Taipan ------ HOL> Fright Night (cosysop, 89), Mr.Speedy (cosys, 89-91), Softrunner (swap, 89-91), Tattoo (sysop 'THE SNAKE PIT', 89-91), The Nurd (cosys, 89-91), Timecircle (group), Universal (sysop 'UNIVERSAL SQUAD', 91). ???> Alf (hol? gfx, 89-91), Artfix (hol? gfx, 89-91), Birdsoft (swap, 89-91), Cheese (gfx, 89-91), Crush (91), Lard (91), Mr.Soundwave (91), Predator (91), Red Pearl (swap, 89-91), Replica (swap, 89-91), Tankard (hol? gfx, 91), Tec (91), Virus (code, 89). Timecircle - HOL> Exodus (Brian Postma, code gfx, 89-91), Odysseus (pc section), Zeno (gfx, 89),Zeus (hardware, 89), Zzzax (Stefan Lenthfert, music, 89-91). Taipan is a Dutch based demo group. Exodus is also the author of the music utility BP (Brian Postma) SoundMon, and Zzzax the author of most of the tunes for it! Sinerast Intro (1989, ECS Intro). code: Exodus, gfx: Artfix (logo), music: "Crystals" by Zzzax (BP SoundMon format). review: Now here's a novel idea: moving rasters! Ok, ok - I'm a bit too harsh here, perhaps, but this is ANOTHER intro from Exodus where I feel he's just going through the motions, covering old ground. In addition to the aforementioned background rasters, there's a single bitplane logo (with more raster color in it) and a simple scroll across the nether regions of the screen. So routine it hurts. [glenn] GLE tested FEL /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1. Vector Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Exodus, gfx: Alf (font), Tankard (vectorlogo), music: "Dark-Angel" by Zzzax (BP SoundMon format). review: Another typical intro of its time; sidescrolling starfield has a spinning vector logo on it, and a scroller at the bottom of the screen. Nothing we haven't seen before. Made by Timecircle for Taipan. The release date is based on text in memory, no date is given in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested FEL /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1. Zoom Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code^gfx: Exodus, music: "Exclusive" by Zzzax (BP SoundMon format). review: This intro receives its name because of its zooming scroller across the middle of the screen. There is a Taipan logo on top, and two bbs numbers at the bottom, both overlaid on spinning red chessboards. This is a pretty ordinary intro, with nothing exceptional to recommend it over others. There's a million of these out there. Made by Timecircle for Taipan. The release date is based on text in memory, no date is given in the intro. While the intro graphically worked fine under UAE, the sound was pretty fucked up. The music is in SoundMon format, meaning it's chip-based rather than using samples, and UAE may have bigger problems emulating this than simple samples? Sound and graphics were fine under Fellow. [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! FEL /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1. Talent (TLN, 1991-) ------------------- NOR> Black Panther (code, ex Crusaders), Boo (Ulf Dahl, founder org gfx music, ex Awe, old handle Mace, 08/93-04/94), Brainbug (Rainer Nilsen, music, ex Alcatraz, new early95-05/95), Cartoon (music, 08/93), Cindy (??? Venes, code, 01-02/94), Decaff (swap, old handle Sadman, 02/94), Don-Cato (music, ex Exile, new mid93-10/95), El Loco (Harald Venes, music, ex Paragon, new RAW6, 01-02/94), High Voltage (music, later Jukebox?, 09/91), Jackass (gfx, 09/91-02/94), Jelace (music, 08/93), Jomar (code, 06/92-02/94), Jukebox (Preben Soot, music, ex Shade, 12/91- 08/93), Kekken (gfx, ex Stone Arts, new 02-04/94), Lord Stradh (editor, ex Destiny, 02/94), Noname (code raytrace, 09/91-02/94), Scourger (Torkild Houde, code swap, ex Destiny, new mid93-04/94), Stripe the Gremlin (Andre E. Eide, mainorg code gfx, ex Shade, 09/91- 04/94), Sundance Kid (music, ex Marlin/Paragon, 01-02/94), Zytron (Martin Skulstad, gfx, 08/93-04/94). CRO> Alpha (Marko Sekulic, music, ex Banana Dezign, new late95), Blue Deville (gfx, ex Banana Dezign, new late95). DEN> Djengis Khan (music swap, 02/92-02/94), Ogier Le Petit (Lars Wichmann, music, 06/92-02/94), Viper (gfx, 06/92-02/94). FIN> Lance, Saracen (music, ex Banana Dezign, new late95). ITA> Android (music, ex Awe, 02/94). HOL> Sascha (doublememb Mellow [details], 96). ???> Melis (music, 06/92), Orome (gfx, 02/98). Talent is a demo group based in Norway, which were born at the Razor 1911 and Imp-666 Amiga Conference (09/91). Their first ever production was "Neverending Fantasies", released at this party. Though they were originally all Norwegian, also minor foreign sections were eventually granted membership. Brainbug is still working with his old group-pals in Alcatraz Entertainment Software, doing sound for their games. 1994 - The entire English division - Narc (gfx), Morf, Spud (code), Custodian (code), Hampster and Tantalus - left in february. Some of them joined Anthrox. Djengis Khan's board 'TOWN OF TUNES' was closed in february, likely forever. Cloudy joined World Industries. Original Norwegian founders Mr.Z, Necro (code, old handle Necrologic, 08/93) and Pensplit (gfx, 08/93, all ex Awe) all joined Banana Dezign. Neverending Fantasies (1991, 29.09, ECS File). code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Stripe the Gremlin, Noname (raytraced), music: "This's (h)it" by High Voltage (4ch MOD format). 3rd in the Razor 1911 & Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition. review: I can't really review this demo, since it doesn't really work on my machine. Even with KillAGA, it runs only for a short while before crashing. This was the first ever Talent production, as the group was born at this party. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Disk-Register 1.01 Intro (1991, 16.12, ECS Intro). code^gfx: Stripe the Gremlin, music: "Doubled Up" by Jukebox (4ch ProTracker format). Mini Intro -We Are Alive- (1991, ECS Intro). code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Jukebox, music: "Not Mutch" by Jukebox (4ch ProTracker format). Nice Vector (1992, .02, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Short Newmatybe" by Djengis Khan. The Complete (1992, 26.06, ECS Musicdisk). code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Viper, Jackass (loadinglogo), music: "Skubidoo Final" by Ogier Le Petit, "Strange#", "Harmony" by Djengis Khan, "Loadertune", "Myth", "Amusemental Secracy" by Jukebox, "Between Stars" by Melis. Released at the Hurricane Summer Party 92. Town of Tunes BBS (1992, .09, ECS Intro). code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Jackass, Estrup/Static Bytes (bbs logo), music: "Funkyosity" by Jukebox. Q.E.D. (1993, 10.04, ECS Trackmo). 4th in The Gathering 93 demo competition. code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Viper (logo), Jackass (font), Kekken/Stone Arts (casanova part, logo), music: "Funk Along", "Going Deep Down", "Casanovajingle(qed)" by Jukebox, "Djengis_Intro2" by Djengis Khan, "Pinus Contorta" by Ogier Le Petit. Si Vis Pacman Para Bellum (1993, .06, Demo). code: Necro, gfx: n/a, music: "Memories" by Mace. Zeg claims: '1st at()NO/Krissund Party 6/93' - I'm in a dialogue with him that will hopefully result in a correct placing of this one soon! Blue Oyster (1993, 01.08, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Rendezvous 93 40k intro competition. code: Necro, gfx: Pensplit, Mace, Jackass, Necro, music: "Double-Trouble" by Jelace & Cartoon. Panta Rhei -Everything Floats- (1993, 01.08, AGA Demo). code: Stripe the Gremlin, gfx: Jackass (logo), Mace (titlelogo, endpart font), Zytron (deadly kiss part), music: "Chorudium3" by Jukebox. Released for the Rendezvous 93 democompetition, but compo cancelled. Talentiaden (1994, .01, File). code: Scourger, gfx: Mace, music: El Loco & Sundance Kid (The Player 5.0A format). Showtime (1994, .02, File). code: Cindy, gfx: Mace, music: El Loco & Sundance Kid (The Player 5.0A format). QED II (1994, 02.04, Trackmo, 2 disks). 