Galaxy ------ 1989 - Swedish Dr.Cool left for Censor Design in december. Galicya (GLC, 1995-) -------------------- POL> Adon (Marcin Pagowski, gfx, early-late95), Archangel (Krzysiek Tomaszewski, swap, early-late95), Blaze (Miachl Domarus, swap, early95), Gloin (gfx, early-late95), Hey (code, late95), Incognito (code, early-late95), Mr.Fiz (code, early-late95), Nazgul (Jarek Jedrzejczyk, gfx covers, early-late95), Nylu (gfx, late95), Praiser (Wojciech Wardynski, org music, early-late95), Scarlet (code music, early95), Sony (?, early95), Talbot (Jakub Hajek, gfx covers, early- late95), Tiamat (swap, late95), Zombie (Damian Pdraza, code, early- late95). Galicya is a group under the leadership of musician Praiser. From circumstancial information, I believe they were formed late 1994 and released their first stuff early 95. Relaxed Style (1995, early, Filedemo). code: Mr.Fiz, Zeor/Free Man Laboratories, gfx: Zeor/FML, Ollie/Chorus (introfonts), music: Praiser. review: Just like "Earth", this starts with the choice of a note or the production itself. This claims to be the first ever production from Galicya - in cooperation with Free Man Laboratories this time. This was also released in 95, but probably before "Earth" since it announces that Praiser, Zeor (who formed FML, as mentioned) and Scarlet are no longer members of Samar, but are in this group. The dentro itself is nothing spectacular, essentially a two-effect affair. The first concerns just a 'filter' the action seen through, in an effort to make a twirling line seem exciting =) The other is a much more interesting one, an original an wellconceived variation on the shadebob theme - with the shades being dissolved pixel by pixel after a time. Looks nice, and has a horizontal endscroller overlaid. Again, I have trouble with Praiser's music. [glenn] Earth - Talbot's First Logo Collection (1995, early, Multiload Slideshow). code: Zombie, Morris (note), gfx: Talbot, Ollie/Chorus (introfonts), music: Praiser (2tunes, both $1000). review: The first thing you see is a plain textscreen, from where you can choose to see a note (coded by Morris, presumably Morris/Agony, since noone by that name appears on the memberlist) or load the slideshow. Praiser's music for both is problematic for this reviewer; the note tune is monotonous, while the main tune suffers from a much too dominant bassline and rhythm, making what melody there is drowning in the 'mix'. The note is mediocre, seemingly trying a different approach with its squares, but ending up looking a little confusing for it. The show itself opens with a few screens of text in a big font, fading in and out before the logos start appearing. Talbot mentions himself that some of them are the very first ones he made, and on some of them - that shows. Most are a little 'samey', and you can almost see him working from logo to logo, trying out new approaches and techniques. These are very much the logos of an amateur, lacking the flair of more experienced artists, but also shows some talent towards the end. He needs to work on color-use however, with basically the same kind of 'palette' reused for too many of the examples provided. This was reviewed from a version placed on a disk called 'GALICYA WAREZ #1', dated april 1995. The production itself carries no release date, just a mention that it was to be released in december, but appears now - so any month from january to april is a good guess. It uses Exprolet/Agony's IRQ loader, and Hain/Elysium's depack system. [glenn] Gash ---- ???> Tim (code crack gfx, 11/88). Gax 777 ------- 1990 - Italians Gabriel and Ximox left for The Force in july. Genesis Project (G*P, http://www.genesis-project.de) ---------------------------------------------------- GER> 3DK (editor, ex Paramount, new 01/91-04/91), Airwolf (Norman Schnitzler, swap, ex Success, new 05/93-early94), Antichrist (crack swap, late90-early93), Jack Daniels (editor, ex Paramount, new 01/91-04/91), Roger (code, ex Tec, new 01/89), Scrap (gfx swap, 12/90-04/91), SES (code, ex Fear, new 12/90), Snacky (crack, 09/90-01/91), Typhoon (code, ex Future Technologies, new 12/90). SWE> Walker (Jonas Nordin, swap, ex Active, new 05/93-09/93). ENG> Dawsy (swap, 12/90), Deek (Richard Rinn, music, doublememb Vibrants, 06/90-04/91). SCO> Rimtrix (swap, 12/91). USA> Mizar (sysop 'MENACE 2 SOCIETY', also in Empire, 09/94). ???