Varsity ------- ???> Stax (music). 1993 - Vector left for Sunrise in may. Vaudeville ---------- ???> Azgar (gfx, 98). Venator ------- 1993 - Master Jay left for Elysium in may. Verdict (1991-) --------------- ???> Druid (founder supply swap trade), KRS (founder music supply swap). Verdict was formed in january of 1991 by Druid and KRS from Culture. Vermes (VMS) ------------ ???> Colabor (code). Colabor coded the painter utility "Super Hires Interlace Editor". Exodus (1994, 29.12, File). code: Trash, gfx: Harti, Trash, music: Eye. 2nd in the Elysium Party demo competition. review: Not a very good demo from Vermes this time, I'm afraid. Not really anything directly wrong with it either, it's just so utterly uninspiring and uninteresting. For every truly great demo you see, you sit through about a 100 boring ones. This is one of those 100. [glenn] Vibrants (1989-, http://www.vibrants.dk) ---------------------------------------- DEN> Drax (Thomas Mogensen, music, doublememb Bonzai, 89-09/96), JCH (Jens- Christian Huus, code music, 89-91), Laxity (Thomas Egeskov Petersen, music, ex Maniacs of Noise, new 09/90-08/94), Link (Klaus Grongaard, music, ex Cheyens, 89-09/96), Metal (Torben Hansen, music, 90-94). ENG> Deek (Richard Rinn, music, doublememb Genesis Project, new 07/90-93). Vibrants was a music group, formed late 1989 by JCH, Drax and Link as a subgroup of the AMOK music department. They quickly became one of the most successful music groups on the C64, at times rivalling the Maniacs of Noise for popularity. However, they were much more closely linked to the demo scene than MON. Some of their members later continued working under the Vibrants name on the PC. 1990 - English musician Deek joined in july, but also kept his membership in Genesis Project. Drax became a doublemember of the demogroup Bonzai, and Laxity joined from Maniacs of Noise in september. 1992 - JCH finally abandoned the c64 platform for the pc this year. 1996 - Both Drax and Link made exclusive contributions to Oxyron's demo "ReLIGHTening", released in september. Victims (1991-) --------------- SWE> Adolf (founder, ex Censor), Dr.Cool (ex Censor). FIN> Rockstar (crack, ex Extasy), TMB (swap, ex Extasy). GER> Drake (ex Extasy), God (crack, ex Dynamix), Roy (code, ex Dynamix), The Syndicate (code crack, ex Dynamix). Victims was formed early 1991 by Dr.Cool who was kicked from Censor, together with his friend Adolf/Censor and most members of the recently deceased groups Dynamix and Extasy. Virgin ------ ???> Luxor (ex Matrix, new 12/89). 1989 - Luxor joined from Matrix in december. Virus ----- 1990 - Swedes Twix and Sky joined Antic around july. Vision (VSN) [old] (1988-1990) ------------------------------ HOL> HPH (gfx, 10/88), Shock (swap, 10/88), TSM (code, 10/88). SWE> Bluez (ex Choice, new 05/90), Econ (ex Choice, new 05/90), Gryzor (ex Choice, new 05/90), Scooby (ex Choice, new 05/90), Status (ex Choice, new 05/90), Zagon (ex Choice, new 05/90). ???> Tomcat (ex Exact, new 07/90). Vision was a primarily dutch demo group. 1988 - The group achieved success with their very first demo, "Legalise It" [10/88] topping the competition at the MGF + JOY + WWE party in october! 1989 - Merlin left for WWE in december. 1990 - Cracker Jihad (Vision was his first group) was persuaded by Spitfire/Action to join Action sometime in 1990. Swedes Bluez, Econ, Gryzor, Scooby, Status, Zagon and Zinus were all recruited from Choice around may, though Zinus' stay was short - he left around june. Finnish AMJ joined from Motion, while Tomcat joined from Exact in july. Vision split up and died in november and december of 1990. All the good Swedish and Danish coders went to Light, and the entire german section joined Hitmen. WOW's "Internal #3" [01/91] wrote that RAF and Curlin (crack) had joined Hitmen, but in reality RAF never did. The mistake was cleared up in the next issue of Internal. Legalise It (1988, 17.10, Multifile Demo). code: TSM, gfx: HPH, music: various. Winner of the MGF + JOY + WWE Copy-Party demo competition! review: "LI" is an uneven demo, which shines more than it rusts, and is easily the best demo from 1988 I have seen. It's a multi-part demo, where the first part you load serves as an intro of sorts, and once you press space you are given a choice of loading