C64 Comic Group (C64CG) ----------------------- The C64CG later became a part of the new group Transcom. Among the people that went on to the new group were Unknow, Slight and Johnny B. Camelot (CML-, 1991-) --------------------- DEN> Biz Kid (Jesper Jørgensen, gfx edit, 09/95-01/96), Cruzer (Martin Kristensen, code, ex Bonzai, 12/91-10/93), Dan Dare (gfx, new 91- 01/92), Duck LaRock (music, 12/91-09/95), Flexi (code, 12/91-01/92), Glasnost (Peter Elbaek Rasmussen, founder code gfx swap, ex Light, 12/91-01/92), Jeff (Soren Lund, code music, doublememb Cyberzound Production, 92), ME (music, 92), Raz (code, 09/95), Rex (founder code, ex Laser, 12/91-01/92), Slammer (Mads Nielsen, code, ex Bonzai, 12/91- 12/94), Spinx (founder code, ex Light, 12/91-01/92), Vic (gfx, 12/91- 01/92), Wave (ex Vision, new 05/93). ???> Black Samurai (gfx, new 05-09/95), Rob (gfx, 08/94). Camelot was born early 1991 by Sphinx, Glasnost and The Guardian from Light, and Rex from Laser. They originally had one swedish member (The Guardian aka TGD), but after a small time were 100% danish, and remained that way as far as I know... Apparently TGD (crack) went to Spain for 1.5 years and remained a sleeping or inactive member. 1993 - Danish Wave joined from Vision in may. Graphician Black Samurai joined from Wrath Designs at the TCC 93 party at the end of may. One Year III (1991, 28.12, Multiload Demo). code: Spinx (part1), Rex (part2, part7), Flexi (part3), Glasnost (part4, part6, part10), Cruzer (part5, part8), Slammer (part9), gfx: Vic, Scooby/Light, Glasnost, Trix, Dan Dare, music: Reyn Ouwehand/independent (part1), JCH/Vibrants (part2, part8), Laxity/Vibrants (part3), Rage/Megastyle (part4), Maduplec/Crest (part5), Duck Larock (part6, part7, part9), Mario "Steel/Padua" Laugell (part10). 2nd in The Party 91 demo competition. info: I am redoing this review, and the updated version will be in the next edition of scenery. For now, we're sorry. Sky High issue #18 (1995, 01.09, Multiload Diskmag, 2 disksides). INT - code: Raz, gfx: Biz Kid, music: JCH (?). MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Lost Lust" by Kristian Røstøen/Blues Muz'/Shape, "Stomping Bass" by TMG/Fatum, "Andagt I Rummet" by Duck LaRock/Camelot, edit: Biz Kid. review: SH is a really nice mag, with an unusual design. It looks a little like a simplified Amiga Workbench 1.3, and works remarkably well, once you figure it out! There is no music while in this, the text choice menu, the music you select (also on this menu) starts once you start reading an article. The article reading part is also good, with a horizontal scrolling textreader with smooth scrolling and two different font sizes. The intro preceding the mag is also nicely different, though they could perhaps have dropped the 'logo' at the top of the screen. All music in the mag is exclusive. Another nice function of this mag is the 'extras' section, which this time features an old intro (by Cheyens), plus the winners of the graphics and music competitions from the recent 4x4 party! The editorial content of the mag is demo oriented, with very little material focusing on the illegal part of the scene. There are the usual news, reviews and interviews, though the mag also tries to be different with some original ideas, like the "Vision" part. Overall, this is a pretty good mag with quite a bit of material to read. Go gettit! :) [glenn] Sky High #20 (1996, 16.01, Multiload Diskmag, 3 disksides). IN1 - code: Nucleus/Tempest, gfx: Vic/Camelot (logo), music: "Time For Sex" by Metal/Vibrants/Camelot/Avantgarde. IN2 - code: Druid/Agony Design/Avantgarde, gfx: Jetan/Agony Design (fonts, logo), music: Drax/Vibrants (note: Done in 1990). MAG - code: Raz, Glasnost (loader, packer), gfx: Electric/Extend (logo), Cupid/Avantgarde (sprite), Biz Kid, music: "Acrobat" by Mitch & Dane/CyberZound Productions, "Mor Lugter" by Jeff/Camelot/CyberZound Productions, "Aqualite" by Fanta/Oxyron/Bass, "Media & Pain" by Cubehead/ex Resource, editor: Biz Kid. review: Camelot have gone nicely overboard with their 20th issue (released on the date of their third anniversary), doing 3 full disksides of magazine! Not one - oh no - but two intros open the mag, which also has a good editorial content. This time they present interviews with some pretty interesting persons frm the scene; people like TTS/Oxyron, Chris Huelsbeck and JCH/Vibrants should be familiar to most of you I guess ;) Coupled with their usual high editorial standard this is another great issue of SH. What more is there to say? Nada. [glenn] Caution [old] ------------- POL> Gelan (Pawel Gilewski, code, 10/94). Gelan coded the utility QuickPacker. Caution [new] (1998-) --------------------- POL> Chash (founder music), Shell (founder code), Signor (founder music). Caution was reformed by Chash, Shell and Signor from Fraction in 1998. Censor Design (CEN, 1989-, http://www.censor.net) ------------------------------------------------- SWE> Adolf (Mirko Jakse, gfx sysop '3RD REICH', new 09/90-early93), Adrian (videoswap, new 11/89-09/90), Bob (Robert Gyorvari, founder code, 10/89-05/93), Codex (code, ex Triad, 10/89-01/90), Contring (founder, 10/89-09/90), CRT (founder, 10/89-09/90), Danko (Tomas Danko Jr., new 09/90-05/93), Dragon (founder gfx, 10/89-05/93), Geggin (code swap ex Mocean, new 12/89-05/91), Guran (founder code, 10/89-05/93), Master Race (swap, ex White Lion/Omega, new 03/91), Methabol (crack, ex Omega, new 03/91), Psycho (Anders Almann, founder code crack sysop 'THE TESTURE', 10/89-early93), Sensei (founder, 10/89-early93), Shark (founder sysop 'ATTRACTION', 10/89-05/91), Slaygon (music, ex Triad, 10/89-09/90), Swallow (founder code, 10/89-05/93), Taito (founder gfx, 10/89-09/90), Tycoon (crack, ex Light, new 05/91). ???