3 Amigos -------- The Squirt (2001, 15.04, Demo). Split 6th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. 4-Track Magic ------------- Enjoy The Silence (1992, ECS Musicdisk). info: Depeche Mode inspired musicdisk with 9 tunes. 5th Generation -------------- SPA> 007 (code, new 93), Evelred (music, later Darkness, 09/92), Excelsior (org gfx swap, 09/92-07/93), Gurumaster (code, 09/92-07/93), Red Devil (code gfx), Reset (gfx music, new 09/92-07/93). FIN> Lozenge (gfx swap). GER> YoYo (Paulo Garcia, swap pack, new 09/92-07/93). ENG> Slip-Mat (swap trade, old handle Flash, new 09/92-93). 5th Generation is a mainly Spanish amiga demoscene group, leading the scene in that country together with Darkness in the early 90's. Together the two groups also arranged the very first Spanish scene party 09/92. 1992 - Yoyo joined at the Darkness and 5th Generation Party [09/92]. Around the same time, Norwegian Dee-Lite left for Awe. Subgroup Necropolis (joined at the Southern Party 24-25.7/93') Armando (code, 07/92), Creator (code), Diego (music, 07/92), Skynet (code, 07/92), Reliant (Gfx), Softkiller, Warhammer. Course of Techno (Musicdisk). code: 007, gfx: Reset, music: "Tech-Power", "Perversion", "Universe I", "Dreaming", "Fanzine", "Reward for a Title", "Relative Transition" and "Total Control" by Reset, "Revenge" by Evelred. Revista Fanzine #1 (1992, 01.07, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Skynet/Necropolis, Armando/Necropolis, gfx: Warlock/Darkness, music: "Fanzine(intro)" by Diego/Necropolis MAG - code: Spanish Archer/Necropolis, gfx: God/Lloret Free Byte, Warlock/Darkness, music: "Agua" by Estrayk/Darkness. info: Presented in Spanish, cooperation with Darkness. Party Invitation (1992, 16.07, ECS File). code: Kustom/Darkness, gfx: Mage/AWE, Warlock/Darkness, Reset, music: "Party-Time2" by Estrayk. Made in cooperation with Darkness. Dementia (1992, 27.09, File). code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Evelred (ProPacker 2 format). 3rd in the Darkness and 5th Generation party demo competition. Revista Fanzine #2 (1992, 27.09, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Reset (ProPacker 2 format), MAG - code: Spanish Archer/Darkness, gfx: God/Lloret Free Byte, Excelsior/5th Generation, music: "Phuneria" by Thorin/Darkness, editor: Gurumaster. Released at the Darkness and 5th Generation Party. cooperation with Darkness and LLFB. info: This mag announced the joining of Yoyo. Zardisk 8 Packmenu (1992, ??.09, packmenu). code: Gurumaster, gfx: Reset (logo), Excelsior, music: Evelred (pp2 format). Released after the Darkness and 5th Generation Party, containing releases from there. YoYo's Bones Pack #16 (1992, .10, packmenu). code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Reset (ProPacker 2 format). Revista Fanzine #3 (1993, ECS Diskmag). cooperation with Necropolis, presented in Spanish. Revista Fanzine #4 (Diskmag). INT - code: Caronte/Darkness, gfx: Warlock/Darkness, Magnum/The Pirate, music: "D.M.A.3demo" by Estrayk/Darkness. MAG - code: Creator/Necropolis, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis, music: "Fanzine IV" by Reset/5th Generation info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Positive Logic (1993, 25.07, ECS Trackmo). 2nd in the Southern Party demo competition. code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, Reset, Evelred, music: "Reward for a Title" by Reset (ProPacker 2.1 format). info: This demo announced Necropolis had joined as a subgroup. Fatal Effect (1993, 25.07, ECS 64k Intro). code: 007, gfx: Excelsior, Reset, 007, music: Reset. 2nd in the Southern Party 64k intro competition. Revista Fanzine #5 (Diskmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Xim/Compumax, God/Lloret Free Byte, music: "Wake Up Life" by Starwave. MAG - code: Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, music: "Inner Planet II" by Estrayk/Darkness (4ch MOD format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Revista Fanzine #6 (Diskmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Roman Soft/Lloret Free Byte, gfx: GOD/LLFB, Roman Soft/LLFB, Dardo/LLFB, music: Fermix/Intense (ProRunner 2 format). MAG - Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, music: Dolby/Darkness (Promizer format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Revista Fanzine #7 (Diskmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Cain/Artifizial, gfx: Cain/Artificial, Dhan/Artifizial, music: "Fanzine Rules 2" by Cain/Artifizial. MAG - code Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, Creator, music: "Lost_Things3"108k)" by Fermix/Intense (4ch MOD format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. 7 Awards. --------- WildFire (1993, 05.08, trackmo). 11th in the ECC93 demo competition. 9 Design -------- SWE> Keldon (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap). POL> Look (swap). 10-Points. ---------- Helis (demo). 23 Celsius Crew (23C, http://www.23c.org) ----------------------------------------- ???> Bart (ex Isch Crew, new 12/92), Destructor (code, 12/92), Frank Einstein (code gfx, 02/91), Harri Seldon (code, 02/92), Husky (code, 12/92), Moonlight (new 12/92), TNT (music, 02/91-02/92). 23C was a Hungarian demo group, with quite a few releases. They were also arrangers of the Hungarian Bash parties. 1992 - Hungarian graphician Nexus 6 (02/92) joined Frogs. News in Balance's "Magbox #1" [07/92] that he left to become the Hungarian division of Anarchy are totally untrue. Hungarian Fester (old handle Sledgehammer) joined Absolute!, where he would later become editor of Hungary's leading diskmag "Sledge Hammer". Megademo (megademo). Terminator 23 (trackmo). Villed Factors (1991, .02, demo). code: Frank Einstein, gfx: Frank Einstein, music: "Huuuuuuu" by TNT (StarTrekker 4ch format). Contact (1992, .02, file). code: Harri Seldon, gfx: Nexus6, music: "Love" by TNT (ProTracker MOD format). Inside Anarchy (1992, trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Claps and Echos" by ??? (ProTracker MOD format). Moonlight Productions Born (1992, 18.12, file). code: Destructor, Husky, gfx: Bart, Magnum755, music: "On The Top" by Magnum755 (4ch MOD format). Released at the Bash 3 part. Party Contro (1992, 18.12, intro). Released at the Bash 3 party. 100% (1995-, http://www.1oo-percent.de) --------------------------------------- GER> Anti-G (sysop 'OUTER SPACE', doublememb Bad Brothers, 05-07/96), Count Dan (sysop 'DAN'S HOUSE', 02/98), Devil (code sysop 'PARADISE LOST', 02-03/98), Dreamer (sysop 'CAFE DEL MAR', doublememb Supplex, 05/95- 96), Fate (sysop 'DIGITAL DUNGEONS', 95-02/98), Hellhound (sysop 'THE CRYPT', 02/98), Neurodancer (Alex Kunz, music ascii sysop 'AURORA BOREALIS' WHQ, 95-02/98). DEN> Daze (sysop 'THE 4TH DIMENSION', 02/98) AUS> Veg (sysop 'VERBAL VERBATIM', 02/98). USA> Adolescent (code sysop 'ILL COMMUNICATION', 09/95-02/98) boards; CONFUSION (ger, 96). 100% are mostly active on the board scene, doing utilities, doors and ascii/ansi for the bbs community. Their first releases came in 1995, when most members were double ones. 1995 - Neurodancer changed the name of his board early in the year, from 'THE AMBUSH' to 'AURORA BOREALIS'. 101 - The Maltese Hackers (-1989) --------------------------------- 101 ceased to exist when the group changed their name to Phaze 101 around the middle of 1989. 242 --- SWE> Epix (swap), Opium (David Ljungberg, org). Subgroup of Saints. 2000 AD (2KAD) -------------- DEN> Cash (code gfx, 91), DD7 (sysop '100 PERCENT' opened RAW4, ex-cosys 'VALHALLA', ex Crystal), Ozzy (sysop 'VALHALLA'), Raxor (ex Kefrens), Zany and Lynx (sysops 'SUSPERIA', ex Palace). SWE> Fix (sysop 'FASTLINE', ex TRSI, new 09/92-01/95), Master (sysop 'PRESSURE POINT', ex Anthrox), Mightymuz (ex Fusion, new 09/92), V-Cut (sysop 'ZOOMED REALITY', ex Submission, new early93). FIN> Crash (trade, 02/93), Ralph (sysop 'NIGHT CLUB', 04/95), Toneless (music trade sysop 'COMEDY ICELAND', 12/92-04/95). HOL> Sectorcharger (sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM' EHQ, ex Endless Piracy, new 09/92- 01/94). BEL> Mike (sysop 'WASTE GATE', 04/95). AUS> Spookman (sysop 'CHAIN REACTION', 04/95), TV & Revenger (sysops 'DAMAGING EVIDENCE', 04/95). ???> Anxious (code, 11/92), Art (den? gfx, 91), Deathjester (den? music, 91), Dusty, Elmore (nor? ascii), Exeron (ex Dictators), Heat, Mean, Melone (trade, doublememb Balance, but was Defekt), Network 10 (old handle Delirium, 10/92), Resize (den? gfx, 90-11/92), Sid (den? music, 91), Toms (ascii), Warlock (code gfx ascii), Zero (ascii). Boards; TRASH CITY WHQ (usa, 01/94), POWERHOUSE (usa), MADMANS SANKTUARY (ger), FATAL ILLUSION (ger), MEA CULPA (den), STATIC CHAOS (den), WARES UNLIMITED (den), WASTED TIME (fin). Guess Design seems to be an ascii subgroup, considering the fact that it consists entirely of 2KAD members, and the intro for one of their collections bore the heading 2000 AD. Members are: Warlock, Toms, Zero and Elmore, according to the intro. 1992 - Ozzy at one time, in mid to late 92, had Denmarks largest phonebill: 43,000 DKK! Dutch sysop Sectorcharger ('LOGIC SYSTEM') joined from Endless Piracy in september, and became the group's new EHQ. Misery joined in september, but his stay in the group was reportedly very short. Also Firelord/Danger Productions joined briefly in september. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART', ex Vogue) left for Dual Crew around october, while Danish sysop Circulator ('VIRTUAL REALITY') joined from The Silents. Danish Ozzy opened the board 'VALHALLA' around october with the help of DD7, who soon after opened his own board '100 PERCENT'. Danish sysop Energy ('NONSTOP UP'N'DOWN'), who had joined from Cult in the middle of the year, was kicked around october due to hacking on some of their other boards! I have information that he was a member again in april of 1995... is this right? Delirium changed his handle to Network 10 around october. Swiss sysop Spider ('DREAM PARK') joined from Legend, but didn't stay long. He joined Crack Inc., who died, and was then asked to rejoin Legend at The Party 2 in december. Infinity joined Crime Devils. Austrian sysop Imagic ('FIRE AND ICE') joined Sceptic. Chard joined Lemon. 'THE FOREST' BBS left. Danish sysop Circulator ('VIRTUAL REALITY', ex The Silents) left and is now independent. Wize (sysop) was kicked/joined Limited Edition. Kitaro/Fairlight, Sysop 'MILLENNIA' joined, but later he, Tarzan (sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', 09/92) and Shock joined Skid Row. Danish musician Hellrazor joined Palace. He worked on the "Enjoystick" [90] and "Mini Demo" demos. Back in Bizness (1990, ECS File). code: Droid, gfx: Blitz, Droid, music: Odkin. review: 2000 AD's very first demo! Ascii/Ansi Collection #01 by War/Guess (ECS File). code/gfx: Warlock, Music: unknown. review: An intro for the actual collection, it seems. Still, I found it alone on a board, and so I'm reviewing it as an intro in its own right. It's very blue. Blue and white. Actually, it's just a textwriter with a SMALL font. Not very interesting at all... What IS intersting, though (considering I also edit AIR - check it out!) is the music format. I could not rip it with any of my rippers, indicating a new/nonstandard format. Hmm... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Enjoystick (1990, ECS File). code: Cruzz, gfx: Resize, music: Hellrazor. Droid's Mini Demo (1990, ECS File). code^gfx: Droid, music: Hellrazor. CosmoFlight (musicdemo file). Runaway (1991, ECS megademo). code: Cash, gfx: Cash, Resize, Art, music: Deathjester, Sid. Made by 2000 AD DK (Logic Systems). BBStro (1992, 10.09, ECS Intro). code: Kollaps, gfx: Tarzan, music: Kollaps/Focus Design. Don't Reset (1992, 10.11, ECS Intro). code: Anxious, gfx: Resize, music: Mel'o'Dee/Shining. Pacmag #10 (1992, 24.11, ECS Chartmag). review: Pacmag is a Danish scene chartmag. Pacmag #13 (Chartmag). review: Pacmag is a Danish scene chartmag. Anti Analorgy (Demo). Released at the Analogy Hitech Party 92, some info said... But that party was arranged in 1993, not 92 - though Analogy arranged a party by themselves in 92... Abakus (1990-) -------------- NOR> Comico (founder, ex Theatre, new late90). Abakus was formed by Comico/ex Theatre and Circus of Power (group) late 90. At least two small demos were released; "Unseen" and "Scheisse". Abandon ------- GER> Lucifer (trade, 01/91), Sigma Seven (sysop 'LAST RESORT', 04/92). ???> Crap (code), Pothead (ex Anthrox). Abandon is a German group, initially active on the demo scene, but also responsible for a crack or two... For Your Entertainment (1989, ECS File). Potheads Beast (1989, .12, ECS File). Released at the Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam. Megademo (1989, .12, ECS Megademo). Released at the Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam. Musicmaster (1990, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the Vision, Dutchcrack, Sensor Party 90. Yellow Scroll Showtime (1990, ECS File). Ozone Coding (Firescroll) (1990, 18.11, ECS File). Released at the BS1 & .. Party 18.11/90 Bloody Data (1990, ECS File). Huge Pile Of Bull (1991, 07.12, ECS File). Released at the Prime Party 91. E.J.I.D. (ecs intro). Crackintro (ecs intro). code: n/a, gfx: The Sarge/Fairlight (logo), music: Megawatt and The Sound Legend. review: This cracktro sports a nice logo by The Sarge, as its main asset. Apart from that it's not really anything special, just an OK intro, with just text and design elements taking up the rest of the screen. Get it for the cool logo :) There is no indication as to when it was released. The intro does not exit properly, just leaves you with a black screen and the need for CTRL-A-A... The intro reviewed was for the 100% fixed Quartex version of Kick Off 2 - Return to Europe. Found at World of Cracktros (http://cracktros.planet-d.net/). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Abnormal [old] (ABN) -------------------- NOR> Andy (code gfx, later Absence, 90), Blackie Lawless, BLC, Eclipse (music, 90), Highlander, Hugo (music, 90), Izzy (gfx, 90), Monzo (code, 90). Abnormal was originally a Norwegian C64 demo crew, but since several of their members later emigrated to the Amiga platform a section was created. It's highly unlikely that the old Abnormal has anything to do with the new. Little Twister (1990). code: Monzo, gfx: Izzy, music: Hugo. Little Demo (1990). code/gfx: Andy, music: Eclipse. Scribble Sine (1990, 06.10, ECS File). Released at the No Limits & Imp666 Amiga Conference 90. Abnormal [new] (ABN) -------------------- N-L> Dada (music, 12/94), Earthshaker (Michel Bojawal, music, 12/94), Househakker (12/94), Rotox (Rene v.d. Steen, swap). It is highly unlikely that the old Abnormal has anything to do with this group. Abnormalia ---------- ITA> Macno (Alessandro Franchetti, editor, 12/92-95). Abnormalia is the group dedicated to releasing Abnormalia diskmagazine. It was Italian writer Macno's new group after leaving Grace and 'Scene Lyrics'. While writing for his own mag, he is also one of the busiest contributors to several other leading mags, including having his own sections (ABNOminio) in RAW8 and ROM4. Abnormalia issue #1 (1992, .12, ECS Diskmag). editor: Macno. Abnormalia issue #2 (1993, Diskmag). Abnormalia issue #3.14 (1993, late, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Parsec/Mystic (2 tunes), editor: Macno. Abnormalia issue #4 (Diskmag). Abnormalia issue #5 (1995 or pre, Diskmag). code: Pitagora, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Absence (-1991) --------------- NOR> Champ, Dma, EC Man (music), Zapper. Absence was one of the leading demo groups in Norway around 90 and 91. When the group died, Quest (04/91), Andy (04/91), Monzo, Mr. Man (04/91), MCS, HeadX and Wizax (03/91) joined Andromeda. Timewalker joined Dual Crew. They were reborn almost right away, as a swapper group with Goofy (Henrik Lie-Nielsen, 03/91) as the only member, but never released a real production again. Other small productions they made, are a.o. "Ball Scroll" intro, "Bob Plop" intro and "4 Round Color Equalizers" intro. Norwegian swapper Rob (new 03/91) joined Dexion. Meltdown (late 90/early 91, ECS File). code: Poltergeist/XLNS, gfx: Quest, music: Mr. Man. Cooperation with Excellence (XLNS). Reform Pack Intro (1991?, ECS Intro). code: Andy, gfx: n/a, music: EC Man. info: Probably used for earlier issues too. Reform Pack Intro #26 (1991, 11.03, ECS Intro). code: Wizax, gfx: Goofy (font), music: Maestro/Kefrens. review: This intro is really very simple; there's just a font plotter, some moving colors in two lines (top and bottom) and some copper fades in the letters to achieve a better look. This was a popular design concept around these times. Goofy's 1 bitplane font, the only graphics, is quite OK, actually; I also like Maestro's music. Nothing special, but these oldschool intros tend to bring a smile to my face nonetheless :) This intro was probably used from this issue on, since it says 'Finally a new intro!' The intro also announces the joining of Rob. The pack is maintained by Zapper, Goofy and Quest. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Reform Pack Menu #27 (ECS Intro). Reform Pack Menu #33 (ECS Intro). Reform Pack Menu #40 (ECS Intro). Violator (1991, .04, ECS File). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, music: Mr. Man. Vector (1991, .10, ECS Intro). Absolute! (ABS, 1992-) ---------------------- HUN> ADT (code music trade sysop 'LOCAL GRAVEYARD', doublememb Royal early96, ex Soc.Brigade, 08/92-early96), B2 Man (ex Live Act), Crm (code gfx, 08/92-04/94), Edge (code, 93-04/94), Ern0 (music codePC), Fester (Sos Balint, mainorg edit 'Sledge Hammer', ex 23 Celsius Crew, 93), Goophy (code, ex Cerberos Design), Jean (edit stopswap, ex Surprise! Productions, new early93-97), Lord (Peter Labos, org pack sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', triplememb Impulse and Crimson Jihad), Mc Green (music swap, ex Live Act), Petroff (Peter Wodzinsky, music, 12/93-12/94), Rack (László Molnár, gfx, ex Majic 12, new early93- late96), Rainbow (ex Live Act), Sliver (ex Live Act). POL> Musashi (code, new late95), Scorpik. FRA> Mental (Eris Sassin, swap, ex Anarchy, new early93). NOR> Rancor (Kristian Loksa, music swap, ex Scoopex, new RAW5). AUS> 243 (trade sysop 'SOUTHERN COMFORT', new late95). BEL> Sike (trade), Spunk, Tilt. ???> Brian (music codePC, 08/92), Fate and Poko (sysops 'FATAL CONNEXTION', new early97), Popeye (raytrace), Sike (new 93), Spunk (new 93). Absolute! was formed around october 1992 by the best members of Soc.Brigade (ADT, Ben...) and Live Act (Asti, Viti...). They're probably best known for their hungarian graphician Rack and their diskmag 'Sledge Hammer'. There was actually 9 issues of the mag released in Hungarian before the first English release! After the last issue of SH had been released, there were some rumours and loose advertising for a new cooperation mag with Dreamdealers, called "Cult". Fester would be main editor, and Napoleon from Dreamdealers would do the code. They also arranged the Hungarian party The Hammering in 1993 and 1994, and tried to coarrange Wildstock '95 with a pc group, but that party was cancelled. Rack has NEVER been a doublemember of Balance, as claimed in some mags. A mag released late 95 carried news that Lord and Fester were now main organizers. Who were before? Other small productions ABS has released include "Vector Dreamz" (file), "Utah Saints Fan Club" (AGA demo), "Party IV Report" and "Cult Special Partyedit" (2disk AGA diskmag). 1993 - They kicked all their foreign divisions, and are now 100% Hungarian late 93. 1994 - After travelling all the way to Finland for the assembly with members of Sanity from Germany, Lord released the 'slideshow' "Assembly 94 Slideshow" [08/94] soon after. 1995 - Graphician Skowron joined Funzine late 95. 'PALACE' BBS is not an HQ anymore (late95). 1996 - Polish Musician Scorpik (new late 95) left the Amiga scene for Pulse on the PC in late 1996. Pulse, incidentally, features many talented ex- and current Amiga scene celebrities, like f.ex. Lazur. Anyone with a Pentium gathering dust would be well advised to check out their productions. You might see a name or two you recognize :) 1997 - Early in the year, Jean returned from his studies in France and returned to his native Budapest. Mr.Now is not a member, as was stated in a a diskmag. Poko and Fate joined with their board 'FATAL CONNEXTION'. In Hungary, swappers Archibald (Bela Nadas Jr.) and Ben (founder, ex Soc. Brigade), coders Asti (08/92) and Viti (ex Live Act), musician T-Bozz (04/94) and graphicians Hamlet (ex Alcatraz, old handle Jaby, 93) and Hazel (old handle Mace) were kicked out due to communication problems. Hawk was kicked. German swapper and trader Star (Sascha Hoeppner) joined from Elysion 93, but got kicked and left the scene soon after. Rackler, Twilight and Doc. Holiday (all ex Wildfire, new early93), Rodney (gfx, ex E.M.I, 93), Twice (code) and DSN (gfx, both new 93) all joined Lego. Musication Vol.1 (1992, ECS Musicdisk). Pizza Place (1992, 30.08, ECS File). code: ADT, Asti, Crm, gfx: Crm, Adt, music: Brian. Clairvoyance (1993, ECS File). code: ADT, Edge, gfx: Rack, Rodney, ADT (some fonts), music: Twilight and Doc. Holiday. review: Oh yeah! This must certainly be one of the best-designed demos ever! It almost seems like they've considered the position of every single pixel in the whole demo! The Hungarian graphics genious Rack delivers some of his best graphics EVER, and even manages to beat his own amazing 'Ray of Hope 2' font with an AMAZINGLY colorful one! I'm putting it up for 'font of the year' :) And I haven't even BEGUN mentioning the music yet! Guess what? It's an amazingly cool tune! It kicks in with a groove and a danceability seldom heard. AMAZING! The animation of the race car crashing is from the movie 'Freejack'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sledge Hammer #11E (1993, early, ECS Diskmag). code: ADT, gfx: ADT, Jaby, music: Chromag/Essence, Rancor/Absolute, editor: Fester. Vektor Dreamz (1993, late, ECS Intro). production: ADT, Crm, Petroff, T-Bozz/independent. review: This small crackintro (or so they claim...) is more a piece of weird design than a genuine Absolute production, but nevertheless... :) It seems like a small friendship production, done just to release something for the scene. There is no real stunning artwork here, and the whole thing seems pretty quickly thrown together. They mention they are all busy writing games, and have just squeezed this little prod in between their other projects. They mention that "Cream" will be released at The Party 93...guess it got delayed a little, eh? ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Swedish Music Disk (1994 or pre, Musicdisk). Hammering 94 Party Invitation (1994, .03, File). Cream (1994, 09.04, AGA File). code: Edge, Crm, gfx: Rack, Crm, music: T-Bozz. Released at Hammering 94. review: The graphics are definitely the strongest point of this demo, with Rack turning in some amazing pictures. With better code and, most of all, better music, this could have been something really special. The way it is now, that's not the case. Still, get it for the graphics! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 94 Slideshow (1994, late.08, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks). code/gfx/music: none, compiler: Lord. review: Lord stretches the concept of slideshows to the limit here, with this offering - this is basically just two disks with a copy of a shareware picture shower, and the jpg pictures themselves in a separate directory. The pictures are slightly funny, though - there are 18 of them, some showing real scene legends like Slayer/Scoopex and Cougar/Sanity! About half are from the actual event, while the rest centers around the trip, mostly together with members of Sanity. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sledge Hammer #13 (1994, late, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: CAT/Essence (title), music: n/a. info: CAT's title picture is called "Android". Wildstock 95 Party Invitation (AGA File). review: Though the invitation intro was released, the party itself was never held! Abstract -------- POL> Booger (Arkadiusz Stanoszek, music). Absurd ------ POL> Bta (code, later Appendix, new late97), Budgie (mainorg gfx ascii swap, later Appendix), Dziulas (gfx), Jumbo (swap), Opal (gfx music), Popcorn (music, later Appendix). SWE> Melfis (gfx ascii swap). NOR> Punisher (swap, later Apathy). ???> Diablo (raytrace, new late97), Mr.Kadde (music, new late97). Prism (1997, 31.08, ECS 4k Intro). Released for the Gravity 2 4k intro competition. Prism Part 2 (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition. Abuse (ABS) ----------- NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Honey and Grotesticle, 02/96-05/97). FIN> Demolee (sysop 'MOS EISLEY', doublememb Nerve Axis [details], 03- 05/97), Ganja (music, doublememb Nerve Axis [details], 03-05/97). CAN> Coca Cola Kid (sysop 'NEUROTICA'). ???> Boheme (03/97), Choaxial (03/97), Darkman (03/97), Folar (03/97), Kamikaze (03/97), Lagers (03/97), Loop (03/97), Mr.Studd (03/97), Naig (03/97), Nik (03/97), Psyko (03/97), Radavi (03/97), Tapsah (03/97), Warhammer (03/97), Zeus (ascii, tag zS!, 03/97). Boards; FOURTH AVENUE WHQ (03-05/97), FEAR FACTORY EHQ (03-05/97), BATES MOTEL (fin, 03-05/97), NOTABENE (swe, 03-05/97), WILD PALMS DHQ (03-05/97), FREAKOUT DST (03-05/97), SPACED OUT (eng, 03-05/97), NORTHERN PALACE (den, 05/97), THE RUSH HOUR DST (03-05/97). Abuse is an illegal cracker group. They seem to be based in - or at least have strong links to - Holland. Theis may be a long shot, but I'm willing to hazard a guess that Psyko is the sysop of BATES MOTEL :) Cracktro (1997, .03, ECS Intro). code: Mentat/Oops!, gfx: Zeus (uncredited, ascii), music: Ganja. review: Now this is more of an original intro! It features a spinning dot- ball in a small window in thr top right corner, a textplotter in the bottom left corner, and otherwise an Abuse ascii logo over that. The two windows are black with white text/dots, while the rest of the screen is in blue. Nicely different. Though it is not mentioned in the intro, Ganja was almost certainly a doublemember of Nerve Axis at the time. The version reviewed is from the Cedric AGA cd-rip (03.03-97). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abuse Intro (1997, 08.05, AGA Intro). code: Tycoon/Oops!, gfx: Hudson Hawk/Lightforce and Hellfire (pic), Typhoon/Oops! (font), music: "Block_Rockin_Chips" by Ganja/Nerve Axis and Abuse (4ch MOD format). review: Another simple intro, with just a an abuse logo/picture, and a text plotter overlaid on it. The pic is OK, but nothing stunning. This intro requires AGA, though I can't for the life of me see why. The release date and name is based on the version string within the intro itself. The version reviewed is for the crack of Spherical Worlds AGA/ECS CD-Rip (10.05-97). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abyss (AYS, 1992-, http://www.the-leaders-of-the-eighties.de/) -------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Bartman (code, ex Pyrodex, 08/94-12/97), Cyclone (Holger Linde, gfx, ex Illusion, new 10/96-10/97), dRm (music sysop, ex Shoot, old handle Dreamer, new 12/95-12/96), Pink (Manfred Linzner, code music, ex Pyrodex, new 94-04/98), Poet (Simon Finkenstaedt, code, ex Pyrodex, 08/94-10/96), SMC (code music sysop 'ULTRAWORLD' WHQ, new 93-10/96), Spin (code, ex Shoot, new 12/95-10/96), Tyshdomos (Tisch Thomas, gfx, 08/94-10/96). AUT> Moon (code, doublememb Kinky late95, 05/94-10/96). ENG> Devistator (gfx ascii swap, ex Eltech, new late96-12/97). ???> Judas (gfx, ex Capsule? 12/98). Boards; INTERNATION CHAOS WHQ (usa, mid 96). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - Duke (ger Markus Knauer, swap pack, new early93-08/94), Falcon (ger gfx, early93), Kyle (ger code gfx swap, new early93), S.M.U.D.O (ger B. Baumann, swap, ex El Cativo/Submission, new early93), Sentinel (fin swap, ex Legend), Alloy (consoletester), Alot (gfx, new early93), Artline (gfx, new early93), Beatbrain (gfx, new early93), Cazal (music, new mid93, 08/94), Dragonfly (code, later Arise new, new early93), Kid Frost (gfx, new early93), Lou Van B (music, ex Arise, new early93), Mole (ex Agoa, new 94), Newcomer (sysop, new early93), Pencl (gfx, new early93), Sin Joiner (music, new early93), Skyline (swap pack, new early93), Sodom (code, ex Beyond, new early93), System X (code, new early93), TC (code gfx music, new early93), Vision (code gfx, later Arise new, new early93), Zystar (gfx, new mid93). Abyss was formed late 1992 by the best members of Arise (dragonfly, lou van b, vision ++), and Beyond, and released their first intro "Intoxication" shortly after, in the beginning of 1993. In 1994, the entire group Pyrodex joined. Pink was one of them. Dexter is the author of the amazing Abyss Highest eXperience (AHX, previously THX) music system for c64-like chip tunes, and Pink is the author of some of the best tunes for it :) Other small productions Abyss has released are a.o. "Delirial Desorientation" (packmenu intro), "BBS Intro", "Goagab" (intro, rel some weeks before the Party 3), "S.M.U.D.O" (demo), "Music for the Lost" (2 disk musicdisk), "Neurodancer Demo" (demo). 1992 - Protektor and Cardinal, sysops 'WORLD DOWN FALL', both joined Crystal in september. 1993 - Mr.Night was kicked due to lameness (mid93). Zeroflag (code, new early93) and Caro were kicked (mid93). 1995 - Qwerty sold his Amiga and left the scene late95. 1996 - German swapper Sting (Dirk Dallmann, ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95) was kicked due to inactivity in july. Norwegian musician Chris Meland (ex Spaceballs, new 04/96) was kicked in october. Also Jumping Pixel (gfx, new early93-) and Luka (Gregory Engelhardt, gfx music, old handle Mem'o'Ree, 05/94-) were both kicked due to inactivity in october. 1997 - It is a little unclear what happened to the membership of german graphician JCS (ex Scoopex, doublememb Syndrome, new 10/96-12/96), but he was in both Sector 7, Syndrome and Abyss in april - and not a member later in the year. Swedish multitalent (code/gfx/music/sysop) Newt (ex Crux and Subspace, new 10/96) decided to leave the scene to concentrate on his career as an in-line skater around 09/97. 1998 - In december, at The Party, German coder Dexter (Martin Wodok, 08/94-) released his last ever amiga production, the third-placed 40k intro "Cruisin II - Cruise In" [12/98]. Dexter was one of the original members of the group, and participated in most of its best productions. His leaving is certainly a major blow to the group, and he will be sorely missed as a true amiga scene devotee to the end. Big-Rat and Madstop, the "X-Files" team which doublejoined from Ethic (in early 97) have now left Abyss, and are now only members of Ethic again. German graphician and musician Toxic (Sven Dedek, ex Beyond, early93-08/95) left Abyss for his musical career. There were rumors that he was back on the scene in the middle of 1996, but these proved to be untrue. The Jungle #7 reported that he was a Rebels doublemember in 1994. German musician and sysop Neurodancer ('AMBUSH', new early93-08/94), left due to internal affairs. As a consequence, 'ULTRAWORLD' is now the WHQ BBS (04/96). Later Neurodancer joined Looker House (06/96). Neurodancer made music for the demo "Drugstore" while in Abyss. German swapper and packmaker Skindiver (Andreas Schwarz, new early 93- 01/94) decided to leave the scene. He was, however, listed as 'editor' in the memberlist in "EuroChart #30" [07/97]! Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Bartman, gfx: n/a, music: Pink. review: Nicely designed, short and sweet, with a minimalist feel. This crack intro is in three shades of brown (two for the background, one for the font) and has two textscreens that alternate...and a THX soundtrack from Pink. That's about it folks! The same intro is also used by Pyrodex. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intoxication (1993, early, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: n/a, music: "Moog Gnirkel" by Neurodancer. info: The first ever Abyss intro! X-Ray (1993, early, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon (logos), Kyle (fonts), music: "L8neyetmovee" by Neurodancer. review: I'm sorry, but the music ruins this for me. The routines are good, I guess, but it lacks the sting or spark of a good production. There's no magic here, just cold techno. These guys can do a lot better. As a later upload to AmiNet of the module reveals, the title is supposed to mean "Late Night Movie". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Shocked (40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Swap & Dance Charts #1 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Hypno Flight" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #2 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Nancy You're So Trancy" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #3 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Moove Sukka!" by Neurodancer. Mona Lisa Was a Man (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). 22nd in The Party 92 demo competition. Warp 69 (1994, AGA Dentro). code: Poet, gfx: n/a, music: "4 Spirits" by Neurodancer. Dizneeland 1 (1994, .05, ECS Musicfile). code: Moon, gfx/music: Mem'O Ree (The Player 6.0A format). info: Included are the tunes Acidity, Black Heart, Chip Maniax, Dark Experience, Hard To Choose, Heavenz Tearz, Jello Coat, My Voice, Pass The Plugg, Pink Noise, Dizneeland 2 (ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pink, Mem'O Ree (The Player 6.0A format). info: Included are the tunes Alf Theme (pink), Amaretto Allergy (mem), Hysterical (pink), January '64 (mem), Journey (pink), Patience (mem), Soundz Like Fuck (mem), The Real World (pink), Trip To mars (mem) and Mario Is Missing (pink). Artcore (1994, 07.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Bartman, Dexter, Poet, gfx: Mem O'Ree (logo, font), Toxic (pighead, patterns), Skindiver (endfont, asciilogo), music: "Artcore- Theme" and "Put on the Anchors" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). 13th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: My immediate reaction to this intro is 'nice design'. They've certainly managed to squeeze a lot into 40k this time, with not only a good intro, but two great tunes as well - none of which sounds the least bit chippy! The endtune is fabulous! Recommended. 13th!? Toxic's pig picture is called "Rocker Pig". [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. DisIsSid issue 1 (1994, 08.10, ECS Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: no credit, music: Pink (The Player 6.0A format). Released at the Doomsday Party 1994. review: An outstanding release that manages to capture the C64 feel PERFECTLY - by emulating it in the same manner. If you didn't know, you'd never suspect what you saw WEREN'T an old c64 demo. Truly outstanding. Pink covers some true classics here, and comes out on top and with style. There's some very nice graphics here, including a fullscreen rendition of Al Bundy from "Married With Children", though no graphician is credited. Tunes included are versions of Delta Highscore, Disco Zak, Disissid Theme, Turrican 1 end and Zamzara Highscore. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Swap & Dance Charts #4 (1994, ECS Filemag). INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Global Confusion" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Deep House 9" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #5 (1994, .11, ECS Filemag). INT - code: Dexter, gfx: Toxic, music: "Spice Intro" by Neurodancer. MAG - code: SMC, Dexter, gfx: Toxic (title), SMC, music: "Tunnel Vision" by Neurodancer, editors: Skindiver, SMC. Return of the Space Cowboys (1994, 06.11, 40k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pink (2 tunes in The Player 6.0A format). Winner of the WOC Party 94 40k intro competition! DisIsSid issue #2 (1994, 06.11, ECS Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: n/a, music: Pink (The Player 6.0A format). Released at the WOC Party 1994. info: Included are tunes like Combat Game 3 (combat school?), Commando Highscore, Last Ninja 3, Sigma Seven and Theme. Dove (1994, 30.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Bartman, Dexter, Poet, SMC, gfx: Toxic (abyss and dove logos), Tyshdomos, Mem'o'Ree, Pink (raytrace), Bartman (raytrace), music: Pink (3 x 4ch ProTracker format). 16th in The Party 94 demo competition. review: The competition at TP94 was stiff, but I still think this deserved better than 16th. It's got nice design, good graphics, a nice unoffensive synth-poppie tune that's timed perfectly to some of the effects... It's not even boring! Tyshdomos' picture "Raped" that appears during the Jacko-part, was also entered in the graphics competition at The Party, where it came in at a split 10th place. All effects look VERY smooth and nice on my 030-50...but I suppose that's only natural when it was designed with an 020-14 in mind. The demo is split up into two parts, really, separated in the two files. The first part is the 'demo' part, while in the second one they poke fun at three other wellknown productions. It opens with a digitized animation of Pink going to buy a magazine at a big store (Virtual Dreams "242), before it's revealed that the magazine is all about Beverly Hills 90210, and we're played a rendition of the theme (Melon Dezign "Romantic"). Then we're shown the credits in a screen design that's very similar to the one Sanity employed in SEVERAL of their productions... Though originally designed to run from floppy, hard disk installation is painless; just copy the two files where you want them and run. Couldn't possibly be easier :) Works fine on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Orange 8 (1995, Musicpack Demo). code: n/a, gfx: Toxic (title), music: n/a. High Anxiety (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Moon, Dexter, gfx: Toxic (title, abyss logo), Pink (raytrace), music: "Global Confusion II" by Pink (and 3 other modules, The Player 6.0A format). 11th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: The opening is certainly the best part of this demo, with the raytraced animation by Pink and the fast texturemapped tunnel ride the definitive highlights of the demo. There's a hefty portion of BLOCKY goraud shading here that's more embarassing than anything else. Pink's music is sometimes good, sometimes average, and there's a couple of reasonable fullscreen pictures by Toxic in there. If you check out the demo's WorkBench icons, that's one of them in a miniature. Not too bad... but I'm not too fond of routines that look THIS blocky! HA will work on any AGA Amiga with 2mb chipmem. The end module is "Global Confusion II", the module Pink competed with at Doom's Day 94! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Drugstore (1995, 12.08, ECS? 1MB Multifile, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: Toxic (abyss logo, disk 2), music: "Larry In A Hurry", "Space Hurrier!", "Minidancer" and "Sleeping World" by Neurodancer (The Player 6.0A format). Released at Assembly 95. info: Can be instaled to HD, but doesn't require it. All four modules were released to AmiNet by their author in 1998. Voll Crass (1995, 28.12, Intro). 3rd in The Party 95 Fast Intro competition. Indifference (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: Clue/indep (additional design), music: dRm (The Player 6.1A format). 13th or 21st in The Party 5 40k intro competition. Review: This is a very good intro. The thumping music, the good effects, the design... Most importantly, it does not fall into the 'advanced but boring' trend that has plagued intros ever since Pygmy Projects' "G-Force". There are some good effects here, most of which I'd guess were real crowd-pleasers at The Party...unfortunately, I haven't fed the results into Scenery yet, so I don't quite know ;) There's some text in the intro file, presumably an error code, that says 'buy AGA or run SetPatch!', which has me hesitant if this an AGA or ECS intro... Therefore, I have refrained from categorizing it. Should work on unexpaned A1200's. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sym'bol (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Bartman, gfx: n/a, music: "Symbol" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). 21st in The Party 5 40k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dizneeland 5 (1995, 28.12, ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sweet Seduction" by Pink. Released at The Party 5. Pixelstorm (1995, 28.12, Slideshow). code: Pink, gfx: Toxic, Tyshdomos, Pink (design), music: Pink (4ch ProTracker format). Released at The Party 95. review: A nice little slide with pictures and clips that won the competition from a german computer magazine I damned can`t remember the issue... After a cinema-like intro you are able to slide through ten pics while listening to a cool tune by our allround genius Pink who also did the code, design and had the idea! You can do this with a comfortable selector (as in all good slideshows) with b/w preview and autoslide function! All settled in a good atmosphere of the well-known Abyss-style!! Tyshdomos (also Tisch Thomas) drew some cool, satiric fullscreen pictures like Michael Jackson in `Take care of your children`. The only bad thing is that Toxic made nothing more than clips but therefor with some funny ideas like the smoking nun! My favorites here are: `Peace!`, `Orbita` (a c64 revival!) and `Enjoy your meal`. All by Tysh... [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Think Pink (1995, 28.12, Musicdisk). code/music: pink, gfx: Toxic, Bartman. Released at The Party 95. review: This time Abyss gives us eight tunes composed and written by the multitalent Pink, whose last - and I am afraid to tell you that - for only about 13 minutes... With generally disco popsongs and some jazzy rhythms is this musicdisk really no highlight! Only standard Pink music. For the entire scene a rather good production but compared to the normal quality level of Abyss productions less good. I like the idea for the title picture (I guess only germans will understand) by Bartman but the design by Toxic lacks of colors! Also it needs a bugfix because it only starts if the audio channels were not used before! My favourites are `Ego Tendencies 2` and `One Step Inside`. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Dizneeland 6 (1995, ECS Musicfile). Dizneeland 7 (1995, 10.07, ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Cradle of the Future" by Pink (AON format). Released at Somewhere In Holland 95...this can't be right? DisIsSid III - Getoese (1996, Music File). code/music: Pink, gfx: Cyclone. review: The C64 graphics style is as impressive as ever, it's amazing to see how close they've come to the C64 look and feel... The music, as usual, is first rate. There are 5 tunes here, all conversions of tunes done originally for the C64. Coolness doesn't even get close. I don't see why this shouldn't work on ECS, but I haven't tested it. Release date is an estimate; the scroller says it's been over a year since the last one [11/94]... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Blub! (1996, 07.04, 4k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Symposium 96 4k intro competition! review: The design is probably what set "Blub!" above the other two entries in the Symposium competition; the effect is certainly the weakest of the three. However, it does have an intro screen and some backgrounds, and most of the time that's all it takes :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Vertigo (1996, 27.04, AGA 4mb HD Multifile). code: Bartman (main), Spin, gfx: Pink (objects, textures), Cyclone/ iLLusion (main), music: Pink. 6th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. review: The first thing that struck me when I saw the opening of this demo was "Arte"! The opening bars of the music, as well as the graphical design, leave no doubt that this is indeed a homage to Sanity's classic. So, is the demo any good? It's a killer! Though it has excellent, advanced routines, it never forgets its true nature as an entertainment item. The design, the music, and the weaving together of the demo all indicate truly experienced demolitioners. Highly recommended. Recommends 030-50 or 040-25. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Little Floove (1996, 27.04, AGA Intro). code: Bartman, gfx/music: Pink (THX Format). Winner of the Saturne 96 intro competition! review: Yeah! Short but sweet seems like the order of the day, and it's not a bad one! Here we have a rather fast phong routine, coupled with minimal but nice design and a THX tune by Pink - a rendition of the theme song from the TV series "Alf". I love it! Dum-da-dum...dum-dum-dum-dum- da-duuum, da-da-dum... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Extra (1996, 13.07, 40k Intro). 2nd in The Summer Party 96 40k intro competition. DOS4GW.EXE (1996, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: none, music: Pink (THX format). 7th in The Party 96 mixed 4k intro competition. review: A definitive first! Abyss brings us the world's first ever 4k musicdisk...and the four tunes are actually good! The graphics are reminiscent of what you'd find in one of those old utility bootblocks, though at 4k I guess that's about fair. Outstanding! **UPDATE** - Contrary to popular belief, DOS4GW is *NOT* the world's first 4k musicdisk - Sapphire/Centolos was first with "MD4I" [07/96]! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Damn! (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Azure (!), Spin, Bartman, gfx: Toxic, music: Pink. 4th in The Party 6 40k intro competition.  Klub Diznee - Listen or Die! (1996, 28.12, Multifile Musicdisk). code: Dexter, gfx: n/a, music: Pink, DRM, Oxide/Sonik, Daiz'l/Mystic, Geir Tjelta (all in THX format). Released at The Party 6. review: Abyss' first original THX musicdisk is a goodie. You sort of know you're in for something good when the intro picture is a manipulated version of the Skate or Die title from the C64... There's some truly tasty THX tunes in here, and it's a real coup to have Geir Tjelta do a tune. For those of you who did not own a C64 and are therefore ignorant, young Mr.Tjelta was an OUTSTANDING C64 musician in his time. His greetings list here should be some indication! Strangely, there's no graphics credit even though they're certainly nothing to be ashamed of... Some text found in the intro strongly indicates a hidden game, but I haven't been able to find it yet. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Klub Diznee II - Competition is Gone (1997, .02, AGA Musicfile). code: Pink, gfx: Cyclone, music: various (too many to mention). review: I didn't honestly believe they could do it, but they've gone and done it anyway! They've outdone themselves and easily topped the first KD! There's a brand new code, this time by Pink, that's even better than the original one, and this time there's a whopping 16 THX tunes for your enjoyment, from as many different composers. This means there's more variety here than in the original. The graphics are acceptable, being a combination of cartoony stuff with an unusual palette and a graffitti style. This is pure coolness, so go download it and become a THX addict! The tunes in this musicpack are all from the first THX IRC competition, held in early 1997. Pink was the winner, followed by Geir Tjelta. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  X-Files issue #13 (1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag). Cooperation with Ethic, see there for review. Abyss In Neverland (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition.  Diskobox (1997, 30.03, AGA 40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: Cyclone, music: Pink. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition! As Time Goes By (1997, 30.05, AGA Intro). code/music: Pink, gfx: Cyclone. review: Yes! Another winner by a crew that never ceases to amaze me! This small (130k) intro manages to evoke some feelings in an old scener's heart... 'remember when there was no c2p?' The special brand of Abyss nostalgia - remembering the good times without cloning yourself - seems amazingly fresh. Remember that these guys were the people that brought SID-quality tunes to the Amiga in the shape of THX! The tune here, however, is a more synthpoppy, funky affair. This was NOT released at any party, since they're trying to get back to the old times feel. Just excellent, right down to the 'partners in crime' text on their greetings, making us remember a thousand great cracktros over the years. I see no real reason why this should requires AGA, but it was situated in demo/aga on AmiNet, so... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Kindergarden '97 Invitation (1997, early to mid, File). code/gfx/music: Pink (music in THX format). Invitation to the Kindergarden '97 party. review: One-man demo-making crew Pink does this invitation intro for a small Norwegian Amiga-only party! The intro is nice enough, with a small title screen with a fish jumping across it, followed by the presentation of the invitation text itself. This seems to be 100% identical to the text in the accompanying text file, so I didn't bother to read much of it in the selector. It's nice, but not extraordinary. The music is by Pink in THX format, so there's obviously nothign wrong with that aspect of the intro :) The party was held from 03-06.07, so obviously the intro was released sometime before that. Unfortunately it doesn't contain any release date that I can see :( I have no idea if this requires AGA. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Klub Diznee 3 (1997, .05, Musicfile). Klub Diznee #4 - Beverly Hills Cop'ed (1997, 18.09, Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: Cyclone (eddie), Frame/C-Lous (logo), bartman (art direction), music: various (THX format). review: Opening up with a large, stylish THX logo, then continuing in style onto a greatlooking menu to the sounds of the classic Axel F tune! In fact this entire issue is dedicated to cover versions of this classic tune, presenting no less than 15 different versions all done in Abyss' own THX format =) I guess this is a cheap way to get product out there, inviting other people to do the work, but it feels good, so why the hell not? =P The tunes are, "Axel F.Unk" by Jazz/Haujobb, "AxelF" by Pink/Abyss, "Axel-F (P-Mix)" by Prodigy/Oops!, "Axel^D" by Juice/Phase^D, "AxelAxe" by Oxide/Sonik, "Axel Fooley" by Tommy/Spin+, "Axelf.uck!" by FreQvibez/Offence!, "Axl F.Body2Body-Version" by Android/3LE, "Axel Dooley" by Miao/Exlex, "Ackzell-Eff2" by Develin/Oops!, "AxelF" by Jerry/Rebels, "Fuck Me Axl" by Maniac/Crux, "AxelF" by Filou/H^M, "AXL-F" by Grace/Crux and finally "Axel Schmaxel" by Kyzer/CSG. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. S.P.A.M. (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro). code/music: Pink (music THX 2.1 format), gfx: Cyclone, Pink (additional). Released for the Saturne 97 intro compeition. Review: We all knew Pink was an excellent musician - but he kinda took me by surprise when he proved to be an excellent coder too! This intro was made almost entirely by him, except for some graphics by the always-cool Cyclone. There's some quite cool effects here, actually. Certainly a lot better than expected! The only thing I really didn't like about this is the irritatingly hard-to-read effect logos. These are one readable word and one that's not. Partikel what? A complete and utter nice surprise - I hereby declare Pink the German Laxity. C64 lovers unite! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cruisin (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: Devistator (logo), Pink (3d scene), music: "Cruisin" by Pink (THX format). 2nd in The Party 97 40k intro competition! review: Another excellent little intro from Abyss that doesn't try to be anything it isn't! This one has several THX tunes by Pink - which is never a bad thing - a colorful opening logo and a new kind of wireframe vector routine. It's not easy to describe, but rather has to be seen and experienced. I bow down into the dust. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Rise of the Rabbits 2 (1998, 12.04, 32k game). Released for the 32k game competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Family Business (1998, 12.04, AGA 40k Intro). Released for the 40k intro competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Extra Life (1998, 12.04, AGA Demo). Released for the demo competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Wildlife (1998, 28.12, AGA Demo). code: Pink, Kustom, gfx: Cyclone, Judas, Pink, music: Pink, Moby. 3rd in The Party 98 demo competition. Cruisin II - Cruisin In (1998, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: Wintermute (3d scene), music: "Wearing the Inside Out" by Pink (AHX format). 3rd in The Party 98 40k intro competition. review: "Cruisin II" opens with a requester for one of three "Line-Mode- Options". Your three choices are Burnin (classic), Blurin and Clearin. Not really knowing what to expect I chose the first (classic) mode, and off to the intro I went. It all opens with a humours sing-along-rendition of the classic theme from the movie "Ghostbusters" - here appropriately renamed "Gatesbusters". If there's something strange - in your network neighbourhood... =) Then onto the main part of the demo, which is something as original as a wireframe vector intro! It's not as bad as you might think, as there is smoothing and pretty cool colours around the wireframes (especially in the classic mode =), and...well, it's simply quite original! It's got a certain, little amount of...dare I say it...charm? I just find it amazingly cool of an established group like Abyss to have the balls to release a WIREFRAME intro in 1998! And with style too... Love it! The upscroller in the endpart (which is _NOT_ pausable with the right mouse button, as is usual in intros - that button exits, as I quickly discovered =P) reveals some sad news... "Cruisin II" is Dexter's last production for the amiga =( You WILL be missed, Dexter. [glenn+zito] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Academy ------- NOR> Patient (Thomas Knutsen, swap). ???> Aragorn, Azix, Dr.Kryptonix, Elf, Gringo, Metal, Native, Northcore, Saddam, Sherwin, Wildfire. Academy Norway is dead. Their board number later surfaced in Fraxion under the name 'MIDNIGHT CALLER'; sysop 'Jotes'. Other productions from Academy include "It" (demo), "Nice Music" (intro) and "Telephonic" (demo). The board 'FLASH POINT' is now in Axe. Phone Scrolller (ECS File). Bard In A Box (1991, 01.03, ECS Musicdisk). Accept [old] ------------ 1st Demo (1990, 28.12, ECS Demo). Released dor the demo competition at the Theatre & Network Party '90. Blit it (1991, 07.04, ECS Intro). review: Released by Accept FR. Little 3D Intro (1991, 08.04, Intro). Party (1991, 29.06, ECS Demo). Released at the Amega Party 91. Accept [new] ------------ GER> Mr.Friese (Robert Friese, music, 04/96). SWE> Rabzi (sysop 'PROVOCATION'). ???> Murdock (old handle Wiseman). Fettes Saumonster (1996, 07.04, AGA Demo). 6th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. Access [old] ------------ These two groups presumably have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Stranger (code) and Duke (modem) both left for Level 4 05/90. Access [new] (ACS) ------------------ NOR> Darkelf (doublememb TRSI, 05/95), Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', doublememb TRSI [details], 03-05/95). SWE> Dansken (sysop 'HALL OF FAME', 01/95). DEN> Playmate (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 04/95), Tax (Thomas Neumann, code), Zouf (Henrik Lynbech, music, 12/93-12/94). ENG> ANF 9sysop 'CHROMIUM'), Axeman (sysop 'PUBLIC EXECUTION'), Bill (sysop 'ACE-AMIGA'), Highlander (sysop 'INNER SANCTUM'). ???> Cybertracker (nor? doublememb Lisence, 01/95), Label (nor? 05/95), Rastan (code, 11/95). Norwegian sysop Kingpin ('CHECKPOINT') stopped being a (double)member sometime between 05 and 08/95. Symbolia (1995, 25.11, AGA ?MB HD File). production: Rastan. Released for the Misc 95 demo competition. review: Another "State of the Art" clone, with outlines of people dancing, overlayed on different sorts of plasma. In addition, there's endless symbols zooming onto the screen. The intro graphics (ACS Presents...) are all raytraced, and the music is crap. Avoid. Comes on two disks, and you have to join together the file in order to run it. Requires 'some fast'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Accession (ACC/ACS, 1988-, http://www.megabaud.fi/~lennu) --------------------------------------------------------- FIN> Asterix, Avalon, DDT (Founder org, ex FIG, 11/91-98), Drifter (gfx, ex Complex), Evil (founder swap, 08-11/88), Illuminator (trade, ex Bomb Squad, doublememb Bloodsuckers, 03/94), Maso (music sysop 'FAST LINE', 11/90-11/91), Moku (founder, 08/88-03/90), Palex (sysop 'BAD TASTE', ex Mean Machine, 11/91-98), Starbyte, Turtle (music, ex Sonic), T.U.M.B., XYZ (founder, 08/88), Zebra (sysop 'THE ZOO', ex Damones), Zuffel (S. Koukonen, swap pack, ex Bronx, old handles Hotchkiss, Spot, Zanu, new mid93-94). ENG> Coaxial (org, ex Anthrox). EST> Nobleman (ex finland :) AUS> Acid Kid (ascii sysop 'SCREAMING METAL', later Honey). ???> Accident (98), Brainiac, Capitano (98), Chromium (98), Deature (98), D- Ream, Diablo, Divine (org, ex Sonic), Drone (98), Ice (fin?, ex Nemesis), Inspector (ex Scoopex, new 09/92), Iron Code, JayJay (gfx, 12/93), Liberator (98), Longplay, Lost Religion (sysop 'NIRVANA' WHQ, ex Crack Inc.), MadBoy, MATH, MrT, Nico (ex Decade, new 10/92), Obitus, Power Slave, Raiden, Silva, Slash (ex Scoopex, new 09/92), The Kid, TVR, WyreHead, X-Ray (gfx, ex-indep, 12/93), Zei (fin? gfx, 06/91-08/02), ZeR0. Boards; PLASTIC FACTORY (ire), F.X. BBS (aus). Accession was a finnish demo and cracking group, born by Evil, Moku and XYZ of the former amiga section of Finnish Gold in 1988. When Divine joined in 94, he became the new organizer; later DDT would handle that job. 1988 - Evil got a nasty surprise from the Finnish post late in the year, when he had to pay postage for a bunch of packages with faked stamps... 1989 - Cool J (code), Santuu and Equalizer left for Unique in july. 1992 - Shocker and Turtle/Sonic, Inspector and Slash/Scoopex and Nico/ Decade all joined around september! 1993 - Nobleman and SOB closed 'NOBLE HOUSE' early 93. 1994 - Finnish swapper Poke (Veli-Matti Poikola, ex Alpha Flight, old handle Velsa, new mid93) was kicked out late 94. Finnish swapper and trader Zakka (ex Black Sheep/Alpha Flight, 93) joined Sonic. Zakka was also an earlier handle. Android joined Bloodsuckers. Skywalker (ex Nemesis) joined Crack Inc. Eddie (ex Nemesis) joined Damones. Vyvyan joined Damones. Maza joined Rebels old. Prospector (fin), Eddie, DDT, Target, Sob, Punisher, Rotor (usa sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD') and Shocker (fin code, ex Sonic, 11/93-94) left to form a new group. Eddie later rejoined. Anyone know the name of the group? DDT was a verified member in 1997, so he probably also returned at a later date. Shock joined Skid Row. Chamber of Horrors (Slideshow). Defender Of The Crown Crack-Intro (intro) code/gfx: Stelios/Scoopex, music: Larza. Heavymania (Musicdisk). Urban Cowboy (File). New Stuff Mini-Intro (1988, Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. Evelings 11 (1988, Intro). code: Xyz-Soft, gfx: H.Pulla, Moku, music: n/a. Bobs (new stuff) (1989, Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. For Your Eyes Only (1989, 12.11, ECS Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. Released at the Gate Miniparty 89. Bilbos Ultima (1990, 01.01, Intro). code: Bilbo, gfx: Pete, Bilbo, ??/Middle Earth, music: Adept. Black Hole To Noble House BBS (1990, Intro). code: Pehu, gfx: S.O.B., music: 4-Mat/Core Design. Return of the Living Dead (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Bilbo, Nightblade, gfx: Moku, music: Android. Fractal Frenzy (1990, .08, ECS File). Release at the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy Party 90. code: Starbyte, gfx: Neuromancer, Starbyte, music: Maso. Greed (1991, Intro). code: Starbyte, gfx: n/a, music: Maso. Sunwind (1991, 03.04, ECS 1MB Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Starbyte, gfx: Neuro, music: Maso. Graveyard Party Blues (1991, 19.06, ECS File). code: Papa Monster, gfx: Zei, music: Adept. Soft VodeoText Final (1991, 16.08, crackintro). code: Starbyte, gfx: Zei, music: Trashman. Made in cooperation with Skid Row. Suomen Lista #1 (1992, 16.02, ECS Chartmag). code: Starbyte, gfx: Dole/Sonic, JayJay/Frantic, music: "benefit pr0b\_em2" by Turtle/Byterapers. Made in cooperation between Accession, Byterapers, Frantic and Sonic. Crack Intro (1993, Intro). code: JayJay, gfx: Xray, JayJay, music: Turtle. Cyberzerk (bödersoft) (1993, .07, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Xray, music: Turtle. info: Crackintro. C.O.W.'s In Colors (1993, .10, Intro). code: Communist/BS, gfx: Reward/Complex, music: Turtle. Tunnel Demo (1993, .11 or .12, ECS File). code: Shocker, gfx: XRay, JayJay (font), music: Turtle (The Player 5.0A format). review: Aweinspiring intro/demo with just one real effect...but what an amazing effect it is! WOW! You travel down through a tunnel, and the tiles get darker the further you get in and it just looks absolutely gorgeous...and that's when the balls start bouncing at you! Amazingly great and polished. Just fabulous. I'm sure I've heard that chip-style tune before somewhere, but in a different mix and without those war-drums... hmmm. Anyone? The name 'Tunnel Demo' does not actually appear anywhere in the demo. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 94 Invitation (1994, mid, File). code: Shocker, gfx: Marvel/Sonic, music: Purple Motion/Future Crew (pc). Accumulators (ACC, -1989) ------------------------- ENG> Undertaker (sysop 'GRAVEYARD'). USA> Chronos (sysop 'DAMAGE INC.'). ???> Bod, Chameleon (crack, previously in Oracle, 07/89-02/90), Innocent Exile, Mike, Puppet Master, Scott, The Predator (crack, 07/89). Boards; BLOOM COUNTY (usa), PUTPOST (usa), CRYSTAL PALACE EHQ (hol), REALM OF IMPOSSIBILITY (usa). Accumulators was an illegal cracker group. When they died in late 1989, Razor 1911 persuaded Onyx (euro crack) and Zodact (usa supply sysop 'THE CASTLE) to join them. Accuracy (http://accuracy.gurcan.com/) -------------------------------------- TUR> Bladerunner (gfx, mid91). Accuracy was a demo group based in Turkey, and is likely an amiga offshoot of the Turkish c64 demo group of the same name. 1992 - Turkish graphician Kris joined Rebels mid 92. Turkish Bloody left, and is now independent 09/92. Snipe (1991, ECS Trackmo). Acheron ------- ???> Acryx (code gfx, 90), Charon (code gfx music, 90), Psionic (code). Bubbas Oakim (1990, ECS Intro). code: Acryx, gfx: Charon, Acryx, music: Some1/Madness. Face The First (endcECS Trackmo). code: Acryx, Psionic, Charon, gfx: Charon, music: Charon. Released at Hackerence 6 in Harnosand, Sweden. Acid ---- Acid was a Danish demo group that never really produced anything. Z.A.P later became Hille/Insanity.0 1991 - Z.A.P released a module for the competition at the Amiga Convention Summit in april, but was unplaced. Ackerlight (-1989) ------------------ FRA> Fred (Frederic Hahn, gfx music, 06-12/88). ???> C. Dryk (gfx, 12/88), C.E.O (org spread, mid88), Crocky (org supply spread, mid88), Dagon (spread, mid88), Dark Angel (code, mid88), Gojira (design, mid88), H.Syl (code crack train, mid88), Kebra (org gfx spread, 10-12/88), MC2 (code, 08-12/88), Mouse (music, 10/88), M.P 67 (code, 06-12/88), Oldrik (gfx, 12/88), Overloader (code, 88), Pat (code music, 12/88), Rasputin (design, mid88), R.V (code, mid88), Sato (spread, mid88), Solar (spread, mid88), Stranger (spread, mid88), Teacher (spread, mid88), Urgo (supply, mid88), Wild Copper (code, mid88), Willy (spread, mid88), Wolfie (gfx, 10/88). Ackerlight was a French/Swiss constellation, and one of the first good cracking groups. They released a cool diskmag (in French only), called "Akcernews". When they died in 1989, Anome 68000 formed a new Swiss group called Zenith.¨Some of the original members, however, formed a software company under the name Ackerlight Software, and released a.o. the game Wings of Glory! 1988 - Spreader Jean-Yves Chenu (aka J.Y) left the scene late in the year. Coder Sharlaan left for OMD 12/88 or 01/89, but still worked on the coop demo "Music Examples #2" with his old group. Space Bubbles Slideshow 1 (1988, ECS Slideshow). review: Contains scanned fantasy artwork from Boris Vallejo. Bards Tale Solver (1988, ECS Demo). code: H.Syl, gfx: ???/Wild Copper, music: n/a. Soundmachine Part I (1988, .06, ECS Musicfile). code: M.P 67, gfx: Fred, music: "st15/out run", "new horizon\nh", "bouncing ball\bb" and "long walk\lw" by Fred. Compact Disk 7 (1988, 20.07, ECS Packmenu). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Rasputin, music: Fred. Soundmachine Part II (1988, .08, ECS Musicdemo). code: M.P 67, gfx: Mr. Mistery, music: "st15/bouncing ball2", "dear rob", "ghosts'n goblins\gg" and "war and peace" by Fred. Compact Disk 9 (1988, .08, ECS Packmenu). code: M.P 67, MC2, gfx: n/a, music: Fred. 'Bob Morane In the Ocean' crackintro (1988, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Fred. Compact Eleven (1988, .10, ECS Intro). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Wolfie, Kebra, music: Mouse. 'Purple Saturn Day' crackintro (1988, .12, ECS Crackintro). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Kebra, C. Dryk, music: Pat. Ackernews #2 (1988, .12, ECS Diskmag). Firezone Merry Christmas (1988, .12, ECS Intro). code: M.P 67, MC, gfx: Oldrik, music: Fred. 'Action Service' crackintro (1988, ECS Intro). code: Over Loader, gfx: C. Dryk, DarkAngel, music: Pat. Music Examples #2 (1989, .01, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Sharlaan/OMD, gfx: Andreas Starr, Fred, music: "The Last Star", "Sunny Days", "Spacial Dream\Space Dream", "Space Harrier" and "Neon Lights" by Fred. Cooperation with OMD. Acme [old] ---------- SWE> Blish (swap, 90), Charlie (gfx swap, late 90). ???> Carnail (gfx), Iluminator (music), Maze (code). Graphician Airbrush joined Alcatraz. Several sources (a.o. Static Bytes' "Eurochart #17") carried the news that the Polish Mr.Root (ex Katharsis) joined Sanity, a fact which was later denied in the news section of RAW4. Swedish graphics ace Mithrandir (11/90) joined Agile. 'Hudson Hawk' crackintro (Intro). Cooperation with Extensors. Reflection of Perfection (1991, .04, ECS Slideshow). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Slideshow (1991, 29.06, ECS Slideshow). code: Maze, gfx: Mithrandir, Airbrush, Charlie, Carnail, music: Illuminator. Released at the Amega Party. Megademo (1990, .11, ECS Megademo). info: Done by the Swedish section. Eggstasy (1991, ECS Demo). Acme [new] ---------- HOL> Aap (founder gfx), Assa (founder), Infant (founder code), Lone Ranger (code), Radavi (swap), Ricochet (gfx), Simon, Simstim (founder code), Statix (founder), Vic (founder music), VV (music). GER> Chromag (founder music), JMS (gfx), Krash (code), Mind (code). ???> Assa (founder), Laxical (founder), McByte (founder), Zalt (founder). Acme was formed as an extension on the PC group of the same name. How's THAT for reversing the process ;D The group was born late 97 or very early 98. The name ACME was ripped from a skatebrand, founded by a friend of us (www.acmesk8.com). Acme Project ------------ NOR> Splatter (gfx, ex Cadaver, new early94, Founder). ???> Bro' (ex Ivory, new mid93), Death (ex Chaos Designs, new mid93), Mohawk (ex Chaos Designs, new mid93). Acme Project was formed by Splatter/Cadaver and some others. Shortly after joining, Mohawk started a PC section of the group. Acrid ----- ???> Anguish (music, 08/93). Acrid is dead. Dan (ex Converse) was kicked. Mendrik and Siriax (ex Motion) joined The Elektronic Knights. Germans Technoimage (music, 92), Sketch (music, 92) and Fiver (gfx, 08/93) all left to join TRSI. Sketch and Technoimage worked on a.o. the "Phon-O- Bomb III" (92) musicdisk. Slam (ex Atomic, re GEN6) joined X-Trade early 93. Phon-O-Bomb III (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Sketch, Technoimage. Information: "Phon-O-Bomb" was formerly a Violence production. It received a favourable review in RAW #6's musicdisk review. Action [old] (-1992) (http://www.action-memorial.de/) ----------------------------------------------------- GER> The Swatch Man (Henning Schmidt, aka TSM, later TRSI, 08/90). ???> Bansai (code, 01/90), Blackthorne (ger? Michael Poldner, music, 08/90), Brainbuster (Frank Götz, code, 01-10/91), Dreamer (code, 01-10/91), MCPoint (Stefan Rittner, code gfx, 08/90-early91), Mogli (Mark Schrader), Peachy (Magnus Hironimus, code gfx music, later 01-10/91), X-Man (gfx, 08/90). Action was a mainly German demo and cracking group that contained a lot of future German scene celebrities, most of which ended up in TRSI. Just a few names; The Swatch Man, Blackthorne, Dreamer and none other than Peachy! 1992 - The group dies early in the year (one of the first four months). German musician S-Sex (early91-10/91) joins Digital. Rage left. Techno-One joined Amaze. Eddie and Ice joined Agile. Party Invitaion (1990, .08, ECS Dentro). code: MCpoint, gfx: X-Man, music: Blackthorne (introsong). review: Invitation to WHAT party? Action BBS & Members (1991, .01, ECS Intro). code: Bansai, gfx: n/a, music: "Poormouth" by ???. Megademo Preview (1991, 21.01, demo). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, Lynxx/Panic (vectorroutine), gfx: Zack Brewster, Stage4, Peachy, music: Zack Brwester, Stage4, Peachy "Shake It - Stage4" (4ch StarTrekker format). Cooperation with Vamps. BBS Demo (1991, ECS File). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, gfx: Zack Brewster, S-Sex, music: Zack Brewster, Peachy (song). 'F15 II Preview' crackintro (1991, intro). code: TSM, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Confrontation (1991, 02.03, ECS File). Released for the demo competition at the Treacl-Panic party. code/gfx: MCPoint, music: S-Sex. Autum Conference 2 Invitation (1991, .07, ECS File). code: Brainbuster, gfx: Peachy, music: Peachy (NoisePacker 2 format). Action Menue 2.0 (1991, .10, Intro). code: Brainbuster, Peachy, gfx: Peachy, music: "Intro-Synth" by Peachy (4ch MOD format). Worldness X (1991, 20.10, ECS Demo). Released for the demo competition the Action Conference II. code: Dreamer, Brainbuster, gfx: Peachy, S-Sex, music: "WNsong00" by ???. Logo Mania (1992, .01, Trackloaded Slideshow). code: S-Sex, gfx: various, music: n/a. We are Dead (1992, .12, Demo). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, gfx: Peachy, music: "R-Type" by Chris Huelsbeck/independent (TFMX format, ripped). review: Released under the S!P label. Action [new] (1997-, http://zap.to/action/) ------------------------------------------- NZL> Codetapper (code crack train gfx ascii docs, 10/97-04/00). SWE> Legionary (code crack train intros, 10/97-02/98), Elp (code trade, 10/97-02/98), Shastar (gfx music, 02/98). AUS> Tachyon (code crack train, 01/98-12/99). ENG> Decrator (music trade, 02/98), Teatowel (gfx trade, 01/99), Sarek (gfx, 04/01). AUT> LaCroix (music trade, 01/00). GRE> Hfestos (trade, 10/00). NOR> Fuzzbox (trade ascii, 01/00). Action was formed by Codetapper as a way to bring several AGA fixers together and collaborate their skills. Originally Action created single file AGA fixed games by re-releasing older, cracked games in 'ultimate' versions, fixed for the new generation of Amigas. In October 1999, Codetapper moved the group away from crack fixes and decided to use WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.org) as the degrading utility and to concentrate on patching original games (as well as a few cracks for good measure :) Too many cracks were found to be butchered versions with a lot of content removed. To this day, Action is still releasing quality fixes at the rate of about 1-2 per week! Thanks to Codetapper for information. 1999 - Scottish trader Hoju's last ever email arrived in january saying he had problems with his Amiga. He was never heard from again and was assumed to have quit the group. Australian cracker Tachyon left the group in december. 2001 - On january 1st, Viz released possibly the first fix of the new millennium due to NZ's time difference :) English graphics man Sarek joined in april. Action Direct ------------- Hexadecimal Perfection (Trackmo, 2 disks). Action Force ------------ Action Force changed their name to Cult. Activas ------- Activas released several small productions, like "Fruitbasket Demo", "Gravediving", "Gravediving II" and "Wet Beaver Games". Active ------ Active released several small productions, like "Midsummer Glory Demo" (file), "Second is none" (file) and "Party Snacks" (intro). Aqua (swap trade) left for Phenomena ca 07/90. Active Minds (1997-) -------------------- POL> Guma (old handle Draw), Hangman, Jacool, Robak (old handle Korball). Active Minds was formed late 97 by Jacool, Hangman, Korball and Draw. They are planning a new polish diskmag called "Szelest". Acume (1991-) ------------- GER> Baraccuda (ex Freagles), Eazy-E (new 09/92), Executor (ex Trixamixt), Stone (ex Elicma). Acume is a German group, born late 1991. 1992 - Germans Stone/Elicma, Executor/Trixamixt and Baraccuda/Freagles all joined in the first two months of the year. Around the early to middle time of the year, Lucas left the scene, so DJT became the new HQ. Swoon left, while Eazy-E joined in september. Cruncher joined Chaos. Chuck joined Submission. Moonwalker joined Beyond. The Finnish division (born early to mid 92) is dead; Tachtal (T. Tiala, org swap, old handle DJT, 09/92) decided to stay independent. Addicts (-1993) --------------- FIN> Autocrat (swap), Morgue, Yolk (ex Calibra). GER> Thunder. DEN> Beejay (music). BEL> Alligator, Fox. AUS> Anthrox, Cyborg (new 92), Ensino, Heavyweight (trade, ex Chrome, new 09/92), Image (org, new 92). ???> Beathawk (code gfx music), Chack (old handle Autocraft), Impact (old handle Beast), Keijo (ex Offworld, old handle Pifki), Salvatore (ex Alpha Flight), Yolk (ex Calibra). Addicts died mid 93. These guys have OFTEN had their group name misspellt as just Addict! Their Australian division released one issue of the diskmag "Scene-ery" (Hmm, that name seems awful familiar.... ;), and also the German division released a couple of issues. 1992 - The Australian division was formed by Image, who is a real annoying character, I'm told... Then Cyborg, Overdose (music), another musician, Destructor (code) and finally Heavyweight (trade, ex Chrome) joined the australian division. Muttley, Subsonic and Hexagon left to form Disaster. Arti left in september. 1993 - The Norwegians Rage, Genious, Apollo, Noise, Law Breaker, Crunch, Nick and Mystra (ex Paragon, new 09/92) all joined Symbiosis early 93. Germans Kais and Spoiler joined Platin mid 93. Finnish Masque (ex Celtic Frost) joined Calibra mid 93. Overdose (Benedict Luke Stephenson) was kicked after 6 months as a member, then about three months later the entire group died. Musician Zic left. Drownie joined Regency. Xentec (ex Nuance) joined Tech. Finnish swapper Velsa joined Interactive. Mini Meeting Intro (ECS Intro). code: Beathawk, gfx: Beathawk, Hitech/The Family, music: Beathwawk. Cooperation with The Family. Intro (1992, ECS Intro). info: By the Australian division. Addonic (ADC, 1990-, http://www.addonic.de/) -------------------------------------------- GER> Case (swap, 01-03/92), Crime Pioneer (ex The Silents), Devil (code trade sysop 'CRASHPOINT' WHQ, 11/91-07/93), Dragon (gfx swap, 11/91-01/92), Foster (gfx, 01-03/92), Giants (trade, ex Voice, 11/91), Hari (code cosys, 11/91-03/92), Hedge (gfx, 11/91), Hedgehog (ex Design, new 09/92), Highlander (code, 11/91), JamMan (gfx, 01/92), Larry (code gfx, 11/91-03/92), Leo (swap, ex Violent Wave [no entry], new ca 10/90), Old Spook (Erdtmann Toball, gfx music, old handle Zirbel, later E.Toball/Sanity, 11/91-01/92), Paradigm (tools docs swap, 11/91-03/92), Ray (code, ex Voice, 11/91), Rufferto (F. Brocksieper, gfx, later Essence, 03/92), Slider (gfx swap, 11/91-03/92), Striker (code swap, 11/91-03/92), Tab (gfx trade, ex Voice, 11/91), Trucidator (swap, 11/91), Two Flower (gfx, ex Survivor/The Silents, 11/91-03/92). SWI> Darkcave (code music swap editor, 11/91-03/92), Imagine (music, 11/91- 03/92), The Origin (code gfx swap editor, 11/91-03/92). NOR> BC (music, 11/91-01/92), Prowler (Thomas Johansen, swap, 92). FIN> Defex (gfx, 11/91), Dekay (swap, 11/91), Duplex (code, 11/91), Rocky (music swap, 11/91-03/92), Snail (swap, 11/91-03/92), Thomas (gfx music, 11/91), Ukulele (music, ex Amaze, 03-12/92), Uncut (gfx, 01- 03/92). SWE> Bond (code, new 11/91-03/92), Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG', 03/92), Dexter (Thomas Sandberg, swap, new 11/91-03/92), D-Mon (11/91), Exthalion (music swap, new 11/91-03/92), Faith (gfx, new 11/91-01/92), Fraz (code, new 11/91-03/92), Jac (sysop 'HYSTERIA', 03/92-03/93), Jam (sysop, new 01/92), Mr.Tex (code, new 11/91-03/92), Sacrilege (gfx, 03/92). POL> Dr.Cloo (music, later Pic Saint Loup, 11/91), Nugie (code, 11/91), Trantor (91). ENG> Hotspur (code swap, ex Coma, 11/91-01/92). USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'FORBIDDEN CITY', ex Animators). ???> Cocaine (sysop, ex SP-AI), Deicide (ex X-Trade), Desto (old handle Cain), Divine (fin? gfx, ex Sonik Clique), Dr.Avalanche (ex Animators), Mike, Pripps (trade, new ca 01/92), Roxy (ex Grace). Boards; JUNKYARD (swe). Addonic was born ca 07/90, as a merger of the two small groups Aquin and Overdrive, in addition to Yankee/ex Brainstorm. They were a fairly active demo group. At least 9 issues of their "Message Center" were released. V-Cut left his bbs 'ZOOMED REALITY' to a new sysop, Zool, who then joined V-Cut's previous group Equinox, so the board returned with a new sysop! 1991 - American sysop Q changed the name of his board '007 BBS' (ex Endless Piracy) to 'CRYSTAL MONOLITH' and joined Pirates mid 91. Rumours in "Trader #2" that Addonic UK joined Flashing Bytes is untrue (mid 91). The entire English division was kicked mid to late 91. 1992 - Sometime in the first two months of the year, D-Mon sold his Amiga and left the scene. Also in this time period, the board 'JUNKYARD' joined; Pripps (trade) joined and german writer and founder Yankee (ex Brainstorm) left for D-Tect; The entire Polish division of Amaze joined; Epidemic and Ukulele of the finnish section of Amaze also joined, though Epidemic quickly moved on to join Complex; also in finland, Legend (music, confirmed 01/92) and finally Index/Falcons joined. Phew! Norwegian musician Zak (91-) changed his handle to Scott and joined Spaceballs sometime between january and april. The finnish section didn't hold together for too long, and finally died in september; Mac (swap, 11/91-03/92), Index and Gator (03/92) joined Stellar, while Legend joined Parallax. Also in september, German musician Chromag left for Dual Crew. Adventurer left for Gothic around october. 1993 - German trader and sysop Ronny ('FATAL VISION') joined Zenith early 93. 1995 - Finnish swapper Splatterhead (doublememb Triflex) left for Flying Cows Inc. late 95. Musician Jellybean joined Mean Machine. Norwegian swapper Nick (11/91) left for Spaceballs, but is currently in Offence new. XMan joined Passion. Swiss swapper Risk (ex Zeus, new late91-03/92) joined Tech. German coder Zulu (03/92) joined Devils. Mazon joined Equinox. Finnish coder Razer joined Alcatraz. Norwegians Dr. Chipblower, Archie (code), Alien (code) and Turrican (gfx, all 11/91-01/92) all joined LSD (92). Norwegian swapper Aqua (11/91-01/92) joined Vision. Swedish sysop V-Cut ('ZOOMED REALITY', ex Equinox) joined Submission. Silicon Implosion (1990, 01.08, ECS File). review: Released on the Swiss national day. Blasting Mind BBS Demo (ECS File). Copyparty Invitation Intro (ECS File). MovieDemo No.1 (Megademo). SpreadPack #48 Intro (ECS Intro). SpreadPack #49 Intro (ECS Intro). SpreadPack #60 Intro (ECS Intro). Message Box #1 (ECS Magchart File). Fractale (1991, 25.03, ECS File). Released for the CeBit 91 exposition. Spread Pack #50 Intro (1991, .05, ECS Intro). Released at the Maximum Pleasure Party. Jellybean Muzax (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Intro (1991, 16.11, ECS File). code: Nugie, gfx: Dragon, music: "maxell\poprawiony" by Pic Saint Loup (4ch MOD format). Released at Gdynia '91 party. review: This is a class example of 'if you can't do better than this, DON'T!' Seriously, I don't mean to be harsh, but come on: scroll, logo, vector object? Please! Though the scroll clearly credits all graphics to Dragon, the intro itself has a logo signed 'Aragon'. Nugie's first production for Addonic. His English is not the best, making it hard to decide what he's trying to say at times. The intro needs KillAGA, but still destabilizes my system after exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Message Center 11/91 (1991, .11, ECS Multifile Messagebox). code: Darkcave, gfx: Old Spook (title, font), The Origin (font), Darkcave (font), music: Rocky (loader), ??? (main), editors: Darkcave, The Origin. review: This is the third Message Center, and another ok release. First of all, it loads for a while with an unexciting loadingscreen, before we press the left mouse button and is treated to a nice fanfare and an even nicer title picture by Old Spook! The 'mag' part itself is not very exciting, but that was hardly expected either. This is a messagebox, and as such there really isn't that much exciting stuff to read. Apart from the messages, there's a handful of adverts, a couple of articles in German and finally the group's memberlist. The best part is the title picture. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Message Center IV (1992, .01, ECS Multifile Messagebox). INT - code: Darkcave, gfx: Dragon (font), music: Legend (ProPacker 1.0 format). MAG - code: Darkcave, gfx: Old Spook (loadpic), Dragon & Jam Man (all fonts), music: "004" by Zak, editors: Darkcave, The Origin. review: Coding is much improved since the last issue, offering a wider variety of "articles". Nothing spectacular ofcourse, this is still just a messagebox, but at least an improvement on the prior issue. These were quite popular once, and this is not one of the worst. The intro is barely necessary, though. It's not good, and not bad, if you know what I mean. As it's just 22k, it would perhaps have been a better idea to link it in front of the mag and have the (not bad) tune as a selectable alternative to the one in the mag? The mag itself is not too bad either, though it's rather unexciting. The best part, I guess, is the B&W loading picture of a viking by Old Spook (later E. Toball/Sanity). Luckily the mag is not all messages, since that would have been thorougly boring for today. There's one or two things of interest, like the French scene report. Conclusion: Not bad, but not terribly interesting either. The intro needs KillAGA. The editor does not work at all; seeing as it does not open its own screen immediately, KillAGA does not help. It doesn't crash, but you can't see what you're doing, so... :( The 'mag' itself is a little unstable. Sometimes it works perfectly, some times the graphics are garbled and sometimes it crashes when loading. Once it has loaded, though, I've never experience problems. Or advice is to use KillAGA, for safety's sake. The mag loader does not appear to have any problems with running from a harddisk, there's no assigns or anything necessary. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: See review for compatibility notes. Message Center issue #5 (1992, end.03, ECS Multifile Messagebox). INT - code: Darkcave, gfx: Dragon (font), music: Legend. MAG - code: Darkcave, gfx: Rufferto and Groo/Independent (title, font), Dragon (font), music: Legend, editors: The Origin, Darkcave. review: No code has changed since the last issue, except perhaps some improved compatibility. The intro is also the same as last time, so no surprises there either. The title pic this time is done by the later wellknown graphics duo Groo and Rufferto, and is a graffiti style tag. So, the box itself then - any interesting reading this time? Well, actually there are a few things. With each issue MC does seem to resemble a real diskmag more and more... The editors could be doing a better job, though. There are adverts for people who are no longer in the group (Aqua), and a few other strange things... Like interviewing the Swedish musician Dexter/Shining when they themselves have a Swedish swapper with the exact same handle :=) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Message Center #06 (1992, 13.06, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #07 (1992, 29.06, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #08 (1992, .12, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #09 (1993, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #9.5 (ECS Chartmag). The Winner Party Demo (ECS File). Generation #02 (1992, .08, ECS Diskmag). Epidemics New Intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: Released by the Finnish division. Cebit 92 Party Slideshow (1992, 14.03, Slideshow). Message Center #05 (1992, .03, ecs messagebox). Prestige Cracktro (1994, Intro). code: Schizor, gfx: Devilstar/Virtual Dreams, Mr.Chain, music: Zarch. Cooperation with Triflex. Adept (1990-) ------------- SWE> Galactus (code crack, ex Top Swap, 90), Mogwai (sysop 'STREETS OF FIRE', later Defjam, 10/90), Pilgrim (sysop 'THE GHETTO', 10/90), Sensei (org, ex Top Swap, 90). GER> Crime (ex The Silents), Pioneer (ex The Silents), Two Flower (ex Survivor/The Silents). NOR> Skykiller (sysop 'THE MAZE', ex Razor 1911, new ca 10/92). USA> Fuse & Insaneity (sysops 'EXTINCT', 04/95). ???> Bladestorm (trade), Dr.Clan (ex Fate), Honcho (train), Scarface. Boards; THE ILLUSION (swe, 05/90). Adept is a group concentrating on the illegal scene, and was formed when the members of Top Swap merged with Public Enemies. They were originally 100% swedish, but later took up some members in other countries too. 1992 - German coders Crash and Argon released the packer Flash Speed Cruncher in may. German swapper Tyrant/Palace joined in september. Dr.Avalanche (trade) joined from Animators around october, as did Cocaine/ Spreadpoint-Amiga Industries with his board 'FLYING SAUCER'. Germans Crime, Pioneer and Survivor all joined from The Silents around october, and Survivor immediately changed his handle to Two Flower. Norwegian sysop Skykiller ('THE MAZE') joined from Razor 1911, as did the sysop of 'FORBIDDEN CITY' in october. The three Germans Crash (code), Argon (code) and Mincer (trade) left the group for Complex around october. German Skyfox joined from Agnostic Front around october, after a 1-day stop in Gothic. Ice joined Alpha Flight. German Skywalker joined Palace. English graphician Azi joined Digital. Sledge (12/91) joined Crystal. German swapper Redman (ex Crux/Anarchy) joined Digital (RAW5). German swapper Tyrant (ex Palace, new 09/92) joined Defcon 1 (RAW5). Sultan (sysop 'FAM NETWORK') joined Alpha Flight (RAW5). Germans Decca and Sire joined Supplex (RAW4). Skyfox (ex Gothic, new RAW4) joined Dual Crew (RAW4). Dr.Avalanche (ex Animators) and Cocaine (ex SP-AI) joined Spreadpoint with their board 'FLYING SAUCER' (RAW4-5). The Swedish section is dead, and all members (Stranger and others) joined Horizon late 90. Sine Rape Demo (ECS Demo). Soundripper Intro (ECS Intro). Brontopia (1992, 12.08, ECS File). Adict ----- Fade To Black (file). Sound Series - Hopeful Town II (file). Sound Series - Nine Lifes (file). The Beginning (trackloaded musicdisk). Mayday Resistance (1992, 28.12, ecs disk). 19th in The Party 92 demo competition. Mental Rave Series Vol. II (1992, 28.12, ecs). Released at The Party 92. Admirals (ADM) -------------- FIN> Dr.Titus, Obligator (swap). ???> Deep Runner, Icebass (ex Divine, new early92), Little Joe (music, 03/91), Megabyte (code, 03/91), Teasy (gfx, 03/91). Admirals was a demo group based in Finland. Their coder Deflex was later Multiplex/Chrome, and version 1.0 of his famous utility FileMaster was released under the Admirals banner! 1991 - Painkiller joined Venator, while Pilka and the rest of the south German division were kicked in the middle of the year. 1992 - Icebass/Divine joined early in the year. Finnish Snuffie left. The Finnish division died, and almost all members went independent. Mongerful Smile (1991, 24.03, ECS File). code: Megabyte, gfx: Teasy, music: Little Joe. Released at CeBIT '91. Party (ecs intro). Released at the Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic Party. Adroid ------ Psychedelic (1991, ECS Trackmo). Advance (1990-) --------------- FIN> Mr.Head (music). Advance was a Finnish demo group, where most of the original six members were Judge (gfx), Banzai (code), Zoltar (music), Tom (code gfx), Mr.Head (code) and Mr.Sam (gfx). Everyone except Mr.Sam came from Doom. When Advance died, Tom, Banzai and Zoltar joined Complex; Mr.Head, Som and Judge remain groupless. Our First Production/Partydemo (1990, 12.08, ECS File). code: Tom, gfx: Mr.Sam (font), music: "Angeldust" by Zoltar (4ch MOD format). Released at the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy - Grendel Party II. review: I didn't get to see much of this small demo; after starting it once and finding I'd need KillAGA to view it correctly (the scrollers were garbled), I did just that. I saw a few seconds of the demo, with a scroller at the top, most of the screen occupied by some plasma-like effect and an "Advance" linevectorlogo at the very bottom, then it crashed. So That's pretty much it :) The music was nothing special. This demo was released twice at this party, with slightly different scrolltexts - hence the two titles at the top. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! Beast (1990, .10, ECS File). Beast Final (ECS File). Filled Vectors (ECS Intro). Advanced Chemistry (AC) ----------------------- ???> Ferris (train). The only production I've ever seen from this group was a crackintro for the game Pinkie. Aeon ---- Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit. The name was assumed on 01/10-90. TEW was busted, and as a result the German division died (mid 90). Aero [old] ---------- FIN> Gambler (swap, new mid 91). DEN> Phalcon (ex Cave, new mid 91). ???> Cenobite (ex Prime), Iceman (code, new mid 91), Joyboy, Red Devil (ex Prime), Warlord. Gargoyle joined Parasite. Danes The Master (code), Bionic (code, new mid 91) and Cyborg (swap) all joined The Silents in early 92. Fatal Overdrive (Trackmo, 1 or 2 disks (?)). Fede Farver (File). Stereo Evolution II (ECS File). Aero [new] ---------- Since there is no indication whether this Aero is the same as the ones above, not heard from in years, I've chosen to let these guys have a separate entry...for now. Spaceman (1996, Demo). 3rd in the Convention 96 demo competition. Aesthetica ---------- Fractal Attraction (40k Intro). Intel Inside (File). After Eights ------------ This is a Norwegian joke group, consisting of these members: Benning, Blekkulf, Dr.Death, Hippleif, HurapLeif, Justin Time, Pa-Tryne, Repoman, Skallabank, The Nurse, Titten Tei, (Ingolf). They've released quite a lot of weird stuff in Wild Compos around Norway. Aftershock ---------- ???> Bucky (trade), Klipper (supply), Korb (gfx ascii), Max (crack h/p/a), m0sh (crack supply), Phlegm (trade), Spritz (trade), Steddy-1 (crack supply music), Zink (mainorg sysop). Agency ------ NOR> Ciccone. Agency was a mainly Norwegian group, with some Norwegian elite boards. Boards; ALIVE WHQ (nor, 01/94), MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE (nor), STATE OF LOVE & TRUST (nor). Agile (AGL, 1990-1993) ---------------------- SWE> Badamon (ex Energy), Beltram (ex Energy), Mithrandir (gfx, ex Energy or Acme), Mogwai (sysop 'STREETS OF FIRE', ex Defjam). BEL> Mad Shitbrain and TCB (sysops 'METAL IMPACT', ex Energy). N-L> BamBam (sysop 'DOWNTOWN', ex Quartex). ENG> Rat (sysop 'THE PIT'), Spidey (supply, later Tutoff/Crystal). GER> Malzam and Andy (sysops 'REIGN IN BLOOD'). CAN> Molten Ice (sysop 'AMIGA NORTH'). ITA> Batman (sysop 'GOTHAM CITY', ex Legend). USA> Groo (sysop 'HOLLOW WORLD'), The Mighty Quinn (sysop 'ILLICIT ILLUSION', 04/95). ???> Conqueror (crack, 03/91), God, Steve, Storm, Ted (code). Agile Amiga was founded by Elric in 1990. After he got busted in May 89, he bought an Amiga and set up Agile. In late 93, the group merged into Quartex and ceased to exist in its own right. Optima joined LSD. Finnish traders Eddie and Ice (both ex Action, 07/91) left. They were later in Damones. Captain Midnight left the scene. Zike, sysop of 'PLEASURE DOME' left the scene. American sysop Pizzaman ('FLATLINERS') joined Fairlight. Sabbath and Undertaker (new! back from bust as Image/Quartex sysop 'IMAGEWORKS') (sysops 'GRAVEYARD') joined Fusion. Fred and some others decided to go legal, and therefore joined Atlantys. Twister, sysop 'FLASHBACK', joined Razor 1911 old, but soon moved on to join Vision. All French members; Alex, Kid, Patriot and Shocker, joined Quartex late 91. Another source claimed Shocker joined Infinite Perfection, and in Freedom Crack #8 it was claimed he joined Insanity Perfection... Rockstar joined Coma mid 91. Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: Ted, gfx: n/a, music: n/a C64 Style Crack Intro (Intro). 'Cricket Amiga' Crack Diagonal Copper (1991, .05, ECS Intro). 'Gods' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Switchblade II' crackintro (ECS Intro). First Letters (Intro). Sinus (Intro). 'Miami Chase' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Mega Traveller' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Goodo' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Demoniak' Crack Intro (Intro). Agnostic Front (AF, 1991-) -------------------------- GER> Acropole (gfx, 93), Blackraven (code, ex Awesome, later Haujobb), DSP (ex Design), Exage (sysop 'UNGODLY', 93), Funky (swap pack 'Funky Bunch', 93), Holgi (sysop 'INVISIBLE CRIME', ex Heresey, 93), Rator (sysop 'WONDERLAND', ex Panic), Renegade (gfx, ex Design), Snake (sysop 'MORPHIC FIELDS', 93), Sting (code, 93), Syn-T-Size (music, later Haujobb, 93). FIN> Pulstar (swap, ex Slipstream, 93). ???> Chris (ger? Chris Korte, music, 06/91), Coogar (trade), Dark Angel, Falcon, Ghost (ex Iris), Headhunter (ger? code, 06/91), Hyper (trade), Priest, Rico (11/93), Slime (old handle Shadow), Vigo (ger? code, ex Iris, 11-12/93), Violator (gfx, 06/91). Boards; HEARTLAND (ger, 93). Agnostic Front was a largely German demo group. 1992 - German Skyfox joined from Dual Crew in september, but stayed only briefly. He quickly left again for Gothic, before moving on to Adept. Germans Blackraven/Awesome (code), Howie/Laserdance (swap) and Effendi/Delight (gfx) all join around october. 1993 - Graphician Effendi (ex Delight) joined Arise late 93. Psychopath (code, 06/91) left. 8th Sense left the scene. Boon Kid and Higgins were kicked. Alienx (trade) joined Razor 1911 old. German swapper Howie (93) joined Essence. German coder Roman (old handle Savage) joined Essence. Finnish graphician Frankie left and joined Stellar. Germans Artline (gfx) and Neurodancer (music) joined Beyond. German Backlash (ex Timex) left the scene (pre 07/92). Lumme (Intro). New Intro (1991, ECS Demo). Morphic Fields BBS (Intro). Cooperation with Panic. Lotter Intro (1991, 15.06, ECS Intro). code: Psycopath, Headhunter, gfx: Violator, music: "Shy'n'Memory" by Chris (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Panic Meeting. review: Pretty standard, this has a none-too good AF logo at the top of the screen, and below that a zooming textplotter. Top and bottom are single-pixel height copper-bars with cycling colors (you know the kind). As a matter of fact, it reminds me a bit of the crackintros at the time! The intro says 'remember not 2 greet Venom any longer, we are Agnostic Front now'. It is safe to assume this is one of the group's first intros. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Hash Hash (1991, 15.06, ECS Intro). code: Maxx, gfx: Dark Angel (logo), Maxx (charset), music: "Awetest2" by Pale Rider (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Panic Meeting. review: This is actually rather nice... =) A red AF logo (not so good) adores the top of the screen while a blue vector scroller goes in a half- circle underneath it... The music is very good, at least in the beginning, and helps this intro a lot. Then, the negatives: the dope promotion and the endless bullshit scrollers =( The release date is based on the assumption that the 'Panic Meeting' is the same one where the "Lotter Intro" was released. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Fantastic Pix 2 (Trackloaded Slideshow). Umbra et Imago (File). A Little BBS Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Sting, gfx: Acropole, music: Syn-T-Size. review: About as simple as they come, this small intro has a red AF logo moving up and down the left hand side of the screen, a blue tunnel descending into the middle of the screen and a pretty standard overlaid scroller. Sadly there is no more exact release date than '1993'. Though the intro requires KillAGA to work properly, it still scrambles my screen on exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! World of Commodore 1993 (1993, 01.12, ECS File Slideshow). code/gfx: Vigo, music: Syn-T-Size. review: This small fileslide is very simply-done, but atleast system friendly enough to work with no problems on my machine. It's basically just some text over and under the B&W pictures, which you can cycle through with your cursor buttons, of people attending the WOC 93 party. Not all that interesting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Agoa ---- The fact that Monty was a member at one time, and that they released two of their productions at Saturne would suggest Agoa are a French crew... I have some conflicting information concerning musician Iceman. While Seenpoint #2 [12/95] claimed he had joined Dylem, another source claimed he had joined FROM Dylem. Can anyone help? Mole joined Abyss 94. Musica 2 (Trackloaded Musicdisk). First Think (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Mr. Bug, gfx: Try, music: Monty. C-Intro (1994, 24.04, ECS Intro). code: Iceman, gfx: Rez, music: Pye. Released at Saturne Party II. Annonce (1996, 05.04, Intro). 4th in the Saturne 96 intro competition. Agony ----- Exodus (Trackmo). Pardey (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). Released for the demo competition at The Party 91. review: I've also seen this called "The Party 1 Demo". Agravedict (AVD) ---------------- Relievo (1998, 64k Intro). code: Booster, gfx: Moniq, music: Norm. review: A very fast 2d bumpmapper is the best thing in this minor intro, with the rest being built up mainly of afterburned particle effects and the like - hardly mindblasting coding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ahead ----- Ahead was formed by the best members of Crime Devils after the group died. Dogshit joined Trance Inc. Finnish Meddler joined X-Trade. Airborn ------- NOR> Espen Loeberg (founder), Steinar Apalnes (founder music). Airborn was born when Steinar Apalnes ('Sphinx'), Anders Claussen and Espen Loeberg left Violence to form their own group. 1992 - Norwegian founder Anders abandoned the group for Pure Metal Coders around january. Airwalk ------- Torwak changed his handle to Gadget and joined Cytax. 1001 Stolen Ideas (File). Meeting (File). Alcatraz Entertainment Software (ATZ, 1988-) -------------------------------------------- SWI> Baumax (code, old handle Filou, -notmembanymore-, new 09/92), Cortez (code, ex Setrox, new 05/90), Daniel (ex Trilogy, new mid90), Greg (Gregoire Dini, music, 01/90-93), Hardrider (ex Trilogy, new mid90), PGCS (leader gfx, 12/88-09/94). AUT> Iluvatar (gfx, 06/92-08/93), Pigment (Miguel Marn, gfx, 93-01/98), Poseidon (Andreas Oberdorfer, code, 12/95), Quedex (Christopher Dissauer, code, 09/92-12/95). FIN> 4T Thieves (org music, ex Cytax, new late92-93), Daddy Freddy (music swap, ex Anthrox, -notmembanymore-). GER> HoMiCide (Marco, org music, ex Dual Crew, aka HMC, new 03/93), RSK (gfx), Sigma (code, ex The Silents, new late92-93). NOR> Mr.Last (music, 12/88), Teo (gfx, 93). BEL> Cybersonik (editor "McDisk", ex Anarchy, new 09/92-93). DEN> Zoonie (sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', ex Palace, new late92). FRA> Diskbuster (ex Apology, 01-03/90). USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'FORBIDDEN CITY', 04/90). ???> Airbrush (ex Acme), Bitmaster (01/90), Broterhs (01/90), Burgame (music, -notmembanymore-, 91), Calypso (code, ex Legend), Dan (gfx, 04/90), Devils (01/90), Insider (gfx, 09/88), Ironhawk (gfx, 09-12/88), Jackie D. (ex Coma), Jawbreaker (-notmembanymore-, new pre 07/92), Magnetix (01/90), Megadeth (ex Core), Mission (code, ex Coma, 09/92), New Generation (01/90), Nifty Nit (code gfx, 01-04/90), Triad (train, 01/90), Trigon (ex LSD), Zodiac (swi? code, 12/88), Zoltar (music, ex Asphyxia, new early92-09/94). Boards; PRIME TIME (usa, ex The Silents, new late 92), INFORMATION SOCIETY (usa), HACKERBASE (swi). Alcatraz was formed in 1988 by Metalwar (code music), Helix (gfx) and PGCS (gfx) from the more strangely named Motley Crue Team [no entry]. The first two have since decided to leave both the group and the scene, leaving PGCS as the head of the group. Their biggest success must surely have been the "Odyssey" (12/91) demo, which won the demo competition at the first The Party! The reason for its success is probably the fact that it was something new and unique. The debate over whether it should have beaten the runner-up, "Hardwired" by The Silents and Crionics, raged for months... They were at one time in a 'trainer coop' with Setrox. When most of the Coma members joined, they got the diskmag "McDisk" as an added bonus. When they stopped doing that, however, a new mag was planned. This mag was given the name "Compass", and editors were Disney and ex-McDisk editor Mop. The mag got great reviews, but after just one released issue Mop left for Essence to be maineditor of "R.O.M" and Disney left for Sanity to be maineditor on their new mag, which never happened. These days, Alcatraz Entertainment Software still exist, but only as a gamemaking firm, and it's unlikely that any new demos will ever appear. The remaining members are Quedex, Poseidon, Pigment and Brainbug. I have seen a short playable demo of a 3D Doom clone type game called IQ, and it was probably one of the smoothest and bestlooking true 3D engines I've ever seen; it flows beautifully, and almost reminds me of Duke Nukem 3D! Also, check out Hornet's action replay-like utility HRTMon on AmiNet! 1990 - Swiss trader Moses (who had joined from Setrox 05/90) had a very brief stay in the group, and by 08/90 he was no longer a member. 1991 - Famous french musician Moby (ex Dragons, 01/90) joined Dreamdealers around the middle of the year, after releasing the music disk "More Than Music" [04/91] in april. 1992 - In the early months of the year, Control, Mad Butcher, Head, Jackie D., Mission, Tom Copper, Mop, Nick O'Teen and Aahz joined when Coma died. Status Quo, Copcom, Nick O'Teen (ex Coma) and Aahz (ex Coma) all got kicked from the group in september. Jaby joined Absolute! late in the year. Finnish graphician Dwel (ex Gator/Stellar) joined around october. Micro-Pal's board 'THE WHITE HOUSE' was opened around october. Swiss graphician Fox (04/91-) left for Grace around october. 1993 - Germans Orbit and HMC joined from Dual Crew in march. Their Finnish section died after graphician Dwel left to join Desire, and Razer (code, ex Addonic) joined Stellar in october. Goozer (ex Disknet) didn't want to be alone, and closed the section by joining Chryseis, also in october. 1994 - Editor Mop (ex Coma, new early92) was not content with how things were going after the first issue of "Compass", and decided to join Essence in february to edit his own magazine for them, "R.O.M". 1995 - Norwegian musician Brainbug (06/92-94) joined Talent early 95. He made the music for a.o. the "Museum" [92] slideshow while he was in Alcatraz. He's still working for the games by Alcatraz Entertainment Software, it seems, since he was shown as a member of the games team 01/98. 2000 - The Sad news this year was that Hornet (Alain Malek, code, ex Avenger, 01/90-) died of a heart attack. RIP. German swapper Sting left to form Bonzai Brothers, but later decided to join Abyss instead. There are LOTS of conflicting information out there about this, but I believe what I've given above now is the correct portrayal of what happened. When he lost control over Alcatraz, he left to form his own group called Bonzai Brothers, and all the German ex Alcatraz members joined! Austrian coder, previous WHQ and coeditor of the now defunt mag "Compass", Disney (06/92-93), joined Sanity to be editor of their new diskmag. That project never came to fruition, and Disney was consequently kicked. His further destiny is unknown. Swedes Parsec (sysop 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS', 09/93), La Fayette and Thunor were kicked. La Fayette is a female, who worked as cosysop on Parsec's board. Birdie (ex Yodel) was kicked. Shade (ex The Silents?/Analog?) joined Scoopex. Colorbird and Schizo joined from Circle in Sweden, but soon moved on to form Illusion. Two Germans were kicked; swapper Head and coder Mad Butcher (both ex Coma, 09/92-02/93). Head joined Mirage, but it's unclear what happened to Mad Butcher, coder of the 'McDisk' diskmag. The Germans Link, Dynac, Speedbit (new 03/93), EC-Rider (music, 08/93), and Seat were NEVER official Alcatraz members. They were simply let in by the other German guys and not by the whole group. Both the German and Swedish divisions were kicked out. The German duo Control (ex Coma, 09/92-08/93) and coder Orbit (ex Dual Crew, new 03/93-08/93) joined TRSI, the rest of the Germans formed a new crew called Fresh. Raw Style (ex DCS), Stearo and Nose (both ex Paradise) joined in Germany, but when that division fell apart they all left to join Jetset. Swedes Lizardking (music, ex Strange, new late92-03/93) and Tony (gfx, ex Voice, new late92-93) joined The Silents. Blacky (ex Legend) tried to join, but was refused. As a result, Style (ex-WHQ, ex Legend) left 03/93 to start a two-man crew with Blacky. For additional information, see Style & Blacky's entry. Graphician Tom Copper (ex Coma, 91) joined Animators. The germans Bros (code, 12/92-93), Master and Nightlight quickly rejoined Scoopex. Bros coded the demo "Crunch-O-Matic" [12/92] while in Alcatraz. Norwegian coder, organizer and swapper Micro-Pal (editor of "Peanuts" packmag, 06/92) joined Banana Dezign. His board 'THE WHITE HOUSE' was busted while he was a member of ATZ, but was later reopened in BDZ. French graphician Alex (old handle Aldyss, 09/92), who released some pictures in the slideshow 'MUSEUM', left to join The Silents. Still, he made two logos for the "60k Intro" (03/93), so they're obviously still on good terms... Coder Skyman (swi? fra? 01/90) joined Shining. He is the author of "Seven Colors" (Infogrames) and all design and music by GFX-MOVIES (late91). He also coded the "Cartoons Demo". Kid Icarus (ex Babygang [no entry], new 03/90) is now Daryl/TRSI (late 91). He originally joined as editor of the scene papermag 'B.A.D'. Norwegian sysop It ('CONTACT ZERO', ex Razor 1911) didn't stay too long before moving on to Nemesis (pre 07/92). Motley Crue Team is now Alcatraz (1988, ECS File). code: Metalwar, gfx: Helix, music: "Metalwar4" by Metalwar (The Jungle SoundTracker 2 format :-). review: ATZ' first demo, created by its two founders! Megademo (1988, ECS Megademo). code: Metalwar, Zodiac, gfx: PGCS, Ironhawk, music: Mr.Last. Some of the parts are "Sine Logo" (metalwar&pgcs/ironhawk/"reflex.m.last" (st15) by mr.last), "The Blitter Shock Demo" (zodiac/"the art of fashion" by ?) and "New Members.Bob" (metalwar/"muzak" by Metalwar). Copy Party Invitation (1988, .03, ECS File). code: Metalwar, Hardrider/Supervisors, gfx: Rastan, music: SLL (The Jungle SoundTracker 2 format! :-) Cooperation with Supervisors. Invitation to a copy party to be held 28-29.05/88. We Are First (1988, .06, ECS File). code/gfx: Metalwar, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar (SoundTracker 15inst format). Specified as being released 'some month before AlcatrzaMeeting 7-9 July 1988'. New Stuff (1988, end.09, ECS Intro). code: Metalwar, gfx: Insider, Ironhawk, music: "Metalwar10" by Metalwar (Sound Tracker 15inst format). The Skyline Intro (1988, ECS File). Coop with The Softkiller Crew (TSK), see there for details. Geneva Party Demo (1988, .12, ECS File). code: Metalwar, gfx: PGCS, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar (SoundTracker 15inst format). Released at the Alcatraz Copy Party 88. Megademo II (1988, .12, ECS Multifile). code: Metalwar, Elm, Darkblitter, TDK, TIN, gfx: Ironhawk, PGCS, Metalwar, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar, Fred, Elm. Released at the Alcatraz Copy Party 88, though Zeg's encyclopedia claims it was released in February of 89? information: The demo experiences some minor problems under 2.0+ Megademo 3 (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Iron Cat, Metalwar, Moonraker. Pentcost Party Invitation (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Nifty Nit, gfx: Nifty Nit, Dan, music: "At" by Greg. Megademo IV: Devil's Key (1990, 03.06, ECS Trackmo, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: PGCS, music: Moonraker. Winner of the Alcatraz Pentcoast Party 90 demo competition! info: Does not work on A1200. Magpack Preview 91 (1991, ECS File). Members (1991, ECS File). code: Orbit/Gothic, gfx: Tom Copper, Anex/Rebels, music: "Last Adventure" by Lizardking. I've Got The Power (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, Fox (logo), music: Burgame, Greg (intro). review: The main selling point of this musicdisk is a 420k remix of the then-popular "I've Got The Power" track by pop group Snap! Still, it's not a bad little production. Graphics are very Alcatraz - not great, but more than functional. The sword from the top of the screen is particularly good, though. There's not much code to speak of here. Greg's intro music could have been great, but sounds a little unpolished. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, trackloader hates it :-) More Than Music (1991, .04, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, Fox, music: Moby. info: This musicdisk consists of just one BIG module by Moby. Unfortunately it won't work on my system, so I can give no further information, sorry! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Crashes, caches off does not help. Odyssey (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 5 disks). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, music: Greg. Winner of The Party 91 demo competition! info: Apparently there is a secret part. You must watch it to the end, wait for the endscroller to finish, then type 'PRECALCULATE'. HD installable with patch. Small Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Orbit/Dual Crew, gfx: Iluvatar, music: n/a. info: this might be identical to the 'Hackfressen Tony Ist Wieder Da' crackintro (intro). Museum (1992, early, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Quedex, gfx: Iluvatar, PGCS, Alex, Fox (uncredited opening logo), music: Brainbug. review: This is a slideshow from three different graphicians, so the array of style is quite varied. There's 18 different pictures to be seen here, choosable from a picture selector. Some of them (PGCS') have already been seen in Odyssey, but they're the best here, so we don't mind the repeat too much. The music is okay. It doesn't irritate, at least! This is quite rare, actually - this production works PERFECTLY on an accelerated machine in 1997. Apart from the fact that some of the intro effects are fast as hell (at least that means they're not precalced!), there's nothing wrong at all. That's a refreshing change, hehe... [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. McDisk issue #4 (1992, ECS Diskmag). Peanuts issue #2 (1992, .06, ECS PackMag). code: Disney, Micro-Pal, gfx: Iluvatar, music: Brainbug. Peanuts issue #3 (1992, .07, ECS PackMag). code: Disney, gfx: Iluvatar, Disney, music: "AvecDesPeches" by Brainbug. McDisk issue #5 (1992, .09, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Quedex, gfx: Iluvatar, music: Lizardking. MAG - code: Mad Butcher, Mission, gfx: Iluvatar, Alex, Doolittle/ Interactive, music: Lizardking, editors: Mad Butcher, Head, Cybersonik, Control, Mop. info: After the release of issue #5, main editor Mad Butcher left the responsibily of editor over to Cybersonik in january of 1993, for issue #6. This issue was never released, and the mag eventually died. Most of the team behind McDisk would reemerge for a new diskmag project for Alcatraz in 1994, "Compass". Crunch-o-Matic (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Bros, gfx: n/a, music: "Physical.Compo" by Lizardking. 18th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Memorial Songs (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Calypso/Mauve, Colorbird/Scoopex, gfx: Tony, Duel, music: Lizardking. info: "Memorial Songs 2" (95) was released by Razor 1911. Stop Fascism (1993, .02, 2MB File). code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Doolittle/Interactive, music: Lizardking. 60k Intro (1993, 27.03, ECS Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Alex/Dreamdealers, music: HoMiCide. Winner of the CeBIT 93 intro competition! Review: This is good! It's got a good sense of pace, good music, several nice effects and two good logos by Alex! Alex left Alcatraz for Dreamdealers a little earlier, but still made these logos for them... Perhaps as a sign of 'no bad feelings'? This intro announces the joining Orbit, HMC, and Speedbit, and is is therefore a sort of 'welcome' intro. It also announces the leaving of Style. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Needs KillAGA. The Samurai (1993, 02.08, ECS 45k Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Iluvatar, Control (animfix), music: "2control" by EC-Rider. 3rd in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. Review: A short intro, and MUCH inferior to Orbit's previous "60k Intro". nothing very exciting... The music tries to be thumping, but at 26k that's a hard thing to do. I'm sorry, atz, but this never really came alive for me. Those 55 frames of animation weren't very exciting either, I'm afraid :) Try again. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: KillAGA helps, but Ilyad (1994, 07.08, AGA 4MB Multifile, 4 disks). code: Hornet, Shagan/Asphyxia Design (additional), gfx: PGCS, Cookie/ Asphyxia Design, music: Zoltar. Cooperation with Asphyxia Design. 4th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. review: Whoa! I'm sure this kicked ass on the big screen! This baby features some rather revolutionary (I'm sure) effects for its time. There are some reasonably fast effects here, to be sure! Especially the mapped objects during the main part and the 'flight sim' part at the end impressed me. The music is nothing special, just functional. It's plain to see that both Hornet and PGCS improved their skills a lot since "Odyssey". Especially one of the ATZ logos by PGCS was nice. Still, I expected more from a 4-disk demo... Suddenly it was just over. The bigfiles are just lots of XPK'ed files linked together. There were additional versions released after the party; this review refers to version 1.3 (25.09.1994). Though it will run from disk on an A1200 with enough mem, the documentation says it suggests a 030 and a harddisk. When installing, remember to assign "Ilyad1:" to "Ilyad4:" to your directory. The documentation makes no mention of this, I believe, so I had to hex-read the executable to find out :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Compass #1 (1994, early, ECS Diskmag). info: Compass (or the COMputer Article Spreading Site) was a fresh start by mostly the same people that worked on McDisk. Alcatraz released a text file (published in Scoopex' packmag 'Nevermind' #48) to announce the imminent release of Compass, "early 1994". Unfortunately, it only survived for a single issue before most of the team behind it left the group for new, better things. Cyberlogik (1995, 28.12, AGA 020-28+ 4MB HD File). code: Poseidon and Quedex/ATZ, gfx: A-Tom, Lazur, 2Sign, Bridgeclaw, GS, Viola Bros., Pigment, Lukas A., music: Archangel, Nightshade/Crusaders. Cooperation with TRSI and TRSI Recordz. Split 7th in The Party 95 demo competition. review: The first thing that strikes you about this production is 'WOW!' The second thing that strikes you, is 'shame about the design'. And that's the biggest problem with it: Virtually no attention has been assigned to the design of the thing! It's got lots of cool, heavy effects, a couple of cool pics (Lazur's Alien pic is FAAAAANTASTIC!), but not much work on putting it all together. With all this graphical talent working on the demo, I can only be disappointed that the potential was far from fulfilled. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Alchemy [old] ------------- AUS> Biggles (code gfx, 08/92), Dreamweaver (gfx, 08/92), Ginseng (music, 08/92), Vision Beyond (code, 08/92). Oz-Con 1 Invitation Intro (1992, .08, ECS Intro). code: Biggles, Vision Beyond, gfx: Biggles, Dreamweaver, music: "Warp" by Ginseng. review: This invitation intro is a sad affair really, with a scroller at the bottom and three sucky pictures to change between using the space bar. It gets the job done, but it's not pretty, and it sounds awful. Sorry to be so harsh on you Alchemy, but this intro isn't really one to make you stand up and take notice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Alchemy [new] ------------- POL> Axel (code editor swap, 12/93), Backfire (Adam Gorski, whq swap pack 'Backpack', ex Katharsis), Bob (code, ex Investation), Cromax (gfx music), Exolon (Maciej Turlzynin, swap), Johan (editor, old handle Frodo), Ozzy (gfx), Saggitarius (gfx), Scorpik (music, later Absolute!, 12/93), Tiptop (code, ex Investation), Vico (code). NOR> The Clash (music, new PRP4), Walker (org swap, new PRP4). ???> Adict (early92), Guru (early92), Steinar. Alchemy was originally a Polish group, though a Norwegian division was new in Propaganda #4. Johan (old handle Frodo) stopped drawing. 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 Tilt... Other productions I know of from this group is "Party Zanci" (intro) and "Toxic Ziemniak" (trackmo). M-Iron left. Polish musician Accord (06-09/93) was kicked, for no apparent reason (PRP4). He was later in Gel Dezign. Marchewki (1992, .03, ECS Trackmo). 2nd in the Warzawa Party 1 demo competition. info: Named in a 'best Polish demos' list in RAW6. The name is polish for Carrots. Shadeways to Heaven (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Axel, gfx: none, music: Scorpik. 7th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Alfa Crew --------- Dutchmen Bigfoot, Syntag and Player One joined Legend mid 91. Aldi (1994-). ------------- These are some of Aldi's productions: "1st Intro" (02/94), "AT&T" (file), "Fleischabteilung" (intro), "State of The Art II" (demo), "Chrunched Sound" (intro) and "Intro In Dutch" (intro). Alice ----- Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Alien Adenoids -------------- Intro (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). Split 21st in the Assembly 94 intro competition. Alien Productions ----------------- Kinematic (preview) (1997, 14.12, Demo). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Cooperation with Interceptors. Aliens Designs (ALS) -------------------- ???> AceMan (org sysop), Bigfoot (trade), Chillout (music), Exodite (trade), FaKED IQ, RayBan (sysop). Alive (-1993) ------------- NOR> Beathoven (music), Flash Fox (swap pack, 07/90), Fluor (music), Hemo Rider (gfx), Mailbox (Frode Tollefsen, swap, 10/90), Mick (code), Miraculix (gfx), Nameless (Espen Berntsen, code), Ost (code), Quez (gfx), Sciff (code), The Black Devil (aka The Big Dildo), Tronny Rotten (swap, 10/90). Boards; THE NEW LINE WHQ (nor, 11/90). Alive was a pure Norwegian demo group, based more around fun than actually trying to top the charts. 1993 - At The Gathering in april was, according to Nameless, the last time the group was officially gathered, but without releasing anything. Norwegian coder Sciff changed his handle to Crimson and joined Compact Inc. Norwegian musician Comajim (old handle Zyc) joined New Wave. After 11 Month of Silents (ECS File). 1001 ways to ...89 (1989, ECS File). Lines & Sinus (1989, 07.08, ECS File). Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89. Flyskrekk (1991, .04, ECS File). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Alliance -------- NOR> Jawbreaker (Anders Dybdahl, code, ex Offence, new 92), Lion (trade, ex Offence, new 92), Vigilante (trade, ex Offence, new 92). ENG> Razor Blade (sysop 'UNKNOWN PLEASURES'). USA> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS'). Spike joined Dual Crew. Iceberg joined Skid Row or Nerve Axis. Lord Flight joined Digital. Austrian BBS 'ASGARD' is offline, rumours says sysop left the scene mid 91. Alliance Design (AD, 1991-1993) ------------------------------- FRA> 7th Eye (gfx), Albatros (code, ex Rebels old), Corto (code, 04/91-92), Hof (gfx, ex Rebels old), Moby (music, 04/91). DEN> Seen (gfx, later Melon, new 06/91). ???> DD (04/91), Loom (gfx, 04/91), Spike (04/91). Alliance Design was probably born in the first few months of 1991 - at least that's when their first productions started appearing. They were a french demo group, with strong links to the illegal scene. They were the Quartex demo division for quite a while, and released what is probably their best- known demo, "Substance" [04/91], for them. After they left Quartex, there were rumours that they became a Crystal subgroup instead, but this is untrue. 1991 - French graphician Mack (who joined in april) left again for Scoopex just a few months after. Frenchmen Walt (gfx) and Motif (code) joined from The Silents around september. 1992 - PMC's "R.A.W #2" [02/92] announced Corto was working on the group's next demo, "Land of Liquor", to feature music by Moby. As history proved, this demo unfortunately never saw the light of day =(. Corto was busted for blueboxing early in the year, and rumours spread that this lead to the death of the group. This was even published in Pure Metal Coders' diskmag "R.A.W #3" [07/92], but it can't be true since the group was later active again, and released a demo as late as january 93. What is true is that Walt and Motif left the group for Melon Dezign. French graphicians Zebig and 7th Eye joined Dreamdealers (pre 07/92). Frenchman Traitor (04/91) joined Crystal. Burger Man crack intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: Seen (grey QTX logo), music: n/a (SIDMon 2 format). info: Cracktro made for Quartex. Aka "Another Release by The Best". Drinktro (ECS File). Substance (1991, 28.04, ECS File). code: Corto, gfx: Mack, Loom, music: "Knulla Kuk !!!" by Moby (4ch ProTracker format). 2nd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition. Made for Quartex. Caches off, OCS on for A1200. Little Dentro (Chimay) (1991, .06, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: Seen, Mack, music: "Tix6", "Tix5" and "Tix3" by Reflex/Delight. Made for Quartex. The Party Invitation (1991, 22.08, ECS Intro). Made for Quartex. Cooperation with Rebels. 'Flight Of The Intruder' cracktro (1991, .10, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (DeltaMusic 2 format, 29744 bytes). Workfrench (1992, early, ECS File). info: Released sometime soon after The Party 91, therefore early 92. Arkham Asylum (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Redlight/Dreamdealers, gfx: Zebig, Hof/The Silents, music: Moby. Cooperation with Dreamdealers. Alpha Flight (AFL, 1987-) ------------------------- GER> Airwolf (Normand, trade swap, 05/93), Andy & Fuzzy (Candi & David, code sysops 'DIABOLO', 05/93), Argon (Helmut, trade, 05/93), Black (Frederick, trade exsysop 'THE MISSING LINK', 12/90-05/93), Celator (Michael, toolcode, 05/93), Cinderella (Denise, trade, 05/93), Count Zero (gfx, 05/93), Cyborg (sysop 'THE NEXT GENERATION', 10/93), Dio & Cat (Mario & Bianca, trade, 05/93), Dr.Mabuse (Eric, code, 11/88- 05/93), Ex Machina Design (Carsten, music, 05/93), Healon (Christian, code, 05/93), Jeannie (Verena, trade, 05/93), Jive (Christian, trade sysop 'THE HOOD', 05/93), Kaoz & Raven (Andre & Dennis, trade, 05/93), Lance (Hans Werner, trade sysop 'GODS HAREM', 05/93), Lance??? (Armando, trade, 05/93), Mad Mac (Marc, ascii trade, 05/93), Marc & Sys (Marc & Harry, gfx supply, 05/93), Nightshade (Christian, trade, 05/93), Rod of Vanguard (Elmar, crack train, 05/93), Sabine (mainorg exsysop 09/91-05/93), Schlappi & Stoeberhai (Stefan & Peter, crack train trade, 05/93), Spy (Dirk, code, 05/93), Sting (Tom, crack supply, 05/93), Sultan (Klaus, sysop 'FAM NETWORK'/'SECRET CHAMBER', ex Adept, 05/93), Syntan & Rexxen (Christian, org gfx music, 05/93), Ultra (Ingo, org code gfx, 11/91-05/93), Undercover (Tom, trade, 05/93), Vascal (trade sysop 'BREAK AWAY', 05/93). SWE> Cybertron (Henk, org trade sysop 'AFTERSHOCK'/'AUSGEBOMBT', old handle Lacoste, 05/93-01/95), Excalibur (music, 05/93), Warhammer (sysop 'NOTA BENE' earlier 'HOLOCAUST', doublememb X-Trade, 08/94-01/95). SWI> Sla\/er (Mathias, ascii trade sysop 'BLACK ROSES', 05/93), Steve (org, 05/93). N-L> Speed (org trade sysop 'SHADOW WORLD', 05/93). ENG> Dangermouse (Dave, org trade sysop 'THE TOWER', 05-08/93), Dibber (Glen, trade, 05/93), Ghostrider (John, trade, 05/93), Marantz (trade, 05/93), Shinobi (gfx music, 05-08/93), Terminator (Dave, org trade, 05/93). FIN> Crime-Z99 (trade, doublememb Bomb Squad, 03/94), Dr.Weird (trade, 03/94), Fugitive (03/94), G.O.D (trade, doublememb Bomb Squad, 03/94), Hifi (org trade sysop 'LAST GENERATION', doublememb Damones, 05/93-03/94), Hijack (trade, doublememb Parallax [details], 03/94), Klutz (trade, ex Decnite, 02-05/93), Saman (trade, 03/94), Slayer (Jack, trade, 05/93), $$ Soldier (trade, 93-03/94), [StN] (trade, doublememb Mystic, 03/94). BEL> Berserker (Gerhard, trade, 05/93), Cabal (Dirk, train, 05/93), Fozzy (Patrick, trade, 05/93), Misfit (Stefan, trade sysop 'BURNING CHROME', 05/93-04/95), Remo (Gunther, code trade, 05/93), Rex Orient (Alain, code train, 05/93), Scorpio/SR (Flip, cardsupply sysop 'FIRST ACTION', 05/93), Uli (org sysop 'FLYING SAUCER' EHQ, 05/93). ARA> Deathwish (Sultan, trade sysop 'PSYCHOTRONIC', 05/93). TUR> Chaos (trade, 05/93). ITA> Guru Meditation (trade, 05/93), Luxgraph (trade sysop 'DIGITAL BBS', 05/93). DEN> Alf (code crack train trade sysop1 'HOLOCAUST'/'TRADERS HEAVEN', 05/93), Caesar (code crack train trade, ex Palace, 05/93), Drac (code crack train sysop2 'TRADERS HEAVEN', 05/93), Icelord (gfx, 05/93). AUS> Atomic (sysop 'WARPED REALITY', 04/95), Felony (Mike, org trade, 05/93), Fugitive (sysop 'FUTURE SHOCK', 04/95), Gangsta (trade, 05/93), Rancid (Tim, train sysop, 05/93). SPA> Incubus (trade, 05/93), Quijote (trade sysop, 05/93). NOR> Acid (Daniel Bruvoll, sysop 'BASIC INSTINCT', doublememb Grotesticle, 97), Wowbagger (code, doublememb Session [details]). CAN> Elf-Co (Paul, code sysop 'ECHO BBS', 05/93-04/95). USA> Charlie X (trade, 05/939, Fahrenheit (Joe, ascii, 05/93), Genghis Khan (Joe, org trade sysop 'WRATH OF KHAN', 05/93), King of Zombies (sysop 'MAIN SOURCE' WHQ, 03/95), Night Shade (Sam, sysop 'THE RESTAURANT' WHQ, 05/93), Racer X (Tommi, sysop 'TIME TRIALS', 05/93), Slapshot (Jack, consolesupply sysop 'DIGITAL CHAOS', 05/93), Soulcatcher (Chris, code trade, 05/93), Wolverine (Todd, trade, 05/93). ???> Andre (gfx, 10/94). Boards; THE BOARD (ger, 10/95). Members below this line are no longer members, and the two have been separated due to the staggering amount of members - and due to overall readability. The split is at a memberlist dated 05/93: GER> Accomplishment, Aragon (03/89), BPS (swap, 03/89), Brainstorm (ex Endless Piracy), CCF (swap, 03/89), Crime (swap, 03/89), Depode (sysop 'SPACE CENTER', new 12/90), FBI (sysop 'FBI AGENTS BBS', 10/91), Frankie Double Team (editor, 11/88-12/90), Michael (03/89), Mike Dream (sysop 'WONDERLAND', 09/91), Saintz (sysop2 'S.S.M.S.' later 'ANGEL DUST', 01/92-04/95), Shadow Light (gfx music, aka SHL, 11/88-03/89), Warlord (ex Endless Piracy). NOR> Brainbuster, The Hitcher (swap, 01/90). FIN> Dipsomania (93), Hose (sysop 'SEVERED GARDEN', 07-11/91), Mr.Spinhead (sysop 'THREE AMIGOS'). SWE> Armando (trade, 05/92), Butch (gfx, later The Silents?, new 12/91), Crazee (swap), Emphasis (music, 12/91), Mode 2 (code, 12/91), Pilgrim (sysop 'THE GHETTO', 12/91), Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', ex Legend). ENG> Scavenger (sysop 'THE POOL', ex LSD). HOL> Bobo (sysop 'THE DUTCH PIRATE', 11/91). BEL> Cocaine and Dr. Avalanche (sysops 'FLYING SAUCER', ex Spreadpoint). AUS> Jag (sysop 'MACH V'), Obliviax (sysop 'FUTURE SHOCK'). USA> American Gladiator (sysop 'COLISEUM'), Centurion (sysop 'FORUM'), Maimster (sysop 'MAIMTRONIX'), Warduke (sysop 'EDGE OF INSANITY', 11/91). ???> Camelot (ex Desire), Cardinal (ex Awake), Cevin Key (swe? soon sysop, new 12/91), Hoschy (sysop 'NECROMANTIC', ex Frantic), Ice (ex Adept), Jerry (ex Legacy), Link (swe? new 12/91), Rex (swe? new 12/91), Rave (swe? new 12/91), Ronny (music, 08/93), Shapechanger (ex Legend), Slash (sysop 'THE VENUE', ex Digital Warriors), Style (trade, ex-indep), Teofil (ex Legend), Timdog (console, doublememb Crystal). Boards; THE FIEND CLUB WHQ (usa), BEARS DEN (usa, 11/91), APHRODITE'S PALACE (+43, 11/91), PUBLIC EXECUTION, GHOST, AIRPORT WHQ (ger, 12/90), MATERIAL WORLD (nor). AFL is one of the oldest Amiga groups still in existence, formed in 1987, mostly dealing in the illegal part of the scene. There is also an Alpha Flight 1970 (AFL'70) on the c64 still in existence, as well as a pc section - though their current status is unknown. In their early years, they were also one of the first groups to have subgroups - and they had lots of them! Some of the most known were Vision One, Zylon and Z-Dream (see separate entries). Please note that not only did everyone else get confused, so did AFL on a few occasions! For example, they printed in their mag that Satan/AFL joined D-Tect, when infact Satan was in their subgroup Vision One! They also released one of the first regular diskmags - and certainly the best at its time - for the Amiga, in the shape of "Cracker Journal". The situation with Belgian board 'THE FLYING SAUCER' is confusing; is Cocaine and Dr.Avalanche or Uli sysop? Anyone can help me shed some light on this? Other prodcutions released by AFL, where I have minimum information, is "Blitter Madness" (file), "Scroll On an Ham Picture" (file), "Cracker Journal Special issue #1" (diskmag), "Vector" (demo, coop Demons), "Megabob" (demo, coop Genesis), "Dark" (slideshow, coop Genesis), "Soundbox" (musicdisk, coop Shadowlight), "Soundbox II The Return" (1989 musicdisk, coop Genesis), "Musiccompacting 1" (musicdisk, coop Mindwarp), "Megademo II" (demo, coop Mindwarp), "Sinus" (intro, coop Paradox), "Grafitti" (demo, coop Shadowlight), "Guest Starring" (file), "Defenda Crack Intro" (intro), "Best Bob" (demo). 1988 - The first issue of "Cracker Journal" [01/88] opened the year, and was received well by the scene. 10 More issues and a few demos would come before the end of a very successful year, when they established CJ as the #1 diskmag! Issue #10 [11/88] was released in november, and finally #11 was released at the very end of the year. 1989 - Their subgroup Prophets AG left to be an independent group in february. German graphician Dark joined Black Monks late 89. 1990 - Captain Power left, Blackout joined TRSI and Sledge joined Defcon One late in the year. Destroyer and Nike joined Skid Row late 90, but at least Destroyer later returned. 1991 - Psychon changed handle to Anvil and joined Black Monks in the middle of the year. German sysop Destroy ('PARADISE') was busted on the 14th of june! Luckily, he had time to format his HD before he let the cops in, so damage was not as hard as it could have been. Following this, there was widespread panic on the German scene, and lots of boards decided to close shop. Germans Hajo (trade), TCI (sysop 'SKARA BRAE'), Accu (sysop 'RIVER SIDE'), FDT (trade, 12/90) and Ginger all left to form a new group called Venture late 1991. Later also Krypton (sysop 'CONTROL TOWER' opened 09/91) and Gizmo (gfx) joined. FDT was one of the AFL leaders at the time, and his position was filled by Rator and Sabine. Swedish sysop Trodac ('UNFORGIVEN') left in december for Aurora. 1992 - Swedish sysop Dexter ('TOTAL DISASTER', doublememb Comakids) joined Aurora around january. German Headhunter joined The Silents early in the year. Vindex left to join Anthrox and Winger (ex Noxious) was kicked out in september. Winger joined Scoopex and did not leave the scene, as stated in R.A.W #3. Mike, Hot and Pha joined around october. Hot and Pha later left again. Salvatore/Paranoid joined around october. 1993 - Roger Rabbit joined Fusion early in the year. German musician SMT left for Infect in may. In may, the group had a staggering 82 members (duos counted as one)!! Among these were no less than 4 female members Germany! Speedlock left in october. 1995 - The board 'DATASTORM' went offline in june. Finnish sysop Kristen joined either Decnite or Love/Desire. American sysop Dr.Feelgood ('OVERDOSE') joined Recline. American sysop Nightvision ('THUNDERDOME', old handle Master Blaster, 11/91- 05/93) left. He was also a supplier for consoles. Cyclotronic (gfx, ex Jump, 08/93) left. Dutch sysop THC ('MYSTIC PLACE', early93) joined Justice. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Calibra, new mid 93) quickly moved on to join Accession. American sysop Winter Mute ('MARTYRIUM', ex Classic, 11/91) joined Infinite Perfection. Musician Thexder (ex Assult) left to join Atomic. Dutch sysop Sal-One ('BOONDOCKS') joined TRSI. Psycho Demon (ex Nuance) and Raxxion joined Scoopex. Finnish swapper and trader Black Sheep (ex Zakka/Rebels) left soon after joining and moved on to Accession late93. Salvatore (ex Paranoid) joined Scoopex, he wasn't kicked! Other sources claimed he joined Addicts. German sysop Wolfgang ('CHINATOWN') was kicked. English Kitaro, sysop 'MILLENNIA' joined Fairlight. Magic joined Vision. News in R.A.W #3 that he joined Defjam are probably false. Virus joined Palace. Dr.No and Zacae joined Bloodsuckers. Punisher (who joined with Winger from Noxious) left the scene. Swedish sysop Xstaz ('ICE PALACE', ex Spirit) joined Noxious. He later returned to AFL, that's why he's on the memblist. Germans Sniffy and Helioth joined Vision (pre 07/92). In Vision, they're suddenly sysops of 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'...were they in AFL too? American sysop Flashback ('CYBERTECH') joined Vision (pre 07/92). English sysops Sabbath and Undertaker ('GRAVEYARD', ex Quartex) left for the PC scene. German swapper and trader Galaxy joined Skid Row mid to late 90. Etron joined Cytax. Zychon joined Black Monks. Rascal joined Razor 1911 old. German sysop Chronos ('DAMAGE INC', 09/91) left. American sysop Armitage ('MADHOUSE', 11/91) left. German sysop Red Alert ('ADDICTION') joined Shining 8. 1st (1987, ECS Multifile (2)). code: Dr Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: (looped sample). Cracker Journal issue #1 (1988, 10.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: none. review: Now, THIS is history - the very first issue of CJ! Ofcourse, this is entirely in German, so I didn't understand much. It's amazing, though, how little it changed over the first issues. Though the mag itself works satisfactory, the intro does not. No matter what I attempt, it always gurus. There are no real credits to be seen anywhere, except for in a few of the articles. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Cracker Journal issue #2 (1988, 10.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: none, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, GSC, Smiths inc. review: The second issue is a marked improvement as far as content goes, and is even mostly in English! There are perhaps too many game reviews for some people's liking, but I guess that's a matter of opinion. Unlike the first issue, nothing works here; neither the intro or the mag itself can be safely executed without crashing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Nonworking! Cracker Journal issue #3 (1988, 14.03, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, TSK-Crew, SpreadForce, GSC. Cracker Journal issue #4 (1988, 14.04, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, SpreadForce, Smiths, The 5th Dimension, Warrior, Skar. Cracker Journal issue #5 (1988, 13.05, ECS Diskmag) code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse (main), Skar, Dr.Soft, SpreadForce, Thaluga, Smiths, Professionals, TSK-Crew, Contact, Chip Duo. review: This time introless (the extra diskspace devoted to the mag itself), another issue of CJ reached the streets in may. Cracker Journal issue #6 (1988, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cracker Journal issue #7 & #8 (1988, 23.07, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, Spy&Mind, Thaluga, Nephilims, Reward, Dennis/Magicians, Tetragon, JR, Tobber. Released at the Alpha Flight, Vision Factory and Powerslaves copy party...probably :-) Actually that party was held 29.07, but the release date quoted here may be wrong... Released as a double issue over the summer. Sota (1988, 01.08, ECS File). code: Shut Berlin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cracker Journal #9 (1988, 24.09, ECS Diskmagazine). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: Teddy, music: n/a, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, Reward/III, Dr.Soft, GSC/Sinners, Boil/TJC, Acid, U-238, Bejamin/ BBS, Stups/MDO. Released at the AFL and Spy&Mind Copy Party. review: Another non-special issue, nothing much to report about it. No-one credited for music. [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cracker Journal #10 (1988, 15.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: Victory/TopBoys (comic), music: Shadowlight, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse (main). review: Not much different from any other issues, expect in the contents of the articles. The german articles irritate me, especially since most interesting ones to me, the party reports, are mostly in german =( This issue presents interviews with Bamiga Sector 1 and Defjam. It also features what is probably the first reference to the term "Tracking" =) History was being made... [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cracker Journal #11 (1988, 30.12, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: TAR/Prophets AG, music: Shadowlight, editors:Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse, Michael, Megatron, GSC/Sinners, AOFCF, VF&BE, Spy&Mind. review: Nothing much to say, it's the usual mix of party reports and game reviews. [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Realm of Stone... (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo). Thirty Balls (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo). Cracker Journal issue #12 (1989, 30.01, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx/music: TAR/Prophets AG, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse, Megatron, Reward/III, Insane/Razor, Pirate/AOFCS, VF&BE,Subway & DreamTeam, SSD/Cosmos, Powerslaves. Cracker Journal #13 (1989, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Review: Remarkably, this issue of CJ seems to be a lot better laid out, a lot more compatible and a has a lot better English than the only other issue I have - #28! There's also not the same sense of showelware - all of these articles were MEANT for the mag, they're not just files off the boards! There's more articles in German here, though. The mag's content is quite limited, at just over 50 articles, but they are one hell of a lot more interesting than the ones in #28... There doesn't appear to be any kind of credits except for the articles in the mag itself, but then again there's not much code to speak of... You see, each and every article is an IFF file, so all the coder had to make was a picture shower that could change pictures and play some music in the background :) I like the atmosphere in this. There's a genuine sense of stumbling to establish the scene. These were pioneers, and as such ofcourse there were two mistakes for every innovation. Still, they make their small mistakes with unmistakable amounts of charm. Nice, this is. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cracker Journal issue #14 (1989, 18.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). info: The release date is from the previous issue, so there's no guarantee that they actually got around to it by that date :) Cracker Journal issue #15 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #16 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #17 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #18 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Starflight (1989, 26.12, ECS Demo). Cracker Journal issue #19 (1990, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #20 (1990, ECS Diskmag). Star-Chars (1990, 21.04, ECS File). code: Werner, gfx: Vincent, Werner, music: Thrust. Cracker Journal Special II (1990, 01.07, ECS Diskmag). Released at the Amiga Conference 90. Cracker Journal issue #21 (1990, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Cracker Journal issue #22 (1990, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Cracker Journal issue #23 (1990, 31.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Werner/Vision One/AFL, gfx: GGT/Zylon/AFL (title), Turbo/Zombie Boys (clip), music: ???, editors: Doctor Mabuse, Frankie Double Team. review: This issue was the first to feature the new code for the mag, meaning no more iff pictures! That alone was an enormous step up... Design did not change significantly, only the inner workings of the mag did. I have chosen not to rate Satan/Vision One/AFL's small intro here, since it's not AGA compatible and really little more than a boot intro. The compatibility rating is only for the magpart, the intro for this mag does not run under AGA. Also, I had to run the mag with caches off, or my keyboard would not respond after a while. Otherwise, no probs! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: See review. China Town BBS (1991, ECS Intro). info: Released by the German section. Cracker Journal issue #24 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #25 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Space (1991?, ECS Intro). code: JHL, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Huukkers (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: JHL, gfx: n/a, music: Micke Cool. Released at the Society Summer Party 91. info: Made by the Finnish division. Cracker Journal issue #26 (1991, .10, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Ginger/Venture (title), Gizmo/Venture, Satan/ex Vision 1, music: n/a, editors: Frankie Double Team (FDT)/Venture, Dr.Mabuse, GGT. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ultra Intro (1991, 11.11, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Ultra, music: none. review: Now this is more like it! This intro says STYLE in big bold letters! Well, actually it says Alpha Flight, but you get the picture :) The intro consists of just one nice logo in the middle of the screen, which is in hires-lace, and a scroller that twists inbetween the letters. It's a simple concept, but superbly executed. The intro reviewed was the one released in connection with their release of AutoDoc 37.1. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Happy New Year (1991, .12, ECS Intro). info: Released by the NL section. The Ghetto (1991, 19.12, ECS Intro). code: Mode 2, gfx: Butch, music: Emphasis. review: Nothing interesting in this BBS intro, just a black background with some dots and a 16x16 text writer on top of that. There are a million of these! Thank god that someone discovered design! This intro is earmarked as from 'the Swedish division' and also announces the new memberships of Rex, Butch, Cevin Key, Rave, Link and Cevin Key's upcoming BBS. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cracker Journal issue #27 (1992, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). info: CJ27 was the very last issue released as an AFL production; subsequent issues were independent, and reviews can be found under the heading 'Cracker Journal Team'. Cracker Journal issue #28 (1992, ECS Diskmag). Altair [new] (-1992) -------------------- FIN> Cannibal (The Bastard), Fiend, Servitor. ???> Globe. Boards; WOLFSLAIR (fin). Cytax' "I.C.E #8" [05/92] reported that Altair was born with members from Grace, Kreators etc, and Pure Metal Coders' "R.A.W #3" [07/92] carried the news that Altair had been reborn 'a while ago' - then The Official Eurochart #17 [09/92] carried the news that they had died again. They seem to have mostly released intros. 1992 - Finnish swapper Messenger joined Genoice in september. Finnish Zon joined Zenith. Finnish Goozer joined Disknet. Amacon ------ Mission Impossible (1995, 12.08, Demo). 14th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Amaze [old] ----------- GER> Bomber (swap, ex Highlander/Cletic, new 07-12/90), Fred (code swap, 92), Galaxy (music, 11-12/90), Master of Noise (music, 92), Microp (music, 92), Pinhead (swap, ex Highlander/Celtic, new 07-12/90), Plastic (gfx, 92), Raw (swap pack, ex Unlimited, 92), Smash (Ingo Kamps, gfx swap, ex Exort, 92), Smasher (gfx, 90), Tron (code, later Sanity, 02/92), Vinix (sysop 'TIMEWAR'), Vizir (code, new 90). SWE> Abbandon (code, new ca 01/92), Cluster, Enforcer (swap, 92), Junior, Lego, Ozone, Slider (code, new ca 01/92), Stanton (sysop '3AM ETERNAL', ex Anarchy), Walkyrian. FIN> Airwolf, Articfox, Bandog (code, 06/91), Blockbrain (gfx, 06/91), Firecode (swap, 01-06/90), Holy (swap), Magnum (Jerno Kueski, swap, late90), Topaz (music, 06/91), Zender (gfx, 06/91). DEN> Conan, Darkside, Drone (code, 12/91), Murdoc (gfx, 12/91), Phraizer (sysop 'PHANTASIA', ex Reflectors), Shredder (gfx, 12/91). AUT> Mister X (swap, early92). USA> Nightstalker (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY', new ca 01/92). ???> Ace (gfx, 02/92), Blizzard (gfx, 02/92), Hunter (trade), Mercy (trade, ex Hypnotic), Techno-One (ex Action), The Punisher (gfx, 12/90), Zeus (code gfx, 90). Amaze was a demo group based in Germany, but also with strong divisions in other countries. Some Amaze releases where I have only a minimum of information is "Released Before" (intro, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Galaxy, m: "Hawk" by ?/Timecircle), 31st May (demo, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Galaxy, m: "Ode To Mon Part2" by Galaxy), Lamerbug (game, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Tune, m: "Lamerbug!" by Tsaca), Kriepss Again (demo, c: Zecco, g: Galaxy, m: "IQ64" and "Shape It Down" by Galaxy), Crack of Dawn (ECS File), Generation issue #1 (ECS Diskmag). 1990 - The group received two new German members around july, when swappers Bomber and Pinhead joined from the Celtic subgroup Highlander. November saw the joining of Italian multitalent Filippetto from Savage with his diskmag. "Freedom Crack #4" [12/90] was the first and only issue of the mag to be released for Amaze. 1991 - When the German section of Amaze died in january, Filippetto ended his short-term stay in the group, and left (with his diskmag) to form his own group, named Vega. 1992 - The group's WHQ board 'THE PARTY ZONE' changed name to 'SERPENT SOCIETY', while Norwegian Edison and Swedes Slider (code) and Abandon (code) joined around january. The two finns Epidemic (code, 06-07/91) and Ukulele (music, ex Intuition, 06-07/91) both joined Addonic around january, though Epidemic quickly moved on to Complex. Finnish Breeze (code) also joined Complex, while Snowman was kicked; Wizmar left the scene; Df0: (gfx, 07/91-), Breeze (code), Dwarf and PMB all left for Dual Crew; swedish Stanton/Anarchy (sysop '3AM ETERNAL') joined; danish Phraizer (sysop 'PHANTASIA') joined; american Nightstalker (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY') joined - all around january. Also the entire polish section of Amaze joined Addonic at this time! Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Byte Busters) joined LSD early 92. Swedish Sudden left for Spirit early 92. Tropic was kicked from the group because of lazyness early 92. Swedish sysop Xstaz changed the name of his board from 'DEADLINE' to 'THE ICE PALACE' and joined Spirit early 92. Amaze Austria is dead. Dalmet and Sledge joined Grace. Charly left the scene 09/92. Pulstar left to form Slipstream finland 09/92. German leader Damion (ex Addonic, 92) joined Platin, while Swedish Bit (ex Palace) left to form Sonic sweden, both in september. Norwegian musician The Hustler and finnish swapper Zephyr (ex Ice/Royal Amiga Force) joined Razor 1911 (pre 07/92). Finnish Boomer joined TRSI. German swapper Zaphod joined Sanity old. German musician and editor RokDaZone (ex Kraze) joined Destiny. The two swedes Buntz and Zonic (who between them ran the board 'SERPENT SOCIETY' old name 'PARTY ZONE'), joined Defjam. Zonic was also the WHQ, after he took over the duty from Articfox. Here's a theory of my own: Buntz changed his name to Zonic, AND THEN... Genestealer joined Cult. Finnish El Gringo left the scene. Dr.Gassu joined Elysion. The German editor of "Disktrash", Death Angel (02/92), was kicked (RAW3). The mag is dead, and won't be published any more, and Death Angel joined X-Tasy. German Sodom joined Beyond (pre 07/92). Gipsy King joined Midway (pre 07/92). Abaddon joined Fairlight (pre 07/92). The Norwegian division left and split up. Dreamer (ex Chris/Grace) joined Pure Metal Coders. Frequenz (sysop, ex Decept) joined Razor 1911. I have one additional member, Edison (Øystein Homelien), but I don't know what happened to him...though he's now boss at the internet provider Powertech Information Systems in Norway! Powersledge joined Flash Productions. Swedish sysop Psychopath ('RAISING HELL') joined Triad. Decoy left Amaze in 91, and is now (96) in Passion. Musiques II (1989, 31.10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Zaq, Belsebul, gfx: Tune, music: "Sad Story", "Brainwash", "Secrets" by Zaq, "Tomcat", "Silverstrider" by Firecode, "Soft Dreams", "Thrust", "Role Play" by Tsaca. 1st Visir (1990, ECS File). code: Vizir, gfx: Masher, music: "Zamzara" by Galaxy. Revolutions (ECS Musicdisk). code: Zecco, gfx: Galaxy, Tune, music: Tsaca, Firecode, Belsebul, "Complications" by Galaxy. info: A 'Revolutions Preview' (90) was also released. First (1990, ECS Intro). code: Zeus, Galaxy, gfx: Zeus, music: "Galaxy-Tune" by Galaxy. info: 1st intro, rel by German section. Hammer (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Zecco, gfx: Galaxy, music: "Go For ot by Galaxy" by Galaxy. Intro (1990, 10.09, ECS Intro). Ami Expo (1990, 10.11, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Galaxy, music: Galaxy (Future Composer 1.4 format, 16410 bytes). Released at the Amiga Expo. info: This intro announced Filippetto had joined from Savage. Happy Nicolaus (1990, 06.12, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Punisher, music: "Starion" by Galaxy. Freedom Crack #4 (1990, 26.12, ECS Filemag). code: Filippetto, gfx: font ripped from Zine!, music: "Ode To Mon Part 5" by Galaxy (4ch MOD format), editor: Filippetto. Released at the Dexion Party 90. review: Not that much to read, but an OK outfit make this mag slightly worthwile. Later issues would prove to be much better. Too bad about all the uninteresting reviews with standardised questions... The middle of the screen is the reading area, there's a scroller at the bottom, and article selection on top. Pretty basic, but works OK. Nothing you ccan't afford to miss. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 - note: Needs KillAGA! The Final Absolution (1990, 26.12, ECS File). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Another Hot Spreading (1991, ECS Intro). code: Zonic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. UpDate #1 (1991, File Chart/Message/NewsMag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Viila" by Smagu. Electrical Ecstasy (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Bandog, gfx: Blockbrain, music: "Defender of R" by Topaz. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Spiritual Connection (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Epidemic, gfx: Zendy, DF0:, music: "Sprtl.Connection" by Ukulele. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Dreamin (1991, 08.06, ECS Intro). code: Breeze, gfx: Zender, music: "Magic-Music2" by Ukulele. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Out of Swapping (1991, .07, ECS File). code: Epidemic, gfx: DF0:, music: "Out of Swapping" by Ukulele. Party Intro (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Drone, gfx: Murdoc, Shredder, music: "Too Speedy" by Terrax/Palace. Released at The Party 91 by the Danish section (and with the help of a Danish musician). Bontro Powerlink BBS (1992, ECS Intro). code: Lizer, Ziggy, gfx: Moi, Zigger, music: "Partyj.1" by Lizer. Dentro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Abbandon, gfx: Fade, Bad, music: Fajser. No Imagination (1992, early, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Dr.Chaos, music: Magic Duke. Vector Dream (1992, .02, ECS File). code: Tron, gfx: Ace (fonts), Blizzard (logo), music: "Insecure" by Magic Duke/Cult. review: Well, a bit hard to review this as I've never seen it! Still, the coder is Tron for god's sake, so how bad can it be? The music is a very cool Jester-like synthie-pop thing. For the record, 'Magic Duke' (Stefan Reisch) later appeared as GTO/Digital in 1994. Totally refuses to work on my configuration, no matter what I do to it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Does NOT work, not even with KillAGA. Back in 92 (1992, .02, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Inner City" by Magic Duke. This intro announced the joining of Magic Duke, and was therefore almost certainly released after "Vector Dream". Disktrash #2 (1992, 24.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Prof.M, MCM (improvements), gfx: Brain/Dynasty (title, logo), Genestealer (logo), Cooper/Symbiosis (menu), music: Magic Duke/Symbiosis, editor: Death Angel. Generation #1 (1992, .04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Fred, gfx: Furio (logo), Shredder (font), music: Subversion/independent. MAG - code: Fred, gfx: Plastic, music: Chromag/Cult, editor: Damion. Released at Expo 92. review: Well, first impressions are not so good, the intro guru'ed... Tried again with KillAGA, and it worked but destabilized my system... Thankfully the mag can be loaded on its own, so we try that. Well, this is very first issue of a mag that would grow to be legendary, but in respect we must say that they still had a long way to go. The first issues were more message and newsoriented, and had very little mag-content, to be honest, and in that respect it sortof works...But this was after all 1992, and there were MUCH better mags and boxes out there! It's a first release, that's all. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! Anti Death (1992, 30.04, ECS File). Amaze Design [new] (1997-1997) ------------------------------ DEN> Adonis (swap, ex Passion, new late97), Misery (org gfx, ex Insane, 97), Nigel (code, ex Impact, new late97). Amaze Design is a Danish demo group formed in 1997 by Misery and Nigel from Insane and Impact Inc. It is highly unlikely that the old Amaze has anything to do with this new group. They died after a very short while. Ambrosia (A!A) -------------- DEN> Access (code raytrace, 04/96-late97), Cain (gfx raytrace, 12/95- late97), Drac (Jan Knudsen, org swap pack, ex Limited Edition, doublememb Scalaris 06/96, doublememb Cosmic Woodheads early97, 12/95- late97), Eliss-D (Martin Nielsen, gfx music, old handle Cyboman, ex Balance, 12/95-97), Lucifer (codePC gfx, late96), Raivo (code sysop, ex Black Jack, new late95-late96), Raze (Thomas Petersen, org music swap, 12/95-late97), Riis (gfx), Shadow Walker (gfx, 12/95-late96), Syntax (codeAM+PC, 04/96-late96), Tricktrax (music, ex Tribe, later Puzzle, new late95), Wax (music, new late96), Zeek (code, 12/95-late96). SWE> Anfobia (ascii swap, doublememb Massive, new 06/96), Hawk (code, triplememb Giants [details] and Darkage ROM9). POL> Draw (ascii swap, doublememb Azkiness, new 06/96-late96), Guma (ascii swap, late97). ???> Dr.Zulu (gfx, late97), Karina (mascot, new 06/96), Nook (gfx, new late97), Spacebrain (music, new early97). Ambrosia is a demo group based in denmark, and active on both the Amiga and pc platforms. They were organized by Raze and Drac, until Raze stopped organizing 06/96. Powdihacker then became the new second organizer, it seems - until he also left. Their mascot Karina is, obviously, female. The recent smash hit doom clone game "Genetic Species" was made by the Danish Ambrosia members Powdihacker (code), Cain (gfx), Shadow Walker (gfx) and Trayzor (sound)! Other Ambrosia productions that I have only a minimum amount of information on are: "Psychopack #2 Packmenu" (intro), "Genetic Species" (aga hd demo - of the game, presumably?), "Miracle Chips #1" (aga intro) and "Scenemeeting Invitation" (aga intro). 1995 - Spiderwork, Mr.Salinas, The Crow, Kallestrup and Jolly Roger were all kicked late in the year. Sardonyx' "Seenpoint #2" [12/95] reported that Raze and Drac are the new organizers, that Jaxx left the group to become independent, that Cyboman/Balance joined, that Raivo/Black Jack joined and that Tricktrax joined from Tribe. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reports that Spacebrain (music) joined, that Cyboman changed his handle to Eliss-D, that danish Powdihacker (org code, 12/95-) left for Puzzle, that danish Artphaze (gfx, new late96) left the group and probably the scene, that Drac joined Cosmic Woodheads as a doublemember, and finally that a pc section had been established. Dutch swapper Coolio (new late96) changed his handle to Blunt and joined TRSI. Musician Trayzor (12/95) left late 96. Vaxx left to be independent late 95. Freaks Don't Care (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Zeek, gfx: Cyboman, Cain, music: "Canellamips" by Trayzor. 16th or 24th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: It's an OK intro, this. There's some OK effects, like a zoom- rotator with 'jerky' zooming and an OK voxel routine. The chiptune is functional, with a very good tune for the end part. It's a remake of an actual tune that was on the charts. My gf recognized the tune as being called 'Jimmie Dean', but couldn't remember the name of the group. Very good. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rynkeby Morgenmild (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Powdihacker, gfx: Cain (main), Shadow Walker (rynkeby logo), music: Raze. 16th or 24th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Another good TP5 intro from Ambrosia, this one gives us a texturemapped motionblurred cube and some fractal roofs and floors as its main attractions. The boom-boom-boom generic techno is a major drawback, though. The opening Rynkeby logo is awful. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 4K (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Zeek, gfx: none, music: Trayzor. Contribution for The Party 5 4k intro compo. review: Nothing much to this one, except that it features actual music - unusual for a 4k intro. The only effect is a dottunnel, and we've seen that a million times before. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Ard (1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Syntax, Powdi, gfx: Cain, Cyboman, Access, music: Cyboman. Released at The Gathering 96, outside competition. review: There is one thing about Ard that draws it down a lot; The fact that the entire demo is presented in that 'ghosted' mode, that apparently saves a lot of rastertime on c2p routines. There's just one drawback with this: IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK HALF AS GOOD AS SOLID ROUTINES! Other than that, the demo has an altogether average feel to it. The code is OK, I guess, but the graphics and music are so average it hurts. The whole thing has a 'rushed together' feel to it, made further evident by the fact that this demo was released out of competition at TG. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Riverhouse LSD Mix (1996, 06.07, AGA HD Demo). 2nd in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Extel (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition! Amiga Freelancers (AF) ---------------------- NOR> Zap (code). AF rose from nothing to instant fame when they released the first version of ProTracker 1.0, and stayed there until they had released their final version. Until PT arrived, sceners had had to make do with the limited NoiseTracker by the Swedes Mahoney & Kaktus. When PT 1.1 introduced things like a built-in sampler and an online help system, there was no turning back. In a way, AF got their name in the Amiga demoscene history books on the back of one single production... 1992 - Anders Hamre (code) joined Pure Metal Coders around january. Amiga Industries (AI) --------------------- 1988 - Hero was caught by the police in december. Amitech. -------- GER> Fred (sysop 'MIND BOMB', 09/91). Amnesia ------- Amnesia was a mainly German demo group, with members in other countries. Some other productions were; Copper History (file), Cycle Meets Plasma (file), Epilepsia I (musicdisk), Epilepsia II (musicdisk), Plastic-Dots (file) and Red is Green is Blue (file). 1992 - German Skyfox left for Agnostic Front. Amnesia is dead! Norwegian musician Symph O'Nee joined Wizzcat. Lowkick, Tim, Rease, Rahiem and Scottie joined Wizzcat. Devil (ex Damian) joined The Dark Demon. Runt joined Decade. Cycle Meets Plasma (1992, 19.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. Textro (1992, 10.10, ECS Intro). code: Chip-Ram, gfx: Art/Dead Awake, music: Tim. Released at Ami-Expo 92. Amnesty ------- POL> Aju (trade cosys, late97), Ash (gfx, old handle Insert, 97), Beton (trade, late97), Comanche (raytrace, late97), Domel (code, late97), Fenix (sysop, ex Royal, new late97), Guma (swap), Hasid (mainorg code, 08/96-late97), Ice (code, late97), Invert (music, late97), Madman (music, late97), Mephi (Mercin Kwasninski, sysop, ex Damage, new late97), Stasi (trade, late97), Szudi (music, late97), Umpal (gfx, 08/96-late97), Zoltan (raytrace, doublememb Mawi, new late97). Amnesty are a purely Polish demo group. 1995 - The group released the intro "Spume" [03/95] as their first amiga lifesign (as far as I know) at the Primavera party in Poland. It reached 9th position in the intro competition there. 1996 - Insert joined Depth in june...But Depth's "Eurocharts #31" reported that he was still in the group 11/97, and had changed his handle to Ash! Anyone? Hasid's 64k intro "Crom" received third place at the Intel Outside 3 party in august. 1997 - Polish graphician and musician Dave (ex Freezers, new late96-08/96) left the group after the Rush Hours party in the beginning of 1997. He did not find a suitable new group, and remained groupless for the remainder of 1997, before finally joining Haujobb. Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that polish swapper and raytracer Korball joined from Dinx Project. He left the scene later in the year. Spume! (1995, 12.03, Intro). 9th in the Primavera 95 intro competition. Crom (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Hasid, gfx: Umpal, music: Dave. 3rd in the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Phong-toruses and texturestretchers abound in this 64k intro from the Poles in Amnesty. Also a fast envmapper is given space, though all of these effects are slightly marred by the blocky look of the objects. Otherwise, excellent textures make them a pleasure to view, if you're not too close to the screen. Some speedy effects, and a good soundtrack, make this a worthwile little intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! HazMix (1996, 10.11, AGA 4k Intro). code: Hasid, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of the Gravity 96 4k intro competition! review: Beautiful. Just beautiful. "HazMix" must surely be the best ever 4k intro - at least at the time of its release. Hasid has managed to cram an amazing amount of variations on a couple of effects into his alotted 4k. You won't BELIEVE how long this little bastard keeps going! An amazing achievement. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Hazchemix (1996, 10.11, AGA File). code: Hasid, gfx: none, music: Dave. 3rd in the Gravity 96 demo competition. review: This demo possesses an amazing amount of atmosphere! As a result of the visuals, the great and moody music (mind you, I usually hate this kind of thing) and the widescreen display you're almost spellbound the first time you see it. There's almost NO text or graphics, just the visuals. Large portions of phong and bump effects are the order of the day, and these routines seem both fast and smooth (at least on my 030 :). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Amonia ------ NOR> Ace, Bozo, Buzak, Ghost, Girton, Never Mind, Rubberduck, Slimeball, Vulture. Norwegian coder Coke joined Stone Arts. Blaze, #dff180 and Tom joined Cryptoburners. Amonia was formed when the two small groups Lynxor and Edge fusioned. There are no separate entries for the two source groups. Diagonal Insanity (ECS Demo). Coppershock (1990, 29.12, ECS File). Anadune (AND, 1994-, http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1895/) ------------------------------------------------------------------ POL> Andy (trade, ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97), Kazik (Kazimierz Perkowski, mainorg gfx, 12/96-08/97), Madbart (raytrace trade sysop 'THE SECT' WHQ, doublememb Appendix, 11/96-08/97), Mr.Acryl (Artur Fabrycy, code, 05/96-08/97), Norman (Miroslaw Okonski, swap pack, ex Rektum, new 06/96-08/97), QBA (swap, triplememb Nah Kolor and PIL, late96-early98), Revisq (Patryk Gegniewicz, music swap, ex Legion, doublememb Floppy late96, new 06/96-08/97), Robson (code, ex Scalaris?/Depth?, new 06/96), Scorpik (music, 05/96), Tonid (networker, 08/97). ???> BlackWine (code music, ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97), Dr.Greg (code, 08/97), Green (raytrace, ex Beton Design, new 06/96-08/97), Spoonman (sysop 'RUSSIA', new 06/96), Zeebi (music, 08/97), Zig (pol? code, 12/96-01/97). Boards; LOS ENDOS EHQ (ger), NEMEZIS (pol), REALITY BYTES (nor, late97), UPHOLD THE LAW (ger distsite). Anadune seem to take their role as the new Polish #1 very seriously. They arranged the Gravity 96 party in Poland 11/96. It seems action may have more or less left the scene, but this is unconfirmed. 1996 - Rekin changed his handle to Mario, but was kicked in june. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] repoted that polish Sharp (gfx swap, ex Megapoint, new 06/96) was kicked, that Action switched from being a mailswapper to a modem, that german Celic (sysop 'LOS ENDOS') joined, and that 'UPHOLD THE LAW' is now the groups' german distribution site. German sysop Celic ('LOS ENDOS', 08/97) left the scene late 97 or early 98. 2000 - Luke (code) left for Skarla early in the year. Polish trader and sysop Losiu (ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97) left to be independent late97/early98. Polish musician, trader and swapper Action (Przemek Wozny, ex Damage, new 06/96-08/97) left the scene late97/early98. Polish VIS graphician Lazur (ex Nah Kolor, new 04/96-02/97) has, in a surprise move, left to join Scoopex (ROM9). He released one slideshow for Anadune, "Wild" [96] in addition to working on several of their demos. Impast (1994, 13.11, AGA Slideshow). Released at Gelloween 94. Anadune's first ever release! Collage (1995, 30.04, AGA Demo). Released at Eastern Conference 95. Infliction (1995, 30.08, AGA Demo). 6th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Foundation (1995, 28.12, Demo). 19th in The Party 95 demo competition. Cyberspace (1996, .03, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Kazik, music: Scorpik. Wild Preview (1996, .04, AGA File). Wild (1996, .05, AGA Slideshow). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Lazur, music: Scorpik. Cooperation with Nah-Kolor. information: Wild is polish graphician Lazur's second slideshow, his first being TRSI's "Sun" [95]. Two of the pictures here can also be seen in Mystic's Assembly'96 demo "Traffic" [08/96]. Boombastic #1 (1996, .06, AGA Admag). The Sunrise (1996, 23.06, AGA File). code: n/a, gfx: Lazur, music: n/a. 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition. Boombastic #2 (1996, .08, AGA Admag). Soundgarden (Preview) (1996, .09, AGA Musicdisk). Soundgarden (1996, AGA Musicdisk). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. Gravity Party Invitation (1996, late, AGA Demo). Invitation to the Gravity party in november. Oops! (1996, 10.11, AGA 1MB 64k Intro). Cooperation with Venus Art, see there.  Versor (1997, 23.02, AGA 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Kazik, music: n/a. 2nd in the Rush Hours '97 64k intro competition. review: What struck me after seeing Versor was, 'this is just like an Azure intro - only more blocky!' You see, we're presented here with a few effects that are quite a lot like some of what Azure did in "Dawn.Remix" [04/96] and other intros - the difference being that Azure's routines were 1x1. The intro opens with an envmapped logo, which is afterburned and finally fades away. Then we're shown a Versor logo and some other graphics, before another envmapped object, this time with some transparency. The show ends with the Versor logo from before being blown up to fill the whole screen, and a phong env object appears on top of it - before it starts to morph, and spikes shoot out of it. One cool thing about this intro is the graphics smoothing used here, which seems extremely effective! All effects have background graphics. The music is quite anonymous - I can't really remember how it went now :) The intro opens and ends with a badly drawn image of a tree. Anyone know the significance of this? The intro itself contains no credits, except the fact that the signature on Kazik's logo is plainly visible. Anyone know who coded and wrote the music for this intro? The logo can be extracted by decrunching the file (packed with Imploder) and using a tool like WRip to extract the iff file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Yon (1997, 23.02, AGA Multifile Demo). code: Mr.Acryl, Zig, gfx: Kazik, Lazur, Mr.Acryl (objects), music: Revisq (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the RushHours'97 demo competition! Cooperation with Floppy. review: Not my favorite demo, but still not bad from the new Polish masters. The most disappointing thing about this demo is the graphics! With a quality pixeler like Lazur working on it, I expected a lot better than what I got...and Kazik's pictures weren't much comfort. Some nice effects, bump, env and the usual shit, and a tune that doesn't get TOO irritating makes it pass the grade. Above average but lacks the final spark... The txt file in the demo directory suggests it was meant as a contribution for The Party 6. I have no idea how much memory it requires, but at least it ran fine with 4mb fast! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Gravity 97 english version (1997, AGA Intro). Invitation to the Gravity 97 party in august. Quark (1997, .07, AGA 64k Intro). Released at Kindergarten 97. Zoom (1997, 08.08, AGA Demo). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Kazik, Gryf (raytrace), music: Revisq. Contribution for the Assembly 97 demo competition. Czyjest (1997, 31.08, AGA Intro). Released at Gravity 97. Whizzz! (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 5th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. info: Requires an FPU. Y'Aga (1999, 14.11, Demo). 2nd in the Satellite 2 demo competition. Anaheim (1994-) --------------- FIN> Cancer (Jarno Pato, gfx swap, 02/94), Diamond (Jarmo Nikkanen, code, 02/94), E.M.F (Jarmo Pitkänen, swap, 02/94), Lance (Ville Heijari, gfx swap, 02/94). ???> (D) Fence (music, 02/94). Is (D) Fence the same norwegian guy that was later in Balance? Anaheim seem to be based in Finland, wouldn't you say? Broken Connection (1994, 15.02, ECS Intro). code: Diamond, gfx: Cancer, Lance, music: "Cellarband" by (D) Fence. review: A horror example of what NOT to do, this is one of a million stereotype 'contact us' intros out there. You know the kind, with a logo at the top, and a scroller/plotter occopying the rest of the screen. Words cannot describe how bored I am with these :( This is their first ever released intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Bubble (1994, 08.03, AGA Intro). Anal Intruders (AI) ------------------- AI is probably most known for their fake "Enigma 2" release at The Gathering 94. I remember expectations riding high when we saw the next demo would be Enigma 2, but unfortunately it wasn't. They're also notorious for their nazi sympaties...unfortunately they don't seem to be able to present their opinions in a way that's not laughable. KKK (ECS Musicdisk). Analog (ALG) ------------ FRA> Axis (01/94), Erekose (Philippe Veriere, swap music, old handle Zorglub, ex Equinox, also in Zuul Design [pc], 09/92-01/94), Geronymho (mainorg music), Ktulu and Baobab (01/94), Milena (01/94), Pats, P'Tit Louis (sysop 'EIFFEL TOWER'), Potiron, Revolution (01/94), Spoky (mainorg, 01/94), Squale and Rabi (sysops 'RHYTHM NATION), Steelhertz (Franck Abitbol, music, new 09/92), Stingray (01/94), Stone (old handle Pedro), SuperBee (Thierry Ginoux, music, new 09/91-03/92), Zac (Clark Gaybeul, music, new 11/91). GER> Front 6 (Søren Gessele, music, ex Dynamic, new 10/93), Justice (sysop 'TERMINAL FUCKUP', 08/93), Noise (music), Old Spook (01/94), Rick (Marco Ricono, music, new 03/93-01/94), Sigma (ex Scoopex, 01/95), Stranger (ex Saints, new ROM3/ex Impact), Tron (01/94), Venom (01/94). SWI> Bishop (sysop 'CAPE FEAR', same as Road Runner?, 08/93), Black Sun (early92-01/94), Burgame (music), Dunhill (Hans Haltinner, music, new 02/92), Eurex (sysop2 'CIVIL WAR' WHQ open 93), Excalibur (sysop 'BENEDICTION', 08/93), Highlander (Amor Carlos, swap sysop1 'CIVIL WAR' WHQ open 93, 01/94), Pinhead (01/94), Road Runner (sysop 'CAPE FEAR', same as Bishop?). FIN> Swan (Svante Lehtinen, music, ex Swantti/Midnight Sun, 01/96). USA> Deathbringer (sysop 'HORROR ZONE', 04/95). ???> Buckaroo (ex Artefact), Cobburn (fra?), Coronal (ex Nova), Joker (sysop, ex Taurus, new late94), Motown (ex Lunatic Earls), Remote, U2 (fra? music). Analog is a demo group based in France, but with divisions in Germany and Switzerland. They were born in 1990 or 91, after the all-french group Sun Connection changed their name to Analog and started taking in foreign divisions. The Swiss section goes under the name 'The Sect'. Their members are also behind utilities like SunTracker II, IAM Packer, Bootshop and Infomod. Other Analog productions, where I have a minimum of information is "New Members Joined" (intro), "Mushroom" (file, not on A500&1000), "Jointro" (intro 94) and "Spidy" (intro 94). 1991 - Shogun and Scud left mid 91. 1992 - Germans Shade (formerly Dynac/The Silents) and Jason joined around october. 1993 - Germans Kernal (code) and Chaos! (gfx, both ex TKOB [no entry]) joined Desire mid 93. German musician Dynamite (ex Cyanide, new 03/93) joined Noxious mid 93. German organizer Jason left the scene mid 93. 1994 - German sysop Trooper ('LOST CARRIER', ex Dynamic, 01/94) joined Lego late94. Frenchmen Monty (music), Cobburn (music, 91), Geronymho (music, 91), Reflex (music) and End of Data are no longer members. Dillenger and Coractor joined Dynamix. German swapper Mr.King (ex Beyond, new late92-01/94) joined Vision with his famous pack 'Nevermind'. Wea (ex Psycho) joined, but soon moved on to join Speedy. The two Germans Excess (gfx) and T.N.T (Ralf Merker, raytrace music swap, both new 03-04/93) left. French sysop Cypher and Mery ('HANG LOOSE') joined Fairlight early 93. Germans coders Slash (responsible for "Important Note") and Cockroach (ex Impact) both joined DCS. German Shade joined Alcatraz. Germans Placid (music, new 11/92) and Plasma, collectively known as Cream Design, left to join TEK. Eternal #2 however, claimed Plasma had joined DCS, and he IS confirmed in this group, before moving on to The Silents... Disease (Demo). Epic (Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Breastbone" by Erekose. info: The tune Breastbone was also used in the muscidisk "Difficult To Cure". Analogia (1991, ECS Megademo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Cobburn and Geronymho. Cyclone Dentro (1991, ECS File). info: Two versions were released; one that required 1MB and one that ran on 512k machines. The Sun Is A Pacman (1991, ECS Intro). Invitation to a party, but which? :-) 86 Musics (1991, .05 or .06, ECS Musicdisk). First Blood (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Dancing Light-Exp" by Zorglub (ProTracker format). Released at the Iris New Year party. Face The Facts (1992, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Facethefacts I" by Noise. One Day In The Sol-System II v1.2 (1992, ECS Slideshow). The Red And The Blue (1992, ECS Intro). Falling Up (1992, 26.06, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Digital" by Dunhill, "Falling Up" by Cobburn and Monty. 2nd in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. info: Nonworking on A1200. Difficult To Cure (1993 or later, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Difficult" (intro), "Breastbone" and "Circles" by Erekose. info: The tune Breastbone was also used in the demo "Epic". Important Note (1993, 28.03, ECS Intro). code: Slash, gfx: Excess, music: "I Dreamed of You" by T.N.T. Released at CeBit 93. The King Of Biscuits (1993, 05.05, ECS File). NeverMind Pack Preview (1993, 01.08, ECS Intro). Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. Analogy (1992-) --------------- FIN> Synx (code gfx, 92-10/93). ???> Slaverider (music, 92-10/93), Stephen (gfx, 10/93), U.F.O (music, 92), Wizzy (gfx, 92). Analogy was formed after the group Crashead kicked all their lazy members and decided to form an entirely new group; this occured ca 10/92. BBS-Tro (1992, ECS Demo). code: Synx, gfx: Wizzy, Synx, music: "Katse_Lama-Aikaan" by Slaverider. Rational Prodigy (1992, ECS Disk). HiTech Party Invitation (1992, .10, Trackmo). HiTech Party Invitation #2 (1992, ECS Demo). code: Synx, gfx: Wizzy, Synx, music: "Her_Eyes" by U.F.O. Hysteria (1993, 12.08, Trackmo, 2 disks). 5th in the Assembly 93 intro competition. Dyspepsia (1993, .10, ECS Trackmo). code: Synx, gfx: Stephen, music: Slaverider. 3rd in the Aggression 93 demo competition, and best of the Amiga entries. info: Requires a pre-2.04+ system. Sub.l# $7fd1 (1994, 07.08, AGA HD File). 8th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. Anarchy (1989-1993) ------------------- ENG> Del (Derek Leigh-Gilchrist, code, 12/90), Gamma (Fred, music, ex Razor 1911 old), Hammer (Adam, code, 02-08/90), Kris (code), Punisher (code, 02/90), Raphael (D.Blackmore, 08/90). DEN> Cyboman (sysop), Deltaforce (sysop2 'BOOMERANG' EHQ), Rush (Rene Möllnitz, code, 91-12/92), Streamline (ex The Flashing Bytes), Trix (org sysop1 'BOOMERANG' EHQ, ex Rebels, new mid91). FRA> Lethal (code, new 09/92), Neptune (code, ex Atlantys), Raspoutin (ex The Silents), Rookie (ex The Silents), Skynet (ex Rebels). GER> Deathstar (swap). FIN> Griffon (Janne Kammonen, music, ex Gate, new 12/90), Psycho (Jani Peltonen, code, ex Gate, new 12/90). NOR> Laiz (swap, ex Gate, new 12/90). SWE> Mic (91), Odeon (91), Teeze (org, 12/90-91). USA> Dr.Feelgood (sysop 'OVERDOSE'), Steve (sysop 'MYSTIC PLACES', ex Vertigo or Desire!?, 12/92), Trillion (sysop 'POWERHOUSE', 04/91- 12/92). ???> Cosy (eng? swap pack, ex Magnetic Fields, new mid91), Marvin (swe? gfx, 11/90), Twister (swe? gfx music, 11/90), Zarch (code). Boards; PROVOCATION (swe, 12/90). Anarchy spent some time as the definitive 'super-group' of the demo scene, before it grew too big and simply died. When they were on top, though, they produced what are some of the most well-remembered demos ever... However, when the best members went and formed Lemon. on 1st February 1993, they pretty much nailed the coffin. After a little while, the remainders of the group decided that the blow was too hard, and they'd rather quit on top than keep going at half speed. Dan and Nuke were involved with the making of several games for Core Design while still in Anarchy, like Chuck Rock. There has NEVER been a member called Striker and Zoom was never kicked despite rumours in some mags. 1990 - English coder Del joined the group from Mayhem sometime between april and december. In october, the group was reinforced with Mystik (gfx), Dan (code gfx) and Kris (code) from Reaktor. Dan soon released his first production for his new group, the demo "Madness" [10/90]. Come december and "Stolen Data #5" [12/90] - their best yet - they also announced the joining of English musicians Nuke and Cosmos, as well as the leaving of Raistlin (code, 07/90-) and Pioneer who both left the group to concentrate on their educations. 1991 - During the easter holidays in late march, the swedish division (Odeon, Mic, Teeze) arranged the Anarchy Easter Conference 91 party. Germans Mike (sysop 'STATE OF MIND', 09/91), Cyfreak and Koto left for Endless Piracy in september. The entire french section of The Silents were recruited late in the year - possibly as early as september, but more likely around december. These members were Audiomonster (who returned to TSL after just a few days), Conquest, NHP, BKH, Performer, Ronan, Rookie, Surfer and Zoom. 1992 - All Swedish and Finnish members were kicked around january, according to R.A.W #2 [02/92], 'because of their extreme lazyness and bad attitudes.' Swedish sysop Stanton ('3AM ETERNAL') joined Amaze around january, possibly as a sideeffect of the above. German swapper Mike D. (ex Sanity) joined Complex, French coder DCA joined from Rebels and danish musician Maestro joined from Kefrens around january. Come the beginning of april, the group arranged the Anarchy Easter Party in Barnsley, England, which was even visited by their foreign members (Facet). The group themselves came 1st with the trackmo "Krestmass Leftovers" [04/92] (Krest/Critical Mass) and third with the musicdisk "Legalise It..." [04/92] (Dan/Facet/Nuke) in the demo competition =) The scrolltext in the musicdisk revealed that Rush had now moved to England, and was working as a programmer at Core Design alongside Dan. The french section released their first production for Anarchy - the musicdisk "Spring Melodies" [04/92] - at the Eastern Conference in Belgium a little later in april. The group's brand-new german section won the demo competition at the Digital Symposium with "Flower Power" [10/92], but soon after big problems arose in the newborn section. Crux (ex Dual Crew) and Slick (ex Cyberactive) were first kicked out, and as a result of this Pinny (Christian) also left. Anarchy then decided to close down the entire section, and thus Tron, MCM and E.Toball (all ex Dual Crew) were all kicked out! Tron joined Sanity, MCM joined Spaceballs, E.Toball joined Complex and Crux joined Adept. RAW 5's claim that Tron also joined Complex is untrue. Danish musician Maestro (Martin Agger), who had joined from Kefrens as early as january, was kicked out around october because of lazyness and not being involved with the scene at all. On the 14th of June 1996 he died in Aarhus, Denmark, at the age of 24. Swedish sysop Norad ('ACES HIGH') was recruited around october, and this is now the ONLY board in Anarchy. French swapper Mental (ex Atlantys) left for Willow around october. 1993 - On the 1st of february 1993, a large portion of Anarchy's most talented members in England, Denmark and Holland left to form a new, smaller group called 'Lemon.' These members were Facet (hol gfx, ex Vision, new late91), Dan (eng code, ex Reaktor, new 10/90), Nuke (eng music, new 12/90), Hannibal (den code, ex The Silents, old handle Sunjohn, 12/91), Slash (den gfx, ex Flash Productions, 12/91), Mad Freak (den music, 12/91) and Paradroid (eng code, ex Digital, new 07/92). Indirectly, it was this act that killed Anarchy. Left without its best members, people started losing their confidence in the supergroup, and started leaving in droves. English coder and graphician Kreator (Michael Troughton, production editor 'Stolen Data', 07/90-12/92) landed a job at Reflections (the people behind the 'Shadow of the Beast' games) and consequently left the scene at the end of january. A few months later they were stone dead. Later, dutch graphician Danny (ex Mirage) also joined Lemon. The two Danes ICronite and Milkshake (both ex Rebels), who participated in such fine productions for Anarchy as "Digital Innovation" [91] and "Hardcore" [12/92], left to form Camel Corporation in February 1993. Frenchmen NHP & BKH (org music, 04-12/92), Conquest and Zoom (all 04/92, all ex The Silents) joined Scoopex in early 1993. After Anarchy died, the Englishmen Judge Drokk (Mark, org editor 'Stolen Data', 02/90-04/92), 4-Mat (Matthew Simmonds, music, 07/90-12/92), Mystik (gfx, ex Reaktor, new 10/90-12/92), Krest (code) and Critical Mass (code) all decided to end their involvement with the scene. 4-Mat's music has since graced several games, as you all know, and it is believed that Kris (code, ex Reaktor, new 10/90) joined him in gamemaking land. This is NOT confirmed, however. Del (Derek Leigh-Gilchrist) is today a game programmer at Codemasters. French painter Suny (ex Rebels, 12/92) joined Movement. Arpegiator (music) joined Chryseis late 92. French coder Ronan (ex The Silents, 04/92) joined Sanity. Ronan coded the musicdisk "Spring Melodies" [04/92] for Anarchy. Finns Destop (gfx) and WDO (code) rejoined CNCD. In the middle of january, Danes Slammer (code) and Xience (gfx, both ex Rednex) joined Melon Dezign. Later also Solnova (gfx) joined. Slammer and Xience collaborated on the trackmo "In The Kitchen" (06/92) for Anarchy. Englishmen Mole (12/90) and Mr.Big (02-12/90) left the scene in the latter part of 1992. Mr.Big was editor of "Stolen Data" for a while. Norwegian coder and swapper Octoplex (ex Gate, new 12/90) joined Palace. French graphician Titan (ex Atlantys) joined Digital. Swedes Lexter (code), Mosh (code, 11/90) and Dexter (music, new 09/91) joined Shining (pre 03/92). Swedish sysop Norad ('ACES HIGH' WHQ) joined Virtual. Tama (ex Euphoria) left the scene. German Maec is NOT a member of Anarchy. French coder Performer (ex The Silents) joined Melon Dezign. He was never a member of Rebels, as some people claimed. Belgian Cybersonik (ex Cult) who worked as coeditor on Stolen Data for a while, was kicked by Trix! He therefore joined Alcatraz 09/92. French trader Rhod (ex Rebels old) left the scene. The information in RAW3 that he was kicked seems to be untrue, especially since both the next RAW and Anarchy's own mag Stolen Data confirms he left. French swapper Surfer (David Pointu, ex The Silents) left the scene. Conquest took over the organizing of the French section. French coder DCA (ex Rebels old) joined The Silents. The entire French division of The Silents joined. However, a few days later Audiomonster returned to TSL. Finns Golem (gfx, ex Gate, new 12/90-91) and Major Tom joined Carillon. Banger and Mediator (Andrew, eng code, 07-10/90) left Anarchy mid 91. Banger first joined Punishers, and later left the scene altogether. German sysop Bomber ('PEARL HARBOUR' opened 09/91) joined Crusaders late91. Finnish musician Bruno (ex Gate, new 12/90-91) joined SCUP. Bruno released the musicdisk "Bruno's Music Box 3" (91) while in Anarchy. Igor (gfx, 07/90-04/91), Fobia and Cosmos (eng music, new 12/90) got kicked. Finnish coder and graphician Wraith (Mika Keskikiikonen, ex Gate, new 12/90) left the scene 91; a decision he announced in Anarchy's "Bruno's Music Box III". Demo Dolly Mixture No.01 (ECS Intro). code: Zarch, gfx: Marvin (logo), Igor (font), music: "Popkorn" by Nuke (4ch MOD format). review: This intro precedes the first ever issue of Anarchy's packseries Demo Dolly Mixture (compiled by Cosy), and is very very standard. The music is a suitably cheery chip affair, and the obligatory logo at the top of the screen is nicely done, if a little unimaginative. The rest is just the normal text and scroller. This is the kind if intro you are likely to see a hundred of... Please note that this is NOT a selector, just an intro, the selection itself was probably done in DOS. The intro does not in any way indicate any release date. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Inspired Sounds (ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Bob Intro 1.0 (1989, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Kreator, music: ???/Triangle. Kreator's First (1989, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Kreator, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Magnetic Fields Party 89. Stolen Data #1 (1989, .11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: Codex/Razor 1911. MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Tar-Snare Slider" by ???/TAR, editors: Kreator, Nosah/DCS. CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: The Dark Lord (font, logo), music: "Tennis" by ???/Spreadpoint (ripped). Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: The very first issue of SD opens with a good intro - colorful and professional. Then on to the mag itself... You are first taken to a menu, where you can choose to see one of three new demos (so it's almost a pack too!), the charts or the mag itself. The menu is a little much, really, too colorful and overcrowded for a diskmag. SD was originally on both paper and disk, with the papermag containing the bulk of the material... As a result, the editorial content of this first issue is VERY limited. In fact, you'll read this mag from start to end in about 10 minutes... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Final Samples Advertisment (1990, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx/music: 4-Mat. Master of Magic (1990, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Tony, music: 4-Mat. Welcome (1990, ECS File). code/music: Hammer, gfx: Raphael, Hammer. Sine Intro #3.0 (1990, .01, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: Raphael, music: 4-Mat (SAE). Kreators Party Demo (1990, 04.02, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Magnetic Fields Select Party demo competition! 4-Mat's Jam Session (1990, 04.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. info: Chipmusicdisk. Released at the Magnetic Fields Select Party. Stolen Data #2 (1990, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Stolen Data Theme 1" by Gonzo/Flash Production (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Cloud Dreaming" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Lovesong" by 4-Mat, editors: Kreator, Nosah/DCS. CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, The Dark Lord (font), music: "6beat" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: The coding of this mag remains mostly the same as last time, only the music and text seem to have changed significantly. It's still both disk- and paperbased, with the paper edition having most of the significant information - sadly. There are just two demos on the disk this time, Red Sector's "Follow Me" and Rebels "Vectors 1990", but in addition there are also two small utilities, Boot Memory Clear and Music Ripper for Titanics Cruncher by Punisher/Anarchy. The different heading above for this review means INT (intro), MEN (menu), MAG (magazine) and CHA (charts). The mag was released in february, but after MF's Select party (03-04.02), so probably sometime around mid february. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sine Intro #4 (1990, 08.03, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Winter Conference 90 Invitation (1990, early, ECS Intro). Invitation to the Anarchy Winter Conference 90. Stolen Data #3 (1990, .06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, music: "Stolen Data Theme 1" by Gonzo/ Flash Productions (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Caress" and "Fantastic" by Mr.Fancy/Giants, "Live Inside Paula" by Gonzo/Flash Productions (all 4ch MOD format). CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "6Beat" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Lies" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format), editor: Mr. Big. Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: Nothing has changed on the graphics front since the last issue; everything is precisely the same! Mr.Big is the new editor. Nothing much to read here yet, most of the material was still being used for the paper edition. There were no demos or other stuff on the disk this time, the extra material was used for the three winning tunes from their music competition in issue 1. No release date appears in the mag, but some coding examples on the disk carry a 06/90 date... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. For Your Delectation & Delight (1990, 08.04, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Igor, music: 4-Mat. Released at The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex Party 90. info: The intro also features graphics ripped from the game Xenon. Vector Bobs 90 (1990, 08.04, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, Del/Mayhem, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Released at The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex Party 90. info: The intro also features graphics ripped from the game Xenon. Mini-Intro (1990, 14.05, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: Mr.Big, music: "mod.Led-Storm" by 4-Mat. Music Demo (1990, 03.06, ECS File). code/gfx: Tony Roach, music: Jochen Hippel/independent. Raistlins Message Box #1 (1990, .07, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Slipstream Party Demo (1990, 28.07, ECS File). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Slipstream Summer Party 90. Slipstream Party Intro (1990, 28.07, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Raistlin, Norris, music: n/a (from some game). Released at the Slipstream Summer Party 90. Slipstream Party - Bournemouth '90 Intro (1990, 28.07, ECS Intro). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Phantasmagoria (1990, .08, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Igor, music: 4-Mat. Stolen Data #4 (1990, .08, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator (font, logo), music: "DNA-Dream" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: Igor (logo), Kreator (bobs), music: "Intro- Music" by 4-Mat, "Latitude" by Trevor Hamlett, "Vector" by Firefox/Phenomena, "New-Wave 1" by New-Wave/Reaktor (all 4ch MOD formats). CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Waterfall" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). ART - code: Hammer, gfx: The Dark Lord (fonts), Kreator (fonts), music: none. MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Music" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with DCS. review: The intro remains the same, but the new menu is refreshing and ultimately heaps better than the old one! In addition to the mag and the charts, it also allows us to see the art gallery or listen to three cool tunes thay have received since last time! Onto the mag we go, and it's immediately obvious that there's a lot more to read now than there used to be! And the mag would continue to improve... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- needs KillAGA. Dot Demo II (1990, 18.08, ECS File). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, Mystik/Reaktor, music: 4-Mat, Jochen Hippel/ independent, others. Released at the Share & Enjoy Party 90. Captured Imagination (1990, .10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mediator, gfx: Mystik, Mediator, music: "Lunawaves at Sunset", "Auf Wiedersehn", "Close to the Edge", "VCC+GIGICAR 1989(forestst)", "Heli", "Wizardry", "The Golden Ages", "The Last V8", "Gartingkippers Ahoy", "Ace II", "Cluster", "Red Sector-Theme" by 4-Mat, "Dark Water" and "The- Rockin'Ruler" by Twister. Twister Earwax (1990, 06.10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mosh, gfx: Twister, Marvin, music: Twister (9 tunes!). Released at the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. Raistlin Pack 9 Intro (1990, 27.10, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Mystik, music: Dr.Awesome/Crusaders. Madness (1990, 21.10, ECS File). code/gfx: Dan, music: "4-Mat's Madness" by 4-Mat. Winner of the Magnetic Fields Revenge Party demo competition! Raistlins Message Box #4 (1990, 27.10, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Igor, Kreator, music: Dr.Awesome/Crusaders. Released at the Magnetic Fields Revenge Party...? Smoker (1990, 03.11, ECS File). code: Mosh, gfx: Twister, Marvin, music: Twister. 2nd in the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition. Stolen Data #5 (1990, .12, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Del, Kris, gfx: Dan (anarchy logo), Havok/independent (sd logo), music: Nuke. MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Zapped Out" by 4-Mat, "Celebration by Omega/Dual Crew, "Up In The Woods" by Steel/Subway and "You Are Not A God" by Echo/Imagine. CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, music: "!Noname!" by 4-Mat. GAL - code: n/a, gfx: Raphael, Havok, "Plaything" by Scorch/independent, "Elf" by D.Kalic/Technoflight, "Turtles", "Warriors of Destiny" and "Nightpiccy" by Cryolite/Cryptic, music: none. MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Forests" by 4-Mat, editor: Mr.Big. review: Anarchy goes at it alone for the first time, and the results are the best issue of SD yet! Improved in virtually every department, with some remarkable new graphical talent - namely Havok - just adding spice to the package. This time the limitations of the mag code became painfully obvious, when there was just not enough room with just one magpart for all the text, and the mag had to be split in two! A remarkable improvement over previous issues. The intro for the mag announced the joining of English musicians Nuke and Cosmos, as well as the leaving of Raistlin and Pioneer who leaves the group to concentrate on their educations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: caches/aga off. Winter Conference 91 Invitation (late 90/early 91, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Mutley, music: 4-Mat. Invitation to the Winter Conference 91. Bruno's Music Box III (1991, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: Golem, music: "Dr.Snuggles", "Uralvolga Fine", "B.S.T", "Oppenheimer", "Gymnopedies", "Sonar5", "Tunnehairio", "Stracger Is Called" by Bruno. BMB2 was released when Bruno was still in Gate; he later joined SCUP. With this release, Wraith announced he was leaving the scene. Digital Innovation (1991, ECS Disk). code: Dan, Rush, ICronite, gfx: Golem (load, intro, lions), Dan (sinescroll), Airwalk (fonts), Milkshake (fonts, walkman), Music: "Kings of Dawn" (NoisePacker 3 format) and "!Same As?" by Nuke. Madness II (1991, 23.02, ECS File). code/gfx: Dan, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Anarchy Winter Conference 91. System Violation (1991, 23.02, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Chuck2_endgame_" by Nuke (NoisePacker 2 format). 2nd in the Anarchy Winter Conference 91 demo competition. Ferrytales (1991, .03, ECS Intro). code: Mosh, gfx: Marvin, music: 4-Mat. Intro (1991, 07.04, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, Del/Mayhem, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Stolen Data #6 (1991, .05, ECS Diskmag). MEN - code: Dan, Kris, gfx: Igor (logo), Mystik (font), Dan (font), music: "Menutune" by Nuke, "Buena Vista" by Danko/Phenomena, "Micro World" by Tama/Cycron, "Trouble Vision" by Romeo Knight/Red Sector Inc. CHA - code: Dan, gfx: Mystik (logo), Dan (fonts), music: "Charts" by Nuke. MAG - code: Kris, gfx: Mystik, "Magtune" by Nuke. Cooperation with Axis and Flash Production. review: With new cooperation partners, brand new code, and almost half a year behind them since the last issue, SD #6 was their strongest issue yet. It all opened with Havok's Stolen Data logo from last issue's intro, and onto a first page that immediately proved that everything was indeed new! An unorthodox design, but also a sign of fresh ideas. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Inspiration is None (1991, 29.06, ECS File). code: Mosh, gfx: Marvin, music: Nuke. 5th in the Amega Party demo competition. Raistlins Message Box #5 (1991, .08, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. Cooperation with Genesis. Raistlins Message Box #6 (1991, .09, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Kreator, music: Nuke. The Fury (1991, .09, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Mystik, music: "Ohno..A Demosong" by 4-Mat. info: Crashes after titlepic on machines with 2.0+. Released at an internal meeting. Raistlins Message Box #7 (1991, .10, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Kreator, music: Gamma/Razor. Stolen Data issue #7 (1991, .10, ECS Diskmag). code: Dan, Kris, gfx: Igor, Zoom/The Silents, Mystik, J.O.E/independent (gameboy, gun), Mithrandir/Acme (pink cat), Fairfax/PMC (owl), Uno/Scoopex (Stunner logo), music: "Loader" (menu), "Magazin Part" (mag), "Mint" (chart) and "Robozap" (gallery) by Nuke, editors: Mr.Big, Teeze, Dexter, Deathbringer/FP, Mystik, Rick/FP, Edison/Motion, Surfer/The Silents, Mop/Axis, Judge Drokk, Mole, Trix, and others. Cooperation with Flash Production (FP). Released at the Digital Party. Seeing Is Believing (1991, 28.12, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Nuke. Released for The Party 91 demo competition. 3D Demo (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Sunjohn, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. Released for The Party 91 demo competition. Visual Distortion (1992, 29.01, ECS File). code: Dan, gfx: Krest, music: Nuke. Krestmass Leftovers (1992, 04.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Krest, gfx: Critical Mass, music: n/a. Winner of the Anarchy Easter Party 92 demo competition! review: Critical Mass' first prod for Anarchy. Legalise It... (1992, 04.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Dan, gfx: Facet, music: Nuke. 3rd in the Anarchy Easter Party 92 demo competition! review: Beautiful in its simplicity, "Legalise It..." is a classic among amiga musicdisks. Facet's perfect design touches makes us fondly remember why he was considered one of the strongest graphical talents in the scene back then, and Nuke's perfect blend of jazzy and 'finnish-sounding' tunes (can't help but think of Bruno, Dizzy and most of all Heatbeat when hearing "Nassum Peliti" =) shows us a musical talent at the height of his scene life. And Dan's coding makes it all come together, creating a production with an almost perfect sense of "flow". After a brief intro sequence, we are presented with a main menu for choosing - among other things - what tunes to listen to. In addition, the function keys F1-F5 also allows us other choices; F1 means a selection of scrollers, F2 is an info screen on the currently played music, F3 is a credits sequence, F4 gives us a greetings scroller (they originally wanted to have a separate part for this too, but didn't have time), while finally F5 gives us our 'bonus' - a fullscreen picture of a dwarf warrior by Facet! The layout of the main menu screen is simplicity itself, but nevertheless the overall effect is one of professionality. An ANARCHY logo resides at the top, under which the names of the six tunes are highlighted. Below this is a simple scroll, and below that again a panel of the five function keys as described above. Though this musicdisk is clearly inspired by Phenomena/Scoopex/Rebels' "Crystal Symphonies" [91], it lives perfectly in its own right as a classic example of the magic that the scene could create once upon a time... The disk offers six tunes on offer, none of which to my knowledge was released before. They are "Velomatrix" (2:42), "Nassum Peliti" (3:50), "Love Funk" (3:08), "Time For Loving" (2:28), "Je L'Ai Deja Vu" (2:33) and "Bloe Job" (3:41). "Legalise It..." was originally supposed to be a cooperation musicdisk between Nuke and Maestro, but unfortunately Maestro's music did not arrive in time for inclusion on the disk. Even before it was finished, a second installment was planned, as made evident by several of the scrolltexts. Its release date was supposedly to be the end of april or beginning of may - but it did not surface until november! The scrolltexts also kind of "announced" Rush had moved to England and had secured a job at Core Design, working alongside Dan. This review was made not of the original version, but of the 'fixed' one released by Stingray/Darkage in june of 2001. This not merely a whdload version or similar, Stingray has resourced the entire demo, and fixed EVERYTHING - even sample and module replayers - to work correct on all 68k cpus - without denting performance on older machines. As he says, it should still work on the original configuration of an A500. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Stolen Data issue #8 (1992, 04.04, ECS Diskmag). code: Kreator (main), Sunjohn (charts), gfx: Zoom/The Silents (SD logo), Facet, Mystik, Slash, Morten Thuesen (chart logo), Exarch/Aspect, Corny/ Shining, music: "music (stolendata)" (menu), "bonkynudge" (magazine) by Nuke, "Charttune" by 4-Mat (ProPacker 2.1 format), editors: Mr Big, Judge Drokk, Trix, Conquest, Cybersonik, Surfer, Rokdazone, and others. Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 92. Spring Melodies (1992, 19.04, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Ronan, gfx: Zoom, music: "Ethnomagic", "Game Score II", "Game Score III", "Golden Path", "Jazz Band", "Vault of Heaven", "Worlds War II" by NHP, "Eliptical", "Nutopia", "Revealed Truths" by BKH. Released at the Eastern Conference 92. review: I have not been able to get this musicdisk to work on my configuration, no matter what I've tried :( I can get the booting logo by Zoom (which is pretty good, btw) but once it finishes loading it always crashes :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! Glass Cube Frenzy (1992, .05, ECS File). code: Dan, gfx: Mystik, Igor, music: Nuke. In the Kitchen (1992, 29.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: Facet (title, fonts), Xience (matilde, startlogo, endpic), music: 4-Mat (AC1D and PHA formats). 4th in the Hurricane Summer Party 92 demo competition. info: There are three hidden parts. Refuses to work on my machine; crashes immediately upon loading the bootblock. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Deja Vu (1992, 08.08, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: Paradroid, gfx: Paradroid, Krest (additional), Slash (additional), music: Nuke. Winner of the Quartz Summer Conference! review: Just weeks after he joined, Paradroid released this small, rushed trackmo that still smells strongly of a professional attitude towards demo coding. Paradroid also did most of his own graphics - and very well he did them too. I guess this makes him Dan's equal, in that they're coder-graphicians, which is a rare combination indeed. Nuke's main tune is a very bland disco affair, but the end tune is a much better, slower affair. The code consists of mainly vector routines, but they're strictly state-of-the-art for the period, including stuff like ellipses and complex shading. The graphics and design are what sets it a little apart from the crowd, though. Very nice, if I may say so. I cannot vouch for this needing the full 1MB or being just 512k. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. - Note: Glenz vectors bugs, otherwise perfect. Stolen Data issue #9 (1992, 27.08, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Focused On Art (1992, ECS Fileslideshow). code: Slash/Vision, gfx: Facet, Hein Design/Vision, music: "Sloom" by Hein Design/Vision (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with Vision. info: Probably released around august. Flower Power (1992, 24.10, ECS 1mb Trackmo). code: MCM, Tron, gfx: E.Toball, music: Jester/Sanity (main), 4-Mat (endpart, both Promizer format). Winner of Digital Symposium 1992 demo compo. Priority (1992, .11, ECS File). code: Skynet, gfx: Titan, music: Audiomonster. Legalise It 2 (1992, 20.11, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Dan, gfx: Facet, music: Nuke. info: Contains the tunes "Bag Rasta", "Breath of Air", "Cloud Jumpin'", "Money", "Acid Jazz (part1)", "Acid Jazz - Part 2", "Jordan Jazz", "Emotions" and "Visitors". Additionally, "Bruiser", "Cloud Jumpin'", "Emus Orgasm!", "Gold Return", "Intro", "Menumusic.3(nuke)", "Random Waveforms", "Trabalash" and "Where Now??" are hidden tunes, accessed by pressing F4- F10. There are also 2 hidden parts. 3D Demo II Intro (1992, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Hannibal, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. Released at The Party 92. 3D Demo II (1992, 28.12, ECS 1MB_CHIP File). code: Hannibal, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. 2nd in The Party 92 demo competition. info: Hannibal later released an updated version, which works on Kickstart 1.3 machines, and had some bugs fixed. Hardcore (1992, 28.12, ECS 1MB Multifile). code: Rush, ICronite, Dan, gfx: Facet, Milkshake, music: Nuke. Released at The Party 92. review: Since this demo no longer works on my current hardware, I will have to write this review largely from memory. What I can remember, though, is some excellent craftmanship, in all respects. I remember this demo for Nuke's great music, I remember it for Facet's great 'Hardcore' title picture, and I remember it for its revolutionary vector code, with complex effects like space cutting. Technically, this demo consists of three files; one small loader and two data files. The executable and the first data files were packed with the absolute address cruncher Time Cruncher 1.7, which may go a long way in explaining why it doesn't work anymore. Rush, ICronite or Dan - please release a working copy! The files must all be on a disk in df0: for the demo to work. When you attempt to load the demo, it prints a little text in the cli window, starts loading the first data file, and when it's done the machine guru's. This also happens with caches off, kicking down to 1.3 etc. Believe me, I've tried it all... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Stolen Data #10 (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackloaded diskmag, 2 disks). All code: Kreator. Released at The Party 2. LOAD - gfx: Facet, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. JUKE - gfx: Kreator, music: "Above My Head", "Perception's End", "Walk at Night" and 10 Untitled chip tunes by 4-Mat. CHART - gfx: Kreator (font), Mystik (logo), music: Nuke. GALRY - gfx: Facet (titles), music: Nuke. MAG - gfx: Mystik, music: NHP & BKH, editor: Judge Drokk. review: SD's swansong issue is an audio-visual feast. I LOVE the idea they've used, with having one disk with lots of pictures and tunes, and one disk devoted to the mag. Presentation is flawless, as mentioned, with lots of pictures and great design. It's not hard to understand SD's position in the diskmag scene after having feasted on this. Excellent! Released at The Party 92. ProPacker was used for music. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lost Andromedeans (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lizard. Anastasia --------- Elric joined Outlaws. Anathema -------- ENG> Michael (96), Nova (code, new 09/97), Shade (swap, 96). SWE> Big Boss (sysop 'CITY OF JOY' WHQ, 01/95-02/96). ???> Penny (old handle Steve Jones, late95), Thesus (music, 08/95). Boards; LOYD BBS (swe, mid96), MINOR MISHMASH (swe, mid96). 1995 - Thesus won the 4ch music competition at Assembly 95 with "Funkyeeh"! 1996 - Steve Jones joined Deep, while Sundance (doublememb Technology) left to join Old Bulls in june. Hilargo (1994 or pre, Music). info: Ambient style. N'R Seven (1994 or pre, Music). A Febble Time (1994 or pre, ECS Demo). Channel 4 (1995, Musicdisk).  Revolution (1996, AGA File). code: Ninja/Scoopex, gfx: Credo, Sense (font), music: Michael and Style. review: The star of the show is, naturally, the code...and that's not even by a member of the group. The effects are advanced, but not terribly exciting. Floyd-Steinberg gouraud is an innovation, though. Conclusion: competent rather than exciting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Andromeda (AOA, 1989-) ---------------------- NOR> Andy (Anders, code, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Archmage (Hakon Repstad, mainorg gfx, old handle The Mage, 09/91-95), Decker (gfx, ex Scoopex, new 04/93-04/95), Dr.Jekyll (code, 09/91-12/94), Fairfax (Torkell Berntsen, gfx, ex Offence, 04/92-04/94), HeadX (Terje Tho, code music, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Interphace (music, old handle Lord Interface, 09/91-12/94), Jaz (ex Scoopex, new 04/93-04/94), MCS (swap, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Mr.Hyde (code, 09/91-12/94), Mr.Man (Ronny Nordeide, music, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Quest (gfx, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Size, View (gfx raytrace, old handle The Main, new 92-04/94), William (swap, old handle Dr.Cruz, 09/91-04/94), Wood (gfx, ex TRSI, new 05/93-04/94). Andromeda must surely be one of the most successful demo groups of all time. Productions like the "Mirror" [12/92] musicdisk and the "Seven Seas" [01/94] slideshow raised their international reputation, culminating in their highlight year of 1994, when they won at both The Gathering (with "Sequential") and at The Party (with their oustanding "Nexus 7"). Both those demos made instant stars of their coders, and elevated Andromeda into the absolute upper elite of demo groups. Unfortunately, they faded into the inactivity that so many groups do at the top, and even though new demos have been promised several times none has seen the light of day since their finest hour at The Party 4. The group still exists, and is not dead as such. Fairfax nowadays work as a graphician at Funcom. Their internal rules are rather strict; for example members are not allowed to do packs or do modemtrading. Also, they do not allow members from outside Norway, much like Phenomena's policy in the old days. PRP4 brought the news that William did NOT leave the scene, despite that it was claimed in several mags. Size closed his board 'RAW FUSION', but DIDN'T leave the scene, as stated in some mags (ROM7). It's a small miracle that Archmage can draw his fantastic pictures since he, like the English graphician Red Devil/DCS, is in fact colourblind! 1992 - Dr.Cruz changed his handle to William around january. HeadX' upcoming demo "Scientific Norwegian" was announced through PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92] - but would not see the light of day until its release under the title "Sequential" [04/94] at The Gathering 94! Mr.Man contributed music, and Mr.Hyde was interviewed in the same mag. Coder Wizax (ex Absence, 09/91) left the scene, while Enigma (gfx, 09/91-), Bingo (09/91-), Madlock (music, ex Motion), Ralph (swap, 09/91-) and Prophet (new 92-) were all kicked in september. Fairfax, Moxy and Lizard all joined from Offence around october. 1993 - Norwegians Decker (gfx) and Jaz were recruited from Scoopex shortly after The Gathering in april. 1995 - After the whole 'Stalin' thing and the war with Lord Helmet, Hydra (Ole Ingarth Karlsen, leader since the beginning) finally decided enough was enough in the early parts of 1995, and stepped down as leader of Andromeda. The new leader is Archmage, but it doesn't seem like he is nearly as successful as his predecessor; NOTHING has been released from Andromeda after he took over. =( 2000 - Nah-Kolor's new diskmag "Devotion #1" revealed in an interview with Size that Dr.Jekyll is now working for Lucas Arts in San Francisco, and coded parts of the game "Star Wars Episode 1" for the N64. Norwegians Moxy (ex Offence, new late92), Lizard (ex Offence, 12/92), Duel (ex Motion, new 92-11/92) and Blazer (ex Motion, new 92) all left to join Lemon. Jason (gfx) and Joachim (music, ex Crusaders) later also joined. Rook (ex Rex/Offence) was kicked due to general displease with him from the other members. Norwegian Monzo (ex Absence, 09/91-92) is no longer a member. The Castle (1990, .05, ECS Intro). code: Dr.Octopus, gfx: n/a, music: Lord Interface. M-31 The Comeback (1990, 07.10, ECS File). code: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, gfx: Enigma, Lord Interface, Cinematic, Mage, Bingo, music: Lord Interface. 2nd at the No Limits and Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. info: This was Andromeda's first major production. Turrican Musicdisk (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Jochen Hippel (ripped). info: Musicdisk with music ripped from the games Turrican 1 & 2 - some of the best amiga game music ever written! Decaying Paradise (1991, 29.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: The Mage, Enigma (additional), Bingo (additional), music: Lord Interface. 4th at the Amega party 91. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off. Sufforation (1991, 29.09, ECS File). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, Facet/Vision (endart picture), music: Mr.Man (NoisePacker format). Winner of the Razor 1911 & Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition! review: For some reason, this 150k filedemo has no exit routine. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Spellcheck (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 3 format). Released at The Party 1. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.  Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 1/2 format). review: As usual, a very polished intro from Andromeda. It certainly follows their standard 'clean' style. It opens with an animation where an Andromeda logo sort-of 'explodes' onto the screen. It then bounces to the bottom of the screen, and we get a tv-box lightsourced filled vector with filled vector objects on the sides (puh!) in the background, and a text writer on top of that. Does the job it's supposed to, I guess. It was released to announce the joining of Duel, Blazer, Madlock, Prophet and The Main, and the handle changes of Archmage and William. By the way, the opening logo animation is stored in the file as a standard IFF ANIM, and can be ripped with WRip or a similar program. Approved. I draw the conclusion that it was released early in the year - they tell someone they greet they'll meet at easter, plus William's handle change news was also in "R.A.W #2" [02/92]. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Multica (1992, 19.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Andy, Blazer (trackloader), gfx: Quest, Duel, music: Mr.Man. 10th in The Gathering '92 demo competition.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Cache off. D.O.S. - Demonstration of Superiority (1992, 19.04, ECS Multifile). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Archmage, Quest, music: Lord Interface. 2nd in The Gathering 92 demo competition. review: Requires at least Kickstart 1.3. Though it's dos-loaded, it denies to be read from anywhere but df0:. The 'demo-in-a-dos-window' part is faked, it's just graphics. Just try running it on a 2.0 or 3.0 machine to see what I mean. The endpart music is LOVELY. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Point Blank (1992, 29.06, ECS Trackmo) code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lord Interface. 7th in the Hurricane 92 demo competition. Vector Intro (1992, .11, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lizard. Mirror (1992, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Archmage, Fairfax, music: Mr.Man, Lord Interface, Lizard. Released at The Party 92. info: The name refers to just one effect in the intro... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Keyboard did not work, but turning caches off took care of the problem. Top Secret 15 Invitation (1993, ECS Demo). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Wood, Hydra, music: Interphace. info: Released for Majic 12 by Andromeda, I believe. Mind Riot (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Fairfax, The Main, music: Mr.Man. information: Andromeda attempted to release this demo at The Party 2, but were unsuccessful. It was released a few days later. Surrealism (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Archmage (intropic), music: Lord Interface. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lost in Legoland (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Mr. Hyde, gfx: Archmage (logo), Duel (fonts), music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 3 format). 3rd in The Gathering '93 40k intro competition. review: This is a polished intro, but without much content. The only real cool routine here is two cubes spacecut in and out of the back- ground. The design is also unconvincing. Demomachinery at full speed? More like half speed... Not a problem in sight compatibility wise, 'tho! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Styggtro (1993, 07.04, 40k ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx/music: Lord Interface. 5th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. info: The title is norwegian, and means approximately "Uglytro" (stygg = ugly). Seven Seas (1994, 05.01, ECS Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Dr.Jekyll, gfx: Fairfax, Wood (fonts), music: Interphace. Review: Hold LMB pressed during boot to go directly to the selector. Recognizes and uses df1:. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sequential (1994, 03.04, ECS Trackmo). code: HeadX (main), Dr.Jekyll (trackloader), Mr.Hyde (vectorexplosion), gfx: Archmage, Fairfax, Quest, View (raytrace), Decker (additional), music: Mr.Man (3 tunes). Winner of The Gathering 94 demo competition! review: One of the last great trackmos, this suprisingly won the Gathering 94 competition ahead of such demos as Cryptoburners' "Brain State In A Box" and Polka Brothers' "Friday at Eight". Technically stunning, real-world realistic routines are the order of the day from this two-year-in-development project. As far as I know, it was also sadly HeadX' final demo project. There's nice graphics throughout, and the three tunes by Mr.Man vary from average to truly moodsetting - especially his orchestral tune at the end and the end part of the main module. Truly great stuff! From the jelly letters to the infamous roller coaster part to the dying tree - this was indeed 'the last true ECS trackmo'. Requires 1mb total mem? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nexus 7 (1994, 28.12, AGA File). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Archmage, View, music: Interphace. Winner of The Party 4 demo competition! review: Andromeda's TP4 winner still packs a great punch. It's a hard production to describe, since so much of it is 'feeling' rather than concrete. It's still Andromeda, so it's quite polished, but still a lot rougher than some of their previous releases. When the opening symphonics turn to that hard-hitting soundtrack, it's still something of a power rush no matter how many times I see it... The music is timed to the routines, almost slave-likely so. A good hint: The first time you see it, turn off all the lights. You'll appreciate the difference. Ripping however, is not so easy. The file itself is uncrunched - at least the header - so loading straight into a ripper doesn't help much. Running it with Exotic in the background, and then exiting and searching helped some. Exotic found a P50/P60 module with external samples that looked correct, but since exotic doesn't support external samples unless it's in the registered version, that's not much help. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Angelica (AGL) -------------- NOR> NoName (swap), Splash and Stranger (swap sysops 'FLAMESTRIKE', early94), Zodac (swap, early93). Danish Pearl joined Parasite. Angels [old] (1990-) -------------------- FRA> Acetip (Bernard Briais, music, 09-12/91), Cobra (12/90), Conan (12/90), Corto (code, later Alliance Design, 12/90), Garp (12/90), Megablast (ex Dragons, new 09/90), Musashi (crack, 12/90), Ninja (code, 09-12/91), White Tiger (12/90). HOL> Bobo (sysop 'THE DUTCH PIRATE', 12/90). GER> Andy (trade, 12/90), Malzam (crack trade sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD', ex Vision, new 07-12/90), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER'). SWI> Ice-T (12/90). BEL> Scotty (12/90). ITA> Insider (trade sysop, 12/90). LUX> Firefox (12/90). DEN> Mike (12/90). SWE> Conqueror (ex Dragons, new 09/90-12/90), Damage (sysop 'THE DUNGEON', 10/90), Zike! (ex Dragons, new 09/90-12/90). NOR> Flesh (ex Fraxion). USA> Fade (12/90), Sidesector (12/90), Tim (12/90). ???> Action Man (new late90), Infiltrator (new late90), Jarre (code gfx music), Lowtec (ex Scoopex, new late90), Mic (fra? gfx, 09-12/91), Rakim (crack, new late90), Shark (mainorg, 12/90). Boards; AMIGA EAST WHQ (usa), DIGITAL EXPRESSION (usa, late90), DIGITAL EXPR. II/HOUSE OF INSANITY (usa, same numb), WRECK HOUSE (usa), ESCAPE ZONE/MANIAC'S MADHOUSE (usa), MIDNIGHT MADHOUSE (usa, new late90), SKYFOX BBS (ger), CITY LIMITS (eng), INSIDER BBS (ita). Angels were a legendary cracking group, born in june 1990, and one of the first two-faced crews, who not only cracked a lot of games, but released a few good demos as well. They were based in France. Though they were initially illegal-based, they grew a strong demo section when they swallowed the French demo group Dragons 09/90. Shortly after joining they delivered the very strong "Copper Master" (10/90) demo, but their stay unfortunately proved to be short. Soon after its release, Corsair (code), Foxy (gfx) and Mr.Video (gfx) announced they would move on to join Classic (please note that this MAY be wrong, and that they infact went to The Company instead; some research indicates it). 1990 - Dave and Akimbo were kicked late 90. Jaffa joined Heaven. Dutch swapper Antichrist joined Pirates. The ex-Genesis guys Scott (sysop 'DULCET TONES'), Mr.E, I.B.M and N.O.M.A.D (all new late90) left to join Crystal. Brainkiller and Vinny joined Rebels old. Party (19xx, .12, ECS Intro). code: Jarre, gfx: Jarre, music: "Heat of the Night" by Jarre (4ch StarTrekker format). Released at the Mystix party in Brisbane, Australia (year unknown). info: This intro announced Jarre's joining Angels. Born (1990, ECS Intro). code: Will O', gfx. n/a, music: n/a (Future Composer 1.3 format, 27000/26000/10000 bytes). Crackintro (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (Future Composer 1.3 format, 6740 bytes). info: This crackintro was used for their release of "Paradroid 90" (09/90). The Anti Paradox (1990, .09, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Parasong" by n/a. Copper Master (1990, 06.10, ECS File). code: Corsair, gfx: Mr.Video (font), music: "Dragonsfunk" by Moby (4ch MOD format). Released at the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. review: The copper master himself, Corsair, tries to do every copper trick ever devised...and pulls it off. Corsair made a crackintro for Angels that looks a lot like this demo... A great little demo this, actually, which clearly succeeds in what it sets out to do...to kill the raster-only dead by doing EVERYTHING! Still, the big star of this show is Moby's amazing tune... Cool and colorful is the only way to describe Copper Master! This is a classic, and there is no excuse for not having seen it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Silhouette (1991, ECS Crackintro). Cooperation with Defjam. info: Crackintro for a game of the same name, presumably. Evolution (1991, .09, ECS Trackmo). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "New2" by Acetip (4ch MOD format). info: Other sources claim the name of the music is "Lost in My Dreams". Sunrise (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "To The End of My Dreams" by Acetip. 4th in the Iris New Year Conference. Angels [new] (1993-) -------------------- NOR> Funkyfella (swap, ex Shining 8, 93), Goblin (sysop 'MIDDLE EAST', old handle Jack Daniels), Orion (trade swap, ex Shining 8), Pushead (code, ex Palace), Rastan (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND', ex Crusaders, old handle One). SWE> Psycopath (sysop 'RAISING HELL', ex Shining 8, 09/93). DEN> Xarium (Nick Jensen, code, ex Rebels new). FRA> Acetip (Bernard Briais, music), Latyl (Jeremy Routier, music, 09/93), Mic (gfx, 09-10/93), Ninja (code, later Paradox, 09-10/93). GER> Evil Death (ex Chuck/Fairlight). ???> B52 (fra? code, 10/93), Badcat (supply, ex Goonies or Nemesis), Contact Zero (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY', ex Nemesis), Cpt (fra? gfx music, 10/93), Halfast (fra? code, 10/93), Steph (sysop 'RACE OF ACE', ex Oracle new), Switch (crack), V.I.P. (train). Boards; ZERO WHQ (nor), CENTRAL TOWER (bel, 09/93). Angels was reborn by some of the old members, with help from some of the new ones. Some of the old ones are: Flesh/Paradise, Bizarre/Rebels, Thunder and Steph/Oracle, Badcat/Goonies and Orion/Shining 8. They released two intros at the Galemands Gilde 93 (07/93), any information on these two most welcome. Sysop Arcane left the scene. Trader Thunder (ex Oracle new) joined Fusion. Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Damones, 93) joined Razor 1911. Danish trader Weird Dream (ex Rebels, old handle Bizarre, 08/93) rejoined the new Rebels. Founder Flesh (code crack sysop 'ANGELS INTERNAL', ex Paradise, 12/93) left to join Anthrox. His handle has never been 'Fletch', and despite what several mags claimed, he has not formed a new group called 'High Breeze'. Danish sysop Yobbo ('THE LARCH' 08/93-09/93) popped up in Rebels in february 94. Destroy Fascism (1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "Greasy Duck v1" by Latyl. Winner of the Saturne 93 64k intro competition! review: Competently coded in every respect, with nice design and quite a few good-looking effects. Just some of the things we get to see is rubberglenz, fractal leaf, hiddenline vector with vectorballs inside, a dotcube and a full-screen dot-tunnel to round it all off. There appears to be no exit. ADLs test mentioned some problems with a 2.04 configuration, but since it runs on my machine, I do not think that the KS was their problem. Anyway, nicely designed! A few months later, in december, Ninja was in Paradox and released his next intro, "Calimero". [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, 4mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Vactro II (1993, .10, ECS Trackmo). code: B52, Halfast, Ninja, gfx: Mic, Cpt, music: Cpt. Released at the Iris Convention. Animate (1898-1990) ------------------- Animate was a Finnish demo group, born in 1989 when Deathstar changed their name to Animate. Cameron was kicked when it was discovered he had bought some sources from members of Bloodsuckers. They died mid 1990, when its members (Trug, ...) joined Exodus. Animators (http://www.animators.de/) ------------------------------------ GER> Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'). ???> Black Sabbath, Chris, Demon (gfx, 08/93), Exhorder (ex Anthrox, new late95), Horny (ex Anthrox, new late95), Jack Daniels (sysop 'STATE OF ADVERSIA', new late95), Jambo (new late93), Jeff, Joesch, Maggoth, Malcom, Metalhead, Morbid, Mr.Frenzy (ex Awe), Phantom Lord, Stinger (new late93), Time Thrust (new late93), Tom Copper (ger? gfx, ex Alcatraz). Animators were a german demo group. 1991 - Iron Eagle joined Desire in september. 1992 - The pd game "Willy The Worm" was released in july. Dr.Avalanche (trade) left for Adept around october. The Norwegian division left. Sodom and Victim joined Savage. Icelandic swappers The Twins left the scene. German sysop Jee Byte ('TOP GUN', 09/91) left. Brain Dead, sysop of 'FORBIDDEN CITY' joined Addonic. Iraqi Demo (1990, 22.12, 1MB ECS Trackmo). Animax (-1992) -------------- ???> Lennet, Socko, The Dictator. Pervi left. Animax is dead; Lightman changed his handle to Jam and joined Fraxion in early 92. Anoxia ------ DEN> Backlash (sysop 'VALHALLA', 04/95), Circulator (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY'). Antagon ------- Mr.Magoo joined Shining 8. Antarkos -------- ???> Abrasion (gfx, 09/93), Raiser (music, 09/93), Scorpion (code, 09/93), Shark (gfx, 09/93). 64k Intro (1993, 04.09, ECS Intro). code: Scorpion, gfx: Abrasion, Shark, music: Raiser. Released for the Saturne 93 intro competition. Anthrox (ATX, 1989-1994, http://www.anthrox.com) ------------------------------------------------ ENG> Aztech (music, 03/91), Count Zero (founder), Dream Warrior (sysop 'BAD DREAMS'), Hydro (founder gfx train swap sysop1 'CITY LIMITS', ex ESI, +stopscene+ 94, 89-94), Marvin (sysop 'CITY LIMITS', 12/91), Pot-Noodle (Leo Davidson, sysop2 'CITY LIMITS', sysop 'C.A.L.', 12/91- 96), Retaliator (code swap), Skol (Simon, code train, ex Slipstream, new early 92), Trooper (gfx). SWE> Joc (sysop 'NO ORDER', 02/94), Kevin Key (sysop 'FLASHBACK', ex Scoopex), Mungo (Robert S., org gfx swap, 03/91), Yobbo (code gfx, 03/91). GER> Killraven (swap, ex Paradox new, new late93), Mymurth (sysop 'HYPERSPACE', old handle Case, 12/91-03/92) <-> Thargoid (sysop 'HYPERSPACE', old handle X-Act, 10-12/91), Warlord (sysop 'CELTIC CROSS', ex Platin). NOR> Flesh (code crack, ex Angels new). ITA> Highlander (sysop 'PARADISE DREAM', ex Fairlight). FIN> Mr.Spinhead (sysop 'THREE AMIGOS', 03/91), Worm. BEL> Lithium & Apex (sysops 'CONSOLERIA', 04/95). AUS> Kirk (08/92), Krimsyn (sysop 'SPEED BOX', 12/91-04/95). CAN> Ice Cube (sysop 'WINDARIA'). USA> Micro (Scott, sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD'), Nitro (sysop 'PIRATES CAVERN'), Picard (sysop 'USS ENTERPRISE' WHQ, 09/96), The Dreamer (sysop, 03/91), Voyager (sysop 'FASTRAX'), Warduke (sysop 'EDGE OF INSANITY', 03/92), Winter Mute (sysop 'MARTYRIUM' WHQ, 03/92). ???> Avatar (music), Black Cat (crack train, ex Scoopex, new pre 07/92), Cameo (code), Casanova, Coq Rouge (swap), Custodian (code, ex Talent), Damien (aus? gfx, 03/92), Data (eng? ex Slipstream, new early 92), Dr.Amigo (swap), Fast Eddie (ex Archaos, new pre 07/92), Firefly (code gfx, 92), Fluid (gfx), Griffin (sysop), I.O (aus? code, 03/92), Jason (gfx), JHL (code crack train), Laughing Hyena (code), Mad Axeman (trade), Manx (eng? trade, 12/91-92), Marco Polo, Marcus (gfx trade), Mechanic (sysop), Mercy (swe? ex Fusion), Rakim, Red Alert (supply), Ronnie (gfx), Rotox (ex Digital), Spider (trade), Spock (code crack), Sprog (eng? 12/91), Storm (code crack), Sub Zero (03/91), Tantalus (swap, ex Talent), T.G.R (code), The Imposter (music), Thrash (code swap), Xiphoid Process (sysop). Boards; MATRIX (usa, 03/92), HEAD TRAUMA (usa, 03/92), THE ABYSS (usa, 10/91), RED RUM (usa, 03/91), TRADE LINE (usa), BURGER BAR (eng), THE GARAGE (eng, 10/91), DIAL HARD (swi), SYNERGY (ger), SLIME CITY WHQ (swe, 03/91), METROPOLIS (+34), OPEN ACCESS. Anthrox was an English illegal group, born as early as 1989 (though they were announced as a new group in Zine #5, released 06/90). The Amiga section was decleared dead in 1994. However, they remain active on other platforms, and their web site is still at the adress on top of this entry! They were also active on the SNES scene. Founded in 1989 by Hydro and Count Zero, ATX has always been an illegal group, releasing a fair few cracks and trainers in their time. I briefly visited their website recently, and they now seem to have taken pretty much the same path as Fairlight; selling console copiers legally. Despite information to the effect in RAW4, Autopsy and Angeldawn/Scoopex did NOT join Anthrox; they both joined The Silents. Check out the info on the board 'HYPERSPACE' for total confusion! 1992 - Joker joined Cytax early 92. Basline joined Desire. The board 'PLEASURE PARADISE' was closed. Finnish musician Daddy Freddy (ex Spirit) joined Alcatraz. Vindex (ex Alpha Flight, new 09/92) joined Spreadpoint. Exhorder and Horny joined Animators late 95. Nukeman joined Complex. TDK joined Melon Dezign. Pothead joined Abandon. Coaxial joined Accession. Swedish sysop The Master ('PRESSURE POINT',ex Fusion,03/91) joined 2000 AD. Danish sysops Chrome and Ghost ('SANCTUARY') stopped all activity due to a HUGE phonebill (pre 07/92). Empty joined Spirit late91. Former Sector 4/Anthrox is now AFL SF 06/91. Australian coder and trainer Ice (cosysop 'SPEED BOX', ex Punishers), who was once dubbed 'the trainer god', and did over 200 trainers on the Amiga, before he left the scene. He's now working at 'Sprint Enterprises' in Australia, a computer company with several other ex-scene members. Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: Cameo, gfx: Ninja/Abandon, Wal (font), music: "Fireballs" by Mantronix (4ch MOD format). info: Used for 'Metal Law' (Kaiko), crack: Black Cat, announces new members: Rakim, Marco Polo, Highlander. The tune is dated september 90. Needs KillAGA, still gfx errors! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see above! Bobby The Ball (pre 1991, .03). code: Yobbo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: This was mentioned in the 'plasma intro', which means it must have been released before that. Spread Intro (1991?, ECS File). code: Retaliator, gfx: Retaliator, Trooper (logo), music: "Think Twice III" by Bug (Future Composer 1.4 format). review: A nice logo at the top, a sine scroller and some stars - and a quite stonking chipmusic tune. Nice - nothing more, nothing less. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Incompatible. Runs a little while with KillAGA, then Guru's.  Plasma Intro (1991, 10.3, ECS Intro). code: Yobbo, gfx: Trooper (logo), Kreator/Anarchy (font), music: Aztech. review: First of all, I named this intro like I did because that's what it is - an intro with plasma :) It has no actual name, so I just did it like that. The logo is the same as in the Spread Intro, btw, and apart from that there's a sinescroller over the plasmathing in the middle of the screen and a small textplotter under the logo at the top. Nothing awesome, but ok for what it is. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Firefly, music: T.D.K. Sploosh (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: TDK. info: Some passwords to try - DAN, TGR, HIDDEN TUNE. Antiriad -------- ???> Awesome (music, 03/91), Axon (code, 03/91), Junior (gfx, 03/91). Gridlock left. Warlock joined Cytax. Second Intro (1991, 26.03, ECS Intro). code: Axon, gfx: Junior, music: Awesome. Released at CeBIT 91. Apathy (APT) ------------ NOR> Chriz (Anders Dahl, swap trade, doublememb Element, 12/96-08/97), Cope (Øystein Hansen, music, ex Giants, new early96-08/97), Haze (Geir Torvaldsen, swap trade, old handle Purple Haze, new late97-08/97), Hellrazor (Roger Brattås, code swap, new 12/96-08/97), Leia (swap, new late97), Maze (Stian, music, 08/97), Mr.X (Morten Bolstad, code swap, doublememb Strange, later Instinct, new early96-08/97), Point (Alexander Gustavsen, gfx ascii html swap, old handle Dweeb, 12/96- 08/97), Rage (Torbjørn Tangen, gfx ascii, old handles Interface and Sunscream, 12/96-08/97), Rolex (Thomas Vaags, music swap, doublememb Massive 12/96, new early96-08/97), Strife (Torgeir Amundsen, mainorg code swap, 11/96-04/01), Tentacle (gfx music, doublememb Instinct [detials], 08/97-04/01), Tracky (music ascii, 12/96), Wise (swap sysop 'NEUROPLEX'). POL> Dotty (code swap, new early98), Korball (org swap, 08/97), Terry (music, 08/97), Virge (code, new early98), Zeeball (org code, 08/97). DEN> Growl (Kim Andersen, swap, late96-08/97). BEL> Mr.No (edit, new early98). ???> Hurricane (swap, 12/96), Jaydee (music, 04/01). Apathy is a demo group, based in Norway, under the leadership of Strife. Strife presumably does all his 'coding' in Blitz Basic 2. ROM #9 announced their new Polish division, originally formed by Korball, Kismat and Zeeball. 1996 - Death (gfx) was kicked 06/96. Norwegian swapper and sysop Wiseguy ('OUTER SPACE', new early96-05/97) left 12/96. Ehrm.... 1997 - Polish Robak (old handle Korball, doublememb Amnesty) left the scene late 97. Norwegian graphician Psycho (08/97) left late 97 for Instinct. Coder, raytracer and swapper Hyper (new 12/96-08/97) left. 1998 - Polish swapper Kismat (08/97) was kicked early 98. 2000 - Early in the year, Zito (editor) left for Darkage, while Axl (sysop) and Wizzball (Michael Phipps, code, 97-) was asked to leave. 2001 - Norwegian swapper Punisher (new early98) joined Darkage as his second group early in the year, only to leave both again for Gods just a small while later. Strife is the new main organizer. Two more departures followed, as Voicer left for Nah Kolor and Stilgar left to be in Deputy. Their demo "Wormhole" was released at Mekka Symposium in april, and on the credits list we could read that some people were not members anymore. This concerns: Trump (nor code music, doublememb EMS Design [details], new 12/96-08/97) and Marl (gfx). Disaster (1996, 05.04, 40k Intro). code: Strife, gfx: none, music: Cope. 5th in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This pretty much sucks. It's just a text writer (topaz 8!) and a small one-plane APT logo. The music is an external file. When I looked at the file it soon became evident that it was written with Blitz Basic. Avoidness advised. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 40k Intro (1996, 16.11, 40k Intro). code: Strife, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Kindergarden 6 40k intro competition! Feedback #3 (1996, 24.12)  Implant issue #2 (1996, 27.12, Multifile Musicdisk). code: Mr.X, gfx: Point (main), Sunscream (additional), music: Trump, Okeanos/Syndrome, Eagle/Syndrome^Agoa. review: This actually looked pretty promising...until I booted it. It quickly becomes apparent that these guys need to rethink how they prioritize grahics in their productions, cause this stinks. It's got no STYLE, no edge, no excitement. Simply dreadful; not even the music by two of Syndrome's musicians is any good. It was obviously designed to run from floppy. Keep trying, though. I don't want to discourage you Apathy guys - I always try to give fair, constructive criticism. Next time, try going for a design that's a little more 'clear'. Perhaps it's just me, but I dislike the 'fuzzy' look your graphics have. Practice makes perfect, so try again! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Get Tough! (1997, .08, AGA File Demo). code: Wizzball, gfx: Sunscream, Lazur, music: Christian Alfs (main), Maze (end). Released at Kindergarden 97. review: Though nicely presented, this demo features _OLD_ effects - I'll be kind and assume they are doing the 'retro thing' here... This features some OK design, especially in the opening moments, but those effects... for the record, we're talking tech-tech, linevectors, filled vectors... Another thing is that they've used Lazur's "Prszystan" picture from 1994, and I really seriously doubt they had permission from the author to do that... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wormhole (2001, .04, AGA Multifile Demo). code: Strife, gfx: Psycho/ex Apathy (fonts), Marl/ex Apathy (first logo), Tentacle (aliens & ufoattack), Angeldust, music: Jaydee (part 1), Trump/ex Apathy (part 2). Released for the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: I left "Wormhole" with a smile, since after all it's a nice little production... The problem I have with this is that they somehow fail to rise above their 'averageness'. Let me try to explain: This is a two-part demo, opening with the biggest of the two. It's a story-demo, of sorts, where aliens come down to earth and we stand defenseless because of the relative lack of innovation the earth has seen compared to the aliens. This story is related mostly through a series of pictures by Tentacle and Angeldust, all of which are of good quality. We're not talking Danny-stuff here, but quite acceptable. The music is timed to the text that appears onscreen, and the overall impression is good, if not excellent. The font is unimaginative, and a few other details make this seem less-than-state- of-the-art. The only real effects apart from the graphics are a few tunnel effects (the "wormholes" of the title). After this part has concluded, we are treated to a small 'endpart' of sorts, where they further continue their plea for evolution =] Not much to say about this one, unusual music, though. No system requirements appear anywhere, so apart from the obvious it's anybody's guess how much processor power and ram this requires. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1. Apex [old] ---------- Apex was a German group, and presumably had nothing to do with the 'other' group with the same name that later appeared in France. 1990 - German swapper Terminator-X left the group to join System 5 around july. Damien joined Beta 5 [no entry]. German swapper Mr.Turnip left for Prophecy late. Apex [new] ---------- FRA> Bosco (music, later Syndrome, 12/94), Codac (Ramdane Hakim, code, later Syndrome, 12/94), Rahow (gfx, 12/94), Ranma (gfx, doublememb NHD, 12/94), Tenshu (gfx, later Syndrome, 12/94). SWI> Denis (swap, doublemember Excess, 12/94). GER> Javair (Jan Chr. Meyer, swap). ???> Bensty (swap, 12/94), Beyonder (code, 12/94), Longshot (gfx, 12/94), Orgun (raytrace, 12/94), Pogo (gfx, 12/94), Wild (code, 12/94), Xau (swap, 12/94), Zager (music, 12/94). Apex' main 'claim to fame' is probably having housed some of the people who would later become the great French team Syndrome. They presumably had nothing to do with the earlier German group of the same name. 1996 - Coder and keyfilemaker-maker Sunbeam (06/96-) left for Shelter between october and november.  Laufertro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Codac, gfx: Rahow, Codac (fonts), music: "Littlefred" by Soundy/NGC. 22nd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Short and forgettable intro from Apex that crashed several times when it was shown at the compo. The endpart scroller can be paused with the right mousebutton. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dotsy (1994, 28.12, Demo). 22nd in The Party 4 demo competition. Apocalypse ---------- Denzil joined LSD. Apology (-1989) --------------- Apology was a shortlived demo crew that died after the release of their first megademo. Their only claim to fame is having once housed legendary scene musician Moby (later in Sanity). French Diskbuster joined Alcatraz. French musician Moby (ex Impact Inc.) joined Dragons. Appendix (APX, http://www.appendix.optimus.wroc.pl) --------------------------------------------------- POL> BTA (Slawomir Kukurenda, code music, aka Popcorn, 09/01), Cosh (gfx, 09/01), Codi (raytrace, 09/01), Crust (code, doublememb Amnesty, new 01-09/01), Emers (code, new 01-09/01), Flapjack (music pack, ex Erotic Design, 04/97-09/01), Juen (Paweï Nowak, swap, 09/01), Juma (gfx webmaster, 01/98-09/01), Kierownik (code, new 11/99-09/01), Madbart (mainorg raytrace sysop 'THE SECT' WHQ, triplememb Anadune and Teklords, 11/96-09/01), MCR (Wojtek Nowak, swap, 09/01), Neuromancer (gfx, ex Scalaris, new early96-09/01), Noxis (code, new early01-09/01), Sagrael (editor, 09/01), Slayer (gfx org, 04-09/01), Sobol (Krzysiek Sobolewski, swap, 09/01). SWE> Kalms (Mikael Kalms, code, aka Scout, new 07/97-09/01). SUBGROUP - Pic Saint Loup (PSL) POL> Adamsoft (honourable, 09/01), Cloo (honourable, 09/01), Grogon (music, 09/01), Jazzcat (org music, 09/01), Maxym (music, 09/01), Ritz (music, 09/01), Spektra (music, 09/01), Tracker (honourable, 09/01), Qix (swap, 09/01). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - POL> Aln (code, doublememb Mawi, ex Dinx Project, new 07/97-01/98), Blaze (swap, 01/98), Carson (gfx swap, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Cerber (code trade sysop 'RADIOACTIVE', 07/97-01/98), Cooper (code, ex Erotic Design), Esc (code swap), Fenix (sysop 'FENIX', 07/97), Informer (code, ex Erotic Design, 02/97-01/98), Iron Angel (sysop 'EMERGENCY', doublememb Ozone Free, 11/96-07/97), Judas (code edit, new 06/96- 01/98), Lynx (code), Madman (ftp-op, 07/97-01/98), MAF (raytrace), Maverick (sysop 'TOP GUN', 07/97), Pike (whq gfx), Prefix (trade, 07/97-01/98), Rappid (gfx, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Sachy (Piotr Sachanowitz, code, 01/98), Spectra (music, 01), SuperFML (music, old handle FML, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Sylwek (raytrace webmaster, 07/97-01/98), Timer (Michael Baczek, music, ex Scalaris, new early96-07/97), Trash Head (sysop 'TRASH YARD', 07/97-01/98), VIP (gfx), Walec (swap), Wildthing (trade sysop 'DIXIE', 07/97), X-Ceed (Wojciech Panufnik, music, old handle Snoopy, doublememb Dinx Project, 12/97-02/98). HOL> Coolio (swap, doublememb Grashoppers Development, new 06/96), Radavi (sysop 'WILD PALMS', 07/97-01/98). SWI> Offspring (trade sysop 'OXYGEN OVERDOSE', 07/97). GER> Hansa (ghq swap). ???> Acid (ascii, 07/97), Cooper (pol? gfx, 02/97-01/98), Deejay Jones (music, 07/97), Hangman (code swap, 07/97), Mag 666 (raytrace, 12/97-01/98), Nazgul (code, 07/97), Speedie (raytrace, 01/98), Xtro (raytrace, 07/97-01/98). Appendix is one of the oldest polish demo groups, is one of the better Polish-based demo groups, under the leadership of Madbart (main) and Slayer. They were born in 1992, and still exist today! Polish music group Pic Saint Loup is a subgroup of Appendix; serving as their music division. I'd really love to tie up all the loose ends above, so if anyone can help... 1995 - German musician Cie joined Phuture 303 late in the year. 1996 - Mental and Shadow (polish gfx) were both kicked in june. Swapper and 'Fa!' pack editor Klaf (doublememb Scalaris, ex Depth, new 06/96) joined Old Bulls in june...or just as a doublemember (Showtime #2). Which is true? And what happened to his doublemembership in Scalaris? It is mentioned in a newsfile by Madbart, however, that he left both Appendix and the scene. Blaze joined Floppy late 96...but later returned. 1997 - Informer, Flapjack, Cooper, FML, Carson and Rappid joined from Erotic Design early in the year. Aln joined from Picco, and swede Scout from C-Lous in july. 1998 - Sundance (gfx/ascii, 07/97) was kicked due to several reasons, and Jacobs (07/97) and Ziutek (doublememb Royal, new 07/97) both left the modem scene in january. Flapjack decreased his amiga activities almost to a standstill in the middle of the year, to concentrate on his studies. In november, the group arranged the Satellite 98 party in Poland! 1999 - The group arranged the party Satellite 2 in november, and not long after polish Kierownik joined the group. 2000 - Enter and Bta (coders) were kicked... but it's possible this happened in 2001, I'm not sure. On a memberlist from september 2001, BTA is a member again! 2001 - Early in the year, Noxis (code) joined, Maq (code) was kicked, and Lothar left the group. Emers (code) and Crust (code, double Amnesty) was recruited. Sagrael, editor of 'Taboo', joined. The "Kiss My Jazz Intro" [04/01] was released for the demo competition (18th) and the 64k intro "Melba" [04/01] was released for the intro competition (3rd) at Mekka Symposium in april. UBik and Budgie left. Polish musician Voice (07/97-) was kicked, and is now working under the Indygo band label. Ritz joined PSL/Appendix. Juen (swap) joined. Crust (code) joined, but is also in Amnesty. The musicdisk "Kiss My Jazz" was finally released by PSL/Appendix. At the Symphony Demoscene Festival in september, the "Psychol Intro" [09/01] (emers/flapjack) was released, announcing not only Flapjack's return to the amiga scene after 2 years, but also his revivial of the long-running "Psychol" chip packs! As announced in the intro, Crust was working on new os-friendly code, and Caro/Nah Kolor on new graphics for the upcoming pack! Agony (1992, ECS Slideshow). Wave Sounds (1992, ECS Musicdisk). Firehouse (1993, 24.10, Intro). 6th in the Polish Autumn Party 93 intro competition. Unjust Sentence (1994, .05, Trackmo). 4th in the Primavera Party 94 demo competition. Primavera Partro (1994, .05, Intro). Released at Primavera Party 94. 40k Intro (1994, 12.08, 40k Intro). Released at Intel Outside 94. Contagion (1995, 21.07, Trackmo). 3rd in the Computer Art Festival '95 demo competition. Fa! Pack (1995, Pack). - Issues 01-19 released 1995-96. Intel Inside (1996, Intro). Radioactive (1996, Intro). info: BBS Intro. Zero Gravity (1996, 10.11, AGA Multifile). Winner of the Gravity 96 demo competition! Cooperation with Venus Art, see there for details. Oops! (1996, 10.11, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Gravity 96 intro competition! Cooperation with Venus Art, see there for details. Gravity'96 (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Cerber, gfx: none, music: none. 7th in the Gravity'96 4k intro competition. review: This is fun and original! This one opens a small intuition window in which it prints some text and a spinning vector cube. Is this a first? I see no reason why it shouldn't work on ECS machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. UFU-S (1996, 10.11, VIDEO DEMO). 2nd in the Gravity 96 video demo competition.  Navel (1997, 23.02, AGA 64k Intro). code: Informer, gfx: Cooper, music: MTC. Winner of the Rush Hours '97 64k intro competition! review: When it starts you think 'that's a fast, but oh so small envmapped phong torus'. Then it grows... The routine is fast (at least in the first, uncomplicated parts), I'll give it that, but it's hardly the fastest or even the best ever. This and the fact that it (and variations on it) are the only routine in the intro makes it a bit limited for my taste. The music's OK, a lot better than most in this kind of thing. The graphics are functional, but not GOOD. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Mystique (1997, 13.07, Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 4 demo competition. Introko (1997, 13.07, 4k Intro). Released at Intel Outside 4. UFU-S v1.99 (1997, 13.07, VIDEO DEMO). 2nd in the Intel Outside 4 video demo competition. info: A remix of the original UFU-S. Spawn (1997, 31.08, AGA FPU 64k Intro). code: Informer, gfx: Flapjack, Informer, Madbart (3d), music: SuperFML. Winner of the Gravity 97 64k intro competition! review: This is Informer's first ever release not to be compatible with an unexpanded A1200 - in that it requires an FPU. This means, unfortunately, that it can't be run on my hardware =( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Capsule (1997, 14.12, AGA 4MB FPU Multifile). code: Informer, gfx: Mag666 (3d), music: SuperFML. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. review: Unfortunately, I haven't been able to see "Capsule", since my machine does not have the required FPU :( [glenn] Up n`x (1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB 64k Intro). code: Informer, Scout, gfx: Cooper, music: X-Ceed. 4th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. review: Not a bad intro at all, I was actually very very surprised that I was able to run it! You see, the text files that come with it claim it requires an FPU, though the intro ran fine without it on my machine! Effectwise, there's nothing new here. The phong feels relatively smooth and fast, but then the objects here are far from advanced. Above average. This intro was distributed to aminet with two versions of the executable; one which was the 64k compo version, and one which is slightly bigger, because of better textures. Music is fine. Fastram required is less than 4MB, but the exact amount is uncertain. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Useless (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). code: Aln, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition. review: Nice visuals help "Useless" a lot, even though there's only two effects in this 4k'er. The first effect is a nicelooking tunnel. It's hard to describe, but we travel into the tunnel, then out again. The second effect is a variation on the flame theme, with fires shooting out from a circular sun. Not bad! Then the show finishes with a reprise of the tunnel effect, only with a new palette, and the show's over. A good 4k'er. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Dolphinary (1998, Musicdisk). Satellite 98 Invitation (1998, Intro). info: Satellite was held in November. Flea (1998, 26.04, Demo). 3rd in the Rush Hours 98 demo competition. Midge (1998, 26.04, 256b Intro). code: Aln, gfx/music: none. Winner of the Rush Hours 98 256b intro competition! Riot (1998, 29.08, Demo). 2nd in the Gravity 98 demo competition. info: This was the group's last demo for a long time, until "I Want To Be A Machine" was released in 2001. Satellite 99 Invitation (1999, Intro). Taboo #00 (1999, Diskmag). Released at Xenium 99. Taboo #01 (1999, Diskmag). Tower (1999, 21.03, 64k Intro). 7th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Possible (1999, 17.05, 40k Intro). Released at Icing 99, possibly for the competition. Satellite 2000 Invitation (2000, Intro). Taboo #02 (2000, Diskmag). Electricity (2000, .08, Intro). code: Kierownik, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 8th in the Assembly 2000 64k intro competition. info: Kierownik's first production for the group. I Want To Be A Machine (2000, 14.11, Demo). code: Kierownik, gfx: Slayer, music: "Experimental Trance" by Spectra. Winner of the Satellite 2000 demo competition! info: The demomakers were interviewed for Haujobb's "Devotion #2" [06/01]. This was only Kierownik's second production for APX, his first being an intro. Prior to his joining, the group had NO coders left. The entire demo is a polish production. Mayhem (2000, 14.11, Demo). 4th in the Satellite 2000 demo competition. Taboo #3 AGA/CGX (2001, Diskmag). Kiss My Jazz musicdisk intro (2001, 15.04, Intro). 18th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. info: This musicdisk intro was released for the DEMO competition, which might go some way towards explaining why it performed so poorly, placement-wise. It announced the upcoming musicdisk itself, to come from Pic Saint Loup/Appendix. Melba (2001, 15.04, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 64k intro competition. Kiss My Jazz (2001, Musicdisk). Psychol Intro (2001, 14.09, AGA/CGX Intro). code: Emers, gfx: Flapjack, music: "Sixtus, dont... (zajawka)" by Flapjack (AHX v2 format). Released at the Symphony Demoscene Festival. review: This is an announce-tro for Flapjack's comeback after two years, and his wanting to restart his long-running chippack series "Psychol". 13 issues were previously released under the labels Convex, Erotic Design and finally Appendix. This is good news for the scene, naturally, and we're certainly looking forward to seeing #14! =) The intro itself is very nicely designed, with cute kittens and an ok appendix logo at the start... It leaves you expecting greatness from the pack, that's for sure. Nice, short, and fun. And with a non-annoying chiptune, for once ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Applause (APL, 1993-) --------------------- POL> Alx (music), Darioosh, Falcon (code trade), Justus (gfx, old handle Thorgal, early93), Redman (Robert Zabiegala, swap). HOL> Eva (gfx swap), Franklin (code), Radium (music gfx swap, ex Cyanide, new late93-08/94), Revo, Sascha (org swap, ex Cyanide, new late93, old handle Amethist). ???> Dixan05 (music, early93), Uncle Mat (code, early93). Applause was formed in early 1993 by ex members of Grace (joined early 93) and other Polish guys. When Cyanide died, all its Dutch members also joined. The group is probably best known for their diskmag 'Thing'. 1995 - Polish graphician Tolek Banan joined Bravo early in the year. Swapper Snoop sold his Amiga and left the scene late 95. 1996 - Lovely (rejoined from kick) and Roberts joined Old Bulls in june. Quasar and TCC left the scene. Dutch editor Magic (ex Cyanide) left, and joined Mirage. It is unclear what happened to "Thing" as a consequence of this, what's certain is that Magic started to work for Mirage's "Chit-Chat" instead... Vasquez left the scene. Chance, Jerome and Ricochet left to be independent. Polish graphician Phantom (early93) left to form Bravo, so Magic is now editor of "Thing". Bara-Bara (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Uncle Mat, gfx: Thorgal, Phantom, music: Dixan05. Thing VII (1994, early, Diskmag). AQ -- FIN> Duq, Formercode, Scart. Have released one awful dentro (93). Aquin (-1990) ------------- This little group died ca 07/90 when they joined forces with Overdrive under the new name Addonic. Aratars ------- Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS Demo). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Arcadia Team, The (TAT, -1990) ------------------------------ NOR> Nova (old handle Tigra), Shadowcat. The Arcadia Team (who was called just Arcadia for a short while towards the end) was a Norwegian demo group, which died around the middle of 1990 after most of its members merged with Humanoids to create the new group Scope. Lame Game (ECS Demo). Megademo (ECS Demo). Vuku (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). Winner of the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition! Later On (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). Released for the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition. Arcane ------ DEN> Blutch (swap, late90), Deflex (swap, ex Kefrens, new 90), JL Soft, Wally. ???> Exorbit, JTF, Junix (code), Merlin, Mike (crack), Zetrix (music). Boards; DANABOARD (den). Arcane were a mainly Danish group. At one time they were in cooperation with Goonies. In addition to their demos, they also released a few cracks. The Pink Circle (ECS File). info: Nonworking on A1200. Archaos ------- ENG> Manx (org, 06/91). ???> Magnus (old handle Merlin), Rogue. 1991 - English Aardvark ceased to be a member in june. Englishman Coaxial (06/91) joined Plague. Uncle Len joined Jesters. Fast Eddie joined Anthrox (pre 07/92). Arclite (aL) ------------ SWE> Sy-Klone (sysop 'WHITE ROOM', doublememb Progress, 01/95). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 01/99). ???> Karma (ascii), Mark Ryder (ascii), Mogue (ascii signature Mo!). Arclite is an ascii group. Arctic Image ------------ ???> Cray (code, 06/92). Cray coded the filemag "Resident" for Deadline; Resident issue #1 was released in june 1992. Area 51 (A51, http://www.a51.org.uk/) ------------------------------------- ENG> Axl (ascii trade sysop 'DOSSHOUSE'), Converse (org music edit), Cygnus A (edit), Gobliiin (gfx), GTE (www edit), Jacka (swap edit), MSC (edit), Nexus (raytrace edit), Quartz (gfx), Remix (edit), Shezzor (code gfx), Skidz (code edit), Slade (org code www edit), Zamara (code raytrace music edit), Zebedee (code edit), Zyx! (ascii org edit cosys, old handle Zylax). Skidz is currently working on a graphic adventure called Roswell, with graphics by Shezzor. Look for a demo version SOON! Argon (1990-) ------------- GER> Shadowman (swap, ex End of Century, new mid 91). ENG> Agent X, Brain, Brainbuser, Bronx Warrior (ex Pussy, new mid91), Mandrake (ex Wraith, new mid91). NOR> Dr.Randy. ???> Lon 1301. Argon was born in the later parts of 1990; their bith was announced in Alpha Flight's diskmag "Cracker Journal #23" [12/90]. 1991 - Ribald got kicked, so he joined Pirates around the middle of the year. Nighthawk left the group in june. Chef left. Omc joined Paranoid. Kid joined Steel (no entry). Snoopy joined The Dark Demon. Arise [old] (-1992) ------------------- GER> Crusher, Dragonfly (code, later Abyss, 05/92), Equi (org swap, 05/92), Falcon (gfx music, later Arise new, 05/92), Kyle (code swap, later Arise new, 05/92), Makro (sysop 'ABS', 05/92), Maverick (swap, 92), Mystic (gfx swap, 05/92), Pencl (later Arise new), Pink (code music, later Abyss and Arise new, 05/92), Skyline (org, later Arise new, 05/92), Vision (code gfx, later Abyss, 05/92), Warden (gfx swap, 05/92). FRA> Gryzor (code), Tik. FIN> Fix (ex Coral), Hot (ex Coral), Perfect (ex Coral). ???> Bitworm (code, 05/92), Buckrogers (trade, 05/92), Lou Van B (gfx music, later Abyss, 05/92), Mark Enzo (trade, 05/92), Nobody (editor, 05/92), Picolo (gfx swap, 05/92), Sir Richard (swap, 05/92), Suicide (gfx, 05/92), System X (code, ex Trackers, new 10/92). Arise was a mainly German demo group. Organizers seem to have been Equi and Skyline. The best members of Arise decided to form Abyss together with the best of Beyond in late 1992, though Arise was briefly reborn in 1993. 1990 - Xact left for Supplex in june. 1992 - System X (code) joined from Trackers, while german Cube (code swap, 05/92) joined Gothic around october. Agent Orange and Smash (both ex Cyborx) joined Atomic. Charger was kicked. Fade joined Razor 1911. Per and Agony was kicked. Al Bundy joined from Dark Star, but after getting in probs with the Police, he left the scene. Beatbrain (gfx music, 05/92) left the scene, but rejoined after a week! My Life As A Pizza (ECS File). Unlimited (1992, 19.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. BBS-Intro (1992, 12.05, ECS Intro). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, Suicide (bbs-intro logo), music: "Masterlevel" by Falcon. review: A slightly unusual approach to bbs intros, this one has you choosing pages of text from a small menu. Not bad, but far, far, far from anything advanced =) Just an average production, there's a million like this one out there. This also announces Arise's summer conference, to be held in august, though I am not sure whether it was ever really arranged... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Arise [new] (1993-) ------------------- GER> Dragonfly (code, aka DRF, later Haujobb, new 08/93), Falcon (gfx music, new 08/93-late93), Kyle (code, late93), Pink (swap, late93), Skyline (swap, late93), Taron (music raytrace, new 08/93), Vision (music, ex Arise old, new 08/93), WOTW (music, new 08/93). ITA> Virus (Valerio Russo, swap, ex Zenith, new 08/93). ???> Axel (ger? new 08/93), Beatbrain (ger? new 08/93), Brutus (ger? new 08/93), DF (ger? new 08/93), Effendi (ger? gfx, ex Agnostic Front, new 08/93), Jellybean (music, 08/93), JPM (ger? new 08/93), Kid Frost (ger? ex TRSI, new 08/93), Noname (ger? new 08/93), Pencl (ger? new 08/93), Poison (ger? new 08/93), Posdnuos (ger? new 08/93), Skindiver (ger? new 08/93), SKY (ger? new 08/93), SMC (ger? new 08/93). Arise was a mainly German demo group. Among the members returning from the original group were Dragonfly, Falcon, Kyle. The Loop joined Platin. Smudo (new 08/93) left to join Fairlight (PRP4).  Paradoxum BBS-Intro (1993, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, music: "Odyssey Remix" by Kid Frost (4ch MOD format). review: The tune makes this little intro, but let's face it: This is not going to set the world on fire - and was certainly never meant to. It's just a text plotter, a small vector 'thingy' flying around and some functional background graphics. For the record, the 'PARADOXUM' bbs is not an Arise board, it's in Diamonds & Rust. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Smells Like Chanel No.5 (1993, AGA Trackmo). info: Received praise in Upstream #7 as the first ever AGA demo to really LOOK like it's AGA. Realtime Margherita (1993, 27.03, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, music: Taron. Released at CeBIT 93. info: Caches off, OCS on on A1200. Nutzlos (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: n/a, music: n/a 40Kb Tracktro (1993, .08, ECS Multifile). code: Kyle, Curacao/Drinks, Pater Pink, gfx: Falcon, music: Taron. Cooperation with Drinks. Information: Caches off on A1200. 40k Intro (1993, 02.08, ECS 40k Intro). 7th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. info: May be the same as the above. Ahnungslos (1993, 01.08, ECS Intro). code: Kyle, Pink, gfx: Kyle, Pink, music: Taron. Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. review: Meaningless, short intro which can't have been meant seriously. It's just a boring small tune, a graphic background which is a joke, and a ludicrously bad textwriter. Please stop releasing this shit, people. The intro welcomes LOTS of members; Axel, Beatbrain, Brutus, DF, DRF, Effendi, Falcon, JPM, Kid Frost, Noname, Pencl, Poison, Posdnuos, Skindiver, SKY, SMC, Smudo, Taron, Virus, Vision, WOTW. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. The Melee Intro (1993, late, AGA 40k Intro). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, Taron (anim), music: "Ghpipahaba" by Vision. review: Melee is a charming little intro, which is a little bit ruined for me by some truly pathetic music. Too bad they couldn't have used another tune... But apart from the music, this is a nice intro with some nice design and ok effects. No release date is quoted in the intro, and the only hints we're given is the '1993' in the accompanying ansi, and the module's sampletext saying the tune was made in october 93. This intro welcomes Effendi from Agnostic Front. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Armada ------ GER> Oliver, Timecode. ???> Blowfly, Exorcist, Joe. Armada was a demo group. 1990 - The Norwegian division left to be the Amiga division of Panoramic Designs late in the year. D-Man joined Eternity Corp. Icelandic Noblestar, Othon and Hawkeye joined Dual Crew. Against All Odds (1990, .06, ECS Demo). Armageddon (AMG) ---------------- GER> Aragon, Krs-One (ex Antarix [no entry]), Maverick, Scooter (swap, old handle Cruiser, 08/91), Thunder. ???> Hotrunner, Hunter (ex Starline [no entry]), Slaughter, Stowaway. Merlin left. Morbid, Professor X and Vangelis got kicked. Sgt.Slaughter, Stingray and Error got kicked. German swapper S.O.S. (late90) left the scene. German swapper Brutus (ex Coma, early92) joined Paradise. Arsenic ------- GER> Doc D (Jan Schneider, webmaster, 03/97), Shylock (Sven Djatschenko, music, 03/97), Yazoo (Michael Kopacek, gfx, 03/97). Who ARE these guys? They came out of nowhere to coorganize the SILIConvention and code the absolutely smashing invitation intro! Text file that came with the "Fear Factory" demo mentioned their new web-mag called "Expose". German coder Axis (Michael Hillebrandt, ex Oxyron), responsible for the great "SILIConvention 97 Invitation" [97] and the "Fear Factory" [03/97] demo, decided to leave. Death Greedy (1996, 28.12, Demo). 7th in The Party 96 demo competition.  SILIConvention 97 Invitation (1997, AGA File). code: Axis, gfx: Gizmo & Red/Icebird (main), Yazoo (font), music: Tommy/Avena (The Player 6.1A format). review: This ROCKS! I guess the cool music contributes a great deal to the superior atmosphere in this intro, but the coding and graphics will have to take their part of the 'blame' too :) It opens with two pictures; the first is a SILIConvention logo (rendered?) and the second is of a multitude of heads. It's more the way they're faded onto the screen to the beat of the music that appeals to me, I guess, but it's a great introduction either way. Then we get to the main part, which has a very cool effect that remains under the information at all times. It's a texturemapped vector cube that sort of 'surfs' the surface underneath, and the surface behaves like water, creating beautiful ripples all over the place. You'll know what I mean when you see it... Overlaid over this cool effect is the info file (the same as the normal text file), and it can be scrolled up or down by moving the mouse. Through sheer simplicity, power and style this is one of the best invitation intros I've seen in a very long time! Very very cool. By the way, Avena is an atari group, in case you were wondering why you can't find them in scenery... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fear Factory (1997, 30.03, Multifile). code: Axis, gfx: Yazoo, Gizmo/Icebird (fullscreen), music: Shylock. 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: I see nothing of the exceptional qualities offered by their previous production in this demo. There are signs of good coding, and signs of some innovative effort, but the overall impression is not one of professionality. The music quickly gets on your nerves, as does the less than great graphics. A disappointment. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Artch ----- ???> Exlex. Artch was formed by members of Acidforce (nor) and Crane (nor & swe). 1990 - Norwegian sysop Raven ('THE GOLDEN GATE') joined Crusaders late this year. Bud Outrage joined Motion. Artcore (aC, -1995) ------------------- SWE> Manta (sysop 'FORBIDDEN DREAMS' WHQ, doublememb Nut & Bolt, 06/94-01/95). HOL> Sal One (01/95). ???> aXEbLADE (01/95), cOUNT zERO (01/95), cRAZY (01/95), [dEATHLORD!] (01/95), mOGUe! (01/95), mR.vAIN (01/95), nIKE (01/95), (-rAPId-) (01/95), tANGO (ascii, doublememb Origin, 01/95), [-TReAcH!] (01/95), u-mAN (01/95). Artcore was a pure ascii and modem group, which unfortunately died around 08/95. Among their members were German 2fast (ex doublememb Avantgarde, also in Cyberforce and Cream [console]). 1995 - The board 'FINAL IMPACT' went offline in june, but will soon be back up! Artefact (1992-) ---------------- Artefact was formed late 92 by the ex-members of LSD France. Buckaroo joined Analog. Artemis (1990-) --------------- ICE> Archmage, Ariel, Hawkeye, Odyssey, Othon, Thin Lizzy, Thor. SWE> IC, Janx (code, 04/91), Bloodaxe, Freddy. FIN> Evil Spirit. NOR> Black Adder (new 09/91). ???> Dr.Tox (gfx, 04/91), DMC (music, 04/91), Duddie (code gfx, 90). Artemis was perhaps the best known group to ever come out of Iceland :-) They were born in 1990 by the members of Opus Magnum and Blockbusters [no entries]. Peace Prod. (ex RAF) left. The Swedish division died mid 91. The swedish members will be removed from the list above once I know what happened to them :) Can I Say Something? (ECS File). Fill The Power (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Duddie, music: ripped from Kefrens Megademo 8. Things Take Time (1991, 15.04, ECS File). code: Janx, gfx: Dr.Tox, music: DMC. Artificial People (AP) ---------------------- FIN> Ari (sysop), Cob (pccode, 08/96), Falcon (music, 08/96), Iodine (gfx objects, 08/96), Johu (music), Kalsu (org code gfx music, 08/96- 04/98), Neure (code gfx, 10/97), Rook (funmemb), Scitek (code), Thain (code raytrace, 10/97). FRA> Black Dragon (music, triplememb Honoo [details] and Limited Edition), HP (gfx, triplememb Honoo [details] and Limited Edition). ???> Duke (codePPC, new early98). Artificial People are a finnish demo group, with some members in France. Their old homepage, http://apeople.home.ml.org, has gone from the web. 1996 - The group's astonishing debut "Clichès" [08/98] unfortunately ended up as low as 9th in the Assembly demo competition. 1998 - Kalsu did the music for Mellow Chips' Gathering 98 winner "Rise" [08/98]! Clichès (1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Kalsu, gfx: Kalsu, Thain/Sensible (raytrace), Iodine (objects), music: Falcon (main), Kalsu (end). 9th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Very reasonable for a first demo! The coder, Kalsu, proves be a little of a Jack of all Trades, what with providing graphics and music to this demo as well as coding it. It opens with an envmapped object of the AP symbol, a stick-man. Then we're shown an AP logo, before we're on to a very nice voxel routine...and then it goes underwater! I was blown away, sitting there with my mouth wide open. The routine looked good and fast in its own right, and then it actually IMPROVES on the voxel routine! My favorite voxel was always the one Stellar used in their 40k intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94]. It seems there is a new king in town. Astonishing. After that minor shock we're on to a bumpmapping routine, where the word Clicès is highlighted by first one, then two light sources. Next there's a tunnel with some greetings flying down it, before a scanned picture of a femal model zooms onto the screen. It stays there for a few seconds, before it zooms back and starts zoomrotating with a whole bunch of other pictures of models. Then, the innovation strikes back. The zoomrotator starts waving the pictures in a way I haven't seen before...before I actually see it forming some words! This is something I've never seen before - a first! The next effect can perhaps best be described as a 'flame tunnel', before it ends with a traditional upscroller over a raytraced picture with an AP logo. What strikes me about Clicès is that there's actually some signs of innovation here! That voxel routine particularly stands out. The routines all look good and fast. I'm willing to bet that if this was released by a better known group it would have been placed higher in the competition. I'm certainly eagerly avaiting the next AP demo. Keep up the good work! Probably needs some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Profusion (1996, 23.11, 80k Intro). 2nd in the Demoltion 96 II 80k intro competition. Mosaik (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro). production: Thain, Kalsu, Neure, Muffler, Dvize. Released for the Saturne 97 64k intro competition. review: This is an intro that shows definite promise from the word 'go', not least of which is the sight of the handle 'Muffler' among the credits! Unfortunately for all of us, the intro itself oes not quite live up to its premise, and apart from an interesting brown object over swirling blue tunnel, it features little to set the world on fire. The best parts of this intro are the ones concerned more with design than technical ability - the intro and outro. These are the things that make the intro worth having, nothing else. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Artwork (ATW, 1994-1998) ------------------------ GER> Argon (code, 04/96), Cockroach (code, ex DCS, new 11/94), Cougar (Christian Reismuller, gfx, new 04/96- 01/97), Jive (ex Platin, new 11/94), SMT (Sascha Michael Theel, music, ex Haujobb, 12/95-07/96), The Loop (Daniel Lafrentz, music, ex Gods, new 12/95-01/97), Tiberius (Andre Adam, 3d gfx, 03/97), Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap, triplememb Sanity and Bomb!, 02/96-01/97), Voyage (Dirk Aldekamp, founder swap, ex DCS, new 11/94). SWE> Confidence (code, doublememb Balance [details]). FRA> Nitch (Collomb Cedrick, code, ex Virtual Dreams, new late96). Artwork is a mainly German demo group, formed in November 1994 when "Generation" editor Damion/Platin took his mag with him and formed Artwork together with Voyage/DCS. Within days Cockroach and JMS joined from DCS, and The Loop, Jive and Detector from Platin. Soon after wellknown talent like Tron, Fiver and Noogman followed, making Artwork a group to look out for. 1995 - With their very first production, the demo "Greenday" [04/95), they WON the competition at the Black Box Symposium 95 in germany! (The demo is also amiga demo of the year for 1995 in scenery.) German musician SMT was recruited from Haujobb late in the year. Nothing more was released before december, at The Party. There, the 40k intro "Creep" [12/95] in cooperation with Polka Brothers and Azure's 4k intro "Dawn" [12/95] both WON their respective competitions. One can safely say it had been a great first year for the group. 1996 - This year saw the grooup continuing to recruit talented members, In 1996, they continued recruiting talented members such as the legendary ex-Sanity graphician Cougar, who first joined as a double member. They went from strength to strength, and won AGAIN at the Symposium 96 with their awesome "The Gate" demo - and Azure took home the trophy for best 40k intro at the same party with "Dawn.Remix". Azure's next intro, the amazing "Phi" only managed to come 2nd at the South Sealand party, but was awarded the INTRO OF THE YEAR trophy by us - Artwork's second trophy! After being reinforced in the middle of 96 by ex-Matrix (amiga and pc) members Skyphos, Sharon and Nero, they released their first and last PC production at Assembly '96, "Proton" [08/96]. To this day Azure retains his membership in Bizarre Arts - perhaps to show they still have a sense of humour? Voyage used to be sysop of the board 'POINT BREAK'/'WATERWORLD' which has now been closed. Though Damion was originally the editor of "Generation", the job has now been handed down to RokDaZone. Though The Loop joined from Platin 11/94, I seem to have him joining from Gods in 96. One explanation may be that he joined Gods, only to later rejoin... German graphician jMS (ex DCS, 08/96) got kicked late in the year, and subsequently left the scene... German coder Axis (02/96) left to form a group of his own late 96. 1997 - April saw the release of Generation #24, where the announcement was made that german coder Detector (Holger Luemkemann) had left the scene. Joining from Platin as early as 11/94, his code was behind that very mag - and remained used for subsequent issues even though the coder himself was no longer a part of the group. The German ex-members of Matrix who joined the group in 1996; graphician Nero (Rainer Mühr), coder Sharon (Oliver Belaifa) and coder-musician Skyphos (Marco Thrusch) all decided to leave Artwork late 97, and restart their old group Matrix on the PC. 1998 - After releasing their final demo "Megademo IV 2" [04/98] at the Mekka Symposium 98, they ended the existence of one of the most successful groups in scene history. But out of the ashes another great German group rises; Endzeit; founded on the remains of Artwork in much the same way that Lemon. was founded on the ashes of Anarchy in 1993. But not all members went to the new group ofcourse. The people behind Generation; Damion and RokDaZone (ex Infect) formed Endzeit, and took graphician Noogman with them. Also Italian writer The Ripper (ex Da Press, new 06/96) went alsong to Endzeit, to continue his work for "Generation". Musician Virgill (04/95-) joined Haujobb. Famous coder Azure (Tim Boeschke, doublememb Bizarre Arts, 11/95-) left the scene. The further scene careers of Tron (Bastian Zuehlke, code, ex Sanity, new 01/95-) and Fiver2 (Thomas Mahlke, gfx, ex TRSI, 12/95-) remains uncertain. Swedish coder Scout (doublememb C-Lous [details], new late96) left the group late 97 or early 98 to join The Black Lotus - and become a scene- inactive game coder! Lenny Dee joined briefly from Illusion, only to leave the scene a few days later. Greenday (1995, 23.04, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Tron, Crash/Polka Brothers, gfx: Fiver/TRSI, Noogman (logo), music: "Final Amelotatism" by Virgill. Winner of the Black Box Symposium 95 demo competition! review: DEMO OF THE YEAR, and a hell of show from the Germans in their first ever production...amazing! Lots of goodlooking effects are on offer, and this time that means phong-shaded toruses, a texturemapped cube combined with a stretching zoomrotator (and then the zoom-rotator's also mapped on two sides of the cube!!), voxel landscape, and a spacecut texture mapped cube. The tune is not quite up to Virgill's best, especially the jazz shit that accompanies the voxels are out of place. However, an AMAZING picture by Fiver almost makes up for the shortcomings the soundtrack has in places. The picture is called "Green Trash", it depicts a human wrapped in black plastic, and came 2nd in the graphics competition at the same party! Please note that I tested an incomplete distribution, and that there's even more to this demo than what I've outlined! Artwork was back one year later, and won the Symposium compo for the second time in a row with "The Gate". Please read the excellent 'making of' article in ROM4. According to this article, the demo does NOT require a HD, but can be run from floppy - my butchered distribution didn't give an indication of this! I'd be VERY happy to receive a proper distribution. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Tested with an INCOMPLETE distribution!!  Dawn (1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). code: Azure, gfx/music: none. Winner of The Party 5 4k intro competition! review: Certainly impressive for a 4k intro, Dawn set new standards for the genre. Just some of the things featured are: Phong shading, moving light source, environment mapping, environment glenz motion blur, morphing, and voxelspace. Quite a list for a 4k intro :) A few months later it was re-released, with music, and won the Symposium 40k competition! :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Creep (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, Crash/Polka Brothers (intro), gfx: Fiver, music: SMT (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of The Party 5 40k intro competition! Cooperation with Polka Brothers. review: This is one impressive intro! There are lots of great-looking phong shaded objects on offer here, and most are a little more imaginative than the standard donut variety. Several also offer extras, like an 'afterburner' effect and transparency. Around the middle of the intro there's a full-screen picture (2x2). This picture is a redrawing of the album cover for Mercyful Fate's "Don't Break The Oath" album. The pic is then waved, like a flag in the wind. The next new routine is the most impressive one, though. We're talking about a high resolution texture mapped phong-shaded elastic donut that looks FABULOUS! The show is finished off with an effect that's a little hard to describe, but I think transparent phong pulse explosions is about as close as you get. The music is excellent throughout. In june 1997, Azure released version 1.1, which fixes some problems on 040/060 machines, as well as the classic The Player 6.1A bugs. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Gate (1996, 07.04, AGA Multifile, 4 disks). code: Azure, Tron, gfx: Fiver, Noogman, Argon (dream dos), music: SMT (main), Virgill (intro, end). Winner of Symposium 96 demo competition! review: After this there can be no doubt - Chaos is dead, long live Azure and Tron. Artwork won the Symposium for the second year in a row with this demo - brimming with good-looking, advanced effects! It opens with an interpolated voxel landscape with the credits overlayed, and the powerful opening tune which creates a great 'heavy demo' atmosphere. There's a lot of bumpmapping effects in this demo, from a lightsourced zooming bumped tunnel to a lightsourced bumped cube. There's also a graphicszoomer that's quite similar to the one TBL later used in their Gathering'97 winning demo "Captured Dreams". There's also some different mapping stuff, with the metal-env-mapped (?) head and the cube with the protrouding face the highlights. Need I go on? The music is great, the graphics are great, and it's quite simply a BIG demo - in every sense of the word. Download NOW! The endtune, "Opium" by Virgill, competed in the music competition at the same party. Some information leads me to believe there is a special version of "The Gate" for the Graffitti videocard...can anyone confirm that this is so? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dawn.remix (1996, 07.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, gfx: none, music: The Loop. Winner of Symposium 96 40k intro competiton! review: Certainly technically impressive, this remix of the originally 4k intro "Dawn" [12/95] is very very good. This time around, the shapes are env-mapped and sometimes afterburned, like in "Creep" [12/95]. The music is cool also, and suits the intro beautifully. I like this, small as it is. :) The reason there's no entry for graphician above is that this intro contains no graphics. Included in the archive is a 1x1 version of the original 4k intro. Will work on standard A1200's, but recommends fast and acceleration. You can press your right mousebutton to skip forward one effect. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Phi (1996, 06.07, AGA 4MB 64k Intro). code: Azure, Tron, gfx: Fiver, music: SMT. 2nd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. review: Phi, the best intro of 1996, opens with a sign of some sort and a progress bar at the bottom of the screen. When the progress bar reaches its end, the show starts...and what a show! To fabulous trancy music by SMT (one of his best tunes EVER) we're treated to one of the best intros since Virtual Dreams won at The Party 93 with "Chaosland" [12/93]! Azure and Tron have managed to squeeze more demo power out of 64k here than most people are able to in megs! With a couple of pictures thrown in, I'd vote this among the best DEMOS of 1996, for crying out loud! The intro features some of the fastest envmapping I've ever seen on the Amiga, and then some! There's also morphing objects, a fabulous bump- mapping-cum-plasma routine, and some voxelspace stuff that's quite cool. The intro ends with a sole image of a bleeding heart. Pretty much the same intro can be seen in Bizarre Arts' "Fresh!" [06/97] (by Azure and Axis) released just one week later! :) The accompanying text file mentions it uses ALL of the 4mb fast it requires, so if you (like me) use 512k of your fast to softkick kickstart, you probably won't be able to run Phi on a 4mb fast only setup. Believe me, I've tried :) In june 1997, Azure released version 1.1, which adds a special custom 040/060 c2p routine, and fixes the classic The Player 6.1A replayer bugs. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- note: version 1.1. Blurred Notes (1996, autumn, Musicdisk). code: Tron, gfx: Noogman, music: The Loop. Efrafa (1996, 02.02, AGA HD Multifile Slideshow). code: Tron, gfx: Fiver, music: Virgill. review: Efrafa comes across as a very SMOOTH slideshow, much thanks to Fiver's very clean style. Let me just say this first: Fiver _IS_ one of my favourite graphics artists, so if my review seems influenced by this in any way, then...that's because it is! :) Hehe... No, seriously: The show opens with a clean EFRAFA logo, before the screen scrolls down to the selection menu. Here you can choose between the different pictures with your mouse (and see info about them by pressing rmb), or access some brief info pages. There really isn't that much to say about EFRAFA, it just does its job of showing these great pictures, and not much else... Sonics are nice too, but then again we are talking about Virgill here... :) The pictures are... Flight (32c, unreleased), Under Control (32c, unreleased), Infiltration (64c, unreleased), Under A Blood Red Sky (256c, unreleased), No More Secrets 2 (64c, unreleased), Fish Food (128c, The Party 94), Yoichi (128c, from Artwork's "Greenday" [04/95]), Virgill Dreams (128c, unreleased), Champagne Supernova (256c, unreleased), Efjucikay (128c, used in Generation), Kodak (256c, used in Artwork's "The Gate" [04/96]), In The Kitchen 2000 (256c, unreleased) - 12 pictures in all. Not all pictures are topquality (In the Kitchen...) but those that are, are so great they'd be worth the download time ALONE (No More Secrets 2, Kodak, Yoichi...) Get this, ARTWORK QUALITY all the way! [glenn] Generation issue #22 (1996, .10, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: Maybe it's me there's something wrong with, but goddamnit, this mag DOES NOT WORK! It plays the first bars of the music and shows a black screen, then...just crashes. This happens every time, no matter what I try! Hmm... Anyone that can help me with a way to fix this? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation issue #23 (1997, .01, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, gfx: Spiv/Infect (title), Cougar (main), Nero (clip), Skyphos (clip), RokDaZone (fonts), music: "Tired Eyes" by Azazel/TBL, "A Night At The Bar" by Virgill/Essence and Artwork, editor: RokDaZone. review: It opens nicely, with Spiv's "Casual Insane" picture from The Party 96 (70th!) graphics competition - not half bad. It shows what I guess must be the open, staring eyes of some alien child... Unusual and nicely executed, Spiv! The panel by Cougar is also a feast for the eyes, so graphically there's not much wrong with Generation. This issue has two modules from wellknown scene VIS, but none of them are outstanding in any way... I guess this comes down to taste, but I feel these two can do a lot better than this! One thing that bugs me a little is the sometime dark palette choices for some of the articles. It's a far cry from the light, happy colors of ROM! I guess I'm just not used to reading on a black background... Another thing that irritates me slightly is that the text does not scroll, like it has in most other good magazines since about...oh, 1992? I suppose it's a small complaint, but it's got a lot to do with the way the magazine 'feels' like to handle. Thankfully, it multitasks just as happily as ROM does, making things like writing this review a doodle :). Contentwise, there's a lot of stuff from The Party 6 this time, as can be expected. I also found the article from the Atari show interesting, as it's not the kind of thing you usually find in an Amiga diskmagazine. Overall, though, the writing here is of a disappointing quality. I guess we've all been spoilt rotten by ROM - the diskmag standard to which all others are held. With some polishing, a LOT better layour for the articles and a brigther display, Generation could be a winner... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Exit Planet Dust (1997, 29.03, AGA 030 8MB Multifile Demo). code: Azure, Tron, Graham/Oxyron, Scout, gfx: Fiver2 (5R2), Tiberius (3d), music: Skyphos (main), Virgill (endpart). 2nd in The Gathering 97 demo competition. review: EPD opens with an innovative opening part where (presumably) the coders of the demo are part of the 3d scenes. It's real hard to describe, but it sets just the right mood! Then the music changes, and we move into space... next is a phong object over a moving background, then a spaceship crashes through a wall, and strange pipes twist and turn... EPD is a world of wonder, with lots of strange things going on... Then a quick trip through a tunnel before another phongobjects, this time with some other, smaller objects flying around... Then a falling, colorful object, some bump and envmapping on a couple of new objects... Then - abd this is cool - the entire screen starts twisting around the last object! Next is a massive, colorful and fast 3d scene with a humanoid shape in the middle. Another object follows, before 5R2's fullscreen pic "Earthpeople", winner at SILICONvention 97 that same weekend. Next is a weird sort of bumpmap effect I really don't know what to calll... :) Some more sparkly objects follow, before a new, bumpmapped tunnel. Next is a fullscreen raytraced pic with a red hand stretching towards the user, then some star objects appear at the same time, before three brief objects signify EXIT - PLANET - DUST and it's all over. Technically oustanding, with generally very good music, there was no doubt about who would win 2nd prize at The Gathering. This is a very very good demo, no question, but... it's simply just not "Captured Dreams" =) The version reviewed is the compoversion, which is missing the endpart (Virgill's module exists only in the final version, with endpart) which was omitted at TG because of the organizers' imposed space limit of 5MB. This is (for some reason) widely regarded as a cooperation with C-Lous, but in actuality Scout was already a full Artwork member at the time. His entire contribution to the demo however was just one tunnel routine. The demo requires an 030-50, but recommends at least 040-40 or 060. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo IV (1997, 30.03, AGA ?MB Multifile). code: Azure (main), Sharon (morphface), Skyphos (morphface, lightscape), Tron (particles), Argon (loader), gfx: Fiver2 (main), Noogman (picture, backdrop), Nero (picture), Tiberius (3d), music: Virgill. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition! review: Unfortunately, after seeing this demo - which is above average, don't get me wrong - I experience a feeling of disappointment. I had just seen the third-placer demo "Thug Life" by Essence, and was thinking 'any demo that can beat this is worth watching'. The problem is perhaps more in the fact that Azure has made SO MANY demos like this - it's got his fingerprints all over it. Azure is one of the best - if not THE best - coders out there, and he's technnically brilliant. However, he does not have that much ORIGINALITY in him, and when he releases two demos so close together, it is perhaps inevitable that they will resemble each other. This is a technically excellent demo, but doesn't EXCITE me. After seeing the demo, I'm afraid I must conclude that Artwork won this competition as much on name as they did on content. Azure told me (via email) that after seeing the competition he imagined it'd end up third. The entire demo was put together from "Exit Planet Dust" leftovers in the two days after it competed at The Gathering, which goes a long way to explain why it is what it is. "MIV" marks Artworks fourth consecutive victory at the Symposium, which certainly means they've earned themselves a place in the history books. It's just sad that the demo that does it is their weakest so far. The demo has been tested on 8MB fast machines only, but the text file mentions that it may work on 4MB machines too - it's just never been tested. 030-50 recommended for maximum pleasure. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Generation issue #24 (1997, .04, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, Eksec/Infect (additional), gfx: Nero (title 2), Geist and Germ/Balance (title 2), RokDaZone (fonts), Nero (clip), Skyphos (clip), music: "Crimson Pool" by Azazel/TBL, "Silence" by The Loop (both Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: RokDaZone (main), Damion, The Ripper. review: No less than two title pictures open the show this time - another surrealistic masterpiece by Nero opens the ball, followed by a cartoon- like rendition by Geist - whose technique here reminds me of some of the classics from Bustman/Crusaders, that 'blocky' but still smooth look =) The mag itself has the familiar design from Cougar, nothing has changed here. Two reasonable pieces of music offer audial delight. This issue was released just after the two major easter-parties of the year, The Gathering and Mekka Symposium, and contains ample coverage of both. Nero's title picture is a rendition of "Boheme 29", his 8th-placed picture from Mekka Symposium 97, with the added text "Original by Jamiri" in the top left corner, and a Generation logo in the bottom left. This issue also announced the leaving of Detector, long-time "Generation" coder. The mag would continue without him - but still with his old code... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation issue #25 (1997, Diskmag). info: The final issue released under Artwork, the next issue was released under the Endzeit label. Megademo IV 2 (1998, 12.04, Demo). production: Tron, Azure, Fiver2. 8th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition. info: The final Artwork demo... ASCII Unlimited (ASU) --------------------- ENG> Telemach (ex Nerve Axis). Here We Go (1993, autumn, Intro). production: Khul/Infect, Telemach, Nimrod, Tango/Balance. Aspect ------ GER> Black Ghost (sysop 'LUCKY STRIKE', 09/91), Lunatic (sysop 'ICE HOUSE', 09/91), Stingray (09/91), Synthetic Line (sysop 'ICEHOUSE', 09/91). Boards; SPEED BIT (ger, 09/91). German Tron joined Crystal. Aspect Incorporated ------------------- Boards; ROAD TO NOWHERE WHQ (usa, 07/94), BLOODY DECISION (ger, 07/94), TOTAL KAOS (ger, 07/94), MAX ROCK N ROLL (ger, 07/94), EVIL MOON (ger, 07/94). Aspect Incorporated was a subgroup of Delirium, and released a few cracks of German versions of some games. The board 'TIME WAR' joined Gothic. Asphyx ------ ???> Ares (raytrace), Invert (music, new 06/96), Lash (swap), Misha (trade), Seb McKein (trade, ex Mystic, new 06/96). 1996 - Elmek left the scene in june. Asphyxia -------- Zoltar joined Alcatraz early92. Asphyxia Design --------------- ???> Cookie (gfx, 08/94), Shagan (code, 08/94). Ilyad (1994, 07.08, AGA 4MB Multifile, 4 Disks). Cooperation with Alcatraz, see there for review. Assult ------ Thexder joined Alpha Flight. Astra ----- Astra is dead. All members (Saint, Aero, Tas...) joined The Silents. Astra Syntex (-1996) -------------------- Astra Syntex died late 1996. A-Studio -------- FIN> Boris, Benjamin. Atinox ------ Nightmare and Gonso joined Cyborx mid 91. Atlantis -------- GER> FCKW (sysop 'SECOND WORLD'), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY'), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE'). ENG> Mr.T (sysop 'CONSPIRACY'). FIN> Eddie, Ice. USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'PURGATORY'), Desert Rat (sysop 'GURU HAVEN'), Perpetual Demise (sysop 'CRYPT OF ETERNITY'), The Skeleton (sysop 'PIRATE'S SHIP' WHQ). ???> Der Stuermer (trade, 92). Atlantys -------- FRA> Anex (gfx), Fred (ex Agile), Reflex (music, ex Rebels). Atlantys was a French demo group, who house several french scene celebrities in the early 90's. According to Stolen Data #10, the French section of Rebels was rebuilt, and consisted a.o. of Anex and Reflex. So I guess maybe Reflex rejoined his old group? French graphician Hof joined The Silents. Frenchmen Neptune (code), Titan (gfx) and Mental (swap, ex Tech, old handle Agony) joined Anarchy. Slideshow (1991?, ECS Slideshow). code: Neptune, gfx: Hof, Anex, music: Titan. info: Reviewed RAW1. Atomic [old] (ATC, -1993) ------------------------- NOR> Bandit (sysop 'DARK HELL', new late92), MC Light (code, 04/92). GER> Agent Orange (P.Kaufmann, swap, ex Arise), Crimeslime (Bernd Stoede, ex Paranoid, old handle Ripper), Smash (Martin Busche, swap trade, ex Arise, 04/92). FIN> Bad Karma (ex Deadline). ???> Altair (code, 04/92), Chronomancer (swap, 04/92), Dee-Lite (music, 04/92), Doc (trade, 04/92), Drow (music, 04/92), Lost Boy (music, 04/92), Maclean (gfx, 04/92), MB (music, 04/92), Mr.X (gfx, 04/92), Rabies (trade, 04/92), Rebell MC (gfx, 04/92), Red Alert (music, 04/92), Rico (gfx, 04/92), Seltex (trade, 04/92), The Guardian (swap, 04/92), The Kidney (music, 04/92), Thexder (music, ex Alpha flight), Venus (swap, 04/92), Wizzler (swap, 04/92). When Atomic died, the 8 best guys formed a new crew called Stone Arts in march 1993. I'm making an educated guess that those 8 were Ice (old handle Double), Dolphin (old handle Nemo), Hugo, Kekken, Shape, Storm, Rozzoe and Syntex, and have removed them from the memberlist to reflect this. 1992 - Norwegian musician and swapper Gang Starr changed his handle to Sonic, and joined Awe in july. 1993 - Norwegian musician Absent (ex Cyborgs, new late92) joined Impulse. 1995 - When Stone Arts fell apart in 1995, Dolphin reformed Atomic. Slam rejoined Acrid. Norwegian Adolf joined Destiny. Frone rejoined The Dark Demon. Musician Dirty Harry (04/92) joined Digivision. Intro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Ice, gfx: Shape, music: Syntex. Unbelievable (1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Ice, Storm, Hugo (loader), gfx: Rebell MC, MacLean, Storm, Shape, music: Syntex. 7th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. review: This demo does not appear to work, no matter what I try. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: See review. Intro (1992, 12.10, ECS Intro). code: Ice, gfx: Kekken, music: Rozzoe. Atomic [new] (ATM, 1995-1996) ----------------------------- HOL> THC (sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES' WHQ, doublememb Myth, 03/95). The new Atomic was formed by Dolphin/Stone Arts and Colorbird/ex Razor 1911 new after Stone Arts fell apart. Their intention was to release a new diskmag, based on the best of "Headline" (dolphin) and "Propaganda" (colorbird), but this project newer saw fruit, and the group slowly died away without a single release... I have therefore speculated in a 1996 death date, hope some of the members can step forward and tell me if this is a faulty assumption. Atomic Intelligence ------------------- DEN> A.B.M., Deflex, E.B., Fox (ex Bytestar), Garfield, Gremlin, Mask, Radagast, Spiderman (ex Bytestar), T.D.M., Victory, Zenix. Burger and Milkshake joined Kefrens old. Flødeskum (ECS File). Atomic Team ----------- DEN> Axe, Magician X, Megabyte. Atomic Team was based in Denmark. Promax (who would later write the assembler Asm-One), while still a member, released one of the first module rippers; Sound-Hacker 1.1. Danes Promax (code) and Nightlight (music) joined Kefrens old. Attention --------- SWE> The Yench (sysop 'THE YENCH HOUSE', 01/95). Attraxion --------- Attraxion is DEAD. Aurora (-1993) -------------- SWE> Cyber and Slash (sysops 'CRAZY WORLD', ex Supplex), Dee-Jay (music, ex Hypnosis, new 12/91), Dexter (sysop 'TOTAL DISASTER', ex Alpha Flight, new ca 01/92), Dreamweaver (Per Wahlstrom, code music, 07/91), Flex (trade, 92), Horace Wimp (Fredrik Skogh, music, 06/90-92), Hyperion (sysop 'GREAT LAKE'), Joker, MegaStorm (music, new 91), Regulator (Anders Larsson, code gfx music, new 09/91-12/92), The Red Dragon (swap, 11/90), Trinity (ex Hypnosis, new 12/91), Trodac (sysop 'UNFORGIVEN', ex Alpha Flight, new 12/91), Westwood (ex Hypnosis), Wico (sysop 'GANGZTERZ PARADIZE' EHQ, 91), Zcandaler (trade sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', 11/90-09/92), Zipex (trade, new 91). GER> Hellraiser (sysop 'HELLBOUND', 09/91). HOL> Stranger (sysop 'UNLIMITED ACCESS'). ???> Cougar (gfx, 92), Dodger (new 12/91), Dolby (12/91), Druid (code gfx music, 12/90), Eagle, Extacy (ex Submission), Fignal O. (music), Leprosy (sysop 'METAL CHURCH'), Lizard (gfx, 90), Nibbler, Satan Claus (sysop), Saturn (code gfx, 07/91), Sputnik (swe? code gfx, 06/90), Triton (code, 12/91), Yogi Bear (swe? code gfx, 06/90). Boards; DEIT TIME (ger), DJUNGLE BASE (swe), BLACK MARX. Aurora was a demo group based in sweden, perhaps best remembered for their sadly underrated but great musician Dreamweaver. 1991 - With the release of the demo "Illusions" [12/91] in december, several new members were announced: Deejay, Trinity, Rocket (all ex Hypnosis), Trodac (ex AFL), Dodger and Ragman. 1992 - A lot of the group's time was put into development of their game "Tomtespelet" (The Santa Claus Game) early this year, which they were hoping to finish sometime in the spring. Swedish Dexter joined from Alpha Flight with his board 'TOTAL DISASTER' around january. An upcoming music disk with music by Dreamweaver, Dee Jay and Horace Wimp was announced for release 'soon' in PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92], but was never finished as far as we are aware. Zcandaler reopened his board in september. At The Party in december, the groups final demo "Lost In Denmark" [12/92] was released to a disappointing 11th position in the demo competition. 1993 - Swedish coders Spirou and Cuddley (both new 09/92) joined The Silents sometime between january and may. The group died late in the year. Jampin and Thorax left. Coder and graphician Rubicon (12/91) joined Fairlight. Swede Rocket (ex Hypnosis, new 12/91) joined Virtual. The board 'PARTYLINE' left. German sysop Headhunter ('CONDEMNED CELL'/'PARTY LINE', 09-10/91) joined Dual Crew. Swedish sysop Damien ('PURPLE PLEXUS') joined Complex. Swedish sysop Dare ('SLIME CITY') left the scene. Intruder Megademo (ECS Trackmo). 'Reign In Blood' "Ballistic_Freakout" BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code/gfx: Dreamweaver, music: "Valor of Faith" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Starvation (ECS File). code/gfx: Triton, music: "Opus2" by Fignal O. (ProTracker MOD format). In 1990 (1990, ECS Demo). code: n/a, Triton, gfx: Lizard, music: "1990" by Horace Wimp (ProTracer MOD format). New Demo (1990, .06, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Yogi Bear, Sputnik, music: "Element of Insanity" by Horace Wimp (ProTracker MOD format). Mind Field (1990, .12, ECS Game/Demo). code/gfx: Druid, music: "007" and "Walking Fire" by Druid (ProTracker MOD format). info: Nibbler Game & Demo. Dreamscape (1991, ECS File). code: Dreamweaver, Rubicon, gfx: Saturn, music: "A King Is Born" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Back To Front (1991, ECS File). code: Regulator, gfx: n/a, music: "Global Rock" by n/a (ProTracker MOD format). info: This production announced five new members joined Aurora; Regulator, Spirou, Cuddley, Zipex and Megastorm. Board Intro (1991, .07, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Saturn, music: "Shivers" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Illusions (1991, .12, ECS Demo). code: Triton, gfx: Rubicon (fonts), Anders Finer (mainlogo), music: "Genovision!" by Horace Wimp (ProTracker MOD format). Info: This demo announced new members joined; Deejay, Trinity, Rocket (all ex Hypnosis), Trodac (ex AFL), Dodger and Ragman. BBS Demo (1992, ECS File). code: Spirou, Cuddley, gfx: Cougar (font, picture), Regulator (font, backlogo), Spirou (minfont), music: Horace Wimp (Phenomena Packer format, 158834 bytes). Lost in Denmark (1992, 28.12, ECS File). code: Regulator, Cuddley, Spirou, gfx: Regulator, music: "Skummet Maelk" by Regulator (ProTracker MOD format). 11th in The Party 92 demo competition. Austex ------ Prelude (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tron. End of Aushax (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tron. Interlude (1990, ECS File). code/gfx/music: Ice, Tron. Epilogue (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tmk. Australian Crackers United (ACU) -------------------------------- AUS> Donatello (old handle Microchip, 07/90), TIC (crack, 06/90). ACU was an Australian demo and cracking group. 1990 - Australian Pirasoft was busted around 07/90, and got ALL his stuff confiscated by the Police. I don't know if this means that he left scene? Some members were kicked, like Mister A, Fugitive and Crystal. Australian Ginnie was later in Quartex. Megademo (ECS Trackloaded Megademo). Avalanche --------- Avalanche was a small, promising Norwegian group, but when they died their members were spread everywhere, and none of them made much of an impact again. Their best members; Keo (music), Hoaxer and Big Red joined Fraxion. Quark, Madwand and Cybermage formed a new group called Ecthelion. Himalaya (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Atmospheric" by KEO (4ch MOD format). Avalon (AVL) ------------ NOR> Aragorn (code, 12/93), Scentex (swap), Shine, Zak (Arild Ravlosve, swap). ???> Cujo (gfx, 12/93), Osprey. Avalon was a Norwegian demo group. 1997 - Norwegian graphician and musician Typhoon (12/93) joined Gods early in the year. Zack joined Saints. Out of Time (ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: Typhoon, music: n/a. review: This starts loading, showing a picture by Typhoon. When it's done loading it crashes. Caches off/original chipset does not do any good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: See review! 40k Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Aragorn, gfx: Typhoon (font), Cujo (raytrace), music: Typhoon. Split 19th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Nothing exceptional immediately springs to mind, but this is not a bad intro. It certainly didn't deserve 19th place! I guess the fact that they're relatively unknown might have a lot to do with that... Anyway, some ok executed effects here, though they could perhaps have spared themselves the 'perilous alien' animation. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Response (1995, 14.04, Demo). 2nd in The Gathering 95 demo competition. Avantgarde (1994-1995) ---------------------- GER> Knuckles (Yann Cebron, founder code swap), Sonic (gfx music swap, ex Platin), The Crow (Jens, founder ascii, doublememb Artcore [details], 01/95). ???> Cascay (gfx swap, ex Pulse), Vadium (01/95). Formed by 2Fast/TRSI and Donk/Pulse in the middle of august 1994. 2Fast changed his handle to The Crow (and later changed it back), and Donk to Knuckles. The group died somewhere between january and august 1995. 1996 - MG joined Savage in april. German swapper Gangsta joined Scoopex. Avenger (-1990) --------------- SWI> Hardrider (code crack sysop 'THE ELECTRIC CO.', early92), Hornet (code crack, later Alcatraz), PGCS (gfx, later Alcatraz). ???> Burgame, Columbo, Daniel, Dead Sector, Dreamer, Fox, Humanoid, Illusion, Magnetix, Metalwar (code crack), Mike, Psycho, Red Storm, Spreadforce, Steeve, Studio 3, Zodiac. Boards; INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (usa), PANIC ZONE (usa). Avenger was a swiss-based illegal group, doing cracks. 1990 - French coder Funky joined Hexodus in january. Avenger died in 1990, and their members joined Trilogy, Brainstorm and Alcatraz. Avirex (1989-) -------------- Avirex was officially born on the first of january 1989. Avocado (AVC, 1995-) -------------------- NOR> Felix (Karsten L. Fischer, swap), Sixpack (swap pack). SWE> Pozz (gfx swap, later C-Lous), Stevie (swap ascii). FIN> Addict (code), Apache (sysop), Grand (gfx), John Harder (gfx ascii swap), KML (swap), Miro (gfx swap), Substance (org music swap), Zandax (music swap). GER> Base (swap). BEL> Buttercup (music swap), Cybernaut (code). AUS> Cro (code). ENG> Devistator (gfx swap ascii), Realitor (code swap). HOL> Fate (ascii swap trade). AUT> Moon (code). Avocado was born when Kinky changed its name to Avocado in late 95. 1995 - Belgian, Turkish and Polish divisions were kicked late 95. Svos, Blade, Woober, Beholder, Madman (fin music) and Rockeronic (ger music) were all kicked late 95. 1996 - The entire english section left, while Finnish organizer, musician and swapper Enzyme was kicked late in the year. Avoid (-1990) ------------- Avoid ceased to exist as a separate group around june 90, when they went into cooperation with Celtic, still under the name Celtic. Among the members who went along to Celtic was Avalon. Awake ----- GER> Art (Andreas Fronk, swap), Dooz, Dr.Dree, Red Luck, Vega, Vision. HOL> Nitro, R2, Riptile, Tornado. GER> Crusher. ???> Alex, Douglas (ex Exort), Exciter (ex Exort), Gonzo (ex Exort), Jesus P (ex Exort), Kahn (ex Exort). Cardinal was kicked, and joined Alpha Flight. German swapper Red Knight joined The Electronic Knights. Swedish modemtrader Sali-Adalat (ex Exort) joined Legend. Here We Are (Demo). info: The group's first release. Awe --- NOR> Citizen (gfx, 03/92), Dee-Lite (ex 5th Generation, new 09/92), Sadman (swap), Sonic (music swap, ex Gang Starr/Atomic, new 09/92), The Strangler (music, 03/92), Warlord (swap). ???> Jim (ex Cyborgs, new early93), Mr.Magic (ex Cyborgs, new early93). Awe were a wholly uninspiring Norwegian group, whose biggest 'claim to fame' is having spawned another mediocre Norwegian group, Talent. 1992 - Dee-Lite joined from 5th Generation 09/92. Redferne joined Desire. Mr.Frenzy joined Animators. Norwegians Mace, Pensplit, Necrologic, Mr.Z (code, 03/92) and Android (ex Vega) left to form a new group called Talent.  Invincibility #1 Packemenu (1992, 29.03, ECS Packmenu). code: Mr.Z, gfx: Citizen, music: "Grimstad by Night" by The Strangler (4ch MOD format). review: Ok, first of all: the raster bars were not coded by Mr.Z!! The routine was coded by Nosferatu/Razor 1911, and published in a Norwegian computer magazine! I remember typing it in myself, to see the effect, and I remember the text string that was embedded (in hex, so you wouldn't see it when you typed it in, only in memory). Therefore; using other people's routines and claiming they are your own is LAME! Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Works with KillAGA, but bugs a little. Awesome ------- GER> Aerobase (swap, ex Vanish), Black Trooper (Hans Spirk, gfx swap, 02/92), Empire (sysop 'BORDERLINE', ex Setrox). BEL> Mad Shitbrain (sysop 'METAL IMPACT'). HOL> Jaf (sysop 'SLEEP CITY'). SWE> Him (code, 04/92), Mr.Crook (code, 04/92). USA> Master Copy (sysop 'DAWNS END', ex New Wave). ???> Apollo (ex Hypnotic), Dyce, Mace (old handle Citizen, 09/92), Raider, Scott (ex Magnetic Fields, new mid91), Storm (ex Energy). Awesome was well reinforced when most members of the group Vox Dei joined and formed a Swedish division. These were at least Him (code). Swedish coders Mr.Crook and Him are behind the cruncher Turtle Smasher. The group is now dead. 1991 - Lawbreaker joined Vanish, while Vindex joined Zylon/Alpha Flight around the middle of the year. Most members left for Alpha Flight in september. 1992 - German swapper Wonderboy (ex Energy, old handle Slider) joined Dual Crew in september. German coder Blackraven joined Agnostic Front around september; he did NOT leave the scene, as claimed in R.A.W #3. Ninja joined Dual Crew. Montana Rice, who joined from Vanish with Aerobase, soon moved on to The Electronic Knights (TEK). Tomcat joined Complex. Dane Krueger joined the new Kefrens. Gintro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Prospector, gfx: Black Trooper, Fairfax/PMC, music: Accel. Axe (-1991) ----------- NOR> Shadow (swap), Slider (swap). Boards; FLASH POINT (ex Academy), SLEDGE HAMMER. Axe died in 1991. Members joined The Special Brothers, Decept and Digital Warriors. Chris joined Grace. The board 'THE BLACK HOLE' joined Wizzcat. Axen ---- F.O.A.P. (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code/gfx: Axen, music: Harry. Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: "When was the last time you saw linevectors?" Don't run this intro and you'll be spared for another 5 years. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Axend ----- Cool Intro (1990, 07.10, ECS Intro). code: Dr. M, gfx: n/a, music: Chainsaw. Axenon (-89/90?) ---------------- GER> Phantom (swap, 02/89). Phantom's p.o. box was closed by the Police, but he soon found a new one and kept on swapping! When Axenon died, a certain German coder renamed to Chaos and joined The Undertakers... Axept ----- ???> Zalo (ex The Family). Axis [old] (-1992) ------------------ HOL> Danny (gfx, later TBL, 04/92). ???> Fresh (gfx, old handle Roxis). The original incarnation of Axis was once the best group on the Dutch scene, until it fell apart. They received a reorganization in late 91, but it wasn't enough to save the group and it died in early to late 1992. Most members formed a new group called Freestyle. Two years later, Axis was reborn. 1991 - Dartagnan changed his handle to Mop and joined Coma mid 91. Ofcourse, Mop would rise to the top of the diskmag pile - first with "McDisk" in Coma and later Alcatraz, then with one issue of "Compass" for Alcatraz, before taking on the helm of today's best magazine; Essence's "R.O.M". Dutchmen Claxon, Steroid and Magician Lord joined Desire at the Prime 91 [12/91] party, but only stayed for a few hours. Claxon and Steroid rejoined Axis, while Magician Lord opted to stay independent. Later, after Axis died, they all joined the new group Freestyle! 1992 - Liberator left Axis, and probably the scene due to lack of time early92. However, he was back in the reborn Axis two years later! Dutch swapper Kr'33 (ex Sanctuary) joined Sanity with his famous pack 'Femur Bundle' 09/92. When Axis finally died, coder Crackerjack (ex Vision, 07/91) joined Mirage, and the rest of the old members formed a new group called Freestyle. Mace was kicked out. King Dragon, Xotic, Double Dutch and Antibody got kicked. Our Nation (1991, ECS File). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Roxis, music: Rip-It/R.A.F. Released at the Royal Party 91. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Unknown Territory (1991, 07.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Fresh, music: "Serial Killer" by Jayce/Jetset. Winner of the Prime 91 demo competition! Axis [new] (1994-) ------------------ N-L> Anthony (Anthony Jonker, code, ex Movement, late96), Jay-One (gfx, ex Jetset new, -notmembanymore-), Liberator (sysop 'MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS', ex Movement, -notmembanymore-), Radavi (swap sysop, late96), Steroid (swap, ex Jetset new, late96), Tim (code, late96). GER> Dark (swap, ex TRSI, -notmembanymore-), T'vaan (gfx, aka Teevan, ex Melody, 01/96, -notmembanymore-). ENG> Nik (code, late96), Paradroid (code, ex Lemon., new late94, -notmembanymore-), Subi (music, -notmembanymore-), Twilight (music, late96). ???> Eros (gfx, 12/95, -notmembanymore-), Timeless (music, 12/95, -notmembanymore-). Axis was reborn in 1994 by members from a.o. Movement. They seem to be on the descent now that some of their best and most famous members having left them (Rodney, Hollywood, Iso). 1995 - Swedish graphician Rodney joined TBL late in the year. At the party in december, the group entered with productions for both the intro and demo competitions. The 40k intro "Headcase" [12/95] (stelios/lowlife/hollywood with a little help from facet/tbl) came 2nd in the competition, while the demo "Parakrishna" [12/95] (celtic/eros/timeless) fared much worse, and ended up at an abysmal 18th place in its competition =( 1996 - Female swapper Clary left in april, and is now only in Drifters. Dutch musician Iso (Christiaan Unck, 12/94) left late in the year. English musician Hollywood (ex Melody, double Desire, 12/95) and coder Stelios (12/95) both left to form their own group late in the year, called Vacuum. Dutch coder Celtic (12/95-04/96) left the scene! Dutch graphician Lowlife (ex Hotline, 12/95) moved to the UK to work on games, and joined TBL. Big Time Sensuality (1994 or pre). Picturebook (AGA Disk, 4 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood. Rootcanal (Intro). Headcase (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Stelios, gfx: Lowlife (logo), Facet/TBL (font), music: Hollywood. 2nd in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Minimal but mighty. There are some mean shaded toruses here - some of the bestlooking ones I've ever seen, actually! In addition, there's some motionblurred cubes and a colorexplosion effect - and the whole thing's just 31k. Not bad at all! In september 97, a fixed version V1.1 was released. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Parakrishna (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Celtic, gfx: Eros, music: Timeless. 18th in The Party 5 demo competition. info: The text mentions it should run on an A500/1mb, but doesn't on my system - perhaps on 1.3 A500's. Time and Emotion (1996?, Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood. info: The folllowing tunes are featured on the disk; Acoustic 1790-1990, Eskimo Logic, Ether Symphony..., Pluto VII, Real-Life, Rejuvenation-Jazz, Spilt Milk, Time+Emotion-Intro, TitaniumLeafPrints, Voyager. N.G.M.M.H. (1996, 07.04, 4k Intro). code: Celtic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Symposium 96 4k intro competition. review: A simple 4k'er, just a blocky (2x2?) flame effect with the word 'Celtic' appearing in the flames from time to time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Axxis (-1989) ------------- Axxis died at the end of summer 1989, when the entire group (swiss and german sections) left to join Brainstorm. Azkiness (AZK) -------------- POL> Draw (ascii swap, doublememb Ambrosia [details], late96). Azkiness is a group we know not much about, but judging from the name we guess it's a fair assumption that this is an ascii group =) Baby Comas 5 ------------ Future Vision (1992, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Released at The Party 92. Backdraft --------- Crusader-X joined Wildfire, but soon moved on to Dynamic (SLH11). Backlash -------- GER> Wulf (sysop 'DEVILS' HOME' open 93). USA> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS' WHQ). ???> Legal Eagel (code, 03/91), Ltd (gfx, 03/91), Maker (cosysop), Scampy (swap trade, 93). Boards; TIMEWAR. Intro (1991, .03, ECS Intro). code: Legal Eagel, gfx: Ltd, music: Silents. Backstage --------- This group became a part of Ram Jam, maybe late 92. Among the people who made the jump were Posdnuos, probably M.A.S.E + others. Bacteria (-1992) ---------------- DEN> Ace (code, 12/91), Savage, SMB (music, 12/91). Bacteria was an exclusively danish demoscene group. Danish graphician and swapper Toastmaster (12/91-) joined Rebels, and the group died as all the other members also left for various other groups. Twinz got kicked. Mr.Thorax joined Dreamscape. BacPack Menu (1991, ECS Intro). code: Ace, gfx: Toastmaster, music: "funky...but it smb!" by SMB (4ch MOD format). review: An OK but hardly innovative packkmenu, BacPack has all the standard features of its kind. There's a logo on top, a scroller at the bottom, and oh yes - a selector in the middle of the screen. However, it is passably executed, with some good graphics, making it a bearable production. The issue reviewed here is #10. The intro needed KillAGA from DOpus, but ran just fine from disk. Release date is uncertain, but it is probably late december 91, prior to The Party. The disk was also installed with Ace's BacBoot 1.01, and an installer for this toolboot was included in the c directory. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Bad Brothers (BB) ----------------- GER> Anti-G (code sysop 'OUTER SPACE', doublememb 100%, 05-07/96). Badcat (BCT) ------------ FRA> Gandbox (music, 03/93), Harry (gfx music, 12/92), Napoleon (swap). Partytro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Ron/Liquid, gfx/music: Harry. 8th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Bad Karma --------- BEL> Bigophone, Crisp, Franky, Malcomn, Mosez, Phantom, Reti, TCB (sysop 'METAL IMPACT' WHQ, 04/96), Zynix. SWE> Boone, Marwic (sysop 'NUCLEAR WASTE'). SCO> Candyman. DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER'). GER> Nino. GRE> Madboy. AUS> Trespass. CAN> Eric the Red (sysop 'WHO CARES' WHQ). Boards; CYBER GARDEN (bel), DOXOLOGY (bel). Bad Karma were at one time in (illegal) cooperation with Crux, using the acronym CBK. Bad Trip -------- GER> Bosinsky (sysop 'DEIT TIME', 09/91), Mr.Trax (sysop 'BIT JUNGLE', 09/91-04/95), Painkiller (sysop 'HELL', 09/91). Bad Zone -------- POL> Ace (mainorg code swap), Cooper (gfx swap), Kovy (music swap), Mr.Kadde (music swap). ENG> Budda (code swap), Carp (swap). FIN> Dump (swap, new late96), Kure-4-Kancer (music swap, new late96). SWE> Melfis (gfx swap). Baked Bean Design? (BBD) ------------------------ ???> Foxy (ex Trilogy, new late93), Kiwi (ex Trilogy, new late93). BBD? are no longer a Trilogy subgroup. Foxy and Kiwi joined from Trilogy, and B.Bop joined Trilogy (late93). Balance (BLC, 1991-, http://hem.passagen.se/excelblc/) ------------------------------------------------------ DEN> Ayotte (Thøger Wessel, music, ex Chrome, old handle Blue Fox, 12/92- 95), Connor (Jakob Steffensen, gfx, 07/92-04/94), Mad Smiley (code, 06/96), Motion (Anders Lundholm, gfx raytrace music, 07/92-12/93), R.W.O (Rene Wessel Olsen, gfx, ex Kefrens, new late94-12/94), Split (Niels Chr. Kvaavik, swap, 12/92-10/93), Unique (gfx, 12/94), Wolfman (William Henrik Olesen, org swap, 07/92-95). NOR> Blaze (Øystein Kristoffersen, swap, ex Frogs, 10/93), Cantona (Einar Vestheim, swap, new 06/96), Chagall (gfx, ex Frogs, 10-12/93), Cola (ascii swap, old handle Dizzy, doublememb Lingo, 10/93-94), D'Fence (10/93), Kefir (music, ex Legend), Razorblade (Geir Vestheim, swap trade, ex Majic 12, 05/95), Ranx (Dag Erlandsen, code, re-Stone Arts, ex Frogs, 10/93), Terminal Silence (music ascii, 12/93). SWE> Atheist (music, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-06/96), Confidence (Magnus Isaksson, code, ex Duplo, ex doublememb Subspace, doublememb Artwork, 08/95-12/96), Deelite (Henrik Bertilsson, music, triplememb Sunshine Productions and Razor 1911, 08/95), Excel (Jani Oinonen, mainorg gfx swap edit, ex Sunshine Productions, 95-02/98), Gorg (gfx, 05-12/96), Grid (gfx, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-late97), Pantera (swap, ex Sunshine Productions), Radix (Jacob Svanholm, music, triplememb Limited Edition and Smoke [music]), Vicious (code, ex Sunshine Productions), Xerxes (sysop), Zero (code, ex DCS, new late96). FIN> Xendi (M. Alasaarela, gfx swap, ex Deadline, new 10/93). ENG> Bassline (music, ex Defekt), Hampster (gfx, ex Defekt), Jozz (music, ex Defekt), Kata (Jacob Restrup, code, 04-12/94), Melone (trade, doublememb 2000 AD, ex Defekt), Overdose (swap, ex Delicious), Quadrex (code, ex Defekt), Scotch (gfx, ex Defekt), Tango (org trade, ex Defekt). HUN> Rack (gfx, doublememb Absolute). ITA> Hedgehog (code, ex Biosynthetic Design). ISR> Cyber Bug (swap, ex Frogs, 10/93). N-L> Infant (Rene van deer Steen, code, ex Subspace, new late97). FRA> Geist (gfx, ex Gods doublememb, late96). USA> Starcam (sysop 'WORLDS OF WONDER', ex Defekt). ???> Magic (editor, doublememb?/ex? Nah Kolor), Pixel, Smartass (swe? music, 05/96-12/96). Balance was formed in Denmark by Wolfman, TNT, Split, Eddie and Spib in june of 1991. Some musicpacks were the first releases from the group. The next members to join were graphicians Connor and Idefix. Eventually yet another graphician joined, Trade (later handle Motion). The group still lacked a real coder though, and their search ended after they recruited Wreko from Divine. Their first real productions were the "Necessary Drugs" packs. Wreko helped recruit another musician, Mazzachre, and soon after also a second coder joined, called Scope. Spib then left because of lazyness, and coder IC3 joined. They got their first board ('SUFFOCATION') when Ramirez joined. Now it was time for their first trackmo, "Software Failure" [91]. Their next release was a bbs intro, and then IC3 got kicked again due to lameness. Their second trackmo, "Deepcore" [07/92], is released. The turning point in BLC's career surely came with the release of the first issue of their diskmag "Magbox" [07/92]. This mag announced both new musician Chyle as well as Mazzachre's leaving for Focus Design. The group was still 100% danish. Balance is a demo group based in Denmark. Originally, Balance released the diskmag 'MagBox'. However, when the fusion with the Norwegian group Frogs was decided, they brought with them THEIR diskmag 'Upstream'. Ofcourse there were some discussion as to what mag to continue publishing, and the result was a compromise; the mag retained the name Upstream, but used the old MagBox code and continued the numbering from MagBox. The previous editors of the two mags, Wolfman (magbox) and Cesium (upstream) were coeditors of the new mag. Coca and Cola formed the ascii-group Lingo while they were still in Balance, so in effect they were doublemembers. Ranx started working at Funcom late 1993, but would remain an (inactive) Balancer. Graphician Chagall also got an offer from Funcom, but decided to go to England to study art instead, so his further scene career is uncertain. Balance were also coeditors of the danish chart "Dansktoppen" with Parasite from the beginning, but the chart was later taken over by Polka Brothers. 1993 - The Finnish section was formed mid 93 by ex-members of Deadline (Dionysus, Bad Karma, Nutcase, Xendi) and Alcatraz. Finnish Lohi (ex Diffusion) left for the PC scene, and coder Xarium joined Parasite mid 93. 1994 - Norwegian swapper Messiah (Banana Dezign doublemember) joined Spaceballs late 94. 1995 - Finnish musucian Nutcase (code gfx music, ex Deadline, new 06/93- mid95) moved over to the pc section of Balance mid 95. Coder Fizban decided to leave the scene late 95. Danish musician Subject (ex Chrome, old handle Chyle, 07/92-01/97) changed handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97. He was a doublemember of Passion for a while, from late 94, but later terminated this double membership. Danish graphician and musician Cyboman joined Ambrosia late95. Finnish sysop Roland left. Danish coder Scope (07/92-01/95) joined Passion. Scope worked on demos like "Deepcore" [07/92], "Lost World" [12/92] and "Syndrome" [12/94] as well as the MagBox/Upstream code. Finnish musician Dr.Fruid (ex Frogs) left the Amiga scene. German coder Bailey (ex Frogs, 04-10/93) joined Lego. Bailey coded "Newstro" [04/93] before leaving. Norwegian coder Coca (old handle Broth, 10-12/93) joined Cesium's new group Session. Norwegian musician Vegard! (ex-doublemember) left to be a member of Scoopex only, but after a while he left them too and joined Melon Dezign. Nik joined Desire (UPS10). Danish musician Tricktrax (ex Chrome, 12/92) and hungarian graphician Nexus 6 (ex Frogs, 10/93) were kicked. Tricktrax is now in Puzzle. Danish coder Wreko (Jesper, 07/92-12/93) left for the PC scene - more specifically Diffusion PC. Norwegian organizer and previous 'Upstream' editor Cesium (ex Frogs) left the scene for a while. As a consequence, his board 'OMAHA THUNDER' (opened 03/94) was also closed (12/94). Some time later, he reentered the scene with his own group, called Session, and reopened the board there. Finnish members James (old handle Bad Karma), Dionysus (both ex Deadline, new 06-10/93) and Dean left to join Decnite (PRP4). Danes Eddie (Frederik Esbensen, music swap, 12/91-07/92), Immortal, TNT (raytrace, 07/92) and Idefix (gfx, 07/92) all got kicked. Danish swapper and sysop Ramirez ('SUFFOCATION') joined Majic 12 (RAW4). Growl (ex Chrome, 12/92) joined Orient. Software Failure (1991, ECS Trackmo). info: Holding down the firebutton when booting activates a secret part. Deepcore (1992, 07.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Scope, Wreko, gfx: Connor, Scope, Motion, music: Chyle. Magbox #1 (1992, 20.07, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Motion (title, background) Scope (background, font), Connor, music: "Iceman-Theme" by Chyle (ProTracker MOD format), editors: Wolfman, Eddie, Split. review: The very first issue of Magbox is a little thin when it comes to the amount of articles, and was meant to be a combination of diskmag and messagebox (like Chit-Chat). Graphics are only passable, and the music is not particularly revolutionary either. The best and most interesting articles this time was Wolfman's history of Balance DK, interview with Hannibal/anarchy and a report and interview concerning the controversy surrounding the recently held Hurricane party. There is also a lot of really unnecessary humour stuff. The news item about Nexus 6/23 Celsius Crew (also spelt wrong, btw! =) forming a Hungarian division of Anarchy is false. In fact, he joined Frogs and later - when Frogs merged with Balance - became a Balance member! The mag needs KillAGA to show graphics and play music correctly, otherwise it works perfectly. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! DEN> Chyle, Connor, Scope, Split, Wolfman Magbox #2 (1992, 03.09, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (title, fonts ++), music: Chyle, editor: Wolfman (main), Split, Scope. review: Much improved graphics is the first thing that you notice, as well as some nice music. Much more articles, and the music is better than in the first edition too. The mag itself works fine with KillAGA, despite some hiccups with the music replay and slight problems with the larger proportional fonts. They also correct the incorrect news item about Nexus 6/23 Celsius Crew from the earlier issue. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! Magbox #3 (1992, .11, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor, Motion, music: Sound Division. Lost World (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Scope, gfx: Connor, music: "Dirty-Mary2-bf" by Blue Fox. 14th in The Party 92 demo competition. review: A nice, polished trackmo from the coder of the MagBox, later Upstream diskmag. It has the polished feel of Andromeda or even Phenomena...I guess it's the graphics that give the impression. Some of the logos or fonts could have been taken right out of any demo by those two groups! Testament to Connor's talent, I guess. Nothing TRULY out- standing here...except perhaps the spacecut routine - that was unusual back in 1992. Also, they present a glenz vector with LOTS of faces, though the 'this is a new world record' effects failed to impress me a long time ago. Who cares if you've got four more faces on your glenz than the next guy, when you can't even spot the difference with the naked eye? It's the visual part that matters. Excite me! Apart from the 'slime vector', which had graphical errors, I had no problems running this on my system. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. MagBox issue #4 (1993, ECS Filemag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Personal Problems" by Subject. MagBox issue #5 (ECS Filemag). info: This was the last issue released under the 'MagBox' name. The next issue was "Upstream #6". Reality has no Meaning (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Wreko, gfx: Motion, Wreko, music: Subject. 4th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Newstro (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). code: Bailey, gfx: Rattle/PMC, music: Dr. Fruid. Released at The Gathering 93. Sound Barrier (1993, .04, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Wreko, gfx: Chagall, Connor, music: Subject, Blue Fox. info: Propaganda #4 brougt the news that Subject, Blue Fox, Connor, Unique, Kata and Wreko were working on SB2, which was to be one of the first AGA musicdisks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that project was never released... Upstream issue #6 (1993, 30.07, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: "Upstream#6" by Subject/Balance (ProRunner 1.0 format), editors: Wolfman, Cesium. Information: UPS6 was the first release after the merger of Upstream and MagBox; it adopted the Upstream name and the MagBox code and release number :) Released at Rendezvous 93 and at Assembly 93. Meetro '93 (1993, 30.07, ECS File). code: Cola, gfx: Chagall, music: Travolta/Spaceballs. Released at Rendezvous 93 and Assembly 93. Gale Intro (1993, 30.07, AGA Intro). code/gfx: Wreko, music: "Sulphuric Ash" by Nutcase. Released at Galemands Gilde. review: Why this requires AGA is totally beyond me, but there you go. The only remotely interesting bit is the afterburned large dot routine, which was slightly original if nothing else. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Zoom Parallax Demo (1993, 07.08, ECS Multifile). code: Panoramix, gfx: Tetsuo, Spiri, music: n/a. Released at Assembly 93. Smalltalk (1993, 20.10, AGA 22k Intro). code/gfx: Scope, music: "22k" by Subject. Released at the Melon Birthday Party. Upstream #7 (1993, 30.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (main), Chagall (title), Scope (fonts, back), music: "Foundations" by Subject, editors: Cesium, Wolfman. review: Another good issue of Upstream surfaces. Contentwise, this is perhaps not their strongest issue, but I believe that is a mirror of the demo situation at that time; before the big AGA demos started appearing. The scene was at a crossroads, people were busy experimenting with AGA and consequently weren't releasing demos. Visually, this issue is OK, if not their best. Subject's music sounds like he's trying to do a Lizardking cover...which is a little ironic, given that the next issue came with a Lizardking soundtrack :) Not a bad issue, but then - Upstream rarely is! The original disk also contained the 22k intro "Smalltalk" [10/93]. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. The Party 3 Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Coca, gfx: Chagall, Coca, Cola, music: Terminal Silence. review: Another not-bad intro from the Norwegian section. There's no 'wow' routines here, but overall a nice intro. Chagall's 'no smoking' picture is cute... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cutting Edge (1993, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Scope, gfx: Unique, music: Subject. 9th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. H.A.S.H. (1993, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Wreko, gfx: Connor, music: Slide/Parasite. 13th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Not bad at all, with some fairly tasty dot routines. It's not exactly 'Desert Dream' in the dot respect, but not bad at all. Surprisingly much grapics. I once tried running this on my 1mb A500, but didn't have enough memory even when depacking the file first. I can't positively say it's an AGA production, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. MrsKingTro (1994, Intro). code: Mr.King, gfx: n/a, music: Subject. Review: This intro is FAKE. This was revealed in Upstream #10, neither Mr. King nor Subject had anything to do with it. Upstream issue #8 (1994, 02.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kata, gfx: Connor, music: "Juggernaut Jam" by Subject. MAG - code: Scope, gfx: Connor (panel), Scope (fonts, background), Fairfax/Andromeda (intropic), music: "Water Below" by Lizardking/ Razor 1911, editors: Wolfman, Cesium, Mount/Polka Brothers. Released at The Gathering 94. review: Upstream delivers quality with this issue, with some very nice and interesting articles - like the Chromag interview. There's nothing wrong with the audio-visuals in the mag either; the backgrounds and the panel both have nice layouts. This was the first issue with a third 'main' editor, Mount. You won't notice much of a difference, though. The option to save an article to disk is nice. The only reason this qualifies as a multifile mag is the fact that the module is a separate file. Not much more to say about this, except it's one of the best ever mags. One slight sniggle, though - a BIG BUG! When attempting to load a new module, the mag crashes the moment I press the mouse button! The intro is a rather bland affair, to be honest. It resembles those old trailer intros Brainstorm used to release for Zine, without any of the excellence of those. On the A500, the intro seemed somewhat unstable when setpatch wasn't run first. The tune 'Water Below' by Lizardking was later used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II" [01/95]. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Orgasmatron (1994, 02.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Coca, gfx: Buzz Fuzz, Kefir, Coca, music: Kefir. 12th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. Upstream issue #9 (1994, Diskmag). INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "D0dstekkno" by Subject. MAG - code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: Nutcase. Syndrome (1994, 28.12, AGA File). code: Scope, Kata (additional), gfx: R.W.O, Unique, music: "Culture Shock" by Subject. 14th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: I'm actually a little surprised that this didn't do better than 14th at The Party, though ofcourse there were a lot of good releases that year. This one has very fast, mostly vector, routines timed to the usual techno music. Some interesting stuff here, a.o. what was probably the first HAM8 plasma. Did anyone do that earlier? The fire effect is ugly and blocky, though. THAT effect has been substantially improved with time! R.W.O's picture "Zailorpower" also participated in the graphics competition at The Party, and finished on a split 39th place. On my 030 machine, the road part fucks up graphically. I do not know what causes this, really... Perhaps the routine is timed for a standard 14mhz 020 in some way...who knows? The demo works fine on a standard A1200, no fast needed. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. note: See review. Plantarium (1994, 28.12, Wild). 6th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. info: Presented on an A4000.  Upstream issue #10 (1995, v.early, ECS/AGA File Diskmag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (panel), R.W.O (intropic), Scope (fonts, backgrounds), music: "Off Piste.bf" by Blue Fox. review: One of the greatest diskmags of the time, Upstream has both interesting articles and top presentation. You can't go wrong with this. The reason for the ECS/AGA at the top needs a little explanation; the intropicture by R.W.O is in 256 colors, and if you're running on an ECS machine, you'll just get an explanatory text, like: "No aga - no pic!". The mag itself runs fine on most configurations. Needs req.library to load modules or save articles. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Embryo (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, music: Atheist & Deelite. 8th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: An acceptable production from the Swedish division of Balance. Nothing outstanding, just nice. The music is frantic demo-techno, and not the worst of its kind. The demo includes two fullscreen pictures by Grid, one of a screaming man's face with a twirl effect around it, and one that's reminiscent of Hajime's metal people art, though of a kitten. I did a search, and as far as I can see Grid did not enter any graphics competitions during 1995. This probably means this is the only place you'll ever see these :) One thing I noticed about the effects is that Confidence seems to use a rather unique method of 'smoothing' his effects, almost reminiscent of the raster effects used in comic books. Interesting... To conclude: Acceptable. Does not require fastmem, but takes advantage of it if it's there. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Freak (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB File). code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, Gorg, music: Smartass. 3rd in the Icing 96 demo competition. review: To the sound of a heavy, boombastic tune by Smartass we're given a demo without much soul. The effects are of highly variable quality, some are very impressive and others are not so hot. The big tunnel routine is nice, and sort of reminds me of the tunnel in TBL's "Captured Dreams" [03/97]. The morphing (env?) object is too blocky though, I think Confidence should have spent some more time on that. There's only one real piece of graphics here, a fullscreen picture of a woman's face - not signed but presumably by Grid, since it resembles his style. The best effect here is a truly great one, though - an amazing light routine, where we're sort of looking into the light, and it changes a little. It's awfully smooth and nice, and lifts the demo as a whole a lot. I guess this is worth getting for that effect alone ;) I tried to run this with only 4MB fast and my Kickstart mapped to RAM (eating 512k in the process), and found I didn't have enough memory. So if you're gonna run this on a 4MB machine, be sure you're not remapping your kickstart, oki? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Endolymfa (1996, 28.12, AGA File). code: Confidence, gfx: Gorg, music: Smartass. 3rd in The Party 6 demo competition. review: The best part of ENDOLYMFA is the opening, which with it's fast texture mapped and animated surfaces create a nice mood...which unfortunately it fails to sustain through the rest of the demo. It's a rather short demo too, which doesn't help matters that much. The effects consists mainly of the usual env and phong objects, with an overweight on toruses. The music's nothing special. A little disappointing. In my eyes, Syndrome's "Subzero" (6th) is a much better demo than this. Ofcourse, results are not up to me, but to the voters at The Party :) Seeing as the (unpacked) file is over 2MB in size, this will obviously need a little more memory than the 2MBs of chipmem in AGA Amigas. I do not know exactly how much, though, since the distribution doesn't have any text describing requirements. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Ballcrackers, The (TBC) ----------------------- SWE> Axodry, Headhunter, Maxwell, Mr.Bond, No.1, Outsider, Smasher, Techno, Vonix. Nick23 joined D-Mob. Transmutations (ECS Musicdisk). Bamiga Sector One (BS1, 1986-1990) ---------------------------------- BEL> Cbx (89), Ermida (mainorg supply, 86-89), Lion (89), Lord Blitter (code crack, 11/88-89), Skylight (crack, 11/88-89), The Bandit (89), The Belgium Waffels (code, 89), The Hobbit (89), The Red Baron (89). HOL> Switch (code crack train pack, 89). DEN> The Free Traders (code crack music, 89). ENG> The Demon (music, 89), Toxic (spread, 89). CAN> Double Density (trade, 89). USA> The Agnostic (sysop 'INFERNAL REGIONS' WHQ, 89), Viral Empath (crack, 11/88). ???> Chatterbox (crack, 11/88), Necromancer (swap, 11/88), Outbound (new 12/88), Syncro (crack), The Visitor (swap, 11/88). Bamiga Sector One was formed in Belgium in june of 1986 by Ermida and two others. Their members later found their way into such groups as Kefrens (S.L.L). They were also in several cooperations, with a.o. Cybertech. Necromancer and The Visitor are father and son. 1988 - An interview with Ermida in Crack Journal #10 [11/88] revealed how they were having problems getting crackers, seeing as Lord Blitter was working for a large software company, Chatterbox went to the university, Skylight is very busy at the moment with other things, The Big Fat Lamer is abroad and won't be back until next year, and finally Viral Empath is now busy writing protections (!) for a large software firm ;) Outbound joined in december. 1990 - Danish musician S.L.L (ex Red Sector) left for Kefrens early february. The group was declared dead early 1990. Scroll Surprise (ECS File). Banal Projects (1992-) ---------------------- FIN> Andy (Antti Kujanpaa, music, 12/94-08/95), Boogieman (founder, 92), Boris (founder gfx, 08/92-93), Epidemic (code, ex Complex, 93-08/95), Karbunkle (founder, 92), Lopez (new 10/93), PMB (founder code, aka Paul McBody, 92), Prayer (founder gfx swap, 93-08/95), Suhu (Juha Sohlman, swap, ex Leader Productiond, new late 93-95), Ukulele (founder music, 93-08/95). Banal Projects were born in late 1992 (existed .08), and is an entirely Finnish demo group - with a sense of humour ;) Dutch musician Mark/Rebels joined, but left for CNCD right away 08/93. Charles 2000 (Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Dean (The Player 6.1A format). Rodeo (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: PMB, gfx: Prayer, Boris, music: Ukulele. NIVEL.exe (1993, late?, ECS Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele (2x The Player 5.0A format). review: This cool little intro opens with a good picture by Prayer, set to the opening bars of Ukulele's frantic and weird tune - VERY hard to classify! Then we're shown an amiga rules-like effect, only divided... hard to explain really! At the top of the screen there's a B.P. logo. Then there's the endpart, with a small mummi-troll (Norwegians and Swedes will know these) in the left corner, and a fractal-triangle-zoomer. Pressing and holding the right mouse button makes it turn the other way, by the way :) In addition, there's a good an unusual text writer. Not bad at all, this! When you exit, you get a few bars of another module, which is kind of...nice. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mama (1995, Musicdisk). info: Seven pieces of ethnic inspired music by Ukulele. Seasick (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele (The Player 6.1A format). 4th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. review: Yeah! This is more like it! Short, but good. I can't really find anything to put my finger on here, except perhaps the weird tune...but it's by Ukulele, so what can you expect? The main effect consists of bitmap manipulations done to a picture of Mickey Mouse seen from behind, surfing. Coolness. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Bold (1996, 18.08, AGA File). Director; Epik Forrester. 10th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: This is almost embarassing. This is only a selection of pictures of celebrities, with the text The Banal and the Projects overlaid at regular intervals. In the background you hear the theme music of...that's right, The Bold and the Beautiful. Not wonder it finished almost last. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Banana Dezign (BDZ) ------------------- NOR> Bob (aka Jack Frost), Brainbug (music, 11/93-04/94), Decoy (Stian Olsen, sysop 'SILVERHAWK', 02/94-97), IT (sysop 'HOME ALONE' WHQ, doublememb Cryptoburners, 04/94), Jelace (music, ex Destiny), Necro (code, ex Talent, 11/93-04/94), Optic (ex Shamrock, 04/94), Pensplit (gfx, ex Talent), Teo (11/93), Znit (Espen Skog, trade swap). CRO> Diablo (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Dr.J (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Elf (Code, ex Polaris, new 02/94-04/94), Metal (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Satan (ex Polaris, new 02/94), The Ripper (ex Polaris, new 02/94). ???> Leviathan, Mad Guru. Boards; TWILIGHT (nor, 93). Croatians Alpha (music, ex Polaris, new 02/94) and Blue Deville (gfx, ex Polaris, new 02/94) left with Finnish musician Kristian (old handle Saracen, ex Destiny) to join Talent late 95. Curiously enough, the news where I found this used his old handle 'Saracen'...did he change back? Anyway, the Talent memberlist reflects the Saracen handle. Norwegian sysop Hellfreak ('WARZONE', 93) got kicked. Norwegian coder and sysop Mr.Z (ex Talent) joined Scoopex. Norwegian sysop Micro-Pal ('THE WHITE HOUSE', ex Alcatraz, 93) left. Norwegian swapper Messiah (ex Equinox, Balance doublememb, 02/94) joined Spaceballs. Graphician Marlboro got kicked. Croatian swapper Rod (Svitlica Stanjoe, ex Polaris, new 02/94) left the scene. Banana Dezign was formed by It/ex Cryptoburners and Micro-Pal/ex Alcatraz. There is some mysticism connected with Brainbug's membership. He was in Alcatraz back in 1992, and contributed a tune to the music competition at TG'94 under the handle Brainbug/ALCATRAZ. However, he contributed music, seemingly as a full member, to two BDZ productions between 11/93 and 03/94. Was he a doublemember, perhaps?  Melbu (1993, 31.11, AGA Intro). code: Necro, Bob (debug), gfx: Marlboro (logo), Necro (fonts), music: Brainbug (The Player 5.0A format). Made at the Combase'93 party, but released later. review: Not the most serious of people, these guys, are they? Another minimal production this, with some very yellow scanned pictures of the participants and filled vector bananas. The best thing about this small prod, tho', is Marlboro's logo. Very cool! The music is a heavy metal riff thing, not Brainbug's best by far. This was probably a lot more fun to make than it is to watch. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Bowel Movements (1994, 08.02, AGA Intro). code: Necro, gfx: Blue Deville, music: Brainbug (The Player 5.0A format). review: Not much to see here, just a text writer over some red/orange graphics mapped on a sphere, flying around. The humourous text is rather fun though. 'Because we care.' You can run the intro without AGA installed, in which case you'll get a requester saying that the demo requires AGA to run and you get to hear the soundtrack. $VER: Bowel Movements 1.0 (08 Feb 1994) by Necro\Banana Dezign [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Så Ung Og Helt Uten Hår... (aka Wonko) (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Necro, Elf, gfx: Optic, music: "Shinin' Ol' Boots" by Brainbug (TrackerPacker 3 format). 8th place in The Gathering'94 demo competition. review: Easily the best of the three BDZ demos I have... The design on this is a lot more 'together' than in the others. Nothing much to say, except that the tune is rather fun :) They've certainly kept their sense of humour... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Band, The --------- BEL> Flame Snake, Infernal Duo (DMA and Thief), Sir 004 (03/89). NOR> Hellraiser, Skyhawk, TFL, Vampire. The Band was one of the first cracking crews, probably based in Belgium. 1989 - Skippy and Woody left for The Silents in november. Basement (1995-) ---------------- SWE> Reverend D (founder sysop 'TRESPASS'), TBM (founder code, later TBL?). Basement was formed by TBM, Phase and Reverend D from Freezers in late 95. However, Phase soon left for Insane, where he was kicked within a week. B.A.S.F. (1994-) ---------------- GER> Lightforce (Swap, ex X-Trade). NOR> Base, Odie. ???> Link (ex scoopex), Parallax (ex Scoopex). BASF was formed by ex-members of Scoopex Germany. Sysop Iceberg got busted jsut two days after he joined BASF! German graphician Navy left Vanish to join, but soon moved on to TRSI. Bass [old] ---------- Meta joined Rebels. Bass [new] (1993-) ------------------ FRA> Meta (founder, ex Rebels), Patrick (founder, ex Rebels). Bass was reformed 93, after Meta and Patrick left Rebels. Bass Crew --------- Hardcore Trax 1 (1994 or pre, Music). Basstech -------- ???> Bareface (sysop, new 09/92), Extaxy (new 09/92). Cedric joined Legend. Boozo, sysop 'INTROSPECTIVE' joined Noxious, but soon went on to Submission. Bastards -------- DEN> Bitman (gfx, 91), Gizmo (ex Cult, new mid92), Michael Carlson (sysop 'MADE IN DENMARK'), Surrounder (gfx, old handle Bitman), TMT, Tuborg (Janus Lindahl, swap, ex Light), Wild Child (Peter Walsted, swap). SWE> Mr.Foley (ex Energy). ???> Melf (music, 92), PMA (gfx, 92), The Judge (code, 92), Xerox. Most members left to form a new subgroup for Crack Inc. 09/92. Cyber Sounds (1991, ECS Musicdisk). New Stuff (1991, early, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: Bitman, music: n/a. Techno Trance III (1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: The Judge, gfx: PMA, music: Melf. GLE tested A1200/020/2mb chip/3.0. -- info: Crashes after showing titlepicture. Caches off has no effect. Beastie Boys [old] (BB) ----------------------- The Syndicate: ???> Art Force (gfx, new 02/89), Dingo von Springberg (code, new 02/89), Dri (swap, 02/89), Futurelight (gfx, 02/89), Kevin (swap, 02/89), Marco (swap, 02/89), Mel (code, 12/88-02/89), Myk (swap, 02/89), No.1 (music, new 02/89), Rene (swap, 02/89), SkyDancer (music, 12/88-02/89), Tibor (swap, 02/89). BB was a group that came to the amiga from the c64 scene, and was pretty big in the German scene for a while in the late 80's. Their most active members were all in the subgroup The Syndicate of the Beastie Boys. 1988 - December saw the release of their classic "Megademo" [12/88]. 1989 - The Syndicate/BB released a packdisk from the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons party [02/89]. At this party the group also released a new intro which announced Dingo, No.1 and Art Force as new members, and said bye bye to Alex and Rush. Mel had also planned a demo for this competition, but could not complete it in time. Norwegian graphician Fairfax joined Pure Metal Coders. Megademo (1988, 17.12, ECS Disk). code: Mel, gfx: n/a, Music: "Lars" by SLL/Bamiga Sector One, "Part IV music" by TFC, "Wondertec" (first), "Skydancer" and "Opus Dei" (end) by SkyDancer. info: A truly classic megademo, with some great pieces of music! Sound System Demo (1989, 11.02, ECS Intro). code: Dingo, gfx: The Dark Lord (logo), n/a (picture), music: "Android" by Skydancer. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons copy party. review: Another oldskool onescreen intro, this one is at least a LITTLE original. The top of the screen feature a Beastie Boys logo moving from side to side... This is done in classic demologo style, but is still not the worst example of its kind... in shades of grey and gold. The bottom of the screen is occupied by a bouncing scroller (like a DYCP on the c64!). The middle of the screen is the most interesting part, though - it features a very nicely drawn picture of a pair of earphones, over which a circle is laid. This circle has equalizers spinning around it... it's kind of hard to describe, but looks real cool! For an example of an oldskool intro, you could go far worse than this. The name of the intro does not appear anywhere inside, but was taken from the results. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA. Beastie Boys [new] (BB) ----------------------- GER> Bandog (code, 90). Beastie Boys were reformed by some of the old members, and the entire group Irongods. Beatless (BTL, -1995) --------------------- SWE> Tevie (swap, late95). Beatless was a swedish demo group. 1995 - Late 95, swedes Note (swap), Iz, Leprechaun (swap), McPudel and Fugazi left for Giants, and Braindead left for Insane. The group was therefore declared dead. Summer (ECS Intro). code: Megabyte, gfx: Jamsam, Limpa, McPudel, music: Jamsam. Beermacht. ---------- GER> Alfred (sysop 'BEERKRUG' WHQ, 09/91). Beta Team (BT) -------------- ???> Roberts (music, 05/94). Roberts made a module for Mystic's demo "Vital" [94], and that's all the information I have on him... Polish coders CBM80 and Larsen joined Mystic. Beton Design ------------ ???> Human (music), Kain (gfx), Muad'dib (raytrace), Norweg (music), Yoe (music). 1996 - Chrom and Skizo left the group, and Wolf and Dr.Pacient left the scene 04/96. Green. joined Anadune 06/96. Goldfinger (1995, 30.08, Demo). 8th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Betrayal -------- ???> SCSI, Xag (code). Betrayal's 'claim to fame' are a few utilities by Xag, the most notable probably being the 'JamCracker+' music composition program. Talisman left the scene. Einstein joined Punishers. Betrayed -------- SWE> Polarbeer (sysop 'INFINITE LINK', 01/95). Beyond (-1992) -------------- ???> Art of Noise (music, ex Acume, old handle Moonwalker). The best members of Beyond and Arise decided in late 1992 to join together to form Abyss. These members were at least: Sodom (code, ex Amaze, new pre 07/92), Duke, SMC, Skindiver, Toxic (music), Neurodancer and Artline (both ex Agnostic Front). German superswapper Mr.King joined Analog. Tool Intro (ECS Intro). code: Sodom, gfx: Toxic, music: Art of Noise. Night Dreams (1992, 26.07, ECS File). code/music: SMC, gfx: Toxic, Flo. Beyond Force (BF) ----------------- FIN> Boss (code gfx, 12/89-08/93), GMN (Olli Auvinen, code, aka Gremlin, 08/93), Hazor (Tommi Lahtonen, code gfx, 90-08/93), Shumway (gfx, 90-91). ???> Alistair (gfx, 90), Andy (gfx, 89), Drucer (code, 06/88), Elysion (gfx music, 08/93), Jogi (music, 12/89-90), Keith (music, 89), Mr.Sam (gfx, 91), Nimrod (gfx, 90), Sage (code, 90), Stranger (code, 91), Zag (code, 89), Zardax (music, 08/93). Beyond Force were originally a finnish c64 group, and when the amiga section was born, several members coexisted on the two platforms, f.ex. Hazor and GMN. Demo (1988, 14.06, ECS File). code: Drucer, gfx: n/a, music: Jason/TDT. Cooperation with Deathstar. Multiplexor (1989, ECS File). code: Zag, gfx: Andy, music: Keith. Second Demo (1989, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Osterman/Scoopex. Wild Beast (1989, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Party Demo (1989, 29.12, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Released at the X-Mas Party 89. Sine Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Flexible Logo (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Jumbosinus (1990, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Splitter v2.0 (1990, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jochen Hippel/independent. Colorpulator (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Jumbosinus v2 (1990, ECS File?). code: Boss, gfx: Nimrod (font), music: Jogi. Twisted Wriggler (1990, ECS File?). code: Boss, gfx: Alistair, Nimrod, music: Maniacs of Noise/independent. Still Hating (1990, ECS File?) code: Sage, gfx: n/a, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Mysterious Mixture (1990, late, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Shumway (logo), Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise c64 (font), music: "Death-Star" by Fleshbrain/Crusaders (ProTracker MOD format). review: Now, this is what makes wading through endless amounts of old demos and intros seem halfway worth my time. Every now and then you come across a small jewel, and this is just such an instant. Much thanks to two elements - the music and the plasma-like effect that I really don't know what to call :) - a little magic is created here. It's one of those rare little productions that create a little atmosphere... But stop reading what I'm wabbling on about, and GO GET THIS - hmm, that music is just an amazingly wondrous piece... After pressing left mousebutton to exit, you are shown a picture with Hazor's address for swapping, before the intro exits for real. It needs KillAGA to work, but still destabilizes my system after exiting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! First Try (1991, ECS File). code: Stranger, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Expres (1991, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Dean/Complex. Oh No! (1991, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Boss, Shumway, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Assembly Intro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Boss, gfx: Hazor, music: Old Fart/Silents. info: Possibly released for the Assembly party in august, but results that year were restricted to the three top placers, so no record exist of the other entries. 5 Years Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: GMN, gfx: Elysion, GMN (fonts), music: Elysion. 12th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. review: I quite like this intro, which was made in celebration of BF's five years in the scene on C64 and Amiga. There's a few OK things here, and you notice attention has been put into making it polished. Effort pays off in Scenery: Nice one. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama ECS (1993, 10.08, ECS Slideshow). code: Boss, Hazor, gfx: n/a, music: Zardax, Galaxy/Elysion. info: There are two versions of this; one for ECS machines and one for AGA equipped ones. The sections have been kept separate here, since they do not share exact credits or, presumably, appearance. The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama AGA (1993, 10.08, AGA 2MB Slideshow). code: TNT, Hazor, gfx: Galaxy/Elysion (font), music: Dens Design. info: See review above. Beyond 2000 (B2000) ------------------- NOR> Disk Fixer (music swap), Dr.Cruel (music), Goldfax, Hawk 1989, Megatron, Mr.Fox, Punisher, Raistlin, Tronixx (music). Spytrax left. Seaside Boy joined Theatre. Intro (1990, 27.01, ECS Intro). Disk of Music (1990, 06.06, ECS Musicdisk). Bice Twice ---------- Sverige (1996, 05.04, Demo). 5th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Binary Boys ----------- Halucinations (1991, 16.12, ECS File). code: Byte, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Biohazard --------- Solarized (1996, 13.04, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition. Bionic ------ Zeb's 3rd Division (1990, ECS Musicdisk). info: 6 songs from Zeb, presented in a dos-menu manner. Biosynthetic Design (BSD) ------------------------- ITA> Metal Designer (Antonello Mincone, code, later Scoopex, late95), Mr.Yo (sysop 'TRACKLAND' WHQ, late95). ???> Dixie Flatline (gfx, late95), Fra (gfx music, late95), Lry (gfx sysop 'CYBERTRASH', late95), Sirio (sysop, late95), Stun (c-code gfx music, late95). BSD was probably an all-Italian, demooriented group. After Italian musician, graphician and main organizer Parsec (early-09/96) left for Elven 11, the group died. Italian coder Hedgehog surprisingly left for Balance. Tenebra (Demo). Biotech ------- AUS> Lex Luthor, Radiance. Biotech is dead. Agro joined Mystix. Birdhouse Project ----------------- More Members Intro (1994, 09.10, Demo). Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 party demo competition. Megademo! (1997, 30.03, Demo). 8th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Bit Arts -------- GER> The Fog (swap, ex Sanity, new mid91). Bitstoppers [old] (BTS) ----------------------- The original Bitstoppers were a classic cracking group. Bitstoppers [new] (BTS, -1992) ------------------------------ GER> Bob Duncan (sysop 'HILTON PALACE', 10/91), Oli (sysop 'INTEC SYSTEMS', 10/91), Sargor (sysop 'TOTAL KAOS', early92), Speed (Patrick, trade, early92). USA> Leviathon (sysop 'TERMINAL FROST'), New Jack (sysop 'NEW JACK CITY'). Bitstoppers were a cracking crew started shortly after the death of Infinite Perfection. They died in the middle of 1992. Swedes The Master (sysop 'SKY HIGH') and Mercy joined Fusion early 92. In Fusion, the boardname was PRESSURE POINT, 'tho...don't know when he changed it! Germans Rudi (ex Skid Row) and Selim left for Crack Inc., all other members left for Fusion. Bitstoppers is therefore dead! (06/92) Norwegian swapper Jaffa (ex Infinite Perfection) sold his Amiga and left the scene. Bizarre Arts (BZR) ------------------ GER> Antibrain (org gfx music, 12/94-07/96), Axis (code, 07/96), Azure (org code, doublememb Artwork [details] late95, 12/94-07/96), Coming Art (code music, 11/95), cr8y (gfx, new 06/96), Daim (ascii trade, new 06/96), Deetz (code, new late95), Doomsday (Boris Badasch, swap, late95), Eagle (raytrace), Halfbyte (music, doublememb Pandemonium, new 06/96), Krusty (trade sysop, new 06/96), Oson (music, new 06/96), Tracer (code, new 06/96). ???> JMS (gfx, 12/94). Boards; FICTION FACTORY (late96). Bizarre Arts is a purely German demo group, with ome pretty wellknown talent being doublemembers from other groups. 1995 - Late in the year, Dreamkiller (music swap) and Suicide (code) both decided to leave the scene. Sid and Dano, and the board 'DISABLE' were kicked, and finally german swapper and ascii artist Rave left the scene. 1997 - Azure, Antibrain and Fiver had a sequel to "Television" [02/96] planned for The Party 97, but ultimately they did not release it. Pyrox (1994, 28.12, 40k AGA Intro). code: Azure, gfx: JMS, music: Antibrain (ProMizer 2.0 format). 9th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Who would have known Azure would rise to such heights? After viewing this effort, you could easily have been forgiven for thinking he'd end up like all the other uninspired coders. What you get here is ONE routine, 'the world's first' Ham8-plasma, as they claim. I have no idea whether that holds true or not, but I do know that even back in 1994 full-screen plasma routines were hopelessly old. I find nothing here to recommend this, other than the later fame of some of its creators. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dice (1995, 21.05, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain. Winner of the Nexus 95 40k intro competition! review: Dice is a very, very cool little 40k'er! It opens with some cool fullscreen plasma, then goes on to show us a few objects of what can best be described as 'plasmamapped vectors'. It looks a little like very colorful gouraud, if that helps any... Then it moves on to texturemapping a cool picture by Fiver onto a cube (and later a torus). The cube starts spinning around, and so does the graphics on the cube! What can I say? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Zimbabwe (1995, .11, AGA File). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, Antibrain, Coming Art, music: Antibrain. Released at the Voyage 95 party. review: Oh, this was fun! Of course, the tune is what MAKES this demo. It's a groovy techno thing, with some melodies that just kind of eats themselves into your head and refuses to go away... The effects here are timed to the music IN EXTREMIS, the effects sometimes changing to every single beat of the music... The drawback here is that the effects are repeated a little too often. Had it not been for that, this would have been very close to a perfect production! The effects on display are not too numerous, but a full-screen rotzoomer and a gouraud-donut are perhaps the best ones. "I *PARTICULARLY* enjoyed that...Let's see what's next." In june 1997, Azure released version 1.4, which fixes some problems on 040/060 machines, and fixes the classic The Player 6.1A bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Both original and 1.4 version tested. Television (1996, .02, AGA 4MB File). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain. 2nd at Convention 96 demo competition. review: Not nearly as good as "Zimbabwe", this production is still very much Bizarre. It's - as they say - an experimental attempt to combine videoanimations with demo effects. In my eyes, they do not entirely succeed on their experiment, mainly due to two reasons: 1) It's too long. Halving the size, using some of the better video (like the cornflakes), and throwing out some of the less interesting stuff would make this a lot more desireable. And 2), the effects do not blend together in the way that I suppose Bizarre wanted. It's two very different aspects, and there is no actual successful merging. Requires an accelerator. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Fresh! (1996, 13.07, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, Axis, gfx: Fiver2/Artwork, Sire (object), music: Antibrain (The Player 6.1A forma). Winner of The Summer Party 1996 40k intro competition! review: Now, here's a very good intro! Lots of bump mapping here, and some seriously FAAAAAAASt env and phong objects make this a very enjoyable ride indeed! No wonder really, this is actually just the code to Azure's "Phi" [07/96] (released for Artwork one week earlier) with the added value of Axis' cool water ripple routine (later used in his "SILIConvention 97 Invitation" for Arsenic). But hey, that doesn't matter, since this is STILL a very cool intro ;) Azure released a fixed version 1.1 in february 1998, which should work fine with 040/060 machines, and had that good old The Player 6.1A bug fixed. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Blackbirds ---------- Viking left to form Byte Busters Norway in the middle of 1991. Black Division -------------- Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces under a new name in the beginning of 1989. Black Jack (-1995) ------------------ FIN> Grand Master B (music), Janitor (Janne Peltola, swap), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap pack, later Eltech, 93). DEN> Domain (swap pack). ???> G-Sus (gfx music AMOS). Black Jack was a demo group based in Finland. 1995 - Late in the year, Raivo left for Ambrosia and the rest of the best members formed a new group called 'Innocence'. The group then died. AddBox will from now on be an Innocence release. Finnish sysops Akiro and Dr.Poop ('NAUSEA') joined Scoopex. Black Lotus, The (TBL, 1989-, http://www.tbl.org) ------------------------------------------------- SWE> Azazel (Magnus Alakangas, music, ex DCS, new late95-03/97), Dig-It (Patrque Haggblad, code, 08/96-12/99), Exon (code, 08/94), Gizmo (code, 04/96), Im-Pose (gfx), Kalms (Mikael Kalms, code, ex Artwork, old handle Scout, 98-04/01), Ken (code), Louie (Kenny Magnusson, gfx, ex Insane, doublememb CNCD, 04/96-04/01), Rodney (gfx, ex Axis, new late95, 12/95-03/97), Rubberduck (Johan Dohl, founder code, 89-04/01), TBM (code), Tudor (Henrik Andersson, gfx raytrace modeller, old handle Snorpax Tudor, 08/94-04/01). HOL> Danny (Danny Geurtsen, gfx, doublememb Nah-Kolor, 04/96-03/97), Facet (Martijn van Meel, gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 04- 06/96), I-GO (Thies Edeling, orgamiga code html edit 'R.A.W'), Lowlife (Angelo Bod, gfx, ex Axis), SuperNao (Michiel Krop, music, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 05/96), Tim (code, ex Spaceballs). NOR> Magnar (Magnar Harestad, music sysop 'NOISELESS', ex Spaceballs, old handle Lizard, 06/96). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - SWE> Cypher (gfx, 02/96), Dickhead (founder code), Fishbone (gfx), Hitman (sysop 'BLACKBOARD', 08/94), Hokke (code, 94), Igloo (gfx, 02/96). NOR> Jeek Elemental (code). ???> Axm (gfx, 95), Eddieboy (music, 94), Hook (code), Kajiu (music), Overload (ascii trade sysop, 04-06/96), Sag (code music), Shark (sysop), Skyhigh (code), Vfcon, Wolf (music, 08/94). The Black Lotus was formed in sweden in 1989, when Atari coder Dickhead and his companion Rubberduck decided to build their own group on the Amiga. Who could have known, back then, that TBL would once rule the Amiga demo scene? From their very humble beginnings they've managed to build a group of truly epic proportions. After their breakthrough production "Tint" [04/96] at The Gathering 96, they went on to rule the amiga demo scene for a number years - and even still come back to release the odd production today. They were the first group to win at The Gathering two years in a row; Spaceballs have since taken over their record. Find video versions of their recent demos at: ftp://mirror.support.nl/pub/tbl/download/movies/ Most members of TBL are today employed in the games industry. Dutch members Danny, Tim and Lowlife work at Eidos Interactive ( http://www.edios.co.uk), in the UK; Kalms, Offa, Eq, Rubberduck och Louie all work at Digital Illusions Computer Entertainment (http://www.dice.se) in Sweden. Rodney also works/worked on games. Thanks to Kalms for some information and corrections. 1995 - The demo "Cybernetic" [04/95] reached the 3rd position in The Gathering demo competition, and was probably the group's biggest success thus far. The intro "Mind The Carrot" [06/95] was the group's sole release at Icing this year, reaching a disapointing 9th position in the competition. At Assembly in august came the release of the demo "Misery" [08/95] - finishing 12th in the competition. The steady flow of releases would continue out the year, with the demos "Que?" [10/95] - 2nd at Remedy - and "Mindprobe" [12/95] - 15th at The Party. 1996 - This was the year of TBL's big breakthrough. The year started gently with the release of the demo "Spectral" [02/96] at the small swedish party Creutz in february. It was at The Gathering in april their name would be known, though. Through the release of the two 4k intros "Gizmo" [04/96] and "EQ-4k" [04/96] - 1st and 2nd in the competition - and the landmark demo "Tint" [04/96] they made sure they would be a name to remember. Needless to say, "Tint" was the clear winner of the demo competition. They did not rest however, and already the next month they released the intro "Mind The Carrot 2" [05/96] (1st) and the demo "Glow" [05/96] (2nd) at the Icing party in sweden. As if this was not enough, june brought the Remedy party to sweden, and once again TBL were triumphant in both intro and demo categories, with "Tractorbeam" [06/96] and "Darkside" [06/96] respectively. Their final release of the year was the demo "Goa" [08/96] at Assembly, which finished 3rd in the competition. Apart from the jokey "The Money Tribe" [09/96], it would be until late march next year that they released anything. 1997 - "Captured Dreams" [03/97] is the name of one of the best amiga demos ever released, and a true landmark in the amiga demo scene. With it, TBL became the first ever group to win twice at The Gathering. Sadly, the truly great demo would be their only release on the amiga this year. Swedish coder Noy (02/96-) left this year to help form the new group Dole. Swedish coders Offa (Mattias Gruvman, 08/94-03/97) and Equalizer (Daniel Hansen, 08/94-03/97) both left the Amiga scene for professional game programming careers. For the sake of order, they have been removed from the member roster. 1998 - The Gathering, an event where they had been successful in the past, became the venue of their 'comeback' of sorts, with the winning intro "Imitation None" [04/98]. This would become another year with only a single amiga release from the group. 1999 - Nothing was heard until december, and The Party. There, TBL shocked the scene with the release of their new demo "Rain" [12/99], a full two and a half years after their last full demo. The demo finished only third in the competition, but was a sign that TBL was still a force to reckoned with. It was certainly one of the year's top demos. 2000 - In march, at the TRSAC party in denmark, TBL released another demo. "Senseless" [03/00] won the demo competition! 2001 - Another year, another demo - "Perfect Circle" [04/01] won the demo competition at the prestigious Mekka Symposium party! Purgatory (Disk). Total Brain Collapse - TBC (ECS File). code: Hook, RBD, Offa, gfx: Monza, music: "Shadow" by Wolf. review: Oooooh my god, boring! This is a horror example of how *NOT* to make a demo. It's got a few, ugly effects, a soundtrack that I won't even mention and 'effects' like a hidden-line vector! Jeeeesus, filled vectors was the norm in fucking 1990, people! Unadvanced, unexciting, unworthy. Avoid! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Nugget (1993, 03.03, ECS Disk). code: Hokke, Ken, Hook, Dickhead, Rubberduck, Offa, gfx: Extreme, Watchman, Tango, music: Wolf.  Twisted Minds (1994, AGA File). code: Rubberduck, Hokke, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, music: Eddieboy. Released at Dreamhack 94. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Phucker (1994, .08, ECS File). code: Offa, Exon, Equalizer, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Equalizer, music: Wolf. Winner of 'the Borlänge party'. review: Thorougly unexciting - as usual for the early TBL demos. The more of these I watch, the more astonished I am that these guys actually made "Glow" and "Captured Dreams" later! The version reviewed is the release version, the compo version had several bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cybernetic (1995, 14.04, Demo). 3rd in The Gathering 95 demo competition. Mind the Carrot (1995, 17.06, AGA 64k Intro). code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Axm, Snorpax Tudor, music: Rubberduck. 9th in the Icing 95 64k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Misery (1995, 12.08, Demo). 12th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Que? (1995, 08.10, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Axm, music: Lizardking/Razor 1911 & Mantronix/Phenomena. 2nd in the Remedy 95 demo competition. review: This is actually rather good, much thanks to the two dynamic cooperation tunes from two old favorites. Very very OK. Will run on unexpanded A1200's, but fastmem and accelerators are useful. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mindprobe fixed (1995, 27.12, AGA ?MB HD Multifile, 3 disks). code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Rodney, Tudor, music: Azazel (main), Hollywood/Axis (The Player 6.1A format). 15th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: Another not-too-cool older TBL release. This one hints at what "Tint" will be, but does not quite make it. The whole demo is presented in that annoying 'every-other-pixel-is-black' mode, and if you ask me, that is a major drawback. It just doesn't look as good as solid effects! The most innovative effect here is a little hard to describe, but I'll try. It's a magnified picture by Rodney in the background, and on top of that there's two vectorcubes, spinning and space-cutting each other. One is an RGB-vector, and the other is texturemapped with a small portion of the mentioned picture. As the picture is magnified, it's larger than the screen, and the whole thing moves as the vectorcubes travel around on it. Very very nice. The picture is "Climber" by Rodney, which came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Party. Too bad the rest of the demo is not equally exciting. Azazel's module was made in two hours, during The Party! This is also very likely his first released module for TBL; he was in DCS two months earlier. Though it'll work fine on an 020-14, at least an 030-28 with 2mb fast is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Spectral (1996, .02, AGA HD Multifile, 2 disks). code: Offa, Equalizer, Noy, Rubberduck, gfx: Cypher, Igloo, Tudor, music: Azazel. Released at Creutz #1 96. review: This is not half bad! Though it has some mysterious palette choices, and the design is sometimes...well, enough about that...this is one of TBL's better productions. There's the usual shading and stuff - and the usual Azazel music :( Not much to say, really - an above-average release from TBL. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Gizmo (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Gizmo. Winner of The Gathering 96 4k intro competition! review: Seems to disagree with my machine, once just showed the opening logo and froze on a black screen, another time it got as far as popping a nicely-coloured torus on the screen before freezing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. EQ-4k (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Equalizer. 2nd in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. review: This nice 4k'er opens with some red-on-black quasi-plasma stuff, which then turns into a tunnel of sorts. We travel into the tunnel, which has 'The Black Lotus' written on the walls, before coming to the coolest effect in the intro, a 'sea' of sorts of gradient blue-on-black. Then the tunnel routine is repeated with the same blue-on-black palette and it's over. Be advised that the version reviewed is v1.1, and the file-id.diz file claims it's 'fixed', without specifying further. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Tint (1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Facet, Louie, Rodney, Tudor (objects), music: "Khan-Be-Phonk", "Definitive Era" and "Fractured" by Azazel. Winner of The Gathering 96 demo competition! review: A little slow to get started this, but when the second piece of music kicks in, it takes off in a big way. Ah yes, the music. I can't help thinking that with some other musician, this could have been a well and truly GREAT production. As it stands, the first tune stinks big-time, and the second ranges from lousy to great in what is a truly bizarre mixture. It seems Azazel can't decide between techno and more traditional demo music, and as a result he tries to mix the two with varied results. The code here smells more of good ideas than truly advanced routines, but is overall quite acceptable. So to sum up: The first part sucks, the rest is quite good. Worth noting is that the compopictures from the artists above are all included. Danny's '18bit truecolor' picture seems to be an elaboration on Lemon.thoughts, which won a clipart competition in EuroChart (I think) some time ago. An OK production with GREAT graphics. Recommended 030-28 or above. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mind The Carrot 2 (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). code: Offa, gfx: Louie, SuperNao (hand object), music: SuperNao. Winner of the Icing 96 64k intro competition! review: This is one of the nicer intros I've seen! It all opens with a cool logo-picture by Louie, which is followed by several objects and effects, the first of which is a shaded carrot! Placed in demo/aga on AmiNet, but the system tester says 'no hardware requirement'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Glow (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB HD Multifile, 3 disks). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Facet, Tudor, music: SuperNao, Azazel. 2nd in the Icing 96 demo competition. review: Oh yes. This is the first truly outstanding TBL production I have witnessed, and what a demo it is! Since last time they've obviously gotten some design help from their newest members. While some of their earlier productions have looked a little weird, this one looks just smashing! The demo opens with an animation of a spaceship leaving a space station, to great accompanying strings music. After that, we're treated to the usual rendered objects and stuff, with one very important difference: These are cool, advanced routines that look GOOD. Even their rather untraditional palette choices now look smashing! What can I say? TINT only HINTed at things to come! Recommended! Runs on standard A1200's with enough mem, but recommends 030-28 or above. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Darkside (1996, 16.06, AGA ?MB File). code: Rubberduck, Noy, Offa, gfx: Facet, Danny, Tudor, music: Lizard. Winner of the Remedy 96 demo competition! review: Darkside signalled a drastic departure for TBL. Gone was the flashy techno, to be replaced with a tune by Lizard that's closer to a film soundtrack than anything else. A lot of people were skeptical when Darkside was released, but in my eyes this is one of their better demos. It opens with some dots morphing to form the names of the producers. This could have been done a lot better, the routine now looks downright ugly! The titlepicture by Facet is one of his most surrealistic pictures ever! The next picture is a raytraced one by Tudor, of a hand stretching out of a monitor to touch the A1200 beyond...very good! Another good routine here is the travel down spinning tunnel with the white light in the centre... This looks like a precursor to the tunnel at the end of the zoomer in the later TBL demo "Captured Dreams" [03/97]! I like "Darkside". It's an unusual demo, in that it manages to create a gothic atmosphere and still throw in a few good effects. The music deserves a special mention; it's a highly original tune. The release version apparently had some bugs, but a fixed version was later to be put up on the TBL website. On my 4mb fast system, I couldn't run this demo because I didn't have enough memory. This may have been due to the fact that I map my Kickstart to fast ram, but I can't be sure... It DOES require some fast, I'm just not sure how much :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Tractorbeam (1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro). code: Offa, gfx: Facet, SuperNao, Tudor (objects), music: SuperNao. Winner of the Remedy 96 40k intro competition! review: WOW! I've just been blown away by an amazing piece of 40k intro. This small file oozes professionalism from every pore. The effects are good and plentiful, much more than I'd expect to see in a 40k intro these days. There are so many '1-effect-intros' out there. This one opens with some envmapped objects, which isn't all that unusual these days :) Next we travel down a rather cool yellow/green tunnel...which suddenly has the objects from before in the middle! It's like Offa's saying 'maybe you can do that too...and this...but can you do them TOGETHER!?'. Next there's a tecturemapped sube spaceut with some envampped objects, before it ends with what can only be described as motionblurred fireflies. Not bad at all, TBL... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Goa (1996, 18.08, AGA ?MB HD Multifile). code: Offa, Dig-It, Equalizer, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Tudor (objects), music: Azazel. 3rd in The Assembly 96 demo competition. info: Azazel's music from the demo also competed in the music competition, and came 3rd. The timing was made on a 030-28. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Note: Not enough memory to run! The Monkey Tribe (1996, .09, File). 2nd in the Creutz #2 96 demo competition. review: Intended as a parody on 3LE demos. Captured Dreams (1997, 29.03, AGA HD Multifile). code: Dig-It, Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Louie, Rodney, Tudor, music: Fndr/? (intro), Radix (main). Winner of The Gathering 97 demo competition! review: The show opens with a texturemapped tunnel, with credits texture- mapped onto squares flying around. A 'CD' logo is next, then we zoom into the middle of the picture. At first it looks like a normal zoomer, but it quickly becomes evident that there's layers and layers of fantastic gfx before we hit the bottom! There, it smoothly integrates into some lights flashing out at us in time with the music before the entire zoom process is reversed. Only this time, we zoom back a little more than where we started, and it becomes evident that we're in a room with several different 'tv-boxes' hovering in the air. They all have changing pictures on them, and we travel around until we settle on a picture of the side of a skyscraper. This is now the main focal point, and soon a beautiful dolphin comes swimming/flying by, reflected onto the windows of the skyscraper. It's all very 'Beyond the Mind's Eye'. We see the dolphin from three different angles before we move on. Next is an amazing, big dinosaur object (T-Rex?), sneering at us. This object is made up of MANY polygons! Next we're treated to Danny and Louie's coop picture "Angelic Particles" (also winner of the TG97 graphics competition) before we move on to another showstopping effect... We're suddenly underwater, with calm music and a soothing atmosphere. Next is another texturemapped tunnel, this time with a moving lighstource. It goes on with some butterflies flying around ancient architecture, before the show is rounded off with not-too-good picture by Rodney. CD has to be one of the best demos ever released, period. It seems TBL has got most of their design problems out of the way, and this demo sure kicks ass! One thing I especially noticed and liked, was the way the music changed to the MOOD of the demo. For the faster, frantic parts there was techno-style stuff, while underwater we were treated to a beautiful pan- pipe mood tune. Great! Swedish musician FNDR (Jonas Hedeback) was not a fulltime member. The demo requires at least 4mb fast, and a 030-50 processor. However, the system checker searches for 020+, so in theory it is possible to run on inferior hardware... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Imitation None (1998, 11.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Rubberduck, Spite/?, Digit, Scout, gfx: Louie, music: Fndr/?. Winner of Gathering 98 64k intro competition! review: Who would have guessed - TBL are back with a small 40k sign of life! Unfortunately, this one's a no-starter due to one very important factor: Speed. You're obviously gonna need a FAST machine to get this baby to roll acceptably. So the keyword would be: Beautiful but agonizingly slow. If you've got a fast machine, please do. Otherwise, don't bother. Nice to look at, tho' ;) FNDR (Jonas Hedeback) and Spite (Erique Hemming) were not fulltime members. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rain (1999, 28.12, AGA File). code: Rubberduck, Dig-It, Kalms (additional), Spite (additional), gfx: Louie, Tudor (additional), FTHR (additional), FNDR (additional), music: Carebear. 3rd in The Party 99 demo competition. review: Just one word: "WOW". This demo is testament to the demopower of TBL, a group of almost unheard of talent. "Rain" was their first demo in a while, with only the intro "Imitation None" [04/98] released at TG98 since their amazing "Captured Dreams" [04/97] - demo of the year in 1997. Even if I stay by my claim that "CD" is the best amiga demo ever, "Rain" comes close to topping it. The only reason why Haujobb's "Mnemonics" [04/99] is demo of the year this year and not this one, is that Haujobb made a demo I could actually run on my machine =) The demo is fluent, with great art direction (credited to Louie) and design elements. Every single screen is well thought out, with a great sense of the overall design, and the music fits perfectly to the cyberpunk-y feel of the demo. There are effects in this demo that have never even been done on the amiga, and effects that I simply do not have words to describe. There is the most amazing phong shading, some voxels towards the end, and... well, just lots and lots of greatness! =D "Rain" is an almost perfect demo, with all the elements coming together seamlessly. This is the kind of demo you show to your friends to get them interested in the demoscene. Just amazing. This review was only made possible by our contributor SoLO, who generously sent me a cd with the demo as an mpg file. The mpg was grabbed from an a1200 equipped with a 50mhz 68060 processor. The demo itself is not runnable at all on my machine, 50mhz 030 =( Probably requires a shitload of memory, too. A rough guess would be 16mb. Carebear (Erik Lyden) is probably NOT a fulltime member of the group. He is, in case you didn't know, a musician with top finnish pc demo group Orange. Neither FNDR (Jonas Hedeback), FTHR (Antti Jaderholm) or Spite (Erique Hemming) are fulltime members. The final screen in the demo, before the end credits, features a picture and the text "yeah, that's the downside". The picture is grabbed from Luc Besson's fabulous film "Leon". We wholeheartedly recommend it =) [glenn] Senseless (2000, 18.03, AGA 060 Demo). code: Rubberduck, Kalms (additional), gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the TRSAC 2000 demo competition! info: Apparently requires an 060 processor in order to run fast enough. Received a favourable review in Nah-Kolor's "Devotion #1" [00]. Perfect Circle (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: Kalms, Rubberduck, gfx: Louie, Tudor, music: TraumaChildGenesis (FastTracker II XM format). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition! info: Requires an 060 processor and about 20 megs of fastram. Can anyone review this for me? Pleeeeeease? 'TraumaChildGenesis' are the two finnish musicians !Cube/Armada and Teque/Aggression. Developed with TBL's new demosystem, NewAge. Black Monks [old] (1989-) ------------------------- GER> Dark (gfx, later Red Sector Inc., 09/89). ???> Andy, Anvil (ex Alpha Flight, new mid91), Archangel, Black Knight, Captain Future, Delton (ex Dynax, new mid91), Dr.Jekyll, Ego the Avatar, Flash, Gonzo the Zazgul, Ivanhoe (crack, 04/89), Snooper, Wild Blood. Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces under the new name in the beginning of 1989. 1990 - Shadow and Spirit left to rebuild Critters with Amiga Freak/Trilogy mid 90. Dam joined Supreme around the same time. Coder and cracker MnemoTroN (ex Silicon League) joined Spreadpoint with a few other members. Black Monks [new] ----------------- GER> Ego (code trade sysop 'BLACK MONASTERY', early92). ???> Anvil (ex Alpha Flight, old handle Zychon), Claw (music, 12/92), Kamikaze, Moses, Pete, Rain, Willow. Black Monks was reborn late 91 or early 92, with a mixture of old and new members - in total 11 members. The first ones to join the new group were Kamikaze, Pete, Moses, Rain, Claw and Willow. German graphician Fade One joined Masque. Black Robes (BRB, -1992) ------------------------ FIN> Coroner, Jayhawk, Mr.Mad, Plug1 (trade, 02/93), Squirrel Fish, Stalker. Black Robes was a Finnish demo group, perhaps most noteworthy as the foreunner of the legendary Virtual Dreams. 1992 - Black Robes is dead! John Peel joined Digital; Dr.Skull, Tsunami (ex Spaceballs), Alien, Groo (06/92) and Dr.Death formed Virtual Dreams. Lappari and Hex joined Damones; Bart left the scene. Matti Ja Teppo is now also a member of Virtual Dreams, though how he got there is a mystery. Finnish swapper Fozzie joined Fanatic. Black Sector ------------ ITA> Apocalypse Now (music swap trade, late95), Anubi (gfx, late95), Bad Jack (hack AM+PC+CONS, late95), R.A. & Min (gfx music, late95), Subwoofer (gfx music, late95), Tryal (codePC, late95), Ultimate Cyborg (code, late95). Blade ----- FIN> Jolly Roger, Zombie. Blade was formed by ex-members of Poorsoft. They released an intro for the Assembly 93 competition, but it wasn't shown on the big screen. Blaze ----- POL> Imperator (gfx), Sky (Radoslaw Gulczynski, swap). Xenos joined Mad Elks. Blitz ----- ???> T.M.D. (ex Firecrackers, new 12/90). Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Bloodsuckers (BS) ----------------- FIN> Bloodstone (trade, 03/94), Hitman (trade, 03/93), Hoffi (trade sysop 'THUNDERSTRUCK' WHQ, doublememb Damones 93, 07/91-03/93), Illuminator (trade, doublememb Accession, 03/94), Rib, SCH, SCY (trade, 10/91), Wanton (code). SWE> Highlander (sysop 'SOMEWHERE IN TIME', 10/90). GER> Genesis (sysop 'GENESIS POWER', 10/91), Pirate (sysop 'BERLIN AMIGA NEWS', 09/91). ???> Android (ex Accession), Armalite, Chuck D, Communist, Cowboy, Cyborg, Dr.No (ex Alpha Flight), Mann, Mr.Wizz (code, 12/88), Mutants, Rawak, The Wicked, Zacae (ex Alpha Flight. Death, sysop 'SATAN'S PLACE' rejoined Zenith. German Flaxx (ex digital) joined The Silents. Bloodbath In Paradise (ECS File). Mass Compensates The Brain (ECS Musicdisk). Turtle Meeting Intro (ECS Intro). Mr.Wizz's (1988, 12.12, ECS Intro). Blue Crystal (1992-1993) ------------------------ Blue Crystal was a shortlived finnish group, likely formed around late november 1992 by Wasp (code music) and Zakal (code music). Axe (swap) joined, then also Sphinx (gfx music) from D-29. All members joined Styline in january of 1993. A small group formed by Wasp (Vesa Halttunen, coder & musician) and Zakal (Tuomas Nikkinen, coder & musician) in 1992. Axe (Jyrki Lindlöf, swapper) joined. Sphinx (Aki Sopanen, graphician & musician) joined from D-29. All members joined Styline in January 1993. Bodyworks (1995-1995) --------------------- SWE> Axy (org ascii sysop), Blade (org music), Delery (code sysop), Schizzo (music), Tekburn (music), Visitor (trade, later Subspace), Zcandaler (sysop). Bodyworks was formed by Axy and Blade after the death of Deadline Design, as an ascii and trading group. They dominated the trading scene of west sweden, had a lot of members, and released several ascii collys. In addition the swedish members, there were also a few in germany and the uk. Sometime late in the year, Axy and Blade decided they'd had their fun, and declared the group dead. Blade (who had now learned to code) was in Inhumans with Visitor for a while, before helping form Subspace. Axy later surfaced as Phase/ Spaceballs and later in Essence. Bomb Software (1994-) --------------------- FRA> Ben (code, 12/96), Clawz (Mathieu Berthaud, founder music, ex Complex, doublememb Impact Studios [pc], 09/94-12/95), Gengis (Frederic Heintz, founder code, ex Complex, 09/94-07/95), Hof (gfx, 12/94), Made (Carlos Pardo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new late95-04/98), Suny (gfx, ex Movement, new late94-12/94), Titan (Sebire Laurent, gfx, 04-12/96), Trajan (gfx, ex Dreamdealers, new late94-12/94), Zebig (gfx, 12/94). DEN> Roscoe (Steen Hillestroem, swap, ex Razor 1911, new late94). GER> Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap, triplememb Sanity and Artwork, new late95). After releasing their last demo for Complex, "Real" [04/94], Bomb! was formed by Clawz and Gengis in August 1994. Soon after, they recruited the French graphicians Trajan and Suny, and the Danish swapper Roscoe. In september, they then won the intro competition at the 3S Party with their first release, the 64k intro "Casual" [09/94]. They then worked hard for a few months, and could present to the public at The Party 4 the demo "Motion: Origin 2" [12/94]. The original "Origin" [12/93] (made for Complex) had secured Gengis the winner at last year's party, but "Motion" didn't come in better than 3rd. 1995 - Next they recruited top french graphician Made and spent most of 1995 working on their commercial game Fears, which was previewed at the end of "Motion" and released in September. The game was done by Gengis (code), Hof (gfx), Titan (gfx), Suny (gfx) and Clawz (music). 1996 - Following the completion of the game, Gengis and Clawz released their last Amiga production in the "Saturne 3 Invitation" [07/96], and left for the PC scene - where in addition to scene activities they are currently working on an adventure game. Made now seems to be the only remaining active Amiga member, contributing graphics to productions left, right and center - though mostly for his old group Scoopex. However, he has lately begun doing more and more 24bit pictures in high resolution, and now he also works almost exclusively for the PC scene. Gengis and Clawz first joined Impact Studios on the pc, before moving on to Oxygene. They are now back in their own group Bomb!, though - and the pc section seems to become as powerful as the Amiga one was in its time... Casual (1994, 03.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: Gengis, gfx: Hof/?, Walt/? (car person), music: "Blache Bleuche" by Clawz. Winner of the 3S Party 64k intro competition! review: A cute and nice first production from Bomb. Nice font! The music is kinda unusual for Clawz, but still good. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Motion: Origin 2 (1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Gengis, gfx: Suny, Trajan, Zebig, Hof, music: "Overtaking" (main) and "Intermediate" (end) by Clawz (The Player 6.0A format). 3rd in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Gengis and Clawz followed up the original "Origin" (released for Complex), who won at The Party the previous year, with this great demo. The strongest point of Motion has certainly got to be its design. It opens with a great loading picture by Suny (I believe it also competed in the gfx competition), which looks like it was inspired from the scene in the introduction to the movie 'Cliffhanger'. Then, an eye suddenly looks at us. We zoom into the eye, and the demo begins. We're treated to a variety of good effects, including fast voxel landscapes and various vector environments. The real showstopper however, appears at the end of the demo, when Gengis revealed the first real Doom routine - with walls, floor and ceiling. For more of that routine, buy the game 'Fears', which was developed by much the same team as this demo. The demo is timed to one of Clawz' techno tunes, which sounds great. Then again, few people on the Amiga do techno as well as Clawz... The endpart requires some fast mem, a fact that made it guru when it was originally shown at The Party. However, the whole demo runs perfectly on unexpanded A1200's except the endpart. It supports external drives. Whole-heartedly recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Saturne Party 3 (1995, .07, AGA File). code: Gengis, gfx: Made, music: "Kuulitte Oikein" by Clawz (ProTracker MOD format). review: This is certainly one of the smoothest invitation intros I've ever seen, and the one with the best graphics! It opens with a fullscreen picture by Made, of a small green gnome, before showing a Saturne Party logo with a vectorbased '3' zooming back in place. Then we're taken to the text selector, which is a set of tecturemapped cubes. The great thing is that the cubes have two sides, one French and one English, so you can actually select the language you wish to read the text in! The music is also great, so what more can I say? This is one of the best invitations ever - never mind that the party was cancelled at the date mentioned in the intro, and wasn't held until april of 1996! For further irony, it was at that very party that Gengis released his first production for the pc, Impact Studios' "Bomb", cooperating with - yes, you've guessed it - among others Made and Clawz :-) This was almost certainly Gengis' last Amiga production. He was next in Impact Studios (as mentioned) on the pc, before moving on to Oxygene and finally back to Bomb. As for the release date, I found it on a pack where all the other productions were from early .07, so it's a pretty probable date. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cyberia - ISO Opus 2 (1996, 18.08, AGA 4mb HD Multifile). info: Made contributed graphics to this Scoopex demo, making it a coproduction. See Scoopex' entry for details.  Shaft 7 (1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB HD Multifile Demo) code: Ben, gfx: Titan (logo, gfx), Made (title), Axel (objects), music: "Temple of Sun Remix" by Legend and Yolk (8ch XM format). Winner of The Party 96 demo competition! review: Bomb!'s amiga swansong containted what was perhaps the (upto then) most advanced 3d scenes ever realised on the machine... Beautiful design coupled with fast, great-looking env and bumpmapped objetcs and 3d scenes made this one of the VERY best demos of 1996. Mercifully short, but nevertheless a real powerdemonstration, "S7" is - in my book - the second best demo of 96. What was so special about the demo was perhaps that coder Ben was a total unknown, and to our knowledge never released anything ever again... Made's title picture is a special version of his "Eden 377" (which he came 2nd with in the graphics competition at the same party) with the title of the demo overlaid. Please note that the version reviewed is tagged Revision 2.0, with a few bugs fixed from the competition version. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Bomb Squad ---------- FIN> Baron (trade, doublememb Malice [pc], 03/94), Bright Angel (trade, 03/94), Crime-Z99 (trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94), Eibon (09/95), Fisu (trade, 03/94), G.O.D (trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94), Ice-T (trade, 03/94), Leecher (trade, 03/94), ScE (trade, 03/94), Trash (trade, 03/94). ???> Boheme (music, 08/95), Brem (music, 08/95), Mailman (trade, 03/94). Finnish trader Illuminator (03/94) joined Accession. Ultimate Stress (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 9th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Bonzai (BNZ, 1994-1994) ----------------------- GER> Cocoon (Stefan Hardt, code swap, ex Savage, old handle Mayday, 03/94), Dahaul (Paul Kraus, music swap, ex Savage, 12/94), MDB (Carsten, sysop 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD' WHQ, ex Savage), Ragman (Mark, gfx, 03/94), Solid (Christian Meyer, swap music, ex Savage, 03/94), Sting (Dirk Dallmann, ascii swap). ???> Mirage (gfx, 12/94). Bonzai was formed by Sting/ex Proline. However, shortly after they were formed Sting left to joined Alcatraz instead. The news of BOTH the birth and death of Bonzai were in Propaganda #4 :). In addition to the 'Gimme Alcohol' demo, they also contributed the only game in the game competition at the Dooms Day 94 party. Fox joined Dominators. German swapper X-Poole got an offer to join Platin, but instead went to Nuance. Love Like Blood (File). Sleepless Nights (1994, 13.03, ECS 40k Intro). code: Cocoon, gfx: Ragman, music: "40k Intro Theme3" Solid (4ch MOD format). Released at The Easter Party 94. review: I'm sorry Bonzai, but this intro just bores me. No redeeming qualities, design flaws, and...well, that tune is just annoying. [glenn] Gimme Alcohol (1994, 09.10, Demo). Contribution for the Doom's Day 94 demo competition. Bonzai Brothers (1995-) ----------------------- GER> Cocoon (ex Vodka), Dr.Avalanche (Rene Kueppers, swap, ex Vodka), Risc (mainorg swap, ex Vodka). After Sting lost control over Alcatraz, he formed BB with most ex members of Alcatraz Germany (ROM #4). Apparently, the Brothers in BB was intentional, to avoid confusion with the PC demo group Bonzai. It didn't help much, though, since in Propaganda #4's news section they're consistently referred to as just Bonzai :) ...Still not sure if this group's the same as the one above, due to some conflicting information. When original organizer Sting left, swapper Risc took over as the new WHQ. Hardy (code) and MBD left the scene late 95. Finnish musician The Hooligan left to be in Fanatic only, late 95. Maxx, Powl (both ex Vodka) and Gonzo all joined Illusion late 95. German swapper Ghandy (ex Rebels, new ROM4) and coder Toaster (ex Vodka) left to join Gods. German swapper and founder Sting (ex Alcatraz) joined Abyss late 95. Bonzai Revival (http://www.bonzai-revival.de) --------------------------------------------- Appears to be a revived version of the good old Bonzai, with old member Sting back again! Boom Design (-1994) ------------------- FIN> Hunter (swap, 08/94), Mehukatti (08/94), Tri-State (swap, 08/94). Boom Design was a subgroup of Pulse, before all the members joined the Pulse breakout group, Avantgarde in late 1994. Hunter rejoined the scene late 1995. Norsu Intro (1994, early, ECS Intro). code/gfx/music: Mehukatti. Convex Hull (1994, 07.08, ECS 40k Intro). 19th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Unfortunately, a rather dreadful affair. The only real 'effect' here is a zoomrotator, and we've seen better. Not too interesting. No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Booze ----- Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS Demo). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Borealis (1993-) ---------------- NOR> Felix (swap). Bounty ------ ???> Wild Child, Modemia (swap trade, 10/89). Bounty was a mainly Danish group. 1990 - The group arranged the Bounty Party in august! Wally and others left late 90. Danish coder Gizwiz joined Kefrens. Brainstorm (BRS, 1988-1993) --------------------------- SWI> The Accused (Vermesser Mussler, code editor, ex Setrox, 10/89-08/90), Bird (code, ex Axxis, new 89-06/90), Chester (Andre Schelker, founder gfx, 05/89-08/90), Com (code, 10/89-06/90), E.S.A. (code, 10/89), Fly (code, ex The Perfects, new late90), Grubi (music, 05/89-08/90), Luke (code, 10/89-06/90), Majestic (founder code, 05/89-08/90), Odie (gfx sysop 'CHEESELINE', 10/89-08/90), Oli (gfx, old handle Olivision, 05/89-04/90), Orlando (Orlando Budelacci, code, new 89-08/90), Scattergold (10/89-06/90), Sky (code), Spirit (swi? music, 12/89- 02/90), Taskmaster (swap, new 03-04/90), The Edge (02-04/90), Truxion (gfx, 05/89-08/90). GER> Shadow (swap, 10/89-08/90). DEN> Droid (music). ???> Barrax (ex Extreme), Cobold (swi? 10/89), Extabulator, Mac, Mad Freak (ex Deadlock), Phazer, Scott (swi? music, 90), Top Azz, Voyager. Brainstorm was formed a short while before may 1989 by Chester (gfx) and Majestic (code), and their first release was "Lazer Roll" (05/89). During the summer they recruited more members (like Orlando), and at the end of the summer vacation they were joined by the entire group Axxis. This group had both a Swiss and German section, but the German section was found to be substandard and was forced to leave after a while. Another member, swapper Joker, left the scene soon after. They had by now started planning what would become a legendary diskmag, "Zine". It was originally conceptuated as a cooperation between Brainstorm and another big Swiss group at the time, Setrox, but the latter eventually decided against being part of the project. Due to this, their coder The Accused, who DID believe in the project, left them to join Brainstorm. The first issue was released in october. They were now a totally Swiss group again, except from two members (Shadow, Yankee) in Germany. Sometime between issue 3 [02/90] and 4 [04/90] they decided to kick their German writer Yankee (10/89-02/90) because he wasn't productive enough. He was a freelance writer for D.I.S.C. for a while before finally joining Addonic around 07/90. Also two new members joined, SixPack (old handle Angledust) and Taskmaster, which left them with only one non-Swiss member, Shadow. Swiss members Sixpack (old handle Angeldust, new 03-06/90) and Mr.Frost then left late 90. 1992 - Danish swapper The Pride (ex Flash Productions) left for Sanity around january. A finnish section was opened around january, with Phazer, Extabulator, Hoover, Mac, Top Azz and Voyager as members. The finnish adventure was shortlived however, after Hoover left for Rebels and the section died pretty quickly. After this experience the group decided to have no more foreign members, and went 100% swiss again. 1993 - Brainstorm died in the end of 1993, after some key members - Axel (music, ex The Perfects, new late90), Tin (gfx, new 03/92) and Rob Rose (code, 91) - found some things said in diskmags by Orlando, Chester and Oli stupid. They felt that the name of Brainstorm had been tainted by these interviews, and decided to declare the group dead. So the three members instead started a new group called Brainstorm Productions, with the intention to make a better, more demo-oriented group. Ofcourse, their plans never became what they had imagined, and Brainstorm Productions never released a single thing. Swiss graphician Peace (ex The Perfects, new late90) joined Scoopex late 92/early 93. Metamorphosis (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: Peace, music: Axel. Lazer Roll (1989, .05, ECS Demo). code: Majestic, gfx: Olivision, Chester, Truxton, music: Grubi. Metal Demo (1989, ECS Demo). Sound Disk (1989, ECS Musicdisk). Zine #1 (1989, .10, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: "Zine-Sound" by Spirit (4ch MOD format), editor: The Accused, Majestic. review: Another small piece of history... The very first issue of Zine! The first thing that strikes me (having read a couple of the later issues) is how little the layout has changed since that first issue. It's already a nice mag, and probably the very first one on the amiga that scrolled the pages, and not just faded in the next one. There's no extraordinary visuals or anything here, you just enter slap bang right in the middle of the magazine. Editorially there's not much to shout about though, just 48 articles all included, and that includes a ridiculous amount of 'interviews' with more or less interesting scene people. This mag would improve over time, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #2 (1989, 10.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision (coop title), music: "Zine- Sound II" by Grubi & Spirit (4ch MOD format), editors: The Accused, Majestic. Released at the Brainstorm/D-Tect party. review: First thing that strikes you is that there's now an "intro" picture of sorts as you load the mag...at least that's what I presume it's supposed to be... I can't see it unscrambled on my machine you see, and caches off and original chipset doesn't help either :( But it doesn't crash and soon the second issue of Zine is staring you in the face. Nothing has changed graphically, the mag looks the same, and almost reads the same. There's still endless "interviews" with standardized questions for unknown groups, but just as in the first issue there's also a few interesting articles. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine issue #3 (1990, 07.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision (coop title), music: "Zine- Sound III" by Grubi (4ch MOD format), editors: The Accused, Majestic. review: I still can't see the loader picture, so that is pretty much lost on me, but the mag loads and you can immediately see that graphically it is still the same. It contains about the standard amount of information by now, some 60 articles - and still too many 'interviews'. This issue announced The Accused wasn't going to be working on the next issue since he has to go to the army. New editor from issue #4 would be Orlando. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo (1990, 21.04, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). code: Luke, Bird, gfx: n/a, music: "A.L.II" by Spirit, "Blizzard" and "F.E. Backup1" by Grubi and Spirit, "Jamming", "Loader" by Grubi, "Points of Echo" and "Street" by Scott, "Sparrings" by Spirit. Released at the RSI, AFL and Spectral party 90. Zine #4 (1990, 21.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli (coop title), music: "Zine Sound IV" by Spirit (4ch MOD format), editor: Orlando. Released at the Red Sector Inc, Alpha FLight and Spectral party 90. review: Some new blood in the editor chair for this issue, since previous editor The Accused had left for the army, was Orlando. And it seems the change was for the better: They present a mag with more to read than ever, 99 articles this time! Some changes since last time, writer Yankee was kicked, and their proposed party with Alcatraz was cancelled (hence this was not released there, as promised in the last issue). This was also the first issue with a real news section (though news that Shining 8 are dead were WRONG :). This is perhaps the first GOOD issue, as far as the reading goes, and it now comes across as a much more focused effort than the first three issues. The music is NOT good... :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #5 (1990, 03.06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli, music: "White Song II" by Grubi (4ch MOD format), editor: Orlando. Released at the Alcatraz Pentcoast party. review: Again, nothing has changed on the graphical front (perhaps time for a new logo?). But the improved editorial content is carried on, and the news corner is much more extensive than last time. Also the interviews that swamped the first issues of the mag are now more restrained, and with people that are actually halfway interesting to read about! There's a few less articles than last time (72). This was to be Orlando's last issue as editor, as The Accused had returned from his army service. Just one almost priceless anecdote: After announcing rumours that IBM are planning the release of a new home computer with an 80286 processor (possibly even 386 they claim), they deliver this little comment: "That sounds funny, a scene on a IBM-computer!". Oh, and this little newsgem: "Apple wants to produce a homecomputer, too!" [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #6 (1990, 20.08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: "Black and White" by Grubi, editor: The Accused. review: The Accused returned, with the first issue to have more than 100 articles. Some changes and improvements to the coding and the graphics had also been performed, all changes to the better. This was the first time (actually, the first time EVER) we saw the bar under the articles that allows us to see how much is left of a given article - now a standard feature in any diskmag. This issue also celebrated the first birthday for the magazine, it was now one year old. Comparing this issue to the first ones, you can certainly say that the mag had matured! This was also another kind of celebratory issue, since last month the mag had finally overtaken Alpha Flight's "Cracker Journal" as the no.1 mag on the scene in the Official Eurocharts! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Another Dream (1990, .08, ECS Demo). Solid Communication (1990, .01, ECS Demo). Zine issue #8 (1991, 15.01, ECS Diskmag). Zine issue #9 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Zine issue #10 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Sounddisk II - The Best of Grubi (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Blitter Miracle (1991, late, ECS File). code: Rob Rose, gfx: n/a, music: Axel. review: Impressive for a 1991 demo, innovative coder Rob Rose here shows us routines that shouldn't really be possible on the Amigas at the time :) - like texturemapping and an incredibly fast mandelbrot fractal generator. The overall impression is good, and the fact that the texture- mapped cubes don't always look as good as they could, is quite forgiveable when you consider the achievement. The demo runs perhaps a little too fast on my machine, and cuts to the next part at exactly the moment when the credits are about to appear in the scrolltext. Peeking in the executable doesn't help either, since Rob Rose is probably using his own decruncher or something...I certainly couldn't rip it, at least :( Innovative but sometimes slightly boring. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine issue #11 (pre 1992, .02, ECS Diskmag). info: Issue 11 was the last issue ever released. The diskmag throne was soon claimed by R.A.W... Musicland (1992 late/1993 early, ECS Musicdisk). code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, music: Axel. info: ONLY works with fake fast! Musicland 2 (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, Peace, music: Axel. Brainstormers, The ------------------ Tune Disk (1989, 01.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Metalman-4" by BMD-NAT, "Miguel 03", "Miguel 06", "Miguel 07" and "Miguel 14" by Miguel, "SML29-War", "SML 01", "SML 04", "SML 05 New", "SML 05", "SML 06" and "SML 09 HardVersion" by SML. Brain Wave (1989-) ------------------ FRA> A.Ch (code, 03-06/90), Arrakis (mainorg code, 03/90), Big M, Bytefox (gfx, 03/90), Lecolos (code music, 03/90), Quasar, TIK (gfx, 03/90), Van Gogh (gfx, 03/90). DEN> Krueger (swap, later Kefrens, 03/90), Rain Man. NOR> Shinox (swap pack, late90). GER> EBF (swap), Hijack. ENG> Spellcaster (swap, 03/90. USA> Sergeant Pepper (modem, 03/90). ???> Matthew (ex Savage, new ca 07/90). Brain Wave is french demo group, formed by exmembers of Overgrowth [no entry] and Phoenix in november 1989. 1990 - Towards the middle of the year, some members left to create a French section of North Star. Raistlin was kicked sometime around 03/90. Just For Your Ears (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Funschis/Zenith, Maniac. Cooperation with Zenith. Bravo (1994-) ------------- POL> Phantom (founder org gfx, ex Applause), Tolek Banan (ex Applause, new early95). ???> Flowmaster (editor, new early95). Bravo was formed by Phantom/Applause in 1994. Bronx (BNX, 1991-) ------------------ TUR> Astron (Reha Bicer, code, ex Crash), Barbarian, Eugene (raytrace), Gart (swap sysop1 'SPLIT SEVEN' WHQ), Hooligan, Hunter, Jam, Max (music swap, 06/93), Micro (code), MS (code, 93), Pentagram (code, old handle Phobia, 06/93), Sam, Swat (ex Coast), Thunder, Turbo (founder mainorg gfx ascii swap sysop2 'SPLIT SEVEN' WHQ, 93-96), Victory (swap, ex Saints). SWE> DJ Jones (music, 96), Fire (ex Conqerers), Godhead (ex Transfer), Herlikhan (ex Transfer), Malice (code gfx, 06/93-96), Penny (gfx, early94), R2D2 (ex Conqerers), Randy (org, old handle Dot, late94). FIN> Deadbeat (music, ex Zenon, new 93), Kazz (swap, early94), Vortex (ex Paralysis, 93). SPA> Double R (Jose Jordan, swap). DEN> Cruel, Helloween (Jan Nielsen, swap), Shakesbeer. FRA> Dyze (gfx, ex Nihondreamers). USA> BJ (sysop 'MAELSTORM'). ???> Bacteria (ex Crossbones), Codian (gfx, 93), Judge, Minotaur, Nemesis, Ravetronic (new late93), Zorlac (ex Crossbones). Boards; THE BEER BAR (aut). Bronx was born in Turkiye, of all places, after the Zombie Boys changed their name to Bronx in january of 1991. They are probably best known for their oddly named diskmag "Cemetery News" and their controversial packmag "Auschwitz". Their BBS 'THE BEER BAR' appears to have the same phone number as 'FIRE AND ICE' (sys: Imagic/2000 AD, later Sceptic). The Swedish section was reborn late 94, by Randy (old handle Dot). Their swedish graphician Penny is apparently female. News in Miracle's "Eternal #2" that Dot had joined Balance was WRONG. 1992 - Swedish swapper Goose joined DAI mid to late 92. 1993 - Swapper Beast joined Cyborgs early 93. Dr.Mantrix left mid 93. Bloody left mid to late 93. French trader Bombsquad left for Devils late 93. 1994 - Stranger joined Saints late 94. Mix joined Saints. Mazz joined Freezers. All Spanish members of Intense joined Bronx. The German section was kicked. Finnish swapper Zanu (93) joined Accession. Turkish swapper Kickman (ex Centura) joined Miracle. Turkish swapper Vigo left to form his own group 'Coroner'. AGA Dentro (AGA File). code: Micro, Astron, gfx: Turbo, Dyze (japfont), music: Gore/Zenon (main), DJ Jones (end). review: True to tradition, Bronx don't bother with irrelevant things like release dates; the effects suggest this is from the early AGA period, though, 1993 or 94. Who knows? None of the effects are particularly impressive; the best is the shadebob-like dot effect that form patterns; The rest are just block zoomrotators and dot-routines :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Istanbul Style (ECS Slideshow). Split 5+2=? (Intro). code: Malice, gfx: Eugene (raytrace), Malice (font), music: "Watch" by DJ Jones (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: This one-screen (not counting the fadeout spinning logo screen) BBS intro for the 'SPLIT 7' BBS (clever title, then!) comes without any kind of release date. It was uploaded to AmiNet in early 97, but the dates of the files in the archive are september 92... The rendered spinning Bronx logos are nice. The music is a sort of dance/techno hybrid with little variation or originality. Also, some sort of shadebobs variation is active behind the font of the writer. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Faith of Black (1993, ECS File). code: Pentagram, MS, gfx: Turbo, Malice, Codian, music: Max. Portakal (1993, 03.06, ECS Intro). code: Pentagram, gfx: Surf's Rocker/Independent, Malice, music: Max. DJ Jones' Chip Pack #2 (1996, Musicfile). code/gfx: Malice, music: DJ Jones. review: Malice's cool graphics are the main attraction of this small chippack. I'm thoroughly unimpressed by DJ Jones' chiptunes, but then again I'm probably spoiled by all those great THX tunes I've been hearing lately... :) Anyway, get it for the cute gfx. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Font's a little weird... Browbeat (BBT) -------------- FIN> D.N.A (gfx, 05/89), Freddy (code swap, 05/89), Infinity (Juha Kouri, code, 05/89-94), J-Zax (05/89), Mace (swap, 05/89), Ruzzo (swap, 05/89), Splatter (code, 05/89), Zip (swap). Browbeat was a Finnish demo group, a section of the originally c64 group. Finnish coder Infinity is the author of JNet, a transfer program between the Amiga and the Commodore 64. They were accused of spreading the BGS-9 virus for the amiga. Dots of Browbeat (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code: Splatter, Freddy (additional), gfx: D.N.A, music: "Engura" by ???/X- Men (SoundTracker format). review: Well, a croweded screen is presented here at least! At the top, a mediocre Browbeat logo in what is likely supposed to look like metal, is encased on all four sides by beat indicators moving in time with the music. Below this a small scroller moves, also with beat indicators to its left and right, before another bigger scroller occupies the bottom part of the display. The font used here is also made to indicate metal, but does a much better job of it. Behind the entire display at all times a small string of vector plots move, and the sines can be changed by pressing the right mouse button. And that's about it really =) Some of the scrolltext is really childish, and reveal these guys ages to be around 15... Plus some parts are in Finnish, but I don't really feel like I missed anything ;) The music was ripped from X-Men's Party Invitation, which they admit in the scrollers. This was Splatter's first demo on any computer. The intro appears to work perfecly with the use of KillAGA, but still crashes on exit. This intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released on the 2nd of june 89, plus there is mention one place in the scrolltext that it was written in may of that year, so may is a 100% certain release date. It was likely not released at any party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Brutal ------ FIN> Dna (Antti Liljo, music swap). NOR> Decker. Finnish swapper DNA has placed two ads in the same mag, one as DNA/Brutal and one as DNA/Regency... Bucket (-1997) -------------- ???> Digger (swap), Judas (code), Kordi (code), Necroscope (gfx), NoName (music), PinPong (raytrace), The Soul (code), Zaba (swap). Bucket is a demo group. 1996 - The group released X-Man's 64k intro "Inside" at the Intel Outside 3 party in poland. 1997 - The Soul (code) left the scene late 97, and Bucket died. Inside (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: X-Man, music: Raze. Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Errr.... well, the chiptune is AMAZINGLY annoying and squeaky, but despite that and the lack in design talent =) this actually contains some halfway decent code at least... There is phong objects, mostly, and not the most advanced ones, but there's also a phong space-cut routine that, correct me if I'm wrong, is probably actually a first. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Budbrain Productions -------------------- DEN> Diablo (Rene Bidstrup, music), Psycho (code). Budbrain is the brainchild of the two Danish madmen Diablo and Psycho. Their unique style of demos changed the face of scenery forever when they unleased their first Megademo onto an unsuspecting public in 1990...and the second one was also a big success. 1992 - Sonet left to join Vixen in september. Megademo (1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). Winner of demo competition at the Amiga Conference 90. Megademo II (1990, 26.12, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Diablo. 2nd in the Dexion party demo competition. Byte Busters (BB) ----------------- GER> Bomber (sysop 'PEARL HARBOUR', ex Scoopex), DMC (sysop 'FULL HOUSE' WHQ), Domestos (swap), Loomex (ex Sceptic), Mac (swap). FIN> Fuzzray, Saxon, Sgt.Pepper (sysop 'PARADOX BBS' EHQ), Silverghost (sysop 'SOLID BALL OF ROCK'). SWE> Uncle Acid (Robert Falk, swap). NOR> Voodoo (ex Zone 7, new mid91). HOL> Cubik (swap), The Mega Bandit (swap, late90). ENG> Rich, K-9, Overide. USA> Illuvatar (sysop 'SPATULA CITY'). ???> Daffy (new 06/92), Twix (ex Pirates, new ca 01/92). Boards; RENDE-VOUZ (swe). Byte Busters was a demo group. 1990 - Necro left late 90. 1991 - Danish musician Z.A.P was a member 90-91, and was later Hille/ Insanity. 1992 - Twix joined from Pirates around january. Mike Dee joined Grace early92. Swedish swapper Zaddo (old handle Amory) left for the new Rebels. Swedish swapper Pace left. German Pearl left the scene. Timeless joined Infect. Mike, sysop of 'STOLEN SLIME II' joined Sceptic. Jordanian Picasso (new mid91) left. Jordanian Eagle (new mid91) joined St.Pauls Crew. Jordanian Mutassem (new mid91) joined Damage Incorporated. Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Blackbirds, new mid91) joined Amaze. Norwegians Dr.Voodoo, Selwyn, Dr.Floyd and Cooper joined Paragon. German swapper Rebel MC (pack 'Beach Pak') joined The Special Brothers. Royal, Hydra, Obelix, Evileye, Sadist, Phobos (swe, ex Exact, new mid91) and TLT were all kicked or left on their own accord. Byte Syndicate -------------- Kreator joined Desire. Byterapers Inc. (http://byterapers.scene.org) --------------------------------------------- FIN> Albert (trade, 03/93), Drifter (gfx, ex Vertigo), Dweezil (new 12/90), Grendel (swap trade, 11/91-03/94), Heatbeat (music, ex Sector 4, later Rebels, new 12/90), Hoffi (03/89, later Bloodsuckers), Judge, Jugi Perfecto (music, later Jugi/Complex, 89), Merit (swap, new 12/90), Raduis (ex SOS, new early90). SWE> Speed-Head (music, 04/89). ???> Clever (music, 04/89), CSA, Dark Young, Extabulator (ex Society [no entry]), Hotshot (music, 04/89), Jonez, JS (ex Dual Crew), Kannibal (ex Skid Row), Polo (music, 04/89), Radish (old handle Rogue, mid92). Byterapers Inc. is a group with tradition; perhaps one of the oldest groups on the entire demoscene! They used to be big on the C64, and I believe many of their Amiga members are originally from the 64. They have lately also been making PC demos with great success! 1990 - Their Australian section was formed late 1990. 1991 - Turtle joined Sonic in september. Finnish sysop Illegal ('BYTE ALLEY') was a member for exactly one day in november, but was kicked because of bad reactions to his board. Whale was kicked. T.O.B joined Damones. Finnish trader and sysop Python ('TYPHOON', 07/91) joined The Silents. Another source claimed he joined Complex. The Australian division; Birdzone (new late90), Mogwai (new late90) and The Control (new late90) all joined Insanity. Muzzax I (ECS Musicdisk). Muzzax II (1989, 24.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Speedhead, Polo, Clever, Hotshot. info: 12 pieces of music. Muzzax III (ECS Musicdisk). Muzzax IV (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pole, Speedhead, Jugi. info: Contains 12 pieces of music. Muzzax #7 (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Bytestar -------- Vixen joined Flash Production. Danes Fox and Spiderman joined Atomic Intelligence. Cadaver (CDR) ------------- NOR> Baffle (Dag Stensland, sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', 08/94), Black Tornado (sysop 'GREENHOUSE', 04-09/93), Dr.Backup (swap, ex Dark Cloud [no entry]), Dr.Bully (music, ex Majic 12, 04/93), Dr.Randy (Per Einar Forberg, swap, ex Tech), Frode (gfx, 02/94), Gator (code, 04/93), Jean (swap, old handle Calvin, ex Comix [no entry]), John Coven (Jørn Skjefstadmoen, old handle Covenant, swap, late95), Martin Myhre (Martin G.Myhre, sysop 'MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE', 04/93), Morgoth (code, 04/93), Mr.T (sysop 'THE CRYPT', 04/93), Pathseeker (sysop 'DARK SECRET' WHQ, 04/93), Punisher (swap), Splat! (gfx, re-Acme, old handle Splatter, 04/93-02/94), Stratego (sysop 'HARDCORE HEAVEN', 04/93), Tyrant (Lasse Stangeland, org swap edit, 92-04/93). DEN> Cytron (music, later Depth, new 12/94). SWE> Amon (Robert Falk, also in Mystic), Chimera (Peter Swanqvist, swap). BRA> Bauer (swap, 04/93). FIN> Overlord (gfx, 03/94). ???> Crowley (trade, board closed ROM3), Cyberpunch (sysop 'HIT'N'RUN', busted 04/93), Eagle (code, 04/93), Foxy (gfx, 04/93), Joram (nor? code, 04/93-02/94), Noise Data (sysop 'DIGITAL CITY', 04/93), Skynet, Trouble (sysop 'STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN', 04/93), Uzi (slave, 04/93), Vin (music, 07/93). Cadaver was a demo group based in Norway. Most active around 1993, the group is now dead. Norwegian mainorganizer Thamuz (Helge Norvang, old handle Trauma, 04/93) left the scene. Thamuz was one of two editors of the Cadaver diskmag 'Aggression', and also one of two organizers. Norwegian coder Slummy joined Spaceballs. Norwegian graphician and swapper Snuffy joined Scoopex. Norwegians Nirvana (gfx, 04/93-02/94) and Ludde (code) joined Grotesticle. Norwegian musician Jaw (Anders Ormehaug, old handle Elipsion) left to pursue a professional music career. He has left the scene. Norwegian sysop Decker ('HACK'N'HARD', ex Mirror [no entry], 04/93) joined Spacemarines. Razorblade joined Mad Elks. Mr.Fire, sysop 'REALISATION CENTER' was kicked. Splatter left to form Acme Project, but later rejoined as Splat!. Duke, Birdeye and Li Chien got kicked 94. Concept, DroopyD, N-Gin (nor music, ex Triax), Necro, Overload (07/93- 02/94), Powermad and Scaremonger got kicked. The Finnish division released an intro that the world HQ felt didn't live up to their standards, so as a result the Finnish section got kicked out. These were: Bit (PC Code), Dectech (PC Trade), Maniac, PetShopBoy (Mikko Virtanen, ex Diffusion, later The Hooligan/Fanatic), Safe, Seven (PC Code), Slayer and Slipper (code, ex Diffusion). Aggression issue #1 (1993 or 94 :), ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Gator, gfx: Foxy (panel), music: Dr.Bully, editors: Trauma, Tyrant. Symbiostro (1993, .07, ECS Intro). code: Joram, gfx: Overload, $platter, music: Vin. 2nd in the Rendezvous 93 intro competition. Marianne Myhrer - The Slideshow (1994, 26.02, ECS Slideshow). code: Joram, gfx: Nirvana, $platter, Overload, Frode, music: Anders Ormehaug, Jaw. info: This slideshow - of a girl Morgoth was in love with - got him in a whole heap of trouble... It all ended with her finding out about the slideshow, and suing Morgoth, on the grounds of a hidden part where you could view a manipulated picture of the girl, with her head and someone else's naked body... Restricted (1994, 13.03, ECS Intro). code: Slipper, gfx: Overlord, music: Petshopboy. review: This intro is the finnish section's first production, and it's actually quite ok. It's a very standard design, with logo on top, vector cube moving in the middle and scroller at the bottom. But the logo is actually pretty good, and the design is quite adequate, so... This is by no means a great production - there are a million of these - but it's certainly not the worst of its kind. The music is chippy. Even with KillAGA, there are some graphical errors. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Testiclo (1994, 03.04, Intro). 9th in The Gathering 94 intro competition. Caffeine -------- ???> Rascal (code keyfilemakers, later Hellfire, 95). Calibra (1992-) --------------- FIN> Bearer (93), Dr.Header, Flashburn (93), Fresh-Kid Ice (93), Masque (Jari Laine, gfx swap, ex Addicts, new mid 93), Rastaman (Timo Laulainen, 93), Ripper, Tokela, Tonic (ex Krafted, new mid 93), Zedi (Mikko Ilkko, swap pack). Calibra was a Finnish demo group formed by previous members of Dictators, Reflectors SF, X-Men and Success SF. They once released a roulette game, as well as a dentro and some intros. Netrunner joined Chrome. Moonshine joined Stellar. Finnish Yolk joined Addicts. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Interactive) got kicked. He joined Alpha Flight in the middle of 1993. Calypso ------- Calypso are dead. All remaining members joined Cyberdreams late 93. Camel Corporation (1993-). -------------------------- Camel Corporation was a Danish two-man crew formed by ICronite (Anders Mikkelsen, code) and Milkshake (Kent S. Jensen, gfx) in february 93 after they left Anarchy. As far as I know, "Camel Lights 2112" (93) is the only thing they ever released. Camel Lights 2112 (1993, .02?, ECS Multifile). Cannabis -------- NOR> Woober (Gøran Myrland, mainorg crack music sysop 'ETERNITY'). GER> Cannibal (org sysop 'EXTREME TERROR'). SWE> Kid Curry (org sysop 'PET SEMATARY'). DEN> Flozzy (org sysop 'BATTLE FIELD'). FIN> Speed Freak (org sysop 'THE MAZE'). HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' EHQ). ???> Apollo (sysop 'RIOT HOUSE'), Brem (gfx), Nino (trade), Randall (code), Wraith (trade), Zanok (trade). Boards; RIOT HOUSE. Cannabis was started and is lead by Woober. 1996 - Late in the year Jahmaal left, Lucifer sold his machine, and Nop, Beavis and Filur got kicked. Candle (CDL) ------------ ???> Aeroba (code gfx, 94-11/96), Angel (code music, 94-11/96), Cloud (music, 94-11/96), Lord Bizzare (music, 94). Slurry (1994, File). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Lord Bizzare. Released for the Compusphere 3 demo competition. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Please learn to code. And while you're at it, learn to draw and compose music as well. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Terror (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB Multifile). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Terribly unstable, it crashed my machine twice in different places. What I'd seen wasn't good enough to make me attempt at third time. Supposed to have been released for the Icing 96 demo competition, but time ran out. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Kreijsi (1996, 19.11, AGA File). code: Angel, gfx: Angel, Aeroba, music: Angel. Released for the Compusphere 7 demo competition. review: The biggest problem about this demo, I guess, is quality control. Someone should have sat down with these presumably 14-year-olds and told them to go home and practice some more before submitting this to the public. The graphics are embarassing, the coding has goddamned after burned line vectors as the main attraction, and the music...sort of follows the style of the rest of the demo. The demo is mostly built on supposed humour segments, where by far the best is the tiled face that slides into place, only to have it's eyes flying around in its head, looking at small female breasts. The duck stuff is almost as embarassing as the graphics, though... This demo works on an unexpanded A1200...though this reviewer wishes it hadn't! Back to the drawing board, Candle. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Elvis the Elvisp (1996, 19.11, AGA Intro). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud. Released for the Compusphere 7 fast intro competition. Capsule (CSL) ------------- SPA> Barman (music swap, 10/95-03/97), Dior (code), Dr.Slump (code), Evelred (Mateo Pascual, music, 10/95-01/98), Goreboy (music), Keved (code), Kustom (Ruben Alcanyiz, code, 10/95-07/97), Magnum (gfx, 10/95), Oops! (code, 06/97), Peskanov (code, 06/97), Sativa (raytrace), Vader (code). ???> Creatoor (gfx, 10/95), Dixie (spa? gfx, 10/95), Judas (spa? gfx, 07/97), Nexus (gfx, 10/95), Pink (music, 07/97), Zaac (spa? gfx, 07/97). Capsule are one of the oldest and most well respected Spanish teams. Spanish coder Darklord (10/95) is probably deceased, since "Quicktro" [06/97] is dedicated to his memory. 1997 - Spanish coder Flynn left late 97. 2000 - Spanish musician Estrayk (Carlos Del Alamo, doublememb Nah-Kolor, 06/97-) left the amiga scene for good early in the year, in favour of the growing scene on the Playstation. Estrayk used to be one of the organizers of the group. Career (1995, 14.10, AGA 64k Intro). code: Kustom, gfx: Magnum, Dixie (end anim), music: Evelred. Winner of the Euskal Party 3 64k intro competition! review: Nothing very outstanding about this intro; graphics and design are ok, music's listenable... The most advanced effect, I guess, is the burning ring. Nicest moment: Being kicked in the face towards the end. Not bad; not too memorable either. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Short (1995, 14.10, AGA 1MB File). code: Darklord, gfx: Creator, Nexus (capsule logo), music: Goreboy/N3. 3rd in the Euskal Party 3 demo competition. review: Short is certainly an appropriate name! It's short and not particularly sweet. The best effect has to be the zoom-rotator, which looks good, but unusual. Cheating, people? Music is the usual frantic techno. It's been done to death, and much better than this. If you're tired of traditional music, try out Impulse's "Voyage In Storm" [01/96]! And by the way, that ripple effect on the endscroller is bugged!! 030-50 recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assault! (1996, AGA File). code: Kustom, gfx: ZooN/Silicon (animbackground), music: Evelred (The Player 6.1A format). review: Assault is a very SMOOTH demo, with most routines flowing by like water through my fingers... It opens with a fast but undetailed flight over a voxelspace landscape. It continues with some all-too-familiar afterburned objects...see if any of these ring a bell: duck, torus, face? The best routine in the demo, perhaps, is a colorful tunnel that we blast through at a moderate pace at first, only to speed up considerably as the music changes its mood. Nicely done. Assault does have a certain sense of style, perhaps most evident during the stretching meteorstorm credits part and the intro with the text that appears in time to the soundtrack. To conclude, I guess I like this a little. If they could get a decent graphician in, and consider trying out some new objects they could very well make a killer demo sometime soon :) The music's not anything special, though. I do know that Evelred has won several music competitions, so there's bound to be a few good tunes in him! Please note that the version tested was an '040 fixed' version released to AmiNet 02/97. The demo makes use of Ludde/Encore's c2p routine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. First (1996, 28.07, Demo). 4th in the Euskal Party IV demo competition. Changing (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Quicktro (1997, .06, AGA File). code: Peskanov, gfx: Estrayk (textures), Oops! (textures, objects), Peskanov (objects), music: Evelred (The Player 6.1A format). review: Capsule surprise us here with some pretty fucking amazing 3D! Prior to seeing this, I'd never heard of Peskanov - rest assured that from now on I'm VERY aware of this guy! Quicktro consists of scenes and objects, much like many other recent demos, but the superior amount of color and detail set this three notches above anything that came before it. The main routines here are in HAM6 1x1, with the final toruses in HAM8 1x1. Needless to say, it looks pretty f... amazing. It's hard to speak about this demo without using some 'colorful' language; it's the only way to do it justice! Just wait till you see that galleon... If this is Peskanov's idea of a quick production, then I'm gonna be doing what the figure in the first scene is doing once he releases a full demo! Quicktro obviously needs a faster machine than mine to really shine, but the 3D already knocks the socks off almost everything else even on my machine. The music by Evelred is perfect for this production; powerful but minimalist. There ought to be a law against making demos that are THIS good - it makes all the other ones look like fools! Dedicated to the memory of Darklord. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Trailway (1997, 26.07, AGA HD Demo). code: Kustom, gfx: Zaac (pictures), Judas (pictures, textures), music: Pink (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Euskal Party 97 demo competition. review: Oooh yes! They claim this is an 'unfinished demo' in their accompanying text file, and it does end rather abruptly... But what is here is actually enough to qualify this as one of the best demos of the year! The best thing about "Trailway" is its speed - everything runs fast and smooth, no matter what effects are onscreen! The whole show opens with a nice Capsule logo, then some credits appear. These zoom from 'behind' the screen and into it, and it looks very very cool =) Next is a fullscreen Trailway title picture by Judas. Then a circuitboard texture is mapped on a ball which bounces around...it's hard to describe, but download and be enlightened! :) Then some text appears, 'backlit' with flying blue particles, saying 'are you prepared for demo ART?' Next is what appears to be two snow crystal objects, then the most awesome effect in the demo: An animated envmapped face tries to break out through a box, twisting this way and that in an effect that looks just stunning - a true showstopper! Next is a fast texturemapped cityscape, followed by a cyber- woman fullscreen picture by Judas...then the cityscape routine reappears, only this time with a MUCH large scene - seemingly without losing ANY speed! It's just so amazingly smooth... Then we see Zaac's first contribution, a fullscreen picture of a screaming naked woman with the british flag in the background...and then nothing, the demo just ends. No information available on memory requirement, but we'll hazard a guess at somewhere in the region of 4MB. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. The Last Inline (1998, 25.07, Demo). 2nd in the Euskal Party 98 demo competition. Carillon (1992-1993) -------------------- Carillon was formed by Dweezil and Heatbeat after Heatbeat was kicked from the finnish section of Rebels. After releasing two demos in 1992, they merged with Cyberiad in the first months of 1993 to create one of the best ever Finnish teams; Carillon and Cyberiad Institutes (CNCD). At least Heatbeat (music), Destop (gfx), WDO (code) and Major Tom (music, ex Anarchy) came along to the new group. Despite rumours, Golem (ex Anarchy) never joined DCS, and this was likely the last group the Finnish graphician was a member of. It is believed coder and cofounder Dweezil went to Stellar at the time of the group's death. Finnish musician and graphician Dean (12/92) joined Damones. Finnish members Wraith and Major Tom (music) left the scene 09/92. Didn't Major Tom move on to CNCD? Finnish Bloodstone was kicked, and therefore joined Scoopex 11/91. Love & Anarchy (1992, ECS Trackmo). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Heatbeat. The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Maza/Rebels. 10th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Carnage ------- ENG> Amida (code raytrace trade), Cage (sysop), Eon (org trade), Iceman (code), Kei (org code gfx ascii edit), Kenco (raytrace trade), Mayhem (code gfx), Ruiner (code trade), Spin (code), Thrust (music), Zebedee (code trade). Boards; REMOTE CONTROL (eng), THE ORACLE (eng). 1992 - Swedish musician D-Zire joined The Silents ca 04/92. 1996 - Sykotik joined Steps of Change 04/96. 1997 - English musician Wookie moved to the pc division late 97. English graphician Hip was kicked late 97 due to inactivity. Musician Gin joined Dual Crew. Cartel (-1990) -------------- NOR> Achmed, Antichrist, Arny, FZ, Ozzy, Pab, Randy, Rockie, The Jack, Varmint. The entire group merged into PMC, and are now a part of that group! They also released a demo to announce the merging, see PMC for details. Some of the people this concerns is a.o. Lord Helmet (ex Heatseekers), Zapper and Ramjet. Cascade (http://www.cascade64.de/) ---------------------------------- SWE> Astaroth (code), Chainsaw, Lester, Mastermind. N-L> Jeffrey, The President. DEN> Whee (L. Legaard, code, 90). ???> Gellerman (new late90). The Danish section, with Whee as the only member, does not exist anymore. They kicked Whee!, but for some reason he didn't get the message and continued to release Cascade productions for some time, much to the annoyance of the Swedish members! Please note that Cascade has nothing to do with the similarly named PC demo crew Cascada. Swedish coder Phazor got kicked, and left the scene. Swedish musician and swapper Skimmer left the scene 09/92. Swedes M:ET (ex Rebels), Nick (ex Warfalcons) and Zaxxan (re)joined Rebels. Transmit 035 (File). Cracklight (1988, 03.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party.  Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Whee, music: Martin Larsson. review: I like this! The tune and the visuals make for a nice atmosphere over the whole thing...blue, wavy, nice... Whee mentions an upcoming vacation trip on 20.12-90, so it's bound to be from sometime before that.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Rising (1990, .09, ECS File). Elektrica (ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Astaroth, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: This musicdisk opens with some VERY cool opening logos, before settling on the basic but unexciting main screen. You can listen to the opening tune, or press the right mouse button to bring up a selector. Text in the scroller reveals that RISING was their last release, and that some time has passed since then.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Cache off. Case ---- Musician Protas joined Freezers late 97. Casyopea -------- ???> Cooder (music), Dr.Sky (code), Greg (code swap), Lordwader (mainswap). Noise joined Old Bulls 06/96. Hades joined Deep 06/96). Musician Bartesek joined Mystic late95. Catastrophy ----------- ???> Quaid (ex Grace, new early92), Yama (ex Grace, new early92). Dutch coder D Icelord joined Scorpio. Nanodemo (Demo). info: Made by the dutch division. Catch 22 -------- 1991 - Kross changed his handle to Azi and left the group in june. Cavaleers --------- GER> Risk (John Walter, swap music). ???> Hardy (code music), Toaster (gfx raytrace). Cave (1989-) ------------ FIN> Dr.Feelgood, Ercwulff, Fang, Jupe, Lancer (gfx, 92), Mr.Spiv (Jouni Korhonen, code, 90-92), Old Fart, Stinger (import, 04/90). DEN> Anxious, Infinity, Logic, Magic, Proxt (Lars Svenningsen, code gfx swap, 11/89), Rare, Thunderboy, Tronic, Wombat. GER> Mimsamil. ITA> Yado. USA> Elf-Co (sysop 'ECHO A CALL ON' WHQ). ???> Melis (music, 09/91), Synadex. Cave is a finnish demo group, born after the group Panzerfaust changed their name in the later part of 1989. 1991 - Phalcon joined Aero. In the middle of the year, the following were kicked: Flyxer (fin), Napalm (fin), Curunir (fin), Orion (fin), Phalion (den), Airborne (ger), Dr.Fate (ger), Lemmy (ger) and Newark (ger). Finnish swapper Eku (Vesa Ekholm) left the scene mid 91. Rare left to form a new group mid 91. Anyone know WHAT group? Dope joined Legend. Finns Fix, Hot and Perfect joined Coral. La'Weird (ECS File). Celium (1991, 22.02, ECS File). Revenge of Bob (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Mr.Spiv, gfx: Lancer, music: Double Trouble. Celestial --------- Finnish coder Hook left for Genocide late 92. Celtic ------ GER> Avalon (code swap, ex Avoid, new 06-10/90), Buckaroo (gfx, 10/90), Conan (org swap, 10/90), Crown (code, 01-10/90), Merlin (swap, 10/90), Mr.L (code music, 10/90), Noise (music, 10/90), Slayer (swap, 10/90), Xaik (gfx, 10/90). NOR> Dr.M (swap, ex New Wave). FIN> Pixie (gfx, ex Wizzcat). ???> 16Beat music, new ca 10/90). Celtic were originally a german group, who later took in some foreign members. They were also behind the utility "Demo-Maker V1.1" in 1989, possibly the first program of its kind on the amiga? ;) 1990 - Celtic grew stronger around june, when they entered into a cooperation with Avoid, still under the name Celtic. They also kicked out Slimer, Red Hawk and their german subgroup Highlander (4 spreaders). Bomber and Pinhead from Highlander joined Amaze, while Koto and Guru from Highlander joined Mindkillers. A new musician, 16Beat, was recruited around october. Plasmatronic (ECS File). Soundrevolution #5 (ECS Musicdisk). Demo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). Rip-Demo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). Celtic Frost ------------ Finnish Masque joined Addicts. Centolos (1994-, http://www.webmedia.es/centosis/) -------------------------------------------------- SPA> Humphrey (gfx, ex Necropolis, new early96-97), Barman (swapper, doublememb Capsule), Derethor (org code, ex Sepultura, 12/94-97), Wavemaker (music, new early96-early98). GER> D-Orb (trader, left 96) Centolos is a Spanish demo group, formed for fun in 1994 by various members of other groups that had just died. In 1997 the group merged with Dosis to create the group Centosis - and simultaneously moved the entire group to the pc platform. They are well respected in the pc scene today, mainly due to their role in organizing most parties held in Spain. Thanks to former member Wavemaker (now in Trinity and Glue) for information! 1996 - Humphrey (gfx), Ravana (swap) and Sapphire (code) joined from Necropolis. Bladerunner (swap) joined early in the year. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Specktro (gfx) was kicked and left the scene, and that Derethor is the new organizer of the group. Ravana (swap, ex Necropolis) left. McGyver (music) joined. 1998 - McGyver (music) left. Spanish coder Sapphire (ex Necropolis) left, after winning the 4k competition at Euskal two years in a row with "MD4I" [07/96] and "Asciiparty" [07/97]. 1999 - Bladerunner (swap, new 96-) left the group. The Last Intro (1994, 29.12, ECS 4k Intro) code: Derethor, gfx Agnus Young (ascii), music: none. 4th in the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition. Necrofagia (1995, 22.07, ECS 64k intro) code: Derethor, gfx: Specktro, music: Barman Released as Posadas 95. Oxygene IV (1995, 14.10, ECS 4k intro) code: Sapphire, gfx: Humphrey, music: none. 2nd in the Euskal 3 4k intro competition. MD4I (1996, 28.07, ECS 4Kb musicdisk). code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Euskal IV 4k intro competition! information: The first 4Kb musicdisk ever. Asciiparty (1997, 26.07, ECS 4k intro) code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: Wavemaker Winner of the Euskal 5 4k intro competition! Centura ------- HOL> D Icelord (code, ex Scorpio, new 93), Metal Gear (sysop 'SPHERICAL DREAMS', ex Skid Row), Poison (sysop 'POWER ZONE'), Quasar (code, ex Scorpio, new 93), Radium (Laurens van Klaveren, gfx music, ex Scorpio, new 93), Wizard. SWE> Kid Curry (sysop 'MISAIGON'). GER> Outlaw, TMB (sysop). FRA> Anonym. ???> Ellesar (ex Vicious, new late92), Phantom (sysop), . Some of these names seem to reoccur below, in Cyanide... Centura is dead! Perlon joined Utopia. Mr. Nuke joined Legend. Turkish swapper Kickman joined Bronx. French swapper Cerval (ex Litany, new late93) joined Trance late93. Zed changed his handle to Gemini and joined Pleasure. Steef joined Legend. Cerberos Design --------------- HUN> Big G, Bruce, Cunc, Edison, Silkie, Tope, X7. ???> Fresh Trash (code, 10/91). Cerberos Design is a group that's not very well known. Their coder Fresh Trash coded the much used packer utility CrunchMania. Everyone excpet Bruce, Cunc, Silkie, Tope, X7, Big G and Edison got kicked. Some joined Design House, Soc.Brigade and 23 Celsius Crew. Hungarian coder Comiga (ex Soc.Brigade) left the scene. Hungarian coder Goophy joined Absolute! Jean joined Surprise! Productions. Champs, The ----------- ???> Atom, Buildex, Dr.Pablo (crack), Syntax 2001. The Champs were one of the first and greatest cracking crews! Chaos ----- ???> Cruncher (ex Acume), James (music, 93), Number 6 (code, 93), Thunderbolt (music, 93), Uri (music, 93). Number 6 released the phone hacking tool MACK (Maximum Access haCKer). Brutus was kicked. Chuck joined Submision. MDMA, Schitzo and Case joined Defekt. Tix changed his handle to Stix and joined Equinox late91. Audio Dreams (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Thunderbolt, Uri, James. info: 10 tunes. Guru-Intro (1996, 05.04). 2nd in The Gathering 96 A500 Nostalgia demo competition. Chaos A.D. ---------- SWE> Dezecrator (Markus Merilainen, music sysop, ex X-Trade). NOR> Terminal Silence (ascii). USA> Flatline (sysop). ???> Aggressor, Hellhound, Pitcher, Prospect (old handle Zacco). Boards; 4AM CLUB. Chaos A.D. was born as a subgroup of Ram Jam. 'Chaos AD' is also the title of an album by Brazilian trash metallers Sepultura, which is probably an indication of where they got their name. Trouble was kicked. Dee, sysop 'UNDERCOVER' joined Delight. Chaos AD died, and all remaining members joined Ram Jam. Swedish musician Dose (ex D-Lite/D-29, new PRP4) joined Trance. The Norwegian division left, and some of the members joined a new group called Duplo; Digital (ex Diffusion, old handle Nurnal) and others. Chaos Bros ---------- GER> Chavez (Mark Buonfrate, swap, early98), Dr.Avalanche (Rene Kueppers, swap, early98). Chaos Cooperation (-1989) ------------------------- The entire group decided to join forces with Roadrunners in a new group called Rebels. They released their first joint production in february 89. Chaos Designs ------------- Mohawk and Death joined Acme Projects mid 93. Channel 42 ---------- DEN> Deroy (90?), Grafictive (code gfx, 07/88), Ice (gfx music, 07/88), Sionic (90?), Slim (90?). Is Sionic the graphics ace that later worked in The Silents? Technique (1988, 11.07, ECS File). Code: Grafictive, Ice, Gfx: Grafictive, Music: Ice. Chilblains [new] ---------------- ???> Brain (ex Unlimited), Gold Dragon (swap, ex Unlimited). Chilblains was rebuilt by The Brain/Unlimited. Chip Lords (1992-) ------------------ NOR> CS800 (gfx), Shrike (code), Weejay (music). Chip Lords is a new group. Chrome (CRM) ------------ FIN> Bongo (swap, late90), Butcher (93), Chaosis (code, 08/93), Coma (old handle Chaos... Chaosis?, 08/93), DJ Joge (music, 08/93), Equalizer (swap, 08/93), Hacksaw (93), Maniac (swap, ex Falcons, new 09/92- 08/93), Multiplex (Toni Wilen, code, 08/93), Netrunner (swap, ex Calibra, 08/93), Ray (93), Shark (93), Sir Monkey (93), TC (93), Tornado (swap pack 'Stigmata', 08/93), Vulcan (swap, late90), Whizz (sysop 'KLONDYKE', 08/93). Chrome are a Finnish demo group mainly known for their "Digital Disco"'s and Multiplex' utility FileMaster. 1992 - Australian trader Heavyweight joined Addicts in september. Alien left the scene. Finnish swapper Royal69 restarted the legendary C64 group Wartec on the Amiga mid93. Danes Tricktrax, Subject, Blue Fox and Growl all joined Balance. Finnish Deeprunner (swap) and Morpheus (gfx, ex Stellar, new 09/92-08/96) got kicked. Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Digital Disco (ECS Musicdisk). Digital Disco II (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: DJ Joge. Assembly 93 Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Multiplex, gfx: Morpheus, music: DJ Joge. 9th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. review: In my book this will always be the 'puzzle intro'. You see, the design is based on pieces of jigsaw puzzles, hence... OK, anyroad. There's a few effects and a few textscreens. The best is some kind of colorcycle-plasma thing and a non-textured Doom thingie. As you've probably sensed, I'm bored now so I'm off to do something FUN instead! If you want the graphics from this, just extract the IFF's from the depacked file with WRip or a similar tool.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Digital Disco 3 (1993, late, ECS Musicdisk). info: Generation 6 news said this would be released 'in January'. However, in their Assembly 93 intro they say it's gonna be out 'soon'. Chronos ------- ITA> Alphabit (sysop 'ILLUSION'), Batblaster (sysop 'MUSICAL PHARMACY'), Eniac (sysop 'IRON LAW'), Vegamaster (sysop 'LAST BIT'). USA> Oldman (sysop 'DREAMING CITY', 04/95). Boards; DARK STAR (ger, 10/91). Chronos is an Italian group, with some members in Switzerland. Swiss coder Silence joined Equinox. Chryseis (CHS) -------------- FIN> Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT', 93-04/95), Goozer (trade, ex Alcatraz, new 10/93). BEL> Mr.Hyde (sysop 'BLACK CRYPT', 04/95), Skrull (sysop 'TEAM RANGERS'), Unix (David Lovera, music, 04-12/94). USA> Apprentice (sysop 'CD EXCHANGE', 04/95). ???> Arpegiator (music, ex Anarchy, new late92-93), JMZ (04/94), Lazy Coder (code, 94), Mad Martigan (code, 94). Boards; TOTAL RECALL WHQ (usa, ex Paradise, new early93), MANIAC MANSION (bel). Lazy Coder made the file packer utility 'Chryseis Cruncher'. 3 From 1 (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Arpegiator. info: With design stolen from the MTV music program. 80kb Intro (1994, .04, Intro). production: Unix, JMZ. Released at Low Density 94. Cinefex Design (CFX, 1990-) --------------------------- NOR> B.I.T (music, later Majic 12, 09/91), Bjelland (swap, late90), Dark Angel, Dexter (gfx, 09/91), Express (Gunnar, late90), Fallos (Sven Deuschmann, code, late90-09/91), Floppy (code, ex Wizzcat, new 09/91), Hitcher, Mr.Nobody (ex Wizzcat, new 09/91), Pushead, Slask (swap, late90), S.M.A. ???> Agent Criminal, BTS, Cyberpunk, Da Cato, Dr.Stein, Echo, Engineer, Fodder (nor? 09/91), Gekko, Great White, Icy, Imp, Latex, Mediator, Morbid, Mosher (ex Cosa Nostra), Nautic (nor? 09/91), Sorcerer, Wilpet. Cinefex was a Norwegian demo group, formed by former members of Alpha Flight. Floppy and Mr.Nobody joined from Wizzcat at the Arendal party (09/91). First Demo (1990, 15.05, ECS File). Multiplex My Brain (ECS File). I Guess I Had To Release Something?? (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Fallos, gfx: Fallos (logo), Dexter (font), music: "Another One" by B.I.T (4ch MOD format). Released at the Arendal party. review: A slightly innovative but ultimately deadly unexciting intro. The innovative part is the logo, which has individual waving characters, overlapping each other as the logo waves...but that's about it. Deadly boring for the most part, with lousy graphics and thoroughly boring music. The sinescroll bugs even with KillAGA. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Party Message Box (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Floppy, gfx: Dexter (logo), Floppy (font), music: "Neological" by B.I.T (4ch MOD format). Released at the Arendal party. review: This message box is a rather plasma-heavy production, with an overload of plasma-like color making its overall appearance one of 'too much'! The design is rather basic, with an unexciting Cinefex logo at the top of the screen, a scroller at the bottom, and - you've guessed it - a textplotter in the middle. It is, incidentally, this plotter that has all those plasma colors under it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Circle (1993-1993) ------------------ Circle was a swedish demo group formed in may 1993 by Schizo (ex Noxious), Colorbird, Some1 and Prime (all ex Scoopex). The lifespan of Circle was short, however, as both Colorbird and Schizo later in the year moved on - first to join Alcatraz, then to form Illusion. Most members of Circle later wound up in Illusion, and then eventually Razor 1911. Circle members that moved on to Illusion were at least Lionheart (ex Insane), Some1 and Prime (both ex Scoopex). As a consequence, Circle died. Information in Balance's "Upstream #7" [11/93] that Some1 and Prime joined from Artech seem to be false. Finnish Sphinx (ex Styline) got kicked. Swedish graphician PGL joined Nova, but soon wound up in Illusion with most of his old groupmates. Sometimes I Wish I Was Famous (1993, 31.05, ECS File). code: Colorbird, gfx: Butch/TSL, Tony/Alcatraz (logo), music: Some1 & Prime. 7th in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition. review: The first (and only?) Circle demo is a rather forgettable affair, unfortunately. There's mostly vector and dot-stuff on offer here. The tune initially sounds promising, with some nice use of speech samples and stuff, but the novelty soon wears off. Too forgettable is my judgement. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Propaganda #1 ECS Diskmag). info: The first and only issue released under the Circle name. Issue #2 was released under the Illusion label, issues #3 and #4 under Razor 1911. Circle of Power (-1990) ----------------------- Circus of Power died late 1990, when all members decided to close the group and instead join Abakus - thus creating theat group's Norwegian division. Cirion ------ FIN> Asa (code gfx, 08/96-04/98), Mindeye (Seppo Sinkkonen, gfx, 08-11/96), Viggin (raytrace, 08-11/96). ???> Turbo'boo (fin? music, 09/96). Hope (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 12th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Showstopper (1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin (raytrace), music: Carebear/Orange (The Player 6.1A format). 8th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: A little bland, this. There's the usual envmapping, but nothing to excite me or make me say 'that's original'. In a few short words, it's same shit, new (and not necessarily better) wrapping. The only effect I really liked in this demo is the one with the angray face wrapped onto the sphere. The face twists and waves in various ways. That was ok. There are three raytraced logos and a fullscreen picture. The picture, "Adam Finds Eva" by Mindeye also competed in the graphics competition, where it was unplaced. It says nowhere whether it needs fastmem or not. The system during the endscreen upscroller is weird...Left mousebutton has no effect, while right exits. Weird... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hope 2 (1996, 28.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: ASA, gfx: none, music: Turbo'boo (The Player 6.1A format). review: Taking into consideration the tag line '3 hour production', I was positively surprised by "Hope 2". It's a small, limited production, but with some excellent core code work that shines through, and reveals some good potential beneath the surface. This is a typical 'object' intro, but given that, it's a nice colorful and pretty fat variation. My only real complaint is the rather ungraceful exit it performed on my machine, with the last note of the music beeeeeeping my ears to madness. For three hours worth of work, this is very nice. The C2P routine used was published to AmiNet (dev/asm/asac2p2.lha) 10/96, with the intro included in the archive. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fat/3.0. Naturally (1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB FPU HD Multifile). code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin (objects, trace), music: Carebear. 4th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition. info: Seeing as I don't have a maths processor (FPU), I have not yet been able to see this demo. Is Carebear a real member, or did Orange [pc] just loan him out? He participated in the music competition at the same party under the handle Carebear/Orange and Jamm, so this seems most likely. [glenn] Hope3 (1996, 23.11, 80k Intro). 6th in the Demolition 96 II 80k intro competition. Citron [hol] (1993-) -------------------- Citron was formed in late 1993 by dutch sysop THC/Justice ('MYSTIC PLACE'), but the group didn't exist long before THC moved on to legend, presumably killing the group in the process. This group has nothing to do with the Swedish group Citron. (Citron-point). Citron. [swe] (1993-) --------------------- SWE> Puh (editor), S.Duvan (Johan Alfredsson, founder code, 93-00), Slash (Johan Elm, swap, doublememb Peek [pc], new 94-08/96), Tobias Jansson (founder, gfx, doublememb Sardonyx, old handle Electron, 12/93-12/96). Citron. (note the point at the end) is a Swedish demo group, formed by S.Duvan and Electron in early 1993. In 1994, Slash joined as a double member from IFFTiC. In addition to their own diskmag Oepir Risti (which they are most known for), much of the team also helped C-Lous with their "No Sense" mag. Oepir Risti issue #1 (1994, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Electron, music: Jogeir/independent. info: Intro is a nicely drawn logo by Chevron/The Silents. Music is by Jogeir, and is a conversion of an old c64 tune (original possibly by Laxity). It was reviewed very favourably in Propaganda #3. Oepir Risti issue #2 (1994, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson, music: "Orthanc" by Lizardking. info: The tune 'Orthanc' by Lizardking was later used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II" (1995). Oepir Risti issue #3 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Passion (titlepicture), music: "Chip-Slayer!" by Lizardking. Oepir Risti issue #4 (1994, late, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main, titlepicture), music: "Propaganda # 2.2" by Some1/ Razor 1911. Oepir Risti issue #5 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Drakemule/Exceed (titlepicture), music: "A Way To Freedom" by Lizardking. Oepir Risti issue #6 (1995, 28.12, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Passion (titlepicture), music: "Lost at Home" by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena. Released at The Party 95. Oepir Risti issue #7 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Frame/C-Lous (titlepicture), music: "Wonder Smoke" by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena. Oepir Risti issue #7I (1996, 25.05, Diskmag). code: S. Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main, titlepicture), music: Mittag- Leffler/Nosebleed. Released at Icing '96. Oepir Risti issue #8 (1996, 28.12, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Tobias Jansson/Citron. and Prowler/ Passion (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed, editors: Puh, S.Duvan, Tobias Jansson. Released at The Party 6. Oepir Risti issue #9 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Scoopex (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed. Oepir Risti issue #10 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Alvar Andersson and Prowler/ Scoopex (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed. Clan ---- POL> Bubba (mainorg code swap, doublememb Iris, late96), Ced (gfx), Danthalion (music), Gilo (music), Gizbern (swap), Jigit (gfx), Perry (gfx music swap), Phaser (swap), Pudding (Seba Potapinski, gfx swap, late96), Scyman (gfx music), Spirol (code), Yoyo (edit). NOR> Hurricane (Lars Selvig, org swap, doublememb Void, late 96). Classic [old] (-1991) --------------------- SWE> Dezecrator (music, later X-Trade, 12/89-90), Hoson (swap, 07/90). ENG> Scooter (ex Genesis, new late90). ITA> Mr.M (sysop 'RED & BLACK', ex Skid Row, new late90), Shark (sysop 'INFINITE DREAMS'). USA> Armitage (sysop 'THE MADHOUSE', 90), The Light (sysop 'PURGATORY'). ???> Braindead, Capricorn (new late90), Clairvoyant, Dax, Garp, Jack, Modem Boy (sysop, ex Outlaws, new WHN1), Nuke, Plug1 (code, 91), Problem Child (new late90), Rob Northern, Scan (crack train), Skywalker, Sleaze (new late90), Swapperhead, The Jazz Syndicate (supply, 90), The Skeleton. Boards; APOCALYPSE (usa, 90), PIRATE SHIPS (usa), WARHAMMER (swe), EARTHSEA (swe), THE LINE TO HEAVEN (swi), THE LIGHT BBS (eng), BURN IT UP (+33). Classic was one of the better cracking crews based in Sweden, just like Fairlight and Defjam. The leader was Stalker, and their main cracker was Ringo Starr (both later in the reborn Quartex). They died in late 1991 (most probable) or early 92. 