Eagle Soft Incorporated (ESI, 1981-) ------------------------------------ USA> Kombalar (Chris, 12/87), Mitch (crack, 12/87-09/88), The Head Librarian (John, 12/87). Probably the oldest pirate group in existence anywhere, ESI was actually formed in 1981 on the VIC20. They released cracks for the c64 as early as at least 1986, and in a crack dated 9/4/86 (not sure if that means april of september), the (three) members were listed as By-Tor, Scorpio and Me. For a long time they had the only decent American c64 cracker, Mitch. East Group, The (TEG) --------------------- The Long Way (1993, Demo). code: Mc Byte, gfx: Private Soldier, music: Odysseus. info: Early demo from new group. Features nice music and graphics, plus a charplasma effect. Eastenders Cracking Crew (ECC) ------------------------------ ENG> Makk (crack, 12/87). ECC were an English cracker group, active around 1987-88. Effect ------ GER> Larry (swap, 12/91). 1991 - Norwegian swapper Sodan joined Gloom, while Tanja joined Abyss Connection, both in december. Sodiox joined the group from Compagnions. Elektronic Knights, The (TEK) ----------------------------- ???> Banana (music, ex The Supply Team, new 87-88). Elysium ------- ???> Blondi (gfx, 93), Brush (code, 93), Carrion (gfx, 93), Gaston (Sebastian Thiel, doublememb The Imperium Arts), Gryf (gfx, 93), Jetboy (code gfx, ex Skylight, new 05/93), Master Jay (ex Vantor, new 05/93), Scow (new 05/93), Sparti (new 05/93), Tensi (new 05/93), Zore (swap, 05/93). 1993 - Jetboy/Skylight and Master Jay/Venator both joined in may. Scow, Sparti and Tensi all joined in may. Hain (code) and Brush (code) left for Success in august. Hain released an improved version of the Cruel Cruncher, "Elysium Cruel V2.9+". Obornik (1993, Demo, 1 part). code: Brush, Jetboy, gfx: Blondi, Gryf, Carrion, Jetboy, music: Brian/ Graffity, Longhair. Emanuelle Mag ------------- This is not an actual group, just a heading I needed to review a few issues of the diskmag "Emanuelle". Though done by two members of TAT, it was released as an independent production. Empire (EMP, 1991-) ------------------- USA> Mercenary (fixer, 09/94), Problem Child (ex ATC, new early91-08/91), Rich (08/91-09/94). ???> Booze (code, 08/91-92), Intruder (code, 92), Mayhem (08/91), Sequencer (music, 08/91-92), The Crumbsucker (08/91), The Extremist (08/91-92), The Last Dragon (code, aka TLD, 08/91-92), Tristan (cardhacker, new early91-05/93). Boards; CHANNEL ZERO WHQ (usa, also Action, 08/91), MYSTIC CAVERN (usa, 92). Empire is an american importing groups, doing trainers and fixes on european game releases. They were born in the first months of 1991, probably around april. The original members were Extremist, Rich and Booze, but two additional recruitments were quickly done; wellknown original supplier Problem Child/ATC as well as card hacker Tristan. Mercenary and Rich are brothers. 1993 - Tristan rejoined the group in may, but the november issue of "The Pulse" reported that he was gone again, possibly back in prison some say... 1994 - American sysop Mizar/ex Napalm ('MENACE 2 SOCIETY') joined around september; the board also represents Genesis Project. There were also rumours that legendary fixer Booze would return to the scene. Energy ------ 1990 - Belgian swapper Osiris changed his handle to Glasnost and joined Transcom 05/90. 1991 - Rainman and Cruel joined WOW in january. Enigma (ENI, -1993) ------------------- ???> Deff, Elegance (early93), Fist, Frank, Hero, Ignorance (early93), Jatagan (gfx, 92), Joe Cool, Magic Man (crack), Ninja, Peter, Phentagon (early93), Pudwerx, Richie, Rygar (crack), Sauron, The Basilisk, The Last Dragon, Trigger (code, 92), Weasel, Wrath Child. Enigma are a German cracking group. 