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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 (Řystein 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 (Sřren 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb 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 (Řystein Hansen, music, ex Giants, new early96-08/97), Haze (Geir Torvaldsen, swap trade, old handle Purple Haze, new late97-08/97), Hellrazor (Roger Brattĺs, 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 (Torbjřrn 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 (Paweď 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 "Clichčs" [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]! Clichčs (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 Clicčs 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 Clicčs 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. Flřdeskum (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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 (Thřger 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 (Řystein 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/˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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. Sĺ Ung Og Helt Uten Hĺr... (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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 (Jřrn 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 (Gřran 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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 /˝mb chip, ˝mb 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/˝mb chip, ˝mb 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/A