, and his further scene career is uncertain. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART') joined from 2000 AD around october. 1993 - Germans Orbit (code) and HMC (music, both ex Gothic) joined Alcatraz in march. In april of 1993 Dual Crew merged with Shining, and became the new group Dual Crew Shining (DCS). Among the people who went along to DCS were Snuskbuske (swe trade sysop 'GURUS DREAM', 04/92), Chromag (ger music, ex Addonic, new 09/92), Red Devil (eng gfx, ex Wizzcat, 04-05/92), Gin (music, ex Carnage, 12/92), Gamma (fin music, 04/92), NZO (crack), Haka (fin sysop 'EASTERN FRONT', 07/91-), Tyrell (fin music, ex Vectra, 04/92), Zaz (swe code, 01/90-), Mutant (swe gfx, 01/90-), Clairvoyant (eng sysop 'FORGOTTEN REALMS', ex Rebels old, new 03-04/92), Polarbear (fin trade, 07/91-02/93) and Ninja (ger gfx, ex Awesome). JS joined Byterapers Inc. English Warlord joined Fairlight. English sysop Beast ('ARCADIA') joined Quartex. German sysop Headhunter ('CONDEMNED CELL', ex Aurora) was kicked. German Wonderboy (ex Awesome, new 09/92) joined Razor 1911. Pylon C and 7an (music, 04/92) were both kicked. 7an did a tune for the musicdisk 'Sound of Science'. German sysop Xeniator ('SATAN'S PALACE') was kicked, and therefore joined Platin. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART', ex 2000 AD) joined TRSI. German Skyfox (ex Adept or Agnostic Front, new pre 07/92) was kicked and therefore joined Desire. German musician Chromag (ex Platin, new late 92) joined Essence...or see the history file for an alternative take! Link joined Scoopex. Agony was kicked, then joined Laserdance. Germans WOTW (music) and D-Sign (gfx, both ex Gothic) joined The Silents. WAL joined Offworld. Stiga left the scene. Tocic and CIA got kicked. Finnish Catman (ex Network, new 08/92) changed his handle to Fuzzy and joined Complex. Matrix, Delbert and Duke joined LSD early 92. However, SLH11 claimed Matrix left the scene...? Can anyone help us with this? Cooper, Skywalker, Razor and G.T.O. (old handle Magic Duke) left the scene to make a game. However, this is untrue at least in G.T.O's case; he didn't leave the scene. RAW5 confirms he joined Digital! Germans Tron, Crux, MCM and E.Toball joined Anarchy. SLH11 mentions that MCM joined Spaceballs and E.Toball joined Complex. Indeed they did, but only after their visit in Anarchy (which was relatively brief). Shaggy joined Fairlight. Swedish sysop Dragon ('DRAGON'S LAIR'), joined Rebels old. Norwegian coder Lord Mindless joined Offence. Norwegians Octoplex (code, ex Palace), Flash and Mindblaster (all ex Vision...?) joined Scoopex. Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex D-Tect) left to be independent. Zneiper (ex Motion) joined Digi Warriors. Trainer Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). Code: Trigon, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Competition Demo (1990, 05.01, ECS File). code: Zaz, gfx: Mutant, music: Danken. Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Yum Yum (1990, .08, ECS Demo). Vectorscroll (1990, .11, ECS Demo). Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90. Party Slideshow (1991, 15.06, ECS Slideshow). Released at ECES Party '91. Brain Drain (1991, .12, ECS Disk). code: n/a, gfx: Mutant, music: n/a. Finlandia (1992, .02, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: WDO/Dual Crew, gfx: Jugi/Complex, Destop/Dual Crew, music: "Synnissa kypsynyt" by Bruno/SCUP, "Lucid Dreams" by Jugi/Complex, "Mellow Pluck" by Delorean/Complex, "Forever Alien" by Fleshbrain/ Crusaders, "Like Commercial Shit" by Dean/Cyberiad, "Towards and Back" by Di33y/Dual Crew, "Jammin' for Nothing" by Heatbeat/Carillion, "Starbalance" by Turtle/Byterapers Inc, "Club Mood" by Delorean/Complex, "Alannah my Paerse" by Spock/TRSI, "Tweaked 2 Fit In" by Delorean/ Complex, "Curious World" by Delorean/Complex. Cooperation with Complex. Information: 3 disks, and it doesn't support df1:!? The Sounds of Science (1992, 18.04. ECS Multifile Musicdisk, 2 disk). code: Zaz, gfx: Red Devil (logo), music: "Running Elephant" by Belfagor, "Pandora's Box '91" by Tyrell, "Freedom!" by J.K., "Brutalbanan" by 7an, "Respiration" by Morph, "Trajanus" by Dizzy, "Nutritional" by Gamma, "Artifical Musique" by D-Zire/The Silents, "Stratosphere" by Gin/Carnage (loader). Released at The Gathering 92. Review: This musicdisk is certainly not bad, but could have been better. The first thing I'd like to put my finger on is the concept: Zaz mentions in the scroller that to