1990 - English sysop Splatt! ('SPLATTER HOUSE' EHQ, ex Vision, 90) joined Horizon late90. Zelnik (ex Oracle old) and Prisoner of Wife (sysop whq) both joined Paradox late 90. Ringo Starr (code crack, 90) left the scene. He later returned as a member of the reborn Quartex, where I have him listed in 96 together with Stalker! German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH', ex Tristar, new 90) joined Storm (90). Dutch sysop BamBam ('DOWNTOWN', ex Oracle old, new late90-91) joined Quartex old. Frenchmen Corsair (code), Foxy and Mr.Video (gfx, all ex Angels old) joined Skid Row. German sysops TCM ('MAGICAL ZONE') and Joker ('SADO CITY', both 09/91) joined Razor 1911 old. American sysop Winter Mute ('MARTYRIUM', new late90) joined Alpha Flight. He later returned to Classic when Classic was reborn. Swedish sysop Wico ('INNER CIRCLE') joined Razor 1911 old, but left them for Scoopex a few days later. Then he joined Rebels!. Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code: Ringo Star, gfx: n/a, music: Dezecrator. Andis Demo (1993, 05.08). 2nd place in the ECC93 demo competition. Classic [new] (CLS, 1993-) -------------------------- SWE> Rob (org modemorg trade salecard, 06/94-07/95), Ozone (sysop 'FAR OUT', ex Complex, 01/95-06/96). ENG> N.O.M.A.D (crack, 11/93). GER> Apollo (supply, 07/94-07/95). USA> Professor (sysop 'ICE STATION ZEBRA', WHQ 11/93, 11/93-04/95). ???> Dog^Bone (supply, 11/93), Kenshiro (ex Outlaws), Rastaman (spread, new 06/95), V-Cut (new 06/95), Whoosh (trade, re 06/95). Boards; PIRATES HAVEN (usa, WHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94), MARTYRIUM (usa, 07/94), PET SEMATARY (swe, EHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94), TERROR DOME (swi, 11/93-07/94), CYCLONE (hol, 07/94), SCARA BRAE (ger, 07/94), TROPICAL PLACES (eng, 11/93), WORLD DOWNFALL (ger, 11/93). Classic was reborn with some of the old members and a lot of guys from Ministry in late 1993. Whoosh was a former sysop, who later rejoined as a trader - confusion city :) 1995 - Stain is no longer a member 06/95. 1996 - American sysops Glacier and Black Ice ('ICE FLOW NORTH', 07/94) are no longer members 06/96. Classified ---------- FIN> Major Tom (Mika Keskikiikonen, code music). Major Tom is the author The Holy Noise musiceditor, used in the musicdisk of the same name. He was later (or earlier?) a member of Anarchy, then Carillon. The Holy Noise (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code/music: Major Tom, gfx: n/a. Clique (CLQ) ------------ ???> Bloody (trade, new 06/96), Cool Shot (sysop, triplememb of Hoodlum and Virtual Dreams), Cooper (music), Detail (code trade, ex TRSI, new 04/96), Kris (gfx cosys, ex Scoopex, new 04/96), Master (code, new 06/96), Melih (code), Mit (code, new 06/96), Ravel (gfx), Remix (trade), Smile (trade, new 06/96), Sparky (code trade), XTD (music, doublememb TRSI and Mystic, new 04/96). Clique is a demogroup based, I believe, in Turkey. They are closely related to their mothergroup from the c64. They announced that Sonik Clique stole their name 04/96. Sonik Clique is mainly demoscene-related and Clique is mainly modem-related, but they think they were the first to use that name (04/96). The group's homepage, http://www.clq.com, appears to have gone down indefinitely. Clones ------ FIN> Awkward, Brainbreaker, Gizzy (swap, 01/90), Helix, Idle, Jurkis, Ooze, Particle, Sir Arthur. AUS> Psycho. 1990 - Nikki Corruption left clones late this year. Cloned Stuff (ECS File). Securitate Party Intro (ECS File). C-Lous (CLS/C!S, 1993-, http://w1.312.telia.com/~u31212216/) ------------------------------------------------------------ SWE> Claw (Jan Almqvist, gfx raytrace music, 12/95-08/97), Crazy D (Fredrik Johansson, swap), Frame (Joakim Bengtsson, mainorg gfx ascii swap editor 'No Sense', ex Medicine, doublememb Subspace ROM9, also in Peek [pc], new late94-09/97), Origo (Mattias Nilsson, code, triplememb Subspace, 08/96-08/97), Prospect (Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Ram Jam, doublememb Subspace, later Endzeit, 04/95-08/97), Racoon (Lucas Edman, music, doublememb Darkage 02/98, new late97-02/98), Scout (Mikael Kalms, code, doublememb Artwork late96 and Appendix 07/97, 08/96-08/97), Zent (Fredrik Johansson). GER> Case78 (ascii swap, triplememb Scoopex [details] and Head!, 96). ???> Devotion (swe? code, new 97-08/97), Reverend D (swe? sysop), TMK (gfx, 08/97). C-Lous was a swedish demo group, born in 1993, and with the leadership of Frame. They grew from a local swedish group to one of international proportions, with a few of the scenes' foremost coders - Origo, Prospect, Scout - as members. The group's first demo was released at the MCS Party in july of 1993. Crazy D and Zent have the same real name.... 1996 - The intro "Rektum Analis" [08/96] finished 5th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition. Swedish graphician and swapper Pozz (Patrik Johansson, 12/95-09/96) decided to leave the scene some time after this, and "Rektum Analis" was his final production for the group. 1997 - Swedish musician duo Some1 and Morrow (08/96) left to join Rebels in august, after making music for one of their recent demos. Frame contributed a logo to Abyss' "Klub Diznee #4 - Beverly Hills Cop'ed" [09/97] music file demo. Swedes Mega (music), Mr.Mygg (music, 12/95), Stardust (gfx, 11/95) and TmX (gfx, 04/96) all left to form a new group called Dole. Swedish swapper Slash left, he is presumably still in Citron. Musician Jozef has left the scene. Swedish sysop Qen ('ODIUS', ex Solitude) left for Squash. Musician Raiden (ex Insane) is no longer a member. Swedish swapper Yaffle joined Insane. ECC 93 Intro (1993, 05.08, Intro). 7th in the ECC93 intro competition. Suicidal Tendensy (1994, 02.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Claw, Pozz, music: Claw. Released for The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: This was supposed to compete in the Gathering intro competition, but was disqualified because the decruncher needed fastmem. Origo was reportedly VERY upset. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Suck Dick (1994, fall, AGA Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Frame, Pozz, music: "Ccccp" by Mr.Mygg (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: An average intro from Origo, with most of his common effects. That means a zoomrotator (this time with a smiling purple face =]) is always present... This intro looks like any of his other 40/64k'ers, only with less chippy music. Too bad Origo couldn't use the extra space to create something more worthwhile... Seriously lacking in originality. And why the excessive profanity, Origo? Special thanks to Pozz for at least helping me date this, at least approximately. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. At The Party (1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, Frame, music: "Det E Gott Med Snacks" by Mr.Mygg (ProTracker MOD format). 12th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Works fine on the A2000, but was obviously made on a faster machine - the effects take forever to finish. Also, the opening graphics are somewhat fucked (if colorcycling wasn't intended...and given the way it looks, I think not!) It works perfectly fine on the A1200. Press the right mousebutton to pause the zoomscroller and text. [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Das Omen (1995, 01.04, Demo). 2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 demo competition. Time Square (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Destructor/Obscene. 2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition. review: It's the design more than the code that sets "Time Square" apart from the competition, and secured its second place. Effects here include a chunky tunnel, yet another variation on the cityscape from Pygmy Projects "Extension" and some spacecut spheres. But, as mentioned, it's the design and execution that sets it apart. It has an air of professionality to it. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Virtual Conspiracy (1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Mr.Mygg. Released for the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition, but was unplaced. review: Apparently, there's something wrong with the way graphics are displayed here, since several effects look strange on my system - even with KillAGA - and the first effect isn't properly displayed at all. Due to this it's hard to judge the intro as a whole, but it doesn't really look like I've missed something. Interestingly, this intro ALSO has a variation on the "Extension" cityscape! Ultimately quite limited. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. Freebased (1995, 18.06, ECS 64k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Morrow & Some1/Razor 1911. Winner of the Icing 95 intro competition! review: Not bad at all, this little intro. It opens with a nice little C-Lous logo by Pozz, then continues onto a gouraud/texturemapped spacecut routine. Next there's some bitmap manipulation on a picture of a face... There's a couple of more routines too, but you get the picture. The tune's not too bad, though the chipfactor is a little high. Though the intro works fine on my machine, it obviously runs too fast for its own good... Some of the objects really sprint off! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 95 40k Intro (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 5th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Instinct (1995, 07.10). Released at Party Remedy 95, apparently out of competition. Masque (1995, 12.11, Demo). 2nd in the Compusphere 5 demo competition. Life With a G-String (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, Pozz (picture), Slime/Rebels (logo), music: "Feel the Hedgehog" by Mr.Mygg (Tracker Packer 3 format). Released at The Party 95. review: Very cool, smooth opening to this polished little demo from C-Lous, highlighted by some excellent graphical work. The code is nothing really special, just the twister bars early in the demo were special. This was most probably released outside the competition. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mixed Emotions (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Soul/Movement. 3rd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This intro can thank OK design for achieving the place it did. The coding is not too fabulous, but as mentioned the design and music are the saving grace here. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kolor (1996, 26.05, Demo). code: Scout, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 5th in the Icing 96 demo competition. Kolor Remix (1996, 16.06, Demo). 2nd in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Rektum Analis (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Origo, Scout, gfx: Pozz, music: Some1 & Morrow. 5th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition. review: This is very good! From the moment the C-Lous logo smashes onto the screen to the first beats of the bassdrum, you know this is a competent production. The techno music kicks quite a bit, and does not suffer from the chip syndrome (squaeeeaaakk...) at all. Definitely cool! There are four effects here, all sharing the rather purple palette. We're treated to some shading, a tunnel, a voxelspace and some multiple toruses. It's all over rather quickly, but it's a sweet ride. Works on standard A1200, but a 030 and fastmem is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/040-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. No Sense #2 (1996, .09, Multifile Diskmag). code: Origo, Scout (additional), S.Duvan/Citron. (additional), gfx: Gfx- Twins/Essence and Scoopex (title), Tobias Jansson/Citron. (welcome), Frame (main), music: "Dosk Forever" by Some1 & Morrow featurning Lizardking, "Hazel" by Elusive and Radix (both 4ch MOD format), editor: Frame. review: This mag opens great, with a fabulous title picture by the Gfx- Twins to the first beat of the equally great music...then the picture fades down and there's a really cool little welcome-animal to greet you! So we start to explore the mag...and it feels just great! Smoooooth scrolling, a goodlooking panel, and an overall air of professionalism oozes out of its every pore! Well, have spent over an hour reading already...and I can just say that the feeling continues! The code is perfect, the mag's pleasantly written, and there's oodles of interesting and thoughtful material! Just great! It would be a CRIME not to download this mag, ok? Oh, and it multitasks - naturally! If you want the tunes, just depack them (they're in the 'music' directory), and they're ready to go! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. No Sense #3 (1996, autumn, Diskmag). code: Origo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Frame. Showbase Shape (1997, .04, AGA Demo). Released at Icing '97 Beta, placing uncertain, but probably won! CNCD (1993-, http://www.cncd.fi) -------------------------------- FIN> Case (code, 12/95-12/97), Dean (Mikko Lipiainen, gfx music, doublememb Damones, 93-95), Destop (Jani Isoranta, founder gfx trade, re-Anarchy, 02/93-12/97), Dizzy (Juha Kujanpaa, music, 12/93-08/95), Fraction (Juha Huuskonen, code music, doublememb Damones, 12/93), Golem (93), Groo (Sami Jarvinen, music, doublememb Virtual Dreams, 08/93-12/95), Heatbeat (Antti A. Mikkonen, founder music, 02/93-08/94), Juliet (code, 12/95), Konnu (code, 02/93), Major Tom (founder music, 12/93), Prime Premium (Ville Hyvonen, music, 93-95), Stelios (Stelios Stagakis, code, ex Scoopex), Uncle Sam (93), WDO (founder code, re- Anarchy, 08/93), Yolk and Legend (music, 12/97). SWE> Louie (gfx, doublememb The Black Lotus [details], new ROM9, 12/97). HOL> Mark (Mark Dankers. trade music, ex Banal Projects, new 08/93). ???> Hmd (code, 12/97), Sly (code, 12/97). CNCD resulted as a merger of the two groups Carillon and Cyberiad. Some of the above, like Juliet and Destop, are active cross-platform. Probably their most famous member must be the now-inactive Heatbeat, one of the greatest musicians to ever grace the Amiga platform. Finnish musicians Groo, Dean, Heatbeat and Dizzy have released a CD called simply "CNCD" through scenerelated record company TRSI Recordz. News in RAW #6 that Dean and Fraction joined Damones are untrue, they just joined as doublemembers. 1994 - Groo contributed music to Stellar's 40k intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94] at The Party in december. 1997 - And just when we thought we'd heard the last from CNCD they strike back with a "Killer" [12/97] of a demo at The Party! Finnish graphician Kube (05-12/95) left to join Stellar (ROM4). How can this possibly be right, when ROM4 was released 05/95, and the "Closer" demo was released 12/95!? The dutch Astro, who was a CNCD and Movement doublememb, left them both for Virtual Dreams. Comedy Iceland (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Konnu, fx: Destop, music: Heatbeat. review: This one's a small, simple, but nice BBS intro for 2000 A.D.'s Finnish board Comedy Iceland. It's a one-screen intro, but still quite OK. The bouncy, cool tune by Heatbeat lifts it a lot. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Cubes at top didn't fill properly, otherwise 100%. Musical Rabbit (1993, .07, Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sedat Soitta-1" by Dean (The Player 5.0A format). info: Described as a 'mini-music-disk'. Aquarium (1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Fraction, gfx/music: Dean. 6th in the ECC93 demo competition. review: Not a very good one, I'm afraid... It's a short trackmo without too much to shout about. It's too AVERAGE for the most part, with neither the gfx, music or code ever really coming alive. The only sign of innovation was the broken glass vector cube, I haven't seen that before. Still, it's just a vector cube variation. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: At first it crashed. Then I tried kicking down, and it worked. Then, just for fun, I tried it without kicking down, and it worked again! Why? Haven't a clue... Plastic Messiah (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Groo & Mark. Split 3rd in the Assembly 93 intro competition.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Morbid Visions 3 (1994, early, ECS File Slideshow). code: Fraction, gfx: Dean (title), Reward (scan and retouch), music: Dizzy (The Player 5.0A format). Cooperation with Complex. review: Quite good slideshow detailing various Finns' adventures at The Party 3. Entertaining and good. Without KillAGA, keyboard control does not work. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0, -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Sorry, No Elmers In My World (1994, File). code: Fraction, gfx: n/a, music: Groo.  Uulima (1995, File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Andy/Banal Projects (The Player 6.1A format). review: Ok? I don't get this one... It's just a few lines of text and a weird face spinning a couple of times. It's all over in 30 seconds, and sort of leaves you wondering 'is that it?' 121k for a spinning face or two, a tune and some Italian hardly seems right. The only credits say 'CNCD with Andy'... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Deep (1995, 14.04, Demo). Cooperation with Parallax, see there. Closer (1995, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Juliet, Case, gfx: Destop, Kube, music: Groo. Winner of The Party 5 demo competition! review: Whoaaa... This signals a new age in the way demos are made. Instead of the old effect-effect-effect demos, this is more a journey through (chunky!) landscapes and colors. The biggest drawback, I feel, is the music. It's not really a TUNE as such, it's more just music made to suit the demo, without an identity of its own. Wasn't that flower picture by Kube used in RAW #8, albeit in lower resolution? At The Gathering 1996, CNCD released a PC demo called "Inside" [04/96] from much the same team as this one. Given the name, I suppose it's a sequel of sorts... Anyway, if you (like me) have a Pentium gathering dust in your bedroom (any room will do, though ;), it's well worth a look! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Killer (1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile). code: Case, Sly, Hmd, gfx: Destop, Louie, music: Yolk and Legend. 2nd in The Party 7 demo competition. review: "Killer" opens with a totally red screen to the first bars of the music... and keeps it there for long enough to let everyone think something is seriously wrong with their graphics displays! And, it would appear, they are perhaps right... I do not know what it is, but I cannot get this demo to do anything but display that red screen and play the music on my system. I've tried clean boots and everything, but nothing seems to help... Anyone? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Coast ----- GER> Exodus (sysop 'TRASHZONE'). Coast was a German group. 1991 - Sean, their old leader, left for TRSI in september. Swat joined Bronx. Douglas joined Exort. Cocoon Dezign ------------- Once a subgroup of Motion, but they were kicked or left. Deathlord will leave. Cola Sector ----------- Norby joined Investation. Collision --------- ???> Coroner (ex Compact). Color ----- GER> Rebel MC (sysop 'COLOR', 09/91). Coma (1990-1992) ---------------- GER> Don, DSP, Led, Mano, Mulloch, Panther, Pulsar, Stranger (swap, 01/91), Vipek, Warrior. FIN> Apoplexy, Soy. USA> Mad Max (music, 08/91). ???> Aljechin (ger? code, 90-08/91), Blockbrain (gfx, 05/91), Braindamage (ex Intuition), Darxon (gfx, 05/91), Dave Tough (gfx, 03/91), Elwood (code, 05/91), Tool (music, 02/91), Topaz (music, 03-05/91), Wave (music, 02/91), Zorba (gfx, 03/91). Boards; MATERIAL WORLD (new mid 91). Coma was a german demo group, first formed at the Action Conference 90 in october, and became a fully operation group at the the Amiga Expo the following month. It was a fusion of the three groups Antares, Exage and Exess. 1991 - Coma was very active in their first months of existence, releasing several intros and demos at both the Action Conference in february and the CeBit 91 in march. More intros and demos followed, until the group was completely reformed around the middle of the year, and a lot of 'dead meat' was forced to leave. This probably means Mr.L, Cato, Tomcat (music), Slugger, Lawbreaker, Tracer, Booker, Chatman, Alva, Hellraiser, Rockstar (ex Agile, new mid91), Ariel, Calypso, Sub Zero, Ze Worst and Hygraicc. This event was announced in their intro "Kick Out". Finnish member Curse joined Arise in september. The releases kept coming, with several new demos like "Burger Hill" and "Hot Dots" and the first two issues of their successful diskmag, "McDisk" the future looked great. Swiss swapper Antifast joined Zenith late91. 1992 - Unfortunately, the start of the year would prove disastrous for Coma. After releasing the third issue of "McDisk" in january, their three best german coders (Microforce, Cosmos and Zap) joined Sanity; their best musician (Virgill) joined TRSI and the rest of the group - Control, Mad Butcher, Head (old handle Amok), Jackie D., Mission, Tom Copper, Mop (ex Dartagnan/Axis old, new mid91), Nick O'Teen and Aahz - decided to join Alcatraz rather than keep it going as a separate group. Their diskmag came with them to the new group. Cytax' "I.C.E #8" [mid92] reported that the group Interactive was born by former members of Equinox, Coma and others, so some former members probably also found their way there. Germans Renegade (gfx, 01/92) and Orbit (08/91) joined Design, probably early 92. German Tripex (02/91) joined Equinox. Englishman Jongle joined Damage Inc. German swapper Brutus joined Armageddon. English coder Hotspur (old handle Jedi) joined Addonic. Comic-Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: The intro that announced Coma's birth. Floodland (1991, .02, ECS File). code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Amok, Mad Butcher, Tripex (vectorobjects), music: "Future Complete" by Wave & Tool (ProTracker MOD format). Comic-Intro 2 (1991, .02, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Works (1991, 27.02, ECS File). code: Mission, gfx: Amok/Coma (logo), Metallion/Kefrens (font), music: "Dream It3" by Tomcat (StarTrekker 4ch MOD format). Floodland II (1991, 02.03, ECS File). code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper, Mad Butcher (font), music: "Dream. Again.Final" by Tomcat (ProTracker MOD format). 3rd in the Treacl and Panic party demo competition. Party Intro (1991, 02.03, ECS Intro). code Aljechin, gfx: Zorba (logo), Metallion/Kefrens (font), music: n/a (Future Composer 1.4 format, 16672 bytes). Released at the Treacl and Panic party. Exotic Pack #2 (1991, 02.03, ECS Packmenu). code: Aljechin, gfx: Zorba, music: Leffty/Tristar (Future Composer 1.3 format, 66074 bytes). Released at the Treacl and Panic party. Boring Bobs (1991, 16.03, ECS File). code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper, music: "Jambala Converted" by Jochen Hippel/Thalion (Future Composer 1.4 format, 81670 bytes). Released at CeBit 91. info: This was Aljechins first demo. Cebit 91 (1991, 16.03, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Tough (pic), Tom Copper (font), music: "Piknukiple 1" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). Released at CeBit 91. The Gallery Intro (1991, 30.03, ECS File). code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper (font), music: "Futility2" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). BBS Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, music: "Collusion" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). info: On A1200 systems, turn cache off, chipset original. Kick Out (1991, Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Control & Amok, music: "Headcrash-Intro3" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announced the complete reformation of Coma, and a lot of old members were kicked out... Sunset (1991, 08.05, ECS File). code: Elwood, gfx: Blockbrain (logo, endpartpix), Darxon (font), music: "Polyprint" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). Delicious Fruits #4 (1991, 17.06, ECS Packmenu). code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Touch (logo), Tom Copper (fonts), "t.k.g. Credits" by Ray Norrish/independent. info: The music was ripped from the game The Killing Gameshow. One Night (1991, ECS Demo). code: Laserdance, Falke/TSB, Mad Butcher, gfx: Ivan/TSB, Amigaze, Tom/Coma, music: "Micro-Tyxe.gts" by GTS/TSB (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with TSB. Burger Hill (1991, ECS Trackmo). code: Aljechin (burger anim, vectorlogos), Orbit (plasma, adresspart), gfx: Spider, Zorba (font), music: "Tbb-Plasmacrap" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). Spiders Slide (1991, 06.08, ECS Slideshow). code: Aljechin, gfx: Spider/D-Tect, music: "Vision Fear - hm" by Twisted/ D-Tect (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with D-Tect. McDisk #1 (1991, .08, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Orbit, gfx: n/a, music: "Sonata a la Zamfir" by Mad Max (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: Mission, Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper (design), Spider/D-Tect (anims), music: "Mc.Disk Final..." by Tomcat (ProTracker MOD format), editor: Mad Butcher (main), Amok. Mc Disk #2 (1991, .10, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, Zoom/TSL (logo), music: Virgill. Hot Dots (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Jackie D., gfx: Nick O'Teen, Tom Copper, music: "High Density" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). 2nd in the Prime 91 demo competition. McDisk Issue #3 (1992, 25.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Zap, gfx: Renegade, Tom Copper (logo), Facet/Anarchy (loading pic), music: "McDisk3_Intro" by Microforce (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. GLE tested A500 /000/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Comakids (CKS) -------------- SWE> Cre8or (sysop 'A BASE', 01/95), Dexter (sysop 'TOTAL DISASTER', doublememb Alpha Flight, 01/95). Comax ----- SWE> Zcandaler (sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', doublememb Duplo, 01/95). Combat-18 --------- DEN> Zoonie (sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', 04/95). Mordred joined Defekt. Comedy ------ Comedy was formed by the best members of Mad Sorcerers (Eksec, Zorro...) and G-Force. I believe most of the members I know about - Smack (code, 02/92), Eksec (code, 02/92), Zorro (gfx, 02/92) - later joined Infect. Terror Pack Mag #1 Menu (1992, 07.02, ECS File). code: Eksec, Smack, gfx: Zorro, music: Merlin/Sonic. info: Works fine on my A500/1mb/2.04. Compact (-1992) --------------- FIN> Agony, Clr, Crom (sysop 'GENESIS III'), Dica, Dope, Eldar, Gambler, Godfather, Lorimar, Netrunner, Optic, Secret-X, SJ, Soldier, Synthoid, The Bull, X-Tasy. Compact was declared dead late 1992. Please note that Compact, based in Finland, and Compact Inc, based in Norway, are NOT the same group! Sentinel and Thor joined Grace. Coroner (ex Xentrix) joined Collision. Genesis III BBS Intro (ECS Intro). Compact Inc. ------------ NOR> Acen (ex Phase), Crimson (code, ex Sciff/Alive, 12/92), Enzian, Fizban (code, old handle Whiplash, ex Phase, 12/93), Flash Fox (gfx, 12/92), Jelace (music, ex Connection), Matt (code, ex Hiron [no entry]), Omaha Thunder (sysop 'PRO PARIA' earlier 'DIGITAL PLEASURE', ex Destiny, 07/94), Online (sysop 'TOONTOWN'), Peloquin, Psimon (music, ex Razor 1911, new late92-12/93), Scientist (code), Scud (music, 12/93), Shocker (gfx, ex Razor 1911, new late92-12/93), Unix, Zenit (swap sysop 'WALL STREET' opened 09/92). BEL> Ikon (ex Decnite, new mid93). ???> Alex, Da Vinci (old handle Gemini), Howard (new late94), Minion (gfx, 12/92), Scorpio (gfx, 12/92), Spadowski, Turrican (new late94), Van Diemen (new late94). Compact Inc. also had a PC subgroup, called Rave Nation. Scorpio returned to the scene after a little break in 94. Please note that Compact, based in Finland, and Compact Inc, based in Norway, are NOT the same group! Sunburst and Agamemnon got kicked. Norwegian Jack (ex Desire, new late92) was kicked 09/92. Norwegian Phil (ex Desire, old handle Switchblade) left the scene. Norwegians Powerpack and Tobias left the scene late 94. Space Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sciff, gfx: Minion, Flash Fox, Scorpio, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs. 17th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Hiplash (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Fizban, gfx: Shocker, music: Scud. 8th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Hiplash 2 (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). 6th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. Company, The (1990-) -------------------- FRA> Corsair (code), Shadow Lord (supply). GER> Phil (sysop 'MAIDEN HOOD', 10-12/91). SWE> Porta (sysop 'EAGLE'S NEST'). USA> Nosferatu (sysop 'DANSE MACABRE', 12/91). ???> Gator, Link (supply), Triton, Ultimate Warrior (new mid 91), White Snake (supply, 12/91), Yeti (train, 91). Boards; PIRATE CHIP (usa, 91), GURU HEAVEN (usa, 12/91), PHANTOM ZONE (ita, 12/91), SECOND WORLD (ger, 93). The Company was formed in 1990 by ex members of Paranoimia and Quartex. They were one of the better cracker group while they were operating. They released at least two cracks in cooperation with Vision Factory. 1992 - Germans Cannon, Darkstar and Fade One all left for Complex around january. The 'WORLD OF MIRAGE' BBS (WHQ, 91) joined TRSI. Black Ghost left for Vogue after 2 weeks (mid 91). French sysop Ashton ('ACID RAIN') left the scene to study mid 91. French Mr.Video stopped all acitivities, and Foxy got busted late 91. Germans Selim (trade sysop 'THE JAM', 01/91), Rudi and Oliver joined Skid Row mid 91. Complex (CLX, http://www.komplex.org/) -------------------------------------- FIN> Artifex (Henri Loikkanen, gfx, ex Stellar, 12/92-08/96), Banzai (code, ex Advance), Blade (06/92), Breeze (ex Amaze, new ca 01-06/92), Cable (code, 06/92), Cockatrice (gfx, 06/92-95), Delorean (Sakari Hannula, music, 06/92-95), Der HM (music sysop 'THE WATCHTOWER', 07/91-95), Dweezil (code), Fuzzy (trade, ex Dual Crew, 02/93-03/94), Gremlin (gfx, 06-07/92), Hotshot (Jarkko Sopanen, gfx, ex Stellar, 08/93-95), Hyde (Harri Hytoenen, trade, 06/92-12/94), JHL (code sysop 'ZENLANDIA', ex TRSI), Jugi (Jukka Kaartinen, gfx music, 06/92-04/94), Mic Dair (Aki Sihvonen, mainorg music trade sysop 'NAUSEA', 06/92-95), Outlaw (Janne Kontkanen, code, 10/94), Reward (Sami Vanhatalo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new 92-08/96), Tai-Pan (Antti Toiviainen, code, 06/92-95), Tom (code, ex Advance), Zeque (code, ex Reflect, new mid93-95), Zoltar (music, ex Advance). GER> Cannon (ex The Company, new ca 01/92), Darkstar (ex The Company, new ca 01/92), Fade One (gfx, ex The Company, later Essence, new ca 01/92), MCM (code, ex Spaceballs), RTD (code, ex Mexx, 12/94), Virgill (Jochen Feldkötter, music). SWE> Damien (sysop 'PURPLE PLEXUS', ex Aurora), Pace (Roger Andersson, swap, ex Insane, new late 94). N-L> Camelot (sysop 'ETERNAL CHAOS'). ???> Blue (ex Offworld, 06/92), Camelot (04/94), Contra (ex Niagara [no entry], new late93), Dalton (code), King Cobra (sysop, new 06/95), Mr.Spiv (fin? code, 04/94-95), Nukeman (ex Anthrox), Olwi (code, 04/95), PHS (ex Offworld, 06/92), Proton (code, 95), Shade (ex Offworld), TNM (04/94). Boards; CELTIC PATH (ger), TOTAL CHAOS (ger). Complex is a legendary demo crew, based in Finland, where their leader Mic Dair lives. For a great many years they worked on the Amiga, though they now seem to have abandoned our platform completely in favour of the PC. Their PC section still has most of the original members, like Jugi. Mr.Spiv is the author of the packer program StoneCracker. German musician Virgill joined Complex according to PRP4, but Virgill made music for the TRSI demo "Twin Peaks" [12/96]... I believe the truth is closer to a double membership. They have released an unknown number of issues of their diskmag "Maggy". Artifex came 2nd at at ASM95 with "Mystery". When King Cobra rejoined 06/95, the news read '...is back with a new board'. 1990 - Hyde left the group to join up with rising star Image around the middle of the year, but left after a not too short time, and eventually found his way back to Complex. 1991 - The Finnish board 'COMPLEX SOFTBANK' (pc section) was busted late 91, and this was the first real Finnish bust. Mr.Nice Guy moved to France, and joined Delight under the handle Mr.NGY late in the year. 1992 - The group was strengthened when Finnish coder Epidemic joined from Addonic around january. Finnish Breeze/Amaze also joined around january. A German section was formed around january by Mike D./Anarchy, Tomcat/ Awesome, Fade One, Cannon and Darkstar from Company. Celat joined Supplex, while finnish graphician Morpheus left for Chrome in september. The three Germans Crash (code), Argon (code) and Mincer (trade) joined from Adept around october. 1993 - Coder Epidemic (ex Addonic, 06/92-93) joined Banal Projects some time during 1993; He did NOT join VD, as claimed in Spaceballs' "R.A.W #6" [12/93]. During his time in Complex he worked on some intros [92 and 93] as well as the musicdisk "Book of Songs" [93]. 1994 - After releasing their last demo for Complex, "Real" [04/94], musician Clawz and coder Gengis (both ex Digital, new ca 11-12/93) decided to leave to form their own group called Bomb! in August 1994. They left behind a few great demos for Complex, most notably "Origin" [12/93], which won The Party 93 demo competition! 1995 - Swedish sysop Ozone ('FAR OUT', 04/94) joined Classic new 06/95. Ozone was the modem organizer. German board 'SKARA BRAE' was busted 06/95. French graphician Eloy (ex Digital, 12/93-04/94) left for Scoopex late 95. German graphician Noogman (08/93-04/94) joined Artwork. Coder Stelios (mid 94) was kicked out, but joined Scoopex only to move on to CNCD in a matter of days!. Peace has been kicked out. Finnish coder Fraction got kicked. Python (ex Byterapers) and Zoltar were kicked. Swedes Lando and Xstaz (sysop 'THE ICE PALACE', ex Legend) both joined Global Overdose. German trader Mincer (ex Adept, 03/93) left the scene. Fabulous german musician Bit Arts (ex Sanity) left Complex, and later also the scene. One of the greatest losses the scene has ever suffered, IMHO... German ex-Anarchy graphician E.Toball was kicked. French graphician Titan (Sebire Laurent, ex Digital, 04/94) left. He was later in Bomb! Titan drew a great fullscreen picture for the demo "Real" [04/94]. German Speed (ex Mexx, new RAW6) was kicked out mid 93. He changed his handle to Rakiem and joined Dreamdealers. Finnish coder Saviour (06/92-95) left to join Damones. R.A.W #6 also mentions Drifter, but look below for more on THAT confusion... Saviour worked on his commercial game "Elfmania" for about a year, before it was released in the summer of 1994. Finns Guru and Stratos (both ex Decept, 07/92) left to form their own group; Sahara Surfers. This happened sometime between 07/92 and mid 93... They also seem to have joined Parallax at the same time! German swapper Mike D. (ex Anarchy, 06/92) left the scene. American Freddy Krueger, sysop 'BOILER ROOM' (ex Scoopex) left to join Global Overdose. French coder Schmoovy Schmoov left to form Universal Soldiers with his friend Monty/Paradox. Finns Zany, Open Eyes (both ex Offworld) and Papa Smurf joined Virtual Dreams). Due to the fact that they left, some credits in "Book of Songs" were omitted by Complex! See the review for more. Four german coders; Crazy Crack (ex Mexx), Crash & Argon (both ex Adept, 12/92-04/94) and Raw Style (code, ex Jetset, 08/94) all left to join Polka Brothers 12/94. Crazy Crack made the intro "A500 HOMAGE" as a sort of farewell to Complex before he left. Upstream #10 carried the news, but misspellt Crazy Crack as Crazy Jack! Finnish musician Stargazer (07/92) decided to rejoin Sonic after just a brief period in Complex. Finnish graphician Drifter (ex Cyberiad, 12/92-93) left the scene. However, R.A.W #6 says he rejoined Accession, and in another place that he joined Damones with Saviour!! Confusion status: Total. German graphician Tomcat (ex Awesome, new ca 01/92-04/94), who drew the great logo in "GOSPEL KARAOKE", joined Shining 8. Skid Row Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Dalton, gfx: n/a, music: Jugi. review: A quite basic intro, with vector renditions of the two words 'Skid' and 'Row' twisting around on the right side of the screen, and the rest of it being occupied with a text plotter. Not much more to say, except that Jugi's tune sounds like a raped version of Codex/ Cryptoburner's classic "Memorydust". And that font seems awful familiar... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Stateline (ECS Demo). code: Zany, gfx: Open Eyes, music: Stargazer. information: By the subgroup Inner Universe. The Ultimate Sinus (1989). PU-240 (1990?, ECS File). code: Tai-Pan, gfx: Frank/Anonyms, music: Walkman/It. Maggy #9 (1991, ECS Multifile Diskmag) INT - code: Tom, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. MAG - code: Python, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Hyde. review: The intro part works fine, though has a few slight graphical errors that make the sinescroller a little hard to read... This issue of the mag was released a full year after the last issue was released, and for the first time with a new code (the last one was iff-only, like the old Crack Journal's) and in English. All previous issues were in Finnish only. First impressions are good, with a pleasant design and english that appears to be readable (not a given in those times! ;) But...then you try to read the next page, and something STRANGE happens... You can't. The mag forever keeps loading articles, and you never get to read a single byte anymore... Thankfully the text is unpacked on the disk, so I could at least read SOME of the it! Too bad :( Release date is uncertain, but certainly after april (contained party report from late march). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Vector Preview (1992, 09.06, ECS File). code: Tai-Pan, gfx/music: Jugi. Winner of the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition! review: Tai-Pan became a celebrity nearly solely on the back of this single, short production. The reason for all the enthusiasm was the incredible (for its time) filled vector routines presented here. Complemented by Jugi's above average graphics and music, this became a great little production! The endscroller can be paused with the right mouse button. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Universal Intensity (1992, 09.06, ECS Disk). 3rd in the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition. Gospel Karaoke (1992, late .06, ECS File). code: Saviour, gfx: Tomcat (logo), Cockatrice (cross), Jugi (fonts), music: Der HM. review: Apparently coded in a day during a party at Jugi's house, this is certainly one of the best 1-day productions to ever grace the scene! Not only is it good, it's original too! The main feature of the demo is a gospel song (yes, with vocals!), and you can press the right mouse button to turn off the singing, and sing along yourself; hence...gospel karaoke. Graphics are absolutely great, as is the music. Top-notch! The scroller mentions several secret parts; Tetris! is mentioned... No release date of any kind appears in the demo, so the date reported here is my assumption, based on information in the scrolltext. ADL had it as '1992?', and that combined with them mentioning they were waiting for demos from the Hurricunt (Hurricane) party, arranged at at end of .06 that year. Let's hope I'm right :) The demo requires 1mb total memory. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Notes: Needs KillAGA. Delirium (1992, 26.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Saviour, gfx: Jugi, Stratos (chesslogo), Gremlin (frog logo), music: DeLorean, Jugi. 2nd in the Assembly 92 demo competition. review: It is always hard to review a demo you've never seen, and this one is no exception. It often crashes on 2.0+ and accelerated machines, and must surely be one of the most incompatible demos ever... Bummer :( This is actually the third demo to use the name Delirium; Fraxion and Zero Defects beat them to it :) [glenn] Compo Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: Stargazer. 12th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Puuro (1992, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Crash, gfx: Open Eyes, Artifex, music: "(c)hip-2" by Stargazer. 20th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. An Old...Intro! (1993, .01, ECS Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: "(c)hip-2" by Stargazer. review: Simple but sweet, this intro has a big raytraced animation of two 'tannhjul' spinning, over which some text materializes. Nice design. This MAY be the same as COMPO INTRO, I guess, but I do not know 100% for sure, so... The release date is based on the fact that there was a text BBS ad embedded in my copy of the file, dated 30.01-93. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Book of Songs (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Epidemic, gfx: Jugi, Artifex, Drifter, Hotshot, music: Jugi, DeLorean. info: Since Zany and Open Eyes left, the rest of Complex decided to leave out the credit for their work on this! In fact, Open Eyes did all the fonts and one small picture, and Zany coded the hardware loader! The disk got its name since each song is represented as a page in a book. EuroChart #30 says Saviour was the coder... [glenn] Equipoise (1993, 10.04, Demo). Released at The Gathering 93. Paradigma (1993, 02.08, ECS File). code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Hotshot, Artifex, Noogman (uncredited), music: "Nagual_Dance2" by Jugi and Delorean. Winner of the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition! review: DemoManiac coders Crash and Argon prove their class in this great, polished demo. Graphics are generally excellent, as is the music. There are some very good effects here, like a large TV box (remember "Enigma"?), a vector world (remember "Enigma" again?) and pencil vectors (remember "Boggledop"?). Very very cool. The demo is referred to as a Mainzelmaennchen Production throughout. It requires 1mb total RAM, and all external drives disconnected on 1mb only systems. Since it failed to run on my A500/1mb/2.04, I guess you'll need to run a 1.2 or 1.3 system if you want to run it with only 1MB. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Unstable, perhaps KillAGA helps. Origin (1993, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Hof, Mack, Alex (raytrace), music: "Fx4" and "Supreme In Black" by Clawz (ProRunner 1.0 format). Winner of The Party 93 demo competition! review: "Origin" was Gengis' triumph of demomaking, with its smooth transitions and powerful routines - coupled with Clawz's thundering techno soundtrack and the combined graphical expertise of some of the foremost arists in the scene - ultimately bringing us a demo that was second only to Kefrens' outstanding "Desert Dream" [04/93] this year. It all opens with a loading picture, a beautiful rendition of a female in a space helmet done by Mack. Then the demo itself begins, with an atmospheric powerhouse intro sequence in which a raytraced ship touches down on the surface of an alien planet. Then we are suddenly inside the helm of a vector-robot, and go around exploring the inner workings of an entire solid vector city! After a while of this, we suddenly go underground through a hatch, and are transported through a vector-created tunnel. The demo's first real effect follows, a transparent gouraud vector cube, overlaid on a stylish patterned background. Next comes a POWER ON logo, before a picture is mapped onto a bouncing, elastic ball. The very same picture (by Axel) is then used for the zoomrotator routine that follows. Then we move onto a Wolfenstein-like routine which is far from fast, but was probably dead impressive at the time =) Then a picture by the great Titan of a metal man throwing a discus is composited from two parts... and here the demo just stops dead in its tracks. I reviewed this demo through a hard disk install, and it is entirely possible that this is the way it really ends... it just seemed a little abrupt to me =) Perhaps there's more, perhaps there isn't ;) Gengis' next - and final - demo for Complex was "Real" [04/94], before he and Clawz left the group to form Bomb. A sequel to this demo, "Motion: Origin 2" [12/94] was released a year later, but unfortunately without the success of the original. The demo does not work perfectly on 060 machines, but a WHD-Load patch by John Selck (Graham/Oxyron) available through aminet or the whdload page can fix this problem. However, when I tried this patch (v1.1) it unceremoniously crashed my machine... Another harddisk installer is available, by Zer0-X/Moses, and this worked perfectly for me. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Real (1994, 24.04, AGA File). code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Eloy (additional), Hof (additional), music: "Cyberotica" and "Help Tha Fool" by Clawz (ProRunner 1.0 format). Winner of the Saturne Party 2 demo competition! review: A good early AGA demo with its high points and its lows. There are highlights, ofcourse, like the swirling things that fly at you during the opening sequence and the way the parts are linked together in the beginning. There are also two full screen AGA pictures by Titan and Eloy, that are almost worth the disk space in their own right :) Titan's picture is called "Synchronocity" and Eloy's is called "Artemis". They were both released for the graphics competition at the same party as the demo. Clawz' music is not his best work, but it's functional. A truly polished production. Recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Resolution (1994, mid, ECS File). code: Stelios, gfx: Reward, music: Jugi. Seduction (1994, .07, Musicdisk). code: Gengis, gfx: Hof (load pic), Alex, music: Clawz, Delorean (Tracker Packer 3 format). info: Modules from Clawz are Mixed Up, Refreshing, Sunk In Ink, Post Modern. Gengis and Clawz' last production for Complex, before leaving to form Bomb! in August. I want this one!! Dive (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). production: Crash, Sire. 10th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ahem. There's only two real effects here, none of which kills. The first is what appears to be a standard graphics zoomer which soon appears to be more of a meteor storm. Original, but hardly goodlooking - it's WAY too blocky. The second is a voxel routine with some rather... ehrm...interesting palette choices. The music irritates me. I always thought this was an AGA intro? Still, on my machine it requires KillAGA to work properly... To confuse us, Complex released a demo at Assembly 95 with the exact same name! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Pee Wee (1994, 06.08, Intro?). code: RawStyle, gfx: Noogman, music: Audiomonster. info: Released at Assembly 94, but not in the competitions. In fact I have no idea what this is! :) A500 Homage (1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Artifex, music: Einstein/Mexx. 11th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Crazy Crack made this little intro as a farewell to Complex before he and the rest of the German coders took off for Polkaland. It is also a homage to the A500, and appropriately so since it was released in the first compo to have almost exclusively AGA contributions. There are some cool effects here, though the best is probably the concluding fullscreen 4 bitplane 4x4 rotzoomer, or the 4096 morphing dots. I like it. Right mousebutton pauses the end scroller. [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Wormhole (1995, 14.04, ECS 020+ 64k Intro). code: Olwi, gfx: Artifex, Reward, music: SuperNao/Virtual Dreams. 3rd in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition. review: Technically very impressive is this intro which won the Gathering 95 competition. It mainyl comprises of three vetor objects with light sourcing and MANY faces, shown animated over a huge scrolling picture - probably generated during the lengthy introduction text. Technically great, as I mentioned, but it's not very exciting is it? Boring, in fact. Probably the last ECS intro to win a major competition, though it requires at least an 020 processor. I think this requires quite a bit of memory... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Tequila Chart #11 (1995, 01.07, Chartmag). code: Rioter/Equinox, gfx: Artifex, music: "Fluffy_Fassion" by Loxley/ Equinox (Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: Excalibur, Blizzard/TDS. Cooperation with The Doodles^Shock (TDS). review: Tequila is released the first of every month, and is a chart and mag for the swedish modem scene. This means that the editorial content is not very interesting to outsiders, unfortunately. I'm sure it's essential reading for those it concerns, however :) The coder is Rioter/Equinox, the swede previously responsible for the "European Top 20" chart from his own group, Equinox. I really must say that I like this one a lot more than his first effort. Much of the praise for the smooth look and feel, though, must go to the person responsible for the graphics, Artifex. He's come up with the perfect combination of raytraced, animated icons and handdrawn stuff...just marvellous. Now I've mentioned the code and graphics, so I guess the next item on the list is Loxley/Equinox's great piece of music. I don't know exactly what makes it as good as it is, but there's a cerain sense of dynamics and vitality to it that puts it up. Presentation, therefore, is very very nice. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Dive (1995, 13.08, Demo). 6th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. info: Same name as their previous 40k intro... Concept ------- ENG> Shadowman (sysop 'BONG'). Concept was a french demogroup, which never produced much of note. 1991 The active part of the group, Performer (code), NHP (music), BKH (music), Rookie and Ronan (code) joined together with fellow frenchmen Motif (code), Zoom (gfx) and Walt (gfx) to form the french section of The Silents. Confusion --------- POL> Bax (music, 08/95), Ellyn (gfx, 08/95), Exceed (code, 08/95), Slaughter (music, 08/95). Confusion are a purely Polish group, and at the Intel Outside 2 party they consisted only of the above 4 members. 64kb Intro (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Exceed, gfx: Ellyn, music: Slaughter. 2nd in the Intel Outside 2 64k intro competition. review: This intro opens with FAST filled vector cubes, filled with static and spacecut with the background. The music is pounding techno without much variation or melody, but it works ok to get the adrenalin pumping a little. Next there's some vector lines, which fly together to make shapes and tunnels. They hold onto this effect a little too long for my liking, before showing portraits of the three coders. Incidentally, Slaughter looks like he's 13 or thereabouts :) No offence, ok Slaughter? Then, the intro really takes off with its next screen. At the top there's a good Confusion logo in hues of green, and below that there's a flame effect. This one seems a little original, though, since it seems to take sidewind into consideration, making the flames swing to the side when the virtual winds blow :). Text output is timed to the beat of the techno music throughout, and that coupled with an OK font and nice design give this a good feel. I definitely want to see more from these guys! The name given above is not the intro's real name; the real name is in Polish and in addition quite unreadable to the untrained eye :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 Connection, The --------------- DEN> Hagar (ex The Supply Team). Amigo got busted on new years eve 1987/88. Connection ---------- NOR> Garth (swap), Psycho (Kristian Owren, swap). Norwegian musician Jelace joined Compact Inc. Conqerers --------- JOR> Bassam, Dunhill, Futuros, Louis, Nible, Overdrive, Ramek, Sam, Snake. SWE> Blaze. NOR> Water. DEN> Cyclone, Vanilla Ice. FRA> Dream Warrior, Fxa. Conqerers was formed on the remains of St.Pauls Crew, and in case you're wondering, it IS spellt like that :-) Swede Ztork left. Fashion Design left. Austrian Karen left. Swedes Fire and R2D2 joined Bronx. Conquest -------- If all their productions are AMOS, like the awful "Chippo #1", then I'm afraid I'll have to reevaluate their validity... Black Thunder joined, but left for Score right away (late 93). Chippo #1 (1994, 27.02, ECS Musicfile). code: Acces, gfx: Predator, music: "Le Chips Revenge", "Confettis", "Smiths", "YumYum", "Super Chips" and "Bolognese" by Rotox/Score. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Lame in every respect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Contra (C!) ----------- GER> Mogue (ascii sysop 'HOMELESS'). ???> H2o! (ascii), Mess, Rapid, Stratos, Stylez, Treach. Boards; RAVELAND WHQ, DEEP SPACE NINE EHQ, PUNISHMENT INC. (distsite), THE PUB (distsite). Contra is an ascii group. Mogue is one of two sysops on 'HOMELESS', but the only one of the two that's in Contra. Ascii artist 2Fast left late 96. Contrast -------- GER> Bootbuster (gfx music swap, 03/92), Flexible (ex Unlimited, 03/92), Try (code, 03/92). ???> Anvil (ger? ex Unlimited), Dioxxin (03/92), Dr.Dread (03/92). Norwegian Tallyman joined Unlimited. German swapper TNM (ex Hysteric, 03/92) joined Subzero 08/92. Hypnautic Beats vol.1 (1992, 14.03, ECS Trackloaded musicdisk). code: Try, gfx: Bootbuster, Try, music: Dr.Dread, Bootbuster. review: I'm sorry, Contrast, but this just doesn't cut it. In a music disk, the music should be the center of attention, but when the music's as bland and uninteresting as it is here, it leaves the entire production for dead. NOT recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Contraz (CTZ, 1995-) -------------------- NOR> Accede (code, ex Donut Fetish, new late97), Brekke (code, 04/95-97), Chauple (code, doublememb Instinct, 04/97), Corrupt (raytrace, 11/96), Detriment (sysop), Dran (code gfx, 04/95-04/01), EFB (code, 04/95), Enex (code, 04/95-11/96), Figaro (gfx, 11/96), Fleinstein (org swap, 04/95), Found (music), Freak of Nature (sysop 'DARK NATURE', 05/97), Fro-D (music, 04-11/96), Isaac (music, 97), Micro (raytrace), Mr.Figaro (gfx), MZ (code, 04/95), Nirvana (Torgrim Nærstad, gfx, ex Grotesticle, 11/96), O.G. Devil (gfx, 04/95), Overgrown (music, 04/95), Phalton (raytrace), Pinocchio (raytrace music, 04/95), Reflexion (Martin Brieley, org), Skjeggspir (Rune Stensland, code gfx music, 04/95-97), Whisper (Bendik Simonsen, swap webmaster, 04/95), Zelow (code, 04/95-04/01). Contraz is a Norwegian demo group, born as a cooperation between Damage Inc. (Overgrown etc.) and The Tanga Team in early 1995. 2000 - Dran plans a 64k intro for The Party in december, but ultimately decides to wait, and release it later. 2001 - Dran and Zelow release the 64k intro "1 Week" (with music by Frequent/Ephidrena) at Mekka Symposium 2001 in april. Prikkmannen (1995, 14.04, 4k Intro). code: Brekke, Zelow, gfx: none, music: n/a. 3rd in The Gathering 95 4k intro competition. review: To the sound of a 'techno soundtrack' (and I'm being VERY kind here now!) a white, smiling dot-man is spinning and zooming in and out on a blue background. And that's it. Not exactly impressive, but I've certainly seen worse too. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Contras (1995, 14.04, ECS 64k Intro). code/gfx: Skjeggspir, music: Overgrown. 6th in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition. review: This has a definite amateur feeling to it, most of the effects are copper- or linevector-based, and neither the graphics nor music is up to scratch. An early, immature release from a group that should have waited a little more before releasing anything. Inspection of the binary file reveals this was made using AMOS. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mystiq (1996, 05.04, Demo). 4th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Skjeggspir (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Skjeggspir, gfx: none, music: Fro-D. 4th at The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. review: A little limited this one, just an OK tune and a logo that spins onto the screen. Average. Domination (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB File). code: Skjeggspir, Zelow, Brekke, Enex, gfx: Figaro, Nirvana, Dran, Corrupt (objects), music: Fro-D. Winner of the Kindergarden 6 demo competition! review: This seems to rely more on its scanned Arnold Schwarzenegger imagery than on its effects. There are a few reasonably advanced effects, but at this speed I'd rather be without them. The best thing about this demo is Nirvana's great picture "WOW", which came second in the graphics competition at The Gathering 95. It would have deserved to win IMHO... Coolest thing in the demo: Arnold pointing a BIG gun at the screen, with the text: Anyone mention PC? Funny, then, that they list two PC coders on their memberlist... The compoversion had a few bugs, so a bugfixed and improved version was later released. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Had to manually decrunch it with xfd before running in order to have enough mem! Born Fat (1997, AGA 4k Intro). code: Chauple, Skjeggspir (additional), Brekke (additional), gfx: none, music: none. 2nd in the Scenus 97 4k intro competition. review: They've managed to squeeze in quite a bit into this 4k'er; not only is there sound (calling it music is stretching it a little :) but there's also a LOT of effects here, from bumpmapping variations to a tunnel you travel through. Not bad at all! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 1 Week (2001, .04, AGA 16MB 64k Intro). code: Dran, Zelow (additional), gfx: none, music: Frequent/Ephidrena. review: Well, this isn't really a review, since I can't see this intro on my machine, because it lacks an fpu =[ What was I thinking when I thought I'd never need one? Anyway, apart from the FPU, this intro requires an AGA amiga (020+ obviously), and 16MB fast. It's not really comfortable on anything below an 060-50, according to the the accompanying readme file. Be sure to use setpatch before running. [glenn] Control ------- DEN> Antex (swap, ex Orient), Sidewinder (code), Scorpion (music swap, ex Orient). ???> Dune (gfx), Evade (code), Joy-Boy (code gfx), Kris (code), Monk (swap), Pixl (gfx), Sniper (gfx), Wobin (swap). Control is a danish demo group. This group has nothing to do with the Control below. 1994 - Danish swapper Decoy joined Passion in november. Creep joined D-Mob. Control (CTRL) -------------- POL> Failo (Wojciech Zdebski, org 3d, 08/96), Kado (gfx, 08/96), Nobl (3d, 08/96), NoM (code, 08/96). Control is a polish demo group, under the leadership of Failo. Their first production was the 64k intro "Error" [08/96] at the Intel Outside 3 party. This group has nothing to do with the Control above. Error - The Intro (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: NoM, gfx: Failo, music: Mr.Vain/Motion PC. Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Well, the 'guru meditation' joke has been done before, and better, so this intro doesn't really get off to a too great start... and never really picks up, eaither =) Text inside the intro leads me to believe this is their first ever release, and to be quite frank it shows. They should perhaps have fine-tuned their skills a little more before attempting to release anything. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Converse -------- Dan joined Acrid. Convex (CVX) ------------ POL> Stasi (swap). ???> Bart (gfx), Betoniara (code raytrace edit swap), Bionic (music), Comanche (gfx), Domel (code gfx). Insert left 06/96. Gigant and Opal was kicked 06/96. Fuckir left to be independent 06/96. Heva sold his Amiga and bought a PC 06/96. Traitor! :) Pila, Informer and Flapjack left to be Erotic Design members only 06/96. Coral ----- FIN> Legislator (sysop 'XENOPHOBIA', 11/91). Coral was a Finnish demo group, which didn't release much on the amiga. There was also a pc division later. Fix, Hot and Perfect (all ex Cave) left to join Arise. Pele-Kempex Naks (1991, ECS Intro). Silence Please (1991, 27.07, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 91 in Finland. Core Productions (CP, http://www.acc.umu.se/~cp/) ------------------------------------------------- SWE> Houbba (Lennart Marklund, code, 07/97), Icon (Andreas Lindquist, code, 07/97). Megadeth joined Alcatraz. H5 (1997, 25.07, AGA 2MB File). code: Icon, Houbba, gfx: n/a, music: Farmor/NRP. Winner of the ACG Hack V demo competition. review: The names of the coders come spinning slowly at us in the beginning of this dentro, with afterburning on the letters. Next is a very good tunnell routine, which though it doesn't move so amazingly fast looks like it's among the most fluent ones I've seen. Next we're inside a torus, with lots of white and some color bleeding through. Next is another good routine, that I absolutely DO NOT know how to describe. Then a graphics screen show us the credits, which then dissolve into a Core Productions logo. Then the music ends and we are done... The music inside is not bad, but not terribly inspirational either. It can best be described as very standard trance. Overall, a very nice little demo, certainly much better than I anticipated! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Coroner ------- Coroner was formed by Turkish swapper Vigo after he left Bronx. Corpse [fra] (1991-1995) ------------------------ FRA> Nec (founder gfx), SoLO (founder code), Vehrex (founder code) Shiny (gfx), Bulls (gfx music), Ken (code), Pye (music), Terrific (code) There were two groups called Corpse, the second one coming into existence while this incarnation was still around... Corpse [swe] (1994-) -------------------- SWE> Payday (founder swap). ???> Coolorado (founder), Klorathy (founder code), TBM (founder gfx). Corpse was formed by four ex members of X-Trade; Payday, Klorathy, TBM and Coolorado. It is very possible that TBM was later in The Black Lotus. There were two groups called Corpse existing simultaneously, though the French ones were the first to use the name by far... Corrosion (http://www.crsn.com/) -------------------------------- Ehm, more info forthcoming... Corrosive --------- Acid and Agent Orange joined Kaos. Cosa Nostra ----------- NOR> Kanniball (Ken Roger Espeland, swap, 11/88-late90). Mosher joined Cinefex. Cosmic Pirates -------------- ???> Bladerunner (doublememb Scum 06/96). Cosmic Woodheads (CW) --------------------- POL> Draw (ascii swap, new early97-early98), Guma (swap, early98). DEN> Drac (doublememb Ambrosia [details], new early97), Raze (Thomas Petersen, music, early98). CW seems to have been a jokey group, with mostly doublemembers from other groups. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Drac joined from Ambrosia as a doublemember, and that Draw (swap) also joined. Countach (CNT, 1990-) --------------------- GER> Iron Lord (code, 10/90), Joker (trade sysop, 10/90), Melodic Drama (gfx music, ex Spirit, 10/90), MOD (tester, 10/90), Norman Bates (gfx swap, ex Spirit, 10/90), Nr.5 (trade, ex Spirit), Rick Dangerous (swap, 10/90). ???> Multi Software Department (10/90). Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit. The name was assumed on 01/10-90, and the group at that time had 22 members. The group was later disbanded when all members helped form the new group Vogue. C.P.U. ------ ???> Franky (mainorg1), Mixer (music trade), Sal One (sysop), Scram, Snuffy, The Relic, Topflight, Woober (crack), Yellow Water (mainorg2), Zeus (trade), Zinko (schq). Boards; BOONDOCKS EHQ, HUSTLERS HELL (rhq), LAST LEGEND (whq), THE LAST INN (shq), THE NORTHERN PALACE (den) Cracker Journal Team -------------------- CJT is the team dedicated to the release of the legendary 'Crack Journal' diskmag. After issue #27, internal unrest in the group Alpha Flight prompted main editor Doctor Mabuse/AFL to take the mag and leave, so that it would not be dependent on any one group. The first independent issue, #28, was released in may of 1992. Cracker Journal #28 (1992, .05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Quasar (main), Design (coop title), Renegade (endpic, comic), music: LooneStar, editors: Doctor Mabuse/Alpha Flight, FDT/Venture and Design. review: The mag opens with a small intro, just containing the text CRACKER JOURNAL, over which #28 comes crashing down. Then the mag proper appears, with a good robot picture by D-Sign appearing as the first thing you see. One thing you instantly notice about CJ is the way the mag occupies almost the entire screen; no big, impressive panels here! CJ originated in the illegal part of the scene, and is still heavily linked to this part of the scene. This means that your interest in reading CJ will always be in direct proportion with your interest in that part of the scene. Editorially, this is not a very strong mag either. There is a lot of articles that are just text files from the boards, the English is downright dreadful in places, and one of the articles is nothing but a perverse porno story! This was the middle of 1992, mind you, and people instantly looked to magazines like R.A.W that were intelligible rather than the badly designed articles of CJ. Issue 28 was the first issue to be released 'indendent', after the mag was liberated from its original home in Alpha Flight. Compatibility is another sore point, with the mag responding very badly to keypresses on my A1200 - even after kicking down to 1.3. It can work fine for a while, then suddenly decide to die. No points for guessing this made reviewing a minor nightmare. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Crack Force Five (CFF) ---------------------- SWE> The Big A (code). ???> BTB, Megaman. Formed by The Big A and (Andreas Tadic). CFF joined forces with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a few of their demos. CFF later became what is now Phenomena. Crack Inc. (1992-1992) ---------------------- GER> Eurosoft (crack, ex Skid Row), Mike (ex Skid Row), Rudi (founder supply sysop 'THE JAM', ex Skid Row, 92), Selim (founder supply sysop 'THE JAM', ex Skid Row, 92), Subzero (founder music supply, ex Skid Row, 92). ???> French Connection (ex Nemesis, new RAW4), Linebacker (sysop), Skywalker (ex Accession). Crack Inc was formed in early 1992 by the old european members of Skid Row (SSR), and was soon reinforced with some other ex-Skid Row'ers from other groups. When they died at the end of the year, most members formed Ministry with former members of Nemesis and TKK. News that Selim and Subzero left the scene seem to be strongly exaggerated, since they were both later members of Ministry. There were rumours and even news that SSR (Subzero Selim Rudi) joined from Bitstoppers, but it's most likely that this is untrue, and that they were the original founders, coming directly from Skid Row. Their demo subgroup Kaos Design died [see separate entry]. American sysop Micro ('REIGN IN BLOOD', 09/92) left sometime before 12/92. German Munchie (ex Skid Row, new RAW3) joined Ministry. Sysop Lost Religion ('NiRVANA') joined Accession. Swedish trader Magic (ex Vision, new 09/92) was kicked 09/92. ZigZag, the ex-Crystal sysop of 'MAY DAY', joined Scoopex. Cracker Saito (ex Vision Factory) joined Prestige. Cranks ------ POL> Kosok (Ignacy Wiacek, gfx, 08/96), Maq (Maciej Matyka, code, 08/96). Cranks is a polish demo group. 1996 - The uninspiring intro "Cyber Space" [08/96] was released at the Intel Outside 3 party. Cyber Space (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Maq, gfx: Kosok, music: Key G/? Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: This unimaginatively titled intro gives us gouraud vectors, an effect we'd honestly thought we'd seen the last of by 1996. It moves along at a leisurely pace, to stretch what little there is to look at as far as possible, and never gets me excited. Subpar. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crap! ----- Tarl left the Amiga scene, but he bought PC equipment and is still active as a swapper in the PC scene (05/95). Craptors -------- Craptors Crap (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 14th in The Party 94 40k intro competition. Crash ----- Turkish coder Astron joined Bronx. Crashead (-1992) ---------------- They kicked all their lazy members, then changed the name of the group to Analogy in the middle of 1992. Crass ----- AUS> Archimedes (gfx, 04-08/92), Gothique (aka Gothic, code gfx, 04-12/92), Itec (gfx, 04-08/92), Mixer (music, 04/92), Phlexor (08/92), Shem (08/92), Stainless Steel Rat (04-12/92). Anarchy Incorporated (1992, .04, ECS Disk). code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Easter Party 92 (australia) demo competition! Psychosis (1992, .04, ECS File). code: Steel Rat, gfx: Itec, Archimedes, Steel Rat, music: Mixer. 2nd in the Easter Party 92 (australia) demo competition. Parahelion (1992, .12, Disk). code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Digital Complexity (1992, .12, Disk). code: Steel Rat, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Craze (CRZ, http://www.craze.nu/) --------------------------------- SWE> Lussar'n (Linus Larsson, code, ex Rebels new, new late96), Nike (sysop 'INSTANT PLEASURE', 01/95), Omen (code, ex Depth, new late97/early98), Pigeon (code, ex Depth, new late97/early98), Rick (sysop 'CYBER FORCE', 01/95). ???> Antichrist (music, 96), Marwic (swe? modem, 08/95), Mr.Real (music, 12/94), Odie (gfx, 96), Zik (gfx, 96). Boards; EVERYWARE (nor, 02/96). Goatleg (ECS 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Odie, music: Mr.Real. Twisted Colours (1996, autumn, HD Slideshow). code: Zik, gfx: Odie, music: Antichrist. review: And this time a slideshow without monsters, naked girls or spaceships in erotic positions ;). Craze surprised us with a short collection of ten abstract pictures by Odie. You can see persons in some strange bearings, chinese men, ghosts, wierd looking ladies and laughing trees. All in all a very colorful and not boring thing with a listenable music and another good new font, although one-colored. Between the pictures you can read funny comments to the picture that follows, but it's sad that there is not a single real picture!! Only big clips and fullscreen bodies! Also you have no selector to enjoy some Odicasso's again. And there are a few which were worth to be watched twice like my favorites: The second one (what eye(s)!) and the one before the last one (the laughing tree). At last it is a tiny piece of art and 900kb are not much space on 8-Gig HD for this art... This slideshow was not a party release. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Crazy (CRZ) ----------- GER> Cyborg (music), Doc Holiday (gfx), Marc (Marcus Kalusche, music, triplememb Sector 7 and Syndrome, 01/97), Phase (swap), Technoking (trade), THCM (code). ???> Midnight (code). Neoplasia mentioned in their intro at The Party 5 that most NPL members had joined Crazy. This means at least these people joined: THCM, Cyborg, Phase, Technoking, Doc Holiday and JCS (doublememb Sector 7). 1996 - Graphician Nefaria was kicked late 96. German swapper Phase left the scene for a while, late 96. Creative Minds -------------- Velocity (2001, 15.04, Demo). Split 6th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. Creator (CRT) ------------- HUN> Abstract, Codex (old handle 7th Son), Cyberdance, Delta MC, Griff, Lord (ex Hyperacidity [no entry]), Robin (code, 10/93-02/94). The entire group joined Surprise! Productions as a subgroup. Strange Features (1992). Creed (1992-) ------------- GER> Deathbone (founder, ex Endless Piracy), Razor, Wild Child. ???> Jason (sysop 'TOON TOWN'). Creed was a german illegal group formed around january of 1992 by Annabel/Possessed and Deathbone/ Endless Piracy. According to sources in an article in ROM4, they were both female, making this a truly landmark group. Annabel left the scene in september of the same year. Chrome left. Spanish Rose (ECS File). Crest ----- ???> Alpha One (code supply), Cocaine (gfx supply), Infinity (supply), Siriax (code crack supply, doublememb Lightforce, 01/97). Boards; ACID SLAM WHQ (ger, 09/96). Crest is an illegal cracking group. They share their WHQ ACID SLAM with Hellfire and Teklords. Crime Devils ------------ FIN> Adder (Antti, swap), Brandy, PainMaster (swap). NOR> Leo (ex Grace, new 07/92). ???> Infinity (ex 2000 AD). Boards; LIGHT FANTASTIC (eng). Crime Devils are dead; the best members formed Ahead. 1992 - Leo joined the group from Grace, whose Norwegian section had just died. Meddler left. Crimson Jihad (cJ) ------------------ HUN> Lord (sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', triplememb Absolute! and Impulse). Crimson Jihad is a Hungarian group working to promote the Amiga! Crionics (-1992) ---------------- DEN> Blazer (music, 06/90), Gizwiz (code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90), Grumble (code, 06/90), Madonna Freak (gfx, 06/90), Merlin (gfx music, ex Trilogy, new 06/90), Murphy (code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90), Saxs (code, 06/90), Zycho (code, 06/90). ???> Tronic (music). After having won the demo competition at The Party 1991 with "Hardwired" in cooperation with The Silents, Crionics died in early to mid 1992. The three coders The Spy, Murphy (ex Kefrens, new 06/90) and Deftronic (all 06/90) left to join The Silents on a full time basis. Deftronic released some version of his assembler "Trash'M One" under the Crionics label in 1990-91. Video swapper Marcel was caught by the Police just before they died in 92. Danish musician T.U.S.C. joined Vixen early 92. Neverwhere (1989?, ECS Disk). code: Saxs, The Spy, Murphy, gfx: Zycho, Madonna Freak, usic: Tronic, S.L.L. Megademo (1990, 19.02, ECS Megademo). Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party. info: NOT THE SAME AS THE ONE BELOW! It seems highly, actually, that Crionics released two demos with the same name! :) Megademo (1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo). LOA - code: Murphy, Gfx: Zycho (logo), Deftronic (font), music: "Raven" by Blazer. NOI - code: Deftronic, The Spy, gfx: Merlin, music: S.L.L. PIG - code: Grumble, Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L. MAD - code: Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L. 2nd in Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. review: After booting this disk you're faced with a selector for three different demo parts. The selector is pretty basic, with a logo at the top and a text writer in the middle of the screen. In the background you can see some vector objects, which btw are pretty fast on my 030-50 :) For the credits above, please refer to these codes: LOA means loader, in other words the selector itself. This (and only this) part works fine even with caches on. NOI means Noia demo. This is probably the best and biggest part, with lots of advanced (for its time) vector effects and a good sense of pace and entertainment. Please note that the fill routine bugs in some parts. PIG means Pigs in Space. This part consists of just a drawn 'space' background over which we get to see a filled vector scroller. The same fill bug appears here also, albeit to a lesser extent. MAD means The Madonna Endpart. This part excels with its superbly drawn cartoon renditions of Madonna walking through the city. Rather cool! Overall, it's a good production, this, though it seems like it was put together in quite a rush! It's like they got these three demoparts, and just stuck a loader at the beginning, and hey presto we've got a demo! Not bad at all, really. The music by S.L.L lifts it a lot. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- note: Caches off, original chipset. Total Destruction (1990, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: The Spy, Deftronic, gfx: Zycho, music: T.U.S.C. 3rd in the Dexion Party 90 demo competition. Hardwired (1991, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). Cooperation with The Silents, see there. Critters [new] (1990-1990) -------------------------- DEN> Amiga Freak (founder, ex Trilogy). ???> Shadow (founder, ex Black Monks), Spirit (founder, ex Black Monks). Critters was reborn around mid 90, with Amiga Freak/Trilogy, Shadow and Spirit/Black Monks as the intiative takers. They simultaneously announced they would be opening a board in Sweden shortly. However, soon after this the Swedish section left the group, and are now a group in their own right, Scanex [no entry]. The rest of Critters didn't survive long after this, and were dead by august. Crossbones ---------- Zorlac and Bacteria joined Bronx. Crude (CRD) ----------- SWE> Bubba (sysop 'DREAMPHASE', 11/97). Cruelty ------- Turbo and Gamekiller joined Infect. Crusaders (CRS, http://www.crusaders.no) ---------------------------------------- NOR> Bravestarr (swap, 03/90), Bustman (Trond Omdal, gfx, ex Errors, new 06/90-01/91), Copper (code, 03/90), Dr.Claw (code, 03/90-91), Dr.Outtasight (ex-sysop 'HOME SWEET HOME', 11/89-93), Dr.Shitface (code, 03/90-01/91), El Cubo (Arndt Kubosch, code music, old handle Dr. MD Cub, 11/89-07/91), Eno (code, new 12/90), Excalibur (code, 03/90), Floyd (Andres Lund, 97), Freaky Angel (ex Deadline), Intec (gfx, ex Gate, new 12/90-93), Jason (music, ex The Silents, later Melon, new late92-12/92), Lazerbrain (swap, 03/90-07/91), Madman (code, new 12/90), Mike (Trond Michelsen, ex Deadline, 93-04/97), Nesebuse (gfx, 91), P.Man (gfx), Raven (sysop 'THE GOLDEN GATE', ex Artch, new late90), Rusc (gfx, 03-05/90), Shady (Vegard Skjefstad), Swapperboy (swap, 03/90-01/91), Switchblade (code, 89-93), Zeb (hardware, 03/90), Zuggly (code, 03/90). FIN> Fleshbrain (Seppo Hurme, music, new 02/90-96), Scumbag (trade, 07/91- 03/93). ENG> Nightshade (music, ex Ecstasy, 93). ???> Ohio (gfx, 93). Boards; THE GOLDEN GATE (nor, 11/90-01/91) Crusaders is a legendary group, one of the oldest on the Amiga scene! They became legends for several reasons, really. Their first innovation must have been the creation of the 'music disk'. Yes, that's right: CRS released the very first music disk ever. Second, their Eurochart sparked new life in the scene, spawned about a dozen clones, and gave demo makers another incentive to create great demos. The next thing that happened was when Bjørn A. "Dr.Awesome" Lynne became the first professional composer to come out of the Amiga scene. Then, of course, there's the big one; The GATHERING! TG was originally arranged by The Crusaders, and the main organizer has to this day always been a Crusader. They're still around, though mostly on the PC these days, and not producing much. Their legacy however, is huge. Norwegian sysop Freaky Angel's board 'THE PYRAMID' (earlier 'ANGEL CITY') was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992. Norwegian coder Black Panther (ex Paragon) joined Talent. Norwegian graphician Yster (03/90-91) left. Guardian (ex United Forces, new mid 91) left. Norwegian swapper Zapotek (ex Gate, new 12/90) left. American graphician and swapper Savatage (03/90) left. American sysop Silencer ('THIS END UP', 03/91) left the scene. Norwegian graphician Funky Guru (ex Gate, new 12/90) left the scene. German sysop Bomber ('PEARL HARBOUR', ex Anarchy, new mid 91) left to join Scoopex around december 91 or january 92. He opened his board while in Crusaders, though. Norwegian sysop Lazerbrain's board 'PURPLE HAZE' was busted in the big Norwegian boarbust in 1992. He was the only one busted who was released immediately, since he had time to run a diskcrypting program before the police seized his equipment, and consequently they didn't find shit on his board. He probably continued to be a member. Norwegian sysop One (old handle Scratcher, ex Fairlight)'s board 'TOTAL PANIC' was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992. He joined Angels and reopened the board, though under a new name? Norwegian graphician Joachim (ex Marvel/Static Bytes, 93) joined Andromeda (RAW6). ...and perhaps Jason did too? Norwegian swapper ECS (03/90) left and is now independent. Bacteria (ECS Musicdisk). code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, music: "Bridge to the Universe Part II", "Make Your Move", "12th Warrior", "No-One Home" by Dr. Awesome, "Who Knows", "Kilimanjaro", "Grave-Yard" by Fleshbrain. info: Caches off with accelerators; still some gfx glitches. Bass-O-Matic (ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). info: The module loader always had a tendency to bug a little, so it was always a toss up if the module loaded, or the thing just froze on the loading logo. The Calvin & Hobbes stuff was great, 'tho. BBS Intro for Instant Delivery (ECS Intro). Coop with Wizzcat, see there for details. Crusaders Does Genesis (ECS Musicdisk). Audio-X (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code: Switchblade, gfx/music: Dr. Awsome. Information: This is the one with the alphabet cookies and the flapping toilets... 8 tunes. Project; Beat (1989, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the IT, Rawhead, The Band, IMP-666 Megaparty. Freekd Out (1989, 14.08, ECS Musicdisk). Eurochart Top Ten #1 (1989, 01.11, ECS File Chart). code: Dr. MD Cub, gfx: Dr.Awesome, music: "Loader" by Dr.Awesome. review: Oh my god, THE FIRST EUROCHART!! This is history. Slagging this off would be sacrilege, surely! Ok, I'll try to be objective about it. The presentation's not much, to be honest. There's a selector screen, where you manouver a large crusifix around with your mouse, to select the section you want. It was a long way from this to what we have today. Trivia note: Ipec Elite were actually the first to do a chart, as the scroller in this production informs us. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Finally got it to work by booting it off a floppy with caches off and chip to old. Mi-Cro Con-Cept (1990, ECS Musicdisk). Eurochart Top Ten #2 (1990, 01.01, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt, music: "Hightop" by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: Well, nothing much has changed. Presentation-wise it's pretty much the same as the first issue, though perhaps a little better here and there. The tune is adequate. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset orig. Eurochart Top Ten #3 (1990, 01.03, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt/independent, Dr.Awesome, P.Man/independent, music: "Polarchase" by Fleshbrain (4ch MOD format). review: With the third issue of the Eurochart, things took a turn for the serious. With a new interface, it looked a lot more professional. Graphics are quite adequate for the most part, and Fleshbrain's music (his first for this group, this was his introduction as a new member) is among his best work ever! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Filled Vectors (1990, .04, ECS Demo). Switchblades Balls (1990, .05, ECS Demo).  Eurochart Top Ten #4 (1990, 01.05, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, P-Man, music: "Beatn The Art" by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: Again, nothing much has changed from the previous issue in what we actually see on the screen. One big improvement, though, is the use of percentile to show how many votes each entry got. There's also [new] icons and up/down arrows to signify if this placing is better or worse than the previous one. The tune fails to set me alight, as does the gfx. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. Eurochart Top Ten #5 (1990, 01.07, ECS Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Conference 90. Hotwired (1990, .08, ECS Minimusicdisk :). Eurochart Top Ten #6 (1990, 01.09, ECS Multifile Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: "Tuna Fish" by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: This issue looks a lot more like what we got used to later in the life of the EC. The interface stayed pretty much like this in the next issues. A plus also for the graphics, which AFAIK were the first Bustman did for The Crusaders. A nice issue! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. A90 (1990, 02.09, ECS File). code: El Cubo, gfx: P.Man, Bustman, music: Dr.Awesome. info: aka Tabasco demo. Similar to Rebels "Coma" demo and Budbrain's "Kaos" part from their first Megademo. Tobias Richter Slideshow (1990, 06.10, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow, 2 disk). EuroChart Top Ten #7 (1990, 01.11, ECS Multifile Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: "Mindstorm" by Fleshbrain (4ch MOD format). review: The name is a little inaccurate from this issue on, as some of the sections now actually represent the TOP TWENTY most popular things. Other than that, there's not a lot to complain about, really. Another good issue, which feels nice and smooth - just like it should be :) The tune is not one of Fleshie's best, though. Works fine even without KillAGA, though the music sounds a little strange sometimes... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Space Deliria (1990, 08.11, ECS File). code: Excalbiur, gfx: Dr.Awesome, P.Man/indep., Dr.C/Red Sector, music: Dr.Awesome. Tuff Enuff (1991, ECS Trackmo). code: Dr.Claw, El Cubo, gfx: Yster (animation), Intec (background), Nesebuse (glowing logo), Bustman (earth font), music: "Intromusic 2" and "Flyte" ++ by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: Another oldie that doesn't work anymore. As far as I can remember, this one was rather good. The main event, sort of, is an animation of Calvin from the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, that's rather fun and humourous. I got the credits by ripping a few parts off the disk, but this did not result in ripping EVERYTHING. There are several parts, and I can't remember them all now... Anyway, worth a look if you've got an A500 lying around...or a good, new degrader! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: It *ALMOST* worked ONCE :) Eurochart #8 (1991, 01.01, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code/editor: El Cubo, Dr. Shitface, gfx: Bustman, music: "Now What???" by Dr. Awesome (4ch ProTracker format). review: The revolution! With issue 8, the Eurochart sported some major overhauls to the code, as well as two full new sections in addition to the charts! The Gallery and EuroNews were born... Graphics by Bustman are some of his best yet, and oh, did I mention the absolutely fabulous tune by Dr. Awesome? I didn't? It's just lovely. It incorporates themes from many of his earlier songs into a sort of medley-type-thing. The 'feel' of the mag also seems improved, it now feels almost perfect. A milestone for the Amiga scene, and a great production any which way you look at it! By the way, the news item about the new Amiga sound chip 'Mary' sounded more like wishful thinking to us ;) Starting this one was the cause of a few hiccups, since it tries to allocate memory at some specific addresses, and newer Amigas do not always have their memory where the old ones did ;) The only real solution I found was to boot without caches, chipset original, and without startup-sequence. Then the mag ran perfectly from my harddisk :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review for details. Eurochart #9 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #10 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #11 (1991, 01.07, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code/editor: El Cubo, gfx: Intec, music: "Neodrink" by Fleshbrain (4ch ProTracker format). review: Legendary doesn't quite cover it when it comes to the EC. It was a milestone of the scene, and gave coders, painters and composers everywhere a new incentive to get better. This issue is certainly not the worst, with acceptable graphics from Intec and OK music by Fleshbrain. One thing that I found cool about the EC was that they had new graphics for every issue. They had the (basically) same code, but there were always a new design on the control board. This is not the best one, neither is it the worst. This issue marks the arrival of a new editor, since Dr.Awesome decided he want to leave the scene. During testing the mag has proven somewhat unstable on my accelerated system. I have found it works best when run from disk. When installing to harddisk, or running from RAM:, it seems it has problems with the loading taking too little time, and often crashes. KillAGA has no positive effect when run from hard or RAM, and isn't necessary for disk running. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eurochart #12 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #13 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #14 (ECS Chartmag). info: This was the last issue released by Crusaders before they officially closed down the project. Lots of groups got in touch to continue doing the work, and ultimately the danes in Static Bytes were chosen to continue the legacy. Therefore, issue #15 was an STB product. [glenn] The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Deadline. The Gathering 92 Reminder (1992, early, ECS File). code: Switchblade, gfx: various, music: "Prophet 2001" by Bjørn A. 'Dr. Awesome' Lynne (4ch MOD format).. review: A simple little intro-demo this, to remind people to go to The Gathering in 1992. Enough people must have been reminded, 'cause it's still being arranged every easter :) I'll have to base this review largely on memory, 'cause the introduction, where some good pictures are shown, just FLASHES by on my machine :) Oh well, I guess that's the price you pay for accelerating :D It opens with some cool strings, the opening bars of Bjørn Lynne's fabulous soundtrack. Then, as the tune takes a turn for the heavier with a guitar riff, we're shown some pictures of earlier productions and some humourous text ('You've seen the flapping toilets... now come to the party!'). Then you're shown some pages of text, and... Nothing more happens. It's not going to set the world alight with it's awesome code, but it's still GOOD in its own way.. Worth getting for the tune. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: While it works perfectly, the intro sequence is too fast to see what's going on! The Gathering 93 Invitation (1993, early, ECS 1MB File). code: Switchblade, gfx: Intec (blow-up logo), Joachim, music: "Minimum_ Penetration" by Jason (4ch MOD format). review: This year the Crusaders presented a very good invitation intro for The Gathering, with some new ideas. The show opens with some guy pumping a Crusaders logo full of air, and then goofily alking across the screen. The invititation part itself is very easy to control, with a set of icons with text on them in the middle of the screen to click on. Most of them will take you to a page of text - you can also just flip through all the text with your cursor keys - while some also have some extra functions. One really nice thing is the aforementioned 'tour of the hall' part, where you control a little...err...animal-thing :) around a blueprint of the hall, and the various areas are explained as you get to them. A really nice, new idea! A top-notch invitation intro with a good sense of humour! The intro requires almost all of chipmem on a 512k chip machine, and 300k of some other ram. It therefore needs at least 1mb total mem. though it worked fine on my 030 machine, it did run WAY too fast. For example, the 'tour of the hall' part was almost uncontrollable, and some of the intermission screens flashed by before I was able to read what was on them. A dose of KillAGA fixes everything, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Crush ----- NOR> Genious, Howling, Sciff. ???> Amhac, Beathoven, Black Devil, Cherokee, Draco, Firestone, Flash Fox 66, Gissy, Milk, Miraculix, Smokey, Tigra, Tronny Rotten, Wizzy. Several of these names look awful familiar...Sciff was later in Alive, before he changed his handle to Crimson and joined Compact. Tronny Rotten was also in Alive, and Flash Fox painted for Razor 1911 for a while... The Wall (1989, .02, ECS File). Crux (CRX, http://www.space.ch/scene/crux/) ------------------------------------------- GER> Evrimsson (music, ex Illusion, new early97), Grace (code, ex Illusion, new early97), Zulu and Grey (Oliver Vogel and Tobias Schaechtelin, code, ex Essence). FRA> Clary (gfx, doublememb Drifters), Tof (gfx, doublememb Drifters). NOR> Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', memb of Spaceballs [details], LSD and Motion!, new mid95). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER' EHQ, 10/95). ???> Acid-Jesus (music), AMusic (music), Beast, Biztro, Cess, Chromag (music), Cockroach (code), Crisp (code), Crocodile, Cueball (raytrace), Decybel (music, new 12/97), Dexter (music), Excess (raytrace), Exeron, Felon, Fury, gdm, Golden Hell (raytrace), Interphase, Juan, Madboy, Madmax, Makno (gfx, new 12/97), Maniac (music), Muse (music), Nike (nor? Triplememb TRSI and Delight, 02/96), Odin (gfx), Orion, Orlando, Patrician, Pows of TCB, Psychotron (code), Santa Claus (gfx, new 12/97), Screem, Shane & Sid (org's sid: code, 95-01/96), Snake, The Frog Buds (coders gfx'ers musicians), Tyrell, Ufok, U-Man (nor? doublememb Whale, 02/96), Van Helsing (code), Zinko. Boards; ACENTRAL (internet), DIAL HARD WHQ (swi, 95), CIVIL WAR EHQ (swi, 95), FLYING CIRCUS (demohq), CYBERGARDEN (bel), FORGOTTEN WORLD (hol), HARD DISK CAFE (fin), INSEKTZ IN SPACE (pcwhq), PARADISE LOST (ger), PLASTIC DREAMS (ger), PURPLE DREAM (distsite), REALM OF CHAOS (swe), THE CASTLE (distsite), BLACK HOLE (serb, 95), CYCLONE (hol, 95), DEEP THOUGHT (fin, 95), WEYLAND YUTANI (swi distsite, 95). Crux was formed by its main organizer Shane not with the intention of being a cracking group only, but also with a demo section. The demo section was dubbed "Crux Design", and was officially started around 1997. They recruited great demo reinforcements in the old Rebels coders Zulu & Grey, after they had been inactive on the scene for some months, which in their time were responsible for such classics as "Switchback" [10/94] and "Whammer Slammer" [12/94] for Rebels. Unusually enough, they have TWO subgroups; The Frog Buds (TFB) and Dylem. They were at one time in (illegal) cooperation with Bad Karma, using the acronym CBK (Crux Bad Karma). There were rumours that the illegal Crux DIED, leaving only the demo section, "Crux Design" active. Can anyone confirm or deny this? 1996 - Swedish Excel (doublememb) left to be in Balance only 06/96. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" reported that germans Grace (code) and Evrimsson (music) joined from Illusion, that Halikone, Sear and Pit left the group, that swedish Newt (gfx) left to be an Abyss member only [this actually happened 10/96], Batteries 1997 - Party NOT Included (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). 6th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: I think it's a sure bet that this would never even approach the placement it got if it hadn't been for its theme - The Party 7 power failures. It treats the theme with a certain sense of humour that I'm sure made many an attendee laugh when it was shown on the big screen. And at the end it tacks on an advertisement for Mekka Symposium 1998 ;) The only real effect is the bumpmap on the opening part. I guess you had to be there. No credits appear. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cryonics -------- Another PC group moves to the Amiga! They have nothing to do with the old legendary group Crionics. CryoZone (CZE, 1995-) --------------------- SWE> Ash (gfx, 03-04/95), Conan (gfx, 03-04/95), Dr.M (code, 03-04/95), Goof (sysop, 03/95), Mongoloid (code, 03/95), Quorion (gfx, 03-04/95), Rooster (trade, 03/95), Scavenger (sysop, 03/95), Toxagon (music, 03- 04/95), Ztroobey (sysop, 03/95). Boards; DEFENSE STATION (swe), METROPOL (swe), EVEREST (swe), NUCLEAR PEPSI (swe). CryoZone is based in Sweden, and "Germicide" was their first production. Germicide (1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dr.M, gfx: Qourion (logo), Ash (font), Conan (logo), music: Toxagon. Winner of the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition! review: What? This won? How this could possibly beat C-Lous' "Time Square" I will never know. Appalling. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Crypt ----- NOR> Byte Prisoner (Kjell Inge Alsvik, swap, 12/90), Rainbow Painter (gfx, 12/90), Scape (gfx, new 12/90), Sex Angel (12/90), The Ancient Mariner (music, 12/90), The Little Giant (12/90), The Plastic Priest (code, 12/90). DEN> Cypher Kid (sysop 'PANDEMONIUM', 04/95). Crypt were a Norwegian demo group. B.F.D. (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: The Plastic Priest, gfx: Rainbow Painter, Scape, music: The Ancient Mariner. 3rd in the Theatre and Network party demo competition. review: Compatibility wise, this demo doesn't do so well. It will work for a short while with KillAGA, but crashes on the second vertical raster part. Therefore it's hard to judge the demo as a whole, since I haven't seen it all :-( The name means 'Berre Fuck Deg', which is pseudo- Norwegian for 'Go Fuck Yourself'. Charming. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: See review. Cryptoburners (CRB, 1988-) -------------------------- NOR> Aggressor (Espen Hagen, 91), Bimbex (swap, 88-01/90), Blackstar (music editor, 88-01/91), Bugbear (gfx, 03/90-01/91), Darkstar (Hans Arild Runde, music, ex IT, old handle Gladiator, new 05-10/90), IT (sysop 'HOME ALONE' WHQ, doublememb Banana Dezign), Jackmix (08/90-01/91), Keo (music, 06/90), Krest (Bjarte Andreassen, music), Kylerion (90), Nikki (sysop 'MIDGARD'), Olorin (code, 04/93), Oscon (code, 06/90-01/91), Pitcher (sysop 'HOTTER THAN HELL', ex Fraxion), Rank (gfx, 04/93), Rhesus Minus (Trond Hasse Lie, music, 06-01/91), Skywalker (Karl Bryhn, gfx, ex Rebels), Tec (Steinar Midtskogen, code, ex IT, new 05-12/90 Time Traveller (Geir Rune Ladehaug, music, 88-03/90), Trixal (Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik, gfx music, 88-04/94), Vectorman (code, 01/90), Vortex (Oddgeir Hvidsten, music, 04/93-04/94), Windwalker (founder, 88-90). FRA> Doh (Nicholas Desessart, music, 09/93-04/94), Miss Blind (faxop, ex Dark Demons), Q.Horse (code, ex Dark Demons), Synchrose (code, ex Dark Demons), Witness (Olivier Nottegheim, code, ex Dark Demons, 09/93-04/94). GER> Deicide (Stefan Wilholm, ex Masque, 93). HOL> Cloud (M. Mosselman, swap, ex Desire), Solid (Jeroen Dreschler, gfx, ex Desire, 12/93-04/94). FIN> Crown (Jean-Baptiste Garnier, gfx music swap, ex Dark Demons, 93-00), Split (sysop 'SPLIT SECOND'). ENG> U4IA (Jim Young, music). ???> Antony (fra? gfx, 04/94), Blaze (ex Amonia), Tom (ex Amonia), #dff180 (ex Amonia). Cryptoburners was formed in 1988 by by two earlier C64 groups, going under the names Scandomatic Crackers and TWCA. The original founders were Windwalker and Heatseeker, but they immediately recruited Trixal, Time Traveller, Blackstar and Bimbex. For a while, they released the diskmag 'Fourth Dimension'. It is worth mentioning that several leading members of Cryptoburners were involved in starting the gamemaking firm FunCom in Oslo, Norway. People like Tec, Vishnu and Olorin were and are heavily involved in the leader- ship of the company. Unlike stated in RAW #2, Vectorman was NOT kicked due to inactivity. 1989 - In August the entire group Ghostriders joined. 1992 - After a spell of relative inactivity, PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92] caught up with TEC to check on the group. He explained in an article that the recent lull in activities was mostly due to members doing their military duty (a.o. Heatseeker was facing 15 months in the navy). He could also disclose that a clean-up operation that was in progress, where lazy members would be disposed of - and that Vectorman was one of these people. Tec said there would be an internal meeting at easter, and that no releases would be made before that time. Norwegian sysop Chameleon ('CREEPSHOW') was busted sometime this year. 1994 - This year the entire group Dark Demons were recruited as a French section, and they released a few productions for them. Their originally French member Crown moved to Finland, but remains a member. Norwegian founder, coder and graphician Heatseeker (88-04/94) is now in Melon Dezign. Norwegian graphicians BCR and Dali joined Stone Arts. German coder duo Zulu (ex Devils) and Grey (ex Dark Star) joined DCS. Ceel (ex Devils) was kicked, and is now in Surprise! Productions. Crescendo is no longer a member (pre 01/91). Legendary norwegian musician Walkman (Tor Bernhard Gausen, ex It, new 05/90) left the scene. Megademo (ECS Megademo). Time Traveller's Music 1 (ECS Musicdisk). Crimetime (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition. Great Muzax #5 (1989, ECS Musicdisk). info: Music compilation featuring music by Bit Arts, Gladiator, Codex, Frederic Hahn, IQ, Hattrick and some others. Wild Bunch (1989, 24.06, ECS Demo). Winner of the demo competition at the It and Razor 1911 Party. Musicparty 1990 (1990, 05.01, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Drammen Party Invitation (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Tec/It, gfx: Bugbear, music: Timetraveller and Blackstar. info: Invitation for the Cryptoburners, IT and Visual Bytes party. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Crashes on exit. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Note: Does NOT work, crashes. KillAGA has no effect. Megademo II (1990, 08.06, ECS Mega). code: Heatseeker, Tec, Oscon, gfx: Heatseeker, music: Gladiator, Keo, Rhesus Minus, Trixal, Walkman, Blackstar. Materialized (1990, .10, ECS Demo). The Hunt For 7th October (1990, .10, ECS File). code: Tec, gfx: n/a, music: "Klisje på Klisje" by Walkman. Winner of demo competition at No Limits and Imp-666 Party 90. info: Noteworthy as one of the most incompatible demos ever (my friend Slummy/Spaceballs once remarked that it seemed to make a difference whether his refrigerator door was open or not ;). Should work pretty much correctly on a "vanilla" A500 with 1.3, but then again... [glenn] Fourth Dimension 4 Intro (1990, 10.10, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Tec, music: Gladiator. Third Dimension (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Tec, gfx: Heatseeker, Bugbear, Tec, music: Rhesus Minus. 2nd in the Theatre and Network Party demo competition. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. note: Does NOT work. Crashes on running. Fourth Dimension #5 (1991, 30.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Sector9/Razor 1911, gfx: Sector9/Razor 1911, music: Mantronix/Razor 1911. MAG - code: Vectorman, gfx: Heatseeker, music: "Spiritual Freedom" by Blackstar and Trixal. Cooperation with Razor 1911. review: For the first time, this issue of Fourth Dimension was a cooperation release, incorporating Razor 1911 into the team. Their contributions to the mag itself seems scarce, though, probably the best aspect of their contribution is the nice intro and a couple of articles by Sector9 and Ziphoid. What's more, the next issue promises to add another member to the team: Rebels. So, what do I think of the mag itself? At half the amount of articles, this would be a good mag. As it is now, however, there are simply WAY too many 'humoristic' articles and cartoons, of no interest to anyone but the producers themselves. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Bergen Music Intro (1991?, Intro). Revelations (1993, 07.04, ECS Slideshow). code: Olorin, gfx: Rank, music: Vortex, Trixal. Released at The Gathering 93. F.L.A.N. (1993, 03.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Witness, gfx: Feyd/Delight, music: Doh/Dreamdealers. 2nd in the Saturne Party 93 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Dreamdealers. Brain-State-In-A-Box (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Heatseeker, gfx: Trixal, music: Vortex. 2nd in The Gathering 94 demo competition. info: Requires fast, 030-25mhz recommended. Crash Test (1994, 03.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Witness, gfx: Solid, Antony, music: Doh. 5th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Toothbrush - The Trilogy Part III (1994, 27.12, AGA Multifile). Cooperation with Dreamdealers, see there. Crystal (CSL, 1991-) -------------------- ENG> 2Tuff (supply, aka Ghetto Boy/Tutoff, was once Spidey/Agile), Flux (org), Indio (org trade), Megadrive (sysop 'LIVING HELL'), Scott (sysop 'DULCET TONES' EHQ, ex Angels old, 05/92), Scrote (sysop 'THE KRYPT'/'THE OASIS', 05/92), Ysl (trade). DEN> Harmonica (crack), I.B.M (crack, ex Angels old, 92), Shock (org trade). SWE> Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', ex D-Mob), Frosty (ex D-Mob), Rascal (swap, 07/90), Uzi-U (ex D-Mob). GER> Irie, Malzam (sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD', 01/91), Secret (sysop 'TECHNOPOLIS' opened 03/92, 03-05/92), Tron and Cenobites (sysops 'SPEEDBIT', ex Aspect). FRA> Traitor (ex Alliance Design). SCO> Mr.E (Rob, crack, ex Angels old). ITA> Gulliver (sysop 'HEAVENS DOOR'), Zaracon (sysop 'ANCIENT DREAMS', 05/92). HOL> Outlander. NOR> Phonebilly (sysop 'ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex Fairlight, new 09/92). USA> Paradise King (sysop 'BEYOND PARADISE', 05/92), Professor (sysop 'ICE STATION ZEBRA', 92), Q (sysop 'REALM OF CHAOS'), Reet-Mon (sysop 'CENTRUM'), Swayzar (trade sysop 'PRIMITIVE FUTURE WHQ (usa, 09/91- 05/92), Tin Man (sysop 'DARK DOMAIN', 04/95), Toxicman (sysop 'APOCALYPSE'). ???> Buster, Creon (sysop 'DIGITAL DREAM', ex Possessed, new 09/92), Diabolik, Firefox (ger? trade, 01/91), Ice Cube, Kamenski (ex Scoopex), Misfit (early92), Mr.Hell (ex Skid Row, new 09/92), Mr.Scarface, Overlord, P.O.W, Protektor (ger? cosysop 'WORLD DOWN FALL', ex Abyss, new 09/92-93), Saint, Scorch, Sledge (ex Adept), The Staff, Timdog (console, doublememb Alpha Flight), Tripwire (supply, ex Vision), Winger (ex Scoopex), Zippy (crack). Boards; PIRATE'S HAVEN (usa, later Fusion, 08/93), AMIGA EAST (usa), DIGITAL EXPRESSION (usa), WRECK HOUSE (usa), ESCAPE ZONE (usa), PLEASURE POINT (usa), MOTHERBOARD (usa), SPACE PALACE (ger, 05/92), THE SOFTWARE HOUSE (den). Crystal was formed in 1991, likely by Scott (scotland) and I.B.M. (denmark). The group became known from day one as one of the best cracking groups in the business, and I.B.M (originally from Poland, real name Roman) was their main cracker for years and years. Another dane, Harmonica, also did a fair few cracks for the group. The group's main supplier was Englishman 2tuff (also known under several other handles, a.o. Tutoff and Ghetto Boy). The group itself never produced any demos, but their subgroup for a while, Melon Dezign (see separate entry) certainly made some memorable demo releases. Melon was also responsible for many, many of the best crackintros ever, almost all for Crystal. There are reviews of some of these under Melon's entry. There is some confusion around the 'OASIS' boards; in addition to the information above, I also have a bbs ad and other supporting information that reads sysop: Dan/Crystal... Crystal is dead! Tango/Defekt joined, but left to join Balance. Cardinal (ger? ex Abyss, cosysop 'WORLD DOWN FALL', new 09/92) left for Interpol. It is unclear where this left 'WDF', where he was cosys with Protektor. 'BLACK TOWER' was closed forever, reported Eternal #2. This may be a misprint, so that they actually meant Rash' 'DARK TOWER'... 'EDGE OF INSANITY' was busted 93, and will go offline forever! German Fulcrum (new late 92) joined, but left due to differences with Cardinal and Protektor. German swapper Ghost (ex Submission) joined Dytec. English board 'GRACELAND' (05/92) joined from Ghost briefly, and then left the scene. Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE', ex Shining 8, new 09/92) soon joined Kefrens. sysop ZigZag ('MAY DAY', ex Symbiosis, new 09/92) joined Crack Inc, but soon went on to join Scoopex. DD7 (sysop '100 PERCENT') joined 2000 AD and opened 'VALHALLA' BBS with Ozzy. Scottish supplier Action Man had a falling out with I.B.M. over Zelnik, and subsequently he, Infiltrator, N.O.M.A.D (ex Angels old or Scoopex) and Zelnik left for Quartex (91). Bit Bug left. Morph rejoined Dual Crew. Navigator joined Tarkus Team. Sysop Rash ('DARK TOWER') joined from Zenith mid to late 93, but left the scene after a brief period. German cracker Bob Duncan is now in Bismarck. Cult (-1992) ------------ DEN> Caveman (gfx, ex Light), Chrome (sysop 'INSOMNIA'), Steel (code, ex Light), Tarzan (Peter Nielsen, swap sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', ex Light, later 2000 AD, 92). GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 12/92), Cronos (sysop 'DAMAGE INC.', 10/91), Groucho, Razor (old handle Genestealer), Tex. FIN> Dick, Questron, Sagan, Witch, Zodiak. ???> Chase (code, 12/92), Cooper (ger?, 92), Death Hawk, DJ Head (ex Vogue), Dr.Legal (ex RAF, new mid91), Droid (den? music, 92), Jacx (music, 12/92), Magic Duke (ger? music, later G.T.O/Digital, 92), Max (ex The Dark Demon, old handle Cruncher, new SLH11), MCM (ger? 92), Predator (gfx, 12/92), Ray (code, 12/92), Red Lance, Trance. Boards; SANCTUARY (den, 91). Action Force changed its name to Cult, and that's how this group was born. They're mainly remembered for their demos now. 1990 - The Norwegian section fell apart in late 1990 (probably december); Beast, Skeletor, Mad, SwEinstein and Yoghurt (old handle Acidman) all joined Network; Timewalker (music) joined Pure Metal Coders; Space Ace (swap, late90) changed his handle to Mr.Ice and formed a norwegian section of Euphoria, and finally Electrix and three others will form a new group. 1992 - Around the middle of the year, danish sysop Energy ('NONSTOP UP'N DOWN') left the group for 2000 A.D. Danish Gizmo left to join Bastards ca 06/92. Danes Dino (gfx), Slide (music), Mount (gfx), Easley (gfx swap), Shayera and Gargoyle (code) all left to form Parasite 06/92. News in both EuroChart #15 [07/92] and #16 [09/92] seem to confirm Cult's death. It is claimed this is in agreement with both the German and Danish sections of the group. What confuses me somewhat is how they could release "Kefmania" [09/92] if they were dead at the time? German sysop Hotstar ('THE NEW STATION', ex RAF) joined Rebels. Dutch editor Cybersonik joined Anarchy. Cybersonik left behind a few issues as editor of 'Royal Info'. It is probable that no more issues were released after Cybersonik left. Danish coder and musician Kollaps (ex Light, 92) left to help form the new group Focus Design. Megademo (1990, .03, 1MB Disk). BBS Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Kollaps, gfx: Mr.Mount, Tarzan, music: Droid. So Simple (1992, 15.04, Demo). 6th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Kefmania (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk, 2 disks). code: Ray, Chase, gfx: Predator, music: Jacx, Chromag. 7th in The Party 92 demo competition. info: To run on A1200, you need to turn the cache off, and set the original chipset - and it will still crash before disk 2. Culture ------- FIN> Dalos (Pasi Rainio, swap, 09/92), SS Soldier (swap). Curacy ------ DEN> Ajax (Martin Jacobsen, swap, ex Vendetta Prod. ad X-Tra), Foxtrot (swap, 09/92), Trigon (Lars Kim Lund, code, 05/92). Trigon wrote the utility Flashminator, which removes the 'flashing' from several executable depackers. Antex joined Orient. Rookie's Delight (ECS Demo). Cyanide (1993-1993) ------------------- HOL> Baby Joe and Dr.Love (music), Daddy 2 Foot (gfx music), Elessar (swap), Poison (swap), Quazar (org code, 03/93). ???> Ace, Haywire (music, ex Intense, new mid93), Nico (code, 03/93), TDD, TLC. Boards; CONSPIRACY WHQ (n-l). Cyanide was a Dutch demo group. 1993 - German musician Dynamite joined Analog 03/93. Murdock joined Jetset mid 93. Cyanide died late 1993, and all Dutch members joined Applause. This means at least Radium (gfx music, 03/93) and Sascha. TLE left the scene. Tommie, sysop 'SESAMESTRAAT' joined Desire. Englishmen Psi and St.M, as well as the american Caffeine joined Eclipse. Dutch swappers Magic (ex Xentrix) and Amethist (both 08/93) joined Applause. 45 Degrees (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Quazar, gfx: Quazar (raytrace), Radium (logo), music: Radium. review: Their first intro, having gained its name by the angle of the text plotter :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Booztro (1993, 08.03, ECS File). code: Nico, Kernal/TKOB, gfx: Kernal/TKOB, Chaos/TKOB, music: Dynamite. Cooperation with TKOB. Cyberactive ----------- Slick joined Anarchy. Dark, Iceberg and Cujo joined Desire. Sysop Jack ('DETONATION BOULEVARD') joined LSD. CyberDreams ----------- ENG> Kei (mainorg code gfx swap pack). ???> Aztec (code music modem), Chazzy B (gfx swap), Curse (gfx swap), DJ (swap), Eon (swap), Hijaak (swap), Hobbit (swap), Kbx128 (music), Kooky (code swap), Merrdyn (sysop 'CYBERDREAM'), Mythos (music swap), Rac (swap modem), Slate (gfx swap), Wraith (code gfx modem). CyberDreams took over the UK group Calypso and all remaining members joined in late 1993. Cyberdyne --------- ???> Cuz (trade, ex X-Trade, new 94). CyberForce ---------- GER> 2Fast (Jens, ascii, doublememb Cream [console], 08/95). Cyberiad -------- FIN> Cocatrice (gfx, 04/92), Cody, Zei-El (gfx, 04/92). Cyberiad ceased to exist when the group merged with Carillon into Carillon Cyberiad (CNCD), which means most of the members above can later be found in that group. Accurate information on exactly WHO made it across would be greatly appreciated :) Some confirmed ones, however, are Fraction (code, 04/92), Dean (music, 04/92) and Prime Premium (gfx music, 04/92). Drifter joined Complex. Great Bytes in Fire (1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Fraction, gfx: Dean, Zei-El, Cockatrice, Prime Premium, music: Dean (NoisePacker 3 format). 5th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Works fine once it gets going, but doesn't always boot past the loading picture. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Works until the text Crusaders Deadline Gathering '92 appears, then crashes. Perhaps it's a little unstable at this point, it could be the same problem ADL had [below]. Cyborgs ------- NOR> Dark Pirate, Highlight (Tommy Foss, org swap, later Decnite). ???> Darkman (swap, ex Beast/Bronx). Despite strong rumours, Cyborgs did NOT die in late 92 or early 93. There was also an Atari division. Absent joined Atomic early 93. Mr.Magic and Jim joined Awe early 93. Xandu, Jinx and Micro left the scene early 93. Norwegian graphician Tranze joined Legacy. Cyborx (1992-) -------------- GER> Aliex (ex Exort, new 09/92), Dytec (09/92), Gonso (ex Atinox, new mid91), Nightmare (ex Atinox, new mid91), Time Thrust, TSA. ???> Stingray. Cyborx are a German demo group, born late 1992. Smash and Agent Orange joined Arise. Doomsday (Demo). Cyclone ------- French group who arranged a party in 1991. Cycron ------ DEN> Tama (music, 12/90). NOR> Camelot (Espen O. Pedersen, ex Theatre, new 12/90). Norwegian Punisher joined Energy. Cydonia (CDN, http://www.ar.com.au/~storm/) ------------------------------------------- AUS> Accolyte (code, 09/95-03/96), Bonza (sysop 'SYNDICATE', 09/95), Coolcat (gfx, 09/95), Cro (code swap, 09/95-96), Eminence (music, 09/95), Infinity (gfx music, 09/95-03/96), Krion (code sysop 'LUCID DREAMS', 09/95-96), Muse (music sysop), Prowler (swap sysop 'TWISTED DREAMS' WHQ, 09/95-12/97), Serkul (music, 09/95), Snykers (gfx, 09/95), Souri (gfx, 09/95), Storm (David Carson, code html, 09/95). Capricorn One (ECS Trackmo). Defy Issue #1 (ECS Diskmag). Defy Issue #2 (ECS Diskmag). Defy Issue #3 (ECS Diskmag). Explora (ECS only). Homy (ECS). Models Inc. (AGA). Phobos (ECS) Red Planet (ECS). Syndicate (ECS). ReRun! (1995, 24.09, Intro). code: Cro, Extremist/ex-CDN, Drift/ex-CDN, gfx: Souri, Infinity, Cro, music: Deadlock/Slam! The only demo released at Project '95. review: The show opens with a flame effect in REAL bad resolution. It looks like one of those textmode demos on the PC! Next we're shown three pics - or patterns - that are calculated as we watch. Hardly exciting stuff, people! Next there's a zoomed and texturemapped cube...Chaos/Sanity did this in 1992! Not very interesting, I'm afraid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dreams (1996, .03, Slideshow). code: Acolyte, gfx/music: Infinity. Defy issue #6 (1996, Autumn, Diskmag). editor: Cro, Code: Krion. Cyrus ----- ENG> Abyss (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Brick (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Codex (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Lils (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Mig (ex Epic, new ca 05-06/91), Saint (06/91), Soul (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Tas (06/91), Vawred Computator (ex Epic, new ca 05-06/91). Cyrus was an English demo group under the leadership of Tas and Saint. 1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig joined from Epic around may. Mig moved on though, and quickly joined Crack under the name Tracker. Phobia was kicked from the group, while Poltergeist left in june. The group was then reinforced with the joining of Abyss, Lils, Brick, Soul and Codex from Intuition, after that group died in june. Cytax (CTX, -1992) ------------------ GER> Amphetamine, Black Ghost and Stargrove (sysops 'LUCKY STRIKE' WHQ, 10/91), Dr.True (new mid91), EC-Rider (music), Etron (ex Alpha Flight), Leo (01/90), Terminator X (swap, ex System 5, new late90), The Mage (code). SWE> Jinsey (sysop 'CYBERSPACE'), Kaka (sysop), Sooga, Tesh, Wizzo (ex Reflectors, new ca 01/92). NOR> Drum Tex (ex Exit, new mid91), Tex (new mid91). FIN> Coroner (sysop). ENG> 4-Koff. USA> M.Bison (sysop 'MAXXED OUT', 05/92). ???> Cro Magx, Dr.Zook, Horizon (new early92), Ian (ex Dytec, new early92), Joker (ex Anthrox, new early92), Ken (gfx, 92), Shockwave, Starman (music), Techno Priest (ex Pirates, new ca 01/92), Tom Poison, Warlock (ex Antiriad). Boards; FLOODLAND (swe), MIDNIGHT SUN (swe). Cytax was a german based demo group, which died late 1992. They will be most fondly remembered for their excellent diskmag 'International Computer Entertainment' (I.C.E.). The last issue or two of the mag was detached from Cytax, and released as an independent production. 1992 - Techno Priest/Pirates, Swedes Wizzo/Reflectors, Rainbow (music) and Wiquie (swap) all joined around january. Swedes Gadget (ex Airwalk) and Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE') left for New Wave due to internal problems around january, though some sources claim they were in Palace for two days first. Zed joined Slipstream, while Germans Bros and Master (both new mid91) left to join The Silents in september. Swedish musician and swapper Noice (ex Antiriad, old handle Lucky Strike, 06/92) and female swapper Wiquie left for Polaris in september. Torwak was kicked. Maltese writer Cyber Pirate joined Pure Metal Coders, to be one of the writers for their legendary diskmag 'R.A.W'. Parsec (had board, but closed), Flogger, Thunor and Rainbow (swe music) all joined Voice. 4T Thieves joined Alcatraz. Norwegian swapper Moxy (new mid 91) joined Offence. Monochrome Megalomania (ECS File). I.C.E issue #3 Intro (ECS Intro). info: Needs cache OFF, OCS Chipset ON. I.C.E issue #4 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #5 (1991, mid?, Diskmag). I.C.E issue #6 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #7 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #8 (1992, ca.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Mage/independent, gfx: Ken (title), Decre (icons, headline fonts, clips), Mithrandir/Acme (clips), Nana (cartoons), music: Rhesus Minus/Cryptoburners, editors: Leo, Blackghost, Amphetamine, The Mage/independent. review: The first things this mag shows you is a single screen of a copyright notice, then a really great fantasy HAM title picture by Ken. First impressions of the mag itself isn't bad either, with a small but great ICE clipart logo and big and small fonts... The control panel is hardly stunning, but more than functional. ICE is based in Germany, but with some international cooperatives. They do claim it's no longer a pure Cytax production (the editorial even criticizes the group's lack of activity), but the production roster still contains so many Cytax members I think it's most correct to list even this issue under Cytax. The release date is a little uncertain, but it is around may or june of 1992. The news section carried the news that Horizon, Ian/Dytec and Joker/Anthrox had joined. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! 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. Eagles ------ ???> Captain Blood, Haxoe, Hextex, Mad Max. Eagles is dead. Swede Arrow joined Strange. Eaglesoft Inc (ESI) ------------------- ???> Butcher (crack), Christian, Depeche Mode, Fletcher, Mitch, Prowl The Fugitive, The Head Librarian. Eaglesoft came over from the C64 scene in the very first days of the Amiga scene, and started doing the same thing they did on the C64: crack games. They dominated this scene around 1987. Eclipse [old] ------------- The old Eclipse is little-known, and all that the group ever amounted to was releasing a few cracks from Rasta Catcha. There is no relation to the new group using the name Eclipse. Eclipse (ECL) [new] ------------------- FIN> Axu (sysop 'SWAPDATA', 10/91), Daxer (swap, ex D-Mob, new ca 06/92), Dodger (trade, 07/91-09/93), Marvel (gfx music, 09/93), Optic (code, 09/93-08/94), Peeri (code anim, 09/93), Soldier (music, ex Compact, 09/93-08/94), Target (trade, 07/91), Tom & Jerry (trade, 03/94), Velocity (swap pack trade, 09/93), Vixen (org music trade, 12/92- 09/93), Werewolf (trade sysop 'DRAIN PIPE #2', 10/91-04/95). HOL> Bassnote (music, 09/93), Bazz (gfx music trade, 09/93), CFI (org code trade, 09/93), Crash (sysop 'CRASH CORNER' EHQ), Enigma, Mad Max (sysop, 09/93), Mr.Zen (gfx, 09/93), One (gfx, 09/93), President (sysop 'THE WHITE HOUSE', 09/93), Seven, Spy (gfx sysop, 09/93-08/94), Teak (swap sysop 'NASA HEADQUARTERS', 09/93). ENG> Amos (sysop, 09/93), Aquafresh (music swap, later Eltech old, 09/93), Darkman (ex Plague), Denzil, Grasshopper (trade sysop, 09/93), Jarman (music, 09/93), Melon (gfx swap, 09/93), Moz (gfx, 09/93), Recoil (ex Plague), Saint M (swap, ex Cyanide), St0m (swap, 09/93), Turbo (code gfx, 09/93). GER> The Stranger (music, 09/93). IRE> Arc, Axel, Brendan, Dionysis, Gazzer, Green Beret (sysop 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'), Hokum, James, Jay, Polaris, Punisher. USA> Caffeine (sysop 'PSYCHOSIS'). ???> Bronx Warrior. Finnish coder Relax was kicked due to inactivity late 93. Dutch coder and sysop Overlord-X ('CODERS GRIB') was kicked due to inactivity late 93. Americans Panther (sysop 'OBITUARY') and Metoner (trade) both joined TRSI. This means the American section is officially dead (late 93). English swapper and packemaker 8-Ball (ex Cyanide, old handle Psi) joined Infect. English sysop Image ('IMAGEWORKS', ex Quoram, 09/93) joined Quartex. Destinator (ex Destiny, new mid93) changed his handle to Real, then left to build an English division of Infect mid 93. The English division fusioned with Relay into a new group called Ghost. Headache (File). Landscape (File). Teknicolor Dreams (Slideshow). Guru Meditation II (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Optic, gfx: Spy, music: Soldier. Split 24th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ooooh boy, where to start? Well, the best thing about this little intro is the faked Guru meditation towards the end. I guess the name of the intro should have given me some kind of hint as to why it suddenly 'crashed', but oh no. I was totally fooled and for that alone this one deserves a star. Too bad the rest of thing sucks horses... isn't good. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eclipx ------ Axe joined Nerve Axis late93. Ecstasy ------- Ecstasy was an English demo group. Meltdown was one of the founders. 1990 - English graphician Havok left the group late 1990. 1991 - Englishman Taurus left the scene around june. English musician Nightshade joined Crusaders. Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: Shreck, music: n/a. Weird Pack Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Orlanski, gfx: n/a, music: Rogue Male. Ecthelion --------- NOR> Cybermage (founder), Madwand (founder), Quark (founder). Ecthelion was formed by three former members of Avalanche; Quark, Madwand and Cybermage. Eden ---- Bluesilence and Clary joined from Nova france briefly, before they took most of Eden's french members with them to Next Generation Crew. They are: Gandbox (music), Slaine (gfx), Sylver and Silk. Effect (1992-) -------------- HOL> Clone (code), Dazzler (code), Hi-Fi (code music sysop), Kim (mascot), Radavi (founder mainorg www sysop 'WILD PALMS', doublememb Royal 96, 09/93-96). pc section: HOL> Hawk (music, late95), Native (founder code inactive, 09/93), Striker (gfx, 09/93). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - Kiwi (code swap pack, new early93-12/93), Scan (hol sysop 'DREAMSCAPE' WHQ, 03/94), Sceptre (Martijn Boekhorst, code, 09-10/93), Stranger (ex Silicon Ltd., late 92-09/93), Take, Target, Usura (swap, new mid93-09/93). Boards; THE PUNICA OASE (hol, 07/95). Effect is a dutch-only demo and board group, formed in the middle of 1992 by Acute, Native, Radavi and Striker. The group has since grown a pc division, but Radavi is still the leader of both sections. Their old homepage, http://www.xs4all.nl/~radavi/effect/effect.html, appears to have gone from the web. Dutch sysop Rubyx ('THE STALLION') left. Doz (ex Divine, old handle Ike, new late92) got kicked. Original founder Acute left the Amiga and joined Hypnosis on the PC instead. Cloak, MSW (Edwin van Rijn, music, 09/93) and Probe were kicked because they released an intro with some offending text at the Bizarre 1996 party. Black Eagle, Sad, Striker and Maverick (music, new late 92-09/93) were kicked late 94. This is a little strange, since Striker is actually one of the original founders! I Want Your Sperm (Demo). Efreet ------ Deep Pan (1996, 06.07, Intro). 3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Elanthia (1991-1994) -------------------- CAN> Neo-Dyne (James Ojaste, moral support, 07/94), Nitrolyte (Tim Park, code mainorg, 07/94), Ogre (aka Grey Mouser, music, 07/94), Tlotoxl (Alexis Glass, code music, 07/94), Tuxedo Dolphin (Brandon Havey, gfx, 07/94). Elanthia was a Canadian demo group of 5 members who, once upon a time, decided to try making a demo to help disprove the notion that Europeans are the only ones who make demos. The result was "Debut". The group was born around 1991 and died around 1994, as all the members eventually ended up at different universities and got too busy with their real lives. Thanks to Tlotoxl for information. Some of Tlotoxl's music can today be found at http://mutagene.net, and Nitrolyte's anime site can be found at http://www.fiction.org/www/ddp/ Debut (1993, 10.04, ECS File). code: Nitrolyte, Tlotoxl, gfx: Tuxedo Dolphin, Tlotoxl, music: Grey Mouser (AKA Ogre). info: The demo is in NTSC. Slight bugs; keystrokes fall through to system, audio filter left on at end. Try pressing space bar during the scroller for a surprise! Electra ------- Tracker left late92. Avenger joined Mad Elks. Electron (1992-) ---------------- FIN> Crux (swap), Duplex (founder, 92), Prophet. Electron is a finnish demo group, formed by Duplex/Divine in the early parts of 1992. They are now dead. All the lamers were kicked, and the remaining members formed a new group called Phase. This concerns _AT LEAST_ P-CU (swap). 1992 - Blink left the group to form a finnish division of Zenith with some friends in the early part of the year. Electronic Artists (EOA) ------------------------ Electronic Artists changed their name to Visual Arts. Electronic Force, The --------------------- ???> Asterix (gfx, 88), Silicon (code gfx, 88), Zeta (code gfx, 88). The Electronic Force Demo 1 (ECS). code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a. The Electronic Force Demo 2 (1988, ECS). code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a. Release at the Vortex 42 Party. Electronic Knights, The (TEK, 1991-) ------------------------------------ GER> Banana (founder gfx music, 91-04/98), Bifat (Tim Müller, code gfx music, aka Captain Bifat, 12/92-12/98), Crunchy (code sysop1 'THE FACTORY', ex Sceptic, mid96), Fuszy (codeAM+PC sysop2 'THE FACTORY', ex Sceptic, 05/94), Mac (founder swap, 91-), Maxwell (sysop 'ANTARCTIC STATION' EHQ, mid96), Placid (Joachim Sobczak, music, ex Analog), Plasma (ex Analog), Red Knight (swap, ex Awake), Steve (sysop 'DIGITAL WORLD' WHQ, also in Section 8, Real! and Quasar, 10/98), Toxic (ex Design). FIN> Deep Madness (swap, 93), Dexter (music, 93), Informer (swap). ???> Cybin (gfx, 04/98), Iraner (code, 05/94), Mendrik (ex Acrid), Montana Rice (ex Awesome), Prince (ger? gfx, 12/92-05/94), Red Knight, Deal (gfx, 05/94), Siriax (ex Acrid), Zycro (trade). TEK was a German demo group, formed in 1991 by Mac and Banana. 1992 - Doktor, Not Weelan, Fred and Liquid all joined Parasite in june. German swapper Agony (ex Paradise) joined Desire. Nearer my God to Thee (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Captain Bifat, gfx: Prince, Banana, Captain Bifat, music: Banana. 9th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Rampage (1994, 13.05, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: Captain Bifat, Fuszy, Iraner, gfx: Seal, Prince, Banana, Magican/ Trygon, music: Banana. review: This demo begins with slowly moving toothed wheels - which look so nice that I am still using them as background of my WB - and you are asked to wait while loading... Open your ears, watchers of this demo, because "Rampage" starts with such queel muzak by Banana that I would give him a big bonus point therefor if I could, while the group's name bumps up in wodden letters from the right side. Afterwards a "Rampage" of steel is to be build up by little pixels collecting themselves together followed by a simple spaceship taking its journey over a brown-colored voxelroutine. Then circling vector balls, rotating 4x4 textures, morphing dot-cubes, cool mirrored vectorobjects and vectorlines, some plasma and a dot-flag with the group`s logo are shown up. Somewhere between you are forced to watch a really ugly girl (Beware! This could make you go gay ;-)) but that is the one & only bad point of this stylish production I still could watch ten times more. The trackmo ends with a really long endscoller shown by a very colorful font (even changing a bit the way the scroller goes) while the guys of TEK provide you a second musictune. All in all a very good show with the right length to be watched twice or three times in a row without losing its interest... [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Choose (1996, 05.04, Demo). Released at The Gathering 96, but has no placing in the competition... E- (Electrons At Work) (1998, 12.04, ECS/AGA 1MB Trackmo). code: Bifat, gfx: Bifat, Cybin, music: Banana. 10th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition. review: This production starts with a cool idea: a great animation of the demo's title, made by Cybin. Besides is running (again, as in all TEK demos) the cool but strange music composed by Banana featuring some very nice atmospheric parts. Then you can see the presentation of the group's name in an asia-styled logo followed by an ugly 2x2 or even 2x4 interlaced zoom of an rotating cube. Afterwards a little tunnel which looks lame at the start but is pretty nice at all, on what a smooth brown/lilac-colored voxel-landscape is to be seen. At the end you are able to read, as always in TEK demos, a cool long scroller with a nice one-colored font. All in all some nice gfx and texts between the too few parts. Also too short, especially for a whole trackmo! Why so senseless old-skool in 1998??? Not to be compared with "Rampage". [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Elefant Klubben --------------- UltraBra Demo (1993, 05.08, Demo). 9th place in European Computer Conference 93 demo competition. Element (EMT) ------------- NOR> Arcane (01/96), Chriz (swap trade, doublememb Apathy 06/96, early98), Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', triplememb Honey and FLD [no entry], 01/96), Ten! (swap, doublememb Encore [details], late96). ???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Encore, 01/96). Elevation (-1993) ----------------- ENG> Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC' EHQ). GER> Charlie (sysop 'APOCALYPSE NOW', 04/95), RCF (sysop 'TRADERS HEAVEN', ex D-Tect), Synchronizer (ex Submission), Ziptronix (sysop 'SPEED WHEEL', ex Submission). ???> Creator (ex Decade, rejoined), Dr.Dre (ex Dytec), Gettler, Grind King, Icecube (ex Dytec). Boards; FLASHTRADE (swe). Elevation was an illegal crew that was (I believe) relatively shortlived. After failing to release anything for a while, the whole group decided to call it quits. They released an intro to announce the fact in late 93. 1993 - Swedish Striker joined Submission early 93. The Swedish division of Legend joined. American sysop Rotor ('GATES OF ASGARD' WHQ) joined Razor 1911 old.  Elevation Died! (1993, late, ECS Intro). code: Pink/Arise, gfx: Falcon/Arise, music: "Intro Number 91" by WOTW/ Essence. review: This intro is nothing special, just an acceptable logo, a glenz vector and a text plotter. It was not made to impress, just to tell the world the news that Elevation died. The release date is based on the module, which is dated 8/93. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Elexion ------- Elexion is now Hoaxers! Elicma ------ GER> DAW (re-scene late92), Nightmare (Manfred Fischer, music swap, doublememb Anarchy [pc], 11/91-12/94). ???> Warrior (gfx, new late92). Most old Elicma members left to form Trash mid 91. Nightmare did NOT leave in mid 91, as stated in some mags. Stone joined Acume. Eltech [old] ------------ NOR> Cosher (code), Hellrazor (raytrace), Pink Panther (sysop), Preacher (code gfx), Splash (/Xcode sysop). ENG> Blind Man (sysop), C-Rad (music), D-Code (gfx swap, new late95), Dr.Octave (music), Inferno (music ascii), Loopy (sysop), Loz (code gfx), Mic Flair (org trade), Orion (code), Quakers (code sysop), Realitor (code swap, late95), Screech (music), Sire (sysop 'MAN EATS DOG', new 04/96), Spangly (code music, ex Neo, new 04/96), Violator (trade). AUS> Muse (music sysop). ???> Aquafresh (music, ex Mellow, new late95). The originally British group Eltech died, and some Norwegians later restarted the group. Among others Dr.Death (01/97), Maze and Skinner from the original group are also in the reborn variety. Outcast is now an Eltech production (04/96). British coder 2Cool left. British musician Assassin left. Finnish swapper Splatterhead joined Scoopex. English swapper Lithium (pack 'Lunch Pak', 01/97) and graphician and swapper Wade (late95) joined Gods late 96. English swapper Devistator (ex Neo, new 04/96) joined Abyss. Hurricane left the scene 04/96. Kurgan, Mr.Anonym, Sheela and Tipper got kicked late 95. Eltech [new] (ELT, 1997-) ------------------------- NOR> Dr.Death (Yngve Dalland, music swap, early98), Maze (Stian Gudbrandsen, music swap, doublememb Massive, early98), MCS (Kjell Espen Johansen, swap, old handle Skinner, early98). Boards; CAFE CHATTERBOX (whq, late97). The old, originally British group Eltech, was reborn by Norwegians members late 97 or early 98. They made a cracktro for Fairlight. Elven 11 (E11) -------------- ITA> Darkman (code, ex Ram Jam, 06/98), Manta (code gfx, ex Vajrayna, old handle Aga, 12/96-06/98), Mat (gfx, ex Vajrayana, new mid 97-06/98), Rio (code gfx sysop 'DISASTER AREA', ex Vajrayna, 03/97-06/98). ???> Calca (music, 06/98). Elven 11 is an Italian demo group. As far as we can see, the group showed its first signs of life with the 4k intro "Another Rainy Day" [12/96] by Dip and Aga at The Party 96. 1997 - Sometime between the release of "Another Rainy Day" late last year and Mekka Symposium this year, Aga changed his handle to Manta. So, at Mekka Symposium the group released their first demo, "Smart" [03/97], and came in at an ok 5th place. Italian musician Parsec (ex Biosynthetic Design, 03/97) left E11, and possibly the scene. Coder and graphician Slat (ex Vajrayna, 03/97) left the scene. Italian coder Dip (ex Vajrayna, 12/96-03/97) left the scene. Kermit (old handle Guru Trasher) left. Another Rainy Day (1996, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). code: Dip, Aga, gfx: none, music: none. 6th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: "ARD" is a really good 4k'er, actually! It opens with a bumpmapped Elven logo, and continues with what looks like an inverted voxel - with creaters rather than hills. This is followed by some blooming, mathematically created shapes in beautiful colors, before another bump example with a moveable lightsource. The show is rounded off with a real showstopper; a real good voxel routine. The entire 4k intro is set to a 'soundtrack' that sounds a lot like a heartbeat. E11 certainly managed to cram a lot into this small space, and here's one reviewer who's certainly looking forward to the next one! =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Smart (1997, 30.03, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Manta, Slat, Dip (additional), gfx: Mat/Vrn, Rio, Manta (additional), Slat (additional), Vision-X/Degeneration (additional), music: Parsec. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: "Smart" is short but sweet, with good effects and excellent design. It opens with an atmospheric intro sequence, with a 'motion blurred starfield', over which the credits are overlayed. The combination of this and the stringbased music at this point makes it remind me of the intro sequence for Andromeda's mindblasting "Nexus 7" [12/94]! It continues with a travel down a bumpmapped triangle tunnel, some very colorful truecolor 'motionblurring crossfade' and 1x1 18bit truecolor bumpmapping! The strengths of "Smart" lies in two things; its superior design and its effort to push the limits of resolution and color. Ofcourse, Parsec's commercial quality techno soundtrack is no drawback either! However, its length is also a small drawback...a demo that doesn't last more than a little while is not a party winner. If this is anything to go by, then I expect E11 to produce a truly great piece of demo entertainment sometime soon! Multifile is a little misleading, as it's just a small executable and a large data file. Though it will work on all 020+ AGA machines, it requires at least 030-25 to maintain effect synchronisation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. cooperation intro (1998, 03.01, AGA Intro). Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Nah Kolor [details]. Elysion (1993-) --------------- FIN> Blacksmith (trade, 03/93), Destiny (swap), Dr.Gassu (code trade, ex Amaze, 03/93), Galaxy (gfx music, 93), Zecco. SWE> Agressor (new early93), Claustrophobia (new early93), Dyson (new early93), Jedi Knight (new early93), Pluto (code, new early93), Spirit (new early93), Urban Hype (new early93) ???> Fenrir (gfx, 93), Nine (code, new early93), Rodder (gfx, 93), Shrike (gfx, 93), Sure (code, 93), Tim (code gfx, 93), Zardax (music, 93). Boards; ANGEL ICE (swe), BOXEN (ger). Elysion was formed by German and Finnish ex-members of Dominators. The Swedish division was formed by Urban Hype, Spirit, Pluto, Jedi Knight, Dyson, Claustrophobia and Agressor. Some of those finnish members were certainly earlier in Amaze... Zorc was kicked out due to lazyness. German swapper and trader Star left for Absolute 93. Germans 3DK and Convey (Robert Olejnik, swap, new SLH11) left the scene. BBS-Tro (1993, .01/.02, ECS Disk). code: Tim, Sure, gfx: Shrike, Fenrir, Rodder, Tim, Galaxy, music: Galaxy, Zardax. Embassy (EMB) ------------- FIN> Bass-Cadet (gfx music, 08/97-98), Humanoid (code, 12/95-98), Sly (code, 12/95-98), Temen (gfx, 08/97-98). Boards; THE GARDEN WHQ (fin, 98). Embassy is a finnish demo group. Their old homepage, located at http://www.helsinki.fi/~apjhamal/emb/, appears to have gone from the web. Thrilled (1995, 12.08, Demo). 10th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Corona (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Humanoid, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 6th in The Party 95 demo competition. Casting (1997, 10.08, Demo). code: Sly, Humanoid, gfx: Bass-Cadet, Temen, music: Bass-Cadet. 3rd in the Assembly 97 demo competition. Back In Town (1998, AGA 4MB 030 Multifile Demo). code: Sly, gfx: Sly, Bass-Cadet, music: Bass-Cadet. review: Annoyingly, this is one of those demos with an every-other-pixel c2p routine... No matter what anyone says, it will never look as good as solid objects. Having said that, this is not an ALL bad demo, though there is little in the way of groundbreaking effects (they do the standard phong/bump-stuff), there is a certain level of competence evident. With some better pacing, more handpixeled graphics, and a better slightly better sense of what makes a demo work, these guys could go places. The music is of very variable quality. Bass-Cadet's graphics are mostly of the raytraced variety. OK then, but a little way to go yet. I was unsuccessful at trying to run this from RAM, but once I ran from HD with no startup-sequence, it worked wonderfully. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Embora ------ Tomar (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 11th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Fecha (1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB File). 6th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. review: Sadly, "Fecha" is a demo that's more occupied with showing us endless reruns of the same rendered spaceships/grabbed rollercoaster ride than treating us to anything innovative or interesting. I'm sorry, Embora, but this didn't manage to hold my attention for very long. The good news is: The only way is up! OK, this is not BADLY done, it's just that I feel it doesn't have much of interest for me as a casual viewer. If it had shown all its animations just ONCE, and ran about 30 seconds, it would have gotten a much better rating! This requires some fastmem, though the exact amount is uncertain. Judging by the fact that I had to reboot to run it, should give you some idea... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. E.M.I ----- Swedish graphician Rodney joined Absolute! Empire (1990-) -------------- ???> Batman (swap), Cobra (mainorg1 code sysop), Cross (code), Dave (code crack), Hyperion (mainorg2 code), Jas (code, later Phenomena?), Led (gfx), Mantronix (swe? music), Wergal (phreak), Nibbler (code), Punisher (swap), Pez (gfx), Remo (code), Rip (phreak), Ripper (swap sysop), UFO (sysop). When Software of Sweden (SOS) died, five of its members formed Empire. They were based in Sweden, and were mainly an illegal crew. Parts of Empire joined Supreme. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE') joined Red Sector Inc in early 1990. EMS Design ---------- NOR> Stan (early98), Trump (Rolf G. Lunder, org music, old handle Frenger, doublememb Apathy 12/96). ???> Adolf (music, late96), Conroy (music, late96), Robotronik (code swap, late96), Stan (org code gfx, old handle Joker, late96-97), Wiseguy (sysop 'OUTER SPACE', new early98). EMS Design is a Norwegian demo group. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Joker changed his handle to Stan, that Vanilla joined, and that norwegian Hellrazor (code, late96) left for Instinct. Subgud (code gfx swap, doublememb Halfmoon Productions, new late96) left for Light late 97. Punisher left for Instinct. 1998 - 4Play was kicked due to inactivity early98. Odorless (Demo). EMT Design ---------- FIN> Zuuni (Jouni Matero, code, 09/93-08/94), KMC (gfx, 09/93-08/94). Heliopolis (1993, 01.09, ECS Trackmo). code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: Dizzy/RCR. info: This refuses to run on my current machine even if I turn off the caches and set chipset to original...so you'll have to be patient for a review until someone decides to give me an A500 or an A2000... :D It's double irritating since earlier notes tell me it ran on the A2000 I once borrowed! Grrr... [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Hard Day (1994, 07.08, AGA File). code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: "Bicykl0pedia" by Heatbeat/CNCD (Tracker Packer 3 format). 12th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. review: How this managed to finish DEAD LAST at the Assembly is a total mystery, since this is one great piece of demo art! There's competence on every level here, from the fabulous code to the excellent visuals to the weird and wonderful tune by Heatbeat. And that's not all: It's ORIGINAL too! Yes, there's a few effects here I haven't seen anywhere else, like Silicon Fractals (the programmer's invention). Coolness! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Encore [old] ------------ Digital Surgery (1992, 15.04, ECS File). code: Daniel Senn, gfx: Erlend Klouman, music: Brainbug/Alcatraz. 4th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Encore [new] (ECR) ------------------ NOR> Ludde (Ludvig Pedersen, code, 01/96), Ten! (Tor E. Nygaard, swap, doublememb Element, late96). ???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Element, 01/96). Ludde has coded a c2p routine that is used by several other coders for their demos...it can a.o. be seen in Capsule's "Assault" [96] demo. I find it highly unlikely that THIS Encore is the same as the one above. Encore ------ POL> Caro (gfx 3d, 04/01), MDW (code, 04/01). Seeing as this is a Polish group, I find it highly unprobable that they have anything to do with any of the two groups above. Serial Interference (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: MDW, gfx: Caro, music: Substance/MAWI (Multichannel DSP). 11th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. info: Requirements according to the the info-file is: Amiga, PowerPC, 3D acc with min 8mb of gfx mem, some ram, WarpOS, CyberGraphX, Warp3D, StormMESA (OpenGL), AHI. Endless Piracy (EP, 1990-). --------------------------- GER> Cyfreak (ex Anarchy, new 09/91), Magic Drummer (sysop 'CRACK HOUSE', later Skid Row, 09/91), Merlin (sysop 'WAVESPEED', 91), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER', 91), Skyfox (ex Desire). SWE> Xor. USA> Whiz (sysop 'PSYCHO TERMINAL' WHQ). ???> Anarchist (ex Endless Piracy), Angeldawn (gfx), Dual, Fix, Marc (crack), Radical (ex Palace), Salvatore, Skillion, Skywalker. Boards; DIGITAL AMNESIA WHQ (usa), BOARD ROYAL EHQ (ger), ACID JUNGLE (ita). Endless Piracy was born in 1990, and was based in Berlin, Germany. They are now dead. 1991 - German sysop Sniffy ('SPIRITUAL HEALING') joined Energy mid 91. Atomix (sysop) joined Syndicate. The board '007 BBS' is now an Addonic board. Germans Brainstorm and Warlord joined Alpha Flight. German sysop Depode ('SPACE CENTER') joined Skid Row. Germans Mike (sysop 'STATE OF MIND' still?) and Koto (both ex Anarchy, new 09/91) joined The Special Brothers. Cascay (doublemember of Pulse) joined Avantagarde. Sectorcharger, sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM', joined 2000 AD. Deathbone joined Creed. Intro (ECS Intro). code: Deathbone, gfx: Angeldawn (aka AD), music: n/a (Future Composer 1.4 format). review: Another old intro, only set apart by the graphics by Angeldawn. Truly a pixel master, AD, I've been a fan of his work ever since I saw my first World Charts. So it's a sine-scroller over a text writer. Nothing new. I've heard the music before, so it's probable that it's just ripped and used here because they didn't have a musician. No release date appears anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. EP Are Dead (1991?, ECS Intro). code: Deathbone, gfx: AD, music: n/a. End of Century 1999 (EOC1999) ----------------------------- ENG> Akira, Blade, Dav, Devistator (swap, 06/91-92), Fleg, Hollywood (music), Leaburn, Leopard, Lez, Real, Rico, Speed, Stryx, Subculture. GER> Beatmaster (ex Red Sector Inc), Lord. NOR> Bacon, Jackass, Rektum Rider. SWE> Avenger (ex Mystic, old handle Captain Blood), Landreth (Kim), Noname, Valiant (ex Mystix, old handle Cruizer). FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops 'HANG LOOSE'). ???> Brutus, Chaos (new 08/92), Moschops (new 08/92), Muesli (swap, new mid91), Optik (new 08/92), Powerfreak (ex Zone 7 [no entry]), Toxic (re-scene SLH11). Their swapper Muesli is supposedly female. Once-spread rumours about the death of their English division were untrue. 1991 - Shadowman joined Argon mid 91. Messias and Jayce joined Hypnotic mid 91. The german Agressor was kicked mid 91 and also joined Hypnotic. 1992 - Bob left late92. Englishman Pazuzu (new 08/92) was kicked. Zycro (ex Hypnotic) was kicked. German Damion (ex Exort) joined Addonic. Snowy, Mr.T and Boris were never members. Paranoiak and Mercure (fra mainorg) both joined Eremation. Englishman Cyborg changed his handle to Ikari and joined LSD. Mixolydian (1991, ECS Musicdisk). info: 10 average tunes. 7th Sence (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo). code: Stormbringer, gfx: Android, PetsBand, Ramdam, Quaid, music: Mixolydian. Released at the Iris New Year Conference. Endzeit (EZT, 1998-) -------------------- GER> Damion (Jens-Oliver Klokkers, founder writer, 06/98), Noogman (Torsten Asholt, gfx, 06/98), RokDaZone (Henning Brau, founder org editor, 06/98), Virgill (music, 06/98). ITA> The Ripper (Ivan Curzolo, writer, new 06/98). NOR> Zack (gfx, doublememb Spaceballs, 06/98). SWE> Blaze (code, ex Session, new 06/98), E-Moon (Daniel Collin, code, ex Session, new 06/98), Prospect (Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Subspace, new 06/98), Psycho (Daniel Eriksson, music, ex Session, new 06/98). POL> Blaze (Patryk Kalinowski, swap, ex Nah Kolor and Floppy, new 06/98), X- Ceed (Wojciech Panufnik, music, doublememb Floppy, 06/98). ???> Maq (code, 06/98), Pix (gfx, 06/98), Zig (code, 06/98). Endzeit is a German-based demo group built on the ashes of what used to be Germany's #1 group, Artwork. It was formed by Damion, RokDaZone and Noogman shortly after the death of Artwork in april of 1998. Also italian writer The Ripper joined up to continue his work for the diskmag "Generation". They soon also built a strong Swedish section, recruiting members from Subspace and Session. They also did the masterpiece of recruiting TWO members called Blaze, both the Polish swapper and the Swedish coder! 1998 - Swedes Blaze (code), E-Moon (code) and Psycho (music) joined from Session in june. Generation #26 (1998, mid, AGA HD Diskmag). code: Detector/ex Artwork, Eksec/Infect (additional), gfx: Zack (title1), Orome/Talent (title2), Cougar (main), music: "Longing" by X-Ceed/ Endzeit^Appendix, "?" by Laxical/Scoopex (both Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: RokDaZone, Damion. review: Endzeit's first issue of Generation does not differ significantly from the last ones released under the Artwork label. Little has changed; the code is the same, the graphics are the same... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation #27 (AGA HD Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a. Generation #28 (AGA HD Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a. Enemy ----- Serbian coder Haralampie left to join Universal Soldiers (ROM3). Energy (NRG) ------------ GER> Buster and Fuzz (sysops 'ATTACK OF THE KILLER B'S'), NCD (sysop 'SIGN 'O'TIMES', 91), Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING' EHQ, ex Endless Piracy, new mid91), Stagediver (sysop 'WORLD IN A WORLD'). AUT> Doom, Malcom, Stranger (06/90), Zinkfloid (ex Grace, later TRSI). BEL> Anthrax, Genius, Minister, Rainman (92). FIN> Blast (swap trade, 02/94-late95), Blogath (music, 08/95), Branca (swap, 93), Comrade (org swap, old handle Docile Drawer, 93-02/94), Dr.Degree (sysop 'RED ALERT'), MBD (code gfx swap, 02/94), Mr.Bigdick (swap), Muffler (music, later Nah Kolor). SWE> Black Wizard (ex Them), Chip (sysop 'NINTH HELL', ex Them), Fireball (ex Them), Highbyte (ex Them), Maniac (ex Them), Maz (ex Them), Noteman (music, ex Them), Techno (ex Them), Wave (ex Them). NOR> Punisher (ex Cycron). ???> Anc (supply), Bhn (crack train), Brainwasher (supply), Catfish (crack train), Dr.Grell (whq-illegal, re-TRSI), Dream Warrior (ex Damian), Lee (crack train), Lord (supply), MCM (crack), Mike (supply), Nomad (supply), Parallax (supply), Stripe (ex Unicorn, new mid91), Toccadero or Troccadero (crack train), Trazer (ex Orient), Ufo (ex Orient), Zippy or Zippo (crack train), Zyx (trade), 24X (trade, ex Noxious). Boards; HANGAR 18 WHQ (usa, 02/94), DIGITAL CITY (02/94), GLOBAL CHAOS (ger). Energy was originally based in Austria. When the group Prime died, Storm and most other members joined Energy (EuroChart #11). When Growl joined from Orient, his cheatdisks went along with him, and will from now on be released under the Energy label... Then Growl suddenly left, and I don't know what happened to the disks! Internal problems split the group into two parts; legal and illegal. All graphicians stayed with the illegal part, and all the best members of the legal section will probably join other groups or rebuild Quartex. When Dr.Grell joined from TRSI (mid 94) he rebuilt the illegal part of Energy, and became the world modem organizer for the group. "Analtro" [02/94] announced MBD's plans to open 'THE FUNNY FARM' BBS, but there's no information if there was ever any opening. Zoro (trade) has never been a member, even though he has claimed to be. At one time, now famous Austrian coder Antibyte was a member; he is now the leader of Scoopex. 1990 - Stranger coarranged the Energy Chaos Party in Austria in june with members of Chaos (c64). 1991 - Commander X got kicked mid 91. Austrian Perseus left to join a PD group mid 91. Blackstar, sysop 'DARK CENTURY', joined The Silents mid 91. Optimize, sysop of 'UNITY FIELDS' left mid 91, and joined Legend. Belgian sysops of 'METAL IMPACT', Mad Shitbrain (aka Maddy, new mid 91) and TCB (ex Destiny), both left to join Agile. Junkfood changed his name to Candyman and joined Scoopex mid 91. Another source claimed he joined Legend, but this seems to be untrue - or at least something that happened later. Austrian cracker Stranger left the scene for a while to work on a game, late in the year. 1992 - Austrian trainer G-Tronic, who joined mid 91, left for Scoopex. 1995 - Polish swapper Action joined Mad Elks late 95. Storm (ex Prime, new late91) and Slider joined Awesome. Shocker joined Pirates. Homeboy joined Punishers. Mr.Foley joined Bastards. Austrian Coon-O joined Manitou. Autrian Status Quo left to join Excite. Major-Midi (ex Jetset) joined Paradise. Tesla, sysop of 'ROAD HOUSE' left to be independent. Beltram, Badamon and Mithrandir (all ex Enigma) moved on to Agile. The boards 'DARK MIRROR' (usa, mid91), 'PROJECT D', 'PANIC ZONE' and 'NO CARRIER' were all kicked. Wild Rage got kicked, and left the scene. Therefore there will never be any more issues of the diskmag he was editor of, "Scene Lyrics". A lot members left for TRSI, OHM and Quartex. Some members from the illegal section rebuilt Quartex in Austria. Danish swapper Growl (ex Orient) joined Fanatic. Musician Snoopy (ex Union, 12/93-02/94) joined TRSI. Greili (code), Antitrack and austrian Jason (aut sysop 'RAP CENTER' later 'HIGH ENERGY' closed) were all kicked. Swedes The Joker, Excel, Atheist, MRK, Nivek and Pete (all ex Limited Edition) joined Vision). Sound Splash IV (ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Backlash (13 tunes!). Analtro (1994, 21.02, ECS Intro). code/gfx: MBD, music: "Time Bomb" by Snoopy/Union 08/93. review: It's been a long time since I've seen such an appropriate name for a logo'n'texplotter intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Enigma ------ SWE> Scythe (sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION', ex Dazzle). NOR> Bjarre, Karl, Keb. GER> Skyfox (sysop 'SKYFOX', 91). ???> Chrome (swe? ex Dazzle), Penthagon (ex Legend), Wizard (swe? ex Dazzle). Boards; SPECTRUM (WHQ ger). Mike (sysop) left. Hawk and MPS joined Utopia. Beltram, Mithrandir and Badamon joined Energy. Deelite (ex Triad) joined Strange after six months. He didn't last long there, though, and rejoined Enigma before moving on to X-Trade. Eon --- NOR> Amateur, B.I.T (music, later Majic 12), Cobra (gfx, 04/93), Fallos (Sven Deuschmann, swap), New Michelangelo, Pennywise (Rune Johansen, swap), Positron, Viper, Zacco, Zurbitz. Eon were a Norwegian demo group that wasn't noticed much outside their native country. 1993 - Cobra came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Gathering in april with his picture "Pencil Dragon"! Intro (1991, 30.05, ECS Intro). Ephidrena (EPH) --------------- NOR> Cheetah (Sondre Kippnes, gfx, 11/96-04/01), Cyberstarr (John Kenneth Grytten, code, 11/96), Frequent (Åsmund T. Johansen, music swap, 11/96-04/01), Loaderror (Espen Åmodt, code gfx, 11/96-04/91), Zixaq (04/01). ???> Wad (gfx). Ephidrena is a Norwegian demo group. 2001 - The group release their new demo "Adam Malysz" at Mekka Symposium 2001 in april, where also Frequent contributes a tune to Contraz' 64k intro "1 Week". Mnemonic (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB Multifile). code: Cyberstarr, Loaderror, gfx: Loaderror, Cheetah, music: "Senseless" by Frequent (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Kindergarden 6 demo competition. review: By no means exceptional, "Mnemonic" does show some promise for the future of this young Norwegian group. Slow effects mean that the coders need to do some work on their routines, but after all I guess this is true for most coders :). Also the design of the demo leaves a little to be desired, but it will come with time and experience. The best effect here - for its originality alone - is a shadebob-like caleidoscope effect which is truly psychedelic. Frequent's music is nothing exceptional. It's been two minutes since I exited the demo, and I can't even remember the melody :( Bad news for any composer. The exit routine crashed in the competition since it was crunched with StoneCracker. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Recycled (1996, 05.04, Demo). 8th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Kugalskap (1996, 05.04, Demo). 9th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Concrete (1999, 28.12, Demo). code: Loaderror, gfx: Zixaq, music: Frequent. Winner of The Party 99 demo competition! J (2000, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: Loaderror, gfx: Cheetah, music: Zixaq (main), Frequent (intro). 2nd in The Party 2000 demo competition. review: "J" opens darkly and atmospherically, without really coming to life anyway in the opening titles... The design seems good, and there's a little mood coming over you, but then it closes down and starts to load and decrunch again before you can really settle in, and it all takes a little too long, so much of the initial mood is lost. Ephidrena could have benefitted greatly from creating their own loader, and thereby loading party-by-part, making the demo come together more fluently. But we wait and then, SUDDENLY, sparks of light, a kicking techno tune and a tunnel with light particles inside... wow! The demo continues with just superior design, and the is actually quite good, especially during that slow break during the 'dark skies over the desert' part. Ephidrena seem to use a lot of digitized or retouched graphics, but as long as it's done to good effect and for the sake of design - such as in this demo - I do not have many complaints about this approach. The effect that looks almost like smoke or fog being puffed around, which appears under their credits, is just amazing. Then the demo shows one last spark of life with a 'bird' it seems animated by LOTS of vectorlines, before we seemingly travel backwards outside the demo world, through the tunnel we entered and finally with a glimpse of the structure from the intro in the distance... There is no question that "J" is a good demo, but there are a few things that make it less than a GREAT demo. For one, a question needs asking: Why does this demo JERK on my machine, as if sometimes the processor can't quite keep up, while at other times it can? On other demos, effects either move fast or they move slow - never a little of this, a little of that... Explanations, Ephidrena? Hmmm... But the biggest drawback of all is the lack of FLOW created by the long pause between the two parts. This is still a significant production in an otherwise stagnant amiga demo market, but with just a little more polish (like making a proper loader), this could have been just a little better... A nice plus for the music, which is above average for amiga demo-techno =) Personally, I'm more of a rock'n'roll guy, me, but I recognise good work when I hear it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Adam Malysz (2000, .04, AGA HD Multifile Demo). producers: Loaderror, Cheetah, Zixaq, Frequent. 4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: "Adam Malysz" is a very bleak, dark and industrial demo. It's more about its ambience and atmosphere than about its effects, we feel. At times it seems a little split in perspective though, with one part being the dark, dirty cyberpunky style and the next still dark and dirty, but with more of an...eastern bloc feel to it, if anyone understands that. From neo-tech to old and sad. A lot of effort has obviously gone into the design of the backdrops in other graphics in this demo, much more than has gone into the coding and music. It feels like the coder's reusing the same routines several times here, with minor variations. Most effects are in shades of grey too, which doesn't help much. The music is not good either, I can get a feel for what they were going for, but not quite get there. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel this demo is not all it could be. It just didn't get me excited. Well, at least it worked on my old workhorse, which is more than I can say for Floppy's demo at this party =] The demo requires setpatch before it will run. No exact credits appear anywhere in the demo or in the archive. Naturally this requires some fast, but how much is anyone's guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1. Epic ---- GER> Dot (old handle Wave), Judas (Christian Alfs, music, ex Fate, old handle Satan), Wotan (Christian K, ex Exort, old handle Conan). 1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig (old handle AWOL) left for Cyrus around june. Epidemic -------- NOR> Pitcher (sysop 'ASYLIUM', 03/92), Terje Hagen (sysop 'TRASHCAN', 02/95-05/97). Epsilon (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~idr) ------------------------------------ ???> Dancing Fool (code, 92-08/93), Haze (code, 08/93), Link (gfx, 92), Mad Max (music, 92), Vision (code gfx music, 08/93). No Prayer for the Dying (1992, ECS File). code: Dancing Fool, gfx: Link, music: Mad Max. Some Assembly Required (1993, 10.08, ECS Intro). code: Haze, The Dancing Fool, Vision, gfx/music: Vision. 11th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Epsilon Design (e^D) -------------------- NOR> Terminal Silence (doublememb Vision, new 04/96). ???> Cenobite (ascii), Chrombacher (ascii), Cybergod (ascii), Desoto (org, old handle Splat), Fatal (ascii sysop), Frame (ascii), Gozz (ascii), Harpoon (ascii), Java (ascii), Juan (mainorg sysop), Rasta (ascii), Sandman (org sysop), Stash (ascii), Tommy (ascii). Boards; SANCTUARY WHQ, ASYLUM SHQ, ANOTHER STEP, DOMESTIC SUBWAY, MONASTERY OF BLUR, RAVELAND, ZILLION HOURS. Epsilon Design is foremost an ascii artist group, and all members (AFAIK) are ascii artists. 1996 - Crusader (doublememb Giants, new 04/96) left to join Mo'Soul 06/96. Twister joined with 'FLASHBACK' late 95, but news dated 04/96 claims it's offline forever. I have removed Twister from memblist too. Equalizers ---------- ???> Sharp (code gfx, 04/93). 40k Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sharp, gfx: Sharp, Sarek/NAX, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs. 10th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Equinox (EQX) ------------- SWE> Budweiser (gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93), Case (gfx, ex Emotion [no entry], 03/93), Chip (code, 03/93), Cybertron (sysop 'AUSGEBOMBT', triplememb Alpha Flight and Orient, 11/94), Deetroy (Jocke Eliason, music, 03/93), D-Luxe (Joakim Falk, gfx music, 03/93-01/95), Insane (swap, ex Relax, new mid 91-03/93), Jonez (gfx, 07/92-94), Loxley (Johan Svensson, music, 94-07/95), Macroman (trade sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', later Therapy and Infect, 03/93), Marwin (sysop 'DISORDER', 01/95), Mazon (music, ex Addonic, 12/92-03/93), Puke (trade, 03/93), Rapid Angel (sysop 'RAPID HOUSE'), Rille (sysop 'IMAGINE', 01/95), Rioter (whq code sysop 'MEDIA CENTRE' earlier 'TOTAL OVERDOSE', 07/92-07/95), Sleepwalker (gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93), Snoopy (sysop 'EAGLES NEST', 01/95), Steam (Joakim Ulfeldt, music, 03/93), Terminator (sysop 'TECHNO CITY', new early93- 03/93), Thug (music, 07/92-03/93), Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', 03/93), Zendor (trade, ex Zeus, new mid91-03/93), Zool (sysop 'ZOOMED REALITY' EHQ, new early93-03/93). FIN> Fuzzray (org trade swap, 03/93), Simpson (Jonne Hellgren, swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92-03/93), Supra (gfx, 03/93). NOR> Black Angel (sysop 'WONDERLAND', 03/93), Chipdancer (swap, 03/93), Cyntex (music, 03/93), Elfin (93), Fake (swap, ex Demons Design, new early93-03/93), Fizban (code gfx, 03/93), Icebyte (gfx, 05/93-94), Mandrake (music, 03/93), Mirandir, Mr.Nico (gfx sysop 'ATLANTICA', 03/93), Nethead (gfx, 93), Of Course (gfx, 03/93), Ray (org code, 03/93), Spector (code music, 03/93), Tee Djay (code, 03/93), Vip (Lasse, code, 03/93). SWI> Ipsos (late91), Silence (code, ex Chronos, new late91). GER> Tripex (ex Coma). FRA> Monty, Pats. CAN> Diskomate (sysop 'NO LIMITS', 03/93), Suicidal Angel (trade, 03/93). ???> Cee Dee (swe? music, 07/92), Chrome (gfx, 94), Duke (12/91), Lord Wimsey (swe? gfx, 03/93), Stix (ex Chaos, new late91), Tripwire (gfx, 93), Tweeter (ex Relax, new mid91). Boards; PSYCHOTIC ASYLUM (swe, 03/93), A DIFFRENT WORLD (swi). Equinox was a swedish based demo group, under the leadership of coder and later sysop Rioter. Rioter, the original coder and editor of the "European Top 20" also coded the "Tequila Chart" for Complex and The Doodles^Shock; see Complex' entry for reviews. Please note that I am not 100% certain that the board Rioter sysop's is 'TOTAL OVERDOSE', it's just my conclusion based on elimination. 1991 - Dragnet sold his Amiga and bought a synth in september. The French section was kicked out late in the year. Coder Wilderness left the Amiga scene late in the year. Master Freez joined The Special Brothers late 91. French sysop Captain Kirq had a visit from the Police, and therefore found it safest to close his board and leave the scene late 91. Enigma, Imperator, Maverick, Skyhawk, Starwars, Stormbringer, The Ace, The Invisible and Zorlac were all kicked late 91. Finnish musician Stargazer joined from The Special Brothers in september, but was back in TSB within 2 months (confirmed in november). Finnish sysop Dope ('MOTOWN') left between october and november. 1992 - The Finnish section left to form a new group called Stellar early in the year. Sauron's pictre "Beauty and the Beast" won the graphics competition at The Gathering 92 in april! 1993 - "European Top 20 #4" [01/93] was released in january. Swedish Phrasher (ex Dictators, new 08/92) left the scene, while 6pack and Lecter (traders) joined Fairlight early in the year. Two important releases came in march; the musicdisk "Sonical Fantasia" [03/93] and "European Top 20 #5" [03/93]. Danish musician Reggae left mid 93. 1994 - Swedish musician D-Luxe released the CD 'Physiology' together with Lizardking/Razor 1911 in 1994. Finnish musician Mog (old handles Metronome and McGee, 03/93) joined Delicious. Disk joined Silver Productions. Danes Roscoe and Subra joined Razor 1911. Swedish sysop Silencer ('REPULSE', 03/93) joined TRSI. Swedes Valiant (code), Avenger (music), Fatal, Magnum (gfx, new early93) and Wizard joined Defiance. Swedes Jackpot (swap), Electro (code swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92) and Breeze (music, ex Megaman/Dictators, new 08/92-03/93) all joined Desire. Norwegian swapper Messiah (ex Destiny) joined Banana Dezign. Finnish swapper and trader Darky (03/93) joined Parallax. Graphician Disc joined Rebels new. Swedish sysop V-Cut ('TRADERS ISLAND', then 'ZOOMED REALITY', ex Majic 12) joined Addonic. The board later returned from Addonic, with a new sysop; Zool! Syndrome joined Sonic. Norwegian graphician Sauron moved from Norway to Denmark, and joined Static Bytes (RAW4) in order to be member of a group closer to where he was. English graphician Opus (03/93) joined The Silents. French musician Zorglub (09/91) joined Analog, probably as early as 1991 or 1992. So What (1991, ECS Demo). Hydrocephalus (pre 1992, .07, ECS File). European Top 20 issue #1 (1992, .07, ECS Filemag). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Jonez, music: Thug, Cee Dee. European Top 20 issue #2 (1992, .09, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. European Top 20 issue #3 (1992, .11, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. European Top 20 Special Issue #1 (1992, .12, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Information: Special The Party 2 report issue! European Top 20 issue #4 (1993, .01, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Sonical Fantasia (1993, .03, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Rioter, gfx: Opus and Tripwire (title), Opus (font), Lord Wimsey (loading logo), Jonez (additional), music: Breeze, D-Luxe, Thug, Steam. review: SF opens with a fullscreen title picture while loading, before we launch into the main menu to the first bars of the first tune presented here. This is very nicely oldskool-style designed. An Equinox logo by Jonez resides at the very top of the screen, in shades of blueish grey, looking anything but exciting. At the bottom of the screen, a bar with five clickable icons appear, and each icon can be clicked more than once for additional information. All the space between these two are occupied by a texplotter/music selector, presented in a one-plane blue color overlaid on a 3d starfield. It's simplistic, but - damn - it works =] The text that is choosable with the icons is not really very interesting, and the main thing to attract anyone to this release is probably the music, which in all honesty is pretty good. D-Luxe has three tunes in this collection, and his tunes reminds us heavily of something Phenomena members would make; polished synth-pop with nice melodies but perhaps lacking a little soul. Breeze also has three tunes here, and I like his a little more. They roughly follow the synth-pop tradition also, but the addition of a little more experimental bass and leads makes them more interesting to me. Thug has just a single tune in this collection, but his "Forever Lost" is to me the best tune of the bunch. Others might feel differently, I don't know =] Steam's tune is also synth-pop with a techno edge, with an upbeat theme, and instruments that sounds like they were stolen from Lizardking! =) The tunes included in the collection are "Infinite", "Calm" and "Universal Dreams II" by D-Luxe, "Forever Lost" by Thug, "Honey Nut Loop", "The Blue Dune" and "Walking Lonely" by Breeze, and finally "Losing The Baluns" by Steam. A secret part can be accessed by pressing the right mouse button while loading. This part - code Rioter, gfx Budweiser, music Breeze - is hardly a showstopper, with its slightly sexist imagery and squeaky chiptune, but at least contains a long scrolltext =p In it, Rioter announces he has landed a job coding games (with graphcs by Jonez) for Black Legend Software, if anyone can tell us what game he worked on there we'd appreciate it... It also says 'march 93', which is the closest to real release date we could find on this disk! This review was made possibly with the use of Stingray/Darkage's fixed version, released on the 18th of august 2001. I was slightly disappointed by the lack of documentation for this release, but it works just wonderfully so why worry? Thank you again Stingray for another wonderful fix! =] [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. European Top 20 issue #5 (1993, .03, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Supra, music: "Lucia_Rock!!" by Breeze. review: Graphically appealing, the swedish answer to the Eurochart is at first look a competent little mag. The first thing you'll think, however, is definitely that this looks a lot like the Eurochart... There's the obligatory charts, a gallery section and the mag part. The biggest difference, parhaps, is that this one is a little more geared towards the illegal part of the scene. The magpart is fair, and about par with the later releases of the EC. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Needs KillAGA! The Beast of Prey (1993, 30.05, Demo). 10th in the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition. In A Dream (1994, early, ECS File). code: Rioter, gfx: Icebyte, Chrome, Opus, Disc, Supra, D-Luxe, Jonez, music: Loxley. Closed Apart (1994, 03.04, Demo). 11th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. Technical Input (1994, 28.12, Wild). 7th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. info: Presented on an A4000. Hydrocephalus II (1995, 14.04, Demo). 4th in The Gathering 95 demo competition. 10 Years of Fun (File). code/gfx: Vip'n'Ray, music: Cyntex. Released for the miniparty of the same name in Trondheim, Norway. review: Not even fast on my machine! I don't know why the routines in this production are so slow - I've seen some of these running at respectable speed on unexpaned A1200's! There's the usual mapping, shading, bumpmapping and the like, all set to a frantic underground techno tune. I won't even go into that, hehe :) The graphics, as such, limit themselves to a raytraced introduction logo. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eremation (ERM, http://www.barbat.de/nb/) ----------------------------------------- FRA> Brainwasher (Pascal Weitten, org code gfx, 06/92-09/97), Ferdinand (music, 09/97), Photo$ (Nicolas Foltzenlogel, gfx, 08/92-09/97), Skull (Didier Sauger, swap trade, 09/97). GER> Dire (Nico Barbat, swap trade edit, 06/96-09/97). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: FRA> Axis (music, 05/94), Fireblade (code, 09/93-06/96), Lost (music), Mercure (ex End of Century 1999), Sigma 909 (sysop 'BOOMING SUPPORT'). GER> Eldorado (swap). NOR> Bright Brick (music, 08/92), Bullet Proof, Shade. FIN> Albin, Optic, Zon (org swap). SWE> Chimera (swap, ex Quartz). ???> Agatron (fra? gfx, 08/92), Iceman, Jeff (code gfx, 06-08/92), Parallax (music, 08/93), Paranoiak (fra?, ex End of Century 1999), Speedy (code, 06/92). Eremation is a French based demo group, without any real accomplishments to show for themselves. They continually keep a pretty high standard for their releases, but nothing ever seems to be extraordinary. AFAIK they've never won a single demo competition. 1991 - Invisible joined The Flashing Bytes mid 91. 1992 - Thor (sysop), Roland (sysop), Nutcase (music) and Visage (gfx) were all members of the finnish division for a while in early 92, before the last three left to join the newly formed finnish section of Deadline. Don't know what happened to Thor. =) Norwegian Massive left 08/92. German swapper Speedhawk joined TSB. Arbitrium, Arcatronic, Creon, Sensei and Picaroon joined Vogue. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: NewLook, gfx: Shade, music: Bright Brick. Beerfriend Meet (1992, .06, ECS Fileslideshow). code: Speedy, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Jeff, Brainwasher, music: n/a. Testing It (1992, .08, ECS File). code: Jeff, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Brainwasher, Photos, Agatron, music: Bright Brick. Braintro (1993, .01, ECS Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Cash/Mentasm, music: Sound Aestesis/NGC. Nuts (1993, .04, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Gremlins/Hypnos, music: Xtd/Mystic. 14k Intro (1993, .06, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Chip Modules. Adtro (1993, .08, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Parallax. Outlaw issue #1 (1993, 04.09, Diskmag). code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, Brainwasher, music: n/a. Released at Saturne 93. Trashcan Compatible (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). 15th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Kin BBS Intro (1994, .02, Intro). 666 (1994, 22.04, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: n/a. Released at the Saturne Party II 94. Outlaw issue #2 (1994, .05, Diskmag). code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, music: Axis, editors: Brainwasher, Fireblade. Rage! issue #1 (1996, .06, ECS Filemag). code/editor: Brainwasher, gfx: Geist/Gods (main), Photos (title), music: Ferdinand. review: Well, Eremation are certainly right when they announce that this is the first diskmag that's BORN DEAD. They announce that this is both the first and the last issue to be released! First impressions are quite good, with design that's subtly different, nice clipart and a colorful title picture. Now for some serious criticism: What the fuck's the point of making your mag multitask if it's gonna take ALL of your rastertime, probably using some infinite loop that keeps eating those cycles!? This is the height of idiocy. All the good things about a system friendly mag such as this - useless. For the record, RAGE! means Review All Great Events. Yeah, and use all the goddamn rastertime no matter what processor we're running on. RAGE!AUATGRNOMPWRO! [glenn] Erotic Design (ERC, -1997) -------------------------- POL> Cook (doublememb Define, late96). FIN> Mice (Mikko Ahola, swap, late97). ???> Cadmus (gfx), Elmek (music swap), Ike (code gfx), Pila (ex Convex doublememb, new 06/96). 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Enter (code, 11/96) left for Scum, that FML joined Scum as a doublemember, that Yappi was kicked and left the scene, that polish MTC/Illusion (music) joined and that polish Timer (triplememb Define and Squeezers) was kicked. Polish members Informer, Flapjack (music swap, ex Convex doublememb, new 06/96), Cooper (code, doublememb INF, 11/96), FML (music, 11/96), Carson and Rappid (gfx, ex Depth, new late96) all left for Appendix early in the year. The King (Pawl Witek, swap, ex Old Bulls, new 04/96), Misha (code) and MTC (ex Illusion) left the group and the scene. Amiflash left for Nah Kolor. According to EuroChart #31, the group died late 1997. Erotica (1996, 23.06, Demo). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition. The Black (1996, 10.11, 64k Intro). code: Enter, gfx: Cooper, music: FML (The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition. review: Erotic delivers an intro of acceptable quality, with some fine graphics by Cooper, but mediocre coding from Enter. It seems time has run off from Enter a little, seeing as the effects he presented here were most hot three years or more ago... Get this for Cooper's work, though - it's top notch! The intro seems to leave the system back badly; after exiting the intro my machine guru'ed after a few seconds. The intro was the first thing I ran, after booting up, so there's no doubt who the culprit was. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Errors, The ----------- 1990 - Norwegian graphician Bustman joined Crusaders in june. Error Team ---------- Sinds (1994, 13.11, Demo) 13th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. E.S.A. (1988-) -------------- SWE> Norton (10/89). ESA was formed in the middle of june 1988. They are around 20 people in Sweden, Norway and the UK. Escape (-1990) -------------- Escape is dead. First, the main coder in Germany sold his amiga. Then, the German members joined Titanics at the CeBit (03/90) and some others joined Success and Prime Evil. The Swiss members joined Piranhas. The Norwegian members are reportedly doing something for their own... ESG-242 ------- ???> Madokan (code gfx), Power Rai (music), Rockeronic (music). Antro (ECS Intro). code: Madokan, gfx: Madokan, Cube/Arise, music: Power Rai. City at Night (ECS File). code/gfx: Madokan, music: Rockeronic. Eskimoes (ESK) -------------- GER> Boomer (sysop 'THE IGLOO' earlier 'X-TEC', 03-11/93), Cyclon (gfx, 03-11/93), Major Bandit (11/93), Rosine (11/93). ???> Crush (code, 03/93), Demon (code, 03/93), Taroz (music, 03/93), Venom (ex Desert). Fademan left the scene. Greentro (1993, 12.03, ECS Intro). code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz. Computer Crossroads 93 Slideshow (1993, mid, ECS Slideshow). code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz. BBS-Tro (The Iglu) (1993, 22.03, ECS Intro). code: Demon, gfx: Cyclon, Taroz, music: Taroz. Essence (ESC, 1992-, http://www.s-sense.de/) -------------------------------------------- GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, ex Dual Crew), Dascon (Bernd Hoffmann, music, ex Iris, later TRSI, 12/97-01/98), Dodger (Daniel Koschera, swap pack, new 94-95), Excess (Bjoern Barnekow, raytrace, ex Rebels), Howie (swap, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93), Poldi (music, ex TRSI, old handle Blackthorne), Rahiem (Frank Meister, org swap, ex Universal Soldiers), Slam (Andreas Melchert, swap pack 'Broken Tankard', ex X-Trade), Slicer (Michael Schroeder, swap pack 'Brainfood', ex Delicious, old handle Fancy), Touchstone (Thomas Jansen, org code, ex Delicious, 04/99), Virgill (music, triplememb Artwork and TRSI, new 94-01/97), WOTW (music, ex The Silents, later Haujobb, 08-12/93). MAL> Mop (Noel Baldacchino, edit, ex Alcatraz, new 02/94-97). SWE> Phase (Torbjørn Malmer, gfx, ex Spaceballs). SPA> Lantium (ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97), Phornee (ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97). ???> Momo (gfx, 03/97), Storm (ger? swap, ex DCS). Essence was formed by several ex-Delicious members. Their two biggest assets are probably their coder Touchstone, and their diskmag ROM and its editor Mop. Mop joined from Alcatraz in february 1994 since he wasn't content with the way the diskmag he was editor for there, Compass, was heading. The first issue of ROM was released in August of 1994. Nowadays Mop also volunteers time as a coeditor of the PC diskmag Imphobia, from issue #12 onwards. 1995 - Around the middle of the year, they recruited german musician Blackthorne from TRSI, who soon changed his handle to Poldi and contributed music to ROM #5 - the very issue where his joining was announced. 1996 - After persuading two famous artists of times past (musician Chromag and graphicians Gfx-Twins) to return to the scene under their wings during 1996 they strengthened their German section considerably. They further boosted their abilities with the recruitment of the entire French Skarla crew in the late months of the year. Their demo "Makaveli" [12/96] reached the second place at The Party 1996, which was the highest placing of an Essence demo ever. Having lost them some time later, we can still say they played an important part in building Essence's good name. 1997 - The end of 1997 saw Essence recruiting their first ever Spanish members; the two remaining active guys from the old Spanish group Goblins. These two simultaneously joined Network, to still have roots in the Spanish scene. 1999 - Touchstone contributed to Haujobb's winning demo "Mnemonics" [04/99] at the Mekka Symposium 2k-1. Swedes Frame (gfx) and Origo (code) ended their double memberships, and withdrew back to C-Lous late97/early98, since they felt they could not contribute anything to the group. After releasing their last demo for Essence, "Thug Life" [03/97] the four frenchmen Horus (3D), Jamie (code), Marvin (music) and Norm (gfx) decided to join Mystic (ROM9). The four had joined from Skarla, and also released the memorable demo "Makaveli" [12/96] for Essence. German swapper Elric (Carsten Henkelmann, ex Speedhawk/Rebels) left the scene. German coder-raytracer Cueball (Dirk Jager) joined from Rebels with Excess, but soon after decided to leave the Amiga scene for the PC. German coder team Zulu & Grey (ex Rebels) left. After a few months of scene inactivity they joined Crux Design. Dutch coder Infant (ex Facet's Pussy/Desire) and the Norwegians Christian Meland (music sysop 'DREAMSTATE'/'ENIGMA' WHQ, doublememb Spaceballs) and Tim were asked to leave the group. This means that the only non-German member is now Mop. This would later change, of course. Anyone know what happened to the third Norwegian, coder Sunjammer? Infant joined Session 12/95. German musician Andy (Andreas Dubois, ex Nuance, 12/94-95) decided to leave the Amiga scene to concentrate more on his career as a musician in Anarchy PC. He was news editor of ROM upto issue #5. Years later, in late 1997, he returned to the Amiga as a member of his old group Nuance. Main organizer P$ aka Powerswap (S. Paschart, ex Delicious) has decided to leave the scene. Touchstone is the new organizer. German graphicians D-Sign (ex The Silents, 12/93-94) and the Gfx-Twins (Calvin Golowski and Arthur Skotnik, ex Universal Soldiers, 95-96) left the scene in favour of game graphics). This is not strictly true anymore, since the Gfx-Twins have now made a comeback in Scoopex! Covert Action Team [CAT] (Groo and Rufferto, 12/93) and musician Dascon, all ex Delicious, decided to leave the scene. Ofcourse, Rufferto's work lives on in the form of the ROM fonts... :) Dascon regained scene inspiration in late 97, and rejoined Essence after a short stay in Iris! German celebrity graphician Fade One (Martin Sauter, ex Lego, new 94) left the scene. German coder Roman (Roman Kaczmarczyk, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93) left the scene. Roman worked on "Cardiac Arrest" [92] and "A.S.S." [93]. Cardiac Arrest (1992, ECS Intro). code: Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Folklore" by WOTW (4ch MOD format). review: Just a nicely designed intro, nothing else... There's only one main routine, a dot-cube that stretches, which isn't that much. OK. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.  Dreaming (1992, .12, ECS 1MB File). code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Dcn_Dreamteam.Final" by Dascon (4ch MOD format). review: Cool first dentro from Essence. Good effects, cool graphics. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. A.S.S (1993, ECS Trackmo). code: Touchstone, Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon, WOTW. info: An HD installer for this demo is available on AmiNet (in games/patch, of all places). Meeting Intro 93 (1993, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon. review: Not terribly exciting I'm afraid. It's a scroll-selector, a scrolltext, and a whole load of glenz-objects on the background. Obviously made mostly for messages, it's not the worst of its type. Selecting Groo & Rufferto's scroll displays their 3rd-ranked picture from The Party 92. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. D (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: D-Sign, music: WOTW. 2nd in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Once again Touchstone shows his flair for design. This one doesn't contain anything revolutionary, but the way it is all put together sets it out as a good intro. Nice and cute. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA helps.  Meeting Intro 94 (1994, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One, D-Sign, music: Dascon. review: Ahh, cute! I seem to remember hearing that tune before somewhere... Text-writer with moving background. Cool opening logo by Fade One. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #1 (1994, .08, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag). INT - code: Roman, gfx: Covert Action Team, Nose/Jetset (logo), music: Covert Action Team. MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Covert Action Team (main), D-Sign (welcome), music: "ROM Theme" by Dascon, "Weird Personalities" by Lizardking/Razor 1911, rditor: Mop. review: ROM kicks off in style, with three fabulous full screen pictures from the Covert Action Team (CAT), and a suitably heavy tune to accompany a kickin' intro. The mag itself doesn't do much worse, opening with a great lego man by D-Sign. The first picture seen in the intro is called "Ambush", already released once before, for the graphics competition at The Party 3. There, it was released under the fictious name of Artcore/Essence, since CAT had already delivered one picture for the competition (S.E.X, which came 6th). "Ambush" came 40th. Lizardking's tune "Weird Personalities" was later re-used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II' [01/95]. A kickdown to KS 1.3 was required to get the mag working on my setup. After this, the mag worked beautifully - without it, it didn't even get to the intro. The mag itself seems well coded, apart from a few obvious glitches here and there. I strongly doubt I have 717 MBytes of chip memory, Touchstone...and I _DO_ have an MMU, no matter what your mag says! The release date is an estimate, based on information contained in the mag. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! ROM issue #2 (1994, .12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One & Uno (titlepic), music: "Depths" by Interphace/Andromeda, "Cranky Phonecalls" by Chromag/Rebels^Polka, "What is a Cable?" by Virgill/Essence, editor: Mop. review: There's certainly nothing wrong with the audio-visuals of ROM 2. It opens with a stonking title picture by Fade One and legendary Uno, showing a rather offensive shark. Very nice. The tunes are all okay too, though Interphace's has the edge. VERY good, with a distinctive beat and a certain groove factor. Content-wise, ROM has always been one of the best mags, so there's not really any reason not to download it and check it out... NOW! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Highly unstable. Lost Carrier BBS Intro (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Cooper/Anarchy PC (logo), music: SMT/Haujobb. Released at the Party 94, in cooperation with Lego. review: It opens with a raytraced logo, and from then on it's a standard intro, complete with background and text writer. Still, like most Essence prods, nice design. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #3 (1995, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel, clip), Gfx-Twins (welcome), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Whales Forever" by Mel'o'Dee, "Join The Microcosm" by Virgill, "Musical Empire" by Christian/Spaceballs, editor: Mop. review: The third issue of ROM was the first with a multitasking code. This meant an almost total recoding of the mag, and the first version released had several severe bugs, forcing Touchstone to release a fix soon after. Contentwise; ace. Graphically; ace. Musically: out of sp-ace ;) Though the package available on AmiNet does not contain it, the original release contained an intro by Sonik Clique. Mel'o'Dee's tune was previously released at the Doom's Day Party 94 competition. That version claimed a fixed version would be out later; maybe this tune is it? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  ROM issue #4 Intro (1995, mid.05, AGA Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: CAT, D-Sign, music: Virgill and Blackthorne. review: Another nice Essence release, this 'intro' (550k) is cute. There's funny graphics, funny code and a fun tune. What more to say? Text synchronised to the (did I mention it was fun?) music indicate some headlines, and that's it. OK for what it is. Not released with the mag in the distribution on AmiNet, and therefore reviewed separately. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  ROM issue #4 (1995, mid.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel), Dwel/Desire (welcome), Rufferto (fonts), Eye/Gloom (clip), music: Chromag "Stairways", TJM "Majestic" and BrainBug/Talent "Sincerely Yours", editor: Mop. review: This issue of ROM opens with a picture of a pig's face, no less! This one came out so soon after the last one, it's most probably a world record in release speed! Not much has changed in the looks department; due to popular demand they've even used the great, colorful control panel by Fade One a second time! The opening tune by Chromag is nice, calm and sounds very professional - especially the fill-ins sound cool. It's also a very nice gesture of the ROM team to allow a virtually unknown musician from the UK, TJM, contribute with a tune. "Majestic" is also a calm tune that creates a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. BrainBug delivers one of his trademark funky guitar tunes, which is also a winner! So overall, ROM scores top marks yet again in the audio-visual department. The contents of ROM4 are certainly up to the usual standard, and contain all the usual 'making of', news and debate articles. I particularly enjoyed the articles about TRSI's history, Artwork, and the making of Greenday. As usual, ROM is VERY Rewarding. The release date is approximate, based on things written in the mag. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  The Malta Intro (1995, 09.07, ECS? 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Chris Meland. 3rd in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition. review: A big disappointment, this, from a quality coder like Touchstone. It looks like it was put together in a real hurry, with not enough time to put the thing decently together. It's real short, with two digitized b&w pictures (both of which are totally unnecessary), and two effects; a voxel landscape (which I suspect is supposed to be Malta) and a tunnel/ dungeon effect which could have been done MUCH better. I guess this was put together in honour of Mop, but I think Touchstone could have done him much better justice by not releasing it! [glenn]  ROM issue #5 (1995, .08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1 (welcome, panel), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Hard Sun" by Poldi & Virgill, "Postludium" by Brainbug/Talent, editor: Mop. review: This will sound like I'm repeating myself, but there's not really much to say about ROM except it's excellent as always. The articles are interesting, the music's cool (especially Postludium!) and the graphics are totally stunning! I'm constantly amazed by what Fade1 can do in so few colors... Looking at this mag, you can clearly see how he became one of the most respected painters out there! This issue is their one year jubilee issue, by the way. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  CrazySexyCool (1995, 28.12, AGA File). code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/Insane, music: Virgill. 5th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: I have only one thing to say about this: WOW! This is one of the closest things yet to a perfect production! The code is top-notch, with good, advanced, good-looking effects; there are four great pictures (especially Sexy!) by Louie (now in TBL), and the music is simply groovy! Do I need to draw you a picture? DOWNLOAD! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  ROM issue #6 (1996, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: TeeVan/Axis (welcome), Phase/Spaceballs (panel), Sumaleth/independent (clip), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Funky Elements" by Marc/Sector 7, "Funky Dog" by Jam & Spoon/indep, editor: Mop. review: The first things that strikes you with the sixth issue of ROM is the nice title picture of men's faces carved in stone by TeeVaan, and the incredible groooove of Jam & Spoon's cool tune! It's so groovy, in fact, that it kept me from getting into the mag for the first couple of minutes just because I was busy listening! I actually have one slight thing that irritates me a little; the panel graphics in this issue is actually the worst they've ever had! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Brainbow (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Virgill. 2nd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This is a good intro, and it's not hard to see why it made it to second place. There's the usual shading/reflective mapping toruses, but what sets it apart is the design, which has always been Touchstone's strongest point. A good one. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #7 (1996, mid to late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Sumaleth (clipart), Gfx Twins (welcome pic, design), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Milk" by Radix/Balance, "Nose Hole" by Virgill/Essence^Artwork, editor: Mop. review: Ahh, Radix' module is divine! Sorry, getting a bit sidetracked, as usual. I just wanted to express how thrilled I am about the second module on this diskmag. Hooray, scene musician rediscovers funk and melody, puts intricate beat down in favour of a nice tune! Amazing! This almost makes all those soulless techno beats worth it. Ok, the mag itself. It's the same ROM, with the same quality articles. Perhaps not as much of immediate interest as with the next issue, #8, but still quite a lot to sink your teeth into. What can I do with an issue of ROM but recommend it? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #8 (1996, late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss (welcome), Sumaleth (main clips), Acryl (clips), Fade 1 (clips), Gfx-Twins (design), music: "Return of the Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Asettelumalli" by Andy/Banal Projects & Azazel/TBL, and "Love Will Come" by Poldi, editor: Mop. review: An issue of ROM is always a pleasure to read, and this is certainly no exception. You can always find some interesting article here, and there's lots of relevant information for the Scenery editor to incorporate into his amazing little collection of text files... :) Seriously, the mag is very good. The code seems very system friendly, happily multitasking with the rest of my system. As a matter of fact, I'm running it in the background right now! Now, from the good to the bad of this system: The mag doesn't release the audio channels when you turn off the music, which means you can't run another player (HiP :) in the background, playing a tune of your choice. Unnecessary, Touchstone! The graphics are nice and functional, though not outstanding. I still remember the images that came with some of the early issues of R.A.W, and I doubt if I'll remember any of the images in ROM 8 in three years. There's three tunes to choose from, neither of which really held my interest. They're just my kind of music, but the excellent code doesn't make that a problem, so why am I complaining? The mag is laid out in such a way that it can just as easily be run from floppy as from your HD. There are two data files in addition to the main executable, which means that you place the second executable on a separate disk to run from floppy. To conclude, it's a very very good mag. It's strong points - the best articles - are the behind the scenes stuff, like Azazel talking about the music for Tint (he's right - the first tune does suck :) and the very knowledgable Sumaleth's graphics reviews. To my mind, he writes a whole lot more interesting than Facet ever did for R.A.W! But what am I keeping you for? Go download this from somewhere and leave me alone so I can read the rest of it! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Virgill Dreams (1996, late, AGA 4MB Multifile Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Phase, music: Virgill. review: If you're into some seriously weird heavy metal tunes, with a depressing touch, then this is the music disk for you. Those poems aren't exactly cheerful are they, Virgill? This is (AFAIK) Phase's first production for his new team. I know I'm certainly looking forward to his next one :) The best thing abou this musicdisk, though, is undoutedly the intro. It's nothing amazingly 'wow', but you can't do anything but bow your head to Touchstone's amazing env- and bumpmapping routines. Coolness doesn't half cover how great these look, but you get the idea :) After the intro is finished, the selector itself actually multitasks quite happily. To be quite honest, I'm running it in the background right now, listening to the tunes while I'm typing this. This is certainly the way to do it! VD can be run from floppy if so is desired. It is called a 'christmas present' in the info text, suggesting perhaps a december release - at The Party even? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Makaveli (1996, 28.12, AGA File). code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, music: Marvin (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in The Party 96 demo competition. review: The impressive thing about "Makaveli" is its SPEED. Sure, we've seen objects shaded, mapped, raped and abused before, but never this fast! Geez, these objects FLY around the screen! It's rare to see such a good, advanced demo from someone you've never even heard of before - like these new Essence members. Another thing that strikes me is the palette choices. These objects are COLORFUL, and the same KIND of colors seem to go as a red thread throughout the entire demo. Not the same colors as such, just similar, which gives it a specific atmosphere. An orange atmosphere, but still... Just some of the things you get to see is a high quality fullscreen zoomrotator with stretching, a colorful tunnel, about 6 simultaneous spacecut Z-Buffer shaded objects and a couple of really cool objects that I haven't seen before, like a rabbit (thank god! If I ever see another yellow duck...) and a man-in-the-moon figure. The music is strange, but then again it would have to be. All good demos have music which is only classifiable by the guy who made it. It's tradition among Amiga demos, and it's been with us ever since the very first trackmo, Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" [04/90]. Oh god, that was a great tune... Ehrm, getting a little sidetracked here, ain't I? Anyway, Makaveli. It's good. Download it. I'm off to find the M.H. agafix. No information on whether this requires fastmem, perhaps 4mb? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #9 (1997, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Prospect, Origo (t-mapper), Scout (c2p), gfx: Frame (design), Claw (objects), music: Soul/Movement. MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/TBL (welcome), Frame/C-Lous (panel), Sumaleth (clip), Alex/Corrosion (clip), Nope Dope/Pas Master (clip), Rufferto (fonts), music: "In Your Eyes" by Marc/Syndrome, "Vincent's Car" by Revisq/Anadune, "Elixir" by Marvin/Mystic, "Somewhat Rusty" by Deelite/Balance, editor: Mop. review: Another issue of ROM is here, this time with an intro by C-Lous. It's a quite remarkable little intro, actually, since it almost success- fully combines the 'shaded object' intro with the 'art' intro! It can't really be described easily in my limited space, but it's got great, very unusual design and a fast envmapped object :) Know all you need to now? Oh, and Soul/Movement does the music - it's been QUITE SOME TIME since we heard from that Swedish musician! It's nice to know he's not abandoned us altogether... Then there's the mag itself, of course. The opening article by Mop has always got a wise word or two, and this one's no exception. His comments about the amiga scene are spot on, and I noticed we share a lot of the same thoughts about it. One thing that strikes me is how ROM now suddenly has 4 modules instead of 3 or 2... In my view this is unnecessary, and just eats disk space, especially when all 4 modules are as alike as they are here. All four have a jazzy feel to them, with warm fuzzy instruments. If I didn't know any better I'd think they were all by the same musician! Please note that I'm not complaining about the quality here, just the quantity :) Two modules should always be enough. Why doesn't a multitasking mag like ROM deallocate the audio channels when it's not playing anything? If you'd like to listen to some other music with HippoPlayer while reading the mag, you can't! From this issue on, ROM has a www presence at http://ROM.home.ml.org. [glenn] GLE teste A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Thug Life (1997, 30.03, AGA 030 Multifile). code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, Momo, music: Marvin (2 tunes, The Player 6.1A format). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: Jamie is back to prove that "Makaveli" (12/96) wasn't a one-off thing - and succeeds in style. "Thug Life" is even better than his previous demo, with large, fast 3d scenes and good music! There can be no doubt that Jamie's 3d routines are among the fastest on the scene. This demo REQUIRES a 030 processor, but the processor-specific optimizations also show. The 3d environments are further helped by some great textures, which give most objects a dirty, brown cyberpunky feel. "Thug Life" is professional in every respect, and should be in anyones collection. Simply great. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. E.T. ---- Hartcore (1993, 08.11, ECS File). code: E.T., gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Eternity Corp. -------------- ???> D-Man (ex Armada). Ethic (ETC, http://www.ethic.de) -------------------------------- GER> Big-Rat (Kai Hoepner, mainorg edit, doublememb Abyss early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Bitbuster (code, 11/96), Cozmo (raytrace, 11/96), Frantic (raytrace, 11/96), Hawk Hunter (hardwaresupply, 11/96), Kit (mascot, 11/96), Lucas (modemorg sysop 'TEUTONIC PLACE', doublememb Lightforce, 11/96-01/97), Madstop (code, doublememb Abyss early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Magic Max (org, 11/96), Meta (music raytrace, 11-12/96), Mr.U (code, 11/96), Nero (gfx, later Artwork, 11/96), Tumor (raytrace, 11/96). Ethic is a German-only team, most dedicated to the steady release of their newsmag, "The X-Files". Magic Max's board was finally closed late 96, and he is now active only as a funmember. 1996 - Castor (music) is no longer a member; he released a module at Symposium 96 in april which said Castor/ex Ethic. Stingray was kicked after some internal problems around april. German musician Pollux left the scene in june. German coder Cueball sold his Amiga and bought a pc again, so he's now left the Amiga scene for good. He was then kicked around june. German graphician Heron was kicked in december. German musician Mr.Melody (12/94) is no longer a member.  X-Files #7 (1996, 01.07, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: SMT/Artwork (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: SMT/ Artwork, editor: Big-Rat. review: Issue 7 was the first one with a coded interface, all previous editions were just text files. I won't comment too much on the panel or the handling, since it's exactly the same as the one used in issue #13, reviewed below. The intro picture for this issue is rendered. SMT's music is also quite adequate. This mag had multitasking right from the very first issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  X-Files #11 (1996, .11, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Odin/Illusion (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: Airon/Phase Distortion, editor: Big-Rat. review: This issue opens with a moody title picture by Odin/Illusion. I saw his slideshow "Walhalla" (11/96) for Illusion, and I didn't like it that much, but this picture from the foogy morning in the woods is a lot better. Not bad! I have split feelings about the music...one of the leads reminds me strongly of 1988, and I can't seem to make up my mind if this is a good or a bad thing... :0 Editorially, this issue is pretty much like all the others. It's november and the scene is gearing up for The Party, but that's about it. Another average issue. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #12 (1996, 28.12, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Acryl/Acme^Illusion^Session (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: Meta. Released at The Party 6. review: Nothing exceptional about this release either, it's basically the same old thing. The guest audio-visuals this time is a cosy, christmassy picture by Acryl, as well as a pretty good tune by Meta. I have nothing much more to say about this, really... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  X-Files #13 (1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Raven/Nuance (title), Nero/Artwork (main), Madstop, Big-Rat, Chaos!/Desire (mainmenufont), music: Hardfire/NGC and Intense, editor: Big-Rat. Cooperation with Abyss. review: From this issue on, X-F is a cooperation between Ethic and Abyss, since coder Madstop and editor Big-Rat joined Abyss as doublemembers. I started reading the mag, taking notes, but suddenly discovered - by accident! - that it multitasks quite happily! That's great Ethic, but I'd like to have been told before I filled half a page with notes ;) There's nothing wrong with X-F presentationwise this time either. The only thing you'll need to grow accustomed to is the way you read articles here. Rather than flip right for the next page and down for the next article, you flip right for the next article! I was a little confused by this at first, but soon understood how it worked and after that there were no problems. The tune is quite comfortable reading music, in that it does not irritate and it's not dominating enough to draw attention away from what you're reading. And the title picture by Raven/Nuance is a treat for the eyes. Overall, this is a good, polished issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Euphoria (1990-1991) -------------------- SWE> Wico (sysop 'THE GANGZTER ZONE', 10/90). NOR> Mr.Ice (swap, ex Cult, new 12/90). FIN> Larry (swap, late90), Voyager (code, 91). ???> Bootlegger, Fly, Prince (ex Frantic), Shadey, Trashcan (ex Prologic), Zontor. Boards; SURSIK (fin). Euphoria was born late, probably 09 or 10/90, when the group Doom changed their name. Mr.Ice formed the Norwegian section of Euphoria in december. 1991 - The group died in mid 1991. Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria (including 'THE IRON GATE' BBS, ex RAF, new mid 91) formed Extreme. There are no more Swedish or German sections. The One (ex Prologic) joined Static Bytes. TMB Designs (ex Prologic) joined Kefrens. Tama (ex Prologic) joined Anarchy. Foxhound left. European Software Agency (ESA) ------------------------------ SWE> Mike The Pike (Erik Flodgren). Evacue ------ SWE> Behemoth (music, 08/94), Crilla (code, 08/94), Käjsi (sysop 'SEAGREEN', 08/94), Wolf (gfx, later X-Trade?, 08/94), Ygram (code, 08/94). Nil: (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). code: Ygram, Crilla, gfx: Wolf, music: "A Piece of Crap 1" by Behemoth. 23rd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ehrm. The best part, I guess, is the font which isn't bad. I'm sorry, Evacue, after this we're bound to believe 'att ni är kassa'. And the name of the tune... how true =) Improve! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Exact ----- 1991 - Phobos joined Byte Busters in the middle of the year. Exage (1990-) ------------- Exage was formed towards the end of 1990 by the groups Pegasus, Death and Tomcats [no entries]. Exceed ------ SWE> Drakemule (org gfx, 09/92-94), Motion Lotion (gfx, aka Joe The Foe (JTF), 09/92-94), Mike. ???> G.G (code, 94). Exceed were a swedish demo group, likely not related to the later pc demo group of the same name. Mosaic - The Works 1991-94 (1994, AGA/ECS Slideshow). code: G.G., gfx: Motion Lotion (JTF), Drakemule, music: Deelite/Razor 1911. review: The bad thing of this little slide is that it starts only from floppy without any reason of sense. Do not await bombastic pictures, but a nice multimedia-like menu (music and animation of the character 'e') with cool raytraced clips by Drakemule and some colorful pics by Motion Lotion alias JTF. The slide starts with two different pics - one appears only if you have aga and one if you have disabled enhanced gfx or only have an ECS-Amiga! At the menu you can choose the pics with LMB and infos about them with RMB. And you are also able to watch half of them if you don't have AGA. The music is a bit too dominating for a slideshow but although a good track! My favorites by Motion Lotion are 'Mercenario' (the only real picture) and 'Carving Good'. From Drakemule's nice traced clips I like 'Cyberspace' (dolphin jumps in water) the most! [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Excellence (XLNS) ----------------- Poltergeist joined D-Mob. Meltdown (ECS File). Cooperation with Absence, see there. Excess (EXS) ------------ SWI> Denis (swap, doublemember Apex, 12/94). GER> Warlock (swap, late90). Bubble changed his handle to Polygon Window and joined Depth. Excide ------ ???> Big B (music, 08/93), Milkman (code, 08/93), Ranx (gfx, 08/93). Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Milkman, gfx: Ranx, music: Big B. 6th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Information: Does not work on A1200. Excite ------ AUT> Status Quo (ex Energy, new late92). Exhouse ------- FIN> Judge (Petri Suutarinen, code, 08/94). Crap!! (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code/gfx: Judge, music: n/a. 26th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: This is a waste of time, just a small logo with some color effect in it and a textwriter. It finished dead last. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Exile [old] (1991-) ------------------- NOR> Switch (code, 09/91). SWE> Shike. ???> Rad, Systematique, The Bull. The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence of the previous group. 1991 - Norwegian graphician The Edge sold his machine and left the scene around the middle of the year. Dragon Bait joined Lunatics. Norwegian musician Don-Cato joined Talent. . Partyintro (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Switch, gfx: The Edge, music: Melis/Cave (NoisePacker 3 format). Released at the Arendal party. review: This intro is clearly a case of 'too much', with lots of effects thrown onto the screen. It was this group's first ever release, and unfortunately, it shows. If they can learn the noble art of limiting themselves, then perhaps they can produce something worthwile, but this intro is just another 'let's release something' prod. These words are the ones that are accepted: FUCK, HELP, SWITCH, CODERCHAT, QUIT, CREDITS, EXILE, SWAP, JOIN, THE EDGE, SHIT. The Edge had already left the scene when this intro was released. . GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Partyintro (1992, early). Invitation to The Gathering 1992. Exile [new] ----------- ???> Fazi (music, 08/95), I.F. (Piotr Bizunowicz, swap write, 08/95), Jamer (xode 3dgfx, 08/95), Klatek (gfx, 08/95), Nim0 (Michal Buczko, code swap, 08/95), Tuner (music, 08/95). The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence of the previous group. It is highly probable that most of these guys are from Poland.  Opal Se Futec (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Jamer, Nim0, gfx: Jamer, Klatek, music: Fazi (The Player 6.0A format). Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: OSF opens with some good graphics in the introduction, then shows a fast fullscreen zoomrotator. Next is a texturemapped globe, and then it's pretty much over. The best thing about it, I guess, is the AMOS error message that appears towards the end, which I'm sure was a fun joke when it was shown on the big screen. This would have benefited greatly from some improved music. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Exit ---- USA> Comic. ???> Chrome, Coke, Cube, Pacman. Drumtex joined Cytax. Norwegian swapper Deathbringer joined Flash Productions. Quo Vadis? (1990, 28.12, ECS File). Winner of the Theatre & Network Party '90 demo competition! info: Also known as '3D Demo'. Exodus (-1990) -------------- FIN> The Skum (01/90), Trug (crack, ex Animate). IRL> Axl. Exodus was a mostly Finnish demo group. They died 06/90, when their members formed Image with Unique and members from Complex and Gate. Little Vecs (ECS Demo). Exort ----- ???> Darkman, Dealer, Mac Gil, Power Cult, Quark (re from Fate). Exort is dead. 1992 - Aliex joined Cyborx in september. Conan joined Epic. Smash joined Amaze. German Damion joined End of Century 1999. Trax and some other members joined Fate. Jesus P., Kahn, Gonzo, Douglas (ex Coast), Exciter and Sali-Adalat (ex Sledgehammers, new mid 91) all joined Awake. Exotic ------ Magic joined Unit 4. Exotic Men ---------- FIN> Coltrain, Death, Delsio, Dipsomania (trade, 02/93-03/94), ED-209. Devil was kicked out. Experience ---------- ???> Den (code, 01/93), Ender (gfx, 01/93), Jazz (music, 01/93), Jgl (code, 01/93). Prolog (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Jgl, Den, gfx: Ender, music: Jazz. Extacy (XTC, 1993-) ------------------- FIN> Perlon (code gfx music, 93), Spexx (gfx mainorg, 93). DEN> Chronic (music, 08/93), Cytron (music). NOR> Lord Red (gfx, 08/93). ENG> Scimitar (code gfx, 08/93). SWE> Altern8 (music). Extacy was a finnish-based demo group, formed by Venom (finland), Chronic (denmark) and Cytron (denmark) after leaving Rave. Venom changed his handle to Spexx around the same time - most probably early 93. In addition to Lord Red, coder Nastro was a member of the Norwegian section for a short while. He coded the group's only assembler-intro before leaving for another group; all other productions were in fact coded in AMOS. English coder Scimitar coded Extacy's only demo release ever, "Transfusion" [08/93]. Perlon made a few intros, and released issues of the "Subconscious Terror" pack. He also used the handle Blue Nun for a short while before recerting to his original handle. Eventually the group died away due to Spexx' (main organizer) inactivity, and the members left the scene or joined other groups. Cytron eventually joined Depth, while Spexx was later in Distance, Millenium, Tulou, Outlaws, Nautika and eventually Nah Kolor (under the handle Alvin). Thanks to Alvin/Nah Kolor and Mermaid/Scoopex/Creators for information. Broken Sword (Intro). code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Down the Stairs (Intro). code: Scimitar, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Snottro (Intro). code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Transfusion (1993, 09.08, demo). code: Scimitar, gfx: Lord Red, music: Chronic. 8th in the Assembly 93 demo competition. Extend (EXT) ------------ FIN> Argon (music, 08-11/96), Codex, Crom, Dr.Acid, Duke (gfx, 08/96), Duce (gfx, 12/93-08/96), Electric (gfx, 11/96), Orbis (Heikki Pora, code gfx www, 08-11/96), TBB (music, 08/96), Zero (code gfx, 08-11/96). Extend is a finnish demo group, born as an offshoot from the very successful c64 group. Several of these members are also active cross-platform, doing both amiga and c64 work simultaneously. Finnish coder Orbis was a member of Halo 08/94, don't know how he got from there to here =) Their old homepage, http://www.hoikka.com/extend/index.html, appears to have gone from the web. 1996 - The group released the 64k intro "IFA" [08/96] to a disappointing 8th position at the Assembly 96 in august. Sections (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 6th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Quu (1996, Demo). Released at Demolition 96. IFA (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Zero, Orbis, gfx: Duce, Loppu, Hoppu, music: Argon. 8th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: Mostly HAM8 effects here, like colorful ripples and the like. I'm sure it's hard to code, but it's not all that interesting to look at, I'm afraid... And the music or graphics doesn't save it either. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Insane (1996, 18.08, AGA HD 4MB File). code: Orbis, gfx: Orbis, Duke, music: TBB. 7th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: A little large (4mb filedemo!) for what it offers, this is still a short but sweet production. There are certainly some goodlooking effects here, like a trip down a wiggly road (animation?) and a cool colorful tunnel trip complete with moving lights. The music on this doesn't appeal to me at all, it's just monotonous and irritating. That bass has actually given me a headache now! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kiitos? (1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB HD File). code: Orbis, Zero, gfx: Electric, Orbis, Zero, music: Argon (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition. review: "Kiitos?" is a nice production from Extend, with some goodlooking and colorful effects. Unfortunately, the demo doesn't move too fast on my machine. The text file mentions an 040/40mhz or better is recommended, and I have no trouble believing that. Design is adequate though, and neither graphics nor music gets too much on your nerves. There's not a lot of actual drawings here, but what there is is mostly functional. Overall, I'll have to confess I quite like this, though it's quite short for the filesize (2mb, or 4mb unpacked!) The unpacked demo binary contains the text string '$VER: Kiitos v0.33 BY Extend (22.11.1996)'. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Extensors --------- GER> Botex (sysop 'TEKKNOZOID'). ???> Zyx (code music, 93), Trauma Projects (gfx, 93). Hypnautic Hammer 2 (1993, early, ECS File). code/music: Zyx, gfx: Trauma Projects. Extreme (1991-) --------------- FIN> Bootlegger (Jan Lindfors, swap), Deshay (swap, 92). ???> Hitchcock (ex Rebels), Twist (music, 08/91). Boards; IRON GATE WHQ (usa, ex Euphoria, new mid91). Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria formed a new group called Extreme in the middle of 1991. 1991 - The French division of Extreme is dead. Krom, Postcard, Atwill, Shup, Clawz (08/91) and Bilbo all joined Delight late 91. Freddox, Fletch and Fishbone joined The Special Brothers late 91. Slaine joined Palace. Barrax joined Brainstorm. The Finnish division of Extreme is dead. Some members joined Brainstorm. Exult ----- GER> Daddy-O (swap, early92). ???> Lyzanxia (late90). Exult was a mainly German group. 1990 - C. Dawn left for Supreme around may. Most Exult members joined Endless Piracy mid91. Jolly Roger (Diskmag). info: Mentioned in the january 1991 edition of Eurochart, so it was most probably released sometime in 1990. Articles in both English and German. Exxon ----- NOR> Splash (sysop 'FLAME STRIKE', 10/94), St. Eagle (Vidar Lekanger, swap, 94). ???> Mr.X (code, ex Sepultura). Boards; KEY STROKE (nor). Facet's Pussy/Desire (subgroup). -------------------------------- HOL> Noodle (swap, ex Motive), Ramon B5 (founder mainorg swap), React, Sacha (founder code), ThD (founder gfx). GER> Chaos (Dirk Wiemer, gfx ascii swap, ex Desire), Kernal (code, ex Desire). FIN> Poke (V-M Poikola, swap, ex Digital), Tint (Mika Melonen, swap, ex Digital). Facet's Pussy was formed as a subgroup of Desire by Ramon B5, ThD and Sacha from the Dutch section of Desire itself. They later recruited more members from the mother group, like the two germans Chaos! and Kernal. Dutchman Rotox (later known as Infant) was a member for two and a half years. His next group was Essence, and its probable that he changed his handle to Infant when he made the move. Exile (1994, Demo). code: Sacha, Riox, gfx: Zoef, Dwel, Gif, Solid, music: Fabian, Anti? 40k Partyintro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Rotox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a Split 19th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Prestige Cracktro (Intro). code: Rotox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Problemloos (Dentro). info: This dentro was made by Rotox for Desire's leader Ramon B5's birthday! Faction (FTN) ------------- Faction (actually Friendship In Action) are an illegal crew, doing cracks. Factor ------ SWE> Mayo (gfx, 05/96), Nemo (Kalle Molin, code, 05/96), Plugster (edit "Buzz", ex Defiance, new late95), Squeeze (05/96). When Plugster joined from Defiance, he had the diskmag "Buzz" with him - it is uncertain whether any issues were released by Factor, though.  Memories (1996, 26.05, AGA 64k Intro). code: Nemo, gfx: Nemo, Mayo (titlepic), Squeeze (design), music: Fudge/ Subspace. 3rd in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. review: 'Memories' is another way of saying 'old effects', obviously. This intro from mid 96 features dot-tunnels and shadebobs! Neeeeext! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rosa Bananer 2 (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). 4th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. Factor IV (1989-) ----------------- NZL> Cosmac (code hardware, 01/90), , Manslayor (code, ex Knucklebusters, new 01/90), Mutley (code, 01/90), Sly (org code, 01/90), Warrior (code gfx, 01/90). AUS> Gazza (code music, 01/90). USA> Oberon (music phreak, 01/90). Factor IV is almost entirely based in New Zealand (two foreign members), and was formed in march of 1989 after a party in Auckland. Faculty (FCY) ------------- HUN> Airsmith (Kovacs Peter, gfx, 04/94), Fate (sysop 'FATAL CONNEXION'), Frame (gfx, 04/94-04/95), Scribe (Laszlo Ragany, code, 04/94-04/95), Shark (Mezei Tibor, gfx, 04/94-04/95), Snotty (Racz Csaba, music, 04/94-11/97), Stece (code, 11/97), Unreal (gfx, 11/97). Jump Master 2 (1992, .12, ECS Musicdisk). First production! Disney's (1993, 04.01, ECS Trackmo). Contribution to Hammering 93. Brilliance (1993, .03, ECS Trackmo). Lethal Dose (1993, .06, ECS Trackmo).  Lethal Dose 2 (1994, 09.04, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Scribe, gfx: Frame, Shark, Airsmith (fonts), music: Snotty. Contribution for the demo competition at Hammering 94. info: Does not support df1:. Works on standard A1200. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Man On The Moon (1995, 09.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile, 4 disks). code: Scribe, gfx: Frame, Shark, music: Snotty. Winner of demo competition at Scenest 95! review: 4 disks are a bit hefty for this, but I assume the raytraced opening animation stole at least two of them. After the animation (of a spaceship flying through space), we're treated to a fast-paced demo with good-looking effects and a thumping techno soundtrack. I usually hate these techno things, but this one's far from the worst I have heard. I can see how this won a party; it's fast, fun, and looks good. The effects are a little on the outdated front, though - texturemapped cubes and stretching zoom-rotators dominate. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dream Or Reality (1997, .11, AGA HD Slideshow). code: Steve, gfx: Unreal, music: Snotty. Cooperation with Nah Kolor. review: With a very styled introduction consisting of interesting ideas for design and bombastic sound starts this huge but one of the best slideshows I had the pleasure to watch. Including several musics for intro-, show- and selectorpart is this more than a normal picture collection with selector! 14 pieces of pixelart - most not released before and a few party ones - made on his own by Unreal and two copied. With very impressive and alive backgrounds (like on `Sanction`) and mostly mystic elements and figures (especially dragons) and a lot of colors with partly special lighteffects (like the background of the faculty logo in the intropart) he creates a fantastic world of tales and imaginations. After the show you are able to click through a well-styled selector, with colored previews and a golden greetings part, to find every ever so small information you need to know about the pictures and some more texts by the graphician. Why he made it and words concerning the process and so on. Only negative is that all of them are in interlace modus and after you read some interesting stuff your eyes begin slowly to hurt. Also the selector music could be a bit slower for a more relaxing walk through the gallery! Conclusion??? Watch it!!!! Only some intro clips look a bit ugly but the rest is simply brilliant. My favourite trips to Phantasia are: `Freeborn` and `Smaug above Esgorath`, a very good copy! Also `Morfeum` is very nice! A better big clip, but as cute that I would kiss it... ;) [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Fairlight (FLT, http://www.fairlight.org, 1987-) ------------------------------------------------ SWE> Black Shadow (founder supply code crack exsysop 'SEVENTH HEAVEN' EHQ, 87-92), Damage (sysop 'THE DUNGEON' EHQ, 05-12/91), Danko (Tomas Danko, music, 09/89), Exolon (Björn Wesen, code crack, 08/89-12/91), Gaston (crack, ex Hyperion, +inactive+ but still memb, working on games, 05/91-97), Hof (trade sysop 'FAR OUT', ex Scoopex), Istvan (sysop 'MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Red Sector Inc., new mid90-10/90), JBM (trade, ex Dual Crew, new summer91-96), Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE' EHQ, 09/96), Rebel (sysop 'TRANCENTRAL' EHQ opened 91, 07/91-01/95), Sandman (sysop 'SANCTUARY', 01/95), Sauron (J. Lindahl, code, later Miracle, 12/89), Shaggy (ex Dual Crew), Strider (Tony Krvaric, founder crack, 02/88-12/91), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT', doublememb Reflex, later Rage, 01/95). GER> Bob Duncan (crack), Luke and Chuck (supply sysops 'THE FUCK SHOP', 05/91-10/93), Rudi (ex Dynamix), Sagor (sysop 'TOTAL KAOS', ex Ministry), Selim (ex Dynamix), Siriax (swap, ex Interpol), Smudo (ex Arise old), Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'). ENG> Majic Mushroom (swap, ex Lemon., new late 93), N.O.M.A.D (Marc, crack, 10/93), Rambo (sysop 'HARDCORE HEAVEN'), Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC'), Scrote (sysop 'THE KRYPT', 08/93), Warlord (ex Dual Crew, 09/91, NOT 11-12/91). ITA> Tiger (sysop 'ICC BBS', aka Tiger-9, 09-12/91). HOL> Sleeping Bag (sysop 'CRYSTAL PALACE', 08-11/90). FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops 'HANG LOOSE', ex Analog, new early93-10/93). DEN> Ramirez (sysop 'SUFFOCATION', ex Majic 12, 10/93), Tarzan (sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', 10/93). FIN> Cosy (trade, doublememb Digital, 03/94), Immortal (sysop 'CHILD IN TIME', 04/95), JHH & Zodiac (sysops 'STONE HENGE', 04/95). NOR> Wilfo (ex The Shadows [c64]). CAN> Big Balls (sysop 'ROBINS FIRST ORGASM', 04/95). USA> Big Boss (sysop 'MIRAGE' WHQ, 05/92-10/93), Ghetto Boyz (sysops 'THE GHETTO', 09/93-04/95), Hosehead (sysop 'GREAT WHITE NORTH' distsite), Pizzaman (sysop 'FLATLINERS' WHQ, ex Agile, 05-12/91), Scorpian (sysop 'DIGITAL CIRCUS', 04/95). ???> 6pack (trade, ex Equinox, new early 93), Abaddon (ex Amaze, new pre 07/92), Abandon (ex Rage, new RAW3), Dave (crack, 10/90), Dennis the Menace (supply, 05/92), Drone No:5 (swe? supply, 05-09/91, NOT 11- 12/91), Eternal (sysop), Fashion Light, Fauser (ex Rage), Galahad (crack, 01/96-12/97), Genius (music, 02-12/91), Lecter (trade, ex Equinox, new early93), Lord Zero (swap trade, ex Legend), Mac (new late92), Oliver (ex Mute 101, new late90), Organic (music, ex Shining), Plauze (ex Vanish, new mid91), Problem Child (new early 92), Ramius (new 12/91), Rubicon (code gfx, ex Aurora), Sarge (gfx, early90-12/91), Semtex (supply, 01/96), Silencer (11-12/91), Supermann (gfx, ex Prime, new 06/91, NOT 11-12/91). Boards; BEYOND REALITY WHQ (usa, 12/97), IRON FORTRESS WHQ (usa, 03-11/90), PROGRAMMER'S HEAVEN (usa, earlier SPAZTIC BBS, 03-10/90), BAD RELIGION (usa), CATASTROPHE (usa, 05/92), MAFIA CRACK CREW (usa, sometimes without the 'CRACK' name, 05/92), TRADE LINE BBS (usa), THE EMPIRE (usa, 09-10/93), CHAOTIC ENTITY (usa, 03-10/93), SMALL HOURS (usa, 09-10/93), ROAD TO NOWHERE (usa, 03/93). TIGERS TALON (ger), DOPE HOUSE (swe, 09-10/93), NEUROBASHING (swe, see note!), OFFSHORE (eng, 09-10/93), BUBBLE BOBBLE (eng), CITY LIMITS (eng, 05-07/91), LAST FRONTIER (ita, 05/92), ARACHNOS (ita), SPACE STATION (ita, 09-10/93), MOONSTONE (fra), TOTAL PANIC (nor, 10/93), HALLOWED POINT (swi), VIOLATOR'S PLACE (swi, 08-11/90), OASIS. Note: 'NEUROBASHING' was closed 12/94, though it's uncertain whether it was in FLT at the time... FLT is almost as old as the C64 scene is, and has always been one of the 'big' crews. They were formed inn 1987 by Black Shadow, who for quite some time worked on both platforms. He was joined by the other original founder of FLT on the C64 in february 1988, Strider. They used to be a multipurpose group, with both cracking and demo activities. Now they have a demo division (Virtual Dreams) to take care of that part of the operation. Also, several of them have branched onto the PC. FLT is now basically a company, selling console copiers and the like, but with strong scene roots. Strider has since moved to Belgium, and then San Diego, California, USA, but I've still got him registered in Sweden, since that's where most of his scene activities occured. 1990 was a year with cracks done by several guys, including veteran Exolon, Onyx and Dave. Some cracks were even done by 'Allah from Kuwait', but this was probably just one of the regular guys working under a pseudonym. Swedish coder Celebrandil (ex Northstar, new 1989-12/89) joined Phenomena sometime this year. 1991 - This would be the year Gaston did all the cracks. Exolon and The Black Shadow remained on the memberlist, but did not crack anything. Supplying was mostly handled by Splatt! and Drone No:5 (who by the end of the year was mysteriously not on the memberlist any longer...) with the occasional game from JBM, Luke & Chuck, Stik and Stone. Towards the end of the year (11 or 12/91) FLATLINERS lost its WHQ status, but Pizzaman remained on the memberlist (did he close?). The new WHQ was APOCALYPSE, sysopped by POW (new 10/91). Among the members that came and went were Stone (supply, 08/91) and Stik (supply, 08/91). Tiger's Italian BBS ICC BBS was listed 09-10/91, but only his name and not the board 11-12/91... 1992 - The group's WHQ BBS 'APOCALYPSE' and its sysop POW (new 10/92) stepped down in may, to concentrate on the PC and console scenes. Shortly after, he left the group entirely and joined Ministry. The new WHQ became MIRAGE and its sysop Big Boss. The board 'BRAINDEAD' left/was kicked. The board 'DANSE MACABRE' joined Dynamix. Coder and cracker Tom (09-12/91) left the scene. Swedish sysop Zike ('PLEASURE ZONE', 03/90) left. English supplier and legendary sysop Splatt! ('SPLATTER HOUSE', 05/91- 09/93) left the scene Christmas 1993. During his time in FLT, he left and rejoined three times, among others to Ministry (RAW4) and TRSI! German Chuck changed handle to Evil Death and joined the new Angels (RAW5). I do not know if this is the same Chuck as the member of the 'Luke & Chuck' sysop team mentioned above. Turkish Imperator joined Dynamix 93. Deathbringer joined Zenith (RAW4). Hotmilk (sysop) joined Panic (RAW4). Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex The Silents, new RAW2) joined Crystal 09/92. Italian sysop Highlander ('PARADISE DREAM', 05/92) joined Anthrox (RAW4). Norwegian sysop Scratcher ('TOTAL PANIC', ex Palace, new RAW4, 10/93) soon joined Crusaders. This is slightly weird, since I have him verified 10/93, and RAW4 was published late 92... English sysop Kitaro ('MILLENNIA', ex Alpha Flight, 05/92-09/93) joined 2000 AD, but later left for Skid Row with a few others. It seems he later returned, since I have him verified in FLT 10/93... German sysop E-605 ('BLACK SHADOW') joined United Forces. Swedish musician Mantronix (ex Warfalcons, 10/90) was later in Razor 1911. Swedes Judge and Pernod (gfx) joined Horizon early 90. Exceller 8 #1 (1988, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Northstar [details]. Exceller VIII #2 (1989, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Northstar [details]. BBS Intro (The Fuck Shop BBS) (1989?, ECS Intro). code: Tom, gfx: n/a, music: Melodee (= Mel O'Dee?). Grodan Boll (1989, ECS File). code: Exolon, gfx: n/a, music: Titan/Northstar. Raytracing (1989, 29.12, Demo). code: Sauron, gfx: Static/Rebels (flt logo), Vigilante (animated earth bobs), Mikael Balle/The Silents (fonts), Celebrandil (raytracing), music: "Rage" by n/a (NoiseTracker MOD format). Released at the Christmas Party 89. Invitation by Fairlight + Horizon + Miracle (1990, early, ECS File). code: Sauron/Miracle, gfx: Sarge, Static/Rebels, Vigilante/Fairlight, music: Danko/Phenomena. Invitation to the Swedish Elite Easter Conf 90. Grunka (1990, 03.11, Demo). Released at the Amiga Halloween Conference 90. Photocall (1991?, ECS File). code: Exolon, gfx: n/a, music: The Wiz. Faith [old] (FTH, 1993-1994) ---------------------------- GER> Mogue (sysop 'ENDLESS PAIN', doublememb Fire and Ice, 01/94). ENG> PMF and Gilby (sysops 'CHEZ AMIE'). USA> Flux and Radiosity (sysops 'CANADIAN MIST', 05/98). ???> Triton (ger? 01/94). Faith was an illegal cracking group formed by germans Gandalf and Oliver Stoned (previously in Paranoimia) in 1993. The two divided the group's activities up between them after a while; Oliver Stoned taking care of the pc section, while Gandalf was responsible for the amiga and consoles. Later Oliver Stoned joined TRSI with the entire Faith group, a situation that worked thus: They released the English or international versions of games through TRSI, and the german version under the Faith label. 