> Allanon (crack, new 10/93), Aslive (new 05/93), Bizzmo (gfx, later Crest, 12/90-04/91), Chouans (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Codemonster (code, 04/91), Dr.Acid (ex Extend, new 10/93), FGTH (crack, 90), Frankieghost (code, 01-04/91), G.O.T (rescene early 93), Henry (ex Centauri, new late89), Jity (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Mig (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Milios (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Motley (rescene early93), Opal (gfx swap, new 05/90), Punisher (crack, re-scene, new 09/94), Ray (crack, ex X-Rated, new 09/94), Satan (ex X-Rated, new 09/94), Scope (gfx, ex Triad, new early93), Slight (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Sorceress (sysop 'MYSTIC CAVERN', early93), Spirit (ex Transcom, new 12/90), Steam Hammer (swap, new 03/91), Stinger (ex Transcom, new 12/89), Techno (crack supply, new 04/94), The Goblin (swi? Sylvain, crack supply, 04/90-01/91), Tyger (crack, re 05/93), Zorlac (ger? ex The CFA [no entry], new early91). Boards; TUNNEL OF WARES (usa, 01/91), WILD WARES (usa, 04/90), WAREZ CASTLE (usa, 04/90), THE DISK SHOPPE (usa, 04/90). Genesis Project are a demo and cracking group. Shortly after Motley returned, there were rumours that he joined RSI. These are unconfirmed. 1989 - Late in the year, Sentinel left to build his own legal team, Icon Arts [no entry]. Also Boozer, Olle and Hires left the group due to problems with the police. They went over to being busy coding games for Amok. They were reinforced by Stinger/Transcom. Wawen joined from Warriors of Time briefly in december, but soon moved on to Dynamix instead. 1990 - In may, coder Raistlin (Robert Troughton, ex Oneway) left the group due to a lack of time. He later joined Amok. English musician Deek became a member of Vibrants in july, while still also being in GP. In august, Cyberpunk left them for Illusion. Lumberjack left the c64 scene in december. Also in december, they recruited two new German coders in the shape of SES/Fear and Typhoon/Future Technologies. Damien was kicked out due to lameness in december. Ninja joined Dominators, also in december. News in Censor's "Fatal News #7" [09/90] that he left the group would seem to be false. Deek made the music for games like "Thomas The Tank Engine" and "The Race" this year. In december, Slight, Chouans, Spirit, Milios, Mig, Punisher and Jity all joined from Transcom. 1991 - January saw germans Jack Daniels and 3DK join from Paramount with their popular diskmag "Corruption", a major boost for the group. Also in january, Snacky was hired by Digital Marketing to make a new kind of copy protection for them! The product is reportedly called "Neuro-Protect". March saw the joining of Steam Hammer (swap). Also early in the year, Zorlac/The CFA was recruited to take over Kampftrinker's job, since he quit. The ninth (and first for GP) issue of "Corruption" was released in april. Also in april, Veda left the scene. 1993 - Antichrist and Sorceress got married early in the year! Sorceress will soon have 'MYSTIC CAVERN' up again. Lots of people joined in may! Walker joined after a few days in Active, Airwolf/SCS joined, Aslive joined, Greenfrog joined and Tyger returned. In october, L.A.Style announced he was leaving for the SNES scene - the fate of his board is still undecided. The group also recruited Allanon (crack) and Dr.Acid/Extend this month. 1994 - Lots of things happened in the month of september; former members Satan and Ray (crack) returned from their memberships in X-Rated; The Goblin (supply) joined (identical to their previous member The Goblin in 1990?); The Punisher (crack, originally joined from Transcom in december 1990) returned to the scene and to GP; Techno (crack supply) joined, and finally after losing 'THE DUNGEON', 'MENACE 2 SOCIETY' is the new whq. Corruption #9 (1991, late.04, Multifile Diskmag). code: Codemonster (main), Frankieghost (intro), gfx: Scrap (logo, chars), Bizzmo (icons), music: Deek, editors: Jack Daniels, 3DK. review: This is the first issue of Corruption released under the GP label, after the two main editors left Paramount. It opens with a pretty ok intro, where the first text that appears is synced to the great music. Otherwise it's pretty ordinary, and a press of the space bar enters the mag itself. The menu is icon-driven, controllable with joystick or cursor keys (though the cursors strangely seemed more responsive?). A swift press of return or fire loads and decrunches the first article. Loading times are quite acceptable. The text itself scrolls vertically, and is controlled with the joystick at two different speeds. The content of the mag itself is fair, with quite a lot of news. Ofcourse, with four months between this and the last issue, that would be expected. The fonts are functional, and has good readability. Otherwise there's a party report, an interview with an American sysop and suppplier, and the usual 'letters to the editor' etc. The swinging Corruption logo at the top of the screen was a little unnecessary, though. It's nicely drawn, but ultimately a distraction from the reading experience. A fair issue. [glenn] Genetix + Vision ---------------- NOR> Dr.Feelgood (Espen Maier, early93). Gentlemen (GNT) --------------- HUN> Anarchy (swap, 90), Canny (90), Dr.Lucifer (swap, 90), Rascal (Peter Schalk, code, 90). Rascal released the "Gentlemen FX Byte Packer V2", and later the "Gentlemen Statistical Packer V1.0" (90). Giants ------ BEL> MMC (swap, ex Accuracy, new 12/90). 