> Compus (swap, ex Focus, new early91), Redcuz (crack), Staiger (code, 05/93). Boards; THE MYSTIC CAVERN (usa, 09/90-05/91), TERMINAL OBSESSION (usa, coop NEC+NEI, 05/91), THE GAME ZONE (usa, coop NEC, new 12/89). Censor is a Swedish demo and cracking group, born in 1989 when Euzkera, Bob, Taito, Sensei, Psycho, Contring, Swallow, Guran, Shark, CRT and Dragon all left Triad to form this new group. Soon after, also Squelch, Codex, Slaygon and Darklord also joined from Triad. The group was also active on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) scene. The handle PC Ltd., sometimes used on Censor productions, mean Psycho and CRT. Bob had his animation and paint utility Cenimate Bitmap Editor released commercially thru CP Verlag in 1995. 1989 - After their successful forming, Golem left for a career in Byterapers on the Amiga late in the year. Also Squelch and Darklord (both ex Triad) left, to join Sector 90 on the amiga. In december, they received a new American board, THE GAME ZONE (in cooperation with NEC) and two new members, Derek B/Success and Unifier (no group). Derek B's stay was short, and he was out by january. No less than four issues of their young magazine Fatal News was released in the last two months of the year. In addition to all this, they also managed to launch a shortlived war with Light (more specifically Goblin) over some problems Censor had supposedly created at a party. It was over by january 90. Geggin/Mocean also joined in december. 1990 - CRT announced around may that he was stopping his swapping activities. Swedish coder Unifier (ex Weird Science, new 11/89), responsible for at least the Contact Dealer V2 tool for Censor, was kicked around july. "Fatal News #7" [09/90] announced two new members, Adolf (ex Toad) and Danko. Their long-standing 'war' with Fairlight was called off, and the two groups collaborated on a peace demo called "Eye Damage" in october. 1991 - January saw dutchmen Skater, Mirage and Zarhan Fastfive joining the group from Culture, after that group died. They brought with them the mag "Shock". Swedes Danko and DAW left the group, but Danko later returned. DAW returned to his old group Triad. After the Horizon party at easter time, Dr.Cool (Daniel, ex Galaxy, new 12/89), was accused of stealing hardware and software from several participants, and was promptly kicked from the group. His friend Adolf then left, in an act of solidarity. Together the two formed a new group called "Victims" with ex-members of Dynamix. Censor then strengthened their memberstatus with Compus/Focus (swap) and White Lion (swap, who propmptly changed handle to Master Race) and Methabol (crack) from Omega (crack). Former "Fatal News" editor (and one of the original founders) Euzkera decided to leave for Science 451. Not all was bad, though, this was also the year they released their best demo yet, "Wonderland 8" and the first issue of their new diskmag "Shock". 1993 - Dutchmen Mirage (code gfx) and Skater (editor, both ex Culture, new 01/91) left early 93. The two were mainly responsible for the mag project "Shock". Fatal News #1 (1989, early.10, Filemag). code: Psycho, gfx: Taito, music: n/a, editor: Euzkera. review: Information is scarce on the credits side of this first issue of Censor's diskmag. It took me a while to figure out that you need to press + and - to flip through the pages, since there's no text to explain this on the first page, and I honestly thought the page I was staring at was an intro :) There's not much to read in the mag, of most interest were two party reports from the same Horizon meeting. Page layout is pretty basic, and with an overuse of flashing color in the text. This is about as basic as a diskmag gets, though we have to remember that this was 1989. No release date appears in the mag, and I'm basing the date on the party reports (late .09) and the wish to have people attend an upcoming party (12-15.10). [glenn] Fatal News #2 (1989, .11, Filemag). code: Psycho, gfx: Taito, music: Lords of Sonics, editor: Euzkera. review: The second issue of FN sports some coding improvements (you can now choose between several categories, then flip the pages) and a little more to read, but otherwise looks identical. The biggest article this time is the party report from the Shape and TRC party in Norway. It's harder to put a date on this one than the first, it's sometime between mid.10 and .12/89, but that's as much as I can narrow it down. Getting better. [glenn] Fatal News #3 (1989, early.12, Filemag). code: Psycho, gfx: Taito, music: Lords of Sonics, editor: Euzkera. review: This issue is perhaps a small step back from the last one, with no real articles to keep reading interesting. Code has remained the same as last time, only now there's a new logo at the top of screen, which says Fatal News, not Censor like before. Not their best issue. Again the release date is purely a guess, based on circumstancial evidence :) [glenn] Fatal News #4 (1990, .01, Filemag). code: Anders Almann (psycho), gfx: Urban Nilsson, Patrik Havila, music: Magmagix/TRC, editor: John (euzkera). review: This issue is supposedly now released under the new 'professional' group Fatal Design, but since everyone involved is still Censor members, and this would just last for two issues, I have decided to let these two issues remain here, under the Censor section. Well, not much has changed since the last issue. As usual only one article, a report from the Dominators and Upfront party in Denmark in december. It may be just me, but I'm getting seriously tired of reading about how drunk you guys got, when I really want to know about the party. Not even results! They said in the last issue that this issue would get released at this party, but since they've included a report, it's fair to assume that they didn't make it! [glenn] Wonderland V (1990, 05.01, Demo). Winner of the Phenomena and Censor Party 90 demo competition! Happy Birthday Demo (1990, 05.01, Demo). code: Guran, gfx: n/a, music: Danko and Firefox/Phenomena (amiga)! Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Contact Dealer V2 (1990, 05.01, Tool). code: Codex (intro), Unifier (tool), gfx: Taito (introfont), music: Macmagic/TRC (intro, $1000), Maniacs of Noise (tool). Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. review: A pretty basic intro precedes this tool for swappers, with what appears to be two ripped pieces of music - Macmagic's tune says 'by macmagic for contex' :) This was the first version of this tool released for Censor, the last version was released for Unifier's previous group Weird Science. [glenn] Fatal News #5 (1990, .03, Filemag). code: Anders Almann (psycho), gfx: Patrik Havila, music: Magmagix/TRC, editor: John (euzkera). review: This was to be last issue with the old code, and from the next issue this mag would no longer be a single file mag. Issue #5 was still released under the Fatal Design label, and my version was preceded by a strange, small note from CRT saying Euzkera had left Censor and that FN was no longer a Censor production (which I thought was the case even with the last issue!) Well, anyway - nothing much to read here, just the news were of minimal interest. The date is based on the next issue, which says the last one was released in march. [glenn] Fatal News #6 (1990, 16.08, Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Euzkera. review: So finally FN got a new code...it's now a 'real' mag, but... there's something a little wrong with it... To be honest: The new code isn't really much of an improvement. It's now multiload, but the extra space this provides is sadly not used for more articles; it's just so that each and every 'article' can have its own soundtrack and logo. The new graphics are - to be quite honest - ugly. And even though it's been quite a while since the last issue, this is one of the thinnest ever as far as content goes. Disappointing. No credits either for the mediocre intro or the mag itself appears anywhere, other than that we understand that John (Euzkera) is still editor. He seems to be a member of Censor now, and no mention of Fatal Design anywhere...strange. Apparently they managed to get in a small war with Fairlight too, while the mag was away, which has now ended. [glenn] Fatal News #7 (1990, 23.09, Multifile Diskmag). code: Swallow, gfx: Taito, Dragon, music: ???/Vibrants, editor: Euzkera. review: It all opens with the standard b&w intro, with FATAL NEWS and CENSOR DESIGN logos alternating, so nothing changed there. A quick press of space takes us into the mag proper. Not much to read now either, but the news and editorials are wellwritten. The movie reviews and the interview with Dr.Cool/Censor (if you can't find anyone outside your group to interview, then what's the point?) we could perhaps have been without, but... Overall, this gives an ok impression, though. Nothing more than a monthly news update with some charts, but for that purpose this works just fine. Noteworthy for its announcement of the first ever swedish bust, Walker/Paragon getting busted on the 14th of september. This issue announces the joining of Danko and Adolf. [glenn] Wonderland 8 (1991, 02.05, Multifile Demo). code: Psycho, Bob, Guran, Swallow, Geggin, gfx: Dragon, Sensei, Skater, Taito, music: Danko/independent. Review: Shock #1 (1991, 20.05, Multifile Diskmag, 1 diskside). code: Mirage, gfx: Mirage, music: The Dutch Composer (intro), ??? (main), editors: Illusionist/independent, Skater. review: Not really the first issue of Shock, but the first one on disk, this small mag actually gives a pretty good first impression, with good code, design and graphics. It gives a quick overview of the latest news, with the added strength of having both an American and a European editor being quite obvious. Very nicely done for a first issue of any mag! [glenn] Wonderland X (1993, 30.05, Demo). code: Bob, Staiger, Guran, gfx: Dragon, music: Swallow, Danko. Winner of The Computer Crossrads 93 demo competition! Centauri -------- 1989 - Late in the year, Henry joined Genesis Project. Century (-1991) --------------- GER> Skyhawk (swap, 07/90). 1990 - Arc Angel was kicked around july. 1991 - Century died early 91, since Exciter had to go to the army. The group will from now on only do games, under the label Century Art Studios. One Year (1990, .07, Demo). Chalice (CHL) ------------- ???> Rayden (code, doublememb Alpha Flight 1970 [details], 05/96). Chaos (CHS) ----------- HUN> Cubehead (Gabor Mucsanyi, music, 94), Lion (Ferenc Veres, code, 94), Pete (Peter Ivanyi, gfx, 94), Zeux (Laszlo Molnar, code music, 94). ???> Jinx (crack). Chaos is a Hungarian demo group. 1991 - Teen changed his handle to Herman and joined Chromance in january. Absolute (1994, Multifile Demo). code: Zeux, Lion, gfx: Pete, music: Cubehead, Zeux, Taki/Natural Beat, Cane/ADSR/. 2nd in the Exile Party demo competition. review: I was quite surprised by this demo from the to me unknown group Chaos - since it was actually rather good! Some interesting routines, good design and music, managed to really grab my attention and give me a good overall feeling for this demo. It's a really strange mix of old-style demoparts and new-style 'trackmo', actually. It utilizes an irq loader to allow music to play while the next part loads, but it is then faded down and each part has its own music. It's an interesting variation. The coding here is generally high-class, with things like 256 doublesinus plots in the sideborder, plasma, raytraced animation, morphing animation, fractal colorcycling (not the best idea =) and an especially interesting cfli tech-tech with two fld scrollers and an fld logo moving independently on top! Well, you have to see it to understand, I guess... =) But overall, this was a really surprising demo, and I look forward to seeing more from this group! [glenn] Chaos 1 ------- ???