Magicians --------- 1990 - Swedish swapper Aktie left for Mute 101 around may. Maniacs of Noise (MON) ---------------------- HOL> Charles Deenen (music). ???> Jeroen Tel (music), Johannes Bjerregaard (music), Reyn Ouwehand (music). MON are the living musical legends of the C64 scene. Delivering music for heaps of C64 games, as well as paying their dues for the demoscene. 1990 - Laxity left the group for another music label, Vibrants, in september. Maniax ------ SWE> Chock (gfx, 08/91), Cory (code, 08/91), Dragon Fly (swap, 08/91), Drastic Art (gfx swap, 08/91), Goz (code, 08/91), Joker (Hans-Johan Haland, code swap, 08/91), Manopla (code, new 08/91), Riddler (09/91), Trasher (code crack train swap, new 08-09/91), Warlock (code, new 08/91), Woise (Daniel Ostman, code swap, 08/91). NOR> MJ (Helge Brede, early 93). Maniax are (probably) headquartered in Boden, Sweden, and has released some cracks. MJ was later in Iris on the Amiga, using the same handle. 1993 - Elwood and the rest of Motion joined the group early this year. 1994 - Authentic joined Excess in september. Future Vision (1991, 30.08, Multiload Demo, 8 parts). code: Manopla, Cory, Goz, gfx: Chock, Drastic Art, music: Markus Schneider, Maduplec/Nato, JCH, Tomas Danko Jr., Moppe/OneWay. review: There's nothing you'll remember for a long time in FV, I'm afraid. It's not BAD, just terribly average. Graphics are OK, but seldom anything special, and there is no exclusive music. Not bad, but not too good either. [glenn] Manowar ------- ???> Dwarf (ex Tristar, new 01/91). 1989 - The entire German section of Lazer joined 11/89. 1990 - Early in the year, Airwolf joined Orion and Ninja joined F4CG. 1991 - Martin and Christian joined Alpha Flight 1970 early 91. Ixon left for Oregon. Map --- 1989 - They left their position as a subgroup to WWE 11/89, and also simultaneously gained some new members; Dr.Hook/Damage, and Poison and Lee-Grand/Dream. Master Design Group (MDG) ------------------------- 1990 - They announced around july that they would concentrate more on coding games in the future. Matrix (MAX) ------------ Matrix was a cracking group, apparently active at least in 1989. 1989 - Luxor left for Virgin in december. Mayhem [old] (MAY) ------------------ USA> Gazoo (11/88), Judge Dredd (11/88), Jynx (11/88), Mustang (11/88), Stormbringer (code, 11/88). Boards; SMUGGLERS INN (usa, 11/88), WILD WARES (usa, 11/88). Mayhem was an American group that did some imports late 88. Mayhem [new] ------------ ENG> Roy (code, also in Bodycount, 05/93). ???> Jason (ex Motiv8, new 09/94), Primus (ex TRC, new 05/93), Web (new 05/93). 1993 - Roy joined Mayhem as his second group in may. Primus joined from TRC in may. Web joined in may. MCG --- Mr.Stack was kicked out when the group joined Paramount early89. He consequently joined Online. Mechanicus 2124 [new] (1993-) ----------------------------- Reborn by Mason/ex Epic with some of the old members in early 1993. Mechanix 2124 ------------- DEN> Groo (Claus Gregersen, code, 07/88). Groo coded and released the music editor "Sound Tracker ‘64". Megabot ------- 1989 - Some of their members joined SOS in december. Mega Power Design (MPD) ----------------------- MPD died in january of 1991. Beachtiger and Death Stalker joined WOW, Amarok is still looking for a group. Megastyle Inc (MSI, http://www.megastyle.biz) --------------------------------------------- NOR> Frode (Frode, old handle Price, 12/90), Lizard (Magnar Harestad, music, new 88-), Napoleon (Brynjar Olsen, code), Scroll (code, 03/89-early91). ???> Cycleburner (code, ex Contex, new 06/90), Sparkler (gfx, early91). MSI were a Norwegian demo group. Norwegian musician Lizard joined in 1988, and is STILL a member! (2002) Though he's also in TBL [amiga and pc]. 1990 - Dolla was kicked in july, and joined Warriors of Time. Wax and Pee also left this month, to reform their old group Reflex (no, surely not THAT Reflex =]). Fat Oddvar (Demo). Piece of Cake 3 (1990, Demo). Megaunit (MGT) -------------- SWE> Cascade (Mattias Ekloef, code, 04/96), Cyke (Robert Karlsson, music, 04/96), Ranz (gfx, 04/96). MGT are a Swedish group. Notewriter Collection 3 (1996, 07.04, Tool collection). code: Cascade, gfx: Ranz, music: Cyke. review: Not-bad, but ultimately quite useless collection...which Megaunit are the first to admit. The scrolltext reveals a lot of self-irony, which is good. The design for the selection screen itself is adequate, but could have been even better. A great touch is the way you see descriptions of all the programs as you cycle through them. This is not that bad. [glenn] Mental ------ 1994 - BTS (gfx) and Spinball (code) both joined Excess in september. Migges and Eurosoft ------------------- M&E were a cracker group, most probably just incorporating the two guys whose names make the group's name. I saw one crack dated 10/07/86. Probably from Germany. Miracle (MRC) ------------- DEN> Dangerous Dan (code, aka D.D.). HOL> Axel (code). ???