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Abakus (1990-)
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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
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GER> Lucifer (trade, 01/91), Sigma Seven (sysop 'LAST RESORT', 04/92).
???> Crap (code), Pothead (ex Anthrox).
Boards; THE LIGHT (ger, 09/90).
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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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-)
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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 early93-
late96), 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
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POL> Booger (Arkadiusz Stanoszek, music).
Absurd
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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)
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NOR> Baffle (sysop 'BUMBLE BEE LAND', triplememb Honey and Grotesticle,
02/96-05/97).
FIN> Demolee (sysop 'MOS EISLEY', doublememb Nerve Axis [details], 03-
05/97), 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 dot-
ball 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/)
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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), Wintermute (modeller, 12/98).
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, mid96).
PREVIOUS MEMBERS -
GER> Duke (Markus Knauer, swap pack, new early93-08/94), Falcon (gfx,
early93), Kyle (code gfx swap, new early93), S.M.U.D.O (B. Baumann,
swap, ex El Cativo/Submission, new early93).
FIN> 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 (Alexander, 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, early93-08/95)
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 93-
01/94) 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: "Artcore-
Theme" 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-dum-
da-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, "AXL-F"
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 always-cool
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 "Line-Mode-
Options". 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-along-rendition
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
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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)
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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.accession.org)
----------------------------------------------------
FIN> Asterix, Avalon, DDT (Len Merikanto, mainorg, ex FIG, 11/91-01),
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), Shocker (code, ex
Sonic, 11/93-94), Starbyte, Target, 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).
AUS> Acid Kid (ascii sysop 'SCREAMING METAL', later Honey).
USA> Rotor (sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD').
???> Accident (98), Brainiac, Capitano (98), Chromium (98), Deature (98), D-
Ream, 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, Punisher, 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 is a demo and cracking group based in Finland. They were born in
1988 by Evil, Moku and XYZ from the former amiga section of Finnish Gold.
When Divine joined in 94, he became the new demo section organizer; DDT has
always been main organizer. The group at one point tried to split into two
separate sections; demo and cracking, but since they discovered this
arrangement just wasn't working, the two sections were marged back together
again. Thanks to DDT for information!
1988 - Evil got a nasty surprise from the Finnish post late this year,
when he had to pay postage for a bunch of packages with faked stamps...
after that incident, he left the scene.
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 - Prospector, Nobleman and SOB finally closed 'NOBLE HOUSE' early
this year, and then left the scene.
1994 - Finnish swapper Poke (Veli-Matti Poikola, ex Alpha Flight, old
handle Velsa, new mid93) was kicked out late this year.
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.
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).
Carrier Command cracktro (1988, ECS Intro).
code: Xyz-Soft, gfx: n/a, music: DDT and Jugi Perfecto/?.
info: The group's very first intro. It is unclear what Jugi's group was at
the time, but he was not in Accession.
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).
code: Starbyte, gfx: Neuromancer, Starbyte, music: Maso.
Released at the Byterapers, Scoopex, Extasy Party 90.
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; DIVERSE CRIME (usa, 09/90), BLOOM COUNTY (usa), PUTPOST (usa),
CRYSTAL PALACE EHQ (hol), REALM OF IMPOSSIBILITY (usa), 007 BBS (usa,
07/90), GREEN PILL (usa, 09/90).
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 "Phon-O-
Bomb 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 01-10/91),
X-Man (gfx, 08/90).
Action was a mainly German demo and cracking group that contained a lot of
future German scene celebrities, most of which ended up in TRSI. Just a few
names; The Swatch Man, Blackthorne, Dreamer and none other than Peachy!
1992 - The group dies early in the year (one of the first four months).
German 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, 11/91-03/92).
SWI> Darkcave (code music swap editor, 11/91-03/92), Imagine (music, 11/91-
03/92), 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, 01-
03/92).
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. V-Cut
left his bbs 'ZOOMED REALITY' to a new sysop, Zool, who then joined V-Cut'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 around the middle
of this year. 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.
Norwegians Dr. Chipblower, Archie (code), Alien (code) and Turrican (gfx,
all 11/91-01/92) all joined LSD this year.
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.
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 half-
circle 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 (Jim, 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, 09-12/88),
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), LINE TO HEAVEN (swi, 09/90).
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 runner-up,
"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 (Pi~tre, code,
04/91-92), Hof (gfx, ex Rebels old), Moby (music, later Sanity, 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 best-
known 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 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
wasn't quite true yet since the group was later active, and released a demo
as late as january 93. What IS true is that Walt and Motif left the group
for Melon Dezign.
1993 - The group's final release came in january of this year, with the
noteworthy "Arkham Asylum" [01/93] in cooperation with Dreamdealers - where
most of the group's members had now migrated.
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".
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).
Drinktro (1992, ECS File).
code: Redlight, gfx: Zebig, music: "Pelforth Blues" by Moby (ProTracker
MOD format). Released in cooperation with Dreamdealers.
info: Intro for the upcoming 'Drink Charts'.
