3 Amigos -------The Squirt (2001, 15.04, Demo). Split 6th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. 4-Track Magic ------------Enjoy The Silence (1992, ECS Musicdisk). info: Depeche Mode inspired musicdisk with 9 tunes. 5th Generation -------------SPA> 007 (code, new 93), Evelred (music, later Darkness, 09/92), Excelsior (org gfx swap, 09/92-07/93), Gurumaster (code, 09/92-07/93), Red Devil (code gfx), Reset (gfx music, new 09/92-07/93). FIN> Lozenge (gfx swap). GER> YoYo (Paulo Garcia, swap pack, new 09/92-07/93). ENG> Slip-Mat (swap trade, old handle Flash, new 09/92-93). 5th Generation is a mainly Spanish amiga demoscene group, leading the scene in that country together with Darkness in the early 90's. Together the two groups also arranged the very first Spanish scene party 09/92. 1992 - Yoyo joined at the Darkness and 5th Generation Party [09/92]. Around the same time, Norwegian Dee-Lite left for Awe. Subgroup Necropolis (joined at the Southern Party 24-25.7/93') Armando (code, 07/92), Creator (code), Diego (music, 07/92), Skynet (code, 07/92), Reliant (Gfx), Softkiller, Warhammer. Course of Techno (Musicdisk). code: 007, gfx: Reset, music: "Tech-Power", "Perversion", "Universe I", "Dreaming", "Fanzine", "Reward for a Title", "Relative Transition" and "Total Control" by Reset, "Revenge" by Evelred. Revista Fanzine #1 (1992, 01.07, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Skynet/Necropolis, Armando/Necropolis, gfx: Warlock/Darkness, music: "Fanzine(intro)" by Diego/Necropolis MAG - code: Spanish Archer/Necropolis, gfx: God/Lloret Free Byte, Warlock/Darkness, music: "Agua" by Estrayk/Darkness. info: Presented in Spanish, cooperation with Darkness. Party Invitation (1992, 16.07, ECS File). code: Kustom/Darkness, gfx: Mage/AWE, Warlock/Darkness, Reset, music: "Party-Time2" by Estrayk. Made in cooperation with Darkness. Dementia (1992, 27.09, File).
code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Evelred (ProPacker 2 format). 3rd in the Darkness and 5th Generation party demo competition. Revista Fanzine #2 (1992, 27.09, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Reset (ProPacker 2 format), MAG - code: Spanish Archer/Darkness, gfx: God/Lloret Free Byte, Excelsior/5th Generation, music: "Phuneria" by Thorin/Darkness, editor: Gurumaster. Released at the Darkness and 5th Generation Party. cooperation with Darkness and LLFB. info: This mag announced the joining of Yoyo. Zardisk 8 Packmenu (1992, ??.09, packmenu). code: Gurumaster, gfx: Reset (logo), Excelsior, music: Evelred (pp2 format). Released after the Darkness and 5th Generation Party, containing releases from there. YoYo's Bones Pack #16 (1992, .10, packmenu). code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, music: Reset (ProPacker 2 format). Revista Fanzine #3 (1993, ECS Diskmag). cooperation with Necropolis, presented in Spanish. Revista Fanzine #4 (Diskmag). INT - code: Caronte/Darkness, gfx: Warlock/Darkness, Magnum/The Pirate, music: "D.M.A.3demo" by Estrayk/Darkness. MAG - code: Creator/Necropolis, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis, music: "Fanzine IV" by Reset/5th Generation info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Positive Logic (1993, 25.07, ECS Trackmo). 2nd in the Southern Party demo competition. code: Gurumaster, gfx: Excelsior, Reset, Evelred, music: "Reward for a Title" by Reset (ProPacker 2.1 format). info: This demo announced Necropolis had joined as a subgroup. Fatal Effect (1993, 25.07, ECS 64k Intro). code: 007, gfx: Excelsior, Reset, 007, music: Reset. 2nd in the Southern Party 64k intro competition. Revista Fanzine #5 (Diskmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Xim/Compumax, God/Lloret Free Byte, music: "Wake Up Life" by Starwave. MAG - code: Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, music: "Inner Planet II" by Estrayk/Darkness (4ch MOD format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Revista Fanzine #6 (Diskmag, 2 disks).
INT - code: Roman Soft/Lloret Free Byte, gfx: GOD/LLFB, Roman Soft/LLFB, Dardo/LLFB, music: Fermix/Intense (ProRunner 2 format). MAG - Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, music: Dolby/Darkness (Promizer format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. Revista Fanzine #7 (Diskmag, 2 disks). INT - code: Cain/Artifizial, gfx: Cain/Artificial, Dhan/Artifizial, music: "Fanzine Rules 2" by Cain/Artifizial. MAG - code Creator/Necropolis & 5th Generation, gfx: Reliant/Necropolis & 5th Generation, Creator, music: "Lost_Things3"108k)" by Fermix/Intense (4ch MOD format). info: Cooperation with Necropolis, presented in spanish. 7 Awards. --------WildFire (1993, 05.08, trackmo). 11th in the ECC93 demo competition. 9 Design -------SWE> Keldon (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap). POL> Look (swap). 10-Points. ---------Helis (demo). 23 Celsius Crew (23C, http://www.23c.org) ----------------------------------------???> Bart (ex Isch Crew, new 12/92), Destructor (code, 12/92), Frank Einstein (code gfx, 02/91), Harri Seldon (code, 02/92), Husky (code, 12/92), Moonlight (new 12/92), TNT (music, 02/91-02/92). 23C was a Hungarian demo group, with quite a few releases. They were also arrangers of the Hungarian Bash parties. 1992 - Hungarian graphician Nexus 6 (02/92) joined Frogs. News in Balance's "Magbox #1" [07/92] that he left to become the Hungarian division of Anarchy are totally untrue. Hungarian Fester (old handle Sledgehammer) joined Absolute!, where he would later become editor of Hungary's leading diskmag "Sledge Hammer". Megademo (megademo).
Terminator 23 (trackmo). Villed Factors (1991, .02, demo). code: Frank Einstein, gfx: Frank Einstein, music: "Huuuuuuu" by TNT (StarTrekker 4ch format). Contact (1992, .02, file). code: Harri Seldon, gfx: Nexus6, music: "Love" by TNT (ProTracker MOD format). Inside Anarchy (1992, trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Claps and Echos" by ??? (ProTracker MOD format). Moonlight Productions Born (1992, 18.12, file). code: Destructor, Husky, gfx: Bart, Magnum755, music: "On The Top" by Magnum755 (4ch MOD format). Released at the Bash 3 part. Party Contro (1992, 18.12, intro). Released at the Bash 3 party. 100% (1995-, http://www.1oo-percent.de) --------------------------------------GER> Anti-G (sysop 'OUTER SPACE', doublememb Bad Brothers, 05-07/96), Count Dan (sysop 'DAN'S HOUSE', 02/98), Devil (code sysop 'PARADISE LOST', 02-03/98), Dreamer (sysop 'CAFE DEL MAR', doublememb Supplex, 05/9596), Fate (sysop 'DIGITAL DUNGEONS', 95-02/98), Hellhound (sysop 'THE CRYPT', 02/98), Neurodancer (Alex Kunz, music ascii sysop 'AURORA BOREALIS' WHQ, 95-02/98). DEN> Daze (sysop 'THE 4TH DIMENSION', 02/98) AUS> Veg (sysop 'VERBAL VERBATIM', 02/98). USA> Adolescent (code sysop 'ILL COMMUNICATION', 09/95-02/98) boards; CONFUSION (ger, 96). 100% are mostly active on the board scene, doing utilities, doors and ascii/ansi for the bbs community. Their first releases came in 1995, when most members were double ones. 1995 - Neurodancer changed the name of his board early in the year, from 'THE AMBUSH' to 'AURORA BOREALIS'. 101 - The Maltese Hackers (-1989) --------------------------------101 ceased to exist when the group changed their name to Phaze 101 around the middle of 1989. 242
--SWE> Epix (swap), Opium (David Ljungberg, org). Subgroup of Saints. 2000 AD (2KAD) -------------DEN> Cash (code gfx, 91), DD7 (sysop '100 PERCENT' opened RAW4, ex-cosys 'VALHALLA', ex Crystal), Ozzy (sysop 'VALHALLA'), Raxor (ex Kefrens), Zany and Lynx (sysops 'SUSPERIA', ex Palace). SWE> Fix (sysop 'FASTLINE', ex TRSI, new 09/92-01/95), Master (sysop 'PRESSURE POINT', ex Anthrox), Mightymuz (ex Fusion, new 09/92), VCut (sysop 'ZOOMED REALITY', ex Submission, new early93). FIN> Crash (trade, 02/93), Ralph (sysop 'NIGHT CLUB', 04/95), Toneless (music trade sysop 'COMEDY ICELAND', 12/92-04/95). HOL> Sectorcharger (sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM' EHQ, ex Endless Piracy, new 09/9201/94). BEL> Mike (sysop 'WASTE GATE', 04/95). AUS> Spookman (sysop 'CHAIN REACTION', 04/95), TV & Revenger (sysops 'DAMAGING EVIDENCE', 04/95). ???> Anxious (code, 11/92), Art (den? gfx, 91), Deathjester (den? music, 91), Dusty, Elmore (nor? ascii), Exeron (ex Dictators), Heat, Mean, Melone (trade, doublememb Balance, but was Defekt), Network 10 (old handle Delirium, 10/92), Resize (den? gfx, 90-11/92), Sid (den? music, 91), Toms (ascii), Warlock (code gfx ascii), Zero (ascii). Boards; TRASH CITY WHQ (usa, 01/94), POWERHOUSE (usa), MADMANS SANKTUARY (ger), FATAL ILLUSION (ger), MEA CULPA (den), STATIC CHAOS (den), WARES UNLIMITED (den), WASTED TIME (fin). Guess Design seems to be an ascii subgroup, considering the fact that it consists entirely of 2KAD members, and the intro for one of their collections bore the heading 2000 AD. Members are: Warlock, Toms, Zero and Elmore, according to the intro. 1992 - Ozzy at one time, in mid to late 92, had Denmarks largest phonebill: 43,000 DKK! Dutch sysop Sectorcharger ('LOGIC SYSTEM') joined from Endless Piracy in september, and became the group's new EHQ. Misery joined in september, but his stay in the group was reportedly very short. Also Firelord/Danger Productions joined briefly in september. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART', ex Vogue) left for Dual Crew around october, while Danish sysop Circulator ('VIRTUAL REALITY') joined from The Silents. Danish Ozzy opened the board 'VALHALLA' around october with the help of DD7, who soon after opened his own board '100 PERCENT'. Danish sysop Energy ('NONSTOP
UP'N'DOWN'), who had joined from Cult in the middle of the year, was kicked around october due to hacking on some of their other boards! I have information that he was a member again in april of 1995... is this right? Delirium changed his handle to Network 10 around october. Swiss sysop Spider ('DREAM PARK') joined from Legend, but didn't stay long. He joined Crack Inc., who died, and was then asked to rejoin Legend at The Party 2 in december. Infinity joined Crime Devils. Austrian sysop Imagic ('FIRE AND ICE') joined Sceptic. Chard joined Lemon. 'THE FOREST' BBS left. Danish sysop Circulator ('VIRTUAL REALITY', ex The Silents) left and is now independent. Wize (sysop) was kicked/joined Limited Edition. Kitaro/Fairlight, Sysop 'MILLENNIA' joined, but later he, Tarzan (sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', 09/92) and Shock joined Skid Row. Danish musician Hellrazor joined Palace. He worked on the "Enjoystick" [90] and "Mini Demo" demos. Back in Bizness (1990, ECS File). code: Droid, gfx: Blitz, Droid, music: Odkin. review: 2000 AD's very first demo! Ascii/Ansi Collection #01 by War/Guess (ECS File). code/gfx: Warlock, Music: unknown. review: An intro for the actual collection, it seems. Still, I found it alone on a board, and so I'm reviewing it as an intro in its own right. It's very blue. Blue and white. Actually, it's just a textwriter with a SMALL font. Not very interesting at all... What IS intersting, though (considering I also edit AIR - check it out!) is the music format. I could not rip it with any of my rippers, indicating a new/nonstandard format. Hmm... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Enjoystick (1990, ECS File). code: Cruzz, gfx: Resize, music: Hellrazor. Droid's Mini Demo (1990, ECS File). code^gfx: Droid, music: Hellrazor. CosmoFlight (musicdemo file). Runaway (1991, ECS megademo). code: Cash, gfx: Cash, Resize, Art, music: Deathjester, Sid. Made by 2000 AD DK (Logic Systems). BBStro (1992, 10.09, ECS Intro). code: Kollaps, gfx: Tarzan, music: Kollaps/Focus Design.
Don't Reset (1992, 10.11, ECS Intro). code: Anxious, gfx: Resize, music: Mel'o'Dee/Shining. Pacmag #10 (1992, 24.11, ECS Chartmag). review: Pacmag is a Danish scene chartmag. Pacmag #13 (Chartmag). review: Pacmag is a Danish scene chartmag. Anti Analorgy (Demo). Released at the Analogy Hitech Party 92, some info said... But that party was arranged in 1993, not 92 - though Analogy arranged a party by themselves in 92... Abakus (1990-) -------------NOR> Comico (founder, ex Theatre, new late90). Abakus was formed by Comico/ex Theatre and Circus of Power (group) late 90. At least two small demos were released; "Unseen" and "Scheisse". Abandon ------GER> Lucifer (trade, 01/91), Sigma Seven (sysop 'LAST RESORT', 04/92). ???> Crap (code), Pothead (ex Anthrox). Abandon is a German group, initially active on the demo scene, but also responsible for a crack or two... For Your Entertainment (1989, ECS File). Potheads Beast (1989, .12, ECS File). Released at the Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam. Megademo (1989, .12, ECS Megademo). Released at the Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam. Musicmaster (1990, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the Vision, Dutchcrack, Sensor Party 90. Yellow Scroll Showtime (1990, ECS File). Ozone Coding (Firescroll) (1990, 18.11, ECS File). Released at the BS1 & .. Party 18.11/90 Bloody Data (1990, ECS File). Huge Pile Of Bull (1991, 07.12, ECS File). Released at the Prime Party 91. E.J.I.D. (ecs intro).
Crackintro (ecs intro). code: n/a, gfx: The Sarge/Fairlight (logo), music: Megawatt and The Sound Legend. review: This cracktro sports a nice logo by The Sarge, as its main asset. Apart from that it's not really anything special, just an OK intro, with just text and design elements taking up the rest of the screen. Get it for the cool logo :) There is no indication as to when it was released. The intro does not exit properly, just leaves you with a black screen and the need for CTRL-A-A... The intro reviewed was for the 100% fixed Quartex version of Kick Off 2 - Return to Europe. Found at World of Cracktros (http://cracktros.planet-d.net/). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Abnormal [old] (ABN) -------------------NOR> Andy (code gfx, later Absence, 90), Blackie Lawless, BLC, Eclipse (music, 90), Highlander, Hugo (music, 90), Izzy (gfx, 90), Monzo (code, 90). Abnormal was originally a Norwegian C64 demo crew, but since several of their members later emigrated to the Amiga platform a section was created. It's highly unlikely that the old Abnormal has anything to do with the new. Little Twister (1990). code: Monzo, gfx: Izzy, music: Hugo. Little Demo (1990). code/gfx: Andy, music: Eclipse. Scribble Sine (1990, 06.10, ECS File). Released at the No Limits & Imp666 Amiga Conference 90. Abnormal [new] (ABN) -------------------N-L> Dada (music, 12/94), Earthshaker (Michel Bojawal, music, 12/94), Househakker (12/94), Rotox (Rene v.d. Steen, swap). It is highly unlikely that the old Abnormal has anything to do with this group. Abnormalia ---------ITA> Macno (Alessandro Franchetti, editor, 12/92-95).
Abnormalia is the group dedicated to releasing Abnormalia diskmagazine. It was Italian writer Macno's new group after leaving Grace and 'Scene Lyrics'. While writing for his own mag, he is also one of the busiest contributors to several other leading mags, including having his own sections (ABNOminio) in RAW8 and ROM4. Abnormalia issue #1 (1992, .12, ECS Diskmag). editor: Macno. Abnormalia issue #2 (1993, Diskmag). Abnormalia issue #3.14 (1993, late, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Parsec/Mystic (2 tunes), editor: Macno. Abnormalia issue #4 (Diskmag). Abnormalia issue #5 (1995 or pre, Diskmag). code: Pitagora, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Absence (-1991) --------------NOR> Champ, Dma, EC Man (music), Zapper. Absence was one of the leading demo groups in Norway around 90 and 91. When the group died, Quest (04/91), Andy (04/91), Monzo, Mr. Man (04/91), MCS, HeadX and Wizax (03/91) joined Andromeda. Timewalker joined Dual Crew. They were reborn almost right away, as a swapper group with Goofy (Henrik Lie-Nielsen, 03/91) as the only member, but never released a real production again. Other small productions they made, are a.o. "Ball Scroll" intro, "Bob Plop" intro and "4 Round Color Equalizers" intro. Norwegian swapper Rob (new 03/91) joined Dexion. Meltdown (late 90/early 91, ECS File). code: Poltergeist/XLNS, gfx: Quest, music: Mr. Man. Cooperation with Excellence (XLNS). Reform Pack Intro (1991?, ECS Intro). code: Andy, gfx: n/a, music: EC Man. info: Probably used for earlier issues too. Reform Pack Intro #26 (1991, 11.03, ECS Intro). code: Wizax, gfx: Goofy (font), music: Maestro/Kefrens. review: This intro is really very simple; there's just a font plotter, some moving colors in two lines (top and bottom) and some copper fades in the letters to achieve a better look. This was a popular design concept around these times. Goofy's 1 bitplane font, the only graphics, is quite
OK, actually; I also like Maestro's music. Nothing special, but these oldschool intros tend to bring a smile to my face nonetheless :) This intro was probably used from this issue on, since it says 'Finally a new intro!' The intro also announces the joining of Rob. The pack is maintained by Zapper, Goofy and Quest. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Reform Pack Menu #27 (ECS Intro). Reform Pack Menu #33 (ECS Intro). Reform Pack Menu #40 (ECS Intro). Violator (1991, .04, ECS File). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, music: Mr. Man. Vector (1991, .10, ECS Intro). Absolute! (ABS, 1992-) ---------------------HUN> ADT (code music trade sysop 'LOCAL GRAVEYARD', doublememb Royal early96, ex Soc.Brigade, 08/92-early96), B2 Man (ex Live Act), Crm (code gfx, 08/92-04/94), Edge (code, 93-04/94), Ern0 (music codePC), Fester (Sos Balint, mainorg edit 'Sledge Hammer', ex 23 Celsius Crew, 93), Goophy (code, ex Cerberos Design), Jean (edit stopswap, ex Surprise! Productions, new early93-97), Lord (Peter Labos, org pack sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', triplememb Impulse and Crimson Jihad), Mc Green (music swap, ex Live Act), Petroff (Peter Wodzinsky, music, 12/93-12/94), Rack (László Molnár, gfx, ex Majic 12, new early93late96), Rainbow (ex Live Act), Sliver (ex Live Act). POL> Musashi (code, new late95), Scorpik. FRA> Mental (Eris Sassin, swap, ex Anarchy, new early93). NOR> Rancor (Kristian Loksa, music swap, ex Scoopex, new RAW5). AUS> 243 (trade sysop 'SOUTHERN COMFORT', new late95). BEL> Sike (trade), Spunk, Tilt. ???> Brian (music codePC, 08/92), Fate and Poko (sysops 'FATAL CONNEXTION', new early97), Popeye (raytrace), Sike (new 93), Spunk (new 93). Absolute! was formed around october 1992 by the best members of Soc.Brigade (ADT, Ben...) and Live Act (Asti, Viti...). They're probably best known for their hungarian graphician Rack and their diskmag 'Sledge Hammer'. There was actually 9 issues of the mag released in Hungarian before the first English release! After the last issue of SH had been released, there were some rumours and loose advertising for a new cooperation mag with Dreamdealers,
called "Cult". Fester would be main editor, and Napoleon from Dreamdealers would do the code. They also arranged the Hungarian party The Hammering in 1993 and 1994, and tried to coarrange Wildstock '95 with a pc group, but that party was cancelled. Rack has NEVER been a doublemember of Balance, as claimed in some mags. A mag released late 95 carried news that Lord and Fester were now main organizers. Who were before? Other small productions ABS has released include "Vector Dreamz" (file), "Utah Saints Fan Club" (AGA demo), "Party IV Report" and "Cult Special Partyedit" (2disk AGA diskmag). 1993 - They kicked all their foreign divisions, and are now 100% Hungarian late 93. 1994 - After travelling all the way to Finland for the assembly with members of Sanity from Germany, Lord released the 'slideshow' "Assembly 94 Slideshow" [08/94] soon after. 1995 - Graphician Skowron joined Funzine late 95. 'PALACE' BBS is not an HQ anymore (late95). 1996 - Polish Musician Scorpik (new late 95) left the Amiga scene for Pulse on the PC in late 1996. Pulse, incidentally, features many talented ex- and current Amiga scene celebrities, like f.ex. Lazur. Anyone with a Pentium gathering dust would be well advised to check out their productions. You might see a name or two you recognize :) 1997 - Early in the year, Jean returned from his studies in France and returned to his native Budapest. Mr.Now is not a member, as was stated in a a diskmag. Poko and Fate joined with their board 'FATAL CONNEXTION'. In Hungary, swappers Archibald (Bela Nadas Jr.) and Ben (founder, ex Soc. Brigade), coders Asti (08/92) and Viti (ex Live Act), musician T-Bozz (04/94) and graphicians Hamlet (ex Alcatraz, old handle Jaby, 93) and Hazel (old handle Mace) were kicked out due to communication problems. Hawk was kicked. German swapper and trader Star (Sascha Hoeppner) joined from Elysion 93, but got kicked and left the scene soon after. Rackler, Twilight and Doc. Holiday (all ex Wildfire, new early93), Rodney (gfx, ex E.M.I, 93), Twice (code) and DSN (gfx, both new 93) all joined Lego. Musication Vol.1 (1992, ECS Musicdisk). Pizza Place (1992, 30.08, ECS File). code: ADT, Asti, Crm, gfx: Crm, Adt, music: Brian. Clairvoyance (1993, ECS File). code: ADT, Edge, gfx: Rack, Rodney, ADT (some fonts), music: Twilight and
Doc. Holiday. review: Oh yeah! This must certainly be one of the best-designed demos ever! It almost seems like they've considered the position of every single pixel in the whole demo! The Hungarian graphics genious Rack delivers some of his best graphics EVER, and even manages to beat his own amazing 'Ray of Hope 2' font with an AMAZINGLY colorful one! I'm putting it up for 'font of the year' :) And I haven't even BEGUN mentioning the music yet! Guess what? It's an amazingly cool tune! It kicks in with a groove and a danceability seldom heard. AMAZING! The animation of the race car crashing is from the movie 'Freejack'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sledge Hammer #11E (1993, early, ECS Diskmag). code: ADT, gfx: ADT, Jaby, music: Chromag/Essence, Rancor/Absolute, editor: Fester. Vektor Dreamz (1993, late, ECS Intro). production: ADT, Crm, Petroff, T-Bozz/independent. review: This small crackintro (or so they claim...) is more a piece of weird design than a genuine Absolute production, but nevertheless... :) It seems like a small friendship production, done just to release something for the scene. There is no real stunning artwork here, and the whole thing seems pretty quickly thrown together. They mention they are all busy writing games, and have just squeezed this little prod in between their other projects. They mention that "Cream" will be released at The Party 93...guess it got delayed a little, eh? ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Swedish Music Disk (1994 or pre, Musicdisk). Hammering 94 Party Invitation (1994, .03, File). Cream (1994, 09.04, AGA File). code: Edge, Crm, gfx: Rack, Crm, music: T-Bozz. Released at Hammering 94. review: The graphics are definitely the strongest point of this demo, with Rack turning in some amazing pictures. With better code and, most of all, better music, this could have been something really special. The way it is now, that's not the case. Still, get it for the graphics! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 94 Slideshow (1994, late.08, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks). code/gfx/music: none, compiler: Lord. review: Lord stretches the concept of slideshows to the limit here, with this offering - this is basically just two disks with a copy of a shareware picture shower, and the jpg pictures themselves in a separate directory. The pictures are slightly funny, though - there are 18 of them,
some showing real scene legends like Slayer/Scoopex and Cougar/Sanity! About half are from the actual event, while the rest centers around the trip, mostly together with members of Sanity. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sledge Hammer #13 (1994, late, Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: CAT/Essence (title), music: n/a. info: CAT's title picture is called "Android". Wildstock 95 Party Invitation (AGA File). review: Though the invitation intro was released, the party itself was never held! Abstract -------POL> Booger (Arkadiusz Stanoszek, music). Absurd -----POL> Bta (code, later Appendix, new late97), Budgie (mainorg gfx ascii swap, later Appendix), Dziulas (gfx), Jumbo (swap), Opal (gfx music), Popcorn (music, later Appendix). SWE> Melfis (gfx ascii swap). NOR> Punisher (swap, later Apathy). ???> Diablo (raytrace, new late97), Mr.Kadde (music, new late97). Prism (1997, 31.08, ECS 4k Intro). Released for the Gravity 2 4k intro competition. Prism Part 2 (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition. Abuse (ABS) ----------NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Honey and Grotesticle, 02/96-05/97). FIN> Demolee (sysop 'MOS EISLEY', doublememb Nerve Axis [details], 0305/97), Ganja (music, doublememb Nerve Axis [details], 03-05/97). CAN> Coca Cola Kid (sysop 'NEUROTICA'). ???> Boheme (03/97), Choaxial (03/97), Darkman (03/97), Folar (03/97), Kamikaze (03/97), Lagers (03/97), Loop (03/97), Mr.Studd (03/97), Naig (03/97), Nik (03/97), Psyko (03/97), Radavi (03/97), Tapsah (03/97), Warhammer (03/97), Zeus (ascii, tag zS!, 03/97). Boards; FOURTH AVENUE WHQ (03-05/97), FEAR FACTORY EHQ (03-05/97), BATES MOTEL (fin, 03-05/97), NOTABENE (swe, 03-05/97), WILD PALMS DHQ (03-05/97), FREAKOUT DST (03-05/97), SPACED OUT (eng, 03-05/97), NORTHERN PALACE (den, 05/97), THE RUSH HOUR DST (03-05/97).
Abuse is an illegal cracker group. They seem to be based in - or at least have strong links to - Holland. Theis may be a long shot, but I'm willing to hazard a guess that Psyko is the sysop of BATES MOTEL :) Cracktro (1997, .03, ECS Intro). code: Mentat/Oops!, gfx: Zeus (uncredited, ascii), music: Ganja. review: Now this is more of an original intro! It features a spinning dotball in a small window in thr top right corner, a textplotter in the bottom left corner, and otherwise an Abuse ascii logo over that. The two windows are black with white text/dots, while the rest of the screen is in blue. Nicely different. Though it is not mentioned in the intro, Ganja was almost certainly a doublemember of Nerve Axis at the time. The version reviewed is from the Cedric AGA cd-rip (03.03-97). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abuse Intro (1997, 08.05, AGA Intro). code: Tycoon/Oops!, gfx: Hudson Hawk/Lightforce and Hellfire (pic), Typhoon/Oops! (font), music: "Block_Rockin_Chips" by Ganja/Nerve Axis and Abuse (4ch MOD format). review: Another simple intro, with just a an abuse logo/picture, and a text plotter overlaid on it. The pic is OK, but nothing stunning. This intro requires AGA, though I can't for the life of me see why. The release date and name is based on the version string within the intro itself. The version reviewed is for the crack of Spherical Worlds AGA/ECS CD-Rip (10.05-97). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abyss (AYS, 1992-, http://www.the-leaders-of-the-eighties.de/) -------------------------------------------------------------GER> Bartman (code, ex Pyrodex, 08/94-12/97), Cyclone (Holger Linde, gfx, ex Illusion, new 10/96-10/97), dRm (music sysop, ex Shoot, old handle Dreamer, new 12/95-12/96), Pink (Manfred Linzner, code music, ex Pyrodex, new 94-04/98), Poet (Simon Finkenstaedt, code, ex Pyrodex, 08/94-10/96), SMC (code music sysop 'ULTRAWORLD' WHQ, new 93-10/96), Spin (code, ex Shoot, new 12/95-10/96), Tyshdomos (Tisch Thomas, gfx, 08/94-10/96). AUT> Moon (code, doublememb Kinky late95, 05/94-10/96). ENG> Devistator (gfx ascii swap, ex Eltech, new late96-12/97). ???> Judas (gfx, ex Capsule? 12/98). Boards; INTERNATION CHAOS WHQ (usa, mid 96).
PREVIOUS MEMBERS Duke (ger Markus Knauer, swap pack, new early93-08/94), Falcon (ger gfx, early93), Kyle (ger code gfx swap, new early93), S.M.U.D.O (ger B. Baumann, swap, ex El Cativo/Submission, new early93), Sentinel (fin swap, ex Legend), Alloy (consoletester), Alot (gfx, new early93), Artline (gfx, new early93), Beatbrain (gfx, new early93), Cazal (music, new mid93, 08/94), Dragonfly (code, later Arise new, new early93), Kid Frost (gfx, new early93), Lou Van B (music, ex Arise, new early93), Mole (ex Agoa, new 94), Newcomer (sysop, new early93), Pencl (gfx, new early93), Sin Joiner (music, new early93), Skyline (swap pack, new early93), Sodom (code, ex Beyond, new early93), System X (code, new early93), TC (code gfx music, new early93), Vision (code gfx, later Arise new, new early93), Zystar (gfx, new mid93). Abyss was formed late 1992 by the best members of Arise (dragonfly, lou van b, vision ++), and Beyond, and released their first intro "Intoxication" shortly after, in the beginning of 1993. In 1994, the entire group Pyrodex joined. Pink was one of them. Dexter is the author of the amazing Abyss Highest eXperience (AHX, previously THX) music system for c64-like chip tunes, and Pink is the author of some of the best tunes for it :) Other small productions Abyss has released are a.o. "Delirial Desorientation" (packmenu intro), "BBS Intro", "Goagab" (intro, rel some weeks before the Party 3), "S.M.U.D.O" (demo), "Music for the Lost" (2 disk musicdisk), "Neurodancer Demo" (demo). 1992 - Protektor and Cardinal, sysops 'WORLD DOWN FALL', both joined Crystal in september. 1993 - Mr.Night was kicked due to lameness (mid93). Zeroflag (code, new early93) and Caro were kicked (mid93). 1995 - Qwerty sold his Amiga and left the scene late95. 1996 - German swapper Sting (Dirk Dallmann, ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95) was kicked due to inactivity in july. Norwegian musician Chris Meland (ex Spaceballs, new 04/96) was kicked in october. Also Jumping Pixel (gfx, new early93-) and Luka (Gregory Engelhardt, gfx music, old handle Mem'o'Ree, 05/94-) were both kicked due to inactivity in october. 1997 - It is a little unclear what happened to the membership of german graphician JCS (ex Scoopex, doublememb Syndrome, new 10/96-12/96), but he was in both Sector 7, Syndrome and Abyss in april - and not a member later in the year. Swedish multitalent (code/gfx/music/sysop) Newt (ex Crux and Subspace, new 10/96) decided to leave the scene to concentrate on his career as an in-line skater around 09/97. 1998 - In december, at The Party, German coder Dexter (Martin Wodok,
08/94-) released his last ever amiga production, the third-placed 40k intro "Cruisin II - Cruise In" [12/98]. Dexter was one of the original members of the group, and participated in most of its best productions. His leaving is certainly a major blow to the group, and he will be sorely missed as a true amiga scene devotee to the end. Big-Rat and Madstop, the "X-Files" team which doublejoined from Ethic (in early 97) have now left Abyss, and are now only members of Ethic again. German graphician and musician Toxic (Sven Dedek, ex Beyond, early9308/95) left Abyss for his musical career. There were rumors that he was back on the scene in the middle of 1996, but these proved to be untrue. The Jungle #7 reported that he was a Rebels doublemember in 1994. German musician and sysop Neurodancer ('AMBUSH', new early93-08/94), left due to internal affairs. As a consequence, 'ULTRAWORLD' is now the WHQ BBS (04/96). Later Neurodancer joined Looker House (06/96). Neurodancer made music for the demo "Drugstore" while in Abyss. German swapper and packmaker Skindiver (Andreas Schwarz, new early 9301/94) decided to leave the scene. He was, however, listed as 'editor' in the memberlist in "EuroChart #30" [07/97]! Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Bartman, gfx: n/a, music: Pink. review: Nicely designed, short and sweet, with a minimalist feel. This crack intro is in three shades of brown (two for the background, one for the font) and has two textscreens that alternate...and a THX soundtrack from Pink. That's about it folks! The same intro is also used by Pyrodex. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intoxication (1993, early, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: n/a, music: "Moog Gnirkel" by Neurodancer. info: The first ever Abyss intro! X-Ray (1993, early, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon (logos), Kyle (fonts), music: "L8neyetmovee" by Neurodancer. review: I'm sorry, but the music ruins this for me. The routines are good, I guess, but it lacks the sting or spark of a good production. There's no magic here, just cold techno. These guys can do a lot better. As a later upload to AmiNet of the module reveals, the title is supposed to mean "Late Night Movie". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Shocked (40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Swap & Dance Charts #1 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Hypno Flight" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #2 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Nancy You're So Trancy" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #3 (Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Moove Sukka!" by Neurodancer. Mona Lisa Was a Man (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). 22nd in The Party 92 demo competition. Warp 69 (1994, AGA Dentro). code: Poet, gfx: n/a, music: "4 Spirits" by Neurodancer. Dizneeland 1 (1994, .05, ECS Musicfile). code: Moon, gfx/music: Mem'O Ree (The Player 6.0A format). info: Included are the tunes Acidity, Black Heart, Chip Maniax, Dark Experience, Hard To Choose, Heavenz Tearz, Jello Coat, My Voice, Pass The Plugg, Pink Noise, Dizneeland 2 (ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pink, Mem'O Ree (The Player 6.0A format). info: Included are the tunes Alf Theme (pink), Amaretto Allergy (mem), Hysterical (pink), January '64 (mem), Journey (pink), Patience (mem), Soundz Like Fuck (mem), The Real World (pink), Trip To mars (mem) and Mario Is Missing (pink). Artcore (1994, 07.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Bartman, Dexter, Poet, gfx: Mem O'Ree (logo, font), Toxic (pighead, patterns), Skindiver (endfont, asciilogo), music: "ArtcoreTheme" and "Put on the Anchors" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). 13th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: My immediate reaction to this intro is 'nice design'. They've certainly managed to squeeze a lot into 40k this time, with not only a good intro, but two great tunes as well - none of which sounds the least bit chippy! The endtune is fabulous! Recommended. 13th!? Toxic's pig picture is called "Rocker Pig". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. DisIsSid issue 1 (1994, 08.10, ECS Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: no credit, music: Pink (The Player 6.0A format). Released at the Doomsday Party 1994. review: An outstanding release that manages to capture the C64 feel PERFECTLY - by emulating it in the same manner. If you didn't know, you'd never suspect what you saw WEREN'T an old c64 demo. Truly outstanding. Pink covers some true classics here, and comes out on top and with style.
There's some very nice graphics here, including a fullscreen rendition of Al Bundy from "Married With Children", though no graphician is credited. Tunes included are versions of Delta Highscore, Disco Zak, Disissid Theme, Turrican 1 end and Zamzara Highscore. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Swap & Dance Charts #4 (1994, ECS Filemag). INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Global Confusion" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Deep House 9" by Neurodancer. Swap & Dance Charts #5 (1994, .11, ECS Filemag). INT - code: Dexter, gfx: Toxic, music: "Spice Intro" by Neurodancer. MAG - code: SMC, Dexter, gfx: Toxic (title), SMC, music: "Tunnel Vision" by Neurodancer, editors: Skindiver, SMC. Return of the Space Cowboys (1994, 06.11, 40k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pink (2 tunes in The Player 6.0A format). Winner of the WOC Party 94 40k intro competition! DisIsSid issue #2 (1994, 06.11, ECS Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: n/a, music: Pink (The Player 6.0A format). Released at the WOC Party 1994. info: Included are tunes like Combat Game 3 (combat school?), Commando Highscore, Last Ninja 3, Sigma Seven and Theme. Dove (1994, 30.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Bartman, Dexter, Poet, SMC, gfx: Toxic (abyss and dove logos), Tyshdomos, Mem'o'Ree, Pink (raytrace), Bartman (raytrace), music: Pink (3 x 4ch ProTracker format). 16th in The Party 94 demo competition. review: The competition at TP94 was stiff, but I still think this deserved better than 16th. It's got nice design, good graphics, a nice unoffensive synth-poppie tune that's timed perfectly to some of the effects... It's not even boring! Tyshdomos' picture "Raped" that appears during the Jacko-part, was also entered in the graphics competition at The Party, where it came in at a split 10th place. All effects look VERY smooth and nice on my 030-50...but I suppose that's only natural when it was designed with an 020-14 in mind. The demo is split up into two parts, really, separated in the two files. The first part is the 'demo' part, while in the second one they poke fun at three other wellknown productions. It opens with a digitized animation of Pink going to buy a magazine at a big store (Virtual Dreams "242),
before it's revealed that the magazine is all about Beverly Hills 90210, and we're played a rendition of the theme (Melon Dezign "Romantic"). Then we're shown the credits in a screen design that's very similar to the one Sanity employed in SEVERAL of their productions... Though originally designed to run from floppy, hard disk installation is painless; just copy the two files where you want them and run. Couldn't possibly be easier :) Works fine on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Orange 8 (1995, Musicpack Demo). code: n/a, gfx: Toxic (title), music: n/a. High Anxiety (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Moon, Dexter, gfx: Toxic (title, abyss logo), Pink (raytrace), music: "Global Confusion II" by Pink (and 3 other modules, The Player 6.0A format). 11th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: The opening is certainly the best part of this demo, with the raytraced animation by Pink and the fast texturemapped tunnel ride the definitive highlights of the demo. There's a hefty portion of BLOCKY goraud shading here that's more embarassing than anything else. Pink's music is sometimes good, sometimes average, and there's a couple of reasonable fullscreen pictures by Toxic in there. If you check out the demo's WorkBench icons, that's one of them in a miniature. Not too bad... but I'm not too fond of routines that look THIS blocky! HA will work on any AGA Amiga with 2mb chipmem. The end module is "Global Confusion II", the module Pink competed with at Doom's Day 94! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Drugstore (1995, 12.08, ECS? 1MB Multifile, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: Toxic (abyss logo, disk 2), music: "Larry In A Hurry", "Space Hurrier!", "Minidancer" and "Sleeping World" by Neurodancer (The Player 6.0A format). Released at Assembly 95. info: Can be instaled to HD, but doesn't require it. All four modules were released to AmiNet by their author in 1998. Voll Crass (1995, 28.12, Intro). 3rd in The Party 95 Fast Intro competition. Indifference (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: Clue/indep (additional design), music: dRm (The Player 6.1A format). 13th or 21st in The Party 5 40k intro competition. Review: This is a very good intro. The thumping music, the good effects, the design... Most importantly, it does not fall into the 'advanced but boring' trend that has plagued intros ever since Pygmy Projects' "G-Force". There are some good effects here, most of which I'd guess were
real crowd-pleasers at The Party...unfortunately, I haven't fed the results into Scenery yet, so I don't quite know ;) There's some text in the intro file, presumably an error code, that says 'buy AGA or run SetPatch!', which has me hesitant if this an AGA or ECS intro... Therefore, I have refrained from categorizing it. Should work on unexpaned A1200's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sym'bol (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Bartman, gfx: n/a, music: "Symbol" by Pink (4ch ProTracker format). 21st in The Party 5 40k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dizneeland 5 (1995, 28.12, ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sweet Seduction" by Pink. Released at The Party 5. Pixelstorm (1995, 28.12, Slideshow). code: Pink, gfx: Toxic, Tyshdomos, Pink (design), music: Pink (4ch ProTracker format). Released at The Party 95. review: A nice little slide with pictures and clips that won the competition from a german computer magazine I damned can`t remember the issue... After a cinema-like intro you are able to slide through ten pics while listening to a cool tune by our allround genius Pink who also did the code, design and had the idea! You can do this with a comfortable selector (as in all good slideshows) with b/w preview and autoslide function! All settled in a good atmosphere of the well-known Abyss-style!! Tyshdomos (also Tisch Thomas) drew some cool, satiric fullscreen pictures like Michael Jackson in `Take care of your children`. The only bad thing is that Toxic made nothing more than clips but therefor with some funny ideas like the smoking nun! My favorites here are: `Peace!`, `Orbita` (a c64 revival!) and `Enjoy your meal`. All by Tysh... [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Think Pink (1995, 28.12, Musicdisk). code/music: pink, gfx: Toxic, Bartman. Released at The Party 95. review: This time Abyss gives us eight tunes composed and written by the multitalent Pink, whose last - and I am afraid to tell you that - for only about 13 minutes... With generally disco popsongs and some jazzy rhythms is this musicdisk really no highlight! Only standard Pink music. For the entire scene a rather good production but compared to the normal quality level of Abyss
productions less good. I like the idea for the title picture (I guess only germans will understand) by Bartman but the design by Toxic lacks of colors! Also it needs a bugfix because it only starts if the audio channels were not used before! My favourites are `Ego Tendencies 2` and `One Step Inside`. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Dizneeland 6 (1995, ECS Musicfile). Dizneeland 7 (1995, 10.07, ECS Musicfile). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Cradle of the Future" by Pink (AON format). Released at Somewhere In Holland 95...this can't be right? DisIsSid III - Getoese (1996, Music File). code/music: Pink, gfx: Cyclone. review: The C64 graphics style is as impressive as ever, it's amazing to see how close they've come to the C64 look and feel... The music, as usual, is first rate. There are 5 tunes here, all conversions of tunes done originally for the C64. Coolness doesn't even get close. I don't see why this shouldn't work on ECS, but I haven't tested it. Release date is an estimate; the scroller says it's been over a year since the last one [11/94]... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Blub! (1996, 07.04, 4k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Symposium 96 4k intro competition! review: The design is probably what set "Blub!" above the other two entries in the Symposium competition; the effect is certainly the weakest of the three. However, it does have an intro screen and some backgrounds, and most of the time that's all it takes :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Vertigo (1996, 27.04, AGA 4mb HD Multifile). code: Bartman (main), Spin, gfx: Pink (objects, textures), Cyclone/ iLLusion (main), music: Pink. 6th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. review: The first thing that struck me when I saw the opening of this demo was "Arte"! The opening bars of the music, as well as the graphical design, leave no doubt that this is indeed a homage to Sanity's classic. So, is the demo any good? It's a killer! Though it has excellent, advanced routines, it never forgets its true nature as an entertainment item. The design, the music, and the weaving together of the demo all indicate truly experienced demolitioners. Highly recommended. Recommends 030-50 or 040-25. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Little Floove (1996, 27.04, AGA Intro).
code: Bartman, gfx/music: Pink (THX Format). Winner of the Saturne 96 intro competition! review: Yeah! Short but sweet seems like the order of the day, and it's not a bad one! Here we have a rather fast phong routine, coupled with minimal but nice design and a THX tune by Pink - a rendition of the theme song from the TV series "Alf". I love it! Dum-da-dum...dum-dum-dum-dumda-duuum, da-da-dum... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Extra (1996, 13.07, 40k Intro). 2nd in The Summer Party 96 40k intro competition. DOS4GW.EXE (1996, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: none, music: Pink (THX format). 7th in The Party 96 mixed 4k intro competition. review: A definitive first! Abyss brings us the world's first ever 4k musicdisk...and the four tunes are actually good! The graphics are reminiscent of what you'd find in one of those old utility bootblocks, though at 4k I guess that's about fair. Outstanding! **UPDATE** - Contrary to popular belief, DOS4GW is *NOT* the world's first 4k musicdisk - Sapphire/Centolos was first with "MD4I" [07/96]! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Damn! (1996, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Azure (!), Spin, Bartman, gfx: Toxic, music: Pink. 4th in The Party 6 40k intro competition. Klub Diznee - Listen or Die! (1996, 28.12, Multifile Musicdisk). code: Dexter, gfx: n/a, music: Pink, DRM, Oxide/Sonik, Daiz'l/Mystic, Geir Tjelta (all in THX format). Released at The Party 6. review: Abyss' first original THX musicdisk is a goodie. You sort of know you're in for something good when the intro picture is a manipulated version of the Skate or Die title from the C64... There's some truly tasty THX tunes in here, and it's a real coup to have Geir Tjelta do a tune. For those of you who did not own a C64 and are therefore ignorant, young Mr.Tjelta was an OUTSTANDING C64 musician in his time. His greetings list here should be some indication! Strangely, there's no graphics credit even though they're certainly nothing to be ashamed of... Some text found in the intro strongly indicates a hidden game, but I haven't been able to find it yet. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Klub Diznee II - Competition is Gone (1997, .02, AGA Musicfile). code: Pink, gfx: Cyclone, music: various (too many to mention). review: I didn't honestly believe they could do it, but they've gone and done it anyway! They've outdone themselves and easily topped the first KD! There's a brand new code, this time by Pink, that's even better than
the original one, and this time there's a whopping 16 THX tunes for your enjoyment, from as many different composers. This means there's more variety here than in the original. The graphics are acceptable, being a combination of cartoony stuff with an unusual palette and a graffitti style. This is pure coolness, so go download it and become a THX addict! The tunes in this musicpack are all from the first THX IRC competition, held in early 1997. Pink was the winner, followed by Geir Tjelta. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. X-Files issue #13 (1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag). Cooperation with Ethic, see there for review. Abyss In Neverland (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition. Diskobox (1997, 30.03, AGA 40k Intro). code: Spin, gfx: Cyclone, music: Pink. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition! As Time Goes By (1997, 30.05, AGA Intro). code/music: Pink, gfx: Cyclone. review: Yes! Another winner by a crew that never ceases to amaze me! This small (130k) intro manages to evoke some feelings in an old scener's heart... 'remember when there was no c2p?' The special brand of Abyss nostalgia - remembering the good times without cloning yourself - seems amazingly fresh. Remember that these guys were the people that brought SID-quality tunes to the Amiga in the shape of THX! The tune here, however, is a more synthpoppy, funky affair. This was NOT released at any party, since they're trying to get back to the old times feel. Just excellent, right down to the 'partners in crime' text on their greetings, making us remember a thousand great cracktros over the years. I see no real reason why this should requires AGA, but it was situated in demo/aga on AmiNet, so... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kindergarden '97 Invitation (1997, early to mid, File). code/gfx/music: Pink (music in THX format). Invitation to the Kindergarden '97 party. review: One-man demo-making crew Pink does this invitation intro for a small Norwegian Amiga-only party! The intro is nice enough, with a small title screen with a fish jumping across it, followed by the presentation of the invitation text itself. This seems to be 100% identical to the text in the accompanying text file, so I didn't bother to read much of it in the selector. It's nice, but not extraordinary. The music is by Pink in THX format, so there's obviously nothign wrong with that aspect
of the intro :) The party was held from 03-06.07, so obviously the intro was released sometime before that. Unfortunately it doesn't contain any release date that I can see :( I have no idea if this requires AGA. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Klub Diznee 3 (1997, .05, Musicfile). Klub Diznee #4 - Beverly Hills Cop'ed (1997, 18.09, Musicfile). code: Dexter, gfx: Cyclone (eddie), Frame/C-Lous (logo), bartman (art direction), music: various (THX format). review: Opening up with a large, stylish THX logo, then continuing in style onto a greatlooking menu to the sounds of the classic Axel F tune! In fact this entire issue is dedicated to cover versions of this classic tune, presenting no less than 15 different versions all done in Abyss' own THX format =) I guess this is a cheap way to get product out there, inviting other people to do the work, but it feels good, so why the hell not? =P The tunes are, "Axel F.Unk" by Jazz/Haujobb, "AxelF" by Pink/Abyss, "Axel-F (P-Mix)" by Prodigy/Oops!, "Axel^D" by Juice/Phase^D, "AxelAxe" by Oxide/Sonik, "Axel Fooley" by Tommy/Spin+, "Axelf.uck!" by FreQvibez/Offence!, "Axl F.Body2Body-Version" by Android/3LE, "Axel Dooley" by Miao/Exlex, "Ackzell-Eff2" by Develin/Oops!, "AxelF" by Jerry/Rebels, "Fuck Me Axl" by Maniac/Crux, "AxelF" by Filou/H^M, "AXLF" by Grace/Crux and finally "Axel Schmaxel" by Kyzer/CSG. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. S.P.A.M. (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro). code/music: Pink (music THX 2.1 format), gfx: Cyclone, Pink (additional). Released for the Saturne 97 intro compeition. Review: We all knew Pink was an excellent musician - but he kinda took me by surprise when he proved to be an excellent coder too! This intro was made almost entirely by him, except for some graphics by the alwayscool Cyclone. There's some quite cool effects here, actually. Certainly a lot better than expected! The only thing I really didn't like about this is the irritatingly hard-to-read effect logos. These are one readable word and one that's not. Partikel what? A complete and utter nice surprise I hereby declare Pink the German Laxity. C64 lovers unite! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cruisin (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: Devistator (logo), Pink (3d scene), music: "Cruisin" by
Pink (THX format). 2nd in The Party 97 40k intro competition! review: Another excellent little intro from Abyss that doesn't try to be anything it isn't! This one has several THX tunes by Pink - which is never a bad thing - a colorful opening logo and a new kind of wireframe vector routine. It's not easy to describe, but rather has to be seen and experienced. I bow down into the dust. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Rise of the Rabbits 2 (1998, 12.04, 32k game). Released for the 32k game competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Family Business (1998, 12.04, AGA 40k Intro). Released for the 40k intro competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Extra Life (1998, 12.04, AGA Demo). Released for the demo competition at Mekka Symposium 98. Wildlife (1998, 28.12, AGA Demo). code: Pink, Kustom, gfx: Cyclone, Judas, Pink, music: Pink, Moby. 3rd in The Party 98 demo competition. Cruisin II - Cruisin In (1998, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Dexter, gfx: Wintermute (3d scene), music: "Wearing the Inside Out" by Pink (AHX format). 3rd in The Party 98 40k intro competition. review: "Cruisin II" opens with a requester for one of three "LineModeOptions". Your three choices are Burnin (classic), Blurin and Clearin. Not really knowing what to expect I chose the first (classic) mode, and off to the intro I went. It all opens with a humours sing-alongrendition of the classic theme from the movie "Ghostbusters" - here appropriately renamed "Gatesbusters". If there's something strange - in your network neighbourhood... =) Then onto the main part of the demo, which is something as original as a wireframe vector intro! It's not as bad as you might think, as there is smoothing and pretty cool colours around the wireframes (especially in the classic mode =), and...well, it's simply quite original! It's got a certain, little amount of...dare I say it...charm? I just find it amazingly cool of an established group like Abyss to have the balls to release a WIREFRAME intro in 1998! And with style too... Love it! The upscroller in the endpart (which is _NOT_ pausable with the right mouse button, as is usual in intros - that button exits, as I quickly discovered =P) reveals some sad news... "Cruisin II" is Dexter's last production for the amiga =( You WILL be missed, Dexter. [glenn+zito] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Academy -------
NOR> Patient (Thomas Knutsen, swap). ???> Aragorn, Azix, Dr.Kryptonix, Elf, Gringo, Metal, Native, Northcore, Saddam, Sherwin, Wildfire. Academy Norway is dead. Their board number later surfaced in Fraxion under the name 'MIDNIGHT CALLER'; sysop 'Jotes'. Other productions from Academy include "It" (demo), "Nice Music" (intro) and "Telephonic" (demo). The board 'FLASH POINT' is now in Axe. Phone Scrolller (ECS File). Bard In A Box (1991, 01.03, ECS Musicdisk). Accept [old] -----------1st Demo (1990, 28.12, ECS Demo). Released dor the demo competition at the Theatre & Network Party '90. Blit it (1991, 07.04, ECS Intro). review: Released by Accept FR. Little 3D Intro (1991, 08.04, Intro). Party (1991, 29.06, ECS Demo). Released at the Amega Party 91. Accept [new] -----------GER> Mr.Friese (Robert Friese, music, 04/96). SWE> Rabzi (sysop 'PROVOCATION'). ???> Murdock (old handle Wiseman). Fettes Saumonster (1996, 07.04, AGA Demo). 6th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. Access [old] -----------These two groups presumably have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Stranger (code) and Duke (modem) both left for Level 4 05/90. Access [new] (ACS) -----------------NOR> Darkelf (doublememb TRSI, 05/95), Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', doublememb TRSI [details], 03-05/95). SWE> Dansken (sysop 'HALL OF FAME', 01/95).
DEN> Playmate (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 04/95), Tax (Thomas Neumann, code), Zouf (Henrik Lynbech, music, 12/93-12/94). ENG> ANF 9sysop 'CHROMIUM'), Axeman (sysop 'PUBLIC EXECUTION'), Bill (sysop 'ACE-AMIGA'), Highlander (sysop 'INNER SANCTUM'). ???> Cybertracker (nor? doublememb Lisence, 01/95), Label (nor? 05/95), Rastan (code, 11/95). Norwegian sysop Kingpin ('CHECKPOINT') stopped being a (double)member sometime between 05 and 08/95. Symbolia (1995, 25.11, AGA ?MB HD File). production: Rastan. Released for the Misc 95 demo competition. review: Another "State of the Art" clone, with outlines of people dancing, overlayed on different sorts of plasma. In addition, there's endless symbols zooming onto the screen. The intro graphics (ACS Presents...) are all raytraced, and the music is crap. Avoid. Comes on two disks, and you have to join together the file in order to run it. Requires 'some fast'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Accession (ACC/ACS, 1988-, http://www.megabaud.fi/~lennu) --------------------------------------------------------FIN> Asterix, Avalon, DDT (Founder org, ex FIG, 11/91-98), Drifter (gfx, ex Complex), Evil (founder swap, 08-11/88), Illuminator (trade, ex Bomb Squad, doublememb Bloodsuckers, 03/94), Maso (music sysop 'FAST LINE', 11/90-11/91), Moku (founder, 08/88-03/90), Palex (sysop 'BAD TASTE', ex Mean Machine, 11/91-98), Starbyte, Turtle (music, ex Sonic), T.U.M.B., XYZ (founder, 08/88), Zebra (sysop 'THE ZOO', ex Damones), Zuffel (S. Koukonen, swap pack, ex Bronx, old handles Hotchkiss, Spot, Zanu, new mid93-94). ENG> Coaxial (org, ex Anthrox). EST> Nobleman (ex finland :) AUS> Acid Kid (ascii sysop 'SCREAMING METAL', later Honey). ???> Accident (98), Brainiac, Capitano (98), Chromium (98), Deature (98), DReam, Diablo, Divine (org, ex Sonic), Drone (98), Ice (fin?, ex Nemesis), Inspector (ex Scoopex, new 09/92), Iron Code, JayJay (gfx, 12/93), Liberator (98), Longplay, Lost Religion (sysop 'NIRVANA' WHQ, ex Crack Inc.), MadBoy, MATH, MrT, Nico (ex Decade, new 10/92), Obitus, Power Slave, Raiden, Silva, Slash (ex Scoopex, new 09/92), The Kid, TVR, WyreHead, X-Ray (gfx, ex-indep, 12/93), Zei (fin? gfx, 06/91-08/02), ZeR0.
Boards; PLASTIC FACTORY (ire), F.X. BBS (aus). Accession was a finnish demo and cracking group, born by Evil, Moku and XYZ of the former amiga section of Finnish Gold in 1988. When Divine joined in 94, he became the new organizer; later DDT would handle that job. 1988 - Evil got a nasty surprise from the Finnish post late in the year, when he had to pay postage for a bunch of packages with faked stamps... 1989 - Cool J (code), Santuu and Equalizer left for Unique in july. 1992 - Shocker and Turtle/Sonic, Inspector and Slash/Scoopex and Nico/ Decade all joined around september! 1993 - Nobleman and SOB closed 'NOBLE HOUSE' early 93. 1994 - Finnish swapper Poke (Veli-Matti Poikola, ex Alpha Flight, old handle Velsa, new mid93) was kicked out late 94. Finnish swapper and trader Zakka (ex Black Sheep/Alpha Flight, 93) joined Sonic. Zakka was also an earlier handle. Android joined Bloodsuckers. Skywalker (ex Nemesis) joined Crack Inc. Eddie (ex Nemesis) joined Damones. Vyvyan joined Damones. Maza joined Rebels old. Prospector (fin), Eddie, DDT, Target, Sob, Punisher, Rotor (usa sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD') and Shocker (fin code, ex Sonic, 11/93-94) left to form a new group. Eddie later rejoined. Anyone know the name of the group? DDT was a verified member in 1997, so he probably also returned at a later date. Shock joined Skid Row. Chamber of Horrors (Slideshow). Defender Of The Crown Crack-Intro (intro) code/gfx: Stelios/Scoopex, music: Larza. Heavymania (Musicdisk). Urban Cowboy (File). New Stuff Mini-Intro (1988, Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. Evelings 11 (1988, Intro). code: Xyz-Soft, gfx: H.Pulla, Moku, music: n/a. Bobs (new stuff) (1989, Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. For Your Eyes Only (1989, 12.11, ECS Intro). code: Nightblade, gfx/music: Adept. Released at the Gate Miniparty 89.
Bilbos Ultima (1990, 01.01, Intro). code: Bilbo, gfx: Pete, Bilbo, ??/Middle Earth, music: Adept. Black Hole To Noble House BBS (1990, Intro). code: Pehu, gfx: S.O.B., music: 4-Mat/Core Design. Return of the Living Dead (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Bilbo, Nightblade, gfx: Moku, music: Android. Fractal Frenzy (1990, .08, ECS File). Release at the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy Party 90. code: Starbyte, gfx: Neuromancer, Starbyte, music: Maso. Greed (1991, Intro). code: Starbyte, gfx: n/a, music: Maso. Sunwind (1991, 03.04, ECS 1MB Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Starbyte, gfx: Neuro, music: Maso. Graveyard Party Blues (1991, 19.06, ECS File). code: Papa Monster, gfx: Zei, music: Adept. Soft VodeoText Final (1991, 16.08, crackintro). code: Starbyte, gfx: Zei, music: Trashman. Made in cooperation with Skid Row. Suomen Lista #1 (1992, 16.02, ECS Chartmag). code: Starbyte, gfx: Dole/Sonic, JayJay/Frantic, music: "benefit pr0b\_em2" by Turtle/Byterapers. Made in cooperation between Accession, Byterapers, Frantic and Sonic. Crack Intro (1993, Intro). code: JayJay, gfx: Xray, JayJay, music: Turtle. Cyberzerk (bödersoft) (1993, .07, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Xray, music: Turtle. info: Crackintro. C.O.W.'s In Colors (1993, .10, Intro). code: Communist/BS, gfx: Reward/Complex, music: Turtle. Tunnel Demo (1993, .11 or .12, ECS File). code: Shocker, gfx: XRay, JayJay (font), music: Turtle (The Player 5.0A format). review: Aweinspiring intro/demo with just one real effect...but what an amazing effect it is! WOW! You travel down through a tunnel, and the tiles get darker the further you get in and it just looks absolutely gorgeous...and that's when the balls start bouncing at you! Amazingly great and polished. Just fabulous. I'm sure I've heard that chip-style tune before somewhere, but in a different mix and without those war-drums... hmmm. Anyone? The name 'Tunnel Demo' does not actually appear anywhere in the demo. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 94 Invitation (1994, mid, File).
code: Shocker, gfx: Marvel/Sonic, music: Purple Motion/Future Crew (pc). Accumulators (ACC, -1989) ------------------------ENG> Undertaker (sysop 'GRAVEYARD'). USA> Chronos (sysop 'DAMAGE INC.'). ???> Bod, Chameleon (crack, previously in Oracle, 07/89-02/90), Innocent Exile, Mike, Puppet Master, Scott, The Predator (crack, 07/89). Boards; BLOOM COUNTY (usa), PUTPOST (usa), CRYSTAL PALACE EHQ (hol), REALM OF IMPOSSIBILITY (usa). Accumulators was an illegal cracker group. When they died in late 1989, Razor 1911 persuaded Onyx (euro crack) and Zodact (usa supply sysop 'THE CASTLE) to join them. Accuracy (http://accuracy.gurcan.com/) -------------------------------------TUR> Bladerunner (gfx, mid91). Accuracy was a demo group based in Turkey, and is likely an amiga offshoot of the Turkish c64 demo group of the same name. 1992 - Turkish graphician Kris joined Rebels mid 92. Turkish Bloody left, and is now independent 09/92. Snipe (1991, ECS Trackmo). Acheron ------???> Acryx (code gfx, 90), Charon (code gfx music, 90), Psionic (code). Bubbas Oakim (1990, ECS Intro). code: Acryx, gfx: Charon, Acryx, music: Some1/Madness. Face The First (endcECS Trackmo). code: Acryx, Psionic, Charon, gfx: Charon, music: Charon. Released at Hackerence 6 in Harnosand, Sweden. Acid ---Acid was a Danish demo group that never really produced anything. Z.A.P later became Hille/Insanity.0 1991 - Z.A.P released a module for the competition at the Amiga Convention Summit in april, but was unplaced.
Ackerlight (-1989) -----------------FRA> Fred (Frederic Hahn, gfx music, 06-12/88). ???> C. Dryk (gfx, 12/88), C.E.O (org spread, mid88), Crocky (org supply spread, mid88), Dagon (spread, mid88), Dark Angel (code, mid88), Gojira (design, mid88), H.Syl (code crack train, mid88), Kebra (org gfx spread, 10-12/88), MC2 (code, 08-12/88), Mouse (music, 10/88), M.P 67 (code, 06-12/88), Oldrik (gfx, 12/88), Overloader (code, 88), Pat (code music, 12/88), Rasputin (design, mid88), R.V (code, mid88), Sato (spread, mid88), Solar (spread, mid88), Stranger (spread, mid88), Teacher (spread, mid88), Urgo (supply, mid88), Wild Copper (code, mid88), Willy (spread, mid88), Wolfie (gfx, 10/88). Ackerlight was a French/Swiss constellation, and one of the first good cracking groups. They released a cool diskmag (in French only), called "Akcernews". When they died in 1989, Anome 68000 formed a new Swiss group called Zenith.¨Some of the original members, however, formed a software company under the name Ackerlight Software, and released a.o. the game Wings of Glory! 1988 - Spreader Jean-Yves Chenu (aka J.Y) left the scene late in the year. Coder Sharlaan left for OMD 12/88 or 01/89, but still worked on the coop demo "Music Examples #2" with his old group. Space Bubbles Slideshow 1 (1988, ECS Slideshow). review: Contains scanned fantasy artwork from Boris Vallejo. Bards Tale Solver (1988, ECS Demo). code: H.Syl, gfx: ???/Wild Copper, music: n/a. Soundmachine Part I (1988, .06, ECS Musicfile). code: M.P 67, gfx: Fred, music: "st15/out run", "new horizon\nh", "bouncing ball\bb" and "long walk\lw" by Fred. Compact Disk 7 (1988, 20.07, ECS Packmenu). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Rasputin, music: Fred. Soundmachine Part II (1988, .08, ECS Musicdemo). code: M.P 67, gfx: Mr. Mistery, music: "st15/bouncing ball2", "dear rob", "ghosts'n goblins\gg" and "war and peace" by Fred. Compact Disk 9 (1988, .08, ECS Packmenu). code: M.P 67, MC2, gfx: n/a, music: Fred. 'Bob Morane In the Ocean' crackintro (1988, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Fred. Compact Eleven (1988, .10, ECS Intro). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Wolfie, Kebra, music: Mouse.
'Purple Saturn Day' crackintro (1988, .12, ECS Crackintro). code: Sharlaan, gfx: Kebra, C. Dryk, music: Pat. Ackernews #2 (1988, .12, ECS Diskmag). Firezone Merry Christmas (1988, .12, ECS Intro). code: M.P 67, MC, gfx: Oldrik, music: Fred. 'Action Service' crackintro (1988, ECS Intro). code: Over Loader, gfx: C. Dryk, DarkAngel, music: Pat. Music Examples #2 (1989, .01, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Sharlaan/OMD, gfx: Andreas Starr, Fred, music: "The Last Star", "Sunny Days", "Spacial Dream\Space Dream", "Space Harrier" and "Neon Lights" by Fred. Cooperation with OMD. Acme [old] ---------SWE> Blish (swap, 90), Charlie (gfx swap, late 90). ???> Carnail (gfx), Iluminator (music), Maze (code). Graphician Airbrush joined Alcatraz. Several sources (a.o. Static Bytes' "Eurochart #17") carried the news that the Polish Mr.Root (ex Katharsis) joined Sanity, a fact which was later denied in the news section of RAW4. Swedish graphics ace Mithrandir (11/90) joined Agile. 'Hudson Hawk' crackintro (Intro). Cooperation with Extensors. Reflection of Perfection (1991, .04, ECS Slideshow). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Slideshow (1991, 29.06, ECS Slideshow). code: Maze, gfx: Mithrandir, Airbrush, Charlie, Carnail, music: Illuminator. Released at the Amega Party. Megademo (1990, .11, ECS Megademo). info: Done by the Swedish section. Eggstasy (1991, ECS Demo). Acme [new] ---------HOL> Aap (founder gfx), Assa (founder), Infant (founder code), Lone Ranger (code), Radavi (swap), Ricochet (gfx), Simon, Simstim (founder code), Statix (founder), Vic (founder music), VV (music). GER> Chromag (founder music), JMS (gfx), Krash (code), Mind (code).
???> Assa (founder), Laxical (founder), McByte (founder), Zalt (founder). Acme was formed as an extension on the PC group of the same name. How's THAT for reversing the process ;D The group was born late 97 or very early 98. The name ACME was ripped from a skatebrand, founded by a friend of us (www.acmesk8.com). Acme Project -----------NOR> Splatter (gfx, ex Cadaver, new early94, Founder). ???> Bro' (ex Ivory, new mid93), Death (ex Chaos Designs, new mid93), Mohawk (ex Chaos Designs, new mid93). Acme Project was formed by Splatter/Cadaver and some others. Shortly after joining, Mohawk started a PC section of the group. Acrid ----???> Anguish (music, 08/93). Acrid is dead. Dan (ex Converse) was kicked. Mendrik and Siriax (ex Motion) joined The Elektronic Knights. Germans Technoimage (music, 92), Sketch (music, 92) and Fiver (gfx, 08/93) all left to join TRSI. Sketch and Technoimage worked on a.o. the "PhonOBomb III" (92) musicdisk. Slam (ex Atomic, re GEN6) joined X-Trade early 93. Phon-O-Bomb III (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Sketch, Technoimage. Information: "Phon-O-Bomb" was formerly a Violence production. It received a favourable review in RAW #6's musicdisk review. Action [old] (-1992) (http://www.action-memorial.de/) ----------------------------------------------------GER> The Swatch Man (Henning Schmidt, aka TSM, later TRSI, 08/90). ???> Bansai (code, 01/90), Blackthorne (ger? Michael Poldner, music, 08/90), Brainbuster (Frank Götz, code, 01-10/91), Dreamer (code, 01-10/91), MCPoint (Stefan Rittner, code gfx, 08/90-early91), Mogli (Mark Schrader), Peachy (Magnus Hironimus, code gfx music, later 0110/91), X-Man (gfx, 08/90). Action was a mainly German demo and cracking group that contained a lot of
future few names; 1992 German
German scene celebrities, most of which ended up in TRSI. Just a The Swatch Man, Blackthorne, Dreamer and none other than Peachy! - The group dies early in the year (one of the first four months). musician S-Sex (early91-10/91) joins Digital.
Rage left. Techno-One joined Amaze. Eddie and Ice joined Agile. Party Invitaion (1990, .08, ECS Dentro). code: MCpoint, gfx: X-Man, music: Blackthorne (introsong). review: Invitation to WHAT party? Action BBS & Members (1991, .01, ECS Intro). code: Bansai, gfx: n/a, music: "Poormouth" by ???. Megademo Preview (1991, 21.01, demo). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, Lynxx/Panic (vectorroutine), gfx: Zack Brewster, Stage4, Peachy, music: Zack Brwester, Stage4, Peachy "Shake It Stage4" (4ch StarTrekker format). Cooperation with Vamps. BBS Demo (1991, ECS File). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, gfx: Zack Brewster, S-Sex, music: Zack Brewster, Peachy (song). 'F15 II Preview' crackintro (1991, intro). code: TSM, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Confrontation (1991, 02.03, ECS File). Released for the demo competition at the Treacl-Panic party. code/gfx: MCPoint, music: S-Sex. Autum Conference 2 Invitation (1991, .07, ECS File). code: Brainbuster, gfx: Peachy, music: Peachy (NoisePacker 2 format). Action Menue 2.0 (1991, .10, Intro). code: Brainbuster, Peachy, gfx: Peachy, music: "Intro-Synth" by Peachy (4ch MOD format). Worldness X (1991, 20.10, ECS Demo). Released for the demo competition the Action Conference II. code: Dreamer, Brainbuster, gfx: Peachy, S-Sex, music: "WNsong00" by ???. Logo Mania (1992, .01, Trackloaded Slideshow). code: S-Sex, gfx: various, music: n/a. We are Dead (1992, .12, Demo). code: Dreamer, BrainBuster, gfx: Peachy, music: "R-Type" by Chris Huelsbeck/independent (TFMX format, ripped). review: Released under the S!P label.
Action [new] (1997-, http://zap.to/action/) ------------------------------------------NZL> Codetapper (code crack train gfx ascii docs, 10/97-04/00). SWE> Legionary (code crack train intros, 10/97-02/98), Elp (code trade, 10/97-02/98), Shastar (gfx music, 02/98). AUS> Tachyon (code crack train, 01/98-12/99). ENG> Decrator (music trade, 02/98), Teatowel (gfx trade, 01/99), Sarek (gfx, 04/01). AUT> LaCroix (music trade, 01/00). GRE> Hfestos (trade, 10/00). NOR> Fuzzbox (trade ascii, 01/00). Action was formed by Codetapper as a way to bring several AGA fixers together and collaborate their skills. Originally Action created single file AGA fixed games by re-releasing older, cracked games in 'ultimate' versions, fixed for the new generation of Amigas. In October 1999, Codetapper moved the group away from crack fixes and decided to use WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.org) as the degrading utility and to concentrate on patching original games (as well as a few cracks for good measure :) Too many cracks were found to be butchered versions with a lot of content removed. To this day, Action is still releasing quality fixes at the rate of about 1-2 per week! Thanks to Codetapper for information. 1999 - Scottish trader Hoju's last ever email arrived in january saying he had problems with his Amiga. He was never heard from again and was assumed to have quit the group. Australian cracker Tachyon left the group in december. 2001 - On january 1st, Viz released possibly the first fix of the new millennium due to NZ's time difference :) English graphics man Sarek joined in april. Action Direct ------------Hexadecimal Perfection (Trackmo, 2 disks). Action Force -----------Action Force changed their name to Cult. Activas ------Activas released several small productions, like "Fruitbasket Demo", "Gravediving", "Gravediving II" and "Wet Beaver Games".
Active -----Active released several small productions, like "Midsummer Glory Demo" (file), "Second is none" (file) and "Party Snacks" (intro). Aqua (swap trade) left for Phenomena ca 07/90. Active Minds (1997-) -------------------POL> Guma (old handle Draw), Hangman, Jacool, Robak (old handle Korball). Active Minds was formed late 97 by Jacool, Hangman, Korball and Draw. They are planning a new polish diskmag called "Szelest". Acume (1991-) ------------GER> Baraccuda (ex Freagles), Eazy-E (new 09/92), Executor (ex Trixamixt), Stone (ex Elicma). Acume is a German group, born late 1991. 1992 - Germans Stone/Elicma, Executor/Trixamixt and Baraccuda/Freagles all joined in the first two months of the year. Around the early to middle time of the year, Lucas left the scene, so DJT became the new HQ. Swoon left, while Eazy-E joined in september. Cruncher joined Chaos. Chuck joined Submission. Moonwalker joined Beyond. The Finnish division (born early to mid 92) is dead; Tachtal (T. Tiala, org swap, old handle DJT, 09/92) decided to stay independent. Addicts (-1993) --------------FIN> Autocrat (swap), Morgue, Yolk (ex Calibra). GER> Thunder. DEN> Beejay (music). BEL> Alligator, Fox. AUS> Anthrox, Cyborg (new 92), Ensino, Heavyweight (trade, ex Chrome, new 09/92), Image (org, new 92). ???> Beathawk (code gfx music), Chack (old handle Autocraft), Impact (old handle Beast), Keijo (ex Offworld, old handle Pifki), Salvatore (ex Alpha Flight), Yolk (ex Calibra). Addicts died mid 93. These guys have OFTEN had their group name misspellt
as just Addict! Their Australian division released one issue of the diskmag "Scene-ery" (Hmm, that name seems awful familiar.... ;), and also the German division released a couple of issues. 1992 - The Australian division was formed by Image, who is a real annoying character, I'm told... Then Cyborg, Overdose (music), another musician, Destructor (code) and finally Heavyweight (trade, ex Chrome) joined the australian division. Muttley, Subsonic and Hexagon left to form Disaster. Arti left in september. 1993 - The Norwegians Rage, Genious, Apollo, Noise, Law Breaker, Crunch, Nick and Mystra (ex Paragon, new 09/92) all joined Symbiosis early 93. Germans Kais and Spoiler joined Platin mid 93. Finnish Masque (ex Celtic Frost) joined Calibra mid 93. Overdose (Benedict Luke Stephenson) was kicked after 6 months as a member, then about three months later the entire group died. Musician Zic left. Drownie joined Regency. Xentec (ex Nuance) joined Tech. Finnish swapper Velsa joined Interactive. Mini Meeting Intro (ECS Intro). code: Beathawk, gfx: Beathawk, Hitech/The Family, music: Beathwawk. Cooperation with The Family. Intro (1992, ECS Intro). info: By the Australian division. Addonic (ADC, 1990-, http://www.addonic.de/) -------------------------------------------GER> Case (swap, 01-03/92), Crime Pioneer (ex The Silents), Devil (code trade sysop 'CRASHPOINT' WHQ, 11/91-07/93), Dragon (gfx swap, 11/91-01/92), Foster (gfx, 01-03/92), Giants (trade, ex Voice, 11/91), Hari (code cosys, 11/91-03/92), Hedge (gfx, 11/91), Hedgehog (ex Design, new 09/92), Highlander (code, 11/91), JamMan (gfx, 01/92), Larry (code gfx, 11/91-03/92), Leo (swap, ex Violent Wave [no entry], new ca 10/90), Old Spook (Erdtmann Toball, gfx music, old handle Zirbel, later E.Toball/Sanity, 11/91-01/92), Paradigm (tools docs swap, 11/91-03/92), Ray (code, ex Voice, 11/91), Rufferto (F. Brocksieper, gfx, later Essence, 03/92), Slider (gfx swap, 11/91-03/92), Striker (code swap, 11/91-03/92), Tab (gfx trade, ex Voice, 11/91), Trucidator (swap, 11/91), Two Flower (gfx, ex Survivor/The Silents, 11/9103/92).
SWI> Darkcave (code music swap editor, 11/91-03/92), Imagine (music, 11/9103/92), The Origin (code gfx swap editor, 11/91-03/92). NOR> BC (music, 11/91-01/92), Prowler (Thomas Johansen, swap, 92). FIN> Defex (gfx, 11/91), Dekay (swap, 11/91), Duplex (code, 11/91), Rocky (music swap, 11/91-03/92), Snail (swap, 11/91-03/92), Thomas (gfx music, 11/91), Ukulele (music, ex Amaze, 03-12/92), Uncut (gfx, 0103/92). SWE> Bond (code, new 11/91-03/92), Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG', 03/92), Dexter (Thomas Sandberg, swap, new 11/91-03/92), D-Mon (11/91), Exthalion (music swap, new 11/91-03/92), Faith (gfx, new 11/91-01/92), Fraz (code, new 11/91-03/92), Jac (sysop 'HYSTERIA', 03/92-03/93), Jam (sysop, new 01/92), Mr.Tex (code, new 11/91-03/92), Sacrilege (gfx, 03/92). POL> Dr.Cloo (music, later Pic Saint Loup, 11/91), Nugie (code, 11/91), Trantor (91). ENG> Hotspur (code swap, ex Coma, 11/91-01/92). USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'FORBIDDEN CITY', ex Animators). ???> Cocaine (sysop, ex SP-AI), Deicide (ex X-Trade), Desto (old handle Cain), Divine (fin? gfx, ex Sonik Clique), Dr.Avalanche (ex Animators), Mike, Pripps (trade, new ca 01/92), Roxy (ex Grace). Boards; JUNKYARD (swe). Addonic was born ca 07/90, as a merger of the two small groups Aquin and Overdrive, in addition to Yankee/ex Brainstorm. They were a fairly active demo group. At least 9 issues of their "Message Center" were released. VCut left his bbs 'ZOOMED REALITY' to a new sysop, Zool, who then joined VCut's previous group Equinox, so the board returned with a new sysop! 1991 - American sysop Q changed the name of his board '007 BBS' (ex Endless Piracy) to 'CRYSTAL MONOLITH' and joined Pirates mid 91. Rumours in "Trader #2" that Addonic UK joined Flashing Bytes is untrue (mid 91). The entire English division was kicked mid to late 91. 1992 - Sometime in the first two months of the year, D-Mon sold his Amiga and left the scene. Also in this time period, the board 'JUNKYARD' joined; Pripps (trade) joined and german writer and founder Yankee (ex Brainstorm) left for D-Tect; The entire Polish division of Amaze joined; Epidemic and Ukulele of the finnish section of Amaze also joined, though Epidemic quickly moved on to join Complex; also in finland, Legend (music, confirmed 01/92) and finally Index/Falcons joined. Phew! Norwegian musician Zak (91-) changed his handle to Scott and joined Spaceballs sometime between january and april. The finnish section didn't hold together for too long, and finally
died in september; Mac (swap, 11/91-03/92), Index and Gator (03/92) joined Stellar, while Legend joined Parallax. Also in september, German musician Chromag left for Dual Crew. Adventurer left for Gothic around october. 1993 - German trader and sysop Ronny ('FATAL VISION') joined Zenith early 93. 1995 - Finnish swapper Splatterhead (doublememb Triflex) left for Flying Cows Inc. late 95. Musician Jellybean joined Mean Machine. Norwegian swapper Nick (11/91) left for Spaceballs, but is currently in Offence new. XMan joined Passion. Swiss swapper Risk (ex Zeus, new late91-03/92) joined Tech. German coder Zulu (03/92) joined Devils. Mazon joined Equinox. Finnish coder Razer joined Alcatraz. Norwegians Dr. Chipblower, Archie (code), Alien (code) and Turrican (gfx, all 11/91-01/92) all joined LSD (92). Norwegian swapper Aqua (11/91-01/92) joined Vision. Swedish sysop V-Cut ('ZOOMED REALITY', ex Equinox) joined Submission. Silicon Implosion (1990, 01.08, ECS File). review: Released on the Swiss national day. Blasting Mind BBS Demo (ECS File). Copyparty Invitation Intro (ECS File). MovieDemo No.1 (Megademo). SpreadPack #48 Intro (ECS Intro). SpreadPack #49 Intro (ECS Intro). SpreadPack #60 Intro (ECS Intro). Message Box #1 (ECS Magchart File). Fractale (1991, 25.03, ECS File). Released for the CeBit 91 exposition. Spread Pack #50 Intro (1991, .05, ECS Intro). Released at the Maximum Pleasure Party. Jellybean Muzax (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Intro (1991, 16.11, ECS File). code: Nugie, gfx: Dragon, music: "maxell\poprawiony" by Pic Saint Loup (4ch MOD format). Released at Gdynia '91 party. review: This is a class example of 'if you can't do better than this, DON'T!' Seriously, I don't mean to be harsh, but come on: scroll, logo,
vector object? Please! Though the scroll clearly credits all graphics to Dragon, the intro itself has a logo signed 'Aragon'. Nugie's first production for Addonic. His English is not the best, making it hard to decide what he's trying to say at times. The intro needs KillAGA, but still destabilizes my system after exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Message Center 11/91 (1991, .11, ECS Multifile Messagebox). code: Darkcave, gfx: Old Spook (title, font), The Origin (font), Darkcave (font), music: Rocky (loader), ??? (main), editors: Darkcave, The Origin. review: This is the third Message Center, and another ok release. First of all, it loads for a while with an unexciting loadingscreen, before we press the left mouse button and is treated to a nice fanfare and an even nicer title picture by Old Spook! The 'mag' part itself is not very exciting, but that was hardly expected either. This is a messagebox, and as such there really isn't that much exciting stuff to read. Apart from the messages, there's a handful of adverts, a couple of articles in German and finally the group's memberlist. The best part is the title picture. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Message Center IV (1992, .01, ECS Multifile Messagebox). INT - code: Darkcave, gfx: Dragon (font), music: Legend (ProPacker 1.0 format). MAG - code: Darkcave, gfx: Old Spook (loadpic), Dragon & Jam Man (all fonts), music: "004" by Zak, editors: Darkcave, The Origin. review: Coding is much improved since the last issue, offering a wider variety of "articles". Nothing spectacular ofcourse, this is still just a messagebox, but at least an improvement on the prior issue. These were quite popular once, and this is not one of the worst. The intro is barely necessary, though. It's not good, and not bad, if you know what I mean. As it's just 22k, it would perhaps have been a better idea to link it in front of the mag and have the (not bad) tune as a selectable alternative to the one in the mag? The mag itself is not too bad either, though it's rather unexciting. The best part, I guess, is the B&W loading picture of a viking by Old Spook (later E. Toball/Sanity). Luckily the mag is not all messages, since that would have been thorougly boring for today. There's
one or two things of interest, like the French scene report. Conclusion: Not bad, but not terribly interesting either. The intro needs KillAGA. The editor does not work at all; seeing as it does not open its own screen immediately, KillAGA does not help. It doesn't crash, but you can't see what you're doing, so... :( The 'mag' itself is a little unstable. Sometimes it works perfectly, some times the graphics are garbled and sometimes it crashes when loading. Once it has loaded, though, I've never experience problems. Or advice is to use KillAGA, for safety's sake. The mag loader does not appear to have any problems with running from a harddisk, there's no assigns or anything necessary. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: See review for compatibility notes. Message Center issue #5 (1992, end.03, ECS Multifile Messagebox). INT - code: Darkcave, gfx: Dragon (font), music: Legend. MAG - code: Darkcave, gfx: Rufferto and Groo/Independent (title, font), Dragon (font), music: Legend, editors: The Origin, Darkcave. review: No code has changed since the last issue, except perhaps some improved compatibility. The intro is also the same as last time, so no surprises there either. The title pic this time is done by the later wellknown graphics duo Groo and Rufferto, and is a graffiti style tag. So, the box itself then - any interesting reading this time? Well, actually there are a few things. With each issue MC does seem to resemble a real diskmag more and more... The editors could be doing a better job, though. There are adverts for people who are no longer in the group (Aqua), and a few other strange things... Like interviewing the Swedish musician Dexter/Shining when they themselves have a Swedish swapper with the exact same handle :=) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Message Center #06 (1992, 13.06, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #07 (1992, 29.06, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #08 (1992, .12, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #09 (1993, ECS Messagebox). Message Center #9.5 (ECS Chartmag). The Winner Party Demo (ECS File). Generation #02 (1992, .08, ECS Diskmag). Epidemics New Intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro).
code: Epidemic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: Released by the Finnish division. Cebit 92 Party Slideshow (1992, 14.03, Slideshow). Message Center #05 (1992, .03, ecs messagebox). Prestige Cracktro (1994, Intro). code: Schizor, gfx: Devilstar/Virtual Dreams, Mr.Chain, music: Zarch. Cooperation with Triflex. Adept (1990-) ------------SWE> Galactus (code crack, ex Top Swap, 90), Mogwai (sysop 'STREETS OF FIRE', later Defjam, 10/90), Pilgrim (sysop 'THE GHETTO', 10/90), Sensei (org, ex Top Swap, 90). GER> Crime (ex The Silents), Pioneer (ex The Silents), Two Flower (ex Survivor/The Silents). NOR> Skykiller (sysop 'THE MAZE', ex Razor 1911, new ca 10/92). USA> Fuse & Insaneity (sysops 'EXTINCT', 04/95). ???> Bladestorm (trade), Dr.Clan (ex Fate), Honcho (train), Scarface. Boards; THE ILLUSION (swe, 05/90). Adept is a group concentrating on the illegal scene, and was formed when the members of Top Swap merged with Public Enemies. They were originally 100% swedish, but later took up some members in other countries too. 1992 - German coders Crash and Argon released the packer Flash Speed Cruncher in may. German swapper Tyrant/Palace joined in september. Dr.Avalanche (trade) joined from Animators around october, as did Cocaine/ Spreadpoint-Amiga Industries with his board 'FLYING SAUCER'. Germans Crime, Pioneer and Survivor all joined from The Silents around october, and Survivor immediately changed his handle to Two Flower. Norwegian sysop Skykiller ('THE MAZE') joined from Razor 1911, as did the sysop of 'FORBIDDEN CITY' in october. The three Germans Crash (code), Argon (code) and Mincer (trade) left the group for Complex around october. German Skyfox joined from Agnostic Front around october, after a 1-day stop in Gothic. Ice joined Alpha Flight. German Skywalker joined Palace. English graphician Azi joined Digital. Sledge (12/91) joined Crystal. German swapper Redman (ex Crux/Anarchy) joined Digital (RAW5). German swapper Tyrant (ex Palace, new 09/92) joined Defcon 1 (RAW5). Sultan (sysop 'FAM NETWORK') joined Alpha Flight (RAW5). Germans Decca and Sire joined Supplex (RAW4). Skyfox (ex Gothic, new RAW4) joined Dual Crew (RAW4).
Dr.Avalanche (ex Animators) and Cocaine (ex SP-AI) joined Spreadpoint with their board 'FLYING SAUCER' (RAW4-5). The Swedish section is dead, and all members (Stranger and others) joined Horizon late 90. Sine Rape Demo (ECS Demo). Soundripper Intro (ECS Intro). Brontopia (1992, 12.08, ECS File). Adict ----Fade To Black (file). Sound Series - Hopeful Town II (file). Sound Series - Nine Lifes (file). The Beginning (trackloaded musicdisk). Mayday Resistance (1992, 28.12, ecs disk). 19th in The Party 92 demo competition. Mental Rave Series Vol. II (1992, 28.12, ecs). Released at The Party 92. Admirals (ADM) -------------FIN> Dr.Titus, Obligator (swap). ???> Deep Runner, Icebass (ex Divine, new early92), Little Joe (music, 03/91), Megabyte (code, 03/91), Teasy (gfx, 03/91). Admirals was a demo group based in Finland. Their coder Deflex was later Multiplex/Chrome, and version 1.0 of his famous utility FileMaster was released under the Admirals banner! 1991 - Painkiller joined Venator, while Pilka and the rest of the south German division were kicked in the middle of the year. 1992 - Icebass/Divine joined early in the year. Finnish Snuffie left. The Finnish division died, and almost all members went independent. Mongerful Smile (1991, 24.03, ECS File). code: Megabyte, gfx: Teasy, music: Little Joe. Released at CeBIT '91. Party (ecs intro). Released at the Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic Party. Adroid
-----Psychedelic (1991, ECS Trackmo). Advance (1990-) --------------FIN> Mr.Head (music). Advance was a Finnish demo group, where most of the original six members were Judge (gfx), Banzai (code), Zoltar (music), Tom (code gfx), Mr.Head (code) and Mr.Sam (gfx). Everyone except Mr.Sam came from Doom. When Advance died, Tom, Banzai and Zoltar joined Complex; Mr.Head, Som and Judge remain groupless. Our First Production/Partydemo (1990, 12.08, ECS File). code: Tom, gfx: Mr.Sam (font), music: "Angeldust" by Zoltar (4ch MOD format). Released at the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy - Grendel Party II. review: I didn't get to see much of this small demo; after starting it once and finding I'd need KillAGA to view it correctly (the scrollers were garbled), I did just that. I saw a few seconds of the demo, with a scroller at the top, most of the screen occupied by some plasma-like effect and an "Advance" linevectorlogo at the very bottom, then it crashed. So That's pretty much it :) The music was nothing special. This demo was released twice at this party, with slightly different scrolltexts - hence the two titles at the top. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! Beast (1990, .10, ECS File). Beast Final (ECS File). Filled Vectors (ECS Intro). Advanced Chemistry (AC) ----------------------???> Ferris (train). The only production I've ever seen from this group was a crackintro for the game Pinkie. Aeon ---Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit. The name was assumed on 01/10-90. TEW was busted, and as a result the German division died (mid 90). Aero [old]
---------FIN> Gambler (swap, new mid 91). DEN> Phalcon (ex Cave, new mid 91). ???> Cenobite (ex Prime), Iceman (code, new mid 91), Joyboy, Red Devil (ex Prime), Warlord. Gargoyle joined Parasite. Danes The Master (code), Bionic (code, new mid 91) and Cyborg (swap) all joined The Silents in early 92. Fatal Overdrive (Trackmo, 1 or 2 disks (?)). Fede Farver (File). Stereo Evolution II (ECS File). Aero [new] ---------Since there is no indication whether this Aero is the same as the ones above, not heard from in years, I've chosen to let these guys have a separate entry...for now. Spaceman (1996, Demo). 3rd in the Convention 96 demo competition. Aesthetica ---------Fractal Attraction (40k Intro). Intel Inside (File). After Eights -----------This is a Norwegian joke group, consisting of these members: Benning, Blekkulf, Dr.Death, Hippleif, HurapLeif, Justin Time, Pa-Tryne, Repoman, Skallabank, The Nurse, Titten Tei, (Ingolf). They've released quite a lot of weird stuff in Wild Compos around Norway. Aftershock ---------???> Bucky (trade), Klipper (supply), Korb (gfx ascii), Max (crack h/p/a), m0sh (crack supply), Phlegm (trade), Spritz (trade), Steddy-1 (crack supply music), Zink (mainorg sysop). Agency -----NOR> Ciccone.
Agency was a mainly Norwegian group, with some Norwegian elite boards. Boards; ALIVE WHQ (nor, 01/94), MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE (nor), STATE OF LOVE & TRUST (nor). Agile (AGL, 1990-1993) ---------------------SWE> Badamon (ex Energy), Beltram (ex Energy), Mithrandir (gfx, ex Energy or Acme), Mogwai (sysop 'STREETS OF FIRE', ex Defjam). BEL> Mad Shitbrain and TCB (sysops 'METAL IMPACT', ex Energy). N-L> BamBam (sysop 'DOWNTOWN', ex Quartex). ENG> Rat (sysop 'THE PIT'), Spidey (supply, later Tutoff/Crystal). GER> Malzam and Andy (sysops 'REIGN IN BLOOD'). CAN> Molten Ice (sysop 'AMIGA NORTH'). ITA> Batman (sysop 'GOTHAM CITY', ex Legend). USA> Groo (sysop 'HOLLOW WORLD'), The Mighty Quinn (sysop 'ILLICIT ILLUSION', 04/95). ???> Conqueror (crack, 03/91), God, Steve, Storm, Ted (code). Agile Amiga was founded by Elric in 1990. After he got busted in May 89, he bought an Amiga and set up Agile. In late 93, the group merged into Quartex and ceased to exist in its own right. Optima joined LSD. Finnish traders Eddie and Ice (both ex Action, 07/91) left. They were later in Damones. Captain Midnight left the scene. Zike, sysop of 'PLEASURE DOME' left the scene. American sysop Pizzaman ('FLATLINERS') joined Fairlight. Sabbath and Undertaker (new! back from bust as Image/Quartex sysop 'IMAGEWORKS') (sysops 'GRAVEYARD') joined Fusion. Fred and some others decided to go legal, and therefore joined Atlantys. Twister, sysop 'FLASHBACK', joined Razor 1911 old, but soon moved on to join Vision. All French members; Alex, Kid, Patriot and Shocker, joined Quartex late 91. Another source claimed Shocker joined Infinite Perfection, and in Freedom Crack #8 it was claimed he joined Insanity Perfection... Rockstar joined Coma mid 91. Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: Ted, gfx: n/a, music: n/a C64 Style Crack Intro (Intro). 'Cricket Amiga' Crack Diagonal Copper (1991, .05, ECS Intro).
'Gods' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Switchblade II' crackintro (ECS Intro). First Letters (Intro). Sinus (Intro). 'Miami Chase' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Mega Traveller' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Goodo' Crack Intro (ECS Intro). 'Demoniak' Crack Intro (Intro). Agnostic Front (AF, 1991-) -------------------------GER> Acropole (gfx, 93), Blackraven (code, ex Awesome, later Haujobb), DSP (ex Design), Exage (sysop 'UNGODLY', 93), Funky (swap pack 'Funky Bunch', 93), Holgi (sysop 'INVISIBLE CRIME', ex Heresey, 93), Rator (sysop 'WONDERLAND', ex Panic), Renegade (gfx, ex Design), Snake (sysop 'MORPHIC FIELDS', 93), Sting (code, 93), Syn-T-Size (music, later Haujobb, 93). FIN> Pulstar (swap, ex Slipstream, 93). ???> Chris (ger? Chris Korte, music, 06/91), Coogar (trade), Dark Angel, Falcon, Ghost (ex Iris), Headhunter (ger? code, 06/91), Hyper (trade), Priest, Rico (11/93), Slime (old handle Shadow), Vigo (ger? code, ex Iris, 11-12/93), Violator (gfx, 06/91). Boards; HEARTLAND (ger, 93). Agnostic Front was a largely German demo group. 1992 - German Skyfox joined from Dual Crew in september, but stayed only briefly. He quickly left again for Gothic, before moving on to Adept. Germans Blackraven/Awesome (code), Howie/Laserdance (swap) and Effendi/Delight (gfx) all join around october. 1993 - Graphician Effendi (ex Delight) joined Arise late 93. Psychopath (code, 06/91) left. 8th Sense left the scene. Boon Kid and Higgins were kicked. Alienx (trade) joined Razor 1911 old. German swapper Howie (93) joined Essence. German coder Roman (old handle Savage) joined Essence. Finnish graphician Frankie left and joined Stellar. Germans Artline (gfx) and Neurodancer (music) joined Beyond. German Backlash (ex Timex) left the scene (pre 07/92).
Lumme (Intro). New Intro (1991, ECS Demo). Morphic Fields BBS (Intro). Cooperation with Panic. Lotter Intro (1991, 15.06, ECS Intro). code: Psycopath, Headhunter, gfx: Violator, music: "Shy'n'Memory" by Chris (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Panic Meeting. review: Pretty standard, this has a none-too good AF logo at the top of the screen, and below that a zooming textplotter. Top and bottom are single-pixel height copper-bars with cycling colors (you know the kind). As a matter of fact, it reminds me a bit of the crackintros at the time! The intro says 'remember not 2 greet Venom any longer, we are Agnostic Front now'. It is safe to assume this is one of the group's first intros. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Hash Hash (1991, 15.06, ECS Intro). code: Maxx, gfx: Dark Angel (logo), Maxx (charset), music: "Awetest2" by Pale Rider (ProTracker MOD format). Released at the Panic Meeting. review: This is actually rather nice... =) A red AF logo (not so good) adores the top of the screen while a blue vector scroller goes in a halfcircle underneath it... The music is very good, at least in the beginning, and helps this intro a lot. Then, the negatives: the dope promotion and the endless bullshit scrollers =( The release date is based on the assumption that the 'Panic Meeting' is the same one where the "Lotter Intro" was released. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Fantastic Pix 2 (Trackloaded Slideshow). Umbra et Imago (File). A Little BBS Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Sting, gfx: Acropole, music: Syn-T-Size. review: About as simple as they come, this small intro has a red AF logo moving up and down the left hand side of the screen, a blue tunnel descending into the middle of the screen and a pretty standard overlaid scroller. Sadly there is no more exact release date than '1993'. Though the intro requires KillAGA to work properly, it still scrambles my screen on exit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
World of Commodore 1993 (1993, 01.12, ECS File Slideshow). code/gfx: Vigo, music: Syn-T-Size. review: This small fileslide is very simply-done, but atleast system friendly enough to work with no problems on my machine. It's basically just some text over and under the B&W pictures, which you can cycle through with your cursor buttons, of people attending the WOC 93 party. Not all that interesting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Agoa ---The fact that Monty was a member at one time, and that they released two of their productions at Saturne would suggest Agoa are a French crew... I have some conflicting information concerning musician Iceman. While Seenpoint #2 [12/95] claimed he had joined Dylem, another source claimed he had joined FROM Dylem. Can anyone help? Mole joined Abyss 94. Musica 2 (Trackloaded Musicdisk). First Think (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Mr. Bug, gfx: Try, music: Monty. C-Intro (1994, 24.04, ECS Intro). code: Iceman, gfx: Rez, music: Pye. Released at Saturne Party II. Annonce (1996, 05.04, Intro). 4th in the Saturne 96 intro competition. Agony ----Exodus (Trackmo). Pardey (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). Released for the demo competition at The Party 91. review: I've also seen this called "The Party 1 Demo". Agravedict (AVD) ---------------Relievo (1998, 64k Intro). code: Booster, gfx: Moniq, music: Norm. review: A very fast 2d bumpmapper is the best thing in this minor intro, with the rest being built up mainly of afterburned particle effects and the like - hardly mindblasting coding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Ahead ----Ahead was formed by the best members of Crime Devils after the group died. Dogshit joined Trance Inc. Finnish Meddler joined X-Trade. Airborn ------NOR> Espen Loeberg (founder), Steinar Apalnes (founder music). Airborn was born when Steinar Apalnes ('Sphinx'), Anders Claussen and Espen Loeberg left Violence to form their own group. 1992 - Norwegian founder Anders abandoned the group for Pure Metal Coders around january. Airwalk ------Torwak changed his handle to Gadget and joined Cytax. 1001 Stolen Ideas (File). Meeting (File). Alcatraz Entertainment Software (ATZ, 1988-) -------------------------------------------SWI> Baumax (code, old handle Filou, -notmembanymore-, new 09/92), Cortez (code, ex Setrox, new 05/90), Daniel (ex Trilogy, new mid90), Greg (Gregoire Dini, music, 01/90-93), Hardrider (ex Trilogy, new mid90), PGCS (leader gfx, 12/88-09/94). AUT> Iluvatar (gfx, 06/92-08/93), Pigment (Miguel Marn, gfx, 93-01/98), Poseidon (Andreas Oberdorfer, code, 12/95), Quedex (Christopher Dissauer, code, 09/92-12/95). FIN> 4T Thieves (org music, ex Cytax, new late92-93), Daddy Freddy (music swap, ex Anthrox, -notmembanymore-). GER> HoMiCide (Marco, org music, ex Dual Crew, aka HMC, new 03/93), RSK (gfx), Sigma (code, ex The Silents, new late92-93). NOR> Mr.Last (music, 12/88), Teo (gfx, 93). BEL> Cybersonik (editor "McDisk", ex Anarchy, new 09/92-93). DEN> Zoonie (sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', ex Palace, new late92). FRA> Diskbuster (ex Apology, 01-03/90). USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'FORBIDDEN CITY', 04/90). ???> Airbrush (ex Acme), Bitmaster (01/90), Broterhs (01/90), Burgame (music, -notmembanymore-, 91), Calypso (code, ex Legend), Dan (gfx, 04/90), Devils (01/90), Insider (gfx, 09/88), Ironhawk (gfx, 0912/88), Jackie D. (ex Coma), Jawbreaker (-notmembanymore-, new pre 07/92),
Magnetix (01/90), Megadeth (ex Core), Mission (code, ex Coma, 09/92), New Generation (01/90), Nifty Nit (code gfx, 01-04/90), Triad (train, 01/90), Trigon (ex LSD), Zodiac (swi? code, 12/88), Zoltar (music, ex Asphyxia, new early92-09/94). Boards; PRIME TIME (usa, ex The Silents, new late 92), INFORMATION SOCIETY (usa), HACKERBASE (swi). Alcatraz was formed in 1988 by Metalwar (code music), Helix (gfx) and PGCS (gfx) from the more strangely named Motley Crue Team [no entry]. The first two have since decided to leave both the group and the scene, leaving PGCS as the head of the group. Their biggest success must surely have been the "Odyssey" (12/91) demo, which won the demo competition at the first The Party! The reason for its success is probably the fact that it was something new and unique. The debate over whether it should have beaten the runnerup, "Hardwired" by The Silents and Crionics, raged for months... They were at one time in a 'trainer coop' with Setrox. When most of the Coma members joined, they got the diskmag "McDisk" as an added bonus. When they stopped doing that, however, a new mag was planned. This mag was given the name "Compass", and editors were Disney and ex-McDisk editor Mop. The mag got great reviews, but after just one released issue Mop left for Essence to be maineditor of "R.O.M" and Disney left for Sanity to be maineditor on their new mag, which never happened. These days, Alcatraz Entertainment Software still exist, but only as a gamemaking firm, and it's unlikely that any new demos will ever appear. The remaining members are Quedex, Poseidon, Pigment and Brainbug. I have seen a short playable demo of a 3D Doom clone type game called IQ, and it was probably one of the smoothest and bestlooking true 3D engines I've ever seen; it flows beautifully, and almost reminds me of Duke Nukem 3D! Also, check out Hornet's action replay-like utility HRTMon on AmiNet! 1990 - Swiss trader Moses (who had joined from Setrox 05/90) had a very brief stay in the group, and by 08/90 he was no longer a member. 1991 - Famous french musician Moby (ex Dragons, 01/90) joined Dreamdealers around the middle of the year, after releasing the music disk "More Than Music" [04/91] in april. 1992 - In the early months of the year, Control, Mad Butcher, Head, Jackie D., Mission, Tom Copper, Mop, Nick O'Teen and Aahz joined when Coma died. Status Quo, Copcom, Nick O'Teen (ex Coma) and Aahz (ex Coma) all got kicked
from the group in september. Jaby joined Absolute! late in the year. Finnish graphician Dwel (ex Gator/Stellar) joined around october. Micro-Pal's board 'THE WHITE HOUSE' was opened around october. Swiss graphician Fox (04/91) left for Grace around october. 1993 - Germans Orbit and HMC joined from Dual Crew in march. Their Finnish section died after graphician Dwel left to join Desire, and Razer (code, ex Addonic) joined Stellar in october. Goozer (ex Disknet) didn't want to be alone, and closed the section by joining Chryseis, also in october. 1994 - Editor Mop (ex Coma, new early92) was not content with how things were going after the first issue of "Compass", and decided to join Essence in february to edit his own magazine for them, "R.O.M". 1995 - Norwegian musician Brainbug (06/92-94) joined Talent early 95. He made the music for a.o. the "Museum" [92] slideshow while he was in Alcatraz. He's still working for the games by Alcatraz Entertainment Software, it seems, since he was shown as a member of the games team 01/98. 2000 - The Sad news this year was that Hornet (Alain Malek, code, ex Avenger, 01/90-) died of a heart attack. RIP. German swapper Sting left to form Bonzai Brothers, but later decided to join Abyss instead. There are LOTS of conflicting information out there about this, but I believe what I've given above now is the correct portrayal of what happened. When he lost control over Alcatraz, he left to form his own group called Bonzai Brothers, and all the German ex Alcatraz members joined! Austrian coder, previous WHQ and coeditor of the now defunt mag "Compass", Disney (06/92-93), joined Sanity to be editor of their new diskmag. That project never came to fruition, and Disney was consequently kicked. His further destiny is unknown. Swedes Parsec (sysop 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS', 09/93), La Fayette and Thunor were kicked. La Fayette is a female, who worked as cosysop on Parsec's board. Birdie (ex Yodel) was kicked. Shade (ex The Silents?/Analog?) joined Scoopex. Colorbird and Schizo joined from Circle in Sweden, but soon moved on to form Illusion. Two Germans were kicked; swapper Head and coder Mad Butcher (both ex Coma, 09/92-02/93). Head joined Mirage, but it's unclear what happened to Mad Butcher, coder of the 'McDisk' diskmag. The Germans Link, Dynac, Speedbit (new 03/93), EC-Rider (music, 08/93), and Seat were NEVER official Alcatraz members. They were simply let in by the other German guys and not by the whole group.
Both the German and Swedish divisions were kicked out. The German duo Control (ex Coma, 09/92-08/93) and coder Orbit (ex Dual Crew, new 03/93-08/93) joined TRSI, the rest of the Germans formed a new crew called Fresh. Raw Style (ex DCS), Stearo and Nose (both ex Paradise) joined in Germany, but when that division fell apart they all left to join Jetset. Swedes Lizardking (music, ex Strange, new late92-03/93) and Tony (gfx, ex Voice, new late92-93) joined The Silents. Blacky (ex Legend) tried to join, but was refused. As a result, Style (ex-WHQ, ex Legend) left 03/93 to start a two-man crew with Blacky. For additional information, see Style & Blacky's entry. Graphician Tom Copper (ex Coma, 91) joined Animators. The germans Bros (code, 12/92-93), Master and Nightlight quickly rejoined Scoopex. Bros coded the demo "Crunch-O-Matic" [12/92] while in Alcatraz. Norwegian coder, organizer and swapper Micro-Pal (editor of "Peanuts" packmag, 06/92) joined Banana Dezign. His board 'THE WHITE HOUSE' was busted while he was a member of ATZ, but was later reopened in BDZ. French graphician Alex (old handle Aldyss, 09/92), who released some pictures in the slideshow 'MUSEUM', left to join The Silents. Still, he made two logos for the "60k Intro" (03/93), so they're obviously still on good terms... Coder Skyman (swi? fra? 01/90) joined Shining. He is the author of "Seven Colors" (Infogrames) and all design and music by GFX-MOVIES (late91). He also coded the "Cartoons Demo". Kid Icarus (ex Babygang [no entry], new 03/90) is now Daryl/TRSI (late 91). He originally joined as editor of the scene papermag 'B.A.D'. Norwegian sysop It ('CONTACT ZERO', ex Razor 1911) didn't stay too long before moving on to Nemesis (pre 07/92). Motley Crue Team is now Alcatraz (1988, ECS File). code: Metalwar, gfx: Helix, music: "Metalwar4" by Metalwar (The Jungle SoundTracker 2 format :-). review: ATZ' first demo, created by its two founders! Megademo (1988, ECS Megademo). code: Metalwar, Zodiac, gfx: PGCS, Ironhawk, music: Mr.Last. Some of the parts are "Sine Logo" (metalwar&pgcs/ironhawk/"reflex.m.last" (st15) by mr.last), "The Blitter Shock Demo" (zodiac/"the art of fashion" by ?) and "New Members.Bob" (metalwar/"muzak" by Metalwar). Copy Party Invitation (1988, .03, ECS File). code: Metalwar, Hardrider/Supervisors, gfx: Rastan, music: SLL (The Jungle SoundTracker 2 format! :-) Cooperation with Supervisors. Invitation to a copy party to be held 28-29.05/88. We Are First (1988, .06, ECS File). code/gfx: Metalwar, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar (SoundTracker 15inst
format). Specified as being released 'some month before AlcatrzaMeeting 7-9 July 1988'. New Stuff (1988, end.09, ECS Intro). code: Metalwar, gfx: Insider, Ironhawk, music: "Metalwar10" by Metalwar (Sound Tracker 15inst format). The Skyline Intro (1988, ECS File). Coop with The Softkiller Crew (TSK), see there for details. Geneva Party Demo (1988, .12, ECS File). code: Metalwar, gfx: PGCS, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar (SoundTracker 15inst format). Released at the Alcatraz Copy Party 88. Megademo II (1988, .12, ECS Multifile). code: Metalwar, Elm, Darkblitter, TDK, TIN, gfx: Ironhawk, PGCS, Metalwar, music: "Muzak" by Metalwar, Fred, Elm. Released at the Alcatraz Copy Party 88, though Zeg's encyclopedia claims it was released in February of 89? information: The demo experiences some minor problems under 2.0+ Megademo 3 (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Iron Cat, Metalwar, Moonraker. Pentcost Party Invitation (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Nifty Nit, gfx: Nifty Nit, Dan, music: "At" by Greg. Megademo IV: Devil's Key (1990, 03.06, ECS Trackmo, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: PGCS, music: Moonraker. Winner of the Alcatraz Pentcoast Party 90 demo competition! info: Does not work on A1200. Magpack Preview 91 (1991, ECS File). Members (1991, ECS File). code: Orbit/Gothic, gfx: Tom Copper, Anex/Rebels, music: "Last Adventure" by Lizardking. I've Got The Power (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, Fox (logo), music: Burgame, Greg (intro). review: The main selling point of this musicdisk is a 420k remix of the then-popular "I've Got The Power" track by pop group Snap! Still, it's not a bad little production. Graphics are very Alcatraz - not great, but more than functional. The sword from the top of the screen is particularly good, though. There's not much code to speak of here. Greg's intro music could have been great, but sounds a little unpolished. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, trackloader hates it :-)
More Than Music (1991, .04, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, Fox, music: Moby. info: This musicdisk consists of just one BIG module by Moby. Unfortunately it won't work on my system, so I can give no further information, sorry! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Crashes, caches off does not help. Odyssey (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 5 disks). code: Hornet, gfx: PGCS, music: Greg. Winner of The Party 91 demo competition! info: Apparently there is a secret part. You must watch it to the end, wait for the endscroller to finish, then type 'PRECALCULATE'. HD installable with patch. Small Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Orbit/Dual Crew, gfx: Iluvatar, music: n/a. info: this might be identical to the 'Hackfressen Tony Ist Wieder Da' crackintro (intro). Museum (1992, early, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Quedex, gfx: Iluvatar, PGCS, Alex, Fox (uncredited opening logo), music: Brainbug. review: This is a slideshow from three different graphicians, so the array of style is quite varied. There's 18 different pictures to be seen here, choosable from a picture selector. Some of them (PGCS') have already been seen in Odyssey, but they're the best here, so we don't mind the repeat too much. The music is okay. It doesn't irritate, at least! This is quite rare, actually - this production works PERFECTLY on an accelerated machine in 1997. Apart from the fact that some of the intro effects are fast as hell (at least that means they're not precalced!), there's nothing wrong at all. That's a refreshing change, hehe... [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. McDisk issue #4 (1992, ECS Diskmag). Peanuts issue #2 (1992, .06, ECS PackMag). code: Disney, Micro-Pal, gfx: Iluvatar, music: Brainbug. Peanuts issue #3 (1992, .07, ECS PackMag). code: Disney, gfx: Iluvatar, Disney, music: "AvecDesPeches" by Brainbug. McDisk issue #5 (1992, .09, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Quedex, gfx: Iluvatar, music: Lizardking. MAG - code: Mad Butcher, Mission, gfx: Iluvatar, Alex, Doolittle/ Interactive, music: Lizardking, editors: Mad Butcher, Head, Cybersonik, Control, Mop.
info: After the release of issue #5, main editor Mad Butcher left the responsibily of editor over to Cybersonik in january of 1993, for issue #6. This issue was never released, and the mag eventually died. Most of the team behind McDisk would reemerge for a new diskmag project for Alcatraz in 1994, "Compass". Crunch-o-Matic (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Bros, gfx: n/a, music: "Physical.Compo" by Lizardking. 18th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Memorial Songs (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Calypso/Mauve, Colorbird/Scoopex, gfx: Tony, Duel, music: Lizardking. info: "Memorial Songs 2" (95) was released by Razor 1911. Stop Fascism (1993, .02, 2MB File). code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Doolittle/Interactive, music: Lizardking. 60k Intro (1993, 27.03, ECS Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Alex/Dreamdealers, music: HoMiCide. Winner of the CeBIT 93 intro competition! Review: This is good! It's got a good sense of pace, good music, several nice effects and two good logos by Alex! Alex left Alcatraz for Dreamdealers a little earlier, but still made these logos for them... Perhaps as a sign of 'no bad feelings'? This intro announces the joining Orbit, HMC, and Speedbit, and is is therefore a sort of 'welcome' intro. It also announces the leaving of Style. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Needs KillAGA. The Samurai (1993, 02.08, ECS 45k Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Iluvatar, Control (animfix), music: "2control" by EC-Rider. 3rd in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. Review: A short intro, and MUCH inferior to Orbit's previous "60k Intro". nothing very exciting... The music tries to be thumping, but at 26k that's a hard thing to do. I'm sorry, atz, but this never really came alive for me. Those 55 frames of animation weren't very exciting either, I'm afraid :) Try again. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: KillAGA helps, but Ilyad (1994, 07.08, AGA 4MB Multifile, 4 disks). code: Hornet, Shagan/Asphyxia Design (additional), gfx: PGCS, Cookie/ Asphyxia Design, music: Zoltar. Cooperation with Asphyxia Design. 4th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. review: Whoa! I'm sure this kicked ass on the big screen! This baby features some rather revolutionary (I'm sure) effects for its time. There are some reasonably fast effects here, to be sure! Especially the
mapped objects during the main part and the 'flight sim' part at the end impressed me. The music is nothing special, just functional. It's plain to see that both Hornet and PGCS improved their skills a lot since "Odyssey". Especially one of the ATZ logos by PGCS was nice. Still, I expected more from a 4-disk demo... Suddenly it was just over. The bigfiles are just lots of XPK'ed files linked together. There were additional versions released after the party; this review refers to version 1.3 (25.09.1994). Though it will run from disk on an A1200 with enough mem, the documentation says it suggests a 030 and a harddisk. When installing, remember to assign "Ilyad1:" to "Ilyad4:" to your directory. The documentation makes no mention of this, I believe, so I had to hex-read the executable to find out :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Compass #1 (1994, early, ECS Diskmag). info: Compass (or the COMputer Article Spreading Site) was a fresh start by mostly the same people that worked on McDisk. Alcatraz released a text file (published in Scoopex' packmag 'Nevermind' #48) to announce the imminent release of Compass, "early 1994". Unfortunately, it only survived for a single issue before most of the team behind it left the group for new, better things. Cyberlogik (1995, 28.12, AGA 020-28+ 4MB HD File). code: Poseidon and Quedex/ATZ, gfx: A-Tom, Lazur, 2Sign, Bridgeclaw, GS, Viola Bros., Pigment, Lukas A., music: Archangel, Nightshade/Crusaders. Cooperation with TRSI and TRSI Recordz. Split 7th in The Party 95 demo competition. review: The first thing that strikes you about this production is 'WOW!' The second thing that strikes you, is 'shame about the design'. And that's the biggest problem with it: Virtually no attention has been assigned to the design of the thing! It's got lots of cool, heavy effects, a couple of cool pics (Lazur's Alien pic is FAAAAANTASTIC!), but not much work on putting it all together. With all this graphical talent working on the demo, I can only be disappointed that the potential was far from fulfilled. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Alchemy [old] ------------AUS> Biggles (code gfx, 08/92), Dreamweaver (gfx, 08/92), Ginseng (music, 08/92), Vision Beyond (code, 08/92). Oz-Con 1 Invitation Intro (1992, .08, ECS Intro). code: Biggles, Vision Beyond, gfx: Biggles, Dreamweaver, music: "Warp" by
Ginseng. review: This invitation intro is a sad affair really, with a scroller at the bottom and three sucky pictures to change between using the space bar. It gets the job done, but it's not pretty, and it sounds awful. Sorry to be so harsh on you Alchemy, but this intro isn't really one to make you stand up and take notice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Alchemy [new] ------------POL> Axel (code editor swap, 12/93), Backfire (Adam Gorski, whq swap pack 'Backpack', ex Katharsis), Bob (code, ex Investation), Cromax (gfx music), Exolon (Maciej Turlzynin, swap), Johan (editor, old handle Frodo), Ozzy (gfx), Saggitarius (gfx), Scorpik (music, later Absolute!, 12/93), Tiptop (code, ex Investation), Vico (code). NOR> The Clash (music, new PRP4), Walker (org swap, new PRP4). ???> Adict (early92), Guru (early92), Steinar. Alchemy was originally a Polish group, though a Norwegian division was new in Propaganda #4. Johan (old handle Frodo) stopped drawing. In a filemag (rel late 95), I found two ads for swapping by Exolon - one where he's in this group, and one where he's in Tilt... Other productions I know of from this group is "Party Zanci" (intro) and "Toxic Ziemniak" (trackmo). M-Iron left. Polish musician Accord (06-09/93) was kicked, for no apparent reason (PRP4). He was later in Gel Dezign. Marchewki (1992, .03, ECS Trackmo). 2nd in the Warzawa Party 1 demo competition. info: Named in a 'best Polish demos' list in RAW6. The name is polish for Carrots. Shadeways to Heaven (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Axel, gfx: none, music: Scorpik. 7th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Alfa Crew --------Dutchmen Bigfoot, Syntag and Player One joined Legend mid 91. Aldi (1994-). ------------These are some of Aldi's productions: "1st Intro" (02/94), "AT&T" (file),
"Fleischabteilung" (intro), "State of The Art II" (demo), "Chrunched Sound" (intro) and "Intro In Dutch" (intro). Alice ----Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Alien Adenoids -------------Intro (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). Split 21st in the Assembly 94 intro competition. Alien Productions ----------------Kinematic (preview) (1997, 14.12, Demo). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Cooperation with Interceptors. Aliens Designs (ALS) -------------------???> AceMan (org sysop), Bigfoot (trade), Chillout (music), Exodite (trade), FaKED IQ, RayBan (sysop). Alive (-1993) ------------NOR> Beathoven (music), Flash Fox (swap pack, 07/90), Fluor (music), Hemo Rider (gfx), Mailbox (Frode Tollefsen, swap, 10/90), Mick (code), Miraculix (gfx), Nameless (Espen Berntsen, code), Ost (code), Quez (gfx), Sciff (code), The Black Devil (aka The Big Dildo), Tronny Rotten (swap, 10/90). Boards; THE NEW LINE WHQ (nor, 11/90). Alive was a pure Norwegian demo group, based more around fun than actually trying to top the charts. 1993 - At The Gathering in april was, according to Nameless, the last time the group was officially gathered, but without releasing anything. Norwegian coder Sciff changed his handle to Crimson and joined Compact Inc. Norwegian musician Comajim (old handle Zyc) joined New Wave. After 11 Month of Silents (ECS File). 1001 ways to ...89 (1989, ECS File).
Lines & Sinus (1989, 07.08, ECS File). Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89. Flyskrekk (1991, .04, ECS File). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Alliance -------NOR> Jawbreaker (Anders Dybdahl, code, ex Offence, new 92), Lion (trade, ex Offence, new 92), Vigilante (trade, ex Offence, new 92). ENG> Razor Blade (sysop 'UNKNOWN PLEASURES'). USA> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS'). Spike joined Dual Crew. Iceberg joined Skid Row or Nerve Axis. Lord Flight joined Digital. Austrian BBS 'ASGARD' is offline, rumours says sysop left the scene mid 91. Alliance Design (AD, 1991-1993) ------------------------------FRA> 7th Eye (gfx), Albatros (code, ex Rebels old), Corto (code, 04/9192), Hof (gfx, ex Rebels old), Moby (music, 04/91). DEN> Seen (gfx, later Melon, new 06/91). ???> DD (04/91), Loom (gfx, 04/91), Spike (04/91). Alliance Design was probably born in the first few months of 1991 - at least that's when their first productions started appearing. They were a french demo group, with strong links to the illegal scene. They were the Quartex demo division for quite a while, and released what is probably their bestknown demo, "Substance" [04/91], for them. After they left Quartex, there were rumours that they became a Crystal subgroup instead, but this is untrue. 1991 - French graphician Mack (who joined in april) left again for Scoopex just a few months after. Frenchmen Walt (gfx) and Motif (code) joined from The Silents around september. 1992 - PMC's "R.A.W #2" [02/92] announced Corto was working on the group's next demo, "Land of Liquor", to feature music by Moby. As history proved, this demo unfortunately never saw the light of day =(. Corto was busted for blueboxing early in the year, and rumours spread that this lead to the death of the group. This was even published in Pure Metal Coders' diskmag "R.A.W
#3" [07/92], but it can't be true since the group was later active again, and released a demo as late as january 93. What is true is that Walt and Motif left the group for Melon Dezign. French graphicians Zebig and 7th Eye joined Dreamdealers (pre 07/92). Frenchman Traitor (04/91) joined Crystal. Burger Man crack intro (1991, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: Seen (grey QTX logo), music: n/a (SIDMon 2 format). info: Cracktro made for Quartex. Aka "Another Release by The Best". Drinktro (ECS File). Substance (1991, 28.04, ECS File). code: Corto, gfx: Mack, Loom, music: "Knulla Kuk !!!" by Moby (4ch ProTracker format). 2nd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition. Made for Quartex. Caches off, OCS on for A1200. Little Dentro (Chimay) (1991, .06, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: Seen, Mack, music: "Tix6", "Tix5" and "Tix3" by Reflex/Delight. Made for Quartex. The Party Invitation (1991, 22.08, ECS Intro). Made for Quartex. Cooperation with Rebels. 'Flight Of The Intruder' cracktro (1991, .10, ECS Intro). code: Corto, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (DeltaMusic 2 format, 29744 bytes). Workfrench (1992, early, ECS File). info: Released sometime soon after The Party 91, therefore early 92. Arkham Asylum (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Redlight/Dreamdealers, gfx: Zebig, Hof/The Silents, music: Moby. Cooperation with Dreamdealers. Alpha Flight (AFL, 1987-) ------------------------GER> Airwolf (Normand, trade swap, 05/93), Andy & Fuzzy (Candi & David, code sysops 'DIABOLO', 05/93), Argon (Helmut, trade, 05/93), Black (Frederick, trade exsysop 'THE MISSING LINK', 12/90-05/93), Celator (Michael, toolcode, 05/93), Cinderella (Denise, trade, 05/93), Count Zero (gfx, 05/93), Cyborg (sysop 'THE NEXT GENERATION', 10/93), Dio & Cat (Mario & Bianca, trade, 05/93), Dr.Mabuse (Eric, code, 11/8805/93), Ex Machina Design (Carsten, music, 05/93), Healon (Christian, code, 05/93), Jeannie (Verena, trade, 05/93), Jive (Christian, trade sysop 'THE HOOD', 05/93), Kaoz & Raven (Andre & Dennis, trade, 05/93), Lance (Hans Werner, trade sysop 'GODS HAREM', 05/93), Lance???
(Armando, trade, 05/93), Mad Mac (Marc, ascii trade, 05/93), Marc & Sys (Marc & Harry, gfx supply, 05/93), Nightshade (Christian, trade, 05/93), Rod of Vanguard (Elmar, crack train, 05/93), Sabine (mainorg exsysop 09/91-05/93), Schlappi & Stoeberhai (Stefan & Peter, crack train trade, 05/93), Spy (Dirk, code, 05/93), Sting (Tom, crack supply, 05/93), Sultan (Klaus, sysop 'FAM NETWORK'/'SECRET CHAMBER', ex Adept, 05/93), Syntan & Rexxen (Christian, org gfx music, 05/93), Ultra (Ingo, org code gfx, 11/91-05/93), Undercover (Tom, trade, 05/93), Vascal (trade sysop 'BREAK AWAY', 05/93). SWE> Cybertron (Henk, org trade sysop 'AFTERSHOCK'/'AUSGEBOMBT', old handle Lacoste, 05/93-01/95), Excalibur (music, 05/93), Warhammer (sysop 'NOTA BENE' earlier 'HOLOCAUST', doublememb X-Trade, 08/94-01/95). SWI> Sla\/er (Mathias, ascii trade sysop 'BLACK ROSES', 05/93), Steve (org, 05/93). N-L> Speed (org trade sysop 'SHADOW WORLD', 05/93). ENG> Dangermouse (Dave, org trade sysop 'THE TOWER', 05-08/93), Dibber (Glen, trade, 05/93), Ghostrider (John, trade, 05/93), Marantz (trade, 05/93), Shinobi (gfx music, 05-08/93), Terminator (Dave, org trade, 05/93). FIN> Crime-Z99 (trade, doublememb Bomb Squad, 03/94), Dr.Weird (trade, 03/94), Fugitive (03/94), G.O.D (trade, doublememb Bomb Squad, 03/94), Hifi (org trade sysop 'LAST GENERATION', doublememb Damones, 05/93-03/94), Hijack (trade, doublememb Parallax [details], 03/94), Klutz (trade, ex Decnite, 02-05/93), Saman (trade, 03/94), Slayer (Jack, trade, 05/93), $$ Soldier (trade, 93-03/94), [StN] (trade, doublememb Mystic, 03/94). BEL> Berserker (Gerhard, trade, 05/93), Cabal (Dirk, train, 05/93), Fozzy (Patrick, trade, 05/93), Misfit (Stefan, trade sysop 'BURNING CHROME', 05/93-04/95), Remo (Gunther, code trade, 05/93), Rex Orient (Alain, code train, 05/93), Scorpio/SR (Flip, cardsupply sysop 'FIRST ACTION', 05/93), Uli (org sysop 'FLYING SAUCER' EHQ, 05/93). ARA> Deathwish (Sultan, trade sysop 'PSYCHOTRONIC', 05/93). TUR> Chaos (trade, 05/93). ITA> Guru Meditation (trade, 05/93), Luxgraph (trade sysop 'DIGITAL BBS', 05/93). DEN> Alf (code crack train trade sysop1 'HOLOCAUST'/'TRADERS HEAVEN', 05/93), Caesar (code crack train trade, ex Palace, 05/93), Drac (code crack train sysop2 'TRADERS HEAVEN', 05/93), Icelord (gfx, 05/93). AUS> Atomic (sysop 'WARPED REALITY', 04/95), Felony (Mike, org trade, 05/93), Fugitive (sysop 'FUTURE SHOCK', 04/95), Gangsta (trade, 05/93), Rancid (Tim, train sysop, 05/93).