1990 - Belgian swapper MMC joined from Accuracy in december. Gloom (-1991) ------------- GER> Higgie (Hergen Oltmann, swap, 11/91). Gloom died in december of 1991 when the best members left to form a new group called Oxyron. Those who left for this group was Yazoo (gfx), Ego, TTS (code), Sodan (swap, ex Effect), Graham (code, ex Mad), Amarok (swap, ex Security), Dave (music, ex Oregon), Axis (code), Slide (code) and Sony (music). Glory [new] (1994-) ------------------- Glory is an american fixer group, that made a comeback after a long absence in september of 1994. Their starting member roster was Thor, Master Kracker and Shark, and their first release was a fix of a game from the equally brand-new cracker group Hardcore. Gothic Design ------------- SWE> Fozzie (music, 05/93). 1993 - Eliz joined Antic early this year. Graffity Produkt (GRF) ---------------------- HUN> Brian (Farkas Balazs, code music, doublememb The Imperium Arts, 90-12/96), Calt (Calt (Gabor Bolla, 93-12/96), Cheesion (12/96), Clarence (code, 12/96), Cybortech (gfx, 12/96), Jay (12/96), Ollie (gfx, 12/96). The people below this line are no longer members, the line was drawn at a memberlist published in the "Higher Love" [12/96] demo. HUN> Andrew John Fletcher (Adam Daviovics, code gfx music swap, aka Andy, 90), H19 (Zsolt Rozsnyai, swap, 90), Hepido (91), Jay (91), Matrix (91). Graffity is a hungarian demo group. Brian coded the sample editor DigiEditor V1.3 (90), and several versions of the Demo Music Creator (DMC). 1993 - In the first few months of the year, Brian decided to join the musiclabel The Imperium Arts as his second group, and contributed quite a few tunes to their release of "Zakplayer 3.2" [04/93]. 1996 - Bogyo joined Breeze late in the year. They released their comeback demo "Higher Love" [12/96] at The Party. Higher Love (1996, 28.12, Multifile Demo). code: Clarence, gfx: Ollie (main), Cybortech (pic, endlogo), music: Brian, Taki/Natural Beat, Peet/ex Chorus. 5th in The Party 96 demo competition. review: "Higher Love" is a short little demo with some interesting parts, worth mentioning. It opens with some quite amazing hires interlace graphics for the introduction sequence, before a few ok effects make up the rest of the demo. The ones worth mentioning are a supposedly new graphics system/resolution they call "Advanced Hires" (but fail to explain just why is so revolutionary), some vector spheres (akin to what was done on the amiga in 93, when they were so popular) and finally 400 vectordots making up a globe of sorts. They do claim 1000 dots a little later, but those look more like lines than dots to me guys... The note that accompanies the demo was written in a noter called Cadgers-Noter V3.0, done by Clarence/Cadgers. I guess it's fair to assume that it's the same Clarence that coded this demo... Music in the note is an exclusive tune by Fanta/Bass/Oxyron called "Clarencia". [glenn] Greaser ------- SWE> Anuba (swap, 07/90), Perch (swap, 07/90), Ra (swap, 07/90). Gridpoint Developments (1993-1993) ---------------------------------- Gridpoint was formed in may of 1993 by Danish brothers Duke (gfx editor, ex Dominators) and Dr.Zivago (code gfx). After releasing the first issue of "The Pulse" in june, they both left the group for Pandora, where all subsequent issues were released. The group ceased to exist, with only one release to their credit. The Pulse #1 (1993, .06, Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Zivago, gfx: Dr.Zivago (logo), Duke (charset), music: Johannes Bjerregaard/independent, editors: Duke (main), Psychobilly/Red Sector Inc., Brego/Red Sector Inc. review: Remarkably wellwritten, though perhaps a little short, The Pulse comes across as a magazine with quality editorial content. It launches you straight into the first page of the magazine, with no mucking about, and the JB music is also good. The top of the screen is graced with a THE PULSE logo that could have been a lot better than it is, but still not embarassingly bad. It's just...so standard. But the overal impression of this first issue is very good. It's nice to read news that mean anything again, not just 'xx joined yy'. Promises lots for the future. [glenn] Groovy Bits ----------- SWE> Danko (music), Karl XII (Patrick Wallström, code, ex Science 451 or Sphinx). Groovy Bits were a swedish demo group, most known for their musicians and their music routines. Late may 1989, Karl XII was on a swedish television program, where he exposed phreaking to the world at large. The Swedish scene reacted very badly to his appearance, and he was flamed a lot in cracktros from e.g. Fairlight after this.