4th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. code: Stripe the Gremlin, Scourger, gfx: Kekken, Zytron, Boo, music: Don- Cato. 42 issue #1 (1994, .05, Diskmag). code: Scourger/Lack, gfx: Boo, music: n/a, editor: Lord Stradh. 42 issue #2 (1994, Diskmag). Targets ------- Copper left to join Frantic 09/91. It is entirely possible that this is misspellt 'Capper' in Crack Journal #26. Tarkus Team (TT) ---------------- GER> Ali Baba (sysop1 'WORLD VIOLATION', ex Supplex, 01/93), Bruce and Bongo (sysop 'SEARCH & FIND'), DCSL (sysop2 'WORLD VIOLATION' 01/93 later 'THE DANGER ZONE', 04/95), E 605 (spread sysop 'BLACK SHADOW', 09/91), Karpow (sysop 'TERRA STATION', 09/91). DEN> Heat and Mean (sysops 'BLOOD STREET', 04/95), Neurostorm (sysop 'STATIC CHAOS'). USA> Gandalf (sysop 'PHOENIX'), Iced Heat (sysop 'CETI ALPHA SIX'), Masterblaster (sysop 'AMIGA NETWORK'), Master Copy (sysop 'DAWNS END', 04/95), Ramius (sysop 'ALTER EGO', 04/95). ???> Condorman (ger? spread, ex Supplex, new!), Deature (den? 08/93), Dusk (gfx), FTL (train spread), Kinetik Factorys (crack), Mason (spread), Navigator (ex Crystal), Smasher (music), Sascha (spread). Boards; THE PIT WHQ (can, 08/93). Tarkus Team is a largely illegal German based group. The Master joined Punishers. Lukas and Pete joined Damones. German supercracker FFC (04/90) joined Vision Factory old. Did he have his board 'CAESAR'S PALACE' open way back here? Spider (ger code crack trade, 12/90), Terminator and Iron Eagle joined Decade. Taurus ------ GER> Big Baer (music, 12/92-12/94), Easy-E (org sysop 'TATOOINE', ex Legend, late93), Elf (gfx), Epos (music, 12/93), Taccy (org). SWE> Artie, Exthalion, Schnap, Styler. Taurus is a German based demo and illegal group. There is also a PC section, which released the demo "Vertox" at The Party 94, containing the work of several people also active on the Amiga side. It is unknown if the entire group migrated to the PC platform, or if there was further amiga activity. The pc section's memberlist (12/94) reads: Alcatraz, Beathoven, Big Baer, Black Lord, Eazy-E, Elf, Epos, Jack D, Ramses, Ray, Soor, Storm, Taccy, Whopper, Wild Child (all german). Joker (sysop) joined Analog late 94. Swedish sysop Cateye ('INSIDE OUT', late93) joined Insane (PRP4). Tech (1991-1993) ---------------- GER> Centrox (Ralf Claussen, founder music, 02-09/91), FBI (sysop 'FBI AGENTEN BBS', 09/91), Game Over (Frank Huelsmann, founder code, 02-09/91), Slaughter (swap, 09/91). SWI> Risk (ex Addonic). NOR> Coldcut (Christian, music, new late92). ???> Xentec (ex Addicts). Tech was originally a purely German demo group, born on the 2nd of february 1991 in Munster, Germany by Centrox and Game Over, and were also known as 'Tech Design'. 1993 - The group merged with Vanish into a new group called Logic late this year, meaning Tech ceased to exist. Among the people that certainly went along to the new group were Joker (swap, 09/91-), Thunder (gfx, 09/91-), Tronix (swap pack, 09/91-). Agony joined Atlantys. Randel and Pirate was kicked. Graphician Kale (04/92) was kicked. Norwegian swapper Dr.Randy (new late92) joined Cadaver. First Little Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Game Over, gfx: Centrox, music: "bob-bass (centrox)" by Centrox (ProTracker MOD format). review: Techs first ever production has a decidedly oldschool flavour to it, looking a little too much 1989... There's a giant, sphere-shape Tech logo on the background, waving left and right, and on top of this comes a sinescroller. None of the graphics are very good, and the music isn't really up to much either... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Amplitude Display (1991, ECS Intro). code: Game Over, gfx: n/a, music: "32nd-tech-by-centrox" by Centrox (4ch MOD format). review: This is a sound demo in the truest sense; just a little something thrown together to fit a tune. It features, as the title implies, some visual representations of the music, and very little else apart from a semi-neat intro sequence. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Blue Velvet Packmenu (1991, ECS Intro). code: Game Over, gfx: Thunder, music: Centrox. review: This packmenu follows a rather standard formula with a logo, a selector and a scroller, though it isn't the worst example of its kind I've seen. The music initially sounds pretty catchy, but then fails to develop and after a while it sounds like it's just endlessly repeating the same 30 second techno riff... A pretty average menu. The issue reviewed is #25 (first week of september 91). Tronix is the man responsible for compiling them. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Digital Intoxication (1992, ECS Musicdisk). info: Not really a musicdisk, but a 'MusMo'. 3 tunes. SoundVision (ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Centrox, 16 Beat/Razor 1911. info: Another 'MusMo'. 4 tunes. Technology (THG, 1992-) ----------------------- POL> Alien (gfx, early96), Aro (gfx, early96), Horn (raytrace, early96), Immortal (Tomasz Chmielewski, mainorg code swap sysop 'OVERDOSE' EHQ opened early96, 12/93-96), Lenz (code, early96), Markus (Marek Drozdowski, swap, 12/93), Mr.Vain (code swap, early96), Sundance (gfx, early96), Verger (code, early96), Yark (code, early96), Zig (code, early96), Zoltar (Pawel Macahaj, raytrace, 12/93-early96). NOR> Froya (moralsupp, early96), Lucifer (org music, early96), Mystra (Kjell Pedersen, music write, late95-early96), Science (sysop 'DR.FEELGOOD', 10/95), The Confuser (gfx, early96), Volcryn (Stian Sollie, swap, early96-late96), Woober (music ascii swap sysop 'ETERNITY', 10/95-early96). ITA> Android (music trade, early96), Hantarex (trade sysop 'POINT OF NO RETURN' WHQ, early96), KaosMaster (Franco Scozzari, org axcode trade swap, late95-early96), Larry (gfx sysop 'CYBERTRASH', new early96). ENG> HI.T.Moonweed (sysop 'FLYING TEAPOT'). GER> Sonic Flash (music swap, early96). AUT> Psycho (ascii sysop 'BURNING CHROME', early96). AUS> Prowler (sysop 'TWISTED DREAMS'). ???> Lucifer (music, 12/94). Technology was formed in Poland in 1992, and has since spawned divisions in Austria, Germany, Norway, Australia and Italy. Gates of Hell (1993, Musicdisk). Spice (1994, 12.11, 64k Intro). Competed in the 64k intro competition at Gelloween 94. Teklords (TLS) -------------- POL> Madbart (music, triplememb Appendix [details] and Anadune, 07/97). Tension ------- ???