1993 - The group died in may, as main cracker Chrysagon (92-) left for Talent and let the group die =( Entropy ------- HOL> Angel (Marijanne Wiekens, swap, 09/94), Bulldozer (Barry Pypers), Unicorn (Harry Wiekens, swap, 09/94). POL> Nephelim (Blazej Strazak, swap, also in Fatum, 09/94). ???> Shaun (gfx, 03/92), Uzzy (code, 03/92), WHW Design (gfx, 03/92), Xayne (music, 03/92). Entropy are a mostly dutch group. 1992 - Uzzy released a text editor called Text Speed V1.0 in march. Epic ---- DEN> Crossfire (Kim Andersen, code crack sysop 'GATEWAY', 03/92-05/93), Decade (05/93), Flower (05/93), Jason (05/93), Marie (05/93), Loyalty (05/93). BEL> Clive (05/93), Cruel (sysop 'WAREZ A'LA CARTE' EHQ, 05/93). HOL> Merlin (crack, 05/93). GER> Sonic (05/93). SWE> The Torch (05/93). NOR> TG-ACME (05/93). USA> Dutchman (sysop 'POWER SURGE' WHQ, new 05/93). Boards; PARTICLES (usa, 05/93), CYBERDOME (ger, also in Legend, 05/93), 1993 - Merlin left the scene, while Mason left to reform Mechanicus 2124, all early this year. Epic and Device went into cooperation early this year, but the coop broke down in may. Objector never joined the group despite claiming so; Dutchman joined; Swedish Stash was their new original supplier, but quickly moved on to join Active; 'DREAMLINE' was dropped (and is now only in Jam), and finally two boards were opened this month, Crossfire's 'GATEWAY' and Cruel's 'WAREZ A'LA CARTE' - all in may. Fairlight's "Reformation #3" [06/93] referred information that rumours were goind around that Merlin recracked some games. Epic + Device (1993-) --------------------- ???> Cruel (ex WOW, new early 93). Boards; DREAMLINE (swe, 03/92), CYBERDOME (ger, 03/92), PARTICLES (usa, 03/92), POWER SURGE (usa, 03/92). Epic and Device went into cooperation in early 1993. S.M.D. (group) left, and will stay independent (early 93). Equinox (EQX) ------------- SWE> 3V (MArkus Nordstedt, 05/89), Emaze (Stefan Collin, 05/89), Mankish (Magnus Edgar, 05/89), Princip (Mattias Åslund, 05/89), Verdun (Michael Collin, 05/89), Werner (Martin Klintefelt, 05/89). Equinoxe (EQX) -------------- GER> Antifan (Christian Grun, code, 10/96). NOR> Fli (Leif I. Bilstad, swap, mid94). ???> Echo (music). Antifan is the author behind several utlities, including Voodoo-Noter. Antifan's Toolbox (1996, 10 or later, Tooldisk). code: Antifan, gfx: none, music: none. review: A toolbox containing three of Antifan's own tools, and not half bad if I may say so myself :) The three tools are Voodoo-Noter V2.1, Stuff-List Editor V2 (to keep your demo collections organized), and finally Dir-Master 7.0, which seems like a really good utility if I could get it to work properly... This doesn't do any amazing tricks, but the ones it does do it does very well. [glenn] Euratom ------- ???> Hayes (music, 89). Evil ---- 1990 - Wanderer was busted for blue boxing in december, and was fined $1,000, but was not given a criminal record. Exact ----- 1990 - Tomcat and Ice joined in july, but Tomcat quickly moved on to Vision and Ice just left. Excalibur --------- Asterix got kicked 06/90. Excess [old] ------------ ???> Bigfoot (swap, new 12/91). Brothers Raistlin (code) and Kreator (both ex Pyrotech) formed Excess with some old members of DCS, this was around 1989... Kreator later went to the amiga, and Raistlin joined Rough Trade. 1991 - Thunderstorm was kicked, while Bigfoot (swap) joined in december. Excess [new] ------------ GER> Black Duke (Tassilo Schutz, code, 07/97), Darkman (swap, 12/91), Exic (Andreas Nickel, gfx, doublememb Acsore, 07/97), Spermbird (swap, 05/93-mid94). HOL> Cat (Bart, gfx swap, 05/93). ???