avoid a common pitfall, that all the music on a musicdisk sounds the same, he has used 8 different composers for this one. What he must have forgotten was to check the quality of the modules, not just their diversity. I would have preferred to have 5 or 6 of the best modules on one disk, and have scrapped the rest. Best tunes: Freedom! and Artifical Musique. Red Devil's silver surfer logo is great, but why is there no credit for the raytraced Sounds of Science logo? Not bad. Another thing Zaz forgot was obviously timing. On my 030, this one jerks and flies like there's no tomorrow, and that goes for the tunes as well. That can probably be remedied by KillAGA'ing it, though. Easily installed to harddisk. Needs 1mb total memory. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mystic Places Intro (1992, 31.05, ECS Intro). code: Hawk, gfx: Shadow, Red Devil, music: Morph. Dual Crew Shining (DCS, 1993-, http://www.sokeri.com/dcs & http://www.dc-s.com/) --------------------------------------------------- FIN> Gamma (music, 93), Polarbear (founder trade, ex Dual Crew, 03/94), Tyrell (Markus Lehto, founder music, 93). SWE> Artie (music, 12/93), Daeron (music, ex Shining, 12/93), Tizzy (code, ex Shining, 08/93), Twister (sysop 'FLASHBACK', doublememb Origin, 01/95). GER> Cueball (code, ex Masque), Doom, Dynamite (Sirko Zidlewitz, music, ex Noxious), Excess (ex Vision), Executur and Phreaker (sysops 'SECRET WORLD'), Exciter (Ingo Kamps, swap), Mel O'Dee (Heiko Klueh, music, ex Shining, later Rebels, new 04-12/93), Ninja (gfx, ex Dual Crew, 93-94), Slash (code, ex Analog), Tedric (Rolf Alber, code, ex The Silents). NOR> Globe (gfx), Lord Mindless, Roadster. ENG> Clairvoyant (founder sysop 'FORGOTTEN REALMS'), Red Devil (Rob, gfx raytrace, ex Dual Crew). USA> White IC (sysop 'COMPLEX CORROSION'). ???> B-Real (ex WOT), Dark (gfx), Dennis T (eng? modem, 08/93), Desto (mainorg), Galahad (re), Gin (nor? music, ex Dual Crew, 12/93), Heinsen (code, 93), Ikari, NZO (Ray, code crack train music, new 93). Dual Crew Shining (DCS) was born when the two groups Dual Crew and Shining merged in april of 1993. The fact was announced at The Gathering, held later that month, through some small intros. Red Devil is busy raytracing graphics for games from Softimage these days, though he hasn't left the scene! 1993 - After being born in april, the group released their first signs of life late in the month, at The Gathering, with the two intros "Anvend Håndkle" and "April Fool". Mutant also participated in the graphics competition, where his picture "Two Girls" finished 8th. Norwegians Corny and Codeman (collectively known as CoCo Arts) and swedish musician Soul (old handle Dexter) all left for Rednex in december. 1994 - Finnish trader Zephyr (Robert Karlsson), one of the original members who came in with Shining, finally decided to end his scene life. He sold all his computers to Haka and Truxton, and bought a motorbike instead. Today he works as atelecom business consultant and systems developer. German coders Zulu & Grey (ex Cryptoburners) left to join the new, reborn Rebels in 1994. German musician Chromag (12/93-) left to join Lego in may. He made his first musicdisk, "Chromagic" [93], for DCS. Swedish musician Azazel left to join The Black Lotus (TBL) between 10 and 12/94, where he sometime later would become one of the most famous musicians on the amigascene, largely thanks to his work on TBL demos like "Tint" [04/96]. 1996 - Swedish coder Zero joined Balance late 96. Phosphyre left the scene. Smegma and Brainpower was kicked. Coder Cocoon joined Scoopex. German coder Cockroach (ex Analog) was kicked. He joined new german group Artwork with Voyage (sys) and jMS (gfx) 11/94. Cyclone and Stranger (swap) got kicked. Cero left the scene. Storm (ex Jetset new) joined Essence. German Plasma (ex Analog) was kicked out, and joined The Silents. Boba Fett (fin), Double Density, Killroy and Sly (all from Shining) were kicked out. German coder Raw Style joined from Paradise, but only for a brief period before moving on to Alcatraz. Cockroach was kicked. English musician Dreamfish (Ian Ford, ex Hydlide/Divine, doublememb mono211 [music]) left the amiga scene to concentrate on the music group mono211 (where he is now known as DJ Hoffman). Some sources claim he joined TRSI early 95... German swapper Agony joined Paradise. April Fool (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 93. Anvend Håndkle (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 93. Chromagic (1993, ECS 1MB Musicdisk). code: Heinsen, gfx: Ninja, music: Chromag (6 tunes). review: You wanna hear dreams? Then put this floppy in your diskdrive, link your Amiga to a powerful hi-fi tower, turn up the volume and just lean back... Starting with an introduction designed like the alien movies and movie- like effects at the credits followed by a bumping invisible ball with a scroller on its surface. Only bad that the colors of its background doesn't fit in the dark overall design! But therefor the pannels are okay again and there you can choose six modules composed by a musician who stands right beside Jester, Nuke or Jogeir in the scene`s history: Chromag. It's not only the nice idea for the menu grafix those make a warm atmosphere. With pop, rock metal and romatic tunes the dcs-crew makes you enjoying this production in a relaxed feeling. As standard you can reach information about each of the modules via buttons. Also eight more or less interesting scroller and a very light group logo (that doesn't fit again, but was just an extra). My favorites are "Charming but drunk" of which the musician composed a sequel and "Love and pain". This was Chromag's first musicdisk. Released outside of any party. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. AGA Demo (1993, 05.08, AGA File). code: Tizzy, Zaz (additional, objects), gfx: Iridon (font), Snuskbuske (raytrace), music: Belfagor. 12th in the ECC93 demo competition. review: This demo scored 0% of the votes, and frankly I can see why. It's a multitasking AGA demo that's unexciting, and doesn't show off the new colors much. I can understand how the audience was unenthusiastic. The demo starts with a raytraced EDCS picture-logo by Snuskbuske, before the main part begins. This consists of a standard scroller at the bottom (with a very nice font), a static bitmap 'planet' of some kind on the background, over which they show some vector objects. I can see why the audience didn't rise to applaud it. The demo is also known as 'AGA Multitasing Demo', since that was the name given to it by the offical results file :) This name appears nowhere in the demo itself, though. The multitasking part is true, by the way, which means that this is one of the few productions where you can flip the screens with Amiga-M while viewing it. Works fine on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sonic Attack (1993, end, Musicdisk, 4 disks). code: NZO, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. information: Massive musicdisk with music by almost ALL of DCS' musicians. Received unfavourable reviews, if memory serves... Dual Crew Shining [new] (DCS, 1997-) ------------------------------------ FIN> 13 (gfx, 07/99), Adam (Antti Rita, org gfx, 04/98-12/99), Arto (music, 10/97), B (org code gfx music, 10/97-07/99), Boost (gfx, 07/99), Carebear (music, 07/99), Crash (trade, 03/94-07/99), Deetsay (code music, 04/98-07/99), Doc (gfx, 07/99), Dual (music, 97-07/99), Fluffy (music, 08/98-07/99), Fthr (gfx, 07/99), Haka (trade sysop 'EASTERN FRONT', 93-07/99), Illusion (gfx music, doublememb Doomsday [pc], 12/97-07/99), Kidlove (gfx, 07/99), Los (gfx, new 07/99), Mamba (trade, 07/99), Markus (gfx, 07/99), Muffler (music, doublememb Haujobb [details], 12/97-07/99), Obligator (trade sysop, 07/99), Shape (Hannu Komsa, code, 10/97-12/99), Speedo (code, 07/99), Substance (music, 07/99), The Hooligan (music swap, 07/99), Truxton (trade, 93-07/99), Tweek (music, 04/98-07/99), Wrec (trade sysop, 07/99). SWE> Iridon (gfx, ex Shining, 08/93-07/99), Metal Maniac (code, 07/99), Mike (swap, 04/98-07/99), Mortimer Tee (music, 07/99), Mutant (gfx, 93- 07/99), Purepain (code crack, 07/99), Snuskis (raytrace trade sysop 'GURUS DREAM' WHQ, 08/93-07/99), Stookie (swap, 07/99), The GNN (swap, ex Dual Crew, 93-07/99), Tommy (music, 07/99), Zaz (Pontus Lidman, code, ex Dual Crew, 08/93-07/99). NOR> Optic (gfx music, triplememb TRSI and TPOLM [pc], 12/97-07/99), Xhale (music, 07/99). POL> Blaze (swap, new 07/99), Bonzaj (3d, 07/99), Evan (swap, new 07/99). GER> WOTW (music, 07/99). N-L> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS', 07/99). Though the group was never technically dead, we can certainly speak of a first and second generation for Dual Crew Shining (DCS). Their second generation was initiated in 1997, when the likes of Shape starting releasing product for the amiga again, and first-class product too at that! 1997 - Shape released the 64k intro "Kala" [10/97] at Demolition III, reaching fourth position in the competition. This was followed with another intro at The Party 97, but "Blues" [12/97] was only rewarded with a sad 13th position. 