> Mars Bar (code train, 94). Boards; JURASSIC PARK (usa), ENTITY (eng), SOAP CITY (eng). Tetragon -------- Tetragon was a swedish group. The four best members (JBM, Trigon, Joker and Hater) joined Dual Crew around 07/90. Swedish coder Antiaction (responsible for the famous Tetra-Packer) then joined D-Mob. Theatre (1990-) --------------- NOR> Camelot (swap, 08/90), Chainsaw, Hollywood Star, Killroy, Ratleto, Seaside Boy, Shampoo (03/90), TM, Zipfox, Zulu. Theatre was a Norwegian demo group, born in 1990, that never made much of themselves. Their only noteworthy action was coorganizing the 'Theatre & Network Party' at Christmas 1990, the forerunner of the first The Gathering, which was held the following year in the same city. Norwegian swapper Camelot (08/90) joined Cycron 12/90. The Kent Team (TKT, -1988) -------------------------- The Kent Team was one of the biggest early cracker groups, who unfortunately died during 1988, since their leader Derek (from belgium?) decided to leave the scene to concentrate on his family. Most members of TKT formed Quoram with members of Inertia. Them ---- Them was a Swedish demo group. The entire group - Techno, Highbyte, Noteman, Maz, Black Wizard, Wave, Maniac, Chip (sysop), Fireball and Woofer - joined forces with Energy, and are now Energy's swedish section. Chip's board was called 'EROTIC ZONE' but later changed its name to 'NINTH HELL'. Domino joined Virtual. Pixeled Pleasures (1991, 19.05, Trackmo). Therapy ------- SWE> Macroman (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', doublememb Infect, 01/95). BEL> Crazy Creep (sysop 'MANIAC MANSION', 04/95). USA> Toxic Man (sysop 'DEAD ZONE', 04/95). Water'n'Fire (1996, 30.08, 40k Intro). Winner of the AntIQ '96 40k intro competition! Threat ------ Threat was an ancient cooperation between classic groups like Thrust, Fantasy, Sunriders and some others... Three Little Elks (3LE) ----------------------- SWE> Android (music sysop 'THE NOSTROMO', ex Subspace, new 06/96), Ant (Anton Halldin, gfx swap, 05/95-09/96), Coma (Daniel Johansson, music swap, 05/95-98), Explorer (code, 05/95-09/96), Nude (founder gfx, 05/95-07/97), Plus8 (gfx raytrace, ex New Age, new 11/96-04/97), Spot (gfx, ex New Age, new 11/96-04/97), Tabasco (Niklas Soerensson, code, 05/95-12/96). ???> Orchis (org trade, new mid97). 3LE is a swedish demo group, founded by two people (one of which was Nude) in the early nineties. For a while they were just doing AMOS demos and having fun, and it wasn't until most of the current members met at a local party in Uddevalla in 1994 that things started to get "serious". Their first real demo was "Yawpcola" (95). They have since created a name for themselves creating humorous demos, while retaining technical excellence. Graphician Laz (ex Sunshine Productions, new 06/96) got married, had children and left the scene. Though it is mentioned nowhere, the demo "The Second Chance" is dedicated to him, as Nude confessed in ROM9. Ant is a doublemember of Spiderboyz on the C64. When Orchis joined, he became world organizer. Much to my joy, Coma has released the 20 first tunes in his chiptunes series "Skogens Djur" in a pack to aminet, and I'm commanding you all to download it! Megahappy chippies with great melodies - just like in the old days. Ahhhh.... Musician Laz left the scene mid 97. Yawpcola (1995, .05, Demo). Released at Compusphere 5. info: Their first REAL demo. Passengers (1995, 28.12, Demo). 4th in The Party 95 demo competition. Frums (Mit Kindern) (1996, 11.05, Demo). Winner of the Compusphere 6 demo competition! info: Written in AMOS, but not by any of the leading members... The Tribe (1996, 25.05, AGA HD Multifile). code: Tabasco, Explorer, gfx: Ant, Nude, Tudor/TBL (object), music: Coma. Winner of the Icing 96 demo competition! review: When you run "The Tribe" from the supplied icon you're presented with a nice little intuition GUI, allowing you to select various options. This is a very nice idea, and one that I'm quite surprised not more groups have adopted! Anyway, you're given options to show some information, show a small elk animation (as usual :) and select low/high resolution for the demo. You make your selections and press 'start demo'. The first thing that comes across your screen, after a couple of introductory logos, is a sort of 3D scene with elks dancing around a totem pole! This looks way cool, and we're soon on to a phong object with 'shining' parts, like in CNCD's "Closer" (12/95). Then we're shown a (nearly) fullscreen picture by Ant, showing the view out from the inside of a cave. This then coincides nicely with the next effect, some bump mapping that's made out to look like it's showing a torchlight shining on the cave walls, revealing the ancient drawings... Very nice! The last real effect is a fullscreen face object in tones of blue which doesn't move, but has the colors sort of floating across it. It's a lot like a similar effect in Artwork's "The Gate" (04/96), though that looked quite superior. The demo then ends with a reprise of the dancing elks part, with the credits overlaid over the onscreen action. Coma's music (Scoth.elk file :) is functional throughout, and perfectly suited to the humorous style of 3LE. The oustanding thing about 3LE, I always thought, was the way they were able to combine excellent technical demos with a humorous image - not an easy task, as many attempts by other groups have shown us. 3LE is unique...perhaps we should be glad there's only one of them? There's not any kind of big difference between choosing high and low resolution, apart from a dramatic decrease in speed... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  The Tale of Sir Henry - Passengers II (1997, 15.02, AGA File). production: Spot, Plus8, Coma (music). 3rd in the Icing Beta 97 demo competition. review: This is subtitled 'the strip you never forget', and I'm almost about to agree. This, you see, is a demo I'd like to nominate for 'most unusual demo of 1997'. It's actually more of a cartoon strip than a demo, which details the adventures of Henry, who leads a very boring life and goes off to find excitement. I won't reveal the entire storyline, as that would be ruining the demo. Go check it out yourself instead :) There's nothing wrong on the audiovisual side, with some good music to accompany the onscreen 'action', and reasonable and clean graphics. Now stop reading and go download this. I guarantee you won't believe you eyes :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. The Second Chance (1997, 17.06, Demo). 2nd at the Icing 97 demo competition! Three Times No -------------- Infamia (1995, 30.08, Demo). 9th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Thrill Kill Kult (TKK) ---------------------- ???> Beef, Bomber Man & Willy (supply), Phil Douglas (crack). TKK was another leading cracking/illegal scene group. Obituary and Venom joined Ministry. Thrust ------ Thrust was a legendary German illegal group. 1988 - Phil was caught by the police in december, but they found nothing. Sounddisk (1988, 22.10, ECS Musicdisk). Information: 7 tunes. Thunder Technologies (TT) ------------------------- GER> Euronymous (sysop 'ANCIENT ENTITY', triplememb TRSI and Dreampark, 06/94). Thyrone ------- ITA> gOOgXAD (sysop 'MOUDHY PAYTHON', 08/90), Mr.Irq (Gianpiero Manca, swap, 08/90). Tilt ---- POL> Accord (music), Exolon (Maciej Turczynin, swap). In a filemag (rel late 95), I found two ads for swapping by Exolon - one where he's in this group, and one where he's in Alchemy... Timecircle ---------- Timecircle is a part of the group Taipan, see there for details. Timex ----- When Timex died, some of its members (Calypso...) formed demo group Vanish. Backlash joined Agnostic Front and Heatseeker left the scene. The Swedish division (Barf, Bizox, Chunkei, Dot, Dr.Satan, Dr.Yes, Eclipse, Izzy, R42, Torkel, Tsathoggua and Wolf) all left to become the new Swedish division of Pussy. Titan Bytes (TTB) ----------------- FIN> Cryzor (Harri Marjanaki, swap), DJ Ere, Electrode (Marko Laine, swap). SWE> Dr.Baker (Henrik Behmer, swap, 92), Mint. ???> Galactus. Titanics (1989-) ---------------- Titanics was formed in april of 1989 by all members of the Obelisk Crew and Xcalibur. At first they existed without a name, until the name Titanics was agreed on in september. They are perhaps best known in hindsight for their utility Titanics Cruncher. TLH --- They Are Here (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). 