Wanderer Group, The (TWG, 1987-) -------------------------------- ???> Detonator (01/88), J-Up (87), Lukullus (crack, ex Fantasy Cracking Service, new 12/87), Mr.Zeropage (01/88), Speedcracker (87), Rub (87-01/88), Tangerine (87), Tef (87), Trashian (87), Vip (87). TWG were a German cracker group, formed around 09/87 with members like Speedcracker (ex Trianon) and Starline. 1988 - Inside The Building (previously Rubberduck) left the scene in october. Warrant ------- SWE> Bagzy (swap, ex Disoner, new 06-07/90), White Lion (swap, 06/90). HOL> Raymond (ex Cruisers, new 06/90). ???> Wizzy (swe? ex Choice, new 05/90). 1990 - Around may, Wizzy joined from Choice while Loyd was kicked from the group. Swedish swapper Walker left for Paragon while Bagzy/Disoner and Raymond/Cruisers joined around june. Warriors of Darkness (WOD) -------------------------- ???> Marc (music). Warriors of Time (WOT) ---------------------- ???> Dolla (ex Megastyle, new 07/90). 1989 - Wawen left briefly for Genesis Project, before finally settling in Dynamix, in december. 1990 - Butch left for Atrix around may. Dolla joined in july, after having been kicked out of Megastyle. Rooster and Timtrax joined Bonzai around september. 1991 - Swedes Jadawin (music) and Powpin left for Padua around early march. Warriors of Wasteland (WOW, http://members.aol.com/skonarkows/) --------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Iceman (Stephan Hofmann, code gfx, 07/98). ???> Pfk (code music, 07/98), Vip (gfx music, triplememb Padua and Role, 07/98). BEL> Chacke (crack), Cruel (swap, ex Energy, new 01/91), Divine (Nico, code crack editor, 01/91), Einstein (Ives, mainorg swap, 01/91), Hires (gfx swap, ex Internal Affairs, new late90), Humanoid (music swap, 01/91), Jones (code crack swap), Rainman (ex Energy, new 01/91), Stormlord (swap, 02/91), Turricane (swap, 02/91), Yoga (gfx), Zod (digitizer swap). GER> Dense (swap, 01/91), Elwood (code gfx, ex Abyss, new late90-01/91), Scum (gfx), Vincent (gfx, ex Fresh, new 01/91). NOR> Unix (code swap, ex Quintex), Wax (swap, early 93). N-L> Airtec (Maarten Dries, swap, 01/91). ???> Alien (Stefan Konarkowski, music), Apollo (trade), Beachtiger (ex Mega Power Design, new 01/91), Birdman (new 01/91), Clive (new 01/91), Death Stalker (ex Mega Power Design, new 01/91), Hitch (code), Ispace (re- Duel, new 01/91), Jake The Snake (new 01/91), Kid (code swap, ex Orion), Mayday (ex Disoner, new 01/91), Pussyfooter (rejoined 09/94), Ranko (ex Akrak, new 01/91), The Overlord (code, new 01/91), Vinzz (gfx, 01/91), Witty (gfx, ex Lithium, new 05-06/93). WOW is a mainly Belgian cracking group, under the leadership of Einstein. 1991 - The first 'real' issue of Internal, "Internal #3 - The Next Generation" [01/91] was released at Venlo in january, announcing a.o. that supplier Ziggy (who had joined from Legend not much earlier) had left the scene. This left the group once again without an original supplier, but the group held had an internal meeting in Antwerp to discuss their supplier problems, and were confident that they would sort out their problems. The fourth issue of "Internal" was thus released at Venlo in february. Belgian swapper Tornado (01/91) left for F4CG early in the year. 1993 - Stormbringer joined Role, and Cruel joined Epic and Device early in the year. Coder and trader Pulse left the group from Excess in may. Witty (gfx) joined from Lithium in may, and contributed an intro picture to Bodycount's "Vandalism News #10" in june. Graphician Silver left for Red Sector Inc. in october. 1994 - Pussyfooter rejoined as coleader in september. Internal #2 (1990, .12?, Filemag). code: Divine, gfx: Vincent/Fresh (logo), music: n/a. review: This is almost an internal magfile for the group, but still made as a production. It opens with an intro of sorts, with a red WOW logo with two bizarre blue faces on either side on top of the screen, and what seems to be two border patterns occupying the space beneath it. You expect some text or something to appear between these two borders, but nothing ever does, so you press space. The main part is a simple mag routine, with a logo at the top of the screen and text pages that can be flipped between with + and -. Not much to read, mostly (as mentioned) internal news and memberlist etc. The mag comes with a simple note, written with a notewriter also coded by Divine, "Madness V5". The music in the intro is entirely forgettable, while the main tune is nicely melodic. This mag announces a lot of changes for the group, most notably the joining of Divine - the first issue of "Internal" was released for his previous group Unicess. Kid (ex Orion) joined; Scorpie (gfx, ex Crest) joined briefly before moving on to F4CG; germans Elwood and Scum joined from Abyss; Hires joined from Internal Affairs [no entry]; norwegian coder and swapper joined from Quintex [no entry]; Yoga (gfx) joined with Divine from Unicess; Ispace left the group for Duel [no entry]. Prior to the release of Internal #2, the group