> Dim, Dimitri, Face (swap), Mason, Tecon, Walt. Mob, The (-1990) ---------------- SWE> Bom (write, 90), Depeh (Göran, code gfx editor, 90), Metro (90). The Mob was a swedish group, likely based around the city of Skövde, where at least Depeh and Bom lived. The two were responsible for the birth of the diskmag Explorer. The first issue was release around may of 1990. The second issue - and subsequent issues - were released under the label of Antic, where the entire group The Mob had joined as a subdivision since the last release. Explorer #1 (1990, Filemag). INT - code/gfx: Depeh, music: "Mexican Dream" by Mok/Defence. MAG - code/gfx: Depeh, music: n/a, editor: Depeh (main), Bom. review: "Explorer" is a mag with what seems at first be quite a lot to read... But after a small while you realise that all pages are actually just 6 lines, and most of them are just announcements of things that will come in later issues. It's almost a one-man project, with Depeh doing all the coding, graphics and writing (save for one small corner by Bom). The magcode is simplistic, with space or joycontrol to progress through the pages, and the font is downright irritating. They've tried to be original I guess, but any mag really needs a well-readable font. So am I totally un-optimistic about this mag then? Well, the magpart really needs going over both in terms of its presentation and its content (the only real 'article' was an interview with Aaron/Fairlight), but perhaps in time this can mature into something. There are sparks of promise here and there (mostly in the writing), but it's far from realised. Keep writing Depeh, and we'll see what happens =) The intro is the best thing about it though, with a MOB logo at the top of the screen which changes colors, two THE MOB sprites jumping up and down on either side of the screen and a dycp-based scroller. Cool music, ripped by Acty/Royalty. I have no idea of a release date except it was in 1990. The mag comes in a single 106 block file. [glenn] Mocean ------ This swedish group lost their swapper Geggin to Censor Design around 12/89. Motion [old] (MTN, -1990) ------------------------- Motion was a finnish demo group. 1990 - Motion's cooperation with Browbeat ended in july, and (as a consequence?) Motion died this month. Finnish members AMJ joined Vision, Hawkeye and Stranger (both code, 04/90-) joined Beyond Force. Italian members Exat and Unicorn joined The Force. It is unclear what happened to finns Disc (gfx, 04/90-) and TMB (swap). Ingen Pant (1990, 14.04, Multifile Demo). Cooperation with Browbeat [details] Motion [new] (MTN, -1993) ------------------------- 1993 - Elwood and the rest of Motion joined Maniax early this year. Motiv8 (M8) ----------- DEN> Iceball (Allan Noer Nielsen, code). GER> TMG (Alexander Joscht, music, 04/96). USA> Grego (09/94). ???> Ibanez (code, 12/95-96), Larry (gfx, 12/95). Boards; IN LIVING COLOR (usa, 12/95), MOUNT OLYMPUS (den, new 09/94-12/95). Motiv8 was an illegal, cracking group. They also released some retro-cracks under the Motiv8 Quality (M8Q) label. 1994 - Grego, a resident of Texas, was having problems with the fbi around september, on charges of software piracy. September brought some internal problems for the group; first Tricket left and kicked them off 'DOMINIC', then their leader Crossfire was fired from Pronix Entertainment. Following this Peacemaker, Racoon, Vortex and Curlin all left the group for Alpha Flight 1970; Animal left and finally Fresh Prince was busted by at+t for calling cards (which means he's just swapping from now on) and SMD (gfx) left for Atlantis. The only ray of light in september was the recruitment of a new Danish ehq, 'MOUNT OLYMPUS'. 1995 - Ibanez released his tool "Scroll-Writer V1.0" in december. 1997 - In december, Crossfire (code crack, 12/95), Goat, Mendrake and L.A. Style were recruited for Fairlight. Musician MHD (12/95) is no longer a member. Movers, The (1987-) ------------------- ???> Amadeus (06/87), Drago (06/87), Pershy (code, 87), RGB Canada (06/87), Scanner (crack, 06/87), Skylab (gfx, 06/87), Zoff (code, aka General Zoff, 06/87). The Movers were a German cracking group that took the somewhat unorthodox route of being an Amiga group that started a C64 section in mid 1987. Moz(IC)Art ---------- NOR> Geir Tjelta (music, aka Predator, 89), Lizard (Magnar Harestad, music, 12/93), Trond K. Lindanger (music, aka IQ64, 89). Moz(IC)Art was a Norwegian music group. It was later revived by Geir Tjelta, exclusively to do a few tunes for the fabulous THX sound system on the Amiga. A WinAmp plugin is now available to play these great tunes on the PC too! 1991 - Quite a number of tunes were contributed to Beyond Force's demo "Anal Intruder" [04/91], released at the Horizon Easter Party. Mute 101 (M101) --------------- SWE> Aktie (swap, ex Magicians, new 05-06/90), Apache (06/90), Sledge (06/90). ???> Chique (ex Fullforce, new 05/90), Mike (ex VIP Division, new 05/90). Mute 101 was a swedish demo group, and is now dead. 1990 - Aktie/Magicians, Chique/Fullforce and Mike/VIP Divison [no entry were all recruited around may.