1994 - After The Party 93 in december of last year, Gandalf changed his handle to Ghandy and changed his focus from illegal activities to the demoscene. Faith died as a group in early 94 (probably) when they joined forces with Progress to create the new group Scandal. Germans Xan and JMS (gfx) joined Vision, but we are not certain exactly when this happened. Faith [new] (FTH, 1998-) ------------------------ GER> Exon (org sysop 'LOS ENDOS', 02/98), Ghandy (org trade, 02/98), Petrified (trade sysop, 02/98), Steel (trade sysop 'CRAPTOWN', 02/98). ENG> Chill (trade, 02/98), The Welder (code, 02/98), Zoltrix (trade sysop 'SPACE OUT', 02/98). SWE> Dalamar (sysop 'DRAGON LANCE' EHQ, 02/98). Faith was reborn early 1998 by Exon, with the blessing of original founder Ghandy, and is an illegal cracking group which exists until today. Fake ---- 5 Secs. (Intro). code: Offler, gfx: n/a, music: Fash. P (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 21st in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Falcons ------- DEN> Fridgoff. FIN> Beathawk, Maniac, Protoplasm. JOR> Ripper. Their leader Bannasoft joined Melon Dezign, probably causing the death of the group. 1990 - Danish coder Boogeyman joined Vixen. 1991 - Their Finnish division was new late 91. 1992 - Finnish Index joined Addonic around january. Finnish musician and swapper Maniac left to join Chrome in september. Falon (1990-1991) ----------------- Falon was a dutch demo group, founded in late 1990 by Jay One (gfx) and Sane (swap). Soon also Weirdo (Olav Hinke, music) and Knightram (Mathijn Maantjes, music swap) joined. Falon had no coders and they only released one production with the help of coder Magician Lord/Axis in january of 1991. After the release of the "Sinus Intro", Falon merged with a Danish group organized by swapper Dr.Poison (Jan Jorgenson) and renamed to Ozone. Unfortunately, this group lasted for only one day (!) before all members joined the UK-based demo group The Lunatics. This did not last long either, as after just one week the danish division decided to leave the Lunatics and restart their original group (before the merger with Falon). Thanks to Sane for information on this group! Sinus Intro (1991, .01, ECS Intro). code: Magician Lord/Axis, gfx: Jay One, music: Weirdo. Family, The ----------- SWE> Hitech (swap), IP20, Megaxil (ex Paramount). Zalo joined Axept. Swedish swapper Sputnik joined Quartz. Fanatic ------- FIN> Blazer (T.Linna 02/94), Fozzie (Juha Partanen, swap, ex Black Robes, 02/94), Grazer (swap, 02/94), Ice-T (sysop 'TORNADO', 02/94), Lightman (Mika Halonem, music, 02/94), Maniac (Lassi Vuokko, org, 08/95), Mercus (02/94), Raven (Mika Hiltunen, swap, 02/94), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap, doublememb Scoopex, new late95-12/96), The Hooligan (Mikko Virtanen, swap, 08/95). DEN> Growl (Kim Andersen, swap, ex Energy). NOR> Green Snake (swap). ???> Duster (code, 12/95), Judge (fin? 02/94), Sphinx (fin? music, 02/94- 08/95). Fanatic are a demogroup based in Finland, and they released their first intro in mid february 1994. 1992 - Norwegian Shade joined Devils ca 06/92. 1995 - Finns SHD (code), Speck (music), Doc (gfx) and Brainlock (raytrace) all left to team up with Mystic right after the Assembly 95 08/95. They made the two demos "Hate" [94] and "Hate 2" [95] for Fanatic. Norwegian musician Bright Brick joined Devils. Masque left the scene.  Ahdin Antimet Intro (1994, mid.02, ECS Intro). code: Vespa/independent, gfx: Fozzie, music: Light (Player 6.0 format). review: The intro opens and closes with a fish swimming across the screen. The graphics are functional and nice, and that goes for the entire intro; the unusual 8x8 pixel font is an especially nice variation. Other than that it's a standard style logo-plotter-scroll intro, even though it's nicely executed. This was the first ever intro by Fanatic. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Hate (1994, late). Hate 2 (1995, 12.08, Demo). code: SHD (main), Duster, gfx: Brainlock (Raytrace), Doc, music: Speck (2x The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: H2 is a fast-paced c2p-style demo, though this one has more old fashioned texture mapping than phong- and envmapping. There are some nice routines, with an elastic tunnel ride a highlight, but most of it is a little blocky. Other routines worth mentioning are a moving lightsource shining down on a star that consequently cast a shadow, and two spacecut, z-buf shaded toruses. Doc's picture of a seal springing from a man's head and the text 'Hate 2' is the only handpixelled graphics in the demo, the rest is all rendered. The music shows promise as an uptempo dance demo tune, but ultimately lacks in punch and edge. In the end, this suffers from what almost all 'object' demos suffer from, a lack of soul...and the almost all-rendered graphics doesn't make it better. A good, alive tune and decent graphics can save a demo like this...but it doesn't save this one. The palette on the z-buffer part is way too dark. The endscroller can be paused with the right mouse button. Next year, SHD coded the amazing "Traffic" [08/96] for Mystic at the Assembly. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fantasy ------- SWE> Electron, Ques (swap), White Dwarf. ???> Twingo (Stefan Mahler, 12/96). Warlock joined Divine. Norwegian Kael joined Laserdance. Dredd, Pumpkin and Anthrax joined Divine. Fantasy Force, The (TFF) ------------------------ FIN> Cenobit (gfx, 06/91), Coconut (code, 06-07/91), Flame (code, 12/90), Flinx (gfx, 12/90-03/91), Jake The Snake (music, 12/90-07/91), Jol005x (music, 12/90-06/91), SBT (code, 03-07/91). TFF was an exclusively finnish demo group. 1990 - Around christmas, they released their first "Musicdisk" [12/90] with music by Jake the Snake and Joloo5x. 1992 - The entire group left to become the Finnish section of The Silents. After a short while, and releasing the demo "Maximum Velocity" [08/92], they left them too to form the group Pygmy Projects. First Steps (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Selector I (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Selector II (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Coconut, gfx: Cenobit, music: JOL005X. Selector III (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Silver Eagle, gfx: n/a, music: JOL005X. Selector IV (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Music Disk I (1990/91?, ECS Musicdisk). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X, Jake the Snake. Musicdisk (1990, late.12, ECS Musicdisk). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: "Hymn To Virgin", "Superstition", "It_s Out There..." and "Poltergeist" by Jake The Snake, "Bad Cough.jol", "90- Guitarsiii.jol", "Eelis the n.jol", "Out of Words" and "Sick _n Curious.jol" by Jol005x. Birthday (1991, ECS Intro). code: SBT, gfx: Jol005x, music: "Voi_Vitsi!2.jol" by Jol005x, "Noname" by SBT. Fantasian #2 (1991, .03, ECS Packintro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx, music: "Electricity" by Ron Klaren/Critical (Ron Klaren format). Fantasian #7 (1991, 08.06, ECS Packintro). code: Coconut, gfx: Cenobit (font), music: "Magia-nt.jol" by joloo5x. Released at the Society Summer Party 91. Voyage (1991, 27.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, Flinx/Magnetic Fields, music: Jol005x (NoisePacker 2 format). 2nd in the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91 demo competition. Chippanduida (1991, late.07, ECS Musicintro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx/Magnetic Fields, music: "Full Circle" by Jake The Snake, "Magia-nt.jol" by Jol005x. Music Disk II (1991/92?, ECS Musicdisk). code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, music: Cenobit, JOL005X, Jake The Snake. Faque ----- ???> Jack (gfx, 12/95), Loque (code, 12/95), P.A. (code, 12/95), PeaBrain (code music, 12/95). Nothing Special (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: P.A., PeaBrain, Loque, gfx: Jack, music: PeaBrain. review: I was quite astounded when viewing this intro from a group I'd never even heard of before, and finding it to be totally excellent! It opens with a convincing flame effect in a small box in the middle of the screen. Then the introtext is flashed in flames, before we go on to some fractal images waving, still in the same box. Next, the entire screen is used for a bouncing texturemapped cube, bouncing in front of and behind the animated background pillars! This looks very nice, and the cube is soon relieved by a more complex object. Next was something else I hadn't expected; a fast phong torus, with motionblur! It was far less commonplace with advanced routines like phong back in 1995. A few other, less interesting effects follow, including one with a picture of Al Bundy next to it, for no apparent reason :) Very very nice... when are these guys going to do a demo? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Artfire (1997, 30.08, Demo). 13th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Fastline -------- 64k Intro (1993, 04.09, ECS Intro). code: Little, gfx: n/a, music: Eliot. Released for the Saturne Party 93 intro competition. Fatal Unity ----------- SWE> Bohemian (sysop 'THE TRADE ZONE', 01/95). Fate ---- Fate is dead. Satan joined Epic. Quark joined Exort. Dr.Clan joined Adept. Dr.Clan joined D-Tect. Scream, Knuelle and Death joined Paranoid. Germans Aerobas and Montana Rice joined Vanish. Fifth Generation ---------------- SPA> Evelred (music, later Capsule, 09/92), Excelsior (gfx, 09/92). GER> Yoyo (Paulo Garcia, swap, ex Digital, new 08/92). FIN> Lozenge (swap, 93). Lozenge is the only Finnish member. Deelite has not joined Awe. Dementia (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). 3rd in the Darkness & Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competition. 007 (1993, 24.07, Intro). 2nd in the Southern Party 93 intro competition. Gurumaster (1993, 24.07, Demo). 2nd in the Southern Party 93 demo competition. FIG --- DDT (ex Pure-Byte) and a few others left to form Accession. Finesse ------- ???> Demilich (codePC), Deon (gfxAM), Explicit (musicPC), Indie (musicAM), Jam Sam (gfx musicAM), Je-Man (mainorg www), Mali (codePC), Oste-Pop (orgPC). Firecrackers ------------ T.M.D. joined Blitz. Fire and Ice (F^I) ------------------ GER> Mogue (sysop 'ENDLESS PAIN', doublememb Faith, 01/94). ???> H2o (ger? ascii, doublememb Remedy, 01/94). Boards; PSYCHO TERMINAL (usa). Fire and Ice (often spelled Fire & Ice) were an ascii group. Fi-Re Crew (1989-1992) ---------------------- Fi-Re Crew was a legendary Hungarian demo group. 1992 - Renegade/Damage joined, and Soldier was kicked due to lameness in the middle of the year. They died after several prominent members decided to leave the scene in order to code games. Mr.Pixel then took an initiative to form Impulse with some of the ex Fi-Re Crew members and some others. Fire Starters, The (TFS) ------------------------ ENG> Scott (not same as below). ???> Code Tapper, Dictator, Killer, Mike, Mike in Australia, Scott, Scratch, Talisman, Thanos. VERY early group, specializing in importing pirated software to Australia. Flame Arrows, The (TFA) ----------------------- HOL> Nitrate (sysop 'NECROPOLIS'), Price (code, late95). AUT> Brain (sysop 'CRIME CITY'). Flash Productions (FP) ---------------------- DEN> A No One (gfx, 02/90), Blutch (swap, late90), Commando (music, 02/90), Denon, Freagle, Orion (code, ex Kefrens old), Vixen (ex Bytestar), Warca, Yamato (code, 02/90). NOR> Cedric (swap, ex Iris), Deathbringer (swap, ex Exit, 92), Powersledge (ex Amaze), Slimer (swap). ENG> Majic Mushroom (swap pack, later in SONiK), Ride (swap, 06/91). GER> PPJ (ex Prophecy, new ca 10/90), Ratso Rizzo (ex Prophecy, new ca 10/90). Flash Productions was an originally Danish group, most known for their disk- long multiloading megamixes. 1990 - In february the group travelled to the Kefrens and Dexion party with two new releases in their bag; the demo "Danish Know How" [02/90]and the musicdisk "Digital Concert 3" [02/90] were both released at this party. PPJ and Ratso Rizzo joined from Prophecy around october to build a German section of the group. 1991 - Cryolite changed his handle to Krest and joined Rebels denmark around may! Hobbit joined Lemon. Rick (ex Network) joined Devils. Danish superswapper The Pride joined Brainstorm. Danish graphician Slash (ex Kefrens old) joined Anarchy. Norwegian coder Black Panther (ex Zone 7) joined Paragon. Danish musician Maestro (ex Kefrens old) joined the new Kefrens. Danish musician Gonzo was a member from 88-92, when he left the scene. Total Confusion (ECS File). Hit The Road (1989, 29.12, ECS Megademo). Released at the X-Mas Party 1989. Bud Brain III (1990?, ECS File). code: Orion, gfx: Slash, music: Maestro. Digital Concert 2 (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Commando. info: Only one tune, but it's a 'load-as-it-plays' number that lasts 12 minutes 41 seconds! Danish Know How (1990, 18.02, ECS Demo). Released for the Kefrens and Dexion Party demo competition. Digital Concert 3 (1990, 17.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: Yamato, gfx: A No One, The Pride, music: Commando. Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party.  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Note: Does not work, crashes. Caches/AGA off has no effect. Digital Concert VI (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Commando. No Brain - No Pain (1990, 01.07, ECS Megademo). code: n/a, gfx: A. No One, music: Gonzo. 4th in the Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. Hysteria (1990, 26.12, ECS File). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Bubblefields (1991, ECS Demo). Winner of the Aero Conference 1991 demo competition! Anti-Budbrain Demo (1991, 27.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Flashing Bytes, The (TFB, -1991) -------------------------------- ENG> Dobbin (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Jaz (swap, ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Lurch (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Optrix (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Ranx (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), X-Olet (Andy, swap). ???> Fugitive. TFB was a largely English demo group. 1991 - The entire english group New Wave Inc. (Ranx, Dobbin, Optrix, Lurch and Jaz) joined in june. Raider joined Treacl mid 91. They announced plans for the opening of a second uk bbs in august, but the group died in the middle of 1991 =[ Their diskmag "Trader" is now indpendent. Streamline joined Anarchy. Unlimited and TKM joined Vanish. Aerobas did NOT join Skid Row, and is now in Vanish. Invisible (ex Eremation, new mid 91) is now groupless. Flash Team, The (TFT) --------------------- The Flash Team changed their name, and are now known as Fraxion. Floppy (FLP, 1994-) ------------------- POL> Def (mainorg 3d, 02/97-04/91), Fame (gfx, doublememb Pulse [pc], ex doublememb Nah Kolor, 08/96-12/97), Jazzcat (music, 08/95), Revisq (music, doublememb Anadune [details] late96, 08/96-04/01), Thorus (code, 08/95-02/97), X-Ceed (music, doublememb Endzeit [details], 98), Zig (Wojciech Gajos, code, 08/95-04/01). ???> Bonzaj (pol? 3d, 04/01), Jacool (swap, new 08/97), Lester (gfx, 04/01), Mustafa (gfx, new 08/97), Pickpoke (gfx, new 08/97). Floppy is a polish demo group, with seemingly no foregin members at all. Blaze, who joined from Appendix in late 96, was back on the Appendix memberlist 01/98...how did this happen? 1996 - The group dominated the polish Intel Outside 3 party at the end of august, capturing the second place in the demo competition with "Embraced" [08/96], and both first ("Rumpelstiltskin" [08/96]) and 2nd ("Unanimiter" [08/96]) in the 64k intro competition. 1997 - Polish Gabi (Gabriel Dubiel, gfx raytrace, 08/95-08/97) left to be independent in august. 1998 - Polish swapper Blaze (doublememb Nah Kolor, ex Appendix, new late96-02/97) joined Endzeit in june. Athana (1994, ECS Intro). One Frame (1995, 12.03, ECS Intro). Released at Primavera 95. Potaz (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Thorus, Zig, gfx: White/Vacuum, music: "emc chiptune #06+8" by Bartman/Vacuum. 4th in the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: Oh, very very nice! Design is the order of the day here; the way the routines are timed to the music is most excellent! To be quite frank, there's not really any element of this that bothers me, so I'll just conclude that this one's worth your download time :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. 4k Intro (1996, AGA 4k Intro). Winner of the Staszic Compo 3 4k intro competiton! Short (1996, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Staszic Compo 3 64k intro competiton! XTC.EXE (1996, AGA Demo). 2nd in the Staszic Compo 3 demo competiton. Luperkaline (1996, 23.06, AGA 64k Intro). 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 64k intro competition. Gold (1996, 23.06, AGA 4k Intro). 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition. Embraced (1996, 30.08, Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 demo competition. Rumpelstiltskin (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition! Unanimiter (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Thorus, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: The intro opens with a Floppy logo, before a relief bump routine where we travel around the bump and credits appear on top appear. The light also changes color several times. This is followed by a blurry tunnel, before a phong-spring is overlaid... and then things take a nice turn for the stylish as the bump routine is back again, but this time it also spins while everything is going on... =) And then another logo by Fame, this time saying Unanimiter, and we're done. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Embraced (1996, 30.08, AGA Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 demo competition. Jackpot (1996, 10.11, AGA 64k Intro). 2nd in the Gravity 96 64k intro competiton. PapadeO (1996, 10.11, AGA File). code: Zig, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. 2nd in the Gravity 96 demo competition. review: It's the usual story, with phong objects and bumpmapping galore and not much else. Personally I'm getting sick of these 3D-object- marathon demoes. All that changes from demo to demo, it seems, are the objects. The code remains the same, and usually the music does too. This is technically impressive, but not very interesting for the casual viewer. Perhaps it'll give some coders a hard-on, but that's about the extent of it. Requires some fast, though I'm not sure how much. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Papadeo 2 (1997, 23.02, AGA 4MB File). code: Zig, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Rush Hours '97 demo competition. review: There will be no review of this demo, for the simple fact that it refuses to work on my system; it gurus every time. At first I thought it was some program I had loaded that the demo didn't like, but booting without startup-sequence didn't help matters either. It always crashes with an 'illegal instruction' guru, ...0004 or ...0006. On closer inspection of the accompanying text file, I believe the problem is that this demo requires an FPU! Anyone with a suitable machine that can review this for me? It's a filedemo alright, but the file is almost 4MB big :) Although it'll work (depends on your setup ;( ) with an 020+ processor, an 040 at 25Mhz is the recommended machine! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Deport (1997, 05.04, AGA HD Multifile). code: Zig, gfx: Def, Fame, music: Revisq. review: Short and oh so sweet, "Deport" is filled with a few, well polished effects rather than lots of half finished ones, which is all too common. The speed of these routines are really suited to impress, especially the 3D lightwave scene and the speedy, greatlooking tunnels towards the end. Revisq's soundtrack avoids the all too common techno tune, in favour of a powerful percussion-based track which really adds a lot to the demo. Fame's graphics are OK, but nothing special. I do not know whether this requires any fast mem. When I clicked the left mouse button to exit at the end, I was presented with a guru. The demo was released at a small, internal meeting (dubbed the BUZ Party) held 04-06.97, and visited by Zig (organizer), Def, Flapjack/ Appendix and Informer/Appendix :) Download heavily advised. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Napalm (1998, 26.04, AGA File). Winner of the Rush Hours 98 demo competition! GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Nadia (1998, .08, Demo). Winner of the Intel Oustide 5 demo competition! Mocap (2001, HD File Demo). code: Zig, gfx: Bonzaj (3d), Def (3d), Lester (additional), music: Revisq (The Player 6.1A format). 10th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Well, this ain't gonna be much of a review, since I was unable to run this demo on my machine. Having originally tried the demo with just 16mb fast, and found that that just wasn't enough to get it up and running, I dove into this old pentium cabinet I've got here (normally running Red Hat Linux =]), and quickly extracted a 32mb SIMM. Plugged it in, tried the demo again... and now it crashed. Two more tries and I'm giving up. Likely this requires and FPU or possibly even PPC, but no system requirements are anywhere to be seen in the accompanying info file. I'm depressed now. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Flying Cows Inc. (FCI) ---------------------- POL> Aron (code), Chaser (music), Devil (gfx), Echo (code gfx, 01/93), Havoc (gfx), Kurczak (swap, 94), Lc (code), Melon (doublememb Mystic [details], late96), Pagan (gfx), Plastus (gfx), Plexa (code, 08/95), Seba (raytrace), Snake (gfx, new 06/96), Stean (code), Zibi (swap edit, late94). FIN> Astral (code, new 06/96), Danny Kane (swap ascii), Grand (gfx, new late95), Royal'69 (swap), Sibilius (music, new 06/96), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap, ex Addonic, new early95), Substance (music), Thoron (code, new 06/96), Zounds (org swap music, new 06/96). SWE> Marwic (sysop, new 06/96), Skyhawk (new early95). GER> Heptagon (Stefan Swafing). ???> McCoy (old handle Magnum, 95). 1997 - Bartman tragically died 21-05-1997. Polish swapper Qix left for Gods. Polish musician Dreamer left to help form TPDL with Tom and Python/TRSI. Polish swappers Carlo and Chmiel were kicked out early 95. Pippen was also kicked. Dziady - Part Three (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Echo, gfx: ZX Spectrum, Gizmo/Digital Fire, Echo, music: Jack/ Showtime. review: Most generic, this little text-effect-text production. It's almost like it was made with a demo editor... Hm. Lame BBS Intro (1994 or pre, ECS). Amused to Death (1994, 13.11, Demo). 6th in the Gelloween 96 demo competition. Human Violation (1994, 13.11, Demo). 11th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Time (1995, 30.08, Demo). 7th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. P w moje lamiona (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Plexa, gfx: Plexa, Kurczka/Lamers, music: Blogath/Energy. review: Starting this 64k intro, the first thing that amazed me was the music - an actual guitar tune in a 64k intro! I was impressed, but didn't think they could squeeze much else out of it, then. I was wrong. This is a one screen intro, with just a small section in the middle changing to accomodate the effects. There are really only two effects in the intro, a zoomrotator and a voxel routine, but both are well executed. I liked this, if nothing else then for the novelty of the music :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fnuque ------ ???> Blueberry (code, 09/97), Cody (code music, old handle Bizy, 09/97), Fairart (gfx, 09/97), Flux (code, 09/97), Hund (gfx, 09/97), Ib (gfx, 09/97), Painelf (code, 09/97), Presence (org code, 09/97), Punqtured (music, 09/97), Swaxi (music, 09/97), Trez (gfx, 09/97). Many members of Fnuque were later in Depth. Focus Design (FD, 1992-1997) ---------------------------- DEN> Corial (Søren Rasmussen, code swap, 92), Fish (founder gfx, ex Elin/Static Bytes, 92, 92-12/93), Kollaps (founder code music, ex Cult, 92), Limit (swap), Mazzachre (music, ex Balance, new mid92), Tome (founder code, ex The R/Static Bytes, 92-12/93). ???> Bigmama (code, 12/94), Bionic (music, 12/92), Chaos (code, 12/94), Corial (code), Delfi (code, 12/93), JNI (music, 12/94), Joker (founder, old handle Tris), JSL (music, 12/93), Overlord (music, 12/92). Focus Design was a Danish demo group born in early 1992 by Fish (formerly Elin) and Tome (formerly The R) from Static Bytes, Kollaps from Cult and Tris from Abuse. Kollaps is also known as MZ1453/GFB, and Corial and Optima are brothers. They were the long-standing arrangers of the South Sealand summer parties in Denmark. 1992 - They were further strengthened around the middle of the year, when Danish musician Mazzachre joined from Balance. 1997 - The group was officially closed down by main coders Kollaps, Optima and Corial in 1997. Optima was later in Scoopex, then Haujobb. Swapper Easy left the scene.  Mission Nostromo II (ECS File). code/music: Kollaps, gfx: Fish.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eyemind (1993, 28.12, ECS 4MBFAST File). code: Delfi, Tome, gfx: Fish, music: JSL. 25th in The Party 93 demo competition. Blur (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code/gfx: Coma, Bigmama, music: JNI. 13th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: This intro opens with the effect that probably gave it its name. It's a combination of plasma and interference that looks quite good. The only other real effect here is a stretching fullscreen zoomrotator of some woman's face. Not bad, far from great. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Comaldåse (1996, 06.07, Intro). 4th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Engine (1996, 06.07, Intro). 7th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Newt (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition. Pulp (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Forcers Team ------------ Life on the Mars (1996, 30.08, 40k Intro). 2nd in the AntIQ '96 40k intro competition! Fractal Generation ------------------ 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Phaser was kicked because of inactivity, and that Kismat joined the group. Frame 18 (F18) -------------- HUN> Cyberdance (Zotyo Szombathelyi, 04/96), Flex (edit, 06/94), Gizmo (sysop 'LUNA SQUARE', 04/96). ???> Dundee (code, new 04/96-02/98), Darklon (hun? code, new 11/96), Grey (code, 04/96), Nacy (code, 04/96), Pat (music, 04/96-02/98). Wind! (1996, 13.04, Demo). code: Flex, Nacy (mars, tunnel), Grey, gfx: Flex, music: Pat. Winner of Scenest 96 demo competition! review: It may be a party winner, but I'm still not impressed. This is a demo of fair quality, though how it could win a demo competition is beyond me. The most impressive part, I guess, is the smooth voxelspace - a lot like the Mars program for the PC, if you know it. Still, it's hardly smooth MOVING. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Luna (1996, 30.08, 40k Intro). 3rd in the AntIQ '96 40k intro competition. Flag 98 (1998, 08.02, AGA 64k Intro). code: Dundee, gfx: none, music: Pat. Winner of the Flag 98 64k intro competition! review: This is not half as good as it could have been; the seemingly endless precalculation in the beginning and the failing framerate destroys this for me. The only ray of light is the excellent 'underwater/overwater' object, which looked smashing...but slow. Optimize! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Frantic [fin] (FTC, 1990-) -------------------------- FIN> Captain (music, ex Image), Harri K., Hellfire (sysop 'POWER PLANT'), JayJay (sysop 'KREMATORIUM', 07-11/91), Perro (music, 06/91), Proton (sysop 'DRUNKLAND'), Sawblade (swap trade, ex Escape, 91), Starflair, Wedge. Frantic is a Finland based demo group, born in may of 1990. Their first production was released in november of the same year. There were two quite different groups using the name Frantic, one based in Germany and one in Finland. As the groups learned of each other, there was a cooperation proposal, but that fell through. The two groups then went into a rivalry, meaning harsh words were exchanged in their productions. The resolution to this is unknown at present. As I did not intially know of this, some information may have been placed in the wrong place. Their musician Captain is now a professional musician, and has even released a CD under the name Dance Nation, called "Dawn". 1993 - Finnish swapper Whiplash (ex Commie/The Special Brothers, new late92) joined Surprise! Productions early 93. Prince joined Euphoria. Sysop Hoschy ('NECROMANTIC') joined Alpha Flight. Frantic [ger] (FTC, 1990-) -------------------------- GER> Flexx (gfx music, 12/91-08/93), Red Eagle (swap), Rival, Robin (swap, 12/91), Sart (code, 08/93), Strike (12/91), Snake (swap, late90), Technoid (muisc, 12/91). DEN> Aries (code, 12/91), Assassin (music swap, 12/91), E.S.P (Ole Baunbaek, gfx swap, 12/91), Macloud (code gfx, 12/91). ???> Copper (ex Targets, new 09/91), Fulcrum, Screwface (old handle Hydra), X-Ample (ex Skid Row, new 09/91). Boards; ALIEN NATION (ger). Frantic is a largely German demo group born ca 07/90, but with foreign sections. The Danish section was formed by Aries, E.S.P and Macloud, with Assassin joining at a later date. There were two quite different groups using the name Frantic, one based in Germany and one in Finland. As the groups learned of each other, there was a cooperation proposal, but that fell through. The two groups then went into a rivalry, meaning harsh words were exchanged in their productions. The resolution to this is unknown at present. As I did not intially know of this, some information may have been placed in the wrong place. 1992 - German swapper Flash (ex Vanish) left the Amiga and returned to the C64 scene early 92. Musician Shamrock (old handle Scoop, 08/93) joined Ram Jam. Vectro (1991?, 10.12, ECS Intro). code: Macloud, gfx: E.S.P, music: "Midnight." by Technoid (4ch MOD format). review: This intro was made to announce the new Danish section of Frantic, and is very typical of its time. At the top of the screen is an ok logo, with the letters having cracks in them, like they were cast in stone. The rest of the screen is divided up with two small bars, and the action takes place between these two. Mostly it's a vector-text-vector- text affair, with the only diversion being the concluding straight greetings scroller. Not very exciting, I'm afraid. The intro has no exit routine whatsoever, but the text screens can be skipped with the right mousebutton. Almost certainly not released at a party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dunkle Gedanken (1993, 02.08, ECS Intro). code: Sart, gfx: Flexx, music: Scoop. Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. Fraxion (FRX, 1990-) -------------------- NOR> Amigashark (founder), Astaroth, Big Red (code, ex Avalanche, 90), Blade (Lars, swap, 09/92), D.O.S (90), Flash of Genious (Anders M. Hunstad, founder code, 90), Hoaxer (gfx, ex Avalanche, 90), Jotes (sysop 'MIDNIGHT CALLER' WHQ, 10/94), Lix, Lorien (Jens Nordstrand, gfx, 90), Mr.Flamme, Reptile (music, late 90), RUS, Sherwin (sysop 'VISUAL MEMORY', new late91), The Black Wizard, The Guardian, The Magic Arts, Thing, Tornado, Typhoon (founder), Zippo. ???> Jam (ex Lightman/Animax, new early92), Xandu (crack). Boards; WONDERLAND (nor). Fraxion were born in 1990 after The Flash Team (TFT) decided to change the name of their group. They were a Norwegian mainly demo-oriented crew, though there were a few trainers and the utility Fraxion Ripper by Flash of Genious. They released at least one crack in cooperation with Mayhem. 1990 - Norwegians Delta-X (music) and Copper (swap) left the scene late 90. The End, Exen, Lobber and Uninvited (code) all left late 90. Flesh joined Angels. Jammy left the scene. Nico (sysop) was kicked. Norwegians Crawlen and The Player joined Vision. Norwegian sysop Pitcher ('HOTTER THAN HELL' EHQ) joined Cryptoburners. Norwegian musician KEO (Karl-Espen Olsen, ex Avalanche, late 90) left. Norwegian sysop Skykiller ('THE MAZE', founder) joined Razor 1911. Fraxion-Ripper V1.007 Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Flash of Genious, gfx: Lorien, music: KEO (Future Composer format). review: Short but sweet, this 25k intro for the old ripper program. It's a lot like some of the Horizon intros of the era, actually, with a large logo scrolling across the background made up of 8x8 pixel dots, and a sine scroller over that. It's short, easy, and looks nice. Significantly, this old intro runs without a single problem! The music timing's fine, no graphics glitches... Not bad at all! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Highway 1970 (1990, ECS File). code: Big Red, gfx: Keo (animations), Hoaxer (logos, fonts), music: Keo (Future Composer 1.3 format). review: This demo opens with an animationin which two cars chase each other, shooting at each other's cars. The good guys (Fraxion) finally blow the head of one of their assailers, and then activate their anti- gravity kit to fly into space... The rest is just scrollers and text. Anyway, nicely executed. The music is NICE chiptunes, by the master of Future Composing: Keo. Coolness doesn't even start. Unfortunately, the demo does not contain any other release date than the year. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.  Divine Visions (1990, early, Trackloaded Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Flash of Genious, gfx: Lorien, Lonewolf/Teladon (digitizing), music: "Flick Out 90" (intro) and "Countdown Remix" (main) by Delta-X. review: A slideshow of scanned Boris Vallejo pictures, sharing the common thread that they're all mythology-related. The pictures are mainly interesting for seeing the original images some of the finest hand pixelled art ever was based on. The best thing about this slideshow, I suppose, is the intro, which is rather good actually. The music and graphics especially stands out as worthwile. Since this is a slideshow, there's not much graphics to speak about. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Future Visions (1990, Slideshow). code: Big Red, gfx: Hoaxer (logos, pictures), Lonewolf (digitizing), music: "Mortal Souls" and "Activate" by Keo (ProTracker MOD format). review: The name of this slidshow made promises the production couldn't hold up. No future visions, only a few handmade pictures that surely look fine in real life, but because of the bad quality of the digitizing, this show is more a disaster than a vision... And again princesses, monsters and other fantasy motives with many natural snapshots are dominating this slide made by the legendary Future Designs Crew. A few sci-fi objects and some militaries are also to be found in the eight pictures ONLY, handmade by Hoaxer and digitized by Lonewolf afterwards. Most of them have a fantastic and mystic atmosphere and I am really interested to see the originals, but it's though not worth to watch it twice! Only for VERY nostalgic sceners, who loves to read scrolltexts. The only positive aspect for a computer production is the preferences menu. A little hint: Try to start it when everything is enabled on a A1200 and you will see some nice (not planned?) effects. At least I saw them with my hardware! [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Revenge (1990, 07.04, ECS Trackloaded Demo). info: This demo was released a week after the police raid on the Cryptoburners, IT and Visual Bytes party in Drammen, Norway. Its main objective was yelling abuse at the companies and individuals thought to be responsible. Freagles -------- Baraccuda joined Acume. Freedom Force (1988-) --------------------- FIN> Crayone (10/88-03/89), Fizz (Kai Taipale, 11/88-03/89), Lucifer (Ari Villa, code gfx, 10/88-03/89), Rolex (Ari Ruotsaleinen, 11/88-03/89). DEN> Mediator (Per Kanstrup, 11/88-03/89), Sagon (Jakob Solander, 11/88). N-Z> NOR> Tomcat (Knut-Gunnar Walle, 11/88). MEMBERS:Finland;Lucifer,Crayone,Fizz,Rolex. Denmark;Mediator,Pink Panther,McCursor. Norway:Dynamo,TomcatF14. NewZealand;Blair Zuppicich. Germany;Roly. England;Nucleus. Freedom Force was an international demo group, likely formed around 1988. Their main driving force in the early days were finnish coder and graphician Lucifer. They also released a demopack series called "Swingdisk", and the first disks came out around 1988. 1988 - After At least four demos in two months, concluding with "Megademo Advertising", the group started out as one of the more productive ones of its time, despite seemingly only having one active coder. 1990 - Nothing appearead from the group at first this year, with the group's main efforts going into the "Megademo" [03/89] which was released at The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party in swden at the beginning of march. A memberlist published in the demo revealed some changes since that last one, published five months before; Sagon was gone, while Pink Panther and McCursor were new members in Denmark; musician Blair Zupicich was new in New Zealand; Roly was new in Germany; Nucleus was new in England; and norwegian Dynamo was new in Norway. He later left for System 5 around july. Demo 2 (1988, 30.10, ECS File). code/gfx: Lucifer, music: "Whosaidrob" by Razmo/Kefrens. Smoker (1988, .11, ECS Intro). code: Lucifer, gfx: Reward/? (font), Lucifer (minifont, logo), Zei (drunken man), music: "Partyeppich" by Roly. info: Released at a copyparty held at Vorikatu-school, presumably in Finland, that we have NOT been able to identify. Any help with this would be great! Back Again, 3rd Demo (1988, 13.12, ECS Intro). code: Lucifer, gfx: Lucifer, Reward/? (font), music: "64memory" by Razmo/ Kefrens. Megademo Advertising (1988, .12, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Lucifer, music: Rolamd P./?. Megademo (1989, 04.03, ECS Trackmo). code: Lucifer, gfx: Reward/??? (loader, 4th part), Zei (1st part), music: "Critical-Lovebeat", "Freedom Force1", "Lonely", "Missing-You", "Nicewalk", "Oasis" and "Theknomes" by Blair Zuppicich/independent, "n/a" by Roly. Released for The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party. info: There are four parts; a bootloader and three demoparts. Bulls Eye (1990, .01, ECS Game). code: Lucifer, Andy, gfx: Lucifer, music: Lucifer (sampled sound). Asutrilia Born (1990, ECS Intro). code: Bit-Master, Lucifer, gfx: Wiz of Oz, music: "Ffwiz1" by Wiz of Oz (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with AI. Coop (1990, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Lucifer, music: "Soundtime" by Roly (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with AI. Bat Sinus Demo (1990, ECS Demo). code: Lucifer, gfx: Lucifer, music: "Acidbat2" (ripped from Ocean's Batman game). Cooperation with AI. info: This intro announced Roly and Dr.Visual left. Free Flight ----------- AUS> The Wizard (sysop 'INSANITY FLIGHT', 04/95). Freestyle (1992-) ----------------- N-L> Crash (sysop 'CRASH CORNER'), Godfather (ex Vicious, new early93), Kayo. Freestyle was formed in late 1992 on the ashes of the original Axis; when Axis died, most of its members went on to form this group. Dutchman Claxon left the scene. Dutch musician Nao joined Lemon. Sysop Fletch ('NEON CITY') joined Solution. Englishman Frostbyte was later Meltdown/Ecstasy. Dutch sysop Countach ('CYBERSPACE') joined X-Trade. Dutch sysop Librator ('MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS') joined Movement. Dutchmen Magician Lord, Steroid (both ex Axis old), Jay-One and English musician Hollywood (ex Lunatics, new late 92/early 93) all left to join the new Jetset. Perfect 5 (pre 1993, .03, ECS Musicdisk). Studio Intro (93, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Wisped" by Hollywood (4ch ProTracker format). Freestyle Designs ----------------- HUN> Anchor, Keymax, Lacy, Ray, Synex, Wortex. Rave The Party vol.1 (Trackloaded musicdisk). GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. note: Crashes after loading and showing three loader-logos. Caches off/original chipset has no positive effect. Freestyle UK ------------ Ball Demo (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo). Freezers (FRS) -------------- POL> Alex (music, 94), Bart (code, 94), Benjamin (gfx music, 94), Bethoven (music, 94), Cedyn (Marcin Czartynski, 04/98), CIA (Marcin Jedynak, gfx music, ex Mystic, new early95), Freeman (gfx, 94), Gordon (Bogdan Lipski, code swap, 94), Immortal (Tomasz Chmielewski, org swap pack sysop, 94-late97), Joy (code, 94), Kresnal (trade), Lenin (whq swap edit, 94), Qwerty (Adrian Dolny, swap, ex Mad Elks), Sky (Radoslaw Gulczynski, swap sysop 'ICEHOUSE', late95), Snowman (Przemyslaw Jez, swap), Uhu (Jarek Ciszowski, old handle Mr.Uhu, late97-04/98), Yoga (gfx, ex Mystic), Zogar Sag (lamer, 94). SWE> Atheist (music, ex Vision, 94), Coolorado (train), Delery (code, ex The Silents, later Bodyworks, new late95), Ekhed (gfx, 94), General Lee (swap, new late96), Klorathy (code music, later Ram Jam, 12/94), Mindphaser (Fredrik Komstadius, swap, ex Vision, 94), Marillion (Erik Tilleby, music, earlier TSL, 95, re 04/96), Shock (Christian Skoog, swap, ex Vision), Skepp (sysop 'BRUTAL TRUTH', doublememb Defiance, ex Vision, 01/95). FIN> Kazz (Mika Savela, swap, 94). DEN> Mass (swap trade). NOR> Magz (sysop, new late96). USA> DSX.Design (music). ???> Mazz (ex Bronx), Morph (code, 12/95), Pinhead (ex Hardcore Design), Protas (music, ex Case, new late97), Skowron (gfx), Visual (gfx, ex Mystic, new late97). Freezers were a mainly Polish and Swedish demo group. 1994 - Swedish graphician Sputnik (*NOT* same as POL coder of same name) is not in Freezers anymore. 1995 - The swedes Reverend D (sysop 'TRESPASS' WHQ, 94), TBM (code) and Phase (gfx) left to form a new group called Basement late 95. 1996 - Reverend D, Tbm and Phase DID NOT leave Freezers Sweden 06/96. Polish graphician and musician Dave (new mid96-late97) left the group to join Amnesty. He stopped swapping in 96, before leaving. Polish coder Sputnik (94) left, probably late 96. As a result, Dave took over some organizing together with Immortal. Swedes Grid (gfx, 94) and Excel (org gfx swap, ex Vision, new PRP4, 94) are, according to the credits in "Dreamwalker", no longer members. I think Excel's in Balance now. Swedish swapper Evapor8er (94) got kicked. Kac (Intro). Wit Premium (1994, 13.11, AGA File). code: Sputnik, gfx: Grid, music: Bethoven (main), Atheist (end). 2nd in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dreamwalker (1995, Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: Joy, Sputnik (additional), gfx: Imperator/Blaze, Python/TRSI, Excel/ex-FRS (additional), Grid/ex-FRS (additional), Lazur/TRSI (additional), music: Dreamer/Masque. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lech (1995, AGA File). code: Sputnik, gfx: Grid, Freeman, music: Bethoven. Released at Easter Party 1995. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  4k intro (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Morph. 2nd in The Party 5 4k intro competition. review: Short but sweet, this little intro contains just two effects. The first is a texturemapped object, and the other is a 'gun' made up of what seems to be several other objects; z-buffer shaded. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hyper (1996, 30.08). Released at the Intel Outside 3 party. Fresh [new] (1996-) ------------------- FRA> Moone (Bartolozzi Florent, founder code music swap, ex Ram Jam, new 04/96-late97). SWI> Sear (gfx swap, ex Dylem, new late96-late97). ???> Abalao (music, new late97), Bip Bip (swap pack, late97), Cyclone (ascii swap, new late97), Germ (gfx, late97), Ghost (gfx, late97), Ostyl (code, late97). Fresh was formed by Moone/ex-Ram Jam 04/96. Fresh [old] (1994-) ------------------- Fresh was formed by large portions of the German section of Alcatraz when they decided to kick that section. Fresh Prince ------------ Fresh Prince was never a complete group, just one coder who happened to not be in any group at the time. His intro 'McIntro' must surely be the most successful non-group production ever, coming in second at the prestigious The Party in 1994. Rebels took notice and recruited the Danish coder just days after his success was a fact. Lola/McIntro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Fresh Prince, Kata/Balance (replayer), gfx: n/a, music: "Muslingers" by Slide/Polka Brothers. 2nd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: most impressive the first time you see it, Lola/McIntro (both names appear in the intro) is a polished and cool effort from lone coder Fresh Prince. As far as I know, this is the only thing he released on his own. Cool music. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Friendly Flowers ---------------- ???> Jaggerboy (code, 12/93). Christro (1993, 27.12, ECS File). code: Jaggerboy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 20th in The Party 93 demo competition. Frogs (-1993) ------------- NOR> Beez (code), Corporal Clegg (music), GS (founder). FIN> Talbot (sysop 'TABOIL', ex Parallax). GER> Proton (swap, new 08/92). ???> Cyde. Frogs was formed by Front Soldier (later Cesium) and GS, and the name of the group was composited from their handles. The group ceased to exist when the entire group merged with Balance some weeks before easter 93. The diskmag 'Upstream' was also merged with Balance's 'MagBox', and the new mag continued to be called Upstream. There's no complete record of what members joined Balance, but some people who CERTAINLY made the jump are: Cesium (nor editor), Chagall (nor gfx), Ranx (nor code), Blaze (nor swap), Nexus 6 (hun, gfx, ex 23 Celsius Crew), Cyber Bug (isr, ex Legacy), Bailey (ger code), Dr.Fruid (fin music) and probably a few others. Bopski changed his handle to Nethead and joined LSD. Norwegian sysop IT ('HOME ALONE') joined Razor 1911 old. Green Beret/Plague briefly joined before moving on to Submission 08/92. Upstream issue #1 (ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Cesium. Front 242 --------- AUT> Guru Josh (ex TSK Crew), Hawk (music, ex TRSI, new late91), Ray Jackson (gfx, ex TSK Crew). Front 242 are a 100% Austrian group! Frontier -------- AUS> Repo, Skar, Yannis Brown (music), Zed. Industrial Fudge (Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Yannis Brown. Fucking United Network! (FUN) ----------------------------- CAN> Godfather (org swap, late96), Hellraiser (org swap, late96). NOR> Hellrazor (org swap). POL> Tomek (swap, late96), Saint (gfx raytrace, late96). FRA> Kelson (swap, late96). DEN> Jaxx (music swap, late96). SWI> Kalikone (swap, doublememb Dylem, late96). Fun Factory, The (TFF) ---------------------- FIN> Amadeus, Commander Z (93), Dr.Blitz (93), Exeter (93), Hunter (swap, 93), Kazz (93), KPT (93). AUT> Illusionist (swap, 94). SWE> Fazer (swap). SS Soldier joined Damones. Doktor's Special (1993, 29.03, Demo). Intro (1993, 07.06, Intro). Funky Buddhas, The ------------------ DEN> Hithansen (music, later new Rednex, 12/92). Plane (1992, 28.12, Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hithansen. Contribution for The Party 92 demo competition. Funzine ------- POL> Dura (code), Metal (swap, 11/93), Saddam (gfx music). ???> Skowron (gfx, ex Absolute!, new late95). Prestige Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Dura, gfx: Saddam (fonts), music: Von-Rays. review: Now, THIS is what a cracktro should look like! This generates vector-animations that it shows in the background, usually cogwheels and the like. The overall effect is very good, coupled with a palette the changes for each effect, and a transparent PRESTIGE logo in the bottom right corner. Music is an ok chippy. The year of release is present in the executable, but unfortunatly in roman numerals, which I don't know enough about to discover the real date... Anyway, if anyone can help, it's MCMXCV. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intel Outside '94 Intro (Intro). Fusion (FSN) ------------ GER> Doom (ex Design, new early92), Phil Douglas (crack train, 92). BEL> Junior (sysop 'CANDY LAND', early92). FRA> Furax (sysop 'FANTASIA'), Optima, Wizz (ex Delight, new early92). USA> Voyager/Snow Queen (sysops 'FASTRAX'). ???> Bostich, Mehellica, Professor (ex Nemesis, new early92), Roger Rabbit (ex Alpha Flight, new early93), TBC (early92), Tea Pot, Thunder (trade, ex Angels new), Tom (trade train, 09/91-92), Toxic, Winston. Boards; TERMINAL FOREST WHQ, PIRATE'S HAVEN (usa, 06/94). Fusion was an illegal cracker group, with their roots all the way back to the original Fusion on the C64. The Amiga section coexisted with the C64 section for quite a while. The Amigan's main cracker was the infamous Phil Douglas. When Bitstoppers died, all members joined Fusion. 1992 - Spanish Thorin joined Darkness 09/92. Mightymuz (ex Skid Row) joined 2000 AD 09/92. 1993 - English sysops Undertaker and Sabbath ('GRAVEYARD', both ex Agile) both joined Quartex around late 93. Sabber joined Ministry. Belgian sysop Maddy ('METAL IMPACT', early92) joined Jetset new. Swedes The Master (sysop 'PRESSURE POINT') and Mercy (both ex Bitstoppers) joined Anthrox. TCB was kicked and joined Vision Factory. Sysop Kevin Key ('INSIDE TREATMENT') joined, then left for Noxious. Eurochart #15 claimed he joined The Silents. Futura ------ Aquafresh and Gumby joined Defekt. Futura is just about dead, Trixter seems to have disappeared. Elric? and Welder joined Divine. Future Mirror ------------- Claustrophobia (1992, 28.12, Disk). 10th in The Party 92 demo competition. Futurize -------- FIN> Perlon (Peter Nyman, swap). Galaxy ------ DEN> Darkwing (sysop 'INFECTIOUS', doublememb Superiors). Gang, The --------- SWE> Bach, Coke, Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG', 10/90), Cuzter, Frenzy, James, Max (sysop 'BAD REPUTATION'), Nemesis (swap), Rambo, The Cracker (code swap), Tigershark, Tracer. The Gang is the group that pissed off the entire Scandinavian demoscene when their coder The Cracker gave an interview for the papermag Datormagazin basically claimed he could do anything better than anyone else...and failed to prove it. The Gang eventually joined forces with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a few of their demos. They have one more bbs; 'BAD REPUTATION'. Gaspipe ------- ???> Ben 'Gee' (code trade), Camel (gfx), Canada (trade), Carp (trade), Cheeso (music), Copex (org code sysop), Dr.Atomic (code trade), Mario (trade), Mimic (org code), Mouseman (org trade sysop), Mr.Crisp (code trade), Noddy (code trade), Prodigy (sysop), Styx (trade), TigerTails (trade). Gate (-1990) ------------ FIN> Blob (code, ex Phalanx, 90), Diskrat (swap, 90), Fireball (swap, 90), Hyde (swap, 10/89), Maniac (code?, 90), Mark 17 (swap, 90), Metalman (swap, 90), Pigman (swap, 90), Roland (music, used to be in Phalanx, in army 90). ???> Killerman, MPH. Boards; LIGHT ON THE NIGHT (fin) Gate was a finnish based demo group. 1990 - When Image was formed 06/90, finnish graphician and swapper Der HM joined them from Vision One. In december most of the finnish and Norwegian sections joined Anarchy, and Gate died. Wraith was their previous leader, but joined the pack to Anarchy. These joined: Octoplex (swap), Laiz (swap), Golem (gfx, 05/90), Griffon (music, 05/90), Psycho (code, 05/90), Wraith (code, 05/90) and Bruno (music, 05/90). Norwegians Intec (gfx), Zapotek (swap) and Funky Guru (gfx, all ex Zombie Boys) joined Crusaders 12/90. Norwegian swapper X-Ray joined Pure Metal Coders late90. Xion (ex Prologic, new late 90) left the scene when Gate died. Bruno's Music Box 2 (ECS Musicdisk). code/gfx: n/a, music: Bruno. Information: The next BMB, BMB3 was released in Anarchy. Memberdemo (ECS Demo).  Megademo II (1990, .05, ECS Trackloaded Megademo). P1 - code: Wraith, gfx: Golem, music: "Future Magic Part 2" by Griffon. P2 - code: Wraith, gfx: Golem (logo), Wraith (font), music: "Infinte Finiteness" by Bruno. P3 - code: Psycho, gfx: Wraith, music: "Robot Session" by Bruno. Vectorball part. P4 - code: Psycho, gfx: Golem (logo), Wraith (font), music: "Phenomena" by Griffon. P5 - code/gfx: Wraith, music: "Serenade To..." by Bruno. Endpart. review: Cool! For a megademo from 1990, this is not bad at all. There's several stars-to-be appearing here. Bruno became big, Golem did good later on... It opens with an 'animation' (3 frames :) of a monk opening a Gate, before the text 'Gate Megademo II' is overlayed. The loader part is unspectacular, just a Golem picture with a priest and the GMDII text. The first part is the BOB-part. 16col animated bobs flying around to a cool tune by Griffin. Not a bad opening at all! Great for its time. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vector Imperium (1990, late, ECS File). code: Octoplex, gfx: Intec, music: "Sonar" by Bruno. review: The FUNKY tune by Bruno is the big saving grace here... The demo itself is not so hot, but that down-and-deep-funk tune has me reaching for the Pro-Wiz button like a rabbit for a carrot! Intec later made a lot of good graphics for Crusaders, a.o. in the Eurochart. This demo was supposed to compete in the demo competition at the No Limits & IMP-666 Party (held 10/90) in Norway, as mentioned in the demo. Since it did not, it's a fair assumption it was released a little later? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Works, but exits rather ungracefully. Gel Dezign ---------- POL> Accord (Marcin Gackowski, music, earlier Alchemy, 04/94). Genesis [old] (1990-) --------------------- Genesis was an illegal cracker group based in the UK, who were born by Scott, Action Man and Mr.E from Oracle and N.O.M.A.D and Infiltrator from Scoopex in september 1990 . They did a few releases in cooperation with Angels and Defjam. I guess when three of their crackers (N.O.M.A.D, Mr.E and I.B.M) and one important sysop (Scott, 'DULCET TONES') joined Angels (which was one of the groups they were in cooperation with) late 1990 it was all pretty much over. Scottish supplier Action Man left to help form Crystal. English Scooter (ex Oracle?) joined Classic old late 90. American sysop Allister Friend ('TOTAL RECALL', ex Oracle old) left. Jochen Hippel - Some Previously Unreleased (ECS Musicdisk). Information: Not really a musicdisk, just a disk with the music on. I'm informed one even has to know how to use an assembler to listen to the tunes ;D White Room (1992, Demo). Cooperation with Live Act. Genesis [new] ------------- ITA> Corrosion (music, triplememb Darkage [details] and Degeneration). ???> DX0 (music, 12/97), Phoenix (code, 12/97), Skywalker (12/97), Stile9 (gfx, 12/97). Freeflow (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Phoenix, Skywalker, gfx: Stile9, music: DX0. Released for The Party 7 40k intro competition. review: Unfortunately for Genesis, this intro bears the aftertaste of one of 1993 or 1994's weaker intros. This is nothing to present to the public in 1997. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Vintage (Musicdisk). Digital Dream (2000, 25.11, Demo). Winner of the Spoletium 3 demo competition! info: The group's first product since their musicdisk "Vintage". The demo was reviewed in Darkage's "Showtime #16" [04/01]. Genestealers (-1991) -------------------- 1991 - The group's UK board was lost to Quartex early in the year. Englishmen Rogue, Warlord and Maverick left the group in june. The group reorganized, threw out idle members, and were reborn as the UK section of Wizzcat in late june, under the management of Red Devil and Nexus! Genetic (GNT) ------------- POL> Carson (Slawek Rogalski, swap, 11/96), MaQ (code, 11/96), Rappid (gfx, doublememb Depth 06/96). SWE> Cateye (sysop 'LIGHTHOUSE'), Kattegatt (sysop 'FYRHUSET'). N-L> Solo (code, 06/98). ???> Feanor (06/98), Francy (music, 92), One (06/98), Tom (music, 92). Boards; ZOOROPA WHQ (hol, 06/98). Solo is the author of the 68k assembler "Asm-Pro", http://surf.to/asmpro The Swedish division died. Swedish graphician PGL joined Circle mid 93. Swedes Limbo and Fazer (both swap) joined Nova mid 93. Lobban and swedish musician Siracon joined Defiance (UPS8). Move Your Mouse (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Siracon, Tom, Francy. Information: 8 tunes. Years (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: MaQ, gfx: none, music: none. Released for the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Wholly uninspiring, this is just a gouraud shaded spinning vector cube. It's not fast, and it's not beautiful. It's very red, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Little Bug (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). Winner of the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition! Profanation (1997, 14.12, Demo). 4th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Genocide (GCI, -1994) --------------------- FIN> Bullworker (93), DJ Pee (93), Firewalker (93), Intruder, Messenger (swap, ex Altair, new 09/92), Zeke (swap pack). At The Assembly 94, a new group called Halo released two 40k intros, in which they announced that Genocide had changed its name to Halo. Among people who are confirmed in the new crew are Calvin (03/93), Dr.Wacko, Harlequin (03/93), Hook (ex Celestial, new late 92-03/93), Orbis, and Boojum. Al joined Society. Avrak Illusion (ECS). Brain Snatcher (Trackmo). Phosphate-Free Eco-Intro (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Hook, gfx: Calvin, music: Harlequin. review: Boooooring 'green' design. It's just green dotballs jumping up and down (and around) behind an ugly green textwriter. Oh, and did I mention that the background is green? There's also a logo in the upper left corner. Guess what? It's green. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Eurochart 25 Trailer Intro (AGA File). Cooperation with Stellar, see there for details. Ghost ----- ENG> Apex, Atcw, Azrael, Bladerunner (sysop 'THE RED DWARF'), Comet, Cylon, Dagger, Darkman, Daz, Deathlok, Dope, Eagle, Elwood, Gollum, Hornet, Hound, Hunter, Leebold, Mad Phantom, Matrix, Mutley, Nexus, Pacman, Rem, Perfect, Psycho, Recoil (Music), Rombust, Subliminal, Twilight (music, 08/92), Vandal, Whisky. ???> Shockwave (ex Plague), Shrimp (code, ex Digital), Slaine (ex Outlanders), Zurf (ex Outlanders). Gange D-Zine> Baa Baa, Ford (gfx swap, ex LSD). Ghost was formed when the English division of Eclipse fusioned with Relay. Index left the scene. Spinky left 08/92. Rotox joined Nemesis. Infictor, sysop of 'PEGASUS' left the scene. The board 'GRACELAND' joined Crystal, but has now left the scene. Spyre (eng), Mentor, Phantom (eng), Nechrome, Col B. and N-Joi were all kicked. Music Madness (1991?, ECS Musicdisk). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Recoil, Twilight. Information: 27 chiptunes. Ghostly Spreaders ----------------- Macno joined Grace late 91. Ghostriders [old] (-1989) ------------------------- This Norwegian demo group ceased to exist when the entire group joined Cryptoburners in august of 1989. Ghost Riders [new] (GRS) ------------------------ SWE> Leatherface (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', triplememb Digital Corruption and Smokey). Giants (GTS) ------------ SWE> Hawk (Niklas Jonsson, mainorg code swap, Triplememb Ambrosia and Darkage 97, 12/96-02/98), Iz (ex Beatless, new late95), Keldon (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap edit, 12/96), Leprechaun (Anders Linqvist, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), McPudel (gfx, ex Beatless, new late95), Note (Stefan Karlsson, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), Rooster (swap, late95), Xargion (code). NOR> Mr.X (code, doublememb Instinct [details], 11/97), Two-Bit (gfx music), Wiseguy (sysop 'OUTER SPACE' EHQ), Woober (code music sysop 'ETERNITY' WHQ), Zack (gfx swap). FIN> Avenger (org swap, 95). ???> Orhan (old handle Firelord), Spot (ex Duplo, new late95). I always found the Giants slogan 'Giants - We Are Huge' to be rather amusing... News way back in Generation #6 claiming all members had joined Interactive in Germany are probably untrue...except if they all moved to Germany and joined up :) Hawk and one other coder (real name Fredrik Schultz) are the authors of the NES emulator A/NES. Some news said that NEO Norway joined. Any info on who this involves? Their old homepage, http://hem.passagen.se/giants/giants.html, appears to have gone down. 1994 - Crusader released his second ascii colly "Seven Wayz" in august. 1996 - The swedish twins Candyman and Crusader (doublememb Epsilon Design) both joined Session in june. A 4k intro was their only competition entry at The Party 96, but they also released the first issue of their chartmag "NightTrain" at this party. 1997 - ROM #9 reported that Wizard had stepped down as mainorganizer, and handed the job over to Hawk. The coder, graphician and musician (04/96-) joined Digital Corruption later in the year. Coder Sublet joined Planet Jazz 97. Norwegian raytracer and swapper Thrym (09/96) terminated his membership to be in Massive only 97. After a big cleanup in 97, Bon (nor R. Nyheim, org swap pack, 12/96), Malakai, Fugazi (swe Robin Forsberg, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), Dwangi (Christian Johansson, swe swap, late 96), Groover, Tyneo (nor gfx), Sway and D-Coy (swe org music) were all asked to leave the group. The reason was inactivity, and failing to keep in touch with the rest of the group. Elusive (ex Yodel) left to help form New Age a few days before Remedy 95. Numen and Speed Devil left for X 06/96. Norwegian Crack left the scene 06/96. Norwegian musician Cope joined Apathy 06/96. Ali joined Interactive. Norwegian Shorty joined Network. Megademo (1990, .06, ECS Megademo). Fade To Black (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). Code: Wizard. 6th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Free Entrance (1996, 26.05, Demo). 6th in the Icing 96 demo competition. 4Kb (1996, 28.12, AGA ?MB 4k Intro). code: Orbit (main), Wizard, gfx: Orbit, music: Wizard. 9th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: A mediocre 4ker, with afterburned red, green and blue large dots flying in sinus waves around the screen. There is a chiptune, but it quickly gets on your nerves... The prevailing feeling from this intro is unfortunately 'is that all there is?'. The system requirements read 'fastmem', but not how much it requires. The aminet package also includes a bonus executable, for 040/060 owners, which takes advantage of faster processors. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. NightTrain #1 (1996, 28.12, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Keldon. Released at The Party 96. GiGA Productions (1991-) ------------------------ DEN> D-Day (3d, 97-00), Dr.Zulu (gfx, doublememb Ambrosia mid 97, 91-), Mega Mazz (code, 93-00), Rampant (codepc, 94), RayC (trade, 92-93), Source (3d, 95), Sparky (code 3d, 93-00), Spaze (music, 94-96), Ugly Oink (co- founder code, 91-92), Warp (Fini Alring, code 3d founder, 91), Zone 1 (music, 92). GiGA Productions is a danish demo group, formed in 1991 by Warp and still alive as of 2001. 1991 - Graphician Jim Crow is no longer with the group. Global Hazard (Olga) (1995, 08.07, Demo). 4th in the South Sealand 95 demo competition. Soma (1996, 06.07, Demo). 12th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. info: The name spells amos backwards =) Gigatron -------- SWE> Jah (code, 05/94-05/95). ???> Boogeyman (gfx, 05/94-05/95), Uncle Ben (music, 05/94-05/95). T2 Dance Theme (1991, ECS Musicdisk). info: Dosloaded musicdisk with a house version of the T2 theme. Fatal Discarriage (1994, 15.05, ECS File). code: Jah, gfx: Boogeyman, music: Uncle Ben.  Bosnisk Metall (1995, 28.05, AGA File). code: Jah, gfx: Boogeyman, music: Uncle Ben. Winner of demo competition at Hackerence IX. review: Fast, good-looking routines and a heavy metal soundtrack. That's what these Swedes are offering, and it's not bad either. The rather uninspired soundtrack aside, the main showcase here are the effects. Most notable is a morphing/bitmap manipulation routine that's really good. Other cool effects are a standard voxel landscape and a plasma rot-zoomer. Recommended. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Glamour Design -------------- FIN> Axl (sysop 'B4 DARKNESS', 93-04/95), Blitzer (trade, 03/93). Global ------ ???> Deamo (gfx sysop), Jemy Murphy (gfx), MayTag (/Xcode), nassyH (raytrace), Storm (ascii), Stranger (code). Global Overdose (GOD) --------------------- SWE> Lando (ex Complex), Xstaz (sysop 'THE ICE PALACE', ex Complex). AUS> Bandito (sysop 'BANDIT'S BBS', 04/95). USA> Freddy Krueger (sysop 'BOILER ROOM', ex Complex)., Damage Inc (sysop '79TH TRACK', 04/95). ???> Mr.Solo (02/94), TCB (bel? 02/94). Gloom ----- GER> Higgie (late91), Rokdazone (Henning Brau, swap write, late91). Goblins (-1997) --------------- The Spanish group Goblins died late 97, after the last two remaining active members, Phornee (code) and Lantium (gfx), decided to finally leave the sinking ship. They joined two groups; Essence to be in a big demo group, and Network to still be in a Spanish group too! Gods (-1998, http://www.idf.net/gods/) -------------------------------------- NOR> Bridgeclaw (Henning Ludvigsen, gfx, doublememb Darkage, 04/95-00), Joint (Thomas Hansen, raytrace edit, late96-early97), Punisher (swap, ex Apathy and Darkage, new early 01), Typhoon (gfx, ex Avalon, 03/97), Zerox (swap edit, late95-01/97). FRA> Chris (Christophe Hede, org homepage trade, 06/95-early97), Grenat (gfx, late96-early97), Liszt (music, late96-03/97), Odin (pccode, ex Nova France, late96-03/97), Xbarr (code, late96-98). GER> Toaster (code, ex Bonzai Brothers, -notmembanymore-). ENG> Hybrid (sysop 'DIGITAL CANDY' EHQ, early97). POL> Qix (swap, ex Flying Cows Inc., new late97). ???> C-Quence (music, 12/94). Gods was originally a French demo group, which also eventually got good divisions in Norway and Germany. The group died around march 1998, as a result of several very important members leaving. First Sixpack left for Haujobb, then German swapper, trader, packer and sysop of their WHQ 'LOS ENDOS', Ghandy (ex Bonzai Brothers, late96-early97), decided to end his double membership to a Darkage-only member. Next Caramel left the group, with no certain destination, and English trader Lithium (ex Eltech, new late96) left the scene. After their death was a fact, English graphician Wade (ex Eltech, new late96) joined Nerve Axis. XBarr has, though it was stated so elsewhere, not left the scene. He has however, most probably begun working as a coder on the PC rather than for the Amiga anymore. I believe he is now in Syndrome on the pc. Check out Bridgeclaw's homepage (http://members.xoom.com/bridgeclaw/) for some amazing pieces of art! Just CHECK out his latest work, seems like paintbrush - great!! 1995 - German musician The Loop left for Artwork in december. 1996 - In april Xanth was kicked out of the French section, and they announced that Wilsh was never a member since they don't allow doublemembs anymore. French graphician Geist (06/96) left to be a Balance only member late in the year. News in Ethic's "X-Files #11" [11/96] that Ghandy and Sixpack had left for Syndrome were incorrect. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that norwegian Typhoon/ Avalon (gfx) joined. 1998 - English sysop Zoltrix ('SPACED OUT', new late97) left in february. 2000 - Norwegian graphician Bridgeclaw doublejoined Darkage early in the year. 2001 - In the early part of the year, Norwegian swapper Punisher joined from Apathy and Darkage. Norwegian sysop Sealapex ('PITSTOP'/'CLIFFHANGER' WHQ, 11/94-late96) sold his Amiga, so he left the scene. 'LOS ENDOS' is the new WHQ, 'DIGITAL CANDY' the new EHQ. Norwegian coder Zytrox' (Morten Brudvik) code for "Jurassic Pack" is still being used, long after he has left the scene, and even Norway! Chip In Paris #2 (musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Suburban Terrorist" by Clawz/Bomb. Apocalypse (1992, 08.08, ECS Trackmo). Released for the Abstract - Oxygen Summer Conference 1992 demo competition, but unplaced. Olympe (1994, 28.12, Demo). 17th in The Party 4 demo competition. info: Bridgeclaw's pictures are called "The God" and "The Curse", and both can also be seen in his slideshow "A Few Good Men" [06/95]. DISC #10 (1995, 10.04, Diskmag). BBSTro (1995, 14.04, Intro). Released at The Gathering 95. info: Bridgeclaw's title picture is called "Pitstop", and can also be seen in his slideshow "A Few Good Men" [06/95]. A Few Good Men - A Little Slideshow (1995, 04.06, AGA Multif. Slideshow). code: Zytrox, gfx: Bridgeclaw, music: Eagle. review: AFGM doesn't have the most impressive coding in the world, and I really don't like the music in this one either... It gives a cold, clinical feel for some reason, and I can in no way manage to be moved by the dire opening sequence. After a few gods - presents - screens, we arrive at the main menu. This is in monochrome, with the thumbnailed pictures choosable by mouse. You can also choose to run through all the pictures in a slideshow mode, if you wish. Another thing that annoys me about this slideshow is the fact that the pictures only stay on the screen for a few seconds, far too little time to get a proper impression of their quality =( I personally had to view several pictures more than once to get a good look, and I much prefer a system where it doesn't return to the menu before you press a mouse button. After all, slideshows are supposed to be about the art, and it really is a problem when you cannot get the time to properly view the art. It's like if a gallery opens its doors, and then the guards push you back out after 15 seconds =) Simplistic code (just music and a graphics shower, that's all) and unengaging music aside, this slideshow is still worth getting for the pictures. Even if the quality is uneven, there are still gems like "Warrior" and "Future Title" to savour... There are 12 pictures to choose from on the main menu, and we're going to go through them one by one. "Pitstop Title" (64c) is not one of his best, with unrealistic anatomy and hair for a lying-down female, and a real lame 'PITSTOP' logo. "Illusionia" (64c) is much better, a dreamy picture of a girl's face seemingly suspended in the air. Much better hair on this picture. "Levelling The Land" (128c) is a picture of a middleaged man's face. Again the proportions of the face are a little off, though the picture displays a sharer style than in the previous two. The hair looks unnatural here too. "Warrior" (64c) contains a female cartoon-style warrior and a vertical DISC logo, and was probably used as a title picture for DISC #9. This is the best picture yet, as Bridgeclaw seemingly masters the semi-cartoon style much better. Nothing to remark on the full-body proportions, excellent. "Maldi" (64c) is another facial portrait, this time of a smiling black guy. Again, the proportions of the face are way off, nothing much else to remark about this one. "Monster" (64c) is the least impressive of all the pictures included, and looks like an early sketch for an abandoned picture. "No Aloha" (64c) is yet another facial portrait, and this one looks a lot like actor Kevin Spacey to me... but I may be mistaken. In fact, it resembles "Levelling The Land" more than just a little. "Good Old" (64c) is a strange portrait, of a strange man... It shows improved technique, and an almost believable facial proportion (we can excuse a few glitches here, since this is clearly not the face of a normal person). "The God" (64c) has a great gothic GODS logo suspended over a straight-on diabolical face with an evil grin... =) "Steel" (64c) is a cyber-woman rendition, of the kind made popular by a Japanese artist whose name I can't quite remember right now... =) ...damn! Well, anyway, it's a female robot (breasts'n'all), and I'm sure most of you know what kind I'm talking about. "The Curse" (128c) is a much more complete picture than most of the others here, again employing a cartoon style, not unlike what was done for "Warrior". Among the best pictures in this slide. The final picture is also the best of the collection; "Future Title" (64c). This, in a rare departure from his usual people-dominated pictures, depicts a spaceship in (duh!) space... It clearly shows Bridgeclaw's progression as an artist, and serves as the perfect conclusion for an otherwise uneven slideshow. After clicking the icon for the endpart, we get another little picture with a GODS logo in the background, with an upscroller running over it. The entire slideshow ran without a glitch from floppy on my configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Worlds (1996, 27.04, Demo). 5th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.  Jurassic Pack #4 (1996, late, 020+ ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Zytrox, gfx: Bridgeclaw, others, music: "Jurassic Morning" by Coma/ Three Little Elks. review: I'm sorry, but I'm rather unimpressed by Gods' mag. What bugs me the most actually, is how much POTENTIAL there is here, and how little has been made of it. The interviews had so much going for them to be interesting, but fail. Just to think what an editor like Mop could have done to these articles... This just plain and simple doesn't have the 'edge' that's required to be great. Why on earth it demands a 020 or faster is totally beyond me, since it doesn't contain ANYTHING new that mags in 1990 didn't have. We've seen it before oh so many times... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Prism (1996, 28.12, Intro). Released at The Party 6. Jurassic Pack #5 (1997, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Modem/Darkage, gfx: Bridgeclaw, music: Okeanos/Syndrome. MAG - code: Zytrox, gfx: Birdgeclaw, music: "L'excrement" by Caramel/Gods and Sticky/Inferiors (The Player 6.1A format). review: The magcode and graphics are exactly the same as they always are, and the articles haven't gotten any better since last time, unfortunately. Not even the intro, provided by Darkage, is very interesting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Energy - Fraction II (1997, 29.03, AGA HD File). code: Odin, XBarr, gfx: Bridgeclaw, Typhoon, XBarr (obj), music: Liszt. 5th in The Gathering 95/11th in the Mekka Symposium 1997 demo competition. review: Overall, I didn't find Energy too exciting. Large portions of the opening is made up of vectors, which should have been a lot smoother with this kind of machine power. Also other effects tend to jerk along a little, creating an 'unfinished' feel to the production. Highlights definitely include the stairwell at the conclusion of the demo, with its bumpmapped walls and envmapped handles :) Other highlights were the two excellent pictures by Typhoon and Bridgeclaw, though the latter looked like it had some raytracing in there...amazingly enough, when you consider the motive! Probably requires some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Jurassic Pack #6 (1997, .05, Multifile Diskmag). code: Zytrox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Sixpack, Zerox, Ghandy. Jurassic Pack #7 (Multifile Diskmag). Godsend ------- SWE> Crocodile (sysop 'THE REPTILES HOLE', 01/95). Gollum (http://hjem.no/espen/gollum/) ------------------------------------- NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND'), Braintumor (music, ex Stone Arts), Heywood (music, ex Stone Arts). Three ex Stone Arts members, Braintumor, Heywood and Niggerjack, formed an Amiga section of the PC group Gollum. The group is now dead and buried, and Niggerjack can nowadays be found in Donut Fetish. Norwegians Niggerjack (code, ex Stone Arts) and Icarus joined Shamrock. Goonies, The (-1992) -------------------- DEN> Master Ed (sysop 'DANABOARD' WHQ). SWE> Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', 10/90), Smokie (sysop 'WORLD IMPORT'). GER> Courier (sysop 'FUN HOUSE', 10/91). ???> Lazy Ted (train), Masted E.D., Metal Force (train), The Shadow (train) Boards; ANESTESIA. Goonies were, as far as I know, mainly based around crackind and training. Fix and the rest stopped all activities, so Goonies died in the middle of 1992. At one time they were in cooperation with Arcane, and released some trainers. Lion joined New Wave. Badcat joined Angels new. Electric Dreams (1990, ECS Musicdisk). info: Goonies' third musicdisk. 5 tunes. Gothic (1992-1992) ------------------ USA> Milamber (sysop 'TACHYON EXPRESS', new 08/92). ???> Codeman (code, new 08/92), Fila, Link (trade supply, ex Desire). Boards; TIME WAR (ex Aspect). Gothic was a mainly german group born late 1992, after the remaining members of Design chose the name for their new group. Unfortuantely the group died young. 1992 - German Skyfox joined from Agnostic Front around october, but left again after just one day for Adept. German Cube (code) joined from Arise around october. Germans Design, WOTW (music, ex Submission), Doom, Orbit and HMC joined Dual Crew. Sysops Executor and Phreaker ('SECRET WORLD') joined Dual Crew. Dutch swapper Cone (ex Noxious) joined TRSI. German coder Cube (ex Arise old) joined TRSI. Adventurer (ex Addonic, new 10/92) joined Dytec. Ascender (ex Reality) quickly moved on to Paradise. Trax was kicked. Mean Jean (old handle Hero-O-In) changed his handle to Godfather and joined Spaceballs. Shadow, sysop 'DIGITAL ILLUSION' was kicked. Grace ----- FIN> Bundy, Chipper (music), Doctor (swap, 92), Ear, Mr.Pacman, Percus (swap), Pifki (ex Dimension 4), Rocky, Striker, Thor (ex Compact), Zed (trade). AUT> Coon-O, Dalmet (ex Amaze, new 09/92), Piranha (swap), Sledge (ex Amaze, new 09/92). SWE> Gaffel (sysop), Qriz, Tristan. GER> Shind (moved from Poland). NOR> Byte Bandit (ex Unlimited), Jackson, Rahiem (org, new early93), Zoppo (swap). ITA> Billy the Kid (Invernizzi Fabio, swap). ???> Mike Dee (ex Byte Busters, new early92), Muad'Dib, Priest (new mid91), Turbo (WHQ, old handle Physic, early93), Uncle Mat. Grace is dead! Some Polish members joined Applause, and the best Austrian members joined Surprise! Productions. 1992 - Norwegian swapper Chris (ex Axe) left for Amaze around january. Quaid and Yama joined Catastrophy early 92. Red Scorpion was kicked early 92. Norwegian sysop Tactel ('JUNGLE FEVER') joined Majic 12 early 92. The Norwegian section died mid 92, and most members (a.o. Hitman - old handle Blaze) formed Sequence in july or august, while Leo instead left for Crime Devils. Swiss graphician Fox joined from Alcatraz around october. 1993 - The Polish division died early 93, and all members joined Applause. Italian swapper Virus joined Zenith early 93. Dragos (code, rescene mid91), Dr.Grell and Wild Rage (aut edit swap) joined Surprise! Productions early 93. Cyde joined Massive. Quad joined Mad Elks. Norwegian Minion left. Microchip joined Devils. Austrian Zinkfloid joined Energy. Finnish swapper Sentinel (ex Compact) joined Legend. Polish swappers Butcher and Jet (ex Illusion) had an ad in SLH11 with the heading "EX GRACE". Tomek Janeczko isn't a Grace member, he's just in cooperation. Italian Macno (ex Ghostly Spreaders, new late91) left. Macno contributed many articles to the Grace diskmag 'Scene Lyrics'. He was back at christmas 92 with the first issue of his own mag 'Abnormalia'. Fox and Risk joined Legend. Finnish sysop Hifi ('THE LAST GENERATION') joined Digital. Pegasus and Rasterblaster joined Zenith. Pegasus, Stef and Fighter joined Zenith. Roxy joined Addonic. Graffiti -------- 1992 - Mr.Lay left to join Live Act early 92. Grashoppers Developments (GHD) ------------------------------ FIN> CrazyWild (Mikko Lehtonen, trade swap pack sysop1 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96), Dee (sysop2 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96), Mudpecker (sysop3 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96). ENG> Bliss (gfx music trade, ex Steps of Change, new 02/96), Wilsh (music, doublememb Steps of Change late96, 02/96-late96). HOL> Blunt (gfx swap, old handle Coolio, doublememb Appendix 06/96, doublememb TRSI [details]). SCO> Kaneda (org code swap, 02/96), Maverick (code swap). ???> Blunt (gfx, 02/96), L8-X (trade swap edit "Mookymoo!"), Reflex (music ascii swap), Small (code swap), Zulfie (swap). 1996 - The finnish board 'GENETIC TASTE' (sysops Dee, Mudpecker and CrazyWild) became whq in april. Graphician and swapper Triumph left the group and the scene.  Magical Box (1996, 08.02, AGA Intro). code: Kaneda, Gfx: Kaneda, Blunt (title), Music: Kaneda (title), Bliss (magical), Wilsh (end). Review: Ahh, like a breath of fresh air I welcome Magical Box from GHD! With one small, funny, little production they seem to poke their nose at everything that's currently hot and cool on the amigascene! Especially the system tester was great fun, with its 'post-calculating' after the intro was over...! I won't spoil MB for you, just recommend you download it...and when it stops doing anything and there's just the box on the screen, move your mouse. Be careful not to break it :) Recommended. You didn't really expect me to give a bad review to a production released on my birthday, did you ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Neuköln (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 9th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Grotesticle (GRT) ----------------- NOR> Acid (Daniel Bruvoll, sysop 'BASIC INSTINCT', doublememb Alpha Flight, ex Suspiria, 09/95), Baffle! (Dag Stenstad, sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Honey and Abuse, 09/95), Blockhead (Tom Cozzolino, music), Grimlock (Frode, mainorg ascii, 09/95), Jorun (music), Laimbrain (music), Ludde (code, ex Cadaver), Magz (Magne P. Zachrisen, sysop 'GENETIC WASTE'), Phaze 1 (Johannes Ringheim, ascii swap), Plusspant, Pudding (gfx), Stratos (doublememb Scoopex, 09/95). 1995 - They got lots of members from Suspiria in mid 95; this probably refers to Acid, Felix etc. 1996 - Norwegian musician Superted (old handle Felix, ex Suspiria) joined the Mystic demo division. Norwegian graphician Nirvana (ex Cadaver) joined Contraz. G^Style ------- N-L> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, doublememb TRSI). ???> Redskin (doublememb TRSI). G^Style was an ascii group. Gunnars Farve Bio (GFB) ----------------------- Megademo Nr. 4 Bogoefaergerne (1992, 28.12, Disk). 12th in The Party 92 demo competition. 4840 (1994, mid, ECS File). Megademo 8 (1994, late). Pose (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: MZ1453, gfx: J.Hash (logo), music: n/a. Contribution for 40k intro competition at The Party 5. review: These guys obviously go out of their way to be different. It's the first intro I've ever seen that zoom-rotates old expressionist paintings, or has a 'Buck Rogers' scroll (it's VERY similar to a Star Wars scroll :). Fun, but not terribly good. GLE tested A1200/030-50.2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Workbench 96 Plus (1996, 06.07, Demo). 5th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Guru Meditation --------------- 1996 - Mk joined Savage in april. G-Force ------- The best members formed Comedy with best members of Mad Sorcerers. Hacking Relation, The (THR, -1990) ---------------------------------- THR died late 1990. Zarchy (code gfx swap) is now Jazzcat. Half Brains Team (HBT). ----------------------- ITA> DDT (code, late90), Lord Carion (gfx, late90), Mr.Madness (code, late90), Powerforce (gfx, late90), Shark (sysop 'INFINITE DREAMS'). Halfmoon Productions -------------------- ???> Subgud (code gfx swap, doublememb EMS Design late 96). Halo (1994-) ------------ FIN> Boojum (04/94), Calvin (Markus Tuppurainen, gfx, 04/94), Dr.Wacko (04/94), Harlequin (music, 04/94), Hook (Panu Liukkonen, code, later Stellar, 04/94), Orbis (Heikki Pora, later Extend, code, 04/94). Judging from what was said in their two Assembly 94 40k intros, Halo is essentially Genocide with a new name! Therefore most of these guys are ex-Genocide members. OK? 40k Halo-Intro (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Hook. 5th in the Assembly 94 intro competition. review: No actual credits appear in this impressive little intro, except for an adress with the heading 'to contact the coder, write to Hook...' Effects are good, with a nice Doom thing and all, and the music is quite above average. A cool little intro! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 2nd 40k Halo-Intro (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). production: Orbis (code), Harlequin, Calvin, Dr.Wacko. 14th in the Assembly 94 intro competition. review: The second Halo intro is another not-too-shabby deal from the finns. It opens with a texturemapped cube, and continues in style with some more cool stuff, before it ends with a textured tunnel that looks quite cool. The music's not bad, techno but without the beat. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hangover (HNG) -------------- SWE> Crusader (Janne Kotta, swap, 94), Warlock (Tomas Mortenson, swap, 94). ???> Xargion (swe? code, 94). The entire group joined Depth! Hardbyte -------- SWE> Distler (sysop 'THE SLAMMER', 01/95). Hardcore Design (HCD) --------------------- SWE> Elf (music, later Moment 22, 12/93), Skutt (gfx, later Moment 22, 04/93). ???> Budweiser (music, 12/93), Metz (sysop, ex Limited Edition, new PRP4), Wize (sysop, ex Limited Edition, new PRP4). Board; CHAOTIC ENTITY (usa, 03/94). Pinhead joined Freezers (PRP4). Hardline (HDL) -------------- GER> Dascon (music, later Essence), Powerswap (Stefan Pascharat, swap, later Essence), Slicer (Michael Schroeder, org swap, later Essence, new mid91), Sparc (Nils Wietelmann, gfx, 92). SWE> Kaka (swap trade, late91). ???> Bounty (ex Dragons new, new early 92). Hardline was a german demo group, and after they died Touchstone joined Delicious Designs. Interestingly, every single member of the German section detailed here was later in Essence... 1990 - German coder Touchstone joined, and this was his first group. He made lots of PD utilities, some intros, some demos and even a musicdisk for them. 1991 - The demo "Relation" [07/91] was released at Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic's party in july. 1992 - After some internal problems, Slicer returned as the group's hq around january. He took immediate action to strengthen the group, and kicked out the following members: Mac, Punk, Tai, Crush, 1-Hag (M. Neumann, swap), Shocker and M.Joker. German swapper Trasher left, and subsequently joined Panic in january. Swapper Lincoln joined TRSI early in the year. LDC (gfx) and RTF (music) joined, but were soon kicked again around june. Ace, Crony and the german Diabolo (Andre Gerke, swap) were also kicked, while Toyota left around june. Hedgehog and Midge got kicked. Pepe (music, new 06/92) joined Subzero. Girl (ECS File). Relation (1991, 14.07, ECS File). 5th in the Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic Party demo competition. Black Energy (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: Touchstone, gfx: Touchstone, Sparc, music: Dascon. info: The modules presented on this musicdisk are "Frame of Mine", "Rituals", "Cool n Woo", "Oropacks", "Get the Output" and "Boom da Climax2 Genious Brain". Hardwired --------- ???> Bladeray (gfx, 04/96), Howard (music, 04/96), Nitch (code, 04/96). Frontier (1996, 27.04, AGA HD Multifile, 2 disks). code: Nitch, gfx: Bladeray, music: Howard. 9th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. review: Once again, a totally unknown group delivers a very good piece of demo entertainment. This one, though in no way outstanding, is well above the limits of mediocrity. The graphics are functional, and in some places interact very well with the code. There are two pieces of music; the main tune is (surprise, surprise!) techno, but better than the majority of tehno tunes. The endscreen tune is a more slow, orchestral affair which is actually rather good. The majority of effects here are of the bitmap manipulation variety, with zoomrotators and other such things dominating. There is mention of the fact that this demo was made for standard A1200s. If this is their idea of a demo for 'basic A1200', then I'd really like to see what these guys are capable of with some fastmem and an accelerator... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Haujobb (HJB, 1994-, http://www.haujobb.de) ------------------------------------------- GER> Black Raven (code, ex Infect, new 08-10/94), Cyclone (ascii, 10/94), Dreamer (code, 10/96-05/97), Drf (code, 10/94), Dust (gfx, 10/96- 05/97), Exage (sysop 'HEARTLAND', 10/94), Fastjack (code, 07/96- 04/99), Funky (swap, 09/94), Hellfire (gfx, 12/00), Howie l'Amour (swap, 10/94-05/97), Jailer (sysop 'THE PRISON', ex Infect, new 10/94), Jazz (Kai Fischer, music edit sysop 'THE EXPERIENCE', doublememb Smoke [music], 10/94-04/98), JCS (Jan C. Sievers, gfx, doublememb Sector 7, new late97-12/00), Marc (Marcus Kalusche, music, doublememb Sector 7, new late97-12/00), NoName (Leif Oppermann, code, doublememb Sector 7, new late97-04/99), Peachy (Magnus Hieronymus, gfx, 05/95-12/00), Virgill (Jochen Feldkoetter, music, ex Artwork, new 04/98), Wave (gfx, 09/94-12/00), Wild Thing (sysop 'MORPHIC FIELDS', 10/94-06/97), WOTW (music, 10/94-11/96), Xeniator (sysop 'PSALM 69', 10/94), XXX (Tobi, mainorg, 10/94-06/97). N-L> Noodle (Stephan Schipper, swap, 07/96-05/97). FRA> Darken (code, 10/96-04/98), Unborn (Laurent Bailey, code, 10/96-05/97). FIN> Muffler (Konsta Mikkonen, music, ex Nah Kolor, doublememb DCS, new 06/97-08/98), Owl (gfx, 10/96-04/98), SolarC (gfx, 04/00), Speedo (Sami Kinnunen, code, ex Tribute, 08/97-08/98). SPA> Leunam (gfx, doublememb Network [details], 12/97-04/98). POL> Dave (Dawid Nabialek, gfx music, ex Amnesty). NOR> Sixpack (Pål-Inge Johansen, swap edit, ex Gods, new 02/98). ENG> Darkus (Lee Harwood, edit "Devotion", 12/00). ???> Acryl (modeller, 12/00), Craid (Christoph Szczecina, code, 12/00), Fli7e (gfx sysop), Jailor (sysop, 10-11/96), Kid Frost (music gfx, 10-11/96), Mash (sysop, 10/96-05/97), Melkor (trade supply, 10/96- 05/97), Nomad (3d, 12/00), Optima (code, new 12/00), Reptile (music, new early00), Seal (gfx, 10-11/96), Shawn (sysop, 10/96-05/97), Visualize (gfx, new early00). Boards; JUDGMENT DAY (ger, 12/94). Haujobb is a German-based demo group, born on the Amiga in 1994, but later also active over a wide range of other platforms, including the pc, c64 and even the Playstatiion! Their world leader is XXX. 1994 - Around the middle of the year, Black Raven (code) and SMT (music) joined from Infect, and announced their new group with the dentro "Artcore". 1997 - Marc (music), No Name (code) and JCS (gfx) all doublejoined the group from Sector 7 towards the end of the year. Finnish coder Speedo joined from Tribute. 1998 - The two Graphicians Kidlove and Bay Tremore (08-12/97), both of whom worked on the great "My Kingdom" [12/97] demo, left to join Scoopex early 98, making the Haujobb members very angry! Nevertheless, this proved to be a great year for Haujobb. At Mekka Symposium 98 in april they WON the demo competition with "Aphrodisiae" [04/98], and as an extra bonus, were joined by legendary german musician Virgill. 2000 - Darkus was one of two main editors of the new mag "Devotion #1" [00], released under the Nah-Kolor label. The mag also announced the group had been joined by Visualize (gfx) and Reptile (music). Optima joined from Scoopex two weeks before the party, and his first production for Haujobb, The Party-winner "Megademo 2000" [12/00] earned the group the scenery 'Demo of the Year' award for the second year in a row! It was the crowning moment of a great year for the group. 2001 - Marc's audio cd "Basic Needs" was released early in the year, with cover art done by JCS. Dutch writer Sane (previously worked for Seenpoint under Scoopex) decided to reenter the scene, working on Devotion! Nah Kolor announced the death of "Devotion" after a single issue, but Haujobb wanted it otherwise... Englishman Darkus (coeditor on first issue) was now main editor, but suddenly decided to leave the scene following a harddiskcrash sometime around april (this is onyl a guess though...) He didn't even bother telling his fellow team members about it! The main bulk of articles for Devotion #2 was thus written by Sane and Wade, with some support from Ghandy and Fishwave (also ex-scoopex editor!). German musician Dascon (10-11/96) is now in Essence. German musician SMT (new 08/94-05/95), who joined from Infect together with Black Raven, left for Artwork sometime between june and december 94. Artcore (1994, .09?, File). code: Black Raven, gfx: Wave, Manfred "Tomcat" Mayer (picture), Ninja/Dual Crew Shining (font), music: "Haujobb-Intro" by SMT (4ch MOD format). review: A nice, small production with some good graphics and an ok tune in the discopop, "Jester"-vein make for a good debut for Haujobb. Nicely executed (but not advanced) code, and a good sense of design is the topping of the cake on a very acceptable dentro. This intro announces the joining of SMT and Black Raven from Infect. No release date appears in the intro, but it was released before the Dooms Day Party (08-09.10) and after 08/94, which is the date on the module. I have no idea whether this requires AGA, but probably not. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dentro (1994, late, Intro). code: Black Raven, jailer (raytrace), peachy (logo), ninja/dcs (font), music: WOTW. review: Mostly comprised of a Haujobb logo done as a raytraced animation, this is a slightly disappointing production from Haujobb. Not bad music, though, and the Peachy logo is cool... [glenn] GLE tested A1200, Hey Süßer ! (1994, late, ECS Intro). code Black Raven, gfx: Tomcat/Complex, music: Syn-T-Size. review: This is nothing more than a nice little 20k bbs intro for THE PRISON, OK done and with a pretty cool chiptune actually. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Love Peace Teddies (1994, 40k Intro). code: Kreavis & Botthead (Dreamer & Peachy), gfx: XXX (font), Wave (font), music: Syn-t-Size. review: This 40k'er opens with some of that 2plane fractal zooming we saw in Virtual Dreams' classic "Chaosland" (12/93), overlaid some text...and that's it! No nothing more here unfortunately. We won't mention the chiptune, just be nice to them. This is...so bad. The release date is at least before "Jammin'" since it mentions THE PRISON as an Infect board. Since it conforms to the 40k limit, was it entered at a party? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Derrick (1994, 08.10, Multifile Intro). code: drf, gfx: Flite (intrologo), Cyclone (ascii), music: WOTW (4ch MOD format). Released at the Doom's Day 94 party. review: Hey, here's something just a little original! This is actually not only an intro, but also an ascii collection! ;) Design is fittingly minimalistic, with the lower 1/3rd of the screen taken up by a scroller and and fun little animation, and the rest occupied by the ascii. It uses colors, bold, italics and such too, and is really not a bad little collection. This is nice and fun, though the chiptune gets on your nerves pretty quickly :) ESC to quit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Legalize It 2.5 (1994, 09.10, ECS Musicfile). code: Black Raven, gfx: Tomcat/Complex (logo), Ninja/DCS (fonts), music: "Only 4 Voices", "A Race Against Time", "Judgement Day" and "Eternity" by SMT, "Intro Tune!" by Syn-T-Size, "Cafe Brazil" by Jazz (all 4ch MOD format). Released at the Doom's Day 94 party. review: Four pieces of music from SMT, bookended by a tune each by Jazz and Syn-T-Size, make up this thrown-together production. Not bad, with some niceness in both the audial and visual departments, but lacks a little "soul". SMT's "A Race Against Time" was 7th in the Sun'n'Fun Conference II music competition, while his "Judgment Day" was the winner of Commodore's official music competition at CeBit 94! For some reason, this opens with a little text saying "This is dedicated to Funky..." Explanation, anyone? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Jammin' (1994, 09.10, AGA File Dentro). code: drf, gfx: Wave, music: Jazz (2 tunes, The Player 6.0A format). 2nd in the Doom's Day party 94 demo competition. review: Highlighted by excellent graphical work from Wave and some competent coding from drf (voxel, nice texturemapped cube), this early Haujobb demo is another competent piece of work. Nothing is really wrong here, this is a short, cute production that works on its own terms. Nice stuff. This intro announces Jailer joining the group, which happened at the party itself. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Menu (1994, ECS Intro). code: Black Raven, gfx: Wave, music: Syn-t-Size. review: This is actually a trainermenu, not badly done for this kind of thing, though the music bugs me... It's got the standard mousecontrolled trainer options, a very nice Haujobb logo by Wave down the left side, and the obligatory scroll...there is also some fireworks exploding in the backtground! Nice, but not outstanding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mintro32 (1994). production: zap, syn-t-size. Bye Scenelife (1995). production: blackraven, smt, jazz, ninja/dcs. TUI (1995). production: drf, wave, jazz. Generation X (1995, 21.05, AGA 4MB Multifile Demo). code: drf, gfx: Wave, Peachy, music: Dascon, Jazz. Winner of the Nexus 95 demo competition! review: Another nicely designed demo by Haujobb, with effects that are perhaps a little bit weaker than usual. Mostly gouraud and bitmap manipulation are the order of the day here. The "Nexus 7" lamp thing was something they could have spared themselves, though! For a two disk demo, this runs a little short imho... Two fullscreen pictures, one by each artist. The results file for the Nexus party by Jazz said that a final version of the demo would be released later. It doesn't seem like this ever happened, as the one I'm reviewing was downloaded from their website in 2000... Originally on two disks, but can be easily installed to harddisk. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. State of Aversia BBS Intro (1996, ECS Intro). code: drf, gfx: none, music: Jazz (The Player 6.0A format). review: Small (8k) but nice, this is how a promotional intro should be! Ascii-based, but with graphics and a nice, mellow tune by Jazz, this is sweeeeet... Sysops Jack Danielz and Julie. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Burning Chrome (1996, 06.07, AGA 4MB Multifile Demo). code: Fastjack, gfx: Wave, Cyclone/Illusion, music: Mortimer/Royal (The Player 6.1 format). 3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. review: Fastjack does a real nice little demo here, with some great design and fast 3d routines. There's everything here, from afterburned phong (which I had only seen from Azure before actually!) to envmapping and cool tunnels. The graphical work is also above average, and the music is nicely different, while staying firmly in a techno style. The demo gives an overall good impression, though suffers slightly from a lack of pace towards the end. Not bad at all! Cyclone's fullscreen picture is called "Mobile" (at least that's the filename in my collection... :). Mortimer usually uses the more extensive handle Mortimer Twang. Should work on any AGA amiga with enough mem, but 030-50 is recommended. Should be run from HD, but can also be run from disks, the method is explained in the enclosed readme file. I experience some initial problems when attempting to run the file (packed with Titanics Cruncher 1.2), but after manually depacking the file first, everything worked fine. The version reviewed was the final version (just bugfixes, more stable), see the end of the endscroller to see if it mentions that this is released after the party - otherwise you've got the partyversion. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Harmony (1996, 03.11, AGA HD 4MB Multifile Demo). code: Darken, Unborn, gfx: Owl, Dust, Peachy, music: Jazz, Jazz & Smartass (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in the Saturne Party 4 demo competition. review: Harmony opens with what appears to be a raytraced fractal with logos overlaid, but I have seen have seen way better examples of this kind of thing. Then it goes on to a very nice fullscreen picture by Dust of a woman's face and some water and mountain scenery in the background, which it holds on to for unfortunately a little too long, possibly while precalculating? It then loads and changes tune, and we're shown a good, but anatomically weird pic of a halfnaked mermaid being eaten by sharks (!), drawn by Peachy. Then it shows ANOTHER picture for too long, this time some digitized (though cute =) girl with some words overlaid... Both of the included tunes are right there as files in plain P61A format. should work on any AGA amiga with enough mem, but 030-50 is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Knickelbreaka (1996, 06.11, AGA Intro). code: Fastjack, gfx: Wave, music: Jazz. review: Short and most decidedly sweet, this is a promotion intro for their new chippackmag "Friendchip". If this style is anything to go by, it should be cool indeed... Go get it! Should work on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Friendchip issue #1 (1996, .12, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Fastjack, gfx: Dust, Wave, Seal (clip), Geist/Balance (clip), music: various, editor: Jazz. review: This first issue of Haujobb's new mag overrided every and any preconception I might have had - it's great! Though originally intended as a chipmag - sort of picking up the glove after ChipMania - it seems their project have grown a little out of proportion :) What this is - essentially - is a small diskmag with a nice selection of chippies to choose from. This, however, brings me to what must surely be a BUG! I have never actually been able to play a single tune through Friendchip. There's simply no sound!? Thankfully, they've provided an option for saving the modules out to disk, so thanks to HippoPlayer and the great multitasking magcode I was still able to listen to them while reading the mag :D Another great thing about Friendchip is the design and the graphics - both very very nicely executed. To conclude, I just have to say that this chipmag has a magcode that's just as good as for any of the leading diskmags. Its ability to multitask - like ROM - is especially nice. I'm actually running it in the background right now, so I can switch back and forth if I want to check anything :) Coolness. Eurochart #30 lists the coder as Touchstone/Essence, for some reason...!? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. One Day (1997, AGA Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Wave, music: Muffler. Winner of the Belgian Scene Event 40k intro competition! review: This opens with a convincing rotzoomer, and continues with more of the same with some pretty cool bitmap manipulation effects. The overall impression is of a very colorful intro mainly based on 2d bitmap effects - like twirls and rots. It gives a very smooth feel. It ends with a burning particle effect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Awakening (1997, 06.06, AGA 4MB 64k Intro). code: Darken, gfx: Owl, music: Muffler. Winner of the Abduction 97 64k intro competition! review: Certainly a child of a different breed, HJB's Abduction winner is a nice little intro, I guess, if you're into this techno kind of thing. Rather than tell you what's in the intro, we'll just list the routines, as printed in the text file :) bump, blur, radial distortions, DK3D engine, plasma printf, and just add that there's some wireframe vectors in there too ;D To be honest I didn't like this all that much... some nice routines, but the package fails to excite. Potential is there, but it lacks the final punch to lift it to greatness. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. With Style (1997, 09.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bay Tremore, music: Muffler. 4th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: It opens with a cool, zooming Haujobb logo by Bay Tremore and continues with some typical Mufflermusic. The zooming, twisting tunnel is another highlight, and also the twirling bumpmap routine that follows it. You may have gotten the idea by now; I quite like this. It's fast, cool and colorful. Not the world's most impressive intro, but still very nice. Please note that this review refers to the 'final' version, released after the party, with bugfixes and faster routines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Control! (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). production: noname, speedo, jcs, marc. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Entering Hypnosis (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Leunam, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: Technically and audio-visually competent at every level, "Entering Hypnosis" still fails to impress. The lack of pace, the headache-inducing music and the jumping screen are all elements that take away some of this intro's interest. It all looks pretty and smooth, but doesn't ENGAGE. The effects are not awe-inspiring in any way, with a clear dominance on a color-cycling like effect (shown THREE times, with different palettes and variables!) and swirling tunnels. Yawn. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. My Kingdom (1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile). code: Boogeyman/Scoopex, Fastjack, Speedo, Kenny, gfx: Kid Love, Visualize/?, Leunam, Bay Tremore, Boogeyman/Scoopex (3d, textures), Dice/? (textures), Jazz (textures), Nomad/Scoopex (3d), music: "Tama's Kingdom" by Muffler, "Antigotchi" by Jazz and FNDR (uncredited), Director: Owl. Winner of The Party 97 demo competition! Cooperation with Scoopex. review: "My Kingdom" is a great demo - as you'd expect from a The Party winner - but surprisingly short. The demo is split into three parts, all loadable as standalone executables, or run in sequence via a supplied script. The first thing that struck me about it, was how fast and smooth all the 3D scenes were. There's some pretty impressive optimizing behind getting scenes to run as smoothly as this, and I can do nothing but applaud. There are several fullscreen pictures, and design is good. The music is good and unusual, and sounds professional and unorthodox. As I said in the opening, "My Kingdom" is a great demo - but "Captured Dreams" it aint! With a little more focus, Haujobb will be a BIG group... This cooperation demo was placed under Haujobb's heading since most of the people involved in the project seem to be Haujobb members, and it's 'director' was a Haujobb member. A 'final' version was released later, but without much new stuff - it was virtually identical to the party release, as the accompanying text file mentions. When someone's member status is uncertain, I've written /? - this does not mean that this person is not a member of either group, just that I don't know which one :). Both modules from the demo were soon after released in extended versions through the Mono and Monotonik labels. The fact that Jazz' module was in cooperation with FNDR wasn't mentioned in the demo! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Haupex (1998, 21.02, AGA 40k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bird/Scoopex, Speedo (fonts), music: Muffler and Bird/Scoopex. Winner of the Scene Meeting 98 intro competition! Cooperation with Scoopex. review: Now, this is fun - a sense of style! "Haupex" won't impress you with it's flashy routines or speedy 1x1 phongs - but it will show you a definitive sense of style and design! The music's timed to some onscreen action, like flashing and the screen jumping. I'd REALLY like to know which of these two groups Speedo is in, now! Anyway, this is totally recommended. Groovy! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Radikal (1998, 11.04, ECS File). code: Speedo, gfx: Wave, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Alternative 98 demo competition. review: A pretty mediocre production this time, which opens with a pretty OK Haujobb logo by Wave. Next is a zooming ball-like effect, before an rgb effect overlaid on the same logo as earlier. Next is a couple of variations on the classic interference effect, and then it all ends with some twisting horizontal bars - the best effect in the demo. The music is really sub-par quality for Muffler, unfortunately, but fits in with the overall quality of this "demo". Not good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Aphrodisia (1998, 12.04, AGA HD File). code: Darken, gfx: JCS, Kidlove (title logo), Dice/Doomsday (textures), Leunam (font), music: Muffler (2x The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition! review: Nice visuals and trancy music introduce us to HJB's winning demo from MS98. It's one of their best demos, with the combination of strong coding (3d scenes!), great design, and some fabuoous audio-visual talent working on it making it something quite extraordinary. The demo is actually not quite fullscreen, but presented in 320x220 inasted. This doesn't really refract from the enjoyment of the demo, and I find it quite acceptable. There are three fullscreen pictures by JCS in this demo, all of which feature girls' faces... Presumably at least one of these is his compopicture for MS98, "Native". This demo was a long time in the coming, originally planned for Assembly 97, then for Saturne 5, then for The Party 97... Owl served as 'director'. This demo announced that Virgill joined. Please note that the version reviewed is the fixed version for 040/060 machines. 3d scenes can be viewed in 640x440 HAM8, using ?? as argument! They've used a square root routine by Touchstone/Essence and c2p routine by Krishna/Scoopex. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Edit 0.5 (1998, 08.08, 64k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bay Tremore, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Assembly 98 64k intro competition! review: As usual, amazing 3d and great design from Haujobb, brought this intro straight to the top of the heap at ASM98 this year. This is a relatively short intro, but in that time, still manages to impress... The focus is mainly on 3d, mostly cubes for once (oldskOOl =), but also with a cool and original logo at the beginning and a rocking ripple effect towards the end. Not a classic intro, but good - and good enough to win in this competition. Probably requires AGA... I guess =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mnemonics (1999, 04.04, AGA 8MB File Demo). code: NoName, Fastjack, Touchstone/Essence, gfx: JCS, Wave, Kublay/Ram Jam, music: Marc. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2k-1 demo competition! review: What first strikes you about "Mnemonics" is its superb design, with graphics and effects overlaid in a seemingly fluent manner. Effects are reasonably fast, and the soundtrack engaging (if you're into that sort of thing ;P). But back to the great design, hehe... This is really a triumph in that respect, with even the fullscreen pictures having effects overlaid in some form...There's an excellent one by JCS here (portraying singer Skin from Skunk Anansie) where a small object appears to be spinning in her hand... just amazing! Can anyone confirm or deny that the picture in question is JCS' "Crazee", winner at this party? Kublay's contribution is likely just his fullscreen picture of dinosaurs. Unfortunately I don't understand much of the endpart, since it's all in German... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Radwar 2k Invitation (2000, early, AGA File). code: Craid, gfx: Cyclone, music: Virgill (The Player 6.1A format). review: A functional invitation intro, with some typically offbeat and strange graphics by Cyclone! The music is also very much a Virgill composition. It has a rather strange menu that I used a little time to work out, actually =) To make a rather long story short and sweet, this is a pretty cool little invitation intro for a pretty cool little party =) Understood? Identical intros were released for amiga (Craid), pc (Hellfire) and psx (Fuzzel). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Back To The Roots (2000, 23.04, AGA File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: Nostalgia the Haujobb way... After running this shows a kickstart 1.2 logo, then a good old cliscreen before the demo starts =) Those were the days, eh? But then I only get the blackest of screens...for a looooong time... The music goes on, but nothing visual appears. Why? God alone knows, I guess. Sad. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Distorted; Strange Distortion (2000, 23.04, AGA 64k Intro). code: Craid, Octane (additional), gfx: Hellfire, SolarC, music: Roz. 2nd in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 64k intro competition. review: Whooooah! After a rather long spell of precalculation, this intro throws up some effects that sort-of make me feel the wait was worth it =) This is a cool little intro which tries to be welldesigned and different, but only halfway succeeds. They should get extra kudos for their extensive use of graphics, unusual to see in such a small (64k) production! In the end though, it does outstay its welcome a little, and should really have cut back a couple of the not-so-great effects to make a shorter, more focused package. But by all means, not at all bad! Best parts: The very first effect, and the tunnel just before the credits. Shame about the REALLY annoying music. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Yes! (2000, 23.04, AGA 64k Intro). code: NoName, Fastjack, Kenny, Darken, gfx: JCS, music: Muffler. 5th in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Loveboat. review: Some very cool design here, and a typically intense Muffler soundtrack. Some very nice coding too, add up to make me feel that this is actually a better intro than their 2nd-placer "Distorted" at the same party! They use a special kind of shading for several of the parts, that give it a sort of look of its own... Had it not been for the small fact that it is terribly short, I am pretty sure this could have won at MS... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Modular (2000, 28.12, AGA 64k Intro). code: Craid, gfx: Hellfire, Standhal. 2nd in The Party 2000 64k intro competition. review: "Modular" is an intro that likely reached its elevated status on the result list more due to some great design touches rather than technical excellence... cause these are really nothing but filled vectors. Excellent filled vectors, but still nothing more. It does go on for a while though, and it is undoubtedly a beautiful little intro. It looks great, sounds cool, and for that reason you will all want it. For that, and for Hellfire's mystic woman face... ;) Plus for the cute ansi precalc screen, which was a nice touch. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo 2000 (2000, 28.12, AGA HD 12MB File). code: Optima, gfx: JCS, Peachy, Optima (textures), Hellfire (3d, colors), Wave (textures), Acryl (3d), Nomad (3d), music: "Go-A-Round", "Interaudio" and "No Tricks" by Marc (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of The Party 2000 demo competition! review: Make no mistake, this was made on and for 060-50's. It's a file of almost 10mb, and....it's absolutely wonderful. =) It opens in style, continues in style and ends mightily - in style. On my 030-50. THANK YOU! Not everything flows every-frame, but it's beautiful and FAR from SLOW at any point! They make a point of how this was made on 060's, but you wouldn't know it looking at the demo. I could go on and on and on and tell you about every effect from screen to screen, but you would get tired long before I could finish and you would get the point I was trying to make much sooner. Once again I thank you Haujobb, for making my job so much easier and more pleasurable. "Megademo 2000" is demo of the year 2000. The fullscreen pictures are "Megademo 2000" by JCS (640x400x8), "Akaya" by JCS (320x200x8), "Solaris" by JCS (640x400x8) and finally "Colaris" by Peachy (640x480x8). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Devotion #2 Promotional Intro (2001, Intro). code: Stingray/Darkage, gfx: Wade (logo), music: Reed/Damage. review: The DVN #2 promotional intro has a decidedly oldskool flavour to it - with oldfashioned effects like a lightsourced vectorcube etc... I can't help it, I really love this cute little thing! =) After a slightly half-assed Devotion logo, it kicks off proper with the aforementioned lightsourced vector and a cute animated lego-person walking onto the screen. Following this we get the 'info' part, presenting the new Devotion staff and the upcoming headlines for the second issue... And pressing the left mouse button gives the credits before exiting. Very nice oldskool design, coupled with the cool chipper by Reed, makes this a nice little intro. Bear in mind, though, that it's almost 370k long - proper oldskoolers could easily crunch this down to 40k... =) Just kidding, nice one! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Devotion #2 (2001, 15.06, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: Zaac/independent (title), Adam/DCS (Panels, fonts, backdrops), music: Chromag, Reed/Damage, Curt Cool/Depth, Jazz/Haujobb and Reed/Damage, editors: Wade (main), Sane (coeditor), Fishwave/Scoopex and DCS, Ghandy/Darkage. review: So finally, and to the surprise of most of the scene, the second issue of Devotion finally saw the light of day. The second issue of a mag that was declared dead its original releasing group (Nah-Kolor), whose previous main editor had left the scene (Darkus) - and whose entire editorial team is new for the second issue. Born out of controversy, this is still an exciting issue to read. QUALITY is back in the amiga magscene for good, with a diskmag that shows the same kind of quality assurance that mags like ROM once had. The mag opens with a great, very original title picture drawn by Zaac, and a quick click of the lmb later, we're reading Devotion again. The graphics are exactly the same as in the last issue, not that that's a bad thing at all =) But any mag, however graphically appealing, stands or falls on its editorial content. And I am very, very glad to announce that Devotion does not fail. In fact, this mag represents the strongest and best display of scene journalism since the days of ROM! _THIS_ is the kind of mag we want to read, _THIS_ is how it's done! Main editor Wade's articles are engaging, critical and perfectly displays his great knowledge of scenelife in general - and graphics in particular. The mag has two title pictures, chosen randomly at startup. While Zaac's caricature picture is great, Wade's black&white picture of a partially submerged beautiful female is just...fabulous. Wow. This picture GLOWS. The mag requires just a standard A1200, with AGA or a graphics board. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hazard ------ Hazard is dead. All members left for Saturne late93; this includes Loony (eng, ex Surprise! Productions, old handle Snowman, new late93) and Vodka (fra, ex The Special Brothers, new late93). Head! (H!) ---------- GER> Case78 (Rene, ?ascii, 96). HOL> React (Joeri Tan, ascii, ex Monk, new 07/96). ???> Punk! (ascii, 96), Rave (ascii, 96), Rooster (ascii). Head! is an ascii group. 1996 - Dutch ascii artist React joined in july, after his previous group Monk died. Headwave (-1990) ---------------- SWI> Dave (10/89), HQ (10/89). Headwave was a swiss group, that died early 90. Two of their members joined Setrox. They were reborn later in the year. Headway ------- HUN> Dylance (Karloy Boczka, swap, 93). Hungarian graphician D-Mage joined Virtual Dreams. Heatseekers ----------- Lord Helmet joined Cartel. Heaven ------ ???> Jaffa (ex Angels old). Heavy Duty ---------- Finnish Pifki joined Dimension 4. Great Intro (1991, early, ECS Intro). Code: Cli, Gfx: Dor, Music: Maake. Hellfire (HF, 1994-) -------------------- HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, doublememb LSD, 12/95-11/97). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER' EHQ, 10/95-02/97). ???> Advocate (crack, 10/96), Alpha One (code, 12/95), Chelsea (01/97), Defect (doublememb Insane, 02/96), Hudson Hawk (gfx, doublememb Lightforce, 05/97), Icarus (code, 01/96), Jam (supply), Preacher (keyfilemakers, 04/96), Rascal (code keygens, 95-05/98), Rude Dude (gfx, 96), Siriax (code crack, 12/95), Sonik (supply, 02/97), The Clairvoyant (gfx, 01/96). Boards; TEMPLE OF DREAMS (ger, 12/95-10/96), ACID SLAM (ger, 12/95-02/97), DIAL HARD (swi, 12/95-02/97), ON THE RUN (ger, 01-10/96), SKYLINE (swe, 01/96), FREEDOM WITHIN (eng, 12/95-02/97), ELECTRIC WARRIOR (eng, 12/95-02/97), CEMENT CITY (eng, 12/95-10/96), NEXUS 7 (eng, 12/95-01/96), THE CHAMELEON (fin, 01/96), BROADWAY (ger, 01-02/97). Distsites; STEEL DAWN (96), EXTREME TERROR (96), SPACED OUT (96), PRISON OF HELL (96). Hellfire is one of the better groups dealing in the illegal cracker scene, probably based in England. Supplier Iggy (01-12/96) announced he would leave the scene 'after christmas' in a crackintro 12/96, yet called himself 'Hellfire Leader!' in a crack dated 01/99. 1995 - Enzo and his bbs 'SKY TOWER' was busted at the end of october. Enzo was known for having lots of payleechers, as well as selling streamer tapes and cd's with stuff... After first announcing he would leave the scene, he reconsidered and finally built up his board again. We guess he will be more careful in the future :) Hellwalkers ----------- ???> The Fly (ex Sepultura, new UPS10). Hemoroids (HMD, 1992-) ---------------------- FRA> AJT (early93), Axel (ex Ozone, new early93), Bigm (ex Willow, new RAW4), Ghost Penguin (early93), Gryzor (code, ex Dreamdealers, new 08/92), Orcus (ex Ozone, new early93), Sam (early93), Spock (early93), STC (ex Willow, new RAW4). Hemoroids were formed late 92 by ex members of Quartz france. When Ozone died late 92 or early 93, all their members joined Hemoroids. Later (93), Ozone was reformed with members from Hemoroids :-) Gryzor is the identical to the guy who later coded Pro-Wizard and made the cool "MODs Anthology" CDs! Endless Melodies (Musicdisk). code: Gryzor, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: My regular contributor _SoLo_ tells me this musicdisk is 'cool' :) Heresy ------ ITA> MetalbasheR (ascii sysop 'STRANGE LAND', 09/92), Phoenix (trade). ???> Bruce Lee (crack, 09/92), Reflex (code, 09/92), Roger (code, 09/92). Boards; SHATTERED DREAMS (usa, 09/92), TRANSFER STATION (usa, 09/92), FINAL FRONTIER (ger, 09/92). Heresy once released the 'Italian Charts' (early93). Their Italian modemtrader Phoenix is female, as revealed in R.A.W #5. Holgi, sysop of 'INVISIBLE CRIME', joined Agnostic Front. Crackintro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Roger, gfx: n/a (ansi), music: "Brocken-Clock" by Reflex (4ch MOD format). review: Pretty bog-standard ascii-and-chiptune intro, with a grey background. Used for the trainer for Diabolik [15-09-92], done by Bruce Lee. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Heretic ------- Delirium (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 10th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Hijack ------ SWE> Core (ex Strange), Crayone, Tony (gfx, ex Strange, later Razor 1911). Hijack was formed by Core and Tony (both ex Strange). However, STD10 claimed Core and Crayone joined Noxious from Strange, and doesn't mention this crew at all! Hirmu ----- FIN> Braindead (swap), CJack (Teemu Litti, code, 08/94). ???> Deadlock (code, 08/94), Great J (code, 08/94), Maverick (code, 08/94), T42 (music, 08/94). Kampela (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). Code: Cjack, Maverick (additional), Great J (additional), Deadlock (additional), Gfx: none, Music: T42. 4th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Review: I don't know quite how this one managed to make it to fourth at the Assembly, but it did. Nothing outstanding here, with the sole exception of a cool routine where a vector cube bounces sideways into a net consisting of linevectors. Trust me, it looks cool! Four coders and it's still not better than this...'What's Up Doc?' [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hauki (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Hoaxers (HXS) ------------- NOR> Baccalao, Comedian (Morten Eriksen, 10/94), Kalle (gfx music, 04/93), Skurk, The Jerk. ???> Firehawk. Hoaxers were originally a Norwegian C64 group, but I believe some of their old members carried the name over to the Amiga when they converted. Freedom Crack #8 carried the news that 'Elexion are now Hoaxers!'. U-Lyd (1993, 10.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Marius/Panoramic Designs, gfx/music: Kalle. 40k Intro (1994, 03.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Intro Coop Tune" by NHP/Anarchy and Hydra/Devils. 8th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: This small intro has some thoroughly unexciting effects in it, to be frank and brutal. That would have been excusable if they'd brought something new to the effects, but they fail there also. We're given BLOCKY plasma, copper effects (soooo 1989), loose dots (not many!) and a dotscroller. I mean, where have these guys been? These are all effects that were popular back in the old megademo days - late '80s. Considering the fact that the tune is dated february 1992, it's probably a safe assumption that it was ripped from somewhere. The intro contains no credits whatsoever. Based on how it behaves on the two test machines, I'll hazard a guess that it was written on an A1200 with that machine in mind. On the 500 it's slow and flickers in places. Back to the drawing board, guys. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Music bugs a little. Arrrgh! (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). 7th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Honey (HNY, http://uno.canit.se/~qen/honey) <-- or www.canit.se !! ------------------------------------------- NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Abuse and Grotesticle, 06/95-02/96), Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', triplememb Element and FLD [no entry], 01/96). SWE> Qen (music). ???> Beverage (code), Black Line (code trade sysop), Count-Zero (ascii sysop), Dartagnan (ascii), Defect (trade), Diablo (trade sysop), Distler (code sysop), Diz'Nee (trade), Exner (trade), Flea (music), Gann (code), Gozz (ascii), H2O (ascii sysop), Hence (code), Huz (trade), Kurgan (trade), Laz (gfx), Maddox (code), Marduk (trade), Misfit (ascii), Mode (trade), Mozart (trade), Nivek (music), Numen (nor?, 01/96), Outcast (trade), Pad (gfx ascii), Psycho (sysop), Pulse (gfx), Rooster (swap), Scarface (trade ascii), Sham (gfx), Slowrider (trade), Sprocket (trade), Stain (trade), Stylewars (trade sysop), The Cat Killer (trade), Tito (code), U-Man (ascii sysop), Ziz (sysop). 1995 - Acid Kid left around july, and joined Shoot. Honoo ----- FRA> ADN (raytrace swap, 04/97), Alabama (code, 04/97), Black Dragon (Paul Pacheco, org gfx music ascii swap pack "Package", triplememb Limited Edition and Artificial People, 04/97-01/99), Clo! (singer, 04/97), Falcon (raytrace swap trade, 04/97), HP (Henrique Pacheco, org gfx music, triplememb Limited Edition and Artificial People, 04/97), Mag (04/97), Mytholog (music ascii swap, ex Muttonheads, 04/97). Honoo is a France-based demo crew. Surnames and the same adress leads me to believe organizers Black Dragon and HP are brothers. 1997 - French swapper Eagle (04/97) left the group. Bip Bip ended his double membership to be in Fresh only. French musician Mytholog joined from Muttonheads. Amiga Rules! (1997, 25.04, AGA HD File). code: Alabama, gfx: Black Dragon, music: Black Dragon (mix). review: More fun than impressive, AR! sure does have the cutest singing frogs I've ever seen, I'll give it that! As a whole however, it leaves me with a smile on my face but a definitive feeling of being cheated. A demo archive that weighs in at roughly 1.3MB should contain more than some text, a zooming Amiga logo and thee aforementioned frogs. Some of the answer I believe lie in the tune, which is a remixed version of an original tune by 'Scope', a techno artist. I suspect these samples are rather large. Fun, but not worth the download time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nude Part 4 (1997, 14.12, Demo). 5th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Hoodlum (HDL/HLM, 1993-) ------------------------ GER> Angel Dawn (gfx, 11/94), Archon (Stello Dousis, music, 04/93), Autopsy (cards supply editor 'World Charts', ex The Silents, 11/94-03/96), Cougar (sysop 'THE SWITCHBOARD', 02-05/95), Radiosity (sysop 'TERMINAL FUCKUP', 02-05/95), Schwabenpower (03/96). BEL> TCB (sysop 'METAL IMPACT' EHQ, 02-05/95). SWE> Pripps (sysop 'END OF TIME', 01/95). CAN> Kaptain Kaos (sysop 'BIO HAZARD', 02-05/95). USA> Circuit Breaker (sysop 'DIGITAL EXTASY', ex Outlaws), Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 03/96-01/99), Speed Master (sysop 'SANCTUARY' WHQ). ???> 2Fast (supply, 02/95), Antarctic (02/97), Chronos (code train), Colonel (den? 10/95), Cool Shot (sysop), Cypher (org, 03/94), Disque Bleu Radiosity (03/96), Ferox (crack, 05/95), Harmonica (03/96), I.B.M (03/96), Jedi (nor? 08/95), Kamenski (02/97), Lincoln (03/96), Master Five (supply, 03/94), No Limit (ger? 05/95), S.M.M. (trade, 11/94), Snike (sysop TRELLI IKOJENIA' AUHQ, 02/97), T.E.S. (03/96). Boards; THE VOID WHQ (usa, 02-05/95), PIRATES HEAVEN WHQ (usa, 02-05/95), BAD DREAMS (eng, 02-05/95), LOOSING RELIGION (eng), TOTAL PANIC (nor), NEW ORDER (rhq), TOUCHDOWN (ger, 02/95), SUPREMACY (ita, 02-05/95), TREPONEM PAL FHQ. Hoodlum was a mainly pirate-oriented group...as the name indicates :) Chryseis was their demo section. They are also the last known publishers of Autopsy's 'World Charts', releasing at least three issues for Hoodlum. 1996 - Their coder, cracker and coorganizer The Black Cat, starting to feel the heat of the police in his neck, 'faked his own death' by stating in a cracktro released early this year that he had died of a drug overdose. World Charts #13 (1994, .11, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: Angel Dawn, Phase (logo), music: Hi-Lite. review: This issue of WC opens with an atmospheric intro, set to strings and ritualistic drums. Slowly the words WORLD CHARTS appear onto the screen, before the inital music ades down to give room to some hard techno coupled with some graphically excellent environmental-friendly intitiatives... =) The thing itself is pretty much the same as always, though I do miss all the great graphics - a new pic for every category - of older incarnations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Trainer Menu (1993, .04, ECS Intro). code: The Black Cat, gfx: n/a, music: "Warhawk" by Archon (Delta Music 2.0 format). review: Quite nice really, though mostly for the fabulous chiptune - a conversion of the music for the c64 game "Warhawk". Cool! The entire intro is done in shades of blue and black, and at the top of the screen is a mediocre blue Hoodlum logo. Then the middle is occupied with the trainer options, and the bottom part has two scrollers. That font sure is familiar, back from the c64 days, even though I can't really name it as such :) Cool music! The release date was identified by text in the binary itself. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Horizon (HZ) [real] ------------------- SWE> Badger (Daniel Stenberg), Boogaloo (Linus Nielsen, code), Exilon (Jörgen Gustavsson, code), Judge (ex Fairlight, new early90), Pernod (Daniel Larsson, gfx, ex Fairlight, new early90), Kjer (Kjell Ericson), Mastermind (Nicklas Ulvnäs), Zagor (Björn Stenberg). There were two Horizon's, both of which existed around the same time. HZ real was the original Horizon, coming from the C64, while the others were the cracker and demo group that a.o. had Gaston cracking for them. Diffrentiating the two is made further difficult by the fact that they were both based in Sweden :) Virtual Intelligence (1991, ECS File). code: Boogaloo, Exilon, gfx: Pernod, music: Tomas Danko Jr. review: This HZ demo shows some technically competent coders doing advanced stuff with vectors. Unfortunately, it's not really very entertaining. There's lots of (for its time) innovative stuff here, but it falls into that old effect-text-effect trap. Sometimes, it works (like in The Silents' "Global Trash"). Most of the time, though, it doesn't. Some of the stuff you get to see is texturemapping, animated texture- mapping, sphere vectors... You get the picture. The music is adequate, though - but then again it should be, when it's by Danko! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Horizon (HZ) [amiga] -------------------- SWE> Bryce?/Raistlin? (music sysop 'MAINFRAME' EHQ, 10-12/90), Galactus (code), Ric (12/90), Striper (gfx, 12/90), Shuriken (code, 12/90). ENG> Splatt! (sysop 'SPLATTER HOUSE', ex Classic, new late90). ???> Citizen, Cyber, Kapten Data, Link (90), Rebel, Stranger (ex Adept, new late90), Web (supply), Zipp. There were two Horizon's, both of which existed around the same time. HZ real was the original Horizon, coming from the C64, while the others were the cracker and demo group that a.o. had Gaston cracking for them. Diffrentiating the two is made further difficult by the fact that they were both based in Sweden :) Swedish coder Galactus left to write SEGA Megadrive games for Electronic Arts in the USA in the late part of 1990! Swedish Link (ex The Silents) left the scene. Swedish Coke was busted late 90! Swedish supercracker Gaston (04-09/90) joined Sprint when Horizon's original supply died. Megademo (ECS Megademo).  Sleeping Bag (1990, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Shuriken, gfx: Striper, music: "Made" by Blaizer/The Silents, "Jarre" by Bryce. Released for The Party 91 demo competition. review: This fails to work on my A1200, and it's hard to classify something you haven't seen :) Blaizer's tune is great, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Won't work. Hotline (HTL) ------------- Dutch graphician Lowlife joined Axis new. Yonex, sysop 'BRAIN FOREST' joined LSD early 92. Humane (HMN, 1993-) ------------------- FIN> Blazer (93), Garbitch (93), Jaws (sysop 'CYCLONE CENTER', 04/95), Necrarch (sysop 'THRONE CHAMBER', 04/95). Stezotehique (93). DEN> Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE'), R-Some (sysop 'THE EDGE OF HEAVEN'), Striker (sysop 'EVIL DEAD', 04/95). ???> Chet (code, 08/93), Dune (music, 08/93), Rastamom (music, 08/94), Rice (gfx, 08/93), Sleepwalker (gfx, 08/93-08/94), Wearoz (gfx, 08/94), Why.j (code, 08/94), Xender (code, 08/94), Humane was formed in 1993 by ex-Regency members (fin) together with some Danish group. They now seem to exist in coomperation with Vanity, under the name Humane Vanity. Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Chet, gfx: Rice, Sleepwalker, music: Dune. 10th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Sleepless (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). 13th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. info: Cooperation with Vanity. Spoiled (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Xender, Why.j, gfx: Sleepwalker, Wearoz, music: Rastamom. 11th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Again nice design, and this time even some content. The winner here is a fast but simple lightsourced voxel routine. The text screens are accompanied by a plasma interference thing that also looks quite OK. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Humane Vanity ------------- FIN> Frost (trade, 03/94), G.O.D (trade, 03/94), Klutz (trade, 03/94), Lunatic (trade, 03/94), Rastaman (trade, 03/94), Recycler (trade, 03/94), Stz & Kid (traders, 03/94), Zeff (trade, 03/94). Humanoids (-1990) ----------------- ???> Nimitz (ex Tat, new 05/90). Humanoids died after the group merged with members of Arcadia (earlier Arcadia Team) to create the new group Scope. Humans ------ DEN> Gilthanas (sysop 'WAREZ UNLIMITED', 01-04/95). Humbugs ------- ???> Lord Lech (org code swap), Mynok (sysop, new 06/96), Plasma (org gfx ascii swap), Raz Van Op (music). Raytracer Immortal got kicked 06/96. Hurricane (-1992) ----------------- Hurricane was a Danish demo group. After arranging the large but disastrous Hurrican Summer Party 92, the group's reputation was shattered. They therefore decided to split up and go their separate ways (this concerns Brian ++). Profile left to be independent 08/92. Trax changed his handle to Summelove and left 08/92. Hybrid (HYB) ------------ ???> Hoson (usa? 10/94). Hydronic (1991-1991) -------------------- Formed by R.W.O, S.L.L (who both were in Rebels for 14 days after Kefrens died) and 4 other ex-Kefrens guys. However, Hydronic soon became the new Kefrens. Guardian Dragon was originally developed for Hydronic. Hyperion -------- Hyperion were a Swedish-English illegal cracking group. Gaston (ex Sprint) joined Fairlight. Hypnos (HPS) ------------ FRA> Gremlins (Oliver Lefillatre, org gfx, 04/93), Maki Swapper (Sylvestre Seguin, swap, early93). ???> Factor X (new early93), Shad (new early93), Sky (ex Intense, new early93). Hypnosis -------- SWE> Lurrky, Schizo, Zune (swap). ???> Azid Baron, Trinity. Swedes Dee-Jay (music), Rocket and Trinity (Westwood?) joined Aurora in december of 1991. Don Martin Musakdisk (1990, 07.01, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Hypnotic -------- GER> Aggressor (ex EOC1999, new mid91). ???> Jayce (ex EOC1999, new mid91), Messias (ex EOC1999, new mid91). Apollo joined Awesome. Buzzard joined Damian 09/92. German Massive joined Vanish. Zycro joined End of Century 1999 or Subzero 08/92 (Eurochart #16). Mercy joined Amaze (RAW2). Hysteric (HTC) -------------- GER> Fireball (swap, 09/92). ???> Mr.Mister (music, 12/94), Ravage (music, 12/94). German swapper TNM joined Contrast. ICE (1992-) ----------- NOR> Purple Haze (swap, 93). GER> Judge (Sebastian Hartmann, music). ICE was formed by the four Norwegian ex-LSD members Howard (music), Nash (music), Archie (code) and Alien (code). These four would later move on to join Legend, which probably meant the end of the group. There was also a german section based out of the city of Bremen. The group (or the section?) vanished after a cooperation with the group The Dark Demon. Thanks to Judge for some information. Songbook #9 (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Judge, Bulldog. info: Dosloaded, 5 tunes. Ignominy -------- SWE> Eagleman and Zahdok (sysops 'SERIAL ACCESS', 01/95). Illusion (ILS, 1993-1993) ------------------------- SWE> Hammer (org code, later Razor 1911, 11/93), Lawnmowerman (sysop 'G-FORCE' WHQ, 11/93), Lionheart (swap, ex Circle), Nassjo (3dgfx, old handle Oden), Odeon (org code, 11/93), Paladin (code), PGL (gfx swap, ex Noxious, 11/93), (music, ex Circle, later Razor 1911, 11/93), Sate (ascii trade), Schizo (Olle Jonsson, founder swap, ex Alcatraz), Sine (gfx 3d, 11/93), Some1 (music, ex Circle, later Razor 1911, 11/93). Boards; BUNKER 808 (swe), POINT ZERO (swe). Illusion was a shortlived all-swedish group formed by Colorbird and Schitzo from Alcatraz in the middle of 1993. The group died towards the late part of the year after the release of their promising "Waterproof" [11/93] demo. Colorbird decided to reform the group Razor 1911, and after a while most of the members of Illusion also wound up in that group. There are/were at least three different groups called Illusion. Propaganda #2 (1993, Diskmag). info: AGA needs to be disabled on A1200's. Waterproof (1993, .11, ECS Trackmo). code: Colorbird, Hammer, Odeon, gfx: Sine, PGL, music: "Coffeine_Dream.." and "Chipjazz_Ver2" by Some1 & Prime (4ch MOD format). review: Not bad this demo from the mostly later new Razor 1911 members. The (techno) music's suitably groovy, some effects are cool, and the graphics are functional... It leaves you with a general feeling of being slightly above average. On the A1200, it recognizes the faster processor, but claims I'm running with an ECS chipset :) Anyway, all effects are stonkingly fast on the 030. Compatibility rules... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Illusion (ILS) -------------- ???> The Angel (ex Legend). There are/were at least three (!) different Illusion's. Pepe and Moody joined TRSI. Jet joined Grace. Illusion (ILS) -------------- GER> Aweson (Marc Balzig, mainorg swap, 08/95), Ben.E (gfx), Dragonfly (code), Odin (Benc Orpak, gfx, 11/96), P.O.W.L. (music, ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Punk (ascii swap trade), Ramirez (org sysopWHQ), Splash (edit swap), Stone (trade, ex Matrix and Riot), Titus (gfx). POL> Darek (edit 'Silesia'), Ismal (code, 08/95), Niuniek (code, 11/96), QBA (Jakub Pienkowski, swap), Rych (gfx, 08/95), Rygar (gfx, 08/95), Sodom (code), Spiryt (music), Stan (swap, 08/95), The King (swap pack 'Use Your Illusion', late95), Trastor (swap), Verox (org code), Wayne (gfx), Wild (code, 08/95), Yasiu (org sysop). ???> Axel-D (08/95), Gonzo (ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Maxx (ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Meeku (code), Mr.C (music), Mystic (08/95). Boards; ENDLESS PAIN (ger), EVIL MOON (ger). Illusion was a German/Polish demo group. Most of the member information above is from a memberlist in Haujobb's "Friendchip #1" [12/96] diskmag. There are/were three different groups called Illusion. 1996 - Haujobb's "Friendchip #1" [12/96] reported that Lenny Dee joined Artwork, but only a few days later decided to leave the scene. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that germans Evrimsson (music, 11/96) and Grace (code, 11/96) both left to join Crux Design, that germans Acryl (gfx, triplememb Acme and Session, 12/96), Cyclone (gfx, 07/96) and Jazz (music) left, and that polish MTC (music, 08/95) joined Erotic Design. Cyclone joined Abyss 10/96. He did graphics for the Haujobb demo "Burning Chrome" [07/96] while still in Illusion. Unsorted Ideas (1994, 13.11, Demo). 8th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Stratosfear (1995, Slideshow). information: In their intro "Ace" [08/95] they warn against using both mousebuttons in this slide...  Ace (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Imsal, gfx: Rych, music: MTC. Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: This opens good, with promising design and some lines flying at us...then they have to spoil it all by holding onto the effect WAY too long :( The rest of the few effects are quickly over once it gets going, and you're left with a feeling of 'is that all?' Different pacing could perhaps have given this a lot. The 80 face mirrored vector object and the man's outline walking across the logo are still moments of niceness though. The music is good, and Rych's "Ace" logo is not bad either. Conclusion: shows a lot of potential, but will need a little time to bring it to the surface. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.  Walhalla (1996, 03.11, AGA HD File Slideshow). code: Grace, gfx: Odin, music: Evrimsson. Released at Saturne IV. review: Walhalla bears every mark of a production released too early. The code contains bugs (fucked up Walhalla logo), and there are other mistakes (one of the thumbnails does not correspond with the actual picture). Speaking about the pictures themselves, I must say that Odin was perhaps not ready to helm his first slideshow. My advice would have been to wait a few months, and make a few more pictures, then release your BEST work on ONE disk. As it stands, there are three rather ok pictures here, and the rest is not really up to an acceptable standard. Odin needs to work a little more with his technique and his anatomy studies. Some of your women look a little strange :) Still, there are some glimpses of what might become something... Keep practising. Evrimsson's module is not bad, and the code is almost nonexistant. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kup pEntiuma (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Niuniek, gfx: none, music: Szaza. 4th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Short, and basically made for fun, this little 4k'er doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. There's some gameboy graphics, a small fire effect with the three letters ILS, and that's it. The title is in Polish, and means 'Buy a Pentium'! Though the intro credits a musician, no music ever appeared on my machine. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Virtual Illusion (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Niuniek, gfx: none, music: none. 3rd in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Considerably more serious than Niuniek's other entry in the 4k competition, "Virtual Illusion" is actually pretty decent. There's even phong objects in there, along with some fairly decent design. I like it, but it's not going to change the world. What more's there to say? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Image (IMG, 1990-) ------------------ FIN> Der HM (gfx swap, ex Gate, later Complex, new 06/90), Jarnis (sysop 'NIGHT SHIFT', old handle Stranger, 07/91-02/92), Cool J (code, ex Unique), Neuron (sysop 'NO MAN'S LAND', 07/91-02/92), Tap (trade, ex Exodus, 03/93). ???> Beeki (code, 02/92), Blacktiger, Frog (ex Darkside), Starlight (import). Boards; PIRATE'S COVE WHQ (fin, 06-07/90). Image was a mostly Finnish demo and cracking group formed by the groups Exodus and Unique together with members of Complex and Gate at the end of june 1990. They at one time had the only pirate board in Finland (PIRATE'S COVE). They were also a little active on the consoles. 1990 - They lost some of their most talented members around 07/90, when finns Sulky Fellow (code), Drifter (gfx), Delorean (music), Unknown Artist (gfx) and Ripper left to form a new group called Vertigo. They were joined by Apache late in the year, around november. Finnish musician Captain joined Frantic. He won the music competition at the Gathering'91 party in Finland while still in Image. Dangermouse, sysop, joined Supplex. A news item in Sledge Hammer #11 named the group Imagine instead of Image, perhaps causing some confusion. I\m pretty sure this is the group. Image Dreams (ID) ----------------- Dim Screams (1997, 05.07, 64k Intro). Released for the Kindergarden 97 64k intro competition. Imagine (1990-). ---------------- SWE> Amigaspirit (sysop 'ACE OF SPADES'), Rag (sysop 'CYBERTOWN' reopened 12/94, 12/94-01/95), Zero (sysop 'ELITE 7'). Imagine was formed at the Magnetic Fields Copy Party, 27.10 1990, according to Cracker Journal #23. Impact ------ SWE> Goozer. BEL> Cruel. CAN> Glacier (sysop 'ICE FLOW NORTH'). USA> Shaolin (sysop 'DOUBLE IMPACT', 04/95). ???> C-Quence (music, 12/93), Q-bitus (swap trade, new mid93), JMS (gfx, new mid93), Sensei (swap, new mid 93), Xan (swap trade, new mid93). Sense joined Savage. Quence joined Iris. Stranger and Cockroach (code swap, new mid 93) joined Analog. Virtual Harmony (1994 or pre, Music). Impact DK (-1994) ----------------- DEN> Chronic (music), Fazion (Jon Frydensbjerg, code, later Puzzle, 12/94), Flow (gfx, 12/93-12/94), Guevara (gfx, 12/94), Izi (raytrace, 12/94), J.S.L (Jeppe Schmidt, code, 12/94), Manchild (code, 12/94), Quayle (music, 12/94), The Black Lord (sysop, 12/94), The Mogwai (gfx, 12/94), The Priest (Uffe Hansen, code, 12/94), Unison (Nicklas Schmidt, music, earlier Rebels, 12/93-12/94), Zip (code, 12/94). Impact DK existed for years, steadily producing excellent demos, but never quite breaking through. ROM #9 reported that they had now officially left the Amiga for the PC scene. Danish coder Nigel left to form Amaze Design late 97 with Misery/Insane. Futuristic Mind (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: The Priest, Jsl, Fazion, gfx: Guevara, Izi, music: Quayle. 18th in The Party 93 demo competition. In a World of ASCII (1994, 27.12, ECS File). code: The Priest, Fazion, Zip, gfx: Morph/independent (ascii), Flow (font), music: "Ugle-Amok-Party" and "64er-Ugle-End" by Unison (Tracker Packer 3.1 format). 13th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Cool! If you're a fan of scene ascii art, this demo is certainly one you'd want to download. Some traditional effects have been re-done here, in an AmigaDOS window and with ascii chars... Or perhaps not. I can't quite shake the feeling that the DOS part is just as fake as the one in Andromeda's "D.O.S" [04/92]. You can't backdrop or resize the window in any way, hmm... Well, what can I say? Morph's a fine ascii artist, the coding is clever, and the music is rather cool...DOWNLOAD! [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. -- Note: Not enough mem! A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vi Har Spist Chocoladen (1995, late, 4k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: none, music: none. review: Impact has squeezed a lot out of their 4k with this one! It opens with an IMPACT pattern that moves :), then goes on to some interference. Next is a nice routine, in which a line vector 'cube' mutates quite heavily as it crashes into the walls of the 4 walls it's confined to. Next up is postage stamp-size, SLOW fractal zoomer and then a fake ending leads up to the final effect - three different keftales animations on a single screen and the text 'IMPACT DK - VI HAR SPIST CHOCOLADEN' (hence the name!). I have no idea where this was entered in a competition :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Tag (1996, 06.07, Demo). 6th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Impact Inc. (1987-). -------------------- Originally a C64 group that started an Amiga section in 1987, Impact Inc. will probably go down in history as the first ever group to house later legendary musician Moby from 1987 to 1989, when he left to join Apology. 2nd Demo (1988, 03.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Vectorballs (1990, .03, ECS Demo). Imperium -------- FIN> Al (trade, 03/94), Albert (trade, 03-08/94), Charger (trade, 03/94), JMF (trade, 03-08/94), Jol005X (music, 08/94), Outlaw (code, 08/94), Palex (03-08/94), ScE (trade, 03/94), T.O.B (trade, 03/94), Tormentor (trade, 03/94). ???> Hude (08/94), Thor (08/94), Top (08/94). Intro (1994, 06.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Outlaw, gfx: Reward/Complex (first part fonts), music: Jol005X. 16th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Not bad at all! The best effect here is a smashing-looking texturemapped cube with a tiger on it and a great lightsource effect. The music's not the worst either. A middle of the tree intro. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Implosion --------- ???> Vga (music, 12/92). B'cos (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). 23rd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Impulse (IMS, 1992-1997) ------------------------ HUN> Gato (swap, ex Steroid, new 08/96-97), Jazz (music, 96), Melomaniac (music, 03-04/93), Mr.Pixel (gfx music, 12/92-97), Thomas (gfx, doublememb Amnesty Design, 01/96). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: HUN> 3dent (code, 92-93), Charlie (code, 92-95), Chef (code, 12/92-92), Dr.Victor (music, 92-94), Kobor (code, 92-94), Matula (gfx, 93-95), Messerschmitt (swap, 93-94), Neptune (gfx, 92-93), Seal (raytrace, 92-93), Sir Damys (code, 92-94), Sir Henry (music, 93-94). NOR> Absent (music, ex Atomic, 93-94), Elmore (gfx, 93-94), Heatseeker (swap, 93-94), Highlight (swap music, 93-94), Jim (gfx, 93-94), Johnny (code, 93-94), Urchin (swap, 93-94), Vulture (gfx, 93-94). ENG> Ape (music, 93-94), Madman (trade, 93-94), Mushwacker (code, 93-94), Strobe (org sysop, 93-94). SPA> Incubus (code, 93-94), Warlord (swap, 92-94). TUR> Blaze (swap, 92-93). ITA> Wizard (code, 93-94). ???> Lado (code, 12/92-93), Readysoft (code, 12/92). Boards; SHINING CHROME (ahq). Impulse was born in october 1992 on the initiative of Mr.Pixel, on the ashes of the Hungarian Fi-Re Crew. Among the first members were also EFT and Rendall. Their first two productions were both released in december, "First Intro" (at Bash 3) and "Welcome Intro". 1993 - In 1993, new members joined in Norway, Sweden, UK, Italy, Spain and Austria. A few intros were released, but all other divisions soon became inactive, and by the end of 1994, they were all gone. Their first non-intro production was released at the Southern Party 93, the combined slideshow and musicdisk "Art & Go" [07/93]. 1994 - A year of silence followed, before Mr.Pixel, the only remaining original member, put together the Hungarian-only configuration that would be the crew until their death in 1997. The only thing to get released in 94 was the "Alive" [03/94] file demo at Cache. EFT released the game "Reunion" through Grand Slam. 1995 - They released the "Scenest Invitation" (a party for which they were coarrangers) in march, and that was all that got released this year. The party itself was held in may. They worked hard on releasing their demo "Voyage In Storm" for The Party 95, but it proved impossible. EFT released the game "Super Street Fighter II Turbo" for GameTek. 1996 - After the disappointment of not being able to release "Voyage In Storm" [01/96] at The Party, they simply released it anyway in january, out of party. The demo was a huge success, but not as big as their second demo of the year, "Muscles" [08/96]! An enclosed news file for the demo announced that Gato (swap) had joined, that Beast (gfx) had joined from Majic 12 and that Psycho (sysop) and S.L.O (raytrace) were kicked. 1997 - The group died in july after releasing their final two intros, "Kenguru v1.0" [03/97, Symposium 97] and "Kenguru v2.0" [04/97, Scenest 97]. The reasons were many, but among them were Rendall's leaving for Mystic, and Mr.Pixel, Gato, S.L.O and Norby's inactivity on the amiga. EFT (code), Beast (gfx, new 08/96), Soldier (03/97) and Lord (sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', 08/96) formed a new group called Kangooroo. Hungarian graphician Rendall left to join Mystic in 97. Rendall is not only one of the best Hungarian painters (along with Beast), but also one of the original members of Impulse, having been a member since 1992. Impulse was his first scene group. Hungarian raytracer Norby (08/96) left the scene late 96. Italian swapper Device (93-94) joined Surprise! Productions. First Intro (1992, 18.12, ECS Intro/File). code: Lado, Chef, Readysoft, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Magnum 755/Moonlight Studios. Released at the Bash 3 Party. Welcome Intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Sir Damys, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Dr.Victor. Trackmo (1993, 04.01, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sir Damys, Lado, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Jester/Sanity. Released for the Hammering 93 40k intro competition. Cube Intro (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Lado, EFT, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Loonstar/Design. info: Released outside of a party. Pack Intro (1993, summer, Intro). code: Charlie, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Sir Henry. Art & Go (1993, 25.07, Slideshow/musicdisk). code: Sir Damys, gfx: Rendall, Mr.Pixel, music: Sir Henry. Released at the Southern Party 93. Alive (1994, .03, File). code: EFT, Charlie, Pimpa, gfx: Rendall, Matula, Mr.Pixel, music: Dr.Victor. Scenest Invitation (1995, .03, Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Mr.Pixel, SLO, music: Mr.Pixel. Voyage In Storm (1996, early.01, AGA 2MB Multifile). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Thomas/Amnesty (titlepic), SLO (raytrace), music: Mr.Pixel. Released at Misc 96...? review: Surprise of the year! I came in expecting nothing, and was blown away! The demo opens with an introduction picture by Thomas. The picture is excellent, and features a bridge ascending into the skies. Then the music starts, and we get a texturemapped Impulse logo followed by three drawn logos, VOYAGE - IN - STORM. Next up is a vector cube with a ripple effect texture-mapped to each of the sides, which soon changes to rotating pictures. Next up is a cool Impulse logo, with a phonged torus in front. Then there's credits, timed to the music, before we're taken on a ride through an amazingly fast tunnel texturemapped. About halfway through, the music changes from techno to a more mellow kind of tune, and a dot-cube is added to the middle of the screen. We're then treated to another phonged object before a raytraced picture. What comes next only last for about 3 seconds, but is one of the most amazing pieces in the demo! It's a brief travel thru space, with planets and stuff... GREAT! Then, we're on to one of the best voxel routines I have ever seen! It's 1x1, smooth, with a great, blue sky. After a while, they add some raytraced chinese characters scrolling up on the left hand side of the screen (beating Andromeda's 'raytraced scroller' in "Nexus 7" (12/94) easily!), and FEMALE VOCALS TO THE MUSIC! The experience is really awesome, and I had to turn off my stereo and watch the demo a second time to be sure I had heard correctly. Then we're shown a GREAT dragon-and- sorcerer picture by Rendall, and another raytraced pic, with wine glasses and the cool Impulse logo from before. Then, finally, we reached the endpart... It's got a ripple effect very similar to the one on the cube in the beginning - only fullscreen - and an up-scroller for messages and creds. What is best about the endpart, though, is the music. It's a sort of folk-tune with a flute, and a great piece of melody. Throughout the demo, Mr.Pixel's music is always functional - and in places excellent. You'd be mad not to download this - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Now go away - I'm gonna turn down the lights and watch it JUST ONE MORE TIME... Please be advised that the review refers to the version with the fixed mainfile found in STORMFIX.LHA on AmiNet. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Muscles (1996, 31.08, AGA 4MB HD Demo). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Beast (fish pic), Soldier (objects), Mezon (objects), Norby (trace), music: Slyspy. Winner of the Intel Outside 3 demo competition! review: "Muscles". Oh yes, if there's anything this demo has lots of, then it's just "Muscles"! Brimming from end to end with smooth, powerful effects, fabulous graphics and a catchy techno soundtrack, this one's just SO close to perfect... The effects are imaginative, goodlooking and not least FAST! Design is another strong point, with design elements that never get in the way of the action, and near perfect blending between coding and bitmap graphics. The env and phong routines here also deserve a special mention, with LARGE objects that look absolutely gorgeous. Do I really need to go on? In an unusually strong year for demos, "Muscles" is certainly among the top 3 of the year. Beast's fullscreen picture is "Fish" (3rd at Assembly that that year), while Rendall's is "Useless To Run Bitch" (9th at Assembly that year). The demo was released simultaneously to the IO party and the AntIQ party in Hungary. The demo works on any 020+ machine, but 030-50 or faster is recommended. An enclosed text file of news announced that Gato (swap) had joined, that Beast (gfx) had joined from Majic 12 and that Psycho and S.L.O were kicked. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 and 3.1. Three (1996, 16.11, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Soldier (objects), music: Jazz. Winner of the Convention 1996 64k intro competition! info: The info text says it's tested only on an 8mb fast machine. I guess I've confirmed that's what it needs :( GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Not enough memory. Kenguru v1.0 (1997, 30.03, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Soldier, music: Melomaniac. 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Kenguru v2.0 (1997, 05.04, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Solider, music: Melomaniac. Winner of the Scenest 97 64k intro competition. Impurity -------- ???> Rage (re-Dazzle mid 91), Silk (re-Dazzle mid 91). IMP-666 ------- NOR> Lord Asssassin (Jarle Pedersen), Mean Spirit, Savage, The Wraight. ???> Grim Jack. IMP-666 is an old Norwegian group, who among other things helped arrange several parties in the old days. Infect (IFT, 1992-) ------------------- GER> Beathoven (music, 11/92-late96), Buckly (founder gfx, ex Deffpaccers [no entry], new 09/92-late96), Coach (code, late96), DJ Mellow Noise (music), Dulux (trade gfx), Eksec (Andreas Kuessner, mainorg code music sysop 'VISION THING' EHQ, ex Comedy, 05/93-05/94), Ernie (code, 09/93), Gamekiller (partyhero^clown, ex Cruelty, 09/93), Marley (Mark Leitiger, founder code, 11/92-02/94), Reval (sysop 'LUNATIC ASYLUM', ex Depth, new ROM3), Shadowmaster (sysop 'DIGITAL LINE', 94), Sher (partymemb), Smack (code, 05/94), Spiv (Stephan Schroder, founder mainorg gfx, 11/92-01/97), Turbo (René Trolldenier, code, ex Cruelty, 09/93), Zorro (Sebastian Tretbar, gfx trade pack, 09/93-94). SWE> Dondi (Daniel Andersson, gfx, 09/93), Gryzor (sysop 'OUT OF SPACE', doublememb Duplo, 01/95), Hobbes (Mats Lundqvist, music, Honorary member, 11/92-12/93), Macroman (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', doublememb Therapy, 01/95), MPS (music, ex Utopia, 09/93), The Big Byte (aka TBB, sysop 'TWISTED SOCIETY' EHQ, 94-01/95), Zacco (code, 09/93). HOL> Baby Face (music, ex Skid Row, new PRP4), Jase (honorary memb), Muad'Dib (sysop 'THE UNDISCOVERED', 94), Wizard (org swap pack, 09/93). MAL> Chili (gfx, late96), Dr.Who (org code), Hawk (code), Joker (gfx), LED (code), Tekno Logik (music). NOR> Twilight (music, new RAW6, 12/93). IRE> Khul (ascii edit code). ITA> Device (Gianluca Foglia, swap). ENG> Cel (swap, ex Eclipse new, old handle 8-Ball), Real (ex Eclipse new). USA> Caffeine (sysop 'PSYCHOSIS', 94). ???> Stardust (swe? gfx, 12/93), Timeless (ex Byte Busters). Infect was founded in April 1992 by Spiv and Marley. Turbo and Marley are the authors of famous music ripping tool Exotic Ripper. In addition, Turbo also made the cruncher TurboSpike. Eksec, Smack and Zorro were once in Comedy (92), but I do not know if they all joined directly. 1994 - German members Black Raven (code, 04/94) and SMT (music, 05/93-) both left to join Haujobb 08/94, citing a lack of activity from the other Infect members as a main motivation. Two months later also German sysop Jailer ('THE PRISON' WHQ, 09/93-) joined Haujobb. In an interview in Sardonyx' "SeenPoint #2" [12/95] SMT claims Infect was his first group, which is curious since I have some information that indicates he joined the group from Alpha Flight in may of 1993? Ted, sysop 'DARKNET' got kicked. The Swedish division left to form a new group, called Medicine, probably in the early part of 1994. This concerns at least Morrow (music, 12/93), Lussar'n (code, 12/93), Jammie (gfx swap, ex Diffusion, 09-12/93) and Slime (ex Diffusion, 09/93). New Swedish members eventually joined, creating a new Swedish division. Dutch musician and sysop Bart Simpson ('THE LEECH', 09/93) got kicked. Swedish coder Exidor (ex Diffusion, 09-12/93) joined Razor 1911. Saron (Marcus, ger swap, ex The Special Brothers, new late92), Blue (sysop), Gadget (ger swap), D-Icelord (hol, 09/93) and Snowball got kicked. German musician and editor RokDaZone (ex Destiny, 10/93-95) left the group and the scene early 95. However, he couldn't stay away, and some time later reentered the scene as a member of Artwork. Swedish graphician Ola Thorn (ex Case/Seance, new mid93-09/93) left. The following are no longer members: Axeblade (hol trade sysop, 09/93- 04/94), Burstmode (hol code, 04/94), Nike! (hol trader, 09/93-04/94). Dancing With Eggs (1992?, ECS 1MB Musicdisk). code: Eksec, gfx: Zorro, music: Rokdazone/Destiny. Helter Skelter 2 (1992, 26.11, ECS Musicdisk). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Hobbes, Beathoven. Released at the World of Commodore 92 in Germany. information: Combination of demo and musicdisk. Mad Man's Return (1992, late, Musicdisk). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Hobbes. ExoticRipper 1.99 Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Beathoven. 21st in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Earwig (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: Beathoven, Hobbes, SMT. The Prison BBS Intro (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, Buckly, music: Beathoven, Hobbes. ExoticRipper 2.10 Intro (1993, .03?, ECS Intro). code: Mr.Spiv/Stoneware, Marly, gfx: Spiv, music: n/a. ExoticRipper 2.14 Intro (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: n/a, music: Kelly. Partybox (1993, .04, ECS File). code: Remaerd, gfx: Spiv, Titan/Agnostic Front, Don, Fade One/TRSI, music: Beathoven. Waterlow (1993, .05, Intro). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: SMT. Equation (1993, 05.08, Intro). 2nd in the ECC93 intro competition. Ordeal 40k Intro (1993, .10, ECS 40k Intro). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: Rokdazone. Released at the Ordeal Party in Leipzig, Germany. Last Terror (1993, .11, Musicfile). code: Eksec, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Promotion Demo (1993, 01.12, ECS 1MB CHIP File). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, Buckly, music: RokDaZone, Twilight. BBS Intro (1993, 16.12, ECS Intro). code: Exidor, gfx: Jammie, music: Morrow. Harmadegon (1993, 28.12, AGA Disk). code: Lussar'n, gfx: Stardust, Spiv, Jammie, music: Hobbes. 5th in The Party 93 demo competition. ExoticRipper 2.22 Intro (1994, .03, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: n/a, music: SMT. Released at CeBIT 94. Vision Thing BBS Intro (1994, 30.05, ECS Intro). code: Smack, gfx: n/a, music: Beathoven. info: BBStro for their german board 'VISION THING'. Associate of Arts (1994, mid, ECS File). code: Khul, gfx: Spiv, Sonic/Platin, music: SMT, RokDaZone, Deejay Jones. Cooperation with Associate of Arts (AOA). Do You Believe (1996, 06.11, Demo). Winner of the WOC94 demo competition! Inferno ------- Polish raytracer Amiflash joined Nah-Kolor (ROM9). Infinite Perfection (IP, 1991-1992) ----------------------------------- BEL> Badaman (supply), Gordh (train), Joey Beltram (org modem), Mike (sysop 'WASTE GATE'), Mithrandhir (code gfx). ENG> Akira (supply), Executioner (sysop 'TREASURE ISLAND'), H.I.T. Moonweed (sysop 'FLYING TEAPOT'), Hybrid (sysop 'ULTIMATE DREAM'), Manx (swap trade), Starr (code crack), Xag (code train), Zygor (swap trade). FRA> Alex (supply), Flyspy (code crack), JBG (supply), LouLou (supply), Shocker (supply, ex Agile). GER> Adictor (train modem), Blackcat (crack train), Bob Duncan (sysop 'HILTON PALACE'), Disk Jockey (crack), Marc (crack), Nephilim (sysop 'HEAVENS HELL'), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER' WHQ, ex Skid Row). ITA> Rave (sysop 'LETHAL ZONE'). SWE> Mercy (trade), The Master (sysop 'SLIME CITY'). USA> Gazoo (sysop 'WILD WAREZ'), H.O.S. Of Sorrow (sysop 'CREEPING DEATH'), Leviathan (trade), Rolling Stone (sysop 'DEVILS TRIANGLE'), Winter Mute (sysop 'MARTYRIUM', ex Alpha Flight). ???> Markuz (nor? crack, 92), Mint (gfx). IP was another relatively shortlived cracking/modem group, with some of that scene's best people recruited from groups like Crystal and Skid Row. The news of their birth came in Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's "R.A.W #2" [02/92], and the news of their death in the subsequent "R.A.W #3" [04/92]. Most of the member information is from a memberlist published alongside the news of their birth in RAW 2. After their death, several members (like Norwegian swapper Jaffa) left to form the new Bitstoppers. Technoir was kicked. Infinity -------- ???> Bytor (ex Mystix), Elite (ex Mystix), Jim (ex Mystix), Metallic (ex Mystix). Infinity [eng] (1991-1991) -------------------------- LSD's Grapevine #1 [06/91] reported that the UK division of Paradox had formed Infinity, and that the group shortly after merged with Sepultura, and that the new groups name was simply Sepultura. Infinity [swe] -------------- SWE> Accord (music, ex Vomit, 08/93). Infinity was formed by Deelite, Accord and Diesel from Vomit. However, at The Party 93, Deelite and Diesel joined the new Razor 1911. Incal ----- JamJam (1996, 07.04, Demo). 2nd in the Symposium 96 demo competition. JamJam (1996, 26.05, Demo). Released at Icing 96 (DRG). Incal Inc., The --------------- Zodak joined Vision (WHN1). Incubus ------- FIN> Chaos (Esko Tiainen, swap, early93). Indians ------- BEL> Tomahawk (swap, late91). Industry -------- SWE> Koma (org swap). Swedes Nivek and MRK (gfx, 93) joined Limited Edition (PRP4). Innocence (1995-) ----------------- Innocent was formed by the best members of Black Jack after that group died in late 95. "AddBox" is a production carried on from BJ. Insane (INS) ------------ SWE> Boozer (sysop 'SHADOWZONE', 08/94), Cateye (sysop 'INSIDE OUT', ex Taurus, new PRP4, 09/94-01/95), Cluster (sysop 'INSANITARY' WHQ, 08/94-10/95), Distler (sysop 'THE SLAMMER', later Hardbyte, 08/94), Louie (gfx, later TBL, 12/93-12/95), MAD (Marcus Lenngren, code, 12/93-94), Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE', 08/94), Yaffle (swap, ex C- Lous). FIN> Allah (sysop1 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, 10/95), Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT', 08-10/94), C.I.D (sysop2 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, 10/95), DarkElf (sysop3 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, triplememb TRSI and Hellfire, 10/95-02/96), Deetsay (music, doublememb Panic, 12/93-10/95), K-P (Kari-Pekka Koljonen, code, 10/95), Mici (93), Split (sysop 'A SPLIT SECOND', 93-08/94), TST (93), Zodiac (93), Zombie (trade, 03/94- 10/95). NOR> Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', 10/95-02/96). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW', 10/95). ???> Armour (code, 08/94-10/95), Bigwig (10/95), Braindead (ex Beatless, new late95), CareBear (10/95), Confidence (10/95), Coolorado (10/95), Defect (nor? doublememb Hellfire, 10/95-02/96), Famous'O'Ho (crack, doublememb Jormas, 94), FireFox (music, 12/93-10/95), Groovy Guru (10/95), HiJack (10/95), Hydra (swe? fin? Antti Häyrynen, code, 10/95- 96), Jozef (swe? music, 10/95), Kostek (10/95), Krasnal (10/95), Looby (10/95), Mad Max (10/95), Major-D (08/94), Marx (10/95), Metal (swe? code gfx modem, 12/93-10/95), Morris (gfx, 12/93), Neumann (10/95), NightShade (10/95), Notorious (music), Onyx (10/95), Savage (swe? modem, 10/95), Senile (music, 03-10/95), Sniper (swe? modem, 10/95), UnMad (10/95), Vedder (swe? music, 12/93-12/95), Vostok (10/95). Boards; CHAMELEON EHQ (fin), ASYLUM (swe), SINESTUDIO (fin). 1994 - Some time late this year, INSANITARY took over WHQ status from INTERCHANGE. Hydra is the author of the DayDream bbs system, used to operate many a scene board! Swedish swapper Pace (ex Yela, 09/93) joined Complex late this year. 1995 - Swedish graphician Phase joined from the newly formed Basement late this year, but was kicked within a week. 1996 - Atomic and Insane merged together in april. Swedish coder Blaze left for Session in april or may. 1997 - Danish organizer Misery left the group late this year to form Amaze Design with Nigel/Impact Inc. Lionheart joined Circle. Krustur (code) joined Ram Jam. Raiden joined C-Lous (ROM3). Duffy joined Spoon. According to Propaganda #4, he was first kicked... Metz (sysop) joined Limited Edition. Apocalypse 2 (1993, 05.08). 7th in the ECC93 demo competition. Failure (1993, 05.08, Intro). 6th in the ECC93 intro competition. Eradication (1993, 28.12, ECS Disk). Code: Metal, Gfx: Louie, Music: Firefox, Vedder. 11th in The Party 93 demo competition. Achallamahalla (1993, 28.12, ECS File). Code: Mad, Gfx: Morris, Music: n/a. 13th in The Party 93 demo competition. Meliopolis (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). 9th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Mindfuck (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). 20th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Not bad, especially the zoomrottwistplasma thing is interesting... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Virtual Conspiracy Intro (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). code: Metal, gfx: Louie, Metal, music: Senile. Released for the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro, but unplaced. review: Not terribly interesting, the best thing here comes at the very beginning with the burning vectors. Don't know what else to tell you... It's quite average. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. K-Rauta (1995, 11.06, Demo). 3rd in the Abduction 95 demo competition. Frenzy (1995, 08.10, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Jozef. Winner of the Remedy 95 40k intro competition! Frenzy 100% (1995, 22.10, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Jozef. review: Nicely designed but oh so short is this little winner intro. I guess they made a decision on the 'squaky tune and blocky picture' vs 'short but extremely sweet' dilemma and chose the latter. Not that I'm complaining, I'm all for sweetness! The code's nothing revolutionary, and neither are the graphics or the music. The design is what I guess makes this one any special... This is the 100% version, which is 5k larger than the original 40k competition intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Inside (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Vedder. 33rd in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Objects, objects, objects... No, seriously, "Inside" opens with some credits (as - yes, you've guesse it - shaded objects) fly towards the viewer from various parts of the screen. The background has some sort of colorcycling effect, but it doesn't look too good. Everything here seems to use some kind of smoothing, which looks perhaps a little like what Virtual Dreams used in "242", only smoother. Short is ok if it's also sweet, but this isn't, really. It's more of an aftertaste thing :) This is not terribly interesting, but didn't really deserve to end up dead last either... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Insanity [australia] -------------------- AUS> Aitken, Birdzone (ex Byterapers Inc.), Boner, Bullet, Cool Lat, Jaffa, Jorren, Leviathan, Mogwai (ex Byterapers Inc.), Syphan, The Control (ex Byterapers Inc.). There were at least two other Insanity groups, from Denmark and Norway, but they had nothing to do with each other. Insanity [denmark] (1991-) -------------------------- DEN> Hille (Thomas Hillebrandt, music swap, ex Z.A.P/Byte Busters, 12/93- 07/96), NME (Tue B. Petersen, mainorg gfx swap, old handle N.N.), RAW (Finn Nielsen, code swap), RFC (Rune Friis Clausen, gfx swap). Insanity was formed by N.N (later NME), RAW and RFC in 1991 or 1992 (noone really remembers, Hille told me =D), and was a purely danish group. They were part of the demoscene, but never really released anything except small tools. There were at least two other Insanity groups, from Australia and Norway, but they had nothing to do with each other. The group is now in hibernate mode, with no members still active on the scene, but with an option to perhaps return one day... Thanks to Hille for information! 1993 - At the end of december, Hille finished on a disappointing 23rd position in The Party music competition with his song "Rubber Computer". 1996 - At the South Sealand party in july, Hille finished 17th in the music competition with his module "Fede Fisk I Flasken". Insanity [norway] (-1989) ------------------------- Insanity was a norwegian swapping group, who ceased to exist in 1989 when they merged with Magic Circle to create a new group called Ivory. In-Sect ------- ???> Bionic (code, 12/95), Ledge (code, 12/95), Maxty (music, 12/95), W rax (raytrace, 12/95). The Party 5 Intro (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). Code: Bionic, Gfx: Ledge (objects), Pixie/Polka Brothers (pic), Music: Maytz. 25th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. Review: After the intro sequence, with a static guraud shaded face object, we quickly move on to a voxelspace routine. This is one of the most simple ones I've seen, and not remarkable in any way. The rest of the intro features a lot of gouraud shading, and not much else. Don't these people realise that "G-Force" was the final word in gouraud? Granted, I do not think I've seen a gouraud glenz - before or after - but the fact remains that it's not all that interesting anymore... Pixie's contribution comes in the form of a small picture of a screaming face trying to break free of something, sort of pressing its face off a platform. It's one of Pixie's better pictures. The highlight comes at the end though, with a little humorous (not to mention gouraud shaded) Intel Outside logo spinning... One major drawback about this intro is the unimaginative use of color; everything's in shades of blue or shades of brown. Perhaps these guys should consider recruiting a graphician to do their design? The spelling of this group's name is not consistent through the intro; they use both In-Sect and Insect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Instinct -------- NOR> 4-Play (sysop 'DARK DISASTER', 05/97), Chauple (code, doublememb Contraz [details], 10/97), Chris (trade, 10/97), Fenriz (code, 10/97), Enigmus Hammer (music, 10/97), Firestarter (Raymond Hedum, swap, 10-11/97), Hellrazor (code swap, ex EMS Design, 10/97), Ice (gfx, 10/97), Mental (swap, 10/97), Mr.X (Morten Bolstad, code, doublememb Giants, 10-11/97), Psycho (Erling Løken Andersen, org gfx ascii, ex Apathy, 10-11/97), Punisher (Jonas O'Brien, mainorg swap, ex EMS Design, new late97-11/97), Radiance (music, 10/97), Squid (gfx, 10/97), Subgod (code swap, 10/97), Tentacle (Klaus Arne Kuhr, gfx music, doublememb Apathy, 10-11/97), Tranceplant (music ascii, 10/97), Viper (swap, 10/97), Whooper (gfx ascii trade, 10/97). POL> Cook (swap ascii, ex Define doublememb, 11/97). N Z> Damnation (doublememb Digital Corruption). DEN> Receiver (Kresten Jensen, swap raytrace, ex Limited Edition, new late97). ENG> Carp (swap, new 10/97). ???> Duck-Hunter (ex XFactor, new late97), Lobo (ex XFactor, new late97), Wiseguy (swap sysop, new late97). Instinct was born as a Norwegian demo group, probably around the beginning of 1997. Their leader is Punisher. In addition to their diskmag "Retro" they also produced the Norwegian charts, "NorskToppen". 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Hellrazor joined from EMS Design, that norwegian Chauple (code) doublejoined from Contraz, that norwegian Fenriz (code) doublejoined from Rape, In october, Psalt (code) and Romeo left. Danish swapper Receiver joined from Limited Edition. Retro #1 (1997, 15.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Mr.X, Ben Wyatt (additional), gfx: Psycho, music: "Retro.Main", "Retro.Sub" and "Project_R" by Tentacle. review: First impressions are less than great, with some dodgy graphics by Psycho introducing us to the mag. The mag itself doesn't have a stunning interface either, but they also admit this in their editorial, and promise to improve for the next issue. Three pieces of music by the same author is perhaps a little much, some variation could be in order. They do seem to have used the classic "MicroKnight" font, but we will forgive them for now. The code does seem to be functional though, and the mag works fine. No cliparts, scrolling or other fancy effects, but again they promise more for the next issue. Not much to read this time either, but again... This is a mag I expect I will wait for the next issue before I really judge. Noone is really credited as editor, but Psycho seems to be the one doing the most for the mag. Almost certainly released outside a party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Friendship 2 (ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: This intro is marred by bad graphics (except for the cartoon- stuff, which was likely scanned), and an extremely annoying chiptune. The coding here is just subpar, as is the rest of the production. A really lifeless intro. No release date, credits or other useful info appears anywhere inside =[ [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intens ------ DEN> Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE', doublememb Superiors). Intense ------- FRA> Ben (code, late96), D'Jes (code, late96), Doc Manhattan (org code, late96), Ead (music, late96), Elfi (gfx, late96), Erk (music, late96), Fanfan (sysop, late96), Hardfire (Johan Roirand, music swap, doublememb NGC, early95-04/96), Killer (code, late96), LFO Rate (code, late96), MJ Power (gfx, late96), Polo (code, late96), Sledgehammer (swap, late96), Sylicon (mainorg swap, 94-late96), Tourist (code, early93-late96). GER> Mel (gfx, late96), Merlin (code raytrace, late96), Picco (music, late96), Scar (gfx, late96), Tomek (music, late96). FIN> Creep (swap, late96), Floppy (swap, late96), Matt (code, late96). HOL> Fiction (swap, late96), Jan (gfx, late96), Sugar Ray (swap). BEL> Orak (swap trade, late96), Stix (code swap, late96). SWE> Slurry (swap, late96). ???> DJ Maxx (music, 92-early93), Wishbone (music, 12/93). French swapper PLug joined Syndrome late96. Sky joined Hypnos early 93. French swapper Gun (Gagnerot David, 92) and musician Wishbone (12/93) is no longer members. All Spanish members joined Bronx. This includes Cris (trade), Ghost Rider (swap), Husa (gfx), Ironlord (AMOSCode) and Josele (gfx). Frenchmen Adec (Pascual Thierry, swap), Scal (code, early93) and Elf (gfx) left the scene. Sylicon is the new leader (ROM3). Belgian musician Psynomix left for Maximum Overdrive [no entry] (UPS8). Musician Haywire joined Cyanide mid 93. Golden Oldies (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: DJ Maxx (5 tunes). What's Up Doc (1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Dr.Manhattan, gfx: Geist, music: EAD. 3rd in the Saturne Party 93 64k intro competition. Polychrome (1994 or pre, Music). Intentro (1994, mid, ECS Intro). code: Emiel, gfx: Fiction, music: HM/TA. Chips #3 (1994, chippack). Chips #4 (1995, chippack). Intensity --------- ???> AH, Conspirator (crack), Diablo, Goliath, Gu_Ru (music), Hagar, Idea (code), Kool Falco, Lew, MadBoy, Satan, Sebo (supply), Snip3r, Squale, SSMP, Synthetix, Technique, Vigo (gfx). I have seen one single productions from this group, a crack intro for a Polish version of a game, so it's pretty probably that they are based in that part of the world... Interactive (IA, 1992-) ----------------------- GER> Abyss (Carsten Deibert, org code crack music, ex Skid Row, new mid93-12/95), Act (swap, early92), Ali (Guido Eckers, swap, ex Giants, new early93-12/93), Crow (Andreas Glaser, code, 12/95), Cusack (sysop 'CIVIL CRIME' EHQ, 12/93), Dodger (Daniel Koschera bei Lenden, swap pack, 12/93), Laurin (sysop 'LAST CHANCE'), Leander (Paul Heinrich, code crack, ex Skid Row, new mid93-12/95), Lunatic (re-Spreadpoint), Natural Desaster (sysop 'DIGITAL DREAMS' WHQ), Newline (gfx, ex Shining 8, new early93), Redor (Sascha Schaban, music, doublememb Imphobia [pc], 08/93), Stingray, Vamp (music), 666. FIN> Dizzy (code, 93), Wiper (Christer Bjoerkman, swap, 12/93). NOR> Milkshake (Dag R. Rasch, swap, 93). FRA> Gunhead (Berry Slimane, swap, 12/93). USA> Worst Enemy (sysop 'PARADISE' WHQ, 12/93). ???> Big Daddy (music, 12/95), Bluman (sysop -inactive-, 12/95), Exorzist (ex Tremors), Ice-T (sysop 'ICEBERG'), Mariouana (gfx, 12/95), Poet (ger? 12/93), Polaris (gfx swap, ex Tremors), Skyhawk (code -inactive-, 12/95), S.O.M. (music, 08/93), Tripex (08/92), Walker (swap, ex Proline), Wintermute (ger?, gfx, 12/94-12/95). Boards; THRILLER WHQ (ger), GUILD OF THIEVES (ger), RAK A TAK (ger), DRUG SHOP (ger), FUTURE (ger), PALACE (ger), SILENT SCREAM (usa). Interactive is a german group, born by members of Equinox, Coma and others in early 1992. Rumours of their death in White Noise #1 [early 94] seem to exaggerated. I have three different boards all listed as being the WHQ at one time or another. 1992 - German swapper Ghost joined Submission in august. 1993 - Norwegian swapper and trader Razorblade was kicked around the middle of this year, so he joined up with Majic 12. At The Party in december, the group released at least two versions of Dodger's new pack Bouncing Bytes; #2 and #3. Inside, Abyss (who joined mid 93) is quoted as 'whq', perhaps suggesting he took over leadership of the group after he joined? Moomchild and The Trixter joined Surprise! Productions. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Addicts) joined Calibra. Bad Karma joined Deadline. All Giants members joined in Germany! Dance Trance (ECS Musicdisk). Dance Trance 2 (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Bouncing Bytes pacmenu (1993, late, ECS packmenu). code: Leander, Lunatic (additional), gfx: Dodger, music: Abyss, editor: Dodger. review: Well, this menu offers no eyecandy of any kind, just the basics. Upon loading, it presents you with a badly drawn Interactive logo, the choice of some productions in the middle of the screen and a scroller at the bottom. The whole thing unfortunately both looks and feels amateurish. you can press the right mousebutton for a 'magpart', done in the same design and not much better. The text is just the usual, 'news' and adverts. I cannot bring myself to recommend this to anyone. At least it works just fine on accelerated machines. The issue reviewed was #3 [12/93]. The menu was used for at least issues #1-#3, and from this we think it was first released late 93, november or possibly december. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abstract (1995, 09.07, Demo). 6th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 demo competition. First Love (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Crow, gfx: Wintermute, music: Abyss. 27th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: This sucks. No design, no impressive effects, and the music is a serious contender for 'worst chiptune of 1995'. It all opens with some flame-text, which is the best effect in the intro. Then we're taken on to a stretching zoomrotator (oooold!), a transforming dot-object (older!), and some other equally uninteresting stuff. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Interceptors ------------ Kinematic (preview) (1997, 14.12, Demo). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Cooperation with Alien Productions, see there for details. Interface --------- FRA> Atwill (early93), Clawz (Matieu Berthaud, music, later Complex, 92- early93). ???> Acetip (92). I saw Interface mentioned somewhere as Fusion's French division! Interpol [old] (-1993) ---------------------- GER> Dark (swap pack, ex Noxious, new RAW5), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY' EHQ, 92), Kaoz (swap pack, ex Noxious, old handle Rebel MC, new early93), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE'). FRA> Monty (music, later Paradox, 92). ENG> Kitaro (sysop 'MILLENIA'). USA> Loverman (sysop 'CONCEPT ELITE'), NuiSance (sysop 'NIRVANA' WHQ, later Paradox new, 92), Shocker (sysop 'TWILITE ZONE'). ???> Amigo (sysop 'DESERT STORM' SAHQ), Babydock, Blackhawk (crack), Cardinal (ex Crystal, new SLH11), Cedric (gfx, ex Legend, new RAW5), E.F.A (crack, 92), Horst (music, 12/93), Jonny (music, 12/94), Maximilian (supply, 92), Mr.Looping (music, 12/94), Orion (gfx?, 92), Paragon (supply, 92), Yragel (code gfx, 92). Boards; CHAOTIC ENTITY WHQ (usa, 03/94). Interpol was an elite illegal crew. I don't know if the guys that released the intro "Tahiti" (04/96) are the same as the original Interpol. Seems a little strange, after all this time, to come back to release an intro... Since german sysops Joker and TCM were in Razor early in the year, and Razor then died, it seems probable they went straight to this group. Most members left to reform Paradox! The group died early 1993. German Siriax joined Fairlight. The board 'PURGATORY' is closed. German swapper Killraven rejoined Paradise. British Kawinski has left the scene to pursue a career as a teacher (ROM4). Maelstrom joined Ministry early93. Interpol [new] -------------- Tahiti (1996, 07.04, Demo). Split 7th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. Tahiti 3 (1997, 30.03, Demo). 9th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Intoxicate ---------- ???> Christbane (ascii), Hawkins (code), Mangar (sysop PPESupporter), Neophyte (code), Phos4 (ascii sysop), Shaq (trade), Shot (ascii), Shy Guy (trade sysop), Trauma (music), Yoda (trade). Intruders (ITS) --------------- ???> Horniac (code gfx, 08/95), Pulsar (music, 08/95). First Intro (Intro). Intrigue (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: Horniac, music: Pulsar. Contribution to the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: This intro opens very nicely, with a good flame routine that spurts out INTRUDERS and PRESENTS in flames before the intro starts proper. I really wish they'd just kept the one effect, and not bothered us with all the shit that makes up the rest of this intro! Those vector cubes - shaded or not - have to be among the most blocky, buggy and ugly ones I've ever seen. There's a third routine, though, which is dots that make up tunnels and stuff. Not very interesting, I'm afraid.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Intuition (-1991) ----------------- ENG> Mozart (gfx swap, 08/90). 1991 - Intuition died in june; almost all Finnish members (Ukulele etc.) joined Amaze. English members Abyss, Lils, Brick and Soul all joined Cyrus. Patrick took the handle Violator, then changed it to Codex and also joined them. Braindamage joined Coma. Investation (INV) ----------------- POL> Cox, Tap (Tomasz Piasta, code, 97), The Trader, Walt (Waldemar Piasta, code, 97). ENG> Dazl (ex Iris). GER> Alec Empire. ???> Berserker (gfx music, 03-08/93), CDX (music, 08/93), Dark Angel, Feniks, Jabo, Leviathan, Reset, Tees. Investation was a demo group, based in Poland. The coder brothers Tap and Walt are the authors of the fabulous DIGI Booster tracker program. Some time back in time they both joined TRSI, but since the latest release of DIGI Booster claim they're both back in INV, I'm just gonna have to thrust them on that one :) 1993 - Dan (03-04/93) joined Pic Saint Loup in late 93. He contributed music to several Inv productions, and even a tune for "Poison" [12/93] after he had left! Sodom left. Bob and Tritop joined Alchemy. QWERTY joined Mad Elks. Kuba, Shaggy the Grain, Zwiteq, Kane and Uruken were kicked. The Polish guys Norby (swap, ex Cola Sector), Tap, Walt and Dr.D (03-12/93) all joined TRSI. See the history for further comment. Ray World (1994 or pre, AGA, 3 disks). Ignis (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Tap, Walt (additional), gfx: Dr.D, Berserker, music: "Intro2" by Berserker & Dan. review: The intro quite simply does not work, so there's not exactly much to tell about it... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. note: Crashes on both configurations. Hydra (1993, 04.04, ECS Disk). code: Tap, Walt, gfx: Dr.D, Berserker, music: Dan, Berserker. Anam (1993, 07.08, ECS File). code: Tap, gfx: Berserker, Dr.D, Tap, music: CDX. Released at Assembly 93. Poison (1993, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tap, Walt, gfx: Dr. D, music: Dan/Pic Saint Loup. 6th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Inv (1996, 23.06, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 64k intro competition. Investigation ------------- Most members left for Surprise! Productions, but soon moved on (WHN1). Ipec Elite ---------- 1990 - Mr.Acid, Voyager and Hitman left the UK section late 90. 1991 - Lord Flight finished his exams, and was back for full-time swapping from mid june. Demo (1988, 03.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Iris (IRS, 1989-, http://www.irishq.dk) --------------------------------------- DEN> Adonis (Henrik Kyser, swap, 01/01), Bifrost (gfx, 12/94-09/97), Darkhawk (Christian Hviid, mainorg editor swap trade, ex D-29, new 01/94-01), Flower (music, 12/94-09/97), Nutman (music, 03/97-09/01), Ransom (code raytrace, new 09/97-09/01), Talpa (code, new 06/96-09/97). NOR> Junkhead (music, new 06/96-09/97), MJ (Helge Brede, editor trade, 09/97), Volcryn (Stian Sollie, swap pack, 09/97). ENG> Buzz (Jools Smyth, code, new 05-08/01). POL> Bubba (org code swap, doublememb Clan, late96-09/97), Ced (gfx, 09/97), Digger (Tomsz Jankowski, swap, new 09/97), Gilo (music, 96-09/97), Spirol (code, 09/97), Yon (gfx, new early00-09/00). ???> Cupid (code, ex Darkage, new early01-04/01), Matarazzo (gfx, 04/01). code: Ransom, gfx: Yon, music: Nutman. The people below are no longer members, and the line was drawn from a memberlist published in Eurochart #31 [11/97]. DEN> Bird (Kaare Hansen, org music swap, ex Waldi/Oblivion, 94), Chivas (code), Daffy (swap), Eniac (raytrace music swap trade, ex Opaque, new 06/96), Illusion (ex Jewels), Sanctum (Tobias, later Depth, 02/94- 07/95). NOR> Bridgeclaw (Henning, gfx, later Gods, 12/93-04/94), Chauple (code, new 06/96), Coroner (music, 02/94), Dr.Deo (raytrace swap sysop, new early 94-02/94), Hiace (swap), Loop (swap, 02/94), Pix (gfx, later Subspace, 04/96), Radiance (music, new 06/96), Salat (Ken Arve Hole, gfx swap, new early94-02/94), Sidewinder (Petter, 02/94), Sir Wok (Marius Karlsen, gfx, late95), Spacehawk (swap pack 'A Pack of Fun', 02/94), Stressball (music, new 06/96), Zerox (Frode Hansen, swap pack 'Hit- Pack'). FRA> Ace (code music), Chris (swap, 02/94), D.Traumer (code), Goofy (gfx), Mandrake (code), Ulrick (code music). BAL> Ital (sysop, ex-music?, ex Saints, new 06/96). HOL> Lard (swap, old handle War, 02/94), SoNiK (swap trade). SWE> Atomic (gfx swap), Coz (swap). FAR> Gigabyte (Jon Johannesen, swap, 02/94). ENG> Micky (code), Trooper (trade). ???> Arrogance (gfx music, 02/94), DCG (sysop 'HIDDEN ISLAND'), Drac (music, 12/94), Eagle (music, 02/94), Kefner (den? code, 94), Mr.Vain (ex Willow), Quence (ex Impact), Sixpack (ex Tonic, later Gods), Zendar (Ricki, code, 02/94), Zytrox (code, later Gods, 02/94). Boards; BLACK PLANET. Iris was based in France (and later mostly in Denmark), and was born in 1989. They were also the arrangers of the danish Scene Meeting parties. They recruited the entire Danish division of D-29, which means at least Darkhawk, other names are uncertain. Mandrake is the coder of "Explora 3" (Infomedia) with music by Ulrick. Today their undisputed leader is Darkhawk from Denmark. 1992 - Digital Master left early 92. 1993 - News in Eurochart #22 [11/93] that Bridgeclaw left to join Shamrock were probably untrue. 1994 - The entire Danish division of D-29 joined Iris in january. This was at least Darkhawk, other names are uncertain. Dazl joined Investation early in the year. 1996 - Swappers Sir Maxin (Svein H. Orjansen, swap, late95) and Peace (ger, 95) were kicked due to the bad contact with the other members in june. Also in june, Radix was kicked because of inactivity and Speed left to be independent. 1997 - Baltic swapper Miko 63 (Michael Arvantis) was kicked because of a lack of contact. "World of Chips #4" [02/97], "World of Chips #5" [03/97], "Deep Bass Nine BBSTro" [03/97] was released. April saw the release of "Avatar #5" [04/97]. Danish sysop Azlan closed his board and left the scene. Danish swapper Adonis was kicked due to inactivity, but later returned to the group. Sticky joined with his board 'ORGANIZED CONFUSION', but was kicked again after a short while. Pudding was kicked due to inactivity. German musician Dascon regained scene inspiration, and after a short stay in Iris, he rejoined his old group Essence late in the year. "Delaytro" [10/97] was released to tell the world of the delay to their proposed party Scene Meeting 97, which is now to be held in february of 98. The intro also announced Ransom as a new member. 2000 - Early in the year Cupid (code) joined from Darkage, Yon (gfx) joined while danish coder Hastur (96-) decided to leave the scene. Ransom's debut demo as a coder (he joined as a raytracer) "Abecedarian" [11/00] was released at TRSAC 00.5, where it finished 2nd in the competition. 2001 - Just before the group travelled to the Mekka Symposium party in germany in april, three central members sadly decided to leave the group and the scene. Danes Bandy (gfx, 96-), Judas and finally veteran Tricktrax (code music) all left. The group released the demo "Light" [04/01] at MS, announcing the departure of the three, and also announced they were recruiting graphicians. Shortly after, graphician SuperK joined from Darkage. In may, English coder Buzz (webmaster at http://exotica.fix.no) joined. Yon's slideshow "The Puppets" [09/01] (ransom/yon/nutman) was released in september. Norwegian swapper mJ left to join Massive. German graphicians Gfx-Twins joined Platin. Norwegian musician P.O.W (07/95) was later in Sunshine Productions. Swedish Shock left to join Vision. English swapper Overdose joined Delicious. Jef and Yoga left to join Outlaws. Vigo and Ghost joined Agnostic Front. German Can (ex Motion) joined Sceptic. Norwegian swapper Cedric joined Flash Production. Zorro, Marco, Steel Hertz and Necrophagia got kicked. Contact Intro by Iris + Oblivion (1994, early, ECS Intro). code: Kefner, gfx: n/a, music: Bird. Exposure (1996, autumn, Slideshow). code: Hastur, Talpa, gfx: Bandy, Bifrost, music: Flower, Gilo. Delaytro (1997, .10, AGA File). code: Hastur, Talpa, gfx: Bifrost, Ransom (objects), music: Flower. review: Bifrost's picture that opens this is mediocre, then we are shown a blue phong-shaded shape over a nicely animated menu, then a cube with the background texturemapped onto it...looks almost like its transparent. Over this some text then appears, explaining how the group was forced to move their party Scene Meeting from october 97 to february of 98. Pressing the lmb makes a caleidoscopic water ripple effect appears, only the pattern does not look a lit like water. Then the cube reappears, and also some more text overlaid onto it. Left mouse bitton, and we get an object with the words TAK INTENS! over an animated background, and then some more text...and it's over. The intro announces Ransom as a new member. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Miracle #2 (Chartmag). info: Their "Delaytro" explained how this would be released late 12/97 or early 02/98. Scene Meeting 98 InvIntro 1.1 (1998, .01, AGA File). code: Talpa, gfx: Bandy, music: n/a. review: Oh boy, this isn't good. What Iris has done here is take an old intro (1996 - check the version string!) and revive it with some new (I presume!) graphics. Nothing is above average here, and thankfully this is not an important production for them. If it were, they would be left shameful. Improve Iris! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. I-Surf (1999, Demo). note: I'm not sure, but I'm guessing this is their The Party entry, which was not named in the results. Abecedarian (2000, 04.11, Demo). code: Ransom, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the TRSAC 00.5 demo competition. Light (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: Cupid, Ransom, Tricktrax, gfx: Cupid, Matarazzo, music: "Close Encounters" (main) by Nutman, "Skubidubab" by TrickTrax (end). 13th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Well, I tried. I tried to run "Light", but it didn't want to play with me =( If someone with superior hardware wants to do one, get in touch, but unfortunately Iris I quite simply can't supply a review of this demo. Eternally sorry. The demo is dedicated to Bandy, Judas and Tricktrax - all of whom sadly decided to leave the scene shortly before the MS party where this demo was released. This means that this demo probably represents Tricktrax' final work on the amiga demoscene. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 The Puppets (2001, 15.09, AGA HD Multifile Slideshow). code: Ransom, gfx: Yon, music: Nutman. review: Well, this was well and truly and positive surprise! This large (3,3MB archive) slideshow is actually worth the download, unlike many other recent 'large' productions. Yon is a truly talented pixeler, and it's a delight to sample his work here. His work seems to be a lot more arty than most other pixelers, with his images focusing on more diverse subjects than the usual dragons and ladies. Most of his art has a dark and mystic feel to it, not a horror style, just mildly unsettling. As he admits himself, his pixeling style is far from perfect, but it's the feel of the images that count here, not the techniques. Having said that, some pictures are better than others. Another positive surprise was the music, which is a really unusual piece, an atmospheric tune with the sound of rain falling in the background. I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed seeing a production WITHOUT a drum'n'base soundtrack for a change, perhaps it's just me, but I feel I've seen (or heard) perhaps one or two too many of those recently ;) Very close to a "significant prodcution". It opens a screenmode selector when run, which probably means it will adopt well to being run on graphics-card systems. The slideshow uses Crust/Nah-Kolor's xmplayer.library, which is included. [glenn] Isch Crew --------- HUN> Rapper (Krisztian Tanos, mainorg swap, 11/93). Isch Crew were a hungarian demo group under the leadership of Rapper. 1992 - Bart joined 23 Celsius Crew in december. Matrix and Energizer were kicked. Isvektor -------- Efkisvek (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). 11th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. IT (1988-) ---------- NOR> Armalite, Burglar (Yngve Rosseland, swap, ex NLF [no entry], 89), Buzzaw, Cracky, Cript, Jabba (Esben Lund, code, late 89), Jilsoft (Jo Inge Lamo, swap), Jolic, Keyjay, Powerfly, Ypsilon. IT was formed in 1988 by ex-members of SCT (Gladiator, Keyjay and Buzzaw), Sprite and The Zapp. Their memberlist contains several later celebrities; people like Tec and Walkman made the Norwegian scene proud. 1990 - Around the middle of the year, three of the groups most important members left; Tec (code), Gladiator (music) and Walkman (music, ex Phalanx) all joined Cryptoburners. Molecules (1989, 14.10, ECS File). 4th in the Shape & TRC party demo competition. Vectorstuff (1989, 29.12, ECS Demo). Released at the X-Mas Party 1989. Italian Bad Boys (IBB) ---------------------- ITA> DHS (music, late91), Dr.G (Fabio Vitale, swap sysop 'THE HOUSE', early93), FGF (sysop 'PEACEFUL ZONE'), Il Dipo (code?, late91) CYP> Sper (spyrus Antoniou, swap, late90). FIN> Badcat (Tibi Luttwak, swap, 93). USA> Paninaro (sysop 'LEFT OF CENTER', 04/95). Boards; WARZONE (ita). IBB is, naturally, an Italian group who has since grown to include a few foreign sections too. Badcat is the only Finnish member of IBB. The game 'Dylan Dog: The Murderers' was made by IBB members! The Bad Tongue Special Issue (1992, ECS Multifile diskmag). review: This mag, which came with Parasite's "Fuck Her Brains Out #6" pack, crashed and gurued completely on my hardware. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Italian Cracking Service (ICS) ------------------------------ ITA> Elvira, Kid Amiga (late90), Lady X (late90), Marco (gfx music, late90), Max (late90), MCS (late90), Mr.Fly (trade sysop 'FANTASY', late90-09/91), Raster Burner, Snoopy (late90), The Amiga Master (code, late90), The Rock, The Witch (late90), Wildcat (late90), Wiz (gfx, 90). FRA> Antix, Elric (crack, 09/91), Turbo. SWI> Arrafath, Cortex, Domino, Zayer. SWE> Mr.Terry. GER> Engineer (sysop 'GHOST'). ENG> Barbarian (sysop 'UNKNOWN PLEASURES'), Hybrid (sysop 'ULTIMATE DREAM'). Boards; TRASH CITY (usa, 09/91), MYSTERY TOUR (usa, 09/91). Melt Effect (1990, ECS Demo). Cooperation with Savage [details], because Wiz drew for it. Ivory [old] (1989-) ------------------- NOR> EMI (music, 05-11/89), Gizmo (music, old handle Tor, 06/89), Mega (Petter Schau, code, 05-11/89), Mute (Gaute Hongrø, gfx, 05-11/89), Robocop (Jørgen Smith, 06/89), Teo (Terje Sannum, code gfx, 06/89), Wea (Geir Hongrø, music, 06-11/89). Ivory was a norwegian demo group, formed between april and may of 1989 as a merger between Magic Circle and Insanity. Since Magic Circle needed swappers, and Insanity had no demomakers, the two groups decided to join forces. The group released five demos from may to november, but announced the group's death in their final one, "Funeral Demo" [11/89]. Several key members left them at this time for the group Oz, and this meant the end. Upon forming Oz, all members except EMI changed their handles. Thanks to Wea for information! Golddisk (1989, .05, ECS Music Disk). code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: EMI. Megademo (1989, 24.06, ECS Megademo). part1 - code: n/a (Frode Bjerkholt), gfx: n/a (Børre Bjerkholt), music: "Acid In My House" by Wea. part2 - code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: "Traveling Around" by EMI. part3 - code/gfx: Teo, music: "Boing Boom Tchak" by Tor. part4 - code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: "In The Army Now" by Wea. part5 - code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: "Souvenir of China" by Wea. 6th in the IT, Razor 1911, Abnormal, Hoaxers, Network Gigaparty demo competition. Cocktail Gallery (1989, .07, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: Wea. Beatwise (1989, .10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mega, gfx: Mute, music: EMI. Funeral Demo (1989, .11, ECS Demo). code: Mega, gfx: Mute, Mega, music: "A Group Is Dead" by EMI. info: The music piece used in this demo was originally called "A Child Is Dead", but was rechristened for this use. This demo officially announces the death of the group. Ivory [new] ----------- FRA> DGM (Rocha Daniel, gfx swap, ex Solaris), Falo (12/93), Gandbox (music, ex Solaris, 12/93), Harry (gfx, ex Solaris, 12/93), Locked (ex Solaris), Matrix (music, 12/93), Memorys (ex Solaris, 12/93), Slaine (gfx, 12/93), Ukko (gfx, 12/93), Worm (code, 12/93). 1993 - Bro' joined Acme Projects mid 93. Religion 242 (ex Solaris) was kicked and is now independent. Bizing (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Worm, gfx: Ukko, music: Matrix. 14th in The Party 93 demo competition. Review: An average intro/demo from these French guys. There's not much to recommend it code-wise, really, since there's only two effects in the entire demo. They're used several times, but it's still only two effects! One is a zoom-rotator that's used for a mario-kart like road trip as well, and the other is a zoomrotating plasmazoom. Well, who ever said that demo effects were easy to describe :) We won't mention the music. Keep trying, though! My previous information says it requires AGA...is this true? I don't think there's any 256 color stuff in the demo...? The executable file (unpacked) is 1.1mb, so it's gonna take a little memory, but... It loops back and starts over again at the end. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Music bugs a little. Crackintro for Mystic (1994, .03, ECS Intro). code: Fruehauf, gfx: Header, music: "Synthetik" by Gandbox (4ch MOD formats). review: Design is a little childish in this intro, far from the best cracktro I've ever seen. [glenn] Jaggerboy --------- Jul Det' Cool (1993, 28.12, Demo). 21st in The Party 93 demo competition. Jam (1993-) ----------- FRA> Mad (Madelon Olivier, founder org). Jam was formed early 1993 as a French group. Jesters ------- ENG> Accel (music, 92), , Death, FX (founder), Lord Flight (founder), Merlin, Phreak (founder gfx, 92), Sim (code, 92). ???> Uncle Len (ex Archaos). Jesters is an English demo group formed by Phreak, FX and Lord Flight from another English group, Destiny. Dentro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Sim, gfx: Phreak, music: Accel. Jetset [old] (1991-1991) ------------------------ The original Jetset was born in march 93 (after Pussy changed their name to Jetset at the RAF conference), and was one of the biggest Dutch groups in their prime, but unfortunately died later in the year. They were later reborn as a Skid Row subgroup, producing their intros and demos. Jayce made music for the famous dutch Axis trackmo "Unknown Territory", and is also in the new Jetset. Major-Midi joined Energy. The Swedish division joined Vogue mid 91. Jetset [new] (1992-1996) ------------------------ N-L> Apache (sysop 'BLACK BOX' WHQ), Dem, Seck-4 (mainorg gfx, 01/93), The Boss (sysop 'CROSSED BONES'), Vortex (code, ex Scoopex, new early93). BEL> Maddy (sysop 'METAL IMPACT', ex Fusion). GER> Nose (gfx, ex Alcatraz, 94), Oli (ex Paradise), Phex (swap, ex Alcatraz, old handle Stearo), Sam (music, ex Paradise, 94), Skull (swap, ex Misery/Noxious, late93). SWE> Striker (sysop 'FLASHTRADE'). FIN> Gamma (gfx music, ex Sonic). BAH> Psychlop (trade), Quantum (trade). ???> Coyote (ex Desire, new late92), Jeff, Murdock (ex Cyanide, new mid93). The new Jetset was reborn late 1992, and was a Skid Row subgroup for a while, doing the usual cracktro duties. This partnership was later dissolved (likely sometime in 1993), and Jetset continued as a demogroup in their own right. 1993 - The musicdisk "Overload 2" [01/93] won the demo competition at the Holand is OK party in january, bringing the new year to a great start for the group! 1994 - German coder Raw Style (ex Alcatraz, 94) left to join Complex late this year. 1996 - Finally Jetset died late this year, when the remaining Dutch members - Bullock (gfx), Eros (gfx), Jayce (music), Red Dwarf (code) and Timeless (music) - fusioned into the group Royal. Dutchmen Jay-One (gfx) and Steroid (swap, both ex Freestyle) both left to join the new Axis. German swappper Dark (ex Noxious, doublememb Skid Row) left to join TRSI. Dutch coder Magician Lord and British musician Hollywood (both ex Freestyle, 93) left to join Movement. Dutchmen IKillr (01/93), Eswat (01/93) and Timeless joined Paradox. News in RAW6, and confirmed in the "Black Box" demo. Timeless was later back in Jetset, and was one of the members who later went on to Royal. Storm (ex Godfather/Spaceballs) joined DCS. Black Box (ECS Trackmo). code: Magician Lord, gfx: Seck-4, Eswat, IKillr, music: Hollywood. Review: More of a slideshow than a demo, really, but not without entertainment value. The graphics are all in the rather unique Jetset style, i.e. graffitti. The music is a sort of old-style house, and it's certainly NOT one of Hollywood's strongest tunes. All in all? It does the job it was intended to, I suppose, and some of the logos are cool... I'd give it 5 out of 10. There is absolutely no indication anywhere as to the release date of this demo... Anyone? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Overload (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Overload 2 (1993, 24.01, ECS Musicdisk). code: I Killed Her, gfx: Seck-4, Eswat, music: Jayce. Winner of the Holland is OK Party 93 demo competition! info: The design is from the Braun European Top 20 TV show on MTV. Tag (1993, early, ECS Disk). code: Magician Lord, gfx: Seck-4, Eswat, music: Hollywood. Armageddon (1994, Demo). code: Raw Style, gfx: Nose, music: Sam. info: Reviewed in Propaganda #4 (mid 94), where it was mentioned that the best bits were the music and some plasma routines, but that it was overall an average Jetset demo in the usual graffitti style... Jetspeed -------- Jetspeed joined forces with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a few of their demos. Jewels ------ DEN> Al Bundy (org swap), Chorus (music, ex Razor 1911 new, 95), Condor (Mikkel S. Kiil, swap, ex Razor 1911 new), Future (code), Knox (gfx homepage, 95), Ricky (code), Scoop (code), Speedy (trade sysop, ex Speedy [the group]). SWE> Dynamex (code), Eracore (gfx raytrace), Guardian (sysop), Huz (trade), Keldon (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap trade, 96), Randall (music), Shapechanger (trade ascii), Sniffet (gfx). ???> Hekke (den? code, 95). Lots of the Swedes were in Suburban Base earlier/later... Is Danish coder Ricky the same guy that coded some late The Silents DK demos? Swedish graphician and organizer MRK doublejoined Subspace, and later surfaced as a member of Sunshine Productions. Musician Sid (ex Razor 1911 new, 95) left the scene to pursue a professional music career. Chorus will continue to compose on his own. Sid contributed to the musicdisk "Crossroads" [95]. Dane Illusion joined Iris. Crossroads (1995, summer, Musicdisk). code: Hekke, gfx: Knox, music: Chorus and Sid. John Alpmar & Co ---------------- Your Astral Pilot (1996, 16.06, Demo). 6th in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Joker ----- POL> Dalthon (code, 11/96). Chunky Blitter (1996, 10.11, ECS 4k Intro). code: Dalthon, gfx: none, music: n/a. 5th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: We watch the flashing 'please wait' text for a while, before being catapulted into a world of fractal based effects. The intro looks quite good, using a sort of smoothing effect that doesn't retract too much from the overall impression. The intro also contains quite a lot more than I expected it to; it pumped out at least three good effect variations after I was convinced the show was over. Then, after it's all done, and the coder credit appears, a small tune is played! It's a bit of a mystery why Dalthon didn't play the tune during the intro... The text file that comes with this is in Polish. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Jolly (JLY) ----------- HOL> Cloak (code sysop 'APHRODITE', 12/96), Jazz (music sysop 'LOONY TOONZ', 12/96), Maverick (sysop 'XTREME ELEGANCE', 96), MJK (gfx, 96), MSW (sysop 'THE OASE', 96), Probe (gfx, 12/96), Protonic (sysop 'PARTYZONE', 96), Xenon (sysop 'CLUBX', 96).  Definitly Baby (1996, ECS Intro). code: Cloak, gfx: Probe, MJK, music: Jazz (THX format). review: I thought I liked this, based on viewing and not least listening to the main part for a little while. So I pressed the left mouse button to write a favourable review...and quickly found there was a small extra part, announcing some BBS numbers. And playing a THX rendition of the Bubble Bobble theme. One of my favourite games. Containing one of my favourite tunes. Do I need to draw you a picture? NOSTALGIA HEAVEN! Some further investigation reveals that this one was probably written using AMOS! No wonder it's ECS then... It's their first ever intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Christmas Demo (1996, .12, ECS Intro). code: Cloak, gfx: Probe, music: Jazz (THX format). review: A three-hour quickie, and it shows. Still, you can't be anything but charmed by Jazz' THX tunes. Damn! THX is forcing me to like stuff I'd otherwise abbhorr! :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Opaque (1997, .02, Musicdisk). info: A THX music disk, with music by Jazz anf MJK, announced in their "Definitly Baby" intro. Considering the cool tunes in that one, it's probably one to look out for! ;) Eau de Table P. (1997, 30.03, Demo). 12th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Jormas, Da (JRM, http://www.jormas.com/) ---------------------------------------- Da Jormas is a none-too-serious Finnish demogroup. 1998 - Their intro "Elektrik Baby" [08/98] reached the fourth position at Assembly.  If There Was No Gravity... (1995, 15.10, AGA File). review: Nice design and overall weirdness. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Detroit (1996, 17.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Vesuri, Hirvih, gfx: Pam, Naksahtaja, Huputuna, music: "Mind Leap - Editx" by Pam (Tracker Packer 3 format). Released at Assembly 96. review: Hmmm.... =) This is actually far from the worst Jormas intro I've seen, actually it's pretty cool. It features some nice design ideas, if not exactly mindblowing coding. Don't really know what else to say about it, except it's very pink and purple. Hehe. Check it for yourself. The full title of this intro is "ElastikDetroit TurskaPitch 62 Phonkee Phixed Edition". Or Detroit for short =) All routines run full speed (50fps) on a vanilla a500. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. 3 Years 40k Intro (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 7th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Touche (1997, 09.08, 64k Intro). code: Vesuri, gfx: Vesuri, Boost, music: Vesuri. 7th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: Weirdness. And that soundtrack...ouch! You guys need help =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Elektrik Baby (1998, 08.08, 64k Intro). production: Raato, Pekka Pou, Vesuri. 4th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: This, ladies and gentlemen, is actually not a bad little intro. They carve a style-all-of-their own, with this offbeat elektronika piece - both visually and audially. They choose to ride off-piste, so to say - with no illusions of winning the compos, but rather participating with style. I really like this, it's bold, brave and unafraid. Dare to be different - like the Jormas. They're definitely unique. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Juliet & Case (1994-1995) ------------------------- Two finnish friends started coding demos, and released their first production, called "CCCP" at the Assembly 94, finishing 5th. A year passed, and at The Assembly 95 they released "C42", which also came in fifth. This time, though, some groups stood up and took notice of the coder duo. They were quickly headhunted to Stellar, but soon after moved on to a more permanent home in CNCD. CCCP (1994, 06.08, Demo). code: Juliet & Case, gfx: n/a, music: Groo/CNCD. 5th in The Assembly 94 demo competition. C42 (1995, 12.08, AGA File). code: Juliet & Case, gfx: none, music: Groo. 5th in The Assembly 95 demo competition. review: There are no graphics in C42, just 3d worlds and objects. There are butterflies, flowers, bees and other stuff from the real world emulated. The way this is put together makes it more reminiscent of a dark piece of video experimentation than a demo. Original, if nothing else. Groo's music is easily forgettable. This would be their last demo as independents. Please note that none of the effects are fullscreen, but are displayed in a more limited space in the centre of the screen. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Jump ---- ITA> Bluelight (sysop 'ASYLUM', 91). USA> The Ringthane (sysop 'HARPOON', 91). ???> Angeldawn (gfx, ex Possessed), Lou Van B (music, ex Abyss), Lowtec. Jump were the producers of the "World Charts", later produced by Scoopex after some key members (Angeldawn and others) joined that group. Autopsy joined Model. Swedes Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', 91) and Frosty joined D-Mob. Salvatore (ex Possessed) left the scene. Cyclotron (old handle RCB, ex Surprise! Productions) joined Alpha Flight. World Charts #2 (1991, ECS FileChart). code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: "Satanic" by n/a (ProTracker MOD format). review: Well, this issue of World Charts is pretty basic. Its main asset, as has always been the case with this particular chartmag, is the graphics. The are recognizably by Angeldawn, though signed 'IB' rather than his standard 'AD' - perhaps an indication to his real name? _NO_ credits are given anywhere, strangely, except a small graphic saying 'moral support and votecollecting by Autopsy' when it starts. This means Autopsy was involved in the production, but likely not as a member of Jump. The menus are unusually enough keyboard-controlled, with the cursor keys and return serving to select the different chart categories. A press of the space bar takes us to a separate part, with board ads, and another press takes us back. The music is atrocious. The Jump boards advertised in this intro was 'HARPOON' (WHQ), 'ANOTHER WORLD' (EHQ) and 'ASYLUM'. [glenn] World Charts #3 (1991, ECS FileChart). code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: "Introfronty" by Dezecrator/Classic (ProTracker MOD format). review: Apart from a new (and better) introductory Jump logo, and the fact that most of the categories have changed, everything is identical to the last issue, so I will refrain from explaining it all over again. Dezecrator's module is wellknown, and was first used in a crack intro by Classic. It seems unlikely that they were given permission to use it. This was the last issue of World Charts under Jump; subsequent issues were released by Model. The Jump boards advertised in this intro was 'HARPOON' (WHQ), 'ANOTHER WORLD' (EHQ) and 'ASYLUM', just like last time. [glenn] Jungle Command, The (TJC) ------------------------- N-L> Boil (John van Dijk, code, 05/88-01/89), GhettoShark (Peter van Bergenhenegouwe, 05/88-01/89), Master Blaster (Ron Klaren, music, 05/88), MCS (Daniel Ockeloen, code, 05-06/88), TC1 (Ton Meijdam, gfx, new 01/89-90). ???> Artelli (Sander Hassing, gfx, 05/88-01/89), Dragonsoft (swap, 05/88), Dr.Fx (music, 01/89), Exterminator (Mark Langerak, 05/88), Slide (Peter van Dijk, gfx, 05/88-01/89), The Fox (music, 01/89), Travelling Jack (music, 05/88), Valiar (Yvo Zoer, 05/88). TJC is best known for being the first to develop on the original Sound- Tracker. Apart from the original by Karsten Obarski, TJC's was the first hacker-powered version :) They also released the tool Bootleg, first by MCS [88] and then expanded on by Boil [89]. The shoot-em-up game "The Plague" was done by TJC members; coded by Exterminator, graphics by TC1 and music by Master Blaster. 1989 - Dutch graphician TC1 joined after the party TJC coarranged in january. Jungle Mania (ECS Musicdisk). Music Invasion I (1988, 21.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Freaking" by Level4 (MOD format), Phalanx II" by Kingsoft (unknown format), "Happy Phone" by n/a (unknown format), "Spaceport Theme" by n/a (unknown format), "HQC Intro" by ???/HQC (unknown format), "Emmerald Mine II" by ???/Kingsoft (unknown format), "Q-Up" by n/a (uknown format), "Otto,Marky Again" by Mark2/Quadlite (Mark II old format), "Lightforce 1988" by Mark2/Quadlite (Mark II old format), "Sanxion" by n/a (unknown format), "Rally Master", "Amegas", "Sleepwalk\Wet Dream" and "Endtheme" by Karsten Obarski/ReLine (MOD format), "Tjc-Them" by ???/TJC, "Tbr-Intro" and "Tbr-Demo" by n/a (MOD format), "Clever & Smart" by Holger Gehrmann/ReLine (unknown format), "Tristar Intro" by MCP/Tristar. Music Invasion II (1988, 01.05, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Axel-F, "Queen", "Jarre" by Master Blaster (MOD format), "Xenon" by David Whittaker (Whittaker format), "Giana Sisters", "Around the World in 80 Days" (Bethoven format), H. Helcher/Linel, Adore Your Emulator", "Dial It" by Mike/Sinners, "For Ever Tonight" by Mark2/Quadlite (Mark II format), "Vortex 42 Theme" by Oberheim/Vortex42 "Eco" by ???/Denton Designs (unknown format), "SLL" by SLL/BS1. Music Invasion III (pre 1988, .11, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Jungle Party (1988, end, ECS Demo). Cooperation with Magnificent Force and Joy. Non Stop Music (1989, 07.01, ECS Musicdisk). code: Boil, gfx: Ghettoshark (font), Artelli (picture), Slide (small font), music: The Fox, Dr.Fx. Goes CRITICAL (1990, ECS Musicdemo). code: n/a, gfx: TC1, music: n/a. Justice (1990-) --------------- HOL> Ramon B5, Shadow Fox. Justice's birth was announced in D-Tect's "Hack-Mag #2" [11/90], and consisted of members from Supplex, AFL, Thyrone, Syndicate and Paradroids. The Dutch department is dead. Rubyx, sysop 'STALLION' is independent, while other members formed the group Citron (late93). The Ripper left. CPS joined Desire. Dutch sysop THC ('MYSTIC PLACE', ex Alpha Flight) joined Citron, along with some other Dutch members. Oxygenetro (1991/92, very late/very early, ECS File). GLE tested A500 /000/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Refuses to start, just stops and does nothing. K - N-L> Infant (code, triplememb Subspace [details] and Kinky), Iso (music). K was thought out by the two dutchmen Infant and Iso as a label under which they could release the productions that were too weird for the mainstream demo crowd :) Kameli ------ Shit Happens (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 8th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Kampfgruppe ----------- MouseTrap (1993, 05.08, Demo). 8th in the European Computer Conference 93 demo competition. Kangooroo (KNG, 1997-) ---------------------- HUN> Beast (founder gfx, 12/97-01/01), EFT (Krisztian Jambor, founder code, 12/97-08/00), Lord (Peter Labos, founder wbmaster sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST' WHQ, 12/97), Mr.Pixel (Adam Baki, music, 12/97), Soldier (founder raytrace, 97-98). ???> Cheetah (gfx, 08/00), Chip (code, 01/01), Teo (music, member Exceed [pc], 08/99-01/01). Kangooroo is a Hungarian demo group, formed in 1997 right after the death of Impulse by EFT, Beast, Soldier and Lord. Amiganica Hungarica 98 Party Invitation (1998, early.05, Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Soldier, music: M. info: Supposed to be spread at Scenest 98, but that party was cancelled, and so it was released out of party. Size approximately 1meg. Intro (1999, late.01, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Soldier, music: n/a. 2nd in the Contest 99 intro competition. United (2000, .08, AGA Dentro). code: EFT, gfx: Beast, Cheetah, music: Teo. review: I was anxiously awaiting to see this, since EFT has been a personal favorite since releasing "Voyage In Storm". But, alas, the intro does not seem to work. When executed it just throws up a white screen and then takes FOREVER to do anything...and ultimately never does. I have not yet been able to make it do anything, but when I do...I'll get back to you, ok? I'm sad now =( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Flow (2001, 07.01, PPC 64k Intro). code: Chip, gfx: Beast, music: Teo. Winner of the FuckYanica One 64k intro competition. info: requires PPC and graphics card capable of 320x240x24bit. Kanisteri --------- Japani (1996, 18.08, Intro). 3rd in the Assembly 96 intro competition, but was disqualified. Kaos ---- AUS> Condor (ex Mystix), Rob (ex Mystix). N-Z> Bart, Isepic. ???> Acid (ex Corrosive), Agent Orange (ex Corrosive), Ajax, Chico (re), Tempest. Is this the same as Kaos Design, below? The Jordanian division is dead, and some of the previous members formed a new group called 'St.Pauls Crew'. 1991 - Qriz (code) and Tix (gfx) both left late 91. 1992 - Swedish organizer Kervin (re late91) joined Defiance 09/92. Kaos Design (-1992) ------------------- DEN> Janitor (trade, ex Rebels). Kaos Design was a subgroup of the cracker group Crack Inc. News from that group said Kaos Design had died. Is this the same as Kaos, above? Katharsis --------- Katharsis is dead; all members joined Union. Backfire joined Alchemy. Polish coder Mr.Root joined Acme late 91. Kefrens [old] (1988-1990) ------------------------- DEN> Box (gfx, 09/89), JTF (gfx, 09/89), Razter (code, 09/89). Kefrens was a Danish demo group, originally founded by Razmo, Metallion and Mellica in 1987 under the name The Starlight Project (TSP). In 1988, they changed their name to Kefrens. When Kefrens died, danish coder Promax (Rune Gram-Madsen, ex Atomic Team) left the demo scene to work on his assembler ASM-One...and today ASM-One is the most used assemblers among demo coders! Also Metallion had some utility projects; his IFF Converter was widely used among demo coders at the time. 1988 - Razmo contributed music to Freedom Force's "Demo 2" [10/88] in october. 1989 - At least three megademos were released by the group this year, from number 5 (february) to number 7 (september)! This is undoubtedly a record, and one that will remain for all time. Kefrens died. R.W.O (1st group), S.L.L (ex Bamiga Sector One, both new 02/90) and Seen joined Rebels. However, after 14 days they both left and formed Hydronic together with 4 other ex-Kefrens guys. Then, of course, Hydronic became the new Kefrens. I believe Razmo may have spent some time in Genozide also. Danes Icronite (old handle Burger) and Milkshake (both ex Atomic Intelligence) joined Rebels, but immediately moved on to Anarchy. Deflex joined Arcane. Toxic founded his own little crew; Serious Soft. Neon changed his handle to Hitman and joined Dexion. Danish members Detron (code, 09/89), Jaeger (swap), Metallion (code, 09- 11/89) and Nightlight (music, ex Atomic Team) remain groupless after the split. Danes Maestro (music, 12/92), Orion (code) and Slash (gfx, ex Daniax, new 12/90) all left to join Flash Production. This trio was largely responsible for the demo 'THE WALL' (12/90). Maestro later returned to the new Kefrens. Original founder and coder Mellica was kicked mid 90. Danish coders Gizwiz (ex Bounty) and Murphy joined Crionics 06/90. Megademo 5 (1989, 12.02, ECS Megademo). 3rd in the Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons Party! Megademo 7 (1989, 18.09, ECS Disk). code: Detron, Metallion, Mellica, Razter, gfx: JTF, Box, J.O.E., Ipec Elite, Detron, Metallion, Mellica, Razter, Zycho, music: Razmo, Exumer, Nightlight, Blazer, Zycho, Metallion. Jukebox (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: SLL. Megademo VIII (1990, 19.02, ECS Megademo, 2 disk). Winner of the Kefrens and Dexion Party demo competition! Keftales (1990, 30.06, ECS Demo). code: Metallion, gfx: R.W.O, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Conference 90. info: R.W.O's debut, his first logo released! The Wall (1990, 29.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Orion, gfx: Slash, Seen, Angel Dawn, Airwalk, music: Maestro. Released at the Dexion Party 1990. Kefrens [new] (1991-1994) ------------------------- DEN> Rookie (gfx, ex Upfront). The second incarnation of Kefrens was born in the last months of 1991 by a.o. S.L.L and R.W.O from the old Kefrens. 1991 - Danish swapper Hawkeye/Static Bytes joined the group in december. 1992 - Danish musician Maestro (ex Flash Production) joined Anarchy, while the group's Norwegian board 'THE PYRAMID' was kicked out around january. 1994 - Dane Mellica (Kim Byrresen) left the scene. Danish graphician Blizzart joined Passion. Danish graphician R.W.O (ex Hydronic) joined Balance late this year. Danish multitalent Airwalk (ex Rednex old, new early92-04/93) formed Polka Brothers. Pretty soon, Dice (music, ex Upfront), Vention (code, 12/91), Laxity (code music) and Zinko (ex Majic 12, new 07/93) all teamed up late 94. Raxor joined Razor 1911 new or 2000 AD. Danish graphician Devilstar (ex The Silents) joined Virtual Dreams. Danes Zeus (new 92) and Sir Guy (code) left the scene? Zeus was once in Vixen. Danish swapper Hawkeye (Jacob Blichfeldt, ex Static Bytes, new 12/91) and Razmo left the Amiga for the PC scene. Danish musician S.L.L (Steen L. Larsen, ex Hydronic) left the scene to work with real music in his own studio. Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE', ex Crystal) was kicked, since Kefrens decided they only wanted Danish members. He moved on to Ministry. Danish coder Kelic got kicked. Danish sysop Krueger ('PYRAMID INN', ex Awesome, 12/91) joined Spaceballs, but it's still a Kefrens board. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs (ex Euphoria) joined The Silents. Norwegian musician Jason (ex Deadline, 02/92) joined The Silents. Color Emotion 91 (1991, ECS File). code: Kelic, Razmo, gfx: R.W.O, music: S.L.L. Guardian Dragon (1991, 28.09, ECS Trackmo). code: Laxity, gfx: R.W.O, music: S.L.L. Winner of the Static Bytes and Light - Lowlife - Party! Multimegamix (1991, winter, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Laxity, gfx: R.W.O, music: S.L.L. Egregious (1991, 27.12, ECS File). code: Laxity, Vention, gfx: R.W.O, music: S.L.L., Laxity. Released at The Party 91. Masterpieces (1992, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Mellica, gfx: R.W.O, music: Laxity. info: Masterpieces was the first ever slideshow released by Kefrens. Though my information here says 1992, it was mentioned in Upstream #8 as an 1993 release... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Caches off. Multimegamix II (1992, early, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: S.L.L. Multimegamix III (1992, late, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: S.L.L. Galedemo 92 (1992, AGA Intro). ANTSC-Tro (1992, 16.04, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 92. Guardian Dragon II (1992, 26.06, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Laxity, Vention, gfx: R.W.O, music: S.L.L. Winner of the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition! info: Cache off, OCS on for AGA machines. Kris Kros Sucks (1993?, ECS File). code: Zinko, gfx: n/a, music: HMC/Alcatraz. D.A.N.E. (1993, 29.05, ECS Trackmo). code: Vention, gfx: R.W.O, music: Maestro, Laxity. 5th in the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition. Desert Dream (1993, 07.04, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Laxity, Zeus, gfx: R.W.O., Laxity, Blizzart, Airwalk, music: Laxity. Winner of The Gathering 93 demo competiton! info: There are two hidden parts by Vention; one that's easy to find and one that's 'impossible'. GaleMands Intro (1993, 30.07, AGA Intro). Released at the Galemand's Gilde 93. Intercourse (1993, .11?, AGA File). info: Requires 2mb chip, and as only AGA machines have that... Kent Team, The (TKT) -------------------- Ah, this will bring a sparkle to old scene-people's eyes... Kent Team was one of the biggest cracker groups on the Amiga around 1987, when the Amiga was new... Many members later helped form the group Quoram. KGB (1989-) ----------- DEN> A.Azap (music), U-235 (Tom Iversen, code), ZX68 (code). KGB was a danish group originally formed on the Spectrum, which then migrated to the Amiga. Please note that there were at least two other groups using this name, but below is the 'official' list of releases for THIS one ;), sent directly to me by U-235 (who used to be known as Spirit/Dominators on the c64 btw...!) 1992 - They gained and lost their member NBR (gfx) this year. Swapper Passion joined, but left the following year. Wild Blitter (1989, ECS Demo). info: Also called Drummer-demo. 1990: Atic Demo (an intro rather than a demo) KGB Spectrum Emulator v1.2 (1990, ECS Tool Intergalactic Demo (1990, 01.07, ECS Demo). Released for the Amiga Conference demo competition. KGB Spectrum Emulator v1.3 (1990, ECS Tool). Hit Fido (1991, 28.04, ECS Disk). 4th in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition. Purple Brain (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). 21st in The Party 92 demo competition. info: Apparently the groups final production... Kiki Prods. ----------- First 40Kb (1997, 40k Intro). code: Piark (end), gfx: Momo (objects), music: Gandbox. 2nd in the Belgian Scene Event 97 40k intro competition. review: I really don't get this one... It opens normally enough, with brief credits and a Kiki logo, set to a chippy...which then suddenly goes silent as we're shown a white dot-BSE logo soinning...and is that it? What? And is Piark coded the endpart, who coded the rest? I really, really don't understand this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Kingdom ------- DEN> Conan and Newton (coders, both doublemembs Rebels). ???> Spacebrain (music, 12/93-12/94). Kinky ----- N-L> Infant (code, triplememb Subspace [details] and K, 06/97), Iso (music, 06/97), Junebug. AUT> Moon (code, doublememb Abyss, new late95). NOR> Felix (Karsten Fischer, doublememb Massive). ???> SubStance (n-l?, org music, 06-09/97). A mag released late 95 carried the news that Kinky changes its name to Avocado, and their memberlist seem to reflect this. However, there are Kinky productions released after this, so some confusion exists... 1996 - Sixpack left to be a member of Gods only in april. Sumu (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 13th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Out of Spice (1997, 06.06, Demo). code: Infant, gfx: n/a, music: SubStance, Iso. 2nd in the Abduction 97 demo competition. Klondyke -------- Private Dick joined Paradise. Kool ---- 64k Intro (1993, 04.09, 64k ECS Intro). code: Stackpointer, gfx^music: Knice. Released for the Saturne Party 1 64k intro competition. Krafted (KRF) ------------- FIN> Big.B, Clone (93), Death (93), Drip, Duck, Flashback (93), Hijack (93), Hype (93), Mind (code, 93), Neuromancer, Stezotehic, Ufo, XRef. Krafted was once a subgroup of World Industries, that later decided to try their luck on their own. 1993 - Finnish Tonic (ex Styline) left to join Calibra mid 93. Gazer joined Pleasure. Trotro (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Mind, gfx: Mind (font), music: Clone. review: Released after 20.2, since that date is mentioned within. Anyway, all the other releases on the compactdisk I lifted it from were March releases, so... RMB to hold text at top of page. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Kraze ----- German musician and writer RokDaZone joined Amaze. Kreators (1992-) ---------------- ???> Eazy-E (ex Pirates). Kreators was a group formed by the legal members of Pirates, presumably around january of 1992. Ksylitol -------- FIN> Mynthon (code), Obskuron (gfx music), Somasepallus (music). We Import All to Finland (1993?, ECS Intro). code: Mynthon, gfx: Obskuron, music: Simasepallus, Obskuron. Kuollut ------- FIN> Bloodstone (trade, 07/91), Braggart (trade, 07/91). Judging by the name, I'd say this is a pretty Finnish group ;) Lacers ------ X - The Unknown 1995, 14.04, Demo). 5th in The Gathering 95 demo competition. Ladybird Design (LBD) --------------------- POL> Maly (swap, late95), Vasyl (Radoslaw Wasielewski, swap, 95). ???