any of the six other parts in the demo. None of these load further after viewing, but each can be loaded and executed individually. All code was done by TSM and all graphics by HPH, while the music is likely all ripped - and only with the correct credits given in two of the overall seven parts. After the intro, which is nothing spectacular, we will review each of the subsequent parts with their numbers as given in the selector: part 1 - We can assign no other name to this than tech-texh raster. It features rasterbars over large portions of the screen, while the middle features what seems like a 'band', don't know if it was done with rastersplits or whatever, but this band at least waves in a tech-tech like fashion. Music by Maniacs of Noise. part 2 - This one is nicely designed: the top half is occupied by a bouncing Vision logo with colors going through it, in a neon-light-like fashion. This is done over rasterbars, with a scroller over a starfield on the lower half of the screen. part 3 - This is the first 'wow' part, as it features a BIG colorful scroller at the top of the screen. Beneath this a blue Vision logo is given the tech-tech treatment, and below that again a blue planet travels from side to side. part 4 - This is rather unspectacular, with a VSN logo moving around the screen while exploding and imploding into itself... Below this is a scroller overlaid on a single rastersplit. part 5 - The best part technically, we suspect, this one brings a huge, big dotscroller top the top half of the screen! Vision sprites are bouncing around, and a great Vision-in-the-mountains logo rests at the bottom of the screen. I *KNOW* that music is on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't seem to remember who did it... =[ part 6 - The concluding part has the text 'VISION NO.1' pressed across the bottom two thirds of the screen, done in the same font as used for the large scroll in part 3. In addition, this graphics piece moves slightly from side to side. A scroller at the top of the screen has a 'pseudo-sine- scroll' effect, in that it kind of changes level half-way across the screen... oh just download and watch, and you'll know what I mean! =) What makes "Legalise It" a cut above the rest, is the good (for its time) graphics, the sense of design and the very cool coding expressed in parts like the dotscroller. It's simply just a cut above the others, and that is what makes it just a little special. They mention in the scroller (in the intro I think) that this was their first demo. [glenn] Vision [new] (-1993) -------------------- SWE> Midnight Mover (sysop 'ILLUSION OF REALITY', early93), Status (ex Light, new early92), Zagon (Magnus Lind, code, ex Light, new early92). ???> Cruel (10/93), Dishy (10/93), Diskbandit (10/93), Heavyhead (10/93), Hubba (10/93), Iceball (10/93), Icon (10/93), Mr.Smart (10/93), Ray (10/93), Satan (crack, 92-10/93), Wolf (10/93), Xoss (10/93), X-Radical (ex Nirvana, new 05-10/93). 'ILLUSION OF REALITY' is the oldest scene board in Sweden! 1992 - Zagon released version 6.3 of his charpacker called Visiomizer in february. 1993 - Danish Wave joined Camelot early in the year. X-Radical joined from Nirvana in may. Xoss was reported as leaving the scene in may (source: Bodycount's "Vandalism News #10" [06/93]), which must be a mistake, since I have a record of him still being in vision as late october. Droves of people left in may; Wave joined Camelot, Scope and Midnight Mover (sysop 'ILLUSION OF REALITY') joined Triad, Malcom joined X-Factor, while Satan and Ray joined F4CG. This last one is doubtful, as they are both recorded as members in october... Fairlight's "Reformation #3" [06/93] carried news that the group had died... Dr.Jones left in october, since he was unhappy with the activity of Satan and the group in general. 1994 - Zore (or Xore?, 10/93) joined Palace in september. Visual Reality (VR) ------------------- DEN> Tricket (Jesper Jensen, ex Dominators, sysop 'DOMINIC', 09/93). 1993 - Danish sysop Tricket joined from Dominators around september 93, after that group died. He is also the group's pr person. Visuality III (1993, Demo). code: Walt, others, gfx: JTM, Sanity, music: n/a. info: Third and last demo in Visuality series, apparently very good. Released in april or may.