25th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. TMY --- Firstro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). Split 23rd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. TNC --- Spanish musician and swapper Nork (09/96) is no longer a member. He is now only in Network and Darkage, late97/early98. Tonic ----- Sixpack left to join Iris (UPS8). Toons ----- NOR> Anesthesia (swap, mid93), Erectus (swap, mid93), Shockwave (Lars Erik Schouy, ehq swap, mid93). AUS> The Heavyweight (org, mid93). Top Swap (1988-1990) -------------------- SWE> Spirou (swap, 01/90), The Ninja, Irijon. Boards; HEIKKI'S NIGHTMARE (swe), ILLUSION (swe). Top Swap were a mainly Swedish group concentrating on the illegal scene, under the leadership of Sensei. They previously existed under the names NCC and Ninjaforce, but it was the same group. When they died, most of their members (Sensei, Galactus...) formed Adept with members of Public Enemies. Tornado (-1990) --------------- Tornado merged with Vision-X to form Doom in 1990. TPDL (1994-1995) ---------------- TPDL (which means Tom Python Dreamer Lazur) was formed in September 1994 in Poland. Their first and only production was the 40k intro "Hollywood Mood" (12/94) which reached the 6th place at The Party 94. Soon after this, the group started falling apart... First Lazur (gfx) joined TRSI, and was also soon followed by Dreamer (music). Python (gfx) sold his amiga and bought a pc, and Tom (code) sadly went inactive... The group can sadly be declared officially dead around march 1995. Hollywood Mood (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Tom, gfx: Lazur, music: Dreamer. 6th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Technically oustanding when it was released, HM still impresses today. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that triceraptor PHONG-shaded!? If it is, I truly believe this is the first instance EVER on the Amiga! Otherwise, big gouraud-shaded objects with lots of faces are cool as hell. Yeah! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Trackers, The ------------- GER> Robin (swap). USA> Koo Koo Ka Choo (sysop 'FUN FACTORY', 04/95). 1992 - System-X (code) left for Arise around october. Devil was kicked. Letmælk (1993, 28.12, Demo). 10th in The Party 93 demo competition. Tragedy ------- BEL> Clawboy (swap pack, ex Desire). ???> Gorry (ex Desire), Undertaker (ex Desire), Untold (ex Desire). The four people from Desire are probably all Dutch. Fatal Morgana (1993, 28.12, Demo). 7th in The Party 93 demo competition. Fast Intro (1994, 28.12, Intro). 2nd in The Party 4 fast intro competition. Zootje (1994, 28.12, Demo). 11th in The Party 94 demo competition. Traktor ------- Hetero Sapiens (2001, 15.04, Demo). 12th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. Trance Inc. ----------- HOL> Cubik (swap, 93), Delirium (mainorg), Slam (ex Optical [no entry], 11/93). SWE> Dogshit (ex Ahead), Dose (Henrik Behmer, music, ex Chaos AD). FRA> Cerval (swap, ex Centura, new late93). AUS> Terminator (swap). AFR> Ace (swap). SPA> Hign Tension (org, new mid93). 1993 - Confusion and Knarfie were kicked mid93. English coder Oedipus (this was his first group) left for Nerve Axis. Transfer -------- Transfer is dead. Godhead and Herlikhan joined Bronx. Transonic (1993-) ----------------- DEN> Shayera (John Hinge, founder org code, later Spoon, 93). ???> Axe (founder gfx), Pacman (founder music), P.I.X.A.R. (founder gfx), Rip (founder code), Slatanic (founder code), Snoopy (founder gfx). Transonic was formed in 1993 by Axe, Pacman, Rip, Slatanic, Snoopy, Shayera and P.I.X.A.R. Trash ----- Zyron, sysop 'FANTASIA', joined Reflectors. The Mouse Ate The Cat (1992, 28.12, Demo). 17th in The Party 92 demo competition. Treacl ------ 1990 - German musician Jester (04-05/90) joined Proton. German swapper Diddle (04/90-01/91) joined Sanity old. Tremors ------- ???> Ice-T (org trade, early92), Stony (music). Polaris (org gfx swap, early92) and Exorzist joined Interactive. Triad ----- SWE> Aragorn (sysop 'DEAD HEAT'/'THE LAST INN', doublememb Limited Edition, 01/95), Blade (sysop 'CRIME ZONE', 01/95), De Meyer (sysop 'RESIST'), Kap (sysop 'SCHISMATRIX'), Psychopath (sysop 'RAISING HELL', ex Amaze), Shockwave (sysop 'GALACTIC ZONE', 12/92). HOL> Chris (sysop 'FOUR ROSES'). GER> Phantomas (sysop 'SCREAMING EAGLE'). USA> Flyboy (sysop 'HANGAR #18'). Triangle (-1990) ---------------- Triangle was a Swedish demo group, and they died early 1990 because of the loss of several important members to Phenomena (Andreas Tadic, Dream Warrior...) Triangle 3532 ------------- This group probably comes from the c64 group, and is NOT the same as plain Triangle! No More Vectors (1992, 28.12, Demo). 13th in The Party 92 demo competition. Triax ----- Danish graphician Pixie joined Parasite mid93. Tribe (-1995) ------------- GER> Daydreamer (Andreas Seidel, music, 12/94). CAN> Diskomate (sysop 'NO LIMITS'), Pantera (sysop 'BAD OBSESSION', early93). ???> Groo (train, early93). Boards; SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WHQ (usa, early93), WORLD OF WONDERS (usa, early93), QUANDRY BBS (usa, early93), NO LIMITS (can, early93), MONASTERY (ita, early93), TRiBE BBS (eng, early93), PSYCHOSIS (usa, early93). 1995 - Vader, Extasy and Heptagon left the scene late 95. Danish musician Tricktrack (12/94) moved on to Ambrosia, and the group was declared dead. Tribute (1997-) --------------- Tribute was a finnish demo group born when the group Destruction changed its name to Tribute in 1997. Multi-function-man Speedo (06/97) was previously Pacman/Destruction. He left the group late 97 to join Haujobb.  Before (1997, 06.06, AGA 64k Intro). code/gfx/music: Speedo. 3rd in the Abduction 97 64k intro competition. review: This is more like it! If this little gem came in third, I'm dying to see the two intros that made it before this! There's fast chunky bitmap manipulation/zoomers that's most popular here, with some nice and speedo routines to help things along (then again, his handle is 'Speedo' ;). Amazingly, one person did all this. Recommended for a good little intro with fast routines, nice design and nice music. Here's a quote from the text file: 'Won't work on "over-accelerated" machines with Setpatch activated. So boot without Startup-Sequence or atleast without Setpatch.' Still, it ran fine on my machine, started from DOpus! Doesn't require a fast processor, but recommends at least 030 with some fast RAM.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Triflex ------- FIN> Splatterhead (swap, doublememb Addonic [details]). AUS> Shark (swap, late90). NOR> Floyd (gfx swap, late90). SWE> Astro (trade swap, late90). Danish swapper Zarch (late90) joined Passion (ROM5). Swapper Air left the scene late90. Trilogy (-1989) --------------- DEN> Afterburner, Dimento, Magus, Pcsu, Plook, Qrd, Sinep, TAS (code, 10/89), TPT, TSL. ???> Bad Boy (code crack train, 88), Bowie, Dmi, Fab, JP, Lucas, Mac, Mandm, Nightflash, Onyx, TSC (code gfx swap, 10/89), Twins, Wai Chan. Boards; AMIGA EAST WHQ (usa), SECTOR 96 (usa), TRILOGY BBS (usa). Trilogy was one of the bigger early illegal groups, and one of the first scandinavian ones (denmark) to have an american section. The group died late 1989 as its members (Midnight Maniac, ...) formed the new Elite group Paradox, which was soon joined by ex-members of M.A.D, Kefrens and Rebels. Danish member Amiga Freak left instead to rebuild Critters with two Black Monks members. Swiss members Daniel and Hardrider joined Alcatraz mid 90. Trinity (2000-) --------------- ITA> Bossrobot (code), kfd (Alberto Ceccheti, org music, 11-12/00), Lanch (gfx, ex Darkage). N-L> Wavemaker (Juan Calderón Alonso, ascii music, ex Centolos, doublememb Mangoo, 12/00). UK> Lando (code, 12/00) POL> lsv4057 (gfx), xOANINO (code). Trinity was formed late 2000 by kfd, and their first release was the self- titled "Trinity" [11/00] with guest code by Modem/Darkage, released at TRSAC 00.5. One more release was also made before the end of the year, "Cracktro" [12/00] at Spoletium 3. Trinity (2000, 07.11, AGA Dentro). code: Modem/Darkage, gfx/music: kfd. 3rd in the TRSAC 00.5 demo competition. Cracktro (2000, 01.12, OCS 64k Intro). code: Lando, gfx: kfd, music: Wavemaker. 