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', 09/90-05/93), 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, 11/88-
05/93), 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,
09-12/90), 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, 11/91-
05/93) 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, 12/95-
late97), Drac (Jan Knudsen, org swap pack, ex Limited Edition,
doublememb Scalaris 06/96, doublememb Cosmic Woodheads early97, 12/95-
late97), 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 zoom-
rotator 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 late96-08/96)
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), Green (Pawel Urban,
raytrace, ex Beton Design, 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), Zig (code, 12/96-01/97).
???> BlackWine (code music, ex Megapoint, new 06/96-08/97), Dr.Greg (code,
08/97), Spoonman (sysop 'RUSSIA', new 06/96), Zeebi (music, 08/97).
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.
Photo Cell 1x1 (2000, Slideshow).
code: n/a, gfx: Kazik, music: n/a.
Released in cooperation with Madwizards.
info: A pc version was also released.
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).
The Analist (1993, 30.05, ECS Demo).
Released at The Computer Crossroads 93.
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
(Martin, 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
(Flemming, 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', 04/91-
12/92).
???> 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 brand-new
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. Englishmen Mole (12/90) and Mr.Big (John,
02-12/90) left the scene in the latter part of 1992. Mr.Big was editor of
"Stolen Data" for a while.
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, 07/90-12/92),
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.
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: "Intro-
Music" 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 "The-
Rockin'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 F4-
F10. 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).
Anathema was an English and Swedish demo group.
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.
The Imbassile (1993, 30.05, Musicdisk).
Released at The Computer Crossroads 93.
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 back-
ground. 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, 09/90), DIGITAL EXPRESSION (usa, late90),
DIGITAL EXPR. II/HOUSE OF INSANITY (usa, same numb, de2 09/90), WRECK
HOUSE (usa), ESCAPE ZONE/MANIAC'S MADHOUSE (usa, ez 09/90), MIDNIGHT
MADHOUSE (usa, new late90), SKYFOX BBS (ger, 09/90), CITY LIMITS (eng),
INSIDER BBS (ita), ANGELS (ita, 09/90).
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 (1989-1990)
-------------------
FIN> Doctor DMA (Niku Kaitaniemi, code, 89), Drucer (code music, 04-07/89),
Smithson (swapper, 89).
Animate was a Finnish demo group, born in 1989 by ex-Deathstar members
Doctor DMA, Drucer and Smithson. 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 - the other group resulting from
the initial split of Deathstar! :)
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.', 12/91-
96), Retaliator (Dave, code swap), Skol (Simon, code train, ex
Slipstream, new early92), 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, 12/96-
08/97), 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.
Old.Skool (1999, 14.11, AGA 64k Intro).
code: Strife, gfx: Death, Angeldust, music: Maze.
Released for the Satellite 2 64k intro competition.
review: As we can read in comment file, Strife started work with this
intro over 4 years ago (sic!) and maybe if coder transports himself (via.
time machine) in the year of 1995 and will release "Old.skool" on some old
party, then he's got chances (very small) to make a hit. But i don't think
so... Intro is stylized for so called "old school" fashion (try to catch
mum or dad to explain this conception): a nice logo (looks bit
unfinished!), vector squares and rectangles (2D) and one three dimensional
object (geez, it doesn't run one frame on my 040/40!), very nice chip tune
and commercial picture (looks good) which informs 'bout forthcoming
musicpack from Apathy. Main idea which stands behind this 64Kb
presentation is to force nowadays scene to "think different". It's ok, but
in my opinion "think different" doesn't mean "back to Neolithic age".
In few words: nice, but out of date. All grandparents should be
satified. [kempy]
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 two-part
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 Danny-stuff
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-than-state-
of-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 early01-09/01),
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 06/96-
01/98), 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 of 1990; their bith was announced in Alpha
Flight's diskmag "Cracker Journal #23" [12/90].
1991 - Ribald got kicked, so he joined Pirates around the middle of the
year. Nighthawk left the group in june.
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.
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, 08/96-
04/98), 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 scene-
inactive 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 zoom-rotator'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 bump-
mapping-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 cartoon-
like 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)
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ENG> Telemach (ex Nerve Axis).
Here We Go (1993, autumn, Intro).
production: Khul/Infect, Telemach, Nimrod, Tango/Balance.
Aspect
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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
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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 (David, 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), Radavi (swap
sysop, late96), Steroid (swap, ex Jetset new, late96), Tim (code,
late96).
ENG> Nik (code, late96), Twilight (music, late96).
PREVIOUS MEMBERS -
N-L> Jay-One (gfx, ex Jetset new), Liberator (Ronald, sysop 'MELANCHOLIC
THOUGHTS', ex Movement)
GER> Dark (swap, ex TRSI), T'vaan (Robby, gfx, aka Teevan, ex Melody,
01/96).
ENG> Paradroid (code, ex Lemon., new late94), Subi (music).
???> Eros (gfx, 12/95), Timeless (music, 12/95).
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 1790-1990,
Eskimo Logic, Ether Symphony..., Pluto VII, Real-Life, Rejuvenation-Jazz,
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 =)
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