SPA> Incubus (trade, 05/93), Quijote (trade sysop, 05/93). NOR> Acid (Daniel Bruvoll, sysop 'BASIC INSTINCT', doublememb Grotesticle, 97), Wowbagger (code, doublememb Session [details]). CAN> Elf-Co (Paul, code sysop 'ECHO BBS', 05/93-04/95). USA> Charlie X (trade, 05/939, Fahrenheit (Joe, ascii, 05/93), Genghis Khan (Joe, org trade sysop 'WRATH OF KHAN', 05/93), King of Zombies (sysop 'MAIN SOURCE' WHQ, 03/95), Night Shade (Sam, sysop 'THE RESTAURANT' WHQ, 05/93), Racer X (Tommi, sysop 'TIME TRIALS', 05/93), Slapshot (Jack, consolesupply sysop 'DIGITAL CHAOS', 05/93), Soulcatcher (Chris, code trade, 05/93), Wolverine (Todd, trade, 05/93). ???> Andre (gfx, 10/94). Boards; THE BOARD (ger, 10/95). Members below this line are no longer members, and the two have been separated due to the staggering amount of members - and due to overall readability. The split is at a memberlist dated 05/93: GER> Accomplishment, Aragon (03/89), BPS (swap, 03/89), Brainstorm (ex Endless Piracy), CCF (swap, 03/89), Crime (swap, 03/89), Depode (sysop 'SPACE CENTER', new 12/90), FBI (sysop 'FBI AGENTS BBS', 10/91), Frankie Double Team (editor, 11/88-12/90), Michael (03/89), Mike Dream (sysop 'WONDERLAND', 09/91), Saintz (sysop2 'S.S.M.S.' later 'ANGEL DUST', 01/92-04/95), Shadow Light (gfx music, aka SHL, 11/88-03/89), Warlord (ex Endless Piracy). NOR> Brainbuster, The Hitcher (swap, 01/90). FIN> Dipsomania (93), Hose (sysop 'SEVERED GARDEN', 07-11/91), Mr.Spinhead (sysop 'THREE AMIGOS'). SWE> Armando (trade, 05/92), Butch (gfx, later The Silents?, new 12/91), Crazee (swap), Emphasis (music, 12/91), Mode 2 (code, 12/91), Pilgrim (sysop 'THE GHETTO', 12/91), Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', ex Legend). ENG> Scavenger (sysop 'THE POOL', ex LSD). HOL> Bobo (sysop 'THE DUTCH PIRATE', 11/91). BEL> Cocaine and Dr. Avalanche (sysops 'FLYING SAUCER', ex Spreadpoint). AUS> Jag (sysop 'MACH V'), Obliviax (sysop 'FUTURE SHOCK'). USA> American Gladiator (sysop 'COLISEUM'), Centurion (sysop 'FORUM'), Maimster (sysop 'MAIMTRONIX'), Warduke (sysop 'EDGE OF INSANITY', 11/91). ???> Camelot (ex Desire), Cardinal (ex Awake), Cevin Key (swe? soon sysop, new 12/91), Hoschy (sysop 'NECROMANTIC', ex Frantic), Ice (ex Adept), Jerry (ex Legacy), Link (swe? new 12/91), Rex (swe? new 12/91), Rave (swe? new 12/91), Ronny (music, 08/93), Shapechanger (ex Legend), Slash (sysop 'THE VENUE', ex Digital Warriors), Style (trade, ex-indep),
Teofil (ex Legend), Timdog (console, doublememb Crystal). Boards; THE FIEND CLUB WHQ (usa), BEARS DEN (usa, 11/91), APHRODITE'S PALACE (+43, 11/91), PUBLIC EXECUTION, GHOST, AIRPORT WHQ (ger, 12/90), MATERIAL WORLD (nor). AFL is one of the oldest Amiga groups still in existence, formed in 1987, mostly dealing in the illegal part of the scene. There is also an Alpha Flight 1970 (AFL'70) on the c64 still in existence, as well as a pc section - though their current status is unknown. In their early years, they were also one of the first groups to have subgroups - and they had lots of them! Some of the most known were Vision One, Zylon and Z-Dream (see separate entries). Please note that not only did everyone else get confused, so did AFL on a few occasions! For example, they printed in their mag that Satan/AFL joined D-Tect, when infact Satan was in their subgroup Vision One! They also released one of the first regular diskmags - and certainly the best at its time - for the Amiga, in the shape of "Cracker Journal". The situation with Belgian board 'THE FLYING SAUCER' is confusing; is Cocaine and Dr.Avalanche or Uli sysop? Anyone can help me shed some light on this? Other prodcutions released by AFL, where I have minimum information, is "Blitter Madness" (file), "Scroll On an Ham Picture" (file), "Cracker Journal Special issue #1" (diskmag), "Vector" (demo, coop Demons), "Megabob" (demo, coop Genesis), "Dark" (slideshow, coop Genesis), "Soundbox" (musicdisk, coop Shadowlight), "Soundbox II The Return" (1989 musicdisk, coop Genesis), "Musiccompacting 1" (musicdisk, coop Mindwarp), "Megademo II" (demo, coop Mindwarp), "Sinus" (intro, coop Paradox), "Grafitti" (demo, coop Shadowlight), "Guest Starring" (file), "Defenda Crack Intro" (intro), "Best Bob" (demo). 1988 - The first issue of "Cracker Journal" [01/88] opened the year, and was received well by the scene. 10 More issues and a few demos would come before the end of a very successful year, when they established CJ as the #1 diskmag! Issue #10 [11/88] was released in november, and finally #11 was released at the very end of the year. 1989 - Their subgroup Prophets AG left to be an independent group in february. German graphician Dark joined Black Monks late 89. 1990 - Captain Power left, Blackout joined TRSI and Sledge joined Defcon One late in the year. Destroyer and Nike joined Skid Row late 90, but at least Destroyer later returned. 1991 - Psychon changed handle to Anvil and joined Black Monks in the
middle of the year. German sysop Destroy ('PARADISE') was busted on the 14th of june! Luckily, he had time to format his HD before he let the cops in, so damage was not as hard as it could have been. Following this, there was widespread panic on the German scene, and lots of boards decided to close shop. Germans Hajo (trade), TCI (sysop 'SKARA BRAE'), Accu (sysop 'RIVER SIDE'), FDT (trade, 12/90) and Ginger all left to form a new group called Venture late 1991. Later also Krypton (sysop 'CONTROL TOWER' opened 09/91) and Gizmo (gfx) joined. FDT was one of the AFL leaders at the time, and his position was filled by Rator and Sabine. Swedish sysop Trodac ('UNFORGIVEN') left in december for Aurora. 1992 - Swedish sysop Dexter ('TOTAL DISASTER', doublememb Comakids) joined Aurora around january. German Headhunter joined The Silents early in the year. Vindex left to join Anthrox and Winger (ex Noxious) was kicked out in september. Winger joined Scoopex and did not leave the scene, as stated in R.A.W #3. Mike, Hot and Pha joined around october. Hot and Pha later left again. Salvatore/Paranoid joined around october. 1993 - Roger Rabbit joined Fusion early in the year. German musician SMT left for Infect in may. In may, the group had a staggering 82 members (duos counted as one)!! Among these were no less than 4 female members Germany! Speedlock left in october. 1995 - The board 'DATASTORM' went offline in june. Finnish sysop Kristen joined either Decnite or Love/Desire. American sysop Dr.Feelgood ('OVERDOSE') joined Recline. American sysop Nightvision ('THUNDERDOME', old handle Master Blaster, 11/9105/93) left. He was also a supplier for consoles. Cyclotronic (gfx, ex Jump, 08/93) left. Dutch sysop THC ('MYSTIC PLACE', early93) joined Justice. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Calibra, new mid 93) quickly moved on to join Accession. American sysop Winter Mute ('MARTYRIUM', ex Classic, 11/91) joined Infinite Perfection. Musician Thexder (ex Assult) left to join Atomic. Dutch sysop Sal-One ('BOONDOCKS') joined TRSI. Psycho Demon (ex Nuance) and Raxxion joined Scoopex. Finnish swapper and trader Black Sheep (ex Zakka/Rebels) left soon after joining and moved on to Accession late93. Salvatore (ex Paranoid) joined Scoopex, he wasn't kicked! Other sources claimed he joined Addicts. German sysop Wolfgang ('CHINATOWN') was kicked. English Kitaro, sysop 'MILLENNIA' joined Fairlight. Magic joined Vision. News in R.A.W #3 that he joined Defjam are probably
false. Virus joined Palace. Dr.No and Zacae joined Bloodsuckers. Punisher (who joined with Winger from Noxious) left the scene. Swedish sysop Xstaz ('ICE PALACE', ex Spirit) joined Noxious. He later returned to AFL, that's why he's on the memblist. Germans Sniffy and Helioth joined Vision (pre 07/92). In Vision, they're suddenly sysops of 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'...were they in AFL too? American sysop Flashback ('CYBERTECH') joined Vision (pre 07/92). English sysops Sabbath and Undertaker ('GRAVEYARD', ex Quartex) left for the PC scene. German swapper and trader Galaxy joined Skid Row mid to late 90. Etron joined Cytax. Zychon joined Black Monks. Rascal joined Razor 1911 old. German sysop Chronos ('DAMAGE INC', 09/91) left. American sysop Armitage ('MADHOUSE', 11/91) left. German sysop Red Alert ('ADDICTION') joined Shining 8. 1st (1987, ECS Multifile (2)). code: Dr Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: (looped sample). Cracker Journal issue #1 (1988, 10.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: none. review: Now, THIS is history - the very first issue of CJ! Ofcourse, this is entirely in German, so I didn't understand much. It's amazing, though, how little it changed over the first issues. Though the mag itself works satisfactory, the intro does not. No matter what I attempt, it always gurus. There are no real credits to be seen anywhere, except for in a few of the articles. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Cracker Journal issue #2 (1988, 10.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: none, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, GSC, Smiths inc. review: The second issue is a marked improvement as far as content goes, and is even mostly in English! There are perhaps too many game reviews for some people's liking, but I guess that's a matter of opinion. Unlike the first issue, nothing works here; neither the intro or the mag itself can be safely executed without crashing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Nonworking! Cracker Journal issue #3 (1988, 14.03, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, TSK-Crew, SpreadForce, GSC. Cracker Journal issue #4 (1988, 14.04, ECS Diskmag).
code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, SpreadForce, Smiths, The 5th Dimension, Warrior, Skar. Cracker Journal issue #5 (1988, 13.05, ECS Diskmag) code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse (main), Skar, Dr.Soft, SpreadForce, Thaluga, Smiths, Professionals, TSK-Crew, Contact, Chip Duo. review: This time introless (the extra diskspace devoted to the mag itself), another issue of CJ reached the streets in may. Cracker Journal issue #6 (1988, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cracker Journal issue #7 & #8 (1988, 23.07, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: n/a, music: Enno, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, Spy&Mind, Thaluga, Nephilims, Reward, Dennis/Magicians, Tetragon, JR, Tobber. Released at the Alpha Flight, Vision Factory and Powerslaves copy party...probably :-) Actually that party was held 29.07, but the release date quoted here may be wrong... Released as a double issue over the summer. Sota (1988, 01.08, ECS File). code: Shut Berlin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cracker Journal #9 (1988, 24.09, ECS Diskmagazine). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: Teddy, music: n/a, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr. Mabuse, Reward/III, Dr.Soft, GSC/Sinners, Boil/TJC, Acid, U-238, Bejamin/ BBS, Stups/MDO. Released at the AFL and Spy&Mind Copy Party. review: Another non-special issue, nothing much to report about it. No-one credited for music. [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cracker Journal #10 (1988, 15.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: Victory/TopBoys (comic), music: Shadowlight, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse (main). review: Not much different from any other issues, expect in the contents of the articles. The german articles irritate me, especially since most interesting ones to me, the party reports, are mostly in german =( This issue presents interviews with Bamiga Sector 1 and Defjam. It also features what is probably the first reference to the term "Tracking" =) History was being made... [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cracker Journal #11 (1988, 30.12, ECS Diskmag).
code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx: TAR/Prophets AG, music: Shadowlight, editors:Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse, Michael, Megatron, GSC/Sinners, AOFCF, VF&BE, Spy&Mind. review: Nothing much to say, it's the usual mix of party reports and game reviews. [glenn] GLE tested UAE /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Realm of Stone... (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo). Thirty Balls (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo). Cracker Journal issue #12 (1989, 30.01, ECS Diskmag). code: Dr.Mabuse, gfx/music: TAR/Prophets AG, editors: Frankie Double Team, Dr.Mabuse, Megatron, Reward/III, Insane/Razor, Pirate/AOFCS, VF&BE,Subway & DreamTeam, SSD/Cosmos, Powerslaves. Cracker Journal #13 (1989, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Review: Remarkably, this issue of CJ seems to be a lot better laid out, a lot more compatible and a has a lot better English than the only other issue I have - #28! There's also not the same sense of showelware - all of these articles were MEANT for the mag, they're not just files off the boards! There's more articles in German here, though. The mag's content is quite limited, at just over 50 articles, but they are one hell of a lot more interesting than the ones in #28... There doesn't appear to be any kind of credits except for the articles in the mag itself, but then again there's not much code to speak of... You see, each and every article is an IFF file, so all the coder had to make was a picture shower that could change pictures and play some music in the background :) I like the atmosphere in this. There's a genuine sense of stumbling to establish the scene. These were pioneers, and as such ofcourse there were two mistakes for every innovation. Still, they make their small mistakes with unmistakable amounts of charm. Nice, this is. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cracker Journal issue #14 (1989, 18.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). info: The release date is from the previous issue, so there's no guarantee that they actually got around to it by that date :) Cracker Journal issue #15 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #16 (1989, ECS Diskmag).
Cracker Journal issue #17 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #18 (1989, ECS Diskmag). Starflight (1989, 26.12, ECS Demo). Cracker Journal issue #19 (1990, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #20 (1990, ECS Diskmag). Star-Chars (1990, 21.04, ECS File). code: Werner, gfx: Vincent, Werner, music: Thrust. Cracker Journal Special II (1990, 01.07, ECS Diskmag). Released at the Amiga Conference 90. Cracker Journal issue #21 (1990, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Cracker Journal issue #22 (1990, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Cracker Journal issue #23 (1990, 31.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Werner/Vision One/AFL, gfx: GGT/Zylon/AFL (title), Turbo/Zombie Boys (clip), music: ???, editors: Doctor Mabuse, Frankie Double Team. review: This issue was the first to feature the new code for the mag, meaning no more iff pictures! That alone was an enormous step up... Design did not change significantly, only the inner workings of the mag did. I have chosen not to rate Satan/Vision One/AFL's small intro here, since it's not AGA compatible and really little more than a boot intro. The compatibility rating is only for the magpart, the intro for this mag does not run under AGA. Also, I had to run the mag with caches off, or my keyboard would not respond after a while. Otherwise, no probs! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: See review. China Town BBS (1991, ECS Intro). info: Released by the German section. Cracker Journal issue #24 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Cracker Journal issue #25 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Space (1991?, ECS Intro). code: JHL, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Huukkers (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: JHL, gfx: n/a, music: Micke Cool. Released at the Society Summer Party 91. info: Made by the Finnish division. Cracker Journal issue #26 (1991, .10, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Ginger/Venture (title), Gizmo/Venture, Satan/ex Vision 1, music: n/a, editors: Frankie Double Team (FDT)/Venture, Dr.Mabuse, GGT. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Ultra Intro (1991, 11.11, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Ultra, music: none. review: Now this is more like it! This intro says STYLE in big bold letters! Well, actually it says Alpha Flight, but you get the picture :) The intro consists of just one nice logo in the middle of the screen, which is in hires-lace, and a scroller that twists inbetween the letters. It's a simple concept, but superbly executed. The intro reviewed was the one released in connection with their release of AutoDoc 37.1. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Happy New Year (1991, .12, ECS Intro). info: Released by the NL section. The Ghetto (1991, 19.12, ECS Intro). code: Mode 2, gfx: Butch, music: Emphasis. review: Nothing interesting in this BBS intro, just a black background with some dots and a 16x16 text writer on top of that. There are a million of these! Thank god that someone discovered design! This intro is earmarked as from 'the Swedish division' and also announces the new memberships of Rex, Butch, Cevin Key, Rave, Link and Cevin Key's upcoming BBS. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cracker Journal issue #27 (1992, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). info: CJ27 was the very last issue released as an AFL production; subsequent issues were independent, and reviews can be found under the heading 'Cracker Journal Team'. Cracker Journal issue #28 (1992, ECS Diskmag). Altair [new] (-1992) -------------------FIN> Cannibal (The Bastard), Fiend, Servitor. ???> Globe. Boards; WOLFSLAIR (fin). Cytax' "I.C.E #8" [05/92] reported that Altair was born with members from Grace, Kreators etc, and Pure Metal Coders' "R.A.W #3" [07/92] carried the news that Altair had been reborn 'a while ago' - then The Official Eurochart #17 [09/92] carried the news that they had died again. They seem to have mostly released intros. 1992 - Finnish swapper Messenger joined Genoice in september. Finnish Zon joined Zenith. Finnish Goozer joined Disknet.
Amacon -----Mission Impossible (1995, 12.08, Demo). 14th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Amaze [old] ----------GER> Bomber (swap, ex Highlander/Cletic, new 07-12/90), Fred (code swap, 92), Galaxy (music, 11-12/90), Master of Noise (music, 92), Microp (music, 92), Pinhead (swap, ex Highlander/Celtic, new 07-12/90), Plastic (gfx, 92), Raw (swap pack, ex Unlimited, 92), Smash (Ingo Kamps, gfx swap, ex Exort, 92), Smasher (gfx, 90), Tron (code, later Sanity, 02/92), Vinix (sysop 'TIMEWAR'), Vizir (code, new 90). SWE> Abbandon (code, new ca 01/92), Cluster, Enforcer (swap, 92), Junior, Lego, Ozone, Slider (code, new ca 01/92), Stanton (sysop '3AM ETERNAL', ex Anarchy), Walkyrian. FIN> Airwolf, Articfox, Bandog (code, 06/91), Blockbrain (gfx, 06/91), Firecode (swap, 01-06/90), Holy (swap), Magnum (Jerno Kueski, swap, late90), Topaz (music, 06/91), Zender (gfx, 06/91). DEN> Conan, Darkside, Drone (code, 12/91), Murdoc (gfx, 12/91), Phraizer (sysop 'PHANTASIA', ex Reflectors), Shredder (gfx, 12/91). AUT> Mister X (swap, early92). USA> Nightstalker (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY', new ca 01/92). ???> Ace (gfx, 02/92), Blizzard (gfx, 02/92), Hunter (trade), Mercy (trade, ex Hypnotic), Techno-One (ex Action), The Punisher (gfx, 12/90), Zeus (code gfx, 90). Amaze was a demo group based in Germany, but also with strong divisions in other countries. Some Amaze releases where I have only a minimum of information is "Released Before" (intro, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Galaxy, m: "Hawk" by ?/Timecircle), 31st May (demo, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Galaxy, m: "Ode To Mon Part2" by Galaxy), Lamerbug (game, c: Dr.Gassu, g: Tune, m: "Lamerbug!" by Tsaca), Kriepss Again (demo, c: Zecco, g: Galaxy, m: "IQ64" and "Shape It Down" by Galaxy), Crack of Dawn (ECS File), Generation issue #1 (ECS Diskmag). 1990 - The group received two new German members around july, when swappers Bomber and Pinhead joined from the Celtic subgroup Highlander. November saw the joining of Italian multitalent Filippetto from Savage with his diskmag. "Freedom Crack #4" [12/90] was the first and only issue of the mag to be released for Amaze. 1991 - When the German section of Amaze died in january, Filippetto ended his short-term stay in the group, and left (with his diskmag) to form his
own group, named Vega. 1992 - The group's WHQ board 'THE PARTY ZONE' changed name to 'SERPENT SOCIETY', while Norwegian Edison and Swedes Slider (code) and Abandon (code) joined around january. The two finns Epidemic (code, 06-07/91) and Ukulele (music, ex Intuition, 06-07/91) both joined Addonic around january, though Epidemic quickly moved on to Complex. Finnish Breeze (code) also joined Complex, while Snowman was kicked; Wizmar left the scene; Df0: (gfx, 07/91-), Breeze (code), Dwarf and PMB all left for Dual Crew; swedish Stanton/Anarchy (sysop '3AM ETERNAL') joined; danish Phraizer (sysop 'PHANTASIA') joined; american Nightstalker (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY') joined - all around january. Also the entire polish section of Amaze joined Addonic at this time! Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Byte Busters) joined LSD early 92. Swedish Sudden left for Spirit early 92. Tropic was kicked from the group because of lazyness early 92. Swedish sysop Xstaz changed the name of his board from 'DEADLINE' to 'THE ICE PALACE' and joined Spirit early 92. Amaze Austria is dead. Dalmet and Sledge joined Grace. Charly left the scene 09/92. Pulstar left to form Slipstream finland 09/92. German leader Damion (ex Addonic, 92) joined Platin, while Swedish Bit (ex Palace) left to form Sonic sweden, both in september. Norwegian musician The Hustler and finnish swapper Zephyr (ex Ice/Royal Amiga Force) joined Razor 1911 (pre 07/92). Finnish Boomer joined TRSI. German swapper Zaphod joined Sanity old. German musician and editor RokDaZone (ex Kraze) joined Destiny. The two swedes Buntz and Zonic (who between them ran the board 'SERPENT SOCIETY' old name 'PARTY ZONE'), joined Defjam. Zonic was also the WHQ, after he took over the duty from Articfox. Here's a theory of my own: Buntz changed his name to Zonic, AND THEN... Genestealer joined Cult. Finnish El Gringo left the scene. Dr.Gassu joined Elysion. The German editor of "Disktrash", Death Angel (02/92), was kicked (RAW3). The mag is dead, and won't be published any more, and Death Angel joined X-Tasy. German Sodom joined Beyond (pre 07/92). Gipsy King joined Midway (pre 07/92). Abaddon joined Fairlight (pre 07/92). The Norwegian division left and split up. Dreamer (ex Chris/Grace) joined Pure Metal Coders. Frequenz (sysop, ex Decept) joined Razor 1911. I have one additional member, Edison (Øystein Homelien), but I don't know what
happened to him...though he's now boss at the internet provider Powertech Information Systems in Norway! Powersledge joined Flash Productions. Swedish sysop Psychopath ('RAISING HELL') joined Triad. Decoy left Amaze in 91, and is now (96) in Passion. Musiques II (1989, 31.10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Zaq, Belsebul, gfx: Tune, music: "Sad Story", "Brainwash", "Secrets" by Zaq, "Tomcat", "Silverstrider" by Firecode, "Soft Dreams", "Thrust", "Role Play" by Tsaca. 1st Visir (1990, ECS File). code: Vizir, gfx: Masher, music: "Zamzara" by Galaxy. Revolutions (ECS Musicdisk). code: Zecco, gfx: Galaxy, Tune, music: Tsaca, Firecode, Belsebul, "Complications" by Galaxy. info: A 'Revolutions Preview' (90) was also released. First (1990, ECS Intro). code: Zeus, Galaxy, gfx: Zeus, music: "Galaxy-Tune" by Galaxy. info: 1st intro, rel by German section. Hammer (1990, .04, ECS File). code: Zecco, gfx: Galaxy, music: "Go For ot by Galaxy" by Galaxy. Intro (1990, 10.09, ECS Intro). Ami Expo (1990, 10.11, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Galaxy, music: Galaxy (Future Composer 1.4 format, 16410 bytes). Released at the Amiga Expo. info: This intro announced Filippetto had joined from Savage. Happy Nicolaus (1990, 06.12, ECS Intro). code: Filippetto, gfx: Punisher, music: "Starion" by Galaxy. Freedom Crack #4 (1990, 26.12, ECS Filemag). code: Filippetto, gfx: font ripped from Zine!, music: "Ode To Mon Part 5" by Galaxy (4ch MOD format), editor: Filippetto. Released at the Dexion Party 90. review: Not that much to read, but an OK outfit make this mag slightly worthwile. Later issues would prove to be much better. Too bad about all the uninteresting reviews with standardised questions... The middle of the screen is the reading area, there's a scroller at the bottom, and article selection on top. Pretty basic, but works OK. Nothing you ccan't afford to miss. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 - note: Needs KillAGA! The Final Absolution (1990, 26.12, ECS File). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Another Hot Spreading (1991, ECS Intro). code: Zonic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. UpDate #1 (1991, File Chart/Message/NewsMag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Viila" by Smagu. Electrical Ecstasy (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Bandog, gfx: Blockbrain, music: "Defender of R" by Topaz. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Spiritual Connection (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Epidemic, gfx: Zendy, DF0:, music: "Sprtl.Connection" by Ukulele. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Dreamin (1991, 08.06, ECS Intro). code: Breeze, gfx: Zender, music: "Magic-Music2" by Ukulele. Released at the Society Summer Party 91 by the Finnish section. Out of Swapping (1991, .07, ECS File). code: Epidemic, gfx: DF0:, music: "Out of Swapping" by Ukulele. Party Intro (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Drone, gfx: Murdoc, Shredder, music: "Too Speedy" by Terrax/Palace. Released at The Party 91 by the Danish section (and with the help of a Danish musician). Bontro Powerlink BBS (1992, ECS Intro). code: Lizer, Ziggy, gfx: Moi, Zigger, music: "Partyj.1" by Lizer. Dentro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Abbandon, gfx: Fade, Bad, music: Fajser. No Imagination (1992, early, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Dr.Chaos, music: Magic Duke. Vector Dream (1992, .02, ECS File). code: Tron, gfx: Ace (fonts), Blizzard (logo), music: "Insecure" by Magic Duke/Cult. review: Well, a bit hard to review this as I've never seen it! Still, the coder is Tron for god's sake, so how bad can it be? The music is a very cool Jester-like synthie-pop thing. For the record, 'Magic Duke' (Stefan Reisch) later appeared as GTO/Digital in 1994. Totally refuses to work on my configuration, no matter what I do to it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Does NOT work, not even with KillAGA. Back in 92 (1992, .02, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Inner City" by Magic Duke. This intro announced the joining of Magic Duke, and was therefore almost certainly released after "Vector Dream". Disktrash #2 (1992, 24.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Prof.M, MCM (improvements), gfx: Brain/Dynasty (title, logo), Genestealer (logo), Cooper/Symbiosis (menu), music: Magic Duke/Symbiosis, editor: Death Angel. Generation #1 (1992, .04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Fred, gfx: Furio (logo), Shredder (font), music: Subversion/independent. MAG - code: Fred, gfx: Plastic, music: Chromag/Cult, editor: Damion. Released at Expo 92. review: Well, first impressions are not so good, the intro guru'ed... Tried again with KillAGA, and it worked but destabilized my system... Thankfully the mag can be loaded on its own, so we try that. Well, this is very first issue of a mag that would grow to be legendary, but in respect we must say that they still had a long way to go. The first issues were more message and newsoriented, and had very little mag-content, to be honest, and in that respect it sortof works...But this was after all 1992, and there were MUCH better mags and boxes out there! It's a first release, that's all. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! Anti Death (1992, 30.04, ECS File). Amaze Design [new] (1997-1997) -----------------------------DEN> Adonis (swap, ex Passion, new late97), Misery (org gfx, ex Insane, 97), Nigel (code, ex Impact, new late97). Amaze Design is a Danish demo group formed in 1997 by Misery and Nigel from Insane and Impact Inc. It is highly unlikely that the old Amaze has anything to do with this new group. They died after a very short while. Ambrosia (A!A) -------------DEN> Access (code raytrace, 04/96-late97), Cain (gfx raytrace, 12/95late97), Drac (Jan Knudsen, org swap pack, ex Limited Edition,
doublememb Scalaris 06/96, doublememb Cosmic Woodheads early97, 12/95late97), Eliss-D (Martin Nielsen, gfx music, old handle Cyboman, ex Balance, 12/95-97), Lucifer (codePC gfx, late96), Raivo (code sysop, ex Black Jack, new late95-late96), Raze (Thomas Petersen, org music swap, 12/95-late97), Riis (gfx), Shadow Walker (gfx, 12/95-late96), Syntax (codeAM+PC, 04/96-late96), Tricktrax (music, ex Tribe, later Puzzle, new late95), Wax (music, new late96), Zeek (code, 12/95-late96). SWE> Anfobia (ascii swap, doublememb Massive, new 06/96), Hawk (code, triplememb Giants [details] and Darkage ROM9). POL> Draw (ascii swap, doublememb Azkiness, new 06/96-late96), Guma (ascii swap, late97). ???> Dr.Zulu (gfx, late97), Karina (mascot, new 06/96), Nook (gfx, new late97), Spacebrain (music, new early97). Ambrosia is a demo group based in denmark, and active on both the Amiga and pc platforms. They were organized by Raze and Drac, until Raze stopped organizing 06/96. Powdihacker then became the new second organizer, it seems - until he also left. Their mascot Karina is, obviously, female. The recent smash hit doom clone game "Genetic Species" was made by the Danish Ambrosia members Powdihacker (code), Cain (gfx), Shadow Walker (gfx) and Trayzor (sound)! Other Ambrosia productions that I have only a minimum amount of information on are: "Psychopack #2 Packmenu" (intro), "Genetic Species" (aga hd demo - of the game, presumably?), "Miracle Chips #1" (aga intro) and "Scenemeeting Invitation" (aga intro). 1995 - Spiderwork, Mr.Salinas, The Crow, Kallestrup and Jolly Roger were all kicked late in the year. Sardonyx' "Seenpoint #2" [12/95] reported that Raze and Drac are the new organizers, that Jaxx left the group to become independent, that Cyboman/Balance joined, that Raivo/Black Jack joined and that Tricktrax joined from Tribe. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reports that Spacebrain (music) joined, that Cyboman changed his handle to Eliss-D, that danish Powdihacker (org code, 12/95-) left for Puzzle, that danish Artphaze (gfx, new late96) left the group and probably the scene, that Drac joined Cosmic Woodheads as a doublemember, and finally that a pc section had been established. Dutch swapper Coolio (new late96) changed his handle to Blunt and joined TRSI. Musician Trayzor (12/95) left late 96.
Vaxx left to be independent late 95. Freaks Don't Care (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Zeek, gfx: Cyboman, Cain, music: "Canellamips" by Trayzor. 16th or 24th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: It's an OK intro, this. There's some OK effects, like a zoomrotator with 'jerky' zooming and an OK voxel routine. The chiptune is functional, with a very good tune for the end part. It's a remake of an actual tune that was on the charts. My gf recognized the tune as being called 'Jimmie Dean', but couldn't remember the name of the group. Very good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rynkeby Morgenmild (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Powdihacker, gfx: Cain (main), Shadow Walker (rynkeby logo), music: Raze. 16th or 24th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Another good TP5 intro from Ambrosia, this one gives us a texturemapped motionblurred cube and some fractal roofs and floors as its main attractions. The boom-boom-boom generic techno is a major drawback, though. The opening Rynkeby logo is awful. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 4K (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Zeek, gfx: none, music: Trayzor. Contribution for The Party 5 4k intro compo. review: Nothing much to this one, except that it features actual music unusual for a 4k intro. The only effect is a dottunnel, and we've seen that a million times before. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Ard (1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Syntax, Powdi, gfx: Cain, Cyboman, Access, music: Cyboman. Released at The Gathering 96, outside competition. review: There is one thing about Ard that draws it down a lot; The fact that the entire demo is presented in that 'ghosted' mode, that apparently saves a lot of rastertime on c2p routines. There's just one drawback with this: IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK HALF AS GOOD AS SOLID ROUTINES! Other than that, the demo has an altogether average feel to it. The code is OK, I guess, but the graphics and music are so average it hurts. The whole thing has a 'rushed together' feel to it, made further evident by the fact that this demo was released out of competition at TG. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Riverhouse LSD Mix (1996, 06.07, AGA HD Demo). 2nd in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Extel (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition!
Amiga Freelancers (AF) ---------------------NOR> Zap (code). AF rose from nothing to instant fame when they released the first version of ProTracker 1.0, and stayed there until they had released their final version. Until PT arrived, sceners had had to make do with the limited NoiseTracker by the Swedes Mahoney & Kaktus. When PT 1.1 introduced things like a built-in sampler and an online help system, there was no turning back. In a way, AF got their name in the Amiga demoscene history books on the back of one single production... 1992 - Anders Hamre (code) joined Pure Metal Coders around january. Amiga Industries (AI) --------------------1988 - Hero was caught by the police in december. Amitech. -------GER> Fred (sysop 'MIND BOMB', 09/91). Amnesia ------Amnesia was a mainly German demo group, with members in other countries. Some other productions were; Copper History (file), Cycle Meets Plasma (file), Epilepsia I (musicdisk), Epilepsia II (musicdisk), Plastic-Dots (file) and Red is Green is Blue (file). 1992 - German Skyfox left for Agnostic Front. Amnesia is dead! Norwegian musician Symph O'Nee joined Wizzcat. Lowkick, Tim, Rease, Rahiem and Scottie joined Wizzcat. Devil (ex Damian) joined The Dark Demon. Runt joined Decade. Cycle Meets Plasma (1992, 19.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. Textro (1992, 10.10, ECS Intro). code: Chip-Ram, gfx: Art/Dead Awake, music: Tim. Released at Ami-Expo 92. Amnesty ------POL> Aju (trade cosys, late97), Ash (gfx, old handle Insert, 97), Beton (trade, late97), Comanche (raytrace, late97), Domel (code, late97),
Fenix (sysop, ex Royal, new late97), Guma (swap), Hasid (mainorg code, 08/96-late97), Ice (code, late97), Invert (music, late97), Madman (music, late97), Mephi (Mercin Kwasninski, sysop, ex Damage, new late97), Stasi (trade, late97), Szudi (music, late97), Umpal (gfx, 08/96-late97), Zoltan (raytrace, doublememb Mawi, new late97). Amnesty are a purely Polish demo group. 1995 - The group released the intro "Spume" [03/95] as their first amiga lifesign (as far as I know) at the Primavera party in Poland. It reached 9th position in the intro competition there. 1996 - Insert joined Depth in june...But Depth's "Eurocharts #31" reported that he was still in the group 11/97, and had changed his handle to Ash! Anyone? Hasid's 64k intro "Crom" received third place at the Intel Outside 3 party in august. 1997 - Polish graphician and musician Dave (ex Freezers, new late9608/96) left the group after the Rush Hours party in the beginning of 1997. He did not find a suitable new group, and remained groupless for the remainder of 1997, before finally joining Haujobb. Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that polish swapper and raytracer Korball joined from Dinx Project. He left the scene later in the year. Spume! (1995, 12.03, Intro). 9th in the Primavera 95 intro competition. Crom (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Hasid, gfx: Umpal, music: Dave. 3rd in the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Phong-toruses and texturestretchers abound in this 64k intro from the Poles in Amnesty. Also a fast envmapper is given space, though all of these effects are slightly marred by the blocky look of the objects. Otherwise, excellent textures make them a pleasure to view, if you're not too close to the screen. Some speedy effects, and a good soundtrack, make this a worthwile little intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! HazMix (1996, 10.11, AGA 4k Intro). code: Hasid, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of the Gravity 96 4k intro competition! review: Beautiful. Just beautiful. "HazMix" must surely be the best ever
4k intro - at least at the time of its release. Hasid has managed to cram an amazing amount of variations on a couple of effects into his alotted 4k. You won't BELIEVE how long this little bastard keeps going! An amazing achievement. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Hazchemix (1996, 10.11, AGA File). code: Hasid, gfx: none, music: Dave. 3rd in the Gravity 96 demo competition. review: This demo possesses an amazing amount of atmosphere! As a result of the visuals, the great and moody music (mind you, I usually hate this kind of thing) and the widescreen display you're almost spellbound the first time you see it. There's almost NO text or graphics, just the visuals. Large portions of phong and bump effects are the order of the day, and these routines seem both fast and smooth (at least on my 030 :). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Amonia -----NOR> Ace, Bozo, Buzak, Ghost, Girton, Never Mind, Rubberduck, Slimeball, Vulture. Norwegian coder Coke joined Stone Arts. Blaze, #dff180 and Tom joined Cryptoburners. Amonia was formed when the two small groups Lynxor and Edge fusioned. There are no separate entries for the two source groups. Diagonal Insanity (ECS Demo). Coppershock (1990, 29.12, ECS File). Anadune (AND, 1994-, http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1895/) -----------------------------------------------------------------POL> Andy (trade, ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97), Kazik (Kazimierz Perkowski, mainorg gfx, 12/96-08/97), Madbart (raytrace trade sysop 'THE SECT' WHQ, doublememb Appendix, 11/96-08/97), Mr.Acryl (Artur Fabrycy, code, 05/96-08/97), Norman (Miroslaw Okonski, swap pack, ex Rektum, new 06/96-08/97), QBA (swap, triplememb Nah Kolor and PIL, late96-early98), Revisq (Patryk Gegniewicz, music swap, ex Legion, doublememb Floppy late96, new 06/96-08/97), Robson (code, ex Scalaris?/Depth?, new 06/96), Scorpik (music, 05/96), Tonid (networker, 08/97). ???> BlackWine (code music, ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97), Dr.Greg (code, 08/97), Green (raytrace, ex Beton Design, new 06/96-08/97), Spoonman
(sysop 'RUSSIA', new 06/96), Zeebi (music, 08/97), Zig (pol? code, 12/96-01/97). Boards; LOS ENDOS EHQ (ger), NEMEZIS (pol), REALITY BYTES (nor, late97), UPHOLD THE LAW (ger distsite). Anadune seem to take their role as the new Polish #1 very seriously. They arranged the Gravity 96 party in Poland 11/96. It seems action may have more or less left the scene, but this is unconfirmed. 1996 - Rekin changed his handle to Mario, but was kicked in june. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] repoted that polish Sharp (gfx swap, ex Megapoint, new 06/96) was kicked, that Action switched from being a mailswapper to a modem, that german Celic (sysop 'LOS ENDOS') joined, and that 'UPHOLD THE LAW' is now the groups' german distribution site. German sysop Celic ('LOS ENDOS', 08/97) left the scene late 97 or early 98. 2000 - Luke (code) left for Skarla early in the year. Polish trader and sysop Losiu (ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97) left to be independent late97/early98. Polish musician, trader and swapper Action (Przemek Wozny, ex Damage, new 06/96-08/97) left the scene late97/early98. Polish VIS graphician Lazur (ex Nah Kolor, new 04/96-02/97) has, in a surprise move, left to join Scoopex (ROM9). He released one slideshow for Anadune, "Wild" [96] in addition to working on several of their demos. Impast (1994, 13.11, AGA Slideshow). Released at Gelloween 94. Anadune's first ever release! Collage (1995, 30.04, AGA Demo). Released at Eastern Conference 95. Infliction (1995, 30.08, AGA Demo). 6th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Foundation (1995, 28.12, Demo). 19th in The Party 95 demo competition. Cyberspace (1996, .03, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Kazik, music: Scorpik. Wild Preview (1996, .04, AGA File). Wild (1996, .05, AGA Slideshow). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Lazur, music: Scorpik. Cooperation with Nah-Kolor. information: Wild is polish graphician Lazur's second slideshow, his first being TRSI's "Sun" [95]. Two of the pictures here can also be seen in Mystic's Assembly'96 demo "Traffic" [08/96]. Boombastic #1 (1996, .06, AGA Admag).
The Sunrise (1996, 23.06, AGA File). code: n/a, gfx: Lazur, music: n/a. 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition. Boombastic #2 (1996, .08, AGA Admag). Soundgarden (Preview) (1996, .09, AGA Musicdisk). Soundgarden (1996, AGA Musicdisk). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. Gravity Party Invitation (1996, late, AGA Demo). Invitation to the Gravity party in november. Oops! (1996, 10.11, AGA 1MB 64k Intro). Cooperation with Venus Art, see there. Versor (1997, 23.02, AGA 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Kazik, music: n/a. 2nd in the Rush Hours '97 64k intro competition. review: What struck me after seeing Versor was, 'this is just like an Azure intro - only more blocky!' You see, we're presented here with a few effects that are quite a lot like some of what Azure did in "Dawn.Remix" [04/96] and other intros - the difference being that Azure's routines were 1x1. The intro opens with an envmapped logo, which is afterburned and finally fades away. Then we're shown a Versor logo and some other graphics, before another envmapped object, this time with some transparency. The show ends with the Versor logo from before being blown up to fill the whole screen, and a phong env object appears on top of it before it starts to morph, and spikes shoot out of it. One cool thing about this intro is the graphics smoothing used here, which seems extremely effective! All effects have background graphics. The music is quite anonymous - I can't really remember how it went now :) The intro opens and ends with a badly drawn image of a tree. Anyone know the significance of this? The intro itself contains no credits, except the fact that the signature on Kazik's logo is plainly visible. Anyone know who coded and wrote the music for this intro? The logo can be extracted by decrunching the file (packed with Imploder) and using a tool like WRip to extract the iff file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Yon (1997, 23.02, AGA Multifile Demo). code: Mr.Acryl, Zig, gfx: Kazik, Lazur, Mr.Acryl (objects), music: Revisq (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the RushHours'97 demo competition!
Cooperation with Floppy. review: Not my favorite demo, but still not bad from the new Polish masters. The most disappointing thing about this demo is the graphics! With a quality pixeler like Lazur working on it, I expected a lot better than what I got...and Kazik's pictures weren't much comfort. Some nice effects, bump, env and the usual shit, and a tune that doesn't get TOO irritating makes it pass the grade. Above average but lacks the final spark... The txt file in the demo directory suggests it was meant as a contribution for The Party 6. I have no idea how much memory it requires, but at least it ran fine with 4mb fast! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Gravity 97 english version (1997, AGA Intro). Invitation to the Gravity 97 party in august. Quark (1997, .07, AGA 64k Intro). Released at Kindergarten 97. Zoom (1997, 08.08, AGA Demo). code: Mr.Acryl, gfx: Kazik, Gryf (raytrace), music: Revisq. Contribution for the Assembly 97 demo competition. Czyjest (1997, 31.08, AGA Intro). Released at Gravity 97. Whizzz! (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 5th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. info: Requires an FPU. Y'Aga (1999, 14.11, Demo). 2nd in the Satellite 2 demo competition. Anaheim (1994-) --------------FIN> Cancer (Jarno Pato, gfx swap, 02/94), Diamond (Jarmo Nikkanen, code, 02/94), E.M.F (Jarmo Pitkänen, swap, 02/94), Lance (Ville Heijari, gfx swap, 02/94). ???> (D) Fence (music, 02/94). Is (D) Fence the same norwegian guy that was later in Balance? Anaheim seem to be based in Finland, wouldn't you say? Broken Connection (1994, 15.02, ECS Intro). code: Diamond, gfx: Cancer, Lance, music: "Cellarband" by (D) Fence. review: A horror example of what NOT to do, this is one of a million stereotype 'contact us' intros out there. You know the kind, with a logo at the top, and a scroller/plotter occopying the rest of the screen. Words cannot describe how bored I am with these :( This is their first ever released intro. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Bubble (1994, 08.03, AGA Intro). Anal Intruders (AI) ------------------AI is probably most known for their fake "Enigma 2" release at The Gathering 94. I remember expectations riding high when we saw the next demo would be Enigma 2, but unfortunately it wasn't. They're also notorious for their nazi sympaties...unfortunately they don't seem to be able to present their opinions in a way that's not laughable. KKK (ECS Musicdisk). Analog (ALG) -----------FRA> Axis (01/94), Erekose (Philippe Veriere, swap music, old handle Zorglub, ex Equinox, also in Zuul Design [pc], 09/92-01/94), Geronymho (mainorg music), Ktulu and Baobab (01/94), Milena (01/94), Pats, P'Tit Louis (sysop 'EIFFEL TOWER'), Potiron, Revolution (01/94), Spoky (mainorg, 01/94), Squale and Rabi (sysops 'RHYTHM NATION), Steelhertz (Franck Abitbol, music, new 09/92), Stingray (01/94), Stone (old handle Pedro), SuperBee (Thierry Ginoux, music, new 09/91-03/92), Zac (Clark Gaybeul, music, new 11/91). GER> Front 6 (Søren Gessele, music, ex Dynamic, new 10/93), Justice (sysop 'TERMINAL FUCKUP', 08/93), Noise (music), Old Spook (01/94), Rick (Marco Ricono, music, new 03/93-01/94), Sigma (ex Scoopex, 01/95), Stranger (ex Saints, new ROM3/ex Impact), Tron (01/94), Venom (01/94). SWI> Bishop (sysop 'CAPE FEAR', same as Road Runner?, 08/93), Black Sun (early92-01/94), Burgame (music), Dunhill (Hans Haltinner, music, new 02/92), Eurex (sysop2 'CIVIL WAR' WHQ open 93), Excalibur (sysop 'BENEDICTION', 08/93), Highlander (Amor Carlos, swap sysop1 'CIVIL WAR' WHQ open 93, 01/94), Pinhead (01/94), Road Runner (sysop 'CAPE FEAR', same as Bishop?). FIN> Swan (Svante Lehtinen, music, ex Swantti/Midnight Sun, 01/96). USA> Deathbringer (sysop 'HORROR ZONE', 04/95). ???> Buckaroo (ex Artefact), Cobburn (fra?), Coronal (ex Nova), Joker (sysop, ex Taurus, new late94), Motown (ex Lunatic Earls), Remote, U2 (fra? music).
Analog is a demo group based in France, but with divisions in Germany and Switzerland. They were born in 1990 or 91, after the all-french group Sun Connection changed their name to Analog and started taking in foreign divisions. The Swiss section goes under the name 'The Sect'. Their members are also behind utilities like SunTracker II, IAM Packer, Bootshop and Infomod. Other Analog productions, where I have a minimum of information is "New Members Joined" (intro), "Mushroom" (file, not on A500&1000), "Jointro" (intro 94) and "Spidy" (intro 94). 1991 - Shogun and Scud left mid 91. 1992 - Germans Shade (formerly Dynac/The Silents) and Jason joined around october. 1993 - Germans Kernal (code) and Chaos! (gfx, both ex TKOB [no entry]) joined Desire mid 93. German musician Dynamite (ex Cyanide, new 03/93) joined Noxious mid 93. German organizer Jason left the scene mid 93. 1994 - German sysop Trooper ('LOST CARRIER', ex Dynamic, 01/94) joined Lego late94. Frenchmen Monty (music), Cobburn (music, 91), Geronymho (music, 91), Reflex (music) and End of Data are no longer members. Dillenger and Coractor joined Dynamix. German swapper Mr.King (ex Beyond, new late92-01/94) joined Vision with his famous pack 'Nevermind'. Wea (ex Psycho) joined, but soon moved on to join Speedy. The two Germans Excess (gfx) and T.N.T (Ralf Merker, raytrace music swap, both new 03-04/93) left. French sysop Cypher and Mery ('HANG LOOSE') joined Fairlight early 93. Germans coders Slash (responsible for "Important Note") and Cockroach (ex Impact) both joined DCS. German Shade joined Alcatraz. Germans Placid (music, new 11/92) and Plasma, collectively known as Cream Design, left to join TEK. Eternal #2 however, claimed Plasma had joined DCS, and he IS confirmed in this group, before moving on to The Silents... Disease (Demo). Epic (Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Breastbone" by Erekose. info: The tune Breastbone was also used in the muscidisk "Difficult To Cure". Analogia (1991, ECS Megademo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Cobburn and Geronymho. Cyclone Dentro (1991, ECS File). info: Two versions were released; one that required 1MB and one that ran on 512k machines. The Sun Is A Pacman (1991, ECS Intro).
Invitation to a party, but which? :-) 86 Musics (1991, .05 or .06, ECS Musicdisk). First Blood (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Dancing Light-Exp" by Zorglub (ProTracker format). Released at the Iris New Year party. Face The Facts (1992, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Facethefacts I" by Noise. One Day In The Sol-System II v1.2 (1992, ECS Slideshow). The Red And The Blue (1992, ECS Intro). Falling Up (1992, 26.06, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Digital" by Dunhill, "Falling Up" by Cobburn and Monty. 2nd in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. info: Nonworking on A1200. Difficult To Cure (1993 or later, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Difficult" (intro), "Breastbone" and "Circles" by Erekose. info: The tune Breastbone was also used in the demo "Epic". Important Note (1993, 28.03, ECS Intro). code: Slash, gfx: Excess, music: "I Dreamed of You" by T.N.T. Released at CeBit 93. The King Of Biscuits (1993, 05.05, ECS File). NeverMind Pack Preview (1993, 01.08, ECS Intro). Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. Analogy (1992-) --------------FIN> Synx (code gfx, 92-10/93). ???> Slaverider (music, 92-10/93), Stephen (gfx, 10/93), U.F.O (music, 92), Wizzy (gfx, 92). Analogy was formed after the group Crashead kicked all their lazy members and decided to form an entirely new group; this occured ca 10/92. BBS-Tro (1992, ECS Demo). code: Synx, gfx: Wizzy, Synx, music: "Katse_Lama-Aikaan" by Slaverider. Rational Prodigy (1992, ECS Disk). HiTech Party Invitation (1992, .10, Trackmo). HiTech Party Invitation #2 (1992, ECS Demo).
code: Synx, gfx: Wizzy, Synx, music: "Her_Eyes" by U.F.O. Hysteria (1993, 12.08, Trackmo, 2 disks). 5th in the Assembly 93 intro competition. Dyspepsia (1993, .10, ECS Trackmo). code: Synx, gfx: Stephen, music: Slaverider. 3rd in the Aggression 93 demo competition, and best of the Amiga entries. info: Requires a pre-2.04+ system. Sub.l# $7fd1 (1994, 07.08, AGA HD File). 8th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. Anarchy (1989-1993) ------------------ENG> Del (Derek Leigh-Gilchrist, code, 12/90), Gamma (Fred, music, ex Razor 1911 old), Hammer (Adam, code, 02-08/90), Kris (code), Punisher (code, 02/90), Raphael (D.Blackmore, 08/90). DEN> Cyboman (sysop), Deltaforce (sysop2 'BOOMERANG' EHQ), Rush (Rene Möllnitz, code, 91-12/92), Streamline (ex The Flashing Bytes), Trix (org sysop1 'BOOMERANG' EHQ, ex Rebels, new mid91). FRA> Lethal (code, new 09/92), Neptune (code, ex Atlantys), Raspoutin (ex The Silents), Rookie (ex The Silents), Skynet (ex Rebels). GER> Deathstar (swap). FIN> Griffon (Janne Kammonen, music, ex Gate, new 12/90), Psycho (Jani Peltonen, code, ex Gate, new 12/90). NOR> Laiz (swap, ex Gate, new 12/90). SWE> Mic (91), Odeon (91), Teeze (org, 12/90-91). USA> Dr.Feelgood (sysop 'OVERDOSE'), Steve (sysop 'MYSTIC PLACES', ex Vertigo or Desire!?, 12/92), Trillion (sysop 'POWERHOUSE', 04/9112/92). ???> Cosy (eng? swap pack, ex Magnetic Fields, new mid91), Marvin (swe? gfx, 11/90), Twister (swe? gfx music, 11/90), Zarch (code). Boards; PROVOCATION (swe, 12/90). Anarchy spent some time as the definitive 'super-group' of the demo scene, before it grew too big and simply died. When they were on top, though, they produced what are some of the most well-remembered demos ever... However, when the best members went and formed Lemon. on 1st February 1993, they pretty much nailed the coffin. After a little while, the remainders of the group decided that the blow was too hard, and they'd rather quit on top than keep going at half speed. Dan and Nuke were involved with the making of several games for Core Design while still in Anarchy, like Chuck Rock. There has NEVER been a member called Striker and Zoom was never kicked despite rumours in some mags.
1990 - English coder Del joined the group from Mayhem sometime between april and december. In october, the group was reinforced with Mystik (gfx), Dan (code gfx) and Kris (code) from Reaktor. Dan soon released his first production for his new group, the demo "Madness" [10/90]. Come december and "Stolen Data #5" [12/90] - their best yet - they also announced the joining of English musicians Nuke and Cosmos, as well as the leaving of Raistlin (code, 07/90-) and Pioneer who both left the group to concentrate on their educations. 1991 - During the easter holidays in late march, the swedish division (Odeon, Mic, Teeze) arranged the Anarchy Easter Conference 91 party. Germans Mike (sysop 'STATE OF MIND', 09/91), Cyfreak and Koto left for Endless Piracy in september. The entire french section of The Silents were recruited late in the year - possibly as early as september, but more likely around december. These members were Audiomonster (who returned to TSL after just a few days), Conquest, NHP, BKH, Performer, Ronan, Rookie, Surfer and Zoom. 1992 - All Swedish and Finnish members were kicked around january, according to R.A.W #2 [02/92], 'because of their extreme lazyness and bad attitudes.' Swedish sysop Stanton ('3AM ETERNAL') joined Amaze around january, possibly as a sideeffect of the above. German swapper Mike D. (ex Sanity) joined Complex, French coder DCA joined from Rebels and danish musician Maestro joined from Kefrens around january. Come the beginning of april, the group arranged the Anarchy Easter Party in Barnsley, England, which was even visited by their foreign members (Facet). The group themselves came 1st with the trackmo "Krestmass Leftovers" [04/92] (Krest/Critical Mass) and third with the musicdisk "Legalise It..." [04/92] (Dan/Facet/Nuke) in the demo competition =) The scrolltext in the musicdisk revealed that Rush had now moved to England, and was working as a programmer at Core Design alongside Dan. The french section released their first production for Anarchy - the musicdisk "Spring Melodies" [04/92] - at the Eastern Conference in Belgium a little later in april. The group's brandnew german section won the demo competition at the Digital Symposium with "Flower Power" [10/92], but soon after big problems arose in the newborn section. Crux (ex Dual Crew) and Slick (ex Cyberactive) were first kicked out, and as a result of this Pinny (Christian) also left. Anarchy then decided to close down the entire section, and thus Tron, MCM and E.Toball (all ex Dual Crew) were all kicked out! Tron joined Sanity, MCM joined Spaceballs, E.Toball joined Complex and Crux joined Adept. RAW 5's claim that Tron also joined Complex is untrue. Danish musician Maestro (Martin Agger), who had joined from Kefrens as early as january, was kicked out
around october because of lazyness and not being involved with the scene at all. On the 14th of June 1996 he died in Aarhus, Denmark, at the age of 24. Swedish sysop Norad ('ACES HIGH') was recruited around october, and this is now the ONLY board in Anarchy. French swapper Mental (ex Atlantys) left for Willow around october. 1993 - On the 1st of february 1993, a large portion of Anarchy's most talented members in England, Denmark and Holland left to form a new, smaller group called 'Lemon.' These members were Facet (hol gfx, ex Vision, new late91), Dan (eng code, ex Reaktor, new 10/90), Nuke (eng music, new 12/90), Hannibal (den code, ex The Silents, old handle Sunjohn, 12/91), Slash (den gfx, ex Flash Productions, 12/91), Mad Freak (den music, 12/91) and Paradroid (eng code, ex Digital, new 07/92). Indirectly, it was this act that killed Anarchy. Left without its best members, people started losing their confidence in the supergroup, and started leaving in droves. English coder and graphician Kreator (Michael Troughton, production editor 'Stolen Data', 07/90-12/92) landed a job at Reflections (the people behind the 'Shadow of the Beast' games) and consequently left the scene at the end of january. A few months later they were stone dead. Later, dutch graphician Danny (ex Mirage) also joined Lemon. The two Danes ICronite and Milkshake (both ex Rebels), who participated in such fine productions for Anarchy as "Digital Innovation" [91] and "Hardcore" [12/92], left to form Camel Corporation in February 1993. Frenchmen NHP & BKH (org music, 04-12/92), Conquest and Zoom (all 04/92, all ex The Silents) joined Scoopex in early 1993. After Anarchy died, the Englishmen Judge Drokk (Mark, org editor 'Stolen Data', 02/90-04/92), 4-Mat (Matthew Simmonds, music, 07/9012/92), Mystik (gfx, ex Reaktor, new 10/90-12/92), Krest (code) and Critical Mass (code) all decided to end their involvement with the scene. 4-Mat's music has since graced several games, as you all know, and it is believed that Kris (code, ex Reaktor, new 10/90) joined him in gamemaking land. This is NOT confirmed, however. Del (Derek Leigh-Gilchrist) is today a game programmer at Codemasters. French painter Suny (ex Rebels, 12/92) joined Movement. Arpegiator (music) joined Chryseis late 92. French coder Ronan (ex The Silents, 04/92) joined Sanity. Ronan coded the musicdisk "Spring Melodies" [04/92] for Anarchy. Finns Destop (gfx) and WDO (code) rejoined CNCD. In the middle of january, Danes Slammer (code) and Xience (gfx, both ex Rednex) joined Melon Dezign. Later also Solnova (gfx) joined. Slammer and Xience collaborated on the trackmo "In The Kitchen" (06/92) for Anarchy.
Englishmen Mole (12/90) and Mr.Big (02-12/90) left the scene in the latter part of 1992. Mr.Big was editor of "Stolen Data" for a while. Norwegian coder and swapper Octoplex (ex Gate, new 12/90) joined Palace. French graphician Titan (ex Atlantys) joined Digital. Swedes Lexter (code), Mosh (code, 11/90) and Dexter (music, new 09/91) joined Shining (pre 03/92). Swedish sysop Norad ('ACES HIGH' WHQ) joined Virtual. Tama (ex Euphoria) left the scene. German Maec is NOT a member of Anarchy. French coder Performer (ex The Silents) joined Melon Dezign. He was never a member of Rebels, as some people claimed. Belgian Cybersonik (ex Cult) who worked as coeditor on Stolen Data for a while, was kicked by Trix! He therefore joined Alcatraz 09/92. French trader Rhod (ex Rebels old) left the scene. The information in RAW3 that he was kicked seems to be untrue, especially since both the next RAW and Anarchy's own mag Stolen Data confirms he left. French swapper Surfer (David Pointu, ex The Silents) left the scene. Conquest took over the organizing of the French section. French coder DCA (ex Rebels old) joined The Silents. The entire French division of The Silents joined. However, a few days later Audiomonster returned to TSL. Finns Golem (gfx, ex Gate, new 12/90-91) and Major Tom joined Carillon. Banger and Mediator (Andrew, eng code, 07-10/90) left Anarchy mid 91. Banger first joined Punishers, and later left the scene altogether. German sysop Bomber ('PEARL HARBOUR' opened 09/91) joined Crusaders late91. Finnish musician Bruno (ex Gate, new 12/90-91) joined SCUP. Bruno released the musicdisk "Bruno's Music Box 3" (91) while in Anarchy. Igor (gfx, 07/90-04/91), Fobia and Cosmos (eng music, new 12/90) got kicked. Finnish coder and graphician Wraith (Mika Keskikiikonen, ex Gate, new 12/90) left the scene 91; a decision he announced in Anarchy's "Bruno's Music Box III". Demo Dolly Mixture No.01 (ECS Intro). code: Zarch, gfx: Marvin (logo), Igor (font), music: "Popkorn" by Nuke (4ch MOD format). review: This intro precedes the first ever issue of Anarchy's packseries Demo Dolly Mixture (compiled by Cosy), and is very very standard. The music is a suitably cheery chip affair, and the obligatory logo at the top of the screen is nicely done, if a little unimaginative. The rest is just the normal text and scroller. This is the kind if intro you are likely to see a hundred of... Please note that this is NOT a selector, just an
intro, the selection itself was probably done in DOS. The intro does not in any way indicate any release date. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Inspired Sounds (ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Bob Intro 1.0 (1989, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Kreator, music: ???/Triangle. Kreator's First (1989, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Kreator, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Magnetic Fields Party 89. Stolen Data #1 (1989, .11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: Codex/Razor 1911. MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Tar-Snare Slider" by ???/TAR, editors: Kreator, Nosah/DCS. CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: The Dark Lord (font, logo), music: "Tennis" by ???/Spreadpoint (ripped). Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: The very first issue of SD opens with a good intro - colorful and professional. Then on to the mag itself... You are first taken to a menu, where you can choose to see one of three new demos (so it's almost a pack too!), the charts or the mag itself. The menu is a little much, really, too colorful and overcrowded for a diskmag. SD was originally on both paper and disk, with the papermag containing the bulk of the material... As a result, the editorial content of this first issue is VERY limited. In fact, you'll read this mag from start to end in about 10 minutes... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Final Samples Advertisment (1990, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx/music: 4-Mat. Master of Magic (1990, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Tony, music: 4-Mat. Welcome (1990, ECS File). code/music: Hammer, gfx: Raphael, Hammer. Sine Intro #3.0 (1990, .01, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: Raphael, music: 4-Mat (SAE). Kreators Party Demo (1990, 04.02, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Magnetic Fields Select Party demo competition!
4-Mat's Jam Session (1990, 04.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. info: Chipmusicdisk. Released at the Magnetic Fields Select Party. Stolen Data #2 (1990, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Stolen Data Theme 1" by Gonzo/Flash Production (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Cloud Dreaming" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Lovesong" by 4-Mat, editors: Kreator, Nosah/DCS. CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, The Dark Lord (font), music: "6beat" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: The coding of this mag remains mostly the same as last time, only the music and text seem to have changed significantly. It's still both disk- and paperbased, with the paper edition having most of the significant information - sadly. There are just two demos on the disk this time, Red Sector's "Follow Me" and Rebels "Vectors 1990", but in addition there are also two small utilities, Boot Memory Clear and Music Ripper for Titanics Cruncher by Punisher/Anarchy. The different heading above for this review means INT (intro), MEN (menu), MAG (magazine) and CHA (charts). The mag was released in february, but after MF's Select party (03-04.02), so probably sometime around mid february. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sine Intro #4 (1990, 08.03, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Winter Conference 90 Invitation (1990, early, ECS Intro). Invitation to the Anarchy Winter Conference 90. Stolen Data #3 (1990, .06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, music: "Stolen Data Theme 1" by Gonzo/ Flash Productions (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Caress" and "Fantastic" by Mr.Fancy/Giants, "Live Inside Paula" by Gonzo/Flash Productions (all 4ch MOD format). CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "6Beat" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Lies" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format), editor: Mr. Big. Cooperation with DCS and Tristar. review: Nothing has changed on the graphics front since the last issue;
everything is precisely the same! Mr.Big is the new editor. Nothing much to read here yet, most of the material was still being used for the paper edition. There were no demos or other stuff on the disk this time, the extra material was used for the three winning tunes from their music competition in issue 1. No release date appears in the mag, but some coding examples on the disk carry a 06/90 date... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. For Your Delectation & Delight (1990, 08.04, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Igor, music: 4-Mat. Released at The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex Party 90. info: The intro also features graphics ripped from the game Xenon. Vector Bobs 90 (1990, 08.04, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, Del/Mayhem, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Released at The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex Party 90. info: The intro also features graphics ripped from the game Xenon. Mini-Intro (1990, 14.05, ECS Intro). code: Kreator, gfx: Mr.Big, music: "mod.Led-Storm" by 4-Mat. Music Demo (1990, 03.06, ECS File). code/gfx: Tony Roach, music: Jochen Hippel/independent. Raistlins Message Box #1 (1990, .07, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: 4-Mat. Slipstream Party Demo (1990, 28.07, ECS File). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Slipstream Summer Party 90. Slipstream Party Intro (1990, 28.07, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Raistlin, Norris, music: n/a (from some game). Released at the Slipstream Summer Party 90. Slipstream Party - Bournemouth '90 Intro (1990, 28.07, ECS Intro). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Phantasmagoria (1990, .08, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Igor, music: 4-Mat. Stolen Data #4 (1990, .08, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator (font, logo), music: "DNA-Dream" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: Igor (logo), Kreator (bobs), music: "IntroMusic" by 4-Mat, "Latitude" by Trevor Hamlett, "Vector" by Firefox/Phenomena, "New-Wave 1" by New-Wave/Reaktor (all 4ch MOD formats). CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Waterfall" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). ART - code: Hammer, gfx: The Dark Lord (fonts), Kreator (fonts), music: none.
MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Music" by 4-Mat (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with DCS. review: The intro remains the same, but the new menu is refreshing and ultimately heaps better than the old one! In addition to the mag and the charts, it also allows us to see the art gallery or listen to three cool tunes thay have received since last time! Onto the mag we go, and it's immediately obvious that there's a lot more to read now than there used to be! And the mag would continue to improve... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- needs KillAGA. Dot Demo II (1990, 18.08, ECS File). code: Mediator, gfx: Igor, Mystik/Reaktor, music: 4-Mat, Jochen Hippel/ independent, others. Released at the Share & Enjoy Party 90. Captured Imagination (1990, .10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mediator, gfx: Mystik, Mediator, music: "Lunawaves at Sunset", "Auf Wiedersehn", "Close to the Edge", "VCC+GIGICAR 1989(forestst)", "Heli", "Wizardry", "The Golden Ages", "The Last V8", "Gartingkippers Ahoy", "Ace II", "Cluster", "Red Sector-Theme" by 4-Mat, "Dark Water" and "TheRockin'Ruler" by Twister. Twister Earwax (1990, 06.10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Mosh, gfx: Twister, Marvin, music: Twister (9 tunes!). Released at the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. Raistlin Pack 9 Intro (1990, 27.10, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Mystik, music: Dr.Awesome/Crusaders. Madness (1990, 21.10, ECS File). code/gfx: Dan, music: "4-Mat's Madness" by 4-Mat. Winner of the Magnetic Fields Revenge Party demo competition! Raistlins Message Box #4 (1990, 27.10, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Igor, Kreator, music: Dr.Awesome/Crusaders. Released at the Magnetic Fields Revenge Party...? Smoker (1990, 03.11, ECS File). code: Mosh, gfx: Twister, Marvin, music: Twister. 2nd in the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition. Stolen Data #5 (1990, .12, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Del, Kris, gfx: Dan (anarchy logo), Havok/independent (sd logo), music: Nuke. MEN - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Zapped Out" by 4-Mat, "Celebration by Omega/Dual Crew, "Up In The Woods" by Steel/Subway and "You Are Not A God" by Echo/Imagine.
CHA - code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, music: "!Noname!" by 4-Mat. GAL - code: n/a, gfx: Raphael, Havok, "Plaything" by Scorch/independent, "Elf" by D.Kalic/Technoflight, "Turtles", "Warriors of Destiny" and "Nightpiccy" by Cryolite/Cryptic, music: none. MAG - code: Kreator, gfx: n/a, music: "Forests" by 4-Mat, editor: Mr.Big. review: Anarchy goes at it alone for the first time, and the results are the best issue of SD yet! Improved in virtually every department, with some remarkable new graphical talent - namely Havok - just adding spice to the package. This time the limitations of the mag code became painfully obvious, when there was just not enough room with just one magpart for all the text, and the mag had to be split in two! A remarkable improvement over previous issues. The intro for the mag announced the joining of English musicians Nuke and Cosmos, as well as the leaving of Raistlin and Pioneer who leaves the group to concentrate on their educations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: caches/aga off. Winter Conference 91 Invitation (late 90/early 91, ECS Intro). code: Raistlin, gfx: Mutley, music: 4-Mat. Invitation to the Winter Conference 91. Bruno's Music Box III (1991, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: Golem, music: "Dr.Snuggles", "Uralvolga Fine", "B.S.T", "Oppenheimer", "Gymnopedies", "Sonar5", "Tunnehairio", "Stracger Is Called" by Bruno. BMB2 was released when Bruno was still in Gate; he later joined SCUP. With this release, Wraith announced he was leaving the scene. Digital Innovation (1991, ECS Disk). code: Dan, Rush, ICronite, gfx: Golem (load, intro, lions), Dan (sinescroll), Airwalk (fonts), Milkshake (fonts, walkman), Music: "Kings of Dawn" (NoisePacker 3 format) and "!Same As?" by Nuke. Madness II (1991, 23.02, ECS File). code/gfx: Dan, music: 4-Mat. Released at the Anarchy Winter Conference 91. System Violation (1991, 23.02, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Chuck2_endgame_" by Nuke (NoisePacker 2 format). 2nd in the Anarchy Winter Conference 91 demo competition. Ferrytales (1991, .03, ECS Intro). code: Mosh, gfx: Marvin, music: 4-Mat. Intro (1991, 07.04, ECS Intro).
code: Kreator, Del/Mayhem, gfx: Igor, music: 4-Mat. Stolen Data #6 (1991, .05, ECS Diskmag). MEN - code: Dan, Kris, gfx: Igor (logo), Mystik (font), Dan (font), music: "Menutune" by Nuke, "Buena Vista" by Danko/Phenomena, "Micro World" by Tama/Cycron, "Trouble Vision" by Romeo Knight/Red Sector Inc. CHA - code: Dan, gfx: Mystik (logo), Dan (fonts), music: "Charts" by Nuke. MAG - code: Kris, gfx: Mystik, "Magtune" by Nuke. Cooperation with Axis and Flash Production. review: With new cooperation partners, brand new code, and almost half a year behind them since the last issue, SD #6 was their strongest issue yet. It all opened with Havok's Stolen Data logo from last issue's intro, and onto a first page that immediately proved that everything was indeed new! An unorthodox design, but also a sign of fresh ideas. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Inspiration is None (1991, 29.06, ECS File). code: Mosh, gfx: Marvin, music: Nuke. 5th in the Amega Party demo competition. Raistlins Message Box #5 (1991, .08, ECS Demo). code: Kreator, gfx: Kreator, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. Cooperation with Genesis. Raistlins Message Box #6 (1991, .09, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Kreator, music: Nuke. The Fury (1991, .09, ECS File). code: Kreator, gfx: Mystik, music: "Ohno..A Demosong" by 4-Mat. info: Crashes after titlepic on machines with 2.0+. Released at an internal meeting. Raistlins Message Box #7 (1991, .10, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Kreator, music: Gamma/Razor. Stolen Data issue #7 (1991, .10, ECS Diskmag). code: Dan, Kris, gfx: Igor, Zoom/The Silents, Mystik, J.O.E/independent (gameboy, gun), Mithrandir/Acme (pink cat), Fairfax/PMC (owl), Uno/Scoopex (Stunner logo), music: "Loader" (menu), "Magazin Part" (mag), "Mint" (chart) and "Robozap" (gallery) by Nuke, editors: Mr.Big, Teeze, Dexter, Deathbringer/FP, Mystik, Rick/FP, Edison/Motion, Surfer/The Silents, Mop/Axis, Judge Drokk, Mole, Trix, and others. Cooperation with Flash Production (FP). Released at the Digital Party. Seeing Is Believing (1991, 28.12, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Nuke.
Released for The Party 91 demo competition. 3D Demo (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Sunjohn, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. Released for The Party 91 demo competition. Visual Distortion (1992, 29.01, ECS File). code: Dan, gfx: Krest, music: Nuke. Krestmass Leftovers (1992, 04.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Krest, gfx: Critical Mass, music: n/a. Winner of the Anarchy Easter Party 92 demo competition! review: Critical Mass' first prod for Anarchy. Legalise It... (1992, 04.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Dan, gfx: Facet, music: Nuke. 3rd in the Anarchy Easter Party 92 demo competition! review: Beautiful in its simplicity, "Legalise It..." is a classic among amiga musicdisks. Facet's perfect design touches makes us fondly remember why he was considered one of the strongest graphical talents in the scene back then, and Nuke's perfect blend of jazzy and 'finnish-sounding' tunes (can't help but think of Bruno, Dizzy and most of all Heatbeat when hearing "Nassum Peliti" =) shows us a musical talent at the height of his scene life. And Dan's coding makes it all come together, creating a production with an almost perfect sense of "flow". After a brief intro sequence, we are presented with a main menu for choosing - among other things - what tunes to listen to. In addition, the function keys F1-F5 also allows us other choices; F1 means a selection of scrollers, F2 is an info screen on the currently played music, F3 is a credits sequence, F4 gives us a greetings scroller (they originally wanted to have a separate part for this too, but didn't have time), while finally F5 gives us our 'bonus' - a fullscreen picture of a dwarf warrior by Facet! The layout of the main menu screen is simplicity itself, but nevertheless the overall effect is one of professionality. An ANARCHY logo resides at the top, under which the names of the six tunes are highlighted. Below this is a simple scroll, and below that again a panel of the five function keys as described above. Though this musicdisk is clearly inspired by Phenomena/Scoopex/Rebels' "Crystal Symphonies" [91], it lives perfectly in its own right as a classic example of the magic that the scene could create once upon a time... The disk offers six tunes on offer, none of which to my knowledge was released before. They are "Velomatrix" (2:42), "Nassum Peliti" (3:50), "Love Funk" (3:08), "Time For Loving" (2:28), "Je
L'Ai Deja Vu" (2:33) and "Bloe Job" (3:41). "Legalise It..." was originally supposed to be a cooperation musicdisk between Nuke and Maestro, but unfortunately Maestro's music did not arrive in time for inclusion on the disk. Even before it was finished, a second installment was planned, as made evident by several of the scrolltexts. Its release date was supposedly to be the end of april or beginning of may - but it did not surface until november! The scrolltexts also kind of "announced" Rush had moved to England and had secured a job at Core Design, working alongside Dan. This review was made not of the original version, but of the 'fixed' one released by Stingray/Darkage in june of 2001. This not merely a whdload version or similar, Stingray has resourced the entire demo, and fixed EVERYTHING - even sample and module replayers - to work correct on all 68k cpus - without denting performance on older machines. As he says, it should still work on the original configuration of an A500. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Stolen Data issue #8 (1992, 04.04, ECS Diskmag). code: Kreator (main), Sunjohn (charts), gfx: Zoom/The Silents (SD logo), Facet, Mystik, Slash, Morten Thuesen (chart logo), Exarch/Aspect, Corny/ Shining, music: "music (stolendata)" (menu), "bonkynudge" (magazine) by Nuke, "Charttune" by 4-Mat (ProPacker 2.1 format), editors: Mr Big, Judge Drokk, Trix, Conquest, Cybersonik, Surfer, Rokdazone, and others. Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 92. Spring Melodies (1992, 19.04, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Ronan, gfx: Zoom, music: "Ethnomagic", "Game Score II", "Game Score III", "Golden Path", "Jazz Band", "Vault of Heaven", "Worlds War II" by NHP, "Eliptical", "Nutopia", "Revealed Truths" by BKH. Released at the Eastern Conference 92. review: I have not been able to get this musicdisk to work on my configuration, no matter what I've tried :( I can get the booting logo by Zoom (which is pretty good, btw) but once it finishes loading it always crashes :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review! Glass Cube Frenzy (1992, .05, ECS File). code: Dan, gfx: Mystik, Igor, music: Nuke. In the Kitchen (1992, 29.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: Facet (title, fonts), Xience (matilde, startlogo, endpic), music: 4-Mat (AC1D and PHA formats). 4th in the Hurricane Summer Party 92 demo competition.
info: There are three hidden parts. Refuses to work on my machine; crashes immediately upon loading the bootblock. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Deja Vu (1992, 08.08, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: Paradroid, gfx: Paradroid, Krest (additional), Slash (additional), music: Nuke. Winner of the Quartz Summer Conference! review: Just weeks after he joined, Paradroid released this small, rushed trackmo that still smells strongly of a professional attitude towards demo coding. Paradroid also did most of his own graphics - and very well he did them too. I guess this makes him Dan's equal, in that they're coder-graphicians, which is a rare combination indeed. Nuke's main tune is a very bland disco affair, but the end tune is a much better, slower affair. The code consists of mainly vector routines, but they're strictly state-of-the-art for the period, including stuff like ellipses and complex shading. The graphics and design are what sets it a little apart from the crowd, though. Very nice, if I may say so. I cannot vouch for this needing the full 1MB or being just 512k. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. - Note: Glenz vectors bugs, otherwise perfect. Stolen Data issue #9 (1992, 27.08, ECS Diskmag, 2 disks). Focused On Art (1992, ECS Fileslideshow). code: Slash/Vision, gfx: Facet, Hein Design/Vision, music: "Sloom" by Hein Design/Vision (4ch MOD format). Cooperation with Vision. info: Probably released around august. Flower Power (1992, 24.10, ECS 1mb Trackmo). code: MCM, Tron, gfx: E.Toball, music: Jester/Sanity (main), 4-Mat (endpart, both Promizer format). Winner of Digital Symposium 1992 demo compo. Priority (1992, .11, ECS File). code: Skynet, gfx: Titan, music: Audiomonster. Legalise It 2 (1992, 20.11, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Dan, gfx: Facet, music: Nuke. info: Contains the tunes "Bag Rasta", "Breath of Air", "Cloud Jumpin'", "Money", "Acid Jazz (part1)", "Acid Jazz - Part 2", "Jordan Jazz", "Emotions" and "Visitors". Additionally, "Bruiser", "Cloud Jumpin'", "Emus Orgasm!", "Gold Return", "Intro", "Menumusic.3(nuke)", "Random Waveforms", "Trabalash" and "Where Now??" are hidden tunes, accessed by pressing F4F10. There are also 2 hidden parts.
3D Demo II Intro (1992, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Hannibal, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. Released at The Party 92. 3D Demo II (1992, 28.12, ECS 1MB_CHIP File). code: Hannibal, gfx: Slash, music: Mad Freak. 2nd in The Party 92 demo competition. info: Hannibal later released an updated version, which works on Kickstart 1.3 machines, and had some bugs fixed. Hardcore (1992, 28.12, ECS 1MB Multifile). code: Rush, ICronite, Dan, gfx: Facet, Milkshake, music: Nuke. Released at The Party 92. review: Since this demo no longer works on my current hardware, I will have to write this review largely from memory. What I can remember, though, is some excellent craftmanship, in all respects. I remember this demo for Nuke's great music, I remember it for Facet's great 'Hardcore' title picture, and I remember it for its revolutionary vector code, with complex effects like space cutting. Technically, this demo consists of three files; one small loader and two data files. The executable and the first data files were packed with the absolute address cruncher Time Cruncher 1.7, which may go a long way in explaining why it doesn't work anymore. Rush, ICronite or Dan please release a working copy! The files must all be on a disk in df0: for the demo to work. When you attempt to load the demo, it prints a little text in the cli window, starts loading the first data file, and when it's done the machine guru's. This also happens with caches off, kicking down to 1.3 etc. Believe me, I've tried it all... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Stolen Data #10 (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackloaded diskmag, 2 disks). All code: Kreator. Released at The Party 2. LOAD - gfx: Facet, Mystik, music: 4-Mat. JUKE - gfx: Kreator, music: "Above My Head", "Perception's End", "Walk at Night" and 10 Untitled chip tunes by 4-Mat. CHART - gfx: Kreator (font), Mystik (logo), music: Nuke. GALRY - gfx: Facet (titles), music: Nuke. MAG - gfx: Mystik, music: NHP & BKH, editor: Judge Drokk. review: SD's swansong issue is an audio-visual feast. I LOVE the idea they've used, with having one disk with lots of pictures and tunes, and one disk devoted to the mag. Presentation is flawless, as mentioned, with lots of pictures and great design. It's not hard to understand SD's position in the diskmag scene after having feasted on this. Excellent! Released at The Party 92. ProPacker was used for music.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lost Andromedeans (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lizard. Anastasia --------Elric joined Outlaws. Anathema -------ENG> Michael (96), Nova (code, new 09/97), Shade (swap, 96). SWE> Big Boss (sysop 'CITY OF JOY' WHQ, 01/95-02/96). ???> Penny (old handle Steve Jones, late95), Thesus (music, 08/95). Boards; LOYD BBS (swe, mid96), MINOR MISHMASH (swe, mid96). 1995 - Thesus won the 4ch music competition at Assembly 95 with "Funkyeeh"! 1996 - Steve Jones joined Deep, while Sundance (doublememb Technology) left to join Old Bulls in june. Hilargo (1994 or pre, Music). info: Ambient style. N'R Seven (1994 or pre, Music). A Febble Time (1994 or pre, ECS Demo). Channel 4 (1995, Musicdisk). Revolution (1996, AGA File). code: Ninja/Scoopex, gfx: Credo, Sense (font), music: Michael and Style. review: The star of the show is, naturally, the code...and that's not even by a member of the group. The effects are advanced, but not terribly exciting. Floyd-Steinberg gouraud is an innovation, though. Conclusion: competent rather than exciting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Andromeda (AOA, 1989-) ---------------------NOR> Andy (Anders, code, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Archmage (Hakon Repstad, mainorg gfx, old handle The Mage, 09/91-95), Decker (gfx, ex Scoopex, new 04/93-04/95), Dr.Jekyll (code, 09/91-12/94), Fairfax (Torkell Berntsen, gfx, ex Offence, 04/92-04/94), HeadX (Terje Tho, code music,
ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Interphace (music, old handle Lord Interface, 09/91-12/94), Jaz (ex Scoopex, new 04/93-04/94), MCS (swap, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Mr.Hyde (code, 09/91-12/94), Mr.Man (Ronny Nordeide, music, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Quest (gfx, ex Absence, 09/91-04/94), Size, View (gfx raytrace, old handle The Main, new 92-04/94), William (swap, old handle Dr.Cruz, 09/91-04/94), Wood (gfx, ex TRSI, new 05/93-04/94). Andromeda must surely be one of the most successful demo groups of all time. Productions like the "Mirror" [12/92] musicdisk and the "Seven Seas" [01/94] slideshow raised their international reputation, culminating in their highlight year of 1994, when they won at both The Gathering (with "Sequential") and at The Party (with their oustanding "Nexus 7"). Both those demos made instant stars of their coders, and elevated Andromeda into the absolute upper elite of demo groups. Unfortunately, they faded into the inactivity that so many groups do at the top, and even though new demos have been promised several times none has seen the light of day since their finest hour at The Party 4. The group still exists, and is not dead as such. Fairfax nowadays work as a graphician at Funcom. Their internal rules are rather strict; for example members are not allowed to do packs or do modemtrading. Also, they do not allow members from outside Norway, much like Phenomena's policy in the old days. PRP4 brought the news that William did NOT leave the scene, despite that it was claimed in several mags. Size closed his board 'RAW FUSION', but DIDN'T leave the scene, as stated in some mags (ROM7). It's a small miracle that Archmage can draw his fantastic pictures since he, like the English graphician Red Devil/DCS, is in fact colourblind! 1992 - Dr.Cruz changed his handle to William around january. HeadX' upcoming demo "Scientific Norwegian" was announced through PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92] - but would not see the light of day until its release under the title "Sequential" [04/94] at The Gathering 94! Mr.Man contributed music, and Mr.Hyde was interviewed in the same mag. Coder Wizax (ex Absence, 09/91) left the scene, while Enigma (gfx, 09/91-), Bingo (09/91-), Madlock (music, ex Motion), Ralph (swap, 09/91-) and Prophet (new 92-) were all kicked in september. Fairfax, Moxy and Lizard all joined from Offence around october. 1993 - Norwegians Decker (gfx) and Jaz were recruited from Scoopex shortly after The Gathering in april. 1995 - After the whole 'Stalin' thing and the war with Lord Helmet, Hydra
(Ole Ingarth Karlsen, leader since the beginning) finally decided enough was enough in the early parts of 1995, and stepped down as leader of Andromeda. The new leader is Archmage, but it doesn't seem like he is nearly as successful as his predecessor; NOTHING has been released from Andromeda after he took over. =( 2000 - Nah-Kolor's new diskmag "Devotion #1" revealed in an interview with Size that Dr.Jekyll is now working for Lucas Arts in San Francisco, and coded parts of the game "Star Wars Episode 1" for the N64. Norwegians Moxy (ex Offence, new late92), Lizard (ex Offence, 12/92), Duel (ex Motion, new 92-11/92) and Blazer (ex Motion, new 92) all left to join Lemon. Jason (gfx) and Joachim (music, ex Crusaders) later also joined. Rook (ex Rex/Offence) was kicked due to general displease with him from the other members. Norwegian Monzo (ex Absence, 09/91-92) is no longer a member. The Castle (1990, .05, ECS Intro). code: Dr.Octopus, gfx: n/a, music: Lord Interface. M-31 The Comeback (1990, 07.10, ECS File). code: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, gfx: Enigma, Lord Interface, Cinematic, Mage, Bingo, music: Lord Interface. 2nd at the No Limits and Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. info: This was Andromeda's first major production. Turrican Musicdisk (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Jochen Hippel (ripped). info: Musicdisk with music ripped from the games Turrican 1 & 2 - some of the best amiga game music ever written! Decaying Paradise (1991, 29.06, ECS Trackmo). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: The Mage, Enigma (additional), Bingo (additional), music: Lord Interface. 4th at the Amega party 91. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off. Sufforation (1991, 29.09, ECS File). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, Facet/Vision (endart picture), music: Mr.Man (NoisePacker format). Winner of the Razor 1911 & Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition! review: For some reason, this 150k filedemo has no exit routine. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Spellcheck (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Andy, gfx: Quest, music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 3 format). Released at The Party 1. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 1/2 format). review: As usual, a very polished intro from Andromeda. It certainly follows their standard 'clean' style. It opens with an animation where an Andromeda logo sort-of 'explodes' onto the screen. It then bounces to the bottom of the screen, and we get a tv-box lightsourced filled vector with filled vector objects on the sides (puh!) in the background, and a text writer on top of that. Does the job it's supposed to, I guess. It was released to announce the joining of Duel, Blazer, Madlock, Prophet and The Main, and the handle changes of Archmage and William. By the way, the opening logo animation is stored in the file as a standard IFF ANIM, and can be ripped with WRip or a similar program. Approved. I draw the conclusion that it was released early in the year - they tell someone they greet they'll meet at easter, plus William's handle change news was also in "R.A.W #2" [02/92]. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Multica (1992, 19.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Andy, Blazer (trackloader), gfx: Quest, Duel, music: Mr.Man. 10th in The Gathering '92 demo competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Cache off. D.O.S. - Demonstration of Superiority (1992, 19.04, ECS Multifile). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Archmage, Quest, music: Lord Interface. 2nd in The Gathering 92 demo competition. review: Requires at least Kickstart 1.3. Though it's dos-loaded, it denies to be read from anywhere but df0:. The 'demo-in-a-dos-window' part is faked, it's just graphics. Just try running it on a 2.0 or 3.0 machine to see what I mean. The endpart music is LOVELY. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Point Blank (1992, 29.06, ECS Trackmo) code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lord Interface. 7th in the Hurricane 92 demo competition. Vector Intro (1992, .11, ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Lizard.
Mirror (1992, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Archmage, Fairfax, music: Mr.Man, Lord Interface, Lizard. Released at The Party 92. info: The name refers to just one effect in the intro... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Keyboard did not work, but turning caches off took care of the problem. Top Secret 15 Invitation (1993, ECS Demo). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Wood, Hydra, music: Interphace. info: Released for Majic 12 by Andromeda, I believe. Mind Riot (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Fairfax, The Main, music: Mr.Man. information: Andromeda attempted to release this demo at The Party 2, but were unsuccessful. It was released a few days later. Surrealism (1993, .03, ECS File). code: Mr.Hyde, gfx: Duel, Archmage (intropic), music: Lord Interface. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lost in Legoland (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Mr. Hyde, gfx: Archmage (logo), Duel (fonts), music: Lord Interface (NoisePacker 3 format). 3rd in The Gathering '93 40k intro competition. review: This is a polished intro, but without much content. The only real cool routine here is two cubes spacecut in and out of the background. The design is also unconvincing. Demomachinery at full speed? More like half speed... Not a problem in sight compatibility wise, 'tho! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Styggtro (1993, 07.04, 40k ECS Intro). code: Blazer, gfx/music: Lord Interface. 5th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. info: The title is norwegian, and means approximately "Uglytro" (stygg = ugly). Seven Seas (1994, 05.01, ECS Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Dr.Jekyll, gfx: Fairfax, Wood (fonts), music: Interphace. Review: Hold LMB pressed during boot to go directly to the selector. Recognizes and uses df1:. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sequential (1994, 03.04, ECS Trackmo). code: HeadX (main), Dr.Jekyll (trackloader), Mr.Hyde (vectorexplosion), gfx: Archmage, Fairfax, Quest, View (raytrace), Decker (additional), music: Mr.Man (3 tunes). Winner of The Gathering 94 demo competition! review: One of the last great trackmos, this suprisingly won the
Gathering 94 competition ahead of such demos as Cryptoburners' "Brain State In A Box" and Polka Brothers' "Friday at Eight". Technically stunning, real-world realistic routines are the order of the day from this two-year-in-development project. As far as I know, it was also sadly HeadX' final demo project. There's nice graphics throughout, and the three tunes by Mr.Man vary from average to truly moodsetting - especially his orchestral tune at the end and the end part of the main module. Truly great stuff! From the jelly letters to the infamous roller coaster part to the dying tree this was indeed 'the last true ECS trackmo'. Requires 1mb total mem? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nexus 7 (1994, 28.12, AGA File). code: Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Hyde, gfx: Archmage, View, music: Interphace. Winner of The Party 4 demo competition! review: Andromeda's TP4 winner still packs a great punch. It's a hard production to describe, since so much of it is 'feeling' rather than concrete. It's still Andromeda, so it's quite polished, but still a lot rougher than some of their previous releases. When the opening symphonics turn to that hard-hitting soundtrack, it's still something of a power rush no matter how many times I see it... The music is timed to the routines, almost slave-likely so. A good hint: The first time you see it, turn off all the lights. You'll appreciate the difference. Ripping however, is not so easy. The file itself is uncrunched - at least the header - so loading straight into a ripper doesn't help much. Running it with Exotic in the background, and then exiting and searching helped some. Exotic found a P50/P60 module with external samples that looked correct, but since exotic doesn't support external samples unless it's in the registered version, that's not much help. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Angelica (AGL) -------------NOR> NoName (swap), Splash and Stranger (swap sysops 'FLAMESTRIKE', early94), Zodac (swap, early93). Danish Pearl joined Parasite. Angels [old] (1990-) -------------------FRA> Acetip (Bernard Briais, music, 09-12/91), Cobra (12/90), Conan (12/90), Corto (code, later Alliance Design, 12/90), Garp (12/90), Megablast (ex
Dragons, new 09/90), Musashi (crack, 12/90), Ninja (code, 09-12/91), White Tiger (12/90). HOL> Bobo (sysop 'THE DUTCH PIRATE', 12/90). GER> Andy (trade, 12/90), Malzam (crack trade sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD', ex Vision, new 07-12/90), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER'). SWI> Ice-T (12/90). BEL> Scotty (12/90). ITA> Insider (trade sysop, 12/90). LUX> Firefox (12/90). DEN> Mike (12/90). SWE> Conqueror (ex Dragons, new 09/90-12/90), Damage (sysop 'THE DUNGEON', 10/90), Zike! (ex Dragons, new 09/90-12/90). NOR> Flesh (ex Fraxion). USA> Fade (12/90), Sidesector (12/90), Tim (12/90). ???> Action Man (new late90), Infiltrator (new late90), Jarre (code gfx music), Lowtec (ex Scoopex, new late90), Mic (fra? gfx, 09-12/91), Rakim (crack, new late90), Shark (mainorg, 12/90). Boards; AMIGA EAST WHQ (usa), DIGITAL EXPRESSION (usa, late90), DIGITAL EXPR. II/HOUSE OF INSANITY (usa, same numb), WRECK HOUSE (usa), ESCAPE ZONE/MANIAC'S MADHOUSE (usa), MIDNIGHT MADHOUSE (usa, new late90), SKYFOX BBS (ger), CITY LIMITS (eng), INSIDER BBS (ita). Angels were a legendary cracking group, born in june 1990, and one of the first two-faced crews, who not only cracked a lot of games, but released a few good demos as well. They were based in France. Though they were initially illegal-based, they grew a strong demo section when they swallowed the French demo group Dragons 09/90. Shortly after joining they delivered the very strong "Copper Master" (10/90) demo, but their stay unfortunately proved to be short. Soon after its release, Corsair (code), Foxy (gfx) and Mr.Video (gfx) announced they would move on to join Classic (please note that this MAY be wrong, and that they infact went to The Company instead; some research indicates it). 1990 - Dave and Akimbo were kicked late 90. Jaffa joined Heaven. Dutch swapper Antichrist joined Pirates. The ex-Genesis guys Scott (sysop 'DULCET TONES'), Mr.E, I.B.M and N.O.M.A.D (all new late90) left to join Crystal. Brainkiller and Vinny joined Rebels old. Party (19xx, .12, ECS Intro). code: Jarre, gfx: Jarre, music: "Heat of the Night" by Jarre (4ch StarTrekker format). Released at the Mystix party in Brisbane, Australia (year unknown). info: This intro announced Jarre's joining Angels.
Born (1990, ECS Intro). code: Will O', gfx. n/a, music: n/a (Future Composer 1.3 format, 27000/26000/10000 bytes). Crackintro (1990, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (Future Composer 1.3 format, 6740 bytes). info: This crackintro was used for their release of "Paradroid 90" (09/90). The Anti Paradox (1990, .09, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Parasong" by n/a. Copper Master (1990, 06.10, ECS File). code: Corsair, gfx: Mr.Video (font), music: "Dragonsfunk" by Moby (4ch MOD format). Released at the No Limits & Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90. review: The copper master himself, Corsair, tries to do every copper trick ever devised...and pulls it off. Corsair made a crackintro for Angels that looks a lot like this demo... A great little demo this, actually, which clearly succeeds in what it sets out to do...to kill the raster-only dead by doing EVERYTHING! Still, the big star of this show is Moby's amazing tune... Cool and colorful is the only way to describe Copper Master! This is a classic, and there is no excuse for not having seen it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Silhouette (1991, ECS Crackintro). Cooperation with Defjam. info: Crackintro for a game of the same name, presumably. Evolution (1991, .09, ECS Trackmo). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "New2" by Acetip (4ch MOD format). info: Other sources claim the name of the music is "Lost in My Dreams". Sunrise (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "To The End of My Dreams" by Acetip. 4th in the Iris New Year Conference. Angels [new] (1993-) -------------------NOR> Funkyfella (swap, ex Shining 8, 93), Goblin (sysop 'MIDDLE EAST', old handle Jack Daniels), Orion (trade swap, ex Shining 8), Pushead (code, ex Palace), Rastan (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND', ex Crusaders, old handle One). SWE> Psycopath (sysop 'RAISING HELL', ex Shining 8, 09/93). DEN> Xarium (Nick Jensen, code, ex Rebels new).
FRA> Acetip (Bernard Briais, music), Latyl (Jeremy Routier, music, 09/93), Mic (gfx, 09-10/93), Ninja (code, later Paradox, 09-10/93). GER> Evil Death (ex Chuck/Fairlight). ???> B52 (fra? code, 10/93), Badcat (supply, ex Goonies or Nemesis), Contact Zero (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY', ex Nemesis), Cpt (fra? gfx music, 10/93), Halfast (fra? code, 10/93), Steph (sysop 'RACE OF ACE', ex Oracle new), Switch (crack), V.I.P. (train). Boards; ZERO WHQ (nor), CENTRAL TOWER (bel, 09/93). Angels was reborn by some of the old members, with help from some of the new ones. Some of the old ones are: Flesh/Paradise, Bizarre/Rebels, Thunder and Steph/Oracle, Badcat/Goonies and Orion/Shining 8. They released two intros at the Galemands Gilde 93 (07/93), any information on these two most welcome. Sysop Arcane left the scene. Trader Thunder (ex Oracle new) joined Fusion. Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Damones, 93) joined Razor 1911. Danish trader Weird Dream (ex Rebels, old handle Bizarre, 08/93) rejoined the new Rebels. Founder Flesh (code crack sysop 'ANGELS INTERNAL', ex Paradise, 12/93) left to join Anthrox. His handle has never been 'Fletch', and despite what several mags claimed, he has not formed a new group called 'High Breeze'. Danish sysop Yobbo ('THE LARCH' 08/93-09/93) popped up in Rebels in february 94. Destroy Fascism (1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Ninja, gfx: Mic, music: "Greasy Duck v1" by Latyl. Winner of the Saturne 93 64k intro competition! review: Competently coded in every respect, with nice design and quite a few good-looking effects. Just some of the things we get to see is rubberglenz, fractal leaf, hiddenline vector with vectorballs inside, a dotcube and a full-screen dot-tunnel to round it all off. There appears to be no exit. ADLs test mentioned some problems with a 2.04 configuration, but since it runs on my machine, I do not think that the KS was their problem. Anyway, nicely designed! A few months later, in december, Ninja was in Paradox and released his next intro, "Calimero". [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, 4mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Vactro II (1993, .10, ECS Trackmo). code: B52, Halfast, Ninja, gfx: Mic, Cpt, music: Cpt. Released at the Iris Convention. Animate (1898-1990)
------------------Animate was a Finnish demo group, born in 1989 when Deathstar changed their name to Animate. Cameron was kicked when it was discovered he had bought some sources from members of Bloodsuckers. They died mid 1990, when its members (Trug, ...) joined Exodus. Animators (http://www.animators.de/) -----------------------------------GER> Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'). ???> Black Sabbath, Chris, Demon (gfx, 08/93), Exhorder (ex Anthrox, new late95), Horny (ex Anthrox, new late95), Jack Daniels (sysop 'STATE OF ADVERSIA', new late95), Jambo (new late93), Jeff, Joesch, Maggoth, Malcom, Metalhead, Morbid, Mr.Frenzy (ex Awe), Phantom Lord, Stinger (new late93), Time Thrust (new late93), Tom Copper (ger? gfx, ex Alcatraz). Animators were a german demo group. 1991 - Iron Eagle joined Desire in september. 1992 - The pd game "Willy The Worm" was released in july. Dr.Avalanche (trade) left for Adept around october. The Norwegian division left. Sodom and Victim joined Savage. Icelandic swappers The Twins left the scene. German sysop Jee Byte ('TOP GUN', 09/91) left. Brain Dead, sysop of 'FORBIDDEN CITY' joined Addonic. Iraqi Demo (1990, 22.12, 1MB ECS Trackmo). Animax (-1992) -------------???> Lennet, Socko, The Dictator. Pervi left. Animax is dead; Lightman changed his handle to Jam and joined Fraxion in early 92. Anoxia -----DEN> Backlash (sysop 'VALHALLA', 04/95), Circulator (sysop 'VIRTUAL REALITY'). Antagon ------Mr.Magoo joined Shining 8. Antarkos
-------???> Abrasion (gfx, 09/93), Raiser (music, 09/93), Scorpion (code, 09/93), Shark (gfx, 09/93). 64k Intro (1993, 04.09, ECS Intro). code: Scorpion, gfx: Abrasion, Shark, music: Raiser. Released for the Saturne 93 intro competition. Anthrox (ATX, 1989-1994, http://www.anthrox.com) -----------------------------------------------ENG> Aztech (music, 03/91), Count Zero (founder), Dream Warrior (sysop 'BAD DREAMS'), Hydro (founder gfx train swap sysop1 'CITY LIMITS', ex ESI, +stopscene+ 94, 89-94), Marvin (sysop 'CITY LIMITS', 12/91), Pot-Noodle (Leo Davidson, sysop2 'CITY LIMITS', sysop 'C.A.L.', 12/9196), Retaliator (code swap), Skol (Simon, code train, ex Slipstream, new early 92), Trooper (gfx). SWE> Joc (sysop 'NO ORDER', 02/94), Kevin Key (sysop 'FLASHBACK', ex Scoopex), Mungo (Robert S., org gfx swap, 03/91), Yobbo (code gfx, 03/91). GER> Killraven (swap, ex Paradox new, new late93), Mymurth (sysop 'HYPERSPACE', old handle Case, 12/91-03/92) Thargoid (sysop 'HYPERSPACE', old handle X-Act, 10-12/91), Warlord (sysop 'CELTIC CROSS', ex Platin). NOR> Flesh (code crack, ex Angels new). ITA> Highlander (sysop 'PARADISE DREAM', ex Fairlight). FIN> Mr.Spinhead (sysop 'THREE AMIGOS', 03/91), Worm. BEL> Lithium & Apex (sysops 'CONSOLERIA', 04/95). AUS> Kirk (08/92), Krimsyn (sysop 'SPEED BOX', 12/91-04/95). CAN> Ice Cube (sysop 'WINDARIA'). USA> Micro (Scott, sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD'), Nitro (sysop 'PIRATES CAVERN'), Picard (sysop 'USS ENTERPRISE' WHQ, 09/96), The Dreamer (sysop, 03/91), Voyager (sysop 'FASTRAX'), Warduke (sysop 'EDGE OF INSANITY', 03/92), Winter Mute (sysop 'MARTYRIUM' WHQ, 03/92). ???> Avatar (music), Black Cat (crack train, ex Scoopex, new pre 07/92), Cameo (code), Casanova, Coq Rouge (swap), Custodian (code, ex Talent), Damien (aus? gfx, 03/92), Data (eng? ex Slipstream, new early 92), Dr.Amigo (swap), Fast Eddie (ex Archaos, new pre 07/92), Firefly (code gfx, 92), Fluid (gfx), Griffin (sysop), I.O (aus? code, 03/92), Jason (gfx), JHL (code crack train), Laughing Hyena (code), Mad Axeman (trade), Manx (eng? trade, 12/91-92), Marco Polo, Marcus (gfx trade), Mechanic (sysop), Mercy (swe? ex Fusion), Rakim, Red Alert (supply),
Ronnie (gfx), Rotox (ex Digital), Spider (trade), Spock (code crack), Sprog (eng? 12/91), Storm (code crack), Sub Zero (03/91), Tantalus (swap, ex Talent), T.G.R (code), The Imposter (music), Thrash (code swap), Xiphoid Process (sysop). Boards; MATRIX (usa, 03/92), HEAD TRAUMA (usa, 03/92), THE ABYSS (usa, 10/91), RED RUM (usa, 03/91), TRADE LINE (usa), BURGER BAR (eng), THE GARAGE (eng, 10/91), DIAL HARD (swi), SYNERGY (ger), SLIME CITY WHQ (swe, 03/91), METROPOLIS (+34), OPEN ACCESS. Anthrox was an English illegal group, born as early as 1989 (though they were announced as a new group in Zine #5, released 06/90). The Amiga section was decleared dead in 1994. However, they remain active on other platforms, and their web site is still at the adress on top of this entry! They were also active on the SNES scene. Founded in 1989 by Hydro and Count Zero, ATX has always been an illegal group, releasing a fair few cracks and trainers in their time. I briefly visited their website recently, and they now seem to have taken pretty much the same path as Fairlight; selling console copiers legally. Despite information to the effect in RAW4, Autopsy and Angeldawn/Scoopex did NOT join Anthrox; they both joined The Silents. Check out the info on the board 'HYPERSPACE' for total confusion! 1992 - Joker joined Cytax early 92. Basline joined Desire. The board 'PLEASURE PARADISE' was closed. Finnish musician Daddy Freddy (ex Spirit) joined Alcatraz. Vindex (ex Alpha Flight, new 09/92) joined Spreadpoint. Exhorder and Horny joined Animators late 95. Nukeman joined Complex. TDK joined Melon Dezign. Pothead joined Abandon. Coaxial joined Accession. Swedish sysop The Master ('PRESSURE POINT',ex Fusion,03/91) joined 2000 AD. Danish sysops Chrome and Ghost ('SANCTUARY') stopped all activity due to a HUGE phonebill (pre 07/92). Empty joined Spirit late91. Former Sector 4/Anthrox is now AFL SF 06/91. Australian coder and trainer Ice (cosysop 'SPEED BOX', ex Punishers), who was once dubbed 'the trainer god', and did over 200 trainers on the Amiga, before he left the scene. He's now working at 'Sprint Enterprises' in Australia, a computer company with several other ex-scene members. Crack Intro (ECS Intro). code: Cameo, gfx: Ninja/Abandon, Wal (font), music: "Fireballs" by Mantronix (4ch MOD format).
info: Used for 'Metal Law' (Kaiko), crack: Black Cat, announces new members: Rakim, Marco Polo, Highlander. The tune is dated september 90. Needs KillAGA, still gfx errors! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see above! Bobby The Ball (pre 1991, .03). code: Yobbo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: This was mentioned in the 'plasma intro', which means it must have been released before that. Spread Intro (1991?, ECS File). code: Retaliator, gfx: Retaliator, Trooper (logo), music: "Think Twice III" by Bug (Future Composer 1.4 format). review: A nice logo at the top, a sine scroller and some stars - and a quite stonking chipmusic tune. Nice - nothing more, nothing less. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Incompatible. Runs a little while with KillAGA, then Guru's. Plasma Intro (1991, 10.3, ECS Intro). code: Yobbo, gfx: Trooper (logo), Kreator/Anarchy (font), music: Aztech. review: First of all, I named this intro like I did because that's what it is - an intro with plasma :) It has no actual name, so I just did it like that. The logo is the same as in the Spread Intro, btw, and apart from that there's a sinescroller over the plasmathing in the middle of the screen and a small textplotter under the logo at the top. Nothing awesome, but ok for what it is. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Firefly, music: T.D.K. Sploosh (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: TDK. info: Some passwords to try - DAN, TGR, HIDDEN TUNE. Antiriad -------???> Awesome (music, 03/91), Axon (code, 03/91), Junior (gfx, 03/91). Gridlock left. Warlock joined Cytax. Second Intro (1991, 26.03, ECS Intro). code: Axon, gfx: Junior, music: Awesome. Released at CeBIT 91. Apathy (APT) ------------
NOR> Chriz (Anders Dahl, swap trade, doublememb Element, 12/96-08/97), Cope (Øystein Hansen, music, ex Giants, new early96-08/97), Haze (Geir Torvaldsen, swap trade, old handle Purple Haze, new late97-08/97), Hellrazor (Roger Brattås, code swap, new 12/96-08/97), Leia (swap, new late97), Maze (Stian, music, 08/97), Mr.X (Morten Bolstad, code swap, doublememb Strange, later Instinct, new early96-08/97), Point (Alexander Gustavsen, gfx ascii html swap, old handle Dweeb, 12/9608/97), Rage (Torbjørn Tangen, gfx ascii, old handles Interface and Sunscream, 12/96-08/97), Rolex (Thomas Vaags, music swap, doublememb Massive 12/96, new early96-08/97), Strife (Torgeir Amundsen, mainorg code swap, 11/96-04/01), Tentacle (gfx music, doublememb Instinct [detials], 08/97-04/01), Tracky (music ascii, 12/96), Wise (swap sysop 'NEUROPLEX'). POL> Dotty (code swap, new early98), Korball (org swap, 08/97), Terry (music, 08/97), Virge (code, new early98), Zeeball (org code, 08/97). DEN> Growl (Kim Andersen, swap, late96-08/97). BEL> Mr.No (edit, new early98). ???> Hurricane (swap, 12/96), Jaydee (music, 04/01). Apathy is a demo group, based in Norway, under the leadership of Strife. Strife presumably does all his 'coding' in Blitz Basic 2. ROM #9 announced their new Polish division, originally formed by Korball, Kismat and Zeeball. 1996 - Death (gfx) was kicked 06/96. Norwegian swapper and sysop Wiseguy ('OUTER SPACE', new early96-05/97) left 12/96. Ehrm.... 1997 - Polish Robak (old handle Korball, doublememb Amnesty) left the scene late 97. Norwegian graphician Psycho (08/97) left late 97 for Instinct. Coder, raytracer and swapper Hyper (new 12/96-08/97) left. 1998 - Polish swapper Kismat (08/97) was kicked early 98. 2000 - Early in the year, Zito (editor) left for Darkage, while Axl (sysop) and Wizzball (Michael Phipps, code, 97-) was asked to leave. 2001 - Norwegian swapper Punisher (new early98) joined Darkage as his second group early in the year, only to leave both again for Gods just a small while later. Strife is the new main organizer. Two more departures followed, as Voicer left for Nah Kolor and Stilgar left to be in Deputy. Their demo "Wormhole" was released at Mekka Symposium in april, and on the credits list we could read that some people were not members anymore. This concerns: Trump (nor code music, doublememb EMS Design [details], new 12/96-08/97) and Marl (gfx). Disaster (1996, 05.04, 40k Intro). code: Strife, gfx: none, music: Cope. 5th in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This pretty much sucks. It's just a text writer (topaz 8!) and a
small one-plane APT logo. The music is an external file. When I looked at the file it soon became evident that it was written with Blitz Basic. Avoidness advised. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 40k Intro (1996, 16.11, 40k Intro). code: Strife, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Kindergarden 6 40k intro competition! Feedback #3 (1996, 24.12) Implant issue #2 (1996, 27.12, Multifile Musicdisk). code: Mr.X, gfx: Point (main), Sunscream (additional), music: Trump, Okeanos/Syndrome, Eagle/Syndrome^Agoa. review: This actually looked pretty promising...until I booted it. It quickly becomes apparent that these guys need to rethink how they prioritize grahics in their productions, cause this stinks. It's got no STYLE, no edge, no excitement. Simply dreadful; not even the music by two of Syndrome's musicians is any good. It was obviously designed to run from floppy. Keep trying, though. I don't want to discourage you Apathy guys - I always try to give fair, constructive criticism. Next time, try going for a design that's a little more 'clear'. Perhaps it's just me, but I dislike the 'fuzzy' look your graphics have. Practice makes perfect, so try again! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Get Tough! (1997, .08, AGA File Demo). code: Wizzball, gfx: Sunscream, Lazur, music: Christian Alfs (main), Maze (end). Released at Kindergarden 97. review: Though nicely presented, this demo features _OLD_ effects I'll be kind and assume they are doing the 'retro thing' here... This features some OK design, especially in the opening moments, but those effects... for the record, we're talking tech-tech, linevectors, filled vectors... Another thing is that they've used Lazur's "Prszystan" picture from 1994, and I really seriously doubt they had permission from the author to do that... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Wormhole (2001, .04, AGA Multifile Demo). code: Strife, gfx: Psycho/ex Apathy (fonts), Marl/ex Apathy (first logo), Tentacle (aliens & ufoattack), Angeldust, music: Jaydee (part 1), Trump/ex Apathy (part 2). Released for the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: I left "Wormhole" with a smile, since after all it's a nice little
production... The problem I have with this is that they somehow fail to rise above their 'averageness'. Let me try to explain: This is a twopart demo, opening with the biggest of the two. It's a story-demo, of sorts, where aliens come down to earth and we stand defenseless because of the relative lack of innovation the earth has seen compared to the aliens. This story is related mostly through a series of pictures by Tentacle and Angeldust, all of which are of good quality. We're not talking Dannystuff here, but quite acceptable. The music is timed to the text that appears onscreen, and the overall impression is good, if not excellent. The font is unimaginative, and a few other details make this seem less-thanstateof-the-art. The only real effects apart from the graphics are a few tunnel effects (the "wormholes" of the title). After this part has concluded, we are treated to a small 'endpart' of sorts, where they further continue their plea for evolution =] Not much to say about this one, unusual music, though. No system requirements appear anywhere, so apart from the obvious it's anybody's guess how much processor power and ram this requires. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1. Apex [old] ---------Apex was a German group, and presumably had nothing to do with the 'other' group with the same name that later appeared in France. 1990 - German swapper Terminator-X left the group to join System 5 around july. Damien joined Beta 5 [no entry]. German swapper Mr.Turnip left for Prophecy late. Apex [new] ---------FRA> Bosco (music, later Syndrome, 12/94), Codac (Ramdane Hakim, code, later Syndrome, 12/94), Rahow (gfx, 12/94), Ranma (gfx, doublememb NHD, 12/94), Tenshu (gfx, later Syndrome, 12/94). SWI> Denis (swap, doublemember Excess, 12/94). GER> Javair (Jan Chr. Meyer, swap). ???> Bensty (swap, 12/94), Beyonder (code, 12/94), Longshot (gfx, 12/94), Orgun (raytrace, 12/94), Pogo (gfx, 12/94), Wild (code, 12/94), Xau (swap, 12/94), Zager (music, 12/94). Apex' main 'claim to fame' is probably having housed some of the people who would later become the great French team Syndrome. They presumably had
nothing to do with the earlier German group of the same name. 1996 - Coder and keyfilemaker-maker Sunbeam (06/96-) left for Shelter between october and november. Laufertro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Codac, gfx: Rahow, Codac (fonts), music: "Littlefred" by Soundy/NGC. 22nd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Short and forgettable intro from Apex that crashed several times when it was shown at the compo. The endpart scroller can be paused with the right mousebutton. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dotsy (1994, 28.12, Demo). 22nd in The Party 4 demo competition. Apocalypse ---------Denzil joined LSD. Apology (-1989) --------------Apology was a shortlived demo crew that died after the release of their first megademo. Their only claim to fame is having once housed legendary scene musician Moby (later in Sanity). French Diskbuster joined Alcatraz. French musician Moby (ex Impact Inc.) joined Dragons. Appendix (APX, http://www.appendix.optimus.wroc.pl) --------------------------------------------------POL> BTA (Slawomir Kukurenda, code music, aka Popcorn, 09/01), Cosh (gfx, 09/01), Codi (raytrace, 09/01), Crust (code, doublememb Amnesty, new 01-09/01), Emers (code, new 01-09/01), Flapjack (music pack, ex Erotic Design, 04/97-09/01), Juen (Paweï Nowak, swap, 09/01), Juma (gfx webmaster, 01/98-09/01), Kierownik (code, new 11/99-09/01), Madbart (mainorg raytrace sysop 'THE SECT' WHQ, triplememb Anadune and Teklords, 11/96-09/01), MCR (Wojtek Nowak, swap, 09/01), Neuromancer (gfx, ex Scalaris, new early96-09/01), Noxis (code, new early0109/01), Sagrael (editor, 09/01), Slayer (gfx org, 04-09/01), Sobol (Krzysiek Sobolewski, swap, 09/01). SWE> Kalms (Mikael Kalms, code, aka Scout, new 07/97-09/01). SUBGROUP - Pic Saint Loup (PSL) POL> Adamsoft (honourable, 09/01), Cloo (honourable, 09/01), Grogon (music, 09/01), Jazzcat (org music, 09/01), Maxym (music, 09/01), Ritz (music,
09/01), Spektra (music, 09/01), Tracker (honourable, 09/01), Qix (swap, 09/01). PREVIOUS MEMBERS POL> Aln (code, doublememb Mawi, ex Dinx Project, new 07/97-01/98), Blaze (swap, 01/98), Carson (gfx swap, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Cerber (code trade sysop 'RADIOACTIVE', 07/97-01/98), Cooper (code, ex Erotic Design), Esc (code swap), Fenix (sysop 'FENIX', 07/97), Informer (code, ex Erotic Design, 02/97-01/98), Iron Angel (sysop 'EMERGENCY', doublememb Ozone Free, 11/96-07/97), Judas (code edit, new 06/9601/98), Lynx (code), Madman (ftp-op, 07/97-01/98), MAF (raytrace), Maverick (sysop 'TOP GUN', 07/97), Pike (whq gfx), Prefix (trade, 07/97-01/98), Rappid (gfx, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Sachy (Piotr Sachanowitz, code, 01/98), Spectra (music, 01), SuperFML (music, old handle FML, ex Erotic Design, 07/97-01/98), Sylwek (raytrace webmaster, 07/97-01/98), Timer (Michael Baczek, music, ex Scalaris, new early96-07/97), Trash Head (sysop 'TRASH YARD', 07/97-01/98), VIP (gfx), Walec (swap), Wildthing (trade sysop 'DIXIE', 07/97), X-Ceed (Wojciech Panufnik, music, old handle Snoopy, doublememb Dinx Project, 12/97-02/98). HOL> Coolio (swap, doublememb Grashoppers Development, new 06/96), Radavi (sysop 'WILD PALMS', 07/97-01/98). SWI> Offspring (trade sysop 'OXYGEN OVERDOSE', 07/97). GER> Hansa (ghq swap). ???> Acid (ascii, 07/97), Cooper (pol? gfx, 02/97-01/98), Deejay Jones (music, 07/97), Hangman (code swap, 07/97), Mag 666 (raytrace, 12/97-01/98), Nazgul (code, 07/97), Speedie (raytrace, 01/98), Xtro (raytrace, 07/97-01/98). Appendix is one of the oldest polish demo groups, is one of the better Polish-based demo groups, under the leadership of Madbart (main) and Slayer. They were born in 1992, and still exist today! Polish music group Pic Saint Loup is a subgroup of Appendix; serving as their music division. I'd really love to tie up all the loose ends above, so if anyone can help... 1995 - German musician Cie joined Phuture 303 late in the year. 1996 - Mental and Shadow (polish gfx) were both kicked in june. Swapper and 'Fa!' pack editor Klaf (doublememb Scalaris, ex Depth, new 06/96) joined Old Bulls in june...or just as a doublemember (Showtime #2). Which is true? And what happened to his doublemembership in Scalaris? It is mentioned in a newsfile by Madbart, however, that he left both Appendix and the scene.
Blaze joined Floppy late 96...but later returned. 1997 - Informer, Flapjack, Cooper, FML, Carson and Rappid joined from Erotic Design early in the year. Aln joined from Picco, and swede Scout from C-Lous in july. 1998 - Sundance (gfx/ascii, 07/97) was kicked due to several reasons, and Jacobs (07/97) and Ziutek (doublememb Royal, new 07/97) both left the modem scene in january. Flapjack decreased his amiga activities almost to a standstill in the middle of the year, to concentrate on his studies. In november, the group arranged the Satellite 98 party in Poland! 1999 - The group arranged the party Satellite 2 in november, and not long after polish Kierownik joined the group. 2000 - Enter and Bta (coders) were kicked... but it's possible this happened in 2001, I'm not sure. On a memberlist from september 2001, BTA is a member again! 2001 - Early in the year, Noxis (code) joined, Maq (code) was kicked, and Lothar left the group. Emers (code) and Crust (code, double Amnesty) was recruited. Sagrael, editor of 'Taboo', joined. The "Kiss My Jazz Intro" [04/01] was released for the demo competition (18th) and the 64k intro "Melba" [04/01] was released for the intro competition (3rd) at Mekka Symposium in april. UBik and Budgie left. Polish musician Voice (07/97-) was kicked, and is now working under the Indygo band label. Ritz joined PSL/Appendix. Juen (swap) joined. Crust (code) joined, but is also in Amnesty. The musicdisk "Kiss My Jazz" was finally released by PSL/Appendix. At the Symphony Demoscene Festival in september, the "Psychol Intro" [09/01] (emers/flapjack) was released, announcing not only Flapjack's return to the amiga scene after 2 years, but also his revivial of the long-running "Psychol" chip packs! As announced in the intro, Crust was working on new os-friendly code, and Caro/Nah Kolor on new graphics for the upcoming pack! Agony (1992, ECS Slideshow). Wave Sounds (1992, ECS Musicdisk). Firehouse (1993, 24.10, Intro). 6th in the Polish Autumn Party 93 intro competition. Unjust Sentence (1994, .05, Trackmo). 4th in the Primavera Party 94 demo competition. Primavera Partro (1994, .05, Intro). Released at Primavera Party 94. 40k Intro (1994, 12.08, 40k Intro).
Released at Intel Outside 94. Contagion (1995, 21.07, Trackmo). 3rd in the Computer Art Festival '95 demo competition. Fa! Pack (1995, Pack). - Issues 01-19 released 1995-96. Intel Inside (1996, Intro). Radioactive (1996, Intro). info: BBS Intro. Zero Gravity (1996, 10.11, AGA Multifile). Winner of the Gravity 96 demo competition! Cooperation with Venus Art, see there for details. Oops! (1996, 10.11, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Gravity 96 intro competition! Cooperation with Venus Art, see there for details. Gravity'96 (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Cerber, gfx: none, music: none. 7th in the Gravity'96 4k intro competition. review: This is fun and original! This one opens a small intuition window in which it prints some text and a spinning vector cube. Is this a first? I see no reason why it shouldn't work on ECS machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. UFU-S (1996, 10.11, VIDEO DEMO). 2nd in the Gravity 96 video demo competition. Navel (1997, 23.02, AGA 64k Intro). code: Informer, gfx: Cooper, music: MTC. Winner of the Rush Hours '97 64k intro competition! review: When it starts you think 'that's a fast, but oh so small envmapped phong torus'. Then it grows... The routine is fast (at least in the first, uncomplicated parts), I'll give it that, but it's hardly the fastest or even the best ever. This and the fact that it (and variations on it) are the only routine in the intro makes it a bit limited for my taste. The music's OK, a lot better than most in this kind of thing. The graphics are functional, but not GOOD. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Mystique (1997, 13.07, Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 4 demo competition. Introko (1997, 13.07, 4k Intro). Released at Intel Outside 4.
UFU-S v1.99 (1997, 13.07, VIDEO DEMO). 2nd in the Intel Outside 4 video demo competition. info: A remix of the original UFU-S. Spawn (1997, 31.08, AGA FPU 64k Intro). code: Informer, gfx: Flapjack, Informer, Madbart (3d), music: SuperFML. Winner of the Gravity 97 64k intro competition! review: This is Informer's first ever release not to be compatible with an unexpanded A1200 - in that it requires an FPU. This means, unfortunately, that it can't be run on my hardware =( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Capsule (1997, 14.12, AGA 4MB FPU Multifile). code: Informer, gfx: Mag666 (3d), music: SuperFML. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. review: Unfortunately, I haven't been able to see "Capsule", since my machine does not have the required FPU :( [glenn] Up n`x (1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB 64k Intro). code: Informer, Scout, gfx: Cooper, music: X-Ceed. 4th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. review: Not a bad intro at all, I was actually very very surprised that I was able to run it! You see, the text files that come with it claim it requires an FPU, though the intro ran fine without it on my machine! Effectwise, there's nothing new here. The phong feels relatively smooth and fast, but then the objects here are far from advanced. Above average. This intro was distributed to aminet with two versions of the executable; one which was the 64k compo version, and one which is slightly bigger, because of better textures. Music is fine. Fastram required is less than 4MB, but the exact amount is uncertain. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Useless (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). code: Aln, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition. review: Nice visuals help "Useless" a lot, even though there's only two effects in this 4k'er. The first effect is a nicelooking tunnel. It's hard to describe, but we travel into the tunnel, then out again. The second effect is a variation on the flame theme, with fires shooting out from a circular sun. Not bad! Then the show finishes with a reprise of the tunnel effect, only with a new palette, and the show's over. A good 4k'er. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Dolphinary (1998, Musicdisk). Satellite 98 Invitation (1998, Intro). info: Satellite was held in November.
Flea (1998, 26.04, Demo). 3rd in the Rush Hours 98 demo competition. Midge (1998, 26.04, 256b Intro). code: Aln, gfx/music: none. Winner of the Rush Hours 98 256b intro competition! Riot (1998, 29.08, Demo). 2nd in the Gravity 98 demo competition. info: This was the group's last demo for a long time, until "I Want To Be A Machine" was released in 2001. Satellite 99 Invitation (1999, Intro). Taboo #00 (1999, Diskmag). Released at Xenium 99. Taboo #01 (1999, Diskmag). Tower (1999, 21.03, 64k Intro). 7th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Possible (1999, 17.05, 40k Intro). Released at Icing 99, possibly for the competition. Satellite 2000 Invitation (2000, Intro). Taboo #02 (2000, Diskmag). Electricity (2000, .08, Intro). code: Kierownik, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 8th in the Assembly 2000 64k intro competition. info: Kierownik's first production for the group. I Want To Be A Machine (2000, 14.11, Demo). code: Kierownik, gfx: Slayer, music: "Experimental Trance" by Spectra. Winner of the Satellite 2000 demo competition! info: The demomakers were interviewed for Haujobb's "Devotion #2" [06/01]. This was only Kierownik's second production for APX, his first being an intro. Prior to his joining, the group had NO coders left. The entire demo is a polish production. Mayhem (2000, 14.11, Demo). 4th in the Satellite 2000 demo competition. Taboo #3 AGA/CGX (2001, Diskmag). Kiss My Jazz musicdisk intro (2001, 15.04, Intro). 18th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. info: This musicdisk intro was released for the DEMO competition, which might go some way towards explaining why it performed so poorly,
placement-wise. It announced the upcoming musicdisk itself, to come from Pic Saint Loup/Appendix. Melba (2001, 15.04, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 64k intro competition. Kiss My Jazz (2001, Musicdisk). Psychol Intro (2001, 14.09, AGA/CGX Intro). code: Emers, gfx: Flapjack, music: "Sixtus, dont... (zajawka)" by Flapjack (AHX v2 format). Released at the Symphony Demoscene Festival. review: This is an announce-tro for Flapjack's comeback after two years, and his wanting to restart his long-running chippack series "Psychol". 13 issues were previously released under the labels Convex, Erotic Design and finally Appendix. This is good news for the scene, naturally, and we're certainly looking forward to seeing #14! =) The intro itself is very nicely designed, with cute kittens and an ok appendix logo at the start... It leaves you expecting greatness from the pack, that's for sure. Nice, short, and fun. And with a non-annoying chiptune, for once ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Applause (APL, 1993-) --------------------POL> Alx (music), Darioosh, Falcon (code trade), Justus (gfx, old handle Thorgal, early93), Redman (Robert Zabiegala, swap). HOL> Eva (gfx swap), Franklin (code), Radium (music gfx swap, ex Cyanide, new late93-08/94), Revo, Sascha (org swap, ex Cyanide, new late93, old handle Amethist). ???> Dixan05 (music, early93), Uncle Mat (code, early93). Applause was formed in early 1993 by ex members of Grace (joined early 93) and other Polish guys. When Cyanide died, all its Dutch members also joined. The group is probably best known for their diskmag 'Thing'. 1995 - Polish graphician Tolek Banan joined Bravo early in the year. Swapper Snoop sold his Amiga and left the scene late 95. 1996 - Lovely (rejoined from kick) and Roberts joined Old Bulls in june. Quasar and TCC left the scene. Dutch editor Magic (ex Cyanide) left, and joined Mirage. It is unclear what happened to "Thing" as a consequence of this, what's certain is that Magic started to work for Mirage's "Chit-Chat" instead...
Vasquez left the scene. Chance, Jerome and Ricochet left to be independent. Polish graphician Phantom (early93) left to form Bravo, so Magic is now editor of "Thing". Bara-Bara (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Uncle Mat, gfx: Thorgal, Phantom, music: Dixan05. Thing VII (1994, early, Diskmag). AQ -FIN> Duq, Formercode, Scart. Have released one awful dentro (93). Aquin (-1990) ------------This little group died ca 07/90 when they joined forces with Overdrive under the new name Addonic. Aratars ------Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS Demo). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Arcadia Team, The (TAT, -1990) -----------------------------NOR> Nova (old handle Tigra), Shadowcat. The Arcadia Team (who was called just Arcadia for a short while towards the end) was a Norwegian demo group, which died around the middle of 1990 after most of its members merged with Humanoids to create the new group Scope. Lame Game (ECS Demo). Megademo (ECS Demo). Vuku (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). Winner of the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition! Later On (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). Released for the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition. Arcane
-----DEN> Blutch (swap, late90), Deflex (swap, ex Kefrens, new 90), JL Soft, Wally. ???> Exorbit, JTF, Junix (code), Merlin, Mike (crack), Zetrix (music). Boards; DANABOARD (den). Arcane were a mainly Danish group. At one time they were in cooperation with Goonies. In addition to their demos, they also released a few cracks. The Pink Circle (ECS File). info: Nonworking on A1200. Archaos ------ENG> Manx (org, 06/91). ???> Magnus (old handle Merlin), Rogue. 1991 - English Aardvark ceased to be a member in june. Englishman Coaxial (06/91) joined Plague. Uncle Len joined Jesters. Fast Eddie joined Anthrox (pre 07/92). Arclite (aL) -----------SWE> Sy-Klone (sysop 'WHITE ROOM', doublememb Progress, 01/95). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 01/99). ???> Karma (ascii), Mark Ryder (ascii), Mogue (ascii signature Mo!). Arclite is an ascii group. Arctic Image -----------???> Cray (code, 06/92). Cray coded the filemag "Resident" for Deadline; Resident issue #1 was released in june 1992. Area 51 (A51, http://www.a51.org.uk/) ------------------------------------ENG> Axl (ascii trade sysop 'DOSSHOUSE'), Converse (org music edit), Cygnus A (edit), Gobliiin (gfx), GTE (www edit), Jacka (swap edit), MSC (edit), Nexus (raytrace edit), Quartz (gfx), Remix (edit), Shezzor (code gfx), Skidz (code edit), Slade (org code www edit), Zamara (code raytrace music edit), Zebedee (code edit), Zyx! (ascii org edit cosys,
old handle Zylax). Skidz is currently working on a graphic adventure called Roswell, with graphics by Shezzor. Look for a demo version SOON! Argon (1990-) ------------GER> Shadowman (swap, ex End of Century, new mid 91). ENG> Agent X, Brain, Brainbuser, Bronx Warrior (ex Pussy, new mid91), Mandrake (ex Wraith, new mid91). NOR> Dr.Randy. ???> Lon 1301. Argon was born in the later parts Alpha Flight's diskmag "Cracker Journal 1991 - Ribald got kicked, so he year. Nighthawk left the group in Chef left. Omc joined Paranoid. Kid joined Steel (no entry). Snoopy joined The Dark Demon. Arise [old] (-1992) ------------------GER> Crusher, Dragonfly (code, later Abyss, 05/92), Equi (org swap, 05/92), Falcon (gfx music, later Arise new, 05/92), Kyle (code swap, later Arise new, 05/92), Makro (sysop 'ABS', 05/92), Maverick (swap, 92), Mystic (gfx swap, 05/92), Pencl (later Arise new), Pink (code music, later Abyss and Arise new, 05/92), Skyline (org, later Arise new, 05/92), Vision (code gfx, later Abyss, 05/92), Warden (gfx swap, 05/92). FRA> Gryzor (code), Tik. FIN> Fix (ex Coral), Hot (ex Coral), Perfect (ex Coral). ???> Bitworm (code, 05/92), Buckrogers (trade, 05/92), Lou Van B (gfx music, later Abyss, 05/92), Mark Enzo (trade, 05/92), Nobody (editor, 05/92), Picolo (gfx swap, 05/92), Sir Richard (swap, 05/92), Suicide (gfx, 05/92), System X (code, ex Trackers, new 10/92). Arise was a mainly German demo group. Organizers seem to have been Equi and Skyline. The best members of Arise decided to form Abyss together with the best of Beyond in late 1992, though Arise was briefly reborn in 1993. 1990 - Xact left for Supplex in june. 1992 - System X (code) joined from Trackers, while german Cube (code swap, 05/92) joined Gothic around october. of 1990; their bith was announced in #23" [12/90]. joined Pirates around the middle of the june.
Agent Orange and Smash (both ex Cyborx) joined Atomic. Charger was kicked. Fade joined Razor 1911. Per and Agony was kicked. Al Bundy joined from Dark Star, but after getting in probs with the Police, he left the scene. Beatbrain (gfx music, 05/92) left the scene, but rejoined after a week! My Life As A Pizza (ECS File). Unlimited (1992, 19.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. BBS-Intro (1992, 12.05, ECS Intro). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, Suicide (bbs-intro logo), music: "Masterlevel" by Falcon. review: A slightly unusual approach to bbs intros, this one has you choosing pages of text from a small menu. Not bad, but far, far, far from anything advanced =) Just an average production, there's a million like this one out there. This also announces Arise's summer conference, to be held in august, though I am not sure whether it was ever really arranged... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Arise [new] (1993-) ------------------GER> Dragonfly (code, aka DRF, later Haujobb, new 08/93), Falcon (gfx music, new 08/93-late93), Kyle (code, late93), Pink (swap, late93), Skyline (swap, late93), Taron (music raytrace, new 08/93), Vision (music, ex Arise old, new 08/93), WOTW (music, new 08/93). ITA> Virus (Valerio Russo, swap, ex Zenith, new 08/93). ???> Axel (ger? new 08/93), Beatbrain (ger? new 08/93), Brutus (ger? new 08/93), DF (ger? new 08/93), Effendi (ger? gfx, ex Agnostic Front, new 08/93), Jellybean (music, 08/93), JPM (ger? new 08/93), Kid Frost (ger? ex TRSI, new 08/93), Noname (ger? new 08/93), Pencl (ger? new 08/93), Poison (ger? new 08/93), Posdnuos (ger? new 08/93), Skindiver (ger? new 08/93), SKY (ger? new 08/93), SMC (ger? new 08/93). Arise was a mainly German demo group. Among the members returning from the original group were Dragonfly, Falcon, Kyle. The Loop joined Platin. Smudo (new 08/93) left to join Fairlight (PRP4).