> Fuzz (gfx), Hogan (code swap), Hudinsky (music), Ranger (code). Ladybird Design is most likely a purely Polish demo group. Traitor (1994, 13.11, Demo). 3rd in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Lamon ----- ???> Big Bill (code, 12/93), Kokos Grisen (gfx, 12/93), Svampen (gfx music, 12/93), Tomten (code gfx, 12/93). Judging by the handles these guys carry, it's relatively safe to guess that this is not the most serious group around. Hard Vajero (1993, 28.12, ECS Multifile). code: Tomten, Big Bill, gfx: Tomten, Svampen, Kokos Grisen, music: Svampen. Split 27th in The Party 93 demo competition. Needs KillAGA. T.S.I.A. (1994, 28.12, Demo). 18th in The Party 4 demo competition. Lamers ------ California (1994, 13.11, Demo). 10th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Lard Design ----------- ???> Boggsey (music), Fraz (music sysop 'THE SHINING'), Freeman (music swap pack "LunchPack"), Mentor (org swap trade, ex Eclipx), Raider (org code gfx swap, ex Maniacs), Stratrex (code sysop 'DISK ILLUSIONS'), Typhoid (swap). New group formed by two ex-members of Eclipx and Maniacs. Laserdance (LDC) ---------------- GER> Crionic (code gfx swap, new early93), Nick (swap, ex Risk Inc., new early93). NOR> Kael (swap, ex Fantasy, 93). ???> Agony (music swap, ex Dual Crew, new early93), Bodylove (sysop 'SYNTAX TERROR' opened early93), Braintrace Design (new early93), DLL (code), Doc Mastermind (code gfx music trade, 92), Elivix (code), Flinx (gfx, 92), Flynx the Lynx (gfx), Gionic (new early93), Megamaniac, Mr.Soundwave (code music, 10/92), PPJ (gfx, 92), Q (code music), Slaughter (swap trade, new early93), X-Act (gfx, 92). 1992 - German swapper Howie left for Agnostic Front around october. Thexder joined Platin. Laser Art 1 (ECS File). code: Ratso Rizzo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Peace! (1992, ECS File). code: Dr. Mastermind, gfx: Flinx, X-Act, music: Dr. Mastermind. Limited Edition Series Intro (1992, .10?, ECS Intro). code: Dr. Mastermind, gfx: PPJ, music: Mr. Soundwave. Intro (1992, .10, ECS Intro). code: Mr. Soundwave, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. BBS Intro (1992/1993, ECS Intro). code: Dr. Mastermind, gfx: Acid/Fusion, PPJ, Flinx, music: Dr.Mastermind. Layout (LOT) ------------ Layout are an amiga ascii group. Their old homepage, http://honestud. hibu.no/perver, seems to have gone from the web. LCD --- Bugs Bunny (ECS Intro). Leader Productions (-1992) -------------------------- FIN> Loom (code gfx, 03/93). ???> Beathawk (music, 03/93). News in Generation #6 that Leader Productions were dead seem highly unlikely, given that the "Rainer The Passion" intro has approximately the same release date as that mag. Admiral joined Diffusion. Finnish swapper Suhu joined Banal Projects late 93. Rainer The Passion (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Loom, music: Beathawk. review: Boring doesn't even begin. It's a logo-vectorobject-scrolltext intro!! Jeeesus, there must be a trillion of these out there... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Legacy ------ NOR> Tranze (gfx, ex Cyborgs), Micromission (music). TUR> Dr.Crazy (swap), Virtue (swap). FIN> DNA. ???> Alien, Maggot (music, 12/92). Jerry joined Alpha Flight. Turkish member Cyberbug joined Frogs 08/92. Legend ([L]) ------------ SWI> Floyd (sysop 'BEYOND REALITY', ex Noxious), Risk (ex Grace). GER> Alf (sysop 'MELMAC BBS', 11/90-10/91), Flashlight (sysop 'EURO BBS' formerly 'ELITE TOWER', ex Pirates, 10/91). SWE> Hurricane (swap, ex Noxious, new late92), Sali-Adalat (trade, ex Awake). HOL> Bigfoot (ex Alfa Crew, new mid 91), Candyman and Optimize (sysops, ex Energy), Pinhead (swap, 12/91), Player One (train, ex Alfa Crew, new mid91-10/91), Syntag (train, ex Alfa Crew, new mid91-10/91), Taz Devil, TDB (sysop 'TURK 51 ZONE', 11/90), THC (sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES', ex Citron). NOR> Alien (code, ex Ice), Archie (code, ex Ice), Deathlok, Fatman, Howard (music, ex Ice), Morty (ex Zenith), Nash (music, ex Ice), Slimer. ENG> Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC', new late92). ITA> Bobnix (trade, late90), Flagman (gfx, late90), Mr.Irq (swap, late90). USA> Missileman (sysop 'DEFCON 5', 11/90). ???> Babyface (sysop 'FRIKANDLE', early93), Capn Crunch (crack, 11/90), Data (ex LSD), Dirk (music, 12/92), Dope (ex Cave), Exit, Gordon (train), Hitman, Mr.Nuke (ex Centura), N.S.C (code train, 05-12/91), Scarloc (ex Palace), Steef (ex Centura), Toast (gfx, 09-12/92), Zice (gfx, rejoined late92, 05/91). Boards; TWINS BBS (usa, 11/90), PANIC ZONE (usa, 11/90), DARK SHADOWS (usa), TEMPLE OF DESTRUCTION (ita, 11/90), ITALIA (ita). Legend were among the leading Amiga illegal groups, and were also later active on the PC. In the later part of 1990, they were in a temporary cooperation with Fairlight. 1992 - Alex left the scene 08/92. German Ribald (ex Pirates) got kicked late92. 1993 - The Finnish division died in the middle of 93; Jimi (old handle Statik-D, ex Diffusion), Zakal and Thor all left to form the new Desire subgroup Love, while Private Dick (Mikko Kivela, swap, ex Paradise) is now independent and Sentinel (ex Grace) joined Abyss. Ghostrider joined Zenith. Pegasus, sysop 'LAST STOP B4 HELL' got kicked. Italian sysop Batman ('GOTHAM CITY') joined Agile. Finnish swapper Casket (ex Deadline) joined Damones. Swedish musician Virus (ex TRSI, 09-12/92) joined Quartex. Swapper and trader Lord Zero (ex LSD) joined Fairlight. Norwegian Kefir joined Balance. Fox joined Zenith. Cedric (gfx, ex Basstech, new late92, 09-12/92) joined Interpol. The Swedish division left to join Elevation. The Angel was kicked after 15 days. He's now in Illusion. Germans Cap (swap, ex Pirates and Possessed, new late92) and Eazy-E (org code gfx mainswap, ex Pirates) were both kicked. According to "Stolen Data #10", that was due to a misunderstanding, and they've been let in again. "Generation #6" says it's just a rumour. And, just to make confusion total, "R.A.W #5" claims Easy-E left the scene :) Another source said Easy-E had joined Taurus, which is probably true, since I have him confirmed in Taurus running a board called 'TATOOINE'. Coder Calypso (09-12/92) and Swiss' guys Style and Blacky (both ex Vega) all joined Alcatraz. Calypso coded several intros for Legend. Penthagon joined Enigma. Swiss sysop Spider ('DREAM PARK') joined 2000 AD. Swedish trader Pitcher (ex Noxious) left the scene. Swedish sysop Xstaz ('ICE PALACE' earlier 'HUMAN TARGET', ex Noxious), Shapechanger and Teofil joined Alpha Flight. Another source, however, claimed Xstaz joined Complex. Some guys left for Interactive. Kick Ass Dentro (1992, 26.09, ECS File). code: Calypso, gfx: Cedric, Toast, music: Virus. Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Calypso, gfx: Cedric, Toast, music: Dirk. 19th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. The Rotterdam Megamix 7 (1993?, 23.01, ECS File). Legion ------ Polish musician Revisq joined Anadune (06/96). Lego (1993-) ------------ GER> Bailey (code, ex Balance, 12/93-08/94), Bullet (Marcus Bubser, 05/94), Chromag (Timm Albers, music, ex DCS, new 05/94), Decca (swap, 05/94- 12/97), Doc Holiday (music, ex Absolute, 05/94), DSN (Gerd Feldkirch, gfx music, ex Absolute, 05/94), Rackler (Joerg Friedrichs, ex Absolute!, 05/94), Raw Style (Michael Krause, code music, ex Polka Brothers, new early 95-12/97), Sire (raytrace music ascii, 12/93- 04/95), Sol (gfx, 04/95), Trooper (Stefan Ring, gfx swap sysop 'LOST CARRIER', ex Analog), Twice (Bastian Spiegel, code music, ex Absolute, 05/94), Twilight (music, ex Absolute!, 05/94). SWE> Rodney (gfx, ex Absolute!, later TBL, 12/93-05/94). ???> Maximilian (code, 05/94), Nose (gfx raytrace). Lego is a mainly German demo group of some notoriety, who were born in 1993 and released their first production - the humourours but uninventive "The Real 40k" [12/93] at The Party that same year. They followed this up with the strong slideshow "Never Liked Uno" [04/94] in april of the following year, and suddenly their name was on everyone's lips! In addition to his activities as a coder, Raw Style is also webmaster of the official Mekka Symposium website (http://ms.demo.org). 1994 - German musician Chromag joined from DCS in may. German graphician Fade One (ex Masque, 05/94) left for Essence. The Real 40k (1993, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Bailey, gfx/music: Sire. 5th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. info: First ever production. Never Liked Uno (1994, .05, ECS Multifile Slideshow). code: Bailey, Twice (installer), gfx: Fade One, Sire (icons), music: Twilight and Doc Holiday. review: What can I say? Fade One's slideshow is amazing, that's all there is to it. What amazes me the most, I guess, is the way he is able to make amazingly colorful pictures with only 32 colors; it seems like a lot more. My favorite picture has to be the first one, of a woman in a lake. That's one of my alltime favorite pictures...and his logos are always great - need I go further than mention his Razor logo? The music is good too, a very easy-listening tune. This one's right up there with "Seven Seas" and "Artcore". The release date is based on the one in the installer. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Full Frontal Nudity (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Bailey, gfx: Sire, music: n/a. 8th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Lost Carrier BBS Intro (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Essence, see there. Boom (1995, 22.04, AGA 64k Intro). code/music: Raw Style, gfx: Sire (logo, chick), Sol (font). Winner of the Black Box Symposium 95 60k intro competition! review: "Boom" opens with a familiar-looking Lego logo, before the only real effect; a fullscreen, fast but blocky voxelspace routine...with a rather large piece of LEGO added to the scenery :). Not bad at all, and the hip-hop chick at the end roolz, Sire! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mekka & Symposium 1998 Invitation (1997, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Raw Style, gfx: Decca (fonts), music: "Savage_(Pink)" by Pink/Abyss (ProTracker MOD format). 8th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: Lego are wellknown for their oldskool flavor, and this invitation intro will do nothing to take that tag away. It's basically a rendition of the classic Paranoimia cracktro most of you will know from the old days, with some overlaid textwriters and remixed music. Very nice idea! System demands are very modest; a good old A500 will do nicely. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Lemon. [old] (1993-1993) ------------------------ DEN> Capricorn (music, old handle Hobbit, ex Flash Produvtions), Flaring Horizon (raytrace, old handle Morten Thuesen), Pollas (code). NOR> Blazer (Morten, code, ex Andromeda, new 07/93), Duel (ex Andromeda, new 07/93), Moxy (swap, ex Andromeda, new 07/93), Disko (old handle Raider, new 07/93). Lemon. (pronounced Lemon-point) was born when some of the best members of the former supergroup Anarchy decided to leave and build their own group. The group was officially formed by Facet, Dan, Nuke, Hannibal, Slash, Mad Freak and Paradroid on the 1st of February 1993. However, they didn't last that long as a group - they died at The Party 3. They left behind a lot of good demos, though, and that's always something. They'll be remembered as a group with a humorous approach to the scene, and one of the leading groups of 1993 with several memorable releases. 1993 - English swapper Majic Mushroom (ex Quartz) joined Fairlight late in the year. Lemon. died at The Party 93, and here is what happened to members: - Most of the best members joined Spaceballs; Facet (mainorg, ex Anarchy), SuperNao (ex Freestyle, old handle Nao), Dan (ex Anarchy), Spaceman (ex Anarchy, old handle Nuke), Lizard (ex Andromeda), Danny (ex Anarchy), Dope (ex White Label) and Kr'33 (ex Sanity) joined Spaceballs. - English coder Paradroid (ex Anarchy) left the scene... but The Jungle #7 claims he joined Axis! - The two danes Hannibal (Søren Hannibal, code) and J.A.D.E (gfx, old handle Slash), both ex Anarchy, left the scene to work on games. They were both employed by Core Design, for which they released the great shoot 'em up game "Banshee" (with music by Spaceman!) before they moved on to work for Sega USA. Who says the scene won't take you anywhere!? Danish musician Julius (ex Mad Freak/Anarchy) joined Polka Brothers. Jason, Joachim (both ex Andromeda), Futuremind, Papillion and Dr.Gyble joined the new Razor 1911. LOTS of conflicting information is available about this, mostly probably due to the fact that they didn't all join at once. One source claimed danish superswapper The Pride (ex Sanity) also joined, though the truth is he joined Movement, and went from there to Razor. Futuremind was claimed to have joined Balance by one source; this is false. Norwegian Chard (ex 2000 AD, new 07/93) left after a short while. 2000 - Nah-Kolor's new mag "Devotion #1" revealed that likely, Dan, Del and Spaceman will appear in the hollywood movie based on the game they designed, "Tomb Raider". Announce (1993, 19.03, ECS File). code: Hannibal, gfx: Facet, J.A.D.E., music: Julius (ProPacker 1.0 format, 2 tunes). review: I've always liked "Announce", especially the way the music is linked with the onscreen action. Coupled with outstanding graphics from Facet, fabulous code by Hannibal, groovy music by Julius and a humorous approach to the demo concept, this one's a winner. It was, as most of you will know, to announce (hence the name) the birth of the new group Lemon. To access the 'hidden part' type LEMSHIP on the credits screen at the beginning. Nothing will appear to have happened, but on the next screen there will be a small bonus travelling across the top of the screen ;) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Had to boot from floppy with all other devices disabled to have enough mem, maybe more painless on 1.3. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. 40k Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dan, gfx: BLi (rendered), music: Nuke. Winner of The Gathering 93 intro competition! GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Saere Oejne (1993, .07, ECS File). code: Hannibal, gfx: J.A.D.E., TCM (rendered), music: Capricorn. Requires 1mb chip.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Intro (1993, .08?, ECS Intro). code: Dope, gfx: Facet, music: n/a. Groovy (1993, .08?, ECS Trackmo). code: Dan, gfx: Facet, BLi (rendered), music: Spaceman. review: I dug this small demo when I first saw it, and I still do. The design is a refreshing change, and it's fun, considering what people are doing these days, to see the first experiments in chunky-to-planar. Great design and funky music is what makes this golden oldie memorable. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rink-A-Dink (1993, 01.09, ECS Trackmo). code: Paradroid, gfx: Facet, Danny, music: Nuke. review: Supposed to be released at Destiny Communion 93 (28-29.08), where the competitions were unfortunately cancelled, Paradroid took this home to finish and release it from there. The release date is therefore approximate. Please note that the version I review has been fixed by Shamrock, and that the original demo probably will not work on machines with AGA or accelerators. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. En Gratis Bevendien (1993, late, ECS File). code: Dope, gfx: Facet, music: Nao. review: This little intro is probably the first intro to feature recipes for various cookies and pastry you can make with cannabis products! Audio- visuals are acceptable if not outstanding. According to some text found when hex-reading the depacked file, there seems to be a hidden part that can only be accessed with a 'slowdown' button, like the ones found on certain cartridges! This sounds highly improbable to me, but who knows? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Original chipset. KillAGA doesn't work. Dotro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dope, gfx: Facet, Nao, music: Nao & Spaceman. 12th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: No sound, even with KillAGA! Works perfectly without having to run KillAGA, though. Lemon. [new] (1996-) -------------------- ENG> Dan (code gfx, ex Spaceballs), Del (code), Spaceman (music, ex Spaceballs). HOL> Astro (editor "R.A.W", ex Virtual Dreams), Facet (gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb TBL [details]), SuperNao (music, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb TBL [details]). ???> Blazor (code). Lemon. were revived by Astro, Facet and SuperNao from Virtual Dreams shortly after The Party 5, but have to my knowledge never released anything. Les Shadock ----------- FRA> Christian (gfx), Christophe (gfx), Jobo (code), Kuma (code), Oriens (code), Tebirod (music). Introga (1996, 27.04, Intro). 2nd in the Saturne 96 intro competition. Level 4 (1986-) --------------- ENG> JPN (founder code music, 86-11/90). ???> 6502Kit (code, 03/90), ATL (music, 03/90), CMR (gfx, 03/90), Cougar (gfx, 03/90), Dr.Nobody (modem, 03/90), Duke (modem, ex Access, new 05/90), ESI (swap, 03/90), Frog (music, 03/90), MCS (code, 03/90), MIC (code, 03-11/90), MMS (code, 03/90), Roly (new ca 10/90), Snoopy (code, 03/90), Stranger (code, ex Access, new 05/90), Whitestar (gfx, 03- 11/90), Yannic (swap, 03/90). Level 4 was formed as early as 1986, making them one of the very first amiga scene groups. They were originally four members, of which JPN was the only one that remained. 1990 - Towards the middle of the year, they received two reinforcements from Access, Stranger (code) and Duke (modem). Their first game, "Doveskill" was finished towards the end of the year, for release thru Thalion, and made by Mic (code), Whitestar (gfx) and JPN (music). The coder was reportedly paid 10,000 DM for the game. Intro (1988, 03.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Lgitt486 -------- Spacelamer (1996, 06.07, Demo). 11th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Liberty ------- ???> Interrogator (ex Lunatics). On the 1/5/92, Ripmax (sysop, 07/91), Murf and Quasar (code, 07/91) were busted for phreaking. All equipment was confiscated. At least one of these guys were sysop of 'DESTINY STONE', prob'ly Ripmax. Quasar coded the phreaking program White Box. Light [old] ----------- Light is dead. Tarzan, Steel (new late90) and Sil got kicked; Kollaps and Caveman (new late90) left. Lunatic (new late90), Dezz, Towie (new late90), Chain and Cyborg founded Serious with some others. Tarzan, Kollaps, Caveman and Steel joined Cult. Kasai joined Delight. Airwalker changed handle to Tuborg and joined Bastards. Lowlife Party Invitation (1991, ECS Demo). Cooperation with Static Bytes [details] Intro (1991, 30.06, ECS Intro). Light [new] ----------- ???> Subgod (ex EMS Design, new late 97). Lightforce [new] (LFC, 1996-) ----------------------------- GER> Digiman (sysop 'ACID SLAM', 01/97), Icarus (org code supply crack train, 09/96-01/97), Lucas (mainorg supply sysop 'TEUTONIC PLACE' WHQ, doublememb Ethic, 96-01/97), RKR (supply sysop 'THE FUCK SHOP' WHQ, doublememb Hellfire, 09/96-01/97), Steel (trade sysop 'CRAPTOWN', 01/97). HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' EHQ, 96-01/97), Whirlwind (org sysop, 01/97). NOR> Baffle (Dag Stenstad, sysop1 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', doublememb Delirium, 97), tEN! (Tor E. Nygård, sysop2 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', 06/97). ENG> Zoltrix (sysop 'SPACE OUT', 97) DEN> Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 97). SWE> Atlantic (sysop 'ATLANTIC POWER', 97). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW', 97-98). ???> Aerobas (ger?, 01/97), Al Bundy (01/97), Alpha One (01/97), Billy (01/97), Chill (trade, 97), Cocaine (supply, 01/97), Conan (trade, 96-01/97), Cyber (01/97), Deskline (96), D-Sign (96), Flash! (96), Funki (96), H2O (01/97), Hudson Hawk (trade/n64 section, gfx, ger?, doublememb Hellfire, 01-05/97), Ironfist (trade chartswriter, 97), Junk (01/97), Kernal (toolcrack, 97), Kleinduijmpe (96), Lector (96), Lord Chaos (ascii, 97), Merlin! (96), MAD (trade, 01/97), MDR (96), Mogue (96), M-Plant (trade, 97), Psychic (trade, 01/97), Ramis (01/97), Selector (96), Shallow (01/97), Siriax (supply, doublememb Crest, 01/97), Skinny (96), SMT (music, 01/97), Sniper (code crack, 97), S0BEc (01/97), Soultaker (toolcode, 01/97), Speed Freak (01/97), Starkiller (01/97), Stingray (96), T3n (01/97), Tentacle (96), The Dentist (doorcode, 96-01/97), Three^D (01/97), Vostok (trade, 01/97), Voyage! (96), Zanok (01/97). Boards; ONE EIGHT EVEN (hol, 01/97), FUCK SHIT (pol, 01/97), THE MAZE (fin, 01/97), WASTELANDS (swe, 01/97), PIRATE'S DELIGHT (usa), LIQUID SPACID (hol, EHQ 96), THE BROTHERS BBS (hol, 96), ENDLESS PAIN (ger, 96), BROADWAY (ger, 96), POINT BREAK (ger), CEMENT CITY (eng), DREAMLAND (distsite, 10/96-01/97). Lightforce was reborn in the middle of 1996, 8 years after they first released Giana Sisters in March 1988... According to their homepage, their first released was on the 19th of july 1996. They're seemingly based in Germany, where their leader and most of their boards are. When I visited the homepage at the very end of 1998, it still carried 1997 copyrights, so it's a safe bet it hasn't been updated for a while! Lightstorm Inc. (LSI) --------------------- ???> Doup (music, 03/97), h-b (raytrace), Kaspar (music), Korg (music, 03/97), NBK (music, new 06/96), R.A.Y. (code gfx, 03/97), Rico (code), Sniper (code, later Lightforce?, 03/97), Snow (gfx ascii). Crusher (gfx raytrace) and Sly (support) left 06/96. Adagio (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 8th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Limbo ----- FIN> Elvis (code, 08/93-06/94), Greippi (gfx, 08/93-06/94), Huru-Ukko (Taneli Korhonen, music, 08/93-06/94). Limbo consists only of the three guys above. Three Men And A Glenz Vector (1993, 09.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Elvis, gfx: Greippi, music: Huru-Ukko. Contribution for the Assembly 93 40k intro competition, unplaced. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Crashes! Hindun Tie (1994, .06, ECS File). code: Elvis, gfx: Greippi, music: Huru-Ukko. 911 (1997, 09.08, 40k Intro). code: Elvis, gfx/music: Greippi. Winner of the Assembly 97 65k intro competition! review: This one is just SOOOO cool, with an animated story done in c64- ascii (if you know what I mean!). This is pure style, with a great sense of humour and an entertaining story. Just how it managed to beat Scoopex' pretty fabulous "Zero-G III" intro I'll never know, but it sure says something about the sense of humour in the Assembly audience! Niiiice... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Limited Edition (LED, 1994-) ---------------------------- SWE> Aragorn (sysop 'THE LAST INN', doublememb Triad, 01/95), Biztro (sysop 'REALM OF CHAOS', 01/95), Blockbuster (sysop 'HEAVENS DOMINATION', 01/95), Caroline Looen (music, new 02/94), Dalamar (sysop 'DRAGONLANCE', 01/95), Elf (Sven-Erik Cedigh, music, 95-08/96), Epithal (music edit, 12/93-08/96), Fuzz (sysop 'INTOXICATION', doublememb SLK [no entry], 01/95), Gorgonzola (Alex Hansen, music swap, ex X-Trade, new 94), Mood (code, 08/96), MRK (gfx, triplememb Subspace and Sunshine Productions, new 03/97), Opium (sysop 'CRYSTAL OF DARKNESS', 01/95), PG (code gfx, 08/96), Radix (Jakob Svanholm, music, also in Balance and Smoke [music], 08/95-08/96), Skize (P. Allard, gfx, 02/94-08/96), Skutt (gfx code, 95-08/96), Subtopia (Patrick Lindgren, swap, 08/96), Ufo (Michael Gejer, code, 95-08/96), Vileius (sysop 'TECHNICAL DISTORTION', 01/95). FRA> Black Dragon (Paul Pacheco, gfx music swap, triplememb Honoo [details] and Artificial People, new FRC1, 08/96), Clo! (singer), HP (gfx, triplememb Honoo [details] and Artificial People, new FRC1, 08/96). POL> Prince (swap, new FRC1). AUS> Dvize (swap, new FRC1, 08/96). ???> Agamemnon (code, 08/96), Anfobia (swap, new 04/96), Behemoth (gfx edit, 08/96), Belial (trade), Corruptor (code, 95-08/96), Dose (music, 95-08/96), Modd (code, 95), Parch (music, 95-08/96), Poison (raytrace, 95), Poltergeist (gfx, 95), Santzia (trade, 08/96), Termax (trade, 08/96), Traitor (sysop). Honour> Donald (code, 94-95), Katch22 (code, 95), Vermis Mysteriis (music, 95). Limited Edition is a demo group based in Sweden, where they were one of three arrangers of Party Remedy 96. They must surely be the only group in the scene with a SINGER (!) on their memberlist... Their old homepage, http://www.led.org/, appears to have gone from the web. 1994 - Swedish graphician Pad joined Solitude in february. 1996 - They're *NOT* dead, even though nearly the entire traderdivision left or were kicked in april. 1997 - Danish swapper Receiver (08/96) left for Instinct late in the year. Danish swapper Drac (new 04/96) joined Ambrosia. Sysops Metz (ex Insane) and Wize (ex 2000AD) both joined Hardcore Design. Swedes MRK (gfx), Nivek (both ex Industry), The Joker, Excel, Atheist (all 3 ex Septic) and Pete joined Energy, then shortly after they all moved on to Vision. These days, MRK is back in LED as a triple-member... Ophir Chasma (1994, .02, ECS Intro). code: Donald, gfx: Skize, Adrian (font), music: Epithal (4ch MOD format). review: Just a small lifesign-intro, made for a party that they decided not to attend in the end after all. There's a LIMITED EDITION logo down the left side of the screen, bottom right there's a spinning vectorcube, and the middle is taken up by a textplotter, albeit with an original font, for once. The music is chippy - 'nuff said ;) The release date is an approximation, based on the release date of the other releases on the pack where I found it. For some reason, the file includes TWO modules, Epithal's and one by their new member (announced in this intro) Caroline Looen. Perhaps there's a small secret part or something? There's no text to indicate it though... This intro also announces TBM, Wize and Metz were -not- kicked, and that Pad left for Solitude. [glenn] Flavour (1995, AGA File). code: PG, Skutt, Corruptor (additional), gfx: Skutt, Skize, music: Radix. review: Here's a production for the future! LED's first ever demo is a goodlooking ride through good, fast effects to a thumping soundtrack - just like ALL demos should be! Don't be so sure you would never win, people! Skutt's graphics are also good (as usual), with some unusual and cool logos. Skutt's style is almost as easy to spot as Butman's once was! Funnily enough, cocoder PG's name doesn't appear on the memberlist :) NOT released at any party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Party Remedy 96 Invitiation Intro (1996, Intro). code/gfx: Skutt, Skize, Behemoth (font), music: Lord Epithal (The Player 6.1A format). review: The intro opens with three logos - Limited Edition, DCS Graphics and Candela - before going to the main part, which is a text plotter with the party information. Down the left hand side of the screen is a very good raytraced Remedy 96 logo. The design in connection with the music gives this intro a very polished, professional feel. Especially the realistic sampled guitars of the music helps lift the atmosphere. The intro doesn't really credit anyone for code... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Mindabuse (1996, 18.08, AGA HD 4mb File). code: PG (main), Ufo (additional), gfx: Skize, HP, Skutt, music: Doze (main), Elf (end). 5th in the Assembly 96 demo competition. review: The first thing that strikes me about this one is: lots of colors! They've achieved some fine, colorful effects here, not to mention fast ones! It seems all the effects have been honed to perfection, making them faster than what I've seen in most other demos. It opens with a fast, goodlooking tunnel to the first bars of the usual techno music. It's no better or worse than any other tune of its kind, I guess. Then we're on to a killer effect: a greatlooking shaded key. This one looks so great, you've got to see it to believe it. If I'm not very much mistaken we're talking FAST HAM routines here! Next we're shown a fullscreen picture by HP, which could have been a lot better... Then there's some bumpmapping, followed by a TRANSPARENT mapped chalice. Next are some cool morphing mapped objects, followed by a couple of rather wobbly 8-balls. I could go on, but you get the picture. With a few better musicians and graphics artists, these guys could do very good in the future! Let's hope they keep on trying, and give us a KILLER demo sometime soon. The potential's certainly there... The endscroller can be paused with the right mouse button, though it's not mentioned anywhere in the demo. It's accompanied by a calmer tune, which is a lot better than the maintune, which lacks identity. 68030 or better processor is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Paul the Kinder Penguin (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: PG, gfx: Skize, D-Vize, music: Radix. 8th in The Party 6 40k intro competition. Deus Ex Machina (1997, 29.03, AGA File). code: PG, gfx: Skize, Skutt, MRK, music: Radix, Jazz. 3rd in The Gathering 97 demo competition. Henriques Chocolate (1997, 01.11, AGA 64k Intro). code: PG, gfx: Skize, Pad (font), music: Radix (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Dreamhack 97 64k intro competition! review: "HC" goes for a unique look, and almost succeeds in being something unique. It tries for a transparent look, where two effects are often presented at the same time, overlaid and transparent. Some parts work admirably well, others less so. The overall feel after having watched the intro twice, though, is a good one. Besides, PG deserves credit for trying something unusual. Approved. The intro's full name is "Henriques Chocolate - Paul The Kinder Penguin Part II". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Lingo ----- NOR> Cola (ascii, doublememb Balance [details], 94). SWE> Stash (sysop 'DYSTOPHIA', doublememb The Black Lotus, 01/95). Lingo is an ascii-group. Link, The --------- SWE> Aristo, Hawk, Hihat (Østen Forshed, code swap, 02/90), Hurricane (Christian Hallgren, music), Procyon, Sir Martin, Skywize (Ola Sambergs, code swap, 02/90), Vulture, Warlord (Peter Blomqvist, pack, 02/90). Boards; 007 BBS (usa), WARRIOR'S PRAYER EHQ (swe). Striker left. Reborn (1990, early, ECS File). code: Skywize, Hihat, gfx: n/a, music: Hurricane. review: Nothing exceptional, but a nicely put together little demo. For some reason, there is substantial waiting between the parts. The demo appears, though cryptically, to refer to some kind of rebirth of this group. There is not enough information to substantiate this, though. They make references to a party held 02/90 as 'a while back', so this was probably released early 1990. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mv chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Liquid (1992-) -------------- FRA> Shun (Anoros Franck, music swap, 12/92), Von Bubble (Harang Franck, swap). ???> Hiro (gfx, 12/92), Koo Kai (gfx music, 12/92), Ron (code, 12/92), Shiny (gfx, new early93). Liquid was formed late 1992 by members from Hellfire and Negative. 1993 - Factor was kicked out early in the year. French coder Gengis joined Digital. Reflex (1992, late, ECS Trackmo). code: Gengis, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: Future star coder Gengis' first trackmo! We Were There (1992, 27.12, ECS Intro). code: Ron, gfx: Hiro, Kookai, music: Shun. Released at The Party 92. Intro (1993, 02.08, ECS Intro). Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. Lisence (LSC) ------------- NOR> Amitech (sysop 'THE PHANTOM ZONE', 01/95), Cyan (sysop 'THE ZEST', 05/97), Dr.Ice (Kaare J., code, later Digital Corruption), Handy Man (sysop 'ZONE ONE', 05/97). ???> Cybertracker (nor? doublememb Access, 01/95). Boards; HOME OF PAIN (nor). Amitech is just one of two sysops of 'TPZ', the other being IT/BDZ^CRB. Litany ------ DEN> Mad Micro (music, 92), MTB (swap, 92), Mystic (swap, 92). ???> Slambam (music, 12/92). Cerval joined Centura. Live Act -------- HUN> Dab (Valent Labor, swap, late90), Raize (swap). ???> Mr.Lay (ex Graffiti, new early 92). Live Act were a Hungarian group, with divisions in Austria and Switzerland, both of which joined late 91. A new diskmag called 'Magvellous' was announced in late 91, but I do not think it was ever completed. Viti, Rainbow, Mc Green, B2 Man and Sliver joined Absolute. White Room (1992, ECS Demo). Cooperation with Genesis. Logic (1993-) ------------- GER> Calypso (code), Castor (G. Drollinger, swap), Ghostrider (code, ex Shining 8, new late93), Massive, Scampy (sysop 'CYPRESS HILL', 04/95), Thunder (gfx), Tronix (swap pack), Warhawk (code, ex Shining 8, new late93). ???> Agnus, Ascender (music, 08-12/93), Cetterus, Cosmic (music, 12/93), Hero (sysop), Lightning, Rofoe (ex The Silents, new late93), Scene Seven, Snow (ex The Silents, new late93), Spacedance, Xentec. Logic was formed late 1993 as a merger between the two groups Tech (Joker, Thunder, Tronix...) and Vanish (Calypso, Castor, Massive, Ascender, Cosmic...). Ghostrider and Warhawk from Shining 8, as well as Rofoe and Snow from The Silents were also recruited before the end of the year. German swapper Joker left the scene late this year. Trancentral World (1994 or pre, Music, 3 disks). Logic Probe (LGP, 1996-) ------------------------ SWE> Diztinct (gfx, 11/96), Joyce (Artur Niczko, code, 11/96), Mr.Dice (music), Nostrum (raytrace sysop), Pulse (gfx music), Virulent (gfx, 11/96), Werk (code 3D music, 11/96). Logic Probe is a purely Swedish demo group, formed in late 1996, and their first release was the amazing "Cryogenia" [11/96] demo. Cryogenia (1996, 02.11, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Joyce (main), Werk (additional), gfx: Virulent, Diztinct, Joyce (3d modelling), Werk (3d modelling), music: Werk. 2nd in the Halloween 96 demo competition. review: Yowzers, this was truly a positive surprise! A first production from an unknown group rarely come up to these standards! This demo was written on and for 060-based machines, though it runs perfectly fine on any 020+ system with enough fast memory. Keeping this in mind, it's almost a given that it's not very fast on anything but a 060... I'm sorry, low-spec people, but if visuals like these are the tradeoff, then I'd better start considering a new machine right away! What we're given here may not be terribly fast on my machine, but GOD does it look GOOD! There's a 3d engine here that's to die for, and plenty of other cool stuff to look at! The endpart with the spiralling green bumpmap tunnel thing in the background was AWESOME. And I haven't even begun telling you about the music! It starts off like so many other tunes for the demos of today, but soon picks up an identity of itself...and a ton of groove! I hereby FULLY RECOMMEND this. I'm looking forward to what these guys will do next! With talent like this, the Amiga scene is far from dead! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Looker House (LKR, 1995-) ------------------------- RUS> Dee'Mon (music raytrace, 05-06/96), Dmd! (gfx ascii, 05/96-05/97), Dyer (gfx, 05/96-97), g.d.m. (Alex Soloviev, mainorg gfx sysop 'PURPLE DREAM' WHQ, 95-02/98), Juggler (Vlad Komkov, code, 05/96-02/98), Notorious (Andrew Boyarintsev, swap edit 'Russian B.O.X.', new 05/96- 02/98), Shin (code, 05/96-97), Tangerine (music, 05-06/96), Xpeh (music sysop 'NEON DREAM', 05-06/96). DEN> Zinko (org sysop 'THE NORTHERN PALACE' EHQ, new 06/96). SWE> Tommy (music, new 06/96). GER> Bitbreaker (Vincent Truppe, 02/98). Boards; WASTELANDS (swe, 09/96). Looker House almost singlehandedly made the Russian scene part of the rest of the scene in 1995 and 1996, and are certainly the no.1 Russian group. They also released the only Russian diskmag, called 'RUSSIAN B.O.X'. 1996 - Kid Chaos was kicked 05/96. Russian Mf left the scene 06/96. Russians Lunasoul (gfx, new 05-06/97) and Kimba were kicked due to inactivity late 97/early 98. Norwegians Speed Devil (ascii swap trade, new 06/96) and Whiskas (music) were forced to leave in late 97/early 98. Speed Devil found a new home in Rebels. German musician Neurodancer (sysop 'AURORA BOREALIS', ex Abyss, new 06/96) decided to leave the group, and is now in 100% Blue Room (1996, may or pre, Intro). info: Released to promote their diskmag Russian B.O.X. Instincts (1996, may or pre, Muscidisk). Deep Lies - Purptro #6 (1996, AGA Intro). code: Juggler, gfx: Dmd, music: Tangerine. review: This intro was made just to adress some lies LKR feels other groups and people had spread about them. Therefore it's just an opening logo, followed by an ok designed textplotter part, and an end logo. The most notable thing, I suppose, is the music. It gets my vote for weirdest MOD of 1996, for sure. How about some MUSIC? And besides, the use of eLEET lettering in the intro really bugs me. Please, people? Can we confine that to the boards? nO rELEASE dATE aNYWHERE iN the iNTRO. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Enlight 96 Invitation (1996, Intro). code: Juggler, gfx: g.d.m., d.m.d, music: "Flying Through the Dreampark" by Neurodancer. review: Another production in the peculiar LKR style, but I like this one quite a lot! I guess it's the special graphics style that give all these LKR productions a look all of its own. Actually, it just struck me that these graphics are not entirely unlike something Ra might come up with! The design is also nice; it looks like it was rushed but they managed to come up with some neat stuff anyway! The biggest asset of this invitation intro, though, is a great piece of music by Neurodancer. It's a kind of calm techno with a piano lead. Very very good! Please note that this review caters for the fixed version. The original one didn't play any music on Amigas with fast RAM! :-/ [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Northro (1996, 10.07, AGA Intro). code: Shin, gfx: Dmd, music: G.D.M. review: A lot more like a 'real' production than Deep Lies, this is a small intro to announce their new member Zinko and his bbs THE NORTHERN PALACE. It's not bad, with some nice design especially in the opening part, but it's not going to shake the world either. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Loony Tunes (1996, .10, AGA Musicfile). code: Shin, gfx: Dmd, music: Tommy. review: First and foremost a plus to LKR for a different, slightly more elliptical design :) It's nice to see someone isn't thinking 'nice and square' when designing their productions. What we have here are some chippies from their new Swedish musician Tommy, none of which are anything outstanding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Germ (1997, .01, 4k Intro). code: Shin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Insomnia #1 (1997, 07.06, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Made/Bomb! and Scoopex, music: n/a, editor: Shade. I Wonder If (1997, 11.05, AGA File). code: Juggler, gfx: dmd!, music: Inco. review: This is not an intro or a demo, this is a piece of art. This amazing 'promotional intro' features a handdrawn animation that easily rivals what professionals create today. It's a surrealistic masterpiece. Once again, Looker House proves that they are uniquely different, and not afraid to think in new paths. This intro was made to promote a new, forthcoming diskmagazine called "Insomnia". They are preparing the mag in cooperation with TRSI, and former "Suicid" editor Shade will be main editor of this new mag. It's a promising prospect, and if they can maintain the typical Looker House air of originality, it could well be that they've got a monster on their hands :) The accompanying text credits for music, but not a note left my speakers when I viewed it :( I'm basing the release date on the file dates of the archive, since no date appears in the intro or the text files that come with it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Believe The Lie (1997, AGA File Demo). code: Shin, gfx: g.d.m, music: Tangerine. review: LKR are a group that tries hard to be different, and to have productions that bear some kind of common mark. Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes they don't. In "BTL" they only succeed halfway. They also try hard to be original, and also do so to a certain degree. The palette choices are certainly something that can instantly make you recognize an LKR release, and BTL is not different here. That's a few plus points for trying to be original then, as well as an effect I don't believe I've ever seen before, sort of like a flame bursting out from the middle of the screen and dying away towards the edges. Real cool that one! Overall though, I'm afraid there's still not enough entertainment here to make this an essential download. Sorry. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Insomnia #2 (1998, 13.02, ECS/AGA 2MB Multifile Diskmag). code: Juggler, gfx: Made/Bomb! and Scoopex (title), dmd! (main), Optic/ TRSI (additional), Alive/Nah Kolor (additional), music: "Jazz Nights" by Prodigy/Oops, "Love Fools" by Ganja/Nerve Axis, "Mosquito Dance" by Melomaniac/independent, "Jokuvitunpiise" by Muffler/Haujobb and DCS, "Spring Love" by Xhale/DCS, editor: Shade/TRSI (main), gdm (manage), Bytebreaker (coeditor), Excel/Balance (coeditor), Grey/Crux (newseditor). Cooperation with TRSI. review: First impressions are very good, with a smashing title picture by Made/Bomb! The music could have been more inspiring, though. Graphically, the mag looks like a cross between the standard Looker House offbeat abstract art design, ROM and late RAW. The mixture is not at all a bad one. Ofcourse, like all mags these days, this one also multitasks happily, making my job so much easier :) The diskmag will happily run on any Amiga with at least 2MB of memory, though you don't get to see the welcome picture with a non-AGA machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Loonies (LNS, http://www.loonies.dk) ------------------------------------ DEN> Laika (gfx, 07/96-04/00), Psycho (code gfx, 06/95-04/01), Tarmslyng (gfx, 06/95-12/99), Tiny (music). ???> Bifrost (gfx, 10/98-04/00), Blueberry (code gfx, 12/98-11/00), Booster (code music, 05/99-04/00), Farfar (gfx music, 12/99-04/00), Gafkhan (gfx, 12/97-05/99), HBN (97), Melomaniac (music, 04/00), Zoomorph (music, 12/97). Loonies is a Danish demogroup, formed in June 1995 by Psycho, Tiny and Tarmslyng. It is believed that the group is entirely Danish. 2001 - In april the group travelled to Mekka Symposium once again. Following their triumph there last year, it probably came as a small disappointment when their demo "Hotstyle Takeover" [04/01] was beaten by TBL, and came in 2nd place. Graphician Fasix left the scene around september. Da Intel Skate -As nothing happened- (1995, .08, Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Psycho, Tarmslyng, music: Tiny/Apollon. Spor 2 Blaa Trappe (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx/music: Tiny/Apollon. 30th in The Party 95 40k intro competition. Pilot I Tyskland (1996, 06.07, Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, music: Tiny/Apollon. 5th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Aflyseren (1996, .10, 4k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, music: none. info: This MIGHT have been released at the Scene Meeting (18-20.10)! Travellers (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). 14th in The Party 96 40k intro competition. Lunatic Sounds (1997, 06.04, Musicdemo). code: Psycho, gfx: Psycho, Laika, music: Tarmslyng. Demo-Stop (1997, n/a). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, music: Zoomorph. Released aat the Heaven 97 Party. Travellers (1997, AGA 40k Intro). Winner of the Heaven 97 Party 40k intro competition! Spor 2 Blaa Trappe II (1997, AGA 40k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, music: Apollon/Intense. Winner of the Heaven 97B 40k intro competition! review: Riiiiight... Ok, what we have here is something a little DIFFERENT... These mad danes have made a 40k intro that's a tribute to the 'famous' (I certainly never heard of the guy ;) Danish scientist Holger Bech Nielsen. To Loonies' credit, I can say that now that I've seen the intro and read the quotes, I wanna know some more! The intro itself, mr. Bech Nielsen aside, is nothing that makes me jump up and down with excitement. There's a few routines, of course, but nothing really outstanding. It's mostly various (blocky!) chunky color routines that work best as backgrounds for the quotes. The intro itself contains no real credits, just the names of some of the producers flashed onscreen for a moment beside a picture of the main man, Holger. If I'm bored some day I'll watch the intro again and add the names to this entry :) Unlike the competition version, this one features a requester at the start that allows you to choose between Danish and English versions. Needs 2.5MB ram to run, according to the aminet info. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Goa Trance (1997, 28.12, AGA Demo). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, Gafkhan, Psycho, music: Zoomorph. 10th in The Party 97 demo competition. 27+1 (1998, 40k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Tarmslyng, Psycho, music: n/a. 4th in the Scene Meeting 98 40k intro competition. Mental Brain Disorder (1998, Demo). code: Psycho, gfx: Laika, Lemniscus (3d images), Psycho (3d images), music: Tarmslyng. Released for the Scene Meeting 98 demo competition. Eurochart #35 Intro (1998, .10, Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Bifrost, music: Tarmslyng, Apollon/Giants. info: Intro for Depth's "Eurochart #35". The Morning Trip (1998, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Psycho, Blueberry, gfx: Bifrost, Psycho (3d), Laika (3d), music: Tarmslyng. 2nd in The Party 1998 40k intro competition. review: After a brief spell of precalculation, this intro apparently starts...without showing me any visuals, though. Perhaps it's a graphics problem with the intro, I don't know, but I don't see shit though... I do get the chance to hear the tune, which is a pretty engaging techno affair. Sure wish I could see anything... GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Julemandens Sidste Ferie (1998, 28.12, Demo). code: Psycho, gfx: Bifrost, Laika, Blueberry, music: Puryx/Unique. 13th in The Party 98 demo competition. Valhalla (1999, 17.05, Demo). code: Psycho, Blueberry, Booster, gfx: Gafkhan, Bifrost, Laika (2d 3d), Psycho (3d), music: Tarmslyng, Booster. Winner of the Icing 99 demo competition! Sheep Dictionary (1999, 10.07, 40k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Bifrost, Laika (3d), music: Tarmslyng. Released at Scene Meeting 99. Super Drug (1999, .12, AGA 64k Musicdemo). code/gfx: Psycho, music: Farfar, Puryx/Unique, Maytz/independent, Tarmslyng. Impossible (1999, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Psycho, Blueberry, gfx: Maytz (3d), Laika (3d), Psycho (3d), music: FarFar. 3rd in the Party 99 40k intro competition. Cybercinematastic (2000, 23.04, AGA 040 10MB Multifile Demo). code: Psycho, Blueberry, gfx: Farfar, Bifrost, Laika (3d), Psycho (3d), music: Melomaniac, Booster. Winner of the Mekka & Symposium 2000 demo competition! review: This demo requires at least an 040 processor, though they recommend 060 as mentioned in the accompanying text file. This means it far exceeds my system specifications. If anyone wants to review this demo for us, then please get in touch! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Randomized Sheap (2000, 64k Intro). code: Psycho, gfx: Farfar, Laika (3d), music: Booster. Winner of the TRSAC 2000 64k intro competition. Arla (2000, Demo). code: Psycho, Blueberry, gfx: Bifrost, Fasix, Laika (3d), music: Booster. Winner of the Scene Meeting 2000 demo competition! At The Movies (2000, 04.11, Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Curt Cool/Depth. Winner of the TRSAC 00.5 demo competition! Hotstyle Takeover (2001, 15.04, AGA HD Multifile Demo). 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: No surprise, another demo I just can't run =[ Requires, I'm guessing, an 060 and an fpu. Love [Desire subgroup] (1993-) ------------------------------ FIN> Jimi (Teemu Ratinen, founder music, 10/93), Kristen (sysop, ex Alpha Flight, new mid 93), Thor (founder, ex Disknet), Zakal (founder). Love was formed by the Finns Jimi, Thor and Zakal from Legend in 1993 as a subgroup for Desire. Loveboat -------- G-Spot (1998, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 4th in The Party 98 40k intro competition. review: Unfortunately, this intro does not appear to work on my machine. It just presents me with a grey screen and nothing happens for a really long time. Solutions most welcome. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Yes! (2000, 23.04, AGA 64k Intro). 5th in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Haujobb, see there for details. Lowlifes, The (TLL) ------------------- DEN> Hell Ride^Hawk Ride (sysops 'RIDERS TEAM'). Boards; MOST WANTED (nor, 08/95). LSD (Light Speed Distribution) [old] ------------------------------------ ENG> 2-Cool (10/92), Bernard Sumner (Phil Bak, music, 10/92), Bill (sysop 'ACE-AMIGA'), Chime (new early 92), Dangermouse (sysop 'THE TOWER'), Delbert (ex Digital, new 92-10/92), Delbs (ex Plague, new early 92), Destiny (sysop 'SATELLITE CITY', new 06/91), Echo (music, doublememb Phuture 303 ROM9, 10/92-97), Fish (gfx, 10/92), Ikari (ex End of Century 1999), Mark (gfx, ex The Silents, 10/92), Maximan (code, 06/91-10/94), Monty Python (code, 06/91), Mub (code, 10/92-08/94), Orchist (ex Druids [no entry], new 06/91), Parasite (mainorg swap, 06/91), Paw (swap, 06/91), Pazza (whq gfx editor, 10/92-93), Pod (swap, 06/91), Rebel (swap, 06/91), Shagratt (Dave de Pauw, code gfx, 06/91-10/92), Spirit (gfx music, 06/91), Watchman (gfx, 06/91-10/92). GER> Ferris (sysop 'PHREAKERS PHUNLAND', 10/91). NOR> Aragon (new early 92), Turrican (Bjørnulf Solberg, gfx, ex Addonic, 92). FIN> Chainsaw (swap trade, ex New Wave). BEL> Tomcat (code, new early92), Wonder (org swap). CAN> Van Damme (sysop 'DEATH ROW'). USA> Oldman (sysop 'THE HOLE', 04/93). ???> Adventurer (ex Trackers), D-Siya (ascii, 08/93), Denzil (swap, ex Apocalypse), Dr.Mabuse (modem, new early92), Duke (ex Digital, new 92), Etron (04/93), Lars Vegas (old handle Gonza), Matrix (David Counter, code, ex Digital, new 92), Nethead (nor? gfx, ex Frogs), Nightstalker (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY', new early 92), Nox (ex Pirates), Optima (ex Agile), Phantom (code). LSD was once an important, if often criticized, part of the English scene. They took in a lot of members, until they were finally so bloated, the group died. Their diskmag "Grapevine" was pretty popular in some circles, while others criticized it for being made up largely of text just downloaded from boards and published as articles (also the case of the last Cracker Journal issues). Maximan wrote Lemmings II for the Sega Master System, Game Gear and Nintendo Game Boy. Shagratt is the author of the virus killer program Nuke! and its sister production Nuke! Saddam (1.2b 24/6/1991). 1991 - In early june, the group released for the very first time "Grapevine #1", and announced inside the joining of new coder Orchist from Druids. 1992 - Version 1.5a of Shagratt's viruskiller "Nuke" was released on the 19th of february. Kazer (sysop) joined Noxious, but quickly moved on to Defjam in early 92. Belgian swapper Alligator was kicked early92. Fugitive and english swapper Sidewinder (06/91) left the scene early this year. Yonex (sysop 'BRAIN FOREST') joined from Hotline early 92, but was soon kicked! All foreign sections were kicked in august. The French section formed the new group Artefact. Pazza (Grapevine editor) was busted late 92 by FAST and the drug police! He still continued working for LSD, releasing even more issues of Grapevine... Graphician Watchman started working for Core Design late 92. 1993 - Danish sysop Zoonie ('HOUSE OF GAMES') joined Decade early93. 1995 - When Oedipus (Joe Pietroni, code) joined from Nebula, he became editor of Grapevine for one issue only (Grapevine #21 [01/95]). Shortly after its release, his mother died, and he slowly drifted away from the scene... 'UTOPIA' went offline in june, and was not busted despite rumours. Galaxy joined Interactive. Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Amaze, new early 92) joined Manitou. Deicide joined Devils. Vinh joined Delicious. Prisoner and Buckaroo left. Anarchist joined Endless Piracy. Adam left due to a lack of motivation. Spectral (ex Stealth/Mystix) left the scene. Soul/ex-LSD left the scene. Trigon (ex E-Motion [no entry]) joined Alcatraz. English sysop Scavenger ('THE POOL') joined Alpha Flight. Data (new early 92) joined Legend. Harlequin joined Scoopex. Overlord joined Dual Crew. The Invisible joined Rebels. English Ford (ex Spirit, new late91-10/92) joined Gange D-Zine/Ghost. Speed Master (sysop 'SANCTUARY') joined Skid Row. Norwegians Archie (code), Alien (code, both ex Addonic), Howard (ex Addonic, old handle Dr.Chipblower) and Nash left to form a new group called Ice. Jack (sysop 'DETONATION BOULEVARD', ex Cyberactive), Clawboy and Switchblade joined Desire to build a Norwegian division. English sysop Destiny was kicked. Lord Zero joined Legend. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (ECS Musicdisk, 4 disks). code: Shagratt, gfx: Ford, Fish, music: Echo, Bernard Sumner, Digger. Retro Demo (ECS Demo). info: Mentioned in "Grapevine #1" [06/91] and thus released before that. Grapevine #1 (1991, .06, ECS Filemag). code: Monty Python, gfx: Spirit (jim morrison), Watchman (logo), ???/Anarchy (font), music: Spirit. review: The very first issue of GV was perhaps not the most visually pleasing read ever. After a brief intro sequence with a reproduction of the Jim Morrison title picture of the then-new film The Doors, and an LSD logo that undergoes a few palette changes, we are in the main reading department. This is just a textplotter, where pages are flipped with the mousebuttons, and with an extremely annoying colorcycling in the background. Three minutes of reading, and you're guaranteed a headache. This issue announced new coder Orchist's joining from Druids. Remarkably it works perfectly problemfree on my configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Grapevine #2 (1991, .07, ECS Filemag). code: Monty Python, gfx: Watchman, music: Spirit. review: After the abysmal presentation of the first issue, loading issue #2 for the first time was a very nice surprise. We are first greeted with a very nice LSD PRESENTS logo, before an even nicer picture. The mag's code is bascially the same, though the colorcycling seems to be of a higher resolution this time, and perhaps therefore just a tad less irritating to have behind the text. The font is also new, replacing the one from the first issue. This one is even totally uncredited, so it is fair to assume that it, too, was ripped. The music is another medley of music by Spirit, I heard at least some Jarre and the Ghostbusters theme in there. He's not the world's best musician... This issue announced the joining of Destiny with the group's first board, 'SATELLITE CITY'. It also raised its fists at Tracker/Crack, who they claim have been ripping LSD packs, and putting his own name and menus in them! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Jesus on E's (1992, 24.10, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Shagratt, gfx: Watchman, Pazza, Shagratt, Mark, music: Echo. Released at the Digital Symposium 1992, unplaced. info: The original is not very compatible, so an AGA fixed version was later released. Grapevine issue #13 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag). info: According to a review in Solen Data #10, the graphics are all christmassy, so I guess it was released around x-mas ;) Grapevine issue #21 (ECS Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. LSD (Leeds Software Distribution) [new] --------------------------------------- cracking section ENG> Zoltrix (sysop 'SPACE OUT', 03-10/97). HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, 03-10/97). NOR> Axen (doublememb Spaceballs, 05/95-03/97), Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', memb of Spaceballs [details], Crux and Motion!, 05/95- 03/97), Messiah (doublememb Spaceballs [details], 05/95), Woober (sysop 'ETERNITY', 10/95-10/97). DEN> Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 03-10/97). ???> Baser Evil (10/97), Bill (03/97), Bird (03-10/97), Cesspool (03- 10/97), Cyanide (03-10/97), Etrigan (03-10/97), Fungus (03-10/97), Icon (03/97), Juan (03/97), Kidcurry (10/97), Kgb (03/97), Luniz (03/97), Marodeur (supply crack, 03-10/97), Harald Krischna (03- 10/97), Opel (03-10/97), Orlando (03/97), Snike (03-10/97), Sonny (03/97), Starkiller (03/97), Steel (03/97), Traitor (03/97), Trivial (10/97), Ufok (03-10/97), Wraith (03-10/97), Zanok (03-10/97), Zod! (03-10/97), Zorro (03/97). demo section FIN> B (doublememb DCS, new late97/early98), Dual (doublememb DCS, new late97/early98). ???> Nazgul (03-10/97), Pablo (03/97), TLS (03-10/97), Todi (03-10/97), Trooper (03/97). Boards; GRAVEYARD (eng, 03/97), MONASTERY OF BLUR (usa, 03/97), THE SKYNET (ger, 03/97), ZILLION HOURS (fin, 03/97), TRELLI IKOJENIA (swi, 03-10/97), WASTELANDS (swe, 09/96-10/97), STARGATE (eng, 03/97), DISCUSTIN' (10/97), CRAZY DEMOLITION SQUAD (ger, 10/97). Lunatic Earls ------------- AUS> St.Peter (sysop 'HEAVEN'). ???> TGR. The board 'HEAVEN' is sysoped by St.Peter in conjunction with Genocide/M12. Motown joined Analog. The English division is dead. Booster left to rebuild Dromex. Ice joined Alpha Flight, but left the scene after a few days. Mr. Fah (sticker producer!) was busted by the police. Lunatics, The (LNCS) -------------------- AUS> Blaze (code gfx, new 07/92), Jimmy (sysop 'ABILITY', 07-08/92), Mixer (08/92), Nemesis (code gfx, 09/92), Neurosis (gfx, new 07/92), Shaydz (08/92), Woody (pack, 07-08/92). ???> Dragon Bait (ex Exile), Duff, Head, Joe (gfx, 08/92), Leelee (code, 08/92), Phaser (music, 09/92), Polaris (code, 07/92), Radium (music, 08/92), Raise, Sponge, Sprinter, TGR, Waylander (gfx, 07/92). The Lunatics was a UK-based demo group. 1991 - The entire group Ozone (which was in itself a merger of the groups Falon and another, Danish group) - danish and dutch divisions - was recruited. Unfortunately for Lunatics, the danish division left again after just one week, and this left only the dutch members - Jay One, Sane, Weirdo and Knightram. 1992 - Jay One left for Freestyle, and this coupled with the joining of some untalented, lazy people left the dutch division of Lunatics in something of a small crisis. Sane took the best members of the dutch divison with him and formed the dutch-only group Scorpio in june or july. The first issue of the new pack, "Funky Fresh #1" [07/92] was released in july, with Woody as pack-editor. It announced two new australian members to the group; Neurosis (gfx) and Blaze (code gfx). English Aztec (07/92) was kicked. Interrogator joined Liberty. English musician Hollywood joined Freestyle. Their New Zealand division split up and their Austrian division joined Manitou. Funky Fresh packmenu (1992, .07, ECS Intro). code: Polaris, gfx: Waylander, music: n/a (ProTracker MOD format). review: This packmenu is pretty basic, with a scroll a textplotter and a selector. The unidentified music is a rendition of the theme for the classic tv series Mission Impossible. The first issue of this pack (and subsequently also the packmenu) was july. [glenn] The Search (1992, 01.08, ECS Intro). code: Leelee, gfx: Joe, music: Radium. Released at Prime 92. Existro (1992, 26.09, ECS File). code: Nemesis, gfx: Nemesis, Gothic/Crass, music: Phaser. Lustrones (LST) --------------- ITA> Aga (code, early96), Air Pez (sysop 'CLOSE ESCAPE' WHQ, early96), Berta (raytrace), Dip (code, later Darkage, early96), Gupho (music, early96), Mat (gfx, early96), Metal Maniac (code, new early96), Slat (code, early96). Boards; 'DISASTER AREA' (ita), 'PRIMAL ORDER' (ita). Infamia #2 (1996, .04, AGA Filemag). Cooperation with Megahead [details]. Lynx Crew, The -------------- ???> CDC (gfx, 04/90-91), Danko (music, 04/90), The Ninja (code, 04/90-91), T.L.R. (code gfx, 04-05/90). The Party Massacre (1990, 18.04, ECS File). code: T.L.R., The Ninja, gfx: CDC, T.L.R., music: Danko. 3rd in the Horizon Copy Party 90 demo competition. Joy Test (1990, 15.05, ECS Disk). code: T.L.R, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Man Kraks (Är Ni död) (1991, ECS File). code: The Ninja, gfx: CDC, music: n/a. M.A.D (Mutual Assured Destruction) (-1990) ------------------------------------------ ???> Axiom (04/90), Ezekimak, Fisc (crack, 03/90), Leaders in Crime (crack, aka LIC, 04/90), Pennywise, Skywalker, Sleeping Bag, Stinger, Stormlord, The Surge (crack). Boards; DEVILS ISLAND WHQ (usa), INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (usa), AMIGA EAST (usa), INVOLUNTARY DEATH (usa), SLEEPY HOLLOW (usa), CRYSTAL PALACE (n-l), PRISM BBS/FORGOTTEN MIND 3 (ita), IMAGEWORKS (eng). M.A.D was another one of the better cracking groups, mainly based in France, who ruled that part of the scene for a while. Their road to death started after their WHQ (presumably DEVILS ISLAND?) left for Paranoimia. When they died in mid 1990 (june or earlier!), its members formed a group called Legend. However, they soon joined the forces of Paradox, another new group formed by Trilogy together with ex-members of Kefrens and Rebels. Mad Elks (MDE, -1996) --------------------- POL> Alis (Piotr Mucha, whqorg gfx swap, old handle Fly, 05-11/93), Dak (Dariusz Ûurkowski, code swap, 05/93), Fli (Paweeï Flieger, gfx swap, 05/93), Iron (org code music swap, ex Invaders), Kopara (Krzysztof Kopczynski, stopswap WHN1, 05/93), Redman (Robert Zabiegala, swaphq, ex Union), Sca (Wojciech Szczësny, swap, 05/93), Valdi (Waldemar Konik, code, 05/93), Zielu (sysop 'SILENCE OF THE ELKS'). HUN> Messerschmitt (swap, ex Surprise! Productions). ITA> Gurgle (Mauro Moro, swap, ex Ram Jam). SWE> Zombie (swap). FIN> Avenger (swap, ex Electra, 93). NOR> Quaid (swap, ex Grace). DEN> Vocal (music). FRA> Baby (org music gfx), Dr.Trans (music), Fabrice (code). ???> Razorblade (ex Cadaver), R.U.R. (music), Thieving Magpie (code), Xenos (gfx, ex Blaze), Z (gfx). Mad Elks' reputation was largely built by their party-winning demo "Technological Death" [05/93], which turned a few heads when it appeared. They also spent a brief period as a subgroup of Mystic. Kopara was the original organizer, and when he decided to stop that hard worrk in the early part of 1994, Alis took over organizing. After a long time of silence, Iron took the reins in 1995 and tried to build the group up to its previous glory. In doing so, MDE finally exceeded the borders of Poland, making new members in both Sweden and Germany. However, after Iron's unsuccessful attempt to raise the group, most members left in favour of other, more productive groups. Mad Elks is therefore dead, around mid 1996. Polish swapper Action (ex Energy, new late95) joined Damage late 95. Danish swapper Growl did NOT join. Polish swapper Qwerty (ex Investation) joined Freezers. Polish graphician Gunman joined Mystic. Colorboy joined Outlaws. Danish guy Tai Pan was kicked. Coder P.G. (Piotr Rgzyboswki, 05/93) got kicked. Polish swapper Jeremy (Wojtek Godlewski, old handle The Cool, doublememb Mystic, 05/93) left the scene. Technological Death (1993, .05, ECS Trackmo). code: Mr. Dak, Valdi, gfx: Fly, Fli, music: "Technological", "Ballada" and "Economy5" by XTD/Union. Winner of the Mountain Congress 93 demo competiton! review: One of the first techno demoes, carried largely by its music. It's got a groovy, thumping beat, and that's where most of the enjoyment lies with this. It's OK, but the skills of the other participants are sadly lacking, especially the graphicians. In the scroll they mention this is their second trackmo. Which was the first? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Cache OFF, OCS ON.  Polish Autumn Party Invitation (1993, 02.08, ECS File). code: Dak, gfx: FLI, Xenos, Alis, music: "Macinery v.2" by XTD/Union. Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. review: An impeccable invitation demo! There's not a lot to put your finger on here, it's all pretty good. Especially the tune has a great feel to it, but the design also helps. They mention a secret part, but I haven't been able to find it yet. The demo itself features no release date, but since the tune is dated .07 and the party is in October, all it takes is a little math. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Needs KillAGA. Mad Monks (-1989) ----------------- Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces under a new name in the beginning of 1989. Mad Sorcerers (MDS) ------------------- The best members formed Comedy with best members of G-Force. Madhouse Ware (1991-1991) ------------------------- This new group almost immediately changed their name to Sceptic mid 91. Mador ----- Brainiac joined Platin late93. Mad Sorcerers (MDS) ------------------- Mad Sorcerers died when Comedy was formed by the best members of this group (Zorro, Eksec) and G-Force. This was probably adround late 91 or late 92. Magical Skulls -------------- ITA> C-Dj'79 (music, early96), Chunky (Pronzato Roberto, code, early96), R-Salvy 2 (gfx, early96). Magical Skulls are a small Itaian group, consisting of C-DJ'79, Chunky and R-Salvy 2. Magic Circle (-1989) -------------------- Magic Circle was a Norwegian demo group, who made some really simple demos around march and april of 1989. The group ceased to exist when they merged with Insanity a little later that year to create a new group called Ivory. Magnetic -------- ???> Eidolon (12/92), Naut (Music, 12/93). Magnetic Fields (MF, 1989-1991) ------------------------------- ENG> Anz (gfx, 02/90), Bastard (code, 02/90), Blaster (org swap, 02/90), Cosy (trade swap, 02/90-06/91), Dextrous (code music, old handle Yaz, 02/90), Engineer (sysop WHQ, 06/91), Frap (swap, 02/90-06/91), Frenzy (gfx, 02/90), Hassle (code, 02/90), Hippy (trade, 06/91), Hit (code, 02/90), JCM (swap, 06/91), No. 5 (mainorg, 02/90), Opal (trade swap, 02/90), Sister Arv (gfx 3d, 02/90), Spike (music, 02/90), Spook (code music, 02/90). Magnetic Fields was born in England february 18th 1989, as a merger between the two groups Sub-Zero and Nitro A.C. They remained an English based group throughout their existence. The group arranged an internal party in 1989, and then two 'proper' parties in 1990, the 'Select' (february) and 'Revenge' (october) parties. 1991 - They were reorganized, and all of the best German and English members formed Digital in the middle of 91. Among the guys that went along to the new group are No.5, Spook (code), Kevin, Duncan and Dextrous. Cosy joined Anarchy, while Scott (ex Panic) joined Awesome mid 91. Duncan, Kevin and Grim joined Digital. Mahoney & Kaktus ---------------- Music Disk II - Sounds of Gnome (1989, 17.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mahoney, gfx: n/a, music: Mahoney, Kaktus, Glue Master. Nitro Pac (1989, mid?, ECS File). Mainzelmännchen Productions --------------------------- Secret Members (1995, 21.05, Demo). 2nd in the Nexus 95 demo competition. Majic 12 (M12) -------------- HUN> Avantage (code, 02/91-04/93), Bit Bat MixMaster (91), Booy-T (code music, 04/93), Dr.Zothyo (write, 04/93), Exemplar (music, 02/91-04/93), Jazzy D (code swap, 04/93), Mr.Device (org write, old handle General Twining or Twinning, 02/91-04/93), Rising Fly (gfx, 02/91), Sinclair (91-04/93), Ultravox (code, 02/91), Version (91). NOR> Bez (91), B.I.T (Ove Karlsen, music, ex Eon/Cinefex, but who?), Brick (91), Capman (swap, 93), Conie (music swap, 02/91), Develon (code, 91- 04/93), Diver (org trade, 91-04/93), Dr.M (swap, 02/91), Heavy Mental, Jehovah (gfx story, 02/91), Knight (Gøran Berg, swap, 91), Mac (91), Pentagon (gfx swap, 02/91), Tactel (trade ex? sysop 'JUNGLE FEVER', ex Grace, new early92-04/93), TEN (Tor E. Nygård, swap, 93), White Dragon (swap, 04/93), Zent (swap, 02/91). AUS> 243 (sysop 'SOUTHERN COMFORT', new ROM3), Act777 (Code^Gfx^Music, 02/91), Bountyhunter (trade, 02/91), Brett (gfx, 02/91), Brutus (91), Byte-Fighter (swap, 02/91), Genocide (code music, 04/93), Rad:Man (91), TAL (code swap, 02/91-04/93), TV (code trade sysop 'NO-WARE'/'HAMBURGER HEAVEN', 02/91-04/93), Xiphoid (gfx, 04/93). DEN> Apollo (old handle Quarterman, 91), Baby Alf (91), Christian (91), Jewel (swap, old handle Lucas, 04/93), Mosaic (91), Mr.Sax (91), Mud (swap edit "Top Secret", 91-04/93), Quarterman (12/91), Thunderbyte (code, ex Deadlock, 04/93). GER> Migth (91), Skaos (91). UK > Cybarite (91), Toxic (91). SWE> Amp (music, 04/93), Burton (org, 05/92-04/93), Cindy (trade, 04/93), Cruiser (Erik Engstrom, swap, aka Shorty, 05/92-04/93), Derelict (music, new 05/92-04/93), Griffin (gfx, 05/92-04/93), Hannes (code, 04/93), Melly (trade, 04/93), Odeon (code, later Phenomena, 04/93), Stacy (gfx, 04/93), Sy-Klone (ascii sysop 'TWISTED SOBRIETY' EHQ/ earlier 'MEGABLAST' 05/92 and 'REVOLUTION', 05/92-04/93). FIN> Addict, Axl, Blitzer, Dmc, Gut, Jan, Pits, Ruler (trade, stopswap), Slaverider. ???> Beast (gfx, doublememb Impulse 06/96). Boards; CAPTIVE HONOUR (swe), CRAZY WORLD (swe), EXTREME OVERLOAD (swe). Majic 12 will be remembered mainly for some half-decent demos, and for their diskmag "Top Secret". They also released several acclaimed PC demos, with the aid of their PC coder Maxwood. These demos also include graphics by Rack etc., so they're well worth checking out! TV has been involved with a LOT of BBS'es (or just changed the name frequently, what do I know?). I have a listing for a 'DAMAGING EVIDENCE' board he cohosted with Revenger. 1992 - Norwegian coder Flesh joined from New Wave around mid 92. The diskmag "Top Secret" was handed over to the Danish division, and new editor is TFG. A "Ray of Hope III" demo was planned (according to Balance's "Magbox #1" [07/92]), but never saw the light of day... 1993 - The French section - a.o. Baby (Fabien Guerin, org music, 04/93) - was kicked mid 93. This probably also concerns Hexogen (code), Magellan (swap, 04/93), Mwaba (gfx, 04/93), Polaris (swap), Shean (gfx swap), Thanbatos (gfx) and Zuul (music). Danish editor TFG (91-04/93) left after finishing "Top Secret #15" [mid93]. Hungarian Zozo will probably be the new main editor. Suburban Base was founded 1994 by Swedish ex-members of Majic 12 (a.o. coder-musician Randall (old handle Zyx, 05/92-12/93) and Vision. Hungarian organizer, swapper and sysop Zozo (Kozak Zoltan, 'MYSTERIOUS ISLAND' reopened ROM3/'REJTELMES SZIGET', 02/91-04/93) left the scene. The Norwegian division was kicked, except for Dr.Bully, Heavy Mental and Vector. Musician Dr.Bully (04/93), the guy responsible for a.o. the soundtracks to the two "Ray of Hope" demos, left to join Cadaver (PRP4). Swapper Vector (04/93) was also later kicked, and I do not know what happened to H.M... Dali joined Static Bytes and changed his handle to Daae. Norwegian swapper and trader Razorblade (ex Interactive, new mid93) joined Balance. Danish swapper Nighthawk (91-04/93) joined Rebels sometime between 04/93 and 03/94. Rumours that he joined Iris are false. Danish sysop Ramirez ('SUFFOCATION', ex Balance, 04/93) joined Fairlight. Danes Chorus (music), Sid (music) and Condor (swap, all ex Quartz) joined the new Razor 1911. Norwegian graphician Darkdude joined Shamrock. Danish swapper Zinko (ex Deadlock, 05/92-04/93) joined Kefrens. Hungarian superstar graphician Rack (02/91-04/93) joined Absolute early 93. Guran joined Shining. Norwegian coder and graphician Flesh (ex New Wave, new mid92-04/93) joined Paradise. V-Cut, sysop 'TRADERS ISLAND' joined Equinox. Swedish graphician Eracore (new 91-04/93) left for TRSI. (is this right?) Hitech and Norwegian The Laiter (gfx swap, 02/91) got kicked. French musician Killerman is nowadays more known as Oxbow/Scoopex... Ray of Hope (1991, 23.02, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Snowland" by Dr.Bully (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Majic-12 meeting in Kapuvar. review: Unfortunately I wasn't able to run this M12 demo. I tried both KillAGA and TUDE's degrade option, but it still kept guru'ing with a 0000000E error. Too bad. The partial information is extracted from text I found in the depacked file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Does not work. Ray of Hope 2 (1991, 07.09, ECS Trackmo). code: Avantage, Version, Ultravox, gfx: Rack, music: "Resonance II" by Dr. Bully. Winner of the C.C.C.P. Chromance Party 91! Review: The first thing that strikes me about RAY 2 is that the in-between font is very good. It's very Global Trash-y... Anyway, it opens with some blue/black interference, like in the original, followed by what it calls 'copper magic'. I rather like this effect, it's perhaps the best implementation ever, and the only part of the demo where the music coincides with the effects. If only the powerful part of the music had lasted a little longer... Next we're given what they call 'a boring sinusplotter'. They're right. Next is the real showstopper of the demo: a new kind of RGB plasma! Actually I don't think I've ever seen this effect replicated? Anyway, M12 were first! A very good effect, and one that makes this one notable. Next is another highlight; a BIG gorgeous logo by Rack. It's not hard to see why he became a living legend back in those days. The rest of the demo is rather unexciting. The tune is another thing worth noting here; it's a bizarre mixture indeed, ranging from great to just plain nondescript. The pan pipes have POWER; the pling- plong shit has only the power to irritate. Noteworthy, but not great. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: WORKS(!) with TUDE's Degrade option. ADL suckerz! Top Secret Issue #7 (1991, mid, ECS Diskmag). SSS-Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). Code: Zyx, Gfx: Eracore, Music: Zyx. Techno Intro (1992, .05, ECS Intro). code: Zyx, gfx: Eracore, music: Derelict. review: Techno-Intro is its name. I should perhaps mention that I hate techno? OK, I'll admit that I like SOME of the stuff - like Clawz' tunes. However, even I can hear the difference between original and downright 'let's do what they do' tunes. This one falls into the latter category. The rest of this intro, though, is pretty un-techno. It's not UGLY, but won't set anyone on fire with enthusiasm either. It's a pretty standard little intro that's way too big for what it offers. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Top Secret issue #12 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag). sorryforgotdabloodyname (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Zyx. info: Design in graffitti style. Woui Dentrau (1993, mid?, ECS File). code/gfx: Baby, music: n/a. Top Secret issue #14 (1993, ECS Diskmag). info: There was also a pc edition (with EXACTLY the same articles) coded by Majic 12's pc coder Maxwood. Top Secret issue #15 (1993, ECS Diskmag). INT - Produced by Andromeda. MAG - code: Avantage, gfx: R.W.O/Kefrens (title), Eracore (menu), Dali (gallery), music: "Secrecy" by Mr.Man/Andromeda (4ch MOD format), editor: Zozo. info: TFG left the mag before this issue, and Zozo reclaimed his position as main editor. There was also a pc edition (with EXACTLY the same articles) coded by Majic 12's pc coder Maxwood. Malicious Crew -------------- MC merged together with Twilight, and ceased to exist themselves (04/96). Mandel Bros (MB, 2000-) ------------------------ FIN> Nutcase (Sami I Saarnio, code music, 00), Roland (amigist, 00), Visage (gfx, 00). Mandel Bros was formed in 2000 by Nutcase, Visage and Roland (all three were previously also together in Deadline, 92-93), and is based in Helsinki, Finland. The three members are lifelong friends, so it doesn't seem likely this group will fall apart anytime soon :) Their first production was the a500 demo "Oldskool Fools", 9th at the Assembly 2000. Oldskool Fools (2000, .08, ECS Demo). code/music: Nutcase, gfx: Visage. 9th in the Assembly 2000 oldskool demo competition. Mangoo ------ SWE> Some1 & Morrow (music, new early00). N-L> Wavemaker (doublememb Trinity [detials], 12/00) ???> Fusko (gfx, new early00). Maniacs ------- NOR> Invoker (Jan Nilsen). FIN> Dr.Zone, Lucas. SWE> Sinister (Johan Asperyd, swap, late95). ???> Rebellion (ex Dual 4Mat, new late95). Finnish Simpson left. Manitou (MTU) ------------- AUT> Coon-O (ex Energy), Golmo. GER> Coming Art (sysop 'IN UTERO'), Gentleman (John Walter, swap, 94), Interceptor (sysop 'THE MATRIX'), Major Bandit (swap, 94), Rave (Christian Dahl, swap, 94), Sir Jinx (Ingo Winkler, swap, 94), Sonic Flash (swap). NOR> Andy, Viking (swap, ex LSD). Boards; THE LOST CARRIER (usa). Austrian Mosquito (swap) is no longer a member. He was one of the coarrangers of the SEMI Party 93. Mankind (MKD) ------------- FRA> Krabob (code). Aerial (1995, 23.04, AGA File). Released for GASP 95 demo competition. review: A fast but blocky Doom routine opens this demo, followed by what I supppose is an actual innovation - a man running around in the maze! The music sucks throughout - they're probably trying to be different, but it's a tad too weird for me. Good in some parts, not too good in others. In a word: Average. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Slach Party Invitation (File). code: Krabob, gfx: Grenat, Krabob, music: Tex. review: This invitation intro is actually really nice, with good functional graphics and some good, innovative coding! You choose at the beginning what language the text is to be presented in, and it all feels like a professional production. Very very nice, more like this! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Marram (-1993) -------------- Marram died late 1993. Smudge left for Perspex. Masque (1992-1995) ------------------ GER> 16 Beat (Joachim Soppe, music), Romeo Knight (Eike Steffen, music, ex TRSI, 12/93), Viola Bros (gfx), Warhead (org, ex TRSI), Wayne Mendoza (Martin Wawro, codeAM^PC, ex TRSI), Zap (code, ex Sanity). POL> Dreamer (code music, later Nah Kolor, ex TRSI, 95). ???> X-Ray (org code). Masque was initially formed in 1992, as a demosection within TRSI. After a year of this, they decided to try their luck on their own, and left TRSI - taking all of TRSI's legal members with them! A pc section was formed in 1993, and you can see more of their accomplishments in Scenery pc :) The amiga section was officially closed in the early part of 1995. Can anyone shed any light on what happened to VIS like Wayne Mendoza, The Viola Bros, 16-Beat and Romeo Knight? German supergraphician Peachy (ex TRSI, 12/93) left for Haujobb after the group was closed. Coder Ply2 joined TRSI. German coder Cueball joined DCS. Graphician Tee Jay (Thomas Jarnot, ex TRSI) got kicked. German coder MC68000 (Frank Hülsmann, 04/93) left the scene. He was responsible for coding the "CeBIT 93 Slideshow" [93] and releasing the much-used module packer utility Promizer. German graphician Fade One (ex Black Monks new) joined Lego. Deicide left to join Cryptoburners. Misery Dentro 2 (1993, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Dreamer, Wayne Mendoza (additional), gfx: Peachy, music: Virgill. 2nd in the CeBIT 93 demo competition. CeBIT 93 Slideshow (1993, .04?, ECS Slideshow). code: MC68000, gfx: Viola Bros, music: Virgill. Massive [old] ------------- NOR> Elwood. ???> Cyde (ex Grace, new late91), Mr.Frenzy (ex Dazzle, new mid91). Nevada joined Dazzle 09/92. Massive [new] (MSV) ------------------- NOR> Damien (trade, new 09/96), Felix (Karsten Fischer, org swap, doublememb K!nky), Fisherking (gfx swap sysop 'WINTERLAND', 09/96- 02/97), Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', new 09/96), Maze (music swap Pack, doublememb Eltech, new 04/96-09/96), mJ (swap, ex Iris, new ROM9), Mosher (Roar Fossen, gfx raytrace swap, 09/96), Redhead (mascot, new 09/96), Repoman (gfx raytrace swap, new 09/96), Rolex (music, doublememb Apathy [details], new 12/96), Ten! (Tor E. Nygård, raytrace ascii sysop 'DISASTER AREA', new 09/96), Thrym (Espen Fossen, gfx raytrace swap, new 09/96-97), U-Nik (swap, new 09/96). SWE> Anfobia (ascii swap, double-memb Ambrosia 06/96), Java (gfx ascii sysop 'DELUSION', 09/96), Jummen (org trade swap, 09/96), Snøarn (code, new 09/96), Yabbo (music swap, 09/96). POL> Jutu (code, new 09/96), Scraby (org swap, doublememb Old Bulls [details], new 09/96). AUT> Moon (code swap, 09/96). SWI> Lousy (music swap, new 09/96). FIN> Crazywild (org swap trade, 09/96). FRA> Hysteric (swap). Fisherking's BBS Winterland was NOT up 09/96, but I found a listing of it 02/97 - which means it went up sometime inbetween those two dates. Java, sysop of 'DELUSION' is also in three other groups simultaneously! 1996 - French swapper Hysteric joined Scoopex 09/96. 1997 - Spanish swapper Nork (new 09/96) decided to end his double membership, and is now just in Network [details] and Darkage late in the year. Matrix (MTX, -1996) ------------------- GER> Airon (music), Ganic (code), Grond (codeAM), Nazgul (gfx), Stingray (trade). Matrix was a German demo group, which died in june 1996 after their leader joined Riot, and Nero (gfx), Sharon (code) and Skyphos (code music) joined Artwork. This robbed the group of most if not all of its best talent, and there was no use to go on after this. Nero, Sharon and Skyphos later reformed the group on the pc, with some success. Gom Jabbar (1996, 16.11, AGA Multifile). code: Sharon, Skyphos, gfx: Nero, music: Skyphos. Winner of Convention 96 demo competition! review: Matrix' first demo is technically advanced for sure, but how much does that help when certain effects move forward with an almost amazingly slow framerate? Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad demo at all - quite the contrary, in fact - but they should perhaps have spent some more time polishing and optimizing their effects. The graphics are great, tho. The music is worth an extra mention, since it sounds so amazingly clear and crisp - almost like it was coming out of my GUS ;) I don't personally care much for this kind of music, but the sound quality on this mod is rather great... I may be wrong, but my guess is it has something to do with 16 bit samples that are later converted... The guys who made this - Matrix' first demo - later joined Artwork and are now more or less Artwork's PC section. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mad Wizards (Mawi/MWI) ---------------------- POL> Aln (code, doublememb Appendix [details], 12/97), Azzaro (Tomasz Wisniewski, mainorg gfx, 06/96-04/98), Bay-Tek (Marcin Zawadowics, code, 08/97), Enter (Radoslaw Rozkrut, code, 08/97), Starlight (code, 08/97). FIN> Subtstance (music, 04/01). ???> Jacko (gfx, 04/98), Zoltan (gfx, 04/98). MAWI is a mainly Polish demo group. Their homepage, http://www. whatisthemawi.net, seems to have gone from the web. Frey (1996, 23.06, ECS 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Polish Summer Party 96. review: "Frey" was Mawi's first ever intro, and unfortunately one that I just couldn't get to work properly on my machine. I first tried simply running it, and got the music correctly by just scrambled graphics. I rebooted and tried with KillAGA, but...I don't know, the music still plays, but now no visuals at all appear on my screen! Strange... Please note that the version reviewed is one that is 'a little fixed and refreshed', but still does not 'support' turbocards, in that they've used a blitter-c2p routine to support the older amigas. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Confusion (1997, 31.08, AGA/ECS 4k Intro). code: Enter, gfx: none, music: none 6th or 12th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition. review: You're basically not missing anything with this... It's just some slow Gouraud objects in garish colors. Unfortunately the intro can not the exited until it is done. Both AGA and ECS versions are included. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Fire And Ice (1997, 31.08, ECS 4k Intro). code: Starlight, gfx: none, music: none. 6th or 12th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition. review: A nice idea, this is an intro based on an effect that is randomly generated each time it is executed. It is essentially a buce background effect with color-cycling under a few pages of nicely designed text telling the title and the name of the group. Perhaps not so great, but nice nevertheless... Two versions are included, one for 020+ fastmem machines, and one for all processors. The intro has even been tested by its makers on a bog standard a500 :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Delight 2 (1997, 31.08, 4k Intro). code: Bay-Tek, gfx: none, music: none. Cooperation with Taski. 13th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition. review: Unfortunately, I could not get this intro to work. It just returns the command prompt after a brief pause. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Brick (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). 4th in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition. Sacrebleu (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 7th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Visible World 100% (1998, 26.04, AGA AHI ?MB HD Slideshow) code: Bjsebo/VA, Noe/VA, gfx: Zoltan, Jacko, Azzaro, music: Dave/Haujobb. 2nd in the Rush Hours 1998 demo competition. Cooperation with Venus Arts (VA). review: Mawi surprised us with a breath-taking demo-like show consisting of superb raytraced graphics by Zoltan who has already won many competitions before (as written in the readme-file) settled in a cosy atmosphere and good design. Await something different to traditional slideshows if you will have a look at this one. Not only that it is no pixeled art you can admire but nine raytraced fullscreens (plus the main logo) it's also more designed like a demo (it has been placed second in a demo competition) showing after every picture a little part with poetic words and various textured vectors and other 3D-effects. The traced gfx have a high level of quality. A Viking ship, insects, alien topics and plays with reality (the 1st picture is more than art, it's a vision!) and spaceships are to find in very detailed views. The best stuff I have seen 'till now from 3D-Modellers. Guest musician Dave composed a smooth (ambient, I guess) module that fits very good and makes the overall design to an extraordinary event. A very nice opening tunnel and multitasking without bugs shows the abilities of Bjsebo and Noe, but I still don't know why this 3D-system shall be as revolutionary as written in the readme?! Also a bad point is that you have no selector to choose single graphics, you always have to run the whole thing again! Conclusion: Who haven't seen this missed an important piece of the scene's history one will still talk about in a few years. Most of the pictures are more than six points worth but a few have no good ideas and lack of design like the 5th for example. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Metatag Lock K-231277 (2000, .08, Demo). code: Kierownik, gfx: Critikill, Def (3d), Azzaro, Drf, music: Revisq (main), Spectra (endpart). 13th in the Assembly 2000 demo competition. info: Reviewed in Darkage's "Showtime #16" [04/01], where the reviewer meant it got an unfairly hard treatment. FOUR fullscreen pictures by Critikill are shown during the demo. Amsterdam Blessings (2001, 15.04, AGA AHI 040 Demo). code: Michal Wozniak, gfx: Tomasz Wisniewski, Przemyslaw Kuca (3d), Slawomir Mazurkiewicz (widescreen visualism), music: Tomasz Zelek. 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. info: I can't see this demo on my system, mainly because of a lack of RAM, an FPU and an 060 processor... =[ They say it's tested at ok speeds down to 040-30, but should theoretically run on any 020+ processor. The demo requires about 25mb of fast memory. Works on CGX systems without promotion, just as long as you have the relevant screenmodes defined. Mayhem ------ English coder Del (04/90) was later in Anarchy. Electro Flight 2 (1990, 08.04, ECS File). code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition. Another Demo (1990, 08.04, ECS File). code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition. Ham Scroll (1990, 08.04, ECS File) code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition. MDMA ---- HOL> I-Go (later TBL). ENG> U4IA (music). ICE> Jam and Spoon (music, later Nerve Axis). ???> Clarion, Outland, PUW/MAW, Vortex. Mean Machine ------------ ???> Jellybean (music, ex Addonic, 10/91). Finnish sysop Palex ('FROM BEYOND') left for Accession, where his board is now called 'BAD TASTE', 10 or 11/91. Medicine (1994-) ---------------- SWE> Pace (Roger Andersson, swap, 94), TBB (sysop 'TWISTED SOCIETY, 05/94). ???> Axe (new PRP4), Cabbe (new PRP4), Parsec (new PRP4), Stuff (new PRP4), Thunor (new PRP4). Medicine was formed by the Swedish division of Infect after the left to form their own group. The original founders were at least Morrow, Lussar'n, Jammie and Slime. Swedes Mr.Mygg and Morrow (founder) got kicked (PRP4). Both were later in C-Lous. Swedish coder Lussar'n (founder) joined Rebels (PRP4). The two Swedes Frame (founder, old handle Jammie) and Slime (founder) left (PRP4). Frame then joined C-Lous late 94, and Slime was later in Rebels. Swedish coder Exidor joined the new Razor 1911 (PRP4). Swedish coder Origo joined from C-Lous for a couple of months, but later chose to rejoin C-Lous (PRP4). Megaforce (MFC, 1986-1988) -------------------------- Megaforce was one of - if not THE - biggest early group. MFC meant quality! They made demos, cracks (earliest: Tetris in february 1986!!) and utils. In 1988 the French section, organized by Nasty Boy, got in trouble with the Police over piracy. Therefore Ranger, the leader, decided to put MFC to rest and start a new group. He formed Scoopex with several other ex-MFC members, like Crazy Typer. Raster Magic (1988, 23.05, ECS File). code: Crazy Typer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Megademo (1988, 01.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Salzburg party. Crazy Jammin (1988, 03.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Megahead (MHD) -------------- ITA> Axel (gfx, 04/96), Calca (music cosys 'DISASTER AREA', 04/96), Dixan (music, ex Degeneration, new late95), Exl (Luciano Lucchesi, swap, new 95-04/96), Jack Jack (code raytrace, 04/96), Pork (trade, new 95- 04/96), Psyko (Pasquale Mauriello, mainorg code edit, 04/96), Rio (Dario Corno, code gfx sysop 'DISASTER AREA' WHQ, ex Soft-One, new late95-04/96), T.A.D. (Lorenzo Di Gaetano, code, 04/96), The Artist (gfx, 04/96), Vanamonde (code trade, 04/96). The Prince (code) is no longer a member (INF1). Infamia #0 (1995, 23.09, ECS Filemag). code: TAD, gfx: The Artists (title), TAD, Randy/Ram Jam, music: Rio/Soft-One, Editor: Psyko. Released at 'SMAU'. review: Infamia is a diskmag focusing on the scene of its native country, Italy. Graphically, it's unfortunately well below average. The code is also below average. It supports backgrounds, which is a good thing, but don't expect to see any clipart or anything like that. Navigation works pretty well by clicking on the directional buttons with your mouse, but the lack of keyboard shortcuts are almost unforgiveable. I can't comment on the editorial quality, since I do not speak Italian :) There doesn't seem to be enough articles, 'tho. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Infamia #1 (1995, 02.12, ECS Filemag). code: TAD, gfx: The Artist (title), Rio (main), music: Calca, Editor: Psyko. review: This second issue of Infamia opens with a much better title picture than last time, albeit from the same artist. The music also shows promise, and as I click my way into the mag itself, I can see that the panel graphics have also been replaced. The new ones are a lot better. Furthermore, they've abandoned their own main font for boring old Topaz 8, which is NOT such a good thing IMHO. A good font can almost give a mag an identity onto itself - just look at R.A.W. There's still no keyboard navigation, though.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Infamia #2 (1996, .04, AGA Filemag). INT - code: Dip/Lustrones, gfx: Mat/Lustrones (font), music: Gupho/Lustrones. GAL - code: Hedgehog/BSD, gfx: Fra/BSD, music: Stun/BSD. MAG - code: Aga/Lustrones, Dip/Lustrones, gfx: Mat/Lustrones, The Gas (title), music: F.B.Y/SoftOne, editor: Psyko. Cooperation with Lustrones. review: With Infamia's third issue, it receives yet another welcome facelift. The first and most imminent change is that the old intro's gone! Instead, we now find a new one, made for the Infamia guys by Lustrones. It's pretty good, and does that job it needs to do. But after the intro is over, do we go directly to the mag? NO! Instead, there's a brand new section - the gallery! This one has a pretty OK logo on top, a chip-happy tune of the oldschool variety, and lots of B&W pictures of Italian sceners. It was done by Biosynthetic Design. Then the mag itself: It opens with the best intro logo they've had so far; metallic cogwheels in the background and INFAMIA in the foreground in very 'heavy metal' characters. It looks raytraced. And then the mag itself...WOW! Colorful, great looking panels on show here, and a reggae-like tune that's great to mellow out to. For the first time reading Infamia, I SERIOUSLY regret it's in Italian :) There's still not a lot of articles, but I expect what's there is pretty good. I browse the mag, looking at some articles and immediately notice the incredibly smooth transitions and the new font. INFAMIA is a mag that's grown up, and is ready to leave its parents and live in the world on its own. Never mind if you can read Italian, check it out! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Megapoint --------- Andy, BlackWine, Losiu and Sharp joined Anadune 06/96. Megastyle Inc. (MSI, -1991) --------------------------- Megastyle was the Amiga section of the wellknown C64 demo group. One of the members of MSI Amiga - Lizard - was also active on the C64 scene, making music for some of their demos. This Norwegian musician has retained his old handle to this day, but is now a member of The Black Lotus... The Amiga section of Megastyle died late 1991. Norwegian musician Lizard joined Offence old (RAW2). Norwegian Inzane joined Zenith late 91. Megawatts --------- ???> Bosco (code, 12/91), Danc (gfx, 12/93-94), Doolittle (code, 12/91), Idea (code, 12/93-94), Leviathan (code, 94), Lioth (code, 12/91-92), Logotechnia (music, 12/91), Psyched (music, 12/93), Sidewinder (music, 94), U4IA (music, 12/91-92). Christmas 91 (1991, .12, ECS Disk). Code: Bosco, Lioth, Doolittle, Gfx: n/a, usic: U4ia, Logotechnia. A Taste of U4ia (1992, .06?, ECS Musicdisk). Code: Lioth, Gfx: n/a, Music: U4ia. Planet E Issue #1 (1993, .12/1994, .01, ECS Filemag). Code: Idea, Gfx: Danc, Music: Psyched. Mindfield (1994, early, ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks). Code: Leviathan, Idea, Gfx: Danc, Music: Sidewinder. Meka Design (MKD) ----------------- SWE> Amadeus (music, 12/93-12/94), Radix (music, 12/93), Sneaker (music, 12/94). Meka Design was a swedish demo group, and also the first group of musician Radix. It is believed he left sometime in early 1994. Mellow (MLW) ------------ N-L> Argon, Bazzman (music, late95), Celtic (code swap, 07/95), Gluefoot, Hammer (sysop 'NIGHT SHIFT'), Huib (gfx music, 07/95), Krypton (music, 07/95), Macrodex, Noodle (swap, doublememb Desire [details]), Rayon (95), Sascha (Sascha Duyzer, swap, ex Mirage, new early95-96). NOR> Voyage (sysop 'SCUBA' WHQ, 05/97), Sony, Stimpy, Zilox. Mellow was a group based in Holland, probably best known for releasing the "Dutch Charts". 1995 - Musician Aquafresh joined Eltech late 95. 1996 - Sane (editor) joined from Monk in july of 1996, and assumed the position of main editor on the "Hokus Phokus Dutch Charts". Issue #4 was released with him as editor. Sane joined Sardonyx to become coeditor on their diskmag "Seenpoint" in september, and finally left Mellow altogether in november to be in Sardonyx only. Molested Music's (unknown). To Be In (unknown).  PFFFFFFFfff (1995, 09.07, 40k Intro). code: Celtic, gfx: Huib, music: Krypton. 9th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 40k intro competition. review: Most of us grew out of farting jokes in our early teens. Mellow. How old are you guys? Graphics show competence, but that's all. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Mellow Chips (MC) ----------------- FIN> Aivo (Petri Häkkinen, code 3d, 04/98), Freak (04/98), Jogi (Jari Jokivuori, code gfx, 08/95-11/96), Lich (Tomas Björnfot, gfx 3d, 04/96-04/98), Ola (Olli Hänninen-Pelz, gfx 3d, 04/96-04/98), Tequila (raytrace 3d, 04/98). Mellow Chips was 'just another' Finnish demo team, who released a few OK demos, until they joined the legendary TRSI as a subgroup, and hit the big time with "Rise" at The Gathering 98. Finns DJ Wekro (music, 04/96) and Icebeat (Petri Ala-Louesniemi, music, 08/96) are no longer members. Finnish coder Braindead, partly responsible for "Jees!" (04/96) and "Dim" (08/96) changed handle to Aivo and joined TRSI (ROM9). Jees! (1996, 28.04, AGA HD Multifile). code: Braindead, Jogi, gfx: Lich, Ola, Jogi, music: DJ Wekro. 4th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition. Review: The worst thing about this, to start, is the graphics. I'm sorry, people, but you need to get better painters! The graphics here are just not up to scratch... Try to draw individual pixels next time, and go a little easier on the smoothing tools :) The code is not the best either, it's the usual C2P stuff. We've seen it a million times, and almost always better than this. The music suffers from the same syndrome, actually. Been there, heard that a million times. Originality and quality is what these guys need to look into. It's like they've tried to make the demos they love themselves, but haven't got the talent or the skill. Still, practice makes perfect. The bad news is that these guys will need a lot of practice. Will run on standard A1200, but benefits greatly from a 030+ [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dim (1996, 18.08, AGA 2MB HD Multifile Demo). code: Braindead, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in The Assembly 96 demo competition. Information: As revealed in ROM9, parts of 'DIM' were written in AMOS Professional 2.0, while all time-intensive stuff was written in assembler. The second disk (MC_DIM2.LHA) on the Assembly96 CD is corrupt, so I haven't been able to see this yet. Divine (1996, 23.11, AGA 030 8MB HD Multifile Demo). Winner of the Demolition 96 II demo competition! Dose (1997, 04.10, AGA 8MB HD Multifile Demo). code: Aivo, gfx: Ola (2d, 3d), Aivo (textures, 3d), Tequila (3d), Lich (mc logo), Lich (mc glow logo), music: Kalsu/Artificial People (OctaMED SS format). 2nd in the Demolition III demo competition. review: Wow, this is an awesome demo... "Dose" is certainly one of the top three demos of 1997! From the very first beats of the strong, fiery introduction sequence you know you're looking at something professional here... There is some truly amazing, groundbreaking 3d in this demo, routines that are worthy of demos on pcs with twice the horsepower of my humble 030-50! Sure, not _everything_ runs at 60fps, not _everything_ is 1x1, but it just doesn't seem to matter much as you sit there with your mouth open and stare at the awesome display on the screen. Let me just mention the especially impressive transparency and lighting routines, and the professional, catchy soundtrack before I leave you to go download this great demo for yourself. If you don't you'll have missed one of the best ever demos for this machine! Go! Dose was released for TRSI. You can decide the mixing frequency of the OctaMED SoundStudio soundtrack yourself, and I watched it with the recommended mixing frequency for 030 machines of 15000. Minimum processor requirements are just 020, but they recommend at least 040-40. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Rise (1998, 11.04, AGA 8MB HD Multifile Demo). code: Aivo, gfx: Ola, Asa/Cirion, Lich, Rewired/TRSI, 3d: Aivo, Ola, Lich, Tequila, music: Kalsu/Artificial People. Winner of The Gathering 98 demo competition! review: Rise is a massive, 5.5MB demo that will blow your socks off! Not as truly spectacular, perhaps, as last year's winner "Captured Dreams", this does offer some unparallelled 3d scene rendering on the Amiga. I have seen demos like this before, but only on heavily accelerated Pentium PC's... We get to follow a woman clad in a VERY yellow bikini, travelling Tomb Raider-style through several scenes. The best part is where she dives through a waterfall to some beautiful scenery below, and in a spectacular finale is lifted towards the sky in a beam of brightly lit colors. All this and a very scary snake make this one the strongest demos of 1998 so far. The music is great, the graphics are at times excellent. Rise has Risen, and Mellow Chips should change their name to Extreme Chips! Though the demo will theoretically run on 020 machines, at least 030-50 is recommended. The demo seemed unstable on my machine, crashing twice in the time I used to test it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Melody ------ English musician Hollywood and German graphician T'Vaan joined Axis new. Melon Dezign (1992-) -------------------- DEN> Bannasoft (code, ex Falcons, new early 92-95), Paleface (founder, ex Quartex, 92-94), Seen (Henrik Lund Mikkelsen, founder gfx, ex Quartex, 06/92-95). FRA> Audiomonster (Raphael Gesqua, music, ex The Silents, 06/92-94), Hof (gfx, ex Movement, 92-94), Mack (Hamidi Amar, gfx, ex Scoopex, 92-95), Motif (code, ex Alliance Design, 92), Schmoovy-Schmoov (Atoch Sebastien, code music, ex Reverse/Digital, 11/93-04/94), Walt (Brance Christophe, gfx, ex Alliance Design, 04/92-95). NOR> Benjamin (code, ex Scoopex, 05/95), Heatseeker (Ivar Just Olsen, code, 95), Jason (Kim M. Jensen, music, 95-04/96), Vegard! (Vegard Wolf Dyvik, music, ex Balance and Scoopex, 05/95). Ooops!> Alex (A.Garnier, gfx) and Nam (P.De Belen, code, both ex Movement, new late94-95). Melon Dezign was formed by Paleface and Seen after they left Quartex, as a demo and intro subgroup of the cracking crew Crystal. They eventually left their mothergroup Crystal to exist on their own, but I believe the game development company Lionheart consists of Melon Dezign members. They've produced an amazing array of crackintros over the years, most of them for Crystal, but also for a.o. Ministry. 1992 - Hitman was kicked due to lazyness early 92. In december, the french members (at least Performer and Walt) went to The Party with a brand new trackdisk demo... But after talking to Lone Starr/Spaceballs and seeing "State of the Art" Performer decided not to release it...and the demo was lost forever =( This story was related to me by Performer, so it's definitely true. 1994 - Late in the year, Performer and Walt released the short demo "Booo II" with the aid of Joachim (gfx) and Travolta (music) from the Norwegian section. Danes Slammer (code, new early 93), Xience (gfx, new early 93) and Solnova (gfx, all ex Anarchy) joined the new Rednex. Danish musician Hithansen, who originally joined from Rednex, left them for the NEW Rednex! French coder Performer (Renaud Lerouvreur, ex Anarchy, 04/92-94) left the Amiga scene for the PC. I've seen his cool intro "Red" for Razor 1911 on the PC, which he made with Zebig and TDK; other Amiga abandonees. He left behind some great demos for Melon, most notably "Humantarget" [04/92]. English musician Mark Knight (formerly known under the handle TDK; The Dark Knight, ex Anthrox) left the scene after securing a job in the game industry. He is now the English in-house musician at Mindscape. His work can be heard in games like Battletoads (amiga), Sim City 2000 (amiga), Mario's Time Machine (super nintendo) and Dragonlore (pc). Crack Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Bannasoft/Falcons, gfx: Seen, music: Tronic. Crystal Intro Incredible (1991, ECS Intro). code: Paleface, gfx: Seen, music: TDK/Anthrox (NoisePacker 3 format). review: Another classic Melon cracktro, this is the one with the waving green Crystal logo in the background. The rest is pure Melon magic, with the bouncing dot in the start and end, and the classic font. This is quite simply crack intro history. Used for the crack of Space 1889 (reviewed). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! The Party Invitation Intro (1991, ECS File). code: Paleface, gfx: Seen, music: Banana/TEK (NoisePacker 3 format). review: Oozing style and fun from every pore, this is another great little intro from Melon. This is perhaps their first real production, as it at least mentions the forming of Melon by Paleface and Seen. It opens with a nice logo, continues quickly with the three arrangers' names being smashed up, and finally concludes in a text selection menu done in the usual offbeat Melon way (this had some graphical errors on the backgrounnd, but was still perfectly readable). There is also a small 'bonuspart', with some text and a logo at the right hand side. The music is very nice. When I first tried to run this intro from DOpus it crashed my machine for real (00000004). I then tried to run it from the disk (caches off), and then it did work. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Ministry Cracktro 1 (1992? ECS Intro). code: Motif/Melon Dezign, gfx: none, music: "Matkamies" by Heatbeat/Carillon (ProTracker MOD format). review: Classic Melonstration, this has a grey-blue background, over which several spinning 2d vector stars appear in a half-circle from bottom left (biggest) to top right (smallest). Text comes in from the right bottom side. Classic chiptune by Heatbeat. This review is duplicated in Ministry's entry, with additional information only important to that group. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Bomb (1992, ECS File). code: Performer, gfx: Hof (logo), Seen (font), Walt (design), music: -Ripped- from the game Magic Pockets. review: A nicely designed little intro, with a stonkingly cool opening 'Bomb' logo by Hof and a bouncing, small 'Ollesboll' :) in the main part. The rest is just text. This intro was Gengis' inspiration for the name of the group Bomb, which would also at one time feature graphician Hof as a member... [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Needs KillAGA, still crashes on exit. Humantarget (1992, 18.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Static/Rebels. Released at the Eastern Conference 92. review: What little I have seen of this is quite excellent. Seamless design, nice graphics and excellent music...however, on my setup it just freezes after the 'melon.' logo bounces on the jelly vector. Too bad, since what I saw was really great! Caches off doesn't help, naturally. I'll get back to you when I get my hands on an inferior meachine :D I have often seen this misspellt, where the title is split into two words, 'Human Target'. Fact is that everywhere it appears in the demo (at least the parts I've seen :) it's in one word. Performer told me that the demo does not work on A1200's, likely because of an interrupt problem. It should work satisfactorially in emulators. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Bodil (1992, mid?, ECS File). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster. Info Freako (1992, mid?, ECS File). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster. info: Invitation intro for The Party 92. S.O.S. (1992, 29.06, ECS Disk). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster. 5th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. Review: Not much here, I'm afraid, since it won't load past the intro on my machine :( Caches off has no effect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Shows intro, loads next part, then crashes. Anniversary (1992, .10, ECS Intro). code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: TDK/Anthrox. Prism (1992, late, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Performer, gfx: Mack, music: DeLorean. review: Coooooooool! This slideshow details a portion of Mack's work from 1990-92. There are 22 pictures here, selectable from a menu, ranging from bad to excellent. The best pictures (IMHO) are Sarah-Yama, Spiritual Melon, Medusa and Liquor Caza. Some of these pictures have been seen before, ofcourse, a.o. in Alliance Design's demo "Substance" [04/91]. Mentioned in the Bomb intro as having a release date 'around September'. No apparent problems with running, apart from the fact that the intro runs so fast the pink elephants don't quite have time to come onscreen before the menu appears. Also, the music bugs a little. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Tetris Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Mark "TDK" Knight. Winner of The Party 92 40k intro competition! review: Pure style. What sets this intro apart from the rest is simply this. It did feature some interesting coding ideas also, but mainly, it was the design, the music and the experience that made "Tetris" a great intro. Just simply oldskool perfection. [glenn] Booo (1993, early, ECS File). code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Uncle Tom, Heatbeat. info: This is HIGHLY sought after! Music by UNCLE TOM and HEATBEAT looks like something out of a wet dream for a demoholic like myself. Will trade nearly anything ;) How to Skin a Cat (1993, 29.05, ECS Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: Solnova, Mack, music: Nuke/Lemon. 3rd in the TCC93 demo competition. 680xx Convention Intro (1993, 02.08, Intro). Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. The Romantic Demo (1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo). code/music: Bannasoft, gfx: Hof, Mack, Walt. 3rd in the Assembly 93 demo competition. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Crayon Shinchan (1993, .11, ECS Trackmo). code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfx: Walt, music: Audiomonster. Mind Expanding (1993, 28.12, ECS File). code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfx^music: Walt. 23rd in The Party 93 demo competition. info: In order to run it on the A500, I had to decrunch the executable first in order to have enough memory. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Where Is My Conscience? (1994, 24.04, ECS 64k Intro). code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfx: Walt, music: Ukulele. 2nd in the Saturne Party 94 64k intro competition. review: Okayy... The BEST thing here is undoutedly Walt's cool cartoon- style opening picture of a man with an excessively large nose. It goes on with traditional Ukulele weeeeeird music to a text writer, with some messages like 'My conscience is clear. I never use it.' The music picks up speed as a 1-bitplane representation of a woman spins in the background, until it finally reaches its cresencendo and - IT'S SUPERWOMAN! Enough said. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Acidtrip (1994, 24.04, ECS File). 10th in the Saturne Party 94 demo competition. The Birthday Party Invitation (1994, mid, ECS File). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, Walt, music: "Nintendo" by Heatbeat. Invitation to Melon Dezign - The Birthday Party. review: Melon presents an excellently made intro here, with very nice graphics. The 'childish' style suits them to a tee, and gives an overall feel of something a little different. Nice. This intro is also known as 'Cannabis', probably because the executable file name is Cannabis.exe. The intro never mentions a release date or even in what year this is supposed to take place. However, the line 'AGA has been out for a year now' seems to indicate this is from 1994. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Booo II (1994, late, ECS File). code: Performer, gfx: Walt, Joachim (endpic), music: "Booo 2", "Rune Went Mad" and "Joachim.Uff" by Travolta (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: "Booo II" is a french-norwegian coproduction, unlike its predecessor "Booo" [93] which was french-finnish. The basic team of Performer (code) and Walt (main graphics) remain though. This reviewer will refrain from guessing what drugs inspired "Booo II", but only mention that it's a good little demo. If weirdness is your cup of tea, then this little number will be sure to satisfy. Rather than have all the music in a single mod, for some reason it's here in three parts... The great end picture by Joachim was reviewed in an old issue of ROM... All parts can be paused with the right mouse button. The intro- and endpicture introduction's cute characters are all ripped from the game "Pang!" I have seen mention in some places that this demo has problems with 040 processors, and I assume that the same is true for 060. The demo needs KillAGA (or equivalent) to work on machines with AGA chipsets. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Imaginary Demo (1994, late). She's Never Been Loved (1994, late). Jack (1994, late). Ninja (1994, 28.12, ECS File). code: Ivar 'Heatseeker', gfx: Joachim, music: Jason. 7th in The Party 94 demo competition. info: A follow-up, Ninja II, was later released on the PC in cooperation between Melon and Scoop. Planet M (1995, .07, AGA Trackmo). code/gfx: Nam & Alex, music: Groo. Winner of the Somewhere in Holland 95 demo competition! review: Women will not appreciate this demo. There are a few things in here that are in bad taste... and that goes for the design as well as the sexist stuff! But really, the naked women were unnecessary. As for the rest of the demo... The first part is best. The way the Melon logo dissolves and the animated women's faces in consistence with the music is a very good beginning. It created an atmosphere which was totally crushed seconds later by a tasteless loading picture. Shame on you, Melon. The music is a hard-hitting demo tune in the tradition of Jesper Kyd or Static, and does its job well. Shame about the rest of the demo. It actually won a demo competition, beating another Melon demo, BAYGON, which came 2nd. The competition must have been abysmal. Does this really require AGA? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Baygon (1995, .07, Trackmo). code: Bannasoft, gfx: Walt, music: -sampled-. 2nd in the Somewhere in Holland 1995 competition. review: How anyone could prefer badly digitized ugly naked women to this is beyond me. This is a much better demo than Planet M, who won the competition! Where Planet M is tasteless, Baygon is brimming with style! It's a celebration of times gone of sorts, with some Space Invaders imagery etc. present. If the producers of Planet M and this had joined together to create ONE demo, just think what a great Melonstration it could have been! The music is just a sample loop with some vocals, which gets repetitive too quickly. A little variation would have been in order. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Melkedemo (1996). Competed at Kindergarten 6 demo competition. Melone ------ Intro (1993, 02.08, Intro). 4th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. Melting Pot ----------- Fade (1996, 27.04, Demo). 7th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Mentasm (MTS, 1992-) -------------------- FRA> Cash (Jean-Marc Fournier, gfx music, 06/92-04/96), Gary Copper (code, 11/96), Gun (David Gagnerot, swap), Kyle (gfx, 09/93-11/96), Mindfuck (music, 12/93-11/96). French Charts #1 (Charts). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Ocean Memories (end)" by Cash and Mindfuck. Buggy Balls (1994, 28.12, Demo). 20th in The Party 4 demo competition. Outburst (1996, 02.11, AGA 64k Intro). code: Gary Copper, gfx: Kyle, music: Mindfuck. 13th in the Saturne 4 64k intro competition. review: What is it with these Saturne voters? 13th!? This is an excellent intro! Granted, it probably looks a lot better on the small screen, but there are some quite great effects here, like the water stuff and the good voxelspace routine. Great! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Metallians ---------- SWE> Zin (sysop 'ABIGAIL'). USA> Lord Arthur (sysop 'FIRES OF HELL', 04/95). Swedish trader Zany joined Noxious. Mexx ---- GER> Einstein (music, 12/94), Murdog (stopswap 08/92), Red Rebel, Scream. USA> Eddie The Head (sysop 'THE CARNIVAL', 01/93), Flea (sysop 'MINOR THREAT', 01/93), Night Fly (sysop 'FIRST OFFENSE', 01/93-04/95). ???> Proton (ex Damian). Ace got kicked. German coder Detector joined Platin. The Germans Speed (ex Devil/The Dark Demon), Crazy Crack (code, 11/91) and RTD joined Complex. Crazy Crack is the coder of the utility Tracker Packer, which therefore became a Complex production. German musician TDMF (ex The Dark Demon) joined Dreamdealers. German Airwolf was kicked. Scampy joined TSB. MGD --- Dimension (1996, 27.04). 2nd in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Midnight Sun (MNS) ------------------ FIN> Apollo (swap, old handle Leaper, late90), Delay (93), Diabolos (swap, 08/90), Dunk (code), Germ (Riku Kosonen, code), Haunt (swap, 93), MJJ (93), Oswald (gfx), Phobos (swap, late90). Hijack joined Grace. Finnish musician Swantti changed handle to Swan and joined Analog. The group was reorganized, and Finnish members Farou (code gfx), Fenrir (gfx), Mc Shy D (gfx swap), Diabolos (swap) and Black Rider (Sami Keiski, swap) were relieved of their membership. Midway ------ SWE> Sputnik (Jonas Jonsson, swap, ex Defiance, new SLH11^GEN6). ???> Gipsy King (ex Amaze, new pre 07/92). Mighty Confusion ---------------- Crysalis 2 (Intro). Code: Slaughter, Gfx: Ellynn, Music: Exceed. Millenium --------- Millennium was a finnish demo group that eventually died when they merged in Tulou with members such as Dr.Strangelove, Sauron and others. Hata Livet (1996, 16.06, Demo). 3rd in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Mindkillers ----------- GER> Guru (swap, ex Highlander/Celtic, new 07/90), Koto (swap, ex Highlander/Celtic, new 07/90). 1990 - The group grew around july, when the two german swappers Koto and Guru joined from the Celtic subgroup Highlanders. Mindpop ------- SWE> Angest (sysop 'TRANCE LAND', 01/95). Ministry (1992-1993) -------------------- ENG> Kitaro (supply sysop 'MILLENNIA', ex Skid Row), Splatt (sysop 'SPLATTER HOUSE', ex Fairlight), Tex Axile (sysop 'OFFSHORE', 92), Zelnik (Henrik, founder). SWE> Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE', ex Kefrens, 92). SWI> Sabber (ex Fusion). USA> Freejack^Malachai^Radar^Protocol^Amok (sysops 'DY'ER MA'KER', 92), Nosferatu (sysop 'DANSE MACABRE', ex Skid Row, 92), PE! (sysop 'ICE STATION ZEBRA' WHQ, ex TKK, 92), POW (sysop 'APOCALYPSE', ex Fairlight). ???> Adventurerer, Bathory, Driver, FFC (crack sysop, ex Skid Row, early93), GT One (sysop 'ALTERED REALITY'), Maelstrom (ex Interpol, new early93), Munchie (supply, ex Crack Inc, 92), Onyx (crack, 92), Pegasus (trade, ex Zenith), The Z, Venom (ex Thrill Kill Kult). Boards; TERMINAL FROST (usa, 92), FIRST ACTION (bel, 92), HALLOWED POINT (swi, 92), LAST STOP B4 HELL (swi, 92), THE MANSION (eng, 92), DIABOLIKA (ita, 92), ANTE OMNIAN (ita, 92), SCHIZOPHRENIA (ger, 92), UNFORGIVEN BBS (ger, 92), PRESUMED INNOCENT (ger, 92). Ministry was the new 'big' cracking group formed by previous members of Crack Inc., Nemesis (Action Man, N.O.M.A.D, Zelnik) and TKK (Obituary) in 1992 when those groups fell apart. The group had members in Belgium, USA, Germany and the UK. They were probably the strongest cracker group since Crystal and the old Skid Row. For a while, Vanish was their demo division. After Ministry died, Scottish supplier (and one of the founders) Action Man left the scene. 1993 - This year the group's UK Section released what was probably the first ever crack of an AGA game; "Zool A1200". SSR (Selim, Subzero, Rudi) is a small German subgroup who emigrated from Skid Row/Crack Inc. Selim & Rudi crack and are sysops of 'THE JAM', while Subzero is the supplier and musician. Englishman Enforcer left. Selz, Phoenix and Taxman were kicked. Obituary (ex Thrill Kill Kult) left. The American board 'WORLD CHAOS' (92) left. German sysop Sagor ('TOTAL KAOS', 92) joined Fairlight. Ministry Cracktro 1 (1992? ECS Intro). code: Motif/Melon Dezign, gfx: none, music: "Matkamies" by Heatbeat/ Carillon (ProTracker MOD format). review: Classic Melonstration, this has a grey-blue background, over which several spinning 2d vector stars appear in a half-circle from bottom left (biggest) to top right (smallest). Text comes in from the right bottom side. Classic chiptune by Heatbeat. This review is duplicated in Melon's entry, without information specific to Ministry. Used for Ministry's crack of Reach for the Skies (supplied by Kitaro). It is highly likely that this intro was only used by the German section. No indication as to date of manufacturing, but probably sometime in 1992. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Miracle ------- TUR> Bloody (11/93), Kris (code gfx edit 'Eternal', ex Movement, later Rebels, 11/93), Orion (swap edit 'Eternal', ex Movement, later Rebels, 11/93), Rascal (swap, ex Bronx, old handle Kickman). SWE> Porta (sysop 'EAGLES NEST', 10/90), Sauron (Johan Lindahl, code, early 90). 1993 - Sauron's game "Deep Core" (featuring music by Danko/Phenomena) was released this year. . Eternal #2 (1993, .11, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag). code^gfx: Kris, music: "Trip To Heaven" by WOTW/Essence. review: With the second issue of Eternal, Kris & Orion have certainly made a solid product IMHO. Everything looks top-notch, from the 'feel' of the mag to the excellent graphics. There is perhaps not enough clipart, but apart from that - no complaints. Contents look well organized, with about a 50-50 mix of interesting and not so interesting articles. The music is excellent, though a little on the short side for a diskmag tune. There are also a few interesting attempts at development here, for example in the animated backgrounds of the charts section, and the animated bullets used in some of the articles. The thing that makes these work here is that they're only used sparingly, and never defracts from the reading experience. There are a couple of mistakes in the news section (Dot never left Bronx, Skywalker joined Cryptoburners and not Crusaders, BARON R5/Desire should be Ramon B5...), and a few instances of news that are close to a year old, but then again what mag can claim not to have one or two of those? It is a little irritating though, since it makes it hard to trust these news... A very nice, if not groundbreaking mag. Approved. . GLE tested UAE /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1. Mirage UK --------- ENG> Stu (swap, 06/91), Turbo (org, 01/90). Mirage UK is a totally English group, and has nothing (presumably) to do with the later group called Mirage. Mirage ------ HOL> Blo (Benno, code gfx music, 12/92-04/95), Candyman and Optimize (sysops 'BAGHDAD CAFE', both ex Scoopex, later Legend?, new late91), Crackerjack (code, ex Axis, new 08-12/92), Jack (internetorg code, 04-07/95), Jake (sysop 'NO VEGETABLES', 04/95), Magic (editor, ex Applause), Protec (Elrich, code, 12/92-07/95), Retep (gfx editor sysop 'MASS APPEAL', 12/92-07/95), Tomcat (raytrace editor, 04/95). SWE> Norad (sysop 'ACES HIGH', later Unicorn, 10/93), Renko (cosys 'ACES HIGH'), Rohan (cosys 'ACES HIGH', later Unicorn). GER> Head (Timm, code, ex Alcatraz). ???> Fabian (music, 92-07/95), Thug (gfx, 04/95). Mirage will probably be most remembered as the group behind the message mag 'Chit Chat', and the group where Danny released his slideshow :) 1995 - Dutch swapper Sascha left for Mellow sometime between january and april. The year's first issue of Chit-Chat was released on the first of april, with a new coeditor - Magic from Applause, previous editor of Applause's mag "Thing". He was later kicked out, and joined TRSI. Some controversy has been surrounding Magic, and Mirage even released an 'anti'-intro, saying how unthrustworthy he is (see article in ROM5). Dutch graphician Danny joined Anarchy. He released a slideshow called "Forgotten" (92) in Mirage before leaving. Tilburg Copy Party Invitation (1990, 22.12, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Vision [details] Chit-Chat #1 (1991, .06, ECS Mesagebox). Forgotten (1992, ECS Slideshow). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Danny, music: Fabian. Released at the Prime 92 party. Chit-Chat #3 (1992, early, ECS Filemag). INT - code^gfx^music: Blo. MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Enlightenment.pro" by Jester/Sanity (ProTracker MOD format). Chit-Chat #4 (1992, ECS Filemag). Chit-Chat #5 (1992, ECS Filemag). Chit-Chat issue #6 (1992, 01.08, ECS Filemag). Released at the Prime Party 91. Chit-Chat issue #7 (1992, .10, ECS Filemag). Chit-Chat issue #8 (1992, 27.12, ECS Filemag). code: Protec, gfx: Hof/Silents (title), Facet/Anarchy (main), Turbo/bronx (cliparts), music: "Juicy Fruit" by Jester/Sanity (4ch MOD format), editors: Tomcat, Retep. Released at The Party 92. review: CC #8 opens with a STUNNING title picture by Hof, and continues into a nice magpart. The font is not unlike the eurocharts font, and is nicely readable in pastel colors. Jester is one of my favourite musicians, but his tune for this mag is a little bland... This is really a messagebox, but this time features some cool articles too... The pictures at two sides of the panel is a real nice idea, and affords the mag some identity of its own! Nicely done, with more to read this would be a GREAT mag! Worth the download for the picture alone. Some text in the mag suggests an intro by Crackerjack, but I have only the mag executable... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Chit-Chat #10 (1993, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Basic Instinct" by Jester/Sanity. Chit-Chat #14 (1994, 30.12, AGA Diskmag). information: The release date is a rough guess, based on comments in CC #15 that it was prepared for The Party 5, but released a few days after due to a few bugs. Chit-Chat #15 (1995, 01.04, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Protec, gfx: Titan/Bomb (title), Danny/Spaceballs (main), music: "Junkie" by Virgill/Essence (The Player 6.0A format), editors: Magic, Retep, Tomcat. review: CC has become a nicely designed diskmag, with a good selection of articles. The mag's original messagebox functions are now more of an afterthought than the real attraction. The size of the mag is a problem, though, with the relatively low amount of articles and just one tune, this mag should NOT take more than a single disk...instead it fills nearly two! We suspect the gallery section has a lot of the blame for this... The mag comes on two disks, but can be easily installed on a harddisk. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Models Inc (1995, 09.07, AGA 40k Intro). code/gfx: Protec, music: Fabian. 5th in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition. review: Again a little limited, though perhaps less so than the other intro. This one features digitized pictures of actresses from the TV series Models Inc. This is essentially another one-routine intro, with some bitmap manipulation being performed on the actresses' faces, as well as a texturemapped cube with even more mugs. Quite unexciting, actually... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. SIH95 Intro (1995, 09.07, AGA 40k Intro) code: Jack, gfx: Diesel8 (logo), Retep, music: Hollywood. 8th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 intro competition. review: Quite limited this, with only a morpher/ripple routine on a face as its only real effect. Other than that, there's just a nice logo and some music. Too limited to have any real impact. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Miranda ------- NOR> Devastator (Peter Salomonsen, code music, later Pure Metal Coders, 90). FIN> Mellow-D (ex Starfader/Vision, new 12/90). ???> Metalmind (gfx), Outrager (gfx). Miranda was a Norwegian demo group. When they died, Dr.Feelgood joined Pure Metal Coders. Beyond Imagination (Demo). code^music: Devastator, gfx: Outrager, Metalmind, music: n/a. Mirror ------ Beeper joined Renegade. Model [old] (1991-1992) ----------------------- GER> Bob Duncan (sysop 'HILTON PALACE' WHQ, late91). ???> Ghost, King Cobra, Lowter, Porta, Sauron, Stalk Design. Model was a new cracking crew formed by Skywalker in 1991 after he left Skid Row. 1991 - Founder and coder Skywalker left to be independent late in the year, but later joined Nemesis. Late 1991 or very early 1992, the group itself died. Germans Angeldawn (gfx), Autopsy (editor, both ex Jump) and Tiger (swap, ex Possessed) all joined Scoopex, taking with them the chartmag "World Charts". World Charts #4 (1991, late, ECS FileChart). code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: "Utopia Ingame 3" by n/a. review: This is the first and only World Charts released under Model, by members previously from Jump. If you want to know how it works and looks, see the reviews of previous issues under that group! There are a *few* changes though, like Angeldawn now getting credited for graphics! Still no credits for any of the other participants, though. The category for 'group of the year' leads me to believe this was likely released very late in the year, possibly even december. The next issue was released under Scoopex. Model [new] ----------- FRA> Furio (gfx, 12/93), Kriss (moral support, 12/93). ???> Skywalker (code). First Demo (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Skywalker, gfx: Furio, Deckard/Disaster (demo pic), music: Moby/Sanity (game), Pearl & Craftman/not Model :) (demo). Split 27th in The Party 93 demo competition. Review: This demo is split into two parts. First there's a demo of a game they're making, which runs for a little while before it boots the main demo part. Nothing outstanding about the demo as such, it's just an average no-frills production. Compatibility proved to be a problem. It works fine (except for a few graphical and musical errors in the game part) for a good while into the demo part. Then it suddenly just guru's without further warning. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: See review. Moment 22 (M22) --------------- SWE> Agamemnon (code sysop 'INFINITE POWER', 12/94-06/95), Elf (Sven-Erik Ceedigh, music, 12/94), Firelite (code, 12/94), Grid (gfx, 12/94), Ragman (sysop '22 ACACIA AVENUE', 01/95), Skutt (code gfx, later Limited Edition, 12/94), Tracing Lords (sysop 'THE BACK ROOM', 12/94), Vacum (Johan, music, 12/94), Wirefire (sysop 'OUTPOST', 12/94). ???> Ufo (code, 12/94), Zero! (code, 12/94). Some of these people later were in Limited Edition, and Grid was later in the Swedish division of Balance. Vacum competed in The Party 4 music competition, but was not in the memberlist published in their other releases at The Party...  Salvation Mind (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Firelite, Ufo (additional), gfx: Skutt (logo), Grid (rotzoom pic), music: Elf. Split 23rd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Hasty but OK, this intro consists of three main effects. First up is rather noninteresting woman's face wrapped on a sphere, followed by an effect that CLOSELY resembles the 1plane fractal stuff in VD's 'Chaosland', before we finish off with a nice rotzoomer. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Shamed Reality (1994, 28.12, AGA File Slideshow). code: Zero!, Skutt (additional), gfx: Grid, Skutt (additional), music: Elf. Released at The Party IV. review: Ok, nice! I quite like this small slideshow-thing, with rather nice graphics by Grid. Still, he should keep on working on the hair... There's a good tune to accompany the pictures and the design. This is not bad at all! Download, dude. It's no bummer. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Monk (1995-1996) ---------------- Monk was formed by dutchman Jay One in march of 1995, and shortly after Sane also joined. Thanks a lot to Sane for the complete info on this group! =) 1995 - The group's next recruit was swedish coder Vicious from Septic, who joined closer to the middle of the year, as did dutchman React (ascii swap). The group was originally going to release a diskmag called "Trinity" this year, with graphics by Jay One and coding by Vicious. The magazine, unfortunately, did not get finished, and this left a lot of unreleased articles. With the coding help of Tim/TBL, a solution was found though in the release of "Trinity - The Article Release 1" in the summer of 1995. It was around this time that Jay One changed his handle to Chiron. Following this, Tim joined the group as a funmember under the handle Snapcap, and also helpe code "Trinity - The Article Release 2" under that handle late in the year. 1996 - The group made their final release with "Intro To Trinity", an intro promoting the diskmag they were STILL hoping to release eventually. But unfortunately, in june or july of 1996, the group died after their founder Chiron (Yorick Burgmeijer) sold his A1200 (to Sane!) and their coder Vicious (Pontus Munck) had left the scene. Coder Snapcap (Tim/TBL) also left the scene, and moved to the UK to work for Core Design on the game "Tomb Raider". Sane moved on to the dutch group Mellow in july, and became maineditor of the "Hokus Pokus Dutch Charts" there. React joined the ascii group Head! in july. Trinity - The Article Release 1 (1995, summer, ECS 'minimag' =) code: Tim/TBL, gfx: Jay One, music: Dreamer/Nah Kolor, editors: Sane, Magic/Nah Kolor. Trinity - The Article Release 2 (1995, late, ECS 'minimag' =) code: Snapcap, gfx: Chiron, music: Hollywood/Axis, Deelite/Razor 1911, editor: Sane. Intro To Trinity (1996, ECS/AGA Intro). code/music: Vicious, gfx: Chiron, Sane (design). Moons ----- ???> Black Dragon (music, 04/98), Crasz (04/98), Dzordan (gfx, 04/98), Raider (code, 04/98). Child (1998, 26.04, 64k Intro) code: Raider, gfx: Dzordan, gfx: Black Dragon. Contribution for the Rush Hours 98 64k intro competition. review: A nicely colored 'Child' bumpmap is the only thing to recommend in this abysmal intro. Don't. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Moonshine --------- Distant (1994, 03.04). 9th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. Morbid ------ ???> Blackline (trade sysop), Captain Trip (music), Colonel & O'Neill (gfx'ers), Deone (gfx), Jamsam (music), Java (org gfx sysop), Kaneda (music), Outcast (trade), Recall (sysop), Rooster (org swap), Sealapex (sysop), Slowrider (trade), Wizard (code), Wraith (trade sysop). Morbid Angels ------------- NOR> Splash (Øyvind Husabo, swap), Stone (Stein Jonsson, swap). Morbid Visions (1994-) ---------------------- ITA> Alex (gfx), Andy Wet (music, early96), Deathbringer (Antonello Pardi, mainorg code, late96), Guru Trasher (code, early96), Lex (c-code gfx music, late96), M.A.S.E. (code, doublememb Ram Jam, early96), Nexus 6 (gfx, new early96), Nikdom (code swap internet, early96), Ruggy (gfx, new early96), The Hobbit (swap, early96), The Dark Coder (Luca Farlizzi, code, early96), The Trayzer (gfx, early96). Boards; EXTREMA WHQ (Zero Defects board), DOWN TOWN (Digital Chaos board). Morbid Visions was born in the autumn of 1994. Both boards they list are actually run by other groups, but with MV specific areas. Italian coder Metal Maniac left for Lustrones early96. Epidemo (Slide Demo). Extrema (Intro). Information: BBS intro for their WHQ of the same name. Morgue ------ FIN> Dr.Darkness (sysop 'CEMETARY', 93). Mo'Soul (M'S) ------------- ???> Crusader (ascii, double-member of Giants, ex Epsilon Design, new 06/96-97), Desoto (ascii), Mark Ryder (ascii), Nup (ascii). Crusader's ascii signature is cDr. Moss Team --------- Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Motion [old] ------------ NOR> DJ Devil (code sysop 'DIGITAL JUSTICE' WHQ, 09/91), Nightflight (09/91), Raider (09/91), Zniper (09/91). Boards; THE BLITZ (nor), THE BLACK HOLE. Can joined Iris. Edison got kicked. Siriax joined Acrid. Kaos joined Network old. Gravedigger (sysop) joined Digi Wars. Norwegians Mr.Hat, Mastermind, Lasse, Basse, Dr.Excel (sysop 'OUTLAND'), Bud Outrage (ex Artch), Ace, Helix and Eddiksen (ex Wizzcat) were all kicked. Zneiper (ex Wizzcat) joined Dual Crew (RAW1). Cocoon Design was kicked (SLH11) or left (GEN6). Norwegians Blazer (code), Duel (gfx) and Madlock (music) all joined Andromeda (RAW3). The three were responsible for the "Confuzion" (09/91) demo, which came 2nd at the Razor 1911 and Imp-666 Amiga Conference. Mona Lisa Overdrive (1990, 06.10, ECS File). code: Devil, Mastermind, gfx: n/a, music: Mr. Hat. . Confuzion (1991, 29.09, ECS File). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Madlock (NoisePacker format). 2nd in the Razor 1911 & Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition. review: This demo does not have any exit routine, but resets the machine at the conclusion of the show. Having a peek at the executable revealed that there is likely a secret part, which the presence of an additional chip module collaborates. . GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Needs KillAGA. Motion! (M!) ------------ NOR> Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', memb of Spaceballs [details], Crux and LSD, new mid95-08/95). SWE> Wraith (sysop 'DISCUSTIN', 09/96). ???> Sisko and Bilbo Baggins (nor? 08/95). It is highly unlikely that the old and new Motion have anything to do with each other. Motive ------ HOL> Jay One (later Monk), Kayo (code, late95), The Wizz. Motive was a dutch group with a few future celebrities, such as Tim. Dutchmen Thunder (code) and Pervert both left to join Facet's Pussy/Desire. Thunder changed his handle to Rotox, Pervert changed his to Noodle. Dutch coder Tim joined Spaceballs (ROM4). Movement (MVT, 1993-) --------------------- DEN> Powdered Toastman (Ronnie Nielsen, code gfx, old handle Toastmaster, ex Rebels, 12/93), Solnova (Karsten, gfx, 95-08/96), Surf Smurf (Carsten Sørensen, code, 95), Tivurr (Klaus Nielsen, music, ex Polka, 95). FIN> Fiddler (trade, ex Punisher/Shining 8, 03/94), Jef (Kalle Halttunen, code, ex Rebels, 93), Meegosh (John Kavaleff, founder sysop 'WASTED TIME', ex Rebels old, 12/93), Nugget (Nicklas Renqvist, music, ex Rebels), Ruben (Robin Grotenfelt, code, ex Rebels), Storm (Jan Henriksson, sysop 'WASTED TIME', ex Rebels, 02/93-04/95). FRA> Reflex (Frederic Cordier, music, ex Rebels old, 08/93-95), SkyNet (code, 09-12/93). N-L> 911 (Martyn Deykers, founder mainorg music, ex Rebels old, 01/93-95). NOR> Corny (gfx music, ex Rednex, 95) and Codeman (code, ex Rednex, 95). SWE> Asterix (Carl Henrik Skårstedt, code, ex Alta/Rebels old), Omega (Per Carlsson, music, ex Rebels old), Soul (music, ex Rednex, 95-97). ENG> Hollywood (music, ex Jetset new, later Axis, new RAW6). ???> Jumbo Burger (code, 95), Robotnik (code, 12/93-95), T'Vaan (gfx, 12/93). Movement was formed by 911 and Meegosh from Rebels in January of 1993. They consist of most of the active part of the old Rebels, which in time caused Rebels to die. Ofcourse, Rebels was reborn in 1994, and they're still around! Solnova works at Funcom, I presume, since that's where his e-mail address is... Milkshake was never a member! ROM4 mentioned that contra to popular belief, Meegosh is still active. Corny works for Funcom, after finally leaving the army, but still seems to be able to find some time for the scene every now and then. French graphician Hof (ex The Silents, new early93) joined Melon Dezign. Dutch organizer and swapper Astro (ex Rebels, new SLH11, 12/93) who was a Movement and CNCD doublememb, left them both for Virtual Dreams (ROM4^RAW8). Portwer was kicked for inactivity 93. Swedish swapper Logic (Håkan Jonsson, ex Rebels) left 93. Maza and Frenchman Xann (code, ex The Silents, new early93) were apparently never members, making their future careers a little uncertain. French graphician Suny (ex Anarchy, 12/93) joined Bomb! late 1994. French swapper Bross (12/93) was kicked out (PRP4). Dutchmen Anthony (code, old handle Magician Lord, ex Jetset new, new RAW6) and Liberator (sysop 'MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS', ex Freestyle, both 12/93) both joined the new Axis (PRP4). The two frenchmen in Oops! Productions, graphician Alex (09-12/93, doublememb Impact Studios [pc]) and Nam (12/93) (both ex Dreamdealers, new RAW5) joined Melon Dezign (UPS10). Danish superswapper The Pride (ex Lemon.) was kicked (WHN1), and consequently joined the new Razor 1911 (PRP4). Turks Kris (code gfx) and Orion (swap) left with their mag 'Eternal'. They reported the news themselves in 'Eternal #2', where they were in Miracle, but didn't mention THAT in the news :-). Thanks for the clarity, guys! Ringing A Doorbell (1993?, ECS File). code: Ted's Farm, gfx: Toastmaster, Milkshake, music: Heatbeat. Perkele (1993, ECS File). code: Nam, gfx: Alex, Fletch, Toastmaster, music: Core. review: Not vey interesting really, based totally on design and nothing on anything else :) Best thing: Alex's elephant picture. The intro credits music as 'from Core', which may mean that it's ripped from a Core Design game... There's certainly no indication of anyone called Core in any memberlist I've seen. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. The Fishing Trip 93 (1993, early, ECS File). code/gfx: Toastmaster, music: Heatbeat. Assembly 93 Invitation (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: JEF, gfx: Alex, Toastmaster, music: Reflex. Invitation to Assembly 93. Kid (1993, 01.07, AGA File). code: n/a, gfx: Alex, music: n/a Ting (1993, 10.08, ECS Intro). code: Asterix, Robotnik, gfx: Suny, Toastmaster, music: Reflex. Released for the Assembly 93 intro competition. Cooky (1993, 04.09, ECS File). code: SkyNet, gfx: Alex, music: "HB-Autiohalka" by Heatbeat. Released for the Saturne 93 demo competition, unplaced. review: Certainly an unusual demo, COOKY opens with a reasonably cool picture by Alex of a guy wearing a very weird palette :) The rest of the demo is just some text screens with small drawings and different fonts over a background. It's nicely designed, and fun, but in the end nothing you'll remember for a long time. On my machine, the demo refused to play the soundtrack. I tried it with both KillAGA from DOpus and booting with OCS and caches off, but the problem remained. Otherwise, no problems were encountered. The music, for the record, is great! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See Review.  Numb (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Anthony, gfx: Alex, Lowlife/HTL (additional), Hof/? (endfont), music: 911 (Promizer 4.0 format). Released at The Party 93. review: Numb's best features is its excellent design, with great graphics and backgrounds by Alex. The code isn't really very advanced at all, but it's entertaining and polished. Music is also very acceptable. Some of the routines on offer is a magnifying lens, a greatlooking parallel horizontal graphics twister and a vector cube effect, where all the sides are transparent and their color reflects on the bacground picture of an angel. Still, as mentioned the real star of the show is the graphics. Text in the demo mentions it was released for The Party 93 demo competition, yet it appears on no result lists! Can anyone clear up this mystery for me? While the demo itself works perfectly on my setup, the hidden part - accessed by pressing the left mousebutton while booting, the bootblock text says - crashes the machine spectacularly. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. Bobby (1994, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Orbit" by Reflex (4ch MOD format). 3 Seconds of Delight (1994, early, ECS File). Code: FTB, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a Old School (1994, 03.04, ECS Intro). 10th in The Gathering 94 intro competition. Moxxom ------ Raptor (1996, 06.07, Intro). 6th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Mroovek & Zuber --------------- NonConforma (1996, 10.11, ECS 64k Intro). code/music: Mroovek, gfx: Zuber, music: n/a. 5th in the Gravity 96 64k intro compo. review: NonConforma? NonExciting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Muffbusters ----------- Sidmania (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). information: Contains approximately 170 sidtunes. Multum ------ Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS Demo). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Mute 101 -------- ???> Rob (ex Supreme, new 90), Shogun, Sledge, Tron. Nick joined Warfalcons (late 90). Oliver joined Fairlight (late 90). Swedish trader Zaxxan joined Rebels old. Their board '4TH DIMENSION' is now down forever (mid 90). Mysterious (MSR) ---------------- N-L> Warpstah (org ascii trade sysop 'WARPZONE', 03/98). ???> Alien (code, 03/98), Amiking (mainorg irc-op, 03/98), Balth (trade, 03/98), Bowe (trade, 03/98), Corrupt (founder mainorg sysop 'MYSTERIOUS' WHQ, 03/98), Geronimo (ftp-op trade, 03/98), GregE (03/98), Gurumaster (03/98), JadeFalco (trade, 03/98), Lizard (code crack, 03/98), Lopolo (gfx, 03/98), Penthe (music, 03/98), Riker (03/98), Rogu (3dgfx music trade, 03/98), Shai Hulud (ascii trade, 03/98), Snoopy (supply trade, 03/98), Viper (org code sysop 'OUTSIDE WORLD' EHQ, 03/98). Mystic (MST, -1999) ------------------- FIN> Quartz (mainorg webmaster sysop 'BERMUDA TRIANGLE', 03/98-11/99). demo.section: FIN> SHD (Heikki Orsila, code, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-11/99). SWE> Czar (gfx, ex Vector, 08/97-11/99), Geezer (code music, ex Vector, 08/97-11/99, Jamsam (gfx music, ex Vector, 03/98-11/99). POL> XTD (Piotr Bendyk, music, also in Union, 04/94-11/99). modem.section: FIN> Mamba (os/code ascii, 12/96-11/99). SWE> Amon (os/code, old handle Aron, 01/95-11/99), Bobo (sysop 'THE EAST', 01/95-11/99), Zed (os/code, 11/99). NOR> Arcane (Øystein Sættem, sysop, doublememb Royal [details], 97-11/99). HOL> Muad'dib (bbscode sysop, 03/98-11/99). POL> Ufok (trade, 08/95-11/99). The persons listed below are no longer members; their entries have been separated from the rest for now for an increased overview. They WILL be combined again when I can find sufficient information to place most of them. The split has been done at a memberlist dated 11/99: demosection FIN> Brainlock (Mikko Vauhkonen, raytrace, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/99), Doc (Mika Porspakka, gfx, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/98), Mike (Mikko Kaila, org trade gfx, ex Defiance, new 01/95-08/99), Mistral (gfx, ex Parallax, new 96-03/98), Stezotehic (ascii, 03/98), Zeus (ascii, 12/96-03/98). SWE> Claw (3d, 03/98), Daiz'l (Kenneth Jonsson, music, 03/98), Faust (gfx, 03/98), Kermit (code, 03/98), Merko (code, 03/98). DEN> Hexagon (code, doublememb Puzzle [details], new ROM9-03/98), Phonetic (gfx raytrace, ex Puzzle, new 96-08/99). POL> Madd (org gfx, new 03/98), Mustafa (gfx, new 03/98), P242 (3d, new 03/98), Sixtus (music, 03/98). HUN> Rendall (gfx, ex Impulse, 03/98). modemsection SWE> Reactor (trade, 03/98). GER> Andi (sysop 'DIABOLOS', 04/95), Red Alert (sysop 'ADDICTION', 04/95). POL> Fjurer (trade, 03/98), Lolo (trade, 03/98), Mehow (trade, 03/98), Prefix (trade, 03/98), Trash Head (swap trade sysop, ex TRSI, 95- 03/98), Walek (trade, 08/95-03/98). SLO> Skate Bob (trade, 03/98). USA> Don Dog (code sysop 'BOGUS EXCEPTION', 04/95-03/98). mixed POL> CBM80 (Paul Hernik, code, ex Beta Team, 08/94), DPJ (08/95), Easy Rider (org sysop 'MAMBA', 93-02/96), Gunman (Adam Bakalarz, gfx swap, ex Mad Elks, 08/94-03/95), Jezo (gfx, 03/95), Larsen (Tomasz Oszczepalski, code, ex Beta Team, 08/94), Mars (Andrzej Marcjasz, swap, 05/94-03/95), Melon (Marcin Banasiak, doublememb Flying Cows Inc., late 96), MSS (Zenon Depta, code, 03/95), Reset (gfx raytrace, ex TRSI, 03/95), Yasiu (code, 02/96). FIN> Speck (Mika Aho, music, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/96), [StN] (trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94). SWE> Axy (trade), Hotshot (crack train trade). NOR> Superted (gfx music, ex Grotesticle, new 96). ???> Axe (founder), Bartesek (music, ex Casyopea, new late95), Billy (ex Depth, new 06/96), Charon (code, 05/94), Jackal (gfx), Ninja (swap), Peja (pol? 02/96), Sagrael (swap, ex SAF), Tedy (code), The Knight (swap), Zed (doublememb Digital Corruption [details], 11/96). Mystic was formed in the early 1990s by Axe, and was a mainly illegal/modem based crew until the establishment of their demo section in Poland, organized by XTD. Since then the demo section has been reinforced with talented members from Finland, Norway and Denmark. When Axe decided to stop, the dutch Killraven took over, and today Mystic is organized by Finn Quartz. Easy Rider, the original Polish organizer, has now started a Mystic on the PC too, which has nothing to do with the rest of the group. Their recruitment of the french division of Essence, producers of the two excellent demos "Makaveli" and "Thug Life", was a brief experience since they decided to leave again, to reform their old group Skarla! Their DayDream door division consisted of Peja, Easyrider and Yasiu. 1995 - Polish graphician CIA (03/95) joined Freezers early in the year. Finnish musician Slice (new between 05 and 08/95) joined Nerve Axis late in the year, and has since risen to fame in that group under the name Ganja. 1996 - Seb McKein joined Asphyx in june. 1997 - Visual (gfx) left for Freezers. 1999 - With the release of their 3rd placed "Megademo" [08/99] at Assembly 99, they announced that this was their very last ever production on the amiga. They are therefore declared dead as an amiga group. Their homepage, http://amigascne.org/mystic, is now also gone from the web. German sysop Steve ('THE CRYING FIELDS'), and swedish sysop Borre ('OUT OF SPACE', 12/93) were both kicked. Jeremy (doublememb from Mad Elks) left the scene. Polish graphician Yoga joined Freezers. English musician Hydlide joined Defekt. Dirt (ECS Trackmo). code: MSS, gfx: CIA, Gunman, music: XTD. review: This is an obscure little demo, which contain no release date whatsoever! What it does contain is lots and lots of linebased vector, a single filled vector cube and (the best thing here) a fullscreen rot- zoomer, which should give us some indication of its age... XTD can do a lot better music than this! Please note that this review caters for a version prepared for HD install, released to AmiNet by a third person. It is therefore not give an impression of the compatibility of the original trackmo. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Starlight (1994, .08 or pre, Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: XTD. Vital (1994, .05, Trackmo). code: Charon, gfx: Cia, Charon (fonts), music: Roberts/Beta Team, XTD. Contribution for Primavera 94 demo competition. review: Seeing Vital, I can't help but think Charon got a few ideas from some of 1993's better demos and intros - like Kefrens' "Desert Dream" and Virtual Dreams' "Chaosland". Still, that doesn't necessarily make for a bad demo - just a boring one. Technically, I suppose there's nothing really wrong, it's just a little identity-less. It's got no SOUL. My conclusion would have to be: Competent coding, but unoriginal and a little boring. Try again, though. :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Atom (1994, 12.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: CBM80, gfx: Gunman, music: XTD (ProPacker 2.1 format). Released at Intel Outside I Party. review: Early AGA intro shows coders exploring possibilities of the new architecture. It opens with an opening logo by Gunman, before we're treated to a good raytraced animation...with a twist! In fact the animation is blown up, while a 1x1 rendition bounces around all over it. Next we're shown a 256 color greyscale highres keftales effect (plasma- like). Then we're given the credits, which is the last part. It consists of just a text writer and some globes bouncing around. Overall not a bad intro, though it's a little short. XTD's music is kind of squeaky. They say it's the first production from ex-Beta Team members after they joined Mystic. Since Gunman joined from Mad Elks, does this only refer to CBM80 and XTD? Please note that this review refers to the fixed version, not the party version. As far as I know, the only difference between the two are in the music replay routine. If you have the fixed version, the text-writer at the end says so. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Ilex (1994, 12.08, AGA Disk). code: Charon, gfx: CIA, music: XTD. Winner of the Intel Outside demo competiton. The Mask (1994, 13.11, AGA 64k Intro). code: Dark Angel, gfx: Jackal, Jezo (endlogo), music: XTD (2 x The Player 6.0A format). 5th in the Gelloween 94 64k intro competition. review: An amazingly enerving assault of fuzzy guitars is the one thing you'll remember about "The Mask" - long after the memory of block rotzoomers, bad 'wolfenstein' routines (walls only) and actually rather nice dots have faded. Quite fun that 'insert disk 2' joke, though.... It all ends with an upscroller with an ok, blue mystic logo gracing the top of the screen. The original 'metal' tune is replaced with a similarly irritating chiptune. For some reason there is NO exit for this intro. Works on unexpanded A1200s. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Realtime Animation Concept (1994, 28.12, Wild). 4th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. information: Presented on an A4000. Impossible Possibility (1995, 12.03, AGA Multifile Demo, 2 disks). code: MSS, gfx: CIA, Gunman, Jezo, Reset (raytraced tunnel), Yoga, music: "Survive" and "Ecstasy" by XTD (Tracker Packer 3 format). Winner of the Primavera 95 demo competition! review: "IP" is a demo that throws stuff at you constantly, keeping a high pace throughout the demo. Having said that, this is an uneven production, with lots of - but no real amazing - graphics. The raytraced, colorful tunnel (done by Reset) looks cool, and there are lots of variations on the rotzoom principle here - including a real impressive fullscreen one that also waves sideways! Well, it's hard to describe, download the demo and see for yourselves ;) Above average, but lacks a little freshness. Originally intended for distribution on two disks, but easily installable on harddisk with a few short assigns. Will work fine on unexpanded A1200's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Fear (1995, 30.08, AGA HD, 2 disks). code: MSS, gfx: Gunman, Jezo, Yoga, music: XTD, Bartesek. Released at Intel Outside 95. The Demo (1995, 28.12, AGA Demo). code: SHD, Eracore, gfx: Mistral, Doc, music: Speck. 11th in The Party 95 demo competition. information: Runs on unexpanded A1200's, and according to Generation 23, it contained a very powerful 1x1 envmap routine in 256 colors. Determination (1996, 23.06). Released at the Polish Summer Party 96. Traffic (1996, 18.08, AGA ?MB HD Multifile). code: SHD, gfx: Mistral/Parallax, Phonetic, Lazur/Anadune (2 pictures), music: Archangel/TRSI, Speck (both The Player 6.1A format). 4th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: This was to be reviewed soon anyway, as I was working my way through the Assembly '96 CD-ROM, when an article in ROM8 caught my eye. In this article, lots of people were singing the praise of this demo, complaining it didn't do better in the competition. My curiosity was sparked, and thus I had to transfer it to my Amiga and take a peek...and I can but join the chorus. This _IS_ a great demo, and deserving of any praise it gets! The star of the show here is undoubtedly SHD. This is certainly a coder for the future, no doubt about that! There are some amazing effects here, like the money bills dropping from the top of the screen, to the water effects and those calculated whatchercallems full screen thingies that look like something being poured into water and slowly dissolving... Some criticism was directed at the music in ROM's article, but I only halfway agree. I think the first tune (by Archangel?) is a good, functional demo tune combining the beat popularized by latter-day demos with some of the groove of earlier demo tunes... The second tune, however, never really came alive for me. Still, taste varies... Here's some additional 'technical' information, again from the ROM article: All routines run in 256 color in 256x256 resolution, except the texture tunnel and room, which is actually a 'scene' from the raytracing program Lightwave. The demo REQUIRES a 030-50, and was made with the 060 owner in mind. Also requires some fastmem. Lazur's two pictures can also be seen in his "Wild" (1996) slideshow for Anadune. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 4k Intro (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). 9th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: A rather uninspired affair, this intro just features a spinning sphere with the full mandelbrot fractal set texturemapped on each tile. A small text says '4K Intro by Mystic' in the top left corner, and that's all there is. Disappointing. No credits appear in the intro or the file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fat (1997, 09.08, 64k Intro). code: Geezer, gfx: Czar, music: Dune. 3rd in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: This intro opens with blue/white blurred linevectors spinning around arranged into somekind of a shape, and after a little while a white MYSTIC logo with blurred blue edges appear at the bottom of the screen. Next comes a travel through a fastmoving, flashing tunnel - an effect the intro holds onto for much too long long! Then a screen with the names of the three makers appear, before we return to the tunnel which is now cube- shaped. Then we see the word FAT with a flashing object moving behind it, before the show ends with the opening effect recycled with a new palette. To make a long story short, this is an intro that I'm having problems getting excited over; the pace is too slow and the effects are not impressive. One thing I do wonder about is the musician for this project; was legendary finnish musician Dune a member of Mystic at this time? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Azuli (1997, 01.11, 64k Intro). code: Geezer, gfx: Czar, music: "El4" by Jamsam (Tracker Packer 3 format). 2nd in the Dreamhack 97 64k intro competition. review: This minimalistic, grey intro opens with some "tvnoise" in the background and a Mystic logo. It moves on into a 3d scene/tunnel (in grey) which is blocky but fast, then some credits (over tvnoise). Next is something that's probably supposed to be a scene (in grey), but looks more like a rotzoomer before we flash onto a - grey - tunnel scene with a blinding light at both ends. Then it all ends with an Azuli logo over - you guessed it - some grey tvnoise. I'm depressed now. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. The Larch (1998, Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Duskland" by Daiz'l. Winner of the ACG Hack VII demo competition! Beetle (1998, 08.08, AGA 030 881 64k Intro). code: Gluten, gfx: Mustafa, Madd, Kafel/independent (additional textures), music: Mobby. 2nd in the Quast 98 64k intro competition. info: This requires an FPU and so cannot be executed. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo (1999, 07.08, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: SHD, gfx: Mistral/Parallax, Phonetic, Lazur, Brainlock, Mike, music: Alien/Virtual Dreams (The Player 6.1A format). 3rd in the Assembly 99 demo competition. review: Mystic's final ever amiga demos opens with Lazur's picture "Pegazus" (done in 1995), of a girl riding on a blindfolded unicorn. Then the credits, and next is a picture of a cybered-up Bill Gates, with the words "resistance is futile" overlaid on the soundtrack...then the demo starts proper with another picture of Gates - derived from a german wartime poster of Adolf Hitler leading his troops but with Gates' face superimposed and the windows logo standing in for the swastika - over which texturemapped money drops realisticially from the top of the screen. This demo uses more than a few effects recycled from their classic "Traffic" [08/96], as you will soon understand :). Next is a nice but blovcky envmap routine overlaid on a tunnel with 3d stars travelling towards you - just slightly sad that they use the classic duck.3ds object, which has only been used about a thousand times before... Next up is an "afterburned particle" (well, that's the best name I could think of, OK? =D) routine, which is also (if memory serves me right) recycled from "Traffic". Onto a cool ripple effect as we fly around a blown-up version of Lazur's "Whirl" picture (of a 'boat' on a stormy sea, also from 1995) and finally the full picture. Next we get one more envmap object, this time in 1x1 resolution without the tunnel and with shinepoints, before the demo ends with an upscroll...a sad one. It announces that this will be Mystic's last ever amiga demo, and the background picture signals the shape of platforms to come. SHD even manages to deliver the final insult; saying 'AMIGA IS DEAD'. I like your demo SHD; but not your attitude :( Was Lazur really a member here? No information on the memory or machine limitations either in the demo or the accompanying text files. Surely needs some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mystix ------ SWE> Advance (swap), Dork, Izi, Rubicon, Tornado (swap). AUS> Agro (ex Biotech), Armalite, Blitzer (pack), Bullet (gfx), Sky (sysop 'VENDETTA'). ???> Illusion (ex Prism [no entry]), Rastix, Shadow (ex Prism [np entry]). Boards; TRANSITION (aus). The Clairvoyant joined Devils. Stealth was later Spectral/LSD. Australians Condor and Rob joined Kaos. Iceman, Wazza and Dictator left the scene. Metallic, Elite, Jim and Bytor joined Infinity. Swedes Captain Blood and Cruizer joined End of Century 1999. Myth (MTH) ---------- DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER', 10/95). N-L> Crew-One, Eurosoft, THC (sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES' WHQ, doublememb Atomic, 03/95-03/96). ???> Crew-1 (hol?), Eurosoft (hol?), Kylix (hol?), Pll (hol?). Boards; WASTELANDS (swe, 09/96). Myth was probably an illegal group, but I do not have enough information to confirm/deny any demoscene activity. THC's board has 6 (!) nodes! Rektum (1995, 30.08). Released at Intel Outside 95. Mythos ------ SWE> Atlas (gfx, later The Silents), Chevron (gfx, later The Silents), Delery (code, later The Silents), Jampin, Kazar, Quartz, Seb. Swedes Lando and Dawn joined The Silents mid 91. Unoriginal Demo (ECS File). Nah-Kolor (NAH, 1995-, http://www.nahkolor.cjb.net) --------------------------------------------------- POL> Amiflash (Bartosz Mediger, 3d raytrace, ex Inferno or Erotic Design, 08/97), Caro (gfx, ex Dinx Project, new late97-09/01), Dreamer (Wojciech Cejrowski, founder music, 95-11/96), Elis (founder code, 95-97), Fame (gfx, 04/01), Guma (swap, 97), Klod (code, 07/97-04/01), Lazur (gfx, 04/01), Melon (swap, late97), Protas (music, 97), QBA (Jakub Pienkowski, founder swap pack "Speed", triplememb PIL and Anadune, 95-12/99), Scorpik (music, 08/97). N-L> Danny (gfx, ex Spaceballs, doublememb TBL [details], new 12/95), Magic (Fulco Koop, founder ascii swap trade editor, ex TRSI, 06/96-00). GER> Virgill (music, triplememb, new early00-04/01). ITA> Hedgehog (code, 11/96-08/97), Metal Designer (code, 12/96-01/98). DEN> Raze (Thomas Petersen, music, 97-12/99). ENG> Alive (gfx write, doublememb Digital [details], 01/98). FIN> Alvin (Mattias Ahlvin, webmaster, 00-05/01). ???> Acid (gfx, 97), Antony (gfx, 04/01), Case (swap, 00-04/01), Dascon (music, 04/01), Degrysin (04/01), Dzordan (11/99), Fra (gfx, 08/97-01/98), Fusko (gfx, 04/01), Juen (code, new early00), Mag666 (gfx, 12/99), Pix (gfx, 04/01), Ridler (11/99), Ripper (code, 12/99), Spark (gfx, 04/01), Teo (music, 11/99), Tolkien (code, 04/01), Traitor (gfx 3d, 11/99-04/01), Ubik (04/01), Voicer (ex Apathy, new early01-04/01). Nah Kolor was originally formed in the middle of 1995 by the Polish section of TRSI 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. Blaze doublejoined from Floppy to help organize the team after QBA's recent lack of activity. 1996 - They lost a valuable asset when the Polish celebrity graphician Lazur left them for Anadune in the middle of 1996. He did help out with some productions after that though, like "Episode" [08/97]. Dutch coder and sysop Infant (ex New Age) left after one week (late 96) because Magic's attitude was commanding everyone around. This led to him rejoining Session and releasing an intro for them at The Party 6. 1997 - Finnish musician Muffler (new 02/96) joined Haujobb 05/97. While he was a member of Nah Kolor, he worked on the cooperation musicdisk "Moments" [11/96] with Dreamer. 1998 - Polish swapper Blaze (doublememb Floppy) joined Endzeit in june... In November Klod won the 64k intro competition at Satellite 2 with "Worms From My Head" [11/99]. In the following month, at The Party they released the 40k intro "Dive" [12/99], which finished sixth. Spanish musician Estrayk (doublememb from Capsule 01/98) is no longer a member. 2000 - The early year saw the release of one of the best new mags in a LONG time, "Devotion #1" [00]. Inside they announced that Virgill had joined as a triplemember, that Nop (code) had been asked to leave and that Juen (code) had joined. Graphician Yoga joined Scum. Polish swapper Action joined Anadune. Polish graphician Fame (08/96-08/97) decided to end his double membership to stay in Floppy. Speed Packmenu (1995, AGA Menu). code: Bald Horse, gfx: Lazur, Comanche/OBS (font), music: various, editor: QBA. review: The single most outstanding thing about this menu is certainly its graphics - Lazur is the Polish #1 for a REASON! The menu consists of a single screen, where most of the space is taken up of a picture of a screaming man seemingly having his face torn apart. On the left part of the screen is a text display window, but the background sadly interferes a lot with the text; wouldn't it have been a better idea to at least have two different palettes for these? At the bottom left, below the display, are three gadgets; FILES, MUSIC and INFO. The music menu consists of three chiptunes (max 50k pp for submissions, it says). Overall, this pack gives me a good overall feel of solidity and niceness. Very good. -- Used from issue #1, #3 (07/95), #6. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Wild (1996, summer, AGA Slideshow). Cooperation with Anadune, see there for details.  Moments 'Dawno Temu' (1996, .11, AGA Multifile Musicdisk). code: Hedgehog, gfx: Lazur, Danny, Fame, Tudor (traced anim), Antony (menu layout), music: Dreamer, Muffler. Spread and released simultaneously at Saturne and Gravity. review: I have just experience the 'Moments' musicdisks - a rather hefty 3.8 mb LHA file. So what do I think of it? I like some parts, others less. With skilled graphicians like Lazur and Danny working on this, there should certainly be no problems graphically! But why is the main selector screen so bland and uninspiring when it's wrapped in such graphical greatness? The four 'icons' at the bottom of the screen does not tell us much, so we're reduced to trying them out. I foolishly tried the one on the right first, and was immediately told 'good bye'. Just so you won't follow in my footsteps, the icons do the following (left to right): Show credits, play a cooperation tune, show an AMAZINGLY GREAT picture by Lazur - perhaps his best ever!! and exit the production. But enough about the graphics, what about the music in this musicdisk? Dreamer's the old-timer here, and Muffler's sort-of his protege. This means their music reminds me a little of each other... Still, Dreamer does not feel so bound by rules - sort of reminds me of Bruno - and Muffler's tunes always have that jazzy feel to them. These are two good composers, and this is - overall - a good musicdisk. Hedgehog's code is all it needs to be, but not much else. The bump mapping was nice, 'tho. Will work on a standard unexpanded A1200. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Noiseless (1996, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Metal Designer, gfx: none, music: none. Released for The Party 96 4k intro competition, unplaced. review: Now, this is something cool! It opens with a cool green swirling tunnel, which then after a short break starts to move and gets bumpmapped in new colors - white/blue! Then some plasma-like effect in green and purple and finally a red/white effect I can't really describe :) Very very nice. c2p and cruncher routines by Zero/Balance. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.1. Speed Magpack (1997, AGA Magpack Menu). code: n/a, gfx: Lazur/Scoopex (main), Fade One/? (hidden), music: "Goa 03" by Bump/independent (pack), "Sonic Boom" by Rebb/TM!C (mag), Virgill (hidden), Supernao (hidden), DSX Design (hidden), editor: Blaze. info: Used for #34 (first ever issue with Speed Charts).  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Touching (1997, 13.07, Demo). code: Klod, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 4th in the Intel Outside 4 demo competition. The Prophecy (1997, 09.08, 64k Intro). code: Metal Designer, Hedgehog, gfx: Fra, Fame, Tudor/The Black Lotus (face object), music: Muffler. 5th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: A real nice little intro from Nah Kolor here, that scores lots on its colorfulness and the smooth finish to much of its effects. Though most of the 3d routines are in 2x2 resolution, it never really appears blocky, perhaps apart from the very last envmap object. After a long pause for precalculation, the intro opens with a pretty cool flashing twirling effect :), and continues with a rotzooming bumpmap routine which looks very cool and colorful! Next we travel into a morphing tunnel, with smooth finishing, which magically morphs into an envmapped face object! Next is a 2x2 water ripple effect, an envmap object before the entire thing is concluded with a NAH KOLOR logo done by Fame back in 96 (as the signature tells us). You have to press LMB to exit the intro, and when I did it crashed my machine... oh well :) This is actually quite nice... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Episode (1997, 31.08, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: Klod, gfx: Fame, Lazur, Amiflash (3d), music: Scorpik. 4th in the Gravity 97 demo competition. review: This demo opens interestingly, with lots of bumpmap action and considerable style, so it's a bit of a disappointment when it crashes after 30 seconds! I tried a couple of times too, but no luck. It even says in the enclosed aminet text file that this is a fixed version too...go figure. Oh well... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ping-Phong (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. SideFx (1998, 03.01, Demo). code: Metal Designer, gfx: Lowlife, Made, Alive, Unreal, Fra, music: Dreamer. Winner of the Trip 98 demo competition! Little Sister (1998, 03.01, AGA Intro). code: Rio/Elven11, gfx: FRA/NAH, music: Md/?. Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Elven 11. review: Not much of an effort this, a hastily thrown together intro composed of a blocky swirly dot tunnel, a rather cool credits part, and a Nah Kolor fullscreen logo. Not much to shout about. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Worms In My Head (1999, 14.11, AGA 060 64k Intro). code: Klod, gfx: Klod (3d), Dzordan (objects), Ridler (objects), Traitor (objects), music: Teo. Winner of the Satellite 2 64k intro competition! review: As I'm sure you can see from the specifications that this intro far exceeds what I can run on my hardware... =( [glenn] Dive (1999, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro). code: Ripper, gfx: Mag666, music: Raze (The Player 6.1A format). 6th in The Party 99 40k intro competition. review: Radar-like display opens this intro, sweeping around the screen before dissolving into particles forming the word NAH KOLOR. Next is the logo and credits over a blue animated backgrund and some additional words. One nice thing about this intro is that it keeps a thumbnail of the action in the top right corner, nice design touch. Next is a small picture of a scary shark-like fish, which after a few moments have blue/white lightspheres overlaid. Next is more of that blue animated background with more words overlaid.... And then it ends. This intro at least goes for a wholesome design in blue and white, though it doesn't altogether succeed. A pretty middle-of-the-road intro. Please note that the version reviewed is the final version, released after the party. The intro uses Scout's c2p routine. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Devotion #1 (2000, AGA/P96 Multifile Diskmag). code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: Antony/ex Dreamdealers (title), Adam/DCS (main), Optic/Talent (clips), music: Teis/Spaceballs, Tecon/PlanetJazz, Teis/Spaceballs, editors: Darkus/Haujobb and Magic/Nah-Kolor (main), Alvin, Teis/Spaceballs, Makke/Visuale. review: Certainly a nicely designed mag, Devotion screams style at you from the first instance you look at its panel. A very clean and readable font, and page design that looks a lot like - oh yes! - ROM - gives a professional impression. But as we all know, the most important thing in a diskmag is the quality of its articles. And this is a place where "Devotion" excels, we really have to say. I honestly believe I have not read a more interesting mag since "ROM", and if they continue to release issues like this, then we have a new #1 mag in the not-too-distant future. The best mag in ages. Not really sure about the release date, but it's after Mekka Symposium at least, since they feature a report from the party. My best guess is around may. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Magic (2001, 15.04, AGA 030 15MB FPU Demo). code: Tolkien (main), Klod (additional), gfx: Fame, Pix, Traitor, Lazur, Antony, Fusko, Ubik (3d), Degrysin (3d), Spark (backgrounds), music: Dascon. 17th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Well, yet another demo that I cannot see due to that dread FPU missing from my accelerator card... In addition to the credits above, Magic is given an 'project coordinator' credit, and Voicer is credited with 'some help' =] They announce that what was released at MS was a 'party version' and that a final one will follow. [glenn] Narcosis (1994-) ---------------- ???> Jedi, Motive (founder), Neotronic (founder), Quest (founder), R-9 (founder). Narcosis was formed by four former Dimension-X members (Motive, R-9, Neotronic and Quest) in early 1994. Narmala Pocket -------------- Space Cake (1993, 28.12, ECS File). code/gfx: Arthy, Music: Shun/Liquid. Split 27th in The Party 93 demo competition. Nation ------ 40k Intro (1993, 07.04, Intro). 7th place in TG93 intro competition. Nation-X -------- Lobotomi (1993, 07.04, Disk). 6th in The Gathering 93 demo comptition. Nature (http://move.to/nature) ------------------------------ ???> Pipe (gfx, 06-12/97), Rex (06/97). Wannabe (1997, 17.06, Demo). 4th in the Icing 97 demo competition. YAFK (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). 7th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. Kicker (1998, 11.04, Demo). 5th in The Gathering 98 demo competition. Automatic (1998, 13.06, Demo). 2nd in the Remedy 98 demo competition. Grid (1999, 04.04, 40k Intro). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 99 40k intro competition! Grid2 (2000, 28.12, AGA 12MB 64k Intro). Winner of The Party 2000 64k intro competition! review: I can't even begin to tell you how much this is starting to irritate me. 'This intro requires a FPU' MY ASS!!!!! Please note that the above review concerns the 'fixed' version of the intro. Requires an FPU and 12MB fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Navigators, The --------------- ???> The Mafiosi (trade). The Navigators was founded by Norman Bates. The group was later disbanded, and Norman Bates (gfx trade), Melodic Drama (trade) and CCCP (code) were later in Countach and Spirit. Nebula ------ ENG> Antichrist (org, 94), Dangermouse (code gfx swap, 94), Jinx (swap, 94), Manik (music swap, 94). ???> Apache 64 (code, 93), Candy Man (music), Equalizer (code sysop), Gaza R (music, 93), Gundam (gfx), Impose (gfx, 93), Nexus (code), Osd (code, 93), P.A.K (music, 93-94). Nebula was an English-based demo group, under the management of Oedipus (main organizer and founder) and Antichrist. Then when Oedipus left for LSD the group carried on for a few more months, but never released anything. Wit also later joined LSD. Graphician Baggpuss left the scene for a while. Doctor Who (1993?, ECS File). code: Danger Mouse, gfx: Gundam, Danger Mouse, music: Oedipus. Charts Intro (1993, ECS Intro). Code: Apache 64, Gfx: Baggpuss, Music: Gaza R. Goingtro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Osd, gfx: Impose, music: Pak. Necropolis [old] ---------------- SPA> Relian (gfx, 09/92). Relian won the graphics competition at the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92. Necropolis [new] (1994-) ------------------------ ???> Barman (ex Sepultura), Darklord (ex Sepultura), JMC (ex Sepultura), Megamiga (ex Sepultura), Ravana (ex Sepultura). A Spanish group that died about two years ago, but is now reborn. They're doing a Spanish mag called "Fanzine". Nemesis [old] (-1992) --------------------- ENG> Infiltrator (founder), Megadrive (sysop 'LIVING HELL', 03/92), N.O.M.A.D (founder crack, 02/92), Rotox (ex Ghost). GER> Mr.Rox (trade sysop 'SCHIZOPHRENIA', 92). SWE> Hoson (swap, early92). ITA> Tom Cat (sysop 'DARK DATA SECURITY'). NOR> IT (sysop 'CONTACT ZERO', ex Alcatraz, new pre 07/92). CAN> Devious Doze (sysop 'AKIRA PROJECT', 07/92). USA> Loverboy (sysop 'INVOLUNTARY DEATH' distsite), Mr.Yuk! (sysop 'D'YER M'KER'), Reet-Mon (sysop 'CENTRUM' distsite, fullmemb?), Wolverine (sysop 'CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM'). ???> Amok (trade, 92), Nocternal, Scorpio, TIC (founder crack), XTC (92). Nemesis was a purely illegal group, formed by Action Man, N.O.M.A.D, Infiltrator, Zelnik, The Surge and TIC all from Quartex. When they died, most members formed a new group called Ministry (Action Man, Zelnik...) together with members of Crack Inc and Thrill Kill Kult. Nemesis was later reformed by their cracker The Surge in 1992. One of the original founders, UK resident Zelnik stopped all activity early 92. Eddie and Ice joined Accession. German trader Pioneer was busted 04/92 for blueboxing! Contact Zero (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY') joined Angels new. Badcat joined the new Angels. Skywalker (ex Model) joined Scoopex. French Connection joined Crack Inc. Professor joined Fusion early 92. Englishman Cosy left the scene early 92. Nemesis [new] ------------- SWE> Virus (music). FRA> Thomas. ???> Cedric, Markopolo, The Surge (founder crack). Nemesis was apparently reborn by earlier member The Surge. Boards; NEWORK WHQ (den), ELEVENTH HOUR (usa), SUBROSA (usa). Nemol ----- ???> Zalo (gfx, 12/93). Boundless World (1993, 29.05, Demo). 6th in The TCC 93 demo competition. Neo --- ENG> Watts (swap). IRE> Khul (Wang Hung Liu, code, ex Nerve Axis). NOR> Numen (ascii, 10/95), Zack (swap, early95). Neo was originally formed when lots of members left Nerve Axis, and needed a new group. When Neo later died, Rombust rejoined Nerve Axis. Devistator and Spangly joined Eltech 04/96. Neoplasia (NPL) --------------- GER> Butthead (music, 05/95), Cyborg (mainorg music, 05-12/95), Danger D (gfx, 05/95), Doc Holyday (gfx, 05/95), Janosh (code, 05/95), Peace (swap, 94), Phase (swap, 05/95), Procyon (code, 05/95), Technoking (swap, 05/95), THCM (code, 05-12/95), Wizard (code, 05/95). FIN> Icebeat (music, 05/95), KML (gfx swap, 05/95). GRE> Alien (code, 05/95), Dark Angel (gfx, 05/95), Ex (music, 05/95), Neptunos (music, 05/95). Neoplasia mentioned in their intro at The Party 95 that most NPL members had joined Crazy. This means at least these people joined: THCM, Cyborg, Phase, Technoking, Doc Holiday and german graphician JCS (doublememb Sector 7, 05/95-).  Sign (1995, 21.05, 40k Intro). code: THCM, gfx: JCS, music: Cyborg. Released for the Nexus 95 40k intro competition. review: Opens with a nice NPL logo with a 3D starfield behind it. There are some reasonable advanced effects, like the very nice fire effect and a voxelspace terrain...but it's all too blocky to make any kind of impact. Sorry. Looking at the review of "The End" below, it seems like they've recycled most of the effects from this and used it in that intro! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.  The End (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: THCM, gfx: Toxic/Abyss, music: Cyborg (The Player 6.1A format). review: This intro opens with a good logo with a starfield behind it (sound familiar at all?), but holds that effect just a little too long. I guess it's precalculating at this point, so it's partly excusable - I hate those 'please wait while precalculating' messages... At least we're getting an effect, a good graphic and some music! Next is a spacecutting routine, but the objects (spheres, it seems) are so blocky the routine is ruined. Next there's a rather good fire effect, followed by a blocky voxel landscape. This part is also, unfortunately, very blocky and has an unusual choice of palette. The whole thing is rounded off with a sort of chunky image stretcher/zoomer/thing, which starts with what seems like a map of the world... Then it all ends quite abruptly. Since no actual text appears anywhere in the intro, I depacked it and found some text describing the credits. The name is based on the filename. Also see my review of "Sign" above... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nerve Axis (NVX, 1992-, http://www.nerveaxis.net/) --------------------------------------------------- ENG> Babbage (code gfx, 12/96-02/98), Crash! (Dean Ryan, org, 12/96-06/01), Meson (gfx raytrace editor 'Pressure', 12/96-08/98), Schlott (Tommy Schlott, code, 12/96-08/98), Tango (ascii project manager, 12/96-08/98), Venom 12/96-08/98), Wade (gfx, ex Gods, later Haujobb, new 03-08/98), Zone (org gfx www, 12/96-08/98). ICE> Jam (music, 12/96-08/98), Spoon (music, 12/96-08/98). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: AMF (eng, sysop 'NORTHERN X-POSURE'), Axe (eng, org, ex Eclipx, new late93), Carbon (gfx music, -notmembanymore-, 12/96), Damage (gfx, 12/96), D-Vice (aus trade music, new mid 93), Epsilon (trade, 12/96), Evil C (Clive, eng mainorg, 93), Rombust (eng code, re-Neo, 93), Stigg (eng code), Pak (Patrick, sco music, new mid93), Carebear (sysop), Corn (sosys 'WELSH COAST'), Cyber (code trade), Dark Elf (code), Decker (trade, new mid93), Dreamer, Dr.Kaya (ex Zero Defects), Excalibur (gfx music), Gundan (trade, new mid93), Iceberg (ex Alliance), John Doe (sysop 'THE RECLUSE'), KGB (sysop 'STARGATE', 12/96-08/97), Leech (code), Leonardo (gfx), Maffia (codeE ascii, 12/96), Michelin Man, Mozart (trade), Neelix (eng sysop 'LA LUNA', 12/96-08/97), Nightflyer, Phantom (trade, ex Fine, new mid93), Rage (trade, 12/96), Skittle (code, 12/96), Squidge (music, 12/96), Sarek (org, 93), Terminal Storm (code music). Nerve Axis was born in July 1992 by Telemach, and was originally head- quartered around Bolton, Manchester in England. Later that year, in september, several British groups split up, and Nerve Axis gained a lot of good members. Their demo "Impossible Cube" (93) was the first British AGA demo. Lots of members later left, forming the new group 'Neo'. Among the ones who left were previous star coders Khul and Rombust. OSD left the scene altogether. From an alltime high of 45 (!) members this left them with 7. After some time without even a coder, things then started to pick up. They recruited new members, and after Neo died Rombust rejoined. Today they're a whole new crew, and are way on their back to almost singlehandedly reviving the British scene. Their first signs of real success came when they unexpectedly WON the democompetition at The Assembly 97 with their amazing demo "Pulse". 1993 - Original founder Telemach left to concentrate on his new group Ascii Unlimited mid 93. His organizing duties were taken over by Sarek and Evil-C. Kenton left to form a new group mid 93. English coder Oedipus left for Destiny shortly after the Destiny Communion party in august. English coder Lando is no longer a member, but has resurfaced in Mangoo in the year 2000! 1996 - Bliss left the group for Steps of Change in april. The first issue of their diskmag "Pressure" [12/96] was released in december. 1997 - The group travelled to finland for the Assembly party in august, and brought with them a demo that's a very close contender for 'demo of the year' 1997. "Pulse" [08/97] won the competition at this major party, and established the group as a major force in the demo scene. 1998 - In february the group released the promotional intro "Sentient Ore" for Darkage's diskmag "Showtime #9". In a major cleanup, Ace (sysop '13TH HOUR'), ZipZippy (eng sysop 'TRUCK OR TREAT II', 12/96-), Demolee (fin raytrace sysop 'MOS EISLEY', doublememb Abuse, 08/97-), Turbo (eng sysop 'CYBERSPACE', 12/96-), Nik (code, 12/96-), Nexus (code, 12/96-) and Icon (trade, 12/96-) were all kicked in april. August came with Assembly again, and the group once more travelled to finland with a new demo. The result was another success; "Relic" [08/97] won the demo competition for the second year in a row. 2001 - In an interview with group leader Crash in Haujobb's "Devotion #2" [06/01] diskmag, the group's future was discussed. Most members now have pcs, and the prospect of further amiga demos are almost nonevident. Their coder Schlott now works as a pc coder for Runecraft in Yorkshire, England, currently finishing up work on his first commercial title, the puzzle game "Super Bubble Pop". Zone is also working at Runecraft, designing front screens, menus and websites for various projects. Coder Venom has emigrated to the usa to work for a large ISP, while finnish musician Ganja (ex Mystic, old handle Slice, new late95, who left for Scoopex some time ago) is in the finishing stages of cutting his first commercial cd. Meson has probably left the scene for good, devoting his time to the woman he loves. Nightflyer's board 'QUANTUM ERROR' is closed, though Nighflyer himself remains active! Impossible Cube (1993, 29.08, AGA Demo). code: Rombust, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Destiny Communion Party 93! Demon's Rage (1993, .10, Demo). code: Khul, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Pressure promotional (1996, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Get Crazy!" by Ganja. Pressure #1 (1996, 24.12, AGA 2MB HD Filemag) code: Tommy Schlott, gfx: Zone, Meson, music: Azazel/TBL, "Rundfunk" by Ganja, editor: Meson. review: This new filemag actually does the unthinkable and changes the standard diskmag layout! This actually tries a different approach to presenting its articles than the standard RAW/ROM style! Does it work? Yes and no. It's always nice with originality, but I'm not sure when it comes to userfriendliness. Usually, when you pick up a mag, you instantly know how to control it since they are all pretty much the same. With Pressure, you migh feel initially a little confused, since almost nothing is as it usually is! Happily, however, the mag multitasks just fine, which means I can run it in the background - which makes writing these reviews a lot easier! :) Content-wise, however, it's not that impressive. It's quite obvious that all the truly talented editors are already writing for other magazines ;) Still, the whole mag reeks of a crew hungry for glory, so I won't write this off just yet... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Pulse (1997, 10.08, AGA 030 4MB Multifile). code: Schlott, gfx: Meson, music: "3 Minutes" by Ganja, "Aphrodesic" by Jam & Spoon (remix by Ganja). Winner of the Assembly 97 demo competition! review: If "Captured Dreams" is the king of 1997, then "Pulse" is certainly the handsome prince! From out of nowhere comes a gang of British sceners, lead on by a coder noone's really heard of before, and shows the finns at the Assembly what TOTAL DOMINATION looks like! There are HEAPS AND HEAPS of excellent, greatlooking, innovative effects, as well as two thumping techno soundtracks and graphics that are functional. You don't really mind that there's only one fullscreen picture, and that it's not particularly exciting, because there's so much else going on. The fact that there's no outstanding graphics and sound are more than made up for by the code. "Pulse" is almost 8 minutes (at least on my machine ;) of some of the most pure enjoyable demo material I've seen in ages. Thank you, Schlott - I can watch another two hundred boring BBS intros now =) If this is their idea of a demo made for 060 owners, then I guess I'll be able to live with my 030 for a while longer. You see, I encountered no problems whatsoever on my machine; not the slightest hint that it wasn't catching up. One of the top 3 demos of 1997, no doubt about it. The raytraced picture of the fish is "Catching Rays" by Meson, which came 4th in the raytrace competition at the same party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sentient Ore (1998, .02, Intro). code: Babbage, gfx: Zone, music: "Bassbin Bangin'" by Ganja. review: Nerve Axis deliver a nice promotional intro for the Darkage diskmag "Showtime #9" here, and manages to maintain their position (in my eyes) as a top quality demo group. It seems Schlott is not their only coder of some quality. The intro opens with the words 'DARKAGE' and 'SHOWTIME #9' bumpmapped, over which two moving light points travel around, lighting a couple of letters at a time. Then the music kicks in for real, and we're presented with some of this issues headlines. The music is a chapter onto itself, a weird and - at times - wonderful little piece of big beat ambient techno electronic wondrousness... Try saying that after 10 pints! Rather nice, oh yes. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Relic (1998, 08.08, AGA 020 6MB Multifile). code: Schlott, gfx: Meson, Wade (picture), music: Ganja (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Assembly 98 demo competition! review: "Relic" doesn't update too frequently on my machine :) As predicted, it's a pretty processor-intense demo, though on fast Amigas it surely rocks! It tries to relate a story, but watching the demo that doesn't really matter...It's all just there to showcase the effects anyway! As mentioned, the graphics engine of this demo is heavy on the processor, but it is also very impressive. Given the complexity of the engine, the relative slowness can almost be forgiven. Having said that, it's not so slow it's unwatchable by any means! While the accompanying text file claims it requires 6MB fast, the system test it performs at the beginning claims it only requires 4MB. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Network [old] (NET) ------------------- NOR> Alf (12/90), Blade, Dorian (old handle Agro), Duke, Felix, Headache (12/90), Kaos (ex Motion), Mad (ex Cult, new 12/90), Skeletor (ex Cult, new 12/90), SwEinstein (Svein Berge, code, ex Cult, new 12/90). ???> Raider (ex Decept). Mainly consisting of Norwegian members, Network was coorganizer of two copy parties in Norway (1989 and 1990). Years later, another Network was/is active, but this group has absolutely nothing to do with the original ones, who probably sprang out from Network on the C64. Daisy left. Sphinx joined Violence. Rick joined Flash Production. Finnish Catman joined Dual Crew. Norwegian Bug rejoined Razor 1911. White Hot and Savage (both ex Wizzcat) were kicked. Norwegian Assassin, sysop 'EXTENSION' BBS joined Razor 1911. Norwegian musician Shorty (ex Giants) showed up in Spaceballs years later as a coder! Norwegian Joker (ex Phobia) changed his handle to Corny and joined Vision. Norwegians Shocker (old handle Beast) and Yoghurt (both ex Cult, new 12/90) joined Dual Crew (RAW1). Stratos Vibratos (ECS Music). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Maniac and Bug. info: This musicselector is the only known real source for modules in the FRED format. It is perhaps worth noting that Maniac later became better known under his real name; Jogeir Liljedahl! Watch This! (ECS Demo). Aldri I Bergen (1990, 01.07, ECS Demo). 2nd in demo competition at the 'Bergen Party' 1990. Network [new] (NTW) ------------------- SPA> Lantium (gfx, ex Goblins, doublememb Essence, new late97), Leunam (Manuel Sanchez, gfx music edit, earlier doublememb Haujobb, doublememb Darkage 02/98, late96-07/99), Nork (Abraham Sanchez, music swap edit, doublememb Darkage, ex triplememb Massive and Osmose, late96-05/97), Phornee (code, ex Goblins, doublememb Essence, new late97), Wind (Antonio Vargas, code, late96-07/99). ENG> Darkus (Lee Harwood, editor, ex Digital, doublememb Rebels, new 98). FRA> Sloody (Belloni Laurent, swap, late96). ???> Blue (music, late96), Cueder (music, doublememb Ozone new [details], new 02/98), DJ Uno (music, late96), Lapola (raytrace, new late96), Scout (spa? code, 07/99), Wasi (spa? code, doublememb Amiga Circle [details], new late96-07/99), Weirdo (spa? music, 07/99), Xele (code, rescene 02/98). Network made a name for themselves in 1997 by releasing their diskmag "Trashcan", causing some renewed interest in the Spanish scene. The end of the year saw them recruiting two new members from the old Spanish group Goblins, who simultaneously joined Essence! When Darkus joined from Digital in mid 1998, he took over editorship of "Trashcan". Trashcan #1 (Diskmag). Trashcan #2 (Diskmag). Trashcan #3 (Diskmag). Trashcan #4 (1997, .05, Diskmag). INT - code: Flynn/ex Capsule, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Mork, Leunam. Synthesys (1998, 25.07, Demo). 3rd in the Euskal Party 98 demo competition. Anorexia (1998, 25.07, 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Chipsanity" by Dascon/TRSI. Winner of the Euskal Party 98 64k intro competition! Crossing The Deadline (1999, 24.07, 40k Intro). code: Wasi, Wind, Scout, gfx: Leunam, music: Weirdo. Winner of the Euskal Party 7 intro competition! review: A little 40k-intro by - you won`t believe it - three coders with only normal standard routines. But therefor very colorful with nice textures pixeled by Leunam, those give this tiny piece a sweet design but unfortunately without special effects. Also it is only to be seen in 2x2 resolution and has a little run-time problem (at least on my machine) after the credits part. The really cool thing is the 3D-effect if you watch it with 3d-classes! At last it is a bit too short. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. New Age (1995-) --------------- SWE> Calladin (gfx), Elusive (Peter Hippelainen, music, ex Sardonyx, also in Peek [pc] and Smoke [music], new 06/96), Fender (Jonas Hedeback, music, aka FNDR, also in Peek [pc] and Smoke [music], 08/96). Maxiphly (code). ???> Acryl (gfx, 08/96), Celtic (code, 08/96), Iz (gfx), Penta (music), Sverker (code). New Age was formed a few days before Remedy 95 by some ex-Giants members. 1996 - The 64k intro "Murr" [08/96] ended at 6th in the competition at Assembly in august. Swedish graphicians Spot and Plus8 left for Three Little Elks in november. Swedish musician Note (Stefan Karlsson, 09/96), known for his work in the C-Lous diskmag "No Sense", decided to leave the scene (ROM9). Dutch coder and sysop Infant ('THE HIDEOUT', new 06/96-08/96) was headhunted to New Age by Note. He wasn't a member for that long, before moving on to Nah Kolor. Everyone is Jesus (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). code: Infant, gfx: n/a, music: n/a 5th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. Murr (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Infant, Celtic, gfx: Acryl, music: Fender. 6th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: The usual phong objects dominate this intro, with spacecut toruses galore. It never goes beyond the 'another phong, _HOW_ exciting' stage, unfortunately. The fire effect in the end is not particularly convincing, either. I can control my enthusiasm. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. New Data -------- Ghost joined Outlaws. New Masters, The (TNM) ---------------------- GER> Tip (Armin Sander, code). This legendary German group made many of the best utilities in the late 80's, with tools like the TNM-Cruncher being used by the entire scene. TIP was also a member of The Prophets AG, but I am uncertain if that was prior or after TNM... He also coded the Oktalyzer music program. New Order --------- HOL> Cool Ed (music, 89), Marc (gfx, 89), Menno (gfx, 89), Silver S. (music, 89), Stranger (code, 89). ???> Delta, Digital S. (89), Hightown (89), John Flash (89), MCJ (89). Sweet Nothing (1989, ECS Intro). code: Stranger, gfx: Marc (logo), Menno (little char), Wild Copper (big char, ripped), music: Silver S. review: Nothing remarkable. Very C64-like design, and not much else. The coder admits it's his first intro. Remarkably I had no problems running it on my machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Worked fine, but DOpus looked a bit weird afterwards. New Wave (-1992) ---------------- NOR> Bushman (sysop 'THE BUSH' WHQ), Inter City Squad (code, new ca 01/92), M.M (code, 11/91-07/92), Mutant (music, later Stone Arts), Xtasy (Stig A. Olsen, code). USA> Cyberbit (sysop 'LIGHT YEARS', down RAW3). ???> Challenger, Emo. New Wave may not be a very wellknown name, but the fact remains that their members have been quite important in the evolution of the scene. They were the ones that cooperated with Pure Metal Coders on the release of the first few issues of "R.A.W", for example. Their coder M.M. coded the first two issues, and his code was also used for issue three! By that time, though, M.M. had left for the army, and was unable to work any more with the code, so from the fourth issue his code was replaced, and New Wave had nothing more to do with the mag. They were declared dead late 1992. 1992 - "R.A.W #2" [02/92] was released in february, and announced the joining of Stormbringer (sysop of 'DREAMLAND', old handle Master of Noise) and Chainsaw in finland; Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE') and Gadget (swap)'s joining from Cytax sweden; Gadget's quick handle change to Logic and subsequent leaving once again, this time for Noxious; the joining of Inter City Squad (code) in norway and Pitcher (trade) in Sweden and finally the death of Bold Eagle's norwegian board 'THE ABYZZ', which he took down due to personal problems in his life. He was reportedly also considering leaving the scene as a consequence of this. Norwegian coder Flesh joined Majic 12 around mid 92. Bushman's board went down when he went to the army, around the same time that the group died. Finnish Chainsaw (new ca 01/92) joined LSD. Swedish trader Pitcher (new ca 01/92) joined Noxious. Lion (Trade, ex Goonies) joined Vision. American sysop Master Copy ('DAWNS END') joined Awesome. Norwegians Kingpin (swap), Comajim (music, ex Alive, 11/91) and Vimme/Wimme? (gfx, 11/91) joined Offence sometime between 02 and 07/92. Princip, sysop 'INTERCHANGE' (ex Palace) and Stormbringer, sysop 'DREAMLAND' both joined Shining 8. Norwegian Hunter rejoined No Limits. Dr.M joined Celtic. It's Getting Harder (1990, 06.10, Demo). 5th in the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. Suicidal Failure (1991, ECS File).  R.A.W #1 (1991, .11, ECS Diskmag). Cooperation with Pure Metal Coders, see there for review. R.A.W #2 (1992, early, ECS Diskmag). Cooperation with Pure Metal Coders, see there for review. New Wave Inc. (-1991) --------------------- NWI were an English group, and had nothing to do with the largely Norwegian group called New Wave. They died around june 1991 and Ranx, Dobbin, Optrix, Lurch and Jaz joined Flashing Bytes. Next ---- DEN> Newmark. ???> Albatros, FXR (ex Revolt, new mid 91), Ghother (ex Revolt, new mid 91), Rhod. Next is dead. The French division joined Rebels. Frenchmen Surfer, Conquest and Zoom joined The Silents mid 91. All members of Shadows in Germany and Denmark joined mid 91. Next Generation Crew (NGC) -------------------------- FRA> Bluesilence (music, ex Eden), Clary (swap, ex Eden), Gandbox (music, ex Eden), Hardfire (music swap, doublememb Intense [details], later Spaceballs, early95-04/96), Matrix (gfx swap, 10/93), Silk (ex Eden, new ROM4), Slaine (gfx, ex Eden), Sylver (ex Eden). ???> Badsnail (music, 10/93), Blackbird (code, 10/93), Crisis (gfx, 10/93), Cyborg (code, 10/93), Fixion (code, 10/93), HST (gfx, 10/93), Lionel (code, 10/93), Mushies (music, 10/93), Sound Aestesis (music, 01/93- 12/94), Sunraf (gfx, 10/93), Viper (code, 10/93), Yolan (gfx, 10/93), Xulax (gfx, 10/93), Zaltor (gfx, 10/93). Vade (1993, 18.10, ECS File). code: Viper, gfx: Sunraf, Yolan, Viper (font), music: Sound Aestesis. review: Not too exciting. There's some dot-fx and a rather uninteresting tune. I will tear it to shreds with more detail at a later date ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Animatunes (1994, 12/10, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). info: Supports external diskdrives. Nexus ----- SWE> Byte, Hesiodos (martin Berzell, swap), Scanner (music), Trazzon. ???> Binkley (pcorg code, new PRP4), Cyborg (sysop, ex Revolution, new PRP4), Exorcist (amorg code, ex Revolution, new PRP4), Incognito (music, ex Revolution, new PRP4), Vermin (gfx, ex Orion/Revolution, new PRP4), Zippy (gfx, new PRP4). Boards; MUTE STATION WHQ (new WHQ PRP4). Prowler, Coke and Hermes (Martin Evvaldsson, swe swap) got kicked (PRP4). Onkel Vanja (1994, 30.07, ECS File). X-Com (1996, 10.11, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition. review: This intro was 'made' with DemoManiac v1.17, and therefore not worthy of inclusion in Scenery. Just press the right MB, and you'll know what I mean. [glenn] Nightfall --------- ITA> Xad 9009 (code sysop 'HIDDEN POWER', 92) ???> Booger (code, 92), DSK (code, 92), Highlander (music, 92), Lynx (gfx, 92), Mrc (gfx, 92). The Ripper joined Polaris. SMAU 92 Report (1993, .02 ECS Slideshow). code: Booger, Xad, DSK, gfx: Mrc, Lynx, music: Highlander, Case/Zenith. info: SMAU actually took place in october 1992! Nihondreamers (NHD, 1991-1995) ------------------------------ FRA> God Brozos (gfx), Knice (music swap), Nemo (gfx), P-Chan (music), Pern (gfx), Ranma (Michael Garcini, gfx), Ryokan (code gfx, 93), Slaine (mainorg artdirector), Solid-Snake (gfx), Stackpointer (code), The Dreamer (gfx), Trax (music), Ys (swap), Zen (swap). SWI> Denis (swap). Nihondreamers was a French demo group, born in 1991. They had only one foreign member in all their years of existence; Swiss swapper Denis. French graphician Dyze joined Bronx. Japanime Motion Picture (1991, 2 disks). Abunai Advertising (1992, ECS Intro). Abunai Dangerous Demonstration (1993, ECS Demo). X-mas Tro (1993, 08.01, ECS Demo). Intro members list (1993, ECS Intro). code: Ryokan, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Sol-740 Advertising (1993, ECS Intro). code: Ryokan, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: Advertising for a diskmag that was never released. Mes amis les animaux (1994, ECS Demo). Les amis de Bibi-lolo (1994, AGA Demo). Nikki Corruptions ----------------- FIN> Duracell (swap, late90), Ferro (music, 07/92-93), Sir Arthur (gfx, 07/92-93), Vodka, Zytax (code, 07/92-93). In addition to the trackmo, Nikki Corruptions' released a few PD games. Piece of Mind (1992, 25.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Zytax, gfx: Sir Arthur, music: Ferro. 3rd in the Assembly 92 demo competition. Nine Design ----------- ???> C-Real (music ascii, new 04/96), Cook (swap ascii), Enhanced (gfx ascii swap), Floppyman (org edit swap), Hawk (org swap edit), Keldon (swap trade edit sysop, old handle Mr.Fish, new 04/96), Kidnix (sysop), Max (music, new 04/96), SecondPhase (music swap), Zoarchus (music, new 04/96). Linkan and Bevis was kicked 04/96. Noice (1991-, http://www.noice.org/) ------------------------------------ SWE> Inco (C.A., music, 12/94), Tommy (Tommy Jansson, music, 12/94), Zalo (sysop 'DIGITAL HIGHWAY', doublememb Session 02-03/95, 01-03/95). Mainly a C64 demo-hacker-group with some Amiga members and an exponentially growing number of PC coders. Founded in 1989 by Punch and Swoffa; Amiga section has been around since 1991. Dutchman Spike (new early 93) joined Silicon Ltd. after a short while. Digital Excitation (1992, mid, ECS Disk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: John Magi. Winner of the Svithiod Meditation party demo competition in Vaestervik, Sweden, 1992! Reductio ad Absurdum (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: n/a, gfx: Rocket, music: n/a. 18th in The Party 92 demo competition. info: Hold down J while booting, then type ESUS for secret part! G. (1993, 05.08, Disk). code: n/a, gfx: Rocket, music: n/a. 3rd in the ECC93 demo competition. Nolem ----- Apparently a joke group. Behind the handle Jordy we can find French celebrity musician Clawz! Graisse Antique (Grece Antik) (1993, 28.12, ECS Multifile). code: Golgoth, gfx: Niklavite, Drebin, music: Missibakka. 24th in The Party 93 demo competition. No Limits (NL, 1988-) --------------------- NOR> Badcat (Henrik Johnsen, code, 03/90-92), Baltazar (Even Ambjørnrud, founder code train, 88-91), Catch22 (Lars Ambjørnrud, code, old handle Morgan, 09/89-04/94), Colargol (90), E.X.E (03/90), Flasher (Tomm A. Eriksen, gfx, 09/89-06/90), Fugitive (gfx, 92), Genius (Christian Moen, code gfx, 09/89-04/94), Hattrick (music, ex Razor 1911, new 03-06/90), Hunter (rejoined from New Wave, 03/90), Magnum (ex Visual Arts, new 04/90), Outsider (Fritjoj Øvrebø, gfx, ex Visual Arts, new 04/90), TWY (ex Visual Arts, new 04/90), Vega (John R. Furulund, music, 03/90-04/94), Whirlwind (Tor Ringstad, founder code, 88-06/90), Wizzkid (ex Visual Arts, new 04/94). ???> Goose (03/90), Jaf (gfx, 04/94). NL ïs a Norwegian demo group, started in September 1988 by Whirlwind and Baltazar. I have seen one single crack from them. Their main achievement is perhaps that they were very early, possibly the first, to code a vector bob routine ("Vector-Bobs", 10/89). 1990 - In april, they were seriously reinforced when most of the Norwegian group Visual Arts joined plus musician Hattrick/Razor 1911 joined. They supposedly opened a Norwegian elite board called 'CRIME ZONE' late in the year. In october, they coarranged a successful party in Arendal with IMP 666. Norwegian musician Croon (Kristian, 03/90-01/91) left. Viper (03/90) joined Scoopex <-?-> Viper joined Vision. Did Viper rejoin, only to later leave for Vision? La Linea (1989, 06.09, ECS File). code: Baltazar, gfx: Flasher, Genius, music: "Baby" by Walkman/IT. Vector-Bobs (1989, 15.10, ECS File). code: Whirlwind, gfx: Flasher, music: "Hubbard2" by Walkman/IT. Winner of the Shape & TRC party demo competition! info: Also known as "Vector Ball". Spotlight (1989, 15.10, ECS File). code: Whirlwind, gfx: Genius, Morgan (additional), music: "Cybernoid 2 Theme" by Jochen Hippel/independent (Hippel format). Released at the Shape & TRC party. 2nd Paradise BBS (1989, ECS Intro). code: Red/Steps Ahead, gfx: Mutant/Dual Crew (font), music: "M.By Hurricane" by Hurricane/Linek. INFO: Text by Softaid/No Limits (sysop?). Wave I Intro (1989, ECS Intro). Wave II Intro (1989, ECS Intro). Wave III Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Morgan, gfx: Genius, music: "Battlesquadron" by Ron Klaren/Cope Com. Memories (1990, 05.03, ECS Intro). code: Morgan, gfx: Flasher, music: Jochen Hippel/independent. Wave Intro IV (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Baltazar, Genius, gfx: Flasher, music: "Andromeda" by Hattrick. info: With this intro, it was announced that most members of Visual Arts, and Hattrick/Razor 1911 had joined the group. Exploited Brilliance (1990, 30.06, ECS Demo). code: Whirlwind, gfx: Flasher, Genius, Morgan, Baltazar (objects, music: "Once Upon A Time..." by Hattrick (ProTracker format). Released at the 'Bergen Party'. Party Invitation 90 (1990, ECS Demo). code: Morgan, gfx: Flasher, music: "Asphyxiated" by B-Zyclone. Cooperation with IMP 666. Invitation to the No Limits & IMP 666 Party (10/90). Import Intro (1990, .12, ECS Intro). code: Genius, gfx: n/a, music: Jochen Hippel (Hippel COSO format). Somewhat Funny (ECS Intro). Magic Fly (ECS Demo). code: Badcat, gfx: Flasher, music: "The Pestilence" by Kristian (ProTracker format). New Board Intro (1991, .01, ECS Intro). code^gfx: Catch22, music: "Strange Feelings" buy Croon. New Jack City BBS (1992, ECS Intro). code: Badcat, gfx: Fugitive, music: n/a. Ancient (1994, 01.04, ECS File). code: Catch22, Genius, gfx: Jaf, music: "Reaser" by Vega. info: Produced during 1989 up to 1994. Released at The Gathering 94. North Star (NS) --------------- SWE> Atom (05/89), Crab (code, 05/89), Dragon (sysop 'DRAGON'S LAIR', later Dual Crew, 10/90), Foetus (editor, 05/89), Germ (late89), GlueMaster (Lars Malmborg, code music, 90), Kaktus (Anders Berkeman, code, 05/89), Mahoney (Per Tufvesson, code, 89), Odie (Magnus Persson, code music, late89), Omega (code editor, 05/89), Starfire (Johan Nilsson, code editor, 88-05/89), Titan (music, later Uncle Tom/Scoopex), Virus, Zymox (late89). North Star was an exclusively Swedish demo group, perhaps best known for their early diskmag "Exceller 8" and their two members Kaktus and Mahoney - authors of the origina NoiseTracker and some truly wild musicdisks! =) Starfire coded a couple of antivirus bootblocks that acted in a way the writers of the viruskillers didn't appreciate... They were therefore - to this day, even - classified as viruses. There's little doubt that Starfire never meant for this. 1988 - The first issue of their pioneering diskmag Exceller 8 was released in cooperation with Fairlight. Coder Celebrandil joined. 1989 - Three more issues of Exceller 8 were released, one more with Fairlight and finally two more with The Silents. They lost Celebrandil (code) to Fairlight. Swedish musician Titan contributed music to the demo "Big" by the Swedish division of Scoopex. He would later join Scoopex himself, under the handle Uncle Tom. 1990 - French section was formed around the middle of the year by members of Brain Wave. They all finally left for Agile in 1991. His Masters Noise (ECS Musicdisk). code: GlueMaster, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Interpol (ECS Demo). Exceller 8 issue #1 (1988, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cooperation with Fairlight. review: Unfortunately this mag cannot be reviewed as of right now, since it quite simply refuses to work. No amount of reconfiguration of my system can get the blasted mag to boot properly, the best I could do was get the mag to boot and start playing some music, though with a completely green screen. :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review. Exceller 8 issue #2 (1989, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. MAG - code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cooperation with Fairlight. review: The very nice intro for this mag loads and runs fine, but then gurus as you press the left mousebutton :( The mag itself shows about the same level of compatibility as last time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review. Exceller 8 #3 (1989, apr-may, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Foetus, Starfire. Cooperation with The Silents. review: The third issue of X8 is a very good example of an early amiga diskmag, with code certainly the superior of its rivals like Cracker Journal. There is a good amount of articles, though far from all are scene related - there's also a lot about games, movies and music. This is not really a criticism, since all mags were full of this kind of thing back then... Speaking of the code: X8 was almost certainly the first mag ever to feature clipart in the articles! Graphics are mostly good, with a special nod to the cool EXCELLER 8 logo in the editorial article. Article selection are done like in Crack Journal and Hack-Mag, with each page being assigned a number, and the reader just thumbing through them. This was their first issue in cooperation with The Silents, after two issues with Fairlight. This mag totally refused to work on my system, so I was finally forced to succumb to WinUAE to be able to read it! Sacrilege, I know... =) It worked satisfactorily under a KS 2.0 configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Exceller 8 #4 (1989, jun-jul, ECS Multifile Diskmag). GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! No-Soul Produkktions (NSP, 1992-) --------------------------------- GER> Barock (founder gfx, 92-early93), Bass (Patrick Lindsey, founder music, 92-early93), Foxx (founder music, 92-early93), Lynxx (founder code, 92-early93). NSP started life as a subgroup of The Silents, only to leave them late 92 to be a group in their own right. Bass has released several music singles under his real name, Patrick Lindsey, and at least one single under the NoSoul name. Static Chaos (1992, late, ECS Trackmo). code: Lynxx, gfx: Barock, music: Bass, Foxx. review: Their first release, made while they were still a subgroup of The Silents. Check out the disk from DOS, it's got the main module on it! The music sounds like someone trying to do Jesper Kyd...badly! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: The endpart has graphical errors, even after setting chipset to original. Nova [france] (1990-) --------------------- FRA> Arthy, Cygnus, Djiby (gfx, 08/93), DTS (early93), GFA (gfx), Gadin (early93), Hades (ex Devils), Ivory, Marc, Mr.Keel (Alexandre Kairouannais, swap, ex Devils, rescene later, 07/93-early95). ???> Header (ex Delight). Nova was formed when Nova Inc. and Voyagers fusioned. They seem to be based in France; it's where most of their members and their website are. Nova france and Nova sweden are NOT the same group! Odin and Header were kicked out. Odin joined Gods, and French musician Bluesilence (ex Devils, early93) and swapper Clary left for a short visit in Eden before settling down in Next Generation Crew. Coronal joined Analog. Lex left for Orient. French coder Poison (Emmanuel Marty, ex Devils, 08/93) got kicked. His further scene career is unknown. Freedom (1992, late, ECS Trackmo). Essential Oldies (1993, ECS Musicdisk). Intro (1993, 27.12, ECS Intro). code: Powerbrain, gfx: UFO/Banana Projects, Lex, music: Freddy. Released at The Party 93. SOHO (1994 or pre, AGA, 3 disks). Nova [Sweden] ------------- SWE> Fazer (swap, ex Genetic, new mid93). Nova sweden is NOT the same as Nova france! Swedish musician Deelite joined Xentric. Swedes Limbo (ex Genetic, new mid93) and PGL (ex Circle) joined Noxious. Nova Inc. --------- Nova Inc. and Voyagers fusioned into Nova. Noxious (NXS) ------------- SWE> Boshiken (swap), Cerize (Peter Hanning, code, ex Strange or Voice?, old handle Crayon), Clav (music), Core (Stefan Backman, sysop 'FINAL IMPACT' WHQ opened late92, ex Strange or Voice?, new late92-11/92), Knotis (code, 10/91-04/92), Reverend D (sysop 'TRESPASS', new early92-01/95), Udden (trade, early92), Zanitor (Joakim Hall, swap, 04/92), Zany (trade, ex Metallians). ???> Dr.Mirios (music, 12/92), Predator (gfx), Sudden (ex Spirit), Triton. Noxious were a relatively solid, mostly Swedish demo and modem crew. Among their founding members were Dolphin and Zanitor. Their most famous act was probably the release of Crayon's ProTracker 2.1A in april 1992, taking over the legacy after Amiga Freelancers. Many people complained about the early versions however, saying how they were terribly buggy and incompatible. Later versions remedied this, but the Noxious ProTrackers never reached Amiga Freelancers' popularity. 1992 - Swedish swapper Logic joined from New Wave around january. Kazer (sysop, ex LSD) stopped by briefly on his way to Defjam early in the year. Swedish swapper Zanitor (one of the founders) was NOT kicked, as reported in some places. 1993 - Swedish graphician PGL (ex Nova) moved on to Illusion late 93. Swedish WHQ and musician Dolphin (Anders Ramsay, 01/91-12/92) left the scene. Since Dolphin was the WHQ, where does this leave Noxious!? Dolphin reported in Propaganda #4 that the only remaining section was the inactive swedish one. Swedish coder Mr.Taxfree (04/92) left the scene. Swedish swapper Limbo (ex Nova) joined Razor 1911 new. Deshay joined Shining 8. Inferno (ex Spirit) joined Palace. Swedish sysop Rabzi (sysop 'PROVOCATION') got kicked. In an earlier intro, they helped plug the then-independent board, so it's a fair assumption that Rabzi came from independence to Noxious. Schizo (ex Supplex) joined Circle. Shortie and the Norwegian division got kicked. German musician Dynamite (ex Analog, new mid 93) joined DCS. Swedish coder and swapper Colorbird (ex Razor 1911 old, 92) joined Scoopex. While in Noxious, he published a pack called '800 DEGREES'. It is uncertain what happened to this after he left. Germans Dark (swap pack 'NoPack') and Rebel MC (swap, both ex Desire) both joined Interpol. However, RAW #6 claims Dark joined the new Jetset for a while before moving on to TRSI... Trader 24X left to join Energy. German swapper Misery changed his handle to Skull and joined the new Jetset. Devan joined Shining 8. Raven (ex Rage) and Wild Thing got kicked out. Swedes Portwer (sysop 'EQUIPOISE', 10/91), Logic (swap) and Bratz (10/91-04/92) joined Rebels. Dutch swapper Cone (pack 'NOPACK', ex Spirit, 09/92) joined Gothic. Boozo (sysop 'INTROSPECTIVE', ex Basstech) joined Submission. Floyd (sysop 'BEYOND REALITY'), Hurricane, Pitcher (ex New Wave) and Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', ex Alpha Flight) all joined Legend. Xstaz did NOT join from Spirit as stated in EuroChart 15 and 16, he stopped by AFL first :) Swedish swapper Logic (ex New Wave) gave the "NoPack" pack to Hurricane when he left. Later Hurricane also left, and passed it on to the Dutch Cone. When Cone left for Gothic, I guess Dark took over... Winger (ex Pirates) was kicked, and therefore joined Alpha Flight with Punisher. Swedish sysops Bugs Bunny ('POLE POSITION', ex Drakpak, 10/91) and Rogue ('GATES OF IMPRECATION', boardname 'OUTLAW TOWN' 10/91, old handle Whistler) were both kicked). Kevin Key (sysop 'INSIDE TREATMENT', ex Fusion) joined The Silents. Bontro (ECS Intro). code: Knotis, gfx: Predator (logo), Dolphin (fonts), music: Dolphin. review: This one features a 'classic' design, but with a few twists. What appears to be a VERY standard intro with a logo at the top and a sinusscroller, soon proves to be a little more imaginative than that. There's also a textplotter (for boardnumbers), and some imaginative use of the sinescroller in the background while board adverts are plotted. The tune's a pretty bland affair, to be frank. I'm not sure about any release date, but based on the credits and the boards (OUTLAW TOWN later changed its name) it's probably from the same time period as the NOG IS NOT ENOUGH! intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Intro (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Nog Is Not Enough! (1991, 28.10, ECS Intro). code: Knotis, gfx: Bratz, music: "Huga!" by Dolphin. review: A fair little intro, made at an internal meeting just to show their board numbers and contact adress. There's a million of these, and this is about average. Nothing irritates, little excites. This intro has the most amazing compatability problem I've ever seen! I first tried just running it, and it ran fine but a little too fast. It was damned hard to read the text since it was plotted so fast! So I tried KillAGA, and - wait for this - it ran BUT WITH SERIOUS GRAPHICS GLITCHES! Weeeird... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: See review. ProTracker 2.1A Intro (1992, 19.04, ECS Intro). code: Knotis, Mr.Taxfree, gfx: Bratz, Jocke/Carnage (font), music: "Dekkadance" by Dolphin. Released simultaneously at the Phenomena and Light party (Sweden) and at The Gathering (Norway). review: This is the intro supplied on the disk with the release of ProTracker 2.1A. As I remember, you didn't have to rip the great tune, because it was included on the disk as an example module. "Dekkadance" is certainly the best tune Dolphin ever made! The intro itself is nicely designed, and fits beatifully with the tune. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½,b chip, ½,b fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Propaganda Intro (1992, .12, ECS File). code: Colorbird, gfx: none, music: "Exile" by Elmer/Supplex. review: A rather boring intro with only one effect (a bouncing jellyball) and a text plotter (ugly font!) announcing the upcoming release of a new papermag for the scene called Propaganda. Ofcourse, Colorbird's plans never gave fruit, and the papermag project was later cancelled without a single issue being released. Instead, it was later born as a diskmag (with Colorbird as editor) in Circle. Four issues were released for Circle and the new Razor 1911 before the mag was abandoned totally. The release date I've concluded with is a result of the tune being made in october 92, and the first issue being scheduled for march 93. Therefore this intro had to be released some time inbetween the two, and what better opportunity than The Party in december 92? [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Note: _WAY_ too fast, even with KillAGA. Beyond Belief (1993, 28.12, AGA Demo). Released at The Party 93. NSTR (-1992) ------------ NSTR died. Zicem rejoined Legend. Nuance (NCE, http://www.nuance-family.de) ----------------------------------------- GER> Andy (Andreas Dubouis, music, re, 12/97), Big-Rat (Kai Hoepner, org edit "X-Files", 10/97-02/98), Evrimsson (Evrim Sen, music, 10/97- 04/98), Madstop (code, 01/98), Phlexible (writer, 10/97), Raven (Harald Wittmaack, founder mainorg gfx, 01/97-02/98), Sunny (Sonja Felber, edit "Wild", new 01-02/98). SWI> Kalikone (Bregnard Alain, 10/97-02/98). AUS> Axiom (code, 04-05/98). ???> Grace (ger? code, 10/97-02/98), Merlin M! (ger? music, 10-12/97), Miao (10/97), Odin (gfx, 10/97). People below this line are NOT members of the group any longer, despite that we do not know when they left the group. We sometimes have to separate like this to get a clearer overview of a group. The break here is from a memberlist in the "Wild Announcement Intro" [10/97]. GER> Abstract (gfx, 08/93), Frenchy, Gfx-Twins (gfx), Iceboy, Jackal (code, 08/93), Lomex, Overdog (ex Delight), Painkiller, Professor (code, 08/93), Savage, Thor (Juergen Kopfmueller, swap, 93), Wusel (code, ex Style, new late96). ENG> Quark (music swap, old handle James, 93). ???> Mythos (music, 08/93). Raven was one of the original founders of Nuance, back in the early 90's, and says in an interview in Insomnia #2 that he will stay in the group until he dies! The group has some rules which must be followed; no double memberships and never more than 15 members. The now publish a scene mag called 'Wild', the news mag 'X-Files' and the chippack 'Trilobyte' on a regular basis! And by the way, German editor Sunny is a GIRL :) German musician Andy (originally ex Damian, new late 93) once left for Essence, and then left the Amiga scene altogether, to concentrate on his PC demo scene activities. However, in late 1997 he returned to the Amiga scene in his old group, Nuance! 1993 - MAD left before he was kicked mid 93. 1996 - German coder Shaken was kicked out due to inactiveness 04/96. 1997 - They announced their upcoming diskmag "Wild" with the "Wild Announcement Intro" [10/97], and also released "X-Files #19" [10/97] that month. Germans Kill'o'Byte (code, 10/97) and X-Poole (Marco Willemsen, org music, ex Bonzai, new late93-10/97) were removed from the memberlist, probably sometime between 10/97 and 01/98. December saw the release of "X- Files #20" [12/97]. 1998 - Swedish coder HBE (ex HBS [no entry], 10-12/97) left the scene early 1998, after releasing a less than great intro at The Party 7. This left Grace as the single remainding coder. English member Darkus, doublememb from Digital (old handle Nemes!s, early98), is no longer a member, as of mid 98. He is now in Network and Rebels. Wellknown Belgian swapper Flynn left. English musician Mindshadow changed his handle to Jozz and joined Defekt. English section was kicked. The dudes below? Andy (ger music, 12/93) and Michael (eng music, 08/93) were both kicked, and consequently both joined Delite. For more info on Andy, read the history section above. Xentec joined Addicts. German swapper Exumer joined Sanity. Image joined Defekt. Spirit and Obelix joined Platin. Psycho Demon (ex Subzero) joined Alpha Flight. BBS Intro (1992, 18.07, ECS Intro). code: Professor, gfx: Abstract, music: FMD92. Subtle Shades (1993, 02.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Jackal, Professor, gfx: Abstract, music: Michael, Mythos. 2nd in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. Extreme 4k'ing (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition. X-Files #15 (1997, Filemag). info: Raven's title picture is "Melting Love", which he came 4th with at the Mekka Symposium 97. X-Files #18 (1997, .08, AGA Filemag). info: Raven's title picture is called "Witch Bitch". X-Files #19 (1997, .10, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Alive/Digital (title), Nero/Matrix (main), music: Michael/Anathema, editor: Big-Rat. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wild Announcement Intro (1997, 18.10, AGA Intro). code: HBe, gfx: Raven, music: X-Poole. review: After a too bright opening Nuance logo and some really lame afterburned gouraud (i believe) wectors, we are taken to the mainpart... (please take note that by this time the incredibly intense music will be well and truly on your nerves!) Here we're shown an upscroller explaining the upcoming Nuance mag "Wild". This part is ok, all done in shades of brown. The upscroller can be paused with the rmb, for easier reading. They outline some of the most important articles they've got lined up for the first issue (though we'd like to put a small question mark in front of the 'articles from the toilet' thing there guys...), as well as the credits for the entire first issue! Editors will be Kalikone and Raven, code by Kill O Byte, graphics by Raven and modules by Merlin M! and Deelite/Balance. Press the left mousebutton and you're shown the credits again briefly, nicely done. Not the most interesting 'announcetro' in the world, but by all means, it gets the job done. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. X-Files #20 (1997, .12, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: n/a (title), Nero/Matrix (main), music: n/a, editor: Big-Rat. Project N (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: HBE, gfx: Raven, music: Merlin M! Released for The Party 97, but not shown. review: This intro shows every sign of people who have not been paying much attention to the evolution of the demo scene. The intro's main fault lies in its choice of a (2x2?) blocky approach to the routines it presents - even the bitmap tunnel! There's a phong object here, but it's small, greyscale and blocky too. It doesn't seem like this kind of intro is really your thing, Nuance - why don't you try something a little different next time? This looks like it's from 1993 or 94. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #21 (1998, .01, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Wade/Gods (title), Nero/Matrix (panel), music: "Breezin" by Prodigy/Oops, editor: Big-Rat. review: This issue opens with a picture of a little girl clutching her teddy bear. It's a good picture, but nothing terribly exciting. As we enter the mag, I immediately notice the old design is still there. It's REALLY time to remove that Ethic logo now, don't you think, guys? A much needed cleanup of the groups, reducing the amount to almost half of what was previously included, helps a lot on the readability of the mag. Still, there's no hiding that this is just plain old X-Files, still. Personally, I'm waiting for the new design. The module was later released separately to aminet by Oops! themselves. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files Intro (1998, 03.02, AGA Intro). code: Grace, gfx: Raven, music: Evrimsson (The Player 6.1A format). review: Nuance deliver a pretty standard intro here, albeit with some competent people delivering the artwork. It all opens with a title picture of Raven's usual good quality, before continuing into the only real part of the intro. This part consists of a goodlooking, slowly twisting tunnel in the background and a text plotter on top. Nicely designed, but you can safely miss it without losing out on anything. This intro announces the offical X-Files homepage at http://big-rat.home.pages.de (now http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bigrat/). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #22 (1998, AGA Filemag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Clockwise" by Prodigy/Oops! and Dascon/Essence. Can't Stop (1998, 10.04, 40k Intro). code: Axiom, gfx: n/a, music: Evrimsson. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competiton. info: The source code was released to AmiNet by its coder not long after its release! Subtle Shades 2 (2001, 15.04, Demo). 5th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. Nuclear Dezigns --------------- Mini Party Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). code: Needlejaw, gfx: Levy, music: n/a. Released at The Gathering 93. Nukebusters ----------- New Zealand coder Manslayor left for Factor IV 01/90. Nukleus (NLS) ------------- Art (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 intro competition. review: Appalling graphics, appalling music, and the best routine is the one with the dots. It's amazing what some people will release... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Nut & Bolt (N^B or N&B) ----------------------- SWE> Manta (sysop 'FORBIDDEN DREAMS', doublememb Artcore, 06/94). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 98-01/99). ???> Shard (docs). Nut & Bolt seem to occupy themselves mainly on the illegal scene, concentrating on boards etc. Obituary -------- ???> Dr.Feelgood (founder, ex Pure Metal Coders). Obituary was founded by Dr.Feelgood, and the news of their birth originally appeared in Sledgehammer #11. Oblivion (OBL, 1992-) --------------------- DEN> Drain (gfx, 02/94), Primitive (gfx, 02/94). Oblivion was a danish demo group, born on the ashes of Vixen when they died. Waldi is now Bird/Iris. 1994 - Danish coder Boogeyman (ex Vixen, new 92) joined Passion in october. Danish musician Ramosa (04/94-) left for Passion sometime between august and november. Feel Blue (1992). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Primitive (aka The Pride/Brainstorm!), music: Axel/ Brainstorm (main), Jester/Sanity (hidden). info: Boogeyman's first production for Oblivion. Frustration (ECS). code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: This production got Boogeyman some joining offers, all of which he declined. Hvor Er Min Bikini? (ECS). code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: Jester/Sanity. Sine Dots (ECS) code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. The Last A500 (1994, .02, ECS Intro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Drain, Primitive, music: Ramosa (The Player 5.0A format). review: The Last A500 is a nice, small, polished production from these danes - it feels professional from the get go! It's over pretty fast, 'tho. It resets the machine when it is done. It was almost certainly not released at a party. The release date is approximate, based on the release date of other productions on the same pack where I found this. It was Boogeyman's last ECS production ever. [glenn]  Wonderland (1994, 07.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Pride/Stellar, music: Ramosa. review: Apparently their first AGA production, since the introduction says 'Oblivion goes AGA!'. This is another one of those early AGA prods, which meant everyone was using LOTS of colors! Personally, I love almost each and every one of those. People were experimenting with their new hardware, doing new cool stuff all the time. No points for guessing I'm looking forward to the PowerPC scene :) Design is impeccable here, about as good as it gets. Coding is also great, but then AGAin we're talking about Boogeyman here. Niceness! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Obscene (OBS) ------------- SWE> Chrombacher (gfx swap, 03-04/95), Crocodile (sysop 'REPTILES HOLE', 94), Destructor (Christian Bjorklund, music, 03/95-08/96), Krustur (swe? code, 03-04/95), Lightspeed (sysop 'DARK ROOM', 94), Morot (swe? code, 03-04/95), Nurgle (sysop 'STAGE DIVE' WHQ, 94-01/95), Sun (gfx, 03-04/95). NOR> Air (swap). Obscene are a mostly swedish demo group. Destructor did the music for the flipper game "Slam Tilt"!  Virtual Conspiracy 95 Intro (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). code: Krustur, Morot, gfx: Sun, Chrombacher (font), music: Destructor. Released for the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro compo, but unplaced. review: To the tones of the very c64-like chiptune, the intro starts nicely with a stretching zoomrotator. It goes on to a *LOT* of dots travelling around the screen in some shapes...and that's it. It goes no further than that, just keeps on showing off those dots. Unbelievably limited, unfortunately, since what's there is quite competent. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Obsession (OBS) --------------- GER> Peacemaker (sysop 'MOONLIGHT CITY', doublememb Retire). POL> Derk (Waldek Zajac, gfx swap, 93). ???> Alex (code, 93), Chucky (org swap, ex Primus), Dehydrator (music, ex Shrimps Design), Gangsta (gfx raytrace ascii, ex Primus), Hyper Hype (swap, ex Primus), Tonite (music), Ultra-Sonic (doublememb Sardonyx). Obsession was a demo group. 1996 - Comanche joined Deep in june. Partyia (1993, early/mid, ECS File). code: Alex, gfx: Derk, music: Vex/Enemy. Odbyt Design ------------ Founderdome Part One (AGA File). code: Klocek, Zwieracz, gfx: -you kidding me?-, music: Zwieracz. review: You're BUSTED! The executable contains the text 'This Executable was saved by DemoManiac !', still you claim to have 'coded' it! Shame!! Not worth anyone's time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Offence [old] (1991-1992) ------------------------- NOR> Comajim (Joachim Rott, music, ex New Wave, new mid92), Vimme (gfx, ex New Wave, new mid92-07/92). Offence was a norwegian demo group formed by Jawbreaker, Pal and Perplex from Scoopex late 1991, and one of their first acts was recruiting musician Lizard from the c64 group Megastyle Inc (MSI). Their full memberlist, as published in Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's "R.A.W #2" [02/92], was Rob (swap), Rex (crack), Lord Mindless (code), Timewalker (music), Lizard (music), Jawbreaker (code), Pal (gfx) and Perplex (code). 1992 - They recruited some of the best members from New Wave in the middle of 1992, and seemed to be headed for greatness. When the group feel apart, several of the members found their way to the commercial gamesmaking business instead of back to the scene in new groups. Norwegian coders Jawbreaker (Anders Dybdahl, ex Scoopex) and Lord Mindless (ex Dual Crew, 07/92) both started working on commercial projects, and RamJet/PMC (now Spaceballs) was involved with Jawbreaker's latest game. Another one of the founders, the Norwegian graphician Pal (ex Scoopex) left the scene to do graphics for Nintendo games. Fairfax (gfx, ex Pure Metal Coders), Moxy (swap, ex Cytax), and Lizard (music, ex Megastyle Inc.) all joined Andromeda around october. Norwegian Peavey joined Devils. Norwegians Lion (ex Vision, new RAW3), Jawbreaker (ex Scoopex) and Vigilante (trade) joined Alliance. For more on Jawbreaker, see the history section of this entry. Amitech, sysop 'THE PHANTOM ZONE', ex Vision, new RAW3, left the scene. Swedish sysops Bill and Ted ('CRIME ZONE', ex Skid Row ) joined Quartex (RAW4). Norwegian cracker Rex (new RAW2) sold his machine and left the scene (RAW4). However, the same mag later claimed he changed his name to Rook and joined Andromeda... (RAW5). Two of the people closely involved with R.A.W, coeditor Kingpin (ex New Wave, new RAW3) and coder Perplex (ex Scoopex), joined Pure Metal Coders (RAW4^STD10). Ceel is not and will never be in Offence! (RAW3). Norwegians Rob and Timewalker (both ex The Silents, new RAW2) rejoined The Silents (RAW3). Sourcery (1992, 15.04, ECS Demo). 3rd in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Offence [new] (1994-) --------------------- NOR> Nick (Anders Nordby, founder swap, ex Spaceballs, new 12/93- 04/99), Nosferatu, Pal (gfx, 04/97), Perplex (Lars Haugseth, code, ex Spaceballs, 05/95). GER> Arrogance (gfx music, 04/97), Drake (ex Razor Dezign), Sim (ex Razor Dezign), Yup (Andreas Schneider, code, 04/97). Nick left Spaceballs after The Party 3 to rebuild Offence, and is as such the only founder of the new Offence. Perplex is perhaps best known as the coder of legendary diskmag 'R.A.W'. No Sleeping! (1994, 03.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Perplex, gfx: Pal, music: Lizard/Spaceballs. 