1998 - They reached second place at The Gathering 98 in april with "Nebula" [04/98], only beaten by their fellow finns in Mellow Chips! Deetsay and B coded the intro "A Little Intro At Assembly 98" [08/98] in two days before the competition, and came 7th in the 64k intro competition. 1999 - In march, a large reorganizing took place, where several inactive members were kicked and new ones were allowed to join; Relief was kicked, and so there are no more DCS members in Denmark; finnish trader Zeff was kicked; Finnish graphician Los joined, and polish swappers Blaze and Evan were allowed to join. Kala (1997, 05.10, 64k Intro). code: Shape, gfx: B, music: Arto. 4th in the Demolition III 64k intro competition. review: DCS goes for an unusual design with this intro, and certainly manages a unique production too. Truly weird, it manages to present common effects in a way that make them seem slightly special all the same. They don't succeed perfectly with this intro, but they are certainly on their way to creating something a little special here. Definite Plus points for trying to do something original. And for coining the term 'postcalculating' =P [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Blues (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Shape, gfx: Optic, music: Illusion and Muffler. 13th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: A pleasant surprise; not only is DCS back but they've delivered a very good intro too! "Blues" leave you with a good, solid impression - much thanks to the music, which has a massive, catchy theme. It's an impressive tune for this size, and it works well in the context. The intro has a 'particle' routine, where 2x2 dots form the words 'DCS!' and 'The End' to open and end it, and inbetween there's fast but blocky texturemapped objects and scenes. A very good intro that doesn't need to be advanced to be fun. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Nebula (1998, 13.04, AGA HD 4MB Demo). code: Shape, gfx: Adam (gfx, textures, 3d), Shape (3d), Illusion (textures), music: Muffler (main, end), Tweek (intro, all The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in The Gathering 98 demo competition. review: "Nebula" opens amusingly in the style of an old sci-fi series, complete with period music. Then the first real effect, a fast but barren 3d scene with palm trees on tiny spots of earth. From the first bars of the music it is evident that this is a typical Muffler-tune. Then one of the spots appears to have a flower on it, out of which tiny specs of light appear. Then quickly onto a very nicely done bump-tunnel, with intense light at the end, before also a trail of small light-spots appears to come spinning out from the intense light at each end. And then something appears to go wrong, for a long time I only get a totally white screen while the music continues to play! After looking at the screen and hoping something new would appear for a long time, I eventually rebooted and tried running the demo from harddisk (my previous attempt was from RAM). The results were even LESS great; it now defaulted to just a black screen immediately after the intro sequence! Not one to give up, I rebooted again (it doesn't appear to respond to the left mouse button), decrunched the main file and tried the demo one last time. And now, amazingly, it worked! We get a swirly thing behind the face of a man with sunglasses (you'd have to see it :) before another 3d scene with light-spots and a spike object. Next something I don't really know how to describe, but which is utterly beautiful, over which credits are overlayed. Next we revisited a bump-tunnel, only this time we travel through it, while it twists this way and that. Soon it also contains a spike-object. Then we're onto a 3d scene with another spike-object suspended in the air over water with lilys in it - and the object is sometimes reflected in the water. And that's it! An upscrolling end message with credits and the like appears (pausable with the righ mb). Overall this demo gives a very professional impression, with smooth, fast routines that were not just thrown together. The only real graphics here are Adam's "Nebula" logo. The demo works with just 4MB fast if you unpack the main executable first, otherwise requires a little more. Developed on and for 030-50, but should work on lesser configurations. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. A Little Intro At Assembly 1998 (1998, 08.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Deetsay, B, gfx: B, Optic, music: Fluffy (main), B (end). 7th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Hmmm! =) This one brough a smile to my face. If you're into fluffy, cute little intros, then look no further. The intro opens with a zoom down into a nice, semi-graffiti-style DCS logo, before a main screen appears where a scroller resides at the top of the screen. The rest is occupied by a weird character in the bottom right corner, and a textplotter occupying the remainder of the screen. Just two short screenfuls of text are given, before the intro ends with a reverse of the first zoom, this time with the graphic being a cute little dog... =) Smile... The demo should work on any AGA amiga, including unexpanded machines. Though entered in the 64k intro competition, it's way smaller, about 35k. It was coded in two days before the party =) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Nonstop (1999, 28.12, Intro). code: Shape, gfx: Adam, music: n/a. Dumle ----- The Tree Amigas (1996, 06.07, Demo). 10th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Duplo (-1995) ------------- SWE> Ezco (sysop 'SERPENT HILL', 01/95), Gryzor (sysop 'OUT OF SPACE', doublememb Infect, 01/95), Rix (Rikard Kristofferson, music, 12/94), Tango (sysop 'INFERNO', 01/95), Zcandaler (sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', doublememb Comax, 01/95). NOR> Anders (code, ex Pure Metal Coders), Digital (swap, ex Chaos A.D.). GER> Spoiler (ex Platin). ???> Agony (gfx), Gorg (gfx), Radix (music), Terrorizer (swe? modem, 08/94). Duplo is dead. Swedish coder Confidence (12/94) joined Balance (ROM5). He has later made some demos with the aid of a graphician called Gorg... So perhaps he also joined? Spot joined Giants. Bitwrestler (64k AGA Intro). Code: Confidence, Gfx: Agony, Gorg, Music: Radix. Much Ado About Nothing (1994, 28.12, Demo). Code: Confidence, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. 12th in The Party 94 demo competition. Dusk ---- AUS> Terminator (gfx swap, late 96). ???> Crisis (code), Harlequin (sysop), Kimba (gfx), Maximum (code), Rad fx (sysop), Reload (org gfx), Scavy (music), Scorpion (music), Sven unkept (sysop), Ultra-X (gfx). Boards; PLANET-X, WAYFARERS-IN, MASTERS OF INSANITY. Dylem (1995-) ------------- SWI> Kalikone (mainorg swap trade, doublememb FUN, late 96). ???> Bacalao (swi? founder music), Blind Man (sysop), Dexter (music trade), Illusion (trade), Klux (swap), Pit (org code), Rash (music), Rogue (ex Darkness, new late96), Style (trade sysop), X-factor (code trade). Dylem was formed by Sear and Bacalao from Spasm in late 1995. Swiss graphician and swapper Sear, one of the original two founders, left for Fresh late 96. Musician Iceman joined Agoa/joined from Agoa late 95. I have two conflicting pieces of news here, so confusion is total :) Dynamic ------- German Front 6 joined Analog. Dynamix (1993-) --------------- GER> FFC, Paso (sysop), Subzero (sysop 'NUCLEAR ASSAULT' EHQ, 04/93). TUR> Imperator (soonsysop, ex Fairlight, new 93). ???> Black Cat (crack), Coractor (ex Analog), Crusader-X (ex Wildfire), Dillenger (ex Analog), Nicodemus (ger? doublememb Delirium, 01/94), The Best (crack). Boards; DANSE MACABRE (ex Fairlight). Dynamix was a mainly German cracking group, built up in 1993 by ex-members of Crack Inc. and Copyright Destroyers. For a while, Vanish was their demo and intro subgroup. Sledgehammer #11E seems to have misunderstood the name slightly, and thought it was 'Dynamic' :-). 1994 - German sysop Trooper joined Analog late 94. The board 'TOTAL CHAOS' was closed. German sysops Selim and Rudi ('THE JAM') got busted!! Later all three members of SSR (Subzero Selim Rudi) moved on to join Fairlight. Dynax ----- HOL> Mad Max (swap). DEN> Manchild (swap, old handle Ironbaby). 1991 - Delton joined Black Monks mid 91. Dytec (DTC, -1992) ------------------ GER> Pitty (music, 12/92-08/93). ???> Adventurer (ex Gothic), Defcon, Direct (code, 08/92), Tic (crack), Marc (crack), Vince, Viper. Boards; BEVERLY HILLS HOUSE WHQ (ger), THE PIT BBS (usa). Dytec were an illegal cracker group. The name is a shortform of Dynamic Technologies. They died in 1992. 1992 - Ian joined Cytax early this year. Paso joined U.D.O. Direct joined Platin. Dr.Dre and Icecube joined Elevation. German swapper Ghost/Crystal joined, but left after a few weeks.