Paradoxum BBS-Intro (1993, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, music: "Odyssey Remix" by Kid Frost (4ch MOD format). review: The tune makes this little intro, but let's face it: This is not going to set the world on fire - and was certainly never meant to. It's just a text plotter, a small vector 'thingy' flying around and some functional background graphics. For the record, the 'PARADOXUM' bbs is not an Arise board, it's in Diamonds & Rust. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Smells Like Chanel No.5 (1993, AGA Trackmo). info: Received praise in Upstream #7 as the first ever AGA demo to really LOOK like it's AGA. Realtime Margherita (1993, 27.03, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, music: Taron. Released at CeBIT 93. info: Caches off, OCS on on A1200. Nutzlos (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: Kyle, gfx: n/a, music: n/a 40Kb Tracktro (1993, .08, ECS Multifile). code: Kyle, Curacao/Drinks, Pater Pink, gfx: Falcon, music: Taron. Cooperation with Drinks. Information: Caches off on A1200. 40k Intro (1993, 02.08, ECS 40k Intro). 7th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition. info: May be the same as the above. Ahnungslos (1993, 01.08, ECS Intro). code: Kyle, Pink, gfx: Kyle, Pink, music: Taron. Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. review: Meaningless, short intro which can't have been meant seriously. It's just a boring small tune, a graphic background which is a joke, and a ludicrously bad textwriter. Please stop releasing this shit, people. The intro welcomes LOTS of members; Axel, Beatbrain, Brutus, DF, DRF, Effendi, Falcon, JPM, Kid Frost, Noname, Pencl, Poison, Posdnuos, Skindiver, SKY, SMC, Smudo, Taron, Virus, Vision, WOTW. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. The Melee Intro (1993, late, AGA 40k Intro). code: Kyle, gfx: Falcon, Taron (anim), music: "Ghpipahaba" by Vision. review: Melee is a charming little intro, which is a little bit ruined for me by some truly pathetic music. Too bad they couldn't have used another tune... But apart from the music, this is a nice intro with some nice design and ok effects. No release date is quoted in the intro, and the only hints we're given is the '1993' in the accompanying ansi, and the module's sampletext
saying the tune was made in october 93. This intro welcomes Effendi from Agnostic Front. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Armada -----GER> Oliver, Timecode. ???> Blowfly, Exorcist, Joe. Armada was a demo group. 1990 - The Norwegian division left to be the Amiga division of Panoramic Designs late in the year. D-Man joined Eternity Corp. Icelandic Noblestar, Othon and Hawkeye joined Dual Crew. Against All Odds (1990, .06, ECS Demo). Armageddon (AMG) ---------------GER> Aragon, Krs-One (ex Antarix [no entry]), Maverick, Scooter (swap, old handle Cruiser, 08/91), Thunder. ???> Hotrunner, Hunter (ex Starline [no entry]), Slaughter, Stowaway. Merlin left. Morbid, Professor X and Vangelis got kicked. Sgt.Slaughter, Stingray and Error got kicked. German swapper S.O.S. (late90) left the scene. German swapper Brutus (ex Coma, early92) joined Paradise. Arsenic ------GER> Doc D (Jan Schneider, webmaster, 03/97), Shylock (Sven Djatschenko, music, 03/97), Yazoo (Michael Kopacek, gfx, 03/97). Who ARE these guys? They came out of nowhere to coorganize the SILIConvention and code the absolutely smashing invitation intro! Text file that came with the "Fear Factory" demo mentioned their new web-mag called "Expose". German coder Axis (Michael Hillebrandt, ex Oxyron), responsible for the great "SILIConvention 97 Invitation" [97] and the "Fear Factory" [03/97] demo, decided to leave. Death Greedy (1996, 28.12, Demo). 7th in The Party 96 demo competition.
SILIConvention 97 Invitation (1997, AGA File). code: Axis, gfx: Gizmo & Red/Icebird (main), Yazoo (font), music: Tommy/Avena (The Player 6.1A format). review: This ROCKS! I guess the cool music contributes a great deal to the superior atmosphere in this intro, but the coding and graphics will have to take their part of the 'blame' too :) It opens with two pictures; the first is a SILIConvention logo (rendered?) and the second is of a multitude of heads. It's more the way they're faded onto the screen to the beat of the music that appeals to me, I guess, but it's a great introduction either way. Then we get to the main part, which has a very cool effect that remains under the information at all times. It's a texturemapped vector cube that sort of 'surfs' the surface underneath, and the surface behaves like water, creating beautiful ripples all over the place. You'll know what I mean when you see it... Overlaid over this cool effect is the info file (the same as the normal text file), and it can be scrolled up or down by moving the mouse. Through sheer simplicity, power and style this is one of the best invitation intros I've seen in a very long time! Very very cool. By the way, Avena is an atari group, in case you were wondering why you can't find them in scenery... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fear Factory (1997, 30.03, Multifile). code: Axis, gfx: Yazoo, Gizmo/Icebird (fullscreen), music: Shylock. 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: I see nothing of the exceptional qualities offered by their previous production in this demo. There are signs of good coding, and signs of some innovative effort, but the overall impression is not one of professionality. The music quickly gets on your nerves, as does the less than great graphics. A disappointment. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Artch ----???> Exlex. Artch was formed by members of Acidforce (nor) and Crane (nor & swe). 1990 - Norwegian sysop Raven ('THE GOLDEN GATE') joined Crusaders late this year. Bud Outrage joined Motion. Artcore (aC, -1995) ------------------SWE> Manta (sysop 'FORBIDDEN DREAMS' WHQ, doublememb Nut & Bolt, 06/94-01/95). HOL> Sal One (01/95). ???> aXEbLADE (01/95), cOUNT zERO (01/95), cRAZY (01/95), [dEATHLORD!] (01/95), mOGUe! (01/95), mR.vAIN (01/95), nIKE (01/95), (-rAPId-)
(01/95), tANGO (ascii, doublememb Origin, 01/95), [-TReAcH!] (01/95), u-mAN (01/95). Artcore was a pure ascii and modem group, which unfortunately died around 08/95. Among their members were German 2fast (ex doublememb Avantgarde, also in Cyberforce and Cream [console]). 1995 - The board 'FINAL IMPACT' went offline in june, but will soon be back up! Artefact (1992-) ---------------Artefact was formed late 92 by the ex-members of LSD France. Buckaroo joined Analog. Artemis (1990-) --------------ICE> Archmage, Ariel, Hawkeye, Odyssey, Othon, Thin Lizzy, Thor. SWE> IC, Janx (code, 04/91), Bloodaxe, Freddy. FIN> Evil Spirit. NOR> Black Adder (new 09/91). ???> Dr.Tox (gfx, 04/91), DMC (music, 04/91), Duddie (code gfx, 90). Artemis was perhaps the best known group to ever come out of Iceland :-) They were born in 1990 by the members of Opus Magnum and Blockbusters [no entries]. Peace Prod. (ex RAF) left. The Swedish division died mid 91. The swedish members will be removed from the list above once I know what happened to them :) Can I Say Something? (ECS File). Fill The Power (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Duddie, music: ripped from Kefrens Megademo 8. Things Take Time (1991, 15.04, ECS File). code: Janx, gfx: Dr.Tox, music: DMC. Artificial People (AP) ---------------------FIN> Ari (sysop), Cob (pccode, 08/96), Falcon (music, 08/96), Iodine (gfx objects, 08/96), Johu (music), Kalsu (org code gfx music, 08/9604/98), Neure (code gfx, 10/97), Rook (funmemb), Scitek (code), Thain (code raytrace, 10/97). FRA> Black Dragon (music, triplememb Honoo [details] and Limited Edition), HP (gfx, triplememb Honoo [details] and Limited Edition).
???> Duke (codePPC, new early98). Artificial People are a finnish demo group, with some members in France. Their old homepage, http://apeople.home.ml.org, has gone from the web. 1996 - The group's astonishing debut "Clichès" [08/98] unfortunately ended up as low as 9th in the Assembly demo competition. 1998 - Kalsu did the music for Mellow Chips' Gathering 98 winner "Rise" [08/98]! Clichès (1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Kalsu, gfx: Kalsu, Thain/Sensible (raytrace), Iodine (objects), music: Falcon (main), Kalsu (end). 9th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Very reasonable for a first demo! The coder, Kalsu, proves be a little of a Jack of all Trades, what with providing graphics and music to this demo as well as coding it. It opens with an envmapped object of the AP symbol, a stick-man. Then we're shown an AP logo, before we're on to a very nice voxel routine...and then it goes underwater! I was blown away, sitting there with my mouth wide open. The routine looked good and fast in its own right, and then it actually IMPROVES on the voxel routine! My favorite voxel was always the one Stellar used in their 40k intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94]. It seems there is a new king in town. Astonishing. After that minor shock we're on to a bumpmapping routine, where the word Clicès is highlighted by first one, then two light sources. Next there's a tunnel with some greetings flying down it, before a scanned picture of a femal model zooms onto the screen. It stays there for a few seconds, before it zooms back and starts zoomrotating with a whole bunch of other pictures of models. Then, the innovation strikes back. The zoomrotator starts waving the pictures in a way I haven't seen before...before I actually see it forming some words! This is something I've never seen before - a first! The next effect can perhaps best be described as a 'flame tunnel', before it ends with a traditional upscroller over a raytraced picture with an AP logo. What strikes me about Clicès is that there's actually some signs of innovation here! That voxel routine particularly stands out. The routines all look good and fast. I'm willing to bet that if this was released by a better known group it would have been placed higher in the competition. I'm certainly eagerly avaiting the next AP demo. Keep up the good work! Probably needs some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Profusion (1996, 23.11, 80k Intro). 2nd in the Demoltion 96 II 80k intro competition.
Mosaik (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro). production: Thain, Kalsu, Neure, Muffler, Dvize. Released for the Saturne 97 64k intro competition. review: This is an intro that shows definite promise from the word 'go', not least of which is the sight of the handle 'Muffler' among the credits! Unfortunately for all of us, the intro itself oes not quite live up to its premise, and apart from an interesting brown object over swirling blue tunnel, it features little to set the world on fire. The best parts of this intro are the ones concerned more with design than technical ability - the intro and outro. These are the things that make the intro worth having, nothing else. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Artwork (ATW, 1994-1998) -----------------------GER> Argon (code, 04/96), Cockroach (code, ex DCS, new 11/94), Cougar (Christian Reismuller, gfx, new 04/96- 01/97), Jive (ex Platin, new 11/94), SMT (Sascha Michael Theel, music, ex Haujobb, 12/95-07/96), The Loop (Daniel Lafrentz, music, ex Gods, new 12/95-01/97), Tiberius (Andre Adam, 3d gfx, 03/97), Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap, triplememb Sanity and Bomb!, 02/96-01/97), Voyage (Dirk Aldekamp, founder swap, ex DCS, new 11/94). SWE> Confidence (code, doublememb Balance [details]). FRA> Nitch (Collomb Cedrick, code, ex Virtual Dreams, new late96). Artwork is a mainly German demo group, formed in November 1994 when "Generation" editor Damion/Platin took his mag with him and formed Artwork together with Voyage/DCS. Within days Cockroach and JMS joined from DCS, and The Loop, Jive and Detector from Platin. Soon after wellknown talent like Tron, Fiver and Noogman followed, making Artwork a group to look out for. 1995 - With their very first production, the demo "Greenday" [04/95), they WON the competition at the Black Box Symposium 95 in germany! (The demo is also amiga demo of the year for 1995 in scenery.) German musician SMT was recruited from Haujobb late in the year. Nothing more was released before december, at The Party. There, the 40k intro "Creep" [12/95] in cooperation with Polka Brothers and Azure's 4k intro "Dawn" [12/95] both WON their respective competitions. One can safely say it had been a great first year for the group. 1996 - This year saw the grooup continuing to recruit talented members,
In 1996, they continued recruiting talented members such as the legendary ex-Sanity graphician Cougar, who first joined as a double member. They went from strength to strength, and won AGAIN at the Symposium 96 with their awesome "The Gate" demo - and Azure took home the trophy for best 40k intro at the same party with "Dawn.Remix". Azure's next intro, the amazing "Phi" only managed to come 2nd at the South Sealand party, but was awarded the INTRO OF THE YEAR trophy by us - Artwork's second trophy! After being reinforced in the middle of 96 by ex-Matrix (amiga and pc) members Skyphos, Sharon and Nero, they released their first and last PC production at Assembly '96, "Proton" [08/96]. To this day Azure retains his membership in Bizarre Arts - perhaps to show they still have a sense of humour? Voyage used to be sysop of the board 'POINT BREAK'/'WATERWORLD' which has now been closed. Though Damion was originally the editor of "Generation", the job has now been handed down to RokDaZone. Though The Loop joined from Platin 11/94, I seem to have him joining from Gods in 96. One explanation may be that he joined Gods, only to later rejoin... German graphician jMS (ex DCS, 08/96) got kicked late in the year, and subsequently left the scene... German coder Axis (02/96) left to form a group of his own late 96. 1997 - April saw the release of Generation #24, where the announcement was made that german coder Detector (Holger Luemkemann) had left the scene. Joining from Platin as early as 11/94, his code was behind that very mag and remained used for subsequent issues even though the coder himself was no longer a part of the group. The German ex-members of Matrix who joined the group in 1996; graphician Nero (Rainer Mühr), coder Sharon (Oliver Belaifa) and coder-musician Skyphos (Marco Thrusch) all decided to leave Artwork late 97, and restart their old group Matrix on the PC. 1998 - After releasing their final demo "Megademo IV 2" [04/98] at the Mekka Symposium 98, they ended the existence of one of the most successful groups in scene history. But out of the ashes another great German group rises; Endzeit; founded on the remains of Artwork in much the same way that Lemon. was founded on the ashes of Anarchy in 1993. But not all members went to the new group ofcourse. The people behind Generation; Damion and RokDaZone (ex Infect) formed Endzeit, and took graphician Noogman with them. Also Italian writer The Ripper (ex Da Press, new 06/96) went alsong to
Endzeit, to continue his work for "Generation". Musician Virgill (04/95-) joined Haujobb. Famous coder Azure (Tim Boeschke, doublememb Bizarre Arts, 11/95-) left the scene. The further scene careers of Tron (Bastian Zuehlke, code, ex Sanity, new 01/95-) and Fiver2 (Thomas Mahlke, gfx, ex TRSI, 12/95-) remains uncertain. Swedish coder Scout (doublememb C-Lous [details], new late96) left the group late 97 or early 98 to join The Black Lotus - and become a sceneinactive game coder! Lenny Dee joined briefly from Illusion, only to leave the scene a few days later. Greenday (1995, 23.04, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Tron, Crash/Polka Brothers, gfx: Fiver/TRSI, Noogman (logo), music: "Final Amelotatism" by Virgill. Winner of the Black Box Symposium 95 demo competition! review: DEMO OF THE YEAR, and a hell of show from the Germans in their first ever production...amazing! Lots of goodlooking effects are on offer, and this time that means phong-shaded toruses, a texturemapped cube combined with a stretching zoomrotator (and then the zoomrotator's also mapped on two sides of the cube!!), voxel landscape, and a spacecut texture mapped cube. The tune is not quite up to Virgill's best, especially the jazz shit that accompanies the voxels are out of place. However, an AMAZING picture by Fiver almost makes up for the shortcomings the soundtrack has in places. The picture is called "Green Trash", it depicts a human wrapped in black plastic, and came 2nd in the graphics competition at the same party! Please note that I tested an incomplete distribution, and that there's even more to this demo than what I've outlined! Artwork was back one year later, and won the Symposium compo for the second time in a row with "The Gate". Please read the excellent 'making of' article in ROM4. According to this article, the demo does NOT require a HD, but can be run from floppy - my butchered distribution didn't give an indication of this! I'd be VERY happy to receive a proper distribution. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Tested with an INCOMPLETE distribution!! Dawn (1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). code: Azure, gfx/music: none. Winner of The Party 5 4k intro competition! review: Certainly impressive for a 4k intro, Dawn set new standards for the genre. Just some of the things featured are: Phong shading, moving light source, environment mapping, environment glenz motion blur, morphing, and voxelspace. Quite a list for a 4k intro :)
A few months later it was re-released, with music, and won the Symposium 40k competition! :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Creep (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, Crash/Polka Brothers (intro), gfx: Fiver, music: SMT (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of The Party 5 40k intro competition! Cooperation with Polka Brothers. review: This is one impressive intro! There are lots of great-looking phong shaded objects on offer here, and most are a little more imaginative than the standard donut variety. Several also offer extras, like an 'afterburner' effect and transparency. Around the middle of the intro there's a full-screen picture (2x2). This picture is a redrawing of the album cover for Mercyful Fate's "Don't Break The Oath" album. The pic is then waved, like a flag in the wind. The next new routine is the most impressive one, though. We're talking about a high resolution texture mapped phong-shaded elastic donut that looks FABULOUS! The show is finished off with an effect that's a little hard to describe, but I think transparent phong pulse explosions is about as close as you get. The music is excellent throughout. In june 1997, Azure released version 1.1, which fixes some problems on 040/060 machines, as well as the classic The Player 6.1A bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Gate (1996, 07.04, AGA Multifile, 4 disks). code: Azure, Tron, gfx: Fiver, Noogman, Argon (dream dos), music: SMT (main), Virgill (intro, end). Winner of Symposium 96 demo competition! review: After this there can be no doubt - Chaos is dead, long live Azure and Tron. Artwork won the Symposium for the second year in a row with this demo - brimming with good-looking, advanced effects! It opens with an interpolated voxel landscape with the credits overlayed, and the powerful opening tune which creates a great 'heavy demo' atmosphere. There's a lot of bumpmapping effects in this demo, from a lightsourced zooming bumped tunnel to a lightsourced bumped cube. There's also a graphicszoomer that's quite similar to the one TBL later used in their Gathering'97 winning demo "Captured Dreams". There's also some different mapping stuff, with the metal-env-mapped (?) head and the cube with the protrouding face the highlights. Need I go on? The music is great, the graphics are great, and it's quite simply a BIG demo - in every sense of the word. Download NOW! The endtune, "Opium" by Virgill, competed in the music competition at the same party. Some information leads me to believe there is a special version of "The Gate" for the Graffitti videocard...can anyone confirm that this is so? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dawn.remix (1996, 07.04, AGA 40k Intro).
code: Azure, gfx: none, music: The Loop. Winner of Symposium 96 40k intro competiton! review: Certainly technically impressive, this remix of the originally 4k intro "Dawn" [12/95] is very very good. This time around, the shapes are env-mapped and sometimes afterburned, like in "Creep" [12/95]. The music is cool also, and suits the intro beautifully. I like this, small as it is. :) The reason there's no entry for graphician above is that this intro contains no graphics. Included in the archive is a 1x1 version of the original 4k intro. Will work on standard A1200's, but recommends fast and acceleration. You can press your right mousebutton to skip forward one effect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Phi (1996, 06.07, AGA 4MB 64k Intro). code: Azure, Tron, gfx: Fiver, music: SMT. 2nd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. review: Phi, the best intro of 1996, opens with a sign of some sort and a progress bar at the bottom of the screen. When the progress bar reaches its end, the show starts...and what a show! To fabulous trancy music by SMT (one of his best tunes EVER) we're treated to one of the best intros since Virtual Dreams won at The Party 93 with "Chaosland" [12/93]! Azure and Tron have managed to squeeze more demo power out of 64k here than most people are able to in megs! With a couple of pictures thrown in, I'd vote this among the best DEMOS of 1996, for crying out loud! The intro features some of the fastest envmapping I've ever seen on the Amiga, and then some! There's also morphing objects, a fabulous bumpmapping-cum-plasma routine, and some voxelspace stuff that's quite cool. The intro ends with a sole image of a bleeding heart. Pretty much the same intro can be seen in Bizarre Arts' "Fresh!" [06/97] (by Azure and Axis) released just one week later! :) The accompanying text file mentions it uses ALL of the 4mb fast it requires, so if you (like me) use 512k of your fast to softkick kickstart, you probably won't be able to run Phi on a 4mb fast only setup. Believe me, I've tried :) In june 1997, Azure released version 1.1, which adds a special custom 040/060 c2p routine, and fixes the classic The Player 6.1A replayer bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- note: version 1.1. Blurred Notes (1996, autumn, Musicdisk). code: Tron, gfx: Noogman, music: The Loop.
Efrafa (1996, 02.02, AGA HD Multifile Slideshow). code: Tron, gfx: Fiver, music: Virgill. review: Efrafa comes across as a very SMOOTH slideshow, much thanks to Fiver's very clean style. Let me just say this first: Fiver _IS_ one of my favourite graphics artists, so if my review seems influenced by this in any way, then...that's because it is! :) Hehe... No, seriously: The show opens with a clean EFRAFA logo, before the screen scrolls down to the selection menu. Here you can choose between the different pictures with your mouse (and see info about them by pressing rmb), or access some brief info pages. There really isn't that much to say about EFRAFA, it just does its job of showing these great pictures, and not much else... Sonics are nice too, but then again we are talking about Virgill here... :) The pictures are... Flight (32c, unreleased), Under Control (32c, unreleased), Infiltration (64c, unreleased), Under A Blood Red Sky (256c, unreleased), No More Secrets 2 (64c, unreleased), Fish Food (128c, The Party 94), Yoichi (128c, from Artwork's "Greenday" [04/95]), Virgill Dreams (128c, unreleased), Champagne Supernova (256c, unreleased), Efjucikay (128c, used in Generation), Kodak (256c, used in Artwork's "The Gate" [04/96]), In The Kitchen 2000 (256c, unreleased) - 12 pictures in all. Not all pictures are topquality (In the Kitchen...) but those that are, are so great they'd be worth the download time ALONE (No More Secrets 2, Kodak, Yoichi...) Get this, ARTWORK QUALITY all the way! [glenn] Generation issue #22 (1996, .10, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: Maybe it's me there's something wrong with, but goddamnit, this mag DOES NOT WORK! It plays the first bars of the music and shows a black screen, then...just crashes. This happens every time, no matter what I try! Hmm... Anyone that can help me with a way to fix this? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation issue #23 (1997, .01, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, gfx: Spiv/Infect (title), Cougar (main), Nero (clip), Skyphos (clip), RokDaZone (fonts), music: "Tired Eyes" by Azazel/TBL, "A Night At The Bar" by Virgill/Essence and Artwork, editor: RokDaZone. review: It opens nicely, with Spiv's "Casual Insane" picture from The Party 96 (70th!) graphics competition - not half bad. It shows what I guess must be the open, staring eyes of some alien child... Unusual and nicely executed, Spiv! The panel by Cougar is also a feast for the eyes, so graphically there's not much wrong with Generation. This issue has two modules from wellknown scene VIS, but none of them are outstanding in any
way... I guess this comes down to taste, but I feel these two can do a lot better than this! One thing that bugs me a little is the sometime dark palette choices for some of the articles. It's a far cry from the light, happy colors of ROM! I guess I'm just not used to reading on a black background... Another thing that irritates me slightly is that the text does not scroll, like it has in most other good magazines since about...oh, 1992? I suppose it's a small complaint, but it's got a lot to do with the way the magazine 'feels' like to handle. Thankfully, it multitasks just as happily as ROM does, making things like writing this review a doodle :). Contentwise, there's a lot of stuff from The Party 6 this time, as can be expected. I also found the article from the Atari show interesting, as it's not the kind of thing you usually find in an Amiga diskmagazine. Overall, though, the writing here is of a disappointing quality. I guess we've all been spoilt rotten by ROM - the diskmag standard to which all others are held. With some polishing, a LOT better layour for the articles and a brigther display, Generation could be a winner... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Exit Planet Dust (1997, 29.03, AGA 030 8MB Multifile Demo). code: Azure, Tron, Graham/Oxyron, Scout, gfx: Fiver2 (5R2), Tiberius (3d), music: Skyphos (main), Virgill (endpart). 2nd in The Gathering 97 demo competition. review: EPD opens with an innovative opening part where (presumably) the coders of the demo are part of the 3d scenes. It's real hard to describe, but it sets just the right mood! Then the music changes, and we move into space... next is a phong object over a moving background, then a spaceship crashes through a wall, and strange pipes twist and turn... EPD is a world of wonder, with lots of strange things going on... Then a quick trip through a tunnel before another phongobjects, this time with some other, smaller objects flying around... Then a falling, colorful object, some bump and envmapping on a couple of new objects... Then - abd this is cool - the entire screen starts twisting around the last object! Next is a massive, colorful and fast 3d scene with a humanoid shape in the middle. Another object follows, before 5R2's fullscreen pic "Earthpeople", winner
at SILICONvention 97 that same weekend. Next is a weird sort of bumpmap effect I really don't know what to calll... :) Some more sparkly objects follow, before a new, bumpmapped tunnel. Next is a fullscreen raytraced pic with a red hand stretching towards the user, then some star objects appear at the same time, before three brief objects signify EXIT PLANET - DUST and it's all over. Technically oustanding, with generally very good music, there was no doubt about who would win 2nd prize at The Gathering. This is a very very good demo, no question, but... it's simply just not "Captured Dreams" =) The version reviewed is the compoversion, which is missing the endpart (Virgill's module exists only in the final version, with endpart) which was omitted at TG because of the organizers' imposed space limit of 5MB. This is (for some reason) widely regarded as a cooperation with C-Lous, but in actuality Scout was already a full Artwork member at the time. His entire contribution to the demo however was just one tunnel routine. The demo requires an 030-50, but recommends at least 040-40 or 060. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo IV (1997, 30.03, AGA ?MB Multifile). code: Azure (main), Sharon (morphface), Skyphos (morphface, lightscape), Tron (particles), Argon (loader), gfx: Fiver2 (main), Noogman (picture, backdrop), Nero (picture), Tiberius (3d), music: Virgill. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition! review: Unfortunately, after seeing this demo - which is above average, don't get me wrong - I experience a feeling of disappointment. I had just seen the third-placer demo "Thug Life" by Essence, and was thinking 'any demo that can beat this is worth watching'. The problem is perhaps more in the fact that Azure has made SO MANY demos like this - it's got his fingerprints all over it. Azure is one of the best - if not THE best coders out there, and he's technnically brilliant. However, he does not have that much ORIGINALITY in him, and when he releases two demos so close together, it is perhaps inevitable that they will resemble each other. This is a technically excellent demo, but doesn't EXCITE me. After seeing the demo, I'm afraid I must conclude that Artwork won this competition as much on name as they did on content. Azure told me (via email) that after seeing the competition he imagined it'd end up third. The entire demo was put together from "Exit Planet Dust" leftovers in the two days after it
competed at The Gathering, which goes a long way to explain why it is what it is. "MIV" marks Artworks fourth consecutive victory at the Symposium, which certainly means they've earned themselves a place in the history books. It's just sad that the demo that does it is their weakest so far. The demo has been tested on 8MB fast machines only, but the text file mentions that it may work on 4MB machines too - it's just never been tested. 030-50 recommended for maximum pleasure. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Generation issue #24 (1997, .04, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag). code: Detector, Eksec/Infect (additional), gfx: Nero (title 2), Geist and Germ/Balance (title 2), RokDaZone (fonts), Nero (clip), Skyphos (clip), music: "Crimson Pool" by Azazel/TBL, "Silence" by The Loop (both Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: RokDaZone (main), Damion, The Ripper. review: No less than two title pictures open the show this time another surrealistic masterpiece by Nero opens the ball, followed by a cartoonlike rendition by Geist - whose technique here reminds me of some of the classics from Bustman/Crusaders, that 'blocky' but still smooth look =) The mag itself has the familiar design from Cougar, nothing has changed here. Two reasonable pieces of music offer audial delight. This issue was released just after the two major easter-parties of the year, The Gathering and Mekka Symposium, and contains ample coverage of both. Nero's title picture is a rendition of "Boheme 29", his 8th-placed picture from Mekka Symposium 97, with the added text "Original by Jamiri" in the top left corner, and a Generation logo in the bottom left. This issue also announced the leaving of Detector, long-time "Generation" coder. The mag would continue without him - but still with his old code... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation issue #25 (1997, Diskmag). info: The final issue released under Artwork, the next issue was released under the Endzeit label. Megademo IV 2 (1998, 12.04, Demo). production: Tron, Azure, Fiver2. 8th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition. info: The final Artwork demo... ASCII Unlimited (ASU)
--------------------ENG> Telemach (ex Nerve Axis). Here We Go (1993, autumn, Intro). production: Khul/Infect, Telemach, Nimrod, Tango/Balance. Aspect -----GER> Black Ghost (sysop 'LUCKY STRIKE', 09/91), Lunatic (sysop 'ICE HOUSE', 09/91), Stingray (09/91), Synthetic Line (sysop 'ICEHOUSE', 09/91). Boards; SPEED BIT (ger, 09/91). German Tron joined Crystal. Aspect Incorporated ------------------Boards; ROAD TO NOWHERE WHQ (usa, 07/94), BLOODY DECISION (ger, 07/94), TOTAL KAOS (ger, 07/94), MAX ROCK N ROLL (ger, 07/94), EVIL MOON (ger, 07/94). Aspect Incorporated was a subgroup of Delirium, and released a few cracks of German versions of some games. The board 'TIME WAR' joined Gothic. Asphyx -----???> Ares (raytrace), Invert (music, new 06/96), Lash (swap), Misha (trade), Seb McKein (trade, ex Mystic, new 06/96). 1996 - Elmek left the scene in june. Asphyxia -------Zoltar joined Alcatraz early92. Asphyxia Design --------------???> Cookie (gfx, 08/94), Shagan (code, 08/94). Ilyad (1994, 07.08, AGA 4MB Multifile, 4 Disks). Cooperation with Alcatraz, see there for review. Assult
-----Thexder joined Alpha Flight. Astra ----Astra is dead. All members (Saint, Aero, Tas...) joined The Silents. Astra Syntex (-1996) -------------------Astra Syntex died late 1996. A-Studio -------FIN> Boris, Benjamin. Atinox -----Nightmare and Gonso joined Cyborx mid 91. Atlantis -------GER> FCKW (sysop 'SECOND WORLD'), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY'), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE'). ENG> Mr.T (sysop 'CONSPIRACY'). FIN> Eddie, Ice. USA> Brain Dead (sysop 'PURGATORY'), Desert Rat (sysop 'GURU HAVEN'), Perpetual Demise (sysop 'CRYPT OF ETERNITY'), The Skeleton (sysop 'PIRATE'S SHIP' WHQ). ???> Der Stuermer (trade, 92). Atlantys -------FRA> Anex (gfx), Fred (ex Agile), Reflex (music, ex Rebels). Atlantys was a French demo group, who house several french scene celebrities in the early 90's. According to Stolen Data #10, the French section of Rebels was rebuilt, and consisted a.o. of Anex and Reflex. So I guess maybe Reflex rejoined his old group? French graphician Hof joined The Silents. Frenchmen Neptune (code), Titan (gfx) and Mental (swap, ex Tech, old handle Agony) joined Anarchy. Slideshow (1991?, ECS Slideshow). code: Neptune, gfx: Hof, Anex, music: Titan. info: Reviewed RAW1.
Atomic [old] (ATC, -1993) ------------------------NOR> Bandit (sysop 'DARK HELL', new late92), MC Light (code, 04/92). GER> Agent Orange (P.Kaufmann, swap, ex Arise), Crimeslime (Bernd Stoede, ex Paranoid, old handle Ripper), Smash (Martin Busche, swap trade, ex Arise, 04/92). FIN> Bad Karma (ex Deadline). ???> Altair (code, 04/92), Chronomancer (swap, 04/92), Dee-Lite (music, 04/92), Doc (trade, 04/92), Drow (music, 04/92), Lost Boy (music, 04/92), Maclean (gfx, 04/92), MB (music, 04/92), Mr.X (gfx, 04/92), Rabies (trade, 04/92), Rebell MC (gfx, 04/92), Red Alert (music, 04/92), Rico (gfx, 04/92), Seltex (trade, 04/92), The Guardian (swap, 04/92), The Kidney (music, 04/92), Thexder (music, ex Alpha flight), Venus (swap, 04/92), Wizzler (swap, 04/92). When Atomic died, the 8 best guys formed a new crew called Stone Arts in march 1993. I'm making an educated guess that those 8 were Ice (old handle Double), Dolphin (old handle Nemo), Hugo, Kekken, Shape, Storm, Rozzoe and Syntex, and have removed them from the memberlist to reflect this. 1992 - Norwegian musician and swapper Gang Starr changed his handle to Sonic, and joined Awe in july. 1993 - Norwegian musician Absent (ex Cyborgs, new late92) joined Impulse. 1995 - When Stone Arts fell apart in 1995, Dolphin reformed Atomic. Slam rejoined Acrid. Norwegian Adolf joined Destiny. Frone rejoined The Dark Demon. Musician Dirty Harry (04/92) joined Digivision. Intro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Ice, gfx: Shape, music: Syntex. Unbelievable (1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Ice, Storm, Hugo (loader), gfx: Rebell MC, MacLean, Storm, Shape, music: Syntex. 7th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. review: This demo does not appear to work, no matter what I try. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: See review. Intro (1992, 12.10, ECS Intro). code: Ice, gfx: Kekken, music: Rozzoe. Atomic [new] (ATM, 1995-1996) ----------------------------HOL> THC (sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES' WHQ, doublememb Myth, 03/95). The new Atomic was formed by Dolphin/Stone Arts and Colorbird/ex Razor 1911
new after Stone Arts fell apart. Their intention was to release a new diskmag, based on the best of "Headline" (dolphin) and "Propaganda" (colorbird), but this project newer saw fruit, and the group slowly died away without a single release... I have therefore speculated in a 1996 death date, hope some of the members can step forward and tell me if this is a faulty assumption. Atomic Intelligence ------------------DEN> A.B.M., Deflex, E.B., Fox (ex Bytestar), Garfield, Gremlin, Mask, Radagast, Spiderman (ex Bytestar), T.D.M., Victory, Zenix. Burger and Milkshake joined Kefrens old. Flødeskum (ECS File). Atomic Team ----------DEN> Axe, Magician X, Megabyte. Atomic Team was based in Denmark. Promax (who would later write the assembler Asm-One), while still a member, released one of the first module rippers; Sound-Hacker 1.1. Danes Promax (code) and Nightlight (music) joined Kefrens old. Attention --------SWE> The Yench (sysop 'THE YENCH HOUSE', 01/95). Attraxion --------Attraxion is DEAD. Aurora (-1993) -------------SWE> Cyber and Slash (sysops 'CRAZY WORLD', ex Supplex), Dee-Jay (music, ex Hypnosis, new 12/91), Dexter (sysop 'TOTAL DISASTER', ex Alpha Flight, new ca 01/92), Dreamweaver (Per Wahlstrom, code music, 07/91), Flex (trade, 92), Horace Wimp (Fredrik Skogh, music, 06/90-92), Hyperion (sysop 'GREAT LAKE'), Joker, MegaStorm (music, new 91), Regulator (Anders Larsson, code gfx music, new 09/91-12/92), The Red Dragon (swap, 11/90), Trinity (ex Hypnosis, new 12/91), Trodac (sysop 'UNFORGIVEN', ex Alpha Flight, new 12/91), Westwood (ex Hypnosis), Wico
(sysop 'GANGZTERZ PARADIZE' EHQ, 91), Zcandaler (trade sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', 11/90-09/92), Zipex (trade, new 91). GER> Hellraiser (sysop 'HELLBOUND', 09/91). HOL> Stranger (sysop 'UNLIMITED ACCESS'). ???> Cougar (gfx, 92), Dodger (new 12/91), Dolby (12/91), Druid (code gfx music, 12/90), Eagle, Extacy (ex Submission), Fignal O. (music), Leprosy (sysop 'METAL CHURCH'), Lizard (gfx, 90), Nibbler, Satan Claus (sysop), Saturn (code gfx, 07/91), Sputnik (swe? code gfx, 06/90), Triton (code, 12/91), Yogi Bear (swe? code gfx, 06/90). Boards; DEIT TIME (ger), DJUNGLE BASE (swe), BLACK MARX. Aurora was a demo group based in sweden, perhaps best remembered for their sadly underrated but great musician Dreamweaver. 1991 - With the release of the demo "Illusions" [12/91] in december, several new members were announced: Deejay, Trinity, Rocket (all ex Hypnosis), Trodac (ex AFL), Dodger and Ragman. 1992 - A lot of the group's time was put into development of their game "Tomtespelet" (The Santa Claus Game) early this year, which they were hoping to finish sometime in the spring. Swedish Dexter joined from Alpha Flight with his board 'TOTAL DISASTER' around january. An upcoming music disk with music by Dreamweaver, Dee Jay and Horace Wimp was announced for release 'soon' in PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92], but was never finished as far as we are aware. Zcandaler reopened his board in september. At The Party in december, the groups final demo "Lost In Denmark" [12/92] was released to a disappointing 11th position in the demo competition. 1993 - Swedish coders Spirou and Cuddley (both new 09/92) joined The Silents sometime between january and may. The group died late in the year. Jampin and Thorax left. Coder and graphician Rubicon (12/91) joined Fairlight. Swede Rocket (ex Hypnosis, new 12/91) joined Virtual. The board 'PARTYLINE' left. German sysop Headhunter ('CONDEMNED CELL'/'PARTY LINE', 09-10/91) joined Dual Crew. Swedish sysop Damien ('PURPLE PLEXUS') joined Complex. Swedish sysop Dare ('SLIME CITY') left the scene. Intruder Megademo (ECS Trackmo). 'Reign In Blood' "Ballistic_Freakout" BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code/gfx: Dreamweaver, music: "Valor of Faith" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Starvation (ECS File). code/gfx: Triton, music: "Opus2" by Fignal O. (ProTracker MOD format).
In 1990 (1990, ECS Demo). code: n/a, Triton, gfx: Lizard, music: "1990" by Horace Wimp (ProTracer MOD format). New Demo (1990, .06, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Yogi Bear, Sputnik, music: "Element of Insanity" by Horace Wimp (ProTracker MOD format). Mind Field (1990, .12, ECS Game/Demo). code/gfx: Druid, music: "007" and "Walking Fire" by Druid (ProTracker MOD format). info: Nibbler Game & Demo. Dreamscape (1991, ECS File). code: Dreamweaver, Rubicon, gfx: Saturn, music: "A King Is Born" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Back To Front (1991, ECS File). code: Regulator, gfx: n/a, music: "Global Rock" by n/a (ProTracker MOD format). info: This production announced five new members joined Aurora; Regulator, Spirou, Cuddley, Zipex and Megastorm. Board Intro (1991, .07, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Saturn, music: "Shivers" by Dreamweaver (ProTracker MOD format). Illusions (1991, .12, ECS Demo). code: Triton, gfx: Rubicon (fonts), Anders Finer (mainlogo), music: "Genovision!" by Horace Wimp (ProTracker MOD format). Info: This demo announced new members joined; Deejay, Trinity, Rocket (all ex Hypnosis), Trodac (ex AFL), Dodger and Ragman. BBS Demo (1992, ECS File). code: Spirou, Cuddley, gfx: Cougar (font, picture), Regulator (font, backlogo), Spirou (minfont), music: Horace Wimp (Phenomena Packer format, 158834 bytes). Lost in Denmark (1992, 28.12, ECS File). code: Regulator, Cuddley, Spirou, gfx: Regulator, music: "Skummet Maelk" by Regulator (ProTracker MOD format). 11th in The Party 92 demo competition. Austex -----Prelude (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tron. End of Aushax (1990, ECS File).
code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tron. Interlude (1990, ECS File). code/gfx/music: Ice, Tron. Epilogue (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Ice, Tron, music: Tmk. Australian Crackers United (ACU) -------------------------------AUS> Donatello (old handle Microchip, 07/90), TIC (crack, 06/90). ACU was an Australian demo and cracking group. 1990 - Australian Pirasoft was busted around 07/90, and got ALL his stuff confiscated by the Police. I don't know if this means that he left scene? Some members were kicked, like Mister A, Fugitive and Crystal. Australian Ginnie was later in Quartex. Megademo (ECS Trackloaded Megademo). Avalanche --------Avalanche was a small, promising Norwegian group, but when they died their members were spread everywhere, and none of them made much of an impact again. Their best members; Keo (music), Hoaxer and Big Red joined Fraxion. Quark, Madwand and Cybermage formed a new group called Ecthelion. Himalaya (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Atmospheric" by KEO (4ch MOD format). Avalon (AVL) -----------NOR> Aragorn (code, 12/93), Scentex (swap), Shine, Zak (Arild Ravlosve, swap). ???> Cujo (gfx, 12/93), Osprey. Avalon was a Norwegian demo group. 1997 - Norwegian graphician and musician Typhoon (12/93) joined Gods early in the year. Zack joined Saints. Out of Time (ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: Typhoon, music: n/a. review: This starts loading, showing a picture by Typhoon. When it's done
loading it crashes. Caches off/original chipset does not do any good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: See review! 40k Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Aragorn, gfx: Typhoon (font), Cujo (raytrace), music: Typhoon. Split 19th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Nothing exceptional immediately springs to mind, but this is not a bad intro. It certainly didn't deserve 19th place! I guess the fact that they're relatively unknown might have a lot to do with that... Anyway, some ok executed effects here, though they could perhaps have spared themselves the 'perilous alien' animation. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Response (1995, 14.04, Demo). 2nd in The Gathering 95 demo competition. Avantgarde (1994-1995) ---------------------GER> Knuckles (Yann Cebron, founder code swap), Sonic (gfx music swap, ex Platin), The Crow (Jens, founder ascii, doublememb Artcore [details], 01/95). ???> Cascay (gfx swap, ex Pulse), Vadium (01/95). Formed by 2Fast/TRSI and Donk/Pulse in the middle of august 1994. 2Fast changed his handle to The Crow (and later changed it back), and Donk to Knuckles. The group died somewhere between january and august 1995. 1996 - MG joined Savage in april. German swapper Gangsta joined Scoopex. Avenger (-1990) --------------SWI> Hardrider (code crack sysop 'THE ELECTRIC CO.', early92), Hornet (code crack, later Alcatraz), PGCS (gfx, later Alcatraz). ???> Burgame, Columbo, Daniel, Dead Sector, Dreamer, Fox, Humanoid, Illusion, Magnetix, Metalwar (code crack), Mike, Psycho, Red Storm, Spreadforce, Steeve, Studio 3, Zodiac. Boards; INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (usa), PANIC ZONE (usa). Avenger was a swiss-based illegal group, doing cracks. 1990 - French coder Funky joined Hexodus in january. Avenger died in 1990, and their members joined Trilogy, Brainstorm and Alcatraz. Avirex (1989-) --------------
Avirex was officially born on the first of january 1989. Avocado (AVC, 1995-) -------------------NOR> Felix (Karsten L. Fischer, swap), Sixpack (swap pack). SWE> Pozz (gfx swap, later C-Lous), Stevie (swap ascii). FIN> Addict (code), Apache (sysop), Grand (gfx), John Harder (gfx ascii swap), KML (swap), Miro (gfx swap), Substance (org music swap), Zandax (music swap). GER> Base (swap). BEL> Buttercup (music swap), Cybernaut (code). AUS> Cro (code). ENG> Devistator (gfx swap ascii), Realitor (code swap). HOL> Fate (ascii swap trade). AUT> Moon (code). Avocado was born when Kinky changed its name to Avocado in late 95. 1995 - Belgian, Turkish and Polish divisions were kicked late 95. Svos, Blade, Woober, Beholder, Madman (fin music) and Rockeronic (ger music) were all kicked late 95. 1996 - The entire english section left, while Finnish organizer, musician and swapper Enzyme was kicked late in the year. Avoid (-1990) ------------Avoid ceased to exist as a separate group around june 90, when they went into cooperation with Celtic, still under the name Celtic. Among the members who went along to Celtic was Avalon. Awake ----GER> Art (Andreas Fronk, swap), Dooz, Dr.Dree, Red Luck, Vega, Vision. HOL> Nitro, R2, Riptile, Tornado. GER> Crusher. ???> Alex, Douglas (ex Exort), Exciter (ex Exort), Gonzo (ex Exort), Jesus P (ex Exort), Kahn (ex Exort). Cardinal was kicked, and joined Alpha Flight. German swapper Red Knight joined The Electronic Knights. Swedish modemtrader Sali-Adalat (ex Exort) joined Legend. Here We Are (Demo). info: The group's first release. Awe ---
NOR> Citizen (gfx, 03/92), Dee-Lite (ex 5th Generation, new 09/92), Sadman (swap), Sonic (music swap, ex Gang Starr/Atomic, new 09/92), The Strangler (music, 03/92), Warlord (swap). ???> Jim (ex Cyborgs, new early93), Mr.Magic (ex Cyborgs, new early93). Awe were a wholly uninspiring Norwegian group, whose biggest 'claim to fame' is having spawned another mediocre Norwegian group, Talent. 1992 - Dee-Lite joined from 5th Generation 09/92. Redferne joined Desire. Mr.Frenzy joined Animators. Norwegians Mace, Pensplit, Necrologic, Mr.Z (code, 03/92) and Android (ex Vega) left to form a new group called Talent. Invincibility #1 Packemenu (1992, 29.03, ECS Packmenu). code: Mr.Z, gfx: Citizen, music: "Grimstad by Night" by The Strangler (4ch MOD format). review: Ok, first of all: the raster bars were not coded by Mr.Z!! The routine was coded by Nosferatu/Razor 1911, and published in a Norwegian computer magazine! I remember typing it in myself, to see the effect, and I remember the text string that was embedded (in hex, so you wouldn't see it when you typed it in, only in memory). Therefore; using other people's routines and claiming they are your own is LAME! Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Works with KillAGA, but bugs a little. Awesome ------GER> Aerobase (swap, ex Vanish), Black Trooper (Hans Spirk, gfx swap, 02/92), Empire (sysop 'BORDERLINE', ex Setrox). BEL> Mad Shitbrain (sysop 'METAL IMPACT'). HOL> Jaf (sysop 'SLEEP CITY'). SWE> Him (code, 04/92), Mr.Crook (code, 04/92). USA> Master Copy (sysop 'DAWNS END', ex New Wave). ???> Apollo (ex Hypnotic), Dyce, Mace (old handle Citizen, 09/92), Raider, Scott (ex Magnetic Fields, new mid91), Storm (ex Energy). Awesome was well reinforced when most members of the group Vox Dei joined and formed a Swedish division. These were at least Him (code). Swedish coders Mr.Crook and Him are behind the cruncher Turtle Smasher. The group is now dead. 1991 - Lawbreaker joined Vanish, while Vindex joined Zylon/Alpha Flight around the middle of the year. Most members left for Alpha Flight in september. 1992 - German swapper Wonderboy (ex Energy, old handle Slider) joined Dual Crew in september. German coder Blackraven joined Agnostic Front around
september; he did NOT leave the scene, as claimed in R.A.W #3. Ninja joined Dual Crew. Montana Rice, who joined from Vanish with Aerobase, soon moved on to The Electronic Knights (TEK). Tomcat joined Complex. Dane Krueger joined the new Kefrens. Gintro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Prospector, gfx: Black Trooper, Fairfax/PMC, music: Accel. Axe (-1991) ----------NOR> Shadow (swap), Slider (swap). Boards; FLASH POINT (ex Academy), SLEDGE HAMMER. Axe died in 1991. Members joined The Special Brothers, Decept and Digital Warriors. Chris joined Grace. The board 'THE BLACK HOLE' joined Wizzcat. Axen ---F.O.A.P. (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code/gfx: Axen, music: Harry. Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: "When was the last time you saw linevectors?" Don't run this intro and you'll be spared for another 5 years. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Axend ----Cool Intro (1990, 07.10, ECS Intro). code: Dr. M, gfx: n/a, music: Chainsaw. Axenon (-89/90?) ---------------GER> Phantom (swap, 02/89). Phantom's p.o. box was closed by the Police, but he soon found a new one and kept on swapping! When Axenon died, a certain German coder renamed to Chaos and joined The Undertakers... Axept ----???> Zalo (ex The Family).
Axis [old] (-1992) -----------------HOL> Danny (gfx, later TBL, 04/92). ???> Fresh (gfx, old handle Roxis). The original incarnation of Axis was once the best group on the Dutch scene, until it fell apart. They received a reorganization in late 91, but it wasn't enough to save the group and it died in early to late 1992. Most members formed a new group called Freestyle. Two years later, Axis was reborn. 1991 - Dartagnan changed his handle to Mop and joined Coma mid 91. Ofcourse, Mop would rise to the top of the diskmag pile - first with "McDisk" in Coma and later Alcatraz, then with one issue of "Compass" for Alcatraz, before taking on the helm of today's best magazine; Essence's "R.O.M". Dutchmen Claxon, Steroid and Magician Lord joined Desire at the Prime 91 [12/91] party, but only stayed for a few hours. Claxon and Steroid rejoined Axis, while Magician Lord opted to stay independent. Later, after Axis died, they all joined the new group Freestyle! 1992 - Liberator left Axis, and probably the scene due to lack of time early92. However, he was back in the reborn Axis two years later! Dutch swapper Kr'33 (ex Sanctuary) joined Sanity with his famous pack 'Femur Bundle' 09/92. When Axis finally died, coder Crackerjack (ex Vision, 07/91) joined Mirage, and the rest of the old members formed a new group called Freestyle. Mace was kicked out. King Dragon, Xotic, Double Dutch and Antibody got kicked. Our Nation (1991, ECS File). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Roxis, music: Rip-It/R.A.F. Released at the Royal Party 91. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Unknown Territory (1991, 07.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Crackerjack, gfx: Fresh, music: "Serial Killer" by Jayce/Jetset. Winner of the Prime 91 demo competition! Axis [new] (1994-) -----------------N-L> Anthony (Anthony Jonker, code, ex Movement, late96), Jay-One (gfx, ex Jetset new, -notmembanymore-), Liberator (sysop 'MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS', ex Movement, -notmembanymore-), Radavi (swap sysop, late96), Steroid (swap, ex Jetset new, late96), Tim (code, late96). GER> Dark (swap, ex TRSI, -notmembanymore-), T'vaan (gfx, aka Teevan, ex Melody, 01/96, -notmembanymore-).
ENG> Nik (code, late96), Paradroid (code, ex Lemon., new late94, -notmembanymore-), Subi (music, -notmembanymore-), Twilight (music, late96). ???> Eros (gfx, 12/95, -notmembanymore-), Timeless (music, 12/95, -notmembanymore-). Axis was reborn in 1994 by members from a.o. Movement. They seem to be on the descent now that some of their best and most famous members having left them (Rodney, Hollywood, Iso). 1995 - Swedish graphician Rodney joined TBL late in the year. At the party in december, the group entered with productions for both the intro and demo competitions. The 40k intro "Headcase" [12/95] (stelios/lowlife/hollywood with a little help from facet/tbl) came 2nd in the competition, while the demo "Parakrishna" [12/95] (celtic/eros/timeless) fared much worse, and ended up at an abysmal 18th place in its competition =( 1996 - Female swapper Clary left in april, and is now only in Drifters. Dutch musician Iso (Christiaan Unck, 12/94) left late in the year. English musician Hollywood (ex Melody, double Desire, 12/95) and coder Stelios (12/95) both left to form their own group late in the year, called Vacuum. Dutch coder Celtic (12/95-04/96) left the scene! Dutch graphician Lowlife (ex Hotline, 12/95) moved to the UK to work on games, and joined TBL. Big Time Sensuality (1994 or pre). Picturebook (AGA Disk, 4 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood. Rootcanal (Intro). Headcase (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Stelios, gfx: Lowlife (logo), Facet/TBL (font), music: Hollywood. 2nd in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Minimal but mighty. There are some mean shaded toruses here some of the bestlooking ones I've ever seen, actually! In addition, there's some motionblurred cubes and a colorexplosion effect - and the whole thing's just 31k. Not bad at all! In september 97, a fixed version V1.1 was released. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Parakrishna (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Celtic, gfx: Eros, music: Timeless. 18th in The Party 5 demo competition. info: The text mentions it should run on an A500/1mb, but doesn't on my system - perhaps on 1.3 A500's. Time and Emotion (1996?, Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood.
info: The folllowing tunes are featured on the disk; Acoustic 17901990, Eskimo Logic, Ether Symphony..., Pluto VII, Real-Life, RejuvenationJazz, Spilt Milk, Time+Emotion-Intro, TitaniumLeafPrints, Voyager. N.G.M.M.H. (1996, 07.04, 4k Intro). code: Celtic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Symposium 96 4k intro competition. review: A simple 4k'er, just a blocky (2x2?) flame effect with the word 'Celtic' appearing in the flames from time to time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Axxis (-1989) ------------Axxis died at the end of summer 1989, when the entire group (swiss and german sections) left to join Brainstorm. Azkiness (AZK) -------------POL> Draw (ascii swap, doublememb Ambrosia [details], late96). Azkiness is a group we know not much about, but judging from the name we guess it's a fair assumption that this is an ascii group =)
Baby Comas 5 -----------Future Vision (1992, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Released at The Party 92. Backdraft --------Crusader-X joined Wildfire, but soon moved on to Dynamic (SLH11). Backlash -------GER> Wulf (sysop 'DEVILS' HOME' open 93). USA> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS' WHQ). ???> Legal Eagel (code, 03/91), Ltd (gfx, 03/91), Maker (cosysop), Scampy (swap trade, 93). Boards; TIMEWAR. Intro (1991, .03, ECS Intro). code: Legal Eagel, gfx: Ltd, music: Silents.
Backstage --------This group became a part of Ram Jam, maybe late 92. Among the people who made the jump were Posdnuos, probably M.A.S.E + others. Bacteria (-1992) ---------------DEN> Ace (code, 12/91), Savage, SMB (music, 12/91). Bacteria was an exclusively danish demoscene group. Danish graphician and swapper Toastmaster (12/91-) joined Rebels, and the group died as all the other members also left for various other groups. Twinz got kicked. Mr.Thorax joined Dreamscape. BacPack Menu (1991, ECS Intro). code: Ace, gfx: Toastmaster, music: "funky...but it smb!" by SMB (4ch MOD format). review: An OK but hardly innovative packkmenu, BacPack has all the standard features of its kind. There's a logo on top, a scroller at the bottom, and oh yes - a selector in the middle of the screen. However, it is passably executed, with some good graphics, making it a bearable production. The issue reviewed here is #10. The intro needed KillAGA from DOpus, but ran just fine from disk. Release date is uncertain, but it is probably late december 91, prior to The Party. The disk was also installed with Ace's BacBoot 1.01, and an installer for this toolboot was included in the c directory. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Bad Brothers (BB) ----------------GER> Anti-G (code sysop 'OUTER SPACE', doublememb 100%, 05-07/96). Badcat (BCT) -----------FRA> Gandbox (music, 03/93), Harry (gfx music, 12/92), Napoleon (swap). Partytro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Ron/Liquid, gfx/music: Harry. 8th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Bad Karma --------BEL> Bigophone, Crisp, Franky, Malcomn, Mosez, Phantom, Reti, TCB (sysop 'METAL IMPACT' WHQ, 04/96), Zynix.
SWE> SCO> DEN> GER> GRE> AUS> CAN>
Boone, Marwic (sysop 'NUCLEAR WASTE'). Candyman. Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER'). Nino. Madboy. Trespass. Eric the Red (sysop 'WHO CARES' WHQ).
Boards; CYBER GARDEN (bel), DOXOLOGY (bel). Bad Karma were at one time in (illegal) cooperation with Crux, using the acronym CBK. Bad Trip -------GER> Bosinsky (sysop 'DEIT TIME', 09/91), Mr.Trax (sysop 'BIT JUNGLE', 09/91-04/95), Painkiller (sysop 'HELL', 09/91). Bad Zone -------POL> Ace (mainorg code swap), Cooper (gfx swap), Kovy (music swap), Mr.Kadde (music swap). ENG> Budda (code swap), Carp (swap). FIN> Dump (swap, new late96), Kure-4-Kancer (music swap, new late96). SWE> Melfis (gfx swap). Baked Bean Design? (BBD) -----------------------???> Foxy (ex Trilogy, new late93), Kiwi (ex Trilogy, new late93). BBD? are no longer a Trilogy subgroup. Foxy and Kiwi joined from Trilogy, and B.Bop joined Trilogy (late93). Balance (BLC, 1991-, http://hem.passagen.se/excelblc/) -----------------------------------------------------DEN> Ayotte (Thøger Wessel, music, ex Chrome, old handle Blue Fox, 12/9295), Connor (Jakob Steffensen, gfx, 07/92-04/94), Mad Smiley (code, 06/96), Motion (Anders Lundholm, gfx raytrace music, 07/92-12/93), R.W.O (Rene Wessel Olsen, gfx, ex Kefrens, new late94-12/94), Split (Niels Chr. Kvaavik, swap, 12/92-10/93), Unique (gfx, 12/94), Wolfman (William Henrik Olesen, org swap, 07/92-95). NOR> Blaze (Øystein Kristoffersen, swap, ex Frogs, 10/93), Cantona (Einar Vestheim, swap, new 06/96), Chagall (gfx, ex Frogs, 10-12/93), Cola (ascii swap, old handle Dizzy, doublememb Lingo, 10/93-94), D'Fence (10/93), Kefir (music, ex Legend), Razorblade (Geir Vestheim, swap trade, ex Majic 12, 05/95), Ranx (Dag Erlandsen, code, re-Stone Arts, ex Frogs, 10/93), Terminal Silence (music ascii, 12/93). SWE> Atheist (music, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-06/96), Confidence
(Magnus Isaksson, code, ex Duplo, ex doublememb Subspace, doublememb Artwork, 08/95-12/96), Deelite (Henrik Bertilsson, music, triplememb Sunshine Productions and Razor 1911, 08/95), Excel (Jani Oinonen, mainorg gfx swap edit, ex Sunshine Productions, 95-02/98), Gorg (gfx, 05-12/96), Grid (gfx, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-late97), Pantera (swap, ex Sunshine Productions), Radix (Jacob Svanholm, music, triplememb Limited Edition and Smoke [music]), Vicious (code, ex Sunshine Productions), Xerxes (sysop), Zero (code, ex DCS, new late96). FIN> Xendi (M. Alasaarela, gfx swap, ex Deadline, new 10/93). ENG> Bassline (music, ex Defekt), Hampster (gfx, ex Defekt), Jozz (music, ex Defekt), Kata (Jacob Restrup, code, 04-12/94), Melone (trade, doublememb 2000 AD, ex Defekt), Overdose (swap, ex Delicious), Quadrex (code, ex Defekt), Scotch (gfx, ex Defekt), Tango (org trade, ex Defekt). HUN> Rack (gfx, doublememb Absolute). ITA> Hedgehog (code, ex Biosynthetic Design). ISR> Cyber Bug (swap, ex Frogs, 10/93). N-L> Infant (Rene van deer Steen, code, ex Subspace, new late97). FRA> Geist (gfx, ex Gods doublememb, late96). USA> Starcam (sysop 'WORLDS OF WONDER', ex Defekt). ???> Magic (editor, doublememb?/ex? Nah Kolor), Pixel, Smartass (swe? music, 05/96-12/96). Balance was formed in Denmark by Wolfman, TNT, Split, Eddie and Spib in june of 1991. Some musicpacks were the first releases from the group. The next members to join were graphicians Connor and Idefix. Eventually yet another graphician joined, Trade (later handle Motion). The group still lacked a real coder though, and their search ended after they recruited Wreko from Divine. Their first real productions were the "Necessary Drugs" packs. Wreko helped recruit another musician, Mazzachre, and soon after also a second coder joined, called Scope. Spib then left because of lazyness, and coder IC3 joined. They got their first board ('SUFFOCATION') when Ramirez joined. Now it was time for their first trackmo, "Software Failure" [91]. Their next release was a bbs intro, and then IC3 got kicked again due to lameness. Their second trackmo, "Deepcore" [07/92], is released. The turning point in BLC's career surely came with the release of the first issue of their diskmag "Magbox" [07/92]. This mag announced both new musician Chyle as well as Mazzachre's leaving for Focus Design. The group was still 100% danish. Balance is a demo group based in Denmark. Originally, Balance released the
diskmag 'MagBox'. However, when the fusion with the Norwegian group Frogs was decided, they brought with them THEIR diskmag 'Upstream'. Ofcourse there were some discussion as to what mag to continue publishing, and the result was a compromise; the mag retained the name Upstream, but used the old MagBox code and continued the numbering from MagBox. The previous editors of the two mags, Wolfman (magbox) and Cesium (upstream) were coeditors of the new mag. Coca and Cola formed the ascii-group Lingo while they were still in Balance, so in effect they were doublemembers. Ranx started working at Funcom late 1993, but would remain an (inactive) Balancer. Graphician Chagall also got an offer from Funcom, but decided to go to England to study art instead, so his further scene career is uncertain. Balance were also coeditors of the danish chart "Dansktoppen" with Parasite from the beginning, but the chart was later taken over by Polka Brothers. 1993 - The Finnish section was formed mid 93 by ex-members of Deadline (Dionysus, Bad Karma, Nutcase, Xendi) and Alcatraz. Finnish Lohi (ex Diffusion) left for the PC scene, and coder Xarium joined Parasite mid 93. 1994 - Norwegian swapper Messiah (Banana Dezign doublemember) joined Spaceballs late 94. 1995 - Finnish musucian Nutcase (code gfx music, ex Deadline, new 06/93mid95) moved over to the pc section of Balance mid 95. Coder Fizban decided to leave the scene late 95. Danish musician Subject (ex Chrome, old handle Chyle, 07/92-01/97) changed handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97. He was a doublemember of Passion for a while, from late 94, but later terminated this double membership. Danish graphician and musician Cyboman joined Ambrosia late95. Finnish sysop Roland left. Danish coder Scope (07/92-01/95) joined Passion. Scope worked on demos like "Deepcore" [07/92], "Lost World" [12/92] and "Syndrome" [12/94] as well as the MagBox/Upstream code. Finnish musician Dr.Fruid (ex Frogs) left the Amiga scene. German coder Bailey (ex Frogs, 04-10/93) joined Lego. Bailey coded "Newstro" [04/93] before leaving. Norwegian coder Coca (old handle Broth, 10-12/93) joined Cesium's new group Session. Norwegian musician Vegard! (ex-doublemember) left to be a member of Scoopex only, but after a while he left them too and joined Melon Dezign. Nik joined Desire (UPS10). Danish musician Tricktrax (ex Chrome, 12/92) and hungarian graphician Nexus 6 (ex Frogs, 10/93) were kicked. Tricktrax is now in Puzzle. Danish coder Wreko (Jesper, 07/92-12/93) left for the PC scene - more specifically Diffusion PC. Norwegian organizer and previous 'Upstream' editor Cesium (ex Frogs) left
the scene for a while. As a consequence, his board 'OMAHA THUNDER' (opened 03/94) was also closed (12/94). Some time later, he reentered the scene with his own group, called Session, and reopened the board there. Finnish members James (old handle Bad Karma), Dionysus (both ex Deadline, new 06-10/93) and Dean left to join Decnite (PRP4). Danes Eddie (Frederik Esbensen, music swap, 12/91-07/92), Immortal, TNT (raytrace, 07/92) and Idefix (gfx, 07/92) all got kicked. Danish swapper and sysop Ramirez ('SUFFOCATION') joined Majic 12 (RAW4). Growl (ex Chrome, 12/92) joined Orient. Software Failure (1991, ECS Trackmo). info: Holding down the firebutton when booting activates a secret part. Deepcore (1992, 07.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Scope, Wreko, gfx: Connor, Scope, Motion, music: Chyle. Magbox #1 (1992, 20.07, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Motion (title, background) Scope (background, font), Connor, music: "Iceman-Theme" by Chyle (ProTracker MOD format), editors: Wolfman, Eddie, Split. review: The very first issue of Magbox is a little thin when it comes to the amount of articles, and was meant to be a combination of diskmag and messagebox (like Chit-Chat). Graphics are only passable, and the music is not particularly revolutionary either. The best and most interesting articles this time was Wolfman's history of Balance DK, interview with Hannibal/anarchy and a report and interview concerning the controversy surrounding the recently held Hurricane party. There is also a lot of really unnecessary humour stuff. The news item about Nexus 6/23 Celsius Crew (also spelt wrong, btw! =) forming a Hungarian division of Anarchy is false. In fact, he joined Frogs and later - when Frogs merged with Balance - became a Balance member! The mag needs KillAGA to show graphics and play music correctly, otherwise it works perfectly. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! DEN> Chyle, Connor, Scope, Split, Wolfman Magbox #2 (1992, 03.09, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (title, fonts ++), music: Chyle, editor: Wolfman (main), Split, Scope. review: Much improved graphics is the first thing that you notice, as well as some nice music. Much more articles, and the music is better than in the first edition too. The mag itself works fine with KillAGA, despite some hiccups with the music replay and slight problems with the larger
proportional fonts. They also correct the incorrect news item about Nexus 6/23 Celsius Crew from the earlier issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA! Magbox #3 (1992, .11, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor, Motion, music: Sound Division. Lost World (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Scope, gfx: Connor, music: "Dirty-Mary2-bf" by Blue Fox. 14th in The Party 92 demo competition. review: A nice, polished trackmo from the coder of the MagBox, later Upstream diskmag. It has the polished feel of Andromeda or even Phenomena...I guess it's the graphics that give the impression. Some of the logos or fonts could have been taken right out of any demo by those two groups! Testament to Connor's talent, I guess. Nothing TRULY outstanding here...except perhaps the spacecut routine - that was unusual back in 1992. Also, they present a glenz vector with LOTS of faces, though the 'this is a new world record' effects failed to impress me a long time ago. Who cares if you've got four more faces on your glenz than the next guy, when you can't even spot the difference with the naked eye? It's the visual part that matters. Excite me! Apart from the 'slime vector', which had graphical errors, I had no problems running this on my system. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. MagBox issue #4 (1993, ECS Filemag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Personal Problems" by Subject. MagBox issue #5 (ECS Filemag). info: This was the last issue released under the 'MagBox' name. The next issue was "Upstream #6". Reality has no Meaning (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Wreko, gfx: Motion, Wreko, music: Subject. 4th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Newstro (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). code: Bailey, gfx: Rattle/PMC, music: Dr. Fruid. Released at The Gathering 93. Sound Barrier (1993, .04, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Wreko, gfx: Chagall, Connor, music: Subject, Blue Fox. info: Propaganda #4 brougt the news that Subject, Blue Fox, Connor, Unique, Kata and Wreko were working on SB2, which was to be one of the first AGA musicdisks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that project was never released... Upstream issue #6 (1993, 30.07, ECS Filemag). code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: "Upstream#6" by Subject/Balance (ProRunner 1.0 format), editors: Wolfman, Cesium.
Information: UPS6 was the first release after the merger of Upstream and MagBox; it adopted the Upstream name and the MagBox code and release number :) Released at Rendezvous 93 and at Assembly 93. Meetro '93 (1993, 30.07, ECS File). code: Cola, gfx: Chagall, music: Travolta/Spaceballs. Released at Rendezvous 93 and Assembly 93. Gale Intro (1993, 30.07, AGA Intro). code/gfx: Wreko, music: "Sulphuric Ash" by Nutcase. Released at Galemands Gilde. review: Why this requires AGA is totally beyond me, but there you go. The only remotely interesting bit is the afterburned large dot routine, which was slightly original if nothing else. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Zoom Parallax Demo (1993, 07.08, ECS Multifile). code: Panoramix, gfx: Tetsuo, Spiri, music: n/a. Released at Assembly 93. Smalltalk (1993, 20.10, AGA 22k Intro). code/gfx: Scope, music: "22k" by Subject. Released at the Melon Birthday Party. Upstream #7 (1993, 30.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (main), Chagall (title), Scope (fonts, back), music: "Foundations" by Subject, editors: Cesium, Wolfman. review: Another good issue of Upstream surfaces. Contentwise, this is perhaps not their strongest issue, but I believe that is a mirror of the demo situation at that time; before the big AGA demos started appearing. The scene was at a crossroads, people were busy experimenting with AGA and consequently weren't releasing demos. Visually, this issue is OK, if not their best. Subject's music sounds like he's trying to do a Lizardking cover...which is a little ironic, given that the next issue came with a Lizardking soundtrack :) Not a bad issue, but then - Upstream rarely is! The original disk also contained the 22k intro "Smalltalk" [10/93]. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. The Party 3 Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Coca, gfx: Chagall, Coca, Cola, music: Terminal Silence. review: Another not-bad intro from the Norwegian section. There's no 'wow' routines here, but overall a nice intro. Chagall's 'no smoking' picture is cute... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Cutting Edge (1993, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Scope, gfx: Unique, music: Subject. 9th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
H.A.S.H. (1993, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Wreko, gfx: Connor, music: Slide/Parasite. 13th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Not bad at all, with some fairly tasty dot routines. It's not exactly 'Desert Dream' in the dot respect, but not bad at all. Surprisingly much grapics. I once tried running this on my 1mb A500, but didn't have enough memory even when depacking the file first. I can't positively say it's an AGA production, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. MrsKingTro (1994, Intro). code: Mr.King, gfx: n/a, music: Subject. Review: This intro is FAKE. This was revealed in Upstream #10, neither Mr. King nor Subject had anything to do with it. Upstream issue #8 (1994, 02.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Kata, gfx: Connor, music: "Juggernaut Jam" by Subject. MAG - code: Scope, gfx: Connor (panel), Scope (fonts, background), Fairfax/Andromeda (intropic), music: "Water Below" by Lizardking/ Razor 1911, editors: Wolfman, Cesium, Mount/Polka Brothers. Released at The Gathering 94. review: Upstream delivers quality with this issue, with some very nice and interesting articles - like the Chromag interview. There's nothing wrong with the audio-visuals in the mag either; the backgrounds and the panel both have nice layouts. This was the first issue with a third 'main' editor, Mount. You won't notice much of a difference, though. The option to save an article to disk is nice. The only reason this qualifies as a multifile mag is the fact that the module is a separate file. Not much more to say about this, except it's one of the best ever mags. One slight sniggle, though - a BIG BUG! When attempting to load a new module, the mag crashes the moment I press the mouse button! The intro is a rather bland affair, to be honest. It resembles those old trailer intros Brainstorm used to release for Zine, without any of the excellence of those. On the A500, the intro seemed somewhat unstable when setpatch wasn't run first. The tune 'Water Below' by Lizardking was later used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II" [01/95]. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Orgasmatron (1994, 02.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Coca, gfx: Buzz Fuzz, Kefir, Coca, music: Kefir. 12th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. Upstream issue #9 (1994, Diskmag). INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "D0dstekkno" by Subject. MAG - code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: Nutcase. Syndrome (1994, 28.12, AGA File).
code: Scope, Kata (additional), gfx: R.W.O, Unique, music: "Culture Shock" by Subject. 14th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: I'm actually a little surprised that this didn't do better than 14th at The Party, though ofcourse there were a lot of good releases that year. This one has very fast, mostly vector, routines timed to the usual techno music. Some interesting stuff here, a.o. what was probably the first HAM8 plasma. Did anyone do that earlier? The fire effect is ugly and blocky, though. THAT effect has been substantially improved with time! R.W.O's picture "Zailorpower" also participated in the graphics competition at The Party, and finished on a split 39th place. On my 030 machine, the road part fucks up graphically. I do not know what causes this, really... Perhaps the routine is timed for a standard 14mhz 020 in some way...who knows? The demo works fine on a standard A1200, no fast needed. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. note: See review. Plantarium (1994, 28.12, Wild). 6th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. info: Presented on an A4000. Upstream issue #10 (1995, v.early, ECS/AGA File Diskmag). code: Scope, gfx: Connor (panel), R.W.O (intropic), Scope (fonts, backgrounds), music: "Off Piste.bf" by Blue Fox. review: One of the greatest diskmags of the time, Upstream has both interesting articles and top presentation. You can't go wrong with this. The reason for the ECS/AGA at the top needs a little explanation; the intropicture by R.W.O is in 256 colors, and if you're running on an ECS machine, you'll just get an explanatory text, like: "No aga - no pic!". The mag itself runs fine on most configurations. Needs req.library to load modules or save articles. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Embryo (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, music: Atheist & Deelite. 8th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: An acceptable production from the Swedish division of Balance. Nothing outstanding, just nice. The music is frantic demo-techno, and not the worst of its kind. The demo includes two fullscreen pictures by Grid, one of a screaming man's face with a twirl effect around it, and one that's reminiscent of Hajime's metal people art, though of a kitten. I did a search, and as far as I can see Grid did not enter any graphics competitions during 1995. This probably means this is the only place you'll ever see these :) One thing I noticed about the effects is that Confidence seems to use a rather unique method of 'smoothing' his effects, almost reminiscent of the raster effects used in comic books. Interesting... To conclude: Acceptable. Does not require fastmem, but takes advantage of it if it's there. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Freak (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB File). code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, Gorg, music: Smartass. 3rd in the Icing 96 demo competition. review: To the sound of a heavy, boombastic tune by Smartass we're given a demo without much soul. The effects are of highly variable quality, some are very impressive and others are not so hot. The big tunnel routine is nice, and sort of reminds me of the tunnel in TBL's "Captured Dreams" [03/97]. The morphing (env?) object is too blocky though, I think Confidence should have spent some more time on that. There's only one real piece of graphics here, a fullscreen picture of a woman's face not signed but presumably by Grid, since it resembles his style. The best effect here is a truly great one, though - an amazing light routine, where we're sort of looking into the light, and it changes a little. It's awfully smooth and nice, and lifts the demo as a whole a lot. I guess this is worth getting for that effect alone ;) I tried to run this with only 4MB fast and my Kickstart mapped to RAM (eating 512k in the process), and found I didn't have enough memory. So if you're gonna run this on a 4MB machine, be sure you're not remapping your kickstart, oki? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Endolymfa (1996, 28.12, AGA File). code: Confidence, gfx: Gorg, music: Smartass. 3rd in The Party 6 demo competition. review: The best part of ENDOLYMFA is the opening, which with it's fast texture mapped and animated surfaces create a nice mood...which unfortunately it fails to sustain through the rest of the demo. It's a rather short demo too, which doesn't help matters that much. The effects consists mainly of the usual env and phong objects, with an overweight on toruses. The music's nothing special. A little disappointing. In my eyes, Syndrome's "Subzero" (6th) is a much better demo than this. Ofcourse, results are not up to me, but to the voters at The Party :) Seeing as the (unpacked) file is over 2MB in size, this will obviously need a little more memory than the 2MBs of chipmem in AGA Amigas. I do not know exactly how much, though, since the distribution doesn't have any text describing requirements. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Ballcrackers, The (TBC) ----------------------SWE> Axodry, Headhunter, Maxwell, Mr.Bond, No.1, Outsider, Smasher, Techno, Vonix.
Nick23 joined D-Mob. Transmutations (ECS Musicdisk). Bamiga Sector One (BS1, 1986-1990) ---------------------------------BEL> Cbx (89), Ermida (mainorg supply, 86-89), Lion (89), Lord Blitter (code crack, 11/88-89), Skylight (crack, 11/88-89), The Bandit (89), The Belgium Waffels (code, 89), The Hobbit (89), The Red Baron (89). HOL> Switch (code crack train pack, 89). DEN> The Free Traders (code crack music, 89). ENG> The Demon (music, 89), Toxic (spread, 89). CAN> Double Density (trade, 89). USA> The Agnostic (sysop 'INFERNAL REGIONS' WHQ, 89), Viral Empath (crack, 11/88). ???> Chatterbox (crack, 11/88), Necromancer (swap, 11/88), Outbound (new 12/88), Syncro (crack), The Visitor (swap, 11/88). Bamiga Sector One was formed in Belgium in june of 1986 by Ermida and two others. Their members later found their way into such groups as Kefrens (S.L.L). They were also in several cooperations, with a.o. Cybertech. Necromancer and The Visitor are father and son. 1988 - An interview with Ermida in Crack Journal #10 [11/88] revealed how they were having problems getting crackers, seeing as Lord Blitter was working for a large software company, Chatterbox went to the university, Skylight is very busy at the moment with other things, The Big Fat Lamer is abroad and won't be back until next year, and finally Viral Empath is now busy writing protections (!) for a large software firm ;) Outbound joined in december. 1990 - Danish musician S.L.L (ex Red Sector) left for Kefrens early february. The group was declared dead early 1990. Scroll Surprise (ECS File). Banal Projects (1992-) ---------------------FIN> Andy (Antti Kujanpaa, music, 12/94-08/95), Boogieman (founder, 92), Boris (founder gfx, 08/92-93), Epidemic (code, ex Complex, 9308/95), Karbunkle (founder, 92), Lopez (new 10/93), PMB (founder code, aka Paul McBody, 92), Prayer (founder gfx swap, 93-08/95), Suhu (Juha Sohlman, swap, ex Leader Productiond, new late 93-95), Ukulele (founder music, 93-08/95). Banal Projects were born in late 1992 (existed .08), and is an entirely Finnish demo group - with a sense of humour ;)
Dutch musician Mark/Rebels joined, but left for CNCD right away 08/93. Charles 2000 (Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Dean (The Player 6.1A format). Rodeo (1993, mid?, ECS File). code: PMB, gfx: Prayer, Boris, music: Ukulele. NIVEL.exe (1993, late?, ECS Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele (2x The Player 5.0A format). review: This cool little intro opens with a good picture by Prayer, set to the opening bars of Ukulele's frantic and weird tune - VERY hard to classify! Then we're shown an amiga rules-like effect, only divided... hard to explain really! At the top of the screen there's a B.P. logo. Then there's the endpart, with a small mummi-troll (Norwegians and Swedes will know these) in the left corner, and a fractal-triangle-zoomer. Pressing and holding the right mouse button makes it turn the other way, by the way :) In addition, there's a good an unusual text writer. Not bad at all, this! When you exit, you get a few bars of another module, which is kind of...nice. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mama (1995, Musicdisk). info: Seven pieces of ethnic inspired music by Ukulele. Seasick (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele (The Player 6.1A format). 4th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. review: Yeah! This is more like it! Short, but good. I can't really find anything to put my finger on here, except perhaps the weird tune...but it's by Ukulele, so what can you expect? The main effect consists of bitmap manipulations done to a picture of Mickey Mouse seen from behind, surfing. Coolness. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Bold (1996, 18.08, AGA File). Director; Epik Forrester. 10th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: This is almost embarassing. This is only a selection of pictures of celebrities, with the text The Banal and the Projects overlaid at regular intervals. In the background you hear the theme music of...that's right, The Bold and the Beautiful. Not wonder it finished almost last. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Banana Dezign (BDZ) ------------------NOR> Bob (aka Jack Frost), Brainbug (music, 11/93-04/94), Decoy (Stian Olsen, sysop 'SILVERHAWK', 02/94-97), IT (sysop 'HOME ALONE' WHQ, doublememb Cryptoburners, 04/94), Jelace (music, ex Destiny), Necro (code, ex Talent, 11/93-04/94), Optic (ex Shamrock, 04/94), Pensplit (gfx, ex Talent), Teo (11/93), Znit (Espen Skog, trade swap). CRO> Diablo (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Dr.J (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Elf (Code, ex Polaris, new 02/94-04/94), Metal (ex Polaris, new 02/94), Satan (ex Polaris, new 02/94), The Ripper (ex Polaris, new 02/94). ???> Leviathan, Mad Guru. Boards; TWILIGHT (nor, 93). Croatians Alpha (music, ex Polaris, new 02/94) and Blue Deville (gfx, ex Polaris, new 02/94) left with Finnish musician Kristian (old handle Saracen, ex Destiny) to join Talent late 95. Curiously enough, the news where I found this used his old handle 'Saracen'...did he change back? Anyway, the Talent memberlist reflects the Saracen handle. Norwegian sysop Hellfreak ('WARZONE', 93) got kicked. Norwegian coder and sysop Mr.Z (ex Talent) joined Scoopex. Norwegian sysop Micro-Pal ('THE WHITE HOUSE', ex Alcatraz, 93) left. Norwegian swapper Messiah (ex Equinox, Balance doublememb, 02/94) joined Spaceballs. Graphician Marlboro got kicked. Croatian swapper Rod (Svitlica Stanjoe, ex Polaris, new 02/94) left the scene. Banana Dezign was formed by It/ex Cryptoburners and Micro-Pal/ex Alcatraz. There is some mysticism connected with Brainbug's membership. He was in Alcatraz back in 1992, and contributed a tune to the music competition at TG'94 under the handle Brainbug/ALCATRAZ. However, he contributed music, seemingly as a full member, to two BDZ productions between 11/93 and 03/94. Was he a doublemember, perhaps? Melbu (1993, 31.11, AGA Intro). code: Necro, Bob (debug), gfx: Marlboro (logo), Necro (fonts), music: Brainbug (The Player 5.0A format). Made at the Combase'93 party, but released later. review: Not the most serious of people, these guys, are they? Another minimal production this, with some very yellow scanned pictures of the participants and filled vector bananas. The best thing about this small prod, tho', is Marlboro's logo. Very cool! The music is a heavy metal riff thing, not Brainbug's best by far. This was probably a lot more fun to make than it is to watch. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Bowel Movements (1994, 08.02, AGA Intro).
code: Necro, gfx: Blue Deville, music: Brainbug (The Player 5.0A format). review: Not much to see here, just a text writer over some red/orange graphics mapped on a sphere, flying around. The humourous text is rather fun though. 'Because we care.' You can run the intro without AGA installed, in which case you'll get a requester saying that the demo requires AGA to run and you get to hear the soundtrack. $VER: Bowel Movements 1.0 (08 Feb 1994) by Necro\Banana Dezign [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Så Ung Og Helt Uten Hår... (aka Wonko) (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Necro, Elf, gfx: Optic, music: "Shinin' Ol' Boots" by Brainbug (TrackerPacker 3 format). 8th place in The Gathering'94 demo competition. review: Easily the best of the three BDZ demos I have... The design on this is a lot more 'together' than in the others. Nothing much to say, except that the tune is rather fun :) They've certainly kept their sense of humour... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Band, The --------BEL> Flame Snake, Infernal Duo (DMA and Thief), Sir 004 (03/89). NOR> Hellraiser, Skyhawk, TFL, Vampire. The Band was one of the first cracking crews, probably based in Belgium. 1989 - Skippy and Woody left for The Silents in november. Basement (1995-) ---------------SWE> Reverend D (founder sysop 'TRESPASS'), TBM (founder code, later TBL?). Basement was formed by TBM, Phase and Reverend D from Freezers in late 95. However, Phase soon left for Insane, where he was kicked within a week. B.A.S.F. (1994-) ---------------GER> Lightforce (Swap, ex X-Trade). NOR> Base, Odie. ???> Link (ex scoopex), Parallax (ex Scoopex). BASF was formed by ex-members of Scoopex Germany. Sysop Iceberg got busted jsut two days after he joined BASF! German graphician Navy left Vanish to join, but soon moved on to TRSI.
Bass [old] ---------Meta joined Rebels. Bass [new] (1993-) -----------------FRA> Meta (founder, ex Rebels), Patrick (founder, ex Rebels). Bass was reformed 93, after Meta and Patrick left Rebels. Bass Crew --------Hardcore Trax 1 (1994 or pre, Music). Basstech -------???> Bareface (sysop, new 09/92), Extaxy (new 09/92). Cedric joined Legend. Boozo, sysop 'INTROSPECTIVE' joined Noxious, but soon went on to Submission. Bastards -------DEN> Bitman (gfx, 91), Gizmo (ex Cult, new mid92), Michael Carlson (sysop 'MADE IN DENMARK'), Surrounder (gfx, old handle Bitman), TMT, Tuborg (Janus Lindahl, swap, ex Light), Wild Child (Peter Walsted, swap). SWE> Mr.Foley (ex Energy). ???> Melf (music, 92), PMA (gfx, 92), The Judge (code, 92), Xerox. Most members left to form a new subgroup for Crack Inc. 09/92. Cyber Sounds (1991, ECS Musicdisk). New Stuff (1991, early, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: Bitman, music: n/a. Techno Trance III (1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: The Judge, gfx: PMA, music: Melf. GLE tested A1200/020/2mb chip/3.0. -- info: Crashes after showing titlepicture. Caches off has no effect. Beastie Boys [old] (BB) ----------------------The Syndicate: ???> Art Force (gfx, new 02/89), Dingo von Springberg (code, new 02/89), Dri (swap, 02/89), Futurelight (gfx, 02/89), Kevin (swap, 02/89), Marco
(swap, 02/89), Mel (code, 12/88-02/89), Myk (swap, 02/89), No.1 (music, new 02/89), Rene (swap, 02/89), SkyDancer (music, 12/88-02/89), Tibor (swap, 02/89). BB was a group that came to the amiga from the c64 scene, and was pretty big in the German scene for a while in the late 80's. Their most active members were all in the subgroup The Syndicate of the Beastie Boys. 1988 - December saw the release of their classic "Megademo" [12/88]. 1989 - The Syndicate/BB released a packdisk from the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons party [02/89]. At this party the group also released a new intro which announced Dingo, No.1 and Art Force as new members, and said bye bye to Alex and Rush. Mel had also planned a demo for this competition, but could not complete it in time. Norwegian graphician Fairfax joined Pure Metal Coders. Megademo (1988, 17.12, ECS Disk). code: Mel, gfx: n/a, Music: "Lars" by SLL/Bamiga Sector One, "Part IV music" by TFC, "Wondertec" (first), "Skydancer" and "Opus Dei" (end) by SkyDancer. info: A truly classic megademo, with some great pieces of music! Sound System Demo (1989, 11.02, ECS Intro). code: Dingo, gfx: The Dark Lord (logo), n/a (picture), music: "Android" by Skydancer. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons copy party. review: Another oldskool onescreen intro, this one is at least a LITTLE original. The top of the screen feature a Beastie Boys logo moving from side to side... This is done in classic demologo style, but is still not the worst example of its kind... in shades of grey and gold. The bottom of the screen is occupied by a bouncing scroller (like a DYCP on the c64!). The middle of the screen is the most interesting part, though - it features a very nicely drawn picture of a pair of earphones, over which a circle is laid. This circle has equalizers spinning around it... it's kind of hard to describe, but looks real cool! For an example of an oldskool intro, you could go far worse than this. The name of the intro does not appear anywhere inside, but was taken from the results. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA. Beastie Boys [new] (BB) -----------------------
GER> Bandog (code, 90). Beastie Boys were reformed by some of the old members, and the entire group Irongods. Beatless (BTL, -1995) --------------------SWE> Tevie (swap, late95). Beatless was a swedish demo group. 1995 - Late 95, swedes Note (swap), Iz, Leprechaun (swap), McPudel and Fugazi left for Giants, and Braindead left for Insane. The group was therefore declared dead. Summer (ECS Intro). code: Megabyte, gfx: Jamsam, Limpa, McPudel, music: Jamsam. Beermacht. ---------GER> Alfred (sysop 'BEERKRUG' WHQ, 09/91). Beta Team (BT) -------------???> Roberts (music, 05/94). Roberts made a module for Mystic's demo "Vital" [94], and that's all the information I have on him... Polish coders CBM80 and Larsen joined Mystic. Beton Design -----------???> Human (music), Kain (gfx), Muad'dib (raytrace), Norweg (music), Yoe (music). 1996 - Chrom and Skizo left the group, and Wolf and Dr.Pacient left the scene 04/96. Green. joined Anadune 06/96. Goldfinger (1995, 30.08, Demo). 8th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. Betrayal -------???> SCSI, Xag (code). Betrayal's 'claim to fame' are a few utilities by Xag, the most notable probably being the 'JamCracker+' music composition program.
Talisman left the scene. Einstein joined Punishers. Betrayed -------SWE> Polarbeer (sysop 'INFINITE LINK', 01/95). Beyond (-1992) -------------???> Art of Noise (music, ex Acume, old handle Moonwalker). The best members of Beyond and Arise decided in late 1992 to join together to form Abyss. These members were at least: Sodom (code, ex Amaze, new pre 07/92), Duke, SMC, Skindiver, Toxic (music), Neurodancer and Artline (both ex Agnostic Front). German superswapper Mr.King joined Analog. Tool Intro (ECS Intro). code: Sodom, gfx: Toxic, music: Art of Noise. Night Dreams (1992, 26.07, ECS File). code/music: SMC, gfx: Toxic, Flo. Beyond Force (BF) ----------------FIN> Boss (code gfx, 12/89-08/93), GMN (Olli Auvinen, code, aka Gremlin, 08/93), Hazor (Tommi Lahtonen, code gfx, 90-08/93), Shumway (gfx, 90-91). ???> Alistair (gfx, 90), Andy (gfx, 89), Drucer (code, 06/88), Elysion (gfx music, 08/93), Jogi (music, 12/89-90), Keith (music, 89), Mr.Sam (gfx, 91), Nimrod (gfx, 90), Sage (code, 90), Stranger (code, 91), Zag (code, 89), Zardax (music, 08/93). Beyond Force were originally a finnish c64 group, and when the amiga section was born, several members coexisted on the two platforms, f.ex. Hazor and GMN. Demo (1988, 14.06, ECS File). code: Drucer, gfx: n/a, music: Jason/TDT. Cooperation with Deathstar. Multiplexor (1989, ECS File). code: Zag, gfx: Andy, music: Keith. Second Demo (1989, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Osterman/Scoopex.
Wild Beast (1989, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Party Demo (1989, 29.12, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Released at the X-Mas Party 89. Sine Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Flexible Logo (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Jumbosinus (1990, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Splitter v2.0 (1990, ECS File?). code/gfx: Boss, music: Jochen Hippel/independent. Colorpulator (1990, ECS File). code/gfx: Boss, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Jumbosinus v2 (1990, ECS File?). code: Boss, gfx: Nimrod (font), music: Jogi. Twisted Wriggler (1990, ECS File?). code: Boss, gfx: Alistair, Nimrod, music: Maniacs of Noise/independent. Still Hating (1990, ECS File?) code: Sage, gfx: n/a, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Mysterious Mixture (1990, late, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Shumway (logo), Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise c64 (font), music: "Death-Star" by Fleshbrain/Crusaders (ProTracker MOD format). review: Now, this is what makes wading through endless amounts of old demos and intros seem halfway worth my time. Every now and then you come across a small jewel, and this is just such an instant. Much thanks to two elements - the music and the plasma-like effect that I really don't know what to call :) - a little magic is created here. It's one of those rare little productions that create a little atmosphere... But stop reading what I'm wabbling on about, and GO GET THIS - hmm, that music is just an amazingly wondrous piece... After pressing left mousebutton to exit, you are shown a picture with Hazor's address for swapping, before the intro exits for real. It needs KillAGA to work, but still destabilizes my system after exiting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
First Try (1991, ECS File). code: Stranger, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Expres (1991, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Dean/Complex. Oh No! (1991, ECS File). code: Boss, gfx: Boss, Shumway, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders. Assembly Intro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Boss, gfx: Hazor, music: Old Fart/Silents. info: Possibly released for the Assembly party in august, but results that year were restricted to the three top placers, so no record exist of the other entries. 5 Years Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: GMN, gfx: Elysion, GMN (fonts), music: Elysion. 12th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. review: I quite like this intro, which was made in celebration of BF's five years in the scene on C64 and Amiga. There's a few OK things here, and you notice attention has been put into making it polished. Effort pays off in Scenery: Nice one. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama ECS (1993, 10.08, ECS Slideshow). code: Boss, Hazor, gfx: n/a, music: Zardax, Galaxy/Elysion. info: There are two versions of this; one for ECS machines and one for AGA equipped ones. The sections have been kept separate here, since they do not share exact credits or, presumably, appearance. The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama AGA (1993, 10.08, AGA 2MB Slideshow). code: TNT, Hazor, gfx: Galaxy/Elysion (font), music: Dens Design. info: See review above. Beyond 2000 (B2000) ------------------NOR> Disk Fixer (music swap), Dr.Cruel (music), Goldfax, Hawk 1989, Megatron, Mr.Fox, Punisher, Raistlin, Tronixx (music). Spytrax left. Seaside Boy joined Theatre. Intro (1990, 27.01, ECS Intro). Disk of Music (1990, 06.06, ECS Musicdisk). Bice Twice
---------Sverige (1996, 05.04, Demo). 5th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Binary Boys ----------Halucinations (1991, 16.12, ECS File). code: Byte, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Biohazard --------Solarized (1996, 13.04, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition. Bionic -----Zeb's 3rd Division (1990, ECS Musicdisk). info: 6 songs from Zeb, presented in a dos-menu manner. Biosynthetic Design (BSD) ------------------------ITA> Metal Designer (Antonello Mincone, code, later Scoopex, late95), Mr.Yo (sysop 'TRACKLAND' WHQ, late95). ???> Dixie Flatline (gfx, late95), Fra (gfx music, late95), Lry (gfx sysop 'CYBERTRASH', late95), Sirio (sysop, late95), Stun (c-code gfx music, late95). BSD was probably an all-Italian, demooriented group. After Italian musician, graphician and main organizer Parsec (early-09/96) left for Elven 11, the group died. Italian coder Hedgehog surprisingly left for Balance. Tenebra (Demo). Biotech ------AUS> Lex Luthor, Radiance. Biotech is dead. Agro joined Mystix. Birdhouse Project ----------------More Members Intro (1994, 09.10, Demo).
Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 party demo competition. Megademo! (1997, 30.03, Demo). 8th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Bit Arts -------GER> The Fog (swap, ex Sanity, new mid91). Bitstoppers [old] (BTS) ----------------------The original Bitstoppers were a classic cracking group. Bitstoppers [new] (BTS, -1992) -----------------------------GER> Bob Duncan (sysop 'HILTON PALACE', 10/91), Oli (sysop 'INTEC SYSTEMS', 10/91), Sargor (sysop 'TOTAL KAOS', early92), Speed (Patrick, trade, early92). USA> Leviathon (sysop 'TERMINAL FROST'), New Jack (sysop 'NEW JACK CITY'). Bitstoppers were a cracking crew started shortly after the death of Infinite Perfection. They died in the middle of 1992. Swedes The Master (sysop 'SKY HIGH') and Mercy joined Fusion early 92. In Fusion, the boardname was PRESSURE POINT, 'tho...don't know when he changed it! Germans Rudi (ex Skid Row) and Selim left for Crack Inc., all other members left for Fusion. Bitstoppers is therefore dead! (06/92) Norwegian swapper Jaffa (ex Infinite Perfection) sold his Amiga and left the scene. Bizarre Arts (BZR) -----------------GER> Antibrain (org gfx music, 12/94-07/96), Axis (code, 07/96), Azure (org code, doublememb Artwork [details] late95, 12/94-07/96), Coming Art (code music, 11/95), cr8y (gfx, new 06/96), Daim (ascii trade, new 06/96), Deetz (code, new late95), Doomsday (Boris Badasch, swap, late95), Eagle (raytrace), Halfbyte (music, doublememb Pandemonium, new 06/96), Krusty (trade sysop, new 06/96), Oson (music, new 06/96), Tracer (code, new 06/96). ???> JMS (gfx, 12/94). Boards; FICTION FACTORY (late96).
Bizarre Arts is a purely German demo group, with ome pretty wellknown talent being doublemembers from other groups. 1995 - Late in the year, Dreamkiller (music swap) and Suicide (code) both decided to leave the scene. Sid and Dano, and the board 'DISABLE' were kicked, and finally german swapper and ascii artist Rave left the scene. 1997 - Azure, Antibrain and Fiver had a sequel to "Television" [02/96] planned for The Party 97, but ultimately they did not release it. Pyrox (1994, 28.12, 40k AGA Intro). code: Azure, gfx: JMS, music: Antibrain (ProMizer 2.0 format). 9th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Who would have known Azure would rise to such heights? After viewing this effort, you could easily have been forgiven for thinking he'd end up like all the other uninspired coders. What you get here is ONE routine, 'the world's first' Ham8-plasma, as they claim. I have no idea whether that holds true or not, but I do know that even back in 1994 full-screen plasma routines were hopelessly old. I find nothing here to recommend this, other than the later fame of some of its creators. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dice (1995, 21.05, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain. Winner of the Nexus 95 40k intro competition! review: Dice is a very, very cool little 40k'er! It opens with some cool fullscreen plasma, then goes on to show us a few objects of what can best be described as 'plasmamapped vectors'. It looks a little like very colorful gouraud, if that helps any... Then it moves on to texturemapping a cool picture by Fiver onto a cube (and later a torus). The cube starts spinning around, and so does the graphics on the cube! What can I say? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Zimbabwe (1995, .11, AGA File). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, Antibrain, Coming Art, music: Antibrain. Released at the Voyage 95 party. review: Oh, this was fun! Of course, the tune is what MAKES this demo. It's a groovy techno thing, with some melodies that just kind of eats themselves into your head and refuses to go away... The effects here are timed to the music IN EXTREMIS, the effects sometimes changing to every single beat of the music... The drawback here is that the effects are repeated a little too often. Had it not been for that, this would have been very close to a perfect production! The effects on display are not too numerous, but a full-screen rotzoomer and a gouraud-donut are perhaps
the best ones. "I *PARTICULARLY* enjoyed that...Let's see what's next." In june 1997, Azure released version 1.4, which fixes some problems on 040/060 machines, and fixes the classic The Player 6.1A bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Both original and 1.4 version tested. Television (1996, .02, AGA 4MB File). code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain. 2nd at Convention 96 demo competition. review: Not nearly as good as "Zimbabwe", this production is still very much Bizarre. It's - as they say - an experimental attempt to combine videoanimations with demo effects. In my eyes, they do not entirely succeed on their experiment, mainly due to two reasons: 1) It's too long. Halving the size, using some of the better video (like the cornflakes), and throwing out some of the less interesting stuff would make this a lot more desireable. And 2), the effects do not blend together in the way that I suppose Bizarre wanted. It's two very different aspects, and there is no actual successful merging. Requires an accelerator. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Fresh! (1996, 13.07, AGA 40k Intro). code: Azure, Axis, gfx: Fiver2/Artwork, Sire (object), music: Antibrain (The Player 6.1A forma). Winner of The Summer Party 1996 40k intro competition! review: Now, here's a very good intro! Lots of bump mapping here, and some seriously FAAAAAAASt env and phong objects make this a very enjoyable ride indeed! No wonder really, this is actually just the code to Azure's "Phi" [07/96] (released for Artwork one week earlier) with the added value of Axis' cool water ripple routine (later used in his "SILIConvention 97 Invitation" for Arsenic). But hey, that doesn't matter, since this is STILL a very cool intro ;) Azure released a fixed version 1.1 in february 1998, which should work fine with 040/060 machines, and had that good old The Player 6.1A bug fixed. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Blackbirds ---------Viking left to form Byte Busters Norway in the middle of 1991. Black Division -------------Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces under a new name in the beginning of 1989.
Black Jack (-1995) -----------------FIN> Grand Master B (music), Janitor (Janne Peltola, swap), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap pack, later Eltech, 93). DEN> Domain (swap pack). ???> G-Sus (gfx music AMOS). Black Jack was a 1995 - Late in best members formed a AddBox will from now on demo group based in Finland. the year, Raivo left for Ambrosia and the rest of the new group called 'Innocence'. The group then died. be an Innocence release.
Finnish sysops Akiro and Dr.Poop ('NAUSEA') joined Scoopex. Black Lotus, The (TBL, 1989-, http://www.tbl.org) ------------------------------------------------SWE> Azazel (Magnus Alakangas, music, ex DCS, new late95-03/97), Dig-It (Patrque Haggblad, code, 08/96-12/99), Exon (code, 08/94), Gizmo (code, 04/96), Im-Pose (gfx), Kalms (Mikael Kalms, code, ex Artwork, old handle Scout, 98-04/01), Ken (code), Louie (Kenny Magnusson, gfx, ex Insane, doublememb CNCD, 04/96-04/01), Rodney (gfx, ex Axis, new late95, 12/95-03/97), Rubberduck (Johan Dohl, founder code, 8904/01), TBM (code), Tudor (Henrik Andersson, gfx raytrace modeller, old handle Snorpax Tudor, 08/94-04/01). HOL> Danny (Danny Geurtsen, gfx, doublememb Nah-Kolor, 04/96-03/97), Facet (Martijn van Meel, gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 0406/96), I-GO (Thies Edeling, orgamiga code html edit 'R.A.W'), Lowlife (Angelo Bod, gfx, ex Axis), SuperNao (Michiel Krop, music, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 05/96), Tim (code, ex Spaceballs). NOR> Magnar (Magnar Harestad, music sysop 'NOISELESS', ex Spaceballs, old handle Lizard, 06/96). PREVIOUS MEMBERS SWE> Cypher (gfx, 02/96), Dickhead (founder code), Fishbone (gfx), Hitman (sysop 'BLACKBOARD', 08/94), Hokke (code, 94), Igloo (gfx, 02/96). NOR> Jeek Elemental (code). ???> Axm (gfx, 95), Eddieboy (music, 94), Hook (code), Kajiu (music), Overload (ascii trade sysop, 04-06/96), Sag (code music), Shark (sysop), Skyhigh (code), Vfcon, Wolf (music, 08/94). The Black Lotus was formed in sweden in 1989, when Atari coder Dickhead and
his companion Rubberduck decided to build their own group on the Amiga. Who could have known, back then, that TBL would once rule the Amiga demo scene? From their very humble beginnings they've managed to build a group of truly epic proportions. After their breakthrough production "Tint" [04/96] at The Gathering 96, they went on to rule the amiga demo scene for a number years - and even still come back to release the odd production today. They were the first group to win at The Gathering two years in a row; Spaceballs have since taken over their record. Find video versions of their recent demos at: ftp://mirror.support.nl/pub/tbl/download/movies/ Most members of TBL are today employed in the games industry. Dutch members Danny, Tim and Lowlife work at Eidos Interactive ( http://www.edios.co.uk), in the UK; Kalms, Offa, Eq, Rubberduck och Louie all work at Digital Illusions Computer Entertainment (http://www.dice.se) in Sweden. Rodney also works/worked on games. Thanks to Kalms for some information and corrections. 1995 - The demo "Cybernetic" [04/95] reached the 3rd position in The Gathering demo competition, and was probably the group's biggest success thus far. The intro "Mind The Carrot" [06/95] was the group's sole release at Icing this year, reaching a disapointing 9th position in the competition. At Assembly in august came the release of the demo "Misery" [08/95] finishing 12th in the competition. The steady flow of releases would continue out the year, with the demos "Que?" [10/95] - 2nd at Remedy and "Mindprobe" [12/95] - 15th at The Party. 1996 - This was the year of TBL's big breakthrough. The year started gently with the release of the demo "Spectral" [02/96] at the small swedish party Creutz in february. It was at The Gathering in april their name would be known, though. Through the release of the two 4k intros "Gizmo" [04/96] and "EQ-4k" [04/96] - 1st and 2nd in the competition - and the landmark demo "Tint" [04/96] they made sure they would be a name to remember. Needless to say, "Tint" was the clear winner of the demo competition. They did not rest however, and already the next month they released the intro "Mind The Carrot 2" [05/96] (1st) and the demo "Glow" [05/96] (2nd) at the Icing party in sweden. As if this was not enough, june brought the Remedy party to sweden, and once again TBL were triumphant in both intro and demo categories, with "Tractorbeam" [06/96] and "Darkside" [06/96] respectively. Their final
release of the year was the demo "Goa" [08/96] at Assembly, which finished 3rd in the competition. Apart from the jokey "The Money Tribe" [09/96], it would be until late march next year that they released anything. 1997 - "Captured Dreams" [03/97] is the name of one of the best amiga demos ever released, and a true landmark in the amiga demo scene. With it, TBL became the first ever group to win twice at The Gathering. Sadly, the truly great demo would be their only release on the amiga this year. Swedish coder Noy (02/96-) left this year to help form the new group Dole. Swedish coders Offa (Mattias Gruvman, 08/94-03/97) and Equalizer (Daniel Hansen, 08/94-03/97) both left the Amiga scene for professional game programming careers. For the sake of order, they have been removed from the member roster. 1998 - The Gathering, an event where they had been successful in the past, became the venue of their 'comeback' of sorts, with the winning intro "Imitation None" [04/98]. This would become another year with only a single amiga release from the group. 1999 - Nothing was heard until december, and The Party. There, TBL shocked the scene with the release of their new demo "Rain" [12/99], a full two and a half years after their last full demo. The demo finished only third in the competition, but was a sign that TBL was still a force to reckoned with. It was certainly one of the year's top demos. 2000 - In march, at the TRSAC party in denmark, TBL released another demo. "Senseless" [03/00] won the demo competition! 2001 - Another year, another demo - "Perfect Circle" [04/01] won the demo competition at the prestigious Mekka Symposium party! Purgatory (Disk). Total Brain Collapse - TBC (ECS File). code: Hook, RBD, Offa, gfx: Monza, music: "Shadow" by Wolf. review: Oooooh my god, boring! This is a horror example of how *NOT* to make a demo. It's got a few, ugly effects, a soundtrack that I won't even
mention and 'effects' like a hidden-line vector! Jeeeesus, filled vectors was the norm in fucking 1990, people! Unadvanced, unexciting, unworthy. Avoid! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Nugget (1993, 03.03, ECS Disk). code: Hokke, Ken, Hook, Dickhead, Rubberduck, Offa, gfx: Extreme, Watchman, Tango, music: Wolf. Twisted Minds (1994, AGA File). code: Rubberduck, Hokke, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, music: Eddieboy. Released at Dreamhack 94. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Phucker (1994, .08, ECS File). code: Offa, Exon, Equalizer, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Equalizer, music: Wolf. Winner of 'the Borlänge party'. review: Thorougly unexciting - as usual for the early TBL demos. The more of these I watch, the more astonished I am that these guys actually made "Glow" and "Captured Dreams" later! The version reviewed is the release version, the compo version had several bugs. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Cybernetic (1995, 14.04, Demo). 3rd in The Gathering 95 demo competition. Mind the Carrot (1995, 17.06, AGA 64k Intro). code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Axm, Snorpax Tudor, music: Rubberduck. 9th in the Icing 95 64k intro competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Misery (1995, 12.08, Demo). 12th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Que? (1995, 08.10, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Axm, music: Lizardking/Razor 1911 & Mantronix/Phenomena. 2nd in the Remedy 95 demo competition. review: This is actually rather good, much thanks to the two dynamic cooperation tunes from two old favorites. Very very OK. Will run on unexpanded A1200's, but fastmem and accelerators are useful. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mindprobe fixed (1995, 27.12, AGA ?MB HD Multifile, 3 disks). code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Rodney, Tudor, music: Azazel (main), Hollywood/Axis (The Player 6.1A format). 15th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: Another not-too-cool older TBL release. This one hints at what "Tint" will be, but does not quite make it. The whole demo is presented in that annoying 'every-other-pixel-is-black' mode, and if you ask me, that is a major drawback. It just doesn't look as good as solid effects!
The most innovative effect here is a little hard to describe, but I'll try. It's a magnified picture by Rodney in the background, and on top of that there's two vectorcubes, spinning and space-cutting each other. One is an RGB-vector, and the other is texturemapped with a small portion of the mentioned picture. As the picture is magnified, it's larger than the screen, and the whole thing moves as the vectorcubes travel around on it. Very very nice. The picture is "Climber" by Rodney, which came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Party. Too bad the rest of the demo is not equally exciting. Azazel's module was made in two hours, during The Party! This is also very likely his first released module for TBL; he was in DCS two months earlier. Though it'll work fine on an 020-14, at least an 030-28 with 2mb fast is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Spectral (1996, .02, AGA HD Multifile, 2 disks). code: Offa, Equalizer, Noy, Rubberduck, gfx: Cypher, Igloo, Tudor, music: Azazel. Released at Creutz #1 96. review: This is not half bad! Though it has some mysterious palette choices, and the design is sometimes...well, enough about that...this is one of TBL's better productions. There's the usual shading and stuff and the usual Azazel music :( Not much to say, really - an aboveaverage release from TBL. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Gizmo (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Gizmo. Winner of The Gathering 96 4k intro competition! review: Seems to disagree with my machine, once just showed the opening logo and froze on a black screen, another time it got as far as popping a nicely-coloured torus on the screen before freezing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. EQ-4k (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Equalizer. 2nd in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. review: This nice 4k'er opens with some red-on-black quasi-plasma stuff, which then turns into a tunnel of sorts. We travel into the tunnel, which has 'The Black Lotus' written on the walls, before coming to the coolest effect in the intro, a 'sea' of sorts of gradient blue-on-black. Then the tunnel routine is repeated with the same blue-on-black palette and it's over. Be advised that the version reviewed is v1.1, and the file-id.diz file claims it's 'fixed', without specifying further. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Tint (1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Facet, Louie, Rodney, Tudor (objects), music: "Khan-Be-Phonk", "Definitive Era" and "Fractured" by Azazel. Winner of The Gathering 96 demo competition! review: A little slow to get started this, but when the second piece of music kicks in, it takes off in a big way. Ah yes, the music. I can't help thinking that with some other musician, this could have been a well and truly GREAT production. As it stands, the first tune stinks bigtime, and the second ranges from lousy to great in what is a truly bizarre mixture. It seems Azazel can't decide between techno and more traditional demo music, and as a result he tries to mix the two with varied results. The code here smells more of good ideas than truly advanced routines, but is overall quite acceptable. So to sum up: The first part sucks, the rest is quite good. Worth noting is that the compopictures from the artists above are all included. Danny's '18bit truecolor' picture seems to be an elaboration on Lemon.thoughts, which won a clipart competition in EuroChart (I think) some time ago. An OK production with GREAT graphics. Recommended 030-28 or above. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Mind The Carrot 2 (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). code: Offa, gfx: Louie, SuperNao (hand object), music: SuperNao. Winner of the Icing 96 64k intro competition! review: This is one of the nicer intros I've seen! It all opens with a cool logo-picture by Louie, which is followed by several objects and effects, the first of which is a shaded carrot! Placed in demo/aga on AmiNet, but the system tester says 'no hardware requirement'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Glow (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB HD Multifile, 3 disks). code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Facet, Tudor, music: SuperNao, Azazel. 2nd in the Icing 96 demo competition. review: Oh yes. This is the first truly outstanding TBL production I have witnessed, and what a demo it is! Since last time they've obviously gotten some design help from their newest members. While some of their earlier productions have looked a little weird, this one looks just smashing! The demo opens with an animation of a spaceship leaving a space station, to great accompanying strings music. After that, we're treated to the usual rendered objects and stuff, with one very important
difference: These are cool, advanced routines that look GOOD. Even their rather untraditional palette choices now look smashing! What can I say? TINT only HINTed at things to come! Recommended! Runs on standard A1200's with enough mem, but recommends 030-28 or above. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Darkside (1996, 16.06, AGA ?MB File). code: Rubberduck, Noy, Offa, gfx: Facet, Danny, Tudor, music: Lizard. Winner of the Remedy 96 demo competition! review: Darkside signalled a drastic departure for TBL. Gone was the flashy techno, to be replaced with a tune by Lizard that's closer to a film soundtrack than anything else. A lot of people were skeptical when Darkside was released, but in my eyes this is one of their better demos. It opens with some dots morphing to form the names of the producers. This could have been done a lot better, the routine now looks downright ugly! The titlepicture by Facet is one of his most surrealistic pictures ever! The next picture is a raytraced one by Tudor, of a hand stretching out of a monitor to touch the A1200 beyond...very good! Another good routine here is the travel down spinning tunnel with the white light in the centre... This looks like a precursor to the tunnel at the end of the zoomer in the later TBL demo "Captured Dreams" [03/97]! I like "Darkside". It's an unusual demo, in that it manages to create a gothic atmosphere and still throw in a few good effects. The music deserves a special mention; it's a highly original tune. The release version apparently had some bugs, but a fixed version was later to be put up on the TBL website. On my 4mb fast system, I couldn't run this demo because I didn't have enough memory. This may have been due to the fact that I map my Kickstart to fast ram, but I can't be sure... It DOES require some fast, I'm just not sure how much :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Tractorbeam (1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro). code: Offa, gfx: Facet, SuperNao, Tudor (objects), music: SuperNao. Winner of the Remedy 96 40k intro competition! review: WOW! I've just been blown away by an amazing piece of 40k intro. This small file oozes professionalism from every pore. The effects are good and plentiful, much more than I'd expect to see in a 40k intro these days. There are so many '1-effect-intros' out there. This one opens with some envmapped objects, which isn't all that unusual these days :) Next we travel down a rather cool yellow/green tunnel...which suddenly has the objects from before in the middle! It's like Offa's saying
'maybe you can do that too...and this...but can you do them TOGETHER!?'. Next there's a tecturemapped sube spaceut with some envampped objects, before it ends with what can only be described as motionblurred fireflies. Not bad at all, TBL... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Goa (1996, 18.08, AGA ?MB HD Multifile). code: Offa, Dig-It, Equalizer, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Tudor (objects), music: Azazel. 3rd in The Assembly 96 demo competition. info: Azazel's music from the demo also competed in the music competition, and came 3rd. The timing was made on a 030-28. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Note: Not enough memory to run! The Monkey Tribe (1996, .09, File). 2nd in the Creutz #2 96 demo competition. review: Intended as a parody on 3LE demos. Captured Dreams (1997, 29.03, AGA HD Multifile). code: Dig-It, Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Louie, Rodney, Tudor, music: Fndr/? (intro), Radix (main). Winner of The Gathering 97 demo competition! review: The show opens with a texturemapped tunnel, with credits texturemapped onto squares flying around. A 'CD' logo is next, then we zoom into the middle of the picture. At first it looks like a normal zoomer, but it quickly becomes evident that there's layers and layers of fantastic gfx before we hit the bottom! There, it smoothly integrates into some lights flashing out at us in time with the music before the entire zoom process is reversed. Only this time, we zoom back a little more than where we started, and it becomes evident that we're in a room with several different 'tv-boxes' hovering in the air. They all have changing pictures on them, and we travel around until we settle on a picture of the side of a skyscraper. This is now the main focal point, and soon a beautiful dolphin comes swimming/flying by, reflected onto the windows of the skyscraper. It's all very 'Beyond the Mind's Eye'. We see the dolphin from three different angles before we move on. Next is an amazing, big dinosaur object (T-Rex?), sneering at us. This object is made up of MANY polygons! Next we're treated to Danny and Louie's coop picture "Angelic Particles" (also winner of the TG97 graphics competition) before we move on to another showstopping effect... We're suddenly underwater, with calm music and a soothing atmosphere. Next is another texturemapped tunnel, this time with a moving lighstource. It goes on with some butterflies flying around ancient architecture, before the show is rounded off with
not-too-good picture by Rodney. CD has to be one of the best demos ever released, period. It seems TBL has got most of their design problems out of the way, and this demo sure kicks ass! One thing I especially noticed and liked, was the way the music changed to the MOOD of the demo. For the faster, frantic parts there was techno-style stuff, while underwater we were treated to a beautiful panpipe mood tune. Great! Swedish musician FNDR (Jonas Hedeback) was not a fulltime member. The demo requires at least 4mb fast, and a 030-50 processor. However, the system checker searches for 020+, so in theory it is possible to run on inferior hardware... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Imitation None (1998, 11.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Rubberduck, Spite/?, Digit, Scout, gfx: Louie, music: Fndr/?. Winner of Gathering 98 64k intro competition! review: Who would have guessed - TBL are back with a small 40k sign of life! Unfortunately, this one's a no-starter due to one very important factor: Speed. You're obviously gonna need a FAST machine to get this baby to roll acceptably. So the keyword would be: Beautiful but agonizingly slow. If you've got a fast machine, please do. Otherwise, don't bother. Nice to look at, tho' ;) FNDR (Jonas Hedeback) and Spite (Erique Hemming) were not fulltime members. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rain (1999, 28.12, AGA File). code: Rubberduck, Dig-It, Kalms (additional), Spite (additional), gfx: Louie, Tudor (additional), FTHR (additional), FNDR (additional), music: Carebear. 3rd in The Party 99 demo competition. review: Just one word: "WOW". This demo is testament to the demopower of TBL, a group of almost unheard of talent. "Rain" was their first demo in a while, with only the intro "Imitation None" [04/98] released at TG98 since their amazing "Captured Dreams" [04/97] - demo of the year in 1997. Even if I stay by my claim that "CD" is the best amiga demo ever, "Rain" comes close to topping it. The only reason why Haujobb's "Mnemonics" [04/99] is demo of the year this year and not this one, is that Haujobb made a demo I could actually run on my machine =) The demo is fluent, with great art direction (credited to Louie) and design elements. Every single screen is well thought out, with a great sense of the overall design, and the music fits perfectly to the cyberpunk-y feel of the demo. There are effects in this demo that have
never even been done on the amiga, and effects that I simply do not have words to describe. There is the most amazing phong shading, some voxels towards the end, and... well, just lots and lots of greatness! =D "Rain" is an almost perfect demo, with all the elements coming together seamlessly. This is the kind of demo you show to your friends to get them interested in the demoscene. Just amazing. This review was only made possible by our contributor SoLO, who generously sent me a cd with the demo as an mpg file. The mpg was grabbed from an a1200 equipped with a 50mhz 68060 processor. The demo itself is not runnable at all on my machine, 50mhz 030 =( Probably requires a shitload of memory, too. A rough guess would be 16mb. Carebear (Erik Lyden) is probably NOT a fulltime member of the group. He is, in case you didn't know, a musician with top finnish pc demo group Orange. Neither FNDR (Jonas Hedeback), FTHR (Antti Jaderholm) or Spite (Erique Hemming) are fulltime members. The final screen in the demo, before the end credits, features a picture and the text "yeah, that's the downside". The picture is grabbed from Luc Besson's fabulous film "Leon". We wholeheartedly recommend it =) [glenn] Senseless (2000, 18.03, AGA 060 Demo). code: Rubberduck, Kalms (additional), gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the TRSAC 2000 demo competition! info: Apparently requires an 060 processor in order to run fast enough. Received a favourable review in Nah-Kolor's "Devotion #1" [00]. Perfect Circle (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: Kalms, Rubberduck, gfx: Louie, Tudor, music: TraumaChildGenesis (FastTracker II XM format). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition! info: Requires an 060 processor and about 20 megs of fastram. Can anyone review this for me? Pleeeeeease? 'TraumaChildGenesis' are the two finnish musicians !Cube/Armada and Teque/Aggression. Developed with TBL's new demosystem, NewAge. Black Monks [old] (1989-) ------------------------GER> Dark (gfx, later Red Sector Inc., 09/89). ???> Andy, Anvil (ex Alpha Flight, new mid91), Archangel, Black Knight, Captain Future, Delton (ex Dynax, new mid91), Dr.Jekyll, Ego the Avatar, Flash, Gonzo the Zazgul, Ivanhoe (crack, 04/89), Snooper, Wild Blood. Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces under the new name in the beginning of 1989.
1990 - Shadow and Spirit left to rebuild Critters with Amiga Freak/Trilogy mid 90. Dam joined Supreme around the same time. Coder and cracker MnemoTroN (ex Silicon League) joined Spreadpoint with a few other members. Black Monks [new] ----------------GER> Ego (code trade sysop 'BLACK MONASTERY', early92). ???> Anvil (ex Alpha Flight, old handle Zychon), Claw (music, 12/92), Kamikaze, Moses, Pete, Rain, Willow. Black Monks was reborn late 91 or early 92, with a mixture of old and new members - in total 11 members. The first ones to join the new group were Kamikaze, Pete, Moses, Rain, Claw and Willow. German graphician Fade One joined Masque. Black Robes (BRB, -1992) -----------------------FIN> Coroner, Jayhawk, Mr.Mad, Plug1 (trade, 02/93), Squirrel Fish, Stalker. Black Robes was a Finnish demo group, perhaps most noteworthy as the foreunner of the legendary Virtual Dreams. 1992 - Black Robes is dead! John Peel joined Digital; Dr.Skull, Tsunami (ex Spaceballs), Alien, Groo (06/92) and Dr.Death formed Virtual Dreams. Lappari and Hex joined Damones; Bart left the scene. Matti Ja Teppo is now also a member of Virtual Dreams, though how he got there is a mystery. Finnish swapper Fozzie joined Fanatic. Black Sector -----------ITA> Apocalypse Now (music swap trade, late95), Anubi (gfx, late95), Bad Jack (hack AM+PC+CONS, late95), R.A. & Min (gfx music, late95), Subwoofer (gfx music, late95), Tryal (codePC, late95), Ultimate Cyborg (code, late95). Blade ----FIN> Jolly Roger, Zombie. Blade was formed by ex-members of Poorsoft. They released an intro for the Assembly 93 competition, but it wasn't shown on the big screen.
Blaze ----POL> Imperator (gfx), Sky (Radoslaw Gulczynski, swap). Xenos joined Mad Elks. Blitz ----???> T.M.D. (ex Firecrackers, new 12/90). Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91. Bloodsuckers (BS) ----------------FIN> Bloodstone (trade, 03/94), Hitman (trade, 03/93), Hoffi (trade sysop 'THUNDERSTRUCK' WHQ, doublememb Damones 93, 07/91-03/93), Illuminator (trade, doublememb Accession, 03/94), Rib, SCH, SCY (trade, 10/91), Wanton (code). SWE> Highlander (sysop 'SOMEWHERE IN TIME', 10/90). GER> Genesis (sysop 'GENESIS POWER', 10/91), Pirate (sysop 'BERLIN AMIGA NEWS', 09/91). ???> Android (ex Accession), Armalite, Chuck D, Communist, Cowboy, Cyborg, Dr.No (ex Alpha Flight), Mann, Mr.Wizz (code, 12/88), Mutants, Rawak, The Wicked, Zacae (ex Alpha Flight. Death, sysop 'SATAN'S PLACE' rejoined Zenith. German Flaxx (ex digital) joined The Silents. Bloodbath In Paradise (ECS File). Mass Compensates The Brain (ECS Musicdisk). Turtle Meeting Intro (ECS Intro). Mr.Wizz's (1988, 12.12, ECS Intro). Blue Crystal (1992-1993) -----------------------Blue Crystal was a shortlived finnish group, likely formed around late november 1992 by Wasp (code music) and Zakal (code music). Axe (swap) joined, then also Sphinx (gfx music) from D-29. All members joined Styline in january of 1993. A small group formed by Wasp (Vesa Halttunen, coder & musician) and Zakal (Tuomas Nikkinen, coder & musician) in 1992. Axe (Jyrki Lindlöf, swapper) joined. Sphinx (Aki Sopanen, graphician & musician) joined from D-29. All
members joined Styline in January 1993. Bodyworks (1995-1995) --------------------SWE> Axy (org ascii sysop), Blade (org music), Delery (code sysop), Schizzo (music), Tekburn (music), Visitor (trade, later Subspace), Zcandaler (sysop). Bodyworks was formed by Axy and Blade after the death of Deadline Design, as an ascii and trading group. They dominated the trading scene of west sweden, had a lot of members, and released several ascii collys. In addition the swedish members, there were also a few in germany and the uk. Sometime late in the year, Axy and Blade decided they'd had their fun, and declared the group dead. Blade (who had now learned to code) was in Inhumans with Visitor for a while, before helping form Subspace. Axy later surfaced as Phase/ Spaceballs and later in Essence. Bomb Software (1994-) --------------------FRA> Ben (code, 12/96), Clawz (Mathieu Berthaud, founder music, ex Complex, doublememb Impact Studios [pc], 09/94-12/95), Gengis (Frederic Heintz, founder code, ex Complex, 09/94-07/95), Hof (gfx, 12/94), Made (Carlos Pardo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new late95-04/98), Suny (gfx, ex Movement, new late94-12/94), Titan (Sebire Laurent, gfx, 04-12/96), Trajan (gfx, ex Dreamdealers, new late94-12/94), Zebig (gfx, 12/94). DEN> Roscoe (Steen Hillestroem, swap, ex Razor 1911, new late94). GER> Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap, triplememb Sanity and Artwork, new late95). After releasing their last demo for Complex, "Real" [04/94], Bomb! was formed by Clawz and Gengis in August 1994. Soon after, they recruited the French graphicians Trajan and Suny, and the Danish swapper Roscoe. In september, they then won the intro competition at the 3S Party with their first release, the 64k intro "Casual" [09/94]. They then worked hard for a few months, and could present to the public at The Party 4 the demo "Motion: Origin 2" [12/94]. The original "Origin" [12/93] (made for Complex) had secured Gengis the winner at last year's party, but "Motion" didn't come in better than 3rd. 1995 - Next they recruited top french graphician Made and spent most of
1995 working on their commercial game Fears, which was previewed at the end of "Motion" and released in September. The game was done by Gengis (code), Hof (gfx), Titan (gfx), Suny (gfx) and Clawz (music). 1996 - Following the completion of the game, Gengis and Clawz released their last Amiga production in the "Saturne 3 Invitation" [07/96], and left for the PC scene - where in addition to scene activities they are currently working on an adventure game. Made now seems to be the only remaining active Amiga member, contributing graphics to productions left, right and center though mostly for his old group Scoopex. However, he has lately begun doing more and more 24bit pictures in high resolution, and now he also works almost exclusively for the PC scene. Gengis and Clawz first joined Impact Studios on the pc, before moving on to Oxygene. They are now back in their own group Bomb!, though - and the pc section seems to become as powerful as the Amiga one was in its time... Casual (1994, 03.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: Gengis, gfx: Hof/?, Walt/? (car person), music: "Blache Bleuche" by Clawz. Winner of the 3S Party 64k intro competition! review: A cute and nice first production from Bomb. Nice font! The music is kinda unusual for Clawz, but still good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Motion: Origin 2 (1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Gengis, gfx: Suny, Trajan, Zebig, Hof, music: "Overtaking" (main) and "Intermediate" (end) by Clawz (The Player 6.0A format). 3rd in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Gengis and Clawz followed up the original "Origin" (released for Complex), who won at The Party the previous year, with this great demo. The strongest point of Motion has certainly got to be its design. It opens with a great loading picture by Suny (I believe it also competed in the gfx competition), which looks like it was inspired from the scene in the introduction to the movie 'Cliffhanger'. Then, an eye suddenly looks at us. We zoom into the eye, and the demo begins. We're treated to a variety of good effects, including fast voxel landscapes and various vector environments. The real showstopper however, appears at the end of the demo, when Gengis revealed the first real Doom routine - with walls, floor and ceiling. For more of that routine, buy the game 'Fears', which
was developed by much the same team as this demo. The demo is timed to one of Clawz' techno tunes, which sounds great. Then again, few people on the Amiga do techno as well as Clawz... The endpart requires some fast mem, a fact that made it guru when it was originally shown at The Party. However, the whole demo runs perfectly on unexpanded A1200's except the endpart. It supports external drives. Whole-heartedly recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Saturne Party 3 (1995, .07, AGA File). code: Gengis, gfx: Made, music: "Kuulitte Oikein" by Clawz (ProTracker MOD format). review: This is certainly one of the smoothest invitation intros I've ever seen, and the one with the best graphics! It opens with a fullscreen picture by Made, of a small green gnome, before showing a Saturne Party logo with a vectorbased '3' zooming back in place. Then we're taken to the text selector, which is a set of tecturemapped cubes. The great thing is that the cubes have two sides, one French and one English, so you can actually select the language you wish to read the text in! The music is also great, so what more can I say? This is one of the best invitations ever - never mind that the party was cancelled at the date mentioned in the intro, and wasn't held until april of 1996! For further irony, it was at that very party that Gengis released his first production for the pc, Impact Studios' "Bomb", cooperating with - yes, you've guessed it among others Made and Clawz :-) This was almost certainly Gengis' last Amiga production. He was next in Impact Studios (as mentioned) on the pc, before moving on to Oxygene and finally back to Bomb. As for the release date, I found it on a pack where all the other productions were from early .07, so it's a pretty probable date. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cyberia - ISO Opus 2 (1996, 18.08, AGA 4mb HD Multifile). info: Made contributed graphics to this Scoopex demo, making it a coproduction. See Scoopex' entry for details. Shaft 7 (1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB HD Multifile Demo) code: Ben, gfx: Titan (logo, gfx), Made (title), Axel (objects), music: "Temple of Sun Remix" by Legend and Yolk (8ch XM format). Winner of The Party 96 demo competition! review: Bomb!'s amiga swansong containted what was perhaps the (upto then) most advanced 3d scenes ever realised on the machine... Beautiful design
coupled with fast, great-looking env and bumpmapped objetcs and 3d scenes made this one of the VERY best demos of 1996. Mercifully short, but nevertheless a real powerdemonstration, "S7" is - in my book - the second best demo of 96. What was so special about the demo was perhaps that coder Ben was a total unknown, and to our knowledge never released anything ever again... Made's title picture is a special version of his "Eden 377" (which he came 2nd with in the graphics competition at the same party) with the title of the demo overlaid. Please note that the version reviewed is tagged Revision 2.0, with a few bugs fixed from the competition version. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Bomb Squad ---------FIN> Baron (trade, doublememb Malice [pc], 03/94), Bright Angel (trade, 03/94), Crime-Z99 (trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94), Eibon (09/95), Fisu (trade, 03/94), G.O.D (trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94), Ice-T (trade, 03/94), Leecher (trade, 03/94), ScE (trade, 03/94), Trash (trade, 03/94). ???> Boheme (music, 08/95), Brem (music, 08/95), Mailman (trade, 03/94). Finnish trader Illuminator (03/94) joined Accession. Ultimate Stress (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 9th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Bonzai (BNZ, 1994-1994) ----------------------GER> Cocoon (Stefan Hardt, code swap, ex Savage, old handle Mayday, 03/94), Dahaul (Paul Kraus, music swap, ex Savage, 12/94), MDB (Carsten, sysop 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD' WHQ, ex Savage), Ragman (Mark, gfx, 03/94), Solid (Christian Meyer, swap music, ex Savage, 03/94), Sting (Dirk Dallmann, ascii swap). ???> Mirage (gfx, 12/94). Bonzai was formed by Sting/ex Proline. However, shortly after they were formed Sting left to joined Alcatraz instead. The news of BOTH the birth and death of Bonzai were in Propaganda #4 :). In addition to the 'Gimme Alcohol' demo, they also contributed the only game in the game competition at the Dooms Day 94 party. Fox joined Dominators.