> Chum (ex Success, new 12/89), JR (new 12/89). Panther left for Cosmos Designs 12/89. Chaos Inc. ---------- 1991 - Tracker became Marcus/Cross around march. Chaos Industries ---------------- NOR> Akay (swap, 12/90). 1991 - Swedish megaswapper Cleric joined Triad early91. Charged (CRD) ------------- 1994 - Polish swapper and supplier AMC left for Chromance around september. Cracker Centarion joined Alpha Flight 1970. Cherubs ------- HUN> Lala (Csaba Aligi, swap, 09/94). Cheyens ------- DEN> Warbird (swap, 04/89). Danish musician Link helped form the music group Vibrants late 1989. Choice ------ 1990 - Swedes Status, Zinus, Scooby, Zagon, Gryzor, Bluez and Econ all left the group for Vision, while Wizzy joined Warrant, all around may. Chromance (1990-, http://c64.rulez.org/chromance) ------------------------------------------------- HUN> Griff (music, 03/94-12/97), Jaydee (crack fixer, 12/97), Pete (gfx, 03-12/97). HOL> Syco (crack swap, 12/94-12/97), Zar (code crack, ex Proxyon, 12/94- 12/97). GER> Skud (gfx, 12/97). POL> AMC (Adam Zelent, swap supply, ex Charged, new 09/94-12/97), Bolee (12/97), Techno (crack, 12/97), Vector (12/97), Wozio (supply, 09/94-12/97). GRE> Alias Medron (gfx, 12/97). USA> Scratcher (sysop 'THE BASS PLANET' WHQ, 12/97). ???> Hedgehog (12/97), Immortal (12/97), Lotus (12/97), Mephisto (12/97), Sage (12/97), XXL (12/97), Zeyex (12/97). Boards; GANGSTAS PARADISE FTP (ftp://ftp.inf.bme.hu, 03-12/97). PREVIOUS MEMBERS: HUN> Alex (Szabo Sandor, code crack, 90-04/94), Homeboy (modem, 09-12/94), Jazzy D (Kis Peter, swap modem, new 01/91-12/94), Ollie (code crack gfx, ex Pride, new early 93), Stake (Istvan Pallai, mainorg1 crack supply modem, 09-12/94). HOL> LCF (code crack supply, 12/94), Splatterhead (Rene Janssen, mainorg2 supply swap, 09-12/94). GER> Chotaire (sysop 'PIRATE ISLAND', 12/94), Dr.Disc (swap, early91), Gizmo (ex Solution, new 03/91), Icarus (swap, new mid93), Jinx (code crack h/p modem, 09-12/94), Rough (modem, 12/94), X-Radical (crack fixer supply trade, 09-12/94). SWE> Joyride (sysop 'HIGHWAY', early93-12/94). USA> Destiny (sysop 'BLACK GENESIS' WHQ, 92), Rug Rat (sysop 'EDGE OF MIDNIGHT', also in Aristocracy, 09-12/94), Unholy (modem, 04-12/94). ???> Alagami (new 05/93), Chum (ex Chaos#1 [no entry], new early91-04/94), Cop (09/94), Herman (ex Teen/Chaos, new 01/91), Hermit (ex Dr.Disk/ Hitmen, new 01/91), Painkiller (crack, 09/94), Szab (09/94). Boards; PHIBERCOM (usa), CHAOTIC FACTOR (usa). Chromance was born in july of 1990, by the best members of FBI-Crew. They were a cracking group, based in Hungary. Canadian sysop Deviant ('FINAL GENOCIDE', 12/97) is nowadays in the pc scene, while Hungarian cracker, swapper and supplier Mr.Wax (Balazs Bernat, member since 1991!) spends his days in the mp3 scene. 1990 - Painkiller was accused by Local Lamer/Bad Taste in Amok's "Sex'n'Crime #21" [12/90] of recracking their version of "Sensitive". 1991 - January saw the joining of Hermit (ex Dr.Disk/Hitmen), Herman (ex Teen/Chaos) and swapper Jazzy-D. There were widespread rumours that the group entered into a cooperation with The Bombs this month, which is a misunderstanding. There was never any coop. Some of their members were also busted by the Hungarian post for cheating with stamps this month. Gizmo joined from Solution in march, after that group died. Early in the year, Chromance saw the departure of Gabriel, as well as the arrival of Chum/Chaos#1. Suicide left the scene early 91, and later rejoined the scene as a member of Avantgarde. 1993 - Dishy joined Dominators early93. Mr.Wax stopped producing the mag 'A.W.T.B.', and is looking for someone to take it over (early 93). Swapper TBB joined from Arcade early in the year, but soon moved on and was in Red Sector Inc. by october. Alagami joined in may. 1994 - American sysop Ancient Mariner ('THE EVIL ISLAND') rejoined his old group Alpha Flight 1970 in september, after joining around the middle of the year. They also lost and then regained Rug Rat ('EDGE OF MIDNIGHT'), though now in cooperation with Aristocracy, and gained polish swapper and supplier AMC from Charged this month. Other events in september included Wozio leaving for his army duty, joining the already active Jazzy-D. 1997 - In november-december they expanded their cooperation with Hungarian demo group Resource, and the two groups now share the internet server c64.rulez.org, where also their popular ftp site GANGSTA'S PARADISE is now hosted. Sphere was kicked out due to inactivity. 1999 - Spermbird (swap, 12/97-) left for Laxity. 2000 - Hungarian coder, fixer and siteop Lion (09/94-) left for Kempelen. Hammering 94 Official Party Invitation (1994, early, File). code: Jean/Absolute, gfx: n/a, music: Griff. review: This is probably the most simplistic party invitation I've ever seen ;) It's based on a noter by a member of Faces, then improved by Jean, and...well, it's pretty bareboned! :) This is a Chromance release only because there is no c64 Absolute section, because Griff did the music, and because it says 'spread by Chromance'. [glenn] Cicen ----- 1990 - Lord left for Impact around july. Citadel ------- CZE> Allitaice (code crack, 07/93). ???> Bacillus (cze? 07/93), Necromantic (cze? 07/93). Citadel is a cracking group, consisting only of the membs above. Civitas (http://www.civitas64.de) --------------------------------- GER> Zeitgeist (Hiram Komper, mainorg gfx, aka ZTG, 07/00). SWE> Puterman (Linus Akerlund, code music, 07/00). ???