2nd in the Spoletium 3 64k intro competition. Tristar (-1990) --------------- ???> Leffty (music, later TRSI), Nutribrain, Terminator (gfx, later TRSI), Transformer, Vince (code), Whiteheat (trade sysop 'BLACK SKYLINE', 04-11/90), Wizler (trade, 04/90). Boards; HIGH CRIME (usa, 04/90). Tristar didn't do much on their own, and it wasn't until they entered into the longest lasting cooperation in the scene with Red Sector in 1990, that things started to take off. I have no information on what people Tristar brought with them into the cooperation...but I would sure like some ;) At least Flynn (ger 09/89) was brought over. Vince coded the packer "Double Action 1.0" for Tristar. 1990 - German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH', ex Paranoimia, 02/90) joined Classic. German coders and crackers Beermacht (2 guys) left in 1990, before the merger with RSI, to be independent. German Malzam left for Paranoima, then quickly moved on to Vision before settling in Angels. Digital Illusion joined D-Tect. Third Intro (pre 1988, 11, ECS Intro) Balls (1989 or pre, ECS Demo). Tristar Red Sector Inc (TRSI, http://www.trsi.de, 1990-) -------------------------------------------------------- GER> Control (mainorg1 swap, ex Alcatraz, 94-04/98), Dascon (Bernd Hoffmann, music, earlier Essence, 04/98), Emax (music, ex Panic, new 12/92- 04/98), Flake (code, 04/98), Mario (org sysop 'SPIRIT OF SOUL' - closed-, doublememb Artcore, 02/94-02/97), Rewired (music gfx, ex Acrid, old handle Sketch, 94-04/98), TSM (aka The Swatch Man, ex Surprise! Productions, 92-04/98), Twins (André and Frank Hugenroth, code, 07/95- 04/98), Virgill (Jochen Feldkötter, music, ex Coma, triplememb Artwork [details] and Essence, 08/93-12/96). AUT> Uyanik (mainorg2 editor sysop 'ALICE IN ACIDLAND', old handle Zinkfloid, new mid93-04/98). NOR> Shade (Anders Haakens, org edit sysop 'EVERYWARE' open early95, doublememb Access, new 93-04/98). HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' EHQ, ex Alpha Flight, doublememb G^Style, 03/93-02/97), Sectorcharger (sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM', 05/96-02/97). BEL> Leprosy (sysop 'CENTRAL PARK', 04/95). ???> Nike (swe? nor? modem, triplememb Crux and Delight, 08/95-04/98), Optic (gfx, triplememb DCS and TPOLM [pc], 12/97-02/98). SUB> Mellow Chips [see separate entry]. NOTMEMBSANYMORE: GER> 501 (Jens, swap, ex Prime), Atomix (sysop 'NASA'), Bomber (sysop 'PEARL HARBOUR', new late92), Cosmos (code, ex Sanity), Cube (code, ex Gothic), Deicide (swap, ex Devils), Double Trouble (code music, 04/91- 03/93), Dr.Dre (sysop 'MARLEY'S COFFEE SHOP', 09/96), Ecs (sysop 'THE CHARGE', 01-09/96), Euronymous (sysop 'ANCIENT ENTITY', triplememb Thunder Technologies and Dreampark, 06/94), Fade One (gfx, ex Black Monks, new RAW5, later Masque), Fan (trade, new late90-12/90), FDT (trade, ex Venture), Flynn (founder trade, ex Tristar, 12/90), Fornax (sysop 'EUROPE'S HEART', ex Dual Crew), Godfather (sysop 'UNLIMITED PLEASURE', 04-09/91), Irata and Hamster (founder org trade supply sysops 'CONDEMNED NATION'/'WESTPOINT', ex Red Sector Inc., 04/91-05/94), Mcloud (sysop 'THE CAULDRON', 05/94-04/95), Mr.King (swap pack 'Nevermind', 94), Orbit (code, ex Alcatraz), Peachy (gfx, ex Surprise! Productions, later Haujobb, 05/92), Romeo Knight (music, ex Red Sector Inc., 93), Technoimage (music, ex Acrid), Teddy and Iceman (sysops 'DIG. UNDERGROUND', 10/91), Time Bandit (09/91), Whiteheat (trade sysop 'BLACK SKYLINE', later Vision Factory new, 11/90-09/91), Wizler (sysop 'TECHNOHOUSE', 04-09/91), Wolfgang (sysop 'CHINA HOUSE', 04/95), ZigZag (Peter Nottel, sysop 'MAY DAY', ex Scoopex). AUT> Cortex (sysop 'DARK ILLUSION', 05/94), Prayer (sysop 'SAVAGE AMUSEMENT', 08/93-05/94), Quasar (sysop 'EXTACY WORLD'). HOL> Cone (swap, ex Gothic), Optimize (sysop 'UNITY FIELDS'), Ultimax (code, ex Desire), Zorlac (gfx, ex Desire). FIN> Boomer (ex Amaze), Spock (trade music, 02/93), VIPers (trade, 02/93- 03/94). POL> Bald Horse (12/95), Norby (org swap pack 'IT' sysop 'DROP ZONE', 94- 12/95), Iron (code swap, 95), Snoopy (music, ex Energy, later Appendix). NOR> Archangel (Rony Nilssen, music sysop 'WHITE ROOM STUDIOS', triplememb Rebels and Puzzle, 01-03/96), Darkelf (doublememb Access, 05/95), Fuzz (music, 11/94), T-Bone (code, 12/92-04/93). DEN> Domino (gfx sysop, 93), Hellrazor (Thomas Sørensen, music, ex Palace, 04/93-12/94), Spycatcher (code, ex Scoopex, new ROM3). BEL> Spike (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND', 04/91-05/92). ITA> Bluelight (sysop 'ASYLUM'). ENG> Overdose (swap, late94), Splatt (sysop 'SPLATTERHOUSE'), Sync (music, ex Digital, new early95). SWI> Hardrider (sysop 'ELECTRIC CO'). LUX> Firefox (sysop 'TIMEZONE'). SWE> Core (sysop 'FINAL IMPACT', 05/94), Silencer (sysop 'REPULSE', ex Equinox), Sorehead (swap, early92). USA> Blazter (sysop 'X FACTOR'), Bloodwolf (sysop 'MORTUARY'), Braindead (sysop 'FORBIDDEN CITY', 04/91-93), D.S.X. Design (music, new early95), Kaptain Kaos and Grim Reaper (sysops 'BIOHAZZARD'), Metoner (trade, ex Eclipse, new late93), Panther (sysop 'OBITUARY' WHQ, ex Eclipse, new late93), Ringthane (sysop 'HARPOON', 04/91-93), Rotor (sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD'), Spy Hunter (sysop 'INTERNAL AFFAIRS', ex Vertigo, 04/91), Striker (sysop 'THE NOTICE'), The Light (sysop 'PURGATORY'), Toxicman (sysop 'DEAD ZONE', later Therapy, 05/92-03/93). ???> Anywayawanna (supply, 04/91-93), Apollo (supply), Blackout (ger? ex Alpha Flight, new late90), Blue Bird (swe? modem, 03/93), Boones (gfx, 93), Bytemaster (ger? trade, 01/91), Capslockman (aut? 08/93-05/94), Cybernaut (hol? supply, 08/93), Defcat (code, ex Scoopex), Dreamer (code, 05/92), Dream Warrior (code), Errox (code, 95), Hirax (opened bbs late90), Ixxy (crack), Labyrinth (ex Rebels, new late91), Leffty (music, 05/92), Lincoln (swap supply, ex Hardline, 12/92), Paralysis (sysop 'PARANOIA', new early92), Ply 2 (ger? code, ex Masque), PWA (supply), Redskin (hol? ascii? doublememb G^Style, early92), Sean (ex Coast, new 09/91), The Breaker (supply, 95), V.I.P. (crack, 04/91), Warhead (mainorg3, ex Surprise! Productions, 95), W.I.N (supply, 05/92), Zou^Zou (ger? 01/96). Boards; DRAGONLANCE WHQ, MAPHIA WHQ (usa), WORLD OF MIRAGE (usa, ex The Company), THE EDGE (usa, 05/94), MADD HATTER (usa, 04/91), ROBIN'S FIRST ORGASM (usa, 04/91-05/92), DEFIANT ONES (usa, 04/91), DEJA VU (ger), DEVILS POINT (ger), NEO GEO (ger, 05/94), HEAVEN'S DOOR (ger, 05/94), FINE LINE (eng), FAST LINE (swe, 04/91), MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (swe), INFINITY (swi), FLYING SPIRITS (swi, 05/94), FLYING SPIRIT 2 (swi), NONSTOP UP'N DOWN (den, 05/94), BAGDAD CAFE (ger, 05/94), PARANOID ILLUSION (usa, 05/92-03/93), NUCLEAR FALLOUT (ger, 94?). TRSI was born 29.06 1990, when Tristar and Red Sector Inc decided to join forces on the Red Sector and The Silents Summer Conference 1990. 1991 came and went, and 1992 saw the birth of a separate TRSI demo section, called Masque - responsible for the great WICKED SENSATION demo. However, the following year saw them tired of being merely the demosection of TRSI, so they left - taking all the legal members with them! This was certainly a blow for TRSI, but members like Warhead and TSM helped them back onto the throne. At The Party 93, most of the Polish section teamed up - with XTD and Norby at the helm. 1994 saw strong releases like CUBIC DREAM, ARTIFICE and VIKTORIA. Thanks to Mop's article in ROM4 for background info. German musician Virgill joined Complex according to Propaganda #4, but Virgill later made music for the TRSI demo "Twin Peaks" [12/96]... I believe the truth is closer to a double membership. 