4th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: The only halfway interesting effect in this intro has the be the twisting scroller in the endpart, which was nicely executed. Other than that, this is strictly boring as fuck. I guess Perplex should stick to coding diskmags :) [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Carpe Noctem (1997, 01.04, ECS 020 Musicfile). code: Yup, gfx: Red Wiz/Offence C64 (pic logo), Pal (char), Arrogance (char), music: Arrogance, Geir Tjelta/Moz(IC)Art, Pink/Abyss, Prodigy/Oops! (THX format). review: Now, -THIS- practically REEKS of C64 quality! This is far from a perfect production, but it doesn't really matter. It's the atmosphere. Technically it's a THX music disk, with music by some of that scene's most talented players. Not all of the music is equally good, though; some of Arrogance's tunes are less than perfect. But these minor shortcomings are more than made up for by the amazing c64 graphics - made on a real c64 by a real c64 graphician. This is not Amiga sceners trying to 'do the c64'. This is c64 sceners 'doing the Amiga' - while avoiding compromise. If I have to criticize something here, then the control method for selecting tunes and text is a little hard to control at times, and some of the effects on the text pages can make them harder to read. But these are minor issues; download and enoy! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Offworld (-1992) ---------------- FIN> Papa Smurf (music, later Virtual Dreams). ???> WAL (ex Dual Crew, new RAW4). Offworld were a Finnish demo group, and when they died late 1992 the bulk of their members (Zany, Blue, PHS, Shade and Open Eyes) all joined Complex. Swapper Bundy joined Sonic. Pifki joined Addicts. Hallucinogen (pre 1992, .07, ECS Musicdisk). Old Bulls --------- POL> Exolon (swap, 08/95), Klaf (swap pPack 'Fa!', ex Appendix, new 06/96), Sabe (org code gfx swap, 04-08/95), Scorpik (music, 04-08/95), Scraby (swap, doublememb Massive 09/96, new 04/96-09/96), Sundance (gfx ascii, ex Technology and Anathema, new 06/96). ???> Abaddon (gfx, ex Rektum, new 06/96), Astaroth (gfx), Hudi (code, 04/95), Ini (music), Lovely (swap, ex Applause, new 06/96), Noise (music, ex Casyopea, new 06/96), Roberts (music, ex Applause, new 06/96), Sator (old handles Fryzjer and Difalco, new SLH11), Zefir (gfx, 04/95). SUB> Polska Brothers. ---> Miglantz (code gfx), Zbyszek (gfx music), Gluly (gfx music). The King left to form Erotic Design 04/96. Moments (1995, .04, AGA File). code: Hudi, gfx: Zefir, Sabe (design), music: Scorpik (P60A format). 2nd in the Eastern Conference 95 demo competition. review: Oh yes! This demo managed to excite me a little. From the moment we hear the first bars of the music, to the moment I first saw Bambi, I knew I was in for a ride. It opens with some Color blur effect, which aren't that interesting, but the next effect sure is. What the demo calls Cube Cut is actually two lightsourced vector cubes spacecut with each other. A very nice-looking effect. The show continues with stuff like a fullscreen 2x2 zoom rotator that rotates a Predator face; some SLOW Goraud shading (though they admit it themselves); a FAST linedraw routine that throws some lines around the screen; texturemapped 'black hole' effect and a colorful waving chessboard, like in Sanity's "WOC '92". Throughout the demo, Scorpik's tune is superbly timed to the routines. I think this tune is one of the most flawless demo tunes I've heard in recent years; it sort-of reminds of me of early Lizardking (cirka Wild Impressions 2), which can not be a bad thing. The thing that REALLY charmed me about this demo, though, was the cuuuute graphics by Zefir. He produces three fullscreen pictures for this demo (excluding the Old Bulls logo), all of which are cute and good. The entire demo opens with the title screen, which in addition to saying Moments also features a Bambi-like deer drinking water. Towards the middle there's a picture of comic book character Asterix, and the entire demo is rounded off with a picture of a kitten. Very very cuute all of them. The party report says it's a cooperation demo with Tilt, while the demo itself never mentions Tilt at all. The format of the file is a little interesting. It's got a header, uncrunched, but with lots of Crunchmania data files making up the rest of the file. Perhaps it's designed like that to make it memory-economic or to prevent depacker- ripping... It doesn't stop WRip though :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Fade (1995, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code/gfx: Sabe, music: Scorpik (The Player 6.0A format). 3rd in the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: "Fade" opens with some jumping vector planes, which soon starts showing off their many colors to create a nice display. Next is a gouraud shaded vector city, much like the one in Pygmy Projects "Extension" (08/93), only this one is smaller and MOVES a less like a city :) An apple is up next, and it seems to be z-buffer shaded instead of the earlier gouraud. I know I've seen this apple object in other demos, so it's probably a common object... The thing that makes this intro, really, is Scorpik's fabulous trancy, thumping, wild but disciplined techno tune. I don't think the intro would have had this much impact without that tune. Luckily for us, it HAS that tune, hehe... 64k and lots of entertainment - go download this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. OMD --- ???> Sharlaan (code, ex Ackerlight, 01/89). Music Exapmles #2 (1989, .01, Trackloaded Musicdisk). Cooperation with Ackerlight, see there for details. Omega (1991-) ------------- FIN> Bootlegger, Limelight, Malossi, Norsman, Ron Maiden, Tsunami (code, ex Prime, later Virtual Dreams), Unknown Artist (ex Vertigo). SWE> Chimera (swap). Zakka (ex Prime) joined Spaceballs. Omicron ------- SWE> Cobra (sysop 'BAD BOYS HQ', 10/90), Stanton (sysop 'THE DJUNGLE BASE', 10/90), Ufo (sysop 'ALFA BASE', 10/90). Ontarion -------- Voco joined X-Trade mid 91. Joker joined Dictators mid 91. Onyx [old] (-1990) ------------------ Onyx changed their name into Defcon One in 1990, after Crusher (code) and Frantic joined Savage. Onyx [new] (ONX) ---------------- NOR> Messiah (doublememb LSD, 12/96), Octoplex (sysop 'MIDDLE EAST', 12/96), Seaquest (12/96), Unmad (12/96). Oops! (OPS, 1995-, http://oops.in.nl) ------------------------------------- N-L> Doc (trade, -notmembanymore-, 06/96-09/96), Infant (code, 12/97), Mentat (code, 04/96-12/97), Prodigy (org music, 09/95-12/97), Radium (Laurens van Klaveren, gfx music www, 09/95-12/97), Selector (trade sysop 'BROTHERS BBS', -notmembanymore-, 04-09/96), Strawhead (code, 04/96-12/97), Trash (trade sysop 'WITCHBOARD', -notmembanymore-, 04-09/96), Tycoon (code, 05-12/97), Whizzkid (code raytrace, 09/95- 12/97). FRA> Shag (code gfx, 04/96-12/97). SWE> Develin (music, 09-12/97), Vein (gfx, 09-12/97), Wivern (music, 04- 12/97). NOR> Dr.Ice (code, 09-12/97). Oops! was started as a Dutch group, but it seems they have spent some of 1997 branching out into the world. A lot of the info contained here is from the Oops.guide files they gracefully include in most of their productions.. There's an IRC channel called #Oops! Earlier sources have listed Prodigy as sysop of of WHQ 'ORIGIN', but a guide dated december 97 doesn't. Mentat (03/97) and Tycoon (05/97) coded two cracktros for Abuse -- see Abuse's own entry for reviews. Boardtro (1995, 15.11, Intro). code: Whizzkid, gfx: Whizzkid (raytrace), music: Prodigy. Anniversary Intro (1995, 09.12, Intro). code: Whizzkid, gfx: n/a, music: Prodigy. 1 Years Anniversary Intro (1996, 10.06, Intro). Biz-R (1996, 09.09, File). 2nd in Bizarre 96 Amiga competition. Impressions (1997, 07.01, Musicdisk, 5 disks). info: All the music from this musicdisk was released separately in march as the "Oops! Musicpack #2". Beeps #1 (1997, 22.06, Chippack). Invitation to Bizarre '97 (1997, 26.08, Intro). Vibes (1997, 13.09, AGA 64k Musicdisk). code: Mentat, gfx: none, music: Prodigy. Winner of the Bizarre 97 64k intro competition! review: This intro apparently does NOT work, at least on my machine. When executed it gives a black screen for a little time, then lights the hd led on my A1200 (even if I run from RAM), but nothing else happens for a looong time... In fact so long that I have ruled out precalculation :) Strange, especially since they claim it was developed for 030-50 and everything... oh well. The enclosed text file mentions bugs on A4000/030 and 040, and says the intro is untested on 060. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Session (1997, 13.09, AGA File Demo). code: Mentat, gfx: Shag, Whizzkid, music: Prodigy. Winner of the Bizarre 97 demo competition! review: "Session" is a demo that unfortunately doesn't look too interesting for the small time I can see of it... After credits it opens with a bump ripple effect, moves onto a fast tunnel, some more and larger bump ripples, then some red particles...and a crash :( The version reviewed is the fixed version, released 09.10-97. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Opaque ------ 1996 - Eniac joined Iris in june. Optimal ------- Rash joined Zenith, but soon left them too (RAW4). Oracle [old] (-1990) -------------------- ENG> Annihilator (supply trade, 02/90), Arcade Master (supply, 90), Scooter, Weetibix (crack). ???> Chameleon (crack, later Accumulators, 05/89), Clonk, Little Star, Mr.M, Mr.SulU (Andy, founder), Paco, Photon, Prou, Rom Chip, Science, Speedy, Stryper (crack), Snowman, Technician, The General (Henk, founder crack, 89), Velkro, Vertigo. Boards; THE JUNGLE WHQ (usa), GAMESMANIA (ita). Oracle waas a decent cracking group, formed by The General and Mr.Sulu in 1988 (probably :-). They unfortunately died in 1990, after several important members - Action Man (supply), Scott (sysop), Mr.E (crack) - left to form Genesis with Infiltrator and N.O.M.A.D/Scoopex 09/90. Later also I.B.M (crack) found his way to this group. Vertigo joined Skid Row a few days later. Dutch sysop Bambam ('DOWNTOWN') joined them to Skid Row for a few days, before moving on to Classic. Zelnik joined Classic. American sysop Allister Friend ('TOTAL RECALL') joined Genesis. Oracle [new] (1991-) -------------------- GER> Cobra (sysop 'BREAKING THE WALL'). AUS> AE-48 (Arthur, crack train, ex Defjam, old handle Caddy). Boards; ELECTRIC DREAMS (usa), CRYPT OF ETERNITY (usa). Oracle was reborn late 1991, as announced in Freedom Crack #8. Sysop Steph ('RACE OF ACE') and Thunder joined Angels new (SLH11). Orbital ------- SWE> Blaze (swap). TUR> Captain Bo (code swap, 94). Altar of Sacrifice (1994, mid, ECS File). code^gfx: Ace, music: n/a. Organisation of Mighthungry Asciiartists (OMA) ---------------------------------------------- ???> Adon (ascii, signature AdN, 96), Hausfrau (ascii, signature hF!, 96). OMA is (obviously) an ascii group. Boards; SILENT MOON EHQ (96). Orient (ORT, 1992-) ------------------- SWE> Cybertron (sysop 'AUSGEBOMBT', triplememb Alpha Flight and Equinox, 11/94-01/95), Hijacker (sysop 'ALTERED STATE', doublememb Religion, 01/95), Inm8, Lex (ex Nova), Skilly (swap, old handle Skillimoes, ex Danger Productions, new 06/92). DEN> Drain (gfx stopswap, ex Vixen, new 92-08/92), Razta (code, ex Vixen, new 92-08/92). Orient was formed by Swedish members of Danger Productions after that group died in late 1992. A Danish section was also started, by Razta and Drain of Vixen. 1992 - Swedish swapper Skillimoes (later just Skilly) joined from Danger Productions around 06/92, making the total number of members 8. Danish swapper Growl (ex Balance), Ufo, Hijacker and Trazer joined Energy. Growl will from now on release his cheatdisks under the Energy label (PRP4). I doubt the Hijacker joining, since he's confirmed in Orient 01/95, and PRP4 was released mid 94... Many members left for Surprise! Prodcutions (including a.o. Scorpion), causing Orient's death (WHN1). However, see below. I personally believe PRP more than WHN in this case. Danes Antex (swap, ex Curacy) and Scorpion joined Control (PRP4). Origin (OGN) ------------ HOL> DCG (org gfx music, 04/92), Krush (code gfx music, 04/92). SWE> Twister (sysop 'FLASHBACK', doublememb DCS, 01/95). ENG> Sasha (sysop 'DATALUS', doublememb Tribal [no entry], 03/95). ???> Bandit (supply), Charon (supply), Huk (code), Melody (stopswap, old handle Seize, 08/92), Tango (ascii, doublememb Artcore [details], 01/95)), Visual (gfx). Boards; DAWN OF ETERNITY (usa), PROPHETS HOLD (swe), LIVING CHAOS (eng), MIDNITE (aus), MAD DANS (eng). According to R.A.W #4, the entire Dutch group Origin joined Legend. Lobo joined Stellar. Dutch swapper Insane changed handle to Fila and joined Vicious. The Traditional Demo (1992, 28.12, Demo). 20th in The Party 92 demo competition. Dreadlocktro (1993, 24.01, Demo). 3rd in the Holland Is OK Party 93 demo competition. Orion ----- SWE> Atomic (swap, 94), Braindead (Jonas Haglund, 94), Skyhawk (94), Threat (Anders Lindqvist), Zane (swap). GER> Reval (Nico Cebron, swap, ex Pulse). NOR> Mr.Bacardy (Sjur Eivind Kilde, swap). Orion is an originally Swedish demo group, formed late 93 or early 94. The German division got kicked, and formed Primus (UPS10). Don't know whether that affected Reveal's membership... Swedish graphician and swapper Atomic joined Iris (PRP4). Osiris. ------- Boards; FUN FACTORY WHQ (usa, 01/95), THE NOTICE (can, 01/95), KEY WEST EHQ (ger, 01/95), TRADE IN CENTER (ger, 01/95), TOON TOWN (ger, 01/95), THE ADDICTION (ger, 01/95), MOONBASE (swe, 01/95), THE FAR SIDE (ger, 01/95). Osmose (OSM) ------------ FRA> Scavy (Christophe Brand, music swap). Spanish swapper Nork (late96) decided to end his double membership, and is now only a member of Network [details] and Darkage late97/early98. Outlanders ---------- Slaine and Zurf joined Ghost. Outlaws ------- ITA> Leo (sysop 'DEVIL'S SHELTER' EHQ, early94). GER> Snowman (sysop 'NERVE CENTRE'). SWE> Vegas (sysop 'OVERLOAD', early94), Whoosh (sysop 'NIGHTFALL', triplememb Over The Top and Devious Dezigns, 01/95). HOL> Fate (swap, ex Vandalz, new late93-late95). BEL> Deathrider (sysop 'WICKED CITY', 04/95), Flynn (swap pack sysop 'LOST CITADEL', 12/93-02/95), Toxic (sysop 'EURO TRADE CENTER' later 'TOXICITY', early94-97). DEN> Jzon (sysop 'STATIC CHAOS', 04/95), Nashua (sysop 'MEGABYTE', 04/95), Tropeduft (music, ex Vision). AUS> Daffy Duck (modem, 08-09/95). USA> New Jack (sysop 'NEW JACK CITY'). ???> Act (bel? code, ex Damian, 97), Alcid, Biscrok (music), Colorboy (ex Mystic), Dave, Elric (ex Anastasia), Ghost (ex New Data), He-Man (bel? 02/95), Ironman, Jef (ex Iris), Jez (code), Kaze (gfx), Mike, MRX (bel? music, 97), NTSC (ex Delirium), Optic (bel? gfx, 97), SMS (bel? 02/95), Trevor, Yoga (ex Iris). Boards; TOWER OF SORCERY (usa, early94), BLACK FOREST (usa, early94), THE CELLAR (usa, early94), DELTA CITY (ita, early94), DARK ANGEL (bel, early94). Trader Fixart joined Ram Jam. Kenshiro joined Classic new. Dv8 was kicked. Bulldog (sysop) was kicked out due to lazyness. Modem Boy (sysop) joined Classic. American sysop Circuit Breaker ('DIGITAL EXTASY' WHQ, 01/94) joined Hoodlum. 64k Intro (1993, early/mid, ECS Intro). code: Trevor, gfx: Alcid, music: Arpegiator. Nooduitgang (1997, ECS 40k Intro). code: Act, gfx: Optic, music: MRX. 3rd in the Belgian Scene Event 97 40k intro competition. review: After some brief precalculation, this intro opens with some credits ('the gangsters are back!'). Next is a water-ripple effect over a picture of a smiling face. I've seen better examples, but OK. Next...is a black screen. The music (whcih btw isn't half bad!) continues and continues, but nothing mreo appears on the screen... What is it with these Belgian guys? And no, it doesn't help my mood that I can't exit it the left mousebutton. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Overdrive (-1990) ----------------- This small group died ca 07/90, when they joined forces with Aquin under the new name Addonic. Overflow -------- Fast BBStro (1993, 23.06, ECS Intro). code: Hay, Spinky Pal, gfx: Spinky Pal, music: Rogue. Rune Realm (1993, 20.10, ECS Slideshow). code: Rogue, gfx: Runelord, music: n/a. Over The Top (OTT) ------------------ SWE> Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', 01/95), Whoosh (sysop 'NIGHTFALL', triplememb Outlaws and Devious Dezigns, 01/95). Alis' board has 4 (four!) nodes, and Whoosh's has 3 (three)! Oxygen ------ SWE> Jammer (music), Quick (gfx), Sasquatch (code sysop 'CELESTE', ex Puddle [no entry], 12/92), Wizex (code). Oxygen was a Swedish demo group, active around 1992 to 1993. Some productions were "Neel Maxie Zoom Dweebie I, II, & III", "We Believe" and "Justice". Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sasquatch, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 24th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Demo (1993, 29.05, Demo). 8th in the TCC93 demo competition. Nerve Centre Demo (1993, 05.08, Demo). 5th in the ECC93 demo competition. Oxygene (OXG, 1994-1996) ------------------------ FRA> Niko (Carre Nicolas, gfx, 09/94), Wilfried (Sechet Alban, gfx, 09/94). Oxygene came onto the Amiga demo scene as a breath of fresh air in 1994, as the first crew (as far as I know) to come to the Amiga from the Atari scene. After giving us a host of great demos, they would once again decide to move onto another platform in early 1996, this time the dreaded PC. Among the great demos the left behind, we find such classics as "Control" [08/95] and "Vision" [12/95]. With them to the pc scene went all their best members, including coder Oxbab and graphicians Spiral and Mon. These people certainly left for the PC section: Data (swap), Lester (code), Mon (gfx), Nap, Oxbab (code), Spiral (gfx) and Leonard (code). Leonard worked on the game "Shaq Fu" for the Sega Megadrive, and participated on the game "Fade To Black" on the pc, and is working for Delphine Software. Spiral is working for Cryo. Oxbab did the 3d real time introduction for "Captain Blood" on the Macintosh. 1995 - After his final demo work for Oxygene, "Indigo" [12/94], french musician Smith (Delteil Herve) left the scene in the first half of 1995. Breath (AGA 40k Intro). Cooperation with Scoopex. Christies (AGA Slideshow, 2 disks). Cuzco (1994, 24.04, ECS File). code: Oxbab, Leonard, gfx: Mon, Spiral, music: "Bloomy Tom" by Smith. 3rd in the Saturne party II demo competition. review: Oxygene's first production on the Amiga is an OK demo, that I immediately mistook for an AGA production when the first logos appeared on screen. I like the music in this one, it's got a dynamic feel that really suits the demo. Also, there's advanced shading and texturemapped cubes here - unusual for an ECS demo from 1994! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Use KillAGA! Note: Seems to work fine, except for long pause towards end, and what appears to be graphical errors on the end picture. Running it with KillAGA revealed a zoom-rotator and a raytraced OXG logo. Ride (1994, 07.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Oxbab, gfx: Spiral, Mon, music: Smith. 15th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Mighty! Only their second production, and already they're impressing the pants off me! Why is it called 'Ride' indeed... You MUST check out the vector flight through a tunnel on this one! Sort of reminds you of the 'deathstar' scene in Star Wars, doesn't it? There's a hidden screen, saying 'DON'T VOTE FOR US' - don't know how to reach it though...Haven't tried that hard either :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Another Dream Now (1994, 03.09, File). code: Oxbab, gfx: Niko, Spiral, Mon, Wilfried, music: "Sound Wave" and "Welcome Mr Jack" by Smith. Winner of the 3S party demo competition! review: Not bad, this demo, and a taster of things to come. The graphics, especially the stuff from Niko, is quite good. I love his logos and the 'tongue' picture. The music is quite acceptable in my ears, though nothing outstanding. As for the code, it's competent, but not great. There's no 'wow' stuff in here, if you know what I mean. I am NOT sure whether this is an AGA or ECS production...All the pictures suggest an ECS prod., while some of the effects are usually reserved for AGA-equipped Amigas... Anyone? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Happy Birthday Lester (1994, 03.09, AGA Demo). code: Oxbab, gfx: Spiral, Mon, music: n/a. 3rd in the 3S Party demo competition.  Indigo (1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Oxbab, Leonard (additional), Lester (additional), gfx: Spiral, Mon, Niko, music: Smith (2 tunes). 15th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Not as immediately appealing as "Cuzco", this is still a very good demo. There's some nice looking effects, like the fire stuff and a slight innovation: spacecut between a gouraud object and a texture mapped one. There seems to be an abundance of Oxygene and Indigo logos here; almost every effect has some sort of graphic inbetween them! Graphically, Niko continues to impress with his cool logos. The booting picture, "Retina" by Spiral, competed in the graphics competition at the same party. Like in "Another Dream Now", Smith delivers two tunes; A main tune and a calmer endtune. It's not terribly good, though, much more forgettable than his cool tune for "Cuzco" [04/94]. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Control (1995, 14.08, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Oxbab, gfx: Mon, Spiral, Niko (additional), Made/Bomb (additional), music: "Space" and "Out of Control" by Clawz/Bomb (ProRunner 1.0 format). Winner of the GASP Party 95 demo competition! review: Certainly a winner, this, from the ever-improving Oxbab. This one is centered around several different vector environments that you're flying through. The graphics are quite OK, and the main soundtrack is the usual techno from Clawz, followed by a calm tune in the endpart. Very good. Does not support external drives. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vision (1995, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Oxbab, gfx: Niko, Mon, Spiral, music: "Hibakusha" by Clawz/Bomb (The Player 6.0A format). 2nd in The Party 5 demo competition. review: This is a very good demo, actually, with a couple of showstopping effects. The dungeon anim towards the end is cool, as is the 'Wipeout' part and the running vector man. These two last parts shows a sense of innovation, which we're not too used to :) The soundtrack is the usual techno, but Clawz does it better than most as usual. He has a quality that adds a certain groove to everything... Sadly, this was to become Oxygene's final release on the Amiga; their next release was the otherwise excellent "Contrast" (04/96) on the pc. Requires some fast, but accompanying text file says fixed version for standard A1200 will be released early 96. The version reviewed is NOT the fixed one, and I don't know if it was ever released. There is also some information available to suggest that it will NOT work on 040 Amigas. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Oxyron (OXY, http://www.oxyron.de) ---------------------------------- GER> Dante (code, 12/94-12/98), Graham (John Selck, code, 12/94-12/98), TTS (Michael Piepgras, code raytrace, 12/94-12/98). ???> Gandalf (ger? gfx, 12/95), No XS (ger? music, 12/96). Oxyron came from the C64 with some of that scene's best coders; people like TTS and Graham made history on the 64. Anyone who's seen an Oxyron demo on the 64 know what these people are capable of - stuff like Doom routines and even a good looking, fast zoomrotator! Graham released a 3D engine (B-Engine V0.1) to aminet (gfx/aga) in june 97, capable of loading Duke Nukem 3D maps from the PC! Unfortunately it requires an FPU, so I haven't been able to check it out... He's also the author of the Arc64 utility, useful for processing C64 files suitable for emulators. And to top it off, he also worked on a few productions for top german group Artwork. TTS coded the 3D 'Doom clone' games "Trapped" and "Trapped 2". Other productions by Oxyron include Mindless (bbs intro), Meeting 95 (aga intro) and Scala 4 (aga demo, cooperation with Phantasm). 1994 - The first ever Oxyron demo on the amiga was released in december, under the title "Killing Time" [12/94]. 1996 - German coder Axis (12/94-12/95) joined Arsenic late 96, but worked on "Dreizehn" [12/98], suggesting he may have returned to the group in the mean time? 1997 - Graham contributed some routines to Artwork's "Exit Planet Dust" [03/97] demo for The Gathering 97. Killing Time (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 4 disks). code: Dante, Axis, TTS, gfx: TTS (raytrace), music: Starfox. 10th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Some cool raytraced opening logos mark the first ever Oxyron demo on the Amiga. Then...it crashes my machine :) I don't know what the problem is, since it's supposedly AGA and everything, but... It's just one of those things I guess! Anyone can help me get it to work? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Hopefully Dead (AGA ?MB File). code: Axis, gfx: TTS (raytrace), music: Unison/Impact DK. review: Are these people antichristian or what? This demo opens with an inverted cross and ends with a pentagram. Anyway, their religious faiths aside, this little demo is not half bad. Once it gets going, it opens a rather obnoxious border which looks like grey marble, and which stays there for the remainder of the demo. Irritating. Anyway, some of the effects presented in the little box in the middle is a wormhole effect, fire, two spacecut texturemapped cubes over plasma (!), a crystal-mapped glass vector cube with mirrormapping, and a voxel landscape that tilts left and right...and that's it. We're quickly shown the credits, a few brief greetings, and then the aforementioned pentagram. All the effects were fast and nice on the 030, with no hint of slowdown anywhere. The music is techno, as usual, but a rather unobnoxious incognito tune. Not enough mem to run on unexpanded A1200, so it obviously requires some fast memory. No release date found anywhere in the demo. [glenn] GLE tested A12020/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Temple of Decease (1995, 23.04, AGA? File). code/gfx: TTS (raytrace), music: Aids Positive. 3rd in the Black Box Symposium demo competition. review: I really like this. There's good routines, good tempo... The music is kind of bland, but doesn't really draw down the overall effect. Stuff on offer here is, a.o. phong-shaded donuts, mapped vectors, space-cut spheres... Very very OK. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Exorcism (1995, 28.12, AGA ?MB Multifile). code: Axis, Graham, TTS, gfx: Gandalf, music: No-XS. 28th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: Exorcism opens with a zoomscroller and follows that with a rendered title picture by Gandalf. Not a 'wow' start exactly, especially since none of this is set to music. Next is the not-so-cool logo, and then the show starts proper, with a lightsource texturemapped sphere spinning around the screen to the first bars of the (not so good) techno soundtrack... Next is fast, smooth fractal zoomer, and then a blocky but wellexecuted voxel landscape. Then phonged, texturemapped torus comes on, which is far from the best or fastest I've seen. A voxeltunnel is next, which abruptly ends when it commences loading the endpart. This is a demo of the Doom clone "Trapped" (done by Oxyron members), which looks quite fast and advanced - especially for 1995. Requires some fast, don't know how much. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  No Roxy (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Graham. Released for The Party 5 4k intro competition. review: Wow! Graham may have expanded his abilities to include the Amiga, but he has certainly not lost his ability to impress! This 4k'er opens with a nicelooking effect perhaps best described as plasmaflame. This goes on for a small while, before we're shown some kind of fractal morpher. This is also a good routine, which even has some background graphics. Pressing the left mouse button takes us to the endpart, with a text plotter over a fractal image of the mandelbrot set. The endtext mentions a C64 version... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Death Sentence (1996, 07.04, AGA HD Demo). 4th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. Phongfree (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: TTS, gfx: none, music: No XS. Winner of The Party 6 40k intro competition! Partyhall (1997, 30.03, Demo). 7th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Suicide (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). 3rd in The Party 7 40k intro competition. review: Here's a novel approach: Some actual innovation! Ofcourse, if there were to be any innovation, these guys are perhaps not the last ones we would consider. There are some quality coders in this group, and they have impressed us massively in the past - on several platforms :D I don't really know how to explain to you what effects are on offer here, since I'll swear to god there are a couple in here I've never seen before! This intro probably wants a machine a little more powerful than mine; it moves a little slowly here and there. And that fractal-animation stuff is a thing of beauty! No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Dreizehn (1998, 28.12, AGA/CGX/P96 HD File). code: Axis, Dante, Graham, TTS, gfx: Axis, Dante, Bifat/TEK, AEG/Smash Designs, music: Bifat/TEK. 2nd in The Party 98 demo competition. Oz (1989-) ---------- Oz was a Norwegian demo group, formed in november 1989 mainly by former members of Ivory, all except EMI now operating under new handles. Ozon (-1995) ------------ ITA> Cursor (code), Luca (gfx), Joker ('nuller'). Ozon was the new name given to SeagullSoft, but was quickly changed again. The group is now called X-Zone, late95. The only members who made it over to X-Zone, it seems, were Lanch (gfx), Lord (music), Modem (code) and Zibi (music). Lord was kicked after a short while in the new group. Ozone [old] ----------- ???> Cueder (music, 12/93), Poison (code, 05/92), Sam (music, 05/92), Scorpion (gfx, 05/92), Spirit Fright (gfx, 05/92), Xann (code, 05/92). Ozone were most probably based in France, and when the group died in late 92 or early 93, all members joined Hemoroids. Don't know any specific names yet. They were later reborn with members from...Hemoroids! EuroChart #15 carried the news that 'Sanity FR is now Ozone'. Axel and Orcus joined Hemoroids early 93. Inferno (File). Shed Tears (1992, 01.05, ECS Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Poison, Xann, gfx: Scorpion, Spirit Fright, music: Sam. Ozone [new] ----------- ???> Cueder (music, doublememb Darkage 02/98). Ozone Free ---------- POL> Iron Angel (sysop 'EMERGENCY', doublememb Appendix, 11/96), Waterhead (swap). ???> Excell (music, 08/95), Kurczak (gfx, 08/95), Morph (code, 08/95). Overcharge (1995, 30.08, File). Released at Intel Outside II. Rendervous (1995, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Morph, gfx: Kurczak, music: Excell. Released for the Intel Outside II 64k intro competition. review: This intro prerenders gouraud objects, and then show them to the user, one at a time. The way this works is that inbetween each object there's a textscreen, and at the bottom of each of these there's a percentage counter. Once this reaches 100, you're shown the next object. Unfortunately, this is the only routine in the intro. The rest of the space is occupied by some excellent audiovisuals, including two very good logos by Kurczak. Definitely worthy of download. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb chip/3.0. Pack Inc. --------- GER> Iceman (mainorg), Schiedel, Warrior-X. New German packmaker crew formed by ex-members of Public Art and RAM71-TEAM. Pacman Productions ------------------ F.U.B.A.R. (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Unco, gfx: Hellraiser, Unco, music: Zodiak. Split 19th in The Party 93 demo competition. Palace ------ DEN> Alf and Drac (train sysops 'TRADERS HEAVEN' WHQ opened RAW4, 91), Frostie (sysop 'LEVIATHAN' opened RAW4, ex Sonic, new RAW4), Terrax (Michael, music, 12/91). GER> Hijack (ex Symbiosis), Skywalker (ex Adept). FIN> Dr.Koff. N-Z> Slaine (ex Extreme). Boards; ROMAN HOTEL (swe), DEAD HEAT (swe, 91). Palace was a demo and illegal group based in Denmark. Anyone know if there were ever any issues of their proposed diskmag 'PacMag' released? 1992 - Swedish coder Mr.Urk joined Shining around january, but soon after the group kicked all their swedish members except MadCap. Madcap left for Spaceballs, and thus the group no longer had members in sweden. Finnish Tex changed his handle to Dr.Koff, also around january. Tyrant (swap) left for Adept in september, since he was tired of being the only member in Germany. Palace is dead! Chromer joined Sonic. Norwegian coder Pushead joined the new Angels. Danish coder and cracker Caesar joined Alpha Flight. Radical joined Endless Piracy. Danish sysop Howard sold all his equipment, so 'ELYSIUM' went down forever in early 92. Scarloc joined Legend. Norwegian sysop Scratcher ('TOTAL PANIC') joined Fairlight (RAW4). Zany and Lynx, sysops 'SUSPERIA', joined 2000AD (RAW4). Previous swedish leader Virus (ex Alpha Flight, new RAW3) joined TRSI for a short while, then moved on to Legend. Danish sysop Zoonie ('HOUSE OF GAMES') got kicked, and joined Alcatraz (STD10). Inferno (ex Noxious) joined Skid Row (RAW3). Gadget and Princip were in Palace 2 days before joining New Wave (RAW2). All Swedish members were kicked out except Madcap, who joined Spaceballs shortly after (RAW2). Bit joined Amaze (RAW2). Danish coder TAS joined Parasite 06/92. Swedish graphician Butch joined The Silents. Danish musician Hellrazor (ex 2000 AD) joined TRSI. Norwegian coder Octoplex (ex Anarchy) joined Dual Crew. Pandemonium ----------- ???> Halfbyte (music, doublememb Bizarre Arts 06/96). Panic (1990-1992) ----------------- GER> Al Capone (Jan Willutzki, swap, late90), Crazy Maze (Markus, music, new mid92), Destinator (code), Dust (gfx, 10/91), Dux (swap), Flagg (Kai, mainorg, 10/91-92), Jesus (code), Manhunter (founder music, ex Bitch Magnet). FIN> Alfred (swap), Crom (Markus Vattulainen), Deetsay (music, doublememb Insane [details]), Gazer (Niko Varjonen, code), Kid Frost (Mikko Lehtonen, music). ENG> Bub and Bob (sysops 'BUBBLE BOBBLE'). ???> Aerobase (swap), Apollo (ex Vanish), Blackstar (trade), Boogieman (sysop), Hawkwind (sysop), Hotmilk (sysop, ex Fairlight), Kiwi, Marlow (trade), Skytec (gfx, 10/91), SMS (sysop), X-Pert (trade). Panic was born around july 1990 by members of Bitch Magnet. They were under the leadership of Flagg for their entire existence. The date of the group's 'death' (or rather split) is a little uncertain, but it was not long after the cooperation with Agnostic Front split, possibly sometime in 92. At the time of the group's death, Jesus was coding a trackmo that never got released. This trackmo contained about six modules by CONS (Raphael, new 09/91), and when the project fell through he lost his scene motivation. He remained inactive from the scene for several years, before reentering the scene on the pc as a member of n-Factor in 1996. 1991 - Scott joined Magnetic Fields around the middle of the year. German musician CONS joined in september. German musician Dr.Headcrash (later Virgill!) left around october. 1992 - Germans Lynxx (music, 10/91) and Foxx joined The Silents early in the year. German musician Crazy Maze joined the group, and together with C.O.N.S. the two built up the music label CMC Music Factory. One of the final things to happend to the group was their cooperation with Agnostic Front, under the title Panic Agnostic Front (PAF). A few intros were released under this name. German musician Emax left for TRSI in december. Expert joined Poison. DJ Head (ger code) and Skaga got kicked. Gambler (trade) and Montana Rice got kicked. German coder Piranha (10/91) joined The Silents. Rator, sysop 'WONDERLAND' joined Agnostic Front. German swapper Trasher (ex Hardline) joined Sanity, and took his pack 'Trashpack' with him. Plural-Mäsmä-Writer (ECS Intro). code: Gazer, gfx: none, music: Kid Frost (sample). review: Definitely alternative, this. It consists of a textwriter on top of a bouncing blue-patterned background with a horizontal starfield in front. In addition, there's a rather obscure music sample playing. "Stooop that traaain, I wanna geeet off!"... You won't die if you don't get this, but you might just enjoy it... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ¼mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Morphic Fields BBS (Intro). Cooperation with Agnostic Front, see there for info. Space Egg (ECS). code: The Piranha, gfx: Dust, music: Manhunter. review: In 1000 WASTED DREAMS, Piranha mentions 'my last demo Space Egg', meaning that this was released before the '1000' demo. demo (1991, 23.12, ECS Demo). Released for the Vision and Mirage X-Mas Party demo competition. 1000 Wasted Dreams (1991, 19.10, ECS Trackmo). code: The Piranha, gfx: Skytec, Dust, music: Virgill/Coma (intro), "Sado Goredon" by C.O.N.S, "Panic-Movie" by Lynxx. Winner of the Action Party 91 demo competition! review: A true horror example of generic design, this follows the two magic formulas; the logo-bar-effect-bar screen layout and the effect- textscreen-effect rhythm. The music and graphics are barely functional. The music in the opening part, that chip-style thing, seems unrippable. The music in the main part bugs (note: cons says it's not the music, but the code to fade out the track), and it crashes after loading the endpart. It boots the whole thing, then gurus. However, the main part of the demo worked perfectly. No time to check with caches off. Thanks to CONS for clearing a few things up, like the music credits! =] [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Panoramic Designs (PD, 1990-) ----------------------------- NOR> Buzz (Stig Bakken, gfx, 91), Condor (Marius Kintel, code, 91), Jostein (Jostein Hoel, code, 91), Shagul (Terje Semb, 91), TRS (Trond Sausjord, code gfx, 91). PD was originally a C64 group, and was formed late 1990 by the former Norwegian division of Armada. Their first production "Amiga First" [10/90] was released at the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90, announcing the group's birth. Amiga First (1990, 06.10, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Stemmingsfullezeb" by n/a (ProTracker MOD format). 6th in the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. Never Again (1991, ECS Trackmo). code: Jostein (loader), Condor (flag, loader, tech-tech, fractal, gods), TRS dragon anim, gods, loader), gfx: TRS (loader logo, flag, loadergfx, gods, endpart), Dungeon Master/DM (dragon anim, loader), Buzz (tech-tech), music: "Michelangelos Dream" by Headx/Andromeda (ProTracker MOD format), TRS (sample). info: Probably released at The Party 91, but I'm not 100% sure. Panzerfaust (-1989) ------------------- Panzerfaust died late 1989 when the group changed their name to Cave. Paradise (PRD, 1991-1993) ------------------------- GER> Accomplice (gfx, new 08/92), Brutus (swap, ex Armageddon), Flash (music), Killraven (Andre Wiedenhofer, swap, re from Interpol, 92), Seat (music), Viper, Wolfgang ('CHINA TOWN', 91). FIN> Madman (sysop 'BLUE WING', new early 92), Sledge Hammer. FRA> Furax (sysop 'FANTASIA' new late91, ex Quartex, new late91). SPA> Thorin (music). SWE> Poseidon (music). HOL> Al Bundy (sysop 'BUNDY'S PLACE'). USA> Animal (sysop 'THE UNFORGIVEN'), Don Dog (sysop 'DUNGEON OF WHO'/'LINE NOISE'), Dr.Feelgood (sysop 'OVERDOSE'). ???> Ascender (ex Gothic, new RAW4), Major-Midi (ex Energy), Rog (code, new 08/92). Boards; TIMETRIALS (usa), THE BROOM CLOSET (usa), VALHALLA (can), TOTAL RECALL (usa), DREAM MACHINE (bel), CENTRAL NETWORK. Paradise was a German demo group, formed by Tedric in april 1991, and organized by Tedric and Arcatronic. The group died mid to late 1993. Originally, there were two other groups called Paradise, one of which was also based in Germany, and one cracker group in Belgium. This was solved easily though, when all three groups fusioned into one. However, the Belgian people didn't stay long, and opted to go to Fusion instead. When they left, rumours that Paradise had died starting floating around, which were untrue. 1993 - Graphician Premium (12/92) joined Desire mid 93. German coder and original founder Tedric joined The Silents 05/93. Crayon joined Diffusion. German graphician and musician Nox joined Zenith. Arcatronic (ger? mainorg sysop 'SPAGETTHI HOUSE') left. Finnish swapper Private Dick (ex Klondyke) joined Legend. American sysops Powerhouse ('TWINPOWERS') and Dictator ('TONE TOWN') left. German swapper Agony (ex DCS) joined The Elektronic Knights. Germans Stearo (swap, ex Desire) and Nose joined Alcatraz. German coder Raw Style (new 08/92) joined DCS, but quickly moved on to Alcatraz. The American whq board 'TOTAL RECALL' left to join Chryseis as their WHQ instead, late 92 or early 93. Norwegian coder Flesh (ex Majic 12) joined the reborn Angels. Optimus Maximus (1992, 19.04, Demo). 3rd in the Easter Conference 92 demo competition. Virtual Meltdown (1992, 27.12, ECS Disk). code: Tedric, gfx: Nose, Premium, Shadowmaster, Icejam, music: Sam, Spaf, Time Guardian. 8th in The Party 92 demo competition. Paradox [old] (PDX, 1989-1991, http://www.paradogs.com) ------------------------------------------------------- FRA> Clash (06/90), Corto (code), Fisc, Olivier (mainorg supply sysop 'OLIVIER'S PLACE', later Quartex, 12/90), Skywalker (code, 90), Spirit (12/90). DEN> Bad Boy (crack, ex Trilogy, 07/90), Black Hawk (code crack, 12/90), Hotbier (sysop 'THE JUDGE', 04/95), Midnight Maniac (mainorg, 12/90). GER> Luke and Chuck (ex Vision Factory, new late90), Skyline (sysop 'LITTLE AMERIKA', later Quartex, new ca 10-11/90). USA> Loverboy (sysop 'INVOLUNTARY DEATH', 03-06/90). ???> Brigade (new late90), Cobol (gfx, 90), Freddy (code, 90), Hexodus (code gfx), Kevin (new late90), Labyrinth (gfx), MCM (gfx, 90), PCSU (gfx), Pinnacle (music), Prisoner of Wife (usa? sysop, ex Classic old, new late90), Qrd (code), Samplemixer (music, 90), Shapiro (crack, 03/90), Stormlord, The Infernal Duo (supply, 90), TSH (new late90), Zelnik (ex Classic old, new late90). Boards; SLEEPY HOLLOW (usa, 06/90), MIDDLE EARTH (usa, 03/90), PARADOX CANADA (can, 03/90), THE JUNGLE (usa, 03/90). Paradox was originally formed late 1989 by members of the danish group Trilogy (Bad Boy, Black Hawk) and the french group M.A.D (Olivier, The Surge, Clash) with the intention of forming the mightiest cracking constellation ever. Leaders of the group were originally The Surge, Midnight Maniac and Olivier, with Blackhawk and The Surge doing most of the cracking. Suppliers were Action Man, Spirit and Paragon. With this setup PDX was immediately one of the top amiga cracking groups, and were staples on the top of the charts from day one. Thanks to the history published on the group's website for some information. 1990 - During 1990, Paradox were at war with another cracking group, Angels, which culminated in the famous intro from Skywalker, where a devil is brutally molesting a defenseless angel :) MayDay stopped all activities late 90. The Danish board 'HALLOWED GROUND' (03-06/90) had to close its doors late 90, since the Danish police had started to suspect what was going on. German sysop Skyline joined around october. Danes Static, Vandal and Droopy joined Rebels in december. 1991 - LSD's "Grapevine #1" [06/91] reported that the UK section of Paradox had left to form a new group called Infinity. Tension grew within the group until it eventually died. When this happened, most of the members joined Quartex (confirmed: TIC (crack, 90) and The Surge (mainorg crack sysop, 11/90)). Paradox went into hibernation, but the group was reactivated after two years. Freddy is Back (1990, ECS File). code: Freddy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Snurkeldemo 2 (1990, late, ECS File). Intro (1991?, ECS Intro) code: Qrd, gfx: Pcsu, music: Pinnacle. Strange Balls (1991?, ECS File). code: Hexodus, gfx: Labyrinth, Hexodus, music: Sample Mixer. Paradox [new] (PDX, 1993-, http://www.paradogs.com) --------------------------------------------------- FRA> Barret Oliver (ex Shining, old handle Daryl). DEN> Blackhawk and Metal Force (code crack sysops 'MERCYFUL FATE', early93- 04/95). ENG> ADS (supply, 94). GER> Lincoln. HOL> Eros (gfx, ex Jetset, old handle Eswat), IKillr (gfx, ex Jetset), Timeless (ex Jetset). ITA> Zool (org). SWE> Nero (sysop 'PROPHETS HOLD', 01/95). AUS> Woody (sysop 'WOODY'S WORLD', 04/95). USA> Nuisance (sysop 'NIRVANA' WHQ, 04/93). ???> Babydock (crack, 03/93), CPT (fra?, gfx, 12/93), E.F.A (crack, 94), Hot Tuna and Mimicom (supply, 94), Hurricane (swe? modem, 03/93), Maximilien (org), Order and ED209 (supply, 94), Paragon (supply, 03/93), The Colonel (crack). Boards; LITHIUM WHQ (usa, 07/94), HOUSE OF COOLNESS EHQ (ger), HOUSE OF PAIN (usa), YEE SIDE (can), LIVING CHAOS (eng), SKARA BRAE (ger), CREEPING DEATH (ger). Paradox was reborn i 1993 with Daryl/ex Shining as one of the leaders. Midnight Maniac was back (albeit with a slightly lower profile than earlier), Blackhawk was still one of the scene's most prolific crackers, and Paragon still one of the best suppliers. Paradox were the undisputed number one in its second incarnation. Maximilien was the new leader, and new members like Zool (italy) and Lincoln (germany) helped raise the group even further. The group now expanded, for the first time, into the console scene. Releases were made on the SNES and Sega Genesis, under the able hands of Belgarion (code) and Papillon (org). Even more challenges were sought, and the group turned its attention to the pc scene... 1993 - Kaoz and swapper Killraven (early93) were kicked. Killraven joined Anthrox late 93. 1994 - French coder Ninja (12/93, in Angels three months earlier) left to join Scoopex. French musician Monty (12/93) left to form Universal Soldiers with his friend Schmoovy-Schmoov/Complex in late 94. 1995 - Then the group's leader Maximilien was busted by the police, once again killing Paradox in the process... Paradox would be reborn a third time after two more years, in 1997, but now entirely on the console scene. Calimero (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Ninja, gfx: CPT, music: Monty (ProPacker 2.1 format). 10th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Review: Not much content here, though nicely designed. Still, when you compare this to Ninja's last intro "Destroy Fascism" (For Angels three months earlier), this is undoubtedly the weaker one. The only real 'effect' is some vector-spheres bouncing on a moving vector-plate thing that's not all that exciting. It seems there's a 'theme' of sorts to this, where two chickens find love. Don't ask. Music and gfx are simplistic, but acceptable. Ninja reprises his upscroller with vector- tunnel in the background routine from "Destroy Fascism" in the endpart. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Paragon [old] ------------- NOR> Alex, Cooper (ex Byte Busters), Crocker, Cruizer (music), Dr.Floyd (ex Byte Busters), Dr.Voodoo (ex Byte Busters), Eaze, Echo (old handle Epa), Elwood (music), Jester (music), Khorne (gfx), Laban (Henrik Endresen, swap, 92), MC Metal (swap, 92), Mr.Zig-Zag, Nimrod (Steinar Knutsen, code ex-edit 'Free'n'Easy'), Obscure, Slimeball, Tom (music). ???> Faze (gfx). Paragon was a Norwegian demo group. 1992 - Norwegian Selwyn (ex Byte Busters) was kicked out, while Norwegian musician and writer Mystra (ex Rubbers) joined Addicts in august. Dr.Ami, MC Blaster and Maniac Man got kicked. Norwegian musicians El Loco and Sundance Kid (old handle Marlin) joined Talent. Norwegian coder Black Panther (ex Flash) joined Crusaders. Conjuring Tricks (1992, 15.04, ECS File). 8th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Paragon [new] ------------- Paragon appears to be a finnish demo group, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Norwegian group Paragon, who was active in the early 90's. Coder Kenny was a confirmed member of Haujobb for both the "My Kingdom" [12/97] demo and for the "Yes!" [04/00] intro... so what was he doing in this group? The same question applies to Kidlove. Hmmm... Popgun (1998, 08.08, 64k Intro). code: Kenny, gfx: Kidlove, music: Chromag (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Hmm, this one's a bit of a mystery... We all know the names of the producers of this, I guess, but the group is new to me. Oh well, the intro then. It's really nothing special in any respect, I'm afraid. Some of the graphics, as well as the tune, reveal that this is done by people with skills, but the intro itself never comes alive. There are no good effects, and the voxels and vectors are slow compared to other products. Reading the depacked executable seems to reveal this uses a demosystem originated within Haujobb... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Parallax (PRX) -------------- FIN> Allah (sysop 'THE CHAMELEON' WHQ, ex Digital, triplememb LSD and Insane, 08-10/95), Bandog (code, 04/95), Block (93), DCD (code, ex Decnite), Debug (code, 08/94-08/95), Geffen, Guru (ex Complex, new 08/92), Hijack (Rolf Tiittanen, ascii trade, doublememb Alpha Flight), Ice-T (93), Legend (Jarno Kilpia, code gfx music, ex Addonic, new 09/92-08/95), Metal (code sysop), Mike (swap), Raider, Reserve (93), Sardiini (swap), Simply (code, earlier Decept, 08/94-08/95), Stratos (ex Complex, new 08/92), Tim (93), TJM (music), Top-Azz (music), Tukan (gfx, 08/95), Warthog (raytrace webmaster, 08/94), Yolk (Mikko Karvonen, org music, ex Sonic, 93-04/95). SWE> Culture (sysop 'HELL'S UNDERGROUND', 01/95). ???> Device (swap). Boards; TURPENTINE TRIP (fin, ex Decept). Parallax is a Finnish demo group, who for a short while was a subgroup of Scoopex, under the name Parallax Design. However, they soon decided that independence was best, and reverted to their original status. 1992 - Finnish musician Legend joined from Addonic in september. Finnish graphician Mistral joined Mystic in 1996. Mistral worked on the demos "Drool This" [08/94] and "Zif" [08/95] before leaving. BUT, he contributed to ther Mystic demo "Megademo" [08/99], and was credited as Mistral/Parallax! Finnish sysop Talbot ('TABOIL') joined Frogs. Finnish swapper Darky (ex Equinox) got kicked. DCD (code), TMC (gfx) and Visualize (gfx) joined from Decnite. However, Visualize was kicked because of his attitude and TMC left the scene. Now only DCD remains in the group. Critical Mass (1993, 09.08, Demo). Released for the Assembly 93 demo competition! Drool This (1994, 06.08, AGA 4MB HD). Code: Debug, Simply, Gfx: Mistral, Legend, Warthog, Music: Yolk, Legend. 3rd in Assembly 94 demo competition. Deep (1995, 14.04, AGA 2MB HD, 2 disks). code: Debug, Bandog, Legend, gfx: Destop/CNCD (also director), music: Yolk and Legend (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Gathering 95 demo competition! Cooperation with CNCD. review: Niceness! Not bad at all, this winner from the unusually weak TG95 competition. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ZiF (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Demo, 2 disks). code: Debug, Simply, gfx: Mistral, Tukan, music: Legend. Winner of the Assembly 95 demo competition! Paralysis (1992-). ------------------ FIN> Dale (founder), DJ (founder), Icebass (founder), Suhu (founder), Tedious (founder). Paralysis was born late 1992 as a Finnish demogroup. Finnish Vortex joined Bronx. Paramount (PMT) --------------- SWE> Jet (swap), Mirador, Smallomph. ???> Sixpack (gfx), Zodie. Paramount's birth was announced in Cracker Journal #23 (12/90) as 'a new modem group'. Megaxil joined The Family. Paranoid (PRD) -------------- GER> Achim (sysop 'FLASH BBS'), Dragon (sysop 'DARKNESS' WHQ, 92-04/95), Killtech (Steven Müller, ex Prestige), Link. DEN> Quaid (swap). BEL> Alligator. ???> Death (ex Fate), Fox, Knuelle (ex Fate), Omc (ex Argon), Satan, Scream (ex Fate). 1992 - Salvatore joined Alpha Flight around october. Ripper joined Atomic. Paranoimia (-1990) ------------------ USA> Al Capone (sysop 'ALCATRAZ', early90). Boards; FBI BBS (usa). Paranoimia was an elite cracking group built on the ruins of the legendary World of Wonders, and became a legendary group in their own right. Among the ones from the old group were Kontrasoft and Metallica. I believe they were in several wars with other groups, and were popularly called 'Paralamia' :). However, the most fantastic claims came when they were rumoured to be the computer division of the actual Mafia! Their exact date of birth is a little uncertain, but the earliest dated crack I have seen was 18.05-89. The American 'FBI BBS' was carrried over from World of Wonders. 1990 - Two Danish members joined Supreme ca 05/90. German Malzam (ex Tristar) was briefly a member before moving on to Vision. Paranoimia then died sometime between 06 and 08/90. Metallica, Hellion and Corsair (all ex World of Wonders) joined Skid Row. Most others formed The Company with ex members of Quartex. Skid Row did have an American board called 'ALCATRAZ', but the sysop was called Beatbox...He may have changed his handle... Kreator took some time before finally joining Prologic. German musician Subzero joined Skid Row. German cracker Kontrasoft (ex World of Wonders) left the scene. German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH' opened 12/89) joined Tristar. Their WHQ BBS (USA) was busted! (mid 90). This may be the bbs they got from M.A.D in early 1990, presumably DEVILS ISLAND. Parasite [old] (PST, 1992-) --------------------------- DEN> Beadwave, Colin (raytrace, new mid93), Krueger (swap, 09/92), Liquid (Martin Larsson, music, ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92-12/93), Pearl (ex Angelica), Splatt (gfx, 12/92), Steffen (Steffen Rabenborg, swap pack, ex Quartz, old handle Speedy, 12/92), Tas (code, ex Palace, new 06-12/92), Xarium (code, ex Balance, later Rebels, new mid93). ???> Bored (ex Rednex, new early 92), Conan (code), Doktor (ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92), Douglas (code, old handle Solid, 01/93), Fred (ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92), Nut Weelin (music, ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92-01/93). Parasite was originally founded by Dino and Peter in 1992. The original founders later left, and declared the group to be dead. An attempt to revive it was made by Danish superswapper Speedy, but this was quickly denied by the original founders, now active on the PC. See the entry for Parasite [new] for more information on this. The two founders now run Parasite PC, and the Amiga section is officially dead and will never be revived. News in EuroChart #15 (declaring the group's birth) reported that Dino, Slide, Mount, Easley, Shayera and Gargoyle all came here from Cult, which conflicts rather extensively with my information... Can anyone confirm or deny if Shayera's PST-Tracker [12/92] was ever released? Founder Dino (ex TSC/Prologic, new mid91-01/93) and Gotcha joined Spoon. Danish coder Shayera (ex Cult, new 06/90) and Jack got kicked. Danes Yeager and Mongole (both ex Illusion, new 06/90) joined Surprise! Productions. Danish musician Slide (10/92-12/93) joined Polka Brothers, first as a doublememb, and later fulltime. Later danes Gargoyle (code, ex Aero, 10-12/92), Easley (org swap, 09-12/92), Mount (gfx, 09-10/92) and Pixie (gfx, ex Triax, new mid93) also joined. Fuck Her Brains Out packmenu (1992, ECS Intro). code: Gargoyle, gfx: Splatt (logo), Easley (font), music: Slide. review: Nice but unspectacular, is the menu for Speedy's pack FHBO. The menu always opens with the number of the current issue flashed onto the screen, before it spins onto a cube that moves to the bottom right of the screen. Then a 'PST' is overlaid onto it, and the two spin happily until you decide to make a selection =) Across the top of the screen resides a heavily dithered PARASITE logo by SPlatt, below which the title and number of the pack resides. Below that again, across the middle of the screen, is the place where you can make a mouse-driven decision about what to view, and the bottom has the aforementioned vector cube spinning in the right corner, and a text plotter across the rest. Dark blue bubbles float up behind the onscreen text and logo at all times. Overall not the worst packintro around. The intro was used for all issues released, I believe - the issue reviewed here was #6 [92]. Remarkably no compatibility issues were encountered, even when booting the pack from df1: [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Imperial Tunes (1992, 15.10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Slide (font), Splatt (logo), Airwalk/Kefrens (font), music: "Insane People!", "Bones Brigade", "Caused by Bordom", "free From Wires!", "Hidden Rebel" by Slide, "Always", "Free", "Cold Destiny", "Strings In Space" by Liquid. info: Released before THE FOUR SEASONS. Apprently very good. Contains secret part. Zyclonium (1992, 28.12, ECS File). code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Splatt (dragonlogo, endpartlogo, cycloniumlogo), Easley (dragonlogo, greenborders, rotatescrolllogo), Dino (crystals,blue parasitelogo), music: "Mesmerized" by Slide (PP21 format). 16th in The Party 92 demo competition. Demo 2 (1993, ECS File). code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Splatt, Colin (raytrace), Dino (additional), Slide (additional), music: "Vodka" by Slide. Review: An extensive demo with several new and innovative effects, plus heaps of graphics. The tune is a forgettable funk affair. The demo requires minimum 1mb total memory. Type SECRET PART for the hidden part (a vector-world and a text-plotter). The supposed '8 spheres' is just 5 spheres and 3 sprites, as revealed in Upstream #7! Zeg claims the relase date is 01/94...? [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Four Seasons (1993, .01, ECS Musicdisk). code: Solid, gfx: Dino, music: "Winter Time" by Nut Weelin, "Pseudo My Mous", "Drums by an Alien", "Trains of Horror", Minor After Minor", "The Great Warrior", "Bali Dancer" by Liquid, "Blending", "Obtain Majority" by Slide (all mods PP21 format). Released after The Party 2. Imperial Tunes 2 -The Hitsingle- (1993, 19.05, ECS Musicdisk). code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Mount (others), Splatt (loadergfx), Slide (font), music: "Believe In Me", "Judgement Day" by Slide & Liquid, "Introtune" by Liquid (all mods PP21 formats). Pink In Mono (1993, .12) The Dentro 1 (1993, 28.12, File). code: Gargoyle, gfx: Splatt, music: Slide (PP21 format). Dansk Toppen #03 (1994, 26.08, ECS/AGA Diskmag). code: The Whistle/Parasite (intro part), gfx: Bizzardt/Parasite (intropart), Devilstar/Spaceballs (aga titlepic), music: "Techno7-tw" by The Whistle (Tracker Packer 3 format). Cooperation with Razor 1911. Parasite [new] (1995-95) ------------------------ DEN> Butthead (org code), Speedy (org swap trade). NOR> Felix (org swap), Magz (gfx). ???> Cyberstorm (gfx), Eagle, Jummen (swap), Mind (code), Mosher (swap), Scoop (code), S.M.D. (gfx), Yabbo (org music). The new Parasite was a very shortlived project, since the original founders didn't approve of a new Parasite - they felt they owned the rights to the name! Partners In Crime (PIC, -1991) ------------------------------ Partners In Crime died aroung mid 1991. Some people joined Paranoid and Cytax, Holy is independent. Passion (PSN, 1994-) -------------------- DEN> Blizzart (gfx, ex Kefrens, 11-12/94), Cutcreator (Allan Kirkeby, music, ex Static Bytes, new early95), Raven (sysop 'THE LOOP', 12/94), The Colonel (trade, 11/94), Zarch (trade, ex Triflex). ???> Black Angel (sysop 'PLATINUM', 11/94), Guybrush (gfx), Jake (music, 11/94), Razta (code, 11/94), Red Cheese (ex Rebels, new late95), Tronic, X-Man (trade, ex Addonic, new ROM5). Passion is a demo group based in Denmark. 1997 - Swapper Adonis joined Amaze Design late97. Ibenz left for Digital around 09/97. Danish graphician Silicon (11/94-08/95) joined Rebels (ROM9). Danish graphician Prowler (12/94-12/95) left to join Scoopex (ROM9). Organizers Pearl (Martin Serup, swap edit "Dansktoppen", 11/94) and The Whistle (code music, 11/94) have both left the scene, which makes PSN's future highly uncertain. Silicon is still in, but the destiny of the remaining PSN members Guybrush, Prowler and Cutcreator is unknown. Their contact with the group in the last months were very scarce (ROM8). Does this mean we can declare Passion dead? Danish musician Subject (doublememb Balance, 11/94) terminated his double membership, changed his handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97. Danish swapper Decoy (ex Control, 11/94-03/96) joined Puzzle (ROM8). Talented danish coders Boogeyman (ex Oblivion, new 11/94) and Scope (ex Balance) both joined Scoopex (ROM8). Ramosa (Jacob Ramskov, Music, 11/94, ex Oblivion?) and Tsar1 (swap) were both asked to leave, while sysop Webster ('ELECTRONIC CONFUSION') left the scene completely (04/96^ROM7). Passionate (1994, 22.11, File). code: The Whistle, gfx: Silicon, Guybrush, Blizzart, music: "Brave_New_ WorldV1.1" by Ramosa (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: It doesn't CONTAIN anything, does it? There's a few not-too-good pictures, the odd uninteresting effect or two... But now, having watched it, I can't remember a single outstanding thing. Dull. The first ever PSN production. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dansktoppen #4 (1994, late, Chart). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a, Editor: Pearl. Nitte! (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Blizzart, music: "Old School Chip #1" by Subject. 3rd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Boogeyman's first production for PSN was this 40k intro. [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Not enough memory. Probably needs 2mb chip, and is therefore AGA only, since only AGA machines have 2mb chip. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Alien Dream (1994, 28.12, AGA File). code: The Whistle, gfx: Silicon, Blizzart, music: "Alien_Dream" by Ramosa (Tracker Packer 3 format). 19th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: A lot better than The Whistle's previous 'Passionate', though he's reused one or two effecs. The opening picture of the grinning green head by Silicon was later used in Boogeyman's 'Vacation 2' also, though in a different context. Anyway, the best parts of 'Alien Dream' is probably the music and the tunnel parts. Nice and subtle, this is. Oh, and the small picture in the endpart was nice too. Approved. AGA only, but for no apparent reason. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vacation (Demo). code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Alien Inspiration (1995, .06, AGA File). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Blizzart, Pris/Edge, music: Subject. Vacation 2 (1995, 11.08, AGA FAST File). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Prowler, Silicon, Boogeyman, music: "Hollywodden Head4" by Subject (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: Again, this is good! Boogeyman keeps impressing, as a coder that cares about how his productions look. There's plenty of goodlooking effects, including a variation I've never seen before! We're shown smooth and good stuff like a voxelspace, phong, bitmap manipulation, texture mapping, bitmap interference with smileys :), and a new combination; gouraud glenz! The endpart looks a lot like Lone Starr/Spaceball's intro for R.A.W #5, don't you think? The accompanying text file mentions it requires 'some fast'. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ComaDose (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: "Gatecrashing-4" by Subject (TrackerPacker 2 or 3 format). 15th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Very good. This is competent in all areas, with a functional tune and good, strong, solid routines. Everything here - from the zooming intro, the zoomrotated stretching plasma, the 'dungeon', the fast blue tunnel, to the envmapped objects - is done in goodlooking style with fast routines. It's a consistently solid production. If they'd left out the dungeon part and substituted it for a picture or an improved tune, I'd be over the moon. As it is, I'm just slightly hovering :) Passion obviously lost a great resource when Boogeyman joined Scoopex. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Chronic (1996, 06.07, AGA Demo). Code: Boogeyman, Music: Slide/Polka Brothers. Winner of the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition! Pearl ----- AUS> Rabbi (swap), Sumaleth (Rowan Crawford, gfx). Australian musician Hunz (ex Southern Guild, 94) joined Sauce early 94. Vacation 2 (Demo). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Subject/Balance (ProRunner 2.0 format). Satisfaction Guaranteed (1993, 05.12, ECS File). Code: Netrunner, Gfx: Alchemist, Music: Mel. Rosedale BBS Intro (1993, 27.12, ECS Intro). Code: Flex/Davlex Design, Gfx: Sumaleth, Music: Ginseng/Alchemy. Released at The Party 93. Pearl Party 94 (1994, .01, ECS File). Pearl Party Update (1994, 11.03, ECS File). Code: Netrunner, Gfx: Sumaleth, Music: Astroboy. Doomed (1994, 20.05, ECS File). Code: Netrunner, Tachyon, Gfx: Sumaleth, Alchemist, Music: Astroboy. Pentagon (1991-) ---------------- FRA> Adx, Cholles, El Gob, Insider, Jug, Lupus, Merclaw, Nitch System, Post Mortem. USA> Crayon. Cheap Blittering (1991, 06.02, ECS File). Cooperation with Drifters, see there. Perfection ---------- Boards; EUROPE'S HEART (also in TRSI, 02/93). I've never heard of Perfection before or after, but since they had an elite board like 'EUROPE'S HEART', I guess they're worth noting. Modem only? Perfects, The (1990-) --------------------- SWI> Atomix (new 03/90), X-Large (new 05/90). The Perfects were a swiss demo group, born in 1990. When they died, swiss members Axel (music), Fly (code) and Peace (gfx) all joined Brainstorm, while Dr.O, Rotter, Israel and Sledge joined Zeus. Perplex ------- DEN> Ramosa (music, later Oblivion, 10/93). Perspex ------- ENG> Huk (swap). ???> G-Zuz (gfx, new WHN1), Smudge (ex Marram, new WHN1). Boards; ALTERNATE REALITY WHQ (new WHN1), CD EXCHANGE (usa). Sysop Proteus ('PARADISE LODGE') quit. His board is now PD only (WHN1). Phalanx ------- FIN> Roland (music, later Gate, 89), Tai-Pan (code, later Complex, 89). Norwegian musician Walkman joined IT. Blob (ex X-Beat, new 01/89) joined Gate. Roland's Musicbox (1989, .01, Musicdisk). code: Blob, gfx: n/a, music: Roland. Phantasie (-1990) ----------------- This Australian group died around early 1990. Most members joined ACU. Phantasm [old?] (PHM) --------------------- NOR> Blitzie (code), Decker (gfx music, later Andromeda?), Disaster (code), Dr.Bad (music), Ecstasy (code swap, re-Scoopex RAW4), Elling (code gfx swap), Floyd (gfx swap), Heartbreaker (gfx swap), Joker (gfx swap), Ogre (gfx), Winger (gfx). FRA> Clawz (music, later Extreme, 04/91).  Intro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Ecstasy, gfx: Ogre, Decker, Elling, music: "Astralbeat" by Decker. Released at The Gathering 92. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Phantasm [new?] (PHN) --------------------- GER> Gandalf (code raytrace sysop), Phoenix (Frank Wille, code, 95), SiliconSurfer (Tim Rühsen, code). ???> Apollo (code), Bastard (ascii), Crisi (Code), McCoy (Code), Noodles (music raytrace), Rico (music raytrace), Slaxx (gfx music), Spirit (code raytrace), Steeler (code), The Alien (code). Phoenix is the author of the assembler package PhxAss. cr8y joined Savage 04/96. BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation (1995, early, AGA File). Cooperation with Polka Brothers, see there for details. Papi's Kamin (1996, 07.04, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Symposium 96 4k intro competition. Review: This 4k'er contains only one effect, a hypersmooth fire one. Just one single effect's not really enough to convince anyone, so it's no wonder this ended up last of the three competitors. The effect can be pause with the right mouse button. No credits appear in the intro. Phase ----- FIN> Crux, Darkman (swap, 92), Dr.Blitz, Duplex, Galactus, P-CU (swap, ex Electron), Taifun & Black Judge. Phase was formed when some members of Electron decided to kick all the lamers from their group, and form a new group. Norwegians Whiplash (code) and Acen joined Compact Inc. Daffy joined Byte Busters (05-06/92). Phase Distortion (PHD) ---------------------- GER> Airon (music), Cyclone (code), Lunkwill (code), Maniac (raytrace), Pirat (org music), Skywalker (code), Wiz Kid (gfx ascii projectorg), Xtreme (sysop). ITA> FBY (music). SWE> Johan (gfx) CRO> Juice (music ascii). Boards; PARADISE NEWS SYSTEM WHQ (ger), AMIGA CARRIER (+385), DIGITAL DISASTER (ger), PALLADIUM (ger), SWEET DREAMS (ger). Maniac is passive 06/96. Phase Truce (PHT) ----------------- POL> Binar (music, 11/96), Caro (gfx, 11/96), City (code swap, 11/96), Kaiser (code, 11/96), Luk (code swap, 11/96), Mecenas (org raytrace, 11/96), Mr.Peer (mainorg swap, 11/96), Revi (code, 11/96), Smooth (swap, 11/96), Traitor (gfx raytrace swap, 11/96), Wild (music, 11/96). Phase Truce are a purely Polish demo group. Beut (1996, 10.11, ECS 64k Intro). code: Kaiser, gfx: Mecenas, Luk, music: Binar. 6th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition. review: This one needs a lot of work; a rather uninspired affair. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Phase (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 6th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. n/a (1998, 4k Intro). review: This is an extremely slow-moving intro on my machine, with admittedly large phong-objects, and a recurring overlaid 'Phase Truce' logo. No sound. Would be interesting to identify this =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Phaze 101 (1989-) ----------------- ITA> Paranoid (code, 10/89). ???> Crain (Chris, founder). This group was born when the group "101 - The Maltese Hackers" changed their name, around the middle of 1989. Torch (10/89) claimed to be a coder, but was unmasked as a lamer and a liar, and eventually kicked out. Phenomena (PHA, 1988-) ---------------------- SWE> Aqua (swap trade, ex Active, new ca 07/90), Aramon (new ca 07/90), Armsmaster (swap, 91), Azatoth (Olle Lindroth, code, +inactive+, 11/90-93), Celebrandil (Mårten Johansson, code, ex Fairlight, new 90, left scene 91), Color (Robert Andersson, gfx, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90- 92), Core (code, 91), Danko (music, 04/90), Dream Warrior (code, ex Triangle, 03/90-91), Firefox (Jimmy Fredriksson, music, 03/90-92), Jas (Jacob Ström, code, ex Rebels), Karon (trade, new 04/91-early92), Mace (code, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90), Madster (gfx, 91), Mantronix (Martin Wall, music, ex Razor 1911, new mid91-92), Mr.Gurk (Gunnar, code, ex Triangle, 08/89-91), Paralysis (swap, 91), Syncro (code, ex Science 451, new mid90), The Punisher (swap, new mid90), Tip (Robert Ling, music, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90-92), Twins (code, 04/90-91). Phenomena was formed around 1988 by Avalon (Mattias Berntsson from Katrineholm, Sweden), who later left the scene. A successor of the group Crack Force Five, they were a swedish-only crew, stressing friendship as an important reason for this rule. Years later, of course, Andromeda would do the same thing. A pure demo group, they are perhaps the ones that made the best trackmo of all times; the fantastic "Enigma" [03/91]. While Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" [04/90] was the first trackmo, "Enigma" was the one that truly defined the standards of the genre. Unfortunately, after topping the charts for ages, Azatoth lost his initiative to code. Coder Celebrandil was one of the last great innovators if the scene, a.o. things introducing raytracing to demos in 1988. He also invented the much- used effects glenz vector and spacecut vector. Today he is working designing ICs for Stockholm-based firm Mentor Graphics, though he's still coding on his spare time - though sadly on the PC. Mr.Gurk was the author of one of the most-loved utils for the coder of the early days; the sinus-generator Cosaque (version 1.1 30.08.1989). Another of their coders, Vogue, would later move to the PC scene, where he joined a group called Triton, helped code their legendary pc demos "Crystal Dream" [07/92] and "Crystal Dream II" [05/93], before he and Mr.H committed the music tracker program known as "FastTracker ][" [94]. He is now busy co-writing the game "Into the Shadows". 1988 - Swedish coder and cracker DiMarz left the group for Razor 1911. 1990 - After Uno's contribution to the Scoopex demo "Chromium" [11/90] in november, he (gfx), Photon (code), Judas and Invid all joined Scoopex a month later, in december. Swedish coder Odeon (ex Majic 12) left to form the new Razor 1911. Swedish graphician Terminator (03/90-04/91) joined The Silents. Terminator worked on several classic Phenomena releases, including "Music Dream" II [91] and "Enigma" [03/91]. Swedish coder Antiaction (ex Vortex 42) joined Defjam. Innerspace (Demo). Joyride (pre 1992, .07, ECS File). Lost In Space (pre 1989, .11). Music Dream I (ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Heads Intro (1988/89?, ECS Intro). Code: Cobra, Gfx: Crome, Freedom, Music: Crome. Who Cares (1989, mid, ECS File). Code: Mr. Gurk, Gfx: Eagle, Music: Firefox. Bikie (1989, late?). Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Megademo (ECS Megademo). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: "Its No Secret", "Lets Party", "Like The Wind", "Megademo Tune v2" and "Never Ending Love" by Firefox. Spectre-Northstar Party Demo (1989, 05.11, ECS File). Code: U.F.A., Music: Firefox. Jocke Intro (1989/90?, ECS Intro). Code: Jocke, Gfx: Terminator, Music: Firefox. 420 Bobs (1990?, ECS File). Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: Eagle, Sensei/Censor, Music: Firefox. Ice Cold Coke (1990, .04, ECS File). Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: Twins, Music: Danko. Vectormania (1990, 03.11, ECS File). Code: Azatoth, Gfx: Uno, Music: Firefox. Winner of the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition! Information: Azatoth's debut demo. According to himself, very inspired by Red Sector Inc's "Cebit 90" (1990). Of course, his next demo was to be the landmark "Enigma" (1991). Fructail (1990, 09.12, ECS File). Animotion (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Celebrandil, gfx: Havok/ex-Ecstasy (logo), music: Tip and Mantronix/Razor 1911 (NoisePacker format). Winner of Dexion Party demo competion! review: Good code and a great tune arre the best parts of this demo, which managed to climb all the way to the top at the classic Dexion party. The design is decidedly old-school, with a terrible logo at the top (Havok would later join Anarchy and Sanity and make great graphics), a scroller at the bottom and some effects in the middle of the screen. The effects are all quite acceptable, and probably pretty advanced by the standards of back then. This was presumably Celebrandil's first demo for Phenomena, since there's some text explaining why he left Fairlight. ADL mentioned it didn't work on the A1200, which puzzles me since it works perfectly fine here. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Obvious Disaster (1990, 29.12, ECS File). code: Mace, gfx: Color, Mace, music: Tip. Released at the Dexion Party 90. info: Needs KillAGA. Corkscrew (1991?, ECS File). Code: Photon, Gfx: Terminator, Music: Firefox. Crystal Symphonies (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Code: Jas/Phenomena, Gfx: Uno/Scoopex, Music: Tip & Mantronix. Cooperation with Scoopex and Rebels. Review: This Scoopex - Rebels - Phenomena coproduction was placed here, under Phenomena's entry, since the second CS was a pure Phenomena production. The Partial credits are based on text information in the bootblock. This classic is unreviewable, since it refuses to work on my current machine. Unfortunately my old A500 is long since deceased, so I can't get that out to check it out either :( [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Won't work, see review. Music Dream II (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Code: Twins, Gfx: Uno, Twins, Firefox, Terminator, Music: Tip, Firefox. Information: Tunes are packed with Twins' utility NoisePacker 2, and are among others "Chinese Dream" (cooperation introtune), Macrocosm (firefox), "Mega_End" (cooperation endtune). ECES '91 Invitation (1991, ECS File). Interspace (1991, .03, ECS Disk). Code: 4042, Gfx: The Sarge, Music: "Interspace_Intro" and "The End" by Firefox, Mantronix/Razor 1911, Tip. Enigma (1991, 30.03, ECS Trackmo). code: Azatoth, gfx: Uno, Terminator (message font), Imbecille/? (uncredited), music: "Musiklinjen" by Firefox & Tip. Winner of demo competition at the Anarchy Easter Party 91! Review: Azatoth proved to be a coder with a talent the like of which is seldom seen, when he created ENIGMA! Amazingly, this was only his second released demo. As soon as the first bears of the amazing title theme opens the show to a 3d starfield with overlaid credits, you sort of feel you're in for something a little special... And you have probably never been more right. Perhaps the demo with the most new ideas EVER, it set the standards for others to follow in the trackmo genre. Just amazing! It seems Uno contributed to this AFTER he left for Scoopex, since the ENIGMA logo is signed UNO SCX. The logo in the Star Wars scroller part is signed Imbecille, though he's not credited anywhere in the demo. I only experiences one slight problem when running it, there are some graphical errors in the ligtsourced world part. Otherwise everything went smoothly. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Crystal Symphonies II (1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Jas, gfx: Color, music: Tip and Mantronix. review: Now a pure Phenomena production, CS2 still bears strong resemblances the the first edition. The fact that the same basic code has been used has perhaps a little to do with that... Style-wise, this is as smooth as it gets, with exceptional music, smooth graphics and a damn-near perfect code. Lots of options, including volume control and lots of scrollers to read. A true classic. The tunes on the disk are 'The Sweat Shop' (7:50), 'Yummy Gap' (3:15), 'Liberation' (2:40), 'Disharmony' (3:52), 'Life-Phobia' (2:13), and 'The Search For Me' (4:02). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Phobia ------ NOR> Jamcat, Jason Futuro, Mr.Dixon, Mr.Hat, Phisto, The Ruler. AUS> Ragman (sysop 'IMAGERY', 04/95). Phobia is dead. Joker joined Network. Seigmenn in Space (ECS File). Phoenix ------- SWE> Beathoven (music), Creep (mainorg, 90), Dino (code, 90), Dr.Strange (code crack, 90), Extazia (gfx music, 90), JS (code, 90), Lance (code), Lexter (code, 90), Lux Interior (music, 90), Marvin (code gfx music, 90), Megatron (code), Mosh (code, 90), Mr.Bad (music), New Age, Nitz (gfx music, 90), Prime (swap), Proton (code), Sensor (gfx swap, 90), Skywize (code, 90), Sledge (gfx, 90), Teeze (mainorg gfx swap, later Anarchy, 90), Twister (gfx music, 90), Zims (code, 90). FIN> Hit (code, 90), Mtp (gfx, 90), Rubberboy (code, 90). NOR> Bad Sector (music, 90), Bladder (code, 90), Duke (swap, 90), Sphinx (gfx music, 90), The Chosen (swap). ENG> Isis (code, 90), Marc P (music swap, 90), Penguin (swap, 90), Turbo D (swap, 90). HOL> STP Sound System (music, 90). N-Z> Access 2 (90), Arm & A Leg (90), Diffusion (90), Dr.Pain (90), Mollysoft (sysop, 08/90), Pseudosoft (90), Rojhal (90), Sillysoft (90), Trojan Blue (90). USA> Darth Wader (code). Phoenix was a demo group based in Sweden, under the leadership of Teeze and Creep. Zed joined Defekt. Megademo II (pre 1989, .11). Cheapdemo (1990, 12.04, ECS File). code: Hit, gfx: MTP, music: Twister. nonworking A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. Phokuz ------ Phokuz on Penis (1993, 24.02, File). Code^Music: Brondan, Grandmaster D, Gfx: Brondan, Grandmaster D, Brandywine Productions, Major Tom. Whiskey Sunrize (1993, 06.06, Intro). Code^Gfx: Brondan, Music: Hecko. More Blood (1993, 24.09, File). Code: Brondan, Gfx^Music: Sicko, Hecko. Phuture 303 (P303) ------------------ GER> Angeldust (gfx swap), Base (swap, late95), Cie (Thilo Geertzen, music swap, ex Appendix, new late95), Clever (swap), CMP Design (gfx), Xedos (code). SWE> Axehandle (code), Badger (Martin Ahlqvist, gfx swap, late95), Leo (Paul Barker, swap, 94), Parsec (Erik Spåre, code, 01/98). POL> Blaze (Patryk Kalinowski, swap, alte 96), Dave (music swap ascii, doublememb Freezers, new 06/96), Digital (music, doublememb Vacuum, new 06/96), Lightman (raytrace, new 06/96), Mopty (raytrace, new 06/96), Mr. Uhu (swap), Nico (code, new 06/96), Trash (gfx, doublememb Vacuum, new 06/96). DEN> Chelsea (gfx), Drac (swap), Jaxx (music), Ravid (code). ENG> Daze (gfx swap), LFO (code music swap, late95), Rage (internet), VIM! (music), Zenophobe (trade). FIN> Substance (music). NOR> Zany (music), Zapotek (swap, 09/96). ???> Echo (music, doublememb LSD, new ROM9). SUB> Rave Network Overscan (RNO). Rave Network Overscan (RNO) has become a sub-group of Phuture 303; RNO is pure A500 and so has become the A500 division of Phuture 303 06/96. Striker was kicked due to inactivity 06/96. PICI ---- PICI is a Czech group. Laxative (1993, ECS Musicdisk). Picco ----- ???> Grogon (gfx, 97). Picco is a Polish demo group. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that polish coder ALN [ [misspellt Alan] joined Dinx Project. Hills (1996, 23.06, 4k Intro). Winner of the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition! Tonite (1997, 4k Intro). code: ALN, gfx: Grogon, music: none. Pic Saint Loup (PSL)/Appendix (subgroup) ---------------------------------------- ???> Dr.Cloo (91). PSL is a Polish music group, quite famous down there, who recently joined Appendix as a subgroup. PIL --- POL> QBA (swap, triplememb Nah Kolor and Anadune, late 96). PIL is probably a shortname for something else. Piranhas -------- Piranhas were a mainly Swiss demo group. 1990 - Into the second half of the year, the group was experiencing severe internal problems. They lost their swiss sysop TMA ('THE LAST HOPE', ex Slimebyte, new 05/90) and several members were kicked or left. Pirates (PTS) ------------- GER> Chip-Buster (91), Cobra (sysop 'BREAKING THE WALL'), Crime Time (91), Disaster (91), Freak (sysop 'STOLEN SLIME' EHQ, 91), General (91), Housequark (91), Railway (91), Shogun (91), Subzero (91), Warlord (sysop 'ANIMALIZE'). SWE> Agent (swap, 91), Beethoven (91), Clifton (91), Cruzer (91), Dark Priest (91), Dr.Diesel (91), Dr.Mad (91), Drew (91), Elias (91), Jac (91), Jazz (91), Lonewolf (91), Maestro (91), Matrix (91), Mercy (swap, 91), Metal (91), Rille (sysop 'IMAGINE'), Sledge (09/91), Smooky (91), The Master (sysop 'SLIME CITY', new 09/91), Trodac (sysop 'PIRATES NEST', 91), Wildcat (91), Zed (91). NOR> Ace (91), Devil (Jan Henrik Kragtorp, swap, 91), Gusman (91), Hugo (91), Hungman (91), Pepperoni (91). N-L> Dr.Soft (91). ENG> Airbrush (91). TUR> BZ & Beyaz (sysops 'EAST END', 91), Titan (sysop 'TURKISH DELIGHT', 91). USA> Shadowlord (91). ???> Shocker (ex Energy). Pirates was a mainly German illegal group. 1991 - The entire group Roadriders joined as a Turkish division in the middle of the year. 1992 - The group was split in two around january, when the legal members formed a new group called Kreators. The illegal section retained the Pirates name, and carried on under that handle. Twix joined Byte Busters, Techno Priest joined Cytax, also around january. Winger (old handle Eagle) joined Noxious. Dutch swapper Antichrist (ex Angels old, 91) left early 92, and is now independent. German sysop Flashlight ('ELITE TOWER', 91) joined Legend. The Swedish section broke up, and most of its members joined Amaze. American sysop Q ('CRYSTAL MONOLITH' WHQ, ex Addonic, new mid 91) joined Skid Row. Nox joined LSD (RAW3). Cap and Ribald (ex Argon) left the Pirates^Possessed coop to join Legend. Eazy-E also joined Legend (RAW3). Another source claimed he was one of the legal members who joined Kreators... Finnish swapper Tony is now Model/Sonic. Plague ------ ENG> Coaxial (ex Archaos). USA> Prometheus (sysop 'HARDWIRED', 92). 1992 - Delbs joined LSD early this year. Musician Dexter joined Digital in april. Irish sysop Green Beret ('CRACKHOUSE') joined Frogs briefly, before moving on to Submission in august. Shockwave joined Ghost Englishmen Recoil and Darkman joined Eclipse new. Finnish swapper Ice (92) left the scene, but returned after a long time as Mick/Dual Crew. Gridlock (1992, 04.04, ECS File). Planet Jazz (PJZ) ----------------- NOR> Tecon (Per Kristiansen, 02/98). ???> Lavache (02/98), Morbid (code, 02/98), Optic (gfx, 02/98), Sublett (code, ex Giants, new ROM9, 02/98). I'm currently living with a distinct feeling that they're all Norwegian. Yo Elephant (1998, 23.02, AGA Intro). code: Morbid, Sublett, gfx: Optic, music: Tecon. review: Ehrmm...right. These guys won't win any prizes for seriousness, that's for sure. But then again, I don't think that was what they were aiming for, do you? What we have here is a 600k intro that - while a little large - is good, absurd entertainment for a minute or two. OK, I'll just come out and say it: I like this little slice of weirdness! Do it again, guys! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Plasma ------ Ben and Thor joined Defekt (RAW6). Platin (PLT) ------------ GER> Gfx-Twins (gfx, ex Iris), Kais (code, ex Addicts, new mid93), Lotus, Obelix (Manfred Otte, org swap, ex Nuance, new RAW5), Thexder (ex Laserdance), Xeniator (trade sysop 'SATAN'S PALACE', ex Dual Crew, new RAW5). ???> Ace (new RAW5), Brainiac (code, ex Mador, new WHN1), Caliph (sysop), Direct (code, ex Dytec, new GEN6), Elliott (music), Emilio (music), Freezer (ex Dark Circle, new RAW5), Judas (music), Moon (phreak, new RAW5), Mr.Magic (sysop 'BLACK PLANET' WHQ), Necrotism (Gfx, old handle Techno One), Sommer (new RAW5), Spirit (ex Nuance, new RAW5), Triace (music), Wildschwein (code). Platin was a German demo group. Mac and Urchin are NOT members! 1993 - German sysop Phantom ('HEAVENS GATE', ex Dark Circle) was kicked late93. 1994 - German "Generation" editor Damion (ex Amaze, new 09/92) left to form Artwork in november! Shortly after, Detector (ex Mexx, new mid93), The Loop (music, ex Arise or Scandal, old handle DPL, 12/94) and Jive all followed. German Faxe left. Exact and Buster got kicked. Germans Stingray (trade) and Byte.Max (sysop 'MYROOM CITY') were both kicked mid93. Stingray had just joined. Musician Sonic (ex Pulse, 12/94) joined Avantgarde. Ascender joined Vanish. German sysop Joke ('DARK CENTER', ex Dark Circle) left. German Spoiler (ex Addicts, new mid93) joined Duplo. German sysop Warlord ('CELTIC CROSS') joined Anthrox. Germans Chromag (music) and Desto joined Dual Crew. Generation issue #6 (late 92/early 93, Diskmag). code: Fred of Visdom/Netzwerk, gfx: Necrotism, music: "Eating Glass. Remix" by Flash/Paradise, editor: Damion. review: This is an early issue of 'the mag with no articles', Generation. It's basically just a news-and-ad mag, the kind that's more usually called a packmag these days. It's small, though, so why it wasn't made a one-file mag is beyond me. There's nothing that stands out here, either way. The graphics are functional, but not good, and the same goes for the music. Not too exciting. Can't find a release date anywhere here, so I had to guess. My guess is based on the news; it often collided with SLH11 and sometimes with RAW4. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Plaztique D-Zign/Twilight subdivision ------------------------------------- DEN> Genius, Melomaniac, Sundown. ???> Cybersoul. Boards; SYNERGY WHQ (den), ARTIFICIAL WONDER (den). Pleasure -------- GER> Cobra (C.Doering, gfx music, 04-11/92), Dulux (Axel Gajewski, gfx swap, old handle Picolo, 11/92-93), Fashion Design (Andreas Keirat, gfx swap, 04/92), Gemini (D. Bruns, ex Centura, new SLH11^GEN6). FIN> Gazer (ex Krafted). ???> Ben (gfx, 04/92), Chap (code, 04/92), Chip (code, 04/92), MC Noise (code music, 93), Raistlin (code, 11/92), Ripguy (music, 04/92), Sallow (gfx, 11/92). Dope left the Amiga scene and bought a PC (SLH11^GEN6). One Day Meetro (1992?, ECS Intro). Code^Music: Mc Noise, Gfx: Picolo. The Taste of a New Generation (1992, .04, ECS File). Code: Chip, Chap, Gfx: Ben, Fashion Design, Cobra, Music: Ripguy. Released at the Shining 8 Party 92. Birthday Intro (1992, 15.11, ECS Intro). Code: Raistlin, Gfx: Picolo, Sallow, Cobra, Music: Cobra. Attention (1993, early, ECS Intro). Code: Tomcat/Paragon, Gfx: Picolo, Music: Mc Noise. Pointless --------- SWE> Ache (org music, 12/93-08/94), Drowsy (code), Nrg (org code music, 12/93-08/94), Prowler (gfx trade, 08/94), Zod (code, 08/94).  Iltis (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Zod, Nrg, gfx: Prowler, music: Ache. 12th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Certainly no doubt that Pointless have squeezed at lot of the 30k of diskspace that this intro occupies. This intro is BRIMMING with effects of varying quality. The best bits are the remarkably great Pointless logo (which reminded me a lot of Fade One's twisty logos!) and a fast, good 3D dot landscape. Other things here are a 2x2 fractal zoom, a fast linedrawer, a zoomrotating 'Iltis' logo, and a 3D starfield. The music is the real letdown, with its techno overkill approach. Not bad at all, and certainly not pointless :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Poisen ------ Catweazle, Toxic and Emax joined Zylon mid 91. Polaris ------- SWE> Noice (Tony Welving, music swap, ex Cytax, new 09-12/92), Wiquie (swap, ex Cytax, new 09/92). Polaris was originally a Croation team. Their Swedish section was formed late 92 by Noice and Wiquie from Cytax. After The Ripper (ex Nightfall, new PRP4), ROD (swap), Satan, Dr.J, Alpha, Metal, Blue Deville, Diablo and Elf joined Banana Dezign, the group died. Polka Brothers (1993-) ---------------------- DEN> Airwalk (Jesper Knudsen, founder code, ex Kefrens, new UPS10, 08/93- 98), Devilstar (gfx, doublememb Virtual Dreams [details], 95), Easley (gfx swap, ex Parasite), Gargoyle (code, ex Parasite, 12/94), Julius (music, ex Lemon., 95), Merge (Anders E. Hansen, code, ex Kefrens, old handle Laxity, new 12/94-95), Mount (Tage Majland, gfx, ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95), Pixie (gfx, ex Parasite, 12/94-12/95), Sca (Lasse Bodilsen, code, 95), Slide (music, ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95), Zinko (Jack Dandanell, swap, ex Kefrens, new 04/94-95). GER> Argon (code, ex Complex, new 12/94-95), Crash (Marco Schultz, code, ex Complex, new 12/94-95), Crazy Crack (Boris Fornefeld, code, ex Complex, new 12/94-12/95), Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 12/94-95). ???> Colin (gfx, 04-12/94), Omar (music, 94), Vandrup (gfx, 12/94-12/95). Polka Brothers were originally born mostly as a Danish joke group with members doublejoining in from other groups. The original memberlist, as shown in POLKA BROTHER? demo, were Airwalk/Kefrens, Vention/Kefrens, Easley/Parasite, Twilight/Desire, Mount/Parasite and Dice/Kefrens. Of these, Twilight later left the scene to make game music for Craftgold. Polka Brothers will definitely live on in the annals of demo history as one of the crews that brought humour to demos in a big way. Together with the pioneers Budbrain and Melon., these are probably the FUNNIEST groups! Danish coder Airwalk was totally gone from the scene fro two years, from 1995 to 1997, but now seems to be doing a comeback of sorts! The reason for Airwalk's disappearance was that he had to serve in the army. Apparently, he liked it there and stayed for two years! He is now back, however, has picked up coding again, and will probably be releasing something for the Polka Brothers in the near future! Thanks to SCA for some information! 1994 - At The Gathering in early april, the group released the demo "Friday At Eight" [04/94], which finished third in the competition. Additionally, danish coder SCA joined the group at this party. Danish coder Vention (ex Kefrens) left to work for FunCom in norway this year, seemingly ending his scene career. He did briefly reappear around 1997-98, as a member of Scoopex. Four german ex-Complex members (Raw Style, Crash, Argon and Crazy Crack) teamed up in december, one of which promptly won The Party 4 intro competition for them! 1995 - German coder Raw Style (ex Complex, new 12/94) left early this year to join Lego. Danish musician Tivurr (ex Kefrens, old handle Dice) joined Movement. This seems unlikely, given that he worked on "No!" [12/95]... Perhaps he later rejoined? Megademuuuh (1993, Demo). Polka Brother? (1993, .08, AGA Intro). code/gfx/music: Airwalk/Kefrens. Released at the Melon Dezign Birthday Party 93. review: This seems like a sort of first production, introducing the Polka Brothers to the world. There are some stuff inbetween the various text pages, like dots falling down on a spinning vector plate, but nothing to shout about. On the 030, the text pages switch so fast it's hard to read them though before it moves on to the next one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Friday At Eight (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Airwalk, gfx: Mount, Colin, music: "Goy Stole Final re3" by Slide, n/a by Dice. 3rd in The Gathering 94 demo competition. Gevalia (1994, 25.06, Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Stave 2Kontrol Awk" by Slide. 2nd in the South Sealand 94 demo competition. Bobble Trouble (1994, 25.06, AGA File). code: Sca, gfx: Devilstar, Dize/TSL, music: "Courtsofchaos" by Omar/ independent (ProTracker MOD format). 6th in the South Sealand 94 demo competition. review: Typical early Polka production, with fast (mostly vector-based) effects in quick succession, this is sort-of FRIDAY AT EIGHT light. Some might find the 'spank my monkey' animation tasteless, but I guess that's all down to your sense of humour. This is not extraordinary in any way, I'm afraid. Not badly done, but failing to stand out from the crowd. Omar was not a Polka member, and only delivered the music for this demo. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Noname (1994, 25.06, AGA File). code: Vention, Laxity (additional), gfx: Devilstar, Pixie, TNT, music: "1" by Slide. Released at South Sealand 94. info: Devilstar's indian picture is cool! GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Blob (1994, late, Slideshow). Code: Airwalk, Gfx: Pixie, Music: Tivurr, Slide. Alone (1994, late, File). Code: Gargoyle, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Love Me Daddy (1994, 13.11, Demo) 14th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. 4k0 (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Crash, gfx: Mount, music: Chromag. Winner of The Party 4 40k intro competition! review: It never lets up for a second, but just keeps going from start to finish. Polished but rough, and with a great sense of design, the german Crash dominates the Party 4 intro competition! Another great factor in the success of this intro is the music by Chromag, which also helps the adrenalin-pumping. Best part: The fabulously fast voxel routine which actually looks like mountains! Fabulous. Excellent. Awesome! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Prey (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Airwalk, Merge, gfx: Colin, Pixie, Vandrup, Devilstar/Virtual Dreams, music: Slide. 6th in The Party 94 demo competition. review: Not bad early AGA demo, featuring ex-superstar Merge aka Laxity. This demo is most amusing as an 'early version of xxx effect' reference. Most routines in this demo have since been done a lot better. The music's the usual techno, tough not the worst tune I've ever heard. The two fullscreen pictures, Pixie's "Why?" and Devilstar's "Daddy Dearest", both competed in the graphics competition at The Party. The demo can be run from disk or harddisk according to your own personal preference. Average. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Twisted (1994, 28.12, AGA 2MB Trackmo, 4 disks). code: Gargoyle, gfx: Pixie, Slide, Colin, Vandrup, music: Slide. 2nd in The Party 4 Wild competition. Utilizes external disk drives. BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation (1995, early, AGA File). code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Gandalf/Phantasm, music: Noodles/Phantasm. Cooperation with Phantasm. review: Heavy Metal music and lots of effects highlight this slightly unusual invitation intro/demo. Actually this is more like a demo with constantly changing effects, only with some party info overlaid, than anything else. This was made by Crash and Argon using their own utility DemoManiac, and that's the only reason I'm allowing it. Using something made with your own utility means you've still coded it yourself. Not bad, but far from great. A plus for unusual music, though. Ironically, Noodles won the music competition at the party he helped make the invitation for! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Facts (1995, 26.05, File). Herb! (1995, 09.07, AGA 64k Intro). code: Crash, Argon, gfx: none, music: Tivurr/Movement (Art of Noise 4ch format). Winner of the South Sealand 95 64k intro competition! review: Flames and large, afterburned vector objects make up the fuzzy start of this intro. Next there's a grey phong torus before we finish up with the best routine in the intro; a goodlooking voxel terrain. Everything except the phong torus in "Herb!" is terribly blocky, which draws the overall impression down a bit... This is still a nice intro, but nothing of extraordinary interest. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Creep (1995, 28.12, AGA? 40k Intro). Cooperation with Artwork, see there. Winner of The Party 5 40k Intro competition! No! (1995, 28.12, AGA ?MB File). code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Crazy Crack, Pixie, Mount, Vandrup, music: "Spritzstunden.5" (main) and "Nature And A Doll" (end) by Slide, Tivurr (both Tracker Packer 3 format). 9th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: This small demo (NO, I'm not talking about its disksize!) seems rushed and thrown together. It's not bad, albeit at this size perhaps a little short... They could have saved themselves the endpart, with the landscape and the sheep. It's not that pretty, and probably eats a lot of memory and diskspace. Still, the few effects here are reasonably good, with the standout one being a vector object with different rotating bitmaps on each side. The main tune is good, thumping techno, while the endtune is a little too weird for my taste. There is NO (hehe) mention in the demo of who made what tune, making it a little difficult for me to place the modules :) There's also a few OK pics by Pixie and Mount. The file is 2.8mb in size (unpacked), so this probably won't work on 2mb only machines... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Poorsoft -------- FIN> Blue Spider (swap music), Flashback (music), Maniac (code), Smash (code, 93), Steel (music). 1993 - Y-Boy changed his handle to Smash. Metsä rulez! (ECS Intro). Pornos, The ----------- The Pornos were a joke group formed by fun-loving members of other groups. There were *A LOT* of members for a while... TG94 Invitation (1994, .03, ECS File). Code: Claudia Schiffer, Gfx: Jokke, Music: Son-Ja. Invitation to The Gathering 94. Positron -------- Fantasy Space (Slideshow, 2 disks). Cooperation with Damones. Posse (PSE) ----------- Boards; CHAMELEON (fin, 10/95). Possessed --------- GER> Mr.Mistral (sysop 'BROOKLYN EMPIRE'), Satanic Slaughter (swap, late90), Steel (sysop 'DARK CITY OF FEAR', 91). USA> Gwenhwyuar (sysop 'ICEWIND DALE'). ???> Drax (new ca 07/90), Prime Evil (new late90). Boards; DEATH HOUSE (usa), STARGATE (usa). Creon, sysop 'DIGITAL DREAM' joined Crystal 09/92. Cap and Ribald left the Pirates^Possessed coop to join Legend (RAW3). German Annabel joined Creed (RAW2). Tiger is out of jail and back in the scene mid 91. He joined Model. German graphician Angel Dawn joined Jump mid 91, and Salvatore also joined. MegaMon (1991, ECS Intro). Potion ------ Suicidal (2000, 04.11, AGA PPC 64k Intro). code: Mavey, Diamond, gfx: Nelson, music: Tzx. Winner of the Satellite 2000 64k intro competition! info: Potion's first PPC-only production. Reviewed in Darkage's "Showtime #16" [04/01], where the reviewer called it "the best ppc intro so far". Option (2001, 15.04, AGA PPC 64k Intro). code: Mavey, Diamond, gfx: Rork, Nelson (textures), Rem (textures), music: Skip. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2001 64k intro competition! review: Well, another no-starter for me I'm afraid. Due to system requirements, I can only tell you what Option tells me =] This little beast of an intro REQUIRES an amiga with a PPC processor, a graphics card and 32mb fast ram. Ahem. Anyone with a suitably specced A4000 sitting in a cupboard somewhere doing nothing, that they'd like to donate to the good cause? Thought not. So anyway, here's their brag list of features effects: truecolor 640x480x32bit CGX screen, realtime raytracing, phong shading, bezier texture scaling, reflections, refractions, shadows, moving light, wather (not sure what they mean here... Weather? Water? =] -glenn), ppc sound engine, calculated 18 channels digiboosterpro music! Sounds tasty, doesn't it? [glenn] Power ----- Christmas Ultra (1993, .12, ECS File). code: Zyron, gfx: Daddycool, Jebu, music: York. Powerdrive ---------- SWE> Biten Bytes (gfx, 01/90), Biz (swap), DoWN (Martin Vilcans, code gfx music, aka Dragon of Winter Night, 05/89-01/90), Dyne (gfx), Heradotos (code), Hrafnir (music), Hyperion (swap), Ralph 124C41+ (Staffan Vilcans, org gfx, 05/89-01/90). Powerdrive was a swedish demo group. Other demos released by the group include 'Computers in Control', 'Hyperspace', 'Sun Demo', 'Kilodemo', 'Vektor Hektor' and 'Stretch When Wet'. Thanks to Ralph 124C41+ for help with this section! Bad Luck Demo (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN (logos), Ralph 124C41+ (font), music: DoWN (?) Computers in Control (ECS Demo). code/gfx: DoWN, music: Hrafnir (intro), DoWN (main part). Hyperspace (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Ralph 124C41+, music: DoWN. Kilodemo (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Dyne, Ralph 124C41+, music: Hrafnir, DoWN. Metalpower (ECS Demo). info: The only thing ever produced by the swiss section! Stretch When Wet (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Dyne, music: DoWN. Sun Demo (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, gfx: Ralph 124C41+ (font), music: Fred. Vektor Hektor (ECS Demo). code: DoWN, Heradotos (vector coding), gfx: Ralph 124C41+ (?), music: Rob Hubbard (ripped). Snakewoman (1989, 13.05, ECS File). code: DoWN, gfx: Boris Valejo (main pic), Ralph 124C41+ (font), DoWN (logo), music: DoWN. Released for the demo competition at the Equinox and Horizon Party. Power Girls (1989, 08.07, ECS File). code: DoWN, gfx: Cai (pic, logo), Ralph 124c41 (font), music: "End" by Particle/Clones (SoundTracker 15 inst format). 30th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition. Wadda (1990, 06.01, ECS File). code: DoWN, gfx: Ralph 124C41+ (large font, waddas), Biten Bytes (waddas), DoWN (logo, colouration of large font), music: DoWN (?). Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Powerline (PWL, 1995-) ---------------------- SWE> Chip (Jesper Svennevid, code, 06/97-98), Gunrider (Johnny Bengtsson, ascii, 06/97), Mad Druid (Magnus Eklund, 06-12/97), Orhan (gfx, 06/97), Raylight (Henrik Magnusson, code, 06-12/97), Wasp (Alex Löfgren, music, 06/97-98). Swedish coder Picnic left the group in 1995. The official Powerline ftp site is at ftp://ramses.ml.org/pub/powerline Still Born (1995, 17.06, AGA HD File). 2nd in the Icing 95 demo competition. info: Powerline's first demo. Repugnance (1997, 17.06, AGA 4MB Multifile). code: Raylight, Chip, Scout/C-Lous (c2p), gfx: Orhan, music: Wasp. Winner of the Icing 97 demo competition! review: "Repugnance" is a power demonstration, nothing less. It's a demo that twists and turns, bends and swings, and all perfectly timed to the heavy beat of the techno soundtrack. And I don't mean that in a bad way. There's something a little fresh about this demo, something a little extra that puts it up there as one of the best demos of 1997. It's hard to pull out specific effects and say 'this is excellent', since it's the way it works together that makes it special. There's great performances on every level here, with the coders doing a great job, the graphician turning in an amazing semi-abstract fullscreen, and the musician keeping it all together with a heavy, dynamic tune. Recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Enforcing The Law (1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile). code: Raylight, Chip, Scout/C-Lous (c2p), gfx: Mad Druid (video clips), music: Wasp. 11th in The Party 7 demo competition. review: Before watching this demo, I read the accompanying text file. It told me that although this demo would run on my system, it would be slow and not very exciting, since it was optimized for 060 processors. There was even a requester when I ran it, saying that it would not perform to its best on my system. So I doubleclicked the file, not expecting to be impressed in any way. And I have never been happier about being wrong. "Enforcing the Law" is the second surprise from the new Swedish hope (well, at least in my eyes :), Powerline. It is a much more bleak, dark and monochrome demo than "Repugnance" was, but in some ways this actually works to its advantage. I don't think I've ever seen a demo in this genre look more 'colorful' in almost total black and white. I know I'm not making sense, but don't take my word for it - go see it yourself. But let's not forget the speed issue. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! I watched the demo on an ordinary Blizzard 030-50, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are some stuff in this demo that will take your breath away, even on a humble machine like mine :) You won't believe your eyes when you see that ride along the road, with voxel mountains on all sides...and that shiny box towards the end, wow! And that twisting, zooming pattern...was that an animation? The only really SLOW parts I noticed were the video clips, and they're not really that important to the overall effect. One last thing I'd like to point out about this demo is the fact that they're actually trying to be innovative here! When everyone else is doing their fire effects, these guys have come up with some incredibly realistic smoke! And I have never seen ANYTHING like the aforementioned road trip before... Powerline are the best newcomers of 1997. This demo comes Highly Recommended from the staff here at Scenery. Wow. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Powerslaves, The ---------------- ???> Creator, Fantasy, James T. Kilroy, Joe Copper, The Red Fox. I _WILL_ write extensively about this classic group, and their trendsetting "Megademo", once I find the time :) AFAIK, they were primarily German. Megademo (ECS Megademo). Predators --------- Megademo (1990, early, ECS Demo, 2 disks). Prestige (PSG) -------------- GER> Saito (crack, ex Crack Inc), Scotty (sysop 'CENTRAL LINK', 04/95). N-L> Deathknight (org trade, 03/93-11/94), Fletcher (03/93), Jake (sysop 'NO VEGETABLES', 03/93), The Freak (03/93). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER', nolongermemb, 03/93-10/95). POL> Mok (crack, 03/93-07/94). BEL> Mousebuster (sysops 'EEK A MOUSE', 03/93-04/95). CAN> Devious Doze (sysop, bbs was 'AKIRA PROJECT' in Nemesis 07/92, 03/93), Striker (sysop 'THE NOTICE', 03/93-04/95), The Joker (sysop 'JOKER'S DEN', 04/95). USA> The Wizard (sysop 'WIZARD PALACE'), Zion (sysop 'ZION'S HIDEOUT', 03/93). ???> Abh, Blackbird, Bomber Man (03/93), Candy Man, Chaotic Descent (03/93), Devil & Raven (den? nor? modem, 05-10/95), Fury (den? trade, 03/93-10/95), Groo (03/93), Hardrider (03/93), Hitman (03/93), Jabo (03/93), King Cobra, Leeroy, Mark (trade, 03/93-11/94), Mr.Hyde (03/93), Nightshade! (03/93), Polaris (trade, 03/93-11/94), Ponton, Prince of Thieves (nor? 08/95), Raj! (den? nor? modem, 05-10/95), Samir (org crack, notmembanymore late95, 03/93), Shane (03/93), Shark (03/93), Skol (03/93), Snake & Delboy (den? 03/93-10/95), Stylemaster DJ (trade, ex Skid Row, 03/93), Troops (supply, 03/93), Troll (supply, 03/93), Willy (03/93). Boards; THE ENQUISITION (usa, 03/93), COMPLEX 39 (usa), CYCLONE (hol, 03/93), NEON CITY (hol, 03/93), WORLD OF ELITE (hol). Prestige were for quite some time one of the foremost Amiga illegal cracking groups. There were sections in Italy (selling console copiers), France and Switzerland. They are/were also active on the PC. For review of their cracktro done for them by Funzine, see their entry. Prestige is dead (ROM5). Panic left early 93, and is now independent. Killtech left for Paranoid late 92 or early 93. Another Cracktro (1992, .10?, ECS Intro). code: Duke, gfx: Alpha, music: Genius. It's Never Too Late (1992, 10.10, ECS File). code: Duke, gfx: Fnord, music: Genius. Released at Ami-Expo 92. The Big Jump (1992, 11.10, ECS File). code: Duke, gfx: Duke, Alpha, music: Genius. Cracktro 1 (ECS Intro). review: This is their classic cracktro, plain blue background with just plain text overlaid. No music. Right mouse button to advance pages. Filesize for this intro is typically just 4.5K. Used for their crack of "Bloodnet AGA" (supplied by Troops & Troll). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Primary Design Team, The (TPD) ------------------------------ Click (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Judge, gfx: Lion (font), music: Mad Jack. 4th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: Not good. No attention to design, boring music... The best part is the envmapped multi-spiked sphere. But overall...nah. I can't believe how this placed BETTER than the excellent C-Lous intro! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Prime (-1991) ------------- Prime is dead. Storm and most other members joined Energy, while Supermann joined Fairlight. 501 (ex Damian) joined TRSI. Tsunami and Zakka joined Omega. Red Devil and Cenobite joined Aero. Prime Design ------------ Fashion Design joined Static Bytes. Primus (1994-) -------------- Primus was formed when the German division of Orion was kicked out. Chucky, 2DD (renamed to Hyper Hype) and Beeblebrox (renamed to Gangsta) soon left for Obsession. Principes (PRC) --------------- GER> Tiger (Sascha Iwanov, swap pack 'Cypress', later Slope, 94). ???> Paladin (swap pack). Principles ---------- ???> Demonoid (ex FX, new WHN1), Xedius (new WHN1). Prisoners --------- USA> Rowdy Roddy Piper (sysop 'PIPER'S PIT'). Prodigy (PDY) ------------- GER> Argon (trade), Cyquest (trade), Diddl (supplier), Generation (sysop), Hitpoint (crack), Krypton (sysop 'BRAINCRASH', doublememb Shoot [details], 08/95), Mercury (sysop), Nitro (mainorg), Nostromo (spread supply), Rastaman (trade), Razor (mainorg), S.U.X. (supply), Stargate (trade), The Best! (crack, 93), White Knight (sysop 'BIGGER & DEFFER', 04/95). DEN> Joshua (sysop 'CONSCIOUS DREAM', triplememb Superiors and Zekt), Metal Force (crack sysop 'MERCYFUL FATE', 10/94-05/95). UK > Centory (supply). HOL> Jake (trade sysop). USA> Picard (sysop 'USS ENTERPRISE' WHQ, 05/95), Skeleton (sysop). ???> Alpha1 (code, 03/93-05/95), Gazzer (code), Laxical (music, 05/95), Mark Spoon (supply), Niko (supply, 93), Siriax (code train, 03/93- 05/95). Boards; PRIORITY ONE WHQ (usa, 93), DAWN OF ETERNITY (usa, 05/95), AMIGA MANIA (usa), TASK FORCE (ger), RADIO THEHERAN (ger), DESERT STRIKE (ger), DOOM OF EXTACY (ger, 05/95), COSMIC CIRCUS (ger, 05/95), POOH (hol, 93), VANGUARD (aus), PHOBIA (aus, 95), BANDITS BBS (aus, 95), LIVING CHAOS (eng), NEO GEO (ger), ACID SLAM, STATE OF AVERSIA, NO VEGETABLES, SYSTEM ONE (console only), THE HOLE (93), CHILD'S PLAY (93), SYNERGY (93), CREEPING DEATH (93), CASTLE ROCK (93). Metal Force, sysop of 'MERCYFUL FATE' is just one of two sysops, the other one being Blackhawk/Paradox. Trainer Intro by Abyss (1995, Intro). Code: Dexter, Gfx: Skindiver (font), Music: Pink (The Player 6.0A format). Review: Slightly unusual, but not very good is this trainer intro made for Prodigy by Abyss. The main screen has a standard 8x8 font, and a dot tunnel behind the text. There's a scroller at the bottom. As you press the button, you're progressing through several pages of text, and each page is separated by the screen clapping together, then opening up again - from the top right and the low left. Not terribly exciting. -- Used for Sensible Golf +14 (Kotzflash #29, by Siriax). [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Profecy ------- FRA> Gretzky (Vesco Franck, early93). ???> Furio (gfx, 08/93), SLN (music, 08/93). Mery left (SLH11). Numeric III (1992, 28.12, Disk, 2 disks). 24th in The Party 92 demo competition. Professionals, The (1987-) -------------------------- This was the group that started out a few legends... The two founders were George (later in Subway) and J.O.E (later in a.o. Scoopex). J.O.E (cofounder) left for the TSK Crew (88). Profex (PFX) ------------ FIN> Di33y (gfx music, later Dual Crew, 91), Ginky (code, 91), Jaz (code, 91), SJ (gfx, 91), Stormbringer (code, 91), Urpex (code, 91), Wiry (mainorg code gfx, 91). The most remarkable thing about Profex, I suppose, is the fact that later celebrity musician Dizzy was once a member. I also have him listed as a Decept member in 91... Coltrain joined Sigma.  Stenkil Frenkil (1991, ECS File). code: Wiry, gfx: SJ, music: Di33y. review: Nothing very remarkable about this small intro-thingy. The main focal point, naturally, is the stencil vectors Wiry has coded. Obviously inspired by Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" (where such vectors were first seen). Remarkably, it ran without a single hiccup. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Progress [old] (-1994) ---------------------- Progress died as a group early 94 (proabably) when they joined forces with Faith to create the new group Scandal. Progress [new] (PGS) -------------------- GER> Chuck (trade sysop 'STARGATE', 09/96). SWE> Sy-Klone (sysop 'WHITE ROOM', doublememb Arclite, 01/95). ???> Blade (trade), Capslockman (mainorg trade supply sysop), Cody (supply), Cujo (code), Disc-Devil (trade), Enemy (code), Excalibur (sysop), Hudson Hawk (gfx ascii trade), Kyle Caine (code), Lance (supply trade sysop), Lemmon (sysop), Malcom (trade supply), Marty McFly (trade), Prayer (sysop), RH+ (gfx org), Scandic (trade sysop), The Enemy (crack), The Fly (sysop), Transformer (trade), Zaxxon (sysop), Rebel! (ascii sysop). New Cracktro For 1996 (File). Proline ------- ???> Mave (code). Swapper Walker joined Interactive. German Decadence joined Vision old. Sting left to form Bonzai, which may also include other ex-Proline members. Information Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Mave, gfx: Sting, music: Hi-Lite/Scoopex. Prologic (-1991) ---------------- DEN> Krueger (swap, later Kefrens). ???> Kreator (ex Paranoimia, new ca 07/90). Prologic is dead. Members joined Budbrain and Static Bytes (Playboy, Hawkeye) 09/91. News in Anarchy's "Stolen Data #4" [08/90] that the group was dead seem to have been greatly exaggerated :) Survivor joined Defcon 1. Trashcan, The One, Tama and MB Designs joined Euphoria. TSC changed his name to Dino and joined Parasite mid 91. Germans Duck (often misspellt in mags as Chuck) and Sting both joined Decade 06/91. Xion joined Gate (late 90). Intro (1991, ECS Intro). 2nd in the Aero Conference 1991 demo competition. Promise ------- HUN> Anorganic (code). Nipple's Chicks (1996, 13.04, 40k Intro). 4th in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition. Prophecy (1990-) ---------------- ENG> Executioner (ex Reaktor, new 10/90), Mr.Turnip (swap, ex Apex, new late90). Prophecy's birth was announced in the news corner of D-Tect's "Hack-Mag #2" [11/90]. That very same mag also announced PPJ and Ratso Rizzo leaving the group to build a german section of Flash Productions, and the joining of Mr. Turnip from Apex. Prophets AG ----------- ???> Fred Feinbein, Mr.Magic (code, 04/88-89), Odin, TAR (stopswap, 03/89), The Prophet, Tip (Armin Sander, code). Prophets AG were once one of Alpha Flight's many subgroups, but left to be an independent group in fabraury 1989. They were a German group. Proton ------ Proton will probably only be remembered for at one time having Jester as a member... 1990 - German musician Jester (ex Treacl) joined Red Sector Inc. after the Action Conference in october for a short while, before moving on to Sanity. Proton Ltd. ----------- 1992 - The group announces in june that their promised swapper-mag "Full Contact" will never get released. French musician Chrylian joined Dreamdealers. Przyjaciele Stefana B. (PSB) ---------------------------- Gravity 2 Invitation (1997, early, AGA ?MB File). code: Mroova, Zorka19, gfx: Kaziuk, Skafander, music: Team17. review: Read closely, for this review will expose two LIARS. 'Coders' Mroova and Zorka19 didn't code this invitation, Crash and Argon did! If you press the right mousebutton, the bottom of the screen will be adorned with the text 'DemoManiac intern debugger'. Shame! The accompanying text mentions it needs 'some fast'. This invitation is in Polish, but they mention an English version 'soon'. I really like the WB snapshot in the end part, despite all! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. SzarikRemix (1997, 13.07, AGA File). code: Mroova, gfx: n/a, music: Klinton. Released for the Intel Outside 4 crazy demo competition, unplaced. review: Would someone get these people some professional help? And could the people sent to help them make them stop uploading slideshows of their dogs to AmiNet? The amiga community would be eternally grateful. Requires some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Scener: Rantka 2 (1997, 30.08, AGA 2MB File). code: Zorek, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss (psb logo), Tremor PL (title), Rodnej (image processing), music: "Beautiful Days" by Looping. Released for the Gravity 97 wild competition. review: Yeah...right. This demo probably makes a whole lot more sense to people who actually speak the language =) It appears to be some sort of story told in words and strange pictures...but it's hard to say, hehe! The best thing about it is the decidedly cool soundtrack. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Fuck (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 9th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Fuck #amigapl (1997, 14.12, 030 64k Intro). 12th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Pseudo-Ops ---------- ENG> Spiral (sysop 'GOOD OMENS'). ???> Blade, Commander, Jarre, Renegade (crack, 12/89), Rockwell, Shadow, Yiddo. Pseudo-Ops were in early days most known for their 'Psudo-Ops Viruskiller', a then-unique concept where the killer remained resident in memory after a reset, and warned you if you tried to boot a disk with a virus on it! Later there were also a few demos and cracks. Psionic (PSI) ------------- SWE> Santzia (L. Laitinen, swap, 08/94). ???> Mood (code gfx, 08/94), Parch (music, 08/94). L'Espereranza (1994 or pre, Music). Blizzard of Aahhhs (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code/gfx: Mood, music: Parch. Split 21st in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Some design here, probably because the graphician and the coder are one and the same. Not bad, but won't turn many heads. They've got the design part pretty well worked out, so I guess it's time to work on the routines, man! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Psycho ------ Wea joined Analog, but later moved on to Speedy. Psycho Killers -------------- Intro (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). Released for the Intel Outside 2 64k intro competition. review: Very blue and quite uninteresting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Public Enemies. --------------- Guru Demo (1990, 05.01, Demo). Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Public Image Limited (PIL) -------------------------- Annaliza (1994, 13.11, Demo). 5th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Pulsar (1989-) -------------- FRA> Numitor (mainorg code gfx swap, 05/90). AUT> 2705 (code, 05/90). ???> Arion (swap pack, 05/90), Conan (code, 05/90), JR (music, 05/90), Platoon (code gfx, 05/90), Technos (code, 05/90), The Profaner (code, 05/90), The Titan (code, 05/90). Pulsar was born in august 1989, and many members of Poltergeist joined. In the end of the year, Numitor was caught by the police for stamp cheating. 1990 - In april, Austrian TMB left to join Scoopex. German coder Transfer (05/90) joined Paradox old. Pulse ----- ???> Chipsi (gfx sysop), Macho (gfx), Monsun (trade swap), Sunny (gfx swap), Steve (trade), Strike (music, rejoined). This Pulse has no connection with the PC group that features several ex-Amiga celebrities. Sunny (female) and Monsun (male) are a couple! German swapper and packer ('The Verdict') Reval joined Orion. Donk left to form Avantgarde. Cascay (doublememb Endless Piracy) joined. The entire subgroup Boom Design left that group for dead, and all joined Avantgarde. Sonic joined Platin. Puma ---- FRA> Gebe (founder, ex Willow), Latyl (founder, ex Willow). Punishers (PNS) --------------- ENG> H.I.T. Moonweed (sysop 'FLYING TEAPOT'), Hybrid (sysop 'ULTIMATE DREAM'). ITA> Winky (sysop 'HOLY HOLE', 91). AUS> Captain Kirk (sysop 'USS ENTERPRISE', 91), Microchip (sysop 'CHERNOBYL', 91). FIN> Wal, N.G. USA> Highlander (sysop 'BAD BOY CLUB'), Scotty Boy (sysop 'POSSE'). ???> Damien, Digit (music), Einstein (music, ex Betrayal, 91), Mekkanik (gfx, 91), Homeboy (ex Energy), I.O., Krayz, Manx, Pedro, Starr, Vikingchild, Vitex, Voyager, Xag (code, 91), Zigor, Zorro. Boards; FAST TRAX (usa, 91), NOYZE (usa), DANSE MACABRE (usa), DEFCON 5 (usa), SLIME CITY (swe), THE FOREST (ger). Hybrid's sysop information was partly retrieved from Infinite Perfection's entry; the fact that Punishers had BOTH a board called 'ULTIMATE DREAM' and a member called Hybrid seemed a little too much to be a coincidence :) Ice joined Anthrox. Englishman Scooter (new ca 05/91) joined Skid Row. Banger (ex Anarchy) left the scene. The Master (ex Tarkus Team) joined Pirates. Executioner, sysop 'TREASURE ISLAND' left to be independent. Pure-Byte --------- DDT joined FIG. Pure Metal Coders (PMC, http://www.stud.ux.his.no/~rovik/pmc.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOR> Cocy (code, 12/90-12/92), Darkwalker (swap, ex Visual Bytes), Designer (code gfx, late90-04/92), Mystery (swap, 07/90), Peter (Peter Salomonsen, music, 06/91-12/92), Rattle (gfx), Timewalker (music, ex Cult, new 12/90), Vanguard (code, 12/90-06/91), Zorax (code, 12/90- 04/92). MAL> Cyber Pirate (write, ex Cytax). PMC was once a force to be reckoned with. Their coder Cocy was wellknown following his excellent "Alfa Omega" (1991) demo, and their diskmag R.A.W was rapidly developing into a success. However, when Cocy started coding on a game, and the R.A.W production team joined Spaceballs, there wasn't much left. I'd really like to know what became of their excellent musician Peter, though :) 1992 - "R.A.W #2" [02/92] was released in february, still in cooperation with New Wave, and carrying an intro supplied by Spaceballs. The issue was a major success, boosting the group's popularity by miles. It announced Metal King was still coding on a commercial game; that Lonerider had joined from Visual Bytes; that Flush had now stopped swapping; that Cocy was coding the follow-up to "Alfa & Omega" [91]; and that norwegians Anders Hamre from Amiga Freelancers and Anders from Airborn had joined. 1993 - At The Gathering 93, Norwegians Lord Helmet (swap edit, ex Cartel, 12/90), Kingpin (swap) and Perplex (code, 11/92, both ex Offence old) joined Spaceballs. With the editor, co-editor and coder of "R.A.W" jumping ship, PMC lost one of their greatest assets. Though it was claimed in Generation #6 that Lord Helmet joined Andromeda, this is obviously untrue. Norwegian coder Anders (ex Airborn, 04-12/92) joined Duplo. Anders was also sysop of 'PURE METAL LINE' until it was busted! Norwegian graphician Ramjet (ex Cartel, 12/90-12/92) joined Spaceballs. Thanatos (fra gfx, 09/92) and Zapper (nor music, ex Cartel, 12/90-04/92) both got kicked. The French section was kicked. Norwegian coder and musician Copernicus (Anders Hamre, ex Amiga Freelancers) decided to leave the scene. Asymptotic, Fullstar, Hexogen and Rhah joined Dreamdealers because they were fed up with Thanatos. Norwegian musician and swapper Dreamer (ex Amaze, early93) left the scene. Batman, sysop 'PIECE OF HEAVEN' (05/91), got kicked. Norwegian trader and swapper Flush (12/90-05/91) sold his Amiga and left the scene. Norwegian swapper Lonerider (ex Visual Bytes, new ca 01/92) sold his Amiga, bought a PC, and consequently got kicked. Norwegian graphician Fairfax (ex Beastie Boys, 11/91-12/92) joined Offence 06/92. The Jack (gfx, 12/90), Leatherface, Achmed B (code, 90), Dr. Feelgood (ex Miranda), Xion and X-Ray (nor gfx swap, ex Gate, 12/90) all got kicked. Dr.Feelgood left to form Obituary. Cartel joins... (1990, ECS File). code: Achmed B., gfx: The Jack, Antichrist, Ramjet, music: Zapper. info: The name of the demo is not accurate, but AFAIK there's no real name for it... It's the one where the group Cartel announces that they're merging into PMC! :) A Little Intro... (1990, late, ECS Intro). code: Designer, gfx: Ramjet, music: "Introtune1.4" by Zapper (ProTracker MOD format). review: Just a logo, a starfield and a scroller for Flush to send some messages to his contacts. Uninteresting for the rest of us. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mesmerized (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Cocy, Vanguard (math), gfx: Ramjet, The Jack (logo), X-Ray (logo), music: "Riff-Raff" by Zapper. Released at the Theatre & Network Party 90. review: An unspectacular demo from the coder team that would later make "Alfa Omega". Go figure! We're not given a lot of effects, there's some interference, some plasma and some triangle stuff that seemingly goes on forever. The demo has no exit, and once it's run through, it starts all over again. The best part: Ramjet's picture at the start. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Frontal Lobotomy (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Zorax, gfx: Ramjet, music: "Credulity" by Oistein Eide/MON. Released at the Theatre & Network party 90. review: This demo's greatest assets are clearly Ramjet's pictures; especially the pissed off smurf :-) Other than that, it doesn't really come alive for me, despite talented people working on it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Alfa Omega (1991, 30.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Cocy, Vanguard (assistant), gfx: Ramjet, music: "Garbage Collection" by Peter. 2nd at the Amega Party. review: A true classic. This demo exhibited truly advanced coding when it was first released, the vector animations had everyone going 'ooooh...'. It was something new, never done quite so good before. There's a fair few effects here that made Cocy a household name for a while. It was only beaten in the competition at the Amega party by another legendary demo; Tomsoft's "Virtual World". As a result of the faster machine I ran it on, the scrolltext at the bottom became increasingly out of touch with what was going on onscreen. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Music bugs a little sometimes.  R.A.W #1 (1991, .11, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Designer, gfx: J.O.E/TRSI (pic), Fairfax (logo), music: "Basshigh2c" by Comajim/NW (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: M.M./NW, gfx: Enigma/Andromeda, Wimme/NW, music: "Tanker" by Mutant/NW, "Bonus" by Peter, "Jakarta" by Comajim/NW, editor: Lord Helmet. Released in cooperation with New Wave (NW). review: The first issue of a legendary disk magazine. Graphically, it's not everything the later editions are. That checkerboard design doesn't really do it for me :) Ofcourse, from the second issue onwards we'd be treated to Fairfax' increasingly great art... For HD install, remember that the disk/assign MUST be called "R.A.W:". News that Walkman had joined Scoopex were, naturally, WRONG! [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. R.A.W #2 (1992, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Lone Starr/Spaceballs, gfx: Fairfax/PMC (logo), Sator/ Spaceballs (font), music: "Raw Intromusic" by Vinnie/Spaceballs (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: M.M./NW, gfx: Fairfax/PMC, Wimme/NW, music: "Nightdrizzle" by Mr.Man/Andromeda, "Helmet for Sale" by Jason/Kefrens, "Chroxial" by Dexter/ex Anarchy, editor: Lord Helmet (main), Kingpin/NW. Released in cooperation with New Wave. review: The show opens with a very cool R.A.W logo done by Fairfax, before the intro starts proper. It seems to use a variation on the RecVec system pioneered by Cocy in Pure Metal Coders' own "Alfa Omega" [06/91] demo to at first show a flight into a small cluster of houses. We travel into the window of one of the houses, where a RAW logo resides and we travel around and inside this while an overlaid textplotter informs us of the headlines for the upcoming issue. The design of the intro perhaps leaves a thing or two to be desired, but it does leave an overall good impression - especially the very nice music by Vinnie. After clicking the mouse, the mag continues to load, and opens what is a very stylish interface - we dare the suggestion it was the best-looking diskmag to date, Stolen Data included! It looks and feels, in a word, smooth. Fairfax' title picture is also great, with a cowboy sitting atop his horse observing the slightly absurd spectacle of a ship stranded atop a mountain range in the skies...all beautifully done in shades of red and orange. Motif's handle is spellt incorrectly ('Mofit') in the news item concerning Alliance Design. The news that Zephyr/Amaze joined Vision Factory are 100% incorrect, as I have the official version from the man himself =) The mag works remarkably well on my 030 machine, provided you boot with no caches and the original chipset. I'm told the mag works fine even on A1000's =] To manually install the mag to your harddisk (there is no installer on the disk), remember that the disk/assign MUST be called "R.A.W:". The intro specifically needs KillAGA or similar on AGA machines. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Caches off, orig chipset BASE Connection (1992, 18.04, ECS Intro). code: Zorax, gfx: Designer (BC logo), Fairfax (PMC logo), music: "Activ- Waste!" by Zapper. Released at The Gathering 92. review: A logo at the top, a logo at the bottom and a sine-scroller in the middle, accompanied by a mediocre techno tune. This intro was meant to recruit composers to a new techno music-group called BASE. I certainly never heard of them again, so I guess it's safe to assume it wasn't a big success...and neither is this intro. Nothing I'd recommend. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Needs KillAGA. The Gathering '92 Pictro (1992, late .04, ECS File Slideshow). code: Anders, gfx: Fairfax, music: "Yoghurt", "Karsmanatic" and "What..." by Steinar Apalnes/independent (4ch MOD format). review: Not much to describe here, there's a PMC logo at the top of the screen, the middle is occupied by some pictures (duh!) and the bottom is where the obligatory text writer resides. Competent enough, I guess, with three nice tunes and an OK logo. Anders recycled this code for a very similar production called "R.A.W 4½" at The Party in december! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Musics bugs slightly. R.A.W #3 (1992, .07, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Lord Mindless/Offence, gfx: Mystix/Anarchy (picture), Sector 9/Razor 1911 (font), music: Lizard/Offence. MAG - code: M.M/New Wave, Cocy (fixing), gfx: Fairfax/Offence, Vimme/ Offence (fonts), music: "Wild Impressions.2" by Lizardking/Strange, "Newspaper Groove" by Axel/Brainstorm, and "Movements" by WOTW/Supplex (all 4ch MOD format), editor: Lord Helmet. review: How do you review the best mag on the scene? Fabulous! You can easily run this from your harddrive, just remember to assign R.A.W: to the main directory (what would have been the root of the floppy). Enjoy! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. R.A.W #4 (1992, .11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Dr.Jekyll/Andromeda, gfx: Fairfax/Andromeda, Duel/Andromeda (font), music: Lord Interface/Andromeda. MAG - code: Perplex, gfx: Facet/Anarchy (intropic), Fairfax/Andromeda (main), Perplex (fonts), music: "We'll Make It Live" by Soul/ Shining, "Slow Motion" by Axel/Brainstorm, Editor: Lord Helmet. review: The Andromeda intro that graces the front of the fourth issue of R.A.W is very nice indeed, and puts you in an expectant mood before plunging into the mag itself. After just two issues, they've decided to change the code entirely, and consequently also the design. The new design is perhaps cleaner, and the new code has some innovations, like the way you can choose how the text is formatted. However, I must say that I quite liked the old design :) Editorially they're as provocative as ever, not pulling any punches this time either. This would be the last issue of R.A.W released by PMC; before the next issue the entire editorial staff had left the group in favour of rising stars Spaceballs! [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Alpha and Omega II: Downtown (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 3 disks). code: Cocy, gfx: Ramjet, music: Peter, Onar Am. 4th in The Party 92 demo competition. R.A.W 4½ - Party Edition (1992, 28.12, ECS File Slideshow). code: Anders, gfx: Fairfax, music: "Palle's Theme2" by Jester/Sanity (4ch MOD format). Released at The Party 92. review: For the coding specifics, you can just refer to the review of "The Gathering '92 Pictro" (04/92), since it appears to be nearly identical. Lazy, lazy Anders... :) The show opens with a nice picture by Fairfax, which is a rendition of the poster for the movie "Home Alone". The logo in the slideshow itself is also nice. The music is not bad, about par for Jester. Well, what more to say? There's no exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Pussy (-1991) ------------- SWE> Bizox (ex Timex), Chunkei (swap, ex Timex), Dot (ex Timex), Dr.Yes (ex Timex), Eclipse (ex Timex), Izzy (ex Timex), R42 (music, ex Timex), Torkel (ex Timex), Tsathoggua (swap, ex Timex), Wolf (ex Timex). ???> Falch (gfx, 12/90), R24 (music, 12/90). Pussy was a mainly Dutch group, who died in march 1991, when the group changed their name to Jetset. I am actually uncertain whether this concerns both the dutch and swedish members... The group's swedish division was formed when the entire group Timex joined. TCB joined Destiny. Bronx Warrior joined Argon mid 91. Swedish coder Barf (ex Timex, 12/90) left. The French and Dutch sections left the group. Swedes Dr.Satan (ex Timex) and Mightymuz joined Vogue. The English section is dead; the members joined other English groups like Destiny, Slipstream and Magnetic Fields. Little Intro (1990, .12, ECS Intro). code: Barf, gfx: Falch, music: R24. review: This little intro was released to announce that the previous members of Timex had now formed the Swedish division of Pussy. It's not much to tell the world about, but what little there is is quite competent. The tune's nice, as is the logo...though the coding's a little on the simple side. Nice enough for what it is. Released in 'week 51'... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Puzzle (PZL, http://home7.inet.tele.dk/pzl/) -------------------------------------------- DEN> Deckard (Mads Voster, gfx raytrace, 12/96-08/97), Decoy (Danni Hansen, swap, ex Passion, 08/97), Fazion (code), Firebird (partyorg), Hexagon (code, doublememb Mystic, 96-08/97), Kreon (code), Mickey (code), Powdi (Per Bloksgaard Christensen, code, ex Ambrosia, new 97-08/97), Relief (music, 08/97), Robotnik (code), SCA (code raytrace), Tactica (gfx), Tricktrax (org code music, 08/97). NOR> Archangel (music, triplememb Rebels and TRSI [details], 03/96-08/97). ENG> Trooper (spreader). ???> Deone (gfx, 08/97), Liquid (music, 96), Ruben (3dgfx, 08/97), Subsonic (3dgfx, ex Spoon). Large portions of the memberlist was taken from one published in Friendchip #1, released in december 1996. I take it the other homepage address I had (at geocities) is defunct. 1996 - Danish graphician and raytracer Phonetic joined Mystic. Musician Muttley left. Danish coder Selector left. Jedi (sysop) left to join Rebels. Elements (Musicdisk). code/music: Melomaniac, gfx: Tactica. Voodoo (64k Intro). The Sketchbook (1996, spring, Slideshow). code: Hexagon, gfx: Deckard, music: Liquid. Ketogane (1996, 06.07, Demo). 4th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Zoo (1997, 10.08, AGA 4MB Demo). code: Hexagon, Tricktrax, gfx: Deckard, music: Tricktrax. Pygmy Projects (1993-, http://stekt.oulu.fi/~flame/pygmyhome/index.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIN> Cence (Tapani Tolpanniemi, music), Cenobit (gfx, ex The Silents, 08/93), Coconut (Matti Kantola, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93), Flame (Jani Vaarala, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93-late96), JOLOO5X (Janne Leinonen, music, ex The Silents), Phobic (Tomi Huoviala, gfx anim), Silver Eagle (Sami Vaarala, code, ex The Silents, 08/93-10/96). GER> Jester (Volker Tripp, music, ex Sanity, new 02/95). Pygmy was formed by Coconut and Flame, both ex-members of the shortlived Finnish section of The Silents. They released one demo, "Maximum Volocity" [08/92] for The Silents before getting kicked out. They then joined Damones, before finally forming Pygmy. I guess we should feel lucky they tried their hand at doing it on their own, since PP is a group that created a few quite memorable productions! They have a special symbol, the so-called 'Pygmy sun'. It can be seen in "Extension" (above the logo), "G-Force" (as a gouraud object) and "Logic" (envmapped). 1993 - Their very first demo, the trackmo "Extension" [08/93] surprised everyone by taking the very first place in the assembly democompetition! 1995 - The year started great for PP, after they were joined by famous german musician Jester/Sanity in february! This move sent shockwaves throughout the demo scene, but unfortunately it would seem like he ceased all scene activity in favour of his professional music career shortly after joining... Extension (1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, music: "Cyberride" by Jester/Sanity (Pygmy Packer format). Winner of the Assembly '93 demo competition! review: Great in its time, Extension rocked the scene. Who would have expected a bunch of unknowns to come along and WIN the ASM93 demo compo? The show opens with a picture of a woman with a snake wrapped around her, while the demo loads. Once it's loaded, we get the name of the crew and the demo presented, in what is a rather unique style. The music is timed to the FX, and there's plenty of that here. Most of the effects are dot- or vector-based, with stuff like a dot-landscape, dot-cityscape, solid cityscape, dots dropping down on a vector cube, vector cube shadow- casting onto another vector object etc. It sort of signalled the end of those two trends! Well, Kefrens "Desert Dream" (04/93) had pretty much buried the dot stuff four months earlier, so I guess this was more of a twitch :) The music by Jester is liked by many. However, I am very individual :D It's frantic techno with wah-wah guitars overlayed. You've been warned. A file version requiring a little more memory was released in december. This production uses a unique music format, dubbed the Pygmy Projects Packer by the common conversion utilities. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. G Force (1994, 06.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Silver Eagle, Flame (replayer), gfx: none, music: Papaija (Pygmy Packer format). Winner of the Assembly 94 40k intro competition! review: Wow! I'm sure THIS kicked butt in Finland! Impressive is the only way to describe this pioneer intro. Massive gouraud shaded objects move around the screen, including the infamous fish and a large face object. Totally oustanding. The intro was Silver Eagle's first solo project. His only work before this was an endpart for the TSL trackmo "Maximum Velocity" [08/92]. Needs a bit of fastmem, though I do not know EXACTLY how much. Worked fine on my 4mb configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. G Force Final (1994, .12, 020 Intro). Logic (1995, 13.08, AGA HD Multifile). code/gfx: Flame, Silver Eagle, music: "Low Voltage", "Chromosomes" and "Kardaaniakselli" by Paralogic System. 2nd in the Assembly '95 demo compo. review: Not all that impressive, this production still managed to come in second at ASM95...the party they won two years earlier with "Extension" [08/93]. The effects are perhaps better and more advanced this time around, but "Extension" still has the edge in pure entertainment power. Lots of fx, as mentioned, includes envmapping (reflection, phong), texturemapped tunnel, shade cluster (which Andromeda invented with their The Party 4 winner "Nexus 7"), texturemapped tilting cityscape, morphing rendered gold 'sheet', particles forming words... The music is the usual techno shit, no better or worse than the norm. Paralogic System is a separate group (or single composer, what do I know?), and not a member of PP. It seems they used a custom replayer for the music once more! Silver Eagle is credited with 'player' (the original Pygmy Packer was by Flame), and there are some files that correspond to the music names, but not to any known format. Any information on this is most welcome! :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Pyrodex [old] (PRX) ------------------- GER> Bitmaster (gfx, 93). Boards; HOUSE OF COOLNESS WHQ (ger, 02/93), KRUSTYLAND (ger, 02/93), BEVERLY HILLS (02/93). All members joined Abyss in early 1994, including famous German musician Pink (05/93-01/94) and coders Poet (new 12/93) and Bartman! It is also a possibility that this includes Dexter. The Detonation of Paula (1993, .02, ECS Musicdisk). info: Mentioned in the sample text of Pink's tunes "Razor 1911 Cracks" and "Synthetic Challenge". It apparently includes 12 tunes on 1 disk, and one introdisk containing raytraced animation from Bitmaster. Pyrodex [new] ------------- GER> El Barto (code crack). Pyrodex is the old (illegal) group that german scene celebrities Bartman and Pink belonged to before building the demo group Abyss. They now seem to be 'rebuilt', doing ultimate versions of old games - check their fabulous Giana Sisters release! (intro by Bartman and Pink - grin :-) Quadlite -------- GER> Alf (04/88), Major Rom (code, 04/88-02/90), Mark II (Darius Zendeh, code music, 04/88), Zeronine (Ch.Haller, code, 04/88-02/90). Quadlite was a legendary demo group, based in the city of Würzburg, Germany, where all its members lived. Zeronine coded the mag "Criminal" for Red Sector; only one issue [02/90] was ever released. "Criminal #1" reported that Zeronine and Major Rom had coded a new amiga freezer cartridge! Was this the Nordic Thunder or Action Replay cartrides? Any information welcome. Other notable releases from this group was the "Mark II Soundsystem" music editor and eventually the game "Crash & Burn". I have conflicting information regarding Zeronine's real name; he was either Ch.Haller or Andreas Scholl. Major Rom's real name is either Martin Zimmer or E. Reinhart. Megademo (pre 1989, .11). El Egg Tronic Quartz (ECS Intro). Mark II Demo (ECS Intro). Stormchild Demo (ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: Dr.Disk/Defcon1, music: "mk2.stromchild" by FX/Defcon1 (Mark II Soundsystem format). Slideshow (1988, ECS File). code: Zeronine, gat: Pat (belgium), music: Andreas Starr & Mark II (Mark II Soundsystem format). Copper Cabana (1988, .03, ECS File). code: Zeronine, Mark II (music system), gfx: Zeronine, music: Mark II. David Whittaker Music (1988, 18.04, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Zeronine, music: David Whittaker. info: Pack of ripped David Whittaker music, a.o. taken from the game Obliterator. The Wabble Sprites (1988, .12, ECS Intro). code: Zeronine, gfx: Thorn/Threat, music: "Thanatos" by Mark II (Mark II Sound System format). Bionic Commando (1989, Demo). code: Zeronine, gfx: n/a, music: "Bionic Commando" by Tim Follin. info: Music ripped from the game "Bionic Commando". Leodemo -Stormed Out- (1989, ECS File). code: Zeronine, Mark II, gfx: Zeronine, music: "tf.led storm" by Tim Follin/independent. info: The music was ripped from the game "Led Storm". Wax 4Mal 8 Im Quadrat (1989, 29.04, ECS File). code: Zeronine, gfx: Thorn/Threat, music: Mark II. Released at the Piranhas Party. Quartex [old] (QTX, 1988-) -------------------------- FRA> Alex (ex Agile, new late91), Hoan (crack, 12/90), Kid (ex Agile, new late91), Patriot (ex Agile, new late91), Shocker (ex Agile, new late91). GER> Red Rock (sell sysop 'RED ROCKS', 91-early92), Rob (Robin Wunderlich, crack, 89), Selim (trade, 12/90), Skyline (sysop 'LITTLE AMERIKA', 01/91). ENG> Acid (91), ADS (later Paradox new, 91), Batman (91), Beast (sysop 'ARCADIA', ex Dual Crew, 91-04/93), Executioner (sysop 'TREASURE ISLAND'), Jester (91), Speedy Dennis (later Quartex new, 01/90). SWE> Mogwai (sysop 'STREETS OF FIRE'), Virus (music, ex Legend). FIN> Raze (nor? sysop). NOR> Lame Brain (swap). ITA> Shark (sysop, 91), Tom-Cat (trade sysop, 91). DEN> Babykiller, Mad Max (sysop 'DANISH DELIGHT'). KUW> Desert Rat (sysop 'FREE KUWAIT'). AUS> Ginnie (sysop 'THE BREWERY', later in Quartex new, 08/92). CAN> Devious Doze (trade, ex sysop 'AKIRA PROJECT', previously Nemesis 07/92, 92). USA> Bigfoot (Pete, sysop 'BIGFOOT'S BBS', 91), Fletch (sysop 'HMS BOUNTY'). ???> Ace, Anon, Bill and Ted (sysops 'CRIME ZONE', ex Offence old), BlackBurst (91), Flex (91), Magnetic (91), No Limit (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DREAMS'), Predator (91), Spreadline, Trackmaster (91), XTC (91). Boards; CANDYLAND (usa), DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (usa), GREYHAVEN (usa), REVELATION (usa), SLEEPY HOLLOW BBS (usa), NO NAME BBS (ger), EUROPOLIS (fra), BLACK HOLE (ita), INFINITE DREAMS (ita), PIRATE'S HEAVEN (ita, old name DARK DATA SECURITY), PARADISE CITY (+34). Quartex was born in the summer of 1988, and was an amazingly arrogant cracking group in the early days... :) For some demos often listed as QTX releases (i.e. "Substance"...), see the entry for their previous subgroup Alliance Design, who later left to be on their own. German cracker Rob was also previously a profiled cracker on the c64, where he was one half of Dynamic Duo. 1991 - Skywalker joined Skid Row around the mid of the year. Late in 1991, Furax joined Paradise and opened 'FANTASIA', Spirit left the scene and Black Ninja (sysop of 'PARADISE') joined Skid Row. The French section split up late 91, after experiencing some problems with the APP (french software police). Tagada and Clash (91) were both busted by the French police, and Olivier closed his board 'OLIVIER'S PLACE' late91. 1993 - While it was claimed in a news item in Spaceballs' "R.A.W. #5" [05/93] that Virus joined Legend, the truth is that he joined FROM Legend! In late 1993, the swedes in Agile (Elric, Conqueror etc) merged into Quartex. This was also around the same time the English sysops Undertaker and Sabbath ('GRAVEYARD') joined from Fusion (both had also previously been in Agile). American sysop Waremonger (Steve George, 'YOUR LINK TO PERFECTION' WHQ, new 03/89-) finally closed his legendary board this year. English sysops Undertaker and Sabbath ('GRAVEYARD', both ex Fusion) both left. The Undertaker went to the pc scene, while Sabbath discontinued his scene life. Some confusion exists in that some people think that the two joined Alpha Flight - but that is a different Sabbath. Gizam (eng? ex Crystal), Slayer, Megadrive (eng sysop 'LIVING HELL') and Scrote (eng sysop 'THE KRYPT') left. Dutch sysop BamBam ('DOWNTOWN', ex Classic) joined Agile. UK members N.O.M.A.D (crack), Action Man (supply), Zelnik and Infiltrator (all ex Crystal, new 91) took important members like The Surge (crack, 91) and TIC (crack, both ex Paradox, 09/91) with them and formed Nemesis. English sysop Image ('IMAGEWORKS', ex Eclipse) joined M.A.D, but was busted the following morning. The then retired from the scene for a while, before returning as The Undertaker/Agile - and was later back in Quartex. Sysop Scout ('METROPOLIS', old handle Face The Facts, 91) joined Skid Row. Danes Paleface and Seen left to form legendary demogroup Melon Dezign. Wat Een Gore Kop (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 18th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Quartex [new] (QTX) ------------------- ENG> Hot Tuna (96), Ramraider (09/95-96), Sabbath and The Undertaker (sysops 'THE GRAVEYARD' 09/95-96), Speedy Dennis (09/95). GER> Elvin (sysop 'MASTER AND SERVANT', 09/95-96). HOL> Abrasax (09/95-04/96), Bambam (sysop 'DOWNTOWN', 09/95), Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS', 96), Sure (code, late95). BEL> TCB (sysop 'METAL IMPACT', 04/96). DEN> Pennywise (sysop 'MEA CULPA', 04/95). SPA> Black Ninja (09/95-96). FIN> Hoffi (09/95-96). FRA> Olivier (96). SWE> Elric (ex Agile, 93-96), Conqueror (09/95), Godhead (modem, 03/93), Mogwai and Ministry (sysops 'STREETS OF FIRE', 01/95), Princip (96), Ringo Starr (crack, 96), Stalker (96). ARG> Phasedragon (sysop 'PAINKILLER', 04-09/95) AUS> Ginnie (sysop 'THE BREWERY', 04/95). USA> Bigfoot (09/95-96), Fate (09/95-96), Waremonger (sysop 'LINK TO PERFECTION' WHQ, 09/95-96). ???> Colonel (bel? 04/96), Deature (96), Dream1 (96), Fletcher (09/95-96), Genius (09/95), Kafka (96), Kriss (09/95-96), Moi (96), Pharaoh (96), Qtx (09/95), Rabbit (09/95), Rebel (code, 09/95-96), Rekall (96), Bor (09/95), SDD (09/95), Siriax (code, 09/95), Starlord (09/95-96), The Magician (09/95), Westbam (96). Boards; PHANTASM (09/95), LUNATIC ASYLUM (fin, 09/95), NEON CITY (hol, 09/95), PARADISE CITY (spa, 09/95). Quartex was a legendary cracking group. Their homepage, http://www.quartex. demon.co.uk, is now gone from the web. Quartz (QTZ) ------------ ENG> Captain Blood (sysop 'BASE-X' WHQ), Ford Prefect (sysop 'BBS AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE'), Fridge, Mutant Mango (gfx music, 02-10/92), Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC'), Shadow, Snare (music, 02/92). DEN> Bjørn (code, 03/93), Shiva (gfx, 03/93), Zytac (music, new late92- 03/93). GER> Matrix (music, 03/93). SWE> Airbrain (swap, ex D-29), Hex (swap). FIN> Daftworm (swap, 93), Neutralizer (swap, 93). ???> Ace (code, 02/92), Dobbin (music, 02/92), Hydlide (music, 92), Jaz (gfx, 02/92). Boards; MADCAP (eng, 03-04/92). Quartz was originally formed by ex-members from the English section of The Flashing Bytes, but later expanded to include more country divisions. Swedish swapper Duffy joined X-Trade. Swedish swapper Chimera joined Eremation. Bibi joined Hemoroids early 93. Swedish swapper Sputnik (ex The Family) joined Defiance 09/92. English swapper Majic Mushroom (old handle Magic Mushroom, new early 92) joined Lemon. Danish swapper Speedy got kicked, and so he joined Parasite (STD10). Danes Chorus (music), Sid (music) and Condor (swap) all joined Majic 12. BBS Intro (1991, .12, ECS Intro). Project Techno #1 (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hydlide. Information: A 35 minute rave megamix. Silicon Sounds (1992, 16.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: Ace, gfx: Mutant Mango, Jaz, music: Dobbin, Snare. Released at the 16-bit Show in London, England.  Go For The Record (1993, 18.03, ECS Multifile Musicdisk). code: Bjørn, gfx: Shiva, Bjørn, Zytac, music: Zytac, Matrix. review: A pretty basic musicdisk, obviously inspired by Phenomena's "Music Dream" disks - and just as obviously inferior. It's not EXCITING, if you know what I mean. No soul. The loading picture is the best thing about it. The module-playing part appears strange on my machine. It jerks around a lot, making the music sound strange. Still, it WORKS, as such... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quasar [old] ------------ I do not believe the new Quasar has anything to do with the old one; it's probably just a coincidence. Bip joined Desire. Quasar [new] ------------ GER> Steve (sysop 'DIGITAL WORLD', also in Section 8^Real!^TEK, 10/98). TUR> Plasticman (Tarkan Kaya, swap, 01/97). I do not believe the new Quasar has anything to do with the old one; it's probably just a coincidence. Q.U.B.E. (1991-) ---------------- QUBE is an English group, formed around may or june of 1991 by Havoc. Original members include Firefly, Dream Warrior and Sabre Wulf. Quicksilver ----------- ???> Batman, Phil (sysop, euro, new early 90). Quicksilver was a cracking group, that released a few games around 1989. Diskrunner joined Warfalcons (mid 90). Quoram (1988-) -------------- Quoram was formed in 1988 by former members of The Kent Team and Inertia. Image (sysop 'IMAGEWORKS') joined Eclipse. Radiance -------- USA> Illuvatar (sysop 'SPATULA CITY'). ???> Mad Max (cnetcoder). Radio ----- Memories of Fog (1997, 09.08, 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Visualize, music: Process. 6th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: Definitely an original intro, MOF focuses more on creating a little atmosphere than doing mindblowing effects. In fact, it is little more than a small slideshow for some atmospheric graphics the team has created. No coder is credited. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Rage (http://www.rage.nu/) -------------------------- SWE> Dale (swap), Dave (swap), Maze (swap, 92), T.C.M. (trade, early92), Wildcat (swap, new 08/92), Wizitor (sysop 'TOTAL SATISFACTION', 92), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT' EHQ, 08/95), X3M (swap), Zwinx (exsysop 'DAGCENTRAL 90210', 01/95). ???> Bigbeard (codeAM), Cap'n babar (anim), Cuddley (swe? code, 12/95- 06/96), Derek (codeAM), Goose (codeAM), Haggolf (codeAM), Ozzie (org gfx), Regulator (codeAM^PC), Rubber (swe? code, 12/95-06/96), Spirou (swe? code music, 12/95-06/96), Stompiasen (codePC), Zeque (codeAM). The middle of 1993 was obviously a good year for Rage, winning two major Swedish competitions in a row! Rage moved more and more of its operation over to the PC during 1996, until it now finally seems like it's all moved over. They released a PC demo at The Gatherig 97. The members who are now active on the PC have been removed from THIS memberlist, and have had their entries moved to the PC part of Scenery. They are: Digimatic (code, 08/93- 12/95), Fajser (music, 08/93-12/95) and Foxx (gfx, 08/93-06/96). Musician Cascade joined Silver Productions. Swedes Abandon and Fauser (both ex Amaze) were members a few weeks before moving on to Fairlight. Stix joined Noxious and changed his handle to Raven. Alchemy (1993, 29.05, ECS Disk, 2 disks). Winner of the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition! Neural Assault (1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Digimatic, gfx: Foxx, music: Fajser. Winner of the European Computer Conference 93 demo competition! Maximum Overdrive 2 (1995, .08, AGA Trackmo, 3 disks). code: Goose, Derek, gfx: Ozzie, music: Fajser. Graedde? (1995, 17.06, 64k Intro). code: Rubber, Cuddley, gfx: Foxx, music: Spirou. 2nd in the Icing 95 64k intro competition. review: Not-bad little intro is perhaps the first impression, but when you look at it more closely, it becomes painfully apparent that this one adds absolutely nothing new. The effects are all based on old - and in some cases antique - effects without making ANY improvements, and the only half-way innovation you'll find is a semi-cool caleidoscope at the very end. Other effects you'll find here are zoomrotators, sphere mapping, fire particles and actually a wireframe vector line routine! A few OK transitions is all that saves this from the dustbin. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Rabies (1995, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile). code: Digimatic (main), Spirou, Cuddly, Rubber, gfx: Foxx, music: "244-dl-77" by Fajser (main) and "Bloody Resonance" by Spirou (end). 14th in The Party 95 demo competition. review: "Rabies" is a very good demo; perhaps the best demo the Amiga section of Rage ever made! It opens with a small animation sequence, which sets the perfect atmosphere for the rest of the demo. The demo itself contains fast, but small renditions of effects that were not all that common at the time; like phong shading. The design is good, with a red cyberpunk-y look and feel, spiced with some quotes along the same lines. The entire production looks pretty polished, and leaves you with a good feeling. Very nice. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sagbab (1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro). 3rd in the Remedy 96 40k intro competition. review: This is not a bad little intro! It starts with some dots forming a Rage logo, from the bottom of the screen...almost like the routine in the ancient The Silents & Crionics classic "Hardwired" [12/91], though that routine was heaps better. Next we're given a plasma zoom tunnel thingie that's pretty cool, before we're shown a fractal zoom in 2x2 resolution. Next there's a rather cool fire object routine in 2x2, where five or six small objects on fire fly around the screen...and that's it. An end screen with some email adresses and the homepage address, and we're outta there. No actual credits appear in the demo, just the e-mail addresses of four of the participants, and they're not very revealing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Ram Jam (RJ, -1997, http://www.algheronet.it/ramjam) ---------------------------------------------------- ITA> ACBS (mainorg code edit, 02-04/96), Case (Guglielmo Bottin, music, -notmembanymore-), Dr.G (Fabio Vitale, axcode trade sysop 'THE HOUSE' WHQ, 02/96), Filippetto (Filippo Rizzi, code music, -notmembanymore-), Kreex (gfx raytrace, new 02-04/96), Levin (sysop 'ELECTRIC CHAIR', old handles Godfather and Grizzly -notmembanymore-), N-Joy (music, 02/96), Randy (Fabio Ciucci, code gfx edit, 95-04/96), The Trendy Dealer (Eugenio Gori, swap html, 94-02/96), Vega (Giuseppe Galuzzo, swap, - notmembanymore-). SWE> Klorathy (org code music, 02/96), Loop (gfx, ex Vision, new 02-04/96), Nightshade (sysop 'WASTELANDS', new 02/96), Payday (Roger Thomsson, org swap trade, 02-09/96). GER> Fashion (Andreas Keirat, swap, new 02/96-01/97), Shamrock (music, ex Frantic). NOR> Mystra (music swap, new 02-04/96). HUN> Messerschmitt (ex Surprise! Productions, UPS10, new end 94, -notmembanymore-). FRA> Squale (trade, new mid93, -notmembanymore-). USA> Planet Master (sysop 'THE EDGE', -notmembanymore-). ???> Achernar (gfx), Digi (-notmembanymore-), Duke (ex Damian, - notmembanymore-), Fxart (trade, ex Outlaws), Ilian (gfx), Krustur (swe? code, ex Insane), Lancelot (old handle Asso, -notmembanymore-), Mr.Buck (code). Boards; CODERS DREAM. Ram Jam was known for a long time for their chartmag "The Charts", which was eventually closed down. Their next project in the same vein, years later, was the magchart "Showtime" which saw a handful of issues released before KaosMaster took the mag to Darkage. Ram Jam died in 1997 after key members of the group decided to end their involvment with the scene. The group was disbanded, and the Swedish members left to join Rebels. Anyone can identify these Swedes for me? In addition to the above URL, http://www.algheronet.it/ramjam/ contains an old website, not updated since august 97. 1995 - French swapper Hysteric (Jean-Francis Lopez, early95) and Pseudonym were both kicked late in the year. Flender, M.A.S.E, Maxime, Posdnuos (ex Backstage, but not alone) and Rocketeer (ita swap) left late in the year. They did NOT leave the scene, as stated in some mags, but formed a new crew to develop games, called The Spooky Fellows (TSF). All this was in a newsfile I once found on aminet :) 1996 - Swedish musician Atheist, who was a Balance doublememb for a while, left to be in Balance only again, early96. Italian coder Modem (ex X-Zone) left the group after RJ used his routines without crediting him in their demo "Massive Killing Capacity"! He formed a new group called Darkage. American sysop Slinger ('GRAND ILLUSION') got kicked. Italian coder Darkman (ex Zero Defects, 02/96) joined Elven 11. Italian raytracer and editor KaosMaster (ex Technology, new early96- 04/96) joined Darkage with the mag "Showtime". Jesus and BAR left the Amiga for the PC scene (ROM7). Moone (old handle Raiser) left to form Fresh 04/96. Rip is no longer a member. Italian coder Maverick left, after having produced NOTHING for RJ! 02/96. He is the coder of the two 'Virtual Karts' games. Swedish swapper Cybergod left, to be a Delight only member again. New swedish organizers are Klorathy and Payday (late95). Tex (music), Pedro and Van Halien was kicked due to inactivity late95. French swapper Mogul left the scene late95. Frenchmen Guille (code) and Okeanos (gfx music) left with Jibe (gfx swap) for Syndrome. Swedish coder Prospect joined C-Lous. Italian swapper Gurgle (early93-late93) joined Mad Elks. Mr.Fear left the scene. Can't Be Done (Demo). Hot Music #4 (1990?, ECS Musicdisk). Information: 8 tunes by BAR with a CD player design. The Charts #1 (1993, early, Chartmag). INT - Code: M.A.S.E., Gfx: n/a, Music: Tex. MAG - Code: n/a, Gfx: Deus (title), Jones (logo), Tex (music). The Charts #2 (1993, early, Chartmag). The Charts #3 (1993, Chartmag). The Charts #4 (1993, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood/Jetset. The Charts #5 (1993, 20.07, Chartmag). INT - code: Executor, gfx: n/a, music: Bar. MAG - code: ACBS, M.A.S.E., gfx: Shadow/Stellar (title), Pedro, Flender, Reflex/2D (fonts), Deus (fonts), music: Psimon/Compact, editors: Posdnuos (main), M.A.S.E. (main), Rocketeer, Flender, The Ripper/TNF. The Charts #11 (Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Puzzled" by Clawz. The Charts #12 (Chartmag). The Charts #13 (1994, late, Chartmag). Taste The Difference (1994 or pre, AGA, 2 disks). The Charts #14 (1995, .02, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: ??? and Clawz/Bomb! (ProRunner 2.0 format). The Charts #16 (Chartmag). The last issue released. Massive Killing Capacity (1996?, AGA Demo, 2 disks). info: MKC was RJ's first major demo in two years. They used routines by their member Modem without crediting or even telling him! (source: Seenpoint #9). Naturally, he was pissed off and left the group. Spaceman (1996, Musicdisk). code: Acbs, Ranay, gfx: Ilian, music: En-Joy. review: Ram Jam gives you the good advice to link your Amiga to a powerful stereo hi-fi and I would do it if I were you... Everythings starts with a nice chiptune as introduction and a dark-colored voxel routine. Well, of course not everything but this small-design musicdisk does it. After you were allowed to watch some brilliant logos pixeled by Ilian you make a little trip through this voxel-landscape until the music fades out and the menu shows up. Also here you will have twice a look at the very modern and cyber-like design. Only the scroller graphics look too old for the rest of this production. They give the overall very smart design - which does not mean that it is not good - a worse smack! But let us talk about the music which is in any case the more important thing while rating a musicdisk. En-joy, a musician I haven`t heard about before (Sorry!), composed five modules with the good old protracker for us. While sweet melodies - more familar with funky styles, a bit hip-hop influenced and inspired by slow pop than techno - are played you can also hear some good sampled speeches. Especially the voice of the woman in "Music Is My Light" which is by the way my favorite tune. Queel guitare sounds in "The Spaceman" and smooth pianos in "Endless Mornings" round the whole thing off. The only other thing that sucks besides the scroller is the yellow standard font which is used to show you the information and titles. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.  Showtime issue #2 (1996, .04, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: The Loop, Kreex (title), music: Mystra, editor: ACBS. Showtime issue #5 (1996, mid, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Showtime issue #4 (1996, .11, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Magic, ACBS. Rampage (RP) ------------ RUS> Scram (sysop/ftpop 'HUSTLERS HELL' WHQ, 11/97-02/99). ???> Alco (ftop 'ALCOHOLIUM', 11/97-02/99), B0s (crack ftpop1 'L.0.S.W. FORTRESS', 02/99), Cbug (ftop 'BUGGY's PLACE', 11/97-02/99), Dr.F0lken (ftpop 'MECH MATH', 02/99), Funny (ftpop 'AGONY', 02/99), Hram (ftpop soon 'HRAMOMETR', 11/97-02/99), Kan0 (crack, 11/97-11/99), Kisa (ftpop 'DIE HARD', 11/97-02/99), Mactep (ftpop 'MASTER', 02/99), Stream (supply ftpop 'FIREBALL INC.', 04/98-02/99), Wa3ke3 (ftpop2 'L.0.S.W. FORTRESS', 02/99), WildCat (ftpop 'ALBA', 02/99). Rampage is an illegal group, probably based in Russia. Lots of FTP sites. Ramses ------ FRA> DDG (Damien Giffar, code, 08/96-07/98), Kelson (Yann Dano, gfx swap, 07/98), Krabob (Victorien Ferry, code gfx, 07/98), Lens (3d, 08/96- 07/98), Seven (code, 08/96-07/98), Traven (music, 07/98), Yode (3d, 08/96-07/98), Zaac (Laurent Samani, gfx, 07/98). ???> Helix (3d, 08/96-07/98), KanaX (music, 08/96-07/98), Lord (gfx, 08/96-07/98), Next (music, 07/98), Tex (code music, 07/98). Ramses is a (presumably) pure French group. Experiment (1996, 31.08, AGA HD ?MB Multifile). code: DDG, Seven, gfx: Lens, Yode, Lord, music: Kana. 2nd in the Sea, Soft, Sun (3S) Party 2 demo competition. info: Requires some fastmem, how much exactly is not known. Jesus Was a Demomaker (1997, 25.07, AGA 030 8MB Demo). code: Krabob, DDG, gfx: Zaac, Lord, Kelson (additional), Krabob (3d), music: Traven (main), Next (end). Winner of the Euskal party 98 demo competition! review: Well, this is a first for me - a demo with a seemingly religious theme. Well, that's what it looks like the first time you look at it, but the title does seem to reveal a slightly humourours approach =) However, the theme is exploited to the full here, complete with imagery of Jesus himself. It all opens with a Ramses logo distorted onto the screen to weird music, then going the same way out. Next the real music kicks in, as well as a 3d scene engine taking us around what is seemingly the inside of a church, with those multi-colored imagery windows you find only there, and this is also where the intital credits appear. Next it zooms in and out of a picture of Jesus a few times, with the title of the demo gradually overlaid. Next is a more traditional 3d scene of pillars with a goblet inside and a moving lightsource. Next is a fullscreen picture by Zaac, of a black woman holding a heart spewing flames in her hands. Zaac won the graphics competition at this party too, but it is uncertain whether this is the same picture. Next is a 3d scene with crosses, four moving lighsources and cubes with greetings on their sides. Then what looks like a painting from a church appears, waving, with a bumpmapped Ramses logo in the bottom left corner. Now for something original, a seemingly 'rubbered' 3d scene, the one from before with the crosses. It ends with yet another 3d scene, this time seemingly inside an enclosed room with some objects suspended in dead air. An upscroller (ugly font!) is the last thing you see, overlaid over the very first Ramses logo tbat appeared in the demo. Much of this demo relies on its 3d engine, which unfortunately is not among the very very best. It's good, but ultimately not fast and smooth enough at its present point to really impress in the jungle of amiga 3d. A good demo then, but not an outstanding one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Rasse.Prod ---------- Mick and Nick joined Depth. They're dead. Rave ---- FIN> Beast (mainorg). Rave was a demo group, based in finland under the leadership of Beast and Venom. The group eventually died following a conflict between the two leaders, so Venom took danish musicians Chronic and Cytron (12/92) with him and formed a new group called Extacy. This PROBABLY happened sometime around early 1993. It's entirely possible that the group Rave where german coder Twice (later in Absolute!, then Lego) released his music editor SynTracker, is a different group altogether - at least ex-organizer Venom says this guy was never a member... Rave Network Overscan (RNO, http://www.thehavok.co.uk/scene/rno/) ----------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Angeldust (gfx swap), Cie (music), Craid (code, later Haujobb, 97), El Fatal (swap), Iro (Bastian Effertz, swap, doublememb Depth), The Enemy (music). FIN> Deeq (04/01), Jpv (code, 04/01), Kure (gfx music, old handle Kure4Kancer, 97-04/01), Roz (music, 97). HOL> Convict (music), Fiction (gfx swap), Jan (gfx), S.D.S. (music gfx ascii swap), Scandal (codeAMOS gfx), T.B.C. (org music swap). SWE> Damien (gfx raytrace swap). NOR> Mr.X (codeAMOS swap), Tft (swap, late96), Zany (Ole Skåra, music swap). ENG> Nemesis (gfx ascii swap), Slavey (swap). SUBgroup of Phuture 303 06/96. Nefroni - The Remiks (1997, Intro). code: Craid, gfx: Kure4Kancer, music: Roz. Released for the Scenario 97 intro competition. review: Nice c64 flavour to the opening, soon mutates into a generic techno-design driven little intro of no big interest we're afraid. Dot- cubes, Craid? Seriously... But I do dig "Boozgotchi"! =) The intro is 51k long, so I guess Scenario was a 64k compo. According to the enclosed text file, this intro has problems with 060 processors, and they advise running without setpatch on such machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Goes Lahti - The RNO+DCS Meeting Slideshow (2001, 15.04, Slideshow). code: JPV, gfx: Kure (design, photos), Deeq (photos), music: Kure. 14th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Nicely designed and with an ambient soundtrack, this slideshow really had absolutely nada to do in a demo competition =] But it's full of charm, mostly thanks to the happy faces of the drunk RNO+DCS members who obviously had a good time while making this fun-prod. It opens with a few roughly demo-style visuals, nicely designed (as mentioned) first presenting the production, then with credits. One question: How on earth do you make a screen consisting of a wireframe vector object, and simple graphics scrolled in from the left and right move anything LESS than smoothly on a 50mhz 030 JPV? God heavens knows it can be done, I've seen it done on A500's! Hell, I've seen it done on C64's! =] Hrmpf. Well, anyway, the main part of this is a slideshow with no additional design, just pictures fading in and out. The charm comes mostly from the fact that these people appear to be having great amounts of fun. The slideshow is very system friendly, and you can flip screens with the normal Amiga-M method. It requires AGA or a graphics card, and at least an 020 processor. There is no mention of the memory requirements. The 'meeting' of the title occured in Lahti, Finland between the 23rd and 25th of february, at the same time as the World Championships in cross-country skiing was held there. Just in case you were wondering... =] This is the fourth in RNO's partyslideshow series, following Goes Aars (The Party 8), Go Stockholm&Helsinki (Remedy'2000&Alternative2) and Goes Aldi (The Party 10). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ravers Revolution ----------------- 1996 - Dj Viper, Dj X-Base and Smasher joined Secretly in april. Rawhide ------- ???> Slumm (old handle The Grim Reaper). R.A.W Team ---------- RAW Team is the team who were committed to the making of the diskmagazine R.A.W, after it went from a Spaceballs production in issue #7 to the first independent release, issue #8. R.A.W #8 (1995, 23.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Perplex/Offence, gfx: Facet/Virtual Dreams (panel), Destop/CNCD (load pic), Kube/CNCD (welcome pic), Perplex/Offence (fonts), music: "Metrossimo" by Andy/Banal Projects, "Cover Up" by Spaceman, editors: Astro/Virtual Dreams (main), Terrox, Rokdazone/Infect, Macno/Abnormalia, Lord Helmet/Spaceballs, Hollywood/Axis, Facet/Virtual Dreams. review: A hallmark in the jagged history of R.A.W was the release of this issue, which meant several big changes. It was the first ever issue to be released without Lord Helmet as main editor, and it was also the first ever issue not to feature any graphics from Fairfax. Fresh blood brought fresh ideas, though, and Astro's articles are written like he'd have been doing this all his life. History would later show that the choice of Astro for a new editor would not be the best decision, but the things he does for this issue is very good. Even though this issue is released just three months after the last one (another small revolution! :-), the contents seem polished and well thought-out. It's especially nice to see Facet doing graphics reviews again, just as he did in the old days for Stolen Data. This is also the first issue where the home page is announced - what would later become a much larger part of RAW. There is apparently also an intro by Virtual Dreams for this issue, but it was not included in my distribution, and I have consequently not seen it. Some clipart in the 'group review' section is misplaced, occasionally ending up on top of text. To sum up: Very good, but then it always is. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast /2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Razkels ------- Doc.X and Mellow-D left the group to form the finnish section of Deadline in the spring of 1992. Razor 1911 [old] (RZR, 1987-1992, http://www.laric.com/razor) ------------------------------------------------------------- NOR> Assassin (sysop 'EXTENSION', ex Network), Bountyhunter, Codex (Jo Gunnershaug, gfx music, 89-12/91), Dr.No (Runar Jordahl, founder org code, 11/90), Fort Knox (Bjorn Sovik, sysop, 11/90), Hypocrite (founder), Maniac (Jogeir Liljedahl, music, later Spaceballs), Rex (Rune Vangen, swap, 89-11/90), Sector 9 (Kjetil Pettersson (founder code org gfx, 11/90), The Hustler (music, ex Amaze, new pre 07/92). GER> 16 Beat (music, 12/91), Angel of Death (Guido Janthor, sysop 'HELLFIRE', 10/90-91), Drake (Michael, gfx, 11-12/91), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY', ex Classic, later Interpol, 12/91), Murdock (gfx, 11/90-12/91), Onyx (Bernd Knochenheuer, code crack, ex Accumulators, new late89-11/90), Sim (Guerkan Demirci, code, 11/90-12/91), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE', ex Classic, later Interpol, 12/91), Wonderboy (ex Dual Crew). SWE> Sir Henry (Henry Greijer, code, 11/90), Ziphoid (John Carehag, music, 11/90-12/91). DEN> Cat (Allan, spread, ex Warfalcons, 11/90), Darksilver (Pascal Vieler, phreak, 11/90), Dave (David, crack train, ex Warfalcons, 11/90-12/91). BEL> Spike (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND'). USA> Pie Man (sysop 12/91), Rotor (sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD', ex Elevation). ???> Alien X (trade, ex Agnostic Front), Analog Kid, Brain Dead (12/91), Fashion Light (12/91), Flash Fox (ex Utopia), King Cobra (12/91), Lawbreaker (ex Vanish), Problem Child (12/91), Tripwire (12/91). Boards; PURGATORY WHQ (usa, 12/91), HANGAR 18 (usa, 12/91), WILD SIDE (usa, 10/90), CITY WAREZ (nor, 06/94). Razor 1911 was originally born in Trondheim, Norway by four guys from the C64 scene - Sector9 and Doctor No from Active Cracking Crew (and both original members of the original Razor on the C64) and Lord S and Hypocrite from Raw Deal. The group had previously existed on the C64 from 1985 to 1986. The first few years was mostly spent doing demos, and they eventually got quite good at it. They were, however, always determined to enter the cracking scene as well. Thanks to DiMarz for some information. I excuse for the somewhat disjointed nature of this history entry for now; I'm working on it ;) 1988 - Swedish coder and cracker DiMarz joined from Phenomena. 1989 - The group's big break in the cracking scene came after The Accumulators split up in late 1989, and they managed to persuade Onyx (euro crack) and Zodact (usa supply sysop) to join them. Suddenly they had both originals and crackers! This lead to a steady stream of releases until april of 1991. 1990 - Norwegian musician Hattrick left for No Limits in march. A shortlived cooperation with Classic was entered into in the spring of 1990. Swedish cracker and coder DiMarz (Dennis Edlund from Eskilstuna) left the scene this year. Most of the intros to games he cracked for Razor were also coded by himself. Their board DIGITAL EXPRESS (opened 1990) was probably Norway's first elite board, and is legendary on the Norwegian scene. They were also the first Norwegian team to have an american elite board. 1991 - When the release flood ended in april of 1991, the leaders of the group were getting tired of the Amiga scene. Luckily the solution was near: a great PC cracker called Darwin lived close by, and it was decided to close the Amiga section in favour of a new life on the PC. Only a few members remained, keeping the group alive through this year. Faith changed his handle to Faddy and joined Delight late this year. The demo "Erazorhead" [10/91] was released early october, immediately followed by the departure of its authors Jawbreaker (code, 90-) and Pal (gfx) for Scoopex. Swedish sysop Twister ('FLASHBACK') joined from Agile in december. The group's final demo "Voyage" [12/91] was a worthy swansong for a truly great group in the field of both cracking and demomaking. American sysop Jabbah ('INNER SANCTUM') left sometime between october and december; the board was mentioned in "Erazorhead", but not in "Voyage". 1992 - Swedish sysop Twister ('FLASHBACK') left again in january, moving this time to Vision. Around january, swedish sysop Wico ('INNER CIRCLE', ex Classic) joined, then left for Scoopex, only to leave them shortly after for Rebels! Norwegians Bug (music sysop 'MELROSE', ex Subway, re-Network, 12/91) and Nosferatu (10/90-12/91) joined The Silents in april. Finnish trader Zephyr joined from Amaze, but didn't stay long; he left for The Silents soon after. Psimon and Shocker joined Compact Inc. late 92. Norwegian sysop Skykiller ('THE MAZE', ex Fraxion) left for Adept around october. The group was officially closed down in the early days of 1992. The members that went along to the PC section were Sector9 (nor mainorg), Doctor No (nor), Red Baron (Dag Nilsen, nor sysop 'DIGITAL EXPRESS', new 07/90), Onyx (ex Accumulators, new late89) and Zodact (Brian C., usa sysop 'THE CASTLE', ex Accumulators, new late89). English musician Musician Gamma (10/91) joined Anarchy. Mr.T (sysop, 12/91-early92) left. Rascal (ex Alpha Flight) got kicked. English coder Paradroid joined Digital. German sysop Guru Josh (Guido, 'TECH', ex Storm) decided to leave the amiga scene after severe disagreements with Zodact. He eventually went back to where he came from; the c64 scene! Norwegians Shine (gfx) and Lord Strangelove (Michael Karlsson, founder code crack) left the scene. Swedish coder Colorbird (ex Shike/Supplex) was kicked, and therefore left to join Noxious. Frequenz (sysop, ex Amaze), together with Badcat and Edison, got arrested by the Police when they were at Fornebu, Oslo in order to collect a package with carded warez. Frequenz told them everything about CC and Visa, and 2 weeks later all the Norwegian elite-boards got busted.... Fade joined from Arise, but quickly left the scene. Norwegian sysop IT ('CONTACT ZERO'/earlier 'HOME ALONE', ex Frogs) joined Alcatraz. Hawat, Newmarh and Thufir joined The Special Brothers. Swedish celebrity musician Mantronix (ex Warfalcons or Fairlight, 12/90) joined Phenomena mid 91. However, he later returned to do music for the great "Voyage" [12/91] demo. For a while, legendary Finnish musician Uncle Tom was a member; a.o. things contributing music for the "Delicate Sound of Razor 1911" (04/90) musicdisk and "Vertical Insanity" (09/90) demo. He later wanted to return to his old group, and rejoined Scoopex 12/90. Kick-Reset (1989, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Memorydust" by Codex. Party Informer Intro (1988, .09, ECS Intro). info: Invitation intro for the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party in Trondheim, Norway october 1988. Amusing IV (1988, .12, ECS Demo). Hang Over (1989, .02, ECS Demo). Liquid Bobs (1989, .03, ECS Demo). Boom Boom (1989, .04, ECS Demo). Hang over II (1989, .06, ECS Demo). Aces High (1990, .03, ECS Demo). The Delicate Sound of Razor 1911 (1990, .03, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Poseidon" by Uncle Tom. Psychedelia (1990, .07, ECS Demo). info: This may be the Razor demo released at the 'Bergen Party', 29.6-1.7. Vertical Insanity (1990, .08, ECS File). code: Doctor No, gfx: Sector 9, music: "Spell Amelioration" by Uncle Tom. Habitual Novelty or Look, No Bitplanes! (1990, 07.10, ECS File). code: Nosferatu, gfx: Sector 9, music: Maniacs of Noise (Maniac of Noise format). 3rd at the No Limits and IMP-666 Amiga Conference 90. info: Seeing as I can't actually watch this demo, it's gonna be slightly hard to review it... There is no mention of whether the music by MON was ripped from a game, or especially made for the demo. It's still great either way! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Does not work. Won't work at all with KillAGA, but goes past the intro part with a clean OCS/nocache boot; then it gurus. The Best of 88-90 (1990, .10, ECS Collection). info: Contains all their best stuff from 88-90.  Fourth Dimension #5 (1991, 30.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Cryptoburners, see there. Erazorhead (1991, 05.10, ECS Multifile Demo). code: Jawbreaker, gfx: n/a, music: "The Anvil Chorus" by Mantronix (ProTracker MOD format). info: Jawbreaker's last RZR production before joining Scoopex. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Gurus, even with KillAGA. Voyage (1991, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Sim, gfx: Drake, Murdock, music: "Undersea" by Codex, "Overload" by Tip & Mantronix/Phenomena. 3rd in The Party 91 demo competition. review: Voyage is one of the greatest demos of all time, bar none. There are so many little touches and design things here that makes it a thing of beauty. Not to mention the revolutionary code! Mind you, this was the end of 1991, and Sim was doing some quite outrageous things here, with the texture mapping and stuff. He was truly a coder before his time. The music is also worth its weight in gold. These two tunes are half the demo for me, I must confess. I personally believe that the middle, calmer section of Overload (heard during the bubble part) is some of the best music Mantronix and Tip ever made. So totally recommended it hurts. This demo *DOES NOT WORK* on AGA machines. Fortunately, we in the Amiga community are blessed with some skilled coders who have taken it upon themselves to fix some older demos so that we can see them on our machines and run them from our harddrives :) Galahad is one such person. Thank you! AGA_VOY.LHA on AmiNet. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Razor 1911 [new] (RZR, 1993-1996) --------------------------------- SWE> Deelite (music, ex Infinity, triplememb Balance [details] and Sunshine Productions, later Subspace, new 12/93-04/94), Diesel8 (Mats Johansson, mainorg gfx, ex Infinity, new 12/93-10/95), Hammer (code, 03/94-10/95), Limbo (swap, ex Noxious, 03-06/94), Lionheart (swap, 06/94), Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg, founder music, ex The Silents, doublememb Triton [pc], later Subspace, new 12/93-10/95), Oden (swap), Odeon (founder code, ex Phenomena, 03-04/94), Prime (music, 12/93), Psionic (code, 08/94-10/95), Saturn (swap, 94), Some1 (music, later C-Lous, 12/93- 12/94). DEN> Pearl (swap, 94), The Pride (Palle, swap, ex Movement, -notmembanymore-). NOR> Raxor (ex Kefrens new). GER> Schwabenpower (sysop 'SNAKEBITE' EHQ, later Hoodlum, 04/93). ???> D-Design (gfx music, 08/94-10/95), Factor (code, 08/94), Phantom (gfx, 08/94), Subra (ex Equinox). The new Razor 1911 was the source of some controversy when it was formed by Colorbird/Illusion, Lizardking and Tony/The Silents and Odoen/Phenomena in late 1993. Their only claim to the name of the old heroes was that Colorbird was once a member... The real Razor had moved to the PC, and wanted the Amiga side to die with their passing. Still, the debate toned down after a while. Famous musician Lizardking is also a member of Triton Technologies on PC, and has released several CD's. Swedish graphician PGL was never a member, this was a misunderstanding. 1994 - Swedish supposed coder Boki joined in february, and was kicked in april because he was found to be a liar. He claimed he was working on a great demo, but in reality hadn't made anything at all. Norwegian duo Jason (music) and Joachim (gfx) (both ex Lemon.) were kicked because of too little contact with the rest of the group after a relatively short while, in the early parts of the year. Swedish coder Exidor (ex Infect or Medicine...) joined in april, but unfortunately left the scene soon after. Swedish coder Calypso (03/94) was kicked in may, since he promised to start coding "Memorial Songs 2", but never did. It was eventually coded by Psionic instead. Swedish sysop Fazer ('FLATLINE', 03/94) left due to a harddisk crash. An official newsfile on the Propaganda disk said he joined Delight with his board, while inside the mag itself, it said he joined Millennium. Since the news in the text file seemed a little more up to date than the stuff in the mag, I choose to believe the file. Danes Chorus (music), Sid (music) and Condor (swap, all ex Majic 12, 12/93) joined Jewels in the middle of the year. Chorus and Sid made the great soundtrack to the "We Shave Ass" [03/94] demo! Danish swapper Roscoe (ex Equinox) left mid 94, and joined Bomb! later in the year. The danish ex-Lemon.'ers Futuremind (code), Papillion (code) and Dr.Gyble (trace) were also kicked around mid 94. Slash was allowed to join as a swapper after most of the danish division left, taking two swappers with them (Roscoe and Condor). However, three weeks later The Pride was recruited, and they no longer needed Slash, so he was subsequently kicked also =( Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Angels new) joined Desire. 1995 - Propaganda #5 was supposed to be released at the Virtual Conspiracy party at the end of february, with new code by Hammer. Due to several circumstances, including a hard disk crash that took parts of the code to hell, the issue was never released and issue #4 became the final one ever released. Some of the articles to be released in the mag were donated by Diesel8 to other mags, like RAW, ROM and Upstream. Young swedish graphician Tony (ex The Silents, new 12/93), one of the founders of the new Razor 1911, made his last scene graphics in "Memorial Songs 2" (01/95). He was subsequently appointed to a fulltime position making graphics for Team 17 in the UK. Swedish coder and editor of 'Propaganda', Colorbird (Johan Andersson) was kicked out between april and may. The rest of the group felt he was becoming increasingly intolerable and arrogant after he moved to Oslo to start working for FunCom in april. He was one of the founders of the new Razor 1911. Diesel8 became the new main organizer. 1996 - Since releasing their final demo "Dalahorse" [10/95] late last year, activities pretty much ceased in Razor 1911, and we can safely declare them a dead group sometime in 1996. We Shave Ass (1994, 05.03, ECS 1MB File). code: Colorbird, Hammer, Odeon, gfx: Diesel, Tony (picture), music: "Killing Floor2.1" by Chorus & Sid (main), "Dawning" by Deelite (end). review: Tempo is the keyword for this demo. The uptempo rock'n'roll tune fits perfectly with the mood of the demo, which consistently throws some new effect at you. The audio-visuals are great here, with Diesel's graphics a highlight. Tony's graphical contribution is just one picture of a big, smiling face. The code is another matter though. It doesn't totally suck, it just fails to really come alive. There aren't any real 'wow' effects here, so to speak. Still, the coders are the ones that have put the graphics and music together into such an enjoyable package, I guess I can forgive that. Not bad at all. To access the hidden part, hold down the 'l'eft mouse button before the 'l' starts rotating in the beginning. The demo requires 1MB total memory. The text file mentions it may not work on 2.0 machines with only 1mb, but it worked fine on my A500 setup, provided I ran the add21k program prior to the demo. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quite Unusual (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Colorbird, gfx: Danny/Spaceballs (title), Diesel (font), music: "L.K's Doskpop" by Lizardking (ProTracker MOD format). 6th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. review: Though not much of a 'demo', I guess this animation is perhaps worth getting for the music. You see, all that this small production encompasses is a big, B&W raytraced animation of a cityscape and a boat in the water outside of the city. So we travel around and around these skyscrapers, endlessly... and that's it. I think they could have done without this kind of 'demo' really. Still, the music's not bad. Will run on an unexpanded A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Chaosmaze (1994, 03.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Odeon, Hammer, gfx: Diesel, music: "No Limitations" by Deelite (ProTracker MOD format). 7th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: Short but sweet, Chaosmaze takes a new approach to the Doom routine with some shading instead of real pixeled textures. The shading looks VERY similar to what Skull/Virtual Dreams did for his trackmo "242" [08/93]...and this intro contains (in the file) the text 'Tanks for the enlightining Dr Skull' (yep, that _IS_ misspelt like that!). I guess this was certainly impressive back in 1994. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Propaganda #4 (1994, 05.06, ECS Multifile diskmag). code: Colorbird, Hammer, gfx: Danny/Spaceballs (loadpicture), Diesel (panel), music: Deelite, editors: Colorbird, Diesel. review: No intro this time, so it's straight into the mag. The loader picture by Danny is a green, topless nymph seen from the side, with letters forming the word PROPAGANDA down the left side. The mag has been totally recoded since issue #3, and the new code sports a UNIQUE feature - a sort of limited hypertext clone, where you click your way to the article you want! Unfortunately, not enough is made of this feature, which could have been a killer. Design is the point where Propaganda fails most miserably. There's not really any one thing to put your finger on, it's more the inadquate FEELING it leaves you with. Also, most performances here are below par, from the dreadful panel graphics to Deelite's music. Sorry. This was to be the last ever issue of Propaganda. It multitasks, though in an unstandard sort of way. Mind you, I'm writing this with the mag in the background! =) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Falu Red Color (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Psionic, gfx: D-Design, music: Lizardking. 2nd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Sourcemetery (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Factor, gfx: Diesel, Phantom (logo), music: "Brilliance.chip" by Some1 (Tracker Packer 3 format). 6th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: A very good, polished 40k intro is this. The music is a funky little thing that sounds everything but chippy. There are also a few very nice routines here, with some texturemapping and a very nice effect with LOTS of dotballs bouncing around. Very very nice. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. Falu Red Color II. beta (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro) code: Psionic, gfx: D-Design, music: "Shivan Dragon" by Lizardking (Tracker Packer 3 format). 16th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Early attempts at shading here, with a not-too-good-looking 4x4 routine with spacecutting. It's used twice, once for spacecutting three objects and once for showing a revolving face that unfortunately ends up looking quite comical. There's also two (blocky!) pictures by D- Design...and that's it. It's small, not particularly sweet, and very forgettable. AGA? We're not sure. Please note that there are two versions in circulation, crunched with different crunchers (StoneCracker and PowerPacker, I believe). This had me mightily confused, since the filesizes were different. However, de- packed they're exactly the same. [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Appears to run, but no graphics are ever displayed. It probably uses AGA-specific graphics registers. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. I Shot Kurt Cobain (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Colorbird, gfx: Pgl/Gods, Diesel (font), music: "Naeh!" by Some1 (ProTracker MOD format). Split 19th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: A 'one-routine-intro', this small prod showcases Colorbird's blocky 4x4 doom routine without ceilings or floors. It's an early attempt at doom, but I can't see this impressing anyone, even back then. The Doom part can be paused with the RMB, but the upscroller that ends it can't... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Memorial Songs II (1995, .01, AGA Multifile Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Psionic, gfx: Tony, Diesel(8) (additional), music: Lizardking. review: This musicdisk is a gift for the eyes, with LOTS of great graphics by Tony and Diesel. There's pictures everywhere! Lizardking's music can't be faulted, and the coding does its job reasonably well. Another good thing about this disk is the fact that it's fully multitasking, so you can flip screens with Amiga-M just like with any other program. I love being able to write a review while having the thing in the background! This is wholly recommended. The tunes on this musicdisk are: Memorial Theme, Longstabben, Weird Personalities (also in R.O.M #1), Orhtanc (also in Oepir Risti #2), Sunshine Dance, Physiology Theme, My Little Oliphant, Thematic Hymn, Magic Nights (3rd at TP93), Compulsion To Obey (winner Assembly 94!), and Water Below (also in Upstream #8). There are also two additional hidden tunes accessed by clicking certain parts of the panel. One button is at the top right of the panel, and the other is below the addresses button, at the very bottom. The disk can be run straight off the harddisk with no assigns, or from floppy if so is desired. The original MEMORIAL SONGS was released in 1993, when Lizardking was a member of Alcatraz. I'm guessing at the release date; it's based on them calling it a delayed christmas present in one of the scrollers. This was probably Tony's final scene appearance, since he was employed at Team 17, making graphics for games. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dalahorse (1995, 08.10, AGA 2MB Multifile, 4 disks). code: Hammer, Psionic, gfx: D-Design, Diesel8, music: Lizardking & D-Design, Lizardking & Mantronix. Winner of the Party Remedy 1995 demo competition! review: There's one very good thing and one very bad thing about Dalahorse. The good thing is undoutedly the music. Lizardking and D-Design deliver a stonking techno tune as the main soundtrack, one of those pieces of music that can lift a demo all on it own...almost. The bad thing is its speed. Even on my 030-50 it snails along, never quite managing to keep the update rate up. Despite some innovation, this is what brings this demo down. You can't help thinking they should have spent some more time on these routines. Also known as 'Falukorv'. I belive, from the way the files are set up, that this would run quite happily from disk. Anyone? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Reaktor ------- N-Z> Pseudosoft (swap, late90). 1990 - Lots of English people left the group in october; Mystik (gfx), Dan (code gfx) and Kris (code) joined Anarchy, Executioner joined Prophecy. Real Destruction (1993-) ------------------------ RD is a Polish group. Be Quite (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: RDST, Joker, Union, Suspect. info: Their first production. Controlled via a CDPlayer design. Reality [old] ------------- N-Z> Bad Grafix (swap, 92), Bad Party (swap, 92), Myth (swap, 92), Poison (swap, 92). AUS> Falcon (Swap, 92). 1992 - In a news item in Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92], it was revealed by previous members of the group that Shayde was a code ripper, and that his demo "Kiwi Crap" contained code from a.o. The Silents' "Global Trash" [04/91] and Alliance Design/Quartex' "Substance" [04/91]. Reality [new] (RLY) ------------------- N-L> Dope (Joost Brugman, code, ex Spaceballs, new 01/96), Tycoon (code, 04/96). ???> Elliott (gfx, 04/96), Mad (gfx, 98), Rovrot (code, 98), SuperFML (music, 98), The Fox II (music, 12/94-04/96). Boards; THE SOUTHERN TRIBE (hol, 04/96). One Finger (1996, 07.04, AGA HD Multifile). code: Tycoon, gfx: Elliott, music: The Fox II. 5th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. review: There are *NO* pixeled graphics in this demo, just digitized video of people dancing and model trains running around a track. Obviously a piss-take on Spaceballs' "Nine Fingers", this would have been a lot better if it were shorter. As it is, the novelty soon wears off. Still, fun. Works on standard A1200. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Infinity! (1998, 64k Intro). code: Rovrot, gfx: Mad, music: SuperFML. review: Jeez, what is this shit? Words can not adequately describe how bad this intro is... You people need to get a serious trip to palette school...and you also need to learn that this is 1998, and goraud just doesn't cut it anymore! Avoid avoid avoid. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Reason (RSN) ------------ CZE> Lahve (Radek Hrdlicka, swap pack 'Sabotage', 04/01). Reason is a Czech group under the leadership of Lahve. The group is most known for Lahve's swappack "Sabotage". Sabotage #1 (2000, 23.04, Mag). Rebels [old] (RBS, 1989-1993) ----------------------------- DEN> Alien (03-06/89), Assassinater (gfx, 06/89), Benefit (new 06/90), BJ (founder, 02/89), Codex (founder, 02/89), Jake (Jacob Schultz, founder mainorg trade pack, 02/89-12/92), Jason (founder, 02-03/89), Joz (founder, 02/89), Malcolm X (Martin Bresson, sysop 'REBEL'S HIDEOUT', new 91-12/92), Newton (Morten Rasmussen, code gfx, old handle McFreak Newton, early 90-12/92), Obx (founder, 02/89), Ozone (Michael Hoffenzets, code, 07/90-12/92), Pacman (code trade, later Rebels new, 12/91-12/92), Paleface (code), Phalcon (new RAW4), Sundance (code, 07/90), Taus (code, 08/89), Thrasher (founder, 02/89), Uzi (ex Seen/Kefrens, new 90), Vandal (Kaspar Roth, founder code, 02/89-12/92), Whispers (trade), Xod (founder gfx, later Rebels new, 02/89-12/92), Yoyo (founder music, later Rebels new, 02/89-12/92), Zonix (code, new 04-06/89). SWE> Acro (Tobias Lövgren, code, 12/91-12/92), Bratz (Robert Melander, gfx, ex Noxious, 12/92), Laric (sysop 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' EHQ previously 'THE REBELLION', old handle Mike, 12/91-02/92), Mogwie (Johan Köhler, code, re from The Silents, 02/90-12/92), Oliver (Henrik Ingeshög, code gfx, 03/92), Rizzo (gfx, 02/90), Vic (Viktor Edholm, gfx, 02/90-12/92), Zaxxan (Robert Hed, modemorg trade, ex Mute 101, 12/91-12/92). FIN> Block (Kari Huttunen, gfx, 12/92), Hansie (Hannu Namu Saunalouma, gfx, 12/92), The Kid (gfx), Zunga (code). GER> Bruno (Carsten, sysop 'SWAPPERS DELIGHT', 91-12/92), Elvin (org sysop 'MASTER AND SERVANT', later Rebels new, 10/91-12/92), Hotstar (trade sysop 'THE NEW STATION', ex Cult). BEL> Brainkiller (code, ex Angels, 12/92), Vinny (Claude Verstraeten, code, ex Angels, 12/92). FRA> Abbas (code), Anex (gfx), Frank (trade sysop 'ARTIFICIAL DREAMS' BUSTED! RAW3 but boardlist claimed sysop was Rhod), Ideal (trade, 12/92), Matrix (music), Scud (Thomas Venon, org code trade, 12/92- early93), Sword (Oscar Garcia, trade, 12/92), Tdc (code, ex Delight, new late91). - Info: Rebels FRA was rebuilt by Reflex and Abbas, and consists of Abbas, Anex, Ideal, Reflex and Sword. Therefore, the other guys must have been kicked/left. The French section released the demo "Outland". Reflex later left, and joined Movement. ENG> Adec (swap, 12/90), John (John Lomax, gfx, 12/92), Lynx (gfx), Rage (trade), Spellcaster (swap, ex System 5, new late90). ITA> Batblster (sysop 'MUSICAL PHARMACY'), Seven M (trade). USA> Analog Kid (Rick, sysop 'WILDSIDE' WHQ, 12/92), Missile Man (sysop 'DEFCON 5', 12/92), Saint (trade), Vortex (sysop 'EUROPEAN IMPORT SOFTWARE' WHQ aka EIS, old?/later? handle Brandon, 02/92). ???> Elite (06/89), Ghostrider (06/89), Maze (den? code, 03/89), Temet (new 06/89), The Invisible (ex LSD). Boards; PANTEON WHQ (usa), LIGHTSPEED (usa). 1989 - Rebels was formed 10th of February 1989 when the two groups Chaos Cooperation and Roadrunners decided to join forces. Their first production, announcing this, was released two days later at the Bamiga Sector One and The Warfalcons party in Denmark. The original members were (I believe) all Danish. They were; BJ, Codex, Cruncher, Droopy, Jake Up, Jason, Joz, Obx, Raz, Static, Thrasher, Vandal, XOD and Yoyo. Cruncher (den, Rasmus Hartmann) suddenly sold his Amiga and left the scene 08/89, only six months after he helped found Rebels. Danish coder Proxt left for Panzerfaust (now Cave). 1990 - Jake released issues of his pack "Candyland", and Nick & Zaxxan released issues of their pack "Sweetest Perfection". Australian members The Teacher and The Corporal left for Scoopex. Swedes Alta (code), Fuzzac (code, 02/90), Marillion (music, 02/90) and Mogwie (code) all joined The Silents, but Mogwie later rejoined. 1991 - The Austrian division got kicked around easter 1991. Krest (ex Cryolite/Flash UK) joined the group around june, and the intro "Rebel Without A Cause" introduced him to the group. Nick & Zaxxan released issues of their pack "Sweetest Perfection". Labyrinth was kicked out, so he joined TRSI late 91. 1992 - French coder Dca (ex Delight, new late91) joined Anarchy around january. Early in the year they were reinforced with the Germans Chaos, Diddle, Zaphod, 16 Beat, Jester, Cthulu, Hawk, Cruiser, Vindicator and Panther from Sanity, but their stay was a brief one and they soon returned to try and rebuild their old group. They left behind only one production; the intro "Sanity Is Dead". English sysop Clairvoyant ('FORGOTTEN REALMS', 02/92) joined Dual Crew in march. 1993 - The year started disastrously for Rebels, when january brought on a mass migration to a new group formed almost exclusively of ex-Rebels members; Movement. The group was founded by dutch musician 911 (ex The Silents) and Finnish organizer Meegosh, and soon many key members had moved on to the new group. A.o. Swedish trader Logic (ex Noxious), dutch Astro (ex The Silents), finnish musician Nugget (ex NKOTB), finnish coder Jef (old handle MCD), finnish coder Ruben (old handle Willow), finnish sysop Storm ('WASTED TIME', 07/91-), danish Toastmaster (ex Bacteria, new late92), and Turkish 'Eternal' editors Orion and Kris (ex Accuracy, new mid92). Since Meegosh was the previous world leader (since mid 92), a new one had to be chosen, and Jake took over the reins of the group. In the weeks and months to follow, also Swedish coder Asterix (old handle Alta, 02/90-), Swedish musician Omega (12/91-) and French musician Reflex (ex Delight, new late91-10/91) joined Movement. I don't know what happened in the meantime, but 12/93 Bozo is suddenly the new main organizer! Frenchmen Meta (ex Bass) and Patrick (both early93) both left to reform Bass mid to late 93. Several of the original Danish and Swedish members returned to be members of Rebels again after the group was reborn in 1994. Danes who returned were a.o. Bozo (mainorg trade pack, 12/92-10/93), Conan (code, 03/89-12/91) and Static (music, 03/90). Danish coder, and one of the original founders, Droopy (02-08/89) was mentioned 12/92 as a member of Rebels PC, so he probably went over to that division at one time or the other. -- Raz (founder code gfx music swap, 02-06/89). Q (code). Danish Xience joined Rednex. Danish sysop Stripe ('HIGH TENSION') joined The Silents. Norwegian sysop Raven ('WONDERLAND', 91) got kicked. Danish musician Unison (12/92) was later in Impact DK. Finnish musician Maza (ex Accession, 12/92) joined Sonic. Finnish trader Zakka (ex Spaceballs, 03/93) changed his handle to Black Sheep and joined Alpha Flight. Danish coder Xarium (ex Bacteria, 12/92) and trader Bizarre joined Angels new. German swapper Speedhawk (12/92) changed his handle to Elric and joined Essence. Rogue left for the PC scene. Norwegian graphician Skywalker (12/92) joined Cryptoburners. Danish organizer, swapper and trader Janitor (new 10/90-02/92) joined Kaos Design, the Crack Inc subgroup. Finnish Hoover (ex Brainstorm) left to work commercially. The Swedish division has many internal problems, because mainorg M:ET (trade), Nick (swe mainorg trade, later RBS PC? 12/91), Portwer (Johan Ramsay, trade sysop 'EQUIPOISE', ex Noxious, 12/92), Dragon (sysop 'DRAGON'S LAIR', ex Dual Crew, later RBS PC? 02/92) and Wico (sysop 'INNER CIRCLE', ex Scoopex, 02/92) all left the Amiga scene to start a new PC group called THE EDGE. Frenchmen Skynet and Suny (gfx) joined Anarchy. Danish musician, graphician and one of the founders, Static (02-08/89) joined Paradox, then rejoined 12/90. He then joined The Silents. He later returned once again to take part in the new Rebels when they were reborn in 1994. The entire Swedish division (except M:ET who joined Cascade) joined The Silents. However, many of them has since returned - like M:ET, Alta, Vic. Finnish Heatbeat (music) and Dweezil (code) got kicked. Instead of joining some other crew, the two decided to form Carillon. Hitchcock joined Extreme. Danish Trix (ex Dexion) joined Anarchy in mid 91. However, in RAW3 (quite a lot later!) it was claimed he was simply kicked. Swedish coder Jas joined Phenomena. Dutch trader and musician Mark (ex The Silents, 12/92) joined Banal Projects. Frenchmen Albatros and Hof (gfx, 92) joined Alliance Design. French trader (and sysop 'ARTIFICIAL DREAMS'?) Rhod joined Anarchy. When Kefrens died, R.W.O and S.L.L both joined, but left after 14 days to form Hydronic. In addition, ICronite and Milkshake joined, but immediately moved on to Anarchy. Mini-BBS-Intro (ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Hansie (logo), music: "Intromuz-1" by Heatbeat. review: Another nicely designed Rebels intro, this one's even a cut above the rest of the RBS stuff. Nice, clean design and graphics coupled with a bouncy Heatbeat tune make for some very cool entertainment! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Outland (pre 1992, .07, ECS File). info: Released by the French section. Pirazy (1989 or pre, ECS Demo). code: Proxt, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Small BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, music: n/a review: Another nicely designed onescreen BBS intro from Rebels. This one has a beautiful plasma effect in the background, over which is overlaid some text detailing a few bbs numbers. A scrolltext at the bottom is also featured. Nice. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Sound & Vision (ECS Musicdisk). Wild Side BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code: Oliver, Ruben, gfx: Color/Phenomena (title), music: Omega. review: Nothing spectacular here, and far from their strongest BBS intro. The show opens with a fullscreen picture, which is the best part, and from then on just plots text onto uninteresting background stuff. This intro announced Mogwie's joining, Analog Kid's joining, and the fact that the French section is NOT dead, despite rumours in some diskmags - among others Stolen Data. A reset is recommended after running this intro, since it made at least my system highly unstable after being run. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Vesc (1989?, ECS File). code: Fuzzac, Alta, gfx: Static, music: Marillion. On Wheels of Steel (1989, 12.02, ECS File). Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons copy party. review: The very first Rebels intro ever, announcing its formation, must surely be one for the history books. No credits appear anywhere in the intro, curiously enough. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Toked Away (1989, 11.04, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx: n/a, music: Yoyo. Released at the Spectre & Northstar Halloween Part 89. Tragic Magic (1989, 01.05, ECS File). code: Vandal, gfx: Static, Proxt (intro), Vandal (intro), Xod (title), music: "Psychostatic" by Static. review: This intro refuses to work on my system, therefore no review! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: see review. Swimming (1989, 16.06, ECS Intro). code: Zonix, gfx: Assassinater, music: Static. review: Equalizers, coppers and a scroller. Not much to jump around for. Requires the file TEXT in df0: to work, but otherwise no problems. Finished on an internal meeting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Megademo (1989, 07.08, ECS Megademo). Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89...probably :) Sin O`Delic (1989, 07.08, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx^music: Static. Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89. review: This one's a quite simple demo, with the obligatory logo at the top and the obligatory scroller at the bottom :) The scroller's jumping up and down in time to the music, making it hard to read. I'm sorry, but this is uninnovative, boring, and incompetent. Get the picture? The scrolltext of this demo makes me almost believe this was hacked out of Rebels' Megademo...? The release date is assuming it was actually released at the summer conference. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Incredible Hulkdemo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). code: Taus, gfx: Xod, music: Static. review: Errr...right. A theme demo of that lovable green cartoon character The Incredible Hulk! Well, it's original if nothing else :) The demo has an animated Rebels logo at the top, a digitized Hulk with some spotlights flying around him, and a scroller on the bottom. OK, not exactly revolutaionary, is it? One thing that amused me quite a bit was the text before the scroller - 'Mess with the best, Die like the rest'. Seems familiar to anyone? Interpol? Taus' first real demo. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A New Decade (1989/90?, ECS File). Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code: Droopy, Maze, gfx: Static, music: n/a. Wonderland BBS Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code^gfx: Newton, music: SLL. Vectory 1990 (1990, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx^music: Static. Candyland #30 packmenu (1990, OCS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton (logo), music: n/a. review: The menu for Jake's "Candyland" pack is frightfully ordinary, not offering much different from the thousands of other packmenues out there. Just a blue logo, selection in the middle of the screen by mouse, and two scrollers at the very bottom of the screen. Very very ordinary. The module is not in standard MOD format, may be a packer - no poss to check yet. [glenn] GLE tested FEL /000-7 /2mb chip, 1mb fast/... Waterproof (1990, ECS File). code: Conan, Jake, Newton, gfx: Mike, Jake, music: Keo/Fraxion. review: "Waterproof" is a multi-demo demo, if that makes any sense :) What I mean is you load the thing, and you're presented with a small demo part from which you can select three other parts. I only got this to work once on my machine, though I tried numerous times. Therefore credits are only an approximation based on the information I could retrieve. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Vectors 1990 (1990, early, ECS Demo). Megademo II (1990, 17.02, ECS Megademo). code: Asterix, Mogwie, Fuzzac, gfx: Rizzo, Vic, Asterix, music: Marillion. Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party. Coma (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Vandal, gfx: Vandal, Static, music: Static. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Megablast (1990, 08.03, ECS Musicdisk). code: Conan, Droopy, Maze, gfx: Static, music: Yoyo, Static. Multidemo (1990, .07, ECS Demo). Last Dimension (1990, 05.07, ECS File). code: Sundance, gfx: Xod, music: Yoyo. review: Nice multipart friendship demo. The graphics are functional, and some are even good. Also the tune shows a little potential, but never manages to quite take off. The demo was supposed to be released for the TSL and Red Sector party (which was held 29.06 1990), it says, so it was probably released later then :) Though the demo runs with KillAGA, it is far from perfect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Total Triple Trouble (1990, 26.12, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx: n/a, music: Static. Winner of the Dexion Christmas Party 1990 demo competition! info: The soundtrack to this is what made Static legendary... Crystal Symphonies (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Cooperation with Phenomena and Scoopex, review under Phenomena.  Import Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Newton, music: "Fireworks" by Mantronix/M.O.N. info: Originally an import intro on Decay's "Simpsons" demo disk. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Hideout Thing (1991, ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, Krest (ice font), music: Tip/Phenomena. review: This cool little intro was made to announce their new BBS 'REBELS' HIDEOUT'. As far as BBS intros go, this is not half bad, with some plasma-like effect and some cool vectors. Though the demo works perfectly fine on the 030, it's _WAY_ too fast. Also the music replayer seems to choke on the extra horsepower, so KillAGA is hereby recommended even though it's not essential. Why this small 50k intro doesn't have an exit is beyond me. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0. Snap! (1991, ECS File). code: Willow, gfx: The Kid, music: "Day By Day" by Heatbeat. Review: The then-new Finnish division's first production is a fun little demo, rather good for its time...and Heatbeat is Heatbeat. Day By Day was the first Heatbeat tune I ever remember hearing, and placed him firmly in my mind as a talent for the future...and he did not let anyone of us down! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Just Add Water (1991, ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Namu, Hansie, music: "Bubblegum" by Heatbeat. review: Just a one-screen intro from the Finnish division. It contains no release date, but must be somewhere between Snap! (that division's first production) and Heatbeat getting kicked. Anyway, nothing special - just a vector variation and a scroller. Nicely put together, though. Also known as "Instant Intro". [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA or OCS. Det Kniber (1991, 28.04, ECS File). code: Icronite, gfx: Milkshake, music: Static. Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Our Definition of a BoomBastic Style (1991, 30.03, ECS Demo). 5th in the Anarchy Easter Party 91 demo competition. Introduction to Seduction (1991, 11.05, ECS File). code: Dweezil, gfx: Corwin, music: Heatbeat. Winner of the Turtle Party 91 demo competition! Rebel Without A Cause (1991, .06?, ECS Intro). code: Paleface, gfx: Seen/Alliance Design, Krest (title, ice font), music: "Test1" by Yoyo. review: With an unusually high amount of effects for a BBS intro, this one kicks off with a respectable picture by new member Krest, based on the title picture of an old game called 'Baal'. Then there are effects, a text plotter and even a sinus scroll! Though the intro works best with KillAGA, a few effects still have (non-fatal) graphical errors. The intro destabilized my system after exiting, so a reboot is definitely recommended after seeing this intro. Paleface and Seen were later the two people behind the runaway success group Melon Dezign. This intro seems to introduce new member Krest, as well as calling PANTEON 'our new world headquarter'. No release date appears anywhere in the demo, but based on news in LSD's "Grapevine #1" [06/91] that Krest had now joined Rebels, the above date is a rough guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. ECES Slideshow (1991, 15.06, ECS Slideshow). Released at (after?) the ECES Party '91. Blue House 2 (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: Asterix, gfx: Havok, Pucko, Hansie, music: Tip, Mantronix. Released at The Party 91. Aars Intro (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, music: n/a review: Another onescreener this, with a scroller on top, an acceptable logo down the right side and a filled vector object in the middle. Trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. Design is pretty much as good as it gets for this kind of thing. Music is a chiptune, though quite a dynamic, good little number. This is likely the same intro aka "Glenz". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Claude's Runner (1991/2?, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Music" by Heatbeat. Review: This one's a bit curious... It's just a cartoon picture and a tune. In the picture you can see the following text: 'Claude's Runner. Call Belgium at +32-91334268' and 'A Rebels Product'. Probably a BBS intro of some kind, but it's still a bit weird... Anyway, get it for the tune, which is classic vintage Heatbeat...beautiful melancholy! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. 99 Boxes (1992, ECS Intro). code: Ruben, gfx: Nugget, music: "Masturbation-92" by Nugget. review: A small intro, but with tons of style, this one is mainly based on its animated background, with a lot of small filled vectorboxes and some other moving stuff. Fonts and design are perfectly fine, making this a competent little package. Just the way I like my BBS intros: Short, sweet and to the point! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Swedish Top 30 #5 (1992, ECS Filechart). code: Mogwie, gfx: Hof, Bratz, music: "Love the 7th Wave" by Omega. review: This one opens in style, with a fullscreen picture by Hof, showing a semi-naked woman and a cool Rebels logo! The chart system itself is perhaps not the best ever seen, but still nice visuals and audials certainly help the production along. The charts concern the modem scene only, and are of stuff like 'best uploaders'. There's no indication of when it was released other than the tune, which says it's from 1992. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Sanity Is Dead (1992, early, ECS Demo). code: Chaos, gfx: n/a, music: "Stagebox" by Jester. review: The only production the ex-Sanity members ever made for Rebels... A remix of the tune "Stagebox" can be found on Jester's musicdisk "Jesterday" for Sanity. Swedish Top 30 #? (1992, 01.03, ECS Filechart) code: Oliver, gfx: Pucko/?, Krest/Anarchy (font), music: Omega, editors: Mike, Burkman. review: This won't run on my machine, so obviously it's hard for me to make a proper review :) Too bad they didn't mention what issue this is in any of the text...perhaps it's in a graphic display? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! 3 Day Hell (1991-late92, ECS Intro). code: Ruben, gfx: Block (logo), Nugget (font), music: "Highspeed" by Nugget. review: I can't really judge this fairly, as I have never actually watched it. The intro WORKS, as such, but the graphics are all scrambled up - even with KillAGA. There is a nice opening logo we get to see, tho'. No release date appears anywhere in the intro, so the VERY general release date is based on some known facts; the Finnish division's first production was "Snap" (91). Ruben and Nugget were in their new group Movement early 93, so it had to be made somewhere between those two dates. The name of the intro refers to the three days spent making it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Assembly '92 Partyinfo-Intro (1992, after 25.04, ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Hansie, music: "Turritune.Tixtune5" by Reflex. review: Another one-screen intro, this... It's got a vector cube with a moving lightsource and a realtime-rendering fractal on it as the main effect. On top of this there's a one-plane font with various information about the Assembly'92 party. The module was dated 25.04, so obviously this intro was released on or after that date. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Jef, Asterix, gfx: John, music: Maza. 6th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Rebels [new] (RBS, 1994-, http://www.uib.no/people/oodkr/Rebels/index.htm). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEN> AC (Rene Olsen, code, new mid/96-02/97), Bakerman (Kasper Hartwich, sysop 'TRADE CENTRAL', 02/97), Conan & Newton (Niclas Clarke & Morten Rasmussen, coders, both doublemembs Kingdom, 03/94-02/97), Fresh Prince (Daniel Povlsen, code, new 12/94-02/97), Kefner (Thomas, code, new mid96-02/97), Pac-Man (Rasmus Hartman, trade, 03-11/94), Silicon (Mads Abildgaard, gfx, ex Passion, new ROM9-02/97), Wire (Jacob Sylvest, raytrace, new mid96-02/97), Yobbo (Per Fredberg, sysop 'THE LARCH' WHQ, ex Angels new, new 02/94-03/96). SWE> Eracore (Erland Körner, gfx, doublememb Suburban Base, new ROM3, 10/94- 05/97), Krustur (code, 05/97), Logic (Hakan Jonsson, org trade pack, 10/95-01/96), Morris (Kristian, gfx, 01/96-02/97), Morrow (Carl-Johan (Calle) Naes, gfx music, ex C-Lous, new 05-10/94, re 08/97), Pace (Roger Andersson, swap, new 05/94), Princip (Peter, sysop 'INTERCHANGE', ex Delirium, new ROM3, 10/94-01/95), Some1 (music, ex C- Lous, new 08/97), Swoop (Erik Sundberg, org music swap trade, ex Byte Busters, old handle Zaddo, 03/94-02/97). NOR> Ambient (Stefan Svellingen, code, old handle CyberState, new 03/96- 02/97), Archangel (music sysop 'WHITE ROOM STUDIOS', triplememb Puzzle and TRSI [details], 01-09/96), Jerry (Stig Rune Frydenlund, www music editor sysop 'ARTCORE' earlier 'SOUND OF NOISE', new 03/96-08/97), Jerry Dee (Jarle Berntsen, gfx, 01/96), Lord Mindless (code, 01/96), Nirvana (Torgrim Nærstad, gfx, mid96-02/97), Speed Devil (ascii swap, ex Looker House, new late97/early98), Timmy (Anders Ormehaug, music, new mid96-02/97). TUR> Bloody (swap editor swap, 09-11/94), Kris (Alpaslan Deveci, code gfx editor, 09/94-05/97). ENG> Darkus (Darkus (Lee Harwood, ex Digital, doublememb Network, new 98). GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 04-12/94, re 09/96), Elvin (Andreas Jaeger, org sysop 'MASTER AND SERVANT', later Quartex, 09/94-95), Melvin (Klaus-Wilhelm Horstmann, org swap trade, 04-11/94), Slash (Nico Rittner, code, 04-11/94), Teevan aka T'Vaan (Robert Salzmer, gfx, 10-12/94). ???> Demon (gfx, 10/94), Lionheart (swap), Pitch (modem), SRL (gfx, 10/94). Rebels was once a major force on the demo scene, but activity has decreased somewhat in later years. They now seem to be on their way back, though, with some activity evident from coder Krustur and musician Jerry. ROM4 reported rumours that german graphician TeeVaan had left the scene in order to produce game graphics. 1994 - Shortly after being reformed, the German section released their first demo, "Prurient" [94]. It was quickly followed by the winner of the Doomsday party, "Switchback" [10/94], and the Rebels seemed to be back on track! The finished the year at the party with "Whammer Slammer" [12/94], the third demo in a row by german duo Zulu and Grey. Sometime between 04 and 05/94, swedish sysop Dracula ('TRANSYLVANIA', 03/94-) left the group. Bozo became mainorg. Sometime between 05 and 10/94, germans Siriax (Dennis Lewerenz, trade sysop 'CRAP TOWER', new 04/94-), Toxic (Sven Dedek, gfx, later Abyss, new 05/94-) and Dynamite (Sirko Zidlewitz, music, 04/94-), as well as danes Angel (trade, 03/94-), D-Siya (modemorg trade, 03/94-), Ice Lord (Mikael, gfx, 03/94-), Janitor (trade, 03/94-), Static (Anders Bukh, music, 03/94-), Strike (Jesper Knudsen, trade, 03/94-), Xod (Morton Plass, gfx, still in the pc section? 03/94-) and Yoyo (Karsten Kiems, music, 03/94-) left the group. Sometime between 09 and 10/94, German sysop MDB (Carsten Lewandowsky, 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD') left the group. 1995 - After three strong demo releases in 1994, the new year presented us with total silence! It was also this year that German organizers Exciter (Ingo Kamps) and Weezer decided to leave the scene. Things were further complicated when his replacement, the dane Nighthawk (Steffen Karstoft, gfx, ex Majic 12, 03/94-) also decided to leave the scene in August, after moving over to England to study! His replacement - in turn - would be the swede Swoop, hopefully a more permanent solution. Swedish graphician Slime (Ola Wiklander, 09/94-12/95) left the scene towards the end of the year, after his computer died. Danish cofounder and earlier main organizer Bozo (Flemming Ljungdahl, 02/94-) also sadly decided to leave the scene towards the end of the year. 1996 - The year started tragically, as a lightning bolt took out Twister's board 'FLASHBACK' in january. After some consideration, Twister (Anders Lindquist) and fellow swede graphician Disc (Mats Erikson, ex Tetragon or Equinox, 95-) were asked to leave the group. Around the same time Norwegian sysop Jedi (Hans Petter Andersen, ex Puzzle) decided to leave the Amiga scene for his career in a pc cracking group. March saw the recruitment of CyberState and Jerry in Norway. We wouldn't see a new Rebels production until after the middle of the year, when their new danish recruitment Fresh Prince secured them a winning 64k intro at the South Sealand Party. The only other release this year was the norwegian section's "Chip Nostalgia". In august, danish musician Vocal (Andre Greve, 03/94-) was kicked, after he bought a pc, and no contact had been made in months. Swoop continued to lead the group throughout the year. 1997 - Danish graphician, musician and also eventually sysop Bird (new 01/96-) joined Scoopex in april to work with his friend Boogeyman. For a while in 96, Bird also ran the board 'ELEKTRIK CAFE'. Swedish coder Lussar'n (ex Medicine, new early94-) left Rebels after about a year of scene inactivity (ROM8) and joined Craze late 96. Red Cheese joined Passion late 95. Germans Zulu and Grey (code, ex DCS, new 94-95), Excess (raytrace, 04/94- 95) and Cueball (code raytrace, 04/94-95) all left for Essence (ROM5). Zulu & Grey came 3rd in the music competition at The Party 1994 with "A Kind of Love", but actually, they didn't compose the tune at all, it was just delivered by them for their friend Chromag, who couldn't attend :) German swapper Ghandy (09-10/94) joined Bonzai Brothers (ROM4). Danish coder Ozone (03-10/94) is now only in the PC division (ROM3). German musician Mel'o'Dee (Heiko Klueh, 09-10/94) was asked to leave along with the others in the cleanup specified below. After that, he chose to leave the scene. He is now composing music professionally, trying to earn some money that way. A major clean-up was performed, reducing the amount of members from 40 to 25. Among the people that had to leave were Mr.Magoo (Nicki K. Jensen, den code, old handle Xariun, 03-10/94), Mr.Orion (Kennet Bendixen, den modemorg, new 09-10/94), Weird Dream (Lars Schmidt, den swap trade, ex Angels new, new early94, 02-10/94), Voyager (usa sysop 'FASTRAX', new 09- 10/94), Snow Queen (usa sysop 'FASTRAX', new 09-10/94), Raist (Jakob Termansen, den ascii swap trade, new 09-10/94), Ring Ring (Roland Waterweg, hol modem, new 10/94), Smoke (Bruno Nielsen, den gfx, 03/94-), Raven and Morrow (ROM3^UPS10). Musician Morrow was later in C-Lous, before rejoining with Some1 in 1997.  Prurient (1994, ECS File). code: Zulu, Grey (additional), gfx: Smoke, music: Chromag. Try out the mouse and joystick during the cubeworld! GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Switchback (1994, 09.10, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Zulu & Grey, gfx: Kris, Teevan, Slime, Excess (raytrace), Demon (additional), Eracore (additional), Grey (additional), SRL (additional), music: Chromag, Vocal. Winner of the Doomsday Party '94! info: The version released at the party required a 030 processor. A new version, v1.2, was later released that was fully 020 compatible. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Whammer Slammer (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Zulu & Grey, Newton (additional), gfx: Cueball, Eracore, Slime, Teevan, Excess (raytrace), music: Chromag, Vocal. 5th at The Party 94 demo compo. info: Works on standard A1200, no fast needed. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Chip Nostalgia (1996, Chipmusicpack). info: Produced by the Norwegian section, with music by Archangel and Jerry. 64k (1996, 06.07, 020+ 4MB Intro). code: Fresh Prince, gfx: Eracore, music: Slide. Winner of the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition! review: There's a lot of shading and mapping here, but not much else. There's phong, bump, texture, env... How about something new, people? At least it's competently put together. The accompanying text file mentions it needs 020+ and 4MB of fastmem, but makes no mention of AGA or ECS... But if it needed AGA there would be no point in demanding 020+ now would there? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Marlboromatic (1997, 22.05, AGA Musicfile). code: Krustur, gfx: Kris, Eracore (additional), music: Jerry. info: Chippack with Jerry-tunes from the past year. Paranoid (1997, .06, AGA demo). Winner of the Remedy '97 demo competition! Recline ------- GER> Phantomas (sysop 'DREAM WARRIOR'). SWE> Paralysis (sysop 'PARANOIA', ex Vertigo). USA> Dr.Feelgood (sysop 'OVERDOSE', ex Alpha Flight), Robin Hood (sysop 'SHERWOOD FOREST'), Toxicman (sysop 'APOCALYPSE'). Recline is dead. 1991 - Ceel changed his name to Big Mac and joined Strangers around the middle of the year. Ace Alien left. Irion left the scene. Nop, Rob and Floyd was kicked. Redline (RDL) ------------- FRA> Jura (Julien Ruzzene, swap). Red Rose -------- SWE> The Black Mage (swap), Warlock (swap). Red Sector Inc. (RSI, 1985-1990) -------------------------------- GER> Dark (gfx, 02/90), Delta (Florian Schroecker, code gfx, 09/89- 03/90), Dr.Beat (code, 09/89), Dr.C (Holger Kruse, code gfx, 09/89- 03/90), Evil (swap, 09/89), Mr.Zeropage (code crack), Romeo Knight (music, 09/89-02/90), SCS (music, 09/89), TCC (Darius Moharreg- Khiabani, code gfx, 09/89-02/90). DEN> Caucasian (ex Technobob), Metal Force (ex Technobob), Pendec (ex Technobob). FRA> Doctor Soft (11/88-02/90). ENG> Hawk (spread, 10/89-02/90). USA> The Phantom (sysop 'THE PHANTOM GUILDE', 02/90). ???> Chainsaw Hacker (imports fixes, 02/90), Commie Hunter (02/90), Dag (new 87-02/90), Dennis (02/90), Exec (ger? code crack, 06/88-09/89), General Zoff (02/90), John Player (02/90), Marc (02/90), Mr.Cursor (02/90), Negative Polarity (02/90), Onyx (ger? code, ex Vision Factory, new 02/90), PBA (new 87-02/90), Skull (02/90), Target (new ca 07/90), Traxx (02/90), Zenith (02/90). Boards; XEROMAX BBS (usa, 02/90). Red Sector was born in the spring of 1985, when Bill Best, Kangol Kid and Greg decide to join forces under this label. At this time, the group's members were spread over America and Canada. Towards the end of 1985 Irata and Mr.Zeropage formed the European section. Irata became the group's main trader. Red Sector ran the first ever Canadian bulletin board. All this was on the C64, but when the Amiga 1000 appeared in 1986, PBA, MZP, Bill Best, Irata and ECA all bought one. The first Red Sector intro on the Amiga was released in early 1987, and was coded by HQC. Twilight coded the second RSI intro, with music by the father of SoundTracker, Karsten Obarski. In 1987, RSI entered into their first cooperation, with Def Jam. It was not only their first cooperation, but the first ever cooperation on the Amiga! However, it didn't last too long. The C64 section was officially disbanded in 1988, and everyone moved over to the Amiga. Years later, it was restarted by Mr.President, Irata and Mr.Cursor, but that's another story. 1988 was also the year of the first big busts. Irata was, for example, visited by the police in the morning of the 24th of october, but they found only five disks. RSI had hard times, and started to look at other venues for their activities. They recruited TCC as their demo division, and 9 months later their baby was born: the Red Sector "Megademo" [09/89]! This demo took them to the undisputable top of the demoscene, and made legends of its makers. 1988 - Danish musician S.L.L (87) joined Bamiga Sector One. 1990 - As a demo group, you can perhaps talk of RSI pre- and post- "Megademo". 1990 started well, with the successful releases of the mag "Criminal" [02/90] and the demo "CeBit '90" [03/90]. Onyx left Vision Factory since he was frustrated with the internal organizing of the group, and joined in february. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Empire) joined Fairlight. Later in the year they would enter into a cooperation with Tristar, the result of which we all know. TRSI was born. Big thanks to an article about TRSI in ROM #4 for massive amounts of source material for this precise history! Please excuse us if this seems like a straight rewrite of your article, Mop. If it's too close to the original text, consider it a tribute rather than a ripoff :) I really couldn't word it better than you. If Dr.C's real name, Holger Kruse, seems familiar it's probably because he's the author of one of the most-used utilities for Amiga InterNet users these days, the TCP/IP stack utility "Miami". German musician Bit Arts (02/90) joined Sanity. He did some of the best tunes for RSI's "Megademo" [09/89], and is probably best remembered for that. German Beatmaster joined End of Century 1999. Something (ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Mournful" by Chris K. review: A rather simple into, but nice nevertheless. It's just a flipping logo at the top, and a sinescroller below. The real aim of this intro is to announce the new Danish members Pendec, Caucasian and Metal Force. It doesn't mention a release date anywhere. The intro will start on my machine, with the help of KillAGA, but has to this day never exited without taking my machine down. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. News On Tour (1989, .08, ECS Filemag). review: Now THIS is what an early, primitive diskmag looked like :) Despite the English title it's all in German, so I didn't have too much reading pleasure here, unfortunately. [glenn] Megademo (1989, 09.09, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). Winner of the Tristar party demo competition! intro - code: n/a, gfx: Dark/Black Monks, Dr.c, Delta, music: Dr.C (sampling). loader - code: Dr.Beat, Delta (additional), gfx: Rat Sign (eddie), Delta, music: Mark II/Quadlite. part 1, heads - code: Dr.Beat, Delta, gfx: Dr.C (heads), Delta (chars), music: "RSI Rise Up" by Romeo Knight. part 2, vector - code: Delta, Dr.Beat (additional), gfx: Delta (chars), music: "RSI-Hard" by Romeo Knight. part 3, worm - code: Delta, gfx: Dr.C (worm), music: Dr.C (sample). part 4, firewo - code: Delta, Dr.Beat (additional), gfx: Scum (chars), music: "ba1" by Bit Arts. change disk - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: none. part 5, circle - code: Delta, gfx: Delta, music: "Disco-Groove" by SCS. part 6, vecbal - code: Delta, gfx: Delta, music: "Wasteland" by Bit Arts. part 7, credit - mcode: Dr.Beat, Delta, gfx: Dark/Black Monks (chars), Music: "Japanese Rock" by SCS. part 8, endprt - code: Dr.Beat, Delta, Gfx: Delta (logo), Music: Bit Arts. review: Words cannot describe what the RSI Megademo meant for the scene at its time of release. It was a breath of fresh air, a show of force so powerful that noone dared deny the fact that it was a modern classic from the moment it was released. The design and - not least - the music gave it a very special atmosphere that I can safely say is still there when viewing it today. I have never been more spellbound by a demo, or watched a demo more times than this. An amazing achievement. SHD/Mystic made a one file version fixed for HD/AGA. It still had its flaws (graphics/music bugs, endpart crash), but at least it made the demo available to the new generation Amigas! This review refers to that fix, and not the original trackloaded demo. Therefore there is no compatibility reference. [glenn] Follow Me (1990, early, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Romeo Knight. Criminal No.1 (1990, .02, ECS Filemag). INT - code: Onyx, music: "Telephone" by n/a (SoundTracker format). MAG - code: Zeronine/Quadlite, gfx: Dennis, music: Psygnosis (ripped), editors: Irata (main, aka The Editor), John Player, Xymox, Dr.Soft. review: The intro preceding Criminal is a classic, and one they've used many times before. There's a flipping scroller across the middle of the screen, and some different copper-color stuff rolling across the background. It's actually nicely done, but probably turned a few more heads when it was first shown in 1988, than it did today. Remarkably, it ran perfectly on my system, without even the need for KillAGA. And then there's that truly classic piece of music, "Telephone"... The intro announces Onyx as a new member, and the intro was coded by him back in 1988 - used here as a kind of nostalgic nod to the past. Then we enter the mag itself, which has a quite unique design. It's built with a small display at the top of the screen, and the rest of the screen displaying the text. It's controlled with the mouse, and clicks of the mouse takes you around the pages. Like a lot of the first mags, there are just numbered pages, and no chapters or anything like that. The display is white text on a grey background, and has an overall nice design. Contentwise this issue doesn't really contain a lot, and the joke pages in German was totally unnecessary, but... The best thing about Criminal though, is the FEELING - the kind of friendship that only existed in the oldschool scene, a feeling that these guys actually KNEW each other, and were good friends. It's something that unfortunately will most likely never reappear. The mag was published simultaneously on disk and paper (sortof like Jeff Smart's legendary "Illegal" for the c64 scene), and was supposed to come out with a new issue every second month from the start. Unfortunately, that never happened - this issue was the only one to ever be released. When you press the EXIT button, the mag resets, but unfortunately does something strange to the memory too... I softkick 3.1 in my startup, using an application called BlizKick, and after running Criminal I was suddenly told that the jumpers on my card were not set correctly for me to softkick. I tried a couple of times, but ultimately had to turn off and on the machine to make it work... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Cebit '90: Revenge of Babbnaasen (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Delta, gfx: Dr.C (logo, little font), Dark (titlepic, logo, scrollfont), music: "Cream of the Earth" by Romeo Knight. Released at the CeBIT '90 exposition. review: This old Red Sector classic is a formula demo if ever I saw one. You've got your logo on top, your scroller on the bottom, and in the middle you've got yer basic vector effects. Ok, as far as these go, CeBit isn't the worst you can get. Though hardly worthy the 'classic' title it has claimed, it's still worth a honourable mention for reasonable vector rutines (for the time) and OK design. The music, though, is fabulous. On my machine there were a few minor errors on the vectors, probably due to the speed of my machine. Ripping the tune is easy, just depack the executable with xfd or Unpack, and rip it. It's a standard MOD. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rednex [old] (RNX, -1992) ------------------------- Rednex was a Danish demo group, who died in early 1992. However, most of the original members were later reunited in the new Rednex, after being members of Melon Dezign and Anarchy for a while. 1992 - Bored joined the newly formed Parasite around may. Danish swapper Jones joined Static Bytes. Danish coder, graphician and musician Airwalk (07/91) joined Kefrens. Danish swapper Executioner joined Surprise! Productions. Danish musician Hithansen joined Melon Dezign. Danes Slammer (code) and Xience (ex Rebels old) joined Anarchy. Printer Trouble (1991, .02, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Innuendo (1991, 27.04, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Ska' Vi Split' En Baldur? (1991, summer, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Quackbusted (1991, early.10, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: Originally made for the demo competition at the Static Bytes and Light - Lowlife - Party late september, but it was not finished in time. It was released a few days after the party was completed, likely in the first days of october. Apparently the original did not work on AGA machines, but a oneparted AGA-fixed version can be downloaded from the coder's homepage, http://fuel.adsl.dk/ Ting Man ALDRI' Må Gøre (1991, .11?, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: The Danish title translates to "Things You Must NEVER Do". Digital Aggrevation (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for The Party 91 demo competition, but unplaced. Rednex [new] (1993-) -------------------- DEN> Jones (Jesper Hansen, code, ex Static Bytes, 12/93), Solnova (gfx, ex Melon Dezign, later Movement, 12/93), SurfSmurf (Carsten Sørensen, code, ex Melon Dezign, old handle Slammer, later Movement, 12/93- 03/00), Xience (ex Melon Dezign). Danish musician Hithansen (ex Melon Dezign and veteran of the old Rednex) left the scene after The Party IV, but he certainly quit while he was ahead. His module "Electric Church" won the music competition! Norwegians Corny (gfx music) and Codeman (code), together with Swede Soul (music, all ex DCS, new 12/93) joined Movement. Rednex Revival Intro (1993, 05.07, AGA 020 File). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at Galemand's Gilde 93. info: This intro works on 020 _ONLY_, 030 won't do... Emptyhead (1993, 28.12, AGA Trackmo). code: Slammer, Jones, gfx: Solnova, Alex/Movement (endfont), music: Hithansen. 6th in The Party 93 demo competition. Review: Hum hum hum... These guys certainly have a sense of humour or three! What is most striking about this nice productioon, though, is the impeccable design throughout. Not a thing is left to chance, it seems, and It's all done with a smile. It might come as no surprise by now that I quite like this! There are some good dot, line and vector effects here also, as well as a plasma-zoom-rotator-thing. Totally recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quackbusted 2 (1994, 25.06, AGA Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for the South Sealand 94 demo competition, unplaced. DMA Design (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: SurfSmurf, Vention, gfx: none, music: SuperNao. 3rd in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Dansktop 7 Intro (1996, 05.04). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of The Gathering 96 A500 Nostalgia demo competition! Reflect ------- FIN> Devil (trade, 03/93), Magnum (93), Nighthawk (gfx, 07/92), Overlander (code, 07/92-93), Red Baron (gfx, 07/92), Vibrillion (93). NOR> Jellybean (Vegard Myksvoll, music, 07/92). Zeque, the finnish coder that made most of their breakthrough demo "Sound Vision" [07/92] left to join Complex mid 93. After this, they lost their main asset and weren't (to my knowledge) ever heard from again. Sound Vision (1992, 26.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Overlander, Zeque, gfx: Nighthawk, Red Baron, music: Jellybean. Winner of the Assembly 92 demo competition! info: Reflect came from nowhere and kicked everyone's butt at ASM92! They delivered what was perhaps the best demo of the year. Reflectors (RFL, -1992) ----------------------- DEN> Criox and Depete, Frostie (trade, stopswap), Spike, Windstrike (sysop 'SKY NET' WHQ), Zingo (swap, early92). NOR> Epa (swap). Boards; BLUEWING (fin), HELLHOUSE aka 'REFLECTION' (swe), STARWAY (nor). Reflectors were a danish-based demo group, that died early 1992. 1992 - Swedish Wizzo left for Cytax around january. Danish sysop Phazier ('FANTASIA' WHQ, old handle Zyron, ex Trash) joined Amaze. Reflex (RLX) ------------ SWE> Crypth, Mosquito (sysop 'ASSEMBLY HALL', doublememb Defiance, 01/95), Terrorizer (sysop 'SUBWAY' WHQ), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT', doublememb Fairlight, later Rage, 01/95), XTC (sysop 'VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE' opened 01/95). USA> Blind Guardian (sysop 'DARK CHURCH', 04/95), Broken Arrow (sysop 'DARK MOON', 04/95). ???> Ache (music, 12/92), Godhead (93), Nrg (music, 12/92), Valkyrian (gfx, 12/92), Zod (code, 12/92). Bad Boy joined Trilogy. Wormtro (1992, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Zod, gfx: Valkyrian, music: Ache, Nrg. 14th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. XS (1993, 05.08). 4th in the European Computer Conference (ECC) 93 demo competition. Regency ------- SWE> Eeezee (sysop 'THE PRODIGY', 01/95). FIN> Blaze (93), Blitman (93), Dna (Antti Liljo, swap music), Necrarch (93). ???> Drownie (ex Addicts). Boards; THRONE CHAMBER (fin). Finnish swapper DNA has placed two ads in the same mag, one as DNA/Regency and one as DNA/Brutal... Humane was formed in 1993 by ex-Regency members (fin) together with some Danish group. Rektum ------ GER> Celic (swap sysop), Dr.Synth (code), IQ Zar (gfx), Mr.P (Florian Pfister, swap), Spike (trade ascii). POL> Exolon (sysop), Robson (Robert Baran, swap). LUX> Hotstepper (sysop). DEN> Malcom (Morten Andersen, gfx music swap sysop), Mr.Funny (Troels Therkildsen, music swap sysop), Santa Claus (music swap). 1996 - Abaddon joined Old Bulls, while polish Norman joined Anadune in june. Relax ----- SWE> Bullseye (code, 10/90), Champ (10/90), Goblin (music, 10/90). 1991 - Tweeter and Insane joined Equinox in the middle of the year. Intro (1990, 14.10, ECS Intro). code: Bullseye, gfx: Unknown Artist (font), music: "Play" by Goblin. review: One of those multi-scroll demos, with ten or more scrolls one over the other... For some obscure reason they were quite popular in demos once many years ago! Which is weird, since it's deadly boring... I think Spreadpoint took it as far as it could go with "XLarge"! Anyway, this intro SUCKS! If it didn't crash all the time, I'd exit it myself :) There's NO graphics to speak of, the code is first-try-at-asm quality, and the music's just plain annoying. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Gurus! A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Guru's, even with KillAGA. Hardly surprising... Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Relay ----- Ghost was formed when the English division of Eclipse fusioned with Relay. 1991 - Merlin changed his handle to Rem around june. Religion (RLG) -------------- SWE> Hijacker (sysop 'ALTERED STATE', doublememb Orient, 01/95), Lionheart (Mikael Eriksson, swap), Waldo (sysop 'MADHOUSE', 01/95). Remedy (RMD) ------------ GER> Creeps, Desert. ???> Dream Design (gfx, 08/93), H2o (ger? ascii, doublememb Fire and Ice, 01/94), M.C.MP (music, 12/92-12/94). Boards; ICE CREAM WHQ (ger, triple in Delirium and Dezign). Jumptro (ECS Intro). We Love Snails (ECS Intro). Renegade -------- NOR> Babar (gfx, ex Spaceballs), Beeper (ex Mirror), Bumble, Quick, Seek. Resolution ---------- Entropy (1996, 13.04, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition. Resolution 101 -------------- Norwegian coder T-Bone joined Dexion. Retire (RTR) ------------ GER> Peacemaker (sysop 'MOONLIGHT CITY', doublememb Obsession). NOR> Erectus (Knut, swap). ???> Diesel (music, 12/93), DJ (music, 12/93), Dr.Led (gfx, 12/93), Hijack (gfx, 12/93), Killtech, TIK (code, 12/93), Todi (code, 12/93). 40KB Kraft-Tro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tik, gfx: Dr. Led, Hijack, Tik, music: Diesel. 11th in The Party 93 intro competition. Contactro (1993, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Todi, gfx: Dr. Led, Todi, music: DJ. 17th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Revolt ------ 1991 - Ghother and FXR joined Next mid 91. 1996 - Hangman joined Depth in june. Revolution ---------- Exorcist (code), Incognito (music), Orion (gfx) and Cyborg (sysop) all left to join Nexus. Riot ---- GER> Exon (org gfx trade cosysop 'LOS ENDOS', late95-06/96). ???> Darkman (music), Frontier (trade), Rally (code), Reset (gfx). Riot was a german demo group. 1995 - German swapper Iro joined Depth late this year. 1996 - Sonic (old handle Sonic Flash) left the scene in april. Stone (doublememb of Matrix, new 06/96) left to join Illusion. Risk Inc. --------- GER> Max (sysop 'DOWN TO EARTH'/'RISK', 10/91). They're nearly dead! They have only 3 members left. Nick joined Laserdance (SLH11^GEN6). Some guys left for Interactive (GEN6). Rite ---- SWE> Dixy (sysop 'PREMIUM', 10-11/97). RNSC INC (Rave Nation^Sycres Inc) --------------------------------- Rave Nation and Sycres merged together. The name of the new group is RNSC INC (RAVE NATION^SYCRES INC). Roadriders (1991-1991) ---------------------- Roadriders is a new Turkish group, but they soon became Pirates' TUR division instead. Roadrunners (-1989) ------------------- Raz was the original founder of Roadrunners. The entire group decided to join forces with Chaos Cooperation in a new group called Rebels. They released their first joint production in february 1989. Rookies (1992-) --------------- GER> 16 Beat (Joachim Soppe, org music), Joker (Peter Rauschert, swap), MC 68000 (org code), Tronix (swap). ???> Avenue (code), Kale (gfx), Nytec (gfx music), Ply 2 (code). When Tech died, some of the former members started Rookies. These founding members were 16 Beat, MC 68000, Ply 2, Avenue, Nytec, Thunder and Lightning, Kale, Tronix and Joker. Rookies have a German subgroup called Thunder and Lightning (TAL) Art, which consists of two graphicians; Thunder and Lightning. Royal (RYL) ----------- HOL> Apollo (mainorg code sysop, late96-12/98), Bullock (gfx, ex Jetset, new late96), Bytejammer (code, 07/96-12/98), Clotug (trade, late96), Delvin (trade, late96), Eros (gfx, ex Jetset, new late96), Floppy Robby (code sysop, late96), Hifi (music, new late96), Hitech (trade sysop, new late96), Hoppa (trade, new late96), Ice (trade sysop, late96), IKilledHer (code, rescene late96), Infant (code, new late96), Jayce (music, ex Jetset, new late96), Kleinduimpje (doorcode, new late96), Muad'dib (doorcode, late96), Quazar (doorcode, old handle Prophet, late96), Radavi (orgdemo sysop 'WILD PALMS', doublememb Effect, late96), Red Dwarf (code crack, ex Jetset, new late96), Soultaker (doorcode, late96), Tib (code, late96), Timeless (music, ex Jetset new late96), Tyrell (trade, late96), Whirlwind (mainorg code ascii sysop, late96). SWE> 3! (gfx, late96), Citruz (orgscandinavia sysop, late96), Crilla (code gfx, 08/96-ate96), Hamlet (orgscandinavia sysop, late96), Mortimer Twang (music, 07/96-late96), Orion (trade, new late96), Psychotron (code, late96), Slice (music, late96), Spite (code, late96), Zanok (trade sysop, late96). POL> Fjurer (trade, late96), Jacobs (trade, late96), Keram (trade, late96), Kostek (crack, late96), Mehow (trade, new late96), Pat (trade, late96), Prefix (trade, late96), QLA (trade, late96), Ziutek (trade, doublememb Appendix 07/97). NOR> Arcane (Øystein Sættem, sysop 'MOST WANTED', doublememb Mystic, new late96-12/98), Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', late96), Wiper (trade, late96). ENG> Zoltrix (trade sysop 'SPACED OUT', new late96-12/98). GER> Slime (sysop 'HOMELESS', late96), Voyage (trade sysop, late96). DEN> Cryo (code, late96), Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', late96-12/98). HUN> ADT (code trade sysop 'LOCAL GRAVEYARD', doublememb Absolute!, new early96). AUS> 243 (trade sysop, re late96). CZE> Trauma (Marek Zavodnik, swap sysop, late96-01/97). SWI> Fury (sysop, late96), Wild (trade, late96). ITA> Pows (trade, new late96). USA> Circuit Breaker (sysop, late96). ???> Aln! (12/98) Boards; SOUTH CENTRAL (swe, 12/98), FIRST DIVISION (swe, 12/98), AQUARIUM (swe, 12/98), DIAL HARD (swi, 12/98), CANADIAN MIST (can, 12/98), THE UNDISCOVERED (hol, 12/98), MOST WANTED (nor, 12/98), ONE EIGHT SEVEN, RIOT HOUSE, NEMEZIS, PHOENIX II, SE7EN, PITSTOP. Ftpsites; ENTERPRISE UNLIMITED (12/98). 1996 - Diablo left the scene; Dazz, Freecaller and Steel went inactive; Newt joined Subspace, then went on to Abyss and finally Arth, XMan and Relief were kicked due to inactivity late this year. 1997 - Polish sysop Fenix (96) joined Amnesty late 97. Sauna! (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 11th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. So What? (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code/gfx: Crilla, music: Mortimer Twang. 2nd in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: Phong and shading, as usual, and with some truly annoying music. There's also a little bumping in here, on an object. A small plus for a few of the objects, which were unorthodox, but overall this is far from a great intro. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Royal Amiga Force (RAF, -1991) ------------------------------ N-L> DJ, Limit (music), Mr.Amiga (90), Remote Control (code), Wolfman. SWE> Flavor Flav. FIN> Alfred. ENG> Anvil, Grasshopper (sysop 'Q.E.D'), Hen, Ian, Infictor (sysop 'PEGASUS'), Jonathan, Maniac, Mr.B. ???> Pac (ex No Carrier [no entry]). RAF was a demo group, probably based in the Netherlands. RAF died around the middle of 1991, but subsections (Immortal, TDC) will continue under the RAF label. 1991 - Dr. Legal joined Cult while the board 'JOSHUA TREE' changed its name to 'IRON GATE', and then joined Euphoria around the middle of the year. Swedish swapper Ice released several issues of the "Royal Amiga Demo Pack" before leaving the group in favour of Amaze. Junkfood joined Scoopex. Peace Prod. joined Artemis. German sysop Hotstar ('THE NEW STATION') joined Cult. Megademo (ECS Megademo). RRR --- Cinderhatch (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 8th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. RSTD ---- Perplexed (1994, 13.11, Demo). 7th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Walk Over (1994, 13.11, Demo). 9th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Rubbers ------- Norwegian musician Mystra joined Paragon. Sagazity (SGZ, 1992-1994) ------------------------- SWE> Axy (gfx sysop 'ARACHNOPHOBIA', 92-07/93), Blade (music, 92-12/93), Butch (code, old handle Bitch, 12/92-07/93), Calladin (gfx, later Sardonyx), Maxiphly (code, old handle Rade, 04-07/93), Nosferatu (music, 04-07/93), Redferne (mainorg code, 92-07/93), Stoned (sysop, new 03/93), Trade (gfx, 04-07/93), Vacuum (music). Sagazity was a swedish demo group formed by Axy in 1992, and Redferne was appointed main organizer. Thanks to Blade for information on this group! 1992 - Blade joined soon after the group was formed, in the summer of that year. The group's first release came in december, with "Christmas Intro '92" [12/92]. 1993 - Bitch changed his handle to Butch. Stoned joined with his board around march, before the demo "Abdemonizer" [04/93] was released at MCS Easter Conference. This was then followed by an intro by Rade. In july another release saw the light of day; the demo "Insane" [07/93] won the competition at Marks Computer Society party, beating The Silents for the first price! The group's final demo was released at The Party in december, and "End of the Misery" ended up in a disappointing 12th position. 1994 - Towards the end, the group took in far too many useless members, and founder Axy finally decided to call the group dead in 1994. He took the cream of the Sagazity members and left to form Deadline Design. These were at least Blade, Rade and Butch. Christmas Intro '92 (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Bitch, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: The tune is ripped, and there is no graphics. Abdomenizer (1993, 11.04, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: Redferne, Butch, Rade, gfx: Axy, Trade, music: "Dreaming" and "The Masquerade" by Nosferatu (4ch ProTracker format). review: This demo won a party, but unfortunately we do not know WHAT party yet... The Silents were runners-up, but it was not the MCS party in july. This was only the group's second demo, and their first trackmo. The demo at first, with caches off and chipset set to original, appears to work, but gurus after some time. I found some information through hex.reading the diskimage... =) Don't ever say we don't go the extra mile for you! =D This demo announced Stoned's joining, which we then approximate happened around march. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Rade, gfx: Axy, music: Blade. Insane (1993, 24.07, ECS Demo). code: Butch, Rade, gfx: Axy, Trade, music: Blade. Winner of the Marks Computer Society (MCS) party 1993 demo competition! End of the Misery (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Rade, Butch, gfx: Axy, music: Blade, Vacuum. 12th in The Party 93 demo competition. review: Just like with their previous demo "Abdomenizer" [04/93], the demo works for a small while (with caches off/original chipset), but soon crashes. I do not feel I've seen enough of the demo to make a fair review. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Sahara Surfers (S2) ------------------- FIN> Guru (Jarno Paananen, founder code), Stratos (founder). Sahara Surfers were formed by Guru and Stratos from Complex. The name may not seem immediately recognizable, but if I say that Guru/S2 is the author of #1 module optimizer/replayer The Player and the very first amiga S3M replayer, PS3M, then perhaps you know a little more. After a while S2 went more and more over to the PC, and now seems to concentrate entirely on that platform, especially with their highly popular MIDAS soundcard interface system. S2 now appears to be entirely dead on the Amiga platform, though it's hard to pinpoint an exact time of death... Saints (STS) ------------ TUR> Adam (swap), Danko (code), Dr.Dweep (gfx swap, late96), Drop (raytrace trade), Exe (swap trade sysop, late96), Klenye (code), Nop! (Serkan Akkaya, code swap trade sysop), The Nock (swap trade). FIN> Danny Kane (swap), Enzyme (music), Substance (music). NOR> Deathangel (gfx), Decoder (swap), Instant (sysop 'FIREHALL', 08/94), Isaac (music), PurpleHaze (swap trade, late96), The Confuser (gfx), Tranze (swap), Wiz (sysop), Woober (Gøran Myrland, music swap, later Cannabis, 12/94), Yoummy (sysop 'LAST ACTION'). DEN> Domain (write swap), Droopy (code), SilverFlame (music). SWE> Phuture (swap), Plugster (edit). GER> Voyage! (sysop). ENG> Yak (gfx). ???> Datura, Fate, Zack (ex Avalon). Boards; DEATH FIELD WHQ, NEEDFUL THINGS (tur), ABSOLUTE DISCO (nor), PIRANHA (nor), UNDER WORLD (nor), THE NUKE (nor), WILD PALMS EHQ, WATHER WORLD EHQ, HIGHLANDER (den), MYSTERYLAND (den). From ROM4, danish member Domain was appointed a regular spot as a ROM journalist. 1994 - The Norwegian division was first built up in january by Woober, Deathangel and Yoummy. 242, Agency and Lime are subgroups! 1996 - Dutchmen Hifi (music sysop) and Radavi (sysop), plus Turk Plastikman (music trade) left them, while Ital joined Iris in june. Mikromission joined Dual4Mat. Turkish swapper Victory joined Bronx. Sharp, D-70 and Nobleman left the scene. Stranger (ex Bronx, new late 94) joined Analog. ortnI-SBB (1994, early, Intro). code: Nop, gfx: Dr.Dweep, music: "Ya!!!" by Woober. review: A rather standard, boring intro; a logo on top, a scroller at the bottom and a text writer in the middle. Nothing interesting. One thing that strikes me, though. is the tune. In the samplename-message, Woober admits that he stole the samples from a mod by Jester. However, if you've heard the original mod, you can't help thinking that the samples were not all he stole... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sam & Roy --------- Hit The Fan (1996, 18.08, 64k Intro). 11th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: It's very black and white. As a matter of fact it flashes between the two quite frequently. And there's a road sign. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sanctuary --------- Dutch swapper Kr'33 joined Axis old. Sanity [old] (SNT, 1990-) ------------------------- GER> Brainwave (trade sysop 'SPACE RATS'), Dieter B (code), Erik (sysop), Gash (music), Ice (swap, 11/90), Jeff (sysop), Shadow (ex The Undertakers, new winter90), Sonic 1 (gfx). ???> Killroy (gfx, 91), Rys (gfx, 91). Sanity was an all-german demo group, born in march of 1990 by Panther (code) and Hawk (code), who quickly took in Vindicator (music) and Cruiser (gfx) as well. Their first production (presumably) was the musicdisk "Best Game Music Monthly #1" [03/90], which announced the birth of the group. 1990 - German musician Jester joined the group in november, after a short stay in Red Sector Inc. The demo "Dee Groove" [12/90] by Panther was released at the Dexion Convention in december. 1991 - Probably early in the year, the group released Jester's musicdisk "Fool's Gold" [91], followed by the group's breakthrough demo, "Elysium" [04/91] which came 3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition! The Fog (11/90) joined Bit Arts in the middle of the year. When the group eventually died, its members were scattered. The biggest group of members, including Chaos (code, ex The Undertakers), Diddle (swap, ex Treacl), Zaphod (swap, ex Amaze), 16 Beat (music), Jester (music, ex Proton, new 10/90), Cthulu (gfx), Hawk (founder code), Cruiser (gfx), Vindicator (code^music) and Panther (founder code) left to form a new section of Rebels. They released the demo "Sanity Is Dead" under the Rebels label to announce this. Their stay in Rebels would be a short one, however, and soon most of these guys had formed the NEW Sanity, which also included several ex-members of the original Sanity, like musician Bit Arts (ex Red Sector Inc.) and coders Flosoft and Mr.Pet. Mike D. (swap pack) joined Anarchy. Germans Benni B. (music) and Slaxx got kicked. Zodiac and Hi-Lite (old handle Bubbler) joined Vision Factory. Best Game Music Monthly #1 (1990, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk). code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: "The Fly" by Vindicator (ProTracker MOD format), various. info: This production, featuring various ripped game music, announced Sanity's birth by Panther and Hawk. Blah Blah I (1990, after 03.11, ECS Musicdisk). code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, Hawk (blahlogo), music: "All Points Bulletin", Beyond the Ice Palace", "Bubble Bobble", "Clouds Kingdom", "Cosmic Pirates", "Days of Thunder", "Empire Strikes Back", "Eye of Horus", "Ghostbusters", "Kid Gloves", "Kikstart II", "Leatherneck", "Leviathan", "Pandora", "Platoon", "Quadralien", "Return to Genesis", "Sentinel", "Snoopy", "Spitting Image" "Speedball", "Thundercats", "Whirligig" and "Xenon" by David Whittaker (Whittaker format). Released at the AmiExpo. Oh Crinkey What A Shit (ECS Intro). code: Chaos, gfx: Cruiser (logo), The Pride (font), music: Bit Arts. review: There's only disadvantages to running this on fast machines (scrolls that scroll too fast...). This is only interesting as an early Chaos production, not much else... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0 -- Note: Caches off, orig chipset. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Caches off, orig chipset. Dee Groove (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: "Oblivion" by The Avatar/Zylon of AFL (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Dexion Convention 1990. review: This one was, I guess quite advanced for its time. There's filled vectors, stencil-vectors, vector-bobs...and combinations of the above. There's attempts at design, but nothing great. And that tune irritates the hell outta me! Ok, it's not all bad - it's an OK little demo for it's age, but nothing special. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sanity Kickstart Intro (1991, 22.01, ECS Intro). code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, music: Ben Daglish/independent (ripped). Fool's Gold (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Breakout", "Children of Science", "Cubes of Silver", "Epilepsy", "Fast Food" by Jester. info: This is a real gem, Jester's first music disk! He would make one more, "Jesterday", later in his career. Elysium - Search for Anarchy (1991, 28.04, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Elysium" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). 3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition. Flash for Fantasy (1991, ECS File). code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Rys, Killroy, Mr.Pet, Music: 16-Beat. Released at Ami-Berlin-91. review: Well, these guys have certainly seen Scoopex' groundbreaking trackmo "Mental Hangover" [04/90]! A few of the effects here bear more than a passing resemblance to that old classic... The rest of the effects are much in the vein of their own "Dee Groove" (though that had a different coder), with various vectors, stencil-vectors and vector-bobs. Nothing special. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Some vector routines had graphical errors. Rosebud Party Slideshow (1991, .12, ECS Slideshow). info: Made at the Rosebud Meeting 11/91, released at Prime 91. Turmoil (1991, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Cougar, music: Bit Arts. Released at The Party 91. review: This is completely written from memory, and from ripping the tunes :), so please excuse any inaccuracies. As far as I remember, I think there's a great music-analyzing color-'thing' :D that I liked a lot. That's the part that sort of stuck in my mind. And the music? Well, Bitarts was always one of my favorite musicians, ever since I first heard his tunes in the Red Sector Megademo. These are a little more jazzy, but very moody and absolutely great. Recommended for the music alone. Don't remember much of the graphics, but it's by Cougar, so how bad can it possibly be. If you've a machine that's specced low enough ;) this is about as good as you can do. Now, I'm off to hear 'Emotional Thing' one more time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: On both configurations you get the 'loading' logo, it boots for a while, and then it crashes. Nothing seems to help, not even kicking down to 1.3. Sanity [new] (SNT, 1992-1996). ------------------------------ GER> Cruiser (founder gfx), Cthulhu (Jan Jessen, founder gfx), Hawk (Stefan, founder code), Panther (founder code), Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap pack 'Trashpack', ex Panic, triplememb Bomb and Artwork), Vindicator (founder code music), 16 Beat (Joachim Soppe, founder music). FRA> Ronan (code, ex Anarchy). ENG> Havok (gfx). Sanity was rebuilt in 1992 by several of the original members, most of whom were in Rebels in the meantime. The French members, musician Moby (Frederic Motte, 12/93) and graphician Ra (both ex Dreamdealers, 08-12/93) ventured into professional careers. Moby secured a job at Mindscape in America, and Ra opened a comic shop in his home town in France. They both remained active on the PC scene for a while, in the group Nooon. You'd be well advised to check out these demos! (thanks to Essence's "ROM #4" for some info). 1992 - Jester contributed music to the Anarchy demo "Flower Power" [01/92], Winner of the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition! 1993 - Danish swapper The Pride (ex Brainstorm, new ca 01/92) and dutch swapper Kr'33 (ex Axis, swap pack "Femur Bundle" from Axis, new 09/92) both joined Lemon. in january. 1994 - German coder Tron (ex Anarchy, 03/93-) left the group in early december to be independent. He later reconsidered his independence, and joined Artwork in the early days of 95. The end of december came and Chaos released "Roots" [12/94] for The Party demo competition (with some parts by Tron) to a disappointing 8th position. 1995 - German musician Jester sent shockwaves through the scene when he left for the primarily finnish group Pygmy Projects, whom he'd contributed the tune "Cyberride" for their Assembly 94-winning demo "Extension" [08/94]! After releasing their final demo in 1995, the group fell apart. Many of the best members left for other groups, and the few remaining ones grew inactive. It is uncertain whether the group technically died in 1995 or 1996, my conclusion is a guess. 1996 - An interesting production surfaced in the pc demo competition at The Party 96, where Free Electronic Band (FEB) won with their demo "Alto Knallo". The demo was coded by former Sanity members Chaos (Dierk Ohlerich) and Mr.Pet (Peter Cukierski). German graphician Cougar (08/93-96) first joined Artwork as a doublemember, but when Sanity died he became a fulltime member. He was responsible for many of the greatest graphics in Sanity demos, and won the graphics competition at The Party 93 with his fabulous "Dragonsun" picture. German coder Zap (ex Coma, new RAW2) left to join Masque. German musician Virgill (ex Surprise! Productions) joined TRSI. German coder and musician Microforce (Joerg Simon, ex Coma) left the scene. German supercoder McDeal (Karsten Weiss, ex D-Tect) only participated in one demo for Sanity ("Arte") before deciding to leave the scene altogether in late 94. German megaswapper Exumer (Thomas Kopfmueller, ex Nuance) left the scene in late 94. Editors Disney (Martin, austria, ex Alcatraz) and TFG (Niels, denmark, ex Majic 12) both joined to work on Sanity's planned diskmag, but when those plans fell through they were both unceremoniously kicked (UPS10). The French section 'is now Ozone', according to EuroChart 15. German musician Bit Arts (ex Sanity old) joined Complex (SLH11). Alex, sysop of 'BASE LINE' joined Zenith (RAW4). German coder Flosoft (Florian Stuemann) left the scene together with graphician Cthulhu (RAW4). Cthulu later returned, a.o. contributing pictures to the two "Roots" demos. German coder Cosmos joined TRSI. German swapper and one of the founders, Zaphod, was kicked. German swapper and one of the founders, Diddle (Marc Vasters) left the scene. Fastest Demo (1992?, ECS File). code: Mr.Pet, gfx: A.Christoulakis, music: Mr.Root. Jesterday (1992, 17.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Chaos, gfx: Cougar, HaVoK (titlepic), music: Jester. Winner of Shining 8's Eastern Party 1992 demo competition! review: Everyone who hasn't seen this is a jerk. Really! This is propably the most known musicdisk ever made on Amiga. It was already a legendary production when it has been released... With beats and melodies composed by Jester - who is still one of the best musicians (counting on Eurochart #38!) several years after he left scene - Sanity`s musicdisk is, with a big gap to other productions of this kind, the most known and praised one in the entire scene history. It's maybe because of the five fantastic tunes as for example "Wizardry" and "Breath of Life" - my favorites - but maybe also because of the great opening with really fantastic graphics by Cougar, a qualitative good title picture by Havok and great code by our master ;-) Chaos as for example the zooming dog, the cool tunnel (which was also used in Sanity`s "World Of Commodore" aka "Amiga rules") and the blue vectorlines which transform into lines for notes. When the menu shows up you can read a vertical scroller with information about the tunes settled in a smooth design that is a bit too grey in my opinion. I always feel sad when I run this production. But this is only a matter of taste and at the end is "Jesterday" a paramount scene release in different ways. Decide by yourself why you like it... [zito] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Optimum Fuckup - Part I of the Confusion Trilogy (1992, 29.06, ECS File). code: Chaos, gfx: Havok, music: "Optimum Fuckup" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). 9th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. review: This is essentially a 1-effect demo, demonstrating the use of the Optimum Fuckup effect (hence the name :D). An invention of Chaos, it was first seen in the selector for the Jesterday music disk. It has later also been used for the credits part of the World of Commodore 92 trackmo. However, the strength of the effect is also what brings this demo down; Chaos seems so pleased with it that he shows us TOO MUCH of it. The result is that, once the innovation wears off, it soon gets boring. Great tune by Jester, though. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. World of Commodore 92 (1992, .11, ECS Trackmo). code: Chaos, Mr. Pet, gfx: Cruiser, music: "Stardust Memories" by Jester, "Reachtech-No Limit" by Bit Arts. 2nd in the World of Commodore (WOC) 92 compo. Review: This one's another classic, and one of the first demos to utilise timing of the routines to the music to great effect. Another innovation this brought was TOTALLY NEW effect; the socalled 'Amiga Rules' effect. An even better-looking one was released a few months later, in Lemon.'s "Announce" (1993), but this was the first. I won't beat around the bush any longer: This is one of my all-time favorite demos. Two GREAT modules from two of my fave composers, Chaos and Mr.Pet coding...how could it NOT be great? Nothing more to say: Get it! It was actually put together in five weeks when the Sanity coders found out about the prizes at the WOC ;) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb chip/3.0. Interference (1993, 05.01, ECS File). code: Microforce, Cosmos, gfx: Cougar, Havok, music: Virgill/Masque (2 tunes in ProRunner 2.0 format). review: WARNING! This review caters only for the relatively small part of "Intereference" that worked on my machine ;) It opens with the well-known picture "Sanasmatron" by Cougar (great), a Sanity logo (ok) and an Interference logo (mediocre). The tune is NOT good; it sounds like Virgill trying to do Jester. Bad move! Then, the credits part appears, which is nothing special. And then...it just freezes. The music goes into a peeeeeeeping sound, and the screen is just black. The acompanying text file says Interference has been tested on A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A1200, A2000, A3000. Perhaps they should have tested it on my configuration too? ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Terminal Fuckup (1993, 27.03, ECS File). code: Tron, gfx: Havok, music: Jester (Promizer 1.0c format). 3rd in the CeBIT 93 demo competition. review: Yeah! The demo with ATTITUDE! This is sort-of a punkrock techno approach to demo making, with an increasingly in-your-face techno tune by Jester, that sort of reminds me of his later work in a.o. Roots. And that sudden ending - PISS OFF - just completes the circle. Nothing revolutionary here, but boy is it fun. Outstanding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Boggledop (1993, late, ECS File - 338 lha). code: Tron, gfx: Havok, Sire/Lego (raytrace), Christine/Independent (pic), music: "Crack The Eggshell" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). review: Oooh, this is cute... I really like this little intro-demo! The effects are nothing special, just variations on cubes and such like, but the overall effect of the graphic and the music make it a FUN little production. Especially the music warrants mention, it's quite an unusual tune from Jester. There are no real advantages to be gained from running it on a faster machine; the routines are already smooth on A500's. Approved! Pressing the RMB during the scrolltext at the bottom reveals another, alternative scrolltext. This scrolltext mentions trying to find some of the other hidden stuff... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Arte (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Mr. Pet (main), Chaos, McDeal, gfx: Ra, music: "Livin' Insanity", "Elekfunk!" and "Mobyle" by Moby (ProTracker MOD format). 3rd in The Party 93 demo competition. review: "Arte" is a classic, what more is there to say? There's an unusal amount of effects, and most were quite good for their time. There's not much to be gained from running it on a faster machine (except for the endpart vectorworld), as it was designed with 68000 machines in mind, and the routines are already quite fast enough for that. The demo is, to a degree, timed to the music. There are no timing problems on faster machines. The endpart scroller mentions it should work on A500 to A4000, and I have no reason to doubt that; I've yet to come across a configuration it doesn't work on. And look out for the Einstein picture by Ra, it's AWESOME! Moby's module "Elektrik Funk" (or "Elekfunk!" for short) also competed in the 4ch music competition, where it won first prize! =) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hospital Since Friday! (1993, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Tron, gfx: Cougar, music: "Spice It Up" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). 16th in The Party 93 demo (!) competition. review: This intro opens with another Motorhead cover drawn by Cougar, who 'broke through' with his rendition of the Orgasmatron cover, "Sanasmatron". Then, after a brief credits sequence we go to a relatively fast Doom routine, and that's it. The tune is frantic, yet with a certain groove and suits the demo rather well. Not a bad intro at all, but a little too short and small for a 60kb intro, let alone for a demo! If I remember the story right; Sanity couldn't finish this in time for the intro competition, so they stuck a few extra bits in and released it in the demo competition instead! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Roots (1994, 27.12, AGA Trackmo). code: Chaos (main), Mr.Pet, Sire/Lego, Tron/Indep., gfx: Cougar, Cthulhu, Oliver R. Wilke/Indep. (anim), music: "Harm Me With Harmony" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). 8th in The Party 94 demo competition. review: I remember my original reaction to seeing this at The Party 4 was 'lots of pretty colors, but so what?'. I had expected MUCH more from a quality crew like Sanity! This production IS half-baked, with time and missing Pet's having to take much of the blame... Get "Roots 2.0" instead, it's a MUCH improved version! All effects run a lot smoother on my 030 than they ever did on the standard A1200... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Roots 2.0 Final Version (1995, 23.04, ECS/AGA 020+ Trackmo). code: Chaos, Mr.Pet, gfx: Cougar, Cthulhlu, music: "Harm Me With Harmony" and "Relentless Rage" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format). 2nd in the Black Box Symposium 95 demo competition. review: This successor to the original "Roots" now has all the bits and pieces in place, and is an altogether much more polished package... Much has been added, and some effects have been improved since we last saw them. The demo is split in two parts; on AGA machines both will be shown, but on ECS machines only the second part appears. However, the demo REQUIRES an 68020 for both parts. Of course, like with the original, it benefits from a fast machine. One of Cthulhu's pictures, "Face", competed in the graphics competition at the same party, and came 5th. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sapphire -------- Absolut Chips #1 (Chippack). code: The Boa Constrictor, gfx: Cool T.J., music: Maniac/Crux, Dvize/ Limited Edition, Jester, Mel O'Dee, Cozmic/Prospect. info: I only know all this since some friendly soul ripped all of these tunes and uploaded them in a pack to aminet :) Sardonyx (SDX, 1993-) --------------------- SWE> Calladin (gfx, later Subspace), Candyman (Timo Kotta, swap, later Session, 94), Duffe (Jesper Skoog, gfx, 08/94-96), Flame (sysop 'DEVIL'S TOY', 08/94-01/95), Tobias Jansson (gfx, doublememb Citron [details], 05/96), Zalo (sysop 'DIGITAL HIGHWAY', 02-03/95). GER> Chucky (Marc Loeffler, swap, 12/95-11/96), Maxwell (sysop 'ANTARCTIC STATION', 12/95), Tolpan (sysop 'SILENT MOON', 12/95). FRA> Alhazred (Aymeric Hiltenbrand, writer, old handle The Suicidal Klown (TSK), ex Spasm, new 12/95). ???> B.B.King (sysop 'CITY OF JOY', 12/95), Crip (music), Fichu (toastmaster), Luke (sysop, old handle Crying Freeman), Mundgor (music, 08/94), Newt (swe? gfx sysop), Ultra-Sonic (doublememb Obsession), Ventrue (sysop). Boards; CRIME ZONE (swe, 08/94). Sardonyx was born in 1993, as a demo group originally based in Sweden. A small birthtro was their first production, followed by the intro "Frowzy Frog" [12/93] at The Party 93. 1994 - More releases, including a chippack. 1995 - At the very last day of the year, controversial diskmag "Seenpoint #2" [12/95] was released. Group news for this issue was that French writer TSK had joined, that Chris had to leave, that Hype renamed to Elusive, that Maxwell joined with his board 'ANTARCTIC STATION', that Tolpan joined with his board 'SILENT MOON', that Nadir and Dehydrator left the group, that the Swiss section had died and that the Norwegian section was dismissed, that Bandido renamed to Cenobite, that B.B.King joined with 'CITY OF JOY', that Crying Freeman renamed to Luke, and finally that Sardonyx and C-Lous will be organizing the Icing 96 party! Phew! 1996 - The Swedish party Icing 96 was held at the 24th to 26th of May, coorganized by Sardonyx. Tolpan, Maxwell, Woody (code, 08/94), Drowsy, Toby, Egg, Leon and Soda all had to leave the group due to inactivity, while Elusive (old handle Hype, 12/95) left for New Age and swedish swapper Cenobite (Sven Tormodsson, old handle Bandido, 12/95-) left the scene in june. Swedish coder and organizer Devotion (Christian Holmquist) left the scene around august, after failing to finish an intro for "SeenPoint #3". Dutch writer Sane joined from Mellow in september, first as a doublemember, but ultimately cut his ties to Mellow permanently in november. He was coeditor of Seenpoint from issue #4 [11/96] on. 1997 - Norwegian graphician Zack joined Spaceballs at The Gathering 97 in march. German "SeenPoint" editor Fishwave (09/95-04/97) took his mag and left for Scoopex sometime this year. Presumably also swedish coder Syntax (12/93-05/97) and dutch writer Sane (new 10/96) came along. Frowzy Frog (1993, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Syntax, gfx: Metroid, Ice, music: Marillion/independent. 14th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Requires 68000 processor! 2 Feet (1994, 01.06, ECS File). code: Syntax, gfx: Duffe, music: Toby. Ei Saa Peittää (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Syntax, Woody, gfx: Calladin, Duffy, music: Mundgor. 17th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: This intro shows some competent design-to-be, though I can't help but feel this would have been better as three separate crack intros than a single 40k'er. There's nice design, you see, but not always THE SAME design. One part looks like this, another like this. Each on it's own is not bad, but they were never meant for each other, see? The best part is without a doubt the DPaint plasma! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. SeenPoint #1 (1995, end.09, Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: n/a (title), Fiver/Artwork (main), Sol/lego (fonts), music: SMT/Artwork. SeenPoint #2 (1995, 31.12, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: Made/Bomb (title), Fiver/Artwork and TRSI (main), Sol/Lego (fonts), music: "Enjoying My Coffee" by Laxical/Scoopex, "Icy Melodies" by The Loop/Artwork (both The Player 6.1A format), editor: Fishwave (main), TSK. review: Before you start reading, take a few moments out to listen to The Loop's "Icy Melodies". Hmmmmmm...... just beautiful.... Where was I? Oh yeah, this was supposed to be a diskmag review :) Done a few of these in my time, and I can't help but feel that this mag has everything going for it - audiovisual talent from the very top of the charts, and good code. I've never really been a fan of its aggressive editorial style, however, but history tells the clearest of all stories, and it's doubtless that RAW became the number one mag of its time through the same kind of tactics. Provocation - but I still feel that in Lord Helmet's case it was always with a wink of an eye, and tongue firmly in cheek. Fishwave seems more cynical - like he means every word. But then again, perhaps it's just me, what do I know, I'm just a poor reviewer... =) This was TSK's first issue as a staff writer. Over half of the mag consists of philosphical rambling from Fishwave, which is less than interesting to me. I care about the truth, not how Fishwave feels about the truth. And frankly, his 'why should I respect the people who created the scene' opinions provoke me. What I most miss in this mag is the DEMO related material, the stuff that made ROM so great - the story behind top demos, f.ex. This issue presents four interviews, with SMT/Artwork (clearing up the misunderstandings that led to a negative article in the first issue), Enzo/Hellfire (sysop of 'SKY TOWER'), Data/Oxygene and TSK himself. No information is provided on the system requirements of SeenPoint, but I assume that it won't be a problem on any bog standard A1200. The mag does not multitask. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. SeenPoint #3 (1996, .08, Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: n/a (title), Fiver/Artwork (main), Sol/lego (fonts), music: n/a, editor: Fishwave. info: Originally to have been released in june, but massively delayed because of Syntax' army service, as later explained in SeenPoint #4. The mag had a bug, and before it could be fixed by Syntax and a proper version could be released, someone who wasn't supposed to got their hands on it and spread it to aminet without the authorization of its authors :( If your machine has fastmem, it manifests itself by screwing up the lower panel. SeenPoint #4 (1996, 18.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: JCS/Abyss^Scoopex^Syndrome (title), Fiver/Artwork (main), Sol/Lego (fonts), music: "Mind Structure" by Michael/Anathema, "Wah Experience" by Revisq/Anadune, "SeenPoint Theme" by Laxical/Scoopex, editor: Fishwave (main), Alhazred, Sane. review: The same main code and graphics from the previous issues were again used for this one - though the mag multitasks now! Music is still ok, but not exceptional. Pretty standard, calm magtunes. Then onto the problems: Fishwave. OK, this guy is getting on my nerves. His editorial style (the made-up story of how the Three Little Elks travel with a time machine to Mekka Symposium 99 to steal Azure's routines from the future is a particular negative highpoint) is just rambling, spiked with his own down-putting comments spat out right, left and center. The mag itself - the code, the graphics, the music - is very good, but GOD why couldn't we have gotten a different editor? Sorry Fishwave, but you brought it onto yourself. This issue looks good, sounds good, but is ultimately most of all just pathetic. This was Sane's first issue as a contributor to SeenPoint. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. SeenPoint #5 (1997, .04, HD 020+ Diskmag). info: This issue features a completely new design, lots of new graphics, five tunes to choose from and of course a great pile of articles. Full multitasking. The archive also contains a SeenPoint #5 introduction, done by Antibyte/Scoopex. Saturne (STN) ------------- FRA> FFP (raytrace sysop 'BOUNCING BALLS'), Heinz (Mele Patrick, swap), Vodka (Vincent Oneto, code swap pack, ex Hazard, new late93). N-L> React (Joeri Tan, ascii swap, late95-08/96). ENG> Loony (ascii swap, ex Hazard, new late93-94). ???> City (music, late93), Death (gfx, late93), Ether (code, 04/94), Genst (code, late93), Heinz (gfx swap pack, late93), Ibis (gfx, late93), Octo (gfx, late93), Snipper (code, late93), Voxel (gfx, 04/94), Wave (code, late93). Saturne is best known as the arrangers of the French scene party that bears their name; the Saturne Party. 1993 - All members of Hazard joined late93. Saturne Party II Invitation (1994, early, ECS File). code: Ether, Genst, gfx: Ibis, Voxel, music: City. Low Density Intro (1994, .04, Intro). production: Ether, Voxel. Released at the Low Density 94 party. Sauce ----- AUS> Hunz (music, ex Pearl, 02/94). ???> Scharfrichter (aus? code gfx, 02/94).  Chiptunes 1 (1994, ECS Musicfile). code/gfx: Scharfrichter, music: Hunz. review: Another chipselector, this one features 10 tunes by Hunz, some bouncing sprites and below average gfx...and still manages to attract my positive attention in some weird way :) You see, "Chiptunes 1" succeeds in the one single field where it is most important for any music related software to succeed: with the music. Hunz delivers tunes here that are well above the levels of mediocracy displayed by some of his contemporaries in the field. In short, these are good chippies! The tunes presented are "Just Right", "Count To Zero", "Flower Pot", "Fry An Egg", "Grind", "Happy Laugh", "Monarchy Riot II", "Nothing To Gain" and "Summer Fade". [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Savage ------ ITA> Bitjoker (Claudio Noventa, code, new 10/90), Mucky Up (gfx, 04-06/90), Sterling (04-09/90). GER> Crusher (code, ex Onyx, new late90), Frantic (ex Onyx, new late90), Shamrock (Kurt Bruckner, music, 93-94). FIN> Zany (swap, late90), Zedy (swap, 11/90). ???> cr8y (ger? code gfx, ex Phantasm, new 94-04/96), Cyclone (90), Cyborg (code, 90), Daryl (code, 90), Dehydrator (music, ex Sardonyx doublememb left 04/96), Einstein (code, new 01/90), Excalibur (gfx, 01-09/90), Iluvatar (gfx, 90), JSR (90), Magic (gfx, 93), MG (music, ex Avantgarde, new 04/96), Micon (90), Mk (edit, ex Guru Meditation, new 04/96), Passion (new 90), PVC (gfx, 94), Saigon (01-11/90), Sensei (ex Impact), Sodom (code, ex Animators, 90), Tom (90), Vampire (music, 01/90), Victim (code, ex Animators, 94), Walker (ex Desert), X-Ray (90), Yop (gfx, 93). (Crusher and Frantic joined up from Onyx, Onyx reformed into Defcon One) 1990 - Matthew joined Brain Wave around july. Italian coder and musician Filippetto (04/90) left for Amaze in november. Naturally, he took his diskmag "Freedom Crack" with him, and issue #4 was released under the Amaze label. Filippetto coded a whole lot of intros and demos for Savage during 1990. Matscho joined Xentrix late90. 1994 - MDB (sysop 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD') and Cocoon (code gfx) left; Dahaul and Solid (code) were kicked. Dahaul, Solid, Mayday and MDB all joined Bonzai in march, but it is uncertain what happened to Cocoon... Achnaton joined Damian. Cruncher (ex Damian) left for The Dark Demon. A New Year (1990, .01, ECS Intro). code: Einstein, gfx: Excalibur (logo), music: "Ivory Girl" by Vampire. info: This intro announed Einstein joined the group. Black N Decker (1990, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Up, music: ???/Superserions (Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format, 4322 bytes). Cola Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Cyborg, gfx: Excalibur (animation), Mucky Up (logo), music: "Clear Night II" by Delta X/Flash Team. Crusher (1990, ECS File). code: Crusher, Filippetto (equalizer), gfx: Crusher, music: "In For The Count" by ???/Justice. info: This demo announced Crusher and Frantic joined from Onyx. Cyborg's Beast Gfx (1990, ECS File). code: Cyborg, gfx: from the game Shadow of the Beast, Excalibur (logo), music: "Ch29" by ??? (15ch SoundTracker format). info: This demo announced Passion had joined. Cyborg's Copy Party (1990, ECS File). code: Cyborg, gfx: Mucky Up (logo), music: "Savage Remix" by Kevin Collier/Probe Software (15ch SoundTracker format, ripped from the game Savage). Fast Pack (1990, ECS Intro). code: Sodom, gfx: Excalibur, music: "The Last V8" by 4-Mat/Anarchy. Master Mix (1990, ECS File). code: Daryl, gfx: Iluvatar, music: "Innerspace3" by ???/Energy. Melt Effect (1990, ECS Demo). code: Filippetto, Paranoid/Phaze101 (equalizer), gfx: Wiz/ICS (font), Excalibur (logo), music: "Friendship" by Filippetto. Cooperation with ICS. Rorke's Drift/Oracle & To One/Scoopex packintro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (Future Compoers 1.0-1.3 format, 26412 bytes). Fillippeto's Melting (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Up, music: "The-Edge" by Filippetto. Freedom Crack issue #1 (1990, .05, ECS Diskmag). code^gfx^editor: Filippetto, music: "The-Edge" by Filippetto. Strange Multipart (1990, .06, ECS File). code: Filippetto (part 1,2,3), Flash Gordon/Zicco Zacco (fractals), gfx: Passion, ???/TGM Crew (font), music: n/a (Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format, 4322 bytes), "NCL" by Filippetto. Freedom Crack issue #2 (1990, 20.07, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur, music: "Countdown" by Grubi/Brainstorm. MAG - Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: "Meridian Fetz" by Meridian/Vision, editor: Filippetto. Funzine #3 Loader (1990, 21.07, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: "Funzine" by Filippetto. Freedom Crack issue #3 (1990, 20.09, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur (pictures, font), music: "Ramboloader" by Mat Furniss/Ocean (ripped?). MAG - code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: "NCL" by Filippetto, editor: Filippetto. Released at the Amiga World exposition in Vienna, Austria 27-30.09/1990. info: This was the last issue released for Savage, the next issue was released under the Amaze label. Balls & Motorboats (1990, .10, ECS File). code: Bitjoker, gfx: n/a, music: "Amigavision" by ??? (15ch SoundTracker format). info: This intro announced Bitjoker as a new member. Cyborg's Fly Away (1990, .11, ECS File). code: Cyborg, gfx: Excalibur (titlelogo), music: "JD Rulez" by ???/Radical. info: This demo announced Filippetto had left for Amaze. The New Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Crusher (logo), music: Arcane (Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format). review: There's a lot going on here! This is quite cool, actually. It's a normal one-screen intro, with an ok 'melting' logo (coded), a text writer and a scroller. Design is a little chaotic, but OK. A hint above average. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Hot Gog BBS (1993, ECS Intro). code: Solid, gfx: Magic, Yop (logo), music: "-=- razors gate -=-" by Shamrock. Small BBS Tro (1994, ECS Demo). code: Victim, gfx: Cr8y, music: "$hamrock Melodies" by Shamrock. We Need Beer (1994, ECS Demo). code: Cocoon, gfx: Cr8y (title), PVC (logo), Cocoon (font), music: "Wasted" by Shamrock. Truth (1994, 13.03, ECS Intro). code: PVC, gfx: Sandman, music: "+++ Chip Soul +++" by Shamrock. info: This intro announced MDB and Cocoon Left, and that Dahaul and Solid were kicked out out the group. Released at The Easter Party 94. Save Our Souls (SOS) -------------------- HOL> Funki (ascii, signature f@nK!, 96). ???> Xclusiwe (org ascii, signature xCz, 95-96). Save Our Souls is an ascii group. S.C.A.L.A. ---------- SCALA was a group formed at the spur of the moment when some Northern German sceners got together. They released only one trackmo, Not AGAin! SCALA means Sanity Complex Avena Lego und Andere. Not AGAin! (1992?, AGA? Trackmo). code: Chaos/Sanity, Crash & Argon/Complex, Crazy Crack/Complex, gfx: Sire/Lego, DSN/Lego, Agent T/Cream, Fashion/Static Bytes, music: Tommy/ Avena. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Scalaris -------- POL> Ari (raytrace), Cerber (code), Devoth (code), Dr.Szach (raytrace), Elmek (music), Ender (swap), FML (music), Klaf (Krzysztof Lewandowski, swap, doublememb Appendix, now left to join Old Bulls 06/96, ex Depth, new 06/96), Nazgul (code), Weed (gfx). LUX> Hotstepper (code gfx swap). ???> Drac (gfx, doublememb Ambrosia, new 06/96), Qla (trade, new 06/96). Cook, Igor (pol code), Omen and Kalreg were kicked 06/96. Neuromancer and Timer left for Appendix 06/96. Robson joined Anadune 06/96. Scandal [old] (1992-) --------------------- ???> Nero (swe? modem). Scandal was built late 92 by half the members of the former Grace Italy. D.P.L. joined Platin. Scandal [new] (1994-) --------------------- GER> Melvin (swap, 94). ???> Cujo (crackorg), Defjam (crackorg), Gandalf (demoorg), Paragon (demoorg), Scandal (founder mainorg). Scandal is an illegal group, formed early 94 (probably) when the two groups Faith (ami and console) and Progress (ami) joined forces under this label. They were joined by Dynasty on the pc, to serve as their pc section. Scarab (http://www.scarab-amiga.com/) ------------------------------------- Scarab is a german demo group. Jurassic Pack #9 (2002, 24.02, AGA Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: AcidRain/Team Power Amiga, gfx: Reload/J.L.R., music: Tripper/ Reason^Moods^Void. GAL - code: Stingray, gfx: Cheetah/Ephidrena (panels), 3DAddict/? (title), music: "Dreams" by Maze/Apathy. MAG - code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: "Conan" by Bridgeclaw/Darkage^Gods (title #1), "Candle 1" by Asarhad/Reason^Corrosion (title #2), Budgie/100% Prophets^Layout (panels), Malmis/Nature (clipart), Zito (backdrops), Adam/DCS (fonts), music: Scarlet ------- 1991 - Bazifus joined Vogue mid 91. Sceptic (1991-) --------------- GER> Can (ex Iris), Flite (gfx music, 92-93), Mike (sysop 'GLOBAL CHAOS', previously 'STOLEN SLIME II', ex Byte Busters), Viper (swap). AUT> Imagic (sysop 'FIRE AND ICE', ex 2000 AD, 04/95). CAN> Artic Cat (sysop 'FORBIDDEN ENTRY'). USA> Angel Eyes (sysop 'PALE RIDER', ex Submission, new early93), Iluvatar (sysop 'SPATULA CITY'). ???> Celtic (sysop1 'FIRE AND ICE', new early93), Einstein (ger? code, 93), Laurance (ex Vanish, sysop2 'FIRE AND ICE', new early93), Slime (ger? 01/94), Wigwam (ger? code, 92). Boards; HIGH DENSITY (ger, previously PUMP ACTION), BAD RELIGION (usa), HIGHLANDER (aut), DREAMLAND (10/96). Sceptic (often spelled with a dollar sign, $ceptic) was born in the middle of 1991 after the group Madhouse Ware changed their name to this. Famous German musician Pink/Abyss was a double member for a short while back in 1994. Sceptic's most known demo related productions are without a doubt the classic "Chipmania"'s! Freedom Crack #11 carried the news that 'Celtic and Laurance joined with 'FIRE AND ICE'', but a later source clearly explain that the sysop of said board is Imagic! They did a great looking trainer intro for Supplex, with fab graphics by Flite! 1993 - "Chipmania #9" [07/93] was released on the 1st of july, with a new outfit. German Loomex joined Byte Busters. French musician Hydra (ex Devils) left to be independent. Crunchy and Fuszy (coders amiga+pc sysops 'THE FACTORY') joined TEK. Diamonds and Rust Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Wigwam, Hydra (fix), gfx: Flite (font, logo), music: "Hulk Hulk by DVS" by Bright Brick/Devils (ProTracker MOD format). review: The top of the screen has a very pink D&R logo, then the rest is occupied with a space with wobbly wireframe vectors in the background, over which is laid a pretty standard textplotter. The music is an annoying chiptune. The bottom right contains a tiny 'Sceptic' signature, to tell the world who made the intro. The version reviewed seems to be a presentation of the intro, with nonsense board adds and saying cracked by xxx, supplied by yyy etc., so it was almost certainly not used on a crack. Destabilizes my system. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Chipmania #8 (1993, .03?, ECS Musicfilemag :) code: Einstein, gfx: Flite, music: Mel O' Dee/Shining, Flite/Sceptic, Grim/Digital, Syn-T-Size/Alpha Flight, Jellybean, Travolta/Spaceballs, Beathawk, Clawz/Digital, Organic/Shining, ADT/Absolute, Hi-Lite/Scoopex. Chipmania #9 (1993, 01.07, ECS Musicfile). editors: Flite, Einstein. review: This is apparently the first issue of Chipmania with its new layout, and I must say it's pretty nice! =) Excellent graphics/ascii design all over, and the content feels solid. For those not familiar with the series, Chipmania is a sort of combined mini-mag and chipmusic pack. [glenn] Science 451 (S451) ------------------ SWE> CDC (gfx music, 09/89), Glerc (swap, 09/89), Rygar (swap trade, 09/89- 92), Seventh (gfx, 02/90). Additional members were mentioned in the "Megademo", but these were C64- only. Swedish coder and cracker Syncro (09/89-02/90), also the coder behind the utility "Syncro-Packer", left for Phenomena around mid 90. Megademo (1989, .09, ECS Megademo). code: Syncro, gfx: Syncro, CDC, music: Danko/Fairlight (loader, parts 3, 4 and 6), Vicious/MP (parts 1, 2) and Megaforce (part 5). review: These guys came from the C64, and it shows. Most of the 6 parts in this megademo have a very typical C64-look. This fortunately results in very competent design (for the period), since these guys obviously were among the better on the 64. I suppose the megademo form was a natural choice for C64 people that migrated to the Amiga, since it's very similar to the 64 demos of the time. They were used to the 'press space bar for next part' demos. The music is mostly very good, with four excellent tunes by Danko/FLT. There's also two by Vicious/Mp, which are less great :), and a fabulous tune from Megaforce. This one's ripped, and some of you may remember it from another golden oldie, Dexion's "Megademo". Especially noteworthy is the fact that this old production works on my 030-50 without even the slightest hint of trouble! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Demo (1990, .02, ECS File). code: Syncro, gfx: Seventh, music: "Onslaught" by Maniacs of Noise (Maniacs of Noise format). review: I don't know what it is about this one, it's not particularly innovative or has stunning artwork or anything, it's just the general FEELING of the thing... Perhaps it's the absolutely stunning music? :) Anyway, this feels good...and that's all the reason I need to recommend it, really! Oh yeah, and it's based around vectorbobs and a chessboard, but who cares? :) Feels good! Excellent music! The music is ripped from the game "Onslaught", which they openly admit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Scoopex (SCX, 1989-, http://www.scoopex.org) -------------------------------------------- AUT> TMB (Severin-Stephan Kittl, 05/90-09/01). GER> Acryl (gfx, ex-doublememb Session, new 04/97-06/01), Fishwave (Adrian Jaglarz, editor, ex Sardonyx, 04/98-06/01), Laxical (Joachim Sobczak, ex Vision, old handle Placid, 06/95-06/01), Noogman (gfx, 06/01), Virgill (music, 06/01). FIN> Deck (Juuso Salmijarvi, music, 06/01), Ganja (Markus Castren, music, ex Nerve Axis, 06/01), Karpow (Seppo Seppala, swap, new early95-06/01). DEN> Decoy (Danni Hansen, swap, 10/97-06/01). FRA> Ninja (Jean-Pierre Savari, code, ex Paradox, 10/95-06/01). ITA> Metal Designer (Antonello Mincone, codepc, 12/98-06/01). NOR> Mermaid (Vanja Utne, gfx, new 99-06/01). ???> Alive (06/01), Arancia (06/01), Darklon (06/01), Dylan (codepc, 06/01), Lostcluster (codepc, 06/01), Mazor (06/01), Nomad (raytrace, 12/97-06/01), Peci (codepc, 06/01). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - AUT> Anty (music, ex Energy, new 04-08/89), Atron (code, 06/90), Challenger (code crack, 08/89), Corwin (Siegfried Stegmüller, gfx, 05/90-93), G- Tronic (train, ex Energy, 92), J.O.E (gfx, 07/89-93), Osterman (music, ex Energy, new 04-07/89), Picasso (ex Energy, new 04/89), Prince (code, 05/90), Shark the Master (code gfx, 04/89-90), Tech (code, 12/92- 03/93), Vectrex (code gfx, old handle Brain Matrix, 04/89-90). FIN> Akiro (Risto Kivisilta) and Dr.Poop (sysops 'NAUSEA', ex Black Jack, 06/95), Bloodstone (trade, ex Carillon, later Bloodsuckers, new 11/91), Braindead (swap), Daddy Freddy (Samuli Karkiluoma, music swap, 06- 12/95), Deetsay (code music, 12/98), Reward (gfx, 10/89-11/90), San Miguel (sysop 'FAR NORTH', 04/95), Talbot (sysop 'TEBOIL', 04/95). SWE> Butch (Hugo, org gfx trade, ex The Silents, later Doodles^Shock, 04/93), Conan (new 12/90), Eddie (gfx, new 89), Invid (ex Phenomena, new 12/90), Jesus (music, new 89-11/89), Judas (ex Phenomena, new 12/90), Merriman (code, new 89), Panther (code, new 89), Paragon (swap, ex Lando/Spirit, new 08/92), Photon (code, ex Phemoena, new 12/90), Redskin (new 12/90), Rille (sysop 'IMAGINE', early93-07/94), Uncle Tom (Thomas Dahlgren, music, 10/89-06/90), Uno (gfx, ex Phenomena, new 12/90-93), Zwullo (code, new 89). FRA> Acid (gfx, 93), BKH (Georges Mairet, music, ex Anarchy, 03/94), Chuck (code, 92), Conquest (Xavier, swap, ex Anarchy), Dr.Feelgood (code, 02/94-early95), Eloy (gfx, ex Complex, new late95), Ender (raytrace, 10/95), Flasher Jack (Charlet Franck, code, 93), Fred (Frederic Flavion, music, 93), Hysteric (swap, new 09/96), Kid (gfx, 10/97), NHP (Nicolas Vuillier, music, ex Anarchy, 03/94-02/97), Titan (gfx, ex Digital), Zoom (gfx, ex Anarchy, 03/94). AUS> The Corporal (ex Rebels, new mid 90), The Teacher (ex Rebels, new mid 90). NOR> Absurd (gfx, ex Stone Arts, 06/95-10/97), Darren (Tommy Foss, swap pack "Nam-Nam", ex Highlight/Decnite, 94-10/95), Elmore (code gfx, ex Surprise! Productions, 94), Face The Facts (code, ex Dual Crew, old handle Octoplex, later Vision), Mozell (ex Surprise! Productions, old handle Jim), Mr.Z (code sysop, ex Banana Dezign), Stratos (doublememb Grotesticle, 09/95), Viper (ex No Limits). DEN> Blackhawk (code crack, ex Skid Row), Metalforce (ex Skid Row), Tactica (gfx, 12/96-08/97). GER> Case78 (Rene Rummel, ascii swap, old handle Gangsta, ex Avantgarde, triplememb C-Lous and Head!, 06/95-02/97), Crayor (sysop 'SECOM CITY' EHQ, late93-07/94), Gfx-Twins (Artur Skotnik and Calvin Golkowski, gfx, 06/96-06/97), Hi-Lite (music, ex Surprise! Productions, new 92-02/94), Mr.King (Joerg Gedden, swap pack 'Nevermind', ex Vision, early94), Pigeon (sysop 'UNIVERSE', early93). HUN> Renegade (swap). USA> One Eyed Pirate (sysop 'THE ADDICTION' WHQ, 07/94-04/95), Spazm (sysop 'PROGRAMMERS HEAVEN', 08/92). ???> Birdy (ex Disaster Area, new mid 91), Chris (fra? 07/95), Cocoon (code, ex DCS), Comet (gfx, 03/93), CPC (gfx), Darkman, Depeche (92), Dr.Easton (new 01/92), Falcon (92), Harlequin (ex LSD), Heiko (92), Jayce (92), Jojo, Junkfood (ex RAF), Kidlove (gfx, ex Haujobb, new early98), Mac Clane (code, new early 94), Mack (gfx, 93), Merlin (music, 12/94), Nasty (new early94), Psycho Demon (ex Alpha Flight), Rat (supply), Raxxion (code, ex Alpha Flight, 02/93), Saint (92), Salvatore (ex Alpha Flight), Sear (gfx, 10/97), Shade (gfx, ex Alcatraz, 02/98), Shithead (92), Skywalker (code, ex Nemesis), Smartin (music, 06-07/90), Softmaster (92), Trifox, Tron (code, 06-07/90), Twilight (new 01/92), Youri (music, new early-11/94), Zyr (code train, 04/92). Scoopex is a legendary demo and cracking group, born in Austria early 1989 by members of Megaforce after that group died. Originally under the leadership of Ranger, the group exists up until today, still under the slogan 'Rangerism Isn't Dead'! Some of the information below is based on information from the group's homepage, particularly the news items. Also a special thanks to TMB for some additional corrections and information. Corwin was previously known as Shadow/Commandofrontiers on the c64. 1989 - The group was born in the early months of the year, and "Crazy Typer's First" was likely their first ever release, followed by "Crazy Typer and J.O.E's 2nd". The intro "Vectrex" [04/89] was released in april, announcing the joining of austrian ex-Energy members Picasso, Osterman and Anty. Its coder Brain Matrix liked this name so well, that he changed his handle to exactly that; Vectrex. The Austrian division travelled to the Piranhas Copy Party in Switzerland at the end of april, but it is believed that no releases were made (perhaps "Vectrex"?). They did however release the "Mini-Sine Intro" [05/89] shortly after returning home, and also the the "Mac Fonts 1" [05/89] intro around this time. The group travelled to sweden for the Digitech - IBB Summer Confence in july or august, and released the demo "Glory Stars" [07/89] to a disappointing 16th position. The slideshow "J.O.E's Slideshow 2" [07/89] was also released here. The demo "Xenomorphs" [08/89] was then released in august. This year also spawned two foreign sections for the group; sweden and finland. The swedish division, consisting of Panther (code), Jesus (music), Merriman (code), Zwullo (code) and Eddie (gfx), released their first production for the group in the shape of the one-screen demo "Big" [89]. The members all faded away in time, and a new swedish division was later born in late 1990. It is possible that at least Jesus, Eddie and Panther were later together in Surprise! Productions. The finnish section was born late in the year, and released the group's biggest demo success so far, "Seven Sins" [10/89] in october. Austrian coder Crazy Typer (ex Megaforce, 08/89) left the scene late in the year, after releasing his final production with "J.O.E's Slideshow 2" back in july. The group "Share and Enjoy" (SAE) joined sometime during the year (certainly before may) as a subgroup, but was kicked after a couple of months, allegedly due to 'lameness'. Their releases for the group includes at least the "Megademo" [89] and "Mini-Sine Intro" [05/89]. Crazy Typer's First (1989, ECS Demo). Crazy Typer and J.O.E's 2nd (1989, ECS Demo). 130 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). 136 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). 165 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). 190 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). 205 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). 209 Bobs (1989, ECS Demo). Amiga BTX Prerelease (1989, ECS Intro). code: Crazy Typer, gfx: Joe, music: "Sweet Dreams" by Maestro (15ch SoundTracker format). info: Released AFTER the Energy party in Graz, austria. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to secure much solid information on this party. Big (1989, ECS File). code: Panther, Merriman, gfx: Eddie, music: "Xeqtion-Scoopex Swe" by Jesus and Titan/Northstar (15inst SoundTracker format). review: "Big" was the first release from the Swedish Division that had just joined. It features a large grey SCOOPEX logo scrolling around the middle part of the screen, with a BIG linevector logo spinning over it. The bottom of the screen features a plain, blue-tinted scroller and four lines at the top of the screen echo the music. It's typical of its time, and there are millions of one-screen demos like this. The right mousebutton switches the lo-pass audio filter (and the powerled) on or off, and the joystick button can be used to freeze the scroller. Titan/ Northstar later became Uncle Tom/Scoopex. [glenn] The demo will work provided you run it with KillAGA, but it does destabilize your system after execution. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! Blitter Infection (1989, ECS File). info: Produced by the austrian section. Bobs in Space (1989, ECS File). code: Challenger, gfx: n/a, music: "Beatmaster" by ??? (15inst SoundTracker format). This intro announces the joining of Challenger, and the text was written by Shark The Master. Boys In Blue (1989, ECS Demo). Megademo (1989, Megademo). code: Del/SAE, Comrade/SAE, Gremlin/SAE, gfx: J.O.E/Scoopex (logo), Diablo/SAE (font), T.I.W (bobs), Pete (font part 4), Ozone/SAE (part 5 and 6), music: "Move In Time", "Trash", "Are You" and "Whouse" by Zing/SAE, "Forcefield" and "Fairlight" by Comrade J, "Just Falled In Love" by ??? and "Spell" by Uncle Tom. info: Text by Del and Spex. Made in cooperation with Share & Enjoy, who were a subgroup. Vectrex (1989, .04, ECS Intro). code: Shark the Master, Brain Matrix, gfx: Brain Matrix, Shark the Master, music: "Noname" by Anty (15inst SoundTracker format). info: This intro announced the joining of some Energy members; Picasso, Osterman and Anty. The intro can be found on TRIAD Intro Collection disk #15 in 1989. Laserlight (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Vectrex, Shark the Master, music: "Run The Gauntlet" by Uncle Tom (NoiseTracker MOD format). info: Certainly made after april, when Brain Matrix changed his handle to Vectrex. Lots of line vectors and a classic tune by Uncle Tom. Does _NOT_ work on AGA machines! Mini-Sine Intro (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code: Comrade J, gfx: TIW, music: n/a (Sid-Mon format). Produced by subgroup SAE. review: This small 20k intro is mildly amusing, with its frantic polka- style soundtrack and typical sine-scroller-over-multicolor-raster layout. Underneath the sinescroller is a sideways scrolling starfield, and at the bottom rests a really basic Scoopex logo. It's somewhat comforting to see how basic some of the really great ones started out =) It is likely also known as "English Lessons". The scroller itself contains no credits, just graphics on the logo give any indication to its true authors... [glenn] This intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released on the 16th of june 1989, together with "Mac Fonts I". It was reportedly released just after Scoopex returned from a trip to the Piranhas party in Switzerland, which was held 29-30th of april this year. The release date is therefore sometime between may and mid june. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Mac Fonts I (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Shark the Master, Vectrex, music: "The Sign" by Anty (15inst SoundTracker format). review: Not a terribly interesting intro unfortunately, this features a sort of 'parallax scroll', in that the same scrollfont is put one-over-the other, three of them, creating a semi-3d look... or at least that's the idea. In reality it just makes the scroller damn hard to read =) [glenn] This intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released on the 16th of june 1989, together with "Mini-Sine Intro". It was likely not released at any party; no text inside indicates this. It was tested from the bootmenu, after a caches off, original chipset boot. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Glory Stars (1989, 08.07, ECS File). code: Vectrex, gfx: Vectrex, J.O.E (logo), music: "Scoopex Theme" by Osterman (ProTracker MOD format). 16th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition. info: There is some confusion as to the date the party was held at, see the history files for additional information. J.O.E's Slideshow II (1989, 08.07, ECS Slideshow). code: Crazy Typer, gfx: J.O.E, music: "The Story Is True" by Osterman (NoiseTracker MOD format). Released at the Digitech - IBB Sunner Conference 89. info: J.O.E's pictures here are called Pan2, Pilot, Thalamus, Girl, Spaceship, CastleMix, Helicopter, Island, Logo, Menace, Scoopex Logo, Baal, Space 2 and Castle. Xenomorphs (1989, .08, ECS File). code: Challenger, gfx: J.O.E. (font), music: "The Emboldment" by Anty, "Choose Jesus" by Walkman/IT (both NoiseTracker MOD format). info: A sort of different bob demo - instead of trying to put as many 4 color 16x16 bobs onscreen as possible, J.O.E. made a lot of different 32 color larger bobs. Seven Sins (1989, .10, ECS File). code: Slayer, gfx: Reward (logos, font), music: "Occ-San-Geen" by Uncle Tom (NoiseTracker MOD format). review: I must admit I was very impressed with this demo coded by SLAYER. The presentation is almost faultless, this is one of those progressive demos which introduces new effects as time moves on. However here we have a basis of a simple starfield a couple of copper bars bordering the action, and a truly excellent soundtrack composed by UNCLE TOM, on top of which just a single effect runs, a new one fading in as the previous one disappears. It starts out like a movie with the credits and titles; here we get to see the graphical talents of REWARD. Amongst the visuals thrown at us are a proportional sine-scroller, some vector balls another sine-scroller but with a large font which also moves in the horizontal direction, and some very smooth large solid 3D convex objects. The solid 3D is technically very impressive, each of the objects is in 3 bitplanes (8 colours) and all but very large objects run in just one frame. This is achieved by using what are called Convex objects. This eliminates the need to calculate plane priorities, and you can fill the object all in one operation. In all I would say this rates as one of the best demos I have seen in a long while, and I congratulate SLAYER for this, his first demo for SCOOPEX FINLAND. [anonymous] Just Filled (1989, .11, ECS File). code: Vectrex, gfx: Vectrex, Shark the Master, music: "Martin Short" by Jesus (NoiseTracker MOD format). info: This was released some weeks before Amiga in Kologne, held in november. Glory Stars II Paramount's Revenge (1989, late, ECS File). code: Shark The Master, Vectrex, gfx: Reward, music: "Savannah" by Uncle Tom (ProTracker MOD format), "Trashcan Theme" by Daryl/? (SidMon format, 16154 bytes). review: This whole demo is really a gigantic piss-off message to the cracking group Storm =) After a a small introductory section that appears to be there mainly to imitate a non-working crack from Storm, we get just a small multi-colored starfield with overlaid text. After some pages of this, a counter appears counting down to 0 and we are taken to the mainpart of the demo. This is actually very good; with a mountain in the background and vector stars flying around. A great scoopex logo is at the top of the screen, and an equally great-looking scroller at the bottom. The chiptune in the intro is better than the soundtracker tune in the main part. Some confusion exists over this demo's release date; the scoopex homepage says 1989, while Zeg's encyclopedia says it was released in 1990. You can choose at the very beginning of the demo to see it in english or german. [glenn] 1990 - At the Swedish Elite Easter Conference in april, the finnish section released "Mental Hangover" [04/90], one of - if not THE - most important demos in history. It won the competition, but more importantly it defined a new genre in demos - Trackmos. Suddenly, Scoopex was a leading group in the demo scene! The Austrian section followed this with demos like "Beast Sonix" [05/90], "Green Surprise" [06/90] and "Elefant" [06/90] in the following months. Around the middle of the year (perhaps may?) two Australian members, Bigot20 and Syntech, were kicked. The Australian section was then reinforced with The Corporal and The Teacher from Rebels. Then all English members left to form Genesis with former members of Oracle. Their German board 'HIGH SOCIETY' was closed toweards the end of the year. Lowtec left to join Angels late in the year. The last demo release of the year was Slayer's "Chromium" [11/90] at the Halloween party in november, a demo that was said to be disappointing to many when it first arrived, but today is mentioned favourably as one of the first demos to successfully synchronize its effect to the music. Sadly, it was to be Slayer's final release for the group, as he left the scene after being drafted to the finnish army. After Uno/Phenomena's contribution to "Chromium", he (gfx), Photon (code), Judas and Invid all joined Scoopex a month later, in december. Also swedish Redskin joined this month. Musician Uncle Tom (Tomas Dahlgren) also rejoined from Razor 1911 in december, but unfortunately he slowly faded away from the scene, and never contributed to another production (though a few of his old tunes were used in productions upto 1992). Perhaps his greatest legacy to the scene - and a piece of music that will forever echo in the minds of amiga demo lovers everywhere - is his fantastic "Madness Took Me" from "Mental Hangover" [04/90]. Hangover - Bobs (1990, ECS Disk). code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, Uno, music: Uncle Tom, Jochen Hippel/ independent, SLL/Bamiga Sector One? info: It is highly doubtful if Uno was a real member at this point, he was likely still in Phenomena, and didn't join until december. Megademo II (1990, ECS Megademo, 3 disks). info: Produced by the german section. Mental Hangover (1990, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, music: "Madness Took Me" by Uncle Tom (ProTracker MOD format). Winner of the Swedish Elite Easter Conference demo competition! info: Amazing demo that changed the way we look at the demoscene forever. Professional in every respect, it made instant superstars of its makers - especially coder Slayer. This was the first ever trackmo, and set standards that echoed throughout all subsequent demos. Perhaps the most important demo ever, and an obvious "Demo of the Year" here in Scenery. The demo originally did not work on AGA machines, but a fixfile was eventually released to AmiNet by Galahad/Fairlight. Intro (1990, .04, ECS Intro). Beast Sonix (1990, 06.05, ECS Musicdisk). code: Prince, gfx: Corwin, music: David Whittaker (ripped). info: This is a presentation of music by David Whittaker, ripped from the game "Shadow of the Beast". All the files can easily be ripped with Exoticripper from this :) Apparently the first production from the 'Vienna department' of Scoopex. They announce their next production will be "Green Surprise" [06/90]. Green Surprise (1990, .06, ECS File). code: Atron, gfx: Corwin, music: "Labyrinth.sfx.2" by Uncle Tom (ProTracker MOD format). Elefant (1990, 30.06, ECS File). code: Atron, gfx: Reward, music: "Scoopexsong" by Smartin (ProTracker MOD format). Released for the Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. Chromium (1990, 03.11, ECS Demo). code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, Uno/Phenomena, music: "Chromium" by Maso/ Accession (ProTracker MOD format). Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition. info: Slayer's first demo after the wildly successful "Mental Hangover" [04/90], and also his last demo ever. Uno only did the decrunching picture. Another pioneer demo, in that it was among the first to successfully synchronize the music to the effects. 1991 - This year signified a big change, when original organizer Ranger (Peter, also sysop 'WORLD OF WODKA') stepped down, and a new man was put in charge: Austrian sysop Trade ('NO RESPECT'). Following the joining of some members in december of last year, a full swedish section was built. The English division of the group died around May and its leader Turmoil (Nick) left the scene; no information on what happened to their cracker Electra (ex Slipstream, 07/90), but at least he is no longer with the group. This year also featured several memorable releases, perhaps most notably the group's collaboration with Phenomena and Rebels on the legendary musicdisk "Crystal Symphonies" [91]. The demo "Vector Fart 2" [07/91] is the only one, to our knowledge, that was released for a competition this year. It was released for the demo competition at the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91, but was unplaced in the demo competition. Other releases this year was the "Stunner Dentro" [91] and "Import Intro" [10/91]. German sysop Andy ('DINKELATORS PALACE', 10/91) joined Spreadpoint late this year. Norwegians Jawbreaker (code), Pal (gfx, both ex Razor 1911 old) and Perplex (code) joined to form the norwegian section in october, but all quickly left again, likely in november, to form Offence. This led to the death of the initial Norwegian division, but a new one was later formed. Crystal Symphonies (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Cooperation with Phenomena and Rebels, see Phenomena's entry for review. Stunner Dentro (1991, ECS File). code: Photon, gfx: Uno, music: "Just Spank It" by Firefox/Phenomena (NoisePacker 2 format). review: An preview for a demo that was never released, and also an announcement for the formation of the new swedish section. Features a glenz vector and a good old text-scroller. Will run on unexpanded A500. Vector Fart 2 (1991, 27.07, ECS File). Released for the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91 demo competition, but was unplaced. Import Intro (1991, 19.10, ECS Intro). code: Jawbreaker, gfx: Uno (green logo), J.O.E (font), music: "Electricity" by Ron Klaren/Critical (custom format). info: J.O.E's font is the same as the one used in the "Xenomorphs" [08/89] demo. Used as an import intro for at least the game "Ishido". The release date above reflects this release. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 1992 - This was a poor year for demo production in Scoopex; The musicdemo "Smooth Chimes" [92], the demo "Seen Before" [11/92], the intro "Too Late" [92] and the intro "The Party 2 40k Intro" [12/92], as well as four issues of the chartmag "World Charts", were the only releases. In addition, their subgroup Surprise! Productions also made a few productions. This group, previously holding a similar position in TRSI, was kicked after half a year. The sole exception was coder Spycatcher, who was offered a position with Scoopex. January (some of this possibly happened as early as december last year) was an eventful month; Angeldawn, Autopsy, Tiger and a few other members from Model joined Scoopex, taking the chartmag "World Charts" with them; Octoplex changed his handle to Face The Facts; Bulldog left; geman sysop Bomber joined from Crusaders with 'PEARL HARBOUR', but left again after only a short while; Dr.Easton and Twilight joined. Swedish coder Protec (ex Photon/Phenomena, new 12/90) left the scene to code games early in the year. His sole contribution to the group was the announcement intro "Stunner Dentro" [91], as far as we can find. American sysop Planet Master ('THE EDGE', 08/92) left for The Silents to be their new WHQ sometime between august and october. Finnish sysop Zebra ('THE ZOO', 07/91-) left for Damones sometime after august this year. "The Party 2 40k Intro" [12/92] was released at The Party this year, the debut productions by new coders Tech and Antibyte, who would later play a significant part in the further history of Scoopex. Smooth Chimes (1992, ECS Musicintro). code: n/a, gfx: Angel Dawn, music "Smooth Chimes" by Hi-Lite. review: "Smooth Chimes" is actually not a demo at all, just a presentation of a tune by Hi-Lite, and the scrolltext has only one line: "contribution for the music-competition by hi-lite of scoopex". The entire rest of the screen is occupied with a *LOT* of small colorful blenk-vector cubes, and a very cool Scoopex logo by Angel Dawn (not credited, but it bears his initials) runs down the left hand side of the screen. The text "Smooth Chimes - composed by - Hi-Lite of Scoopex" is plotted in approximately the middle of the screen, and the aforementioned scroller runs along the bottom of the screen. This gives a nice impression, but is hardly a real production... We have no information on the party where this was released, supposedly the "Possessed Party" in 1992. [glenn] Too Late (1992, ECS Intro). info: By the german section. World Charts #5 (1992, early, ECS Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: "Hardcore" by Static/Rebels (PRoTracker MOD format), editor: Autopsy. review: Angeldawn's graphics are the first thing that grabs me about WC5. I've always been a fan, his stuff has that little extra edge... The second thing you'll notice is the fact that it's controlled not by the mouse, but with the keyboard! Cursor keys and return guide you around the different menus, and tell you what crackers and releases were the best and worst in the early days of 1992 :) WC5 is adequate, but not terribly outstanding. They promise a new outfir for the next issue, which they also delivered. I do miss some more precise credits and some more text! [glenn] Despite using KillAGA there are some graphical strangeness around...but the charts are fully usable, as well as readable. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review!  World Charts #6 (1992, 19.04, ECS Trackloaded Charts). code: Thomas Kessler (Tom/Spreadpoint), gfx: Angel Dawn, music: "Toi-Tei" by Uncle Tom (ProTracker MOD format), editor: Autopsy. Released at the Eastern Conference 92. review: This rather old chart features stunning graphics (for its time) and one of Uncle Tom's all-time greatest tunes. It's really a shame he left the scene; if he was making stuff like this in '92, god knows what he could have come up with today! Anyway, this features mostly crack- and modem-related charts, so interest for legal-minded people might be low. Worth getting just for the tune. On the 030 AGA machine, the music routine doesn't play correctly. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Music bugs. World Charts #7 (1992, 19.06, ECS Chartmag). code: Tom/Spreadpoint, gfx: Angel Dawn, music: Hi-Lite/S!P, editor: Autopsy. World Charts #8 (1992, ECS Chartmag). code: Tom/Spreadpoint, gfx: n/a, music: "Worldcharts" by Arpegiator (ProTraker MOD format). info: There is a secret part in this mag, type 'SIRBYH' to access it. It features music from the game Hybris. The Gamble Hall BBS Intro (1992, late, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Disaster Area, see their entry for details. Seen Before (1992, .11, ECS 1MB File). code: Spycatcher, gfx: Angel Dawn (logo), Spycatcher, Mongole (font), music: "Pyromania" and "Purple-Shades" by Hi-Lite/S!P (ProTracker MOD format). info: The release date is given as some weeks before The Party 92. There is a secret part in the demo. Won't work on AGA or 3.0+ machines. The Party 2 40K (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tech, Antibyte, gfx: Godflesh, music: "Purple-Shades" by Hi-Lite (ProTracker MOD format). 4th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. 1993 - Lots of releases were made early this year, most from Antibyte with the help of Tech - among them were two invitation intros for the "Cebit 93 Invitation" - a party they also hosted in march - and the "Official invitation Eastern Conference 93" intro for the SEMI Party in austria in april. American sysops Voyager and Snow Queen ('FASTTRAX' WHQ) left early this year. At The Gathering, two releases were made, none of which were for the competitions. Norwegians Jaz and Decker released the music disk "Scoopex Plays 2 Unlimited" [04/93], which proved mildly successful for the group, while new member Colorbird's intro "Cageball" [04/93] was a relatively uninteresting affair. At the SEMI Party itself, that same weekend, Antibyte and Tech released the "SCX-NRG-MTU Party 40k Intro" [04/93]. Just a few weeks after the easter holidays, both Jaz (code) and Decker (gfx) ended their memberships, leaving for Andromeda. Other releases this year was the intro "Ectobyte" and the demo "Maxima" from Flasher Jack and the french section. Ectoplazm BBS moves to Hallowed Point (1993, ECS Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Butch (logo), Uno (font), music: "Necronomicon" by Hi-Lite/Surprise! Productions (ProTracker MOD format). Pha Q - Lameness Took Me (1993, ECS Multifile). code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Mack, J.O.E., Uno, Made, Nightlight (wooden logo), Corwin (made in austria logo), music: "Mind-Distortion" by Hi-Lite, "Beastsong" and "Ambiance" by Fred (ProTracker MOD format). review: The only reason why you might want this is a couple of logos (the bootlogo and Made's end logo), and not much else. I never found it very interesting, since it's so AVERAGE. Music and coding fails to excite me. Though it's multifile, it still requires the custom bootblock to boot. It has a hidden part, which you can access if you look on the disk's directory. One the files is the one to execute. If you wonder about the name, then try to say it very slowly - it should sound like FUCK YOU. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Maxima (1993, early, ECS File). code: Flasher Jack, gfx: Acid, Uno (logo), CPT, music: "Occasions of Sin" by Hi-Lite (FC-M format). review: The demo opens with a good Scoopex logo by Acid. The next cool thing on display (after some vector letters fly from right to left) is a large SCX logo made out of vectors...which updates terribly jerky on my 030-50 :( Hmmm... Is this realtime? I think not. The cheats of yesterday to make things seem like they run faster than they do are the downfalls of today, when they run at a fraction of the speed they could! Another nice part has a sphere increasing and decreasing in size, until it sort of 'spacecuts' a great pixeled Scoopex logo by Uno! Also the good, fast shade bobs of the end part are worth a mention. Unfortunately, the demo cannot be exited, and you have to reboot every time you've watched it. Overall, "Maxima" leaves me with a very good feeling. This is a nice little demo with some really excellent artwork and music. There's some reasonably good pixels here, and the 'comeback' Scoopex logo by Uno is rather cool. The credits part still had some graphical errors on my setup, even with KillAGA running. Uno and CPT are mentioned as 'guest artists'. The demo requires ½mb chip and ½mb fast to work. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA. Official invitation Eastern Conference 93 (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Uno (scx logo), Cruzifix (nrg logo), music: "Silent Attack" by WOTW/Gothic (ProTracker MOD format). Invitation to the SEMI Easter Party 93. review: As far as invitation intros go, this is hardly the most advanced one seen. After an introductory sequence with a little text and some logos, a morphing text plotter appears. It's ok, and does what it's supposed to, but there's nothing extraordinary. Depacking the file and hex-reading it reveals a text message from coder Antibyte. Cheer up, man! The party was held at easter time, so this intro was presumably released in the first part of 1993. No credit given for the Manitou logo. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA! CeBIT 93 Invitation [1] (1993, .02, ECS File). code: Raxxion, gfx: Decker, music: "C64Medley" by n/a (sa format). Invitation to CeBIT 93. CeBIT 93 Invitation [2] (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Comet (intropic), Uno (logo), music: "Madness" by Hi-Lite (ProTracker MOD format). Invitation to CeBIT 93. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04 -- Note: Works fine. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Does not work.  Cageball (1993, 08.04, ECS Intro). code: Colorbird, gfx: Butch, music: "Pip6.1" by Some1 & Prime (ProTracker MOD format). Released at The Gathering 93. review: Just an intro; logo at top, textwriter over 'cageball' effect. Nothing exceptional here, and a really pointless production. Only significant for the fact that it announces the joining of new swedes Colorbird, Some1 and Prime. There are graphical errors on my 030 configuration, even with KillAGA, but the intro itself works fine despite this. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Scoopex Plays 2 Unlimited (1993, 09.04, ECS 1MB Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Jaz, gfx: Decker, music: Uncle Tom (loadertune), Jaz (cover versions). Released at The Gathering 93. info: This 'cover version' musicdisk includes the tunes Workaholic, Get Ready and Twilight Zone from 2 Unlimited. Caches off for 020+ machines. This was Jaz and Decker's last release for Scoopex, since they both left for Andromeda later this month. SCX-NRG-MTU Party 40k Intro (1993, 10.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Butch (1st logo), Angel Dawn (2nd logo), music: "Purple Shades" by Hi-Lite. Released at the SEMI Easter Party 93. review: Mostly dot-effects are presented here, with dots morphing to form letters, dot-cubes, a circlescroller in dots and lots and lots of dot- balls. The only break from the dots, it seems, is the starwars scroller presented towards the end of the intro. This has some graphical errors on the 030 machine, probably because of the faster processor (ran with KillAGA, so the graphics shouldn't be a problem). Nothing outstanding. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! 1994 - In 1994 Trade stepped down as leader of the group, and turned the leadership over to another Austrian; coder Antibyte. He has not yet been replaced. Norwegian graphician Absurd (ex Suspiria, 04/94) joined Stone Arts and was there in december of this year, but rejoined early next year. The intro "Laziness Took Me" [02/94] was released in february, closely followed by the 3-disk musicdisk "Scoopex Melodies" [03/94] in march. The 64k intro "Halloween" [04/94] was released for the Saturne Party 2 intro competition, where it finished in fourth place. German swapper and graphician Plasma (Lee Wijant, ex Vision) got kicked due to inactivity late in the year. The AGA intros "No Human Vibes" [11/94] and "And Love For All" [12/94] rounded off the year. Apart from this, also some issues of Mr.King's packmag "Nevermind" was released this year. A pc section was formed, and released a small dentro called "Forbidden Areas" [07/94], featuring the graphical talents of Made. Chillin Arabians (1994, Intro). SAC (1994, Intro). info: By the Norwegian section. Laziness Took Me (1994, .02, ECS Intro). code: Dr.Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: "Trance4mate" by Hi-Lite/S!P (protected ProTracker MOD format). review: Short and slightly dull, this intro features nothing new. There's a logo by Made down the left side of the screen, which is not really his best work by far. The music by Hi-Lite is also a disappointing, monotonous affair. The 'code' here consists only of a text plotter and a filled vector spinning star in the background. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Scoopex Melodies (1994, .03, Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: Spycatcher, gfx: Made, Zoom, music: NHP and BKH. info: The tunes featured are "WM-Intro(nhp)" by NHP, "Ode, "Oz", "Epsonic", "Zoocolors", "Aces High", "Fairyland", "The Fly", "Hadrians Wall" and "Kinky Single" by NHP and BKH. Halloween (1994, 23.04, 64k Intro). code: Mac Clane, gfx: Made (textures), music: Youri. 4th in the Saturne Party 2 64k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Nam-Nam #1 Pack Menu (1994, late, ECS Intro). code: Elmore, gfx: Absurd, Elmore, music: Vegard. review: Pack menu for Darren's then-new pack "Nam-Nam". All the warez are from the Assembly 94, so it was obviously released at the party, or soon after. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. No Human Vibes (1994, .11, AGA Intro). code: McLane, gfx: Made, music: "NHV" by Youri (ProTracker MOD format). And Love For All (1994, .12, AGA Intro). code: Dr.Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: Oxbow. info: Will work on unexpanded A1200's. 1995 - This year signified a 'second birth' for the group. New organizer Antibyte undertook a major cleanup in the group, reducing the amount of members from over 100 to a more normal 20 people. This included old legends like Slayer (Tommi Junttila) and Uncle Tom, that never officially left the group, but were now finally removed from the memberlist. The results of this cleanup was a more focused, more quality-oriented group that gave the scene some quite memorable releases this year. Norwegian graphician Absurd rejoined from Stone Arts in the early months. Norwegian graphician and swapper Snuffy (ex Cadaver) left to be independent in may. The demo "Alien" [06/95] was released at Abduction 95, and came 2nd in the competition. Made's slideshow "Artcore" [07/95] followed in july. After this, the chippack "Noname" [95] came out. At Assembly in august Ninja's demo "Iso" came 3rd. December came with The Party, and the group released two intros this year; Ninja's "FreeYourMind" [12/95] and Antibyte's "Zero Gravity" [12/95] - placing 3rd and 11th respectively. The intro "666 (Don't Forget The Sign" [95] was also released this year, though the exact release date is a little more uncertain. Not content with his impeccable slideshow "Artcore", French graphician Made (early 94-07/95) left for Bomb! sometime between the months of july and october. 666 Intro: Dont't Forget The Sign (1995, autumn, ECS File). code: Dr. Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: "666.the number" by Oxbow. review: Rather fun, this, though it gets a bit monotonous after a while. It opens with a typical 'Melon' design, only to suddenly transform into a heavy-metal hell with screeching guitars and suitable design. There's text that appears on screen in time to the music, but - at least on my machine - it sometimes moves so fast it's impossible to read. Then we're on to some more Melon-y design for the end part with a vertical scroller that can be stopped with the right mousebutton. Fun, but forgettable. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Alien (1995, 11.06, AGA File). code: Antibyte, gfx: Made, Absurd, music: Laxical (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Abduction 95 demo competition. review: Graphics and sound are the best things about ALIEN - a demo that has no logical links to its name. The show opens with an excellent Scoopex logo by Made, with some text zooming in and out over it. Then the "Alien" logo appears, which is of a much lesser quality. Next we're given some effects, like a cube which has zoomrotators of an eye texturemapped onto them - moving independently of each other! This is a nice effect, as is the morphing skull. The gouraud stuff here seems a little premature and blocky - like the early gouraud in Razor 1911's "Falu Red Color" intro. The standard filled vectors here are much better. Overall, I'd say you'd want to get this for the graphics and music - not for the code. The picture 'Braindamage' by Absurd, which appears halfway through the demo, seems distorted. I also had a crashing experience with the 4mb fast setup, though what caused it is uncertain. "Alien" will work on an unexpanded A1200, but an accelerator is recommended. "Alien 2" (12/98) was released in 1998, and won The Party 98 demo competition. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Artcore (1995, 14.07, AGA Multifile Slideshow). code: Psy, gfx: Made, Chris (design), music: Oxbow (The Player 6.1A format). review: Ok, this blew me away. From a very acceptable introduction sequence, with an ok logo and a 'beating heart' soundtrack, you're shown the excellent title picture. Then, you get to the selector. And *WHAT* a selector! It's actually a Doom clone, and you travel around the dungeons searching for pictures! Ofcourse, there's an autoslide button to be pushed in the room you begin in... This selector method is both good and bad. Obviously, it looks great! The drawback, however, is that with all the wall textures pretty much identical, you get lost all too easily. An overlayed map function would have helped tredemendously, but then again - this is a slideshow and not a commercial game! Ok, over to the main focal point of any slideshow - graphics. Made's pictures here can only be described in one word - outstanding! When you travel around, and find a picture, you see its name in a small status box, and the resolution and numbers of colors used on the right. I was actually astonished to find that most of these pictures were in 64 or, in some cases, as little as 32 colors! I was only able to find one 256 color picture here... One major drawback with many of Made's pictures is the fact that they're copies of pictures that's even been done before...and in many cases better. He's asking for trouble when he's trying to top Fade One's awesome rendition of the girl and the antilope (?) in the water, that he did in his slideshow for Lego "Never Liked Uno" [04/94]. Anyway, this has to be my longest review ever! =) Conclusion: Totally fucking outstanding. Download. Oh, and the music's excellent! There is a hidden part to be found through the maze at the end of gallery hall one - the hidden zone. Here you'll find an animated levert and a lot of text describring the slides, announcing greets, addresses and the like. Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously exits the slideshow. Will work on unexpanded A1200s. [glenn+zito] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Noname (1995, AGA Musicfile). code: Antibyte, gfx: Absurd, Vegard, music: Oxbow, Vegard, Laxical, Daddy Freddy. info: This little production was released sometime after "Artcore" [07/95]. The tunes are: "Abundance of Aunts", "Arabian Beat", "Bye Bye Marmaris", "Ellef Chip III", "Ellef Chip IV", "Ellef Chip V", "Ellefs Fight", "Juicy Cut", "Nothing But Dust", "Short But Sad" and "Synthetik Chip Town" by Oxbow; "Amberworld", "Aquatic", "Billy Is Dead", "Kids Garden" and "Purple Turtle" by Vegard; "World in Short", "Braindamaged", "Braindamaged II", "Braindamaged III", "Downfall Nearby", "Holy Slayer III", "Let's Chip It Again", "Lets Go El Paso", "Naja", "Synthetic Style", "Trainer For One" and "Trainer For Two" by Laxical; "Teadrop In A Pot", "Strawberry Theme", "Veli Nopea", "Pitchfork Jack", "Pekkas Journey", "Keeping The Faith", "Der Steppenwolf", "Counterblow", "Black Ice", "B Y O B", "Are You Excited?" and "She Contorted Herself" by Daddy Freddy. Iso (1995, 08.10, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, Ender (intro raytrace), music: Oxbow. 3rd in the Party Remedy 95 demo competition. review: A BIG demo from the French guys, who were unfortunately beaten by two Swedish groups at a Swedish party. That's a long way to travel for the bitter taste of defeat... Anyway, this demo is above average in every respect. When you boot the first disk, you're shown some information about your system, like processor and memory available. When the loading is complete, the demo itself starts with a raytraced animation, with the names of the creators flashing up at regular intervals. The demo itself consists of LOTS of good, advanced effects. The music by Oxbow is the usual techno, except for the endtune which is a funk tune, much in the style of what Moby did for Sanity's "Arte" (1993). The endpart is quite interesting in itself, really, with its amazingly smooth plain vectors flying around in the background. The upscroller can be paused with the right mousebutton, though the demo does not mention it. There's also several great pictures by Made here, but then you'd pretty much expect him to make great pictures, wouldn't you? The demo recognizes a second disk drive (and a third, for all I know :), so there's no annoying diskswap pauses. Booting the second disk brings up a small graphical display informing us it's the second disk. This was Ninja's first release for Scoopex. Will work on unexpanded A1200's. With harddrives now the standard, this was perhaps the LAST great trackmo, and the end of an era? At the Assembly summer party the following year, a sequel was presented, called "Cyberia - Iso Opus II". It was a harddisk demo, and nowhere near as good as this one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. FREEyourMIND (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Daddy Freddy (Promizer 2 format). 3rd in The Party 95 40k intro competition. review: An impressive intro this, no doubt about that. I love that 'face pressing out from object' thing. There's plenty envmapping, good graphics and fabulous music. Still, why does it stop so abruptly? Will work on unexpanded A1200's. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Zero Gravity (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Uno, music: "Caacaophoniahappo" by Deck (The Player 6.1A format). 11th in The Party 95 40k intro competition. review: Pretty much a standard 2-effect intro this, the only possible innovation being the phong-shading. It's not - by far - the best routine of its type, but not the worst either. The intro opens with a reasonably cool picture by Uno, of a mean-looking eye and a Scoopex logo. Then the phong routine is introduced, and we're given a donut with a star inside, plus a duck. Then we're given a zoomrotated, stretching version of the eye from the intro. Then there's a rather pointless effect, a tunnel of pink and light blue circles, before we're given one last look at the pic. The music is monotonous and not very exciting. Still, it's far better than the irritating piece he did for the sequel, "Zero-G 2"! I found an error message for reporting 'not enough memory', but none for AGA. Therefore, I'm refraining from categorizing this as either an ECS or AGA intro. Runs on unexpanded A1200's. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 1996 - Turkish graphician Kris left for Clique in june. Lots of member movement in october; talented danish coder Boogeyman joined from Passion; Motion and TNT left; Alias sold his Amiga and finally Gangsta renamed to Case78. Come november, musician Deck sold his amiga and bought a pc; he and Oxbow were 'moved over' to the pc section. Other news in november was that danish Scope (coder of a.o. "MagBox" for Balance) joined from Passion and Balance, that JCS was out of the group, and the release of the 64k intro "Quantum" [11/96] (Ninja/Made/Deck) at the Saturne Party to a disappointing 9th position. The official Scoopex homepage was launched in december, done by Tactica. At The Party at the the end of the month, the 40k intro "Zero Gravity 2" [12/96] (Antibyte/Made/Deck) came 2nd in the competition. Boogeyman's debut production, the dentro "Satyanarayan" [12/96] (Boogeyman/Made/Tactica/Deck) was also released at The Party, but outside the competition. Abduction 96 Invitation (1996, 18.05, AGA File). code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Oxbow (The Player 6.1A format). info: Invitation intro, with the credits page showing the producers as caricatures! Cyberia - ISO Opus 2 (1996, 18.08, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Doft. 6th in the Assembly 96 demo competition. Cooperation with Bomb. review: Disappointment. That's the word I'd use to describe the follow-up to the excellent "Iso" (10/95) trackmo! It seems they've lost the touch that Iso had, and have instead come up with a an advanced, but bland and boring demo. The effects may be harder to code, but that doesn't automatically make them cooler to look at! This is a horror example of a demo with no identity of its own, just effects linked one after the other... This is not what I expect from a 2.8mb (archived) HD demo from Ninja and Made! There are two full-screen pictures by Made in this demo, the second one being "Babylona", which won the graphics competition at this very party. The musician, Doft, delivers a bland and uninteresting tune. It's like he's trying to sound like Deck (who sounds awful in his own right) - and fails... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quantum (1996, .11, AGA 64k Intro). code: Ninja, gfx: Made, music: Deck (The Player 6.1A format). 9th in the Saturne Party 4 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Bomb! review: 2 days and 64k, it says in the intro. I don't disbelieve that for a second. I do, however, think that I would think more highly of Ninja and Made had they NOT made this emberassing intro. The only one who gets out of this one with some credibility is Finnish musician Deck, whose involvement can surely have been no more than their just using his tune. This looks just awful and jerks like hell even on my 030. Requires a little fast mem, I guess - I had to reset to make it work. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Zero Gravity 2 (1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Made, music: Deck (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in The Party 96 40k intro competition. review: This intro is good in parts, and less so in others. The stars of the show are some more shaded objects, this time with the 'innovation' that there's some animated (precalced?) object in the background also. The music gets on your nerves after a while, and Made's graphics limit themselves to a mediocre font. The competition must have been abysmal. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Satyranarayanan (1996, 28.12, AGA Dentro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: Made, Tactica (background), music: Deck (The Player 6.1A format). Released at The Party 96. 1997 - January sees danish musician Prophet (ex-Subject/Balance^Passion) joining, and Splatterhead rejoining. Another dane followed in february, with the joining of graphician Prowler/ex-Passion. At the very end of march came the high-point of the year for most Germans with the Mekka Symposium party; only a sixth position in the demo competition was achieved this year, with Antibyte's "The Sign" [03/97]. April saw the joining of danish swapper Decoy (Puzzle doublemember), german graphician Acryl/ex Session and another dane; Bird/Rebels. A fix for "The Sign" on 060 processors was also released this month. Calvin, one half of the Gfx-Twins, left the scene in May. An intro for Sardonyx' diskmag, "Seenpoint #5 Intro" [05/97] was done by Antibyte. June came with the Abduction 97 party in Finland, and the 64k intro "Phorce" [06/97] came 2nd in the competition by a single point! Scope left (Jesper Giørtz Behrens) the scene this month, but they were reinforced with Nomad, Fishwave and not least polish graphician Lazur from Anadune! At the Wired 97 party in july, the intro "Performance" [07/97] won the competition! Assembly came in august, and the intro "Zero-G III" came 2nd in the competition. Deck came 7th in the music competition. Calvin of Gfx-Twins returned to the scene! September came with more happy news, as Stelios/Axis decided to rejoin Scoopex. The Chip-music collection "Gosh" [10/97] was released in october, and the big news this month was that also Syntax (code) and Sane (editor, both ex Sardonyx) had now joined their main editor Fishwave in Scoopex, and that future issues of their diskmag "Seenpoint" would be released under this label! Also, Decoy left Puzzle to be in Scoopex only. November saw restless Stelios leave the group once again, this time for Sonik. Other news this month was that french swapper Chris (Christophe Kumor, 94-) left to be in Bomb! only, which he had been a doublemember of, Acryl leaving the scene, and scoopex management deciding to downsize the group. As a result of this, Oxbow and Thorin are no longer members. Finally december came, and with it The Party. The demo "My Kingdom" (in cooperation with Haujobb) WON the demo competition, Antibyte's intro "Superautodrome" WON the intro competition, and both "Seenpoint #7" [12/97] and Lazur's slideshow "5977" [12/97] was released. The demo was not released at the party, but was taken home for some final fixing first. Kidlove/Haujobb, 2nd in the graphics competition at TP, joined a few days later. Ninja decided to take a break from the scene. EC30 Intro (1997, Intro). The Sign (1997, 30.03, AGA Demo). 6th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Phorce (1997, 06.06, AGA 64k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Abduction 97 64k intro competition. info: The intro is subtitled: "Zero Gravity 2 Remix". Performance (1997, 19.07, AGA 64k Intro). code: Krishna, gfx: Tenshu/Syndrome (2d + 3d), music: "Scoop" by Traven/Syndrome (ProTracker MOD format). Winner of the Wired 97 intro competition! review: Despite being a party winner, there is really little to this one- effect intro. Everything is based around Krishna's envmap routine, from the opening SCOOPEX logo to the names of the three authors to the title of the intro. Then follows two mediocre objects, and finally a bird object with quite a lot of polygons...and then nothing. Probably extremely well coded, but oh so dull... The music quickly gets very tedious and monotonous. The info file mentions the intro will NOT work on 040 or 060 cards! Why? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zero-G III (1997, 09.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Antibyte, Boogeyman, gfx: Tactica, music: Deck (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: Some more amazing morphing, large envmapped objects and scenes from the coding facory Antibyte (with some help from Boogeyman) here. The most impressive thing about his intros seem to be that it's so damn FAST - everything just runs sooo smoothly! The 3d scene with the castle is nothing less than amazing on an 030. And it ends with bumpmapped credits and a really cool effect where a scoopex logo is backlit...you've seen it many times in the movies etc... Even Deck's music is tolerable here! :) You can use the commandline parameter '0' for 1x2 resolution, which further boosts the speed of the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. GOSH - Noname 2 (1997, 21.10, AGA 4MB Musicfile). code: Antibyte, Boogeyman (endroutine), gfx: Absurd (main), Sear (menu), Made/Bomb (menufont), Kid (scxlogo, credfont), music: Prophet (opening), Laxical, Oxbow, Deck. review: "Gosh" features 30 chiptunes from three musicians, and a full- blown techno tune from a fourth. Couple this with LOTS of pictures by Absurd, and you've got yourself a slideshow/demo/musicdisk/chippack hybrid! There's nothing much wrong with any of the audiovisuals here, with lots of good quality Absurd pictures, as mentioned, lots of tunes to choose from and a fast envmapping routine to spin the name of the current composer on top of each picture... News dated 11/96 stated that Oxbow and Deck had moved over to the PC section of Scoopex, but it seems they got homesick :) The final picture by Absurd was used in the packmenu 'Nam Nam' as early as 1994... The release date is based on the upload date to AmiNet :) You can use the commandline parameter '0' to make all the env-mapped objects run in 1x1 mode, which it tells you AFTER you've run it once. A sneaky way to make you run it twice ;) Though the demo will run on a standard 020 with 4mb fast, it recommends a 030 or better. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast /3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Seenpoint #7 (1997, 27.12, Diskmag). My Kingdom (1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile). Winner of The Party 97 demo competition! Cooperation with Haujobb, see their entry for details.  Superautodrome (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Nomad (3d), music: Muffler. Winner of The Party 97 40k intro competition! review: 3D worlds, with texture, phong and envmapping abound in Scoopex' TP97 winner this year. Technically, I guess this is one of the best 40k'ers ever, but visually it's less than great in my eyes. All the 3d trickery is well and nice, but it's not very exciting anymore, is it? There's virtually no interesting design, the music sux, and there's no real graphics here either. If you love objects and camera angles, then go get this - otherwise, you'd probably be better off looking elsewhere. The intro is a little slow on the 030, unless you use the commandline switch '0' to swtich on 1x2 resolution, which helps a lot. The version reviewed here was released to aminet a few days after the competition, and had three bugs fixed. However, there's still some bugs left in the opening 'phong in a globe' part... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast /3.0.  5977 (1997, 28.12, AGA Slideshow). code: Antibyte, gfx: Lazur, music: Jogeir Liljedahl. Released at The Party 7. review: Lazur's first release for Scoopex is his third (!) slideshow - a remarkable release in many respects. All of the pictures here (except what's tailormade for this production) seem to be from 1996, which means two things. One; he's a damned workaholic, and two; there's a whole year of pictures still unreleased! The mind boggles at the possibilities... The pictures here vary somewhat in quality, from the awesome "Elmore" to some more bland, uninspired works ("Tears"...). Most, if not all, of these pictures have been used in other productions, but that's almost always the case with all slideshow these days, so it's no real deterrent. One thing that seem to constantly annoy me about Lazur's work is that he's still having problems with proportions of bodies, though. The other very remarkable thing about this slide show is THE RETURN OF JOGEIR! It's been a few years since this living legend did any music for the Amiga scene, and his return is warmly welcomed! His tune here is pretty good, but not excellent - perhaps he's a bit rusty on 4ch work, hehe... The slideshow opens and closes with an animation of a man walking, before finding a book, and opening it. You choose what picture to view by pointing the index finger of his hand at the picture, and at the end he drops the book to the ground. The slideshow will actually work on an unexpanded A1200, but without 4MB of fastmem, there won't be any intro and end animations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. 1998 - In january, danish coder Vention (formerly of Kefrens and Polka Brothers) joined the group, and the final version of "My Kingdom" was released. February came, and with it two more intro releases: "Torque" [02/98] came 2nd at Flag 98, while "Haupex" [02/98] (in cooperation with Haujobb) won at Scene Meeting 98. In addition, the fixed version of "Superautodrome" came out, and it was decided that there would no longer be pc and amiga 'sections'. March came with the news that Acryl rejoined the scene, and that graphician Bay Tremore joined from Haujobb. April came around, and with it the Mekka Symposium party. This year, "Superautodrome 2" [04/98] won the 40k competition, and "Seenpoint #8" [04/98] was released. Vention (Martin Gram) left the amiga scene in june, and decided to join CNCD on the pc instead. Darklon (code) joined in july. August came with the major Assembly party, and this time the intros "System Crime" [08/98] and "Effusion" [08/98] were presented to 2nd and 6th positions, respectively. Kidlove came 2nd in the graphics competition, and Deck finished 11th in music. "Infestation #86" [08/98] was also released in august. French coder Psy (Stephane Pouyet, new late94) left the amiga scene in september, but a new coder was recruited in the shape of Metal Designer from Nah Kolor. In october, Bay Tremore left in favour of his music career. November came, with some major changes in the memberlist: Optima (code) joined from Depth, Prophet (Kristoffer Schultz)left the scene, Arthur/GFX Twins left the scene, and finally dane Prowler (Klaus Bonjaminsson) and frenchman Patriot (Sebastien Seu, trade sysop 'FLOODLAND') were both kicked due to a lack of contact. Then came december, always the highpoint of the year. Calvin/GFX Twins left the scene before The Party, but at the year's most anticipated event Scoopex once again triumphed majorly in the competitions. "Alien 2" [12/98] won the demo competition, "1000%" [12/98] won the intro competition, while "Moving" [12/98] in cooperation with Darkage, came 6th in the intro competition. It was the crowning of another highly successful year for the group. Torque (1998, 08.02, AGA 4MB 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Shade, music: Deck. 2nd in the Flag 98 40k intro competition. review: Now Antibyte's getting his shit together! "Torque" is everything "Superautodrome" [12/97] isn't, with good design and music I can live with :) Shade's opening logo is very cool, and the textures throughout the intro are also among the better ones produced! This is excellent, what more can I say? My nominee for "Intro of the Year" so far! There are two command line options, specifying the optional use of a lesser resolution (1x2) and a fast mapper for 020/030 machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast /3.0. Haupex (1998, 21.02, AGA 40k Intro). Winner of the Scene Meeting 98 40k intro competition! Cooperation with Haujobb [details].  Superautodrome 2 (1998, 10.04, AGA 4MB 40k Intro). code: Antibyte (main), Rubberduck/TBL (additional), gfx: Acryl (font, col), Nomad (spider), Boogeyman (spaceship), music: Muffler. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competition! review: And just when we thought the limit had been reached for 40k'ers, Antibyte had to be the one to crush our illusions. This is not good. This is not even great. This is just plain fucking AWESOME! Bringing some extra people on board was apparently just what the doctor ordered, and after a disappointing introduction with some more of those pentagrams that Antibyte has been so fond of lately, this just takes off. From the beautifully rendered scenes to the excellent bumpmapping to the original fractal distortion, this is a beauty. Rubberduck contributes a "chaosrotating" routine. Just like with "Torque" [02/98], this also has two commandline parameters, doing exactly what they did in that one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Seenpoint #8 (1998, 12.04, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: Bay Tremore (title), Eracore/Rebels (main), Sol/lego (fonts), music: "The Coming" by Substance/Mono, "Discomania" by Prodigy/Oops!, "My Fluffy Angel" by Ganja/Nerve Axis, "Hit and Run" by Raze/Nah-Kolor, editor: Fishwave. Released at Mekka Symposium 98. review: The mag opens with a nice, surreal title picture, before going directly to the reading matter. Eracore is a good graphician, but he has certainly done a lot better work than the panel for this mag. The four tunes offer more than enough distracting sound. The main problem with SP, as I see it, lies more in the content of the articles than anything else. It just doesn't have the quality articlewriters that ROM had, not that little something special that made those mags so interesting and readable. And besides, Fishwave seems to have a general negative attitude, that makes the reading experience more of an irritant than an inspiration. Bay Tremore's title picture is "Sweet Vibraphone" (with a Seenpoint logo added), which he competed with at the Assembly 97, but which was unplaced. the mag announces Krishna as Ninja's replacement in France, something that happened LOOONG ago. Seenpoint should work on unexpanded A1200's, but some fastmem is recommended. Naturally the mag multitasks. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abduction 1998 Invitation (1998, 30.04, AGA File). code: Psy, gfx: Made/Bomb!, music: Deck. Cooperation with Bomb! review: We haven't heard anything from Psy in a while, but here he's back with a snappy, little invitation intro for the Abduction Party. This intro rests most heavily on the graphics, though, and Made doesn't disappoint. The pictures here are actually rather unusual for him, because they're a lot more artistic than what he usually does, but by all means we're not disappointed here ;) Deck's music will quickly exhaust your ears; it's a weird mixture of funk and standard Deck'y squals and squeeks! The release date is no way certain; it is based upon the datestamps on the files themselves. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. System Crime (1998, 08.08, AGA 4MB 64k Intro). code: Antibyte, gfx: Bird (2d), Acryl (2d 3d), Nomad (3d), music: Muffler. (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Perhaps a more deserving winner than Haujobb's "Edit 0.5" [08/98] at Assembly, but the public voted, and theirs is the final word. As you might understand, then, "System Crime" is another great 3d epic from the coding factories of Austria... After intial execution, it does take some time to calculate its textures, but from there on in... wow! =) There is absolutely no doubt that at this particular point in time, Antibyte OWNED the 3d intro market on the amiga, and this intro is just another testament to that fact. Amazing. [glenn] The intro requires 4mb of fastmemory, as well as an AGA amiga. It will theoretically run fine on a vanilla A1200 with 4mb fast...but not well! =) Effusion (1998, 08.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Krishna, gfx: Muadib/freelancer, music: Deck (The Player 6.1A format). 6th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Another intro that opens with the by-now wellknown Scoopex pentagram... Oh well. As usual with Krishna's intros, the entire thing is based around his envmap routine, which we have to admit is more than fast enough for the job! In fact, it's probably among the fastest ones on the scene right now. The music sucks, though, which is the main drawback of this intro. Good, but far from great. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Alien 2 (1998, 28.12, Demo). code: Antibyte, gfx: n/a, music: "Intro", "Main Tune 1" and "Main Tune 22" by Muffler. Winner of The Party 98 demo competition! Alien 2 (1998, 28.12, AGA Multifile). code: Boogeyman, Metal Designer, Antibyte, gfx: Acryl, Nomad, music: Muffler, Virgill. Winner of The Party 98 demo competition! review: A demo that tries in its story-line to evoke the feeling that the original Alien movies created. It does this in a 3d environment, looking much like a standard "storytelling" demo. It features characters from the movies, battling aliens aboard a spaceship... There is occasional effects between the story parts every now and then, and these all have a high degree of quality, especially the flashing tunnel towards the end of the second file, which reminded me a lot of the one in The Black Lotus' classic "Captured Dreams" [03/97] (though that was clearly superior). The 3d routine used seems good, though not with a lot of bells and whistles, but it moves a little slow on my machine. The demo will work on any 020 AGA amiga (with at least 16mb fast), but the producers strongly recommend an 060 processor. I agree. The only returning production member from the original "Alien" [06/95] is Antibyte, but the demo does seem to benefit from the new crew, as it is much better than the original. The entire demo is presented in an area smaller than the actual screen, a little wider than it is high. The demo is comprised of 7 files; the script that starts the other files, four main parts, fadein and fadout. The decrunch and waiting time between the parts is too long. This is certainly one of the largest (in size) amiga demos ever, the LHA file is 6.8 MB big... Lots of textures, we expect! The version reviewed was downloaded from the Scoopex homepage, and is reportedly the same as the compo version plus the endpart - which wasn't shown at The Party due to the limitation of 6MB harddisk usage. They say to look for the final version, coming soon, but since this demo is from 1998 and it was downloaded by me in mid 2000, I expect there won't ever be one... Virgill is not credited in the demo, presumably because his tune appears in the endpart (sounds a lot more like him than the others), and that wasn't shown in the competition. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! 1000% (1998, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro). code: Antibyte, Optima, Deetsay (musicsystem), gfx: Acryl, music: Deetsay. Winner of The Party 98 40k intro competition! review: Antibyte (this time with the help of Optima) crowns the title for the best 40k intro of the year, "1000%" is amazing! I can't begin to explain the excellence on display here - the technical prowess of this intro is just amazing. There is both 3d scenes and 2d effects, all looking excellent, and thanks to Deetsay's music system (which precalculates its samples) - and his composing abilities - there is three fabulous tunes within this intro! There has never been a more excellent 40k intro, or one featuring as much effects and music as this! The praise just doesn't end... :) Oh and for an excellent bonus, the final tune is a cover version of Tip and Mantronix' classic "Musiklinjen" from Phenomena's "Enigma" [03/91] demo! The version reviewed is the REAL (compo) version, and not the early one uploaded to ftp.amigascne.org by accident - which had a bug in its memory allocation routine. The intro works on any 020 AGA amiga with 4MB fast, but the producers recommend at least 030-50 for speed, and preferably 060-50. It supports the usual command line parameter '0' for 1x2 resolution, recommended for speed on 030 machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Moving (1998, 28.12, 40k Intro). 6th in The Party 98 40k intro competition. Cooperation with Darkage. 1999 - January was another month with big member movement; german musician Virgill joined, polish graphician Lazur was kicked, finnish Muffler (music) joined and finally Alias left the scene. In march, also danish graphician and musician Bird (Kaare Hansen, ex Rebels) left the scene, while Jazz and french coder Krishna (Spagnolo Sebastien, 07/97-) were kicked. "Seenpoint #9" [03/99] was released towards the end of the month. Many new members joined in april; Wade (gfx editor) joined, Soda (editor) joined, Lostcluster and Peci (pc coders) joined, while danish coder Boogeyman (Brian Wildt, doublememb Mango [pc]) left the scene. Mekka Symposium was arranged this month, and the two intros "Hyper" [04/99] and "Das EFX" [04/99] came first and second in the 4k competition. The pc version of "Alien 2" came 3rd in the pc demo competition. Norwegian Mermaid (gfx) joined in may. Come august, two more releases were made. "Pulsar" [08/99] finished 4th in the Assembly 99 64k intro comp, while "Eclipse" [08/99] won the oldskool demo competition at LTP 3 in france. In addition, Acryl and Nomad triumphed at Evoke 99, in the pixel and raytracing competitions respectively. Come september lots was happening on the member front again; Ninja officially rejoined Scoopex; Noogman (gfx) joined, while Wade, Sane (both would later return in Haujobb), Optima and Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap, ex Eltech) all left scoopex and the scene. SeenPoint #9 (1999, 26.03, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: Zaac/Ramses (title), Eracore/Rebels (main), Sol/lego (fonts), music: "Feels Like A Breeze" by X-Ceed/Endzeit, "Loudtalk" by Racoon/C-Lous and Darkage, "Gettin Jiggy" by Prodigy/Oops!, "Fried Funk" by Virgill/Scoopex and "Funk 22" by Marc/Haujobb and Sector 7, editor: Fishwave. review: Graphically the same as the last issue, SP9 opens with an ok title picture by Zaac. It's been 11 months since the last issue, but you can't really say the break was "worth it", unfortunately... I've never been to keen on SP's editorial style, and this issue is unfortunately no different. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hyper (1999, 04.04, 4k Intro). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 99 4k intro competition! Cooperation with Focus Design. Das EFX (1999, 04.04, 4k Intro). 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 99 4k intro competition. Pulsar (1999, 07.08, 64k Intro). 4th in the Assembly 99 64k intro competition. Eclipse (1999, 28.08, ECS Demo). code: Ninja, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2000 - In January, swedish coder Syntax (David Malcus) and french swapper and packer Thunder (Jean-Francis Lopez, 08/96-) both leave the scene. This probably meant the end of Thunder's long-running pack Infestation. "Seenpoint #10" [02/00] is released in february, as the final issue on the amiga, and the final release of any of Syntax' code. Ninja's demo "Millennium" [08/00] won the oldskool demo competition at the Lucky Tigrou Party in august! After receiving not much help with his demo project, coder Optima (12/98-) finally decided to leave for a more active group. He joined Haujobb about two weeks before The Party in december and released his demo "Megademo 2000" for that group - which subsequently WON the competition and was awarded the Scenery 'demo of the year'! SeenPoint #10 (2000, .02, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Syntax, gfx: Titan/Bomb! (title), Eracore/Rebels (main), music: Racoon/C-Lous (The Player 6.1A format), editor: Fishwave. review: After nearly a year, the final issue of SeenPoint was finally released. But it's not really an issue, even, just using the mag code to say goodbye. The title picture by scene veteran Titan is stunning, and the music is also passable. The rest of the visuals are the same old ones, that you've all seen before. There is no real editorial content here, just an article explaining why they are stopping releasing the mag. They do hold the possibility for a comeback on the PC open, but time will tell. Check to see what's happening at http://www.seenpoint.de... [glenn] Millenium (2000, 26.08, Demo). code: Ninja, gfx: KaneWood, music: Virgill (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Lucky Tigrou Party 4 oldschool demo competition! review: While presented in pure style as far as its graphics and design goes, this demo leaves us wondering why it has such abysmal coding? Filled vectors? Dots, for heavens sake? GLENZ??? Perhaps the name of the demo is a clue, that it's summing up demo effects from the last few years... But the raytracer at the end is _WICKED_ though, and is reason enough alone to aquire this demo. It does have its charms, but could have been a lot better. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. 2001 - Following Optima's departure late last year, Antibyte performed a major internal clean-up job. Some members were asked to leave, others like finnish musician Muffler (12/97-) left on their own accord. A few fresh faces were brought in, including old austrian scene legend TMB, one of the earliest original Scoopex members. The amiga section was steadily declining, and more and more of the group's activities centered around the pc scene. A 'status report' was published in Haujobb's "Devotion #2" [06/01], voicing concerns over whether the group was ever going to release on the amiga again. It seems at present that the group does not have a single active amiga coder - Metal Designer, Peci, Lostcluster and Dylan all prefer to work on the pc platform now, and Antibyte is simply inactive. The mag could reveal plans, however, to do 'dual' releases in the future - productions that would be released both on the amiga and the pc. The new Scoopex homepage was revealed to the public in june. Sometime between june and september, long-standing main organizer and coder extraordinaire Antibyte (Roman Rath) finally decides to leave the scene... One of the greatest losses the amiga scene has ever suffered! The group decides not to elect a new leader, and instead go for a democratic approach to group organizing. Scope (1990-) ------------- NOR> Basil Fawlty (Geir Hongroe, music, 12/90), Emi (12/90), Epic (gfx, 12/90), Fancy (Petter Schau, code, 12/90), Mitzi (gfx, 12/90). POL> Iron (swap, 95), Trash Head (swap, ex TRSI). Scope was a norwegian demo group, formed around the middle of 1990 as a merger between the two groups Humanoids and Arcadia. J.I.M.B.O. (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Fancy, gfx: Mitzi, Epic (logo), music: "Megnetic Fields 2" by Basil Fawlty. Released at the Theatre & Network Party 90. review: Actually one of the better demos released for this competition, this one's all about bob objects - objects made out of bobs. It doesn't exactly reek of professionality, but shows some competence. The design is quite standard; logo at the top, scroller at the bottom, and action in the middle. The name of the demo is an abbreviation for 'a Journey Into Mathematical Bob Objects'. Logical really, once you think about it :) Has potential. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Score ----- N-L> Hammerfist (Erwin Roosjen, swap), Rotox (R. van deer Steen, music swap, 02/94). ???> Black Thunder (ex Conquest, new late93). Score appears to have been a dutch group. Wasn't Rotox previously in Desire? Scorpio (1992-1993) ------------------- HOL> Sane (Pieter van der Horst, mainorg editor swap). Scorpio was a dutch-only group, formed by Sane with the best members of Lunatics NL in june or july of 1992. Radium released issues of his packseries "Container" for Scorpio. 1993 - In may of 1993 founder and organizer Sane temporarily left the scene due to final highschool exams. When he reentered the scene in september, he found Joe (Wouter, gfx), Array (Patrick Blok, swap pack) and The Cube (Rogier, swap) had left the scene, and his group was dead. D Icelord (code, ex Catastrophy), Radium (gfx music) and Quasar (code) had joined Centura. Weirdo (Olav Hinke) formed the music duo Jam & Spoon together with his brother Jan Hinke, and stayed independent. Please note that this is NOT identical to either the reallife music group NOR the icelandic duo that was later members of Nerve Axis. Thanks to Sane for all information! Container packmenu (ECS Intro). code: Quasar, gfx: Radium, music: Radium & Weirdo, packer: Array. Artistic Modulation 1 (ECS Musicdisk). code: Quasar, gfx: Radium, music: Weirdo. SCUP ---- FIN> Bruno (Jussi Peitila, music, ex Anarchy). SCUP is best known simply as the group that Bruno joined after he left Anarchy. It was a minimalist choice; leaving the biggest group on the scene for one no-one had ever heard of before! The group is believed to be entirely from Finland. Low-Budget Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Karl'S'Berg, gfx: Zbequ, music: SLL. Party Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Karl, gfx: n/a, music: Karl, Belarus. Sinus Intro (1991, mid, ECS Intro). code: Superninja, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Intro (1991, late?, ECS Intro). code: Karl, gfx: Zbequ, music: Belarus. Scum ---- POL> Skizo (Krzysiek Kunc, org edit swap, late95), The Founder (ascii swap). ???> Dziulas (gfx swap), Enter (code, ex Erotic Design, new early97), Hiv (edit swap), No Name (music), Slive (code, 96), Soul (music), Stargie (code), Sweetvoice (edit swap), Tgp (code swap), Yoga (gfx, ex Nah- Kolor, new 97). Scum is a Polish demo group. 1996 - Lazarus left for Vacuum in april. 1997 - Enter (code) joined from Erotic Design around february. Utmost Vacancy (1996, 23.06, Demo). Winner of the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition! Eternal (1996, autumn, Slideshow). Code: Slive, Gfx: Pickpoke, Music: Revisq. Seance ------ SWE> Mundgor (org music), Michael Knight (swap, new mid93). 1993 - Case changed his handle to his real name, Ola Thorn, and left for Infect around the middle of the year. Secretly (SCL, http://www.secretly.de) -------------------------------------- ???> Atlan (sysop), Barbarian (gfx), Bladerunner (doublememb Cosmic Pirates, new 06/96), DanDee (gfx, 04/00-04/01), Dc.Clark (code music, 04/00-04/01), Dj X-Base (music, ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96), Dolphin (code gfx), FX (raytrace), Influence (gfx, 04/01), Miran (code), Mr. Vain (Thorsten Will, mainorg gfx music ascii, 04/01), Nation (org code), Smasher (music, ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96), Zthee (gfx, 04/00). Secretly is a german demo group. 1996 - Musician DJ Viper (ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96) was kicked 06/96. 2001 - After a very busy weekend at Mekka Symposium, where the group released the demo "Artifictional" (8th) and the 4k intro "Boom" (1st), germans Stingray (code), Scicco (code) and Medi decided to leave the group due to the unprofessional nature of one of the other members. Stingray joined Darkage. This was naturally a disaster for Secretly, who were robbed of their two most talented coders! Outa Space (2000, 24.04, AGA 030 4MB File). code: Scicco, DC.Clark, gfx: DanDee, Zthee, music: DC.Clark. 9th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. Ill (2000, 28.10, AGA 030 4k Intro). code: Scicco, Stingray, gfx: Scicco (objects), music: DC.Clark. Winner of the Comparade 8 4k intro competition. review: "Ill" actually has some music :) It opens with a goraud shaded object which says "4k", then onto some green-white balls spinning around. Next is the first routine again, this time saying "CP8", then the two routines are compined and the object now says "SCL!"...and that's it. This 4k'er certainly contains more than most. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Artifictional (2001, 16.04, AGA HD File). code: Scicco, Stingray, gfx: Influence, Dandy, DC.Clark, Mr.Vain, music: DC.Clark, Mr.Vain. 8th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: I'd just like to start this by uttering a small "wow". This demo opens on a great note - and even though it moves like through syrup on my machine, the opening "Tomb Raider"-like dungeon still impresses. As mentioned, we're in a dungeon and a man with a torch walks towards the cave walls, where the letters "SCL" are inscribed. Until now all we've heard is the man's footfalls, but now the first bars of the music starts as some envmapped shapes appear in the dungeon. Then we're shown the utterly cool "Artifictional" logo by Influence! Next we're back in a new dungeon of sorts, now with water flowing through it. Credits for the demo appears in waterfalls, though the one for coding is kinda hard to see... Anyway, we move around in the dungeon some more before we finally arrive at a wooden boat. The camera zooms in on its mast, which forms a crucific. The 3d part is over, and we are on to a sort of greetings part. This one is also very nicely done, with two bands forming two a circles, and with the names of groups written across the bands as they spin. Inside the two circles an object forming the word RESPECT spins. The demo goes on for a little while longer, with more shapes, 3d scenes and objects, but nothing really outstanding appears after this. Overall this is a pretty good demo, with some technical niceties. I guess the rest of the MS demos were really outstanding, since this came as low as 8th... When I first tried this, it crashed on me just after the 'respect' part, but rebooting with no startup-sequence and running the demo as the first thing worked much better, and the second try went without a glitch! =) System requirements are really modest, just AGA 020+ and 16MB of RAM, but given how this moves on my 030-50 I guess the real system demands for smooth execution is somewhere closer to 040. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Section 8 (S8) -------------- GER> Digital (sysop 'PAINT BOX', 10/91), Steve (sysop 'DIGITAL WORLD', quadmemb Real!, TEK and Quasar, 10/98). Sector 4 -------- S4 never made any remarkable impact on the demo scene, except being one of the early groups to house what became perhaps the best amiga musician ever; Heatbeat. 1990 - Finnish musician Heatbeat joined Byterapers Inc. in december. Sector 5 -------- ???> Danthalian (pol? music, 11/96), GarlOn (pol? code, 11/96). Sector 5 is most probably a Polish group. Ascii Terror (1996, 23.06). Released at the Polish Summer Party 96. Para-Noya (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: GarlOn, gfx: none, music: Danthalian. Split 7th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: This is an uninspired affair, with the only effect being a lame fire attempt. It's more like children playing with matches compared to some of the better fire routines out there, though :) To top it all off, the bloody thing crashed my machine on exit. Nothing here to indicate this requires AGA. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sector 7 (S7) ------------- GER> Anneke (funmember, new 08/98), CDK (Jochen Oppermann, gfx raytrace music swap, 03/97-08/98), JCS (Jan C. Sievers, gfx, doublememb Haujobb, 12/94-08/98), Kane (sysop), Marc (Marcus Kalusche, music, doublememb Haujobb, 12/96-08/98), NoName (code, doublememb Haujobb, 03/97-08/98), Souchak (sysop, 03/97-08/98). NOR> Aztec (code swap, 08/98). ???> Mega H (org gfx music swap), MSC (code), Tom (music). Sector 7 is a demo group based in Germany. CDK and NoName are brothers. 1997 - In late march, they "won" (they were the only entrant) the demo competition at SILIConvention 97 with their demo "Synergy" [03/97]. A final version of the demo was released in early april, and the accompanying text file also announced swedish sysop Kane as a new member. Towards the end of the year, German members Marc (music), JCS (gfx) and No Name (code) left for double memberships in Haujobb. 1998 - August, and the group ruled the Belgian Scene Event. They won the demo competition with "Reflexity" [08/98] and JCS won the graphics competition with his picture "Spacegirls". The text file following the demo announced that Skylord (ger music, 03/97-) and Kane (swe Mattias Andersson, swap sysop, new 03/97-) had been kicked due to inactivity, that Anneke had joined as a funmember, and that Aztec (code swap) had joined in Norway. Xybernection (1994, 06.11, Demo). Released for the WOC94 demo competition. Synergy (1997, 30.03, AGA 6MB Demo). code: NoName, gfx: JCS, music: Marc (Tracker Packer format). Winner of the SILIConvention 97 demo competition! review: "Synergy" opens splendidly, wih a very cool raytraced animation set to some pretty groovy music! The music is timed to the onscreen action, but not slavishly, more like it changes mood as the effects change. The palette is very well put together, making all effects look their best, from tunnels to bumpmaps. Another impressive instance is where a picture is brought out of focus. Other memorable bits include an animation of a shark in the sky... The version reviewed is version 1.1, released 9.4-97. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Reflexity (1998, 08.08, AGA ?MB File Demo). code: NoName, gfx: JCS, Anneke (cow), music: CDK. Winner of the Belgian Scene Event 98 demo competition! review: Fast and smooth action are on offer in S7's impressive but short "Reflexity". It lasts for no longer than a minute and a half, but in that time delivers some striking images, especially perhaps the raytraced anim of a tree with sun reflecting off and through its leaves as it spins! On the other hand, we speculate that this is what is eating most of the diskspace =) Though we can appreciate the humor, we do feel some of the professional mood is destroyed by new funmember Anneke (a girlfriend of one of the makers, we assume?)'s BSE cow. Don't ask. JCS' fabulous fullscreen picture is "Spacegirls", which he won the graphics competition at the same party with. The version reviewed was tagged *FINAL*, do not know what differences there are to the party version... The accompanying text files mention the demo has been tested on 030-50, 040-25 and 060-50, so it should be compatible with all accelerators. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sector T -------- Sector T was a Norwegian AMOS group. Runaway Brain (1994, 03.04). 10th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. Securitate (-1990) ------------------ Securitate's death was announced in the news corner of D-Tect's "Hack-Mag #2" [11/90]. Semtex (1990-) -------------- Semtex was born in 1990 by members of Rebels yugoslavia, Apology/AFL and High Voltage. Just An Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Rasputin,. gfx: Mode, music: Wolfchild. Sensible -------- ???> Angel (music, 08/96), Thain (raytrace, 08/96). My only knowledge of this group is that Thain contributed a picture to Artificial People's "Clicès" [08/96] demo. Sensics ------- GER> Ragman (sysop 'CURSE', 91). Septic ------ 1995 - Swedish coder Vicious left for Monk around the middle of the year. Swedes Excel, The Joker and Atheist all joined Limited Edition (UPS8). Sepultura (-1994) ----------------- Sepultura is dead. Mr.X joined Exxon, The Fly joined Hellwalkers. Agnus Young and Dehydrator left. Barman, Darklord, JMC, Megamiga and Ravana joined Necropolis. 1991 - The entire group Infinity merged into Sepultura around june, and the new leaders of the group were Tango and Mr.Cool. Sequence (1992-) ---------------- NOR> Blaze (O. Kristoffersen, swap, later Balance), Jackson (stopswap, late92), Zippo (old handle Trix, late92). Sequence was formed by the former Norwegian section of Grace in late 92. Serenity -------- CompoIntro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). Code: Graft, Chrome, Gfx: Rookie, Music: Spacebrain. Split 19th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Serious ------- DEN> Chain (gfx, ex Light), Cyborg (ex Light), Dezz (code, ex Light), Hodge (code), Lunatic (music, ex Light), Nut (music), Raze (gfx), Towie (code gfx music, ex Light), Zogu (code). Serious was formed by ex-members of Light and Deadlock. Danish organizer and swapper Tuborg (Janus Lodahl, ex Light) left the scene. Serious Soft ------------ SS was formed by Toxic/Kefrens when Kefrens died. Session (SSN, 1994-) -------------------- NOR> Ace (Bjørn Kaarstein, swap, late96), Cesium (Frode Eriksson, founder mainorg swap edit "Off Piste", ex Balance, 94-), Crude (Stein Jonsson, sysop 'MORDOR' WHQ, previous handle Puke, previous groups Morbid Angels, Iris, Lisence, 03/96-05/97), Gothmog (code, late96), Justin Case (org code raytrace sysop 'MILLIWAYS', late96), Ramses (Nils, codePC), Wowbagger (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen, code, ex Coca/Balance, doublememb Alpha Flight, late96). SWE> Candyman (Timo Kotta, swap, ex Giants, new 06/96), Crusader (Janne Kotta, ascii swap, ex Giants, was double in Epsilon when in Giants, new 06/96), Zalo (gfx sysop 'DIGITAL HIGHWAY', doublememb Noice,02/95- 07/96). GER> Acryl (gfx, triplememb Illusion and Acme [pc] 12/96, doublememb Scoopex ROM9, new late96). ???> Boosta (music, late96), Loop (gfx, 05/96), Scar (gfx, ex TRSI, new late 96), Tactica (gfx, 05/96), Tomas (music, late 96). Session was formed by Cesium after he left Balance in search of more friendship. He brought his board 'OMAHA THUNDER' with him to the new group, but when he had to leave for the army the board was finally closed. Swedes Crusader and Candyman are not only brothers, they're actually twins! 1996 - Norwegian main organizer Terrox (Kent-Rune Saetrum, gfx music swap sysop 'TOTAL REFILL') left the scene in december. The organizer job was handed back to Cesium, who was still in the army; so the job organizing the group went to E-Moon for the time being. 1998 - A major setback was suffered when swedes E-Moon (org code, 05/96-), Blaze (code, ex Insane, new 04/96-) and Psycho (music, 05/96-) all left for Endzeit in june. Dutch coder and sysop Infant ('THE HIDEOUT', ex Essence, new 12/95-07/96) was headhunted to New Age, but soon left for Nah Kolor, where he only lasted a few weeks (ROM7). Infant was the coder behind the demo "Plumb" for Session. After staying just one week in Nah Kolor, he rejoined Session, and released an intro for them just before The Party 6. He has now left again, and these days he's a member of Subspace, Kinky and K. Hoodlum crackintro (May...) code: Wowbagger, gfx: n/a, music: Dreamfish/TRSI (The Player 6.1A format). review: Average, OK crack intro with the basics. There is no gfx credit for the small Hoodlum logo. OK. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Plumb (1996, 05.04, Demo). code: Infant, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 7th in The Gathering 96 demo competition, split 7th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. info: This demo was released at BOTH these events, and as such it should be disqualified! Decay (1996, 26.05, AGA 64k Intro). code: Blaze, E-Moon, gfx: Loop, Tactica, Tudor (objects), music: Psycho. 2nd in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. review: It opens with two good logos, the last of which has a bump-map effect on it. Next we travel through a tunnel. After that, we're on to a blue torus with a blue background with a variable diffusion. After that it's more of the same with a shaded torus and two shaded rock-like objects travelling around. It's an OK intro but nothing that will set the world on fire. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Wipe (1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro). code: E-Moon, Blaze, gfx: none, music: Psycho. 2nd in the Remedy 96 40k intro competition. Needs fastmem! review: Wipe? Perhaps 'Bump' would be a better name, since two out of three effects in this intro are of that variety. There's no drawn graphics, and the music is of the usual variety for this kind of thing. Technically competent, but doesn't excite. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: After the 'That's it' screen, it gurus. Sway (1996, 13.07, AGA 40k Intro). code: Infant, E-Moon, gfx: Zalo, music: Psycho. 3rd in The Summer Party 1996 40k intro competition. review: This small 3-hour production has all its chunky routines presented in that annoying 'ghosted' look. Apparently a few of the countless c2p converters out there generate these... Anyway, I don't like it - solid effects look better any day of the week. Ok, what we have here are a couple of shaded objects, a little bump-mapping and that's it. Neither the graphics nor the music impresses. The objects can be paused with the right mouse button. Requires 2mb (1mb enough?) fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Setrox (1989-1990) ------------------ ???> Dave, Zork. Boards; 4th DIMENSION (usa), BAD BOY CLUB (usa), LIVING DEAD (usa), INNERSPACE (swi), THE LINE TO HEAVEN (swi). Setrox was formed in the beginning of 1989 as a merger between two smaller Swiss groups, Senses and Atrox. They were a mainly illegal group, concentrating on trainers. During the summer of 1989, they were in discussions with Brainstorm about cooperation on the diskmag that was to become "Zine", but eventually decided against taking part in the project because they doubted Brainstorm's talents. Their coder The Accused, who DID believe in the project, left for Brainstorm to continue working with the mag. 1989 - Condor, P001, Sigma and Divine left to form a new Swiss group due to some internal, personal problems in the group, probably around 11/89. 1990 - Two new members joined around march, from the death of Headwave. However, the group died around 05/90. Swiss members Moses (trade, 11/89) and Cortez (code, old handle Laser, 11/89) left for Alcatraz; Zyr (code, 11/89) has started working on a game, and will likely end his scene involvement. Swiss Pioneer (swap trade, 11/89) will join a new French group, built by members of Paranoimia and others (can anyone identify this group?) German sysop Empire ('BORDERLINE') joined Awesome. Der Brockhaus (1989, 21.11, ECS File). code: Zyr, Cortez (additional), gfx: Straesse, Ebu (sprites), music: "Agony" by Megatron. review: This nicely done little demo features a line-vector scroller as its main effect, though it does for that effect what Angels' "Copper Master" did to copper demos - kills it dead by doing everything anyone has ever done with it, plus a few tricks of its own. The scrollers can sometimes be a little hard to read. Nice minimalist design. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Shade ----- NOR> Dark Angel (gfx, 12/90), High Voltage (gfx music, 12/90). ???> Bandit (nor? modem, 02/96). Norwegian graphician Sator joined Spaceballs. Norwegians Stripe the Gremlin (code, 12/90) and Jukebox (music) joined Talent. Multidemo (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Stripe The Gremlin, gfx: High Voltage, Stripe The Gremlin, Dark Angel, music: "Romenty" by High Voltage. Released at the Theatre & Network Party 90. review: Err, this looks like someone's first demo. '16 sprites' and ordinary line vectors. Need I say more? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Shades ------ ???> Wildstyle (gfx, 08/93). Shadows, The ------------ The Shadows are dead. The best members in both Germany and Denmark joined Next in the middle of 1991. There is probably no relation to the Norwegian C64 group of the same name. 1991 - Dr.Ghoul joined Defcon 1 mid 91. Shamrock (1993-) ---------------- NOR> Ace (founder swap, ex Devils), Darkdude (ex Majic 12), Icarus (ex Gollum), Niggerjack (Stian Myhre, code, ex Gollum, later Donut Fetish), Peavey (founder, ex Devils), Shade (Anders Haakens, founder swap, ex Devils). Shamrock was a Norwegian group, formed by Ace, Peavy, Redferne, Shade and Optic when they all left Devils. Norwegian cofounder and musician Referne (ex Devils) joined Stone Arts. Norwegian cofounder Optic (ex Devils) joined Banana Dezign. Share and Enjoy (SAE, 1987-1992) -------------------------------- SAE was formed in 1987 by Comrade J, and within 3 years had about 30 members and had joined Megaforce (which shortly became Scoopex) as a subgroup. Their life as a Scoopex subgroup was short - because of conflicting interests (SAE wanted to do demos, SCX wanted originals and cracks), they left the group and continued on their own (though Scoopex claim they were kicked). The group died around 1991 - 92 after their last major demo, "Impossible Playfields" [10/90], since all the group's coders found work that took up all their time. Several members also joined Anarchy. There were three SAE copy/demo parties in the summers of 1988, 1989 and 1990, but information on these are scarce at this time. We are wowking on securing more information on these events. Comrade J (Jolyon Ralph) now runs the web company Mysterious Ways in Croydon, UK, where also TiW is an employee. Del now works as a programmer for Codemasters. The Judge (Jolyon Myers) made some tunes for amiga games (Shadow Dancer etc.) under the name JVM Design, and now works at Eidos. Jon works at Psygnosis, as does Rogue Male - as a musician. Anarchy found work outside the scene. Strangly, the group still seems to have a web presence, if you look at http://www.shareandenjoy.org, though the original members do not know who claims to be in the group today. PS. There were SAE copy/demo parties held in Summer 1988, 1989 and (finally) 1990. They were all held in Croydon, UK. Amazing Tunes II (Musicdisk). review: According to a discussion on alt.sys.amiga.demos in 10/94, the original version has dodgy coding that makes it unstable on almost anything but a standard A500. However, the version Comrade J made for one of Almathera's CD's should work better. Wild Tremlo (File). Boys In Blue (1989, .11/.12, ECS File). code: Jrok, gfx: Wonko the Sane, music: Fermie. Impossible Playfields (1990, 28.10, ECS File). code: Comrade J, gfx: Tiw, music: The Judge. Shelter (SLT). -------------- GER> Artisti (raytrace, late96), Bazeman (trade, late96), Cosmic (famecode sysop, late96), Craye (code crack, late96), Fli7e (famecode gfx sysop, late96), Javis (ascii music sysop, late96), Lynxx (code crack, late96), M-Plant (trade, late96), Marodeur (trade sysop 'CRAZY DEMOLITION SQUAD', 12/96), Mavis (raytrace music), Mel (gfx raytrace), Rewdboi (trade, late96), Slapshot (founder mainorg supply, late96), Speedfreak (trade, late96), Starkiller (trade, late96), The Bird (crack supply www), Voyage (org code sysop), X-Poole (music, late96). DEN> Nicko (ascii trade, late96), Sticky (trade sysop 'ORGANISED CONFUSION, late96). NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', late96), Bandit (trade, late96). HOL> Triangle (trade sysop, late96), Wild (trade, late96). POL> Billy (trade sysop 'FUCK SHIT', late96). SWE> Marwic (sysop 'NUCLEAR WASTE', late96). ???> Sunbeam (code keyfilemakers, later Digital Corruption, ex Apex, new 11/96-01/98). Boards; THE JUNCTION WHQ (10/96), BERMUDA HOLLAND, ELM STREET (distsite), FREEK WORLD (console), POINT BREAK (legalhq), THE PUB (distsite). Shelter seems to be led from Germany. Some of the board placements are little more than guesses based on a member and boardlist. Shining (1990-1993) ------------------- SWE> Chuck C (code gfx music, 90-04/92), Dexter (David, music, ex Anarchy, new pre 03/92), Maniac (code train), Mike (Mikael Koack, org coed editor 'Playbyte', 90-04/92), Misty (music, 04-12/92), Mr.Urk (Björn Arkenfall, code, ex Palace, new ca 01-04/92), Soul (music, 12/92). NOR> Codeman, Corny. FRA> Skyman (code, ex Alcatraz). ???> Artic, Doz and Ivan (music, 12/92), Mosh (code, ex Anarchy, new pre 07/92), The Zombie (code, 04/92), Tycoon (code gfx, 04/92), Zeus (swe? code, 91-12/92). Boards; PAINT BOX WHQ (ex Skid Row). Shining was formed in the autumn of 1990 by swedes Mike (org), Chuck C (code) and Iridon (gfx). Tbey were joined by members from groups like Public Enemies, Adept and Elite. 1992 - Swedish coder Mr.Urk joined from Palace around january. Finnish trader Zephyr joined from The Silents late in the year. 1993 - In april of 1993 Shining merged with Dual Crew into the new group Dual Crew Shining (DCS). Among the people who went along to DCS was original founder Iridon (gfx, 90-08/92), Sly (gfx, 04-12/92), Boba Fett (fin), Zephyr (fin), Mel O'Dee (ger music, 12/92), Killroy (code, 12/92), Tizzy (swe code, 12/92) and Daeron (swe music, 04-12/92). Musician Organic (04-12/92) joined Fairlight. Daryl (ex Spreadpoint) and Shaggy (ex Majic 12, old handle Guran) were both kicked. Daryl joined the new Paradox. Trainer Intro (ECS Intro). code: Maniac, gfx: Iridon (logo), music: "Mental Madness" by Mel O'Dee (ProTracker MOD format). review: A nice, standard trainer intro - an OK logo on top of the screen, and the rest occupied by text. The text (trainer options mostly) is filled with raster colors for a nicer effect, and after a small while a LARGE sine-scroller (nearly fullscreen!) comes across the screen, on top of everything else. Not the worst trainer intro in the world, quite nice. The music is typical Mel O'Dee happy-happy chip. Reviewed from the version of the intro released with the Cyber Cop/ Crystal +20 gigatrainer. No date of release or for the making of the intro could be found anywhere =( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. True Stress (ECS File). code: Zeus, Chuck C, gfx: Corny, music: Chuck C. Vector Exterminator (1991, 30.03, ECS File). code: Zeus, Chuck C, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Anarchy Easter Party 91 demo competition. Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. PlayByte Issue #0 (1992, 30.04, ECS Diskmag). code: Chuck C, The Zombie, Tycoon, gfx: Iridon, Sly, Chuck C, Tycoon, music: Organic, editor: Mike. info: Only this first issue was ever released. Smells Like Team Spirit (1992, 27.12, ECS Musicfile). code: Killroy, gfx: Sly, music: Mel O'Dee. Released at The Party 92. info: 9 short chiptunes, highlights are 'Scales of Joy' and 'Mel O'Dee I'. 40k Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tizzy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Another Revolution (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Zeus, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 7th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Playbyte Demo (1992, 28.12, ECS File). 5th in The Party 92 demo competition. Shining 8 [old] (S8, 1988-1993, http://www.shining8.de) ------------------------------------------------------- GER> 49er (trade, new 08/91, mid92), Audion (gfx, mid92), Cibi (org sysop, was Trade 08/91, new 08/91, mid92), Digital (sysop 'PAINT BOX', ex Skid Row, 91), Ecr Network (code, 08/91-mid92), Exorcist (mainorg gfx trade, 08/91-mid92), Fletch (music, 08/91), Jason Dark (trade, mid92), Napalm (code, 08/91), Red Alert (sysop 'ADDICTION', ex Alpha Flight, mid92), Ronnie (mid92), Sledge (code, 08/91), Steff (gfx swap, 08/91), Steve (gfx, mid92), Tomcat (Manfred Mayer, gfx swap, ex Complex, new RAW4), Trashcan (music, 08/91-mid92). SWE> Cenzor (modem, 11/92), Godhead (modem, later Quartex, 11/92), Lacoste (sysop 'AUSGEBOMBT' EHQ, mid92), Mr.Magoo (trade, ex Antagon, mid92), T.Phraud?/T.Phroud? (code, ex Defjam, mid92). FIN> Agony (trade, ex Razkels, mid92), Bloodstone (trade), Fiddler (trade, ex Wizzcat, old handle Guido, mid92-02/93), Jack-All (music, ex Razkels, mid92-93), Jagannath (code, ex Deadline, mid92), Sorrow (gfx, ex Razkels, mid92), Yakuza (gfx, mid92), Zealot (sysop, 93). USA> Anarchy (sysop, mid92), Strange Illusion (trade, ex Subzero, mid92). CAN> Hound Dog (sysop 'THE COVEN'). ???> Devan (ex Noxious, new 08/92), Microchip (ex Devils). Boards; MAGIC FORCE (ger, mid92), CRACK HOUSE (usa, mid92), DARK FORCES (usa, mid92). Shining 8 was originally a German C64 group, and the amiga section was formed by its mainorganizer and leader Steff in 1988. Other information suggest that means the c64 section, and that they didn't start activities on the amiga until 1991... They seemed to die around 1993, but were later reborn as an illegal group. 1992 - German sysop Schwabenpower ('SNAKEBITE', mid92) left late92. Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE', ex New Wave, new RAW3, mid92) joined Crystal in september. 1993 - German graphician Newline (mid92) joined Interactive early 93. Finnish trader Punisher (ex Subzero, mid92-02/93) changed his handle to Fiddler and joined Movement. German coders Ghostrider (08/91-mid92) and Warhawk (08/91-mid92) joined Logic late 93. Swede Deshay (ex Noxious) left. American sysop Darkfall ('DARK FORCES'? mid92) left. Orion (ex Damage), Psycopath (sysop 'RAISING HELL', ex Triad, mid92) and Funkyfella joined the new Angels. Newline joined Interactive. Finnish sysop Dope ('CENTRAL STATION', mid92) left. Orgasmatron changed his board name to 'ANGEL CITY' and joined X-Trade. Finnish trader and sysop Stormbringer ('DREAMLAND', ex New Wave, 03/94) got married, so he sold all his equipment and left the scene. Technomania '91 (1991, .08, Trackloaded musicdisk). code: Ecr Network, gfx: Exorcist, music: Trashcan. review: Trashcan's musicdisk is dubbed here 'The First Ever Techno Music- Disk'. I don't know if that is true, but who cares. These guys came over from the glory lands of the C64, and it shows. The design is so unmistakably C64, it almost hurts your eyes. Am I saying it's not good? If I am, I would be lying. I like the design, really, it sort of gives you a feeling of the good old days. ahhh... Well, this is a musicdisk, so on to the important stuff: Any good, is it? Well, I hate techno personally, so I guess I shouldn't really be judging this... But as far as this sort of music goes, I guess I've heard lots worse. Approved. There is mention in the scrolltext that the loader will not work on turbo Amigas, but it would seem ECR is wrong :) I had absolutely no problems, it loaded and ran without a glitch. For those who want to rip the modules for themselves, that's not too much of a problem here. They are all in unpacked form on the disk, so all you have to do is load and search. Couldn't be easier. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Twilight Zone (1992, summer, ECS Tracmo). code: Warhawk, Ecr Netw (trackloader), gfx: Steff, Newline, Audion, Tomcat/Complex (loader), music: Trashcan, Jack-All. review: Ohh, it's a scrolltext-effect-scrolltext demo! That was a trend that we had a lot during the early trackmo days, before the megademo enthusiasts had warmed to the concept of the trackmo. A lot of the early trackmos were megademos with continuous music, really. Anyway, on to this one! The C64 influences are still showing, but to a lesser extent. They have abandoned most of it for the 'mediocre Amiga group' style. Naturally the coder boasts that his routines are over a year old, blah blah blah. We really don't care how old they are, as long as they're good. Anyway, this trackmo is competent, with some routines that are bad and some that are OK. It crashed on my machine during the endpart's bonus part :) It also announces Technomania 3 'soon', which means there must have been a #2! Graphician Tomcat/Complex later joined Shining 8 himself. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Shining 8 [new] (S8, -1995) --------------------------- Shining 8 were reborn as a cracking group, and released quite a few CD rips and other stuff. At the end of 1995, after an argument between the two leaders, with the leader Satan, lots of members joined Scoopex. With this, Shining 8 finally died for good on the amiga. Shitwave -------- A Pile of Shit (1995, AGA 40k Intro). 6th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 intro competition. review: This one opens with a very cool tilting zoomrotator thing on a very colorful pattern. This is really good. It continues with a voxelspace routine followed by a true tunnel routine. It the concludes with a dose of LemmingDoom and a LemmingMapped cube. This intro clearly shows us that here we have a good coder, but without the graphics and music support he deserves. This guy (whoever he may be) needs to get himself a musician and a painter to work with. Therefore my conclusion would be - code cool, gfx & mus sux :) No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Shoot ----- GER> Lord Chaos (ascii, doublememb Whale, 08/95), Krypton (sysop 'BRAINCRASH' WHQ, doublememb Prodigy, 08/95). AUS> Acid Kid (Andrew, ascii signature adk!, doublememb Whale [details], 08-09/95). ???> Rascal (code crack, 95), Secrefice (sysop 'HALLUCINATIVE COMA', 95). Shoot was a demo group. Rascal codes keymakers and was also in lots of other groups in 1995. 1995 - With the release of "Shocked?" [05/95], the germans Spin (code), Aerosoul (gfx) and Dreamer (music) left Shoot. Australian sysop and ascii maker Acid Kid joined from Honey around late july, and soon after became a doublemember in Whale. During september he closed his board 'SCREAMING METAL', but did not leave the scene. Spin and Dreamer (dRm) joined Abyss towards the end of the year. Doom's Day 94 Slideshow (1994, 08.10, Slideshow). info: The release date assumes it was released ON the party. Shocked? (1995, 21.05, 40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: Glue (picture), Aerosoul (font), music: Dreamer. Contribution for the Nexuus 95 40k intro competition. review: I don't know, there are things here that are just fine, and some things that aint so hot, but... It just doesn't come together to make me feel good. The only exception is at the very end, when the music reaches its crescendo, then quiets down almost completely and the text 'Shoot! Somewhere on a higher mental plane' is shown, that's cool. Other than that, there are a couple of nice effects based on the basic interference idea that are OK. With this intro, Spin, Aerosoul and Dreamer left Shoot. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Shrimps Design (SHD) -------------------- Dehydrator joined Obsession. Revelation (1994, 09.10, Demo). Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 party demo competition. 60k of Zwidula (1995, 22.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Sart, PVC, gfx: Ben.E, music: Shamrock. 3rd in the Black Box Symposium 95 64k intro competition. review: Why on earth these people have given an intro that's less than 40k in size a name like that is not something I comprehend. This is still a nicely put together intro, with the opening logo and end rabbit by Ben.E the saving graces. People were pretty bored with dot-tunnels and vector cubes even back in 1995, guys. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sigma ----- FIN> Coltrain (swap, ex Profex), Dragzter (swap), JL. Silents, The (TSL, 1987-, http://www.silents.dk) ------------------------------------------------ SWE> Alta (code, ex Rebels, 12/90), Animal (Frederik Liliegren, mainorg, 12/90-02/91), Beyonder (code, 10/87), Blaizer (Olof Gustafsson, music, 02/89-02/91), Chevron (Markus Nystrom, gfx, 02/91-07/93), Cuddley (Jean Roström, code, ex Aurora, 05-07/93), Dawn (ex Mythos, new mid91), D- Zire (David Elfstrom, music, ex Carnage, new 04/92-05/93), Fuzzac (Magnus Danielsson, code, ex Rebels, 02/91), Gizmo (ex Dual Crew, new late90), Goofy (Andreas Axelsson, code, 89-02/91), Ice^Armando^ Blizzard^Fuze (sysops 'SOMEWHERE IN TIME', 10/92-04/93), Marillion (Erik Tilleby, music, ex Rebels, later Freezers, 07/90-07/93), Mogwie (Johan Köhler, code, ex Rebels, 02/91), Ozone (trade, early92), Rayban (code, 10/92), Rizzo (sysop 'CYBERDYNE'), SinCos (Ulf Mandorff, code, 89), Spirit (gfx, 10/87), Spirou (code, ex Aurora, 05-07/93), Terminator (code gfx, ex Phenomena, 10/92). DEN> Bionic (code, ex Aero, -notmembanymore-, new early92), Crush (code, 12/94-08/95), Crux (Ruvan Fernando, -notmembanymore-, code), Cyborg (swap, ex Aero, -notmembanymore-, new 92), Deftronic (code, ex Crionics, -notmembanymore-, new ca 05/92), Deviator and Toxic (sysops 'HOUSE OF LUST'), Dize (gfx, 93-08/95), Dux (sysop 'MAINLINE'), Guzzler (code, -notmembanymore-, 07/92), John Doe (gfx, 08/95), L.Dredd (swap, 01/90), Master (Rene Vindum, code gfx music, ex Aero, - notmembanymore-, new 92-12/93), Mr.Perfect (code, -notmembanymore- 11/89-01/90), Murphy (code, ex Crionics, -notmembanymore-, new ca 06/92), Ricky (code, 12/94-08/95), Scortia (music, 12/94-08/95), Static (music, ex Rebels, gfx music, -notmembanymore-), Stripe (sysop 'HIGH TENSION', ex Rebels, 91). NOR> Corny (ex Vision, new late91), Hawk (90?), Rob (trade swap, ex Dexion or ex Offence), Timewalker (music, ex Offence), Tracer (90?), Øystein Eide (music, also in Maniacs of Noise [music], new 04/92-10/92). GER> Angeldawn (gfx, ex Scoopex, 04/93), Blackstar (sysop 'DARK CENTURY', ex Energy, new mid91-10/91), Bros (ex Cytax, new 09/92), Headhunter (ex Alpha Flight, new early92), Master (ex Cytax, new 09/92), Nino Brown (ex Bloodsuckers, old handle Flaxx), Piranha (code, ex Panic), Plasma (ex DCS), Visionary (trade). FRA> DCA (code, ex Anarchy), Name (code, ex Willow), Traitor (new mid90). ENG> Abyss, Aero (gfx, ex Astra, 10/92), Engineer and Slash (sysops 'GHOST'), LILS, Mfd (10/92), Opus (gfx, ex Equinox), Saint (gfx, ex Astra, 10/92), T.A.S. (ex Astra), Vored Computator. HOL> Chameleon, Multi (code), Name. BEL> Sintax (sysop 'SIN CITY', 10/92). FIN> Python (trade sysop 'TYPHOON', ex Byterapers, 10/92), Radish (trade, 02/93). SWI> Stef (code, ex Zenith, new early93). USA> Planet Master (sysop 'THE EDGE' WHQ, ex Scoopex, 10/92-04/95), Venmeister (sysop 'HARMONIC CONVERGENCE', 91). ???> Dezed (code, 02/89), Editor (ex Tribe), Lazer (music, 02/89), Skippy (bel? ex The Band, new 11/89), Skywalker (new mid91), Sionic (den? gfx, new early91-04/91), Tanic (code, 02/89), Woody (bel? ex The Band, new 11/89), Yeti (train, 90). Boards; MAINLINE (ger, consolehq, 04/93), NEXT GENERATION (usa, 04/91), ULTIMATE DREAM (eng, 04/91-10/92), UNKNOWN TERRITORY (ger, 10/92). The Silents is one of the oldest groups in the scene, and one whose members have since had the most success as game developers. The games all started in 1992, when a selection from the Swedish division released the game Pinball Dreams through 21st Century Entertainment. They called themselves Digital Illusions, and consisted of Animal (coordinator), Goofy & SinCos (coders), Chevron (gfx), and Blaizer (music). It is unclear whether they're still involved with the scene in any way, but I guess at least Animal is still organizing TSL...? DI followed the success with several games, including Pinball Fantasies, Benefactor and Pinball Illusions. Another story is that of the danes The Spy (code, ex Crionics, new RAW3), Mikael Balle (gfx, 11/89-04/91) and Jesper Kyd (music, 11/89-04/91). These guys also worked on several game projects after retiring from the scene, most of them for consoles. Details on exactly WHAT games they worked on are a little sketchy, but I'll see what I can find out ;) I have recently revealed they're now based in America. Rizzo was the first scener to openly admit (in R.A.W #2) that he had been infected with the HIV virus. 1987 - The Silents were Born on the amiga. Their first production was released in october, called "Welcome On Amiga". 1989 - Disky left the scene in november. 1991 - The active part of the french group Concept, Performer (code), NHP (music), BKH (music), Rookie and Ronan (code) joined together with fellow frenchmen Motif (code), Zoom (gfx) and Walt (gfx) to form a french section. Their first production was "BBS Intro" [91], quickly followed by the trackmo "Ice" [06/91] in june and the small "Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo?" [08/91] in august. Following that release, Walt and Motif left for Alliance Design, and the rest of TSL france (Audiomonster, Conquest (ex Next), NHP and BKH, Performer, Ronan, Rookie, Surfer (ex next) and Zoom (ex Next)) joined Anarchy (this was perhaps LATE this year). Audiomonster returned after a few days, but later left for Melon Dezign. The Norwegian section was formed in november. TMB (gfx) joined after just one month in Kefrens, due to the bad internal organizing and being accused of digitizing his graphics! Towards the end of the year, germans Bass (gfx music) and Barock (code) joined from Splash to create the subgroup "No Soul Produkktions". 1992 - The newly-formed Norwegian division lost most of its members in january, when Rob and Timewalker left for Offence, and sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY') left for Fairlight. A new UK division was formed in january, consisting of T.A.S, Saint, Aero (all ex Astra), Engineer, Slash, LILS, MFD, Fobia, Abyss and Vored Computator. Slash and Engineer immediately opened the board 'GHOST'. Swedish sysop Regent ('CRIME ZONE', 91) left to be independent in january, but the the joining of Rizzo with his board 'CYBERDYNE' helped things. Also in january, Jake left. Joker closed his board and left the scene early92. German subgroup No-Soul Produkktions (NSP) - Foxx, Lynxx (both ex Panic), Bass and Barock (both ex Splash) - all left late 92 to be a group in their own right. This seems a little strange, as the German bbs 'FOXX'S DEN' is mentioned as a TSL BBS in "World Charts #9" [04/93], but perhaps they all left a small while later. Finnish trader Zephyr joined from Razor 1911, and was partly responsible for the finnish division's demo "Maximum Velocity" [08/92] being released at all. But he didn't stay long in this group, and was soon on his way again to join Shining this time. Danish sysop Circulator (who opened his board 'VIRTUAL REALITY' shortly before) left for 2000 AD around october. Germans Crime, Pioneer and Survivor all left for Adept in october. German Dynac joined Analog under the handle Shade in october. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs (ex Kefrens, new 11/91-) left for Spaceballs at The Party 92 in december. 1993 - Swedish coders Spirou and Cuddley joined from Aurora sometime between january and may. Talented swedes Lizardking (music) and Tony (gfx, both ex Alcatraz) left to help form the new Razor 1911 in december. 1995 - Swedish coder Delery joined Freezers late 95. German "World Charts" editor Autopsy (ex Scoopex, 04/93) took WC with him and joined Hoodlum. It seems strange if Angeldawn didn't come with him... German trader Secret was later in Crystal. Swedish coder Ted (ex Top Swap) joined Defjam. Dutch sysop Camelot ('CHAOS', 91) joined Submission. French organizer and trade Rave (ex TRSI) left the Amiga for the PC scene. German coder Tedric (ex Paradise, new 05/92) joined DCS. Italians Case (music) and Filippetto (code music) both later wound up in Ram Jam. Danish graphician Devilstar (12/93) joined the new Kefrens, then moved on to Virtual Dreams. Germans WOTW (music, 04/93) and D-Sign (gfx, both ex Dual Crew) left to join Essence. Finns Coconut and Flame (both ex Fantasy Force) joined Damones. The two were partly responsible for the "Maximum Velocity" [08/92] trackmo, and members of relatively shortlived Finnish section. French swapper Wizz (ex Delight, new early92) was kicked, and therefore joined Digital. Sacha rejoined Desire. Englishman Fobia was kicked due to inactivity. Swedish graphician Butch (ex Palace, 05/93) joined Scoopex. Englishman Polo changed his handle to Mark and joined LSD. Dutchmen 911 (03/92), Astro (both new RAW3) and Mark joined Rebels. Norwegian coder Nosferatu (Geir Are Skjeret, ex Razor 1911), who joined 04/92, right after The Gathering, left to do his military service. Norwegian musician Bug (Stein Erik Giske, ex Razor 1911, new 04/92) was never a member, according to R.A.W #4. His continued scene life seems uncertain. The Silents kicked all Norwegian, Finnish, English and several other members. Norwegian musician Jason (ex Kefrens, new 04/92) joined Crusaders. Frenchmen Alex (gfx, ex Alcatraz) and Nam (code) joined Dreamdealers and formed their own subgroup, Oops! Production. Frenchmen Hof (gfx, ex Atlantys, 04/92) and Xann (ex Willow) joined Movement in the beginning of 1993 because Hof felt his work was not being used in TSL. A little later, it was announced in 'Eternal #2' that Xann had never been a member of Movement... The American board 'PRIME TIME' (10/92), 'will join' Alcatraz. It was once the group's WHQ. Shade and Sigma joined Alcatraz. Are any of these - or both - the sysop of 'PRIME TIME'? Miracle's "Eternal #2" claimed Shade had joined DCS, but I can not confirm this. Danish coder T-Bone (ex Dexion, new late91) sold his Amiga and left the scene. Kevin Key (sysop 'INSIDE TREATMENT', ex Noxious) left for Vision. Belgian trader and sysop Dr.Doolittle ('MOLDAVIA', ex Spreadpoint, new 06/90-04/91) and Lyzanxia (code) were kicked early 92! Lyzanxia co-coded the bbs intro "Moldavia". Frenchmen Daryl and Rave (both ex TRSI) joined, but Daryl was later kicked because Audiomonster didn't like his ways. Daryl then joined Spreadpoint. American sysop Sycon ('TERMINAL DISASTER', 91) left. This board was their WHQ in "Global Trash" [04/91], and was also mentioned in "BBS Intro" [91]. Danish coder Sunjohn (04/91) joined Anarchy. Sunjohn coded one of the best ever TSL demos, "Global Trash" [04/91]! Frenchman Rasputin left the scene late 91, or joined Zenith late 91, as claimed in "Freedom Crack #8". Other sources indicate he joined Anarchy. Swedish swappers Myfo and Lando (ex Mythos, both new 04/91) got kicked. Lando joined Skid Row mid 91. Welcome On Amiga (1987, .10, ECS File). code: Beyonder, gfx: Spirit, music: (sample-mama). Released at the NTC & Defiers Hacker Party. Info: By the swedish section. Beyonder was ex Unicorn. Quasmalite (1988, .08, ECS File). code: Utopia, gfx: n/a, music "Happy4" by Pussy. Released at The Silents Summer Meeting August/88' Round (1988, 04.11, ECS File). code: Ted, gfx: Ted, music: "The End" by Lazer (4ch MOD format). info: Also known as Rising. Released at the Mahoney & Kaktus - Northstar - Fairlight Helloween Party. Stardust 3 (1988, end, ECS File). code: Dezed, gfx: Capone, music: "Going Strong" by Blaizer. Snurkelscroll (1989, ECS File). code: Sincos, Goofy (additional), gfx: Icebrigade (logo), Animal (font), music: "Raggtime" by Blaizer. Winner of the Spectre & Northstar Helloween Party 89 demo competition! review: Not very advanced, with just a logo in the wellknown 'Psygnosis' style, and a wireframe vector scroller that twists and turns in every direction. Not very inspiring, most interesting for the people who worked on it - most of what would later be Digital Illusions ;D A preview of this demo won the demo competition at the the Halloween Party in TrollhKättan, Sweden 1989. Also known as 'Magic Dimension Scroll'. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Snurkelscroll 2 (1989, ECS File). Legal (1989, 12.02, ECS File). code: Tanic, gfx: Tanic, music: "Shortpush" and "Number 1" by Blaizer. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party. Viva The Silents (1989, 12.02, ECS File). code: Dezed, gfx: Capone, music: "Visit Koto" by Lazer. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party. Danish Quality (1989, 18.11, ECS File). code: Mr.Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: "Storm..." by Jesper Kyd. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 copyparty. review: This is a very well presented little demo (well, more of an intro really...) This is mainly due to some excellent visuals by Mikael Balle, which were incidentally also used in their "Megademo"! The demo itself focuses on a dotscroll (a new idea by Mr.Perfect they claim...was this the very first dotscroller?) with the usual twists and turns. The obligatory logo at the top of the screen changes between 5 images; SILENTS - MR PERFECT - MIKAEL BALLE - JESPER KYD and a Batman logo :) Nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo (1990, 18.02, ECS Megademo). code: The Crux, Williams, Mr. Perfect, Guzzler, gfx: Mikael Balle, Boze, music: Jesper Kyd. Released for the Kefrens and Dexion Party demo competition. review: This ancient megademo is a true treasure! Everything is top-notch about this one; from the graphics to the FABULOUS music to the code... For its time, I guess this must have been pretty much state-of-the-art! If nothing else, get this for Kyd's music in the Dromacore part... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Cache off. End of Maloy (1990, ECS File). code: Mr. Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: "Caroline" by Jesper Kyd. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Blue House (1990, 01.07, ECS File). code: Alta, gfx: Rizzo, Alta, music: Marillion (main), "Middlealta" by Blaizer (end). 3rd in the demo competition at the Amiga Conference 90.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Tropical Sunset (1990, ECS File). code: Fuzzac, gfx: Coma/SOS, Chevron, music: Marillion (Fuzzac packer format). Released at the England CES 1990. Sound of Silents (1990, 31.08, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: The Crux, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd. Released at the Bounty Party. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off. Wrath of the Demon (1990, 26.12, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Check Mate (1990/91?, ECS File). code: Mr. Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd. Moldavia BBS (1990? 1991?, ECS Intro). code: Cool-G, Lyzanxia, gfx: Chevron, Walt, music: "Hiscore" by Jesper Kyd (ProTracker MOD format). BBS Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: "Rain Theme nhp-bkh" by NHP & BKH (ProTracker MOD format).  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Blues House (1991, 12.02, Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Mogwie, Fuzzac (additional), gfx: Chevron, music: Marillion, Blaizer, Arcane. info: Made at the Dexion party in december of 1990, but not released until early 1991. Arcane was no longer a member of the group when the music disk was released, so the inclusion of his tune is really a bit of a mystery =) The tunes are "4 Fun", "Animale Cave", "Blow Out", "Fattamorgana", "Gasp", "Music In My Dream" and "Up And Down" by Marillion, "Glad Pack", "Gobbprew", "Happy Day Finale", "Jamming", "Letsdance" and "Rappstan" by Blaizer and finally "The Spectra" by Arcane. Global Trash (1991, 27.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Sunjohn, gfx: Mikael Balle, Sionic (titlepic), music: "Intro (Hunting)" (intro), main (NoisePacker 1 format) and "A.Highscore" (end) by Jesper Kyd. Winner of the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition! review: This demo is legendary, and rightly so. Sunjohn's first (and as far as I know, only) TSL demo creates a mood not unlike Kyd and Balle's masterpiece "Hardwired", released at the end of the year. Jesper Kyd's music plays a big part in that, and the idea to have music playing almost instantly after you insert the disk is a very good one. Being used to things loading for a while, you're actually startled when you insert this and it starts right away! So, what's the star feature of GT? The code? The graphics? The music? The answer is a combination. First things first; the code here consists mostly of nicely executed vector routines (and animation replayers ;), most of which are pretty good. The vectors here are perhaps not revolutionary, but at least Sunjohn brought in some new elements, like the flashing sections which hadn't been seen before. The graphics are also good, with nice design, great raytraced animations and a fabulous fullscreen logo by Sionic. And I believe I mentioned the music above? Sionic remains something of a mystery. He came out of nowhere (a 'new' member, as mentioned in the demo) with the fabulous fullscreen logo in this demo, only to never be heard from again as far as I know. Weird. The intro and end music is in normal ProTracker format, while the main tune is packed with NoisePacker... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Caches off, chipset original. Geometrical Dreams (1991, 15.06, ECS File). code: Delery, gfx: Chevron, Atlas, music: "Geometrical Dreams" by Blaizer and Marillion (NoisePacker 2 format). Released at the ECES Party '91. Ice (1991, 29.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Ronan, Performer, gfx: Walt, music: "Nubulus" by Audiomonster. 3rd in the Amega Party demo competition. Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? (1991, 05.08, ECS File). code: Performer (main), Motif (dots), gfx: Walt, music: "Enigma Year NHP- BKH" by NHP and BKH (EUREKA Packer format). review: This demo is actually a first class example of the old 'text screen - effect - text screen' formula, but retains qualities that set it apart from most others in this genre. Being a demo from 1991, it's hardly surprising that the effects are of the 'filled vector object' variety. Having said that, these are among the best filled/glenz objects on the Amiga as far as pure smoothness goes. What takes this from an average example of an extinct demo type to a great one, is the quality of the material. Walt's logos and fonts are quite outstanding, and are way ahead of their time. Both of these logos deserve places in the 'demoscene logo hall of fame', if such a thing is ever invented :) The music is a nice, smooth affair but ultimately quite forgettable. Get this for the outstanding graphics and design. This was probably the French sections' last demo before "Goodbye", which followed in december. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA!. Goodbye (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: Performer, gfx: Zoom, Facet/Anarchy (font), music: "Epsonic ( nhp&bkh )" by NHP and BKH. Released at The Party 1991. info: Performer's last amiga demo. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Freezes as the spinning vector logo comes up to the forefront. Nothing can remedy this, it seems; I've tried KillAGA, caches off, orig chipset and combinations. Perhaps it'll work if I kickdown, but I haven't got the time to check now :( Hardwired (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: The Spy, Deftronic, Murphy, Saxs, Guzzler, gfx: Mikael Balle, Sionic, Zycho, music: Jesper Kyd. 2nd in The Party 91 demo competition. Cooperation with Crionics. Cat Computer Club (1992, ECS Trackmo). code: The Spy/Crionics, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd. Intro (1992, .02, ECS Intro). code: Saint, gfx: Rayban, Aero, music: Bass. Cooperation with Skid Row. Addicted To Silence (1992, 12.05, ECS File). Xpose (1992, 26.06, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: The Master, Bionic, gfx: The Master, John Doe, music: "Ministry v3.1" by Jesper Kyd. 3rd in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Maximum Velocity (1992, 08.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Coconut, Flame, Silver Eagle, gfx: Cenobit, music: JOL005X. Winner of the Abstract - Oxygen summerparty 1992 demo competition! info: These people all later ended up in Pygmy Projects. This was the first and only demo ever released by the Finnish section. It was supposed to be released at The Assembly, but due to a problem with the trackloader it crashed after the opening animation. It was released a few weeks later, at a small swedish party, and won the democompetition there! The demo was downloaded by modem to Zephyr, who was the only TSL member in attendance, just minutes before the competition! Thanks to Coconut and Zephyr for information. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Does not work. Everything's been tried, but it just keeps crashing after the first picture appears. Static Chaos (1992, late, ECS Trackmo). Made by No-Soul produkktions, then a subgroup. See there. Enjoy The Silents (1992, 24.10, ECS Trackmo). code: Rayban, gfx: Saint, Aero, Terminator, music: Øisten Eide (main), D-Zire (sfx). 2nd place in the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition. review: Not much to shout about, everything about "Enjoy" is definitely middle-of-the road. There's simply nothing to GET EXCITED about here, and therefore the demo leaves you WITHOUT wanting more :) Not good. Remarkably, it works without a glitch (except for some music hiccups) on the 030, indicating a clean programming style on Rayban's part. It's a pity that's the only thing to recommend the demo :( This was definitely released AFTER "Static Chaos", since the demo is mentioned within. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Xann, gfx: Hof, music: 911/Rebels. 3rd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Demon Download (1993, .02, ECS Disk, 2 disks). code: Bionic, The Master, gfx: Devilstar, John Doe, music: "Nanopower-End- II" by The Master. review: The 'hidden' game part, Poo-Poo Dreams, is a snake clone with GREAT music by Terrax/Palace. It's not that secret, though, since they mention how to access it both in the bootblock AND in the endpart scroller. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Some minor gfx errors, and the endpart music bugs. World Charts #9 (1993, 11.04, ECS Trackloaded chart). code: Thomas/Spreadpoint, gfx: Angeldawn, music: WOTW, editor: Autopsy. review: This was the first release of 'WC' for The Silents, and the second issue I ever saw. This edition does not differ much at all from issue #6, released for Scoopex. The code does not seem significantly changed, and most of the graphics are the same, save for a new Silents logo by Angeldawn. There are now a staggering 7 chiptunes to choose from, of which the default one seems to be the best. It does borrow some chords and melodies from Jarre, though... Not much more to say, really. A nice, professional release aimed at the crack/train/trade section of the scene. Works shamelessly well, and without a single hiccup on my machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. CC93 Invitation (1993, .05, ECS File). code: Spirou, Cuddley, gfx: Chevron, music: "Party Invitation" by D-Zire (4ch MOD format). Invitation to The Computer Crossroads 93. Sozzled Somersault (1993, 29.05, ECS File). code: Fuzzac, gfx: Chevron, music: "-<>In Traffic<>-" by Marillion (ProTracker MOD format). GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. -- Note: Not enough mem to run, even after booting from floppy with Add21k. Designed for 1.3 1mb machines, I guess, and 2.0 means there's not enough available. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Something About The Silents Makes Me Sick! (1993, 24.07, ECS File). code: Spirou, Cuddley, Delery, gfx: Chevron, music: "-= s.a.s.m.m.s =-" by Marillion. 2nd in the Marks Computer Society party.  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Had to run from floppy, and run add21k first. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Scroller has graphical errors. The Party 93 Invitation (1993, late, ECS File). code: The Master, gfx: Dize, Devilstar, The Master, music: Jesper Kyd. Invitation to The Party 93. Soulkitchen (1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Crush, Ricky, gfx: Dize, music: Scortia. 4th at The Party 94 demo competition. review: Works ONLY on standard A1200's, but mentions a fixed version will be released later. Don't know if it ever was... The picture by Dize was also entered into the gfx competition under the name "Selfportrait". They mention that Fruitkitchen will be next in the Kitchen series. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Fruitkitchen (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Crush, Ricky, gfx: Dize, John Doe, music: "Fruitkitchen..sco" by Scortia. 4th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: Fruitkitchen is certainly one of the best demos TSL have delivered in recent years! It's absolutely brimming with goodlooking effects and nice graphics. And don't even get me started on Scortia's excellent soundtrack! It opens with some pretty impressive green tinted voxels, where there are some objects added to the landscape here and there. Overlaid on this we're given the credits. The next effect is almost the most impressive one in the entire demo - it's a vector cube with a difference! Imagine the cube as the disco ball from Andromeda's "Nexus 7" with lights shooting out of every side, and all the sides have animated, spinning eye textures mapped onto them! Add this to the fact that the cube is spinning and in and out of the screen, and you've got yourself a showstopper! Just amazing. The next effect's not much worse, with us flying through streets a night, and with really realistic looking street lights shining at us. Then, when you're in heaven and think things can't get any better, a fast doom routine appears! This one's got everything expcept height, and looks really good for 1995! Next up are some vector objects, each one disintegrating to reaveal another inside, before we're shown three gouraud shaded objects mirrored onto a solid graphic sphere. We end up with a standard vector routine, with many objects moving around independently. Together with great graphics and music, this is a truly great demo if ever I saw one. It's great to see The Silents back in shape! The demo is subtitled 'A Journey Into The Banana Incident'. They mention that Blood Kitchen will be next in the Kitchen series, but as far as I know that never materialized. The last ever TSL demo? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Silicon (SLC) ------------- FRA> Maf (music, doublememb Syndrome [details], 12/96), TOS (Fabre Pascal, swap pack 'Pikaboo', 94). 1996 - Graphician Leon joined Syndrome late this year. Silicon League (SL) ------------------- ???> Buckaroo Banzai (crack, 08/88), The Ram Hunter (mainorg, aka TRH), Tuca. German coder Mnemotron (code) joined Black Division. SL was the first ever group for this coder who would later become famous as a.o. the coder who took over SoundTracker in D.O.C... He released an antivirus utility called IRQ-Antibiotica for SL. Silicon Ltd. ------------ N-L> Astray (code gfx, early93-12/93), Bass (early93), Chucky (early93), Earthshaker (org swap, early93), EP (early93), Gypsy (early93), Ma$$ (early93), Sandwich (early93), Spike (ex Noice, new early93), Stranger (early93), Suave (early93), Treble (early93). SWE> Ash (early93), Charger (early93), Haze (early93). DEN> Dr.Poison (Jan Jorgensen, swap). ???> B000 Productions (music, 12/93), Mitch (gfx, 12/93), Trax (gfx, 12/93). 1992 - Stranger joined Effect late 92. 1993 - Hawkeye was removed from the memberlist due to being inactive early 93. (at least) Dutchmen Pervert (gfx, 12/93) and Thunder (code) joined Motive. Musictro (Intro). code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a. Party Invitation 1 (Intro). code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a. Party Invitation 2 (Intro). code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a. Party Invitation 3 (Intro). code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a. Merry X-Mas (1993, 28.12, ECS 1MBCHIP File). code: Astray, gfx: Trax, Pervert, Mitch, Astray, music: B000 Productions. Split 19th in The Party 93 demo competition. Silver Productions ------------------ Silver Productions were a Classic [new] subgroup. Disk (ex Equinox) and musician Cascade (ex Rage) both left. Sim/Drake/Codex --------------- Sim, Drake & Codex were all members of the original Razor 1911 demo divison, and when Razor declared their Amiga section dead in favour of PC activities, they continued independently. Speed (1993, 07.04, ECS/AGA Trackmo, 4 disks). code: Sim, gfx: Drake, music: Codex. 2nd in The Gathering 93 demo competition. Simplex ------- SWE> Newt (Christian Mezofi, swap). FIN> Paperboy (Jarkko Tarnanen, swap, late95). Sinners ------- GER> GSC (11/88), Mike (11/88). 1988 - Mike got called up by AT&T towards the end of the year, and as a result decided to close his phone line. Sixaeon ------- Drunken Coder Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Yegger, gfx: Illusion, music: Snakee. 16th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Skahn-X ------- Virtual (1997, 30.03, Demo). 14th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Skandal ------- ???> Billy The Kid (code gfx, 06-12/92), Demko (code music, 06/92-early93), Kichkaha (code, 06-12/92), Lord Kada (early93), Sly (gfx, 06/92), Willow (early93). Intro (1992, 17.06, ECS Intro). code: Kichkaha, Billy the Kid, gfx: Sly, music: Demko. Tangentopoli (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Demko, Kichkaha, gfx: Billy the Kid, music: Demko, Cosmos/Sanity. 5th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Skarla [old] (-1996) -------------------- FRA> Scarface (code, 12/94). The entire crew (Horus, Jamie, Marvin and Norm) joined Essence in the late months of 1996. However, after spending some time in Essence, making two great demos in the process, the entire gang decided to reform their old group Skarla!! The Party IV Intro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Jamie, Scarface, gfx: Norm, Horus (objects), music: Marvin. 17th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Ahh, this is nice. Some fair second generation vectors here. The show opens with a large blenk torus. Next there's a zoomed flower, before some credits, another vector objects, and for the finale... some vectors. This last part is quite nice, with three individual objects travelling in a circle. Nice choice of palette. Very very nice. These guys went on to make the exceptional "Makaveli" for Essence. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Atome (1996, 27.04, Demo). Winner of the Saturne 96 demo competition! Skarla [new] (http://www.skarla.com) ------------------------------------ FRA> Horus (founder 3D, ex Mystic), Jamie (founder code, ex Mystic), Marvin (founder music, ex Mystic), Norm founder gfx, ex Mystic). ???> Luke (code, ex Anadune, new early00). Skarla was reformed late 97 or early 98, after the four original members of Skarla left Mystic and decided to reform their old team. Jamie has now found work coding games for a pc company, and the group warns us not to expect any demos from them in the near future... There is a second Skarla site, http://theskarla.free.fr/, maintained by Norm... 2000 - Luke (code) joined from Anadune early in the year. When We Ride On Our Enemies (1999, 04.04, AGA 040 File). 2nd in The Mekka Symposium 99 demo competition. info: Really needs a 060, though works with 040 - too slow on 030+fpu... Skid Row [old] (SKR, 1990-, http://skidrow.dk) ---------------------------------------------- GER> Bob Duncan (crack sysop), Corsair (usa? ex Paranoimia), Depode (sysop 'SPACE CENTER', ex Endless Piracy, 12/91-04/92), Galaxy (trade, ex Alpha Flight, 12/90-09/91) and Mystical (sysops 'LIGHTHOUSE', 09- 10/91), Hellion (crack, ex Paranoimia), Kristall (sysop 'DARK DUNGEON', 09/91), Magic Drummer (code music sysop 'CRACK HOUSE', ex Software Tech, new RAW2, 04/92), Oliver (ex The Company, new mid91), Swift (swap, late90), Time Bandit (trade, new late90-01/91). DEN> Bandit (seller, 09/91-06/92), Janitor (seller), Marshal (sysop 'STATIC CHAOS'), Midnight Maniac (09/91), Tarzan (sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', ex 2000 AD), The Lizard (09/91). ENG> Alchemist (sysop 'REALMS OF ALCHEMY'), Darkman (09/91), Scooter (ex Punishers), Wise Man (ex Valhalla, new late90-09/91). SWE> Inferno (ex Palace), Madness (sysop 'METROPOLIS', ex Quartex, old handle Scout), Rastan (new late90). NOR> Jack Daniels (sysop 'MIDDLE EAST'). HOL> Papillon (sysop 'NETWORK', 08/90-04/92). SPA> Black Ninja (sysop 'PARADISE', ex Quartex, new late91). ITA> Black Moon (sysop 'ARACHNOS'), Shaolin (sysop 'VIDEODROME', 04/92), Suspiria (sysop 'DIABOLIKA', 12/91-04/92), Tiger9 (sysop 'ICC BBS', 08-11/90). FIN> Raze (sysop 'LIGHTLINE', 07-11/91). NOR> Mace (91). FRA> Corsair (code, ex Classic old), Foxy (ex Classic old), Mr.Video (gfx, ex Classic old), Stone (09/91). CAN> Pharaoh and Devious Doze (sysops 'BEYOND AKIRA'), Stingray (sysop 'TERRORDOME'). USA> Afterlife, Beatbox (sysop 'ALCATRAZ', new 08/90-12/91, WHQ 91), Christian Fletcher (sysop 'H.M.S. BOUNTY', 08/90-91), Don Dog (sysop 'BOGUS EXCEPTION'), East Coast (sysop 'AMIGA EAST', 12/91-04/92), H.O.S of Sorrow (sysop 'CREEPING DEATH', new mid 91), Hustler (sysop 'HUSTLERS HAVEN'), Jabbawocky (sysop 'CYBORG COMMAND', 04/95), Jake (sysop 'TERMINAL DISASTER', 04/92), Major Theft (sysop 'UNLAWFUL ENTRY' WHQ, 12/91-04/92), Ollie North (sysop 'INQUISITION', new 08/90-91), Paradise King (sysop 'BEYOND PARADISE', 12/91), Q (sysop 'CRYSTAL MONOLITH', ex Pirates), Speed Master (sysop 'SANCTUARY', ex LSD), Touch Tone (sysop 'MOTHERBOARD EAST I', 91), Toyman (sysop 'ELUSIVE DREAMS', 12/91- 04/95), Xavier Madison (sysop 'INFINITE ILLUSION', 12/91). ???> Annihilator, Anon, Arnie (ex Valhalla, new late90), Batblaster, Beach Bum, Big Balls (ger? trade, new late90-91), Bomber Man & Willy (suppliers), Cannibal, Controller (new 08/90), Copyrighthunter (ex Valhalla, new late90), Creeping Death (ex Valhalla, new late90), Despiser, Destroyer (ex Alpha Flight, new late90), D-Man, Doctor Revenge, Eagle's Talon, Hawk (ex Valhalla, new late90), Iceberg (ex Alliance), Iron Men (new 91), Jack, Jane (supply, 92), Kenzo (ger? trade, 01/91), Master Crime (supply, 91), Maximilian, Messiah, Mictlantecuhtli (supply, new 08/90), Mr.Xerox, Munchie (supply), Nightspawn, Nike (ex Alpha Flight, new late90), Paragon, Phil Douglas, Phonestud, Poison Angel (sysop 'SPELLBOUND'), Rick, Shock (ex 2000 AD) <-?-> Shock (ex Accession), Slash, Slayer, Slugger, TFT, The The (supply, 91), The Z, Tornado, Vertigo (ex Oracle, new late90), Wacky, Wildcard, Wildthing, Wolverine, Yeti (ger? new 12/90), Zool, Zoom. Boards; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (usa), THE DEAD ZONE (usa, 08-11/90), BALKAN (usa), NIRVANA (usa), MOTHERBOARD II (usa, new mid91), THUNDERDOME (usa, 11/90), HADES (usa), CELTIC CIRCLE (usa), PURPLE DRAGON II (usa, 04/92), LIGHTHOUSE EXPRESS (usa distsite). MUSICAL PHARMACY (ita), JUSTICE LEAGUE (ita, 91), REALMS O.A. (eng, 12/91), BLACK CLOUDS (joined after being indep. for 1 month late 92). Skid Row were once one of the greatest cracker groups, and were dominant on that scene for a long time. Then, some of their best members left them for other groups or for the PC scene, and the slowly died away. They had a subgroup for a while, Jetset, that made some cracktros for them. Skid Row was born in 1990, by main founder Metallica. The European section of Skid Row died early 92, and the members built up the new crew Crack Inc. 1990 - Italian sysop Mr.M ('RED & BLACK', opened late 90) joined Classic old late 90. 1991 - Frenchman Garp was busted late 91. French coder Skywalker (ex Quartex, new mid 91) left to form his own cracking group, Model late 91. X-Ample joined Frantic in september. 1992 - German sysop Shut Berlin ('WORLD TRADE CENTER', new early92-04/92) joined Infinite Perfection. He was also in Nemesis for one week in august. Mr.Hell joined Crystal in september. 1993 - Sysops Quasar ('EXTASY WORLD') and Soultaker ('BEYOND DEATH', usa) both joined Zenith early in the year. Coders and crackers Leander and Abyss joined Interactive towards the middle of the year. 2001 - The official Skid Row memorial site was opened in march of 2001, and is handled by Mysery (aka Bandit). Kannibal joined Byterapers Inc. German sysop Digital ('PAINT BOX') joined Shining 8. Lando (ex The Silents, new mid 91) joined Spirit. Metal Gear (sysop 'SPHERICAL DREAMS') joined Centura. Stylemaster DJ left for Prestige. Dutch musician Baby Face joined Infect. German supercracker and sysop FFC ('CAESAR'S PALACE', ex Vision Factory old, 08/90-92) joined Ministry. English sysop Kitaro (sysop 'MILLENNIA', ex 2000AD, 10/92) joined Ministry. Nosferatu, sysop 'DANSE MACABRE' (04/92) joined Ministry. German founder, trader and sysop Metallica ('NUCLEAR ASSAULT', ex Paranoimia, 112/90-10/91) left the scene. Danish member Fast Eddie was busted. However, a news item in Euro-Chart #15 claimed he just left the scene because he was afraid to get busted in the first place. Germans Eurosoft (crack, 09/91-92), Mike and Munchie all joined Crack Inc. Mike was cosysop of 'PARADISE' (ger). Swedish Mightymuz (ex Spirit) joined Fusion. Danish crackers and sysops Blackhawk (09/91) and Metalforce joined Scoopex. German super-supply trio Subzero (music, ex Paranoimia, 91-92), Selim and Rudi ('THE JAM', both ex The Company, new mid 91-04/92) - collectively known as SSR - left to form the new group Crack Inc in early 1992. This is the true story: other rumours include that Rudi joined Bitstoppers, and that Selim left the scene. Aerobas is NOT in Skid Row, he's in Vanish. Cracktro (1991, Intro). Code: Magic Drummer Design, Gfx: none, Music: "Visor.Synth" (BP Sound-Mon 2.0 format) by n/a. info: Used for ABC Wide World Sports Boxing (12/91). Skid Row [new] (SR, http://www.skidrow.dk) ------------------------------------------ ENG> Data-Stream (sysop 'CRYOGENICS', 09/95). SWE> Cruger (trade, 07/95), Marwic (sysop 'NUCLEAR WASTE', later Bad Karma, 01/95), Trapdoor and Original (sysops 'HIGH VOLTAGE', 01-02/95), Viper (sysop 'SPELL BOUND', 01/94). DEN> Marc (sysop 'THE CHANNEL', doublememb Superiors, 04-09/95), Wozzy (modem sysop 'METAL CONNEXTION', 04-09/95). BEL> Little Boy (sysop 'PEACE CHAPEL', 04/95). POL> Sachy (code, doublememb Dinx Project [details], 11/96). USA> East Coast (sysop 'AMIGA EAST', 04/95). ???> Blackeye (den? trade, 09/95), D-Code (eng? modem, 09/95), Silent (ger? 01/94), Zandor (eng? modem, 09/95). Skillion -------- GER> Warlord (sysop 'ANIMALIZE', 91). BEL> Lucifer (sysop '7 GATES OF HELL'). Skulls ------ POL> Cerber (code, doublememb Depth), Jacool (Jacek Olejnik, swap sysop), Nazgul (code, doublememb Depth), Pila (Marcin Pilecki, write ascii swap). ???> Czarny (swap), Egon (swap), Elezar (raytrace), Larry (write), Luck (music), Masher (raytrace), Mr.Big (swap sysop), Neuromancer (gfx sysop), Novi (write), P242 (raytrace swap), Seba (code). Skytech ------- DEN> Smooth (Kim M. Smooth, music, 12/94). Sledgehammers (-1991) --------------------- Sledgehammers are dead mid 91. Sali-Adalat joined Exort. Slimebyte (-1990) ----------------- This Swiss group died after TMA decided to leave for Piranhas 05/90. Slim Productions ---------------- The Killing of an Egg (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 5th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Slipstream (-1992) ------------------ ENG> LF (swap, 08-12/90). SWE> Zed (ex Cytax, new 09/92). ???> Andi (code music 09/89-04/91), Adrian (gfx, 11/91), Amadeus (music, 11/91), Atlantis (code, 11/91), Axe (04/91), Bren (new 91), Damaxx (new 91-04/91), Darkho (new 91), Darkstar (music, 09/89-12/90), Digits (new 91-04/91), Fangs (code, new 91-04/91), Firefox (new 04/91), Gamma (music, 12/90-04/91), Grayzor (swap, 12/90-06/91), Hulmerist (04/91), Hunter (12/90), Kappa (new 91-04/91), Kid Video (12/90-04/91), Mace (code, 89-12/90), Mally (new 91), Matrix (crack, new 04/91), Mike (gfx, 11/91), Pod (new 91-04/91), Stryx (04/91). The people below this line are no longer members, and the line was drawn at a memberlist published in "Curved Vector Scroll" [12/90]. ???> 4-Mat (music, 90), Atlantis (code, 90), Dan (code gfx, 09/89-90), Duckman (89), Gorbash (gfx, 89-90), Juz (music, 90), Marc (code, 90), Maxx (code, 07/90), Mystik (gfx, 07/90-01/91), Skol (code, 90), Spanner (gfx, 89), Stryx (gfx, 90), The Edge (gfx, 09/89), Zarchy (gfx, 90). Slipstream died early 92, and Data, Skol and others joined Anthrox. 1990 - There were news in Stolen Data #4 [08/90] that Slipstream had died already back then. It reported that key members in the cracking and training section had joined Scoopex (Electra, N.O.M.A.D), and that the rest of the members merged with Mayhem to create Reaktor. 1991 - New members Matrix (crack) and Firefox were announced in a crack intro released in the middle of april. The swapper Pulsar?/Pulstar? (ex Amaze, new 09/92) joined Agnostic Front. Nova joined Digital. Scottish supplier Action Man joined Oracle old. Musicdisk (1989, ECS Musicdisk). The Duck Demo (1989, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, Spanner, music: "Roll-Out" by Gorbash (ProTracker MOD format). The Garfield Demo (1989, 30.09, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, The Edge, music: "cat-rap-mix2" by Darkstar (ProTracker MOD format), Termination (1989, ECS Intro). code: Mace, Andi, gfx: Dan (logo), Marcus Lynn (terminator pic), music: "House.2.House" by 4-Mat (ProTracker MOD format). Hardcore Demo (1990, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: "True Faith" by 4-Mat (ProTracker MOD format). Equalogo (1989, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: "Loony2" by Darkstar (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announces that Chaos and Slipstream are no longer in coop. Sine Intro One (1989, ECS Intro). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: "Lonely" by Darkstar (ProTracker MOD format). Sine Intro 3 (1989, 18.12, ECS Intro). code: Andi, gfx: n/a, music: "That-Kat-Killer" by Andi (ProTracker MOD format). Street Tuff (1990, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Street-tuff-2-finis" by n/a (ProTracker MOD format). Another Musicdemo (1990, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Applejuice-4mat" by 4-Mat (ProTracker MOD format). Bournemouth Party Slide (1990, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Mace (pics, digitize), Dan (logo), music: "Myamigaisdead" by Sky/Enemies (ProTracker MOD format). Demo Pack (1990, ECS Intro). code: Electra, gfx: Zarchy, music: Jochen Hippel/Thalion (Future Composer 1.3 format, 6756 bytes). info: This was released just before the 16-Bit show in London. Sine Intro 4 (1990, ECS Intro). code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: "Space-Journey" by Bit Arts/RSI (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the 16 Bit Show in London. Another Game Compact Disk (1990, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Marc, music: n/a. Docs for SD-Boot 1 (1991, ECS Intro). code: Skol & Atlantis, gfx: Stryx, music: Juz (Future Composer 1.4 format, 13388 bytes). Vectalizer (1990, ECS Intro). code: Dan, gfx: Zarchy/THR (logo), music: "Fragments II..." by Gonzo/Flash Production (ProTracker MOD format). Partytime (1990, early, ECS Demo). code: Andi, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Sprinky Turtle (1990, 28.07, ECS File). code: Mace, Maxx, gfx: Mystik, music: "Hip-for-da-hop" by Firefox/ Phenomena (ProTracker MOD format). Party Slide 2 (1990, ECS Demo). code: Andi, Maxx, gfx: n/a, music: "Red Sector-Theme" by 4-Mat (ProTracker MOD format). info: This demo announces Slipstream is now Reaktor. Curved Vector Scroll -Slipstream Reformed- (1990, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Andi, Mace, gfx: Mystik (logo), music: "Pc90" by Gamma (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Dexion X-Mas Conference 90. Vengance Double Demo (1991, .01, ECS File). code: Andi, gfx: Mystik, music: "Members Part" by Walkman/It, "Lost To The World" by Gamma (both ProTracker MOD format). Medium res Vector (1991, ECS Dentro). code: Andi, gfx: Stryx (anim, logo), music: "Illumination" by Gamma (ProTracker MOD format). Slipstream BBS Intro -Absolute Zero- (1991, ECS Intro). code: Pod, Fangs, music: "Loader" by Dr.Awesome/Crusaders (ProTracker MOD format). Back In 1991 (1991, ECS Intro). code: Maxx, Andi, gfx: Stryx (logo), music: "Breeze" by Diablo/Budbrain (ProTracker MOD format). Tilt intro (1991, 13.04, ECS Intro). code: Matrix, gfx: n/a, music: "Zapped-Out" by 4-Mat/Anarchy (ProTracker MOD format). info: Crack intro, used for their release of the game Tilt. Announced new members Matrix and Firefox. The Pegasus Mintro (1991, 09.11, ECS Intro). code: Atlantis, gfx: Adrian, Mike, music: Amadeus (np2 format). Their 2nd Rebirth (1992, 02.03, ECS Intro). code: Alien/Slipstream, gfx: Killerbyte, music: "Seconds to Comply" by Prophet (ProTracker MOD format). Greetings (1992, ECS Intro). code: Alien, gfx: Killerbyte (logo), Orcslayer/Deicide (font), music: "New Edition II" by Zzzax/Timecircle (Sound-Mon 2 format, 6850 bytes). Music Disk One (1992, .07, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: Manico, music: "Yummy", "Are You Alive?", "Power-Supply", "Tasteless Candy", "Suicide Mission", "A Day In The Life" and "Sausage" by The Candy Man (all ProTracker MOD format). Introette (1993, ECS Intro). code: Venom/Slipstream, gfx: Manico, music: "Reborn" by The Candy Man (TCM) (ProTracker MOD format). Slope (SLP) ----------- GER> Tiger (Sascha Iwanov, swap pack, 02/97) FRA> Suicyco (Reblaub Matthieu, swap, 02/97). ???> Dr. Best (code, 02/97), Gludul (gfx, 02/97), Hysteric (swa pack, 02/97), Mic (org, 02/97), Penguin (code, 02/97), Suicidal (swap, 02/97). Ressurrection #1 (1997, 15.02, Intro). code: Penguin, gfx: Fashion/Ram Jam (pic), Monk (logo), Broom (font), music: Ace. review: Nothing really spectacular about "Ressurrection"; it's a humorous picture, a scroller across the bottom and a tune. It was meant more as a 'sign of life' than a real production anyway, so I guess they just wanted to release something. Some text suggest more issues of Ressurrection are on their way! Does it require AGA? I don't know... It caused a software failure and a guru after exiting on my system, but the intro itself ran fine. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Smart ----- I Dina Drömmar (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). 6th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. info: The Swedish title means 'In Your Dreams'. Smellon Design -------------- HOL> Joint (swap). Mellons 2 (Intro). Help (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). review: Aw, fun... This one's sort-of a pisstake on the whole MELON logo thing, with the black/white blocky chars... First, a Smellon logo in the aforementioned style bounces across the screen, followed by a PLETHORA of other logos for groups that have used this style of logo! Fun! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Elyts Deppir (1996, 27.04, Demo). 10th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. info: Read the name backwards... Smoke ----- ???> Devotion (code, 12/97), Fender (music, 12/97), Thor (gfx, 12/97). 427 (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). 3rd in The Party 6 40k intro competition. info: Smoke were unknown before finishing 3rd at The Party. Electroboy (1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB 030 Multifile). code: Devotion, gfx: Thor, Fender (design), music: Fender. 3rd in The Party 7 demo competition. Smokey (SMK) ------------ SWE> Leatherface (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', triplememb Digital Corruption and Ghost Riders). Smurfers -------- Megademo (1994, 09.10, Demo). Released at the Dooms Day 94 party. Soc. Brigade (-1992). --------------------- HUN> Alex, Roy Batty. ???> Hamlet (new early92), Krapulax (re-scene early92), Popeye (new early92). This group will probably be best remembered for housing some of the people who would later build the wellknown Absolute! The SOC in Soc.Brigade means 'Snap Off Commies', just for the record. They are also probably one of (if not the first!) Amiga group to have a PC section which won the demo competition at the first official Hungarian demo party in 1991 (Twin Sectors Inc. party) with "Torso". When the group died, the best members (ADT, Ben...) formed Absolute! Comiga joined Cerberos. Petroff sold his Amiga, but will continue making music on his PC early 92. Sodan ----- Sodan is legendary Danish coder Sören Grönbech's one-man crew. Sodan was BIG on the C64, where he among other things invented the socalled 'tech- tech' method of "waving" pictures more than 8 pixels to either side. When he started coding on the Amiga, one of the first things he did was re- invent the routine that made him immortal. He also made the legendary beat 'em up game "Sword of Sodan". Tech Tech (1988, ECS Multifile). Requires Kickstart 1.2, but there's a fixed version that will run on newer Amigas. Softkiller Crew, The (TSK Crew) ------------------------------- ???> Copyrighthunter (later Valhalla). Austrians Ray Jackson (gfx) and Guru Josh joined Front 242 late 91. J.O.E (ex The Professionals, new 88) joined Scoopex in the summer of 89. The Skyline Intro (1988, ECS File). code: Copyrighthunter, gfx: Slayer, Ray Jackson, Creeping, Music: Mark2/ Quadlite. Cooperation with Alcatraz. Soft-One -------- Italian coder, graphician and sysop Rio ('DISASTER AREA') joined Megahead late 95. Software of Sweden (SOS, -1991) ------------------------------- SWE> Bandit (music, 02/89-04/90), Blitz (music, 04/90), Coma (gfx, 04/90), Darkwolf (Magnus Mickelsson, code gfx music, new 07/89-91), Firewalker (code gfx, 06/89), Groo the Wanderer (Pal Ragnarsson, swap, 89), Hellcat (code gfx, ex Macron, new 89), Joe (88), Max (code), Mindbender (Andreas Persson, swap, 89), Nuke (gfx), Ron (founder mainorg code gfx music, 12/88-90), Spite (code, 91), Starfighter (code stickers, 89), Tripod (gfx, 89), WhiteKnight (code, 04/90), Wibbe (code gfx, 89-90), Zozz (new 91). SOS was an exclusively Swedish (duh!) demo group. 1989 - Darkwolf joined from Triangle at the IBB - Digitech Summer Party. Hellcat (code gfx) joined from Macron, and his first release for the group was the musicdisk "Sound De Light" [89]. 1991 - "Spite's Intro" announced Zozz had joined the group. SOS died, and 5 of the members formed Empire. Raduis joined Byterapers. Bionic Bytes (ECS Demo). code: Max, gfx: Nuke, Coma, music: "Bionic Bits" by Darkwolf (MOD format). Released at a party in Borlange, Sweden. Samanta Fox (1988, ECS Slideshow). code: Ron, gfx: n/a, music: Ron (sample data). Sound Select (1988, ECS Demo). X-Mas (1988, .12, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Ron, music: "Too Good2" by Ron (15 inst SoundTracker format). info: Original music made by Yankee/Asia. Amiga Night (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Ron, music: "My Tune" by Ron (15inst SoundTracker module). info: Ron's first real amiga demo. Ball Demo (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Ron, music: "Back To Standard" by Bandit (15inst SoundTracker format). Megademo (1989, ECS Trackmo). code: Ron, gfx: Ron, Wibbe, music: Ron (sample data), "Rockbox" by Bandit (MOD format), one tune of unknown origin. Muzic Mix Dizc II (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code: Dr.Diskdoctor, gfx: n/a, music: "Steve B" and "Angie S" by Banana/TEK, "Too Good2" by Ron, "cf5ii" by ???/Swedish Imperial, "Greenberet" by ???, "Rsi- SLL" by SLL/RSI, "Jompa" by Jolic/IT, "Ninja" by ???, "Out Run" by Fred/Ackerlight, "Sll3.3" by SLL/BS1-Quoram, "Saoteus" by ???/Triangle, "Telephone" by Romeo Knight/RSI, "The Link" by ???/Beastie Boys (all 15 inst SoundTracker format). Sound De Light (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code/gfx: Hellcat, music: "pr1", "Music Maestro", "She Drives Me Crazy" "Straight Up", "All She Wants Is", "Jeff Minters Ballad", "Charlie Chaplin", "The Lucky One" - all composers unknown. info: This musicdisk announced Hellcat joining from Macron. New Intro (1989, 28.02, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Ron, music: "Senap" by Bandit (15 inst MOD format). info: This intro announced Tripod left for Ipec Elite, Coma joined up. Musicselector II (1989, .04, ECS Demo). code: Ron, gfx: Ron, Coma (font), music: "Arkanoid 2 (trigon)" by Trigon, "Technopop" by Bandit, (both MOD format). Firewalkers First (1989, 08.06, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Firewalker, music: "Hymn To Jazz" by SLL/BS1 (15 inst SoundTracker format). Firewalkers 2nd (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Firewalker, music: "Enough" by Firewalker (15 inst SoundTracker format). Plotty (1989, .07, ECS Intro). code: Starfighter, gfx: Bandit (font), Ron (logo), music: "Defi-Lame" by Trgion (MOD format). Released at the IBB - Digitech Summer Party 89. info: This intro announced Darkwolf joined from Triangle. Bit For Bit -preview- (1990, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Ron, music: "So Beautiful" by Darkwolf (4ch MOD format). Clicopperdemo (1990, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Ron, music: Jochen Hippel (Future Composer 1.3 format, 7090 bytes). New Sinescroller Demo (1990, ECS Demo). code: Wibbe, gfx: n/a, music: "Slam" by Bandit (MOD format). Tampong (1990, ECS Intro). code: Dr.Diskdoctor, gfx: n/a, music: "Kawai-K2" by Starbuck/Spreadpoint (MOD format). ZuttZutt (1990, ECS Demo). code: Ron, gfx: Coma, music: "Rhythm Master" by Darkwolf (MOD format). Small Lame Pack Intro (1990, 21.03, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Darkwolf, music: n/a. $180 Demo (1990, 14.04, ECS Demo). code: Ron, WhiteKnight, gfx: Coma, music: "Skystorm" by Blitz, "Audion" by Bandit. Released at the Swedish Elite Easter Conference. Cool Pack Intro (1990, 25.05, ECS Intro). code: Armageddon/Tyrants-SOS, gfx: Darkwolf, music: Darkwolf (Future Composer 1.3 format, 7670 bytes). Spite's Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Spite, gfx: Darkwolf, music: "Angel Touch" by Darkwolf (MOD format). info: The intro announced Zozz had joined up. Software Tech ------------- German coder and sysop Magic Drummer joined Skid Row. Solaris ------- Solaris almost died (3 members left) late 92 after many members left for the new group Mentasm. Most did this in protest at Digital Master, who was reportedly ripping his graphics! Silk and Napoleon joined Dreamdealers. DGM (aka Digital Master, ex Iris), Gandbox, Harry, Locked, Memorys and Religion 242 all joined Ivory. Sylver left the scene, but is now back and looking for a crew. French coder Gengis (05/92) left for Liquid. He would later become a true scene celebrity for his fabulous demos in 1993 and 1994... Heart Light (1996, 27.04, Demo). Cooperation with Syndrome. 8th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Soldiers and Flowers -------------------- ???> Ae (code), Billy (trade sysop), Dan (code gfx), Grohu (gfx), Franckey (code edit), Krzysio (gfx), Mr.Lizard (gfx ascii), Ogotay (code), Oster (code), Piles (code), Priest (music), R.G. (code swap), Sagrael (swap trade), Sir James (gfx), Sixtus (music), Stigmatiser (gfx), Timi (mainorg swap), Tinner (raytrace). Solitude -------- SWE> Pad (gfx, ex Limited Edition, later Sunshine Productions, new 02/94). Swedish sysop Qen ('ODIUS') left to join C-Lous. Solution (SLT) -------------- N-L> Source (swap). ???> Fletch (sysop 'NEON CITY', ex Freestyle). Odeon (1992, 27.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Micron. Released at The Party 92. info: 7 tunes. Sonic ----- FIN> Bundy (Pyry Lamminpaa, swap, ex Offworld, early93), Deflector (93), Dole (93), Funky Fella (93), Grim (ex Damones, 93), KissaRobotti, Maza (Matti Tuomela, music, ex Rebels old, 93), Model (swap, ex Tony/ Pirates, early92-93), Murk (93), Oxide (93), Stargazer (Antti Oksanen, music, ex Stellar, re-Complex, 01/93), Ukulele, Zakka (Jukka Harjunen, trade, ex Accession or Alpha Flight!). SWE> Bit (ex Amaze, new 09/92). ???> Chromer (fin? ex Palace). Sonic is originally a Finnish demo group, their Swedish divison was formed by Bit/ex Palace 09/92. They also grew a pc section, Sonic PC, which released their first demo in 1992, and came 3rd in The Party 92 pc demo competition with their second effort, "Delusion" (music by Stargazer). 1992 - Finns Turtle (ex Byterapers, new 09/92) and Shocker joined Accession around october. Finnish musician Yolk joined Parallax. Graphician and musician Gamma got kicked, but later joined Jetset new. Dutchman Sonik is trying to start his own group, Damage Inc. Danish Omar was kicked coz of stealing. Slimer, Frostie, Def and Dux got kicked. Frostie joined Palace. Gastric Ulcer (1992 late/1993 early, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Merlin. Information: Mainly hardcore technobased. Evidence (1994, late, Musicdisk). Cooperation with Virtual Dreams. Sonik Clique (1990-) -------------------- FIN> Model (Toni Nykanen, swap, late95), Murk (mainorg gfx, 08/98), Oxide (Olli Kuopila, music, 08/95-97). ???> Devotion (fin? code, 08/98), Erique (fin? code, 08/98), FNDR (fin? gfx, 08/98), Lust Ninja (fin? music, 08/98), Negro (fin? gfx, 08/98). SC are sometimes referred to as just Sonik. 1995 - Famous English swapper and packmaker Majic Mushroom joined from Lemon., but did not stay in the group too long...as of march, he left the amiga scene. He sold his machine and bought a pc, which he apparently needs for his job :( 1996 - They WON the 64k intro competition with "Pure" [08/96] at the Assembly in august! 1998 - The group released the intro "Red Eye" [08/98] at Assembly, managing a third place despite any real content. Dole changed his handle to Divine and joined Accession. According to The Jungle #7, he just doublejoined... Help!? Fad (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). Winner of the Assembly 95 40k intro competition! Blur (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Pure (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). producers: Deflektor, Murk, Andy, Dizzy. Winner of the Assembly 96 intro competition! review: Almost more of a caleidoscope than an intro, it puzzles me a little how this could win. It's clearly one of the better contributions, granted, but a 2nd or third position seems more reasonable. Hmm... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Red Eye (1998, 08.08, 64k Intro). code: Erique, Devotion, gfx: Murk (design), Negro, fndr, music: The Lust Ninja (The Player 6.1A format). Third in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Thanks to some superior design work by Murk, this intro managed to reach third place at Assembly without any single great routine behind it! =) But it looks nice, and we guess that's what counts in the long run, rite? The most advanced routine here is a slow but goodlooking envmapper. The intro's full title is "We're Red-Eye Like Jedi". The intro requires AGA and some fastmem, though how much is unknown - we highly doubt it's much. The intro uses Spite and Origo's demosystem "OS\2 v3.0 (04.08.98)". See, amazing what you can find when you snoop around the executables with a great depacker? ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Southern Guild -------------- Australian musician Jukebox left 93, then changed his handle to Hunz and joined Pearl. Prelude (1992, early/mid, ECS File). code/gfx: Arttec, Protocol, music: Druid, Shadaxian. Jungle (File). Spaceballs (SPB, http://spaceballs.planet-d.net) ------------------------------------------------ NOR> Axen (doublememb LSD, 05/95), Dark Helmet (Rune Winsevik, founder code, 04/92), Kingpin (Eric Stevens, swap sysop 'CHECKPOINT', ex PMC, memb of LSD, Crux and Motion!, ex doublememb Access, new 04/93-08/95), Lone Starr (Paul Endre Endresen, code, 02/92-97), Lord Helmet (Børge Brunes, ex-editor, ex PMC, new 04/93, 97), Major Asshole (Sverre Rekvin, code, 04/92-97), Messiah (Terje Hilde, swap trade, ex Balance and Banana Dezign, doublememb LSD, new 05/95), Pagan (04/92), President Screw (Andre Hubert Johansen, code, 04/92), Ramjet (Eivind Nag, gfx raytrace, ex Pure Metal Coders, new early95), Roadster (sysop 'PURGATORY' earlier 'TOTAL PANIC', old handles Exterior and One!), Sator (Tom Erik Larsen, gfx, ex Shade, 02-04/92), Scott (Trond Christer Berg, music, ex Addonic, 04/92-03/97), Shorty (code), Slummy (Remi Pedersen, code, ex Cadaver, 97-12/00), Useless (Thomas Hansen, music, 97-12/00), Vinnie (Pål Granum, music, 02/92-97), Yoghurt (Tomas Andersen, leader music html, 04/92-97), Zack (Arild Ravlosve, gfx swap, ex Sardonyx, new 03/97-04/99). GER> Teis (Craig Brynum, music, 00). HOL> Hein Design (gfx music, left scene?), KR'33 (swap, ex Lemon. new 12/93). SWE> D-Zire (David Elfstrom, music, ex Doodles^Shock). SCO> Jobbo (code). ???