> Brainsmasher (gfx, aka BSM, 07/00). Civitas is an international demogroup, lead from germany by Zeitgeist. Balloon Or Die (2000, 29.07, Multifile Demo, 9 files, 247 blocks). code/music: Puterman, gfx: Brainsmasher, Zeitgeist, Puterman (charsets, sprites). Split winner of the LCP 2000 demo competition! review: BOD comes as something of a nice surprise to me, deeply rooted as it appears to be in the oldskool tradition of demomaking. I came to this demo expecting nothing, and was quite charmed by its style. There are good parts in here, and others that are less so, but the overall experience is definitely a good one. Recommended. The demo uses Krill/Plush's loader system for irq-loading. The size of the demo above does not include a 31 block note or a 68 block part selector. [glenn] Class (1990-) ------------- Class was formed by Magic and Rooze from Fusion in may of 1990. They were quickly joined by Infocomie and Hewitt/Depredators in may and Mr.Smart/ Contex in june. Mr.Smart and Infocomie didn't stay long, moving on together to join Nato in july. Enjoy joined Bonzai around july. Hewitt later left the scene. Climax (CMX) ------------ ???> Bitbreaker (code, 93), Eggman (gfx music, 93). Clique (http://www.clq.com) --------------------------- TUR> Tuareg (swap, early91). GER> Ivory (swap, early91), Nothingface (doublememb Pulsar, early93). ???> Flint (early93), Joker (code, 91), Script (early93), Stormbringer early93). Clique was a demogroup, based in Turkey. An amiga section was also formed. 1993 - Playboy joined F4CG early 93. Remix (the turkish editor of "Script"), decided to leave the scene around mid 1993. He did want to release one final issue of Script, #15, before ending it all. Collision --------- 1991 - Buzzer left for Foxbat in january. Coma ---- ???> Oswald (code, 05/97). Oswald has coded and released a couple of utilities. Commando Frontier (CFR, 1987-) ------------------------------ BEL> Black Label (12/87), Bubuland (12/87), Dakota (12/87), Mad All (mainorg, 01-12/87), Ram (12/87), Stef (12/87), The Jew (12/87). ???> Anubis (01/87), Lord Blitter (01/87), Tron (music). Commando Frontier is a Belgian group, formed on the 1st of january 1987 by Mad All. Their first demo was released that same month, and their first crack in february (Shaolin's Road)! Austrian graphician Shadow (Siegfried Stegmüller) later became Corwin/Scoopex on the amiga. 1987 - Human left in october to form his own group with two ex members of Raw Deal Inc. Belgian Anubis left, and became The Hobbit/Fairlight. Compagnions, The ---------------- The group's name MAY be Companions... 1991 - January saw two new members joining, Highlander (ex Abase) and Outlaw. Sodiox joined effect in december. Conflict (1990-) ---------------- Conflict was formed late june 1990 by dutchmen Sonix and Red from the group Cosmos Design. They originally asked to join Bonzai, but after they were turned down, they decided to form this group instead. 1990 - In july, Sonix left the group for Powers of Pain. Contex (CTX, -1990) ------------------- DEN> Drake (crack swap, 04/89), Nam (ex Nuclear [no entry], new 12/89). GER> Scrap (code gfx swap, ex Genesis Project, 04/89). ???> Johnny Boy (new 03/90), Trailblaze (supply, 89). Contex was formed by Actionforce/Byterapers, and had members in Finland, Denmark and one in Germany. 1989 - German Snoopy was kicked out early in the year, and consequently joined Weird Science. 1990 - The group announced new member Johnny Boy in cracktros in march. Around may the group finally died. Flex, Apollyon, Scorpion and some others formed Artline Design. Rockstar and Servant (old handle Warehouse) joined Fairlight for a short time, before forming Extasy (Drake and Nam were also later in this group). Mr.Smart joined Class. Cycleburner joined Megastyle Inc. Contrast -------- SWE> Jerico (swap, 07/90), Vertical (ex Attract, new 07/90). 1990 - Swedish swapper Onani joined from Lynx around may, changed his handle to Vertical and joined Attract in june, only to rejoin in july - hopefully settling down for a while now. At the same time he ceased swapping. Swedish swapper Mayday left for Impact around july. Control ------- GER> Chotaire (code, later Chromance, 92). BEL> Lobster (swap, 01/91). German coder Chotaire released an improved version of the cruncher tool Sledgehammer, 3.1, to be used only internally in Control. It is now well- spread. ;-) Cosmic ------ DEN> Chessmaniac (Henning Reiths, swap, 12/91). 1991 - When Shock died in december, all members joined Cosmic. Cosmos Designs (1988-1990) -------------------------- AUT> CHC (10/88), Icon (10/88), Thunderhawk (swap, 04/90). ???> Panther (ex Chaos 1). Cosmos was an Austrian cracking group, born after most members left TSK to form this group in 1988. Their leader SSD supplied the originals for Antitrack (aka ATT) to crack, and the rest of the group pretty much worked around that. They were the #1 group in Austria. Their death was first reported in Crazy's "Mamba #1" [11/89], as a direct result of their leader SSD's leaving the scene. However Arny, Panther and Hannes decided to carry the label Cosmos Designs on as their game development identity, and further cracks were released upto at least 04/90. 1990 - Dutchmen Sonix, Red (both ex World Wide Expressive) and Red (swap) left and tried to join Bonzai in june, but were turned down. They therefore formed Conflict. Austrians Antitrack (crack, 10/88-04/90) and Big Ben (10/88-) both joined Legend around august. Crackforce Omega (CFO) ---------------------- SWE> Dread (crack, 02/87), Junior (crack, 02/87). CFO were a Swedish cracker group active around 1987-88. Crazy (-1991) ------------- GER> Arcon (11/89), Nevis (11/89), Shine (code gfx, 11/89), Thorn (11/89), Tycoon (11/89). SWI> Cyberpunk (11/89), Martin (11/89), Stingray (11/89). USA> Cavalier (11/89). ???> Chrisp and Spitfire (crack, late 90), Gadget (crack, late 90). Boards; WAREZ CASTLE (usa, coop Exodus, 01/90). 1989 - The group entered into cooperation with the newly born Lotus in december! 