had experienced some problems; due to problems with their original supplier they were unable to make releases, and therefore lost their american section. This mag announced Ziggy had joined from Legend, thus giving the group a supplier again. A remark in the note lead us to believe it was released at Venlo, probably (but not certainly) in december. [glenn] Internal #3 - The Next Generation (1991, 26.01, Filemag). code: Divine, gfx: Vincent (intrologo), Scorpie/F4CG (maglogo), Elwood (big char), music: Image (intro), Prosonix (mag), editor: Divine (main), Einstein. Released at the Venlo Meeting. review: This issue IS quite an improvement on the last one, both as far as coding and content is concerned. The first news is that it is now published by Dynamic Design (DD), a WOW subgroup. It never becomes evident exactly who, besides Divine, is a member of this subgroup, but... =) This issue opens with a short, simple scroll informing us about DD and the release venue, before the real intro. They've used the logo from last issue's magpart, kept the borders from last issue's intro, and inserted a scroller inbetween these. The music is entirely forgettable. Space. The mag itself has gotten the biggest overhaul. First of all, it is now controlled with the joystick, which is a marked improvement on last issue's +/- method. The second BIG news is that this is now a REAL mag, not just WOW's internal mag (despite the fact that they've kept the name). This means increased editorial content; in this issue just news and a pretty uninteresting interview. The screen design is also new, there is now a new city skyline-style blue Internal logo at the top of the screen, with the words The Next Generation scrolling by. The news item about RAF/Vision joining Hitmen with Curlin is untrue; see the review of next issue for more information. This issue carries news of further big changes in WOW, perhaps most dramatically that Ziggy left the scene, again leaving the group without an original supplier. Members were admitted en masse, those whose joing was announced in this issue was: Vincent (whose logo was used in both the last and this issue) from Fresh; Hires from Internal Affairs (already announced in the last issue); Jake The Snake, The Exorcist (who promptly changed his handle to The Overlord); Birdman; Ranko/Akrak [no entry]; Rainman/Energy; Ispace/Duel (who rejoined); Mayday/Disoner [no entry] and Clive - 10 in total. Elwood was caught by both the post and the police, and so had to stop all swapping. [glenn] Internal #4 (1991, .02?, Filemag). INT - code: The Overlord, gfx: Vinzz (logo), music: none. MAG - code: Dicine, gfx: Scorpie (logo), Elwood (big char), music: Prosonix, editor: Divine (main), Einstein. review: After the uninspiring intro (OK logo tho') with absolutely NO music, for some reason, we reach a mag that hasn't changed one single bit visually since the last issue. Not only that, the very first page says 'INTERNAL #003'! This REALLY IS issue #4 though. The rest of the mag has not changed much since last time; the usual news and release charts are ever present. There is even two movie reviews this time, for some reason, for Home Alone and Highlander 2. The music is the same great tune as last time; sad they couldn't find a new one for each issue... They misspell Glerc/Science 451's name in the news section. There's a letter published by Curlin/Hitmen, clearing up a problem with the news in the previous issue, where it was claimed that someone named 'RAF' joined the group together with Curlin; this is untrue. Also this issue presented some internal news from WOW; Rainman has coded two games and is searching for publishers; Cruel joined from Energy; Beachtiger and Death Stalker joined from Mega Power Design. [glenn] Home Invasion (1998, 18.07, Multifile Demo, size unknown). code: Iceman (main), Pfk (intro), gfx: Vip (pic), Hogan/Reflex (logo+pic), Iceman, music: Pfk (main), Vip (end). 2nd in the Wired 98 demo competition. review: This lost out to Smash Designs in this compo, and we can't say anyhting else than that that was a totally fair decision. While "Outbreak" was an above-average demo, "Home Invasion" is simply an average demo. After an introductory sequence with mostly b&w imagery and a plasma-like effect combined with occassional tv noise to present the credits, we are shown a "H.I." logo before the demo loads the next part. This part was mostly done by Pfk. The first effect in the next part is a colorcircle-zoomer, done in 8x8 resolution, but quite nicelooking anyway... Then another "H.I." logo, this time in b&w. A nice shadebobs effect follows, a small poem and then onto a fullscreen pic by Vip. The next part has an awesome WOW 98 logo done by Hogan/Reflex, certainly the best image in this demo! Other than that, it features some tech-tech-over-rasterbars wizardry at the bottom of the screen and a greeetingsscroll. Then an otherwise unfilled screen shows us a poem, and then a picture of Bill Gates which is duly morphed into shape =) We end our show with a small picture of a dragon done by Hogan/Reflex, and a b&w image saying THE END with a little text overlaid explaining the name of the demo and where it was released. The demo comes with a note written using Nos Writer 1.1 by ZZR/Nitrus in july of 1996. It features the music piece "Sub" by Per Almered, which probably came with the writer. Iceman mentions a hidden part in the note, if anyone knows how to access this then we'd like to know =) [glenn] Weird ----- ???