German swapper X-Poole got an offer to join Platin, but instead went to Nuance. Love Like Blood (File). Sleepless Nights (1994, 13.03, ECS 40k Intro). code: Cocoon, gfx: Ragman, music: "40k Intro Theme3" Solid (4ch MOD format). Released at The Easter Party 94. review: I'm sorry Bonzai, but this intro just bores me. No redeeming qualities, design flaws, and...well, that tune is just annoying. [glenn] Gimme Alcohol (1994, 09.10, Demo). Contribution for the Doom's Day 94 demo competition. Bonzai Brothers (1995-) ----------------------GER> Cocoon (ex Vodka), Dr.Avalanche (Rene Kueppers, swap, ex Vodka), Risc (mainorg swap, ex Vodka). After Sting lost control over Alcatraz, he formed BB with most ex members of Alcatraz Germany (ROM #4). Apparently, the Brothers in BB was intentional, to avoid confusion with the PC demo group Bonzai. It didn't help much, though, since in Propaganda #4's news section they're consistently referred to as just Bonzai :) ...Still not sure if this group's the same as the one above, due to some conflicting information. When original organizer Sting left, swapper Risc took over as the new WHQ. Hardy (code) and MBD left the scene late 95. Finnish musician The Hooligan left to be in Fanatic only, late 95. Maxx, Powl (both ex Vodka) and Gonzo all joined Illusion late 95. German swapper Ghandy (ex Rebels, new ROM4) and coder Toaster (ex Vodka) left to join Gods. German swapper and founder Sting (ex Alcatraz) joined Abyss late 95. Bonzai Revival (http://www.bonzai-revival.de) --------------------------------------------Appears to be a revived version of the good old Bonzai, with old member Sting back again! Boom Design (-1994) ------------------FIN> Hunter (swap, 08/94), Mehukatti (08/94), Tri-State (swap, 08/94). Boom Design was a subgroup of Pulse, before all the members joined the Pulse breakout group, Avantgarde in late 1994. Hunter rejoined the scene late 1995. Norsu Intro (1994, early, ECS Intro).
code/gfx/music: Mehukatti. Convex Hull (1994, 07.08, ECS 40k Intro). 19th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Unfortunately, a rather dreadful affair. The only real 'effect' here is a zoomrotator, and we've seen better. Not too interesting. No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Booze ----Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS Demo). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Borealis (1993-) ---------------NOR> Felix (swap). Bounty -----???> Wild Child, Modemia (swap trade, 10/89). Bounty was a mainly Danish group. 1990 - The group arranged the Bounty Party in august! Wally and others left late 90. Danish coder Gizwiz joined Kefrens. Brainstorm (BRS, 1988-1993) --------------------------SWI> The Accused (Vermesser Mussler, code editor, ex Setrox, 10/8908/90), Bird (code, ex Axxis, new 89-06/90), Chester (Andre Schelker, founder gfx, 05/89-08/90), Com (code, 10/89-06/90), E.S.A. (code, 10/89), Fly (code, ex The Perfects, new late90), Grubi (music, 05/89-08/90), Luke (code, 10/89-06/90), Majestic (founder code, 05/89-08/90), Odie (gfx sysop 'CHEESELINE', 10/89-08/90), Oli (gfx, old handle Olivision, 05/89-04/90), Orlando (Orlando Budelacci, code, new 89-08/90), Scattergold (10/89-06/90), Sky (code), Spirit (swi? music, 12/8902/90), Taskmaster (swap, new 03-04/90), The Edge (02-04/90), Truxion (gfx, 05/89-08/90). GER> Shadow (swap, 10/89-08/90). DEN> Droid (music). ???> Barrax (ex Extreme), Cobold (swi? 10/89), Extabulator, Mac, Mad Freak (ex Deadlock), Phazer, Scott (swi? music, 90), Top Azz, Voyager.
Brainstorm was formed a short while before may 1989 by Chester (gfx) and Majestic (code), and their first release was "Lazer Roll" (05/89). During the summer they recruited more members (like Orlando), and at the end of the summer vacation they were joined by the entire group Axxis. This group had both a Swiss and German section, but the German section was found to be substandard and was forced to leave after a while. Another member, swapper Joker, left the scene soon after. They had by now started planning what would become a legendary diskmag, "Zine". It was originally conceptuated as a cooperation between Brainstorm and another big Swiss group at the time, Setrox, but the latter eventually decided against being part of the project. Due to this, their coder The Accused, who DID believe in the project, left them to join Brainstorm. The first issue was released in october. They were now a totally Swiss group again, except from two members (Shadow, Yankee) in Germany. Sometime between issue 3 [02/90] and 4 [04/90] they decided to kick their German writer Yankee (10/89-02/90) because he wasn't productive enough. He was a freelance writer for D.I.S.C. for a while before finally joining Addonic around 07/90. Also two new members joined, SixPack (old handle Angledust) and Taskmaster, which left them with only one non-Swiss member, Shadow. Swiss members Sixpack (old handle Angeldust, new 03-06/90) and Mr.Frost then left late 90. 1992 - Danish swapper The Pride (ex Flash Productions) left for Sanity around january. A finnish section was opened around january, with Phazer, Extabulator, Hoover, Mac, Top Azz and Voyager as members. The finnish adventure was shortlived however, after Hoover left for Rebels and the section died pretty quickly. After this experience the group decided to have no more foreign members, and went 100% swiss again. 1993 - Brainstorm died in the end of 1993, after some key members Axel (music, ex The Perfects, new late90), Tin (gfx, new 03/92) and Rob Rose (code, 91) - found some things said in diskmags by Orlando, Chester and Oli stupid. They felt that the name of Brainstorm had been tainted by these interviews, and decided to declare the group dead. So the three members instead started a new group called Brainstorm Productions, with the intention to make a better, more demo-oriented group. Ofcourse, their plans never became what they had imagined, and Brainstorm Productions never released a single thing. Swiss graphician Peace (ex The Perfects, new late90) joined Scoopex late 92/early 93.
Metamorphosis (ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: Peace, music: Axel. Lazer Roll (1989, .05, ECS Demo). code: Majestic, gfx: Olivision, Chester, Truxton, music: Grubi. Metal Demo (1989, ECS Demo). Sound Disk (1989, ECS Musicdisk). Zine #1 (1989, .10, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: "Zine-Sound" by Spirit (4ch MOD format), editor: The Accused, Majestic. review: Another small piece of history... The very first issue of Zine! The first thing that strikes me (having read a couple of the later issues) is how little the layout has changed since that first issue. It's already a nice mag, and probably the very first one on the amiga that scrolled the pages, and not just faded in the next one. There's no extraordinary visuals or anything here, you just enter slap bang right in the middle of the magazine. Editorially there's not much to shout about though, just 48 articles all included, and that includes a ridiculous amount of 'interviews' with more or less interesting scene people. This mag would improve over time, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #2 (1989, 10.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision (coop title), music: "ZineSound II" by Grubi & Spirit (4ch MOD format), editors: The Accused, Majestic. Released at the Brainstorm/D-Tect party. review: First thing that strikes you is that there's now an "intro" picture of sorts as you load the mag...at least that's what I presume it's supposed to be... I can't see it unscrambled on my machine you see, and caches off and original chipset doesn't help either :( But it doesn't crash and soon the second issue of Zine is staring you in the face. Nothing has changed graphically, the mag looks the same, and almost reads the same. There's still endless "interviews" with standardized questions for unknown groups, but just as in the first issue there's also a few interesting articles. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine issue #3 (1990, 07.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision (coop title), music: "ZineSound III" by Grubi (4ch MOD format), editors: The Accused, Majestic. review: I still can't see the loader picture, so that is pretty much lost
on me, but the mag loads and you can immediately see that graphically it is still the same. It contains about the standard amount of information by now, some 60 articles - and still too many 'interviews'. This issue announced The Accused wasn't going to be working on the next issue since he has to go to the army. New editor from issue #4 would be Orlando. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo (1990, 21.04, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). code: Luke, Bird, gfx: n/a, music: "A.L.II" by Spirit, "Blizzard" and "F.E. Backup1" by Grubi and Spirit, "Jamming", "Loader" by Grubi, "Points of Echo" and "Street" by Scott, "Sparrings" by Spirit. Released at the RSI, AFL and Spectral party 90. Zine #4 (1990, 21.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli (coop title), music: "Zine Sound IV" by Spirit (4ch MOD format), editor: Orlando. Released at the Red Sector Inc, Alpha FLight and Spectral party 90. review: Some new blood in the editor chair for this issue, since previous editor The Accused had left for the army, was Orlando. And it seems the change was for the better: They present a mag with more to read than ever, 99 articles this time! Some changes since last time, writer Yankee was kicked, and their proposed party with Alcatraz was cancelled (hence this was not released there, as promised in the last issue). This was also the first issue with a real news section (though news that Shining 8 are dead were WRONG :). This is perhaps the first GOOD issue, as far as the reading goes, and it now comes across as a much more focused effort than the first three issues. The music is NOT good... :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #5 (1990, 03.06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli, music: "White Song II" by Grubi (4ch MOD format), editor: Orlando. Released at the Alcatraz Pentcoast party. review: Again, nothing has changed on the graphical front (perhaps time for a new logo?). But the improved editorial content is carried on, and the news corner is much more extensive than last time. Also the interviews that swamped the first issues of the mag are now more restrained, and with people that are actually halfway interesting to read about! There's a few
less articles than last time (72). This was to be Orlando's last issue as editor, as The Accused had returned from his army service. Just one almost priceless anecdote: After announcing rumours that IBM are planning the release of a new home computer with an 80286 processor (possibly even 386 they claim), they deliver this little comment: "That sounds funny, a scene on a IBM-computer!". Oh, and this little newsgem: "Apple wants to produce a homecomputer, too!" [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine #6 (1990, 20.08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: "Black and White" by Grubi, editor: The Accused. review: The Accused returned, with the first issue to have more than 100 articles. Some changes and improvements to the coding and the graphics had also been performed, all changes to the better. This was the first time (actually, the first time EVER) we saw the bar under the articles that allows us to see how much is left of a given article - now a standard feature in any diskmag. This issue also celebrated the first birthday for the magazine, it was now one year old. Comparing this issue to the first ones, you can certainly say that the mag had matured! This was also another kind of celebratory issue, since last month the mag had finally overtaken Alpha Flight's "Cracker Journal" as the no.1 mag on the scene in the Official Eurocharts! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Another Dream (1990, .08, ECS Demo). Solid Communication (1990, .01, ECS Demo). Zine issue #8 (1991, 15.01, ECS Diskmag). Zine issue #9 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Zine issue #10 (1991, ECS Diskmag). Sounddisk II - The Best of Grubi (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Blitter Miracle (1991, late, ECS File). code: Rob Rose, gfx: n/a, music: Axel. review: Impressive for a 1991 demo, innovative coder Rob Rose here shows us routines that shouldn't really be possible on the Amigas at the time :) - like texturemapping and an incredibly fast mandelbrot fractal generator. The overall impression is good, and the fact that the texturemapped cubes don't always look as good as they could, is quite forgiveable when you consider the achievement. The demo runs perhaps a little too fast on my machine, and cuts to the next part at exactly the
moment when the credits are about to appear in the scrolltext. Peeking in the executable doesn't help either, since Rob Rose is probably using his own decruncher or something...I certainly couldn't rip it, at least :( Innovative but sometimes slightly boring. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Zine issue #11 (pre 1992, .02, ECS Diskmag). info: Issue 11 was the last issue ever released. The diskmag throne was soon claimed by R.A.W... Musicland (1992 late/1993 early, ECS Musicdisk). code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, music: Axel. info: ONLY works with fake fast! Musicland 2 (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, Peace, music: Axel. Brainstormers, The -----------------Tune Disk (1989, 01.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Metalman-4" by BMD-NAT, "Miguel 03", "Miguel 06", "Miguel 07" and "Miguel 14" by Miguel, "SML29-War", "SML 01", "SML 04", "SML 05 New", "SML 05", "SML 06" and "SML 09 HardVersion" by SML. Brain Wave (1989-) -----------------FRA> A.Ch (code, 03-06/90), Arrakis (mainorg code, 03/90), Big M, Bytefox (gfx, 03/90), Lecolos (code music, 03/90), Quasar, TIK (gfx, 03/90), Van Gogh (gfx, 03/90). DEN> Krueger (swap, later Kefrens, 03/90), Rain Man. NOR> Shinox (swap pack, late90). GER> EBF (swap), Hijack. ENG> Spellcaster (swap, 03/90. USA> Sergeant Pepper (modem, 03/90). ???> Matthew (ex Savage, new ca 07/90). Brain Wave is french demo group, formed by exmembers of Overgrowth [no entry] and Phoenix in november 1989. 1990 - Towards the middle of the year, some members left to create a French section of North Star. Raistlin was kicked sometime around 03/90. Just For Your Ears (1991, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Funschis/Zenith, Maniac. Cooperation with Zenith. Bravo (1994-)
------------POL> Phantom (founder org gfx, ex Applause), Tolek Banan (ex Applause, new early95). ???> Flowmaster (editor, new early95). Bravo was formed by Phantom/Applause in 1994. Bronx (BNX, 1991-) -----------------TUR> Astron (Reha Bicer, code, ex Crash), Barbarian, Eugene (raytrace), Gart (swap sysop1 'SPLIT SEVEN' WHQ), Hooligan, Hunter, Jam, Max (music swap, 06/93), Micro (code), MS (code, 93), Pentagram (code, old handle Phobia, 06/93), Sam, Swat (ex Coast), Thunder, Turbo (founder mainorg gfx ascii swap sysop2 'SPLIT SEVEN' WHQ, 93-96), Victory (swap, ex Saints). SWE> DJ Jones (music, 96), Fire (ex Conqerers), Godhead (ex Transfer), Herlikhan (ex Transfer), Malice (code gfx, 06/93-96), Penny (gfx, early94), R2D2 (ex Conqerers), Randy (org, old handle Dot, late94). FIN> Deadbeat (music, ex Zenon, new 93), Kazz (swap, early94), Vortex (ex Paralysis, 93). SPA> Double R (Jose Jordan, swap). DEN> Cruel, Helloween (Jan Nielsen, swap), Shakesbeer. FRA> Dyze (gfx, ex Nihondreamers). USA> BJ (sysop 'MAELSTORM'). ???> Bacteria (ex Crossbones), Codian (gfx, 93), Judge, Minotaur, Nemesis, Ravetronic (new late93), Zorlac (ex Crossbones). Boards; THE BEER BAR (aut). Bronx was born in Turkiye, of all places, after the Zombie Boys changed their name to Bronx in january of 1991. They are probably best known for their oddly named diskmag "Cemetery News" and their controversial packmag "Auschwitz". Their BBS 'THE BEER BAR' appears to have the same phone number as 'FIRE AND ICE' (sys: Imagic/2000 AD, later Sceptic). The Swedish section was reborn late 94, by Randy (old handle Dot). Their swedish graphician Penny is apparently female. News in Miracle's "Eternal #2" that Dot had joined Balance was WRONG. 1992 - Swedish swapper Goose joined DAI mid to late 92. 1993 - Swapper Beast joined Cyborgs early 93. Dr.Mantrix left mid 93. Bloody left mid to late 93. French trader Bombsquad left for Devils late 93. 1994 - Stranger joined Saints late 94. Mix joined Saints. Mazz joined Freezers. All Spanish members of Intense joined Bronx.
The German section was kicked. Finnish swapper Zanu (93) joined Accession. Turkish swapper Kickman (ex Centura) joined Miracle. Turkish swapper Vigo left to form his own group 'Coroner'. AGA Dentro (AGA File). code: Micro, Astron, gfx: Turbo, Dyze (japfont), music: Gore/Zenon (main), DJ Jones (end). review: True to tradition, Bronx don't bother with irrelevant things like release dates; the effects suggest this is from the early AGA period, though, 1993 or 94. Who knows? None of the effects are particularly impressive; the best is the shadebob-like dot effect that form patterns; The rest are just block zoomrotators and dot-routines :( [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Istanbul Style (ECS Slideshow). Split 5+2=? (Intro). code: Malice, gfx: Eugene (raytrace), Malice (font), music: "Watch" by DJ Jones (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: This one-screen (not counting the fadeout spinning logo screen) BBS intro for the 'SPLIT 7' BBS (clever title, then!) comes without any kind of release date. It was uploaded to AmiNet in early 97, but the dates of the files in the archive are september 92... The rendered spinning Bronx logos are nice. The music is a sort of dance/techno hybrid with little variation or originality. Also, some sort of shadebobs variation is active behind the font of the writer. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Faith of Black (1993, ECS File). code: Pentagram, MS, gfx: Turbo, Malice, Codian, music: Max. Portakal (1993, 03.06, ECS Intro). code: Pentagram, gfx: Surf's Rocker/Independent, Malice, music: Max. DJ Jones' Chip Pack #2 (1996, Musicfile). code/gfx: Malice, music: DJ Jones. review: Malice's cool graphics are the main attraction of this small chippack. I'm thoroughly unimpressed by DJ Jones' chiptunes, but then again I'm probably spoiled by all those great THX tunes I've been hearing lately... :) Anyway, get it for the cute gfx. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Font's a little weird... Browbeat (BBT) -------------FIN> D.N.A (gfx, 05/89), Freddy (code swap, 05/89), Infinity (Juha Kouri, code, 05/89-94), J-Zax (05/89), Mace (swap, 05/89), Ruzzo (swap, 05/89), Splatter (code, 05/89), Zip (swap).
Browbeat was a Finnish demo group, a section of the originally c64 group. Finnish coder Infinity is the author of JNet, a transfer program between the Amiga and the Commodore 64. They were accused of spreading the BGS-9 virus for the amiga. Dots of Browbeat (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code: Splatter, Freddy (additional), gfx: D.N.A, music: "Engura" by ???/XMen (SoundTracker format). review: Well, a croweded screen is presented here at least! At the top, a mediocre Browbeat logo in what is likely supposed to look like metal, is encased on all four sides by beat indicators moving in time with the music. Below this a small scroller moves, also with beat indicators to its left and right, before another bigger scroller occupies the bottom part of the display. The font used here is also made to indicate metal, but does a much better job of it. Behind the entire display at all times a small string of vector plots move, and the sines can be changed by pressing the right mouse button. And that's about it really =) Some of the scrolltext is really childish, and reveal these guys ages to be around 15... Plus some parts are in Finnish, but I don't really feel like I missed anything ;) The music was ripped from X-Men's Party Invitation, which they admit in the scrollers. This was Splatter's first demo on any computer. The intro appears to work perfecly with the use of KillAGA, but still crashes on exit. This intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released on the 2nd of june 89, plus there is mention one place in the scrolltext that it was written in may of that year, so may is a 100% certain release date. It was likely not released at any party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Brutal -----FIN> Dna (Antti Liljo, music swap). NOR> Decker. Finnish swapper DNA has placed two ads in the same mag, one as DNA/Brutal and one as DNA/Regency... Bucket (-1997) -------------???> Digger (swap), Judas (code), Kordi (code), Necroscope (gfx), NoName (music), PinPong (raytrace), The Soul (code), Zaba (swap).
Bucket is a demo group. 1996 - The group released X-Man's 64k intro "Inside" at the Intel Outside 3 party in poland. 1997 - The Soul (code) left the scene late 97, and Bucket died. Inside (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: X-Man, music: Raze. Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Errr.... well, the chiptune is AMAZINGLY annoying and squeaky, but despite that and the lack in design talent =) this actually contains some halfway decent code at least... There is phong objects, mostly, and not the most advanced ones, but there's also a phong space-cut routine that, correct me if I'm wrong, is probably actually a first. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Budbrain Productions -------------------DEN> Diablo (Rene Bidstrup, music), Psycho (code). Budbrain is the brainchild of the two Danish madmen Diablo and Psycho. Their unique style of demos changed the face of scenery forever when they unleased their first Megademo onto an unsuspecting public in 1990...and the second one was also a big success. 1992 - Sonet left to join Vixen in september. Megademo (1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). Winner of demo competition at the Amiga Conference 90. Megademo II (1990, 26.12, ECS Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Diablo. 2nd in the Dexion party demo competition. Byte Busters (BB) ----------------GER> Bomber (sysop 'PEARL HARBOUR', ex Scoopex), DMC (sysop 'FULL HOUSE' WHQ), Domestos (swap), Loomex (ex Sceptic), Mac (swap). FIN> Fuzzray, Saxon, Sgt.Pepper (sysop 'PARADOX BBS' EHQ), Silverghost (sysop 'SOLID BALL OF ROCK'). SWE> Uncle Acid (Robert Falk, swap). NOR> Voodoo (ex Zone 7, new mid91). HOL> Cubik (swap), The Mega Bandit (swap, late90). ENG> Rich, K-9, Overide. USA> Illuvatar (sysop 'SPATULA CITY'). ???> Daffy (new 06/92), Twix (ex Pirates, new ca 01/92). Boards; RENDE-VOUZ (swe).
Byte Busters was a demo group. 1990 - Necro left late 90. 1991 - Danish musician Z.A.P was a member 90-91, and was later Hille/ Insanity. 1992 - Twix joined from Pirates around january. Mike Dee joined Grace early92. Swedish swapper Zaddo (old handle Amory) left for the new Rebels. Swedish swapper Pace left. German Pearl left the scene. Timeless joined Infect. Mike, sysop of 'STOLEN SLIME II' joined Sceptic. Jordanian Picasso (new mid91) left. Jordanian Eagle (new mid91) joined St.Pauls Crew. Jordanian Mutassem (new mid91) joined Damage Incorporated. Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Blackbirds, new mid91) joined Amaze. Norwegians Dr.Voodoo, Selwyn, Dr.Floyd and Cooper joined Paragon. German swapper Rebel MC (pack 'Beach Pak') joined The Special Brothers. Royal, Hydra, Obelix, Evileye, Sadist, Phobos (swe, ex Exact, new mid91) and TLT were all kicked or left on their own accord. Byte Syndicate -------------Kreator joined Desire. Byterapers Inc. (http://byterapers.scene.org) --------------------------------------------FIN> Albert (trade, 03/93), Drifter (gfx, ex Vertigo), Dweezil (new 12/90), Grendel (swap trade, 11/91-03/94), Heatbeat (music, ex Sector 4, later Rebels, new 12/90), Hoffi (03/89, later Bloodsuckers), Judge, Jugi Perfecto (music, later Jugi/Complex, 89), Merit (swap, new 12/90), Raduis (ex SOS, new early90). SWE> Speed-Head (music, 04/89). ???> Clever (music, 04/89), CSA, Dark Young, Extabulator (ex Society [no entry]), Hotshot (music, 04/89), Jonez, JS (ex Dual Crew), Kannibal (ex Skid Row), Polo (music, 04/89), Radish (old handle Rogue, mid92). Byterapers Inc. is a group with tradition; perhaps one of the oldest groups on the entire demoscene! They used to be big on the C64, and I believe many of their Amiga members are originally from the 64. They have lately also been making PC demos with great success! 1990 - Their Australian section was formed late 1990. 1991 - Turtle joined Sonic in september. Finnish sysop Illegal ('BYTE ALLEY') was a member for exactly one day in november, but was kicked because of bad reactions to his board.
Whale was kicked. T.O.B joined Damones. Finnish trader and sysop Python ('TYPHOON', 07/91) joined The Silents. Another source claimed he joined Complex. The Australian division; Birdzone (new late90), Mogwai (new late90) and The Control (new late90) all joined Insanity. Muzzax I (ECS Musicdisk). Muzzax II (1989, 24.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Speedhead, Polo, Clever, Hotshot. info: 12 pieces of music. Muzzax III (ECS Musicdisk). Muzzax IV (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pole, Speedhead, Jugi. info: Contains 12 pieces of music. Muzzax #7 (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Bytestar -------Vixen joined Flash Production. Danes Fox and Spiderman joined Atomic Intelligence. Cadaver (CDR) ------------NOR> Baffle (Dag Stensland, sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', 08/94), Black Tornado (sysop 'GREENHOUSE', 04-09/93), Dr.Backup (swap, ex Dark Cloud [no entry]), Dr.Bully (music, ex Majic 12, 04/93), Dr.Randy (Per Einar Forberg, swap, ex Tech), Frode (gfx, 02/94), Gator (code, 04/93), Jean (swap, old handle Calvin, ex Comix [no entry]), John Coven (Jørn Skjefstadmoen, old handle Covenant, swap, late95), Martin Myhre (Martin G.Myhre, sysop 'MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE', 04/93), Morgoth (code, 04/93), Mr.T (sysop 'THE CRYPT', 04/93), Pathseeker (sysop 'DARK SECRET' WHQ, 04/93), Punisher (swap), Splat! (gfx, re-Acme, old handle Splatter, 04/93-02/94), Stratego (sysop 'HARDCORE HEAVEN', 04/93), Tyrant (Lasse Stangeland, org swap edit, 92-04/93). DEN> Cytron (music, later Depth, new 12/94). SWE> Amon (Robert Falk, also in Mystic), Chimera (Peter Swanqvist, swap). BRA> Bauer (swap, 04/93). FIN> Overlord (gfx, 03/94). ???> Crowley (trade, board closed ROM3), Cyberpunch (sysop 'HIT'N'RUN', busted 04/93), Eagle (code, 04/93), Foxy (gfx, 04/93), Joram (nor? code, 04/93-02/94), Noise Data (sysop 'DIGITAL CITY', 04/93), Skynet,
Trouble (sysop 'STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN', 04/93), Uzi (slave, 04/93), Vin (music, 07/93). Cadaver was a demo group based in Norway. Most active around 1993, the group is now dead. Norwegian mainorganizer Thamuz (Helge Norvang, old handle Trauma, 04/93) left the scene. Thamuz was one of two editors of the Cadaver diskmag 'Aggression', and also one of two organizers. Norwegian coder Slummy joined Spaceballs. Norwegian graphician and swapper Snuffy joined Scoopex. Norwegians Nirvana (gfx, 04/93-02/94) and Ludde (code) joined Grotesticle. Norwegian musician Jaw (Anders Ormehaug, old handle Elipsion) left to pursue a professional music career. He has left the scene. Norwegian sysop Decker ('HACK'N'HARD', ex Mirror [no entry], 04/93) joined Spacemarines. Razorblade joined Mad Elks. Mr.Fire, sysop 'REALISATION CENTER' was kicked. Splatter left to form Acme Project, but later rejoined as Splat!. Duke, Birdeye and Li Chien got kicked 94. Concept, DroopyD, N-Gin (nor music, ex Triax), Necro, Overload (07/9302/94), Powermad and Scaremonger got kicked. The Finnish division released an intro that the world HQ felt didn't live up to their standards, so as a result the Finnish section got kicked out. These were: Bit (PC Code), Dectech (PC Trade), Maniac, PetShopBoy (Mikko Virtanen, ex Diffusion, later The Hooligan/Fanatic), Safe, Seven (PC Code), Slayer and Slipper (code, ex Diffusion). Aggression issue #1 (1993 or 94 :), ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Gator, gfx: Foxy (panel), music: Dr.Bully, editors: Trauma, Tyrant. Symbiostro (1993, .07, ECS Intro). code: Joram, gfx: Overload, $platter, music: Vin. 2nd in the Rendezvous 93 intro competition. Marianne Myhrer - The Slideshow (1994, 26.02, ECS Slideshow). code: Joram, gfx: Nirvana, $platter, Overload, Frode, music: Anders Ormehaug, Jaw. info: This slideshow - of a girl Morgoth was in love with - got him in a whole heap of trouble... It all ended with her finding out about the slideshow, and suing Morgoth, on the grounds of a hidden part where you could view a manipulated picture of the girl, with her head and someone else's naked body... Restricted (1994, 13.03, ECS Intro). code: Slipper, gfx: Overlord, music: Petshopboy. review: This intro is the finnish section's first production, and it's
actually quite ok. It's a very standard design, with logo on top, vector cube moving in the middle and scroller at the bottom. But the logo is actually pretty good, and the design is quite adequate, so... This is by no means a great production - there are a million of these - but it's certainly not the worst of its kind. The music is chippy. Even with KillAGA, there are some graphical errors. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Testiclo (1994, 03.04, Intro). 9th in The Gathering 94 intro competition. Caffeine -------???> Rascal (code keyfilemakers, later Hellfire, 95). Calibra (1992-) --------------FIN> Bearer (93), Dr.Header, Flashburn (93), Fresh-Kid Ice (93), Masque (Jari Laine, gfx swap, ex Addicts, new mid 93), Rastaman (Timo Laulainen, 93), Ripper, Tokela, Tonic (ex Krafted, new mid 93), Zedi (Mikko Ilkko, swap pack). Calibra was a Finnish demo group formed by previous members of Dictators, Reflectors SF, X-Men and Success SF. They once released a roulette game, as well as a dentro and some intros. Netrunner joined Chrome. Moonshine joined Stellar. Finnish Yolk joined Addicts. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Interactive) got kicked. He joined Alpha Flight in the middle of 1993. Calypso ------Calypso are dead. All remaining members joined Cyberdreams late 93. Camel Corporation (1993-). -------------------------Camel Corporation was a Danish two-man crew formed by ICronite (Anders Mikkelsen, code) and Milkshake (Kent S. Jensen, gfx) in february 93 after they left Anarchy. As far as I know, "Camel Lights 2112" (93) is the only thing they ever released. Camel Lights 2112 (1993, .02?, ECS Multifile). Cannabis
-------NOR> Woober (Gøran Myrland, mainorg crack music sysop 'ETERNITY'). GER> Cannibal (org sysop 'EXTREME TERROR'). SWE> Kid Curry (org sysop 'PET SEMATARY'). DEN> Flozzy (org sysop 'BATTLE FIELD'). FIN> Speed Freak (org sysop 'THE MAZE'). HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' EHQ). ???> Apollo (sysop 'RIOT HOUSE'), Brem (gfx), Nino (trade), Randall (code), Wraith (trade), Zanok (trade). Boards; RIOT HOUSE. Cannabis was started and is lead by Woober. 1996 - Late in the year Jahmaal left, Lucifer sold his machine, and Nop, Beavis and Filur got kicked. Candle (CDL) -----------???> Aeroba (code gfx, 94-11/96), Angel (code music, 94-11/96), Cloud (music, 94-11/96), Lord Bizzare (music, 94). Slurry (1994, File). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Lord Bizzare. Released for the Compusphere 3 demo competition. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Please learn to code. And while you're at it, learn to draw and compose music as well. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Terror (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB Multifile). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Terribly unstable, it crashed my machine twice in different places. What I'd seen wasn't good enough to make me attempt at third time. Supposed to have been released for the Icing 96 demo competition, but time ran out. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Kreijsi (1996, 19.11, AGA File). code: Angel, gfx: Angel, Aeroba, music: Angel. Released for the Compusphere 7 demo competition. review: The biggest problem about this demo, I guess, is quality control. Someone should have sat down with these presumably 14-year-olds and told them to go home and practice some more before submitting this to the public. The graphics are embarassing, the coding has goddamned after burned line vectors as the main attraction, and the music...sort of follows the style of the rest of the demo. The demo is mostly built on supposed humour segments, where by far the best is the tiled face that slides into place, only to have it's eyes
flying around in its head, looking at small female breasts. The duck stuff is almost as embarassing as the graphics, though... This demo works on an unexpanded A1200...though this reviewer wishes it hadn't! Back to the drawing board, Candle. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Elvis the Elvisp (1996, 19.11, AGA Intro). code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud. Released for the Compusphere 7 fast intro competition. Capsule (CSL) ------------SPA> Barman (music swap, 10/95-03/97), Dior (code), Dr.Slump (code), Evelred (Mateo Pascual, music, 10/95-01/98), Goreboy (music), Keved (code), Kustom (Ruben Alcanyiz, code, 10/95-07/97), Magnum (gfx, 10/95), Oops! (code, 06/97), Peskanov (code, 06/97), Sativa (raytrace), Vader (code). ???> Creatoor (gfx, 10/95), Dixie (spa? gfx, 10/95), Judas (spa? gfx, 07/97), Nexus (gfx, 10/95), Pink (music, 07/97), Zaac (spa? gfx, 07/97). Capsule are one of the oldest and most well respected Spanish teams. Spanish coder Darklord (10/95) is probably deceased, since "Quicktro" [06/97] is dedicated to his memory. 1997 - Spanish coder Flynn left late 97. 2000 - Spanish musician Estrayk (Carlos Del Alamo, doublememb NahKolor, 06/97-) left the amiga scene for good early in the year, in favour of the growing scene on the Playstation. Estrayk used to be one of the organizers of the group. Career (1995, 14.10, AGA 64k Intro). code: Kustom, gfx: Magnum, Dixie (end anim), music: Evelred. Winner of the Euskal Party 3 64k intro competition! review: Nothing very outstanding about this intro; graphics and design are ok, music's listenable... The most advanced effect, I guess, is the burning ring. Nicest moment: Being kicked in the face towards the end. Not bad; not too memorable either. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Short (1995, 14.10, AGA 1MB File). code: Darklord, gfx: Creator, Nexus (capsule logo), music: Goreboy/N3. 3rd in the Euskal Party 3 demo competition. review: Short is certainly an appropriate name! It's short and not particularly sweet. The best effect has to be the zoom-rotator, which looks good, but unusual. Cheating, people? Music is the usual frantic techno. It's been done to death, and much better than this. If you're tired of traditional music, try out Impulse's "Voyage In Storm" [01/96]! And by the way, that ripple effect on the endscroller is bugged!!
030-50 recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assault! (1996, AGA File). code: Kustom, gfx: ZooN/Silicon (animbackground), music: Evelred (The Player 6.1A format). review: Assault is a very SMOOTH demo, with most routines flowing by like water through my fingers... It opens with a fast but undetailed flight over a voxelspace landscape. It continues with some all-too-familiar afterburned objects...see if any of these ring a bell: duck, torus, face? The best routine in the demo, perhaps, is a colorful tunnel that we blast through at a moderate pace at first, only to speed up considerably as the music changes its mood. Nicely done. Assault does have a certain sense of style, perhaps most evident during the stretching meteorstorm credits part and the intro with the text that appears in time to the soundtrack. To conclude, I guess I like this a little. If they could get a decent graphician in, and consider trying out some new objects they could very well make a killer demo sometime soon :) The music's not anything special, though. I do know that Evelred has won several music competitions, so there's bound to be a few good tunes in him! Please note that the version tested was an '040 fixed' version released to AmiNet 02/97. The demo makes use of Ludde/Encore's c2p routine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. First (1996, 28.07, Demo). 4th in the Euskal Party IV demo competition. Changing (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Quicktro (1997, .06, AGA File). code: Peskanov, gfx: Estrayk (textures), Oops! (textures, objects), Peskanov (objects), music: Evelred (The Player 6.1A format). review: Capsule surprise us here with some pretty fucking amazing 3D! Prior to seeing this, I'd never heard of Peskanov - rest assured that from now on I'm VERY aware of this guy! Quicktro consists of scenes and objects, much like many other recent demos, but the superior amount of color and detail set this three notches above anything that came before it. The main routines here are in HAM6 1x1, with the final toruses in HAM8 1x1. Needless to say, it looks pretty f... amazing. It's hard to speak about this demo without using some 'colorful' language; it's the only way to do it justice! Just wait till you see that galleon... If this is Peskanov's idea of a quick production, then I'm gonna be doing what the figure in the first scene is doing once he releases a full demo! Quicktro obviously needs a faster machine than mine to really shine,
but the 3D already knocks the socks off almost everything else even on my machine. The music by Evelred is perfect for this production; powerful but minimalist. There ought to be a law against making demos that are THIS good - it makes all the other ones look like fools! Dedicated to the memory of Darklord. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Trailway (1997, 26.07, AGA HD Demo). code: Kustom, gfx: Zaac (pictures), Judas (pictures, textures), music: Pink (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Euskal Party 97 demo competition. review: Oooh yes! They claim this is an 'unfinished demo' in their accompanying text file, and it does end rather abruptly... But what is here is actually enough to qualify this as one of the best demos of the year! The best thing about "Trailway" is its speed - everything runs fast and smooth, no matter what effects are onscreen! The whole show opens with a nice Capsule logo, then some credits appear. These zoom from 'behind' the screen and into it, and it looks very very cool =) Next is a fullscreen Trailway title picture by Judas. Then a circuitboard texture is mapped on a ball which bounces around...it's hard to describe, but download and be enlightened! :) Then some text appears, 'backlit' with flying blue particles, saying 'are you prepared for demo ART?' Next is what appears to be two snow crystal objects, then the most awesome effect in the demo: An animated envmapped face tries to break out through a box, twisting this way and that in an effect that looks just stunning - a true showstopper! Next is a fast texturemapped cityscape, followed by a cyberwoman fullscreen picture by Judas...then the cityscape routine reappears, only this time with a MUCH large scene - seemingly without losing ANY speed! It's just so amazingly smooth... Then we see Zaac's first contribution, a fullscreen picture of a screaming naked woman with the british flag in the background...and then nothing, the demo just ends. No information available on memory requirement, but we'll hazard a guess at somewhere in the region of 4MB. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. The Last Inline (1998, 25.07, Demo). 2nd in the Euskal Party 98 demo competition. Carillon (1992-1993) -------------------Carillon was formed by Dweezil and Heatbeat after Heatbeat was kicked from the finnish section of Rebels. After releasing two demos in 1992, they
merged with Cyberiad in the first months of 1993 to create one of the best ever Finnish teams; Carillon and Cyberiad Institutes (CNCD). At least Heatbeat (music), Destop (gfx), WDO (code) and Major Tom (music, ex Anarchy) came along to the new group. Despite rumours, Golem (ex Anarchy) never joined DCS, and this was likely the last group the Finnish graphician was a member of. It is believed coder and cofounder Dweezil went to Stellar at the time of the group's death. Finnish musician and graphician Dean (12/92) joined Damones. Finnish members Wraith and Major Tom (music) left the scene 09/92. Didn't Major Tom move on to CNCD? Finnish Bloodstone was kicked, and therefore joined Scoopex 11/91. Love & Anarchy (1992, ECS Trackmo). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Heatbeat. The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Maza/Rebels. 10th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Carnage ------ENG> Amida (code raytrace trade), Cage (sysop), Eon (org trade), Iceman (code), Kei (org code gfx ascii edit), Kenco (raytrace trade), Mayhem (code gfx), Ruiner (code trade), Spin (code), Thrust (music), Zebedee (code trade). Boards; REMOTE CONTROL (eng), THE ORACLE (eng). 1992 - Swedish musician D-Zire joined The Silents ca 04/92. 1996 - Sykotik joined Steps of Change 04/96. 1997 - English musician Wookie moved to the pc division late 97. English graphician Hip was kicked late 97 due to inactivity. Musician Gin joined Dual Crew. Cartel (-1990) -------------NOR> Achmed, Antichrist, Arny, FZ, Ozzy, Pab, Randy, Rockie, The Jack, Varmint. The entire group merged into PMC, and are now a part of that group! They also released a demo to announce the merging, see PMC for details. Some of the people this concerns is a.o. Lord Helmet (ex Heatseekers),
Zapper and Ramjet. Cascade (http://www.cascade64.de/) ---------------------------------SWE> Astaroth (code), Chainsaw, Lester, Mastermind. N-L> Jeffrey, The President. DEN> Whee (L. Legaard, code, 90). ???> Gellerman (new late90). The Danish section, with Whee as the only member, does not exist anymore. They kicked Whee!, but for some reason he didn't get the message and continued to release Cascade productions for some time, much to the annoyance of the Swedish members! Please note that Cascade has nothing to do with the similarly named PC demo crew Cascada. Swedish coder Phazor got kicked, and left the scene. Swedish musician and swapper Skimmer left the scene 09/92. Swedes M:ET (ex Rebels), Nick (ex Warfalcons) and Zaxxan (re)joined Rebels. Transmit 035 (File). Cracklight (1988, 03.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Whee, music: Martin Larsson. review: I like this! The tune and the visuals make for a nice atmosphere over the whole thing...blue, wavy, nice... Whee mentions an upcoming vacation trip on 20.12-90, so it's bound to be from sometime before that. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Rising (1990, .09, ECS File). Elektrica (ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Astaroth, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: This musicdisk opens with some VERY cool opening logos, before settling on the basic but unexciting main screen. You can listen to the opening tune, or press the right mouse button to bring up a selector. Text in the scroller reveals that RISING was their last release, and that some time has passed since then. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Cache off. Case ---Musician Protas joined Freezers late 97.
Casyopea -------???> Cooder (music), Dr.Sky (code), Greg (code swap), Lordwader (mainswap). Noise joined Old Bulls 06/96. Hades joined Deep 06/96). Musician Bartesek joined Mystic late95. Catastrophy ----------???> Quaid (ex Grace, new early92), Yama (ex Grace, new early92). Dutch coder D Icelord joined Scorpio. Nanodemo (Demo). info: Made by the dutch division. Catch 22 -------1991 - Kross changed his handle to Azi and left the group in june. Cavaleers --------GER> Risk (John Walter, swap music). ???> Hardy (code music), Toaster (gfx raytrace). Cave (1989-) -----------FIN> Dr.Feelgood, Ercwulff, Fang, Jupe, Lancer (gfx, 92), Mr.Spiv (Jouni Korhonen, code, 90-92), Old Fart, Stinger (import, 04/90). DEN> Anxious, Infinity, Logic, Magic, Proxt (Lars Svenningsen, code gfx swap, 11/89), Rare, Thunderboy, Tronic, Wombat. GER> Mimsamil. ITA> Yado. USA> Elf-Co (sysop 'ECHO A CALL ON' WHQ). ???> Melis (music, 09/91), Synadex. Cave is a finnish demo group, born after the group Panzerfaust changed their name in the later part of 1989. 1991 - Phalcon joined Aero. In the middle of the year, the following were kicked: Flyxer (fin), Napalm (fin), Curunir (fin), Orion (fin), Phalion (den), Airborne (ger), Dr.Fate (ger), Lemmy (ger) and Newark (ger). Finnish swapper Eku (Vesa Ekholm) left the scene mid 91. Rare left to form a new group mid 91. Anyone know WHAT group?
Dope joined Legend. Finns Fix, Hot and Perfect joined Coral. La'Weird (ECS File). Celium (1991, 22.02, ECS File). Revenge of Bob (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Mr.Spiv, gfx: Lancer, music: Double Trouble. Celestial --------Finnish coder Hook left for Genocide late 92. Celtic -----GER> Avalon (code swap, ex Avoid, new 06-10/90), Buckaroo (gfx, 10/90), Conan (org swap, 10/90), Crown (code, 01-10/90), Merlin (swap, 10/90), Mr.L (code music, 10/90), Noise (music, 10/90), Slayer (swap, 10/90), Xaik (gfx, 10/90). NOR> Dr.M (swap, ex New Wave). FIN> Pixie (gfx, ex Wizzcat). ???> 16Beat music, new ca 10/90). Celtic were originally a german group, who later took in some foreign members. They were also behind the utility "Demo-Maker V1.1" in 1989, possibly the first program of its kind on the amiga? ;) 1990 - Celtic grew stronger around june, when they entered into a cooperation with Avoid, still under the name Celtic. They also kicked out Slimer, Red Hawk and their german subgroup Highlander (4 spreaders). Bomber and Pinhead from Highlander joined Amaze, while Koto and Guru from Highlander joined Mindkillers. A new musician, 16Beat, was recruited around october. Plasmatronic (ECS File). Soundrevolution #5 (ECS Musicdisk). Demo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). Rip-Demo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). Celtic Frost -----------Finnish Masque joined Addicts.
Centolos (1994-, http://www.webmedia.es/centosis/) -------------------------------------------------SPA> Humphrey (gfx, ex Necropolis, new early96-97), Barman (swapper, doublememb Capsule), Derethor (org code, ex Sepultura, 12/94-97), Wavemaker (music, new early96-early98). GER> D-Orb (trader, left 96) Centolos is a Spanish demo group, formed for fun in 1994 by various members of other groups that had just died. In 1997 the group merged with Dosis to create the group Centosis - and simultaneously moved the entire group to the pc platform. They are well respected in the pc scene today, mainly due to their role in organizing most parties held in Spain. Thanks to former member Wavemaker (now in Trinity and Glue) for information! 1996 - Humphrey (gfx), Ravana (swap) and Sapphire (code) joined from Necropolis. Bladerunner (swap) joined early in the year. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Specktro (gfx) was kicked and left the scene, and that Derethor is the new organizer of the group. Ravana (swap, ex Necropolis) left. McGyver (music) joined. 1998 - McGyver (music) left. Spanish coder Sapphire (ex Necropolis) left, after winning the 4k competition at Euskal two years in a row with "MD4I" [07/96] and "Asciiparty" [07/97]. 1999 - Bladerunner (swap, new 96-) left the group. The Last Intro (1994, 29.12, ECS 4k Intro) code: Derethor, gfx Agnus Young (ascii), music: none. 4th in the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition. Necrofagia (1995, 22.07, ECS 64k intro) code: Derethor, gfx: Specktro, music: Barman Released as Posadas 95. Oxygene IV (1995, 14.10, ECS 4k intro) code: Sapphire, gfx: Humphrey, music: none. 2nd in the Euskal 3 4k intro competition. MD4I (1996, 28.07, ECS 4Kb musicdisk). code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Euskal IV 4k intro competition! information: The first 4Kb musicdisk ever. Asciiparty (1997, 26.07, ECS 4k intro) code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: Wavemaker Winner of the Euskal 5 4k intro competition! Centura ------HOL> D Icelord (code, ex Scorpio, new 93), Metal Gear (sysop 'SPHERICAL
DREAMS', ex Skid Row), Poison (sysop 'POWER ZONE'), Quasar (code, ex Scorpio, new 93), Radium (Laurens van Klaveren, gfx music, ex Scorpio, new 93), Wizard. SWE> Kid Curry (sysop 'MISAIGON'). GER> Outlaw, TMB (sysop). FRA> Anonym. ???> Ellesar (ex Vicious, new late92), Phantom (sysop), . Some of these names seem to reoccur below, in Cyanide... Centura is dead! Perlon joined Utopia. Mr. Nuke joined Legend. Turkish swapper Kickman joined Bronx. French swapper Cerval (ex Litany, new late93) joined Trance late93. Zed changed his handle to Gemini and joined Pleasure. Steef joined Legend. Cerberos Design --------------HUN> Big G, Bruce, Cunc, Edison, Silkie, Tope, X7. ???> Fresh Trash (code, 10/91). Cerberos Design is a group that's not very well known. Their coder Fresh Trash coded the much used packer utility CrunchMania. Everyone excpet Bruce, Cunc, Silkie, Tope, X7, Big G and Edison got kicked. Some joined Design House, Soc.Brigade and 23 Celsius Crew. Hungarian coder Comiga (ex Soc.Brigade) left the scene. Hungarian coder Goophy joined Absolute! Jean joined Surprise! Productions. Champs, The ----------???> Atom, Buildex, Dr.Pablo (crack), Syntax 2001. The Champs were one of the first and greatest cracking crews! Chaos ----???> Cruncher (ex Acume), James (music, 93), Number 6 (code, 93), Thunderbolt (music, 93), Uri (music, 93). Number 6 released the phone hacking tool MACK (Maximum Access haCKer). Brutus was kicked. Chuck joined Submision. MDMA, Schitzo and Case joined Defekt. Tix changed his handle to Stix and joined Equinox late91.
Audio Dreams (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Thunderbolt, Uri, James. info: 10 tunes. Guru-Intro (1996, 05.04). 2nd in The Gathering 96 A500 Nostalgia demo competition. Chaos A.D. ---------SWE> Dezecrator (Markus Merilainen, music sysop, ex X-Trade). NOR> Terminal Silence (ascii). USA> Flatline (sysop). ???> Aggressor, Hellhound, Pitcher, Prospect (old handle Zacco). Boards; 4AM CLUB. Chaos A.D. was born as a subgroup of Ram Jam. 'Chaos AD' is also the title of an album by Brazilian trash metallers Sepultura, which is probably an indication of where they got their name. Trouble was kicked. Dee, sysop 'UNDERCOVER' joined Delight. Chaos AD died, and all remaining members joined Ram Jam. Swedish musician Dose (ex D-Lite/D-29, new PRP4) joined Trance. The Norwegian division left, and some of the members joined a new group called Duplo; Digital (ex Diffusion, old handle Nurnal) and others. Chaos Bros ---------GER> Chavez (Mark Buonfrate, swap, early98), Dr.Avalanche (Rene Kueppers, swap, early98). Chaos Cooperation (-1989) ------------------------The entire group decided to join forces with Roadrunners in a new group called Rebels. They released their first joint production in february 89. Chaos Designs ------------Mohawk and Death joined Acme Projects mid 93. Channel 42 ---------DEN> Deroy (90?), Grafictive (code gfx, 07/88), Ice (gfx music, 07/88), Sionic (90?), Slim (90?). Is Sionic the graphics ace that later worked in The Silents?
Technique (1988, 11.07, ECS File). Code: Grafictive, Ice, Gfx: Grafictive, Music: Ice. Chilblains [new] ---------------???> Brain (ex Unlimited), Gold Dragon (swap, ex Unlimited). Chilblains was rebuilt by The Brain/Unlimited. Chip Lords (1992-) -----------------NOR> CS800 (gfx), Shrike (code), Weejay (music). Chip Lords is a new group. Chrome (CRM) -----------FIN> Bongo (swap, late90), Butcher (93), Chaosis (code, 08/93), Coma (old handle Chaos... Chaosis?, 08/93), DJ Joge (music, 08/93), Equalizer (swap, 08/93), Hacksaw (93), Maniac (swap, ex Falcons, new 09/9208/93), Multiplex (Toni Wilen, code, 08/93), Netrunner (swap, ex Calibra, 08/93), Ray (93), Shark (93), Sir Monkey (93), TC (93), Tornado (swap pack 'Stigmata', 08/93), Vulcan (swap, late90), Whizz (sysop 'KLONDYKE', 08/93). Chrome are a Finnish demo group mainly known for their "Digital Disco"'s and Multiplex' utility FileMaster. 1992 - Australian trader Heavyweight joined Addicts in september. Alien left the scene. Finnish swapper Royal69 restarted the legendary C64 group Wartec on the Amiga mid93. Danes Tricktrax, Subject, Blue Fox and Growl all joined Balance. Finnish Deeprunner (swap) and Morpheus (gfx, ex Stellar, new 09/92-08/96) got kicked. Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Digital Disco (ECS Musicdisk). Digital Disco II (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: DJ Joge. Assembly 93 Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Multiplex, gfx: Morpheus, music: DJ Joge. 9th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. review: In my book this will always be the 'puzzle intro'. You see, the design is based on pieces of jigsaw puzzles, hence... OK, anyroad. There's a few effects and a few textscreens. The best is some kind of colorcycle-plasma thing and a non-textured Doom thingie. As you've
probably sensed, I'm bored now so I'm off to do something FUN instead! If you want the graphics from this, just extract the IFF's from the depacked file with WRip or a similar tool. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Digital Disco 3 (1993, late, ECS Musicdisk). info: Generation 6 news said this would be released 'in January'. However, in their Assembly 93 intro they say it's gonna be out 'soon'. Chronos ------ITA> Alphabit (sysop 'ILLUSION'), Batblaster (sysop 'MUSICAL PHARMACY'), Eniac (sysop 'IRON LAW'), Vegamaster (sysop 'LAST BIT'). USA> Oldman (sysop 'DREAMING CITY', 04/95). Boards; DARK STAR (ger, 10/91). Chronos is an Italian group, with some members in Switzerland. Swiss coder Silence joined Equinox. Chryseis (CHS) -------------FIN> Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT', 93-04/95), Goozer (trade, ex Alcatraz, new 10/93). BEL> Mr.Hyde (sysop 'BLACK CRYPT', 04/95), Skrull (sysop 'TEAM RANGERS'), Unix (David Lovera, music, 04-12/94). USA> Apprentice (sysop 'CD EXCHANGE', 04/95). ???> Arpegiator (music, ex Anarchy, new late92-93), JMZ (04/94), Lazy Coder (code, 94), Mad Martigan (code, 94). Boards; TOTAL RECALL WHQ (usa, ex Paradise, new early93), MANIAC MANSION (bel). Lazy Coder made the file packer utility 'Chryseis Cruncher'. 3 From 1 (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Arpegiator. info: With design stolen from the MTV music program. 80kb Intro (1994, .04, Intro). production: Unix, JMZ. Released at Low Density 94. Cinefex Design (CFX, 1990-) --------------------------NOR> B.I.T (music, later Majic 12, 09/91), Bjelland (swap, late90), Dark Angel, Dexter (gfx, 09/91), Express (Gunnar, late90), Fallos (Sven
Deuschmann, code, late90-09/91), Floppy (code, ex Wizzcat, new 09/91), Hitcher, Mr.Nobody (ex Wizzcat, new 09/91), Pushead, Slask (swap, late90), S.M.A. ???> Agent Criminal, BTS, Cyberpunk, Da Cato, Dr.Stein, Echo, Engineer, Fodder (nor? 09/91), Gekko, Great White, Icy, Imp, Latex, Mediator, Morbid, Mosher (ex Cosa Nostra), Nautic (nor? 09/91), Sorcerer, Wilpet. Cinefex was a Norwegian demo group, formed by former members of Alpha Flight. Floppy and Mr.Nobody joined from Wizzcat at the Arendal party (09/91). First Demo (1990, 15.05, ECS File). Multiplex My Brain (ECS File). I Guess I Had To Release Something?? (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Fallos, gfx: Fallos (logo), Dexter (font), music: "Another One" by B.I.T (4ch MOD format). Released at the Arendal party. review: A slightly innovative but ultimately deadly unexciting intro. The innovative part is the logo, which has individual waving characters, overlapping each other as the logo waves...but that's about it. Deadly boring for the most part, with lousy graphics and thoroughly boring music. The sinescroll bugs even with KillAGA. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Party Message Box (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Floppy, gfx: Dexter (logo), Floppy (font), music: "Neological" by B.I.T (4ch MOD format). Released at the Arendal party. review: This message box is a rather plasma-heavy production, with an overload of plasma-like color making its overall appearance one of 'too much'! The design is rather basic, with an unexciting Cinefex logo at the top of the screen, a scroller at the bottom, and - you've guessed it a textplotter in the middle. It is, incidentally, this plotter that has all those plasma colors under it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Circle (1993-1993) -----------------Circle was a swedish demo group formed in may 1993 by Schizo (ex Noxious), Colorbird, Some1 and Prime (all ex Scoopex). The lifespan of Circle was short, however, as both Colorbird and Schizo later in the year moved on first to join Alcatraz, then to form Illusion. Most members of Circle later wound up in Illusion, and then eventually Razor 1911. Circle members that moved on to Illusion were at least Lionheart (ex Insane), Some1 and Prime
(both ex Scoopex). As a consequence, Circle died. Information in Balance's "Upstream #7" [11/93] that Some1 and Prime joined from Artech seem to be false. Finnish Sphinx (ex Styline) got kicked. Swedish graphician PGL joined Nova, but soon wound up in Illusion with most of his old groupmates. Sometimes I Wish I Was Famous (1993, 31.05, ECS File). code: Colorbird, gfx: Butch/TSL, Tony/Alcatraz (logo), music: Some1 & Prime. 7th in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition. review: The first (and only?) Circle demo is a rather forgettable affair, unfortunately. There's mostly vector and dot-stuff on offer here. The tune initially sounds promising, with some nice use of speech samples and stuff, but the novelty soon wears off. Too forgettable is my judgement. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Propaganda #1 ECS Diskmag). info: The first and only issue released under the Circle name. Issue #2 was released under the Illusion label, issues #3 and #4 under Razor 1911. Circle of Power (-1990) ----------------------Circus of Power died late 1990, when all members decided to close the group and instead join Abakus - thus creating theat group's Norwegian division. Cirion -----FIN> Asa (code gfx, 08/96-04/98), Mindeye (Seppo Sinkkonen, gfx, 0811/96), Viggin (raytrace, 08-11/96). ???> Turbo'boo (fin? music, 09/96). Hope (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 12th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Showstopper (1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile). code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin (raytrace), music: Carebear/Orange (The Player 6.1A format). 8th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: A little bland, this. There's the usual envmapping, but nothing to excite me or make me say 'that's original'. In a few short words, it's same shit, new (and not necessarily better) wrapping. The only effect I really liked in this demo is the one with the angray face wrapped onto the sphere. The face twists and waves in various ways. That was ok.
There are three raytraced logos and a fullscreen picture. The picture, "Adam Finds Eva" by Mindeye also competed in the graphics competition, where it was unplaced. It says nowhere whether it needs fastmem or not. The system during the endscreen upscroller is weird...Left mousebutton has no effect, while right exits. Weird... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hope 2 (1996, 28.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: ASA, gfx: none, music: Turbo'boo (The Player 6.1A format). review: Taking into consideration the tag line '3 hour production', I was positively surprised by "Hope 2". It's a small, limited production, but with some excellent core code work that shines through, and reveals some good potential beneath the surface. This is a typical 'object' intro, but given that, it's a nice colorful and pretty fat variation. My only real complaint is the rather ungraceful exit it performed on my machine, with the last note of the music beeeeeeping my ears to madness. For three hours worth of work, this is very nice. The C2P routine used was published to AmiNet (dev/asm/asac2p2.lha) 10/96, with the intro included in the archive. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fat/3.0. Naturally (1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB FPU HD Multifile). code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin (objects, trace), music: Carebear. 4th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition. info: Seeing as I don't have a maths processor (FPU), I have not yet been able to see this demo. Is Carebear a real member, or did Orange [pc] just loan him out? He participated in the music competition at the same party under the handle Carebear/Orange and Jamm, so this seems most likely. [glenn] Hope3 (1996, 23.11, 80k Intro). 6th in the Demolition 96 II 80k intro competition. Citron [hol] (1993-) -------------------Citron was formed in late 1993 by dutch sysop THC/Justice ('MYSTIC PLACE'), but the group didn't exist long before THC moved on to legend, presumably killing the group in the process. This group has nothing to do with the Swedish group Citron. (Citron-point). Citron. [swe] (1993-) --------------------SWE> Puh (editor), S.Duvan (Johan Alfredsson, founder code, 93-00), Slash
(Johan Elm, swap, doublememb Peek [pc], new 94-08/96), Tobias Jansson (founder, gfx, doublememb Sardonyx, old handle Electron, 12/9312/96). Citron. (note the point at the end) is a Swedish demo group, formed by S.Duvan and Electron in early 1993. In 1994, Slash joined as a double member from IFFTiC. In addition to their own diskmag Oepir Risti (which they are most known for), much of the team also helped C-Lous with their "No Sense" mag. Oepir Risti issue #1 (1994, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Electron, music: Jogeir/independent. info: Intro is a nicely drawn logo by Chevron/The Silents. Music is by Jogeir, and is a conversion of an old c64 tune (original possibly by Laxity). It was reviewed very favourably in Propaganda #3. Oepir code: info: Razor Risti issue #2 (1994, Diskmag). S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson, music: "Orthanc" by Lizardking. The tune 'Orthanc' by Lizardking was later used in the 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II" (1995).
Oepir Risti issue #3 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Passion (titlepicture), music: "Chip-Slayer!" by Lizardking. Oepir Risti issue #4 (1994, late, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main, titlepicture), music: "Propaganda # 2.2" by Some1/ Razor 1911. Oepir Risti issue #5 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Drakemule/Exceed (titlepicture), music: "A Way To Freedom" by Lizardking. Oepir Risti issue #6 (1995, 28.12, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Passion (titlepicture), music: "Lost at Home" by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena. Released at The Party 95. Oepir Risti issue #7 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Frame/C-Lous (titlepicture), music: "Wonder Smoke" by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena. Oepir Risti issue #7I (1996, 25.05, Diskmag). code: S. Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main, titlepicture), music: MittagLeffler/Nosebleed. Released at Icing '96. Oepir Risti issue #8 (1996, 28.12, Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Tobias Jansson/Citron. and
Prowler/ Passion (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed, editors: Puh, S.Duvan, Tobias Jansson. Released at The Party 6. Oepir Risti issue #9 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Prowler/Scoopex (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed. Oepir Risti issue #10 (Diskmag). code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson (main), Alvar Andersson and Prowler/ Scoopex (titlepicture), music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed. Clan ---POL> Bubba (mainorg code swap, doublememb Iris, late96), Ced (gfx), Danthalion (music), Gilo (music), Gizbern (swap), Jigit (gfx), Perry (gfx music swap), Phaser (swap), Pudding (Seba Potapinski, gfx swap, late96), Scyman (gfx music), Spirol (code), Yoyo (edit). NOR> Hurricane (Lars Selvig, org swap, doublememb Void, late 96). Classic [old] (-1991) --------------------SWE> Dezecrator (music, later X-Trade, 12/89-90), Hoson (swap, 07/90). ENG> Scooter (ex Genesis, new late90). ITA> Mr.M (sysop 'RED & BLACK', ex Skid Row, new late90), Shark (sysop 'INFINITE DREAMS'). USA> Armitage (sysop 'THE MADHOUSE', 90), The Light (sysop 'PURGATORY'). ???> Braindead, Capricorn (new late90), Clairvoyant, Dax, Garp, Jack, Modem Boy (sysop, ex Outlaws, new WHN1), Nuke, Plug1 (code, 91), Problem Child (new late90), Rob Northern, Scan (crack train), Skywalker, Sleaze (new late90), Swapperhead, The Jazz Syndicate (supply, 90), The Skeleton. Boards; APOCALYPSE (usa, 90), PIRATE SHIPS (usa), WARHAMMER (swe), EARTHSEA (swe), THE LINE TO HEAVEN (swi), THE LIGHT BBS (eng), BURN IT UP (+33). Classic was one of the better cracking crews based in Sweden, just like Fairlight and Defjam. The leader was Stalker, and their main cracker was Ringo Starr (both later in the reborn Quartex). They died in late 1991 (most probable) or early 92. 1990 - English sysop Splatt! ('SPLATTER HOUSE' EHQ, ex Vision, 90) joined Horizon late90. Zelnik (ex Oracle old) and Prisoner of Wife (sysop whq) both joined Paradox late 90.
Ringo Starr (code crack, 90) left the scene. He later returned as a member of the reborn Quartex, where I have him listed in 96 together with Stalker! German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH', ex Tristar, new 90) joined Storm (90). Dutch sysop BamBam ('DOWNTOWN', ex Oracle old, new late90-91) joined Quartex old. Frenchmen Corsair (code), Foxy and Mr.Video (gfx, all ex Angels old) joined Skid Row. German sysops TCM ('MAGICAL ZONE') and Joker ('SADO CITY', both 09/91) joined Razor 1911 old. American sysop Winter Mute ('MARTYRIUM', new late90) joined Alpha Flight. He later returned to Classic when Classic was reborn. Swedish sysop Wico ('INNER CIRCLE') joined Razor 1911 old, but left them for Scoopex a few days later. Then he joined Rebels!. Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code: Ringo Star, gfx: n/a, music: Dezecrator. Andis Demo (1993, 05.08). 2nd place in the ECC93 demo competition. Classic [new] (CLS, 1993-) -------------------------SWE> Rob (org modemorg trade salecard, 06/94-07/95), Ozone (sysop 'FAR OUT', ex Complex, 01/95-06/96). ENG> N.O.M.A.D (crack, 11/93). GER> Apollo (supply, 07/94-07/95). USA> Professor (sysop 'ICE STATION ZEBRA', WHQ 11/93, 11/93-04/95). ???> Dog^Bone (supply, 11/93), Kenshiro (ex Outlaws), Rastaman (spread, new 06/95), V-Cut (new 06/95), Whoosh (trade, re 06/95). Boards; PIRATES HAVEN (usa, WHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94), MARTYRIUM (usa, 07/94), PET SEMATARY (swe, EHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94), TERROR DOME (swi, 11/93-07/94), CYCLONE (hol, 07/94), SCARA BRAE (ger, 07/94), TROPICAL PLACES (eng, 11/93), WORLD DOWNFALL (ger, 11/93). Classic was reborn with some of the old members and a lot of guys from Ministry in late 1993. Whoosh was a former sysop, who later rejoined as a trader - confusion city :) 1995 - Stain is no longer a member 06/95. 1996 - American sysops Glacier and Black Ice ('ICE FLOW NORTH', 07/94) are no longer members 06/96. Classified ---------FIN> Major Tom (Mika Keskikiikonen, code music).
Major Tom is the author The Holy Noise musiceditor, used in the musicdisk of the same name. He was later (or earlier?) a member of Anarchy, then Carillon. The Holy Noise (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code/music: Major Tom, gfx: n/a. Clique (CLQ) -----------???> Bloody (trade, new 06/96), Cool Shot (sysop, triplememb of Hoodlum and Virtual Dreams), Cooper (music), Detail (code trade, ex TRSI, new 04/96), Kris (gfx cosys, ex Scoopex, new 04/96), Master (code, new 06/96), Melih (code), Mit (code, new 06/96), Ravel (gfx), Remix (trade), Smile (trade, new 06/96), Sparky (code trade), XTD (music, doublememb TRSI and Mystic, new 04/96). Clique is a demogroup based, I believe, in Turkey. They are closely related to their mothergroup from the c64. They announced that Sonik Clique stole their name 04/96. Sonik Clique is mainly demoscene-related and Clique is mainly modem-related, but they think they were the first to use that name (04/96). The group's homepage, http://www.clq.com, appears to have gone down indefinitely. Clones -----FIN> Awkward, Brainbreaker, Gizzy (swap, 01/90), Helix, Idle, Jurkis, Ooze, Particle, Sir Arthur. AUS> Psycho. 1990 - Nikki Corruption left clones late this year. Cloned Stuff (ECS File). Securitate Party Intro (ECS File). C-Lous (CLS/C!S, 1993-, http://w1.312.telia.com/~u31212216/) -----------------------------------------------------------SWE> Claw (Jan Almqvist, gfx raytrace music, 12/95-08/97), Crazy D (Fredrik Johansson, swap), Frame (Joakim Bengtsson, mainorg gfx ascii swap editor 'No Sense', ex Medicine, doublememb Subspace ROM9, also in Peek [pc], new late94-09/97), Origo (Mattias Nilsson, code, triplememb Subspace, 08/96-08/97), Prospect (Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Ram Jam, doublememb Subspace, later Endzeit, 04/95-08/97), Racoon (Lucas Edman,
music, doublememb Darkage 02/98, new late97-02/98), Scout (Mikael Kalms, code, doublememb Artwork late96 and Appendix 07/97, 08/96-08/97), Zent (Fredrik Johansson). GER> Case78 (ascii swap, triplememb Scoopex [details] and Head!, 96). ???> Devotion (swe? code, new 97-08/97), Reverend D (swe? sysop), TMK (gfx, 08/97). C-Lous was a swedish demo group, born in 1993, and with the leadership of Frame. They grew from a local swedish group to one of international proportions, with a few of the scenes' foremost coders - Origo, Prospect, Scout - as members. The group's first demo was released at the MCS Party in july of 1993. Crazy D and Zent have the same real name.... 1996 - The intro "Rektum Analis" [08/96] finished 5th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition. Swedish graphician and swapper Pozz (Patrik Johansson, 12/95-09/96) decided to leave the scene some time after this, and "Rektum Analis" was his final production for the group. 1997 - Swedish musician duo Some1 and Morrow (08/96) left to join Rebels in august, after making music for one of their recent demos. Frame contributed a logo to Abyss' "Klub Diznee #4 - Beverly Hills Cop'ed" [09/97] music file demo. Swedes Mega (music), Mr.Mygg (music, 12/95), Stardust (gfx, 11/95) and TmX (gfx, 04/96) all left to form a new group called Dole. Swedish swapper Slash left, he is presumably still in Citron. Musician Jozef has left the scene. Swedish sysop Qen ('ODIUS', ex Solitude) left for Squash. Musician Raiden (ex Insane) is no longer a member. Swedish swapper Yaffle joined Insane. ECC 93 Intro (1993, 05.08, Intro). 7th in the ECC93 intro competition. Suicidal Tendensy (1994, 02.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Claw, Pozz, music: Claw. Released for The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: This was supposed to compete in the Gathering intro competition, but was disqualified because the decruncher needed fastmem. Origo was reportedly VERY upset. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Suck Dick (1994, fall, AGA Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Frame, Pozz, music: "Ccccp" by Mr.Mygg (Tracker Packer 3 format). review: An average intro from Origo, with most of his common effects.
That means a zoomrotator (this time with a smiling purple face =]) is always present... This intro looks like any of his other 40/64k'ers, only with less chippy music. Too bad Origo couldn't use the extra space to create something more worthwhile... Seriously lacking in originality. And why the excessive profanity, Origo? Special thanks to Pozz for at least helping me date this, at least approximately. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. At The Party (1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, Frame, music: "Det E Gott Med Snacks" by Mr.Mygg (ProTracker MOD format). 12th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Works fine on the A2000, but was obviously made on a faster machine - the effects take forever to finish. Also, the opening graphics are somewhat fucked (if colorcycling wasn't intended...and given the way it looks, I think not!) It works perfectly fine on the A1200. Press the right mousebutton to pause the zoomscroller and text. [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Das Omen (1995, 01.04, Demo). 2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 demo competition. Time Square (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Destructor/Obscene. 2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition. review: It's the design more than the code that sets "Time Square" apart from the competition, and secured its second place. Effects here include a chunky tunnel, yet another variation on the cityscape from Pygmy Projects "Extension" and some spacecut spheres. But, as mentioned, it's the design and execution that sets it apart. It has an air of professionality to it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Virtual Conspiracy (1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Mr.Mygg. Released for the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition, but was unplaced. review: Apparently, there's something wrong with the way graphics are displayed here, since several effects look strange on my system - even with KillAGA - and the first effect isn't properly displayed at all. Due to this it's hard to judge the intro as a whole, but it doesn't really look like I've missed something. Interestingly, this intro ALSO has a variation on the "Extension" cityscape! Ultimately quite limited. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. Freebased (1995, 18.06, ECS 64k Intro). code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Morrow & Some1/Razor 1911.
Winner of the Icing 95 intro competition! review: Not bad at all, this little intro. It opens with a nice little C-Lous logo by Pozz, then continues onto a gouraud/texturemapped spacecut routine. Next there's some bitmap manipulation on a picture of a face... There's a couple of more routines too, but you get the picture. The tune's not too bad, though the chipfactor is a little high. Though the intro works fine on my machine, it obviously runs too fast for its own good... Some of the objects really sprint off! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Assembly 95 40k Intro (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 5th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Instinct (1995, 07.10). Released at Party Remedy 95, apparently out of competition. Masque (1995, 12.11, Demo). 2nd in the Compusphere 5 demo competition. Life With a G-String (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, Pozz (picture), Slime/Rebels (logo), music: "Feel the Hedgehog" by Mr.Mygg (Tracker Packer 3 format). Released at The Party 95. review: Very cool, smooth opening to this polished little demo from C-Lous, highlighted by some excellent graphical work. The code is nothing really special, just the twister bars early in the demo were special. This was most probably released outside the competition. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mixed Emotions (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Soul/Movement. 3rd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This intro can thank OK design for achieving the place it did. The coding is not too fabulous, but as mentioned the design and music are the saving grace here. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kolor (1996, 26.05, Demo). code: Scout, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 5th in the Icing 96 demo competition. Kolor Remix (1996, 16.06, Demo). 2nd in the Remedy 96 demo competition. Rektum Analis (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Origo, Scout, gfx: Pozz, music: Some1 & Morrow. 5th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition. review: This is very good! From the moment the C-Lous logo smashes onto the screen to the first beats of the bassdrum, you know this is a competent production. The techno music kicks quite a bit, and does not
suffer from the chip syndrome (squaeeeaaakk...) at all. Definitely cool! There are four effects here, all sharing the rather purple palette. We're treated to some shading, a tunnel, a voxelspace and some multiple toruses. It's all over rather quickly, but it's a sweet ride. Works on standard A1200, but a 030 and fastmem is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/040-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. No Sense #2 (1996, .09, Multifile Diskmag). code: Origo, Scout (additional), S.Duvan/Citron. (additional), gfx: GfxTwins/Essence and Scoopex (title), Tobias Jansson/Citron. (welcome), Frame (main), music: "Dosk Forever" by Some1 & Morrow featurning Lizardking, "Hazel" by Elusive and Radix (both 4ch MOD format), editor: Frame. review: This mag opens great, with a fabulous title picture by the GfxTwins to the first beat of the equally great music...then the picture fades down and there's a really cool little welcome-animal to greet you! So we start to explore the mag...and it feels just great! Smoooooth scrolling, a goodlooking panel, and an overall air of professionalism oozes out of its every pore! Well, have spent over an hour reading already...and I can just say that the feeling continues! The code is perfect, the mag's pleasantly written, and there's oodles of interesting and thoughtful material! Just great! It would be a CRIME not to download this mag, ok? Oh, and it multitasks naturally! If you want the tunes, just depack them (they're in the 'music' directory), and they're ready to go! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. No Sense #3 (1996, autumn, Diskmag). code: Origo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Frame. Showbase Shape (1997, .04, AGA Demo). Released at Icing '97 Beta, placing uncertain, but probably won! CNCD (1993-, http://www.cncd.fi) -------------------------------FIN> Case (code, 12/95-12/97), Dean (Mikko Lipiainen, gfx music, doublememb Damones, 93-95), Destop (Jani Isoranta, founder gfx trade, reAnarchy, 02/93-12/97), Dizzy (Juha Kujanpaa, music, 12/93-08/95), Fraction (Juha Huuskonen, code music, doublememb Damones, 12/93), Golem (93), Groo (Sami Jarvinen, music, doublememb Virtual Dreams, 08/93-12/95), Heatbeat (Antti A. Mikkonen, founder music, 02/93-08/94), Juliet (code, 12/95), Konnu (code, 02/93), Major Tom (founder music, 12/93),
Prime Premium (Ville Hyvonen, music, 93-95), Stelios (Stelios Stagakis, code, ex Scoopex), Uncle Sam (93), WDO (founder code, reAnarchy, 08/93), Yolk and Legend (music, 12/97). SWE> Louie (gfx, doublememb The Black Lotus [details], new ROM9, 12/97). HOL> Mark (Mark Dankers. trade music, ex Banal Projects, new 08/93). ???> Hmd (code, 12/97), Sly (code, 12/97). CNCD resulted as a merger of the two groups Carillon and Cyberiad. Some of the above, like Juliet and Destop, are active cross-platform. Probably their most famous member must be the now-inactive Heatbeat, one of the greatest musicians to ever grace the Amiga platform. Finnish musicians Groo, Dean, Heatbeat and Dizzy have released a CD called simply "CNCD" through scenerelated record company TRSI Recordz. News in RAW #6 that Dean and Fraction joined Damones are untrue, they just joined as doublemembers. 1994 - Groo contributed music to Stellar's 40k intro "Peverly Hills" [12/94] at The Party in december. 1997 - And just when we thought we'd heard the last from CNCD they strike back with a "Killer" [12/97] of a demo at The Party! Finnish graphician Kube (05-12/95) left to join Stellar (ROM4). How can this possibly be right, when ROM4 was released 05/95, and the "Closer" demo was released 12/95!? The dutch Astro, who was a CNCD and Movement doublememb, left them both for Virtual Dreams. Comedy Iceland (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Konnu, fx: Destop, music: Heatbeat. review: This one's a small, simple, but nice BBS intro for 2000 A.D.'s Finnish board Comedy Iceland. It's a one-screen intro, but still quite OK. The bouncy, cool tune by Heatbeat lifts it a lot. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Cubes at top didn't fill properly, otherwise 100%. Musical Rabbit (1993, .07, Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sedat Soitta-1" by Dean (The Player 5.0A format). info: Described as a 'mini-music-disk'. Aquarium (1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Fraction, gfx/music: Dean. 6th in the ECC93 demo competition. review: Not a very good one, I'm afraid... It's a short trackmo without too much to shout about. It's too AVERAGE for the most part, with neither the gfx, music or code ever really coming alive. The only sign of innovation was the broken glass vector cube, I haven't seen that before. Still, it's just a vector cube variation. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: At first it crashed. Then I tried kicking down, and it worked. Then, just for fun, I tried it without kicking down, and it worked again! Why? Haven't a clue... Plastic Messiah (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Groo & Mark. Split 3rd in the Assembly 93 intro competition. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Morbid Visions 3 (1994, early, ECS File Slideshow). code: Fraction, gfx: Dean (title), Reward (scan and retouch), music: Dizzy (The Player 5.0A format). Cooperation with Complex. review: Quite good slideshow detailing various Finns' adventures at The Party 3. Entertaining and good. Without KillAGA, keyboard control does not work. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0, -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Sorry, No Elmers In My World (1994, File). code: Fraction, gfx: n/a, music: Groo. Uulima (1995, File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Andy/Banal Projects (The Player 6.1A format). review: Ok? I don't get this one... It's just a few lines of text and a weird face spinning a couple of times. It's all over in 30 seconds, and sort of leaves you wondering 'is that it?' 121k for a spinning face or two, a tune and some Italian hardly seems right. The only credits say 'CNCD with Andy'... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Deep (1995, 14.04, Demo). Cooperation with Parallax, see there. Closer (1995, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Juliet, Case, gfx: Destop, Kube, music: Groo. Winner of The Party 5 demo competition! review: Whoaaa... This signals a new age in the way demos are made. Instead of the old effect-effect-effect demos, this is more a journey through (chunky!) landscapes and colors. The biggest drawback, I feel, is the music. It's not really a TUNE as such, it's more just music made to suit the demo, without an identity of its own. Wasn't that flower picture by Kube used in RAW #8, albeit in lower resolution? At The Gathering 1996, CNCD released a PC demo called "Inside" [04/96] from much the same team as this one. Given the name, I suppose it's a sequel of sorts... Anyway, if you (like me) have a Pentium gathering dust in your bedroom (any room will do, though ;), it's well worth a look! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Killer (1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile). code: Case, Sly, Hmd, gfx: Destop, Louie, music: Yolk and Legend. 2nd in The Party 7 demo competition. review: "Killer" opens with a totally red screen to the first bars of the music... and keeps it there for long enough to let everyone think something is seriously wrong with their graphics displays! And, it would appear, they are perhaps right... I do not know what it is, but I cannot get this demo to do anything but display that red screen and play the music on my system. I've tried clean boots and everything, but nothing seems to help... Anyone? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Coast ----GER> Exodus (sysop 'TRASHZONE'). Coast was a German group. 1991 - Sean, their old leader, left for TRSI in september. Swat joined Bronx. Douglas joined Exort. Cocoon Dezign ------------Once a subgroup of Motion, but they were kicked or left. Deathlord will leave. Cola Sector ----------Norby joined Investation. Collision --------???> Coroner (ex Compact). Color ----GER> Rebel MC (sysop 'COLOR', 09/91). Coma (1990-1992) ---------------GER> Don, DSP, Led, Mano, Mulloch, Panther, Pulsar, Stranger (swap, 01/91), Vipek, Warrior.
FIN> Apoplexy, Soy. USA> Mad Max (music, 08/91). ???> Aljechin (ger? code, 90-08/91), Blockbrain (gfx, 05/91), Braindamage (ex Intuition), Darxon (gfx, 05/91), Dave Tough (gfx, 03/91), Elwood (code, 05/91), Tool (music, 02/91), Topaz (music, 03-05/91), Wave (music, 02/91), Zorba (gfx, 03/91). Boards; MATERIAL WORLD (new mid 91). Coma was a german demo group, first formed at the Action Conference 90 in october, and became a fully operation group at the the Amiga Expo the following month. It was a fusion of the three groups Antares, Exage and Exess. 1991 - Coma was very active in their first months of existence, releasing several intros and demos at both the Action Conference in february and the CeBit 91 in march. More intros and demos followed, until the group was completely reformed around the middle of the year, and a lot of 'dead meat' was forced to leave. This probably means Mr.L, Cato, Tomcat (music), Slugger, Lawbreaker, Tracer, Booker, Chatman, Alva, Hellraiser, Rockstar (ex Agile, new mid91), Ariel, Calypso, Sub Zero, Ze Worst and Hygraicc. This event was announced in their intro "Kick Out". Finnish member Curse joined Arise in september. The releases kept coming, with several new demos like "Burger Hill" and "Hot Dots" and the first two issues of their successful diskmag, "McDisk" the future looked great. Swiss swapper Antifast joined Zenith late91. 1992 - Unfortunately, the start of the year would prove disastrous for Coma. After releasing the third issue of "McDisk" in january, their three best german coders (Microforce, Cosmos and Zap) joined Sanity; their best musician (Virgill) joined TRSI and the rest of the group - Control, Mad Butcher, Head (old handle Amok), Jackie D., Mission, Tom Copper, Mop (ex Dartagnan/Axis old, new mid91), Nick O'Teen and Aahz - decided to join Alcatraz rather than keep it going as a separate group. Their diskmag came with them to the new group. Cytax' "I.C.E #8" [mid92] reported that the group Interactive was born by former members of Equinox, Coma and others, so some former members probably also found their way there. Germans Renegade (gfx, 01/92) and Orbit (08/91) joined Design, probably early 92. German Tripex (02/91) joined Equinox. Englishman Jongle joined Damage Inc. German swapper Brutus joined Armageddon. English coder Hotspur (old handle Jedi) joined Addonic. Comic-Intro (1990, late, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: The intro that announced Coma's birth. Floodland (1991, .02, ECS File).
code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Amok, Mad Butcher, Tripex (vectorobjects), music: "Future Complete" by Wave & Tool (ProTracker MOD format). Comic-Intro 2 (1991, .02, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Works (1991, 27.02, ECS File). code: Mission, gfx: Amok/Coma (logo), Metallion/Kefrens (font), music: "Dream It3" by Tomcat (StarTrekker 4ch MOD format). Floodland II (1991, 02.03, ECS File). code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper, Mad Butcher (font), music: "Dream. Again.Final" by Tomcat (ProTracker MOD format). 3rd in the Treacl and Panic party demo competition. Party Intro (1991, 02.03, ECS Intro). code Aljechin, gfx: Zorba (logo), Metallion/Kefrens (font), music: n/a (Future Composer 1.4 format, 16672 bytes). Released at the Treacl and Panic party. Exotic Pack #2 (1991, 02.03, ECS Packmenu). code: Aljechin, gfx: Zorba, music: Leffty/Tristar (Future Composer 1.3 format, 66074 bytes). Released at the Treacl and Panic party. Boring Bobs (1991, 16.03, ECS File). code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper, music: "Jambala Converted" by Jochen Hippel/Thalion (Future Composer 1.4 format, 81670 bytes). Released at CeBit 91. info: This was Aljechins first demo. Cebit 91 (1991, 16.03, ECS Intro). code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Tough (pic), Tom Copper (font), music: "Piknukiple 1" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). Released at CeBit 91. The Gallery Intro (1991, 30.03, ECS File). code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper (font), music: "Futility2" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). BBS Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, music: "Collusion" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). info: On A1200 systems, turn cache off, chipset original. Kick Out (1991, Intro). code: Orbit, gfx: Control & Amok, music: "Headcrash-Intro3" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). info: This intro announced the complete reformation of Coma, and a lot of old members were kicked out... Sunset (1991, 08.05, ECS File). code: Elwood, gfx: Blockbrain (logo, endpartpix), Darxon (font), music: "Polyprint" by Topaz (ProTracker MOD format). Delicious Fruits #4 (1991, 17.06, ECS Packmenu). code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Touch (logo), Tom Copper (fonts), "t.k.g. Credits" by Ray Norrish/independent.
info: The music was ripped from the game The Killing Gameshow. One Night (1991, ECS Demo). code: Laserdance, Falke/TSB, Mad Butcher, gfx: Ivan/TSB, Amigaze, Tom/Coma, music: "Micro-Tyxe.gts" by GTS/TSB (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with TSB. Burger Hill (1991, ECS Trackmo). code: Aljechin (burger anim, vectorlogos), Orbit (plasma, adresspart), gfx: Spider, Zorba (font), music: "Tbb-Plasmacrap" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). Spiders Slide (1991, 06.08, ECS Slideshow). code: Aljechin, gfx: Spider/D-Tect, music: "Vision Fear - hm" by Twisted/ D-Tect (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with D-Tect. McDisk #1 (1991, .08, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Orbit, gfx: n/a, music: "Sonata a la Zamfir" by Mad Max (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: Mission, Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper (design), Spider/DTect (anims), music: "Mc.Disk Final..." by Tomcat (ProTracker MOD format), editor: Mad Butcher (main), Amok. Mc Disk #2 (1991, .10, ECS Diskmag). INT - code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, Zoom/TSL (logo), music: Virgill. Hot Dots (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Jackie D., gfx: Nick O'Teen, Tom Copper, music: "High Density" by Virgill (ProTracker MOD format). 2nd in the Prime 91 demo competition. McDisk Issue #3 (1992, 25.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Zap, gfx: Renegade, Tom Copper (logo), Facet/Anarchy (loading pic), music: "McDisk3_Intro" by Microforce (ProTracker MOD format). MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. GLE tested A500 /000/½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Comakids (CKS) -------------SWE> Cre8or (sysop 'A BASE', 01/95), Dexter (sysop 'TOTAL DISASTER', doublememb Alpha Flight, 01/95). Comax ----SWE> Zcandaler (sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', doublememb Duplo, 01/95).
Combat-18 --------DEN> Zoonie (sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', 04/95). Mordred joined Defekt. Comedy -----Comedy was formed by the best members of Mad Sorcerers (Eksec, Zorro...) and G-Force. I believe most of the members I know about - Smack (code, 02/92), Eksec (code, 02/92), Zorro (gfx, 02/92) - later joined Infect. Terror Pack Mag #1 Menu (1992, 07.02, ECS File). code: Eksec, Smack, gfx: Zorro, music: Merlin/Sonic. info: Works fine on my A500/1mb/2.04. Compact (-1992) --------------FIN> Agony, Clr, Crom (sysop 'GENESIS III'), Dica, Dope, Eldar, Gambler, Godfather, Lorimar, Netrunner, Optic, Secret-X, SJ, Soldier, Synthoid, The Bull, X-Tasy. Compact was declared dead late 1992. Please note that Compact, based in Finland, and Compact Inc, based in Norway, are NOT the same group! Sentinel and Thor joined Grace. Coroner (ex Xentrix) joined Collision. Genesis III BBS Intro (ECS Intro). Compact Inc. -----------NOR> Acen (ex Phase), Crimson (code, ex Sciff/Alive, 12/92), Enzian, Fizban (code, old handle Whiplash, ex Phase, 12/93), Flash Fox (gfx, 12/92), Jelace (music, ex Connection), Matt (code, ex Hiron [no entry]), Omaha Thunder (sysop 'PRO PARIA' earlier 'DIGITAL PLEASURE', ex Destiny, 07/94), Online (sysop 'TOONTOWN'), Peloquin, Psimon (music, ex Razor 1911, new late92-12/93), Scientist (code), Scud (music, 12/93), Shocker (gfx, ex Razor 1911, new late92-12/93), Unix, Zenit (swap sysop 'WALL STREET' opened 09/92). BEL> Ikon (ex Decnite, new mid93). ???> Alex, Da Vinci (old handle Gemini), Howard (new late94), Minion (gfx, 12/92), Scorpio (gfx, 12/92), Spadowski, Turrican (new late94), Van
Diemen (new late94). Compact Inc. also had a PC subgroup, called Rave Nation. Scorpio returned to the scene after a little break in 94. Please note that Compact, based in Finland, and Compact Inc, based in Norway, are NOT the same group! Sunburst and Agamemnon got kicked. Norwegian Jack (ex Desire, new late92) was kicked 09/92. Norwegian Phil (ex Desire, old handle Switchblade) left the scene. Norwegians Powerpack and Tobias left the scene late 94. Space Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sciff, gfx: Minion, Flash Fox, Scorpio, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs. 17th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Hiplash (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Fizban, gfx: Shocker, music: Scud. 8th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Hiplash 2 (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). 6th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. Company, The (1990-) -------------------FRA> Corsair (code), Shadow Lord (supply). GER> Phil (sysop 'MAIDEN HOOD', 10-12/91). SWE> Porta (sysop 'EAGLE'S NEST'). USA> Nosferatu (sysop 'DANSE MACABRE', 12/91). ???> Gator, Link (supply), Triton, Ultimate Warrior (new mid 91), White Snake (supply, 12/91), Yeti (train, 91). Boards; PIRATE CHIP (usa, 91), GURU HEAVEN (usa, 12/91), PHANTOM ZONE (ita, 12/91), SECOND WORLD (ger, 93). The Company was formed in 1990 by ex members of Paranoimia and Quartex. They were one of the better cracker group while they were operating. They released at least two cracks in cooperation with Vision Factory. 1992 - Germans Cannon, Darkstar and Fade One all left for Complex around january. The 'WORLD OF MIRAGE' BBS (WHQ, 91) joined TRSI. Black Ghost left for Vogue after 2 weeks (mid 91). French sysop Ashton ('ACID RAIN') left the scene to study mid 91. French Mr.Video stopped all acitivities, and Foxy got busted late 91. Germans Selim (trade sysop 'THE JAM', 01/91), Rudi and Oliver joined Skid Row mid 91. Complex (CLX, http://www.komplex.org/) --------------------------------------
FIN> Artifex (Henri Loikkanen, gfx, ex Stellar, 12/92-08/96), Banzai (code, ex Advance), Blade (06/92), Breeze (ex Amaze, new ca 01-06/92), Cable (code, 06/92), Cockatrice (gfx, 06/92-95), Delorean (Sakari Hannula, music, 06/92-95), Der HM (music sysop 'THE WATCHTOWER', 07/91-95), Dweezil (code), Fuzzy (trade, ex Dual Crew, 02/93-03/94), Gremlin (gfx, 06-07/92), Hotshot (Jarkko Sopanen, gfx, ex Stellar, 08/93-95), Hyde (Harri Hytoenen, trade, 06/92-12/94), JHL (code sysop 'ZENLANDIA', ex TRSI), Jugi (Jukka Kaartinen, gfx music, 06/92-04/94), Mic Dair (Aki Sihvonen, mainorg music trade sysop 'NAUSEA', 06/92-95), Outlaw (Janne Kontkanen, code, 10/94), Reward (Sami Vanhatalo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new 92-08/96), Tai-Pan (Antti Toiviainen, code, 06/92-95), Tom (code, ex Advance), Zeque (code, ex Reflect, new mid93-95), Zoltar (music, ex Advance). GER> Cannon (ex The Company, new ca 01/92), Darkstar (ex The Company, new ca 01/92), Fade One (gfx, ex The Company, later Essence, new ca 01/92), MCM (code, ex Spaceballs), RTD (code, ex Mexx, 12/94), Virgill (Jochen Feldkötter, music). SWE> Damien (sysop 'PURPLE PLEXUS', ex Aurora), Pace (Roger Andersson, swap, ex Insane, new late 94). N-L> Camelot (sysop 'ETERNAL CHAOS'). ???> Blue (ex Offworld, 06/92), Camelot (04/94), Contra (ex Niagara [no entry], new late93), Dalton (code), King Cobra (sysop, new 06/95), Mr.Spiv (fin? code, 04/94-95), Nukeman (ex Anthrox), Olwi (code, 04/95), PHS (ex Offworld, 06/92), Proton (code, 95), Shade (ex Offworld), TNM (04/94). Boards; CELTIC PATH (ger), TOTAL CHAOS (ger). Complex is a legendary demo crew, based in Finland, where their leader Mic Dair lives. For a great many years they worked on the Amiga, though they now seem to have abandoned our platform completely in favour of the PC. Their PC section still has most of the original members, like Jugi. Mr.Spiv is the author of the packer program StoneCracker. German musician Virgill joined Complex according to PRP4, but Virgill made music for the TRSI demo "Twin Peaks" [12/96]... I believe the truth is closer to a double membership. They have released an unknown number of issues of their diskmag "Maggy". Artifex came 2nd at at ASM95 with "Mystery". When King Cobra rejoined 06/95, the news read '...is back with a new board'. 1990 - Hyde left the group to join up with rising star Image around the middle of the year, but left after a not too short time, and eventually found his way back to Complex.
1991 - The Finnish board 'COMPLEX SOFTBANK' (pc section) was busted late 91, and this was the first real Finnish bust. Mr.Nice Guy moved to France, and joined Delight under the handle Mr.NGY late in the year. 1992 - The group was strengthened when Finnish coder Epidemic joined from Addonic around january. Finnish Breeze/Amaze also joined around january. A German section was formed around january by Mike D./Anarchy, Tomcat/ Awesome, Fade One, Cannon and Darkstar from Company. Celat joined Supplex, while finnish graphician Morpheus left for Chrome in september. The three Germans Crash (code), Argon (code) and Mincer (trade) joined from Adept around october. 1993 - Coder Epidemic (ex Addonic, 06/92-93) joined Banal Projects some time during 1993; He did NOT join VD, as claimed in Spaceballs' "R.A.W #6" [12/93]. During his time in Complex he worked on some intros [92 and 93] as well as the musicdisk "Book of Songs" [93]. 1994 - After releasing their last demo for Complex, "Real" [04/94], musician Clawz and coder Gengis (both ex Digital, new ca 11-12/93) decided to leave to form their own group called Bomb! in August 1994. They left behind a few great demos for Complex, most notably "Origin" [12/93], which won The Party 93 demo competition! 1995 - Swedish sysop Ozone ('FAR OUT', 04/94) joined Classic new 06/95. Ozone was the modem organizer. German board 'SKARA BRAE' was busted 06/95. French graphician Eloy (ex Digital, 12/93-04/94) left for Scoopex late 95. German graphician Noogman (08/93-04/94) joined Artwork. Coder Stelios (mid 94) was kicked out, but joined Scoopex only to move on to CNCD in a matter of days!. Peace has been kicked out. Finnish coder Fraction got kicked. Python (ex Byterapers) and Zoltar were kicked. Swedes Lando and Xstaz (sysop 'THE ICE PALACE', ex Legend) both joined Global Overdose. German trader Mincer (ex Adept, 03/93) left the scene. Fabulous german musician Bit Arts (ex Sanity) left Complex, and later also the scene. One of the greatest losses the scene has ever suffered, IMHO... German ex-Anarchy graphician E.Toball was kicked. French graphician Titan (Sebire Laurent, ex Digital, 04/94) left. He was later in Bomb! Titan drew a great fullscreen picture for the demo "Real" [04/94]. German Speed (ex Mexx, new RAW6) was kicked out mid 93. He changed his handle to Rakiem and joined Dreamdealers. Finnish coder Saviour (06/92-95) left to join Damones. R.A.W #6 also
mentions Drifter, but look below for more on THAT confusion... Saviour worked on his commercial game "Elfmania" for about a year, before it was released in the summer of 1994. Finns Guru and Stratos (both ex Decept, 07/92) left to form their own group; Sahara Surfers. This happened sometime between 07/92 and mid 93... They also seem to have joined Parallax at the same time! German swapper Mike D. (ex Anarchy, 06/92) left the scene. American Freddy Krueger, sysop 'BOILER ROOM' (ex Scoopex) left to join Global Overdose. French coder Schmoovy Schmoov left to form Universal Soldiers with his friend Monty/Paradox. Finns Zany, Open Eyes (both ex Offworld) and Papa Smurf joined Virtual Dreams). Due to the fact that they left, some credits in "Book of Songs" were omitted by Complex! See the review for more. Four german coders; Crazy Crack (ex Mexx), Crash & Argon (both ex Adept, 12/92-04/94) and Raw Style (code, ex Jetset, 08/94) all left to join Polka Brothers 12/94. Crazy Crack made the intro "A500 HOMAGE" as a sort of farewell to Complex before he left. Upstream #10 carried the news, but misspellt Crazy Crack as Crazy Jack! Finnish musician Stargazer (07/92) decided to rejoin Sonic after just a brief period in Complex. Finnish graphician Drifter (ex Cyberiad, 12/92-93) left the scene. However, R.A.W #6 says he rejoined Accession, and in another place that he joined Damones with Saviour!! Confusion status: Total. German graphician Tomcat (ex Awesome, new ca 01/92-04/94), who drew the great logo in "GOSPEL KARAOKE", joined Shining 8. Skid Row Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Dalton, gfx: n/a, music: Jugi. review: A quite basic intro, with vector renditions of the two words 'Skid' and 'Row' twisting around on the right side of the screen, and the rest of it being occupied with a text plotter. Not much more to say, except that Jugi's tune sounds like a raped version of Codex/ Cryptoburner's classic "Memorydust". And that font seems awful familiar... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Stateline (ECS Demo). code: Zany, gfx: Open Eyes, music: Stargazer. information: By the subgroup Inner Universe. The Ultimate Sinus (1989). PU-240 (1990?, ECS File). code: Tai-Pan, gfx: Frank/Anonyms, music: Walkman/It.
Maggy #9 (1991, ECS Multifile Diskmag) INT - code: Tom, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. MAG - code: Python, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Hyde. review: The intro part works fine, though has a few slight graphical errors that make the sinescroller a little hard to read... This issue of the mag was released a full year after the last issue was released, and for the first time with a new code (the last one was iff-only, like the old Crack Journal's) and in English. All previous issues were in Finnish only. First impressions are good, with a pleasant design and english that appears to be readable (not a given in those times! ;) But...then you try to read the next page, and something STRANGE happens... You can't. The mag forever keeps loading articles, and you never get to read a single byte anymore... Thankfully the text is unpacked on the disk, so I could at least read SOME of the it! Too bad :( Release date is uncertain, but certainly after april (contained party report from late march). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! Vector Preview (1992, 09.06, ECS File). code: Tai-Pan, gfx/music: Jugi. Winner of the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition! review: Tai-Pan became a celebrity nearly solely on the back of this single, short production. The reason for all the enthusiasm was the incredible (for its time) filled vector routines presented here. Complemented by Jugi's above average graphics and music, this became a great little production! The endscroller can be paused with the right mouse button. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Universal Intensity (1992, 09.06, ECS Disk). 3rd in the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition. Gospel Karaoke (1992, late .06, ECS File). code: Saviour, gfx: Tomcat (logo), Cockatrice (cross), Jugi (fonts), music: Der HM. review: Apparently coded in a day during a party at Jugi's house, this is certainly one of the best 1-day productions to ever grace the scene! Not only is it good, it's original too! The main feature of the demo is a gospel song (yes, with vocals!), and you can press the right mouse button to turn off the singing, and sing along yourself; hence...gospel karaoke. Graphics are absolutely great, as is the music. Top-notch! The scroller mentions several secret parts; Tetris! is mentioned... No release date of any kind appears in the demo, so the date reported
here is my assumption, based on information in the scrolltext. ADL had it as '1992?', and that combined with them mentioning they were waiting for demos from the Hurricunt (Hurricane) party, arranged at at end of .06 that year. Let's hope I'm right :) The demo requires 1mb total memory. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Notes: Needs KillAGA. Delirium (1992, 26.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Saviour, gfx: Jugi, Stratos (chesslogo), Gremlin (frog logo), music: DeLorean, Jugi. 2nd in the Assembly 92 demo competition. review: It is always hard to review a demo you've never seen, and this one is no exception. It often crashes on 2.0+ and accelerated machines, and must surely be one of the most incompatible demos ever... Bummer :( This is actually the third demo to use the name Delirium; Fraxion and Zero Defects beat them to it :) [glenn] Compo Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: Stargazer. 12th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Puuro (1992, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Crash, gfx: Open Eyes, Artifex, music: "(c)hip-2" by Stargazer. 20th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. An Old...Intro! (1993, .01, ECS Intro). code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: "(c)hip-2" by Stargazer. review: Simple but sweet, this intro has a big raytraced animation of two 'tannhjul' spinning, over which some text materializes. Nice design. This MAY be the same as COMPO INTRO, I guess, but I do not know 100% for sure, so... The release date is based on the fact that there was a text BBS ad embedded in my copy of the file, dated 30.01-93. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Book of Songs (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Epidemic, gfx: Jugi, Artifex, Drifter, Hotshot, music: Jugi, DeLorean. info: Since Zany and Open Eyes left, the rest of Complex decided to leave out the credit for their work on this! In fact, Open Eyes did all the fonts and one small picture, and Zany coded the hardware loader! The disk got its name since each song is represented as a page in a book. EuroChart #30 says Saviour was the coder... [glenn] Equipoise (1993, 10.04, Demo). Released at The Gathering 93.
Paradigma (1993, 02.08, ECS File). code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Hotshot, Artifex, Noogman (uncredited), music: "Nagual_Dance2" by Jugi and Delorean. Winner of the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition! review: DemoManiac coders Crash and Argon prove their class in this great, polished demo. Graphics are generally excellent, as is the music. There are some very good effects here, like a large TV box (remember "Enigma"?), a vector world (remember "Enigma" again?) and pencil vectors (remember "Boggledop"?). Very very cool. The demo is referred to as a Mainzelmaennchen Production throughout. It requires 1mb total RAM, and all external drives disconnected on 1mb only systems. Since it failed to run on my A500/1mb/2.04, I guess you'll need to run a 1.2 or 1.3 system if you want to run it with only 1MB. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Unstable, perhaps KillAGA helps. Origin (1993, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Hof, Mack, Alex (raytrace), music: "Fx4" and "Supreme In Black" by Clawz (ProRunner 1.0 format). Winner of The Party 93 demo competition! review: "Origin" was Gengis' triumph of demomaking, with its smooth transitions and powerful routines - coupled with Clawz's thundering techno soundtrack and the combined graphical expertise of some of the foremost arists in the scene - ultimately bringing us a demo that was second only to Kefrens' outstanding "Desert Dream" [04/93] this year. It all opens with a loading picture, a beautiful rendition of a female in a space helmet done by Mack. Then the demo itself begins, with an atmospheric powerhouse intro sequence in which a raytraced ship touches down on the surface of an alien planet. Then we are suddenly inside the helm of a vector-robot, and go around exploring the inner workings of an entire solid vector city! After a while of this, we suddenly go underground through a hatch, and are transported through a vector-created tunnel. The demo's first real effect follows, a transparent gouraud vector cube, overlaid on a stylish patterned background. Next comes a POWER ON logo, before a picture is mapped onto a bouncing, elastic ball. The very same picture (by Axel) is then used for the zoomrotator routine that follows. Then we move onto a Wolfenstein-like routine which is far from fast, but was probably dead impressive at the time =) Then a picture by the great Titan of a metal man throwing a discus is composited from two parts... and here the demo just stops dead in its tracks. I reviewed this demo through a hard disk install, and it is entirely possible that this is the way it really ends... it just seemed a little abrupt to me =) Perhaps there's
more, perhaps there isn't ;) Gengis' next - and final - demo for Complex was "Real" [04/94], before he and Clawz left the group to form Bomb. A sequel to this demo, "Motion: Origin 2" [12/94] was released a year later, but unfortunately without the success of the original. The demo does not work perfectly on 060 machines, but a WHD-Load patch by John Selck (Graham/Oxyron) available through aminet or the whdload page can fix this problem. However, when I tried this patch (v1.1) it unceremoniously crashed my machine... Another harddisk installer is available, by Zer0-X/Moses, and this worked perfectly for me. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Real (1994, 24.04, AGA File). code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Eloy (additional), Hof (additional), music: "Cyberotica" and "Help Tha Fool" by Clawz (ProRunner 1.0 format). Winner of the Saturne Party 2 demo competition! review: A good early AGA demo with its high points and its lows. There are highlights, ofcourse, like the swirling things that fly at you during the opening sequence and the way the parts are linked together in the beginning. There are also two full screen AGA pictures by Titan and Eloy, that are almost worth the disk space in their own right :) Titan's picture is called "Synchronocity" and Eloy's is called "Artemis". They were both released for the graphics competition at the same party as the demo. Clawz' music is not his best work, but it's functional. A truly polished production. Recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Resolution (1994, mid, ECS File). code: Stelios, gfx: Reward, music: Jugi. Seduction (1994, .07, Musicdisk). code: Gengis, gfx: Hof (load pic), Alex, music: Clawz, Delorean (Tracker Packer 3 format). info: Modules from Clawz are Mixed Up, Refreshing, Sunk In Ink, Post Modern. Gengis and Clawz' last production for Complex, before leaving to form Bomb! in August. I want this one!! Dive (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). production: Crash, Sire. 10th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ahem. There's only two real effects here, none of which kills. The first is what appears to be a standard graphics zoomer which soon
appears to be more of a meteor storm. Original, but hardly goodlooking it's WAY too blocky. The second is a voxel routine with some rather... ehrm...interesting palette choices. The music irritates me. I always thought this was an AGA intro? Still, on my machine it requires KillAGA to work properly... To confuse us, Complex released a demo at Assembly 95 with the exact same name! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Pee Wee (1994, 06.08, Intro?). code: RawStyle, gfx: Noogman, music: Audiomonster. info: Released at Assembly 94, but not in the competitions. In fact I have no idea what this is! :) A500 Homage (1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Artifex, music: Einstein/Mexx. 11th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Crazy Crack made this little intro as a farewell to Complex before he and the rest of the German coders took off for Polkaland. It is also a homage to the A500, and appropriately so since it was released in the first compo to have almost exclusively AGA contributions. There are some cool effects here, though the best is probably the concluding fullscreen 4 bitplane 4x4 rotzoomer, or the 4096 morphing dots. I like it. Right mousebutton pauses the end scroller. [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Wormhole (1995, 14.04, ECS 020+ 64k Intro). code: Olwi, gfx: Artifex, Reward, music: SuperNao/Virtual Dreams. 3rd in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition. review: Technically very impressive is this intro which won the Gathering 95 competition. It mainyl comprises of three vetor objects with light sourcing and MANY faces, shown animated over a huge scrolling picture probably generated during the lengthy introduction text. Technically great, as I mentioned, but it's not very exciting is it? Boring, in fact. Probably the last ECS intro to win a major competition, though it requires at least an 020 processor. I think this requires quite a bit of memory... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Tequila Chart #11 (1995, 01.07, Chartmag). code: Rioter/Equinox, gfx: Artifex, music: "Fluffy_Fassion" by Loxley/ Equinox (Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: Excalibur, Blizzard/TDS. Cooperation with The Doodles^Shock (TDS). review: Tequila is released the first of every month, and is a chart and mag for the swedish modem scene. This means that the editorial content is
not very interesting to outsiders, unfortunately. I'm sure it's essential reading for those it concerns, however :) The coder is Rioter/Equinox, the swede previously responsible for the "European Top 20" chart from his own group, Equinox. I really must say that I like this one a lot more than his first effort. Much of the praise for the smooth look and feel, though, must go to the person responsible for the graphics, Artifex. He's come up with the perfect combination of raytraced, animated icons and handdrawn stuff...just marvellous. Now I've mentioned the code and graphics, so I guess the next item on the list is Loxley/Equinox's great piece of music. I don't know exactly what makes it as good as it is, but there's a cerain sense of dynamics and vitality to it that puts it up. Presentation, therefore, is very very nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Dive (1995, 13.08, Demo). 6th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. info: Same name as their previous 40k intro... Concept ------ENG> Shadowman (sysop 'BONG'). Concept was a french demogroup, which never produced much of note. 1991 The active part of the group, Performer (code), NHP (music), BKH (music), Rookie and Ronan (code) joined together with fellow frenchmen Motif (code), Zoom (gfx) and Walt (gfx) to form the french section of The Silents. Confusion --------POL> Bax (music, 08/95), Ellyn (gfx, 08/95), Exceed (code, 08/95), Slaughter (music, 08/95). Confusion are a purely Polish group, and at the Intel Outside 2 party they consisted only of the above 4 members. 64kb Intro (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Exceed, gfx: Ellyn, music: Slaughter. 2nd in the Intel Outside 2 64k intro competition. review: This intro opens with FAST filled vector cubes, filled with static and spacecut with the background. The music is pounding techno without much variation or melody, but it works ok to get the adrenalin pumping a little. Next there's some vector lines, which fly together to
make shapes and tunnels. They hold onto this effect a little too long for my liking, before showing portraits of the three coders. Incidentally, Slaughter looks like he's 13 or thereabouts :) No offence, ok Slaughter? Then, the intro really takes off with its next screen. At the top there's a good Confusion logo in hues of green, and below that there's a flame effect. This one seems a little original, though, since it seems to take sidewind into consideration, making the flames swing to the side when the virtual winds blow :). Text output is timed to the beat of the techno music throughout, and that coupled with an OK font and nice design give this a good feel. I definitely want to see more from these guys! The name given above is not the intro's real name; the real name is in Polish and in addition quite unreadable to the untrained eye :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 Connection, The --------------DEN> Hagar (ex The Supply Team). Amigo got busted on new years eve 1987/88. Connection ---------NOR> Garth (swap), Psycho (Kristian Owren, swap). Norwegian musician Jelace joined Compact Inc. Conqerers --------JOR> Bassam, Dunhill, Futuros, Louis, Nible, Overdrive, Ramek, Sam, Snake. SWE> Blaze. NOR> Water. DEN> Cyclone, Vanilla Ice. FRA> Dream Warrior, Fxa. Conqerers was formed on the remains of St.Pauls Crew, and in case you're wondering, it IS spellt like that :-) Swede Ztork left. Fashion Design left. Austrian Karen left. Swedes Fire and R2D2 joined Bronx. Conquest
-------If all their productions are AMOS, like the awful "Chippo #1", then I'm afraid I'll have to reevaluate their validity... Black Thunder joined, but left for Score right away (late 93). Chippo #1 (1994, 27.02, ECS Musicfile). code: Acces, gfx: Predator, music: "Le Chips Revenge", "Confettis", "Smiths", "YumYum", "Super Chips" and "Bolognese" by Rotox/Score. review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Lame in every respect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Contra (C!) ----------GER> Mogue (ascii sysop 'HOMELESS'). ???> H2o! (ascii), Mess, Rapid, Stratos, Stylez, Treach. Boards; RAVELAND WHQ, DEEP SPACE NINE EHQ, PUNISHMENT INC. (distsite), THE PUB (distsite). Contra is an ascii group. Mogue is one of two sysops on 'HOMELESS', but the only one of the two that's in Contra. Ascii artist 2Fast left late 96. Contrast -------GER> Bootbuster (gfx music swap, 03/92), Flexible (ex Unlimited, 03/92), Try (code, 03/92). ???> Anvil (ger? ex Unlimited), Dioxxin (03/92), Dr.Dread (03/92). Norwegian Tallyman joined Unlimited. German swapper TNM (ex Hysteric, 03/92) joined Subzero 08/92. Hypnautic Beats vol.1 (1992, 14.03, ECS Trackloaded musicdisk). code: Try, gfx: Bootbuster, Try, music: Dr.Dread, Bootbuster. review: I'm sorry, Contrast, but this just doesn't cut it. In a music disk, the music should be the center of attention, but when the music's as bland and uninteresting as it is here, it leaves the entire production for dead. NOT recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Contraz (CTZ, 1995-) -------------------NOR> Accede (code, ex Donut Fetish, new late97), Brekke (code, 04/95-97), Chauple (code, doublememb Instinct, 04/97), Corrupt (raytrace, 11/96),
Detriment (sysop), Dran (code gfx, 04/95-04/01), EFB (code, 04/95), Enex (code, 04/95-11/96), Figaro (gfx, 11/96), Fleinstein (org swap, 04/95), Found (music), Freak of Nature (sysop 'DARK NATURE', 05/97), Fro-D (music, 04-11/96), Isaac (music, 97), Micro (raytrace), Mr.Figaro (gfx), MZ (code, 04/95), Nirvana (Torgrim Nærstad, gfx, ex Grotesticle, 11/96), O.G. Devil (gfx, 04/95), Overgrown (music, 04/95), Phalton (raytrace), Pinocchio (raytrace music, 04/95), Reflexion (Martin Brieley, org), Skjeggspir (Rune Stensland, code gfx music, 04/9597), Whisper (Bendik Simonsen, swap webmaster, 04/95), Zelow (code, 04/95-04/01). Contraz is a Norwegian demo group, born as a cooperation between Damage Inc. (Overgrown etc.) and The Tanga Team in early 1995. 2000 - Dran plans a 64k intro for The Party in december, but ultimately decides to wait, and release it later. 2001 - Dran and Zelow release the 64k intro "1 Week" (with music by Frequent/Ephidrena) at Mekka Symposium 2001 in april. Prikkmannen (1995, 14.04, 4k Intro). code: Brekke, Zelow, gfx: none, music: n/a. 3rd in The Gathering 95 4k intro competition. review: To the sound of a 'techno soundtrack' (and I'm being VERY kind here now!) a white, smiling dot-man is spinning and zooming in and out on a blue background. And that's it. Not exactly impressive, but I've certainly seen worse too. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Contras (1995, 14.04, ECS 64k Intro). code/gfx: Skjeggspir, music: Overgrown. 6th in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition. review: This has a definite amateur feeling to it, most of the effects are copper- or linevector-based, and neither the graphics nor music is up to scratch. An early, immature release from a group that should have waited a little more before releasing anything. Inspection of the binary file reveals this was made using AMOS. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mystiq (1996, 05.04, Demo). 4th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Skjeggspir (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: Skjeggspir, gfx: none, music: Fro-D. 4th at The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. review: A little limited this one, just an OK tune and a logo that spins
onto the screen. Average. Domination (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB File). code: Skjeggspir, Zelow, Brekke, Enex, gfx: Figaro, Nirvana, Dran, Corrupt (objects), music: Fro-D. Winner of the Kindergarden 6 demo competition! review: This seems to rely more on its scanned Arnold Schwarzenegger imagery than on its effects. There are a few reasonably advanced effects, but at this speed I'd rather be without them. The best thing about this demo is Nirvana's great picture "WOW", which came second in the graphics competition at The Gathering 95. It would have deserved to win IMHO... Coolest thing in the demo: Arnold pointing a BIG gun at the screen, with the text: Anyone mention PC? Funny, then, that they list two PC coders on their memberlist... The compoversion had a few bugs, so a bugfixed and improved version was later released. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Had to manually decrunch it with xfd before running in order to have enough mem! Born Fat (1997, AGA 4k Intro). code: Chauple, Skjeggspir (additional), Brekke (additional), gfx: none, music: none. 2nd in the Scenus 97 4k intro competition. review: They've managed to squeeze in quite a bit into this 4k'er; not only is there sound (calling it music is stretching it a little :) but there's also a LOT of effects here, from bumpmapping variations to a tunnel you travel through. Not bad at all! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 1 Week (2001, .04, AGA 16MB 64k Intro). code: Dran, Zelow (additional), gfx: none, music: Frequent/Ephidrena. review: Well, this isn't really a review, since I can't see this intro on my machine, because it lacks an fpu =[ What was I thinking when I thought I'd never need one? Anyway, apart from the FPU, this intro requires an AGA amiga (020+ obviously), and 16MB fast. It's not really comfortable on anything below an 060-50, according to the the accompanying readme file. Be sure to use setpatch before running. [glenn] Control ------DEN> Antex (swap, ex Orient), Sidewinder (code), Scorpion (music swap, ex Orient). ???> Dune (gfx), Evade (code), Joy-Boy (code gfx), Kris (code), Monk (swap), Pixl (gfx), Sniper (gfx), Wobin (swap). Control is a danish demo group. This group has nothing to do with the Control below. 1994 - Danish swapper Decoy joined Passion in november.
Creep joined D-Mob. Control (CTRL) -------------POL> Failo (Wojciech Zdebski, org 3d, 08/96), Kado (gfx, 08/96), Nobl (3d, 08/96), NoM (code, 08/96). Control is a polish demo group, under the leadership of Failo. Their first production was the 64k intro "Error" [08/96] at the Intel Outside 3 party. This group has nothing to do with the Control above. Error - The Intro (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: NoM, gfx: Failo, music: Mr.Vain/Motion PC. Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: Well, the 'guru meditation' joke has been done before, and better, so this intro doesn't really get off to a too great start... and never really picks up, eaither =) Text inside the intro leads me to believe this is their first ever release, and to be quite frank it shows. They should perhaps have fine-tuned their skills a little more before attempting to release anything. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Converse -------Dan joined Acrid. Convex (CVX) -----------POL> Stasi (swap). ???> Bart (gfx), Betoniara (code raytrace edit swap), Bionic (music), Comanche (gfx), Domel (code gfx). Insert left 06/96. Gigant and Opal was kicked 06/96. Fuckir left to be independent 06/96. Heva sold his Amiga and bought a PC 06/96. Traitor! :) Pila, Informer and Flapjack left to be Erotic Design members only 06/96. Coral ----FIN> Legislator (sysop 'XENOPHOBIA', 11/91). Coral was a Finnish demo group, which didn't release much on the amiga.
There was also a pc division later. Fix, Hot and Perfect (all ex Cave) left to join Arise. Pele-Kempex Naks (1991, ECS Intro). Silence Please (1991, 27.07, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 91 in Finland. Core Productions (CP, http://www.acc.umu.se/~cp/) ------------------------------------------------SWE> Houbba (Lennart Marklund, code, 07/97), Icon (Andreas Lindquist, code, 07/97). Megadeth joined Alcatraz. H5 (1997, 25.07, AGA 2MB File). code: Icon, Houbba, gfx: n/a, music: Farmor/NRP. Winner of the ACG Hack V demo competition. review: The names of the coders come spinning slowly at us in the beginning of this dentro, with afterburning on the letters. Next is a very good tunnell routine, which though it doesn't move so amazingly fast looks like it's among the most fluent ones I've seen. Next we're inside a torus, with lots of white and some color bleeding through. Next is another good routine, that I absolutely DO NOT know how to describe. Then a graphics screen show us the credits, which then dissolve into a Core Productions logo. Then the music ends and we are done... The music inside is not bad, but not terribly inspirational either. It can best be described as very standard trance. Overall, a very nice little demo, certainly much better than I anticipated! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Coroner ------Coroner was formed by Turkish swapper Vigo after he left Bronx. Corpse [fra] (1991-1995) -----------------------FRA> Nec (founder gfx), SoLO (founder code), Vehrex (founder code) Shiny (gfx), Bulls (gfx music), Ken (code), Pye (music), Terrific (code) There were two groups called Corpse, the second one coming into existence while this incarnation was still around...
Corpse [swe] (1994-) -------------------SWE> Payday (founder swap). ???> Coolorado (founder), Klorathy (founder code), TBM (founder gfx). Corpse was formed by four ex members of X-Trade; Payday, Klorathy, TBM and Coolorado. It is very possible that TBM was later in The Black Lotus. There were two groups called Corpse existing simultaneously, though the French ones were the first to use the name by far... Corrosion (http://www.crsn.com/) -------------------------------Ehm, more info forthcoming... Corrosive --------Acid and Agent Orange joined Kaos. Cosa Nostra ----------NOR> Kanniball (Ken Roger Espeland, swap, 11/88-late90). Mosher joined Cinefex. Cosmic Pirates -------------???> Bladerunner (doublememb Scum 06/96). Cosmic Woodheads (CW) --------------------POL> Draw (ascii swap, new early97-early98), Guma (swap, early98). DEN> Drac (doublememb Ambrosia [details], new early97), Raze (Thomas Petersen, music, early98). CW seems to have been a jokey group, with mostly doublemembers from other groups. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Drac joined from Ambrosia as a doublemember, and that Draw (swap) also joined. Countach (CNT, 1990-) --------------------GER> Iron Lord (code, 10/90), Joker (trade sysop, 10/90), Melodic Drama (gfx
music, ex Spirit, 10/90), MOD (tester, 10/90), Norman Bates (gfx swap, ex Spirit, 10/90), Nr.5 (trade, ex Spirit), Rick Dangerous (swap, 10/90). ???> Multi Software Department (10/90). Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit. The name was assumed on 01/10-90, and the group at that time had 22 members. The group was later disbanded when all members helped form the new group Vogue. C.P.U. -----???> Franky (mainorg1), Mixer (music trade), Sal One (sysop), Scram, Snuffy, The Relic, Topflight, Woober (crack), Yellow Water (mainorg2), Zeus (trade), Zinko (schq). Boards; BOONDOCKS EHQ, HUSTLERS HELL (rhq), LAST LEGEND (whq), THE LAST INN (shq), THE NORTHERN PALACE (den) Cracker Journal Team -------------------CJT is the team dedicated to the release of the legendary 'Crack Journal' diskmag. After issue #27, internal unrest in the group Alpha Flight prompted main editor Doctor Mabuse/AFL to take the mag and leave, so that it would not be dependent on any one group. The first independent issue, #28, was released in may of 1992. Cracker Journal #28 (1992, .05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Quasar (main), Design (coop title), Renegade (endpic, comic), music: LooneStar, editors: Doctor Mabuse/Alpha Flight, FDT/Venture and Design. review: The mag opens with a small intro, just containing the text CRACKER JOURNAL, over which #28 comes crashing down. Then the mag proper appears, with a good robot picture by D-Sign appearing as the first thing you see. One thing you instantly notice about CJ is the way the mag occupies almost the entire screen; no big, impressive panels here! CJ originated in the illegal part of the scene, and is still heavily linked to this part of the scene. This means that your interest in reading CJ will always be in direct proportion with your interest in that part of the scene. Editorially, this is not a very strong mag either. There is a lot of articles that are just text files from the boards, the English is downright dreadful in places, and one of the articles is nothing but a perverse porno story! This was the middle of 1992, mind you, and people instantly looked to magazines like R.A.W that were intelligible rather than the badly designed articles of CJ. Issue 28 was the first issue to be released 'indendent', after the mag was
liberated from its original home in Alpha Flight. Compatibility is another sore point, with the mag responding very badly to keypresses on my A1200 even after kicking down to 1.3. It can work fine for a while, then suddenly decide to die. No points for guessing this made reviewing a minor nightmare. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Crack Force Five (CFF) ---------------------SWE> The Big A (code). ???> BTB, Megaman. Formed by The Big A and (Andreas Tadic). CFF joined forces with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a few of their demos. CFF later became what is now Phenomena. Crack Inc. (1992-1992) ---------------------GER> Eurosoft (crack, ex Skid Row), Mike (ex Skid Row), Rudi (founder supply sysop 'THE JAM', ex Skid Row, 92), Selim (founder supply sysop 'THE JAM', ex Skid Row, 92), Subzero (founder music supply, ex Skid Row, 92). ???> French Connection (ex Nemesis, new RAW4), Linebacker (sysop), Skywalker (ex Accession). Crack Inc was formed in early 1992 by the old european members of Skid Row (SSR), and was soon reinforced with some other ex-Skid Row'ers from other groups. When they died at the end of the year, most members formed Ministry with former members of Nemesis and TKK. News that Selim and Subzero left the scene seem to be strongly exaggerated, since they were both later members of Ministry. There were rumours and even news that SSR (Subzero Selim Rudi) joined from Bitstoppers, but it's most likely that this is untrue, and that they were the original founders, coming directly from Skid Row. Their demo subgroup Kaos Design died [see separate entry]. American sysop Micro ('REIGN IN BLOOD', 09/92) left sometime before 12/92. German Munchie (ex Skid Row, new RAW3) joined Ministry. Sysop Lost Religion ('NiRVANA') joined Accession. Swedish trader Magic (ex Vision, new 09/92) was kicked 09/92. ZigZag, the ex-Crystal sysop of 'MAY DAY', joined Scoopex. Cracker Saito (ex Vision Factory) joined Prestige.
Cranks -----POL> Kosok (Ignacy Wiacek, gfx, 08/96), Maq (Maciej Matyka, code, 08/96). Cranks is a polish demo group. 1996 - The uninspiring intro "Cyber Space" [08/96] was released at the Intel Outside 3 party. Cyber Space (1996, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Maq, gfx: Kosok, music: Key G/? Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: This unimaginatively titled intro gives us gouraud vectors, an effect we'd honestly thought we'd seen the last of by 1996. It moves along at a leisurely pace, to stretch what little there is to look at as far as possible, and never gets me excited. Subpar. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crap! ----Tarl left the Amiga scene, but he bought PC equipment and is still active as a swapper in the PC scene (05/95). Craptors -------Craptors Crap (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 14th in The Party 94 40k intro competition. Crash ----Turkish coder Astron joined Bronx. Crashead (-1992) ---------------They kicked all their lazy members, then changed the name of the group to Analogy in the middle of 1992. Crass ----AUS> Archimedes (gfx, 04-08/92), Gothique (aka Gothic, code gfx, 0412/92), Itec (gfx, 04-08/92), Mixer (music, 04/92), Phlexor (08/92), Shem (08/92), Stainless Steel Rat (04-12/92). Anarchy Incorporated (1992, .04, ECS Disk). code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Easter Party 92 (australia) demo competition!
Psychosis (1992, .04, ECS File). code: Steel Rat, gfx: Itec, Archimedes, Steel Rat, music: Mixer. 2nd in the Easter Party 92 (australia) demo competition. Parahelion (1992, .12, Disk). code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Digital Complexity (1992, .12, Disk). code: Steel Rat, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Craze (CRZ, http://www.craze.nu/) --------------------------------SWE> Lussar'n (Linus Larsson, code, ex Rebels new, new late96), Nike (sysop 'INSTANT PLEASURE', 01/95), Omen (code, ex Depth, new late97/early98), Pigeon (code, ex Depth, new late97/early98), Rick (sysop 'CYBER FORCE', 01/95). ???> Antichrist (music, 96), Marwic (swe? modem, 08/95), Mr.Real (music, 12/94), Odie (gfx, 96), Zik (gfx, 96). Boards; EVERYWARE (nor, 02/96). Goatleg (ECS 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Odie, music: Mr.Real. Twisted Colours (1996, autumn, HD Slideshow). code: Zik, gfx: Odie, music: Antichrist. review: And this time a slideshow without monsters, naked girls or spaceships in erotic positions ;). Craze surprised us with a short collection of ten abstract pictures by Odie. You can see persons in some strange bearings, chinese men, ghosts, wierd looking ladies and laughing trees. All in all a very colorful and not boring thing with a listenable music and another good new font, although one-colored. Between the pictures you can read funny comments to the picture that follows, but it's sad that there is not a single real picture!! Only big clips and fullscreen bodies! Also you have no selector to enjoy some Odicasso's again. And there are a few which were worth to be watched twice like my favorites: The second one (what eye(s)!) and the one before the last one (the laughing tree). At last it is a tiny piece of art and 900kb are not much space on 8-Gig HD for this art... This slideshow was not a party release. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Crazy (CRZ) ----------GER> Cyborg (music), Doc Holiday (gfx), Marc (Marcus Kalusche, music, triplememb Sector 7 and Syndrome, 01/97), Phase (swap), Technoking (trade), THCM (code).
???> Midnight (code). Neoplasia mentioned in their intro at The Party 5 that most NPL members had joined Crazy. This means at least these people joined: THCM, Cyborg, Phase, Technoking, Doc Holiday and JCS (doublememb Sector 7). 1996 - Graphician Nefaria was kicked late 96. German swapper Phase left the scene for a while, late 96. Creative Minds -------------Velocity (2001, 15.04, Demo). Split 6th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. Creator (CRT) ------------HUN> Abstract, Codex (old handle 7th Son), Cyberdance, Delta MC, Griff, Lord (ex Hyperacidity [no entry]), Robin (code, 10/93-02/94). The entire group joined Surprise! Productions as a subgroup. Strange Features (1992). Creed (1992-) ------------GER> Deathbone (founder, ex Endless Piracy), Razor, Wild Child. ???> Jason (sysop 'TOON TOWN'). Creed was a german illegal group formed around january of 1992 by Annabel/Possessed and Deathbone/ Endless Piracy. According to sources in an article in ROM4, they were both female, making this a truly landmark group. Annabel left the scene in september of the same year. Chrome left. Spanish Rose (ECS File). Crest ----???> Alpha One (code supply), Cocaine (gfx supply), Infinity (supply), Siriax (code crack supply, doublememb Lightforce, 01/97). Boards; ACID SLAM WHQ (ger, 09/96). Crest is an illegal cracking group. They share their WHQ ACID SLAM with Hellfire and Teklords.