> Arkay (04/92), Duckhunter (music, 04/99-12/00), Hardfire (music, 99), Psalt (code, ex Donut Fetish, new late97). Taking their group name from the Mel Brooks movie of the same name, Spaceballs is one of the oldest still-existing groups in the Amiga scene. All the original members had names from the film, but as new members have come to, this original concept has dwindled somewhat... Lone Starr almost made the group big single-handedly, with his amazing winning streak in 1992-94. After their surprise win at The Gathering 92 with "Wayfarer", they went and did what noone thought was possible: They won at The Party too. Their demo "State of the Art" was something fresh and new, and the scene loved it...except for those who ended up below them on the final results and didn't like the fact that a 'no-code' demo by a relatively unknown Norwegian group had beaten them! They further strengthened their shares in the market by recruiting the makers of the leading diskmag at the time, R.A.W, at The Gathering 93. At that party they finished third with the three-day production "Mobile: Destination Unknown" and their followup to SOTA at The Party, "Nine Fingers", only managed fourth. However, they continued to strengthen their team, this time by recruiting Facet and SuperNao in 1994... 1992 - Swedish Madcap joined from Palace around january. Lone Starr (code), Sator (font) and Vinnie (music) made the intro for Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's "R.A.W #2" [02/92] in february. Norwegian musician Scott joined from Addonic sometime between january and april. 1993 - Norwegian graphician Morten (ex Dexion) left the scene mid 93. 1994 - Norwegian musician Travolta (Rune Svendsen), responsible for the great soundtracks for demos like "State of the Art" [12/92] and "Nine Fingers" [12/93], left the scene to pursue a career in professional music. This most likely happened sometime in early 1994. Check out the norwegian techno compilation CD 'XS To The Ravezone II' for a tune from his professional band 'The BEK'. 1995 - Dutch duo Facet (gfx) and SuperNao (music, both ex Lemon., new 12/93) left to join Virtual Dreams in may. The rest of the Dutch members left en masse at The Party 5 in december; graphician Danny (ex Lemon.) joined Nah-Kolor (he later ended up with old teammates Facet and SuperNao in TBL), coder Tim (ex Motive, new early95) joined The Black Lotus and coder Dope (ex Lemon., new 12/93) rejoined Reality a couple of weeks later. 1996 - Norwegian musician Chris Meland joined Abyss in april. Swedish graphician Phase's stay in Spaceballs was a brief one, and he has now joined Essence. Norwegian musician and TG95 organizer Lizard (ex Lemon. old, new 12/93) left to join forces with supergroup The Black Lotus. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs (ex The Silents, new 12/92-94) left the scene, and like so many others started working full time at Funcom. TMB was the author of graphics for several great Spaceballs demos, like "State of the Art" [12/92], "Mobile: Destination Unknown" [04/93], "9 Fingers" [12/93] and "Dizzy Tunes II" [94]. Norwegian graphician Babar (04/92) joined Renegade. German coder MCM (ex Anarchy) joined Complex. Dan and Spaceman (both ex Lemon. old, new 12/93) joined the new Lemon. Jive, sysop 'THE HOOD' (old handle Iceberg, ex Desire, new late 92) got kicked. Norwegian supermusician Jogeir Liljedahl joined Virtual Dreams at The Party 1993, but continued to make some music for R.A.W later. Norwegian Nick (04/92) left at The Party 93 to rebuild Offence. After some time also Perplex (ex PMC, new 04/93) rejoined his old group. Norwegian coder Prince, who by the way is previous member Nick's brother, decided to leave the scene after The Party 93 (01/94). Dane Krueger (ex Kefrens, new RAW4^STD10) left the scene. Finnish swapper and trader Zakka (ex Omega, 04/92) joined Rebels. Godfather (ex Gothic, old handle Mean Jean, new late92) changed his handle to Storm and joined Jetset. Finnish coder Tsunami (new early92) joined Black Robes. Swedish Madcap (ex Palace, new ca01-04/92) is no longer a member! RGB demo (1990). code: Major Asshole, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Multidemo (1990). code: Lone Starr, gfx: n/a, music: Pizza The Hut. Party 90 Intro (1990, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: President Screw, gfx: Dark Helmet, music: --!! Ripped !!-- Rubberdemo (1991). code: Major Asshole, gfx: Yoghurt, Babar, music: Yoghurt. Spasmolytic (1991, mid, ECS Trackmo). code: Lone Starr, Dark Helmet, Major Asshole, gfx: Marvel/Massive, Sator/Shade, music: Vinnie. 3rd in the Amega party demo competition. review: There is *NO* way this will work on machines later than 1.3, since it grabs system resources in a BAD, BAD way! Spintro (1991, late, ECS Intro). code: Lone Starr, gfx: Sator, music: "Obsticularius" by Vinnie (4ch ProTracker format). review: This is just a 'contact us' intro, which is not too impressive. It also attempts to showcase Lone Starr's vector routine's ability to display round objects, but the few small ones here hardly impress. Overlaid over this is a white textplotter, and at the bottom of the screen we find a rather garish yellow logo by Sator, made to look like a cheese :) This intro was featured on the "Shit Happens #1" pack from Spaceballs. It announces the imminent release of "Wayfarer" around easter. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Shit Happens #1 menu (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Lone Starr, gfx: Sator, music: Yoghurt. review: Another bog standard pack intro; a grey but passable logo at the top of the screen, with a standard 8x8 scroller directly under it. The rest of the screen is occupied with the selector, two addresses at the bottom of the page, and some combined line- and filled vectors in the background. The intro trackloads. Wholly unremarkable. Used for at least issue #1. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wayfarer (1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Lone Starr, President Screw (endpart), gfx: Sator, Yoghurt, music: "Intro", "Mainpart" and "Wayfarter" by Vinnie, "Beyond.." by Scott (weirdland), Yoghurt (effects). Winner of The Gathering 92 demo competition! review: Perhaps this 'story' demo is meant as a humourous parody of Alcatraz' "Odyssey" [12/91]? It's a fun ride any way you look at it. Just like with "Odyssey", this beat another demo (Andromeda's "D.O.S") with perhaps better code and more 'demo' parts in a major competition. It was just a taste of things to come, really, as Lone Starr would later prove. If people were surprised that this demo won the TG competition, they were amazed when Lone Starr won at The Party too. My favourite part is the 'Weirdland' one, because of the atmosphere the visuals and the music creates. Just look at it as the first '3d scene' ever, and it takes on a completely new dimension, doesn't it? Just a fun demo, and nothing else! Though it works perfectly fine on my accelerated system, turning off the caches prevents heavy graphical errors during the vector parts. Though ADL suggests setting the chipset to OCS also, this is not really necessary. Also, please note that the music and text timing will be way off on accelerated systems. Therefore this demo is best viewed on A500's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Memtro (1992, mid?, ECS File). code: Lone Starr, President Screw, gfx: Sator, Yoghurt, music: Scott. State of the Art (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Lone Starr, Major Asshole, gfx: TMB Designs, music: "Condom Corruption" by Travolta (ProTracker MOD format). Winner of The Party 92 demo competition! review: The winner of The Party 2 compo spawned a thousand irritated comments and - probably - a thousand clones. Love it or hate it, SOTA certainly shook the scene in its foundations. Suddenly one more face on your glenz vector routine didn't matter as much as entertainment value. The demo consists of animations of a woman dancing to the beat of a techno tune, and was painted over by genlocking a video'ed dancer. The girl who dances in the demo is Jannicke Selmer-Olsen, a winner of several dance competitions! And juding from the picture in "R.A.W #5", she doesn't look half bad, either ;) A follow-up demo, "Nine Fingers", was released at The Party the next year. Unfortunately it only reached the fourth place, and hence never repeated the original's success. The demo had a very buggy trackloader, which was highly incompatible. Cracking group Skid Row took it upon themselves to 'fix' it, and soon after released a working version. What is perhaps not so wellknown is the fact that SOTA was *NOT* the first of its kind. A demo by Deform was released earlier in the year the looked quite similar. [glenn] Mobile: Destination Unknown (1993, 07.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Lone Starr, gfx: TMB Designs, music: Audiomonster. 3rd in The Gathering 93 demo competition. R.A.W #5 (1993, .05, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Lone Starr, gfx: TMB Designs, music: Scott. MAG - code: Perplex, gfx: Fairfax/Andromeda (panel, welcome), Perplex (fonts, design), Peachy/Masque (load pic), music: "Wanna_Buy_A_ Helmet!" by Jason/Crusaders, "LK" by Lizardking/Alcatraz, editor: Lord Helmet. review: It's hard to find anything to critize in the best mag on the scene, so I'll refrain from trying too much :) The first thing that strikes your eyes, naturally, is the intro. This time it's a simple, but welldesigned one, with exceptional music by Scott. I always loved the sweet simplicity of this intro...it signals style and assurance. Well, the mag itself is as good as always, with provoking and interesting articles by 'the king of provocation'. There's nothing wrong with the visuals either, Peachy delivers a smashing loading picture portraying dolphins at play in an underwater/overwater perspective. Just beautiful! Of course, Fairfax' traditional welcome picture isn't far behind. This time it's a naked woman stretched out on a white background. I've always liked naked women :) This was the first issue of R.A.W to be released for Spaceballs after the producers joined them from PMC at The Gathering. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. R.A.W #6 (1993, .12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Perplex, gfx: Fairfax (design, welcome), Mack/Melon Dezign (loadpic), Devilstar/TSL (loadpic), Joachim/Lemon. (loadpic), music: "Helmet Shake" by Jogeir, "Lemon'e Trippies" by Lizard/Lemon., editor: Lord Helmet. review: This one opens great: three fabulous loading pictures appear while the mag boots (in random order). Then we're shown Fairfax' welcome picture (which is always cool) to the first beats of Jogeir's now- legendary "Helmet Shake". Audio-visually, this is the ultimate R.A.W. Contentwise, it's as it always is; challenging and offensive. Don't miss it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nine Fingers (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Paul "Lone Starr" Endresen, Sverre "Major Asshole" Rekvin, President Screw (trackloader), gfx: TMB Designs, music: Travolta. 4th in The Party 93 demo competition. review: The follow-up to their much-criticized "State of the Art" demo is loved by many, and hated by a few - for much the same reason that they hated the original. The main criticism directed at the two demos were the fact that the coding wasn't 'advanced' enough, that SOTA was just painted animations and that 9F was just video processed through a converter. While both statements are true, there is no denying the entertainment value of these productions. The musicvideo-like demos have been copied time and time again, a.o. in Compact's two "Hiplash" 40k intros. The animation quality in 9F is surprisingly good, to the point where it actually took a few moments the first time I saw it to realise it was vector-built and not actual bitplane animation! The tune is not quite as funky as SOTA's instant classic "Condom Corruption", but still does the job adequately enough. As you may heve guessed by now, I'm part of the camp that loves this demo. I'll personally put entertainment value over advanced coding any day. While the demo is fully watchable on an ECS 1mb machine, the animations will take longer to play back. Since the demo is timed to the music, it moves on once it has gotten to a certain point. Therefore you get to see more of each animation on an A1200 (that is capable of running it at full speed) than on inferior machines. President Screw's trackloader is also worth a mention. You can, if you wish, run the entire 9F demo from DF1:! It can boot from any drive, and accept disks from any drive. The demo got its name because Lone Starr broke one finger during the coding, and had to finish the demo with Nine Fingers! A classic. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Dizzy Tunes II (1994, early, ECS Musicdisk). code: President Screw, gfx: TMB Designs, music: Jogeir Liljedahl/ Noiseless. Cooperation with Noiseless. Requires 1MB chip. info: Includes the tunes The Wanderer (7:00, Attributed Horror (4:58), Out of Silence (7:19), Face Another Day 2 (15:02), Mixified (5:36), Guitar Slinger (5:00), Signia (7:38), Oro Incenso (6:12). As far as I know, the original Dizzy Tunes was also a Spaceballs prod. Funky Pixels (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). code: Lone Starr, gfx: none, music: Vinnie. 2nd in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: This little baby opens with the words 'Funky Pixels', under which a trip through a canyon soon appears. It looked MIGHTY up there on the big screen, believe me :) The screen gradually becomes more cramped while the vector animation is running, until it skips to the next part. This part is just a text writer over a HUGE rubber vector cube. And that's it. Short but sweet, it has a sudden impact not often. The music is divine. With another effect and some proper graphics, it would have been GREAT. Now, it's just good. Still, good is a lot better than bad ;) The landscape was first rendered in Vista, then traced with Lone Starr's vector tracer - the same routine used for his demo 'Nine Fingers'. Requires 1.5MB of memory, though AGA requirement is uncertain. Can anyone test on an ECS machine? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  R.A.W #7 (1995, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Dope, gfx: Facet, music: SuperNao. MAG - code: Perplex, gfx: Facet (panel), Fairfax (main), music: "Living in a Dream" by Jogeir Liljedahl/independent, "Cloud Traveller" by SuperNao, editor: Lord Helmet. review: Lord Helmet's farewell issue as an editor, and also the last R.A.W to be released under the Spaceballs label; consecutive issues were independent. For reviews of these, see under the heading 'R.A.W Team'. This one's loading picture is by Fairfax, and is of a weird smiling face. Many have speculated that this person looks a lot like Facet... The intro bugs a little on my machine, and the timing is helplessly off. Too bad, since it's got a certain sense of style... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. BabeNoise (1995, 14.04, 4k Intro). code: Lone Starr, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of The Gathering 95 4k intro competition! info: See "Cracktro" for additional information. Jobbo (1995, 14.04, 64k Intro). code/gfx: Jobbo, music: Lizard. Winner of The Gathering 95 64k intro competition! The Last Finger (1995, 14.04, 64k Intro). code: Major Asshole, Slummy, gfx: none, music: Yoghurt. 2nd in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition. info: You might like to know that 'Glenn the Barbarian' is now called just glenn, and is editing Scenery... Cracktro (1995, late, Intro). code: Jobbo, gfx: Facet/Lemon., music: "Monty (hiscore)" by Dreamfish/ TRSI. review: A nice little cracktro, though the lack of a logo of any kind makes it a little uncertain who this is intended for... The whole affair seems a little inspired by "BabeNoise" [04/95], Lone Starr's famous 4k intro of a few months earlier. The face here, ofcourse, looks more like The Joker from Batman than any kind of babe, but the general principle remains. Design is OK, Dreamfish' chippy is very C64 and very chippy. You pretty much know what to expect, don't you? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Pinch (1996, .04, AGA Multifile). code/gfx: Slummy, music: Vinnie. 3rd in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Review: The 'tattoo-demo' Pinch was Slummy's biggest success so far. It's quite an unusual demo, with scanned images of tattooed and pierced people taking up a sizeable portion of the space. The October Session (1996/7, AGA Multifile). code/gfx: Slummy, music: Useless. 3rd in the Scenus 97 demo competition. review: Though I personally know the coder, I will try to make the following review as objective as possible. It was a rushed production (det er mere gøy å drikke øl enn å kode!), which sort-of shows here and there, but the overall design is certainly among Slummy's better work. I especially like the credits-heads... The effects mostly consists of colour-stuff, with swirling 'tunnels' and the like. I'll get back you with a more detailed description of the fx later, when time permits! The music is a little weird, but then again it had to be. Still, a very adequate tune. I like this, but as mentioned above, I might be biased :) Make your own decision, just remember: It's a little Finnsk. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Snack (1997, 29.03, AGA Demo). code/gfx: Slummy, music: "Sick_Frame_Of_Mind" by Vinnie. 10th in The Gathering 97 demo competition. review: The demo described as 'a demo from the seventies' by presenter Nightshade at the Gathering... Sci-Fi (1998, 28.08, 40k Intro). code/gfx: Slummy, music: Boo (8ch FastTracker II format). Released at Deja-Vu, a party I know absolutely zilch about! :( review: This is not a half bad 40k'er, if this is your kind of thing... You see, this one focuses a lot more on mood than on mindblowing effects, and the effects that are here are more of the undefinable quality... It's hard to explain, really, but think of a underground techno version of Stellar's classic "Darkroom", where the effects were never that advanced - but it didn't matter since the mood was so great. This is a lot like that :) Heck, I like it - you decide what you like! [glenn] Distance 1999 Invitation (1999, AGA File). code: Slummy, gfx: Slummy, music: Hardfire (The Player 6.1A format). review: This nicely designed intro doesn't really tell you alot about the party itself, but does have nice music ;) No seriously, it saves the entire invitation text to ram: anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Nice and small. Dedicated to standard 020/4mb fast owners, which should give you an idea of the system requirements. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Fusion Is No Good For Me (1999, 03.04, AGA 64k Intro). code: Slummy, gfx: Boo, music: Hardfire. Winner of The Gathering 99 64k intro competition! review: Slummy's 64k intro for TG99 is a much more focused effort than his demo at the same party, "SuperMonster" [04/99]. Some nice design, coupled with a piece of music we can only describe as 'original' apparently took this admittedly very short entry to the top of the competition. I think even Slummy himself must have been suprised by this, since even though it's cool it's very very short. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. SuperMonster (1999, 03.04, AGA Multifile). code: Slummy, gfx: Zack, music: Useless, Duckhunter (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of The Gathering 99 demo competition! review: Though jerky on my 030-50, the introductionary 3d scene, over which a single spaceballs logo is overlaid, is impressive. Then a not-so- smooth fade into a small piece of loading is entered, before a Supermonster logo is introduced to some good techno music. Next is an old effect, voxelspace, and not the best ever example either. Too much flashing! The effect is kept too long, and neither the woman's face nor the lightsource that is introduced later help proceedings. The next effect is a similarly uninteresting tunnel. Then comes something nice and original, that I don't exactly know how to describe :), except it looks slightly caleidoscopic. Then, a credit sequence before envmapping. The next effect is also nice, but I don't know how to describe that either ;) More nicely executed effects follow, including several envmapped variations, all with animated backgrounds and even overlaid graphics here and there...and then it's all over. Perhaps not the best demo ever, but with some nice parts. You should do more with your 3d scenes Remi! :) Should work on any 020+ amiga I suppose, but I wouldn't recommend anything LESS than my 030-50. As for memory requirements, I don't know... but at least some... ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Distortion (1999, 02.10, AGA File). code/gfx: Slummy, music: Inu/Zymosis. Released for the Distance 1999 demo competition. review: An OK production again, as usual perhaps relying more strongly on style and atmosphere than coding. This one seems to have a 'theme' on x- ray photos of various body parts. Weird music, but then again...jeg kjenner jo deg, Remi ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Lick (2000, 04.11, ECS Dentro). code: Slummy, gfx: Zack (picture), Slummy (design), music: Teis & Nork (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the TRSAC 00.5 oldskool demo competition! review: Well ok, this is certainly supposed to be an oldschool intro, but the codework on offer here is really remarkably unimpressive. Despite some original ideas, and Slummy's trademark sense of humour, this leaves me... rather cold. The palette choices are mostly annoying more than original, and the music is... perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, and need to go back to this at a later date... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Noisejesus (2000, 28.12, ECS 4k Intro). code/gfx/music: Slummy. Released at The Party 2000. review: Fireballs open this cool 4k'er, then a swirly little something... =) Many small effects here actually, all set to a rather squeaky 'soundtrack' - but hey, it's 4k! I've seen far worse than this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Space Marines (SMS) ------------------- NOR> Boa Constrictor (code sysop 'THE AZYLUM', 09/94-05/97), Hunter (sysop 'HELLOWEEN', 05/97), Mr.Man (sysop 'VALHALL', 05/97). Space Marines are a PC group which grew an Amiga section. Spaceballs coder Slummy was a member at one time. Spasm ----- ???> Boomer (code, 09-12/93), Draghan (music, 09-12/93), Zac (gfx, 09- 12/93). All the Spasm demos seem to be from the Boomer Zac Draghan trio... 1995 - Sear and Bacalao left to form Dylem late 95. French swapper Alhazred changed his handle to The Suicidal Klown (TSK for short) and left for Sardonyx to work on their diskmag "Seenpoint". His first work for the group can be seen in "Seenpoint #2" [12/95]. Culture (1993, 25.10, ECS File). code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan. Sun Is Back (1993, 04.09, ECS File). code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan. Happy New Year (1993, 30.12, ECS File). code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan. Special Brothers, The (TSB, 1990-, http://www.the-special-brothers.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Alex (sysop 'BLACK LINE'), Count Floyd (Markus Klingel, code, old handle TCA, 90-11/91), Dr.Dre (Alexander Kluth, ex Dr.Oetker/Vanish, new mid-09/91), Fluid Neon (Florian Vorberger, code, new 12/91), H.V.H. (sysop 'BIRD OF PREY', 91-04/95), Icecube (Jan Willutzki, swap, ex Vanish, new mid91-04/92), Ivan (gfx swap pack, 03/90-02/92), Scampy (Markus Diedrichs, swap, ex Mexx), Schorse (code sysop 'SILVER MOON', 91), Speedhawk (Carsten Henkelmann, swap, ex Eremation), Woddy (sysop 'FIRE POWER' WHQ, late90). FRA> Bross (swap, ex Willow, did NOT join Dual Crew), Burst, Fishbone (code, ex Extreme, new late91), Hawat (ex Rebels), Hygraicc (gfx music swap), Mumbly, Newmarh (ex Rebels), Swoly (gfx), Thufir (ex Rebels), Ze Worst (gfx swap). FIN> Stargazer (Antti Oksanen, music, 11/91), Tomy (Tom Pakarinen, code, 07/91). LUX> Joe (J. Schroeder, 05-12/91), MNI (Tom Wagener, code, 05-12/91). NOR> Kyle, MC Blaster (Magnus Willum, swap, 09/92). ???> Adictor (swap), Alloc (code, 03/90-12/91), Blade (music, 03/91), Cruzifix (stopswapwap), Electrica (08/90), Fabian (trade, new late92), GTS (music, 03/90-01/92), Laserdance (code gfx, 09/91-02/92), Master Freez (ex Equinox, new late91), Newmark (code, 92), Phobos (music, 09/91-02/92), SGR (gfx, 05/91), Sniper (ex Digital), Splitter (music, 12/91), Timerider (code, 09/91), Zyklon (gfx, 05-06/91). Boards; ANESTESIA (+352). TSB were a demo group based in Germany, formed by TCA (The Commodore Ace, code), Electrica and MLP Artworx (music) in 1988. Later more members joined, and lots of products were released. Around 1991 TSB consisted of about 40 members from Germany, England, Sweden, Finland, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. TCA later changed his handle to Count Floyd. Flake was the author of some antivirus programs, like PCL (PointerCLearer) and The Special Brothers Viruskiller. He later wound up in TRSI, where he continues to release new versions of his utility Virus Workshop. Fluid Neon (Florian Vorberger) is now main programmer of the DeliPlayer (http:// www.deliplayer.com) for Windows. 1990 - Pilka (ex Success, new ca 07/90) left to build a new group, and their german board 'FIRE POWER' was opened ca 10/90. MLP Artworx (music) and TCA (code, both 08/90) left late 90 -- this must be wrong, TCA just changed his handle to Count Floyd. 1991 - Germans Dr.Dre and IceCube joined from Vanish in the middle of the year. "The Official Board Dentro" [09/91] was released in september, announcing their finnish musician Stargazer (06/91-) had left the group for Equinox. He returned to TSB within two months (was member again 11/91). Another intro was released towards the end of the month, called "New Members" [09/91]. Laserdance, Error, Phobos and Timerider all made their stuff for TSB 09/91, suggesting they may have joined the group together. At The Party in december, the intro "Contact Us" [12/91] was released, announcing new members Fluid Neon, MC Man and DJ Magic. 1992 - "The Livetro" was released in the first few months of the year, to announce the upcoming release of the new messagebox "LIVE". German coder Flake (02/91-) joined D-Tect in august. German swapper Saron (new 09/91) joined Infect late 92. Finnish swapper Commie is now Whiplash/Frantic late92. German sysop Mike ('STATE OF MIND') left, and formed a new group with some other guys late92. 1993 - Graphician and trader Error (09/91-) joined Zenith early 93. All Norwegian members were kicked except for Kyle (early 93). French swapper Vodka joined Hazard late in the year. 2001 - The official website was launched, its webmaster is Ivan. Frenchmen Clawz (music, 92), Dancer, Spiral and Vodka joined Digital. Vodka later rejoined, however. The French editors of 'L.I.V.E', Freddox and Fletch (both ex Extreme, new late-09/91) joined Dreamdealers, and took the mag with them. German swapper Rebel MC (pack edit, ex Byte Busters) joined Desire. Codey was kicked. New Swiss board 'THE LEGEND' opened, but then the entire Swiss division left. Silvermoon BBS (ECS Intro). code/gfx: MNI, music: GTS (Future Composer 1.3 format, 15602 bytes). info: Probably released sometime after 05/91... Sekret Of Monkey Island (1990, ECS Music Demo). code: Count Floyd, gfx: Ivan, Tami Borowick, James Dollar, Bill Eaken, Avril Harrison, Iain McCaig, Jim McLeod, Michael Stemmle, Sean Turner and Brad Taylor/Lucasfilm Games, music: Chris Hülsbeck & Rudolf Stember (TFMX format). The Vision of a Great Group (1990, ECS File). code: Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: "Dudel (mlp)" by MLP Artworx (ProTracker MOD format). 3D Demo (1990, 24.03, ECS File). code: Alloc, TCA, gfx: Ivan, music: "Tellus-Vasta!.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). 2nd in the CeBit 90 afterparty demo competition. GCS Revival (1990, 18.08, ECS File). code: TCA, gfx: Ivan, music: "Party-Mix 90 (mlp)" by MLP Artworx (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Animators and Pegasus Party. Master Utilities Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). review: An OK intro this, supposedly for a compact disk they did called Master Utilities. I found this intro on another compact :) The music, by the way, is in Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format. The design is quite OK, and there's not really anything to put your finger on. An ok intro. No credits appear anywhere in the intro, except that the pack was done by Ivan/TSB Germany. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Works with KillAGA, but fucks up on exit. Groovy Dots (1991, ECS File). code: MNI, gfx: Ivan, music: "A Hit" by Eltronic (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announces the 'BIRDS OF PREY' BBS is now online. Maximum Overdrive (1991, ECS Trackmo). Suburb Sunblust (1991, ECS File). code: Laserdance, Schorse, gfx: Ivan, music: "Magic Choir.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). Vectordesigner Intro (1991, 26.03, ECS Intro). code: Count Floyd, gfx: Ivan, music: "Moontrip Part II" by Blade (ProTracker MOD format). Released at Cebit 91. Lethal (1991, 19.05, ECS File). code: MNI, gfx: Zyklon (fonts), Ivan, SGR, music: "Madmusic" by Eltronic (NoisePacker 2 format). Winner of the Maximum Pleasure Party demo competition! Bendy Vectors (1991, .06, ECS Intro). code: MNI, gfx: Zyklon (logo), Stargazer (font), music: GTS (Future Composer 1.4 format, 6896 bytes). Inconvenient Intro (1991, 27.07, ECS Intro). code: Tomy, gfx: Stargazer (pink logo, font), muisc: "Peep Peep" by Stargazer (protected ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91. Space Sperm BBS Demo 2 (1991, .09, ECS File). code: Laserdance, gfx: Error, Laserdance, Ivan, Fletch, music: "Pop Industrielle" by Phobos (ProTracker MOD format). The Official Board Dentro (1991, .09, ECS File). code: Alloc, gfx: n/a, music: "Maximum Breainboost" by Stargazer (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announced Stargazer left the group for Equinox. The BBS Vector-Ference (1991, 01.09, ECS File). code: Laserdance, Timerider, gfx: Ivan, music: "Vox Mystica.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). Meeting Intro (1991, 08.09, ECS Intro). code: MNI, gfx: Ivan (font), music: ???/Rebels (Future Composer 1.3 format, 4704 bytes). Released at the Luxembourg Party. New Members (1991, 30.09, ECS Intro). code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan (logo), music: "fa.Worse Face.gts" by GTS (4ch StarTrekker format). Thief v3.0 Intro (1991, 16.11, ECS Intro). code: Count Floyd, Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: "Modul.backup" by Stargazer (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Treacl Celebration Party. TBS Mandelbrot (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: "Maniac Beat.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). Released at Prime 91. Contact Us (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan, music: "Boom2.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). Released at The Party 91. info: This intro announced new members Fluid Neon, MC Man and DJ Magic. New Year Dentro (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: MNI, gfx: Ivan, music: "Caps Lock(upsample)" by Splitter (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Iris New Year Conference. Dreams (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: Newmark, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Swapping Logos (1992, 11.01, ECS File). code: S.E.S./Genesis Projects (c64), gfx: n/a, music: "Firzt.gts" by GTS (ProTracker MOD format). Readers Digest Announcement Demo (1992, 16.02, ECS File). code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan, Error, music: "Globe Moog" by Phobos (ProTracker MOD format). The Livetro (1992, early, ECS File). code: Lokh, gfx: Fletch, music: "Heart of Crystal" by Clawz/Interface (ProTracker MOD format). review: This is a small oldskool intro, announcing the upcoming release of the first issue of the group's messagebox "Live", to be released early july this year. No release date appears in the intro, so the release date is very approximate. The intro first displays a TSB logo, before the main parts appear. This consists of a textplotter with a TSB logo down the left hand side of the screen alternating with a dotroutine with globes bouncing around. Everything has a nice, oldskool feel to it, the kind of stuff that just can't be recreated by TRYING =) The intro needs KillAGA to display graphics correctly, but still has some minor graphical errors, which transplant onto the desktop after exiting the intro. It does not appear to disrupt the system's stability in any way, probably just writes directly to screen memory... Otherwise, no problems. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Spectral (1992-) ---------------- FIN> Zon (swap, ex Zenith, new 08/92). Spectral was formed late 1992. Spectre (1989-) --------------- SWE> Mightymuz (Mathias Olsson, swap, 11/90-01/91). ???> Daredevil (10/89). Spectre was born in march 1989 as a Swedish group doing demos and cracks. Speedy ------ DEN> The Flash (K.Andersen, code swap). ???> Backfire (swap), Breakbeat (music), Energizer (gfx), Germic (gfx), Jummer (swap), Le Renard (code), Magz (gfx swap), M.G.P. (code), Mosher (swap), Pixie (gfx), Scoop (code), The Collector (code), The Hunter (gfx), Wea (ex Analog, new late94), Yabbo (music). Speedy was formed by Steffen, who later left to form a reborn Parasite. However, the original Parasite founders reacted very negatively and refused him the rights to the name. He therefore rejoined one of his older groups; Jewels. Spetsnar -------- Saltsild (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). 8th place in TG93 intro competition. Spetsnaz -------- Spetsnaz were the arrangers of the Happening parties in Norway. Happening 94 Invitation (1994, ECS File). code: Creator, gfx: Hacksaw, Man, music: Macro. review: Most of you will not understand shit of the text in this intro, since it's entirely in Norwegian. Having said that, this IS after all an invitation to a small Norwegian party, so it sort of makes sense. There's nothing revolutionary here, as you might guess. The full LHA package comes with a map, some icons and the invitation text also. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Spirit [old] ------------ Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit, and was likely an all-german group. The name was assumed on 01/10-90. Among the names that went along to Countach were germans Norman Bates, Melodic Drama (both ex Navigators) and Nr.5. CCCP moved on to D-Tect. Spirit [new] ------------ SWE> Regent (trade, early92), Shadow Turtle (founder, ex Vogue). ???> Joker (ex Dictators), Sparks (sysop, ex Delight). Spirit was formed by Mightymuz and Shadow Turtle from Vogue. The new and old Spirit are in no way related to each other. In late 1992, all Swedish members left for other groups. 1991 - Empty joined from Anthrox, and stayed for 1-2 months. Then he changed his handle to Ford and moved on to LSD late 91. 1992 - Swedish swapper Lando (ex Skid Row) changed his handle to Paragon and joined Scoopex in august. Finnish swapper and musician Daddy Freddy (ex Decept) joined Anthrox. Flame and Nuke joined TRSI. Also, the entire Danish and French divisions joined! Swedish original founder Mightymuz (ex Vogue) joined Skid Row (RAW #3) or Fusion, then 2000 AD (Eurochart #16). Swedes Cone (ex Desire) and Sudden (ex Amaze, new early92) joined Noxious. Also, Inferno joined, but it's highly uncertain when it happened. Swedish sysop Xstaz ('ICE PALACE', ex Amaze, new early92) joined Alpha Flight. Another Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: SZH, gfx: Fairfax/PMC (logo), music: n/a. review: Not the best cracktro in the world, this is hampered especially by its annoying soundtrack, and a general 'beginner' feel. It features a largely purple logo by Fairfax, probably some early work from him 'cause it's far from good. The middle of screen is a textplotter with a vertical starfield in the background, and then a scroller at the bottom. There are two twisting rasterbars separating the different parts of the screen. Sound familiar at all? Seen a million of these, don't really wanna see any more unless there's good graphics and sound... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Splash (1988-1992) ------------------ Splash was a completely german demo group, formed around 1988 by the two germans Treble (code) and Bass (gfx music). Those two were responsible for the first intro alone. Late in 1988, two more members joined; Hijack (code gfx swap) and Cleric (gfx music). These four then created the group's second production, the "Uffse-Intro". These four remained the entire group until 1990. 1990 - Three more members joined this year, but their handles are a little uncertain. They were Danny (code), Barock (code) and n/a (music) ;) Another intro was released at the Action Autumn Conference in october. 1991 - The group was further reinforced in the early months, when Alpha (code) joined. Hijack coarranged the Rosebud Extravaganza party in the early months, where the group released their first proper demo, the "Splash- Trackmo". Towards the end of the year, Bass and Barock decided to leave Splash to create the subgroup "No Soul Produkktions" under The Silents. After this, Treble became inactive and left the scene. 1992 - Cleric and Hijack tried to keep the group alive, but most of the other members were non-motivated and lazy, so they eventually decided to kill the group. Cleric and Hijack (Kristof Berger) formed the new group Kack, and renamed themselves into Suck and Fuck, respectively. This group released just one small intro before dying in early 92, so they haven't gotten their own entry... =] Filling Sound Intro (ECS Intro). code: Treble, gfx/music: Bass. info: This was the group's first intro. Uffse Intro (ECS Intro). code: Treble, gfx: Cleric, Treble, music: Bass. info: Made over a weekend of boozing at Bass' place in Bad-Neuheim, Germany. The module is entirely made up of human voice sounds, remember those beat-box guys from the early days of hip-hop? Another Intro (1990, 21.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Action Autumn Conference. Splash-Trackmo (1991, early, ECS Trackmo). code: Alpha, gfx: Cleric, music: Bass. Released at the Rosebud Extravaganza. Spooky Fellows, The (TSF, 1996-, http://www.sgol.it/amiga/tsf.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------- ITA> Flender (founder, ex Ram Jam), M.A.S.E (founder swap, ex Ram Jam), Maxime (founder^Internet, ex Ram Jam), Posdnuos (Micoli Cristiano, founder swap, ex Ram Jam), Rocketeer (founder swap, ex Ram Jam). Formed by five ex-Ram Jam members early 1996 to make games. However, in a newsfile I found on AmiNet, it said they had not left the scene when they formed TSF. Spoon (SPN) ----------- DEN> Christine de la Queen (Christine Hansen, leader gfx), Shayera (John Hinge, code, 12/94-12/95). ???> B-Toven (music, 12/94), Duffy (code, ex Insane). 3D graphician Subsonic left to join Puzzle. Growl was kicked. The two ex-Parasite members Dino (gfx) and Gotcha (code) left Spoon and the Amiga scene to start up Parasite again on the PC. Spni-001 (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Shayera, gfx: various, music: Slide/Polka Brothers. 25th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: A nice little intro with three main effects. It opens with a 24 bit 4x4 display of a woman's face scrolling in all directions. Then there's an afterburned vector thingy before the concluding fireworks. This last effect is reminiscent of what Red Sector Inc. had in their classic MEGADEMO. Not at all bad...but too short, I guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sound #3 - Trance (Music). Sound #4 (Music). Sound #5 (Music). info: Issue 5 was the last issue of Sound ever released.  Hovsa (1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). code: Shayera, gfx/music: none. Released for the Party 5 4k intro competition. review: Short and quite sweet, this 4k'er consists of two good-looking effects. The first is a classic Keftales effect. We've seen it a thousand times, but it's still nice. The second is a sort of plasma-bitplane- scroll thing. You'll know it when you see it. Anyway, nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Spreadpoint (http://www.spreadpoint.com) ---------------------------------------- SWI> Amicom (code webmaster, new 09/89-96), Buddha (code, new late90- late91), Nightshade. GER> Andy (swap sysop 'DINKELATORS PALACE', ex Scoopex, new 91), Asgard (code), Blackstar (sysop 'DARK CENTURY', 91), Fiona (code), Starbuck (music), Thomas aka Tom (Thomas Kessler, code, ex Black Monks, old handle Mnemotron, 04/92-04/93), Tiger (sysop 'THE ARMOURY', left scene 94 after board got busted, new 91-94), Tip (code), Yukon (sysop 'HEAVEN'S GATE'). AUT> Munster (mainorg swap, 07/90). BEL> Beamrider (sysop 'FLYING SAUCER'). DEN> Backlash^Flipflop^Scion (sysops 'ANOXIA'). ???> Ernie, Mark, Marvin, Optima (ex Jetset), Psy (code gfx), Vindex (ex Anthrox), Wilfo. Spreadpoint is a demo group most fondly remembered for its coders. Buddha brought us the first texturemapped vectors and MasterSEKA, while Mnemotron brought us many improvements in the then-popular SoundTracker series. Thomas is the coder of the 'World Charts', where Autopsy/Hoodlum is editor... German coder TIP is identical to TIP/TNM, who coded the original MasterCruncher and later the first 8 channel music program, Oktalyzer. 1990 - Austrian coder Depeche (code train gfx, new 89) left in 1990. He later turned up briefly in Defjam, before leaving the scene for good. Their german bbs (sysop Merlin) was shut down ca 07/90. Austrians Mike (code), Tilt (code) and Matthew joined from Subway ca 10/90. Austrian founder Mike (code) left in 1990, leaving the group without a leader. He has later worked for Microsoft, and is today coding software for cellular phones. Munster took over organizing after Mike left. German graphician Ucom left. Lunatic rejoined Interactive. Frenchman Daryl (ex The Silents) joined Shining. Slash (swi trade), Matthew (aut, ex Subway), Tilt (aut code crack, ex Subway), GeorgeII (aut code crack) and Flash joined Defjam. Belgian trader Dr.Doolittle (new 05/90) quickly joined The Silents 06/90. Belgian sysops Cocaine and Dr.Avalanche ('FLYING SAUCER', ex Adept) quickly went on to Alpha Flight (RAW5^SLH11). Another source said Cocaine joined Addonic, yet another said Uli was sysop of 'FLYING SAUCER' and that HE joined Alpha Flight. The information on Uli as sysop of 'F S' seem to be correct, making my confusion total. Can anyone clarify? Green Ground (ECS File). X-Large (pre 1989, .03, ECS File). Small-Demo (1989, .09, ECS File). Wooow (1989, 06.10, ECS File). code: Depeche, gfx/music: n/a. Corporate Identity (1991?, ECS File). Cube-O-Matic (1991, ECS File). code: Buddha, gfx: Ucom, Grampa, music: Mat/MDA. Cooperation with Amiga Industries. review: This demo is probably the first ever Amiga demo to feature real texture mapped vectors. Unfortunately the demo itself is of the 'read a lot of scrolltext and the demo appears eventually' variety (which I hate) but it's still worth a look if only for novelty's sake. The demo uses Buddha's own Overload system, so it's impossible to manually decrunch :( XMas 91 (1991, .12, ECS File). Cooperation with Amiga Industries. Sprint ------ FRA> Corsair, Mr.Video. HOL> Optimize (sysop 'BAGHDAD CAFE'). Sprint was an illegal cracking group. Gaston (ex Horizon) joined Hyperion. Squadron -------- USA> Anarchy-X (sysop 'EVIL ASYLUM'). Squash ------ SWE> MRK (gfx, later Jewels, 12/94), Speedy (sysop 'ATROCITY EXHIBITION', 01/95), Stain (sysop 'FINAL IMPACT', doublememb AC, 01/95). ???> House-A-Holic (music, 08/94), Laz (music, 12/94), Qen (sysop 'ODIUS', ex C-Lous, new ROM4). Boards; ALIVE (nor, 01/94), MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE (nor), MIDDLE EAST (nor). Squeezers --------- POL> Timer (doublememb Define [details]). Star Frontiers (1986-1988) -------------------------- GER> Ming (Thomas Klinger, code, 12/86-10/87), Quark (Martin Brenner, crack, 87). Star Fronntiers was an early cracker group from Ulm, Germany, with 10 members. The group died in 1988. Quark works today for Egosoft (formed in 1990), and has a.o. written the game "Imperium Romanum" (1999) with music by Manfred "Pink/Abyss" Linzner! SF-Uridium Intro V1.0 (1986, .12, ECS Demo). code: Ming, gfx: Ming, music: (sampled data). Tetris Crackintro (1987, ECS Intro). code: Ming, gfx: (ripped from game), music: "Sleepwalk" by Karsten Obarski (soundtracker format). info: As the name indicates, this was a crackintro used for their release of the game Tetris :) Moebius (1987, .10, ECS Intro). code: Ming, gfx: (ripped from game), music: "Sleepwalk" by Karsten Obarski (soundtracker format). info: Another crackintro. Starlight --------- Kyle joined Desire. Starline -------- FIN> Amix (code, 90), Freddy (gfx, 90), Shade (gfx, 90), SS-Data (90), Ventor (swap, 90). Starline were a Finnish demo group with some nice early demos. Per Favore (1990, late, ECS Intro). code: Amix, gfx: Shade, Freddy, music: -ripped- review: Starline calls this, their first production, a demo - but we have decided to brand it otherwise. It's a singlescreen affair, with a typical '1990 flavour', but not the worst of its kind. It's got a certain air of competence about it. The screen is essentially split in two; The top half has a 'waving' yellow Starline logo (not bad) overlaid on a 3d starfield. The bottom has a checkerboard moving towards the viewer, and around the middle is a sinusscroller - again overlaid on equalizers (three different kinds are chooseable with the right mousebutton). Strangely enough, this is not as cluttered as it may sound. Typical of its time, but a good example of said style nevertheless. Caches off, original chipset was the only way to get this to work on my configuration. The music was ripped from a game (as they openly admit), but we regrettably were not able to discover exactly which one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Static Bytes (STB, 1990-) ------------------------- DEN> Armalyte (Søren Nielsen, code gfx, 05/90), Buck (Jacob Buck, org code gfx, 05/90-12/92), Daae (ex Dali/Majic 12), DJ Discoleif (music, 07/90- 11/91), Estrup (Christian Estrup, code editor, ex The One/Euphoria, 09/91-01/94), Free (swap, 11/91), Howard (sysop 'ELYSIUM', earlier 'SUPER TROUPER', opened 09-11/91), Ice (code, 11/91), JC-Zoon (music, 05/90-11/91), John Doe (code, 11/91), JTF (gfx, new 11/91), Playboy (Mads Pedersen, swap, ex Prologic, new 09/91-01/94), Quackbuster (Rasmus Hougaard, gfx swap pack, 08/90-01/94), Sonny (gfx, 09/91), Stranger (gfx, 05/90-11/91), Timer (code, 07/90-11/91). GER> Fashion Design (Andreas Keirat, swap, ex Prime Design), Friendly (gfx, ex Damian, later X-Trade, 12/94). ???> Exit (code, 07/90), Jack (gfx, 07/92), MonBoot (gfx, 12/92), The R (den? gfx, 05/91). Static Bytes was a danish demogroup, likely formed around 1990. They are probably most known for being the group chosen to take over the job of publishing the Eurocharts when Crusaders quit. They were given the go-ahead in July 1992, and released the first issue of the NEW Eurocharts shortly after. Christian Estrup, the editor, later worked as a professional journalist for a big Danish computer magazine. He is also the author of the ProTracker module packer/optimizer ProPacker. 1991 - In November Gawk and Trace were kicked due to inactivity, and The R and Elin helped form a new group called Focus Design. The group was further weakened when Hawkeye (ex Prologic, new 09/91) left for the new Kefrens, but some of the damage was perhaps repaired with the joining of graphician JTF. While all of this was going on, they still managed to release lots of product, making the final months of the year some of their busiest ever. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs also joined The Silents around this time. 1992 - 1995 - Danish musician Cutcreator (09/91-), responsible for most of the soundtracks on the Eurocharts, left for Passion late 95. Danish swapper Jones (ex Rednex, new early92-07/92) joined the new Rednex. Graphician Sauron (ex Equinox, 07/92) moved back to Norway and joined Scoop. He won the graphics competition at The Gathering 92 with "The Beauty and the Beast". In addition, he started working at the game making company DiMaga Studios. Norwegian graphician Marvel (02-12/92) changed his handle to Joachim and joined The Crusaders. This is highly ironic, since he made the graphics for several issues of the old Crusaders production "EuroChart" when it became a Static Bytes production :-) DJ Discoleif Musicdisk (ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Dj Discoleif. Megademo #1 (1990, 10.05, ECS Trackmo). code: Armalyte, Buck, gfx: Armalyte, Stranger, Buck, music: "Octav", "13.Skovtur" by Metal/Humanoids, "Naniga.jc-zoom", "Music For You.jc" by Jc-Zoom (ProTracker MOD format). DJ Discoleif Greatest Hits II (1990, 01.07, ECS Musicdisk). code: Timer, Buck, Exit, gfx: Stranger, music: "Loader vol.2", "Bee", "Leif Is Scratching" by DJ Discoleif. Released at the Amiga Conference. DJ Discoleif Intro (1990, 31.08, ECS Intro). code: Buck, gfx: Quackbuster (logo), Stranger (bigfont), Defeat/Direct (minifont), music: "Piano-Plasma" by DJ Discoleif. Released at the Bounty Party. DJ Discoleif Greatest Hits III (1991, 31.08, ECS Musicdisk). code: Buck, gfx: Quackbuster (logo), Stranger (bigfont), Defeat/Direct (minifont), music: DJ Discoleif. Released at the Bounty Party. Broadcasting #4 (1991, 21.05, ECS Intro). code: Buck, gfx: The R (fonts), Stranger (logo), music: JC-Zoom (Future Composer 1.4 format, 15328 bytes). info: Packmenu for "Broadcasting". Lowlife Party Invitation (1991, ECS Demo). code: Dezz/Light, gfx: The R (logo), Caveman/Light (logo), Chain/Light (font), music: "Black Cat" by Cutcreator (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with Light. Summit 91 Party Slideshow (1991, ECS Fileslide). code: The One/Prologic, gfx: The R, TMB/Prologic (font), Playboy/Prologic (photos), music: Cutcreator (NoisePacker 2 format, 105524 bytes). Delirium -Too-Many-Sines-Intro- (1991, 28.09, ECS Intro). code: Estrup, gfx: TMB/The Silents (main), Sonny (logo), music: "Mask of Joy.cut" by Cutcreator (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Static Bytes and Light - Lowlife - Party. Lowlifeslide (1991, late, ECS Slideshow). info: Released within six weeks before Glenspiration. Glenspiration (1991, 26.11, ECS Intro). code: Estrup, gfx: TMB Designs/The Silents, music: Cutcreator (NoisePacker 2 format, 100808 bytes). review: This is certainly a neat little intro, with some good design helped immensly by TMB's excellent graphics. The overall effect is convincing, and the intro manages to feel fresh even though it isn't particularly :) As the title suggests, glenzvectors in all shapes and sizes are the order of the day, and the intro presents some nice variations on the theme, like rubberglenz. There is no conventional exit routine, but each 'part' can be exited with the left mousebutton, which eventually gets you to the end of the show. Nice, compact and competent. Cutcreator can do a lot better, tho! I had some difficulty with this intro, the graphics wouldn't display properly even with KillAGA. I finally had to boot from the disk (no caches etc) to make it work - although the music still bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Cutcreations (1992, .02, ECS Musicdisk). code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel, music: "Afrodite", "Sstronomical Clock", "Bombs Away", "Cutting Through", "Outburst of Feeling", "Plundering", "The Stalactites", "Tunetime", "Underground" by Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format). All Time Greatest Hits #9 (1992, 10.02, ECS Musicdisk). INT - code: Estrup, gfx: Quackbuster (logo), Djengis Khan/Talent (scrollfont), music: Nuke/Anarchy (ProPacker 2.1 format, 12064 bytes). MUS - code: none, gfx: none, music: "3d Demo Tune_mf_" by Mad Freak/Anarchy, "Global Trash 3 v2" by Jesper Kyd/The Silents, "Hazey Waves" by Nuke/Anarchy, "Overload" by Tip and Mantronix/Razor 1911, "The Return of Yeti" by Axel/Brainstorm. info: A collection of the best, ripped tunes lately. All Time Greatest Hits #10 (1992, 08.04, ECS Musicdisk). INT - code: Estrup, gfx: Quackbuster (logo), TMB/The Silents (other), music: Djengis Khan/Talent (ProPacker 2.1 format, 12040 bytes). MUS - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at The Gathering 92. New Eurocharts Informer (1992, 18.04, ECS Intro). code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel (main), Blizzard/Kefrens (kefrens logo), music: "Dream On" by Cutcreator. Released at The Gathering 92. info: This intro was mentioned in the first issue of the new Eurocharts, and was apparently some kind of promotional intro. In this intro, it was announced that Kefrens were going to coproduce it with Static Bytes, but in the end this never happened. Roede Hunde (1992, ECS Demo). code: Buck, gfx: MonBoot, music: Cutcreator. Eurocharts #15 (1992, 01.07, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel (main), Jack (clip), Sauron (clip), Thanatos/Pure Metal Coders (clip), music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 135178 bytes), editor: Estrup. Probably released on or right after the Hurricane Party. review: This was Static Bytes' first issue, released 6 months after the final Crusaders issue. Not much has changed from the Crusaders days, though, the interface remains the same old one. This is quite remarkable, actually, since the mag was totaly recoded - it still looks 100% exactly the same :) The graphics are about on par with what Crusaders produced, and so is the editorial content. Not much more to say about this first issue; it's the logical next step. An intro was released to announce this at The Gathering '92. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Eurocharts #16 (1992, .09, ECS Multifile Chartkmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel (main), music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 177420 bytes), editor: Estrup. review: Marvel's graphics aren't really a stunner this time, but it's not too bad either. A high amount of cliparts from TMB Designs/TSL help raise the level a lot, though. Cutcreator's tune is a small disappointment too. Let's hope he does better in the next issue :) Editorially, there's not much out of the ordinary this time either. There's the new jokes section, of course, but that can't really be counted as an editorial advancement... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Eurochart #17 (1992, .11, ECS Multifile Chartkmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Sauron (main), music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 152784 bytes), editor: Estrup (main), Quackbuster (news). review: Another issue, this time with graphics by Sauron. This issue marked the innovation that for the first time, a few of the gallery shots were in color. Given the quality they achieved for these first few, they should perhaps have passed on the opportunity for this time... =) They promise improved quality for the next issue, so let's see... Last issue contained a best bootblock competition, and the results of the competition were... First place to Tron/ex Anarchy with his Glenz-boot! The new competition for the next issue is a challenge to musicians: Make the best tune possible with ONLY ONE SAMPLE! =) No don't ever go around saying STB can't make whacked-out compos =/ Eurochart always had a lot of great cliparts, and this issue is no different. There are clipart contributions this time from Airwalk/Kefrens, Ed-209/Exotic Men, Fashion Design/Pleasure, Mega Madness/Warpigs, Mount/ Parasite, Mr.Pixel/Fi-Re Crew, Spurnik/Defiance, Tin/Brainstorm, TMB Designs/The Silents and finally Viper/Talent. In the news section, Nico/Accession's handle is misspellt Niko. The news that Mr.Root/Acme joined Sanity was later denied in the news section of Pure Metal Coders' "R.A.W #4". News that Disney/Alcatraz left the scene were false; he did infact carry on for a while more. The mag seems impressively compatible, working perfectly first-try without having to disable anything, and boots perfectly fine from df1: (which is a really GOOD THING since my df0: is currently DEAD!). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fasst/3.1. Jones for President (1992, .12, ECS Demo). code: Buck, gfx: Marvel (title), Monboot (digitized), music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 197594 bytes). Eurocharts #18 (1993, 03.01, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel, Playboy, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 141874 bytes), editor: Estrup. Kuglep0len (1993, .01, ECS Musicdisk). code/gfx: Joachim (Estrup), music: Cutcreator. Eurocharts #19 (1993, .05, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Sauron, Mount/Parasite, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 154828 bytes), editor: Estrup. Eurocharts #20 (1993, .05, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Mount/Parasite, D-Sign/The Silents, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 153786 bytes), editor: Estrup. Eurocharts #21 (1993, .09, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: D-Mage/Virtual Dreams (title), Mount/Parasite, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 153848 bytes), editor: Estrup. The Official Eurocharts issue #22 (1993, .11, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Tin/BRS Productions (title), Mega Madness/Warpigs (main), music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 174252 bytes), editor: Estrup. review: After the nice titlepic, the main graphics were a bit of a disappointment. Luckily, there were some nice cliparts in the Euronews section to look at :) Archmage/Andromeda and CAT/Essence deliver the goods, while the rest of the clips are never above average. Cutcreator's music is great, as usual. Very typical for his style, with the tune having several, quite different parts. Nicely done. Editorially, there's an interview with Facet/Lemon., but not much else. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Euro Charts issue #23 (1994, .01, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Mount/Parasite (main), Blizzart/Kefrens, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 174178 bytes), editor: Estrup (main), Quackbuster. review: You pretty much know what you're getting with the EC, so... This was perhaps NOT the best ever design for the chart, but it's functional. Some changes were made to the charts themselves too, Best Swapper is a new chart which replaces Best Packdiskmaker. This issue was originally to have been released at The Party 93, but this was unfortunately impossible. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Euro Charts issue #24 (1994, .03, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code: Estrup, gfx: Facet/Spaceballs, music: Cutcreator (ProPacker 2.1 format, 179348 bytes), editor: Estrup (main), Quackbuster. Eurocharts #25 (1994, .05, ECS Mutifile Chartmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: "Stardance" by Dr.Awesome. MAG - code: Estrup, gfx: n/a, music: Dr.Awesome, editor: Estrup. Euro Charts issue #26 (1994, .11, ECS Multifile Chartmag, 2 disks). code: Estrup, gfx: n/a, music: Cutcreator (ProPaker 2.1 format, 166130 bytes), editor: Estrup. Steel ----- GER> Axel F (sysop 'RED RAIN'). AUS> Ace (sysop 'RED ALERT'). Stellar (1992-) --------------- FIN> Anis (code, late93-95), Chameleon (code, 07/92-93), Daeron (code, 06-08/95), Dalmak (Tony Hagerlund, mainorg trade swap, old handle Orion, 07/92-08/95), Dune (gfx music, doublememb Orange [pc], 08/95-01/96), Dweezil (Mark Saarinen, code, ex Carillon, 08/93-95), Erkki (gfx, 95), Frankie (Sami Piskonen, gfx, ex Agnostic Front, 08/93-04/96), Groo (Sami Jarvinen, music, 08/95-04/96), Hooks (Panu Liukkonen, code, 95-04/96), Index (ari Ijas, swap trade, ex Addonic, 02/93), Inquisitor (gfx, 07/92-08/93), Kefeus (code, 07/92-95), Kube (Matti Nykanen, gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, 95), Lemming (org, 04/96), Mac (Mikko Koivisto, code swap, ex Addonic, 07/92-late93), Mango (code music, 12/92-late93), Moonshine (code, ex Calibra, 08/93), Neuresten (gfx, 10/95), Nose (Jyrki Saarinen, code, 08/94-04/96), Procyon (code music, 07/92-08/93), Razer (Jani Norminen, code, ex Alcatraz, new 10/93-01/94), Strobo (Miko Nyman, gfx music, 06/92-01/96), Zuikki (code, 08/94-08/95). SWE> Dep (code, ex Wrath Designs, new 08/96), Elixir (code, ex Wrath Designs, new 08/96). ???> Lobo (ex Origin). Stellar is a finnish demogroup, formed by the previous Finnish section of Equinox in 1992. They were wellknown for their technical, innovative demos, and they were among the leading amiga groups in finland for a while. Names seem to indicate that Dweezil and Nose are brothers? Not sure I understand the joining/eaving situation with Kube between Stellar and Virtual Dreams ...unless he joined and left both groups several times :) 1992 - The same mag that brought the news of their forming (Static Bytes' "EuroCharts #15" [07/92]) also brough the news of their death - they had supposedly formed Vision SF. Their first release was likely the intro "Hard To Be God" [07/92] at Assembly, together with contributions for the graphics and music competitions by Gator and Strobo. It was followed by more intros, like "Perversia" [07/92], "We Are Clever" [08/92] and "Peach Boys" [late92]. Finnish graphician Morpheus joined Chrome in september. Finnish graphician Gator (ex Addonic, new 06/92-08/92) changed his handle to Dwel and joined Alcatraz around october. Their next party release wouldn't come until the Analogy Hitech Party in december, where the filedemo "The First AIDS Kit" [12/92] was released, but unplaced in the competition. 1993 - Dweezil joined from Carillon when the group ceased to exist, likely around january or february. Many smaller productions got released during the first half of 1993, like "Immaculate Conception" [93], "Lintu-Intro" [93], "Contemplation" [93], "Lipstick" [93] and "State of the Fast" [07/93]. Burefalos' board 'SLAUGHTER HOUSE' went down in july, since the sysop was moving to the usa. At the European Computer Conference in sweden in early august, the intro "Hands of Pleasure" [08/93] reached the 5th position in the competition. Their first victory was achieved just a few days later, when Dweezil's intro "Bananamen" [08/93] won the 40k intro competition at the big finnish party Assembly! Additionally, Kefeus' "Wild Things" [08/93] reached 7th in the same competition. Finnish graphicians Artifex and Hotshot (both 12/92-) both joined Complex in august, likely at the Assembly. A small production called "After Assembly 93" [late93] was released a small while later. Two more releases were made in the later months of 1993; the intro "Jamaica" [late93] and the file-mag "Stellar Times #3" [late93]. At the scene's main event of the year, The Party 93, Razer's intro "Hallucination" [12/93] reached the 4th place in the competition. 1994 - The first release this year was the design-fixed version of "Hallucination" [12/93], called "The Second Hallucination" [01/94]. The next months were filled with minor releases such as "Doop" [early94], "Chipsie King" [early94], "Stellar Times #5" [early94] and "Eurochart 25 Trailer Intro" [early94]. But they were saving the thunder for Assembly, and come august they took the step up into Finland's upmost elite. Nose and Zuikki's demo "Mindflow" [08/94] won the demo competition, and Dweezil's underrated intro "Darkroom" [08/94] took a third position in the 40k intro competition. This was followed by four months of silence before The Party in december, when Zuikki and Nose released the innovative intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94] to a disappointing 7th position despite one of the amiga's best voxel routines ever. 1995 - Almost half a year of silence opened the year, before Nose, Daeron and Zuikki's "Human Excrement" [06/95] was released for the demo competition at Abduction 95 in finland, which it won. The demo was not released at the party, but instead a fixed and renamed version, "Toilet" [07/95], was released a short while later. The same coder-trio returned with another demo for the Assembly competition, "Miracles" [08/95], which finished third in competition. October's Scenario party in finland brought another demo, "Aurora" [10/95], by new members Juliet & Case (who had previously made demos on their under). The demo was another success for the group, who won the competition. Juliet & Case didn't stay in the group long, and by december they were members of CNCD. "Aurora" became their only release for Stellar. The year was rounded off, as usual, with the The Party in denmark. Here, Nose released the demo "Galerie" [12/95] on his own, to a very disappointing 9th position. 1996 - The demo "Galerie Remix" [01/96] was released to the winning position of the Juhla 96 party in january, restoring some of their lost dignity from The Party competition three weeks earlier. For once, the group attended The Gathering in norway during the easter holidays, and took home the winner trophy in the intro competition with Nose and Hook's "Lights" [04/96]! As far as we can record, this became Stellar's last ever release. The two swedes Dep (code) and Elixir (music) were recruited from Wrath Designs at Assembly, though that too proved a dead end and neither ever released anything for Stellar. Uncut left. Danish superswapper The Pride left the scene after 9 years. During that time, The Pride was one of the pioneers of packmaking. French graphician and swapper Shadow (Philippe La Visse, 07/93) is no longer a member. Finnish musician Stargazer joined Sonic for a brief while, then moved on to Complex. Hard To Be God (1992, 25.07, ECS File). code: Procyon, gfx: Gator, music: Strobo. Released for the Assembly 1992 amiga intro competition, unplaced. Perversia (1992, .07, ECS Intro). code: Procyon, gfx: Procyon (anim, font), Gator (pic), Inquisitor (logo), music: Strobo (The Player 4.xx format). review: This intro opens with a picture by Gator of an eagle. It's in blue and black, and not terribly good. The intro itself is just a bunch of spinning vectorcubes on the background with a 1-bitplane text writer on top. On the left-hand side of the screen there's an OK Stellar logo. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. We Are Clever (1992, .08, ECS File). code: Procyon, gfx: Gator, Inquisitor, music: Strobo. Peach Boys (1992, late?, ECS Intro). code: Kefeus, gfx: Hotshot (intropic), Artifex (logo, font), music: Strobo. review: Nothing too exciting here, just an intropic and some vectors to write contact adresses and messages on top of. The left-hand logo is nice, though. [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Intropic has graphical errors, but works fine. The First AIDS Kit (1992, 12.12, ECS File). code: Chameleon, gfx: Artifex, music: Strobo. Released for the Analogy Hitek Party intro competition, unplaced. Immaculate Conception (1993, early/mid, ECS File). code: Kefeus, Chameleon, gfx: Inquisitor, music: Procyon. Lintu-Intro (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: Moonshine, gfx/music: Strobo. Contemplation (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: Dweezil, gfx: Inquisitor, music: Strobo. Lipstick (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: Moonshine, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo. State of the Fart (1993, 05.07, ECS File). code: Procyon, gfx/music: Strobo. Hands of Pleasure (1993, 05.08, ECS Intro). code: Procyon, gfx: Strobo, music: n/a. 5th in the European Computer Conference (ECC) 93 intro competition. Bananamen (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dweezil, gfx: n/a, music: Strobo. Winner of the Assembly 93 40k intro competition! GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Wild Things (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Kefeus, gfx: Inquisitor, Strobo, Artifex, music: Strobo. 7th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. After Assembly 93 (1993, late, ECS File). code: Moonshine, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo. Jamaica (1993, late, ECS Intro). code: Anis, gfx/music: Strobo. review: Release was at least before The Party 93, since text in the intro says 'Sources for sale! Support Anis to TP93' - or words to that effect ;) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Stellar Times #3 (1993, late, ECS Filemag). code: Mac, Mango, gfx/music: Strobo. review: Calling this a mag is a bit on the fresh side, it's just a big picture (formed like the front page of a newspaper) you can scroll around on with your mouse. Not scene-related either, but quite funny. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Hallucination (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Razer, gfx/music: Strobo. info: A fixed version of the intro was later released, under the name "The Second Hallucination". 4th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. The Second Hallucination, The (1994, .01, ECS Intro). code: Razer, gfx/music: Strobo. review: 2nd Hallucination is a design-fixed version of Hallucination. The release-date is pure speculation =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-502mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Doop (1994, early, File). Chipsie King (1994, early, Musicfile). Stellar Times #5 (1994, early, Filemag). Eurochart 25 Trailer Intro (1994, early, AGA File). code: Hook/Genocide, gfx: Frankie/Stellar, Harri R (animation), music: Strobo/Stellar. Cooperation with Genocide. review: The opening of this small demo/dentro is quite impressive - it's an animation, where we travel around a mountain top, and some terrain. It's very impressive, and I'm still not sure if it's actual footage or if it was rendered... There's only one other real 'routine' in the demo, a good zoomrotator with stretching and smoothing (?) Anyway, it looks real nice, and the picture doesn't appear blocky at all. Hmm... Made to announce the upcoming 'Eurochart #25' by Static Bytes (eventually release 05/94). Why on earth such an intro was made by Stellar and Genocide, I don't have the faintest idea :) GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mindflow (1994, 06.08, AGA File). code: Nose, Zuikki, gfx: Frankie, Strobo, music: Strobo. Winner of the Assembly 94 demo competition! review: This one opens with a Stellar logo of acceptable quality by Frankie. Then it gets off to a flying start with a great flight over a voxel landscape to the opening part of Strobo's tune - which is incidentally the best part. Then a Mindflow logo appears (which could have been MUCH better). From there it goes through good renditions of some of the more popular effects of the time - fullscreen rot-zoomer with stretching, texturemapped cube, Doom routine, realtime 2x2 (I think) zooming fractal and so on. A quite good demo, and an essential addition to anyone's demo collection. I seem to remember it demands some fastmem. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Darkroom (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dweezil, gfx: n/a, music: Strobo. 3rd place in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: I always liked this for its originality. There had never been anything quite like it before, it was something brand new at the time... What makes Darkroom special is the mood of the thing; that dark, mystic feeling that it evokes...and Strobo's industrial soundtrack is a very important part of that. Not to be missed. It is worth noting, though, that on a machine as fast as mine, it looses some of its value because the effects move TOO quickly. Therefore, best viewed on an A500 ;) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Peverly Hills (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Zuikki, Nose, gfx: Frankie (font), Strobo (design), music: Groo/CNCD (The Player 6.0A format). 7th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Stellar presents the world's first HAM8 3D-Terrain (or to use the correct term: voxelspace), in a nicely designed intro that finished too low in the competition, in my opinion. It looks dead great too, though the resolution could perhaps be a little better. It's perhaps best viewed a few feet from the screen. On the other hand, this is an intro that runs on a vanilla, no-fastmem A1200, so resources are limited. Though essentially a one-effect intro, this 33k masterpiece still manages to impress me when I first saw it. The terrain movements are calculated randomly, and thus the intro is different each time it is run. Pressing right mouse button even enables the user to control the movements, proving this is a true real-time experience. Any help in locating the elusive 'hidden part' mentioned withing would be most greatly appreciated... They say in the text inside the intro, 'Thanks to Jarno Paananen for The Player 6.1A', but the module included was made with the previous version; The Player 6.0A. The music is dead cool, btw =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Human Excrement (1995, 11.06, AGA File). code: Nose, Daeron, Zuikki, gfx/music: Dune/Orange. Winner of the Abduction 95 demo competition! review: A fixed version was released later, under the name "Toilet" [07/95]. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Toilet (1995, 12.07, AGA File). code: Nose, Daeron, Zuikki, gfx/music: Dune/Orange (The Player 6.0A format). review: "Toilet" is a pretty dead demo, that almost completely fails to create any sense of pace or excitement, despite competent coding. It seems most of their objects use some kind of dithering method to make the blocky renders appear smoother than they are. It's mildly successful, and does make f.ex. the opening logo appear more smooth. It kinda looks like gouraud with smoothing =) Other objects appear to be phong-shaded, which was certainly advanced for its time. The demo uses specifically optimized versions of its code for 020/030 and 040 machines. Dune/Orange is normally active on the pc demo scene. The demo opens with a zoom into a 3d Stellar logo, before it whisks away to one side just before we are supposed to 'hit' it. Next is a none-too- great raytraced 'Toilet' logo. Then a supposedly phongshaded object, roughly the shape of a star symbol, in shades of grey and silver. Several 'spring-like' objects appear on the screen next, coming in from one side and bouncing around the screen for a small while before disappearing again. Next is what looks *almost* like an envmap object, but I can't be sure on this one. This is followed by the credits and a few more lines of text before the show is ended with a really strange object, though perhaps the most advanced one in the entire demo. Please note that this review refers to the 'final fixed version'. "Toilet" is actually a final-version of their previous demo "Human Excrement" [06/95], winner of the Abduction 95 competition. The original used a module made with The Player 6.1A, but since that version bugs on 040, it seems they reverted to The Player 6.0A for this one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.  Miracles (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Nose, Zuikki (render system), Daeron (utilities), gfx: Frankie, Dune (objects, textures), music: Groo. 3rd in The Assembly 95 demo competition. review: It's the usual rendering stuff from Stellar, perhaps a little more entertaining than usual. The one thing that was a positive surprise was the music. It's a quite dynamic tune from Groo, perhaps a little Lizardking-y at times, but really good! The text file says it was never meant to be run on machines below 030-25 with fast. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.  Aurora (1995, 12.10, AGA File). code: Juliet & Case, gfx: Neuresten, music: Groo. Winner of the Scenario 95 demo competition! review: Ok, but clearly a '2-day production' as it says at the end. It's the usual Stellar stuff, with texture-mapped/rendered shapes flying around, and not much else. Technically competent, but not too exciting. Groo's music is it's usual weird self, but still one of his better tunes. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0. Galerie (1995, 28.12, AGA 4MB Multifile). code: Nose, gfx: Frankie, music: Dune/Orange (6ch ScreamTracker ]I[ format). 9th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: Opens with an orange Galerie logo, then onto a fast but blocky voxel landscape with lens flares - probably a jazzed-up version of their routine for the 40k intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94]. Next up are three shaded rings, and a large greyscale bumpmapped object. Then a tunnel appears with sparks of light lighting the walls as they fly around. This is the fastest effect (or so their system-tester tells me, 48fps :), and the one which looks best, to boot. Next up is a texturemapped and phong- shaded stone object, then a bump-tunnel. After that, a spinning cityscape appears, complete with more lens flares. Another tunnel effect follows, though one of the better ones in the demo, kind of caleidoscope-like'. Next up we have a yellowish bumpmapped landscape, which morphs its mountains up and down into the sky! A texturemapped and gouraud-shaded landscape ends the show, which reminded me a little of standing close to a mountain looking up, in the dark. If this last effect was developed a little further, it could have been great, but as it is now, it feels slightly unachived. However, a pretty good release that would probably have come higher in the competition if it had been longer. Even though no mention is made of it, Dune was likely NOT a member, and still just in Orange on the pc. One large drawback to this demo is the fact that it's presented entirely in the 'ghosted' c2p mode, where every other pixel is blacked out. Supposedly, this improves rendering speeds, but visually it is no match for solid effects. The demo uses Jarno Paananen's PS3M for audio playback of the S3M file, and Ludde's c2p routine. Requires 4MB fastmem. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Galerie Remix (1996, 13.01, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Nose, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo, Dune. Winner of the Juhla 96 demo competition! review: Well, it's Galerie with a couple of new pics, new music, a few new (and unusual!) textures, and without the original's last couple of effects. Lacks design, and doesn't have either a dynamic design or any real sense of identity. Just effects set to music. Oh, I nearly forgot - it now runs in a smaller window (drawback, but needs less processor power), and without the 'ghosted' effect (improvement!). GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lights (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Nose, Hook (wave routine), gfx: Frankie, music: Groo, Production Manager: Lemming. Winner of The Gathering 96 40k intro competition! review: Having just watched "Lights" for the first time, I'm left in a state of awe. It hasn't got INCREDIBLY revolutionary code, but what there is looks so good it's totally forgiveable. It opens (after precalculating for a while) with an impressive tunnel effect while some words flash in the top left of the screen before stopping at the word Stellar. Then we're quickly on to a sort of wave/ripple routine, which isn't the best part of the intro. But Stellar saves the best for last, and finally presents us with a showstopping effect: Mapped and shaded coins fall down from the top of the screen, with little sparkles added when the light falls on them. At the top of the screen, the text 'I Had A Dream...' scrolls slowly from the right to the left. Then we're treated to the end logo; the text LIGHTS with a spotlight effect on it. All through this we're listening to one of Groo's coolest tunes in a long while. What makes "Lights" a winner is that little something undefinable... It's sort of the same quality that they achieved with "Darkroom" [08/94] all those years ago. Highly recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Steps of Change (SOC) --------------------- ENG> Dooba (founder org music swap, late96), Psionic (www gfx swap, late96-01/97), RD (music, new late96), Wilsh (org music, rejoined, doublememb Grasshoppers Design, late96). ???> Dj Rudd (gfx graffiti), Mc Wilsh (founder org code music swap). Steps of Change was formed by Mc Wilsh and Dooba, with former members of Nerve Axis and Carnage 04/96. The earlier york.ac.uk website is no longer valid. "The X-Files #12" (late 96) brought the news that they were reborn as a music only group. 1996 - Bliss joined from Nerve Axis, then left for Grashoppers Development in february. Sykotik (raytrace, ex Carnage, new 04/96) and Unity were kicked due to inactivity, and graphician Synapze left the scene late96. Steroid ------- Gato joined Impulse 11/96. Unexpected (1994, late, AGA HD). code: Codex, Sipi, Robin, gfx: Neon, Meltdown, Abstract, DeltaMc, Teevan, Rendall, music: Griff. Stone Arts (STA, 1993-1995) --------------------------- NOR> BCR (code gfx, ex Cryptoburners, 04/93-04/94), Coke (Gard Eric Rodahl, code gfx, ex Amonia, 04/93-04/94), Dali (ex Cryptoburners), Dolphin (Marius Jorgenrud, founder swap editor "Headline", 04/93), Hugo (founder code, 04/93), Ice (Asbjørn Galaasen, founder code, 04/93), Mutant (music), Mystra (Kjell Pedersen, music, ex Symbiosis, 12/93- 12/94), Redferne (Jørund Teigen, music, ex Shamrock, 04/94), Rozzoe (founder music, 04/93), Shape (Morten Floetberget, founder swap, 04/93), Storm (founder code, 04/93), Syntex (Kjetil Treider, founder music, new 03/93-04/95). Stone Arts was an all-Norwegian demo group, like Andromeda, formed by the best 8 members of Atomic in march 1993. I've made an educated guess that those 8 were Ice, Dolphin, Hugo, Kekken, Shape, Storm, Rozzoe and Syntex. Shortly after, at The Gathering, they released their first two demos. ROM4 announced their death through spokesperson Dolphin. Most members were employed by Funcom. 1994 - Norwegian graphician and cofounder Kekken left to join Talent in february. Ranx/Balance was a very shorttime member, and rejoined Balance only days after joining. 1995 - Norwegian graphician Absurd joined from Scoopex in late 94, only to rejoin in early 1995. Norwegians Braintumor and Heywood (music, 12/93) and Niggerjack (code) all joined Gollum. Norwegian founder and editor Dolphin formed the new Atomic with Colorbird/ ex Razor 1911. Gathering 93 Demo (1993, 07.04, ECS File). code: Coke, BCR, gfx: Coke, BCR (opening pic), music: Rozzoe. Released at The Gathering 93. review: This is the weaker of the two demos STA released at TG 93. Though competent here and there, with nice smooth design, they're like an Andromeda without the focus; like a Lemon. without the Lem :) The music and graphics are just bland, and the only cool and unusual code I guess were the three ellipses with shadows - though the routine could certainly have been exposed better if for example the objects were larger. Promises but does not deliver. I've seen this mentioned with the name Announce, but that name doesn't appear anywhere in the demo. The demo will require absolutely ALL memory if run on an A500 with ½mb fake fast - and probably won't work at all on 2.0+ machines based on my own experiences. [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA. Atmosphere (1993, 07.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Ice, gfx: BCR, Coke, Joachim/Crusaders, Kekken, music: Syntex. Released at The Gathering 93. review: Quite an acceptable trackmo this, though it does not specifically excell in any area. There's certainly a lot of logos here! Unfortunately none are truly excellent. [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Headline issue #1 (1993, .08, ECS Dismag). code: Coke, gfx: BCR, music: Jason/Lemon., Mutant, editor: Dolphin. Headline issue #2 (ECS Diskmag). info: The second issue was the last one ever published. Bjarne (1994, 03.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Niggerjack, gfx: Coke, music: Braintumor & Heywood. Winner of The Gathering '94 40k intro competition! review: Niggerjack, Braintumor & Heywood's first production for Stone Arts would prove to be their most successful yet! It opens with a few dot routines, and ends with a HAM rotzoomer that is truly a thing of beauty, just as Niggerjack himself claims. Not much bang for your buck, except for the rotzoomer, but still a good enough production. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rush (1994, 03.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Coke, Ranx (last effect), gfx: BCR (uncredited), music: Redferne. 3rd in The Gathering '94 40k intro competition. review: STA's 3rd-placer at the party where they won with 'Bjarne' is just as good. There's a few OK effects here, of which I especially dug the double STA twister. However, that pseudo-plasma thing looks like the blocky stuff they do on the C64 to achieve the same effect. On a 1mhz machine, that's impressive - on an A1200 that's pathetic. The picture used in the rotzoomer is a small portion of BCR's title picture for "Headline #1" [08/93]. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vidar! (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Niggerjack, gfx: Absurd, music: Braintumor & Heywood. Released for The Party 4 40k intro competition, but was disqualified. review: It opens with the letters S T O N E A R T S flying at you in rapid succession timed to the music, before the intro gets going with the three letters STA on fire! Then we're shown some text before a rather awesome 3x3 rotzoomer appears, that's controllable in almost every and any way! Unfortunately, I don't get to see that on my machine, which you shows me some garbled graphics. Slummy/Spaceball's theory about why this happens was the it was probably selfmodifying in some way and any accelerated Amiga was just too fast to cope with it. Therefore the dots did not appear where they should :) The picture that's rotzoomed is "Smokin'" by Absurd, which also participated in the graphics competition at the same party and came in at a split 20th. The intro was originally supposed to compete in the 40k intro competition at The Party, but the disk it was delivered on was corrupt, and it was disqualified. It was therefore just released at the party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Heat (1996, 05.04, 40k Intro). 4th in the 40k intro competition at The Gathering 96. Storm ----- boards; DATACRIME WHQ (soon 06/90), MIDNIGHT EXPRESS EHQ (06/90). Stealth joined TRSI. German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH', ex Classic) joined Razor 1911. Crack Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (Delta Music 2.0 format, 34864 bytes). review: Another cracktro, but not much different from the millions of others out there... A storm log at the top, some bobs expanding towards us from the middle of the screen, a textplotter and a scroller. Nice oldskool fc-style chiptune, tho. Reviewed the version released with their crack of Gotcha (26.06-1990). Fucks up my screen after exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Intro (1991, early, ECS Intro). code: Biff, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. St.Pauls Crew ------------- JOR> Eagle (ex Byte Busters). St.Pauls Crew was formed by previous members of Kaos' Jordanian division. When the group died, a new group called Conqerers were formed on their remains. Strange [old] (-1992) --------------------- SWE> Zender (swap edit "Nordic Report"). ???> Cyborg, Rufus. Strange is a swedish demo group perhaps best known for releasing three issues of the diskmag "Nordic Report", and for being one of Lizardking's first groups. There is no connection between the old and the new Strange as far as I can understand... 1992 - The group started falling apart around the middle of the year. Their biggest asset, musician Lizardking, left the group for Alcatraz and only 2 or 3 members remained. Swedish musician Lizardking joined Alcatraz. Swedish musician Deelite (ex Enigma) was only a member for a brief period, before he rejoined Enigma. Swedes Core (ex Eagles, old handle Arrow) and Tony (gfx) left to form Hijack with Crayone (ex Defjam). Nordic Report #1 (ECS Diskmag). Nordic Report #2 (1992, 15.04, ECS Diskmag) Released at The Gathering 92. Strange [new] ------------- NOR> Mr.X (doublememb Apathy, see there). ???> Coma (music, doublememb Three Little Elks 06/97) There is no connection between the old and new Strange. Strangers --------- FIN> Rocketeer. ???> Big Mac (ex Recline, new mid91). Halloween Demo (1990, 03.11, ECS Demo). Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90. Strobe ------ ENG> Carp (Steven, org swap, triplememb Phuture303 and Instinct, 08/97), C-Rad (music swap, 08/97), Def Base (sysop 'HAVOK', 08/07), Furrball (swap, 08/07), Ice (swap, 08/97), Ike (org gfx ascii, 08/97), Madman (swap, 08/97), Mammoth (swap, 08/97), Ninj (swap, 08/97). GER> Juhi (swap, 08/97), Tiger (swap, 08/97). ???> Fingle (code, 08/97), Mr.P (gfx, 08/97), Profile (swap pack, 08/97). Dreams Packmenu (1997, Intro). code: Fingle, gfx: Ike, Mr.P, music: C-Rad, editor: Profile. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Style ----- NOR> Speed Devil (Morten R. Martinussen, ascii swap, late96). GER> Animal (sysop 'TRICK OR TREAT'). ???> Folar (ascii), Stezothetic (ascii), Webster (ascii), Zeus (ascii). German coder Wusel joined Nuance late 96. Style & Blacky (1993-) ---------------------- SWI> Blacky (Cyril Bays, gfx music), Style (Stefan Lendi, code). These two Swiss guys joined together when Black was refused to join Style's crew, Alcatraz. As a result, Style left ATZ instead, and they formed this little crew. "Eyes" was their first independent release. Eyes (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Style, gfx/music: Blacky. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. -- Note: Works, but has severe gfx/music errors. nonworking A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. Styline ------- Sphinx joined Circle. Tonic joined Krafted. Subacid ------- DEN> Black Death (07/95), Brunis (07/95), Deckard (gfx, 07/95), Gayhawk (code, 07/95), Gifair (code, 07/95), Hexagon (code, 07/95), Lava (music, 12/93-07/95), Liquid (music, 07/95), Mr.Nobarin (07/95), Pink Fluid (07/95), Syl (raytrace, 07/95), Talon (07/95). Boards; SUBMANIA (den, 07/95). Subacid was a Danish demo group. 1995 - Early in the year, Disaster merged with Subacid, and Disaster ceased to exist. Among the people who joined from Disaster were Deckard, Gayhawk, Hexagon and Liquid. Manual Override (1995, 14.04, Demo). Released at The Gathering 95. Pyt (1995, 09.07, AGA 4MB Multifile). code: Hexagon, Gayhawk, Gifair, gfx: Deckard, Syl (raytrace), music: Lava and Liquid. Winner of the South Seland Party 95 demo competition! review: Pyt opens with two GRRRREAT rendered logos by Syl. These two logos are so fab you'd be hard pressed to tell they were rendered and not hand drawn by some fabulously talented graphics artist. WOW! What's more, it goes from strength to strength by following this with an amazing animation of lights flying through an underwater landscape. Words cannot describe how beautiful this is! Though the demo claims to run with 4MB fast, it needs all of it. I had my kickstart remapped to fastram on my old 4mb fast setup, and never got this one to work. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Subject ------- SWE> Randy (Robert Ekberg, swap), Wizard (Jorgen Petersen). Submission (SBS) ---------------- GER> Plauze (swap). HOL> Camelot (sysop 'CHAOS', ex The Silents), Empire (sysop 'LAST OUTPOST', 08/92-early93), Hardbyte (new late92), Incoq (code, new late92), Swave (08/92). SWE> Striker (ex Elevation, new early93). IRE> Green Beret (sysop 'CRACKHOUSE') ex Frogs, new 08/92). USA> Nucleus (sysop 'ABOVE THE LAW'), Tin Man (sysop 'DARK DOMAIN', new early93). ???> Chuck (ex Acume or Chaos), Executor (trade, new early93), Risk (swap, early93), Uncle Acid (ex Defiance). Boards; FLAMING DEATH (usa, offline early93). 1992 - American board 'IRON MAIDEN' left in august. German musician WOTW joined Gothic in september. Also in september, sysop Black Devil ('FALCON HOOD') left the scene and took his board with him. 1993 - Hungarian division, and Dr.Ill, got kicked early in the year. Boozo (sysop 'INTROSPECTIVE', ex Noxious) got kicked early 93. Reaktors joined with 'THE DESOLATE ONE', but closed the board after just three days because of time problems!! early 93. American sysop Angel Eyes ('PALE RIDER') joined Sceptic early 93. German swapper El Cativo joined Abyss early 93. German swapper Ghost (ex Interactive, new 08/92) joined Crystal. German graphician Dux changed his handle to T'Vaan and joined Dreamdealers. Crusader, Rockeronic, Abettor, Doe, Highlander, Lightforce, Madukan, She-ra, Project Alpha, Tubaculose, and Zyborg left to form Desert. Ziptronix (sysop 'SPEED WHEEL', old handle MC Tune) and Synchronizer joined Elevation. Mike joined Devils. Swedish sysop V-Cut ('ZOOMED REALITY', ex Addonic) joined 2000 AD early 93. Extacy joined Aurora. Yoda (ex Dragons old) joined Willow. Scene Talk #3 (Chartmag). Scene Talk #4 (Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: Red Devil/DCS (title), music: n/a. info: German-based. Subspace (SBS, 1996-) --------------------- SWE> Blade (Per-Olof Rommell, code music, doublememb Up Rough!, new 03/96-01), Calladin (gfx, 08/96), Colorbird (code, 08/96), Desoto (gfx, 08/96-01), Frame (triplememb C-Lous [details] and Essence), Fudge (music, 08/96-01), Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg, music, 08/96), Origo (code, triplememb C-Lous [details] and Essence), MRK (gfx, triplememb Sunshine Productions [details] and Limited Edition, 08/96-01), Origo (code, doublememb C-Lous [details], 08/96-01), Rioter (raytrace, 08/96), Spite (code, 08/96-01), Visitor (founder org, 03-09/96), Zalo (org sysop, 08/96). NOR> Mr.C (music), Pix (later Endzeit, 12/96-04/97). Subspace is a Swedish based demo group, started march 5th 1996 by Visitor/ Inhumans. Among the first recruits were Blade/ex Inhumans. Special thanks to him for his information on this group! 1996 - Android, sysop 'THE NOSTROMO' joined Three Little Elks in june, then Swedish coder Confidence left the group to be in Balance only around july. Graphician Newt joined Abyss in october. Due to fights and disagreements with Visitor, swedish musician Deelite (08/96) left. 1997 - Dutch coder Infant (triplememb Kinky and K) left for Balance late in the year. 1998 - Swedish coder Prospect left for Endzeit in june. 2001 - Blade assures me the group is not dead, just slightly sleepy... =) Current members are Blade, Origo, MRK, Fudge, Desoto and Spite. Blade is now working as a game programmer. Funkybility (1996, 26.05, Demo). 4th in the Icing 96 demo competition. Übergirl (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Spite, gfx: Desoto, music: Tudor/TBL. 9th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: The results from the ASM96 intro competition continues to puzzle me. This is clearly among the better ones, though perhaps a little short. What matters, though, is the quality. This one's got a phong object moving over a cool tunnel effect, with an afterburner effect (ala Artwork's "Dawn" [12/95]) and such. The point is, this looks, sounds and feels great! Coolness has been achieved. The intro uses Origo's demo os. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Suburban Base (1994-) --------------------- SWE> Burton (Rickard Linde'n, mainorg, 12/94), Eracore (gfx, ex TRSI, doublememb Rebels, 12/94), Slash (sysop 'CRAZY WORLD', 12/94-01/95), Sniffet (gfx sysop1 'EXTREME OVERLOAD', 12/94-01/95), Tripman (sysop2 'EXTREME OVERLOAD', 01/95). ???> Bareface (trade), Blitz (code), Heinz (code, 12/94), Mercury (trade, 12/94), Pure Magic (trade, 12/94), Shapechanger (ascii, ex Vision, new UPS10, 12/94), Split (code, 12/94). Suburban Base was formed by Swedish ex-members of Majic 12 and Vision. Coder-musician Randall (ex Majic 12, old handle Zyx, 12/94) left to join Sunshine Productions. Lurking Shadows (1994, 05.12, ECS 2MB Multifile, 2 disks). code: Randall, P.E.N., gfx: Eracore, Sniffet, music: Randall. review: Cool! This was not bad for an ECS demo! The real standout here is the graphics more than the music or the code, though...but why do you have to make all your fonts so hard to read? Can easily be run from disk or from your harddisk. Cool effects too, btw... Sorry for this sucking review :) I'll write a better one some other time, when I feel up to it. The info text says it requires '2MB' of memory, but does not mention how much of it has to be chip... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dance Diverse 2 (1994, mid.12, Musicdisk). code/music: Randall, gfx: Sniffet. Subway (1988-) -------------- ???> George (code gfx music), Grizzly (gfx swap), Killersoft (swap), M.A.S.H (music), Makr (org swap), Maxev (trade), Softsmash (code crack swap), White Duke (music). Boards; DARK CENTURY (cooperation with Energy). Subway was formed on the 23rd of october 1988 by the previous members of Quest in Norway and Austria. 1990 - Norwegian musician Bug left for Razor 1911 around july. Austrians Mike, Tilt and Matthew left for Spreadpoint ca 10/90. 1991 - Biscrok joined Supplex mid 91. Subzero ------- GER> Crane (Robert Pozarek, gfx, 92), The Smurf (sysop 'BLUE OBZESSION' WHQ, 01/93-04/95). N-L> B.O.B (sysop '7TH HEAVEN' EHQ, doublememb Untouchables, 01/93). ???> Art, Hardcore (music, 92), Pepe (music, ex Hardline), Triton (code, 92), Zycro (ex Hypnotic, new 08/92). Subzero was born in Wiesbaden, Berlin, Germany as a mainly illegal group, doing cracks and phreaking tools, but also with some interests in the demoscene. There were even american members for a small while. Thanks to Crane for some information. 1992 - Karo and 711 left in august. Psycho Demon joined Nuance. Finnish traders Punisher and Strange Illusion joined Shining 8. Germans Bootbuster, TNM (swap, ex Contrast, new 08/92) and Vain joined Desire. Boards; AMIGAPHILE (usa, 01/93), PRIME TIME (usa, 01/93), BLUE MARLIN (aus, 01/93), PURE SYNCHRONISATION (eng, 01/93). Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Triton, gfx: Crane, music: Hardcore. Success (SCS) ------------- ???> Cyclon (fin? gfx, 92), Plague (fin? gfx, 92). Success was presumably an extension of the c64 group of the same name. Brainstorm's diskmag "Zine #6" (08/90) reported that Success had died, as their last member Pilka had joined The Special Brothers. Danish Ash joined Vixen. Finnish coder Dr.Header joined Dictators. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Dr.Header, gfx: Cyclon, Plague, music: Ash/Vixen. Sun Connection -------------- Sun Connection was an all-french group, that died in 1990 or 91 when the group changed its name to Analog and started taking in foreign divisions. Sunflex Inc (SXI) ----------------- USA> Circuit Breaker (sysop 'DIGITAL EXTASY', 01-07/95). ???> Apollo (01/95), Ferox (code train, 01/95-01/97), Goldman (01-07/95). Boards; WORLD SYSTEM WHQ (ger, 01-07/95), BOONDOCKS EHQ (hol, 01-07/95), THE HIDDEN EHQ (ger, 01/95), TOTAL CHAOS (ger, 01/95), ENDLESS PAIN (ger). Sunflex is an illegal cracker and trainer group. Goldman and Ferox seem to be in charge. 1996 - Ferox released a demo of an action replay-like utility called Thrill Kill (v1.04) to AmiNet in december. TrainerIntro V1.0 (1995, AGA Intro). code: Ferox, gfx: Fade One, music: n/a (The Player 6.1A format). review: Fade One's great Sunflex logo, which looks like it was written on a crumpled piece of paper, is the star of the show. It's constantly and smoooooothly changing color hues, and looks just...smashing! Overlaid on this, several pages of text and a trainer selector appears as you press your mouse buttons. The text is white with a black border. The music is nice and bouncy. It's just 5k in unpacked form, but doesn't sound it. The name of this intro was determined by examining the file, which contains a $VER: string to identify it. This intro was used for Gloom AGA +20 (21.07-95). [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sunriders --------- Sunriders Sweden felt they were the only productive section in Sunriders, and decided to leave (The Cad, Turbobrain) and form their own crew, called D-Mob. Then, Sunriders Germany joined Beastie Boys, so Sunriders is probably dead...? Sunshine Productions (SSP) -------------------------- SWE> Blast (code sysop 'NAPALM BBS', 01/95), Bombas (code, new 11/96), Deelite (Henrik Bertilsson, music, triplememb Balance and Razor 1911, 11/96), Hence (code, new 11/96), Lightspeed (code sysop 'DARK ROOM', 01/95), Mr.Coke (Mikael Rickan, org code sysop 'BAD BLOW', 01/95- 11/96), MRK (Mattias R.Kylén, gfx, triplememb Subspace and Limited Edition, 11/96), Opium (sysop, 11/96), Pad (Torbjörn Allard, gfx, 11/96), Qen (Ken M.Berglund, music, 11/96), Randall (Kenneth Juneheim, code music, ex Suburban Base, new FRC1, 11/96), Rooster (Anders Lindqvist, swap, 11/96), Whiplash (code, 11/96). NOR> P.O.W (Music, earlier Iris, 11/96), Speed Devil (Morten Martiniussen, Swap, new 11/96-03/97). FRA> Nitch (Code, new 11/96). ???> Producer (swe? org code homepage). Before the Novemberlight demo, SSP just released some BBS tools, like an LZX checker for /X and a TXTAdder. They also have an all-Swedish PC section, consisting of Producer (also Amiga), Headcase (code), Kanser (music) and Solomon (code). Whiplash was the coder of the smash hit pinball game "Slam Tilt"! Mr.Coke is their leader. Musician Digit got kicked. Musician Atheist (triple member) left them to be in Balance only 06/96. Laz joined Three Little Elks (06/96). Swedes Atheist (music), Grid (gfx), Vicious (code), Pantera (swap) and Excel (gfx) joined Balance late 95 (august or pre). Stressad och Trött (1995, 01.04, Demo). Winner of the Virtual Conspiracy 95 demo competition! C187.lha code: Mr.Coke, gfx/music: n/a. info: short demo, depression-release by Mr.Coke. Harz.lha info: 6 hour sick production. Novemberlight (1996, 03.11, AGA 4MB HD File). code: Mr.Coke, gfx: Mrk, Pad, music: "Access_The_Mind" by Randall. Winner of the Halloween 96 demo competition! review: The demo opens with the text Sunshine Productions, and an SSP logo in the background. It then slowly fades the two together, before we're taken into the demo proper with the usual techno music. The music, though well done, is a bit too monotonous to maintain my interest. As for the effects, they are numerous and well-executed. There's even a few I don't know how are done! This was a welcome suprise. Pad's fabulous picture of a girl sniffing a flower won the graphics competition at the party. Requires at least an 020-28, though they recommend an 060 and more then 4mb RAM for maximum enjoyment. The demo as shown at the party was somewhat improved, and a final version was released a few days later, 08.11. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Superiors --------- DEN> Darkwing (sysop 'INFECTIOUS', doublememb Galaxy), Dizy (sysop 'ATLANTIS'), Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE', doublememb Intens), Joshua (sysop 'CONSCIOUS DREAM', triplememb Zekt and Prodigy), Logic (sysop 'FATAL JUSTICE'), Marc (sysop 'THE CHANNEL', doublememb Skid Row), Menace (sysop 'IMPERIAL'). SWE> Gajan (sysop 'INCUBUS'), Wingnut (sysop 'HOLIDAY INN'). NOR> Macho (sysop 'BURNING HELL'). Supplex (http://www.supplex.com) -------------------------------- GER> Bob Duncan (trade, new late90-01/91), Decca (swap, ex Adept), Free Agent (mainorg trade, 10/90-01/91), Heino Snyder (sysop 'RED LABEL', 09/91), Mark (trade, 11/90-92), Sire (gfx music, ex Adept, later Lego), WOTW (music swap, later Haujobb, 10/90-11/91). GER> Mr.Mistral (sysop 'BROOKLYN EMPIRE', 04/95). SWE> Biscrok (gfx, ex Subway, new mid 91). DEN> Circulator (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY', ex The Silents, 04/95). ENG> Frap (swap). USA> Baby Bear (sysop, 10/90), Dust Devil (sysop 'DEVILS DEN' WHQ, 04/95), Orbity (sysop, 10/90). ???> Armin (swap, new 10/90-91), Ascot (code train , 10/90-91), Celat (ex Complex, new 09/92), Dangermouse (sysop, ex Image), Defcon 5 (gfx swap, 10/90-91), Logo 7 (code train swap, 10/90-92), Marvin (91), Mike (code, 10/90-91), Xact (code swap, ex Arise, new 06/90). Boards; DATA EXPRESS WHQ (usa, 10/90), DARK TOWER (usa), WORLD VIOLATION EHQ (ger), CAPITAL CITY (ger), METAL DECADE (ger), VIRTUAL REALITY (den, ex The Silents), THE TOWER (eng), HIDDEN POWER (ita site), OVERLOAD (swe), THE TERRORDOME (ger site), DESOLATE ONE (ger site). Supplex was an illegal cracker and trainer group, probably based in Austria or Germany, under the leadership of Free Agent. The memberlist of the German section has one or two familiar names... Logo 7 did a series of trainers called 'Capital Trainer' (short: CAPTRA). There were more than 100 in the series... 1990 - News in Brainstorm's "Zine #5" [06/90] diskmag that Supplex were dead were incorrect, but Mr.Rox, Guru Luke, Alf, Bitcracker and Gordon left for Supreme. Spreader Condorman left for Tarkus Team. Zine #5 [08/90] continued by stating that the group had changed their name to Thyrone, which was also incorrect; Thyrone was formed by the Berlin section alone. Swapper Armin joined around october. (presumably) incorrect. 1993 - The two Swedes Budweiser (gfx) and Sleepwalker (music) both left to join Equinox early 93. Bjoern joined Faith. Elmer and Nikko got kicked. Schizo was kicked and joined Noxious. German sysop Ali Baba left for Tarkus Team. Shike got kicked. He changed his handle to Colorbird and joined Razor 1911. Swedish sysops Cyber and Slash ('CRAZY WORLD) joined Aurora. Party Demo (1992, 19.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Eastern Party 92. 100 Capital (1993, 02.08, Demo). 5th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. Supply Team, The (TST) ---------------------- Hagar (new late 86) left to join The Connection. TST must surely be one of the first groups on the scene, carrying on the tradition from the C64! Supreme [old] (1990-1990) ------------------------- ???> Alf (ex Supplex, new 05/90), Bitcracker (ex Supplex, new 05/90), C.Dawn (ex Exult, new 05/90), Dam (ex Black Monks, new 05/90), Guru Luke (ex Supplex, new 05/90), Jordon (ex Supplex, new 05/90), Mr.Rox (ex Supplex, new 05/90). Boards; BOARD ROYAL (05/90). Supreme was a shortlived German illegal group formed by the German section of Defjam. When they broke up, Dave and Damage joined Warfalcons, and Rob joined Mute 101. Supreme [new] ------------- ???> Rascal (code crack, 95). Boards; CHAMELEON (fin, 10/95), EVERYWARE (nor, 03/95). Surprise! Productions (S!P, http://www.surprise-productions.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------- AUT> J.O.E (gfx, ex TRSI, 12/91), Reebok (Severin-Stephan Kittl, org, 12/91), Wild Rage (Markus Jung, write swap, ex Grace, new early93). DEN> Executioner (Martin Hojgaard, swap, ex Rednex), Mongole (Ole, gfx, ex Parasite, 08/92), Spycatcher (ex Yeager/Parasite). NOR> Aqua (trade, ex Vision), Ceel (trade, ex Cryptoburners), C.H.A.R.D. (org gfx, later in Lemon.), Decker (gfx trade, later Scoopex then Andromeda), Fluor (music, ex Utopia), Happy (Bjørn Vegard Christensen), Inzane (sysop 'SUDDEN IMPACT'), Jeff (code), Quincy (code), Rhino (gfx), Tecon (music, 01/95), Uninox (gfx), Xtasy (code). FRA> Moonchild (gfx, ex Interactive), The Trixter (swap, ex Interactive). ITA> Device (Gianluca Foglia, swap, ex Impulse). FIN> JHL (sysop 'ZENLANDIA', 12/91), Whiplash (swap, ex Frantic, new early93). SWE> General Lee (Johan Blom, swap). AUS> The King (swap, 08/92). ???> Adec (12/91), Bishop (12/91), Corwin (12/91), Dragos (aut? code, ex Grace, 02/93), Dr.Amigo (12/91), Dr.Grell (aut? ex Grace, new early93), Dr.Hex (12/91), Duz (12/91), Eddie (12/91), Eddi++ (12/91), Jesus (music, 12/91-02/93), Lou Van B (music, ex Abyss, possibly joined Jump instead...), Panther (12/91), Sabadon (12/91), Snoopy (12/91), Thor (ex Defekt), Zike (nor? 10/94). Boards; EVERYWARE WHQ (nor, 10/94-03/95). S!P started life as a subgroup of TRSI in 1991, serving as their demo section until the following year, 1992. The split with 'mother group' TRSI resulted in germans Flynn, TSM, Warhead, Dreamer and Peachy leaving the group for TRSI itself. The rest of the group thus became a subgroup of Scoopex from 1992 til 93, when the group once and for all started to live life as a completely independent entity. 'EVERYWARE's sysop is not a S!P member, but Zike is a cosys on the board. 1992 - German musician Hi-Lite joined Scoopex. 1993 - Jean (ex Cerberos Design, 12/91) joined Absolute early93. Austrian coder Luke (12/91) rejoined Scoopex. The English division left to form Divine. ->> Messerschmitt joined Ram Jam at end of 94. !? ->> Messerschmitt joined Mad Elks !? Norwegian musician Rancor (Kristian Loksa) left. German musician Virgill joined Sanity. RCB joined Jump. Lanterna Magica (1991, .08, ECS Slideshow). code: Luke, Spike, Carnivore/Beermacht (loader), gfx: J.O.E, music: "Tempest" and "Rotofoils Squeek" by J.O.E (both ProTracker MOD format). Made while the group was still a subgroup of TRSI. Prism-Vectors (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Dreamer, gfx/music: Peachy (music in NoisePacker 3 format). 3rd in the Prime 91 demo competition. review: This is a welldesigned little intro/demo, much thanks to a couple of clearcut, yet simply elegant logos from Peachy. His soundtrack for this is not half bad either, if I may say so. It's very of its time - and probably heavily influcenced by "Cream of the Earth" - but as such it's not the worst example of the genre. Not bad. Oh, and I guess we haven't seen those prism vectors before either, have we? It's a minor variation on the standard glenz, really, but doesn't look too bad. This is more of an intro than a demo. This was the first german S!P production, made while they were a TRSI subgroup. Also known as Bistro. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Its Tricky (1992, .08, ECS File). code: Spycatcher, gfx: Mongole, Uno/Scoopex (opening logo), music: "Toi-Tei" by Uncle Tom/Scoopex (ProTracker MOD format). review: This S!P production features quite a lot of glenz vectors, though the most interesting thing about it is the graphics - there is some good work here. The demo was made while they were a Scoopex subdivision, and features a lot of Scoopex logos and the like. The music was used in an issue of World Charts too, and Uno's logo also looks familiar... Scoopex' homepage incorrectly claims that someone called Alias is the coder. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wish Us Luck (1993, 01.02, ECS File). code/gfx: Dragos, music: Jesus. Suspect ------- FRA> Slade (Xavier Goaoc, 12/95). ???> Dr.Acid (ascii), Javis! (sysop), Monsun (org gfx), Rebel (org sysop), Riddler (code), Saxon (sysop), Segoy (sysop), Sunny (editor swap), Ugly Marc (gfx music). Trash Head and Jezo joined TRSI. Suspiria -------- SWE> Loon (music), Probe (music). Suspiria were - as far as I know - based entirely in Norway. They no longer exist. Coca/Balance (now Wowbagger/Session) was once a doublememb. Norwegians Phoenix and Absurd (gfx) joined Scoopex. Most Nowegian members (at least Felix and Acid - sysop 'BASIC INSTINCT' WHQ) joined Grotesticle. Switch ------ Maniacs of Noise Unreleased (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Charles Deenen/MON. Sygma ----- 64k Intro (1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Satan, Zilly One, gfx: Sticks, music: Satan. Released in the Saturne Party 93 intro competition. At The Party 3 (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Newton, Satan, Herby, gfx: Mystic, Grumo, music: Skiller/Skenge. 18th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Symbiosis --------- FRA> Adrian, Blacky (code, 09/91), Byteben (code, 09/91), Eloy (gfx), Styx. NOR> Apollo (gfx, ex Addicts, new early93-04/93), Genious (Marius Aabel, code swap, ex Addicts, new early93-04/93), Rage (gfx, ex Addicts, new early93-04/93), R/Write Error (Ruben Beer-Svendsen, aka RWE, org, ex Frantic, 09/91), Uzi (music, ex Frantic, 09/91-04/93). SWE> Squire (Petter Johanson, org, 09/91). GER> Floyd (swap, 09/92). ???> Baobab, Crunch (nor? ex Addicts, new early93), Law Breaker (nor? ex Addicts, new early93), Maxx (nor? 09/91), Nick (nor? ex Addicts, new early93), Noise (nor? ex Addicts, new early93). Symbiosis was originally a French demo group, and its whq remained in France even though divisions from other countries were recruited. Their strong norwegian section took over a lot of attention, among other things by arranging the two "Rendezvous" parties in Kristiansand in the summers of 1992 and 1993. 1992 - German organizer ZigZag (09/91) joined Crystal in september, where he was sysop of 'MAY DAY'. Was the board open while he was still in this group? German Hijack joined Palace. Dark Knight left for Syntex. French graphician Elmer joined Dreamdealers. Norwegian musician Mystra (ex Addicts, new early93) left to join Stone Arts. French musician Arios (ex Defeat) joined Delight. D.M.M.D. (ECS Musicdisk). info: Depeche Mode conversions. The people who made it aren't members anymore. Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. A New Demo (1991, 29.09, ECS File). code: Blacky, gfx: n/a, music: "Digital Serenade" by Uzi (ProTracker MOD format). 4th in the Razor 1911 & Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition. review: This demo absolutely refuses to work on my machine, going into what seems like an endless loop when decrunching. All credit information comes from peeking in the executable :) Also known as "Arendal 91". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- See review! Rendezvous 93 Invitation (1993, 07.04, ECS File). code: Genious, gfx: Apollo, Rage, music: "Double Exposure" by Uzi (ProTracker MOD format). Released at The Gathering 93. review: I like this invitation intro, with its nice, uncomplicated graphics and its catchy synthpop soundtrack. It tells you what you need to know, show you a couple of pictures, and entertain you for a while :) Nice and comfortable. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Syndicate --------- GER> Roi Danton (sysop 'BASIS', 04/95). ???> Atomix (sysop, ex Endless Piracy), HNK (music, 12/93), Marauder (code gfx, 12/93), Nelle (gfx, 12/93), Thomas (gfx, 12/93). 5 to 12 (1993, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: Marauder, gfx: Count Zero/Progress, Nelle, Thomas, Marauder, music: HNK. Split 8th in The Party 93 demo competition. Syndrome [old] (SDM, -1997) --------------------------- FRA> Eagle (Mathieu Fondreton, music, 12/96), Jibe (gfx swap, ex Ram Jam), Maf (Benoît Charcosset, music, doublememb Silicon, 08-12/96), Nasty Boy (fra? code, 08-11/96), Okeanos (Degand Olivier, gfx music, ex Ram Jam, 11/95-03/97), Plug (David Maillard, swap, ex Intense, new 12/96), Tenshu (gfx, 08/95-12/96), Yogi (Stephane Paravigna, gfx swap). GER> Angelwings (S. Brodersen, music, 12/95-04/96), Kestrel (Jan Christoph Meyer, swap pack 'KickDown', 12/95-01/97). ???> Agony (gfx, 12/93), Blue Silence (fra? music), Condfidence (code, 12/93), Disorder (music, 12/93), Flan (gfx, new late96), Leon (gfx, ex Silicon, new late96), Shen (gfx). Boards; TRANCE ILLUSION (fra). Mostly French demogroup Syndrome was split up by its most known member Tenshu at the Saturne Party 97. Some of the members formed an almost fully PC group by the name of Elend; this group consisted of Tenshu (gfx, 08- 09/96), Nitryk (gfx, doublememb, 08-09/96), Zaac (gfx), Kobi (3d), Traven (music), Embroaz (music), Fks (code), Francisco (code) and Obyone (code). Frenchmen Codac (Hakim Ramdane, code gfx, 12/95-12/96) and Bosco (music, 11/96), plus some others, left the scene. Most of these people are now split between the two groups Syndrome and Cocoon on the pc. 1997 - Germans JCS (gfx) and Marc (music, both ex Scoopex, both doublemembs Sector 7, 12/96-) probably left the group sometime after april. They retained their S7 memberships. Key Frenchmen Guille (code, ex Ram Jam, 08/96-) and Nytrik (gfx, 12/96-) left the amiga to form Cocoon on the pc. Nowadays, also Maf and Tenshu are in this group. German swapper Ghandy/Gods (03/97) has terminated his membership, and is now in Darkage as his second group instead. So What? (1993, 28.12, ECS File). code: Confidence, gfx: Agony, music: Disorder. split 8th in The Party 93 demo competition.  Gudule (1995, File). Cooperation with Drifters, see there. Tekken (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Codac, gfx: Tenshu, music: Angelwings (P60A format). 19th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: I'm sorry, Syndrome, but this sucks. Obviously based on the great arcade/Playstation martial arts game Tekken, it limits its 'emulation' to 1 plane afterburned undetailed vector representations of two people fighting. Still, what irritates me the most about this is the 'music'; It's my nominee for most annoying chiptune ever. I find no evidence that this requires AGA, and can find no error codes in the file. Still, you never know... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. No Love (1996, 07.04, 40k Intro). code: Codac, gfx: Okeanos, Codac, music: Angelwings. 2nd in the Symposium 96 40k intro competition. review: Syndrome presents us with a few envmapped objects and not much else. The objects are a little unusual, but in this case unusual does not equal good. The chippy is loud and irritating, and it's not hard to see how Artwork's "Dawn.remix" beat this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Born Dead (1996, 27.04, Demo). 3rd in the Saturne 96 demo competition. 2nd World (1996, 27.04, Demo). code: Guille, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 4th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Heart Light (1996, 27.04, Demo). 8th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Cooperation with Syndrome, see there. Fashion (1996, 31.08, AGA HD 4MB Multifile). code: Guille, Nasty Boy, gfx: Tenshu, Nytrik, music: Maf. Winner of the Sea, Soft, Sun (3S) Party 2 demo competition! Planete M (1996, 31.08, AGA Demo). 4th in the Sea, Soft, Sun (3S) Party 2 demo competition. Achlon Bux (1996, 31.08, AGA Demo). code/gfx/music: Leon, Maf. 9th in the Sea, Soft, Sun (3S) Party 2 demo competition.  Logik (1996, 02.11, AGA 64k Intro). code: Nastyboy, gfx: Tenshu, music: Maf. review: I am stunned. I am absolutely, totally stunned. This intro is FUCKING AMAZING! How this could end up at 10th I'll never know. Jeez! It opens with an object 'surfing on water' over a good Syndrome logo, and continues with a FAST scene with camera angles and everything! It looks so good, I could actually cry. The intro itself contains no specific credits apart from the names Nastyboy, Tenshu, Maf. However, when you depack the intro and hex-read it you can see text saying it was coded by Codac. Can anyone solve this mystery? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hardcore (1996, 02.11, AGA Multifile). code: Codac, gfx: Tenshu, music: Bosco. Winner of the Saturne Party 4 demo competition! review: The mood is what makes Hardcore. I'm telling you: this is the most frightening demo you're ever likely to see. It's not a horror demo per se, it's more the kind of horror you'd find in a movie like Seven. The demo opens with a digitized animation that's gonna go down in demo history as one of the most WHAMmy openings ever! During the course of the demo we're shown some fair effects and quite a few Tenshu pictures, but as I mentioned above, this demo is made by the atmosphere, not the single effects. What can I say? Outstanding. Everything's Blue in this world... Download and prepare to be FRIGHTENED! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Subzero (1996, 28.12, AGA 4/8MB HD Multifile). code: Guille, Codac, gfx: JCS, Nytrik, Tenshu (uncredited), music: Maf. 6th in The Party 6 demo competition! review: A great demo! This almost reeks of quality. The fact that this only finished in 6th is perhaps testament to the quality of the demos released at The Party 6. The demo opens with some powerful chords, the word 'SYNDROME' at the bottom of the screen and a perfectly drawn eye in the background. After this it loads the credits sequence, which is even better with a great background picture and equally great coding and design... I can't adequately describe everything I love about this demo, but rest assured that it's quite a lot! There are impressive routines galore, a thumping great dance soundtrack and cool artwork. There are only 5 or 6 demos of this kind of quality released in any one year. From the twin faces phong object, to the huge flying ant object, to all the swirly tunnels and graphics manipulation, this is a fabulous piece of traditional demo art. There are both 4mb and 8mb versions delivered. I tried both, the 8mb one first, and I don't think there's anything really missing from the 4mb one. It's just lesser reslution and less smooth transmissions between parts that differ, as far as I can see. This demo is also WHOPPINGLY huge - it occupies 9MB of diskspace, would you believe? I wouldn't be much surprised if JCS' picture is the same as "Lava Girl", with which he came 5th in the graphics competition :) The picture in the final part, of the man holding his hands to his head, is by Tenshu even though he's not given any credit in the demo or the text files that come with it... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Syndrome [new] (SDM, 1998-) --------------------------- Syndrome is a French demo group, reborn in april of 1998 with many of the original members, including Tenshu! This new group is active on both amiga and pc; see scenery pc for more on their pc productions (featuring almost all ex-amiga talent!) Synergy ------- AUS> Durak (sysop 'SYNERGY', 04/95). Synergy Design -------------- Many of the German members joined Scoopex. Can anyone shed some light on who exactly 'many' is? ;) Syntax ------ D.U.M (1996, 05.04, Demo). 10th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Syntax Error ------------ ???> Ben (code music). Circle Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code/music: Ben, gfx: n/a. Syntex ------ FRA> Dark Knight (ex Symbiosis, new SLH11). ???> Dr.1Mips (Gfx, 08/93). n/a (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo). 3rd in the Iris New Year Conference 92. Music Light (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Bird, Gibs. info: Weird design in Chrysalis-style. System 5 (1989-) ---------------- GER> Ghoul (mainorg trade swap, 08/90). NOR> Dynamo (code swap, ex Freedom Force, new ca 07-08/90). ???> Beyonder (modem swap, 08/90), Jack (swap, 08/90), Kevin (swap, 08/90), Killroy (code, 08/90), LCP (gfx swap, 08/90), Mucky Soft (code crack, 08/90), Risc (gfx swap, 08/90), Splatterpunk (08/90), Stargazer (code, 08/90), Trashcan (code, 08/90), Vindicator (swap, 08/90), Wizard (music, 08/90). System 5 was an originally german group formed by Ghoul in august of 1989. 1990 - Spellcaster (swap) joined in july to form an English section, but left after a few months to join Rebels UK. German swapper Terminator X (ex Apex, new ca 07/90) joined Cytax late90. 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. UDO (Unsere Doofen Ossis) ------------------------- ???> Appomatox (gfx, 12/92-03/93), Do-X (ex Decade), Paso (Alexander Paso, code music, ex Dytec, new late92-03/93). Arsch Ficktro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code/music: Paso, gfx: Appomatox. 11th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Vaginal Massacre (1993, 28.03, ECS File). code/music: Paso, gfx: Dream Design/Remedy, Phil/Remedy, Kophein/Remedy, Aptx. Winner of the CeBIT93 demo competition! UltraSoniX (USX, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cyberwlf/uSX.html) -------------------------------------------------------------- AUS> Demolition (02/96), Homicide (02/96), Jaguar Speed (02/96-12/00), Mirror Man (02/96), Rasta (02/96), Smash! (sysop 'EXTREME DIMENSIONS' WHQ, 02/96). Boards; PERPETUAL DECAY (aus, 02/96), SYNDICATE BBS (aus, 02/96), UNDERWORLD BBS (aus, 02/96). Undercover ---------- Undercover was formed by some ex-Treacl members late 92 or early 93. Underground ----------- DEN> Guybrush (Robert B. Jensen, swap, 93). Undertakers, The (-1990). ------------------------- Chaos (ex Axenon) and Shadow were the last remaining members, and when both of them joined Sanity in the winer of 1990, Undertakers died. And yes, that's THE german coder Chaos :) The Benderlyser (ECS Demo). code: Chaos, gfx: n/a, music: n/a Unicorn ------- SWE> Norad (sysop 'ACES HIGH', 05/94-01/95), Rohan (cosys 'ACES HIGH', 05/94) Unicorn was (likely) a swedish trading group. Norad's board had no less than 5 (five!) nodes. 1991 - Stripe joined Energy mid 91. Union (1992-) ------------- POL> Agentx (music, 94), Amst (code, 94), Berserker (rayrace, 12/94), Brent (gfx), Dan (music, 12/94), Docent (code, 12/92), Dr.DF0 (12/92), Easy Rider (12/92), Hali (Karol Gozlinsko, code music, 94-96), Hires (gfx, 11/94), Irek P (swap, 12/92), Kefir (Marek Duda, code, 03/95), Kulfon (music, 94), Mad Mack (gfx, 11/94), Magor (gfx, 03/95), Mr.Root (Robert Korzeniewski, music, 12/92), Musashi (Gregorz Wroblewski, code, ex Deform, 12/92-08/95), Ninja (Marek Lulkiewicz, 12/92), Pic (gfx, 08/95), PIl (Thomas, code, 08/95), PP (code, 08/95), Roberts (music, 08/95), Scorpic (music, 12/94), Scorpio (code gfx, 12/92), Sixtus (music, 08/95), Snoopy (Wojciech Panufnik, music, 05/93-08/95), Tees (gfx, 94), The Generat (gfx swap), Zajc (code, 11/94). Union was formed in 1992 by members of the groups Deform, Action Direct and Katharsis, based around the city of Warzaw, Poland. A very fitting name for a union of three groups... Their main claim to fame must surely be their amazing coder Musashi, who undoubtedly was Poland's #1 coder. Also, Hali is the author of the music utility program MOD2SAMP. They are also the long standing arrangers of the Intel Outside parties in Poland. They also released the disk mag ZigZag. The Union 'brand' is still around in the form of a company formed by Docent (http://www.union.pl). 1992 - The group was formed, and two small intros were released. 1993 - After releasing a small and unsuccessful (9th place) intro at The Gathering in april, the group got its act together and released the classic demo "Hallucinations and Dreams" [05/93] at the Mountain Congress in may, for which they were awarded second place in the competition. As far as we've been able to see no more releases were made this year. Musician Snoopy joined Energy sometime between august and december. It is possible that he later returned... Late this year Animal (gfx, 12/92-), Katani, Tom (code, 12/92-), Python (gfx, 12/92-), Pluto (12/92-), Seq (12/92-) and XTD (music, 12/92-) all left to join the newly formed polish section of TRSI. 1994 - April saw the group arranging their first party, the Primavera 94 in Starachowice, Poland. Supposedly they released a demo at this party ("Ambrozja", 7th position), but we have been unable to find any record of it outside of the party results... The party arranging duties must have been a good experience, because only four months later, in august, they were coarrangers of the Intel Outside 94 in Warzaw with Mystic. Here they competed in the graphics competition, but not in the intro or demo. Polish graphician Lazur left for TPDL (the group built by former Union members Tom and Python together with Dreamer/TRSI) in september. Their next real release came with the intro "RGB" [11/94] at Gelloween in november, to a disappointing 6th position. They rounded the year off with another demo at The Party in denmark; "Beyond the Future" [12/94] finished 9th in the competition. 1995 - Primavera 95 was arranged in march this time. I have no official info on who arranged it, but it was probably Union once again. They released the demo "Zoombi" [03/95] at the competition, to a third position, and the intro "The Remains of the Pizza" [03/95] which finished second. September saw the group coarranging Intel Outside II, once again in cooperation with Mystic. The demo competition at this party was a great triumph for the group, securing BOTH of the top spots in the competition with the demos "Tear Down The Wall" [09/95] and "Braincell" [09/95] respectively! They also triumphed in the intro competition, though it's still uncertain which of their two entries was the winner, since the results just quote groups... They also secured the top two positions in the video demo category with "Illuminate" and "Flash of Hope". 1996 - For the Intel Outside Party 3 in august, they were now sole arrangers. They also released the demo "Your Amiga Can Do This" [08/96] for the competition, though it did not finish in the top three. Their video demo "Rave Extreme" won the video demo competition. Their video demo success continued at the Gravity 96 party in november, where they once again won with the video "VHS Number Three". 1997 - They were coarrangers of Intel Outside 4 in july. 1998 - Their first production for years came with the release of "IO Party 5 Invitation" [08/98] at Quast 98, to a 7th position in the demno comp =) Redman (old handle Iceman) joined Mad Elks. Bitcity BBS (1992, ECS Intro). code: Prospex, gfx: Cygnus, music: "Stabilo Bozo" by Doze (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announced the birth of the group. 40k Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Scorpio, Docent, gfx: Scorpio, music: "Economy4" by XTD (ProTracker MOD format). 15th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. 40k Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). 9th in The Gathering 93 intro competition. Hallucinations and Dreams (1993, 02.05, Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Tom, gfx: Animal, Python, music: "Modforhad" by Snoopy, "Devastation" by XTD (ProTracker MOD format). 2nd in the Mountain Congress 93 demo competition. info: Named in a 'best Polish demos' list in RAW #6. Paradise PD Pack (1994, Intro). code: Hali, gfx: Tees (logo), music: "Corrupt" by Kulfon (ProTracker MOD format). info: Some Lemon.-like rotating logo. [zeg] Strip Tease (1994, File). code: Hali, Amst, gfx: Lazur, music: "Eddeban Ax" by Agentx & Hali (Protracker MOD format). ZigZag #8 (1994, Diskmag). code: Docent, gfx: Animal, music: Mr.Root, Snoopy (Promizer 2 format). RGB (1994, 13.11, 64k Intro). code: Musashi, Zajc, gfx: Hires, Mad Mack (font), music: Snoopy (PP21 format). 6th in the Gelloween 94 64k intro competition. Beyond the Future (1994, 28.12, AGA Demo). code: Musashi, gfx: Lazur (logo), Berserker (traced credits logos), music: Dan, Scorpic. 9th in The Party 4 demo competition. Zoombi (1995, 12.03, Demo). code: Kefir, gfx: Magor, music: Snoopy/Scope (The Player 6.1A format). 3rd in the Primavera 95 demo competition. The Remains of the Pizza (1995, 12.03, Intro). 2nd in the Primavera 95 intro competition. Rotate Mania (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: PP, gfx: Pic, music: Snoopy (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Intel Outside II 64k intro competition! review: Not a bad little intro, though perhaps not quite good enough to reach the very top of the competition. There are some very good routines, like the impressive voxel terrain and the fullscreen HAM zoom rotator. The music is nice too, with a very distinct c64 flavour to it. Not bad at all, is my conclusion :) If you run the demo with the parameter '?', like 'Rotate.exe ?' you'll be presented with a number of options, like running without sound, showing some messages and playing the hidden game. The game is a kind of simple airhockey variation. This was PP's first intro for Union. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Some Faces (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: PIl, gfx: n/a, music: Sixtus (The Player 6.1A format) Released for the Intel Outside II 64k intro competition. Tear Down The Wall (1995, 30.08, AGA File). code/gfx: Musashi, music: Roberts. Winner of the Intel Outside 95 demo competition! review: Heavily based on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" music and film, that is what the first part of this Musashi tour-de-force occupies itself with. Using demo effects, it recreates several moments from the film, while a sampled rendition of the music plays in the background. Or tries to play, since my machine (030-50) wasn't fast enough! As a result, it jerked and played the music in jerks and spurts. I was much relieved when the second part started, with NORMAL protracked music...It made the routines a whole lot more enjoyable to watch :) The second part is what I'd describe as the demo part of the show. Here's where Musashi gets to do the usual phongs, bumps, zooms, spacecuts and even a rather wild little doom without sticking to any specific theme. In my opinion, this is the best part of the demo. I felt that the theme of the first part was a little limiting for some of his routines, making him unable to show their true potential. Here he can. One major drawback about the entire demo, however, must surely the ever- present shading. This is not the usual right-left pixel or every other pixel is black kind, however. It seems a little more flexible and variable, but is still quite annoying. I understand that it requires less raster time, but that doesn't mean I have to like it ;) Musashi must have used some kind of amazing internal compression to squeeze all this into one single 867k file - I'd expect the sampled music alone to take that much!! To conclude: Wow! Obviously requires some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Braincell (1995, 30.08, Demo). code: Hali, gfx: Pic, music Mr.Root. 2nd in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Unique (1989-1990) ------------------ FIN> Savage (10/89-02/90). Unique was formed in july 1989. Soon after three members (Cool J, Santuu and Equalizer) joined from Accession. Cool J was a couple of weeks in D-Mob finland in 06/90, but returned again. Then, Exodus, Unique and some members of Complex and Gate formed a new group called Image 06/90. Vector Demo (1989, late.08, ECS Demo). code: Cool J, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. The X-Mas Demo (File). Universal Pictures (pre 1989, .11, ECS File). Universal Pictures II: Licence to Fill (1989, ECS File). Unit 4 ------ Magic (ex Exotic) joined Xentrix early 96 or late 95. United Forces (UFO) ------------------- GER> 16 Beat (music, 03/91), E-605 (sysop 'BLACK SHADOW' later 'CYBERDYNE NETWORKS', ex Fairlight, new RAW3), Holly and Coke (sysops 'TOUCH DOWN', 09/91-04/93). ???> Avalon, Buckaroo, Merlin, Mr.Mad, Ram Runner, Riff-Raff (code), Tai Pan, Tiger. United Forces were a mainly German group. Back in 09/91, only Coke was sysop of 'TOUCH DOWN'... 1991 - Guardian joined Crusaders mid 91. Unitrax ------- ENG> Shaggy (sysop 'FUN HOUSE'). Universal Soldiers (US, 1994-) ------------------------------ FRA> Monty (founder music, ex Paradox, new ROM3, 12/94), Schmoovy Schmoov (founder code, ex Complex, new ROM3, 12/94), Suny (gfx, 12/94), Zebig (gfx, 12/94). SER> Haralampia (code, ex Enemy, new ROM3). ???> 1702 (12/94). US was formed by the two frenchmen Schmoovy Schmoov/Complex (code) and Monty/Paradox (music) in late 1994. Suny had just joined Bomb!, and his picture in "Unsatisfied" clearly has a Bomb behind the name Suny, just like he used in all his other pictures for Bomb! Lord, the Hungarian sysop of 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST' was a doublemember (also in Absolute!) for a while. German swapper Rahiem left for Essence (ROM4). German graphics duo Gfx-Twins (12/94) left to join Essence (ROM3). Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead (Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Acmedia" by Reflex/Movement. Unsatisfied (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Schmoovy Schmoov, gfx: Suny, music: Monty. 8th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: A few nice effects (mainly vectorbased), a nice little chiptune and a picture of a cute dog with a red cross over it by Suny. That's what this intro offers; nothing extraordinary, but very very nice and cosy. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Universe -------- Myst (1996, 05.04, Intro). 3rd in the Saturne 96 intro competition. Unlimited --------- NOR> Slimebrain, Tactel (swap, 02/92), Tallyman (ex Contrast), Trix. GER> Gold Dragon (Christian Zimmer, swap). ???> Blacky (gfx swap), Deejay Jones, Mad Max (code), Ripper. 1994 - The Brain (02/94) rebuilt Chilblains, and Gold Dragon joined them early this year. Coder Fast left. Byte Bandit joined Grace. Magic Duke joined Vanish. German swapper Raw joined Amaze. Anvil and Flexible joined Contrast. The Norwegian division joined Grace. Untouchables, The (1988-) ------------------------- GER> Chuck (12/90), Pop (12/90), Heiko (12/90), Iceman (swap trade, 11-12/90), Rockford (sysop 'TRADERS HEAVEN'), Stk (12/90), Yeggman (12/90). N-L> B.O.B (sysop '7TH HEAVEN', doublememb Subzero, 01/93), Columbo (sysop 'DROOL ZONE', 01/93), System Z (sysop 'ENIGMA', 01/93), The Big Orgasm (sysop 'EROGENIC ZONE', 01/93). USA> Whistler & P.O.W. (sysops 'APOCALYPSE', 04/93). Boards; HOLY TOWER (ger, 11/90). The Untouchables were formed in 1988 near Bremen, Germany. They have existed a long while without being well known due to the fact that they concentrate more on trading and swapping than releasing anything. Upfront ------- DEN> Einstein (code), Jozz (Johannes Bjerregaard, music), Yobbo (sysop 'THE LARCH'). ???> Beatbuster (ex Direct), Spacebrain (music, 12/92). Upfront is a Danish group, born as an extension of the already existing C64 one, when their coder Einstein started making demos on the Amiga. Dice and Rookie joined Kefrens. Up Rough Soundsystem (1998-, http://www.uprough.com) ---------------------------------------------------- SWE> Blade (code music, doublememb Subspace, 04/01). ???> Booger (code, 04/01), Case (trade, 04/01), Elusive (music, 04/01), Idol (gfx, 04/01), Mortimer (gfx music, 04/01), Plus8 (raytrac network, 10/98-04/01), Qwan (music, 05/99-04/01), Skope (gfx music, 10/98- 04/01), Spot (gfx music, 04/01), Teis (music, 04/01), Zaner (siteop, 04/01). Up Rough appears to be mainly a music label, and it seems their first products were released around 1998 - at parties like Icing 98 and Compusphere X, indicating this is a Swedish group. They've even released things such as samplepacks etc. =] 1999 - Their first real coded production was released at Icing 99. The intro, called "Introducin" [05/99], came fifth and last in the competition, and was coded by Blueberry/Efreet. Introducin (1999, 16.05, Intro). producers: Blueberry/Efreet, Skope, Spot. 5th in the Icing 99 intro competition. Ink (Intro). producers: Booger, Model, Mortimer Twang, Skope, Spot. April In Paris (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: Booger, Model, gfx: Spot, Plus8 (3d), music: Skope. 9th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Well, this functions more as a 'music video' for the hip-hop/jazz soundtrack than as a demo. The visuals are all related to the music, and there are more images than effects. I am generally bored by these kinds of productions, but some people might find this interesting I guess. Up Rough is a music group, and music is what they do best, so it shouldn't really surprise anyone that music is what this release is all about. The 'Up Rough Success Index' was a fun idea, tho'! =] [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Utopia ------ FIN> Blue Nun (Peter Nyman, swap pack "Subconscious Terror", 93). NOR> Messiah. ???> Hawk (ex Enigma), Perlon (ex Centura). Mikromission and DNA left. Swedish musician MPS (ex Enigma) joined Infect. Fluor joined Surprise! Productions. Flash Fox joined Razor 1911. Vacuum (VCM, 1996-) ------------------- ENG> Hollywood (Simon M. Carless, founder music, ex Axis). GRE> Stelios (founder code, ex Axis). POL> Dave (Dawid Nabialek, swap, late95), Qix (swap, new late95). ???> Ania (new late95), Digital (gfx only 04/96, music only 06/96, doublememb Phuture 303 06/96), Insert (org gfx), Jacool (swap pack), Lazarus (ex Scum, new 04/96, not in 06/96), Mat (pol? new late95), Sixtus (pol? new late95), Trash (gfx, doublemember of Phuture 303 06/96). Vacuum was founded by Hollywood and Stelios after they left Axis in late 1996. I've seen a text file announcing their new chartmag 'Pump', the world musician charts! The first issue was allegedly to have been released in august/september 1995, which is highly unlikely! Vajrayana (VRN, -1997) ---------------------- AGA, DIP, Rio and Slat left to join Elven 11 (E11). After the release of the E11 demo "Smart" (03/97), which Mat helped do some work for, he also left the group to join his old groupmates in the new group. This meant the death of Vajrayana. Valhalla [old] (1990-1990) -------------------------- Boards; VALHALLA (usa), UNDERWORLD (usa), OUTLAND (usa), DARKSIDE (usa), TERRORDOME (usa), GREYHAVEN (usa), COLISEUM (usa). Valhalla was probably the most shortlived illegal group ever. After making some releases, and being in cooperation with Skid Row, its best members (Arnie, Creeping Death, Copyrighthunter, Wiseman and Hawk) joined Skid Row, and they died the same year they were born. Valhalla [new] -------------- ???> Boomer, Empty, H.P.L., Luke Morgan, No Limit. Vandalz ------- Fate joined Outlaws. Vanish (1991-1993) ------------------ GER> Cujo (code trade, ex Desire, old handle Ziggy Stardust), Dioxion (code, ex Desire), Gulliver (sysop 'HEAVEN'S DOOR'), Hemmingway (sysop 'SPIRITUAL VOICES', 92), Kyle (code, ex Desire), Mr. Speeder (sysop 'THUNDERDOME', 92), Tekknoman (trade sysop 'DEAD CITY'). ???> Kreator (trade), Magic Duke (ex Unlimited), TKM (ex The Flashing Bytes), Unlimited (ex The Flashing Bytes), Xenomorph (trade). Boards; BLACK CLOUDS (ger, 92). Vanish was formed by people from Mindkillers, Timex (Calypso...), RAF and Panic in the middle of 1991. They also spent some time as Dynamix' and Ministry's demo divisions. They are probably best known for their great graphician Navy. 1991 - Dr.Oetker and Icecube joined The Special Brothers mid 91. Plauze left mid 91, he was NOT kicked. He consequently joined Fairlight. 1993 - Laurance joined Sceptic early 93. The group finally ceased to exist late this year, when they merged with Tech into the new group Logic. Among the people who certainly went along to the new group were Calypso (code, 92-), Castor (swap, old handle Gizmo), Massive (ex Hypnotic), Ascender (music, ex Platin) and Cosmic (music, 92-). Apollo joined Panic. Lawbreaker (ex Awesome, new mid 91) joined Razor 1911. Germans Montana Rice and Aerobase (swap, both ex Fate) joined Awesome. Aerobase was misspellt Herobase in RAW, which is incorrect. German graphician Navy (92) joined the newly formed B.A.S.F, but quickly moved on to TRSI. German swapper Flash joined Frantic. Ministry Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Calypso, gfx: Navy (logo), music: "Geetar" by Matthew Simmonds/ independent (ProTracker MOD format). review: Nice but unexceptional crackintro. It opens with a good MINISTRY logo by Navy, but the rest of the intro is just a text plotter. Nice music though, but what else would you expect from 4-Mat? =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Monoxide (ECS Disk). info: Works on A1200, with caches off and chipset to original. Terminate You (pre 1992, .07, ECS Musicdisk). Final Analysis (1992, ECS Slideshow). code: Calypso, gfx: Navy, music: Cosmic. Vanity (VTY) ------------ DEN> Dux (sysop 'MAINLINE', 04/95), Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE', 04/95), Zany (sysop 'SUSPERIA', 04/95). ???> Mandrake (den? 10/95), Melomaniac (music, 12/94). Vector ------ Swedes Czar (gfx), Geezer (code music) and Jamsam (gfx music) all joined Mystic. Radar (1996, 16.06, Demo). 4th in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Plane Zero (1996, .09, AGA Demo, 2 disks). Winner of the Creutz #2 96 demo competition! Vectors, The ------------ Bohemian (1992, 02.Oct, ECS Slideshow). code: Jofa, gfx: Saito, Tomba/Bohema, Viper, Jofa, Johny, Ventor/Pici, Spider, JFK, music: Triox. Vectra ------ FIN> Braggart (10/91), Dr.Jive (music, 91), HTD (93), Fireball (Aurinko Rinne, swap, 91), Morrison (gfx swap, 91), Smirre (mainorg code gfx, ex Smircher/Defjam, 91), Tractor (93), Triton (Aki Turunen). ???> Grade (music, 93), Python, Sam (gfx, 93). Vectra is a demo group based in Finland, under the leadership of Smirre. 1991 - Braggart's board 'CONCEALED DIMENSION' was closed in november. The board was the OLDEST AmiExpress elite BBS in Finland. Finnish coder Oregon (91) left the scene. Finnish musician Tyrell joined Dual Crew. Finns Condor (swap) and Corleone (gfx) were kicked. The Shine (Intro). Da Blue Mouse (1991). Sinking Demand (1993, pre .06, Disk). code: Smirre, gfx: Sam, Smirre, music: Grade. Vega (1991-1992) ---------------- ITA> Cioz (gfx, 10/91), SirJoe (music, 91), Teo (Matteo Cagnoni, code swap, 02-05/92). SWI> Booker (new 02/92), Helioth (Francois Coppex, gfx, 10/91-08/92). Vega was a mainly Italian demo group, formed by Filippetto after the death of Amaze germany, probably around january 1991. Filippetto brought his diskmag "Freedom Crack" with him. Their first release was the intro "Official Plasma" [91], announcing the new group. Then followed in quick succession their first "Musicdisk" [91] and in march "Freedom Crack #5" [03/91]. Thanks to Helioth for help! 1992 - When Italians Filippetto (code), Bitjoker (code), DJ Mad (music sysop 'NETWORK BBS') and Sledge (new 02/92) left for Zenith after releasing "Freedom Crack #9" [05/92] and "The Network BBS" [08/92], the group died. Style (code, old handle Bacteria, 11/91-) and Blacky (gfx music) joined Legend. Android joined Awe. Official Plasma (1991, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Pup/Savage, music: "Freefromyou" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). info: This announces group's birth. Musicdisk (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: "Mimanchi", "Small World", "Freizeit Revue", "Stone Love", "Feel Me Free", "The Happy Song" and "The e.b Affair" by Filippetto, "Rithmnbomb" by SirJoe. Freedom Crack #5 (1991, 08.03, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur/Savage (logo), Junior/Amaze (font), music: "I'm Waitin 4U Remix" by SirJoe. MAG - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur/Savage (logo), music: "Emotions" by Filippetto, editor: Filippetto. 4Part Multipart (1991, ECS File Demo). code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Pup/Savage (part1), Wyrmslayer (part4), Junior/Amaze (font), music: Jochen Hippel/Thalion (Future Composer 1.3 format, converted from Hippel format, 28100 bytes), "Freefromyou" (part 1), "Suspect" (part 4) by Filippetto, "Nasty" by Nun Se Sa (part 2, all ProTracker MOD format). Freedom Crack #06 (1991, 30.05, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur/Savage, music: "Commando" by Mark Cooksey (ripped from the game). MAG - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur/Savage (logo), music: "Rebelmania" by Mantronix/Razor 1911. Another Mighty Vega Demo (1991, ECS File Demo). code: Filippetto, gfx: Helioth, Cioz, music: "Muzak" by Filippetto. Vega Musicdisk II (1991, .09, ECS Musicdisk). code: Bitjoker, gfx: n/a, music: "Emotions", "Joanna", "Modern Machinery", "Pertiadenis" and "We Jazz For You" by Filippetto. Automa (1991, 06.10, ECS Trackmo). code: Bitjoker, gfx: Bitjoker, Blacky, Dj Mad, music: "Under The Sea" by Filippetto, "Samples'_Orgy" by Dj Mad (both ProTracker MOD format). Released at the SMAU party. Freedom Crack #7 (1991, 20.10, ECS Filemag). code: Filippetto (intro, mag), gfx: Adec, ???/Brainstorm (font), music: "I Vote 4...(2nd v.)" by Tip/Phenomena (ProTracker MOD format). Double Intro Part1 (1991, 22.11, ECS Intro). code: Bacteria, gfx: Blacky, music: "Scoreggiando" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). Double Intro Part2 (1991, 22.11, ECS Intro). code: Bacteria, gfx: Blacky, Magic (font), music: "The Feeling" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). Musicdisk #3 (1991, 24.12, ECS Musicdisk). code: Filippetto, gfx: Blacky, music: "Oeh", "Lekkerland", "Bring Me Back", "Grigoletto", "Impossible Dream", "Roberto", "Longhotsummernight", "You Are Forever" by Filippetto. 1992 Delirium (1992, 15.01, ECS File). code: Bacteria, gfx: Blacky, Helioth (fonts), music: "Impossible Dream" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). GLE tested A500 /000/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Spaceship part has graphical errors, but works fine. Musicdisk #4 (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Goodbye Charlie", "Overfruit", "Easy Going", "Next Time", "Oligofrizzante" by Filippetto. Freedom Crack #8 (1992, 08.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Magic/independent (title), Helioth (logo), music: "Roberto" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: Teo, Filippetto (additional), gfx: Magic/independent (panel), music: "Dispatcher" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format), editor: Filippetto. review: The FC8 intro is nice, and sets a good atmosphere for the reading of the actual mag. Especially the great title picture, and Filippetto's funny, bouncy tune helps lift your spirit! Then, the mag itself: They have received a new code for this issue, and even though I haven't seen the one they previously used, this one ain't too shabby. At least it works on my machine :) Regarding compatibility; I had to depack the files to a disk in order to get it to work - most probably it needs to read its files from DF0:. The main problem on the A1200 is some distorted graphics inside the mag itself, but it's far from a major problem. The English in this mag is perhaps not the best I've ever seen, but it's far from the worst either. Just sample this little golden nugget from the news section of the mag: 'Some ENERGY members are wrong!' =) This issue offers interviews with Conquest/Anarchy, El Cubo/Crusaders and Sniffy/Energy. The mag gives a clean, good feel when using it. It's also the first mag I have ever seen to have a complete plasma routine as a background for an article! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA! Real Thing (1992, .02, ECS File Demo). code: Filippetto, Bitjoker, gfx: Blacky, Helioth, music: "Execution" by Filippetto. info: Released after "Freedom Crack #8" [02/92]. Crazy World (1992, 05.03, ECS File Demo). code: Style, gfx: Helioth, Blacky, music: "You Are Forever" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). Freedom Crack #9 (1992, .05, ECS Diskmag). code: Teo, gfx: Magic, Blacky, music: "Bring Me Back" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). info: This issue presents interviews with Samir/Zenith, Malcom/Energy, Gretzky/Profecy and Maxximum/Intense. The Network BBS (1992, .08, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, Bitjoker, gfx: Helioth (logo), Majic (font), music: "Leaven'-the-scene" by Dj Mad and Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). info: Released after Assembly 92. Coppertrix (1992, ECS File). code: Teo, gfx: n/a, music: "Modern Machinery" by Filippetto (ProTracker MOD format). info: Teos first demo for Vega. Venator ------- ???> Painkiller (ex Admirals, new mid91). Vendetta Productions -------------------- Boards; SKYNET (den). X-Tra left to join Curacy. Venger ------ Disposed Dreams (1993, 07.04, 40k Intro). 6th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Venture (1991-) --------------- GER> Accu (founder trade sysop 'RIVER SIDE', 09/91-early92), Ginger (founder gfx, 10/91-early92), Gizmo (gfx sysop 'ALIBI', 10/91-early92), Golf (sysop 'BERLIN AMIGA NEWS'), Hajo (founder), Rator (sysop 'WONDERLAND'), TCI (founder sysop 'SKARA-BRAE', 09/91-early92). POL> Majkel (Michael Czebotar, swap, 01/97), Wierza (music, 08/98). Boards; MISSING LINK (ger, 10/91). Venture was formed in mid to late 1991 by Hajo, TCI, Accu, FDT and Ginger, all German ex members of Alpha Flight. German trader, writer and founder FDT joined TRSI (RAW4). Though FDT joined Venture, he stayed on as coeditor of AFL's mag "Cracker Journal". German sysop Krypton ('CONTROL TOWER', ex Alpha Flight) joined Decade early92. Intel Outside '94 Intro (1994, ECS Intro). IO 95 Demo (1995, 30.08, Demo). 10th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Underground (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). Released for The Party 5 40k intro competition. Full Flavour (1996, 23.06, 64k Intro). Winner of the Polish Summer Party 96 64k intro competition! Demo (1996, 30.08, Demo). 3rd in the Intel Outside 3 demo competition. Sketch (1998, .08, Demo). 3rd in the Intel Outside 5 demo competition. Venus Art (-1997) ----------------- POL> Atom (3D, 12/97), BJSebo (Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz, mainorg code, 08/96-12/97), Calf (Artur Cieslak, code gfx 3D www, 08/96-12/97), Joseph (gfx, 08/96), Madd (gfx, 12/97), Neuromancer (gfx, 11/96-12/97), Noe (Jacek Cybularczyk, code, 08/96-12/97), Wierza (music, 12/97), Zack (gfx, 12/97). Venus Art was a Polish demo group with considerable success in their native land. The group was declared dead in december 1997, as announced in their winner demo at Astrosyn 97, "Everything Dies". 1997 - At Intel Outside, they released the winning 64k intro "Grotesque" [07/97], and announced in an enclosed text file that graphician Juma (08/96-) had been kicked due to laziness. They also released BJSebo's 4k intro "Nameless", originally planned for Symposium that year which they ultimately did not attend, the at the same party, despite the fact that the amiga 4k competition was cancelled. 1998 - Noe returned after three months in the army in march or april, and is now working on new productions. Despite claiming that "Everything Dies" would be their last release, they were back at Rush Hours 98 in april with several productions. The 64k intro "Born Again" (let's hope they mean that =) got to 2nd position in the competition, while the release of the very first powerpc demo - a remix of their own classic "Everything Dies" - secured their position as scene innovators. Bjsebo and Noe were also involved (as coders) with the joint demo/slideshow project "Visible World 100%" [04/98] with MAWI, which reached the 2nd position in the democompetition at the same party. Manipulations (1995, 30.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Noe (main), B.J.Sebo (additional), gfx: Joseph (doom pic), Juma, C.A.L.F. (additional), music: Voice/APX^TSA. 5th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. review: Nothing special about this demo, the only standout part is the 'monitor' one. Here you see a virtual Amiga monitor on the left side, where someone loads an assembler, opens a file, runs it - and you're presented to some Goraud objects. Also, a lit candle lighting a face is seen in the same context, and that was very well executed. The music is nothing special, neither are the graphics. Average. Will run fine on unexpanded A1200's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. On The Knees! (1996, 10.11, AGA 4k Intro). code: BJSebo, Noe, gfx: none, music: none. 2nd in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: This 4k intro involves several objects flying across a sky blue background. I'm still amazed at how they managed to store all those objects' coordinates in 4k! Another cool thing about this one is that it's actually quite system friendly - you can flip between screens while viewing it!! Outstanding, and only bettered by the winner intro "HazMix" this year. The text file mentions the intro 'should' work on unexpanded A1200's, but that 030 or better is recommended. It requires SetPatch. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Oops! (1996, 10.11, AGA 1MB 64k Intro). code: Noe, BJSebo, gfx: none, music: Timer/Appendix. Winner of the Gravity 96 64k intro competition! Cooperation with Appendix. review: Nothing outstanding atmosphere-wise, though the effects are of an overall high quality. They present us with lots of envmapped objects here, as well as a tunnel effect similar to the one in Rebels' "Whammer Slammer" [12/94] demo, only a lot more colorful. Not bad. Not bad at all! They strongly recommend a 030 processor. As part of the archive for their final demo "Everything Dies", the complete source code for this intro was released. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Zero Gravity (1996, 10.11, AGA HD ?MB Multifile). code: Noe, BJSebo, gfx: Neuromancer, Madbart (3d), music: Timer. Winner of the Gravity 96 demo competition! Cooperation with Appendix. review: "Zero Gravity" deserved to win, from what I've seen from these competitions. While Floppy's "PapadeO" was good too, this has a lot more going on; a lot more substance. And, with an archive of 3.6mb, it should. The best of parts are towards the end, with the voxelspace landscape and the 'spaceships in space' parts. Also, the music is at its best there and at the very beginning. There are four fullscreen pictures in the demo, three by Neuromancer and one raytraced by Madbart. Other than that, there's not much new here, it's the usual shading and mapping. On a scale from 1 to 10, this is a strong 6. The demo requires 'some fast', and an 030 or better is strongly recommended. It also supports multitasking, so you can flip between screens with Amiga-M. 'Waiting for PowerPC'. So do I :) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Grotesque (1997, 13.07, AGA/CGX 8MB 64k Intro). code: Noe, BJSebo, gfx: BJSebo (3d), music: Timer/Appendix (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Intel Outside 4 64k intro competition! review: After a few moments of precalculation, the intro opens with an object first splintering and then forming the words "Venus Art". An impressive twisting lava-textured object is next, then a fish in what is probably supposed to be an underwater setting. The intro jerks quite a bit sometimes, this is probably due to its multitasking capabilities... Not really sure what to call the next object, which is then relieved by a simplistic 3d scene with some dubious palette choices... Then the end text with credits flashes onto the screen while the scene keeps spinning in the background. The 3d effects on offer here are reasonable, but not amng the best I have seen, and the intro's power seems to be lessened by its multitasking capabilities... This intro was meant for 040 or 060 owners with graphics cards, and should probably be viewed in that setting in order to extract maximum appreciation. With this intro, coders Noe and BJSebo announced their intention to make all their future demos and intros system friendly, multitasking and supporting the CyberGraphX system. The intro will work on any 020+ machine, but the authors recommend at least 030. They also write 8MB fast ram as a requirement, but that it SHOULD work with 4MB... if anyone can test this for me, then please let me know! The enclosed text file announced that Juma was kicked for being lazy. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Nameless (1997, 13.07, 4k Intro). code: BJSebo, Noe (additional), gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Intel Outside 4 party. review: this intro was originally planned for Symposium, which Venus Art eventually didn't attend. They therefore finished it for Intel Outside 4, where the amiga 4k competition was cancelled =( In light of this, they then decided to just release it at the party place and be done with it... The intro itself is nothing special really, just a series of (gouraud?) shaded objects in the usual Venus Art lack of palette sense... =( As usual with Venus Arts' productions, this intro multitasks. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Oubliette (1997, 31.08, AGA/CGX 8MB 64k Intro). code: Noe, BJSebo, gfx: BJSebo (3d), music: Wierza/Venture (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Gravity 97 64k intro competition. review: After a system check and a considerable precalc period, we are launched into an intro that shows some competent coding, as well as some EXTREMELY bad palette choices! Are you trying to make us sick, Venus Art!? Jeesus, those sickly greens were a little much... Anyway! =) My machine is clearly not the ideal configuration, this jerks a little too much to be very enjoyable under my configuration... The intro consists mostly of scenes and objects, with an abundance texture/bump/phong/envmaps applied to every surface...though they REALLY need to get a graphician in there and do some better textures! 3d scenes are not the best, they mostly look cliched. The coding here is clearly competent, but I do believe I've been spoilt on too many Antibyte/Scoopex intros lately, and hey... these guys are nowhere in THAT neighbourhood! The intro requires at least 020 and 8MB of fast mem, but the producers recommend at least 040-40 or preferably a 060 processor for maximum pleasure. Please note that the version reviewed is the fixed version, with CGX support (unlike the party version). The intro supports multitasking. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ghost In The Machine (1997, 31.08, AGA/CGX Demo). code: BJSebo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Gravity 97 demo competition! Quagmire (1997, 14.12, AGA/CGX AHI 64k Intro). Winner of the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition! Everything Dies (1997, 14.12, AGA/CGX 8MB AHI Multifile Demo). code: BJSebo, Noe, gfx: Neuromancer, Zack, Madd, Calf (3d), Atom (3d), music: Wierza (DIGI Booster Pro format). Winner of the Astrosyn 97 demo competition! review: "Everything Dies" is a beautiful demo. With this production, Venus Art announce their farewell to the scene - but they certainly decided to go out with a bang! This demo singlehandedly take on the task of bringing the Amiga demo scene to the next step of the evolution ladder by bringing the fourth dimension into the 3d demo. There's stuff here that's unbelieavable, lifelike, and technically outstanding. Another thing that this demo does to push the limits is its support of the AHI and CyberGraphX standards for sound and video. This demo is a worthy tombstone on Venus Art's grave... DOWNLOAD IMMEDIATELY! Though the demo worked fine on my machine, it was unbearably slow. In fact, I believe this is the most processor hungry demo I have ever had the opportunity to run. Don't get me wrong, this isn't all bad; it's the kind of demo that makes you want to go out and buy an accelerator :) The recommended minimum configuration is 040-40, eventhough it will run on anything from 020 up. Neuromancer and Madd's pictures were the same ones as the ones they competed in the graphics competition with. The AmiNet archive also included the source code for their earlier intro "Oops!" [11/96] as a gift to the scene! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Born Again (1998, 26.04, AGA/CGX FPU 64k Intro). 2nd in the Rush Hours 98 demo competition. review: I was unable to view this intro since it requires an FPU. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Everything Dies - Special Remix Edition (1998, 26.04, AGA/CGX PPC AHI). code: BJSebo, Noe, gfx: Neuromancer, Zack, Madd, Calf (3d), Atom (3d), music: Wierza (DIGI Booster Pro format). Released at Rush Hours 98. info: The first ever PowerPC demo! Ghost In The Machine PPC Remix (1998, 26.04, AGA/CGX PPC AHI Demo). code: Noe, BJSebo, gfx: Lazur, music: Wierza/Venture. Released at Rush Hours 98. info: The second ever PowerPC demo! The Field Where I Died (1998, .08, PPC Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 5 demo competition. Vertigo (1990-) --------------- FIN> Apache (ex Image, new 11/90), Apol, Braggart (sysop 'CONCEALED DIMENSION'), Delorean (founder music, later Complex, 08/90), Eddie, Mel, Mig, Nimrod (Jukka Airaksinen, swap, 91), Ripper (founder), Sulky Fellow (founder code, 08/90). USA> Rowdy Roddy Piper (sysop 'PIPER'S PIT' WHQ). Vertigo was a finnish demo group, born ca 07/90 by Sulky Fellow, Drifter, Delorean, Unknown Artist and Ripper from Image. They released their first demo "Vectors For All" (08/90, Sulky Fellow/Drifter/Delorean) shortly after, finishing 3rd in a finnish party. They were joined by another member of their old group Image in november, when Apache joined. They are now dead, since all their members left for other groups. It is believed that Finnish musician Delorean moved directly to Complex. Vertigo split up, and finnish graphician and founder Drifter (08/90) joined Byterapers. Finnish graphician and founder Unknown Artist joined Omega. Paralysis, sysop 'PARANOIA' joined Recline. American sysop Spy Hunter ('INTERNAL AFFAIRS') joined TRSI. American sysop Steve (old handle Bassmaster, 'MYSTIC PLACES') joined Anarchy. Vectors For All (1990, 12.08, ECS File). code: Sulky Fellow, gfx: Drifter, music: "Snow-Runner" by Delorean (4ch MOD format). 3rd in the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy Party 90 demo comp. review: Almost the last word in vector demos is this, the first ever demo from Vertigo. And guess what? They didn't come off to too bad a start! The unusual music works remarkably well, as does their 'widescreen' approach to demo design. Nice. There's no exit routine. Even though it runs on the A1200 with KillAGA, there's still some graphical errors here and there. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review! Crack Intro (ECS Intro). Fill 'Em All (ECS File). Vicious (VCS) ------------- N-L> Defbeat (93), DUO (old handle Cover, 93), Fila (B. Dirven, swap, ex Origin, new SLH11, 93), Flash (code, new early93), Kayo (code), MCA (music, 93), Ravedown (B. Ledder, swap, 93), Shocker (93), Strike (music, 93), Twain Pain (93), Yce (H. Kamperman, swap, 93). ???> Ato, Cultjam, God, Kiwi (new early93), Soundwave, Wax (new early93). Ellesar joined Centura (GEN6). Speed Devil got kicked. Cloud 9 and Solid (both 93) joined Desire. Dutchman D-Icelord (ex Scorpio, 93) got kicked. Godfather joined Freestyle early93. Burntro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Flash, gfx: Solid (logo), Zorlac/Desire (font), music: Strike. review: What strikes you first, of course, is the music. It's a funky affair that's just smashing. Way to go! The intro itself is nothing especially interesting, consisting of just one screen and one effect. The effect, though, was brand new when I saw it. It's a sort-of burning cube that flies from left to right and back again :) Of course, flame effects have progressed a lot since then. Anyway, nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Victims ------- Dysentery (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 10th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Dysentery 2 (1998, 64k Intro). code: Mavey, Kalu, gfx: Sator, music: Rober. Released for the Rush Hours 98 64k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Vikings, The ------------ SWE> Zephyr (sysop 'VIOLATOR' new name 01/95). Violence (VLC) -------------- Sphinx (ex Network), Pimf (Espen Loeberg) and Anders Claussen formed Airborn. Phon-O-Bomb (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Sketch, Technoimage (4 tunes, 2 each?) Phon-O-Bomb II (199x, ECS Musicdisk). info: The next Phon-O-Bomb was released under the Acrid label. Virtual ------- SWE> Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG', 01/95), Norad (sysop 'ACES HIGH', ex Anarchy), Rocket (ex Aurora), Saturn (K.Brodin, swap, 93). GER> Roamer (09/91). ???> Alf (music, 12/92), D-Design (gfx, 12/93), Domino (swe? ex Them), Gurra (music, 12/92), Hardline (Michael Podgorski, 12/96). Virtual is based in Sweden. Virtual Dreams (VD, 1992-) -------------------------- FIN> Alien (Sami Arola, founder code music, 12/92-08/96), Dr.Death (founder), Eternal (sysop1 'CHILD IN TIME'), Groo (founder music, doublememb CNCD [details], 12/92-05/93), Jaco (Jarkko Salminen, gfx, 12/92-08/96), Matti Ja Teppo (trade sysop2 'CHILD IN TIME', 03/94-95), Open Eyes (gfx, ex Complex, new SLH11, 95), Papa Smurf (music, ex Complex, 08/93), Skull (Juha Lainemo, founder code, 12/92-95), Tsunami (Timo Oskari Aila, founder code, doublememb Damones, 08/93-95). NOR> Jogeir Liljedahl (music, ex Spaceballs, new 12/93-95). DEN> Devilstar (Jesper Eskildsen, gfx, ex Kefrens new, doublememb Polka Brothers, 02/94-95). ???> Cool Shot (sysop, triplememb Clique (04/96) and Hoodlum), KerBeros (gfx, 12/93-95), TJY (fin? music, 12/92). When Black Robes died, Dr.Skull (later just Skull), Tsunami, Alien, Groo and Dr.Death decided to form a new group; Virtual Dreams. VD was originally the demo and intro division of cracker group Fairlight, but as their Amiga activities decreased, VD were more and more left on their own. Their first demo, "Absolute Inebritation" was released at The Party 92. These days, most of VD are inactive on the scene, though most are for a reason. Star coders Skull and Tsunami are working at Scavenger in the UK, coding games. BTW, Skull also coded the MPEG animation player for the ASM96 CD-ROM "eRAVE 2", which means he's moved over to coding the PC now. Diskmags have been responsible for some erroneous information in the past; RAW 5, released in mid 93, claimed that Tsunami left the scene, which anyone who saw him win the intro competition at The Party 3 with "Chaosland" (12/93) will know is untrue. Then, in RAW6 they claimed he had joined Damones, which is also untrue. The truth was that he doublejoined. ROM6 then devoted an entire article to he fact that the entire group was officially disbanded after The Party 5, which is strange since they managed to win the demo competition at Assembly 6 eight months later... Devilstar's BBS 'BODYCOUNT' was closed when he moved away from Denmark. These days he's back in Copenhagen, as ROM9 revealed, and working on games for interactive television! The ROM article revealed he was considering doing some work for the scene again, and we certainly hope he will! In the meantime, he has worked on game projects such as Full Throttle (pc), Targa (snes), Battle Tech (pc), War Inc (pc), Imperium Romanum (pc), Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 (pc) and Hugo (TV and PC). The board 'CHILD IN TIME' (fin)'s sysop is Immortal (earlier Eternal), who later joined Fairlight. 1995 - Hungarian graphician D-Mage (Ferenc Tompai, ex Headway, 08/93-94) sold his Amiga in early 1995. Swedish musician Probe has lost contact with the group sometime around early 1995, and has presumably left the scene. Nitch (code) joined Artwork. Dutch swapper Astro (Casper van Schie, ex Movement and CNCD, new ROM4) took a big step when he took over the editor job of legendary diskmag "R.A.W". He then joined VD, and everything looked hunky-dory... Then, as we all know, the diskbased "R.A.W" was terminated in favour of I-GO's "R.A.W Online", and Astro left the scene to run his own InterNet company. The Dutch superteam Facet and SuperNao (new 05/95-12/95) came to VD from Spaceballs, because they found them to be inactive...but soon after they joined, all production pretty much ceased in VD too! Therefore they decided to revive their old group Lemon. right after The Party 5! Finnish coder Zany (ex Complex, 08/93-95) has sold his Amiga. Zany worked on "242" [08/93]. Absolute Inebriation (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Dr. Skull, gfx: Jaco, music: Groo, Alien, Tjy. 6th in The Party 92 demo competition. VD released "Absolute Inebriation" [12/92], a two-disk trackmo, at The Party as their first release. They were rewarded with a mediocre 6th position in the demo competition. Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Dr. Skull, gfx: n/a, music: Groo. Dentro (1993, ECS File). Code: Tsunami, Gfx: Jaco, Music: Groo. Illusion (1993, 29.05, ECS File). code: Alien, Skull, gfx: Jaco, music: Groo. 2nd in TCC93 demo competition. info: An AGA-patch was later released by someone called 'Silk'. 242 (1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Dr. Skull, Alien, Zany, gfx: Jaco, Alien, music: Papa Smurf. 2nd in the Assembly 93 demo competition. info: The 'coding' consists mainly of an animation player which compresses amazingly well. Cyberdance (1993, 10.08, ECS Intro). code: Tsunami, gfx: Tsunami, Dean/CNCD, music: Dean/CNCD. 2nd in the Assembly 93 intro competition. info: The intro does not claim to be by VD, instead says "Tsunami et Dean" - both of which were VD members at the time... 40k Intro (1993, 28.08, ECS Intro). code: Tsunami, gfx: D-Mage, Jaco, music: Groo/CNCD. Released for the Destiny Communion-Party 93 intro competition. Full Moon (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Dr.Skull, gfx: Jaco, Alien, KerBeros, music: Alien (intro), Heatbeat, Jogeir. 2nd in The Party 93 demo competition. info: Heatbeat's main tune is AWESOME! Jogeir's first production for VD. Chaosland (1993, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Tsunami, gfx: n/a, music: Dean/CNCD. Winner of the Party 93 intro competition! info: AWESOME, perhaps the best 40k'er ever! Review forthcoming... Assembly 94 Invitation (1994, AGA Intro). code: Alien, gfx: Jaco, music: Groo/CNCD. review: This opens with a picture by Jaco of a yellow-tinted female face. It's slowly faded onto the screen, and then there's some text overlayed onto it. The proportions are way off on the face; perhaps this is intended, since the large eyes and the weird nose give her a sort of elfquest feel... The main part of the intro is a text selector, with a rotation zoomer in the background. The graphics tiles of the rotzoomer changes frequently, and consists of fruit and weird female pop stars :) The music is Groo. Can't be put much more precise than that, I'm afraid... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Love (1994, mid, AGA). Breathtaker (1994, 07.08, AGA HD 4MB, 4 disks). code: Alien, gfx: Jaco, music: Alien (The Player 5.0A format). 2nd in the Assembly 94 demo competition. Evidence (1994, late, Musicdisk). Cooperation with Sonic. Doodle-Doo (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Alien, gfx: Jaco, music: Alien (The Player 6.1A format). 4th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: A very nicely designed intro with only two real routines, though they're both very good. The first is a ripple/bitmap distortion routine they let loose on a B&W pic of a cute kitten, and the second is "James Gouraud". James is a man-like animated object that swims through a sea, among other things. A good intro this, no doubt about that. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Psychedelic (1994, 28.12, AGA File). 2nd in The Party 94 demo competition. Faktory (1995, 28.12, AGA File). code: Alien, gfx: n/a, music: Alien (The Player 6.0A format). 3rd in The Party 5 demo competition. review: This more than short demo by a more than famous subgroup starts with some small logos and a nice introduction of the music but can not satisfy what the name promised... In this release - that is more a dentro than a demo - you are introduced by some bubbles in front of the title logo. A nice little effect as all the others too. Then appear some shaking texts that seem to show a message but don't at the end. Provide your eyes some scanned pictures of girls and boys who come right out of a fashion catalogue containing fields where you are shown cool water-like plasma effects. After a tunnel, parted in four different ones afterwards, a space probe with lights as you could only see in the best scoopex demos(!) and a flying monitor with a cybernetic arm and an eye on the screen is to be seen. All to the rhythm (covered with flashes) of a cool tune. The end comes too fast - not awaited or wanted - and the whole thing seems a bit too unfinished therefor that is has been released after the party. Okay, this one is not boring but without any very good idea for a typical Amiga demo. The music could nearly kick the listener's ass but at least it fits very well, underlines the general idea of design. No credits appear in the demo. At Assembly 96, Alien released a sequel, called "Sumea - Faktora 2" [08/96]. The demo works on a vanilla a1200 with 2mb chip. [zito+glenn] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Sumea - Faktory 2 (1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile). code/music: Alien, gfx: Jaco. Winner of The Assembly 96 demo competition! review: This is not a demo. It is a piece of art! In this amazing production, Alien has perhaps created what is the first real piece of demo art. An amazing achievement is what this is. There are several good routines on offer, of course, but what sets this apart from the crowd has got to be the way there all FOR something, they're not just another component in the demo. From the moment that tunnel explodes onto the screen, you know you're in for a ride. The music has a certain groove to it, something I sorely miss in most productions these days. A worthy winner. Alien calls it 'what Faktory was supposed to be'. Recommended? You bet your grandmother! It does not mention at all whether it requires any fastmem, but I suspect it does ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Virtual Madness --------------- ???> Acid (Pawel Tomas, gfx), Captain Zbig (Marcin Kmiecik, code), Cat-Man (Rafal Kus, gfx), Ender (Piotr Wasiak, gfx), Fatman (Rafal Glebowski, gfx), GPI (Piotr Grzanecki, internet), Maser (Bartek Maslowski, music), Robert Waga (gfx). I have no idea where these guys came from, but they MAY be Polish. Sweated (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Capt.Zbig, gfx: Fatman, Acid, music: "Chiptech1" by Doctor/Skulls. Made for the Intel Outside II 64k intro competition. review: This intro scores high on some originality, and has a few points deducted for the generic techno chiptune. The result lies somewhere above middle ground. The intro opens with a texturemapped box with the Escom and Intel Outside logos mapped onto the sides! The box then mutates a little before we move on to a spinning texture world globe. Then we get to the original part; a yellow butterfly is 'afterburned', and flies around a flower in the middle of the screen. This is a little hard to describe, but was very nice. The best effect of the intro is up next, when we travel down a dark blue corridor. This looks really nice at first look, and lifts the intro as a whole a little for me! Overall? Not bad. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Virus ----- The Rap Demo (1996, 05.04, Demo). 11th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Vision [old] (VSN, 1989-1992) ----------------------------- HOL> Aragorn (sysop 'TERMINAL ZONE' WHQ, 93), Blo (code gfx music, 08/90- 03/91), Hein Design (gfx music, aka HD and HPH, 07/89-12/92), Jetaza (07/89-90), Rick (Rick Hoekman, music, 08-12/90), Slash (Peter, code, 03/91-92), Timelord (sysop 'BAD HABIT', 90-09/91), TSM (Harald, code gfx, 07/89-93). NOR> Aqua (swap, ex Addonic, new RAW3), Face The Facts, Flash (Odd Tore, swap, ex Scoopex, new RAW3, 09/91-02/94), Terminal Silence (ascii, doublememb Epsilon Design), The Kid (ex Fraxion, old handle Crawlen), The Player (ex Fraxion), Viper (ex No Limits). GER> C (code crack, 02/94), Decadence (Kristian Broemme, swap, ex Proline, 11/93-02/94), Dragon (Richard Backhaus, org swap, 12/93-02/94), Jacy (modem swap, 02/94), Jarre (music, 02/94), Jazy (ascii swap), Mc Brain (code, 02/94), New Deal (06-07/89), New Mode (code, 02/94), Pit (code, 02/94), Squirrel (mode swap, 02/94), Stranger (swap, 02/94). SWE> Eckhead (gfx, 02/94), Kahn (gfx), MRK (swap gfx, ex Energy, 02/94), Nivek (ex Energy, 02/94), Pete (P. Isakson, swap, ex Energy, 02/94). USA> Flashback (sysop 'CYBERTECH', ex Alpha Flight). ???> A3 (07/93), Addict (07/89), Darkfalk (code, 07/89), Diart (hol? gfx, 08/90), Draco (07/89), Meikel (07/89), Moonwalker (07/89), Mr.Sir (07/89), Prime Time (music, 03/90), Starwolf (07/89), Stingray (hol? 07/89-90), TBM (music, 07/89), Urx (07/89), Xan (ex Faith), Zodak (ex The Incal Inc.). Boards; MOSQUITO COAST (hol, 09/91). Vision was originally a dutch demo group, probably formed in 1989 (at least that's when their first productions were released). 1989 saw the release of no less than two megademos from this young group, as well as some minor productions. The following year would see a massive amount of releases being poured out, before they presumably died in early 1992. Only one production was released that year, the Anarchy cooperation slideshow "Focused On Art". 1990 - German Malzam (ex Paranoimia) made a very quick stop around july before moving on to the new group Angels. Norwegian coder and trader Face The Facts (old handle Octoplex, ex Dual Crew, re) got busted for greyboxing in 92, which probably meant the end to his scene career. His previous groups were Gate, Anarchy, Palace and Spirit. Graphician JMS (ex Faith), who joined with Xan, was later in Artwork. Plasma joined Scoopex. Germans Placid (music, 11/93) and Mr.King (swap pack, ex Analog) joined Scoopex, and Mr.King took his famous packmag 'NeverMind' with him. Shapechanger joined Suburban Base. Swedes Atheist, Excel and Mindphaser (old handle The Joker, all ex Energy, 02/94), Shock (ex Iris, 02/94) and Skepp left to join Freezers. Danish musician Tropeduft joined Outlaws. Norwegian graphician Mindblaster (ex Wizzcat?/ex Scoopex?, 09/91) left the scene early 93. Lawbreaker joined Razor 1911 (RAW5). Tripwire joined Crystal (RAW4). Swedish trader Magic (ex Alpha Flight) joined Crack Inc. Kevin Key (sysop 'INSIDE TREATMENT'/'FLASHBACK', ex The Silents) joined Scoopex. The Norwegian division is dead. Flesh and others are planning to form a new group. This may be Angels new. Auqa/Addonic joined, but left for Surprise! Productions a few weeks later. German sysops Sniffy and Helioth ('SPIRITUAL HEALING', ex Alpha Flight, new ca 06/92) joined, but later they and Boonkid (ex Agnostic Front, new RAW3) left to form a new crew with some Swedish guys (RAW3). Swedish sysop Twister ('FLASHBACK', new RAW3) joined from Agile (after a few days in Razor 1911), but later sold all his gear to Kevin Key, who is now running it (RAW3). Amitech (sysop 'THE PHANTOM ZONE', new RAW3) and Lion (ex New Wave, new RAW3) quickly joined Offence (RAW3). Norwegian Corny (ex Network) joined The Silents late 91. The Dutch division died late 1991, and soon-to-be-famous graphician Facet (07/89-09/91) joined Anarchy. Coder Crackerjack (08/90) joined the original Axis. Norwegians Octoplex, Mindblaster and Flash joined Dual Crew. Mindblaster and Flash then joined Scoopex, only to return to Vision (RAW1). Octoplex also later returned, using his new handle Face The Facts. Finnish Starfader changed his handle to Mellow D and joined Miranda 12/90. Dutchman Shock (07/89) left the group in 90. English sysop Splatt ('SPLATTER HOUSE') joined Classic old 90. Born To Be Cool (ECS Demo). no credits. Cool Sinus Intro (ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Occ-San-Geen" by Uncle Tom/Scoopex (4ch MOD format). House Music (ECS Musicdisk). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Baseline Squad", "Beyond This Sound", "Cruelty of House", "Get Into Techno" and "Wheels of Steel" by Prime Time (4ch MOD format). Love Like Blood BBS (ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Coopy*0001" by Cartoon & Jelace (4ch MOD format). info: Supposedly released by the German division, though Cartoon and Jelace are two Norwegian musicians... Numbler Fumbler (ECS Demo). no credits. Megademo (1989, 25.03, ECS Trackmo). code: TSM, gfx: HPH, TSM, Facet, music: "Creative Human" and "Milk Over My Amiga" by Walkman/???, "Frank Suck On This" by Ray Norrish/Psygnosis Software (from the game "Baal"), "Issuluuk", "Coopzak" and two nameless tunes by HPH (all SoundTracker 15inst format).  Small-Pack Intro (1989, 24.06, ECS Intro). code: New Deal, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (SoundTracker 15inst format). Released at the IT and Razor 1911 Party. review: Very 1989 this, with copper-effects dominating. Apparently an intro for a pack of some kind. There's a badly drawn logo in grey on the middle of the screen, and in addition to the copper fx on the background there's also a scroller and some equalizers. Not too exciting. Please note that no actual credits appear in the intro, so I'm just assuming New Deal is the coder... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Megademo 2 (1989, 29.07, ECS Trackmo). code: TSM, gfx: TSM, HPH, Arrakis/???, Facet (font), ???/KnightHawks (font), music: "New generation (1)" by n/a, "Feetwalk", "War" and "Sesamstraat" by HPH, "Nasty" by ???/The Silents, "120bpm" and "Pack-Off" by TBM (SoundTracker 15inst and normal MOD mixed). Released at the Alpha Flight, Vision Factory and Powerslaves copy party. Another Crack Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: n/a, music: "Synthdrum" by Sebastiaan "Zzzax/Timecircle" Lentfert (Sid Mon 2 format). info: This music was also used in Vision's 'Some BBS Informations' intro. Blo's First Demo (1990, ECS Demo). code: Blo, gfx: Facet, music: "Hattle" by n/a. Contact Us (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Romancing the Drone" by n/a (MOD format). info: Text by Jetaza. Danish Jam (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Potjejam" by n/a. info: AKA "New Stuff Intro". Friendship Productions 1 (1990, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Converted III" by Meridian. Friendship Produtions (ECS Intro). code: Blo, gfx: Facet, music: "Happy Funk" by Blo. Cool Sinus Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Facet, music: "Cop Perfect 1" by Doctor Acid/ Freelancer. info: This intro announced that HPH (Hein Design) left as gfx artist - he seems to later have changed his mind :). It was released some weeks before the Vision Party in Rotterdam. Megademo 4 (1990, ECS Trackmo). code: Crackerjack, Blo, TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Loadertrack1", "Pugs In Space", "Nights of Rithm" and "Busy" by n/a, "Human Invasion" by Blo, "Fresh House" by Chronos/Magnetic Fields (all 4ch MOD format). info: In addition to Facet's graphics, this demo also features skulls ripped from the game Timescanner. Music-Masters (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code TSM (intro), gfx: Facet, music: "Cyber", "House Met Drumsound", "Spikemix 1989", "Tune1", "Tune2", "Tune3", "Gotta Swing", "Balad" (all uncredited, 4ch MOD format). Potje Oranje Nr2 (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Yo-Govoice" by n/a. Some Rebels Logo's (1990, ECS Intro). code: Blo, gfx: Facet, music: "Superboy" by Allister Brimble (Sid Mon 2 format). The Airwolf Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Airwolf Theme" by Hein Design. The Airwolf Intro - Long Version (1990, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Airwolf Theme" by Hein Design. info: This intro announced Shock had left the group. Little Meeting (1990, .03, ECS Demo). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Journal Tune-Short" by Prime Time (4ch MOD format). Some BBS Informations (1990, 12.07, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Synthdrum" by Sebastiaan "Zzzax/Timecircle" Lentfert (Sid Mon 2 format). info: This music was also used in Vision's 'Another Crack Intro' intro. Prime Micro Demo (1990, 11.08, ECS File). code: Crakerjack, Blo, TSM, gfx: Diart, Facet, Blo, music: "Short- Loadingtune" by Rick (loader), "Prime 90 Tune" by Blo (main). Released at the Prime Party 90. Tilburg Copy Party Invitation (1990, 22.12, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Facet (font), Hein Design (font 2), music: Dutch Usa Team (Music Assembler format, 7724 bytes, 1 subsong). Cooperation with Mirage. info: The music credit seems dubious (the D-USA Team was a c64 group, famous for creating the music editor RockMonitor on that platform), it is possibly a cover version? There was a Venlo Meeting on this date, and it was probably released there... It is more uncertain exactly what party this intro is supposed to invite to... I can find no reference to a 1991 copy party in 'Tilburg', and no others that match either :( Nude-tv 2 (1990, 28.12, ECS Demo). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Morning Dawn" by Rick Hoekman (4ch MOD format). Released at the Dexion Party 90. info: Described as an 'animdemo'. Stupid Data (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Erection Attack" by Rick Hein (???). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Hein Design Party Gfx (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: TSM, gfx: Hein Design, music: "Syntherklass" by Hein Design (4ch MOD format). Released at the Dexion Party 90. BBS & Mini (1991, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Hein Design (logo), Facet (font), music: "Menumusic For Harry", "Circus In Town" by Rick Hoekman (4ch MOD format). Cant Be... (1991, ECS File). code: TSM, gfx: Hein Design, Facet (font), Hein Holt (NoisePacker 3 format, 84796 bytes). review: This one opens with a DEAD COOL logo by Hein, and continues with a nicely designed opening sequence...setting the scene for one of the best little demos of 1991! Flashpack (1991, ECS Intro). code: Blo, gfx: Facet, music: "Micro Xmas2" by Blo (4ch MOD format). Glenzvectors (1991, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Hein Design, music: Hein Design (NoisePacker 2 format, 53072 bytes). Mosquito Coast BBS (1991, ECS Intro). code: Slash, gfx: Facet, music: "Parkietmix2" by Hein Design. . Violation Packmenu (1991?, ECS Intro). code: TSM, gfx: Hein Design, music: n/a (NoisePacker 1/2 format). review: This is a real nice, though non-innovative packmenu produced by the dutch members of Vision, though the pack itself was released by the Norwegians. A bouncy scroll is at the lower half of the screen, and the rest is occupied by the selector menu - overlaid over a 'skrå'-moving Vision logo. The music for the version reviewed is uncredited, but is a chippy with a nice melody. The overall impression of the menu is very good, with good clear graphics. There are some compatibility problems, though - on my machine, the selector graphics were not displayed, though the intro itself worked perfectly! When it was run from WB with KillAGA, it worked perfectly (selector graphics and all), but destabilized my system upon exit, resulting in a guru shortly after. Reviewed is the menu for Violation #69 (released at Razor and Imp 666's 'Arendal' party, 29.09-91). . GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Five Yards (1991, 30.03, ECS File). code: Blo, gfx: Facet, music: "Discovery" by Blo (4ch MOD format). Released at the RAF Conference. Break Down (1991, 30.03, ECS File). code: Slash, gfx: Facet, music: "Breakaway" by Hein Design (4ch MOD format). Released at the RAF Conference. info: The same music was also used in Vision's "Illegal Copy #1" (05/91). Illegal Copy issue #1 (1991, 23.05, ECS Diskmag). code: Slash, gfx: Facet, music: "Breakaway" by Hein Design. info: The same music was also used in Vision's "Break Down" demo (03/91). Radical (1991, 29.06, ECS File). code: Slash, TSM, gfx: Facet, music: "Return o.t. Python" by Hein Design. Released at the Amega party. Another One (1991, 07.12, ECS Demo). code: Slash, gfx: Facet, Hein Design, music: Rick Hein (NoisePacker 3 format, 76484 bytes). Released at the Prime 91 party. Focused On Art (1992, ECS Fileslideshow). cooperation with Anarchy [details] Vision [new] (VSN, 1995-) ------------------------- NOR> Unmad (10/95). ???> Goblin (nor? modem, 96). Vision is back, this time with its HQ situated in Denmark. It is uncertain whether there are members of the old Vision in this reborn variety. Swedish graphician Loop joined Ram Jam 02/96. Vision Factory [old] (VF, -1990) -------------------------------- GER> Hi-Lite (ex Bubbler/Sanity), Mike (org supply, new 88-04/90). SWE> Rastan (sysop 'GHOST TOWN', 10/90). USA> Zodiac (supply sysop 'HIGH CRIME' WHQ, 90). ???> Genious, Iron Lord, Kevin (07/89), Superted, TCB (bel? ex Fusion), TSH (07/89), Vip 1313, Zelnik. Boards; FATAL HOSTILITY WHQ? (usa), THE MOTHERBOARD (usa), THE MAZE (ger, 89), SPHERICAL DREAMS (hol). VF was one of the truly legendary cracker groups, but died in october or november of 1990 after losing several important members. In addition to their own releases they also released a few games in cooperation with Bencor Bros. and Cybertech. After they died, they were briefly reborn. 1988 - Their cooperation with The Beyonders was formed in january of 1988. Cracker Saito (ex TRSI) joined Crack Inc. Germans Luke and Chuck joined Paradox late 90. German supercracker and sysop FFC ('CAESAR'S PALACE', ex Tarkus Team) joined Skid Row. The group's original founder Onyx rejoined his old group Red Sector 03/90, and because of this rumours started that VF was dead. These were untrue. Intro (ECS Intro). Code: Illusion, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Intro (1989, ECS Intro). code: Flash/Fraxion, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: No exit under 2.04. Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Flash/Fraxion, gfx: Lorien/Fraxion, music: KEO/Fraxion. Vision Factory [new] (VF, 1991-1992) ------------------------------------ GER> Fred and Goosens (sysops 'MIND BOMB', 10/91), Indiana (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DOOM'), Whitehead (sysop 'BLACK SKYLINE', 10/91). ENG> Dream Warrior (sysop 'BAD DREAMS'). USA> Califboy (sysop 'THE UNDERWORLD', 10/91), Chucky (sysop 'CHILD'S PLAY', 10/91), Oldman (sysop 'THE HOLE', 10/91). ???> Chevy (sysop, 92), Marco Polo (crack). VF was reborn late 1991, and released a couple of cracks in cooperation with The Company, as well as a few of their own, but was declared dead already in 1992. Vision Labs (VLB) ----------------- ???> 07 (org raytrace), DooM (raytrace), Necroscope (raytrace gfx). VLB is a new raytracing group 06/96. Vision One (V1) --------------- GER> Werner (code, 12/90). Vision One was one of Alpha Flight's many subgroups, based in Germany. Werner coded the last version of AFL's diskmag "Cracker Journal", used in issues 23 to 28. Among V1's releases for AFL are "Star Chars" (file), "Schokovectors" (1990, file), "Sinus" (file), "Ball" (file) and "Timmys Rotating Megamaso Trip" (file). Finnish swapper Der HM joined Gate. German coder Satan joined D-Tect 12/90. Vision-X (-1990) ---------------- Vision-X merged with Tornado to form Doom in 1990. Visual Arts ----------- NOR> Speedy (Eivind Vea, swap, 01/90). Visual Arts was born when Electronic Artists changed its name, and were a Norwegian demo group. They later ceased to exist when the entire group fusioned into another Norwegian demo group, No Limits 04/90. This concerns at least Magnum, Outsider, TWY and Wizzkid. Visual Bytes ------------ NOR> Baileys (gfx swap, 11/91), Chip (swap, new 11/91), Justin Case (org, later Session, 11/91), Nighthawk (music swap, new 11/91). ???> Icehawk (gfx swap, new 11/91), Zynchro (code, new 11/91), X-Ion (code, 11/91). Visual Bytes was a Norwegian demo group. 1992 - Norwegian swapper Lonerider joined Pure Metal Coders around january. Norwegian swapper Darkwalker (92) joined Pure Metal Coders. John Doe and Spooky got kicked (11/91). Finnish musician and swapper Saracen (new 11/91) joined Damage Inc.  Intro (1991, 06.11, ECS Intro). code: X-Ion, gfx: Baileys, music: Saracen. review: This intro, simple as it is, is quite OK. It's got a sort of C64 feel to it, what with the logo and the type of design. It's just a large logo with a 3D starfield behind it, and a scroller towards the bottom. The different sections are divided by color-scroll lines. I like it! Made to announce some new members. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Visual Imp. ----------- Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Vivid ----- HOL> Hein (music, late95). Vixen (-1992) ------------- DEN> Ash (ex Success), Bird, Declan (swap pack, old handle Savage, 08/92), Dr.Poison (Jan Jorgensen, swap), Kefner (code, 08/92), Mogwie, Sonet (music, 08/92), Tom, Trap, T.U.S.C (music, ex Crionics, new early92- 08/92), V.S.S. (mainorg music, old handle Vivaldi, 08/92), Zeus (code, later Kefrens), Wiz (code, 08/92). ???> Sonet (music, ex Budbrain, new 09-12/92). Vixen were an exlusively Danish demo group. When they died in mid 1992, the group Oblivion was born out of its ashes, with a.o. coder Boogeyman (ex Falcons) joining the new group. Danes Poseidon and Apollon left. Danes Drain (gfx, old handle Photon) and Razta (code) joined Orient in 92, it's uncertain whether the Deliverance packmenu was coded before or after they left the group. Christmas Intro (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, BoogeySon (1992). Production: Boogeyman & Sonet/Budbrain. info: Boogeyman's last production for Vixen; his next was "Feel Blue" for Oblivion. Juleglogg (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: T.U.S.C. info: Techno musicdisk. Deliverance Packmenu (1992, late.08, ECS Intro). code: Razta/Orient, gfx: Drain/Orient, music: HiLite/Scoopex. review: Deliverance has a pretty unexciting packmenu, which though fuctional, is still far from state of the art. The bottom part of the screen has a blue/white wavy scroller, while the entire rest of the screen is occupied by a text/demo selector with a Vixen logo as part of the display on the left side. The entire thing is done in shades of blue and grey. The pack editor is Declan. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Vodka ----- Cocoon, Maxx, Powl, Toaster, Risc and Dr. Avalanche all left to join Bonzai Brothers. Vogue ----- GER> Arcatronic (sysop 'SPAGETTHI HOUSE', 09/91), Bazifus (ex Scarlet, new mid91), Freddy (sysop 'SECRET CASTLE', 09/91), Melodic Drama (trade, ex Countach), Mufti, Norman Bates (gfx trade, ex Countach), TCM (trade, 01/91). SWE> Dr.Satan (ex Pussy). USA> Dreamer (sysop, ex D-Mob, new mid91), Markwood (sysop 'MIDDLE EARTH'), Opus (sysop 'FLIGHT OF ICARUS'). ???> Black Ghost (ex The Company, new mid91). Vogue was formed by a.o. all members of Countach, and is based out of Germany. 1991 - The Swedish section of Jetset joined around the middle of this year. DJ Head joined Cult. Swedes Mightymuz (ex Pussy) and Shadow Turtle formed Spirit [new]. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART', 04/92) joined 2000 AD. Voice ----- SWE> Calvin (Martin Eksten, swap), Eckhead (ex Defjam), Rainbow (music, ex Cytax). ???> Guildmaster (sysop, ex Dazzle, new mid 91), Xerxes (swe? Music, 12/92). Voice was formed when the group Tommyknockers changed their name. The active members of Voice joined Addonic, so Voice is dead mid 91. Germans Tab (gfx trade), Giants (trade) and Ray (code) joined Addonic. Core and Crayone joined Noxious. Swedish graphician Tony joined Alcatraz. Swedes Parsec (code), Thunor and Flogger (all ex Cytax) left to join Dual Crew. Void ---- ENG> Dt214 (org music swap, late96), Bucko (swap trade, new late96), F.G.S. (music), Furrball (gfx swap, late96), Griz (org gfx, late96), Jay (org code swap, late96), K!llit (code swap), Snoopy (code, stopswap late96), Urban (gfx music swap, late96). N-L> Rabl (org gfx swap, late96), Scandal (code gfx swap, late96), Styles (music swap, late96). NOR> Hurricane (swap, doublememb Clan [details], late96), Zany (music swap, late96). POL> KK (raytrace, late96), McRubi (swap, late96), Rabi (swap, late96), Raptor (org code swap, late96), State (music, late96). Skinner left. Voltage ------- SWE> Pibben (sysop 'OVERDRIVE' WHQ, 02/96). Vomit ----- Vomit was formed by the three Swedish ex X-Trade members Deelite, Accord and Diesel. After a while, though, the three moved on to form Infinity which then, in effect, just became Vomit with a new name :) World of Confusion (1993, 29.05, Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Beyond Imagination", "Deegroovie", "Loading Sequence" and "Ploughman" by Accord and Deelite. 4th in TCC93 demo competition. Programmerade Buggar (1993, 05.08, Disk). 13th in the ECC93 demo competition. Voodoo Design ------------- ENG> Technix (old handle Mandella, 93). ???> Cybarite (music), TicTac (music). Vortex 42 --------- Swedish coder Antiaction (ex Tetragon) joined Phenomena. Vox Dei (-1992) --------------- SWE> Cocor, Gilius (Micke, swap pack, 01/91), Gyro (Kalle, swap, 01/91), Jammaster (swap, ex X-Trade), Royal (code, 01/91), Shadowfire (music, 01/91-10/92). ???> Adder, Hybris (old handle Spirit), Keeper (gfx, 12/92). Vox Dei is latin, and means the voice (vox) of God (dei). Most members left to form the Swedish division of Awesome (RAW3), including at least Him (code, 10/92). This caused the group to die. Blaze (ex X-Trade, new mid 91) joined Wizzcat. Megademo (1990, 23.01, ECS Megademo). Intro for Demo Pack 2 (1991, 05.01, ECS Intro). code: Royal, gfx: n/a, music: "hip-hop-theme" by Shadowfire. review: This is just an intro for a demopack they did. Nothing cool. There was no graphics credit, and given how it looks I guess that's just as well. They improved, needless to say.  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. TSR Dragonlance Calendar 88 (1992, 17.10, ECS Slideshow). code: Him, gfx: Keeper, music: Shadowfire. Requires KS 2.04. TSR Dragonlance Calendar 91 (1992, late?, ECS Slideshow). code: Him, gfx: Keeper, music: Shadowfire. Requires KS 2.04. Voyagers -------- Nova Inc. and Voyagers fusioned into Nova. Wanted, The ----------- ???> Dream (code, 04/94), Indy (gfx, 04/94), Vizz (music, 04/94). Carved on Chrome (1994, 16.04, ECS File). code: Dream, gfx: Indy, usic: Vizz. Wanted Team (WT, http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html) ----------------------------------------------------- Ward ---- SWE> Flubba (Fredrik Olsson, code, 08/97), Lycaon (09/96), Orchis (sysop 'WARE HOUSE', 09/96). ???> Guru (08/97), Tesla (08/97), Ash (08/97), Axe (08/97), xTs (08/97), Classe (08/97), CaB (08/97), Racoon (08/97). Ward is a demo group based in Sweden. Flubba is the author of the superior NES emulator CoolNESs, check it out! Once Upon A Time (1996, 05.04, Demo). 6th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Black Hair Tongue Disease (Demo). Warfalcons, The (TWF) --------------------- DEN> Diskrunner (Chr. Andersen, swap, ex Quicksilver, new mid90-late90), Einstein (Poul P. Hestbek, music). ITA> Xad (sysop, late90). ???> Damage (ex Supreme, new 90). Swedish Nick (ex Mute 101, new late 90) joined Cascade. Cat, Dave (swe? ex Supreme, new 90) and Swedish musician Mantronix joined Razor 1911 old. However, some intelligence tells me that Mantronix probably stopped by Fairlight on his way to Razor, and that this happened late 1990. This left the Swedish section of TWF nearly dead. Purple (pre 1990, .11, ECS Demo). Warp Inc. (-1992) ----------------- FIN> Gamma, Witchdog. ???> Prestige. Warp Inc. is dead, and most members left the scene (late 92). Sledge Hammer left. Wartec ------ FIN> Brandy (93), Focus (93), Loom (93), Painmaster (93), Royal '69 (Marko Hämäläinen, org swap, 93), Tim (93). Legendary C64 group reborn by Royal'69/Chrome. Have released a few intros. Weird ----- Swedish coder Legionairy joined Depth early 97. Weird Design ------------ SWE> Deadly Angel (sysop 'SPEEDHUNTERS' WHQ), Zanok (sysop '7TH HEAVEN'). Whale (WL!, 1995-) ------------------ NOR> Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', memb of Insane, TRSI and Craze, 02/96). GER> Lord Chaos (ascii, doublememb Shoot, 08-09/95) AUS> Acid Kid (Andrew, ascii signature adk!, doublememb Shoot, 08-09/95). ???> Countzero (ascii signature c0!, 08/95), Dartagnan (aus? Ross, ascii signature dtn, 08/95), Manta (ascii signature mNt, 08/95), Skize (ascii, 08/95), Tango (ascii, 08/95), U-Man (nor? ascii signature uMn, doublememb Crux, 08/95-02/96). Whale is an ascii group, formed by Countzero and U-Man in 1995. 1995 - Australian sysop and ascii'er Acid Kid joined around early august as a doublemember from Shoot, and released his first colly for Whale, "Once In A Life Time" on the 2nd of september (it was originally supposed to come out o the 26th of august - incidentally also his birthday =). His second collection for Whale, "Red Beans And Rice" [09/95] was released on the 23rd of september, and inside he announced he had in the meantime closed his board 'SCREAMING METAL' for good =( He did vow to stay in the ascii scene, and was not leaving either Whale nor Shoot. White Label ----------- Dutch coder Dope joined Lemon. Wilders, The ------------ Not much is known of The Wilders, except for their triumph in the very first WiLD demo competition, at The Party 94. Wild Demo (1994, 28.12, Wild demo). Winner of The Party 94 wild demo competition! info: Presented on an A4000. Wildfire -------- Rackler (ex Dromex), Twilight and Doc. Holiday joined Absolute. M.I.C. and Snuggles will leave the Amiga scene in favour of the PC. Their new group there will be Crionics-Crew (early93). Crusader-X/Backdraft joined, but was kicked with a few weeks. He then joined Dynamix (early93). Seven Awards (ECS File). Easter Demo (1992, 28.04, ECS Demo). 3rd in the TRSI Eastern Party demo competition. Willow (-1992/early 93). ------------------------ FIN> Yoda (ex Submission). Willow seems to have been a demo group based in France. 1992 - French swapper Mental joined from Anarchy around october, but later returned to the group. Willow is dead. Bross (92) joined TSB. Xann and Name joined The Silents. Bigm and STC (fra) joined Hemoroids. Latyl and Gebe left to form a new group called Puma. Later, RAW #5 claimed that 'Brass' joined Dual Crew. Could this perhaps refer to Bross? Mr.Vain joined Iris. Shed joined The Dark Demon. Hexa (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). Released at the Iris New Year Conference. Wipe vs Zif Experience (WZE) ---------------------------- The Law (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). Production: Wipe, Zif, Virgill. 15th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: "The Law" came as a positive surprise, given how long down the list it finished at TP. I wasn't expecting much of anything, but got an above average, technically interesting little intro. It even contained an effect I haven't seen before; a phongshaded voxel! Other cool effects included a shaded plane flying around. If these guys get a genuine graphician aboard (to create some actual palettes for them!) they could very well be headed for bigger things. Not bad at all. The intro opens with a quote from Aleister Crowley, and continues with a shaded pentagram. These guys obviously do not go to sunday mass a lot. Clearly intended for a faster processor than mine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Wizzcat (http://www.wizzcat.de/) -------------------------------- FIN> Amigaman (code train), Beathawk (music, 12/93), Catman (trade, ex Mr.Big/Doom, new 07/91), Crux (06/90), Darkie (93), Dreamer (code, 90), DTW (01/90), Florist (music, mid91), Hazy Mind (code, mid91-93), Sniker (swap sysop '2 THE COMA', 93-04/95). GER> Jedi (sysop 'THE PALACE'), Lowkick (Patrick Feiten, swap, ex Amnesia), The Prophet (Jens Georg, code, re Digital, old handle Chip-Ram, new late94, 03-05/93), Rahiem (ex Amnesia), Rease (code, ex Amnesia, 03/93), Scottie (ex Amnesia), Tim (ex Amnesia). NOR> Skywalker (gfx, 90), Wizzkid (sysop 'INSTANT DELIVERY'). SWE> Blaze (swap, ex Vox Dei), Musse, Payday (ex Dazzle, new mid 91), TJR (stopswap, 07/90-late91). ENG> Nexus (org, ex Genestealers, new 06/91), Radix, Ultimate Warrior. ???> Alex, Cocatrice (gfx), Courage (ex Desire), Death Warrior (sysop 'THE FUTURE'), Eddie, Exorcist, Iffy, Jaffo (gfx, 04/91), Leebold (old handle Violator), Mr.Lightfoot (swap, new UPS8), Mr.Zerotrack (gfx), NoiseReduction (nor? music, 90), Problem (gfx, 08/93), Rainbow (gfx, mid91), Rebounder, Rockford, Xenon (nor? code, 90). Boards; CAT'S EYE (swe), THE BLACK HOLE (ex Axe). Chip-Ram left to join Digital, but later rejoined. He changed his handle to The Prophet and decided to help rebuild Wizzcat to its former glory! 1991 - The entire english group Genestealers joined late june, and formed a new english section, run by Red Devil and Nexus! Norwegians Mr.Nobody and Floppy (code, 04/91) joined Cinefex Design at the Razor 1911 and Imp-666 Amiga Conference in september. Zneiper and Eddiksen joined Motion. White Hot and Savage joined Network. Finnish trader Guido joined Shining 8. Raze, sysop 'LIGHTLINE' joined Skid Row. English graphician and organizer Red Devil (92) joined Dual Crew. Finnish coder Felix was killed in an accident. Norwegian graphician Mindblaster (90) joined Vision. Norwegian musician Vegard (ex Amnesia, old handle Symph O'Nee, 03-05/93) left to join Scoopex. Finnish graphician Pixie (mid91-03/93) joined Celtic. Perverse Slides II (1990, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Dreamer, Xenon (intro), gfx: Skywalker, Mindblaster, music: NoiseReduction. review: A perfectly accurate title for this slideshow of cartoon-like pictures. They range from hilarious to the absolutely tasteless. I guess your enjoyment of this disk will depend entirely on your sense of humour. There's also an intro, accessed by pressing the left mouse button during boot, which didn't work on my machine. Fun, but limited fun. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Trashcan (1990/91?, ECS Disk). code: Amigaman, Dreamer, Felix, gfx: Mr. Zerotrack, Problem, Cocatrice, music: n/a. Instant Delivery BBS Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). code: Floppy, gfx: Jaffo, music: Dr. Awesome/Crusaders. Released at the Anarchy Eastern Party 1991. Cooperation with Crusaders. Demo (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Hazy Mind, gfx: Pixie, Rainbow, music: Florist. Released at Society Summer Party 91. New Members (1992, ECS Intro). code: Hazy Mind, gfx: Pixie, usic: Dr. Awesome/Crusaders. Intro (1992, 25.07, ECS Intro). 2nd in the Assembly 92 intro competition. Kerygma (1993, 27.03, ECS File). code: Chip-Ram, Rease, gfx: Pixie, Red Devil/Dual Crew, music: Symph O'Nee. Released at CeBIT 93. Grill-Tro (1993, 08.05, ECS Intro). code: Chip-Ram, gfx: Red Devil/Dual Crew, music: Symph O' Nee. World Fantasies --------------- Mysterious (1996, 23.06). Released at the Polish Summer Party 96. World Federation of Mad Hackers (WFMH) -------------------------------------- Silicon Gfx 2 (1995, 30.08, Demo). 4th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. World Industries ---------------- FIN> Blowman (sysop 'LIGHTHOUSE'), DJ Zak (swap), Jam (org). ???> Cloudy (ex Talent). Boards; KLONDYKE (fin), FATAL BEAUTY (fin). The sysop information for 'LIGHT HOUSE' came from a BBS ad without specific group support. I just searched the entire Scenery, and found the BBS here, so I assumed the sysop hadn't changed :) The ad file was dated 26-sep-93. The Finnish group Decnite was formed by ex members of this group. World of Twist (WOT) -------------------- BEL> Sintax (code keyfilemakers sysop 'SIN CITY', 04/95). World of Wonders (WOW) ---------------------- GER> Aha, Backfire, Deathmaster, Crazy Willy, Derek, FGTH, Godfather, Guardian, Mr.Unique, Paroxysme. ???> Balthazar, BFBS, Mafia Joe, Matrix 3, Mixoplex, Oli (12/88), Terramax. WOW were another early illegal group. When they died, the legendary Paranoimia was built on the ashes. Among the ones who went along to Paranoimia were Kontrasoft, Metallica, Hellion and Corsair. The numbers for the WOW HQ BBS (718-234-3659/259-9661) are identical to the numbers for the FBI BBS in Paranoimia. 1988 - Oli was caught for phreaking in december. Representatives for MCI called his parents. Wraith ------ Mandrake joined Argon mid 91. Wrath Designs (WD, 1994-, http://www.wrathdesigns.net) ------------------------------------------------------ SWE> Blackdroid (Khaled Daham, gfx, 12/94-), Crilla (code, 12/96), Dep (code, earlier dFX, 08/96), Elixir (music, dFX, 08/96), Kama (gfx, ex X-Trade), Neuro (gfx, 08/96), Odie (music, ex X-Trade, 06/96), Wolf (gfx, ex X-Trade, 08/96), Zealot (12/94-). Wrath Designs was a swedish demo group, formed late 1994 by Blackdroid and Zealot from the c64 section of the group. Their first release on the amiga were two pictures for the graphics competition at The Party in december 94. WD has never been dead, and still a 'sleeping' group on the amiga platform. Thanks to Blackdroid for information! 1995 - Swedes Odie (music), Wolf (gfx) and Kama (gfx) all joined for X- Trade, probably as early as january this year. 1996 - Elixir (music), Dep (code) and Neuro (gfx) from dFX were all recruited this year, ending the existance of that group. After the release of the excellent demo "Gyrate" [08/96] at Assembly 96, Elixir and Dep moved on to join Stellar. Swedish coder Crilla joined just after Assembly. Gyrate (1996, 18.08, AGA 4MB File). code: Dep, gfx: Wolf, Neuron, music: Elixir (The Player 6.1A format). 11th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Now, this ain't half bad! It's a little different in the sense of the way things are designed, which I suppose is what made it end up as low as it did in the competition. This is clearly a better production than its ranking would suggest! All routines are good and fast, and they all look good. As mentioned earlier, the design is unorthodox, and this gives the demo a very special 'feel'. It's hard to describe, but it's a good one :) Graphics by Neuron and Wolf contribute a lot to the feel of the demo, and it's clear that they both contributed to the look and feel of the finished product. However, the picture of the girl in the white top by Wolf carries the text 'Wolf 96', which is totally wrong. Ok, so the picture's been given a new frame, but he still competed with it at The Party 94, where it was called "Light"... There's not enough memory to run this demo on my system with just 4mb of fast, but this is probably because I use 512k of the mem to map ROM to fastmem for a speed increase. Vanilla 4mb systems should work. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. TraceTro.4k (1996, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Crilla, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 4th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. Wunderbaum ---------- Kanda Bong Man (1996, 17.08, 64k Intro). 4th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition. X - NOR> Numen (ex Giants, new 06/96), Speed Devil (ex Giants, new 06/96). Xentrix ------- HOL> S.A.M. ???> Amethist, Bytetwister (ex Terminators [no entry]), Haywie, Matscho (ex Savage, new late90), TDD & THW. Xentrix was formed by Deelite and some friends. Ace was kicked. Coroner joined Compact. Magix (ex Unit 4) joined Cyanide. Deelite (ex Nova), Phantom and Vain joined Triad. Xerox (-1992) ------------- AUT> Coon-O (swap). Boards; INFECTIOUS GROOVES (ger, 10/91). Xerox died in early to mid 1992. X-Beat ------ Blob (new 88) joined Phalanx 01/89. X-Factor -------- FIN> Madman (sysop 'BLUE WING' nightboard, 11/91). XFactor (-1979) --------------- Duck-Hunter and Lobo joined Instinct late 97. The group is dead. X-Tasy ------ GER> Death Angel (ex Amaze, new pre 07/92). Death Angel was editor of a diskmag in Amaze, which was closed down when he made the move. I do not know what his function is in X-Tasy, though. X-Tension --------- ???> Ace (code swap sysop), Kovy (coorg music swap), Lupi (code music), Pancur (gfx), Pid (gfx swap). X-Trade ------- SWE> Adder (Stefan Hansson, swap, early93), Betty Boy (gfx, old handle Rip, doublememb Depth late96, 05/94-late96), Boozer (sysop 'SHADOW ZONE' WHQ), Bult (gfx, 92), Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG'), Duffy (swap, ex Quartz), Goblin, Kalashnikov (music), Maniac, Mike B (Swap, ex Dazzle), Orgasmatron (sysop 'ANGEL CITY' EHQ/WHQ, ex Shining 8, early93-01/95), Pripps (sysop 'CHANNEL 4', early93), Voco (code, ex Ontarion, new mid 91-92), Warhammer (sysop 'NOTA BENE', doublememb Alpha Flight, 01/95), Wirefire (sysop 'OUTPOST', 01/95). AUS> Blitter (Thomas Fröhlich, code edit 'The Jungle', 12/94-12/96). GER> Andy (sysop 'FASTWAY', early93), Bird (sysop 'METAL DECADE', early93), Friendly (Sönke Petersen, gfx, 12/95-12/96), JJF (sysop 'FUTURE ZONE', early93), Manta (swap), Scuba (gfx swap sysop 'SEX'N CRIME' WHQ, 12/92- early93). FIN> Clombo (sysop 'DETROIT', 93-04/95), Meddler (Antti Suvanto, ex Ahead, 93). N-L> Countach (sysop 'CYBERSPACE', ex Freestyle). ITA> Mad Harlequin (sysop 'HEART OF NOWHERE', early93). USA> The Griffin (sysop 'REDRUM', early93). ???> Christian (code, 05/94), Hellraiser (code, new 94), J.Walker (Thomas Bickel, code, 12/94-12/96), Mastermind (code), McCoy (music), Tomahawk (code), Twystor (code, 12/94). Boards; GROOVUS MAXIMUS (swe). X-Trade were a demo and board-based group, with their headquarters in Sweden. Mad Harlequin's board was the official itialian distribution site of AmiExpress. 1991 - Blaze joined Vox Dei. Zyrax (sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION') joined Dazzle under the handle Scythe. 1994 - Payday (swe swap), Klorathy (code 05/94), TBM (gfx 05/94) and Coolorado left to form Corpse in 94. Trader Cuz left for Cyberdyne. 1995 - Swedes Odie (music, 05/94-), Wolf (gfx, 12/94-) and Kama (gfx, 05/94-) all joined Wrath Designs, likely around january. Please note that this date is approximate. The board 'DISTASTE' was closed in june. Swedish musician Dezecrator joined Chaos A.D., where he was also a sysop. Did he have a board in X-Trade? Swedish swapper Jammaster joined Vox Dei. German swapper Slam (ex Acrid, new early93) joined Essence. Swedish musician Gorgonzola joined Limited Edition. German swapper Lightforce (ex Desert) joined BASF. However, Mirage's "Eternal #2" claims he joined Endless Piracy...I have not been able to confirm him in either place. The 'HORROR ZONE' BBS (usa) was kicked. Swedish sysop Kreator ('A-BASE') joined Devils. Deicide joined Addonic. Swedes Deelite (music, ex Enigma), Accord (Patrick Johansson, music, 91-92) and Diesel got tired of the bad organizing and formed their own group, Vomit. Nowadays, Deelite and Diesel are in Razor 1911, and Accord has left the scene. Digital Orgasm (1992, ECS File). code: Voco, gfx: Bult, music: "->Digital-Orgasm<-" by Accord. Color Crime (1992, ECS Slideshow). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Accord and Deelite. Embrolic Coding (1992, 29.Jun). 8th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. Among the Living (1994, 20.05, AGA? File). code: Klorathy, Christian, gfx: TBM, Lbt, Kama, Rip, music: Odie. The Jungle #7 (1994, 28.12, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Twystor, gfx: Friendly/Static Bytes, Twystor, music: Odie. MAG - code: J.Walker, gfx: Friendly/Static Bytes, music: "Chromag-non" by Chromag/Polka Brothers, editor: Blitter. Released at The Party 4. review: If I was astounded by the lack of change from issue 8 to issue 9, I'm AMAZED by the fact that this issue is - you guessed it - graphically identical to the two next issues! The intro picture (a dragon this time) seems to be only thing that's different... Contentwise, I found this issue to be a bit more SCENE than the next two, with a real news section and other related articles. Some interesting stuff here, especially I would imagine, if you're a coder! The whole thing seems a little 'thin' though, and you read through it in a jiffy. There is one quite serious bug, though: It doesn't make a sound! On my machine, it seems unable to play a single note... The intro is really worth a mention. It doesn't require AGA, but seems to benefit from extra machine power. What it is, essentially, is a series of graphics twirl effects, with an upscroller overlaid. There are some great effects here, and the intro doesn't occupy more than 64k! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. The Jungle #8 (1995, 28.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: J.Walker, gfx: Friendly, music: Dizzy/CNCD, editor: Blitter. Released at The Party 5. review: When reading this review, remember that I read this issue immediately AFTER reading #9 :) What strikes me the most is the fact that these two issues - though separated by a full year - are graphically 100% the same. No new panel, no new code. What's changed is a different intro picture, and some different background tiles. Still, I found this issue to be better, actually. Having read both of them, I feel like maybe Blitter wasn't in as much contact with the scene during 1996 as he was in 1995. Either way, I find the articles in this issue a lot more interesting to read. Quality is excellent, so there's not much else to say. You know what you're getting! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. PsyLOVEcicle (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). 6th in The Party 6 40k intro competition. The Jungle #9 (1996, 28.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: J.Walker, Blitter, gfx: Friendly, usic: Marc/Syndrome. MAG - code: J.Walker, gfx: Wolf (title), Friendly, music: Marc/Syndrome, editor: Blitter. Released at The Party 6. review: Having just read the entire TJ9, from beginning to end, I have a few observations to share. TJ seems like the minimalist's approach to a diskmag; not much flashy stuff, but what's there works well. Graphically it looks a little like Upstream, with its tiled background. The multi- tasking code should be optimized, I think - it's slightly unresponsive, even on the 030. Marc's mag tune deserves special mention, as it's one of the best guitar tunes I've heard in a long while. Really realistic sound! Article design in TJ is nice, with good contrast between letters and the background. The TJ homepage is announced, at http://pc23-c801.uibk.ac.at/ ~blitter/welcome.htm. Contentwise, what strikes me is that there's not a lot of articles about the scene as such here, are there? Many of the articles are more or less totally scene-unrelated, and the ones that are seem to launch into endless dialogues with themselves over seemingly trivial issues. There's no traditional demo reviews, 'making of' articles, interviews... not even real news! In one way, this is good, since it means The Jungle has a distinct style of its own. Ofcourse, you can't do anything but respect Blitter for trying to be different in a diskmag scene that's all too often stagnant! Because TJ is released as seldomly as it is (once a year), you can forgive Blitter for not concentrating on things like news. After all, there are enough magazines out there to deal with things like that. TJ seems to concentrate more on the philosophy of the scene than on hard facts. Originality is its strength! Don't change a thing, Blitter. It's highly doubtful if Wolf was still a member when this mag was released; he was a member of Wrath Designs at Assembly 96, and worked on their demo "Gyrate" [08/96]... [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Trek (X!) ----------- GER> Digiman (sysop 'ACID SLAM' EHQ, 01/99). DEN> Zinko (sysop 'THE NORTHERN PALACE WHQ, 01/99). ???> 4Play (01/99), Case (01/99), Franky (01/99), Gremlin (01/99), La Shawn (01/99), Lucky (01/99), Nighthawk (01/99), pSB (crack, 01/99), Quazar (01/99), Saint (01/99), Shadow (01/99), Style (01/99), Thaler (01/99), The Dentist (01/99), The Mixer (01/99), Tifos (01/99), Tryac (01/99), Zoltrix (01/99). Boards; FINE LINE (eng, 01/99), EVIL EMPIRE (swi, 01/99), SOUTH CENTRAL (swe, 01/99), KINGS CROWN (ger, 01/99), NIGHTLINE (nor, 01/99), THE SNAKEPIT (ftp, 01/99). The group's homepage, http://x-trek.home.ml.org, seems to have disappeared from the web. Xymax Project ------------- Wind It Up (ECS 1MBCHIP, Demo). X-Zone (XZN, 1995-) ------------------- ITA> Aceman (code, new late95-early96), Corrosion (music, 12/96), Lanch (founder gfx, ex Ozon, later Darkage, 12/96), Washburn (code, 12/96), Zibi (founder music, early96). SWE> Cindy (Martin Fredriksson, /Xcode, 11/96), Horatiuz (Tobias Gustaffson, 11/96). ???> Red Storm (music, new early96). X-Zone was the new name given to the Italian group Ozon in late 95. Italian coder and main organizer Modem (12/96) joined Ram Jam. He was one of the original founders of X-Zone. Italian musician Lord was kicked due to inactivity Over (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Modem, Washburn, gfx: Lanch, music: Corrosion. Released for The Party 96 40k intro competition, unplaced. review: Perhaps a little too short, this is nevertheless an ok 40k'er. Corrosion's techno-flavoured music creeps under your skin, and the use of bumpmapping is unusual - originality is always a plus! They could have used some less extreme colours though, especially for the bumpmap and the envmap routine - there is simply too much contrast for it to look nice. Two effects is not enough for a 40k intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Yela ---- ???> Cocke (gfx, 12/92), Fungus (code, 12/92). Swedish swapper Pace joined Infect. The Moshintro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Fungus, gfx: Cocke, music: Virus/Legend. 16th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Yodel (http://www.yodel.net/) ----------------------------- SWE> Bionic (sysop 'EDGE OF SANITY', 01/95). Birdie joined Alcatraz. Elusive (new late 94) left to join Giants. 57k Intro (Intro). Yodel Intro (1993, 05.08, Intro). Winner of the ECC93 intro competition! Oberon (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 7th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Zabora ------ ZaborUTH (1996, .04, Demo). Released at Misc 96. Zapp, The [new] (1991-) ----------------------- ???> Biboy, Ics, Kojro, Ron, Teo. Zapp was a Norwegian demo group, reborn with Teo, Kojro, Ics, Biboy and Ron on amiga and c64. Zapp was the group where many of Cryptoburners' members came from. Z-Dream ------- GER> Drum Master (gfx, 12/90), Tyrant (swap, late90). Z-Dream was another in the long line of Alpha Flight subgroups, and came under AFL's wings around the end of 1990. Zekt ---- DEN> Joshua (sysop 'CONSCIOUS DREAM', triplememb Superiors and Prodigy). Zenith (ZNT, 1989-) ------------------- SWI> Anome 68000 (founder org, 89-03/93), Antifast (Roman, swap, ex Coma, new late91-03/93), Black Arrow (mainorg, 91), Doc PSI (Pascal Schmidt, code, late91-03/93), Dr.Jones (code, 91), Dr.Slaine (code, stopswap, 91), Fox (gfx, ex Legend, new early93-03/93), Funschis (code music, 91-03/93), Hardrider (sysop 'THE ELECTRIC CO', late91-03/93), Hawkmoon (code, 91), Hip (sysop 'DAMNED CITADEL' WHQ, late91-03/93), Maverick (swap, 91), Nicolas (code, 91), Phoenix (gfx, 91), Samir (mainorg code crack, 91-94), Sledge (ex Vega), The Tramp (org, 91), The Warlord Karlow (gfx, 91). FRA> Aldo Reset (code, 91), Beggar (gfx, 91), Belzebuth (code, 91-12/92), Evil Spirit (trade), Raspoutin (ex The Silents), Safy, Tax, Tibo (Thibault Gueneau, code, 08/92-03/93). SWE> Colle (code, 91), Mr.Guru (swap, 91), Water Ghost (sysop, 91). ITA> Bitjoker (Claudio Noventa, code gfx, ex Vega), DJ Mad (ex Vega). GER> 2pac (music), Alex (sysop 'BASE LINE', ex Sanity), Lord Incognito, Monster (Michael Nothdurft, org, 03/93), Nox (gfx music, ex Paradise), Ronny (sysop 'FATAL ILLUSION', ex Addonic, new early93-03/93). FIN> Compost (swap, old handle Hitler, 03/93), Vital (new late92). NOR> Crusifix (Kim Andre Kværnes, swap), Inzane (ex Megastyle, new late91), Loy (code, new late91). USA> Death (sysop 'SATAN'S PLACE', re-Bloodsuckers, 03/93), Ghostrider (ex Legend), Rotor (sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD' WHQ, 04/94). ???> Axel (trade, new early93), Bomber Man & Willy (supply), Deathbringer (ex Fairlight), Error (gfx swap, new early93), Fighter (ex Grace), Iron Cat (music, 12/92), Polaris (ex Razor 1911, new early93), Quasar (sysop 'EXTASY WORLD', ex Skid Row, new early93-03/93), Striker (trade, new early93). Boards; SYNTHETIC DREAMS WHQ (usa), ALTERED REALITY (usa), THE NOTICE (usa), HALLOWED POINT (swi), ASYLUM (ita), CHATEAU AMIE (eng), THE BEACH (swe, late91), BIG BANG (swe), EXTASY WORLD (+34), PANIC ZONE (usa), HANG LOOSE (fra, 03/93), LOS ENDOS (ger, 03/93). Zenith was formed in the beginning of 1989 by Anome 68000 a few weeks after the death of Ackerlight. Early Zenith was almost identical to the Swiss section of Ackerlight :) One early leader was Black Arrow (91); Samir took over world leadership RAW5. It's uncertain from WHO, though. Their second swiss board 'DAMNED CITADEL' was opened late 91. Inzane's norwegian board 'SUDDEN IMPACT' was busted in the big norwegian borad bust of 1992. 'DAMNED CITADEL' originally had Neptun as a sysop, and later the sysop was called 'Hip'. I don't know if Neptun changed handle or left the board to someone else. 1992 - Finnish Blink/Electron joined with some others to form a finnish division, but he left later in the year. Tonec joined Deadline. French musician Bluesilence joined Devils. Italians Filippetto (code music, ex Vega, 12/92) and Case (music sysop 'THE NETWORK', both 03/93) both left to join The Silents. This probably meant the end of Filippetto's diskmag 'Freedom Crack', which he brought with him from Vega. Italian swapper Virus (ex Grace, new early 93) joined Arise late 93. However, rumours also says he joined Surprise! Productions. Cortez left early 93. Swiss coder Stef (ex Grace, 12/92) joined The Silents early 93. Rasterblaster (ex Grace), Leon and Todd1 (all new late92) were kicked early 93. American sysop Soultaker ('BEYOND DEATH') joined early 93 from Skid Row, but had to close his board after two weeks because of personal problems! Norwegian Morty joined Legend. Pegasus (ex Grace) joined Ministry. Towel changed his handle to Colonel and joined Deadline. Finnish swapper Zon (ex Altair) joined Spectral 08/92. Rash/Optimal joined, but soon left for Crystal. In Crystal he served as sysop of 'DARK TOWER' BBS. The Finnish and Swedish divisions were kicked. The only remaining non-swiss member is now Hitler in Finland. Swiss sysops Imperator ('EMPIRE', late91) and Tomcat ('TOTAL RECALL', late91) were both kicked. Swiss swapper Prot Killer stopped all activity late 91. Just For Your Ears (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Funschis, Maniac. Cooperation with Brain Wave. Swaptro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Stef, gfx: Fighter, music: Funschis. Zentro (1992?, ECS File). code: Belzebuth, Samir, gfx: Phoenix, Zendo, music: Funschis. Freedom Crack #10 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag). Zentro 4 (1992, 27.12, ECS File). code: Stef, Belzebuth, Samir, gfx: Fox/someothergroup :), Flash Fox, music: Filippetto. Released at The Party 92. Freedom Crack #11 (1993, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Tibo, gfx: Fox, music: "Smaugroove" by Case. MAG - code: Samir, Teo/independent, Filippetto (additional), gfx: Magic/independent, Blacky/Independent, Fox (loadpic), music: "Freedom" by Funschis, "Medley" by Case, "30November" Filippetto, editor: Filippetto. review: This issue of FC is audio-visually very good, with top-notch but minimalist input in both code, graphics and music departments. Where it fails, though, is on the editorial side of things. It looks great, but there just isn't a lot of interesting stuff to read, I'm afraid. The code has been heavily improved before the release of this issue, they inform us, and we can't but agree. The last issue I saw of FC was #8 (in Vega), and this one's certainly a lot better than that. It's stable, for one thing :) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Zenon (http://tlti.tokem.fi/~ttohe/zenon.html) ---------------------------------------------- FIN> Broom (gfx music, 09/00), Buzzer (Mikko Hyyti, music, 94-09/00), Dominator (sysop 'GRAVEYARD' WHQ, 09/00), Khaos (code, 09/00), Loop (ascii, 09/00), Mare (Markku Luukkainen, code, 12/96-09/00), Mice (music, 09/00), Nemesis (Ari Luukonen, gfx trade, 06/97-09/00), Randy (gfx, 09/00), Tohe (Tapio Koivuniemi, code gfx, 93-09/00), Woodpecker (gfx, 09/00). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - FIN> Dr.Chain (93), Duq (Kim ukero, 94), Godfather (93), Mr.Zak (93), Zool N'Cool. Zenon is an entirely finnish demo group. 1993 - Finnish musician Deadbeat joined Bronx. 2000 - Chronic first changed his name to Frank Black, then again to Khaos in august. Shortly after, he released his first intro. Nona (1996, .08, Intro). 10th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. X-Mas Goo-Goo II (1996, .12, ECS Musicfile). code: Mare, gfx: Tohe, music: Buzzer. review: A chippack that requires 3mb of memory and recommends a 030-50? I thought they were kidding, but apparently they weren't. Anyway, some of the chippies are OK, so I advise them to loose the coder and painter and get Buzzer some better people to work with. 030 for a chipper? Jeez... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Broken Promises (1997, 07.06, AGA 8MB Multifile). code: Mare, gfx: Tohe, music: Buzzer. Winner of the Abduction 97 demo competition! review: Zenon, with all due respect, I'm sure this is cutting edge 3D and everything, but how about something a little more exciting? Something with a little more tempo, something with a little originality? You see, BP fails to excite me. I'm sitting there watching your demo, and I'm not feeling the adrenaling rush I got watching Artwork's "Phi" just 10 minutes ago. You know? That genuine demo enthusiasm kind of feeling; saying to yourself 'damn, this is GOOD.' I can see Mare's competence as a coder, but please - that bumpmap routine was just plain ugly! I'm not condemning you here, just trying to convey my feelings. Keep making demos, Zenon, you're on the right track...you're just not quite there yet. Broken Promises is a RISKY name to choose for your demo! As anyone who knows a little demo mythology will tell you, "Broken Promises" was to be the Sanity demo to end all demos, but in the end proved to be nothing more than an airship: a rumour filled with nothing. For a while though (and this was at the hight of Chaos' popularity) everyone was waiting for "Broken Promises" - the demo to end all demos. This sort of reminds me of the "Enigma 2" fake by Anal Intruders at The Gathering 94 :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Zero Defects (http://zerodefects.babylonet.com) ----------------------------------------------- ITA> Cap. Zoc (gfx, late90), Doctor Sam (trade sysop 'EXTREMA', late90- early96), Irax (Christian, swap), Marco (gfx, late90), Reflex (code swap, late90), Paranoid (code, late90), Terminator (code, late90), Xenio (code, late90). ENG> Ye Olde Wizard (Stephen John Pain, music, ex Phaze 101). Boards; BRAINCELLS (ita, late90), BROTHERHOOD (ita, late90). Zero Defects was an Italian group, and was the best group in Italy 1990-91. They also had divisions in at least England. In time, the group died, as many members went off to make games. Maltese coder Paranoid (ex Phaze 101) left the scene, and Pseudonym also left. Italian coder Darkman joined Ram Jam. Graphician The Punisher (late90) left the scene, only to return some time later as Dr.Kaya of Nerve Axis. Is It Possible To... (1990 late, ECS Demo). Zeus ---- SWI> Dr.O (ex The Perfects), Israel (ex The Perfects), Rotter (ex The Perfects), Sledge (ex The Perfects). Zeus were a swiss demo group. 1991 - Zendo joined Equinox mid 91. The Ace and Starwars was kicked, and Risk joined Addonic late 91. Zite ---- N-L> Death Angel (Marc Nijeboer, swap). Commercial Breakdown (1992/93?, ECS Intro). code: Vektor, gfx: Cardiac, Xenobit, music: MLB. Blue Powder Pack Intro (1993, early,ECS Intro). code: The Eye, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Zodiac ------ When Zodiac died, its members joined Majic 12 and Vixen. Zombie Boys (-1990). -------------------- TUR> Rattlehead (swap, late90). Zombie Boys died when the group changed their name to Bronx 12/90 or 01/91. At least Turrbo was carried over to the new group. Norwegians Intec, Zapotek and Funky Guru joined Gate. ZoMo ---- ???> LDA (pol? code, 11/96). noname (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: LDA, gfx: none, music: none. Released for the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Just a spinning 'ZOMO' logo in afterburned linevector. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Zone 7 ------ The Norwegian division is dead. Voodoo joined Byte Busters mid 91. Norwegian coder Black Panther joined Flash Productions. Zylon (1990-) ------------- GER> Animal (sysop 'TRICK OR TREAT', 09/91), Boogieman (sysop 'MIGHT & MAGIC', 09/91), Chin (stopswap write, 12/90), GGT (gfx, new late90- 12/90), Mainframe (09/91), Milkracer (code train, ex Decade, new 01/92), Terranova (09/91), Tron (sysop 'MUSCLE BEACH', 09/91), Vitex (sysop 'THE FOREST', new 09/91). ICE> Dr.No (swap, 10/90). ???> Catweazle (ex Poisen, new mid91), Der Stürmer (modem, new mid91), Emax (ex Poisen, new mid91), Ozzy (modem, new mid91), The Avatar (music swap, 12/90), Toxic (ex Poisen, new mid91), Vindex (modem, ex Awesome, new mid91). Zylon was one of Alpha Flight's subgroups, formed in february 1990, before the entire group decided to liberate itself from AFL, and exist in their own right. They never made much of themselves on their own, though. They were probably German based. Avatar did music for the Sanity demo "Dee Groove" [12/90]. They were still a subgroup at the time. American board 'BELLY OF THE BEAST' was busted 09/91! Some members joined Legend, but they're NOT dead (mid 91). Vector Tunnel (ECS File). Zymosis (ZMO) ------------- FIN> Blank (09/95), Walkduck (09/95), Wc (sysop 'JUJU' WHQ, 09/95), Yelm (09/95). Wc Goes To Wc (1995, 12.08, Demo). 9th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.