1990 - German sysop The Seeker ('HOLY TOWER') decided to leave the scene towards the end of the year for personal problems. Germans The Master and TCM (Martin, trade, new 08-11/90) were also kicked late this year. German musician Jester joined from Proton in october, but moved on to Sanity the following month, without having produced anything for the group. 1992 - In december swedish musician Emax joined, and immediately contributed tunes for TRSI cracktros and demos. 1994 - 2Fast left to form Avantgarde in the middle of august. 1995 - Three main organizers now, Control, Warhead and Uyanik! German graphician Navy (ex BASF, 12/93) was kicked early in the year, for unknown reasons. German musician Blackthorne (93) joined Essence around the middle of 1995; his joining was announced in their mag ROM #5 [95]. Nah Kolor was originally formed in the middle of 1995 by the Polish section of TRSI - Dreamer (ex Surprise! Productions, 12/94), Norby (new 12/93), Bald Horse, Lazur (ex TPDL), Elis (code, 94), and QBA - to serve as their demosection, like Surprise! Productions and Masque had in the past. However, the plans had not been correctly cleared with the leaders of TRSI, and at The Party 5, Nah Kolor was given the choice of being real TRSI members or leaving in favour of this new group. The result was that Norby and Bald Horse decided to stay in TRSI, and that the rest continued as Nah Kolor. The rest of the Polish section was dismissed, and these people are no longer official members; Python (swap, early 95), Reset (swap, early 95), Trash Head (swap, early 95) and XTD (music, new 12/93). At least Trash Head and XTD joined Mystic. German graphician Fiver2 (ex Acrid, old handle Fiver, 12/93-95) joined Artwork sometime this year, after the release of his slideshow "Honeycomb" [95] for TRSI. 1996 - Graphician Scar joined Session late 96. 1997 - The Finnish group Mellow Chips joined as a subgroup, to serve as the TRSI demomachinery. 1998 - At The Gathering in april, the Mellow Chips pay off - they win the demo competition with "Rise"! Dutch graphician and swapper Blunt (Henk Wijnholds, ex Coolio/Ambrosia, doublememb Grasshoppers Development, new ROM9) left the scene early 98. The English section was kicked. Finnish coder and sysop JHL ('ZENLANDIA', 04/91-05/94) joined Complex. His work for TRSI includes a crackintro. Tap, Walt (coders) and Dr.D (graphician) were kicked. Dr.Grell joined Energy. German swapper Dark (ex Jetset new) joined Axis new. Cracker Saito (hol? aut? 03-08/93) joined Vision Factory. Kid Frost joined Arise. Swedish sysop Fix ('FASTLINE', 05/92) joined 2000 AD 09/92. Norwegian graphician Wood joined Andromeda 05/93. The entire subgroup Surprise! Productions (S!P) left early 92. However Flynn, TSM, Warhead, Dreamer and Peachy left S!P and joined up with TRSI. Daryl (ex Kid Icarus/Alcatraz) joined Delight after a short period, and took his wellknown papermag 'B.A.D' with him, late 91. Vince and Nik got kicked 09/91. Captain Midnight left late 90. German sysop Mr.Hell ('SUDDEN DEATH') joined Decade. Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: Dream Warrior, gfx: Peachy (logo), Domino (font), music: "Simply Short" by Emax. review: Another small, simple but nice intro from TRSI. Nothing outstanding, just a good logo by Peachy down the left hand side of the screen, and a text plotter taking up most of the rest. Nicely done. The TRSI logo on the left was also used by TRSI's PC section in one of their cracktros. Used for their crack of "Theatre of Death" (Psygnosis). No date appears anywhere. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Crack Intro xx (ECS Intro). code: Double Trouble, gfx: Terminator, music: Double Trouble (Future Composer 1.3 format). review: Rather a standard oldskool intro this from TRSI. A good oldfashioned 3d starfield (with growing stars) is the background effect for the usual textplotter, and in addition the text is periodically interrupted (with a 'tv snow' effect) to display Terminator's classic Tristar and Red Sector logo - also used in several other classic productions! The design suggests this is a younger brother of Double Trouble's later cracktro for TRSI. Used for Brainball Playable Preview. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Crack Intro 01 (1992, ECS Intro). code: Dreamer, gfx: Peachy, music: Leffty (Sonic Arranger format, 49856 bytes). review: A pretty standard intro, with a good tune by Leffty, makes this an ok package. The intro itself has a TRSI logo on top, and the rest of the screen is divided in a 3d glenzvector on the left and a textplotter on the right side. The intro needs KillAGA to even work properly, but still corrupts the screen after exiting. Used for Magic Land Dizzy (Codemasters 18.05/92) and Mad TV (Rainbow Arts 19.05-92). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Crack Intro 02 (1992, late, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Double "MC" Trouble, music: "Analyzer" by Emax/TRSI (4ch MOD format). review: Another classic TRSI cracktro, this minimalistic effort is a great nostalgic trip for some of us :) It features a TRSI logo across the background, filled with some pseudo-plasma in red and blue. Overlaid on this is a white 8x8 pixel textplotter, and a that's pretty much it. Short, sweet and to the point. The first date this intro is verified on is 10.12.1992, in a version that was 100k packed, and with a big module by Emax ("Oberheim Power"). There was at least one with no music, and one with music by Romeo Knight. The most common version is the one with the "Analyzer" module, where the intro is about 10k in size. Used for: History Line german (12/92), Alianator (music Romeo Knight), Arnie 2 (Zeppelin Games, 93), Global Domination (93, no music), KGB Final Sales English (08.03 1993), Elysium (25.08 1993) -- all cracked by Saito or uncredited. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Crack Intro 03 (1993, ECS Intro). code: Blackthorne, gfx: Boones (logo), Domino (font), music: "bth. cracktro1" by Blackthorne (4ch MOD format). review: The top right is graced by a nice wooden-texture TRSI logo, below that lies the textplotter, and the left half of the screen is occupied by some unexciting effect. The entire design is in red and orange. None of the two reviewed intros intros contain release dates, but the module is dated 01.05 1993. The intro is typically around 16-18k. Used for Der Trainer german, Dogfight. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Crack Intro 04 (1994, ECS Intro). code: Elis, gfx: Rewired, music: "Syntherella 2" by XTD. review: Another passable intro, this time from the Polish section of TRSI features a nice vertical logo down the left hand side of the screen and a text plotter on the right - pretty standard crackintro fare, then. Nothing exceptional. No release date in the intro, but XTD's module is dated 19.07.1994. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crack Intro 05 (1994?, ECS Intro). code: Ply-2, gfx: Rewired, music: "Delicate 0ooz!" by Emax (4ch MOD format). review: This is a really nice intro, with a pretty ok logo by Sketch at the top of the screen, and the same logo zoomrotated under an 8x8 pixel textplotter occupying the rest of the screen. Overall, this intro carries a nice atmosphere. There is no release date inside the intro, but the logo is dated 93, and the module is date 94. Used for Black Viper (Neo Software), Its Cricket 95 Edition (Grandslam), Mongol Commander (RAW Entertainment, music "Digital Bass-Line" by Emax). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crack Intro (1991, 12.04, ECS Intro). code: JHL, gfx: Uno/Scoopex, Reebok/S!P, music: Double Trouble (Sid-Mon format). review: A pretty standard intro, I guess, with some really substandard graphical work from the later-to-be superstar Uno. His work here is either of two rather dreadful logos, one in the middle of the screen and another at the very bottom. The rest of the intro is made up of small spinning vector cubes going constantly in the same circle, and a textplotter. Double Trouble's tune is a rendition of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wicked Sensation (1992, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). Ecliptica (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: T-Bone, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 3rd in The Party 92 demo competition. review: Unfortunately this demo fails to work on my machine, no matter how I try to degrade it. If anyone has a machine that this runs on, then any information regarding it would be most welcome! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Does _NOT_ work! No Pain No Gain (1993, 10.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: T-Bone, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Crackintro (1994?, ECS Intro). code: Ply 2, gfx: Rewird, music: "Delicate 0ooz!" by Emax (4ch ProTracker format). review: Here's a nice little cracktro, with a rotzoomer background. At the top of the screen there's an ok TRSI logo that I'm sure I have seen in one of their demos before. Amusingly, it's signed with Rewired's old handle ('Sketch 93'), which strengthens my theory that he wasn't around the coder to change the signature, and that the graphics therefore probably is an old one. Over the rotzoomer is a pretty standard, ok textplotter. There is no release date quoted in the intro (from their crack of "Abduction"), but the module carries a 1994 copyright, so that's my best guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Raytro (1994, 12.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Tom, gfx: Sketch, music: XTD. Released for the Intel Outside 40k intro competition. review: Realtime raytracing here, which I suppose was remotedly revolutionary back when it was originally released. Each new animation takes approximately 25seconds to render. The design is classic, with logo on top, action in the middle and a scroller at the bottom. Interesting more for its historical content. Coder Tom introduces himself as 'Tom of TPD' (Tom Python Dreamer). This small subgroup would later add one more member - Lazur - to form their own group TPDL. That group existed only for a short while and released only one production - an intro coded by Tom featuring realtime raytracing! :) The intro credits Sketch for the logo, which is signed under his old handle Rewired. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Artifice (1994, 06.11, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). Released at World of Commodore 94. Anhalonium Lewini (1995, Demo). info: From the Polish section. Honeycomb (1995, Slideshow). code: Errox, gfx: Fiver2, music: Virgill, Rewired. Sun (1995, AGA Multifile Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Iron, gfx: Lazur, music: Dreamer. review: Lazur's first slideshow shows a lot of promise, and a handful of great pictures. The opening intro is minimalist, but full of polish language and comes across as very professional. The tune is perhaps not Dreamer's best, a sort-of cover version of an Enya song, with some breakbeats overlaid after a while. The slideshow itself runs all the way through, just fade-out fade-in fade-out, and after the last picture you're presented with a a selector shaped as a TV screen with b&w representations of the pictures. Moving the mouse to the top left of this display and click will let you exit. Ofcourse, the most important aspect of any slideshow is the quality of the graphics, and "Sun" does not fail here. There are several excellent quality pictures here, though several show off Lazur's biggest weaknesses: Anatomy and proportion. His nature and landscape pictures are always excellent, but when he draws people he's often in over his head. For more information, read Facet's review of this slideshow in R.A.W #8, it's quite interesting. Lazur's next slideshow, "Wild" [05/96], was released for Anadune. The distribution is prepared for floppy (with great icons by Lazur!), but includes an installer script for easy harddisk installation. Released by members of the once-subgroup Nah-Kolor. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. World Elite List v1.0 (1995, .04, information). code/gfx: none, music: "Men At Work" by Tito/Candela (ProTracker MOD format). review: Well, this is a hard one to classify, but I guess it had to go in here somehow... =) As the name implies, this is a pirate production, you know the kind they used to make lots of - mostly to celebrate themselves. It comes in the form of an amigaguide file, on an autobooting disk which also changes the system font and plays annoying techno music in the background - using a player that is highly incompatible with my system. The result of this is quite simply sucky sound, but thankfully the guide file can also be viewed the traditional way. The guide itself is, naturally, extremely well designed with all manner of gorgeous ascii art. The list was compiled by Flashback/TRSI from canada. No release date seems to appear anywhere, but the file dates seem to indicate it was released around the 16th of april in 1995. After checking the information inside with some of scenery, this seems to be a correct date. Interestingly, the supplied music is by a pc scene musician =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Cyberlogik (1995, 28.12, AGA 020-28+ 4MB File). Cooperation with Alcatraz, see there for details. Twin Peaks (1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: The Twins, gfx: Noogman/Artwork, music: "Blues of Mortality" by Virgill. 4th in The Party 96 demo competition. review: "Twin Peaks" is The Twins' Magnum Opus - a true thing of beauty. There's innovation and eyecandy enough for an entire 40k intro compo here, with some of the best and fastest routines I've seen in ages. Words cannot adequately describe how good it feels to see routines that look this good, moving at this framerate on my 030-50. Trust me on this one, despite the low amount of actual design, this demo looks GREAT! Noogman delivers two pictures, one of which is the title picture and another fullscreen of a male and female body builder. Let's just conclude that he needs to work some more on anatomy. Even though all of this greatness is to be found here, I can't help thinking that Virgill's lazy, slow blues tune keeps it all downpace. I think this demo could have looked a lot more exciting, and scored a lot more votes, with a more jumpy track. Overall, though, "Twin Peaks" is a demo I'll remember for a while. The demo wasn't actually going to get released at all, since the version shown at the party and spread later is a BETA version. The coders lost all their recent work in a harddisk crash, and was stuck with this beta as their only backup. Instead of recoding the entire demo, which they naturally were not prepared to do, they opted to release the demo as it were. Thank you for that wise decision, Twins. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Rise (1998, 11.04, AGA 8MB HD Multifile). Released by subgroup Mellow Chips, see there for details. Triton ------ SWI> Spider (sysop 'DREAM PARK', 03/90). Triumph (http://www.triumph.no) ------------------------------- NOR> Clyde (Morten Christiansen, music, 01/90-09/91), Cobolt (Kim Berg, music, 11/96), Darkman, Digbrain (Stig Axel Haugan, gfx swap, 09/91), Quest (gfx music, ex Hysteria [no entry], new 90), Falch (code, 07/91), Smeagol (Carl H. Aaby, code webmaster, ex Hysteria [no entry], new 90-06/98), Warp (code, ex Hysteria [no entry], new 90), Wiseguy (Jan- Ivar Bruarøy, code, 01/90). SWE> Crowley (sysop 'INTERFERENCE'). No Temptations (1990, early winter, ECS Demo). code: Smeagol, gfx: Smeagol (smeagol logo), ninja (triumph logo), Quest (font, logos), music: n/a. info: The sourcecode was made available on AmiNet (dev/asm/ tempsource.lha) in june 1998. It won a small party demo competition. Intro (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Smeagol, gfx: Digbrain, music: "Snacks" by Clyde (4ch MOD format). Released at the Arendal party. review: This is a very nice 30k intro from Triumph, which reminds me a little of an intro the swedish cracker group Horizon once used. The design is classic, but nicely executed - logo on top, twin sonescrollers in the middle of the screen. The scrollers have raster colors inside them, and the overall impression is very good. Graphics and music are both nice. This intro did some very strange things with the resolution of my workbench! :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!  Kindergarden 6 2k (1996, 16.11, 2k Intro). code: Smeagol, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of the Kindergarden 6 2k intro competition! review: Smeagol is absolutely correct in his assessment that a Triumph logo over a lightsourced filled vector cube is nothing special. I certainly wasn't blown away :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Troopers -------- FIN> Starbuck (trade, 02/93). TSK Crew -------- Austrians Guru Josh and Ray Jackson joined Front 242. Tulou (TLU, http://www.tulou.org) --------------------------------- SWE> Addeman (gfx, 12/97), Altruist (ascii sysop, 12/97), Barksten (music, 12/97), Daredevil (code, 12/97), Dr.Strangelove (code, 12/97-06/98), Fossil (music, 06/98), Joker (gfx, 12/97-06/98), Musli (mainorg, 12/97), Sauron (gfx sysop, 12/97), Spectral (music, 12/97), Temal (music, 12/97), Todi (Daniel Pilsetnek, code gfx ascii webmaster, 12/97-06/98), Trone (music, 12/97). Boards; HYPERSPACE (swe, 06/98), GALAXEN (swe). Tulou is a Swedish demo group. 1998 - At Remedy in july, they released "Pusherman" [07/98] which won the demo competition! Spoon (1996, 16.06, Intro). 2nd in the Remedy 96 fast intro competition. info: Probably the very first TLU release! Bath (1996, 16.06, Demo). 5th in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Size (1996, 02.11, Demo). 3rd in the Halloween 96 demo competition. Guru (1997, 14.06, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Party Remedy 97 40k intro competition. Almost a 4o kb (1997, Demo). 3rd in the Hackernight demo competition. Pardone (1997, 01.03, Demo). Winner of the Berzan 19 demo competition! Information: TLU's first winner! AmiTech Demonstration (1997, .04, Demo). Winner of the AmiTech 97 demo competition! Moonwalker (1997, 14.06, Demo). 2nd in the Party Remedy 97 demo competition. Mortality (1997, 28.12, AGA 4MB File). code: Dr.Strangelove, gfx: Razorback, music: Barksten, Temal. 8th in The Party 97 demo competition. review: "Mortality" is another one of these 'theme' demos, which try to tell a story or send a message through the demo medium. Some of these succeed in creating the mood they're after, like Syndrome's "Hardcore" [11/96] or Powerline's "Enforcing the Law" [12/97], but unfortunately most fail. Tulou's attempt, unfortunately, falls into the latter category. It fails to pick up the pace to sustain interest, and the many parts of irrelevance bored me stiff. So is there nothing good about this demo? Why, sure there is! The graphics are sometimes quite good, and it seems like Razorback is a name we'll have to keep a close eye on :) The best effect in the demo BTW is the 'light at the end of the tunnel' one right after the EKG flatlines... Since Zito disagrees with me over the qulity of this demo, I have chosen to include his review as well. [glenn] At the beginning you can see a clock ticking and suddenly it stops and you know it is the end while you hear the choirs of angels sing... This is the start of a very stylish, dark and atmospheric demo by Tulou! Afterwards appears an animated road seen from a car and suddenly you - the driver - hit a man standing in the middle of it. He's lieing in the light of your car's reflectors. Bleeding. His heart is still beating as you can see on the EKG-Viewer, but the world fades away and when you see the well- known tunnel of light you know he is also dead. At the cemetery the death himself watches over the dead... Now the picture is zoomed (not perfectly but nice) and after an ugly face the best picture with the closest of this demo is presented to your eyes. Then follows a senseless pause (after the david's cross) and another nice tunnel appears. You are on cemetery again and while your look scrolls right you are able to read the credits on tombstones. Then it seems you are in hell but when the endscroller shows up the colors get brighter and peacefull clouds are to be seen... This is a demo with real style. Maybe some of you will find it too dark and morbid but I like it very much. It is one of my favorites. Not only because of the very dark style and the fabulous pictures by Razorback, but also because it is not too long and particulary because of the music. This is a real score! I have never heard a tune that fit better in every part of a demo. It's a demo no one should have missed. But it could be a better one if it ended by fading out not with this endless loop and if the title were be better presented! [zito]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Pusherman (1998, 13.06, AGA/CGX 8MB Multifile Demo). code: Dr.Strangelove, Todi, gfx: Joker, music: Fossil. Winner of the Remedy 98 demo competition! review: An asian-flavoured guitar lick opens the original "Pusherman", and takes us into Tulou's demo world - a very very weird place to be. There are quite a few attempts at doing something different within this production, from the music to the charming kung-fu quotes. The effect with the multi-layer bumpmapping was very nice. Graphics are overall very original, if not especially GOOD... They seem to have been mostly scanned and then retouched for the desired effect. Not exactly a showstopping demo. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Turnips ------- POL> Insert (gfx, ex Depth, new late96). ???> Bishop (pol? code, 11/96). Implant (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Another, Hobber, music: Szudi. Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: This small 64k'er features not much interesting save for a red, bobbing way cool 'doom'-alike effect... I'm sure it looked dead cool on the bigscreen =) But seriously, this one has little or nothing to offer. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. A500 Stuff (1996, 10.11, ECS 4k Intro). code: Bishop, gfx: none, music: Bionic/Erotic. 6th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: "A500 Stuff" is not bad, but not terribly exciting either. The tune could have been better, but given the 4k limit it's more than enough. The code consists of two effects, one being a linevector semi- caleidoscope effect in green, and the second being a few badly texturemapped, blocky cubes. Nothing here that makes you go wow, but an OK place to spend 10 seconds of your life :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Twilight -------- FIN> Daddy Freddy (Samuli Karkiluoma, swap, later Decept). Twisted ------- ???> Devistator (ascii), Relief (ascii), Tango (ascii). Twisted is an ascii group. Typhoon ------- Finnish Arche, Mac and Mr.Z all joined Divine.