1990 - Cure left for Exodus in july. German cracker Pyle joined from Legend in august. 1991 - Max joined in january. January was fatal for the group, since it died following the leaving of almost each and every important member - Germans Pyle and Deff (11/89-) joined Illusion; german graphician Gotcha (aka GTA, 11/89-) joined Ikari + Talent; Smasher (ex Fresh, new 12/90) joined F4CG; german DJ Weasel (crack, 11/89-) joined Crest and german coder Magic Man (11/89-) decided to leave the c64 for the pc scene. The game "Vincent", made by Crazy members (a.o. Gotcha) was released around february. Mamba #1 (1989, .11, Multifile Diskmag, 1 diskside). code: Magic Man, Shine, gfx: Shine, Gotcha, music: Magic Man (intro, exclusive), Reyn Ouwehand/Scoop (mag, exclusive). review: A nice intro opens the premiere issue of Mamba, nothing extravagant just some nice logos and a scroll. Space pressed, and the mag loads. First impressions are not as good as for the intro, but the menu is OK. You select one of 10 articles with an arrow controlled with the joystick, then press fire to load it. The articles themselves are presented in a way that's original if nothing else. It's black on white (no color whatsoever) with little animated cliparts (that have nothing to do with the articles themselves) scattered around. Editorially, this issue is dominated by a HUMONGOUS amount of news, and little else. The language also leaves a little to be desired, meaning some of the news items are a little unclear. A party report is also on the disk separately. [glenn] Creation -------- ???> Fighter (ex Hellfire, new 07/90). 1990 - Fighter/Hellfire joined around july. Creatures (CRT, -1993) ---------------------- GER> Romulus (Roman Bannack, code, 92-05/93). ???> Bleed Into One (music, aka B.I.O, 05/93), Dr.Lecter (gfx, 05/93), Hiccup (gfx, 05/93). Romulus released several utilities, including the text editor Screened V1.0 (04/93), Noisenoter 2.0 (15.01-93) and NoiseNoter 3.0 (93, supposedly the final version :), which later became the Creatures Noter V2.01 (02.05-94). In the release of this last noter, the death of Creatures was announced, following the fact that most members were busy doing other things these days. Crescent (CRS, 1993-) --------------------- TUR> Beast (org editor swap), Fanatic (code gfx), Impetigo (music editor swap), Mark (gfx), Olivaw (editor swap), Wisdom (Huseyin Kilic, code music), Zer-O (editor swap). Crescent was formed in early April, 1993, as a demo group, through the conversations between Beast/Dark Sun and Wisdom/Phobia. Basically, it was a merge between Dark Sun and Phobia, though a short while later all other ex- members of Phobia except Wisdom was kicked from the group. Therefore, the initial members were Beast, Impetigo, Mark, Olivaw, Psychopath, Wisdom and Zer-0. Thanks to Wisdom for extensive information. 1993 - Before the end of summer, all members coming from Phobia, except Psychopath, were kicked out of the group. Some games were imported and a few cracks were released. But by the end of the year, the group stopped all illegal activities and started work on the diskmag Anarchy. 1994 - Anarchy and its text editor was completed by spring. During that time, Zer-0 decided to leave the scene, due to personal reasons. Fanatic (who had no group) joined in. Psychopath wanted to join Inox and stay in both groups, but because of group policy, he was requested to leave. Just before the release of the first issue of Anarchy, two new members called Zack and Beaver (later renamed into Moloch) joined in. They had no group previously. "Anarchy #1" [06/01] was released in June, together with the music demo "Sonic Anarchy" [06/91]. During the summer and fall came the rekeased of another couple of music demos, "Crescendo" and "Sonic Anarchy 2". By this time, technical work on Anarchy was completed, but no further issues were released due to the editors losing interest in the project. 1995 - An almost totally silent year for the group, with no releases except a few utilities. 1996 - During the first quarter of this year, "Crescendo 2" and "Sonic Anarchy 3" was released. After this, almost no active members remained in the group. 1997 - Moloch and Zack (code) were asked to leave, because of single group policy. 2002 - The group is still officially alive, but inactive. Forming and pc section and getting active again is planned, but not in the foreseeable future. Anarchy #1 (1994, .06, Diskmag). Sonic Anarchy (1994, .06, Musicdemo). Crescendo (1994, Musicdemo). Sonic Anarchy 2 (1994, Musicdemo). Crescendo 2 (1996, Musicdemo). Sonic Anarchy 3 (1996, Musicdemo). Crest (1988-, http://w3studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~toegelrd/) -------------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Crossbow (Roland Tögel, code, early91-04/00), Cyclone (gfx, doublememb Abyss [amiga], 04/00), Deekay (Daniel Kottmar, gfx, 04/97-04/00), DJ Weasel (ger? crack, ex Crazy, new 01/91), The Syndrom (Matthias Hartung, code gfx music swap, ex Padua, doublememb The Imperium Arts, new 04/93-04/97), Xayne (Guiseppe Musardo, music, 08/89-early93). SWE> Dane (Stellan Andersson, music, 04/97), Mitch (Michael Nilsson- Vonderburgh, music, doublememb CyberZound Productions, 12/94-04/97). NOR> Mermaid (Vanja Utne, code gfx msx, 1999-). DEN> Drax (music, 04/93-04/00), Jeff (music, 04/00), MSK (Morten Sigaard Kristensen, music, ex AMN [no entry], old handle O'Neill, 04/91-93). ???> Bizzmo (gfx, early93), Chake (08/89), Deek (music, early93), GBF (gfx, 12/90-early93), Goldrush (08/89), Maduplec (code music, 12/91-04/93), Mermaid (gfx, doublememb Creators, 04/00), Royzex (gfx, 08/89), Vision (code, 08/89-early93), Zoolook (08/89). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - GER> Megabyte (Martin Marl, gfx, 92-93). Crest are a primarily German demo group, born in august 1988. The list of their demos is 100% complete upto 1995, taken from a file in their own directory on ftp.scs-trc.org. 1990 - Heatseeker and Bonc were kicked for lazyness, and Lawyer joined X- Ray in december. 1991 - DJ Weasel (crack) joined after Crazy died in january. 1992 - Megabyte joined the army in october, and will not be able to perform any scene duties until this is over. 1993 - Sometime between january and april, The Syndrom (also in TIA) joined the group from Padua. 1997 - In april Crossbow and Deekay released the demo "Krestage 2 - Follow The Roots" [04/97]. Deekay was main graphician on Graham/Oxyron's second- place demo "One-Der" [12/97] at The Party! 1998 - At the Mekka Symposium in april, the group released the demo "Krestyron" in cooperation with Oxyron. Crazy Bytes (1988, .08, 183 blocks). 18 Years Now (1988, .10, 124 blocks). The Other One (1988, .10, 57 blocks). Fucking Bytes (1988, .12, 93 blocks). Wobbling Bytes (1988, .12, 123 blocks). Puke Around the X-Mas Tree (1988, .12, 201 blocks). Name of the Lame (1989, .01, 173 blocks) A Simple One (1989, .01, 84 blocks). Intro Collection (1989, .01, 89 blocks). My Surprise (1989, .01, 116 blocks). We Call It Acid (1989, .01, 21 blocks). Blow Jobs (1989, .02, 190 blocks). Blow Job II (1989, .02, 133 blocks). Blow Job III (1989, .04, 357 blocks). Puke Around the Easter Eggs (1989, .04, 435 blocks). Sauerkraut'89 (1989, .05, 123 blocks). Blow Job IV (1989, .05, 228 blocks). Hot Chocolate Bar (1989, .07, 546 blocks). One Year Crest (1989, 05.08, Multiload Demo, 1 diskside). code: Vision, Crossbow, gfx: Vision, Crossbow, Royzex, music: Xayne, Falco Paul/20CC, "Domino Dancing" by Johannes Bjerregaard, TW, Thomas E. Petersen. Released for the Stardom, Future Concepts, Crazy party demo competition. review: Some nice routines in this oneyear celebration demo from Crest, like a sideborder tech-tech, some sprite DYSP multiplexes and 5 DYCP scrollers at the same time, on top of each others. The overall impression is semi-good; potential not fully unleashed yet. [glenn] Best of Crest/asm demo comp. (1989, .08, 1328 blocks). Blow Job V (1989, .10, 427 blocks). Musical X-Cess (1989, .10, 521 blocks). The Endless One (1989, .11, 105 blocks). For 2 Guys Only (1989, .11, 111 blocks). Red Hot Chilli Pepper (1989, .12, 626 blocks). Mc Donald's Restaurant (1990, .02, 1041 blocks). The Bubble Tale (1990, .06, 650 blocks). Puke Around the Candle Light (1990, .10, 257 blocks). Two Years Crest (1990, .10, 660 blocks). Best of Crest II/asm demo comp. (1990, .11, 1992 blocks). Trust Your Eyes (1991, .01, 533 blocks). Asbest (1991, .04, Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: none, music: MSK. review: Just a simple player-screen for a doublespeed tune by MSK. The tune is average, and this playerrprog is just standard. The production's name is based on its filename, no name appears within. [glenn] Ice Cream Castle (1991, .04, 1028 blocks). Glober/Yugowaria (1992, .01, 140 blocks). Crest Light (1992, .06, 623 blocks). Happy Birthday (1992, .07, 18 blocks). Best of Crest III/64'er demo comp. (1992, .10, 1328 blocks). Crest Avantgarde (1992, .12, 664 blocks). Why I Like Demos (1993, .04, 663 blocks). code: Maduplec, gfx: JTM/Visual Reality, Maduplec, music: Drax, Maduplec. info: Contains a.o.t. vector cubes (world 1st) and the biggest tech-tech ever (36x24 logo with 256 pixels, joycontrolled). Likely Maduplec's last ever demo. It's Coming (1995, .08, 100 blocks). Avantgarde Light (1995, .11, 150 blocks). Krestology (1996, 08.04, Demo). Winner of the X96 demo competition! Krestage 2 - Follow The Roots (1997, 26.04, Multifile Demo). code: Crossbow, The Syndrom (endpart), gfx: Deekay, The Syndrome (endpart chars), Gum Bear Front Design (endpart logo), music: Mitch & Dane, The Syndrom, JCH/Vibrants. review: K2 is a very good demo, let me just say that right now. Some amazing effects done seemingly effortlessly, with lots of style, great graphical design and a real sense of innovation. No text in the demo really indicates a party release, so this can just as likely have been released outside a party. The show opens with a simple intro that culminates in a logo-picture by Deekay done in a new graphics mode they call SHF-XL. Nowhere is it mentioned why this is such a special process, neither in the demo nor in the editor that is present on the disk. The editor, when loaded, defaults to this very same picture. M&D's music is called "Magnetic Moons". Next is something you're going to be seeing a lot of in this demo, a rather amazing little part that precedes all the others in the demo, telling a little about the upcoming display. The part itself features something I have never seen before, a scroller moving from the bottom right to the top left of the corner... in 640x400 resolution! Yes, this is supposed to be impossible, I know, but it sure does look real... M&D's music is "Escape from Reality". Then comes an FLI-stretcher. For those who don't know what this is, I can try to explain it like it stretches a FLI-picture up and down, distorting it in various ways in the process. This part was done with the help of a FPD (Flexible Pixel Distance) routine. The picture here is a pretty good CREST logo by Deekay, btw =) Nice touch with the Krestage logo in the bottom right border. Style all the way. Music by The Syndrom. After another visit from the 640x400 part, it's time for some record- breaking. This time Crossbow's done 11 ora-mega-dycps (and no, I don't really know the difference from a normal dycp either =), beating Chorus' 8 ones, which again beat the original 7 done by Light. Another stylish part, with a nice logo by Deekay. The final visit from our old friend the 640x400 intro, we enter the endpart - incidentally the only thing in this demo NOT coded by Crossbow =) This is really nothing special, just an upscroller with some bye-byes. The music is an old unreleased tune by JCH, sent to Crest ages ago, which they were reminded about after JCH released all his old unreleased tunes to the internet. Nice logo here too, supposedly by "Gum Bear Front Design"... [glenn] Krestyron (1998, 12.04, File, 166 blocks). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition. Cooperation with Oxyron [details]. Deus Ex Machina (2000, 23.04, Multiload Demo, 2 disksides). code: Graham/Oxyron, Crossbow, gfx: Deekay, Mermaid (endpart), Cyclone (picture), music: Jeff, Drax. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition! review: And at the Mekka Symposium, Crest showed us what total domination looks like... In short, this is simply an AMAZING demo, that really shows us how far evolution has come on the humble c64. I'll quickly break down the parts for you here, but do see it yourself, no description can really justify this demo. The opening is great, with a very cool dissolve of the screen into the intro, wholly presented in IFLI, with a textplotter on an AMAZING picture by Deekay! Next is some very fast plasma, and then a spinning checkerboard effect. Then onto an extremely fast and beautiful zoomer, with a pattern that says loading (we also get to see this once again later). Deekay's fourth-placed picture from the MS graphics competition is next, here titled "Techno-cracy" (for the compo, it was "Technocrazy 100%", but perhaps they made a spelling mistake, what do I know?). Then comes another plasma-variation, this time sortof 'under' a Crest logo, in a part they've titled "Aces-Assma" (?). Then we are shown REAL interference, an effect that they claim has now been done for real for the first time on the c64, previous attempts were merely fakes. It sure does look like real amiga interference to me, at least... Then a small animation asks us to turn the disk. Te second part opens with a Coca-Cola can, that is then spun and twisted in various ways. I remember seeing very similar parts on the amiga in the early 90's, actually =) Next we revisit that amazing zoomer I told you about earlier, only now with a new pattern, while it loads another picture, this time Cyclone's "Cyclone de l'interieur", which was third in the graphics competition. The last real effect is also the real showstopper; titled "Dawnfall in Technicolor", this is just like the good old 'optimum fuckup' effect, pioneered by Sanity in their demo of the same name on the amiga, and it looks just amazing! For those who don't know what that means, it's sort-of texturemapping... And FAST! They mention in the notefile that you can watch thison a C128 for double speed!! Then it's just the endpart left, which here is an upscroller over a slideshow of Mermaid's best pictures, loaded one after the other. There is really no excuse for anyone not to download this awesome piece of demo. A notefile accompanies the demo, with exact credits for each part. The note was probably coded specifically for this demo, by Crossbow. Graphics by Deekay, music by Jeff. [glenn] Cross ----- NOR> Morris (swap, early91), Zarky Baby (swap, early91). ???> Marcus (ex Tracker/Chaos Inc., new 03/91), Tango and Cash (crack), Zarky Baby (new 06/90). 1990 - Alex left for Ars Publica, while Zarky Baby joined around june. Cruisers -------- 1990 - Raymond (NL) left for Warrant, while Joe Pineapples (UK) left for Xentrix around june. Crusade (-1991) --------------- HEL> Alex (12/90), Andreas (12/90), Kronos (12/90), Krush (12/90), Sexton (12/90), Skywolf (12/90), Slayer (12/90), Sodan (12/90), Tripod (12/90), Twilight (12/90), Xenox (12/90). N-L> Ghost (12/90), Hellraiser (12/90), Stridersorge (12/90). 1991 - STS was kicked in january. Crusade died early 1991, and some of its members helped form the group "Bad Batch" [no entry] with ex-Transcom members sometime between february and april. However, this group died in a matter of weeks, and the ex-Transcomers returned to their old group. It is unknown what happened with the ex Crusade members. Crush ----- 1991 - After Isti joined Success in december, the group was on the edge of dying after almost everyone else had left the group for Acrise. In december only Sector-D and Bonfire were left in the group. Crypt ----- GER> Art (code). Art coded the utility Art-Bouncer 1.0. Culprits, The ------------- 1990 - The Punisher joined Xentrix around june. Cult, The --------- SWE> Intruder, Jack (crack, ex Mordor/Zaints), Zinus. The Cult is a new group of Swedish crackers, and their birth was announced in the Triad Gamer‘s Guide #1. They have members from groups like Antic, Zaints, Vision, Science 451 and others. The Culture (1993, early, demo). code: Cliff, Rogue, Odie, Lucky, gfx: Galland, Montana, Valiant, Rogue, Cliff, music: Top Secret, Marshall, Gero, Crush. info: 10 parts, 60% in Reformation #2. Culture (-1991) --------------- Culture was an importing group, and died in january of 1991. Dutchmen Skater, Mirage and Zarhan Fastfive joined Censor Design (with the mag "Shock"), while Druid (swap trade supply) and KRS (music supply swap) left to form Verdict. Cyberpunx (CPX) --------------- ???> Fungus (Scott, code), l'Trimm (crack), o'Fire (supply). Cyberpunx is a retro-cracking group, creating new versions of classic games. Cyberzound Production (CZP) --------------------------- DEN> Jeff (code music, doublememb Camelot [details], 92). SWE> Mitch (music, doublememb Crest [details]). ???> Duck LaRock (music, doublememb Camelot [details]). CZP is a musiclabel, with the members Jeff/Camelot, Duck LaRock/Camelot and Mitch/Crest. They plan (according to Mitch' interview in Sky High #18, 09/95) to release some musicpacks in the future. Graphician Scorpie joined WOW briefly before moving on to F4CG.