Crime Devils -----------FIN> Adder (Antti, swap), Brandy, PainMaster (swap). NOR> Leo (ex Grace, new 07/92). ???> Infinity (ex 2000 AD). Boards; LIGHT FANTASTIC (eng). Crime Devils are dead; the best members formed Ahead. 1992 - Leo joined the group from Grace, whose Norwegian section had just died. Meddler left. Crimson Jihad (cJ) -----------------HUN> Lord (sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', triplememb Absolute! and Impulse). Crimson Jihad is a Hungarian group working to promote the Amiga! Crionics (-1992) ---------------DEN> Blazer (music, 06/90), Gizwiz (code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90), Grumble (code, 06/90), Madonna Freak (gfx, 06/90), Merlin (gfx music, ex Trilogy, new 06/90), Murphy (code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90), Saxs (code, 06/90), Zycho (code, 06/90). ???> Tronic (music). After having won the demo competition at The Party 1991 with "Hardwired" in cooperation with The Silents, Crionics died in early to mid 1992. The three coders The Spy, Murphy (ex Kefrens, new 06/90) and Deftronic (all 06/90) left to join The Silents on a full time basis. Deftronic released some version of his assembler "Trash'M One" under the Crionics label in 199091. Video swapper Marcel was caught by the Police just before they died in 92. Danish musician T.U.S.C. joined Vixen early 92. Neverwhere (1989?, ECS Disk). code: Saxs, The Spy, Murphy, gfx: Zycho, Madonna Freak, usic: Tronic, S.L.L. Megademo (1990, 19.02, ECS Megademo). Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party. info: NOT THE SAME AS THE ONE BELOW! It seems highly, actually, that
Crionics released two demos with the same name! :) Megademo (1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo). LOA - code: Murphy, Gfx: Zycho (logo), Deftronic (font), music: "Raven" by Blazer. NOI - code: Deftronic, The Spy, gfx: Merlin, music: S.L.L. PIG - code: Grumble, Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L. MAD - code: Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L. 2nd in Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. review: After booting this disk you're faced with a selector for three different demo parts. The selector is pretty basic, with a logo at the top and a text writer in the middle of the screen. In the background you can see some vector objects, which btw are pretty fast on my 030-50 :) For the credits above, please refer to these codes: LOA means loader, in other words the selector itself. This (and only this) part works fine even with caches on. NOI means Noia demo. This is probably the best and biggest part, with lots of advanced (for its time) vector effects and a good sense of pace and entertainment. Please note that the fill routine bugs in some parts. PIG means Pigs in Space. This part consists of just a drawn 'space' background over which we get to see a filled vector scroller. The same fill bug appears here also, albeit to a lesser extent. MAD means The Madonna Endpart. This part excels with its superbly drawn cartoon renditions of Madonna walking through the city. Rather cool! Overall, it's a good production, this, though it seems like it was put together in quite a rush! It's like they got these three demoparts, and just stuck a loader at the beginning, and hey presto we've got a demo! Not bad at all, really. The music by S.L.L lifts it a lot. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- note: Caches off, original chipset. Total Destruction (1990, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: The Spy, Deftronic, gfx: Zycho, music: T.U.S.C. 3rd in the Dexion Party 90 demo competition. Hardwired (1991, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). Cooperation with The Silents, see there. Critters [new] (1990-1990) -------------------------DEN> Amiga Freak (founder, ex Trilogy). ???> Shadow (founder, ex Black Monks), Spirit (founder, ex Black Monks). Critters was reborn around mid 90, with Amiga Freak/Trilogy, Shadow and Spirit/Black Monks as the intiative takers. They simultaneously announced they would be opening a board in Sweden shortly. However, soon after this the Swedish section left the group, and are now a group in their own right, Scanex [no entry]. The rest of Critters didn't survive long after this, and
were dead by august. Crossbones ---------Zorlac and Bacteria joined Bronx. Crude (CRD) ----------SWE> Bubba (sysop 'DREAMPHASE', 11/97). Cruelty ------Turbo and Gamekiller joined Infect. Crusaders (CRS, http://www.crusaders.no) ---------------------------------------NOR> Bravestarr (swap, 03/90), Bustman (Trond Omdal, gfx, ex Errors, new 06/90-01/91), Copper (code, 03/90), Dr.Claw (code, 03/90-91), Dr.Outtasight (ex-sysop 'HOME SWEET HOME', 11/89-93), Dr.Shitface (code, 03/90-01/91), El Cubo (Arndt Kubosch, code music, old handle Dr. MD Cub, 11/89-07/91), Eno (code, new 12/90), Excalibur (code, 03/90), Floyd (Andres Lund, 97), Freaky Angel (ex Deadline), Intec (gfx, ex Gate, new 12/90-93), Jason (music, ex The Silents, later Melon, new late92-12/92), Lazerbrain (swap, 03/90-07/91), Madman (code, new 12/90), Mike (Trond Michelsen, ex Deadline, 93-04/97), Nesebuse (gfx, 91), P.Man (gfx), Raven (sysop 'THE GOLDEN GATE', ex Artch, new late90), Rusc (gfx, 03-05/90), Shady (Vegard Skjefstad), Swapperboy (swap, 03/90-01/91), Switchblade (code, 89-93), Zeb (hardware, 03/90), Zuggly (code, 03/90). FIN> Fleshbrain (Seppo Hurme, music, new 02/90-96), Scumbag (trade, 07/9103/93). ENG> Nightshade (music, ex Ecstasy, 93). ???> Ohio (gfx, 93). Boards; THE GOLDEN GATE (nor, 11/90-01/91) Crusaders is a legendary group, one of the oldest on the Amiga scene! They became legends for several reasons, really. Their first innovation must have been the creation of the 'music disk'. Yes, that's right: CRS released the very first music disk ever. Second, their Eurochart sparked new life in the scene, spawned about a dozen clones, and gave demo makers another incentive to create great demos. The next thing that happened was when Bjørn A. "Dr.Awesome" Lynne became the first professional composer to come out of the Amiga scene. Then, of course, there's the big one; The
GATHERING! TG was originally arranged by The Crusaders, and the main organizer has to this day always been a Crusader. They're still around, though mostly on the PC these days, and not producing much. Their legacy however, is huge. Norwegian sysop Freaky Angel's board 'THE PYRAMID' (earlier 'ANGEL CITY') was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992. Norwegian coder Black Panther (ex Paragon) joined Talent. Norwegian graphician Yster (03/90-91) left. Guardian (ex United Forces, new mid 91) left. Norwegian swapper Zapotek (ex Gate, new 12/90) left. American graphician and swapper Savatage (03/90) left. American sysop Silencer ('THIS END UP', 03/91) left the scene. Norwegian graphician Funky Guru (ex Gate, new 12/90) left the scene. German sysop Bomber ('PEARL HARBOUR', ex Anarchy, new mid 91) left to join Scoopex around december 91 or january 92. He opened his board while in Crusaders, though. Norwegian sysop Lazerbrain's board 'PURPLE HAZE' was busted in the big Norwegian boarbust in 1992. He was the only one busted who was released immediately, since he had time to run a diskcrypting program before the police seized his equipment, and consequently they didn't find shit on his board. He probably continued to be a member. Norwegian sysop One (old handle Scratcher, ex Fairlight)'s board 'TOTAL PANIC' was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992. He joined Angels and reopened the board, though under a new name? Norwegian graphician Joachim (ex Marvel/Static Bytes, 93) joined Andromeda (RAW6). ...and perhaps Jason did too? Norwegian swapper ECS (03/90) left and is now independent. Bacteria (ECS Musicdisk). code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, music: "Bridge to the Universe Part II", "Make Your Move", "12th Warrior", "No-One Home" by Dr. Awesome, "Who Knows", "Kilimanjaro", "Grave-Yard" by Fleshbrain. info: Caches off with accelerators; still some gfx glitches. Bass-O-Matic (ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). info: The module loader always had a tendency to bug a little, so it was always a toss up if the module loaded, or the thing just froze on the loading logo. The Calvin & Hobbes stuff was great, 'tho. BBS Intro for Instant Delivery (ECS Intro). Coop with Wizzcat, see there for details. Crusaders Does Genesis (ECS Musicdisk). Audio-X (1989, ECS Musicdisk). code: Switchblade, gfx/music: Dr. Awsome. Information: This is the one with the alphabet cookies and the flapping
toilets... 8 tunes. Project; Beat (1989, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the IT, Rawhead, The Band, IMP-666 Megaparty. Freekd Out (1989, 14.08, ECS Musicdisk). Eurochart Top Ten #1 (1989, 01.11, ECS File Chart). code: Dr. MD Cub, gfx: Dr.Awesome, music: "Loader" by Dr.Awesome. review: Oh my god, THE FIRST EUROCHART!! This is history. Slagging this off would be sacrilege, surely! Ok, I'll try to be objective about it. The presentation's not much, to be honest. There's a selector screen, where you manouver a large crusifix around with your mouse, to select the section you want. It was a long way from this to what we have today. Trivia note: Ipec Elite were actually the first to do a chart, as the scroller in this production informs us. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Finally got it to work by booting it off a floppy with caches off and chip to old. Mi-Cro Con-Cept (1990, ECS Musicdisk). Eurochart Top Ten #2 (1990, 01.01, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt, music: "Hightop" by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: Well, nothing much has changed. Presentation-wise it's pretty much the same as the first issue, though perhaps a little better here and there. The tune is adequate. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset orig. Eurochart Top Ten #3 (1990, 01.03, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt/independent, Dr.Awesome, P.Man/independent, music: "Polarchase" by Fleshbrain (4ch MOD format). review: With the third issue of the Eurochart, things took a turn for the serious. With a new interface, it looked a lot more professional. Graphics are quite adequate for the most part, and Fleshbrain's music (his first for this group, this was his introduction as a new member) is among his best work ever! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Filled Vectors (1990, .04, ECS Demo). Switchblades Balls (1990, .05, ECS Demo). Eurochart Top Ten #4 (1990, 01.05, ECS File Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, P-Man, music: "Beatn The Art" by Dr.Awesome (4ch
MOD format). review: Again, nothing much has changed from the previous issue in what we actually see on the screen. One big improvement, though, is the use of percentile to show how many votes each entry got. There's also [new] icons and up/down arrows to signify if this placing is better or worse than the previous one. The tune fails to set me alight, as does the gfx. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. Eurochart Top Ten #5 (1990, 01.07, ECS Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Conference 90. Hotwired (1990, .08, ECS Minimusicdisk :). Eurochart Top Ten #6 (1990, 01.09, ECS Multifile Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: "Tuna Fish" by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: This issue looks a lot more like what we got used to later in the life of the EC. The interface stayed pretty much like this in the next issues. A plus also for the graphics, which AFAIK were the first Bustman did for The Crusaders. A nice issue! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Caches off, chipset original. A90 (1990, 02.09, ECS File). code: El Cubo, gfx: P.Man, Bustman, music: Dr.Awesome. info: aka Tabasco demo. Similar to Rebels "Coma" demo and Budbrain's "Kaos" part from their first Megademo. Tobias Richter Slideshow (1990, 06.10, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow, 2 disk). EuroChart Top Ten #7 (1990, 01.11, ECS Multifile Chart). code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: "Mindstorm" by Fleshbrain (4ch MOD format). review: The name is a little inaccurate from this issue on, as some of the sections now actually represent the TOP TWENTY most popular things. Other than that, there's not a lot to complain about, really. Another good issue, which feels nice and smooth - just like it should be :) The tune is not one of Fleshie's best, though. Works fine even without KillAGA, though the music sounds a little strange sometimes... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Space Deliria (1990, 08.11, ECS File). code: Excalbiur, gfx: Dr.Awesome, P.Man/indep., Dr.C/Red Sector, music: Dr.Awesome. Tuff Enuff (1991, ECS Trackmo). code: Dr.Claw, El Cubo, gfx: Yster (animation), Intec (background),
Nesebuse (glowing logo), Bustman (earth font), music: "Intromusic 2" and "Flyte" ++ by Dr.Awesome (4ch MOD format). review: Another oldie that doesn't work anymore. As far as I can remember, this one was rather good. The main event, sort of, is an animation of Calvin from the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, that's rather fun and humourous. I got the credits by ripping a few parts off the disk, but this did not result in ripping EVERYTHING. There are several parts, and I can't remember them all now... Anyway, worth a look if you've got an A500 lying around...or a good, new degrader! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: It *ALMOST* worked ONCE :) Eurochart #8 (1991, 01.01, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code/editor: El Cubo, Dr. Shitface, gfx: Bustman, music: "Now What???" by Dr. Awesome (4ch ProTracker format). review: The revolution! With issue 8, the Eurochart sported some major overhauls to the code, as well as two full new sections in addition to the charts! The Gallery and EuroNews were born... Graphics by Bustman are some of his best yet, and oh, did I mention the absolutely fabulous tune by Dr. Awesome? I didn't? It's just lovely. It incorporates themes from many of his earlier songs into a sort of medley-type-thing. The 'feel' of the mag also seems improved, it now feels almost perfect. A milestone for the Amiga scene, and a great production any which way you look at it! By the way, the news item about the new Amiga sound chip 'Mary' sounded more like wishful thinking to us ;) Starting this one was the cause of a few hiccups, since it tries to allocate memory at some specific addresses, and newer Amigas do not always have their memory where the old ones did ;) The only real solution I found was to boot without caches, chipset original, and without startup-sequence. Then the mag ran perfectly from my harddisk :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review for details. Eurochart #9 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #10 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #11 (1991, 01.07, ECS Multifile Chartmag). code/editor: El Cubo, gfx: Intec, music: "Neodrink" by Fleshbrain (4ch ProTracker format). review: Legendary doesn't quite cover it when it comes to the EC. It was a milestone of the scene, and gave coders, painters and composers everywhere a new incentive to get better. This issue is certainly not the
worst, with acceptable graphics from Intec and OK music by Fleshbrain. One thing that I found cool about the EC was that they had new graphics for every issue. They had the (basically) same code, but there were always a new design on the control board. This is not the best one, neither is it the worst. This issue marks the arrival of a new editor, since Dr.Awesome decided he want to leave the scene. During testing the mag has proven somewhat unstable on my accelerated system. I have found it works best when run from disk. When installing to harddisk, or running from RAM:, it seems it has problems with the loading taking too little time, and often crashes. KillAGA has no positive effect when run from hard or RAM, and isn't necessary for disk running. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eurochart #12 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #13 (1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart #14 (ECS Chartmag). info: This was the last issue released by Crusaders before they officially closed down the project. Lots of groups got in touch to continue doing the work, and ultimately the danes in Static Bytes were chosen to continue the legacy. Therefore, issue #15 was an STB product. [glenn] The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Deadline. The Gathering 92 Reminder (1992, early, ECS File). code: Switchblade, gfx: various, music: "Prophet 2001" by Bjørn A. 'Dr. Awesome' Lynne (4ch MOD format).. review: A simple little intro-demo this, to remind people to go to The Gathering in 1992. Enough people must have been reminded, 'cause it's still being arranged every easter :) I'll have to base this review largely on memory, 'cause the introduction, where some good pictures are shown, just FLASHES by on my machine :) Oh well, I guess that's the price you pay for accelerating :D It opens with some cool strings, the opening bars of Bjørn Lynne's fabulous soundtrack. Then, as the tune takes a turn for the heavier with a guitar riff, we're shown some pictures of earlier productions and some humourous text ('You've seen the flapping toilets... now come to the party!'). Then you're shown some pages of text, and... Nothing more happens. It's not going to set the world alight with it's awesome code, but it's still GOOD in its own way.. Worth getting for the tune. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: While it works perfectly, the intro sequence is too fast to see what's going on!
The Gathering 93 Invitation (1993, early, ECS 1MB File). code: Switchblade, gfx: Intec (blow-up logo), Joachim, music: "Minimum_ Penetration" by Jason (4ch MOD format). review: This year the Crusaders presented a very good invitation intro for The Gathering, with some new ideas. The show opens with some guy pumping a Crusaders logo full of air, and then goofily alking across the screen. The invititation part itself is very easy to control, with a set of icons with text on them in the middle of the screen to click on. Most of them will take you to a page of text - you can also just flip through all the text with your cursor keys - while some also have some extra functions. One really nice thing is the aforementioned 'tour of the hall' part, where you control a little...err...animal-thing :) around a blueprint of the hall, and the various areas are explained as you get to them. A really nice, new idea! A top-notch invitation intro with a good sense of humour! The intro requires almost all of chipmem on a 512k chip machine, and 300k of some other ram. It therefore needs at least 1mb total mem. though it worked fine on my 030 machine, it did run WAY too fast. For example, the 'tour of the hall' part was almost uncontrollable, and some of the intermission screens flashed by before I was able to read what was on them. A dose of KillAGA fixes everything, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Crush ----NOR> Genious, Howling, Sciff. ???> Amhac, Beathoven, Black Devil, Cherokee, Draco, Firestone, Flash Fox 66, Gissy, Milk, Miraculix, Smokey, Tigra, Tronny Rotten, Wizzy. Several of these names look awful familiar...Sciff was later in Alive, before he changed his handle to Crimson and joined Compact. Tronny Rotten was also in Alive, and Flash Fox painted for Razor 1911 for a while... The Wall (1989, .02, ECS File). Crux (CRX, http://www.space.ch/scene/crux/) ------------------------------------------GER> Evrimsson (music, ex Illusion, new early97), Grace (code, ex Illusion, new early97), Zulu and Grey (Oliver Vogel and Tobias Schaechtelin, code, ex Essence). FRA> Clary (gfx, doublememb Drifters), Tof (gfx, doublememb Drifters). NOR> Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', memb of Spaceballs [details], LSD and Motion!, new mid95). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER' EHQ, 10/95). ???> Acid-Jesus (music), AMusic (music), Beast, Biztro, Cess, Chromag (music), Cockroach (code), Crisp (code), Crocodile, Cueball
(raytrace), Decybel (music, new 12/97), Dexter (music), Excess (raytrace), Exeron, Felon, Fury, gdm, Golden Hell (raytrace), Interphase, Juan, Madboy, Madmax, Makno (gfx, new 12/97), Maniac (music), Muse (music), Nike (nor? Triplememb TRSI and Delight, 02/96), Odin (gfx), Orion, Orlando, Patrician, Pows of TCB, Psychotron (code), Santa Claus (gfx, new 12/97), Screem, Shane & Sid (org's sid: code, 95-01/96), Snake, The Frog Buds (coders gfx'ers musicians), Tyrell, Ufok, U-Man (nor? doublememb Whale, 02/96), Van Helsing (code), Zinko. Boards; ACENTRAL (internet), DIAL HARD WHQ (swi, 95), CIVIL WAR EHQ (swi, 95), FLYING CIRCUS (demohq), CYBERGARDEN (bel), FORGOTTEN WORLD (hol), HARD DISK CAFE (fin), INSEKTZ IN SPACE (pcwhq), PARADISE LOST (ger), PLASTIC DREAMS (ger), PURPLE DREAM (distsite), REALM OF CHAOS (swe), THE CASTLE (distsite), BLACK HOLE (serb, 95), CYCLONE (hol, 95), DEEP THOUGHT (fin, 95), WEYLAND YUTANI (swi distsite, 95). Crux was formed by its main organizer Shane not with the intention of being a cracking group only, but also with a demo section. The demo section was dubbed "Crux Design", and was officially started around 1997. They recruited great demo reinforcements in the old Rebels coders Zulu & Grey, after they had been inactive on the scene for some months, which in their time were responsible for such classics as "Switchback" [10/94] and "Whammer Slammer" [12/94] for Rebels. Unusually enough, they have TWO subgroups; The Frog Buds (TFB) and Dylem. They were at one time in (illegal) cooperation with Bad Karma, using the acronym CBK (Crux Bad Karma). There were rumours that the illegal Crux DIED, leaving only the demo section, "Crux Design" active. Can anyone confirm or deny this? 1996 - Swedish Excel (doublememb) left to be in Balance only 06/96. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" reported that germans Grace (code) and Evrimsson (music) joined from Illusion, that Halikone, Sear and Pit left the group, that swedish Newt (gfx) left to be an Abyss member only [this actually happened 10/96], Batteries 1997 - Party NOT Included (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). 6th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: I think it's a sure bet that this would never even approach the placement it got if it hadn't been for its theme - The Party 7 power failures. It treats the theme with a certain sense of humour that I'm sure made many an attendee laugh when it was shown on the big screen. And at the end it tacks on an advertisement for Mekka Symposium 1998 ;)
The only real effect is the bumpmap on the opening part. I guess you had to be there. No credits appear. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Cryonics -------Another PC group moves to the Amiga! They have nothing to do with the old legendary group Crionics. CryoZone (CZE, 1995-) --------------------SWE> Ash (gfx, 03-04/95), Conan (gfx, 03-04/95), Dr.M (code, 03-04/95), Goof (sysop, 03/95), Mongoloid (code, 03/95), Quorion (gfx, 0304/95), Rooster (trade, 03/95), Scavenger (sysop, 03/95), Toxagon (music, 0304/95), Ztroobey (sysop, 03/95). Boards; DEFENSE STATION (swe), METROPOL (swe), EVEREST (swe), NUCLEAR PEPSI (swe). CryoZone is based in Sweden, and "Germicide" was their first production. Germicide (1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Dr.M, gfx: Qourion (logo), Ash (font), Conan (logo), music: Toxagon. Winner of the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition! review: What? This won? How this could possibly beat C-Lous' "Time Square" I will never know. Appalling. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Crypt ----NOR> Byte Prisoner (Kjell Inge Alsvik, swap, 12/90), Rainbow Painter (gfx, 12/90), Scape (gfx, new 12/90), Sex Angel (12/90), The Ancient Mariner (music, 12/90), The Little Giant (12/90), The Plastic Priest (code, 12/90). DEN> Cypher Kid (sysop 'PANDEMONIUM', 04/95). Crypt were a Norwegian demo group. B.F.D. (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: The Plastic Priest, gfx: Rainbow Painter, Scape, music: The Ancient Mariner. 3rd in the Theatre and Network party demo competition. review: Compatibility wise, this demo doesn't do so well. It will work for a short while with KillAGA, but crashes on the second vertical raster
part. Therefore it's hard to judge the demo as a whole, since I haven't seen it all :-( The name means 'Berre Fuck Deg', which is pseudoNorwegian for 'Go Fuck Yourself'. Charming. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: See review. Cryptoburners (CRB, 1988-) -------------------------NOR> Aggressor (Espen Hagen, 91), Bimbex (swap, 88-01/90), Blackstar (music editor, 88-01/91), Bugbear (gfx, 03/90-01/91), Darkstar (Hans Arild Runde, music, ex IT, old handle Gladiator, new 05-10/90), IT (sysop 'HOME ALONE' WHQ, doublememb Banana Dezign), Jackmix (08/90-01/91), Keo (music, 06/90), Krest (Bjarte Andreassen, music), Kylerion (90), Nikki (sysop 'MIDGARD'), Olorin (code, 04/93), Oscon (code, 06/90-01/91), Pitcher (sysop 'HOTTER THAN HELL', ex Fraxion), Rank (gfx, 04/93), Rhesus Minus (Trond Hasse Lie, music, 06-01/91), Skywalker (Karl Bryhn, gfx, ex Rebels), Tec (Steinar Midtskogen, code, ex IT, new 05-12/90 Time Traveller (Geir Rune Ladehaug, music, 88-03/90), Trixal (Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik, gfx music, 88-04/94), Vectorman (code, 01/90), Vortex (Oddgeir Hvidsten, music, 04/93-04/94), Windwalker (founder, 88-90). FRA> Doh (Nicholas Desessart, music, 09/93-04/94), Miss Blind (faxop, ex Dark Demons), Q.Horse (code, ex Dark Demons), Synchrose (code, ex Dark Demons), Witness (Olivier Nottegheim, code, ex Dark Demons, 09/93-04/94). GER> Deicide (Stefan Wilholm, ex Masque, 93). HOL> Cloud (M. Mosselman, swap, ex Desire), Solid (Jeroen Dreschler, gfx, ex Desire, 12/93-04/94). FIN> Crown (Jean-Baptiste Garnier, gfx music swap, ex Dark Demons, 9300), Split (sysop 'SPLIT SECOND'). ENG> U4IA (Jim Young, music). ???> Antony (fra? gfx, 04/94), Blaze (ex Amonia), Tom (ex Amonia), #dff180 (ex Amonia). Cryptoburners was formed in 1988 by by two earlier C64 groups, going under the names Scandomatic Crackers and TWCA. The original founders were Windwalker and Heatseeker, but they immediately recruited Trixal, Time Traveller, Blackstar and Bimbex. For a while, they released the diskmag 'Fourth Dimension'. It is worth mentioning that several leading members of Cryptoburners were involved in starting the gamemaking firm FunCom in Oslo, Norway. People like Tec, Vishnu and Olorin were and are heavily involved in the leadership of the company. Unlike stated in RAW #2, Vectorman was NOT kicked due
to inactivity. 1989 - In August the entire group Ghostriders joined. 1992 - After a spell of relative inactivity, PMC and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92] caught up with TEC to check on the group. He explained in an article that the recent lull in activities was mostly due to members doing their military duty (a.o. Heatseeker was facing 15 months in the navy). He could also disclose that a clean-up operation that was in progress, where lazy members would be disposed of - and that Vectorman was one of these people. Tec said there would be an internal meeting at easter, and that no releases would be made before that time. Norwegian sysop Chameleon ('CREEPSHOW') was busted sometime this year. 1994 - This year the entire group Dark Demons were recruited as a French section, and they released a few productions for them. Their originally French member Crown moved to Finland, but remains a member. Norwegian founder, coder and graphician Heatseeker (88-04/94) is now in Melon Dezign. Norwegian graphicians BCR and Dali joined Stone Arts. German coder duo Zulu (ex Devils) and Grey (ex Dark Star) joined DCS. Ceel (ex Devils) was kicked, and is now in Surprise! Productions. Crescendo is no longer a member (pre 01/91). Legendary norwegian musician Walkman (Tor Bernhard Gausen, ex It, new 05/90) left the scene. Megademo (ECS Megademo). Time Traveller's Music 1 (ECS Musicdisk). Crimetime (1988, 09.10, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition. Great Muzax #5 (1989, ECS Musicdisk). info: Music compilation featuring music by Bit Arts, Gladiator, Codex, Frederic Hahn, IQ, Hattrick and some others. Wild Bunch (1989, 24.06, ECS Demo). Winner of the demo competition at the It and Razor 1911 Party. Musicparty 1990 (1990, 05.01, ECS Musicdisk). Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Drammen Party Invitation (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Tec/It, gfx: Bugbear, music: Timetraveller and Blackstar. info: Invitation for the Cryptoburners, IT and Visual Bytes party. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Crashes on exit. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Note: Does NOT work, crashes. KillAGA has no effect.
Megademo II (1990, 08.06, ECS Mega). code: Heatseeker, Tec, Oscon, gfx: Heatseeker, music: Gladiator, Keo, Rhesus Minus, Trixal, Walkman, Blackstar. Materialized (1990, .10, ECS Demo). The Hunt For 7th October (1990, .10, ECS File). code: Tec, gfx: n/a, music: "Klisje på Klisje" by Walkman. Winner of demo competition at No Limits and Imp-666 Party 90. info: Noteworthy as one of the most incompatible demos ever (my friend Slummy/Spaceballs once remarked that it seemed to make a difference whether his refrigerator door was open or not ;). Should work pretty much correctly on a "vanilla" A500 with 1.3, but then again... [glenn] Fourth Dimension 4 Intro (1990, 10.10, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Tec, music: Gladiator. Third Dimension (1990, 28.12, ECS File). code: Tec, gfx: Heatseeker, Bugbear, Tec, music: Rhesus Minus. 2nd in the Theatre and Network Party demo competition. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. note: Does NOT work. Crashes on running. Fourth Dimension #5 (1991, 30.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Sector9/Razor 1911, gfx: Sector9/Razor 1911, music: Mantronix/Razor 1911. MAG - code: Vectorman, gfx: Heatseeker, music: "Spiritual Freedom" by Blackstar and Trixal. Cooperation with Razor 1911. review: For the first time, this issue of Fourth Dimension was a cooperation release, incorporating Razor 1911 into the team. Their contributions to the mag itself seems scarce, though, probably the best aspect of their contribution is the nice intro and a couple of articles by Sector9 and Ziphoid. What's more, the next issue promises to add another member to the team: Rebels. So, what do I think of the mag itself? At half the amount of articles, this would be a good mag. As it is now, however, there are simply WAY too many 'humoristic' articles and cartoons, of no interest to anyone but the producers themselves. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Bergen Music Intro (1991?, Intro). Revelations (1993, 07.04, ECS Slideshow). code: Olorin, gfx: Rank, music: Vortex, Trixal. Released at The Gathering 93. F.L.A.N. (1993, 03.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Witness, gfx: Feyd/Delight, music: Doh/Dreamdealers. 2nd in the Saturne Party 93 64k intro competition.
Cooperation with Dreamdealers. Brain-State-In-A-Box (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Heatseeker, gfx: Trixal, music: Vortex. 2nd in The Gathering 94 demo competition. info: Requires fast, 030-25mhz recommended. Crash Test (1994, 03.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Witness, gfx: Solid, Antony, music: Doh. 5th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Toothbrush - The Trilogy Part III (1994, 27.12, AGA Multifile). Cooperation with Dreamdealers, see there. Crystal (CSL, 1991-) -------------------ENG> 2Tuff (supply, aka Ghetto Boy/Tutoff, was once Spidey/Agile), Flux (org), Indio (org trade), Megadrive (sysop 'LIVING HELL'), Scott (sysop 'DULCET TONES' EHQ, ex Angels old, 05/92), Scrote (sysop 'THE KRYPT'/'THE OASIS', 05/92), Ysl (trade). DEN> Harmonica (crack), I.B.M (crack, ex Angels old, 92), Shock (org trade). SWE> Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', ex D-Mob), Frosty (ex D-Mob), Rascal (swap, 07/90), Uzi-U (ex D-Mob). GER> Irie, Malzam (sysop 'REIGN IN BLOOD', 01/91), Secret (sysop 'TECHNOPOLIS' opened 03/92, 03-05/92), Tron and Cenobites (sysops 'SPEEDBIT', ex Aspect). FRA> Traitor (ex Alliance Design). SCO> Mr.E (Rob, crack, ex Angels old). ITA> Gulliver (sysop 'HEAVENS DOOR'), Zaracon (sysop 'ANCIENT DREAMS', 05/92). HOL> Outlander. NOR> Phonebilly (sysop 'ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex Fairlight, new 09/92). USA> Paradise King (sysop 'BEYOND PARADISE', 05/92), Professor (sysop 'ICE STATION ZEBRA', 92), Q (sysop 'REALM OF CHAOS'), Reet-Mon (sysop 'CENTRUM'), Swayzar (trade sysop 'PRIMITIVE FUTURE WHQ (usa, 09/9105/92), Tin Man (sysop 'DARK DOMAIN', 04/95), Toxicman (sysop 'APOCALYPSE'). ???> Buster, Creon (sysop 'DIGITAL DREAM', ex Possessed, new 09/92), Diabolik, Firefox (ger? trade, 01/91), Ice Cube, Kamenski (ex Scoopex), Misfit (early92), Mr.Hell (ex Skid Row, new 09/92), Mr.Scarface, Overlord, P.O.W, Protektor (ger? cosysop 'WORLD DOWN FALL', ex Abyss, new 09/92-93), Saint, Scorch, Sledge (ex Adept), The Staff, Timdog (console, doublememb Alpha Flight), Tripwire (supply, ex Vision), Winger (ex Scoopex), Zippy (crack). Boards; PIRATE'S HAVEN (usa, later Fusion, 08/93), AMIGA EAST (usa), DIGITAL EXPRESSION (usa), WRECK HOUSE (usa), ESCAPE ZONE (usa),
PLEASURE POINT (usa), MOTHERBOARD (usa), SPACE PALACE (ger, 05/92), THE SOFTWARE HOUSE (den). Crystal was formed in 1991, likely by Scott (scotland) and I.B.M. (denmark). The group became known from day one as one of the best cracking groups in the business, and I.B.M (originally from Poland, real name Roman) was their main cracker for years and years. Another dane, Harmonica, also did a fair few cracks for the group. The group's main supplier was Englishman 2tuff (also known under several other handles, a.o. Tutoff and Ghetto Boy). The group itself never produced any demos, but their subgroup for a while, Melon Dezign (see separate entry) certainly made some memorable demo releases. Melon was also responsible for many, many of the best crackintros ever, almost all for Crystal. There are reviews of some of these under Melon's entry. There is some confusion around the 'OASIS' boards; in addition to the information above, I also have a bbs ad and other supporting information that reads sysop: Dan/Crystal... Crystal is dead! Tango/Defekt joined, but left to join Balance. Cardinal (ger? ex Abyss, cosysop 'WORLD DOWN FALL', new 09/92) left for Interpol. It is unclear where this left 'WDF', where he was cosys with Protektor. 'BLACK TOWER' was closed forever, reported Eternal #2. This may be a misprint, so that they actually meant Rash' 'DARK TOWER'... 'EDGE OF INSANITY' was busted 93, and will go offline forever! German Fulcrum (new late 92) joined, but left due to differences with Cardinal and Protektor. German swapper Ghost (ex Submission) joined Dytec. English board 'GRACELAND' (05/92) joined from Ghost briefly, and then left the scene. Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE', ex Shining 8, new 09/92) soon joined Kefrens. sysop ZigZag ('MAY DAY', ex Symbiosis, new 09/92) joined Crack Inc, but soon went on to join Scoopex. DD7 (sysop '100 PERCENT') joined 2000 AD and opened 'VALHALLA' BBS with Ozzy. Scottish supplier Action Man had a falling out with I.B.M. over Zelnik, and subsequently he, Infiltrator, N.O.M.A.D (ex Angels old or Scoopex) and Zelnik left for Quartex (91). Bit Bug left. Morph rejoined Dual Crew. Navigator joined Tarkus Team. Sysop Rash ('DARK TOWER') joined from Zenith mid to late 93, but left the
scene after a brief period. German cracker Bob Duncan is now in Bismarck. Cult (-1992) -----------DEN> Caveman (gfx, ex Light), Chrome (sysop 'INSOMNIA'), Steel (code, ex Light), Tarzan (Peter Nielsen, swap sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', ex Light, later 2000 AD, 92). GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 12/92), Cronos (sysop 'DAMAGE INC.', 10/91), Groucho, Razor (old handle Genestealer), Tex. FIN> Dick, Questron, Sagan, Witch, Zodiak. ???> Chase (code, 12/92), Cooper (ger?, 92), Death Hawk, DJ Head (ex Vogue), Dr.Legal (ex RAF, new mid91), Droid (den? music, 92), Jacx (music, 12/92), Magic Duke (ger? music, later G.T.O/Digital, 92), Max (ex The Dark Demon, old handle Cruncher, new SLH11), MCM (ger? 92), Predator (gfx, 12/92), Ray (code, 12/92), Red Lance, Trance. Boards; SANCTUARY (den, 91). Action Force changed its name to Cult, and that's how this group was born. They're mainly remembered for their demos now. 1990 - The Norwegian section fell apart in late 1990 (probably december); Beast, Skeletor, Mad, SwEinstein and Yoghurt (old handle Acidman) all joined Network; Timewalker (music) joined Pure Metal Coders; Space Ace (swap, late90) changed his handle to Mr.Ice and formed a norwegian section of Euphoria, and finally Electrix and three others will form a new group. 1992 - Around the middle of the year, danish sysop Energy ('NONSTOP UP'N DOWN') left the group for 2000 A.D. Danish Gizmo left to join Bastards ca 06/92. Danes Dino (gfx), Slide (music), Mount (gfx), Easley (gfx swap), Shayera and Gargoyle (code) all left to form Parasite 06/92. News in both EuroChart #15 [07/92] and #16 [09/92] seem to confirm Cult's death. It is claimed this is in agreement with both the German and Danish sections of the group. What confuses me somewhat is how they could release "Kefmania" [09/92] if they were dead at the time? German sysop Hotstar ('THE NEW STATION', ex RAF) joined Rebels. Dutch editor Cybersonik joined Anarchy. Cybersonik left behind a few issues as editor of 'Royal Info'. It is probable that no more issues were released after Cybersonik left. Danish coder and musician Kollaps (ex Light, 92) left to help form the new group Focus Design. Megademo (1990, .03, 1MB Disk).
BBS Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Kollaps, gfx: Mr.Mount, Tarzan, music: Droid. So Simple (1992, 15.04, Demo). 6th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Kefmania (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk, 2 disks). code: Ray, Chase, gfx: Predator, music: Jacx, Chromag. 7th in The Party 92 demo competition. info: To run on A1200, you need to turn the cache off, and set the original chipset - and it will still crash before disk 2. Culture ------FIN> Dalos (Pasi Rainio, swap, 09/92), SS Soldier (swap). Curacy -----DEN> Ajax (Martin Jacobsen, swap, ex Vendetta Prod. ad X-Tra), Foxtrot (swap, 09/92), Trigon (Lars Kim Lund, code, 05/92). Trigon wrote the utility Flashminator, which removes the 'flashing' from several executable depackers. Antex joined Orient. Rookie's Delight (ECS Demo). Cyanide (1993-1993) ------------------HOL> Baby Joe and Dr.Love (music), Daddy 2 Foot (gfx music), Elessar (swap), Poison (swap), Quazar (org code, 03/93). ???> Ace, Haywire (music, ex Intense, new mid93), Nico (code, 03/93), TDD, TLC. Boards; CONSPIRACY WHQ (n-l). Cyanide was a Dutch demo group. 1993 - German musician Dynamite joined Analog 03/93. Murdock joined Jetset mid 93. Cyanide died late 1993, and all Dutch members joined Applause. This means at least Radium (gfx music, 03/93) and Sascha. TLE left the scene. Tommie, sysop 'SESAMESTRAAT' joined Desire. Englishmen Psi and St.M, as well as the american Caffeine joined Eclipse. Dutch swappers Magic (ex Xentrix) and Amethist (both 08/93) joined Applause.
45 Degrees (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Quazar, gfx: Quazar (raytrace), Radium (logo), music: Radium. review: Their first intro, having gained its name by the angle of the text plotter :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Booztro (1993, 08.03, ECS File). code: Nico, Kernal/TKOB, gfx: Kernal/TKOB, Chaos/TKOB, music: Dynamite. Cooperation with TKOB. Cyberactive ----------Slick joined Anarchy. Dark, Iceberg and Cujo joined Desire. Sysop Jack ('DETONATION BOULEVARD') joined LSD. CyberDreams ----------ENG> Kei (mainorg code gfx swap pack). ???> Aztec (code music modem), Chazzy B (gfx swap), Curse (gfx swap), DJ (swap), Eon (swap), Hijaak (swap), Hobbit (swap), Kbx128 (music), Kooky (code swap), Merrdyn (sysop 'CYBERDREAM'), Mythos (music swap), Rac (swap modem), Slate (gfx swap), Wraith (code gfx modem). CyberDreams took over the UK group Calypso and all remaining members joined in late 1993. Cyberdyne --------???> Cuz (trade, ex X-Trade, new 94). CyberForce ---------GER> 2Fast (Jens, ascii, doublememb Cream [console], 08/95). Cyberiad -------FIN> Cocatrice (gfx, 04/92), Cody, Zei-El (gfx, 04/92). Cyberiad ceased to exist when the group merged with Carillon into Carillon Cyberiad (CNCD), which means most of the members above can later be found in that group. Accurate information on exactly WHO made it across would be greatly appreciated :) Some confirmed ones, however, are Fraction (code, 04/92), Dean (music, 04/92) and Prime Premium (gfx music, 04/92).
Drifter joined Complex. Great Bytes in Fire (1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Fraction, gfx: Dean, Zei-El, Cockatrice, Prime Premium, music: Dean (NoisePacker 3 format). 5th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Works fine once it gets going, but doesn't always boot past the loading picture. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Works until the text Crusaders Deadline Gathering '92 appears, then crashes. Perhaps it's a little unstable at this point, it could be the same problem ADL had [below]. Cyborgs ------NOR> Dark Pirate, Highlight (Tommy Foss, org swap, later Decnite). ???> Darkman (swap, ex Beast/Bronx). Despite strong rumours, Cyborgs did NOT die in late 92 or early 93. There was also an Atari division. Absent joined Atomic early 93. Mr.Magic and Jim joined Awe early 93. Xandu, Jinx and Micro left the scene early 93. Norwegian graphician Tranze joined Legacy. Cyborx (1992-) -------------GER> Aliex (ex Exort, new 09/92), Dytec (09/92), Gonso (ex Atinox, new mid91), Nightmare (ex Atinox, new mid91), Time Thrust, TSA. ???> Stingray. Cyborx are a German demo group, born late 1992. Smash and Agent Orange joined Arise. Doomsday (Demo). Cyclone ------French group who arranged a party in 1991. Cycron -----DEN> Tama (music, 12/90). NOR> Camelot (Espen O. Pedersen, ex Theatre, new 12/90).
Norwegian Punisher joined Energy. Cydonia (CDN, http://www.ar.com.au/~storm/) ------------------------------------------AUS> Accolyte (code, 09/95-03/96), Bonza (sysop 'SYNDICATE', 09/95), Coolcat (gfx, 09/95), Cro (code swap, 09/95-96), Eminence (music, 09/95), Infinity (gfx music, 09/95-03/96), Krion (code sysop 'LUCID DREAMS', 09/95-96), Muse (music sysop), Prowler (swap sysop 'TWISTED DREAMS' WHQ, 09/95-12/97), Serkul (music, 09/95), Snykers (gfx, 09/95), Souri (gfx, 09/95), Storm (David Carson, code html, 09/95). Capricorn One (ECS Trackmo). Defy Issue #1 (ECS Diskmag). Defy Issue #2 (ECS Diskmag). Defy Issue #3 (ECS Diskmag). Explora (ECS only). Homy (ECS). Models Inc. (AGA). Phobos (ECS) Red Planet (ECS). Syndicate (ECS). ReRun! (1995, 24.09, Intro). code: Cro, Extremist/ex-CDN, Drift/ex-CDN, gfx: Souri, Infinity, Cro, music: Deadlock/Slam! The only demo released at Project '95. review: The show opens with a flame effect in REAL bad resolution. It looks like one of those textmode demos on the PC! Next we're shown three pics - or patterns - that are calculated as we watch. Hardly exciting stuff, people! Next there's a zoomed and texturemapped cube...Chaos/Sanity did this in 1992! Not very interesting, I'm afraid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dreams (1996, .03, Slideshow). code: Acolyte, gfx/music: Infinity. Defy issue #6 (1996, Autumn, Diskmag). editor: Cro, Code: Krion. Cyrus
----ENG> Abyss (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Brick (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Codex (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Lils (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Mig (ex Epic, new ca 05-06/91), Saint (06/91), Soul (ex Intuition, new 06/91), Tas (06/91), Vawred Computator (ex Epic, new ca 05-06/91). Cyrus was an English demo group under the leadership of Tas and Saint. 1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig joined from Epic around may. Mig moved on though, and quickly joined Crack under the name Tracker. Phobia was kicked from the group, while Poltergeist left in june. The group was then reinforced with the joining of Abyss, Lils, Brick, Soul and Codex from Intuition, after that group died in june. Cytax (CTX, -1992) -----------------GER> Amphetamine, Black Ghost and Stargrove (sysops 'LUCKY STRIKE' WHQ, 10/91), Dr.True (new mid91), EC-Rider (music), Etron (ex Alpha Flight), Leo (01/90), Terminator X (swap, ex System 5, new late90), The Mage (code). SWE> Jinsey (sysop 'CYBERSPACE'), Kaka (sysop), Sooga, Tesh, Wizzo (ex Reflectors, new ca 01/92). NOR> Drum Tex (ex Exit, new mid91), Tex (new mid91). FIN> Coroner (sysop). ENG> 4-Koff. USA> M.Bison (sysop 'MAXXED OUT', 05/92). ???> Cro Magx, Dr.Zook, Horizon (new early92), Ian (ex Dytec, new early92), Joker (ex Anthrox, new early92), Ken (gfx, 92), Shockwave, Starman (music), Techno Priest (ex Pirates, new ca 01/92), Tom Poison, Warlock (ex Antiriad). Boards; FLOODLAND (swe), MIDNIGHT SUN (swe). Cytax was a german based demo group, which died late 1992. They will be most fondly remembered for their excellent diskmag 'International Computer Entertainment' (I.C.E.). The last issue or two of the mag was detached from Cytax, and released as an independent production. 1992 - Techno Priest/Pirates, Swedes Wizzo/Reflectors, Rainbow (music) and Wiquie (swap) all joined around january. Swedes Gadget (ex Airwalk) and Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE') left for New Wave due to internal problems around january, though some sources claim they were in Palace for two days
first. Zed joined Slipstream, while Germans Bros and Master (both new mid91) left to join The Silents in september. Swedish musician and swapper Noice (ex Antiriad, old handle Lucky Strike, 06/92) and female swapper Wiquie left for Polaris in september. Torwak was kicked. Maltese writer Cyber Pirate joined Pure Metal Coders, to be one of the writers for their legendary diskmag 'R.A.W'. Parsec (had board, but closed), Flogger, Thunor and Rainbow (swe music) all joined Voice. 4T Thieves joined Alcatraz. Norwegian swapper Moxy (new mid 91) joined Offence. Monochrome Megalomania (ECS File). I.C.E issue #3 Intro (ECS Intro). info: Needs cache OFF, OCS Chipset ON. I.C.E issue #4 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #5 (1991, mid?, Diskmag). I.C.E issue #6 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #7 (ECS Diskmag). I.C.E issue #8 (1992, ca.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: The Mage/independent, gfx: Ken (title), Decre (icons, headline fonts, clips), Mithrandir/Acme (clips), Nana (cartoons), music: Rhesus Minus/Cryptoburners, editors: Leo, Blackghost, Amphetamine, The Mage/independent. review: The first things this mag shows you is a single screen of a copyright notice, then a really great fantasy HAM title picture by Ken. First impressions of the mag itself isn't bad either, with a small but great ICE clipart logo and big and small fonts... The control panel is hardly stunning, but more than functional. ICE is based in Germany, but with some international cooperatives. They do claim it's no longer a pure Cytax production (the editorial even criticizes the group's lack of activity), but the production roster still contains so many Cytax members I think it's most correct to list even this issue under Cytax. The release date is a little uncertain, but it is around may or june of 1992. The news section carried the news that Horizon, Ian/Dytec and Joker/Anthrox had joined. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review! D-29 ---FIN> Cryzor (93), DJ Ere (music swap, 93), Nelson, Noblehawk, Quedo (93), Rabbit, Slade.
SWE> Deathjester, Exact-1, Freeze, Mint, Quedo. NOR> Airhead (Tommy Mortensen, swap, new late 93), Purple Haze (swap, 94). DEN> Adonis, Daffy (Christer Lankholm, swap, 94), Drac (music, new 12/93), Flower Child (music, new 12/93), Guybrush, Guz, Warner (swap, new 12/93). 1994 - The entire Danish division joined Iris in january. This was at least Darkhawk (ex Megalomania [no entry]), other names are uncertain. Swedish swapper Airbrain joined Quartz. Swede D-Lite changed his handle to Dose and joined Chaos AD. New Norwegian division was formed by Airhead. Damage (DMG, 1991-, http://student.oulu.fi/~count/damage/) ---------------------------------------------------------FIN> 3C (gfx music, 12/91-12/93), Allah (swap trade, 93), Baldis (music, 12/93), Brain (music, 04/92-08/92), Count Zero (WHQ code homepage, 12/91-06/94), Decor8 (gfx, 93-06/94), Dozig (code swap, 02/9206/94), Jack of Hearts (gfx, 93-06/94), Maxwell (music swap, 10/92-93), Mr.Saku (gfx, 10/92-06/94), MTR (gfx), Shaman (org), STL (Antti Lankila, code, 12/93-06/94), Zandax (music, 02/92-06/94). SWE> Dezecrator (sysop 'HELL AWAITS', later X-Trade), Hellhound (music, 12/92), Lionheart (swap), Supreme (swap). POL> Bednar (Darek Bednarczyk, gfx raytrace, 11/94), Fenix (sysop 'NEMEZIS'). ENG> The Fox. ???> Dragon (pol? raytrace, 08/95), Fender (music, 12/91), Glue (music), Madcat (fin? gfx, 12/91-08/92), Matt (pol? gfx, 12/93), Piter (trade), Scorpion (fin? gfx, 02/92), Van Caco (pol? music, 12/93), Ziemy (gfx, 08/95). Damage is a Finland based demo group, whose Polish division also made some decent productions. Some of the finnish members (count zero, decor8) actually moved down to the c64 later, where they released their first production in december of 1997. 1992 - Renegade left for Fi-Re Crew around the middle of the year. The Hungarian division died ca 06/92. 1996 - Most of the Polish division split up in mid 96. Action (swap, ex Mad Elks, new late 95) joined Anadune. Sitek (gfx raytrace) and Miklesz (Nikolaj Leszczuk, code, both 12/93-08/95) left the Amiga scene; MIklesz in favour of the PC. MGL (music) joined a PC group. I also have news saying he joined Mad Elks late 95... 1997 - Polish swapper and sysop Mephi (94-) left for Amnesty late97. Orion joined Shining 8.
Kiviniemi City Blues (1991, 02.12, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: 3C, Madcat, music: Fender. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Zingo, gfx: Bobcat, music: K9. Introduction Intro (1992, 17.02, ECS Intro). code: Dozig, Count Zero, gfx: Scorpion, music: Zandax. Swappers For All (1992, 20.04, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: 3C, music: Brain. Jotain Kaljua ja Gaagnista (1992, 07.06, ECS Intro) code/gfx: Dozig, music: Zandax. info: The title means 'Something Bald and Beautiful'. Damage Report #4 (1992, 25.08, ECS Diskmag). code: Count Zero, gfx: Madcat, music: Brain. Released at Assembly 92. Pallia Kansalle (1992, 19.10, ECS Intro). code: Dozig, gfx: Mr. Saku, music: Maxwell. Hymn 633 (1992? (ADL)/3? (Ed), 29.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: STL, Count Zero, Dozig, gfx: Jack of Hearts, 3C, STL, music: "Endless Autumn" by Zandax, "Metal Maniac" by Fender, "Illusion" --- doesn't work on my version ---, "Fantasy" by Brain, "Shiny Waterfall" by Zandax, "Technoexpress" by Fender, "Intuition" by Brain. info: More and better information on this disk is coming! X-Mas Special (Tolupukkirap) (1993, 24.12, ECS File). code: STL, gfx: 3C, music: Zandax, Baldis. info: Requires 1MB total mem, chip and fast. X-Mass Time (1993, 28.12, ECS File). code: Miklesz, gfx: Matt, Sitek, music: Van Caco. 22nd in The Party 93 demo competition. Cooperation with DTS. Da 2nd Coming (1994, 24.06, AGA? Slideshow). code: Dozig, Count Zero, STL, gfx: Decor, Jack of Hearts, Mr. Saku, music: Zandax. Noxzema (1994, 13.11, AGA 2MB HD Demo, 4 disks). code: Miklesz, gfx: Sitek, Bednar (3D, design), music: MGL. Winner of Gelloween 94 demo competition! Pulp Fiction (1995, 30.08, AGA 4MB File). code: Miklesz, gfx: Sitek, Dragon (additional), Ziemy (additional), music: MGL. 3rd in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. review: PF is not a bad demo, just a little blocky and too techno at times :) Seriously, there are several good routines here, some of which I've never actually seen before - like the waterfall vector. The music is
slavishly timed to the demo, almost to the extent where it's too much. The strength that timing music to the effects gave demos like Sanity's "WOC" was largely on the base that they didn't time EVERYTHING to the music; but when they did it was always powerful. PF opens with a cool raytraced logo, and the first effect is a really block gouraud. Fortunately, things do get better as the demo progresses. The plasma zoom and the aforementioned waterfall vectors are nice effects, not to mention the moving lightsource around the 'bukk' (sorry, don't know the English word :D)! Other nice things are the voxel routine and the texturemapping. Overall, this is not a bad demo, though it suffers from the 'trying too hard' syndrome. Less is sometimes more, remember that. It now seems the people that made this have abandoned the Amiga for the PC...on the strength of PF, I'd say that is definitely a loss for the scene. The two 'additional graphicians' I couldn't see mentioned anywhere in the demo... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Damage Inc. ----------ENG> Andy, Futura, Mulko, Mushroom (old handle Jongle, ex Coma), Si. NOR> Axl, Black Panther, Carrion, Flesh, Goldfinger, Jeff, Lars (Lars Ulimoen, music swap, 93), Malefactor, Messiah, Orion, Scud, Software Error, Stormchild, Teddy Boy, Ziriax. SWE> Norad (sysop 'ACES HIGH'), Nostyx. FIN> Atax, Deltax, Gamma, KLF, Lord Helmet, Zippo. JOR> Mutassem (ex Byte Busters). ???> Pinocchio (music, 12/94). Lots of wellknown guys on the Norwegian memberlist... Superior and Switchblade left. Finnish musician and swapper Saracen (ex Visual Bytes) joined Destiny. Damian -----GER> Ace, Sol. AUT> Ice MC (sysop 'UNLIMITED SUCCESS' WHQ, 04/95). ???> Achnaton (ex Savage), Amnesia (new 09/92), Axxis (new 09/92), Buzzard (ex Hypnotic, 09/92), Darth Vader (sysop), Hellraiser (new 09/92), Mattrax (new 09/92), Omnitron (new 09/92). Editor Blitter and his mag "The Jungle" are now in X-Trade, but I haven't got a clue how they got there :) 1993 - Andy joined Nuance, and Act joined Outlaws late 93. Toxic left, and Dark joined Design after a short while 09/92.
Cosmos was kicked. Cruncher joined Savage. German Devil joined Amnesia. Dream Warrior joined Energy. 501 (ex Desert, old handle Wishbringer) joined Prime. German graphician Friendly (08/93) joined Static Bytes. Proton joined Mexx. The Jungle issue #3 (1993, ECS Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Friendly, music: Tip and Firefox/Phenomena. The Jungle issue #4 (1993, 18.10, ECS Diskmag). info: Full multitasking, HD installable, AGA compatible...in 93! The Jungle issue #5 (1993, 27.12, ECS Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Friendly, music: n/a, editor: Blitter. Released at The Party 93. Damones [old] (1991- http://www.damones.net) -------------------------------------------FIN> Balthazar (93), Beerman (93), Casket (Tatu Tiala, swap, ex Legend, 93), Cobra (trade, 03/94), Corleone, Darra (93), Dean (music, doublememb CNCD, 93), Drifter (93), Duncan (ex Digital, 93), Eddie and Ice (trade, ex Accession, 03/94), Fraction (code, doublememb CNCD, 93), G.O.D (trade, 03/94), Hifi (sysop 'LAST GENERATION' WHQ, ex Digital, doublememb Alpha Flight, 93), Hoffi (trade, doublememb Byterapers, 03/93-03/94), Irwin (trade, 93-03/94), Kevin (gfx swap sysop, ex Digital, 93), Lapin Juntti (trade, 93-03/94), Merit, Ringo (93), Rotsi (93), Saviour (Savi Ka, code, ex Complex), SS Soldier (trade, ex Fun Factory, 02/93-03/94), T.O.B (ex Byterapers, 93), Trashman (93), Tsunami (code, doublememb Virtual Dreams, 93-03/94), T.U.M.B. (93), Vyvyan (ex Accession, 93), Zados (93). ???> Lappari (ex Black Robes), Lukas (ex Tarkus Team), Pete (ex Tarkus Team). Tormentor never rejoined from Alpha Flight, he was kicked. Finnish members Hex (ex Black Robes), Masasoft (93) and Fulcrum (trade, 03/94) were kicked due to inactivity. Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Digital, 03/94) joined Angels. Finnish Grim (ex Digital) joined Sonic. Finnish sysop Zebra ('THE ZOO', ex Scoopex, new late92-93) joined Accession. Finnish coders Coconut and Flame (both ex The Silents) left to form a new group, called Pygmy Projects. Damones Are Forever (Intro). Pregnant by Punk! (File). Fantasy Space (Slideshow, 2 disks).
Cooperation with Positron. Damones [new] (DMS, http://www.damones.net) ------------------------------------------Damones seem to be based on illegal activities, like cracking. The reason I have written 'new' at the top is that they suddenly appeared again after so much time, it is only fair to have a separator to represent the stretch of time in which they were absent from the scene. I do not know what the relation is between 'old' and 'new' Damones, but one of their recent ascii logos read 'since 1991'. The latest release I have seen was date 03/99. Damones Assembly 98 (1998, 64k Intro). code/gfx/music: n/a (The Player 6.1A format). 8th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: I like the opening of this intro, really stylish with stars travelling around a nice DAMONES logo with www.damones.net underneath... But then they go and spoil everything when the next screen appears =( The tune changes to a really hectic techno variation, and what is obviously supposed to be a bottle of Finlandia Vodka, only with the word DAMONES on the label instead, start spinning around the screen...and as if that was not enough disappointment, then try this on: That's all there is. Nothing more. So I went from thinking, "oh, this has a nice oldskool feeling to it", to a total dislike. The 3d graphics engine used does not really seem too impressive, just standard texturemapping with lightsource as far as I can see, and with an animated background. No credits or even production name appear anywhere inside the intro; the name above is based on the assembly 98 result file. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Danger Productions (-1992) -------------------------SWE> Drain (swap, 05/92), El Diablo (music, 05/92), Harzak (gfx, 05/92), Hijacker (org code, 05/92), Inmate (code, 05/92), LBJ (gfx, 05/92), Mastercarder (code trade, 05/92), Merlin (code, 05/92), Phantom (swap, 05/92), Slash (sysop 'IMPULSE', new 05/92), Trazer (music, 05/92), Ufo (gfx, 05/92), Vindicator (trade, 05/92).
Danger Productions were a Swedish based demo group. After struggling though 1992 (Balance's "Magbox #1" [07/92] reported they had only 4 members left) they died late in the year, and most member formed Orient. 1992 - Swedish swapper Skillimoes joined Orient around 06/92. Delta X and Sam Haien was kicked. Firelord got kicked, and then briefly joined 2000 AD 09/92. All Finnish members were kicked out due to lameness 05/92. Dangtro (1992, mid.05, ECS Intro). code: Hijacker, Merlin (help), gfx: Harzak, Ufo, music: Trazer. review: This opens up looking VERY traditional. The first screen contains the standard setup of (top to bottom) logo - effect - scroller. The effect, this time, is a normal glenz vector. Hardly exciting. I almost started believing that was all there was when it suddenly jumped along to the next effect: a sinescroller and a filled vector object combined. Unfortunately this effect fucked up the display SEVERELY on my machine, filling up the screen with green junk. Then it's back to the first screen again, only with a new logo and a new effect for the endless end scroller. The effect this time around was a glenz with a filled vector cube inside. Get the picture? All together now: SEEN IT A MILLION TIMES BEFORE. Thank you. Oh, BTW the tune's not half bad. It's one of those synthpoppie things I love so much. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Daniax -----Daniax' is not a very notworthy group in demoscene history except for the fact that famed Danish graphician Slash (later J.A.D.E.) was once a member. Danish graphician Slash joined Kefrens 12/90. Dansktoppen ----------Dansktoppen is not really a group, but rather a publication for the Danish scene - a sort of local Eurochart. Such a myriad of groups is involved with it, that we have decided to create a separate section for the reviews of these mags. Darkage (DKG, 1997-, http://scene.darkage.it) ---------------------------------------------
GER> Dire (writer webmaster, 06/01), Ghandy (Lars Sobiraj, mainorg editor, ex doublememb Gods, new late97-06/01), Sniper (code, 06/01), Stingray (code, ex Secretly, new 04-06/01), Zito (editor, ex Apathy, new early00-06/01). SPA> Dip (Matteo Di Pieri, code, 02/98-06/01). NOR> Bridgeclaw (gfx, doublememb Gods [details], new early00-06/01), Pix (gfx, 02/98-06/01), Punisher (coorg swap write, 06/01). ENG> Genetix (music, 06/01), Mr.Tickle (Peter Gordon, code webmaster, 0406/01). SWE> Decibel (gfx, 08/97-06/01). HOL> Gone (editor, 06/01). POL> X-Ceed (music, 06/01). The people listed below this line are no longer members; the split was performed after Ghandy sent me an updated memberlist in june of 2001. I hope to remove this line soon, it's just there to help me develop this in the best way I can! =) ITA> Corrosion (Patrizio Casalengo, music, triplememb Degeneration and Genesis, 08/97-02/98), F.B.Y (music, also in Spyral [pc], 03/9702/98), Kaosmaster (Franco Scozzari, raytrace edit swap pack "Planet", ex Ram Jam, 08/97-02/98), Lanch (Fabrizio Bartoloni, gfx, 08/97-02/98), Washburn (code, 08/97-02/98). SWE> Hawk (code edit swap, triplememb Giants [details] and Ambrosia, new late97-02/98), Racoon (music, doublememb C-Lous [details], new late97, 12/97-04/01). SPA> DCB (code, new 08/97-02/98), Nork (gfx music swap, doublememb Network [details], 08/97-07/99), The Lawnmower Man (Jesus Reyes Martinez, aka TLM, webmaster edit, 08/97-02/98). Darkage is an Italian based demo group, formed by Modem/Ram Jam in the early days of 1997. They arranged the 'Spoletium' party in Italy in march 1998. When Kaosmaster joined, he had the Ram Jam magchart "Showtime" with him. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] announced the group's birth. Spanish coder DCB joined in august. The group then made it big at The Italian Gathering in the following month, september, by winning both the demo and intro competitions with "Vanilla Drug Overdose" [09/97] and "Crash" [09/97] respectively! Shortly after, Italians EgoLoop (code, 08-09/97) and Aud (music, 09/97) both left the scene. 1998 - English editor Kalf (Tony Landord) decided to leave the scene early in the year, after being heavily criticized in an article in Seenpoint #7. Ghandy, The Lawnmover Man (TLM) and Mod3m stopped swapping early in the
year. 2000 - Zito (editor) joined from Apathy, while Norwegian graphician Bridgeclaw doublejoined from Gods early in the year. Cupid (code) left for Iris. In december, the official Showtime site (done by Dire) was officially opened at http://scenet.de/showtime/. 2001 - Graphician SuperK decided to leave the group for Iris. Early this year, the entire group was shocked when italian coder, founder and leader Modem (Paolo D'Urso) finally decided to leave the scene. After some internal discussion, the rest of the members decided to keep the group going, and a new main organizer was elected; Ghandy. April came with the Mekka Symposium party, but the group's sole release this year was the intro "Welcome To Our World II" in cooperation with Iris. After the party however, the group was happily reinforced when talented German coder Stingray joined from Secretly. Stingray immediately begun coding a musicdisk for swedish musician Racoon (to feature graphics by Noogman/Scoopex), but was sidetracked to do the final coding for Showtime. After a few nights of intense work, he could present the latest issue, and "Showtime #16" [04/01] was released on the 26th of april, as the first issue with Zito as main editor. Stingray released a fixed version of Kefrens' musicdisk "Multi Mega Mix" on the 25th of july. Stingray released a fixed version of the old Equinox musicdisk "Sonical Fantasia" on the 18th of august, then a collection of four fixed Crack Inc cracktros on the 25th of august. Glamour (1997, 01.03, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Berzan #19 40k intro competition. Fantasy (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Freedom (1997, 17.06, 64k Intro). code: Mod3m, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 3rd in the Icing 97 64k intro competition. Jurassic Pack #5 Intro (1997, Intro). Ilmarako (1997, 64k Intro). Winner of the Motorola Inside 97 64k intro competition! Morph (1997, 26.07, 4k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: Lanch, music: none. Released at Euskal 97. Drug Vanilla Syndrome (1997, 06.09, AGA File Demo). code: Modem, Washburn, gfx: DeciBel, KaosMaster, music: FBY.
Winner of The Italian Gathering 97 demo competition! review: DVS is not a very good demo, unfortunately, despite some good things here and there... Modem coded everything but one single part, which is the best one in the entire demo. First of all, Darkage need to get better graphicians, since the work in DVS is really inadequate...Just one fullscreen pic by DeciBel is any good here. FBY's music is...acceptable. I won't go into the other parts, but Washburn's envmap engine represented here by a rock-like object over an animated background, all in the unusual color combination yellow/white - is pretty fast and good. And the drug promotion part was REALLY unnecessary, guys... If Ecstasy helps coding, then why aren't you making better demos? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Crash (1997, 06.09, AGA 64k Intro). code: Modem, EgoLoop, gfx: DeciBel, music: Aud. Winner of The Italian Gathering 97 64k intro competition! review: "Crash" is an unusual intro, actually - in that its main effect is a a travel along a road with some roadside scenery... It's a showcase for a routine they intend to use in a future game, they say, though we'd recommend working a little more on it before releasing, 'cause hey it's pretty ugly in its present state :) Don't mean to be critical, Darkage, but the routine looks unattractive in its present state. Perhaps some more work on the textures would help... Another problem with "Crash" is that it's too short - just the intro sequence and the road, and that's it show over. I find it hard to recommend this intro, unfortunately. Nowhere does it mention any RAM requirements. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Trip 98 Invitation (1997, late, Intro). code: Modem, gfx: n/a, music: Corrosion. review: Another professionally presented invitation intro, this one opens with a euro logo (for some reason) rotated and stretched to the first bars of the cool music. Then the text 'WELCOME TO...' is overlaid. It then fades down before presenting a TRIP logo - which darkens and then the text is overlaid. The text is standard 80 column topaz, no borders or nothing, and is exactly the same as in the text invitation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Sublime (1997, 31.10, AGA 64k Intro).
code: Modem, gfx: Decibel, music: Racoon/C-Lous. 2nd in the Saturne 97 (5) 64k intro competition. review: "Sublime" is not all that bad actually, especially the shaded face-mask impressed me. It even features some excellent design, especially in the end where the text DARKAGE THE END floats from the corner of the eye of Decibel's artistically rendered lady... Possibly Modem's best intro ever! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Galaxy - Freedom 2 (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Mod3m, Washburn, gfx: Decibel, music: Racoon. 4th/10th? in The Party 7 40k intro competition. Giuluia (1998, 03.01, 4k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: none, music: none. Winner of the Trip 98 4k intro competition! Kill Santa Claus (1998, 03.01, 64k Intro). code: Mod3m, g: n/a, usic: n/a. 2nd in the Trip 98 64k intro competition. Spoletium 98 Invitation Intro (1998, .02, File). code: Modem, gfx: Yure/Degeneration, Nork (endlogo), music: Corrosion. review: A very basic invitation intro, but presented in a professional way, makes this small Darkage prod come out just above average. It opens with a Spoletium 98 logo, and then goes onto the invitation text reader itself. The text is presented on an animated, swirling background, but it doesn't retract from the reading experience. The intro is finished off with a Darkage logo by Nork. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Showtime #9 (1998, .02, AGA Diskmag). GAL - code: Modem, gfx: Orome/Talent (title pic), MRK (panel), music: Nork. MAG - code: Randy, Modem (improvements), gfx: Orome/Talent (title pic), Loop, Made, Pix, music: Maf/Syndrome, editor: Kaosmaster. review: The first thing that strikes you about the mag part of Showtime #9 is the nice music. It's a sort of sunny, happy reggae beat that sets the mood for some nice melodies. You can almost see the music video for this tune: the band all relaxed on a beach, drinking cool drinks from coconuts :) Orome's title picture is also a nicely done piece of art, and sets the mood nicely for the read ahead. Contentwise, I'm not so impressed with Showtime, they still have a little way to go before they're at the top of the heap. The most important thing they might consider is taking a little more time to delete some of the articles they're receiving. Right now it looks a little too much like they're publishing everything the cat drags in the door :) OK, that's harsh and perhaps a little unfair, but the focus of the mag could be greatly improved by removing a few of the more unnecessary articles.
Visually, Showtime looks pretty good - in most cases. While I'm a little unsatisfied with the graphics for the mag part - especially the unreadable icons irritated me a little - there are places where it really shines. The graphics for the excellent chart section of Showtime were done by Made, and are - as usual for him - of excellent quality. Very very nice! The same goes for MRK's (another favorite of mine!) graphics for the Gallery section. IMHO they should use that instead of the panel graphics for the main mag part they use now. I will do things 'a little backwards' here, and review the gallery part of Showtime last :) Orome delivers another title picture, before we get to the gallery part itself. It reminded me a lot of the classic, original gallery - the one in the Crusaders' "EuroCharts". Nerve Axis' intro, "Sentient Ore", has been reviewed under Nerve Axis' own section of Scenery. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Art Nouveau - Freedom 3 (1998, 12.04, 40k Intro). code: Modem, gfx: DeciBel, music: Racoon. 7th in the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competition. reviwed: Not released to the public until may 98. Breeze Now (1999, 21.03, 4k Intro). code: Mod3m, Dip, gfx: none, music: none. 5th in the Astrosyn 99 4k intro competition. Under Pressure (1999, 23.07, Demo). code: Dip, gfx: Zack, music: Nork. 2nd in the Euskal Party 7 demo competition. Welcome To Our World (2000, 23.04, AGA File). code/gfx/music: Mr.Tickle, Cupid. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: Ooooooooookay... This 'demo' is a very Monty Python-y kind of affair, recommended only if you care for that particular brand of humour. And we're talking OLD monthy Python here, the weird-animation-kind, complete with a blippy soundtrack with frequent dog barking on it =) I found this small exercise humorous and entertaining, and even though it's all done with tongue firmly planted in cheek, it seems competently enough put together. The demo runs smoothly and troublefree on my machine. Please note that this review refers to the 'final' version, released a small while after the party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Neo (2000, 23.04, Demo). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. Showtime #10 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #11 (AGA Diskmag).
Showtime #12 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #13 (AGA Diskmag). Showtime #14 (2000, spring, AGA Diskmag). Showtime #15 (2000, AGA Diskmag). Showtime #16 (2001, 26.04, AGA File Diskmag). INT - code/gfx: Loaderror/Ephidrena, music: Zixaq. GAL - code: Stingray, gfx: Asarhad/Reason (title), Cheetah/Ephidrena (main), music: "Pink Glasses" by Factor6/Reason. MAG - code: Randy, Stingray (additional), Modem/ex Darkage (additional), gfx: Slayer/Appendix (title), Cheetah/Ephidrena (main), Zito (clipart), Wade/Scoopex (clipart), Da Freak/VTX (clipart), music: "Shadowlands" by Curt Cool/Depth, "Nautic" by Dascon/Iris, "A Night In June" by Isaac/Contraz and "Uniiki Punikki" by The Hooligan/DCS, editor: Zito (main), Ghandy, Dire. review: Well, first impressions always come with the intro, and this time it's done by those productive guys from Ephidrena. It's a slightly gloomy lil' thing, with the best part of it being the one where shaded pieces of paper fall from the top of the screen and the backdrop looks like pages from a newspaper, nice. But we're here to review a mag not an intro, and I'm rearing to go, so: doubleclicking that file we go! =) Impressions of the title picture and the first page of text are generally good, though the main font bothers me a little... Can't explain why, just don't give me the right vibe =) Anyhow this, the 16th issue, is the first with Zito as main editor. Browsing the articles first, I find a lot of the interesting things here are of the 'retro' variety - Allister Brimble has some music on mp3.com, Jester/Pygmy Projects working with 100% Prophets! Diskmags used to tell you the entire story in the old days, whereas now they explain the general situation and give you a link to paste into your webbrowser... But with the internet gaining strength, I guess this is the future, like it or not. I found the articles concerning the ShaneTheWolfTheDog (now THERE'S an original nickname!) affair highly amusing, and it pleases me to see the Showtime staff brave enough to present both sides of the story, even when one blatantly opposes Darkage. The main editorial problem with this issue, the
way I see it, is that it's been so long since the last issue that this one has too much material to cover... There are LOTS of party reports and results here, for most parties that took place since the last issue, and some of these are like 6 months old, but that's not the point. In the old days, a mag like ROM would cover a big event like The Party over MANY pages - not just a short report and results, but pictures from the event, interviews with the winners (and losers), etc. These reports only scratch the surface of what could be done =( The 'diary' (news) and 'charts' sections are fair, nothing special about them. I see little point in the diary section, which could just as well have been a part of the mag. The 'Gallery' is a separate file, and opens with a VERY stylish "Showtime" title picture by Asarhad/Reason. The gallery is nicely done, and was coded completely anew for this issue by Stingray. For the secret part he mentions in the scroller, type 'WADE'! =) The birth of the 16th issue of Showtime was a somewhat troubled one... Just before this issue, long-time coder of the mag Modem finally decided to leave the scene - which left the mag without a coder! Luckily some solace was found in ex-Secretly member Stingray who said he would undertake the coding responsibilities. He was sent the ShowTime sources, and was immediately taken aback by the fact that it was A MESS! He totally recoded the gallery, and fixed what he could on the mag itself. All this is explained in an accompanying note, where he also promises to recode the entire mag and give it a new outfit for the next issue! [glenn] Jurassic Pack #8 (2001, 24.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag). INT - produced by Mankind, no credits =( MAG - code: Mr.Tickle, gfx: Noogman/Scoopex (title), Bridgeclaw/Darkage^ Gods (title), Budgie/100% Prophets^Layout (panels), Malmis/Nature (clipart), music: "C-Type" by Mice/Zenon, "Boutique" by Dascon/Iris, "Superclear" by SuperNao/TBL, "The Four Seasons" by Chris Meland/ Noiseless Productions, "In A Blue Dream" by Virgill & Blackthorne, editors: Ghandy (main), Zito (main), Gone/Darkage^Void (staff). review: After the humorous cartoon-style intro was rounded off with an excellent logo, we can double-click the icon for the 'pack' itself... I must say expectations from this mag was high, partly because I knew it was using Mr.Tickle's magengine (previously used for two issues of "Devotion"
from Nah-Kolor and Haujobb), and partly because I had been party to the enthusiasm Zito and Ghandy had shown for the project in the weeks and months prior to its release. And the result of their efforts, to be frank, is actually quite good. It seems as if being freed from the reins of making a pure 'news' mag (like Showtime), the two editors have been allowed to let their creativity blossom without the burdens of a definite deadline. There are still a lot of 'news' related material here, with a lot of stuff about the controversy surrounding 3Amigos and the 'TG incident', which dates back to april. Actually, the tone of this mag reminds me very much of ROM (a mag Ghandy does not exactly share my views on.... :), with a lot of topical articles spotlighting recent important productions. And speaking of ROM, even that mag's old editor Mop gets spotlighted here! The amiga and pc scenes are forever bridging the gap between them, and this mag is another step in that direction. It's been a trend recently in pc scene mags that they are now showing increased respect towards the c64 and amiga scenes (where in the past they had none), and this especially manifests itself in mags like Pain and Hugi on that scene. Ghandy has had articles in both those magazines, and the editors of both (Unlock/Vantage and Adok/Hugi) also write for this mag. This means some 'crossposting' of articles - slightly irritating for those of us who read mags on both platforms :) - but also means articles of a general interest to the scene reach more readers and hopefully cause more awareness of each other. This is, officially, a GOOD THING! :) Audio-visually speaking, then. Like the "Devotion" engine has always done, it has two title pictures, and you only get to see one each time. So in order to see both, start the mag twice =) This time both are actually great, done as they are by respected oldskool graphicians Noogman/Scoopex and Bridgeclaw/Darkage^Gods. The all-new panels were done by Budgie/100% Prophets^Layout, and though they are mainly texture-based, and made in a lovely shade of sickening green, they are also clean and word reasonably well. Only the 'index' button bothers me slightly, but perhaps that's just me. The backgrounds also work reasonably well for once, which has certainly not been the case with all mags that have attempted this approach... No less than five modules are provided, with some by scene
personalities that I actually never had thought I would hear from on the amiga again... like SuperNao and Chris Meland! I don't know if these are real comebacks or just old, unused tunes but either way I welcome the chance to hear these! Of the five, I would have to say Chris Meland's sits the best in my ears. So, to sum it up then? I must admit I haven't had the time to read this mag 'cover to cover' yet, though I plan to do so later tonight or early tomorrow. First impressions after 45 minutes of browsing the articles, though, are very very good. Interesting articles that I look forward to reading completely through, and an appealing user interface... What more can you ask for? The mag engine is a tried and tested one that works great, looks great and performs great. The 'new' JP is a force to be reckoned with, now and in the future. Please note that I myself had articles published in this mag, and that I as a result perhaps disqualify myself from doing a non-partial review. I just write this, so that noone will misunderstand and say that I had alterior motives for giving the mag a good review. I gave it a good review because I liked it, and for no other reason. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dark Circle (-1993) ------------------Dark Circle is dead, and all their members joined Platin; this includes germans Phantom (sysop 'HEAVEN'S GATE'), Joke (sysop 'DARK CENTER') and Freezer. Dark Demon, The (TDD) --------------------GER> Denon (music, 10/92-05/93), Destroyer (Nicolai, swap, early93), Dire (swaporg sound edit, later Eremation, 05/93-05/94). ???> Amducias (music, 03/94), Celeborn (Marc Moysich, mainorg gfx music sysop 'EXCALIBUR', 05/93-05/94), Creature (gfx music, 10/92-05/94), Don (gfx, 07/93), E-Lixir (Ronald Doberenz, gfx swap, old handle Capricorn, 03-05/94), Exage (code gfx, 07/93-03/94), E-Y (code, old handle Mohinda, 03-05/94), ET (edit, 10/92-05/94), Extron (code, 05/94), Fleg (code gfx, 10/92-05/94), Frone (pack 'Fonestorm', reAtomic late93), Leo II (code gfx music, 05/93-05/94), Nici (cosys, 05/94), Nightstalker (swap editor, 05/94), Pennywise (tradepc edit, 10/92-05/94), Phil (sysop WHQ, 05/94), Red Star (gfx, 07/93), Secret (music, 10/92), Shed (ex Willow), Snoopy (ex Argon), Suicide (swap, female!, 05/94), Zakko (gfx, 05/94). Finnish Judas Priest (ex Digital Artists Inc, old handle Reaper) left.
Germans Devil and TDMF joined Cult. Another place in the mag it said Devil joined Amnesia before moving on to Mexx. Generation #6 says just that Devil joined Mexx. Cruncher/Savage joined, but left after a few days for Cult. Frone rejoined after being in Atomic a few weeks. Rebel MC joined Byte Busters. Midnite Mess issue #1 (1992, .10, ECS Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Creature, music: Denon, Secret, Editors: Pennywise, ET. Burning Spear (1993, Demo). Midnite Mess #2 (1993, .05, Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Fleg, Creature, music: Denon, Celeborn, Leo 2, editor: Pennywise, Dire. info: Generation #6 said it would be released in January [93], so I guess it was delayed! It seems ET was replaced by Dire as editor. Crying Fields BBS Intro (1993, .07, ECS Intro). code: Fleg, gfx: Celeborn, Red Star, Exage, Don, music: Leo 2. Midnite Mess issue #3 Announcetro (1994, .03, ECS Intro). code: Exage, E-Y, gfx: E-Lixir, music: Leo 2. Midnite Mess issue #3 (1994, .03, ECS Diskmag). code: Fleg, gfx: Fleg, Creature, Chaos/Desire, music: Amducias, Creature, Leo II. Released at CeBIT 94. Dark Demons (-1992) ------------------Dark Demons were a demo group based in France. The entire group (Crown, Witness, Q.Horse, Miss Blind and Synchrose) joined Cryptoburners, forming their French division. Dark Millennium --------------FIN> Axe, Bubble, Kharon, Lone Soldier, Sensei, Shade. Dark Millennium released some intros around 93. Darkness (http://www.giga.com.ar/randy/darkness.htm) ---------------------------------------------------SPA> Amiga Vice (gfx, 12/94-95), Dolby (music), Estrayk (music swap, later Capsule, 09/92-12/94), Evelred (music, earlier 5th Generation, later Capsule, 12/94), Salva (music, 09/92), Spanish Archer (code, 09/92), Thorin (music, ex Fusion, new 09/92), Troglobyte (Manuel Martin Vivaldi, org code, 12/94-11/96), Unico (music, 12/94-95), Warlock
(gfx, 09/92). FRA> Darken (code), Flint (code), Papagayo (code), Rafale (mainorg gfx, 01/98), Sph (gfx). ARG> Keywiz (sysop 'DIGITAL PSYCHOSIS', 04/95), Madbit (sysop 'THE RAVE FACTORY', 04/95). AUT> Ayatollah (sysop 'THE SOURCE', 04/95). ???> Magnum (gfx, 95), PSB (spa? code, 01/98). Darkness is based in Spain, and several of their members are now members of Capsule. TrogloByte is the author the utility "HTMLess". They coarranged the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92, the first ever Spanish party. 1996 - Rogue joined Dylem late 96. Party Invitation (1992, Demo). Made in cooperation with 5th Generation. Roboticool (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). Winner of the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competiton! Rotator (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competiton. Intro (1992, 28.09, ECS Intro). Code: Spanish Archer, Gfx: n/a, Music: Estrayk. Released at the Darkness and Fifth Generation Party 92. Oriol (1993, 24.07, Intro). Winner of the Southern Party 93 intro competition! Kustom (1993, 24.07, Intro). 3rd in the Southern Party 93 intro competition. Troglobyte (1993, 24.07, Demo). Winner of the Southern Party 93 demo competition! In Progress (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Troglobyte, gfx: Amiga Vice (anim), music: Evelred and Estrayk. Winner of the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition! review: These guys are probably the first ever group to actually WIN a DEMO competition with an average quality 70k intro! There's nothing particularly exciting or new about this intro, no outstanding effects, graphics or music... The competition must have been AWFUL :) OK, I'm not saying this just to put down the intro; as such, it's an OK production with quite a lot of effects for only 70k, but isn't excellent in any respect. The animations of the dancing woman are stored in the file as an IFF animation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dog (1994, 28.12, ECS File). code: Troglobyte, gfx: n/a, music: Estrayk. 2nd in the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition.
Play (1995, File). code: Troglobyte, gfx: Amiga Vice, Magnum (girl pic), music: Unico. review: Amazingly boring and uninteresting is this demo. It mixes single colored effects with a lot of "State of the Art" inspiration into what is a true mess of a production. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Long Trip (1998, 03.01, 64k Intro). code: PSB, gfx: Rafale, music: Corrosion/Darkage. Winner of the Trip 98 64k intro competition! Dark Reign ---------???> Claw (music, 12/92). Sunset (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). Released at The Party 92. Darkside -------Frog joined Image. Dark Star (DST) --------------GER> Badguy (Axel Quack, swap), Pedalta (swap). ???> Magic. German coder Grey joined Cryptoburners. Al Bundy left to join Arise, but after ahving problems with the police, he left the scene. Dash ---???> Archon (code, 12/92), Gamma (gfx, 12/92), Roxal (code), Warlock (music, 12/92). Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Archon, gfx: Gamma, music: Warlock. 22nd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Data Division (DD) -----------------NOR> Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', 06/97). ???> Animal (code keyfilemakers, 03-04/97).
Dazzle (1990-) -------------SWE> Baze (founder gfx), Celegrome (sysop 'MIDDLE EARTH' WHQ), Classic (founder music), Elrond (founder code gfx), Necron (founder code music), Nifer (founder swap), Stinger (founder gfx music), Stirge (founder trade), The Violator (founder allrounder), Zaq (founder code, 09/92). ???> Nevada (ex Massive, 09/92), Nightmare (sysop, new mid91), Scythe (music, ex X-Trade, new mid91). Boards; MORRISON HOTEL (swe). Dazzle was formed by some Swedish ex-members of The Rubberduck Crew [no entry] who felt that group got a bit too lame; this concerns a.o. Elrond. The first Dazzle demo, "Zkloff" [90] was originally intended to be a Rubberduck-demo :) Swedish swapper Mike B (old handle Gizmo) left to join X-Trade. Wizard, Scythe (Sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION', ex X-Trade) and Chrome joined Enigma. Mr.Frenzy joined Massive mid 91. Rage and Silk (new mid 91) rejoined Impurity mid 91. Guildmaster (sysop) joined Voice with his board mid 91. Blaze changed his name to Payday and joined Wizzcat mid 91. Zkloff (1990, late, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Elrond, music: "Necmettall2" by Necron. review: Chaotic is the word I'd apply to the first ever Dazzle demo! There's stuff lying around all over the place, so it almost looks like megademo from 1988 with absolutely no sense of design!! Yowzers... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. DD Style -------SWE> Citruz (sysop 'PHOENIX 2', 01/95), Scroud (sysop 'ATLANTIC', 01/95). Deadline (DLN, 1989-) --------------------FIN> Citizen (code, ex Desire, old handle Venture, 10/92), Colonel (Sami Leino, swap, ex Zenith, old handle Tonec), Doc.X (code, ex Razkels, 08/92), Wailer. ???> Cybermonks (music, 06/92), Lloyd (editor, 06/92), Rhino (gfx, 06/92). Deadline was originally a Norwegian group, which eventually devloped a Finnish section that became more successful than the main group. The Norwegian members were coarrangers of one of the earliest editions of The Gathering. Later the Norwegian part of Deadline merged with main Gathering organizers Crusaders, and these Norwegian members probably went along:
Freaky Angel (confirmed), Jellyfish (code), Mike (confirmed), Shady (confirmed), TDK. 1992 - They cooperated with Crusaders on the invitation for The Gathering 92 [01/92], and coarranged the party with them in april. The finnish section was born by Mellow-D and Doc.X from Razkels in the spring. Nutcase, Roland and Visage joined from Eremation. They released several productions before the end of the year; "1st Intro" [08/92], "Mustro" [09/92], "Notelines" [fall/92], "Dentro" [10/92] and finally "Xmas Intro" [12/92]. By this time the Norwegian section had stopped releasing stuff altogether. 1993 - The finnish division died in the spring of 93. Many members - at least Dionysus (code, 12/92-), Bad Karma (swap pack music), Nutcase (code gfx music, 02/92-) and Xendi (gfx swap, 10/92-) - joined Balance between june and october. Information that Bad Karma joined Atomic seems to be incorrect. Sysop Roland ('SATISFICTION', ex Eremation) stayed independent until he closed his board in 95, and graphician Visage (ex Eremation, 08/92-) also decided to stay independent. Both have now returned to the scene in Mandel Bros in the year2000! This group also features Nutcase. Finnish coder Lopez left the scene. Finnish coder Flashburn was kicked. Finnish coder Jagannath joined Shining 8. Finnish musician Mellow-D bought a PC and left the Amiga scene 10/92. He joined Sonic PC sometime between 01 and 06/93. Finnish HQ, graphician and swapper Xendi (08-10/92) joined Balance. Finnish coder, graphician and musician Nutcase (02/92-) left 04/93 and stayed independent for two months, then joined Balance 06/93. Finnish swapper and packer Casket (old handle Tatu) joined Legend. Norwegian musician Jason joined Kefrens new. Norwegian board 'THE PYRAMID' got busted. Born (1989, 07.08, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Valeria Part 2" by n/a. 20th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition. info: This intro signalled the birth of the group, and the names behind the text in the intro was Tile and Jesus - so these two are probably the founders? Music Pack (ECS Intro). The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro). Cooperation with Crusaders [details]. Resident issue #1 (1992, 05.06, ECS Filemag). code: Cray/Arctic Image, gfx: Rhino, music: Cybermonks, editor: Lloyd. Flatliners (1992, 17.08, ECS Intro). code: Doc.X, gfx: Nutcase, music: "walk_with_me++" by Mellow-D (4ch MOD format).
review: A nice little intro with good graphics and a fast fractal generator from the finnish division - and their first intro for Deadline! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mustro (1992, 14.09, ECS Intro). code/music: Nutcase, gfx: Visage. Notelines (1992, fall, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Paraside/independent, gfx: Xendi, Visage, Nutcase, music: MellowD, Nutcase. info: Paraside was NOT a member, just a friend of the group. Dentro (1992, .10, ECS Intro). code: Venture, gfx: Xendi, Visage, music: Nutcase. Xmas intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Dionysos, gfx: Xendi, music: Nutcase. Deadline Design (1994-1995) --------------------------Deadline Design was a swedish demo group, formed in 1994 by Axy/Sagazity, with the best members of that group. The founding members were Axy (org gfx sysop 'STATE 69'), Blade (music), Rade (code) and Butch (code). The group managed to release one intro before all members got very inactive. So DD was also declared dead, likely in early 95. Axy and Blade formed another group, Bodyworks. Deadlock -------Deadlock was a danish group, most notable for being an early group for later scene celebrities like Mad Freak and Zinko. Mad Freak joined Brainstorm. Some ex-members helped form Serious. Danes Zinko and Thunderbyte joined Majic 12. Death Defiers (-1992) --------------------Death Defiers changed their name to Defiance late 92. Death Row --------???> Wave (code, 12/95), Zoomorph (gfx music, 12/94-12/95).
Snow (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Wave, gfx/music: Zoomorph. 23rd in The Party 95 40k intro competition. review: You gotta be kidding me... These guys can't be serious!? Ok, what we have here is an intro with competent music, and...vector cubes!? Yep, that's as advanced as it gets. There's a little snow, a couple of vector cubes and a blocky picture of a woman in a bathing suit. The End. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Flora Borntro (1996, 06.07, Demo). 9th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Tramp (1997, 30.08, Demo). 10th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Deathstar (-1989) ----------------FIN> Apol (Ari Laine, code, new 89), Drucer (code music, 04-07/89), Gloryboy (89), Hackman (gfx, 89), Hippo (crack, old handle Lonely Rider), Icebreaker, Jason (music, 07/89), LouLou Becane (89), Mucky Pup (gfx, 89), Overlord (gfx, 07/89), Scenic (89), Sir Monkey, Smithson (89), Softhunter, Sulky Fellow (code, later Vertigo, 89), Viz, Watchman (music, 06-07/89), Zeizei. SWE> Equinoxer (music). ???> Asia (gfx, 89), Dark Light (fin? music, 89), Doctor DNA (fin? code, 89), Hammer (gfx, 89), Leonid (gfx, 89), Miguel (89), Suicide (89), Willow (fin? gfx, 07/89). Deathstar was an old Finnish demogroup, that died in 1989 after changin their name to Animate. Party (1988, .11, ECS Multifile Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Sky.04" (15ch SoundTracker format). Released at The Jungle Command party. Bob Outburst (1989, .04, ECS File). code/gfx: Drucer, music: "B S t" by Drucer (4ch MOD format). Deadly Jammin -equa (1989, ECS Demo). code: Dr.Dma, gfx: Leonid (logo), Hammer (font), music: "Expressway" by Watchman. info: Little is known about this demo, except it was released after SoundTracker 2.3. Ham Magic (1989, 14.06, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Drucer, music: Watchman (15ch SoundTracker format, no name). Deadly Jammin 2 (1989, .07, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk).
code: Drucer, gfx: Willow (font), Overlord (city), music: Jason, Unknown Artist, Watchman (all 15ch SoundTracker format). Fatal Mistake (1989, ECS Demo). code/gfx: Sulky Fellow, music: "Coolballad(Part2)" by Unknown Artist. Debut (1989, ECS Demo). code: Apol, gfx: Zei (logo), Apol (others), music: "Sweet Dreams" by Dark Light (4ch MOD format). info: Made to announce Apol joined Deathstar. My Home Town (1989, ECS File). code/gfx: Apol, music: "Adagio 89" by Dark Light (4ch MOD format). Blasting (1989, ECS File). code/gfx: Drucer, music: "Watchman-Super" by Watchman (15ch SoundTracker format). Megademo (1989, ECS Trackloaded Megademo, 2 disks). code: Drucer, gfx: Hackman, Mucky, Asia, Zei, music: "Deathstar", "Loadermuzak", "Klicking" by Jason, "Benny Hill Theme", "Jason Takes Crown", "Parting Song", "Mysharona", "Delta", "Leavinf", "Pacific", "Watchman-25.12" by Watchman. The Vector Scroller (ECS File), code: Dr.Dma, Drucer, gfx: Drucer, Dr.DMA, music: Equinoxer (??). info: This intro announced Equinoxer had joined in Sweden. Sulky Fellow 1 (1989, ECS Intro). code: Sulky Fellow, gfx: n/a, music: "Vector" by Watchman (4ch MOD format). Move Your Mouse (1989, ECS Demo). code: Dr.Dma, gfx: Willow (logo), music: "Tune" by ??? info: This intro announced Watchman was kicked out, and that Deathstar would reform under the name Animate. Deca Projects ------------???> Dai (gfx, 94). Techno Hangover (1994, early/mid, ECS Disk). Code: n/a, Gfx: Dai, Music: n/a Decade (DCD, 1991-) ------------------GER> Chris (founder mainorg trade, 04/92), Duck (Jens Wippermann, music, ex Prologic, new 06-12/91), Gandalf (sysop 'LOS ENDOS'), Ghost (code
crack), Jade (founder mainorg trade, 04/92), Krypton (ex Venture, new 04/92), Mr.Hell (sysop 'SUDDEN DEATH', ex TRSI), Nutribrain, Rygar (org?, 08-12/90), Speedlock (sysop 'LIGHT HOUSE'), Spider (code crack trade exsysop, ex Tarkus Team), Sting (ex Prologic, new 06/91), Vindex. SWE> Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE', 93). USA> Andy (trade sysop, 04/92), Midnight Maniac (trade sysop, 04/92). ???> Baser Evil (sysop 'COURTS OF CHAOS, 93), Darkstar (sysop 'THE UNFORGIVEN', 93), Dr.Darkness (sysop 'CEMETERY', 93), Gandalf (sysop 'LOS ENDOS', 93), Intec Systems (sysop 'WEIRD DREAM', 93), Iron Eagle (ger? ex Tarkus Team), Lance (trade, 04/92), Nikko (trade, 04/92), Plauze & Front (artwork trade, 04/92), Metal Force (sysop 'MERCIFUL FATE', 93), Mr.Beat (music, 10/91), Nitro (sysop 'TOTAL DESTRUCTION' opened 10/91), Oli (sysop 'DISTRIBUTION SIDE', 93), Q (sysop 'WEIRD DREAMS', old handle Bolero, new early93), Rich (gfx, 08-10/91), Runt (ex Amnesia), Secam (sysop 'NORTHSTAR LAND', 93), Targan (sysop 'DIGITAL CRIME', 93), T.C.T. (ger? gfx, new 06-08/91), Terminator (ger? ex Tarkus Team), Ultimate Warrior (trade sysop, 04/92), White Knight (sysop 'BIGGER'N' DEFFER', 93), Zoonie (den? sysop 'HOUSE OF GAMES', ex LSD, new early93). Boards; LAST RESORT (new 04/92). Decade were a German-based group formed in september 1991, mainly dealing in the modem scene, but also releasing the odd crack and demo. The two organizers are Chris and Jade (collectively known as the Booze Brothers :), who were in crews like The Company and Valhalla before founding Decade. Chris joined with a board called 'LOST ISLAND', which is now closed. After a while, some of the leading members felt the crew was being let down by some of the other members, who they didn't want to kick since they were old friends. The solution was to let the crew die in january 1992, only to revive it three months later with ELITE only members. Spider closed his board 'DREAM PARK' in late 1992 or early 93. 1992 - January saw the release of the "Decade is Dead" [01/92] intro, in which they announced that coder and graphician Electron (03/91) left the scene, Jim Beam and Jonny Walker left for another group, and Milkracer (code train, 03/90) left for Zylon. Nico left for Accession around october. Creator joined Elevation. German graphician Silicon Master was kicked mid 91, and an intro called "Anti Silicon Master" [08/91] was released. Do-X (ex Timex, new mid 91) joined UDO. Paralax Imbecility (1991, ECS Demo). code: Electron. gfx: Electron (font, vectors), music: "Devastator" by
Devastator/Miranda. Delta Run (1990, 14.03, ECS Trainer Intro). code: Electron, gfx: X-Out, music: "Rebels!!!" by 4-Mat/Anarchy. Party (1991, 19.05, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: T.C.T., music: "Heavy-Sound" by Mr.Beat. Released at the Maximum Pleasure party. Royal Amiga Conference (1991, 30.05, ECS Intro). code: Milkracer, gfx: Silicon Master, music: "Introsoong" by n/a (4ch MOD format). Kick Out (1991, .06, ECS File). code: Electron , gfx: Rich, music: "Prisoner of Love" by Duck (4ch MOD format). Anti Silicon Master (1991, .08, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: T.C.T., Rich (vectorballs), music: "Dubidud" by Duck. The Decade BBS Intro (1991, .10, ECS Intro). code: Electron, gfx: Rich (logo), ???/Scoopex (font), music: "Only A Song" by Mr.Beat. Hanging Around (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Electron, gfx: Rygar (vectors), ???/TRSI (font), music: "Don't Care Anymore" by Duck (4ch MOD format). Released at the Prime Party. Decade Is Dead (1992, .01, ECS File). code: Electron, Milkracer, gfx: Rich, music: "Sonic Dreams" by Peter Salomonson/Pure Metal Coders (4ch MOD format). The BBS Intro '93 (1993, ECS Intro). code: Electrom, gfx: D-Sign/The Silents (logo), music: n/a (NoisePacker 3 format). Decay (1990-) ------------AUS> Lord Foul (sysop 'ZERO CITY'), Metalic (swap, 07/90), Rockstar (sysop 'DEVASTATION PHASE 1'). Decay was formed ca 07/90 by Abel, Freedom Force & Amiga Industries and Kreator/Force. Decept ------
FIN> Defjef, Dizzy (music, later Dual Crew, 91), Metal (sysop 'TURPENTINE TRIP', later Parallax), Simply (code, later Parallax). NOR> Party Snatcher. Decept was a Finland base demo group, which had some future stars on their memberlist, like Dizzy and Simply! When they died, their members joined Black Robes and Parallax. Simply and the Metal went to Parallax, at least. Raider joined Network. Finnish musician and swapper Daddy Freddy joined Spirit. Finnish Stratos and Guru joined Complex. Finnish board 'TURPENTINE TRIP' joined Parallax. Frequenz joined Amaze. In Amaze, he was a sysop - whether he had his board while in Decept I don't know. Turpentine Trip (ECS Intro). code: Simply, gfx: n/a, music: n/a (NoisePacker 3 format). review: This is just a simple intro for the bbs of the same name. It's just a glenz vector with the name and number overlayed; no credits appear except for the single word 'SIMPLY' in the bottom left corner. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Decision (DCN) -------------GER> Acid-Jesus (supply trade sysop, sys new 06/96), Al Bundy (trade), Coatl (trade sysop), Cyberwar (trade, 03/95), Famous o'Hack (crack), Homeboy (trade), Hysteria (trade), I.Wahn (publicrelations), Index (ascii trade), Lemmon (sysop, new 06/96), Mick (tradeorg, 03/95), Mosh (trade sysop), Nino (trade), Orfeus (trade), Picard (trade sysop), Picasso (gfx), Rebel! (trade), RTM (crackorg keyfilemakers, later Digital Corruption, 03/96-98), Saxon (trade sysop), Scandic (founder mainorg), TranceTip (code), Unikom (trade, new 06/96), Zaphodd (gfxorg). DEN> Enzo (trade sysop 'SKY TOWER', new 06/96). SWE> Crisp (trade sysop 'CYBERGARDEN', new 06/96). SWI> Turbo (trade), Virus (trade sysop). USA> The Skeleton (sysop 'DAWN OF ETERNITY'). ???> Gator (03/95), L.A.Style (03/95), Magnetic (03/95), Monty (03/95), Mr.Sony (03/95), Rage (03/95), Slac (code keyfilemakers, 03-05/95), Vadium (03/95). Boards; THE RISING HOPE WHQ (03/95), FASTFILESYSTEM WHQ, MADE IN GERMANY EHQ, EMPIRE PALACE EHQ (03/95), PARADISE LOST (ger), FLYING DRAGON (ger), POINT OF NO REPEAT (ger distsite), NUCLEAR RESEARCH (ger distsite), ROUTE 69 (distsite), THE DANZIG (ger), TERMINAL OBSESSION (ger, 03/95), PENTAGON PALACE (ger, 03/95), FORTRESS (ger, 03/95), VIRTUAL ENERGIE (03/95).
Decnite ------FIN> Dean (ex Balance), Deceiver (swap), Dime (Antti Mustakallio, music, also in Chaos [pc], 08-12/93), Dionysus (ex Balance), Echo & Guido (traders, 03/94), Hitchy (music, 02/93), HST-Bullah (trade, 03/93), Jam (trade sysop 'STATION X OMEGA', 03/93-04/95), James (music, ex Balance, 12/93), Jaws (trade sysop 'CYCLONE CENTER', doublememb Digital, later Humane, 03/94), Tukan (gfx trade, 93-03/94), Whizz (93). ???> Hotshots (trade), Mr.Partyman (sysop 'POOH' EHQ), Slender (fin? code, 02/93), Slite (fin? code, 08/93), Tucan (gfx, 02-08/93), Yammu (fin? code, 08/93). Decnite is a Finland based demo group formed by ex members of World Industries. It is most probable that they are exclusively Finnish. 1993 - Ikon was kicked, and joined Compact mid 93. Finnish members Kristen (trade sysop, ex Alpha Flight, 03/94), and Wasp (code, 93) left. Finnish members DCD (code, new mid 93), TMC (gfx, 02/93), and Visualize joined Parallax. Finnish sysop Jam ('STATION-X-OMEGA', 93) moved away to study, so the board is down. Finnish member Mercus (93) was kicked. Norwegian swapper Highlight (old handles Tommy and Speed Devil) joined Scoopex. Finnish trader Klutz joined Alpha Flight. The Party 92 Slideshow (1993, .02, ECS Slideshow). code: Slender, gfx: Tucan, TMC, music: Hitchy. Mass Technology (1993, 09.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Yammu, Slite (vector), gfx: Tucan, music: Dime. Released for the Assembly 93 40k intro competition, but was unplaced. review: Nice design rather than innovative routines are this intro's main asset. The routines are nothing special, and neither are the graphics. The sum of the two is greater than the parts, however, and therefore this comes out looking not all that bad. Fun music by Dime also helps, I guess. Nothing that will stick in my mind, though. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Magnet 2 (1993, .11?, ECS Filemag). code: Wasp, gfx: Tukan, TMC, music: Dime, Hitchy, editors: Wasp, Jam. Deep (1996-) ------------
POL> Grzes (founder org, ex TRSI, old handle Greg). ???> Comanche (gfx, ex Obsession), Hades (music, ex Casyopea, new 06/96), Steve Jones (org swap, ex Anathema), Sun!dance (gfx ascii). Deep is a new Polish group formed by Greg/ex TRSI 06/96. Defcon 1 (DC1, 1990-) --------------------GER> Survivor (ex Prologic), Tyrant (swap, ex Adept). ENG> Quazar (sysop 'MADCAP'). ???> Sledge (ex Alpha Flight, new late90). Defcon One was born in 1990 after the group Onyx changed their name. 1991 - DJ Cat and Dr.Cubase got kicked mid 91. Frantic left the scene in the middle of 91. Terror, Ghoul (ex Shadows, new mid 91) and Starhunter all got kicked. Can I Play With Madness? (ECS Demo). Defeat -----French musician Arios joined Symbiosis. Defect Softworks ---------------GER> Buggs (Henryk Richter, code, 97), Crazy Copper (Frank Pagels, code, 01/95), EagleEye (Jan Blumenthal, code, 97), Insider (Andreas Wiencke, code, 10/95-02/96). ???> Animal (music, 12/93). Defect are a German team more known for their utilities than for their democoding abilities; Buggs and EagleEye are the authors of the music player EaglePlayer, and Crazy Copper is the author of the graphics conversion utility ArtPro. You'd be well advised to check out their most recent release, EaglePlayer 2, on any AmiNet mirror near you! Defekt -----ENG> Meat Cleaver (sysop 'ABATOIR'). ???> Aquafresh (ex Futura), Ben (ex Plasma), Case (ex Chaos), Deathwish (sysop 'DEEP BREEZE' WHQ), Gumby (ex Futura), Image (ex Nuance), MDMA (ex Chaos), Mordred (ex Combat-18), Schitzo (ex Chaos), Zed (ex Phoenix). Boards; ALTERNATE REALITY (can).
Defekt is dead! Ace and Venom, sysops '13TH HOUR' BBS (eng) are now independent. 'DEEP FREEZE' BBS left. Jozz (eng, ex Mindshadow/ Nuance), Quadrex, Bassline, Scotch (new WHN1), Hampster (ex Talent), Melone (trade, doublememb 2000 AD) and Starcam (sysop 'WORLDS OF WONDER') joined Balance. Tango was in Crystal for a short while, but then he also joined up with Balance. Thor (ex Plasma) joined Surprise! Productions. Irish coder Khul joined Infect. Huarache, War and Jimbo were kicked out. Caveman joined Delirium. The boards 'ENTITY' WHQ (eng) and 'VULTURE'S NEST' (can) were kicked). German trader Susi joined, but was soon kicked. English musician Hydlide (ex Mystic) joined Divine and changed his handle to Dreamfish. Defiance (DFC, 1992-) --------------------SWE> Airbrain (swap, 93), Avenger (music, ex Equinox), Fatal (ex Equinox), Kervin (Johan Mowitz, swap, ex Kaos, new 09/92), Magnum (gfx, ex Equinox), Marwin (sysop 'KAOTIC WORLD'), Mellon (music, 12/9312/94), Mosquito (sysop 'ASSEMBLY HALL', doublememb Reflex, 01/95), Siracon (Anders Johansson, music, ex Genetic, 12/93-12/94), Skepp (sysop 'BEYOND MADNESS', doublememb Freezers, 01/95), Slaze (Daniel Celin, code music, 12/93), Stolz (sysop 'STONEHENGE'), Valiant (code, ex Equinox), Wizard (ex Equinox). ???> Boki (code, old handle Nirvana, later Razor 1911, 05-12/93), Gnome (gfx, 12/93), Gordon (sysop, new 09/92), Marsuplami (swap), Mistral (new 09/92), Oops (gfx, 12/93), Yoga (swap, ex Lobban/Genetic). Defiance were born late 1992, after the group Death Defiers changed their name to Defiance. They are a Sweden-based demogroup, probably most renowned for their diskmag "Buzz". Boki is no longer a member; he was in the new Razor 1911 for a little while (02.94-), until he was exposed as a liar, and kicked. Siracon and Mellon make music together, as a duo. Uncle Acid joined Submission. Swedish musician C-Quence is now in Gods. Swedish "Buzz" editor Plugster left to be independent, then joined Factor late 95. "Buzz" will be released by Factor from now on. Finnish trader and organizer Mike (94) joined Mystic 01/95. Swedish swapper Sputnik (ex Quartz, 09/92) joined Midway. Shangri-La (1993, 29.05, Demo). code: Nirvana, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 9th in the TCC 93 demo competition.
Virtual Journey (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Boki, Slaze, gfx: Oops, Gnome, music: "Virtual Journey" by Slaze. 17th in The Party 93 demo competition. info: The demo was named after Slaze's techno soundtrack, which also competed in the music competition, but was unselected. Buzz issue #3 (1994, Diskmag). code: Colorbird/Razor 1911, gfx: n/a, music: n/a info: After recoding the entire Propaganda mag for issue #3, Colorbird gave the old code (used on issues 1-3) to Defiance for Buzz. Imaginations (1994, Musicdisk). info: Reviewed in Propaganda #4, where it was butchered :) Buzz issue #6 (1995 or pre, Diskmag). code: Slaze, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Define (DFN) -----------SWE> Badboy (org edit swap), Bjoerne (mainorg code gfx ascii swap), CReal (music ascii), Keldon (ascii swap trade), Kidnix (sysop), Toaster (music swap), Zoarchus (music). DEN> Growl (org swap). POL> Igor (code). Polish organizer, swapper and ascii artist Cook (formerly doublememb Erotic, late96) left to be an Instinct member only late97. Defjam (1987-) -------------SWE> Antiaction (Stefan Boberg, code crack, ex D-Mob, +inactive+, 12/90), Archmage (founder, 87-11/88), Buntz (ex Amaze), Conquest (crack, 06/90), Gehenna (founder, 87-11/88), Mr.Thompson (sysop 'EAST BBS', later Mystic, 10/90), Ted (Ted Parnefors, code, ex The Silents, +inactive+, 90-06/92), The Baron (sysop 'THE WEST BBS', 01/95), Zonic (ex Amaze). GER> Captain Midnight (sysop 'THE TWILIGHT ZONE', 09/91), Ultra (Ingo, trade sysop 'ULTRA BOX', later Alpha Flight, 11/90-01/91). BEL> Spike (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND'). USA> Mr.Speeder (sysop 'THUNDERDOME'). ???> Boomerang, Fenzie, Gehenna, George Two (ex Spreadpoint), Jarre (crack), Kazer (sysop, ex Noxious, new 92), Lorien, Matthew (ex Spreadpoint), Pennywise, Roach (train), Slash (ger? trade, ex Spreadpoint, 01/91), Tilt (ex Spreadpoint). Boards; THE M25 (eng, 11/90).
Defjam was born in Sweden towards the end of 1987, by Gehenna, Archmage and a third guy who quickly left the scene. They quickly became one of the REALLY big cracker groups in the dawn of the Amiga scene, but then just sort of fell apart, with no actual leaving occuring. Antiaction never really left or found a new group; today he is working as a computer game programmer. He was also the author of Defjam Packer 3.2 (and its forerunners Tetra-Pack, made while he was in Tetragon) and one of the Amiga's most used apps of all time, the archiver LhA. In their time, Defjam also participated in a number of cooperations. The earliest was probably with Computerbrains Cracking Service (CCS), but there has also been coops with Red Sector (late 88) Angels. 1990 - Around the middle of the year, the German division left to become a group in their own right, Supreme. It seems Defjam got a new German division though, since there are German members registered long after that. Swedish Crayone joined Strange. Finnish coder Smircher joined Vectra. Swedish coder T.Phraud/T.Phroud? joined Shining 8. Swedish sysop Mogwai ('STREETS OF FIRE') joined Agile. Australian trainer Caddy (03/91) joined the new Oracle. Buntz took with him the board 'SERPENT SOCIETY' from Amaze, but it was later closed in Defjam (pre 07/92). Swedish coder Il Scuro (Ron Birk, new 01/88) left the scene back in 1990. He is co-author of the PlaySID system, and he's been living in Boston, USA since 04/95. Eckhead joined Voice. Pixel Nation (ECS Demo). Snurkel (ECS File). David Whittaker Music Mix (1988, ECS Musicdisk). Cooperation with The Young Ones. Information: Contains music from games like Bubble Bobble, Feud, Leviathan, Tetris and Xenon. Classics one and all... Intro (1992, 18.06, ECS Intro). Code: Ted, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Cooperation with CCS. Deform -----Deform was formed by ex-members of Hell Order Team (HOT, a.o. Musashi) and Zack Team. Musashi later joined Union. Deformations (1992, 28.03, ECS Demo).
code: Musashi, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of the Warzawa 1 party! info: Named in a 'best Polish demos' list in RAW6. State of the Art's predecessor!! Well, ok, not really, but it's quite similar and was released before SOTA... Ray World (AGA Demo). Degeneration (DGN) -----------------ITA> Corrosion (Patrizio Casalengo, mainorg music sysop 'METAL MOON' WHQ, triplememb Darkage [details] and Genesis, early96), Gas (Simone Marascalchi, gfx swap, early96), Joseph (gfx, new early96), Rusty Cage (music, old handle Detio, early96), Voodoo Chile (Fabrizio Nunnari, code, early96). DGN have a subgroup called Ecstasy Brothers, which are all musicians: Red Dragon, Fragolino B and Simpson. Coder Orion (new early 96) was kicked shortly after joining, because he left the amiga scene. Italian graphician Mangusta kicked late 95. Italian musician Dixan joined Megahead late 95. Delicious (DLS) --------------FIN> Daddy Freddy (Samuli Karkiluoma, music swap, 09/93-01/94), Juicy (music, old handle Mog, ex Equinox). ENG> Delbs (new late93), Rich (code, 09/93). ???> Clarky (re), Daze (music, old handle Dexter, 02/94), Ditto (ex LSD, old handle Vinh), Elwood (gfx, 09/93-02/94), Groovy W (code, 02/94). Delicious used to be called Delicious Design, but later changed their name to just Delicious. They will most probably go down in history as the group that spawned Essence. Englishman Blanchmage (new late93) left the scene. English swapper Overdose (ex Iris, new PRP4) joined Balance (WHN1). Most German members; Dascon, Groo & Rufferto (both ex Digital), Powerswap, Touchstone (ex Hardline) and Slicer; left to form Essence (SLH11). Intro (1993, 13.09, ECS Intro). code: Rich, gfx: Elwood, music: Daddy Freddy. TicTac (1994, 07.02, ECS File). code: Groovy W, gfx: Elwood, music: Daze. Delight (DLT)
------------FRA> Arios (Sebastien Le Clainche, music, ex Symbiosis, 12/91-08/94), Atwill (ex Extreme, new late91), Baron (code), Bilbo (ex Extreme, new late91), Clawz (music, ex Extreme, later TSB, new late 91), Doh Spirits (music, aka Doh, later Dreamdealers, 12/92), Feyd (music, 1112/93), Frx (code), Mr.Ngy (ex Complex, old handle Mr. Nice Guy, new late91), Rave (ex Extreme, old handle Postcard, new late91), Shup (ex Extreme, new late91). SWE> Blackbird (staff 'UNDERCOVER'), Cybergod (ex doublememb Ram Jam, late95), Demax (sysop 'UNDERCOVER' EHQ, ex Chaos A.D., 01/95), Fazer (sysop 'FLATLINE', ex Razor 1911 new), Pitcher (staff 'UNDERCOVER'). ITA> Maverick (crack sysop1 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/95), U.M.M (sysop2 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/95). GER> Vascal (sysop 'BREAK AWAY', 04/95). DEN> Brainiac (music), Kasai (ex Light). IRL> Replay, Flyer. USA> 2Tuff, Jammaster (sysop 'INNER CITY', new late91), Shadowvex (sysop 'FIEND CLUB' WHQ, new late91), The Saint. ???> Daryl (ex TRSI), Nike (nor? triplememb TRSI and Crux, 02/96), Towie (music, 12/92). Boards; CHAOTIC ENTITY WHQ (usa, 03/94), THE MUSEUM EHQ. Delight were a demo group based in France. 1991 - Faddy (ex Razor 1911, old handle Faith, new late 91) left to be independent late 91. Frenchmen DCA, TDC and Reflex (music, 06/91) joined Rebels old late 91. 1992 - French swapper Krom (ex Extreme, new late91) changed his handle to Wizz and joined Fusion early 92, though other information claims he joined The Silents. Graphician Effendi joined Agnostic Front around october. 1993 - Mr.Mixx left to be independent early 93. Header joined Nova. German Overdog joined Nuance. Sparks (sysop) joined Spirit. German swapper Stearo (ex Delight) joined Desire. German swapper Stearo joined Desire. Assassin's norwegian BBS 'EXTENSION was busted! Endless Pleasure (File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Brainiac (ProRunner 2.0 format). Overdose (File). Sound From Ghost Battle (File). U Like DLT? (1993, .03, Demo). Pandemonium (1994 or pre, Music).
Delirium (DLM) -------------GER> Phil Douglas (crack). NOR> Baffle (Dag Stenstad, doublememb Lightforce, 97). USA> Mko & Rush (sysops 'ELEVENTH HOUR', 04/95), Shadower (sysop 'DARK TOWER' later 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 04/95). ???> Afterlife, Bathory, Caveman (Trade, ex Defekt), Cheech! (crack), Deltaforce, Mad Gunman, Mad Turnip, Maz, New Sensation, Nicodemus (ger? doublememb Dynamix, 01/94), Ramses, Toxic, Wildcard. Boards; ICE CREAM (ger, triple in Remedy and Dezign), S.V.P., MENTEL. Delirium was a true quality cracker group, with famous crackers like Phil Douglas in the team. Aspect Incorporated is a subgroup. They had some crack intros made for them by Wayne Mendoza/Masque... I have recently (well, OK, early 97) seen members of Delirium, so is this the old group back or is it a new group? Swedish sysop Princip ('INTERCHANGE') joined Rebels new. NTSC joined Outlaws. Delite -----???> Andy (music, ex Nuance, new WHN1), Michael (ex Nuance, new WHN1), Simon (ex Nuance, new WHN1). Projex/Divine joined, but quikly rejoined Divine (WHN1). Delon Dezign (1994-) -------------------HUN> Dr.Eher (code gfx, old handle David Blitterfield, 07/94), Power Supply (code, 07/94), Tea-Bozz (music, 07/94), Tetraedermaster (gfx, old handle Rawchild, 07/94). Delon is a Hungarian group, which apparently consist of famous Hungarian sceners under different handles! The Final Condom (1994, .07, AGA File). code: David Blitterfield, Power Supply, gfx: David Blitterfield, Rawchild, ADT/Absolute!, music: Tea-Bozz. review: Nothing here that will set the world on fire, but at least the 'we all love CRM' part was fun. They do the humor thing to a total overkill this time around, though. The AmiNet description text said 'Delon party winner AGA demo'. What party? [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Atmosfear (1995, autumn, AGA File). production: Don Johnson, ... review: I quite like this...these guys have a sense of humor! The effects aren't outstanding but I guess they were never meant to be. I'd describe this as being in the tradition of Lego's "The Real 40k" intro. First they claim to have the first real 4x4 rotzoomer...and I guess they do, if you mean 4x4 as in 4 wheel drive... Then they're back with the world's first 8x8 rotzoomer...which is a rotzoomer within an 8x8 pixel block! See what I mean? It's a lot like when Lego claimed to be able to display 40 planes on any Amiga :) A plus for the music, which is catchy. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Heartcore (1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). Released for The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: Short and sweet, like a 4k intro should be, this one features multiple routines and even some music! Niceness. No credits appear anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Delusion (DLS) -------------Finnish musician Slice (05/95) joined Mystic sometime between 05 and 08/95. Demons Design ------------Norwegian swapper Fake joined Equinox early 93. Depth (1993-, http://www.depth.org/) -----------------------------------DEN> Bakerman (Kasper Hartwich, webmaster, ex-sysop 'TRADE CENTRAL', new 06/96-01/00), Curt Cool (Frank E. Larsen, org music ascii swap trade edit, 93-01/00), Cytron (Rune Stampe Nielsen, code music edit "Eurochart", new 06/96-01/00), Folcka (gfx, old handle Picasso, 10/9701/00), Gizmoduck (Martin Leopold, org code gfx raytrace swap webmaster, 07/97-01/00), Hund (code [html java c++] gfx, 10/9701/00), IB (gfx, 10/97-01/00), Kollaps (code music, 01/00), Nightsight (gfx, 07/97-01/00), Presence (code, 10/97-01/00), Quedax (Kenny Poulsen, code, 07/97-01/00), Trip (music, 07/97-01/00).
NOR> Allanon (org gfx ascii design, 10/97-01/00), Cope (music, 01/00), Jaffa (code, 01/00), Labbe (music, 01/00), Paithan (code, 01/00), Rolex (music, 01/00), SiDo (sysop trade, new 06/96-01/00), Solo (HONORARY, music, 10/97-01/00), Sprocket (org gfx, 01/00). SWE> Brainstorm (music, new 10/97-01/00). FIN> Frank Black (code, 01/00), Heatwave (org music swap, 01/00), The Glow (honorary gfx music, new 06/96-01/00). ENG> Bucko (swap edit, 01/00). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: DEN> Cody (music sysop, old handle Dizy, new 06/96), Dunlop (10/97), La (music, new late95), Nemo W (gfx, old handle Sanctum, 07/96-97), Optima (code, new late97-12/97), Pennywise (code raytrace, old handle Droopy, new late95), Receiver (Kresten Jensen, swap), Snowman (raytrace, new late95-10/97). NOR> Bugge (sysop, new 06/96), Conan (gfx raytrace, new 06/96), Ren (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DREAMS', 10/97), The Coolest (code music, new late95), The Paranoid (music sysop 'PARAZITE', new late95-10/97), Voidmaster (raytrace sysop, new 06/96). SWE> Betty Boy (gfx, doublememb X-Trade, new late96-10/97), Chewie (org ascii swap trade, 10/97), DeeJay Jones (music, new 06/96-10/97), Galiano (sysop, new 06/96), Kaze (org gfx swap, re late95), Keldon (swap trade, 10/97), Legionary (code, ex Weird, new early97-10/97), Nike (sysop, new 06/96), Whisker (code, 10/97), Wizard (code music swap, new 94). FIN> Fly (gfx, new late95-10/97), Icebreaker (Mikko Harju, org swap, 10/97), Rastaman (music, new 10/97). POL> Cerber (code, rejoined doublememb Skulls, re 06/96), Hangman (code, ex Revolt, new 06/96), Nazgul (code, rejoined doublememb Skulls, re 06/96), Opal (gfx music, new 06/96), Timer (Michael Baczek, org music swap, triplememb Erotic and Squeezers, early98). AUT> Doc (swap, 94). ???> Crusader (swap ansi), Kilroy (gfx), Knoxx (swap), Mick (code swap, ex Rasse.Prod), Morten (music), Nick (code swap, ex Rasse.Prod), Polygon Window (gfx swap, ex Excess), Scorn (code gfx), Someone Else (music), Teflon (gfx), Warlock (org music swap), Xargion (code swap, 94). Depth was formed in late 1993 by Curt Cool as a Danish demo group, and their first production was "Cool Tunes #1" [03/94]. During the year |they released
some other small productions, as well as many issues of their pack "Under the Surface" (01-99). 1996 - At The Party 6, they gave the scene what they called a "christmas present", and revived the official "Eurochart", with Cytron as the third main editor of the prestigious chart through history. This is probably what most people think of when you say 'Depth'. Bakerman's board was closed for a while, then reopened late 96. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that swedes Pumper (trade) and Slurry (sysop, both new 06/96) were kicked, that swedish Legionary/Weird (code) joined, that danish LPN (gfx raytrace) left the scene, that norwegian The Paranoid rejoined the scene, and that Sanctum renamed to Nemo Q. Swedish coders Pigeon (10/97) and Omen both left for Craze late97/early98. Swedish swapper, trader and sysop Schindler ('MOTION ONE', new 06/96-) left the scene late 97. Polish graphician Insert (ex Amnesty, new 06/96) left for Turnips late 96. Polish graphician Rappid (doublememb Genetic, new 06/96) left for Erotic Dezign late 96. Danish graphician and swapper Chelsea stopped swapping, and was kicked shortly after late 96. German swapper IRO (Bastian Effertz, ex Riot, doublememb Rave Nation Overscan, new late95) was kicked, after failing to keep contact late 96. Polish swapper Klaf left for Appendix and Scalaris 06/96. Norwegian musician The Surge (also sysop) left 06/96. Swapper and ascii'er Draw left 06/96. Robson joined Anadune 06/96. Billy joined Mystic 06/96. Reval joined Infect. The entire group Hangover joined. CoolTunes #1 (1994, .03, ECS Chipmusicpack). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Curt Cool. info: Their first production! Magnum Icetro (skodtro!) (1994, .04, ECS Intro). code: Xargion, gfx: n/a, music: Wizard. CoolTunes #2 (1994, .06, Chipmusicpack). CoolTunes #3 (1994, .12, Chipmusicpack). Elefont (1995, .08, 4k Intro). info: NOT the same as "4k Intro"! 4k Intro (1995, .08, 4k Intro). info: NOT the same as "Elefont"!
Depth 4k (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). 4th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Fucked Girl (1996, .04, Intro). info: Swaptro. Weird Intro (1996, .06, Intro). Vi Elsker Darkhawk (1996, 06.07, Demo). 7th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Puost - The Demo (1996, 06.07, Demo). 8th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. 4k Intro 1 (1996, .08, 4k Intro). 4k Intro 2 (1996, .08, 4k Intro). Swaptro (1996, .09, Intro). Bol Boller (1996, .10, Intro). info: Joketro. Eurochart issue #28 (1996, 28.12, Chartmag). INT - by Impact DK. MAG - code: n/a, gfx: Pixie/Polka Brothers (title), music: Azazel/TBL, editor: Cytron. Released at The Party 6. info: Depth called it a 'christmas present to the scene', and it was one the scene welcomed with open arms! There's a new, multitasking code, and new enthusiasm. This was the first issue by Depth. Bol Dür (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 6th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. EuroChart issue #29 (1997, .04, Chartmag). Possibly released at Mekka Symposium 97? Chexue (1997, .06, 40k Intro). BeBeToTeFoFu?! (1997, .06, Demo).+ info: Sponsordemo. DGC-Karaoke (joketro) (1997, .06, Intro). Frankofon! (jokedemo) (1997, .06, Intro). Placebo (1997, .06, 40k intro). Eurochart issue #30 (1997, 07.07, AGA Multifile Chartmag). INT - code: Antibyte, gfx: Tactica/independent, music: Prophet. MAG - code: Quedax, gfx: Nightsight (panel), Zack/Spaceballs (intropic,
clip), others (clip), music: "Cymbiosis" by Trip, "Time That Beat" by Michael 'One2One'/Anathema, "Let Me Down" by Deck/Scoopex and "Holidays in March" by Marc/Syndrome^Sector 7, editor: Cytron. Released at The Copenhagen Party. review: First of all, let me just mention that this is the first issue of the 'new' EuroChart I saw. Right from the start, I loved the new look and concept! The screenshots, the information, the graphical statistics... This is the way to do things! However, while the concept is great, the execution leaves a few things to be desired...some of the information is missing crucial bits here and there! Perhaps I need to send Cytron a copy of Scenery to avoid mistakes in the future ;) Having said that, I guess I put a lot more weight on these things than the average scener would... The panel graphics are a little unusual, not to mention that they're very very good! Big, clear gadgets leave you in no confusion as to where to click. The intro picture by Zack, and the numerous clip arts leave a little to be desired, 'tho... As far as the editorial content of the EuroChart goes, well... it was never intended to be a mag! The best part is also the most important one; the charts! The code follows the new norm, in that it is multitasking... which is a feature I absolutely love. All mags should multitask! It sure makes reviewing them a lot more comfortable for me :) There really is no good reason not to download the EuroChart... It doesn't really matter if you don't like the cliparts, or you think the interviews in the magpart really should be somewhere else... It's the charts that matter, and the EuroCharts are the original ones...the real McCoy. Get this because Depth put a lot of work down in it, and do a good job. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Eurochart #31 (1997, .10, AGA Multifile Chartmag). code: Quedax, gfx: Raven/Nuance, music: Okeanos/Digital, Curt Cool and Marc/Haujobb (Tracker Packer 3 format), editor: Cytron. review: Nice graphics by Raven introduce us to this edition of EC. The title picture is of a crouching naked woman, but the compositions doesn't look all right...Anyway, the rest of the design is clear and concise. As mentioned in my review of the last issue, the code is very good. System friendly (multitasks), and user friendly at the same time :) The other two sections, apart from the charts, are also well laid out this time. The gallery is mostly pictures of sceners drinking at parties ;) I did like
the old Crusaders design for this part better, with two pics a page, but... The magpart also has good design, with backgrounds that doesn't interfere with the text. Color use is nicely relaxed. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. IDEA (1997, .11, Demo). Seven (1997, 28.12, 4k Intro). 3rd in The Party 97 4k intro competition! Govinda (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Optima, gfx: Ib, music: Curt Cool. 11th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: Now this is more like it! This cool little intro throws quite a few good effects at the casual viewer, including lightdots, shadebob cluster (!) and some well cool bump and texture mapping! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Batteries NOT... (1997, 28.12, 40k intro). Cooperation with Iris. Idoru (1997, 28.12, Demo). 7th in The Party 97 demo competition. Eurochart issue #32 (1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile Chartmag). INT - cooperation with Efreet. MAG - n/a 16th in The Party 97 demo competition. note: Is this the first ever diskmag to be entered in a demo competition? Tetsuo (1998, .02, Demo). TP7 According to DPH (1998, .02, Slideshow). Tetsuo 2 (1998, 12.04, 40k Intro) 8th in the Mekka Symposium 40k intro competition. Desire (1998, 12.04, 40k intro) 9th in the Mekka Symposium 40k intro competition. Wer Hat Dicke Eier? (1998, 12.04, Intro). production: Blueberry/Efreet, Cytron & Ib/Depth. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 97 fastintro competition! Eurochart issue #33 (1998, 12.04, AGA Multifile Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Slang Blues" by Evrimsson/Nuance. Released at Mekka Symposium 97. Eurochart issue #34 (1998, .07, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Job Advert Intro (1998, .08, Intro). Eurochart issue #35 (1998, .10, AGA Multifile Chartmag).
info: Features an intro by Loonies, see their entry for details. Onanina (jokeintro) (1998, .11, Intro). Bamse (1998, .12, Intro). Eurochart issue #36 (1999, .02, AGA Multifile Chartmag). sHROOMINDs (1999, .02, Musicdisk). Kryptonite (1999, .04, 40k Intro). Alpenclüb '52 (1999, .04, Demo). Str8 (1999, .04, 4k Intro). Eurochart issue #37 (1999, .04, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Kryptonite II (1999, .07, 40k Intro). Eurochart issue #38 (1999, .08, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Eurochart issue #39 (1999, .12, AGA Multifile Chartmag). Lonely (2000, .01, Intro). Deputy -----???> Stilgar (ex Apathy, new early 01). Desert (DST, 1992-) ------------------GER> Rockeronic (founder music, 10/92). ???> Abettor (founder), Crusader (founder gfx, 10/92), Doe (founder), Highlander (founder), Madukan (founder), Project Alpha (founder), She-ra (founder), TSA (code, 10/92), Tubaculose (founder), Zyborg (founder). Desert was formed by the ex-Submission members Crusader, Rockeronic, Abettor, Doe, Highlander, Lightforce, Madukan, She-ra, Project Alpha, Tubaculose, and Zyborg. Walker joined Savage. Venom joined Eskimoes. Wishbringer joined Damian. German swapper and cofounder Lightforce (ex Submission) joined X-Trade. Borntro (1992, 14.10, ECS File). code: TSA, gfx: Crusader, music: Rockeronic. Design (DSN, -1992)
------------------SWE> The Joker (swap). GER> Orbit (code, ex Coma). ???> Agressor (re), Dark (ex Damian), Cyclon (ex Trackers), FDT (write, doublememb Venture), Lonestar (ex Trackers). Design was a german based demo group. In late 1992, some of the best members joined Fusion, and the rest carried on under a different name; Gothic. 1992 - Germans Renegade (gfx) and Orbit (code) joined from Coma early in the year. German Doom joined Fusion early 92. German Hedgehog joined Addonic in september. Toxic joined The Electronic Knights. Aggressor once joined Supplex for 3 days, but then rejoined. Germans Renegade (gfx, ex Coma) and DSP joined Agnostic Front. Desire (DSR) -----------HOL> Infant (code, early98), Noodle (Stefan Schipper, swap, doublememb Mellow), Ratbone (music, 05/92), Riox (code, 08/92). BEL> Bip (org gfx, ex Quasar, 04/92-late96). GER> Chaos! (ascii design), Kernal (Mario Hoehne, code swap). ???> Dave (code), Thd (gfx). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: HOL> Antibody (12/91-08/92), Aragorn (code sysop 'TERMINAL ZONE', 0410/92), Daze (old handle CPS, ex Justice), Dusty, Guy Frost (code, 09/91-08/92), Zoef (gfx music, aka Facet!, new 08/92-05/94). BEL> The Grifter (sysop 'PHANTOM', 08/92-04/95). FIN> Chipper (Pasi, mainorg music, 01-11/93), Dr.Paranoid (trade sysop 'ACID HOUSE', 93-04/95), Dwel (gfx, ex Alcatraz, new 10/93-05/95), John Peel (swap trade, ex Razor 1911), Mel (93), Mick (old handle Story, ex Ice/Plague re-scene, 93), N.S.A. (swap, 93). NOR> Remix (org music, later Devils, new 08/92). SWE> Breeze (Henri Hurtig, music, ex Equinox), Electro (code swap, ex Equinox), Jackpot (swap, ex Equinox). ENG> Giz (code), Hollywood (music, doublememb Axis [details], later Vacuum), Loony (music swap, ex Divine, late95), Twilight (music, 06/93-95). GER> Paragon (modemhq org swap pack, ex The Elektronic Knights, old handle Agony, 93). USA> Nameless (sysop 'SNARFS PUB'). ???> Draxx (code), Duck (12/90-91), Ego (04/92), FantasyForce (90), Iron Eagle (ex Animators, new 09/92), MLP Artworx (03/91-12/91), Multicoder
(07/91), Nik (eng?, ex Balance), Rippex (12/90), Rotex (new 09/92), Shintaro (gfx, new early93), Subi (music), Talisman (org gfx swap), Tommie (sysop 'SESAMESTRAAT', ex Cyanide), TSM (code), Visualize (10/93), Wildstyle (sysop), Zorro (12/90-04/92). Boards; TAJ MAHAL WHQ (hol), PHANTOM ZONE (bel, aka just 'PHANTOM'?), ATOMIC FALLOUT (den), ATOMIC AGES (ger), FUTURE INFERNO, DATA CHANNEL (new 09/92). Desire is a demogroup based in the Netherlands, formed by Coyote. After a couple of years the group was merged with another, of which the leader was Ramon B5. They also had a strong Finnish section for a while, responsible for a fair amount of their productions. Ramon B5 was the original leader, but when he left (93?) another dutchman, Ultimax took over leadership. Twilight more or less left the scene in 1995, after securing a full time job making music for Graftgold Software. Ramon B5 (08/92), THD (12/91-03/93 and Sacha (12/91-03/93) from the Dutch section formed the subgroup Facet's Pussy. They later recruited more members from the mother group, like the germans Chaos! and Kernal. Most of these members later returned to their original group. Another subgroup was also later formed, called Love [see separate entry]. There were rumours early93 that 'SNARF'S PUB' had left, but they were entirely false, as reported in Freedom Crack #11. 1992 - T60 left to join the PC scene 09/92. 1994 - Right before The Party 94, dutch musician Fabian (03/92-) sold his amiga and left the scene. His promised BIG musicdisk project was cancelled, and was subsequently never released. Cone joined Spirit. Courage (old handle Seat) joined Wizzcat. Steve, sysop 'MYSTICAL PLACES' joined Alpha Flight. Norwegian Switchblade (10/92) joined Compact Inc. Untold, Gorry, Clawboy (08/92) and Undertaker joined Tragedy. Dutchmen Zorlac (gfx, 05/92-03/93) and Ultimax (code, 05-12/92) both joined TRSI (Upstream #8). It is uncertain where this left Desire, since Ultimax took over leadership after Ramon B5 left... The two worked on at least "Future Inferno" [05/92], "Menace" [08/92], "Thaj Mahal" [12/92], "Morpheus" [01/93] and "Vluggertje" [03/93]. Finnish coder Venture joined Deadline. He made "Morpheus" [01/93] and the "ChipChop" series [93] for DSR. His latest registered production is from 11/93, so he probably left late 93. German musician Pseudolukian (04/92-06/93) got kicked. He made music for "Channel X" [04/92], "Thaj Mahal" [12/92] and "Vluggertje" [03/93].