> THK (ex Opale, new 07/90). 1990 - THK joined from Opale around july. Weird Science ------------- 1989 - German Snoopy joined from Contex, but was quickly kicked. He is now known as Twilight Zone/NFC. Swedish coder Unifier left for Censor late 1989; he released a version of his program Contact Dealer for WS. West Coast Crackers (WCC, -1987) -------------------------------- SWE> HJ (founder), Mr.Pinge (founder crack), Nobody (founder), Zeb (founder). WCC were a legendary Swedish cracker group, formed from the group SCM. The founding members of WCC are believed to have been Zeb, Nobody, HJ and Mr.Pinge. WCC died in april 1987, when the two top crackers No.1 and Galahad decided to leave to form a new group, the legendary FairLight. The rest of the group decided to form Relax, and so the group itself ceased to exist. Willow (WIL) ------------ GER> Doc of Desire (Stefan Schauf, swap, 01/97), Floyd (Sven Tewes, mainorg music swap, 01/97), Scorpe (Sebastian Poschmann, 01/97). ???> Activater (gfx swap, 01/97), Assassin (code gfx, 01/97), Falk (gfx, 01/97), Gunhed Battalion (code music, 01/97), Mr.Quark (Alexander Teufel, code gfx, aka MRQ, 01/97), Shay CPC (gfx, 01/97), Shri Sadhu (code gfx, 01/97), Socrates (gfx, 01/97), Sony (code, 01/97), Sputnick (code, 01/97), Terror (code, 01/97), Torj Antilles (org code, 01/97), Zeitgeist (code swap, 01/97). Learning To Fly (1997, 17.01, Compilation disk). code: Mr.Quark, gfx: Socrates, Scorpe, music: High-Speed/ex Willow. review: We don't review many compilation disks here, but this one qualifies since it's made up entirely of own productions. Having said that, there's not much to shout about here, really. A few (old) utilities, a couple of (sad) game previews and there you have it. Nice graphics, ok tune, shitty one in the accompanying note. [glenn] Wizax (-1988) ------------- Wizax was a Danish demo group. 1988 - Just after they were reinforced by some of the ex-members of Jewels in september, the entire group left to join Dominators just two months later in november. Wolfen (WLF) ------------ SWI> Iron Cat (code crack music, 09/90). ???> HCS (09/90), Joshua (09/90), Mr.Fox (09/90), Smash (09/90). World Wide Expressive (WWE) --------------------------- ???> Merlin (ex Vision, new 12/89). 1989 - The subgroup MAP left in november. Merlin joined from Vision in december. Despite rumours, the group did not die on the c64 around november. 1990 - Early, Sonix and Red joined Cosmos Design. Wrath Designs (WD, http://www.wrathdesigns.net) ----------------------------------------------- SWE> Avalon (music, 91-92), Blackdroid (gfx, new 91-08/96), Clone (gfx, 07/00), Ed (Eddie Svärd, org code music, 12/94-02/01), Joe (gfx, 12/94-07/00), Oxidy (code gfx, 08/96), Stash (swap, 08/96), TMT (code gfx, 04/92-08/96). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - SWE> Dr.Widlove (09/91). NOR> Zinia (Eirik Reitan, swap, new 12/91-early93). Wrath Designs was a Swedish demo group, originally formed by Oxidy and Avalon. An amiga section was formed by Blackdroid and Zealot late 1994. Thanks to Blackdroid for information! 1991 - Norwegian swapper Zinia joined in december, and became the only non-swedish member of the group. 1993 - Graphician Black Samurai was a member for a few days in may, before leaving for Camelot at the TCC93 party at the end of the month. 1994 - The demo "Courtesy of Sovjet" [12/94], released at The Party in december, came in at a respectable third position in the competition. 1996 - The demo "Stupidity III" [08/96] came 4th in the competition at Assembly. Courtesy of Sovjet (1994, 28.12, Demo). code: Ed, gfx: Joe, Blackdroid, music: Pri. 3rd in The Party 94 demo competition. info: Pri is not a member, but the music is exclusive. Stupidity III (1996, 17.08, Multifile Demo). code: Ed (main), TMT (doom routine), gfx: Joe, Oxidy, music: Ed. 4th in the Assembly 96 demo competition. review: I can't really do a very good review of this demo, since it won't run all the way through when I use CCS64. Another problem concerns the fact that you have to disable the 'MAX 1541 SPEED' option, since the demo works almost in a trackmo kind of way, loading the next part while presenting the current. What little I did see, though, was promising - especially as far as the graphics went. But Lenin, Oxidy? And Ed's music is some of the most annoying 'techno' you're ever likely to hear :-) There is an enclosed note also, with code and music by Ed, and a title picture by Joe. Nothing special about it. [glenn]