> Authentic (ex Maniax, new 09/94), Benno (code music, 05/93), Blue Angel (covers, 05/93), BTS (gfx, ex Mental, new 09/94), Collector (swap, 05/93), CST (crack swap, 05/93), Dumper (code crack, 05/93), Knobby (trade, ex Paramount, new 05/93), Liquid (ex X-Ample, new 09/94), Moses (ger? code, 95), Mr.Rage (code swap, 05/93), Nebula (ger? Wolfgang Reszel, code), Pneumatix (code, 05/93), Pulse (code trade, ex WOW, new 05/93), Red Rock (crack swap, 05/93), Sempai (gfx swap, 05/93), Spinball (code, ex Mental, new 09/94). Boards; CHAOTIC FACTOR (whq, new 09/94), SANITARIUM (ger, 95). Excess are a German demo group. Not sure if there is any connection between this group and the older one. 1993 - Pulse/WOW (code trade) and Knobby/Paramount (trade) both joined in may. 1994 - German sysop Iron ('ESCAPADE') changed his handle to Xerox (not Xenox as written some places) and joined Alpha Flight 1970 around the middle of the year. A lot of movement occurred in the member mass during september; Authentic/Maniax (swap), BTS/Mental (gfx), Spinball/Mental (code) and Liquid/X-Ample all joined, while Sgt. Pepper (swap, 05/93), Mindcrime, Josh and Luka (Erik Nissen, ger, gfx, 05/93) were all kicked or left on their own accord. This month also saw the recruitment of a new whq board, 'CHAOTIC FACTOR'. 1995 - Former main organizer and cracker Sentinel left the scene late this year. 1997 - Graphician Sush (also in Acsore) left the scene this year, sometime after july. Exile ----- HUN> Abject (music, 94), Cube (Kolos Esztergalyos, 94), Dale (code, 94), Edhellon (code, 94), Flimbo (gfx, 94), Inside (gfx music, 94), Jode (Marton Hegedus, 94), Oscar (code, 94), Splash (94), Szaby (Szabolls Nagy, doublememb Leader, 94), Vistar (94). Exile is a Hungarian demo group. Inhumanity (Dentro). code: Dale (main), Edhellon, Oscar, gfx/music: Inside. info: 4th at the Fun Factory Party (no info found yet, sorry!), their first demo production. No credits printed in demo itself, credit info from printing in "Vector Overdose" [94]. Vector Overdose (1994, Multifile Demo). code: Oscar, Edhellon, Dave, gfx: Inside, Flimbo, music: Inside. review: Exile's second ever demo production, already shows some promise. "VO" is an irq-loaded demo, trackmo style, and opens with an "intel outside" logo. Some cool graffiti-style logos by Inside then appears, before the vector stuff begins. I really must say I was mildly impressed with the speed of the code in this demo; big vector objects moving at quite acceptable levels of speed and smoothness. And another thing that impressed me, now that I think of it, was Flimbo's fullscreen picture. Very cool, an artist I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more from! As you may have guessed from the title, this demo features almost all- vector effects, like a tv-box (ever thought you'd see one of those on the 64?), faaast morphing dotshapes, checkerboard cube, hiddenline vector, an amazing dotscroller and finally a 1-color texturemapped vector which they keep on the screen for WAY too long. The real drawback to this demo is simply that it's too long, causing the soundtrack to loop several times before the demo is over. Some more pace and perhaps dropping a couple of the effects would have strengthened the demo. The accompanying note was written in a noter coded by Clarence/ Chorus with music by their own member Abject. [glenn] Exodus (XDS) ------------ USA> Cure (ex Crazy, new 07/90), Executioner (Joel, fix import, 11/89- 04/90), FlyBoy (sysop 'FABULOUS DISASTER', 11/89), Gazoo (11/89-10/90), Grim Reaper (code, later North East Importers, new 01-10/90), Skreemer (05-10/90), Stormbringer (Steve, code fix, 11/89- 05/90), Warewolf (11/89-10/90), Warez King (new 01/90). Boards; WILD WARES (usa, later Genesis Project, 11/89-05/90), WAREZ CASTLE (usa, also in Crazy, 01/90). Exodus imports European games to the USA, and were active around 1989 and 1990. Thanks to Executioner for some help and clarification :) 1990 - Grim Reaper and Warez King joined, while Flyboy (11/89-) left the group in january. Cure joined from Crazy in july. Explorers, The -------------- SWE> Babyface (crack, 87), Bad Boy! (crack, 87). ???