Germans Chaos! (gfx ascii) and Kernal (code, both ex Analog, new mid9305/94) left to join the Desire subgroup Facet's Pussy. They both later returned to Desire. German Skyfox (ex Dual Crew, new RAW5) joined joined Endless Piracy. However, Eurochart #22 claimed he left the scene. Redferne (ex Awe) joined Devils. Also Remix later ended up in Devils. Englishmen Bassline (Music, ex Anthrox) and Schizo left the scene. Dutchmen Cloud 9 (swap) and Solid (gfx, both ex Vicious) joined Cryptoburners. Jack (ex LSD) joined Compact Inc. Ziggy Stardust (ex Cyberactive), Kyle (ex Starlight) and Dioxion joined Vanish, and Ziggy changed his handle to Cujo in the process. Coyote joined Jetset. Camelot joined Alpha Flight. German swapper Stearo (ex Delight) joined Paradise. Germans Rebel MC (swap, ex The Special Brothers) and Dark (ex Cyberactive) joined Noxious, so the German section is disbanded late 92. The following people are therefore obviously no more members of the German section: Vane, Bootbuster (ex Subzero, 10/92), TNM (ex Subzero), Vain (ex Subzero), Kreator (ex Byte Syndicate), Touchstone (code, later Essence), Dascon (later Essence), Trasher, Fancy and Powerswap (later Essence). Iceberg, sysop 'THE HOOD' (ex Cyberactive) joined Spaceballs late 92. Link joined Gothic. Exile (Demo). info: Mentioned as one of the best Dutch productions. Addi (1990). production: FantasyForce, Duck, Zorro. Anli (1990). production: Duck, Zorro. Quint (1990). production: Duck, Zorro. Gif (1990, 03.10). production: Duck, Zorro. DSR Pack Menu (1990). production: Duck. X-Mas 90 (1990, 22.12). production: Duck. Biebel Story (1990, 22.12). production: Duck, Zorro, Rippex. Anti-Junkfood (1991, 26.01, ECS File). production: Duck, Zorro, Ripit/RAF.
63 Seconds (1991, 30.03, ECS Intro). production: Duck, MLP Artworx. Multiscroll (1991, 27.04, ECS Intro). production: Multicoder, Zorro. LegoLand I (1991, ECS Musicdisk). production: Duck, MLP Artworx. Baby Balls (1991, 07.09, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, MLP Artworx. Evolution Preview (1991). code: Sacha, gfx: ThD, production: MLP Artworx. Baghdad Cafe (1991, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Antibody. Evolution (1991, 07.12, ECS File). code: Sacha, gfx: Facet/Anarchy, ThD, production: Guy Frost, Zorro, MLP Artworx, Antibody. Manriki (1992, 14.02, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Antibody. Explorer (1992, 18.03, ECS). code: Sacha, gfx: ThD, music: Fabian. Channel X (1992, 04.04, ECS Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zorro, Music: Pseudolukian. Hidden-Part-Dentro (1992, .04, ECS File). code: Sacha, gfx: n/a, music: Fabian, production: Guy Frost, Ego, ThD. Atomic*Fallout (1992, .04, ECS Intro). production: Aragorn, Bip, ThD. Future Inferno (1992, 27.05, ECS Intro). production: Ultimax, Zorlac, Ratbone. info: Probably a BBS intro, since they had a board called 'FUTURE INFERNO'. Menace (1992, 01.08, ECS File). production: Guy Frost, Bip, Zorlac, Fabian. Propaganda (1992, 01.08). production: Riox, ThD, Ramon B5, Icon/Dominators, Fabian. Body to Body (1992, 01.08). production: Clawboy, Bip. Prev Party Pack (1992, 01.08). production: Aragorn, ThD, Fabian.
Phantom (1992, 01.08). production: The Grifter, Bip. Little Intro (1992, 29.08, Intro). production: Guy Frost, Zoef, Antibody. Memtro (1992, .10). production: Cujo/Dioxxine, Bootbuster, Switchblade. Pack for Germany (1992, 10.11). code: Aragorn, gfx: ThD, music: Fabian. Thaj Mahal (1992, 11.12, Intro). code: Ultimax, gfx: Zorlac, music: Pseudolukian. Agony Packmenu (1993). production: Tedric/TSL, Sacha, D-Sign/TSL. Morpheus (1993, 25.01, ECS File). code: Venture, gfx: Dwel, Zorlac, music: "Morpheus.cpr" by Chipper. info: Seems like the finnish section made this. I don't think Dwel was really a member yet when this was made; he joined later. Vluggertje (1993, 09.03, ECS Intro). code: Sacha, gfx: THD, Zoef, Zorlac, music: Pseudolukian. Skid Row Cracktro (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Sacha, gfx: Facet/Lemon., music: Fabian. ChipChop issue #1 (1993, early, ECS Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel. ChipChop issue #2 (1993, .04, Musicfile). code: Venture, gfx: Mel, music: "Pom Pom Pom" by Chipper/Desire, "Headcrash Intro1" by Jochen "Virgill" Feldkoetter, "Intromuz 1" by Heatbeat/Carillon, "Last Betrayal R." vt Hydra, "Chiptune 12k" by Nuke/Lemon., "One" by Strobo/Stellar, "Sweatbeat" by Slammie/Disaster, "Disco Zax" by Mel O'Dee/Shining, "Introghost" by Dezecrator, "Metromix" by Turtle/Accession, "Shortmenutune 5" by Legend/Parallax, "Kukko" by Groo/Virtual Dreams, "Fysiometrical" by Hawk/Sanctuary (12 tunes, all 4ch MOD format). ChipChop issue #3 (1993, .06, Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel. ChipChop Special (1993, .06, Musicfile). production: Venture, Dwel, Chipper, Fabian, Pseudolukian, Twilight. ChipChop issue #4 (1993, 24.07, Music file). production: Venture, Dwel, Prayer/Banal Projects. Lovetro (1993, .10, Intro).
production: DCD/Krafted, Visualize, Jimi. Cracktro (1993, 03.11, Intro). production: Kernal, Chaos!, Twilight. ChipChop Intro (1993, .11, Intro). production: Venture, Dwel, Chipper. Fairlight Cracktro (1994, 12.05, Intro). code: Kernal, gfx: Chaos! (design), music: Zoef. Destiny ------ENG> Alien³ (gfx, ex Poppa [no entry]), Antichrist, Eggus (code, ex Poppa [no entry]), Inertia (Mick Fairclough, music), Kiwi (code, 92), Metal (Paul Garner, gfx swap, new 10/91-93), Tango (Dave Kelly, swap pack), Tantalus (Andy Eddingham, mainorg, 91-92), Terminator (code), Thallium (Shaun, gfx), Venom (Stuart, trade). NOR> Adolf (ex Atomic), Jens Madsen (sysop 'DREAM OF PERFECTION', 01/94). ???> Cobra, Hampster (old handle Pissed Artist, 09/92), Hugo (ex Poppa [no entry]), Martin (code, new 09/92), Narc, Nitro. Boards; CLIFFHANGER (nor, 01/94), NINE LIVES (eng), THE PEACH. Destiny was a demogroup based in England. They will probably mostly be remembered for their diskmag with the original name "Satanic Rites". Members of the staff of this mag were later behind the Talent mag "42". 1991 - The group attended Digital's party "The Main Event" in october, where they recruited a new graphician, Metal. This was his first group. About 4-6 weeks after the party, probably around december, the group's main organizer Kam (also gfx) left the scene. Tantalus became the new main organizer, and under his leadership the group entered into its most productive period ever. 1992 - Tango and Venom joined. Elminster was kicked in september. 1993 - Destinator joined Eclipse mid 93. Norwegian coder and swapper Scourger joined Talent mid 93. English coder Oedipus joined shortly after the Destiny Communion Party in august. He later left the group to form Nebula. Natas was kicked. Vector left the scene. TCB (ex Pussy) joined Energy. Norwegian Lord Stradh joined Talent. Norwegian swapper Messiah joined Equinox. Phreak, FX and Lord Flight left to form Jesters. Norwegian sysop Omaha Thunder ('DIGITAL PLEASURE') joined Compact Inc. German editor RokDaZone (ex Amaze) joined Infect. RokDaZone worked on the
Destiny diskmag 'Satanic Rites'. Jelace and Saracen (ex Damage Inc) joined Banana Dezign. Satanic Rites #1 (pre 1992, .06, ECS Diskmag). Satanic Rites #2 (1992, ECS Diskmag). info: Originally supposed to have been released at the Quartz Summer Conference 1992, but it was not finished in time, since coder Kiwi could not get it bugfree. It was released a couple of weeks after the party. Satanic Rites #3 (ECS Diskmag). Satanic Rites #4 (1993, 29.05, ECS Diskmag). info: This was unfortunately the last issue ever released. Destruction (DST) ----------------???> Magius (fin? gfx, 08/96). Destruction changed the name of the group to Tribute, and multi-functionman Pacman changed his handle to Speedo. Therefore, Destruction is in effect dead. I really wish I knew when this happened, 96 or 97? I do not know if Magius is also a member of the new crew. Deep (1996, 18.08, ECS File). code/music: Pacman, gfx: Pacman, Magius (logo). Released for the Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Not outstanding in any way, but adequate. Only two real effects, and none of them are showstoppers. Perhaps they should have had a look at the winner demo from The Gathering 95 before deciding on the title... The only ECS demo released at Assembly 96. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Endscroller had a few graphical errors. Devils (DVS) -----------FRA> Bombsquad (trade, ex Bronx, new late93), Captain Jewels (Vincent Marque, mainorg, early92), Jinx (Bancel Pascal, code gfx, 04/93), Keops (code gfx), Sirrao (music), Swoly (gfx). GER> Kreator (sysop 'A-BASE', ex X-Trade), Midwife (sysop 'PLAN B' WHQ, ex Anarchy, 04/93), Rakiem (ex Dreamdealers), TDMF (music, ex Dreamdealers, 93). NOR> Bright Brick (music, ex Fanatic, 93), Jam (93), Mike (trade, ex Submission, 93), Tecon (org music, old handle Remix, earlier Desire, 04/93), Wigflipper (Hans Ingar Johansen, gfx, 04/93). ???> Asterios, Axya, Cannabis, Cortex, Faith (re 09/92), Judd, Krom,
Krueguer, Medor, Merlin, Pegase, Sky, The Clairvoyant (ex Mystix), The Invisible (new 09/92). Devils was a French-based demo group, which also had a strong norwegian section. 1993 - Shade's demo pack "Party Cocktail #1" [04/93] was released at The Gathering in april. Mr.Pixel left. Youngblood was kicked. German coder Zulu (ex Addonic) joined Cryptoburners. Ceel (old handle Rick, ex Flash Productions) joined Cryptoburners. Norwegians Optic, Redferne (music, ex Desire), Ace (swapm 04/93), Peavey (ex Offence) and Shade (org swap pack, ex Fanatic, new ca 06/92-04/93) left to form Shamrock. Microchip (ex Grace) joined Shining 8. Frenchmen Hades, Bluesilence (ex Zenith), Poison and Mr.Keel all joined Nova. Casimodo left. French musician Hydra joined Sceptic. French coder TKB joined Dreamdealers. Lost most of their members due to the Beach Party failure! There's now only four FRA members left. The best members melted with Drifters and formed a new group called Chainsaw Design. Deicide (ex LSD) joined TRSI. Labyrinth (Demo). No Reality (ECS Trackmo). code: TKB, gfx: Swoly, music: Sirrao. review: Due to incompatibility reasons, I haven't really been able to see all of this demo. What I've seen though, confirms nicely to the old idea that textscreen-effect-textscreen is a nice design that works fine :( There are, however, some nice effects here, and I'd especially like to mention the 'lightsourced fractal landscapes'. Not only do they look great, but they render like lightning on the 030! ;) Unfortunately, when the demo decides it's time to load the second part it crashes after completing the loading. Nothing I've tried remedies this, not even kicking the machine down to 1.3. So for now, this is what you get :) All credit information was hacked out of the disk itself, since that part's obviously in the second portion of the demo. I'd be very very grateful for results... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. Ultimate Composer (1991, ECS Musicdisk). Information: Future Composer tunes and a joystick-controlled menu!
Colors (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo). 2nd in the Iris New Year Conference. Plan B BBS Intro (1993?, ECS File). code: Jinx, gfx: Jinx, Keops (font), music: Redferne. review: This small BBS intro shows Devils are not afraid to go new ways in design; it employs a highres display that's original, and made the production look 'fresh' when it first appeared. Together with the fast, catchy techno music it created a good atmosphere. I say did, because unfortunately it hasn't aged all that well. When you look at it objectively, you clearly see that there's nothing really advanced about the intro, no 'cutting edge' code. It looks OK, sounds catchy, but is ultimately not very interesting. It does its job and little else. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Party Cocktail packmenu (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Jinx, gfx: gfx: n/a, music: Remix, packer: Shade. review: A perfectly serviceable packemenu, with the best part being a large, twisting DEVILS logo down the entire left hand part of the screen. The rest is taken up by the selector, textplotter and small scrolltext. The intro was used for issue #1, released at The Gathering in april, and so we conclude it was first made early this year. It worked perfectly well on my configuration with caches off and original chipset, but since there was no time to test with caches enabled, I can not make any guarantees for its behaviour on such a configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review. Devious Dezigns --------------SWE> Whoosh (sysop 'NIGHTFALL', triplememb Over The Top and Outlaws, new 02-03/95). Devotion -------SWE> Revenger (Thomas Larsson, code, 08/93). Revenger is the author of the graphics conversion utility 'IFFTrasher'. Dexion -----DEN> Danish Demo Duo (aka Pet and TDK), Einstein (Poul P. Hestbek, music), Hitman (code, ex Neon/Kefrens), Liteace (code), Mr.Mega Mind (code),
Tiger, Warca. GER> Jon, Poacher. ???> Anzax, Dr.Dolby, Epsilon (music), Mercy, Orbit, Tron. Dexion are a legendary Danish demo group, who were BIG before Kefrens were a though in mind. Dexion was Liteace's first group. 1990 - In december the group arranged the Dexion X-Mas Conference in Odense, gathering some 600 sceners in what was until then one of the biggest scene parties ever. Norwegian graphician Morten joined Spaceballs. Danish swapper Trix (12/90) joined Rebels old. Danes Starman and Future Freak (Kim Tolstrup Christensen, music) were kicked due to inactivity. Future Freak made LOTS of great tunes, and before the Amiga he was active on the C64 as Future Freak/TFA! Norwegians T-Bone (ex Resolution 101) and Rob (ex Absence) joined The Silents. Megademo (1989, 11.02, ECS Megademo). Winner of the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons demo competition! Megademo II (1990, 05.01, ECS Megademo) Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Beyond Justice (1991, early, ECS File). code: Tron, gfx: Tox, Bustman/Crusaders, music: Orbit. Dezign -----Boards; ICE CREAM (ger, triple in Delirium and Remedy). dFX (-1996) ----------dFX was a swedish demo group comprised of Elixir (music), Dep (code) and Neuro (gfx). The group ceased to exist as all three members joined Wrath Designs in 1996. #? (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Dep, gfx: none, music: Elixir (The Player 6.1A format). 28th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Short and very blue. That's the best way to describe "#?", a 40k intro without graphics at all, and just a single phong object (with and without animated background) that still manages to be 40k in size! They've used Ludde's c2p routine, and the object is in that annoying every-other-pixel mask. While the first part has just the object (an undetailed torus) and a moving background, the second part has no background but 'afterburning' on the object. The file was called dFX-Wildcard.exe, a name that's a little more easy to put on the file than the actual name of the intro :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Diabolics --------FRA> Corsair (code, 05/89), Gandalf (gfx, 05/89), Mr.Video (gfx swap, 05/89), Sharlaan (code, 05/89), Trunk (swap, 05/89). Diabolics was a french demo group, formed by Mr.Video. Cool Raster Intro (1989, .05, ECS Intro). code: Corsair, gfx: Mr.Video (chars), music: "Happy" by ????/The Jungle Command (SoundTracker format). review: Well, this is certainly a colorful intro! It has rasters all over the shop, bouncing bars and background colors - almost a little too much! obviously someone learned their copper lists early =) But when you look at the credits list, everything falls into place... Corsair is of course the french coder who later made the legendary "Copper Master" for Angels, the copper demo to end all copper demos... In addition to this the intro contains only a large scroller in the middle of the screen with an ok font (for 1989) and nada else. Not much of a noteworthy release. Even with KillAGA, the intro suffers from a badly coded music routine that bugs on my machine. The intro was found on Horizon's "Rack-Pack #16" pack, released at the very beginning of june 1989. From this we deduct that the intro itself was released some time during may. No release date appears inside the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Diamonds and Rust (D&R) ----------------------AUT> Edo and Steve (sysops 'PLEASURE DOME', 11/92). GER> Gettler and Grind King (sysops 'PARADOXUM', 93). ???> Boon Kid (aut? 11/92). Diamonds and Rust was an illegal group. A review of one of their cracktros can be found under Sceptic's entry. 'PARADOXUM' BBS had an intro made for it by some Arise members in 1993. Dictators (DCT, 1990-1991) --------------------------
FIN> Barbarian (swap), Dr.Header (code, ex Success), Maniac (music), Marrow (swap), Shaddock, Sledgehammer. NOR> Nick (swap, 11/90). ???> Bobcat (gfx), Jayhawk, Metal (code), Mr.Mad, Voyager (music). Dictators were formed by ex-members of Danish group Trilogy and some Swedish guys. They died toward the end of 1991...though the release date of "Woozy" and other information make this information seem highly unreliable! 1992 - Finns Electro, Phraser, Breeze (music, old handle Megaman, 01/92) and Simpson (swap) all left to join Equinox 08/92. Exeron joined 2000 AD. Joker (ex Ontarion, new mid 91) joined Spirit. Join-Us-Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: Metal, gfx: Bobcat, music: Maniac. Woozy (1992, 07.02, ECS Demo). D.I.D. -----Frequenz (together with Badcat and Edison) got arrested at Fornebu in Oslo, Norway when collecting a package with carded stuff. Frequenz told them everything, and two weeks later all Norwegian elite boards got busted... Diffusion (DFN) --------------FIN> Astral (93), Beholder (Pertti Lehtisaari, mainorg, 93), Grand Duke (Juha Kovanen, swap), Rock Lobster (93). FRA> Fear (Viebach Jean-Michel, org), Hardfire (Johan Roirand, later Spaceballs, swap). NOR> Dr. MC Metal (Bjørn Haukedalen, swap). ???> Candyman (ex Leader Productions, old handle Admiral), DJ Jones, Jaywalker, Protoplasm (code, new early 93), Taxman, Wizard. Diffusion was a demo group based in Filand. 1993 - Finnish Lohi joined Balance mid 93. Norwegian and Swedish divisions were kicked mid 93. Extremist, Icebeat, Mikey and Wisa were kicked mid 93. Swedes Exidor (code), Slime (gfx) and Jammie (gfx) joined Infect. Finnish Slipper and PetShopBoy (old handle Ace) joined Cadaver. Finnish musician and swapper Statik-D (old handle Wiseguy) joined Legend. Norwegian swapper Chaka changed his handle to Nurnal and joined Chaos A.D. Kintro (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro).
15th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Digital [old] (DTL, 1991-) -------------------------ENG> Acid (04/92), Azi (gfx, ex Adept, 04/92-12/92), Clarky, Columbo (04/92), Elwood (04/92), Engineer, Flame (gfx, 04/92-93), Grashopper, Intreq (sysop 'LIVING CHAOS' WHQ, 04/92), Lexicon (04/92), Lonestar (04/92), Lord Flight (ex Alliance), Mr.Concept, No.5 (04-10/92), Panic (04/92), Paintbrush, Quartz (04/92), Roller Beast (04/92), Slaine, Source, Streamline (code, 04/92-93), Turbo Slug (04/92), Twinage (gfx), Yaz (code music, 04-10/92). GER> Dillenger (Niki Bugarici, code, new 94-07/94), Gfx-Twins (gfx, later Essence, new late93-07/94), G.T.O (Stefan Reisch, music, ex Dual Crew, 07/94), Jewel, Ladykiller, Nitro, Rahiem (Frank Meister, swap, 07/94), Redman (swap pack 'News Break', ex Adept, 03/93-07/94), S-Sex (Michael Schneider, music, ex Action, new early92-04/92). FRA> Alex (gfx, 07/93), Dancer (ex TSB), Doughnut (gfx, old handle Microchip, 07/93), Spiral (ex TSB). FIN> Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT EHQ, 10/94), Cosy (trade, doublememb Fairlight, 03/94), Echo & Guido (traders, 03/94), Jaws (trade, doublememb Decnite, 03/94), Masterblaster (trade, 03/94), San Miguel (trade, 03/94). USA> Fuse, Insanity, Jynx (sysop 'THE OTHER SIDE', 04/92), King Cobra (sysop 'COMPLEX 39', 04/95), New Jack (sysop 'NEW JACK CITY'), Pad (sysop 'MEGLOMANIA'), Spook (code, ex Magnetic Fields), The Master. ???> Bandasnatch, Coaxial, Death Jester (trade), Dextrous (ex Magnetic Fields), Ferris, Jetman, Moses, Nova (ex Slipstream). Boards; FANTASY ZONE (eng), ULTIMATE DREAM (eng), QED (eng), NEVERNEVER LAND (ger), STATIC RAVE ZULU (usa). Digital was formed after Magnetic Fields was reorganized, and all the best German and English members formed this new group around the middle of 1991. These days the 10 remaining members are, unfortunately, mostly inactive. They will leave beind a handful of good productions, most notably perhaps the trackmo "Lethal Exit" [12/92], the 40k intro "A Maze In" (07/93) and the musicdisk "Extemporized" [10/93] - all of which were made by their previous french members. 1992 - Spook, coder of the "Punisher" (04/92) trackmo, left the UK to work in Silicon Valley, USA. German musician S-Sex joins from Action. 1993 - Evil E was kicked late 93.
1995 - English musician Sync joined TRSI early. Finnish sysop Allah joined Parallax, where he's running 'THE CHAMELEON'... was the board also in DTL? Finnish swappers Poke (07/94) and Tint (94) joined Facet's Pussy/Desire. German coder Chip-Ram (07/94) left to rejoin his old group, Wizzcat late94. Sniper left to join The Special Brothers. French musician and swapper Reverse (12/92-10/93) joined Melon Dezign. The entire French section joined Complex sometime between 10 and 12/93. This concerns musician Clawz (ex The Special Brothers, 09/92-10/93), coder Gengis (ex Liquid, 12/92-10/93) and graphicians Eloy and Titan (ex Anarchy, 07/93), though he MAY have joined Scoopex instead. Frenchman Vodka (ex TSB) was kicked out, so he rejoined The Special Brothers. The entire Finnish section, John Peel (trade, ex Black Robes), Kevin (gfx sysop, ex Magnetic Fields, 09/92), Grim (ex Magnetic Fields), Duncan (ex Magnetic Fields) and Hifi (sysop 'LAST GENERATION', ex Grace) joined Damones. Later, new Finnish members would join. French graphician SPH was kicked early 93. The only production I can find that he worked on was Gengis' trackmo "Lethal Exit" [12/92]. French swapper and packer Wizz (ex The Silents) was kicked 02/93. Redman will take over his packseries 'POST-IT!'. Rotox left for Anthrox. German swapper Yoyo joined Fifth Generation 08/92. English coder Paradroid (ex Razor 1911 old, 04/92) left to make games for Core Design. He later joined Anarchy. Dexter (music, ex Plague, new 04/92), Ford Prefect (sysop), Shrimp (code, 04/92) and Sync (music, 04/92) were all kicked. Sync rejoined, Shrimp later joined Ghost. Lots of Germans were kicked in early 92; Andy & Ray, Seco, First Revolution and the graphics-team Groo and Rufferto (all 04/92). Groo and Rufferto therefore joined Delicious Design. German Flaxx joined Bloodsuckers. Afternoon (ECS). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Shattered.Afternoon" by Hollywood/Jetset and Reverse/Digital (4ch ProTracker format). Punisher (Trackmo). code: Spook, gfx: Flame, music: n/a. Day of Reckoning (1992, ECS Disk). Trash (1992, 04.04, ECS Trackmo). code: Streamline, gfx: Azi, music: Yaz (NoisePacker 3 format). 2nd in the Anarchy Party demo competition. review: Acceptable but unexciting trackmo from British section, with an unusual brand of music - with a flute lead (!) Nothing to jump up
and down about in any way. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Crashes after memberlist on both configurations. Lethal Exit (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Gengis, gfx: Azi, SPH, Twinage, music: Reverse. 9th in The Party 92 demo competition. Dream Trippin' (1993, Disk). code: Streamline, gfx/music: Flame. A Maze In (1993, 11.07, ECS 40k Intro). code: Gengis, gfx: Alex (head), Dougnut (font), music: Clawz (XANN Packer format). Released at the Sun'n'Fun Conference 93. review: A good little intro from future coder celebrity Gengis, with some nice routines. Perhaps the most interesting one being the 'maze' part, which resembles an early Doom clone - complete with user interactivity! The maze is lightning fast on my machine, by the way. Also, there's a nice zoom rotator and an opening vector rendition of a DTL logo. Cool. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Extemporized (1993, .10, ECS Musicdisk). code: Gengis, Alex, gfx: Walt, music: Clawz, Reverse, G.T.O. (ProRunner 1.0 format). info: This is VERY sought after! If anyone has it, he/she will be richly rewarded. Clawz' modules here are Sweltering Forest, Sonic City, Extemporized, Spleen and Ideal, Voldsom Kanonslag. This was Gengis and Clawz' last production for Digital before leaving for Complex. Shakka Lakka (1994, .07, ECS Trackmo). code: Dillenger, gfx: Gfx-Twins, music: G.T.O. review: A quite acceptable trackmo from the German division. The graphics are rather good throughout, though never excellent. The music is functionable, but nothing more, and the coding rather nice. As you can see, this demo never rises to greatness, but is still a good production. Can't find any party results that list this, and the production does not mention any party either. There's a few fullscreen pictures and lots of incidental graphics, if that's your thing. Nice. No loading problems. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Digital [new] (DTL, 1996-1998) ------------------------------
ENG> Alive (Marcel Bramothe, mainorg2 gfx write, doublememb Nah-Kolor, old handle Shade, 04-10/97), Cache (code, rescene, early98). ???> Goon (gfx), Ibenz (ex Passion and Skidrow, new 09/97), Iceball (gfx), Okeanos (music). Digital was reborn in 1996, and was finally closed by Darkus in 1998. Darkus (doublememb Nuance, old handle Nemes!s) left for Network and Rebels, and accused Iceball (ex Ibanez) for most of the trouble DTL had suffered, because of his lying about new members and productions. 1997 - Ibenz joined from Passion and Skidrow. Alive contributed the title screen to Nuance's "X-Files #19" [10/97]. Tommy (music), Forge (gfx, old handle Mat, 97) and Snozz were all kicked late in the year. Digital Access -------------???> Johnny Turbo (mainorg, 07/94), Drizzt (code, 07/94), Questa (code, 07/94), Cool Col J (music, 07/94), Normski (music 3D gfx, 07/94), Budds (sysop, 07/94), Stoo (sysop, 07/94), Tex (3D gfx, 07/94). Girls... Girls... Girls... (1989, late, ECS Slideshow). Code: Drizzt, Gfx: Bass, Music: n/a ETD-AGN Demo (1989, late). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Bass, Music: Uncle Pervis. Don't Touch That Dial (1990, .10, ECS Intro). code: Drizzt, Questa, gfx/music: Bass. Elle Slideshow (1992, .10, Slideshow). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, JT, Music: Cool Col J. DA Party Slideshow (1992, .11, Slideshow). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Sonic Death Demo (1993, .01, File). Code: Drizzt, Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Cyborg Intro (1993, .03, Intro). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. Intent (1993, .07, ECS File). Code: Drizzt, Krion, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. ADL tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. MCBBStro (1993, .09, Intro). Code: Krion, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J. DA Party II Slideshow (1994, .02, Slideshow/Musicdisk). Code: Questa, Gfx: Souri, Music: Cool Col J.
Guru Meditation (1994, 01.04, ECS File). Code: Krion, Storm, Drizzt, Gfx: Souri, Infinity, Music: Cool Col J. 1st place in the Pearl Party 94 demo competition. Digital Artists Inc (DAI). -------------------------FIN> Chad (93), Delacroix (music, 93), DJ Tony, Judas Priest (93), Slumlord (93), Tsaca (music, 93), William Wobbler (93), Zenox (09/92). SWE> Goose (David Lindstrom, swap, ex Bronx, 09/92). Finnish Reaper joined The Dark Demon. Musicdisk III (1992?, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Delacroix, Tsaca (3 tunes). Bonus Trax 1 (1992, 05.08, Musicdisk). Digital Chaos (DTC, 1994-) -------------------------ITA> Dark Ranger (trade, early96), Dr.Tomastik (music, early96), Hantarex (sysop 'POINT OF NO RETURN', early96), KRS (code, early96), Lry (founder gfx sysop 'CYBER TRASH', 94-early96), Nck (founder gfx, 94early96). Since their birth in 1994, DTC has released mostly doors and bbs-related utilities. The two original founders were Nck and Lry. Ice MC (e-code) is no longer a member. 968606 (Intro). code: Krs, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. information: BBStro for their board 'POINT OF NO RETURN'. Da Beggining (Intro). code: Krs, gfx: Lry, music: Nck. Digital Corruption (DC, http://www.digital-corruption.net). ----------------------------------------------------------HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, 02/97-02/99). SWE> Hamlet (sysop 'FIRST DIVISION', 01/97-04/98), IronFist (sysop 'UNDERTOWN', 12/97), Leatherface (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', triplememb Smokey and Ghost Riders, 01-12/97), Storm (sysop 'CYBER DESIGN', 0112/97), Wizard (F. Schultz, code gfx music, ex Giants, 97). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER', 01/97-02/99), Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', 02/99). NOR> Arcane (sysop 'MOST WANTED', 01-10/97), Magz (sysop 'GENETIC WASTE', 01-12/97), Thundercat (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', 12/97-02/99).
ENG> Shag-Rat (crack sysop 'SHAGGYS PLACE', 02-10/97), Zoltrix (sysop 'FINE LINE' earlier 'SPACED OUT', 01/97-02/99). GER> Digiman (sysop 'ACID SLAM', 04/98-02/99), Ramis (sysop 'TRASH CITY', 02-10/97), Red Crow (ger?, sysop 'CREEPING ANXIETY', 10-12/97), Steel (sysop 'CRAPTOWN', 12/97). FIN> Patrician (sysop 'HARD DISK CAFE', 01-02/97). POL> Billy (sysop 'FUCK SHIT', 01-02/97). AUS> Psyche (sysop 'TERRA FIRMA', 02/97), Testament (sysop '3RD EYE', 04/98). SCO> Chill (sysop 'HOUSE OF PAIN', 12/97). TUR> Ital (sysop 'NEEDFUL THINGS', 01-02/97). N Z> Damnation (doublememb Instinct, new ROM9). H-K> Raiden (sysop 'RISING SUN', 01-12/97). JAP> Outside (sysop 'DEADLY SINZ', 10-12/97). USA> CDeth (ftop 'SANATARIUM', 12/97), Gunda (sysop 'THE SPECIALISTS', 0110/97), JamesWest (sysop 'SEVEN SEAS', 01-10/97), Rusty (ftpop 'SPANK', 10-12/97), Shadower (supply sysop 'DEATHROW', 12/97-02/99). ???> 7en (crack, 10-12/97), Beavis (sell, 02/97), Dalamar (sysop 'DRAGONLANCE' EHQ, 10/97-02/99), Diablo (fra? sysop 'WAREZ CITY', 1012/97), LaShawn (sysop 'SOUTH CENTRAL', 04/98-02/99), RaMoNsTeR (crack, 10/97-04/98), RTM (crack, 01/98), Ruskie (keyfilemakers, 96), Scandic (sysop 'FAST FILE SYSTEM' EHQ, 01-02/97), Sunbeam (code crack keyfilemakers, 04/98), Synthetix (crack, 01/97), Vulture (sysop 'VULTURE', 12/97-02/99), Zed (Peter Zelezny, code, doublememb Mystic, 11/96). Digital Corruption are a mainly pirate/illegal-oriented group, among the best these days. They release both games and utilities. Zed is the author of the BBS program System-X (SX). Digital Dreams Company ---------------------YUG> Thunder (code). Yugoslavian Nemesis left. Anti Atari Demo (Trackmo). Digital Warriors ---------------NOR> Buzz (sysop 'NIGHT LINE'), Charon (sysop 'STYX'), Nicam (sysop 'NO ACCESS'), Zneiper (ex Dual Crew). Sysop Slash ('THE VENUE') joined Alpha Flight.
Digitech (1987-) ---------------SWE> Captain Solo (Jacek Slawek), Damien (sysop 'PURPLE PLEXUS', 10/90), Excelsior (sysop 'LEVIATHAN', 10/90), Greyhawk (Erik Flyxe), The Ruler (Patrik Gisselson), Warlord (org swap pack, 10/89), Warlord (Peter Blomquist). ???> Hitchhiker (90), Trinicon, Sauron. This mainly Swedish group was born as early as 1987, and their name is a shortform of the two words "Ditigal Technology". They earned their dues creating some truly excellent utility compilations in the old days. One of their members were also behind the cruncher Bytekiller 2.0. Sauron is possibly identical to the Swedish coder who was later in Miracle (real name Johan Lindahl). Megademo (ECS Megademo). Digivision ---------???> Dirty Harry (music, ex Atomic). Digiwars -------USA> Navigator and Freejack (sysops 'EMINENCE FRONT'). Dimension 4 ----------Finnish Pifki (ex Heavy Duty) joined Grace. Dimension-X ----------Motive, R-9, Neotronic and Quest left to form Narcosis (PRP4). Deadlock issue #4 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag). Dinx Project (DXP) -----------------POL> Sachy (Piotr Sachanowitz, code gfx, doublememb Skid Row, later Appendix, 08/95-late97), X-Ceed (music, doublememb Appendix [details], 02/98). ???> Celtic (trade, late97), Dan (music, late97), Drd (gfx, late97), Dr.Szach (raytrace, late97), Dutch Magic (trade, new early98), Franckey (code edit, late97), Groh (gfx, late97), Kosmi (late97), Kro (gfx,
late97), ogotay (code raytrace, late97), Oster (code, late97), Rg (code swap, late97), Sebax (gfx, late97), Terry (music, late97), Timi (org, late97), Tinner (raytrace, late97), Zefir (gfx, late97). Dinx Project is a mainly Polish demo group. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Sagrael left the scene, that polish Aln/Picco [misspellt Alan] (code) joined, and that polish swapper Korball joined Amnesty. Polish coder ALN (ex Picco) joined Appendix 11/97. Acid left the group late in the year. Caro left for Nah Kolor late. L.A.M.E. (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: Sachy, music: "Chipmunks" by Jester/Sanity (4ch MOD format). review: For anyone who's seen a lot of demos, "L.A.M.E." is gonna bring a smile to your face. Never have so many good demos been made fun of in such a respectful, tongue-in-cheek way :) From the opening DINX PROJECT logo (which looks a lot like the PYGMY PROJECTS logo from "Extension" [08/93]) - to the end graphics before the cartoon (which looks a lot like something out of Mack's slideshow "Prism" [92] for Melon) - this is a fun ride down demoscene memory lane. The chiptune by Jester has almost certainly been ripped from somewhere, but I can't quite remember where... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chp, 16mb fast/3.0. L.A.M.E. (1996, 23.06, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition. Direct -----DEN> Dux (sysop 'MAINLINE'). ???> Droid, Zenix, Macho. Beatbuster was kicked, and joined Upfront (EC11). Disaster (1992-1995) -------------------DEN> Christine De La Queen (later Spoon, 93), Core (gfx music swap), Joshua (code, 93), Muttley (Kim Lebech, founder music swap, ex Addicts, 93), Profile (swap, 93), Subsonic (founder gfx music, ex Addicts). ???> Dgl (gfx, 12/93), LeChuck (music, 12/94).
In early 1995, Disaster merged with Subacid, and ceased to exist. These people (at least) joined Subacid: Deckard (gfx, 12/94) Gayhawk (code), Hexagon (founder code, ex Addicts) and Liquid (music). Joshua was busted for supposed hacking! A full report can be read in Upstream #7. Desajn (1994, .05, Dentro). Ärtesuppe (1994, 28.12, Intro). Winner of the fast intro competition at The Party 4! Disaster Area (DA) -----------------1991 - Birdy joined Scoopex mid 91. The Gamble Hall BBS Intro (1992, late, ECS Intro). code: Mad Max, gfx: Esteban, Mad Max (font), music: n/a. Cooperation with Scoopex. review: An extremely simple intro, unfortunately showing its age. This is just here to present the BBS 'THE GAMBLE HALL', and does little else. The only 'effect' on offer, not counting logo, scroller and sideways starfield, are some transparent DA bobs spinning. Not one for the collection. Even though this intro is supposedly in cooperation with Scoopex, no members from that group took part in its creation... if you're not counting the scrolltext =) The date is based on the text 'wishes for 1993...' in the scrolltext. [glenn]
Disknet ------FIN> Axu (trade, 02/93), Dark Power, Falcon, Giant, Gummi-Uncle (93), Hawkwind, HST-Bullah (93), JMF (trade, 03/93), Loki, Milkman (93), Palex (trade, 02/93), Rainman (code gfx, 08/92), SCE (sysop 'IRON HOME', 93-04/95), Triax (swap), Wisp (93). ???> Stormbringer (swap). Dark Power and Dr.M left. Finnish Thor joined the Desire subgroup Love. Finnish Goozer (ex Altair) joined Alcatraz (RAW4). Finnish Alcohol Pricelist (1989, 28.02, ECS File). Demo (1990, 09.02, ECS Demo). Coders Mystery (1991, 25.02, ECS Demo). Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS).
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Rytinaa ja Ryketta (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Music: D.R.M. Information: 8 tunes, 4 games and more! Disorder -------SWE> Dixy (sysop 'PREMIUM', 01/95). Divina -----ITA> Dark Angel (trade sysop 'MADNESS CONFUSION', late90), Knute (code), Mad Marabou (music, late90), Mr.Copper (code, late90), Natas (sysop 'TEMPLE OF DESTRUCTION'), New Dream (code, late90), Luyz (code), Sledge (gfx, late90), Storm (gfx sysop 'ALTAIR OF SACRIFICE'). Beware of Vectors (ECS Intro). code: Knute, gfx: Storm, music: "Flying Gods" by Hydra/Devils. review: Just an intro with a jumping scroll, a logo at the bottom of the screen and some filled vectors. Nothing extraordinary. Nothing even remotely close to a release date is found in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Divine -----ENG> Aquafresh (music), Risk (org gfx edit 'White Noise', old handle Image, 94), Sonny (sysop 'WELSH COAST', 10/94). FIN> Arche (ex Typhoon), Mac (ex Typhoon), Mr.Z (ex Typhoon). SWE> Maverick (swap, 09/92). ???> Buddy (org sysop), Elric? (trade ascii edit, ex Futura), GT One (sysop 'ALTERNATE REALITY'), MDMA (code), The Fink (code, 94), The Jive Movement (re Delite, old handle Projex), Thor (swap), Warlock (ex Fantasy), Welder (code trade sysop, ex Futura). Divine was formed by ex-members of Surprise! Productions UK and Futura. 1992 - Finnish Duplex left the group to form Electron, and Icebass joined Admirals early in the year. Dutchman Ike (old handle Hornet) joined Effect late92. English musician Dreamfish (94) joined DCS. Dredd (ex Fantasy) was kicked. Loony joined Desire. Sprinter was kicked due to inactivity. Danish coder Wreko left for Balance. Kiwi abandoned Divine and the Amiga for Trilogy on the PC scene.
White Noise 1 (1994, ECS Filemag). code: The Fink, gfx: Risk, music: Dreamfish, editor: Risk. D-Mob ----SWE> Antiaction (code, ex Tetragon, later Defjam, new 07/90), CAD (Björn_Lagercrantz), Creator (swap), Leper Messiah (ex Dual Crew, new late90), Nick23 (gfx, ex Ballcrackers, 12/91), Turbobrain (Stefan Bernbo, code music sysop 'THE ULTIMATE RIDE', 12/91), Xor, Zak (gfx). USA> High Energy (sysop 'RAZOR EDGE'). ???> Creep (ex Control), Elrick, Genius (sysop), Georgie, Jason, Lee, Moose, Odin, Orpheus, Poltergeist (swe?, code, ex Excellence). Boards; WAREHOUSE (fin). D-Mob was formed by The Cad and Turbobrain from The Sunriders Swedish division. They felt they were the only ones doing anything in Sunriders, and they didn't want to do the job for someone else, so they formed their own group. Turbobrain is also the author of the wellknown copy program DCopy. 1991 - Dreamer joined Vogue, while Raider and Aztec got kicked in the middle of the year. 1992 - Daxer left to join Eclipse ca 06/92. The Finnish division is dead; most of the members joined Intense. Swedes Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD'), Frosty (both ex Jump) and Uzi-U all left for Crystal. Music-Disk 1 (ECS Trackloaded musicdisk). code/music: Turbobrain, gfx: Zak. review: This is about as basic as they come. What you get is a scroller at the top, a picture of the Batman logo and three (four is you count the 'bonus' track) LARGE tunes, probably because they were not so much composed as sampled. Avoid this and get Music-Disk 3 instead, by much the same team...only miles better! By the way, this was D-Mob's very first production as a group. The scroller is distorted and unreadable on my machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Musicdisk 3 (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Information: COOL onemodule megamix musicdisk! Musicdisk IV (ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Information: 5 tunes and a small bonus part. Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings (DOC)
-----------------------------------GER> Dr.Mabuse, Unknown (Michael Kleps, code, 08-10/88). ???> Esteban, Frog, MnemoTroN (code, ex Silicon League, 04-08/89), Tracer. DOC was a legendary German group that gave the world some of the first and best demos and utilities like the D.O.C SoundTracker (Version 2.0 (08/88) to 2.2 were coded by Unknown, while version 2.3 (04/89) to 2.5 (08/89) were coded by Mnemotron). Unknown also wrote the game Dynablaster and the chipmusic program SIDMon. Demons Are Forever (1988, 18.05, ECS File). info: Classic demo! Dole (1997-) -----------???> Mega (founder music), Mr.Mygg (founder music), Stardust (founder gfx), TmX (founder gfx). Dole was formed by Mega, Mr.Mygg, Stardust and TmX, all from C-Lous (97). Domination ---------Domination's Dentro (1995, 12.08, Demo). 13th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Dominators (DOM) ---------------DEN> Roland (music, 12/90). GER> Transfer (code, ex Paradox). ???> Dogfriend, Fox (ex Bonzai), Psycho (train, 89). Dominators on the amiga was merely a division of the wellknown danish group on the c64. They were 'active' (mostly swapping) on the amiga probably as early as 1987, but it would still be a few years before the first productions were released... :) Most German and Finnish members left to build Elysion. Nevermind (1992, 29.06, ECS Demo). 6th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition. Golf War (1992, 28.12, ECS Disk). code: Zorlac?, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 15th in The Party 92 demo competition.
Donut Fetish (DNF) -----------------NOR> Niggerjack (Stian Myhre, code), Pix (gfx, later Darkage), Romeo (code, early98), Whiskas (Daniel A. Hansen, music, also in Mono [music], 12/96). ???> Deep (mainorg1 music), Disc-man (music), Drop (mainorg2 music), FroD (music), Large (sysop), Loaderror (code gfx), Mr.X (music, new late96), Speeddevil (new 09/97). Donut Fetish is a Norwegian group, with some fairly talented members. Niggerjack was in Shamrock the last time I lost track of him ;) 1997 - Norwegian coder Psalt left for Spaceballs, and Norwegian coder Accede left for Contraz 09/97. Their sysop Large also left them, while Speeddevil joined this month. Doodles^Shock Foundation, The (TDS or D^S) -----------------------------------------SWE> Blizzard (coedit 'Tequila', 07/95), Butch (gfx, 06/94), Chig (code, 06/94), Jac (sysop 'HYSTERIA', 01/95), Silencer (sysop 'REPULSE'). Swedish musician D-Zire joined Spaceballs late 94. Chip'O'Matic 3 (1994, 07.06, ECS Musicfile). code: Chig, gfx: Butch, music: Loxley/Equinox, Spirou/Senseless Desajn, Deetroy, Excalibur/Complex. Tequila Chart issue #11 (1995, 01.07, Chartmag). Cooperation with Complex, see there for details. Doom [old] (1990-1990) ---------------------FIN> Acer, Barrax, Bootlegger, Dander, Hans, Hawk, Hex, Hoffman, Jack, Larry, Mac, Mic, Stargazer, Starwize, Swapper-Jack, Tandy, Voyager, Wolf. ???> Ravish (new ca 07/90). Doom was formed when the two groups Vision-X and Tornado merged in 1990. 1990 - In july, finns Judge (gfx swap, ex Tornado), Banzai (code), Zoltar (music), Tom (code gfx swap) and Mr.Head (code) left the group because they felt there were too many members in Doom. They formed the group Advance together with one other member. Finnish Mr.Big was kicked, and joined Wizzcat under the new handle Catman. The group changed their name to Euphoria towards the end of the year, probably 09 or 10/90. Doom [new]
---------GER> Devil (gfx, 04/96). ???> TLS (music, 04/96), Vanor (code, 04/96). Deadline (1996, .04, AGA 1MB Multifile, 2 disks). code: Vanor, gfx: Devil, music: TLS. Released at Misc 96. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dope ---???> 9MM Dor, .38 Dre, Pushead. Dope were a Norwegian group, creating quite original demo work. Light Side of the Dark Side (ECS). Ban the X - Radical Version (1990, ECS File). Double Density Crew (DDC). -------------------------Virus Intro (1988, 03.10, ECS Intro). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Doughnut Cracking Service (DCS). -------------------------------ENG> Nosah (Dave). DCS was a mainly English group that came from the C64. Dragnet ------DEN> Nation (music, 12/94), Venger (Sune Pedersen, music, 12/93-12/94). ???> Constrictor (gfx, 12/94), Marvin (code music, 12/93-12/94). Anni Mator (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Marvin, gfx: Constrictor, music: "Music 4 4okb Vgr x3" and "Endmusic" by Venger. 10th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Runs without crashes, but gfx are totally fucked up, indicating it was coded for AGA machines. Time Warp (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 15th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Dragons [old] (-1990) --------------------It is highly uncertain what the OLD Dragons have in common with the new.
1990 - French musician Moby (ex Apology) joined Alcatraz. All remaining members (Corsair, Megablast, Mr. Video, Conqueror & Zike!) except Foxy joined Angels late 1990. As a consequence, Dragons died. Foxy joined Dreamdealers. Yoda joined Submission. Megademo (199?, 10.03, ECS Disk). code: Corsair, gfx: L.Jadavin, Mr. Video, Vador, music: Moby, S.Lentfert, Allister Brimble. Dragons [new] ------------GER> Lee Wijant (swap, 92), R.T.F. (mainorg, 92), T.B.M (sysop 'DIRTY SURFACES' opened early 92). FIN> Yoda (new 08/92). ???> KLF (train, new early92), Roland (code, new early92). It is highly uncertain what the OLD Dragons have in common with the new. EuroChart #15 carried the news that they won the demo competition at the 'Fresh Cream' party, though this party is unknown to me. Bounty left to join Hardline early 92. Cream Dezign (gfx music, new early92) left 08/92. Drakpak ------Swedish sysop Bugs Bunny ('POLE POSITION') joined Noxious. Megaintro (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91. Dreamdealers (DRD) -----------------FRA> Antony (Squizzato Antony, gfx pack 'Pipeline', aka Tony?, 09/9312/93), Asymptotic (code, ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92), Chrylian (Ceril, music, ex Proton Ltd, new late92-94), Croquik (code), Elmer (Hugues Giborne, gfx, ex Symbiosis, new late92), Fletch (gfx edit 'L.I.V.E.', ex TSB), Foxy (ex Dragons, new 90), Freddox (code edit 'L.I.V.E', ex TSB), Fullstar (ex Pure Metal Coders, new RAW4), Gelfling (sysop 'DREAMLANDS' WHQ, 09/93-06/96), Napoleon (Emmanuel, swap, ex Solaris, 09/93-94), Pib (code, 94), Redlight (code, 12/91-93), Shout (Jean-Philippe Plazas, music, 04/96), Silk (ex Solaris, new UPS8), Sun (music, 12/92-12/93), Sync (code, 12/93), Tik (gfx, 12/91), TKB (code, ex Devils, new RAW4), Zebig (gfx, ex Alliance Design, new pre 07/92-93), 7th Eye (gfx, ex Alliance Design, new early92).
Boards; JUJU (fin, 09/95). Dreamdealers is a purely French demo group. In the beginning they were a small, but quite high quality group. Then Moby and Ra joined, and people started taking a little more notice. When Moby and Ra left for Sanity they certainly lost their best assets. The sysop of 'JUJU' is not a Dreamdealers memb, but Gelfling is a cosys on the board. 1990 - Foxy joined from Dragons after that group died. 1992 - French coder Gryzor left for Hemoroids in august. 1995 - Fletch returned to the scene late 95. The Frenchmen in Oops! Productions (Alex and Nam, both ex The Silents) both joined Movement. French coder Hexogen (ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92) left the scene. French painter Trajan (12/93) joined Bomb!. The entire German division; Rakiem (ex Speed/Complex), Ascender, T'Vaan (ex Dux/Submission) and TDMF (ex Mexx); were kicked out. Rakiem and TDMF joined Devils. French music and graphics masterminds Moby (ex Alcatraz, 12/92-12/93) and Ra (old handle Rhah, ex Pure Metal Coders, new late92-12/93) both left to join Sanity. Corinne (1994 or pre, AGA Demo). Tales of Dream (1991, 25.08, ECS File). code: Redlight, Croquik, gfx: Tony, music: Moby. Inner Vision (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: Redlight, gfx: Tik, music: Moby. Winner of the Iris New Year Conference! info: Does not work on 2.0+ systems! Beach Party Invitation Intro (Beachtro) (ECS Intro). Released at the Eastern Conference 92. Interpol Crack Intro (1993, ECS Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Ra, music: Chrylian (ProMizer 1.8 format). review: A cracktro whose most important asset is a great Interpol logo by Ra, covering most of the screen. Some text is nicely splashed onto the screen at the bottom, and the music is...not good. There is no actual release date, but it was probably made in 1993 - several things indicate this. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Ulitro (Flying Saucer BBS) (1993, ECS Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Zebig, music: Sun.
Raging Fire (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: Sync, gfx: Antony, Ra, music: Moby. 15th in The Party 3 demo competition. review: This starts of on a TRULY cool note with a heavy metal module by Moby (ahh sweet headbangin'...), before we're treated to a great picture of a bull's head by Ra. Then, the bull's head is zoomrotated fullscreen while the drums of the tune keep-a-bangin'. ...and that would appear to be it. Having experience this power trip (mostly brought on by the music), one can't help but think they'd have ended up a lot higher on the score board if they'd added another effect or two. Amazing potential! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Toyzareus (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Redlight, gfx: Zebig, music: Reflex. 3rd in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Imagine (1994, 03.09, AGA File). code: Pib, gfx: Antony, music: "Organe Machine" by Chrylian. 2nd in the 3S Party demo competition. review: Certainly nice this short demo from the Frenchies in DRD. The graphics remain excellent throughout, and the coding's not bad either. As for the music...I thought it was a fucking Moby tune until I saw the credits! If that's not a stamp of approval, I don't know what is. Very very competent in every department, then. Please note that on the 030-50 it ran a little TOO FAST. I didn't get half a chance to read any of the text early on, because it just flashed onto the screen, and then it proceeded. On the plain A1200 everything was fine, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: see the review! Toothbrush - The Trilogy Part III (1994, 27.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: P!b, gfx: AnTony, music: Doh (samples: Doh, AnTony, Ra). Cooperation with Cryptoburners. 21st in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Just some animations of people brushing their teeth, set to a techno track with brushing noises. Probably supposed to be funny, but it doesn't really come alive for me... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Cult - The Party 4 Edition (1995, .02, AGA Diskmag). info: This was released as a 'preview' of the new diskmag 'Cult', which was supposed to be released regularly as a cooperation with Absolute!, and
the editor would be Fester/ABS! As far as I know, no further issues were released. 3S Party 96 Invitation (1996, mid, File). code: Obyone, gfx: Tenshu, music: Bosco. info: The 3S party was held from 30.08-01.09 1996. All of these people probably became Syndrome members by the end of the year! Dreamline Designs (DLD) ----------------------DEN> Rasmus K. Ursem (code, 02/95). Rasmus K. Ursem is the author of several small utilities, whose names all begin with DLD :) Da'Ride (1994, 28.12, Wild). 3rd in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. Information: Presented on an A4000. Dreampark (DPK) --------------GER> Euronymous (sysop 'ANCIENT ENTITY', triplememb TRSI and Thunder Technologies, 06/94). Drifters (DFT) -------------FRA> Amotrak (swap, 02/91), Clary (code gfx raytrace modem, doublememb Crux Design, 95-12/96), Coronal (swap), Golden Hell (Gabriel Hiriart, gfx raytrace swap, 02/91-04/96), Kyrom (Eric Mounie, music, 02/91), Manu (Emmanuel Gallo, swap), Mr.Bluesky (code, 02/91-04/96), Mulder (raytrace trade sysop 'X-FILES', 04/96), Outlandous D.A. (Yannick Meneceur, gfx, 02/91), Sh0cker (A. Pagnotta, trade system modem, old handle Hooked, 04/96), Tof (gfx ascii, doublememb Crux Design, 95-04/96). ENG> NMI (Paul Westgate). ???> 242 (code raytrace, 04/96), Euric, Io (gfx swap, 04/96), L'Anome (trade, 04/96), Seb (gfx, 04/96), Stf. Drifters was a french demo group, formed by Golden Hell and Mr. Bluesky. The group produced more than 30 demos/intros in their time. Thanks to Outlandos D.A for a little information! 1991 - Postacard is now Rave/Delight late in the year. 1995 - Drifters originally died in 1995 when the two founders left the scene, but Clary tried to keep the group together a small while more. Golden Hell was asked to rejoin, and did a few pieces of graphics for them (and Crux) but it never really came alive.
Black and White (Demo). info: Done in cooperation with Pentagon - who merged with Drifters soon after. Latex (Intro). code: Mr. Bluesky, gfx: Golden Hell, music: n/a. The Prisoner (Number 6) (Demo). code: Mr. Bluesky, gfx: Outlandous D.A, Golden Hell, music: Kyrom. info: First ever philosphical demo. Cheap Blittering (1991, 06.02, ECS File). code: Mr.Bluesky, gfx: Amotrak, O.D.A, Golden Hell, music: Kyrum. Cooperation with Pentagon. review: Please be advised that the version reviewed here is a re-issue version, put on AmiNet by Drifters in April 1996, for the purpose of archiving. The readme file says Amiga OS 3.x, so its compatibility may therefore not be the same as the original's. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Gudule (1995, File). code: Clary, gfx: TnT (Tof & Tenshu/Syndrome), music: Bosco/Syndrome. Cooperation with Syndrome. 2nd at the Synapse 95 demo competition. review: I suppose this would be a lot more entertaining if I knew french... You see, this is just a set of pictures set to a 'tune' with sung french vocals. All pretty amusing, I'm sure, but I don't understand squat :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Disco (1996, 07.04, HD File). producers: Clary, Falcon, Io, Tof. 3rd in the Symposium 96 demo competition. review: High points for originality, but that doesn't help this out of the mud, I'm afraid. It's pretty much an animation player :) The demo's high point is actually the first 10 seconds, when a voice announces "Hello and welcome to the Boris disco party", immediately followed by Calvin and Hobbes getting down to a disco groove. Cool, you think - so how about the demo? There is none. It's just more cartoon figures, set to the sound of that soon-becomes-mighty-irritating disco tune. Avoid. I find no indication that this needs AGA. It is HD only due to the size, but there is no reason why it can't be run from disk if it's packed first. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Paradisio (1997, 30.03, Demo). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Dromex [new]
-----------???> Booster (ex Lunatic Earls). Booster left Lunatic Earls to rebuild Dromex! 1992 - Rackler joined Wildfire late in year. D-Tect (DTC, 1988-1993) ----------------------GER> Agent (code, 11/90-09/91), Case (sysop 'PLEASURE PARADISE', 0209/91), CCCP (code, ex Spirit), Charly (03/90-09/91), Cougar (code, 11/90-09/91), Dave (11/90), Ferris (swap, 02-09/91), Flake (Markus Schmall, code, ex The Special Brothers, later TRSI, new 08/92), Flashlight (sysop 'ELITE TOWER', later Pirates), Harry (11/90), Higgins, Joker (11/90-02/91), Mr.Soft (sysop 'POISON DATA', 09/91), Mr.X (swap, 09/91), Pete (02/91), Satan (code, ex Vision One/AFL, new 12/90-12/92), Snowman (03/90- 09/91), Spider (Onur Pekdemir, gfx, 03/90-09/91), Twisted (music, 03/90-09/91), Yankee (write, ex Addonic, new ca 01/92). NOR> Darkdude (gfx, 09/91-12/92). FIN> Clan (Mikko Nurmi, swap). USA> Jabbawocky (sysop 'CYBORG COMMAND', later Skid Row, new 09/91). ???> Adam (code, 08/92), Cyfrak (music, 12/92), Digital Illusion (ex Tristar), Dr.Clan (ex Fate). Boards; POPULOUS (ger, new 03/90). D-Tect was a demo group based in Germany, probably born around early 1988. 1990 - November was a busy month, with first the release of "Depeche Code" [11/90] followed closely by the second issue of "Hack-Mag" [11/90]. The mag announced that the group needed more coders, since only Agent and McDeal were coding. It also announced two new members, Mr.Megaforce in Canada (about to open a board) and their first modemtrader, Rockford in Germany. 1992 - German writer Yankee joined from Addonic around january, to work on Hack Mag. December saw the release of the group's last ever production, the intro "D-Cadence" [12/92] at The Party. It seems reasonable to say the group died early 1993. Leo left the scene. Wire 501 was kicked. One of D-Tect's greates assets in earlier times and the ex-editor of 'Hack Mag', McDeal (11/90-) left to join German supergroup Sanity. However, he only participated in one demo for Sanity ("Arte") before leaving the
scene. German sysop Rockford aka RCF ('TRADERS HEAVEN', 02-09/91) joined Elevation. Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY') joined Dual Crew (RAW1). Lord Unix was kicked (09/91). News in I.C.E that Spider joined Coma is untrue (09/91). Cooperation (1988, .04, ECS File). Cooperation with Shining. Multiscroller (1988, .05, ECS File). Released at the Piranhas Party. In Your Memory (1989, .02, ECS File). Released at the SAS & SSC Party. Amiga Expo (1989, 10.11, ECS File). Released at the Paranoimia AmiExpo Party. Mean Machine Trainer (1990, ECS Intro). Hack-Mag issue #1 (1990, 22.08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Depeche Code (1990, 10.11, ECS File). code: McDeal, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: McDeal mentioned in a demo newsgroup that this demo was the second one to ever feature a dot tunnel on the Amiga, an improvement on TIP/TNM's, who was first. Hack-Mag issue #2 (1990, 22.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: Spider, music: TAR, editors: many. review: The second issue of HM opens with a little 'intro' - a title picture of a monitor smashing through glass set to music. The mag itself is very well presented, perhaps the best design on the scene at the time it was released! You have to remember that HM was competing against Crack Journal at the time, so they easily had the best code. Like in most old mags, too many pages are taken up by unnecessary drivel like humor articles and small comic strip pages, but overall the mag represents an overall informative read. But party reports without results...booh! =) Some critical newsediting would also have been in its place; newsitems like that 4-Mat left Anarchy for TRSI, or that Tarkus Team is dead were obviously wrong. The mag announces the new members Mr.Megaforce (canada, soon sysop) and Rockford (germany trade). The first time I tried booting the mag (no caches/OCS), it showed the intro just fine but gurued at the first page of the mag. I peeked around the disk, and found the way to make it work; boot to your harddisk first. Then cd to the disk in question, then cd to the directory 'articles'.
now type KillAGA (provided KillAGA is in your path ofcourse) to the main hackmag executable. The commandline may look like this: 'KillAGA df0:HACKMAG2'. Get it? This should make the mag work, though it still has some problems with catching keyboard presses - mouse clicking works fine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Traders Heaven (1991, .02, ECS Intro). info: BBS Intro, not same as 04/91 release. Hack-Mag issue #3 (1991, 03.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Satan, McDeal (fix), gfx: Spider (pic, font), Vinvent/Vision 1 (bobs), music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: TAR. review: The intro (coded by new member Satan) is much cooler than last time. It opens with an ok pic by Spider, of one of the Gremlins clutching a D-Tect logo, then goes into the intro itself. Not a terribly inspired affair, but features a starfield, bobs, and the obligatory scroller at the the bottom of the screen. On to the mag, we experienced exactly the same compatibility problems as with the last issue...but this time the solution we offered then does NOT work! Disaster! So sometimes even Amiga owners need to retort to emulators... :) Editorially and graphically not much has changed, the design is identical to the last issue. Not many deep articles this time either, but it's a good hardcore scene mag. Nothing much more to say really, this is an average issue. Support for the mag was picking up, this issue has much more outside contributions than before. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hack-Mag #4 (1991, .04, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). Traders Heaven (1991, .04, ECS Intro). info: BBS Intro, not same as 02/91 release. Hack-Mag #5 (1991, 29.06, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Satan, Agent, McDeal, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: review: After a small bit of loading with a nice ascii screen to look at, the intro starts. And it looks really good, actually! =) It's actually among the simplest intros ever, just a pic, music and a scroller, but the picture at least shows some effort on Spider's part!
Well, onto the mag: The first thing that strikes us is the title logo picture, again by Spider - nice. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hack-Mag issue #6 (1991, 22.09, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Cougar, gfx: Spider, music: Twisted. MAG - code: Agent, gfx: misc, music: Twisted, editor: McDeal. review: This mag from 91 works perfectly fine on my 50mhz 030machine... Astonishing! Well, installing to harddisk wasn't much of a problem either, so I booted the thing. The intro is great! Cool cyber-OS design, metal-skeleton Terminator picture by Spider and thumping cyber-techno soundtrack by Twisted! It certainly sets the mood for some nice reading... The mag itself is well-laid out, and there is certainly enough to read. There's only one module, again by Twisted, but it's very cool. It's got a melody that I simply looooove... This old mag brings back some of the 'magic' from lost times. For a nostalgic read, recommended! GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Hack-Mag issue #7 (1991, 27.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag). D-Cadence (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Satan, gfx: Darkdude, Satan, music: Cyfrak. 13th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. DTS INC ------PowRootDo Korzemi #2 (1994, 13.11, Demo). 4th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Dual 4Mat --------???> Atom (gfx, 94), Dug (code, 94), Matt (gfx, 94), Mikromission (ex Saints, new ROM3), Rob (94), Sparkle (code, 94), Tummo (music, 94), Watts (music, 94). Rebellion joined Maniacs late 95. Just 17 (1994, early, ECS Intro). code: Dug, gfx: Matt, music: Rob. Egg N Spam 2 (1994, mid, ECS Musicfile). code: Sparkle, gfx: Atom, music: Tummo, Watts. Dual Crew (DC, 1988-1993) ------------------------SWE> Flogger (ex Voice), Hater (code, ex Tetragon, new 07/90), Joker (ex Tetragon, new 07/90), Omega (music, new ca 07/90), Parsec (code, ex
Voice), Stookie (founder org modem, 03/90), The GNN (swap, 04/92), Thunor (ex Voice), Trigon (code, ex Tetragon, new 07/90). NOR> Yoghurt (ex Network), Shocker (Bjørn Stensrud, code, ex Network), Timewalker (ex Absence). FIN> Axis, Destop (gfx trade, later CNCD, 07/91-02/92), Dizzy (music, later CNCD, 02-04/92), Golem, Truxton (trade, new 08/92-02/93), Vulcan (swap, 04/92), WDO (Mikko Hamalainen, code swap, later CNCD, 02/92), Zoolook (Marko Kilpelainen, swap, 11/90). GER> Desto (Ingo Kamps, swap trade, ex Platin), Executor and Phreaker (sysops 'SECRET WORLD', ex Gothic). ENG> The Warden (sysop 'THE ASYLUM'), Ultimate Warrior (swap, 04/92). ICE> Hawkeye (ex Armada), Noblestar (ex Armada), Othon (music, ex Armada). USA> White IC and Phosphyre (sysops 'COMPLEX CORROSION'). ???> Belfagor (music, 04/92), Breeze (ex Amaze), Danken (swe? music, 01/90), Df0 (ex Amaze), Doom (ex Gothic), Dwarf (ex Amaze), Galahad (crack), Hawk (fin? code, new 05/92), J.K. (music, 04/92), Morph (music, ex Crystal, rejoined, 04-05/92), Overlord (ex LSD, new 08/92), PMB (ex Amaze), Shadow (gfx, 05/92), Spike (ex Alliance). Dual Crew was originally a c64 cracking group, and the amiga section was formed by Stookie in 1988. Color blind graphician Red Devil ran the pack series "Ultimate Sin" for a while, which was previously run by other DC members. 1990 - Swedes Omega (music), Tip (music), Mace (code) and Color (gfx) all joined around july, but the three last ones didn't stay too long and moved on to join Phenomena in december. Four others swedes also joined in the same time period; JBM, Trigon, Joker and Hater from Tetragon. Swedish Gizmo joined The Silents, while swedish Leper Messiah joined D-Mob - both late in the year. 1991 - Swedish trader JBM (ex Tetragon, new 07/90) joined Fairlight in the summer of 91. 1992 - English sysop Clairvoyant ('FORGOTTEN REALMS') joined from Rebels in march. English sysop Reflex ('A KIND OF MAGIC', 04/92) left in august, and his further scene career is uncertain. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART') joined from 2000 AD around october. 1993 - Germans Orbit (code) and HMC (music, both ex Gothic) joined Alcatraz in march. In april of 1993 Dual Crew merged with Shining, and became the new group Dual Crew Shining (DCS). Among the people who went along to DCS were Snuskbuske (swe trade sysop 'GURUS DREAM', 04/92), Chromag (ger music, ex Addonic, new 09/92), Red Devil (eng gfx, ex Wizzcat, 04-05/92), Gin (music, ex Carnage, 12/92), Gamma (fin music, 04/92), NZO (crack), Haka (fin sysop 'EASTERN FRONT', 07/91-), Tyrell (fin music, ex Vectra, 04/92), Zaz (swe code, 01/90-), Mutant (swe gfx, 01/90-), Clairvoyant (eng sysop 'FORGOTTEN REALMS', ex Rebels old, new 03-04/92),
Polarbear (fin trade, 07/91-02/93) and Ninja (ger gfx, ex Awesome). JS joined Byterapers Inc. English Warlord joined Fairlight. English sysop Beast ('ARCADIA') joined Quartex. German sysop Headhunter ('CONDEMNED CELL', ex Aurora) was kicked. German Wonderboy (ex Awesome, new 09/92) joined Razor 1911. Pylon C and 7an (music, 04/92) were both kicked. 7an did a tune for the musicdisk 'Sound of Science'. German sysop Xeniator ('SATAN'S PALACE') was kicked, and therefore joined Platin. German sysop Fornax ('EUROPE'S HEART', ex 2000 AD) joined TRSI. German Skyfox (ex Adept or Agnostic Front, new pre 07/92) was kicked and therefore joined Desire. German musician Chromag (ex Platin, new late 92) joined Essence...or see the history file for an alternative take! Link joined Scoopex. Agony was kicked, then joined Laserdance. Germans WOTW (music) and D-Sign (gfx, both ex Gothic) joined The Silents. WAL joined Offworld. Stiga left the scene. Tocic and CIA got kicked. Finnish Catman (ex Network, new 08/92) changed his handle to Fuzzy and joined Complex. Matrix, Delbert and Duke joined LSD early 92. However, SLH11 claimed Matrix left the scene...? Can anyone help us with this? Cooper, Skywalker, Razor and G.T.O. (old handle Magic Duke) left the scene to make a game. However, this is untrue at least in G.T.O's case; he didn't leave the scene. RAW5 confirms he joined Digital! Germans Tron, Crux, MCM and E.Toball joined Anarchy. SLH11 mentions that MCM joined Spaceballs and E.Toball joined Complex. Indeed they did, but only after their visit in Anarchy (which was relatively brief). Shaggy joined Fairlight. Swedish sysop Dragon ('DRAGON'S LAIR'), joined Rebels old. Norwegian coder Lord Mindless joined Offence. Norwegians Octoplex (code, ex Palace), Flash and Mindblaster (all ex Vision...?) joined Scoopex. Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex D-Tect) left to be independent. Zneiper (ex Motion) joined Digi Warriors. Trainer Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). Code: Trigon, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. Competition Demo (1990, 05.01, ECS File). code: Zaz, gfx: Mutant, music: Danken. Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90. Yum Yum (1990, .08, ECS Demo).
Vectorscroll (1990, .11, ECS Demo). Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90. Party Slideshow (1991, 15.06, ECS Slideshow). Released at ECES Party '91. Brain Drain (1991, .12, ECS Disk). code: n/a, gfx: Mutant, music: n/a. Finlandia (1992, .02, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: WDO/Dual Crew, gfx: Jugi/Complex, Destop/Dual Crew, music: "Synnissa kypsynyt" by Bruno/SCUP, "Lucid Dreams" by Jugi/Complex, "Mellow Pluck" by Delorean/Complex, "Forever Alien" by Fleshbrain/ Crusaders, "Like Commercial Shit" by Dean/Cyberiad, "Towards and Back" by Di33y/Dual Crew, "Jammin' for Nothing" by Heatbeat/Carillion, "Starbalance" by Turtle/Byterapers Inc, "Club Mood" by Delorean/Complex, "Alannah my Paerse" by Spock/TRSI, "Tweaked 2 Fit In" by Delorean/ Complex, "Curious World" by Delorean/Complex. Cooperation with Complex. Information: 3 disks, and it doesn't support df1:!? The Sounds of Science (1992, 18.04. ECS Multifile Musicdisk, 2 disk). code: Zaz, gfx: Red Devil (logo), music: "Running Elephant" by Belfagor, "Pandora's Box '91" by Tyrell, "Freedom!" by J.K., "Brutalbanan" by 7an, "Respiration" by Morph, "Trajanus" by Dizzy, "Nutritional" by Gamma, "Artifical Musique" by D-Zire/The Silents, "Stratosphere" by Gin/Carnage (loader). Released at The Gathering 92. Review: This musicdisk is certainly not bad, but could have been better. The first thing I'd like to put my finger on is the concept: Zaz mentions in the scroller that to avoid a common pitfall, that all the music on a musicdisk sounds the same, he has used 8 different composers for this one. What he must have forgotten was to check the quality of the modules, not just their diversity. I would have preferred to have 5 or 6 of the best modules on one disk, and have scrapped the rest. Best tunes: Freedom! and Artifical Musique. Red Devil's silver surfer logo is great, but why is there no credit for the raytraced Sounds of Science logo? Not bad. Another thing Zaz forgot was obviously timing. On my 030, this one jerks and flies like there's no tomorrow, and that goes for the tunes as well. That can probably be remedied by KillAGA'ing it, though. Easily installed to harddisk. Needs 1mb total memory. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mystic Places Intro (1992, 31.05, ECS Intro). code: Hawk, gfx: Shadow, Red Devil, music: Morph.
Dual Crew Shining (DCS, 1993-, http://www.sokeri.com/dcs & http://www.dc-s.com/) --------------------------------------------------FIN> Gamma (music, 93), Polarbear (founder trade, ex Dual Crew, 03/94), Tyrell (Markus Lehto, founder music, 93). SWE> Artie (music, 12/93), Daeron (music, ex Shining, 12/93), Tizzy (code, ex Shining, 08/93), Twister (sysop 'FLASHBACK', doublememb Origin, 01/95). GER> Cueball (code, ex Masque), Doom, Dynamite (Sirko Zidlewitz, music, ex Noxious), Excess (ex Vision), Executur and Phreaker (sysops 'SECRET WORLD'), Exciter (Ingo Kamps, swap), Mel O'Dee (Heiko Klueh, music, ex Shining, later Rebels, new 04-12/93), Ninja (gfx, ex Dual Crew, 9394), Slash (code, ex Analog), Tedric (Rolf Alber, code, ex The Silents). NOR> Globe (gfx), Lord Mindless, Roadster. ENG> Clairvoyant (founder sysop 'FORGOTTEN REALMS'), Red Devil (Rob, gfx raytrace, ex Dual Crew). USA> White IC (sysop 'COMPLEX CORROSION'). ???> B-Real (ex WOT), Dark (gfx), Dennis T (eng? modem, 08/93), Desto (mainorg), Galahad (re), Gin (nor? music, ex Dual Crew, 12/93), Heinsen (code, 93), Ikari, NZO (Ray, code crack train music, new 93). Dual Crew Shining (DCS) was born when the two groups Dual Crew and Shining merged in april of 1993. The fact was announced at The Gathering, held later that month, through some small intros. Red Devil is busy raytracing graphics for games from Softimage these days, though he hasn't left the scene! 1993 - After being born in april, the group released their first signs of life late in the month, at The Gathering, with the two intros "Anvend Håndkle" and "April Fool". Mutant also participated in the graphics competition, where his picture "Two Girls" finished 8th. Norwegians Corny and Codeman (collectively known as CoCo Arts) and swedish musician Soul (old handle Dexter) all left for Rednex in december. 1994 - Finnish trader Zephyr (Robert Karlsson), one of the original members who came in with Shining, finally decided to end his scene life. He sold all his computers to Haka and Truxton, and bought a motorbike instead.
Today he works as atelecom business consultant and systems developer. German coders Zulu & Grey (ex Cryptoburners) left to join the new, reborn Rebels in 1994. German musician Chromag (12/93-) left to join Lego in may. He made his first musicdisk, "Chromagic" [93], for DCS. Swedish musician Azazel left to join The Black Lotus (TBL) between 10 and 12/94, where he sometime later would become one of the most famous musicians on the amigascene, largely thanks to his work on TBL demos like "Tint" [04/96]. 1996 - Swedish coder Zero joined Balance late 96. Phosphyre left the scene. Smegma and Brainpower was kicked. Coder Cocoon joined Scoopex. German coder Cockroach (ex Analog) was kicked. He joined new german group Artwork with Voyage (sys) and jMS (gfx) 11/94. Cyclone and Stranger (swap) got kicked. Cero left the scene. Storm (ex Jetset new) joined Essence. German Plasma (ex Analog) was kicked out, and joined The Silents. Boba Fett (fin), Double Density, Killroy and Sly (all from Shining) were kicked out. German coder Raw Style joined from Paradise, but only for a brief period before moving on to Alcatraz. Cockroach was kicked. English musician Dreamfish (Ian Ford, ex Hydlide/Divine, doublememb mono211 [music]) left the amiga scene to concentrate on the music group mono211 (where he is now known as DJ Hoffman). Some sources claim he joined TRSI early 95... German swapper Agony joined Paradise. April Fool (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 93. Anvend Håndkle (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro). Released at The Gathering 93. Chromagic (1993, ECS 1MB Musicdisk). code: Heinsen, gfx: Ninja, music: Chromag (6 tunes). review: You wanna hear dreams? Then put this floppy in your diskdrive, link your Amiga to a powerful hi-fi tower, turn up the volume and just lean back... Starting with an introduction designed like the alien movies and movielike effects at the credits followed by a bumping invisible ball with a scroller on its surface. Only bad that the colors of its background doesn't fit in the dark overall design! But therefor the pannels are okay
again and there you can choose six modules composed by a musician who stands right beside Jester, Nuke or Jogeir in the scene`s history: Chromag. It's not only the nice idea for the menu grafix those make a warm atmosphere. With pop, rock metal and romatic tunes the dcs-crew makes you enjoying this production in a relaxed feeling. As standard you can reach information about each of the modules via buttons. Also eight more or less interesting scroller and a very light group logo (that doesn't fit again, but was just an extra). My favorites are "Charming but drunk" of which the musician composed a sequel and "Love and pain". This was Chromag's first musicdisk. Released outside of any party. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. AGA Demo (1993, 05.08, AGA File). code: Tizzy, Zaz (additional, objects), gfx: Iridon (font), Snuskbuske (raytrace), music: Belfagor. 12th in the ECC93 demo competition. review: This demo scored 0% of the votes, and frankly I can see why. It's a multitasking AGA demo that's unexciting, and doesn't show off the new colors much. I can understand how the audience was unenthusiastic. The demo starts with a raytraced EDCS picture-logo by Snuskbuske, before the main part begins. This consists of a standard scroller at the bottom (with a very nice font), a static bitmap 'planet' of some kind on the background, over which they show some vector objects. I can see why the audience didn't rise to applaud it. The demo is also known as 'AGA Multitasing Demo', since that was the name given to it by the offical results file :) This name appears nowhere in the demo itself, though. The multitasking part is true, by the way, which means that this is one of the few productions where you can flip the screens with Amiga-M while viewing it. Works fine on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Sonic Attack (1993, end, Musicdisk, 4 disks). code: NZO, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. information: Massive musicdisk with music by almost ALL of DCS' musicians. Received unfavourable reviews, if memory serves... Dual Crew Shining [new] (DCS, 1997-) -----------------------------------FIN> 13 (gfx, 07/99), Adam (Antti Rita, org gfx, 04/98-12/99), Arto (music, 10/97), B (org code gfx music, 10/97-07/99), Boost (gfx, 07/99),
Carebear (music, 07/99), Crash (trade, 03/94-07/99), Deetsay (code music, 04/98-07/99), Doc (gfx, 07/99), Dual (music, 97-07/99), Fluffy (music, 08/98-07/99), Fthr (gfx, 07/99), Haka (trade sysop 'EASTERN FRONT', 93-07/99), Illusion (gfx music, doublememb Doomsday [pc], 12/97-07/99), Kidlove (gfx, 07/99), Los (gfx, new 07/99), Mamba (trade, 07/99), Markus (gfx, 07/99), Muffler (music, doublememb Haujobb [details], 12/97-07/99), Obligator (trade sysop, 07/99), Shape (Hannu Komsa, code, 10/97-12/99), Speedo (code, 07/99), Substance (music, 07/99), The Hooligan (music swap, 07/99), Truxton (trade, 93-07/99), Tweek (music, 04/98-07/99), Wrec (trade sysop, 07/99). SWE> Iridon (gfx, ex Shining, 08/93-07/99), Metal Maniac (code, 07/99), Mike (swap, 04/98-07/99), Mortimer Tee (music, 07/99), Mutant (gfx, 9307/99), Purepain (code crack, 07/99), Snuskis (raytrace trade sysop 'GURUS DREAM' WHQ, 08/93-07/99), Stookie (swap, 07/99), The GNN (swap, ex Dual Crew, 93-07/99), Tommy (music, 07/99), Zaz (Pontus Lidman, code, ex Dual Crew, 08/93-07/99). NOR> Optic (gfx music, triplememb TRSI and TPOLM [pc], 12/97-07/99), Xhale (music, 07/99). POL> Blaze (swap, new 07/99), Bonzaj (3d, 07/99), Evan (swap, new 07/99). GER> WOTW (music, 07/99). N-L> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS', 07/99). Though the group was never technically dead, we can certainly speak of a first and second generation for Dual Crew Shining (DCS). Their second generation was initiated in 1997, when the likes of Shape starting releasing product for the amiga again, and first-class product too at that! 1997 - Shape released the 64k intro "Kala" [10/97] at Demolition III, reaching fourth position in the competition. This was followed with another intro at The Party 97, but "Blues" [12/97] was only rewarded with a sad 13th position. 1998 - They reached second place at The Gathering 98 in april with "Nebula" [04/98], only beaten by their fellow finns in Mellow Chips! Deetsay and B coded the intro "A Little Intro At Assembly 98" [08/98] in two days before the competition, and came 7th in the 64k intro competition. 1999 - In march, a large reorganizing took place, where several inactive members were kicked and new ones were allowed to join; Relief was kicked, and so there are no more DCS members in Denmark; finnish trader Zeff was kicked; Finnish graphician Los joined, and polish swappers Blaze and Evan were allowed to join. Kala (1997, 05.10, 64k Intro). code: Shape, gfx: B, music: Arto. 4th in the Demolition III 64k intro competition.
review: DCS goes for an unusual design with this intro, and certainly manages a unique production too. Truly weird, it manages to present common effects in a way that make them seem slightly special all the same. They don't succeed perfectly with this intro, but they are certainly on their way to creating something a little special here. Definite Plus points for trying to do something original. And for coining the term 'postcalculating' =P [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Blues (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Shape, gfx: Optic, music: Illusion and Muffler. 13th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: A pleasant surprise; not only is DCS back but they've delivered a very good intro too! "Blues" leave you with a good, solid impression much thanks to the music, which has a massive, catchy theme. It's an impressive tune for this size, and it works well in the context. The intro has a 'particle' routine, where 2x2 dots form the words 'DCS!' and 'The End' to open and end it, and inbetween there's fast but blocky texturemapped objects and scenes. A very good intro that doesn't need to be advanced to be fun. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Nebula (1998, 13.04, AGA HD 4MB Demo). code: Shape, gfx: Adam (gfx, textures, 3d), Shape (3d), Illusion (textures), music: Muffler (main, end), Tweek (intro, all The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in The Gathering 98 demo competition. review: "Nebula" opens amusingly in the style of an old sci-fi series, complete with period music. Then the first real effect, a fast but barren 3d scene with palm trees on tiny spots of earth. From the first bars of the music it is evident that this is a typical Muffler-tune. Then one of the spots appears to have a flower on it, out of which tiny specs of light appear. Then quickly onto a very nicely done bump-tunnel, with intense light at the end, before also a trail of small light-spots appears to come spinning out from the intense light at each end. And then something appears to go wrong, for a long time I only get a totally white screen while the music continues to play! After looking at the screen and hoping something new would appear for a long time, I eventually rebooted and tried running the demo from harddisk (my previous attempt was from RAM). The results were even LESS great; it now defaulted to just a black screen
immediately after the intro sequence! Not one to give up, I rebooted again (it doesn't appear to respond to the left mouse button), decrunched the main file and tried the demo one last time. And now, amazingly, it worked! We get a swirly thing behind the face of a man with sunglasses (you'd have to see it :) before another 3d scene with light-spots and a spike object. Next something I don't really know how to describe, but which is utterly beautiful, over which credits are overlayed. Next we revisited a bump-tunnel, only this time we travel through it, while it twists this way and that. Soon it also contains a spike-object. Then we're onto a 3d scene with another spike-object suspended in the air over water with lilys in it - and the object is sometimes reflected in the water. And that's it! An upscrolling end message with credits and the like appears (pausable with the righ mb). Overall this demo gives a very professional impression, with smooth, fast routines that were not just thrown together. The only real graphics here are Adam's "Nebula" logo. The demo works with just 4MB fast if you unpack the main executable first, otherwise requires a little more. Developed on and for 030-50, but should work on lesser configurations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. A Little Intro At Assembly 1998 (1998, 08.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Deetsay, B, gfx: B, Optic, music: Fluffy (main), B (end). 7th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition. review: Hmmm! =) This one brough a smile to my face. If you're into fluffy, cute little intros, then look no further. The intro opens with a zoom down into a nice, semi-graffiti-style DCS logo, before a main screen appears where a scroller resides at the top of the screen. The rest is occupied by a weird character in the bottom right corner, and a textplotter occupying the remainder of the screen. Just two short screenfuls of text are given, before the intro ends with a reverse of the first zoom, this time with the graphic being a cute little dog... =) Smile... The demo should work on any AGA amiga, including unexpanded machines. Though entered in the 64k intro competition, it's way smaller, about 35k. It was coded in two days before the party =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Nonstop (1999, 28.12, Intro). code: Shape, gfx: Adam, music: n/a.
Dumle ----The Tree Amigas (1996, 06.07, Demo). 10th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Duplo (-1995) ------------SWE> Ezco (sysop 'SERPENT HILL', 01/95), Gryzor (sysop 'OUT OF SPACE', doublememb Infect, 01/95), Rix (Rikard Kristofferson, music, 12/94), Tango (sysop 'INFERNO', 01/95), Zcandaler (sysop 'TOTAL ECLIPSE', doublememb Comax, 01/95). NOR> Anders (code, ex Pure Metal Coders), Digital (swap, ex Chaos A.D.). GER> Spoiler (ex Platin). ???> Agony (gfx), Gorg (gfx), Radix (music), Terrorizer (swe? modem, 08/94). Duplo is dead. Swedish coder Confidence (12/94) joined Balance (ROM5). He has later made some demos with the aid of a graphician called Gorg... So perhaps he also joined? Spot joined Giants. Bitwrestler (64k AGA Intro). Code: Confidence, Gfx: Agony, Gorg, Music: Radix. Much Ado About Nothing (1994, 28.12, Demo). Code: Confidence, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a. 12th in The Party 94 demo competition. Dusk ---AUS> Terminator (gfx swap, late 96). ???> Crisis (code), Harlequin (sysop), Kimba (gfx), Maximum (code), Rad fx (sysop), Reload (org gfx), Scavy (music), Scorpion (music), Sven unkept (sysop), Ultra-X (gfx). Boards; PLANET-X, WAYFARERS-IN, MASTERS OF INSANITY. Dylem (1995-) ------------SWI> Kalikone (mainorg swap trade, doublememb FUN, late 96). ???> Bacalao (swi? founder music), Blind Man (sysop), Dexter (music trade), Illusion (trade), Klux (swap), Pit (org code), Rash (music), Rogue (ex Darkness, new late96), Style (trade sysop), X-factor (code trade). Dylem was formed by Sear and Bacalao from Spasm in late 1995.
Swiss graphician and swapper Sear, one of the original two founders, left for Fresh late 96. Musician Iceman joined Agoa/joined from Agoa late 95. I have two conflicting pieces of news here, so confusion is total :) Dynamic ------German Front 6 joined Analog. Dynamix (1993-) --------------GER> FFC, Paso (sysop), Subzero (sysop 'NUCLEAR ASSAULT' EHQ, 04/93). TUR> Imperator (soonsysop, ex Fairlight, new 93). ???> Black Cat (crack), Coractor (ex Analog), Crusader-X (ex Wildfire), Dillenger (ex Analog), Nicodemus (ger? doublememb Delirium, 01/94), The Best (crack). Boards; DANSE MACABRE (ex Fairlight). Dynamix was a mainly German cracking group, members of Crack Inc. and Copyright Destroyers. For demo and intro subgroup. Sledgehammer #11E seems name slightly, and thought it was 'Dynamic' :-). 1994 - German sysop Trooper joined Analog built up in 1993 by exa while, Vanish was their to have misunderstood the late 94.
The board 'TOTAL CHAOS' was closed. German sysops Selim and Rudi ('THE JAM') got busted!! Later all three members of SSR (Subzero Selim Rudi) moved on to join Fairlight.
Dynax ----HOL> Mad Max (swap). DEN> Manchild (swap, old handle Ironbaby). 1991 - Delton joined Black Monks mid 91. Dytec (DTC, -1992) -----------------GER> Pitty (music, 12/92-08/93). ???> Adventurer (ex Gothic), Defcon, Direct (code, 08/92), Tic (crack), Marc (crack), Vince, Viper. Boards; BEVERLY HILLS HOUSE WHQ (ger), THE PIT BBS (usa).
Dytec were an illegal cracker group. The name is a shortform of Dynamic Technologies. They died in 1992. 1992 - Ian joined Cytax early this year. Paso joined U.D.O. Direct joined Platin. Dr.Dre and Icecube joined Elevation. German swapper Ghost/Crystal joined, but left after a few weeks. Eagles -----???> Captain Blood, Haxoe, Hextex, Mad Max. Eagles is dead. Swede Arrow joined Strange. Eaglesoft Inc (ESI) ------------------???> Butcher (crack), Christian, Depeche Mode, Fletcher, Mitch, Prowl The Fugitive, The Head Librarian. Eaglesoft came over from the C64 scene in the very first days of the Amiga scene, and started doing the same thing they did on the C64: crack games. They dominated this scene around 1987. Eclipse [old] ------------The old Eclipse is little-known, and all that the group ever amounted to was releasing a few cracks from Rasta Catcha. There is no relation to the new group using the name Eclipse. Eclipse (ECL) [new] ------------------FIN> Axu (sysop 'SWAPDATA', 10/91), Daxer (swap, ex D-Mob, new ca 06/92), Dodger (trade, 07/91-09/93), Marvel (gfx music, 09/93), Optic (code, 09/93-08/94), Peeri (code anim, 09/93), Soldier (music, ex Compact, 09/93-08/94), Target (trade, 07/91), Tom & Jerry (trade, 03/94), Velocity (swap pack trade, 09/93), Vixen (org music trade, 12/9209/93), Werewolf (trade sysop 'DRAIN PIPE #2', 10/91-04/95). HOL> Bassnote (music, 09/93), Bazz (gfx music trade, 09/93), CFI (org code trade, 09/93), Crash (sysop 'CRASH CORNER' EHQ), Enigma, Mad Max (sysop, 09/93), Mr.Zen (gfx, 09/93), One (gfx, 09/93), President (sysop 'THE WHITE HOUSE', 09/93), Seven, Spy (gfx sysop, 09/9308/94), Teak (swap sysop 'NASA HEADQUARTERS', 09/93). ENG> Amos (sysop, 09/93), Aquafresh (music swap, later Eltech old, 09/93), Darkman (ex Plague), Denzil, Grasshopper (trade sysop, 09/93), Jarman
(music, 09/93), Melon (gfx swap, 09/93), Moz (gfx, 09/93), Recoil (ex GER> IRE> USA> ???> Plague), Saint M (swap, ex Cyanide), St0m (swap, 09/93), Turbo (code gfx, 09/93). The Stranger (music, 09/93). Arc, Axel, Brendan, Dionysis, Gazzer, Green Beret (sysop 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'), Hokum, James, Jay, Polaris, Punisher. Caffeine (sysop 'PSYCHOSIS'). Bronx Warrior.
Finnish coder Relax was kicked due to inactivity late 93. Dutch coder and sysop Overlord-X ('CODERS GRIB') was kicked due to inactivity late 93. Americans Panther (sysop 'OBITUARY') and Metoner (trade) both joined TRSI. This means the American section is officially dead (late 93). English swapper and packemaker 8-Ball (ex Cyanide, old handle Psi) joined Infect. English sysop Image ('IMAGEWORKS', ex Quoram, 09/93) joined Quartex. Destinator (ex Destiny, new mid93) changed his handle to Real, then left to build an English division of Infect mid 93. The English division fusioned with Relay into a new group called Ghost. Headache (File). Landscape (File). Teknicolor Dreams (Slideshow). Guru Meditation II (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Optic, gfx: Spy, music: Soldier. Split 24th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ooooh boy, where to start? Well, the best thing about this little intro is the faked Guru meditation towards the end. I guess the name of the intro should have given me some kind of hint as to why it suddenly 'crashed', but oh no. I was totally fooled and for that alone this one deserves a star. Too bad the rest of thing sucks horses... isn't good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eclipx -----Axe joined Nerve Axis late93. Ecstasy ------Ecstasy was an English demo group. Meltdown was one of the founders. 1990 - English graphician Havok left the group late 1990. 1991 - Englishman Taurus left the scene around june. English musician Nightshade joined Crusaders.
Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Count Zero, gfx: Shreck, music: n/a. Weird Pack Intro (1992?, ECS Intro). code: Orlanski, gfx: n/a, music: Rogue Male. Ecthelion --------NOR> Cybermage (founder), Madwand (founder), Quark (founder). Ecthelion was formed by three former members of Avalanche; Quark, Madwand and Cybermage. Eden ---Bluesilence and Clary joined from Nova france briefly, before they took most of Eden's french members with them to Next Generation Crew. They are: Gandbox (music), Slaine (gfx), Sylver and Silk. Effect (1992-) -------------HOL> Clone (code), Dazzler (code), Hi-Fi (code music sysop), Kim (mascot), Radavi (founder mainorg www sysop 'WILD PALMS', doublememb Royal 96, 09/93-96). pc section: HOL> Hawk (music, late95), Native (founder code inactive, 09/93), Striker (gfx, 09/93). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - Kiwi (code swap pack, new early93-12/93), Scan (hol sysop 'DREAMSCAPE' WHQ, 03/94), Sceptre (Martijn Boekhorst, code, 09-10/93), Stranger (ex Silicon Ltd., late 92-09/93), Take, Target, Usura (swap, new mid93-09/93). Boards; THE PUNICA OASE (hol, 07/95). Effect is a dutch-only demo and board group, formed in the middle of 1992 by Acute, Native, Radavi and Striker. The group has since grown a pc division, but Radavi is still the leader of both sections. Their old homepage, http://www.xs4all.nl/~radavi/effect/effect.html, appears to have gone from the web. Dutch sysop Rubyx ('THE STALLION') left.
Doz (ex Divine, old handle Ike, new late92) got kicked. Original founder Acute left the Amiga and joined Hypnosis on the PC instead. Cloak, MSW (Edwin van Rijn, music, 09/93) and Probe were kicked because they released an intro with some offending text at the Bizarre 1996 party. Black Eagle, Sad, Striker and Maverick (music, new late 92-09/93) were kicked late 94. This is a little strange, since Striker is actually one of the original founders! I Want Your Sperm (Demo). Efreet -----Deep Pan (1996, 06.07, Intro). 3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Elanthia (1991-1994) -------------------CAN> Neo-Dyne (James Ojaste, moral support, 07/94), Nitrolyte (Tim Park, code mainorg, 07/94), Ogre (aka Grey Mouser, music, 07/94), Tlotoxl (Alexis Glass, code music, 07/94), Tuxedo Dolphin (Brandon Havey, gfx, 07/94). Elanthia was a Canadian demo group of 5 members who, once upon a time, decided to try making a demo to help disprove the notion that Europeans are the only ones who make demos. The result was "Debut". The group was born around 1991 and died around 1994, as all the members eventually ended up at different universities and got too busy with their real lives. Thanks to Tlotoxl for information. Some of Tlotoxl's music can today be found at http://mutagene.net, and Nitrolyte's anime site can be found at http://www.fiction.org/www/ddp/ Debut (1993, 10.04, ECS File). code: Nitrolyte, Tlotoxl, gfx: Tuxedo Dolphin, Tlotoxl, music: Grey Mouser (AKA Ogre). info: The demo is in NTSC. Slight bugs; keystrokes fall through to system, audio filter left on at end. Try pressing space bar during the scroller for a surprise! Electra ------Tracker left late92. Avenger joined Mad Elks. Electron (1992-) ----------------
FIN> Crux (swap), Duplex (founder, 92), Prophet. Electron is a finnish demo group, formed by Duplex/Divine in the early parts of 1992. They are now dead. All the lamers were kicked, and the remaining members formed a new group called Phase. This concerns _AT LEAST_ P-CU (swap). 1992 - Blink left the group to form a finnish division of Zenith with some friends in the early part of the year. Electronic Artists (EOA) -----------------------Electronic Artists changed their name to Visual Arts. Electronic Force, The --------------------???> Asterix (gfx, 88), Silicon (code gfx, 88), Zeta (code gfx, 88). The Electronic Force Demo 1 (ECS). code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a. The Electronic Force Demo 2 (1988, ECS). code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a. Release at the Vortex 42 Party. Electronic Knights, The (TEK, 1991-) -----------------------------------GER> Banana (founder gfx music, 91-04/98), Bifat (Tim Müller, code gfx music, aka Captain Bifat, 12/92-12/98), Crunchy (code sysop1 'THE FACTORY', ex Sceptic, mid96), Fuszy (codeAM+PC sysop2 'THE FACTORY', ex Sceptic, 05/94), Mac (founder swap, 91-), Maxwell (sysop 'ANTARCTIC STATION' EHQ, mid96), Placid (Joachim Sobczak, music, ex Analog), Plasma (ex Analog), Red Knight (swap, ex Awake), Steve (sysop 'DIGITAL WORLD' WHQ, also in Section 8, Real! and Quasar, 10/98), Toxic (ex Design). FIN> Deep Madness (swap, 93), Dexter (music, 93), Informer (swap). ???> Cybin (gfx, 04/98), Iraner (code, 05/94), Mendrik (ex Acrid), Montana Rice (ex Awesome), Prince (ger? gfx, 12/92-05/94), Red Knight, Deal (gfx, 05/94), Siriax (ex Acrid), Zycro (trade). TEK was a German demo group, formed in 1991 by Mac and Banana. 1992 - Doktor, Not Weelan, Fred and Liquid all joined Parasite in june. German swapper Agony (ex Paradise) joined Desire. Nearer my God to Thee (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Captain Bifat, gfx: Prince, Banana, Captain Bifat, music: Banana.
9th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Rampage (1994, 13.05, ECS 1MB Trackmo). code: Captain Bifat, Fuszy, Iraner, gfx: Seal, Prince, Banana, Magican/ Trygon, music: Banana. review: This demo begins with slowly moving toothed wheels - which look so nice that I am still using them as background of my WB - and you are asked to wait while loading... Open your ears, watchers of this demo, because "Rampage" starts with such queel muzak by Banana that I would give him a big bonus point therefor if I could, while the group's name bumps up in wodden letters from the right side. Afterwards a "Rampage" of steel is to be build up by little pixels collecting themselves together followed by a simple spaceship taking its journey over a brown-colored voxelroutine. Then circling vector balls, rotating 4x4 textures, morphing dot-cubes, cool mirrored vectorobjects and vectorlines, some plasma and a dot-flag with the group`s logo are shown up. Somewhere between you are forced to watch a really ugly girl (Beware! This could make you go gay ;-)) but that is the one & only bad point of this stylish production I still could watch ten times more. The trackmo ends with a really long endscoller shown by a very colorful font (even changing a bit the way the scroller goes) while the guys of TEK provide you a second musictune. All in all a very good show with the right length to be watched twice or three times in a row without losing its interest... [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Choose (1996, 05.04, Demo). Released at The Gathering 96, but has no placing in the competition... E- (Electrons At Work) (1998, 12.04, ECS/AGA 1MB Trackmo). code: Bifat, gfx: Bifat, Cybin, music: Banana. 10th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition. review: This production starts with a cool idea: a great animation of the demo's title, made by Cybin. Besides is running (again, as in all TEK demos) the cool but strange music composed by Banana featuring some very nice atmospheric parts. Then you can see the presentation of the group's name in an asia-styled logo followed by an ugly 2x2 or even 2x4 interlaced zoom of an rotating cube. Afterwards a little tunnel which looks lame at the start but is pretty nice at all, on what a smooth brown/lilaccolored voxel-landscape is to be seen. At the end you are able to read, as always in TEK demos, a cool long scroller with a nice one-colored font. All in all some nice gfx and texts between the too few parts. Also too
short, especially for a whole trackmo! Why so senseless old-skool in 1998??? Not to be compared with "Rampage". [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Elefant Klubben --------------UltraBra Demo (1993, 05.08, Demo). 9th place in European Computer Conference 93 demo competition. Element (EMT) ------------NOR> Arcane (01/96), Chriz (swap trade, doublememb Apathy 06/96, early98), Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', triplememb Honey and FLD [no entry], 01/96), Ten! (swap, doublememb Encore [details], late96). ???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Encore, 01/96). Elevation (-1993) ----------------ENG> Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC' EHQ). GER> Charlie (sysop 'APOCALYPSE NOW', 04/95), RCF (sysop 'TRADERS HEAVEN', ex D-Tect), Synchronizer (ex Submission), Ziptronix (sysop 'SPEED WHEEL', ex Submission). ???> Creator (ex Decade, rejoined), Dr.Dre (ex Dytec), Gettler, Grind King, Icecube (ex Dytec). Boards; FLASHTRADE (swe). Elevation was an illegal crew that was (I believe) relatively shortlived. After failing to release anything for a while, the whole group decided to call it quits. They released an intro to announce the fact in late 93. 1993 - Swedish Striker joined Submission early 93. The Swedish division of Legend joined. American sysop Rotor ('GATES OF ASGARD' WHQ) joined Razor 1911 old. Elevation Died! (1993, late, ECS Intro). code: Pink/Arise, gfx: Falcon/Arise, music: "Intro Number 91" by WOTW/ Essence. review: This intro is nothing special, just an acceptable logo, a glenz vector and a text plotter. It was not made to impress, just to tell the world the news that Elevation died. The release date is based on the module, which is dated 8/93. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Elexion
------Elexion is now Hoaxers! Elicma -----GER> DAW (re-scene late92), Nightmare (Manfred Fischer, music swap, doublememb Anarchy [pc], 11/91-12/94). ???> Warrior (gfx, new late92). Most old Elicma members left to form Trash mid 91. Nightmare did NOT leave in mid 91, as stated in some mags. Stone joined Acume. Eltech [old] -----------NOR> Cosher (code), Hellrazor (raytrace), Pink Panther (sysop), Preacher (code gfx), Splash (/Xcode sysop). ENG> Blind Man (sysop), C-Rad (music), D-Code (gfx swap, new late95), Dr.Octave (music), Inferno (music ascii), Loopy (sysop), Loz (code gfx), Mic Flair (org trade), Orion (code), Quakers (code sysop), Realitor (code swap, late95), Screech (music), Sire (sysop 'MAN EATS DOG', new 04/96), Spangly (code music, ex Neo, new 04/96), Violator (trade). AUS> Muse (music sysop). ???> Aquafresh (music, ex Mellow, new late95). The originally British group Eltech died, and some Norwegians later restarted the group. Among others Dr.Death (01/97), Maze and Skinner from the original group are also in the reborn variety. Outcast is now an Eltech production (04/96). British coder 2Cool left. British musician Assassin left. Finnish swapper Splatterhead joined Scoopex. English swapper Lithium (pack 'Lunch Pak', 01/97) and graphician and swapper Wade (late95) joined Gods late 96. English swapper Devistator (ex Neo, new 04/96) joined Abyss. Hurricane left the scene 04/96. Kurgan, Mr.Anonym, Sheela and Tipper got kicked late 95. Eltech [new] (ELT, 1997-) ------------------------NOR> Dr.Death (Yngve Dalland, music swap, early98), Maze (Stian Gudbrandsen, music swap, doublememb Massive, early98), MCS (Kjell Espen Johansen, swap, old handle Skinner, early98). Boards; CAFE CHATTERBOX (whq, late97).
The old, originally British group Eltech, was reborn by Norwegians members late 97 or early 98. They made a cracktro for Fairlight. Elven 11 (E11) -------------ITA> Darkman (code, ex Ram Jam, 06/98), Manta (code gfx, ex Vajrayna, old handle Aga, 12/96-06/98), Mat (gfx, ex Vajrayana, new mid 97-06/98), Rio (code gfx sysop 'DISASTER AREA', ex Vajrayna, 03/97-06/98). ???> Calca (music, 06/98). Elven 11 is an Italian demo group. As far as we can see, the group showed its first signs of life with the 4k intro "Another Rainy Day" [12/96] by Dip and Aga at The Party 96. 1997 - Sometime between the release of "Another Rainy Day" late last year and Mekka Symposium this year, Aga changed his handle to Manta. So, at Mekka Symposium the group released their first demo, "Smart" [03/97], and came in at an ok 5th place. Italian musician Parsec (ex Biosynthetic Design, 03/97) left E11, and possibly the scene. Coder and graphician Slat (ex Vajrayna, 03/97) left the scene. Italian coder Dip (ex Vajrayna, 12/96-03/97) left the scene. Kermit (old handle Guru Trasher) left. Another Rainy Day (1996, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro). code: Dip, Aga, gfx: none, music: none. 6th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: "ARD" is a really good 4k'er, actually! It opens with a bumpmapped Elven logo, and continues with what looks like an inverted voxel - with creaters rather than hills. This is followed by some blooming, mathematically created shapes in beautiful colors, before another bump example with a moveable lightsource. The show is rounded off with a real showstopper; a real good voxel routine. The entire 4k intro is set to a 'soundtrack' that sounds a lot like a heartbeat. E11 certainly managed to cram a lot into this small space, and here's one reviewer who's certainly looking forward to the next one! =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Smart (1997, 30.03, AGA 4MB HD Multifile). code: Manta, Slat, Dip (additional), gfx: Mat/Vrn, Rio, Manta (additional), Slat (additional), Vision-X/Degeneration (additional), music: Parsec. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: "Smart" is short but sweet, with good effects and excellent
design. It opens with an atmospheric intro sequence, with a 'motion blurred starfield', over which the credits are overlayed. The combination of this and the stringbased music at this point makes it remind me of the intro sequence for Andromeda's mindblasting "Nexus 7" [12/94]! It continues with a travel down a bumpmapped triangle tunnel, some very colorful truecolor 'motionblurring crossfade' and 1x1 18bit truecolor bumpmapping! The strengths of "Smart" lies in two things; its superior design and its effort to push the limits of resolution and color. Ofcourse, Parsec's commercial quality techno soundtrack is no drawback either! However, its length is also a small drawback...a demo that doesn't last more than a little while is not a party winner. If this is anything to go by, then I expect E11 to produce a truly great piece of demo entertainment sometime soon! Multifile is a little misleading, as it's just a small executable and a large data file. Though it will work on all 020+ AGA machines, it requires at least 030-25 to maintain effect synchronisation. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. cooperation intro (1998, 03.01, AGA Intro). Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Nah Kolor [details]. Elysion (1993-) --------------FIN> Blacksmith (trade, 03/93), Destiny (swap), Dr.Gassu (code trade, ex Amaze, 03/93), Galaxy (gfx music, 93), Zecco. SWE> Agressor (new early93), Claustrophobia (new early93), Dyson (new early93), Jedi Knight (new early93), Pluto (code, new early93), Spirit (new early93), Urban Hype (new early93) ???> Fenrir (gfx, 93), Nine (code, new early93), Rodder (gfx, 93), Shrike (gfx, 93), Sure (code, 93), Tim (code gfx, 93), Zardax (music, 93). Boards; ANGEL ICE (swe), BOXEN (ger). Elysion was formed by German and Finnish ex-members of Dominators. The Swedish division was formed by Urban Hype, Spirit, Pluto, Jedi Knight, Dyson, Claustrophobia and Agressor. Some of those finnish members were certainly earlier in Amaze... Zorc was kicked out due to lazyness. German swapper and trader Star left for Absolute 93. Germans 3DK and Convey (Robert Olejnik, swap, new SLH11) left the scene. BBS-Tro (1993, .01/.02, ECS Disk). code: Tim, Sure, gfx: Shrike, Fenrir, Rodder, Tim, Galaxy, music: Galaxy, Zardax. Embassy (EMB)
------------FIN> Bass-Cadet (gfx music, 08/97-98), Humanoid (code, 12/95-98), Sly (code, 12/95-98), Temen (gfx, 08/97-98). Boards; THE GARDEN WHQ (fin, 98). Embassy is a finnish demo group. Their old homepage, located at http://www.helsinki.fi/~apjhamal/emb/, appears to have gone from the web. Thrilled (1995, 12.08, Demo). 10th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. Corona (1995, 28.12, Demo). code: Humanoid, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 6th in The Party 95 demo competition. Casting (1997, 10.08, Demo). code: Sly, Humanoid, gfx: Bass-Cadet, Temen, music: Bass-Cadet. 3rd in the Assembly 97 demo competition. Back In Town (1998, AGA 4MB 030 Multifile Demo). code: Sly, gfx: Sly, Bass-Cadet, music: Bass-Cadet. review: Annoyingly, this is one of those demos with an every-otherpixel c2p routine... No matter what anyone says, it will never look as good as solid objects. Having said that, this is not an ALL bad demo, though there is little in the way of groundbreaking effects (they do the standard phong/bump-stuff), there is a certain level of competence evident. With some better pacing, more handpixeled graphics, and a better slightly better sense of what makes a demo work, these guys could go places. The music is of very variable quality. Bass-Cadet's graphics are mostly of the raytraced variety. OK then, but a little way to go yet. I was unsuccessful at trying to run this from RAM, but once I ran from HD with no startup-sequence, it worked wonderfully. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Embora -----Tomar (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). 11th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Fecha (1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB File). 6th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. review: Sadly, "Fecha" is a demo that's more occupied with showing us endless reruns of the same rendered spaceships/grabbed rollercoaster ride than treating us to anything innovative or interesting. I'm sorry, Embora, but this didn't manage to hold my attention for very long. The good news is: The only way is up! OK, this is not BADLY done, it's
just that I feel it doesn't have much of interest for me as a casual viewer. If it had shown all its animations just ONCE, and ran about 30 seconds, it would have gotten a much better rating! This requires some fastmem, though the exact amount is uncertain. Judging by the fact that I had to reboot to run it, should give you some idea... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. E.M.I ----Swedish graphician Rodney joined Absolute! Empire (1990-) -------------???> Batman (swap), Cobra (mainorg1 code sysop), Cross (code), Dave (code crack), Hyperion (mainorg2 code), Jas (code, later Phenomena?), Led (gfx), Mantronix (swe? music), Wergal (phreak), Nibbler (code), Punisher (swap), Pez (gfx), Remo (code), Rip (phreak), Ripper (swap sysop), UFO (sysop). When Software of Sweden (SOS) died, five of its members formed Empire. They were based in Sweden, and were mainly an illegal crew. Parts of Empire joined Supreme. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE') joined Red Sector Inc in early 1990. EMS Design ---------NOR> Stan (early98), Trump (Rolf G. Lunder, org music, old handle Frenger, doublememb Apathy 12/96). ???> Adolf (music, late96), Conroy (music, late96), Robotronik (code swap, late96), Stan (org code gfx, old handle Joker, late96-97), Wiseguy (sysop 'OUTER SPACE', new early98). EMS Design is a Norwegian demo group. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Joker changed his handle to Stan, that Vanilla joined, and that norwegian Hellrazor (code, late96) left for Instinct. Subgud (code gfx swap, doublememb Halfmoon Productions, new late96) left for Light late 97. Punisher left for Instinct. 1998 - 4Play was kicked due to inactivity early98. Odorless (Demo). EMT Design ----------
FIN> Zuuni (Jouni Matero, code, 09/93-08/94), KMC (gfx, 09/93-08/94). Heliopolis (1993, 01.09, ECS Trackmo). code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: Dizzy/RCR. info: This refuses to run on my current machine even if I turn off the caches and set chipset to original...so you'll have to be patient for a review until someone decides to give me an A500 or an A2000... :D It's double irritating since earlier notes tell me it ran on the A2000 I once borrowed! Grrr... [glenn] GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Hard Day (1994, 07.08, AGA File). code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: "Bicykl0pedia" by Heatbeat/CNCD (Tracker Packer 3 format). 12th in the Assembly 94 demo competition. review: How this managed to finish DEAD LAST at the Assembly is a total mystery, since this is one great piece of demo art! There's competence on every level here, from the fabulous code to the excellent visuals to the weird and wonderful tune by Heatbeat. And that's not all: It's ORIGINAL too! Yes, there's a few effects here I haven't seen anywhere else, like Silicon Fractals (the programmer's invention). Coolness! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Encore [old] -----------Digital Surgery (1992, 15.04, ECS File). code: Daniel Senn, gfx: Erlend Klouman, music: Brainbug/Alcatraz. 4th in The Gathering 92 demo competition. Encore [new] (ECR) -----------------NOR> Ludde (Ludvig Pedersen, code, 01/96), Ten! (Tor E. Nygaard, swap, doublememb Element, late96). ???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Element, 01/96). Ludde has coded a c2p routine that is used by several other coders for their demos...it can a.o. be seen in Capsule's "Assault" [96] demo. I find it highly unlikely that THIS Encore is the same as the one above. Encore -----POL> Caro (gfx 3d, 04/01), MDW (code, 04/01). Seeing as this is a Polish group, I find it highly unprobable that they have anything to do with any of the two groups above. Serial Interference (2001, 15.04, Demo). code: MDW, gfx: Caro, music: Substance/MAWI (Multichannel DSP).
11th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. info: Requirements according to the the info-file is: Amiga, PowerPC, 3D acc with min 8mb of gfx mem, some ram, WarpOS, CyberGraphX, Warp3D, StormMESA (OpenGL), AHI. Endless Piracy (EP, 1990-). --------------------------GER> Cyfreak (ex Anarchy, new 09/91), Magic Drummer (sysop 'CRACK HOUSE', later Skid Row, 09/91), Merlin (sysop 'WAVESPEED', 91), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER', 91), Skyfox (ex Desire). SWE> Xor. USA> Whiz (sysop 'PSYCHO TERMINAL' WHQ). ???> Anarchist (ex Endless Piracy), Angeldawn (gfx), Dual, Fix, Marc (crack), Radical (ex Palace), Salvatore, Skillion, Skywalker. Boards; DIGITAL AMNESIA WHQ (usa), BOARD ROYAL EHQ (ger), ACID JUNGLE (ita). Endless Piracy was born in 1990, and was based in Berlin, Germany. They are now dead. 1991 - German sysop Sniffy ('SPIRITUAL HEALING') joined Energy mid 91. Atomix (sysop) joined Syndicate. The board '007 BBS' is now an Addonic board. Germans Brainstorm and Warlord joined Alpha Flight. German sysop Depode ('SPACE CENTER') joined Skid Row. Germans Mike (sysop 'STATE OF MIND' still?) and Koto (both ex Anarchy, new 09/91) joined The Special Brothers. Cascay (doublemember of Pulse) joined Avantagarde. Sectorcharger, sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM', joined 2000 AD. Deathbone joined Creed. Intro (ECS Intro). code: Deathbone, gfx: Angeldawn (aka AD), music: n/a (Future Composer 1.4 format). review: Another old intro, only set apart by the graphics by Angeldawn. Truly a pixel master, AD, I've been a fan of his work ever since I saw my first World Charts. So it's a sine-scroller over a text writer. Nothing new. I've heard the music before, so it's probable that it's just ripped and used here because they didn't have a musician. No release date appears anywhere in the intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. EP Are Dead (1991?, ECS Intro). code: Deathbone, gfx: AD, music: n/a. End of Century 1999 (EOC1999) -----------------------------
ENG> Akira, Blade, Dav, Devistator (swap, 06/91-92), Fleg, Hollywood (music), Leaburn, Leopard, Lez, Real, Rico, Speed, Stryx, Subculture. GER> Beatmaster (ex Red Sector Inc), Lord. NOR> Bacon, Jackass, Rektum Rider. SWE> Avenger (ex Mystic, old handle Captain Blood), Landreth (Kim), Noname, Valiant (ex Mystix, old handle Cruizer). FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops 'HANG LOOSE'). ???> Brutus, Chaos (new 08/92), Moschops (new 08/92), Muesli (swap, new mid91), Optik (new 08/92), Powerfreak (ex Zone 7 [no entry]), Toxic (re-scene SLH11). Their swapper Muesli is supposedly female. Once-spread rumours about the death of their English division were untrue. 1991 - Shadowman joined Argon mid 91. Messias and Jayce joined Hypnotic mid 91. The german Agressor was kicked mid 91 and also joined Hypnotic. 1992 - Bob left late92. Englishman Pazuzu (new 08/92) was kicked. Zycro (ex Hypnotic) was kicked. German Damion (ex Exort) joined Addonic. Snowy, Mr.T and Boris were never members. Paranoiak and Mercure (fra mainorg) both joined Eremation. Englishman Cyborg changed his handle to Ikari and joined LSD. Mixolydian (1991, ECS Musicdisk). info: 10 average tunes. 7th Sence (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo). code: Stormbringer, gfx: Android, PetsBand, Ramdam, Quaid, music: Mixolydian. Released at the Iris New Year Conference. Endzeit (EZT, 1998-) -------------------GER> Damion (Jens-Oliver Klokkers, founder writer, 06/98), Noogman (Torsten Asholt, gfx, 06/98), RokDaZone (Henning Brau, founder org editor, 06/98), Virgill (music, 06/98). ITA> The Ripper (Ivan Curzolo, writer, new 06/98). NOR> Zack (gfx, doublememb Spaceballs, 06/98). SWE> Blaze (code, ex Session, new 06/98), E-Moon (Daniel Collin, code, ex Session, new 06/98), Prospect (Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Subspace, new 06/98), Psycho (Daniel Eriksson, music, ex Session, new 06/98). POL> Blaze (Patryk Kalinowski, swap, ex Nah Kolor and Floppy, new 06/98), XCeed (Wojciech Panufnik, music, doublememb Floppy, 06/98). ???> Maq (code, 06/98), Pix (gfx, 06/98), Zig (code, 06/98). Endzeit is a German-based demo group built on the ashes of what used to be
Germany's #1 group, Artwork. It was formed by Damion, RokDaZone and Noogman shortly after the death of Artwork in april of 1998. Also italian writer The Ripper joined up to continue his work for the diskmag "Generation". They soon also built a strong Swedish section, recruiting members from Subspace and Session. They also did the masterpiece of recruiting TWO members called Blaze, both the Polish swapper and the Swedish coder! 1998 - Swedes Blaze (code), E-Moon (code) and Psycho (music) joined from Session in june. Generation #26 (1998, mid, AGA HD Diskmag). code: Detector/ex Artwork, Eksec/Infect (additional), gfx: Zack (title1), Orome/Talent (title2), Cougar (main), music: "Longing" by X-Ceed/ Endzeit^Appendix, "?" by Laxical/Scoopex (both Tracker Packer 3 format), editors: RokDaZone, Damion. review: Endzeit's first issue of Generation does not differ significantly from the last ones released under the Artwork label. Little has changed; the code is the same, the graphics are the same... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Generation #27 (AGA HD Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a. Generation #28 (AGA HD Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a. Enemy ----Serbian coder Haralampie left to join Universal Soldiers (ROM3). Energy (NRG) -----------GER> Buster and Fuzz (sysops 'ATTACK OF THE KILLER B'S'), NCD (sysop 'SIGN 'O'TIMES', 91), Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING' EHQ, ex Endless Piracy, new mid91), Stagediver (sysop 'WORLD IN A WORLD'). AUT> Doom, Malcom, Stranger (06/90), Zinkfloid (ex Grace, later TRSI). BEL> Anthrax, Genius, Minister, Rainman (92). FIN> Blast (swap trade, 02/94-late95), Blogath (music, 08/95), Branca (swap, 93), Comrade (org swap, old handle Docile Drawer, 93-02/94), Dr.Degree (sysop 'RED ALERT'), MBD (code gfx swap, 02/94), Mr.Bigdick (swap), Muffler (music, later Nah Kolor). SWE> Black Wizard (ex Them), Chip (sysop 'NINTH HELL', ex Them), Fireball (ex Them), Highbyte (ex Them), Maniac (ex Them), Maz (ex Them),
Noteman (music, ex Them), Techno (ex Them), Wave (ex Them). NOR> Punisher (ex Cycron). ???> Anc (supply), Bhn (crack train), Brainwasher (supply), Catfish (crack train), Dr.Grell (whq-illegal, re-TRSI), Dream Warrior (ex Damian), Lee (crack train), Lord (supply), MCM (crack), Mike (supply), Nomad (supply), Parallax (supply), Stripe (ex Unicorn, new mid91), Toccadero or Troccadero (crack train), Trazer (ex Orient), Ufo (ex Orient), Zippy or Zippo (crack train), Zyx (trade), 24X (trade, ex Noxious). Boards; HANGAR 18 WHQ (usa, 02/94), DIGITAL CITY (02/94), GLOBAL CHAOS (ger). Energy was originally based in Austria. When the group Prime died, Storm and most other members joined Energy (EuroChart #11). When Growl joined from Orient, his cheatdisks went along with him, and will from now on be released under the Energy label... Then Growl suddenly left, and I don't know what happened to the disks! Internal problems split the group into two parts; legal and illegal. All graphicians stayed with the illegal part, and all the best members of the legal section will probably join other groups or rebuild Quartex. When Dr.Grell joined from TRSI (mid 94) he rebuilt the illegal part of Energy, and became the world modem organizer for the group. "Analtro" [02/94] announced MBD's plans to open 'THE FUNNY FARM' BBS, but there's no information if there was ever any opening. Zoro (trade) has never been a member, even though he has claimed to be. At one time, now famous Austrian coder Antibyte was a member; he is now the leader of Scoopex. 1990 - Stranger coarranged the Energy Chaos Party in Austria in june with members of Chaos (c64). 1991 - Commander X got kicked mid 91. Austrian Perseus left to join a PD group mid 91. Blackstar, sysop 'DARK CENTURY', joined The Silents mid 91. Optimize, sysop of 'UNITY FIELDS' left mid 91, and joined Legend. Belgian sysops of 'METAL IMPACT', Mad Shitbrain (aka Maddy, new mid 91) and TCB (ex Destiny), both left to join Agile. Junkfood changed his name to Candyman and joined Scoopex mid 91. Another source claimed he joined Legend, but this seems to be untrue - or at least something that happened later. Austrian cracker Stranger left the scene for a while to work on a game, late in the year. 1992 - Austrian trainer G-Tronic, who joined mid 91, left for Scoopex. 1995 - Polish swapper Action joined Mad Elks late 95.
Storm (ex Prime, new late91) and Slider joined Awesome. Shocker joined Pirates. Homeboy joined Punishers. Mr.Foley joined Bastards. Austrian Coon-O joined Manitou. Autrian Status Quo left to join Excite. Major-Midi (ex Jetset) joined Paradise. Tesla, sysop of 'ROAD HOUSE' left to be independent. Beltram, Badamon and Mithrandir (all ex Enigma) moved on to Agile. The boards 'DARK MIRROR' (usa, mid91), 'PROJECT D', 'PANIC ZONE' and 'NO CARRIER' were all kicked. Wild Rage got kicked, and left the scene. Therefore there will never be any more issues of the diskmag he was editor of, "Scene Lyrics". A lot members left for TRSI, OHM and Quartex. Some members from the illegal section rebuilt Quartex in Austria. Danish swapper Growl (ex Orient) joined Fanatic. Musician Snoopy (ex Union, 12/93-02/94) joined TRSI. Greili (code), Antitrack and austrian Jason (aut sysop 'RAP CENTER' later 'HIGH ENERGY' closed) were all kicked. Swedes The Joker, Excel, Atheist, MRK, Nivek and Pete (all ex Limited Edition) joined Vision). Sound Splash IV (ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Backlash (13 tunes!). Analtro (1994, 21.02, ECS Intro). code/gfx: MBD, music: "Time Bomb" by Snoopy/Union 08/93. review: It's been a long time since I've seen such an appropriate name for a logo'n'texplotter intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Enigma -----SWE> Scythe (sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION', ex Dazzle). NOR> Bjarre, Karl, Keb. GER> Skyfox (sysop 'SKYFOX', 91). ???> Chrome (swe? ex Dazzle), Penthagon (ex Legend), Wizard (swe? ex Dazzle). Boards; SPECTRUM (WHQ ger). Mike (sysop) left. Hawk and MPS joined Utopia. Beltram, Mithrandir and Badamon joined Energy. Deelite (ex Triad) joined Strange after six months. He didn't last long there, though, and rejoined Enigma before moving on to X-Trade. Eon --NOR> Amateur, B.I.T (music, later Majic 12), Cobra (gfx, 04/93), Fallos
(Sven Deuschmann, swap), New Michelangelo, Pennywise (Rune Johansen, swap), Positron, Viper, Zacco, Zurbitz. Eon were a Norwegian demo group that wasn't noticed much outside their native country. 1993 - Cobra came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Gathering in april with his picture "Pencil Dragon"! Intro (1991, 30.05, ECS Intro). Ephidrena (EPH) --------------NOR> Cheetah (Sondre Kippnes, gfx, 11/96-04/01), Cyberstarr (John Kenneth Grytten, code, 11/96), Frequent (Åsmund T. Johansen, music swap, 11/96-04/01), Loaderror (Espen Åmodt, code gfx, 11/96-04/91), Zixaq (04/01). ???> Wad (gfx). Ephidrena is a Norwegian demo group. 2001 - The group release their new demo "Adam Malysz" at Mekka Symposium 2001 in april, where also Frequent contributes a tune to Contraz' 64k intro "1 Week". Mnemonic (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB Multifile). code: Cyberstarr, Loaderror, gfx: Loaderror, Cheetah, music: "Senseless" by Frequent (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in the Kindergarden 6 demo competition. review: By no means exceptional, "Mnemonic" does show some promise for the future of this young Norwegian group. Slow effects mean that the coders need to do some work on their routines, but after all I guess this is true for most coders :). Also the design of the demo leaves a little to be desired, but it will come with time and experience. The best effect here - for its originality alone - is a shadebob-like caleidoscope effect which is truly psychedelic. Frequent's music is nothing exceptional. It's been two minutes since I exited the demo, and I can't even remember the melody :( Bad news for any composer. The exit routine crashed in the competition since it was crunched with StoneCracker. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Recycled (1996, 05.04, Demo). 8th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Kugalskap (1996, 05.04, Demo). 9th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Concrete (1999, 28.12, Demo). code: Loaderror, gfx: Zixaq, music: Frequent.
Winner of The Party 99 demo competition! J (2000, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile Demo). code: Loaderror, gfx: Cheetah, music: Zixaq (main), Frequent (intro). 2nd in The Party 2000 demo competition. review: "J" opens darkly and atmospherically, without really coming to life anyway in the opening titles... The design seems good, and there's a little mood coming over you, but then it closes down and starts to load and decrunch again before you can really settle in, and it all takes a little too long, so much of the initial mood is lost. Ephidrena could have benefitted greatly from creating their own loader, and thereby loading party-by-part, making the demo come together more fluently. But we wait and then, SUDDENLY, sparks of light, a kicking techno tune and a tunnel with light particles inside... wow! The demo continues with just superior design, and the is actually quite good, especially during that slow break during the 'dark skies over the desert' part. Ephidrena seem to use a lot of digitized or retouched graphics, but as long as it's done to good effect and for the sake of design - such as in this demo I do not have many complaints about this approach. The effect that looks almost like smoke or fog being puffed around, which appears under their credits, is just amazing. Then the demo shows one last spark of life with a 'bird' it seems animated by LOTS of vectorlines, before we seemingly travel backwards outside the demo world, through the tunnel we entered and finally with a glimpse of the structure from the intro in the distance... There is no question that "J" is a good demo, but there are a few things that make it less than a GREAT demo. For one, a question needs asking: Why does this demo JERK on my machine, as if sometimes the processor can't quite keep up, while at other times it can? On other demos, effects either move fast or they move slow - never a little of this, a little of that... Explanations, Ephidrena? Hmmm... But the biggest drawback of all is the lack of FLOW created by the long pause between the two parts. This is still a significant production in an otherwise stagnant amiga demo market, but with just a little more polish (like making a proper loader), this could have been just a little better... A nice plus for the music, which is above average for amiga demo-techno =) Personally, I'm more of a rock'n'roll guy, me, but I recognise good work when I hear it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Adam Malysz (2000, .04, AGA HD Multifile Demo).
producers: Loaderror, Cheetah, Zixaq, Frequent. 4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: "Adam Malysz" is a very bleak, dark and industrial demo. It's more about its ambience and atmosphere than about its effects, we feel. At times it seems a little split in perspective though, with one part being the dark, dirty cyberpunky style and the next still dark and dirty, but with more of an...eastern bloc feel to it, if anyone understands that. From neo-tech to old and sad. A lot of effort has obviously gone into the design of the backdrops in other graphics in this demo, much more than has gone into the coding and music. It feels like the coder's reusing the same routines several times here, with minor variations. Most effects are in shades of grey too, which doesn't help much. The music is not good either, I can get a feel for what they were going for, but not quite get there. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel this demo is not all it could be. It just didn't get me excited. Well, at least it worked on my old workhorse, which is more than I can say for Floppy's demo at this party =] The demo requires setpatch before it will run. No exact credits appear anywhere in the demo or in the archive. Naturally this requires some fast, but how much is anyone's guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1. Epic ---GER> Dot (old handle Wave), Judas (Christian Alfs, music, ex Fate, old handle Satan), Wotan (Christian K, ex Exort, old handle Conan). 1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig (old handle AWOL) left for Cyrus around june. Epidemic -------NOR> Pitcher (sysop 'ASYLIUM', 03/92), Terje Hagen (sysop 'TRASHCAN', 02/95-05/97). Epsilon (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~idr) -----------------------------------???> Dancing Fool (code, 92-08/93), Haze (code, 08/93), Link (gfx, 92), Mad Max (music, 92), Vision (code gfx music, 08/93). No Prayer for the Dying (1992, ECS File).
code: Dancing Fool, gfx: Link, music: Mad Max. Some Assembly Required (1993, 10.08, ECS Intro). code: Haze, The Dancing Fool, Vision, gfx/music: Vision. 11th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Epsilon Design (e^D) -------------------NOR> Terminal Silence (doublememb Vision, new 04/96). ???> Cenobite (ascii), Chrombacher (ascii), Cybergod (ascii), Desoto (org, old handle Splat), Fatal (ascii sysop), Frame (ascii), Gozz (ascii), Harpoon (ascii), Java (ascii), Juan (mainorg sysop), Rasta (ascii), Sandman (org sysop), Stash (ascii), Tommy (ascii). Boards; SANCTUARY WHQ, ASYLUM SHQ, ANOTHER STEP, DOMESTIC SUBWAY, MONASTERY OF BLUR, RAVELAND, ZILLION HOURS. Epsilon Design is foremost an ascii artist group, and all members (AFAIK) are ascii artists. 1996 - Crusader (doublememb Giants, new 04/96) left to join Mo'Soul 06/96. Twister joined with 'FLASHBACK' late 95, but news dated 04/96 claims it's offline forever. I have removed Twister from memblist too. Equalizers ---------???> Sharp (code gfx, 04/93). 40k Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sharp, gfx: Sharp, Sarek/NAX, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs. 10th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition. Equinox (EQX) ------------SWE> Budweiser (gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93), Case (gfx, ex Emotion [no entry], 03/93), Chip (code, 03/93), Cybertron (sysop 'AUSGEBOMBT', triplememb Alpha Flight and Orient, 11/94), Deetroy (Jocke Eliason, music, 03/93), D-Luxe (Joakim Falk, gfx music, 03/93-01/95), Insane (swap, ex Relax, new mid 91-03/93), Jonez (gfx, 07/92-94), Loxley (Johan Svensson, music, 94-07/95), Macroman (trade sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', later Therapy and Infect, 03/93), Marwin (sysop 'DISORDER', 01/95), Mazon (music, ex Addonic, 12/92-03/93), Puke (trade, 03/93), Rapid Angel (sysop 'RAPID HOUSE'), Rille (sysop 'IMAGINE', 01/95), Rioter (whq code sysop 'MEDIA CENTRE' earlier 'TOTAL OVERDOSE', 07/92-07/95), Sleepwalker (gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93), Snoopy (sysop 'EAGLES NEST', 01/95), Steam (Joakim
Ulfeldt, music, 03/93), Terminator (sysop 'TECHNO CITY', new early9303/93), Thug (music, 07/92-03/93), Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', 03/93), Zendor (trade, ex Zeus, new mid91-03/93), Zool (sysop 'ZOOMED REALITY' EHQ, new early93-03/93). FIN> Fuzzray (org trade swap, 03/93), Simpson (Jonne Hellgren, swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92-03/93), Supra (gfx, 03/93). NOR> Black Angel (sysop 'WONDERLAND', 03/93), Chipdancer (swap, 03/93), Cyntex (music, 03/93), Elfin (93), Fake (swap, ex Demons Design, new early93-03/93), Fizban (code gfx, 03/93), Icebyte (gfx, 05/93-94), Mandrake (music, 03/93), Mirandir, Mr.Nico (gfx sysop 'ATLANTICA', 03/93), Nethead (gfx, 93), Of Course (gfx, 03/93), Ray (org code, 03/93), Spector (code music, 03/93), Tee Djay (code, 03/93), Vip (Lasse, code, 03/93). SWI> Ipsos (late91), Silence (code, ex Chronos, new late91). GER> Tripex (ex Coma). FRA> Monty, Pats. CAN> Diskomate (sysop 'NO LIMITS', 03/93), Suicidal Angel (trade, 03/93). ???> Cee Dee (swe? music, 07/92), Chrome (gfx, 94), Duke (12/91), Lord Wimsey (swe? gfx, 03/93), Stix (ex Chaos, new late91), Tripwire (gfx, 93), Tweeter (ex Relax, new mid91). Boards; PSYCHOTIC ASYLUM (swe, 03/93), A DIFFRENT WORLD (swi). Equinox was a swedish based demo group, under the leadership of coder and later sysop Rioter. Rioter, the original coder and editor of the "European Top 20" also coded the "Tequila Chart" for Complex and The Doodles^Shock; see Complex' entry for reviews. Please note that I am not 100% certain that the board Rioter sysop's is 'TOTAL OVERDOSE', it's just my conclusion based on elimination. 1991 - Dragnet sold his Amiga and bought a synth in september. The French section was kicked out late in the year. Coder Wilderness left the Amiga scene late in the year. Master Freez joined The Special Brothers late 91. French sysop Captain Kirq had a visit from the Police, and therefore found it safest to close his board and leave the scene late 91. Enigma, Imperator, Maverick, Skyhawk, Starwars, Stormbringer, The Ace, The Invisible and Zorlac were all kicked late 91. Finnish musician Stargazer joined from The Special Brothers in september, but was back in TSB within 2 months (confirmed in november). Finnish sysop Dope ('MOTOWN') left between october and november. 1992 - The Finnish section left to form a new group called Stellar early in the year. Sauron's pictre "Beauty and the Beast" won the graphics
competition at The Gathering 92 in april! 1993 - "European Top 20 #4" [01/93] was released in january. Swedish Phrasher (ex Dictators, new 08/92) left the scene, while 6pack and Lecter (traders) joined Fairlight early in the year. Two important releases came in march; the musicdisk "Sonical Fantasia" [03/93] and "European Top 20 #5" [03/93]. Danish musician Reggae left mid 93. 1994 - Swedish musician D-Luxe released the CD 'Physiology' together with Lizardking/Razor 1911 in 1994. Finnish musician Mog (old handles Metronome and McGee, 03/93) joined Delicious. Disk joined Silver Productions. Danes Roscoe and Subra joined Razor 1911. Swedish sysop Silencer ('REPULSE', 03/93) joined TRSI. Swedes Valiant (code), Avenger (music), Fatal, Magnum (gfx, new early93) and Wizard joined Defiance. Swedes Jackpot (swap), Electro (code swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92) and Breeze (music, ex Megaman/Dictators, new 08/92-03/93) all joined Desire. Norwegian swapper Messiah (ex Destiny) joined Banana Dezign. Finnish swapper and trader Darky (03/93) joined Parallax. Graphician Disc joined Rebels new. Swedish sysop V-Cut ('TRADERS ISLAND', then 'ZOOMED REALITY', ex Majic 12) joined Addonic. The board later returned from Addonic, with a new sysop; Zool! Syndrome joined Sonic. Norwegian graphician Sauron moved from Norway to Denmark, and joined Static Bytes (RAW4) in order to be member of a group closer to where he was. English graphician Opus (03/93) joined The Silents. French musician Zorglub (09/91) joined Analog, probably as early as 1991 or 1992. So What (1991, ECS Demo). Hydrocephalus (pre 1992, .07, ECS File). European Top 20 issue #1 (1992, .07, ECS Filemag). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Jonez, music: Thug, Cee Dee. European Top 20 issue #2 (1992, .09, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. European Top 20 issue #3 (1992, .11, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. European Top 20 Special Issue #1 (1992, .12, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Information: Special The Party 2 report issue!
European Top 20 issue #4 (1993, .01, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Sonical Fantasia (1993, .03, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). code: Rioter, gfx: Opus and Tripwire (title), Opus (font), Lord Wimsey (loading logo), Jonez (additional), music: Breeze, D-Luxe, Thug, Steam. review: SF opens with a fullscreen title picture while loading, before we launch into the main menu to the first bars of the first tune presented here. This is very nicely oldskool-style designed. An Equinox logo by Jonez resides at the very top of the screen, in shades of blueish grey, looking anything but exciting. At the bottom of the screen, a bar with five clickable icons appear, and each icon can be clicked more than once for additional information. All the space between these two are occupied by a texplotter/music selector, presented in a one-plane blue color overlaid on a 3d starfield. It's simplistic, but - damn - it works =] The text that is choosable with the icons is not really very interesting, and the main thing to attract anyone to this release is probably the music, which in all honesty is pretty good. D-Luxe has three tunes in this collection, and his tunes reminds us heavily of something Phenomena members would make; polished synth-pop with nice melodies but perhaps lacking a little soul. Breeze also has three tunes here, and I like his a little more. They roughly follow the synth-pop tradition also, but the addition of a little more experimental bass and leads makes them more interesting to me. Thug has just a single tune in this collection, but his "Forever Lost" is to me the best tune of the bunch. Others might feel differently, I don't know =] Steam's tune is also synth-pop with a techno edge, with an upbeat theme, and instruments that sounds like they were stolen from Lizardking! =) The tunes included in the collection are "Infinite", "Calm" and "Universal Dreams II" by D-Luxe, "Forever Lost" by Thug, "Honey Nut Loop", "The Blue Dune" and "Walking Lonely" by Breeze, and finally "Losing The Baluns" by Steam. A secret part can be accessed by pressing the right mouse button while loading. This part - code Rioter, gfx Budweiser, music Breeze - is hardly a showstopper, with its slightly sexist imagery and squeaky chiptune, but at least contains a long scrolltext =p In it, Rioter announces he has landed a job coding games (with graphcs by Jonez) for Black Legend Software, if anyone can tell us what game he worked on there we'd appreciate it... It also says 'march 93', which is the closest to real release date we could find on this disk!
This review was made possibly with the use of Stingray/Darkage's fixed version, released on the 18th of august 2001. I was slightly disappointed by the lack of documentation for this release, but it works just wonderfully so why worry? Thank you again Stingray for another wonderful fix! =] [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. European Top 20 issue #5 (1993, .03, ECS Magchart). code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Supra, music: "Lucia_Rock!!" by Breeze. review: Graphically appealing, the swedish answer to the Eurochart is at first look a competent little mag. The first thing you'll think, however, is definitely that this looks a lot like the Eurochart... There's the obligatory charts, a gallery section and the mag part. The biggest difference, parhaps, is that this one is a little more geared towards the illegal part of the scene. The magpart is fair, and about par with the later releases of the EC. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Needs KillAGA! The Beast of Prey (1993, 30.05, Demo). 10th in the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition. In A Dream (1994, early, ECS File). code: Rioter, gfx: Icebyte, Chrome, Opus, Disc, Supra, D-Luxe, Jonez, music: Loxley. Closed Apart (1994, 03.04, Demo). 11th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. Technical Input (1994, 28.12, Wild). 7th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton. info: Presented on an A4000. Hydrocephalus II (1995, 14.04, Demo). 4th in The Gathering 95 demo competition. 10 Years of Fun (File). code/gfx: Vip'n'Ray, music: Cyntex. Released for the miniparty of the same name in Trondheim, Norway. review: Not even fast on my machine! I don't know why the routines in this production are so slow - I've seen some of these running at respectable speed on unexpaned A1200's! There's the usual mapping, shading, bumpmapping and the like, all set to a frantic underground techno tune. I won't even go into that, hehe :) The graphics, as such, limit themselves to a raytraced introduction logo. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eremation (ERM, http://www.barbat.de/nb/)
----------------------------------------FRA> Brainwasher (Pascal Weitten, org code gfx, 06/92-09/97), Ferdinand (music, 09/97), Photo$ (Nicolas Foltzenlogel, gfx, 08/92-09/97), Skull (Didier Sauger, swap trade, 09/97). GER> Dire (Nico Barbat, swap trade edit, 06/96-09/97). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: FRA> Axis (music, 05/94), Fireblade (code, 09/93-06/96), Lost (music), Mercure (ex End of Century 1999), Sigma 909 (sysop 'BOOMING SUPPORT'). GER> Eldorado (swap). NOR> Bright Brick (music, 08/92), Bullet Proof, Shade. FIN> Albin, Optic, Zon (org swap). SWE> Chimera (swap, ex Quartz). ???> Agatron (fra? gfx, 08/92), Iceman, Jeff (code gfx, 06-08/92), Parallax (music, 08/93), Paranoiak (fra?, ex End of Century 1999), Speedy (code, 06/92). Eremation is a French based demo group, without any real accomplishments to show for themselves. They continually keep a pretty high standard for their releases, but nothing ever seems to be extraordinary. AFAIK they've never won a single demo competition. 1991 - Invisible joined The Flashing Bytes mid 91. 1992 - Thor (sysop), Roland (sysop), Nutcase (music) and Visage (gfx) were all members of the finnish division for a while in early 92, before the last three left to join the newly formed finnish section of Deadline. Don't know what happened to Thor. =) Norwegian Massive left 08/92. German swapper Speedhawk joined TSB. Arbitrium, Arcatronic, Creon, Sensei and Picaroon joined Vogue. Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro). code: NewLook, gfx: Shade, music: Bright Brick. Beerfriend Meet (1992, .06, ECS Fileslideshow). code: Speedy, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Jeff, Brainwasher, music: n/a. Testing It (1992, .08, ECS File). code: Jeff, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Brainwasher, Photos, Agatron, music: Bright Brick. Braintro (1993, .01, ECS Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Cash/Mentasm, music: Sound Aestesis/NGC.
Nuts (1993, .04, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Gremlins/Hypnos, music: Xtd/Mystic. 14k Intro (1993, .06, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Chip Modules. Adtro (1993, .08, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Parallax. Outlaw issue #1 (1993, 04.09, Diskmag). code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, Brainwasher, music: n/a. Released at Saturne 93. Trashcan Compatible (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). 15th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Kin BBS Intro (1994, .02, Intro). 666 (1994, 22.04, Intro). code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: n/a. Released at the Saturne Party II 94. Outlaw issue #2 (1994, .05, Diskmag). code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, music: Axis, editors: Brainwasher, Fireblade. Rage! issue #1 (1996, .06, ECS Filemag). code/editor: Brainwasher, gfx: Geist/Gods (main), Photos (title), music: Ferdinand. review: Well, Eremation are certainly right when they announce that this is the first diskmag that's BORN DEAD. They announce that this is both the first and the last issue to be released! First impressions are quite good, with design that's subtly different, nice clipart and a colorful title picture. Now for some serious criticism: What the fuck's the point of making your mag multitask if it's gonna take ALL of your rastertime, probably using some infinite loop that keeps eating those cycles!? This is the height of idiocy. All the good things about a system friendly mag such as this - useless. For the record, RAGE! means Review All Great Events. Yeah, and use all the goddamn rastertime no matter what processor we're running on. RAGE!AUATGRNOMPWRO! [glenn] Erotic Design (ERC, -1997) -------------------------POL> Cook (doublememb Define, late96). FIN> Mice (Mikko Ahola, swap, late97). ???> Cadmus (gfx), Elmek (music swap), Ike (code gfx), Pila (ex Convex doublememb, new 06/96). 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Enter (code, 11/96) left for Scum, that FML joined Scum as a doublemember, that Yappi was
kicked and left the scene, that polish MTC/Illusion (music) joined and that polish Timer (triplememb Define and Squeezers) was kicked. Polish members Informer, Flapjack (music swap, ex Convex doublememb, new 06/96), Cooper (code, doublememb INF, 11/96), FML (music, 11/96), Carson and Rappid (gfx, ex Depth, new late96) all left for Appendix early in the year. The King (Pawl Witek, swap, ex Old Bulls, new 04/96), Misha (code) and MTC (ex Illusion) left the group and the scene. Amiflash left for Nah Kolor. According to EuroChart #31, the group died late 1997. Erotica (1996, 23.06, Demo). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition. The Black (1996, 10.11, 64k Intro). code: Enter, gfx: Cooper, music: FML (The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition. review: Erotic delivers an intro of acceptable quality, with some fine graphics by Cooper, but mediocre coding from Enter. It seems time has run off from Enter a little, seeing as the effects he presented here were most hot three years or more ago... Get this for Cooper's work, though it's top notch! The intro seems to leave the system back badly; after exiting the intro my machine guru'ed after a few seconds. The intro was the first thing I ran, after booting up, so there's no doubt who the culprit was. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Errors, The ----------1990 - Norwegian graphician Bustman joined Crusaders in june. Error Team ---------Sinds (1994, 13.11, Demo) 13th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. E.S.A. (1988-) -------------SWE> Norton (10/89). ESA was formed in the middle of june 1988. They are around 20 people in Sweden, Norway and the UK. Escape (-1990) --------------
Escape is dead. First, the main coder in Germany sold his amiga. Then, the German members joined Titanics at the CeBit (03/90) and some others joined Success and Prime Evil. The Swiss members joined Piranhas. The Norwegian members are reportedly doing something for their own... ESG-242 ------???> Madokan (code gfx), Power Rai (music), Rockeronic (music). Antro (ECS Intro). code: Madokan, gfx: Madokan, Cube/Arise, music: Power Rai. City at Night (ECS File). code/gfx: Madokan, music: Rockeronic. Eskimoes (ESK) -------------GER> Boomer (sysop 'THE IGLOO' earlier 'X-TEC', 03-11/93), Cyclon (gfx, 03-11/93), Major Bandit (11/93), Rosine (11/93). ???> Crush (code, 03/93), Demon (code, 03/93), Taroz (music, 03/93), Venom (ex Desert). Fademan left the scene. Greentro (1993, 12.03, ECS Intro). code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz. Computer Crossroads 93 Slideshow (1993, mid, ECS Slideshow). code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz. BBS-Tro (The Iglu) (1993, 22.03, ECS Intro). code: Demon, gfx: Cyclon, Taroz, music: Taroz. Essence (ESC, 1992-, http://www.s-sense.de/) -------------------------------------------GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, ex Dual Crew), Dascon (Bernd Hoffmann, music, ex Iris, later TRSI, 12/97-01/98), Dodger (Daniel Koschera, swap pack, new 94-95), Excess (Bjoern Barnekow, raytrace, ex Rebels), Howie (swap, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93), Poldi (music, ex TRSI, old handle Blackthorne), Rahiem (Frank Meister, org swap, ex Universal Soldiers), Slam (Andreas Melchert, swap pack 'Broken Tankard', ex X-Trade), Slicer (Michael Schroeder, swap pack 'Brainfood', ex Delicious, old handle Fancy), Touchstone (Thomas Jansen, org code, ex Delicious, 04/99), Virgill (music, triplememb Artwork and TRSI, new 94-01/97), WOTW
(music, ex The Silents, later Haujobb, 08-12/93). MAL> Mop (Noel Baldacchino, edit, ex Alcatraz, new 02/94-97). SWE> Phase (Torbjørn Malmer, gfx, ex Spaceballs). SPA> Lantium (ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97), Phornee (ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97). ???> Momo (gfx, 03/97), Storm (ger? swap, ex DCS). Essence was formed by several ex-Delicious members. Their two biggest assets are probably their coder Touchstone, and their diskmag ROM and its editor Mop. Mop joined from Alcatraz in february 1994 since he wasn't content with the way the diskmag he was editor for there, Compass, was heading. The first issue of ROM was released in August of 1994. Nowadays Mop also volunteers time as a coeditor of the PC diskmag Imphobia, from issue #12 onwards. 1995 - Around the middle of the year, they recruited german musician Blackthorne from TRSI, who soon changed his handle to Poldi and contributed music to ROM #5 - the very issue where his joining was announced. 1996 - After persuading two famous artists of times past (musician Chromag and graphicians Gfx-Twins) to return to the scene under their wings during 1996 they strengthened their German section considerably. They further boosted their abilities with the recruitment of the entire French Skarla crew in the late months of the year. Their demo "Makaveli" [12/96] reached the second place at The Party 1996, which was the highest placing of an Essence demo ever. Having lost them some time later, we can still say they played an important part in building Essence's good name. 1997 - The end of 1997 saw Essence recruiting their first ever Spanish members; the two remaining active guys from the old Spanish group Goblins. These two simultaneously joined Network, to still have roots in the Spanish scene. 1999 - Touchstone contributed to Haujobb's winning demo "Mnemonics" [04/99] at the Mekka Symposium 2k-1. Swedes Frame (gfx) and Origo (code) ended their double memberships, and withdrew back to C-Lous late97/early98, since they felt they could not contribute anything to the group. After releasing their last demo for Essence, "Thug Life" [03/97] the four frenchmen Horus (3D), Jamie (code), Marvin (music) and Norm (gfx) decided to join Mystic (ROM9). The four had joined from Skarla, and also released the memorable demo "Makaveli" [12/96] for Essence. German swapper Elric (Carsten Henkelmann, ex Speedhawk/Rebels) left the scene. German coder-raytracer Cueball (Dirk Jager) joined from Rebels with Excess, but soon after decided to leave the Amiga scene for the PC.
German coder team Zulu & Grey (ex Rebels) left. After a few months of scene inactivity they joined Crux Design. Dutch coder Infant (ex Facet's Pussy/Desire) and the Norwegians Christian Meland (music sysop 'DREAMSTATE'/'ENIGMA' WHQ, doublememb Spaceballs) and Tim were asked to leave the group. This means that the only non-German member is now Mop. This would later change, of course. Anyone know what happened to the third Norwegian, coder Sunjammer? Infant joined Session 12/95. German musician Andy (Andreas Dubois, ex Nuance, 12/94-95) decided to leave the Amiga scene to concentrate more on his career as a musician in Anarchy PC. He was news editor of ROM upto issue #5. Years later, in late 1997, he returned to the Amiga as a member of his old group Nuance. Main organizer P$ aka Powerswap (S. Paschart, ex Delicious) has decided to leave the scene. Touchstone is the new organizer. German graphicians D-Sign (ex The Silents, 12/93-94) and the Gfx-Twins (Calvin Golowski and Arthur Skotnik, ex Universal Soldiers, 95-96) left the scene in favour of game graphics). This is not strictly true anymore, since the Gfx-Twins have now made a comeback in Scoopex! Covert Action Team [CAT] (Groo and Rufferto, 12/93) and musician Dascon, all ex Delicious, decided to leave the scene. Ofcourse, Rufferto's work lives on in the form of the ROM fonts... :) Dascon regained scene inspiration in late 97, and rejoined Essence after a short stay in Iris! German celebrity graphician Fade One (Martin Sauter, ex Lego, new 94) left the scene. German coder Roman (Roman Kaczmarczyk, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93) left the scene. Roman worked on "Cardiac Arrest" [92] and "A.S.S." [93]. Cardiac Arrest (1992, ECS Intro). code: Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Folklore" by WOTW (4ch MOD format). review: Just a nicely designed intro, nothing else... There's only one main routine, a dot-cube that stretches, which isn't that much. OK. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Dreaming (1992, .12, ECS 1MB File). code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Dcn_Dreamteam.Final" by Dascon (4ch MOD format). review: Cool first dentro from Essence. Good effects, cool graphics. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. A.S.S (1993, ECS Trackmo). code: Touchstone, Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon, WOTW. info: An HD installer for this demo is available on AmiNet (in games/patch, of all places).
Meeting Intro 93 (1993, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon. review: Not terribly exciting I'm afraid. It's a scroll-selector, a scrolltext, and a whole load of glenz-objects on the background. Obviously made mostly for messages, it's not the worst of its type. Selecting Groo & Rufferto's scroll displays their 3rd-ranked picture from The Party 92. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. D (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: D-Sign, music: WOTW. 2nd in The Party 93 40k intro competition. review: Once again Touchstone shows his flair for design. This one doesn't contain anything revolutionary, but the way it is all put together sets it out as a good intro. Nice and cute. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA helps. Meeting Intro 94 (1994, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One, D-Sign, music: Dascon. review: Ahh, cute! I seem to remember hearing that tune before somewhere... Text-writer with moving background. Cool opening logo by Fade One. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #1 (1994, .08, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag). INT - code: Roman, gfx: Covert Action Team, Nose/Jetset (logo), music: Covert Action Team. MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Covert Action Team (main), D-Sign (welcome), music: "ROM Theme" by Dascon, "Weird Personalities" by Lizardking/Razor 1911, rditor: Mop. review: ROM kicks off in style, with three fabulous full screen pictures from the Covert Action Team (CAT), and a suitably heavy tune to accompany a kickin' intro. The mag itself doesn't do much worse, opening with a great lego man by D-Sign. The first picture seen in the intro is called "Ambush", already released once before, for the graphics competition at The Party 3. There, it was released under the fictious name of Artcore/Essence, since CAT had already delivered one picture for the competition (S.E.X, which came 6th). "Ambush" came 40th. Lizardking's tune "Weird Personalities" was later re-used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial Songs II' [01/95]. A kickdown to KS 1.3 was required to get the mag working on my setup. After this, the mag worked beautifully - without it, it didn't even get to the intro. The mag itself seems well coded, apart from a few obvious glitches here and there. I strongly doubt I have 717 MBytes of chip memory, Touchstone...and I _DO_ have an MMU, no matter what your mag says! The release date is an estimate, based on information contained in the mag. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! ROM issue #2 (1994, .12, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One & Uno (titlepic), music: "Depths" by Interphace/Andromeda, "Cranky Phonecalls" by Chromag/Rebels^Polka, "What is a Cable?" by Virgill/Essence, editor: Mop. review: There's certainly nothing wrong with the audio-visuals of ROM 2. It opens with a stonking title picture by Fade One and legendary Uno, showing a rather offensive shark. Very nice. The tunes are all okay too, though Interphace's has the edge. VERY good, with a distinctive beat and a certain groove factor. Content-wise, ROM has always been one of the best mags, so there's not really any reason not to download it and check it out... NOW! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Highly unstable. Lost Carrier BBS Intro (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Cooper/Anarchy PC (logo), music: SMT/Haujobb. Released at the Party 94, in cooperation with Lego. review: It opens with a raytraced logo, and from then on it's a standard intro, complete with background and text writer. Still, like most Essence prods, nice design. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #3 (1995, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel, clip), Gfx-Twins (welcome), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Whales Forever" by Mel'o'Dee, "Join The Microcosm" by Virgill, "Musical Empire" by Christian/Spaceballs, editor: Mop. review: The third issue of ROM was the first with a multitasking code. This meant an almost total recoding of the mag, and the first version released had several severe bugs, forcing Touchstone to release a fix soon after. Contentwise; ace. Graphically; ace. Musically: out of space ;) Though the package available on AmiNet does not contain it, the original release contained an intro by Sonik Clique. Mel'o'Dee's tune was previously released at the Doom's Day Party 94 competition. That version claimed a fixed version would be out later; maybe this tune is it? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #4 Intro (1995, mid.05, AGA Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: CAT, D-Sign, music: Virgill and Blackthorne. review: Another nice Essence release, this 'intro' (550k) is cute. There's funny graphics, funny code and a fun tune. What more to say? Text synchronised to the (did I mention it was fun?) music indicate some headlines, and that's it. OK for what it is. Not released with the mag
in the distribution on AmiNet, and therefore reviewed separately. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #4 (1995, mid.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel), Dwel/Desire (welcome), Rufferto (fonts), Eye/Gloom (clip), music: Chromag "Stairways", TJM "Majestic" and BrainBug/Talent "Sincerely Yours", editor: Mop. review: This issue of ROM opens with a picture of a pig's face, no less! This one came out so soon after the last one, it's most probably a world record in release speed! Not much has changed in the looks department; due to popular demand they've even used the great, colorful control panel by Fade One a second time! The opening tune by Chromag is nice, calm and sounds very professional - especially the fill-ins sound cool. It's also a very nice gesture of the ROM team to allow a virtually unknown musician from the UK, TJM, contribute with a tune. "Majestic" is also a calm tune that creates a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. BrainBug delivers one of his trademark funky guitar tunes, which is also a winner! So overall, ROM scores top marks yet again in the audio-visual department. The contents of ROM4 are certainly up to the usual standard, and contain all the usual 'making of', news and debate articles. I particularly enjoyed the articles about TRSI's history, Artwork, and the making of Greenday. As usual, ROM is VERY Rewarding. The release date is approximate, based on things written in the mag. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. The Malta Intro (1995, 09.07, ECS? 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Chris Meland. 3rd in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition. review: A big disappointment, this, from a quality coder like Touchstone. It looks like it was put together in a real hurry, with not enough time to put the thing decently together. It's real short, with two digitized b&w pictures (both of which are totally unnecessary), and two effects; a voxel landscape (which I suspect is supposed to be Malta) and a tunnel/ dungeon effect which could have been done MUCH better. I guess this was put together in honour of Mop, but I think Touchstone could have done him much better justice by not releasing it! [glenn] ROM issue #5 (1995, .08, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1 (welcome, panel), Rufferto (fonts), music:
"Hard Sun" by Poldi & Virgill, "Postludium" by Brainbug/Talent, editor: Mop. review: This will sound like I'm repeating myself, but there's not really much to say about ROM except it's excellent as always. The articles are interesting, the music's cool (especially Postludium!) and the graphics are totally stunning! I'm constantly amazed by what Fade1 can do in so few colors... Looking at this mag, you can clearly see how he became one of the most respected painters out there! This issue is their one year jubilee issue, by the way. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. CrazySexyCool (1995, 28.12, AGA File). code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/Insane, music: Virgill. 5th in The Party 5 demo competition. review: I have only one thing to say about this: WOW! This is one of the closest things yet to a perfect production! The code is top-notch, with good, advanced, good-looking effects; there are four great pictures (especially Sexy!) by Louie (now in TBL), and the music is simply groovy! Do I need to draw you a picture? DOWNLOAD! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #6 (1996, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Touchstone, gfx: TeeVan/Axis (welcome), Phase/Spaceballs (panel), Sumaleth/independent (clip), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Funky Elements" by Marc/Sector 7, "Funky Dog" by Jam & Spoon/indep, editor: Mop. review: The first things that strikes you with the sixth issue of ROM is the nice title picture of men's faces carved in stone by TeeVaan, and the incredible groooove of Jam & Spoon's cool tune! It's so groovy, in fact, that it kept me from getting into the mag for the first couple of minutes just because I was busy listening! I actually have one slight thing that irritates me a little; the panel graphics in this issue is actually the worst they've ever had! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Brainbow (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro). code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Virgill. 2nd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition. review: This is a good intro, and it's not hard to see why it made it to second place. There's the usual shading/reflective mapping toruses, but what sets it apart is the design, which has always been Touchstone's strongest point. A good one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #7 (1996, mid to late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Sumaleth (clipart), Gfx Twins (welcome pic, design), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Milk" by Radix/Balance, "Nose Hole" by Virgill/Essence^Artwork, editor: Mop. review: Ahh, Radix' module is divine! Sorry, getting a bit sidetracked, as usual. I just wanted to express how thrilled I am about the second module on this diskmag. Hooray, scene musician rediscovers funk and melody, puts intricate beat down in favour of a nice tune! Amazing! This almost makes all those soulless techno beats worth it. Ok, the mag itself. It's the same ROM, with the same quality articles. Perhaps not as much of immediate interest as with the next issue, #8, but still quite a lot to sink your teeth into. What can I do with an issue of ROM but recommend it? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #8 (1996, late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss (welcome), Sumaleth (main clips), Acryl (clips), Fade 1 (clips), Gfx-Twins (design), music: "Return of the Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Asettelumalli" by Andy/Banal Projects & Azazel/TBL, and "Love Will Come" by Poldi, editor: Mop. review: An issue of ROM is always a pleasure to read, and this is certainly no exception. You can always find some interesting article here, and there's lots of relevant information for the Scenery editor to incorporate into his amazing little collection of text files... :) Seriously, the mag is very good. The code seems very system friendly, happily multitasking with the rest of my system. As a matter of fact, I'm running it in the background right now! Now, from the good to the bad of this system: The mag doesn't release the audio channels when you turn off the music, which means you can't run another player (HiP :) in the background, playing a tune of your choice. Unnecessary, Touchstone! The graphics are nice and functional, though not outstanding. I still remember the images that came with some of the early issues of R.A.W, and I doubt if I'll remember any of the images in ROM 8 in three years. There's three tunes to choose from, neither of which really held my interest. They're just my kind of music, but the excellent code doesn't make that a problem, so why am I complaining? The mag is laid out in such a way that it can just as easily be run from floppy as from your HD. There are two data files in addition to the main executable, which means that you place the second executable on a separate disk to run from floppy. To conclude, it's a very very good mag. It's strong points the best articles - are the behind the scenes stuff, like Azazel talking about the music for Tint (he's right - the first tune does suck :) and
the very knowledgable Sumaleth's graphics reviews. To my mind, he writes a whole lot more interesting than Facet ever did for R.A.W! But what am I keeping you for? Go download this from somewhere and leave me alone so I can read the rest of it! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Virgill Dreams (1996, late, AGA 4MB Multifile Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: Touchstone, gfx: Phase, music: Virgill. review: If you're into some seriously weird heavy metal tunes, with a depressing touch, then this is the music disk for you. Those poems aren't exactly cheerful are they, Virgill? This is (AFAIK) Phase's first production for his new team. I know I'm certainly looking forward to his next one :) The best thing abou this musicdisk, though, is undoutedly the intro. It's nothing amazingly 'wow', but you can't do anything but bow your head to Touchstone's amazing env- and bumpmapping routines. Coolness doesn't half cover how great these look, but you get the idea :) After the intro is finished, the selector itself actually multitasks quite happily. To be quite honest, I'm running it in the background right now, listening to the tunes while I'm typing this. This is certainly the way to do it! VD can be run from floppy if so is desired. It is called a 'christmas present' in the info text, suggesting perhaps a december release - at The Party even? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Makaveli (1996, 28.12, AGA File). code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, music: Marvin (The Player 6.1A format). 2nd in The Party 96 demo competition. review: The impressive thing about "Makaveli" is its SPEED. Sure, we've seen objects shaded, mapped, raped and abused before, but never this fast! Geez, these objects FLY around the screen! It's rare to see such a good, advanced demo from someone you've never even heard of before like these new Essence members. Another thing that strikes me is the palette choices. These objects are COLORFUL, and the same KIND of colors seem to go as a red thread throughout the entire demo. Not the same colors as such, just similar, which gives it a specific atmosphere. An orange atmosphere, but still... Just some of the things you get to see is a high quality fullscreen zoomrotator with stretching, a colorful tunnel, about 6 simultaneous spacecut Z-Buffer shaded objects and a couple of really cool objects that I haven't seen before, like a rabbit (thank god! If I ever see another yellow duck...) and a man-in-the-moon figure. The music is strange, but then again it would have to be. All good demos have music which is only classifiable by the guy who made it.
It's tradition among Amiga demos, and it's been with us ever since the very first trackmo, Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" [04/90]. Oh god, that was a great tune... Ehrm, getting a little sidetracked here, ain't I? Anyway, Makaveli. It's good. Download it. I'm off to find the M.H. agafix. No information on whether this requires fastmem, perhaps 4mb? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. ROM issue #9 (1997, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Prospect, Origo (t-mapper), Scout (c2p), gfx: Frame (design), Claw (objects), music: Soul/Movement. MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/TBL (welcome), Frame/C-Lous (panel), Sumaleth (clip), Alex/Corrosion (clip), Nope Dope/Pas Master (clip), Rufferto (fonts), music: "In Your Eyes" by Marc/Syndrome, "Vincent's Car" by Revisq/Anadune, "Elixir" by Marvin/Mystic, "Somewhat Rusty" by Deelite/Balance, editor: Mop. review: Another issue of ROM is here, this time with an intro by CLous. It's a quite remarkable little intro, actually, since it almost successfully combines the 'shaded object' intro with the 'art' intro! It can't really be described easily in my limited space, but it's got great, very unusual design and a fast envmapped object :) Know all you need to now? Oh, and Soul/Movement does the music - it's been QUITE SOME TIME since we heard from that Swedish musician! It's nice to know he's not abandoned us altogether... Then there's the mag itself, of course. The opening article by Mop has always got a wise word or two, and this one's no exception. His comments about the amiga scene are spot on, and I noticed we share a lot of the same thoughts about it. One thing that strikes me is how ROM now suddenly has 4 modules instead of 3 or 2... In my view this is unnecessary, and just eats disk space, especially when all 4 modules are as alike as they are here. All four have a jazzy feel to them, with warm fuzzy instruments. If I didn't know any better I'd think they were all by the same musician! Please note that I'm not complaining about the quality here, just the quantity :) Two modules should always be enough. Why doesn't a multitasking mag like ROM deallocate the audio channels when it's not playing anything? If you'd like to listen to some other music with HippoPlayer while reading the mag, you can't! From this issue on, ROM has a www presence at http://ROM.home.ml.org. [glenn]
GLE teste A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Thug Life (1997, 30.03, AGA 030 Multifile). code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, Momo, music: Marvin (2 tunes, The Player 6.1A format). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. review: Jamie is back to prove that "Makaveli" (12/96) wasn't a one-off thing - and succeeds in style. "Thug Life" is even better than his previous demo, with large, fast 3d scenes and good music! There can be no doubt that Jamie's 3d routines are among the fastest on the scene. This demo REQUIRES a 030 processor, but the processor-specific optimizations also show. The 3d environments are further helped by some great textures, which give most objects a dirty, brown cyberpunky feel. "Thug Life" is professional in every respect, and should be in anyones collection. Simply great. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. E.T. ---Hartcore (1993, 08.11, ECS File). code: E.T., gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Eternity Corp. -------------???> D-Man (ex Armada). Ethic (ETC, http://www.ethic.de) -------------------------------GER> Big-Rat (Kai Hoepner, mainorg edit, doublememb Abyss early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Bitbuster (code, 11/96), Cozmo (raytrace, 11/96), Frantic (raytrace, 11/96), Hawk Hunter (hardwaresupply, 11/96), Kit (mascot, 11/96), Lucas (modemorg sysop 'TEUTONIC PLACE', doublememb Lightforce, 11/96-01/97), Madstop (code, doublememb Abyss early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Magic Max (org, 11/96), Meta (music raytrace, 11-12/96), Mr.U (code, 11/96), Nero (gfx, later Artwork, 11/96), Tumor (raytrace, 11/96). Ethic is a German-only team, most dedicated to the steady release of their newsmag, "The X-Files". Magic Max's board was finally closed late 96, and he is now active only as a funmember. 1996 - Castor (music) is no longer a member; he released a module at Symposium 96 in april which said Castor/ex Ethic. Stingray was kicked after some internal problems around april. German musician Pollux left the scene in june. German coder Cueball sold his Amiga and bought a pc again, so he's now left the Amiga scene for good. He was then kicked around june. German graphician Heron was kicked in december.
German musician Mr.Melody (12/94) is no longer a member. X-Files #7 (1996, 01.07, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: SMT/Artwork (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: SMT/ Artwork, editor: Big-Rat. review: Issue 7 was the first one with a coded interface, all previous editions were just text files. I won't comment too much on the panel or the handling, since it's exactly the same as the one used in issue #13, reviewed below. The intro picture for this issue is rendered. SMT's music is also quite adequate. This mag had multitasking right from the very first issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #11 (1996, .11, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Odin/Illusion (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: Airon/Phase Distortion, editor: Big-Rat. review: This issue opens with a moody title picture by Odin/Illusion. I saw his slideshow "Walhalla" (11/96) for Illusion, and I didn't like it that much, but this picture from the foogy morning in the woods is a lot better. Not bad! I have split feelings about the music...one of the leads reminds me strongly of 1988, and I can't seem to make up my mind if this is a good or a bad thing... :0 Editorially, this issue is pretty much like all the others. It's november and the scene is gearing up for The Party, but that's about it. Another average issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #12 (1996, 28.12, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Acryl/Acme^Illusion^Session (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: Meta. Released at The Party 6. review: Nothing exceptional about this release either, it's basically the same old thing. The guest audio-visuals this time is a cosy, christmassy picture by Acryl, as well as a pretty good tune by Meta. I have nothing much more to say about this, really... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. X-Files #13 (1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag). code: Madstop, gfx: Raven/Nuance (title), Nero/Artwork (main), Madstop, Big-Rat, Chaos!/Desire (mainmenufont), music: Hardfire/NGC and Intense, editor: Big-Rat. Cooperation with Abyss. review: From this issue on, X-F is a cooperation between Ethic and Abyss, since coder Madstop and editor Big-Rat joined Abyss as doublemembers. I started reading the mag, taking notes, but suddenly discovered - by accident! - that it multitasks quite happily! That's great Ethic, but I'd
like to have been told before I filled half a page with notes ;) There's nothing wrong with X-F presentationwise this time either. The only thing you'll need to grow accustomed to is the way you read articles here. Rather than flip right for the next page and down for the next article, you flip right for the next article! I was a little confused by this at first, but soon understood how it worked and after that there were no problems. The tune is quite comfortable reading music, in that it does not irritate and it's not dominating enough to draw attention away from what you're reading. And the title picture by Raven/Nuance is a treat for the eyes. Overall, this is a good, polished issue. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Euphoria (1990-1991) -------------------SWE> Wico (sysop 'THE GANGZTER ZONE', 10/90). NOR> Mr.Ice (swap, ex Cult, new 12/90). FIN> Larry (swap, late90), Voyager (code, 91). ???> Bootlegger, Fly, Prince (ex Frantic), Shadey, Trashcan (ex Prologic), Zontor. Boards; SURSIK (fin). Euphoria was born late, probably 09 or 10/90, when the group Doom changed their name. Mr.Ice formed the Norwegian section of Euphoria in december. 1991 - The group died in mid 1991. Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria (including 'THE IRON GATE' BBS, ex RAF, new mid 91) formed Extreme. There are no more Swedish or German sections. The One (ex Prologic) joined Static Bytes. TMB Designs (ex Prologic) joined Kefrens. Tama (ex Prologic) joined Anarchy. Foxhound left. European Software Agency (ESA) -----------------------------SWE> Mike The Pike (Erik Flodgren). Evacue -----SWE> Behemoth (music, 08/94), Crilla (code, 08/94), Käjsi (sysop 'SEAGREEN', 08/94), Wolf (gfx, later X-Trade?, 08/94), Ygram (code, 08/94).
Nil: (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). code: Ygram, Crilla, gfx: Wolf, music: "A Piece of Crap 1" by Behemoth. 23rd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Ehrm. The best part, I guess, is the font which isn't bad. I'm sorry, Evacue, after this we're bound to believe 'att ni är kassa'. And the name of the tune... how true =) Improve! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Exact ----1991 - Phobos joined Byte Busters in the middle of the year. Exage (1990-) ------------Exage was formed towards the end of 1990 by the groups Pegasus, Death and Tomcats [no entries]. Exceed -----SWE> Drakemule (org gfx, 09/92-94), Motion Lotion (gfx, aka Joe The Foe (JTF), 09/92-94), Mike. ???> G.G (code, 94). Exceed were a swedish demo group, likely not related to the later pc demo group of the same name. Mosaic - The Works 1991-94 (1994, AGA/ECS Slideshow). code: G.G., gfx: Motion Lotion (JTF), Drakemule, music: Deelite/Razor 1911. review: The bad thing of this little slide is that it starts only from floppy without any reason of sense. Do not await bombastic pictures, but a nice multimedia-like menu (music and animation of the character 'e') with cool raytraced clips by Drakemule and some colorful pics by Motion Lotion alias JTF. The slide starts with two different pics - one appears only if you have aga and one if you have disabled enhanced gfx or only have an ECSAmiga! At the menu you can choose the pics with LMB and infos about them with RMB. And you are also able to watch half of them if you don't have AGA. The music is a bit too dominating for a slideshow but although a good track! My favorites by Motion Lotion are 'Mercenario' (the only real picture) and 'Carving Good'. From Drakemule's nice traced clips I like 'Cyberspace' (dolphin jumps in water) the most! [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Excellence (XLNS)
----------------Poltergeist joined D-Mob. Meltdown (ECS File). Cooperation with Absence, see there. Excess (EXS) -----------SWI> Denis (swap, doublemember Apex, 12/94). GER> Warlock (swap, late90). Bubble changed his handle to Polygon Window and joined Depth. Excide -----???> Big B (music, 08/93), Milkman (code, 08/93), Ranx (gfx, 08/93). Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Milkman, gfx: Ranx, music: Big B. 6th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Information: Does not work on A1200. Excite -----AUT> Status Quo (ex Energy, new late92). Exhouse ------FIN> Judge (Petri Suutarinen, code, 08/94). Crap!! (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code/gfx: Judge, music: n/a. 26th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: This is a waste of time, just a small logo with some color effect in it and a textwriter. It finished dead last. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Exile [old] (1991-) ------------------NOR> Switch (code, 09/91). SWE> Shike. ???> Rad, Systematique, The Bull. The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence of the previous group.
1991 - Norwegian graphician The Edge sold his machine and left the scene around the middle of the year. Dragon Bait joined Lunatics. Norwegian musician Don-Cato joined Talent. . Partyintro (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro). code: Switch, gfx: The Edge, music: Melis/Cave (NoisePacker 3 format). Released at the Arendal party. review: This intro is clearly a case of 'too much', with lots of effects thrown onto the screen. It was this group's first ever release, and unfortunately, it shows. If they can learn the noble art of limiting themselves, then perhaps they can produce something worthwile, but this intro is just another 'let's release something' prod. These words are the ones that are accepted: FUCK, HELP, SWITCH, CODERCHAT, QUIT, CREDITS, EXILE, SWAP, JOIN, THE EDGE, SHIT. The Edge had already left the scene when this intro was released. . GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Partyintro (1992, early). Invitation to The Gathering 1992. Exile [new] ----------???> Fazi (music, 08/95), I.F. (Piotr Bizunowicz, swap write, 08/95), Jamer (xode 3dgfx, 08/95), Klatek (gfx, 08/95), Nim0 (Michal Buczko, code swap, 08/95), Tuner (music, 08/95). The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence of the previous group. It is highly probable that most of these guys are from Poland. Opal Se Futec (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Jamer, Nim0, gfx: Jamer, Klatek, music: Fazi (The Player 6.0A format). Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: OSF opens with some good graphics in the introduction, then shows a fast fullscreen zoomrotator. Next is a texturemapped globe, and then it's pretty much over. The best thing about it, I guess, is the AMOS error message that appears towards the end, which I'm sure was a fun joke when it was shown on the big screen. This would have benefited greatly from some improved music. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Exit ---USA> Comic.
???> Chrome, Coke, Cube, Pacman. Drumtex joined Cytax. Norwegian swapper Deathbringer joined Flash Productions. Quo Vadis? (1990, 28.12, ECS File). Winner of the Theatre & Network Party '90 demo competition! info: Also known as '3D Demo'. Exodus (-1990) -------------FIN> The Skum (01/90), Trug (crack, ex Animate). IRL> Axl. Exodus was a mostly Finnish demo group. They died 06/90, when their members formed Image with Unique and members from Complex and Gate. Little Vecs (ECS Demo). Exort ----???> Darkman, Dealer, Mac Gil, Power Cult, Quark (re from Fate). Exort is dead. 1992 - Aliex joined Cyborx in september. Conan joined Epic. Smash joined Amaze. German Damion joined End of Century 1999. Trax and some other members joined Fate. Jesus P., Kahn, Gonzo, Douglas (ex Coast), Exciter and Sali-Adalat (ex Sledgehammers, new mid 91) all joined Awake. Exotic -----Magic joined Unit 4. Exotic Men ---------FIN> Coltrain, Death, Delsio, Dipsomania (trade, 02/93-03/94), ED-209. Devil was kicked out. Experience ---------???> Den (code, 01/93), Ender (gfx, 01/93), Jazz (music, 01/93), Jgl (code, 01/93).
Prolog (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Jgl, Den, gfx: Ender, music: Jazz. Extacy (XTC, 1993-) ------------------FIN> Perlon (code gfx music, 93), Spexx (gfx mainorg, 93). DEN> Chronic (music, 08/93), Cytron (music). NOR> Lord Red (gfx, 08/93). ENG> Scimitar (code gfx, 08/93). SWE> Altern8 (music). Extacy was a finnish-based demo group, formed by Venom (finland), Chronic (denmark) and Cytron (denmark) after leaving Rave. Venom changed his handle to Spexx around the same time - most probably early 93. In addition to Lord Red, coder Nastro was a member of the Norwegian section for a short while. He coded the group's only assembler-intro before leaving for another group; all other productions were in fact coded in AMOS. English coder Scimitar coded Extacy's only demo release ever, "Transfusion" [08/93]. Perlon made a few intros, and released issues of the "Subconscious Terror" pack. He also used the handle Blue Nun for a short while before recerting to his original handle. Eventually the group died away due to Spexx' (main organizer) inactivity, and the members left the scene or joined other groups. Cytron eventually joined Depth, while Spexx was later in Distance, Millenium, Tulou, Outlaws, Nautika and eventually Nah Kolor (under the handle Alvin). Thanks to Alvin/Nah Kolor and Mermaid/Scoopex/Creators for information. Broken Sword (Intro). code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Down the Stairs (Intro). code: Scimitar, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Snottro (Intro). code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Transfusion (1993, 09.08, demo). code: Scimitar, gfx: Lord Red, music: Chronic. 8th in the Assembly 93 demo competition. Extend (EXT) -----------FIN> Argon (music, 08-11/96), Codex, Crom, Dr.Acid, Duke (gfx, 08/96), Duce (gfx, 12/93-08/96), Electric (gfx, 11/96), Orbis (Heikki Pora,
code gfx www, 08-11/96), TBB (music, 08/96), Zero (code gfx, 0811/96). Extend is a finnish demo group, born as an offshoot from the very successful c64 group. Several of these members are also active cross-platform, doing both amiga and c64 work simultaneously. Finnish coder Orbis was a member of Halo 08/94, don't know how he got from there to here =) Their old homepage, http://www.hoikka.com/extend/index.html, appears to have gone from the web. 1996 - The group released the 64k intro "IFA" [08/96] to a disappointing 8th position at the Assembly 96 in august. Sections (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 6th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Quu (1996, Demo). Released at Demolition 96. IFA (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Zero, Orbis, gfx: Duce, Loppu, Hoppu, music: Argon. 8th in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: Mostly HAM8 effects here, like colorful ripples and the like. I'm sure it's hard to code, but it's not all that interesting to look at, I'm afraid... And the music or graphics doesn't save it either. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Insane (1996, 18.08, AGA HD 4MB File). code: Orbis, gfx: Orbis, Duke, music: TBB. 7th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: A little large (4mb filedemo!) for what it offers, this is still a short but sweet production. There are certainly some goodlooking effects here, like a trip down a wiggly road (animation?) and a cool colorful tunnel trip complete with moving lights. The music on this doesn't appeal to me at all, it's just monotonous and irritating. That bass has actually given me a headache now! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kiitos? (1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB HD File). code: Orbis, Zero, gfx: Electric, Orbis, Zero, music: Argon (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition. review: "Kiitos?" is a nice production from Extend, with some goodlooking and colorful effects. Unfortunately, the demo doesn't move too fast on my machine. The text file mentions an 040/40mhz or better is recommended, and I have no trouble believing that. Design is adequate though, and neither graphics nor music gets too much on your nerves. There's not a
lot of actual drawings here, but what there is is mostly functional. Overall, I'll have to confess I quite like this, though it's quite short for the filesize (2mb, or 4mb unpacked!) The unpacked demo binary contains the text string '$VER: Kiitos v0.33 BY Extend (22.11.1996)'. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Extensors --------GER> Botex (sysop 'TEKKNOZOID'). ???> Zyx (code music, 93), Trauma Projects (gfx, 93). Hypnautic Hammer 2 (1993, early, ECS File). code/music: Zyx, gfx: Trauma Projects. Extreme (1991-) --------------FIN> Bootlegger (Jan Lindfors, swap), Deshay (swap, 92). ???> Hitchcock (ex Rebels), Twist (music, 08/91). Boards; IRON GATE WHQ (usa, ex Euphoria, new mid91). Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria formed a new group called Extreme in the middle of 1991. 1991 - The French division of Extreme is dead. Krom, Postcard, Atwill, Shup, Clawz (08/91) and Bilbo all joined Delight late 91. Freddox, Fletch and Fishbone joined The Special Brothers late 91. Slaine joined Palace. Barrax joined Brainstorm. The Finnish division of Extreme is dead. Some members joined Brainstorm. Exult ----GER> Daddy-O (swap, early92). ???> Lyzanxia (late90). Exult was a mainly German group. 1990 - C. Dawn left for Supreme around may. Most Exult members joined Endless Piracy mid91. Jolly Roger (Diskmag). info: Mentioned in the january 1991 edition of Eurochart, so it was most probably released sometime in 1990. Articles in both English and German.
Exxon ----NOR> Splash (sysop 'FLAME STRIKE', 10/94), St. Eagle (Vidar Lekanger, swap, 94). ???> Mr.X (code, ex Sepultura). Boards; KEY STROKE (nor). Facet's Pussy/Desire (subgroup). -------------------------------HOL> Noodle (swap, ex Motive), Ramon B5 (founder mainorg swap), React, Sacha (founder code), ThD (founder gfx). GER> Chaos (Dirk Wiemer, gfx ascii swap, ex Desire), Kernal (code, ex Desire). FIN> Poke (V-M Poikola, swap, ex Digital), Tint (Mika Melonen, swap, ex Digital). Facet's Pussy was formed as a subgroup of Desire by Ramon B5, ThD and Sacha from the Dutch section of Desire itself. They later recruited more members from the mother group, like the two germans Chaos! and Kernal. Dutchman Rotox (later known as Infant) was a member for two and a half years. His next group was Essence, and its probable that he changed his handle to Infant when he made the move. Exile (1994, Demo). code: Sacha, Riox, gfx: Zoef, Dwel, Gif, Solid, music: Fabian, Anti? 40k Partyintro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Rotox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a Split 19th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Prestige Cracktro (Intro). code: Rotox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Problemloos (Dentro). info: This dentro was made by Rotox for Desire's leader Ramon B5's birthday! Faction (FTN) ------------Faction (actually Friendship In Action) are an illegal crew, doing cracks. Factor -----SWE> Mayo (gfx, 05/96), Nemo (Kalle Molin, code, 05/96), Plugster (edit "Buzz", ex Defiance, new late95), Squeeze (05/96).
When Plugster joined from Defiance, he had the diskmag "Buzz" with him it is uncertain whether any issues were released by Factor, though. Memories (1996, 26.05, AGA 64k Intro). code: Nemo, gfx: Nemo, Mayo (titlepic), Squeeze (design), music: Fudge/ Subspace. 3rd in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. review: 'Memories' is another way of saying 'old effects', obviously. This intro from mid 96 features dot-tunnels and shadebobs! Neeeeext! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rosa Bananer 2 (1996, 26.05, 64k Intro). 4th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition. Factor IV (1989-) ----------------NZL> Cosmac (code hardware, 01/90), , Manslayor (code, ex Knucklebusters, new 01/90), Mutley (code, 01/90), Sly (org code, 01/90), Warrior (code gfx, 01/90). AUS> Gazza (code music, 01/90). USA> Oberon (music phreak, 01/90). Factor IV is almost entirely based in New Zealand (two foreign members), and was formed in march of 1989 after a party in Auckland. Faculty (FCY) ------------HUN> Airsmith (Kovacs Peter, gfx, 04/94), Fate (sysop 'FATAL CONNEXION'), Frame (gfx, 04/94-04/95), Scribe (Laszlo Ragany, code, 04/94-04/95), Shark (Mezei Tibor, gfx, 04/94-04/95), Snotty (Racz Csaba, music, 04/94-11/97), Stece (code, 11/97), Unreal (gfx, 11/97). Jump Master 2 (1992, .12, ECS Musicdisk). First production! Disney's (1993, 04.01, ECS Trackmo). Contribution to Hammering 93. Brilliance (1993, .03, ECS Trackmo). Lethal Dose (1993, .06, ECS Trackmo). Lethal Dose 2 (1994, 09.04, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks). code: Scribe, gfx: Frame, Shark, Airsmith (fonts), music: Snotty. Contribution for the demo competition at Hammering 94. info: Does not support df1:. Works on standard A1200. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Man On The Moon (1995, 09.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile, 4 disks).
code: Scribe, gfx: Frame, Shark, music: Snotty. Winner of demo competition at Scenest 95! review: 4 disks are a bit hefty for this, but I assume the raytraced opening animation stole at least two of them. After the animation (of a spaceship flying through space), we're treated to a fast-paced demo with good-looking effects and a thumping techno soundtrack. I usually hate these techno things, but this one's far from the worst I have heard. I can see how this won a party; it's fast, fun, and looks good. The effects are a little on the outdated front, though - texturemapped cubes and stretching zoom-rotators dominate. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dream Or Reality (1997, .11, AGA HD Slideshow). code: Steve, gfx: Unreal, music: Snotty. Cooperation with Nah Kolor. review: With a very styled introduction consisting of interesting ideas for design and bombastic sound starts this huge but one of the best slideshows I had the pleasure to watch. Including several musics for intro-, show- and selectorpart is this more than a normal picture collection with selector! 14 pieces of pixelart - most not released before and a few party ones - made on his own by Unreal and two copied. With very impressive and alive backgrounds (like on `Sanction`) and mostly mystic elements and figures (especially dragons) and a lot of colors with partly special lighteffects (like the background of the faculty logo in the intropart) he creates a fantastic world of tales and imaginations. After the show you are able to click through a well-styled selector, with colored previews and a golden greetings part, to find every ever so small information you need to know about the pictures and some more texts by the graphician. Why he made it and words concerning the process and so on. Only negative is that all of them are in interlace modus and after you read some interesting stuff your eyes begin slowly to hurt. Also the selector music could be a bit slower for a more relaxing walk through the gallery! Conclusion??? Watch it!!!! Only some intro clips look a bit ugly but the rest is simply brilliant. My favourite trips to Phantasia are: `Freeborn` and `Smaug above Esgorath`, a very good copy! Also `Morfeum` is very nice! A better big clip, but as cute that I would kiss it... ;) [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Fairlight (FLT, http://www.fairlight.org, 1987-) -----------------------------------------------SWE> Black Shadow (founder supply code crack exsysop 'SEVENTH HEAVEN' EHQ,
87-92), Damage (sysop 'THE DUNGEON' EHQ, 05-12/91), Danko (Tomas Danko, music, 09/89), Exolon (Björn Wesen, code crack, 08/89-12/91), Gaston (crack, ex Hyperion, +inactive+ but still memb, working on games, 05/91-97), Hof (trade sysop 'FAR OUT', ex Scoopex), Istvan (sysop 'MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Red Sector Inc., new mid90-10/90), JBM (trade, ex Dual Crew, new summer91-96), Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE' EHQ, 09/96), Rebel (sysop 'TRANCENTRAL' EHQ opened 91, 07/91-01/95), Sandman (sysop 'SANCTUARY', 01/95), Sauron (J. Lindahl, code, later Miracle, 12/89), Shaggy (ex Dual Crew), Strider (Tony Krvaric, founder crack, 02/88-12/91), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT', doublememb Reflex, later Rage, 01/95). GER> Bob Duncan (crack), Luke and Chuck (supply sysops 'THE FUCK SHOP', 05/91-10/93), Rudi (ex Dynamix), Sagor (sysop 'TOTAL KAOS', ex Ministry), Selim (ex Dynamix), Siriax (swap, ex Interpol), Smudo (ex Arise old), Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING'). ENG> Majic Mushroom (swap, ex Lemon., new late 93), N.O.M.A.D (Marc, crack, 10/93), Rambo (sysop 'HARDCORE HEAVEN'), Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC'), Scrote (sysop 'THE KRYPT', 08/93), Warlord (ex Dual Crew, 09/91, NOT 11-12/91). ITA> Tiger (sysop 'ICC BBS', aka Tiger-9, 09-12/91). HOL> Sleeping Bag (sysop 'CRYSTAL PALACE', 08-11/90). FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops 'HANG LOOSE', ex Analog, new early93-10/93). DEN> Ramirez (sysop 'SUFFOCATION', ex Majic 12, 10/93), Tarzan (sysop 'PLASTIC PASSION', 10/93). FIN> Cosy (trade, doublememb Digital, 03/94), Immortal (sysop 'CHILD IN TIME', 04/95), JHH & Zodiac (sysops 'STONE HENGE', 04/95). NOR> Wilfo (ex The Shadows [c64]). CAN> Big Balls (sysop 'ROBINS FIRST ORGASM', 04/95). USA> Big Boss (sysop 'MIRAGE' WHQ, 05/92-10/93), Ghetto Boyz (sysops 'THE GHETTO', 09/93-04/95), Hosehead (sysop 'GREAT WHITE NORTH' distsite), Pizzaman (sysop 'FLATLINERS' WHQ, ex Agile, 05-12/91), Scorpian (sysop 'DIGITAL CIRCUS', 04/95). ???> 6pack (trade, ex Equinox, new early 93), Abaddon (ex Amaze, new pre 07/92), Abandon (ex Rage, new RAW3), Dave (crack, 10/90), Dennis the Menace (supply, 05/92), Drone No:5 (swe? supply, 05-09/91, NOT 1112/91), Eternal (sysop), Fashion Light, Fauser (ex Rage), Galahad (crack, 01/96-12/97), Genius (music, 02-12/91), Lecter (trade, ex Equinox, new early93), Lord Zero (swap trade, ex Legend), Mac (new late92), Oliver (ex Mute 101, new late90), Organic (music, ex Shining), Plauze (ex Vanish, new mid91), Problem Child (new early 92), Ramius (new 12/91), Rubicon (code gfx, ex Aurora), Sarge (gfx, early9012/91), Semtex (supply, 01/96), Silencer (11-12/91), Supermann (gfx, ex Prime, new 06/91, NOT 11-12/91).
Boards; BEYOND REALITY WHQ (usa, 12/97), IRON FORTRESS WHQ (usa, 0311/90), PROGRAMMER'S HEAVEN (usa, earlier SPAZTIC BBS, 03-10/90), BAD RELIGION (usa), CATASTROPHE (usa, 05/92), MAFIA CRACK CREW (usa, sometimes without the 'CRACK' name, 05/92), TRADE LINE BBS (usa), THE EMPIRE (usa, 09-10/93), CHAOTIC ENTITY (usa, 03-10/93), SMALL HOURS (usa, 09-10/93), ROAD TO NOWHERE (usa, 03/93). TIGERS TALON (ger), DOPE HOUSE (swe, 09-10/93), NEUROBASHING (swe, see note!), OFFSHORE (eng, 09-10/93), BUBBLE BOBBLE (eng), CITY LIMITS (eng, 05-07/91), LAST FRONTIER (ita, 05/92), ARACHNOS (ita), SPACE STATION (ita, 09-10/93), MOONSTONE (fra), TOTAL PANIC (nor, 10/93), HALLOWED POINT (swi), VIOLATOR'S PLACE (swi, 08-11/90), OASIS. Note: 'NEUROBASHING' was closed 12/94, though it's uncertain whether it was in FLT at the time... FLT is almost as old as the C64 scene is, and has always been one of the 'big' crews. They were formed inn 1987 by Black Shadow, who for quite some time worked on both platforms. He was joined by the other original founder of FLT on the C64 in february 1988, Strider. They used to be a multipurpose group, with both cracking and demo activities. Now they have a demo division (Virtual Dreams) to take care of that part of the operation. Also, several of them have branched onto the PC. FLT is now basically a company, selling console copiers and the like, but with strong scene roots. Strider has since moved to Belgium, and then San Diego, California, USA, but I've still got him registered in Sweden, since that's where most of his scene activities occured. 1990 was a year with cracks done by several guys, including veteran Exolon, Onyx and Dave. Some cracks were even done by 'Allah from Kuwait', but this was probably just one of the regular guys working under a pseudonym. Swedish coder Celebrandil (ex Northstar, new 1989-12/89) joined Phenomena sometime this year. 1991 - This would be the year Gaston did all the cracks. Exolon and The Black Shadow remained on the memberlist, but did not crack anything. Supplying was mostly handled by Splatt! and Drone No:5 (who by the end of the year was mysteriously not on the memberlist any longer...) with the occasional game from JBM, Luke & Chuck, Stik and Stone. Towards the end of the year (11 or 12/91) FLATLINERS lost its WHQ status, but Pizzaman remained on the memberlist (did he close?). The new WHQ was APOCALYPSE, sysopped by
POW (new 10/91). Among the members that came and went were Stone (supply, 08/91) and Stik (supply, 08/91). Tiger's Italian BBS ICC BBS was listed 09-10/91, but only his name and not the board 11-12/91... 1992 - The group's WHQ BBS 'APOCALYPSE' and its sysop POW (new 10/92) stepped down in may, to concentrate on the PC and console scenes. Shortly after, he left the group entirely and joined Ministry. The new WHQ became MIRAGE and its sysop Big Boss. The board 'BRAINDEAD' left/was kicked. The board 'DANSE MACABRE' joined Dynamix. Coder and cracker Tom (09-12/91) left the scene. Swedish sysop Zike ('PLEASURE ZONE', 03/90) left. English supplier and legendary sysop Splatt! ('SPLATTER HOUSE', 05/9109/93) left the scene Christmas 1993. During his time in FLT, he left and rejoined three times, among others to Ministry (RAW4) and TRSI! German Chuck changed handle to Evil Death and joined the new Angels (RAW5). I do not know if this is the same Chuck as the member of the 'Luke & Chuck' sysop team mentioned above. Turkish Imperator joined Dynamix 93. Deathbringer joined Zenith (RAW4). Hotmilk (sysop) joined Panic (RAW4). Norwegian sysop Phonebilly ('ELEGANT MACHINERY', ex The Silents, new RAW2) joined Crystal 09/92. Italian sysop Highlander ('PARADISE DREAM', 05/92) joined Anthrox (RAW4). Norwegian sysop Scratcher ('TOTAL PANIC', ex Palace, new RAW4, 10/93) soon joined Crusaders. This is slightly weird, since I have him verified 10/93, and RAW4 was published late 92... English sysop Kitaro ('MILLENNIA', ex Alpha Flight, 05/92-09/93) joined 2000 AD, but later left for Skid Row with a few others. It seems he later returned, since I have him verified in FLT 10/93... German sysop E-605 ('BLACK SHADOW') joined United Forces. Swedish musician Mantronix (ex Warfalcons, 10/90) was later in Razor 1911. Swedes Judge and Pernod (gfx) joined Horizon early 90. Exceller 8 #1 (1988, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Northstar [details]. Exceller VIII #2 (1989, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Northstar [details]. BBS Intro (The Fuck Shop BBS) (1989?, ECS Intro). code: Tom, gfx: n/a, music: Melodee (= Mel O'Dee?). Grodan Boll (1989, ECS File). code: Exolon, gfx: n/a, music: Titan/Northstar. Raytracing (1989, 29.12, Demo).
code: Sauron, gfx: Static/Rebels (flt logo), Vigilante (animated earth bobs), Mikael Balle/The Silents (fonts), Celebrandil (raytracing), music: "Rage" by n/a (NoiseTracker MOD format). Released at the Christmas Party 89. Invitation by Fairlight + Horizon + Miracle (1990, early, ECS File). code: Sauron/Miracle, gfx: Sarge, Static/Rebels, Vigilante/Fairlight, music: Danko/Phenomena. Invitation to the Swedish Elite Easter Conf 90. Grunka (1990, 03.11, Demo). Released at the Amiga Halloween Conference 90. Photocall (1991?, ECS File). code: Exolon, gfx: n/a, music: The Wiz. Faith [old] (FTH, 1993-1994) ---------------------------GER> Mogue (sysop 'ENDLESS PAIN', doublememb Fire and Ice, 01/94). ENG> PMF and Gilby (sysops 'CHEZ AMIE'). USA> Flux and Radiosity (sysops 'CANADIAN MIST', 05/98). ???> Triton (ger? 01/94). Faith was an illegal cracking group formed by germans Gandalf and Oliver Stoned (previously in Paranoimia) in 1993. The two divided the group's activities up between them after a while; Oliver Stoned taking care of the pc section, while Gandalf was responsible for the amiga and consoles. Later Oliver Stoned joined TRSI with the entire Faith group, a situation that worked thus: They released the English or international versions of games through TRSI, and the german version under the Faith label. 1994 - After The Party 93 in december of last year, Gandalf changed his handle to Ghandy and changed his focus from illegal activities to the demoscene. Faith died as a group in early 94 (probably) when they joined forces with Progress to create the new group Scandal. Germans Xan and JMS (gfx) joined Vision, but we are not certain exactly when this happened. Faith [new] (FTH, 1998-) -----------------------GER> Exon (org sysop 'LOS ENDOS', 02/98), Ghandy (org trade, 02/98), Petrified (trade sysop, 02/98), Steel (trade sysop 'CRAPTOWN', 02/98). ENG> Chill (trade, 02/98), The Welder (code, 02/98), Zoltrix (trade sysop 'SPACE OUT', 02/98). SWE> Dalamar (sysop 'DRAGON LANCE' EHQ, 02/98). Faith was reborn early 1998 by Exon, with the blessing of original founder
Ghandy, and is an illegal cracking group which exists until today.
Fake ---5 Secs. (Intro). code: Offler, gfx: n/a, music: Fash. P (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). 21st in The Party 4 40k intro competition. Falcons ------DEN> Fridgoff. FIN> Beathawk, Maniac, Protoplasm. JOR> Ripper. Their leader Bannasoft joined Melon Dezign, probably causing the death of the group. 1990 - Danish coder Boogeyman joined Vixen. 1991 - Their Finnish division was new late 91. 1992 - Finnish Index joined Addonic around january. Finnish musician and swapper Maniac left to join Chrome in september. Falon (1990-1991) ----------------Falon was a dutch demo group, founded in late 1990 by Jay One (gfx) and Sane (swap). Soon also Weirdo (Olav Hinke, music) and Knightram (Mathijn Maantjes, music swap) joined. Falon had no coders and they only released one production with the help of coder Magician Lord/Axis in january of 1991. After the release of the "Sinus Intro", Falon merged with a Danish group organized by swapper Dr.Poison (Jan Jorgenson) and renamed to Ozone. Unfortunately, this group lasted for only one day (!) before all members joined the UK-based demo group The Lunatics. This did not last long either, as after just one week the danish division decided to leave the Lunatics and restart their original group (before the merger with Falon). Thanks to Sane for information on this group! Sinus Intro (1991, .01, ECS Intro). code: Magician Lord/Axis, gfx: Jay One, music: Weirdo. Family, The ----------SWE> Hitech (swap), IP20, Megaxil (ex Paramount).
Zalo joined Axept. Swedish swapper Sputnik joined Quartz. Fanatic ------FIN> Blazer (T.Linna 02/94), Fozzie (Juha Partanen, swap, ex Black Robes, 02/94), Grazer (swap, 02/94), Ice-T (sysop 'TORNADO', 02/94), Lightman (Mika Halonem, music, 02/94), Maniac (Lassi Vuokko, org, 08/95), Mercus (02/94), Raven (Mika Hiltunen, swap, 02/94), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap, doublememb Scoopex, new late95-12/96), The Hooligan (Mikko Virtanen, swap, 08/95). DEN> Growl (Kim Andersen, swap, ex Energy). NOR> Green Snake (swap). ???> Duster (code, 12/95), Judge (fin? 02/94), Sphinx (fin? music, 02/9408/95). Fanatic are a demogroup based in Finland, and they released their first intro in mid february 1994. 1992 - Norwegian Shade joined Devils ca 06/92. 1995 - Finns SHD (code), Speck (music), Doc (gfx) and Brainlock (raytrace) all left to team up with Mystic right after the Assembly 95 08/95. They made the two demos "Hate" [94] and "Hate 2" [95] for Fanatic. Norwegian musician Bright Brick joined Devils. Masque left the scene. Ahdin Antimet Intro (1994, mid.02, ECS Intro). code: Vespa/independent, gfx: Fozzie, music: Light (Player 6.0 format). review: The intro opens and closes with a fish swimming across the screen. The graphics are functional and nice, and that goes for the entire intro; the unusual 8x8 pixel font is an especially nice variation. Other than that it's a standard style logo-plotter-scroll intro, even though it's nicely executed. This was the first ever intro by Fanatic. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Hate (1994, late). Hate 2 (1995, 12.08, Demo). code: SHD (main), Duster, gfx: Brainlock (Raytrace), Doc, music: Speck (2x The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Assembly 95 demo competition. review: H2 is a fast-paced c2p-style demo, though this one has more old fashioned texture mapping than phong- and envmapping. There are some nice routines, with an elastic tunnel ride a highlight, but most of it is a little blocky. Other routines worth mentioning are a moving lightsource shining down on a star that consequently cast a shadow, and two spacecut,
z-buf shaded toruses. Doc's picture of a seal springing from a man's head and the text 'Hate 2' is the only handpixelled graphics in the demo, the rest is all rendered. The music shows promise as an uptempo dance demo tune, but ultimately lacks in punch and edge. In the end, this suffers from what almost all 'object' demos suffer from, a lack of soul...and the almost all-rendered graphics doesn't make it better. A good, alive tune and decent graphics can save a demo like this...but it doesn't save this one. The palette on the z-buffer part is way too dark. The endscroller can be paused with the right mouse button. Next year, SHD coded the amazing "Traffic" [08/96] for Mystic at the Assembly. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Fantasy ------SWE> Electron, Ques (swap), White Dwarf. ???> Twingo (Stefan Mahler, 12/96). Warlock joined Divine. Norwegian Kael joined Laserdance. Dredd, Pumpkin and Anthrax joined Divine. Fantasy Force, The (TFF) -----------------------FIN> Cenobit (gfx, 06/91), Coconut (code, 06-07/91), Flame (code, 12/90), Flinx (gfx, 12/90-03/91), Jake The Snake (music, 12/90-07/91), Jol005x (music, 12/90-06/91), SBT (code, 03-07/91). TFF was an exclusively finnish demo group. 1990 - Around christmas, they released their first "Musicdisk" [12/90] with music by Jake the Snake and Joloo5x. 1992 - The entire group left to become the Finnish section of The Silents. After a short while, and releasing the demo "Maximum Velocity" [08/92], they left them too to form the group Pygmy Projects. First Steps (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Selector I (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Selector II (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Coconut, gfx: Cenobit, music: JOL005X. Selector III (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: Silver Eagle, gfx: n/a, music: JOL005X.
Selector IV (1990/91?, ECS Intro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X. Music Disk I (1990/91?, ECS Musicdisk). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: JOL005X, Jake the Snake. Musicdisk (1990, late.12, ECS Musicdisk). code: Flame, gfx: Flinx, music: "Hymn To Virgin", "Superstition", "It_s Out There..." and "Poltergeist" by Jake The Snake, "Bad Cough.jol", "90Guitarsiii.jol", "Eelis the n.jol", "Out of Words" and "Sick _n Curious.jol" by Jol005x. Birthday (1991, ECS Intro). code: SBT, gfx: Jol005x, music: "Voi_Vitsi!2.jol" by Jol005x, "Noname" by SBT. Fantasian #2 (1991, .03, ECS Packintro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx, music: "Electricity" by Ron Klaren/Critical (Ron Klaren format). Fantasian #7 (1991, 08.06, ECS Packintro). code: Coconut, gfx: Cenobit (font), music: "Magia-nt.jol" by joloo5x. Released at the Society Summer Party 91. Voyage (1991, 27.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, Flinx/Magnetic Fields, music: Jol005x (NoisePacker 2 format). 2nd in the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91 demo competition. Chippanduida (1991, late.07, ECS Musicintro). code: SBT, gfx: Flinx/Magnetic Fields, music: "Full Circle" by Jake The Snake, "Magia-nt.jol" by Jol005x. Music Disk II (1991/92?, ECS Musicdisk). code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, music: Cenobit, JOL005X, Jake The Snake. Faque ----???> Jack (gfx, 12/95), Loque (code, 12/95), P.A. (code, 12/95), PeaBrain (code music, 12/95). Nothing Special (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: P.A., PeaBrain, Loque, gfx: Jack, music: PeaBrain. review: I was quite astounded when viewing this intro from a group I'd never even heard of before, and finding it to be totally excellent! It opens with a convincing flame effect in a small box in the middle of the screen. Then the introtext is flashed in flames, before we go on to some fractal images waving, still in the same box. Next, the entire screen is used for a bouncing texturemapped cube,
bouncing in front of and behind the animated background pillars! This looks very nice, and the cube is soon relieved by a more complex object. Next was something else I hadn't expected; a fast phong torus, with motionblur! It was far less commonplace with advanced routines like phong back in 1995. A few other, less interesting effects follow, including one with a picture of Al Bundy next to it, for no apparent reason :) Very very nice... when are these guys going to do a demo? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Artfire (1997, 30.08, Demo). 13th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Fastline -------64k Intro (1993, 04.09, ECS Intro). code: Little, gfx: n/a, music: Eliot. Released for the Saturne Party 93 intro competition. Fatal Unity ----------SWE> Bohemian (sysop 'THE TRADE ZONE', 01/95). Fate ---Fate is dead. Satan joined Epic. Quark joined Exort. Dr.Clan joined Adept. Dr.Clan joined D-Tect. Scream, Knuelle and Death joined Paranoid. Germans Aerobas and Montana Rice joined Vanish. Fifth Generation ---------------SPA> Evelred (music, later Capsule, 09/92), Excelsior (gfx, 09/92). GER> Yoyo (Paulo Garcia, swap, ex Digital, new 08/92). FIN> Lozenge (swap, 93). Lozenge is the only Finnish member. Deelite has not joined Awe. Dementia (1992, 28.09, ECS Demo). 3rd in the Darkness & Fifth Generation Party 92 demo competition. 007 (1993, 24.07, Intro). 2nd in the Southern Party 93 intro competition. Gurumaster (1993, 24.07, Demo).
2nd in the Southern Party 93 demo competition. FIG --DDT (ex Pure-Byte) and a few others left to form Accession. Finesse ------???> Demilich (codePC), Deon (gfxAM), Explicit (musicPC), Indie (musicAM), Jam Sam (gfx musicAM), Je-Man (mainorg www), Mali (codePC), Oste-Pop (orgPC). Firecrackers -----------T.M.D. joined Blitz. Fire and Ice (F^I) -----------------GER> Mogue (sysop 'ENDLESS PAIN', doublememb Faith, 01/94). ???> H2o (ger? ascii, doublememb Remedy, 01/94). Boards; PSYCHO TERMINAL (usa). Fire and Ice (often spelled Fire & Ice) were an ascii group. Fi-Re Crew (1989-1992) ---------------------Fi-Re Crew was a legendary Hungarian demo group. 1992 - Renegade/Damage joined, and Soldier was kicked due to lameness in the middle of the year. They died after several prominent members decided to leave the scene in order to code games. Mr.Pixel then took an initiative to form Impulse with some of the ex Fi-Re Crew members and some others. Fire Starters, The (TFS) -----------------------ENG> Scott (not same as below). ???> Code Tapper, Dictator, Killer, Mike, Mike in Australia, Scott, Scratch, Talisman, Thanos. VERY early group, specializing in importing pirated software to Australia. Flame Arrows, The (TFA)
----------------------HOL> Nitrate (sysop 'NECROPOLIS'), Price (code, late95). AUT> Brain (sysop 'CRIME CITY'). Flash Productions (FP) ---------------------DEN> A No One (gfx, 02/90), Blutch (swap, late90), Commando (music, 02/90), Denon, Freagle, Orion (code, ex Kefrens old), Vixen (ex Bytestar), Warca, Yamato (code, 02/90). NOR> Cedric (swap, ex Iris), Deathbringer (swap, ex Exit, 92), Powersledge (ex Amaze), Slimer (swap). ENG> Majic Mushroom (swap pack, later in SONiK), Ride (swap, 06/91). GER> PPJ (ex Prophecy, new ca 10/90), Ratso Rizzo (ex Prophecy, new ca 10/90). Flash Productions was an originally Danish group, most known for their disklong multiloading megamixes. 1990 - In february the group travelled to the Kefrens and Dexion party with two new releases in their bag; the demo "Danish Know How" [02/90]and the musicdisk "Digital Concert 3" [02/90] were both released at this party. PPJ and Ratso Rizzo joined from Prophecy around october to build a German section of the group. 1991 - Cryolite changed his handle to Krest and joined Rebels denmark around may! Hobbit joined Lemon. Rick (ex Network) joined Devils. Danish superswapper The Pride joined Brainstorm. Danish graphician Slash (ex Kefrens old) joined Anarchy. Norwegian coder Black Panther (ex Zone 7) joined Paragon. Danish musician Maestro (ex Kefrens old) joined the new Kefrens. Danish musician Gonzo was a member from 88-92, when he left the scene. Total Confusion (ECS File). Hit The Road (1989, 29.12, ECS Megademo). Released at the X-Mas Party 1989. Bud Brain III (1990?, ECS File). code: Orion, gfx: Slash, music: Maestro. Digital Concert 2 (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Commando. info: Only one tune, but it's a 'load-as-it-plays' number that lasts 12 minutes 41 seconds! Danish Know How (1990, 18.02, ECS Demo). Released for the Kefrens and Dexion Party demo competition.
Digital Concert 3 (1990, 17.02, ECS Musicdisk). code: Yamato, gfx: A No One, The Pride, music: Commando. Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party. GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Note: Does not work, crashes. Caches/AGA off has no effect. Digital Concert VI (1990, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Commando. No Brain - No Pain (1990, 01.07, ECS Megademo). code: n/a, gfx: A. No One, music: Gonzo. 4th in the Amiga Conference 90 demo competition. Hysteria (1990, 26.12, ECS File). Released at the Dexion Party 90. Bubblefields (1991, ECS Demo). Winner of the Aero Conference 1991 demo competition! Anti-Budbrain Demo (1991, 27.04, ECS Demo). Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Flashing Bytes, The (TFB, -1991) -------------------------------ENG> Dobbin (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Jaz (swap, ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Lurch (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Optrix (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), Ranx (ex New Wave Inc., new 06/91), X-Olet (Andy, swap). ???> Fugitive. TFB was a largely English demo group. 1991 - The entire english group New Wave Inc. (Ranx, Dobbin, Optrix, Lurch and Jaz) joined in june. Raider joined Treacl mid 91. They announced plans for the opening of a second uk bbs in august, but the group died in the middle of 1991 =[ Their diskmag "Trader" is now indpendent. Streamline joined Anarchy. Unlimited and TKM joined Vanish. Aerobas did NOT join Skid Row, and is now in Vanish. Invisible (ex Eremation, new mid 91) is now groupless. Flash Team, The (TFT) --------------------The Flash Team changed their name, and are now known as Fraxion. Floppy (FLP, 1994-) ------------------POL> Def (mainorg 3d, 02/97-04/91), Fame (gfx, doublememb Pulse [pc], ex
doublememb Nah Kolor, 08/96-12/97), Jazzcat (music, 08/95), Revisq (music, doublememb Anadune [details] late96, 08/96-04/01), Thorus (code, 08/95-02/97), X-Ceed (music, doublememb Endzeit [details], 98), Zig (Wojciech Gajos, code, 08/95-04/01). ???> Bonzaj (pol? 3d, 04/01), Jacool (swap, new 08/97), Lester (gfx, 04/01), Mustafa (gfx, new 08/97), Pickpoke (gfx, new 08/97). Floppy is a polish demo group, with seemingly no foregin members at all. Blaze, who joined from Appendix in late 96, was back on the Appendix memberlist 01/98...how did this happen? 1996 - The group dominated the polish Intel Outside 3 party at the end of august, capturing the second place in the demo competition with "Embraced" [08/96], and both first ("Rumpelstiltskin" [08/96]) and 2nd ("Unanimiter" [08/96]) in the 64k intro competition. 1997 - Polish Gabi (Gabriel Dubiel, gfx raytrace, 08/95-08/97) left to be independent in august. 1998 - Polish swapper Blaze (doublememb Nah Kolor, ex Appendix, new late96-02/97) joined Endzeit in june. Athana (1994, ECS Intro). One Frame (1995, 12.03, ECS Intro). Released at Primavera 95. Potaz (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Thorus, Zig, gfx: White/Vacuum, music: "emc chiptune #06+8" by Bartman/Vacuum. 4th in the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: Oh, very very nice! Design is the order of the day here; the way the routines are timed to the music is most excellent! To be quite frank, there's not really any element of this that bothers me, so I'll just conclude that this one's worth your download time :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. 4k Intro (1996, AGA 4k Intro). Winner of the Staszic Compo 3 4k intro competiton! Short (1996, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Staszic Compo 3 64k intro competiton! XTC.EXE (1996, AGA Demo). 2nd in the Staszic Compo 3 demo competiton. Luperkaline (1996, 23.06, AGA 64k Intro). 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 64k intro competition. Gold (1996, 23.06, AGA 4k Intro). 2nd in the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition.
Embraced (1996, 30.08, Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 demo competition. Rumpelstiltskin (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). Winner of the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition! Unanimiter (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Thorus, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition. review: The intro opens with a Floppy logo, before a relief bump routine where we travel around the bump and credits appear on top appear. The light also changes color several times. This is followed by a blurry tunnel, before a phong-spring is overlaid... and then things take a nice turn for the stylish as the bump routine is back again, but this time it also spins while everything is going on... =) And then another logo by Fame, this time saying Unanimiter, and we're done. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Embraced (1996, 30.08, AGA Demo). 2nd in the Intel Outside 3 demo competition. Jackpot (1996, 10.11, AGA 64k Intro). 2nd in the Gravity 96 64k intro competiton. PapadeO (1996, 10.11, AGA File). code: Zig, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq. 2nd in the Gravity 96 demo competition. review: It's the usual story, with phong objects and bumpmapping galore and not much else. Personally I'm getting sick of these 3D-objectmarathon demoes. All that changes from demo to demo, it seems, are the objects. The code remains the same, and usually the music does too. This is technically impressive, but not very interesting for the casual viewer. Perhaps it'll give some coders a hard-on, but that's about the extent of it. Requires some fast, though I'm not sure how much. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Papadeo 2 (1997, 23.02, AGA 4MB File). code: Zig, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Rush Hours '97 demo competition. review: There will be no review of this demo, for the simple fact that it refuses to work on my system; it gurus every time. At first I thought it was some program I had loaded that the demo didn't like, but booting without startup-sequence didn't help matters either. It always crashes with an 'illegal instruction' guru, ...0004 or ...0006. On closer inspection of the accompanying text file, I believe the problem is that this demo requires an FPU! Anyone with a suitable machine that can
review this for me? It's a filedemo alright, but the file is almost 4MB big :) Although it'll work (depends on your setup ;( ) with an 020+ processor, an 040 at 25Mhz is the recommended machine! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Deport (1997, 05.04, AGA HD Multifile). code: Zig, gfx: Def, Fame, music: Revisq. review: Short and oh so sweet, "Deport" is filled with a few, well polished effects rather than lots of half finished ones, which is all too common. The speed of these routines are really suited to impress, especially the 3D lightwave scene and the speedy, greatlooking tunnels towards the end. Revisq's soundtrack avoids the all too common techno tune, in favour of a powerful percussion-based track which really adds a lot to the demo. Fame's graphics are OK, but nothing special. I do not know whether this requires any fast mem. When I clicked the left mouse button to exit at the end, I was presented with a guru. The demo was released at a small, internal meeting (dubbed the BUZ Party) held 04-06.97, and visited by Zig (organizer), Def, Flapjack/ Appendix and Informer/Appendix :) Download heavily advised. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Napalm (1998, 26.04, AGA File). Winner of the Rush Hours 98 demo competition! GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Nadia (1998, .08, Demo). Winner of the Intel Oustide 5 demo competition! Mocap (2001, HD File Demo). code: Zig, gfx: Bonzaj (3d), Def (3d), Lester (additional), music: Revisq (The Player 6.1A format). 10th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Well, this ain't gonna be much of a review, since I was unable to run this demo on my machine. Having originally tried the demo with just 16mb fast, and found that that just wasn't enough to get it up and running, I dove into this old pentium cabinet I've got here (normally running Red Hat Linux =]), and quickly extracted a 32mb SIMM. Plugged it in, tried the demo again... and now it crashed. Two more tries and I'm giving up. Likely this requires and FPU or possibly even PPC, but no system requirements are anywhere to be seen in the accompanying info file. I'm depressed now. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Flying Cows Inc. (FCI) ----------------------
POL> Aron (code), Chaser (music), Devil (gfx), Echo (code gfx, 01/93), Havoc (gfx), Kurczak (swap, 94), Lc (code), Melon (doublememb Mystic [details], late96), Pagan (gfx), Plastus (gfx), Plexa (code, 08/95), Seba (raytrace), Snake (gfx, new 06/96), Stean (code), Zibi (swap edit, late94). FIN> Astral (code, new 06/96), Danny Kane (swap ascii), Grand (gfx, new late95), Royal'69 (swap), Sibilius (music, new 06/96), Splatterhead (Vesa Kivisilta, swap, ex Addonic, new early95), Substance (music), Thoron (code, new 06/96), Zounds (org swap music, new 06/96). SWE> Marwic (sysop, new 06/96), Skyhawk (new early95). GER> Heptagon (Stefan Swafing). ???> McCoy (old handle Magnum, 95). 1997 - Bartman tragically died 21-05-1997. Polish swapper Qix left for Gods. Polish musician Dreamer left to help form TPDL with Tom and Python/TRSI. Polish swappers Carlo and Chmiel were kicked out early 95. Pippen was also kicked. Dziady - Part Three (1993, .01, ECS File). code: Echo, gfx: ZX Spectrum, Gizmo/Digital Fire, Echo, music: Jack/ Showtime. review: Most generic, this little text-effect-text production. It's almost like it was made with a demo editor... Hm. Lame BBS Intro (1994 or pre, ECS). Amused to Death (1994, 13.11, Demo). 6th in the Gelloween 96 demo competition. Human Violation (1994, 13.11, Demo). 11th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Time (1995, 30.08, Demo). 7th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. P w moje lamiona (1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro). code: Plexa, gfx: Plexa, Kurczka/Lamers, music: Blogath/Energy. review: Starting this 64k intro, the first thing that amazed me was the music - an actual guitar tune in a 64k intro! I was impressed, but didn't think they could squeeze much else out of it, then. I was wrong. This is a one screen intro, with just a small section in the middle changing to accomodate the effects. There are really only two effects in the intro, a zoomrotator and a voxel routine, but both are well executed. I liked this, if nothing else then for the novelty of the music :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Fnuque -----???> Blueberry (code, 09/97), Cody (code music, old handle Bizy, 09/97), Fairart (gfx, 09/97), Flux (code, 09/97), Hund (gfx, 09/97), Ib (gfx, 09/97), Painelf (code, 09/97), Presence (org code, 09/97), Punqtured (music, 09/97), Swaxi (music, 09/97), Trez (gfx, 09/97). Many members of Fnuque were later in Depth. Focus Design (FD, 1992-1997) ---------------------------DEN> Corial (Søren Rasmussen, code swap, 92), Fish (founder gfx, ex Elin/Static Bytes, 92, 92-12/93), Kollaps (founder code music, ex Cult, 92), Limit (swap), Mazzachre (music, ex Balance, new mid92), Tome (founder code, ex The R/Static Bytes, 92-12/93). ???> Bigmama (code, 12/94), Bionic (music, 12/92), Chaos (code, 12/94), Corial (code), Delfi (code, 12/93), JNI (music, 12/94), Joker (founder, old handle Tris), JSL (music, 12/93), Overlord (music, 12/92). Focus Design was a Danish demo group born in early 1992 by Fish (formerly Elin) and Tome (formerly The R) from Static Bytes, Kollaps from Cult and Tris from Abuse. Kollaps is also known as MZ1453/GFB, and Corial and Optima are brothers. They were the long-standing arrangers of the South Sealand summer parties in Denmark. 1992 - They were further strengthened around the middle of the year, when Danish musician Mazzachre joined from Balance. 1997 - The group was officially closed down by main coders Kollaps, Optima and Corial in 1997. Optima was later in Scoopex, then Haujobb. Swapper Easy left the scene. Mission Nostromo II (ECS File). code/music: Kollaps, gfx: Fish. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Eyemind (1993, 28.12, ECS 4MBFAST File). code: Delfi, Tome, gfx: Fish, music: JSL. 25th in The Party 93 demo competition. Blur (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code/gfx: Coma, Bigmama, music: JNI. 13th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: This intro opens with the effect that probably gave it its name. It's a combination of plasma and interference that looks quite good.
The only other real effect here is a stretching fullscreen zoomrotator of some woman's face. Not bad, far from great. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Comaldåse (1996, 06.07, Intro). 4th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Engine (1996, 06.07, Intro). 7th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition. Newt (1997, 30.03, 4k Intro). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition. Pulp (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Forcers Team -----------Life on the Mars (1996, 30.08, 40k Intro). 2nd in the AntIQ '96 40k intro competition! Fractal Generation -----------------1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Phaser was kicked because of inactivity, and that Kismat joined the group. Frame 18 (F18) -------------HUN> Cyberdance (Zotyo Szombathelyi, 04/96), Flex (edit, 06/94), Gizmo (sysop 'LUNA SQUARE', 04/96). ???> Dundee (code, new 04/96-02/98), Darklon (hun? code, new 11/96), Grey (code, 04/96), Nacy (code, 04/96), Pat (music, 04/96-02/98). Wind! (1996, 13.04, Demo). code: Flex, Nacy (mars, tunnel), Grey, gfx: Flex, music: Pat. Winner of Scenest 96 demo competition! review: It may be a party winner, but I'm still not impressed. This is a demo of fair quality, though how it could win a demo competition is beyond me. The most impressive part, I guess, is the smooth voxelspace a lot like the Mars program for the PC, if you know it. Still, it's hardly smooth MOVING. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Luna (1996, 30.08, 40k Intro). 3rd in the AntIQ '96 40k intro competition. Flag 98 (1998, 08.02, AGA 64k Intro).
code: Dundee, gfx: none, music: Pat. Winner of the Flag 98 64k intro competition! review: This is not half as good as it could have been; the seemingly endless precalculation in the beginning and the failing framerate destroys this for me. The only ray of light is the excellent 'underwater/overwater' object, which looked smashing...but slow. Optimize! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Frantic [fin] (FTC, 1990-) -------------------------FIN> Captain (music, ex Image), Harri K., Hellfire (sysop 'POWER PLANT'), JayJay (sysop 'KREMATORIUM', 07-11/91), Perro (music, 06/91), Proton (sysop 'DRUNKLAND'), Sawblade (swap trade, ex Escape, 91), Starflair, Wedge. Frantic is a Finland based demo group, born in may of 1990. Their first production was released in november of the same year. There were two quite different groups using the name Frantic, one based in Germany and one in Finland. As the groups learned of each other, there was a cooperation proposal, but that fell through. The two groups then went into a rivalry, meaning harsh words were exchanged in their productions. The resolution to this is unknown at present. As I did not intially know of this, some information may have been placed in the wrong place. Their musician Captain is now a professional musician, and has even released a CD under the name Dance Nation, called "Dawn". 1993 - Finnish swapper Whiplash (ex Commie/The Special Brothers, new late92) joined Surprise! Productions early 93. Prince joined Euphoria. Sysop Hoschy ('NECROMANTIC') joined Alpha Flight. Frantic [ger] (FTC, 1990-) -------------------------GER> Flexx (gfx music, 12/91-08/93), Red Eagle (swap), Rival, Robin (swap, 12/91), Sart (code, 08/93), Strike (12/91), Snake (swap, late90), Technoid (muisc, 12/91). DEN> Aries (code, 12/91), Assassin (music swap, 12/91), E.S.P (Ole Baunbaek, gfx swap, 12/91), Macloud (code gfx, 12/91). ???> Copper (ex Targets, new 09/91), Fulcrum, Screwface (old handle Hydra), X-Ample (ex Skid Row, new 09/91). Boards; ALIEN NATION (ger). Frantic is a largely German demo group born ca 07/90, but with foreign
sections. The Danish section was formed by Aries, E.S.P and Macloud, with Assassin joining at a later date. There were two quite different groups using the name Frantic, one based in Germany and one in Finland. As the groups learned of each other, there was a cooperation proposal, but that fell through. The two groups then went into a rivalry, meaning harsh words were exchanged in their productions. The resolution to this is unknown at present. As I did not intially know of this, some information may have been placed in the wrong place. 1992 - German swapper Flash (ex Vanish) left the Amiga and returned to the C64 scene early 92. Musician Shamrock (old handle Scoop, 08/93) joined Ram Jam. Vectro (1991?, 10.12, ECS Intro). code: Macloud, gfx: E.S.P, music: "Midnight." by Technoid (4ch MOD format). review: This intro was made to announce the new Danish section of Frantic, and is very typical of its time. At the top of the screen is an ok logo, with the letters having cracks in them, like they were cast in stone. The rest of the screen is divided up with two small bars, and the action takes place between these two. Mostly it's a vector-text-vectortext affair, with the only diversion being the concluding straight greetings scroller. Not very exciting, I'm afraid. The intro has no exit routine whatsoever, but the text screens can be skipped with the right mousebutton. Almost certainly not released at a party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dunkle Gedanken (1993, 02.08, ECS Intro). code: Sart, gfx: Flexx, music: Scoop. Released at the 680xx Convention 1993. Fraxion (FRX, 1990-) -------------------NOR> Amigashark (founder), Astaroth, Big Red (code, ex Avalanche, 90), Blade (Lars, swap, 09/92), D.O.S (90), Flash of Genious (Anders M. Hunstad, founder code, 90), Hoaxer (gfx, ex Avalanche, 90), Jotes (sysop 'MIDNIGHT CALLER' WHQ, 10/94), Lix, Lorien (Jens Nordstrand, gfx, 90), Mr.Flamme, Reptile (music, late 90), RUS, Sherwin (sysop 'VISUAL MEMORY', new late91), The Black Wizard, The Guardian, The Magic Arts, Thing, Tornado, Typhoon (founder), Zippo. ???> Jam (ex Lightman/Animax, new early92), Xandu (crack). Boards; WONDERLAND (nor). Fraxion were born in 1990 after The Flash Team (TFT) decided to change the name of their group. They were a Norwegian mainly demo-oriented crew,
though there were a few trainers and the utility Fraxion Ripper by Flash of Genious. They released at least one crack in cooperation with Mayhem. 1990 - Norwegians Delta-X (music) and Copper (swap) left the scene late 90. The End, Exen, Lobber and Uninvited (code) all left late 90. Flesh joined Angels. Jammy left the scene. Nico (sysop) was kicked. Norwegians Crawlen and The Player joined Vision. Norwegian sysop Pitcher ('HOTTER THAN HELL' EHQ) joined Cryptoburners. Norwegian musician KEO (Karl-Espen Olsen, ex Avalanche, late 90) left. Norwegian sysop Skykiller ('THE MAZE', founder) joined Razor 1911. Fraxion-Ripper V1.007 Intro (1990, ECS Intro). code: Flash of Genious, gfx: Lorien, music: KEO (Future Composer format). review: Short but sweet, this 25k intro for the old ripper program. It's a lot like some of the Horizon intros of the era, actually, with a large logo scrolling across the background made up of 8x8 pixel dots, and a sine scroller over that. It's short, easy, and looks nice. Significantly, this old intro runs without a single problem! The music timing's fine, no graphics glitches... Not bad at all! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Highway 1970 (1990, ECS File). code: Big Red, gfx: Keo (animations), Hoaxer (logos, fonts), music: Keo (Future Composer 1.3 format). review: This demo opens with an animationin which two cars chase each other, shooting at each other's cars. The good guys (Fraxion) finally blow the head of one of their assailers, and then activate their antigravity kit to fly into space... The rest is just scrollers and text. Anyway, nicely executed. The music is NICE chiptunes, by the master of Future Composing: Keo. Coolness doesn't even start. Unfortunately, the demo does not contain any other release date than the year. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Divine Visions (1990, early, Trackloaded Slideshow, 2 disks). code: Flash of Genious, gfx: Lorien, Lonewolf/Teladon (digitizing), music: "Flick Out 90" (intro) and "Countdown Remix" (main) by Delta-X. review: A slideshow of scanned Boris Vallejo pictures, sharing the common thread that they're all mythology-related. The pictures are mainly interesting for seeing the original images some of the finest hand pixelled art ever was based on. The best thing about this slideshow, I suppose, is the intro, which is rather good actually. The music and graphics especially stands out as worthwile. Since this is a slideshow, there's not much graphics to speak about. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Future Visions (1990, Slideshow). code: Big Red, gfx: Hoaxer (logos, pictures), Lonewolf (digitizing), music: "Mortal Souls" and "Activate" by Keo (ProTracker MOD format).
review: The name of this slidshow made promises the production couldn't hold up. No future visions, only a few handmade pictures that surely look fine in real life, but because of the bad quality of the digitizing, this show is more a disaster than a vision... And again princesses, monsters and other fantasy motives with many natural snapshots are dominating this slide made by the legendary Future Designs Crew. A few sci-fi objects and some militaries are also to be found in the eight pictures ONLY, handmade by Hoaxer and digitized by Lonewolf afterwards. Most of them have a fantastic and mystic atmosphere and I am really interested to see the originals, but it's though not worth to watch it twice! Only for VERY nostalgic sceners, who loves to read scrolltexts. The only positive aspect for a computer production is the preferences menu. A little hint: Try to start it when everything is enabled on a A1200 and you will see some nice (not planned?) effects. At least I saw them with my hardware! [zito] ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, 1mb fast. A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast. Revenge (1990, 07.04, ECS Trackloaded Demo). info: This demo was released a week after the police raid on the Cryptoburners, IT and Visual Bytes party in Drammen, Norway. Its main objective was yelling abuse at the companies and individuals thought to be responsible. Freagles -------Baraccuda joined Acume. Freedom Force (1988-) --------------------FIN> Crayone (10/88-03/89), Fizz (Kai Taipale, 11/88-03/89), Lucifer (Ari Villa, code gfx, 10/88-03/89), Rolex (Ari Ruotsaleinen, 11/8803/89). DEN> Mediator (Per Kanstrup, 11/88-03/89), Sagon (Jakob Solander, 11/88). N-Z> NOR> Tomcat (Knut-Gunnar Walle, 11/88). MEMBERS:Finland;Lucifer,Crayone,Fizz,Rolex. Denmark;Mediator,Pink Panther,McCursor. Norway:Dynamo,TomcatF14. NewZealand;Blair Zuppicich. Germany;Roly. England;Nucleus. Freedom Force was an international demo group, likely formed around 1988. Their main driving force in the early days were finnish coder and graphician Lucifer. They also released a demopack series called "Swingdisk", and the
first disks came out around 1988. 1988 - After At least four demos in two months, concluding with "Megademo Advertising", the group started out as one of the more productive ones of its time, despite seemingly only having one active coder. 1990 - Nothing appearead from the group at first this year, with the group's main efforts going into the "Megademo" [03/89] which was released at The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party in swden at the beginning of march. A memberlist published in the demo revealed some changes since that last one, published five months before; Sagon was gone, while Pink Panther and McCursor were new members in Denmark; musician Blair Zupicich was new in New Zealand; Roly was new in Germany; Nucleus was new in England; and norwegian Dynamo was new in Norway. He later left for System 5 around july. Demo 2 (1988, 30.10, ECS File). code/gfx: Lucifer, music: "Whosaidrob" by Razmo/Kefrens. Smoker (1988, .11, ECS Intro). code: Lucifer, gfx: Reward/? (font), Lucifer (minifont, logo), Zei (drunken man), music: "Partyeppich" by Roly. info: Released at a copyparty held at Vorikatu-school, presumably in Finland, that we have NOT been able to identify. Any help with this would be great! Back Again, 3rd Demo (1988, 13.12, ECS Intro). code: Lucifer, gfx: Lucifer, Reward/? (font), music: "64memory" by Razmo/ Kefrens. Megademo Advertising (1988, .12, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Lucifer, music: Rolamd P./?. Megademo (1989, 04.03, ECS Trackmo). code: Lucifer, gfx: Reward/??? (loader, 4th part), Zei (1st part), music: "Critical-Lovebeat", "Freedom Force1", "Lonely", "Missing-You", "Nicewalk", "Oasis" and "Theknomes" by Blair Zuppicich/independent, "n/a" by Roly. Released for The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party. info: There are four parts; a bootloader and three demoparts. Bulls Eye (1990, .01, ECS Game). code: Lucifer, Andy, gfx: Lucifer, music: Lucifer (sampled sound). Asutrilia Born (1990, ECS Intro). code: Bit-Master, Lucifer, gfx: Wiz of Oz, music: "Ffwiz1" by Wiz of Oz (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with AI. Coop (1990, ECS Demo).
code/gfx: Lucifer, music: "Soundtime" by Roly (ProTracker MOD format). Cooperation with AI. Bat Sinus Demo (1990, ECS Demo). code: Lucifer, gfx: Lucifer, music: "Acidbat2" (ripped from Ocean's Batman game). Cooperation with AI. info: This intro announced Roly and Dr.Visual left. Free Flight ----------AUS> The Wizard (sysop 'INSANITY FLIGHT', 04/95). Freestyle (1992-) ----------------N-L> Crash (sysop 'CRASH CORNER'), Godfather (ex Vicious, new early93), Kayo. Freestyle was formed in late 1992 on the ashes of the original Axis; when Axis died, most of its members went on to form this group. Dutchman Claxon left the scene. Dutch musician Nao joined Lemon. Sysop Fletch ('NEON CITY') joined Solution. Englishman Frostbyte was later Meltdown/Ecstasy. Dutch sysop Countach ('CYBERSPACE') joined X-Trade. Dutch sysop Librator ('MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS') joined Movement. Dutchmen Magician Lord, Steroid (both ex Axis old), Jay-One and English musician Hollywood (ex Lunatics, new late 92/early 93) all left to join the new Jetset. Perfect 5 (pre 1993, .03, ECS Musicdisk). Studio Intro (93, Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Wisped" by Hollywood (4ch ProTracker format). Freestyle Designs ----------------HUN> Anchor, Keymax, Lacy, Ray, Synex, Wortex. Rave The Party vol.1 (Trackloaded GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, note: Crashes after loading Caches off/original chipset musicdisk). 4mb fast/3.0. and showing three loader-logos. has no positive effect.
Freestyle UK -----------Ball Demo (pre 1989, .03, ECS Demo).
Freezers (FRS) -------------POL> Alex (music, 94), Bart (code, 94), Benjamin (gfx music, 94), Bethoven (music, 94), Cedyn (Marcin Czartynski, 04/98), CIA (Marcin Jedynak, gfx music, ex Mystic, new early95), Freeman (gfx, 94), Gordon (Bogdan Lipski, code swap, 94), Immortal (Tomasz Chmielewski, org swap pack sysop, 94-late97), Joy (code, 94), Kresnal (trade), Lenin (whq swap edit, 94), Qwerty (Adrian Dolny, swap, ex Mad Elks), Sky (Radoslaw Gulczynski, swap sysop 'ICEHOUSE', late95), Snowman (Przemyslaw Jez, swap), Uhu (Jarek Ciszowski, old handle Mr.Uhu, late97-04/98), Yoga (gfx, ex Mystic), Zogar Sag (lamer, 94). SWE> Atheist (music, ex Vision, 94), Coolorado (train), Delery (code, ex The Silents, later Bodyworks, new late95), Ekhed (gfx, 94), General Lee (swap, new late96), Klorathy (code music, later Ram Jam, 12/94), Mindphaser (Fredrik Komstadius, swap, ex Vision, 94), Marillion (Erik Tilleby, music, earlier TSL, 95, re 04/96), Shock (Christian Skoog, swap, ex Vision), Skepp (sysop 'BRUTAL TRUTH', doublememb Defiance, ex Vision, 01/95). FIN> Kazz (Mika Savela, swap, 94). DEN> Mass (swap trade). NOR> Magz (sysop, new late96). USA> DSX.Design (music). ???> Mazz (ex Bronx), Morph (code, 12/95), Pinhead (ex Hardcore Design), Protas (music, ex Case, new late97), Skowron (gfx), Visual (gfx, ex Mystic, new late97). Freezers were a mainly Polish and Swedish demo group. 1994 - Swedish graphician Sputnik (*NOT* same as POL coder of same name) is not in Freezers anymore. 1995 - The swedes Reverend D (sysop 'TRESPASS' WHQ, 94), TBM (code) and Phase (gfx) left to form a new group called Basement late 95. 1996 - Reverend D, Tbm and Phase DID NOT leave Freezers Sweden 06/96. Polish graphician and musician Dave (new mid96-late97) left the group to join Amnesty. He stopped swapping in 96, before leaving. Polish coder Sputnik (94) left, probably late 96. As a result, Dave took over some organizing together with Immortal. Swedes Grid (gfx, 94) and Excel (org gfx swap, ex Vision, new PRP4, 94) are, according to the credits in "Dreamwalker", no longer members. I think Excel's in Balance now. Swedish swapper Evapor8er (94) got kicked. Kac (Intro). Wit Premium (1994, 13.11, AGA File). code: Sputnik, gfx: Grid, music: Bethoven (main), Atheist (end).
2nd in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dreamwalker (1995, Musicdisk, 3 disks). code: Joy, Sputnik (additional), gfx: Imperator/Blaze, Python/TRSI, Excel/ex-FRS (additional), Grid/ex-FRS (additional), Lazur/TRSI (additional), music: Dreamer/Masque. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Lech (1995, AGA File). code: Sputnik, gfx: Grid, Freeman, music: Bethoven. Released at Easter Party 1995. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 4k intro (1995, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Morph. 2nd in The Party 5 4k intro competition. review: Short but sweet, this little intro contains just two effects. The first is a texturemapped object, and the other is a 'gun' made up of what seems to be several other objects; z-buffer shaded. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hyper (1996, 30.08). Released at the Intel Outside 3 party. Fresh [new] (1996-) ------------------FRA> Moone (Bartolozzi Florent, founder code music swap, ex Ram Jam, new 04/96-late97). SWI> Sear (gfx swap, ex Dylem, new late96-late97). ???> Abalao (music, new late97), Bip Bip (swap pack, late97), Cyclone (ascii swap, new late97), Germ (gfx, late97), Ghost (gfx, late97), Ostyl (code, late97). Fresh was formed by Moone/ex-Ram Jam 04/96. Fresh [old] (1994-) ------------------Fresh was formed by large portions of the German section of Alcatraz when they decided to kick that section. Fresh Prince -----------Fresh Prince was never a complete group, just one coder who happened to not be in any group at the time. His intro 'McIntro' must surely be the most successful non-group production ever, coming in second at the prestigious The Party in 1994. Rebels took notice and recruited the Danish coder just days after his success was a fact.
Lola/McIntro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Fresh Prince, Kata/Balance (replayer), gfx: n/a, music: "Muslingers" by Slide/Polka Brothers. 2nd in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: most impressive the first time you see it, Lola/McIntro (both names appear in the intro) is a polished and cool effort from lone coder Fresh Prince. As far as I know, this is the only thing he released on his own. Cool music. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Friendly Flowers ---------------???> Jaggerboy (code, 12/93). Christro (1993, 27.12, ECS File). code: Jaggerboy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 20th in The Party 93 demo competition. Frogs (-1993) ------------NOR> Beez (code), Corporal Clegg (music), GS (founder). FIN> Talbot (sysop 'TABOIL', ex Parallax). GER> Proton (swap, new 08/92). ???> Cyde. Frogs was formed by Front Soldier (later Cesium) and GS, and the name of the group was composited from their handles. The group ceased to exist when the entire group merged with Balance some weeks before easter 93. The diskmag 'Upstream' was also merged with Balance's 'MagBox', and the new mag continued to be called Upstream. There's no complete record of what members joined Balance, but some people who CERTAINLY made the jump are: Cesium (nor editor), Chagall (nor gfx), Ranx (nor code), Blaze (nor swap), Nexus 6 (hun, gfx, ex 23 Celsius Crew), Cyber Bug (isr, ex Legacy), Bailey (ger code), Dr.Fruid (fin music) and probably a few others. Bopski changed his handle to Nethead and joined LSD. Norwegian sysop IT ('HOME ALONE') joined Razor 1911 old. Green Beret/Plague briefly joined before moving on to Submission 08/92. Upstream issue #1 (ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Cesium. Front 242 --------AUT> Guru Josh (ex TSK Crew), Hawk (music, ex TRSI, new late91), Ray
Jackson (gfx, ex TSK Crew). Front 242 are a 100% Austrian group! Frontier -------AUS> Repo, Skar, Yannis Brown (music), Zed. Industrial Fudge (Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Yannis Brown. Fucking United Network! (FUN) ----------------------------CAN> Godfather (org swap, late96), Hellraiser (org swap, late96). NOR> Hellrazor (org swap). POL> Tomek (swap, late96), Saint (gfx raytrace, late96). FRA> Kelson (swap, late96). DEN> Jaxx (music swap, late96). SWI> Kalikone (swap, doublememb Dylem, late96). Fun Factory, The (TFF) ---------------------FIN> Amadeus, Commander Z (93), Dr.Blitz (93), Exeter (93), Hunter (swap, 93), Kazz (93), KPT (93). AUT> Illusionist (swap, 94). SWE> Fazer (swap). SS Soldier joined Damones. Doktor's Special (1993, 29.03, Demo). Intro (1993, 07.06, Intro). Funky Buddhas, The -----------------DEN> Hithansen (music, later new Rednex, 12/92). Plane (1992, 28.12, Trackmo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hithansen. Contribution for The Party 92 demo competition. Funzine ------POL> Dura (code), Metal (swap, 11/93), Saddam (gfx music). ???> Skowron (gfx, ex Absolute!, new late95). Prestige Cracktro (ECS Intro). code: Dura, gfx: Saddam (fonts), music: Von-Rays. review: Now, THIS is what a cracktro should look like! This generates
vector-animations that it shows in the background, usually cogwheels and the like. The overall effect is very good, coupled with a palette the changes for each effect, and a transparent PRESTIGE logo in the bottom right corner. Music is an ok chippy. The year of release is present in the executable, but unfortunatly in roman numerals, which I don't know enough about to discover the real date... Anyway, if anyone can help, it's MCMXCV. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intel Outside '94 Intro (Intro). Fusion (FSN) -----------GER> Doom (ex Design, new early92), Phil Douglas (crack train, 92). BEL> Junior (sysop 'CANDY LAND', early92). FRA> Furax (sysop 'FANTASIA'), Optima, Wizz (ex Delight, new early92). USA> Voyager/Snow Queen (sysops 'FASTRAX'). ???> Bostich, Mehellica, Professor (ex Nemesis, new early92), Roger Rabbit (ex Alpha Flight, new early93), TBC (early92), Tea Pot, Thunder (trade, ex Angels new), Tom (trade train, 09/91-92), Toxic, Winston. Boards; TERMINAL FOREST WHQ, PIRATE'S HAVEN (usa, 06/94). Fusion was an illegal cracker group, with their roots all the way back to the original Fusion on the C64. The Amiga section coexisted with the C64 section for quite a while. The Amigan's main cracker was the infamous Phil Douglas. When Bitstoppers died, all members joined Fusion. 1992 - Spanish Thorin joined Darkness 09/92. Mightymuz (ex Skid Row) joined 2000 AD 09/92. 1993 - English sysops Undertaker and Sabbath ('GRAVEYARD', both ex Agile) both joined Quartex around late 93. Sabber joined Ministry. Belgian sysop Maddy ('METAL IMPACT', early92) joined Jetset new. Swedes The Master (sysop 'PRESSURE POINT') and Mercy (both ex Bitstoppers) joined Anthrox. TCB was kicked and joined Vision Factory. Sysop Kevin Key ('INSIDE TREATMENT') joined, then left for Noxious. Eurochart #15 claimed he joined The Silents. Futura -----Aquafresh and Gumby joined Defekt. Futura is just about dead, Trixter seems to have disappeared. Elric? and Welder joined Divine.
Future Mirror ------------Claustrophobia (1992, 28.12, Disk). 10th in The Party 92 demo competition. Futurize -------FIN> Perlon (Peter Nyman, swap). Galaxy -----DEN> Darkwing (sysop 'INFECTIOUS', doublememb Superiors). Gang, The --------SWE> Bach, Coke, Chucky (sysop 'GANG BANG', 10/90), Cuzter, Frenzy, James, Max (sysop 'BAD REPUTATION'), Nemesis (swap), Rambo, The Cracker (code swap), Tigershark, Tracer. The Gang is the group that pissed off the entire Scandinavian demoscene when their coder The Cracker gave an interview for the papermag Datormagazin basically claimed he could do anything better than anyone else...and failed to prove it. The Gang eventually joined forces with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a few of their demos. They have one more bbs; 'BAD REPUTATION'. Gaspipe ------???> Ben 'Gee' (code trade), Camel (gfx), Canada (trade), Carp (trade), Cheeso (music), Copex (org code sysop), Dr.Atomic (code trade), Mario (trade), Mimic (org code), Mouseman (org trade sysop), Mr.Crisp (code trade), Noddy (code trade), Prodigy (sysop), Styx (trade), TigerTails (trade). Gate (-1990) -----------FIN> Blob (code, ex Phalanx, 90), Diskrat (swap, 90), Fireball (swap, 90), Hyde (swap, 10/89), Maniac (code?, 90), Mark 17 (swap, 90), Metalman (swap, 90), Pigman (swap, 90), Roland (music, used to be in Phalanx, in army 90). ???> Killerman, MPH. Boards; LIGHT ON THE NIGHT (fin)
Gate was a finnish based demo group. 1990 - When Image was formed 06/90, finnish graphician and swapper Der HM joined them from Vision One. In december most of the finnish and Norwegian sections joined Anarchy, and Gate died. Wraith was their previous leader, but joined the pack to Anarchy. These joined: Octoplex (swap), Laiz (swap), Golem (gfx, 05/90), Griffon (music, 05/90), Psycho (code, 05/90), Wraith (code, 05/90) and Bruno (music, 05/90). Norwegians Intec (gfx), Zapotek (swap) and Funky Guru (gfx, all ex Zombie Boys) joined Crusaders 12/90. Norwegian swapper X-Ray joined Pure Metal Coders late90. Xion (ex Prologic, new late 90) left the scene when Gate died. Bruno's Music Box 2 (ECS Musicdisk). code/gfx: n/a, music: Bruno. Information: The next BMB, BMB3 was released in Anarchy. Memberdemo (ECS Demo). Megademo II (1990, .05, ECS Trackloaded Megademo). P1 - code: Wraith, gfx: Golem, music: "Future Magic Part 2" by Griffon. P2 - code: Wraith, gfx: Golem (logo), Wraith (font), music: "Infinte Finiteness" by Bruno. P3 - code: Psycho, gfx: Wraith, music: "Robot Session" by Bruno. Vectorball part. P4 - code: Psycho, gfx: Golem (logo), Wraith (font), music: "Phenomena" by Griffon. P5 - code/gfx: Wraith, music: "Serenade To..." by Bruno. Endpart. review: Cool! For a megademo from 1990, this is not bad at all. There's several stars-to-be appearing here. Bruno became big, Golem did good later on... It opens with an 'animation' (3 frames :) of a monk opening a Gate, before the text 'Gate Megademo II' is overlayed. The loader part is unspectacular, just a Golem picture with a priest and the GMDII text. The first part is the BOB-part. 16col animated bobs flying around to a cool tune by Griffin. Not a bad opening at all! Great for its time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vector Imperium (1990, late, ECS File). code: Octoplex, gfx: Intec, music: "Sonar" by Bruno. review: The FUNKY tune by Bruno is the big saving grace here... The demo itself is not so hot, but that down-and-deep-funk tune has me reaching for the Pro-Wiz button like a rabbit for a carrot! Intec later made a lot of good graphics for Crusaders, a.o. in the Eurochart. This demo was supposed to compete in the demo competition at the No Limits & IMP-666 Party (held 10/90) in Norway, as mentioned in the demo.
Since it did not, it's a fair assumption it was released a little later? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Works, but exits rather ungracefully. Gel Dezign ---------POL> Accord (Marcin Gackowski, music, earlier Alchemy, 04/94). Genesis [old] (1990-) --------------------Genesis was an illegal cracker group based in the UK, who were born by Scott, Action Man and Mr.E from Oracle and N.O.M.A.D and Infiltrator from Scoopex in september 1990 . They did a few releases in cooperation with Angels and Defjam. I guess when three of their crackers (N.O.M.A.D, Mr.E and I.B.M) and one important sysop (Scott, 'DULCET TONES') joined Angels (which was one of the groups they were in cooperation with) late 1990 it was all pretty much over. Scottish supplier Action Man left to help form Crystal. English Scooter (ex Oracle?) joined Classic old late 90. American sysop Allister Friend ('TOTAL RECALL', ex Oracle old) left. Jochen Hippel - Some Previously Unreleased (ECS Musicdisk). Information: Not really a musicdisk, just a disk with the music on. I'm informed one even has to know how to use an assembler to listen to the tunes ;D White Room (1992, Demo). Cooperation with Live Act. Genesis [new] ------------ITA> Corrosion (music, triplememb Darkage [details] and Degeneration). ???> DX0 (music, 12/97), Phoenix (code, 12/97), Skywalker (12/97), Stile9 (gfx, 12/97). Freeflow (1997, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: Phoenix, Skywalker, gfx: Stile9, music: DX0. Released for The Party 7 40k intro competition. review: Unfortunately for Genesis, this intro bears the aftertaste of one of 1993 or 1994's weaker intros. This is nothing to present to the public in 1997. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Vintage (Musicdisk).
Digital Dream (2000, 25.11, Demo). Winner of the Spoletium 3 demo competition! info: The group's first product since their musicdisk "Vintage". The demo was reviewed in Darkage's "Showtime #16" [04/01]. Genestealers (-1991) -------------------1991 - The group's UK board was lost to Quartex early in the year. Englishmen Rogue, Warlord and Maverick left the group in june. The group reorganized, threw out idle members, and were reborn as the UK section of Wizzcat in late june, under the management of Red Devil and Nexus! Genetic (GNT) ------------POL> Carson (Slawek Rogalski, swap, 11/96), MaQ (code, 11/96), Rappid (gfx, doublememb Depth 06/96). SWE> Cateye (sysop 'LIGHTHOUSE'), Kattegatt (sysop 'FYRHUSET'). N-L> Solo (code, 06/98). ???> Feanor (06/98), Francy (music, 92), One (06/98), Tom (music, 92). Boards; ZOOROPA WHQ (hol, 06/98). Solo is the author of the 68k assembler "Asm-Pro", http://surf.to/asmpro The Swedish division died. Swedish graphician PGL joined Circle mid 93. Swedes Limbo and Fazer (both swap) joined Nova mid 93. Lobban and swedish musician Siracon joined Defiance (UPS8). Move Your Mouse (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Siracon, Tom, Francy. Information: 8 tunes. Years (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: MaQ, gfx: none, music: none. Released for the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Wholly uninspiring, this is just a gouraud shaded spinning vector cube. It's not fast, and it's not beautiful. It's very red, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Little Bug (1997, 14.12, 4k Intro). Winner of the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition! Profanation (1997, 14.12, Demo). 4th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Genocide (GCI, -1994) ---------------------
FIN> Bullworker (93), DJ Pee (93), Firewalker (93), Intruder, Messenger (swap, ex Altair, new 09/92), Zeke (swap pack). At The Assembly 94, a new group called Halo released two 40k intros, in which they announced that Genocide had changed its name to Halo. Among people who are confirmed in the new crew are Calvin (03/93), Dr.Wacko, Harlequin (03/93), Hook (ex Celestial, new late 92-03/93), Orbis, and Boojum. Al joined Society. Avrak Illusion (ECS). Brain Snatcher (Trackmo). Phosphate-Free Eco-Intro (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Hook, gfx: Calvin, music: Harlequin. review: Boooooring 'green' design. It's just green dotballs jumping up and down (and around) behind an ugly green textwriter. Oh, and did I mention that the background is green? There's also a logo in the upper left corner. Guess what? It's green. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. Eurochart 25 Trailer Intro (AGA File). Cooperation with Stellar, see there for details. Ghost ----ENG> Apex, Atcw, Azrael, Bladerunner (sysop 'THE RED DWARF'), Comet, Cylon, Dagger, Darkman, Daz, Deathlok, Dope, Eagle, Elwood, Gollum, Hornet, Hound, Hunter, Leebold, Mad Phantom, Matrix, Mutley, Nexus, Pacman, Rem, Perfect, Psycho, Recoil (Music), Rombust, Subliminal, Twilight (music, 08/92), Vandal, Whisky. ???> Shockwave (ex Plague), Shrimp (code, ex Digital), Slaine (ex Outlanders), Zurf (ex Outlanders). Gange D-Zine> Baa Baa, Ford (gfx swap, ex LSD). Ghost was formed when the English division of Eclipse fusioned with Relay. Index left the scene. Spinky left 08/92. Rotox joined Nemesis. Infictor, sysop of 'PEGASUS' left the scene. The board 'GRACELAND' joined Crystal, but has now left the scene. Spyre (eng), Mentor, Phantom (eng), Nechrome, Col B. and N-Joi were all kicked. Music Madness (1991?, ECS Musicdisk). Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Recoil, Twilight. Information: 27 chiptunes.