> Aha (87), Alien (87), Argon (87), BL (87), Creator (87), Crypton (87), Fraction (87), Frankie (87), Guide (87), Mad (87), Meathead (87), Mummyman (87), Neon (87), Once (87), Radon (87), Shan (87), Xenon (87), X-Ray (87), Zacke (87). The Explorers were a cracker group that had at least a section in Sweden. If it was BASED in Sweden, or if there were other sections is uncertain yet. Extacy ------ HOL> Troop (also in Slash, 09/94). Polish coder Morris (08-10/93) was later (06/94) in Agony. Extasy (XTC, 1990-1991) ----------------------- FIN> Servant (supply, ex Fairlight, new 06/90). GER> Nam (early91). Extasy was formed around late may 1990 by Rockstar and Servant from Contex, after a brief stay in Fairlight. 1989 - Doyle left to form Trash late 89. 1991 - Around april or may, the group died and most members - Rockstar (crack, ex Fairlight, new 06/90), TMB (swap), Drake - left to form a new group called Victims together with members of Dynamix. Extend (EXT) ------------ FIN> Barfly (code, 12/98-05/01), Electric (gfx, 11/97-05/01), Junkie (12/98-05/01), Tape (code, 12/98-05/01), TBB (music, 12/98-05/01), Thor (music, 12/98-05/01). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - FIN> Barracuda (music, 11/97-12/98), Wide (music, 11/97-12/98). ???> Argon (12/98), Atte (12/98), Dr.Acid (12/98), Duce (12/98), Micke (12/98), Scapegoat (12/98). Extend are a finnish demo group, and among the best still active. 1993 - Dr.Acid left for Genesis Project in october. He must have returned to Extend at a later date, as the entry above should testify to. 1998 - The group's only contributions to the Assembly in august this year was a picture by Electric and a tune by Barracuda. The group saved its demopower at the scenes main event, and instead released "Orangi." [12/98] in december at the much smaller Zoo party. This strategy proved a success for them, as the demo WON the demo competition =) 2001 - The group won the demo competition at Escape 2001 in may with "Kuppa 2" [05/01]. Orangi. (1998, 06.12, Multifile demo). code: Barfly, Tape, gfx: Electric, music: TBB. Winner of the Zoo 98 demo competition! review: Now, THIS ROCKS! Electric's amazing graphics topline this demo, which also feastures a truly amazing piece of code - what appears to be a 3d scene, one of those 'inside the donut' things. Short but sweet, with a dead cool logo and two fullscreen pictures by Electric - this is a nice, neat package that fits nicely in anyone's download folder. Go! One of Electric's two fullscreen pictures, of the woman's face surrounded by eyes, is actually "My Trans", his graphics competition winner from Zoo 97! [glenn] Kuppa 2 (2001, 12.05, File Demo). code: Barfly, Tape, gfx: Electric, music: AMJ/Side B. Winner of the Escape 2001.fi demo competition! review: Oh boy. Disappointment, disappointment. Again, the saving grace is a fullscreen picture by Electric, but there is precious little else to recommend this one. They seem to have a little fun with an interlaced screen mode, but no good effects materialize from the experimentation - just some colors, and nothing more. But the real nail in the coffin is AMJ's horribly monotonous music... arrrgh. You can do so much better, guys. This winning the demo competition at Escape says a lot about the competition. It is not mentioned inside the demo that AMJ is not a member of this group, except for the fact that he is not on the memberlist. No name for his tune appears in the memory, just a copyright message. There were no graphics or music competitions for the 64 at this party, so the picture and tune are likely not released outside this production. [glenn] Orivesi (2001, .08, Demo). 5th in the Assembly 2001 oldskool demo competition. Extreme ------- ???> Delta (ex Deathsector, new 12/91). 1991 - Delta joined from Deathsector in december.