Ghostly Spreaders ----------------Macno joined Grace late 91. Ghostriders [old] (-1989) ------------------------This Norwegian demo group ceased to exist when the entire group joined Cryptoburners in august of 1989. Ghost Riders [new] (GRS) -----------------------SWE> Leatherface (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', triplememb Digital Corruption and Smokey). Giants (GTS) -----------SWE> Hawk (Niklas Jonsson, mainorg code swap, Triplememb Ambrosia and Darkage 97, 12/96-02/98), Iz (ex Beatless, new late95), Keldon (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap edit, 12/96), Leprechaun (Anders Linqvist, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), McPudel (gfx, ex Beatless, new late95), Note (Stefan Karlsson, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), Rooster (swap, late95), Xargion (code). NOR> Mr.X (code, doublememb Instinct [details], 11/97), Two-Bit (gfx music), Wiseguy (sysop 'OUTER SPACE' EHQ), Woober (code music sysop 'ETERNITY' WHQ), Zack (gfx swap). FIN> Avenger (org swap, 95). ???> Orhan (old handle Firelord), Spot (ex Duplo, new late95). I always found the Giants slogan 'Giants - We Are Huge' to be rather amusing... News way back in Generation #6 claiming all members had joined Interactive in Germany are probably untrue...except if they all moved to Germany and joined up :) Hawk and one other coder (real name Fredrik Schultz) are the authors of the NES emulator A/NES. Some news said that NEO Norway joined. Any info on who this involves? Their old homepage, http://hem.passagen.se/giants/giants.html, appears to have gone down. 1994 - Crusader released his second ascii colly "Seven Wayz" in august. 1996 - The swedish twins Candyman and Crusader (doublememb Epsilon Design) both joined Session in june. A 4k intro was their only competition entry at The Party 96, but they also released the first issue of their chartmag "NightTrain" at this party. 1997 - ROM #9 reported that Wizard had stepped down as mainorganizer, and
handed the job over to Hawk. The coder, graphician and musician (04/96-) joined Digital Corruption later in the year. Coder Sublet joined Planet Jazz 97. Norwegian raytracer and swapper Thrym (09/96) terminated his membership to be in Massive only 97. After a big cleanup in 97, Bon (nor R. Nyheim, org swap pack, 12/96), Malakai, Fugazi (swe Robin Forsberg, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), Dwangi (Christian Johansson, swe swap, late 96), Groover, Tyneo (nor gfx), Sway and D-Coy (swe org music) were all asked to leave the group. The reason was inactivity, and failing to keep in touch with the rest of the group. Elusive (ex Yodel) left to help form New Age a few days before Remedy 95. Numen and Speed Devil left for X 06/96. Norwegian Crack left the scene 06/96. Norwegian musician Cope joined Apathy 06/96. Ali joined Interactive. Norwegian Shorty joined Network. Megademo (1990, .06, ECS Megademo). Fade To Black (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). Code: Wizard. 6th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Free Entrance (1996, 26.05, Demo). 6th in the Icing 96 demo competition. 4Kb (1996, 28.12, AGA ?MB 4k Intro). code: Orbit (main), Wizard, gfx: Orbit, music: Wizard. 9th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. review: A mediocre 4ker, with afterburned red, green and blue large dots flying in sinus waves around the screen. There is a chiptune, but it quickly gets on your nerves... The prevailing feeling from this intro is unfortunately 'is that all there is?'. The system requirements read 'fastmem', but not how much it requires. The aminet package also includes a bonus executable, for 040/060 owners, which takes advantage of faster processors. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. NightTrain #1 (1996, 28.12, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Keldon. Released at The Party 96. GiGA Productions (1991-) -----------------------DEN> D-Day (3d, 97-00), Dr.Zulu (gfx, doublememb Ambrosia mid 97, 91-), Mega
Mazz (code, 93-00), Rampant (codepc, 94), RayC (trade, 92-93), Source (3d, 95), Sparky (code 3d, 93-00), Spaze (music, 94-96), Ugly Oink (cofounder code, 91-92), Warp (Fini Alring, code 3d founder, 91), Zone 1 (music, 92). GiGA Productions is a danish demo group, formed in 1991 by Warp and still alive as of 2001. 1991 - Graphician Jim Crow is no longer with the group. Global Hazard (Olga) (1995, 08.07, Demo). 4th in the South Sealand 95 demo competition. Soma (1996, 06.07, Demo). 12th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. info: The name spells amos backwards =) Gigatron -------SWE> Jah (code, 05/94-05/95). ???> Boogeyman (gfx, 05/94-05/95), Uncle Ben (music, 05/94-05/95). T2 Dance Theme (1991, ECS Musicdisk). info: Dosloaded musicdisk with a house version of the T2 theme. Fatal Discarriage (1994, 15.05, ECS File). code: Jah, gfx: Boogeyman, music: Uncle Ben. Bosnisk Metall (1995, 28.05, AGA File). code: Jah, gfx: Boogeyman, music: Uncle Ben. Winner of demo competition at Hackerence IX. review: Fast, good-looking routines and a heavy metal soundtrack. That's what these Swedes are offering, and it's not bad either. The rather uninspired soundtrack aside, the main showcase here are the effects. Most notable is a morphing/bitmap manipulation routine that's really good. Other cool effects are a standard voxel landscape and a plasma rot-zoomer. Recommended. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Glamour Design -------------FIN> Axl (sysop 'B4 DARKNESS', 93-04/95), Blitzer (trade, 03/93). Global -----???> Deamo (gfx sysop), Jemy Murphy (gfx), MayTag (/Xcode), nassyH (raytrace), Storm (ascii), Stranger (code).
Global Overdose (GOD) --------------------SWE> Lando (ex Complex), Xstaz (sysop 'THE ICE PALACE', ex Complex). AUS> Bandito (sysop 'BANDIT'S BBS', 04/95). USA> Freddy Krueger (sysop 'BOILER ROOM', ex Complex)., Damage Inc (sysop '79TH TRACK', 04/95). ???> Mr.Solo (02/94), TCB (bel? 02/94). Gloom ----GER> Higgie (late91), Rokdazone (Henning Brau, swap write, late91). Goblins (-1997) --------------The Spanish group Goblins died late 97, after the last two remaining active members, Phornee (code) and Lantium (gfx), decided to finally leave the sinking ship. They joined two groups; Essence to be in a big demo group, and Network to still be in a Spanish group too! Gods (-1998, http://www.idf.net/gods/) -------------------------------------NOR> Bridgeclaw (Henning Ludvigsen, gfx, doublememb Darkage, 04/95-00), Joint (Thomas Hansen, raytrace edit, late96-early97), Punisher (swap, ex Apathy and Darkage, new early 01), Typhoon (gfx, ex Avalon, 03/97), Zerox (swap edit, late95-01/97). FRA> Chris (Christophe Hede, org homepage trade, 06/95-early97), Grenat (gfx, late96-early97), Liszt (music, late96-03/97), Odin (pccode, ex Nova France, late96-03/97), Xbarr (code, late96-98). GER> Toaster (code, ex Bonzai Brothers, -notmembanymore-). ENG> Hybrid (sysop 'DIGITAL CANDY' EHQ, early97). POL> Qix (swap, ex Flying Cows Inc., new late97). ???> C-Quence (music, 12/94). Gods was originally a French demo group, which also eventually got good divisions in Norway and Germany. The group died around march 1998, as a result of several very important members leaving. First Sixpack left for Haujobb, then German swapper, trader, packer and sysop of their WHQ 'LOS ENDOS', Ghandy (ex Bonzai Brothers, late96-early97), decided to end his double membership to a Darkage-only member. Next Caramel left the group, with no certain destination, and English trader Lithium (ex Eltech, new late96) left the scene. After their death was a fact, English graphician Wade (ex Eltech, new late96) joined Nerve Axis. XBarr has, though it was stated so elsewhere, not left the scene. He has however, most probably begun working as a coder on the PC rather than for the Amiga anymore. I believe he
is now in Syndrome on the pc. Check out Bridgeclaw's homepage (http://members.xoom.com/bridgeclaw/) for some amazing pieces of art! Just CHECK out his latest work, seems like paintbrush - great!! 1995 - German musician The Loop left for Artwork in december. 1996 - In april Xanth was kicked out of the French section, and they announced that Wilsh was never a member since they don't allow doublemembs anymore. French graphician Geist (06/96) left to be a Balance only member late in the year. News in Ethic's "X-Files #11" [11/96] that Ghandy and Sixpack had left for Syndrome were incorrect. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that norwegian Typhoon/ Avalon (gfx) joined. 1998 - English sysop Zoltrix ('SPACED OUT', new late97) left in february. 2000 - Norwegian graphician Bridgeclaw doublejoined Darkage early in the year. 2001 - In the early part of the year, Norwegian swapper Punisher joined from Apathy and Darkage. Norwegian sysop Sealapex ('PITSTOP'/'CLIFFHANGER' WHQ, 11/94-late96) sold his Amiga, so he left the scene. 'LOS ENDOS' is the new WHQ, 'DIGITAL CANDY' the new EHQ. Norwegian coder Zytrox' (Morten Brudvik) code for "Jurassic Pack" is still being used, long after he has left the scene, and even Norway! Chip In Paris #2 (musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Suburban Terrorist" by Clawz/Bomb. Apocalypse (1992, 08.08, ECS Trackmo). Released for the Abstract - Oxygen Summer Conference 1992 demo competition, but unplaced. Olympe (1994, 28.12, Demo). 17th in The Party 4 demo competition. info: Bridgeclaw's pictures are called "The God" and "The Curse", and both can also be seen in his slideshow "A Few Good Men" [06/95]. DISC #10 (1995, 10.04, Diskmag). BBSTro (1995, 14.04, Intro). Released at The Gathering 95. info: Bridgeclaw's title picture is called "Pitstop", and can also be seen in his slideshow "A Few Good Men" [06/95]. A Few Good Men - A Little Slideshow (1995, 04.06, AGA Multif. Slideshow). code: Zytrox, gfx: Bridgeclaw, music: Eagle.
review: AFGM doesn't have the most impressive coding in the world, and I really don't like the music in this one either... It gives a cold, clinical feel for some reason, and I can in no way manage to be moved by the dire opening sequence. After a few gods - presents - screens, we arrive at the main menu. This is in monochrome, with the thumbnailed pictures choosable by mouse. You can also choose to run through all the pictures in a slideshow mode, if you wish. Another thing that annoys me about this slideshow is the fact that the pictures only stay on the screen for a few seconds, far too little time to get a proper impression of their quality =( I personally had to view several pictures more than once to get a good look, and I much prefer a system where it doesn't return to the menu before you press a mouse button. After all, slideshows are supposed to be about the art, and it really is a problem when you cannot get the time to properly view the art. It's like if a gallery opens its doors, and then the guards push you back out after 15 seconds =) Simplistic code (just music and a graphics shower, that's all) and unengaging music aside, this slideshow is still worth getting for the pictures. Even if the quality is uneven, there are still gems like "Warrior" and "Future Title" to savour... There are 12 pictures to choose from on the main menu, and we're going to go through them one by one. "Pitstop Title" (64c) is not one of his best, with unrealistic anatomy and hair for a lying-down female, and a real lame 'PITSTOP' logo. "Illusionia" (64c) is much better, a dreamy picture of a girl's face seemingly suspended in the air. Much better hair on this picture. "Levelling The Land" (128c) is a picture of a middleaged man's face. Again the proportions of the face are a little off, though the picture displays a sharer style than in the previous two. The hair looks unnatural here too. "Warrior" (64c) contains a female cartoon-style warrior and a vertical DISC logo, and was probably used as a title picture for DISC #9. This is the best picture yet, as Bridgeclaw seemingly masters the semi-cartoon style much better. Nothing to remark on the full-body proportions, excellent. "Maldi" (64c) is another facial portrait, this time of a smiling black guy. Again, the proportions of the face are way off, nothing much else to remark about this one. "Monster" (64c) is the least impressive of all the pictures included, and looks like an early sketch for an abandoned picture. "No Aloha" (64c) is yet another facial portrait, and this one looks a lot like actor Kevin Spacey to me... but I
may be mistaken. In fact, it resembles "Levelling The Land" more than just a little. "Good Old" (64c) is a strange portrait, of a strange man... It shows improved technique, and an almost believable facial proportion (we can excuse a few glitches here, since this is clearly not the face of a normal person). "The God" (64c) has a great gothic GODS logo suspended over a straight-on diabolical face with an evil grin... =) "Steel" (64c) is a cyber-woman rendition, of the kind made popular by a Japanese artist whose name I can't quite remember right now... =) ...damn! Well, anyway, it's a female robot (breasts'n'all), and I'm sure most of you know what kind I'm talking about. "The Curse" (128c) is a much more complete picture than most of the others here, again employing a cartoon style, not unlike what was done for "Warrior". Among the best pictures in this slide. The final picture is also the best of the collection; "Future Title" (64c). This, in a rare departure from his usual people-dominated pictures, depicts a spaceship in (duh!) space... It clearly shows Bridgeclaw's progression as an artist, and serves as the perfect conclusion for an otherwise uneven slideshow. After clicking the icon for the endpart, we get another little picture with a GODS logo in the background, with an upscroller running over it. The entire slideshow ran without a glitch from floppy on my configuration. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Worlds (1996, 27.04, Demo). 5th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. Jurassic Pack #4 (1996, late, 020+ ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Zytrox, gfx: Bridgeclaw, others, music: "Jurassic Morning" by Coma/ Three Little Elks. review: I'm sorry, but I'm rather unimpressed by Gods' mag. What bugs me the most actually, is how much POTENTIAL there is here, and how little has been made of it. The interviews had so much going for them to be interesting, but fail. Just to think what an editor like Mop could have done to these articles... This just plain and simple doesn't have the 'edge' that's required to be great. Why on earth it demands a 020 or faster is totally beyond me, since it doesn't contain ANYTHING new that mags in 1990 didn't have. We've seen it before oh so many times... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Prism (1996, 28.12, Intro). Released at The Party 6. Jurassic Pack #5 (1997, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Modem/Darkage, gfx: Bridgeclaw, music: Okeanos/Syndrome. MAG - code: Zytrox, gfx: Birdgeclaw, music: "L'excrement" by Caramel/Gods and Sticky/Inferiors (The Player 6.1A format). review: The magcode and graphics are exactly the same as they always are, and the articles haven't gotten any better since last time, unfortunately. Not even the intro, provided by Darkage, is very interesting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Energy - Fraction II (1997, 29.03, AGA HD File). code: Odin, XBarr, gfx: Bridgeclaw, Typhoon, XBarr (obj), music: Liszt. 5th in The Gathering 95/11th in the Mekka Symposium 1997 demo competition. review: Overall, I didn't find Energy too exciting. Large portions of the opening is made up of vectors, which should have been a lot smoother with this kind of machine power. Also other effects tend to jerk along a little, creating an 'unfinished' feel to the production. Highlights definitely include the stairwell at the conclusion of the demo, with its bumpmapped walls and envmapped handles :) Other highlights were the two excellent pictures by Typhoon and Bridgeclaw, though the latter looked like it had some raytracing in there...amazingly enough, when you consider the motive! Probably requires some fast. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Jurassic Pack #6 (1997, .05, Multifile Diskmag). code: Zytrox, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Sixpack, Zerox, Ghandy. Jurassic Pack #7 (Multifile Diskmag). Godsend ------SWE> Crocodile (sysop 'THE REPTILES HOLE', 01/95). Gollum (http://hjem.no/espen/gollum/) ------------------------------------NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND'), Braintumor (music, ex Stone Arts), Heywood (music, ex Stone Arts). Three ex Stone Arts members, Braintumor, Heywood and Niggerjack, formed an Amiga section of the PC group Gollum. The group is now dead and buried, and Niggerjack can nowadays be found in Donut Fetish.
Norwegians Niggerjack (code, ex Stone Arts) and Icarus joined Shamrock. Goonies, The (-1992) -------------------DEN> Master Ed (sysop 'DANABOARD' WHQ). SWE> Alis (sysop 'ANOTHER WORLD', 10/90), Smokie (sysop 'WORLD IMPORT'). GER> Courier (sysop 'FUN HOUSE', 10/91). ???> Lazy Ted (train), Masted E.D., Metal Force (train), The Shadow (train) Boards; ANESTESIA. Goonies were, as far as I know, mainly based around crackind and training. Fix and the rest stopped all activities, so Goonies died in the middle of 1992. At one time they were in cooperation with Arcane, and released some trainers. Lion joined New Wave. Badcat joined Angels new. Electric Dreams (1990, ECS Musicdisk). info: Goonies' third musicdisk. 5 tunes. Gothic (1992-1992) -----------------USA> Milamber (sysop 'TACHYON EXPRESS', new 08/92). ???> Codeman (code, new 08/92), Fila, Link (trade supply, ex Desire). Boards; TIME WAR (ex Aspect). Gothic was a mainly german group born late 1992, after the remaining members of Design chose the name for their new group. Unfortuantely the group died young. 1992 - German Skyfox joined from Agnostic Front around october, but left again after just one day for Adept. German Cube (code) joined from Arise around october. Germans Design, WOTW (music, ex Submission), Doom, Orbit and HMC joined Dual Crew. Sysops Executor and Phreaker ('SECRET WORLD') joined Dual Crew. Dutch swapper Cone (ex Noxious) joined TRSI. German coder Cube (ex Arise old) joined TRSI. Adventurer (ex Addonic, new 10/92) joined Dytec. Ascender (ex Reality) quickly moved on to Paradise. Trax was kicked. Mean Jean (old handle Hero-O-In) changed his handle to Godfather and joined
Spaceballs. Shadow, sysop 'DIGITAL ILLUSION' was kicked. Grace ----FIN> Bundy, Chipper (music), Doctor (swap, 92), Ear, Mr.Pacman, Percus (swap), Pifki (ex Dimension 4), Rocky, Striker, Thor (ex Compact), Zed (trade). AUT> Coon-O, Dalmet (ex Amaze, new 09/92), Piranha (swap), Sledge (ex Amaze, new 09/92). SWE> Gaffel (sysop), Qriz, Tristan. GER> Shind (moved from Poland). NOR> Byte Bandit (ex Unlimited), Jackson, Rahiem (org, new early93), Zoppo (swap). ITA> Billy the Kid (Invernizzi Fabio, swap). ???> Mike Dee (ex Byte Busters, new early92), Muad'Dib, Priest (new mid91), Turbo (WHQ, old handle Physic, early93), Uncle Mat. Grace is dead! Some Polish members joined Applause, and the best Austrian members joined Surprise! Productions. 1992 - Norwegian swapper Chris (ex Axe) left for Amaze around january. Quaid and Yama joined Catastrophy early 92. Red Scorpion was kicked early 92. Norwegian sysop Tactel ('JUNGLE FEVER') joined Majic 12 early 92. The Norwegian section died mid 92, and most members (a.o. Hitman - old handle Blaze) formed Sequence in july or august, while Leo instead left for Crime Devils. Swiss graphician Fox joined from Alcatraz around october. 1993 - The Polish division died early 93, and all members joined Applause. Italian swapper Virus joined Zenith early 93. Dragos (code, rescene mid91), Dr.Grell and Wild Rage (aut edit swap) joined Surprise! Productions early 93. Cyde joined Massive. Quad joined Mad Elks. Norwegian Minion left. Microchip joined Devils. Austrian Zinkfloid joined Energy. Finnish swapper Sentinel (ex Compact) joined Legend. Polish swappers Butcher and Jet (ex Illusion) had an ad in SLH11 with the heading "EX GRACE". Tomek Janeczko isn't a Grace member, he's just in cooperation. Italian Macno (ex Ghostly Spreaders, new late91) left. Macno contributed many articles to the Grace diskmag 'Scene Lyrics'. He was back at christmas 92 with the first issue of his own mag 'Abnormalia'. Fox and Risk joined Legend. Finnish sysop Hifi ('THE LAST GENERATION') joined Digital. Pegasus and Rasterblaster joined Zenith. Pegasus, Stef and Fighter
joined Zenith. Roxy joined Addonic. Graffiti -------1992 - Mr.Lay left to join Live Act early 92. Grashoppers Developments (GHD) -----------------------------FIN> CrazyWild (Mikko Lehtonen, trade swap pack sysop1 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96), Dee (sysop2 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96), Mudpecker (sysop3 'GENETIC TASTE', 04/96). ENG> Bliss (gfx music trade, ex Steps of Change, new 02/96), Wilsh (music, doublememb Steps of Change late96, 02/96-late96). HOL> Blunt (gfx swap, old handle Coolio, doublememb Appendix 06/96, doublememb TRSI [details]). SCO> Kaneda (org code swap, 02/96), Maverick (code swap). ???> Blunt (gfx, 02/96), L8-X (trade swap edit "Mookymoo!"), Reflex (music ascii swap), Small (code swap), Zulfie (swap). 1996 - The finnish board 'GENETIC TASTE' (sysops Dee, Mudpecker and CrazyWild) became whq in april. Graphician and swapper Triumph left the group and the scene. Magical Box (1996, 08.02, AGA Intro). code: Kaneda, Gfx: Kaneda, Blunt (title), Music: Kaneda (title), Bliss (magical), Wilsh (end). Review: Ahh, like a breath of fresh air I welcome Magical Box from GHD! With one small, funny, little production they seem to poke their nose at everything that's currently hot and cool on the amigascene! Especially the system tester was great fun, with its 'post-calculating' after the intro was over...! I won't spoil MB for you, just recommend you download it...and when it stops doing anything and there's just the box on the screen, move your mouse. Be careful not to break it :) Recommended. You didn't really expect me to give a bad review to a production released on my birthday, did you ;) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Neuköln (1997, 30.03, 40k Intro). 9th in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Grotesticle (GRT) ----------------NOR> Acid (Daniel Bruvoll, sysop 'BASIC INSTINCT', doublememb Alpha Flight, ex Suspiria, 09/95), Baffle! (Dag Stenstad, sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND',
triplememb Honey and Abuse, 09/95), Blockhead (Tom Cozzolino, music), Grimlock (Frode, mainorg ascii, 09/95), Jorun (music), Laimbrain (music), Ludde (code, ex Cadaver), Magz (Magne P. Zachrisen, sysop 'GENETIC WASTE'), Phaze 1 (Johannes Ringheim, ascii swap), Plusspant, Pudding (gfx), Stratos (doublememb Scoopex, 09/95). 1995 - They got lots of members from Suspiria in mid 95; this probably refers to Acid, Felix etc. 1996 - Norwegian musician Superted (old handle Felix, ex Suspiria) joined the Mystic demo division. Norwegian graphician Nirvana (ex Cadaver) joined Contraz. G^Style ------N-L> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, doublememb TRSI). ???> Redskin (doublememb TRSI). G^Style was an ascii group. Gunnars Farve Bio (GFB) ----------------------Megademo Nr. 4 Bogoefaergerne (1992, 28.12, Disk). 12th in The Party 92 demo competition. 4840 (1994, mid, ECS File). Megademo 8 (1994, late). Pose (1995, 28.12, 40k Intro). code: MZ1453, gfx: J.Hash (logo), music: n/a. Contribution for 40k intro competition at The Party 5. review: These guys obviously go out of their way to be different. It's the first intro I've ever seen that zoom-rotates old expressionist paintings, or has a 'Buck Rogers' scroll (it's VERY similar to a Star Wars scroll :). Fun, but not terribly good. GLE tested A1200/030-50.2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Workbench 96 Plus (1996, 06.07, Demo). 5th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Guru Meditation --------------1996 - Mk joined Savage in april. G-Force -------
The best members formed Comedy with best members of Mad Sorcerers. Hacking Relation, The (THR, -1990) ---------------------------------THR died late 1990. Zarchy (code gfx swap) is now Jazzcat. Half Brains Team (HBT). ----------------------ITA> DDT (code, late90), Lord Carion (gfx, late90), Mr.Madness (code, late90), Powerforce (gfx, late90), Shark (sysop 'INFINITE DREAMS'). Halfmoon Productions -------------------???> Subgud (code gfx swap, doublememb EMS Design late 96). Halo (1994-) -----------FIN> Boojum (04/94), Calvin (Markus Tuppurainen, gfx, 04/94), Dr.Wacko (04/94), Harlequin (music, 04/94), Hook (Panu Liukkonen, code, later Stellar, 04/94), Orbis (Heikki Pora, later Extend, code, 04/94). Judging from what was said in their two Assembly 94 40k intros, Halo is essentially Genocide with a new name! Therefore most of these guys are ex-Genocide members. OK? 40k Halo-Intro (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Hook. 5th in the Assembly 94 intro competition. review: No actual credits appear in this impressive little intro, except for an adress with the heading 'to contact the coder, write to Hook...' Effects are good, with a nice Doom thing and all, and the music is quite above average. A cool little intro! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. 2nd 40k Halo-Intro (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). production: Orbis (code), Harlequin, Calvin, Dr.Wacko. 14th in the Assembly 94 intro competition. review: The second Halo intro is another not-too-shabby deal from the finns. It opens with a texturemapped cube, and continues in style with some more cool stuff, before it ends with a textured tunnel that looks quite cool. The music's not bad, techno but without the beat. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hangover (HNG) -------------SWE> Crusader (Janne Kotta, swap, 94), Warlock (Tomas Mortenson, swap, 94). ???> Xargion (swe? code, 94). The entire group joined Depth!
Hardbyte -------SWE> Distler (sysop 'THE SLAMMER', 01/95). Hardcore Design (HCD) --------------------SWE> Elf (music, later Moment 22, 12/93), Skutt (gfx, later Moment 22, 04/93). ???> Budweiser (music, 12/93), Metz (sysop, ex Limited Edition, new PRP4), Wize (sysop, ex Limited Edition, new PRP4). Board; CHAOTIC ENTITY (usa, 03/94). Pinhead joined Freezers (PRP4). Hardline (HDL) -------------GER> Dascon (music, later Essence), Powerswap (Stefan Pascharat, swap, later Essence), Slicer (Michael Schroeder, org swap, later Essence, new mid91), Sparc (Nils Wietelmann, gfx, 92). SWE> Kaka (swap trade, late91). ???> Bounty (ex Dragons new, new early 92). Hardline was a german demo group, and after they died Touchstone joined Delicious Designs. Interestingly, every single member of the German section detailed here was later in Essence... 1990 - German coder Touchstone joined, and this was his first group. He made lots of PD utilities, some intros, some demos and even a musicdisk for them. 1991 - The demo "Relation" [07/91] was released at Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic's party in july. 1992 - After some internal problems, Slicer returned as the group's hq around january. He took immediate action to strengthen the group, and kicked out the following members: Mac, Punk, Tai, Crush, 1-Hag (M. Neumann, swap), Shocker and M.Joker. German swapper Trasher left, and subsequently joined Panic in january. Swapper Lincoln joined TRSI early in the year. LDC (gfx) and RTF (music) joined, but were soon kicked again around june. Ace, Crony and the german Diabolo (Andre Gerke, swap) were also kicked, while Toyota left around june. Hedgehog and Midge got kicked. Pepe (music, new 06/92) joined Subzero.
Girl (ECS File). Relation (1991, 14.07, ECS File). 5th in the Energy, Awesome and Hypnotic Party demo competition. Black Energy (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: Touchstone, gfx: Touchstone, Sparc, music: Dascon. info: The modules presented on this musicdisk are "Frame of Mine", "Rituals", "Cool n Woo", "Oropacks", "Get the Output" and "Boom da Climax2 Genious Brain". Hardwired --------???> Bladeray (gfx, 04/96), Howard (music, 04/96), Nitch (code, 04/96). Frontier (1996, 27.04, AGA HD Multifile, 2 disks). code: Nitch, gfx: Bladeray, music: Howard. 9th in the Saturne 96 demo competition. review: Once again, a totally unknown group delivers a very good piece of demo entertainment. This one, though in no way outstanding, is well above the limits of mediocrity. The graphics are functional, and in some places interact very well with the code. There are two pieces of music; the main tune is (surprise, surprise!) techno, but better than the majority of tehno tunes. The endscreen tune is a more slow, orchestral affair which is actually rather good. The majority of effects here are of the bitmap manipulation variety, with zoomrotators and other such things dominating. There is mention of the fact that this demo was made for standard A1200s. If this is their idea of a demo for 'basic A1200', then I'd really like to see what these guys are capable of with some fastmem and an accelerator... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Haujobb (HJB, 1994-, http://www.haujobb.de) ------------------------------------------GER> Black Raven (code, ex Infect, new 08-10/94), Cyclone (ascii, 10/94), Dreamer (code, 10/96-05/97), Drf (code, 10/94), Dust (gfx, 10/9605/97), Exage (sysop 'HEARTLAND', 10/94), Fastjack (code, 07/9604/99), Funky (swap, 09/94), Hellfire (gfx, 12/00), Howie l'Amour (swap, 10/94-05/97), Jailer (sysop 'THE PRISON', ex Infect, new 10/94), Jazz (Kai Fischer, music edit sysop 'THE EXPERIENCE', doublememb Smoke [music], 10/94-04/98), JCS (Jan C. Sievers, gfx, doublememb Sector 7,
new late97-12/00), Marc (Marcus Kalusche, music, doublememb Sector 7, new late97-12/00), NoName (Leif Oppermann, code, doublememb Sector 7, new late97-04/99), Peachy (Magnus Hieronymus, gfx, 05/95-12/00), Virgill (Jochen Feldkoetter, music, ex Artwork, new 04/98), Wave (gfx, 09/94-12/00), Wild Thing (sysop 'MORPHIC FIELDS', 10/94-06/97), WOTW (music, 10/94-11/96), Xeniator (sysop 'PSALM 69', 10/94), XXX (Tobi, mainorg, 10/94-06/97). N-L> Noodle (Stephan Schipper, swap, 07/96-05/97). FRA> Darken (code, 10/96-04/98), Unborn (Laurent Bailey, code, 10/9605/97). FIN> Muffler (Konsta Mikkonen, music, ex Nah Kolor, doublememb DCS, new 06/97-08/98), Owl (gfx, 10/96-04/98), SolarC (gfx, 04/00), Speedo (Sami Kinnunen, code, ex Tribute, 08/97-08/98). SPA> Leunam (gfx, doublememb Network [details], 12/97-04/98). POL> Dave (Dawid Nabialek, gfx music, ex Amnesty). NOR> Sixpack (Pål-Inge Johansen, swap edit, ex Gods, new 02/98). ENG> Darkus (Lee Harwood, edit "Devotion", 12/00). ???> Acryl (modeller, 12/00), Craid (Christoph Szczecina, code, 12/00), Fli7e (gfx sysop), Jailor (sysop, 10-11/96), Kid Frost (music gfx, 10-11/96), Mash (sysop, 10/96-05/97), Melkor (trade supply, 10/9605/97), Nomad (3d, 12/00), Optima (code, new 12/00), Reptile (music, new early00), Seal (gfx, 10-11/96), Shawn (sysop, 10/96-05/97), Visualize (gfx, new early00). Boards; JUDGMENT DAY (ger, 12/94). Haujobb is a German-based demo group, born on the Amiga in 1994, but later also active over a wide range of other platforms, including the pc, c64 and even the Playstatiion! Their world leader is XXX. 1994 - Around the middle of the year, Black Raven (code) and SMT (music) joined from Infect, and announced their new group with the dentro "Artcore". 1997 - Marc (music), No Name (code) and JCS (gfx) all doublejoined the group from Sector 7 towards the end of the year. Finnish coder Speedo joined from Tribute. 1998 - The two Graphicians Kidlove and Bay Tremore (08-12/97), both of whom worked on the great "My Kingdom" [12/97] demo, left to join Scoopex early 98, making the Haujobb members very angry! Nevertheless, this proved to be a great year for Haujobb. At Mekka Symposium 98 in april they WON the demo competition with "Aphrodisiae" [04/98], and as an extra bonus, were joined by legendary german musician Virgill. 2000 - Darkus was one of two main editors of the new mag "Devotion #1" [00], released under the Nah-Kolor label. The mag also announced the group
had been joined by Visualize (gfx) and Reptile (music). Optima joined from Scoopex two weeks before the party, and his first production for Haujobb, The Party-winner "Megademo 2000" [12/00] earned the group the scenery 'Demo of the Year' award for the second year in a row! It was the crowning moment of a great year for the group. 2001 - Marc's audio cd "Basic Needs" was released early in the year, with cover art done by JCS. Dutch writer Sane (previously worked for Seenpoint under Scoopex) decided to reenter the scene, working on Devotion! Nah Kolor announced the death of "Devotion" after a single issue, but Haujobb wanted it otherwise... Englishman Darkus (coeditor on first issue) was now main editor, but suddenly decided to leave the scene following a harddiskcrash sometime around april (this is onyl a guess though...) He didn't even bother telling his fellow team members about it! The main bulk of articles for Devotion #2 was thus written by Sane and Wade, with some support from Ghandy and Fishwave (also ex-scoopex editor!). German musician Dascon (10-11/96) is now in Essence. German musician SMT (new 08/94-05/95), who joined from Infect together with Black Raven, left for Artwork sometime between june and december 94. Artcore (1994, .09?, File). code: Black Raven, gfx: Wave, Manfred "Tomcat" Mayer (picture), Ninja/Dual Crew Shining (font), music: "Haujobb-Intro" by SMT (4ch MOD format). review: A nice, small production with some good graphics and an ok tune in the discopop, "Jester"-vein make for a good debut for Haujobb. Nicely executed (but not advanced) code, and a good sense of design is the topping of the cake on a very acceptable dentro. This intro announces the joining of SMT and Black Raven from Infect. No release date appears in the intro, but it was released before the Dooms Day Party (08-09.10) and after 08/94, which is the date on the module. I have no idea whether this requires AGA, but probably not. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Dentro (1994, late, Intro). code: Black Raven, jailer (raytrace), peachy (logo), ninja/dcs (font), music: WOTW. review: Mostly comprised of a Haujobb logo done as a raytraced animation, this is a slightly disappointing production from Haujobb. Not bad music, though, and the Peachy logo is cool... [glenn]
GLE tested A1200, Hey Süßer ! (1994, late, ECS Intro). code Black Raven, gfx: Tomcat/Complex, music: Syn-T-Size. review: This is nothing more than a nice little 20k bbs intro for THE PRISON, OK done and with a pretty cool chiptune actually. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Love Peace Teddies (1994, 40k Intro). code: Kreavis & Botthead (Dreamer & Peachy), gfx: XXX (font), Wave (font), music: Syn-t-Size. review: This 40k'er opens with some of that 2plane fractal zooming we saw in Virtual Dreams' classic "Chaosland" (12/93), overlaid some text...and that's it! No nothing more here unfortunately. We won't mention the chiptune, just be nice to them. This is...so bad. The release date is at least before "Jammin'" since it mentions THE PRISON as an Infect board. Since it conforms to the 40k limit, was it entered at a party? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Derrick (1994, 08.10, Multifile Intro). code: drf, gfx: Flite (intrologo), Cyclone (ascii), music: WOTW (4ch MOD format). Released at the Doom's Day 94 party. review: Hey, here's something just a little original! This is actually not only an intro, but also an ascii collection! ;) Design is fittingly minimalistic, with the lower 1/3rd of the screen taken up by a scroller and and fun little animation, and the rest occupied by the ascii. It uses colors, bold, italics and such too, and is really not a bad little collection. This is nice and fun, though the chiptune gets on your nerves pretty quickly :) ESC to quit. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Legalize It 2.5 (1994, 09.10, ECS Musicfile). code: Black Raven, gfx: Tomcat/Complex (logo), Ninja/DCS (fonts), music: "Only 4 Voices", "A Race Against Time", "Judgement Day" and "Eternity" by SMT, "Intro Tune!" by Syn-T-Size, "Cafe Brazil" by Jazz (all 4ch MOD format). Released at the Doom's Day 94 party. review: Four pieces of music from SMT, bookended by a tune each by Jazz and Syn-T-Size, make up this thrown-together production. Not bad, with some niceness in both the audial and visual departments, but lacks a little "soul". SMT's "A Race Against Time" was 7th in the Sun'n'Fun Conference II music competition, while his "Judgment Day" was the winner of Commodore's official music competition at CeBit 94! For some reason, this opens with a little text saying "This is
dedicated to Funky..." Explanation, anyone? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Jammin' (1994, 09.10, AGA File Dentro). code: drf, gfx: Wave, music: Jazz (2 tunes, The Player 6.0A format). 2nd in the Doom's Day party 94 demo competition. review: Highlighted by excellent graphical work from Wave and some competent coding from drf (voxel, nice texturemapped cube), this early Haujobb demo is another competent piece of work. Nothing is really wrong here, this is a short, cute production that works on its own terms. Nice stuff. This intro announces Jailer joining the group, which happened at the party itself. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Menu (1994, ECS Intro). code: Black Raven, gfx: Wave, music: Syn-t-Size. review: This is actually a trainermenu, not badly done for this kind of thing, though the music bugs me... It's got the standard mousecontrolled trainer options, a very nice Haujobb logo by Wave down the left side, and the obligatory scroll...there is also some fireworks exploding in the backtground! Nice, but not outstanding. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mintro32 (1994). production: zap, syn-t-size. Bye Scenelife (1995). production: blackraven, smt, jazz, ninja/dcs. TUI (1995). production: drf, wave, jazz. Generation X (1995, 21.05, AGA 4MB Multifile Demo). code: drf, gfx: Wave, Peachy, music: Dascon, Jazz. Winner of the Nexus 95 demo competition! review: Another nicely designed demo by Haujobb, with effects that are perhaps a little bit weaker than usual. Mostly gouraud and bitmap manipulation are the order of the day here. The "Nexus 7" lamp thing was something they could have spared themselves, though! For a two disk demo, this runs a little short imho... Two fullscreen pictures, one by each artist. The results file for the Nexus party by Jazz said that a final version of the demo would be released later. It doesn't seem like this ever happened, as the one I'm reviewing was downloaded from their website in 2000... Originally on two disks, but can be easily installed to harddisk.
[glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. State of Aversia BBS Intro (1996, ECS Intro). code: drf, gfx: none, music: Jazz (The Player 6.0A format). review: Small (8k) but nice, this is how a promotional intro should be! Ascii-based, but with graphics and a nice, mellow tune by Jazz, this is sweeeeet... Sysops Jack Danielz and Julie. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Burning Chrome (1996, 06.07, AGA 4MB Multifile Demo). code: Fastjack, gfx: Wave, Cyclone/Illusion, music: Mortimer/Royal (The Player 6.1 format). 3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. review: Fastjack does a real nice little demo here, with some great design and fast 3d routines. There's everything here, from afterburned phong (which I had only seen from Azure before actually!) to envmapping and cool tunnels. The graphical work is also above average, and the music is nicely different, while staying firmly in a techno style. The demo gives an overall good impression, though suffers slightly from a lack of pace towards the end. Not bad at all! Cyclone's fullscreen picture is called "Mobile" (at least that's the filename in my collection... :). Mortimer usually uses the more extensive handle Mortimer Twang. Should work on any AGA amiga with enough mem, but 030-50 is recommended. Should be run from HD, but can also be run from disks, the method is explained in the enclosed readme file. I experience some initial problems when attempting to run the file (packed with Titanics Cruncher 1.2), but after manually depacking the file first, everything worked fine. The version reviewed was the final version (just bugfixes, more stable), see the end of the endscroller to see if it mentions that this is released after the party - otherwise you've got the partyversion. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Harmony (1996, 03.11, AGA HD 4MB Multifile Demo). code: Darken, Unborn, gfx: Owl, Dust, Peachy, music: Jazz, Jazz & Smartass (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in the Saturne Party 4 demo competition. review: Harmony opens with what appears to be a raytraced fractal with logos overlaid, but I have seen have seen way better examples of this kind of thing. Then it goes on to a very nice fullscreen picture by Dust of a woman's face and some water and mountain scenery in the background, which it holds on to for unfortunately a little too long, possibly while precalculating? It then loads and changes tune, and we're shown a good, but anatomically weird pic of a halfnaked mermaid being eaten by sharks (!), drawn by Peachy. Then it shows ANOTHER picture for too long, this
time some digitized (though cute =) girl with some words overlaid... Both of the included tunes are right there as files in plain P61A format. should work on any AGA amiga with enough mem, but 030-50 is recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Knickelbreaka (1996, 06.11, AGA Intro). code: Fastjack, gfx: Wave, music: Jazz. review: Short and most decidedly sweet, this is a promotion intro for their new chippackmag "Friendchip". If this style is anything to go by, it should be cool indeed... Go get it! Should work on standard A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Friendchip issue #1 (1996, .12, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Fastjack, gfx: Dust, Wave, Seal (clip), Geist/Balance (clip), music: various, editor: Jazz. review: This first issue of Haujobb's new mag overrided every and any preconception I might have had - it's great! Though originally intended as a chipmag - sort of picking up the glove after ChipMania - it seems their project have grown a little out of proportion :) What this is essentially - is a small diskmag with a nice selection of chippies to choose from. This, however, brings me to what must surely be a BUG! I have never actually been able to play a single tune through Friendchip. There's simply no sound!? Thankfully, they've provided an option for saving the modules out to disk, so thanks to HippoPlayer and the great multitasking magcode I was still able to listen to them while reading the mag :D Another great thing about Friendchip is the design and the graphics - both very very nicely executed. To conclude, I just have to say that this chipmag has a magcode that's just as good as for any of the leading diskmags. Its ability to multitask - like ROM - is especially nice. I'm actually running it in the background right now, so I can switch back and forth if I want to check anything :) Coolness. Eurochart #30 lists the coder as Touchstone/Essence, for some reason...!? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. One Day (1997, AGA Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Wave, music: Muffler. Winner of the Belgian Scene Event 40k intro competition! review: This opens with a convincing rotzoomer, and continues with more of the same with some pretty cool bitmap manipulation effects. The overall impression is of a very colorful intro mainly based on 2d bitmap effects like twirls and rots. It gives a very smooth feel. It ends with a burning particle effect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Awakening (1997, 06.06, AGA 4MB 64k Intro). code: Darken, gfx: Owl, music: Muffler. Winner of the Abduction 97 64k intro competition! review: Certainly a child of a different breed, HJB's Abduction winner is a nice little intro, I guess, if you're into this techno kind of thing. Rather than tell you what's in the intro, we'll just list the routines, as printed in the text file :) bump, blur, radial distortions, DK3D engine, plasma printf, and just add that there's some wireframe vectors in there too ;D To be honest I didn't like this all that much... some nice routines, but the package fails to excite. Potential is there, but it lacks the final punch to lift it to greatness. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. With Style (1997, 09.08, AGA 64k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bay Tremore, music: Muffler. 4th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: It opens with a cool, zooming Haujobb logo by Bay Tremore and continues with some typical Mufflermusic. The zooming, twisting tunnel is another highlight, and also the twirling bumpmap routine that follows it. You may have gotten the idea by now; I quite like this. It's fast, cool and colorful. Not the world's most impressive intro, but still very nice. Please note that this review refers to the 'final' version, released after the party, with bugfixes and faster routines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Control! (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro). production: noname, speedo, jcs, marc. 2nd in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition. Entering Hypnosis (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Leunam, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). 5th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: Technically and audio-visually competent at every level, "Entering Hypnosis" still fails to impress. The lack of pace, the headacheinducing music and the jumping screen are all elements that take away some of this intro's interest. It all looks pretty and smooth, but doesn't ENGAGE. The effects are not awe-inspiring in any way, with a clear dominance on a color-cycling like effect (shown THREE times, with different palettes and variables!) and swirling tunnels. Yawn. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. My Kingdom (1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile). code: Boogeyman/Scoopex, Fastjack, Speedo, Kenny, gfx: Kid Love, Visualize/?, Leunam, Bay Tremore, Boogeyman/Scoopex (3d, textures), Dice/? (textures), Jazz (textures), Nomad/Scoopex (3d), music: "Tama's
Kingdom" by Muffler, "Antigotchi" by Jazz and FNDR (uncredited), Director: Owl. Winner of The Party 97 demo competition! Cooperation with Scoopex. review: "My Kingdom" is a great demo - as you'd expect from a The Party winner - but surprisingly short. The demo is split into three parts, all loadable as standalone executables, or run in sequence via a supplied script. The first thing that struck me about it, was how fast and smooth all the 3D scenes were. There's some pretty impressive optimizing behind getting scenes to run as smoothly as this, and I can do nothing but applaud. There are several fullscreen pictures, and design is good. The music is good and unusual, and sounds professional and unorthodox. As I said in the opening, "My Kingdom" is a great demo - but "Captured Dreams" it aint! With a little more focus, Haujobb will be a BIG group... This cooperation demo was placed under Haujobb's heading since most of the people involved in the project seem to be Haujobb members, and it's 'director' was a Haujobb member. A 'final' version was released later, but without much new stuff - it was virtually identical to the party release, as the accompanying text file mentions. When someone's member status is uncertain, I've written /? - this does not mean that this person is not a member of either group, just that I don't know which one :). Both modules from the demo were soon after released in extended versions through the Mono and Monotonik labels. The fact that Jazz' module was in cooperation with FNDR wasn't mentioned in the demo! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Haupex (1998, 21.02, AGA 40k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bird/Scoopex, Speedo (fonts), music: Muffler and Bird/Scoopex. Winner of the Scene Meeting 98 intro competition! Cooperation with Scoopex. review: Now, this is fun - a sense of style! "Haupex" won't impress you with it's flashy routines or speedy 1x1 phongs - but it will show you a definitive sense of style and design! The music's timed to some onscreen action, like flashing and the screen jumping. I'd REALLY like to know which of these two groups Speedo is in, now! Anyway, this is totally recommended. Groovy! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Radikal (1998, 11.04, ECS File). code: Speedo, gfx: Wave, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). 7th in the Alternative 98 demo competition. review: A pretty mediocre production this time, which opens with a pretty OK Haujobb logo by Wave. Next is a zooming ball-like effect, before an rgb effect overlaid on the same logo as earlier. Next is a couple of variations on the classic interference effect, and then it all ends with
some twisting horizontal bars - the best effect in the demo. The music is really sub-par quality for Muffler, unfortunately, but fits in with the overall quality of this "demo". Not good. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Aphrodisia (1998, 12.04, AGA HD File). code: Darken, gfx: JCS, Kidlove (title logo), Dice/Doomsday (textures), Leunam (font), music: Muffler (2x The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition! review: Nice visuals and trancy music introduce us to HJB's winning demo from MS98. It's one of their best demos, with the combination of strong coding (3d scenes!), great design, and some fabuoous audio-visual talent working on it making it something quite extraordinary. The demo is actually not quite fullscreen, but presented in 320x220 inasted. This doesn't really refract from the enjoyment of the demo, and I find it quite acceptable. There are three fullscreen pictures by JCS in this demo, all of which feature girls' faces... Presumably at least one of these is his compopicture for MS98, "Native". This demo was a long time in the coming, originally planned for Assembly 97, then for Saturne 5, then for The Party 97... Owl served as 'director'. This demo announced that Virgill joined. Please note that the version reviewed is the fixed version for 040/060 machines. 3d scenes can be viewed in 640x440 HAM8, using ?? as argument! They've used a square root routine by Touchstone/Essence and c2p routine by Krishna/Scoopex. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Edit 0.5 (1998, 08.08, 64k Intro). code: Speedo, gfx: Bay Tremore, music: Muffler (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of the Assembly 98 64k intro competition! review: As usual, amazing 3d and great design from Haujobb, brought this intro straight to the top of the heap at ASM98 this year. This is a relatively short intro, but in that time, still manages to impress... The focus is mainly on 3d, mostly cubes for once (oldskOOl =), but also with a cool and original logo at the beginning and a rocking ripple effect towards the end. Not a classic intro, but good - and good enough to win in this competition. Probably requires AGA... I guess =) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Mnemonics (1999, 04.04, AGA 8MB File Demo).
code: NoName, Fastjack, Touchstone/Essence, gfx: JCS, Wave, Kublay/Ram Jam, music: Marc. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2k-1 demo competition! review: What first strikes you about "Mnemonics" is its superb design, with graphics and effects overlaid in a seemingly fluent manner. Effects are reasonably fast, and the soundtrack engaging (if you're into that sort of thing ;P). But back to the great design, hehe... This is really a triumph in that respect, with even the fullscreen pictures having effects overlaid in some form...There's an excellent one by JCS here (portraying singer Skin from Skunk Anansie) where a small object appears to be spinning in her hand... just amazing! Can anyone confirm or deny that the picture in question is JCS' "Crazee", winner at this party? Kublay's contribution is likely just his fullscreen picture of dinosaurs. Unfortunately I don't understand much of the endpart, since it's all in German... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Radwar 2k Invitation (2000, early, AGA File). code: Craid, gfx: Cyclone, music: Virgill (The Player 6.1A format). review: A functional invitation intro, with some typically offbeat and strange graphics by Cyclone! The music is also very much a Virgill composition. It has a rather strange menu that I used a little time to work out, actually =) To make a rather long story short and sweet, this is a pretty cool little invitation intro for a pretty cool little party =) Understood? Identical intros were released for amiga (Craid), pc (Hellfire) and psx (Fuzzel). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Back To The Roots (2000, 23.04, AGA File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 2nd in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 demo competition. review: Nostalgia the Haujobb way... After running this shows a kickstart 1.2 logo, then a good old cliscreen before the demo starts =) Those were the days, eh? But then I only get the blackest of screens...for a looooong time... The music goes on, but nothing visual appears. Why? God alone knows, I guess. Sad. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Distorted; Strange Distortion (2000, 23.04, AGA 64k Intro). code: Craid, Octane (additional), gfx: Hellfire, SolarC, music: Roz. 2nd in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 64k intro competition. review: Whooooah! After a rather long spell of precalculation, this intro throws up some effects that sort-of make me feel the wait was worth it =)
This is a cool little intro which tries to be welldesigned and different, but only halfway succeeds. They should get extra kudos for their extensive use of graphics, unusual to see in such a small (64k) production! In the end though, it does outstay its welcome a little, and should really have cut back a couple of the not-so-great effects to make a shorter, more focused package. But by all means, not at all bad! Best parts: The very first effect, and the tunnel just before the credits. Shame about the REALLY annoying music. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Yes! (2000, 23.04, AGA 64k Intro). code: NoName, Fastjack, Kenny, Darken, gfx: JCS, music: Muffler. 5th in the Mekka & Symposium 2000 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Loveboat. review: Some very cool design here, and a typically intense Muffler soundtrack. Some very nice coding too, add up to make me feel that this is actually a better intro than their 2nd-placer "Distorted" at the same party! They use a special kind of shading for several of the parts, that give it a sort of look of its own... Had it not been for the small fact that it is terribly short, I am pretty sure this could have won at MS... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Modular (2000, 28.12, AGA 64k Intro). code: Craid, gfx: Hellfire, Standhal. 2nd in The Party 2000 64k intro competition. review: "Modular" is an intro that likely reached its elevated status on the result list more due to some great design touches rather than technical excellence... cause these are really nothing but filled vectors. Excellent filled vectors, but still nothing more. It does go on for a while though, and it is undoubtedly a beautiful little intro. It looks great, sounds cool, and for that reason you will all want it. For that, and for Hellfire's mystic woman face... ;) Plus for the cute ansi precalc screen, which was a nice touch. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Megademo 2000 (2000, 28.12, AGA HD 12MB File). code: Optima, gfx: JCS, Peachy, Optima (textures), Hellfire (3d, colors), Wave (textures), Acryl (3d), Nomad (3d), music: "Go-A-Round", "Interaudio" and "No Tricks" by Marc (The Player 6.1A format). Winner of The Party 2000 demo competition!
review: Make no mistake, this was made on and for 060-50's. It's a file of almost 10mb, and....it's absolutely wonderful. =) It opens in style, continues in style and ends mightily - in style. On my 030-50. THANK YOU! Not everything flows every-frame, but it's beautiful and FAR from SLOW at any point! They make a point of how this was made on 060's, but you wouldn't know it looking at the demo. I could go on and on and on and tell you about every effect from screen to screen, but you would get tired long before I could finish and you would get the point I was trying to make much sooner. Once again I thank you Haujobb, for making my job so much easier and more pleasurable. "Megademo 2000" is demo of the year 2000. The fullscreen pictures are "Megademo 2000" by JCS (640x400x8), "Akaya" by JCS (320x200x8), "Solaris" by JCS (640x400x8) and finally "Colaris" by Peachy (640x480x8). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Devotion #2 Promotional Intro (2001, Intro). code: Stingray/Darkage, gfx: Wade (logo), music: Reed/Damage. review: The DVN #2 promotional intro has a decidedly oldskool flavour to it - with oldfashioned effects like a lightsourced vectorcube etc... I can't help it, I really love this cute little thing! =) After a slightly half-assed Devotion logo, it kicks off proper with the aforementioned lightsourced vector and a cute animated lego-person walking onto the screen. Following this we get the 'info' part, presenting the new Devotion staff and the upcoming headlines for the second issue... And pressing the left mouse button gives the credits before exiting. Very nice oldskool design, coupled with the cool chipper by Reed, makes this a nice little intro. Bear in mind, though, that it's almost 370k long - proper oldskoolers could easily crunch this down to 40k... =) Just kidding, nice one! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Devotion #2 (2001, 15.06, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: Zaac/independent (title), Adam/DCS (Panels, fonts, backdrops), music: Chromag, Reed/Damage, Curt Cool/Depth, Jazz/Haujobb and Reed/Damage, editors: Wade (main), Sane (coeditor), Fishwave/Scoopex and DCS, Ghandy/Darkage. review: So finally, and to the surprise of most of the scene, the second issue of Devotion finally saw the light of day. The second issue of a mag that was declared dead its original releasing group (Nah-Kolor), whose
previous main editor had left the scene (Darkus) - and whose entire editorial team is new for the second issue. Born out of controversy, this is still an exciting issue to read. QUALITY is back in the amiga magscene for good, with a diskmag that shows the same kind of quality assurance that mags like ROM once had. The mag opens with a great, very original title picture drawn by Zaac, and a quick click of the lmb later, we're reading Devotion again. The graphics are exactly the same as in the last issue, not that that's a bad thing at all =) But any mag, however graphically appealing, stands or falls on its editorial content. And I am very, very glad to announce that Devotion does not fail. In fact, this mag represents the strongest and best display of scene journalism since the days of ROM! _THIS_ is the kind of mag we want to read, _THIS_ is how it's done! Main editor Wade's articles are engaging, critical and perfectly displays his great knowledge of scenelife in general - and graphics in particular. The mag has two title pictures, chosen randomly at startup. While Zaac's caricature picture is great, Wade's black&white picture of a partially submerged beautiful female is just...fabulous. Wow. This picture GLOWS. The mag requires just a standard A1200, with AGA or a graphics board. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Hazard -----Hazard is dead. All members left for Saturne late93; this includes Loony (eng, ex Surprise! Productions, old handle Snowman, new late93) and Vodka (fra, ex The Special Brothers, new late93). Head! (H!) ---------GER> Case78 (Rene, ?ascii, 96). HOL> React (Joeri Tan, ascii, ex Monk, new 07/96). ???> Punk! (ascii, 96), Rave (ascii, 96), Rooster (ascii). Head! is an ascii group. 1996 - Dutch ascii artist React joined in july, after his previous group Monk died. Headwave (-1990) ---------------SWI> Dave (10/89), HQ (10/89).
Headwave was a swiss group, that died early 90. Two of their members joined Setrox. They were reborn later in the year. Headway ------HUN> Dylance (Karloy Boczka, swap, 93). Hungarian graphician D-Mage joined Virtual Dreams. Heatseekers ----------Lord Helmet joined Cartel. Heaven -----???> Jaffa (ex Angels old). Heavy Duty ---------Finnish Pifki joined Dimension 4. Great Intro (1991, early, ECS Intro). Code: Cli, Gfx: Dor, Music: Maake. Hellfire (HF, 1994-) -------------------HOL> Sal-One (sysop 'BOONDOCKS' WHQ, doublememb LSD, 12/95-11/97). DEN> Enzo (sysop 'SKY TOWER' EHQ, 10/95-02/97). ???> Advocate (crack, 10/96), Alpha One (code, 12/95), Chelsea (01/97), Defect (doublememb Insane, 02/96), Hudson Hawk (gfx, doublememb Lightforce, 05/97), Icarus (code, 01/96), Jam (supply), Preacher (keyfilemakers, 04/96), Rascal (code keygens, 95-05/98), Rude Dude (gfx, 96), Siriax (code crack, 12/95), Sonik (supply, 02/97), The Clairvoyant (gfx, 01/96). Boards; TEMPLE OF DREAMS (ger, 12/95-10/96), ACID SLAM (ger, 12/9502/97), DIAL HARD (swi, 12/95-02/97), ON THE RUN (ger, 01-10/96), SKYLINE (swe, 01/96), FREEDOM WITHIN (eng, 12/95-02/97), ELECTRIC WARRIOR (eng, 12/95-02/97), CEMENT CITY (eng, 12/95-10/96), NEXUS 7 (eng, 12/95-01/96), THE CHAMELEON (fin, 01/96), BROADWAY (ger, 01-02/97). Distsites; STEEL DAWN (96), EXTREME TERROR (96), SPACED OUT (96), PRISON OF HELL (96). Hellfire is one of the better groups dealing in the illegal cracker scene,
probably based in England. Supplier Iggy (01-12/96) announced he would leave the scene 'after christmas' in a crackintro 12/96, yet called himself 'Hellfire Leader!' in a crack dated 01/99. 1995 - Enzo and his bbs 'SKY TOWER' was busted at the end of october. Enzo was known for having lots of payleechers, as well as selling streamer tapes and cd's with stuff... After first announcing he would leave the scene, he reconsidered and finally built up his board again. We guess he will be more careful in the future :) Hellwalkers ----------???> The Fly (ex Sepultura, new UPS10). Hemoroids (HMD, 1992-) ---------------------FRA> AJT (early93), Axel (ex Ozone, new early93), Bigm (ex Willow, new RAW4), Ghost Penguin (early93), Gryzor (code, ex Dreamdealers, new 08/92), Orcus (ex Ozone, new early93), Sam (early93), Spock (early93), STC (ex Willow, new RAW4). Hemoroids were formed late 92 by ex members of Quartz france. When Ozone died late 92 or early 93, all their members joined Hemoroids. Later (93), Ozone was reformed with members from Hemoroids :-) Gryzor is the identical to the guy who later coded Pro-Wizard and made the cool "MODs Anthology" CDs! Endless Melodies (Musicdisk). code: Gryzor, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: My regular contributor _SoLo_ tells me this musicdisk is 'cool' :) Heresy -----ITA> MetalbasheR (ascii sysop 'STRANGE LAND', 09/92), Phoenix (trade). ???> Bruce Lee (crack, 09/92), Reflex (code, 09/92), Roger (code, 09/92). Boards; SHATTERED DREAMS (usa, 09/92), TRANSFER STATION (usa, 09/92), FINAL FRONTIER (ger, 09/92). Heresy once released the 'Italian Charts' (early93). Their Italian modemtrader Phoenix is female, as revealed in R.A.W #5. Holgi, sysop of 'INVISIBLE CRIME', joined Agnostic Front.
Crackintro (1992, ECS Intro). code: Roger, gfx: n/a (ansi), music: "Brocken-Clock" by Reflex (4ch MOD format). review: Pretty bog-standard ascii-and-chiptune intro, with a grey background. Used for the trainer for Diabolik [15-09-92], done by Bruce Lee. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Heretic ------Delirium (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 10th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Hijack -----SWE> Core (ex Strange), Crayone, Tony (gfx, ex Strange, later Razor 1911). Hijack was formed by Core and Tony (both ex Strange). However, STD10 claimed Core and Crayone joined Noxious from Strange, and doesn't mention this crew at all! Hirmu ----FIN> Braindead (swap), CJack (Teemu Litti, code, 08/94). ???> Deadlock (code, 08/94), Great J (code, 08/94), Maverick (code, 08/94), T42 (music, 08/94). Kampela (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). Code: Cjack, Maverick (additional), Great J (additional), Deadlock (additional), Gfx: none, Music: T42. 4th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Review: I don't know quite how this one managed to make it to fourth at the Assembly, but it did. Nothing outstanding here, with the sole exception of a cool routine where a vector cube bounces sideways into a net consisting of linevectors. Trust me, it looks cool! Four coders and it's still not better than this...'What's Up Doc?' [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Hauki (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. Hoaxers (HXS) ------------NOR> Baccalao, Comedian (Morten Eriksen, 10/94), Kalle (gfx music, 04/93), Skurk, The Jerk. ???> Firehawk.
Hoaxers were originally a Norwegian C64 group, but I believe some of their old members carried the name over to the Amiga when they converted. Freedom Crack #8 carried the news that 'Elexion are now Hoaxers!'. U-Lyd (1993, 10.04, ECS Musicdisk). code: Marius/Panoramic Designs, gfx/music: Kalle. 40k Intro (1994, 03.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Intro Coop Tune" by NHP/Anarchy and Hydra/Devils. 8th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: This small intro has some thoroughly unexciting effects in it, to be frank and brutal. That would have been excusable if they'd brought something new to the effects, but they fail there also. We're given BLOCKY plasma, copper effects (soooo 1989), loose dots (not many!) and a dotscroller. I mean, where have these guys been? These are all effects that were popular back in the old megademo days - late '80s. Considering the fact that the tune is dated february 1992, it's probably a safe assumption that it was ripped from somewhere. The intro contains no credits whatsoever. Based on how it behaves on the two test machines, I'll hazard a guess that it was written on an A1200 with that machine in mind. On the 500 it's slow and flickers in places. Back to the drawing board, guys. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Music bugs a little. Arrrgh! (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). 7th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Honey (HNY, http://uno.canit.se/~qen/honey) Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Abuse and Grotesticle, 06/95-02/96), Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', triplememb Element and FLD [no entry], 01/96). SWE> Qen (music). ???> Beverage (code), Black Line (code trade sysop), Count-Zero (ascii sysop), Dartagnan (ascii), Defect (trade), Diablo (trade sysop), Distler (code sysop), Diz'Nee (trade), Exner (trade), Flea (music), Gann (code), Gozz (ascii), H2O (ascii sysop), Hence (code), Huz (trade), Kurgan (trade), Laz (gfx), Maddox (code), Marduk (trade), Misfit (ascii), Mode (trade), Mozart (trade), Nivek (music), Numen (nor?, 01/96), Outcast (trade), Pad (gfx ascii), Psycho (sysop), Pulse (gfx), Rooster (swap), Scarface (trade ascii), Sham (gfx), Slowrider (trade), Sprocket (trade), Stain (trade), Stylewars (trade sysop), The Cat Killer (trade), Tito (code), U-Man (ascii sysop), Ziz (sysop).
1995 - Acid Kid left around july, and joined Shoot. Honoo ----FRA> ADN (raytrace swap, 04/97), Alabama (code, 04/97), Black Dragon (Paul Pacheco, org gfx music ascii swap pack "Package", triplememb Limited Edition and Artificial People, 04/97-01/99), Clo! (singer, 04/97), Falcon (raytrace swap trade, 04/97), HP (Henrique Pacheco, org gfx music, triplememb Limited Edition and Artificial People, 04/97), Mag (04/97), Mytholog (music ascii swap, ex Muttonheads, 04/97). Honoo is a France-based demo crew. Surnames and the same adress leads me to believe organizers Black Dragon and HP are brothers. 1997 - French swapper Eagle (04/97) left the group. Bip Bip ended his double membership to be in Fresh only. French musician Mytholog joined from Muttonheads. Amiga Rules! (1997, 25.04, AGA HD File). code: Alabama, gfx: Black Dragon, music: Black Dragon (mix). review: More fun than impressive, AR! sure does have the cutest singing frogs I've ever seen, I'll give it that! As a whole however, it leaves me with a smile on my face but a definitive feeling of being cheated. A demo archive that weighs in at roughly 1.3MB should contain more than some text, a zooming Amiga logo and thee aforementioned frogs. Some of the answer I believe lie in the tune, which is a remixed version of an original tune by 'Scope', a techno artist. I suspect these samples are rather large. Fun, but not worth the download time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Nude Part 4 (1997, 14.12, Demo). 5th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Hoodlum (HDL/HLM, 1993-) -----------------------GER> Angel Dawn (gfx, 11/94), Archon (Stello Dousis, music, 04/93), Autopsy (cards supply editor 'World Charts', ex The Silents, 11/94-03/96), Cougar (sysop 'THE SWITCHBOARD', 02-05/95), Radiosity (sysop 'TERMINAL FUCKUP', 02-05/95), Schwabenpower (03/96). BEL> TCB (sysop 'METAL IMPACT' EHQ, 02-05/95). SWE> Pripps (sysop 'END OF TIME', 01/95). CAN> Kaptain Kaos (sysop 'BIO HAZARD', 02-05/95). USA> Circuit Breaker (sysop 'DIGITAL EXTASY', ex Outlaws), Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW' WHQ, 03/96-01/99), Speed Master (sysop 'SANCTUARY' WHQ).
???> 2Fast (supply, 02/95), Antarctic (02/97), Chronos (code train), Colonel (den? 10/95), Cool Shot (sysop), Cypher (org, 03/94), Disque Bleu Radiosity (03/96), Ferox (crack, 05/95), Harmonica (03/96), I.B.M (03/96), Jedi (nor? 08/95), Kamenski (02/97), Lincoln (03/96), Master Five (supply, 03/94), No Limit (ger? 05/95), S.M.M. (trade, 11/94), Snike (sysop TRELLI IKOJENIA' AUHQ, 02/97), T.E.S. (03/96). Boards; THE VOID WHQ (usa, 02-05/95), PIRATES HEAVEN WHQ (usa, 02-05/95), BAD DREAMS (eng, 02-05/95), LOOSING RELIGION (eng), TOTAL PANIC (nor), NEW ORDER (rhq), TOUCHDOWN (ger, 02/95), SUPREMACY (ita, 02-05/95), TREPONEM PAL FHQ. Hoodlum was a mainly pirate-oriented group...as the name indicates :) Chryseis was their demo section. They are also the last known publishers of Autopsy's 'World Charts', releasing at least three issues for Hoodlum. 1996 - Their coder, cracker and coorganizer The Black Cat, starting to feel the heat of the police in his neck, 'faked his own death' by stating in a cracktro released early this year that he had died of a drug overdose. World Charts #13 (1994, .11, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: Angel Dawn, Phase (logo), music: Hi-Lite. review: This issue of WC opens with an atmospheric intro, set to strings and ritualistic drums. Slowly the words WORLD CHARTS appear onto the screen, before the inital music ades down to give room to some hard techno coupled with some graphically excellent environmental-friendly intitiatives... =) The thing itself is pretty much the same as always, though I do miss all the great graphics - a new pic for every category of older incarnations. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA! Trainer Menu (1993, .04, ECS Intro). code: The Black Cat, gfx: n/a, music: "Warhawk" by Archon (Delta Music 2.0 format). review: Quite nice really, though mostly for the fabulous chiptune - a conversion of the music for the c64 game "Warhawk". Cool! The entire intro is done in shades of blue and black, and at the top of the screen is a mediocre blue Hoodlum logo. Then the middle is occupied with the trainer options, and the bottom part has two scrollers. That font sure is familiar, back from the c64 days, even though I can't really name it as such :) Cool music! The release date was identified by text in the binary itself. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Horizon (HZ) [real] ------------------SWE> Badger (Daniel Stenberg), Boogaloo (Linus Nielsen, code), Exilon (Jörgen Gustavsson, code), Judge (ex Fairlight, new early90), Pernod (Daniel Larsson, gfx, ex Fairlight, new early90), Kjer (Kjell Ericson), Mastermind (Nicklas Ulvnäs), Zagor (Björn Stenberg). There were two Horizon's, both of which existed around the same time. HZ real was the original Horizon, coming from the C64, while the others were the cracker and demo group that a.o. had Gaston cracking for them. Diffrentiating the two is made further difficult by the fact that they were both based in Sweden :) Virtual Intelligence (1991, ECS File). code: Boogaloo, Exilon, gfx: Pernod, music: Tomas Danko Jr. review: This HZ demo shows some technically competent coders doing advanced stuff with vectors. Unfortunately, it's not really very entertaining. There's lots of (for its time) innovative stuff here, but it falls into that old effect-text-effect trap. Sometimes, it works (like in The Silents' "Global Trash"). Most of the time, though, it doesn't. Some of the stuff you get to see is texturemapping, animated texturemapping, sphere vectors... You get the picture. The music is adequate, though - but then again it should be, when it's by Danko! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Horizon (HZ) [amiga] -------------------SWE> Bryce?/Raistlin? (music sysop 'MAINFRAME' EHQ, 10-12/90), Galactus (code), Ric (12/90), Striper (gfx, 12/90), Shuriken (code, 12/90). ENG> Splatt! (sysop 'SPLATTER HOUSE', ex Classic, new late90). ???> Citizen, Cyber, Kapten Data, Link (90), Rebel, Stranger (ex Adept, new late90), Web (supply), Zipp. There were two Horizon's, both of which existed around the same time. HZ real was the original Horizon, coming from the C64, while the others were the cracker and demo group that a.o. had Gaston cracking for them. Diffrentiating the two is made further difficult by the fact that they were both based in Sweden :) Swedish coder Galactus left to write SEGA Megadrive games for Electronic Arts in the USA in the late part of 1990! Swedish Link (ex The Silents) left the scene. Swedish Coke was busted late 90! Swedish supercracker Gaston (04-09/90) joined Sprint when Horizon's original supply died. Megademo (ECS Megademo). Sleeping Bag (1990, 28.12, ECS Trackmo).
code: Shuriken, gfx: Striper, music: "Made" by Blaizer/The Silents, "Jarre" by Bryce. Released for The Party 91 demo competition. review: This fails to work on my A1200, and it's hard to classify something you haven't seen :) Blaizer's tune is great, though. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Won't work. Hotline (HTL) ------------Dutch graphician Lowlife joined Axis new. Yonex, sysop 'BRAIN FOREST' joined LSD early 92. Humane (HMN, 1993-) ------------------FIN> Blazer (93), Garbitch (93), Jaws (sysop 'CYCLONE CENTER', 04/95), Necrarch (sysop 'THRONE CHAMBER', 04/95). Stezotehique (93). DEN> Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE'), R-Some (sysop 'THE EDGE OF HEAVEN'), Striker (sysop 'EVIL DEAD', 04/95). ???> Chet (code, 08/93), Dune (music, 08/93), Rastamom (music, 08/94), Rice (gfx, 08/93), Sleepwalker (gfx, 08/93-08/94), Wearoz (gfx, 08/94), Why.j (code, 08/94), Xender (code, 08/94), Humane was formed in 1993 by ex-Regency members (fin) together with some Danish group. They now seem to exist in coomperation with Vanity, under the name Humane Vanity. Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Chet, gfx: Rice, Sleepwalker, music: Dune. 10th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition. Sleepless (1994, 03.04, 40k Intro). 13th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. info: Cooperation with Vanity. Spoiled (1994, 06.08, 40k Intro). code: Xender, Why.j, gfx: Sleepwalker, Wearoz, music: Rastamom. 11th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Again nice design, and this time even some content. The winner here is a fast but simple lightsourced voxel routine. The text screens are accompanied by a plasma interference thing that also looks quite OK. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Humane Vanity ------------FIN> Frost (trade, 03/94), G.O.D (trade, 03/94), Klutz (trade, 03/94),
Lunatic (trade, 03/94), Rastaman (trade, 03/94), Recycler (trade, 03/94), Stz & Kid (traders, 03/94), Zeff (trade, 03/94). Humanoids (-1990) ----------------???> Nimitz (ex Tat, new 05/90). Humanoids died after the group merged with members of Arcadia (earlier Arcadia Team) to create the new group Scope. Humans -----DEN> Gilthanas (sysop 'WAREZ UNLIMITED', 01-04/95). Humbugs ------???> Lord Lech (org code swap), Mynok (sysop, new 06/96), Plasma (org gfx ascii swap), Raz Van Op (music). Raytracer Immortal got kicked 06/96. Hurricane (-1992) ----------------Hurricane was a Danish demo group. After arranging the large but disastrous Hurrican Summer Party 92, the group's reputation was shattered. They therefore decided to split up and go their separate ways (this concerns Brian ++). Profile left to be independent 08/92. Trax changed his handle to Summelove and left 08/92. Hybrid (HYB) -----------???> Hoson (usa? 10/94). Hydronic (1991-1991) -------------------Formed by R.W.O, S.L.L (who both were in Rebels for 14 days after Kefrens died) and 4 other ex-Kefrens guys. However, Hydronic soon became the new Kefrens. Guardian Dragon was originally developed for Hydronic. Hyperion -------Hyperion were a Swedish-English illegal cracking group. Gaston (ex Sprint) joined Fairlight.
Hypnos (HPS) -----------FRA> Gremlins (Oliver Lefillatre, org gfx, 04/93), Maki Swapper (Sylvestre Seguin, swap, early93). ???> Factor X (new early93), Shad (new early93), Sky (ex Intense, new early93). Hypnosis -------SWE> Lurrky, Schizo, Zune (swap). ???> Azid Baron, Trinity. Swedes Dee-Jay (music), Rocket and Trinity (Westwood?) joined Aurora in december of 1991. Don Martin Musakdisk (1990, 07.01, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Hypnotic -------GER> Aggressor (ex EOC1999, new mid91). ???> Jayce (ex EOC1999, new mid91), Messias (ex EOC1999, new mid91). Apollo joined Awesome. Buzzard joined Damian 09/92. German Massive joined Vanish. Zycro joined End of Century 1999 or Subzero 08/92 (Eurochart #16). Mercy joined Amaze (RAW2). Hysteric (HTC) -------------GER> Fireball (swap, 09/92). ???> Mr.Mister (music, 12/94), Ravage (music, 12/94). German swapper TNM joined Contrast. ICE (1992-) ----------NOR> Purple Haze (swap, 93). GER> Judge (Sebastian Hartmann, music). ICE was formed by the four Norwegian ex-LSD members Howard (music), Nash (music), Archie (code) and Alien (code). These four would later move on to join Legend, which probably meant the end of the group. There was also a german section based out of the city of Bremen. The group (or the section?) vanished after a cooperation with the group The Dark Demon. Thanks to Judge for some information.
Songbook #9 (1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Judge, Bulldog. info: Dosloaded, 5 tunes. Ignominy -------SWE> Eagleman and Zahdok (sysops 'SERIAL ACCESS', 01/95). Illusion (ILS, 1993-1993) ------------------------SWE> Hammer (org code, later Razor 1911, 11/93), Lawnmowerman (sysop 'G-FORCE' WHQ, 11/93), Lionheart (swap, ex Circle), Nassjo (3dgfx, old handle Oden), Odeon (org code, 11/93), Paladin (code), PGL (gfx swap, ex Noxious, 11/93), (music, ex Circle, later Razor 1911, 11/93), Sate (ascii trade), Schizo (Olle Jonsson, founder swap, ex Alcatraz), Sine (gfx 3d, 11/93), Some1 (music, ex Circle, later Razor 1911, 11/93). Boards; BUNKER 808 (swe), POINT ZERO (swe). Illusion was a shortlived all-swedish group formed by Colorbird and Schitzo from Alcatraz in the middle of 1993. The group died towards the late part of the year after the release of their promising "Waterproof" [11/93] demo. Colorbird decided to reform the group Razor 1911, and after a while most of the members of Illusion also wound up in that group. There are/were at least three different groups called Illusion. Propaganda #2 (1993, Diskmag). info: AGA needs to be disabled on A1200's. Waterproof (1993, .11, ECS Trackmo). code: Colorbird, Hammer, Odeon, gfx: Sine, PGL, music: "Coffeine_Dream.." and "Chipjazz_Ver2" by Some1 & Prime (4ch MOD format). review: Not bad this demo from the mostly later new Razor 1911 members. The (techno) music's suitably groovy, some effects are cool, and the graphics are functional... It leaves you with a general feeling of being slightly above average. On the A1200, it recognizes the faster processor, but claims I'm running with an ECS chipset :) Anyway, all effects are stonkingly fast on the 030. Compatibility rules... [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Illusion (ILS) -------------???> The Angel (ex Legend). There are/were at least three (!) different Illusion's. Pepe and Moody joined TRSI. Jet joined Grace. Illusion (ILS) -------------GER> Aweson (Marc Balzig, mainorg swap, 08/95), Ben.E (gfx), Dragonfly (code), Odin (Benc Orpak, gfx, 11/96), P.O.W.L. (music, ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Punk (ascii swap trade), Ramirez (org sysopWHQ), Splash (edit swap), Stone (trade, ex Matrix and Riot), Titus (gfx). POL> Darek (edit 'Silesia'), Ismal (code, 08/95), Niuniek (code, 11/96), QBA (Jakub Pienkowski, swap), Rych (gfx, 08/95), Rygar (gfx, 08/95), Sodom (code), Spiryt (music), Stan (swap, 08/95), The King (swap pack 'Use Your Illusion', late95), Trastor (swap), Verox (org code), Wayne (gfx), Wild (code, 08/95), Yasiu (org sysop). ???> Axel-D (08/95), Gonzo (ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Maxx (ex Bonzai Brothers, new late95), Meeku (code), Mr.C (music), Mystic (08/95). Boards; ENDLESS PAIN (ger), EVIL MOON (ger). Illusion was a German/Polish demo group. Most of the member information above is from a memberlist in Haujobb's "Friendchip #1" [12/96] diskmag. There are/were three different groups called Illusion. 1996 - Haujobb's "Friendchip #1" [12/96] reported that Lenny Dee joined Artwork, but only a few days later decided to leave the scene. 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that germans Evrimsson (music, 11/96) and Grace (code, 11/96) both left to join Crux Design, that germans Acryl (gfx, triplememb Acme and Session, 12/96), Cyclone (gfx, 07/96) and Jazz (music) left, and that polish MTC (music, 08/95) joined Erotic Design. Cyclone joined Abyss 10/96. He did graphics for the Haujobb demo "Burning Chrome" [07/96] while still in Illusion. Unsorted Ideas (1994, 13.11, Demo). 8th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Stratosfear (1995, Slideshow). information: In their intro "Ace" [08/95] they warn against using both mousebuttons in this slide...
Ace (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code: Imsal, gfx: Rych, music: MTC. Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: This opens good, with promising design and some lines flying at us...then they have to spoil it all by holding onto the effect WAY too long :( The rest of the few effects are quickly over once it gets going, and you're left with a feeling of 'is that all?' Different pacing could perhaps have given this a lot. The 80 face mirrored vector object and the man's outline walking across the logo are still moments of niceness though. The music is good, and Rych's "Ace" logo is not bad either. Conclusion: shows a lot of potential, but will need a little time to bring it to the surface. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Walhalla (1996, 03.11, AGA HD File Slideshow). code: Grace, gfx: Odin, music: Evrimsson. Released at Saturne IV. review: Walhalla bears every mark of a production released too early. The code contains bugs (fucked up Walhalla logo), and there are other mistakes (one of the thumbnails does not correspond with the actual picture). Speaking about the pictures themselves, I must say that Odin was perhaps not ready to helm his first slideshow. My advice would have been to wait a few months, and make a few more pictures, then release your BEST work on ONE disk. As it stands, there are three rather ok pictures here, and the rest is not really up to an acceptable standard. Odin needs to work a little more with his technique and his anatomy studies. Some of your women look a little strange :) Still, there are some glimpses of what might become something... Keep practising. Evrimsson's module is not bad, and the code is almost nonexistant. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Kup pEntiuma (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Niuniek, gfx: none, music: Szaza. 4th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Short, and basically made for fun, this little 4k'er doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. There's some gameboy graphics, a small fire effect with the three letters ILS, and that's it. The title is in Polish, and means 'Buy a Pentium'! Though the intro credits a musician, no music ever appeared on my machine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Virtual Illusion (1996, 10.11, 4k Intro). code: Niuniek, gfx: none, music: none. 3rd in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition. review: Considerably more serious than Niuniek's other entry in the 4k competition, "Virtual Illusion" is actually pretty decent. There's even phong objects in there, along with some fairly decent design. I like it, but it's not going to change the world. What more's there to say? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Image (IMG, 1990-) -----------------FIN> Der HM (gfx swap, ex Gate, later Complex, new 06/90), Jarnis (sysop 'NIGHT SHIFT', old handle Stranger, 07/91-02/92), Cool J (code, ex Unique), Neuron (sysop 'NO MAN'S LAND', 07/91-02/92), Tap (trade, ex Exodus, 03/93). ???> Beeki (code, 02/92), Blacktiger, Frog (ex Darkside), Starlight (import). Boards; PIRATE'S COVE WHQ (fin, 06-07/90). Image was a mostly Finnish demo and cracking group formed by the groups Exodus and Unique together with members of Complex and Gate at the end of june 1990. They at one time had the only pirate board in Finland (PIRATE'S COVE). They were also a little active on the consoles. 1990 - They lost some of their most talented members around 07/90, when finns Sulky Fellow (code), Drifter (gfx), Delorean (music), Unknown Artist (gfx) and Ripper left to form a new group called Vertigo. They were joined by Apache late in the year, around november. Finnish musician Captain joined Frantic. He won the music competition at the Gathering'91 party in Finland while still in Image. Dangermouse, sysop, joined Supplex. A news item in Sledge Hammer #11 named the group Imagine instead of Image, perhaps causing some confusion. I\m pretty sure this is the group. Image Dreams (ID) ----------------Dim Screams (1997, 05.07, 64k Intro). Released for the Kindergarden 97 64k intro competition. Imagine (1990-). ---------------SWE> Amigaspirit (sysop 'ACE OF SPADES'), Rag (sysop 'CYBERTOWN' reopened 12/94, 12/94-01/95), Zero (sysop 'ELITE 7'). Imagine was formed at the Magnetic Fields Copy Party, 27.10 1990, according to Cracker Journal #23. Impact -----SWE> Goozer. BEL> Cruel. CAN> Glacier (sysop 'ICE FLOW NORTH'). USA> Shaolin (sysop 'DOUBLE IMPACT', 04/95).
???> C-Quence (music, 12/93), Q-bitus (swap trade, new mid93), JMS (gfx, new mid93), Sensei (swap, new mid 93), Xan (swap trade, new mid93). Sense joined Savage. Quence joined Iris. Stranger and Cockroach (code swap, new mid 93) joined Analog. Virtual Harmony (1994 or pre, Music). Impact DK (-1994) ----------------DEN> Chronic (music), Fazion (Jon Frydensbjerg, code, later Puzzle, 12/94), Flow (gfx, 12/93-12/94), Guevara (gfx, 12/94), Izi (raytrace, 12/94), J.S.L (Jeppe Schmidt, code, 12/94), Manchild (code, 12/94), Quayle (music, 12/94), The Black Lord (sysop, 12/94), The Mogwai (gfx, 12/94), The Priest (Uffe Hansen, code, 12/94), Unison (Nicklas Schmidt, music, earlier Rebels, 12/93-12/94), Zip (code, 12/94). Impact DK existed for years, steadily producing excellent demos, but never quite breaking through. ROM #9 reported that they had now officially left the Amiga for the PC scene. Danish coder Nigel left to form Amaze Design late 97 with Misery/Insane. Futuristic Mind (1993, 28.12, AGA File). code: The Priest, Jsl, Fazion, gfx: Guevara, Izi, music: Quayle. 18th in The Party 93 demo competition. In a World of ASCII (1994, 27.12, ECS File). code: The Priest, Fazion, Zip, gfx: Morph/independent (ascii), Flow (font), music: "Ugle-Amok-Party" and "64er-Ugle-End" by Unison (Tracker Packer 3.1 format). 13th in The Party 4 demo competition. review: Cool! If you're a fan of scene ascii art, this demo is certainly one you'd want to download. Some traditional effects have been re-done here, in an AmigaDOS window and with ascii chars... Or perhaps not. I can't quite shake the feeling that the DOS part is just as fake as the one in Andromeda's "D.O.S" [04/92]. You can't backdrop or resize the window in any way, hmm... Well, what can I say? Morph's a fine ascii artist, the coding is clever, and the music is rather cool...DOWNLOAD! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. -- Note: Not enough mem! A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Vi Har Spist Chocoladen (1995, late, 4k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: none, music: none.
review: Impact has squeezed a lot out of their 4k with this one! It opens with an IMPACT pattern that moves :), then goes on to some interference. Next is a nice routine, in which a line vector 'cube' mutates quite heavily as it crashes into the walls of the 4 walls it's confined to. Next up is postage stamp-size, SLOW fractal zoomer and then a fake ending leads up to the final effect - three different keftales animations on a single screen and the text 'IMPACT DK - VI HAR SPIST CHOCOLADEN' (hence the name!). I have no idea where this was entered in a competition :) [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Tag (1996, 06.07, Demo). 6th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition. Impact Inc. (1987-). -------------------Originally a C64 group that started an Amiga section in 1987, Impact Inc. will probably go down in history as the first ever group to house later legendary musician Moby from 1987 to 1989, when he left to join Apology. 2nd Demo (1988, 03.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Vectorballs (1990, .03, ECS Demo). Imperium -------FIN> Al (trade, 03/94), Albert (trade, 03-08/94), Charger (trade, 03/94), JMF (trade, 03-08/94), Jol005X (music, 08/94), Outlaw (code, 08/94), Palex (03-08/94), ScE (trade, 03/94), T.O.B (trade, 03/94), Tormentor (trade, 03/94). ???> Hude (08/94), Thor (08/94), Top (08/94). Intro (1994, 06.08, AGA 40k Intro). code: Outlaw, gfx: Reward/Complex (first part fonts), music: Jol005X. 16th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Not bad at all! The best effect here is a smashing-looking texturemapped cube with a tiger on it and a great lightsource effect. The music's not the worst either. A middle of the tree intro. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Implosion --------???> Vga (music, 12/92).
B'cos (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). 23rd in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Impulse (IMS, 1992-1997) -----------------------HUN> Gato (swap, ex Steroid, new 08/96-97), Jazz (music, 96), Melomaniac (music, 03-04/93), Mr.Pixel (gfx music, 12/92-97), Thomas (gfx, doublememb Amnesty Design, 01/96). NOTMEMBSANYMORE: HUN> 3dent (code, 92-93), Charlie (code, 92-95), Chef (code, 12/92-92), Dr.Victor (music, 92-94), Kobor (code, 92-94), Matula (gfx, 93-95), Messerschmitt (swap, 93-94), Neptune (gfx, 92-93), Seal (raytrace, 92-93), Sir Damys (code, 92-94), Sir Henry (music, 93-94). NOR> Absent (music, ex Atomic, 93-94), Elmore (gfx, 93-94), Heatseeker (swap, 93-94), Highlight (swap music, 93-94), Jim (gfx, 93-94), Johnny (code, 93-94), Urchin (swap, 93-94), Vulture (gfx, 93-94). ENG> Ape (music, 93-94), Madman (trade, 93-94), Mushwacker (code, 93-94), Strobe (org sysop, 93-94). SPA> Incubus (code, 93-94), Warlord (swap, 92-94). TUR> Blaze (swap, 92-93). ITA> Wizard (code, 93-94). ???> Lado (code, 12/92-93), Readysoft (code, 12/92). Boards; SHINING CHROME (ahq). Impulse was born in october 1992 on the initiative of Mr.Pixel, on the ashes of the Hungarian Fi-Re Crew. Among the first members were also EFT and Rendall. Their first two productions were both released in december, "First Intro" (at Bash 3) and "Welcome Intro". 1993 - In 1993, new members joined in Norway, Sweden, UK, Italy, Spain and Austria. A few intros were released, but all other divisions soon became inactive, and by the end of 1994, they were all gone. Their first non-intro production was released at the Southern Party 93, the combined slideshow and musicdisk "Art & Go" [07/93]. 1994 - A year of silence followed, before Mr.Pixel, the only remaining original member, put together the Hungarian-only configuration that would be the crew until their death in 1997. The only thing to get released in 94 was the "Alive" [03/94] file demo at Cache. EFT released the game "Reunion" through Grand Slam. 1995 - They released the "Scenest Invitation" (a party for which they were coarrangers) in march, and that was all that got released this year. The party itself was held in may. They worked hard on releasing their demo "Voyage In Storm" for The Party 95, but it proved impossible. EFT released
the game "Super Street Fighter II Turbo" for GameTek. 1996 - After the disappointment of not being able to release "Voyage In Storm" [01/96] at The Party, they simply released it anyway in january, out of party. The demo was a huge success, but not as big as their second demo of the year, "Muscles" [08/96]! An enclosed news file for the demo announced that Gato (swap) had joined, that Beast (gfx) had joined from Majic 12 and that Psycho (sysop) and S.L.O (raytrace) were kicked. 1997 - The group died in july after releasing their final two intros, "Kenguru v1.0" [03/97, Symposium 97] and "Kenguru v2.0" [04/97, Scenest 97]. The reasons were many, but among them were Rendall's leaving for Mystic, and Mr.Pixel, Gato, S.L.O and Norby's inactivity on the amiga. EFT (code), Beast (gfx, new 08/96), Soldier (03/97) and Lord (sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', 08/96) formed a new group called Kangooroo. Hungarian graphician Rendall left to join Mystic in 97. Rendall is not only one of the best Hungarian painters (along with Beast), but also one of the original members of Impulse, having been a member since 1992. Impulse was his first scene group. Hungarian raytracer Norby (08/96) left the scene late 96. Italian swapper Device (93-94) joined Surprise! Productions. First Intro (1992, 18.12, ECS Intro/File). code: Lado, Chef, Readysoft, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Magnum 755/Moonlight Studios. Released at the Bash 3 Party. Welcome Intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro). code: Sir Damys, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Dr.Victor. Trackmo (1993, 04.01, ECS 40k Intro). code: Sir Damys, Lado, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Jester/Sanity. Released for the Hammering 93 40k intro competition. Cube Intro (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Lado, EFT, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Loonstar/Design. info: Released outside of a party. Pack Intro (1993, summer, Intro). code: Charlie, gfx: Mr.Pixel, music: Sir Henry. Art & Go (1993, 25.07, Slideshow/musicdisk). code: Sir Damys, gfx: Rendall, Mr.Pixel, music: Sir Henry. Released at the Southern Party 93. Alive (1994, .03, File).
code: EFT, Charlie, Pimpa, gfx: Rendall, Matula, Mr.Pixel, music: Dr.Victor. Scenest Invitation (1995, .03, Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Mr.Pixel, SLO, music: Mr.Pixel. Voyage In Storm (1996, early.01, AGA 2MB Multifile). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Thomas/Amnesty (titlepic), SLO (raytrace), music: Mr.Pixel. Released at Misc 96...? review: Surprise of the year! I came in expecting nothing, and was blown away! The demo opens with an introduction picture by Thomas. The picture is excellent, and features a bridge ascending into the skies. Then the music starts, and we get a texturemapped Impulse logo followed by three drawn logos, VOYAGE - IN - STORM. Next up is a vector cube with a ripple effect texture-mapped to each of the sides, which soon changes to rotating pictures. Next up is a cool Impulse logo, with a phonged torus in front. Then there's credits, timed to the music, before we're taken on a ride through an amazingly fast tunnel texturemapped. About halfway through, the music changes from techno to a more mellow kind of tune, and a dot-cube is added to the middle of the screen. We're then treated to another phonged object before a raytraced picture. What comes next only last for about 3 seconds, but is one of the most amazing pieces in the demo! It's a brief travel thru space, with planets and stuff... GREAT! Then, we're on to one of the best voxel routines I have ever seen! It's 1x1, smooth, with a great, blue sky. After a while, they add some raytraced chinese characters scrolling up on the left hand side of the screen (beating Andromeda's 'raytraced scroller' in "Nexus 7" (12/94) easily!), and FEMALE VOCALS TO THE MUSIC! The experience is really awesome, and I had to turn off my stereo and watch the demo a second time to be sure I had heard correctly. Then we're shown a GREAT dragon-andsorcerer picture by Rendall, and another raytraced pic, with wine glasses and the cool Impulse logo from before. Then, finally, we reached the endpart... It's got a ripple effect very similar to the one on the cube in the beginning - only fullscreen - and an up-scroller for messages and creds. What is best about the endpart, though, is the music. It's a sort of folk-tune with a flute, and a great piece of melody. Throughout the demo, Mr.Pixel's music is always functional - and in places excellent. You'd be mad not to download this - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Now go away I'm gonna turn down the lights and watch it JUST ONE MORE TIME... Please be advised that the review refers to the version with the fixed mainfile found in STORMFIX.LHA on AmiNet. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Muscles (1996, 31.08, AGA 4MB HD Demo). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Beast (fish pic), Soldier (objects), Mezon (objects), Norby (trace), music: Slyspy. Winner of the Intel Outside 3 demo competition! review: "Muscles". Oh yes, if there's anything this demo has lots of, then it's just "Muscles"! Brimming from end to end with smooth, powerful effects, fabulous graphics and a catchy techno soundtrack, this one's just SO close to perfect... The effects are imaginative, goodlooking and not least FAST! Design is another strong point, with design elements that never get in the way of the action, and near perfect blending between coding and bitmap graphics. The env and phong routines here also deserve a special mention, with LARGE objects that look absolutely gorgeous. Do I really need to go on? In an unusually strong year for demos, "Muscles" is certainly among the top 3 of the year. Beast's fullscreen picture is "Fish" (3rd at Assembly that that year), while Rendall's is "Useless To Run Bitch" (9th at Assembly that year). The demo was released simultaneously to the IO party and the AntIQ party in Hungary. The demo works on any 020+ machine, but 030-50 or faster is recommended. An enclosed text file of news announced that Gato (swap) had joined, that Beast (gfx) had joined from Majic 12 and that Psycho and S.L.O were kicked. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 and 3.1. Three (1996, 16.11, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Rendall, Soldier (objects), music: Jazz. Winner of the Convention 1996 64k intro competition! info: The info text says it's tested only on an 8mb fast machine. I guess I've confirmed that's what it needs :( GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Not enough memory. Kenguru v1.0 (1997, 30.03, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Soldier, music: Melomaniac. 2nd in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition. Kenguru v2.0 (1997, 05.04, 64k Intro). code: EFT, gfx: Solider, music: Melomaniac. Winner of the Scenest 97 64k intro competition. Impurity -------???> Rage (re-Dazzle mid 91), Silk (re-Dazzle mid 91). IMP-666
------NOR> Lord Asssassin (Jarle Pedersen), Mean Spirit, Savage, The Wraight. ???> Grim Jack. IMP-666 is an old Norwegian group, who among other things helped arrange several parties in the old days. Infect (IFT, 1992-) ------------------GER> Beathoven (music, 11/92-late96), Buckly (founder gfx, ex Deffpaccers [no entry], new 09/92-late96), Coach (code, late96), DJ Mellow Noise (music), Dulux (trade gfx), Eksec (Andreas Kuessner, mainorg code music sysop 'VISION THING' EHQ, ex Comedy, 05/93-05/94), Ernie (code, 09/93), Gamekiller (partyhero^clown, ex Cruelty, 09/93), Marley (Mark Leitiger, founder code, 11/92-02/94), Reval (sysop 'LUNATIC ASYLUM', ex Depth, new ROM3), Shadowmaster (sysop 'DIGITAL LINE', 94), Sher (partymemb), Smack (code, 05/94), Spiv (Stephan Schroder, founder mainorg gfx, 11/92-01/97), Turbo (René Trolldenier, code, ex Cruelty, 09/93), Zorro (Sebastian Tretbar, gfx trade pack, 09/93-94). SWE> Dondi (Daniel Andersson, gfx, 09/93), Gryzor (sysop 'OUT OF SPACE', doublememb Duplo, 01/95), Hobbes (Mats Lundqvist, music, Honorary member, 11/92-12/93), Macroman (sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', doublememb Therapy, 01/95), MPS (music, ex Utopia, 09/93), The Big Byte (aka TBB, sysop 'TWISTED SOCIETY' EHQ, 94-01/95), Zacco (code, 09/93). HOL> Baby Face (music, ex Skid Row, new PRP4), Jase (honorary memb), Muad'Dib (sysop 'THE UNDISCOVERED', 94), Wizard (org swap pack, 09/93). MAL> Chili (gfx, late96), Dr.Who (org code), Hawk (code), Joker (gfx), LED (code), Tekno Logik (music). NOR> Twilight (music, new RAW6, 12/93). IRE> Khul (ascii edit code). ITA> Device (Gianluca Foglia, swap). ENG> Cel (swap, ex Eclipse new, old handle 8-Ball), Real (ex Eclipse new). USA> Caffeine (sysop 'PSYCHOSIS', 94). ???> Stardust (swe? gfx, 12/93), Timeless (ex Byte Busters). Infect was founded in April 1992 by Spiv and Marley. Turbo and Marley are the authors of famous music ripping tool Exotic Ripper. In addition, Turbo also made the cruncher TurboSpike. Eksec, Smack and Zorro were once in Comedy (92), but I do not know if they all joined directly. 1994 - German members Black Raven (code, 04/94) and SMT (music, 05/93-) both left to join Haujobb 08/94, citing a lack of activity from the other Infect members as a main motivation. Two months later also German sysop Jailer ('THE PRISON' WHQ, 09/93-) joined Haujobb. In an interview in
Sardonyx' "SeenPoint #2" [12/95] SMT claims Infect was his first group, which is curious since I have some information that indicates he joined the group from Alpha Flight in may of 1993? Ted, sysop 'DARKNET' got kicked. The Swedish division left to form a new group, called Medicine, probably in the early part of 1994. This concerns at least Morrow (music, 12/93), Lussar'n (code, 12/93), Jammie (gfx swap, ex Diffusion, 09-12/93) and Slime (ex Diffusion, 09/93). New Swedish members eventually joined, creating a new Swedish division. Dutch musician and sysop Bart Simpson ('THE LEECH', 09/93) got kicked. Swedish coder Exidor (ex Diffusion, 09-12/93) joined Razor 1911. Saron (Marcus, ger swap, ex The Special Brothers, new late92), Blue (sysop), Gadget (ger swap), D-Icelord (hol, 09/93) and Snowball got kicked. German musician and editor RokDaZone (ex Destiny, 10/93-95) left the group and the scene early 95. However, he couldn't stay away, and some time later reentered the scene as a member of Artwork. Swedish graphician Ola Thorn (ex Case/Seance, new mid93-09/93) left. The following are no longer members: Axeblade (hol trade sysop, 09/9304/94), Burstmode (hol code, 04/94), Nike! (hol trader, 09/93-04/94). Dancing With Eggs (1992?, ECS 1MB Musicdisk). code: Eksec, gfx: Zorro, music: Rokdazone/Destiny. Helter Skelter 2 (1992, 26.11, ECS Musicdisk). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Hobbes, Beathoven. Released at the World of Commodore 92 in Germany. information: Combination of demo and musicdisk. Mad Man's Return (1992, late, Musicdisk). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Hobbes. ExoticRipper 1.99 Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, music: Beathoven. 21st in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Earwig (1993, early, ECS Musicdisk). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: Beathoven, Hobbes, SMT. The Prison BBS Intro (1993, .02, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: Spiv, Buckly, music: Beathoven, Hobbes. ExoticRipper 2.10 Intro (1993, .03?, ECS Intro). code: Mr.Spiv/Stoneware, Marly, gfx: Spiv, music: n/a. ExoticRipper 2.14 Intro (1993, early, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: n/a, music: Kelly. Partybox (1993, .04, ECS File). code: Remaerd, gfx: Spiv, Titan/Agnostic Front, Don, Fade One/TRSI, music: Beathoven.
Waterlow (1993, .05, Intro). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: SMT. Equation (1993, 05.08, Intro). 2nd in the ECC93 intro competition. Ordeal 40k Intro (1993, .10, ECS 40k Intro). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, music: Rokdazone. Released at the Ordeal Party in Leipzig, Germany. Last Terror (1993, .11, Musicfile). code: Eksec, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Promotion Demo (1993, 01.12, ECS 1MB CHIP File). code: Eksec, gfx: Spiv, Buckly, music: RokDaZone, Twilight. BBS Intro (1993, 16.12, ECS Intro). code: Exidor, gfx: Jammie, music: Morrow. Harmadegon (1993, 28.12, AGA Disk). code: Lussar'n, gfx: Stardust, Spiv, Jammie, music: Hobbes. 5th in The Party 93 demo competition. ExoticRipper 2.22 Intro (1994, .03, ECS Intro). code: Marley, gfx: n/a, music: SMT. Released at CeBIT 94. Vision Thing BBS Intro (1994, 30.05, ECS Intro). code: Smack, gfx: n/a, music: Beathoven. info: BBStro for their german board 'VISION THING'. Associate of Arts (1994, mid, ECS File). code: Khul, gfx: Spiv, Sonic/Platin, music: SMT, RokDaZone, Deejay Jones. Cooperation with Associate of Arts (AOA). Do You Believe (1996, 06.11, Demo). Winner of the WOC94 demo competition! Inferno ------Polish raytracer Amiflash joined Nah-Kolor (ROM9). Infinite Perfection (IP, 1991-1992) ----------------------------------BEL> Badaman (supply), Gordh (train), Joey Beltram (org modem), Mike (sysop 'WASTE GATE'), Mithrandhir (code gfx). ENG> Akira (supply), Executioner (sysop 'TREASURE ISLAND'), H.I.T. Moonweed (sysop 'FLYING TEAPOT'), Hybrid (sysop 'ULTIMATE DREAM'), Manx (swap trade), Starr (code crack), Xag (code train), Zygor (swap trade).
FRA> Alex (supply), Flyspy (code crack), JBG (supply), LouLou (supply), Shocker (supply, ex Agile). GER> Adictor (train modem), Blackcat (crack train), Bob Duncan (sysop 'HILTON PALACE'), Disk Jockey (crack), Marc (crack), Nephilim (sysop 'HEAVENS HELL'), Shut Berlin (sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER' WHQ, ex Skid Row). ITA> Rave (sysop 'LETHAL ZONE'). SWE> Mercy (trade), The Master (sysop 'SLIME CITY'). USA> Gazoo (sysop 'WILD WAREZ'), H.O.S. Of Sorrow (sysop 'CREEPING DEATH'), Leviathan (trade), Rolling Stone (sysop 'DEVILS TRIANGLE'), Winter Mute (sysop 'MARTYRIUM', ex Alpha Flight). ???> Markuz (nor? crack, 92), Mint (gfx). IP was another relatively shortlived cracking/modem group, with some of that scene's best people recruited from groups like Crystal and Skid Row. The news of their birth came in Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's "R.A.W #2" [02/92], and the news of their death in the subsequent "R.A.W #3" [04/92]. Most of the member information is from a memberlist published alongside the news of their birth in RAW 2. After their death, several members (like Norwegian swapper Jaffa) left to form the new Bitstoppers. Technoir was kicked. Infinity -------???> Bytor (ex Mystix), Elite (ex Mystix), Jim (ex Mystix), Metallic (ex Mystix). Infinity [eng] (1991-1991) -------------------------LSD's Grapevine #1 [06/91] reported that the UK division of Paradox had formed Infinity, and that the group shortly after merged with Sepultura, and that the new groups name was simply Sepultura. Infinity [swe] -------------SWE> Accord (music, ex Vomit, 08/93). Infinity was formed by Deelite, Accord and Diesel from Vomit. However, at The Party 93, Deelite and Diesel joined the new Razor 1911. Incal ----JamJam (1996, 07.04, Demo). 2nd in the Symposium 96 demo competition.
JamJam (1996, 26.05, Demo). Released at Icing 96 (DRG). Incal Inc., The --------------Zodak joined Vision (WHN1). Incubus ------FIN> Chaos (Esko Tiainen, swap, early93). Indians ------BEL> Tomahawk (swap, late91). Industry -------SWE> Koma (org swap). Swedes Nivek and MRK (gfx, 93) joined Limited Edition (PRP4). Innocence (1995-) ----------------Innocent was formed by the best members of Black Jack after that group died in late 95. "AddBox" is a production carried on from BJ. Insane (INS) -----------SWE> Boozer (sysop 'SHADOWZONE', 08/94), Cateye (sysop 'INSIDE OUT', ex Taurus, new PRP4, 09/94-01/95), Cluster (sysop 'INSANITARY' WHQ, 08/94-10/95), Distler (sysop 'THE SLAMMER', later Hardbyte, 08/94), Louie (gfx, later TBL, 12/93-12/95), MAD (Marcus Lenngren, code, 12/93-94), Princip (sysop 'INTERCHANGE', 08/94), Yaffle (swap, ex CLous). FIN> Allah (sysop1 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, 10/95), Albert (sysop 'DEEP THOUGHT', 08-10/94), C.I.D (sysop2 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, 10/95), DarkElf (sysop3 'THE CHAMELEON' EHQ, triplememb TRSI and Hellfire, 10/95-02/96), Deetsay (music, doublememb Panic, 12/93-10/95), K-P (Kari-Pekka Koljonen, code, 10/95), Mici (93), Split (sysop 'A SPLIT SECOND', 93-08/94), TST (93), Zodiac (93), Zombie (trade, 03/9410/95). NOR> Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', 10/95-02/96). USA> Shadower (sysop 'DEATH ROW', 10/95). ???> Armour (code, 08/94-10/95), Bigwig (10/95), Braindead (ex Beatless, new late95), CareBear (10/95), Confidence (10/95), Coolorado (10/95), Defect (nor? doublememb Hellfire, 10/95-02/96), Famous'O'Ho (crack,
doublememb Jormas, 94), FireFox (music, 12/93-10/95), Groovy Guru (10/95), HiJack (10/95), Hydra (swe? fin? Antti Häyrynen, code, 10/9596), Jozef (swe? music, 10/95), Kostek (10/95), Krasnal (10/95), Looby (10/95), Mad Max (10/95), Major-D (08/94), Marx (10/95), Metal (swe? code gfx modem, 12/93-10/95), Morris (gfx, 12/93), Neumann (10/95), NightShade (10/95), Notorious (music), Onyx (10/95), Savage (swe? modem, 10/95), Senile (music, 03-10/95), Sniper (swe? modem, 10/95), UnMad (10/95), Vedder (swe? music, 12/93-12/95), Vostok (10/95). Boards; CHAMELEON EHQ (fin), ASYLUM (swe), SINESTUDIO (fin). 1994 - Some time late this year, INSANITARY took over WHQ status from INTERCHANGE. Hydra is the author of the DayDream bbs system, used to operate many a scene board! Swedish swapper Pace (ex Yela, 09/93) joined Complex late this year. 1995 - Swedish graphician Phase joined from the newly formed Basement late this year, but was kicked within a week. 1996 - Atomic and Insane merged together in april. Swedish coder Blaze left for Session in april or may. 1997 - Danish organizer Misery left the group late this year to form Amaze Design with Nigel/Impact Inc. Lionheart joined Circle. Krustur (code) joined Ram Jam. Raiden joined C-Lous (ROM3). Duffy joined Spoon. According to Propaganda #4, he was first kicked... Metz (sysop) joined Limited Edition. Apocalypse 2 (1993, 05.08). 7th in the ECC93 demo competition. Failure (1993, 05.08, Intro). 6th in the ECC93 intro competition. Eradication (1993, 28.12, ECS Disk). Code: Metal, Gfx: Louie, Music: Firefox, Vedder. 11th in The Party 93 demo competition. Achallamahalla (1993, 28.12, ECS File). Code: Mad, Gfx: Morris, Music: n/a. 13th in The Party 93 demo competition. Meliopolis (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). 9th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Mindfuck (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro). 20th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: Not bad, especially the zoomrottwistplasma thing is interesting... [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Virtual Conspiracy Intro (1995, 01.04, 40k Intro). code: Metal, gfx: Louie, Metal, music: Senile. Released for the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro, but unplaced. review: Not terribly interesting, the best thing here comes at the very beginning with the burning vectors. Don't know what else to tell you... It's quite average. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. K-Rauta (1995, 11.06, Demo). 3rd in the Abduction 95 demo competition. Frenzy (1995, 08.10, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Jozef. Winner of the Remedy 95 40k intro competition! Frenzy 100% (1995, 22.10, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Jozef. review: Nicely designed but oh so short is this little winner intro. I guess they made a decision on the 'squaky tune and blocky picture' vs 'short but extremely sweet' dilemma and chose the latter. Not that I'm complaining, I'm all for sweetness! The code's nothing revolutionary, and neither are the graphics or the music. The design is what I guess makes this one any special... This is the 100% version, which is 5k larger than the original 40k competition intro. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Inside (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Blaze, gfx: Louie, music: Vedder. 33rd in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: Objects, objects, objects... No, seriously, "Inside" opens with some credits (as - yes, you've guesse it - shaded objects) fly towards the viewer from various parts of the screen. The background has some sort of colorcycling effect, but it doesn't look too good. Everything here seems to use some kind of smoothing, which looks perhaps a little like what Virtual Dreams used in "242", only smoother. Short is ok if it's also sweet, but this isn't, really. It's more of an aftertaste thing :) This is not terribly interesting, but didn't really deserve to end up dead last either... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Insanity [australia] -------------------AUS> Aitken, Birdzone (ex Byterapers Inc.), Boner, Bullet, Cool Lat, Jaffa, Jorren, Leviathan, Mogwai (ex Byterapers Inc.), Syphan, The Control (ex Byterapers Inc.). There were at least two other Insanity groups, from Denmark and Norway, but
they had nothing to do with each other. Insanity [denmark] (1991-) -------------------------DEN> Hille (Thomas Hillebrandt, music swap, ex Z.A.P/Byte Busters, 12/9307/96), NME (Tue B. Petersen, mainorg gfx swap, old handle N.N.), RAW (Finn Nielsen, code swap), RFC (Rune Friis Clausen, gfx swap). Insanity was formed by N.N (later NME), RAW and RFC in 1991 or 1992 (noone really remembers, Hille told me =D), and was a purely danish group. They were part of the demoscene, but never really released anything except small tools. There were at least two other Insanity groups, from Australia and Norway, but they had nothing to do with each other. The group is now in hibernate mode, with no members still active on the scene, but with an option to perhaps return one day... Thanks to Hille for information! 1993 - At the end of december, Hille finished on a disappointing 23rd position in The Party music competition with his song "Rubber Computer". 1996 - At the South Sealand party in july, Hille finished 17th in the music competition with his module "Fede Fisk I Flasken". Insanity [norway] (-1989) ------------------------Insanity was a norwegian swapping group, who ceased to exist in 1989 when they merged with Magic Circle to create a new group called Ivory. In-Sect ------???> Bionic (code, 12/95), Ledge (code, 12/95), Maxty (music, 12/95), W rax (raytrace, 12/95). The Party 5 Intro (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). Code: Bionic, Gfx: Ledge (objects), Pixie/Polka Brothers (pic), Music: Maytz. 25th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. Review: After the intro sequence, with a static guraud shaded face object, we quickly move on to a voxelspace routine. This is one of the most simple ones I've seen, and not remarkable in any way. The rest of the intro features a lot of gouraud shading, and not much else. Don't these people realise that "G-Force" was the final word in gouraud? Granted, I do not think I've seen a gouraud glenz - before or after but the fact remains that it's not all that interesting anymore... Pixie's contribution comes in the form of a small picture of a screaming face trying to break free of something, sort of pressing its face off a platform. It's one of Pixie's better pictures. The highlight comes at the end though, with a little humorous (not to mention gouraud shaded)
Intel Outside logo spinning... One major drawback about this intro is the unimaginative use of color; everything's in shades of blue or shades of brown. Perhaps these guys should consider recruiting a graphician to do their design? The spelling of this group's name is not consistent through the intro; they use both In-Sect and Insect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Instinct -------NOR> 4-Play (sysop 'DARK DISASTER', 05/97), Chauple (code, doublememb Contraz [details], 10/97), Chris (trade, 10/97), Fenriz (code, 10/97), Enigmus Hammer (music, 10/97), Firestarter (Raymond Hedum, swap, 10-11/97), Hellrazor (code swap, ex EMS Design, 10/97), Ice (gfx, 10/97), Mental (swap, 10/97), Mr.X (Morten Bolstad, code, doublememb Giants, 10-11/97), Psycho (Erling Løken Andersen, org gfx ascii, ex Apathy, 10-11/97), Punisher (Jonas O'Brien, mainorg swap, ex EMS Design, new late97-11/97), Radiance (music, 10/97), Squid (gfx, 10/97), Subgod (code swap, 10/97), Tentacle (Klaus Arne Kuhr, gfx music, doublememb Apathy, 10-11/97), Tranceplant (music ascii, 10/97), Viper (swap, 10/97), Whooper (gfx ascii trade, 10/97). POL> Cook (swap ascii, ex Define doublememb, 11/97). N Z> Damnation (doublememb Digital Corruption). DEN> Receiver (Kresten Jensen, swap raytrace, ex Limited Edition, new late97). ENG> Carp (swap, new 10/97). ???> Duck-Hunter (ex XFactor, new late97), Lobo (ex XFactor, new late97), Wiseguy (swap sysop, new late97). Instinct was born as a Norwegian demo group, probably around the beginning of 1997. Their leader is Punisher. In addition to their diskmag "Retro" they also produced the Norwegian charts, "NorskToppen". 1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Hellrazor joined from EMS Design, that norwegian Chauple (code) doublejoined from Contraz, that norwegian Fenriz (code) doublejoined from Rape, In october, Psalt (code) and Romeo left. Danish swapper Receiver joined from Limited Edition. Retro #1 (1997, 15.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag). code: Mr.X, Ben Wyatt (additional), gfx: Psycho, music: "Retro.Main", "Retro.Sub" and "Project_R" by Tentacle. review: First impressions are less than great, with some dodgy graphics by
Psycho introducing us to the mag. The mag itself doesn't have a stunning interface either, but they also admit this in their editorial, and promise to improve for the next issue. Three pieces of music by the same author is perhaps a little much, some variation could be in order. They do seem to have used the classic "MicroKnight" font, but we will forgive them for now. The code does seem to be functional though, and the mag works fine. No cliparts, scrolling or other fancy effects, but again they promise more for the next issue. Not much to read this time either, but again... This is a mag I expect I will wait for the next issue before I really judge. Noone is really credited as editor, but Psycho seems to be the one doing the most for the mag. Almost certainly released outside a party. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Friendship 2 (ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. review: This intro is marred by bad graphics (except for the cartoonstuff, which was likely scanned), and an extremely annoying chiptune. The coding here is just subpar, as is the rest of the production. A really lifeless intro. No release date, credits or other useful info appears anywhere inside =[ [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Intens -----DEN> Hellhound (sysop 'SOMEWHERE ONLINE', doublememb Superiors). Intense ------FRA> Ben (code, late96), D'Jes (code, late96), Doc Manhattan (org code, late96), Ead (music, late96), Elfi (gfx, late96), Erk (music, late96), Fanfan (sysop, late96), Hardfire (Johan Roirand, music swap, doublememb NGC, early95-04/96), Killer (code, late96), LFO Rate (code, late96), MJ Power (gfx, late96), Polo (code, late96), Sledgehammer (swap, late96), Sylicon (mainorg swap, 94-late96), Tourist (code, early93-late96). GER> Mel (gfx, late96), Merlin (code raytrace, late96), Picco (music, late96), Scar (gfx, late96), Tomek (music, late96). FIN> Creep (swap, late96), Floppy (swap, late96), Matt (code, late96).
HOL> BEL> SWE> ???>
Fiction (swap, late96), Jan (gfx, late96), Sugar Ray (swap). Orak (swap trade, late96), Stix (code swap, late96). Slurry (swap, late96). DJ Maxx (music, 92-early93), Wishbone (music, 12/93).
French swapper PLug joined Syndrome late96. Sky joined Hypnos early 93. French swapper Gun (Gagnerot David, 92) and musician Wishbone (12/93) is no longer members. All Spanish members joined Bronx. This includes Cris (trade), Ghost Rider (swap), Husa (gfx), Ironlord (AMOSCode) and Josele (gfx). Frenchmen Adec (Pascual Thierry, swap), Scal (code, early93) and Elf (gfx) left the scene. Sylicon is the new leader (ROM3). Belgian musician Psynomix left for Maximum Overdrive [no entry] (UPS8). Musician Haywire joined Cyanide mid 93. Golden Oldies (1992, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: DJ Maxx (5 tunes). What's Up Doc (1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro). code: Dr.Manhattan, gfx: Geist, music: EAD. 3rd in the Saturne Party 93 64k intro competition. Polychrome (1994 or pre, Music). Intentro (1994, mid, ECS Intro). code: Emiel, gfx: Fiction, music: HM/TA. Chips #3 (1994, chippack). Chips #4 (1995, chippack). Intensity --------???> AH, Conspirator (crack), Diablo, Goliath, Gu_Ru (music), Hagar, Idea (code), Kool Falco, Lew, MadBoy, Satan, Sebo (supply), Snip3r, Squale, SSMP, Synthetix, Technique, Vigo (gfx). I have seen one single productions from this group, a crack intro for a Polish version of a game, so it's pretty probably that they are based in that part of the world... Interactive (IA, 1992-) ----------------------GER> Abyss (Carsten Deibert, org code crack music, ex Skid Row, new mid93-12/95), Act (swap, early92), Ali (Guido Eckers, swap, ex Giants, new early93-12/93), Crow (Andreas Glaser, code, 12/95), Cusack (sysop
'CIVIL CRIME' EHQ, 12/93), Dodger (Daniel Koschera bei Lenden, swap pack, 12/93), Laurin (sysop 'LAST CHANCE'), Leander (Paul Heinrich, code crack, ex Skid Row, new mid93-12/95), Lunatic (re-Spreadpoint), Natural Desaster (sysop 'DIGITAL DREAMS' WHQ), Newline (gfx, ex Shining 8, new early93), Redor (Sascha Schaban, music, doublememb Imphobia [pc], 08/93), Stingray, Vamp (music), 666. FIN> Dizzy (code, 93), Wiper (Christer Bjoerkman, swap, 12/93). NOR> Milkshake (Dag R. Rasch, swap, 93). FRA> Gunhead (Berry Slimane, swap, 12/93). USA> Worst Enemy (sysop 'PARADISE' WHQ, 12/93). ???> Big Daddy (music, 12/95), Bluman (sysop -inactive-, 12/95), Exorzist (ex Tremors), Ice-T (sysop 'ICEBERG'), Mariouana (gfx, 12/95), Poet (ger? 12/93), Polaris (gfx swap, ex Tremors), Skyhawk (code inactive-, 12/95), S.O.M. (music, 08/93), Tripex (08/92), Walker (swap, ex Proline), Wintermute (ger?, gfx, 12/94-12/95). Boards; THRILLER WHQ (ger), GUILD OF THIEVES (ger), RAK A TAK (ger), DRUG SHOP (ger), FUTURE (ger), PALACE (ger), SILENT SCREAM (usa). Interactive is a german group, born by members of Equinox, Coma and others in early 1992. Rumours of their death in White Noise #1 [early 94] seem to exaggerated. I have three different boards all listed as being the WHQ at one time or another. 1992 - German swapper Ghost joined Submission in august. 1993 - Norwegian swapper and trader Razorblade was kicked around the middle of this year, so he joined up with Majic 12. At The Party in december, the group released at least two versions of Dodger's new pack Bouncing Bytes; #2 and #3. Inside, Abyss (who joined mid 93) is quoted as 'whq', perhaps suggesting he took over leadership of the group after he joined? Moomchild and The Trixter joined Surprise! Productions. Finnish swapper Velsa (ex Addicts) joined Calibra. Bad Karma joined Deadline. All Giants members joined in Germany! Dance Trance (ECS Musicdisk). Dance Trance 2 (1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks). Bouncing Bytes pacmenu (1993, late, ECS packmenu). code: Leander, Lunatic (additional), gfx: Dodger, music: Abyss, editor: Dodger. review: Well, this menu offers no eyecandy of any kind, just the basics. Upon loading, it presents you with a badly drawn Interactive logo, the choice of some productions in the middle of the screen and a scroller at the bottom. The whole thing unfortunately both looks and feels amateurish.
you can press the right mousebutton for a 'magpart', done in the same design and not much better. The text is just the usual, 'news' and adverts. I cannot bring myself to recommend this to anyone. At least it works just fine on accelerated machines. The issue reviewed was #3 [12/93]. The menu was used for at least issues #1-#3, and from this we think it was first released late 93, november or possibly december. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Abstract (1995, 09.07, Demo). 6th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 demo competition. First Love (1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Crow, gfx: Wintermute, music: Abyss. 27th in The Party 5 40k intro competition. review: This sucks. No design, no impressive effects, and the music is a serious contender for 'worst chiptune of 1995'. It all opens with some flame-text, which is the best effect in the intro. Then we're taken on to a stretching zoomrotator (oooold!), a transforming dot-object (older!), and some other equally uninteresting stuff. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Interceptors -----------Kinematic (preview) (1997, 14.12, Demo). 3rd in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition. Cooperation with Alien Productions, see there for details. Interface --------FRA> Atwill (early93), Clawz (Matieu Berthaud, music, later Complex, 92early93). ???> Acetip (92). I saw Interface mentioned somewhere as Fusion's French division! Interpol [old] (-1993) ---------------------GER> Dark (swap pack, ex Noxious, new RAW5), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY' EHQ, 92), Kaoz (swap pack, ex Noxious, old handle Rebel MC, new early93), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE'). FRA> Monty (music, later Paradox, 92). ENG> Kitaro (sysop 'MILLENIA'). USA> Loverman (sysop 'CONCEPT ELITE'), NuiSance (sysop 'NIRVANA' WHQ, later Paradox new, 92), Shocker (sysop 'TWILITE ZONE').
???> Amigo (sysop 'DESERT STORM' SAHQ), Babydock, Blackhawk (crack), Cardinal (ex Crystal, new SLH11), Cedric (gfx, ex Legend, new RAW5), E.F.A (crack, 92), Horst (music, 12/93), Jonny (music, 12/94), Maximilian (supply, 92), Mr.Looping (music, 12/94), Orion (gfx?, 92), Paragon (supply, 92), Yragel (code gfx, 92). Boards; CHAOTIC ENTITY WHQ (usa, 03/94). Interpol was an elite illegal crew. I don't know if the guys that released the intro "Tahiti" (04/96) are the same as the original Interpol. Seems a little strange, after all this time, to come back to release an intro... Since german sysops Joker and TCM were in Razor early in the year, and Razor then died, it seems probable they went straight to this group. Most members left to reform Paradox! The group died early 1993. German Siriax joined Fairlight. The board 'PURGATORY' is closed. German swapper Killraven rejoined Paradise. British Kawinski has left the scene to pursue a career as a teacher (ROM4). Maelstrom joined Ministry early93. Interpol [new] -------------Tahiti (1996, 07.04, Demo). Split 7th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. Tahiti 3 (1997, 30.03, Demo). 9th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition. Intoxicate ---------???> Christbane (ascii), Hawkins (code), Mangar (sysop PPESupporter), Neophyte (code), Phos4 (ascii sysop), Shaq (trade), Shot (ascii), Shy Guy (trade sysop), Trauma (music), Yoda (trade). Intruders (ITS) --------------???> Horniac (code gfx, 08/95), Pulsar (music, 08/95). First Intro (Intro). Intrigue (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro). code/gfx: Horniac, music: Pulsar. Contribution to the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition. review: This intro opens very nicely, with a good flame routine that spurts out INTRUDERS and PRESENTS in flames before the intro starts proper. I really wish they'd just kept the one effect, and not bothered
us with all the shit that makes up the rest of this intro! Those vector cubes - shaded or not - have to be among the most blocky, buggy and ugly ones I've ever seen. There's a third routine, though, which is dots that make up tunnels and stuff. Not very interesting, I'm afraid. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Intuition (-1991) ----------------ENG> Mozart (gfx swap, 08/90). 1991 - Intuition died in june; almost all Finnish members (Ukulele etc.) joined Amaze. English members Abyss, Lils, Brick and Soul all joined Cyrus. Patrick took the handle Violator, then changed it to Codex and also joined them. Braindamage joined Coma. Investation (INV) ----------------POL> Cox, Tap (Tomasz Piasta, code, 97), The Trader, Walt (Waldemar Piasta, code, 97). ENG> Dazl (ex Iris). GER> Alec Empire. ???> Berserker (gfx music, 03-08/93), CDX (music, 08/93), Dark Angel, Feniks, Jabo, Leviathan, Reset, Tees. Investation was a demo group, based in Poland. The coder brothers Tap and Walt are the authors of the fabulous DIGI Booster tracker program. Some time back in time they both joined TRSI, but since the latest release of DIGI Booster claim they're both back in INV, I'm just gonna have to thrust them on that one :) 1993 - Dan (03-04/93) joined Pic Saint Loup in late 93. He contributed music to several Inv productions, and even a tune for "Poison" [12/93] after he had left! Sodom left. Bob and Tritop joined Alchemy. QWERTY joined Mad Elks. Kuba, Shaggy the Grain, Zwiteq, Kane and Uruken were kicked. The Polish guys Norby (swap, ex Cola Sector), Tap, Walt and Dr.D (0312/93) all joined TRSI. See the history for further comment.
Ray World (1994 or pre, AGA, 3 disks). Ignis (1993, .03, ECS Intro). code: Tap, Walt (additional), gfx: Dr.D, Berserker, music: "Intro2" by Berserker & Dan. review: The intro quite simply does not work, so there's not exactly much to tell about it... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. note: Crashes on both configurations. Hydra (1993, 04.04, ECS Disk). code: Tap, Walt, gfx: Dr.D, Berserker, music: Dan, Berserker. Anam (1993, 07.08, ECS File). code: Tap, gfx: Berserker, Dr.D, Tap, music: CDX. Released at Assembly 93. Poison (1993, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tap, Walt, gfx: Dr. D, music: Dan/Pic Saint Loup. 6th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Inv (1996, 23.06, 64k Intro). 3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 64k intro competition. Investigation ------------Most members left for Surprise! Productions, but soon moved on (WHN1). Ipec Elite ---------1990 - Mr.Acid, Voyager and Hitman left the UK section late 90. 1991 - Lord Flight finished his exams, and was back for full-time swapping from mid june. Demo (1988, 03.10, ECS Demo). Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party. Iris (IRS, 1989-, http://www.irishq.dk) --------------------------------------DEN> Adonis (Henrik Kyser, swap, 01/01), Bifrost (gfx, 12/94-09/97), Darkhawk (Christian Hviid, mainorg editor swap trade, ex D-29, new 01/94-01), Flower (music, 12/94-09/97), Nutman (music, 03/97-09/01), Ransom (code raytrace, new 09/97-09/01), Talpa (code, new 06/9609/97). NOR> Junkhead (music, new 06/96-09/97), MJ (Helge Brede, editor trade, 09/97), Volcryn (Stian Sollie, swap pack, 09/97). ENG> Buzz (Jools Smyth, code, new 05-08/01).
POL> Bubba (org code swap, doublememb Clan, late96-09/97), Ced (gfx, 09/97), Digger (Tomsz Jankowski, swap, new 09/97), Gilo (music, 96-09/97), Spirol (code, 09/97), Yon (gfx, new early00-09/00). ???> Cupid (code, ex Darkage, new early01-04/01), Matarazzo (gfx, 04/01). code: Ransom, gfx: Yon, music: Nutman. The people below are no longer members, and the line was drawn from a memberlist published in Eurochart #31 [11/97]. DEN> Bird (Kaare Hansen, org music swap, ex Waldi/Oblivion, 94), Chivas (code), Daffy (swap), Eniac (raytrace music swap trade, ex Opaque, new 06/96), Illusion (ex Jewels), Sanctum (Tobias, later Depth, 02/9407/95). NOR> Bridgeclaw (Henning, gfx, later Gods, 12/93-04/94), Chauple (code, new 06/96), Coroner (music, 02/94), Dr.Deo (raytrace swap sysop, new early 94-02/94), Hiace (swap), Loop (swap, 02/94), Pix (gfx, later Subspace, 04/96), Radiance (music, new 06/96), Salat (Ken Arve Hole, gfx swap, new early94-02/94), Sidewinder (Petter, 02/94), Sir Wok (Marius Karlsen, gfx, late95), Spacehawk (swap pack 'A Pack of Fun', 02/94), Stressball (music, new 06/96), Zerox (Frode Hansen, swap pack 'HitPack'). FRA> Ace (code music), Chris (swap, 02/94), D.Traumer (code), Goofy (gfx), Mandrake (code), Ulrick (code music). BAL> Ital (sysop, ex-music?, ex Saints, new 06/96). HOL> Lard (swap, old handle War, 02/94), SoNiK (swap trade). SWE> Atomic (gfx swap), Coz (swap). FAR> Gigabyte (Jon Johannesen, swap, 02/94). ENG> Micky (code), Trooper (trade). ???> Arrogance (gfx music, 02/94), DCG (sysop 'HIDDEN ISLAND'), Drac (music, 12/94), Eagle (music, 02/94), Kefner (den? code, 94), Mr.Vain (ex Willow), Quence (ex Impact), Sixpack (ex Tonic, later Gods), Zendar (Ricki, code, 02/94), Zytrox (code, later Gods, 02/94). Boards; BLACK PLANET. Iris was based in France (and later mostly in Denmark), and was born in 1989. They were also the arrangers of the danish Scene Meeting parties. They recruited the entire Danish division of D-29, which means at least Darkhawk, other names are uncertain. Mandrake is the coder of "Explora 3" (Infomedia) with music by Ulrick. Today their undisputed leader is Darkhawk from Denmark. 1992 - Digital Master left early 92. 1993 - News in Eurochart #22 [11/93] that Bridgeclaw left to join Shamrock were probably untrue.
1994 - The entire Danish division of D-29 joined Iris in january. This was at least Darkhawk, other names are uncertain. Dazl joined Investation early in the year. 1996 - Swappers Sir Maxin (Svein H. Orjansen, swap, late95) and Peace (ger, 95) were kicked due to the bad contact with the other members in june. Also in june, Radix was kicked because of inactivity and Speed left to be independent. 1997 - Baltic swapper Miko 63 (Michael Arvantis) was kicked because of a lack of contact. "World of Chips #4" [02/97], "World of Chips #5" [03/97], "Deep Bass Nine BBSTro" [03/97] was released. April saw the release of "Avatar #5" [04/97]. Danish sysop Azlan closed his board